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| The market continues srohs' Neslher eieai'
eo NsvaI nnO" '''' Average
Poeahontas Fly, Randolph F. co..........ss 50
Gobbler Fly, o. r. Stewart f. Com. = 90
| Hiawatha T. c. c. Fl Ex.................. 2.6O
Vista de Robles, 0. R. Stewart F. co... $40
Arizona navels-
Desert boxes g ~
Desert half boxes $50
PITTsBURG, Dec. 23,-Four cars sold, four
cars on track. The market is steady on navels'
weak on lemons. Six cars Floridas sold. aver
age 50 per box. The market is steady on
Fioridas Weather favorable
POINTER SsgstS A. c. G. Fl. Elk. Giendora ST. rs
/ Golden Orchard. Independent TT. Co... 26O
Premium, Oh. Benchley TT. Co............. 24O
Lemons
D1 cEE ySst2 Dec. 28.-Weather cool. The
market is strong on navels, steady on lem
ons. Four sold, five cars on track. Three
cars Floridas sold from s1.4O to s2.5Oi average
about s2.25. The market is unchanged on
Floridas. There are six cars Floridas on
track
Navels-
Petunia. Altland FIT. Co......'............... ESQ
sdIirrei' A. Fl. Fit. Elk. Prenda. ......... ESQ
CINCINNATI. Dec 23.-Weather COOL Mar
ket Is weak on lemons. steady on oranges
sold Brights. si.s5@s45i russets 81 s5@2 49,
There are two cars on track
Lemons
Arab S. A. TT. Tx. San Dimas .......... 50. 20
Duclx S. A. FIT Elk, San Damis .......... LIS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.-Weather cool. Market
ia strong on large Sizes Weak lemons
Three cars on track. Nine cars Floridas sold
average sl.s5 per box There are Ave cars on
track
Navels--
Rescue c. Fl. Stewart TT. Co............Si.7 rs
Tulip T. c. c. FIT. Ex., Portervile ........ {. IS
Puritan, S. b. TT. Ex., Rialto ............. 2 rs
Big r. s. b. TT Elk, Rialto ............. 2.e5
searchlight. 5. s. Ft Ex., Orange ....... 2. IS
Tangerine halves
Vista de Robes. o. n. stewart FIT. Co... 1. 25
Lemons
Trail, s. T. Fit. Elk. ........................1.s5
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MINING QUOTATIONS

Yesterdays quotations Of the Los Angeles-Ne
vada Mining Stock exchange were as follows;
California
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CITRUS FRUIT REPORT

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Three cars califor-
MIA navels and one car Arizona navels sold.
The market continues strong. Weather clear,
cold Snow last night.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2s.-Arrived Steam
er Redondo, San Pedro.
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FINANCIAL

Los ANGELES, Dec 2S.-Bank celarings
were S2579, S4491 against 81, 399, 80 for the
corresponding date last year, an increase OF
ST. $50, 397 SO. Following is a comparative state
ment
1908 1907. 1906.
Dec. s27.994.51 $1,15S,5i5 O5 81, 1S5Sn7 10
Dec. 22.... 1741, 541.S1 1,2S6.5s 90 2,114450 "a
Dec. 23.... 9sll.g1 1888, 1859 1451, Il
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Retail Prices
ncaI Hav Market

TIAY-No. l barley hay s14@1S; No do, $1S
| @14; No. / wheat hay $1s; do No. 2, s14@15;
No. 1 plain oat hay. s16qls; do No. 2, slSq15;
| northern alfalfa, $l5@1T local do, A5a17,
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FLOUR AND FEED PRICES
AT LOS ANGELES MILLS
The following quotations prevail at the Cap
0' % MEALS, PER 100 LBS, IN SACKS

Rolled wheat in bbls. net VT. 125 lbs. Dbl. .$4
Rolled wheat in sacks, net VT. so lb SIX. H.
Buckwheat flour bulk seamless SIX. loO ips) T..
Bucxwheat flour pure (bulk seamless
Ihq 4
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New York Stocks

Especial service to The Herald by DICK
Bros & CO. members New York stock ex-
change Bradbury building, Los Angeies)'
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
rARM AND HONE.
Stick to One Breed.

