anaheim-gazette 1904-07-28

MADNESS OF THE DESERT. Effect of the Monotony of Silence Upon Human Beings "The silence of the desert has a madening effect upon the human brain," said a traveler whose experiences are not often paralleled. "Monotony is more severe than anything else deriving its entire pain from mental effect. The monotony of silence is worse than any other kind. "Take a man away from the hum of the work of men and send him out on the alkali deserts, and the deep silence becomes awful and is sometimes unbearable. All at once, without any previous symptom, some member of the party may stop suddenly, with a dazed look on his face, and a wild expression in his eye. He is dangerous. His reason is torn in wild confusion. Anything or anybody familiar infuriates him. "He must be disarmed and bound at once or he will deal death to the whole party. He is possessed of 'desert madness,' brought on by the monotony of silence. He suffers exorcising mental anguish. He needs to be relieved by being brought back to his accustomed surroundings. "On this account men used to the desert refuse to go out with those whom they are well acquainted. The mad man is not likely to attack a stranger. If there is no friend in the party his madness is likely to assert itself in running rather than in fighting. It is a fearful disease not yet understood."—Birmingham News. FEMININE LANGUAGE. An English Criticism of the Use of Words by Women. You may talk to a woman for an hour or more and understand every word she says. Meat, bread, money, motor cars, drains, the ace of trumps—there is really no space at my disposal to give a list of the words that are common to both languages. In fact, most of the solid, concrete things of life may be left out of the question. It is when we pass beyond the concrete that the real misunderstanding arises. Take a couple of very common words used equally by both sexes. A man will say that So-and-so is a "nice" girl. I should know what he meant. A woman will reply that the girl is pretty, agreeable and all that sort of thing, but that she is "not quite nice." The two are using the same word to express different ideas, and they will never agree as to whether that girl is nice or otherwise until they can talk the same language. Again in the feminine dictionary the opposite of "nice" is "horrid." A man will talk of a "nice scoundrel" and a "horrid bore," and I can understand it. (Continued from 1st Page) suggests an interesting period in California's history. The qualit and unusual architecture induces comment, and more and more the old mission building is becoming one of the sights of the fair. It is crowded with visitors from morning till night, who find within its portals a cordial greeting, a taste of California's hospitality, and facilities for obtaining such information about the State as their interest may demand. The building is a veritable Mecca for Californians, who, after doing the fair, assemble there to rest and refresh and to meet and greet others from home. Poker. Germans claim that poker is an old German game which for more than 100 years has been played and is still being played in some districts of Westphalia. Emigrants took it to the United States, where its name of scharwenzel was changed into poker. SAILORS AND DRINK. Odd Devices For Obtaining Intoxicants on Board Ship. Sailors have more originality, more resourcefulness and more ingenuity in securing things to get drunk with than any other class of human beings. They are never at a loss to find some substitute for whisky and brandy when such conventional intoxicants are not to be had. The shellac carried upon men-of-war for varnishing purposes is such a common beverage among thirsty jack tars that it has to be kept under lock and key and used under guard. Jalap is put in the alcohol of liquid compasses to keep the thirsty from draining them. Cologne is quite a treat in a pinch, and the story is told of a surgeon on one of our old warships who, being a good deal of a naturalist, was at a loss to account for the decay of some snakes, lizards and other specimens he had preserved in jars of alcohol until investigation showed that water had been substituted for the liquid in the jars and the alcohol consumed by some stealthy sailors. I recall the case of a vessel where the ship's cook reported the steady depletion of his stock of yeast, and the master-at-arms as steadily reported cases of mysterious intoxication in the crew, the ship being far from land at the time. Again investigation was resorted to, resulting in the discovery that the jackies had been pliering the yeast, which they subjected to a treatment yielding them a satisfactory intoxicating liquor.