anaheim-gazette 1903-01-01

A SCENE ON THE SOO. The King of France Took Possession of the Land Two Hundred Years Ago. In St. Nicholas there is an article on "The Great Lakes" by W. S. Harwood. Mr. Harwood says: While waiting for my steamer to be carried through canal locks of the Soo, I stood one summer day near a hill on which now stands Fort Brady, overlooking the rapids of the Soo as they flow from Lake Superior down into the St. Mary's river and so on to join at last the waters of Huron. On the top of this hill, as nearly as I could decide from the topography of the country, was witnessed two centuries and a quarter ago one of the most remarkable, one of the most significant scenes in the history of the new world. It has been brilliantly described, and I may but mention it. On June 14, 1671, a strange body of men was assembled on this hill. It was composed of four classes—the official representatives of the king of France, the Catholic missionaries, the voyageurs and the Indians. Weeks before word had been sent out to the chiefs of 14 of the different tribes of Indians in the region to meet at the Soo) on the date mentioned. An immense cross of wood was made and carried to the top of the hill overlooking the swift flowing rapids. A stout timber with an engraved plate on it was set up near the deep hole in the ground which was to hold the foot of the cross. When all had assembled, St. Lusson, the representative of the king, lifted in one hand a clod of earth and in the other his naked sword and in the name of his most Christian majesty the king of France took possession of the land, embracing in his assumption "all the region from the north to the south sea and extending to the ocean on the west." The cross was then raised before the motley throng—the representatives of the government in their most gorgeous suits, the priests in their rich vestments, the voyagers in their hunting garb of skins, the Indians in their most fantastic feathers and paint. As the cross assumed position the priests inscribed a stately chant of the seventeenth century. Then the French exclaimed "Vive le roi!" while, as one historian puts it, "the Indians howled in concert." The plate upon the smaller timber bore an engraved inscription denoting the king's possession of the land. THE FOODS WE EAT. Various kinds and what They Are Severally Good For. Nature supplies us with two complete foods, milk and eggs, which contain in the proper proportions all the necessary elements for the sustenance of our bodies. As these are—the only complete foods it is necessary in the absence to have mixed foods, and it is in the mixing that mistakes occur, because the fat forming, muscle forming and other parts are taken in wrong proportions, some in excess and others the reverse. Left to his own taste primitive man invariably selects the best food. This instinct, however, is defective at the present day. For children food rich in bone forming substances is necessary. Among muscle forming foods the following are the best and most common: Oatmeal porridge, with rich milk and whole meal bread butter; meat is a highly condensed food of this class. To men of sedentary occupation a free use of meat is injurious. For men engaged at hard manual labor a generous meat diet is admirable. Vegetables contain but little nourishment, but are useful as blood purifiers and also supply bulk to the food, which is necessary to give the consumer satisfaction. Milk should never be taken with meat, because they are both rich in one substance. Tea should not be taken with meat either, because it renders the meat tough and indigestible. Beef ranks first as a muscle former and mutton next. Pork makes a very digestible dish, and fowl and bacon are a very useful and palatable dish. Cereals enter largely into our diet and are of much value, because they supply food or starch as well as muscle food. Potatoes provide little nutriment, but with plenty of milk, which supplies the precise ingredients they lack, a good diet is formed. Sugar is well worthy of notice, and the child's love of it is a perfectly healthy instinct and should always be gratified in reason. Fruits are good blood purifiers and should be considered as essentials rather than luxuries. Beef tea contains scarce any nutriment whatever and is almost purely a stimulant. A dog fed on beef tea starved to death, while another fed on refuse meat throve. Tea, injurious if taken in excess, provides, if taken in moderation, a most refreshing drink. Many scientists recommend its use about two hours before our principal meal and without food. Coffee is a stimulant, unlike all others, in fact, that it is followed by no reaction. It stimulates the brain and is facts in a few lines. There are 334 deer parks in England. Havana is almost due south of Colombo bus. O. Nearly a quarter of all cases of sanity are hereditary. Three out of every 185 