The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1896, Page 4

‘4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1896. FORTUNE SMILES ON SAA DIEGD Superior Resources Bring Prosperity to the City. Improvements of the Past Year Include Two New Street Railways. Extepsive Pians for Fortifying Its Magnificant Sheltered | Harbor. SAN DIEGO, Cav.,, Dee. 5.—It has been | a matter of common remark during the | past three years of financial depression that in the city and county of San Diego | there was always the te: ncy among the | people to push forward, and, evemin the | face of temporary commercial setbacks, to | reach out and compel fortune to smile | | The character of this building movement | who now has no less than three of the im- | will begin operations. | Brewery, with a capacity of 150,000 barrels the present year (1896) the value of new buildings is over half a million of dollars. has been the most substantial. It has in- cluded some of the most handsome of solid business and residence structures to be found in Southern California. The in- vestors in these properties have been among the most level-headed business men from all parts of the country. One of the heaviest builders is U. 8. Grant Jr., portant busimess blocks in the city, but also owns, in addition to these, a large residence and a ranch in the Sweetwater Valley. About the first of the year the largest manufacturing enterprise in the county It is the San Diego of beer annually. The brick buildings of this establishment /are just being com- ! pleted under the direction of experienced | brewers, who intend to cater to the trade of Central America, Mexico and_interior voints. Space, however, is insufficient 1o enumerate in detail, the many handsome building blocks and residences that have just been added to the city. In the way of public improvements dur- ing the year have been the opening of two new electric streetcar lines and the build- ing of a lengthy extension of one of these lines is now in progress. Many miles of streets have been graded and furnished with cement sidewalks. The increased street railway service has brought large sections of excellent residence property into close communication with the center of the city. A matter of importance to *San Diego is the beg ing of the fortification of its magni nt barbor by the National Gov- | ernment. This harbor, which is twelve miles long, can receive. and float the navies of the world in its land-locked em- brace. It is to be defended by eleven MNARSTON AN SN FIRST NATIONA A — e € © O e s QS M ) (TN, J F 51 LookING WEST FROM SEVENTH ST 3 BLOK HOTEL BREWSTER | 7 -~ 1! = - e - = J l S L DANK . | settiement of San Diego fruit lands. -| and is regarded as the star lemon. tract of 11 ufi 000 gallon reservoir in Sweetwater Vailey. This supply irrigates thousands of acres in Sweetwater Valley, National City, Cnhula Vista aud vicinity, where lemons and oranges are raised in abundance on ranches that ure as level as barn floors. One of tiese lemon ranches contains nearly 1000 acres in a single tract, the largest lemon orchard in the world. At Escondido, a few miles back of Oceanside, an irrigation system costing about $400,000 has just been completed which waters about 12,000 handsome acres. The completion of this system has brought in many new settlers to that iruitful valley, and the increase in the value of its produmcts’ is remarkable. Duaring the vresent season Escondido’s output of raisins alon: was twenty-five carioads. In June last the Southern California Mountain Water Company began the con- struction of the largest and most compre- hensive irrigation system in the county. The entire cost of this system will be up- ward of $3,000,000. The city of San Diego is vitally interested in this system, as it hes voted bonds to tue extent of $1,000,000 and contracted with this company for a water supply of 1009 inches of water per- petually, and for a pipe-line and distribut- ing system to and within the city limi Under the contract the purpose is to give the city an independent water system from fountain head to kitchen faucet, and upon the completion of this vast projeet many predict increased prosperity for the whole county as well as for the city, for the irrigating part of this large undertak- ing will insure the development of 60,000 acres of ranch land. The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court sustaining the Wright irri-ation law will have an in- tense stimulating effect toward the spele;dy n- der this decision the affairs of the Linda Vista irrigation district, on the northern edge of the city, will progress and itis beiieved that the 44,000 acres embraced in this district will be provided with water in the near future.” This land is frostless California. The Jamacha district with 22,000 acres; the Fallbrook distriet with 11,000 