—San Francisco Town Talk. AN INDIAN LEGEND. FALL OF A GRIZZLY BEETLE. Without Warning a Tractable Bite Kills His Trainer. A distinct type of a zoo rogue beast that goes wrong owing to dental temptation, like Shaggy, and ceedingly intelligent, tractable Mountain grizzly who reverted to agery and turned man killer in a kiling owing to the fortunate mans and fall of his trainer. Shaggy was a big, handsome, old fellow, with a jungle thicken and a lumbering, awkward gait; funny twinkle that made him particularly adaptable for his part of close a remarkably trained group of four bears. He had come under the roof of his teacher when but a helpless had never lost his liking for carriage, and although the mightiest bear the collection, was least suspect being dangerous. Once when a shyena hung to the ankle of his sister he had run to the rescue, had cut right and left with his ponderous paws and had bitten and torn and gled the ugly beast to death before could be beaten off. Among his plishments were that of turning rably grotesque somersaults and more difficult feat of balancing self on his hind legs on a three wooden sphere. Not a scratch or a scar had his ear to show for the years of work had put in with the bear, and without an instant's warning, same beast attacked and injured master so that when rescued he semidemented and so dreadfull and lacerated that the surgeons ed it useless to try to save his McClure's Magazine. snubbed Again. "Have a care, madam," said Meeker, summoning up a little sigh: "The worm will turn!" "Did you ever know the world hurt anybody when it turned?" asked his wife.—Chicago Tribune. THE USE OF CHARMS Peculiar Amulet Which Is Concerned Among the Koreans. The people of all nations are stitious, and a belief in charms amulets prevails among people in every rank and grade, educated or rant, refined or vicious. When a declares, "I have no superstitition, tinue the subject, and in a few utes he will state," While I am superstitious, yet I must say I am did believe," etc., demonstrating he is about as superstitious as average of mankind. Charms are uulets are made of almost everywhere from a repulsive collection of human bones, frogs, When we pass beyond the concrete that the real misunderstanding arises. Take a couple of very common words used equally by both sexes. A man will say that So-and-so is a "nice" girl. I should know what he meant. A woman will reply that the girl is pretty, agreeable and all that sort of thing, but that she is "not quite nice." The two are using the same word to express different ideas, and they will never agree as to whether that girl is nice or otherwise until they can talk the same language. Again in the feminine dictionary the opposite of "nice" is "horrid." A man will talk of a "nice scoundrel" and a "horrid bore," and I can understand him. But when a woman tells me that a man is wealthy and clever and good looking—but I'm sure he's horrid—she has dropped into her foreign language. I can only be sure that she does not mean what I mean when I speak of a "horrid girl."—London Outlook. The Name Tibet. Many forms of the name Tibet sprang from the Chinese Tubar (fifth century) through the variations of Tuebet, Toboet, Thibet (1165), Tebet (1298), to Tibet (1730). The origin of the name has been variously accounted for, but the weight of historical evidence indicates that the word is derived from Tubat, a famous family name proper to several ancient Tartar dynasties, extensively used in the sense of "chief." Hodgson asserts that before the arrival of Indian teachers the people had no name for themselves or their land, and though the present name is not; as some say, unknown in the country itself, the modern Tibetans call themselves Bod-pa and their land Bod-yul. Bod being a Buddhist appellative suggested by the Sanskrit b'ot, or bat, so working back to the Tartar name—London Spectator. Irish Nomenclature. Irish names have often a knack of being frankly pugnacious, so that even a peaceful lord chief justice has had to bear the inciting to murder sobriquet of Killowen. But the mountains from Lismore to Clogheen, known as the Knockmealdown range, are capable of an entirely pacific interpretation, for we commonly say we are knocked down all in a heap by this or that which takes us by surprise, and these mountains surprise all by their beauty. There is no lovelier sight in Ireland, and if an air of melancholy prevails it is because the scene is "somehow sad by excess of serenity," to use a phrase of Henry James it would be difficult to better.—London Chronicle. Eskimos' Appetites. The Eskimos have enormous appetites. An arctic explorer relates that he saw a boy eat ten pounds of solid food and drink a gallon and a half of liquid with much gusto. This same explorer observed an adult eat ten pounds of meat and two candles at a meal. Sir P. Phillips tells how a lad of seventeen years ate twenty-four pounds of beef in twenty-four hours. Analogies. "I understand your friend Jenkins has resigned that city clerkship he held." "Resigned? H'm!" "Oh, wasn't it voluntary?" AN INDIAN LEGEND. The Diegueno Myth Concerning the Creation of the Earth. The Diegueno (mission Indian) has no surmise concerning the creation of the earth. To him it is a primeval fact. Earth and sky existed in the be ginning of