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Pages 9 to 12. PART TWO. TENTH-YEAR. LOS ANGELES, SUNDAY, OCTOUER 11, 1891. PI iP mvot.k conrs, cp.vm.

Jllv'iJ liV THE WKtH, 3 CfcMT. o.i the brush and weeds grown on th THE GUAM) CANYON. PENNY COAXEPiS. fifty degrees or that it may be rendered opaque, and prevent these rays PREGNANT PROPHECIES. Biblical Forecasts of the World's Destiny.

Marseilles. The sea coast will have changed and the geographical map of the earth will have been transformed. No one will live and breathe any more, except in the equatorial zone, up to thj day when the last family, nearly dead with cold and hunger, will sit on the shore of the last sea in the rays of the sun, which will thereafter shine here below on an ambulant tomb, revolving aimlessly around a useless light and a barren lieat. This but faintly expresses what science teaches might be the results of a change in the earth's axis and orbit. Very truly, Ui.axtox Dvncax.

As for the counundrum social we are told that "If any one laughs aloud he Is punished in some way previously agreed upon. A very good punishment Is to make the victim take a teaspoonful of strong bonesct tea." The Maud Muller social la recommended to people of literary and musical tastes. It opens with a chorns thus: John Muller puts on bis pants of tweed. Which his tired mother has re-kneed. And sprinkled with patches In other places.

Where her well worn slipper has left Us traces. Ami she savs to her bivt' as he puts thorn on. Mrs. Be careful of them there breeches, John. There is a great deal more of the same sort, and through it all runs the tinder-tone, "Don't be afraid to be silly." Why should not one be afraid to be silly? Is there any merit in vulgar buffoonery, assumed for the purpose of coaxing reluctant pennies from the pockets of brainless young men.

St is a strange thing that "the people most addicted to these forms of entertainment are the intellectual descendants of the solemn Puritans, who, not recognizing danciivg, banks of the ct ek, we follow the creel! nd when the trail is lost go back to find it. lest we may be led off into some other gore of the mountains, vve come into a broad space, it be from one to eighteen miles wide lor all we know, and we are told this portion is called the Marble Canyon. From the plateau to its bottom varies in depth from 1000 to 8000 feet, in wmtn irons one to eighteen miles. The gorge is cut through the metaphoric rock of the elevated plateau by the action of the water in its passage to the oioraao Kiver, whit it 130(1 miles in length, and navigable for over 600 miles from its mouth. We were in only one of the numerous groups of canyons, there be-ing hundreds of other chasms thousand of feet in depth; so are there mountains which rise from its bed to an enormous height, on the summits of which you look down from the walls of the great gorge.

Some distance from the inclosnre which leads to the Cathedral Kock there stands to the right on the way bacli a structure that most particularly interested Dr. Frich and Dr. Ilomberg as we went down the dav before, who re quested a photograph from a geological point of view. Standing at some instance from the base there arose a pyramid, as it were, stratum upon stratum, layerupon layer, sharply defined, gradually sloping to the top, which ended in a red stucco strnctiire, like one of the old mission churches of California. Almost nerfect in form, with the arches over the windows completely defined, and nearly like a side view of San Gabriel Mission that it should he cauea anct that mission.

It was very rich in coloring, and each time we would look back stood out more and more prominently, the distance making it more real in its resemblance to that old mission. Other views were taken, but none so closely resembletl an old church made by human hands as this one. It is impossible to present a ord-picture that will convey anything like an adequate idea ot the marvels ot tnis canyon, juic had tried the echoes, which in soma places would be very distinct, prolonged and some places repeated four times, to our astonishment we nau out arrived at Ilance's stone cabin, about three miles below the brink. Here we rested and ate reluctantly, our dry bread, having forgotten on a rockatther Cathedral a can of peaches set aside for from piercing through, so mat eternal Ice should sweep away every vestige of life. Scientists all assert that there has been a former period of glaciation of this globe, produced by some of the great irregularitie-.

In its motion, wnicn recur, according to their calculation, at periods of many thousands of years apart. At present our aphelion position (greatest distance from the sun) occurs in the summer solstice (June 21.) But there is a coincidence of the aphelion with the winter solstice (December 21,) once in years. For polar gla ciation that' is the most favorable condition. There is again variation of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, passing through a double oscillation every years. Third, there is a change in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit in every 100,000 years.

