anaheim-gazette 1902-12-25

WHY I AM IN THE EXCHANGE. Paper Read at Convention of Farmers' Clubs by N. W. Blanchard, of Santa Paula. The Southern California Fruit Exchange is of prime importance to all citrus fruit growers. The citrus crop, especially that of oranges, has become so large, that to wait for buyers to seek the growers would be suicidal. No good business man, tho' he have a monopoly of a needful thing, waits for the public to come to him, but, on the contrary, uses every effort to make known his discovery, his invention, or his useful and desirable article. A great deal of enterprise is needed to find a market at remunerative prices for our oranges. The Exchange has in its exclusive employ, twenty-nine agents in as many cities of the country, and Brokers in less important places, to sell at the highest price the product of the Exchange. The agents are in telegraphic communication with the Exchange, know of the number of cars in transit and the destination of the cars of the Exchange, and often request a diversion of fruit to their city, or a diversion from their city, if the market is overstocked. The members of the Exchange have also telegraphic advices daily of the markets of the country, and know the amount of their own cars in transit for each market. They receive correct reports upon the condition of their fruit, and are, therefore, in a position to act as intelligently as possible in marketing their fruit. The arrangements are so complete that the best results possible, I think are obtained. Of course, they are hampered by underbidding of competitors. Our agents' own interest is to make the best sales they can and there is a rivalry among them to see who can make the banner sales. The Exchange commands better prices by reason of the volume of its business, being able to keep its customers better supplied than can an independent shipper, and has its business done at less expense. The frequent report that "competitors are underselling" and reports of low prices some growers' fruit is bringing, are significant facts of the success of the Exchange method to its members. My oranges were late seedlings which I did not commence shipping until the navels were nearly out of the market. A further reason for being in the Exchange is that it has made the growing of oranges profitable, and I do believe that it has saved many growers from insolvency, and I did not think I was doing my duty to my associates in the industry in not supporting it. All who have been long in the citrus industry must remember when the market was cut and slashed to pieces, and orange growing was unprofitable. The Southern California Fruit Exchange grew out of the necessities of the growers and the success of the Exchange is a monument to the intelligence of the citrus fruit growers. It is the largest and most successful organization of its kind in the country, and probably, in the world. It sold last year 40 per cent of all the orange and lemon shipments at a cost of less than 2 per cent on the sales; the loss upon the year's business was less than three-fourths of a mill on the dollar, or, to be more exact, it was 65 cents on each $1000. Can any fruit grower outside of the Exchange make a showing that will begin to compare with this? The charge of the Ventura County Fruit Exchange to its members was 6 cents per box or .033 per cent on total sales, and this includes the expense of the Southern California Fruit Exchange. If the growers were all in the Exchange of course the business of its competitors would be ended, and hence they fight for being and combat the Exchange's method of doing business. When the grower gets all his fruit is worth, less the necessary and minimum expense of selling it, he is receiving all he can possibly expect, and is in a most fortunate position. The Exchange has enlarged the market and is constantly seeking a wider distribution of the crop. The grower is free to ship to any point that he desires and where his fruit will bring the greatest price, the interests of the Exchange and of the grower being identical in this respect. It is a short-sighted and selfish policy not to sustain the Exchange which keeps up prices and is largely the regulator of prices, and, indeed, the hope and salvation of the industry. The completion of the great dam was celebrated at Assouan ceremonious pagentry, and in consequence of the Duke and Duchess's naught, who appeared on behalf King Edward VII, the Khedive delegates from cities three Egypt. The ceremony of introduction, which was performed by the Connaught, consisted in laying coping stone and opening ber of sluices to let the water down the Nile. Following these monies the ducal party and other left by special boat for Assouan spect the supplementary dam has been built at that point. The ceremonies at Assouan are the completion of the greatest kind ever attempted. As a result engineering the Assouan dam perhaps at the head of humaniments. The dam is 14 miles long is pierced by 180 openings 23 feet wide and 7 feet wide, which has sluice gates. The supplementation at Assouat, a few miles up the intended as a reinforcement great dam to resist the force spring floods and restrain the local reservoir capable of storing than 1,000,000,000 cubic feet oily irrigation works supplied great reservoir will enable wide land to bear two crops a year one, and will bring waste into tillage and will greatly increase the area of sugar cultivation work of construction was performed by English firm of John Airy and it is estimated that the total amount to a little over $25 million. A Good Cough Medicine [From The Gazette, Toowoomba, A] I find Chamberlain's Cough is an excellent medicine. I have suffered from a severe cough last two months, and it has eased. I have great pleasure in mending it.