The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896. WNOTHER ROAD T0 SN DIEGD,) A Guarantee Fund for the Southern Pacific Being Raised. COMPETITION IS DESIRED Mayor Carlson Talks Interest- ingly and Eloquently of His Hobby. HIS POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS. Says He Is in Favor of Protection, Appropriations and Patronage for Friends. Mayor W. H. Carlson of San Diego is among the distinguished men from the touthern part of the State who accom- panied the visiting hotel men from that section to this City yesterday. Aside from his political aspirations, Mayor Carlson has a hobby, and that is to see San Diego enjoying the benefits of rail- road competition, and considerable of his energy is being continually utilized to bring about this object. Just now he is busily engaged in pre- paring for the approaching campaign, when he will make a fight for Congres- sional honors in the Seventh District. The Republican nomination is said to lie between him and Congressman Bowers, and Mayor Carlson is far from sanguine of defeating the incumbent for the honor. He is prepared, however, he says, to take the field as an independent candidate with Republican leanings. He feels con- fident of election, as he has twice before won political honors as an independent candidate, once as an Assemblymen and again as Mayor. He cites the record of Bowers during his three terms in Congress as being far from favorable to that gentle- man. Speaking of this, Mayor Carlson yesterday said: ““Why, what has he done either for his constituents or his friends? He has failed, during his entire three terms, in getting a single appropriation for our part of the State, and has also failed to secure any de- sirable patronage for his friends. And I ropose to go into the campaign against }mm for these reasons. Should I be re- turned I feel confident that I shall be abie to show a better record in one term than he has in three on these points. ‘‘Some mistaken impression has gone out that I am a Populist. Now, that is not so, for I am a thorough Republican, and am a firm believer 1n protection and particularly in & high tanff to protect the frait-growing interests of California azainst foreign competition. I am also, you can say, strongly in favor of Federal appro- priations for my district.”” Then branching off to his railroad hobby, the handsome Mayor from the sunny south said: “‘Production in and about San Diego County has so largely increasea during the past few years that I am of the opinion that in the next two years we shail be shipping oranges, lemons, limes and other fruits at the rate of 4000 carloads per annum out of the county. “‘San Diego is now the only one of the leading cities of California that the South- ern Pacific Company does not reach, and with the revival of business from the de- pression which began about three years ago San Diego is now in a position to re- quest toe Southern Pacific Company to build to our city. ‘At the present moment the Southern Pacific Company has just completed a branch line into Riverside, and they have also built from San Dimas to Pomona, from which latter point connection will be made with the branch to Riverside, making a sort of loop line coming into the Santa Fe’s present rich and exclusive orange-growing section. “When the work is complete I have every reason to believe that the Southern Pacific Company can be induced to build into San Diego, if the people there will offer the proper inducements, which I know they il ‘“*At a meeting held a month and a half ago some of the most prominent, influen- tial and wealthy citizens indorsed a propo- sition to raise a guarantee funa of $480,000 in real estate, the deeds to be placed in escrow, as a gnarantee to the Southern Pa- cific Company of 4 per cent per annum on $4,000,000, the estimated cost of building the line into San Diego. This would give # guarantee for three years at the rate of $160,000. ‘‘At this meeting a sub-committee was appointed to raise this guarantee fund consisting of ex-Mayor Sherman, Alder- man Prout, State Harbor Commissioner D. C. Reed and Henry Tinker, a million- awre of St. Louis, and one of the leading property-owners of San Diego. They are now actively at work on the matter, and I expect they will shortly be in a position to lay the matter before the proper South- ern Pacific authorities. “I am 1n favor of and have been work- for several years past to secure theen- trance of the Southern Pacific Company into San Diego, as I consider that in com- petition lies the only means of settling the present railroad question—thatis, I ama believer in settiing the matters of fares and freights by the means of competition, the same as are prices in all classes of business, and not by hostile legislation nor prejudiced attacks. “I' am in fayor of more railroads, as through tneir building is brought about more com petition, more traffic, lower rates and