This oscillation, it is said, prolongs or withdraws the heat of the sun's rays in the polar regions. The change of orbit makes at present the summer months eight days longer than the winter months, in which our perihelion occurs. Now what might happen among the possibilities which could occur in any one year, by physical means, if an omnipotent power chose to direct it Astronomers tell us that something dreadful in the way of glaciation would occur if these conditions existed at the same time: (1.) Winter solstice in aphelion, (a.) Obliquity of the ecliptic at minimum. (3.) Eccentricity of orbit in maximum. Everything liquid would become solid ice in a second.

Fortunately such coincidences can only happen once in many millions of years. The next most horrible condition would be the coincidence of No. 1 and No. 3. This happens only once in a vast number of years.

But some scientists say that the last glacial epoch could have been produced by cause No. 1, the winter solstice of Dec. 21 coinciding with ahpelion. They date the last coincidence in its intensity at about the year 942 7 B. C.

and say that alone may have produced the entire glaciation of the earth. Now there may be many other terrible destructive coincidences, which astronomers have not yet discovered. But we have no record for reference to prove that extraordinary changes may not have been made by the attraction of the great planets in perihelia at the same time. And as the occurrence of the two coincidences No. 1 and No.

3 would produce wonderfully intense glaciation, our astronomers have only surmise to base any dicta that the joint perihelia of the great planets, about 80,876 B. did not cause these very effects. Anroscillation of the earth may then have been effected by the cross-currents of electricity, not only to produce the second but the third cause, an exact for cold beyond even the power of human calculation, and which would account for the wonderfully preserved remains of extinct mammoth animals found beneath the great mountains of ice on the northern shores of Siberia, where a drop of water never exists. There have been singular phenomena of all kinds in the past decade; and many scientists looked with dread in 1880 for the results of the planetary conjunctions through 1881-1886. According to Prof.

Agassiz, who made a life-time study of the glacier subject, the catastrophe which enveloped all of the old world north of the thirty-fifth parallel with huge mountains of ice, was sudden. His theory has been adopted by nearly all the great geologists. The meat of the mammoths has been cut out perfectly fresh and sound by those who discovered them. The plants and leaves which have been found were distinct as any that grow now and they all proved to be of tropical growth the change so instantaneous that they had no time to wither and decay; produced doubtless by some change of the earth, which transformed a Paradise into an Arctic Zone of perpetual ice. The last intensity of glaciation has been dated in the year 9427 B.

C. The preceding intense period was 21,850 years before, or in the year 30,783 B. C. There were perihelia of the four great planets causiug concentration of the attractions, and of electric currents in 30,87680,872. The aphelion of the earth in 2 calculated as December 20.

the day before winter solstice; and in 30,711, when three of the planets were in perihelia, the aphelion occurred December 22. Most likely both these periods witnessed remarkable events. If the five days of the Bible, prior to the creation of man, were, as Christian geologists maintain, periods of time, vast in extent, as denoted by a God to whom "a thousand years are but as a day," it would be easy to concede that the earth had this change of climate in those remote ages. Siberia may then have been in the tropics until the change of orbit and the other coincidences instantly converted everything living into a frozen mass, and the other portions of the earth, up to that time in frozen regions, were of course untenanted by animal life. The phenomena existing on this continent, indi: cat from the studies of geologists that vast mountains of ice extended south of our lakes, if not south of the fortieth parallel.

Fossil remains of extinct animals also have been found beneath where they say these icy mountains once stood. They have found nothing yet to prove a former race of men. But if there should be another change of climate and the Polar regions become tropical again, future geologists might search beneath the melted ice to discover buried pre-adamlte giants, approximating in size to the mammoths of the brute creation, which have caused such widespread speculations. It is impossible to excavate under that ice now. It has been proposed to turn the ocean into the African Sahara to make a vast lake, and to bring those regions into fertilization.

Against this many European scientists have objected that it would pour such a weight upon that spot as to disturb the equilibrium of the globe, and produce some catastrophe which no science could foresee, and no effort remedy. It has been said that reality often 'furnishes more vivid romance than the most fertile brain of man. And so one of the Paris novel ists, Henri Vivarcy, has drawn the following picture of the future: From the summit of the mountain a windin? sheet of snow will descend upon the hlph plateaus and the valleys, driving before It life and civilization, anil masking forever the cities and nations that It meets on its passage. Life and human activity will press insensibly toward the iiuer-tropical zone. St.

Petersburg. Berlin. London. Pari. Vienna.

Constantinople and Home will fall asleep in succession under the eternal phroud. During very many aires equatorial humanity will undertake arctic expeditions: to find again under the Ice the place of Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux and Down in the Di pt lis of the Iiio Colorado. Further of the Movements of Exploring Party. the "The Cathedral" and the "Character" Who Preached Therein. Distinguished People Ranching It" Not Much tirnli, lint t.rent Den I of Fine Keener)- The Journey Kittled.