—W. C. Wockner. The opinion of one of our old most respected residents, and voluntarily given in good faith others may try the remedy and edited, as was Mr. Wockner remedy is sold by all druggists. Sources of Wealth In ten months of 1902, A manufacturer are said to be ported $319,000,000 worth of products. The flaxseed crop for the plant is a record breaker and amounts to 27,000,000 bushels. The manufacture of broom country is said to annually produce 27,000,000 bushels. The Exchange commands better prices by reason of the volume of its business, being able to keep its customers better supplied than can an independent shipper, and has its business done at less expense. The frequent report that "competitors are underselling" and reports of low prices some growers' fruit is bringing, are significant facts of the success of the Exchange method to its members. The time may come and probably will come, when the crop will be so large that it cannot all, be profitably sold. Then if the Exchange controlled it all, only such portion could be put on the market as could be sold at a profit, and much more net money returned to the grower. We have just passed through a history of this kind. The crop of 1899-90 was 18,460 cars, some 3000 cars more than we ever had before, and this was followed by the unprecedented crop of 24,954 cars the next year, 1900-01, and yet there were many more cars that were not shipped. I think that I had some 5000 boxes of oranges that I never picked and the year was a very poor one for all orange growers. It is true, the difficulty was increased by the poor service of the railroads, and also by the poor-keeping quality of the fruit. This past year the crop was 20,387 cars, nearly 20 per cent less, but the profit to the growers was 50 per cent to 100 per cent more than the previous year, and even more in many cases. Let us briefly consider the discussion of f. o. b. sales versus sales delivered. I undertake to say that f. o. b. sales do not work to the advantage of the seller, and that they are not reliable unless the buyer or his agent is on the ground to inspect and receive the shipment. The f. o. b. sale is subject to rejection at the place of delivery. Upon a rising market there is assured acceptance, for the fruit has increased in value; upon a falling market the buyer will resort to every expedient and use every excuse to repudiate his purchase, and an adjustment must be made—in other words, a less price must be taken. It is a case where "heads" (the buyer) wins; "tails" (the seller) loses. Of course, there are honorable exceptions to this rule. I have been in the Exchange for the past three seasons. Prior to that time I was an independent shipper, and the year previous to my going into the Exchange, I learned of cars of my fruit being turned right over by the buyer to another purchaser at from $100 to $200 advance. This was upon a rising market and this additional price would have been mine had I been in the Exchange. While I had always favored the exchange commands better prices by reason of the volume of its business, being able to keep its customers better supplied than can an independent shipper, and has its business done at less expense. The frequent report that "competitors are underselling" and reports of low prices some growers' fruit is bringing, are significant facts of the success of the Exchange method to its members. The time may come and probably will come, when the crop will be so large that it cannot all, be profitably sold. Then if the Exchange controlled it all, only such portion could be put on the market as could be sold at a profit, and much more net money returned to the grower. We have just passed through a history of this kind. The crop of 1899-90 was 18,460 cars, some 3000 cars more than we ever had before, and this was followed by the unprecedented crop of 24,954 cars the next year, 1900-01, and yet there were many more cars that were not shipped. I think that I had some 5000 boxes of oranges that I never picked and the year was a very poor one for all orange growers. It is true, the difficulty was increased by the poor service of the railroads, and also by the poor-keeping quality of the fruit. This past year the crop was 20,387 cars, nearly 20 per cent less, but the profit to the growers was 50 per cent to 100 per cent more than the previous year, and even more in many cases. Let us briefly consider the discussion of f. o. b. sales versus sales delivered. I undertake to say that f. o. b. sales do not work to the advantage of the seller, and that they are not reliable unless the buyer or his agent is on the ground to inspect and receive the shipment. The f. o. b. sale is subject to rejection at the place of delivery. Upon a rising market there is assured acceptance, for the fruit has increased in value; upon a falling market the buyer will resort to every expedient and use every excuse to repudiate his purchase, and an adjustment must be made—in other words, a less price must be taken. It is a case where "heads" (the buyer) wins; "tails" (the seller) loses. Of course, there are honorable exceptions to this rule. I have been in the Exchange for the past three seasons. Prior to that time I was an independent shipper, and the year previous to my going into the Exchange, I learned of cars of my fruit being turned right over by the buyer to another purchaser at from $100 to $200 advance. This was upon a rising market and this additional price would have been mine had I been in the Exchange. While I had always favored the exchange commands better prices by reason of the volume of its business, being able to keep its customers better supplied than can an independent shipper, and has its business done at less expense. The frequent report that "competitors are underselling" and reports of low prices some growers' fruit is bringing, are significant facts of the success of the Exchange method to its members. The time may come and probably will come, when the crop will be so large that it cannot all, be profitably sold. Then if the Exchange controlled it all, only such portion could be put on the market as could be sold at a profit, and much more net money returned to the grower. We have just passed through a history of this kind. The crop of 1899-90 was 18,460 cars, some 3000 cars more than we ever had before, and this was followed by the unprecedented crop of 24,954 cars the next year, 