anaheim-gazette 1904-09-15

The Midwinter Knight Errant By CLINTON DANGERFIELD Copyright, 1904, by J. B. Mitchell "Yez will be after findin' 'em split into kindlin' wood some day," said Nora maliciously, regarding Hammish's treasured blocks with an evil eye. The position of general slavey in a cheap tenement does not improve one's temper. "Do yez think yez can be keepin' a mess of chips to play wild when we all do be sufferin' crool' for coal?" "Don't know nuffin' 'bout coal. Don't care," retorted Hammish sturdily. Five years old and gentleman unafraid was he. Presently he bethought him to visit his special friend, the little seamstress on his own floor. Concealing the precious blocks, he trotted off to her room and, getting no answer to his knock, pushed open the door and went bodily in. Why had Maida let her fire go out? He snuffed the biting air doubtfully, wondering where she was. Then he discovered her in a drawn heap on the bed. The thin blankets were huddled over her. On top were piled her threadbare jacket and the wrapper she had been making for a firm. Hammish went to the bedside. "Is you sick, Maida?" he asked petulantly. He did not like sick people. The girl opened a pair of great white eyes and regarded him. "Not sick," she said slowly; "just cold. I'm freezin' to death. It mustn' so long I hope 'tis come at last." "Does freezin' to death mean you goin' to die?" "Yes." The blue lips scarcely shaped the word, but he caught it. It distressed him greatly by virtue of knowledge newly learned from the resourceful Nora, who had been trying to frighten the child with stories of death's grim paraphernalia. He urged her shoulder in his baby hands and tried to shake her. "Don't die!" he cried piercingly. "You said Jack was comin' home to marwy you! How can he marwy, you if you is dead? Do you fink he would apart, as though the deck heaved under him, and shouted triumphantly: "He's done come—an' you won't have to be dug up neither." A magical hour followed, for those foolish two under Hammish's eyes forgot everything but each other. He had the gray parrot and the stranger's pockets to himself, being given permission to explore them, while the fire extravagantly replenished, shot up and crackled gayly. To the strange things his investigations produced the brown haired seamstress paid no attention, for the golden dream of love was reality—the hoping, the faithful waiting, had not been in vain. And when love must put aside human despair in order to enter his own kingdom he becomes radiant with a beauty that those who have not endured much for his sake never see. Next morning Hammish ate his breakfast with great gusto, for a big basket of various fruits was in the little pantry, and he himself was allowed a huge yellow orange. Nora helped clean off the table, coming in for a share of fruit, and then remarked crossly: "Be after rememberin' to kape yer could blocks out of my way or it's burnin' em I'll be." Hammish swallowed hard. One solitary tear splashed on his pinefore. They are burnt a ready," he said with stern dignity, for he felt bitterly that this was Nora's triumph. "It's lynn' you be," retorted Nora. Here at least he could prove her wrong. He threw wide the play cupboard door entering to confront her dramatically with its drear emptiness. But, oh, miracle! From the ashes of the burned blocks had arisen such cubes and squares as he had not deemed possible. He saw from his mother's smile that they were his—all his! With a shout he sprang at them, and Maida and Jack were forgotten as swarms of soldiers manned new forts or thronged to wild attack. Breaking It Gently. Danny O'Brien worked on the section and was as tender hearted a man as ever got drunk and cracked a pate with a shillalah. At the time of Pat Dumphy's great misfortune Danny was chosen by the section gang to break the news gently to Mrs. Dumphy. "Good marnin', Mrs. Dumphy,' said he. "Did ye hear about Pat?" I heard nothing about him since LINCOLN ON CIRCUIT He presented a Quantum Appearance as he Followed the Course. Following the court about the circuit was no doubt the joy of colin's life. He was so fond of it he declined a battering offer to a lucrative law partnership in Chicago because, as he contended, it would constitute more or less confinement to the office and therefore keep lie the circuit. Seated in one horsegy, behind a sorry looking animal would set out from Springfield, gone for weeks at a stretch. The yers, as he drove into each such place, eagerly anticipating a new of stories, gave him a cordial wail and the landlords hailed his with delight, for he was one most patient and uncomplainable guests. "If every other fellow lates one of his colleagues," grunt at the indifferent accommodation scant fare which greeted us as of the dingy taverns we struck colin said nothing." His forbear in this regard well warrants servation he is said on one occasion have made—that he never so closely felt his "own unworthiness" he stood face to face with a rude hotel clerk. How he appeared on the circle be gleaned from this sketch drawn by Henry C. Whitney, his colleagues in central Illinois hat was brown, faded and the usually worn or rubbed off. He short cloak and sometimes wore riably too short. In one hand ried a faded green umbrella, Lincoln' in large white cotton lin letters sewed on the inside knob was gone from the handle piece of cord was usually tied the middle of the umbrella to from flying open. In the other he carried a carpetbag, in which stored the few papers to be court and underclothing enough till his return to Springfield."— An Antelope That Dwells In The general idea of an antique it as a swift runner, graceful bounds over stretches plains. There is an antelope Congo region, however, which ventures to the upland, but lives in water, spending practice of its time wading around "Does freezin' to death mean you goin' to die?" "Yes." The blue lips scarcely shipped the word, but he caught it. It distressed him greatly by virtue of knowledge newly learned from the resourceful Nora, who had been trying to frighten the child with stories of death's grim paraphernalia. He asked her shoulder in his baby hands and tried to shake her. "Don't die!" he cried piercingly. "You said Jack was comin' home to marry you! How can he marry you if you is dead? Do you find he would dig you up?" "Oh, Hammish," said the girl very faintly, "please go away! It will be long, so long, before he comes. I cannot live till then. And they told me there was no more work after this. When Jack comes tell him I wasn't afraid of—the grave. It must be warmer down there." Conscious that he was growing very cold himself, Hammish, hired with a sudden resolve, made for the battered coal scuttle. He would make a fire himself. For if Jack came, home and had to dig Malda up might not hold him (Hammish) responsible? How often Malda had told him proudly of her big, warm hearted sailor who was coming across the great seas. "And I was in no such place as this when he knew me and counted me," she would say more proudly still. "Mammy and I had a little house of our own." Then with a droop of her tired lids: "But when she died after being sick so long it was hard, so hard, to make bread. You don't know how hard, little Hammish, but it will be your turn some day." "Don't hurt," Hammish was wont to reiterate scornfully. "Will take my turn all right. Shall be a man." But now he felt vaguely that a man's responsibility rested on him long ere he had looked for it, for the battered scuttle was utterly empty. There was nothing in the pitifully bare room out of which the tiniest fire could be made. In his search he lifted the faded curtain which covered the box termed a pantry. Not a fragment of food was within. It dawned on Hammish that if there was no food as well as no coal Malda might be hungry. Again he attacked her imperatively. "Has you eat you dinner?" "Go away, Hammish," repeated the girl. "How could I eat? There—was nothing." Now, indeed, the puzzled knight erant faced a complex situation. His mother, the deus ex machina who always remedied all wrongs, would not return until sunset. How long did it take people to die? Would Malda really die before his mother's return just because she was cold? Of whom could he take counsel? He knew no one but his enemy, Nora. He waylaid her in the corridor. "Oh, wait!" he cried. "Please wait! How long does it take people to freeze?" "No time at all," said Nora scornfully, "ye little fool, ye!" "And then"— "Then they dig a cellar of a hole an slap 'em into it!" She whisked on down the corridor, With a shout he sprang at them, and Malda and Jack were forgotten as swarms of soldiers manned new forts or thronged to wild attack. Breaking It Gently. Danny O'Brien worked on the section and was as tender hearted a man as ever got drunk and cracked a pate with a shillalah. At the time of Pat Dumphy's great misfortune Danny was chosen by the section gang to break the news gently to Mrs. Dumphy. "Good marnin', Mrs. Dumphy," said he, "Did ye hear about Pat?" "I heard nothing about him since breakfast," she answered. "Did he seem to be all right, then?" "Sure he did." "Ye noticed nothin' wrong wid his mind?" "Nothin' at all. Phwhy de ye ask?" "Well, I hear that his mind do be wanderin'a little." "An' phwhat do ye mean be that?" "I mean he have lost his reason, Mrs. Dumphy." "Lost his reason, is it? An' how did he do that?" "Well, Mrs. Dumphy," said Danny, scratching his head, "I don't know exactly. Ye see, I wasn't close by while it happened. But I do be hearin' from the rest o' the b'yss that he fell acroet the track, an' a train cut his head off."—Brooklyn Eagle. Scottish Trade In 1590. Some idea of the miscellaneous trade carried on by a Scottish merchant in 1590 may be formed when it is stated that David Wedderburne exported wheat to Spain, herring to France, powder to Renen and Bordeaux, salmon to Flanders, cloth to Norway and "woffn beddis cloth" to Sweden. In exchange for these he imported wines, "Clarit Burdeaux, Alagant, Muskedalis and quhyt wine," from France and Spain, "apels and unzeons" from Flanders, lint from Norway and Sweden, silk, velvet, vinaere, "oly doly" (olive oil) from France, "pentit brods owerglit" (pictures) from Holland, silk "grew grain," confectionery and "sucker candeee" from Flanders, "murmblade" from Spain and countless other commodities intended rather for the upper classes than for the craftsmen—Scottish Review. If You Would Live. If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes all with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms, but a song of Burns' or a hymn of Charles Yesley's goes straight to your heart, but you can't help loving both of them sinner as well as saint. The work if other men lives, but their personality dies out of their labors. The poet who reproduces himself in his creation as no other artist does or can goes down to posterity with all his personality blended with whatever is imperishable in his song—Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE WATWA OF AFRICA. A Curious Tribe, Low Down In the Scale of Humanity. A hunter of big game in Africa gives a description of a tribe of natives or thronged to wild attack. An Antelope That Dwells In The general idea of an antique item it as a swift runner, graceful bounds over stretched plains. There is an antelope Congo region, however, which ventures to the upland, but lives in water, spending peace of its time wading around swamps and feeding on swamps such as papyrus and other plants. This swamp antelope among animals what the other wading birds do amide and like these wading birds that antelope has extraordinarily thin legs, while its hoofs are fully long and spread out wide as bird's claws when they wade in the mud, thus support on the soft bottom. These swamp antelope are means small animals, but better larger forms of their species grown male is as big as the fallow deer in Virginia. Pumice Stone. Pumice stone is a porous scoria from volcanoes. The linear and so fine as often to visible except by means of ingress glass. Its specific gravity 2.4-water being the unit-bison of its spongy texture often buoyant enough to float. It consists chiefly of silica, times 17 per cent of limestone, of soda and 4 per cent of potassium grayish shades of color, yellow and brown. The clay from which it is obtained special purposes is Campo Blanco the Liparl islands, where it nearly 1,000 feet high. Pumice is largely employed a pulverized state, as a polished for ivory, wood, glass; it is also used in lump for grooming metallic surfaces etc., and in the preparationments etc. Quantities of pumice are used in many soaps. Meerschaum Pipe "A meerschaum pipe that brought $25 ten years ago bring more than $10 now," baconist. "Meerschaum pipe be fashionable and popular but they are not much so day." "It isn't strange that they should have waned schaum is an unsatisfactory best. Drop it and it is broken. Try to color it month tastes like soap." "It isn't the meerschaum these pipes that colors an mixture of beeswax and carvers rub into the block carve it. You could smoose meerschaum all your your death it would be an had been at your birth and beeswax—only that—would ways remembered all wrongs, we return until sunset. How long did it take people to die? Would Malda really die before his mother's return just because she was cold? Of whom could he take counsel? He knew no one but his enemy, Norn. He waylaid her in the corridor. "Oh, wait!" he cried. "Please wait! How long does it take people to freeze?" "No time at all," said Norn scornfully, "ye little fool, ye!" "And then"— "Then they dig a cellar of a hole an slap 'em into it!" She whisked on down the corridor, and Hammish went wearily to his own quarters and stood before the fire thinking. For he was now facing the great problem of self sacrifice which all of us meet sooner or later. Either he must burn his beloved blocks or Malda must freeze. Either he must warm his milk for her by the block fire or Malda must go hungry. If he did these two deeds, he would lose his playthings and his supper. The girl on the bed took no heed of passing time. She was in the last sleep before death, which the frost king fills with exquisite mirage. Then something troubled her. A voice was calling, calling, insistently, angrily, and with the voice floated a smell of something burning.' Then a shrill wall made her open her eyes inearnest. She sat up to discover Hammish dangling frantically around a fire of blocks in the grate, on which boiled a tin cup of milk, now running over the edge. "Dweadful smell, isn't it?" he shrieked excitedly. "Come quick! Hurry!" She stumbled out somehow—the child must be attended to—and presently found herself swallowing the hot milk Hammish manfully forced on her. It brought new life to her veins, and she understood the miracle of the fire and food. "Oh, you darling!" she wept, clasping him closely. Hammish tore himself loose. "You are cwym' all over me," she said, with masculine disapproval, thus the milk too hot in you' stummack'? As they crunched together by the fire they did not hear a knock at the door until it was twice repeated. Then it was Hammish who shouted "Come in," Hammish who faced the stranger and Hammish who yelled shrilly with pleasure as he discovered the sailor uniform and saw the little gray parrot perched, falconwise, on the sailor's wrist. The knight errant stood with feet goes straight to your heart, and you can't help loving both of them sinner as well as saint. The work of other men lives, but their personality dies out of their labors. The poet who reproduces himself in his creation as no other artist does or can goes down to posterity with all his personality blended with whatever is imperishable in his song—Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE WATWA OF AFRICA. A Curious Tribe, Low Down In the Scale of Humanity. A hunter of big game in Africa gives a description of a tribe of natives whom he found there, the Watwa. "These natives," he says, "live in the swamps, their staple article of diet being fish and flour made from the seed of the water lily, although during the rains they grow patches of cassava root and sweet potatoes at the edge of the swamp. They smear their bodies with mud to protect them from mosquitoes and are extremely dirty and evil smelling in consequence. They are very low down in the scale of humanity and have a bad reputation among tribes living on the high ground, which reputation they upheld during our visit. We engaged several Watwa natives as carriers, but they only came to see what they could steal. One day I shot a reed buck in sight of the camp and left two Watwa to carry it in while I went after a hartbeest, but I never saw either men or buck again. It was no use following them into the swamps, as they knew every inch of the ground and water. They had small canoes hidden everywhere, and immediately they crossed a stream they sunk the canoe again where they alone knew where to find it. Our boys were afraid to follow them, as they used poisoned arrows and sometimes set poisoned stakes in the tracks leading to their haunts." Velocity of Raindrops. Of course we all know that it would be an utter impossibility for storm clouds to form and rain to fall were it not for the forty odd miles of atmosphere that rises above our heads. But, supposing it were possible for human beings to exist in an atmosphere that only rose to a level with their mouths, and that storm clouds could form in the region outside such a low grade atmosphere, then every raindrop would prove as fatal to earthly creatures as if it were a steel bullet fired from a dynamite gun—London Nature. Gazette for Job Printing. LINCOLN ON CIRCUIT. Prevented a Qunjut Appearance as he Followed the Court. Following the court about on the fault was no doubt the joy of Lin's life. He was so fond of it that decided aattering offer to enter cooperative law partnership in Chicago, house, as he contended, it would not situate more or less confinement in office and therefore keep him off circuit. Seated in a one horse buggy behind a sorry looking animal, he could set out from Springfield, to be for weeks at a stretch. The law, as he drove into each successive place, eagerly anticipating a new stock stories, gave him a cordial welcome, and the landlords hailed his coming with delight, for he was one of the most patient and uncomplaining of fences. "If every other fellow," rejoiced one of his colleagues, "grumbled the indifferent accommodations and hint fare which greeted us at many the dingy taverns we struck, Lincoln said nothing." His forbearance this regard well warrants the observation he is said on one occasion to have made—that he never so complete felt his "own unworthiness as when he stood face to face with a real, live hotel clerk." How he appeared on the circuit may be gleaned from this sketch of him drawn by Henry C. Whitney, one of his colleagues in central Illinois: "His hat was brown, faded and the nap usually worn or rubbed off. He wore a short cloak and sometimes a shawl. His coat and vest hung loosely on his mant frame. His trousers were invasably too short. In one hand he carried a faded green umbrella, with 'A. Lincoln' in large white cotton or muslin letters sewed on the inside. The cob was gone from the handle, and a piece of cord was usually tied round the middle of the umbrella to keep it from flying open. In the other hand he carried a carpetbag, in which were stored the few papers to be used in court and underclothing enough to last till his return to Springfield."—Century. An Antelope That Dwells In Swamps. The general idea of an antelope picture it as a swift runner, fleeing in graceful bounds over stretching brown plains. There is an antelope in the Dongo region, however, which rarely ventures to the upland, but actually lives in water, spending practically all of its time wading around in the mud and feeding on grass growth. A JAPANESE BABY. Its Place Is Strapped to the Back of an Older Baby. The babies of all except the richest Japanese are carried about on the back of an elder sister or brother from the time they are a few months old. The poorer the parents, the sooner the baby is fastened on to the back of some elder member of the family, and it is not uncommon in the poorer quarters of a Japanese city to see a group of children six or eight years old playing in the streets, each of whom bears a tiny baby sister or brother fastened with a few straps to its back. These straps are just sufficient to prevent the baby from falling to the ground, leaving the comfort of its posture entirely to its own exertions. As a result the Japanese baby early gains a surprising control of its muscles, and it is almost impossible to drop even a tiny child from your arms, so firmly does it cling on with both arms and legs. The dressing of a Japanese baby is a simple matter. It wears nothing but miniature kimonos, the number varying with the condition of the weather. These garments are fitted one inside the other before they are put on. Then they are laid down on the floor, and baby is laid into them. They are long enough to cover the baby's feet, and the sleeves are also long enough to cover the hands. Practically there is only one garment, and the process of dressing a Japanese baby takes but two or three minutes of its mother's time.—Chicago Tribune. Queer Effects of Sunshine. Every one knows that the heat of the sun will expand iron and steel. Stevenson's tubular bridge over the Mena strait is 400 feet long. The heaviest train passing over it bends it just half an inch, yet on a July day, after the sun has been shining on it for several hours, it is found to be bent an inch and a half below its usual horizontal line. The heat of the sun acts on stone as well as metal, a fact which is proved by the Washington monument. It is 555 feet high, but it will be found to be about two inches higher in the evening than in the morning of a sunny day. A strange effect of sunshine was noted at Plymouth, where lay the foundations of a sea wall the workmen had to descend in a diving bell. These bells had stupidly been fitted with convex circular glasses at the top. The sea was very calm, and the curious Contest For a Bride In Tibet. Among some of the wilder Tibetan tribes in the Koko-nor there is a curious marriage ceremonial function. This consists in placing the girl, on her wedding morn, in the upper part of a tree, while her male relatives remain on the lower limbs, or else in the back part of her father's tent or but, while these same relatives guard the entrance, in each case the latter being armed with lolo thorn sticks. The groom, when these preparations have been completed, rides up and announces his intention of selzing the bride. This requires fortitude, for the relatives beat him unmercifully when he attempts to reach the woman. If he manages to elude his assailants and touch the toe of the woman she is, he is welcomed into the family and complimented on his ardor. Should he fall he suffers not only the inconvenience of being wifeless, but the loss of cattle and other presents given during the negotiations. By the sale of a girl to one man, however, the father does not relinquish his claims upon her, but may sell her to other suitors who come afterward, until she may have half a dozen husbands.