RATES OF ADVERTISING. On (iqoare, on Inch, on. Imertlon 1 M Co Sanare, on Inch, one month I M On Sqoare, en Inch, three month. ID One Square, one Inch, on yoar 10 00 Two Pqnarea, on year 113 Quarter Column, one year MM Ball Column, on year (0 0 On Column, on. Mr 10 0 Leial sdrertliamenti ti cent, per U? ca la aertlun. Marriage, and death notice, gratia. All bill, for yearly eriertiMment. oli.cted one. leny. Temporary advertliementa mull te paid Ik adrance. Job work cah on delivery. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN Is published (Trj W.dne.day, kf J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bmearbaugh ft Co.'t Building KM BTRIET, TIONK8TA, Fa, Term, ... f I.BO por Yoar. T nbaerlptlont nctlved for hrtr period than thre months. Oorraapond.ne. toliclted from all part. f th emirtrir. No n.tlc. will b taken of uniuiii owninnlratlon. TT OREST EPXJBLXCAN. VOL. XXIII. NO. 33, T1WESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1890. S1.50 PEIl ANNUM. JL. vs.. The railroad capital of tho world ia estimated at $29,000,000,000. Tests of new and lemftrknble guns are Iicing mad nil over Europe. It ia said, significantly observes tho Mail and Ex- prtu, that in times of ponco nations pre- j pare for war. The British South Africa Company, it is reported, has proposed to its employes that any servant discovering a mine ia tho country covered by tho company's charter will be made a co-proprietor of it with the company. History shows that tho closing ten years of each century have been years of calamity. "There is no reason to believe that the coming deendo will be an ex ception to tho rule," is the gloomy view of tho situation taken by the Atlanta Coiiitilution. Mrs. Kendal, the English actress, paid most glorious tribute to American men and customs, thinks tho Chicago Pott, when she told a newspaper reporter in London that she would rather her daugh ter should go alone from New York to San Francisco in America than walk down Bond street in London unattended. There are 200,000 women in the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union, 125,000 in the King's Daughters, 100, 000 in the Woman's Relief Corps, and SSjOOJ) in tho Eastern Star. An aggre gate of nearly 500,000 banded together under various names for loyal service to all manner of human need, exclaims the New York Sun. A Dublin correspondent tells tho New York Mail and Express that tho "mauu lactam that txist in Ireland can.Jte counted on tho fingers of one hand. There is the linen Industry, a famous brewing house and an equally famous distillery. Tho whole lot combined docs not have as many hands employed a there are to be found in many single wards ia Philadelphia. . A seventeen-year-old .Baltimore girl pleaded guilty in court to having killed her brothor and one Louisa Broad waters by poisoning their colTee, and re fused to draw tho plea because she had done it, and, like tho immortal George, she could not tell a lie. Such moral sensitiveness to truth and such immoral Insensibility to murder, make, comments the New York World, a queer psycho logical mixture. The- proposition to abolish titles in France may be taken, declares the Chicago Xetei, as a wholesome indication of the growth of republicanism among the people of that country. France has been a progressive nation since the days of Clovis, and in tearing off the bauble decoration of "nobility" sho will be a long way ahead of the rest of Europe It is time for the old world to learn that honor and glory do not reside in a decora tion, nor is thero any nobility in wear, ing a bit of metal dunging from a ribbon. Verily, a policeman's star is of more use and has a deeper significance. A recent article iu BradalreeC gives some surprising statistic) of the com merce of the great lakes. During 234 days of navigation last year tonnage passed through the Detroit Hiver to the amount of 10,000,000 tons more than the entrisnd clearances of all the sea ports in the United States, and 3,000, 000 tons more than the combined foreign and coastwise shipping of Liverpool and London. This docs not include traffic between Lakes Superior and Michigan or Lakes Erie and Ontario, or local truffle between ports of these lakes. The growth of ship-building on the lakes has been very marked iu the lust few years. In 15S6-7 there were thirty-one boats built, valued at $4,074,000, and ia 1889-90 there were fifty-six built, valued at $7, 866,000, the tendency being, as else where, toward Iron and steel for large ships. A startling number of suicides have lately taken pluco among Portuguese authors. Last June the aged poet Cas tello Brauco, the best-liked novel writer of the day, shot himself. lie was well off and had a numeious family, but had lutely suffered from a malady of the eyes. Shortly