anaheim-gazette 1902-01-30

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF AUDIT ANAHEIM, Cal., January 24, 1902. TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY. We have examined the books and accounts of the Company for the year ending December 31, 1901, and from the books as they now stand, we offer the following report: BALANCE SHEET. Delinquent Stock Purchases.....$204 00 Real Estate.....67,683 36 Construction.....294,226 48 Office Furniture and Fixtures.....227 70 Treasurer.....4,057 25 Tools and Implements.....513 05 Interest.....12,610 83 Repairs.....1,661 91 General Expenses.....1,914 90 Salaries.....1,069 00 Superintendent and Zanjeros.....5,233 40 Cleaning.....5,436 13 Cement.....1,573 05 Litigation unapportioned.....5,669 81 Durkee and Ballestero Management.....369 95 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company.....27 63 Consumers.....219 61 Durkee Ranch.....1,192 87 Cash.....148 01 $404,038 89 Rentals.....603 55 Stock.....125,648 50 Bills Payable.....64,800 00 Water.....20,473 36 Bonds.....125,000 00 Accounts Payable.....3,732 76 Assessment, April 20, 1901....15,968 00 December 7, 1901 (not complete)...7,234 00 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company joint account.....469 66 Loss and Gain.....40,094 56 E. J. Swan.....1 25 C. Gomber.....7 00 M. L. Keller.....6 25 $404,038 89 RECEIPTS. Cash on hand January 1, 1901.....$1 50 Treasurer's Account January 1, 1901..10,974 09—$10,975 59 Consumer's Account, water.....$19,965 74 Less Cash returned.....33 86—19,931 88 Assessment April 20, 1901....$15,968 00 December 7, (incomplete)...7,234 00—23,202 00 Bills Payable (new loans).....4,200 00 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.....27 63 Rentals.....603 55 W. H. Blennnerhassett.....241 75—48,206 81 $59,182 40 EXPENDITURES. Accounts Payable, 1900....$3,631 23 Real Estate—Scully Purchase.....$800 00 Option Yorba Reservoir.....100 00 Commission.....175 00—1,075 00 Construction.....7,567 16 Tools and Implements.....131 87 Interest.....12,610 83 Repairs.....1,661 91 General Expenses.....1,914 90 Salaries.....1,069 00 Superintendent and Zanjeros.....5,233 40 Cleaning Ditches.....5,436 13 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co. joint account (litigation)...3,287 17 Durkee Ranch joint management...1,000 00 Bills Payable...12,100 00 W. H. Blennnerhassett...86 75 Loss and Gain (Tuffree horses)...310 00 General Expenses appended...1,573 05 Chopin on Plano Fingerling. This is from a fragment of plantering left by Chopin: "No one to inequality in the power of the not a scale when it is played very fairly as regards time. In any mechanism the aim is not to play anything with an equal sound; acquire a beautiful quality of sound and a perfect shading. "For a long time players have against nature in seeking to give power to each finger. On the coeach finger should have an appropriate it. The thumb has greatest power, being the thickger and the freest. Then comes a little finger, at the other extremity hand. The middle finger is the support of the hand and is assist the first. Finally comes the thinnest one. "As to this Slamese twin of the finger some players try to force all their might to become independent a thing impossible and most likely necessary. There are then many different qualities of sound, just as are several fingers. The point utilizes the differences, and this words is the art of fingering." Insects Become Intoxicated. Intoxication from the nectar len of plants has been a subject investigation by Dr. J. M. Weir, affects insects, and it appears that cosmos flower is specially potent source of drunkenness in bees or nectar loving creatures. A drunk that it could scarcely put its legs was taken to the lace and placed about two inches cosmos blossom. It immediately gered to the flower and began the nectar and in a few moments bled over, a senseless and almost victim of appetite. Drunken found under the blossoms prince the pollen must have the same as the nectaries. The experimenter swallowed teaspoonful of the pollen and in minutes experienced a feeblerization, with acceleration pulse and warmth. An injection of half a dram of liltilled from an infusion of the caused exhilaration for half a minute followed by nausea. When Everything Sticks. "In muggy weather," said Burglar, "I always used to sit not because work was unpleasant but on account of everything so. "You couldn't tell what men pen. Anything and everything ble to stick and make noise when you finally got into window might stick at first." EXPENDITURES. Accounts Payable, 1900..... $3,631 23 Real Estate—Scully Purchase..... $800 00 —Option Yorba Reservoir..... 100 00 —Commission..... 175 00— 1,075 00 Construction..... 7,567 16 Tools and Implements..... 131 87 Interest..... 12,610 83 Repairs..... 1,661 91 General Expenses..... 1,914 90 Salaries..... 1,069 00 Superintendent and Zanjeros..... 5,233 40 Cleaning Ditches..... 5,436 13 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co. joint account (litigation)..... 3,287 17 Durkee Ranch joint management..... 1,000 00 Bills Payable..... 12,100 00 W. H. Blennnerhassett..... 86 75 Loss and Gain (Tuffree horses)..... 310 00 Cement, net expended..... 1,573 05 Gus Schade..... 18 40 Office Furniture and Fixtures..... 2 10— $58,709 10 Balance..... $472 50 Secretary, Cash on hand December 31, 1901..... $148 01 Treasurer's Account, " "... $4,057 25 $4,205 26 Less Accounts Payable charged and unpaid.. $3,732 76— $471 50 General Expense consists of Attorney for Board of Directors, Committee expenses, Office expenses, Rent, Auditing and sundry small expenses; and in addition, Survey of Yorba Reservoir Site..... $170 25 Taxes..... 