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1 EVENING SENTINEL WHAT TO DO WITH THE MICROBE. TOO MUCH WAR IN HISTORY. THE LOGANBERRY. LIST OF LETTERS. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

One week (in advance) 10 cts One month (by mail or 25 cts One year 3 00 A report comes from the West of the discovery of a new microbe. It is described as a minute affair, in shape like a cornucopia, which feeds principally on the already impoverished blood in invalids- and weaklings. Quite a number of microbes have been discovered recently, but they have usually been incident to particular diseases, as the microbe of diphtheria, the microbe of yellow fever, and the microbe of lockjaw. But the latest find appears to be Remaining uncalled for in the Post-office at Santa Cruz, for the week ending Oct. 2d, 1S97: Allan, Robt Brown, Mrs Susie Cappiani, Mdme Costello, Laura Ewell, Mrs Bertha Fink, Mrs Frost, Miss Gay, Lewis Gcold, II Ghio, Domenico Hart, Albert Hatleson, Mr Hendy, Mrs Geo Huntington, Mrs Johnson, Jasper 2 Henry Kendr.ll, Miss London Times.

One of the fruits investigated on the Duke of Bedford's experimental fruit farm at Woburn is the Loganberry. The first public notice of this fruit appeared in an American journal less than three years ago. It was described as intermediate between the raspberry and blackberry associating the colour and flavour of the former with the size and shape of the lutter. Loganberry plants were advertised for rale in the Eastern United States in the spring of 1893, but specimens had been distrib Professor Gold win Smith, in writing about our school histories, thinks they do not necessarily stimulate hatred against Great Britain by the manner in which they treat the Revolution and the War of 1812. But aside from this he makes this rather pertinent criticism: "The special fault which, if I may venture to say it, I should be inclined to find with these books is want of literary art.

The writers may 'have thought that literary art would be wasted upon histories for children. At all events they have not bestowed it The language is generally fiat, and the story is not well told. It is pertly, per-'haps, by lack of descriptive power that the writers are driven to give so much space to war. If they were artists they might find a way of lendingwnterest to the events in the achievements of peace. To tell a story well, so that it may impress the imagination and fix itself in the memory of the reader, the writer must have distinctly conceived The "Evening Sentinel" contains three times more reading matter than any other 25-cent daily issued on the Pacific Coast.

duncan Mcpherson, Editor. FRIDAY OCTOBER 1, 1897 THE POWDER WORKS. The explosions at the Powder Workg without loss of life is a matter for Destroyed property can be replaced, but a human life never. Although there i3 an ever-present danger in working where powder is in process of manufacture, the kss of life and damage to property at the California Powder Works, located near this city, have been comparatively small. This is due the extreme precaution exercised in every branch.

So well arranged is the plant that several buildings might be destroyed without the fire communicating with other structures. The planting of trees between buildings has considerably lessened the danger of fire quickly spreading. Tne distances between buildings is also an important factor in the prevention of the mmar, even if run by ma-great loss. So admirably arranged is ch-lnery, would be unavailing. Besides, the place that the less of one or two they minute 03 to be rt-cogniz- Ann not nrevent.

ressntinn ly Under the microscope, and it of work. The damage caused by the recent ex- plosion, although the greatest in the inS of vein3 miSht haust the pa-history of the proved that the tint. It must be obvious, therefore, foresight of Col. B. Peyton and W.

C. that a more Practical means of exter-Peyton in providing for all accidents miration must bo sought if science that might occur hy the duplication of would relieve suffering humanity. a sort of jackal. He does not attack healthy persons. He waits for his pluckier comrades to do that, and when they have left their victims in such a helpless condition that they can not re sist he steps in and finishes the job.

It is very interesting, this study of minute organisms, which are at the root of most, if not oil, of the diseases that flesh is heir to, but more interesting and much more important is the discovery of a way to kill them, or make them innocuous. Of course, they can be killed by placing them on a stone and smashing them with a hammer, us was proposed by a famious author in the case of but the process is both slow and dim-cult. Millions of these organisms accumulate in the blood of a diseased person, and they multiply so rapidly would bo awfully tedious catchi.ig them from the blood, while the opjn- mere H1USI, ue suimjiuiug ijruiyu, mm- urn, germicide, or whatever it may be called that will attack those insolent marauders, and drive them from thtir strongholds in the blood, lungs, or other organs of the body. This is unquestionably the greatest work of science in the immediate fu ture. To discover the miciobe oau be unable to destroy it is like seeing the serried columns of the enemy in motion, with no power to check or drive them back.

The microbes of consumption, diphtheria, various kinds of fevers, end lockjaw have been discovered, and some imagine that V. ey have cornered the eccentric germ of hydio-phobia, but none of these diseases has been arrested. Progress has undoubtedly been made with consumption, but it is more in the direction of diagnosing than of curing it. A man who gut-'3 the disease, is very apt to know, in the course of time, that he has it, but an early diagnosis may have its advantages. According the reports from Europe, real progress has been made in arresting the ravages of diphtheria, but no means of prevention has yet been discovered.

