I'LATTSMO IJTII WEEKLY IIEKALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1887.
KNOTTS BROS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
Santa Clary Vafloy Fruits.
San Josk, Cai,., June 13, '87
Colifornia, the golden state of the un
ion ! Ho called from the precious metal
which brought the iO-crs from home unci
friends, tempting them to hruvc the per
ils of the terrible over-land journey in
a too often vain Kcarch for wealth. Lit
tle dreamed Uio.se old miners delving for
gold that the true source of Californ
ias wealth was not the minerals they so
eagrely sought, but the soil which they
disdained to cultivate, except with the
pick. Years after when the gold feyer
had abated the old familiar name was
still appropriate by reason of the thous
ands of acres of yellow grain. Still later
the orchards overspread the place of the
vast wheat fields, and the trees, laden
with golden oranges and apricats, with
prunes and peaches, brought to the
owners a constantly incrcasiag stream of
golden eagles.
What com is to the farmer of Nebras
ka, fruit is to the tillers of the soil of this
Valley.
Santa Clara valley with an area of
1,500 square miles, with thousands of
acres of the finest orchards, vineyards
and vegetable gardens to be found in the
world, ships to eastern markets and the
markets of foreign countries, the varied
products of her soil. The canned goods
of this valley have a world wide reputa
tion. This year's fruit crops will be the larg
est ever known. Already the season has
opened with the ripening of cherries and
activity is the order of the day. The
cherry, one of the most delicious- iruits
grown, cannot be fairly judgetby eastern
people as it is picked in an unripe con
dition for shipment and therefore is dc
ncient in size, color ana navor. ine
yield, though not large, is unusually fine
in quality and cherry orchards will pay
handsome profits. Canners offering T
per lb for the choice white varieties and
even at that price the supply is not equal
to the demand. Early peaches will be
ripe in about two weeks ami soon after
the first of July the splendid apricot
crop conies in. The yield will be immense.
It is estimated that in this valley alone
there will be 15,000 tons, worth, at pre
vailing prices, $500,000, and when can
ned or dried, as the entire crop will be,
the value will not fall short of 1.000,000.
To handle this vast amount of fruit will
require the seryice of every man, woman
and child attainable for that purpose
There are single orchards that will re
quire 150 men to care for the fruit. As
the luscious apricot is only grown in Cal
ifornia, she has the whole Uditcd States
and a portion of the old world for a mar
kct.
Many orehardists are preparing to dry
their own fruit and evaporators arc now
as common in the valley as threshing
machines in Nebraska. Fruit men think
nothing of evaporating ten and fifteen
tons of apricots per day (21 hours).
Not far from where this letter is writ
cn, two Nebraska men own an orchard,
2urchased last winter, and are erecting
what is considered one of the largest
if not the largest evaporator in the state,
We were told that it is expected to dry
fifteen tons of apricots per day when
crowded to its lull capacity, ana as no
custom fruit was to be evaporated, the
readers of the IIeiiald can lorm some
idea of the immensity of the crop. The
gentlemen mentioned have 30 acres of
aoricots and expect to have 250 tons of
fruit. I will not attempt to name prices
further than to say that 250 tons of green
apricots will make 50 tons of dried.
Is it any wonder that the people of the
Santa Clara valley value their land at
$1,000 an acre when capable of produc
ing such results.
The French prune ranks next in
importance to the apricot and is also
purely California product. It is a sure
bearer, is free from insect pests, and the
man fortunate enough to own a ten-acre
prune orchard has an assured income
1-irrrpr than can be obtained from the
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best 1G0 acres of grain land in the east,
Hums, peaches and pears, in fact all
fruits of the temperate zone as well as
manv semi-tropical ones attain perfection
here. Oranges and lemons are no stran
gers to the valley and if the specimens
shown are not as fine as those of Kiycr
side and Los Angeles, the fault lies with
the producers, not with soil and climate.
There are hundreds of acres which, if
properly irrigated, would raise as fine or
anges as southern California. The peo
ple prefer the fruits that can be grown
without irrigation.
An article on fruits would be incom
plete were no mention made of the straw
berry. Ten months in the year it is found
in the market, and has ceased to be re
garded as a luxury rather, it is a neces
sity. In a letter it is impossible to give more
than a faint idea of the magnitude of the
fruit industry in this favored region.
One by one tl grain fields are replaced
by orchards and it is only a question of
a few years when the valley, from moun-
tain to .nountain will bo one vast fruit
i una.
Perhaps a few words on climate may
not be out of place in a letter on fruits.