1900-01, and yet there were many more cars that were not shipped. I think that I had some 5000 boxes of oranges that I never picked and the year was a very poor one for all orange growers. It is true, the difficulty was increased by the poor service of the railroads, and also by the poor-keeping quality of the fruit. This past year the crop was 20,387 cars, nearly 20 per cent less, but the profit to the growers was 50 per cent to 100 per cent more than the previous year, and even more in many cases. Let us briefly consider the discussion of f. o. b. sales versus sales delivered. I undertake to say that f. o. b. sales do not work to the advantage of the seller, and that they are not reliable unless the buyer or his agent is on the ground to inspect and receive the shipment. The f. o. b. sale is subject to rejection at the place of delivery. Upon a rising market there is assured acceptance, for the fruit has increased in value; upon a falling market the buyer will resort to every expedient and use every excuse to repudiate his purchase, and an adjustment must be made—in other words, a less price must be taken. It is a case where "heads" (the buyer) wins; "tails" (the seller) loses. Of course, there are honorable exceptions to this rule. I have been in the Exchange for the past three seasons. Prior to that time I was an independent shipper, and the year previous to my going into the Exchange, I learned of cars of my fruit being turned right over by the buyer to another purchaser at from $100 to $200 advance. This was upon a rising market and this additional price would have been mine had I been in the Exchange. While I had always favored the exchange commands better prices by reason of the volume of its business, being able to keep its customers better supplied than can an independent shipper, and has its business done at less expense. The frequent report that "competitors are underselling" and reports of low prices some growers' fruit is bringing, are significant facts of the success of the Exchange method to its members. The time may come and probably will come, when the crop will be so large that it cannot all, be profitably sold. Then if the Exchange controlled it all, only such portion could be put on the market as could be sold at a profit, and much more net money returned to the grower. We have just passed through a history of this kind. The crop of 1899-90 was 18,460 cars, some 3000 cars more than we ever had before, and this was followed by the unprecedented crop of 24,954 cars the next year, 1900-01, and yet there were many more cars that were not shipped. I think that I had some 5000 boxes of oranges that I never picked and the year was a very poor one for all orange growers. It is true, the difficulty was increased by the poor service of the railroads, and also by the poor-keeping quality of the fruit. This past year the crop was 20,387 cars, nearly 20 per cent less, but the profit to the growers was 50 per cent to 100 per cent more than the previous year, and even more in many cases. Let us briefly consider the discussion of f. o. b. sales versus sales delivered. I undertake to say that f. o. b. sales do not work to the advantage of the seller, and that they are not reliable unless the buyer or his agent is on the ground to inspect and receive the shipment. The f. o. b. sale is subject to rejection at the place of delivery. Upon a rising market there is assured acceptance, for the fruit has increased in value; upon a falling market the buyer will resort to every expedient and use every excuse to repudiate his purchase, and an adjustment must be made—in other words, a less price must be taken. It is a case where "heads" (the buyer) wins; "tails" (the seller) loses. Of course, there are honorable exceptions to this rule. I have been in the Exchange for the past three seasons. Prior to that time I was an independent shipper, and the year previous to my going into the Exchange, I learned of cars of my fruit being turned right over by the buyer to another purchaser at from $100 to $200 advance. This was upon a rising market and this additional price would have been mine had I been in the Exchange. While I had always favored the exchange commands better prices by reason of the volume of its business, being able to keep its customers better supplied than can an independent shipper, and has its business done at less expense. The frequent report that "competitors are underselling" and reports of low prices some growers' fruit is bringing, are significant facts of the success of the Exchange method to its members. The time may come and probably will come, when the crop will be so large that it cannot all, be profitably sold. Then if the Exchange controlled it all, only such portion could be put on the market as could be sold at a profit, and much more net money returned to the grower. We have just passed through a history of this kind. The crop of 1899-90 was 18,460 cars, some 3000 cars more than we ever had before, and this was followed by the unprecedented crop of 24，954 cars the next year，1900-01，and yet there were many more cars that were not shipped.I think that I had some 5000 boxes of oranges that I never picked and then year was a very poor one for all orange growers. It is true，the difficulty was increased by the poor service of railroads,and also bythe poor-keeping qualityofthefruit.TheanswerbyJ.P.Hatzfeld:25c Biggs—Is Wright a man whose word can depend upon? Diggs—Well，我不能 care to say anything against him，但 in their language ofthepoetit mightbe safeto remarkthattomichthistruethisstrangerthanfiction." A.-Why didn't you congratulate Lorimer on his marriage? B.-I couldn't conscientiously do that;I don't know his wife. A.-Well，then，你 might have wished her joy. B.