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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
HORSEBACK RIDE. OF EIGHT
 HUNDRED MTIEs


 The most wonderful straight away ride ever made by a man was the gal lop of Francis Xavier Aubrey-ci-de- want Canadian voyageur, and fa- nous Pony Express rider-fron Santa Fe, N. M., to Independence, Mo-, ii, lS53-eight hundred miles in five days and thirteen hours. In 1852 he had covered the same dis4 tance in a little over eight days. and his record was on the wager of one thousand dollars that he t'could do if in an even eight" In the whole dis tance he did not stop to rest and changed horses only with every one or two hundred miles. He was a stocky French Canadian, light hearted, genial, adventurous. absolutely fearless.
 For some time he was an overland freighter; and he also made the enor- mously difficult and dangerous drive of a flock of sheep from, New Mexico to California across the deserts of the Colorado. He was killed in Santa Fe. --McClure's Magazine.
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TO CELEBRATE LEAVE TAKING.

Fire Companies on Artizan Street to
 Have Grand Banquet To-Night-Fire
 Commissioners to be Guests.
 The three fire companies, Engine ?, Chemical 1 and, Hook and Ladder 1, which have been occupying the build ing on Artizan street, are planning a big time tonight. They are to have a banquet in the Artizan street house, and speech-malzing by their own num- Der. They are to have the fire commits sioners as their guests. The occasion is the celebration of the leavetaking of their old building, made necessary by railroad cut improvements, for the new house at the corner of Olive and St. John streets, which they expect to take possession of on Wednesday, November 22.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
Necessity of Natiohal Pure Food Law

Washington, Nov. 17.-secretary Wills son of the department of agriculture to-day emphasized the necessity of a national pure food law in an address before the annual convention of official agricultural chemists in session here. He complimented the chemists on their accomplishment in abolishing food adul- iteration.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
SneciaI Trolley Service.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad are using twenty special trains for the transportation of the adherents of the Yale-Princeton colors to-day. The Consolidated rail way will use 125 extra cars. The first run begins at g o'clock from the de- pot, on a two minute schedule from the deaot to the center of the city. After 12 o'clock the cars will run from
 Chapel and College streets on q fifteen
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
BUGS DRIVE OUT BIOLOGIST.
Pupils Enthusiasm in Furnishing

Pupils Enthusiasm In Furnishing
 Specimens Makes Professor Retreat.
 Dr. Charles W. Ballard, professor of science in the High School, has fled from the State. but has left behind him in his apartment a collection of in- sects that will keep professional ex- terminators busy for a week.
 The insects were forced on Dr. Ballard. In a. recent biology recitation he offered his pupils penny for each and every bug they brought him. He wanted 8 collection of insects for ex- periments. All the pupils in the school set to work gathering bugs. It would have taken the professors salary for a year to pay the pennies claimed. Fifty youngsters between then cornered the bug crop a large section of the State
 Dr. Ballard tried to settle for $S. This angered the boys. They ripped open boxes and bags. The 1nundation
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
THE TROPICAL SON

THE PRODIGAL SOMA strong play, splendidly produced and well act ed, '-BostOn Herald.
 THE TROPICAL SONIA triumph of dramatic art."-Boston American.
 'orhe Prodigal Son is the best play he (IIaIl Caine) has ever written. Furthermore, it is staged handsomely and acted by an excellent cast."-Bos- ton Record.
 THE TROPICAL soN''-"win make you think seriously. y."-Boston Traveller
 Seats on sale Tuesday,Nov 21.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
Flyer Crashes Into Engine.

Scranton, Pa, Nov. 1.-The Erie road express flyer" ran into its helper engine in the Carbondale yard this af- ternoon and injured 8 dozen persons aboard the train. The engine of the express was badly damaged and the helper had its tender stove in and was derailed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
SONG RECITAL. Weld and Leo Schulz. Harmonic Hall, Tues. Nov. 21, SIS D. m. Tickets, 50e and si co at Music Stores.

of bugs left no room for Dr. Ballard in
 his apartment. He has gone t5 visit his former home, in Logansport, Ind,
 until the exterminators report the last death.-Salt Lake City correspondence Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18

THE PRoDIGAL SON is thing of power, ,"-Boston Journal.
 THE PRODIGAL SON,''-"It is a. piece which one cannot afford to miss seeing whether or not one has read the book, Boston Post.
 Tt can truthfuI1y be said of '@The Prodigal Son" that 1t has not a dull moment. The producing managers have been as lavish in providing scenic digal in furnishing dramatic situations. The several settings are magnificent stage pictures, surpassing in ETAAAs teness and artistic effort any previous Carlo scene is a spectacled of rare beau ty, and the stage Is crowed with 100 or more richly costumed characters::"- Boston Globe.
 50, 75, $1.oo, $15O.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
NEWLIN HAYNES.

GRAND ATLANTIC KOTHsL, yirain. la Ave. and Beach, Atlantic City. MI. Rooms en suite with private baths Hot and cold sea water baths Delighff,,I table. Rates S2.0B per day; s1b.O0 week. 1. ly. Write for 1905 booklet. Coach rneefn trains. A. c. MITCHELL M co
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09

ventilation, and make peoples ears
ring? Maybe you have woke up those
kings and queens in there, and changed
q, dynasty, you little idiot" The rest
of the crowd wanted to throw me down
the side of the pyramid, but got away
from them and went on top of the
pyramid and hoisted a small American
flap and left it floating there, and then
came back to where the crowd was
discussing the explosion in the tomb,
and then we all went down the side
of the pyramid.
The guides got their nerve back af-
ter they got out in the air, because
they wouldn't help dad unless he paid
them something every stone they
helped him climb down, SO when he
got down he didn't have any money,
and hardly any pants, because what
pants the Arabs didn't tear were worn
off on the stones, SO when he showed
up in front of the spinks he was q
sight, and he bought q, turban of a
guide and unwound it and wound 1t
around him in place of pants. / was
ashamed of dad myself, and it is pref
ty hard to make me ashamed.
We went back to Cairo on the cars,
and what do you think, that dead cam
ell that the Arabs made dad pay for
was with the caravan going back to
town, cause VIC saw him out of the
car window with the hair wore OFF
where dad kicked him in the side The
tourists say the Arabs have that cam
el trained to die every day when they
get to the pyramid and they make
some ltenderfoot pay for him at the
end of each journey Dad is going to
try to get his money back from the
Egyptian government, but l guess he
will never realize on his claim.
Wei sir, after dad had doctored all
night to get the camel rheumatism
and spinal meningitis out of his sys-
tenn, we took a trip by boat on the
Nile, and saw the banks where the
people grow crops by irrigation, and
where an English syndicate has built
a big dam, SO the whole valley can be
and l tell you it will not be
long before Egypt will raise every
thing used in the world on that des-
ert and every other country that
raises food to sell will be busted up
in business, but it is disgusting TO take
a trip on the Nile, cause all the ma
tives are dirty and sick with contag-
iouS diseases, and they are lazy and
and beg for living, and if
you don't give them something they
steal all you've got You are in luck if
you get away without having leprosy,
CT the plague. or cholera, or fieas.
So we went back to Cairo, and there
was the worst commotion you ever
saw about my fireworks in the tomp.
The papers said that an American
dynamiter had attempted to blow up
the great pyramid, and take possession
Of the country and place it under the
American flag, and that the conspira-
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shove, and he would get up gradually. |
We got about half way up when dad |
weakened, and said he didn't care. so |
much about pyramids as he thought |
he did, and he was ready to quit, but
the guide and some of the tourists said |
we were right near the entrance to
the great tomb of the kings, and that |
we getter go in and at least make a
formal call on the crowned heads, and
SO we went in, through dark passages, |
with little candles that the guides
carried, and up and down stairs, UNI
til finally we got into big room that
smelled like q morgue, with bats and
evil looking things all around, and /
felt creepy.
The guides got down on their knees
to pray, and l thought it was time to
be robbed again. | do not know what
made me think of making a sensation
right there in the bowels of that pyra-
mid, where there were corpses thous-
ands of years old, of EgyptS rulers. /
never felt that way at home, when l
visited a cemetery, but / thought ]
would shoot my last roman candle and
fire my last giant firecracker right
there in that moSeleum, and take the
chances that we would get out alive.
So when the tourists were lined up
beside a tomb of some RameSeS or
other, and the guides were praying for
get away with all the money we had,
/ picked out a place up toward the
roof that seemed full of bats and birds
of i'll omen, and | sneaked my roman
candle out from under my shirt, ana
touched the fuse to a candle on the
turban of a guide who was on his
knees and just as the first fire ball was
ready to come out / yelled. ''Whoop
la-much-a wano, pluribus unum,
and the fire balls lighted up the gloom
and knocked the bats gally west
Holy jumping cats, but you ought to
have seen the guides, yelling Allah.
Allah! and groveling on the floor, and
the bats were flying around in the
faces of the tourists, and everybody
was simply scared out of their boots.
/ thought l might as we'll wind the
thing up glorious, so l touched the tail
of my last giant firecracker to the
sparks that were ooZing out of my
empty roman candle, and threw it into
the middle Of the great room and
when it went off yous would think q
cannon had exploded, and everybody
rushed for the door, and we fell ovel
each other getting out through the
passage towards the door.
/ was the first to get out on to the
side of the pyramid, and / watched for
| the crowd to come out The tourists
got out first, and then dad came out.
putting and wheeling, and the last to
come out We're the Arabs, and they
came on their hands and knees, calling
to Mr.. Allah and every one of them ac-
tually pale, and think they were con-
| science-striclSen, for they began to
give back the money they had robbed
dad of, and an Arab must be pretty
scared to give up any of his hard
earned robberieS. 1 think dad was
about the maddcst man there was, un-
tit he got some of his money back,
when he felt better, but he gave me
talking to that l will never forget.
He said: Don't you know better
than to go around with explosives, like
train robber and fire them off in
hole in the ground, where there is no
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09

Cairo, Egypt.-My Dear Old Geezer:
I broke off my last letter in sight OF
the pyramids, when 1 was left alone
on the desert, my jackass having STAN.
peded with the camels, on account or
my fireworks, and presume you think
/ was all in, but l got to the pyra-
mids before the stampede caravan did.
/ saw a car coming along, and ! just
got aboard and in ten minutes l was
at the base of the big pyramid, and
the camel with dad on between the
humps, was humping himself half
mile away, trying to get there, and
the other camels, with the Arabs, were
stretched out like horses in race, be-
hind, and my jaclxass was right next
to dads camel, braying and occasion
ally kicking dads camel in the Stats.
There was about a hundred tour
lists around the base of the big pyra-
mid, all looking towards the SIAM
pede of the camels, and / told them
my dad, the great American million
aire. was on the runaway camel in adj
vance, and asked them to form line
across the trail and save dad, but when
the camel came nearer l was ashamed
of dad. He had his arms around the
front hump of the camel, and he was
yelling for help to stop his menagerle,
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and his legs were flying in the air, anu
every time they came down they kick
ed a hole in the side of the camel.
Well, sir, thought dad was brave
man, but he blated like a calf, and
when the camel stopped and went to
eating a clump of grass dad opened his
eyes, and when he saw that the process
sion had stopped he rolled off his cam
ell like a bag of wheat and stuck in the
sand and began to say prayer, but
when he saw me standing there, laugh
ing. he stopped praying, and said to
me: II thought you were blown up
when that jackass kicked the can of
dynamite. You have more lives than
e. cat. Now, get hustle on you and
We will climb that pyramid, and then
quit this blasted country, and dad
sat dcwn on hummock and began to
pull himself together after the most
fearful ride he ever had. He said the
camel loped trotted, galloped, single
footed and SHE'D all at the same time,
and when one hump was not jamming
him i'm the back the other hump was
kicking him in the stomach. and if he
had a gun he would shoot the camel,
and the Arabs, and bust up the show.
BY the time dad got so he could
stand up without leaning against Ply.
ramid the Arabs came up and they all
talked at once, and drew knives, and it
dad for something. We found an i'm
terpreter among the tourists, and he
talked with the Arabs and pointing to
the camel dad had ridden, which was
stretched out on the sand like he was
dead, he told dad the Arabs wanted
him 10 pay for the camel he had rid
den to death, and foundered by let
ting it drink wagon load of water,
and then entered in a race across the
desert, and the interpreter said dad
better pay, or they would kill him.
Dad settled for the camel for hum
dred dollars, and a promise of the skin
of the camel, which he was going to
take home and have stuffed. Then a
man who pretended to be a justice
of the peace had dad arrested for driv-
ing off of walk, and he was fined
SO and costs for that, and then all the
Arabs struck him for money for one
thing. and another, and when he had
settled all around and paid extra for
not riding back to Cairo on the camel,
we got ready to climb up the pyramid.
Dad said he wouldn't ride that camel
back to Cairo for million dollars, for
he was split up so his legs began where
his arms left off, and he was lame
from Genesis to Revelations
But l never saw such a lot Of peo-
pie to pray as these pirates are Just
before they rob a man they get down
on their knees on rug, and humble
something to some god, and after they
have got you robbed good and plenty,
they get down and pray, while they
are concealing the money they took
from you. Gee but when get home
/ am going to steer the train robbers
and burglars onto the idea of always
being on praying grounds
Well, | told dad he hadn't better try
to climb up the pyramid, that l would
go up, cause l could climb like a goat,
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MAKES LARGE GAINS IN 1904.

In Premium Receipts nearly SO per cent.
In Interest Income 400 per cent
Ia Assets from Premium Income over 100 per cent.
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tors were spotted and would be ar
rested and put in irons as soon as they
got back from a trip on the Nile.
Wei, sir, dad found his career would
close right here, and that he WOULD
probably spend the balance of his life
in an Egyptian prison if we didn't
get out, so we made a sneak and got to
our hotel and bought DISCUSSES and are
going to- get out Of here tonight, and
try to get to Gibraltar, or somewhere
in sight of home. Dad is disguised as
a shiek, with whiskers and q white
robe like bath robe, and l am going
to travel with him as an Egyptian girl
till we get through the Suez canal.
Gee, but / wouldn't be a niger girl
only to save dad. Your innocent.
HENNERY.
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and when l got up to the top ] would
fire salute. so everybody would know
that a star spangled American was on
deck. but dad said he would go up or
quit the tourist business. He said he
had come thousands of miles to climb
the pyramids. and sit in the shadow of
the spinks, and by ginger he was going
to do it, and so we started.
Well, say. each stone is about four
feet high, and dad couldn't get up
without help, so an Arab would go up
a stone ahead, and take hold of dads
hands, and two more Arabs would get
their shoulders under dads pants, and
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10 FOR SPRING!

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Coughs and colds. down to the very
borderland of CONSUMPTION. yield to
the soothing. healing influences of DR.,
Woods Norway Pine Syrup.
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promptly, permanently. Regulates
and tones the stomach.
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will at once stop itchiness of the skin
in any part of the body: Doan's ONT
ment. At any drug store. SO cent?
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Electric Oil. A cut? Use DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. At your druggists.
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

Branch Office at Del Rey Station
w. II. wILLEHRANDs, Agent
Sunset 81
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

on the market by F. H. Brooks & Co..
the prices ranging from $3.50 to $3.50
per acre, terms are one-fourth cash,
balance in one, two and three years
at six per cent
The tract is beautifully situated, hav-
ing good view of part of the city Of
Los Angeles, Whittier and the noun
tains and is adapted to the raising of
alfalfa, berries, vegetables and general
farming. Here one can have nice
home near the city and at the same
time have fine climate, raise products
and have some to sell. Anyone living
on the tract can get Communication tick
cts, 10 cents car fare.
This property has been decided to the
Union Trust company Of this city who
will make all contracts and deeds and
guarantee the title.
The California Land syndicate has
just launched it's Isabella tract at Trop-
leo on the Glendale line. This syndl-
cate has subd.vided the tract into lots,
5ox17S feet, and is selling the same for
$225 each, with payments of $50 down
and $40 per month.
The tract is the only one in Tropico
being sold in lots. 1t Is surrounded on
three sides by distant mountains, an
ideal spot for a home. The soil Is es-
pecially adapted for the raising OF
choice strawberries and other fruits.
Quantities of berries are daily brought
to the local markets and command
highest prices.
The time distance from the center oe
Los Angeles on the Pacific Electric
railway is the same as to the city
limits and the fare only trifie more.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
CORNER OF FIRST AND HOPE
Latest Handsome Improvement for the
Hill Section-Many Novelties
Are Introduced for Con.
venIence
venlence

The Majestic apartment building, a
four story structure Of the colonial
style of architecture. erected on the
southwest corner of First and Hope
streets by l.. and B. s. Holmes, Is
one Of the handsomest improvements
in the city and embraces a number of
novel interior arrangements.
Included in the building are twenty
six three-room apartments, each with
private bath, while all occupants will
be provided with an amusement hall,
separate verandas for each floor, a
large dining room, roof garden and
rapid elevator service.
The disappearing bed, devised by
Lawrence Holmes, Is one Of the strik-
ing features of the built-in furniture OF
the Majestic" In way the inven-
ton is a revelation. The bed does not
rise perpendicularly like folding bed.
but remains in a horizontal position,
simply rolling out of it's aperture on a
level with the floor, to be placed with
ease in any part of the room for use
and then returned in the morning to
it's snug and we'll ventilated hiding
place, entirely hidden from view.
The improved arrangement for the
kitchen is another novelty. Each
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kitchen can be entered from the out
side and all odor Of cooking is elimin-
ated. The halls are used only for en-
frances to the living rooms and par
lors. The kitchens are provided with a
number Of unique inventions, such as
disappearing tables, etc.
The smallest living room is 12x1t
feet and each apartment has an out
side sunny room.
Electric and gas fixtures and fire
escapes are provided and the building
will be heated by steam, with hot and
cold water provided for every room.
1t is expected that the building, which
was constructed in accordance with
plans drawn by Mr.. Holmes. will bt
ready for occupancy October /.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-COUNT
Property. For information about Ven
tura county property call and see me.
| have good number of ranches listed
suitable for numerous purposes. Home
phone 504S. CROWELL, room 131, No.
l42 South Broadway.