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Los ANGELES DIVISION,
I23 SOUTH MAIN STREET

Los ANGELES DIVISION,
1913 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
YOUTHS suffering from results of follies or
excuses, causing nervous debility, semin al
weakness, loss of vigor and mel mory, despond
eney, diseases of the Kidneys blood and re-
vsricocele, structure and msny chronic and
destroying diseases,
Eli EN older in years, having too frequent
evacuatiOns OF bladder with loss of vital ms
terial, phosphates, ETC., woolly or brick dust
deposits in urine. which are SYM toms OF sec
Ondary seminal weakness, the loss imp0verisa
ing the vital organs.
COMPLICATIONS S-The reason thousands
cannot get cured of above complaints is owing
TO complications not understood by ordinary
doctors. DR.. Liebig 4 Go. have discovered the
secret OF curing the complications.
FREE-0ur conf Dental book and diagn osis
sheet sent free on application, securely sealed.
OFFICE ROURs-9 am to 8 pm. SIM
days, 10 to IL.
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The Farming and Fruit Land Co

NOTICE-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Land com pany will be held on Tuesday the I'd
day or January, 1894 at 3 O'Clock p. m, in the
office of the company. lab South Broadway,
Los Angeles, Cal, for the purpose OF electing a
the transaction OF such other business as may
come before the meeting.
Los Angeles, December H. 1893
II Is lSt JOHN GOODE, Secretary.
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Chicago Grain Market.

kHIcAeo, Dec. 9.-Whest-Light trade. The
ket opened unchanged; declined &c as a
Stinusnce of yesterdays weakness and on
er cables; rallied nc on good local buying,
kt.yto cover shorts, with moderate pts
q fl fmuess of cash Article in the northwest
5sed arm and J. G higher than yesterday.
Receipts were $4,000 bushels; shipments,
I, 900.
Elosing quotations: wheat-Firm; cash, Gle;
ky. 66Ac.
Corn--5teady; cash, ?5c; May, 3S7sc.
kag-iIeady; cash, 271ac; May, 30Isc.
kyc--45,xc.
Barley Nominal.
Flax-$l.34.
2othy-a4.3O.
| oTHER GRAIN MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 10.-Wheat ives easy; de-
! nd poor: No. California closed at 5s 6d0D
l7d; No. 2 red western spring, As 8d@5s Cd;
2 red western winter. 5s 3dG5s 4d
orn-steady; mixed western closed at
I3xd.
4AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.-wheat was easy;
cember closed at $l.07s4; May, 81. .2O5l.
orn-92lac.
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LOST MAN HOOD

Tobacco, Alcohol Opium, or on account
of youthful indiscretion or over indulgence etc.,
Dizzinees, Commissions. Wakefulness, Headache
Mental Depression. Softening of the Brain, Weak
Memory, Bearing Down Pains. Seminal Weakness,
Hysteria, Nocturnal Emissions, SpermatorrhGa,
Loss OF Power and Impotency. which II neglected.
may lead to premature old age anH insanity.
Positively guaranteed. Price. s! 20 box; boxes
for So 90. Sent BY mail receipt of price written
guarantee furnished with every 90 order received
effected. -
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EEw YORK, Dec 19.-Petroleum-Close at
(3c asked.
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Trains via Pasadena line arrive at Downey
avenue station minutes earlier and leave
minutes later
+Daily. tDaily except Sunday. t5undays
only. 4. w. McGEE, City Pass & T. Agt,
129 N. Spring ST., Los Angeles.
And Ia Grande station
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whisky.
CHICAGO. Dec. 9.-Whisky-$1.15.
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Southern Pacific Company

IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME.
OCTOBER 1, 1893.
Trains leave and are due to arrive at
Los ANGELES (AROADE DEPOD
Fifth street. dailv as follows:
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COUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILWAY
- COMPANY. (eanta Fe ROutel
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, DEC. II, 1893
Trains leave and are due to arrive at Los An
geles LA Grande station) First st. and Santa
Fe ave.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

