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so 4 rrr?v n AM .: 0 m- ' ' CHARLOTrE, W. G. Seeing is Believing. There fore. Come For Yourself. .Unparalleled Attractions!' Jl . ' Unprecedented ' "". Attendance! - -' -' ' , Unexcelled Exhibits!1 ' . Two Good Bands , t ;;V "liusic! Vv:-'- v;; ''.iV".. 'rjJ(5,'f.,'!.:-. .-V 'M -, .--V T. '. ' ..J . , The finest of shews on the war-path; this ; has, been,- ; made a feature of the Fair. 'I 'Besides , the hundreds . oi ; ; . . high-class shows.foc the en- " , tertaiwnent of; the public,, the management have se cured V EIGHT FREE ' ATTRACTIONS; . to be given every day upon the race course. vPoultry and-Fet Stock. -Interesting and pleasing sights will abound everywhere on the grounds. Better than medicine, or doctors It s a health resort. i The Premium List carefully revised, adding near ly $1,000.00 fer the farmers to compete for. C I 1' irvv v . ,. ., i ' : .. v :;, , "... ..... . , , ',. ' '."' : I ' 1 :st K, -,v, . , , .. . , 3 - . ;'" '.. .'. . .. . - hi muj .ji.;..jui- l ' 1 wi-aj.i ' ' '" , ' ' ' " .. ' '" ' From tie Land ol the Desert , To tlie Ldnd of Sunshine BY A. G. " bove that the writer, thourhi to send -Th Observer an account of tola trip from Yuma,, Arizona,' to Log Angeles, . hemetropoHi of southern California. But It was the last day of February when we left Yuma, and now the " eunjmer haa rone, and nearly hair tne '-: autumn. Summer, not In the city, "but In the foothills In aight, of ,Oe . mountains in no of "'the coast coun - ties of -beautiful southern California, ' where the sami-tronica! climate, is de lightfully tempered v with ocean breezes; summer, that robs the moun , tain peaks ct their winter snow caps i. inn . mvi inem lo nana in wuvi granleur,' 1ut nevertheless bealtiful ' in the lights and shadows that plaj ' vver their 1 barren vheiffts: summer, the-hillsides brown with stubble eld - and'sage brush, adding a new beauty f to the landscape by lending this coh trast with the green of the valleys., But even In February the sun was trnnlv naaprtlnff- hlq sunramacv OV- (- or the desert, andfor some weeks It ' - had been hot enouo-h durlnnr the day A. - 1 ... .VI.,. ... ,..... nt cool mountain streams, er, it you , were .. .a Yumaite, to think of going "inside," .f as tliey say, which means solo to ' - California, for' everyone' who ran af ) forj it, spends some months during V the ummer In-Los Angeles or some f the coast towns. To go to Califor '. nia literally speaking, Is a small mat ter ,t Yma,fince it means merely going across the railroad bridge. ; But do not suppose for a moment that - -"-j rt v mprp rmHxinr i n n .uuiia.uu auu in . ,i:UK - ill it! . iAUIVI 11 idr, . UiwW bswbjjimj si im PaI fAwn a maani Marto ni r e the heat of the desert, or entering into 4 fiiy . means. ; For r something , like eeventy-nve f miles the railroad finds 4L3 lonuoug way .across inaesen - .fore It qmes to Slton Sea, the lowest : parv of Cahuilla Valley, in the north -- ern.' part of the vast Colorado Desert An4 ttii country ; around la still des ert. for all there is so ranci water in ? Its mist vl The' California Develop jnent Company, with Its hosts of col , onlsts, are working northward from " me Mexican line into uie uesert,s wun ' water secured from the Colorado at , Yuma, on their mission of reclaiming this vast desert region, but miles and , miles of barren . waste still -stretch ah' A of them. - And water has not " ' In . the old dry lake bed long , fcw in yet fd" start vegetition to any ir.ee indeed, until rncandv n'hon K Colorado was finally got nnder .Control at Yuma, It kept rising too raat mo permit . any growtn to exist on Its borders. When we passed the washed up railway tracks were, still beirtg swished against, the short and almost against the present track by' ' the small waves, whlch'at times of niFfiv acseri winas ana mey ara not Infrequent-tised a, often' to oover the trnrlf unit erlmi.lv Imnnil trnfFlo ' " We were, especially anxious to see this, immense lake, for everyone who knows ?any thing of, Yuma, nd partic ularly one ? who knows aught of the recent history of Kie Colorado and the mighty efforts of the vast com pany of men who are endeavoring to Rhoumatftm ' Is cnnr4 by the Jnwopp working of the kidney. The arte acM which jhcuM be rvmnvt from'the tiHmd rfma'-m Jn it." Holllster's Korky Mmii lain Tea rtniovei the ru nd diivM It from the tystem. & centsj Tea or Tablet and See v v. ; 'A great exhibition of Horses, Cattle, MOORE. redeem an immense portion of waste land In Southern California with its waters, and have had to fight the river for every inch of progress they have made, Is drawn to think with a strange fascination and wonder of this, immense accidental , inland, sea, covering as it does thousands and thousands of acres, and with no outlet for its -f waters. jn order to do this ,we.!