English spelling people have red hair. During 1897 Mexico exported $000,000 worth of minerals. Kelp is a crude alkaline matter produced by the combustion of seaweed. St. Louis is the greatest brick mason facturing center in the United States. Chinese women may now be seen cycling through the streets of Shanghai. Taken altogether, the population of the Russian empire is more than 000,000. In Russia it is the custom forISTS to breakfast together before going out to fight. The rafflesia of Sumatra is the last flower in existence. It has a diameter of nine feet. "Norsk Kvindestemmeretsforen" is the name of the woman's suffragacy of Norway. The matches used in Lima, Peru all imported from Sweden, there are no factories in that country. An old Roman tub well has been covered at Silchester. It is in a coatively perfect state of preservation. The sound of a bell which can heard 45,000 feet through the water been heard through the air only feet. There isn't a saloon between Floala., and Paducah, Ky., on the edge of the Tennessee river, a distance 300 miles. The amount of silk produced by spider is so small that a scientist puts that 663,522 would be required to produce a pound of thread. More men have died and are on the isthmus of Panama, along line of the proposed canal, than one equal amount of territory in the French Guiana is said to have most violent thunderstorms in world. The thunder is almost owing and the peals come in quick cession. Robert Morris' Bank of North America, founded at Philadelphia at tide of year 1781, was the first bank institution founded on the American continent. A hotel keeper in a Brussels was obliged to other day to A SCENE IN SALONICA. The Jews and Jewesses That Inhabit the Heart of the Town. In the true ghetto, in the adisome heart of the town, where the cobbled streets run slimy and the people chatter with the butchers for the feef of the slaughter house and untoken block, you see the unchanged Jew of the middle ages. Be he bearded grandsite or tiny boy, he wears a long loose gallardine to his heels and the fee of his masters. If he is well to do, the garment may be fur bordered or it may be of silk, but it could not more surely be soiled and greasy if the law required it so. With marriage this survivor of the dark ages grows a beard fall and thick and grizzled in the old men wiry and black and very sparse in the younger heads of families. This is as it is in Bast Broadway and Chicago and Berlin, but when you look upon the wives and daughters in Salonica's ghetto you see medieval characters who have stalked in the east, but sent no representatives abroad. These Jewesses love display and court admiration. They are much fairer than the men, milky skinned, with a pale pink flush, as if they were hothouse bred. Their clothes are gay, red, green and blue being their favorite colors, and the married women all wear decollete bodices fashioned very low in front and showing a fancy shirt of embroidery and lace, which either reveals the mold of their forms or makes startling exposures of the forms themselves. Their chests are always quite bare. This in a land where the other women expose nothing but their eyes is all the more astonishing. On their crowns the Jewish matrons wear very showy, often beautiful, headaddresses, composed of a cap of red, green and yellow silk or cloth, that is carried down the back of the head in a bag that envelops their tresses. Often these bags are finished at the bottom with heavy gold braid. "In the Wake of a War," by Julian Ralph, in Harper's Magazine. IN NEW YORK'S EARLY DAYS. The Bewery Was the Resort of Wealth, Beauty and Fashion. "A pleasant picture occurs to me of a summer progress of the family of Governor Stuyvesant to and from the meeting house, for divine worship in the fort near the Battery, New York," writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in The Ladies' Home Journal, describing "When Fashion Graced the Bowery." "In a brave coach, drawn by shining horses, is ensconced the governor himself, whose long, laced coat half hides his wooden leg banded with silver. He wears a carefully curled peruke and holds his hat upon his knee, in order to court the cool sea breeze that fans his wooden rims." His lady sitting in state child's love of it is a perfectly healthy instinct and should always be gratified in reason. Fruits are good blood purifiers and should be considered as essentials rather than luxuries. Beef tea contains scarceely any nutriment whatever and is almost purely a stimulant. A dog fed on beef tea starved to death, while another fed on refuse meat throva. Tea, injurious if taken in excess, provides, if taken in moderation, a most refreshing drink. Many scientists recommend its use about two hours before our principal meal and without food. Coffee is a stimulant, unlike all others, in fact, that it is followed by no reaction. It stimulates the brain and is called an intellectual drink. Cocoa deserves to be classed as a food.