anaheim-gazette 1901-08-29

Great Losses Caused by Insects Continued from First page. $100,000,000; in 1887. $60,000,000. The Rocky Mountain locust, or Western grasshopper, an insect which has done but slight damage of recent years, produced a loss of actual crops in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa in 1874 amounting to $100,000,000, but the indirect loss by stoppage of business and in other ways probably increased the loss to $200,000,000. For many years the average annual loss to the cotton crop in the Southern States from the destruction caused by the cotton caterpillar was on an average $15,000,000, while in years of great abundance, like 1868 and 1873, the loss reached $30,000,000. The fly weevil, the most destructive enemy to stored grains, particularly throughout the South, causes an annual loss to the whole country of $40,000,000. The codling moth, that destructive enemy to the apple and pear crops, probably causes an annual loss to the United States amounting to between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. The annual loss to the whole country from the damage occasioned by the ox-bot amounts to not far from $38,000,000. This is based upon a careful estimate made by the Farmers' Review some years ago upon the annual loss from animals in the Union Stock Yards in Chicago alone, which amounted to $6,673,130. B. D. Walsh, one of the most careful, conservative and well-informed men of his time, in 1867 estimated the total annual loss in the United States from the work of insects at from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000. Riley, the famous entomologist, in 1890 estimated it to be $300,000,000. Dr. James Fletcher in 1891 estimated it to be one-tenth of our annual agricultural products, or say, $330,000,000. E. Dwight Sanderson in 1899, after carefully reviewing the whole question, approximately accepted Dr. Fletcher's estimate and tabulated the damage by crops as follows: Insects injurious to stored crops... $60,000,000 Growing cereals... 82,000,000 Hay and grass... 20,000,000 Cotton... 15,000,000 Tobacco... 2,000,000 Potatoes... 10,000,000 Truck crops and small fruit... 5,000,000 Large fruits... 40,000,000 Domestic animals... 50,000,000 Timber... 25,000,000 Total... $399,999,999 Of the thirteen species of insect mentioned as responsible for by far the greater part of the damage done annually, or which has been done in past years in the United States, it is interesting and important to note that eight, and possibly nine, are introduced species. Only four are certainly native. The bot fly (Hypoderme lineata) and the buffalo gnat probably fed for centuries on the American bison, just as the army worm and the chinch bug have always fed on our wild grasses; but the Hessian fly, the fly weevil, or Angoumois grain moth, as it is sometimes called; the codling moth, the wheat midge, the hop-plant louse and the gypsy moth are all importations from Europe, most of them old-time introductions, established early in the century or before; while the San Jose scale game to us from Asiatic regions, and the cotton worm from the West Indies. The origin of the pea louse is still problematical. It is safe, therefore, to say that the greater part of the damage to our crops from insects is done by imported species, and that nearly all of them came to us from Europe. We have our restriction laws, which apply to unwelcome human immigrants, but we have never had governmental regulations providing for the inspection at our borders of living plants or fruits or other substances which may harbor insect pests. Curiously enough, most European countries, following the lead of Germany, are now quarantined against the United States in this respect; and curiously enough also, they have little to fear from us, even without the quarantine, as there is but one American insect, the grapevine Phylloxera, which seems to thrive in Europe. There can be little doubt that accurate as the estimates given unquestionably are as an estimated summary of individual losses, their effect upon the prosperity of the country as a whole is hardly comparable to the withdrawal of a sum of money of this amount from circulation; but the fact remains that an enormous amount of money is lost every year from the work of insects and that the successful labors of the Government and State entomologists in devising remedies against injurious insects are worth to the country a large far more than the public fund which are spent in their support. This Government supports work of this class more liberally than any other government in the world, yet even with us the whole Government and State appropriations together do not reach $100,000 annually. As opposed to this, it is safe to say that the amount saved from the