AT the meeting OF the Illinois
Dairymen's Association, Mr.. W, u.
Jones said, among other things, that
whether your stock is Jersey, Guern-
sey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, or any
other class of cattle, stick to your
text, and once having made up your
mind what you want, keep on in that
line with a pure bred bull, and You
will have uniform herd OF some
kind, and as general proposition a
better grade OF mixers than to jump
from one breed to another each sue
ceeding season. You get reputation
in q short time OF having a herd OF
Jerseys, Holstein, Swiss, or some 9th
err breed of cattle, even II you never
had a pure bred female on the place,
providing you have a sire of the same
breed for two or three succeeding
generations. Even with the greatest
care that can be used in selecting
calves there will be disappointments.
Occasionally calf that you expected
the greatest things from proves dis
appointment. The best sires are Of
ten sacrificed before their real worth
is known. On several occasions we
would have given many times what a
comparatively good bull could be
bought for II we could get back some
animal that had been sent to the but
cher before his real worth as a breed
er was known. OF course, this is an
unfortunate condition that only time
and close observation on the part of
the breeder can obviate. Weekly
Witness,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
Tickets Made from Newspapers.

That newspapers are constantly left
on the seats in railway trains nobody
with the slightest power of observation
need be told On the other hand, few
people would suppose that these dis
carded papers could prove of any value
to the company controlling the line
But this is essentially the age for the
utilization of waste products, and great
corporations are quick to own any lab
or or money saving device.
Probably the strangest development
In this direction would appear to be
that now prevailing in Belgium. Up
on the government railway systems
newspapers left In the trains are the
property of the nation, to be used by
II for the manufacture of railway tick
cts. The papers are carefully collected
and sent to the head depot, where they
are reduced to pulp and a special va
riety OF cardboard for ticket purposes
is prepared.
Some idea of the amount Of raw ma
terial readily available to the railway
authorities from this source may be
gathered from the fact that the ae-
emulation of discarded newspapers
upon the whole network Of government
railways aggregates about seven hun
dred pounds day represent
ing over one hundred tons year
The saving from this source alone
which is no mean one, can readily be
calculated Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
KNOW the Cows, Yleld.

For three years one COW gave an
nually an average of 1890 pounds
of milk, yielding 4O5 pounds of but
ter fat; the second COW $500 pounds
of milk from which 1913 pounds Of
butter fat were obtained. The first
ate one-half more feed than the sec
ond but produced three times more.
There was less than three dollars Diff
ference in the cost of keeping and one
averaged profit of SGT, while the
other lacked So of paying for her
board and keep. This is not an ex-
IRENE case, but 1t is frequent occur
renee.
The dairyman must know which
COW pays and which one eats its head
off, and profit as we'll. There is only
one way 1 know Of to determine this
by the scale and Babcock test, and
the scale is as important as the test.
BY combining, every man in the
neighborhood can have his cows test
ed at slight expense.
Dairying in business, and to be
successful should be understood thor
oughly. A merchant knows what he
is going to sell, its cost and what he
will make as profit. How many, af-
ter they get COW in the stable, know
whether she is paying or not? Per-
haps the second COW could, by in
creasing her food little, have been
made to increase her yield of milk,
but there would be lots of work and
little profit in handling herd of
such cows. l believe business princi-
pies must be applied to any calling
to make it successful.-Prof. ]. E.
McClintock, Agricultural College, Or
ono, Me.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
Feeding Growing Pigs.

