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OL look aa If you had stuck jour
nose Into a rat trap and It has
prunn on you," remarked Tige,
arcaatlcall, to his old friend.
Towaer. aa the two met In a va
cant lot. Towour looked dcjvtdly thro'ijrh
a contrlrance of wire and leather strap.
Tire .was sporting a brand new leather
bead piece which waa pulled raklshly down
over on ear.
"I don't know that you can say much."
barked Towaer. "You don't nrfm to be
ablo to kerp your own millinery on
traJht"
This happened a few days after hla honor
had Issued his ukase prercrlblns the proper
thins In canine wear for the next ninety
daja. Owing to his public Importance and
the tact he was a general favorite in high
and low places, Tlfce was looked upon as
the sage of dotrdom, and whatever he had
to ay was listened to with a Kood deal of
Interest by thoroughbred and mnna-rel alike.
After the preliminary pleasantries had
pared. TIge squatted down on his
hautchea. closed one eye and looked
thoughtful.
"I have Iiesurd somewhere that every dog
baa his day," h remarked after a few min
utes. "I was Just wondering If It la true.
If It Is I know a slender man with a very
bald head that will get his when my dav
comes around, lasso or no lasso. O-r-r-r-r-r.
"I was making the rounds among the
gang today and. s&y, you ought to have
seen some of the things I saw. It was
enough to make a self-respecting dog weep.
woman going along Farnam street had
tier little spits pup with her. Now a spits
pup always makes me feel Ilk I wanted
to go back to the tall woods, but this little
fellow) who couldn't put up a decent fight
with mouse, was dragging a leather head
piece that was so heavy with silver buckles
aad things that he couldn't hold his head
up. Them over on the north sld there Is
Tar old friend. F'rt". who lost his muzzle
a scrap over . hnno ana was airaia to
out on the street until he had Jammed
la head Into a bird cage. Afraid a pollre-
bisa would corn along ana try to execute
When the
rvtxr wnim. how much am I of-
fered for t,hl saddle? It U
Aw guaranteed to be tie original and
genuine Pat Crowe saddle, which
he rod away In on that mem
orable night. The gentleman start It ct
13. - Why such a bid Is an Insult. Gentle
men. In five year that saddle will bring
1600 from oiy museum In the country.
Three dollar I'm ottered who'll make It
four? Three dollar once, twice, thrice,
and sold to the gentleman over there
for ;t."
Such was the line of talk to be heard
all of Tuesday afternoon In the polio
court room. The occasion was the an
nual aale of unclaimed property which
had accumulated at the police station
during the last year. Of what did this
property' consist? It were difficult to
enumerate ad tedious to hear. A few
article will suffice for an Insight. There
were fifty-eight revolvers; there were
knlve and watches of all descriptions,
clothlpg, kodaks, bicycles, sine, brass,
copper, furniture, slot machines, trunks,
grip, harness, umbrellas, furs, "hop" lay
out, canned goods, shoes, clothespins,
scales, razor, etc., ad lnfln.
Ordinarily th personal effects of pris
on v returned to them when they are
released, except "contraband goods" such
as revolvers, gambling devices and the
Ilka, which are confiscated, but this "un
claimed" property Is accumulated In vari
ous ways. Prisoners escape from the
chain gang or rouk pile, others die and
neither ever calls for his property. Ex
pressmen frequently bring trunks and
grip to th station which they have been
unable to deliver on account of a defect
In the address. Much of the unclaimed
Junk consists of stolen property which
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him and the mayor's proclamation at tho
same time.
"That waa worse than a little bull terrier
I know, who has bad 'em so bad ever sine
he heard about that proclamation he put
his master's base ball mask over his heal
before he will stick his nose outside th
fence. Hasn't got a real muzzle and h
gets the next best thing.
"I have another friend who is so old hi
teeth have all fallen out and he has played
with babies ail his life. Tet he has to go
around with a lot of straps choking him
and rubbing the skin all off his nose be
cause some dog over in the north part 08
town snarled and snapped at a butcher'
boy who used to throw stones at him.