greater prosperity for all of California. Take the construction of the San Joaquin Valley road. Its competition will not be so much an injury to the Southern Pacific Company as it will be a means of more thoroughly aeveloping the section of country through which it will operate. It will of course bring rates down, but this will again undoubtedly result in a greater incentive to production and to a greater volume of traffic.” When the plans of the people of San Diego were called to the attention of Gen- erul Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific Company he said he had never heard of them before, and that no propo- sition had as yet been laid before him, and that cousequently the matter of building to San Die.o had never been considered. Further than this he declined to say on the subject at the present time. THEIR VARIOUS TASTES. Forms of Recreation Indulged In by Old English Lawyers. Manifold have been the forms of recrea- tion indulged in by distinguished law- yers. Dyer (1580), we are assured, when ruffled by any annoyance in the discharge of his duties, sought solace by playing upon the virginals; Fitzjames kept up an old college friendship with Wol- sey when he was a simple country parson near Yeovil, and was actually en- gaged 1n the brawl at the fair when his reverence got drunk and was by and by set in the stocks by Sir Amyas Paule. Erskine was a great lover of animals; a favorite dog attended him to all his consultations 1 ’ wn AMAGEE- CENIER MELD JAWEON SA0AMS N CATCRER ©900 s 2000 VANDERLYN STW RiGaT FELD TN § LATHAN - FIRST BASEL The University Club Team That Is Billed to Wrestle on the Diamond With the Berkeley Boys Saturday Afternoon for the Benefit of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Mercantile Library. [Drawn from photographs taken by Marceau and by Thors.] when at the bar; a pet goose followed him as he walked about his grounds, and two leeches, which had been applied to him when he was once dangerously ill, called Homeand Cline, after the names of two celebrated surgeons, were kept in a glass bowl and exhibited to his particular friends. Stowell gloried in Punch and Judy; Camden, who had an undignified habit of gartering up his stockings while counsel were most strenuous in their eloquence, loved cider and novels; Wickens amused his leisure by bookbinding; Jessel cata- logued funguses, while Maule was singu- larly apt in picking locks with a piece of wire, an art which he had acquired by the frequent loss of his keys when at the bar. Baron Martin’s s ornn%proclivities were well known. ‘Don’t be hard on me, my lord,’”’ =said a prisoner to him one day; “perhaps your lordship will accept a beautiful gamecock which 1 have at home.” The judge hid his mouth with his hand in order to con- ceal a smile, and passed a not very severe sentence, adding, “But mind, you must notsend me that gamecock.” Tenterden, on the other hand, strongly discounten- anced sporting cases. ‘“We,” said Broug- ham, appearing before him in an action to recover the amount of a wager on a dog-fight, ‘““were minded that dogs should fight.” “Then I,” replied the Chiet Justice, “am minded to hear no more of it. Call the next case.””—Temple Bar. SIR KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, Distinguished Masons Assemble in Thirty-Seventh Annual Session. Eminent Sir Knights Exalted to Lofty Positions in the Mystic Craft. The officers and delegates or the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Cali- fornia assembled at Masonic Temple yes- terday morning to attend the thirty-sey- enth annual session of the Grand Com- mandery. The lodge was opened in due form by the following officers: Right Eminent Sir Edward Spalding Lippit of Petaluma, grand commander; Very Eminent Sir Trowbridge H. Ward of Alameda, deputy grand commander; Eminent Sir George D. Metcalf of Oakland, grand generalissimo; Eminent Sir Robert M. Powers of San Diego, grand captain-general; Eminent Sir Charles E. Stone of Marysville, grand pre- late; Eminent Sir Robert H. Blossom of Red Bluff, grand senior warden; Eminent Sir John F. Merrili of 8an Francisco, grand treasurer; Eminent Sir Thomas H. Cas- well of San Francisco, grand recorder; Eminent Sir Frederick M. Miller of San Jose, grand standard bearer; Eminent Sir George McKee of San_Jose, grand sword bearer; Eminent Sir Florin Leslie Jones of Pasadena, grand Bg\urdhu: Sir Samuel D. Mayer of San Francisco, grand organ- ist; Sir James Oglesby, grand captain of the guard. Routine business with the report of the grand corimander occupied the forenoon’s session, and on calling the lodge to labor in the afternoon the election of grand offi- cers was held with the following result: Right Eminent Sir Trowbridge H. Ward, grand commander; Eminent Sir George D. Metealf, deputy grand commander; Eminent Sir Robert M. Powers, grand generalissimo; Eminent Sir John Garwood, grand captain. gener. minent Sir