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Onions.
Onions are almost the best nervine
known. No medicine is so useful in
cases of nervous prostration, and there
is nothing else that^ will so quickly re
lieve and tone a wornout system. On
ions are useful in all cases of coughs,
colds and Influenza, in consumption,
Insomnia, hydrophobia, scurvy, gravel
and! kindred liver complaints. Eaten
every other, day, they soon have* a
clearing and whitening effect on the
complexion.
Where the Lady Was Going.
An official of a New England roao
told the following:
The ticket agents in the Boston office
of our road are greatly troubled by
patrons who, when wishing to pur
chase tickets, lay down a coin and
neither tell where they are going nor
how many tickets they want. This ne
cessitates one or more questions on the
part of tl\e patient agent. One day a
little elderly lady approached the win
dow of the office, placing a large fami
ly umbrella on the slab, and, after
fumbling nervously in her pocketbook,
pulled out a quarter and laid it down
without a word to the ticket seller.
"Where are you going, madam?" ask
ed the ticket agent.
"Oh, I'm going to the doctor," was
the tremulous reply.
An Apt Pnpil.
A. professor who, when asked a ques
tlon, was in the habit of saying: "That
ia a very good point indeed. Look it up
for yourself," was once much disgust
ed with a student who had failed to
answer a very simple question. "Mr.
Jones," said he, "I'm surprised that
you, who are going to teach, cannot
answer such an elementary question.
.Why, what would you do if one of your
pupils were to ask It?" "Well, profess
or," replied the other, "if such a thing
had happened before I came here I'm
afraid I would have said plainly that I
didn't know, but now I think I'd do
just as you do and say, 'Look it up,
my boy; look it up!' "
Lincoln and the Old Virginian.
Washington was a strong man and a
famous wrestler. He was never
thrown, which meant much, for wres
tling was a favorite amusement with
Virginians, many of whom were as
nearly invincible as the ancient Greeks.
Lincoln, too, could boast classic excel
lence in the same sport. "It is a curi
ous thing," Lincoln said, when Wash
ington's prowess was first brought to
his attention— "it is a curious thing,
but that is just precisely my record
■wfcen I was a youth. I could outlift
any man in Illinois, and I never was
thrown. If George was round now, I
should be pleased to have a tussle
•with him, and 1 rather believe that one
of the plain people of Illinois would be
able to keep up his end against the old
Virginian."
Matrimony and Patience.
Matrimony and patience! It is not
always a perfect combination, is it?
In South Africa the savage tribes have
a. peculiar ceremony which they put
the matrimonial candidate through pre
vious to his entering the holy state.
His hands are tied up in a bag con
taining live ants for two hours. If he
bears unmoved the tortures of their
stings he is considered qualified to cope
with the nagging and daily jar and fret
of married life. Such a man would
make an admirable husband. He
would not be upset by the thoughts of
a. spring bonnet or grow irritable every
time the steak was overdone. The idea
of having a patience trial for those
about to marry is one that civilized peo
ple might adopt, .
The Largest Described Snake.
Speke, in his narrative of the journey
to the source of the Nile, describes the
largest snake that has ever been seen
toy man. "I shuddered," he says, "as
I looked upon the effects of his tre
mendous dying strength. For yards
around where he lay grass, bushes and
saplings— In fact, everything except
full grown trees— were cut clean off aa
if they had been trimmed with an im
mense scythe. The monster when
measured was 51 feet and 2V 2 inches
in extreme length, while around the
thickest portions of Its body the girth
was nearly three feet."
Labor.
If it were not for labor men could
neither eat so much nor relish so pleas
antly nor sleep so soundly nor be so
healthful nor so useful, so strong nor
so patient, so noble or so untempted.—
Jeremy Taylor.
Pursue the Puzzles.
He— lt's impossible for any one to un
derstand you women. You're all puz
fcles. She— Which proves that you men
.are all stubborn. He— Why? She—Sim
ply won't give us up. — Philadelphia
Press.
Important.
"What sort of a man is Jimcon?"
"Oh, he's one of those fellows who
«end their washwoman a check for $2
4Uid spell it 'chequer "—St. Louis Post-
Dispatch.
It takes a wise man to discover a
•arise man.— Diogenes.