Science can whack the microbe, after he has been located, but can not prevent him from getting a folothold. We do not desire to discourage the pursuit of the microbe. It is as exhilamting as a fox hunt to some experts! But it would be more exhilarating to the public were the means of annihilating them to keep pace with the discoveries. A correspondent who writes from the Chilcoot trail says that two women are in dire distress, and that when they ap- poalcd for uid to men whl. passeu along, they received the glassy eye.

When men, the brutes, get real hungry they not only neglect women, but they eat each other. The Greely expedition, for instance. See Lieut. Peary's report. One way of giving variety to a newspaper is, to write a show down one night and to write it up the next, taking back in the second instance all that was said in the first.

Not every writer, on the slightest of occasions, can swallow himself, and enjoy doing it in the face of the public. Subscribe for the "Sentinel." Lang, Lyons, Leona Myers, Henry Parsons, Miss lone care Mrs Smith Peterson, Gus Morgan, Muhleman, Rose care Mr Brown Ferez, Manuel Jr Foste.Mrs Florence Rath, Carl Ryder, Charles II Shaw, II Slawson, Tillie Stephenson, Mrs Smith, Mrs Etta Smith, Mrs Elvira Scott, Mrs Clara Sodie, Frank (2) Soria, Petronilo Souza, Joe Tenbnook, i Wood, Snow, George Taylor, Whittington.Miss Wolcott, W. T. KEARNEY, P. M.

The charge that an opponent in controversy is always governed by improper motives is the readiest "argument" of the newspaper boodler. Misrepresentation, sophistry, bluster, falsification and the other weapons with which journalistic scallawags carry on their campaigns against public and corporate treasuries are all subordinated to the vociferous allegation that their motives only are lofty and noble and that the motives of every other person are corrupt and debased. No brains are required to make such a charge; ini fact, the assertion that every man except the one who conducts a boodle newspaper is degraded and dishonest naturally at all times rises to the lips of those engaged in befuddling the public with loud protestations of journalistic virtue. Call. In the above criticism the Call looked beyond the yellow journalism of San Francisco.

It seemed to see what sections of the country are suffering from. False olarms are being constantly sounded by designing and irresponsible persons. Backward, turn backward the t'de of the years, and here we are at the street horse-car days. No more soying, for the doughnuts our grandmotuors made! Every one can or should profit by his own experience, but it is far more profitable to heed the experiences of others. Never punish children by striking them on the head.

There are so many other places if you look for them. The taxes go light on, whether it rains cr not. November 1st is now indicated as the probable date for the selling of the Union Pacific railroad under foreclosure by the government. Taxes go up In this county as well as powder. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Cures Pile? Scalds Burns.

NTCW TO-DAY. CTRAYF.D OK REWARD One red row with star on forehead one on ippm wis upii on; also one lieifer and white, ith small hell, Return Mrs. Fred Wessells, Souuel. oel-lw' Tbe California Powder Works Having at great expense introduced the most recent improvements in the manufacture of Fine Sporting rovder Call the attention of Sportsmen to the Powder, which has been proved superior to any imported Powder, botn in strength and purity. It Is only necessary to try this Powder to become satisfied of its superiority.

For sale at H. WILLEY'S Hardware Store, Santa Cruz. The trade supplied at Reduced Prices. BERNARD PEYTON, Superintendent. uted from in llhe pnrlv nine- ties.

The berry has not a high flavour, but is much improved by cooking. As a sauce fruit it appears to be superior to both the blackberry and the i asp-berry, being richer in colour than the former and milder in favour than the latter. The newer types of small fruits that have been gradually introduced into American gardens during the last ten years include the Ciandall currant, the dwarf Juneberry, the Japan wine berry, the Japan Mayberry, the strawberry-raspberry, and the Loganberry. The Crandall currant is a modification of the flowering or Missouri currant, formerly grown only as an ornamental plant. The dwarf Juneberry is a variety of the shadbush, Amtlanchicr Canadensis, and has not yet attained any commercial value.

The Japan Wine-berry, Rubus phoenicolashis, is a variety of raspberry, in which the hull or calyx encloses the berry in the earlier stages of its growth, opening out at about the time when the fruit begins to colour, and leaving it fully exposed when ripe. The berrie3 are vivid scarlet, but not highly flavoured. The Loganberry is net only markedly distinct from every other fruit, but the berries are as large as the biggest of the small fruits, attractive in appearance, and of fair quality, whilst the plants are strong growers and bear enough fruit to be of some commercial value. originator of the Loganberry was Judge J. II.

Logr.n, of Santa Cruz, California, who has la'ely retired from the Superior Bench of that The Times writer is slightly off here. As an enthusiastic horticulturist he is glad to have produced what promises to be a valuable cross, but, while in California "nurserymen have made enormous sales of Loganberry plants, the original owner has probably never made lc. or reaped any reward from it except the honor of giving it his name," It may be added that we have used tho term "berry" as commonly and popularly applied, the raspbeir.v and blackberry being really collections of drupes, or aggregations of small fruits constructed on the fame plan as the cherry, plum, or peach. The true berries of the botanist are illustrated in such fruits as the gooseberry, currant, grape, tomato, melon, and cucumber. Judge Logan, whose name Ins gone nil over England in connection with his berry has not made a cent out of such reputation.

Berry strange, isn't it? It is not true, that the assessment burden in this city, for State, cour.ty, municipal and special school tax, amounting to $3.63 ion the $100, caused the Powder Mill explosion of Wednesday, but this staggering oggregation has caused a good many small explosions. It is a hard thing some times to know what to give as a present. If you have a friend at Klondike send him a return ticket. lie will never forget the kindness, and it may save his life. The biggest "blowout" of the year was that of Wednesday morning.

It did not cost the citizens a cent to have it, either. The "Sentinel" representatives went to the Powder Works Wednesday morning with a Carr, which didn't require a franchise to operate. it as a whole in ins own mind. This is what masters of narrative have evidently done. Freshness.simplicity.and vividness of language without tur-gidity or grandiloquence are also in dispensable in a narrative intended for the young.

If any American would compose a school "history combining these literary qualities with truthfulness1, impartiality, and freedom from low passions, he might render no small service to the nation." Three-fourths of histry is practically valueless because so much of it is made up of personal gossip and descriptions of battles. All this may fill one's head with useless data, but gives no guide to the future. None of out school histories give reasonable prominence to the social, literary, scientific or industrial development of the country; but you will find plenty of cuts of generals on horseback and the blaze of cannon by land and sea. All our histories begin with a fight and end with one. The trouble is that the real significance of a battle is not detailed.

The result of the battle at Yorktown, as given by John Fiske, throws a kind of X-ray over its whole meaning. It is the some when lie speaks of the triumph, of English prowes3 on the heights of Abraham. But in the main, school histories are writ'en withent art or true prospective, and for this reason children take early a dislike to the study of it and do not overcome repugnance in after years. Professor Smith's criticism is just and timely. THE TRUTH OF ALASKA.

The Wasp: The newspapers are now beginning to tell the truth about Alaska, the vaunted land of boundless gold. It appears that graves and hard fare are more commonly met with than auriferous bonanzas. Even the poet Miller, who is generally happy as long ns he can see a rose bloom or hear a sparrow twitter, has the blues, judging by the tone of his letters to "Wasteful Willie's" newspaper. When a poet like Joaquin takes the world seriously anywhere and writes like a man who has begun to do hard, matter-of-fact thinking, the surroundings must be very discouraging. Nj doubt there is plenty of gold in Alaska, but there are plenty of dangers and hardships to be overcome in getting it.

Nuggets are not found at every boat landing, or to be dug out in every shovelful of gravel. From all appearances, there is likely to be great distress in Alaska this winter. In some theaters in Germany it is said that the men have secured a contrivance which defeats the theater hat. It is similar to a rubber pillow. The theater-goer carries it in his overcoat pocket.

If he finds a high hat in front of him, ho takes out his- pillow and blows enough air into it to rciise his seat to see over the hat. San Jose News. If the big theater hat nuisance continues Santa Cruzans will be forced to procure the rubber pillow elevator. mnrdinorr let nf imniMiw jwlvn.ntr.P-o I Seven buildings were destroyed and much machinery greatly damaged, yet in less than a week the manufacture of powder can be resumed. Had all of the mills been closer together, and without the protection of trees, the entire plant would have ben in ruins.

The erection of new buildings runl the repairing of the machinery will necessarily give employment to many men. Here is where the Powder Co. is entitled to well-merited recognition for enterprise. When any damage is to be replacd the company does not hesitate, but goes right ahead. Good wages are paid, and the number of men to be employed, no matter how large, doe3 not cut any figure.

We do not know of a more prosperous institution in the State than the Powder Works, nor one better conducted. From the start the plant lias been a good paying investment. Dividends have always been paid promptly and regularly, until the stock has now a high value. Demand for the various kinds of powder manufactured is on the increase. Not satisfied with making one lor two kinds of powder, the company has increased the variety until the works are now among the foremost in the United States.

The increase in manufacture necessarily means additional expense in the purchase of machinery and the erection of buildings. All of this outlay is made without any publicity. It is business with the company to spend money in improvements, for they are believers in the theory that the extension of the plant will bring resultant good returns. During its thirty-three years of ex- istence the company has distributed much money in Santa Cruz. At the works are some employes who have been there from the day the first pound of powder was made.

This shows that the employes are treated kindly, receive good wages and are thoroughly satisfied. We wish there were a dozen such plants as the Powder Works in this county. Then we might not hear so much about hard times in this neck of the woods. We would "nave a continual wave of prosperity. It is hard to understand where the words come in, a "free people," with taxes at ion the $100..