Charles B. Stone, grand prels Eminent 8ir F. M. Miller, grand senior warden; Eminent Sir Geor McKee, grand junior warden; Sir John B Merril:, grand treasurer; Sir Thomas H. Caswell, grand recorder. The appointed officers will be announced at to-day’s session. The grand officers attended in a body at the session of Golden Gate Commandery last night, where the secret work of con- ferring the order of the Temple was con- ferred. After these services there was a banquet and reception tendered by the Golden Gate Commandery to the Grand Com- mandery. There were many toasts at the conclusion of the banquet, but before these were drunk and talked to Eminent Commander C. H, Murphy extended the courtesies of Golden Gate Commandery to the Grand Commandery. This was responded "to by Past Right Eminent Grand Commander " Lippitt. Sir Knight 8. K. Gilson and several other Sir Knights made eloquent and onpposite adaresses, after which Sir Knight Samuel M. Shortridge spoke at some lengi: on Templarism. His exposition was warmly applauded. Then there were still other toasts drunk and spoken. The affair was elaborate, and that it was enjoyuble goes without saying. It is expected that the labors of the ses- sion will be conciuded this afternoon. There are under this jurisdiction 2881 Knights Templar with a healthy and prosperous treasury at their command. —————— PICTURE SALE.—T0 make rcom for our whole- sale notion department, on the second floor, we shall sell off immediately a large number of ready-framed pictures at half price. Every- thing offered at this eale is marked in pll(u figures, on red tags, and will be sold at exactly one-half off from regular prices, Sanborn, Veil & Co., 741 Market street. . 10 PLAY FOR A BENEFIT Upiversity Club Men to Try Conclusions With Berkeley at Baseball. THE MEN WHO WILL BAT. The Mercantile Library to Be Given a Benefit at Central Park on Saturday, Berkeley aud the University Club are to play ball to-morrow afternoon and the Mercantile Library is to draw down a cash benefit therefrom. The match has been the gossip of the Butter-street club for some weeks, and the talk has gone so far as to allege that tbe nine gentlemen who are to try ito steal bases from Berkeley have nctulfiy done some practicing. The authority for this, however, remains uncertain. Large ex- ertions have been made by way of enlist- ing the interest of people who might be expected to patronize the box-office on an occasion of the kind, and that is a much more practical avenue for the energy of the nine and the club. It is expected that there will be a large turnout. The two clubs are constituted as follows: University Club. Position. Berkeley. Arthur Allen. Pitchy Kaarsburg -Wheeler cLaren Everett Bee, Fred P. Howard, George Greenwood and Harry Knowles. Of the University Club nine Allen is a graduate of the University of Californis, Adams of the Belmont University, Latham of the Belmont and the U. C., Cohen of Harvard, Chetwood of Princeton, Tobin of Georgetown, Smedberg of West Point, W. Magee of Stevens Institute, T. Magee of Greenwood, Howard of Harvard and Knowles of Andover. The match will take place at Central Park on Saturday afternoon next. PRESENTED TO THE PRINCEMS. American Women Introduced to Royalty by Bayard. LONDON, Exe., April 23.—The drawing- room held by the Princess of Wales to-day in behalf of the Queen was the most brilliant function of the season. Thousands of spectators congregated about the streets adjacent to Buckingham Palace, and the services of the mounted troops of the First Life Guards were called into requisition to keep the roadway clear for the hundreds of equipages. Five thousand ‘“‘commands” had been vised by the Lord Chamberlain, and there were few absentees. The Princess was assisted in receiving by her daughters, Victoria and Maud, while attending her were the Dowager Countess of Morton, Countess of Maccles- field, Duchess G. d’Otrante, Lady Emily Kingscote and Lady Suffield. By special command of the Queen the function was a ‘“collar” one, requiring the officers of state and the various members of the no- bility, as well as the members of tha royal family present, to wear the jeweled collars and other insignia of the ‘decorations of their various knighthoods. The Americans present included the Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt of New York; Hon. Mrs. Curzon, formerly Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago, and now wife of Hon. George Natbaniel Curzon, Parliamentary secre- tary to the Foreign Office, and Lady Ben- net, formerly of Tacoma, Wu:h., and wife of Lord Bennet, heir to the Rt. Hon. Charles Bennet, Earl of Tankerville. Min- ister Bayard had the honor of the presen- tatious.” In the main the costumes of the day were magnificent, and rivaled those of any court function of recent years. O TSR T AFFAIRS OF HAWAIL Serious Disturbance Among Nine Hun- dred Chinese Laborers. HONOLULU, Hawar, April 16.