-I couldn't reasonably do that;forIdoknowLorimer. Dollie —I promised mother thatIwouldn'tbeanactress. Hamlet —Well，你 kept your word all right. DANGER INDOORS ON A SHIP. Steamship and Battleship Bulkheads Not Worth as Much as They Seem. On all first class passenger steamshipsand on all large warshipsa great percentageofthe total costis spent directlyand indirectlyon bulkheadsor onwhat these bulkheads necessitate.No passenger would willingly makea voyageinalinerwhichwasnotknowntohaveacellularstructure,andno governmentwouldthinkofbuildingabattleshipor cruiserwithoutbulkheads.Yetitisfactwellknown,a leasttoallseafaringmenandshipbuilders,thesebulkheadsstrongandperfectinthemselvesarepreciselyassafeandefficientasthedoorsinthemandnotawhitmoreso. ButtheGiddyYoungThingtalkingtothecaptainwasa saddidn'tminda bitofroughweather."Doesn'titseemunneessurecaptain,"she said,"toboxacoonslowandsorelungswouldgoodwithconsumptionthatnomearthlyhelpcouldsaveherlifeabsolutelyguaranteedforcolds,bronchitis,aasthma throatandlung diseases.$10c$J.P.Hatzfeld's.Trialbottle Mrs.Greene—Miss Blacka Brown girl made themselveslousilyprominentatthemusicalnight.Iwaspositivelyscanne Mrs.Wite—For mercy'saiddidthey? Mrs.Greene—Do?Theyjustallevening.listeningtothemneverpassedawordbetween I have been in the Exchange for the past three seasons. Prior to that time I was an independent shipper, and the year previous to my going into the Exchange, I learned of cars of my fruit being turned right over by the buyer to another purchaser at from $100 to $200 advance. This was upon a rising market and this additional price would have been mine had I been in the Exchange. While I had always favored the Exchange methods and endorsed the good work it had done for the growers, I had not joined, principally by reason of the fact that my shipments did not antagonize the work on the Exchange. To the Public Allow me to say a few words in praise of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I had a very severe cough and cold and feared I would get pneumonia, but after taking the second dose of this medicine I felt better; three bottles of it cured my cold and the pains in my chest disappeared entirely. I am most respectfully yours for health. Ralph S. Meyers, 64 Thirty-seventh St., Wheeling, W. Va. For sale by all druggists. Get the Most Out of Your Food You don't and can't if your stomach is weak. A weak stomach does not digest all that is ordinarily taken into it. It gets tired easily, and what it fails to digest is wasted. Among the signs of a weak stomach are uneasiness after eating, fits of nervous headache, and disagreeable belching. "I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla at different times for stomach troubles, and a run down condition of the system, and have been greatly benefited by its use. I would not be without it in my family. I am troubled especially in summer with weak stomach and nausea and find Hood's Sarsaparilla invaluable." E. B. Hickman, W.Chester, Pa. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Strengthen and tone the stomach and the whole digestive system. It takes about 110 men to look after these details alone in response to a collision alarm under the present conditions, and it is a matter of very grave doubt on the part of those best informed as to whether the supreme efforts of these 110 men can attend to doctresses and valves quickly enough to save the ship—Cassier's Magazine. And the ship groaned some more. Mrs. Greene—Miss Black Brown girl made themselves loosely prominent at the music night. It was positively scandalous. Mrs. White—For meroy's sake did they do? Mrs. Greene—Do? They just all evening, listening to the music never passed a word between them. Sickness steals more savings burglar. Slowly, coin by coin money that has been so hardly is paid out for drugs and Sickness is the worst enemy of the ing man, and the common cause working man's sickness is disease, stomach often involving the heart liver, or kidneys. The use of Dr. Pierce's Goldical Discovery will stop the savings by sickness. It causes of the stomach and other digestion and nutrition. It causes of heart, liver, lungs, kidney when these diseases are caused diseased condition of the stomach its allied organs. "About ten years ago I began to have with my stomach," writes Wm. Connell Walnut Street, Lorain, Ohio. "If go had to lay off quite often two and three weeks, my stomach would bloat, and bech up gas, and was in awful distress times. I have employed and been to the best doctors in the city but got whatever. By some way or other I have get hold of a vial of your 'Pellets,' and they helped me. If was then I wrote advice. You told me that by my sympathy I had liver complaint, and as use of your 'Golden Medical Discovery' Pellets' in connection. The cities I have taken as directed, and happy to state that I commenced to from the start and have not lost a summer on account of my stomach, top, and better than I have for ten years. Accept no substitute for "Goldical Discovery." Nothing else as good." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the bowels. The Nile Dam The completion of the great Nile dam was celebrated at Assouan with ceremonious pagentry, and in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, who appeared on behalf of King Edward VII, the Khedive and Regates from cities throughout Egypt. The ceremony of inauguration, which was performed by the Duke Connaught, consisted in laying the first coping stone and opening a number of sluices to let the water flow down the Nile. Following the ceremonies the ducal party and other guests met by special boat for Assiout to inspect the supplementary dam which has been built at that point. The ceremonies at Assouan marked the completion of the greatest work of the kind ever attempted. As a triumph engineering the Assouan dam stands apart at the head of human achievements. The dam is 1½ miles long. It pierced by 180 openings 23 feet high and 7 feet wide, which have steel gates. The supplementary dam Assiout, a few miles up the river, is extended as a reinforcement of the heat dam to resist the force of the spring floods and restrain them in a local reservoir capable of storing more than 1,000,000,000 cubic feet of water. The irrigation works supplied by this heat reservoir will enable wide tracts to bear two crops a year instead of one, and will bring waste districts to tillage and will greatly increase the area of sugar cultivation. The work of construction was performed by the English firm of John Aird & Co., and it is estimated that the total cost will amount to a little over $25,000,000. A Good Cough Medicine From the Gazette, Toowoomba, Australia. I find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy an excellent medicine. I have been offering from a severe cough for the last two months, and it has effected a cure. I have great pleasure in recommending it.