anaheim-gazette 1901-09-26

SHOWERS OF MANNA. JUST WHY AND HOW SUCH PHENOMENA ARE POSSIBLE. This Food of the People of Israel in the Wilderness is an Edible Lichen That Is Still Found In Parts of Asia and Africa. "It is manna!" exclaimed the people of Israel as they gathered the food which seemed so miraculously to appear at their very feet in answer to their cry for sustenance, but though they ate and were satisfied, we are told they "wist not what it was." And during the ages that have passed since its first appearance on that memorable dewy morning in the wilderness of sin men have declared again and again that they "wist not what it was" that thus fed the Israelites in their need, though numberless conjectures have been made and discussions held on the matter. The chief opinion which had sway for a long time was that manna was the sap of the tamarisk, but now authorities, seeing in the light of widening scientific knowledge, declare that manna was without doubt a certain lichen (Lecanora esculenta). This is borne out by the fact that well authenticated rains of manna, absolutely believed by the inhabitants to be showers from heaven, have been reported at least six times during the past century by reliable travelers in the east, and the descriptions of the deposit given in precise present day language leave no doubt upon the point. If a piece of manna be examined under the microscope, its peculiar compound structure can be clearly seen. There is a delicate network of interlacing fungal threads glistening in the light, while inclosed in their meshes are a number of round, bright green cells, each a tiny algal plant. Thus fungus and alga live together in most intimate connection. It may be asked how fresh manna lichens arise, seeing that it is difficult to imagine a frequent coincident meeting of a particular fungus and a particular green plant. But granted the meeting has once taken place, the rapid reproduction is easy to understand. At certain times in the year a yellowish dust appears in little green cups growing on the surface of the plant, and each of the grains of dust is a minute bundle containing a few of the THE BIRTH OF THE MOON. When the Earth Was a Sphere of Lava, Molten and Flattened. The earth revolves on its axis once in 24 hours. Millions of years ago the day was 22 hours; millions of years before it was 21 hours. As we look backward into time we find the earth revolving faster and faster. There was a time, ages ago, long before geology begins, when the earth was rotating in a day of five or six hours in length. In the remotest past the earth revolved in a day of about five hours. It could revolve no faster than this and remain a single unbroken mass. It was at this time that the moon was born—separated, broken off from the parent mass of the earth. The earth was then a molten, flattened sphere of lava. Its whole body was fluid. The tides, which now are small, superficial and, so to say, local, were then universal and immense. They occurred at short intervals. The whole surface of our globe was affected. And the corresponding lunar tides in the fluid, molten moon were indefinitely greater still. Our day is now 24 hours; the distance of the moon is now 240,000 miles. When our day was about five hours long, the moon was in contact with the earth's surface. It had just broken away from its parent mass. As the length of the terrestrial day increased, so did the distance of the moon. The two quantities are connected by inexorable equations. If one varies, so must the other. Whenever the rotation time of a planet is shorter than the period of revolution of its satellite, the effect of their mutual action is to accelerate the motion of the satellite and to force it to move in a larger orbit—to increase its distance, therefore. The day of the earth is now shorter than the month—the period of revolution—of the moon. The moon is therefore slowly receding from us, and it has been receding for thousands of centuries. But the day of the earth is, as we have seen, slowly growing longer. The finger of the tides is always pressing upon the rim of our huge flywheel and slowly but surely lessening the speed of its rotation. So long as the terrestrial day is shorter than the lunar month, the moon will continue to recede from us.—Professor E. S. Holden in Harper's Magazine. SIMPLE REMEDIES. Pew are entirely free from it. It may develop so slowly as little if any disturbance during a period of childhood. It may then produce irregular stomach and bowels, dyspepsia and marked tendency to co-figure manifesting itself in much eruption or glandular swelling. It is best to be sure that you free from it, and for its complete function you can rely on Hood's Sarsape The best of all medicines for all light, while inclosed in their meshes are a number of round, bright green cells, each a tiny algal plant. Thus fungus and alga live together in most intimate connection. It may be asked how fresh manna lichens arise, seeing that it is difficult to imagine a frequent coincident meeting of a particular fungus and a particular green plant. But granted the meeting has once taken place, the rapid reproduction is easy to understand. At certain times in the year a yellowish dust appears in little green cups growing on the surface of the plant, and each of the grains of dust is a minute bundle containing a few of the white filaments and a few of the green cells wrapped up together, so that wherever this dust may fall each grain can become a new manna lichen. There is, moreover, a second method of reproduction in which the fungus alone takes part and sends out tiny offspring to take their chance in the wide world of finding a suitable host, as their parent