171 16 Bills Payable shows a reduction as follows: December 31, 1900..... $72,700 00 " "... $64,800 00— $7,900 00 Namely— Paid one-half of Durkee note, $10,000.... $5,000 00 " Northam note, La Habra purchase..... 3,000 00 $8,000 00 Less increase in Demand notes..... 100 00— $7,900 00 Leaving the indebtedness of the Company, Dec. 31, 1901, in Bonds and Notes as follows: Bonds due January 1, 1905..... $50,000 00 " "... $75,000 00— $125,000 00 Bills payable:— Durkee ranch, one-half of $60,000 and due and payable $500 annually..... $30,000 00 Demand notes..... 34,800 00— 64,800 00 $189,800 00 From the foregoing it will be seen that the revenues of the Company are insufficient to cover the expenses, including interest, namely: REVENUES. Rentals..... $603 55 Water Deliveries... $20,473 36— $21,076 91 EXPENSES. Superintendent and Zanjeros..... $5,233 40 Cleaning..... $5,436 13 Repairs..... $1,661 91 Tools and Implements (1901)..... $513 00 General Expenses..... $1,914 19 Salaries..... $1,069 00 $15,827 63 Interest ..... $12,610 83— $28,438 46 Excess of expenses over revenues, $7,361 55, which had to be made up by assessments. Interest Account, $12,610 83, is as follows: Interest on Bonds, $125,000 (@7 per cent)... $8,750 00 " Durkee purchase (5 per cent net) —6 months @8 per cent on $35,000... $1,4O —6 months @8 per cent on $3O,OOO... $1,2O $2,6OO Less 3 per cent rebate on $35,OOO... $1,O5I— $1,55O OO Interest La Habra Reservoir Purchase— Note of R.J. Northam,$3,OOO@6 per cent " Bills payable— Demand notes averaging $34,978 33@6 pr ct Exchange... $2,I26 45 Exchange... $438— $12,61O OO Consumers' Account, as per Consumers' Ledger: Due from Consumers..... $1,353 59 " to ..... $1,I26 87 $226 72 Referred to Secretary... $7 I I When Everything Sticks, “In muggy weather,” said the burglar. “I always used to sit not because work was unpleasant but on account of everything so. “You couldn’t tell what my pen. Anything and everything ble to stick and make more noise when you finally got into window might stick at first go up with a bang. I’ve had open on me that way—fly open suddenly after I’d been pushing long time and let me through way on to the floor. There danger; for instance, in pulley drawer that sticks of pulling out and letting it drop. “There’s constant danger thing of this sort happening doesn’t pay to take the change it’s easy enough to know where home. My rule was never to any work in weather that we Jimmy.”—New York Sun. How to Button a Coin. The art of properly buttoning—any coat—is do it the other way. That is to say that nine or ten of us button our coats away way. We commence with the button when we should commit the bottommost. The frailest portion of a coat spect to shape retaining matter how well made—is the collar and lapels. The swivel tailor always cautions tomber to “wear it buttoned so that the collar may set pin.” Then this admitted; it for tugs and strains affecting the garment tend to destroy metry. Drawing the coat at the top button and buttoning purpose of fastening exercise around the shoulders and neck which, by repetition, in time the smartest coat a hangance.—Chat. A Fish and Lizard. One afternoon I thought down the river and troll. I hook a live minnow and while had a strike, and I first fish, which seemed to large one. I reeled him ww see him and found it was a 25 or 3O inches long. I put to my boat; but when I from the water he was a feather. I measured him as was just 3O inches long have weighed eight or nine while he only weighed two just skin and bones. I kill my knife and cut blim open a live lizard; five inches stomach. The reptile was coal and very lively; lived after I took him from Field and Stream. “Some time ago my daughter a severe cold. She complained in her chest and had a bone gave her Chamberlain’s Coat according to directions; days she was well and able school. I have used this Durkee purchase (5 per cent net) —6 months @ 8 per cent on $35,000...$1,400 —6 months @ 8 per cent on 30,000...1,200 $2,600 Less 3 per cent rebate on $35,000...1,051—1,550 00 Interest La Habra Reservoir Purchase— Note of R.J. Northam, $3,000, @ 6 per cent 180 00 Bills payable— Demand notes averaging $34,978 33@ 6 pr ct 2,126 45 Exchange.....4 38—$12,610 83 Consumers' Account, as per Consumers' Ledger: Due from Consumers.....$1,353 59 " to ".....1,126 87 Referred to Secretary.....7 11 $226 72 $219 61 THE DURKEE RANCH. The accounts consist of the excess of expenditures above receipts, which is covered by one-half of about 280 tons of baled hay reported by them on hand unsold at an estimated value of $8.00 per ton. We would say in addition, that we have examined the only portion available of the vouchers for the above expenditures and find no visible evidence of examination and approval of any Board of Directors or Joint Committee of the two Companies. CONSTRUCTION. The amount expended for construction, namely $7,567 16, has been expended for construction of main and distributing cement ditches in addition to about $3,600, the result of change in the Tuffree ditch. STOCK, We find there are now issued as per Stock Ledger, 8,004 shares of the Capital Stock of the Company, as follows: Assessable Stock.....7,984 shares. Non-assessable Stock (B. Kraemer).....20 shares. STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FROM JANUARY 1, 1902, TO JANUARY 24, 1902. RECEIPTS. Cash on hand January 1, 1902.....$472 50 Received from Consumers, account water.....1,840 22 Balance of Assessment of December 7, 1901.....8,670 00 Rentals (hay).....50 00 Damron (contractor).....397 00 Miscellaneous.....208 86—$11,638 58 PAYMENTS. J. S. Damron.....