acres in_addition to the Escondido district already mentioneg, all come un- der the beneficial influence of this deci- sion which promises. to work so much good toward the settiement. and useful- ness of these acres. Under these districts is a total of 89,000 acres, while under the irrigation enterprises outside of the dis- tricts are over100,000 acres additional, mak- ing a grand total of nearly 200,000 acres of the bestfruit lands in the State, a large part of which acreage is absolutely frost- less. The irrgzation districts now organ- ized which are yet without water works have secured reservoir sites and water rights which are ready for development. Two lines of steamers already have a terminus at tiils port. One line operates steamers between here and San Francisco, calling at coast ports; the second line is between this citv and Ensenada, connect- ing with steamers for the Lower Cali- fornia and Guif ports. During the year, representatives of the Japanése Govern- ment und of the largest steamsnip com- pany of Japan have inspected .this harbor with much care with the purpose of ) ) BUSINESS BLOCKS THAT ADD TO SAN DIEGO’S ATTRACTIVENESS. upon them, as it were, by their constant energy and elasticity of disposition, which setbatks have in a large measure dis- couraged the people of other communities and caused business stagnation whenever obstacles of moment have seemed to stand in their pathway. The peopole of San Diego are proud of their past record and achievements, and have abundant faitn in the future of their city and county because of the superior resources of this section and of the large promise there is of tre- mendous agriculiural, horticultural, com- mercial and mining development in the near future, This development is by no means merely a promise. In all of the avenues of industry mentioned, as well as along manufactaring lines, San Diego has accomplished a great deal in the way of bandsomely realizing what, a few years | ago, were regarded by conservative minds as ere areams. One of the surest signs of prosperity, both present and prospective, of any com- | munity, is the extent of its building orera- ; tions. Activity in building affairs denotes | 8 necessity for residences and business places which is the outcome of a real demand. During 1895 and 1826 the value of new buildings erected in the city hasi been unprecedented since the boom of | neariy ten vears ago. This is the more | remarikable because the increase in build- | ing has occurred right in the face of severe financial depression throughout the! Nation, when capital has been wary and money exceptionally scarce. During 1895 ! | large quarantine station and foundations guns of the first class, and bids bave just been adwertised for by the Engineer De- partment of the army for the construction of one of the big gun batteries at the en- trance of the harbor, This is a matter of significance to the ! City, as the erection of big guns means the establishment here of a very consider- able artillery garrison. General Nelson A. Miles, in his last annual report to the | Government, recommends the expendi- ture during the coming year of $600,000 upon fortifications. The National Gov- ernment already owns 1400 acres included in the commanding peuninsula of Point Loma, on which is already established a for a water battery, or which $65,000 has already been expended; in addition to | these improvements the Government is} spending $50,000 annually extending a | etty inZo the ocean at the harbor mouth or the purpose of deepening the ship channel over the bar, although the depth of water there is already sufficient to float the largest of ships. Water is king in Southern California. This county is royally provided with an abundance of the precious fluid and the development of this resource aiready achieved is enormous. There are three irrigation systems at vresent established; thatof the San Diego Fiume Company, | bringing water from the Cuyamaca Mountains fifty-three miles distant from the city, furnishes not only a municipal supply, but ‘also “irrigates” thousands of acres ai El Cajon, La-Mesa, Lemon Grove and at otber points along the line. Twenty to thirty thousand acres of the best fruit land in the State are under this system. In addition to this the water of the San Diego River furnishes an auxil- iary supply of water for city purposes. the value of new buildings erected within the city limits was about $400,000. During \ [ The famous system of the Ban Diego Land and Town Company bas its 7,000,008« + arranging to make it the terminus of a trans-Pacific line. Negotiations are 1n progress for the definite establishment of this line, and the steamers are being built in England. The operation of this line promises much good for Southern Cali- fornia, commercially, and is a part of a grand project of the Japanese