has done, but the details are complicated and at present involved in some obscurity. Thus, then, Lecanora esculenta — manna—is in its very nature one of the most remarkable phenomena in the vegetable world. It is found over great tracts of southwest Asia, near Coustantinople, in the Crimea, the deserts of Arabia, in the Sahara and the deserts of Algeria. It is easy to pass it by unnoticed; for it is grayish yellow in color and grows on gray limestone rocks and fragments of rock in the form of a wrinkled crust which seems to the casual observer part of the very rock itself, and needs care to distinguish it. Cut through, it is white like corn within, dry and powdery. It is, moreover, extremely light in weight. It is obvious that these are not much nourishment to be obtained from the bare face of the limestone rock, hence all the sus tenance of the two plants must be obtained from the atmosphere and the rain by the little green plant, which must thus work doubly hard to be able to pass on sufficient food for its partner's living in addition to providing its own. By degrees, as it grows older, it becomes loosened or even detached from the rocks, and then, when the sudden whirlwinds and violent storms which affect many of these regions blow, the featherweight pieces of lichen crust are torn up and blown into the air at the mercy of the wind and carried, it may be, for immense distances. The rains, too, that descend with such sudden vehemence sweep it away into water channels, where it is borne along on the stream and deposited in hollows and left there in heaps when the water subsides. At times, too, a waterspout will gather it up, carry it along and ultimately deposit it in a place where hitherto it had been practically unknown.—Sunday Magazine. Impertinent. It is said that Sarah, duchess of Mariborough, one day remarked to her grandson, Jack Spencer: "Jack, you must marry, and I will give you a list of the ladies you may propose to." "Very well, grannie," he said, and be proposed to the first on the list. When he came back with his wife from their wedding tour, they went to pay their light, while inclosed in their meshes are a number of round, bright green cells, each a tiny algal plant. Thus fungus and alga live together in most intimate connection. It may be asked how fresh manna lichens arise, seeing that it is difficult to imagine a frequent coincident meeting of a particular fungus and a particular green plant. But granted the meeting has once taken place, the rapid reproduction is easy to understand. At certain times in the year a yellowish dust appears in little green cups growing on the surface of the plant, and each of the grains of dust is a minute bundle containing a few of the white filaments and a few of the green cells wrapped up together, so that wherever this dust may fall each grain can become a new manna lichen. There is, moreover, a second method of reproduction in which the fungus alone takes part and sends out tiny offspring to take their chance in the wide world of finding a suitable host, as their parent has done, but the details are complicated and at present involved in some obscurity. Thus, then, Lecanora esculenta — manna—is in its very nature one of the most remarkable phenomena in the vegetable world. It is found over great tracts of southwest Asia, near Coustantinople, in the Crimea, the deserts of Arabia, in the Sahara and the deserts of Algeria. It is easy to pass it by unnoticed; for it is grayish yellow in color and grows on gray limestone rocks and fragments of rock in the form of a wrinkled crust which seems to the casual observer part of the very rock itself, and needs care to distinguish it. Cut through, it is white like corn within, dry and powdery. It is moreover, extremely light in weight. It is obvious that these are not much nourishment to be obtained from the bare face of the limestone rock, hence all the sus tenance of the two plants must be obtained from the atmosphere and the rain by the little green plant, which must thus work doubly hard to be able to pass on sufficient food for its partner's living in addition to providing its own. By degrees, as it grows older, it becomes loosened or even detached from the rocks, and then when the sudden whirlwinds and violent storms which affect many of these regions blow, the featherweight pieces of lichen crust are torn up and blown into the air at the mercy of the wind and carried, it may be, for immense distances. The rains, too, that descend with such sudden vehemence sweep it away into water channels, where it is borne along on the stream and deposited in hollows and left there in heaps when the water subsides. At times, too, a waterspout will gather it up, carry it along and ultimately deposit it in a place where hitherto it had been practically unknown.—Sunday Magazine. Impertinent. It is said that Sarah, duchess of Mariborough, one day remarked to her grandson, Jack Spencer: "Jack, you must marry, and I will give you a list of the ladies you may propose to." "Very well, grannie," he said, and be proposed to the first on the list. When he came back with his wife from their wedding tour, they went to pay their light, while inclosed in their meshes are a number of round, bright green cells, each a tiny algal plant. Thus fungus and alga live together in most intimate connection. It may be asked how fresh manna lichens arise, seeing that it is difficult to imagine a frequent coincident meeting of a particular fungus and a particular green plant. But granted the meeting has once taken place, the rapid reproduction is easy to understand. At certain times in the year a yellowish dust appears in little green cups growing on the surface of the