$1,814 56 Yorba Purchase.....5,040 65 Durkee Purchase.....5,000 00 Interest. Durkee.....300 00 Miscellaneous.....142 35 $12,297 56 Net deficit.....$658 98 Respectfully submitted, ALEX WRIGHT, E. R. AMERIGE, M. NEBELUNG, Committee of Audit. Some time ago my daughter asevere cold. She complained in her chest and had a bighave her Chamberlain's Coaccording to directions; days she was well and able school. I have used this my family for the past year and have never known it James Prendergast, merced to Bay, Jamalca, West India The pains in the chest indicate proaching attack of pneumonia in this instance was undoubtedly off by Chamberlain's wedge. It counteracts any cold toward pneumonia druggists. There are nine fraternities, including Masons and Lions; seven churches; eminent principal denominations; Public Library; and a fine and High School. Aching Joins In the fingers, toes, arms parts of the body, are joined inflamed and swollen by that acid condition of the muscles also. Sufferers dread to move after sitting or lying long condition is commonly weather. "It has been a long time been without Hood's Sarasaw father thinks he could not He has been troubled with since he was a boy, and Hood's rilla is the only medicine he will enable him to take his field." Miss Ada Dory, Sioux City. Hood's Sarasaw and Pillow Remove the cause of rhino outward application can. Public Has Little Interest In Such Matters. Whittier News. Three Orange county papers—the Anabeim Plain Dealer, the Santa Ana Bulletin and the Santa Ana Leader—are at present engaged in a three-cornered blackguarding match, with honors (2) easy. The Leader is apparently catching the muck from the other two mud guns, and is therefore slightly handicapped. It isn't our funeral—we are well aware of the fact, and the bellicose editors in the balliwick where the wind comes from are probably not hunting for hired mourners. At the same time, we believe that it is possible for newspapers to engage in a controversy without smutting their columns with dirty language. And it is also our opinion that the importance of a newspaper row, from a newspaper standpoint, is overestimated by the men in the business. On general principles, the public, while it may sometimes be amusing, has but little interest in the personal animosities of editors as exploited through the "heavy" column. The average reader is looking for the news, and the paper that gives it to him in the largest doses and the neatest packages is the one that gets his subscription. Thousands Sent Into Exile Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. Don't be an exile when Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption will cure you at home. It's the most infallible medicine for coughs, colds and all throat and lung diseases on earth. The first dose brings relief. Astounding cures result from persistent use. Trial bottles free at all druggists. Price 50c and $1.00. Every bottle guaranteed. K.O.T.M. Anaheim Tent, No.9, held its regular review last Saturday night. Good work was done in upbuilding the order. A special review was called for Saturday night, February 1st, for the installation of officers. Refreshments will be served, and everything possible done to make the review very attractive. A special committee has the entertainment work in hand, that promises good results. All visiting Macabees are invited. Blown To Atoms The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has been exploded; for Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure constipation and sick headache. Only FACTS ABOUT ANAHEIM Sketch of the industries and Resources on this Most Beautiful Part of California. The City of Anaheim, with a population of 2500, is situated in the northern part of Orange county, in Southern California, 12 miles from the ocean, 4½ miles from the foothills, and 148½ feet above sea level. It is 27 miles from Los Angeles, the second largest city in the State of California. The climatic conditions are the most favorable for out-door life to be found in Southern California. The temperature is extremely uniform, seldom rising above 90 degrees in summer, or falling below 32 degrees in winter. The abundance of sunlight and the absence of sharp frosts and cold winds make it a place especially acceptable to those desiring to escape the severe climate of the east. The country is very attractive. It is practically level, with just sufficient slope from the hills to afford adequate drainage. The roads are level, well graded, and well kept, affording excellent opportunities for cycling and driving. The soil is a rich sandy loam which never bakes, making it a very easy ground to work; thus lending itself readily to the cultivation of berries, nuts, oranges, etc. The variety of products, and the possibility of procuring small tracts of land at low figures, and on easy terms, make our section of the county very attractive and advantageous for truck raising, or for farming on a small scale. The following are a few of the products: oranges, lemons, walnuts, grapes, peaches, apricots, sugar beets, berries and vegetables of all kinds. Anaheim is the possessor of a Building and Loan Association, Water company, two railroads, fruit cannery and drier, large oil industry, ostrich farm, bank, several adequate commercial houses, two hotels and two newspapers. The city also owns its water and lighting plant. A Little Boy's Life Saved. I have a few words to say regarding Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It saved my little boy's life and I feel that I cannot praise it enough. I bought a table outside the crowd was pretty thick of his soap candles and tilted towards Dr. Hartman. HIS START IN HISTORY "DOC" HARTMAN AND HIS FUL CREASE ERADICATE With Soap Candles and Ralnwater He Fooled them and Laid the Foundation Substantial Fortune. "Talk about your self made an old timer among a horsemen gathered in one of way inns," I don't think any can equal the early experience Hartman, who died in St.Louis years ago, leaving nearly a mile to be fought over by his made his first good sized patent medicines, then he pleased more on real estate last he rounded out with spice Montana copper, but he wasn't Doc' Hartman to the time he did by his few intimate friends. "But the story that I'm got and the one which he often self concerns his very eariness in the accumulation Tim Hartman started life with kicked around as a barefoot and a pretty mean one, too town in Connecticut until years old, and at that time come so fresh and so full of general cussedness that his day told him he was no had been and never would a pleaayne. The old gentle to carry out the bluff, told had a good mind to cut him dollar and make him earn ing. Tim straightened up the bluff. He told the old would take the dollar and there and hustle for both old man handed him a crisis told him that he'd be glad make a fortune with it. "The first thing that came go about in a few back yew knew of and gather together empty bottles which were anybody. Then, for 10 cents a large cake of a kind of that was then, and still is kept. He melted this soap borrowing an ancient palm molds from an old granny borhood, made two beauties candles of soap. He next ties full of choice rainwater made for himself one of three legged tables like a luck and shell game among the circus, and struck out county fair that was being 40 miles away." When he got there, he beheld table outside the crowd was pretty thick of his soap candles and tilted towards Dr. Hartman." When Everything Sticks. "In muggy weather," said the retired bourlar. "I always used to stop work not because work was unpleasant then, but on account of everything sticking so. “You couldn’t tell what might happen. Anything and everything was liable to stick and make more or less noise when you finally got it open. A window might stick at first and then go up with a bang. I’ve had a door open on me that way—fly open all of a sudden after I’d been pushing on it a long time and let me through the doorway on to the floor. There’s always danger, for instance, in pulling out a drawer that sticks of pulling it clean out and letting it drop. “There’s constant danger of something of this sort happening, and it doesn’t pay to take the chances. And it’s easy enough to know when to stay home. My rule was never to try to do any work in weather that would rust a jimmy.”—New York Sun. How to Button a Coat. The art of properly buttoning a coat—any coat is, do it the other way. That is to say that nine out of every ten of us button our coats the wrong way. We commence with the topmost button when we should commence with the bottommost. The frailest portion of a coat, in respect to shape retaining qualities—no matter how well made—is the region of collar and lapels. The swagger merchant tailor always cautions his customer to “wear it buttoned a few days so that the collar may set properly.” Then, this admitted, it follows that tugs and strains affecting this part of the garment tend to destroy its symmetry. Drawing the coat together by the top button and buttonhole for the purpose of fastening exerts a pull all around the shoulders and neck region, which, by repetition, in time will give the smartest coat a hang dog appearance.—Chat. A Fish and Lizard Story. One afternoon I thought I would go down the river and troll. I had on my book a live minnow and in a little while had a strike, and I booked my first fish, which seemed to be quite a large one. I reeled him where I could see him and found it was a large plush 25 or 30 inches long. I pulled him up to my boat, but when I lifted him from the water he was as light as a feather. I measured him and found he was just 30 inches long and should have weighed eight or nine pounds while he only weighed two. He was just skin and bones. I killed him, took my knife and cut him open and found a live lizard, five inches long, in his stomach. The reptile was as black as coal and very lively, living 24 hours after I took him from his prison—Field and Stream. “Some time ago my daughter caught a severe cold. She complained of pain in her chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy according to directions, and in two days she was well and able to go to school. I have used this remedy in installation of officers. Refreshments will be served, and everything possible done to make the review very attractive. A special committee has the entertainment work in hand, that promises good results. All visiting Macabees are invited. Blown to Atoms. The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has been exploded; for Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure constipation and sick headache. Only 25c at all drug stores. Dick—You have an unusually small hand. Mayme—Do you really think so? Dick—Yes. With one exception it is the smallest hand I have seen for many a day. Mayme—and the exception? Dick—the one I held in a little game last night. A Deep Mystery. It is a mystery why women endure backache, headache, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, fainting and dizzy spells when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will quickly cure such