There can hardly be 4 one rule
method of feeding pigs, as conditions
vary so much. 1t may be from the
weather or something peculiar to the
animals themselves that some filters
can be fed heavily and others only
very carefully for fear Of gripping
the animals. BY care and practice a
person can find out proper method
and should aim to carry 1t out sys-
tematically. 1t is not wise thing to
feed any thing that happens to be
handy and that will satisfy the pigs
appetite, for 1t will result in making
the pigs unthrifty, with consequent
loss. Choose the ration that is best
adapted to the conditions at hand and
then stick to it.
Do not keep too many pigs in one
pen unless the space is large and has
plenty OF troughs. Troughs should
be of the proper height, with parti-
tions to prevent the pigs crowding
each other from the trough, and this
also keeps the food clean.
Feed regularly and carefully, in
creasing In strength and quantity as
judgment sees fit. The object should
not be to fatten exclusively, as is too
often the case, but to moderately
fatten while keeping growing till the
pigs reach weight of 100 to 200
pounds.
1t is extremely important that the
animals should be kept clean and dry.
Remove the soiled and damp bedding
often and replace with little dry
straw. Wheat straw is preferable, as
1t does not keep dampness or pack
and heat as quickly as the others.
While there is a great variety of
material fed to pigs, it should be re-
membered that it is the properly ma
tured animal that gains the place of
honor, though unfortunately it often
happens that the man who produces
the right material too often fails to
reap the reward and benefit to which
he is entitled. --Farmers and Drov-
srs' Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
When March q is sunday.

James Monroe was the first President
to have term begin Sunday March
4, 1921. was Sunday, therefore Mr., Mon
roe's second inauguration the was first
inaugurated in 1917 occurred on Mon
day, March 5.
The beginning Of presidential term
did not fall on Sunday until 1919,
when Zachary Taylor was inaugurated
Monday, March s.
The third occurrence of the phenom-
enon was at the Inauguration of Ruth
erford B. Hayes, on March S, 1877;
and the next occurrence will be in 1913
1t is said that March 4 was selected
for Inauguration day by Benjamin
Franklin on the ground that this date
would fall on Sunday less number
OF times than any other for two CEN
turtles succeeding the establishment of
the government-Nor Landmark.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
MARS SEASONS.
Vital In the Vegetable Economy of
the Planets Year.

vital IN the vegetable Economy OF
the Planets Year.
Were Mars not an old planet, cor.
roborating by absence of cloud the
general course of planetary develop
ment, our knowledge of it would have
been slight. To begin with, 1t enables
us to mark the permanency in place of
the planets features, and so to time
their axial rotation; by which we come
to knowledge of the planets day. This
day proves to differ little from our
own in duration, being "a hours, 40
minutes long, instead Of "a hours.
Next 1t discloses the tilt of the axis
to the planets orbital plane, rela-
ton which causes the seasons of the
year. Now the marian tilt, as we'll
as the marian time of rotation, turns
out to be sigularly like our own, being
in fact "a deg. as against % IL deg.
for the earth. The year of Mars, how
ever is twice ours in length, which,
joined to great eccentricity Of orbit,
gives it diversifiedly long seasons
Thus in the northern hemisphere
spring lasts 1919 days, summer 1873, au-
tumn lat, and winter 1853, while in its
southern hemisphere the figures stand
reversed.
The numbers have more than acade-
demic Importance, for absolute length
Is as vital factor in seasons influ-
ence as the fact Of the season itself.
Much may be brought to pass in twice
the time which could not develop in
the shorter period And 1t is not a lit
tie interesting that precisely this pos
sibility actually turns out to be vital
in the vegetative economy OF the
planets year.-From Percival Lowell's
1.-THE Sun Dominant" in the Century.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
REGIMES.

Easy Pie Crust.-One quart pastry
-four, one level teaspoon baking pow
der, same of salt. Stir thoroughly,
then add nine cooking spoons of melt
ed lard and hot water (not boiling,
but hot) enough to make a stiff
dough. Not too stiff, for it will hard
en- little as it cools.
Spanish Rice--Put pieces of butter
in frying pan, cut up large onion
and add, stirring till light and brown.
Then add three-quarters cup Of dry
uncooked rice. Stir till light brown
two or three minutes. Put this mix,
ture in double boiler, add one can to-
matoes, one chopped pepper or cay
enne pepper II you haven't the other.
Let this cook one hour, then add salt,
more butter and serve. If 1t cooks
up too dry add little hot water.
Strawberry Sponge. and one
half tablespoons graduated gelatine,
one-third cup of cold water, one-third
cup of boiling water, three-quarters
cup OF sugar, one tablespoon lemon
Juice, one and one-half cups of can
ned strawberries, two cups OF heavy
cream whipped. Soak gelatine ten
minutes in cold water, add boiling
water and stir until gelatine is dis
solved, add sugar, lemon juice and
strawberries. Turn mixture into a
mould and chill until Arm.
Canelon Of Beef.--Mix together
one pound of chopped beef, the yolS
of one egg, one tablespoonful Of
chopped parsley, one tablespoonful Of
butter, two tablespoonfuls Of bread
crumbs, one and half teaspoonfuls
OF lemon juice, one and half level
teaspoonfuls of salt and little white
pepper; mix thoroughly and form into
a roll seven inches long. Put the roll
in creased paper and wrap over It,.
Place in a baking pan and bake in
quick oven thirty minutes, basting
three or four times with melted but
ter. Remove the paper and place the
| roll on hot platter. Serve with
brown sauce.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
The Evolution OF
Household Remedies.

The modern patent medicine buSi'
meas is the natural outgrowth Of the
old-time household remedies
In the early history Of this country,
EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME
MADE MEDICINES. Herb teas,
bitteru, laxatives and t0nics, were to DO
found in almost every house, compound
ed by the housewife, sometimes assisted
by the apOthecary or the family doctor.
Such remedies as piCra, which was
alOes and quasaia, dissolved in apple
brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic, made
Of whiskey, hops and bitter barkS. A
score or more Of popular, homemade
remedies were thus compounded, the
formulate for which were passed along
from house to house, sometimes written,
sometimes verbally communicated
The patent medicine business Is q
natural OutgrOwth from this whole
some, old-time custom. In the begin
ming, some enterprising doctor, inn
pressed by the usefulness of one Of
these homemade remedies, would take
it up, improve it in many ways, manu-
facture It on a large scale, advertise 1t
mainly through almanacs for the home,
and thus it would become used over q
large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE
HOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK
A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC
FORM.
PSruna was originally one Of these
Old-time remedies. 1t was used by the
Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, before it
was offered to the public for sale. DR..
Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM
FOUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Mem
MONTE origin. First, he prescribed it
for his neighbors and his patienta
The sale Of it increased, and at last he
established a mandatory and fur
nished it to the general drug trade.
Peruna is useful in a great many
climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds,
sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal
diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF
FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE
USE OF PERUNA and its value in the
treatment of these ailments. They
have learned to trust and believe in
DR.. Hartman'S Judgment, and to rely
on his remedy, Peruna
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
Truth and
Quality

appeal to the Well-Informed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA is the only remedy OF
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
Realism.

The defenders of this pitiable stuff
uphold it on the ground of its truth
fulness. Taking the thesis into ques4
ton, this truthfulness is the one over
whelming defect. An original idea that
Ito laud the accuracy with which the
stone is hurled that knocks us in the
head A little less accuracy might
have left us more brains. And here
are critics absolutely commencing the
truthfulness with which only the dis
agreeable is conveyed! In my view,
if an artist must paint decayed cheeses
his merit will lie in their looking as
little like decayed cheeses as possible.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
Vermont Maple Sugar.

An experienced sugar maker of
Northneld is earnestly urging every
farmer who has maple orchard to
arrange to make as much sugar as
possible each year-and begin this
year. He says that there is not as
much variation in sugar seasons as
many people imagine; that the crop
win not vary more than rs percent
between a good and so-called poor
year, providing the trees are tapped
early. He believes that the maple
sugar crop is the most profitable one
for Vermont farmers, and that the
demand for the product is sure to in
crease from year to year. A sugar
orchard will pay good interest on $500
an acre, while the same land cleared
of trees is not worth $40 an acre
Mortified News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
$4,000 MINERS
KILLED SINCE 1889.
Government Investigator Points
Out Enormous Loss Of Life
Among Underground Workers.