things, but not as now, illumined by sun, moon and stars, informed with purpose and active with life. In the beginning all was shapeless, dark, inert, a chaos full of untried potencies. The sky power, brooding mystery, rested upon the receptive earth. Out of chaos came a voice, a song, ending in a long drawn sigh, signifying accomplishment, rest at the end of achievement; again, voice, song and sigh, and with each act of the first cause, an effect. The earth mother, Sin-yo-hauch, the mysterious name, brought forth to the sky power a god, Tu-chai-pa, the best, the firstborn, and then Yo-ko-mat-is, the lesser, the brother. Then did Tu-chai-pa, with the assistance of his brother, create man to inhabit the earth, and the sun, moon and stars to give light, first of all uprearing from its primal prostrate state the sky to be the arch of the heavens as we see it now above our heads. The spirituality of this conception of creation, together with certain points of resemblance to the Hebrew story of Genesis, dignifies the Diegueno account and places it in a class by itself among Indian myths.—Southern Workmen. Weights Started on the Farm. By an English law enacted in 1266 it was provided that a silver penny, called a sterling, should equal in weight thirty-two wheat grains, well dried and taken from the center of the ear. From this it seems evident that the grain of wheat was the prototype of the standard grain. The weight now known as the grain is of course copied from governmental standards. In 1826 certain weights and measures were legalized in England, and in 1827 copies of these were furnished our government, among them being the troy pound, equivalent to 5,760 grains. The origin of the signs commonly used for the scruple, dram and ounce does not seem to be known. It is not unlikely that they are entirely arbitrary.—St. Louis Republic. Reading the Lines at the Wrist. The rascette, or magic bracelet, is according to authorities on palmistry, to be found at the base of the hand and forms the line or lines which mark the junction of hand and wrist. One such line, if unbroken, deep and strongly marked, is supposed to foretell a happy life and to indicate calmness of disposition. If the line is summed by some stealthy sailors. I recall the case of a vessel where the ship's cook reported the steady depletion of his stock of yeast, and the master-at-arms as steadily reported cases of mysterious intoxication in the crew, the ship being far from land at the time. Again investigation was resorted to, resulting in the discovery that the jackies had been pilfering the yeast, which they subjected to a treatment yielding them a satisfactory intoxicating liquor.—San Francisco Town Talk. AN INDIAN LEGEND. The Diegueno Myth Concerning the Creation of the Earth. The Diegueno (mission Indian) has no surmise concerning the creation of the earth. To him it is a primeval fact. Earth and sky existed in the be ginning of things, but not as now, illumined by sun, moon and stars, informed with purpose and active with life. In the beginning all was shapeless, dark, inert, a chaos full of untried potencies. The sky power, brooding mystery, rested upon the receptive earth. Out of chaos came a voice, a song, ending in a long drawn sigh, signifying accomplishment, rest at the end of achievement; again, voice, song and sigh, and with each act of the first cause, an effect. The earth mother, Sin-yo-hauch, the mysterious name, brought forth to the sky power a god, Tu-chai-pa,the best,the firstborn,and then Yo-ko-mat-is,the lesser,the brother. Then did Tu-chai-pa,以the assistance of his brother，create man to inhabit the earth,andthe sun,moonandstarstogivelightfirstofalluprearingfromitsprimalprostratestatetheskytobearchoftheheavensasweeseitnowaboveourheads. The spirituality of this conception of creation,togetherwithcertainpointsofresemblancetotheHebrewstoryofGenesis,dignifiestheDieguenoaccountandplacesitinaclassbyitselfamongIndianmyths.-SouthernWorkmen. Weights Started on the Farm. By an English law enacted in 1266 it was provided that a silver penny，called a sterling，should equal in weight thirty-two wheat grains，well dried and taken from the center of the ear.Fromthisitseemssidenthatthegrainofwheatwastheprototypeofthestandardgrain.Theweightnowknownasthegrainisoffoursecopiedfromgovernmentalstandards. In 1826 certain weights和measures were legalized inEngland,andin1827copiesofthesewerefurnishedourgovernment,mamengethenthembeingthetroypound,equivalentto5760grains. The origin of the signs commonly used forthescruple,dramandouncedoesnotseemttobeknown.itisunlikelythattheyareentirelyarbitrary.-St.LouisRepublic. ReadingtheLinesattheWrist. Therascette,或magicbracelet,是accordingtoauthoritiesonpalmistry,要befoundatthebaseofthehandandforms线orlineswhichmarkthejunctionofhandandwrist。一条suchline,如果不 broken,深和 stronglymarked,是 supposedtoforetellahappylifeandtoindicatecalmnessofdisposition。