SUPERFICIAL SENTIMENT.
lecret of Power Lies In Intensity of
Emotion.
Superficial sentiment is without vital
Influence. The secret of power lies in
the Intensity of emotion, but especially
bo in poetry, art and literature! By no
hocus pocus can artists and writers
adequately depict what they do not
feel. There should be a thermometer
of temperament as well as for temper
ature. Feeling and emotion have their
degrees. We are serene when our feel-
V*gs are In the temperate^ zone, indig
nant when we pass eighty-three, fuii
ous when we reach blood heat, mad at
boiling point. When feeling falls be
low 50 we become indifferent, and
when it reaches freezing point we are
heartless. An emotion that does not
attain the seventy-sixth degree is hard
ly worth recording. At summer heat
the rarest flowers begin to bloom and
nature becomes poetic. While the tem
perate is the proper sphere for pure
reason and scientific observation, it is
rarely, if ever, proper for the highest
achievement in any art. In the world
of art imagination and feeling are not
content with a serenity that touches
the borders of indifference. The crea
tive instinct is never effective unless
at a certain pitch of enthusiasm. It is
the sharp, clear, brilliant current of
thought that electrifies the brain. But
lvi idea is worthless unless we can find
a form to hold it. In the best work
idea, form and feeling appear to the
beholder as one. An electric bolt seems
a cold thing, yet a stroke of lightning
will consume more at one flash than
an ordinary fire would consume In an
hour.— Francis Grierson in Critic.
GETTING THE NEWS.
Uethod Adopted at the Outbreak of
the Revolutionary War.
In contrast to the workings of the
newspaper of the day and of the rap-
Id transmission of tidings without the
aid of even a wire to guide the mes
sage is a document printed in the Berk-
Shire Courier at the beginning of the
Revolutionary war. But evidently peo
ple were as eager then as now to hear
the news.
"For the Purpose of getting Speedy
and Certain Intelligence from the
Army at Boston. We the Subscribers
hereby promise and agree to Ride from
this town to Tyringham or Sheffield
by Turns so as to bring Inteligence
from thence each Day (the Sabbath ex
cepted) and to Report the same at the
House of Mr. Josiah Smith— And In
Case no regular method is come into
for bringing the News to Said Tyring
ham we promise to bear our propor
tionable part of the Expense in pro
curing Inteligence from Springfield
twice in each Week— Witness our
hands this 3rd Day of May 1775."
Following this agreement is a list of
days, with the names of the citizens
who were to be riders. Jacob Van
Douson, who agreed to be the first
man to ride to Tyringham or Sheffield,
was to go for it on Monday, May 8.
and Mark Hopkins was to follow on
Wednesday, the service from that time
on alternating, except as to the Sab
bath, which compelled a no news in
terval of two days in the week.
SPEED OF INSECTS.
A Common House Fly Travels a Mile
In Thirty-three Seconds.
It is the popular belief that the flight
of the birds is much swifter than that
of the insects, but a number of natural
ists who have been making a study of
the matter think that such is not the
ca.se.
A common house fly, for example, is
not very rapid in its flight, but its
wings make 800 beats a second and
send it through the air twenty-five feet,
under ordinary circumstances, in that
space of time. When the insect is
alarmed, however, it has been found
that it can increase its rate of speed by
over 1.(50 feet per second. If it could
continue such rapid flight for a mile in
a straight line, it would cover that dis
tance in exactly thirty-three seconds.
It is not an uncommon thing when
traveling by rail in the summer time to
see a bee or wasp keeping up with the
train and trying to get in at one of the
windows. A swallow is considered one
of the swiftest of flying birds, and it
was formerly thought that no insect
could escape it.
A naturalist, however, told of an ex
citing chase he saw between a swallow
and a dragon fly, which is among the
swiftest of insects. The insect flew
with incredible speed and wheeled and
dodged with such ease that the swal
low, despite its utmost efforts, com
pletely failed to overtake it.
The Water Pitcher.
The following simple method of keep-
Ing ice "water in a common pitcher Is
worth knowing: Put a layer of cotton
batting between two sheets of wrap
ping paper three inches higher than
the pitcher. Fasten the ends of the
paper and batting together, forming a
circle. Paste a cover over one end of
the batting and paper. This cover,
when over a pitcher, must come close
to the stand and so exclude the air,
and Ice will keep a long time. This
paper cover will be found of great
service In a sickroom for both milk
Notice
All persons are warned not to cut or
remove any timber or wood from the
NE 1-4 of section 15-16-13 and the
S 1-2 of SE 1-4 of section 1 0- 16-13
commonly known as the "Cole place,"
"Holton place" and "Wildcat Slough.''
F. J. Eddy.
Notice to the Public
Notice is hereby g-iven that the uiidersig-ned
citizen of the United States is in possession of
the tract of land described as the N. l / 2 of Sec
36, Tp. 15 S., 14E., according- to the survey of
these lands made in 1900 by the Imperial Land
Co. and commonly called the Imperial Survey:
Application has been made for entr.v, which is
now pending- in the United States Land Office
at Wasnington. This land is known to be
vacant and unclaimed public land, as the
School Section 36 in this township has already
been located by the proper "Authorities and is
situated Z miles East and J^ mile north of
the lands occupied and claimed by nivself.
I hereby certify that there is no other claim
or occupation to said land except mine, and that
I have been in possession of said laud for
more than one year. I also certify that the
necessary reclamation work has been done,
and that it is my bona fide intention to enter
said land as a desert claim as soon as the
resurve3- of these lands, provided for by the
Act of Congress of July Ist, 1902, Statutes at
Larg-e, Vol. 32, part 1, page 728, is completed
and the map properly desr.ribing- these lands
filed in the United States Land Office at Los
Ang-eles, California, and the lauds opened for
entry.
Signed: L. V. SISSON.
Witness: L. E. Cooley.
Dated at Santa Ana, California, June 12, 1906.
J-16-J-7.
Colorado River Gage Taken At Yuma
Salton Sea Ga^e Taken at Salton, Cal.
Wittnan
The Plumber
Tanks and Pipe of all sizes
Work Done all Over the Valley
Phone 129 Imperial, Cal.
I have. 160 acres of good land in
Water Co. No. 1 and 160 shares of
water stock all for $20 per acre.
Cash payment of $500. Pay the bal-
ance in work, leveling and putting in
crop on adjoining land. See me at
once. D. H. CHAPLIN,
EI Centro, Cal.
We have never made poor ice
cream and this year it's better than
ever. Imperial Drug Co.
OFFICE OF
i§ M. LYON
THE LYON BROS. CO., "'" H. O. COGGINS CO.,
New York City Pittsburgh Pa.
California and Colorado Cantaloupe Distributors
Selling and Distributing Agents for the
Brawley Cantaloupe Growers' Association
Brawley, California
Holtville Cantaloupe Growers' Association
Holtville, California
El Centro Cantaloupe Growers' Association
EI Centro, California
We have agents in every city in the United States that can handle
and sell satisfactory car lots of cantaloupes and these sub-agents dis-
tribute to reach all smaller points accessible.
We aie the original distributors of the Rocky Fordj Colorado, can-
taloupes, and opened up and established them on all Eastern markets.
We havfe contracted with the old original Rocky Ford Association
of Rocky Ford, Colorado, to distribute their crop of 1906, making the
Bth season we have been appointed by unanimous vote, their selling
and distributing agents. We also have contracts with Manzanola"
Weitzer, Newdale, Fairmount, La Junta, Granada, Amity and Holly,
making NINE Associations, covering the original territory, comprising
the Rocky Ford Cantaloupe District of Colorado.
NOTE — Our Mr. L. M. Lyon will take personal charge of the
Brawley office on May 10 and remain during the shipping season, and
until May 1 his address will be 330 Washington Street, New York City.
Mr. Peter P. Hovely is in charge of the Brawley office until Mr.
Lyon arrives.
The Holton
Power Comp s ny
AT THEIR ICE MANUFACTURING
PLANT AT
El Centro, Cal.
IS PREPARED TO FURNISH
ICE AND
REFRIGERATION
In any quantity and at reasonable rates
Ice will be delivered in the
towns of Brawley, Holtville,
Imperial, El Centro and Cal=
exico, in any quanty desired
and for less prices than is
charged by anyone else.
For information and prices, address
HOLTON POWER
LJ 1/ I MAN V
EI Centro, California

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