In the fir.-t place there are no extremes of
heat and cold the seasons are not Sum
mer and Winter, Spring and Autumn but
the wet and dry seasons. The trade
winds temper the Summer heat, and the
thermometer does not often mount among
the nineties. Of course, there are now
and then exceptionally warm days, but
they arc of rare occurence, and but serve
to prove to the inhabitants of this glori
ous valley how much they have to be
thankful for. The rainy season, i3 of no
uniform duration; light rains sometimes
fall in October and November, but usual
ly the rainy season is from the 1st of De
cember to the 1st of May. Very often
there is no rain until February. A rain
after the 1st of May is regarded as a ca
lamity. The readers of this letter are not
to suppose the rainy season is one contin
uous downpour; a heavy rain (heavy in
the California sense) is succeeded by
days, often weeks of pleasant weather.
The rains even when protracted are no
serious hindrance to the farmer's labor
a man may work i$(J5 days in the year, if
so inclined. Late rains are of the most
benefit to fruits and the most disastrous
years have had the heavy rains very early
in the season.
Wc respectfully beg to assure the good
people who may read. this letter that we
have no interest whatever in real estate.
For the benefit of any who contemplate
seeking homes in California we say this:
Do not locate w ithout first seeing the
Santa Clara valley.
St, Clare.
"The Printer."
St. Louis Republican.
The following humorous address, "The
Printer, His Privileges and Characteris
tics, and the Position of His Craft Among
the Industries of the Country, as Review
ed by a Veteran," was delivered by Mr.
Richard Ennis of the Eunis Stationery
company at a meeting of the St. Louis
Typothehe, held in Darwick's hall, No.
117 Olive street, Friday night, before
members of the society. During his ad
dress Mr. Ennis was frequently interrupt
ed by laughter and applause from his
hearers, lie said:
Gentlemen It is with gravest appre
hension that one should undertake to
speak in an assemblage composed of the
employing printers in this or any other
city; for of all classes of men, they are
the most inclined to analyze, criticise, re
construct, strengthen and "put sense" into
all the "matter" with which they come in
contact. Whether, he be professor or
mechanic, politician or preacher, scientist
or educator, the average printer feels it
incumbent on himself to "doctor the
copy" which passes through his hands,
improve the grandeur and round the per
iods with the absolute sway of an auto
crat, feeling that no one outside of the
printing office has any rights that he is
bound to respect. The master printer
takes no man's statement as gospel, and
nothing "goes" but that which has passed
his scrutiny. His individuality is su
preme and complete, even to the extent
of coining words and going outside of
every encyclopaedia and dictionary. And
there is good reason for all this. Many
an ignorant stump speaker and politician
have been lifted into national significance
though his "tips" and "touches;" ana to
the printer's aptness and constructive
power, intuitive knowledge of grammar
and punctuation, many of the most orig
inal thinkers and vigorous writers are in
debted for the proud distinction of rank
ing with Addison and our own Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and being handed
down to posterity as an accomplished
scholar, editor and author. Great ap
plause.
The making of great men out of slen
der materials is part of the mystery of the
art, and hence the secrets of the printing
office are generally kept inviolate. Print
ers arc at all times critical, and often
cynical; and as they measure everything
with a very short rule, but few men
whose manuscript has "hung" upon their
"copy hook" ever became heroes in their
eyes; they investigate the underlying mo
tives of men and measures, and get "onto"
the inwardness of things by merely read
insr the head lines or introduction or
looking at the handwriting; and as in
olden times printers were permitted to
wear swords as a sign of distinction,
there is generally in their composition the
elementt of the cavalier, blended with
the wisdom of the philosopher and the
servant. If anything in particular, the
printer is, in all matters pertaining to his
art, a hero, and in proof of this challen
ges the field by affixing his imprint to
the work done in his establishment, a
privilege not conceded to any other avo
catiou. It has been said that in the debates of
printers' unions, generally every second
member is, on an average, a second Clay
or Webster, and if this be the case with
the journeyman printer, why not conclude
that underneath the dome of thought of
every gentleman present this evening lies
concealed the critical incisiveness of the
Scotch reviewer or the withering invec
tive of a modern Junius? Being one of
your guild, and knowing full we)i how
my own thoughts would run were cither
one of you gentlemen in my place and I
among the audience, for want of a better
way of getting out of the dilemma in
which an attempt to make a speech would
place me, "with bated breath and whis
pering humbleness," permit me to com
pliment this society on this suspicious be
ginning, of which this highly respectable
audience gives evidence. The bone and
tissue of the printing business of our city
is here assembled, and, from the interest
expressed, nothing but good can come
out of a better acquaintance and more
frequent interchange of opinions.
Although somewhat of a veteran
among the employing printers, I want to
grasp the hand of every honest competi
tor and say that this is a yery large coun
try, which no one man can either fence
in or control. In it there is plenty of
room for all to labor and gain both for
tune and honor; but in the pursuit of
these there are no short cu"b or corners,
and the only pathway leading to their
attainment is through economy and in
dustry, supplemented by ability and per
se yerance.