Ifthelineissummedbysomestealthy sailors.Irecallthecaseofa vesselwheretheship'scookreportedthesteadydepliationofhisstockofyeast,andthemaster-at-armsassteadilyreportedcasesofmysteriousintoxicationinthecrew,theshipbeingfarfromlandatthetime.Angleinfusedto,结果在 Discovery那thejackieshadbeenpilferingtheyeast,而theysubjectedtoatraimentyieldingtheaatisfactoryintoxicationliquor.-SanFranciscoTownTalk. PeculiarAmuletWhichIsCorrect AmongtheKoreans. Thepeopleofallnationsarestilltous,anda beliefincharmsannuletsprevailamongpeopleeryrankandgrade.educatedoncantrantrefinedvictuous。当declare，"Ihavenosuperstitious,tinuethesubject,andinafewuteshewillstate,"WhileIansuperstitious,yetImustsayIaidbelieve,"etc.,demonstratingheisaboutasuperstitiousaverageofmankind.Charmsanuletsaremadeofalmosteveryfromaprepulsivecollectionofh fingers,humanbones,frogs,snakes,piecesofglass,石ene driedblood,bottlesofwater,elegantandarticcombinationgoldandpreciousstones.Fort centuriesscrapsofpaperwithcitationsfromtheBible,从theandfromtheVedas或combinationlettersorfigurescontaining特isticsignificancehaveusedattheworld. Theabracadabraoftheancientslettingsbeingrepeatedandplaceformoftriangle.wasingetuse.Writtenonansheetoffoldedupandwornontherpermanentwassupposedtokeepofffeverbringgood lucktothewearer.Koreanshaveamostpeculiarforthiskindofcharm,,consistingfigures'1to9inclusiveplacedformofaquare.thus: Thesumofthefiguresineachticalhorizontalordiagonalrowrowsinall.isfifteenItissupoebeveryefficaciousinpromhealth,happiness和prospiritwardingoff evil influences.Oninthemorningthefiguresaretenonapieceofpaper,rolleduppelletandthrownawayorrolledpieceofbreadandfedtothewhichisheldtobemostefficientway. AhighlyeducatedKoreanman said that this formofchausedamongallclassesofpeople native land.Speakingofit,hereMyfather,n educatedwelledingentleman laughteratallsuitionsyethewouldeverymwritedownthefiguresintherpricedformonapieceofpaper,rolledpellet,coveritwithbreadandittothegoldfish.He saidthathe didnotbelieveinsuchnowitalwaysmadehimfeelbetweenWashingtonPost. GettingaGoodStart. "MissSophie,"beloved benefactorofhalfthepoorNewOrleans,hers deskwritingwhenan elderlymanwhohadmademanypreviousmandsuponherwasushered.in."Oh,MissSophie,"she saidlessly,"Iwanted toborrowaplease,rightaway." "WhatdoyouneedmoneyErmagarde?" "Well.now,youseeI'mgoingmarried,andIneeditforthelife."Butifthemanyouaretocannotpayforthelicensehowgoingtosupportyou?" The Eskimos have enormous appetites. An arctic explorer relates that he saw a boy eat ten pounds of solid food and drink a gallon and a half of liquid with much gusto. This same explorer observed an adult eat ten pounds of meat and two candies at a meal. Sir P. Phillips tells how a lad of seventeen years ate twenty-four pounds of beef in twenty-four hours. Analogies. "I understand your friend Jenkins has resigned that city clerkship he held." "Resigned? H'm!" "Oh, wasn't it voluntary?" "Well, it was just as voluntary as his contributions to the campaign fund were."—Philadelphia Press. An Evasion. "But," said the absolutely bald old party, "can I be assured that this horse is quite gentle?" "My dear sir," replied the horse "gyp" earnestly, "he wouldn't hurt a hair of your head."—Catholic Standard and Times. Woeful Lack of Confidence. A prominent actor tells about a Chicago theatrical woman about to wed who was one day amusing herself by going over the marriage service. To a friend who discovered her, prayer book in hand, she said: "I always make it a point to do this, for no matter how well you may have known a part in the past it should always be rehearsed before the piece is received." Then, rather playfully, she read the words, "Till death do us part" Whereupon her friend interrupted: "How foolish that is, isn't it, dear? Sounds like one hasn't any confidence in the courts!" The Doctor Had Nothing to Say. A certain physician told some of his patients that as long as they kept their feet dry they would be safe from the attack of the grip. He was surprised to receive a letter from one of his patients in which the latter said that he had two wooden legs and yet he had the grip for five consecutive years. The letter was unanswered!—Albany Journal. Reading the Lines at the Wrist. The rascette, or magic bracelet, is according to authorities on palmistry, to be found at the base of the hand and forms the line or lines which mark the junction of hand and wrist. One such line, if unbroken, deep and strongly marked, is supposed to foretell a happy life and to indicate calmness of disposition. If the line is chained—that is, crossed and recrossed by numerous small lines—the indication is of a life of labor. Two such lines indicate happiness and long life, while three form the magic bracelet, adding great riches to the other blessings. The addition of the third line to the other two is rare. Why the Apple Is Healthful. The acids of the apple are of signal use for men of sedentary habits whose lives are sluggish in action, those acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters which, if retained, would make the brain heavy and dull or bring about jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such experience must have led to our custom of taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose and like dishes. Not Pretty Then. "Hateful thing, she is!" exclaimed Miss Pretty angrily. "I'm glad I'm not as mean as she is. I'm as much above her as"— "Tut, tut!" interrupted her fiance. "Remember that rosebud mouth of yours ceases to be rosebud when it begins to blow."