—W. C. Wockner. This remedy is sold by all druggists. Sources of Wealth In ten months of 1902, American manufacturers are said to have exported $319,000,000 worth of their products. The flaxseed crop for the past year is a record breaker and amounted to 1,000,000 bushels. The manufacture of brooms in this country is said to annually absorb a ton of broom corn amounting to 40- Good Advertising Good advertising is a salesman, and the longer kept at work the greater the efficiency. To advertise one or three or six months, and then cease is like putting a salesman out for like lengths of time and then expect the orders to keep coming in from their work, even when a competitor has employed the same salesman and is reaping a harvest from his previous acquaintance and the reputation and skill he has acquired. Advertising is one of the fixed charges of business, just as are rent, fuel and clerk hire. One might as well dismiss his clerks or salesman and try to do business in his hat, to save salaries and rent as to discontinue his advertising. The momentum given the business by years of good advertising may carry the business along for a time, but the power will be spent and the crops from the old sowing will shortly have been harvested. The fields will have been occupied by other diligent sowers of publicity, and to regain all that has been lost will cost increased expenditures and years of work and waiting. All experience, as well as sound reason, teaches that the newspaper, which is consulted by everybody and is found everywhere, in the home, the shop, the store and the office, surpasses all other mediums or media, for reaching people with the kind of information—in regard to business and as to the opportunities for providing the means of supplying all wants, needs and desires—that is called advertising. The newspaper of influence and character imparts those, in measure at least, to the advertisement contained therein, and in this work of business publicity acts along the lines for which it exists, the giving of information. The newspaper has substantial reason for existence, a utility above and beyond the advertising, and commands an attention and hearing at all times and everywhere, among the people, that can be secured in no other way.—National Printer Journal. Ballard's Horehound Syrup Immediately relieves hoarse, croupy cough, oppressed, rattling, rasping and difficult breathing. Henry C. Stearns, druggist, Shullsburg, Wisconsin writes, "I have been bothered with dyspepsia or indigestion for 21 years, have tried many doctors without relief, but I have found a cure in Herbine. I recommend it to all my friends who are afflicted that way, and it is curing them, too. 50c at J. P. Hatzfeld's." "What made you seem so upset the day we became engaged? You knew I was going to propose—didn't you?" "Oh, dear me, yes! But I had no FACTS ABOUT ANAHEIM. Sketch of two industries and Resources or 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 foot-hills, 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. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE CO. The census bureau has issued a bulletin on agriculture in California. Sources of Wealth In ten months of 1902, American manufacturers are said to have exported $319,000,000 worth of their products. The flaxseed crop for the past year is record breaker and amounted to 1,000,000 bushels. The manufacture of brooms in this country is said to annually absorb a top of broom corn amounting to 40,-000 pounds. The California raisin crop this year is the largest with one exception that was ever been produced in the state and will aggregate 100,000,000 pounds. Coughing Spell Caused Death "Harry Duckwell, aged 25 years, looked to death early yesterday morning at his home, in the presence of his life and child. He contracted a slight cold a few days ago and paid but little attention to it. Yesterday morning he was seized with a fit of coughing which continued for some time. His wife sent her a physician, but before he could arrive, another coughing spell came on, and Duckwell died from suffocation." Louis Globe-Democrat, Dec. 1, 1901." Ballard's Horehound Syrup would have saved him. 25c, 50c and 60c at J. P. Hatzfeld's. TOO GREAT POETIC LICENSE "I have written a poem," began the long-haired youth, "about two lovers sitting on the old fence back of your father's park." "You are writing about the impossible," said the rich girl. "Why, is there no fence?" "Yes; but it is barb wire." Saw Death Near "It often made my heart ache," writes C. Overstreet of Elgin, Tenn., "to hear my wife cough until it seemed her neck and sore lungs would collapse. Good doctors said she was so far gone with consumption that no medicine or arthly help could save her, but a friend recommended Dr. King's New discovery and persistent use of this excellent medicine saved her life." It's absolutely guaranteed for coughs, rids, bronchitis, asthma and all roast and lung diseases. 