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Saturday January 19, 1907. WEEKLY SENTINEL Yage Sixteen. C. J. TODD ARE ROPED AND THE STREETS OF SANTA CRUZ "SENTINEL" BY JOSEPH.NE CLIF PILLED FKOM WATER PACIFIC GROVE Five Chinese, who were attempting to escape frora the.

floods In the lowlands of Salinas Valley had their boat upset in the eddy and were found, almost exhausted, clinging to the willows. They were rescued by vaqueros, who threw their lariats over them and hauled them to shore near the railroad bridge. One of the men died subsequently from exposure. Just after the rescue, a relief train from Pacific Grove, with a boat and boat's crew, reached the scene, but their services were no longer needed. The flood3 In the lowlands cut off all railroad communication between Monterey and Pacific Grove and San Francisco.

Passengers were landed In Salinas City instead. There was a rush of water from Arroyo Seco and Upper Salinas, flooding thousands of acres on the Moro Cojo and contiguous ranches, making huge lagoons of beet and potato fields, and drowning cat tle. CURED OF LUNG TROUBLE. "It Is now eleven years since I had a narrow escape from consumption," write O. Floyd, a leading busijness man of Kershaw, S.

C. "I had run down In weight to 135 pounds, and coughing was constant, both by day and night. Finally I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and continued this for about six months, when my cough and lung trouble were entirelv gone and I was restored to my normal 'weight, 170 pounds." Thousands of persons are healed every year. Ounrnnteod nt J.

G. Tanner's and The' Model Drug Store. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free. HEAVIEST QUAKE EVER RECORDED OCCURS AT APIA.

A quaking of the earth's crust more severe than any other that has ever been recorded is reported to have been felt at Apia, December 21st, according to the passengers of the Ventura. For three hours the seismograph of the German scientists stationed at the South Pacific island recorded a shock that for violence has never been equaled so far as has been registered. It 3s estimated that the center of the disturbance was 900 miles south of Apia. The news of the instrument's record was brought to the Ventura by Captain Allen of the Maori, the boat that runs between Apia and Pago Pago. The point of disturbance was submarine.

WATS A NEW CONSTITUTION. SACRAMENTO Assemblyman Jurj states that he is preparing to introduce a bill in the Legislature calling for a convention to meet next year to draft a new constitution for the State of California. We need a new constitution to stop the robberies that go on at Sacramento every session cf the Legislature. It is shameful that each Senator can distribute patronage to the amount of $25 daily, and each Assemblyman $13. The snowstorms throughout California served a useful purpose.

They proved to the children that their parents weren't lying when they said there really is such a thing as snow. THE Jur of living Is to have good health. Use Hertlne and yon will have bushelB of ioy. Yon need not be blue, fretful and lave that bad taste in your month. Try a bottle of Herblne, a positive cure for all liver complaints.

E. Harrell. Austin, Texas, writes: "I have used Herbh. for over a year, and find It a fine regulator. I gladly recommend it aa a fine medicine for Dyspepsia." Sold uy J.

G. and the Model Store "When you fish where the souls of men abound?" "Well, for special tastes," said the King of Evil, "Gold and fame are the best I've "But for general uses," asked the saint; "Ah, then," said the demon, "I angle for man, not men; And the thing I hate to change is my FROM SOLDIERS' HOME FORMER SANTA-CRUZAN TELLS OF HIS NEW EXPERIENCES FOR "SENTINEL" READERS. Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles January 7th, 1907. Ed. The new year found me in ward 5, south attic of Uncle Sam's hospital for disabled volunteer soldiers, stretched out on an iron bedstead, wrapped up in Gov ernment blankets, my afflicted ankles painted with soothing "lchtheo," an swathed in absorbent cotton and bandages; sleeping the sleep of the weary and contented, if not the just.

I arrived like a weary pilgrim af Uncle Sam's hospitable door, on Deo. 29th, and the old boys in blue held out their friendly hands in welcome. 8non found myself at home In Thunder Castle, ud in Co. I bar racks, where all newcomers invariablj land. Monday morning I was before the adjutant, who hiked me off to the great hospital for physical examination.

The learned surgeon looked at my fever smitten ankles, wrinkled his learned brow, then jerking his thumb over hi3 shoulder at an officer standing near, sententiously remarked: "South After the committing clerk had flied a select string of red hot double pointed questions at me, with the rapidity of a spring-lock, double-acting blunderbuss, he demanded: "How much money have you got with you?" "Very little," I replied. "Well, shell it out; I want it," said he. Knowing the honor and integrity of my old Uncle, and feeling assured tha I should be protected in his house, 1 stood and delivered, although It looked suspiciously like a sure-enough one-horse hold-up right in broad daylight. Afterward I was Informed that I could draw two dollars each Monday Then I felt something crawling over me. You see thi3 Is a wise precaution to keep one from loading up on army canteen I felt somewhat humiliated, but Uncle knows only one kind of man and doe3 business alik with all.

I am indeed very comfortably situ ated here, and lack for nothing except the I find the doctor and the dressing nurse very agreeable, and most of my ward mates real sociable and jolly old chap3. I am rather closely tied down. Every morning when I leave the dress room, when my ankles are treated, the nurse shakes her finger at me and ries to look very severe as, she says: go to your ward, and sit with your feet on tne Dea uu The boy3 bring me papers and magazines, and sit with me in social chat, so the time goes very smoothly. I watch every opportunity to speak a good word for dear old Santa Cruz, and already several have assured me they will visit there when they take their discharge from the home. But just imagine the sometimes bi.sy wood-butcher encased in blue planted on a government pillow anC trussed up in a high-backed arm chair, his spectacled nose jammed between the leaves of a magazine, his bandaged legs stretched out across a white trimmed hospital cot, and you have a good mental picture of "his nibs," that used to be.

There is only one Job to speak oi here, and that is to get to the table on time, for we eat three times a day, not at the same hour, but at the same minute. Breakfast at 6:45, dinner at 12 and supper at 5. This continual change and variety, and the well-cc-oked, wholesome preparation of the food, is enough to make a sick man well without doctors and medicine. The chief matron is an organizer, as well as a culinary genius, and her department runs with the regularity of an astronomic clock. We have all types of men here, Foxy Grandpa, Dor Captain, Panhandle Pete, Uncle Hayseed, and all the rest.

But the most comical is the old Loony, who, when he gets just a little better, is going to take his discharge and go out and marry a rich widow, who is just anxiously waiting and will marry him, though it rains cats and dogs, swords, bayonets and Government pitchforks. Surely, old fools are the biggest ones. But it's the old, old story since Eden. "What bait do you use," said a saint to the devil, FORD McCRACKIN. skeletons, norsea auu -thirst and Indian arrows, on the plains; and a buffalo hunt, one morn- when the mirage uciluc, ouu denly the hunters and the hunted were n-v-is-h an1.

to all appearances skating on ice together and it all comes back to me wlth these pictures, and And 1 turned away and marched UrlsHy down a. -enue, tor tear boo-hooing right out on the street Then I walked on till I came to a street on my right, where I saw palm trees growing on either side of the street, and where there were lovely houses, which I had not seen. Turning at a cross street, I met a good-natured looking man, and I asked of him where I was, and what were the names or me iiiot recovered: and ne menuoneu Laurel and Maple and Cedar and Svcamore. Center too, was men- tioned; and I must go back there some day to locate them more correctly, for the streets of Santa Cruz are not yet all familiar to me. Josephine Clifford McCracMn.

January 12th, 1907. COUNSEL FROM TIIE SOUTH. want to give some valuable advice to thoWse who suffer with lame bac 1 and trouble ---p ft SaSueSatatr that Elect Bl tters rel ef and after taking a few more bot- Drug Store. Mce 50 cents. COST OF PLUMBING, ETC.

Bids Received by the Santa Cruz Beach Co. The Santa Cruz Beach Co. received bids upon plumbing, metal and skylights, tile and marble, for the Casino and bathing pavilion now under course of construction. Following is the list o' bidders and their bids: Byrne Bros $35,700 Heath Faneuf 35,185 Whitney Bros 34,662 Robt. Dalzlel Jr.

Co. of Oakland 25,027 The 'contract wa3 awarded by the Santa Cruz Beach Co. to the Robt. J. Dalzlel Jr.

Co. of Oakland, for the sum of $24,317. The difference between their bid of $25,027 was a reduction made for the inlet pipes for the plunge. Their bid also included extra galvanized tinning all around the flag-poles. FOR OVER.

SIXTY YEARS. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup' has been used for over sixty years by mlmoni of mothers for their cu.idren while teetu-ing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays the pain, cures wind colic and Is the best remedy for diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.

Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and take no other kind. SCIENTIFIC-HUMOROUS DEBATE Ed.

The Fraternal Brotherhood will have a scientific, humorous debate this month, on the subject, "Resolved that the practice nt law affords ereater comfort to society than the practice of The affirmation will be argued by At torney W. M. Aydelotte and Prof. P. C.

Tucker and the negative by Dr. E. Philbrook and Rev. A. Lyle De Jarnette.

The importance of this de bate to the whole world requires that a proper decision be given. Therefore the legal talent, the Chief Justice and twelve Associate Justices of the Su preme Court of the Fraternal Brother hood will be asked to decide on the merits of the arguments. This will probably be the greatest debate of modern times, not excepting the Lin coin and Douglas debates of 1858. F. B.

THE RIGHT NAME. Mr. August Sherpe. tne popular overseer of the poor at Port Madison, says: "Dr. King's New Life Pills are rightly named; they act more agreeably, do more good and make one feel bettter than any other laxative." Guaranteed to cure biliousness and constipation.

at J. G. Tanner's and the Model Drug Store. The young ladies and gentlemen of the Golden Circle had a most enjoyable time Thursday evening, in spite of the disagreeable weather. After the election of officers and a good time, refreshments were served by the ladies.

The following officers were elected: President, Miss Helen Byrne; first vice-president, Miss Ethel Dop- kings; second vice-president, Miss Linna Parker; secretary, Miss Marion Ansley; treasurer, MIS3 Dora Hilling-worth. WRITTEN FOR THE Volumes could be written about the; street, of Santa Cruz, and although they are not old enough to be used as the basis of sensational show-pieces' such as I understand the "Streets of New York" and the "Streets of Lon-' ion" are, many a bit ol comedy or drama is to be seen here if one's eyes are kept open and can look beneath the mantle of everyday happening, as the eyes of the poet and the writer must be able to do. Let me begin with the great artery 01 commerce, Pacific Av. Please observe that I do not say "us" or "we;" I consider myself responsible for my crimes of omission and commission, and try thus to preserve independence and my own. Individuality.

Many a time I say to myself, "1 must stay at home today; I must work on my long-delayed novel for the "Sentinel," and there I3 no day like today for doing a good day's And by the time I have finished the sentence I find that my bonnet is on my head and my gloves or at least the one I haven't lost in my hand. I start in at Hinkle's corner, pause to look into every show window with its display, and wander slowly down the avenue. This upper portion of the street is largely devoted to the requirements of the inner man. As there is no public market here, as there is in some other large cities every butcher shop vies with the others in presenting the largest possible selection of choice meats, clean, sweet fresh; and sausage which even a sage would not hesitate to indulge in. Marble counters and snowy chopping-blocks; white-aproned attendants deftly slicing and slashing, finishing off iff.

nonnitar eant.io thud with TV A vbJch they know how to put the pot roast into shape. How do I know these things, when I am not keeping house, you ask? Why, I have two or three orphaned cats to provide for, and so far from saying "Oh, there is that old woman with her eternal nickel for cat's meat," the butchers greet me always with the same cheerful "What can I do for you today, madam?" There is, In effect, no need for a market here. Most of the large grocery stores are veritable markets of all kinds of vegetables and fruits; onions and potatoes can be had here as well as cauliflower, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, without mentioning the middle-class vegetables, cabbage, turnip, carrot, parsnip, lettuce and the like. These things are always in season in Santa Cruz, as are oranges, lemons and the strawberry. Grapes figs, apricots, nectarines, apples, peaches, pears, can not be had fresb at every season, though there ia but little lacking of the year round; but these are all on hand dried together with all the nuts, for all kinds of ruts are grown in this vicinity, from the hickory to the almond.

As for berries, It is sometimes hard to withstand the temptation of taking up a handful of raspberries, currant, loganberries or blackberries from the display trays. Farther along are the stores where everything to cook and to serve these things on, can be had, from the latest pattern of range to the newest design in every possible ware; and the finest, most artistic china, cut glass and porcelain. Restaurants and creameries, however, have all these things cooked and nil lucoc .1 Vioir natrons: ana tnere are also fine bakeries and delicatessen stores, which make it needless for the housewife to be cook or housekeeper, unless she so chooses to be. Candy palaces, ice-cream parlors, for children and for grown-up people, and cigar stands and tobacco shops, alter nate with these. Interspersed between commissary stores' are the depots for the covering of the outer man and woman.

Clothing stores where the wide, deep show windows look like the rendezvous of fashionably dressed men; dry goods stores that offer the very latest in style and the very best material; for Santa Cruz women will have the best and our dry goods merchants have long since learned the lesson. Jewelry stores furnish the things that are not necessaries of life, yet make life very pleasant to live; and diamonds, colored gems, watches, art 1 objects are displayed side by side To be sure there with money enough to buy tneae things right on the sam stre et, but whether this money belongs to he people who would like to buy the twigs mat Aa ottered rel wear, and taking all the different mercantile establishments together, it is safe to say that the most fastidious taste, the widest range of wishes, could be suited. I am not sure whether drug stores and apothecaries should be catalogued 1 1 1 i as furnishing the necessaries of life 1 it fcart ff tnUP or tne luxuries; uui, 11 j. one of their bitter pills, I would swallow it while looking in at the artfully arranged display window. Books are brain food, and music food for the soul; and to judge from the great number of these two articles of luxury sold on Pacific our people are both literary and musical in their tastes.

Of this the Carnegie library is another proof. One can not help turning from Pacific Av. into either Church or Locust if one's eyes happen to stray toward the library or the Hihn grounds or mansion. Both places run through from Church to Locust and should never be divided. In am sorry that it is not my original idea, but I fully agree with what Hon.

W. T. Jeter at one time said in regard to the Hihn mansion being made the palace of art in the future. The grounds should be open from the library to the mansion; and Mr. Hihn himself could design a walk through the grounds better than anyone else But.

I propose that there be one wide, ft, open space in the center of the grounds, and a statue be Placed on that spot a statue 01 r. a. muu mm self. Not a pretty statuette of Parian marble, by any means, but a statue of bronze, as most statues of Bismarck are cast, the Iron Chancellor, whom Hihn resembles in looks and in executive ability. Then a group of some kind, cut in marble or cast in bronze, should be placed on the space at the Locust St.

front of the library. And with the art palace filled with paintings, with statuary, with bronzes, connected with cur ever-growing library, the streets of Santa Cruz would be more densely thronged than they are even now. We have many artists in our midst whose productions would grace any collection; and there is but one piece of marble that ought to have been produced in California which I should advocate to make the gem of the collection Powers' "California" Or could this exquisite creation have been destroyed in San Francisco? But I must return to Pacific Av. with It3 sights and sounds. The chug-chug of the auto, the ringing bells of the electric car system, the hoarse, long-drawn whistle of the Incoming steamer, the screech of the locomotive drawing its train frora north to south, or south to north, and the staccato toot-toot of the switching engine.

All along" the avenue are real estate firms; are carriages, buggies, wagons, saddles and harness trappings for sale; and there are also large curio stores in which can be found objects of International interest and value. Furniture warehouses where furniture of direct importation from Europe 1 tvia i7oot-orn stntpa Is on sale, or auu tnfl nnest as wen as me Dwuicoi as make; and rugs and hangings and pictures oh! pictures. One morning I stopped spellbound before the store opposite to Soquel for I saw in the window pictures that brought back scenes form my soldier days so vividly that I fear I gazed with open mouth on the display. At least a lady standing beside me, looking at these sama Remingtons, said to me kindly, pointing to the one on which Is depicted the prairie schooner in all its elegance: "So many people are reminded by this of the days when they crossed the plains; did you come in one 01 these, too?" "Oh, no, no," I said. "it is these that are more familiar to me" and I pointed out the picture- of "Caught in the Circle" and the Buffalo Chase" "for I came out from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Bayard after the war, and have seen all this, i bait, So I fish with a woman the whole year round." We have a fine view from the hurricane deck of Uncle's big medicine house, and I have already loaded up several ocular squibs which, If I don't grow too fat and lazy; and my new Government clothes don't fit tooj quick, I design firing off at the "Sentinel," as these southland winter days wax and wane, and the widj? flung harvest, now being spread out in the lap of inspirant spring, merges through the several stages, toward Pomona's blushing feast, and the gclden harvest home, by glowing Sirius spread.

C. J. TODD..