—Pittsburg Dispatch. OLD ENGLISH LAWS. The Unlimited Powers Which a Father Exercised Over His Offspring. In England less than 100 years ago the husband had power to choose his wife's associates, to separate her from her relatives, to restrain her religious and personal freedom, and if the need could be shown even to chastise her moderately, as though she were a child. What constituted sufficient cause for corporal punishment was left for the husband to prove and the court to decide, but so universally was the mastery of a man over his wife's body recognized that a trial for wife beating was almost unheard of. Under these old laws of England the father had power to dispose of his offspring, by deed or legacy, until they were 21 years of age, and the testamentary guardian's right over the children superseded that of the mother, who had absolutely no legal control over them and was entitled to nothing from them save their reverence and respect. She had no right even to their services, except in the case of the mother of an illegitimate child, who was entitled to its control and custody. Upon marriage the husband became entitled to the wife's goods and chattels, to the rentals and profits of her lands, to her earnings and to the custody of her person. In return he was bound only to supply her with shelter, food, clothing and medicine, which he could out of her personal earnings, or out of the profits of her properties, should she be an heiress. If a father died intestate, his personal belongings were divided equally between his sons and daughters, but in the case of real property a son, though he be younger than all his sisters, was the sole heir. In England less than a century ago it was not unusual for a man to sell his wife into servitude.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Life In Mars. Megamiorus, as we shall call our man of the earth transported in his sleep to the new Mars, wakes up, opens his eyes and finds himself in bed in his room. All the things in it are familiar to him—the furniture, clothes, books and wares are just where he had left them overnight. He does not suspect the trick that has been played on him. He stretches himself, throws up his arms, leaps from his bed, goes to the washstand, lifts the pitcher, puts on his clothes—and is greatly surprised. All these actions are of a common character and consist in raising masses to a certain height. His water pitcher for instance holds two liters new mass. More men have died and are on the isthmus of Panama, along line of the proposed canal, than one equal amount of territory in the world. The thunder is almost owing and the peals come in quiet cession. Robert Morris' Bank of North Carolina, founded at Philadelphia at the time of year 1751, was the first bank institution founded on The Amount continent. A hotel keeper in a Brussels was obliged the other day to pair of shoes for his guests. The had decamped with that number in his charge. With a piece of string and sand and grease some Hindoo once recently sawed through an iron inch in diameter in five hours caped from jail. Russia is making extensive efforts for people of Siberia to pallions of acres under cultivation build great factories along the new railroad. Court chaplains, when they before the German emperor, must dense the sermons so that they delivered in 15 minutes. Long so he says, make him weary. The absinth drinker, with his drawn, emaciated features, is a figure on the Paris boulevard liquor is a villainous concoction flavored with wormwood. In the last few years the culprit of the silkworm has made progress in Bulgaria, the minnage finance and agriculture having used large quantities of eggs. In Rielefield, Germany, there colony of epileptics numbering 1,500. The colony was established 1868,and patients from all parts world go there for treatment. Placards on the bedroom door rural hotel in New England that "guests will please not be Sunday night, as the hot water ed for the wash Monday morning. It is said that every thread on der's web is made up of about separate fibers. If a pound thread were required, it would 28,000 spiders a full year to fun. Through persistent experiment process has been discovered by glass can be hardened to the comof steel,and its first practical tion is being given to the many of skates. If dry ropes are soaked for four in a bath containing 20 grains phate of copper to a quart of they will be preserved for a consime time from the attacks of animal sites and rot. It is stated on German authorthe astounding number of 22 glass eyes are made every year many and Switzerland wha French house manufactures 30 them annually. Oran, in Algeria, has a poro officer still in active service at 126 years. His name is Trem He was born in 1771,has capt Oran pirates in 1789 and has n "A pleasant picture