investigations of these In Education Mistake. Whether or not a college education is advantageous depends entirely upon the ability of the recipient to absorb and utilize such an education. Unfortunately such a view of the case is seldom considered by parents and guardians who are inclined to send their children to college simply because it is considered the proper thing to do. Consequently we find through out the country thousands of young men who have passed through college acting as cheap clerks, bookkeepers or even as car conductors and restaurant waiters. Having learned no mechanical trade for which they may be adapted and being unfitted by nature for a profession, they go through life disconcerted with their lot and vaguely be levying that world owes them better treatment because they have gone through college.—Los Angeles Times. The Appeal to the Record. Little Tommy returned sore and trembling from the torture room. "Doesn't your papa ever thrash you?" he asked his chum, who is the son of a cabinet minister. "I should say not!" replied the other loftly. "Every time he threatens to cane me I read him an extract from his great peace at any price speech in which he said: 'These barbarians are like wayward children, but have we on that account the right to take away their heaven sent privilege to do as they please? Let us treat them as we would our own wayward children plead with them, beseech them, but never coerce them with either gun or rod.'" "That's a good deal to remember," remarked Tommy. "Yes, but now he's got so used to it that he drops the cane as soon as I start."—London Answers. An Ounce of Prevention. "As you went out," whispered the observing boarder. "I saw you pick up something from the floor, tear it in a dozen pieces and throw it in the range. Was it a love letter?" "No," responded the practical boarder. "It was a little booklet telling how to prepare prunes in 99 different ways I was afraid it might fall into the hands of the landlady."—Philadelphia Record. Suited to a Tee. At Bed Time I take a pleasant drink, the next morning I feel bright and my complexion is better. My doctor says it acts gently on the stomach, liver and kidneys, and is a pleasant laxative. It is made from herbs, and is prepared as easily as tea. It is called Lane's Medicine. All drug-gists sell it at 25 and 50 cents. Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels each day. If you cannot get it send for a free sample. Address, Orator F. Woodward; Le Roy, N.Y. For sale by W. P. Turner. At a meeting of the Contra Costa almond growers association two San Francisco buyers were present to bid for the entire crop of about 70 tons. The bids were so far below expectations that they were rejected and Saturday, Aug. 31, at 2 p.m., was set as the date for disposing of the crop. The best bid was from Armsby. It was about one cent per pound lower than that which the firm paid for the Davisville crop some weeks ago and was two cents less than the association received last year when the crop was three times as large. Ladies can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures and prevents swollen feet, blisters, callous and toe spots. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for sweating, hot, aching feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package free by mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. As Ounce of Prevention. "As you went out," whispered the observing boarder, "I saw you pick up something from the floor, tear it in a dozen pieces and throw it in the range. Was it a love letter?" "No." responded the practical boarder, "It was a little booklet telling how to prepare prunes in 99 different ways I was afraid it might fall into the hands of the landlady."—Philadelphia Record. Suited to a Tee. Fox (to bear)—Come over tomorrow, and we'll play a game of golf on the links. Bear—All right. I don't know what the game is, but if there's any job you can put up on the lynx I'm in with you.—Boston Herald. The orange came to Europe from Africa in the eleventh century. Sir Walter Raleigh brought it to England in the sixteenth century. It was first planted in Australia in 1788. Daisy was originally the eye of day, or day's eye. How She Rules Him. "Skinphlint's wife certainly has remarkable success in managing him. I wonder how she does it." "When he undertakes to deny her anything she really wants, she threatens to sue him for divorce." "Does he care so much for her, then?" "Oh, no, it's not that, but he figures that it is cheaper to let her have her own way than it would be to either defend the suit or pay allony."—Chicago Post. A Question of Salutations. "What is your favorite salutation?" she asked the dilatory youth. "Eh! Why, I don't know. What's yours?" The fair girl yawned wearily. "It would have been good night," she said. "But in about two minutes it will be good morning." "Goodby." said the dilatory youth.