Govern- ment to establish a colony in Mexico for the purpose of growine cotton, mining iron ore and securing other raw materials needed in Japan for the enconragement of manufacturing industries. These -pro- duets will help swell the freight of the steamers, 4000 tons of which freight are to be furnished monthly by -Southern Cali- fornia producers. From San Diego, as a base of operations, it is proposed to operate these Japanese steamers to the R{lnl_:lhl‘ ports on the west coast of exico. While the building of the Nicaragua canal under Government auspices is not yet absolutely sssured, all signs point to the speedy consummation of that much- desired to commerce. Throughout California the belief prevails that the canal is sure to be realized in the near fature. Its completion will mean the en- hancing of Californa property values by hundreds of millions of dollars, and fore- most among the ports to_be benefited by the canal is that of San Diego. The canal would at once make this port the great shipping and distributing center for a vast territory; California {fruits can then be shipped to New York to arrive within a fortnight and at freight rates that will enable this section to command the home citrus fruit market and drive foreign competition from our shores, Prospectivof; San Diego, with its superb harbor, is the door- way of commercial po&aibfime: within ;n:z reach of realization in the no distant uture, * Pt e ! Volumes could be written of the advan- tages of the climate here. It is acknowl- edged to possess the best all-the-year- round climate on earth. Thousands of invalids who have regained health here proeve the helpfuiness of these climatic conditions. The county offers comfort- table living-places from 200 feet below sea level to 7000 feet altitude, while the average annual rainfsll in the city is only eleven inches. In the mountains it is always heavy and abundant. Delightiul temperature prevails 1n summer as well as in winter and farming operations are car- ried on actively twelve months in the year. The city of 20,000 people has one of the best equipped and conducted school sys- tems in the Nation. The social side of life here is delightful and like that to be found in the old established cities of the East. Churches of nearly all denomina- tions, a large public library, a Chamber of Commerce ang other commerciai organi- zations, excellent hotels, opera-houses and all things necessary for a wide-awake. pro- eressiye city are found in San Diego. During 1895 nearly 1000 carloads o: prod- uce were shipped out of the county and of this about 500 carloads consisted of oranges and lemons. Within a year or two, according to estimates of conserva- tive raiiroad men, San Diego will ship 1000 cars of citrus frui.s aunually, and the increased product of the hundreds of thou- sands of trees coming into bearing prom- 1ses to increase the output by thousands of carloads and to encourage the building to this point of a second transcontinental railroad, to supplement the service now rendered by she Santa Fe system. National Congress of Mothers. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—Mrs, Adlai Stevenson, Mrs. Pheebe A. Hearst, Mrs. W. L. Wilson, Miss Morton, Mrs. H. W. Fuller, Mrs. Theodore W. Birney- and Miss Janet E. Richards will leave for New York Tuesday December 8, and will be at the Hotel Waldorf for two days. They gzo in the interest of the National Congress of Mothers to be held in Washington Feb- ruary 16. 1897. They will hold receptivns at the Waldorf Tuesday and Wednesday for the purpose of conferring with those interested in this movement, which is making most gratifying progress. ) LE F0F HELPFULAESS Rev. George Walk Speaks of the Necessity for Alt ruism _in Life. The Egotist Must Iuevitably Bscome a Pariah and Is Doomzd to Isolation. Rev. George Edward Walk, M. A., of Trinity Church preached yesterday from the text 1 Cor., iii:9, “For we. are laborers together with God.” One of the grandest utterances of Ten- nyson is where the “immortal bard” puts into the mouth of King Arthur these “dying words'': More things are wrought bv praver ‘Than this world dreams of.” Wherefore let thy vol ~ Rise Ijke a fountaln for me night and da¥. For what are men better than sheep or goats ‘That nourish a biind ife withio the brain, I knowing God, they lift not hunds of praver Both for themselves aud those who cail them riend ? For 80 the whole round earth Is every way Bouud by gold chains about the feet 0f God. 1t is the old lesson that “no man liveth unto himsell.” ~ It is not socialistic; it is not even communistic, except as it ex- presses that best of all forms of gommun- ism which our blessed Lord inculcaied in | his doctrine of the “brotherhood of man.”’ It simply means that we cannot live with-_ out the help of our fellowmen. It means that no man has a right to say that *‘what I bave is' my own and 1 will do as 1 please with it.” It means that the Christianized world is a band of brothers— who are banded together for the purpose of mutual helpfulness. It meansthat the man who will wrap himself in the gar- ment of his own selfishress inevitably becomes a pariah—a ‘‘spotted man’—to the “toilersand the moilers” in the eager conflict of life. It means that the man who is not willing to recognize the benefits which have come to him by reason of the interdepend- ence of man, and which may have lifted him above the common wants of his fellow mortals, and all the time cherishes the spirit of selfishness ard worldly pride, will justly deserve the enforced isolation and dread of tne work-a-day factors of hife which surround him. “Man cannot live alone—try as he might.” ———————— RAOING OARD TO-DAY, Ingleside Furnishes Another Great Ranning Programme, Ingleside track is out with another fine programme for to-day; indeed 1t looks as thougk the local track was the choice of the horse owners. The various events are all well filled and with the better class of horses. Among the jockeys who will probably be seen in the saddle to-day is Frank O'Leary, who has been very successful during the past season in the East, and who arrived here Baturday evening. A. Isom, a brother of ‘the clever Bob, will arrive here to-day and will also ac- | cept light-weight mounts. L. A. Legg, who purchased Zumar II at the Macdonou h sale and afterward sold | the geiding to Dan Honig, was present at | the track Baturday to see him win and had a good bet down on the son of St. Carlo. Mr, Legg has some horses in train- ing that will be seen at the local tracks shortiy. Charlie (Lame) Hughes and Pete Riley, the well-known bookmakers, will arrive here from St. Louis to-night and will put on a book at the next cut in. Heck Comiskey, the well-known horse- man and owner of Robin Hood 1I, got in from Chicago Saturday evening. He reports a number of other well-known horsemen on the way. Following are to-day’s hntries: First race, one mile, selling—90 P k 196 Thornhill 110, 50 Hnngy Lcwi:]{:)(: 19521' Masoero 92, 194 Allahabad 101, 186 dorte Fonse 104. Hydi 101, 189 Monita 107, 160 Gold Bug 101,181 Broadbiliow 92, 187 Adoiph Spreckels 101 72 Strathrol 104, 194 'Seasida 101, 186Nii3\'1nc§)62. }7(1}_1,;5: Chance 101, 181 xaminer 5 ulin v 1%4, 19.";Farem%sz101. s Dnee econd racé, five furlongs, hanrai - vear-olds—(103) Dunboy 115, Suisqn’ 114, 197) Zamar 11 118, (177) Horatio 110, 197 reyhurst 108, 173 Midlight 106, 177 Suear- foof 102, 192 Altanero 100, B and W 100, Neb- ula 100,31 Loulou R 97. ' Third race, one mile—190 Lobengnla 100, 178 Arnette 97, 144 Cavello 85, Schilier 100, 179 Lincoln 11 90, (174) Kamsin 106, 178 Lib- nrtine 116, 196 Ruinart 100, Fourth race, three-fourths of a mile, light welter-weights — 194 Lucky Dog 130, 164 Tampa 127, 181 Miss Cunningham 122, 163 Petrarch 125, 175 Jack Richelieu 130, 86 Therese 122. Fifth race, seven furlongs, geus 96, 199 Toano 108, HGE) Midlo 96, 189 Waiter J 99, 189 Braw Scot 101, 182 Thelma 101, 183 Clissie B 100, 186 Hermanita 101, 155 Schnitz 106, 191 Ostler Joe 103, (183) Summertime 102, 183 Wyoming 1063, 166 Tenacity 99. selling—98 Per- e Answer at Once, Collect. PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 12.—The record for rapid wooing is claimed by W. L. Dale- man, a Pittsburg traveling salesman, who was united in age to-day to Miss Alice E. Wehmer, residing near Rome City, Ind. Daleman visited Rome City on his” regular wip Monday. He met Miss Wehmer at the depot and a flirtation fol- lowed, Yesterday Da n wired his newly made acquaintance a proposal of marringe. A telegram of acceptance was immediately sent in response, and to-da; the nuptials of the couple were solemnized, Phlll elphia Record. ?l for Consumption is Dr. THuEwo best Med Jayne's Expectoran| sorh the granules of d © 11 bllious, taxe Jasne dAlterative, They ab- sease and feal the lungs. '8 Painless Sanative Plils, BEARING THE CROSS - ROUND THE WORLD Theosophists Sowihg the . Universal Brotherhood of Man. A Modern Movement of Broad Purpose That Is Attracting Wide Attention. The Crusade Under Full Headway in the East and Wil Soon Reach This City. To-morrow evening at 8 o'clock the theosophists will hold a meeting in their hall in the Academy of Sciences, when there will pe something interesting told of the great ““Theosophical Crusade.”” Those who go out to hear the addresses will be toid what the crusadersare doing and why they are doing it. The officers of the society here expect some important in- formation in to-day’s mail, which will be made public at the meeting, News has just reached the theosophists here that the crusaders have arrived safely in Bombay and that they will be in San Francisco about the end of March. The crusade started from Boston last summer and went first to London and Liverpool. In Liverpool they accom- plished more than in any city of their journey. From the principal cities of England they next visited Glasgow, Edin- burgh and ‘Dublin, Next they pushed their crusade to Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna. In the city of Hal'ein, Austria, they met Dr. Franz Hartman, who is one of the greatest of theosophists and author of books full of mystic lore. In all these cities their efforts had gratifying results. ‘When they reached Athens they found themselves totally among strangers, there were no theosophists to welcome them to the classic city, but they rented a large hall and immediately after the first meet- ‘{)ng they organized a branch of 100 mem- ers. From Athens they went to Malta and thence to Alexandria and Cairo. The re- port of their success in Egypt has not yet arrived, but is a part of the news expected this week. From India they will came to San Fran- cisco with their minds fresh stored with wisdom gathered from the great manat- mas of the East. The leader of the crusade is Mrs, K. A. Tingley. Nextin prominence is E. T. Har- grove, who is president of the Theosoph- ical Bociety, not only the American branch of it, but for Europe and Asia also. The other crusaders are F. Pierce, Mr, and Mrs, Claude Wright, H. T. Patterson, Rev. Wil- liam Witliams and Mrs. Alice Clether. The purpose of the crusade is to rouse public attentvion to the cardinal truths taught by theosophy, first among which is that all men are brothers. They do uot merely mean by this that all men should treat each other with kindness, but they insist that the brotherhood is a fact of creation from which we cannot escape. They lay claim to a broader tcaching of this principle than the churches incul- cate, because they say that is oniy a brotherhood of members, while theirs reagnes to the whole of humanity regard- less of race or creed or color, of sinfulness or righteousness. The second essential of their teaching is the necessity of the study of all religions in oraer to find the unity which runs through them all. The third is the study of the mysterious in man and surrounding nature. The crusade is not for the purpose of proselytizing. People may remain in their churches as now—but Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhbists can all be Theosophists. Tne Crusaders hope to form a nucleus from which will spread a recognition of tne Universal Brotherhood of Humanity. SWALLOWED MORPHINE. Lizzie Emerson, a Woman From Seattle, Commits Suicide. Tizzie Emerson, a l’mndsome woman, about 25 years of age, who occupied two rooms'at 17 Stockton street, swairlowed a dose of morphine Saturday night about 11 o'clock. She was not discovered till two or three hours later, and then she was un- conscious. She was taken to the Receiving Hos- pital, and for several hours Drs. Bunnell, O'Brien and Kearney endeavored by every possible means to save her life, but with- out success, and she died shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The woman came here abtout three months ago from Beattle. To friends she stated that her husband had died about two months previously, leaving her with a little girl to support. As she could find no means of supporting herself and her child in Seattle, she decided to come here. She left her child with her narents, who live in Seattle. About a week ago she told a friend that she was sick of her life here and intended going home. It was noticed that for a few days back she haa seemed despondent, and it was thought from expressions she used that ber husband was not dead, and that she had deserted him and her child. STORIES ABOUT GEORGE LAW. Exaggerated or Unfounded Reports Which He Never Cared to Deny. The late George Law belunged to a set of New York men which had inciuded in its time such celebrities as Wright Sanford, Fred May and George Pollock. Many of them are still alive, but they play no con- spicuous part in the life of the city as they Jdid ten or fifteen years ago. The man abour town of the day has changed m a number of particulars, and he is not of just the same athletic breed as formerly. These earlier club men devoted more time to heavier exercises, and whether or not that was responsible for their size and health, they certainly were a vigorous 1ooking lot.” Some of the yarns told about Mr. Law were true and some were not, but they were nearly ali interesting. When a man becomes a well- known hero for steries any number of thein islikely to be- come more or less identified with his name, and many a stale fable is tempo- rarily revivified by its connection with the ersonality of a well-known man who has gsen selected by tacit consent as an appro- priate foundation for a story that needs one. 3 Mr. Law suffered much in this way. Once he bought at Saratoga a lot of jew- elry fora number of sporting men who had entertained him .on his trip during the two days he had spent at the sprines, The cost of the jewelry was under $4000, an expenditure which Mr, Law conld readily afford, but the report was spread that in a drunken debauch he had spent $63,000 in this way, and hired a special train to bricg the crowd to New York. It happened thet Mr. Law #as not drinkins ‘at that time and had not tasted aleohol iok dglvht months. ey arly one morning a Sun reporter w! was driving through the conmry nah.: New York met Mr. Law driving a four-in- hand.. Mr. Law was returning from a tri of 600 miles, undertaken on a wager, an: for fifteen hours he had been driving aimost uninterruotedly. Nevertheless, a paper printed that same morning an ac- count of a barroom brawl which had taken place the night before in New York and in which Mr. Law was made to appear as the principal tigare. In this way he was fulsely reported from time to time as having indulged in a prolonged debauch. He never even troubled himse!f to deny these stories. He said he had never con- sidered it worth while to contradict them, and he never even made the slightest el- fort to deny the story telegraphed all over the United States scveral years ago that he had bankrupted himself playing faro. He was absolutely indifferent to what the newspapers said about him, aithough most wealthy men are extremely sensitive un- der the kind of comment which Mr. Law’s alleged exploits always aroused. 5 After he was graduated from Columbia College his father made him a driver on the Eighth-avenue line of streetcars, and his duty every day was to take a car down from the stables to the Astor House and back twice. One night after a cold rain nad chilled the young driver to the mar- row there occurred the only incident which marred his good record in this branch of the company’s service. A friend of hisat college jumped on the car and suggested that a drink would be in order, consider- ing the weather and the time of night. Sn Fifty-fifth street, midway between Eighth and Ninth avenues, there was a well-known sporting resort kept by an ex- boxing-master of Columbia. Mr. Law’s friend had proposed that he stop the car while they run down the street, hurriedly took a drink and returned to the car. But Mr. Law preferred to foliow his own ideas iu the matter, and, givmg the horses a sud- den yank, be turned them sharply toward Ninth avenue and whipped them until, by a quick effort, they lifted the car off the tiack. Over the cobbles the strong horses drew the car, to the amazement of the conductor and the passengers, and, rattling down through the street, stopped in front of the saloon. Mr. Law alighted with his friend, and so did the rest of the passengers. After they had, all taken a drink at the driver’s expense thev re- turned. to the vehicle, and the car again started the noisy progress over the stones. When it was again on the rails and the journey up Eighth avenue was resumed it was rather the worse for wear. % During his dags as a_ streetcar driver Mr. Law most-enjoyed his duties when in charge of the ten-horse snow-plow. He was a good whip, and was frequently seen in the park on his four-in-hand.—New York Sun. —————————— REAL DOGS OF WAR. iaaed Sicim Uncle Sam Prop 'ses to Employ a Canine Military Squad. The War Department is seriously con- templating the training of dogs for use in the army. Abroad they have been found most valuable.in campaigning, and many German regiments already have canine contingents. In fact, the animals are con- sidered an essential pari of the fighting organization, and are as carefully drilled as the men. Before long all of the great foreign military establishments will have | troops of four-legged soldiers, and it will not do for this country to lag bebind. | Dogs, properly selected and educated, | make the best sort of scouts and the most | capable carriers of orders in the field. | They are particularly useful for transmit- | ting information, in conveying messages from advanced patrols and in maintain- | ing communication between posts and | pickets. Alsot ey do excellent work in hunting up missing men. Their natural | qualities of docility, watchfulness, speed, | acuteness of senses and affection for men | render them conspienousiy adaptable for | military service. No regiment ought to | be with out a dog squad. | Several breeds of dogs are found highly saitable for military purposes—notably | oodles, shepherd dogs and bird dogs. | he kind does not matter so much as tne | §ualily of the breed, which must be pure. 0 mongrel makes a good war dog. Itis only in a well-bred dog that the valuable qualities above mentioned are developed | in @ superior degree. Poodles are the cleverest of all dogs, and are firstrate campaigners when young; but, unfortun- ately, they are apt to Jose interest in their work after a certain age. The shepherd dog probably comes next to the po dle in respect to intelligence. It is hardy and alert, but very frequently it exhibits a lack of affection for its master, and is hard to train on that account. All points considered, bird dogs make the best war dogs. They unite the good qualities of the poodle and shepherd dog, | and are distinguished by a lively sensé of duty and a devoted attachment to their masters, ~ Under proper training they | soon lose their inclination for hunting, and take up their military duties readily and with interest. It is required of a war dog that he shall pass through a general prenaratory course of training. Choice may be made between two meth- ods—one severe and the othgr gentle. The animal may be kept by itself and half starved, so as to compel it to surrender unconditionaily to the master’s will. Or the treatment may be whoily by kindness, cultivating a mutual confidence between dog and master and developing the beast’s intelligence. The latter method is considered decidedly preierable. It is mare humane and produces better results. ‘The training of the dog detachment of a NEW TO-DAY. Rockers We want you to at see our Christ- mas furaiture. Half. We're going to make it worth your while to come. It’s worth your while, anyway (in the sense of pleasure), if you only knew it. But this will interest you financially : We've 50 rockers (like picture). Regular price $8.50. At g o'clock this morning we’ll cut the price exactly in half—g$4.25, un- til they’re gone. 'The.y’te splendid rockers. Big in every way—high back, deep seat, broad oaken arms. Saddle seat—as easy as a saddle. ‘Christmasis comingl ‘Want a catalogue ? send name on a Postal. California Furnltulje Company (N P Cole & Co; 117 ety et i You can have one; 1 |90 |90 190 battalion is managed by an officer who bas special expertnessin such matters. He selects assistants from among the cor- porals and privates and’ gives them les- sonsin the art of training. It is his daty to buy the dogs, to distribute them amon the companies, to surpervise the breedin, and rearing of pups and to see that the animals are properly cared for and fed. The properly educated war dog must carry messages with certainty, running back from advanced patrols to detach- ments in the rear and then returning. It is required to do this sort of work with such efficiency as to maintain communi- cation between sentinels and stationary detachments. The antmal must be taught to give notice to sentinels of the approach of strangers. Some dogs will show an aptitude for hunting np missing men, and may be trained for that particular duty.— Washington Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch. ———————— The Letter ‘‘H’’ and Its Victims. Your story of the **h”-less barrister re- minds me (writes a correspondent) of another of a -imilar nature which was current at Oxford in my day. At the celebrated election in 1865, at which Mr. Gladstone lost his seat for the university, his opponent was Mr. Hardy. The prac- tice then (and, for aught 1 know to the contrary, it may be so still at a contested election) was for each elector to record his vote by word of mouth before tellers for each party sitting in the Convocation House or some other suitable place of meeting, The late Professor Henry Smith was acting as teller for Mr. Gladstone, when an uncouth country parson entered, and to the usual gaestion for whom he wished to record his vote replied in his confusion, ““I vote for Mr, Glad—, I mean for’Ardy.” *Iclaim lhat.vom,” quietly put in Professor Henry Smith. “No, no,’ protested the old clergvman, “I didn't finish the name.” “You didn’t even begin the other,” was the professor’s dry retort. A story is toid of an eminent legal prac- titioner ‘who was afflicted with a similar difficulty in pronouncing his aspirates, many years ago. He had a pariicular dislike to a late learned Lord Chancel who had published a book upon Hymng Upon seeing his rival enter the court o one occasion he was overheard to matte “’Ere’e comes, 'umming ’is 'ymn tung 'oly old 'umbug, 'ow 1 do ’ate 'im!’™ Westminster Gazette. —_—————————— Thirty-five sovereigns have ascended the English throne since the time of Wil- liam the Conqueror, every month except May witnessing the coronation of one or more; thar m nth not one. 90 per cent man and 10 per cent weakness may not seem very much to the be. ginner, but 1f the waste.con- tinues the end is certain. It will ke 10 per cent man and 90 per cent weakness. Don’t fall into this condition. If you are suffering from a waste or a loss; if you pass sleepless nights, wake tired and listless; if you are pre- maturely decayed; if you bave the symptoms of failing manhood, be sure fo get that which will care you. It is the remedy treatment HUDYAN. 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