—Booklovers' Magazine. Which Eye Is Stronger? Here is a little test for your eyes that will soon show you which of them is stronger. Place an object about two inches in diameter on a level with your eyes and move back from it about ten feet. Then point to it and take sight along the top of your pointing finger until the object and the tip of your finger are exactly in a line with the eye from which you are sighting. Next open the other eye and see if the object seems to have moved from the straight line. If it has not moved to one side apparently, the eye with which you first looked is the stronger, as the addition of the other's vision does not change the focus. If the object seems to have moved, it proves that the other eye is stronger, the difference being measured by the distance that the object appears to have moved. Try sighting with both eyes open first. Then look with first one eye and then the other and see how far out of line each makes the object appear. The one that is farthest out of line is the weaker eye.—Chicago Journal. Bumps on the Head. The lump raised by a blow on the head is due to the resistance offered by the hard skull and its close connection with convex circular glasses at the top. The sea was very calm, and the curious Contest For a Bride In Tibet. Among some of the wilder Tibetan tribes in the Koko-nor there is a curious marriage ceremonial function. This consists in placing the girl, on her wedding morn, in the upper part of a tree, while her male relatives remain on the lower limbs, or else in the back part of her father's tent or but, while these same relatives guard the entrance, in each case the latter being armed with lolo thorn sticks. The groom, when these preparations have been completed, rides up and announces his intention of selzing the bride. This requires fortitude, for the relatives beat him unmercifully when he attempts to reach the woman. If he manages to elude his assailants and touch the toe of the woman she is, he is welcomed into the family and complimented on his ardor. Should he fall he suffers not only the inconvenience of being wifeless, but the loss of cattle and other presents given during the negotiations. By the sale of a girl to one man, however, the father does not relinquish his claims upon her, but may sell her to other suitors who come afterward, until she may have half a dozen husbands.—Booklovers' Magazine. The rich sandy loam which makes it very easy work; thus lending itself to cultivation of berries anges, etc. The variety of productions possibility of procuring soil at low figures, and terms, make our section county very attractive and geogens for truck raising, ing on a small scale. There are a few of the products lemons, walnuts, grape apricots, sugar beets, vegetables of all kinds. Anaheim is the posse Building and Loan Water company; two racks cannery and drier; larger ostrich farm; bank; seven An Antelope That Dwells in Swamps. The general idea of an antelope picture it as a swift runner, fleeing in graceful bounds over stretching brown plains. There is an antelope in the Congo region, however, which rarely ventures to the upland, but actually lyes in water, spending practically all of its time wading around in the swamps and feeding on swamp growth, such as papyrus and other water plants. This swamp antelope represents among animals what the heron and other wading birds do among birds, and like these wading birds the swamp antelope has extraordinarily long and thin legs, while its hoofs are wonderfully long and spread out almost as wide as bird's claws when the animals wade in the mud, thus supporting them on the soft bottom. These swamp antelopes are by no means small animals, but belong to the larger forms of their species. A full grown male is as big as the buck of the fallow deer in Virginia. Pumice Stone. Pumice stone is a porous feldspathic scoria from volcanoes. The pores are linear and so fine as often to be barely visible except by means of a magnifying glass. Its specific gravity is 2.2 to 2.4-water being the unit—but by reason of its spongy texture pieces are often buoyant enough to float on water. It consists chiefly of silica, with sometimes 17 per cent of lumina, 6 per cent of soda and 4 per cent of potash. It is of grayish shades of color, passing into yellow and brown. The chief source from which it is obtained for commercial purposes is Campo Bianco, one of the Lipari islands, where it forms a hill nearly 1,000 feet high. In the arts pumice is largely employed, mostly in a pulverized state, as a polishing material for ivory, wood, glass, marbles, etc. It is also used in lump for grinding and smoothing metallic surfaces, leather, etc., and in the preparation of parchments, etc. Quantities of the pulverized pumice are used in making fancy soaps. Meerschaum Pipes. "A meerschaum pipe that would have brought $25 ten years ago wouldn't bring more than $10 now," said a tobacconist. "Meerschaum pipes used to be fashionable and popular in America, but they are not much sought for today." "It isn't strange that the liking for them should have waned. The meerschaum is an unsatisfactory pipe at the best. Drop it and it is irretreivably broken. Try to color it, and for a month it tastes like soap. "It isn't the meerschaum in one of these pipes that colors anyway. It is a mixture of beeswax and oil that the carvers rub into the block before they carve it. You could smoke a pipe of pure meerschaum all your life, and at your death it would be as white as it had been at your birth. It is the oil and beeswax—only that—which colors." Visiting Cards. The Chinese, who seem to have known most of our new ideas, used visiting cards 1,000 years ago, but their cards were very large and not really the prototypes of our visiting cards, as they were on soft paper and tied with ribbon. Venice seems to have been the first city in Europe to use cards. Some dating from the latter part of the sixteenth century are preserved in a museum there. The German cities followed the Venetian custom 100 years or so. Then London followed suit—actually followed suit for the first visiting cards in Great Britain were playing cards or parts of such cards bearing the name of the bestower on the back. They were first used in England about 1700. We do not know when they were first used in this country, probably not long after their first introduction into British society. Origin of Vaudeville. The word "vaudeville," which now means a play in which songs are introduced, is a corruption of Vaux de Vire, the names of two valleys in Normandy. A fuller in Vire, in the fifteenth century, composed some humorous and artificial drinking songs, which were very popular throughout France, under the name of their native place, "Vaux de Vire." The terms seem to have been corrupted into voix de ville. A collection of songs was published by Lyons in 1561 entitled "Chansons Volx de Ville," and another at Paris in 1570 called "Recuell des Plus Belles Chansons en Forme des Volx de Ville." Both these publications were probably reprints of the original songs. At any rate, the name "vaudeville" has in some way grown out of them.—Boston Globe. What Our Eyes Do Not See. Suppose that our eyes were attuned to the vibrations revealed to us by the bolometer. Instead of seeing the stars that we now see we should perceive those whose light has long been extinguished, whose existence—the methods of modern physics have enabled us to prove. The sun would appear surrounded by its corona, changing in form and position every instant, and we should no longer be obliged to wait for total ellipses to study this phenomenon. Curents of hot air would become visible like snow squalls, and the science of heat would have no more secrets. Bumps on the Head. The lump raised by a blow on the head is due to the resistance offered by the hard skull and its close connection with the movable elastic scalp by many circumscribed bands of connective tissue. The result of a blow, when the scalp is not cut, is the bruising and laceraion of many of the small blood vessels or capillaries. Blood or its fluid constituent, serum, is poured into the meshes of the surrounding connective tissue, which is delicate, spongy, disensible and cellular, and the well known bump or lump is quickly formed. This cannot push inward at all and naturally takes the line of least resistance. Similar lumps may be formed on the shin in exactly the same way; for the shin bone also is covered only by skin and subcutaneous connective tissue. The Largest Cities of Antiquity. The greatest cities of ancient times were Babylon and Rome. The former is said to have had an area of 100 to 200 square miles. Its houses were three or four stories high, but palaces and gardens occupied much of the vast area, so that the population was not what these figures would seem to indicate. In fact, it is said by one historian that nine-tenths of this area was taken up by gardens and orchards. The total population of the city under Nebuchadnezzar and his son Evil Merodach is estimated at upward of 2,000-000. Rome reached its greatest size during the fourth century of our era, and its population was then about 2,500,000. Saved by a Bullet Wound. A soldier who served under General Wolfe in the campaign resulting in the fall of Quebec was dying of an abscess in one of his lungs. "Well," said he, "as I am to die, I will die in battle." And he insisted on joining the fire line. Very soon he got a bullet through the lungs. The bullet pierced the abscess at the psychological moment, and drained it. The surgeons were able easily to cure the bullet wound, and that soldier lived for many a year afterward. His Little Joke. Said the regular customer of the restaurant as he stopped at the desk to pay his bill: "Where did you get that beef you are serving today?" "What's the matter with it?" aggressively asked the cashier, who scented another kick. "There's nothing the matter with it; that's why I asked." Nine Points of the Law. Success in law requires first, a good deal of money; second, a good deal of patience; third, a good cause; fourth, a good lawyer; fifth, a good counsel; sixth, good witnesses; seventh, a good change of the other focus; if the object seems to have moved, it proves that the other eye is the stronger; the difference being measured by the distance that the object appears to have moved. Try sighting with both eyes open first. Then look with first one eye and then the other and see how far out of line each makes the object appear. The one that is farthest out of line is the weaker eye—Chicago Journal. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego But it is in the acreage lands that Orange counts precedence over the counties of Southern California. Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; several commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; several commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms and acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANCE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms和 acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANCE. The census bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms和 acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank; seven commercial houses; two two newspapers. The cessits water and lighting pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANCE. The census Bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms和 acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures; this county very attractive and geous for truck raising; ing on a small scale. Anaheim is the positional Building and Loan Water company; two raft cannery and drier; largest ostrich farm; bank；seven commercial houses；two two newspapers. The cessits water和灯光 pumps. FACTS ABOUT ORANCE. The census Bureau bulletin on agriculture which we quote from this part is interesting features is the paragraph giving off farms和 acres of fruit in five Southern Californias. The pre-eminent county is apparent: Counties. Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Orange county thrives at low figures；this county very attractive和geousfortruckraising；ingonsmallscale。 AnaheimisthepositionalBuildingandLoanWatercompany,tworaftcanneryanddrierlargestostrichfarmbanksevencommercialhousestwothreenewspapers.Thecessitiswaterandlightpngpsumesofthecountiesthereareafewthreespecimensthatcolonnaturecountiesareapparent: "It isn't strange that the liking for them should have waned. The meerschaum is an unsatisfactory pipe at the best. Drop it and it is irretrievably broken. Try to color it, and for a month it tastes like soap. "It isn't the meerschaum in one of these pipes that colors anyway. It is a mixture of beeswax and oil that the carvers rub into the block before they carve it. You could smoke a pipe of pure meerschaum all your life, and at your death it would be as white as it had been at your birth. It is the oil and beeswax—only that—which colors." Faults In Conversation. Dean Swift once said: "There are two faults in conversation which appear very different, yet arise from the same root and are equally blamable. I mean an impatience to interrupt others and the uneasiness of being interrupted ourselves. The two chief ends of conversation are to entertain and improve those we are among or to receive those benefits ourselves, which whoever will consider cannot possibly run into either of those two errors, because when any man speaketh in company it is to be supposed he doth it-for his hearers' sake and not his own, so that common discretion will teach us not to force their attention if they are not willing to lend it, nor, on the other side, to interrupt him who is in possession, because that is in the grossest manner to give the preference to our own good sense." Red a Favorite Flag Color. Red seems to be the most popular of national colors, if flags may be used as criterions. Of the twenty-five leading national flags nineteen have red in them. The same cannot be said of any other color. The chief flags that are marked with red are those of the United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, Portugal and Venezuela. How It Happened. Aunt Maria—Don't deny it. Martha. I saw you. Your lips and his met as I came into the room. Martha—Yes, auntie, but it was all an accident. I started to whisper something into Charley's ear at the same moment that he tried to whisper something into my ear, and that is how it happened. Charley felt as bad about it as I did. I'm sure. Suppose that our eyes were attuned to the vibrations revealed to us by the bolometer. Instead of seeing the stars that we now see we should perceive those whose light has long been extinguished, whose existence the methods of modern physics have enabled us to prove. The sun would appear surrounded by its corona, changing in form and position every instant, and we should no longer be obliged to wait for total eclipses to study this phenomenon. Currents of hot air would become visible like snow squalls, and the science of heat would have no more secrets. Miss Agnes Westley 816 Wells Street Marinette.Wis. 816 Wells Street, Marinette, Wis., Sept. 25, 1908. I was all run down from nervousness and overwork and had to resign my position and take a rest. I found that I was not gaining my strength and health as fast as I could wish, and as your Wine of Cardui was recommended as such a good medicine for the ills of our sex, I bought a bottle and began using it. I was satisfied with the results from the use of the first bottle, and took three more and then found I was restored to good health and strength and able to take up my work with renewed vigor. I consider it a fine tonic and excellent for worn-out, nervous condition, and am pleased to endorse it. AGNES WESTLEY, Secy, North Wisconsin Holland Society. Secure a $1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui and a 25c. package of Thedford's Black-Draught today. WINE OF CARDIUI His Little Joke. Said the regular customer of the restaurant as he stopped at the desk to pay his bill: "Where did you get that beef you are serving today?" "What's the matter with it?" aggressively asked the cashier, who scented another klick. "There's nothing the matter with it; that's why I asked." Nine Points of the Law. Success in law requires first, a good deal of money; second, a good deal of patience; third, a good cause; fourth, a good lawyer; fifth, a good counsel; sixth, good witnesses; seventh, a good jury; eighth, a good judge, and ninth, good luck.—Exchange. Etiquette of the Smoker. The etiquette of the smoker is not observed in Philadelphia, according to a globe trotter. In many countries, especially in Spain and Cuba, where such etiquette is most jealously guarded, a man who is smoking must be sure, when asked by another man for a light, to present his cigar or cigarette for the purpose. To offer a match is to imply the social inferiority of the man who asks for the light; so that between two strangers such an offer is a deadly insult and sometimes sufficient to cause a duel. When, however, the difference in social grade is so marked as to be visible in clothing and accouterment the match may be offered without offense. When the lighted cigar is offered it must not be thrown away until the man who has offered it has taken at least one puff. Otherwise the insult is greater than would have been the offering of the match.—Philadelphia Record. ONE ON TEDDY It has been reported of President Roosevelt that only once has he found himself at a loss for words to clearly and forcibly express himself. That time was when the presidential party visited the Grand Canyon in Arizona last summer. After gazing from its brink for several minutes, the President turned to Paul Morton and said: "It is beyond comparison, beyond description, it's awful." There is but one Grand Canyon, one way to reach it. Ask the Santa Fe agent. General Passenger agent Jno. J. Byrne, of the Santa Fe has authorized another special (personally conducted) excursion to the St. Louis World's Fair, via the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The party will leave here Wednesday, Sept. 7th, and will spend one whole day at the canyon on route. San Diego is eleven yet it irrigates 25,000 acres on the county on the south-central part is the former's as compared with this—almost the irrigated Diego and Riverside area. Orange county posses system of irrigation; water rights; that ex California. That is said many a time figures prove it. It est and most productive lies outdoors and is so than any other in the world. In civilized society once if only pure strength, health and forty years' experience... 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 foothills, and 148½ feet above sea level. It is 27 miles from Los Angeles, the second largest city in the State of California. The climatic conditions are the most favorable for out-door life to be found in Southern California. The temperature is extremely uniform, seldom rising above 90 degrees in summer, or falling below 32 degrees in winter. The abundance of sunlight and the absence of sharp frosts and cold winds make it a place especially acceptable to those desiring to escape the severe climate of the east. The country is very attractive. It is practically level, with just sufficient slope from the hills to afford adequate drainage. The roads are level, well graded, and well kept, affording excellent opportunities for cycling and driving. The soil is a rich sandy loam which never bakes, making it a very easy ground to work; thus lending itself readily to the cultivation of berries, nuts, oranges, etc. The variety of products, and the possibility of procuring small tracts of land at low figures, and on easy terms, make our section of the county very attractive and advantageous for truck raising, or for farming on a small scale. The following are a few of the products: oranges, lemons, walnuts, grapes, peaches, apricots, sugar beets, berries and vegetables of all kinds. Anaheim is the possessor of a Building and Loan Association, Water company, two railroads, fruit cannery and drier, large oil industry, ostrich farm, bank, several adequate $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; 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 Main Entrance World's Fair. Full information on request Call or write. P. L. MILLER, Dist. Pass. A, 237 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles La Habra Valley Ten acre lots to cozy tracts, with an abundance of pure water piped on land. Price $130 to $150 per acre. Easy terrain. 349 Wilcox Building. Both Phones No. 1363. Nasal CATARRH PALACE LIVERY Hahn, Prop. 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 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 .6577 860,600 Orange .288 159,436 Riverside .284 427,097 San Bernardino .250 219,132 San Diego .268 869,419 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 .86,604 Orange .41,549 Riverside .22,947 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, 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 belaued 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 percent. 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. Ten acre lots to corner tracts, with an abundance of pure water piped on land. Price $130 to $150 per acre. Easy term. 349 Wilcox Building. Both Phones No. 1363. Nasal CATARRH In all its stages Ely's Cream Balm cleanses, soothes and heals the diseased membrane. It cures catarrh and drives away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is immediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BROTHERS. M Warren Street, New York JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. jel Bird V. Beebe. Agent for Studebaker Carriages and Wagons, Oliver and Canton Clipper Plows, Killefer, Canton and Iron Age Cultivators, Harness, Robes and Whips: AGENT FOR Cleveland, Columbia, Crescent Bicycles ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. E.L.EUBANKS S.W.COTTLE The Jerrick EUBANKS & COTTLE, Props. FAMOUS CYRUS NOBLE WHISKEY MAIER & ZOBELEIN BEER. Phone Main 95 Center St. Anaheim ROOMS TO RENT. Two sunny front rooms apply at this office. MONEY can be borrowed on more favorable terms from the Savings, LOAN and BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF ANAHEIM than from any similar institution in the State A Home Institution conducted by home men If you want to borrow money at a low rate to pay off your present mortgage, or to build a home or to improve your present one, address or call Fred A. Backs, Jr. Secretary Anaheim 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. 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