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ABOUT BOOKS AND BOOK-MAKERS
Eeview of a Number of Recent
'Notable Publications.
0 nmes Whitcomb Riley's Green Fields
and Banning Brooks.
Wlutßiboroußli, by KHib Orne White,
•lr Roger de Coyerly Again—A
Hew Book on Health.
Some Book Chat.
[By L. Bkhysieb.]
I have been reading a new book of
poems and verses and as I review them
in my mmd I find myself on memory's
couch, Composed of the soft, velvety
sward, beside the banks of a slow mov
ing fiver., surrounded by "green fieldß,"
and 'listening to the murmur of "run
ning, brooks," the buzzing of the bees
and the chirping of the crickets. The
bright Bunshine is glinting through the
leaves of tbe big tree overhead in golden
beama, while a pair of cooing doves in
the branches resemble a couple of jolly
picknickers that are floating past me
down the stream in an old
fashioned flat-bottomed skiff, whose
sides are covered with the green mossy
color that has made the "moss covered
bucket" so famous. And as the murmur
of these roundelays, which I have been
reading, cease to echo in my ears, I
awake from day dreaming and come
down to the more prosaic occupation of
telling the Herald readers what beau
tiful and touching little songs of Green
Fields and Running Brooks our genial
entertainer and friend, James Whitcomb
Riley, has prepared for us in his new
book of poems ot the same title. We
open the book and find a Country
Pathway winding in the weeds thai
fringe tbe roadside, and with dreams of
our own we wander as we read it to a
place grand enough for any etudent of
nature "on the banks of Deer creek,"
where we used to go a "swimmin' " way
up "Johnson's hole." A tribute enti
tled A Ditty of No Tone is piped to the
spirit of John Keats, while life's journey
is depicted in The Lands of Where-
Away. How John Quit the Farm is a
fit companion to Over the Hill to the
Poor House. JBp Miller soon convinces
you that he is the "blamedest feller yit
in Martinsville," while Tom Van Ardeu,
my o d friend, is a lesson for bachelors
who consider themselves "lucky dogs"
in having "loved but lost." In The
Hoosier Folk Child we recognize many
a chubby-faced urchin peering out from
among the ragweeds along the dusty
road, where we passed and repassed in
oar younger days. The bad boy's ver
sion of Jack, the Giant Killer, will set
brother Peck of Peck's Bad Boy fame to
thinking up new stories to amuse the
youngsters.
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor, is a ro
mance in poetry of the good, old-fash
ioned sort, and we seem nearer heaven
when we read such offerings as Blind,
North andftoutb. While the Musicians
Played and T .c Wife—Blessed. As holi
days are not long past we can thor
oughly appreciate What Chris'mas
Fetched the Wigginses
on the, Farm has a clear
crisp tone, while August is hazy and
dreamy , and Autumn seems one contin
uous festival, with the sweet songs of
south flying birds, the rustle of bright
hued leaves, and the musk of pawpaw,
hazel brush and haw waited on the
evening breezes. A new version of John
Alden and Percilly, altobough not quite
as historical as Longfellow's, will prove
twice as laughable and fully as interest
ing. A fitting end to such a collection
of good things is found in When Age
Comes On and Just us of Old.
Lo! Where is the beginning, where tho end
Of living, loving longiiiK? i Jsten, friend.
God answers with a silence of pure gold—
Just as of old.
Winterborough, by Eliza Orne Whne,
haß just been published by Houghtou,
Mifll n & Co.
Miss Bereiß Hastings, a pupil at the
High school o5 Winterborough, which
is a small New England town, and Mr.
Harold Strong, the sub-master, are the
principal actors in this book, which,
like most New England tales, is a Btudy
of character rather than a story with an
elaborate plot. Persis is drawn with
cleverness and has been endowed by the
author with a bright, sunny humor that
makes most pleasant the New England
atmosphere of the book. Strong's char
acter is full oi rugged strength and con
scientious purpose, and the other people
are all interesting.