—Philadelphia Press. Papers of One Kind. Gladness—It is said that paper can be used effectively in keeping a person warm. Gladness—That is very true. I remember a thirty-day promissory note of mine once kept me in a perspiration for a month. Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.—Shakespeare. Getting a Good Start. "Miss Sophie," beloved benefactor of half the poor of New Orleans, her desk writing when an elderly man who had made many previous mands upon her was ushered in. "Oh, Miss Sophie," she said lessly, "I want to borrow a book please, right away." What do you need the money Ermagarde? Well now, you see, I'm going married, and I need it for the lodge. But if the man you are to cannot pay for the license howeve going to support you? That's just what I want to eat to you, Miss Sophie. You see, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and we are coming your free dinner. Then you give us something to take home, and the evening the King's Daughter going to have a basket distributed and we shall each get one. That keep us a week easily, and by time we'll be on our feet." Chaucer's Face In a Stone In the geological branch of the Irish museum the visitor is shown wonderful specimen of natural history in a small "ribbon jasper." stone, the material of which is made like that of other banded agate upon its surface a perfect miniature portrait of the poet Chaucer. detail is startlingly correct. The white face, the pouting lips broad, low forehead and even whites of the slightly upturned face. The attendants say that it is impossible to convince even so educated visitors that it is not artificial production. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Contains Mercury As mercury will surely destroy the seasm smell and completely derange the whiteness. Such articles should never except on prescriptions from reputable sclients, as the damage they will do to the good you can possibly from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, matured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ontario no mercury, and is taken interacting directly upon the blood and surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Cure be sure you get the genuine oil taken internally and made in Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimony free. Sold by druggists, Price 75c per bottle Hall's Family Pills are the best. BIRTH OF A FLOWER. The Pretty Legend That Tells the Origin of the Narcissus. Years and years ago and ever so many years before there lived far away in a lovely country a youth who was the most beautiful man in the world. His name was Narcissus, and he had a sister as beautiful as himself, whom he loved very dearly. Narcissus often used to go hunting in the woods with his sister. Each of them knew that the other one was very beautiful, but they did not know the same about themselves. You see, they had no looking glasses in those days at least—only the mermaids had them, and they never lent them to any one else. One day the girl died, and poor Narcissus was very unhappy, and after that he had to go hunting by himself. Once when he was thirsty he came to a stream and was just bending down to drink when he saw his own face in the water. He had never seen it before and thought it was the face of his dear sister. So he tried to catch hold of her, but could not. When he had tried for a long time he was so disappointed that he killed himself. Then the fairies came in the night to bury him, but they only found a pretty white flower, which is still called narcissus.—London News. WORMS AS CANNIBALS. One Member of the Baby Brood Eats Up All the Rest. The adult earthworm is one of the most peaceable and respectable creatures in existence, feeding chiefly on earth, though not disdaining little bits of vegetable or animal matter. The latter might possibly include pieces of defunct friends or relatives, but there would be no malice in the matter. Yet this same creature is invariably a cannibal of the worst type when it begins life. The parent worm lays quite a number of eggs in a little horny cocoon, which also contains a nutritious fluid for their benefit. On this they feed when hatching takes place. One member of the brood, when this supply is used up, turns its attention to the remainder and devours them all. This unscrupulous and voracious young worm then comes out of the cocoon and for the rest of its existence tries by a blameless life to atone for its juvenile atrocity. In some creatures of the jellyfish kind the very egg itself is addicted to this revolting practice. It is an irregular particle of living slime, by which its weaker sisters are engulfed and digested. A CHANGE OF AIR. ARTIST AND ARTISAN. FACTS ABOUT ANAHEIM Sketch of the industries and Resources Most Beautiful Part of California The City of Anaheim, withulation of 2500, is situated northern part of Orange county Southern California, 12 miles from the ocean, 4½ miles from the hills, and 148½ feet above sea level. It is 27 miles from Los Angeles second largest city in the California. The climatic conditions are most favorable for outdoor recreation be found in Southern California. The temperature is extremely form, seldom rising above greees in summer, or falling degrees in winter. The abode of sunlight and the absence frosts and cold winds make place especially acceptable desiring to escape the severe weather of the east. The country is very attractive is practically level, with just client slope from the hills to adequate drainage. The river level, well graded, and well affording excellent opportunities cycling and driving. The rich sandy loam which never making it a very easy gravel work; thus lending itself to the cultivation of berries,anges, etc. The variety of products, possibility of procuring small land at low figures, and terms, make our section county very attractive and geous for truck raising, or ing on a small scale. The few are a few of the products: lemons, walnuts, grapes, apricots, sugar beets, berries vegetables of all kinds. Anaheim is the possession Building and Loan Assurance Water company, two railroads cannery and drier, large oil ostrich farm, bank, several commercial houses, two hot two newspapers. The city has its water and lighting plant... The people of all nations are super-ous, and a belief in charms and alchemy prevails among people of ever-rank and grade, educated or ignorefined or vicious. When a man meets the subject, and in a few minutes he will state, "While I am not attentive, yet I must use I always believe," etc., demonstrating that it is about as superstitious as the age of mankind. Charms and amuries are made of almost everything, with a repulsive collection of human tars, human bones, frogs, toads, lizards, pieces of glass, stone, iron, and blood, bottles of water, etc., to anticipate and artificiate combinations of natural and precious stones. For many curies scraps of paper with quotations from the Bible, from the Koran from the Vedas or combinations of tars or figures containing some mysignificance have been used all over world. One abracadabra of the ancients, the tars being repeated and placed in form of a triangle, was in general written on a sheet of paper, bed up and worn on the person, it supposed to keep off fevers and good luck to the wearer. The tars have a most peculiar form of kind of charm, consisting of the first 1 to 9 inclusive placed in the form of a square, thus: The sum of the figures in each verhorizontal or diagonal row, eight in all, is fifteen. It is supposed to be very efficacious in promoting happiness and prosperity and rolling off evil influences. On rising the morning these figures are written on a piece of paper, rolled up in a pet and thrown away or rolled in a piece of bread and fed to the fishes, then is held to be the most efficacious Highly educated Korean gentlesaid that this form of charm is among all classes of people in his land. Speaking of it, he said: "father, an educated, well informmentalman, laughed at all superstisies, yet he would every morning down the figures in the prescribform on a piece of paper, roll it in illet, cover it with bread and feed in the goldfish. He said that, while he did not believe in such nonsense, always made him feel better."—Shington Post. Getting a Good Start. Miss Sophie," beloved benefactress of the poor of New Orleans, sat at desk writing when an elderly womwho had made many previous dedups upon her was ushered in. Oh, Miss Sophie," she said breathy, "I want to borrow a dollar, use right away." What do you need the money for, maygarde?" Well, now, you see, I'm going to get fried, and I need it for the license." But if the man you are to marry not pay for the license how is he going to support you? A CHANGE OF AIR. Why It Proves Beneficial When a Person Is Alling. To maintain the balance of perfect health in a body so complex as man's, where the circulatory, respiratory, muscular and nervous systems interact so much upon one another, there is need of very frequent adjustment, especially in such a busy age as this. One great benefit of change of air is that the great law of contrast enforced upon us by all natural phenomena is allowed fuller scope for its beneficent work. The various organs of the body are very really rested by slight changes in diet, cooking, water, new surroundings, people and amusements. The same monotonous daily round of duties tries them as it tries us, and change of work is actual refreshment. If specific alliments have manifested themselves, then the seashore for a tonic and general stimulant, mountain air for its aseptic property, a sandy district for its dryness or a sea voyage to invigorate the whole system will be calculated to ward off what would otherwise spell serious illness. The First Coal In England. It was to supply the wants of smiths and lime barners that English coal began to be systematically dug about A.D. 1200. This mineral fuel suited the requirements of their crafts even better than wood. An unwonted and widespread demand for fuel for these purposes doubtless sprang up at this period in connection with the numerous feudal castles and ecclesiastical buildings which were being erected throughout the kingdom. Not only were smiths and lime burners the sole patrons of coal at this early stage, but for a long time subsequently they continued to be its principal consumers.—Contemporary Review. There Was Plenty. One day a fussy creature met the famous Father Healy of Dublin by the seashore and thus accosted him: "Father Healy, I'm undergoing a cure, and I take a tumbler of sea water three times a day. Now, I've had my full allowance today, but do you think I might have one, just one, tumbler more?" Father Healy put his head on one side and looked at the ocean, lost in thought. "Well," he said at last, with a gravely judicial air, "I don't think it would be missed." LIVER TROUBLE What It Is That Measures the Difference Between Them. "My son is going to be an artist," said a proud father. "He does not need to study a lot of scientific rubbish." Perhaps this father does not know that what he calls "scientific rubbish" measures the difference between the artisan and an artist, the difference between the common and the superb, between mediocrity and excellence. It was what this man called "scientific rubbish" which made the difference between the works of Michael Angelo and those of a hundred other artists of his day who have gone into oblivion. It was this "scientific rubbish"—studying anatomy for a dozen years—that gave immortality to the statues of Moses and David and to his paintings the "Last Judgment" and "The Story Of Creation." Many an artist of real ability has failed to produce any great work of art because of his ignorance of just such "scientific rubbish." Of what good is an artistic temperament or genius to the sculptor who does not know the origin, the insertion and the contour of the various muscles, who is not thoroughly familiar with the human anatomy? Michael Angelo thought it worth while to spend a great deal of time upon the anatomy of a house and upon abstruse mathematics.—Success. Years Didn't Count. Napoleon in the course of his Italian campaign took a Hungarian battalion prisoners. The colonel, an old man, complained bitterly of the French mode of fighting, by rapid endusory attacks on the flank; the rear lines of communication, etc., concluding by saying that he fought in the army of Maria Theresa. "You must be old," said Napoleon. "Yes, I am either sixty or seventy," was the reply. "Why, colonel," remarked the Corsoican, "you have certainly lived long enough to know how to count years a little more closely." "General," said the Hungarian, "I reckon my money, my shirts and my horses, but as for my years I know that nobody will want to steal them and that I shall never lose one of them." How Do You Approach a Difficulty? It makes great difference how you approach a difficulty. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards, but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, if you stand and besithe, if you take your eye from theirs, they are liable to spring upon you, but if you do not filch, if you look them squarely in the was adopted as the patron of the Order of the Garter. The dragon slain by St. George is simply a common allegory to express the triumph of the Christian hero over evil, which John the Evangelist beheld under the image of the dragon. Glbbon, in his "Decline and Fall," asserts that the patron saint of England was George of Cappadocia, the turbulent Arian bishop of Alexandria, but the character of this assertion has been fully disproved by Papebroch, Milner and others.—Exchange. ARTIST AND ARTISAN. What It Is That Measures the Difference Between Them. "My son is going to be an artist," said a proud father. "He does not need to study a lot of scientific rubbish." Perhaps this father does not know that what he calls "scientific rubbish" measures the difference between the artisan and an artist, the difference between the common and the superb, between mediocrity and excellence. It was what this man called "scientific rubbish" which made the difference between the works of Michael Angelo and those of a hundred other artists of his day who have gone into oblivion. It was this "scientific rubbish"—studying anatomy for a dozen years—that gave immortality to the statues of Moses and David and to his paintings the "Last Judgment" and "The Story Of Creation." But it is in the acreage of lands that Orange county has precedence over other counties of Southern California: Counties. Los Angeles. Orange. Riverside. San Bernardino. San Diego. The area of Orange county square miles; that of Los Angeles 8880; that of Riverside 7000; San Bernardino 20055; and San Diego 8400 square miles. Orange county thus fifth the area of Los Angeles its irrigated lands approach to one-half those of its near north. Riverside embraces nine area; yet it irrigates 9000 mm or a fourth more than the county on the east. San Bernardino is 25 times yet its irrigated acres exceed this jumbo county by nearly approximately ten per cent. San Diego is eleven times yet it irrigates 25,000 acres in the county on the south-centre is the former's irrigation as compared with that of — almost the irrigated area Diego and Riverside combine. Orange county possesses system of irrigation; meadow water rights; that exist in California. That is what said many a time and of figures prove it. It is the first east and most productive coilies outdoors and is settling than any other in the State... LIVER TROUBLES "I find Thedford's Black-Draught a good medicine for life or disease. Is cured my on after he had spent 100 with doctors. It is all the medicine I take."—MRS CAROLINE MARTIN, Parkersburg, W. Va. If your liver does not act regularly go to your druggist and secure a package of Thedford's Black-Draught and take a dose tonight. This family medicine frees the constipated bowels, stirs up the torpid liver and causes a healthy secretion of bile. Thedford's Black-Draught will cleanse the bowels of impurities and strengthen the kidneys. A torpid liver invites colds, biliousness, chills and fever and all manner of sickness and contagion. Weak kidneys result in Bright's disease which claims as many victims as consumption. A 25-cent package of Thedford's Black-Draught should always be kept in the house. "I used Thedford's Black-Draught for liver and kidney complaints and found nothing to exel it."—WILLIAM COFFMAN, Marblehead, Ill. THEDFORD'S BLACK-DRAUGHT It makes great difference how you approach a difficulty. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards, but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, if you stand and hesitate, if you take your eye from theirs, they are liable to spring upon you, but if you do not flinch, if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. So difficulties flee before absolute fearlessness, though they are very real and formidable to the timid and hesitating and grow larger and larger and more formidable with vacillating contemplation.—Orison Swett Marden in Success. A Legend of Lace. According to Melchior de Vogue, the legend of lace is as follows: A Venetian sailor gave his ladylove a frond of spreading seaweed to keep him in memory while at sea. But the girl found that the seaweed was rapidly drying up and disappearing. So she caught the fine branches and leaves of the plant with thread against a piece of linen and, working on, with her thoughts following her lover, invented lace. Must Have Outgrown It. She (11:30 a.m.)—Do you know anything about baseball, Mr. Borem? He—Yes, indeed! I was considered the best amateur shortstop in the country a few years ago. She—Well, I never would have thought it.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Changed Their Minds. "I understand you were going to call on Miss Pert this afternoon." "We changed our minds." "What caused you to do that?" "Why, we learned at the last moment that she was at home."—Houston Post. Everybody exclaims against ingratitude. Are there so many benefactors? —Bone it. FACTS ABOUT ANAHEIM. 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-ills, 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. $67.50 To St. Louis and Return May 11, 12, 13; June 1, 2, 15, 16, 22, 23; July 1, 2, 7, 8, 13; August 8, 9, 10, 18, 19; September 5, 6, 7, 8; October 3, 4, 5, 6. Return limit ninety days. Take the Rock Island System and you go thro' without change. Scenic or Southern Line, as preferred. Standard and tourist sleeping cars; dining cars. Trains stop at Main Entrance World's Fair. Full information on request. Call or write. P. L. MILLER, Dist. Pass. Agt. 237 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles. La Habra Valley Ten acre lots to colony tracts, with an abundance of pure water piped on land. Price $130 to $150 per acre. Easy terms. W. J. Hole, Los Angeles THE CLEANSING AND HEALING CURE FOR CATARRH CATARRH PALACE LIVERY J. Hahn, Prop. Horse Clipping A specialty Anaheim is the possessor of a Building and Loan Association, Water company, two railroads, fruit cannery and drier, large oil industry, postrich 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 on the five Southern California counties. The pre-eminence of Orange county is apparent: Counties. No. tarms. Acres. Los Angeles .6577 895,063 Orange .2288 599,436 Riverside .2340 427,067 San Bernardino .2850 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 .86,644 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. 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