II. Fi.aobtapf Oct. 3. Special correspondence of Tiir Timfs. In my last letter we had arrived at "The Cathedral," an immense everhanging rock capable of giving shelter to 1100 people.

As you approach and look up a few feet, a hollow space carved out by the action of the water, reminds one of the old ruined altar of the Mission of San Luis Key, and from its resemblance to a pulpit or altar its religions name of the Cathedral" is derived. The guide, John Ha nee, had preceded the rest of the party and was preparing the supper. A blazing fire lighted up the gloomy granite walls and cast fantastic shadows, though for the purposes of heat not required, as the temperature was very mild. The floor under the rock was even and smooth, like cement, with stones here and there large enough for seats and tables. In the hurry of packing the mules during the Major's speech before descending the day before into the canyon, the knives and forks were forgotten, and the learned doctors of philosophy and men of science were pleasantly requested by the guide, who served also as cook, to come to the fire and help themselves to the juicy pieces of Arizona mutton, which they did, and placing them upon pieces of bread, returned to the Navajo spread for a table.

To make things more amusing, there were only three spoons to dip sugar, stir the coffee, serve the canned tomatoes, and for seventeen persons only fifteen small loaves of bread to last two days. It was not from a scarcity of provisions at the camp, but an oversight in packing, which, however. did not cause any great degree of discomfort, the worst effects of the journey beinir realized from lack of water on the last three miles of the trail in the ascent to the brink of the canyon, where canteens should be placed at intervals to aid the parched and weary traveler on his way out. There was a plenty of Navajo blankets. each selecting two or three to spread their beds, with heads toward the altar.

The granite cliffs on either side formed a complete amphitheater, with a clear, beautiful skv. and the Congress Creek (so christened that dav by the geolo gists) murmuring below us. As the guide spread his blankets he observed that if he had so good a bed as that he never would have left home, that land of hominy and hog to which his parents had carried lnm when a kid. He was asked many questions as to the dangers encountered by the. descent to the river from this place.

As there is beauty mystery he left enough unexplained to make them eager to resume the journey in the morning. After informing the party that he was a Methodist preacher, and said he held services at the cathedral every other Sunday in the pulpit above them, he left them the comfort ing assurance that the place was alive with mice; in fact, enough to carry the whole crowd away so 1 was prepared for it when I felt something crawl under the blanket later on. After the camp had retired to rest, arising to shake the blanket, there sat Mr. Henry M. Cadell, the "Laird of Bo'ness," sketching the sleeping geologists in their novel bedroom.

Later on the mules walked quietly around and among the sleepers in search of bread. By daylight John Hance was up. had a fire lighted, and was calling out. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" "All aboard for the river!" Here the breakfast was delayed a lit tle by the fastidious taste of Mr. Bernard Hobson, assistant of the Pro fessor of Geology in Manchester, Eng land, who went to tiie creek to wash the tin cups and plates from which we had eaten supper.

Soon they were all ready, but it must have been 8 a. though it was a long time after that the sun's rays reached the noor ot the uathe dral. After breakfast M. G. K.

Gilbert, of the topographical survey, announced that he would like to go over the cliffs, as so many were accustomed to travel dowa by the creek through the canyon, and no one had reported how the coun try looked by the cliff route to the river. Being informed by John Hance that there was a trail over the cliffs oppo site the Cathedral, Dr. F. Trech of Halle, Germany, and Mr. Meyer joined rum in las adventure, the others preferring to go a route that had been traveled.

Each one was requested to carry some provision for their lunch at the river as the mules would not accom pany them. Led by John Hance, thir teen started, including Mr. Frich from Alabama, omitted on the list of my first letter. Prof. Williams left by himself, as I heard, to return to camp.

We watched Gilbert and his compan ions climb the cliff. After they got to the top they called out "Good-bye." hey were so diminished in size and so high" above us that we could but wonder at this Intrepidity in climbing such an awful steep place, and the more adven turons because an unknown path. After making a dark room of the Navajo blankets over a rock and changing the negatives, Mr. Marcnand and your cor respondent commenced our journey back to the camp. On the descent we were so rushed for time in order to reach the Cathedral before dark only faint idea of the scenery could be realized, as we had to look care fully to the sharp turns in the path around the sharp edges of the stones and watch out for the slippery, steep places." On the return we had more enjoyment of the scenery.