A good Btory is alwaya worth telling
over again, and although we have spent
many days in company with the genial
English gentleman of the latter part of
the eighteenth century, which were
golden days, still the del ghtiul flavor of
the Spectator papers never palls on tbe
taste. Macmillian & Co. have juet is
sued the third edition (the first appear
ing come six years ago) of Days with
Sir Roger de Coverley, a reprint
from tbe London Spectator, in which
is pleasantly pictured life in and
■bout an English country house. Ex
asperating thoogh it may be to some of
the enterprising young men who are
trying to reform the literary tastes of
tbe world, there are still thousands of
men and women of good education and
progressive ideas who re-read Sir Roger
de Coverley on theslightestprovocation.
Even so able a master of modern Eng
lish as the late Geoige William Curtis
never tired of the story of the simple,
honest, sturdy old knight, and ~be
refreshed his acquaintance again
and again when more brilliant
things in print were at his elbow.
Tbe chief charm of the volume is tbe
abnndance and richness of the series
of delicate illustrations which Hugh
Tbomson has made for the book, so full
of many suggestions oi the England of
the last century. Everyone who is fa
miliar with hia Cranford and bis Vicar
of Wakefield will appreciate the singu
lar charm of these pictures of old-time
English country life, which have both
character, graco and humor to an un
common degree. The cover of the book
is as delightful as its penetralia, small
enough to hide in a coat pocket and
cheap enongh not to injure a modest
pocket book.
Lee & Shepard have a new book en
titled, In. Health ; The Relations of tbe
Sexes, by Dr. A. J. Ingersoll. Tbe pur
pose of this hook is religio medical. A
kind of mi&ed-up fdith cure lies at the
foundation of the advice given, which is
intended as a guide for all suffering
from sexual troubles. The author is a
physician and a religious man, and he
advises spiritual control as the
best and only permanent cure for
some oHseasee and weaknesses to
which some unfortunate or indulgent
men and women are subject Faith,
like Mrs. Besant's theosophy, seems to
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1893.
be the author's care for ail the numer
ous ills of woman, and he gives numer
ous instances of recovery where medi
cine had failed. Tbe dominion which
tho soul may have over the body ii
widely known among wise people, while
mere scrapß of knowledge on the subject
have been the basis of many "issues,''
which have made occupation for many
thousands of charlatans. The book con
tains one chapter, however, that makes
it oi value; it ib a magnificent exposi
tion of the sanctity of sexual life, which
women usually ignore and deny- Dr.
Ingersoll's book would be better were it
all in simple English, instead of being
marred by some expressions which,
rightly or wrongly, paBS nowadays as
cant, even in some honest religious cir
cles.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. usually inter
est the boys in a good thing when they
undertake to publish juvenile literature ;
their late venture with Zachary Phipe,
hy Edward Lasseter Bynner, being no ex
ception to the rule. Mr. Bynner iB known
as the author of Penelope's Suitors,
etc., as well as of several historical nov
els, of which this is one. His latest ef
fort is by far the most important story
about a hoy that has appeared since
Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckle
berry Finn, although these books do
not resemble each other in any respect
but strength. The hero's life leads us
to an acquaintanceship with Aaron
Burr and his daughter Theodosia
aud with Blennerhaesett and tbe
conspiracy connected with hiß name.
Zachary ia an 8-year old Boston boy in
the early yeara of the preßsnt century :
fear of hiß teacher, hatred of his step
mother and lack of confidence in his
father, makeß him run away from home
and to sea, where he receives some prac
tical instructions on tbe battle of life
from an old sailor who chances to like
him. He meets General Jackson, and
ia on the deck of tbe Constitution in its
famous fight with tbe Guerriere;
is aboard the Chesapeake when Law
rence gained immortality by the words:
Dou't Give Dp the Ship, and with Old
Hickory fighting Indiana in Florida
during the first Seminole war. He
finally becomes secretary of legation at
St. Petersburg and marries a charming
and lovely girl. A wealth of good work
aud good sense makes this story pleas
ing to either boys or adults and all
young people will find thia stirring
period of our history very interestingly
woven into Mr. Bynner'e new story.
»*»
In Harper Bros.' Franklin-square Li
brary No. 729 we find a new and pleas
ing novel by Mary E. Mann, entitled,
Io Summer Shade. Love, with ite at
tending misunderstandings, is the
theme. In a once handsome English
country home, bat now neglected and
poverty stricken, the heroine is found.