SEVEN men were killed by the explosion in
the Buck-Ivanhoe Tunnel, near Leadville,
Colorado.
An explosion of gas occurred in the vault
of the Dime Savings Bank, In Detroit, and
John Stein, a clerk. was frightfully burned.
HENRY SCHROEDER and his sister and
George Reinfeldt were drowned in the harbor
of San Francisco, by the eapsizing OF their
skiff.
Az explosion OF nitro-glycerine occurred
Ut the High Explosive Co.'S magazine, two
miles from Columbus, Ohio. CLARK Robinson
and Benz. DOVE were killed.
l.. d. REIrHMAN, of Denver, Col, came in
contact with an electric wire while shovel
ing snow from the roof of one of his build
ings and was instantly killed.
A Huntington and Big Sandy passen ger
train fell through trestle near Ceredo. West
Virginia, landing In Twelve Pole eneek, 40
feet below. James MeCreary was killed
Four men were killed and 1--WE injured by
an explosion In the Rusk-Iyanhoe Nine at
Leadyille, Col Three of the dead--George
Young, Collins E. Roiley and P. McGoyern-
have been identified.
A STEAM scow was capsized by the wind in
the Susquehanna river at Lock Haven, and
OF seven men on board three were drowned
@-Budd Reed, aged 20 Fred. Sim and an
unknown man who had been fishing with
Sim.
BENZ MooHs Irvine mill, OF Washington
Village, 16 miles cut OF Providence, Rhode
Island, was demolished by boiler explosion.
Emory Clark and Samuel Percy were killed
outright. Amos Harrington was fatally in
jured.
WHILE some men In mine blacksmith
shop, at Tower Mimi, were engaged In
breaking up lot fold gas pipe with steam
..l..aY ND hrf..a
men were killed and nine injured, two OF
whom will die. 1t is supposed there was
quantity of dynamite in one of the pieces OF
pipe.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
WORK AND WORKERS.

ABour $50 iron workers In the Union Paei-
fc shops, at Denver. have struck, but the
knights of Labor have not gone out or do
not intend to do so.
STORY comes from Topeka, on the au-
thority OF one OF the Sante Fe strikers, that
the railroad managers Of the United states
have agreed to sign no more contracts with
labor organizations, and that the refusais OF
the Sante Fe TO sign contract was part OF
plan to test the relative strength Of the rail-
roads and organized labo-.
A CONFERENCE OF delegates representing
the knights of Labor and the Ohio mine
workers was held in Columbus, Ohio, ito
promote the interest Of foundry labor union
men in Cleveland whose employers, as al
legged. propose to discharge them on account
of their connection with such unions, and
contrary to a Law passed this winter to pre-
vent such discharges.
The officials OF the Ann Arbor Road and
committee OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers were in conference in Toledo Tho
men conceded that no engineer now in the
employ Of the road shall be dismissed simply
to an old employe to have his place,
and -at no engineer who was guilty Of in
iuring the company's property during tho
late strike shall be re-emptoyed. The strike
is likely TO be declared Of.
BRUCE 4 0LIIsER, ship-builders at Mobile,
Ala, have under construction two harges for
the Government and have been working their
men nine hours a day. They ware arrested
for violating the eight-hour Law and they
notified the men that a reduction would b
made TO comply with the law. The men re-
fused the rate and, as a consequence, sixty
five carpenters went out on a strike.
A DESPATCH from Topeka says that 60
mechanics from Philadelphia arrived there
In special train TO tax, the place OF the
striking shop men On the Atchison, Topeka
and Sante Fe Railway. At a late hour a TEN
porary restraining order was produced from
Judge Hazen. OF the District Court, forbid
ding each OF the strikers from in any way in
terfering with the employees Of the company,
or from attempting TO influence them to quit
work, either By threats or bribery.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
Submarine Macs.

The engineer corps of the United
States army has been actively en- "a ged in
experiments with submarine mines.
These explosive traps, designed to blow
up hostile ships that eater haroors, are
OF two kinds sunkeu and floating.
They are steel cases holding dynamite,
that being the explosive regarded by
this Government as most suitable for the
purpose. Dynamite consists OF seventy
five per cent. of nitro. glycerine, which
is too dangerous to be used by itself, alb.
sorbed by twenty-five per cent. of
highly porous infusorial earth called
''rottenstonc Other substances besides
rostenstone have been utilized as an alb
sorbeRt, such as cornmsal and brown
sugar. The sunken mines are lowered
to the bottom Of the water, where they
are held in position By their own weight.
Each OF them contains a battery so ar
ranged that 3 shock communicated By
the hull of a vessel will set off the
charge, probably sinking the ship b.
blowing hole beneath her water line.
Internal machines OF this description
have the disadvantage that it is hardly
possible without great danger for those
who put them down to take them up
again. More seryiceable in a general
way are the floating mines, which are
anchored out and connected by wire
with stations on shore. So long as no
danger is anticipated the electric cur
rents are shut of and ths steel cases roll
about on the waves as harmless as so
many barrels.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
CABLE SPARKS.

THE Australian Joint Stock Bank failed,
with liabilities of SIS, 000. 900.
Prince FERDINAND, ruler of Bulgaria, and
Princess Marie Louise, eldest daughter OF
the Duke of Parma, were married at Flor
ence, Italy.
The executive committee of the British
Miners Federation adopted resolution de-
claring that Mr.. Gladstone sided with the
minority against the majority on the eight
hour question.
MR. j. @. CARTER, in his argument before
the Boring sea tribunal OF arbitration. con-
tended that the seals frequenting the Priby-
lon Islands were guarded and cherished by
the United States, giving proper right.
A DESPATCH to the Independence Beige,
Brussels, from the Congo reports that Cap
tain Vankerckhoven, the famous military
officer, of the Congo Free State. is dead,
death having been caused by an accident.
THE vote in the Belgian Chamber of Depu-
ties reversing the former action of that body
and granting universal suffrage practically
as demanded by the workingmen, has COM
pletely ellayed this agitation, and the strikers
resumed work.
NJ DoNoS, OF the Societe de Depots, in
Paris. was sentenced to imprisonment for
four years, NJ. Ganthier to two years AMI NJ.
Poisson for eight months for fraudulent acts
in connec ton with Charles de Lesseps and
other Panama directors,
The dowager Duchess OF Sutherland, sen.
fenced In London, to six weeks imprison-
ment for contempt OF court in burning court
document intrusted to her for inspection, is
said to be seriously ILL., She is at villa near
Windsor. The question has Lecn raised
whether peeress is not exempt In such
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
A Handsome Public Document.

Secretary Gresham aud ]. A. w.
Grip, the Swedish Minister, recently ex-
changed, at the State Department in
: Washington, ratified copies of the extra
dition treaty between the United States
and Sweden, concluded on January IA
last
The copy presented by Mr.. Grip is
altogether the haudsomest and most in
trinsically valuable document in the
archives of the department. The text
of the treaty (Which is in English aud
not in French, the common language OF
diplomacy is printed on the tiues'
parchment. The ratification and GER
LITIGATION preceding and succeeding thu
text are engrossed in fancy script and
signed by the King iu a plain. round
hand, Oscar" The countersignature
is by C. Leweuhsupt, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The parchment is bound in leaves of
heavy cardboard, covered with the rich
est of royal purple velvet, and lined
with heavy watered silk. Across the
inside of each leaf lie two bands Of
vari.colored ribbon. The great seal of
state is embossed over two cords of gilt,
silver, red aud blue strands, Terminating
in tassels of the same. The seal is Of
red wax, " inches in diameter and half
an inch thick. It is inclosel in silver
case. on the face Of which a gold fac
simile of the coat of arms of Sweden is
engraved in high relief. Tne whole is
inclosed in white-birch box. polished
to the highest degree, aud fastened VITA
brass clasps. -New York Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
SuperstitiOus OF Bolivian India s

"Speaking about the Indian popula.
ton in South America and the slow
business methods Of the people in that
country" said Amos J. Thomas, of Ford.
ham, N. Y, to the Star representative,
'reminds me of some curious supersti-
tons that the indians of Bolivia enter.
tain.
~ was in the country in 1891. The
Indians constitute about half the popu-
lation. They treat fever by heroic
process. When the patient is burning
up they throw him into cold water, aud
the colder the better Although great
efforts have been made to cause them "
abandon this murderous method it still
prevails.
al was in tho city of Lipas in Sep.
TENDER, 1891, when they had a good
sized earthquake. I noticed that shortly
G;ter the shock great many Indians
were very drunk, reeling round the
streets. asked the cause, aud was
Informed that they believed that the!
had but short time to live, that tho
world was coming to an end aud that
they would enjoy themselves during
their last moments in manner which
they consider the height Of earthly hap.
piness.
Though these Indians are civilizei
they are deusely ignorant, aud by their
superstitions aud turbulen ut actions retard
the progress of the country. tits almost
impossible to maintain telegraph wires,
as the Indians believe they will interfere
with the rainfall and consequently de-
stroy their crop. The Government re-
Gently attempted to establish a telephone
line between the capital, Lapas, asd
Lake Titicaca, forty-fve miles apart. II
was torn down and destroyed so fire..
quently by the Indians that the Govcrn-
ment was compelled to abandon it.
"They preserved the electric light
plant iu Llpas by adopting an ingenious
method OF overawing the natives. After
the plaut had been in operation but
few nights it happened that there was
an eclipse of the moon. The light was
absorbing or swallowing the moon. They
gathered in large body at one quarter
of the town and moved upon the plant
to destroy it. 1t was saved only by the
intervention of large body OF troops.
The Government the next day selected
several representative Indians, took them
to the power house, shocked them Sc
verely, then took them out along the
line and shocked them again with the
wires and informed them that the cleo.
trio light was an evil spirit aud that they
had better leave 1t alone. Sincs ther,
and that was but short time ago, they
have had no trouble on that score. -
Washington Star.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
Funeral Trai as.

"We have twenty-five corpses OF
board this morning, but | have taken
down as many as sixty and seventy at a
time" said the guard OF the London and
Southwestern train which is set apart
for the use of the London Metropolis
Company at their private station in the
Westminster Bridge road, to Pail
Mall Budget reporter seat to inspect the
special system of seputure peculiar to
this company. The system differs in
so many respects from the more conveu-
tional methods that it merits description,
and hence my trip by the funeral train
day Or two ago.
that | vcntured into the curious little
station, which is diugy and sombre,
without being dilapidated, and is well
upholstered and solidly furnished,
without being aggressively comfortable.
When tle company opened business
nearly forty years ago, they expected to
get the whole of tie London burying
trade, and to find graves for hundreds Of
thousands yearly. Their sta.istician
told them that in the course of seventy
years they might reckon upon doing
business with 4, 900, 900 corpses. More
than half the time has elapsed aud they
have only buried some 81, 900 odd. The
differences between that aud the proper
ton their statlstician promised them
indicates that 10000 people whom
they reasonably expected to bury are
either provided for elsewhere or are
walking about defrauding this company
by continuing to live. Bat, so far as ]
could detect, the officials at the station
did not eye me as one of the million
odd who ought to be dead. l admit at
the outset that, Notwithstanding their
obvious excuse for being resentfui, they
were civil and communicative, aud in.
vited me into the mortusry with hospit-
able welcome.
On the right of the mortuary itself
was large room overlooking with ready
made cofhns some three hundred Of
them. These are kept ready for emer-
gencies, and it transpired that one pretty
frequent emergency is the hotel death,
To prevent soaring guests away, the
hotel proprietor bushes NJ the death OF
boarder, sends for one of these ready
made collins, and has the body removed
in the dead of the night.
All day long, and sometimes during
the night, the mo.tuary gradually gets
peopled with corpses until there are
thirty, forty or sixty as the case may be,
all waiting for the train. AT about
eight in the morning these passive pas
sengers are hoisted on to the railway
platform by means Of lifts.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Ma. wALrKR BKsAsT Is one OF the English
suthors intending 10 visit the Worlds Fair At
Chicago this summer. He will attend the
literary congress 10 be held there.
TIE Independence Beige says tbs system
Of having mail boxes attached 10 street ears
whereby letters are greatly expedited by be-
ing conveyed Immediately 10 the general
postofiee, which was introduced In Hudders-
held, England, recently, has been In success
ful use In Belgian towns for fifteen years.
~. HUI, Of the Great Northern Railway.
Is building line Of steamers that viii be the
soyereigns Of the lakes. The first boat Of
the Northern Steamship Company viii soon
Be launched at Cleveland. Tbs boats will
cost $500, 900 each and be largely AFTER ocean
models, having u speed OF twenty-five miles
an hour. The passenger aeeommodstiona
will be superb. The lins viii run between
Duluth and Buffalo.
oAYrArs CIV. GHAs., Of the English army,
who IL in Washington, speaks thus Of our
soldiers II have seen most Of the armies Of
the great nations on review, and consider
that the American regular troops are q fns
body Of exceiIently drilled and well ofncered
men. though, Of course, the army in this
country does not receive the attention BE-
slowed upon the armies Of the older ma
tions."
The practice OF naming the lower and
-
York's Central Park menagerie after certain
distinStive Irish narnes-sueh names being,
In most instances, tboss Of the tutslary saints
Of the church. Ike st. Michael, &C. Bridget
and 81. Patrick, and which arc held dear
enough 10 their deTotees to name children
for then-has produced no little indignation
among many citizens Of Irish extraction I'm
New York.
cAs the Cleyeiands stand this so racketf
"A girl baby born 20 Mr.. and Mrs. henkeu,
Of sheldon, Iowa, was named Bufh Ciege-
land and marked paper containing the an
Houneement found IFS way TO tue White
House. II following letter was the result
Mr. and Mrs. Renken. Sheldon, IosEa In
closed fad draft for ESQ, which please piacs
in Bank 70 the credit Of your new born Dem
oerat, Ruth Cleveland Rsnken, and may shs
live to ripe old age. Yours truly, Ma AID
Mas. GEoTER CLEvEL4sD.
Az official circular Of Count Caprivi has
been issued 70 the Institutes Of technology,
industrial schools, ami other establishments
for technical education throughout the Ger
man Empire, informing them that Henry
Willard had placed 90 900 marks, about e12s-
900, at the disposal Of the Chancellor for tho
purpose Of enabling worthy young men 70
Wait the Worlds Fair. Sixty per cent y
allotted 70 artisans, mechanics and naeht-
nists, and the rest to persons Of other eaii-
ingS. Allowance viii be made In sums rang
ing from e430 70 $50 for the expenses Of the
triD 70 Chiesga.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
HIS MATCH.

Tie burglar stepped lightly into the
room.
He moved forward in the dark with a
pistol in one hand and bottle of chic
reform in tine other. He was desperate
and ready for anything.
Especially anything to eat.
Suddenly his foot struck something,
and the next second an indeAnable body
hurled itself upon him. With muffled
shrek of fear he dropped his weapons
and grappled with the monster. He
fought and tore; he struck savagely at it
in the dense darkness, but all to no pur-
pose.
He was as child in the awful grasp
of a giant.
Only for moment the unequal battle
ragged; then he sank upon the floor,
conquered.
They found him the next moralng,
cold and stiff, but they were too late.
And as the head of the house olsen
tangled the wire; of MS wife's hoop
skirt from about the unfortunate bur,
glars neck, he said, softly, "Poor fel.
low! Set it again, Maria! Truth.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-29
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A new clock extinguishes electric
lights.
Combustion without smoke Is Berlin
achievement.
Over $4,000 patents have been Issued
by the United States for application Of
electricity.
A patent has been issued for Q lock
which can be operated only BY mag
Letized key.
The arc light Is more trying 70 tho
eyes for tho reason that IL Is vcry In
tense, and Is always moro or les ua.
steady.
1t is stated that By mixture OF nine
parts Of phosphate Of coda and four Of
dilute nitric acid, Temperature Of
twenty degrees may be obtained.
II the sun were oil coal, aud that Of
the best quality, the entire mass, II emit
ting the heat now sent forth, would be
burned up in less than 5000 years.
People who have any fear Of snake
bite are informed that a little perman.
gauate OF potash injected into the wound
by a hypodermic syringe Is an infallible
autidote.
Ramie fiber is being used to consid.
cradle extent in France, as . substitute
for silk, in the manufacture Of silk
goods. 1t IS also being used in tho manu-.
fscture of paper that requires special
strength.
An exceedingly delicate and quick
reading electrical thermometer has re-
Gently been brought out In France. 1t
is intended for clinical work AMI will
record variations 10 temperature of one
twentieth of degree centigrade.
Over forty miles of wire will be used
on board each of the two now big Gu
nariers Campania and Lucauia for the
electric lighting equipment. Each ship
is to have powerful search-light and
about 1880 sixteen candle power iucan.
descent electric lamps.
1t Is popularity supposed that it is civ.
ilizaticn that increases and sggravates
nervous diseases, but Doctor Brinton
says it diminishes them. Among the
lowest African races, which might be
supposed to be devoid Of nerves, he
found such diseases very common.
scientific paper describes how to
make ice on small scale. Touch the
convex side of watch crystal upoa
water, so as to leave drop hanging on
the glass. Pour little ether into the
concave aud blow upon it, The rapid
evaporation of the ether will render the
glass SO cold that the drop of water will
be frozen.
The phenomenon OF phosphorescence
is not universally understood. Objects
possessing this property absorb light
during the day and emit it at night.
An estimable old lady had DARK closet
in her house and she painted it with
phosphorescent paint, expecting to il.
i2minate it. But as the psint had no
opportunity to absorb light it couldn't
emit any, and the old lazy continues to
search for her dress pockets with eau
die.