plant, and each of the grains of dust is a minute bundle containing a few of the white filaments and a few of the green cells wrapped up together, so that wherever this dust may fall each grain can become a new manna lichen. There is, moreover, a second method of reproduction in which the fungus alone takes part and sends out tiny offspring to take their chance in the wide world of finding a suitable host, as their parent has done, but the details are complicated and at present involved in some obscurity. Thus, then, Lecanora esculenta — manna—is in its very nature one of the most remarkable phenomena in the vegetable world. It is found over great tracts of southwest Asia, near Coustantinople, in the Crimea, the deserts of Arabia, in the Sahara and the deserts of Algeria. It is easy to pass it by unnoticed; for it is grayish yellow in color and grows on gray limestone rocks and fragments of rock in the form of a wrinkled crust which seems to the casual observer part of the very rock itself, and needs care to distinguish it. Cut through, it is white like corn within, dry and powdery. It is moreover，extremely light in weight. It is obvious that these are not much nourishment to be obtained from the bare face of the limestone rock，hence all the sus tenance of the two plants must be obtained from the atmosphere and the rain by the little green plant，which must thus work doubly hard to be able to pass on sufficient food for its partner's living in addition to providing its own. By degrees，as it grows older，it becomes loosened or even detached from the rocks，and then when the sudden whirlwinds and violent storms which affect many of these regions blow，the featherweight pieces of lichen crust are torn up and blown into the air at the mercy of the wind and carried，it may be，for immense distances. The rains，too，that descend with such sudden vehemence sweep it away into water channels，where it is borne along on the stream and deposited in hollows and left there in heaps when the water subsides. At times，too，a waterspout will gather it up，carry it along and ultimately deposit it in a place where hitherto it had been practically unknown.—Sunday Magazine. Impertinent. It is said that Sarah，duchess of Mariborough，one day remarked to her grandson，Jack Spencer: "Jack，你 must marry，和 I will give you a list of the ladies you may propose to." "Very well，grannie，” he said，and be proposed to first on list. When he came back with his wife from their wedding tour，they went to pay their light，while inclosed in their meshes are a number of round，bright green cells，each a tiny algal plant. Thus fungus and alga live together in most intimate connection. It may be asked how fresh manna lichens arise，seeing that it is difficult to imagine a frequent coincident meeting of a particular fungus and a particular green plant. But granted the meeting has once taken place，the lunar month，the moon will continue to recede from us—Professor E. S. Holden in Harper's Magazine. SIMPLE REMEDIES. Diluted ammonia is good for insect bites and stings. A raw egg swallowed at once upon getting a fishbone in threath beyond the reach of the finger，it is said，will dislodge it and carry it down. A simple remedy for indigestion is the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth and stirred into a wineglassful of cold water. This should be taken after each meal. For burns and scalds，when no other remedy is at hand，try the effect of a piece of rag steeped in vinegar和 bound roundthe scar. This is especially useful when cooking，forthe vinegar is generally at hand. To cure a severe case of colic take a teaspoonful of salt in a pint of water；drink and go to bed. This is one ofthe speediest remedies known. It will also prove efficacious in reviving a person who seems almost dead from a heavy fall. Preparing For A Journey. Jerome K. Jerome recalled，with reverence，a habit of his methodical uncle who before packing for a journey，always "made a list." This wasthe system which he followed，gatheredfrom his uncle's own lips: Take a piece of paper and put downon它 everything you can possibly require. Then go over it and see thatit contains nothing you can possibly do without. Imagine yourself in bed. What haveyou got on? Very well；put它downtogether witha change。You getupWhat do you do? WashyourselfWhat do you washyourselfwithSoap.Put down soap.Go on tillyouhave finished。Then take your clothesBeginat your feet。What do you wearonyourfeet？Boots、shoes、socks。Workup tillyougettothehead。Whatdo you wantbesidesclothes？Put downeverything。 This isthe plan old gentlemanatways pursued.Thelistmade，他 wouldgo overitcarefullytoseethathehadforgottennothing。Thenhewouldgooveritagainandstrikeouteverythingitwaspossible迪spensewithThenhewouldlosethelist. The Backslider. "Many years ago," saysthe Proviidence Journal.“Ina villagenot20milesfromProvidencea revival'wasinprogress.A youngman，一oneofindisinguishable twinbrotherswhohadpreviouslybeenobserved.aswassupposed.Inanattentiveattitudeatthemeeting,roseforprayers，walktedtotheanxioussent,andtherewalledandnouncedtosuchgoodpurposethatthedeaconswere surehewasonthehighroadtosalvation.Thenextdayhewasoverheardin Pleasant Dr Criestheyoumladytoh sheretirestorest.Themebutsighs.Sheknowsthattrackherwillnotstopandthatifshe sleepsherdreamswillonlybeechoesofthesufferingsoftheday. Why not sleep soundlyand riserefreshedatmorningswithstrengthandcouragefordaysduties?Weak,nervouswomen,sufferersfrombackache,bearing-downpains,andotherwomanallments,havefoundapurecureinDr.Pierce'sFavoritePrescription.Ihehealsthewomanlydiscaseswhichcausesthe At times, too, a waterspout will gather it up, carry it along and ultimately deposit it in a place where hitherto it had been practically unknown.