In spite of the fact that Mary Burne's
father had degraded hiß family name by
marrying a gypsy, Mary is a noble,
beautiful woman. Her beauty is the
chief cause of her troubles, as she ia
loved by men in entirely opposite classes
of life, whose jealousy and unreasonable
ness affords material for many incidents.
The other members of the Burne family
are amusingly and graphically des
cribed.
The Arena for January, 1893, is an ex
ceptional number. Tbe first article ie
indeed an enjoyable one by Mildred Al
drich and ie the sketch of a general fa
vorite of the American public, Alexan
der Salvini. Occasionally extraordinary
fathers have extraordinary heirs; but
too often a man of ability bequeaths hie
son less, or what by oontrast seems to
be lees, than tbe average amount of wit.
l!ut in this instance tbe eon
ia a worthy successor of tbe
lather and we meet a striking ex
ample of tbe transmission of definite
gifts through several generations. Tbe
article is well written and well illus
trated. Henry Wood, in a scientific
treatise on Does Bi Chloride of Gold
Cure Inebriety ? gives us some startling
facts concerning tbe growth of intem
perance in our country and the evils as
sociated with it, its possible cure and
ways and means to be employed. Helen
Campbell furnishes an interesting paper
on Women Wage Earners: Their Past,
Their Pi eeent and Their Future. She
treats the subject in a very earneßt. un
derstanding manner. Prof. W. J. Rolfe
presents bis argument in part second of
his In the Tribunal of Literary Criti
cism : A Defense of Shakespeare, or
Bscon vs. Shakespeare.
Rev. J. T. Sunderland writeß From
Human Sacrifice to the Golden Rule,
while Rev. O P. GifTord explains his
position and reasons Why the World's
Fair Should Bt Open on Snnday. B, O.
Fowler's subject, masterly handled is,
Are We a Prosperous People? which is
answered in the negative, the dangers
pointed out and the remedies
explained and suggested. Rabbi
Solomon Schindler teaches the
rapidity of tbe progressive age in Na
tionalization of Railroads. Edwin
Dwigbt Walker speaks of the New Re
ligion, which is really Theosophy, and
dwells on its principle, teachings and
successes. Edgar Lee has an interest
ing article on Astrology in London,
which is somewhat scientific. Eveleen
L. Mason's article wid prove interesting
to the ladies, as it is an article upon
drees reform under the subject title
of Growth Comes from Within.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has a tribute
pure and sweet as a benediction
in her four verses entitled The Creed to
Be. Read it and ponder well and then as
love sends its simple message out dearer
and sweeter day by day, yon will hear
its mandate echo from the skies.
Go. roll tbe "tone of self away,
And let the Christ wi bin thee rise.
A Few Words on a Day in ABia, by
Will Allen Dromgo le, followed by tbe
usual Editorials, Present Day Prudences
and the Books of tbe Day Review
finishes up an exceptional number of
this great magazine.
All the above books for sale by the Stoll A
Thayer company, 139 South Bpring street.
Book Gbat.
Beginald de Koven will edit the new
department of music and drama in Har
per's Weekly.
Thomas Hardy, who has been very ill,
has gradually regained his strength and
is now fully recovered.
A new dramatic work by Sir Edwin
Arnold, entitled Adzunia; or the Japa
nese Wife, will be rtady February Ist.
Prof. Eben Norton Horsford, an able
writer on scientific subjects, died in
Cambridge, Mass., January Ist, aged 75
years.
A new book, Won at Last, by Beatrice
Marean. a new American author, whose
first book, The Tragedies of Oak Hurst,
■■as well received, has its scenes laid in
Florida and are highly dramatic in char
acter.
Bernard Quarritch baa just published
fac-simile reprints of a photo-lithograph
of the Latia translation of Columbus'
letters to Sauxis, treasurer oi Aragon, in
which Columbus gives au account of his
liscoveries. Mr Quiritch has alsopub
lisbed a reproduction of Caxton's adver
tisement of the Salisbury commemora
tion services, which wae primtsd about
1477 Only two copies of this broadside
•re known to exist. These fac-similee
are printed with introductory notes by
Mr. Nicholson, librarian of the Bodleian.
Leon Daodet, the son of Alphonse
Daudet, and husband of Victor Hugo's
granddaughter Jean, who has scored a
success with his book Hoeree, a study of
heredity, is now writing another novel,
to be called Le Propbete, which will
have for i»s hero a literary man who
founds a new school.
