The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1899, Page 9

~ I YUAINT SKETCHES OF D4 Q4SO 4G +C 40 D4C 4040404040 04 S 404 +C4 o L J King of Norway to De-|¢ THE SA ANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 1899, 9 SCOTTISH CHARACTER RS of Bcottish character as ed In works of Sir obert Louls Burns, Jan J. M. Barrie have the opportunity amatic treat of more st this week, when Oliver, a celebrated he various ch ters > authors, e in this 3 ss ited to give a recltal United Presbyterian f Golden Gate aver Fr ixth season as D4O+O+D 4O " otch and Irish 1 up the work ) | countries an 7 * of s . ; ’ 3 n, has visited the o e 1 these productions + » work the love, . Miss Oliver 1 Mrs te House. She ommendation from MISS KATHERINE OLIVER. divines and s of the day. oted 4+ O+0 4T+ 40 [ | completed. The Utica eleotric piant will furnish power for its mills and will also 4+ D404 TH0O4 OO 40+ O+0 +0 4040 404040 $040 4040+ 040404040 furnish “ights to the Standard Blecrric | Company until their works are rebu SCAR NAM i | May Run to Cape Nome. the Oregon Railroad and Navigation it is reported here t the will put the Columbia and State rnia. now plying between As- an Francisco, on the run to The report cannot be veri- oria . Franchise Granted. MARYSVILL Nov. The Board of pervisors of Yuba County received bids ( on an electric _franchise. The Slectric Power Company and the “ounty Electric Power and Light smitted figure: e first X namec cured the franchi ng the highest bid sl e _de : Soldier Killed in Havana. eaty was| WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. — General ¢ to-day by | Brooke at Havana has reported to the T 1 the United | adfutant general the death of Private 2 “harge | Thomas Smith_of Com A, Fi teenth Infantry. who was by p liceman on the 5th inst. while resisting t g Oscar is | arrest s tmportant PG that Unknown Body Found. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.-The body of ‘rdment | & YOUDg man about 20 vears of age. who Il award | identity s brought here Great | to-day from Sp Colton. The Se | body “was found road and had been cut ight train. Twelve Socialists Elected. BERLIN. Nov. 7.—The municipal elec- tion held here yesterds ted ‘in_the ¥he | election of twelve Soc and six Lib- s 5 | erals 1o the Common Council. wil 2 Burglars Steal Postage Stamps. 3 Do oot the| DE KALB, I, Noy. 7.—The safe and h orlardment | vault of the De Kalb Postoffice was blown event G open with $3000 taken, chiefly END OF SIBERIA EXILE SYSTEM E bhu elaps d about am= 5 in postage s: dred and 1 since the eight first vears decree her 0_explain skl e banishment to § was pro- x 290 nounced, re the ork Sun In that time 1,500,000 persons have been' sent on the long hardened criminals, others outcasts or ne' do-wells, often more unfortunate n criminals, and still many others the tims of thelr religious or political opin- enters from tne orthodox faith road, many of them tradictory ivised of been ve e cates of a constitution for the in | state and led by n to | the scores c nds with those whose isl- | oftenses ag society deserved the se- verest punishment. All marched In the now | common chain gangs over the bleak route | that became a two years’' journey by th time Ru The first n. ance of the sta reached eastern c i fter an ad Y ‘he steamer | 11 of conviets. If one from Cuba, n exiles have been dlow, ’ivil | chiefly answer is “Anywhere 11 ‘7 in that v ain where Russian sol- t the i | diers have carrfed their flag.” Whether al service, The | Sent away for their country’s good or the thirty-six other | vietims of thewr Government’s Injustice vana, were o marked by their presence trans: for observatio noon on stage of Russia’s ad- ssive ce to the Amur. he the compulsory i been employed. inviting millions of her spread ove: a and make &s teem and blossom she can tinue to send among them the b When je rn quarter of the em- ass, composed chiefly ready treated t'the new to very un- leasant exp Russia Is on the X construct an elec- | point of relie ria from the odium : ah Creek Canyon to | of being a penal colony, just as long ago acramento River. The | she relivved the Government of Perm and advertise for bl 1 | Orenburg from it and as and relfeved ttorney has made an exam- | Au : lication and all the facts progress of Siberia, due to the great railroads now two-thirds completed, So vement of river navigation, the Mines 0150 Dot { large areas to farmlnryz and \ BARBARA, Nov The Alca- | Tadas of - thovsan o P T 2 and Petroleum Company, | br about a new era. The popul °n operating two large as- | ti. his year is over 6,000,000, and 600,000 < es on either side of this emigrants