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. There is no alcohol in "Golden Medical Discovery" and it is entirely free from opium, cocaine and other narcotics. The dealer who offers a substitute for the "Discovery" does so to gain the more profit paid by inferior medicines. There is nothing "just as good for the blood" as Golden Medical Discovery; therefore accept no substitute. "I took five bottles of 'Golden Medical Discovery' for my blood," writes Mr. William D. Shannon of Rampy Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. "I had 'Hag world' on me and I would buy them off and they would come right back because they were omine when I commenced using Golden Medical Discovery; and they well away from me haven't been bothered any more." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. A Few Words about Pain-Killer A prominent Montreal clergyman, the Rev. J.H. Dixon, Rector St Judas and Hon. Canon Christ Church Cathedral, writes: "Permit me send you a few lines to strongly recommend Penny Davin Pain-Killer. I have used it satisfaction for thirty-five years. It is a preposition which deserves full public confidence." STORIES OF LINCOLN. THE TINY SOLDIER WHO ASSISTED AT THE PUBLIC LEVEE. Old Abe's Narrative About How the Flat Bottomed Boat Went Aground and How She Got Safely Back Into the Ohio River. On one occasion a little drummer boy, securing leave of absence, accompanied a sergeant to a public levee that "Old Abe" was holding at the White House. They went early, and when President Lincoln appeared and the handshaking began they were not long in reaching him. The tall man, almost a giant in physical proportions, looked down with an amused smile at the tiny drummer boy, who appeared hardly 10 years of age. Grasping the little fellow's right hand, the president suddenly reached out his left, swung the boy off his feet and set him gently down on a small table beside him. "Aha, my little soldier," he said, laughing, "you shall help 'Uncle Abe' review this line today, and if your superior officer objects, why, I'll prolong your leave of absence." Lincoln asked the boy his age, place of residence, regiment and where he was on duty. Then, as some of the more important officers of the army or navy, members of congress or of the executive departments chanced to pass in the line, the president would gravely introduce his young assistant, with whom they were required to shake hands as well as with himself. When the reception was over, President Lincoln took the boy into his private apartments and introduced him to Mrs. Lincoln. After entertaining him at luncheon he dismissed him with a brief note to the commanding officer of the hospital where he was then stationed telling why the boy's leave of absence had been extended. Lincoln's geniality and willingness at all times to hear or to tell a good story were conspicuous traits, not always agreeable to some of his able but worried and irritable advisers. On one occasion a sergeant had a squad of men at work unloading supplies from an Ohio river steamboat that in some mysterious manner had made its way from the interior to the coast waters of Virginia. It was a flat bottomed boat drawing not more than three feet of water when loaded and hardly dampening its plank bottom when light. It was propelled by a horizontal stern wheel, driven by a small upright engine. Boats of that type were common on the Ohio which BORROMEO..... THE NEW TOWN AT THE DOOR OF THE OIL FIELD BORROMEO is the newest town in Orange county; it is on Col. J. K. Tuffree's great ranch in Placentia. This ranch is the very gateway to Orange Co.'s splendid oil field and affords a site second to none in the state for a manufacturing town of large size. Tues. Sept. 17 Is the date set for opening the town, and at that time auction sale will be made of a few 10 and 20-acre tracts and city lots. Already a big warehouse, from the site of which San Pedro harbor can be seen, is nearing completion. Streets and alleys of liberal dimensions will next be turned to. Then there is a pipe-line project for the conveyance of natural gas to the city for lighting and domestic purposes and a line for oil for steam purposes. A feature among the most important of all to the coming city is the abundance of both subterranean and ditch water available. Wells on the site produce the finest water in the county. One railroad has been surveyed, negotiations are in progress for another. Railroad companies wanting free right of way should apply to Col. Tuffree before Sept. 17 Foreign Nuts. The walnut crop in the department of Isere, France, will be about the average, according