occurs to me of a summer progress of the family of Governor Stuyvesant to and from the meeting house, for divine worship in the fort near the Battery, New York," writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in The Ladies' Home Journal, describing "When Fashion Graced the Bowery." "In a brave coach, drawn by shining horses, is ensconced the governor himself, whose long, laced coat half hides his wooden leg banded with silver. He wears a carefully curled peruke and holds his hat upon his knee, in order to court the cool sea breeze that fans his rugged visage. His lady, sitting in state beside him, is, in their staid and phlegmatic community, accounted a brilliant personage; her gowns came out from her native Paris, and her silken hood it worn over frizzled and powdered hair; her embroidered hose and high heeled shoes, her rings, bracelets and lockets, with the gorgeously bound book of devotions supended by a golden chain to her waistband, may be depended upon as models of the very latest modes Mrs. Bayard, the widowed sister of the governor, occupies a seat in the coach facing them. "After service in the bare colonial church—where the dominie's sermon however eloquent, was always brought to an end by three raps from the clerk's stick at the moment when the sands of the hourglass had announced that the preacher's limit of time had been reached—the Stuyvesant party passes out be tween rows of respectful gazers." All Stuffed Up That's the condition of many sufferers from catarrh, especially in the morning. Great difficulty is experienced in clearing the head and throat. No wonder catarrh causes headache, impairs the taste, smell and hearing, pollutes the breath, deranges the stomach and affects the appetite. To cure catarrh, treatment must be constitutional—alterative and tonic. "I was afflicted with catarrh. I took medicines of different kinds, giving each a fair trial; but gradually grew worse until I could hardly hear, taste or smell. I then concluded to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, and after taking five bottles I was cured and have not had any return of the disease since." Eugene Forbes, Lebanon, Kan. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures catarrh—it soothes and strengthens the mucous membrane and builds up the whole system. Megamifores, as we shall call our man of the earth transported in his sleep to the new Mars, wakes up, opens his eyes and finds himself in bed in his room. All things in it are familiar to him—the furniture, clothes, books and wares are just where he had left them overnight. He does not suspect the trick that has been played on him. He stretches himself, throws up his arms, leaps from his bed, goes to the washstand, lifts the pitcher, puts on his clothes—and is greatly surprised. All these actions are of a common character and consist in raising masses to a certain height. His water pitcher, for instance, holds two liters, new measure. On the earth these two liters, representing two kilograms, require a certain effort to be raised, say, to the height of 80 centimeters. But on Mars these two liters weigh only two Martian kilograms, or 16 times less in earthly weight. Further, he does not have to lift them to a height of 80 centimeters, but of only 15 centimeters, his size being diminished one-half, so that the work to be performed is reduced to one-thirty-second. On the other hand, his strength, which is proportioned to the volume or the mass of his muscles, is only reduced to one-eighth. Consequently the effort he is required to make is four times less. His water pitcher seems extremely light, so do his clothes. He probably remarked the same thing when he threw up his arms and jumped from his bed, but simply thought he was in unusually good spirits.—M. J. Delboenf in Popular Science Monthly. The Newest Easter Gowns. With the newest Easter gowns comes a soft, supple skirt which clings closely around the hips and widens gradually toward the edge, where it has a width of between four and five yards. No stiffening material is employed for this, the idea being to get an easy curve. Very often, to produce this effect, a separate and rather elaborate underskirt is furnished. The bodice which has the invisible fastening continues in vogue, although many costumes have a tight back with a semiloose plastron. Sleeves continue to be quite close fitting, with a slight fullness at the top. The neck dressings are less complicated, the decoration above the high collar covering only one-third of the neck. Among the colors best liked are champagne, brown, blue, pink, heliotrope, bronze green, red, black (as a matter of course) and white, most important of all.