have poured info the country ¢ »ywn, and over a hundred | since the beginning of 1 So large a en thrown out of work. The transference of scttlers from one part to 1 concentrate ite forces at of the same country has never mine, in the northern end of ssed before 1 so short a tim foon as ‘epairs are transportation, though economists do not count upon Siberia as a world’s wheat ——— e —— producer. h;l ving lI’mt as the country 2 | fille the wheat-growing area will be FOSTUM CEREAL. __ | fully taxed to supply the home demand. Industries are Keeping pace with agri: ey I sulture hey are making and refini NEVER BREAMED S it Seminoiatinei thes ‘are (e ont vig iron ne the iron mines an, That Coffee Caused the Trouble. ‘m,. 'r“g sk Government in 1888 about ldwlw’: men were employed in a Jarge ni mber of “Hov the establishments manufacturing thirty-nine to stoj use of coffee was a kinds of commoditie etor tol The Czar's commission to devise a plan etor told me I had a coffee | ¢, replace the transportation of criminals d to Siberia by other punishments held its “I knew T wg wreck, physically | first meeting on June 2L The details of the proposed change Tequire much at A nervously I never dreamed tention. For some time the foot journey coffee wa cause of the trou- of the convict bands has been ‘greatly I could not drink milk, and ghortened by the railroad. The time 5 nk milk, and tea | c.oms near when the journey wiil not be 15 a8 bad for me as coffee. made at all. Hot water was useating. I there- ETE T o T re turned to Postum Food Coffee, got Curing Tobacco. package and made it according to| When the leaves of the tobacco plant mature and ready for harvest they ections and found it s are g Just the thing gathered and first laid on the ground eded | are Husband had no falth in it, so I|pyiffieness. This done, they are collected t'nfl::w for him and Postum for | into bundles and packed, top upward, Af. For threc vears I used Pos- | into moderate sized heaps to sweat. Mat- and the change it has wrought is | ting is placed over the heaps and a grad- nderful. ual rise of temperature begins. The in- ! erease in temperature is due to certain Tristen? bei i nstead SR SouE th which are taking place within . sallow, nerv- < e srocessel ak and {’;‘-“T*‘” . I am plump, | Yo Jeaves, whereby; as the leaves dio, r complexion, pink cheeks, and | their more complex contents becomé » the endurance and vital- oung woman of 20, although vice that age. Husband, after the change Postum has made, broken down_ into simpler ones, with: an evolution of heat and water. The water thus given off Is in vapor form, but it condenses ménl]n on :;:he cooler m?ntflg ske 0 covering, an t is e presence ol his Sk e not to imake Danhe g | IR ‘Which gives rise to the idea of the i B P! ed Postum. | jeaps “sweatin, Care and attention a8 been a godsend to our famil are needed at this time to prevent over- J Troost avenue, | heating, for did the temperature rise un- J | duly there would be darkening of the 4340404 O+040 4040 The present Czar has decided to close | this long chapter of Siberia’s history as penal €olor He shares the opinion S dsa his_father and grandfather held, L delr t this degrading use should no longer 12 In | he made of a vast and splendid territory held to- | T} plenty of honest labor now with t to build the roads and fc resses the s and till the Government to wilt—that is, to wither and lose their | leaves and injurious dr\‘lnfi When the “sweating” is completed the leaves are dried, either slowly or by simple exposure to currents of air, or rapidly by artificial heat. Moldiness and consequent rottin must be guarded against, and then, if all the conditions are favorable, in six or eight weeks the leaves will have turned | }u bright warm brown color, though to- | | bacco_at thls stage lacks aroma and fla- | vor. The chief result of this process has| beten to effect a farther alteration in the | nstituents of the tissues of the leaves. | fter it a2 is completed moist air is agaln brought into play to soften the leaves and | ‘ render them pliant, and it is not until then ‘ that they are ready for the great process | | of fermentation, in which, it is now as- | & fa play S0 crucial a part. ermentation has always been looked | upon as a very Important stage in the | preparation of tobacco, but, if bacterioio- ists are right, even greater stress must i be laid upon it, for it Is the keystone of | the whole and of paramount importance. | As a preliminary to it, the brown leaves | are sorted and made up into hands, or | amall bundles, i perhaps from | six to ten leave . All these sepa- rate bundles are collected and piled up | fnto great heaps or solid stacks—a stack d, the bact containi sometimes as much as fift tons of tobacco. Directly the stacks s completed fermentati begins, encour- aged by the warm 1d moisture withir and now ton begins the productior aroma and flavor. And this is the work | of the bacteria which inhabit these heaps, | for it Is conclusively shown t at are the homes and breeding places th of bacteria—n fact, a com- ete of fungus life {s to be found | within them, for side by side with the | bacterla are members from many other parts of the great group of fungi of which the microbe life is only a small sectton— Contemporary Review. [ —_———— Wise’s Ready Wit Saved the Widow. | |, There was an auction sale (n the little | ‘or myriads | plete flora 'HANDSOME NEW BUILDING * FOR THE FERRY DISTRICT house, and one after another the widow's few possessfons fell beneath the hammer. Presently the auctioneer took up a large | bowl which happened to be full of sugar, and the poor woman, anxious to save Its contents, hastened to the next room to | find something in which to put them. | Just as she returned the auctioneer | cried, “Sold!” and the purchaser Insisted | that the sugar was his. he widow pleaded for the little that was much to her, but the m obdurate, and mut- murs of indignation arose from the crowd. Angry at this demonstration, the man| turned, and his eye rested on Henry A. ar 3 i e e 3 D 5O Wise,” said he, “you are a lawyer. | right or not? If you say I am not, give back the sugar. If you say 1 T am entitled to it, and I'll keep {t.” My friend,” replied Wise, in his ge1 tlest you put a dslicate and un- be pleasant responsibility on me. Hadn' / better decide the matter for yourselt o & ),”" replied the fellow, curtly. 5 b= west side of Steuart, between Ma space 137:6 north of Mi will be in the neighbor The know what your opinfon is going to be. and 1 want you to give it so that this whole crowd can hear it.” “Then,” sald Wise, “I advise you that | sugar is yours. The widow canuut om you. She has no redress.” cried the man, turning to “What did I tell you?” ood of $20, ca the | while the large lof! 09 040404040404040404C6040404040++094060409404+040404040404040404040900040404060404090¢Q at once changed. “I've advised you at The style of architecture vour persistent request, as I can prove by these people. remains for me to teil what severely plain front elevatic vou that I charge you $ for my advice, BIAE and I demand immediate payment. If CUE0) vou trifle with me in the matter of pay- fidently . ment, you will most certalnly regret it.” bert B. Maggs is the architect. The man turned scarlet, and, fumbl in his wallet, produced a $ bill. The 6.000»00000 0000000000000000¢0000000000000000000000‘ crowd yelled its spproval, but suddem.y hecame silent i Wise walked up to did not Just now I met myl|a week the book was returned to him widow and Lrother, ve to say that he did | with the following letter: “This money ie. T have earned it | not Know “My Dear Sir: Your favor of the — henestly. T it and buy more_ sug: —_— e Inst.. accompanied by your book, was for your fatherless children.”—Youth overiClatelahdaiBl duly received. I have read It very ca Companion Grover Cléveland's Bible. fully. It seems to be a very good game | $ ver l’llpr\'o::\nd‘s \-«I‘{ltlr“: mt"llo m,n 1 \k:;'x it is as good a game as R ry at Princeton lies the old- | whist, Since yours ."—Exchange. | A Political Philosopher, $ibie! with Govers ot " biok E on X olangt | From the Washington Star. which ‘was given him.by his 3 “It's all right.” sald the man from ien- when he first went away from | 'Hfl fthoughttulncss | tucky, as he heaved a sigh of relief. ~I | home. At the top of the cover, In a little! *Beautiful, my dear. was @ little worried at fi But it's ail §pace surrounded by an ornamen.al bor-| The elderly millionalre who had married der, is fnscribed in gilt the name “S. G.'(he famous beauty regarded the watch- | *I see the shooting has quietet Cleveland” and upon the fly leat there chain admiringly. doum e s & line or two of writing tn a neat, pre- | “W3" ACTANEN o1 birthday present,” yi \g? Oh, yes. There's bound | Cise feminine hand, from which we learn ¢~ oonf beiming upon his fair | to be a little of that.” t the book was a gift to “My Som | young wife. ‘'So' massive and yet In such | | ““It wasn't the shooting that was caus- nSrgysiislevelan o “0V- | excellent taste.” | Ing fother “I am glad you like %, she observed. B el Lamont that he first saw too. Just think, it cost erely_a personal matter | between gentlemer rket 00C, on. in Mr. Cleveland's s having much effec ny-on an law office in Buffalo, and other friends B