anaheim-gazette 1909-12-30

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.50 Per Year Six Months.....$1.00 Three Months.....50 Cts The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Has the Largest Circulation TRADE AT HOME In conversation this week with a well-known Los Angeles business man we were informed that while the merchants of that city report largely increased holiday business over a year ago, nevertheless their country trade seems to have fallen off. Where hundreds of thousands of dollars poured into that city from the surrounding districts for holiday business the amount expended this year must be figured in largely decreased volume. Just what this falling off amounts to will probably never be known, but in the opinion of our friend it is prodigious. The reason for this, he informs us, is that the country merchants—those doing business in towns of 5000 to 10,000 population—are carrying so much larger stocks than ever before that they are doing the business formerly pouring into Los Angeles. The country dealers are, in a word keeping their trade at home. In no lines is this shrinkage of city trade more largely shown than in jewelry, silks and dry goods and the better quality of shoes. The shrink- with many of the great pilots known to the world of air navigation. To embrace everything worth knowing, the history of aerial conquest need go back more than two years, at the most, and the accomplishments of the past year are enough to afford a comprehensive knowledge of the subject. Two years ago little or nothing was known of heavier-than-air machines, and dirigibles were considered visionary things that were built only on paper, after plans conceived in the imagination of very imaginative men. But the past year has shown us that is not altogether true. Fleets of heavier-than-air machines have hovered over aviation fields in many places, while ships of the air, buoyed up by monster gasbags, sailed high above them, and travelled in safety from one city of Europe to another. During the past year M. Bleriot starled the world by flying over the choppy waters of the English channel from France to England. Not long after this Wilbur Wright won the Michelis trophy by a flight in his heavier-than-air machine lasting 2 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. At the Los Angeles meet will be seen types of the machine in which Bleriot flew over the channel, and in which Wright remained in the air for more than two hours and a quarter. Operating them will be aviators who have studied and practiced under the guidance of both Bleriot and Wright. Of equal prominence with these two is Glenn H. Curtiss, the American aviator, who will be in Los Angeles to make daily flights with his heavier-than-air machine, the same in which he won notable victories over all of the great aeroplans of the world at Rheims and Brescia. At Rheims Curtiss won the international- The reason for this, he informs us, is that the country merchants—those doing business in towns of 5000 to 10,000 population—are carrying so much larger stocks than ever before that they are doing the business formerly pouring into Los Angeles. The country dealers are, in a word keeping their trade at home. In no lines is this shrinkage of city trade more largely shown than in jewelry, silks and dry goods and the better quality of shoes. The shrinkage may be carried into other lines, but in these here enumerated is 'the falling-off most discernible. Here is a point of inestimable importance to our local dealers—who, by the way, have been rolling up business this holiday season as never before. Increased stocks, better qualities and a greater line to select from—these are the things which are now up to them for consideration. There is no reason why Anaheim merchants cannot sell cheaper than Los Angeles houses. But it is quality the people want, in the opinion of our Los Angeles friend, rather than the cheaper articles of commerce. We hope all our merchants will profit by these wise observations. Give us larger stocks, and all this money will be kept at home. Increase your stocks, let that be the slogan for the new year. Then, keep telling the people what you have to sell. The Gazette advertising columns will be found the best medium for this purpose. The Gazette has the largest circulation, and reaches more people than any other. Mark you, a merchant may advertise, by the page, week in and week out, and if he have for sale what the people do not want, he will do no business. On the other hand, a merchant may have exactly what the people want, yet if they know it not, he will have little trade. But bring these two things together—well-selected and comprehensive stocks on one hand, and judicious advertising on the other—and you will make the Los Angeles merchant squeal. Our advice to buyers is, Keep your money at home; to our merchants, Get busy and advertise. WONDERS OF AVIATION During the year that is passing, wonderful and spectacular things have been done in the advancement of the art and the science of flying, and princely sums have been expended in hours and a quarter. Operating them will be aviators who have studied and practiced under the guidance of both Bleriot and Wright. Of equal prominence with these two is Glenn H. Curtiss, the American aviator, who will be in Los Angeles to make daily flights with his heavier-than-air machine, the same in which he won notable victories over all of the great aeroplanists of the world at Rheims and Brescia. At Rhelms Curtiss won the international cup, and at Brescia he took second prize for altitude, ascending to a height of 165 feet. Weeks before Bleriot made his flight across the channel Hubert Latham had attempted the same feat, and came to grief when his motor broke