Chas. H. Sergei company, of Chicago
have just issued West and East; an Al
gerian romance by Laura Coates Reed.
The author is a western woman who
claims Kansas City as her home. So
great was the anticipation for her book
that frequent calls were made for it over
the book counters before it was pub
lished.
The Waverly company of New York
announces for early publication The
Son, by Paul Bourget, of whom Zola
writes that with the exception of Huys
mauß and De Maupassant, "he is the
only original writer among the newer
school of French novelists." The Son
is said to be a powerful novel in
analysis.
Pierre Loti, by talent alone, haa won
a place in the French academy and is
one of the youngest members and one
of the marked novelists of the day.
His new book, Pecheur d'lslande,
adapted and annotated tor use
as an advanced text in French, is just
ready. Though the Pecheur d'lslande
has a sad ending it cannot fail to be read
with keen interest by all who enjoy a
work of fiction wonderfully graphic in
its picturing of scenes and situations.
Stonewall Jackaon's Horse.
Among the stores captured at Har
per's Ferry, writes Mrs. Jackson in hei
"Life of Stonewall Jackson," not the
least valuable was a train of cars on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, bound foi
Washington, and loaded with horses foi
the government. This was a lawful
prize and was at once turned over to the
Confederate army, with the exception of
two horses which General Jackson pur
chased. Thinking that hostilities would
soon be over, he selected the smaller of
the two—a pretty sorrel —as a present
for his wife.
General Jackson had several other
horses, but preferred the little sorrel to
them all, finding his gait, aa he expressed
it, "as easy as the rocking of a cradle."
He rode this horse in nearly every battle
in which he was engaged.
Fancy, as the sorrel was named,
seemed almost indefatigable. One rea
son perhaps was that he always lay
down when the command baited for a
rest. His master made a pet of him, and
often fed him with apples from his own
hand.
After being lost for a time upon the
fall of General Jackson at Chancellors
ville, the horse was found by a Confed
erate soldier and kindly sent to the Jack
son family in North Carolina. He lived
many years in Lincoln county, on the
farm of Dr. Morrison, father-in-law of
the general.
One of the young Morrisons used to
say that Old Fancy, as he was always
called on the farm, "had more sense
than any horse he ever saw."
He could make as good use of his
mouth in lifting latches and letting
down bars as a man could with his
hands. One of his habits was to let him
self out of his stable, and then go delib
erately to the doors of all the other
horses and mules, liberate each in turn,
and then march off to the grain fields
with them all behind him—like a soldier
leading his command.
But he was such a pot that his misde
meanors passed for clevernoss. He was
often taken to county fairs, where he
was an object of as much interest as one
of tho old heroes of the war.
He was more than thirty years of age
when he died, in 1886, at the Soldiers'
home in Richmond. A stuffed effigy of
this old warhorse may still be seen in a
glass case in the library of the home.
A Woman's Trae Hoanty.
The line in woman from the armpit to
the ankle is the one of principal beauty
iv the sculpture that has been extolled
by nine generations of the most intel
lectually cultivated of our race through
the varying conditions of 300 years. It
is this line that is pushed inward by
mechanical force till an ugly ancle is
produced at the hips. So wide is the
departure from true beauty that it is as
sumed that the distortion is natural, and
that the normal use of the hideous hol
low is to support weight.
The outline of the front of a woman's
body is also composed of similar gentle
outward curves, not one inward curve
from the chin over the breastbone and
below. Never a corset was made that
did not destroy the beauty of this line,
making a depression below the bust, ex
aggerating its proper size and most re
pulsively enlarging the natural outward
curve of the abdomen.
A slight sketch by an artist would
show at once tbat the modest curves of
the typical womanly form are distinctly
unlike the more spirited lines of a man
—one suggesting retiring beauty, the
other aggressiveness and bravery.
We consider the finest development
for a woman that which best illustrates
her typical qualities. We consider the
best dress for woman that which fails to
obscure her distinctive physical features.
In pictures of good costumes faithfully
represented or idealized by artists we
find those giving most pleasure which
tend to enhance these differing charac
teristics. —Philadelphia Times.
Some Theatrical Advertisements.
Among the miscellaneous advertise
ments of a theatrical paper we notice
six persons willing to supply the ladies
with tights, eight with jewelry, aud
armor has a single paragraph devoted to
it. "Wanted, a heavy man to combine
emperor and cat," reads rather peculiar
ly, as does "For sale, an electric nose."
"Leading lady wanted, to look about
sixteen," is one requirement, and
"Wanted, low comedian for old wom
an," is another.
There is a regular menagerie of per
forming animals for sale, including ten
dogs, four elephants, four bears, two
goats, two horses, a donkey ai.d a "happy
family."
Scenery ia procurable in almost any
quantity. "For sale, effective village
street, with practicable night," "fores!
with good thunderstorm," "several sol s
diers' heads for panto," "substantial
rustic bridge," "waterfall of galvanized
iron with realistic foam" are all obtain
able, and "drawing rooms" and "cottagi-v
interiors" are galore.—London Tit-Bice '
NEWS ABOUT FARM MATTERS.
The Valuable Qualities of the
Joppa Orange.
What Mr. L E Steele Has Done With
a Ten-Acre Kancho.
Caoutchouc an a Possible Product—Seeds
aud flanta for Distribution—The
Blenheim Apricot and
Its Features.
J. Wallace F. Di-s has been showing
Borne fine oranges the past few days that
are worthy of careful study. They are
known as the Joppa variety, taking
their name from the country
from which they were import
ed. The orange cannot by any
means be called new, and yet it de
serves more attention than it bas re
ceived. On Mr. Pfeffer's ranch there
are five acres of fruit, much of which is
already in eatable condition, and allot
which can be marketed before the holi
days. The oranges are already very
sweet, being almost a month earlier
than other fruit. In Bpite of
thiß fact they remain on the trees
until July 1, and at that time are at
their best, dropping Boon after. Thus
for eight months it is possible to pick
eatable oranges Jfrom the treeß. But
one of the greatest advantages of the
Joppa is the fact that it hides its fruit
under an uncommonly heavy foliage,
thus giving the fruit protection from
cold and storm. It can be said tbat tbe
average grower pins his faith too im
plicitly on two or three varieties of
fruit. He feels that in the Washington
navel the height of perfection is reached
and he is content. While we believe
the navel almost a perfect orange, yet
we believe that the wisest course ie to
keep an eye of investigation open for
improvements.—[Redlands (in Decem
ber) Facts.
Caoutchouc.
A guest at tbe Hotel del Coronado,
speaking of the rubber industry, eaid:
"Can the india-rubber tree be grown
with profit in the region of San Diego?
This interesting problem can be solved
hy actual triai. An experimental test
would not be costly, results would soon
be reached, and, if successful, the new
industry would be of value almost be
yoDd computation to thie district,
"The plant selected for experiment
should be tbe ficus tdaetica, a plant to
be found in all the nurseries ol this vi
cinity and on many of the grounds of
your cozy residences. The gum from
this tree is hard and firm, and when in
telligently collected will answer the de
mand for the greater part of the pur
poses for which this material is re
quired. It is a hardy plant, and once
planted, cares for itßelf. A region be
low tbe frost line ie required, where tbe
supply of water the plant needs can be
luruished, to produce the growth to the
greatest profit and perfect certainty.
"A writer in the India Rubber and
Gutta Percba Gazette, published in
London, who has apparently studied the
subject, writes tbat, given the heat and
moisture required, the ficus can be bled
the third year from the slip, age not be
ing so much tbe guide in the mater ac
size aud development of matured wood
The writer alluded to gives the results
of experiments carried out in India at a
ppot 1500 feet above the level of the sea
Slips of the vine of the thickness of \ our
middle finger, 18 inches long, when
planted, struck rapidly, and at tbe end
of the third year bad obtained the
height of eight feet of matured wood
with tbe girth one foot from the ground
from 12 to 18 inches. An incision on
each side was made and each plant
yielded four pounds of clean gnm tbe
first season and an addition of two
pounds per annum up to tbe eighteenth
year.
"The deduction from this tbe writer
drew was that an acre planted eight feet
by e'ght contained 676 trees. The yield
up to the eighteenth year, when the
trees could he tapped at the roots aud
given from 300 to 400 pounds per tree
each year would be ac follows: Three
years, 4 pounds per tree, 2700 pounds
per acre; 4 years, 6 poundß per tree,
4000 pound" per acre; 5 years, 8 pounds
per tree, 5300 pounds per acre; 10 years,
11,960, and co on,
"Ficus will grow in flat soil, and re
quires but little care to keep it from
straggling, though it might be necessary
to thin out tbe plantation at times. Tbe
yield per acre would not be much af
fected, as the necessary thinning would
be more than made good by tbe addi
tional robustness of the remaining
plants. As tbe value of thin rubber can
be safely estimated at 50 cents per
pound, I commend tbe subject to the
careful consideration of those interested
in the prosperity of this region. A'
time passes the regions resorted to can
not keep pace with the increased and
constantly increasing demand for this
article of commerce.
"On the grounds of the Hotel delOor
onado are several trees of tbie plant un
favorably situated to receive tbe full
power of the sun, nor have they re
ceived any such supply of water as the
Sweetwater dam could furnish, yet un
der these unfavorable circumstances
their rapid growth, showing now in the
fourth year sufficient matured wood to
warrant tapping, gives encouragement
lo believe tbat the plant may be grown
here with large profit. The test now
required is to see by tapping what
amount of common rubber may be pro
duced from a tree of a certain size. Once
settle tbie question favorably and capi
tal will not be wanted to take up the
land in this neighborhood adapted to
this purpose. If some enterprising in
dividual cannot be found to undertake
this, will not the board of trade of San
Diego take hold of the business?"
Seeds and Plants.
The directors oi tbe agricultural ex
periment station of the university ot
California has, for distribution, a large
number of plants and Beeds. Persons
sending for seedß and plants should
send 25 cents to pay for packing, if they
order by express charges on receipt of
packages. In orders by mail money
should be sent to cover postage.
Cuttings of 12 varieties of figs are
ready for distribution, and a small bun
dle, assorted, will be sent postpaid for
25 cents. Booted vines of 14 varieties
of grapes will also be sent for 25 cents,
■ x press changes to be paid by tbe recip
ient.
Tbe following will be sent for the
prices named: A new acacia, tbe
'hickory wattle," three seedlings, by
• xpress, 25 cents; lemon-scented gum,
good timber, euited for dry land, three
plants, by express, for 25 cents; black
Aattle, three plants for 25 cents; crlm
on clover 4 ounce packets, postpaid,
tor 5 c« nts ; sour dock, valuable for lt>
, .inn. 2 ounce packet, postage paid, foi
5 cents; the flat pea, a new forage
plant, small packages for 3 cents ; osier
willow, nine Australian vaiieties, in lots
of 10 of a kind for 10 cents, or one dozen
assorted for 20 cents, by mail; mulber
ries, 12 cuttings, assorted, 20 ceutß, by
mail; fruit trees, scions of pears, apples,
apricots and plume, in varie'v, for graft
ing, 10 cents per dozen, or 20 cents per
dozen assorted; perennial bean, 3 centß
per package, hy mail, postpaid ; spinach
from New Zealand, 1 ounce packet, 3
cents.
Theße seeds are ready for distribution
now, and the plants will be ready about
Fehruary Ist. Address E J Wikson,
agricultural experiment station, Berke
ley, California.
Small Ranches.
L. E. Steele, who attended tbe meet
ing of the Poinological society in Po
mona recently, has given us some figure
that show how good a living for bill
family of five people his 10 acres ol
various fruits made him in the San
Gabriel valley, west of Baldwin's Santa
Anita ranch "I think," said he, "'my
experience can be duplicated almost
anywhere in Southern California by the
right man, and it proves tbe old-time
argument." Mr Steele bought his
place and a water right in 1885 for
$1200. He set out four acres of prunes,
two acres of apricots, > ne acre of alfalfa,
two acre" to oranges and half an acre to
lemons. He built a houße for ifIOOO
more. He got a living for five yeara
lrom poultry, selling vegetables and
strawberries and doing day labor until
hia property came into bearing Since
then he hae taken it easier, but iB still a
most industrious, Btrong man.
Mr. Steele has kept accurate account
of bis ranch finances. He shows that
he sold crops from his place in 1891 for
$1813 and tie net profit was $1725 Tbe
money came from the following
Bources; From alfalfa, $82; fn m apri
cots, $316; from prunes, $433 J from
oranges, $715, and from lemons, $207
For last year his receipts from hia 10
acres have thus far been $1527 and he
has a crop of oranges that will probably
bring him $600 more next March. His
recent sales of or. p have been as follows :
From auricots, $448; from prunes, $875;
from alfalfa, $70; from lemonß, $134.
Mr. Steele and his two h..v- do all the
work on tbe place, but $132 bas been
paid for extra labor since Jauuary Ist.
—[Pomona Progress.
The Blenhsim Apricot.
In Southern California little is known
of the varieties of apricots except the
Royal and Moorpark. The Royal is such
a heavy and constant bearer that its
reputation is well established, and the
new planter is generally satisfied with
out looking farther. The Moorpark is a
favoritt for domestic ute. Its size and
quality easily commend it above the
Royal, but because it is not a regular
bearer few raacbers plant in quantity
There areorchardß of Moorparke near us
which bear regularly every year, and
heavily, too, while the writer knows an
orchard that has a crop no oftener than
once in three years. The cause of this
difference lias not yet been satisfactorily
explained.
Some years ago the people of Alameda
county began planting to .come extent
an apricot called Blenheim Soon after
the trees came into bearing, at a meet
ing of the canners of the county, it was
voted unanimously to recommend the
Blenheim as worthy of extensive plant
ing. Its size is large, oval; color, a deep
orange yellow; very juicy and rich
flesh ; the tree is a vigorous grower and
regular and prolific hearer. The apri
cot is a good canner and dryer The
price of tho fruit is alwayß 10 to 20 per
cent higher than the Royal. We recom
mend a trial by come of our planters.—
[Moreno Indicator.
When John Was in Doubt.
John was a coachman who took life
most seriously, and being very particu
lar would return frequently in the course
of the day to make sure that he under
stood the orders that had been given him
in the looming. One afternoon he pre
sented himself before his mistress and
began:
"Mrs. T , Oi'm not quite certain c?,
to Mr. T 's ordher this mornin. Oi
was droivin him to the thrain, an he no
ticed that the horse was lame, an be
told me to do somethin to him, mum,
but sure Oi don't know whither he told
me to shoe him or to shoot him. Mebbe
ye can till me."
A shoeing was evidently required, but
the execution of the order and likewise
of the horse was deferred until Mr. T
returned. —Harper's Young People
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Plaster will give great satisfaction.—as cents.
SHILOH'S VITALIZE!?.
Mrs. T. S. Hawuinß, Chattanooga, Tonn., Bays:
"Shtioh'B Vmiizcr'XAVED MY LIFli? I
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Havoyou Catarrh? Try thisHemody. ItwiU
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This Injector for ita successful treatment is
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oo,d whole ale ny H «A3, BAhUCH ,\ 0.,
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ppol's Oriental Powder m Flesh,
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The Best 1
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Restores hair
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Lowell, Mass.
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Can be had in pill form at acme prices if pre
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Consultation BDd advice free, verbally
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KoomN 12 and 13,
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t>AVe hours ri">m it ni to 2pm. Evening,
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M s Nellie HarriVoii's bu-ines fs to "id you by
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old MKB. H LAWkENCK, hair dresßer and
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geles, sells them.
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MONTEZ ' Df! ' W,therin ? " f the
CREMti Frescrm tho Complexion.
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LaCles who wear sal- ftf******
low, *unken complex-
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m^^^ r ~ T3»s3J£i
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I RON, STEEL,
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Bill! BOOK MANUFACTURERS
And General Bookbinders.
N. W. Cor. Temple and New High St
12-7 Telephone 536. 1 yr
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109 East Second St., Los Angeles, CaL
Wedding stationery, ball programs, socletj
ci rii. and higb-, iadr printing o every descrip
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L. WILHELM, r, T,>?F~
I X L. UVhRY AND SALK STALES,
826 S. Main at., bet Kishth nnd Ninth.
Telei hrk c '97,' o- tngel".
Goo'l iii:s,... nirb h(>r es ai dre inble drivers.
Prices reason bl.. Special ut cntiot. to howes
board* dby 4ue day. week or mom h Hon-eji to
le 1 by tn ; diy, wceli or month. Brick htiibles,
tire proof. 9-9 tf

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