I e o hany all thie | remembered having seen it there. When faik about Inharmoniousness among the | Mayor Cleveland hecame Governor the Demoerats, It doesn't seem like they're | book was generally on the bureau of his plitting up a great deal. But I'm recon. bedroom. “When the Governor was about ohed. Set ‘em holst their banners and | to become President, Colonel Lamont bring on their candidates. If one mcn | found the little Bible In the President’s ain't factory to all of 'em let the | rooms at the Arl on, and, handing It ickers get another. The more the | to Chief Justice Waite, asked him to use "€ it when he swore the new Chief Magls- | merrier." “T don’t quite understand your philoso- | trate into office. There were about 40,000 witnesses upon T ————_ ITHIN the last few months a Jarge number of handsome buildings have n erected in the district about Steuart and Market streets. est addition to their number will be erected by Henry P. Sonntag of the e firm of Bovee, Toy & Sonntag. The building, a three-story and basement structure, will be situated on the ion street, and will cover a lot Gstone, of which only the front will be constructed, the side walls being of red brick, will be bought from local quarries The ground and second floors of the building will be devoted to stores and s above will be u s a light Renal is surmounted by a graceful balustrade, which relieves the otherwise some- ations will be commenced almost immediately, and it is con- cted that New Year's day will see the structure complete, Her- canit be o good | the plaza in front of the Capitol when | | pypbgre can't be too much of a good | giopfen Grover Cleveland pressed hix I e ass ot mother's Fift to his Iips. and before it 1% T . thing | Was returned to him, Mr. Middleton, the z0 ahe A have as many of .hem as | formal record on the last fly leaf that it e et i ® | was used to administer the oath of office ot ehent X 5 o o Grover Cleveland, sident of the But when it comes to voting to- Grover Cl d, nt of th “T'm a fair-minded man, and I've got as | United States, on March 4. 15%.—Chicago good a hoss as Kentucky ever raised. It | Record. | may take some time getting from place R S to place, but I'm going to my level | The Irrepressible Small Boy. best not to show any part This is a true story, and it really hap- | pened in a New York family. if it might be | —_— . | Another Protest. Tt looks as an old story brought up to “I used to have a great many theories » or renovated for the occasion, but about the wa affairs ought to be con- < exactly as the small boy arranged it ducted,” 1'the young man from Kan- to the edification of his family. sas, ; ; 2 > small very fond of ice “There is no denving it. S ved “his palate. ' It “Well, I give up. I don't go so far as to | Was with the same delight that he saw it monopolies cannot bes regulated or h time brought on the table, and upon ippressed. But 1 unhesitatingly confess | cach of these times he showed the ex- that I don’t know how it's to be done.”” | yherance of his feelings Ly crying in “You had any number of scheme: { rapturcus toncs: “'Oh-0-o! Ice cream! “Yes. That was before I realized what jee cream! Ice cream!” much to his idious and pervasive institution a | mamma's annovance. monopoly is. There is no use trying to | “people will never think we have ice escape the terrible influence. One man | cream or anything else to eat,” she sald may break into a Utopla and by his heart- 15 her son one day. “Now, we are goin less trickery upset the entire plan. T am to have company to dinner to-night, an proud of my State, but I must say one of 1 don't want vou to say a word when the the meanest men I ever met lived in jce cream is brought on.” The small boy Kansas % promised. He really was a good little ““Politician? .. boy. and he intended to mind. But when *No, sir. He mingles among the guile- | the cream brought on the old feeling 1 and unsuspecting. Were you ever at a husking bee?” “Never, isual. short, entirely and cried out as The remembered and sto poed 100! ad not intende of rapture was so strong that he forgot n he king “Then vou don’t know the custom which repentant. He d to gives the man who find a read ear the cg# out, and his mother mortifled. right to I the prettiest girl. This man (e changed his tone entirely. gave a husking bee and he sat up nights ~ “We have ice cream almost every with a lantern for days beforehand going pight,” he remarked carelessly.