Leaving the level space on which we camped. we step into the bed of Congress Creek and immediately enter a narrow passage, walled on either side bv granite rock, which narrows toward the open ing, and the walls here come together in such a manner as to overlap and en tirely obscure the entrance. A little farther, looking backward, it forms a circle without any apparent outlet and composed of layer upon layer of granite rock, rough and unevenly laid and of dark-gray color. After we passed this granite enclosure the sun shone and it grew warm. Removing a jacket I found I had carried a lizard from the camp.

The path there for a mile and a half lies in the bed of the creek; ere long the trail Is followed on either side of the creek and yery often lost Struggling: in tho Toils of the Dime Social. Various Breeds of the Same Playful Animal. The Cahill's Notion of a "Crazy" Costume, to-wit, a Plug Hat. The "Sleeping Itemitj-," the Fnmpkln Tie and Other "Social" Furniture Mla Merrlman's Volume on How to lit) It. WRITTEN Foil THE TIMES.

It is the festive season. Kirmesses and fairs and all sorts of social weddings in all materials, from gold, the metal of the 'bloated bondholder, and sliver, "the money of the poor," all the way to the plain, ordinary tin plate of of the tariff all these, and more, are in full swing. To the end. then, that I may promote in a humble way these forms rof innocent merriment, I am minded to give some particulars from a modest little volume entitled "Socials." by Eflle W. Merriinau Chicago, who explains how to be gay and charitable at the same time.

Miss Merriman should be Merriwoman. it seems explains that her object is to teach people how to "coax the pennies from those who care less for charity than for their own comfort." One, may -gather from the book that the higher culture is not regarded as a good social investment not a good penny coaxer in fact. Thus we are told at the start "an evening with Browning is enjoyed by many, but those who have read and studied all day do not care for the privilege of continuing study in the evening." Reading and studying all day Is a delightful euphemism for sellting ham and eggs. "Tlicy want to be amused," proceeds is our author "and will be more likely to spend their money where they can have a good time without, much mental effort." In illustrating she gives her ideas of the sort of entertainment likely to be attractive, explaining that 'the more comical the prize the better. A pumpkin pie baked in the largest dripping pan in the neighborhood is generally hailed with delight." There is no mental effort in understanding the jokg of a comic pie.

In the book one finds socials in great variety, recommended as infallible penny coaxers. There is the tea and brown tea, plaster 'o'paris Aggers, the conundrum social, and the Lord knows what beside. For instance there is the social, of which it is explained: The idea is to have everything on the bill of fare begin wilh the letter and to disguise as much as possible. It is a good icea to put toothpicks, sour milk and other delicacies on the menu, having them disguised, also. It is fun to see the look of surprise which will steal over an individual's face when he discovers that he has ordered and paid for what he did not wan at all.

There is not much mental effort in this variety of fun for the young person who has- studying all over the prices of string beans or butter in the roll, for a toothpick in alphabetical disguise is the noblest work of woman. Then there is the crazy social, of which the fun consists of dressing in the "craziest manner imaginable." Unfortunately one is left iii the dark as to what may be classed as a crazy dress, and one is compelled to fall back on the definition of a Los Angeles court, where an old hunks who sat playing the piano, dressed in a plug hat without more, was counted crazy. It is true there might be objections to this costume as a penny coaxer, but what is one to dof The uproarious quality of the social is promted if people "are careful before refreshments are served not to speak intelligently or intelligbly," and it is explained that when a guest is "welcomed in all manner of outlandish gibberish the more honored he should feel." As for the tableaux, we are told: "The Sleeping Beauty" should be an ugly looking old man with a big stomach and a red night cap, nodding in an arm chair, "True Love" should be a middle-aged married couple of unprepossessing appearance, menacing each other with poker and broomstick. The glorious fun may be supplemented by "serving pickels in coffee cups and coffee in bottles. Buy a new dust pan in which to pile sandwiches." Chicago humor doubtless.

It has a fine flavor of pork. "Old Grimes' Plaster o' Paris Fig-gers, is recommended as a sure card, it is necessary that "Old Grlme3 should be a comical old fellow, capable of saying funny things;" but if he is not so capa-able the author comes to his assistance and offers a speech replete with funny things; for instance: Ladies and gentlemen: It is not necessary for me to thank you for your presence here this evening, since you are here for your own good. You are uncultured, uncivilized and savage. At present you know nothing of art. Your minds are as innocent of all knowledge on this subject as a baby's is of the rules of baseball, or as my good man Friday's is of anything but art.

That boy (pointing to his assistant, who must look ss awkward and idiotic as possi ble) was brought up on art. He has eaten it, drank it, slept with it. Here is another funny thing from the speech: This, lailies and gentlemen, was one of the most exasperating ot that most exasperating class of humanity female book agents. Khe was a terror to all who met her, and the man v. ho succeeded In evading her hugged himself with pure delight and innocently hoped that hi enemy might not be so successful.

Look at that cheek? There is no money that would Induce me to strike it without well padded knuckles, unless I felt charitably inclined and wanted to give work to my brother, the surgeon, who is an orphan and has only me to practice on. There is brass in that cheek, ladies and gentlemen: that is what caused her death. A highway robber wanted it. that he might lit himself out for a real-estate agent. The writer concludes with the advice (to Grimes) "Do not be afraid to be silly," a sweet compliment to the class of people who attend socials.

"The Authors' Social" is treated very gingerly, as if the writer was rather afraid there might be too much "mental effort" about. It is suggested, how ever, that if the entertainment is too heavy Longfellow might be put on for a song and no doubt Dickens could be induced, to do a hornpipe. If I might be allowed to offer a suggestion it is that if Amelia Rives were advertised to appear in tights it would be a nrst-class penny coaxer. not requiring any mental euort. The.

writer, however, warns us "Do not think because the literary entertain ment is good and ought to be liked, that it must and shall be." But she has, no doubt whatever of the power cf the comic pumpkin pie. The Lessons of Geology Testimony of the Rocks. Is a Great Portion of the Globe to Perish from Cold? tlluiatlo Chances Worked by the CenturiesWere the Polar Regions Once Tropical? And Will the Ke-. verse Come True? Los Ambles, Oct. 5, 1891.

To the Editor of The Times. In writing a series of articles upon the culmination of prophecy, the constant occurrence of physical phenomena, as well as the political events and other circumstances clearly denoting the fulfillment of the mysterious writings which prophets and apostles transcribed without understanding thcra, as Peter said -'For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" I am addressing my interpretations to those who believe the Bible to be an inspired book who believe in a God and a Savior, and that events and calamities are not the mere work of chance, but, so far as mankind is concerned, that they are shaped by the ambitions and passions, just as was foreseen centuries and centuries ago by the Omnipotent. The great mass of mankind sneers at anything which is given as an interpretation of sentences which the infidels and scoffers for thousands of years have pronounced to be merely the creation of Jewish priests, who wrote them long after the happening of those things which they pretended were predicted hundreds of years before; and that the Christian prophecies and revelations were the work of Christian priests. who gave them out in the second and third centuries as the sayings of the apostles, and the writing down by them after the death of Christ of his words and acts. It is harder to prove the facts of twenty or twenty-five centuries ago than to doubt them and call for proof, But there can be no denial that the Jew ish scriptures were in existence hun dreds of years before they were trans lated, as the Septuagint, by the seventy learned scholars long before the birth ot Christ.

And so, too, there cannot be a denial or a doubt that the New Testament was In existence, as we have it today, in the second century and we have "authentic copies, known by their parchment and their form of writing, to have been written in the third century. The great future events which concern us of this generation were prophesied, ac cording to undeniable evidence, by the Jewish i scriptures 400 years befora Christ and by the New Testament copies in existence prior to the year A.U. 3UU. Before taking up the actual prophecies, it is relevant to show what might happen at any date, from the assertions ot science and its professors. For, though the materialist will not believe anything presented by a Christian which cannot be seen, heard, felt or proved by incontestable evidence, he is always ready to take the.

word of the geologist that the world was created over 100,000 years ago from chaos; and not in six days; that the sun and the stars are at denoted dis tances from us, rolling on through space without visible means supporting them in their places, and that they are certain millions and hundreds of millions of miles away from us; and we an revolve around some great unknown sun in the Pleiades, from which it takes a ray of light certain scores of years to reach us. All this we believe because it is taught to children, who accept the finite ivisdom of man without a question, and reserve all skepti-cism for the infinite wisdom. The world does progress, for we now permit doctrines, which 800 years ago. both in science and religion would have been met with crucifixion or death at the stake; and each year we are adding to Knowledge more than a whole cen tury developed during the darker ages And so the Christian, seeking for en lightenment. by obeying the command given to diligently read and search the scriptures, is now enabled to interpret clearly many passages which 100 years ago were perplexing mysteries to the wisest and most profound scholars and theologians.

Fifteen years ago, with other think ers, 1 believed and so published, that the universe was held and directed in all its movements by the great magnets which respectively governed the various that our sun, like the huge glass wheels which fifty years ago were maae to revolve to demonstrate electrical characteristics, and each planet or satellite or other sun. threw out from its equator in direct lines throughout space gigantic currents of electricity, by means of which every body which passed through them was affected thereby, and especially if two or three currents from different solar bodies happened to strike together at me point ui mi.er8ecT.ion. And that the negative and positive poles of these great revolving bodies acted and re acted in such manner as to preserve the equilibrium of all. except that the storms, earthquakes electrical phenom ena, were produced by the pas. sage of the earth through these greater or lesser conjunctions of the solar currents.