50c and 81 at P. Hatzfeld's. Trial bottles free. But the Giddy Young Thing who was liking to the captain was a sailor and didn't mind a bit of rough weather. "Doesn't it seem unnecessarily cruel, captain," she said, "to box a compass?" "Not any more so, miss," he replied, simply "than to paddle a canoe." And the ship groaned some more. Mrs. Greene—Miss Black and that row girl made themselves ridiculously prominent at the musical last night. It was positively scandalous! Mrs. White—For meroy's sake, what did they do? Mrs. Greene—Do? They just sat there evening, listening to the music, and ever passed a word between them. ON THE FARM. There’s many a successful business man who sits in his city office and lets his mind slip back to his boyhood days on the farm. How good it felt to live! What an appetite he had! How good everything tasted! How sound his sleep! How eagerly he rose with the sun and raced with him through the long day. And now he's a successful man. But he can't sleep. He doesn't enjoy his food. His stomach is weak, his nerves are shaken, and he no more rises with the sun to race eagerly against him. His vitality is low and now and again his heart seems to plunge in his breast as if it would break loose. That's the price he has paid for success. The mischief of the whole business is that he buys "tablets" of one sort or another to "aid" his digestion, and induces in bromkins and other nerve stimulants, just to hold himself together, and wonders why he seems to be getting worse. The whole trouble with such a man generally lies in what is called a "weak" stomach. The food he eats does not nourish him because it is only partially digested and assimilated. No man can be stronger than his stomach, because it is in the stomach and allied organs of digestion and nutrition that strength is made from the food which is eaten. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It restores the strength of the body in the only way strength can be restored, by food which is perfectly digested and assimilated, when the diseased stomach (with its allied organs) is cured of disease. It is a blood-making, body-building medicine, inasmuch as blood is made from food and the body is built up by 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. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE CO. The census bureau has issued a bulletin on agriculture in California which we quote from extensively in another part of this issue. One of the interesting features of the report is the paragraph giving the number of farms and acres of farming lands in the five Southern California counties. The pre-eminence of Orange county is apparent: Counties: No. farms Acres: Los Angeles .6977 895,663 Orange .2888 569,436 Riverside .2340 427,007 San Bernardino .2350 219,182 San Diego .2698 809,419 But it is in the acreage of irrigated lands that Orange county takes easy precedence over the other counties of Southern California: Counties: Acres: Los Angeles .85,644 Orange .41,549 Riverside .32,947 San Bernardino .37,877 San Diego .16,022 The area of Orange county is 780 square miles; that of Los Angeles, 3880; that of Riverside, 7088; that of San Bernardino, 20,055; and that of San Diego, 8400 square miles. Orange county thus contains one-fifth the area of Los Angeles; yet its irrigated lands approach in area to one-half those of its neighbor to the north. Riverside embraces nine times its area, yet it irrigates 9000 more acres, or a fourth more than the belaunded county on the east. San Bernardino is 25 times its size, yet its irrigated acres exceed those of this jumbo county by nearly 4000, approximately ten per cent. San Diego is eleven times its size, yet it irrigates 25,000 acres more than the county on the south—300 per cent is the former's irrigated area as compared with that of the latter—almost the irrigated area of San Diego and Riverside combined. Orange county possesses the finest system of irrigation, the most secure water rights, that exist in Southern California. That is what we have said many a time and oft. These figures prove it. It is the handsomest and most productive county that lies outdoors and is settling up faster than any other in the State. A. J. Snell wanted to attend a party, but was afraid to do so on account of pains in his stomach, which he feared would grow worse. He says: "I was telling my troubles to a lady friend; who said: 'Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you in condition for the party.' I bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating that two doses cured me and enabled me to have a good time at the party." Mr. Snell is a resident of Summer Hill, N.Y. This remedy is instances to tell us about respect for young people or all works of all the famous in fact, nearly every age from a quarter to six. TALKING TO ONE Solloquies Are Rare Webb Fear They Mean Man Talking to oneself has advantage over any other story or gossip: One is sympathetic audience. But this peculiar drawback: It to be one of the early sympathy W宁ry. Wrongly so peril doctor might rule the hath diagnosis. Nevertheless belief is firmly rooted, and fear of this belief doubt talk to ourselves even as half with straws so rarely. It may be said that we dress ourselves at any length—the delirium of a fever, of ordinary excitement or utter to the wind some so private ejaculation. Delirium from us a cry of "Hurrah heaven!" even though there to echo us. Similarly In we emit one of those rather poor equivalents to "Ugh!" and "Faugh!" and further than this we do not what an ass am I?" creel one of his solloquies. First word and transposition two, the ordinary modern often solloquize to that he could no more solloquize let's extent than he could deciacyllables. Nor is there any reason that class of the comma which contemptuous of hycy Hamlet compared him ever was more prone to than any other. In the maquiles we cannot accept B humblest authority. We must him the possible origin of that talking to oneself is Saturday Review. How Gold Was Found on tha "The River Trip to tha described In The Century bury Webb. The author sayi The famous Bonanza on more famous El Dorado c o like ordinary everyday de pearance—a little less civic than creeks be met with There are men living in Sickness steals more savings than theurglar. Slowly, coin by coin, the money that has been so hardly earned paid out for drugs and doctors. Difficulty is the worst enemy of the working man, and the common cause of the working man's sickness is disease of the stomach often involving the heart, lungs, liver, or kidneys. The use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will stop the stealing of the savings by sickness. It cures diseases of heart, liver, lungs, kidney, etc., when these diseases are caused by the diseased condition of the stomach and its allied