—New over the crop and peeling down the husks | York Times. to find red ears. When the bee happened i e s e he had all the capital in a corner and he smiled sardonically whole the rest of us toiled on hour after hour amid gathering The seeds of the laughing plant of apointments, In pursuit of a delusive | bia produce the same effect upon per hope, while he was aparently having all | as laughing gas. The plant the Juck. T tell vou, sir, there is more | helght of from two to four foet, financiering ability in Kansas than you | woody stems, wide spre: branches adin Tts. fri Famous Laughing Plant of Arabia. Ara- sons attaing a with and ever gave the State credit for.”"—Washing- | bright green foliage. uits are pro- | ton Star. duced in clusters and are of a yellow color. e The seed pods are soft and woolly in tex- Painfully Polite. | uérelaml |“mn;}h‘ n;;.. orn:hr”h black seeds The people of Dresden are very polite, | 0f the size of a Brazilian bean. Their Beverpolite that (hey not Mfrsqnently | flavor is a little ltke oplum, and their bring down ridicule ‘upon themselves, | {Aste I3 sweet; the odor from them pro- | Tt used o be told In that city that a stranger was one day crossing the great spans the Klbe and asked a offensive | bridge th | prised at this volub! answer to a simple duces a sickening sensation and is slightly The seeds, when pulverized and taken in small quantities, have a peculiar ploncers are Russian peasants, and | "T85 ] o | effect upon man. He begins to laugh of them have been assisted by the | DaNe o ditect him fo a certain church | 5udiy, ‘ofsterously: then he sings, dahces Mill Reopens. Government to remove to virgin lands | " <Really dear sir” sald the Dres- | 2nd cuts all manner of fantastic capers. § CAMP, Nov. —The Utfea Mill | where they may = sccure larger farms. | geper. howing low, I grieve greatly to | SUCh extravagance of gait and manners W todny atter being | Thev are beginning o develop the' vast | SRF; BONINE SO, L FHISYS | was never produced by any other kind of nth. The other mines More_ wheat for export tham fames | o' stranger passed on, @ l-tle sur. | dosing—Ladies’ Homo Journal | — e question. He had proceeded but a short | Appreciated the Book. dist when he heard hurried footsteps | A story s told of a well-known whist behind him. and, turning round, saw the | player who imagined himself an au- same man running to catch up with him. | thority on the game. Aftér boring his In a moment his pursuer was by his | friends with verbal comments, sugges. side, his breath nearly gone, but enough | tions and advice upon the methods of “My dear sir, you | [left to say hurriedly, asked me how you could find the church, land it pained me to have to say that I| 00K. player for his opinion about it. Vln)‘. he_ at last wrote and published a b One copy was sent to a famous In about | Have You Been Deceived ? When you wanted ; bottle of Hunyadi Jénes NATURAL APERIENT WATER, ( I | | ( | ASK YOUR PHYSICIAN. H.; will recommend it as other eminent physicians have for many years, Did your Druggist give you a cheap substitute, because he made a few cents | more profit? & Will you believe those “just as good” stories when you know that “HUNYADI JANOS " is the only genuine Hunyadi Water? S \ The .at- nd Mission streets. It will occupy a 10 by 137:6. The cost sed for wholesale storage rooms. nce. The cornice, a decp fricze, “It was so cheap, only fifteen dollars “Only fifteen dollars!” echoed the mill- in astonishment ifteen dol- for this solid gold chain!” h. of e it interp You could never get a solid gold chain for that price.” “What is it, then?” old-filled. to be sure.” said_the husband, stroking his chin reflectively. “But why this sudden streak of economy? Don’t you think I can afford a solid gold chain?’ Of course you can,” she assented. “But this one Is guaranteed to last for ven el said the millionaire, inquiring- Iy, “Well, dear,” she concluded after some hesitation, “as that Is quite as long as vou are likely to live, I thought it would be foolish extravagance to pay any more.”"—Woman’s Home Companion. —_———————— The Joke on the Jockey. A well-known jockey relates with relish the following little story, though the laugh is decidedly against him. A few years ago he was engaged to ride the vorite {n an important race. On the way to the post he found himself canter- | ing alongside a rank outsider, the mount of a stable boy who had only just com- menced riding. “You'll have to be careful with brute, B.” he remarked. “I've him before, and you'll never be able to Tiold him B. thanked the crack for the hint and said that he would “do his best.” that Half way through the race the outsider | and another were in. front, with the favorite close behind. Fancying that the others were in difficulties, the rider of the favorite shouted: “Pull out, B, and let me through! got the race