to the report of T. W. Murton, United States vice-consul at Grenoble, growers are increasing their An electrical enterprise is b... Professional hunters are quick to these balls, and just the mody do so they set their sinece in their peggers, as the men are search of the feeding shoals, not the only enemies the turhowever, for bears, raccoons or animals native to Florida great numbers of them—Jack (Fla.) Cor. Baltimore AmeriIt is Badly Needed. is always a great future for the man." man who sees what is needed and paints it, even if it is only a one that succeeds." are opportunities on all sides it knew enough to grasp them." happen to see any just now?" I see a grand one. Yes, air who perfects an invention that able the girl with a new spring and the latest model bicycle to both at the same time will itself clear up in the front rank mares."—Chicago Post. Blunders as Benefits. Gubbs, you'd ort to raise my your pay? You make more mils on any other clerk in the office." but I've heard you say that lots stakes had saved you big mon Chicago Record-Herald. His Observation. strange how often the undervest him to prosper," remarked thul man. answered Senator Sorghum. "I tested such a tendency in affair drawing apprehension. Every one some one without any more once worth mentioning gets an of Washington Star. Muscle make the man. "The blood is the vital force of the body. So frequently happens that the man kicks to be a picture of physical falls a sudden victim to disease. care for food would many a sickness. sewing of food is percompulsive the use of Joaos Goldical Discover drives out urtities and nous sub which cor- blood and disease. It the ac- the blood glands increases only of purus It builds entire body good sound Muscle make the man. "The blood is the vital force of the body. So frequently happens that the man kicks to be a picture of physical falls a sudden victim to disease. care for food would many a sickness. sewing of food is percompulsive the use of Joaos Goldical Discover drives out urtities and nous sub which cor- blood and disease. It the ac- the blood glands increases only of purus It builds entire body good sound Col. Tuffree before Sept. 176 Foreign Nuts. The walnut crop in the department of Isere, France, will be about the average, according to the report of T.W. Murton, United States vice-consul at Grenoble, growers are increasing their production of the high grades. This is due to the excellent prices which these brands command. Growers of walnuts are planting new trees and making new grafts of the better grades, and every year they cut down a certain number of the lower grades. A report from T.D. Chester, United States consul at Budapest, Hungary, referring to walnuts, says: "The Hungarian crop this year may be called average. Last year it was very bad, and dealers had to use the remainder of the 1900 crop in the local market at good prices. No injuries to plants will be erected, and some miles of stream fall will be utilized Eighteen heavy copper wires and transmit the electric current 160 m to Southern California. The cost estimated at $2,000,000, and the price transmitted, 15,000 horse power. said that the work will employ men for five years in its completion. THE CHEERFUL IDIOT And the Glum Dyspeptic. The cheerful idiot is the individual who when he sees you come into the house dripping from the storm inquires pleasantly, "Is it raining?" If you were whitening and the knife slipped and cut off the top of a finger he would say just as pleasantly, "Did you cut yourself?" It seems the chief business in the life of the cheerful idiot to ask fool questions. Mostly people put up with him as they do with mosquitoes—because they can't help themselves. But once in a while the cheerful idiot runs up against the wrong man. It was that way when the C.L. of the boarding house tackled a miserable looking fellow-boarder who was tortured by dyspepsia. "Hello Smith," he cried, "aren't you feeling well?" And Smith growled back; "It's none of your business how I'm feeling." Talk about adding insult to injury! What could be any worse than asking a HOW DYSPEPSIA IS CURSED. There is an almost certain cure dyspepsia and other diseases of stomach and organs of digestion. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med Discovery always helps and almost ways cures. In ninety-eight percent of cases in which the "Discovery" been given a fair and faithful trial wrought a perfect and permanent cure has cured the most severe and most conditions of stomach trouble we have failed to yield to any other cure. Mr. Ned Nelson, the Irish Comand Mimic of 577 Royden Street, den, N.J., writes: "We fulfilled engagement of twelve weeks and constant traveling gave me a bad end of that dreaded disease called dyspepsia I had tried everything possible to till last week while playing at Keath's Bujou Philadelphia, in the son Trio, a profess friend of mine ame me to try Dr. Piper Golden Medical Dery. I tried it, thank God, with results." "For three ye-suffered untold assists Mrs. H.R. Co., Quasbec (Box) "I would have spared trembling and being at my stomach, put right side all the then it would worm into my stomach, such distress it is liable to describe. In to the World's Dary sary Medical Association stating my case to she had been a sufferer for fifteen We highly recommend these医 President Lincoln repeated this extravagant story without the ghost of a smile. During its recital Secretary Stanton and Generals Halleck and Sherman—the last named having run up the day before from his march through the Carolinas—who were with the party, General Sherman smiled broadly, but Stanton looked annoyed. The president caught his glance and, with a wink at the others, said, "But maybe you've beard this before, Stanton." "Very likely I have," the secretary grimly responded, "but I would suggest, Mr. President, that General Grant is awaiting us." The gleam of amusement left the kindly man's eyes. He gravely turned and shook hands with the sergeant and then strode after his companions as they made their way ashore. Roe L. Hendrick in Youth's Companion. His Emancipation. Away back in 1771 Josiah Woodbury of Beverly, Mass., thus published his happy emancipation from matrimonial woes: BEVERLY, Sept. 16, 1771. Ran away from Josiah Woodbury, cooper, his house plague for seven long years, Masury Old Moll, alias Trial of Vengeance. He that lost will never seek her; he that shall keep her I will give two Bushels of Beans. I forewarn all Persons in Town or County from trusting said Trial of Vengeance. I have bove all the old (shoes) I can find for joy, and all my neighbors rejoice with me. A good Biddance of bad Ware. Amel JOSIAH WOODBURY. It Yielded. First Physician-Did old Coupon's case yield to your treatment? Second Physician-It did. I treated it for six months, and it yielded something like a hundred guineas.-London Fun. Foreign Visitor--You have a peculiar climate here. Citizen-Oh, no. We can safely pack our buffalo robes away in moth balls by the Fourth of July.-Chicago Record Herald. miserable looking fellow-boarder who was tortured by dyspepsia. "Hello Smith," he cried, "aren't you feeling well?" And Smith growled back: "It's none of your business how I'm feeling." Talk about adding insult to injury! What could be any worse than asking a man who had suffering stamped all over him, "Aren't you feeling well?" It's rather hard for the dyspeptic to make a stranger to the disease understand just how much suffering dyspepsia can cause. Words don't express it. That terrible guawing sensation in the stomach is past description. Even after you have recited the specific aches and pains there are no terms to express the cumulative and combined effects of them all upon both mind and body. DON'T CULTIVATE DYSPEPSIA. That would seem unnecessary advice, yet it is a fact that in the main, people who finally become dyspeptics seem to have studied how quickest to bring on the disease. They eat irregularly. They eat unwholesome or innutritious foods. They eat heartily when they are tired with a day's work and the stomach needs rest instead of exercise. In fact if they made a study of the quickest way to dyspepsia or disease of the stomach in general and its allied organs of digestion and nutrition, they could not practice more successful methods. When dyspepsia once has its grip on the stomach the man who has experimented with tablets and powders and other palliatives without permanent relief finds himself asking the question, "Am I ever going to be well again so that I can eat with appetite and enjoyment?" The one necessity to the recovery of health is the cure of the diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. Tablets of soda, mint, etc., will for the moment alter the condition in the stomach, but they won't alter the condition of the stomach itself. These things are therefore merely palliatives. Not only do they not cure but by affording temporary relief they lull the victim into a false security until he probably finds himself some day very much worse for their use. ery, and five vials of Dr. Pierce's ant Pelllets. Thanks to Dr. Pierce his medicine I am a well woman to Dr. Pierce's medicines also curate mother of liver complaint from she had been a sufferer for fifteen years. We highly recommend these medices to all suffering people. Diseases which seem to be remote the stomach, but which originate in stomach are cured through the store. For this reason diseases of heart, liver, kidneys, and other organ cured by "Golden Medical Discovery