before his death he had written a novel iu which voluntary death was pyaised as the most beautiful close to an active life. His funeral was celebrated like that of Victor Hugo in France. A few weeks ago the author Silva de IS ruga tok his own life after writing many re alistic novels iu which tho hero always committed suicide. On July 23 a school director and secretary of tho municipal ity of Almada, Professor Arthur Mattos e Lemos, took his lifo in a hotel in Lis bon with a revolver. In a letter to his wife he declared that the earthly life of fered him uo more room for the develop ment of his miud. On tho 25th of the same month Professor Frederick Augus tus Ooui, director of the Royal Observa tory at Ajada, also shot himself. He was only forty-live. RECLAIMED. Where once ther was a waste of desert sand, Now fertil gardens gladden all the land. Where th fierce simoon o'er the desert blew, Now falls at even heaven'i refreshing dew. Within a soul held long In error's snare, Dwells a free spirit In sanctified prayer, Poor desert land I Poor soul by error claimed I Once ye were lost, but now ye are reclaimed. Motes O. Shirley, in. Youth,' Companion. A BAD IIALMOUH BY EMMA A. OPPER. "I haven't known you very long," Marion faltered, looking down on the sand. "Long I Ob, Marion, can you count it ry ilars I It has been a lifetime to me, Marion. I havo lived only since I have known you: ' The sentiment was not new. And John Gordon was only a fine looking man, in a becoming summer suit, and a black silk 'shirt and sash for this was liocky Beach. But to Marion Taylor "I do like 1-1-love you, Mr. Gor don 1" she said, bravely. "It hasn't been long, but I have como to care for you. You aro the first man I have ever been r illing to marry." "And I'll be the last I" John Gordon cried, and pressed her hand hard. They were close to Marion's hotel now. If the imposing, not to say for midable figure of Marion's Aunt Paulina had not been apparent on the piazza, they might have lingered still. John Gordon turned his eyes to her. "She doesu't like me, Mariou," ho said, softly. "What will sho say?" Mnrion was a soft faced and gcntlc cyed girl, but she held her chin high at that. "Whit she says can make no difler ncc! Good-by, John!" "Good-by i" the young man uttered, rapturously. And a moment later Marion was drop ping into a bamboo porch chair a small one; Aunt l'aulma occupied a largo one. A glance at her strong-featured, im- pcrturablc countenance was enough for Mariou. Sho said to herself, slangily, that something was up. "You remember my saying, Marion," Aunt Paulina began, "that I was dissatis fied with this place!" Marion's eyes opened. Aunt Paulina, hod once remarked that her bed was a little hard. 'Well, I have rather suddenly made up my mind to leave. The Dawsons are at Kipley, and they write me that the placo is charming. It is only ten miles along tho coast, Marion, and I have told Sarah to get our things together, so we can start this afternoon. I think we shall both be better for the change." Marion looked down. Her impulses were many. She came near laughing, but gasped instead, not wholly with as tonishment. She was not unused to her Aunt Paul ina's methods, and her principal emotion now was a sort of admiration for her boldness; for the case was a clear one even to unsuspicious Marion. "Marion," Aunt Paulina recommenced, with a surprising burst of candor, "it's that young man ! Marion, you well know that I wholly disapprove of him. I lay awake last night thinking of it. I must do something. The blame will be on my head if I allow you to go on!" Aunt Paulina declared, solemnly. "Marion, what do you know about him?" "Not very much, Aunt Paulina," said Marion, geutly. "How long havo you known him?" Aunt Paulina demauded. "Since we came. Six weeks, you know." "Six weeks!" said Aunt Paulina, tragically. "And you walk with him every day, and " boat, and bathe, and dance in the evening. And you were introduced by the Lambs!" her lips clos ing grimly on the name. "The Lambs! people who take up everybody and any body. Just that is enough for me! Do you know where he is from I" "Boston, I think," said Marion, dubiously. "You think! And his business?" "Something about glass," I believe. "Glass! And his properly has he got any?" "I dont know," said Mariou, frown ing at lust. "He doesn't talk about him self all the time." ' Kor reasons, doubtless," said Auut Paulina, looking rigid. "Murion, listen to me, child! I cannot cousent to sit s ill and see A young man of whom we know nothing, and you, Marion, with your beauty and amiability and with my money secured to you! Marion, you owe something to me some consideration, some obedience "' Aunt Paulina was growing flushed and incoherent, and since Marion knew about what she was going to say, it was as well that Sarah came iust then to make an in quiry, and that Auut Paulina found it necessary to go back with her. Marion sat like a pale, wide-eyed statue. What should she do? 