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Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

GOLDEN STATE REALTY COMPANY,
421 South Spring Street.
West Twenty-eighth Street.
SiX-room, all-modeIn house;
lot 5Ox15O;
best buy street
$4,000; $1,000 cash; balance easy.
Reid Street.
fve-room. all-modern house;
hardwood finish; nice barn;
lot 50X125.
$4,000; 500 down; balance easy.
West Sixth Street.
Near Union avenue;
an elegant lot, 60X150;
a fine home sto,
$4,000; easy terms.
GOLDEN STATE REALTY COMPANY,
421 South Spring Street.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19
FRATERNAL NOTICES

GOLDEN STATE CAMP, NO. ITO, n. w. A.,
meets every Wednesday night in K. P. hall.
IOs North Spring St All neighbors cor
daily invited
w. H STONE Clerk.
23s-239 Bradbury Bldg.
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INGRAM & BRIGGS.

Members Los Angeles Realty Board.
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sIX-ROoM BUNGALOW.

FOR SALE
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j. STITT WILSON.

Nsi1SON.
Cumnock hall. Fifteenth and Figueroa,
2:30 sharp; subject "Cosmic Release" Ad-
mission 25 cents. Pasadena tonight,
Woodmen hall
CHURCH OF THE UNITY CUNITARIAN), 925
S. Flower st.-Wesley Haskell, minister. Ser
vices, II a. M, Sunday school. 945. Rev. E.
T. Wilkes. Sunday school superintendent.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

Eight-room house, nicely furnished; goo
Investment; must be sold by Tuesday.
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Open every day, and Sunday.
10 a. m. TO 5 y. m.
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Si25 Down
For a nice lot on West Thirty-eigf
street. near Normandie. 50xi3s price S6
Sl25 down, balance $40 per month.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

BRANCH OF
GOLDEN STATE REALTY CO.,
Ala West Seventh street.
Sunset Main 5770. Home Phone 1472.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

For a modern, six-room cottage on Vel
mont avenue; $500; $500 down, balanc
S25 per month; lot 50x100.
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HeIp-Male and Female
Situatlons-Male

WANTED-A POSITION BY A BUILDER OF
2J years experience, versed in all provinces
of building: good accurate estimator. If
necessary will invest some capital Address
BOX 1141, Herald office
CAPABLE AND RELIABLE BUTLER DE-
sires position in family. Address BOX 11O1,
Herald office.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

CHRIST PROT ESTANr EPISCOPAL
church-Flower street. corner of Twelfth
Rev. Geo. Thomas Dowlng, d. D., rector;
Rev. Charles w. Naumann, assistant min
lister. Morning prayer with sermon by
DIR. Bowling, at IL n. M; AN Episcopal
Revival Sermon" Sunday school at $3.50
a. II. Musical service, with evening
prayer and address by Rev. Mr.. Naumann,
al 1880 p. m; 1.-THE Beattude of Content
ment" University, Pico Heights or wash
ington strees cars. Welcome.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

FOR SALE
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

A SPANISH LADY, GRADUATE IN BOTH
Spanish and English wants pupils 10 teach
Spanish; 81 90 a month, two lessons a week
yersational method HOME PHONE A,429.
HOEGEE'S BALLOON DAY, WEDNESDAY,
Feb. 22 Prizes for people OF all ages. Every
body invited, HOEGEE, l3S-14O-142 So. Main
WANrEp--cHILDREN no BOARD. GOOD
home, reasonable terms. 1888 PALoMAREs
AVE. Phone South 225
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
BABY GIRLS
AWFUL RUMOR
Would Scab Over, Break Open, and
Be Raw = Intense Suffering for
Two Years Doctors and Medi-
Cines Failed to Help Her.
CURED. BY CUTICURA
AT COST OF rs CENTS

Writing under date of Aug. rs, 1904,
Mrs. L. c. Walker, of S fremont ST.,
Woodfords, Me-, says: My sister
had a terrible humor on her shoulder
when she was eighteen months old,
causing intense suffering for two years.
We had several doctors, and tried
everything, but in spite of all we
did it kept spreading. One day 1t
would scab over and then crack open
and a watery matter ooze from it and
the scabs would all fall off. 1t would
be raw for a time, then scab over
again, Some one recommended Cuti-
curs, and we Immediately procured
a box of Cuticura Ointment, and cake
of Cuticura Soap. She was much bet
ter after the frstba with warm water
and soap, and an application of the
Ointment, Before twas half gone we
saw q marked change for the better,
and che was entirely cured, without .
Gear being left, by the one box Of Oint-
ment and one cake of Soap. Her skin
IL now entirely clear, and she has
not had sign of trouble since"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20

The samlel Is a hot, noxlOus cleo
trleal wind which passes over the sandy
deserts Of Arabia and Africa. 1t moves
with the qulckness Of lightning and
passes In narrow currents for a few
minutes at a time. 1t deals instant
death to every man or beast happening
to face It, and 1t is said that 1t so de-
composes them that their limbs fall
asunder. The approach Of 1t is indlcat-
ed by thick haze In the horizon, and
travellers, II they have time, throw
themselves on their faces, with their
feet toward it, till it has passed. The
sirocco Is another bllghting wind, which
prevails in Italy and adjoining dis
tricts about April The West Indian
hurricanes are Of totally different
description, being simply vortexes or
great force, and they have been known
to blow heavy cannon out OF battery
and carry a man over ten foot wall
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
The Beaver's Tooth,

No carpenters chisel can do more eff
fective work than is turned out with
ease and neatness by the beavers
tooth. This Is the principal tool with
which these patient, clever builders
construct their dams. The outer sur
face of the tooth Is a scale Of very
hard enamel, while the body of it is Of
softer dentine. AS the softer sub
stance wears away in use the end Of
the tooth takes chisel-like beyel, leav-
ing a thin. slightly projecting edge Of
hard enamel as sharp as any carpen-
ter's tool fresh from the oilstone. The
thin scale Of enamel gives keenness,
the softer dentine supplies strength,
and thus the combination forms a for
midable tool. which actually sharpens
itself by use.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
THE WATER SPIRIT.
Origin of Odd Beliefs About ReScu.
Ing Drowning Persons.

Origin of Odd Beliefs About ReScu-
Ing Drowning Persons.
la Great Britain the belief that you
must not rescue a drowning person is
most prevalent in Cornwall and vari-
Gus parts Of Scotland. The French
sailor and the boatman of the Danube
bow to the decree, together with the
Russians, and let the people drown.
Or. Taylor In his primitive Cul.
ture7 declares this lingering fondness
for this old creed is because the water
spirit is angry at being despoiled Of its
victim, and should the unlucky person
who has dared to Illustrate him trust
himself TO the waters power he will
drown as sure as fate.
The Bohemian fisherman shrinks
from snatchlng a drowning man from
the waters, fearing the water demon
will take away his luck in fishing and
drown him before he gets to shore with
the would be victim. In Germany
when some one Is drowned they say,
1.-THE river spirit claims its yearly sac
rifce," or. 1.-The nix has taken him."
The belief Is current not alone In
those countries above mentioned, but
the Kamchatkans rather than help
man out Of the water would force him
under, and II he should escape to the
shore no one would dare receive him
into his house or dare to give him food.
He is supposed to be dead after once
falling into the water.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
NEW S NOTES

Everybody knows the apple crop is
short Light and scattering in the west,
probably less than a third Of crop in
New York, very uneven yield through
New England and almost failure in
Michigan seems a fair summing up,
with high prices thus far for the farm
eTs.
There begins to be talk that the fairs
and stock shows should do more to en-
courage and bring out exhibits from
the small, individual growers.
Prices Of hides continue to soar.
Leather manufacturers are active In
buying, and somebody is gathering in
dollars. Is it the producer or the
packer?
Meat inspection for the small indie
pendent packers hereai. r. by the bu.
reau of animal industry is now prom
ised
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
MOURNING CUSTOMS.
origin of the widows Can and Black
Sleeve Band.


The customs Of mour ~ as prac-
iced in variJus parts o.. ,he world
seem at first sight to ha;" little rela-
ton with each other or With the in
ward grief which they are supposed
to typify. Yet by the eXcr Use Of a lit
tie patience many resemblances may
be discovered among thea. The wild
owls cap, for example, Gates back to
the days Of ancient IL pt Egyptian
men shaved the beard and head as
token of mourning. The women, In
stead Of cutting Off the hair, concealed
1t by a close cap. The Romans, who
were as q race clean shdyen, shaved
the head in mourning ana wore a wig.
The black band on the sleeve as a
sign Of mourning comes to us from the
days of chiyalry. The lady tied a scarf
or napkin, as the handkerchief was
called, about the arm of her knight.
If he was killed In battle she wore the
band in memory Of him.
Black has so long been the color Of
grief In Anglo-Saxon countries that 1t
seems a part Of the upside down civ
ilizatiOn of the east that Japan and
China wear white. But no longer ago
than the time Of Elizabeth the unfor-
tunate Mary of Scotland wore white
on the death Of Darnley. Even now
the hearse used for children Is white,
and in England the mourners at fu-
nerals of young unmarried persons
wear hatbands and sashes Of white.
A queer English custom Is that of
decorating the black hearse horses with
long false black tails They attract no
more notice on street in Liverpool
than do the black nets used in this
country to cover the horses.
A great many sensible people protest
that wearing tokens of mourning Is a
barbaric custom that should be abol-
ished or greatly modified, but when
loss and grief actually come into the
individual life one discovers that there
Is a strange, subtle fitness In gloomy
garments and that they answer to the
need of the soul for silence and sepa-
ration.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
CARRIER I'm ROUTE.

teal aspect few appear to strike a
more common sense note than the ele-
waited carrier
According to Orange Judd Farmer,
which illustrates q carrier loaded and
en- route to the barn, probably no mod
ern invention is quite as satisfactory.
This device Is used to carry manure
from stables to the open yard or
wagon, to convey feed and other ma
terial from one part Of the farm to the
other, for sending milk from the barn
to the dairy house, etc. Carriers are
not expensive. They are easily put up,
they are great labor savers and seem
to be in every way satisfactory.
Many farmers have used them and
express themselves completely salts
fed. One of them says: Il have owned
one for a year, and it is my intention
to put in another this fall. The orig
idal cost Of the carrier was $2G, with
$50 feet Of cable After getting 1t to
my farm l paid an additional cost Of
So to put it up"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
ONION
Seed sowinG-TTsnHpiaGt Versus
Thinuing In the Field.

Seed s0WinC-TTeuHNfaG versus
ThIpuing In the Field.
Sowing oa.ol seed IN beds or cold
frames and laur transpianting to the
field have been found by Il. Garcia
to be more satisfactory In New Mexico
than sowing the seed in the field. How
ever, practically all the onions now
grown in New Mexico are from seed
sown in the field. When sown In
beds and transplanted, from 3 to As
pounds Of seed are required, while II
the seed Is sown directly in the field
to @ pounds are required. At the
state experiment station 1t has been
found better to transplant the latter
part of February or early In March,
even If the onions are only one-half as
large as q lead pencil, than to wait I'M
til later in the season. 1t has been
found that boy can drop the onions
for about three planters. A good plant
err will set 5000 plants per day. With
hand cultivation it Is recommended
that rows be about fifteen inches
apart and the onions set 4 to As
inches distant in the row. With
horse cultivation the rows should be
about thirty inches apart. The average
estimated cost at the station for trans
planting for a period Of three years has
been about $50 per acre, while the cost
Of thinning onions grown from seed in
the field has been SAL per acre.
Irrigation and Yield.
In the region of New Mexico the rain
fall is so light that onions cannot be
grown without irrigation. Light and
frequent irrigatlons are preferred to
heavy irrigations at long intervals.
Good results have been secured when
very muddy water was used for irri-
eating purposes. The yield of different
varieties at the station in 1903 without
fertilizers was Mt the rate Of $4,000
pounds per acre for Red Victoria and
10000 pounds for Prizetaker. In 1904
Gigantic Gibraltar, without fertilizer,
yielded at the rate Of 81 $50 pounds per
acre.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
Christmas on
AnOcean Liner
Trees For Passengers and Grew, Pres
ents, Toasts, Singing and Dane
ing Make It a Gala Day.
pTVHE man who spends his life on

NUTNHE man who spends his life on
board a big passenger ship
sees about as many different
kinds of Christmases as any
body, l guess" said the captalp of a
North German Lloyd steamship as he
sat in his cabin preparing for a holiday
voyage to the Mediterranean.
with a crowd Of jolly passengers
aboard who are off on trip to enjoy
themselves Christmas is day to be re-
membered. Friends and relatives send
gifts on ahead, so that they may be
handed to passengers at the right time,
and Of course this personal remem-
brance from home makes more enjoya-
bic the celebration which is always
prepared on board the ship itself. The
oath Of December passes about as do
other days until dinner time arrives,
and then the chefs and stewards Guido
themselves in providing an elaborate
menu and in table decorations.
IF the weather is fine, as 1t is likely
to be, the passengers are in high spir-
its, for the Christmas feeling is infec-
tious, no matter where you go. To
ward the end of the dinner speeches
are made, songs are rendered, stories
are told and toasts are given, and when
this is completed all 60 to the main sa-
loon, and the Christmas tree is re-
vealed, standing there In the middle,
under the big skylight IL is a big tree,
too, just as big as can be obtained and
put in place, and on 1t are hung gifts
from the ship for every passenger-not
costly at all, but remembrances that
are likely to be long preserved as SOU
venirs Of a pleasant occasion. Then, If
the sea is not high, the candles are
lighted, and the tree bursts into beauti-
full illumination.
After the distribution Of gifts from
the tree a concert Is given II the weather
is bad, but whenever Christmas eve is
pleasant and the latitude. is suitable the
passengers go on deck, which they find
to be shielded from the wind by can
vas, brilliantly lighted and decorated
with flags and bunting. And, tell
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
ORDER OF THE GARTER.
It's Alleged ballroom Origin Only
Legendary Romance.

Legendary Romance.
The origin Of the Order Of the Golden
Fleece is, like that Of the Garter,
shrouded in mystery. Very few mod
ern archaeologlsts attach any credence
to the vulgar tradition, wholly unsup-
ported by any authority, that at court
ball given by Edward III. lady, sup
posed to be the Countess Of Salisbury,
dropped her garter, and the king, TAX
Ing It up and observing some Of his
eourters to smile as though they
thought he had not obtained this favor
merely by accident, exclaimed In
loud voice, "Honi soft qui NAL y pense."
There Is another opinion which traces
the origin Of this order, which, accord
ing TO the learned Seldom, exceeds In
majesty, honor and fame all the chiv-
alrous orders in the world" to Richard
Occur de Lion having upon the occa-
sion Of some warllke expedition during
his wars in Palestine chosen leathern
thonged garter as the distinctive mark
of his partlsans. Yet another theory
ascrlbes the foundation Of the order to
the fact that Edward at the battle Of
Creey issued his garter as signal for
battle, which, proving successful, deter
mined him to institute the order IN
memory Of the event.
Both these opinions are to a certain
extent feasible, and the first is mate
rally fortified by the well known fact
that when the crusaders captured st.
Jean d'Acre in q nocturnal assault the
knights Of the Christian army were or
dered to wear straps of white leather
bound round the leg under the left knee
In order to distinguish them from the
InfdplS
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20

you, on a moonlight night, with calm
sea and soft, pleasant air, in the Medi-
terranean, for example, Christmas
eve aboard a great ship Is something
for most passengers to remember. I'm
sure 1 can't imagine anything more
charming.
THE band plays lively music, and the
passengers dance on deck, but If they
imagine they are the only ones aboard
ship who are celebrating Christmas eve
they are mistaken. If they were to
look into the fOrecastle they would
see another Christmas tree there, also
covered with little decorations and
gifts-the sailors tree. For, you know,
O German Is only half q German with
out tree on Christmas eve, and every
German ship has one.
Long before the ship sailed from
her home port on the Christmas voy-
age friends and relatives of each sailor
prepared some little presents, which
they sent forward In care Of some ac-
Quaintance In the crew so that their
particular sallorman might have his
surprise at the right time. OF course
these gifts are inexpensive, for the
sailors family has little money to
spare, but a pipe. warm stockings or
some such article is received aboard
the vessel and carefully kept until the
proper time, when all are hung on the
tree. The company gives the sailors
little wine or beer and Christmas cakes.
This applies also to the firemen. who
have a tree of their own in their room.
So. as you will see, there are usually
GO many as three trees aboard the ship.
"The 25th Of December we observe
~ a holiday on our ships, and all work
10 suspended aboard ship excepting
that which 1t is absolutely necessary to
perform. II there Is a clergyman
among the passengers he Is requested
to bold religious services for the tour
lists and also for the crew, and these
are fully attended. On German yes
Hels the captain does not Offlclate, as
DO English captains, at such cere-
monies Inter Ocean.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20

have raised four good crops on the
same land this season. IN November
1 planted in cabbage; then, as soon as
danger from frost was over, l planted
bunch beans between, and when laid
by the beans the cabbage was off, and
l planted corn in the middle, and when
l laid by the corn / broadcast peas be-
tween the corn. / plant cantaloupes
six feet apart each way and two stalks
Of corn between one way, then train
the vines to one middle and SOW the
other in peas and as soon as the can
taloupes are gathered SOW the other
middle in peas. | never put in n fresh
crop without fertlliZing it at the prop
or time and depend on peas to enrich
the soil, which they are doing very fast.
Irish potatoes are planted five feet be-
tween rows and corn in the middle the
last planting, then peas broadcast
when the potatoes are dug and corn
laid, says a correspondent IN Southern
Cultivator.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
ODD DERlVATlONS.
Curious History of the Word "Vote."
How aReticuIe0 Got Its Name.

Curious History of the Word ''Vote."
How "ReticuIe" Got It's Name.
"Vote" is word with a curious his
tory. To the Roman ''votum" was a
solemn promise made to deity. From
the solemn promise Itself the meaning
Of "votum" gradually became the
prayer or intense wish that accompa-
MED the promise and then any intense
wish whatever SO far the develop
ment proceeded in Latin, and vote
passed into English with the Same
sense. When Ben Jonson wrote Of
public votes" to heaven he meant not
mass meeting resolutions, but prayers.
Finally 'vote" acquired its present
meaning, the formal and emphatic ex-
preston of wish, while the old sense
remains with its double wow"
That openwOrk bag for shopping,
called a reticule, gets It's name directly
from the Latin ''retlculum." little
net" Popularity, however, the word is
supposed to owe its existence to the
fact that when an Englishwoman. visit
ed the first Paris exhibition with her
little bag in her hand the Parisians
cried "Ridicule" The Englishwoman,
misunderstanding the exclamation, Is
said to have thought 1t the correct
translation of little bag and return
ed to England calling 1t ''reticule."
Philologists claim that the phrase to
"sleep like a top" comes from the
French "dormlr CONNIE une taupe," to
sleep like mole. 1t is said, too, that
Cinderella's slippers were not made Of
glass, but of war;" the old French
word for ermine, which In time became
corrupted Into ''verre," glass.-Chicago
News.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
A Queer EeatlYal.

A queer festival IS celebrated In Ma
lacca every ten or twelve years. The
opening Of the festival is slgnallzed by
a grand procession, in which huge piles
Of eatables take large share. at the
end of the third day the viands are
burned. On the last occasion the piles
Of food were placed in specially con-
structed boat which was towed out to
sea and there consumed by fire, togeth-
er with all the contents. A large sum
Of money. amounting to several thou
sands Of dollars. was subscribed, large
ly in Singapore, for the proper Observ-
ance Of the festival.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
pnrln ReRfnurnnfa.

A Chicago man just returned from
ramble In Europe declares that IN
Paris the traps for unwary travellers
are innumerabe rs the sands OF the
seGshore. One Of the most familiar Is
the restaurant where the bill OF fare
is without prices. the check being made
out according TO what the customer
seems able to pay. Il was bitten once
or twice in this way" says the trav-
elcr. "but then | refused to order un-
less the menu mentioned the cost
Sometimes tie proprietor protested
feebly. but l told him that he didn't
bug his victuals without knowing the
price, and | should follow his exam
pie"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20

Helen, aged four, was spending a
night away from home. At bedtime she
knelt at her hostess knees to say her
prayers, expecting the usual prompting.
Finding Mrs. l. unable to help her out,
she concluded thus: Please, God,
scuse me. | can't member my prayers,
and Pm staying with lady that don't
know any"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20

Train 80 connects with Southern r
Ra. Strasburg Junction for HarrisonbUj
and points on Valley Railroad.
coo No. 80 No. II
''"' Pass. Pass.
---- --- 49, --
Lv Ha-risOnburg 45pm go am
stanton .... 3 4Spm 25 am
Ar leSinglon. 8 5Opm 10 90 am
= ally except Sunday.
90 ,atss tickets, baggage checked
ar, y a. any office Of the B. & o. Rail
roau or to C.E. Dudrow, Travelling Pas
ssu2o' Agent, Harper Ferry, W. Va
T. E. JARRETT, Agent,
Lexington, Va
G. W. BASSETT. G. P. A.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
To save ones Bacon.

"To save ones bacon"-that Is, to
make a narrow escape-ls supposed to
refer to the Dunmow fitch. For many
centuries It was the custom at Dun
NOW, in England, to present fitch Of
bacon to a married couple Of twenty
years standing who would make oath
on the Scriptures that they had never
had a quarrel. To come close to a
quarrel without an actual rupture was,
In the popular dialect, ito save ones
bacon"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
The Point of View.

Henry, If | were young man like
you and expected to have to make my
own way in the world some day l
should try to make my expenses come
within my Income"
Father, II were as rich as you are
and had oDly one son I'd try to bring
his income mp to his expenses. Chi
cagO Tribune.