A Housefull of Snakes.
Years ago a young lawyer of Savannah
took his wife and their eldest son to the
Carolinia. In those times, says the Sa
vaunah News, even Saratoga had but
two hotels, in the shape of large wooden
buildings very unlike the "palatial resi
dences" now erected even at the South;
so you may suppose the one in Rarnwell
was nothing to admire. A dwelling
house, with wings, and a few small build
ings around constituted the "hotel".
When the Savannahian got there no
room could be found for him, unless he
would occupy an outhouse of logs, used
for fodder, one-half being supplied with
a plank floor, the other being the natu
ral soil. As a party was to leave in two
days these accommodations were accept
ed, father, mother and son sleeping in one
bed, and the servant girl where she could.
The rfist night they slept soundly till af
ter midnight, when they became aware
of things scampering and swiftly glid
ing over the floor overhead, and in one
instance over the bed. As the light in
creased they found that their visitors
were rats aud chicken-snakes, but they
disappeared very soon. They determined
to risk another night, especially as the
strictest search could detect the presence
of neither rat nor serpent. About the
same hour of the night there was a re
petition of the occurrences of the night
before, aud having discovered that the
serpents were only chieken snakes the
travelers slept on, though the boy declar
ed that something had crawled over his
face toward morning. The fath
er dressed and retired, and" the mother
got up at the proper time. Her habit
was to put her keys, stockings and bag
under her pillow before getting into bed
Slipping her feet into her shoes, which
had heels, she put her hand under the
pillow from which she had just risen,
when she felt the cold skin of the snake.
She told the child to jump out of bed
and as she did so she slipped off one of
her shoes, held it as a hammer, jerked
away the pillow, and as the serpent raised
its head, struck it a deadly blow. It
squirmed to the floor, writhed a little,
and then lay 'still. To her horror she then
discovered it to be a "moccasin " The
house was within fifty yards of a swamp,
which abounded wiah those interesting
reptiles. Upon being complimented for
coolness and bravery she admitted that
had she not thought it a chicken snake
she would have acted differently. She
was not one of the kind that screams
aud jump on chairs at the sight of a lit
tie mouse, moreover was a Beaufort girl
like her sex generally in Port Royal able
to break a marsh tacky, steer a boat
through the surf, sail one in a stiff breeze
play a drum-fish and then shine i n a
drawing-room among the brilliant men
and women who then abounded on our
seacoast from the Santee to the St. Marys.
In those days Boston, Baltimore, Charles
ton Baeufort and Savannah were famed
for their beautiful women and of a cul
ture unsurpassed anywhere.
Why the Crow is Black.
The Indians of the extreme Northwest
had some very remarkable legends about
the creation, in which the crow takes the
leading part, bringing order out of chaos.
Perhaps the most curious was that which
accounted for the raven coat of the crow.
One night, while making a tour through
his dominions, he stoped at the house of
Can-nook, a chief, and begged for lodg
ing and a dring of water. Can-nook of
fered him a bed, but, on account of the
scarcity of water, refused to give him
anything to drink. When all the rest
were asleep the crow got up to hunt for
the water-butt, but, was heard by Can
nook's wife, who aroused her husband.
He, thinking that the crow was about to
escape, piled log3 of gum wood upon the
fire. The crow made desperate efforts to
fly through the hole in the roof where
the smoke escaped, but Can-nook caused
the smoke to be denser and denser, and
when the crow finally regained the outer
air he had black plumage. It ' was pre
viously white. Z. L. WJiite, in The
American Mayazine.
Harriet Beocher Stowe on Woman's
Sphere.
Womans' Rights Conventions are a pro
test against many former absurd, unreason
able ideas the mere physical and culinary
idea of womanhood, as counectc donly
with puddings and shirt-buttons, the un
just and unequal burdens which the laws
of harsher ages cast upon the sex. Many
of the women connected with these move
ments are as superior in everything wom
anly as they are in exceptional talent and
culture.
There is no manner of doubt that the
sphere of woman is properly to be enlarg
ed, and thc icpublican governments in
particular are to be saved from corruption
and failure only by allowing to woman
this enlarged sphere. Every woman has
rights as a human being first, which belong
to no sex, and ought to be as freely con
conceded to her as if she were a man
and first mid foremost, the great right of
doing anything which God aud nature
evidently have fitted her to excel in. If
she bo made a natural orator, like Miss
Dickinson, or an astronomer, like Mrs.
