The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1896, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1896. OGS—plain, ordinary dogs—take | theplace of steam coilsand stoves i e cutlery works of Thiers, France, Each grinder, man and woman, takes a dog to the grinding-room in winter, and the four- footed heater stretches himseli out upon the back of his master or mistress for no other purpose than to keep hi warm. The reason for this is t mond Renoir in a recent number of L'Ilustration, who visited Thiers, which | is the Bheffield of France, inasmuch as it is the center of French cutlery manufac. | ture. M. Renoir, in his int cleaned, and a&s pure silver and glass is used no unpleasant taste is communi- | cated. Tt comes in two styles, both of which are here represented. The silver siphon is a small tube about five inches in length, and not larger around than ‘a straw. It curves slightly at the end where it touches | the hips, and about halt an inch from the lower end is a valye which prevents a Iiquid once drawn above it from returning. The siphon isin two pieces, joined in the center for convenience in carrying. Itecan be pulled apart and both pieces slipped into a short leather case. The pieces can be joined as easily as they are taken apart by simply slipping one ‘inside the other. ting ac- ! DOGS WARMING FRENC! H CUTLERY GRINDERS. count of his visit, says in regard to the grinding department of one of the Iargei wo rks: | “Instead .of occapying an uprightora | seatea position while at their work the | grinders, men and women, lie flat on their stom achs upon planks, placed nearly hori- | zontally on ascaffolding, which risesabove the g ones. | “On the planks are sheepskins to relieve ‘ the nardness of the wood, and the head and shoulders of the grinders project be- yond the ends of the planks and their arms reach down vertically to the rim of the grindstones, which are kept in contin- | cepted theories on the phenomena of light, | ual motion by the belting, driven by water | power. i o But this is not tire most carious part of ffair. That which every one notices at | that each worker has an auxiliary, | g of a dog, that fills none of the -h are peculiar to that friend f Tne dog simply acts as a stove to keep the rker warm. The | grinder, extended his length on the plank, <oon becomes fatigned and enieebled and the cold gains on him without any power on his part to resist i z It is true he may arise from his place and walk about for a short time to re- establish the circulation of his blood, but in a few minutes after he resumes work and his incumbent attitude the chill strikes | him, and when this point is reached he | whistles for his dog. : “The dog, called ‘tou-tou,’ trained to his duties, immediately springs upon the bench and Jays himself upon the extended legs of his master, covering him as much as possi- ble and supplying him with a grateful | warmth. It is not a special race of dogs | that fills this office. All types—curs, bigh | bred and mongrels—are utilized, and no one concerns himself about pedigree or | anything but the size of the animal. Itis| essential, naturally, that this barking stove should not be too heavy.” The Communion Siphon. Considerable discussion has been aroused | in religious and medical circles as to the, | advisability, from a sanitary point of view of a large number of persons partaking of the wine from one cup. I have heard many express a distaste for it, from the standpoint of their unwillingness to drink out of a glass previously usec by 2 member A Group of the Siphoas. ot their own family even; and then again, | the fear of contagion has often deterred | otherwise favorably disposed persons from | partaking of the general communion. F.om a medical standpoint the common cup is looked upon as a means of trans- | mitting disease. The bacilli of consump- ‘ The glass sipbon isall in one and cannot berfulled apart. i Le plan of the inventoris that each communicant shall be provided with a siphon, and theidea of unity—the same cup and the same wine being used—will still be preserved.—Pittsburg Dispatch. To See Things in the Dark. The eyes of the scientific world to-day are turned to the study of the X and ca- thode rays, not only for the practical value | that they will prove to science, but because | 153y would have exhibited the snme pecu of the fact that the discovery of their na- ture may mean life or death to many ac- heat and magnetism. ' Of all the recent { discoveries in the study of light none is | more interesting and likely to vrove of more practical value than that of Mr. The Apparatus. Georges d’'Infreville, a distinguished elec- trical expert of this city, says the New York Sun, who has perfected an apparatus by which it is possible to see in complete darkness. Mr. d'Infrevilie also succeeded several years ago in taking photographs in darkness. His researches and their re- sults have been known for a long time to a number of well-known scientific men in this city, but not unti! a few weeks ago did he make public the principles of his re- markable process. < ‘When the news of Rontgen’s discovery first reached this country Mr. d’Infreville announced in the Electrical Engineer that he had several years ago succeeded in pho- tographing and seeing in darkness, but he did not describe his method. A recent ar- | ticle in the same journal contains, how- | ever,an account from his own pen of the theory and application of the process. He does not use vacuum tubes or any of the complicated electrical apg{nratus needed for the generation of the ray. On the other hand, his apparatus is ex- tremely simple. His process consists of two operations. First he casts on the ob- ject to be seen or photographed ultra-violet rays, which are invisible to the human eye. Secondly, he renders visible the object thus illumined. The ultra-violet rays of the spectrum, as is known to all versed in the first prineci- ples of light, are found beyond the violet. They are the most refrangible or easily bent rays in light; have the shortest wave- length and most rapid vibrating period, and so do not affect the human eye. They | extend beyond the violet of the solar spec- trum several times as far as the length of the visible spectrum. These invisible rays .can, however, be made visible. Plates washed with bisul- phate of quinine, an_alcobolic solution of stramonium or barium platino-cyanide, immediately fluoresce when placed in the spectrum beyond the violet. This change to the visible is due to a diminution in the refrangibility of the ray which is ordinarily too retragible to affect the eye. The accompanying cut shows Mr. d’In- freville’s method of casting these rays on the object and then making them visible. The figure B represents a tightly closed box having at C a window_with a sliding shutter. From the point L light falls on the prism at P and 1s there decomposed intd various colors of the spectrum, which are visible on the side A. The prism is of quartz whicn does not absorb the ultra- violet rays to any great extent. The shut- ay lurk in the wine, or the lips may ;:‘:cl::ge )i,noculated with that most dreaded | diseases—cancer. | ori]:ninister in Boston has invented what | he calls a revolving cup. Thisis a large | silyer cup into which is fitted a smaller | cipand the space between the outer and inner cup holds the wine. The inner cup is made in a series of sections which revolve bv means of a small crank. When one sec- tion is emptied the crank automatically | fills it with fresh wine.” This prevents any microbes or bacilli from impregnating the twine, but it does not prevent contagion lips. Ir?l"}:emxategt invention, and one which seems to meet every objection, is the com- munion siphon. It retains the common eup and effectually prevents all danger of contagion, and its suggestion of cleanli- hess renders it most attractive. It is un- sbtrusive in its formation and cannot in | scope and pass throu ter at B is opened and adjusted so as to allow on(liy the ultra yiolet rays to pass out into the darkness and fall upon the object at D. The figure T is a telescope, having at O an objective of quartz or other sub- stance which will refract ultra-violet rays without absorbing them. In the telescope at F is a plate coated with a fluorescent substance and transparent. The rays that strike the object and are not absorbed by it are reflected to the objective of the tele- 3 ehxnothe ate at where the image is formed. The image can be seen from the other side by meaas of an m-dinnry convex ocular glass, which is shown at N. X To photograph the object in darkness a fluorescent plate is used to obtain the proper focus. Then a plate sensitive to the actinic effects of the ultra-violet rays is exposed and the picture thus formed on ny way attract unfavorable attention or xcite worldly eriticism. The wine can freely drawn into the tmouth, but not owe drop returns to the \up when suction is removed. It is easily i LIn his first article in the Electrical En- gineer on the subject Mr. d’Infreville said: &% :hmt l;uto, 50 ll:‘ not ‘;d mhl.eua:x;y oue, that photographing or seeing in dark- ness doos ot give the same respliagin ~ | equipped. In short, in time of war the | | tance, as photographing counld not revlace | and harbors against hostile tleets with | | have been forcing themselves upon usat a | the solar cycle. | | infallible. | eral belief that the rainbow has the E cis NCEZTURE._ e ARTC daylight when obtained by the present well-known means.” Some varts do not appear as well; some others seem to be tore visible; some features which are en- tirely invisible in daylight seem to be curiougly disclosed, even in some cases when covered by other substances. *'But the resulting effect is likely to be found interesting or useful. I consider the seeing in darkness of particalar impor- iv as well, or at all 1n many cases. For in- stance, it is advantageous to follow with the eye all the movements of a torpedo- boat, so as to take at the right time and without any delay proper and effective measures, such as the aiming and firing of guns, to repulse the attack. This process for seeing at night without being seen might, 1 think, be used to protect coasts | particular advantages impossible to obtain | with the use of the well-known search- ligut, as the latter indicates to the enemy that they are observed. “L think it will be possible by the new process for a man-oi-war to secretly in- spect its surroundings on a coas:, or for a fleet to_organize a constant and effective secret night watch against torpedo-boats or carry on an effective night bom- bardment. Tt would, I think, help on land a comparatively small body of soldiers during a night attack to overcome a more numerous one not thus possession of said process by an army or navy would, I think, give superiority over an enemy not similarly provided. I think that policemen, night watchmen and de- tectives may with 1t watch or photograph interesting people or objects during dark- ness without being noticed. Calendrical Oddities. A reader of the St. Lovis Republic calls attention to the fact that there are five Sun- days, five Mondays and five Tuesdays in the present month. Our correspondent gets | somewhat excied before closing his little | epistie and frantically inquires if such a thing ever occurred before in the bistory of the world, or since our present time- reckoning system came into use. We must admit that calendrical oddities pretty rapid gait since the opening of the present year. February had twenty-nine days, something which wiil not again occur for eight years, owing to the fact that the year 1900 will not be a leap year. More- over, it had five Saturdays, something which usually occurs but once in each twenty-eight years, at the completion of The last time before the Febru:\r_vcf‘ust past that the month oprned and closed with a Saturday was in 1868. The March leaf of thisyear's calendar certainly looks odd, being ruled for five each or the three first days of the week, or | three-sevenths of the whole number. If| each of the other four daysof the week | could have an extra inning this month it | own ideas of Fame’s appearance, and she is certainly depicted asa very pretty girl. She is obviously French. The monument is to be placed upon a pedestal some meters high, a position which will not only give elasticity, as it were, and a sense of poise to the winged figure, but will also reduce its apparent size in the resulting perspec- tive.—London Skeich. 3 New Departure in Warfare. © A paper on this subject by Lieutenant J. W. Graydon (late of the United States navy) was read at the weekly meeting of the Balloon Society by Edmund Kimber, chairman for the evening. The writer be- gan by stating that every improvement in the destructiveness of implements of war- fare would shorten the duration of armed conflicts, and the contingency of their oc- currence asa means of seftling disputes between nations would be rendered less and less probable. The best al and military scientists, while recognizinz the prime necessity of ships, fortifications and other deiensive works, were becoming more and more inclined to discount the theory of impregnability, in the light of discoveries that invest projectiles with deadly and irresistible power. The most re¢ent invention of this kind was the Graydon eerial high-explosive prejector, a very few of which would cause the complete collapse of any modern forti- fication. He claimed the following ad- vantages for the aerial torpedoes - over under-water torpedoes: The operator can watch the flight and correct his aim; the range of the torpedo is eight or ten times greater than any under-water torpedo known, and as accurate as any modern | rifled cannon; the application of aerial | torpedoes, londed with explosive gelatine, | to ‘the modern torpedc-boats will in- crease their destroying power very greatly | and enable the operators to ‘project | their torpedoes through the air with the accuracy of modern artillery; the in-| creased range, of seven or eight times that | of the obsolete Whitehead and other un- | der-water torpedoes, will permit the aerial | torpedoes to be projected from such dis- | tances that the low-lying torpedo-boats will be mere specks on the water, and thus poor targets for an enemy to defend himseif from, even with the best modern uns. The writer of the puper also re- erred to the Graydon destroyer, a vessel that would be so low in the water that at three miles it would practically be out of | sight, and consequently be a difficult tar- ’ get. Another invention referred to was the Graydon d Chronicle. | | | ynamite gun. — London A New Illuminant. Another conquest of light is M. Charles Henry's sulphate of zince. M. Henryisa | French savant of the school of hisher | studies, who has revealed the power of | sulphate of zinc to absorb sunlight and | give it back in the dark. Poudre de riz | made with this mineral gives a soft | would contain a total of thirty-five days. s it is there is nothing very surprisingly unique about it. March beginson Sunday | and ends on Tuesday (which gives the | calendar tive of each of the first three days | of the week) once in each six years, if nct | | interfered with by leap ye: | March, 1891, came 1n on Sunday and | went out on Tuesday, just exactly the | same as the present month has done and will do. So did. March of 1885, March | liarity, but for_the fact that that year was | a leap year, February eppropriating the | day which should rightly have slipped | over into the March calendar. There isa rule for calculating the number of times in which five Sundays, five Mondays and five Tuesdays will occurin the month of March | during a century, but the editor admits that he has never yet hit on one that was The vear 1896 has been and will be an odd year, calendrically speaking, but it is nothing compared with the year 46 B.Z., which is known to the horologists as “‘the year of confusion.” That year had 445 days, and things gnt so badly mixed that it took a first-class mathematician and astronomer to tell summer from winter. Rainbows That Can Change Sex. In many parts of the world it is the gen- power | to change sex. This queer belief obtains | in such widely separated districts as South | Africa and Norway, and China and Aus- tralia. The Zulus have a long folk lore story of the young man who was changed into a wrinkled old woman by touching the many-hued arch. The Scandinavian peasants have a similar story, and in Greece they say that anybody who runs against the end of tiie rainbow will have is or her sex instantly changed. In| France and India to pass under the rain- bow has a similar effect. To Be Erected at Sedan. A reproduction is given in this page of M. Ctoisy’s monument, designed for erec- tion at Sedan. The figure of Fame, seated above a dead soldier, places upon the drooping head a wreath of bay leaves. | lit. luminosity to a fair young face. A lady | cyclist dusted all over with this powder is | in berself a lamp on a piteh-dark night. | The luminous pixment is not liable to be | spoiled by damp, by carbolic acid or by | weak acid. It resists rain if united | to some strongly cobesive body. There is | a house in the Rue de Longchamps where | a windowless set of rooms is lighted with | The lady of the house receives there | her friends at *'5 ¢'clocks.” The apart- | ments seem bathed in moonlight, the | curtains are as if studded with glowworms, | the ceiling scintillates. The furniture looks as if rubbed with phosphorus. The | play of this light on colored objects gives one the impression of Aladdin’s under- | g{ound palace. Often they take the rich, 1 glowing tones of the topaz, ruby and emerald. This powder does not lose its brilliancy if used in starch or size. A black dress trimmed with lace maue | luminous by it is more than bewitching.— | London Daily News. | Bird Crossing the Oceaun in a Day. ’ The sailors of all nations believe that the | frigate bird can fly across the Atlanticin | one day. They dectare that the bird can | start from the coast of Africa at daybreal, | when the wind is blowing strongly to the | west, and roost on the American shore on | the following night. There is no way of proving this assertion, of course, but the | naturalists have proven that the frigate | bird can fly 200 miles in a single hour. Science Notes. A magnet which is used for lifting heavy | guns and other naval sundries at Willets Point, N. Y., is made of two disearded 10- | inch Dahlgreen guns, wound with eight | miles of wire charzed with electricity. | It has been found that soft wood be- | comes stronger under pressure than bard wood. A piece of pine which formed one | of the supports in the Comstock mines was examined and found to be so hard that it | could not be cut with a knife, and some other pieces of. pine have been so com- pressed by the great weight that the specific gravity exceeded that of lignum vitee. In the years to come the geographies will make no mention of the Gulf of Mex- | in retorts, which are heated by wood fire, | the Iabor that is needed for the purpose. | curately measuring the quantity of light | become so noted in marine architecture, Beneath runs the inscription, “‘Gloire a | jco, but will picture an immense tract of | ceux qui meurent pour la patrie.” The|low lund in its stead, the map beinz composition of the whole monument is | probably provided with a foot-note some. exceedingly florid, from the wing of the | thing like this: “Note—There is a tradi- mythical figure to the wreath which is | tion that this level tractof swamp land suspended above the soldier's head, M. | was oncea billowy sea several hundred Croisy, of course, is permitted to have his | miles long, embracing all that country be- SEDAN M ONUMENT. tween Mexico and Cuba on the west and east, and Yucatan and Louisiana on the south and north.”” This state ot affatrsis being gradually but surely brought about by the Mississippi and other United States rivers, which annually deposit millions of tons of sediment in the gulf's bottom. Ex- pert hydrographers declare that the Mississippi alone annually depesits mud sufficient in_the gulf to cover one squere ;nilte of its bottom to a thickness of 240 eet, The not uninteresting distinction is claimed for the town of Deseronto, in Canada, where there are several extensive Iumber-mills, of being partially lighted by gas made from sawdust. In carrying out this plan, as stated, the sawdust is charged the gas from the retorts passing into a series of coils, and thence into the puri- 1iers, which are similar to those used for coal gas. Limeis the principal purifyini agent employed, and when it passes ou of the retorts the gas possesses an odor much less disagreeable than that of ordi- nary lighting gas, and resembles some- what that of the smoke from a fire of green wood or leaves. The works in use are small, turning out daily about 19,000 cubic feet of gas, for the production of which quantity some two tons of sawdust are | required, and a man and boy furnish all The gas in an ordinary burner gives an illumination of about eighteen candle- power, and the best quality comes from resinons woods. . Among the current inventions recorded in the scientific papers is that of an instru- ment, by an Knglish inventor, for ac- given out by a star, stars being designated as of the first down to the twentieth mag- | nitude, according to_the intensity of tha | light from them. By this new device the | rough designation of magnitude is repre- | sented by numbers, which give the exact | ratio of one star to another in light-giving goyver, the star . Arcturus, for example, | eing estimated by this means to give sev- | enty-five and three-quarters’ ftimes the | lige t of Regulus. The amount of light | which reaches the earth from the stars va- | rics according to the state of the atmos- phere, and it is claimed that this instru-| ment will be of valuabie service not only | in astronomy, buf in meteorology also. Mechanical skill of no ordinary char- acter is required to produce the hollow steel boom, the spar which has now advantage being gained, in exigencies, by beginning in the center and riveting the | plates toward both ends. In the most | recent instance of this construction there were four lines of angle iron braces at | .equal distances from each cther and run- | ning the whole length of the boom, giving it a good Lracing, the face of the | angles being slightly curved to take the concave shape ot the interior of the boom, these angles consisting of sections meas- uring on an average some fifteen feet, with a lap made at each joint oneand a half inches in length and holted with steel. These laps are irregular, in order that two joints or more may not be opposite each other and thus cause weakness. . Nicola Tesla, the young electrician, has! just perfected an apparatus which he de- | clares will cure any organic disease. The | machine consists of an *‘oscillator” which | gives electric shocks at the rate of 100 per | second. These shocks shake thoroughly | every atom of the body, giving in one minute exercise equal in amount to an | entire day of horseback riding. 2 ‘The questions whether burial is destruc- tive of the germs of diseases contained in the buried bodies, and whether or not con- tamination of soil, water and air is pessible, are admittedly of the first importance in modern sanitation, says an Enghsh | paper. In these days when cremation is | coming to the front as the only rational solution of the bucial controversy the | survival of microbes in the "earth| may be regarded as a matter of indifference; but cremation is not | yet a universal practice by any means, und in any case the point under discussion has a scientific interest all its own. Pasteur, it will be remembered, traced a noteworthy epidemic of anthrax or splenic fever to the germs of the disease brought up to the surface by earthworms from the buried carcasses of cattle that had per- ished of the ailment years before. He found the microbes in the worms and proved his case by producing anthrax in a bealthy animal through administering in its fuod the contents of the worm’s di- gestive system. f A PRIMITIVE PILEDRIVER Used at a Chine se ¥ishing Camp on the | Shore of San Pablo Bay. One of the queerest and most primitive | piledrivers to be seen in California is at | one of the Chinese fishing camps on the | MecNear Ranch, almost opposite the Two | Sisters, in S8an Pablo Bay., The npp“ar-‘ ance of the contrivance is much like the piledrivers in general use, but the way it is put together and operated is ludicrous. Every part of the machine is made of wood except the nails that hold it to- Chinese Pile-Driver. [{From a skeich.] gether. The hammer is part of a log. It is about two feet thick and five feet long. It is placed between the uprights and kept from falling out by several wooden pegs driven in on both sides. The uprights are made of some o'd scantling picked up on the bay shore and are nailea and tied to- gether and braced with odd pieces of lum- er. The operating machinery is about as complicated as & grindstone. All thereis to it is a couple o pulleys,-a hook and a piece of rope. One block is sus- pended from the to; e upright frame and the other is allowed to hang loose. ‘When working the machine a piece of ro; is run through a hole in the top of the wooden hammer, and the hook on the lower pulley-block isslipped through. - All | by a bevy of fair arullerists to-morrow | | CALL a_week ago. | York, Pennsylvania, Maine and Indiana | | the amendment as the Legislature sub- ! | to any person whoskhall be 60 years of age and upward at the time this amendment shall take effect. | “person” is substituted for ‘‘male,” the words | will be busied in two_lines of activity. 25 —y SUFFRAGISTS OPEN FIRE, First Gun of the Campaign at Native Sons’ Hall To-Mor- row Night. ARRIVAL OF MISS YATES. Parlor Meeting at the Home of Judge " Murphy in the Interests of Suffrage. The first gun of the woman suffrage campaign willbe fired at Native Sons’ Hall evening. The occasion will be the first of a series of rallies, the second to be held at Oakiand on Thursday evening. On both occasions Miss 3usan B. Anthony, Rev. Anna H. | Shaw, Miss Elizabeth U. Yates, Miss Harriet May Mills and Miss Mary Garrett Hay will speak. Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, president of the State Suffrage Associa- tion, and Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, chairman of the amendment campaign committee, will divide the duties of presiding officer. The monetary and suffrage questions will both receive attention. Miss Yates, the last of the quintet of Eastern women who will participate act- ively in the campaign, arrived yesterday morning, and with Miss Hay and Miss Mills is staying at the Berkshire. Her biography and picture aopeared in TiE Miss Miils and Miss Hay, who are to repeat the work of mana ing a series of county conventions in Ni York, bave been in the City several da Miss Mills is from Syracuse, N. Y., and is | a graduate of Cornell University. 4 “We are all misses, you see,” was Miss Anthony’s comment upon the personnel of the party, *‘so you see there are no button- less, sockless husbands at home bereft of our ministrations. You see too that New are all represented. “Our.campaign is directed solely against | the adjective male as used in limiting the | frgnchise in your constitution. Here is mits it: [Adopted March‘16, 1895.] Resolved by the Assembly. the Senate concurring, That the Legisiature of the State of California, at its regular session eommencinF on the seventh day of January, Anno Domini one thou- sand eight hundred and ninety-five, two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses voting in favor thereof. hereby propose that section I of article I of the Constitution of the State of California be amended to read as follows: SECTION 1. Every native citizen of the United States, every person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of 21 years, who shall have been a resident of the State one year next preceding the election, and of the county of which he or she claims to vote ninety days, and in the election pre- cinct thirty days, shall be entitlea to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, no native of China, no _idiot, ‘insane person, or person convicted of any infamous crime, and no per- son hereaiter couvicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no n who shall not be able to read the con- stitation in the English language, and write his or her name, shail ever exercise the privi- lege of an elector in this State; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with iis requisition, nor to any person who now bas the right to yote, nor i | i | This amendment will be submitted to the votersin November, 1896. I it receives a ma- jority of the votes cast thereon at tbat election | Jtwill be o part of the constitution without further pruceedings. The proposed amend- ment is printed in the siatutes of California for the year 1895, page 458. It reads the same as article I1, section 1, of the amended consti- tution of California, except that the word “he or she” for “he” and the words “his or her” for *his.” The next ten days will be spentin the City by the ladies mentioned, and they A committee of which Mrs. Judge Murphy is chairman has been formed for the purpose of inaugurating a series of parior meet- ings, which will be addressed by one o more of the Eastern ladies. One of thest will be held at the home of Mrs. Murphyj wife of Judge Murphy, at 119 Liberty street on Friday evening. Others will be ar ranged and held during the week. Mrs Henry Krebs is chairman of a committet in charge of the work of arranging forg hearing of these Jadies by various eccles astical organizations. They will be hea by the Woman'’s Educational and Indus: trial Union, and it is expected by the Sorosis and Century clubs as well. The City has been districted and the work of a house to house canvass for signa tures to petitions asking the political pan ties to put a suffrage plank in their plat forms will soon be begun. Much stress has_been laid upon thy parlor_meetings. Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. I ving M. Scott, Mrs. Mary A. Swift an others are interested in the plan. Afte} the work has been weil started in the City the county conventions will be begun, The first week of April will see five con- ventions of two days each. On April ¢ and 7 there will be a convention at San Diego, when Miss Mills, Miss Hay, Mist Shaw and Miss Yates will speak. On the 7th and 8th there will be a convention af Santa Ana, 8th_and 9th at Los Angeles 9th and 10th at Ventura and the 10th an?} 11th at Santa Barbara. Miss Yates will have charge of the first day of these overs lapping conventions and Miss Shaw will speak on the second. The only break in the continuity of the conventions will be the Woman’s Con. gress, held in this City May 4-11, when the Iadies will contribute their efforts to the success of the convention. LAMOUREAUX ANSWERS Julian Sonntag Says the Bowers Bill Adjudicated the Mineral Land Disputes. ““In reply to the dispatches from Wash. ington,” said Julian Sonntag yesterday, “regarding the statement of Commissioner Lamoureaux objecting to the mineral land bill because it would cost the Gov- ernment three times as much as by the present .system, I would say that the miners of this State bave never been en abled to have a proper classification of mineral lands made through the Commis- sioner of the Land Department, and that is one of the main reasons and one of the foundations for the California Miners’ Association. They organized simply to protect themselves. “In regard to the other statement that the ciassification of lands was more easily and rapidly adjusted under the present system, the parties making it forget that the Bowers bill and the amendments at- tached to it by the Senate committee limit the term of office of the Commissioners to four years, and it.is a well-known fact that in some cases this work can be done in less than two years. 2 “The amendment of Senator Carter ot Montana does mot require the Commis- sioners to make an investigation when it is absolutely and clearly known that the i 1and is agricultural; for example the val- leys of Santa Clara and San Joaquin._ “Further, we have in the association some of the most competent miners and engineers in the world, who will aid the Commissioners in pointing out where the lands are located. +I desire to point out the unprecedented haste in which nearly balf a million of acres were patented ~within sixty days after protest was thrown out by the In- terior Department. 5 “I firmiy believe that in the whole his- tory of the Department of the Interior there has been no parallel case to the one | presented to the miners of this State during last summer. 5 +1f the applications that were filed with the Land Commissioner were not as ex- plicit as desired why did he not give the attorney for the petitioners a chance to | amend their petitions instead of denying them and then immediately issuin, patents to the Southern Pacific Railroas Company 2" ———————— M'DONALD'S LAST TRIALS. The District Attorney Will Not Move to Dismiss the Charges. The embezzlement cases agamst R. H. McDonaid Jr. were called in Judge Bahrs’ court yesterday. His trial upon those charges will open on April 13. Carroll Cook, McDonald’s attorney, asked the court to dismiss the remaining cases against his ctient, but Judge Bahrsre- fused to do so unless’ the Prosecuting At- torney would make the motion. This the Prosecuting Attorney refused to do, so the cases were set for trial. d NEW TO-DAY. hands then pull until the hammer reaches the top. At this interesting part of the rformance a man climbs to the top of he uprights and with a knife cuts therope that1s run through the top of the ham- mer, allowing it todrop on the pile. It is certainly effective, for the pile is driven a good distance into the soft mud at each blow. The process of tying the hammjer to the pulley-block an? cutting it loose after it Teaches the top is repeated until the pile is driven as deep as is wanted. The Chinese who own the piledriver use it for building their small wharves, and when they start it going the whole settle- ment turns out and lends assistance. Some of the men really supply a little of the needed muscle, but the majority do their share of the work by jumping around and yelling in ap excited manner. { . o “As man finds* himself | growing more contempti- ble in his weakness, his mind dwells more rever- ently upon the enhanced beauty-of womanhood.” Is it not strange that in this age of the ‘“new woman’ we should find her strongest justification in man himself? In his weakness ! Man is not what he was. He is not what he should be, and woman, realizing his weakness, is making very com- mendable efforts to usurp the crown of superiority. Shame upon our manhood—rather the lack of it. The curse of a nation is the weakness of its men. More energy, more nerve, is needed. Excesses and dissipation have played havoc with the nerves of the men of to-day. 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