-.'c5se';:.)itraltt which left Yuma early in the morning, rather than a night train, hoping to be out of the desert before the hottest part of the day. But the train was late, and it was nearly 1 o'clock when we crept out from the station across the Colo rado river, , to leave' Yuma at, least as a place of residence behind for ever, and enter for the first time the golden land of promise, to seek a new abiding place and our fortune In this fairyland of fruit and flowers, There Jwes ' nothing "of Interest ' to see until we came to Imperial June tlon, where a branch line runs down Into the Imperial Valley.' Here the Southern Pacific has established head quarters ? for considerable railroad work.' For : we are on the edge of the Salton Sea now, and ; while .at a little distance ' it - looks ; harmless enough, , and, Indeed, .beautiful as it lies there to the south shimmering in the desert, the teams. and men at work, the work cars and bunks furth er on as we skirt its border, the rock embankments and sand bags which hold it in cneckifor mlias, and still further the lacer where, it swishes under the - track, ' and runs !n little gullies far up beyond ; u toward the foothills, as it were some giant many- armed creature worming its feelers up to seize the very hills and draw It self tip to them, crushing out all ob stacles -all these things betoken that it must be watched constantly with grave aDDrehensIoii The telesraoh poles too, like long lines of waders, holding liands and- seelnp how far they camgo In, stretching away- from the track and far out into the lake, less and less of them visible, until they are finally submerged, show where the old ' tracks , were. ' For many miles we skirt this Im mense inland sea, and wind around It, and at the foot of the mountains. At length we leave It and pass un- be twon the Can Bernardino ' and , San Jacinto mountains, up and up through the ever narrowing pass, with .one or two peaks Just frosted wlthrsnow on the very summit. ; " And as we begin this) ascent we find more vegetation, little settlements off a ways from the track; with clumps of Cottonwood treea and fields of grain or lfalfa,',and the houses at the stations increase fn number and, are surrounded with trees and plantsespecially palms. And everywhere, as wo neared the summit, was more and more evidencej of the powerful winds which sweep through tne -pass wun. sucn velocity.; Most of the trees at the statlo n' were bent far over, like old men stooped with care and the weight of years, o each Inellne'the telegraph po-a were piled high about the base with tiounds of rocks, apparently to ' keep. , them from blowing up, and the imooth stretches prented almost the appear ance of a glacier or the. track, of a landslide, so ; rlean pwepi, were they, showing the steaJy descent of gravel and im-airstoner Each little-4inm mock, too, was perfectly bare and ' ' " .-....(,.. , I..'. : . . - ' ; . ... -' r ',. ' - ' , ! " " , ' 'I 1 ' .- ' , f m , . t , .. . T. I , .... i I v .. . ; ; . Sheep, Swine, FOUR BIG DAYS THIS TIME. -. iTUESDAY "Children's '.'DaV.1 Every white free school of the city and county will give holiday and ar rangements have been mad e with the Superintendent of Public Schools "whereby the 8,000 children will march to the grounds in a body, and none will be mis wind-swept on 'the upper aide, wlie the lower side was covered with sand, It was fast v becoming dusk as we ascended the pass,' and i the coming darkness cast a wierd light over the scene, as when night, falls over a landscape where snow baa been swept int odrlfts by the wind and U is cold and, bleak and one Is far from home alone, it was dark before we began the descent and we were,, disappoint ed at not being ableto see the proces sion of prosperous little towns which stretch all along the way down i to Los Angeles, i' They remind one of De stretch of road along the South ern Railway between Greensboro and Charlotte, with Its thriving manufac turing towns. But here the prosper ity comes mostly from quite different sources. ; Mainly it is ? from fruit growing, both citrous and deciduous, And from now on one finds the Eu calyptus tree In increasing abundance, taking the. place of the Cottonwood of the desertindeed, doing more, for It l grown for shade and fuel alike. , It Is a wonderful tree, growing quite close together, and with great rapidity. It seldom branches a great naeal and when planted rlose sends one straight ahoot toward the sky. This toeing cut near the ground, four . or five ; other shoots put ; up from the stump and grow with 'equal or even greater rapidity Moreover, after the wood Is cut. it becomes hard and resi nous, very much like cedar,. This is the spec es : seen in srreatest abund ance. i;v,There are any . number of species.: used for shade and ornament Some of this kind," however, make fine, imposing, shade trees when given room to spread. , v. a;. . And so we were in California at last,; California, of whose beauties and wonders we had heard since early cmwhooa, and, which we had formed the resolution to' see some day. '-For nearly ,iwo years we nao been so nearbut riht in the heart' of "Tthe desert- The City of the Angels we found quite Interesting-Although Its rapid rise from a Mexican village and subsequent prosperity Is another storv but the . flowers commanded our wonder and. admiration, flowers every-4 where, . nowers - dotting the lawns. flowers In beds, flowers In . rowa and hedges, in all the public parks and oemeterles, 'tit every yard and even bordering the streets in the lawn space between , curb and. sidewalk, flowers banked close5; against houses, vines clambering over porches, , trees ? and palms,' flowers peeping out from every nook and 'Crevice, rows : of callas or geraniums by very fence or dividing line. , . Ana great rose trees -too, and azallas as .large as small magnolia trees, or large size crepe myrtle, we were used to the semt-troplvj climate In Yuma, and to seeing' things grow In winter, but not in such profusion, especially ffiowers. ?. -It wascoming rrom sirynoi aesem.io a jano or Spring f and bountiful showers,; and last winter1 was the wettest In many years. , TO us from the South It seem ed like coming again, after a long weftry Journey,, upon, our own balmy spring weather, with Its cool refresh ing moisture and odors of flowers. But this; was hardly spring, only the lrft'day of March when we first saw tnnm., ani yet ,tne proration or nowers In fttll bloom wai stich as few of our Southern -cities can boast at any "sea son, , There were rows and rows of calk lilies In Tult bloom In the yards of he city, and 'roses. 'sreat -masses of Gold, 61 Ophlr and Cherlkee. and Tiedges of geraniums growing almost s tall as trees wh ever they vcotilJ escape 'the pruning hook - One hedge of pink Ivy uraniums at rt'ne dola Cemetery, nearly an eighth t a mlfe 1ms; covered a fence four -or ftv fsot high and epreai all over the groan! around, one mass of beautiful pink blooms. And out in the coun try, as you pass rapidly on the elec tric car through orange groves and barry fields, the hills show green with ihay or grain and sage brush. And further, - as they became higher and higher, they were still green in the distance, till they lest themselves In mountains,' some of which were cap ped with snow,' ' . . . But it was nearly the middle of spring when we found a little place at the foot of a hill, which Is always green, for we are n the north side of It which is not dried out In sum mer, and began to make our home, with a little valley In front of us, and away further the foothills, rising im posingly, grandly, s pile upon pile, till the mountain t peaks crowd one another in the distance, while up the valley to the west of our hill come the ocean breeses which keep us cool all the summer.- ' From its crest some say they can-see the ocean itself on a clear day.- Ana nere the cauas nave bloomed and dld and grown again, for 8"mmer (has passed, so different from the dry hot summer at Yuma. No doubt her climate in winter 1 su perior, certainly for a few months Jt is ideal, but It must still be hot and dry and lifeless there,1 while In Cali fornia each season 'ha Its own pecu liar attraction - One who knows all her seasons well has written of these early autumn days: , " -t "But bh, thy glories these sunlit Sentember days outlive all tnese earii er days of the round year. Like the Master of the feast thou art so lavish of, the sifts that thou dost kep the best wine of all - thy glories to thy mature season.: , The vivid emrald of, the early spring, the yellow flane of the full summer, the spotless pur- Itv of thv orana-e blossoms, tne gold n flood of all thy mustard fields, all yield to the ripe glories or tnese au limn ' A am - J" s But even In the midst of their glory come presages of that which - shall change tnem to green ajain; " : f 'From" afar comes now and then ar soft breeze Tnat seems a stranger tbctho scene,- F.';It is mild and gentle as the aister breeze, but there is ?on ! breath,, a scent of Southern seas. Far behind comes an echo of broader nralrles. the sweeo of mignty wings end cloud compelling In its somber asneet"-" It whisoers now,- buU the 'Man!