Somerville, or a singer, like Grisi, let not
the technical rules of womanhood be
thrown in her way of her free use of her
powers. Nor can there be any reason
shown why a woman's vote in the State
should not be received with as much re
spect as in the family. A State is but an
association of families, and laws relate
to the rights and immunities which touch
woman's most private and immediate
wants and dearest hopes; and there is no
reason why sister, wife, and mother should
be more powerless in the State than in the
home. Nor does it make a woman un
womanly to express an opinion by drop
ping a slip of paper into a box, more than
to express that same opinion by conversa
tion. In fact, there is no doubt that, in
all matters relating to the interests of edu
cation, temperance, and religion, the State
would be a material gainer by receiving
the votes of women. Harriet Beecuer
Stowe.
Astonishing Success.
It is the duty of every person who has
used Bos:hee's German Syrup to let its
wonderful qualities be known to their
friends in curing Consumption, severe
Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, and
in fact all throat and lung diseases. No
person can use it without immediate re
lief. Three doses will relieve any case,
and we consider it the duty of all Drug
gists to recommend it to the poor, dying
consumptive, at least to try one bottle, as
80,000 dozen bottles were sold last year,
and no one case where it failed was re
ported. Such a medicine as the German
syrup cannot be too widely known.
Ask your druggist about it. Sample bot
tles to try, sold at 10 cents. Regular
size, 75 cents. Sold by all Druggists and
Dealers, in the United States and Canada.
. (2)
Looked Like a Boa Constrictor.
From the Milton, (Ga.,) Democrat,
Mr. Will Demsey brought to our office
on yesterday a snake which measured 5
feet 8 inches n length, 2 inches in diam
eter in the center. It resembled a boa
constrictor slightly, but Mr. Dempsey
thinks it was a bull snake, because, on
approaching it, it reared its head and bel
lowed; others call it a chicken snake, and
6ome say they never before saw a snake
that was like it. Just think of it rearing
its head, its penetrating eye3 flashing
dancing glauces at you, and its forked
tongue passing in and out its mouth like
a shuttle of poison.
English Spavin Liniment removes all
Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps and
blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin,
Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains,
Sore and .Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc.
Save !?50 by use of one bottle. War
ranted by Frickc & Co. druggists, Platts
mouth. 3-1-1 yr
The complimentary passes given to
newspaper men by a county fair associa
tion in Michigan, read as follows: "This
ticket has probably been paid for a dozen
times over y the paper to which it is is
sued. It will be honored in the hands
of any man, woman or child, white or
black, red or yellew, who favor the asso
ciation by presenting it. It is good for
entrance and grand stand, and the bear
er, if driving, will be entitled to pass a
team free. The association recognizes
the fact that its splendid success is owing
largely, if not wholly, to the notices free
ly given by the press, and, while we can
not render an equivalent in cash, we re
turn our grateful thanks." Lincoln
Journal.
Faults of digestion cause disorders
of the liver, and the whole system be
comes deranged. Dr. J. II. 3IcLean's
Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier
perfects the process of digestion and as
simulation, and thus makes pure blood.
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An Arizona judge has decided that
peace officers have no right to carry con
cealed weapons any more than private
citizens.
If you suffer pricking pains on mov
ing the eyes, or cannot bear bright light,
and find your sight weak and failing,
you should promptly use Dr. J. II. Mc
Lean's Strengthening Eye Salve. 25 cents
a box. 8-m3
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Where courteous treatment, square dealing and :i Magnifi
cent Stock of Goods to select from are
responsible for my
Rapidly laer casing Trade,
IT WILL BE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET
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Ladies' Kid Button Shoe?, formerly S3. 00, now $2.00.
Ladies' Kid Button Shoes, formerly 82.25, now 51.25.
Ladies' Peb. Goat Shoes, formerly 2.75, now $1.75.
Ladies' A Calf Shoes, formerly 2.25, now $2.00.
Ladies' Kid Opera Slippers, formerly S1.00, now 75c.
Men's "Working Shoes, formerly 1.75, now 1.10.
Choice Box of few old Goods left at less than half Cost
Manufacturing and Repairing Neally and
Promptly done.
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Patents Cranted
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past week, reported expressly for The
Herald ly C. A. Snow fc Co., patent
lawyers, opposite U. S. patent office,
"Washington, D. C.
J. L. llice, Omaha, Roofing-paint. M.
M. Hunt, Tecumseh, Car-coupling. J.
Fremont, Reynolds, Bed-spring bottom.
E. B. Durfee, Lincoln, Ruilscraper and
snow plow.
The quality of the blood depends
much upon good or bad digestion and
assimulation; to make the blood rich in
.life and strength giving constituents, use
Dr. J. II. McLean's Strengthening Cordial
and Blood Purifier; it will nourish the
properties of the blood from which the
elements of vitality are drawn. 8-m3
Paper toboggans are said to be a great
deal more useful than other toboggans,
as they are lighter and run easier and
faster.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
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per box. For sale by
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$25,000.00
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