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7 ' t 3 CHARLOTTE NEWS, SEPTEMBER I , 1 902, 4 i CALIFORNIA IB lilt A Great State And Some Its Great Products of Thousands Go Abroad To See Wonders And Neglect The Surpassing Gran deur Of America It seems more than passing strange that every season there are so many vcople who cross the ocean to view the foreign countries. These people be come enraptured over the mountains, s-ifM-s, the fo:es'ts and other ."bits" 01 iature. When fcif.igt.crs ask thr.i nhcut the wondrous beauty of their own country, and the sections that are world-renowned for their marvelous productions, many of them, have to acknowledge they know comparatively nothing. Thousands of American citi zens of wealth have been abroad and done" the foreign countries, who have never stood enraptured before the nudity Niagara; who have never be hrfd the lofty pinnacles of Colorida bluffs and canyons; who have never crossed the "great divide" or traversed the great desert that leads onward to the land of fruits and flowers Califor nia. No foreign country can equal, or, for that matter, approach the attrac tions, the magnitude of productions 1 hat California offers to the nature lov er or the observing tourist. The State with its 15S.360 square miles, is truly an, immense nature en cyclopedia. Its mines, giant trees, fruits, nuts, vegetable, are endless sources of wealth. The mountains, continually snow-capped, look down on lei tile valleys bright with flowers and fruits that never are blighted by a winter's icy touch. The variation in the State's climate is so great that there are sections of perpetual ice and snow, and at the same time other sec tions where nature is ever clad with her brightest colors; where growth never ceases. From these two extremes there is the usual climatic or tempera uue variations that go to make up de lightful results in farming and fruit and grain growing. It seems Califor nia has sections that are almost iden tical with nearly ever State in the Un ion, when climate and productions are considered. Mr. W. H. Murray, the representa tive of the California Fruit Grower, who passed through Baltimore a few days ago, said: "Few people in the East appreciate what a big State Cali fornia is in the matter of area alone. It has a coast line of more than 700 miles and an average breadth of more than 200 miles. The number of acres" i3 calculated to be 101,350,400, nearly equal to New England, New York and Pennsylvania combined. The annual fresh fruit shipments amount to 165, 000,000 pounds; the cured fruit output, 70,000,000 pounds; the prune crop, 110, 000,000; raisins, 85,000,0000 pounds; canned fruits and vegetables, 3,500,000; oranges and lemons, cars, 20,000; nuts, cars, 750; honey product, 3,000,000 pounds; vegetable shipments, cars, 5,500; beans, 54,000,000 pounds; hops, bales, 50,000; beet sugar, 65,000,000; wines and brandy, gallons, 23,000,000; gold, $15,500,000. These are some of the notable products of the State, but there are almost endless other indus tries that are also wondrous sources of wealth. The poultry industry is mak ing rapid strides, and, like nearly all of California's products, in many sec tions the business is being conducted on a large scale." Mr. ' Murray is a great advocate of ripe fruit as an aid to digestion, and concludes that a liberal use of fruits is beneficial to the general health of man kind. He says many drugs are taken which should be replaced in a great measure by ripe fruits. The Califor nia Fruit Grower says: Many parents will more readily spend money on injurious or even pois onous sweets than they will on good, healthful fruit, and fashionable socie ty will spend pounds on cakes, wines and brandies while they spend as many shillings on the very thing they need to keep them healthy fruit. And as for the amount of drugs swallowed which should be replaced in great measure by fruit, it is beyond my pow ers to calculate. Millions upon mil lions of pounds are spent annually up on mercurial and other purgutives, A CERTAIN CURE FOR DYSEN TERY AND DIARRHOEA. "Some years -ago I was one of a party that intended making a long bicycle trip," says F. L. Taylor, of New Albany, Bradford County, Pa. "I was taken suddenly with diarrhoea, and was about to give up the trip, when "editor Ward, of the- Laceyville Messenger, suggested that I take a dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I purchased a bottle and took two doses, one be fore starting and one on the route. I made the trip successfully and never felt any ill effect. Again last summer I was almost completely run down with an attack of dysentery. I bought a bottle of this same remedy and this time one dose cured me." Sold by R. H. Jordan & Co. A COMMUNICATION. Mr. Editor: Allow me to speak a few words in favor of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I suffered for three years with the bronchitis and could not sleep at nights. I tried several doc tors and various patent medicines, but could get nothing to give me any re lief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which has com pletely relieved me. W. S. Brockman, Bagnell, Mo. This remedy is for sale by R. H. Jordan & Co. Josh "Wiesthafer, of Loogootee, Ind., is a poor man, but says he would not be without Chamberlain's Pain Balm if it cost five dollars a bottle, for it saved him from being a cripple. No external application is equal to this liniment for stiff and swollen joints, contracted muscles, stiff neck, sprains and rheumatic and muscular pains. It has also cured numerous cases of partial paralysis. It is for sale by R. H. Jordan & Co. . Under a new law the bakers of Mon- treai must stamp on each loaf of bread Us weight and their initials. most of which would bf A ft AC sary if the people would but look upon ii u . as it necessarv artipio nf at- L.ood ripe fruit contains o lo amount of susrar te,d form. 