—The United States ship Petrel arrived on the 14th inst., sixteen days from Yohohama, Atter a few days for coaling she will pro- ceed to Suu [rancisco. The United States ship Concord :.r-ived from Yokohama this morning, also bound to San Francisco. A somewhat serious disturbance took place on the 14th inst. among the 900 Chinese laborers from the Gaelic, who are undergoing quarantine on the reef. Two of the Anrgeut sailing vessels in the world are here loading sugar for New York via Cape Horn. One is the wooden Roanoke, the other the steel ship Dirigo both buiit by the Bewells of Bath, Me., an. square-rieged four-masters of over 3000 tons net. Bills have passed the Legislature pro hibiting betting at public games and races. Other bills for reform are making good progress. This morning’s Advertiser, regardless of Mr. Willis’ allegation that it is the Gov- ernment organ, severely attacks Minister Damon’s finance report. e ARGUED IN THE REICHSTAG. Count Herbert Bismarck Opposes a Gov- ernment Froposal. BERLIN, GerMANY, April 23.—In the Reichstag to-day Count Herbert Bismarck made a speech in opvosition to the pro- posal of the Government to limit the num- ber of working hours in the various industries upon the ground that such com- pulsory limitation would unsettle trade. No Government, he declared, had done what Germany had done for the welfare of the working classes within the last fifteen years. Freiherr von Berlepsch, Minister of Commerce refuted Count Bismarck’s at- tacks upon the Government policy. As long as he remained a Minister, ie de- clared, he would strive to the utmost to se- cure laws for the protection of the work- ing people and see they did not remain a dead letter. Furtbermore, he would con- tinue his endeavors to amend such laws wherever defects in them were discovered. CROOKE'S TUBE FOR GOLD Practical Use to Be Made of a New and Mysterious Ray. Discoverers Claim to Be Able to Manu. facture the Metal for Thirteen Cents a Pound. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 23.—When it was announced & few days ago that George Lawrence Johnson, a farmer living near Fairfield, had discovered a process allied to the X-rays, and which he termed Y-rays, by means of which a base metal could be transmuted into gold at small cost, people treated the matter asa joke. Investigation by a correspondent at Fair- field, who has induced Johnson to talk about his discovery, puts a different light on the matter. Itis found that Johnson is a graduate of Columbia College, New York, well provided for financially and possessing a complete laboratory. After the publication of Professor Roent- gen’s discoveries Johnson became inter- ested, and in company with a Mr. Minear duplicated some of the easier experiments, After securing several pictures they con- cluded to experiment on the comparative transparency of several metals to the X- rays. By accident a block of one of the most common metals was placed in the box in a certain relation to the anode pole of the Crooke's tube. After two hours Mr. Johnson observed that this metal was undergoing a change. The surface nearest the tube was covered {0 a depth of one-fourth of an inch with a white powder. Beneath this the metal presented uneven surfaces of yellowish color. More metal was procured and a like resuit followed. The change must have resulted from its proximity to the anode pole of the Crooke’s tube. Rays of great chemical power must have been thrown off, and Mr. Johnson called these Y-rays. T Mr. Johnson sent a block of the metal to a friend at Columbia College, John C. Hotchkiss, asking him to determine its nature. A reply has been received, in which preliminary results were given. The yellow metal, Mr. Hotchkiss says, *'is probably gold.” The base metal used is a secret. Accord- ing to Mr. Johnson it is 68.92 per cent gold, and he can decompore a pound in three hours at an expense of 13}4 cents per pound. This means at & cost of about 50 cents to produce about $153 worth of gold. Steps have been taken to patent the process in this country and abroad. Opening of the Salon. PARIS, FrANcE, April 23.—The Champ de Mars salon was officially opened to-day. Changes which have been made in the ex- hibits since the publication in these dis- patches of a partial list of the contribu- tions have rendered thedisplay far below the previoys exhibitions in point of excel- lence. Henry S. Todd of St. Louis and J. Paradis of Montreal, whose works were de- scribed in last Sunday’s dispatches, were not among the exhibitors. i For the Oanadian Pacifle. OTTAWA, Oxt., April 23.—The Govern- ment has withdrawn its notice of the motion to authorize an appropriation of about $4,000,000 to the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company to build a line from Alberta to British Columbia through crivl»‘w- Nest Pass, a distance of about fZE miles. PASSING OF THE CABLE, An Eastern Railway Journal Says It Is Doomed in San Francisco. ELECTRICITY TO THE FORE. May Soon Be in Effective Operation on All the City Railway Lines. A recent number of the Street Railway Journal of New York, unaer the head of “The Doom of the Cabie in San Fran- cisco,”” has some interesting things to say concerning the development of the electric street railway in San Francisco and the possible supplanting of the cable by elec- tricity throughout the entire Market- strect system and, indeed, the whole City. In the Hobart building the Journal’s de- ductions were not accepted. ‘‘The Mar- ket-street Railway Company,’’ say the au- thorities, ‘*has substituted electricity asa motor on four horsecar lines and on one cable line. What we will do further is an- other question. We do not claim to know—in fact we do not know. There are some lines upon which the cable will probably always be used, because it will always be the best and most economical power.” Of the cable the article in the Journal says that started twenty-two years ego the cable road was a success mechanically and financially from the first, and its fundamental features were quickly copied on .other roads in this City and in other cities. The Journal continues: Articles have appeared in Eastern journals from time to time to encourage San Francis- cans in the belief that the cable system was really more economical than the electric, except on long suburban lines, but for about year and a quarter the Market-street Railway nCompany has owned electric roads of its own and has been making data for itself. Snow has not bothered the company at¢ all on its cable roads, nor has the frost closed up the slot. The expense for cables has not been abnormal, and the original con- struction was most substantislly done in iron and concrete. In fact, the conditions for cable- road traction in San Francisco are the equal of any in the world, and the construction and operation of these roads are unsurpassed. The arket-street Company, however, has become convinced that the people prefer to ride on the eloctric-cars, and that the electrie-cars carry the people more cheaply than does the cabie. These results were not obtained from a few eleotric-cars run on level lines and at high rates of speed, but from the operation of up- ward of 150 cars at from 1} to 214 minute headway at times and on lines naving grades as high as 1414 per cent. Most of these cars are subject to frequent interference from the heavy wagon traffic on the downtown streets, and all of them are governed by ihe rule ordering a reduction of speed at the crossing of each intersecting street. The company began cautiously by changing its old horsecar lines to electric lines. Later it decided 10 equip with electricity the route of a franchise designed to be a cable road and for which $30,000 worth of cable material had already been bought. The routes of all new franchises were then ordered to be equip 88 electric roads, and finally it was decided to abandon the use of the cable on one lize—Ellis street—and substitute electricity. This last decision is considered significant and one foreshadowing the changing of not ouly all cable roads on the level to electric roads, but the changingof all cable road: cessible to electric cars, and not only the c: roads of the Market-street l¥lt¢m, but also those of the other cable roads in the city. The Market-street Company mainteins at present six cable power-houses and each has its two large monthly items of fuel and labor. Evers time a cable power-house can be dispense with and the lines operated by electricity that wer-house item, labor, is” wi out and he item of fuel is reduced both on account of the less fuel required per car mile for an electric road as against a cable road and because the cable-houses are usually run non-condensing, whereas in"the electric poyer-house the engines are run condensing. * * There is & cable line on Oak street re- quiring a cable 26,000 feet long that is now under recomstruction as an electric road. Wbhen this road is changed the large cable wer-house at Oak and Broderick streets, rom which both Oak and Ellis have been run, ‘will be shut down. The grades on the Howard, the Post and the McAllister street lines are all perfectly prac- ticable for electric cars, and in case they are changed from cable to electricity two more power-houses be dispensed with, Electricity erhaps, replaced the cable on the level and on easy grades, some cable men “{;eb‘" on heavy grades the cable will always be retained. ‘When we see the daily spectacle of electric- cars unaided climbing 1414 per cent grades in San Francisco and 15 per cent grades in Ouk- land, and by means of a simple auxiliary de- vice ascending a 25 per cent grade in San Francisco, where no cal ? ll’l}) could be made to hold, the impregnability of any cable propo- sition is open to question. The chief «distinction between the ap- pearance of the male and the ferale Japan- ese lies in the hair. The men shave nearly the whole of the head while the women allow the hair to grow, and even add to it by art when required. WHEN STERNBERG 1S SENTENCED. That Will Be a Remarkable Scene in Wallace’s Court. TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE. A Transgressor of Election Laws Really to Go to the Peni- tentiary. WILL GET SIX YEARS TO-DAY. Justice for a Tool Who Steered False Registration in Senator Ma. honey’s District. There will be an interesting and some- what remarkable proceeding in Judge ‘Wallace’s court to-day. Louis Sternberg, steerer of false regis- tration and general violator of election laws, will stand up to receive again, and for the last time, a double sentence of six years in the penitentiary. It is an interesting and remarkable spectacle when a reckless violator of the long and grim statutes which watch from the codes over those ‘‘palladiums of liberty’’ rises and shows that such laws can be really made to work for once, even on the surface of political iniquity. It is somewhat remarkable, too, that Mr. Sternberg’s final sentence should come s0 speedily. It is not so much as two years since J. H. Mahoney became again a distinguished Senator, and here Senator Mahoney is but beginning his patriotic stir amid the noble activity of another Republican campaign. ‘The last election of Jerry Mahoney by a free people and an untrammeled Sam Rainey is simply a disassociated event by which it is convenient to remember the time when Louis Sternberg was first tbhrown into jail. J. H. Mahoney became again a State Benator in 1894, Twelve and one are thir- teen and four are seventeen—it’s only sev- enteen months since Louis Sternberg was arrested for adding to the great register the names of American citizens who were not only addicted to the opium habit and whose shoes needed half-soling, but who had the further misfortune not to live Senator Mahoney’s district. In that time no witnesses of importance have died, but two appeals have taken their course through the Supreme Court and now the culprit stands at the very door of the penitentiary. Something ap- pears in Sternberg’s case to have gone wrongz with the political pulls and tne lawyers with their tripping delays. Now there are Cohen, Buckley, Martinet and the rest who were run in at about the same time, and they are all right yet. Poor Sternberg has been fairly railroaded to San Quentin. At the time of the last election it was discovered that the Forty-second and Forty-third Assembly districts had been extensively colonized. From single rooms in cheap lodging-houses many vot- ers were registered, ana even the Baldwin Hotel, where Senator Mahoney happened to live, was given as the residence of a suspiciously large number of citizens who were not used to living in such sumptuous hostelries. It was found that some alleged residents of the Baldwin Hotel were registered from storerooms occupied only by dusty trunks and weaving spiders. Senator Mahoney was shocked at these discoveries, and Mr. Sternberg will be shocked to-day. Sternberg was convicted on two charges months ago. On appeal he was granted a new trial in one case and he wasagain convicted. The appeal in the second case was dis- missed day before yesterday and thatis why he will rise for final sentence to-day. The two sentences will probably be the same as the original ones—three years on each charge. There is also one thing about Louis Sternberg’s case that is not at all remark- able. The law’s justice is meted outto the poor tool of others, while the princi- pals, whoever they may be, who are wholly responsible for this debauchery of a popular election, are in no danger of seeing the bunk in a felon’s cell. time. It is the largest meteorite ever found. e Crews for New Vessels. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.—The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs has decided to report favorably an amendment to the naval bill when it comes up in the Senate, an amendment providing for the enlistment of not exceeding 1000 additional men in ordcr to furnish crews for the new vessels that will go into commission this summer, A WHISTLING LARYNX. The Unique Case of a Young Lady In Connectiout. Dr. Carl E. Munger of Waterbury con. tributes the following article to the cur- rent issue of the Medical Record: Miss Florence W—, aged 19, with a larynx perfectly normal in appearance and function, can whistle at any time without tke use of her lips, tongue, pharynx, soft or hard palate or cheeks. If the mouth iy opened, the tongue pulled out and held firmly between the thumb and index fin- ger, as is customary on inspecting the Tarvnx, and a laryngeal mirror is held in position npon the soft palate, pressing it back against the posterior pharyngeal wall, the patient during examination can whistle very clearly and loudly enough to be heard in any part of a large room. The position of the vocal chords is as follows: There is close ap- proximation of the vocal chords for their anterior three-quarters, while posteriorly there is left a triangular space. which is more or less encroached upon as high or low notes are produced; atthe same time the ventricular bands are constantly changing their positions, according as the note is high or low. This young lady says her range is about one and a half octaves. She further says that a cousin, a young boy, possesses this power of laryngeal whistling, bnt to a very lim- ited degree, and that in her own case she has been able to whistle in this peculiar manner since childhood. The or- dinary definition of ‘to whistle” is ‘to utter@a kind of musical sound by forcing the breath through a small ori- fice formed by contracting the lips’ (*‘Cen- tury Dictionary”); it must then be added that “to whistle’ is as above, but with this addition, “‘or make a musical sound by forcing the breath through a small orifice left by the partial approximation of the vocal cherds, the only other anatomical aids being the ventricular bands.” The objection that this is not a whistle cannot hold, as a proficient singing mas- ter hasassured me that the sound is purely a whistle, and not a singing or speaking note. This is then a unigue case of the production of the whistle in the larynx unaided by the lips, tongue, cheeks or plate. s Russian emancipation of the serfs took place in 1861. At that time 22,000,000 serfs who had been the vroperty of 103,000 no- blemen were given their freedom. The cost of the emancipation to the Govern- ment was £65,000,000. MISS FRANCES WEYMAN, 1SS FRANCES WEYMAN IS ONE OF the pretty young ladies now visiting friends in Hanford. As is well known in Hanford, Miss Weyman left her nome in Omaha, Nebr., in search of good health. Before her arrival she was but the ghost of her real self. Now she is strong, brimful of energy and perfectly beautiful. Al- though she used several bottles of Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla, her face showed no signs of a pimple, a blood spot or a sarsa- parilla trademark. The reason is obvious. Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, unlike the iodide of potassium sarsaparilla, contains only herbs—California herbs and herbs that will dry up the facial blemishes and purify the blood without throwing out spots on the face. Listen to Miss Wey- man: “You may tell the manager of Joy’s Veeetable Sarsaparilla that I am de- lighted with California in general and with Joy’'s Vegetable Sarsaparilla in particular. I almost wish I was a native. Don’t you see what a great thing it is to have people speak of your own State as being great in health-restoring qualities? Yes, when I return to Omaha I will be sure to carry several bottles of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla, and I shall always praise the remedy, as it has done me great good.” The experience of Miss Frances Weyman will be your experience if you try Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. Don’t allow a druggist to talk you out of the ‘“nativa sarsaparilla”—Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla HELD AS A HOSTAGE. Menelek Will Detain Salsa Until Italy Answers. ROME, ITavLy, April 23.—General Baldis- sera, commanding the Italian forces in Abyssiana, has received a letter from King Menelek in which that monarch wrote that if Italy refused the terms of peace which he had offered through Major Salisa, the Italian envoy to the Abyssinian camp, he would hold Major Saisa as a hostage until the letters defining the terms of peace were ret urned to him. General Baidissera immediately upon receiving this communication sent back the letters, and now considers that peace negotiations between Italy and Abyssinia have been finally ruptured. SUAKIM, ApyesiNia, April 23, —Further advices received here from Berber say that in the recent fight among the members or the Khalifa’s bodyguard at Omdurman, 500 men were killed instead of fiity, as first reported. e O’Donnell Committed Suicide. CHICAGO, ILL., April 23.—The mysteri- ous disappearance of Patrick O’Donnell, a wholesale and retail butcher, who had been missing for several weeks, was cleared up this morning, when his body was found floating in the lake at the foos of Twelfth street. It is supposed O’'Donnell com- mitted suicide while his mind was de- ranged through sitting up at nights caring for a sick baby. 'Donnell was very wealthy, bis fortune being estimated at nearly $1.000,000. International Bimetallism. BRUSSELS, BrreroM, April 23.—The meeting of bimetallists called to discuss means of bringing about international ne- gotiations on the subject of currency, separated to-day after forming itself into a committee pledged to continue the efforts toward securing international bi- metallism. sodl s L Peary’s Friends Are Mystified. WASHINGTON, D. 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