'I he mild lines of her sweet mouth would have made it clear to an observer what she would do. She would go with her Aunt Paulina, of course: what else? She bad never vet thought of opposing her. She owed her everything, and she had always hitherto put faith in her judg ment. But as to this about John Gordon? She would have to go have to leave Rocky Beach to-day have to leave John But irive him uo? Never never! She would write to him do anything and everything. But go sho must. Aunt Paulina was making preparations; Sarah was packing; and Marion looked off to ward the rolling surf with distressed and sombre gaze, her red lips a-quiver. She did not see her Auut Paulina again till three o'clock that afternoon, which was agreeable both to herself aud to Aunt Paulina. For Aunt Paulina's plans went like clock-work. Trunks were parked and bills were paid and a cab engaged, aud at three o'clock Auut Paulina hw her uiece into it and tut f down herself, and drew a sigh of relief folded her hands. "Kipley, Mrs. Dawson writes," she be gan, cheerfully, "is liveliness itself. The Ohcevcrs are there, and the Longs. Honry Chcever, you know, has just re turned from abroad a very pleasant young man. And that young Long must be twenty-six or seven by this time. And there will be others, of course. I am sure you will be glad I thought of going. All young girls have their foolish moments, Marion, and you have had yours, and you will yet be grateful" The station was close at hand, and Aunt Paulina's reassuring remarks were interrupted. "Tho thice-ten," sho said to the sta tion agent, as she sat down in the waiting-room "is it on time?" "Tho three-eight, do you mean, ma'am?" he respouded. "It's just gone, ma'am, this minute. Tho three-fifty is the next, ma'am." "Who told mo it was three-ten?" said Aunt Paulina, sternly. But nobody had. "Forty minutesl Whatan aggravation! Sarah, get tho tickets !" Sue settled into displeased silence displeased and uneasy. Her brow was furrowed, and her eyes roved toward the door apprehensively. She was ill at ease, quiet .Marion reflected, for fear poor John Gordon would put in an appearance. John Gordon did not, but what was almost as bad, Mr. Lamb did. Mr. Lamb, in a very thin suit, but perspiring still with the combined pres sure of the heat and a hundred and eighty pounds, came puffing in, bought a ticket, and sat down and fanned himself with his hat and newspaper. "Ah, Mrs. Field and Miss Taylor!" ho exclaimed. "Whither away? I'm bound for the city for half an hour. Hot doy, but I've something I can't neglect. John Gordon promised to go with me. Where is the rascal? Train in ten minutes, Where is he, Miss Taylor? 1 ou ought to know." Ho came over and sat down beside them large cheerful and smiling. Aunt Puulina frowned, but she might as well have smiled; Mr. Lamb behaved as though she had. "You ought to know, young lady," he insisted, jollity. "Keeps you informed, doesn't he? How do you like him, any how? Nice fellow, eh?" Mr. Lamb rattled his paper, and looked at his audience beamingly. "Fine is the word for him I One of. the brightest young fellows I know Good company every time, Gordon is. Haven't you found him so?" Yes," Marion murmured, though Auut Paulina looded like a thunder cloud. "Jolly fellow, Gordon. And that isn t all of him. He's clever that's tl-e new word, ain't it? Smart's what I meau First-class business follow, but he goes deeper. He s what you might call lit erary. Insatiable reader up to every thine. Even pubushed.an article once You know he rancneu n ior a year, jor Inn. and he wrote it up lor tno arctic Monthly, and it maue rawer a sensauon Clever fellow 1" Aunt Paulina raised her lowering brow, with a cough. Literary qualities had always been admired iu her family Her grandfather had been a minister. " Well, he ought to De, l suppose said Mr. Lamb, reflectively. "Ho was graduated at Yale, and had a year or two at Heidelberg afterward. Traveled all over Europe and took everything in You've noticed how well-informed he is about all sorts of thiugs, Mrs. Field? Astonishingly!" "Um-m!" said Aunt Paulina, clearing her throat. "He's practical, though," said Mr, Lamb, with half-cbiied eyes. "Ho isn' all for theories und notions. He means to be a rich mau yet, aud he's iu a fair way to be. It's one of the greatest glass aud china businesses in New Eugland and tho income is pretty big. It was fine business when his lather chca, put Gordon has built it up wonderfully. He owns good property tttere in Boston, too Well, I suppose ttorcum is worm seventy- five thousand