when it has cured the disease of stomach and its associated organ digestion and nutrition. It has been a surprise to many who have taken "Golden Medicalcovery" for stomach "trouble," that as the stomach was cured, de of long standing which had also other organs were cured also. "weak" heart becomes strong, the gish liver active, the clogged knee are cleansed, the lungs made. The whole body is practically rebuilt up with firm, healthy flesh, a puffed up with flabby fat. Some dealers desiring to make little more profit paid by the sale meritorious medicines will soon offer the customer a substitute "Golden Medical Discovery," claim it to be "just as good." Nothing as good for you which has not good a record of cures, and no medicine has a record of cures able with those effected by the "Golden Medical Discovery." GIVE IT TO SOME ONE ELSE. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Adviser, containing over a large page and more than 700 instances is sent free on receipt of payment of expense of mailing only. Don't feel the need of this valuable work yourself, why not give some friend or young married It is an invaluable gift, and one will be highly appreciated by the sent. Send 31 one-cent stamps volume in durable cloth-binding, 21 stamps for the book in paper Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo THE UNITED MINES MINING CO. Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Delaware Capital Stock $400,000 Authorized Issue. Par value $1 per share. "May carry on any business except banking in any part of the world." The mines and mining claims are: The Old Shoes, The Red Bug, The Patsy Bolivar, The Harmony, the Standard, the Central (one half), The Polka Dot, The Bull's Eye, The Full Moon, The Half Moon, The Meteor, the Coined Money, The Fellowship, The Little Giant, The Lookout, The Jason, The Blackhawk, The Lone Star, The Lucky Boy and Sixteen to One. There is also the undivided one-tenth of the Good Hope group of mines and claims, twelve in number. Values in ores are of gold, silver, lead, copper and some blsmuth, as the product of the veins. ...OLD SHOES MINE... During the former explorations, and by sinking the shaft on the Old Shoes mining claim and vein by mill sampling, these values were found and shown to be in the ore of that vein: First: On discovery, small chips were broken off all along this Old Shoes vein, at surface croppings of the vein, for the distance of 1000 feet, these crushed and sampled down to 25 pounds, and then down to an assay sample, which, on assay, gave gold value per ton of rock in place, $6.14. Sinking by shaft was started at once, at depth: Three feet ... $8.56 Six feet ... $17.14 ... ... $47.64 ... ... $19.34 ... ... $38.06 Eight feet ... $12.40 Twelve feet ... $22.50 ... ... $14.45 Twenty-eight feet ... $16.65 Fifty-seven feet ... $12.62 ... ... $26.00 Seventy-two ft.(v. in 1/2 feet) ... $20.62 Three Sections - 1 ... $8.50 2 ... $19.91 3 ... $33.45 Seventy-six feet ... $59.82 All of the outside claims and the veins thereof, as outcroppings have been sampled just as was the surface of the Old Shoes vein outer ropping. The ores are similar, and the result of values was an average of three to nine dollars per ton of the rock in place, as exposed by the veins' outcroppings. The results having been obtained from eightteen mill samples of about 25 pounds each, and each crushed and averaged down to the assay sample. It is plainly apparent that all of these claims will justify good development in search for the high-grade ore shoots of the vein. Work has been resumed and is now in progress on these properties. FUNDS FOR DEVELOPMENT To obtain and have cash funds for, and to do a special work of surveying for patents, etc., and farther exploration immediately on and in the OLD SHoes MINE, and in the outlying group of 34 claims, at Manvel, San Bernardino county, Cal., there has been issued and placed in my hands with orders to sell a limited amount of the capital stock shares of this company, and I am selling them out NOW (remaining shares). AT FIFTY CENTS PER SHARE In September the Price Advances to Par, $1 Per Share During the month of July, 1801, it is a very great bargain, and will make you or any investor much money. He prompt with your conclusions and deals. Must forward cash with your orders. State positively number of shares and to whom to be issued, and that person's postoffice address. Get into this company as a shareholder and owner in ordering shares, address and remit to, and in favor of, GILES OTIS PEARCE, General Manager United Mines Mining Co., Santa Ana, Cal. During the month of July, 1901, it is a very great bargain, and will make you or any investor much m a y e. Be prompt with your conclusions and deals. Must forward cash with your orders. State