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Newspaper Page TextPage Six Miss Pauline Commerford Writes an Interesting Letfer from California. “Know that on the right hand of the Indies, there iz an Island cal?-' ed California, very near to the ter restial paradise’’—-Serves—(anciei: l explorer.) “Not that 1 believe that the high-l est point is navigable, whence these <urrents flow; nor that we can mouutl there; because 1 am convinced that there is the terrestial Paradise, whence no man can enter, but hy .the will of God”—Columbus to Fer dinand. s Many of our Mariatta people have' visited Califernia. They know full well its advantages and disadvant ages as well as its peculiar charm. ‘There are those who have not yet succumbed to ‘“‘California Fever.” They have yet to-‘cross the plains and see for themselves what native sons call “The Land of Heart’s De - sire.”” A few remarks to them a bout life and conditions in this diz tant State may be of interest. First bear in mind that up to a comparatively recent period the val leys and plains of Southern Califor nia were for the most part the sandy »waste of the desert, then marvel at the growth of these desert cities ‘when irrigation came and with its magical finger transformed this land into miles of Orange and English walnut groves, acres of olive trees and peach orchards interspersed with marvelous date palms, fields of cot ton, sugar cane and viﬁeyards teem ing with choice grapes. Every fruit and vegetable of the temperate zone <ombined with all the products of the tropics flourish here side by side in ranches that can't be bought for a ‘thousand doilars an acre. Twenty years age they sold for a song. Puebla de Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (Village of our Lady, Queen ©of the Angels) is the correct name ©f Los Angeles, commonly pronounced by its people ‘“‘Losang-lis.” it was es tablished in the 18th century by the Spaniards as a supply station for their various forts. In 1880 it was still a dreamy, little Spanish village in the desert with a population of 11,000 grouped around the typical Mexican Plaza and the old Mission ot Los Angeles, with its near neighbor some ten miles away-—the famous Mission of San Gabriel, noted for the famous wines made by the Francis <an Monkr. Awnglo-Saxon ingenuity brings irrigation to the deseirt, and the little Spanish village leses much of its picturesqueness, but becomes the metropolis of the Southwest with a population of 600,000 surroundead by large fruit and vegetable ranches, its streets shaded with date palms, graceful Eucalyptus, Pepper, Accacia, Camphor and Live Oak trees, even its curb stones blossoming with ge raniums and shasta daisies, a glor ious wéalth of flowers and trees witn splendid parks every where. Out of this luxuriance of the tropics rise the skyscrapers, church towers and homes of the people with the ever changing background of the Sierra Madre Mountains, rising to the height of 6,000 feet above the city. These were aptly termed the ‘“Mother Range” by the Spaniards. They keop the cold winds of the north from the city. Theze mountains are masses of «colored rock mostly without verdure, At sunset or sunrise they take on brilliant coloring, their purple and blue massea being splashed with bright vermillion red and gold on thel highest peaks. They make a won derful picture with beautiful Los! Angeles in the foreground. Through the midst of the City meanders the Los Angeles river, a raging torrent in the rainy season, but at present ‘writing, a mild little mountain creel-. It is crossed by handsome Municipal Bridzes at various points. The com mercial enterprise of the city has made it outgrow its Mountain base and it is reaching out, growing down fo the sea and has annexed for its port, the harbor of San Pedro former ly 25 miles away, now connected by paved boulevards, chief of which is WVermont Avenue, a street as wide as Pennsylvaria Avenue and shadea with beautiful Pepper trees and palms the entire dJdistance from the mountains to the sez. A word about he Pepper tree. PProbably the most yeautiful tree mext to the palms in southern California. [t thrives in the dry soil of the desert and needs iittle moisture, growing nearly as tall as our HJouthern oaks. It has A bright grean lusxurviant foliage with fern-like leaves and beuars a profn sion of red borries. The spice-like peppery odoar of the berries give the tree its name. IThe Franciscan Fath or who fovwded the Califernia Mis sions, Fathee Juniperro