anyhow.' "How much?" said Aunt Paulina. "About seventv-five. Tho Gordons havo been a rich family since tho Hood I reckon. Good old family, the Boston Gordons. He's Higgins on his mother : side. Sho was a Philadelphia lliggius. Let's see you're from Philadelphia, Mrs Field?" "I am," said Paulina, agitatedly She was, und knew the Higginses to be blue-blooded, exclusive and irre oroachablc. "Well, here I'm blowing about him like a house atire. But there's ample ex cuse for it. Miss Taylor excuso me I'm a rough old customer but if things do come out all right, accept my cou gratulutions. He tuo huest felliw the country." Silence for a moment, which the rattle of Mr. Lamb's paper he was fauiun Aunt Paulina alone disturbed. Aunt Pauliua looked fixedly int anace. "Thore ho is now!" said Mr. Lunb, at footsteps outside. "Here you are! Don care a bit about going iu with nie, d vrm? Well, it is hot. Guess I'll have to let you oil." John Gordon bowed low to Aunt Pauliua, and smilingly to Marion, and sat down beside her. Ho had a rcd-uud-white cap now , and a red sash instead of the black one, and he looked handsomer thau ever.' But he looked astonished and alarmed. "Where are you going?" he said to Marion, anxiously. "To Kipley," she aLswcred, her eyes lowered. "Kipley! Goodness, is that where?" Mr. Lamb cried. "Not for good, Mrs. Field? Why, typhoid fever has broken out there within a day or two, and there's six cases already. It's lower land than 'tis here, you know, and thole's bUudiug water back of the village." "It's a malignant form of it, I under stand, Mrs. Field," said Mr. Gordon, 1 miiuiy- Kipley I What have you jfot to jo for?" Mr. Lamb demanded. "What's the matter with tho Beach? It's a jollier place any time; and now, with typhoid fever up there Why, this morning's paper said everybody's leaving the place!" "Mercy, Aunt Paulina! " Marion mur mured ; the corners of her mouth were twitching. "My train I said Sir. Lamb, getting to his stout legs with no small effort. 'Well, I haven't the heart to drag you along, Gordon. It's too warm; and thcre s another consideration a more powerful one. I doubt whether you'd go if I wanted you to," said Mr. Lamb, ith a rumbling laugh, and made the laborious bow of a fat man and boarded his train alone. "Surely, Mrs. Field," said John Gor don, turning his honest, bright eyes pon her, "you are not going to Kipley? ou wouldn t think of such a thing? ou'll give it up, Mrs. Field you cer tainly will?" Aunt Paulina looked him over from head to foot. Did she smile? Marion almost thought sho did. At any rate sho looked calm and benignant. "I think I shall give it up, she re sponded. "I think it seems advisable." "I ll run and call a cab, John Gordon said, joyfully. "Or wait won't you take a drive with me, Sirs. Field? Let me get a carriage end take you and Miss Taylor for a drive. For tho breeze, you know. Say yes, Mrs. t iclu !" But he was off btfore Aunt Paulina could say yes. It was daring that drive that their engagement was announced, and well received. Marion loved her Aunt Pauliua, and was scruplously respectful to her ever: and tho truo history of that Kipley plan she never divulged. When her lover would say dubiously, And your Aunt Pauline positively dis liked mo at first, Murion!" she would merely answer: "But who could dislike you long, John, dear?" Saturday F'ghl. The Finest or S.'.awls. The finest shawls that are used iu this or any other market, said a well-informed representative of the shawl trade to tho Sauutercr, are those made in India ami known as tho India shawl. There is an imitation India shawl made in France, but while it is an excellent product of the loom, it does not in any way comparo with the genuine article. The real India shawl is made from the wool of the Cash mere goat by the natives of that land. The India shawl is mado in strips or pieces by baud and colored and then sewed together, aud the greatest caro is observed in its manufacture. In the imi tation India the wool of a species of the same animal is used, but it is of an in ferior quality, and tho goats that furnish the French market with the material are raised in Australia. England produces the camel's hair shawl, the velvet and tho beaver shawls. The camel's hair shawl is not made from the hair of a camel, as j a good many people suppose, but from the combings of the wool of a certain kind of sheep. Thcso combings are , woven loosely so as to secure the peculiar i effect that is a characteristic of this make. Besides the imitation India, Franco manu factures a great quantity of broche shawls in singles and doubles. Tho material used iu them is all pure wool. Another j kind of shawl imported from Franco is a pattern like the real Paisley. Formerly i theso Paisleys were made in Scotland only, but the French shawl manufacturer pilfered tho design from tho Scotch, and 1 ... ... i'.,.!).;.!.. aV.(ln.la come from the land of the plaid and the i..,i n Thn,n tlmf. rn mad, ro to n I' i fill special orders, as they are an expen sive luxury. In the real Paisley the wool is the purest and finest selected, and no chemicals of liny kiud are used iu its preparation. Chicago Pott. A Sand Storm iu Utah. William II. Ballou, the author of "The Upper Ten," "Tho Bachelor Girl," etc., related this story at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to a group of interested gentlemen: "When I was in Salt Lake City recently I followed the fashion there and went every afternoon with long train loads of people out to Great Salt Lake, twenty miles distant to float on the surface and enjoy the salt bath. One afternoon as the traiu drew near to the station at Garfield, one of those extraordinary sand storms, prevalent there, came whirling down through the mountain ravines. It is these storms, I think, that will one day fill up the lako bed and leave a small imitation of Sahara. This particular storm was terrific aud terrified the pleas ure seekers. It passed directly ia the path of the train, aud iu less time than I can tell it the engine and cars wero cov ered with a deep bank of sand from which there semmed no hope of gcttiug out with our lives. Tho atmosphere within was hot uud stifliug; wo were literally buried alive." "How did you finally get out?" asked a gentleman. "Why, the train had scarcely stopped before the storm chauged in direction and blew every grain of sand back up tho mouutaiu sides. Then we got on out bathing suits aud enjoyed ourselves." Xeio York J'rets. Who May Wear tho Title "Hon." Iu England tho title of "Honorable" is bestowed upon Earls, Viscounts and Barons, both sons and daughters; alsc upou members of the House of Com mons, Mayors of principal cities and other persons occupying positions ol trust and honor. In the United .States the title is more freely bestowed, judges of courts, members of both branches ol Congress, members of State Legislatures, Governors of States, Mayors of cities and many other persons occupying pub lic positions being designated by the pre fix. There is uo limit to tho application of the title iu this couutry. It is not official, and no one can claim it of right. It is simply a mark of favor, and out that, of late years, has been applied su indiscriminately that it cau hardly b longer considered a murk of especial di tiuctiou. Detroit, if'itt i'ren. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. A great hydraulic canal is proposed to convey a portion of the water of Niagara Kiver, and thus utilize this enormous power for manufacturing purposes. Of the 4200 species of flowers now cultivated in Europe, only ten per cent, give forth any ordor. Therefore, it cannot be said thut most flowers are fra grant. The latest invention is clothing made of a fabric in which fine thrcods of cork are interwoven with wool or silk, which renders it impossible for tho wearer to sink in water. One of the latent inventions in tho bicycle lino in a whistlo that is operated by the automatic application of a small wheel upon the revolving tire of the steering wheel. Professor Cohen, of Breslau, Germany, has found by careful experiment that the heating of damp hay to a temperature sufficient to cause spcataneous combus tion is due to a fungus. The distance from which a lighthouse becomes visible on board an ocean vessel depends upon the state of tho weather and tho ocean. In clear, calm weather a powerful light can be seen thirty miles. A New York inventor has completed an air-pressing machine whereby cars compress the air which moves them, and allowing for friction this can continue long enough to be the next thing to per petual motion. Professor Oiton, while urging the im perative necessity of taking action to re strict tho wasteful use of natural gas, ad mits that even the strictest regulations cannot prevent the exhaustion of the supply in a few years. It has been suggested that tho study of the influence of diet aud habit upon tho color of hair in different nations of men may cause discoveries by which the color of the hair in the human rcce may be modified by judicious treatment. Bricks boiled in coal tar are rendered hard and durable, and machine-made brick, if boiled for a long period, say twenty-four hours, become waterproof. Bricks thus treated are well adapted for sewers, cesspools, and the foundations of buildings. A curious farinaceous substance is re ported by M. Rene de Champagne to havo fallen in Asiatic Turkey during a hail storm, and to have been Bold by tho kurds under the name of "celestial grain." It is doscribed as reaoinbling the mulberry in shape and size. One cause assigned by several physi cians and druggists for the increasing number of victims to the opium habit is tho use of autipyrene. A great number of young women, especially feninle clerks, take antipyreno in such quantities that it finally loses its restorative power. They then resort to morphine. Baron James Rothschild, of London, has adorned his drawing-room with the most superb electrolier ever made. It is composed of gilt bronze aud rock crystal in a design of the time of Louis XVI., sixty-eight electric lights being skillfully arranged among tho bronze leaves. This unique illuminator is about five feet high by twenty-eight inches in diameter, aud cost $G000. To end the long dispute which has been waged with reference to the right designation of the metal which is now assuming such importance, it is urged that the largest producers in the world favor the form aluminum, which also has the advantage ot greater brevity, and that therefore foreign scientific journals and scientific men should follow tho ex- amI' f American journu s and call it ODce for " aluminum, instead of alum- His Heart Was ou His night Side. A man with his heart on the right side and his internal arrangements generully wrong fell under the knife of the doctors nt the University of Pennsylvania a few days ago, says tho Philadelphia Itewrd. Dr. Tbonitt8C. Clark, while dissecting and demonstrating upon tin body of a man, probably fifty yeurs old, discovered a complete inversion of the abdominul Hnd thoracic viscera, the peculiar nature of which is that the heurt, instead of be ing on tho left sido, was found to be on tho right, aud tho aorta, or great artery, Instead of archiug to the right, turned to the left. Upon further examination it was found that the stomach and splceu were also ou tho right Bide, while the liver, iustcad of being on the right, was on the left side a complete inversion of these organs. Dr. Joseph Leidy, LL. D., the eminent scientist and professor of anatomy iu the University of Pennsylvania, visited the the dissecting-room, aud after a thorough examination, said there was a complete transversion of the orguus and a most wonderful anomaly. He stated that in all probability there was not a similai case in existence. Tho cadaver was afterward presputed to tho uuiversity aud placed iu the museum. Chicago Herald. A 11 a in Tree. Augusta, Ga., lias a curiosity in the shape of a "rain tree." Iu describing it the Augusta Chronicle says: "Here iu the city, with electric cars Hitting back ward and forward every few minute., almost under its shadow, is a veritable raiu tree, which, for the p;ist ten days, has been throwing oil a slight shower aud the ground beneath it keptiu a statu of moistuess equal to that after a steady shower of considerable duration. Cit izens eye it curiously, and many of the more ignorant, especially darkies iu that neighborhood, affirm with all the strength of firm faith, that the tree is visited with some uncanny potency." A Valuable Volume. There is now in Sau Francisco a vol ume than which there are few more valuable iu the world. U is worth ex actly t'30,0U0. It is a registry of the whereabouts and ideutity of 3U0D Chinese corpses iu the city cemetery, all X which have to be dug up and returue-i to Chiua iu due time, while a disinter lueut permit costs $10. CVdVuyu 'l imn. LAND OF FRUIT GARDENS. THE TTOTTDERFTJIi PBODTTCTTVE NESS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Supprmefl to bo Worthlos Fxccpt frp Grazlnir ltarcii Wastes Made to ISIossoni Iiike the t'.ose. Southern California hns been slowly understood even by its occupants, who have wearied the world by boasting of its productiveness. Originally it was a vast cattle and sheep ranch. It was sup posed that tho lnud was worthless except for grazing. Held in princly ranches of twenty, fifty, ouo hundred thousand acres, in somo cases areas larger than Gorman principalities, tens of thousands of cattlo roamed along tho watercourses and over the mesas, vast flocks of sheep cropped close tho grass and trod tho soil into hard-pan. Tho owners exchanged cattlo and sheep for corn, grain and garden vegetables; they had no faith that they could grow cereals, nnd it was too much troublo to procure water for a garden or a fruit orchard. It was tho firm belief that most of the rolling mesa land was unfit or cultivation, and that neither forest nor fruit trees would grow without irrigation. Between Los Anegles and Rcdondo Beach is a ranch of 35,000 i acres. Seventeen years ago it wasowncu by a Scotchman, who used tho whole of it as a sheep ranch. In selling it to tho present owner ho warned him not to waste time by attempting to farm it; ho raised no fruit nor vegetables, planted no trees, and bought all his corn, wheat and