organs. About ten years ago I began to have trouble with my stomach," writes Wm. Connolly, of 391 Main Street, Lorrain, Ohio. "It got so bad I had to lay off quite often two and three days in week, my stomach would bloat, and I would pick up gas, and was in awful distress at such times. I have employed and been treated by the best doctors in the city but got no help whatever. By some way or other I happened to hold a vial of your 'Pellets,' and I thought they helped me. If it was then I wrote to you for advice. You told me that by my symptoms you bought I had liver complaint, and advised the use of your 'Golden Medical Discovery' and 'Pellets' in connection. These medicines I have taken as directed, and am very happy to state that I commenced to get better on the start and have not lost a day this summer on account of my stomach. I feel tip-up, and better than I have for ten years." Accept no substitute for "Golden Medical Discovery." Nothing else is "just good." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate the bowels. The whole trouble with such a man generally lies in what is called a "weak" stomach. The food he eats does not nourish him because it is only partially digested and assimilated. No man can be stronger than his stomach, because it is in the stomach and allied organs of digestion and nutrition that strength is made from the food which is eaten. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It restores the strength of the body in the only way strength can be restored, by food which is perfectly digested and assimilated, when the diseased stomach (with its allied organs) is cured of disease. It is a blood-making, body-building medicine, inasmuch as blood is made from food and the body is built up by blood. It is not a stimulant, containing neither alcohol or any other narcotic. NO OTHER DOOTOR FOR ME. "Last spring, early, I wrote you my feelings and condition," says Mr. A. J. Vanderwater, 873 West Division Street, Chicago, Ill., "and you advised me to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery (a few bottles), and then write you how I felt. I am happy to say I am getting to feel fine! All I have taken six bottles of the 'Discovery' and four or five vials of the little 'Pellets.' They have done me worlds of good. All my friends say: 'Vanderwater, how well you are looking. What in the world have you been doing?' I tell them I have been doctoring with Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.Y., 'Why, they say, 'you haven't been there?' No, I say, but I took his 'Golden Medical Discovery' and his little 'Pellets.' These medicines have wrought the great change in me. From a slow mope of a man that could hardly crawl, tired and sick all the time, and could do no work; to a man who can work, sleep, eat, and feel fine, and that tired feeling is all going away. I am very thankful that I wrote to Dr. Pierce. His 'Golden Medical Discovery' and his little liver 'Pellets' have almost made a new man of me. I feel young as I did at thirty years. No other doctor for me, only Dr. Pierce." HAD GIVEN UP HOPE. "I will express my thanks to you for the kindly advice you have given me in regard to my case," writes Miss Carrie J. Wharton, of Dunavant, Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. "When I wrote to you last spring I was in a terrible state of health. Had given up all hope of ever being better. I spit up my food all the time and it seemed sour as vinegar. I would have a bad sore headache every other week; in fact, my head never felt clear; and I was perfectly broken down under the strain of losing my food constantly. I had read a great deal in your books of what your medicine had done for others, so I wrote you and got your advice. Bought two bottles of 'Golden Medical Discovery' and the first dose I took I felt better. When I had finished taking the two bottles the spitting up had entirely stopped and my head was much better. I believe your medicines are just what you have said of them." "I carefully read the books you sent me and shall always speak a good word for the 'Golden Medical Discovery' whenever I have a chance." "You can publish this if you think it worth while. It might induce some one else to try your medicine who was suffering as I did. It was by the testimonials of others that I was induced to try it. I shall always rely upon your advice and feel safe to do as you tell me." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation, its causes and consequences. A.J.Snell wanted to attend a party, but was afraid to do so on account of pains in his stomach, which he feared would grow worse. He says: "I was telling my troubles to a lady friend, who said: 'Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you in condition for the party.' I bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating that two doses cured me and enabled me to have a good time at the party." Mr. Snell is a resident of Summer Hill, N.Y. This remedy is sold by all druggists. ELY'S CREAM BALM is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; samples 10c. by mail. ELY BROTHERS. 66 Warren St., New York City Everybody Knows About Pain-Killer A Household Medicine A Safe and Sure Cure for Gramps Cough Bruises Diarrhoea Golds Burns Sprains and Strains. Gives instant relief. Two sizes, 25c. and 50c. Only one Pain Killer, Perry Davis'. Ground Floor Toy Room The Meccan of Holiday Shoppers. TOYS Southern California has never seen such a complete and almost endless display of toys, games, dolls, and mechanical devices for amusing the little folks as is now being shown in our ground floor toy section. If you visit Los Angeles between now and Christmas you'll overlook the most attractive spot in this whole city if you fail to visit this toy room of ours. It's right on the ground floor, only a few steps from the street and you don't have to be crowded into elevators nor jostled on stairwavs to get to it. Prices Everlastingly XX XX The Lowest Buying enormous quantities of toys from the best foreign and domestic makers enables us in many instances to sell this class of merchandise at a lower