down while he was over mid-channel, and his machine came down, with a graceful sweep, into the water. Latham, like Bleriot, pins his faith to the monoplane. He made a mile-minute flight at Johannisthal, and at Rheims he flew 97 miles in 2 hours and 13 minutes. One of the machines used by Latham will be seen in Los Angeles, operated by a member of the French syndicate of aviators who have received $50,000 outright for their appearance during the Los Angeles meeting. We should not censure Dr. Cook too severely for his part in this pole palaver. He spent a year and a half in the arctic regions, and must have approached to within close proximity of the pole. Even though he did not actually place foot upon it. Is he a victim of hallucination, actually believing his story, or is he deceiving the world, brazenly assuming we would accept his observations at their face value? That Dr. Cook has friends, even as the world has turned against him, is true, but their regard is probably based more upon friendship for the man than their acclaim for his exploits; and it is this latter with which we have to do. We are not disposed to heave censure at this man; but his absenting himself from his usual haunts at this time, and going into hiding, makes the inference irresistible that he is the monumental faker of the age. SOMETHING ABOUT TIN. The tin can as well as the tin dinner pail is vividly characteristic of the times. They carry out the contention that for some strange reason... WONDERS OF AVIATION During the year that is passing, wonderful and spectacular things have been done in the advancement of the art and the science of flying, and princely sums have been expended in the building of airships and mechanical contrivances to carry men through the air. During this same time scores of men whom the public had never before heard of have won world-wide distinction through their inventions, and their flights in various parts of the world. Newspapers and magazines have been filled with accounts of wonderful flights, and pictures of airships. In fact, it is beginning to dawn upon the public mind that there is something new in the world—something very wonderful, and something about which the imagination may play at any length. And it seems certain that no matter how far the imagination may go at this time, the reality will go even further in a very little more time. When all of the great aeronautical inventions of the year, and many of the great aeronauts and aviators of the world are gathered on the aviation field at Los Angeles in January for the first trial in America of all the known types of aircraft, the people will have their first opportunity of actually witnessing the practical test of everything that has been accomplished in the science and art of flying down to the present time. The program of the Los Angeles meeting, as it has been prepared by General Manager Dick Ferris, represents, in itself, practically everyone of the successful types of airships, and nearly all of the great inventors in the aeronautic and aviation fields, together SOMETHING ABOUT TIN. The tin can as well as the tin dinner pail is vividly characteristic of the times. They carry out the contention that for some strange reason tin during the days or eras of its high popularity is always a telltale in its use of the tenor of the period (declares a writer in the New York Herald.) The Greeks used tin with copper and made bronze. They used it for their ornaments and dishes. That was the day of simple and lasting things in art and otherwise. The Romans put a different amount of tin into copper and tempered the bronze that resulted. They used it for swords. Those were the days of brawn and blood. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries tin again came into general use. It had been overlooked for many years. Tin and copper in the right proportion make bell metal. Those were the days of the rich churches, the fine cathedrals, of Gothic art and architecture, when life was hard and devotion was the trend of the times. Tin played an important part. The next unusual demand for tin was in the eighteenth century. That was the time when humanity began to take out patents on death, the era when mechanical warfare first began to be waged. They wanted tin to alloy the brass in the field guns. Tin then took to itself a new popularity in howitzer, mortar, and siege guns. Before that in America what tin was used was mixed with lead and made into colonial pewter. Those were the times of the nation's simplicity. Now we find tin in name and substance playing a lively part in American life. To Rule your husbands do exactly as you pretend that you That is where your Men are ruled, a prospect of a revival your husband is sweetness, your beauty, of which constant care. Last stantly. Always it is for him that beautiful. The way that she is assertive every time she pleads clever and as in man who buys a road office and offers marks to the passerby a good joke once bought a return mean to come back "Her Royal Highness" Other Examining Phenomenon ever been any interest in your family? Insurance (with Yes, sir; one. My tim of a hallucination to be a great muse. Had Cynicus—It is man to keep a don't know about I were engaged ffore she said any—Philadelphia Re Not Mere "Does your new rest much?" "Break it! He change. Opium is used change in some p THE LOAFER. Tom Browne, the English Artist, and One of His Models. Tom: Browne, the English black and white artist, told the following story of one of his models: I used to have as a model a long, thin youth who was a golf caddie on Blackheath. I made a water color study of him and put in a street corner background. Before sending it to the frame maker's I wrote on the back in pencil a suggestion