Serra intro duced the tree from Spain. From the trees that this good Father plant ed arount his Missions, the pepper tree spread throughout California. Father Serca is to California what James Ogicthoipe is to Georgia or Captain Johw Smith is to Virginia. His broad, unselfsh devotion in con verting the Indians to Christianity and teaching them useful trades, as well as his efforts to plant a civiliza tion in the desert have made his memory an cbject of veneration to Protectants and Catholies alike in California. Southern Califcrnia is a land of continual surprises, and living con ditions are so entirely different from what they are in the South, that one zlmost feels that they have moved into a foreign land. \Vith the trans ient who is here for the winter and does not want to stay at a hotel or a boarding house, it is ecither a Cali fornia Bungalow or an apartment. Now, California bungalows are justly famous. There is in no other part of our broad country anything like them. They are unique and a peculiar product of California. They are picturesque, attractive and comfortable, and, as the owner will tell you, have wonderful possibi lities. The possibilities certainly manifest themselves as you go through them as I well tell you late:. They range all the way from three to twelve rooms with all modern im provements, always surrounded with a profusion of flowers; and date palms and crange trees in backyards. There is a carefully kept lawn in front and an equally pretty one in the rear, and over the house gener ally the brilliant purple, flowering vine, the Borgenviella, introduced here some years ago from Australia. This is a Juxuriant bloomer and cov ers the bungalow with a profusion of ilowers. These little homes can be had all the way from $lO.OO to a $150.00 a month according to size. A comfortable and pretty 4 room apartment or bungalow completely furnished, bath and electric lights, with the water paid by the landlord can be had for $15.00 a month. Even table and household linen are fur nished and all dishes and kitchen u tensils. - All you have to do is to bring your trunk and move in. It is not necessary, in fact it does not pay, to move household furniture across the continent. The intericr of these little bungalows are very artisticc. They are finished in the native wood, generally furnished with mission chairs and tables and have hard wood floors with turkish rugs. The landlord shows you, the prbspective renter, into a four room bungalow. From the broad porch you enter a sunny livin; room heatad by an open fire of FHucalyptus logs, or perhaps a tiny hot blast wood stove. There will be desks, tables, and chairs, books and magazines. He touches a spring and 10, a pretty brass bed, already made, descends from the wall where was a full length mirror. These dizappearing beds are peculiar to California. De cided improvements on the folding bed. They are absolutely sanitary as they rest in air closets in the walls, where there is a free circulation of air at all times. A touch of the spring returns them to their nich in the wall without any effort on your part. The landlord will show you disappearing dressers arranged in the same manner. He will next show you into the little dining-room ar ranged in the same manner to be used also as a bed-room, but oddest of all in this land of surprises, he will touch a spring and down comes the ironing-board from out of the wall. One of the disagreeable fea tures of life in California is that Laundry work of any description is 50 expensive that tourists as a rule do all of their own laundry, or at least do the ironing. The launde ries do what they call ‘‘rough-dry washing” for fifty cents for every 25 pieces, ironing all flat pieces that they can put through the machinery included in that price, but if they launder and iron dresses and shirt waists, they will charge you about ten dollars a week. The little kit chenette fitted with a gas range with its disappearing features—such as towel racks for wet towels, going back into the walls, dried by gas jets, —is extremely interesting to the housekeeper from the Kast. Another thin; that would interest her are the complete little markets on nearly every corner in the residence section, where she can buy food of every description, either cooked or uncook ed, but at absurdedly cheap prices. There is a profusion of all kinds of fruit and vegetables both tropical and temperate, to choose from. Even as late as this there are for sale plenty of peaches, strawberries, can teloupes, and watermelons, to say nothing of oranges and grapes. You are not apt to buy either lemons, oranges, grape fruit or guavas. They !hro\\' as a rule in the backyard of ithv bungalow you have rented, and !ut this time of the vear your trees ? will be loaded with fruit. E In these complete little market gyou will find women selling larg. :hume made cakes, such as we wou!'