—Ladies' Home Journal. A Nervous Woman Will often feel compelled to clock whose ticking seems unbearable. In such a nervous condition woman needs a building up of the system. It is useless to attempt healing inflammation and ulceration female weakness. It is tonic and nervine, tranquilizing nerves, promoting the appetites ducing refreshing sleep. "When I first wrote you I had been different doctors and two of them soon never get better without going to for an operation," writes Mrs. Selina of 496 Rice Street, St. Paul, Minn., able to do anything. If I would get up to the kitchen and back I would have bed for a day or sometimes two days have used six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Prescription and six of 'Golden Medley,' and the result is just wonderful nervious I had to have some one by one at the time even in day time, and I could eat anything. I took treatment from twice a week, and every time I would felt so sick, but since I quit all the time began taking your medicines I go along. I weighed 15 pounds, while taking your medicines (in August) I am up to my usual weight 165. I feel as good as ever." FREE: Dr. Pierce's Communicated Medical Adviser is sent free of stamps to pay expense of mail Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paper covers, or 31 stamps for bound volumes. Address Dr. R. Buffalo, N.Y. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. There are 334 deer parks in England. Theana is almost due south of Columbury. Early a quarter of all cases of invasive hereditary. Sees out of every 185 English speakpeople have red hair. Bringing 1897 Mexico exported $42, worth of minerals. Is a crude alkaline matter produced by the combustion of seaweed. Louis is the greatest brick mannning center in the United States. These women may now be seen bing through the streets of Shanghai. When altogether, the population of Russian empire is more than 120, 100. Russia it is the custom for duelship breakfast together before going fight. Rafflesia of Sumatra is the largest war in existence. It has a diameter of feet. Horsk Kvindestemmeretsforening" is the name of the woman's suffrage soof Norway. Matches used in Lima, Peru, are imported from Sweden, there being history in that country. Old Roman tub well has been discovered at Silchester. It is in a comparatively perfect state of preservation. Sound of a bell which can be held 45,000 feet through the water can be heard through the air only 456 Here isn't a saloon between Florence, and Paducah, Ky., on the banks the Tennessee river, a distance of miles. Amount of silk produced by each terrer is so small that a scientist composes a pound of thread. Men have died and are buried the isthmus of Panama, along the of the proposed canal, than on any amount of territory in the world. French Guiana is said to have the most violent thunderstorms in the old. The thunder is almost deafenand the peals come in quick suction. Robert Morris' Bank of North Amerifounded at Philadelphia at the end the year 1781, was the first banking institution founded on the American invent. Hotel keeper in a Brussels hotel obligated the other day to buy 80 EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS. The Work of Cartier, Champlain and Others In the Great Lakes. W. S. Harwood writes in St. Nicholas of "The Great Lakes." Mr. Harwood says: Jacques Cartier, who shipped from St. Malo in 1584, explored the coast of Newfoundland and made the circuit of the gulf of St. Lawrence, and he did much else, too, for New France in opening up negotiations with the many tribes of Indians who thronged thousands strong and friendly from all the regions in and about Quebec and Montreal and Ottawa and Kingston. Another mariner of St. Malo—Francis Greve—began the colonization of the land. About 1570, in France, Samuel de Champlain was born, and when he reached the age of early manhood he, too, joined in the new world exploration in the region above the great lakes. The kings of France were much interested in the new land and did all in their power not only to explore the region, but to colonize and develop it. Champlain, in 1615, made an expedition up the Ottawa river and penetrated as far as into Georgian bay, thus touching on the waters of Lake Huron. In 1618 Etienne Brule, an old interpreter, came into Champlain's camp with the news of the discovery of Lake Superior. Lake Erie, with Ontario, was probably discovered some time earlier than this. Nicollet, in 1684, started in a canoe from the head of Georgian bay, skirted the eastern and northern shores of Huron and at last found himself at Sault Ste. Marle, or the falls of St. Mary, now shortened to "Soo"—the first white man, it is believed, to reach this key to the noble lake beyond. He went as far as Green bay, on Lake Michigan, and so the various lakes at last came into the actual knowledge of the explorers and were no longer myths. But as these French explorers continued to develop new and hitherto undreamed of possibilities of empire the English began to take deep interest in the region—an interest little less marked than that they were