All these ideas were met by the usual derision, with which any progress in thought or science is received by the masses or more properly by their special champions in ignorance combating any correction or exposition of previous errors. But today this view has made vast headway, and the spots upon the sun are accepted as foundation for tolerably accurate calculation of storms and phenomena; and the day is probably near at hand when astronomers will foretell disturbing electrical conjunctions as well as they can now determine the conjunctions "or transits of the planets. We have sweeping waves of cold and we have others of heat produced by what? And though the Infidel admits the fact as a tnere chance, he will not go a step forward and admit that the same omniscient power which can send or withhold the rain, or the heat, or the cold, can just as easily destroy all life, animal or vegetable, upon this globe by npjy permitting our atmosphere to become rarinod a few degrees, in order that li-ht and heat and electricity may become more powerful upon the surface to the extent of thirtj or THE EAST SIDE. A New Church to Open Today News Notes and Personals. The new Christian Church on Workman street will be opened for general worship for the first time today.

There will be preaching both morning and evening by Itev. Mr. Garvin of Pasadena, and at 8 o'clock this afternoon a special communion service will be held. A large tent has been erected on the lot south of the church, for the accommodation of persons desiring to attend the 11 o'clock service and remain to eat their lunches before the exercises of the afternoon. A cordial welcome Is assured to all, and a large attendance is expected.

The date of the formal dedication of the building has not yet been decided upon, but will no doubt be set as soon as possible. The services at most of the churches today will be the regular routine. At the Presbyterian the pulpit will be in charge of Rev. Mr. Stewart.

At the Congregational, the children of the Sunday-school will observe "Ilallying Sunday" this morning at 9:30 o'clock. Minor Kolfe of Happy Valley was quite unfortunate on Thursday. He is employed at the cannery on Macy street, and at noon went out to attend to his horse. He failed to return, and a search revealed him lying in an unconscious condition near the animal's side. He was taken home and a physician summoned, and the patient finally regained his lost senses.

He had no recollection after going out of doors, and as he had plainly not been kicked by the horse, It was thought by the doctor that he had had a fit, the symptoms being similar to a slight stroke of apoplexy. He expects to resume work on J.W. Arnold is at Escondido for a few days on business. The G. A.

K. lawn party last night at Mr. Munsey's was a very pleasant affair. Next Saturday the W. R.

C. will give a social entertainment and hop at the hall, No. 611 Downey avenue. PINEAPPLE CULTURE. How the Succulent Pines are Reared in Florida.

Some Information Which May be of Value to Southern California HorticulturistsSoil, Habits and Frolits. John B. Beach, of the Indian River nurseries at Melbourne, writes The Times describing the cultivation of the pineapple in that section, which information may be of value to Southern Cal-ifornians. "The pineapple," he writes, ''grows like the century plant, the leaves being thinner and narrower and set abundantly with thorns on their edges. When the plant reaches maturity a cluster of blossoms issues from the center on a stalk as does the century plant, and the receptacle of these purple blossoms forms the apple, every nipple representing the scar of a blossom.

When the plant has fruited, a sprout, called a sucker, comes up from the axil of one of the leaves and forms a new plant which bears in twelve months, and so on indefinitely. "On the stem of the fruit, beneath the apple, are a number of smaller shoots called slips, and upon these mainly the planters depend to increase their acreage. Slips may be kept for several months without losing strength or vitality if kept perfectly dry; but if wet in a heap they will heat and decay. Suckers are mofe tender and do Hot bear transportation so well, being more subject to decay. "Pines are planted in loose, sandy soil, and will grow in pure silicious sand if supplied with abundance of nitrogenous manures and water, and produce the very choicest fruit.

They do correspondingly better, however, on rich soil if loose, well watered and drained and free from calcareous matter or alkali. They will stand rather more cold than a tomato and any amount of sun and heat, and will bear fruit in from twelve to twenty-four months from planting, and pay as well per acre at 5 cents per apple as the best ten-year-old orange grove. Plants are set from eighteen to thirty-six inches according to the variety, and two men can plant an acre in three or four days. "So profitable do we find the business here that we have not been able to obtain plants this season to plant one-half the acreage prepared, and hundreds of acres of bare sand must lie idle until next summer waiting for slips with which to plant them." Mr. Beach pays a deserved compliment to the famous oranges of California, and asserts that this section can become equally as noted for pineapples.

A IJnoer Suit. The case of W. H. Holmes vs. Mrs.

J. H. Dickey and J. H. Dickey was on trial before Justice Austin yesterday afternoon.

Holmes is a collector and brought suit to recover $55 due on the St. Elmo hotel for board and $30 for Dr. McCarthy, who attended Dickey when he was shot about a year ago. Dickey was at the home of Mrs.Dickcy on Maple avenue last November, but he and the lady had not then been married, and on the 28th of November he was accidentally shot. He was removed to the St.

Elmo, and the lady came in to nurse him. In about three weeks, or as soon as he recovered they were married, and the plaintiff claims that Mrs. Dickey took charge of Dickey as soon as she reached the house and they look to her for the pay, as Dickey had When the wedding took place, wine, was ordered up to the rooms and a general good time was enjoyed by all present, but the bill has never been paid, and the plaintiff thinks Mrs. Dickey should be compelled to square accounts. The vineyardists whose lands lie near the river, or along the large canals where there are trees and brush complain bitterly of the fearful ravages of the raccoons that come down like a wolf on the fold and fatten on the London layers, much to the injury and annoyance of the men who own the premises.

FresnoEnposItor. or cards, or the theater, as legitimate forms of amusement, take refuge from themselves in silly buffoonery. It would seem that.cven yet the devil is allowed a monopoly of all the best fun. KPWAIIP UAH ILL. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The Demand for Space Increasing as the Fair Approaches. The space in the Chamber of Com merce is rapidly being utilized as the time for the opening of the fair approaches. William A. Paddock sends in a watermelon weighing seventy-five pounds, measuring twenty-eight inches in length, grown at Antelope Valley. H.

Hubbard of Artesia displays 1 foot corn, the stalk measuring ten feet to the first ear. Carter's ranch, Big Rock Creek district, puts in the finest diplay of apples in the hall. H. lieifsnyder of Fruitland has sent in peaches weighing seventeen ounces each. Master Lee Garnsev, citv, denotes to the fountain's colony of fishes two fine specimens of gold fish.

Persons can select space for art worn Monday morning. DIED OF STARVATION. Horrible Slate of Affairs Developed by an Inquest. The inquest held night before last on the four-month-old baby at Santa Monica by Coroner Weldon, brought forth a horrible state of affairs. The child is the offspring of a single woman who claims that Manuel Marquez is the father not only of the dead child, but also of several others now living, one of which is the dead infant's twin brother.

The inquest brought forth the fact that the child died from starvation. The mother stated on the witness stand that the child was sick only a few hours and she did not know what ailed it The little thing was nothing but skin and bone and presented a most frightful appearance. About four years ago a couple, that allowed a child to die in the same way, were sent to State's prison and have not yet served out their sentence. Fommeled His Lodgers. Peter Jackson, the proprietor of the Grange House in this city, and not the notorious "pug," cut up some queer antics in one of his rooms and was promptly arrested by Officer Fowle and booked at the central station for battery.

It seems that the night before a couple of strangers engaged a room in the Grange and retired. At 7 o'clock yesterday morning Jackson knocked at their door and wanted to know if they were up. They replied that they were not and did not propose to rise until they got ready. Jackson then forced the door, and when he was ordered out of the room he sailed in just as if he really belonged to the "Pug" Jackson family, and proceeded to give the strangers a sound thrashing. This is the story they told, but Jackson claims that he was justified in his acts, and says he will have no trouble in clearing himself when the case comes up for trial.

Hank Licenses. The Finance Committee of the City Council were in session most of yesterday afternoon, the principal business before them being the question of bank licenses. Srme time ago the Council passed an ordinance establishing a graded license for banks, according to the business done. The ordinance was not satisfactory to the banks, and they have refused to pay the amounts charged to them. After a general discussion, the following amendments were agreed upon, and the City Attorney was instructed to prepare the proper ordinance for submission to the Council tomorrow.

All banks whose loan3 and discounts, as shown by either of their semi-annual statements, are $100,000 and less than $50,000, $15: 250,000 to $20; 500,000 to $1,000,000. $30; 1.000,000 to 2,000,000 and upward, 50. All less than $100,000 pay 10. New Building. Superintendent Muchmore issued sixteen building permits during the past week, the aggregate of which amounted to $29,975.

Those for $1000 and over are as follows: F. M. French, corner Ninth and Lake streets, frame dwelling. $5000. John Korbel.

frame dwelling, southwest corner First and State streets, 8500. W. C. Morrison. No.