- im a wamtha of days when h nn will be darkened, when all thi mMit rlorv of the September Liav win hsve Ju end. " It tells of the , resut rection of the seasons,' of days of mighty showers. - of a new mantle of velvet greon to be woven tnr tiia fair form of our lady of the snows. The birds know the language this strange breeze brings. The seeds which the roppy shed nearly, a year ago hear the whisper as they sleep utvm hillside' and lea. In data and along the plains.; ; The birds and the flowers all understand every accent of this message from far-off seas, and thev whlsner of It earn to me otnr, and the birds prepare a new song for the new spring, anj tne nowers begin to rub their glorious eyea open from And already ,the first .shower has come.,, a.u. JauoiiE. ' i ' ''' i.i r1 ""'." . 1 "'"'i" '. , , For Chronic Diarrhoea. , "While In the ermy In W I ws tak en with -chronic "diarrhoea,?... ays George M. Felton,:"of South Glbion. Pa. ,'T have since tried many remetlle but , without any ermennt rtliet until Mr, A. W. Miles, of this pUce, persuaded me to try Chambfrtaln's Collo, Cholera nd DUr rnra Hwuifly; cne bonis at which stop r 1 t on-.e. i- or sale rf W. L. Hand A ttt , , sing, as they are admitted FREE at gate of grounds. WEDNESDAY" Charlotte Day." , THURSDAY "Everybody's Day." FRIDAY "Veterans' and College Day." Reduced Rates on All the Railroads NEWS OF BEAUFORT'S CAPITAL. Military Company Has Corporal Mo- Eiroy as -Guest RumUin Pole Ar rives to Make the Place Ills Home Moving Machinery lo Norfolk To Have Football Games. Special to The Obwrver. Washington, N. C. Oct 18.--Com- pang O, Washington Light Infantry, of this city, has been doing the hon ors of entertaining, during the past few days, Corporal McElroy, of Troop Q, United States Cavalry, who is In the city as its guest. Corporal Mc Elroy is the champion bareback mon key drill rider of the department In the South. He will remain In Wash ington until Monday, when he leaves for tna camp ,at Jamestown. HU squadron leaves the encampment De cember 1st for the regimental pest at Oglethorpe, Oa. Mr. Moses Milan, of Warsaw. Rus sian Poland, arrived In the city yes terday direct from the old country. Mr. Milan la aphew of Messrs. B. L. and H. Busman, of this city, and he proposes to make this city his fu ture home. , The schooner Garrison Is being loaded, with the machinery formerly operated in the plant of the Pamlico Iron works, of this city. This ma chinery will : be shipped to Norfolk and 'Very probably sold, as the plant has recently been moved to .Newport News, Va. PILES f5 YEARS Saved From an Operation by Half - . Box of the Pyramid Pile Cure r. Yoa Can Try It Free. . "I cannot help writing to you about your wonderful cure for plies, When I wrote to you for a sample I was thinking : of going - through an operation. But I thouiht I would lve.your remedies a trial I am so- nsppy- tnat i aid. tor 1 am cored and only used .half a box. I write thts for humanity's sake. ! I had piles ever since the year 1891. : I wish you would publish my name through the Bulletin paper, for I am well known In the Marine Corps, Use my name the beat way you know how. Thank ing you for your good advice. Yours truly Cleophas Forte, Marine Bar racks. U. - S, U. Training Station, San Francisco, Cat." '- What should Induce this United States seaman . to write us In this manner if not gratitude tor being cured of a disease which had tortured him for fifteen years? Mr. Forte was positively unknown to us until he wrote for the sample of our won derful remedy.. '. : - You may be suffering In the same way. , ,..,- 4 : : , . Just send your name and addresa to Pyramid Drug Coo., 9 Pyramid Building. Marshall, Mich., and receive free by return mail the trial pack age in a plain wrapper - The moment you start to- use it your suffering ends and . tM cure of your dread disease Is In sight. Then you can get a full-sized box from any druggist for CO cents and even one box may cure you.' , -. It Is well worth trying. No knife and Its torturo.- , , , No doctor and his tills. .AU drutt'sts, 80 c-". Wr'.te to dn.f'r a free pacUo. Indian Suaw Race, ; Loop the Gap, Riderless Horse, ' , , Roman Standing Race Cowboy Indian Race, ' , Cowgirl Flat Race, Roman Chariot Race. :y These; 'attractions have been secured from the Big Show, that' will, be on the grounds;" "Kemp- Sisters' 1 Wild West and kippodrome Co.,V carrying 60 people and 50 horses. They will give a STREET'PARADE . each day of the Fair. The Speed Department . will be, as animating and en joyable as any pait of the Fair. . Close and ' fair con tests . will be demanded. Come and enjoy 4he sport. . $8,000.00 in Purses and Premiums. t The Southfs Largest and Oldest The Life Insurance Company of Virginia HOME OFFICE - - RICHMOND ORGANIZED 1871. 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