for a possible future title, "A Loafer." The frame maker after framing the sketch put it in his window until such time as he could send it up to me, with a card on the picture bearing the title, "A Loafer—By Tom Browne." One morning the caddie came to the side door and asked to speak to me. "There's a picture of me in a shop winder darn in Greenwich." "Really?" "Yus, an' all me pals 'ave seen it." (With a sudden fury.) "I ain't no loafer, I ain't. I'm a respectable caddie, I ham, and you've got to take it hout of the winder." I assured him that I knew nothing of the matter and was very sorry. "That be blowed for a tile," he retorted. "I'll mike yer pye damerges for this. I've been to my solicitor, and'e sez'e can mike yer." In the end I fixed it up by a little tip, an old coat and a drop of something. Of course I had the picture taken out of the window. The caddie has not sat for me since. THE NARCISSUS. Old Legends About This Beautiful and Ancient Flower. The beautiful narcissus is a very ancient flower, and poets of all times have sung about it. It bloomed even as long ago as when gods and goddesses were supposed to live on the earth. The old Grecian legends say it was the flower the malden Proserpine The coroner's juries that sat at the inquests held by Coroner Smith upon the bodies of Joseph F. Martin, who died following injuries received in an automobile collision, and William Jackson, killed by an electric-car at Hansen station, exonated the automobile driver, Lester Carden, in the first case, and the train crew in the second. A colony of Frenchmen, recently arrived in this county, have added to its purchases in the San Juan Capistrano valley by securing twenty-three acres of the Hargreaves ranch, just sold by W. S. Hargreaves of San Diego to Percy Edwards. The colonists are headed by Rev. Mr. Queta, a Catholic priest. They now own nearly everything between the Forster and O'Neill lines in the valley, above the mission village. Francisco Errecarte is the purchaser of the 23 acres: Zelaya imprisons the British Consul, and pays $75,000 indemnity, and apologizes. He massacres two Americans, and while Mr. Knox emits a roar, is permitted to escape on a Mexican gunboat, while a superior force of American cruisers lie in the bay of Corinto, and several thousand bluejackets aboard ship are within easy call. Zelaya goes to the City of Mexico and refers to us contemptuously. And yet we are told the lives of Americans abroad are not so secure, nor are their property rights so respected, as are those of British subjects. Who made Mr. Knox take water? Notice of Sale of Real Estate at Private Sale. Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, made on the 5th day of March, 1909, in the matter of the estate of George L. Wagner, deceased, the undersigned, the administratrix of the said estate, will sell at private sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, in gold coin of the United States, and subject to confirmation by said Superior Court, on or after Saturday January 15, 1910, all of the right, title, interest and estate of the said George L. Wagner, at the time of his death, and all the right, title and interest that the said estate has by operation of law, or otherwise, acquired other than or in addition to that of the said George L. Wagner, at the time of his death in and to all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the said County of Orange, State of California, and bounded and described as follows: Being a portion of the Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, and described as the south half of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section thirteen in Township four, South Range ten, West San Bernardino Base and Meridian, estimated to contain twenty and four-tenths acres of land; reserving therefrom for roads, railroads and ditches a strip of land thirty feet wide along, adjoining and each side of the Township and Section lines; and a strip of land twenty feet wide along, adjoining and each side of the quarter section lines; also reserving the use and control of clienas and natural streams of water; if any naturally upon flowing across, into or by said described tract and reserving the right of way for and to construct irrigation or drainage ditches through said tract to irrigate or drain the adjacent land. Offers or bids for said property will be received at the office of Richard Melrose, attorney-at-law, in the City of Anaheim, or at the residence of the undersigned administratrix near the said City of Anaheim. Said property will be sold for cash, gold coin of the United States, ten per centum of the purchase money to accompany the bid, and the remainder to be paid to the said administratrix on confirmation of the said sale by the said Superior Court; the administratrix will furnish an unlimited certificate of title to said property. Bids or offers must be in writing and may be submitted at the places above designated or filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Orange County, State of California. Dated December 28, 1909. RENA WAGNER, Administratrix, St. Of estate of George L. Wagner, deceased. THE NARCISSUS. Old Legends About This Beautiful and Ancient Flower. The beautiful narcissus is a very ancient flower, and poets of all times have sung about it. It bloomed even as long ago as when gods and goddesses were supposed to live on the earth. The old Grecian legends say it was the flower the malden Proserpine was gathering when Pluto took her away to his dark home under the ground. Another legend tells about a beautiful youth named Narcissus. His father was a river god named Cephissus and his mother a nymph called Lirlope. The wonderful beauty of the youth caused many to love him, but he was cold and indifferent to all. A poor little nymph called Echo loved him so dearly that she pined away and died because he would not care for her. At last Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, decided to punish him for his hard heart. She caused him to fall in love with his own image as he looked into a stream, and as he could never reach this beautiful reflection he gradually perished with hopeless love. His body was changed into the beautiful flowers which have ever since borne his name—Pearson’s Weekly. Laughing Disclosures. Concerning the laughter of the Frenchman, it should be noted that our neighbors have worked out a system of character reading by the vowel in which one laughs. Laugh in A (our English “Ha, ha!”), and, according to Larousse, you reveal yourself as frank, inconstant and fond of noise and movement. Laughter in E (“He, heh!”) would be the English rendering) is for phlegmatic and melancholy: Children and simple persons laugh in a French I (“He, he!”), showing themselves devoted, but timid and irresolute, and it is observed that blonds laugh “He, he!” “Ho, ho, ho!” is not the laugh of an ogre, but of one who is generous in sentiment and bold in action, though of a woman who laughs like that one should beware. But both men and women who laugh in U should be shunned like the plague, since they have given fair warnings that they are misers, hypocrites or misanthropes—London Chronicle. To Rule a Husband. To rule your husband, my dear lady, do exactly as you please, but always pretend that you do as he pleases. That is where your ability comes in. Men are ruled, as children are, by the prospect of a reward. The reward of Mexico and refers to us contemptuously. And yet we are told the lives of Americans abroad are not so secure, nor are their property rights so respected, as are those of British subjects. Who made Mr. Knox take water? Christmas is over and the New Year is at hand. We wish you who read these lines A Happy and Prosperous New Year WE want to begin the year right, and we assure you that our New Year’s Resolution Is to give Every One "A SQUARE DEAL and HONEST VALUE" In Everything. “INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS” Is the Motto of THE TOGGERY, J. H. WHITAKER R. H. MORGAN 111 W. Center Street, Anaheim. Palace Meat Market Schumacher & Schneider Proprietors DEALERS IN Choice Fresh and Salted Meats Telephone Main 51 Meats Delivered to all parts of city Palace Meat Market Schumacher & Schneider Proprietors To Rule a Husband. To rule your husband, my dear lady, do exactly as you please, but always pretend that you do as he pleases. That is where your ability comes in. Men are ruled, as children are, by the prospect of a reward. The reward of your husband is your amiability, your sweetness, your devotion and your beauty, of which you should take a constant care. Love has to be fed constantly. Always let him suppose that it is for him that you wish to remain beautiful. The woman who believes that she is asserting her independence every time she puts on a hat particularly displeasing to her husband is as clever and as intelligent as the Irishman who buys a return ticket at a railroad office and on entering the car remarks to the passengers: "I have played a good joke on the company. I have bought a return ticket, but I don't mean to come back."—Max O'Rell in "Her Royal Highness, Woman." Otherwise Sane. Examining Physician—Have there ever been any indications of insanity in your family? Applicant For Life Insurance (with visible reluctance)—Yes, sir; one. My father was the victim of a hallucination that I was born to be a great musician.—Chicago Tribune. Had Him Fast. Cynicus—It is impossible for a woman to keep a secret. Henpecke—I don't know about that. My wife and I were engaged for several weeks before she said anything to me about it.—Philadelphia Record. Not Merely Fractured. "Does your new baby break your rest much?" "Break it! He pulverizes it!"--Exchange. Opium is used as a medium of exchange in some parts of China. Sale of Real Estate Private Sale. Pre-Inventory Sale After the Xmas rush our stock is broken up. In each department you will find bargains priced at one-fourth to one-third less. This is a genuine bargain opportunity. For lack of space we mention only a few. SHOES All broken lines in Men's Women's and Children's Shoes. In calfskin and kid, also patent leathers, all sizes. In order to clear them out before taking inventory will sell for third less. CLOTHING About 60 Suits in Men's and Young Men's sizes. The famous Banner Brand & Schwab clothes. Only one or two of each kind. All prices at 20 per cent. less. BLANKETS Large line of Sample Blankets, woolen and cotton, white and grey, also some fancy plaids, all priced at one-fourth less. Ladies' Suits & Coats Also Children's Coats, all sizes in the assortment, mostly sample garments, only one of a kind. We still have a nice assortment of Ladies' Suits. Closing all out at one-fourth to one-third less. The S.Q.R. Store TO ALL A Hanny New Year TO ALL A Happy New Year H. A. DICKEL An Investment Now Means An Income in the FUTURE! BUY STOCK IN THE Home Investment Company, The Only Co-Operative Building Company in Orange County. This is a Home enterprise and is deserving of support by all. The Only Co-Operative Building Company in Orange County. This is a Home enterprise and is deserving of support by all. OFFICES— Tribune Bld'g, FULLERTON, CAL. 122 Center St. ANAHEIM, CAL. Beebe-Weisel Co., Inc. Some suggestions for Useful Holiday Gifts Buggies, Harness, Robes, Horse Blankets, Whips, Bicycles and Motor Cycles Base Balls, Basket Balls, Foot Balls, Base Ball Gloves, Tennis Raquets, Sporting Goods of All Kinds. Royal Sewing Machines Water Power Washing Machines. Automobiles and Supplies.