then taking in their schemes of colonization in Virginia and Massachusetts. Again and again through the years that follow the threads cross and recross, not weaving a beautiful garment of harmony, but tangling in a wretched snarl, a patchwork of disputes between the nations. Entanglement followed entanglement, wars harassed the land, until at last the English were masters of the northern lake region for all time—unless some day we shall see the stars and stripes floating from the heights of 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 foot-hills, and 148¼ 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. The Two Archers. Love and Death are both depicted as archers. When Love sets his arrow in a woman's heart and she turns and follows, seeking healing of her hurt, could there be aught sadder then that she should be led by very Love into the ambush where Death arrows in string, waits to plant his deadly shaft in her breast? Yet so it is. Time and again Love proves to be Death's decoy. And often when the grim archer fails to inflict mortal hurt, he leaves the suffering woman to creep through life like a broken-winged bird. Why does love lead to suffering? Many a woman has asked that question piteously and passionately. She has forsaken father and mother to cleave unto her husband in the belief that so she was achieving woman's highest happiness. But instead of happiness she has found misery, struggled with it until struggle seemed useless, and at last has come to accept her misery as the "cross" laid upon women who love and marry. There is no real reason why almost every wife and mother should not enjoy sound health. The causes of her misery lie in diseases which affect the delicate, womanly organism. Disagreeable drains are carrying away the vital force. Inflammation has lightened its fire for slow torment. Ulceration is eating into the tender tissues. Female weakness is making life a daily martyrdom. Is it any wonder that the nerves are racked, that appetite fails, and night, which 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 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 Calif counties. The pre-eminence of Orange County is apparent: Counties. No. farms. Acres. Los Angeles 6577 865,063 Orange 2288 599,436 Riverside 2340 427,067 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, 8880; that of Riverside, 7008; 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 belauded 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. Rev. Carile P. B. Morton, LL.D. Waverly, Texas, writes: "Of a morning, when first rising, I often find a troublesome collection of phlegm, which produces a cough, and is very hard to dialodge; but a small quantity of Ballard's Horehound Syrup will at once diallege it, and the trouble is over. I know of no medicine that is equal to it and it is so pleasant to take. I can县 A London "Pawn" In London exists an institute the pawner. She is usually aged widow and flourishes in localities where everyone is let out in furnished Many of the people living giors are poverty stricken have seen better days and ter a pawnshop. The pawn or twice a week upon her when she departs her sa with sundry articles which missioned to pledge. She is mission on the sum raised, is to her interest to help pawnshop keeper. As a ruin penny for every 2 shilling The business is a paying pawner boasts a list of 20 people who employ her to pay of wearing apparel on a day and redeem it on Saturday she that her two daughters. Women of Fortune Balzac, famous as a little civil lion, was once attacked salen by a pretty little man demanded why it was the woman whom she would con- “Why, monsieur, even as old as 40 you seem to eciity.” Balzao looked at her ear second and then laughed at bent over to explain mat marked in a serious voice weighing every word he sees the secret lies in the simi the woman of 20 must be the older woman of 40 trivial and the older woman's pot not as has been so often standing and making the own charms, but in compris with happy tact calling on the most of the good quail man whose favor she seeks. A Curious Duo An apothecary having rived up his seat in a theater to the officer felt himself and sent him a challenge. cary presented himself at meeting at the appointed t A Nervous Woman Will often feel compelled to stop the clock whose ticking seems unbearable to her. In such a nervous condition the woman needs a building up of the entire system. It is useless to attempt the cure of the nerves while the cause of the nervousness remains uncured. A very common cause of nervousness in women is a diseased condition of the delicate womanly organism. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures womanly diseases and the nervousness which they cause. It changes irregularity to regularity, dries the drains which weaken women, deals inflammation and ulceration and causes female weakness. It is a perfect medicine, tranquilizing the nerves, promoting the appetite and inducing rehearing sleep. "When I first wrote you I had been to three different doctors and two of them said I never get better without going to the hospital or an operation," writes Mrs. Selina Brickson, 496 Rice Street, St. Paul, Minn. "Was not able to do anything. If I would get up and walk in the kitchen and back I would have to lie in bed for a day or sometimes two days. Now I have used six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and the result is just wonderful. I was so nervous I had to have some by my side all the time even in daytime, and I could hardly at anything. I took treatment from a doctor twice a week, and every time I would go there I weighed six pounds, but since I quit all the doctors and began taking your medicines I gained right now. I weighed 129 pounds, when I began taking your medicines (in August) and now am up to my usual weight 165. I am as well and feel as good as ever." FREE. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paper-bound book, or for cloth binding send 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paper-bound book, or for cloth binding send 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. The CLEANSING AND HEALING CURE FOR CATARRH is Ely's Cream Balm Easy and pleasant to use. Contains no injurious drug. It is quickly absorbed, Gives Relief at once. It Opens and Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allays Inflammation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 60 cents at Druggers or by mail: Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York. 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 80c. There is only one Pain-Killer. Perry Davis.' Semi-Annual Pre-Inventory Sale $100,000.00 WORTH OF MERCHANDISE At a Fraction of Its Real Worth Commencing Friday morning December 26th, we begin our semi-annual pre-inventory sale. We will offer to the public of Southern California more than $100,000.00 worth of clean, seasonable, desirable merchandise at a fraction of its real value. We take account of stock Wednesday night December 31st, and in the five business days between Christmas and the last day of December we expect to crowd at least fifteen day's business. Our enormous holiday trade taxed the capacity of this store to it's utmost, to accommodate the enormous quantities of Christmas goods which we had to display, we were forced to set aside nearly all our staple lines and give holiday goods the precedence. Now the various lines that were set aside will be brought to the front and forced out. This is one of the most gigantic merchandise movements ever swung in Los Angeles. It's a sale which is far reaching and broad in its scope, every department is affected, and almost every article in each department is at a reduced price. It's a time when it will be decidedly to your advantage to lay in a year's supply of wearables and necessities for the household. Watch Los Angeles Dailies FOR PRICES. Watch Los Angeles Dailies FOR PRICES. It would take the entire Sunday edition of either of the Los Angeles morning papers to publish every item that is affected by this pre-inventory sale. We will publish from day to day lists of the numerous bargains that are offered, but without price quotations you can come to this busy store any day during this sale and save more than your railroad fare by purchasing a moderate sized bill, and if you wish to purchase any great quantity of goods you can save enough to credit yourself with a big day's pay for your trip. Special inducements will be offered to people living at a distance. All the particulars will be published in the Los Angeles daily paper. A London "Pawner." In London exists an institution called the pawner. She is usually a middle-aged widow and flourishes in those dismal localities where every other house is let out in furnished apartments. Many of the people living in these regions are poverty stricken women who have seen better days and dread to enter a pawnshop. The pawner calls once or twice a week upon her clients, and when she departs her satchel bulges with sundry articles which she is commissioned to pledge. She is paid a commission on the sum raised, and hence it is to her interest to hang with the pawnshop keeper. As a rule, she gets 1 penny for every 2 shillings obtained. The business is a paying one. One pawner boasts a list of 200 customers, people who employ her to pawn articles of wearing apparel on a certain day and redeem it on Saturday. So busy is she that her two daughters assist her. Women of Forty. Balzac, famous as a literary and social lion, was once attacked in a Paris salon by a pretty little miss of 17, who demanded why it was that he liked women whom she would consider passe. "Why, monsieur, even when they are as old as 40 you seem to enjoy their society!" Balzac looked at her earnestly