'This sugar forms a light I 1 1 J I I I I S f I ITI PT1 T nTh-iAh i . , . . . ulUt m conjunction l with bread, rice, p.trv fn o ' a . - - - -"o a j.vjjii cb- 5 peciany suitable for these warm colon ies, ana when eaten with, say, milk or eggs the whole forms the most per fect and easily digestible food imagin able, i received a book lately written by a medical man aVivici live entirely on fruit and nuts. I;am not prepared to go so far, for, although I look upon fruit as an excellent food, yet I look upon it more as a necessary dujunct man as perfect food of itself. At the end of a heavv dinner we eat our cooked fruits, and when we want tneir digestive action, even more de veloped, we take them after dinner in their natural, uncooked state as a des sert. In the past ages instinct has taught men to do this; today science tells them why they did it, and this same science tells us that fruit should be eaten as an aid to digestion of other foods much more than it is now. Cultivated fruits, such as apples, pears, cherries, strawberries, grapes, etc., contain on analysis very similar proportions of the same 'ingredients, which are about 8 per cent, of grape sugar, 3 per cent, of pectose, 1 ppr cent, of malic and other acids and 1 per cent, of flesh-forming albuminoids, with over 80 per cent, of water. Digestion depends upon the action of pepsin in the stomach upon the food, which is greatly aided by the acids of the stomach. Fats are digested by these acids and pectose in fruits peculiarly assist the acids df the stomach. Another great action of fruit in the body is its antiscorbutic action. It keeps the body in a healthy condition. When out on a long voyage where fruit is scarce, how one longs for it! Those who have been without it for an ex tended time long for it; even in their dreams they picture the fruit their sys tem so badly needs. The following case will illustrate my meaning: A ship's crew had any amount of fresh meat, new bread, tea, coffee, etc., on board, but no fruit nor vegetables. As days went by the men grew haggard, breathless and weak with violent, tear ing rheumatic pains in the joints. Then the gums grew spungy, the blood broke through its veins, and the whole sys tem was demoralized and dying. In short, they were dying of scurvy. A fruit ship passing sent aboard a good supply of oranges and lemons, which were greedily eaten by the sufferers. Mark the result: Though they still went on eating the same food, the ad dition of fruit to their diet made all the difference between life and death. In a few days their gums began to heal, the blood became healthy, natural col or came into their faces, and strength came to their limbs so lately racked with pain. Garrod, the great London authority on gout, advised his patients to. take oranges, lemons, strawberries, grapes, apples, pears, etc. Tardleu, the great French authority, maintains that the salts of potash found so plentifull in fruits are the chief agents in purifying the blood from these rheumatic and gouty poisons. As a medicine I look upon fruit as a most valuable ally. As previously shown, when the body is in that break-ing-up condition known as scurvy, the whole medical profession ' look upon fruit and fresh vegetables as the one and only remedy. I believe the day will come when science will use fruit very much more largely than it does now in the treatment of everyday ail ments. Observations in scurvy prove that it exerts a very powerful influence on the blood. But "the blood is the life;" poor blood means poor spirits, poor strength, poor breath and poor breath nd poor circulation. Impure blood means gout, rheumatism, skin diseases, rickets and other troubles. As it is proved that fruit will purify and improve the quality of the blood, it must follow that fruit is both food and medicine combined. In fevers I use grapes and strawberries, giving them to my patients in small but frequent doses oranges and baked apples if the others are not obtainable. For rheu matism plenty of lemons are invalu able. White girls with miserable, pallid complexions want a quart of strawber ries a day; where these are not obtain able, bananas, which contain much iron, are a good substitute. Probably of all fruits the apple stands unrivaled for general purposes in the household; either raw or cooked it can be taken by nearly everybody, and it contains similar properties to the other more delicate fruits. To my mind the pear is more easily digested than the apple, and for eating uncooked is superior to it. Dried fruits are now occupying more attention than perhaps they have ever done before. It has been proved in a large way by giving troops dried vege tables and fruits that the attack of scurvy could be warded off, but in cur ing scurvy they were nowhere along side the fresh ones. Still it teaches that dried fruits should be used when fresh cannot be obtained. If soaked for a few hours before cooking, they make a capital substitute for fresh fruit, and they come cheaper to the consumer. T wonder that miners, sail ors and others do not use dried fruits very largely. A medical writer has recently been maintaining that bread and other starchy foods, containing large quantities of lime, are responsi ble, especially in aged people, for many of the diseases from which we suffer, such as apoplexy, rheumatic gout, etc., and urges that fruit should be taken freely instead to counteract these limey effects. One of the first symptoms when peo ple are deprived of fruit and vegetables is very severe pain in the joints like rheumatism, and death from failure of the hearth's action. Whether he is right about this lime theory may not be proved, but there is no doubt that lime exists too largely in the blood ves sels in these diseases, and if fruit were eaten regularly it would do much to prevent it. Science today tens us that we may live under the most beautiful conditions, we may feast on bread, meat, eggs, rice, cocoa, oatmeal and such like foods for a short time, but unless we take fruits or vegetables fruits being the best we get 'listless; and it follows that if we should keep ourselves and our children with clear skins, bright intellects, good digestion, rich colored healthy blood and strength for work we must regularly take fruit and vegetables, and look upon them as actually more necessary for the sup port of good health than any other ar ticle of died. Received King Oscar. The World's Cnnventirsn of the dele gates of the Y. M. C. A numbering over 2,000' men from thirty-one differ ent countries, were tendered a recep tion yesterday by King Oscar of Nor way and Sweden, a mark of attention that has seldom been shown. In 1898, the King invited the delegates to the World's Convention, then meeting at Stockholm, to . his summer palace at Drottningholm, where they were re ceived by the Crown Prince in the ab sence of the King. Prince Bernan dotte ,theson of King Oscar, was elec ted president of the convention. He is president of the Stockholm Young Men's Chrstian Association, in which he has been active participant, and helped to secure the excellent building costing $120,000 which stands in the centre of the city. He is also a leader in the national Association movement. Mr. James Stokes of New York and Sir George-Williams were elected honorary presidents of the convention. There are thirty-eight delegates from this country. Delegates came from all parts of the world. One is from Iceland and another came from China Prof. F. L. Whang, president of the Methodist College in China. James A. Canfield, L. L. D., librarian of Columbia Univer sity, and a member of the International Committee read a paper on the Ameri can Association. The papers were presented in Swedish and translated and prited into the several languages so that the delegates could follow the discussions. The Norwegian Parlia ment made a grant of 5,000 kroner to ward the expense of entertaining the convention "which was done on a gen erous scale. The meetings, were held in the old fort, called the "Akershus Foestning." There are now 6,335 As sociations throughout the world, 1,575 being in North America, 1,169 in Great Britain, 95 in France and 674 in Ger many (most of the German Associa tions, however, are Church societies and similar to the Young People's So ciety of Christian Endeavor, and may not be called Y. M. C. A.'s). Switzer land has 473, Denmark 250, Norway and Sweden 150, Austria 105, Russia 56, Spain 8, Portugal 7; there are 281 in Asia, 52 in Africa, 17 in Australia and New Zealand. The membership is 551,178, 912,000 beng n America, which leads by far the Association movement throughout the world. These Associa tions hold property valued at nearly $30,000,000, $23,000,000 being held in North America. Members of. the World's Committee from North Ameri ca are Mr. James Stokes, Cephas Brainerd, Esq., of New York, and Hon. H. B. Ames of Montreal. R, C. Morse is honorary secretary. Saturday Half-Holiday. The Legislature passed at its recent session a law making Saturday after 12 o'clock noon a half-holiday as to the transaction of all business. This act is construed to mean that all public of ficials in the State iuay suspend busi ness on Saturday afternoons. "We would be glad to see it apply to all kinds of business. We have often no ticed in cities of the North that on Saturday evenings all work of every character is suspended. J You can see the army of day laborers going to their homes at midday Saturday and the evening is spent in recreation. In many parts of the country it is also the case on the farms. It is not only office people who need this recreation, but every workingman and every iworkingwoman would be better for this half-holiday, and we believe it would conduce to the better observance o fthe Sabbath day also. By all means let us have this half-holiday universal ly accepted. There is enough drudgery from Monday morning to Saturday midday. Let the grind cease. Rock bridge County-News. Bayard Taylor's Home. While it is probably inevitable that Cedarcrofe. Bayard Taylor's once beau tiful home at Kennett Square, Chester county, Pa., will at last fall into pro fane hands, it has been hoped all along by those who have felt an interest in the place and its attachments that it might escape this fate, says the Phila delphia Times. Ever since the poet's death and his burial from the mansion to which he was brought home after long service in foreign 'lands, to the world as an author, to his Government as a diplomat, the property has been on the down track. Once filled with the art and literary treasures gathered upon his travels, an ideal seat for a successful man of letters, in the neigh bcorhood in which he was born, which he loved, and which he had celebrated in song and story, surrounded with great trees and flowing waters, it has passed from one owner to another, each time losing a little of its earlier dignity. Taylor's widow and daughter felt none of his own" attachment for Chester county, and they prefer to live between New York and Europe. The place, therefore, has-had to take its chinces on the auction block. The last owner left it in a most dilapidated con dition. . The stairways are rotting down, the paper hanging in shreds from the walls, while the grounds are in a state of total wreck and ruin. The house and land around it a fey years ago were taken for debt by a syndicate of creditors who would be glad to re imburse themselves and are now look ing about for a purchaser. Helpful Hints. Rub hinges with a feather dipped in oil, and they will not creak. A small bag of sulphur kept in a drawer or cupboard wi.i. drive awayjed ants. Boil three or fotir onions in a pint of water, apply with a soft brush to gilt frames, and flies will keep off them. A speenful of vinegar put into the water in which meats or fowls are boil ed makes them tender. Equal parts of ammonia and spirits of turpentine will take paint out- of clothing, no matter how dry or hard the paint may be. Saturate the spot two or three times, then wash out in soap suds. A little charcoal mixed with clear water thrown into a sink will disinfect and deodorize it. The odor of sweet-peas is so offensive to flies that it will drive them out of a sick-room. A fever patient can be made cool and comfortable by being frequently sponged with water . in which a little soda has been dissolved. Brass-work can be kept beautifully fright by occasionally rubbing with salt and vinegar. September Wo man's Home Companion. TORIA. Tha Kind You Have Always Bough! O Bears tie Bignatur of The insurance man insisted on tak ing the detective to the Larrabee Street Police Station, in which enterprise he was finally assisted by a policeman. DR.HOBENSACK 658 North Eighth St., Phi la.,' Pa. Father and son hare been practicing success fully in Philadelphia for 65 years. EE YOU A VIC TIM? Blood Poison, Nervous Debility, Ulcers. Blad' der. Kidneys. Skin Diseases, Varicocele. Hydro nrOVfid mp.thofls wit.hnilt. nuin ni- ilf.tontlnn from business. We do not keep a drug store nor copy remedies from othe" doctors' prescriptions, but make the treatment of each case a special study. We are graduates of medical collegres.father and sou uuu cuuiuiiie nospiiai practice witn oo years umue cAperieuuts, to wiiere you wiu oe treat ed for vi ill r lisfM.P .nii nnf. tnr the aaVn nf coll ingr drugs. Our treatment is scientific and costs less with better results. Consultation free of charge. SEND FOR BOOK. Hours. 8 to 3. 6 to 9. Sunday. 9 to 12. Notice I Dray License die and pa.ya.ble Septem ber 1st. Must be paid promptly Lieut. Max Heidelmeier attempted a diplomatic adjustment of the difficulty, but failed. Even Max had to admit that to be called a lobster was indeed an awful thing. But in the meantime, the injured boy escaped. 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It is strictly and entirely a vegetable remedy. Write us about yoiir case, and our physicians will gladly hlp you by their advice to regain your health. Book on blood and skin diseases sent free. THE 5WIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, G Arvdrews Firnitire (&L Misic Compachy 4 O A Ovir new faJl stock of Fine Leather Firnitire bought while in Gra.nd Rap ids in Augist is now on our floors for yoir inspection. We do not hesitate to sa-y that this is the largest, finest and cheapest collection of Leather Furniture ever shown in this State. Every piece of it is a p.ece of Furni ture that combines in it everything that goes to make ip a high grade, merito rious piece of Furniture. You should inspect these new goods at once. We offer them all this week at our August Clearance Sale prices. Arkdrews Furniture z arvy (EL Music Comp ii '8 it i ' : I . ...Ji ft. ' I
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