1447 South Olive street, frame dwelling'. $1600. H. Slotterheck. Twenty-second street, between Grand avenue and Figueroa.

dwelling, $1300. John H. Byram. Flower street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth, repair dwelling. $1900.

F. D. Lanterman. Twenty-eighth street, between Main and Maple, frame dwelling. $1000.

D. A. Van Vranken. Lome street, near Thirtieth, frame dwelling. $1000.

Watermelon guessing parties have become all the rage among the young people of Bristol, the girU in particular getting lots of fun out of them. The plan is to view all the melons to be cut, and then wite their names with their guess of the number of seeds on a card, all the cards being passed on to the keeper of the game. When the melon is cut, every one getting a piece counts the seeds and gives the number to the keeper of the game. That official keeps tally and at the conclusion gathers up all the seeds and announces the total. The one guessing nearest to the number is given a-, prize, while the farthest off takes the booby.

gxchange. our lunch. We thought it aoont tu o'clock, but conclude now it must have been about 2 p. m. At this cabin the creek disappears and we commence to ascend the steep bluff or mountain, sometimes winding about in such a way as to seem as if going over the same road again, up and down alternately, the narrow patba leading on.

losing sight of each other in its windings without seeming headway, ami at the turns line views are obtained. Looking back, the son-shine can be seen afar off making the distant crags look like burnished gold set with precious stones, throwing their brilliant ravs in every direction; the lights and shadows creating strange architectural forms of palaces, cathedrals and mosques of an eastern city, on whose streets the sound of footsteps never fell, and away beyond, piercing the blue vault of heaven are the shining towers and temples of the gods in this mirage, a land of dreams and wonder, impossible to describe; a visitor might spend months, and never tire of its varying beauty, but we little thought, as poetry has it: "Though like a wanderer, The sun gone down: Darkness comes over us, Our rest a stone. Still in mv dreams I a be Nearer. rrivUoil: to Thee. Nearer to Thee." But one mile more and we would have reached the top.

when darkness came so suddenly that we could not realize that it was night, and we were left ia the canyon. We had been thinking how comfortable it was to return in the shade, and did not notice that it was growing darker and darker. The night came so suddenly that we had no time to choose a place, but rushed on as far as we could in the hope that the top conld yet be reached. The cliffs looked so near, and were in reality yet so far, we had to stop at last in the pathway, too tired to go back to a good place a little below, and too dark to proceed farther. The trunk of a cedar tree was just off the path, around which, we kindled a tire being below ns, we sat on the edge; it was freeze on one side and roast on the other.

After a time the coals fell through the 'crevices of the rocks while we were about the tree, and we saw our fire disappear without being able to get any more wood, but while the fire still burned brightly we heard something groan. I sat in terror, not daring to look behind us. lest I should see the glaring eyeballs of a wildcat or mountain lion. Whatever it was. a few stones falling down the side of the mountain brought the assurance that it had gone.

We changed our place to the opposite side of the path and were more miserable. Though the sky was full of brilliant stars it threw no light on the pathway. Toward morning the moon lighted up the top of a peak opposite us, and across the chasm, by its reflection, we could faintly see the p'athwav and a rock overhanging it which we thought would afford better shelter from the piercing winds. No time was lost in getting them though, it was onlv a few yards farther and bevond that the path continued to wind the imagination, ever ready to add torture to the reality, continually suggested the possibility of the rocks giving way and falling down, as so many have done', kept us awake. And so we saw the Grand Canyon in its awful gloom by starlight, its sickly shadows bv moonlight.

The gray light of the earlv morning that showed us we had only passed the red rocks, and just entered into the granite portion. In its myriad marvels and wierd beauty we will remember its picturesque grandeur only, and forget our wretched night on the" steep pathway. As soon aS the li'-'ht would permit, we went on; here is the trying time the want of water. After some distance we saw a little crevice in a big rock, but very dangerous having to climb to it over rocks yawning still over the chasm. By the best efforts only a tea-spoonful could be secured, there not being a teacupful in all; water would enable a person to get on, but without it every mile is ten miles long.

We heard the bells of the mules and hurried on lest we should be overtaken and left alone again. Mr. John came round the comer, having seen our camp, and hurried on to help ns, followed by Mr. Churchill, who proved to be the next best traveler in the party. After we arrived at the brink, which was not accomplished until long after Mr.

Johnson reached the camp one mile and a half away, we were In the Coconino forest. At Hance's cabin we got some water and were able to make the last mile. We were met by many kind members of the party who relieved us of the negatives and burdens we had carried on the weary path. Prof. Hughes returned with Mr.

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