"Say, what makes me tired when I thlnH
of this business is the way some of tnose
mongrels who haven't got the nerve to fight
ran come up her now and make belleva
they are as good as any of us, and what
can you do? It makes me feel sick to se
that shaggy cur from acrres the street
come around with Ms muzzle harrfng down
under his chin, grinning and sneering at
us respectable dogs that can't wear our
negligee. Then It makes me despondent
to Jump for a bone and find I can't get
my mouth open wide enough to grab It. and)
some urntart of a pup that he n't nny
owner to provide a muzzle for him -sneaks
It away frcm under my nose and runs down
the street with It. I have to stand for it.
But that len't the only thing we have to
put up with. Think of running a scraggly
black cat Into a corner and then havlna: to
back down for fear of gettins hurt. That'
Just what we respectable dogs are up
against. Sometimes It makes me wish t
was a yellow mnnyrel running the street
without a friend to pat me on the head.
Instead of a pampered eompanirn of a
spoiled child with everything I want but
the right to chase cats and fight over bones,
I would rather get a kick now and then
and go hungry half the time, and be ablo
to defend myself or hold my own In a
ftrtit over a big. Juicy bnne, than to havsj
the best kind of kennel, three meals a day
and a nice, soft bed at night and have to
Police Sell at Auction Their
has not been claimed by its rightful
owner.
it was a cosmopolitan crowd that
thronged th police court iccm, and the
races, colors, sexes and previous condition
of servitude represented there were al
most as varied as the unclaimed articles
offered for sale, and the appearance of some
of the most ardent bidders was such as
to suggest that they themselves were In
the "unclaimed" class. And yet they all
had money. They Jostled each other and
pressed against the railing In their eager
ness to pick up bargain until the police
had to repulse them. Colored men were
perhaps the strongest bidders on razors
and pocket cutlery, and the rivalry be
tween thenv was so Intense that many of
those article sold far above retail
price.
Much of the clothing was bought In by
Russlana A bunch of almond-eyed Celes
tials were In the market for "hop" lay
out, of which there were fifteen. Th
prices obtained throughout were the best
since these sale have been held, which I
Indicative of the prosperous era which I
upon us. A second-hand shotgun which
retail at X! brought CO. One of the police
sergeants had his eye on a box of fifty
dozen clothes pins, which retail at 1 cent
per dozen. He stayed in the bidding until
60 coma, th retail price, waa reached,
and then dropped out. The bidding ran up
to SS cents, at which price they were
sold.
The selling of th grip and trunks was
where the "sure thing" man and the man
with gambling proclivities parted company,
for It was simply buying a pig In a poke.
Tou saw the trunk or grip, but not th
content, and th price obtained dtpandad
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largely upon the Imagination of th bid
ders, as stimulated by the auctioneer. In
th bidding on these ""hidden treasures'' a
"hunch" played quite as large a part as
it does in the betting ring at the race
track. For instance, Mr. Jones sees an
old canvas telescope grip with the letter
J written on it- He at once begins to
get Interested, and the chance are that
Mr. Jackson also ha grown keen to the
situation and begins to count hla money.
They both have a "hunch" and from then
on It is simply a question of which ha
the most money, for he'll win' the prize.
Some unkind. Irresponsible person ha In
timated that many of these "banchea" are
manufactured by the pollc for the oc
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casion; that they know certain Individual
who will attend th sales who have strong
falling for certain "bunches," and that
they fix up a select assortment for them.
When questioned about this. Captain Mos
tyn ridiculed the Idea, and said such a
thing was impossible for the reason that
no man ever. bit twice on the same hunch.
It I an Interesting study to watch the
process of complete disillusionment as it
comes to these buyer of pig In pokes.
A Twelfth street tailor and companion
carried to hi hop four heavy telescope
grips which he had bought at S3 each. Ar
riving in hla shop they laid their burdens
down. The tailor glanoed furtively around
the shop a though to make sure ther
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wear one of the3e things on my face. It'
the first time I ever envied the alley dqg.
Now I think how happy he mupt be.
"I went over to the court house when
they were maklntc all this fuss alxiut us.
A man they called Ignatius Jehovah Dunn
was talking nn.l the may he talked abut
US was the worst I ever heard. I would
rather be klckel Ground from morning till
night than to hear my friends run down
that way. That man Greevey must be a
peach. I'd share my last bone with him
If I knew I'd never have another.
"How can a srlf-respectlng dog hold his
bead up any more with one of these things
over his face? I always thought I'd die
of humiliation If I ever had to wear one
of those red dog blankets, but I believe
this Is Just as bad. When I have mine
put on in the morning I Just naturally
slink along as if I was afraid someone
might see me. When I do get my nerve up
. and try to look as if I didn't mind It some
yellow cur comes along and dares roe to
come out into the alley and what can
I do?
"As I remarked at the beginning, Towser,
when my daj comes look out. I've got
some of these so-called humans spotted.
I'm papain g up even the lowest down
Weary Willie now and I haven't had a
mouthful of trouser leg for over a week
now, but Just wt till my time comes.
Just .because these two-legged animals are
In power now is no sign they always will
be. Walt, I say. until my time in the sad
dle comes. When old Tlge climbs into the
mayor's ehair things will begin to go some.
Maybe it Isn't true, but I've heard there
are muzzles and muzzles. Also there are
rabies and rabies. Only a few days ago
a man in the next block got drunk and hit
his wife. When I cot into the mayor's
chair here Is the first proclamation I am
going to Issue:
" "Whereas, An epidemic of lushing ap
pears to prevail among a certain species of
animals called humans, and
" "Whereas, Complaint has been made
that this state of affairs Is bad for the
Unclaimed Goods
would be none to steal his treasures; then
he bolted the door and began to unpack.
The situation was growing uncanny. Th
first three grips contained worthless, moth
eaten clothing and rags simply that and
nothing more. The last grip examined had
evidently belonged to an aged woman. The
clothes in it were clean and neatly folded.
There were her specs, her thimble, her
knitting needles and a writing- tablet In
which a letter had been begun. It was
written in a trembling hand and began:
"My dear son; I am not sure where you
are, but" That was all. The tailor was
of the opinion that the grip and content
represented the woman's sole earthly be
longings, and be wished that be might re-
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public at large and Is hurting the soda
water business,
"' "Therefore. I. Tlge. by the authority In
me vested, do hereby proclaim that It shall
be unlawful for any man to run at large
without having firmly attached so as to
completely cover his head a muzzle so con
structed as to prevent access to his mouth
by anything larger than a soda water
straw. Any man found violating this proc
lamation, etc. Cheer up. TIGE. Mayor."
"I guess that would hold some of these
fellows for awhile. Then I would put a
bulldog on every corner and we would see
California's Golden Harvest
uc Dt.i. sf r9llfnrnia secures all
I " I annual Income from Its orchards
Ja 1 f rnnra than t3.VW0.0M. It DTO-
duces more than one-half of the
country's peach crop, a third of
the pear crop and seven-eighths of what
are termed subtropical fruits.
It supplies practically all of the prunes,
apricots, lemons, Jigs and the bulk of the
oranges grown In America. Put into fig
ures, this means 175,O0 tons of prunes
done, 1.030,000 boxes of lemons, nearly
S.000 tons of olives, 6.0C0 tons of fls. 2.&X).
0CO bushels of peaches and 10,(k0 tons of
walnuts and almonds.
As 85 per cent of the oranges and lemons .
raised In the state are distributed through
the fruit associations at Los Anceles, the
business done at this center will give an
Idea of the Industry in southern California.
It aggregates 30,000 cars with a value
of $17,(j0,000. An average of 8.000 carloads
of fruit of all kinds have been sent dally
during the chipping season out of the thir
teen counties of which Los Angeles Is the
selling center.
In Freono county, where 80 per cent of
the raisins cured in California are pro
duced, fully 50,000 tons will be the record
for 1906, the revenue from this fruit aggre
gating fully $4,000,000. Thirty year ago
turn them to her. '"Let us hope," he said,
"that the poor aoul ha found her 'dear
son' and that he is taking good care of
her."