positively number of shares and to whom to be issued, and that person's postoffice address. Get into this company as a shareholder and owner in ordering shares, address and remit to, and in favor of, GILES OTIS PEARCE, General Manager United Mines Mining Co., Santa Ana, Cal. UNDER AN UMBRELLA. An Expensive Adventure of a Famous Parisian Wit. Romieu, the famous Parisian wit, was one day caught in a shower and forced to seek refuge in a doorway of the Opera House. It was 6 o'clock already, and he had an engagement in the Cafe de Paris for that very hour. The rain fell in torrents. There was no carriage to be had. He had no umbrella. What was to be done? While he was lamenting his bad luck a gentleman with a large umbrella passed by. Romieu was seized with a sudden inspiration. He rushed out and grasped the stranger by the arm and gravely installed himself under the protecting umbrella. "I am overjoyed to see you," he immediately began. "I have been looking for you for two weeks. I wanted to tell you about Clementine." Without giving the stranger time to express his surprise Romieu rattled away with gossip and anecdote until he had led the unknown companion to the door of the Cafe de Paris. Then he glanced at him with a face of well feigned astonishment. "Pardon, monsieur!" he cried. "It seems I am mistaken." "I believe so," said the stranger. "Good gracious!" added Romieu. "Be discreet. Don't repeat what I have told you." "I promise you." "A thousand pardons!" Romieu hastened within the cafe and amid great laughter told the adventure to his friends. Suddenly one of them said: "Your cravat is rumpled." Romieu put his hand to his neck and turned pale. His pin, a valuable sapphire, was gone. On further examination his purse and watch were found to be gone. The man with the umbrella was a pickpocket—London Tit-Bits. IF you are going East and want a through tourist car from Los Angeles, personally conducted to destination; via Ogden or New Orleans; cheapest fare and most comfortable service take the Southern Pacific... THE middle route, via Ogden, Salt Lake City, Royal Gorge and Denver is most delightful for summer travel, and the mountain scenery is equal to any in the world. If you go through New Orleans there are attractions along the route of sugar and cotton plantations, with their mills and cotton gins. There is no difference in the price of tickets to through Eastern points via either route. These personally conducted excursions give service as follows. OGDEN ROUTE Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from Los Angeles at 11:40 a.m. SUNSET ROUTE Leave Los Angeles at 2:00 p.m. Monday—New Orleans. Tuesday—Washington and way. Wednesday—Chicago and way. Thursday—Washington and way. Friday—Cincinnati and way. Saturday—Washington and way. The Shasta route via Portland affords a pleasant and cheap way to St. Paul and common points. Leave Los Angeles at 10:20 p.m. Money saved by patronizing Southern Pacific Tourist Excursions. T. A. Darling, Agt, Eight Cheap Excursions... Romleu hastened within the cafe and amid great laughter told the adventure to his friends. Suddenly one of them said: "Your cravat is rumpled." Romleu put his hand to his neck and turned pale. His pin, a valuable sapience, was gone. On further examination his purse and watch were found to be gone. The man with the umbrella was a pickpocket—London Ttt-Bits. Eureka Harness Oil not only makes the harness and the horse look better but makes the leather soft and pliable, puts it in condition to last—twice as long as it ordinarily would. Sold everywhere in case-all sizes. Made by STANDARD OIL CO. Give Your Horse a Chance! THE CLEANSING AND HEALING CURE FOR CATARRH is Ely's Cream Balm Easy and pleasant to use. Contains no injurious drug. It is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at once. It Opens and Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allays Inflammation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 60 cents at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. CATARRH COLD IN HEAD Eight Cheap Excursions East via Santa Fe The places, the rates for the round trip and the dates of sale are below. The other details can be had of the Santa Fe agents. Buffalo, $87 Aug. 22, 23: Sept. 5, 6. Louisville, $77.50 Aug. 20 and 21. Cleveland, $82.50 Sept. 5 and 6. The Comfortable Way is Santa Fe J. H. Clabaugh, Agent G. A. R. Encampment, Coronado, Sept. 3-13 The veterans of the G. A. R. will go into camp at Coronado, Sept. 3d to 13th, when the old stories will be told, the old songs sung and battles fought over again. Avail yourself of this double opportunity of renewing old acquaintances and visiting this haven of rest. Fare $3.50 for the round train, good until Sept. 30th, via the Santa Fe. aug 29-2t