—Sunday Magazine. Impertinent. It is said that Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, one day remarked to her grandson, Jack Spencer: "Jack, you must marry, and I will give you a list of the ladies you may propose to." "Very well, grannie," he said, and he proposed to the first on the list. When he came back with his wife from their wedding tour, they went to pay their respects to the old lady. "Well, now," she said, "I am the root, and you are only the branches, and therefore you must always pay me a great deal of deference." "That is all very well," said Jack impertinently, "but I think the branches would flourish a great deal better if the root was under ground." The Primary Planets. The primary planets are those which are the centers of secondary systems, consisting of small globes revolving round them in the same manner as they revolve round the sun. These are called secondary planets, satellites or moons. The primary planets which are thus attended carry the satellites or secondary planets with them in their orbits round the sun. Ingenious. "I can't help admiring the ingenuity of the landlady at our house." "In what way?" "At breakfast time she burns a grain or two of coffee on the kitchen stove, so as to fill the dining room with the odor, and then gives us chicory to drink." "Oh, mamma," exclaimed four-year-old Bessie, looking up at the starry skies one evening, "what a pretty place heaven must be when it is so beautiful wrong side out!" You rob yourself oftener than others rob you. Use Allen's Foot-Ease in Your Gloves. A lady writes: "I shake Allen's Foot-Ease into my gloves and rub a little on my hands. It saves my gloves by absorbing perspiration. It is a most daunting toilet powder." We invite the attention of physicians and nurses to the absolute purity of Allen's Foot-Ease. Dr. W. C. Abbott, editor of the Chicago Clinic says: "It is a grand preparation; I am using it constantly in my own practice." All drug and shoe stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S., Olmsted, La Roy, New York. The Backslider. "Many years ago," says the Providence Journal, "in a village not 20 miles from Providence a revival was in progress. A young man, one of indisputable twin brothers who had previously been observed, as was supposed. In an attentive attitude at the meeting, rose for prayers, walked to the anxious seat, and there walled and nooned to such good purpose that the deacons were sure he was on the high road to salvation. The next day he was overheard in the back yard at home chopping wood and swearing painfully at a refractory leg. When remonstrated with for his sudden backsliding, he merely said "Oh, brother Jim couldn't go to the meeting last night, so I went and holered for him." Meant What It Said. "No," said the Impecunious one, "you can't believe all that you see in the newspapers." "Are you prepared to specify?" the other man asked. "I am. I saw a statement in the financial columns that money was easy, but when I tried to negotiate a loan I found that the reverse was true." "You misunderstood the paragraph It didn't say the people were easy."—Judge. No Pipes Smoked In Cuba. Cuba produces no tobacco for chewing or for pipe smoking. The Cubans who smoke pipes might be counted on one's fingers without making a second round of the fingers. The cigar and the cigarette prevail. To what extent the Cuban cigarette might ever become popular with American smokers is a matter beyond determination. It is certain that most Americans of prolonged residence become, if they be smokers, addicted to Cuban brands and find difficulty in weaning themselves back to American brands on their return.—Review of Reviews. Joke In a Needle's Point. Some 30 years ago a firm in San Francisco sent to a Chinese house in Canton the smallest and finest kind of needle as a sample of our skill in delicate handicraft. It was returned to them with a hole through the point, which could only be seen with a microscope.—Stereoscopic Photograph. Scrofula Few are entirely free from it. It may develop so slowly as to cause little if any disturbance during the whole period of childhood. It may then produce irregularity of the stomach and bowels, dyspepsia, catarrh, and marked tendency to consumption before manifesting itself in much cutaneous eruption or glandular swelling. It is best to be sure that you are quite free from it, and for its complete eradication you can rely on Hood's Sarsaparilla The best of all medicines for all humors. Pulled Lincoln's Hair. While Mr. Lincoln was living in Springfield a judge of the city, who was one of the leading and most influential citizens of the place, had occasion to call upon him. Mr. Lincoln was not overparticular in his matter of dress and was also careless in his manners. The Judge was ushered into the parlor, where he found Mr. Lincoln sprawled out across a couple of chairs, reclining at his ease. The Judge was asked to be seated and, without changing his position in the least, Mr. Lincoln entered into conversation with his visitor. While the two men were talking Mrs. Lincoln entered the room. She was of course greatly embarrassed at Mr. Lincoln's offhand manner of entertaining his caller, and, stepping up behind her husband, she grasped him by the hair and twitched his head about, at the same time looking at him reprovingly. Mr. Lincoln apparently did not notice the rebuke. He simply looked up at his wife, then across to the judge and, without rising, said: "Little Mary, allow me to introduce you to my friend, Judge So-and-so." It will be remembered that Mrs. Lincoln's maiden name was Mary Todd and that she was very short in stature.