The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1895, Page 14

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1895. i3 A ship is everlasting. Her timbers may resolve themselves back to dust and her individuality be lost from among the per- sonnel of her fabric,. but she passes to memory and lives, “Siempre vive,” always living, may be written over the final mooring place of these noble structures of the wave. Some are resting in silent ordinary along the stormless coves inshore, others are down in the deeps of the tropic zone and their frames, like the bones of sea-born Ariel's re, are “coral made id not a few lie Il under eternal winter's glacial shroud, t colder than the monument berg lifting its Ar_\\.tul crest above the dead. But they live—live as does the imperishless pole star from out whose ray no ship has ever wandered the great swelling globe around. On memory’s mystic tides the pallid was torn down to make way for the present five-story building, which™ was erected by C. L. Low. = In clearing out some of the old timbers | for the driving of the piles thirty-five | baskets of champagne were found under the ashes of the Hames of 1951, and the ac- cumulated drift of water-front jumble and rubbish. Dug from its long and deep sub- mersion in the ice-cold mud of the vessel’s hold the wine was in excellent form, and when opened the lost liquid of a far-aw: vintage. ripened under the skies of sunny France, popped and fizzed with the com pressed energy of unknown years, and like anew version of Samson’s riddle—out of the bitterness of death, the grime, the wrack and waste of devastating time, came | the delicate fragrance, the savor of fruity | spring, and the exquisite conserve of im- | perishable sweet. | This is the story of the transmigration of | aship. The new Niantic lifts itself where | 2eld,_ Beneath these pictures are round penings, about five inches in diameter, which are backed by the colors white or green, according to which side is in the field. On this colored background is shown the number of the fieldsmen occu- pying that position. There are numerous other openings, behind which electric motors bring into view pictures and fig- ures, which instantly indicate a ‘ball,” ‘“strike,” “foul” or “‘error,” and the person by whom it is made, base hits, the number of innings being played and the score of the respectiv e sides. The man_at the bat isindicated as he faces the pitchers, and the audience immediately knows his name, and each and every decision of the umpire as to fouls, balls, strikes, etc. As he ad- vances from the plate affer making a hit the audience sees him appear at _first, sec- ond or third base until he scores or 1s put out, and it is informed the instant either event occurs. The presentment is about as realistic as it is possible to make it, and every detail of the game can be followed with closeness and accuracy. The whole system is controlled by a keyboard located in front of the scene,” where a telegraph operator sits at his trument, which is connected by a direct re to the ball: ground. As the progress of the game is flashed to him over the wire he simply resses the proper buttons and the “play” reproduced before the spectators within ive seconds just as it takes place at the scene of action. Using THE WIRE FENCE FOR TELEPHON- ING.—A short item on the use of the wire fence for telephoning on sheep farms in THE NIANTIC — WHALESHIP, STOREHOUSE, BUSINESS BLOCK. 4. Coulter.] [Sketched for the ““Call” by W. squadron sails and sails, passing and re- passing in spectral revie Built for a life battle, with her own | grave always below her keel, she is the | , the bravest and the strongest of handiwork, and over a common peril—no ship can shun the menace of her own and her creator’s possible tomb—she nd comes on her noble mission, and ver she lies at last she is everlasting. The old ships w ome in when “‘there | shall b no more Under the corner of Clay found. a Niantic building at the nd Sansome streets are the ier Niantic editice, down in the ¢ stratum of San e epoch, lie the bones of d below the dark g years—the attrition 0's eoce antic deposit of the rush of the wasting age The story of this geological derelict | begins when the Niantic first sailed from her New England w after the leviathan of the deep. Her life asa blubber-hunter was uneventful until the auric dawn of 48 to gild the sky, when she took among the fleets of the new nd sought the fleece of gold. | 2s then the property of Moorhead, | & Waddington—the latter prominent merchant here— 'anama to catch the pas- | ht then strunded on "the shiy 1849, she sailed in through the | and from the sea forever. In @ few days her crew deserted her for the | wild guiches and ravines of the Eldorado, | @nd_ for some time she yawed around her | the sociable and harm- The flood of pop- ation sweeping into Yerba Buena filled and overflowed the young pueblo of the Gringo, and no cubic feet of air went to waste in the crowded habitations on the sandhills, Houses were of more use than | ghips, and the abandoned craft were warped into the beach and labeled “To Golden asin that free-and-easy day known 'when-the-water-came-up-to-Mont- treet’”’ period. Other fluids came ontgomery street, but their inclined flow was possibly considered too common | Jor a place in history or the marking. of an epoch, and no page shows the record of | their motions, though some of the pioneer mounds on the solitary hill back of town might bear silent witness of the fierce and | fervid time when the barrels well shaken | (before taken) by the Cape Horn tempests took upon—and within—themselvesan age | which the peaceful cobwebby vears of cel- | lar life never could supply. The Niantic was backed ingloriously into the beach like a recalcitrant mule | and tied up to a sand-dune. The pioneer | did duty as a warehouse, hotel, town hall, saloon, bethel, holding her own against all | kinds of weather and vicissitudes with that sturdy defiance to hard luck that had often characterized her work among the harsh, ‘veritable gales of the horse lati- tudes. Occasionally she would biossom out as a gambling hulk or a fandango hall, and manf’ a young argonaut, crazed by oV loss or failed to go ashore on the gangplank, and the Morgue—but there was 50 Morgue! When a man died hurriedly the community resolved itself into a Coro- ner’s jury and decided that he was dead without any corroborative evidence on the part of the corpse, and the auict people | out on Lone Mountain received the new- comer in silence. As a sailor boarding-house she wasan | unprecedented success, for she drew all men of marine inclinations unto her. She | was a city of refuge for runaways from sister ships, and she opened her doors to them at night to shanghai them out on outward-bound vessels next morning. The big fire of ’51 razed the Niantic down to her copper-sheathing, and a few red- wood logs were uge ed in the mud around tge charred hulk for a foundation, and upon this the first Niantic buildin, was perched, and the_ first seaside hotei | was operated. L. H.Roby was the pro- rietor, and his lease expired when he ied shortly afterward—a suicide from re- morse over some act in connection with his earlier life. One J. L. Johnson ran the hulk hotel, then gave away to Daniel Par- rish. During this proprietorship a guest was accused of acealin% a Jarge sum of money, and was sent to San Quentin prison for the alleged crime; He died on the point, protesting that he was innocent, and after his transportation over the bay, a Jaborious search was made among the old vessel’s timbers under the house for the money he was believed to bave cached there. The place then passed to P. T. Woods, H. HP Parkell and Miss Mooney, sister of Con Mooney, successively, the latter keeping it from 1864 to 1872, when it | power, and for this purpose it i once the bay tides came and went, and the old lies buried under the succeeding waves of shore that drove out the sea. Hill and wave shift and change form and ious old_craft cling to v like the clinging marine things far down in the darker deeps. ANNEALING ARMOR | PrLATE ELECTRICALLY. | —A most interesting ‘ and valuable. method of annealing armor plate 15 described by Professor Elihu Thomson. In this method electricity is used for producing a local softening of the surface of the plate. Projectiles are now | hurledwith such terrific force from rapid-fir- | ing guns that ordinary armor plate,exposed to their fire, would be quickly perforated, | smashed and destroved. The plate has to | be given a surface of superior resisting | subjected | that is, | | | | to the process of “Harveyizing' it is provided with a skin of hard steel of greater or less thickness. This is effected | by keeping the plate hot in contact | with carbon. The carbon then enters the face of the metal and so enriches it that | y asubsequent operation in which the plate ] 15 rapidly chilled it am}uires the properties | of very hard steel. When struck by a pro- | jectile this hardened surface repels the im- | pact so effectively that the puncturing end | of the shot is broken uY and its entrance | into the body of the plate which, behind | the Harveyized surface, is of soft material, | is prevented. The thickness of this chilled | and hardened coating may vary from | half to three-quarters of an inch. 1t is pos- | sible while passing the plate through this | process to_exempt certain portions from | carbonization, but there has always been difficulty in confining the exempted area | accurately, and parts might be left soft | which should be bard, and vice versa. The | real object of annealing, or softening, the | spots on the armor plate, is of course, to | enable holes to be drilled through the sur- | face and screw threads to be cutinto them | by tapping, so that the plates themselves | can be attached or have parts of the ship | attached to them. Variousmeans of doing this have been attempted, especially the application to the surface of the plate of | the intense heat oi the oxyhydrogen blow- | pipe, but all have failed, The electric pro- | cess, which is now used successtully, con- sists in heating a portion of the plate to an | annealing temperature by passing a cur- | rent between two electrodes iced at a | certain distance apart on the plate surface, | and then by diminishing the current, low- | ering the temperature so slowly that the massive plate at the back cannot cause | a chill on the heated portion of the metal. In other words the application of heat is so regulated that the temperature at the | heated or appealed spot is maintained in- | definitely or changed so gradually that the subsequent hardening, which would ordi- narily be the effect of a sudden chill, is prevented. The case of the warship Mas- sachusetts, now under construction, in which it 1s found that certain of the ar- mored plates for the barbettes possessed the toughened Harveyized skin in places where it was absolutely necessary that they should be drilled and tapped, showed very clearly the value of the process. Bloi- pipes had been tried in yain and the build- ing of the ship was at a standstill. The application of the electric annealing pro- cess put an end to the difficulty and the work of construction was at once renewed. | RePrODUCING BASEBALL GaAyEs BY Evrec- Tricrry.—There have been many im- provements in the reporting of dis- tant baseball games- for the benefit| of persons who, unable to escape from the claims of business within the city, are yet so full of enthusiasm for the game that they steal aWway to the nearest newspaper office where a tally of the score in progress is being kept. Some of these improvements reproduce the leading feat- ures of the game so graphically as to add greatly to the interest and excitement of the large number of spectators they in- variably draw; but in completeness and effectiveness a new system, worked elec- trically, eclipses them all. On a large sheet 1s portrayed the ball ground in front of a crowded stand, and the pictures of the {)nyers are painted at the respective posi- ions occupied by the side that is in the i | twenty Australia, which has been going the rounds, has elicited so many inquiries for further information that E, Aeggie, who has been a pioneer in this utilization, has written from Australia to a scientific journal in this country telling just how it was done. On his property there are about 600 posts | to the mile of fencing, the wire of which is run th hrough auger holes in the ordinary wa, The rust that forms on the wire sufliciently thick skin to insulate ight moisture. (The climate is ery dry, the rainfall being only eight. or nine inches, so that insulation is not of the vital importance it would be in a moister climate.) At the straining posts the rust 1s filed " off the wire at either de and a piece of clean wire is rentaround the post; at knots or 1oop joints a similar eonnection is made. The ordi- nary long distance microphone transmitter is used at_either end, with callbells and re- ceivers. On the farm mentioned by Mr. Aeggle the longest service is sixteen miles, but one run has a continuous service of -eight miles, and there is no reason why the system should not be worked on much longer stretches. Mr. Aeggle found the cost of his telephone serviceto be about 60 cents a mile, and since he showed the way many hundreds of miles of station fences ~throughout Australia have been brought in requisition for the purpose. OBsCURING INCANDESCENT LaMB Burss By SaND Brast.—The use of acid, which hith- erto has been largely depended upon for the obscuring of frosted lamp bulbs, has been found objectionable on many grounds, and especially from giv- ing a greasy appearance to the glass. It is now proved that the sand blast can do the work of the acid with none of its draw- backs. The sand blast is in almost univer- sal use for obscuring and decorating lamp and gas-moons and chimneys, but it has until recently been considered too powe ful for the frosting of incandescent bulbs, A machine has been invented for this pur- se by which from five to eight dozen amps can be obscured per hour. The blast is operated by a blower, only one- half horsepower being required. He Has an Accident Policy for a Heavy Amount in This City, Gustaf Broman, the bold navigator, ap- peared in Judge Joachimsen's court yes- terday morning to answer a charge of per- jury preferred against him by Mrs. Con- stance Roy of Vallejo street. The case | was continued till to-morrow. Detective Anthony was correct in his suspicion that Broman would have some nsurance policy on bis life before he gave ut that he would attempt the foolhardy trip from Coos Bay to this city in a twelve- foot boat. The detective’sidea was that if Broman started on the trip the boat would be found on some beach, bottom up, and Broman’s friends would claim the in- surance money on the ground that he had been drowned, and it would have ulti- mately found its way into Broman’s pockets. Yesterday afterncon 1. Isaacsen, agent of the United States Aecident Insurance Association, called at police headquarters inquiring about Broman. He said that Broman in August last had taken out what is known as a $5000 and $10,000 ac- cident policy with his company. “We have the power to cancel a policy at any time,” said he, “and we will at once fii_\'e Broman notification of the fact that is policy is canceled.” LAKE MEBOED WATER ANALYZED Dr. Spencer Has nished His Examina- tion. Dr. John C. Spencer, the chemist who was employed by the Board of Health at the instance of Mayor Sutro to make af thorough examination of <he water o Lake Merced with a view to determining its desirability for the use of the city, has finished his work and rendered bis report. He made a careful microscopical examina- tion, as well as a chemical analysis, and the results of his researches confirin the re- port made by Professor Thomas Price, the assay er, whose report was read at the last meeting of the Board of Health. Profes- sor Price declared that the water was to- tally unfit for drinking purposes, contain- ing poisonous chemicals and vegetable matter in a dangerous degree and Dr. Spencer’s report will be read at the next meeting of the Board of Health. If all the folks who haven't read “Trilby” would stop making jokes about her, life would be more endurable., zhtly screwed or keyed on to carry the cur- | incandescent | ] | s WV The Standard Dictionary. A distinguished man, asked what books he would choose as his companionsina life- long imprisonment, replied: Shakespeare and the Bible. Had be lived nowadays he would have added another—and that other would have been The Standard Diction- ary. For this great work is so full of matter, so comprehensive in its scope, g0 | rich in detail, so accurate and concise, and so excellent in its arrangement and methods, that for decades of years it would constantly provide an active mind with fresh and interesting matter for thought. The second volume, just issued main- tains the high standard of the first in lexi- cographic work, and offers but little mark for a broad-minded critic. The appendix in sixteen divisions at the end is a wonder- ful illustration of research and scholarship, | adds value to the dictionary proper, and | s it as near perfection for reference as work can be. There the reader will cientific language key, an explana- | tion of the principles of a scientific | ulphabet, . proper names in bibliog- | | raphy, biography, fiction, history, my- | thology, an exhaustive glossary ‘of for- eign words and phrases used in English | speech and _literature, brief, statements of | principles that decide correctness ¢f usage, | aitements and_ discussions of faulty | fon, all the disputed spellings and pro- nunciations, all the abbreviations and con- tractions, si and symbols used in com- | merce, es or the prefessions—in | fact, everything nearly for an explanation | of which men have been wont to look to dictionaries of a hundred kinds will be | found classified, condensed and accurate | in_this one boo! N It is the dictionary of dictionaries. Its| system of “Being,” its scheme of nature, | of science, of literature and of art are mar- velous in their compléeteness and compre- hensiveness, and_present to the scholar in | brief form and in one view the whole of | his learning, while by their orderly ar-| rangement and clear definition they flood | with light the mind of the student and | inquirer. For most people, however, the judgment | of the value o e Standard Dictionary will be based on its definitions. That cer- tainly for the average readeris the test of a dictionary, and in this lies one of the strongest features of The Standard. In definitive statement — the all-important factor of definition—nearly all the earlier dictionaries are weak. Explanations by the use of synonyms, useful indeed asa ! help to understanding the word or deserip- | tions that only offer the general meanin, are given. But clear-cut, accurate defini- tions, made, as the old philosophers say, by genusand difference, are few and far between. Any student of philosophy will understand at once the superiority of such definitions, and The Standard Dictionary is rich in that kind of work. A comparison of its definitions with those of the Century, | Webster or Worcester will readily prove | the truth of the foregoing. Tested by its spelling and pronunciation English as well as foreign, the dictionary has no rival. Itis neither too conserv: tive nor too advanced in the former and it just hits the happy mean of the culti- vated man and societyin the latter. [New York: Funk & Wagnalls. E.D. Bronsen & Co., agents for California.] | “A Thousand Dollars a Day.” This is the title of a nmew book on economics, a volume of bright stories written by Miss Adeline: Knapp and pub- lished by the Arena Company of Boston. There may be other women who could do the work that Miss Knapp has done in this little book, but we know of no other woman who has done it.. Miss Knapp's scintillating touch, her flashes of wit, her keen sense of the incongruous, make us | forget that the subject of economics was ever anything but delightful. She notonly does this, but she writes with an earnest- ness that convinces us of her sincerity,and | with a logic that makes us see the rooted | inius(ice of the present industrial order. n the first sketch, from which the book takes its name, the author suggests a radical remedy for the industrial trouble. | Labor is the only adequate return for labor, we are told, and no man must accept a ser. vice that he is not willing to pay in kind. Thislittle story shows the intrinsic useless- ness of money—shows that the one - dispensable thing is labor. B‘nt it is when she puts her deep lessons in allegory that Miss Knapp is the most attractive. This she has done in “The Sick Man,” “The Discontented Machine’” and ‘‘The Earth Slept.” “The'S8ick Man,” a delightful fable, pictures a patient whose I'hy:siciann decide that transiusion of good healthy blood is the only thing that can save him. The sick man is our diseased social system. One of the stranger red | blood corpuscles on his journey through the new land (the sick man’s body) takes | notes on all the curious things he sees and finally decides that the trouble with the system of government is i monopoly of the liver, the most important body community and composed of the richest | corpuscles. The liver attracts to itself all | the richest particles and so causes anemia | in the system. *‘The Discontented Machine'’ is an orig- inal setting for Ricardo’s “Iron Law of ‘Wages.” This law declares that the work- men’s wage depends on one thing: the bare amount necessary to feed and clothe the worker and to let him rear a child or two to take his place when he drops exhausted in the harness. ‘Wages vibrate along this hunger-line, never more than a fraction above it or below it. According to this ‘“‘Law of Wages” the laborer is never really paid anything for himself. He is, so to speak, only kept in fuel and oil, as is any other machine. ““The Earth Slept” is a strong note of hope at the end. The author looks into the past and sees the earth pushed on- ward, age after age, by the power behind evolution. One statoblast in the primal darkness has a dim forecast of the comin light, but the others cry, “How foolish!” But ages pass and the light appears. Then one ameboid cell cries to the rest, “I feel a strange impulse within me—a stirring as of Yower. “1 believe that some day we hall have the power to move.” “Km‘l- sense!” shout the others. But ages pass and the cells- move. Now men have ap- peared on the planet, and here and there one is saying to his fellows, *‘I feel the stirring of a strange impulse within me—the dawning of a great truth. We are brothers. Our lives are knit up in one another. Fraternity and not competition is to be the mainspring of our racial life.” Here the reader will draw his own conclu- sion. - We have all heard of the “hard times,’”’ and in the last twelve months we have had every explanation of them except the right one. This little books throws light on this obscure problem. The writer shows, by inference, that pur financial pinches are not the result of something temporary and incidental, but come from something deep, abiding and fundamental in our iudgusmni system; that they come, in fact, from the inevitable breakdown of our competitive system of industry—come from the injus- tice of our system of wages, and the vast riches accumulated from profit and specu- lation. But Miss Knapp tells all this, not as I have told 1t, in dull prose, but in pleasant fable and dramatic sketch, I haye spoken of Miss Knapp’s book be- cause it gives me a chance to indulge in “the noble pleasure of praising.” If a truer, stronger word has been uttered on the material aspect 6f the problem of labor I have not had the happiness to see it. OHARLES EDWIN MARKHAM. Chimmie Fadden, Major Max and Other ‘Stories.’ It has come to be almost an aphorism that a California writer of uncommon ability must leave home in order to achieve distinction. It is a corollary of this that most of them who leave do become famous, Edward W. Townsend is a conspicuous in the | L e instance. Among the San Francisco news- paper offices he was regarded as an able “special writer,” but his purely artistic work, published in the Argonaut in the form of stories, gave him no particular eminence here. ~And yet it was ex- quisitely fine and if ({)\Iblished in New York or London would have made him famous. It was only when he went to the New York Sun and began the publication of the “Major Max” and “Chimmie Fad- den” sketches that his genius found due recognition. The rollicking, the Bowery, “Uhimmie Fadden,” a lad into whose mouth Mr. Townsend has placed the richest and choicest slang of the slums, is one of the most interesting tyves of metropolitan humanity. He tells his own adventures in his own way, with that good-hearted and devil-may-care swing peculiar to his species. The'series of events which lifted him from (llg_hard, low life of the gutter to the position of footman_for a cfiarming voung lady in a rich and fashionable family; the excruci- ating blunders which he committed in this strange and dazzling environment; his de- voted loyalty to his beautiful young mi tress, who in the pursuit of her enterpris ing benevolence in the slums had first come across him, crippled, and who had nursed him back to Leul:h; his readiness to “t’rash” everybody who was unkind to her; his awe of ‘his whiskers,’ the young lady’s father, who once gave him a much- needed whipping; his confused ideas of right and wrong and his brave desire to be a square man; his total inability tocher- ish Teverence for anything; bis delicious love-making to the ‘“Duchess,” who was his mistress’ French maid—these and many other features of the sketches give so many charming pictures of life and char- acter, and are told so simply and with so honest a desire to be true to life, that none can resist their charm or fail to laugh over their strange humor or shed tears over their pathos, The “Major Max” sketches are half satirical, half humorous pictures of social and domestic life far above the plane to ignorant offspring of | which simple-hearted Chimmie belonged. The satire is never too sharp nor the hu- mor too broad; and both are curiously mixed together, In point of art and ta they stand vastly above the Spoovendyke papers, which had so greav a run several years ago. Major Max is a typical gen- tleman rounder, full of good humor, phil- osophy and genial eynicism, and his wife is an admirable foil, and handles him with a certain kindliness that nevertheless smacks delicately of the shrey. Y The remaining stories of the book, with one exception, were published mostly in the Argonaut. Some of them give the ex- periences of newspaper reporters in run- ning down peculiar cases, and apart from their, literary finish and the force with which they appeal to sympathy, they give an insight into a matter of which the pub- lic is ignorant, but which is familiar to all newspaper workers—that the personal ex- | periences of the bright and indefatigable 3 the pursuit of news are often far more inler?alin% than the news itself. As the canons of journalistic de- portment do not permit of the publication of these experiences as matters of news, Mr. Townsend has adopted the only form in which their character and variety may even be suggested, 1t is not likely that he published them with that end in view; but Young man in | that does not alter the fact that the dis- closures which he incidentally makes i throw a fine, strong and instructive light on a peculiar and fascinating employment. [New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co. For sale by Cooper.] Hy pnotism.” The author of this work, James R. Coci M.D., while he admits, as a physician, that “a little learning is a dangerous thing,”” holds that there is still more dan- ger in being densely igznorant of phe- nomena which daily occur around u Hypnotism is exciting widespread interest among scientists and laymen. It is freely | discussed by the few, and it is the marvel | of the many. The charlatan throws around it the veil of mystery: the novelist finds it a rich field of opportunity. It has played its part in the religious and political his- tory of the world. Physicians of eminent attainments are using it for the cure of disease. Leading psychologists and }my- siologists in every civilized country of the world are studying its phenomiena. Its existenze as a fact is now generally ad- | mitted. Believing in its importance as a healing agent and a sociological factor, while recognizing its dangers, the author outlines its methods and uses in the light of his own experience. Dr. Cocke frankly admits that hypno- tism has its grave dangers, but believes some of them have been exaggerated in popular estimation. Personally, he doubts that the average individualin the hypnotic state could be made to commit crime by suggestion. He cites several instances in | which subjects under influence could be induced to make attacks upon persons present with imaginary weapons, but when real instruments of destruction are put in their hands some sense of responsibility | seems to supervene to arrest their actions. i Whether persons can be hypnotized and remain so for an indefinite period 1s an | open question, with the weight of evi- | dence against it. In the case of persons | prone to catelepsy, somnambulism or tem- | porary aberration, hypnotism should be | used with the utmost care. The common | apprehension that it tends to weaken or | paralyze the will of the subject when he is | otherwise in a normal condition is not | shared by the author. _ g | . The greatest danger from hypnotism, in Dr. Cocke's opinion, lies in tie fact that owing to the mystery which surrounds it, | it may, in the imaginative and enthusias- tic, pfoduce a disturbed condition of the | mind akin to monomania. Certain stages | of mental enfeeblement may be produced, not by hypnotism per se, but by the credun- lity which was a part of the subject’s nature before he submitted to the process. There is a further danger of its use in dis- ease that many persons may become. so enamored of its charms as to neglect equally or more valuable means of cure. [Boston: The Arena Company. Forsale at the bookstores.] An Easter Offering. “Lingua Gemme, a Cycle of Gems,” is the title of an attractive gift book for Easter, compiled by Ada L. Sutton. As befits an Easter offering, the work is rinted on heavy cream-laid paper and Pouna in attractive covers of white and gold. The contents inciude brief descrip- tions of 100 gems, with a signification and popular superstition attached to each, to- gether with quotations and poems appro- priate to the sentiments symbolized by the gem. Of course all the gems included in the cycle are not, strictly speaking, pre- cious stones, but all are used in the manu- facture of jewelry, and each possesses beauty and value. The poetic quotations are well selected from minor authors mainly, and therefore will possess the charm of novelt{ to readers who are weary of the everlasting quotations from more famous writers. Altogether the work is an attractive one and will make a dainty offering to accompany Easter congratula- tions. [New York: The Merriam Com- pany. For sale at the bookstores.} The Income Tax. “A Treatise on the Federal Income Tax TUnder the Law of 1895,” by Roger Foster and Everett V. Abbott, is a work that will be of timely service, not only to lawyers but to all citizens who are included within the seope of the tax. The work is much more than an annotated copy of the statute. It is a careful discussion of all points of the law upon which there is likely to be litigation or doubt, and contains an elab- orate collection of authorities on each dl;mbtful int. Elfi f;’fi w‘n‘t;infis:on the tax, giving a description of the steps 10 be taken by the officers of the law and NEW TO-DAY. MR. THOMAS Reno, Nevada, is the place where Mr. Thomas W. Willets now resides, and the citizens of Reno aver that Mr. Willets is an honorable man, and deserves commen- dation for his success in life. Like many other good men, Mr. Willets was unfortu- nate enough to become nervously pros- trated, owing to his untiring application to business. He writes the following let- ter: “«HUDSON MEDICAL ! INSTITUTE, Stockton, Market and Ellis streets— GaNTLEM It affords me much pleasure to be able to say that the Hudson Medical Institute is a great medical institute, and that its physicians are distinguished and honorable men. . I was, but a short time | ago, a completely exhausted man. It | seemed as if the cup of life had almost all | run out, and I was in a state of nervous prostration and nerve death. T could not sit still five minutes together. My eyes | were awfully dull and bleary. T was a | complete wreck. Now I am well, now I am strong, now I can truthfully say are great doctors. 1 (Signed) THOMAS W. WILLETS.” | you | s W. WILLETS AT THE INSTITUTE. ‘What the Specialists Are Doing Daily $® Restore Health and Strength to Sufferers. 1t fs an egtablished rule of the Institute that ne incurable diseases are taken. If an applicatit is found to be suffering from true epncer or tubercular cousumption he is frankly told thst he eacnot be cured, though much may be done to all sar ferings, but as medical scionce has yet o discover any cure for these two dreadfil all the physiclens at the Institute say, freely frankiy, that it is beyond buman power 1o remove these evils. Nevertheless, it should not be to1 ten that there are many instances wheye mi have been made in diaguosing these dis 13“:\'11 for all sufferers to apply for helj stitute. All the following cases are curable: Catarrh of the head, stomach or bladder: &I} bronchial diseases; all fanctional nervous diseases; St. Vitus' dance; hysteris; shaking palsy: epis lepsy: all venereal diseases; all kibds of blood troubies; ulcers; wastes of vital forces; rheuma~ tism; gout; eczem: ever cause arising; psoriasis; all blood poisonings varicocele; polson oak ; lost or impaired manheod; spinal troubles; nervous exhaustion and prostra- tion; {ncipient paresis; all kidney disesses; lum- bago; sciatica: sll bladder troubles; flrpepn-: indigestion; constipation; all visceral disorders, which are ireated by the depurating depariment. Spectal instruments for bladder troubles. There are a few of the special diseases in which exceptionally remarkable cures bave boen made | by tho specialisis, und it may frankly be stated that a helping hand is extended to every patie; Circulars and testimonials of the Great Hudyam sent free. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts. Send for PROF. J. H. HUDSON'S celebrated lecture on “The Errors of Youth” and on “Lost Manhood.” It will cost yon nothing. Visit the Institute when you can. All patients n in private consulting-rooms. Out-of-town patients can learn all about their cases if they seud for symptom blanks. All letters are strictly com- fidential. Two thousnnd testimonials in the writing of the Individnals cured. Offico hours—8 a. . t0 8 .. Sundays9tols the tax 1, together with the constitu- tional objections to the law, and a chapter upon the remedies open to the taxpayer in | case of an unjust assessment. The second part contains a digest of all cases under the former income-tax laws, and all sections of those laws analogous to | those in the present law, together with the former rulings of the Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue, and the important Eng- lish cases, and some cases in State courts which throw light upon the subject. The appendix contains so mach of the Revised Statutes as bears upon the subject, and all the former Federal income-tax acts, together -with the new treasury regulations and the opinion of the Su- preme Court of the District of Columbia, which construes the act and upholds its | constitutionality. The forms prepared by the Treasury De- partment are also inserted in their appro- riate places in the first part of the work. FBustun: the Boston Book Compnny.] “The Wealth of Labor.”” The title of this contribution to current | economic discussion seems to indicate that it has chiefly in view the consideration of | the labor problem. It turns out, however, | to be primarily a study of international exchange, and may be considered from that point of view. The author, Frank Loomis Palmer, isa protectionist in the sense that he believes | in fostering domestic industries and foreign trade by the aid of economic legislation, but he has little faith in the efficacy of a tariff on imports to that end. Mr. Palmer lays out his premises with much acumen and argues logically within the facts as he groups them. ~His defect is that of many writers on political economy. He depends too much on a priori reasonin, to the neglect of facts of production an exchange. Yet his work in many respects is suggestive and valuable. [New York: The Baker & Taylor Company. For sale at the bookstores. J Recent Fiction. “Noémi,” by 8. Baring-Gould, is a story of Southern France in the dark days of the middle ages, when the struggles of the English and the French kings filled the land with war and the lawless military adventurers seized upon its strongholds to plunder, ravage and destroy ai every ca- price of their ferocious instincts. Against this background of anarchy the author has sketched a few strong characters who will illustrate the nature of the men of that time and the incidents that made up the ordinary life of the age. It is a stirring story of cruelty and oppression, true loye, courage and ultimate victory for the right. While not so strong as some other books by the same writer, it has not a dull page in it and will be found interesting by all lovers of rousing romance. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by the Ban- croft Company.] “Dust and Laurels, a Study in the Nine- teenth Century Womanhood,” by Mary L. Penford, is, as the subtitie implies, a story delineating the character of English woman developed under conditions pecu- liar to this generation. The author warns the reader, in a preface to the American edition of the book that she does not in- tend her character to'be a type of woman- hood, but only a study in_the womanhood of the day, The distinction will be obvi- ous to every reader of the story. There are two heroines, neither of whom is by any means conventional, and while there are no incidents in their lives sufficient to make a story out of, the author has man- aged to make a record of their loves and flirtations sufficiently interesting to repay the reader. [New York: Appleton & Co. For sale by the Bancroft Company.| The Value of Light.’ A sunbeam is a small thin% yet it has a power to fade the carpets and curtains, to rot the blinds, and for this reason some {folks carefully exclude the sunshine. What is the result? The family is always ailing, the young girls have a waxen, white skin and a weary, pinched expression of counte- nance. Their appetites 1ail, they fall into such a bad state of health that the doctor : isha called hin. hl.x:‘i)lden '.lll-lyl h:::“’g-i hage shaken his , aps, iends would have_ whis, fi that dreaded word ‘decline,” Nowuxys he notes the T-.le gums and waxen skin and say prescribes iron and milk, fresh air and ex- ercise and often a change. .If he knows nothing about the darkened rooms, he will be puzzled as to why no permanent im- provement manifests itself, and possibly the patient will seek other advice.—Popu- lar Medical Monthly. b SO PIOTURE HANGING. Rules for Arranging Them in Galleries Do Not Apply in Houses. People who go to a picture gallery have an idea that the same rules of arrangement should prevail at home. It is all wrong. Give a picture the best position as to light. They frequently have to be skyed in gal- leries, but they need never undergo this humiliating treatment in a drawing-room. The middle of a picture should be on a level with or a trifle above the eyes that look upon it. Ina beautiful room great variety may bedisplayed in the dispesition of the various pictures. Family pictures should not be on exhibition in those rooms of the house which are set apart for the occasions of cemmon{. They may be a Fropriate]y used in bedrooms, or even in ittle studios or dens which people have to themselves. Many of our walls are very trying to pic- tures, and it not infrequently happens that a really beautiful engraving or water- color loses its charm because of an ineffec- tive and discordant background, says a writer in the Upholsterer. One may re- ceive hints and suggestions as to the proper hanging of pictures by an occa- sional visit to studios and galleries. where frequently the tones of the walls are effec- tively treated so as to bring out the best points in the picture. There are two or three points that are essential. Large, massive pictures can be ut up against almost any wall. The huge rame will accentuate the background of the picture, butlittle pictures should never be put upon a wall that is covered with a striking design. If you have enough pict- ures to_make a room interesting by their exhibition, by all means have a plain wall. It only adds confusion to have an elal rate wall overhung with a lot of pictures; over-dressing is always vulgar. Again, never gather your pictures together into a room and start out to make a design of their arrangement, ‘hanging a big picture in the center and grouping a lot of others around it in pyramids and clusters. You will find that the best effect is ever ob- tained by an apparently unstudied arrange- ment.—Burlington Hawkeye. “anemia,” e — California Claret. If a pretty fair California claret can be marketed at the rate of from seven to ten* or twelve cents per gallon, the retail price of it in this part of the country onght not to be much higherthan that of French claret of like quality. Allowance must of course ‘be made for the greater cost of - transportation to New York from San Francisco than from Marseilles, and also for the greater cost of production in Cali- fornia than in France; but after these al- lowances - have been made, there still remains a heavy margin of Erom. for the California wine “syndicate. rench com- petition in this market has been closer than ever during the past few years of ex- traordinary wine production in France, and the Californians have recently found it increasingly difficult to hold the field against the French. They ought to know how to gain and keep it without anybody’s advice.—New York Sun. The Name Is Everything. The many tricks of trade that are prac- ticed in these times are justified by a prom- inent soap manufacturer of this city as being_positively necessary to influence a stupid public to buy what is for their ben- e TEe article in which he takes the most pride is a pure Castile soap, purerand better than that made in Castile. - He stamped it as American Castile and was unable to sell any quantity. The people would not buy what little was taken by re- tail dealers. Under these circumstances the manufacturer changed the stamp on his soap to one abounding in Spanish words which meant the same thing. Since the change in stamp the sales have been remaxhgle and the aoa&is ever %nlning in popularity.—Philadelphia Record. Every tiny protuberance on a branch of coral represents a living ‘animal, which grows from it like a plant.