price than is paid for the same goods by many dealers. Books For Christmas Our book department is now one of the busiest in our store. We have in stock all classes of reading matter for young, middle aged and old. Everything from the little A, B, C, books for babies, up to the master pieces of the world's most famous authors. Histories, autobiographies, books of reference, books of travel, the works of all the famous playwrights from Shakespeare down, all of the poets, bibles, testaments prayer books in fact, nearly everything in the shape of books that will appeal to a book lover or a book giver. Prices aver age from a quarter to a half less than is charged in the regular book stores. Books For Christmas Our book department is now one of the busiest in our store. We have in stock all classes of reading matter for young, middle-aged and old. Everything from the little A, B, C books for babies, up to the masterpieces of the world's most famous authors. Histories, autobiographies, books of reference, books of travel, the works of all the famous playwrights from Shakespeare down, all of the poets, bibles, testaments prayer books in fact, nearly everything in the shape of books that will appeal to a book lover or a book giver. Prices aver age from a quarter to a half less than is charged in the regular book stores. ORDER ANYTHING YOU WANT BY MAIL Of course it's better to come to our store but if you can't come the store can practically be brought to you. Write us your wants. Our mail order department is the best equipped in Southern California, we have experienced men and women shoppers whose sole duties are to attend your every want, and your interests will be just as well taken care of as though you were here in person. TALKING TO ONESELF. Soliloquies Are Rare Because We Fear They Mean Madness. Talking to oneself has this obvious advantage over any other form of oratory or gossip: One is assured of a sympathetic audience. But it has also this peculiar drawback: It is supposed to be one of the early symptoms of insanity. Wrongly so perhaps. A mad doctor might rule the habit out of his diagnosis. Nevertheless the popular belief is firmly rooted, and it is for fear of this belief doubtless that we talk to ourselves even as we dress our hair with straws so rarely. It may be said that we never do address ourselves at any length except in the delirium of a fever. In moments of ordinary excitement of course we utter to the wind some sort of appropriate ejaculation. Delight wrings from us a cry of "Hurrah!" or "Thank heaven!" even though there be none by to echo us. Similarly in any disgust we emit one of those sounds whose rather poor equivalents in print are "Ugh!" and "Faugh!" and "Tut!". Much further than this we do not go. "Why, what an ass am I?" cries Hamlet in one of his soliloquies. Omitting the first word and transposing the last two, the ordinary modern man does often soliloquize to that extent. But he could no more soliloquize to Hamlet's extent than he could speak in decasyllables. Nor is there any reason to suppose that that class of the community with which contemptuous of his own fluency. Hamlet compared himself is or ever was more prone to soliloquize than any other. In the matter of soliloquies we cannot accept Hamlet as an unbiased authority. We merely find in him the possible origin of the belief that talking to oneself is a bad sign—Saturday Review. How Gold Was Found on the Klondike. "The River Trip to the Klondike" is described in The Century by John Sidney Webb. The author says: The famous Bonanza creek and the more famous El Dorado creek are very like ordinary, everyday creeks in appearance—a little less civilized perhaps than creeks to be met with in the east. There are men living in Alaska today... How Gold Was Found on the Klondike. "The River Trip to the Klondike" is described in The Century by John Sidney Webb. The author says: The famous Bonanza creek and the more famous El Dorado creek are very like ordinary, everyday creeks in appearance—a little less civilized perhaps than creeks to be met with in the east. There are men living in Alaska today who have hunted moose over these creeks dozens of times; but, as the old miners say, there were no surface indications to lead any one to suppose that gold might be found in them, so hundreds of miners passed by in their boats, going to Forty Mile and Circle City. The finding of such gold is always an accident, and the old hands are usually the last to realize the truth. "Stick George" Cormack and his squaw's relatives camped on the creek for dinner one day and somehow got to digging and washed out some gold. He went to Forty Mile and made claim for discovery, and soon the news spread like wildfire. Suited Lim. Frate Father—I'm getting tired of this nonsense. You've been engaged to that young man for six months. Does he ever intend to marry you? Daughter—You must have patience, papa. Remember, he's an actor. Father—What's that got to do with it? Daughter—He's fond of long engagements.—London Fun. The Christmas Dinner In spite of the fact that the word dyspepsia means literally bad cook, it will not be fair for many to lay the blame on the cook if they begin the Christmas dinner with little appetite and end it with distress or nausea. It may not be fair for any to do that—let us hope so for the sake of the cook! The disease dyspepsia indicates a bad stomach, that is a weak stomach, rather than a bad cook, and for a weak stomach there is nothing else equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla. It gives the stomach vigor and tone, cures dyspepsia, creates appetite and makes eating the pleasure it should be. LESS THAN 3 DAYS Ask any Southern Pacific Agent, or write G. A. PARKYNS, Asst. Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent 261 South Spring Street LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA BOSTON Through Tourist Sleeping Cars to Chicago making direct connection with tourist cars through to Boston SANTA FE FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught. Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT.