The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1896, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1896. A CONQUEST BY STEAM N basing the estimate upon the mileage of -miles via Yokohama. T_rip Around the Be Made in rce Hilizoff of Russia has been re- ting 1n the Eastern States that when bertan road shall be com- 1 be possible to go around the | ¥ ordinary routes and methods | 1 in thirty days. will put a girdle around the earth in nates,” said Puek. “Ican do it in thirty days,” is the ver- sion of the Russian Prince, - Men connected with the n interest in S8an Francisco, v who foresee in the compara- y near future the Golden Gate owded with carriers of commerce be- Asia and San Francisco, have taken | neir penciis ‘in the last few days fo | rify or to disprove Prince Hilkoff. The | clusion of probably the most expert of these figurersis that Prince Hilkoff is tirely justified in his view of the possibil- transpor- 1 interesting feature of this considera- on is the actual distance to be traversed, rail lines and the projected road lying east of Cheliabinsk and mak- ing the sea routes coincide about with the great circles. Thirty days of 720 hours in total furnish the iime, and the total distance is, very .closely calculated, 21,374 miles. The Atlan- tic Ocean distance is 3596 miles and the Pa- fic Ocean distance from San Francisco to Yladivostok, the eastern terminus and for the trans-Siberian line, i3 6325 | The distance direct to Vladivostok is less than via Yoko- | ~hama, but in making this calculation it | has been taken, into account that many , steamers between San Francisco and Vladivostok will' naturally visit Yoko- | vo! hama en route for trade reasons. The purpose of estimating on sach a basis is to reach an intelligent conclusion ‘ concerning the actual facts, and not to | make a “freak story.”” It may also be| prenused in this regard that the periods consumed in land and sea voyages are | estimated on existing time-tables in com- | mon use, and it is possible to make con- | nections exactly as set down therein. The rgences from the actual facts are only found in giving steamers to b2 used on the Pacific Ocean, between San Francisco and * Viadivostok, an average speed of twenty knots per hour, to coincide with the speed | of the best steamers on .the trans-Atlantic | routes; iving railroad trains an aver- e rate of 39.68 miles, which, in view of n portions of the United Statesand zlso European trains making headway of fifty miles an hour, cannot be < red excessive. Taking then Prince Hilkoff's ‘‘thirty s around the world” as a time esti- | ate, the problem, as it will concern San ancisco not many years hence, may be | summed up about as follows: | si: | New York, leave November 18, World Will Soon Thir’cg Dags Thirty days of twenty-four hours—720 hours —average 29.686 miles per hour. Ocean distance, 9921 miles, at the average speed of 20 knots, consumes 431.35 hours. Rail distance, 11,453 miies, average 39.68 miles per hour, consumes 288.65 hours. The total aist e is 21,874 miles. If it were possible to make close connec- tions by rail and by sea dt all points, un- der the existing conditions it would not matter which port of departure might be selected. At this time, it is discovered, after a long and careful study of European and trans-American time-tables and con- | nections, that London 1s the best point-to start from. For the purpose of lending reality to this trip, which may some day be a reality, it may be supposed that the trans-Siberian railway bas become sufli- ciently settlea and equipped to make it reasonably certain that all passenger trains will go through according to the regular schedules. Then the distances and route of travel ought to be as follows: Nauticai Statute Miles. Miles. ampton docks (R. R = 78 Southamptou dock 1o York pier, American line steamer (str). 3,128 8,506 New York to >an Francisco (B.R.). ...... ' 3,269 ci via Yokobama (0 Vladivostok. Great Cireie route, . Francisco 10 Yokohama and distance Yokohama 10 5,4 Siberian Kailway Foute (str,) Moscow to Berlin (K. R.).. Beritn to London. via Flushing and Queensborough (K. R. and str. via Flushing and Queensborough) .. tance from Yokohama to Vlaai- jerived from sailing charts in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey office. vostok The manifest destinv of San Francisco being to become a very important link in the around-ihe-world-direct chain, or route, this g eneral subject has an ever-in- creasing interest as the trans-Siberia road progresses steadily and with all possible rapidity toward completion. The fact is, that now a trip can be made around the world via San Francisco, and making the Golden Gate the point of departure, in seventy-one days, via Hongkong, London and New York. Suppose the journey to be begun on September 12 last, which was a date favor- able to making very close connections, and a passenger would be due to arrive back here November 22, and that by e: isting actual schedules. The itinera would be as follows: Actual schedule possible journey San Fran- cisco via Hongkong, London and New York to San Francisco: San Francisco, 1 ber 12, . M., Pacific Mall steamer; Hongkong, arrive October 7. Hongkong, leave October 8, | P. and O. steamer to Brindisi and thence P. {and O. E press to London; London, arrive November 10. London, leave November 11, steamer; New York, arrive November 18. ., rail; San Francisco, arrive November 22, r.M. Seventy- one days. A striking feature of tie future route of travel around the world via San Fran- cisco and Siberia is the vast distance the passenger will find the jurisdiction of only two flags—American and Russian— to shield bim. Both countries, facing on both of the great oceans, are naturally the ones to be traversed in the around- the-world circuit. Some existing routes of travel render it possible to travel 12,804 miles under the United States flag. Mak- ing up a schedule of globergirdling and starting eastward from San Francisco, the foliowing is a present possible around- the-world journey in' the total time of seventy-three days: San Francisco, via New York, London, Hong- kong to San Francisco: San Franeisco, lve. Sept, 17, P. M. New York, arr. Sept.'22, P. M. New York, ive. Sept. 23, A. M. London, arr. Sept. 30, p. M. : Southampton. London, Ive. O P. & O. Express to Brin- Hongkong,ar. disi, toence via stmr. Hongkong, lve. Noy. S S canciscn, ars Nev, 39111, .1} Steamer. During these seventy-three days the passenger would be ‘thirty-eight days under the American flag. When the trans-Siberian line opens the tourist may be under the American flag and Russian distanee around the earth. Traveling by way of Sydney an actual schedule of eighty days can be prepared for the circuit of the esrth and on this ronte an American can travel 14,088 miles and be thirty-eight days under the American flag, which is therefore the banner Ameri- can route. The American steamers are those of the Ocesnic Steamship line on the Pacific and the American line steam- erson the Atlantic Ocean. Taking Lon- aon for the starting point to make close | connections the schedule of ‘eighty days via Sydney and San Franeisco is asfol- lows: London 1y. Oct. 3, A. ».—Railroad, London to | Southampton. b New York ar. Oct. 9, p. M.—Stearuer, South- ampton to New York. flag on land and on sea nearly the entire New York lv. Oct. 9, P. M.—Railrosd, New ~York to San Francisco. San Francisco ar. Oct. 14, A. M.—Rallroad, New York to San Francisco. San Francisco lv. Oct. 15, P. M.—Steamer, San Francisco to Sydney. Sydney ar. Nov. 10—Railroad, Sydney to Mel- bourne. Melbourne lv. Nov. 14—Stesmer, Melbourne to Brindisi. . London ar, Dec. 22—P. & O. express, Brindisi to London. There are many ways by the reguler travel routes and by established schedules to beat Phileas Fogg's tour. The coming record is for thirty days, and the foregping AN INNOVATION IN SIBERIA. demonstrates that to be feasible not many years hence. Do You Want Exercise ? ‘There are many persons to whom the question of exercise is an important one. Circumstances are such that they cannot devote time and attention to atnletics of any description. Household cares or even- ing duties are moro or less confining. and prevent any induigence in healthful exer- cises, Perbaps too, they have had to fore- go the bicycle on account of.a slim purse and an expensive family. At any rate there are many reasons that prohibit many peop'e from keeping up athletic sports and games. To such persons I would make a few sugeestions. To begin with I have found myself in just such a position. My great bugbear in lack of time. Business duties, home obli- gations and the demand on my spare time 23 are such that I have had to forego entirely those exercises that built up my constitu- tion from & rather sickly boyhood, and preserved it until at the conclusion of eighteen years of business life I can truth- fully say that I have not missed a half day from the office through sickness. How to preserve my health was io me quite a problem, particularly as my business du- ties are rather confining. Finally I have decidec this matter: Dumbbells twice a day and a stiff walk over Nob Hill is the answer to the question. I would suggest to a business man that if you can swing dumbbells or Indian clubs at your place of business for five minutes in the morning and in the afternoon, seeking, of course, a secluded spot, you will be as much bene- fited in business as in health. Then there is another thing which has been a hobby with me, viz.,, mountain climbing. There is not a mountain or hill of any consequence within a radius of fifty miles of this city that I have not ascended. There are few people who do not feel the charm of mountain climbing, and I do not think that any enjoy it more than L To go info'the conntry, away from the clatter of the express-wagon and the fierce clang of the cable-car bell— To mingle with the universe, and feel ‘What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. One can feel himself a Byron even if he cannot frame such magnificent utterances. With my heart filled with such senti- ments and a day off I sought the recesses of Mill Valley and the heights of Tamal- pais for a brief season of rest. I admitit was a peculiar kind of rest, not such as are usnally taken by invalids, atany rate. As a friend remarked, “I'd rather ycu would have the job.” At 8:53 A. m. I found myself at Mill Valley, and stopping only a minute or two to inguire the way, I at once struck the trail and began the ascent. Tamalpais reminds me of a crouching lion, with ears erect and extended form. Miil Valley DO YOU WANT EXERCISE? Climbing Tamalpais a Healthful Excursion for the Vigorous becomes the extremity of the right fore paw and Ross Valley the left. My course led me up and along the right paw to the shoulder. In doing this I passed many vretty villas and ghady nooks, while the rise was very gradual. After a while I passed the new railroad leading to the summit, which has lately been built, and I thought—Richard can have his horse and the old or lazy can take the train, but for mountain climbing give me my legs! Once more I passed one of the many windings of the railroad, the second and last crossing. Up to this pointthe ground was more or less undulating, the ascents of course being greater than the incline, but at 9:10 I descended the lastand gentle slope and began the climb in earnest, for it seemed as though the path led directly. to the summit. Indeed the acclivity comes alarmingly close to being 45 degrees. As long as the path waa gpod and the atmos- phere cool I was in my element, but the direct rays of the sun, tke absence of breeze and my anxiety to reach the peak at the earliest possible moment combined to make it dreadtully uncomfortable. Of course the latter canse was attributable to myself, and need not be imitated by those who climb purely for pleasure. I will not go into the details of my climb up the face of the mountain. Suflicient to say that I kept placing one foot in front of the other and watching the ‘pole on the summit, and after sundry turnings and windings, after many a gasp and groan, almost staggering with exhaustion, Istood on the pinnacle of Tamalpais, the tip of the lion’s left ear. But I stood there only long enough to examine my watch and find that it registered just 9:45, having accomplished the distance from the station in fifty-two minutes. Having performed this duty I sought a shady spot, and T wish to say, without hesita- tion, that it was worth all the exertion, and more too, to lie there in the presence of that magnificent scene and feel the gen- tle breeze, like some Oriental slave, fan my heated face. Of all the cities on this continent of equal or greater population San Francisco is unquestionably the most favored in point of scenery. New- York, Chicago, Philadelphia, 8t. Louis and New Orleans are distressingly flat, while Brooklyn, Baltimore and Cincinnati have few rises of ground that would compare with Nob Hill at the greatest. Montreal, which is inferior in population to our own City, has a respectable hill behind it, much like Mount Olympus, south of Golden Gate Park, reserved by the city for the public and mueh enjoyed by them. But of all these cities not one possesses the giit of scenery which nature has lavished on our favored City: Twin Peaks, 925 feet above the level of the sea, at the head of Market street, easily accessible by a fairly good waiker from the Haight-street cars; San Bruno, somewbat to the sonth on the border of the county line, 1000 feet; Grizzly Peak, across the bay, behind Berkeley, at the summit of the Oakland range, 1925 feet; Tamalpais, on which I stood; Mount Diablo, to ‘the east, reared its massive form, its crest towering 3876 feet 1n the heavens, and far off to the south Mount Hamiiton conld be seen, on the summit of a considerable range, 4400 feet above the level of the bay. All these can be seen from one of the higher hills of our City, and of course at a great ade vantage where I lay in the delightiul at- mosphere. Then turning my face to the north the great bulk of Mount St. Helena rose before me at an altitude of 4843 feet. Descending from the left ear of the mountain I passed the pretty little hotel that has recently been erected for the ac- commodation of sightseers and wended my way to the hump of the lion. After quite a walk I stood on the highest point of the entire mountain. Here I found four pillars, each about three feet high and about eighteen inches thick. I mounted the one that seemed on,higher ground than the others and mused: “*They say that this mountain is 2597 feet high. If so ‘then this pillar is fully three feet, therefore we will call the peak 2600 feet above the level of the ocean.” While on the way I obtained & beautiful view of the lake which supplies San Rafael with water, nestling in the strong arms of the mountain and drawing its nourish- ment from ifs veins. Then to the north Point Reyes plainly visible, and far off in the distance, like a drawn sword, was Tomales Bay. Around me was a wilder- ness of chaparral, clothing the sides of the mountain, while in the canyons at the base ana on the sides of the mountain were heavy growths of redwood. While perched there gazing around at the wild and beautiful scene I recalled that mag- nificent phrase of our California poet, Lucius H. Foote, in describing the tre- mendous disorder of the Sierras where he speaks of “the petrified commotion.” Returning to the eastern crest I sat down for an hour, this time in the sun, for I was cooled off and found the soft beams delightful. With the glorious landscape spread out before me I reclined in silence, enjoying the scene through the medium of eyes and nerves. Finally I aroused to the fact that the shadows had long since turned toward the east, and after a few ‘“longing, lingering looks behind” I took my way down the trail whence I had come and after a time forna myself once more in the clas- sic shades of Mill Valley. An hour spent there was a mostinteresting and profitable one, and taking a much earlier train than I expected I arrived in the City, having spent one of the most delightful days of * the year and anxious that others should do the same. GEeo. D. Bairp. GOLDEN MEMORIES OF A HER.O Golonel Baker's Wo rds Will Go Ringing Down the Ages Yorever -five years ago last Tuesday was | fought the bloody battle of Leesburg, sometimes called Balls Bluff, Tbe C fornia regiment, commanded. by Colonel | Edward Dickinson Baker, formany years'| a resident of San Francisco, but then a | " United States Senator from the new State | of Oregon, got into the very hottest of the | . year : mercantile or mechanical pursuits, in con- - of last September, in the City of San . about 900 men, all in red shirts and black fight, and Baker was killed at the head of | his regiment, fighting with the valor of an e was a “divinely gifted man,” n said of Garfietld. The son of a poor English weaver, he rose by sheer force of genius to be the peer of the véry first men in the land. No other face of that day ever blazed with such rare manly btauty, and no.other voice ever rang out peans of freedom to all the world as the arion voice of the “Gray Eagle” who w sleeps in 2 neglected grave at Lone antein. hirty-eight years ago on the 12th day - Francisco, about 20,000 people assembled to celebrate the completion of the first Atlantic cable, known to electricians as D nty’s cable, between England and America. It had been known for a month that the British frigate Agamemnen and “the American war steamer Niagara were at anchor off the Isle of Wight and waiting favorable conditions of weather to begin the work so deeply franght with the hopes of all civitized nations. But that was a before the pony exvress and three ears before the completion of the over- nd telegraph. 8o our only communica- s by means of ocean steamers via About 7 o’clock on the morning he 24th the steamship Sonora, Captain hard L. W g came dashing into bay with & white flag 2t her foremast, aring the inscription, “Atlantic cable :Hill. Much of the detail work of a cele- bration i been discounted before the steamer’s arrival, and so the work of col- lecting money for the show was a very trifling task. The procession was a magnificent one, all the trades, civic societies and other - organizations being in the parade. An ox-ieam with a covered wagon was a fea- ture of the display, bearing 'the inscrip- tion, “‘Give us the Pacific railroad. Don’t wait for the wagon.” It was a more unique procession than had ever before been given in the State, The firé depari- ment, consisting of filteen. hand-engiries, three hook-and-ladder trucks and one in- dependent hosecart, paraded at 8 . M. trousers, most of whom were engaged in sequence of which they could not parade in the daytime. The literary exercises of the occasion were celebrated in -the little triangle made by the intersection of Bush, Battery and Market streets, and there it was that Colonel Edward. D. Eaker, after- ward United States Senator from Oregon, delivered the oration of the day—one of the most exquisite bits of English compo- sition that graces the pages of our Na- tionel literature. In speaking of the part- ng in midocean of the two great warships e said: The spectacle which merked ' the moment ien the cable was first dropped into the deep B0 was one of absorbing interest.' Two stately ships of different and oncg hostile nations bore the precious freight. Meeting in. mid-ocean they exchanged the courtesies of their' gallant profession. Each bore the flag of St. George, X 1t was ten miles to her wharf, and | © " before she could reach her pier a salute ot | - 100 guns was being fired from Telegraph stoil kind, measurer of the depths of earth reverently in prayer to the great Ruler of the tempest; exact in order, perfect in discipline, they waited the auspicious moment to se the distant shore. Well were those noble v: sels nared—the one Niagara, with & force re- sistless as our own cataract, the other Agamem- non, “the king of men,” as constant in pur- pose, as resolute in trial as the great leader of the Trojan war. have you fulfilled your trust. Favoring were the gales, smooth the seas that bore you ta the land; and, oh!if the wish and prayer of the good and wise of all the earth may avail, your high and peaceful mission shall remain for- Right well, O gallant crew, | a5 now, the great minister of peace! Let thy starry brow and benign front gleam iu the yan of“progress, brighter than the sword of the conqueror and welcome as the light of heaven! Baker’s strong imagery and exquisite thought did not stop there, however. A night or two before the arrival of the Sonora with the glad tidings of the com- pletion of the cable, Dunati’'s comet blazed forth and was seen for the first time with the naked eye, although the great astron- omer had notified the world of its ap- proach nearly two months before. Baker referred to this in his usual felicitous way: | | But, even while we assemble to mark fhe | deed end rejoice at its completion, the Almighty, as if to impress us with 8 becoming sence of our weakness when compared with his power, has set a new signal of his reign in | heaven. If, to-night, fellow-citizens, you will 100k out from the glare of your illuminated city into the northwestern heavens, you will COLONEL BAKER, HERO OF BALL’S BLUFF., ever perfect, and those triumphant standards, 50 long shadowing the earth with their glory, shall wave in united folds as long as the Homeric story shall be remembered among men or the thunders of Nisgara reverberate above its arch of spray. Men stood awc-stricken at his exquisite word pictures and hardly nad the cheers subsided and the average'listener recov- ered frop: the exquisite shiver that per- vaded his entire frame when the white-' haired orator broke forth in a brilliant apostrophe: O Science! thou thought-clad leader of the company ot pure and great souls that for their race “and love their and the recesses of heaven! Apostle of civilization—handmaid of religion—teacher each carricd the flowing stripes and blazing *azs; on each deck that mertial band bowed of human equality and human right—per- petual witness for the Divine wisdom—Dbe ever perceive, low down on the edge of the horizon, a bright stranger, pursuing its path across the sky. Amid tbe starry bosts that keep their watch, it shines, attended by a brighter pomp and followed by a broader train. No living man has gazed upon its splendors befor2, no watchful votary of sciefice has traced its course for nearly ten generations. It is more than 800 years since its approach was visible from our planet. When lastit came it startled an Emperor on his throne, and while the super- stition of his age taugnt him to perceive in its presence a herald and & doom, his pride saw in its flaming course and firey train the -an- nouncement that his own light was about to be extinguished. In common with the lowest of his subjects, he read omens of destruction in the baleful heavens, and prepared himself for & fate which alike awaits the mightiest and the meanest. Thanks to the present condition of scientific knowledge, we read the heavens with a far clearer perception. Wesee, in the predicted return of the rushing, blazing comet . through the sky, the march of messenger along his appointed way and around his predestined orbit. For 300 years he has traveled amid the regions of infinite space. “Lone wandering, but not lost,” he has left behind him shining suns, blazing stars and gleaming constellations, now nearer to the eternal throne, and again on ‘the confines of the universe. He returns, with visions radiant and benign; he returns, with unimpeded march and unobstructed way; he returns, the majestic, swift electric telegraph of the Almighty, bearing upon his flaming front the tidings that, throughout the universe, there is still peace and order—that, amid the im- measurable dominions of the Great King, his ruie is still perfect—that suns and stars and systems tread their endless circle and obey the eternal law. A year afterward Bager pronounced his most pathetic utterance, his funeral ora- tion over David C. Broderick, the great leader of the Free Soil Democracy, who had fallen ir a duel with Judge Terry. Broderick’s last words were *I am dying —protect my honor.” In his oration Baker said: B “The code of honor is a delusion and a snare. It palters the hope of a true cour- age and binds it at the feet of crafty and cruel skill. It surrounds its victim with the pomp and grace of the procession, but leaves him bleeding on thealtar. Itoffers up to personal vindrctiveness a life due only to a country, a family and to God. Tt substjtutes cold and deliberate prepara- tion for courage and manly impulse, and arms the one to disarm the other. It is equal in all the form, unjust in all the substance. Its boasted equality is a lie.”” He closed his speech with (the writer stood less than thirty feet from him) the following glowing peroration: But the last word must be spoken, the im- perious mandate of death fulfilled. Good {riend, unselfish patient, modest hero, hail and farewell! Thus, O brave heart, we bear thee to thy rest. Thus, surrounded by tens of thousands, we leave thee to the ever equal grave. As in life no other voice among us so rang its trumpet tones upon the ears of iree men, 80 in death its echoes will reverberate amid our’ valleys and our mountains till velor and truth shall cease to appeal to the human heart. Beyond question Baker's speech at Forest Hill in 1859, a few weeks before the iatal duel which sent Broderick to his grave, was the greatest Republican speech ever made up to that time. The scene was a fitting one for an.in- spired orator. The lofty mountains with their minarets of tapering pines piercing the tranquil summer sky, the roaring American River, only a few miles away, singing its lullaby to the twinkling stars of the warm summer night and the thou- sand brawny giants with torches in their hands, gathered about *‘the old man elo- quent”—all went to make upa picture that was original in its composition. No won- der, then, that he began with that grace- ful exordium: I am speaking here in the mountains, al- ways free, and in every age and clime favor- able to the great 1dea of real liberty, always an inspiration to its defenders and a fortress to 1ts warriors. Or that he should have closed it with that ringing peroration which stirred men’s souls so that not a man in the assemblage was seated when he finished it: My voice will soon be silent, but your thoughts will remain. They will go forward and conquer. They are even now gathering into & stream that shall spread into a rushing, boiling and bounding river. They are con- trolling men’s minds and maturing their lives. They kindling me words and freeing men's souls. And as surely as the great procession of heaven’s host above moves each in its appointed place and orbit, so shall the proud principles of human right and free- dom preyail over tyranny and usurpation. The patriot sleeps within fiity feet of Broderick, his slumbers lulled by the breakers at his very feet that typify his grand and stormy life. When that beau- tiful cemetery was first opened for sepul- ture of the, pioneers it was the most deso- late sand dune between Mexico and a heave nlyOregon, but the landscape gardener’s art has transformed it into a thing of beauty. Baker delivered the dedication speech which the writer has not seen in print for forty years, and of which, he can only re- call the closing sentences: Within these now sterile grounds shall bloom roses and lilies as pure as the soulsof the women and children who slumber in peace below. And within them public reverence and gratitude shall build the tombs of war- riors and statesmen who have given all their lives and their best thoughts to their country. Could the brave soldier and inspired orator nhave foreseen as he uttered that sentence that, in less than seven years, he should fall in battle, clad in the uniform of his-adopted country, a bleeding martyr on the altar of freedom? He sleeps in the soil which his own lips consecrated to all that is holy in the human heart, and "BRIGHT LITTLE we sometimes ln‘ncy we can hear the voice that said: Hither in the long and advancing years the funeral train and the solemn procession shall ‘bear our treasures whilte they affirm our trust. Hither shall be borne the warrior on his shield and the poet who, from earth and air and sea and sky, shall have drawn inspiration for his theme, And here shall be borne, too, the lit- tle child to whose grave the weeping mother shall come again to hear those words of con- solation, “In my father's house are many mansions.” STOCKTON'S NEW GIRL A GEM The . Little Maiden ‘Has Solved a Problem That Perplexes Millions Jo-Day How to make money is a problem that is puzzling oid and wise heads all over the country just now. Up in Stockton there is a little maiden—the 'very newest kind of a new little woman—who has solved it to her own satisfaction. Her name is Hilma 8. Carlson. Hilma is a happy. healthy, energetic specimen of California childhood. Her hair is sunny and so is her disposition, HILMA CARLSON. and she has big blue eyes, bright, intelli- gent and expressive. That she isa worker in the world in which she has had scarcely more than a dozen years’ experience is proven by the fact that solely through her own enterprise and exertions she has over $100 in bank credited to her name. She | earned it by selling T CALL. About a year ago, Hilma, who has enough ambition for half a dozen girls of her age, concluded that when she grew up she would like to be a physician. At school she cared more for physiology than for any other study, and read with the greatest eagerness everything that she could find pertaining to that subject. Be- ing a wise lassie, she knew that a medical education could not be had for tbe asking, and realizing that her father would have quite enough to do in years to come if he cared for and educated her two younger sisters and brother, Hilma decided to carve out her destiny with her own small hands. So she brought her active brain and her egually active feet into requisition and started out to compete with the newsboys who were selling daily papers on the street. She has been competing with them ever since. ‘Whether any of them have five shining twenties in bank to show for their labors does not transpire, and Hilma is too busy acquiring the fund that is to gradaate her from a medical college one of these fine days to inquire. 1t may easily be imagined that a child who developed a serious ambition soearly in life and. who persists in following the course she has marked out for herself as a child of remarkable mental caliber. Hilma reads with avidity evervthing that she can find..which contains solid in- formation, and is deeply interestea in all scientific subjects. She has some very original and practical ideas on industrial topice, ana think thai parents make a great mistake who allow their children to waste their time in mere play. The dignity of labor appeals to her strongly, and she is never so happy as when she counts her gains in nickels after a suc- cessful day’s sale of papers, “Why do I sell THE Carn?” she re« peated in answer to a question. *Why, because I l!ike it better than any other paver, and sodoes papa. And then it selis faster. My customers say they like to take it home to their families. I s'pose that’s because it isn't sensational. No, L don’t care to sell any other paper. THE CaLL 1s my mascot;”’ and away she darted to make another sale, her childish young voice arresting the attention of passers-by as she passed along “the street, a pretty picture in a dainty white frock. Hilnda is a girl of many accomplishe ments, and her parents are very proud of ker, as indeed they may well be. She can cook a dinner quite to perfection, can sweep, dust and sew in the most approved fashion, and has decided musical ability. She is her mother’s maiustay, and her father’s, too, for that matter. The latter is an industrious tradesman who conducts a clothing-store, and once, when he was away for the greater part of a week, Hiima took full charge of the shop, selling shirts and other articles of clothing as easily as she disposes of her | Carrs. While she is waiting for the daily train to bring the papers from San Fran- cisco, she employs her time in making | buttonholes for the store, and has fre- qdently “fimshied fifty in one forencon. ‘The moment that the papers arrive she is réady for business. Her father does not allow her to enter the ‘storés or go on side streets. Shbe sells only on Main street, which, is Stockton’s principal thoroughfare. 1f you should travel to the Slough City you will be sure to see a modest, well-bred and sweet-faced little girl with a buudie of papers under Ler arm. And if you drop a nickel into her slim brown band you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done your share toward making brave little Hilma’s college dream a reality,