barley. The purchaser, however, be gan to experiment. Ho planted trees and set out orchards which grew, nnd in a couple of years ho wrote to tho former owner that ho had 8000 acres in fine wheat. To say it in a word, there is scar:ely on acre of tho tract which is not highly productive in barley, wheat, corn, potatoes, whilo considerable parts of it are especially adapted to the English walnut and "to the citrus fruits. On this route to tho sea the road is lined with gardens. Nothing could bo more unpromising in nppcarauca than this soil before it is plowed nnd pulver ized by the cultivator. It looks like n barren waste, We passed a tract that was offered three years ago for twclvo dollars an acre. Some of it now is rented to Chinamen at .thirty dollars an acre; and I saw one field of two acres off which a Chinaman had sold in one season $750 worth of cabbages. The truth is that nlmost all tho land is wonderfully productive if intelligently handled. The low grouud has water so near the surfaco that tho pulverized soil will draw up sufficient moisture for tho crops; the mesa, if sown nnd cultivated after the annual ruins, matures grain and corn aud sustains viuc3 nnd fruit trees. It is siugulur that the first settlers should never have discovered this productive ness. When it became apparent that is productiveness without artificial water ing there spread abroad a notion that irrigation generally was iut needed. Wo shall havo occasion to speak of this more in detail, and I will now only say, ou good authority, thut while cultivation, not to keep down the weeds only, but to keep the soil stirred nnd pTevent it bak iug, i3 the prime necessity for nlmost nil laud iu sou.heni California, thero are portions wl. ere irrigation is always neces sary, and Uicre is no spot where the yield of gruin will not bo quadrupled by ju dicious irrigation. There are places where irrigation is excessive and harm ful both to the quality uud quantity of oranges and grapes. The history of the cxtcision of culti vation iu the last twenty and especially in tho past ten years from the foot-hills of the Sierra Mudre in Los Augeles and Sun Bernardino Counties southward to Sau Diego is very curious. Experiments were timidly tried. Every aero of saud aud suge-brush recluiiiked southward was supposed to bo tho lust cupuble of profitable farming or fruit-growing. It is unsafe now to Buy of any land that bus not been tried that it is not good. Iu evciy valley aud ou every bill side, ou the mesas uud in the sunny nooks iu tho mountains, nearly anything will grow, and the application of water produces marvelous results. From San Hcruurdiuo and Kedlauds, Riverside, Pomonu, On tnrio, Santa Auitn, San Gabriel, Pasa dena, all tho way to Los Angeles, is nl most a continuous fruit-garden, tha green ureas emphasized by wastes yet unrecluiined; a land cf charming cot tages, thriving towns, hospitable to the fruit of every clime; a land of perputuul sun and ever-flowing bree.e, looked down ou by purple mountain ranges tipped here und thero with euduring snow. And what is iu progress hero will bo seou before long iu utmost every purt of this wonderful land, for wKwli tions of soil and climate are essentially everywhere the same, uud capital is tiud iug out how to store in un I bring from tho fastnesses of tho mountains rivers of clear water taken at such elevations that tho whole uruble surface can be irrigated. Tho development of the country huaouly just begun. Harper" Mvjaiine. A New Way of lliuslilmr Huir. "The proper way to brush hair," says a well-known hairdresser, "is not to brush it lengthwise, but to bold tho ends of the hiir, if it is long enough, an 1 simply scrub with the brush. This pro cess promotes tho ciiculutiou of tho blood, and excites tho oil-glands to po tion. After the hair has been thoroughly brushed iu this way, it should bo then finished with a few vigorous strokes lengthwise of tho hair." Seio York Jjtiinal. A Poet's Pica for Mercy. Walt Whitman is popularly thought to have no seuso uf humor, but the other day u young man dropped in upon him lit his huuiMo home, in Cuiudeu, X. J., Introduced himself us u poet, and begged lo bo allowed permission to read Selec tions from a buiiillc. of manuscripts which lie curried. "Xo, thank you," said Whitman, courteously but firmly; "I nave beeu purulyzed twice." Arjunaut. DREAMLAND, On the other sldo at no ploc, , And travernod by mirroring streams. Is the land that belongs to no race, ' Tholand tliatwe see In our dreams.- 'Tis a country of flowers and fouutains,' With landscapes fair to behold. Wli"ro green hlllsand grey mountains Stretch away toward a sunset of gold. Tlu-re are fruits that mortals ne'er tasted; There are skies of beauty most rare. And, although it is timo wasted, Wo long for this land of the air. 'Tis a place we never shall visit. Though often we gazo on its charms. For it comes as a pleasure exquisite. When wo rest in old Morphea's arm. 1. K. K.Pritchard, in Arkansaw Travelers HUMOR OF THE BAY. Castles in the air do not bring in any rent. Galveston Kent. You can cosily fill the public eye if you only have the dust. Xta York 2fete. She "He talks liko a book." lie "What a pity ho doesn't shut up us' easily." Life. Clever tact will win ia business, and clever tacking will win u yucht race Pittshurg Ditpatch. They (111 our daily cup w ith gall As through the world we i, These two: The man who knows It all And ho who "told you so." A level surfneo is flat, yet thero is a distinction between a level-headed man and a flat-headed one. l'i'lahur Chron icle. A dead man is given more charity than he can make use of ; a living man isn't given as much as he deserves. Atchison Olohe. "This is the worst snap I ever si nick," remarked the woodchuck wheu he got caught in a steel trap. Uin'jh .tm'.on lit- publican. Goslin "I just gave him a piece of my mind, douchcrkuow." Dolly (anx iously) "flow could you spare it. i" Mumcy'a M'tclly. She "I hope you do not remain in t'uo parlor when your s!ster receives her fiance" He "No; 'cause I'm afraid of the dark." Life. Sho "If you attempt to kiss me I'll call mamma." He"What would happen then?" Sho "Oh, nothing, for mamma isn't at homo." Chicago Pott. The iceman now doth count with glej Tho gold ot summer's winning; The coal man, too, exults; for ha Will now enjoy an inning. Muna'i's Wecklt. , Wo all want the elevator to wait for us, but when wo are in wo don't like to see it kept waiting uny longer for any body else. SomerviUe Journal. "Uncle Jacobs, aren't you ashamed to bo seen here so often?" "Laws, y' Honah, dis placo am respccable ter somo places where I am seen." Iticlet. Suivcly "Havo you ever sailed in a birch cauoe?" Suodgrass "No; my only experience with the birch was when I was puddled with it." Munsci' WWlly. "Irreverent? Yes, indeed. Why, if it wero possible, it would bo just like hi'.n to sit around nnd munch peanuts nt his own funeral." Indi tnaioUs Journal, Lnugh, and tho world laughs with you, Ween, aud you ween altm; Fail, and the world laughs at you; Don't, uud it's all your own. H'r(.'n'u'(ou Star. "What is the difference, papa, between a tour and a, junket!" "A number of our own party mukes u tour. A junket is the trip of u number of the opposition." jVi'Mi York Herald. "What uncleanly people th'y seem to be out West," said Mrs. Do Lite, of Bos tou; "hero is a cac of a man starting iu to clean out a town, and they actually shot him." St. Joejih AVirs. "And oh, Uncle Silas, I had such a lovely timo lust summer. Four other Vassur girls and myself took a tramp through tho Cutskills." "L'm-in-iii! But do you b-dievo, Elizabeth, thut the tramp enjoyed iti" "And does that please you, Mrs. Brown, that your husband culls you a Xautippo iu public?'1 "Oh, 1 don't grudge him tho little pleasure of trying to muko the world believe that ho is u Socrates." Fliegende IVinttcr. Watts "Now, if I understand cor rectly, the first principle of socialism is to divide with your brother mau. " l'otts "Then you don't understand it correct ly. The first principle of socialism is to make your brother divide w ith you." dudianapoli Journal. Teacher "Explain tho difference bo tweeu law and custom." Boy (who owns a sailboat) "Accordiu to law, a bteambout must give the right of way to a sailboat, but 'cording to custom tho sailboat bus got ter muko tracks or get smashed." Uood yctr. "I tell youj Mr. Jeuks is a uice man." "So?" "Yes. I talked to him over uu hour, und ho ugreed to everything I said, uud never interrupted mo but once, uud that was to say that theru was a bug on my dress collar, aud even theu ho apolo gized." Vaiui'ille Breeze. A Reckless Promise. "Wife (who is goiug to the country) "Will you como to see mo next Sunday?'' llusbuud "Why, of course. I'll speed to you ou the wings of lovel" Wife "You como theu ou the express train" llusbuud "Oh, uo; the slow local traiu will suit me wed enough?" Flicjtnde IHaettcr. "These barbed wire fences uin't uo good," said tiio farm bund. "1 wouldn't have, one of 'em uroun 1 tho place if I hud my way." "W!iy uot!" inquired the btrauger. "Tiioj'ru cheap and strong ali i keep cattlo in better thiu au thing else." "That may be," re plied tho farm hand, "but then a feller sau't sit dowu oil Vui." C'lic.i'jo Li'U. The clerks of an Kugli-di telegraph of fk found it difficult to convince a lady thut they could not transmit the key of tho trout iloor to her husband. The first formal b i v.iucc of Decora tion Day occurred iu Washiuyt-JU City ou May 30, lbOS.
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