troubles. “I suffered for years with kidney trouble,” writes Mrs. Phebe Cherley, of Peterson, Ia., and a lame back pained me so I could dress myself, but Electric Bitters wholly cured me, and, although 73 years old, I now am able to do all my housework.” It overcomes constipation, improves appetite, gives perfect health. Only 50c at all druggists. GRAPE CUTTINGS. Leave orders now. dec 5-1m CHAS. OTTO RUST. Santa Fe Rates. The Santa Fe does not buy you a sack of flour or a new pair of pants or a dress, but it does offer you the best service and most frequent to Los Angeles or any other point reached by its lines. You can go to Los Angeles on the Santa Fe and return after attending to your business in time for dinner, and thereby save 25 or 50 cents. As to rates they are as low as the lowest. For family 25 ride commutation tickets, good for 60 days, the rate is $6.65. For individual 60 ride tickets $8.00, good during the month in which ticket is sold. For full information in regard to rates, routes, etc., to any point, call on or address J. H. Claibaugh, Santa Fe agent at Anaheim. 7th Money to Loan. In sums to suit. Apply to F. A Backs, Jr., Secretary Building and Loan Association, Anaheim Cal. 10-9 THE TOUCH DOES IT Benson’s Platers are like your other friends—they hate to see you in pain or in weakness and are dog-tired hearing you complain about it. They want to cure you and send you along to your business—whole and happy. They can do it and will do it. Try them on. What for? Why for any cough or cold you may be troubled with, or any bothering pain or ache, or worry with kinks or liver. Possibly some old clutch of muscular rhinomembrans renders an arm or a leg worth only half price just now. For anything that makes the machine work slow and stiff, with pain maybe in the motion of elapha Benson’s Porous Plaster squarely on the bad spot. They are the get-out-morrow installation of officers. Refreshments will be served, and everything possible done to make the review very attractive. A special committee has the entertainment work in hand, that promises good results. All visiting Macabees are invited. Blown to Atoms. The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has been exploded; for Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure constipation and sick headache. Only 25c at all drug stores. Dick—You have an unusually small hand. Mayme—Do you really think so? Dick—Yes. With one exception it is the smallest hand I have seen for many a day. Mayme—and the exception? Dick—the one I held in a little game last night. A Deep Mystery. It is a mystery why women endure backache, headache, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, fainting and dizzy spells when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will quickly cure such troubles. “I suffered for years with kidney trouble,” writes Mrs. Phebe Cherley, of Peterson, Ia., and a lame back pained me so I could dress myself, but Electric Bitters wholly cured me, and although 73 years old, I now am able to do all my housework.” It overcomes constipation, improves appetite, gives perfect health. Only 50c at all druggists. Two hundred and fifty bales of wool weighing 400 pounds each were shipped from the Bastanchury ranch in 1901, and the output this year is estimated at 325 bales. Last year the price received for the wool was 4 cents a pound, while this year it is believed the market price will go above 6 cents. Mr. Bastanchury has 5000 head of sheep. While wool was selling at higher prices several years ago he owned 10,000, and shipped many cars of wool from Fullerton semi-annually. Perfect Health Is within the reach of almost every woman. The weakness, nervousness and irritability from which so many women suffer is in general due to disease of the delicate womanly organism. When the disease is cured the general health is re-established. Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. It promotes regularity, dries disagreeable and enfeebling drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. When these diseases are cured, headache, backache, nervousness and weakness are cured also. I was very weak and nervous when I commenced taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ about a year ago,” writes Mrs. M. E. Everetts, of Soo Oak Street, Woodstock, Ont. “I had been suffering for seven long months, and had taken medicine from a physician all the time,” but it seemed to make me feel much worse. My stomach wafted but soon doctor told me), and my stomach wafted in such a state that I would start at least no noise. I felt irritable at all times; not was able to do any of my own housework; had to keep help all the time. How I suffered God and myself alone know: was greatly discouraged when I commenced taking your medicines; but I took five bottles of Favorite Prescription; two of Golden Medical Discovery; two of Dr. Pierce’s F pleasant Pellets; I can highly recommend these medicines to all who suffer as I did. I didn’t better health than I now enjoy, and it is all owing to Dr. Pierce’s medicines.” Evarts and thunder When a popular young man to see William M. Evart secretary of state in bishop ship for which he be was just 30 inches long and should have weighed eight or nine pounds while he only weighed two. He was just skin and bones. I killed him, took my knife and cut him open and found a live lizard, five inches long, in his stomach. The reptile was as black as coal and very lively, living 24 hours after I took him from his prison. Field and Stream. "Some time ago my daughter caught a severe cold. She complained of pains in her chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy according to directions, and in two days she was well and able to go to school. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years and have never known it to fail." says James Prendergast, merchant, Anna Bay, Jamaica, West India Islands. The pains in the chest indicated an approaching attack of pneumonia, which in this instance was undoubtedly warded off by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It counteracts any tendency of a cold toward pneumonia. Sold by all druggists. There are nine fraternal organizations, including Masons and Odd Fellows; seven churches, embracing the principal denominations; a Free Public Library, and a fine Grammar and High School. Aching Joints In the fingers, toes, arms, and other parts of the body, are joints that are inflamed and swollen by rheumatism—that acid condition of the blood which affects the muscles also. Sufferers dread to move, especially after sitting or lying long, and their condition is commonly worse in wet weather. "It has been a long time since we have been without Hood's Sarsaparilla. My father thinks he could not do without it. He has been troubled with rheumatism since he was a boy, and Hood's Sarsaparilla is the only medicine he can take that will enable him to take his place in the field." Miss Ada Dory, Sidney, Iowa. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Remove the cause of rheumatism—no outward application can. Take them. THE TOUCH DOES IT Benson's Plasters are like your other friends—they hate to see you in pain or in weakness and are dog-tired hearing you complain about it. They want to cure you and send you along to your business—whole and happy. They can do it and will do it. Try them on. What for? Why for any cough or cold you may be troubled with, or any bothering pain or ache, or worry with kidneys or liver. Possibly some old clutch of muscular rheumatism renders an arm or a leg worth only half price just now. For anything that makes the machine work slow and stiff, with pain maybe in the motion of it, clapa Benson's Porous Plaster squarely on the bad spot. They are the get-out-to-morrow plasters—not the sort that go to sleep on your skin like a cat on a cushion. There is comfort and speedy relief in the touch of them. No other external remedy, no matter how made or how called, is worthy to live in the same street with Benson's Plasters. Pains and alliments melt away under them as a sheet of ice does under the Spring sun. You cannot foretell the weather but you can always foretell the effect of Benson's Plasters; it is as sure as the effect of a hot breakfast in a hungry man's stomach. But look out for substitutes. Get the genuine. All drugists, or we will prepay postage on any number ordered in the United States on receipt of 25c each. Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, 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." Pain-Killer A sure cure for Sore Throat, Coughs, Chills, Cramps, &c. Two Sizes, 25c. and 50c. There is only one Pain-Killer: Perry Davis.' HIS START IN LIFE. "DOC" HARTMAN AND HIS WONDERFUL GREASE ERADICATOR. With Soap Candles and Bottles of Rainwater He Fooled the Public and Laid the Foundations of a Substantial Fortune. "Talk about your self made men," said an old timer among a party of horsemen gathered in one of the speedway innns, "I don't think any of 'em can equal the early experiences of Tim Hartman, who died in St. Louis many years ago, leaving nearly a million dollars to be fought over by his heirs. He made his first good sized pile on patient medicines, then he picked up a great deal more on real estate, and at last he rounded out with speculation in Montana copper, but he was known as 'Doc' Hartman to the time of his death by his few intimate friends. "But the story that I'm going to tell, and the one which he often told himself, concerns his very earliest experiences in the accumulation of money. Tim Hartman started life with $1. He kicked around as a barefooted boy—and a pretty mean one, too—in a little town in Connecticut until he was 18 years old, and at that time he had become so fresh and so full of wind and general cussedness that his father one day told him he was no good, never had been and never would amount to a picayune. The old gentleman, just to carry out the bluff, told Tim that he had a good mind to cut him off with a dollar and make him earn his own living. Tim straightened up and called the bluff. He told the old man that he would take the dollar and get out then and there and hustle for himself. The old man handed him a crisp $1 bill and told him that he'd be glad to see him make a fortune with it. "The first thing that cuss did was to go about in a few back yards that he knew of and gather together a lot of empty bottles which were of no use to anybody. Then, for 10 cents, he bought a large cake of a kind of white soap that was then, and still is, on the market. He melted this soap and, after borrowing an ancient pair of candle molds from an old granny in the neighborhood, made two beautiful looking candles of soap. He next filled his bottles full of choice rainwater. Then he made for himself one of those little three legged tables like the chuck-a-luck and shell game men use outside the circus, and struck out on foot for a county fair that was being held about 40 miles away. "When he got there, he put up his little table outside the grounds, where the crowd was pretty thick, lighted one of his soap candles and began to extol the virtues of 'Dr. Hartman's Famous Will O' The Wisp. WOMEN WHO ARE LED A STRAY BY MISCHIEVOUS MARSH FIRES. Illustrative of the baneful power of the marsh fire, there is told the story of a woman who lost her way. She turned in this direction and in that, hopelessly puzzled as to her whereabouts in the murky night. Presently ahead of her she saw the gleam of a light. At once she saw in fancy the picture of home, the lamp in the window, the cozy comfort of those under the shelter of the protecting roof; "curtained and closed and warm." Steadfastly she moved towards the light. But as she moved it seemed to change its position. It was always a little farther away from her and presently when she sank down exhausted in a swamp the light disappeared altogether. Whatever truth there may be in the story, it forcibly illustrates the career of many a woman who has followed the marsh fire of love in the belief that it led to home and comfort and found herself at last exhausted and deceived. IT'S A BITTER LESSON learned by many a woman who thought love all-sufficient, that love alone cannot be the foundation of the home. It needs health. Strange as it may, seem the beautiful loving woman who is weak may lose the love of the husband for whom she broke all home ties, while on the other hand a woman who has no greater dower than robust health may win and hold the love of her husband past all possibility of loss. The first requisite of marriage is health. The wife's first necessity is health. Health must be the mother's or she will know no happiness in her children. What makes ill-health so common among women? Why do they suffer with headache, backache and pains past description? These sufferings are in general caused by disease of the delicate womanly organs, and they are in general curable by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. "I take great pleasure in writing you what great benefit your 'Favorite Prescription,' 'Golden Medical Discovery' ing Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to any one suffering from the effect of impure blood and his 'Favorite Prescription' for female weakness." "THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST." How many times that saying is illustrated by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It's the last thing which is tried and the first to help. It's often the last resort of hopeless women and the first medicine to claim their gratitude by an absolute emancipation from the thraldom of disease. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong, sick women well. It establishes womanly regularity, stops enfeebling drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. "I suffered for six years with ovarian trouble," writes Mrs. E. Waite, of (Lake View Postoffice), Chicago, Ill. "Sometimes I could hardly walk, and when I had to cough it felt as though a knife was cutting me. My hands and feet were cold all the time. I had such a tired feeling and such a poor appetite, and when I went to bed I slept only about two hours at a time. A friend advised me to use Doctor Pierce's medicines, for they had helped her; so I got a bottle of 'Favorite Prescription' and by the time I had used two bottles I felt so much better that I continued until I had taken eight bottles of 'Favorite Prescription' and one of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and now I am so well that my friends remark how well I am looking. Can go to bed now and sleep till morning. My appetite is splendid and all that tired feeling has left me. I hope others will do as I have done—just give Dr. Pierce's medicines a fair trial, and they will be sure to derive much benefit, as I have. I am so thankful to think I am so well." WHAT WELL WOMEN SAY. Here a few brief statements culled from letters of women cured by the use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription: "I feel like a different being and I look well."—Mrs. Maggie Spelts, 410 Eighth Street, Mount Vernon, Posey Co., Ind. "When I think how I was five years ago and how I am now, I say, God bless Dr. Pierce's work for women. I have had no return of my weakness and am well and hearty."—Mrs. Fred Kempson, Cambria, Hillsdale Co., Mich., Box 57. "Two bottles of 'Favorite Prescription' and one of 'Golden Medical Discovery' made a new woman of me."—Mrs. C. Nelson, Chemawa, Marion Co., Oregon. There is no alcohol in "Favorite Prescription" and it is altogether free from opium, cocaine and all other narcotics. Do not allow the dealer to push off on you a substitute for "Favorite Prescription" claiming that it is "just as good." The record of its cures and the testimony of thousands of women prove that there is nothing "just as good" as "Favorite Prescription" for weak and sick women. He melted this soap and, after borrowing an ancient pair of candle molds from an old granny in the neighborhood, made two beautiful looking candles of soap. He next filled his bottles full of choice rainwater. Then he made for himself one of those little three legged tables like the chuck-a-ck and shell game men use outside the circus, and struck out on foot for a county fair that was being held about 40 miles away. "When he got there, he put up his little table outside the grounds, where the crowd was pretty thick, lighted one of his soap candles and began to extol the virtues of 'Dr. Hartman's Famous Grease Eradicator,' contained in the bottles set before him. "Now, ladies and gentlemen, he would shout in a stentorian but plausible voice, this marvelous liquid, so harmless that it can be drunk with impunity by the smallest infant and yet so penetrating that it will seek out and destroy stains and discolorations from the most refractory substance, was discovered by accident by the famous scientist, Dr. Hartman, the eminent scholar, while he was wandering o'er the wilds of Patagonia. It is colorless, you see, as the waters from heaven, and yet observe the effects of its startling properties." "At this point Tim would reach for his soap candle and, inverting it, would smear a lot of the grease over the sleeve of his coat. "Now, every one of you knows, ladies and gentlemen, he would continue, reaching over and uncorking a bottle of his rainwater, that there is nothing so penetrating and ineffaceable as the grease from a candle, and yet it is a stain that we are all likely to suffer almost every evening of our lives while toying with that common article of the household, the candle. You will observe that my sleeve is smeared with the annoying substance. Behold—" "Here that country bred fakir would spill a couple of drops of his rainwater on the soap and with a rub or two would produce a beautiful lather. Another swipe and the soap would have entirely disappeared from the sleeve. leaving not a trace. "Now, we make this famous eradicator in such enormous quantities.' Tim would continue, that in order to introduce it into every home in this broad land we will dispense with it at the absurdly low price of 5 cents, a nickel a bottle. Step right up! Step right up! "Then, when the public was surging forward to purchase the rainwater, Tim would pause occasionally to drink a bottle of it, just to show that it was absolutely harmless. "Well, the stuff went like hot cakes. When Tim's bottles were all exhausted, he bought more, and when the fair was over he went to another and another until he had traveled all over the country. Then, in some way or other, I don't know how, he got hold of some old patent medicine, and, being a genius, of course he made a big go of it. So that's the way Tim Hartman almost became a millionaire." — New York Times. Evarts and the Author. When a popular young author came to see William M. Evarts while he was secretary of state in behalf of a consulship for which he was an applicant. I take great pleasure in writing you what great benefit your 'Favorite Prescription,' 'Golden Medical Discovery,' and 'Pleasant Pellets' have done me," says Mrs. P. A. Graham, of 617 Race St., New Orleans, La. "I have been a constant sufferer for the last eight years with female weakness, nervous and general debility, trying everything I could find to help me, but to no avail. Have been treated by several country physicians, and also had some of the best city physicians prescribe for me. They all said my case is incurable and was a chronic disease of long standing, but thanks be to God and your great medicine. I have found relief at last, and soon will be cured sound and well again. I have taken three bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and two of 'Golden Medical Discovery' and two vials of his 'Pleasant Pellets.' I can't describe in words how much benefit I have received from them. I think your medicine is the best in the world for female diseases and for the blood. I think 'Favorite Prescription' is the best medicine made for women. I feel safe in recommend- A GUIDING LIGHT. However dark and devious the path of health Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser will prove to your treatment, I will now give you a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. About five years ago my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I lost my hearing in this ear entirely. I underwent a treatment for catarrh for three months, without any success, consulted a number of physicians among others. The most eminent car specialist of this city, who told me that only an operation could help me, and even that only temporarily, that the head noises would then cause but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. Then saw your advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and ordered your treatment. After I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises ceased, and to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. I thank you heartily and beg to remain. F. A. WERMAN, 730 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Our treatment does not interfere with your usual occupation. Examination and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME at a nominal advice free. INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE., CHICAGO, IL. When Tim's bottles were all exhausted, he bought more, and when the fair was over he went to another and another until he had traveled all over the country. Then, in some way or other, I don't know how, he got hold of some old patent medicine, and, being a genius, of course he made a big go of it. So that's the way Tim Hartman almost became a millionaire." — New York Times. Evarts and the Author. When a popular young author came to see William M. Evarts while he was secretary of state in behalf of a consulship for which he was an applicant. Mr. Evarts congratulated him on the fame which he had acquired, but has tened to add, "Although you have laurels on your brows, I suppose you can't browse on your laurels." A More Vital Matter. "Did you ever think what you would do if you had the Duke of Westminster's income?" Village Pastor—No, but I have sometimes wondered what the duke would do if he had mine.—London Baptist. NEWS AND OPINIONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE THE SUN ALONE CONTAINS BOTH Daily, by mail, $6 a year Daily and Sunday by mail, $8 a year THE... Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price 5c a copy. By mail, $2 a year. Address THE SUN, New York.