in hand. The crack w mistaken, however, Looking back, the stable boy replied with a grin: “I would, but T can’t hold him!"” With which the novice let his horse have his head and shot away, the easlest of winne to the chagrin of the crack who finished second. ———e—— A New Humboldt Story. In a chapter of reminiscences of Von Bunsen and his friends, in the October Century, John Bigelow tells this anecdote of Humbold: *“One day he w dining with Mendelssohn, the banker, and, an unusual thing for him, he was very silent. His host, remarking it, observed to Hum- boldt that he was sure he must be ill. ‘No," sald Humboldt, ‘but I am in great trouble. Only ten minutes before leaving my apartments to come here I received from my landlord a note informing me that he had scld the house in which I re- side, and that I must move. I really can- not bear to move again. Mendoissohn gradually led Humboldt into conversation, during which he found time to write a note and receive an answer to {t. He then took Humboldt aside and said: ‘By this note I learn that I am now the owner of the house in which you reside. The con- dition, however, upon which I have be- come its possessor is that you continue to occupy vour apartment in it as long as you live. " I've — e Is Immortal J. N. AliveP All the way from Kansas City comes the news of the reappearance of the “Immor- tal J. N.” an eccentric character known to every railroad conductor from the At- lantic to the Pacific. Several months ago it was reported that “J. N.” was dead, but that individual has again appeared to prove, in the language of Marak Twain, t the reports of his ‘‘taking oft” were atly exaggerated. The “Tmmostal J. has been a prominent character since the civil w His mind became addled trying to solve the problems involved in that great struggle and he has since been a wanderer of the earth. Onec of his ec- centricities is to go Into a newspaper of- fice and write a colnmn editorial about re- moving the pressure. His efforts are never printed, but this does not discourage the “Immortal J. N.” and perhays he will submit another communication to the same paper at the time of his next visit.— New York Tribune. A e She Forgot Her Husband. Every once in a while one hears of some one whe forgets wha he is, but there Is a peculiar circumstance in connection with one woman who was lost for a time and finally found by her anxious friends living a quipt, humble life in a small village, She had forgotten ull about her former life, and, though they have succeeded in maKing her recail nearly everything, they cannot get her to recognize her hushand. The fact that her domestic life hadn't been any too happy may have something to do with it. It's ever so much simpler than getting a divorce, to just “forget it.” New York Evening Sun. e It 1a @ pleasure to be shaved and take a re- freshing bath at Valvo's shaving parlors, 528 Broadway; private entrance to buths. . 04 040404040404040404040404040404¢0404040404040404040404040904040404040404040404000+@Q isn't solid gold,” she | ridden | II. GOOD LETTERS AND HOW TO WRITE THEM. A good letter is one which has goodness in it. It is the easiest kind to write, that | is for some people—good people. It isn’t a question of spelling or of grammar or | of superior stationery, but one of heart and spirit. You cannot fool people In a letter any more than in your conversa- tion. A good letter must have harmony and melody and sweetness. It must have | & genuine ring. | sonality of the | served or dignif | according to the relations between writer and the pe | must be honest_al all-around good letter the following ten things are needed: . A good, honest, kindly heart. A correspondent worth writing to. An abundance of good news. An easy style of expression. A knowledge of the relation of words. . Good paper, Ink and pen. . The ability 'to write neati . The ability to spell correctiy. A convenient and undisturbed time. 10. Things that fit comfortably. ;:hese are all easy except the spelling. ou cannot write a happy letter unless vou feel happy. Your temperament will e almost as evident in your correspond- ence as in your conversation—not neces- sarily in the words you use, but in a cer- tain Intuitive impression which your let- ter is sure to create. This fact is not easy of explanation, but it is nevertheless true. If seasons of unhappiness are al- lowed free course they are sure to taint your correspondence, and perhaps your friendships. Be frank, outspoken, | in vour letters, as in’ your conver { There must be no vacillating of purpose. | | be re- friendly, the writer. It may d or jocular o 0001 O ot If you have anything to say which ought | to be said, say it, but say it Kindly. If friendships than be dishonest. Put your own individuality into your letters. Let | the letter be your letter, a mirror of your- | self. It is comforting to recognize our | friends even In their correspondence. Select a correspondent who is worth | writing to. Of course it is possible to | write good letters to bad people, and per- | haps it is they who need good letters most; but when we are obliged to write to undeserving people we do it more as | a matter of duty. We are not known by the friends we decline to keep, but rather by the friends we keep. If their person- ality and character are stronger than ours they help us to measure up. The corre- | spondence is to our advantage. We ather inspiration and encouragement rom their lives. In making your list of correspondents don't forget the old, neg- | lected friends—the old uncle or aunt, or the old friend of your father or of vour who in the bustle and turmofl forgotten for months at a time. get the schoolgirl chum of your earlier years, who has perhaps been less fortunate than you. In short, don’t be selfish. 1f you have no good news to communi- cate, of course you cannot easily incorpor- ate any in your letter, but there is a happy way of making good news out of little’ and_ discouraging things. If your letter is simply a reply to one which has | been on your desk Tor weeks and which you have procrastinated about many titmes, you will probably approach the task in the attitude of one who is about to pay a worrying bill. Such letters are about as heartless and speechless as are calling cards handed to liveried doorkeep- ers. They square aceounts, that is all. A business letter or a letter contalning It must exhibit the per-| n addressed, but it | i kind. To produce an | honesty costs friendships, better lose the | Copyright, 1889, by Seymour Eaton. | business inquiries requires a prompt an- swer, but friendship letters should t be based upon equation. the same mathemati u Write because you want to write, not_because you have a letter to answer. Fill your letter with the bright- ness and cheer of your own life. f it crosses a letter from your correspondent, so much the better; there will be two people agreeably surprised. “Be of good cheer” is a much more encouraging greet- ing than “How do you do?" Don’t omit saying kind things for fear | of making mistakes in grammar.« The grammar is of trifling account compared with the thought and spirit. ) _much the better if you can us English and appropriate word just so sure s you attempt a lit style or “work just so sure will your letter be a miserable failure. The more you write the better you will be able to write. Avold the stilted stiffness which is so common between the ages of girlhood and | womanhood. Children and old people al- ways write excellent letters. hey need | no cautions or directions. Use capital | letters where necessary, punctuate once |in a while and avoid the common errors of speech which are likely to grate on | the nerves, but don’t stop to analyze and | parse your sentences. Go right ahead, as | In your conversation, giving ‘‘good mea- sure, pressed down, shaken together and | running over.” The paper should be white, or, if tinted, it should be of a very light shade. The ordinary four-page note {s the most con- venient and most commonly used size. at it Avold 0dd and unusual shapés. Learn to rite upon unruled paper. Very little practice will enable to keep your lines straight and regular. Good paper is not expensive. You cannot possibly make a letter look well on a leaf torn - | out of an old account book. | . Use black or blue-biack ink. Thick, ofly ink and a scratchy pen are not accompa- niments of good humor. The penmanship should be characteristic of yourself. It makes no difference whether it is vertical or slanting, large or mall, heavy or light, | 80 long as'it is easily read and looks well. | Even bad writing if in straight and regu- | lar lines may present a fairly respectable | appearance. The best results are producc.l | with a stub pen and a bold hand. Don't | “cross-hatch” vour letter. It makes an- | noying reading. It is not quite as stingy luoking as to write social news on a postal card, but there isn’t much difference. The | prineiple, or lack of it, is the same. The | friendship which is weighed between a postal and a 2-cent p is certainly “‘weighed in the balance. Do your best with the spelling. It is a department of educatfon which cannot be rushed. If you are a poor speller you will | have very "embarrassing moments and | very little sympathy. Keep a s aic- tionary by; there is no safer rule. But } don’t leave any good thing out of vour letter simply because you cannot speil it, Choose a convenfent time. You cannot our best if you feel all the while u ought to be doing something else, any more than a lady can talk her best to the afternoon caller when she knows all the while that the dessert for dinner is boiling over. It isn’t necessary to dress specially for the exercise, and you will write better if your room and Your desk and yourself are in a fairly tidy condition. Be sure that you have things to fit. If there is any one thing which looks worse than another it is a No. 9 let:er when It | has been taken out of a No. 3t envelope. Note.—The first paper of “Reading | Courses and a Girl’s Librarv” will be pre- | sentad next week. i | | | Copyright, 1899, I. ARITEMETIC OF THE WORK- SHOP. Lesson No. 4. We shall take up for our fourth lesson | the measurement of solids. We have al- | ready learned how to find the number of | cubic inches or the number of board feet D 8 |in a plece of lumber. If the solld is of | untform thickness we find the area of one | end and multiply this by the thickness, | Using, of course, the same unit of meas- | urement. The friangular solid is meas- | ured by finding the area in inches of the =3 B Cc and multiplying this by the 'S‘r:’gtfi ‘BA (I:) The rectangular solid is | measured by finding the area of the rec- | tangle A B'C D and multiplying this by the length A E. Similarly we find the solid contents of circular solids. If we know the arca of the circular end and multiply this by the length we have the solid measurement. Note the following exercises: 1. 1f a cubje foot of fce weighs 992 ounces | find the weight in tons (2000 pounds) of a | rectangular block of ice 2) féet by 30 feet and 5 feet thick. (3 2. A block of marble used for a step is § feet long. The end measurements are as follows: A B and D E each 28 inches; B D and E F each 12 Inches. Find the value of the marble at §1 20 a cuble foot. (= “ E < D 3. A building is to be of the same shape shown in the diagram. C D is 100 feet; A C is 36 feet; E F is 12 feet; F G is 28 ‘eet. Find the cost of excavating to ‘he depth of 12 feet at 30 cenis a cubic yard. c A stick of timber of trlansul~r shave 4. SHOP AND TRADE STUDIES FOR BOYS. by Seymour Eaton. | is 36 feet long. The end is of the sha;8 | shown in the diagram. B C is 24 inches and A D s 13 inches. Find the value of the stick at $20 per 1000 board feet. | 5. A stone is quarried in the shape of a triangle, with base 12 feet and perpen- dicular height 10 feet 6 inches. It is 40 inches thick. Find the weight in tons (2000 1bs.) if a cubic foot weighs 50 (bs. 6. A pine log is 40 inches in diameter (A B) and 63 feet long. Find the value Tross measurement at $15 per 1000 board eet. To find the area of a circular pillar find the circumference and multiply this by the length. Take a square piece of paper and roll it in the form of a cylinder as shown in the figure. Tt will be seen that the outside surface of the cylinder is of the same area as the paper when it is flat. 7. Find the cost of gilding 12 pillars each 21 feet high and M inches in diameter, at %0 cents per square foot. 8. Find the cost of painting the outside of a circular water tower 21 feet in diam- e(el;i and 30 feet high at 1§ cents a square yard. < side diameter of 28 inches. ‘fset) l&ng. !l:}ndf its v;e! ht lnesml'ils! i(;OO‘]m 453 p%l{!nds. t of the metal weighs 0. How many cubic feet of marble in a column 35 feet high and 2 b Ty T 8] feet 6 inches es +hick has an in- Hints and Answors. Lesson No. 4—(1) 93 tons. (2) $32 40. Mul- tiply the area of the end in square feet by the length and this product by the price. (3) $435 20. .(4) $12 9. Find the area of the end in feet and multiply this by the length in inches to get board feet. or find the total number of cubic inches in the stick and divide by 144 to get boara feet. (5) 15% tons. (6) $99. (7) $277 20. (8) $39 60. (9) 21.65 tons. To find the area of a circular ring multiply the sum of the radil of the clrcles by the difference and multlpl?’ this by 31-7. The area of the ring is found to be 770 square inches. The area can be found also by subtracting the area of one circle from the area o the other. (10) 171% cubic feet. Courses of Instruction. Autumn-Winter Term, 1599-1900. Mondays and Thursdays: Studies in Shakespeare. Tuesdays: World's Great Artists. Wednesdays: Desk Studies for'Girls and Shop and Trade Studies for Boys. Fridays: Great Ameri- can Statesmen. Saturdays: Home Science and Household Economy. These courses will continue until February 15, 1900. Ex- aminations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates.