The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 27

L4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 189 i d E ANG HE lighthouse farthest removed from the Pacific of any in the Department of California is the oxe on Roe Island, in Suisun Bay, | about seven miles above Benicia. Tt is of little use to any but river craft, and there is no need of its being seen at any | great distance, but it is as powerful a light | as the one on Goat Island, and the light- house proper is almost a duplicate of the | one at the mouth of Oakland harbor. { Roe 1sland is little more than a piece of | marsh land a few inches above high tide | and overgrown with tule. The lighthouse | ison that portion of it which might be | called the southwest corner, and can be | seen by incoming vessels as soon as they | leave the Carquinez Straits. The lighthoyse is built amid a growth of | tules, on piles driven in the mud. Tke platform is about fifteen feet above high tide, and on this a house of two rooms is built, and also a sort of closet for the fog signal. The light-tower is in the center of the building, and the lantern is nearly thirty-five feet above the water. A porch is built entirely around the building, and, all things considered, the place is roomy and comfortable and kept in the best con- dition. The present lighthouse on Roe Island | was established in 1891. It is of the fifth order. The lenses were new at the iime it was put up and of the latest pattern, made by Sautter & Co. of Paris, France. They cover the whole horizon. The lamp is of the usual pattern, made of brass, and con- suming mineral oil. It is made to burn| twelve hours, but is always changed at midnight, except, perhaps, on some of the | short nights in summer. | Roe Island is also equipped with a fog- | 2 AND THEZZ = €L [sLAn] ToG SiciMAl. 7 A Z s able house, but the surroundings are as barren as the desert. All of the available space has been used so that there is not a square foot of soil on which to grow plants of any kind. The interior of the residence contains three rooms conveniently —ar- ranged and comfortably furnished. The bell machine is located at the back of the residence, or the side toward the bay. Itis in a substantial building, so ar- ranged that the machine will be inside and the clapper swing outward and strike the bell. The machine is of the latest pat- tern, and, as there is plenty of room for the weights to drop, will run four hours with one winding. Captain Ross is in _charge of the Angel Island fog signal. He is the only man who has held the position, as he went in as soon as it was finished in 1886 and has remained there ever since. His duties are not arduous, as nhe has only to keep the bell machine wound up and start it as soon as a fog comes in. He does not even have to keep on the lookont for fogs, as he can always hear the Lime Point signal as soon as it blows, and have plenty of time to start his own before the fog reaches the place. Although it is not required, Cap- tain Ross always keeps a lantern burning in the signal-house on dark and foggy nights. Captain Ross is over 60 years of age, and | has spent the greater part of his life in the lighthouse service. Thirty-four years ago he was first mate of the lighthouse tender | Shubrick and held the position for many years. He has also been keeper at the Ban Simeon lighthouse, but the work | there became too hard for his advancing years, and he was transferred to his pres- ent position. After the Armada. The defeat of the Armada inspired Eng- land with energy and hope. Our people FOG SIGNAL ON [Sketched by a ANGEL ISLAND. “Call artist.”] here is not much use for it in sum- ¢ i v r iil often be kept me on account of 2 frequent in | to be caused, to a 2 tule. The fog- nethat is operated | run several hours | Island is at pres- [ 1 . Nilsen, and a most | lonesome life He cannot leave | except in & boat and_has very few visitors | on accou the difficulty in reaching | the place nnot even see any signs of life fr. lighthouse, except the fi steamers, as all settlements o d partly hidden by hills | and the vegetable growth of the marshes. | Two or three times a month he goesto | Martinez for mail and provisions, buteven | then be has to be careful to seiect a fine | ay.as afog might come up at any moment | and prevent his getting back. i The mouths of the Sacramento and San | Joaquin rivers are lighted by several small stake lights. They are nothing but poles stuck 1n the mud and equipped with tackle so that a lantern can be hauled to the top.. A few of these are attended to by hunters who have their camps near by, but the most important ones are in charge of men who live at Pittsburg Landing and Black Diamond. Traffic past the western shore of Angel | Captain John Ross, Keeper of Angel Island Fog Signal. [From a sketch.] Island has always been so small the Gov- ernment never thought it worth while to erect a lightho there, but at the same | time some warning was necessary to navi- gators on dark and foggy nights, and in 1386 a fog-signal was erected that has since proved to be all that is necessary. To be of value it was, of course, neces- sary to keep a man there a!l the time, and this necessitated the ‘building of a resi-- dence and a house for the bell machine. These are placed on a peninsnla that is al- most an island, about 200 yards south of the steamer landing at the military post. They are in a most picturesque position, but ‘somewhat difficult to get at. From the neach a winding path leads along the sides of the cliffs, gradually climbing higper and bigher until several hundred feet above the tide level. At many points a single misstep would mean a fall to the beach below that would result in certain death. At the top of the hill the path is a few feet back from the edge of the oliff, and then makes a sudden turn westward and downward through a thick growth of scrub oak. About forty feet down the sides a stairway commences that ieads over bowlders and along the edge of the cliff for several yards. The last part of it is really a bridge that crosses the chasm between the peninsula and the mainland. It is at least seventy-five feet above the bottom, and likely to cause a nervous feeting to people crossing it for the first time. The residence is & pretty and comfort- became busy traders. Fiemith traderS had been ruined by war, Flemish refugees had flocked into England, and Antwerp the great port for New World commerce, had been sacked and taken. England suc- ceeded to the trade of which the Dutch had been deprived. Beyond the ocean lay a vast world of wealth, of which Spain, united with Portugal, ciaimed the monop- oly. thereby excluding English commerce from the larger balf of the planet. Sys- tematic violence—that is, the combiration of trade with private war—was the only mode in which this monopoly could be attacked. Elizabeth connived at this covert mari- time war both before and after the Armada, and the struggles between English traders and Spanish monopolists were far too nu- merous and important to admit of peace between the two Governments. It was this spirit of commercial adventure, whether it be called piracy or a heroic attempt to rescue the New World from the inquisition and give it back to the free use of the buman race, which was the first step in thedevelopment of three colossal growths— British trade, British empire, the British navy.—Blackwood’s Magazine. Sintbe bl iz o ALBINO BIRDS AND BEASTS White Deer and Quail Found Along a Dakota River. W. L. Bruce of Yankton, S. D., reports that while hunting twenty-five miles northwest of Yankton, along the James River, he shot two albino quail from a flock normally colored. They were larger than the ordinary bird, of a cream color, speckled with brown, but so dimly as to appear pure white at a short distance. Some years ago an old quail with thirteen young, all albinos, were reported from California by a correspondent of the same paver. Many individual albino quail are reported and a few albino ruffed grouse. The London Field lately noted the nding of albino and pied rooks, crows and black- birds, and a white house martin. It also told about a white badger that was taken in a weasel trap a short time ago. A pure white deer and a mottled one were reported killed on Whidby Isiand, in Puget Sound, lately. Three or more white wild turkeys are known to have been killed during the past fifteen years. One bird in Tennessee was known as the “Old White Witch Turkey.” He may not have been a bright bird naturally, but it wasn’t very longhaner he was hatched that he learned that being white was not all com- fort. The hen turkeys liked him exceed- ingly, and one of his offspring, a gray bird, was killed in 1882, while others of light color were seen. Hundreds of bullets were fired at_the witch bird, but without success, and he probably diea a natural death 1n some out-of-the-way clump of bushes. For many years albinos were thought to be barren, but observation bas proved this to be erroneous. One, a female robin, reared a brood of young for five successive seasons up the Hudson, and a number of other robins were seen attending young in the viemnity during two or three matin, seasons, the voung being often odaly col- ored. Albino robins and squirrels are most frequently seen of the small crea- tures, while deer are the most numerous of larger albinos. An albino moose was never seen.—Foiest and Stream. ———— A Dentist’s Parrot, A parrot owned-by Dr. C. M. Gill, which bad an interesting history, died yesterday. 1t was about 50 years old and was pur- chased h{ the doctor’s father. Dr. Gill is adentist, and he says that often when he had a patient in the chair Polly would Jaugh and call out “Kick up old Harry!” If the person happened to cry out with pain Polly would do likewi Many patients did not like this, supposing it was some person that was mocking them, and when told it was.a parrot they would hardly believe it. The most annoyance caused by the par- rot, Dr. Gill says, was to_the congregation of Sharp-street colored Methodist Episco- pal Church, which adjoins his house. On a bright Sunday mornlnE Poll would be hung out on the side of the house, and if it happened that a preacher with a ste torian voice was in the pulpit, as soon a: T he would begin to preach Polly would shout and yell at him. If an orator of milder delivery was holding forth Poil would - continually interrupt him by | shouting “*Amen.” Poll was not a large parrot, and a per- son would think he was only 6 or 7 vears old instead of 50. He was of a_bright green color, with a red topknot. Dr. Gill says that old age and a tumor which ! formed on the end of his bill and caused it | to decay were the causes of his death.— | Baltimore Sun. FAIR FLEMISH WOMEN. They Are Very Tall and Models of Great Beauty. A recent traveler in old Flanders says that the Flemish women are tall and that they possess great beauty. Their eyes are | usually blue, their bair is like burnished | gold, which they wear long like the Ger- man gods, according to an account in the Philadelphia Times. The Flemish woman is simple to excess; not because she has poor tastein her toilet; on the contrary, a_Flemish woman never goes out on a Sunday without a beavy silk dress, with soft frou-frou marking her st;rps. he Flemish woman has preserved in- tact the admirable naivete of the woman of the middle ages. She is an ideal mother of a family; she has no ambition, no love for art, for music or for poetry; not a whisper of rebellion against the domina- | tion—often brutality—of her husband, who in her eyes represents power, and for whom she cherishes an admiration that cannot be shaken. Bruges is the only city in Flanders which in our days has preserved its origin- ality, and where at every step in its de- serted streets one feels the soul of this marvelous Fianders of the middle ages. Bruges can be proud also of having the most begutiful women. When'ne takes a walk at twilight in those narrow streets, darkened by heavy facades of the thirteenth century, which advance and seem to bend over, out from the low doors of the houses walk timidly Junoesque_women draped in a large mantle. Upon their heads they wear broad-brimmed hats with little plaits, which permit one to see only the brusque {;ne of the nose and the thickness of proud ips. The Flemish woman is profoundly re- ligious. For her God is not a tyrant, who, in order that he may forgive, wishes to be flattered, and to see one humiliated before | bim. Her God is sweet. She thinks that | one must love him with human love, as | one loves a gentle child, aud that one must put tender words into prayer. When one sees them kneeling in the shadows of old churches they give an 1m- pression of many beautiful statues, grouped there by the hands of a marvelous artist. Alas! the true Flemish woman will soon | disappear. “Civilization”” will end by penetrating and soiling this little corner of Belgium, which until now remains rebellious to all Latinzation. Civilization is like a bad architect—the last one puts a modern win- dow in Gothic facade,.and the first one grafts a German upon a Latin; so we will end by forming a unique race, a race with- out a name, without origin and without end—the race of cosmopolitans. BERRA'S BIG PREDECESSOR ley Chapman, the English Dog Breeder. The San Francisco St. Bernard Taller by an Inch and a Half Than Princess F.orence. Dog fanciers the world over have been greatly interested in therecent description of Berna, the great St. Bernard aog owned by E. P. Scheil of this City, which ap- peared in THe CALL recently. Hedley Chapman of Victoria, B. C., the well- known Eoglish breeder, has addressed to THE CALL an interesting letter concerning Berna and Princess Florence. In this communication Mr. Chapman gives some data concerning the latter dog which is St. Bernard, but also of news value to the fanciers. Mr. Chapman writes: If the height of Berna is taken at the shoul- derand mensures 83 inches, as stated, he is certainly a wonder, and will make English breeders look to their laurels—provided, of course, sh¢ has bone and substance and’ her other points are symmetrical. As 8 comparison is made bétween Berna and Princess Florence, my interest is easily ac- counted for when I state I was the rearer of the latter “champion.” It may interest the public to have her meas- urements taken when & year old, us these measurements 1 havye reason to believe have never been published on this side of the At- lantic. They were: From nose to stop, 414 in stop to oceiput, 7 in in.; occiput to set-on of tail, ength’of tail, 24 in.; girth of skull, 2734 in.; below eye, 1735 1n.; of chest,39 in.; of loin, 32 in.; of elbow, 13 in.; of the bail, 9 in.! height at shoulder, 3114 in.; weight, 189 pounds. der immense bone needs no comment from me. Mr. Chapman also inclosed photo- graphs of Princess Florence, the Duke of Maplecroft—one of her famous offspring— Champion Plinlimmon and Lady Eva, grandsire and grandam of Princess Flor- ence, dogs whose records show that the An Interesting Letter Frcm Hed- | OUT OF HAPPY CAMP. Cai)tain Doolittle’s Story. of a Unique Place in the Siskiyous. IT HAS ONLY 600 PEQOPLE. But It Produces Lots of Gold—Freight. ing on a Mule’s Hurricane Deck Over a Trail. Gold is coming out of the mines of Northern California and reaching San Francisco at a rapid rate. The gold comes here in dust and nuggets, and is at once transferred to the United States Mint and miade into coin. There is a regular stream of gold from the various little and big mining centers. The mivers bring in their bags of gold in the rough and take away the shining new $20, $10 and $5 pieces. One of the latest arrivals is Captain Albert Doolittle of Happy Camp, a remote place in Siski- you County. He is at the Russ, and a day or two ago brought down about $5000 worth of crude gold. “It's all made into money now,” he said gesterday. ‘‘The gold was from the mine of A. H. Ock at Happy Camp and not from my own. Mr.Ock has one of the richest mines there. Itisnow bonded to James Camp. “There is a good dea! of gold coming out of Happy Camp, the queer little place in the mountains, where I have lived since 1858. I had been at sea for thirty years before that,and came around the Horn first in 1839. But I settled down there and hage remained ever since. “Hapby Camp is on the Klamath River | serious contraction of trade. There were many failures, and a temporary loan of £5,000,000 was necessary to avert panic. This measure had a most salutary effect, and only £3,855,000 was Afiphed for. Early in the struggle the attack upon our com- merce began. Ships of war and privateers of all sorts fell upon it. Rowboats put off to merchantmen lying becalmed in the channel or under the Forelands, and car- ried them by boarding. Surcouf in the East Indies swept into his net not only helpless sailing ships, but also large and heavily armed Indiamen. In 1805 the Rochefort squadron got to sea and took in five months four warships and forty-two merchantmen. *“In 1810,” says the Naval Chronicle, quoted by Captain Mahan, “sig- nals were out almost every day at Dover, on account of the enemy’s privateers ap- pearing in sight.” In 1800, the same au- thority tells us, there were eighty-seven large French privateers in the Channel ports of France alone. From first to last the French captured 11,000 ships, with their cargoes, worth £200,000,000, a toll of | 23¢ per cent at the very least on our trade. At first sight this loss does not look par- ticularly heavy, and it certainly had on | effect upon the issue of tne war. It was |only so much property destroyed that | might, if spar-d, haveadded toour wealth. | We annihilated French trade so that Na- | poleon could not even send a cockle boat | to sea, as he himself confessed, and we | captured no less than 1031 privateers, car- | rying 9400 guns, manned by 69,000 men. Thus we lost an average of 550 shipsa year and took less than 55 a year of the depre- dators, Neutrals, it will be observed, lost by peace and gained b{ war. From 1790 to 1793 the average clearance of neutral was under 200,000 tons.—Nine- entury. ERAC NP eSO Graves of the Presidenta. George Washington died from a cold which brought on laryngitis; buried on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va. John Adams died from senile debility; buried at Quincy, Mass. i B Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diar- rhea: buried on the estate at Monticello, Va. James Madison died of old age; buried on his estate at Montpelier, Va. £ James Monroe died of general debility; buried in Marble Cemetery, New York City. Jobn Quincy Adams died of paralysis, shippin, teenth | [Sketched from life not only,of interest to lovers of the noble ‘ Captain Albert Doolittle, Who Brought Out the Gold from Happy Camp. by a “Call’* artist.] in Siskiyou County, seventy miles south west of Yreka. To get there you have to go through Fort Jones, Scotts Bar and other old-time diggings. “It is only in the last three years that we have hac{n wagon road. Before that we had to go by trail over the Siskiyou Mountains. All our supplies came in via Crescent City and Waldo, Orezon. It was nothing but a mountain trail we had, and we made our passage on the hurricane deck of a mule. Pack animals had to carry all our goods. 2 5 *“The camp now has 600 people, in fact it is something more than that now, as many new companies have started up. Some are working mines and others are digging ditches, preparatory to opening mines. A new mill, costing $20,000, has been built. Seattle capitalists are opening a property, and the property owned by Mr. Hughesis employing a good many men. “All this is in addition to the usual work carried on there. Several mines have changed hands during the past year. money and trophies received as prizes by The county looks well and everybody is Princess Florence, Who Was in Her Time the Largest St. Bernard. Her Height When a Year Old Was One and a Half Inches Less Than That of Berna, the California Dog Owned by E. P. Schell. their owner would set a man up in busi- ness as a money-lender. To appreciate the value of Berna, of whom Mr. Schell is the lucky owner, it need only be remembered that, though she is only 814 months old, she is 30 inches in height, is entirely symmertrical, that her bones and skull are larger than Princess Florence's, and that though far from the goal as regards development, she already weighs 165 pounds. When Mr. Schell gets ready to place Berna on exhibition as a contestant it is pretty certain that he will not go home empty-handed. Living. Pictures Criticized by an As- tronomer. Uncle Joe Holden, Maine’s most noted astronomer, went to see the living pictures in Portland the other night and pro- nounced them a swindle. ““How can a woman set on a moon like that? It's contrary to every theory of ’stronomy in the world, including my own, and besides, the moon is in the west at this time of night, too. It’s a swindle, I say, a swindle.””” And Uncle Joe wandered home to commune with the north star or the Great Dipper. No necromancy of the stage can befool the man who pricked the delu- sion that the earth revolves around the sun.—Lewistown Journal. e e The want of native labor is now so great in Jonannesburg that the mills ‘are being stopped. —_— encouraged. It is estimated that we can work our mines for half what it cost us fifteen years ago. If we can do that I think we ought to get along, for we did | very well before.” Captain Doolittle, who Ealned his_title at sea, is the owner of the Consolidated Doolittle mine on Clear Creek, ten miles below Happy Camp. They are hydraulic vroperties. The captain, before coming to California in 1858, had been for some years in Australia. He is not an Austial- ian by birth, but is a native of New Hampshire. He will be here for probably two weeks. He says most of the supplies for Happy Camg, since the completion of Q_m]zugon road, reaches there by way of reka. WAR AND OOMMEROCE. Vast Amount of Property Destroyed by the Enemy. War with France opened in 1793, and was protracted, with the exception of the short break due to the peace of Amiens, for twenty-two years. We started with 16,073 ships of 1,540,000 tons, manned by 118,000 men, and with a navy of 141 ships of the line, 155 frigates and 129 small ves- sels. We had to deal with a thoroughly inefficiert enemy, disorganized by revo- lution and distracted by intestine quarrels. From_the first hour of war our military superiority wasunchallenged. The declara- tion of war, however, caused a very ] -the fatal attack overtaking him in the House of Representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass. Andrew Jackson died of consumption and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Her- | mitage, near Nashville, Tenn. Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the throat and lungs; buried at Kinder- hook, N. Y. William Henry Harrison died of plew- risy, -inducea by a cold taken.on the duflr of his inauguration; buried near Nort Bend, Ohio. John Tyler died from a mysterious dis- order like a bilious atlack; buried at Rich- mond, Va. James K. Polk died from weakness caused by cholera; buried on his estate in Nash- ville, Tenn. Zachary Taylor died from cholera mor- bus, induced by improper diet; buried on his estate near Louisville, Ky. Millard Fillmore died from paralysis; buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Buffalo, Franklin Pierce died from inflamma- tion of the stomach; buried at Concord, James Buchanan died of rheumatism and gout; buried near Lancaster, Pa. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth; buried at Springfield, II1. Andrew Johnson died from paralysis; buried at Greenville, Tenn. Ulysses 8. Grant died from cancer of the throat; buried in Riverside Park, New York City. Rutherford B. Hayes died from paralysis of the heart; buried at Fremont, Ohio.’ James A. Garfield, assassinated b Charles J. Guiteau; buried at Cleveland, Ohio. Chester A. Arthur, died from Bright's disease; buried in Rural Cemelery, Al- bany, N. Y. e Cost of the Cuban War, The autonomist newspaper, La Union, publisned at Guines, in the province of Havana, prints the following estimate of what the war in Cuba has cost in a single vear: 2 War expenses..... Losses from the destruction of the sugar-cane crop...... . 50,000,000 Lost by the proprietors’ of 40,000 horses taken either by the patri or the Spanish troops 600,000 Catile tsken by the p 500,000 Small iowns destro; 3,000,060 Destruciion of railroads. 3,000.000 Stores sacked.... SR 2,000,000 Destruction of country estates and 5.000,000 10,000,000 Losses of capitalists’ in commercial importing business. Total. .‘ 134,000,000 Five vears of peace, adds La Union, would be necessary to make good the losses of one year. Why England Is Great. How was it that half an island .over which Queen Elizabeth ruled develo; into the world-wide empire over which Queen Victoria reigns. First and fore- formost it must be referred to the qnali- ties of the race, their energy and adven- turous spirit, their capacity to colonize, to rule subject races, and to administer their affairs. "That race was sprung of succes- sive seafaring mvaders of these islands ‘who were trained for generations in the arduous defense of these shores, and uuiht to achieve naval superiority as a necessity of their position. As early as Edward III the sovereignty of the narrow seas was asserted and con- ceded as a matter of course by the people of the Low Countries. As centuries rolled on the insularity of our position became more marked as our possessions in Europe awindled away. The drill sergeant, who is the artificer of German fortunes, has had no ascendency in these islands, whose preoccupations have not arisen from _mili- tary empires on their boundaries. Naval superiority has been the guarantee of our shores, and, at the same time, the founda- tion of an empire which has grown up beyond the seas. The same qualities which achieved ordered liberty at home sgread commerce, settlements and empire abroad.—Blackwood’s Magazine, SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY. ‘Women Vulgar and 1lliterate Plastered ‘With Diamonds. “Bociety” as represented in Johannes- burgisof a decidealy novel description. ‘Without doubt there are highly educated and altogether charming people among the residents, both men and women, bnt they belong, with few exceptions, to tne professional classes — clergymen, physi- cians and lawyers, who have lefi their native lands and come here, attracted by the prospect of a larger scope for the ex- ercise of their various callings. The elite, the mine-owners and original possessors of land—all millionaires many times over— taking them collectively, hardly display those qualities which “stamp the rank of Vere de Vere.'’ The women are vulgar and illiterate, with dyed hair and artificial complexions; they wear outrageously loud toilets and are plastered with diamonas at all hours. Most of them are former members of theatrical touring companies, barmaids or shopgirls, and they are to be seen all day long driving about the streets in their gorgeous carriages. The men are prin- cipally of the pronounced Hebrew type, loud in manners and dress, ostentatiously drinking champagne at £1 the bottle at all hours of the day and causing the be- holder to reflect upon the quotation from the ‘‘Lady Slavey’: “Can I not do as I like? Am Inota millionaire?” The balls given by the elite are of the most sumptu- ous description. Flowers for decoration are procured from all parts of Cape Colony and many hundreds are spent over one evening's entertainment. The suppers comprise every *delicacy that could be had in England—game, fish, etc., being sent out in the cool-air cham- bers of the mail steamers for the purpose. The cost of a fancy ball recently given amounted to over £3000; a plush curtain, specially made, and used for one evening | to hide an unsightly archway, costin, £150. It is impossible, unless Wsnsse§ of considerable means, to live with com- fort in a private house in Johanmnesburg; rents are 1n proportion to ail other prices asked—enormous. It is difficult for white | workingmen engaged in the mines to ob. tain a single room in a tiny shanty under a rental of £4 a month at’ ‘he very least, | while a small villa of five rooms, built of corrugated iron, will easily let at £12 to | £14 a month, and £50, £60 or £100a month is cheerfully paid for a furnished house, such as one could obtain in England for 3 ineas a week at the seaside.—Temple fi“ ar. — HOW TO REACH THE POLE. Views of Admiral Markbam, R N., on the Subject. In order to ensure success in Arctic ex- ploration it is essential that there should, if possible, be a continuity of coast line. The total absence ot known land in the neighborhood of Bering Strait renders ex- ploration in that quarter undesirable until, at any rate, other directions have been attempted. It was the sudden ter mination of land ou either side of Smith Sound—that isto say, land trendingin a northerly direction—that prevented Nares from attaining an even higher latitude than that reached by his traveling par- ties. Had Sir Edward Parry been sledging along a coast line instead of forcing his way through a moving and broken-up pack he would assuredly have reached a position nearer to the pole than the one he gained. The great desideratum, therefore, in selecting the route for polar exploration is the presence of land trending to the northward. So long as this can be found so sure is it that its northern termination, however far it may be situated, will be reachea. This particular condition, so far as we know 1o the contrary, is to be found in Franz Josef Land, for Lieutenant Payer has stated that he saw high land to the north of the position which he reached and which he estimated to have been situ- ated in latitude 63 deg., and thus from the configuration of the land thus seen, taken in connection with the coast along which he was traveling, it is more than probable that Franz Joseph Land extends a consid- erable distance beyond the furthest land that has yet been discovered. Taking all things into_consideration, it seems to me more than likely that when the north-pole problem is solved—and solved it assuredly will be—the solation of it will be found in the direction of Franz Josef Land.—North American Review. ———————— Walked Off With a Broken Neck. Thursday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, Les Regan and Stephen W. Mains were haul- ing telegraph poles and distributing them along Warsaw pike, when suddenly Mains lost his balance and fell from the load. He alightea on his head and besides a queer ain in the neck felt little inconvenience. Ele found he could not proceed, however, s0 he walked back to a streetcar two blocks distant and_rode home. Reaching there he collapsed, and Drs. Young and Brant were called in. = They found that the mar’s neck was broken. He lingered in semi consciousness until Friday night, when he died.—Cincinnati S8imes-Star. Both Liquid and Powder. a week). NEW TO-DAY. every package a bottle of liquid Sozodont (use ily), a box of fine Sozodont powder (use twice No other dentifrice so complete, so safe, 5o certain to give the best resuits, A sample of liquid Sozodont by mall, provided you mention this publication and send three cemts for postage. Address the Proprietors of Sozodont, HALL & RUCKEL, Wholesale Druggists, New York Cit; RAILROAD TRAVEL] SOUTHEEN PACIFIC COMPANY. 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Saturdays—Extra trips st 1:60 and 11:30 ». u, SUNDAYS—7:30, 9:30, 11:00 4.2.; 1:30, 8:30, 5:00, 6:20 ». 2 San Rafael to San Francisco. WEEK DAYS—6:15, 7:50, 9:10, 11:10 a. wm.; 13:45. 8:40, 5:10 P. m. _Saturdays—Extra tripg al ». 5 P M. i8¢, 11:10 A. M.; 1:40, 3:40, 5:00, 6:25 P. 3. Between San Francisco and Schuetzen Park same schedule as above. Leave Arrive San Francisco. | Ineffect San Franeisco. Hre=a 96. Papx | Sux- | vestination. 7:80 Ax AM| Novato, [10:40 An| 8:40 A 3:30 Pax|9:30 ax| Petaluma, | 6:05 P |10:10 Am 5:10 Pu|5:00 Px|Santa Rost.| 7:30 rx| 6:15 Pu ‘ Fulton, . 7:30 Ax Windsor, 10:10 axe Healdsbu: Geyserville, 8:30 P|7:30 ax| Cloverdale. | 7:30 vx| 6:15 pa I Pieta, | Hopiand & | 7:30 ax| 7:30 Ax| Ukish. | 7:30 pu| 6:15 rae d i 518 i T80 ax| 10:10 ax an . . 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