The total proceeds of the auction sal
were 1700.35. This money goes Into the
fund of the Police Relief association, which
was created by an act of the legislature In
18S7, and which Is contributed to by a 1
per cent per annum levy on the salaries of
all policemen, and also from other sources.
On the death of a member of tie police
force his family receives from this fund
the sum of 1500. and during an officer'
sickness or disability he receives the sum
of S3 per day.
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Fortune teller re fortune sweller for
themselves.
Courtship Is the Juicy grade and marriage
the appendicitis.
Many a man takes a better half In a half
hearted manner.
Judge no man's sincerity by what he,ay.
but by what he doesn't.
Present a small boy with a watch and
bo'll have the time of his life.
Hot air la the motive power that operate
the human talking machine.
Many a man beconu a Jailbird through
Ms strenuous efforts to feather his nest.
And the mining prospectus gets the coin
while the hard-luck story is bumping the
bum pa
Did ycu ever notice how few people there
are present when anyona happens to say
nice things about you?
A successful financier Is a man who can
Separate other men from their money with
out the aid of a sandbag. Chicago News.
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things began to happen. Then I think I
would Issue another proclamation to muszle
these men who stand around cigar stores
and street corners and talk politics all day.
I would make the family cat wear padded
gloves and the neighbors' chickens have
their toes manicured every day. I would
make It a real muzzling proclamation.
"Well, maybe you can get some consola
tion out of that, but I can't," responded
Towser. who had been listening attentively,
"My throat strap Is choking me."
"I repeat. Just wait till my day comes,""
replied Tig.
not more than 25,000 orange trees were In
bearing in the 6") miles of fruit belt
stretching from the foothl.U of Mount
Shasta south to San Diego.
The orchards at the present time cover
more than 75,000 acres, nearly all of them
being the seedless variety, raised from two
little shoots which were planted at River
side in 1873.
The area containing the great orchards
of California consists principally of tho
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, with
what la locally termed the Los Angeles
country, comprising the five counties of
southern California.
While irrigation is needed for a large
proportion of the orchards In southern
California, the yield In an average year
Is so large and the financial returns so
gTeat that many of the companies wllo
control th larger orchards could sell them
at a price averaging 12,500 an acre, al
though this land prior to Irrigation was
not worth S3 an acre.
Although oranges will ripen In California
nearly every month of the year, the har
vest season is usually from November 1
to June 1. A fast a a wagon load la
picked it Is sent to the packing he use.
There the boxes are credited to the grower,
then prepared for market.
Here the oranges are dumped Into a long,
narrow tank, filled With water, at one end
of which Is a big wheel with a tire of soft
bristle. A the wheel revolves the brush
works In connection with another set of
brushes In a smaller tank underneath, and
the oranges, after bobbing about in the big
tank, pas between the wet brushes and
come out bright and clean.
At some of the packing houses the old
method of hand washing Is still In use, and
groups of women, each with a brush and
a tub of water, stand under an awning and
scrub busily. After the bath the oranges)
are spread upon long, slanting racks to dry
in th sun, and from the lower end they
roll Into the boxe and are carried into
th shade of the warehouse to cure.
After the hours of curing tbey are fed
Into a hopper which drops them single file
Into a belt that runs between revolving
cylindrical brushes. They come out sleek
and shiny, and are carried In a belt ele
vator to the sorting table, where they are
graded Into fancy, choice and standard.
The grades are determined by the size and
appearance.
This sorting table Incline slightly, and
the dividing stream posse In two file upon
narrow track of moving ropes, which di
verge gradually. The smallest oranges fall
through first, the larger size further on.
grading themselves and falling Into their
proper bins.
Ther are a dozen sizes, from th small
ones that run SCO to a box, to fruit that
cannot b spanned with both hands and
which pack forty-eight to the box. Both,
extremes ar subject to discount from the
market price as off sized.
Orange are very tender and muxt bo
handled with great care. Finger nail are
kept short, lest a slight bruise be made on
the skin In handling; and wherever an
orange drops even an inch or two spouts,
bins and tables are padded. I'sually the
warehouse Is on a elding or in the direct
lira of railway, so that the boxes can b
loaded Into the cars from the building
without loss of time. A carload 1 from
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