.l THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AN COURIER pay in Marietta sixty cents or a dol lar for. Here they are to be had for fifteen and thirty cents—either choe olate laver cakes or plain pound cakes—the usual home-made size. The zame prices apply to pies. Large home-made pies made by women wac understand making them and who use the delicious California fruit, seil for only ten cents apiece. Dough nuts are only five cemnts dozen in many of these bakeries. Youw can buy edibles hot and smoking from women who are careful with their ceoking at these little markets, or you can go to a caffeteria where there is a profusion of flowers on every table and music by an orches tra and get the daintiest little din ner for fifteen cents. Your little bungalow or apartment may be situated in the western part of the city like the writer’s, and you will be in nice walking distance o Exposition park where there are free concerts, lectures and moving pic tures daily, or if you tire of thego you can take your book and spena the morning reading in restful St. James Park and feed squirrels and gold fish under the palm and orange trees, or walk through Chester Place the beautiful private park where are the hcmes of millionaires and the old families of Los Angeles, here tame deer will come at your call. At the entraunce to this beautiful park is the ominous sign ‘“no sightseeing autos allowed within.”” A guard stands at the gate to enforce this rule. These are some of the advantages. There are alse disadvantages, besides the lack of servants as stated above, especially for one’s laundry work, there is the high cost of fuel, an ab solute necegsity in this climate all the year around. Ycur Eucalyptus or Jumniper logs will cost you from $12.00 to $15.00 a Iload and coal $lB.OO a ton. One wakes in the early morning in Los Angeles to find the palm trees in his yard lifting wierdly through a heavy grey fog, and it is so cold he can see his breath. The chill pen etrates to his very bones. He is glad to build his little wood fire and will stick close to it through breakfast. When he leaves the house for sigut seeing or a walk, he will wear his heavy overcoat, and “‘lo, and behold” about nine o'clock, the fog lifts and through it comes the brilliant sua shine, transforming the gloomy at mospherc and the whole landscape. Suddenly, he is hot and off comes the overcoat, and very warm it wili be delightful to the Southerner, un til about 4:30 when the chill de scends again and natives and tourists alike pile on their wraps and build their fires again. ‘Of course, thefe are plenty of steam heated apar;g mentz: to be had, but they are not considercd so healthy as those heated by stoves cor open fires. California has not the semi-tropical climate so often attiributed to it by those who have never visited it. It has an even elimate with its two regular seasons,l iasting, the rainey, abeut four mcenths and the dry- about eight.l months, but it lacks the balmy warm atmosphere we have in Georgia for at least nine months in the year. There is no day in California, at least in Los Angeles, that is warm enough to discard a heavy wrap or a fire in the early mornings. To the Southerner, all of this is de cidedly uncomfortable. , Yet California casts its spell, glow ing as it does with its wonderful mountains and deserts, its old mis sions and its profusion of beautiful fruits. There are unexcelled advan tages for the musician, the artist and thcse who wish to pursue any favo rite study. Northerner and South erner seem to fall under the same hypnotic spzll and after a year or two become ardent Califernians, It is the progressiveness of both North erner and Southerner settling here that has built up this wonderful Commonwealth. You never hear as yvou do in the East the terms ‘“North and South.” It is all East and West, or southeast and socuthwest, north east and northwest. You seldom meet a native son of California, the country is s 0 new, nearly everyone will point to some old State Kast or the Mississippi, where he came from.. and saves up from year to year-to go back to and spend his vacations amongit his own beloved people, for after all the East draws the West as potently as the West draws the Fast—lach section of the Republic having some advantage over the other, i PAULINE COMMERIORD. FOR SALE—Five passenger 1916 model Ford touring car; slightly nsed and in perfect condition, Will take in part payment a Ford roadster. The McNeel Marble Company, Mari etta, Ga., dec3. A complete line of lap-robes horse blankets, water proof horse covers and storm aprons at Roy Webbs, Har ness Shop, 112 Washington Avenue. CANIPAIGN FORBETTER LIVESTOCK INGEORGIA And-ew M. Soule, President, Georgia Sizte College Of Agriculiure On November 22, an exhibit of pure bred Tivestock and home grown food uffs was started from: the Georgia State College of Agriculture to travel over the state, to make about 200 siops and reach a vast number of farmers. In this campaign the Col lege of Agriculture has been joined by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Railroads having lines in the state. Announcements have been made public of the exhibiting places. Those who have yet the opportunity of vis iting the cxhibits and hearing the ex perts on the subject of livestock rais ing in Georgia, should make sure of using it. The purebred and registered live stoclk will consist of Jersey, Holstein dairy cattle, short horn and Hereford beef cattle, Percheron horses, duroc, tamworth and berkshire hogs. These have been taken from the College farm for this tour of the state. They are to tell their story of what a pure bred animal is. 'The speakers will tell of ihe importance of intreducing such aniraals into the foundation of the live=ziock industry of this state. Lit erature will be distributed which has been pul cut especially for this cam paign. "i"he home-grown food stuff exhibit presenis in siriking and pointed way what Georgia grows or can grow for the feeding of livestock. This is a part of the College exhibit at the State Fair and has maany important lessons for the Georgia-farmer. Without growing more divestock Georgia can make no permarent ad vancement in agriculture. A certain amount of livestock is necessary to the economical operation of any system ofs agriculture. No other means of con serving soil fertility is éoxnparuble with that of feeding farm ecrops and returning manure to the land. Live stock, however, can be unprofitable wherp the wrong methods of feeding are practiced or when high priced feed is given to poor grade cattle. It is, therefore, very essential to get good quality of stock and then know what is the best home-grown ration. To help farmers buy at low cost, the College and its co-workers pro pose to help the farmers buy pure bred animals on a co-operative basis, assuring the lowest possible cost and at the same time the best grade of animal for the money. This campaign has as its end in view the welfare of the farmer, noth ing else. If you are in sympathy with such a movement lend’ it your pres ence and encouragement, if possible. Substituting Phosphate Rock for Phospheric Acid John R. Fain, Professor Of A.gronomy, Georgia State College Of Agriculture On account of the high price of plhosphorie acid, dealers are pushing rock phosphate as a substitute at this time. The farmer must not be misled into believing that the ground phos phate rock will become immediately available like the acid in the produe tion of crops. The rock phosphate will give better results on the second crop than on the first one, and, better still, on the third than on the second. It is the policy on the farm of the College of Agriculture to apply the ground phos vhate rock every three years. Rock phosphate will prove disap pointing on many soils of this state if it is not applied with barnyard ma nure or with green cover cerops turned under. To get the best results from ground phosphate rock, it is necessary that the soil contain considerable or ganic matter. In this respect, the soils of Georgia are quite deficient, hence the necessity of applying the ground phosphate with barnyard ma - nure or green manures. The ground - vock can Dbe scattered over the ma - mure as it accumulates each day, or if | green manuring is to be used, it can be hroadcastied on the field before the ' crop is turned uader. Go Riter Apple And Pear Capkers T. H. McH atton, Professor Of Horti'- culture, Georgia State Col lege Of Agriculture During the winter, go after the ap ple and pear (rees for blight cankers. Cut out the cankered spots till heal thy wood is reached. Make good clean cuts with a sharp Kknife, then paint the wood with a disinfectant paint, or apply Bordeaux mixture. These will prevent spores which may have been left there, from developing and bringing on next spring the blight. It has been demonstrated that the blight winters over only in these can kers and that the sweet exudation of the cankers attract bees in the spring, which, in turn, go to the flow ers of the tree, carrying the spores, thus spreading the blight over the iwigs of the trees. One ton of mixed hay <containg 969 pounds of digestible dry maatter, KRS, CHAS. PEDEN GAINS 27 POUNDS Was Twice Examined, and Each Time Told Operation was Only Hope. “I have just finished my third bot tle. of Tanlac and have gained twen ty-seven pounds.” was the truely re markable statement made by Mrs, Charles Peden, residing at 550 Mill street, Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. Peden is one of the best-known and highly respected women of that city, where she has made her home for a num ber of years. “When I commenced taking the medicine,” she continued, “I only weighed 98 pounds; now I weigh 125 pounds, and never felt bettar in my life. For yvears I have suffe:- ed with a bad form of stomach troub le, constipation and pains in my side and back. At times the pains took the form of torture and I was twica examined and each time I was told that I had appendicitis and that an operation would be my only hope. 1 had fallen off until I only weighail ninety-eight pounds and was so weal I could hardly get around. “I had no appetite at all scarcely, and what little I did eat would cause gas to form in my stomach, whicn gave me palpitation of the heart, sick headaches and a dizzy feeling about the head when these spells came on me I would get awfully nérvous. 1 worried about myself until I could rest and sleep but little. “I had fallen off until I was al most ‘skin and bones’ and my strength and énergy were slowly leav ing me. I had a dread of the future and could see nothing but the operating table and knife. I had a perfect horror of an operation, but had made up my mind that it was ei ther life or death, and prepared ioo submit to it. I had made all prepar ations for the operation and called in my sister to tell her good-bye as I did not know whether I would live to see her again or not. My sister begged and pleaded with me not to allow them to cut on me, and told me to wait and try a good tonic for a while. The next day as I returned from the consultation room I thought of what she had said, and as I had heard much about Tanlac, I de cidzed -t try 3t "as a last resort and stopped at Gil bert’s Drug Store and got a bottla, Of ccurse I had lost heart and had no faith in the medicine, but to please my sister I made up my mind to take it, and, oh, what a happy day that was for me! . ““I never returned for the opera tion, but just kept taking the Tanlac. Right from the start I began to feel better. The medicine seemed to take hold right at once. It had a sooth ing effect and in a few days I felt no pains at all. 1 was so happy over the wonderful improvement in my condition that I sent for my neigh bors to tell them how much better I felt. 1 sent and got ancther boi tle of Tanla¢, and have just finish ed taking my third bottle and feel like I have been made all over again into a new woman. ‘““As I have said before I now weigh 125 pounds and my improvement has been so rapid that none of my clo thes are big enough for me. I will have to make them all over again. I now have a ravenous appetite and my husband says I am simply eating him out of house and home. 1 have even gone back to my coffee, which 1 was told not to touch. Thosec terri ble pains in my back and head have all' disappeared and 1 sleep like a child. I am no longer nervous an‘ when 1 get up mornings I feel re freched, cheerful and bright. I am now able to attend to my househo!li duties and I feel as if I had started life all cver again. My husband Is highly delighted and my recovery is the talk of the neighborhood. I do nothing but rejoice all day long over the recovery of my health and praise Tanlac to everybody. “I feel so grateful for my escape from the operating table and the kunife, that you may publish what I have said; you may, if you wih, tell other women suffering as 1 was to come and see me, and 1 will be glad to tell them all about my case.” Tanlac is sold exclusively in Ma rietta, Ga., by Hodges Drug Co. Tanlac is sold exclusively in Aus tell, Ga., by Stricklaad Pharmacy. Tarlac is sold exclusively in Ac worth, Ga.,, by Durham Bros. Tanlac is sold exclusively in Ros well, Ga., by G. T. Lyon Drug Co. Tanlac is =old exclusively in Pow der Springs, Ga., by Vaughan and Baggett. (adv.) Tanlac sold exclu sively in Marietta by __Hodges Drug Co. F.ida, December 4, 1915 NOTICE OF SALE, Notice is hereby given that T wijn sell before the court house door ;4 Marietta, within the legal hours oy sale, on the first Tuesday in January 1916, a tract of land described ag follows:- Lot of Land No. 1115, con taining forty acres, more or less, ang ten acres off the west side of Lot of Land No. 1116, sz2id ten acros ex tending across the west side of said lot of land, and of 2 uniform width, and the entire tract containing fifty acres, more or less, and rectanzular in shape, and situated in the 16th District, 2nd Section of Cobb Ccunty, Georgia. Said lands have a five room cottage, barns and other neces sary outbuildings, and the langs in goad state of cultivation. Titles perfect. Terms of sale cash. MRS. S. L. HARTSFIELD, Owner, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NOP THERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. IN BANKRUPTCY. In the matter of A. F. Scroggs, bankrupt, No. 4926, in Bankruptcy, Notice is given to the creditors of the above named bankrupt, of Ken nesaw, in the County of Cobb, saiq District, that there will be a meet ing of creditors in said case at Mari etta, Ga., at the Justice Court Roem of the Court House, at 19 o’clock, 1. m., on the 11th day of December, 1915, at which time claims may be proven, the bankrupt examined, 2 trustee appocinted, and such other business transacted as may properly come before said meeting. i Marietta, Ga., Nov. 27th, 1915. GEO. D. ANDERSON, Referee in Bankruptcy. IN THE DISTRIC']; COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR TH2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEOR GIA. In re- William Pfleming Watts, Bankrupt, No. 4311 in Bankruptey A petition for discharge having been filed in conformity with law by above named bankrupt and the Court having ordered that the hearing up on said petition be had on Jan. Bth, 1916, at ten o'clock, A. M. .at the United States District Court room, in the City of ATLANTA, Geongia, notice is hereby given to all credi tors and other person in interest t) appear at said time and place ana show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the’bankrupt for dis charge should not be granted. 0. C. FULLER, Clerk. By F. L. Beers, Deupty Clerk. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NOR THERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. IN re- David G. Blackwell, Bank rupt, No. 4853, in DEankruptcey.. A petition for discharge having been filed in cornformity with law by above pamed bankrupt and the Court having order-zd that the hearing up on said petition be had on Decenber 20th, 1915, at ten o’clock a. m. at the - United States District Court room, in the city of ATLANTA, Geor gia, notice is hereby given to all creditors and other persons in inter est to appear at said time and place gnd show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the bankrupt for discharge should not be granted. 0. C. FULLER, Clerk. By F. L. BEERS, Deputy Clerk. ADMINISTRATOR’'S SALE. GEORGIA, COBB COUNTY. By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of said CountY granted at the November.term 191, I will sell to the highest bidder, be fore tha Court house door in the city of Marietta on the Ist Tuesday in De cember, next, within the legal hours of sale, the following described prop erty, to-wit: Being lot of land No. 602 containing 40 acres, more or less and also the west haif of lot of land No. 595 containing 20 acres, more or less, all of said land lying and being in the ISth District and 2nd Section of said county, containing in the aggregate 60 acres, more or less. Said land sold as the property of George Wyatt, late of Cobb county, deceased, and sold for the purpose of paying debts and distribution 2- mong the heirs. Terms cash. This November, Bth, 1915. ANNA WYATT, Administrator, | ~f George Wyatt, deceased. Closing out sale still going on af Ice & DuPre—everything going cost. \ éx\‘sw“'g\\ & S L N There will be a regular communi cation of Kennesaw Lodge No. 33 I" & A. M. on Friday night, Dec. 3rd at 7 p. m. All Master Masons are cordially invited to attend. Wwork in the Fellow Craft degree. J. P. POWER, W. M. John P. Cheney, Secretar¥.