—Leslie's Monthly. Regulating a Clock. It is not, of course, possible to seize hold of the hands of a clock and push them backward or forward a tenth or a twentieth part of a second, which is about the limit of error that is allowed at the Greenwich observatory, so another method is devised. Near the pendulum a magnet is fixed. If it is found that the pendulum is going either too fast or too slow, a current of electricity Native Pasture Plants. Continued from First Page. lands. It is a low, spreading species, with comparatively soft leaves and fine tops, and furnishes a moderate amount of grazing in many localities. Indian millet is found in desert places where the soil is more or less alkaline, and is often seen growing in the drifting sands of the desert. It ranges from New Mexico to Southern California northward to the Canadian line. All kinds of stock relish it, and the seed heads appear to be specially palatable to horses. The most widely distributed and most abundant of all the grasses of alkali soils is what is known as salt-grass. This grass is not confined to the salt lands of the interior, but occurs on the salt marshes of the coast from Maine to Texas, and on the west from British Columbia southward. It will thrive in ground heavily impregnated with alkali and other salts, and where nearly all other vegetation would perish. In the interior it ranges from Montana southward to Texas and Arizona, and although much inferior in quality to the better pasture grasses of the East, in the region where it occurs it is often esteemed very highly. It will form a good sod, and, under favorable conditions, it makes a sufficient growth to produce a good crop of hay. It is probably the most abundant species in the Rio Grande valley, in Texas, New Mexico and in the valleys westward to the Pacific ocean. Its presence is regarded as an infallible sign of water near the surface, a fact taken advantage of by prospectors and miners. In the dry regions the grass is invaluable for the pasture it furnishes near the springs that serve as watering places for stock on the open range. The formation, care and management of pastures; the best methods of restoring the grasses on the ranges of the West; pasture plants for the great areas of alkali lands in the interior, and winter-grazing for the Southwest and drouth-resisting grasses for arid sections, are problems of national importance.—Year-Book of the Department of Agriculture, 1900. 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 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 County's splendid oil field and affords a site second to none in the state for a manufacturing town of large size. Tues. Oct. 15 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 Santa Pedro harbor can be seen, is nearing completion. Streets and alleys of lilial dimensions will next be turned to Then there is a pipe-line project for the conveyance of natural gas to this city for lighting and domestic purposes and a line for oil for steam purposes. A feature among the most important ones 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. Or railroad has been surveyed, negotiation are in progress for another. Railroad companies wanting free right of way should apply to Col. Tuffree Before October RENOVATED POTATOES. in all the markets from Albuquerque, and Salt Lake City. Regulating a Clock. It is not, of course, possible to seize hold of the hands of a clock and push them backward or forward a tenth or a twentth part of a second, which is about the limit of error that is allowed at the Greenwich observatory, so another method is devised. Near the pendulum a magnet is fixed. If it is found that the pendulum is going either too fast or too slow, a current of electricity is switched on, and the little magnet begins to pull at the metal as it swings to and fro. It only retards or accelerates the motion by an infinitesimal fraction of a second each time, but it keeps the operation up and in a few thousand swings the tenth or the twentieth part of the almost invisible error is corrected, thus making the clocks "keep step" at the proper instant of time.—London News. Thirteen Rules In Coins. "I have never been able to comprehend," said a veteran numismatist, "why so many Americans should believe that a vast amount of ill luck centers around the number 13. "The commonest of all our silver coins is the 25 cent piece. In the words 'quarter dollar' are 13 letters. Thirteen letters compose E Pluribus Unum. In the tail of the eagle are 13 feathers and in the shield are 13 lines. There are 13 stars and 13 arrowheads, while if you will examine the bird through a microscope you will find 13 feathers in his wing." Refining Petroleum. The refining of petroleum is a process of distillation in which it is separated into several marketable products. There are two methods of distillation, known technically as "in vacuo" and "cracking." In the first the petroleum is distilled in a partial vacuum and in the second with superheated steam. This process receives its name from the cracking sound of the steam as it enters the undistilled petroleum. Pleasant Dreams" Cries the young maid to her mother, as she retires to rest. The mother smiles, but sighs. She knows that the pains that rack her will not stop for darkness, and that if she sleeps her dreams will only be echoes of the sufferings of the day. Why not sleep soundly and rise refreshed at morning, with strength and courage for the day's duties? Weak, nervous women, sufferers from backache, bearing-down pains, and other womanly ailments, have found a perfect cure in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It heals the womanly diseases which cause the places for stock on the open range. The formation, care and management of pastures; the best methods of restoring the grasses on the ranges of the West; pasture plants for the great areas of alkali lands in the interior, and winter-grazing for the Southwest and drought-resisting grasses for arid sections, are problems of national importance.—Year-Book of the Department of Agriculture, 1900. 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 drugs 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. Count the Times a Horse Rolls. To see a horse when out at pasture rolling on the ground and endeavoring to turn over on his back is a common sight, but how many people have noticed that in doing this horses observe an invariable rule? The rule is that he always rolls over either at the first or third attempt—never at the second—and more than three attempts are never made. In other words, if the horse succeeds in rolling over at the first try, well and good—that satisfies him; but if the first attempt is a failure, the second one always is. Then he either rolls quite over at the third or gives it up. He never makes a fourth. If horses are rolling on sloping ground they usually roll up hill. This is more easy of explanation than the strange custom regulating the number of attempts. As to this no adequate reason has ever been offered. Will those ingenious people who tell us why a dog turns round before lying down, and why ducks walk behind each other in a string instead of abreast, explain why a horse never makes four attempts to roll over and never succeeds at the second? "Hand to Mouth" Livers. One of the paradoxes of waste is that persons most addicted to it are not men and women of independent means who can support themselves in spite of their extravagant expenditure, but the poorer classes. There is hardly an able-bodied laborer who might not become financially independent if he would but carefully husband his receipts and guard against the little leaks of needless expense. But unfortunately this is the one thing which the workingman finds it the hardest to do. There are a hundred laborers who are willing to work hard to every half dozen who are willing properly to husband their earnings. Instead of hoarding a small percentage of their receipts so as to provide against sickness or want of employment they eat and drink up their earnings as they go, and thus in the first financial crash, when mills and factories "shut down" and capitalists lock up their cash instead of using it in great enterprises, they are ruined. Men who thus live "from hand to mouth," never keeping more than a day's march ahead of actual want, are in all the markets from Albuquerque, and Salt Lake. The commission and wholesale dealers know of and abet them gardener could not make. The average retail market aware of the deception personal knowledge, able to his customers in all fraudulent new potatoe. The method of their unique, and it is done Late in the season, after are out of the way, plants a crop of late potatoes. The time he from experience and for a yield of small potatoes the frosts of winter cool the gardener's truck potatoe potatoes are dug and buryed. HARD WORK. It Tests the Quality of Both Blood and Muscle. There are grades even in hard work. The actual labor may not be greater in one case than in another, but the conditions under which the work is done intensify the strain upon the entire body. To work in the harvest field, under a hot sun, is after all, a healthful occupation. To work in a stoke hole, deep in the bowels of an ocean liner, or under ground in some basement, imposes far more strain and produces greater exhaustion than the hardest work in the field on the hottest of July days. The cures of disease impure or poisoned blood, which have been by the use of Dr. Pierce's Discovery, stamp its curative power is by the fact that in a great use of "Golden Medical" not begun until years after experienced, and all availably had entirely failed to effect. GAINED 37 Pounds "It has been two years stopped using Dr. Pierce's Discovery," writes of Regina, Pike Co., down in Texas last year chills and fever whilie back to Kentucky and being my boots off from commenced using it. 149 pounds suffering fever for 12 weeks treatment and tried kinds of pain and all seem good. Since four bottles Golden Medicine and one visit I feel well and weight stead when I be advise them keep it in time; antee they more children they use directions. "Goldenery" removes substances from the blood ditions fave It acts upon glanding their active Why not sleep soundly and rise refreshed at morning, with strength and courage for the day's duties? Weak, nervous women, sufferers from backache, bearing-down pains, and other womanly ailments, have found a perfect cure in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It heals the womanly diseases which cause the pains and nervousness. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. "I deem it my duty to express my heartfelt gratitude for having been the means, under Providence, of restoring me to health," writes Mrs. B. H. Munn, of Springhill, Leon Co., Fla. "For nearly two years I suffered from female weakness so I could not stand on my feet any length of time; could scarcely walk at all. Appetite was much impaired; I had bearing-down sensations; can't express how badly I did feel. Had tried several kinds of medicine which did me little or no good. At last decided to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I had not taken all of two bottles before I saw it was benefiting me, so I continued to take it until I had taken seven bottles, when I felt entirely cured. Did not feel a touch of my old corpulant. It has been over a year since I took your medicine, and I can truthfully say that my health has been better for the last year than it had been for four years previously." "You may publish this as a testimonial." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. A Few Words about Pain-Killer A prominent Montreal clergyman, the Rev. James H. Dixon, Rector St. Judes and Hon. Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, writes: "Permit me to send you a few lines to strongly recommend Perry Davis' Pain-Killer. I have used it with satisfaction for thirty-five years. It is a preparation which deserves full public confidence." More Laughter, Less Suicides. The physiological benefits of laughter cannot be overestimated. It shakes up the diaphragm, sets the pulses beating to a lively measure, stimulates the blood corpuscles, enlvents the brain and sometimes produces dislocation of the jaw when indulged in too heartily by a man with a large mouth. Used with discretion, laughter is as inspiring as a sea breeze, as refreshing as an August shower. Its moral effect is beyond computation. It has killed more riddleous superstitions by its rollicking roars of unbelief than any other agency. What can be more derisive than a laugh? The man who laughs never kills himself. This is the reason so few Irishmen commit suicide—Literary Bra. Vital statistics tell the story. The average life of the man in the stoke hole, the rolling mill, the blast furnace, the glass factory, is far below the average life of the open air worker. Yet the average life of these hard working men could be considerably prolonged, if once and for all they would learn the force of that Biblical statement, "The blood is the life." If a man seeks to prolong his life, he must take account of his blood—for that is the vital fluid. WAITING FOR THE WORST. The chief cause of a physical breakdown is often the fact that people put off giving themselves proper care. They don't want to spend the money for medicine, or they don't feel quite sick enough to want to take it. They feel languid, "played out," as they say, and when the day's work is over there isn't a bit of "go" left in them. That's the time when the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery means a new grip on life, and the prevention of more serious disease. "It has been five years since I took your 'Golden Medical Discovery' for an affection called scrofulous enlargement of the glands of the neck," writes Mr. Zebulon B. Loftin, of Grifton, Pitt Co., N.C., "and I am glad to tell you that I have had no return of the disease. I thought I would write you and let you know that I have not forgotten you, and never will while I live." You may publish this if you wish, and if any one wants to know about my testimonial they are at liberty to write to me, and I will acknowledge the truth in return." For three years I have suffered with that dread disease, eczema," writes Mrs. J. Koepp, of Hermann, Oregon. "I was told to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which I did, and after I had taken fourteen bottles I was permanently cured. It has been a year since I stopped taking your medicine and the disease has never appeared since. Your medicine produced a wonderful cure, and I hope others suffering as I did, will take it and be relieved of their suffering." HOMEO OWN AT THE HE OIL FIELD the newest town in city; it is on Col. J. K. at ranch in Placentia. is the very gateway y's splendid oil field second to none in the manufacturing town of ge size. Oct. 15 for opening the town, auction sale will be 10 and 20-acre tracts Already a big waresite of which San be seen, is nearing ects and alleys of libwill next be turned to. pipe-line project for of natural gas to the and domestic purposes for steam purposes. the most important of city is the abundance mean and ditch water on the site produce in the county. One surveyed, negotiations or another. Railroad ing free right of way apply to before October 15th 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 20,000 SHARES TREASURY STOCK LEFT AND FOR SALE AT $2.00 Per Share. In ordering shares, address and remit to, and in favor of GILES OTIS PEARCE, General Manager United Mines Mining Co., Santa Ana, Cal. Before October 15th in all the markets from Denver to Albuquerque, and Salt Lake to Cape Nome. The commission merchants and wholesale dealers must certainly know of and abet the fraud or the gardener could not market his wares. The average retail merchant is not aware of the deception to my own personal knowledge, and deals out to his customers in all innocence the fraudulent new potato. The method of their manufacture is unique, and it is done as follows: Late in the season, after other crops are out of the way, the gardener plants a crop of late and good keeping potatoes. The time has been chosen from experience and is opportune for a yield of small potatoes before the frosts of winter come down upon the gardener's truck patch. These potatoes are dug and buried in heaps The cures of diseases caused by an impure or poisoned condition of the blood, which have been accomplished by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, stamp it as one of the most remarkable remedies of the age. Its curative power is best judged from the fact that in a great many cases the use of "Golden Medical Discovery" was not begun until years of misery had been experienced, and all available medicines had entirely failed to effect a cure. GAINED 37 POUNDS. "It has been two months since I stopped using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery," writes J. Venters, Esq., of Regina, Pike Co., Ky. "I stayed down in Texas last year and contracted chills and fever while there. I came back to Kentucky and was about shaking my boots off from my feet when I commenced using it. I only weighed 149 pounds. Had been suffering with chills and fever for 12 months. Took treatment from my doctor and tried many different kinds of patent medicines, and all seemed to do no good. Since I have used four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and one vial of his 'Pellets,' I feel well in every respect and weigh 186 pounds instead of 149, my weight when I began its use. I advise the whole South to keep it in their homes all the time, and I will guarantee they will have no more chills and fever if they use it according to directions." "Golden Medical Discovery" removes the foreign substances which corrupt the blood and create conditions favorable to disease. It acts upon the blood-making glands and increases their activity, thus increase in the open field and left until spring opens and the new potato season arrives. At the proper time the heaps are opened and the potatoes sorted according to sizes. In the meantime a large kettle or vat is set in the field adjacent to the potato heaps and made ready by filling with water and adding sufficient lye to effectually curl the skin of the potato when dipped into the boiling solution. A crane and metal basket are rigged so that the dipping can be done expeditiously, and the way that new potatoes are turned out is astonishing. The effect of dipping any potato, no matter how old, into this boiling lye solution is to crack and curl the skin, and at the same time it hardens or makes the potato much firmer, so that its resemblance to a new potato is so near that it would be hard to pick out the impostor, from appearance alone, from a basket of the genuine article. After dipping, the potatoes are rinsed in another vat and spread out to dry in the sun and cure into perfect, new potatoes, and the work is complete. The only way that you can tell the fraudulent new potato is to cut one open and notice its appearance carefully from circumference to center. For a short distance in from the skin of the made potato you will, if you look closely, see a yellowish-white line of semi-cooked and watery appearance. If this test is not conclusive, put one or two into some cold water and let them come to a boil and you will notice a faint lye I feel well in every respect and weigh 186 pounds instead of 149, my weight when I began its use. I advise the whole South to keep it in their homes all the time, and I will guarantee they will have no more chills and fever if they use it according to directions." "Golden Medical Discovery" removes the foreign substances which corrupt the blood and create conditions favorable to disease. It acts upon the blood-making glands and increases their activity, thus increasing the supply of pure, rich blood, which feeds every nerve and tissue of the body. It cures eruptions, boils, sores, salt-rheum, eczema, tetter, scrofula, rheumatism and blood poisoning. Accept no substitute for "Golden Medical Discovery." The main motive of substitution is to enable the dealer to make the little more profit paid him by the sale of less meritorious preparations. Sick people, especially those suffering from diseases which have become chronic, are invited to consult Doctor Pierce, by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. This invitation, to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free, is not to be confounded with the spurious offers of "free medical advice," made by those who having no medical knowledge or experience, are not qualified either professionally or legally to give medical advice. Dr. Pierce, chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., assisted by his medical staff of nearly a score of physicians, has in a little over thirty years, treated and cured hundreds of thousands of sick men and women. The success of Dr. Pierce's methods and medicines may be inferred from the fact that of the hundreds of thousands who have consulted him 98 per cent, have been perfectly and permanently cured. There is no similar offer of free consultation by letter which has behind it an institution of such world wide reputation as the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., with its staff of nearly a score of physicians and its great record of cures. FREE TO ALL. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. This great work on family medicine and household hygiene, contains more than a thousand large pages and over 700 illustrations. Send 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound volume, or only 21 stamps for the book in paper covers. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. The only way that you can tell the fraudulent new potato is to cut one open and notice its appearance carefully from circumference to center. For a short distance in from the skin of the made potato you will, if you look closely, see a yellowish-white line of semi-cooked and watery appearance. If this test is not conclusive, put one or two into some cold water and let them come to a boil, and you will notice a faint lye odor, and the water that covers them will have a slippery, alkaline feel that any housewife cannot mistake. 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 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Oscar R. Luedke, deceased. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against, the above-named deceased, to present them within ten months after the date of this notice, to the County Clerk of the County of Orange, State of California, at his office in the city of Santa Ana. W. A. BECKETT, Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange. Jv R. L. Freeman, Deputy. Dated July 30th, 1901. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney for the Estate augs-8t