for a second and then laughed heartily. He bent over to explain matters and remarked in a serious voice, as though weighing every word he said, "Perhaps the secret lies in the simple fact that the woman of 20 must be pleased, while the older woman of 40 tries to please, and the older woman's power consists, not as has been so often said in understanding and making the most of her own charms, but in comprehending and with happy tact calling out and making the most of the good qualities of the man whose favor she seeks." A Curious Duel. An apothecary having refused to give up his seat in a theater to an officer's lady, the officer felt himself insulted and sent him a challenge. The apothecary presented himself at the place of meeting at the appointed time. He said, 1902 Improvements. THE SANDERS-ARNOTT DISC PLOW. The solid cast frame now being used on the Sanders-Arnott Disc Plow is the most valuable feature added to the Disc Plow since they were placed on sale. See them before buying. No more sprung beams out of line or bolts sheared off. We have a new pattern four gang plow for the largest ranches. Any disc plow without the solid cast frame is old style. Do not be misled into buying one. Made in one, two, three and four gauge patterns. The most successful disc plow in the ma rket. Draft reduced 30 per cent. Send for circulars. We have a liberal proposition to offer any rancher who wishes to investigate the merits of this plow. Write for it ARNOTT & COMPANY Vagons, Carriages and Farm Machinery. 120, 122, 124 Los Angeles Street Los Angeles, Cal. ...TAKE THE NEW... SOUTHERN PACIFIC Golden State Limited via El Paso and ..Rock Island Short Line.. For KANSAS CITY and CHICAGO. Leaves Los Angeles every day at 2:30 p.m. Reaches Chicago at 10:30 a.m. LESS THAN 3 DAYS Ask any Southern Pacific Agent, or write G. A. PARKYNS, Asst. Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent 251 South Spring Street LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA A Curious Duel. An apothecary having refused to give up his seat in a theater to an officer's lady, the officer felt himself insulted and sent him a challenge. The apothecary presented himself at the place of meeting at the appointed time. He said, however, that he was not accustomed to the use of firearms, but he would propose another way of settling the dispute. He then drew from his pocket a pill box, took from it two pills, and thus addressed his antagonist: "As a man of honor, you would surely wish to fight me only on equal terms. Here are two pills, one composed of the most deadly poison and the other perfectly harmless. We are on equal ground if we each swallow one. You shall take your choice, and I promise faithfully to take the one you leave." The officer laughed heartily at the strange proposal, and, shaking hands, they parted good friends. The Effect of Drink. Senator Vest has a favorite story which he has told on the occasion of many a political speech, but, so far as known, never on the floor of the United States senate. "A temperance lecturer was struggling against odds in Kentucky," says the senator. "He was talking to a not very large audience that had been drawn to the hall by curiosity. 'The effect of alcohol is to shorten life,' said the lecturer. "An old man at the rear of the hall rose at that juncture and said, 'You're a liar.'" "'Why?' inquired the advocate of Adam's ale. "'Because, sir, I've been drinking for 75 years, and I'm 90 and am likely to live to be 100. I am strong enough to lick you if you'll step outside.'" 'Oh, no doubt, sir! You're an exception, sir. If you keep on drinking'—The lecturer paused. 'What?' asked the impatient old torer. 'If you keep on drinking, you'll have to be shot on judgment day.'——St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mrs. Fred Unrath. President Country Club, Benton Harbor, Mich. "After my first baby was born I did not seem to regain my strength although the doctor gave me a tonic which he considered very superior, but instead of getting better I grew weaker every day. My husband insisted that I take Wine of Cardui for a week and see what it would do for me. I did take the medicine and was very grateful to find my strength and health slowly returning. In two weeks I was out of bed and in a month I was able to take up my usual duties. I am very enthusiastic in its praise." Wine of Cardui reinforces the organs of generation for the ordeal of pregnancy and childbirth. It prevents miscarriage. No woman who takes Wine of Cardui need fear the coming of her child. If Mrs. Unrath had taken Wine of Cardui before her baby came she would not have been weakened as she was. Her rapid recovery should commend this great remedy to every expectant mother. Wine of Cardui regulates the menstrual flow. 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., A.shelm LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT.