anaheim-gazette 1901-10-17

ENGLISH OF THE ENGLISH. "London Is a Nice Place If You Know the Language." That hackneyed American maiden who said London was a nice place if you knew the language was not a bit absurd. We speak English, but we have built up our forms of English expression upon the English of a few shires of the old country as it was spoken between two and three centuries ago, while they have been blending and changing the speech of all their home peoples during the same period. The result is that an American can hardly utter a sentence in England without calling attention to the difference between his speech and that of the people about him. Only yesterday, after 18 months' residence in England, I rushed up to a conductor in Charing Cross station and asked, "Which car for Bromley?" He stared at me, and I knew I had spoken a foreign tongue to him, because street vehicles like omnibuses and horse cars are called road cars and tram cars, and there are no other cars in England. If you ask a guest at your home in England whether he likes his meat rare, he asks what you said because he does not understand you. He calls meat underdone when it is not thoroughly cooked. If you tell him you fear the asparagus is canned, he is at a loss again, because he would have said it was tinned. To ask him to pass the powdered sugar will again set him to wondering, for he calls it being sugar generally, though he knows that it is sometimes called caster or sifted sugar. And if you have candy on the table you may not call it so without betraying your foreign origin, for he calls candy "sweets," abbreviated from "sweetmeats," and used to designate all preserves, puddings, ples, candles and jams. To go further along the eccentricities of English at the dining table most persons know, I suppose, that the beet is called beet root; cornstarch is corn flour; corned beef (or a particular cut of it) is called "silver sides of beef"; and napkins are serviettes.—Julian Ralph in Harper's Magazine. THERMOMETER TUBES. Process of Their Manufacture at Jena, In Germany. A most interesting account is given in The Idler of the wonderful state aided industry at Jena where glass and lenses are made for scientists. The industry has been built up by Professor Death Gulch. A ravine in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National park, in Wyoming, is known by those living near by as Death gulch. Grewsome as is the name, it is exceedingly appropriate. It is a V-shaped trench cut in the mountainside and begins about 250 feet above Cache creek. Apparently it forms a natural shelter for the beasts of the forest, as food, water and shelter are there, but entrance to the gulch means death to any animal, for the poisonous vapors that rise out of the ravine are more deadly than the bullets of the huntsmen. For ages this death trap in the Rocky mountains has probably been luring the inhabitants of the forest to their doom. With the rains of spring the bones of the dead of the preceding year are carried down to the creek and the gulch cleared for the death harvest of the summer and winter. The geologists say that the lavas which fill the ancient basin of the park at this place rest upon the flanks of mountains formed of fragmentary volcanic ejects. Gaseous emanations are given out in great volume. These come, the scientists say, from deposits of altered and crystalline travertine mixed with pools in the creek. Above these deposits the creek cuts into a bank of sulphur. In the bottom of the gully is a small stream sour with sulphuric acid. No wonder the poor animals seeking shelter in the gulch meet death there. A Curious Trap. A curious labyrinth in which elephants are captured alive is to be seen Ayuthia, formerly the capital of Slam. The labyrinth is formed of a double row of immense tree trunks set firmly in the ground, the space between them gradually narrowing. Where it begins, at the edge of the forest, the opening of the labyrinth is more than a mile wide, but as it approaches Ayuthia it becomes so narrow that the elephants cannot turn around. Suspecting no danger the wild elephant enters the broad opening at the forest end, lured on by a tame elephant. The gradual narrowing of the boundaries is not observed until the elephant finds himself in close quarters. Having reached the end of the labyrinth, the tame elephant is allowed to pass through a gate, while men lying in wait alip shackles over the feet of the captives. The sport is a dangerous one, for the enraged elephants sometimes crush the hunters under their feet. An Ancient Foe To health and happiness is Scrofula—as ugly as ever since time immemorial. It causes bunches in the neck, disfigures the skin, inflames the mucous membrane, wastes the muscles, weakens the bones, reduces the power of resistance to disease and the capacity for recovery, and develops into comsumption. "A bunch appeared on the left side of my neck. It caused great pain, was lanced and became a running sore. I went into a general decline. I was persuaded to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, and when I had taken six bottles my neck was healed, and I have never had any trouble of the kind since Mrs. K. T. Snyder, Troy, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills will rid you of it, radically and permanently, as they have rid thousands. Tempting Fate. "No, thanks," said the sad faced man when he was asked to join a convivie party. "The fact is, I don't drink Found I couldn't afford it, so I swoof. A number of years ago I lived on the west. I was doing well, and I had a bank account that I was proud of. Seeing chance to double my money decided to draw it out. The day was warm one, and becoming thirsty, stopped to take a glass of something cool. I didn't waste more than five minutes and was soon in line at the paying teller's window. The pain ahead of me received his money, and was shoving my check through the window when the teller pulled it down and announced that the bank has suspended payment. I believe that receiver declared a dividend a year later, but the amount was so small that I never bothered to collect mine. It was a pretty expensive drink me." "Do I understand, sah," said a Kurtuckian who was present, "that y took that drink alone?" "Certainly." "It was the judgment of heaviness sah," remarked the Kentuckian evenly—Detroit Free Press. THERMOMETER TUBES. Process of Their Manufacture at Jena, in Germany. A most interesting account is given in The Idler of the wonderful state aided industry at Jena where glass and lenses are made for scientists. The industry has been built up by Professor Abbe and Dr. Schott, and has throughout been conducted by scientists whose efforts have made Jena famous among scientific men the world over. One of the most picturesque features of the Jena glassworks is the great corridor where the thermometer tubes are blown and drawn, says a correspondent. We saw this glass in process of manufacture. A boy workman caught a bit of molten glass from the furnace on the end of a blowpipe. It was hardly larger than a walnut, but by twirling and blowing and molding it grew to the size of an orange, with the shape of an orange. More glass was then added, and there was more rolling and blowing, and when the proper stage was reached the blowpipe was passed quickly to the brawny master workman. He, in his turn, added glass, blowing from time to time with cheeks outpuffed until it seemed as though they must burst, and then rolling the great ball of glass on his iron kneading board until it looked like a huge yellow gourd. Faster and faster he worked, keeping the ball always symmetrical and yet white hot. At length he lifted the glowing mass quickly in the air, and a second workman attached the blowpipe at the bottom. Then the two men ran in opposite directions, twirling the pipes and blowing lustily from time to time. From a thick, partly yellow globe the glass thinned out quickly as the men ran apart, until it became a dull red tube not larger than a man's little finger and nearly 300 feet long. Sometimes in drawing these tubes one of the blowers would not only run the length of the corridor, but far outside on the hill. Wagner and the Player. When Richard Wagner was conductor of the Royal Opera in Dresden, the orchestra of that institution, though one of the best in Germany, was far from being as good as it is now, and Wagner had a good deal of trouble in making it follow his intentions. Some years later, when he was living as an exile in Zurich, he undertook to train the local orchestra. After a few attempts he exclaimed, "Gentlemen, you have just given me a great pleasure; you have played exactly as badly as the Dresden orchestra." The Zurich players laughed, and the idea that they might play better than the royal musicians in Dresden so fired their zeal that they actually succeeded in doing it. Polished Furniture. When a polished table is stained by a hot dish, one restoring process is to use first wood alcohol and then linseed or olive oil. This treatment is excellent for keeping any polished furniture in proches Ayuthia it becomes so parrow that the elephants cannot turn around. Suspecting no danger the wild elephant enters the broad opening at the forest end, lured on by a tame elephant. The gradual narrowing of the boundaries is not observed until the elephant finds himself in close quarters. Having reached the end of the labyrinth, the tame elephant is allowed to pass through a gate, while men lying in wait slip shackles over the feet of the captives. The sport is a dangerous one, for the enraged elephants sometimes crush the hunters under their feet. Alphabetical Abuse. The prosecuting attorney in a lawsuit had waxed especially indignant at the defendant, whom he characterized as an "abandoned, baneful, cynical, diabolic, execrable, felonious, greedy, hateful, irresponsible, jauniced, knavish, lazy, meddlesome, noxious, outrageous and profligate rowdy." "The learned counsel on the other side," said the attorney for the defendant when he rose to reply, "should have put his adjectives in a hat and shaken them up a little before using. You must have noticed, gentlemen of the jury, that they were in regular alphabetical order. This shows that he selected them from a dictionary, beginning with 'a.' He stopped at 'p,' but in his manner of reproducing them he has given us the 'cue' as to how he got them." This turned the laugh against the other lawyer, and he lost the case. A Bright Jury. In a larceny case in Maine it was agreed to go on with only 11 men on the jury. The trial lasted several hours, and then the jury retired to deliberate upon the evidence and find verdict. After being out four hours the jury reported that it could not agree, and accordingly it was discharged from further duty in the case, and the prisoner was remanded to the jail. A little later the attorneys for the respondent "got at" one of the jury-men and asked him how the vote stood in the jury room. "Well," said he, "we balloted about 20 times, and each time there were 11 votes for conviction, but at no time could we get 12 votes for conviction, so we had to report a disagreement." A Bit of Bowery Dialogue. This gem of metropolitan English is vouchered for by the New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: I heard this bit of dialogue between two Bowery hoodlums the other day: Said one as he pointed to his shiny black trousers: "Oh, Chimmy, howcher like me black?" "All right," was the response, "but they ain't ez good ez yer lightest." "Gwan, yer guy: git wise. Dese is lose, only I had 'em dyd." And then they got aboard a car. How to Quit Chewing Tobacco. The "substitute cure" is worthy of be attention of sufferers. We have a citizen of Mobile who has tried it. He was an inveterate chewer of tobacco. He stopped chewing and took to chewing a pine stick. He always has this bit of wood between his teeth, in waking hours at least. He has not tasted Polished Furniture. When a polished table is stained by a hot dish, one restoring process is to use first wood alcohol and then linseed or olive oil. This treatment is excellent for keeping any polished furniture in order and is one of the few things for which wood alcohol may be used. The latter is cheaper than the pure and for certain domestic uses is quite as good. A Special Occasion. First Tramp—You orter see Bill go in over de fence wit' de bull after him. Second Tramp—Must have been wuth lookin at. First Tramp—Say! It wuz de only time I ever seen him when he didn't look tired.—Puck. The total number of timber rafts on all the rivers of European Russia is said to be more than 80,000 yearly with a total of some 25,000,000 logs. Clerical Sore Throat Explained. Deacon Scrimp—Humph! Think you have got to have a vacation, eh? Struggling Pastor—Yes, the doctor says I must go off until this cough is cured. Deacon Scrimp—Well, I'd like to know why preachers are always getting bad coughs. Struggling Pastor—Well, you see, we have to visit around a good deal, and we are always asked to hold a little service before leaving, and I think our throats become affected from breathing the dust that tiles from the family Bibles.—New York Weekly. Use Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to be shaker into the shoes Your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Fase. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen, sweating feet, ingrowing nails, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it today. Sold by all drug-gist and stores for 25c. Trial package free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. 4p How to Quit Chewing Tobacco. The "substitute cure" is worthy of the attention of sufferers. We have a citizen of Mobile who has tried it. He was an inveterate chewer of tobacco. He stopped chewing and took to chewing a pine stick. He always has this bit of wood between his teeth, in waking hours at least. He has not tasted tobacco in many years.—Mobile Register. Unavoidable. "Why do you wander aimlessly from place to place?" Inquired the philanthropist. "Well," answered Meandering Mike. "eight hours' sleep a day is enough for anybody. And we're gotter do someting wit' de other 16 hours, ain't we?"—Washington Star. Explained. Customer—Walter, it is nearly half an hour since I ordered that turtle soup. Waiter—Sorry, sir, but you know how slow turtles are, sir. Origin of "a Horn." A western man at a fashionable bar in New York called for a horn and then had to tell the drink mixer that it was whisky he wanted before he got his order filled. "Curious." commented the westerner, "how people in the east can't understand plain English. Anybody down in Kentucky knows what 'a horn' is and how it got its name." "How did it get its name?" Inquired a bystander. "Well, along about 100 years ago the first distillery ever established in Tennessee was set up in Davidson county. It was called the Red Helfer, and the customers who assembled at the still, especially on Saturday afternoon, to drink and gamble, got in the habit of speaking of a drag as 'a horn of the belfer.' As Tennessee was the first state to be settled west of the Alleghanies the phrase spread all over the west and southwest, finally being contracted into the single word 'born.'"—New York Times. The Ancient Foe and happiness is Scrofula—has ever since time immemorial. There bunches in the neck, dishews skin, inflames the mucous glands, wastes the muscles, weakens bones, reduces the power of the heart to disease and the capacity to carry, and develops into conditions. It caused great pain, was lanced, and a running sore. I went into a cocaine line. I was persuaded to try Sarsaparilla, and when I had taken my neck was healed, and I have any trouble of the kind since." T. Snyder, Troy, Ohio. God's Sarsaparilla and Pills For you of it, radically and personally, as they have rid thousands. Tempting Fate. Thanks," said the sad faced man who was asked to join a convival. "The fact is, I don't drink. I couldn't afford it, so I swore that account that I was proud of. A chance to double my money, I draw it out. The day was a storm, and becoming thirsty, I took to take a glass of something that didn't waste more than five cents and was soon in line at the teller's window. The party of me received his money, and I moved my check through the door when the teller pulled it down announced that the bank has suspended payment. I believe that the order declared a dividend a year or two, but the amount was so small never bothered to collect mine. A pretty expensive drink for understanding, sah," said a Kenyan who was present, "that you must drink alone?" Finally." was the judgment of heaven, remarked the Kentuckian solder—Detroit Free Press. A Moody Retort. A religious enthusiast, whose bobby was anti-Catholicism, went to the great evangelist one day and put the direct question: "Mr. Moody, do you ever intend to do any preaching against the Catholics?" "Yes, I may some time." "When will that be?" "After the Protestants are converted." One Way of Telling. Curley—You see that fellow loafing over there? He used to go to the same college that I did. I wonder if he remembers me? Burleigh—Ask him for the loan of $5. Curley—What for? Burleigh—If he remembers you, you won't get it.—Judge. Politeness is like an air cushion—there may be nothing in it, but it eases many a hard jolt—Chicago News. Mind is that which preceives, feels, remembers, acts and is conscious of continued existence. CAPTURING A PASSENGER. The Hackman Tried Many Pleas, the Last a Funny One. "I like perseverance in a man, even in a hackman," began Peterson, "and there is one particular jehu doing business in Washington who possesses that quality in the superlative degree. "When I visited the Capital City, I had my mind fully made up to have nothing to do with the hackmen, so when I stepped off the train and a crowd of these gentry began shouting at me I simply shook my head and passed on. One of them, however, was not to be thus easily disposed of. Dancing around in front of me so as to block my progress, he vociferated: 'Hack, mister! Take you to the Washington monument or the capitol? Only half a dollar!" "Again I shook my head. 'Smithsonian institution or treasury building? Take you to both of 'em for 75 cents!" "Still I shook my head 'Arlington and Fort Myer? Drive you over and back for $2?" "As before I responded with a shake of the head. 'Navy yard or Soldiers' home? Either place for a dollar.' "Another shake of the head. 'Want to go to the White House and see the president? Drive you right there for 50 cents!" "More head shaking. 'Patent office or state department? Some prices as the White House." MISTAKES OF AUTHORS. Some of the Many Amusing Slips That Have Been Made in Famous Novels. When Anthony Trollope pictured Andy Scott as "coming whistling up the street with a cigar in his mouth" he not only proved that he had never made personal experiment of the double feat of smoking a cigar and whistling a tune, but he was unconsciously following in the steps of still greater writers who make their heroes do amazing and impossible things. Those who remember their Robinson Crusoe may recall a most wonderful feat of this hero of childhood. When he decided to abandon the wreck and try to swim ashore he took the precaution to remove all his clothes, and yet by some strange magic, of which the secret has been lost, the author makes him, when in this condition of nature, fill his pockets with biscuits. The great Shakespeare himself had a peculiar faculty for making the impossible happen in his plays. One of the most remarkable of these feats occurs in the fifth act of "Othello," when Desdemona, after she has been duly smothered by the Moor, comes to life again and enters into conversation quite rationally, even inventing a generous falsehood to shield him from the consequences of his crime, before she decides to die. The improbability of a person recovering consciousness and speech after being smothered, and of dying after performing such a feat, scarcely needs pointing out. Shakespeare, too, had a trick of introducing the most glaring anachronism—so glaring, in fact, that there is more than a suspicion that they must have been introduced consciously for some unknown reason. For instance, he makes a clock strike in ancient Rome at a time more than a thousand years before clocks were invented, when such an event would certainly have been his capacity for mixing up the name of his characters is as confusing it is wonderful. Emile Zola, in spite of his carelessness, makes the astonishing moment in one of his novels ("Lourdes") that the deaf and dumb recover their hearing and sight, an eerie which savors very much of miraculous. The moon has innocently caused the cause of much blundering on part of authors. Wilkie Collins some mysterious fashion, made rise on one important occasion in west; Rider Haggard, in "Kingdom's Mines," contrives an eerie of the new moon for the benefit his readers, and Coleridge in ocularly places a star between horns of the crescent moon and rises in the east. Varieties of Vegetables Continued from First page for variation of type, as all the will not reproduce themselves closely the same mold. A certain for the variation of the type must allowed. The plants which fall on this limit are classified as in plants. To express the degree of uniformity among plants of the accepted type, the sample, the term evenness is meaning the closeness with which plants belonging to the accepted variety resemble one another or vice versa. A sample may be in purity but poor in evenness, versa; for instance, among 3000 of the Osage muskmelon there may be a great variation in the shape and color of the fruits, but all their variation may fall within the limits must be allowed for natural variation in the lot there may be one plant has green-fleshed instead of yellow fleshed fruit, which, of course mixture. This stock may be be poor in evenness but good in on. On the other hand, if there are plants which are green-fleshed some other way just as different from the true type of the variety, while remaining 250 plants show great formity in the color size and size of fruits. The stock in this case be said to be good in evenness because It Makes Sick Women Well WOMAN'S RELIEF really healthy woman has litpain or discomfort at the instrual period. No woman ads to have any. Wine of dulci will quickly relieve those starting menstrual pains and dragging head, back and aches caused by falling of womb and irregular menses. VINE OF CARDUI Again I shook my head. "Smithsonian institution or treasury building? Take you to both of 'em for 75 cents!" Still I shook my head. "Arlington and Fort Myer? Drive you over and back for $2!" As before I responded with a shake of the head. "Navy yard or Soldiers' home? Either place for a dollar." Another shake of the head. "Want to go to the White House and see the president? Drive you right there for 50 cents!" More head shaking. "Patent office or state department? Same price as the White House?" Another shake. Mind you, all this time I hadn't opened my mouth or uttered a word, and from the puzzled look on the hackman's face I thought I had him about discouraged. But as I shoved past him, thinking to make my escape, his countenance suddenly brightened up and I heard him cutter: "By George, I've hit it now! I'll try him just once more!" And then, running in front of me again, he spelled out on his fingers in the deaf and dumb alphabet, with which I chanced to be familiar, 'Deaf and Dumb asylum? Take you right to the door for a quarter!'" — Woman's Home Companion. LAUNDRY LINES. If coffee is spilled on linen, the stains can be removed by soaking the part for 12 hours in clear cold water to which a little borax has been added. After you have washed and ironed your ribbons draw them swiftly under the flatiron, holding it on one edge. Do this two or three times and your ribbon will not be stiff, but soft and pliable. To wash very yellow or grimy things make an emulsion of kerosene, clear flimewater and turpentine in equal parts. Shake them together until creamy, then add a cupful to a boilerful of clothes and boll for half an hour. Acetic acid (concentrated vinegar) will restore colors that have been injured by the alkali in soap or by soda, ammonia or substances of a similar nature. Conversely stains made with acids, which are hostile to some dark colors, may be removed with dissolved soda. Bugs In Vegetables. People who have an objection to bugs in their food need to take much pain with the cleansing of vegetables, especially succulent plants, such as asparagus, greens, lettuce, etc., before cooking or serving up raw. If left for awhile, tips downward, in well salted water, the plants will drop an interesting assortment of discouraged living creatures on the bottom of the vessel, and more may be gathered by carefully brushing and rinsing the crevices and hollows of the plants. When cooked, this animal food may be harmless to those who like it, but in uncooked salads it is possible to swallow dangerous germs unless they are knocked out by the help of antiseptic salt. The same precautions are commended to prudence and refinement with respect to fruits—Medical Record. Depew and Platt. Chauncey M. Depew used to have in his collection of curiosities a certain telegraphic dispatch which never fall BIG BABIES. HEALTHY CHILDREN MAKE HAPPY MOTHERS. No baby ever came into the world, however weak and frail, but held as its birthright the precious dower of a mother's priceless love. Love can do so little for the weakling child except pity it and sorrow for its helplessness, that the mother who had looked forward to the care of her child with happy anticipation finds it a task that tests her devotion, to care for a puny, fretful, wailing baby. What a difference when the baby is big, healthy and happy! 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The same precautions are commended to prudence and refinement with respect to fruits—Medical Record. Depew and Platt. Chauncey M. Depew used to have in his collection of curiosities a certain telegraphic dispatch which never failed to interest the politicians to whom he showed it. The telegram was sent to Mr. Depew, then president of the New York Central railroad, by Mr. Platt shortly before the latter's election to a second term in the senate. It is dated a few stations above Pough keepsie and reads: Please stop the noon express here to take on Mrs. Platt and Mr. Too. "I stopped the train gladly," Mr. Depew would say when he exhibited it. "I am always willing to do a favor for a man who turns a joke on himself." The Marriage Cure. One remedy against indigestion is matrimony. At least The Lancet tells us that it is the celibate young barrister, the lonely curate in lodgings, the struggling bachelor journalist or business man or clerk who suffers most from premature dyspepsia because he eats alone. He generally reads during his meals, which is bad, or he reads directly he has bolted his food, which is likewise bad. Obviously, therefore, matrimony is a bar to indigestion—Lady's Pictorial. Tastes Differ. Dealer—Here, madam, is a horse I can recommend—sound, kind— Old Lady—Oh, I don't want that sort of a horse. He holds his head high. Dealer—Eh? Old Lady—I like a horse that holds his nose close to the ground, so he can see where he's going.—New York Weekly. Which Was It? "Are we slaves or are we free men?" thundered the orator. "I pause for a reply." "Some of us are married," came the answer from the last row of seats—New York Sun. to watch the growth of the sturdy little one, whose gurgling laughter finds an echo in the voice of every member of the family. 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Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Adviser is priceless in two means: is priced less as being above its best popular work on money any price and it costs nothing; entirely free on receipt of star expense of mailing only. Seventy-cent stamps for the book in cloth or only 21 cents for it 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 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. 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. What do you want of any cheap Jim Crow cultry, when the Jordan 'AA A1' brand of fine English cottage can be had for a very little more. Do not be deceived. Insist upon having the Jordan 'AA A1' brand, and how it till you get it. For sale by leading dealers everywhere. je10 Of marketable fruits or plants, cost of producing the fruits or plants, cost of raising the seed, and adaptation of the variety for various purposes, such as for spring and summer growing, foregoing in greenhouses or hotbeds, growing in extreme northern or southern climates, or fall planting, when intended for keeping over winter and maturing next spring for an early product. The observer needs to keep these subjects constantly in mind, as well as peculiarities of color, form, foliage and habit of plant; for, unless an effort is made to do so, some important item is almost sure to be overlooked.—Year-Book of the Department of Agriculture, 1900. To the Traveling Public. $1.10 to Los Angeles and return until Oct. 12th via the Southern Pacific route, on account of 6th Dist. Ag'l Fair. You will save 10 cents car fare by taking the S.P. Twenty-five-ride family commutation tickets between Los Angeles and Anaheim, limit 60 days, good for purchasers or any member of their family, over the Southern Pacific route. These tickets are sold at the extremely low rate of six dollars and sixty-five cents ($6.65) for the round trip. It is well to remember the fact that it is economy to purchase tickets via the S.P. route, inasmuch as it is the only line that takes passengers into the business part of Los Angeles. There are five stations in the city, and our tickets are good to any of them. Commercial street station is just two blocks from the wholesalers, and 10 cents street car fare is saved on the round trip. Twenty-five trips means $1.25 to the passenger, which pays for a sack of flour. The S.P. Co. also offers an individual monthly ticket, good for 30 round trips during each calendar month, for $8, good only to purchaser. Economy is the order of the day, and don't forget there is a saving of 10 cents car fare on each round trip by 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 in shape 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. my own housework; had to keep help all the time. How I suffered God and myself alone know. I was greatly discouraged when I commenced taking your medicines, but the first bottle seemed to help me. I took five bottles of 'Favorite Prescription,' two of 'Golden Medical Discovery,' also two vials of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. I can highly recommend 'Favorite Prescription' and 'Golden Medical Discovery' to all who suffer as I did. My sickness dated from the birth of my last child, who died the same day she was born. My own life hung on a thread for weeks. If I had only taken Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription I am sure my poor baby would have been alive to-day. I suffered all the time before she was born. I never had better health than I now enjoy and it is all owing to Dr. Pierce's medicines." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is safe and sure medicine for women. It contains no alcohol, neither opium, cocaine nor any other narcotic. It establishes regularity, dries the drains which weaken women, heals inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. It is the best preparative for maternity—tranquilizing the nerves, encouraging the appetite and inducing refreshing sleep. It cures the nausea experienced by many women who anticipate maternity. It increases the physical vigor and vitality, so that the ordeal is approached without anxiety, and the baby's advent is made practically painless. WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. Dr. Pierce invites women who suffers from long standing ailments to consult him by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. Accept no substitute for "Favorite Prescription." There is no motive for substituting except to enable the dealer to make out of his customer the little more profit paid by less meritorious medicines. ABSOLUTELY PRICLESS. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is priceless in two meanings: It is priceless as being above price, and priceless as being without price. It is the best popular work on medicine at any price and it costs nothing, being sent entirely free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 31 one-cent stamps for the book in cloth binding, or only 21 cents for it in paper-covers. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. On Jellies preserves and pickles, spread a thin coating of refined PARAFFINE WAX Will keep them absolutely moisture and solid proof. Paraffine Wax is also useful in a dozen other ways about the house. Full directions in each pound package. Sold everywhere. STANDARD OIL CO. 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. ELY BROTHERS, 64 Warren Street, New York. 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 Orange Growers. Orange Growers please take notice: that applications for membership in the Anaheim Fruit Association for season 1901-1902 will be received at the office of the Secretary of said Association, Melrose block, Center street, up to and including October 31, 1901. At which date the membership list will be closed. A. NEBLUNG. Secretary Anaheim Fruit Association.