Recent coal mine disasters in the
United States have SO aroused gov
eminent authority that steps are be-
ing taken by officials of the Geologi-
cal Survey to investigate causes and
suggest not only preventives to mine
owners, but to cause State and ma
tional legislation that in the future
will tend to decrease loss of life. DR..
]. A. Holmes, chief Of the technolo-
gical division of the Geological Sur
vey, came from Washington to con-
suit with prominent mining engineers
in New York and then left for Pitts
burg, where he will see mine owners
and lay his plans before them.
Three scientists from DR.. Holmes
department already are in the field
looking into conditions under which
miners work and seeking to learn
what causes most contribute to casu-
alties in American coal mines. Con-
siderable progress has been made,
enough, in fact, for DR.. Holmes to
base recommendations which he will
lay before the Secretary of the In
terror in report to be submitted
January /.
"Loss of life in American coal
mines are three times as great" DR..
Holmes said yesterday, las in the
coal mines of Europe. The only rea-
son for this is that we do not super
wise conditions under which miners
work as carefully as the foreign gov
ernments do. Twenty-three thousand
persons have been killed in American
mines since 1889, while in the same
period $4,000 men have been so seri-
ously injured as to become a matter
of record. The chief cause Of the
disasters here are that practical min
ers do not understand the conditions
under which they are working. They
can be made to appreciate these con-
ditions only by having them pointed
out to them by scientists, who Will
go into the matter thoroughly. We
cannot have the proper legislation
until conditions are known. AS min
ers 20 deeper into the earth each year
the chances of accidents become
greater and in most of our mines In
the principal coal districts a depth
has been reached where conditions
are beyond the reach of practical
miners to grasp OF to remedy.
Practically all mine disasters are
the result Of explosions of coal dust
OF coal gas, or combinations of both.
Explosion is the result of use Of the
open lamp worn in miners caps, or
firing shots or of sparks from cleo
trio wiring. All these causes are
subjects that should be regulated by
legislation as in foreign countries
In Europe they use safety lamps
There also careful government tests
are made Of all explosives used, Sc
that danger from the fame element
is reduced to minimum. In Ameri'
ca there is no supervision of explo'
siyes. Neither have we in America
Investigated the quality of the gases
that form in mines. In certain gases
there are qualities more explosive
than in others.
There should be some system By
which employers could prevent hab'
itually careless persons from working
where they might ondanger the lives
of others. Just what legislation II
necessary is a matter that public
opinion must decide. New Yorl
Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04

Needlemakers and Ale cutters seem
to follow the occupation most suscep-
tible to the ravages of consumption.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04

The sanctuary of the tomb of the
prophet Mahomet, at Medina, Tur-
key, is to be lighted with electricity.
The contract has just been given to
an English construction company.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04

The British Government owns S5,'
900 camels.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
speeIfloatlon Requeeted.

Conductor Ito driver, who has been
pulling up constantly within the last
few hundred yards)-Bad times fer
eobblers, Bill. People amt wearin'
their boots out much. 'Ere's a bloke
wants yer to pull up agen at the next
'ouse WI the blue blinds.
Driver (sarcastically -Ho yusl Ask
I'm which part O. the ouse ed like
to be druv to-inter the parler wi the
family, or hup to is room in the hat
tic. We're on'y ere to erblige!-
Punch.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04

To awaken from a nap in a railway
coach and discover by the smiles Of the
women that they heard you snore.
To receive slight thanks for we'd
ding present which cost more than you
could afford to spend.
To be compelled to put in conspIc-
uous place an ugly object because It
was a present from friend.
To let a highly respectable footman
help you on with seedy coat.
To have your beautiful dinner part
ner stare at you while you try to de-
eide which is the fruit and which Is
the cheese knife Figaro.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04

Ostrich feathers can be taken every
eight months. The plumes are not,
as some suppose, pulled, but are cut
with a sharp knife. The stumps
wither and fall out.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-04-04
Poverty in India.

The number of persons on relief in
India during the week ended Febru,
airy /, was 735, 1914, an increase Of 1872
500 The number on relief in the
United Province is 616,225, an increase
of 1861 $50. The Central India States
report 9S,345 persons on relief. an in
crease in the week of 23,963, while an
increase of LOGS in Bombay brings
the presidency total up to 2,379,-Cal.
cutta Statesman.