The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1901, Page 6

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Yorke, OUR FOREST AREA, the Indiana For- the report of urvey upon the rests yet able for a timber rown there are in the United States, erritory, 2.968,700 squar2 and treeless lands cover 60 per cent of the whole, or Jea g 4 But the Geologicai Survey repc that 37 per cent of our whole area is still cove h forest. Mr. Brown shows that this y erroneous, and has tended to_in- ke measures for forest preser- which he criticizes he us of 1880, to the forest facts then ex- d employed was to deduct from the lands, and set the remain- hich of course is entirely unre- n from the ce ts reports from State foresters y State in the Union to t the United States instead oi es of forest has only eve having 1,004,496 s¢ 320 square m 570,- this he gives to New England required for home use; Atl, 35.900 square miles, none for export; tes, 130,000 square miles, for export trade to E rn cities; the prairie States 48.900 square miles, insufficient for local demand for lumber; Pac States, west of longitude 103, 212,- 400 square for export; the lake States, 44,970 ; and the central manufacturing States m of forest of very indifferent 18,150 ern group Southern S qualit He puts-the annual consumption of sawed timber at 28, 488,997,000 feet board measure, while the wood consumed annually for fuel reduced to board measuge The official figures put the crop at 1500 feet per acre, average. Granting that the average is twice or thrice that, an annual consumption for timber and fuel of 208.488.097.000 feet justifies Mr. Brown’s statement that the result of another decade of active lumbering, use for fuel and destruction by forest fires will startle this nation. As forest fires every year destroy more timber than is demanded for commerce and economic vre, the first thing to do is to put out the fires, find who causes them and administer punishment. Colo- rado complains of a loss of $10,000,000 by forest fires last year. California lost twice as much. Our forest candle is going fast enough without burning it at.both ends The proposition to play the intercollegiate football game between Stanford and Berkeley outside of San Francisco appears to be meeting with some opposi- tion. It would seem that the tragedy of last Thanks- giving day ought to be argument enough to demon- strate that San Francisco does not care to risk the remotest chance of its repetition. San Francisco has begun her preparations to wel- come President McKinley. This at least is one affair in which we all can participate without partisanship, politics, creed or caste. The coming of a President is one of those events which seldom happens more than omce in a generation to the people of the Pacific Coast. RECERDAS: 25 The industrious reformer who has introduced in the State Legislature a measure to abolish the State Board of Pharmacy must expect to enjoyscontinuous good health or is willing to take a chance on his life smaller than «the rest of us wonld care to consider. WG o It is consoling that the world has been informed that there are some gold bricks that San Francisco won't accept. The Board of Supervisors has decided that “Kid” McCoy is altogether too disreputable to box in this city. THE UNIVERSITY BILLS. T happens that the Legislature is concerned with | l the interests of both of our great universities. ! It appears to be certain that the measure for relief of the State University drawn by the Palace Hotel conference will not pass, because it does not meet the views of the Governor. He does not oppose adequate aid to the institution, but believes it should | be extended in the same manner as to other State institutions, by a regular biennial appropriation.. The university authorities are not as anxious about the method employed as they are for the relief itself, 5o that we assume they will find no difficulty in accom- | modating their views to the Governor's position. The system of direct appropriation brings the expendi- ture under control of the State Board of Exam- | | iners, which may causé some friction and inconve- | nience in the administration of the fund. | Against this objection, however, it may be urged | that all expenditures of public money should be sub- | | ject to the oversight of some agency derived from the people and representing them. | The University Regents are appointed and serve for long terms, and when they handle money appro- | | priated out of the general fund the oversight of some | | agency that represents the taxpayers is not undesir- able. It is to be hoped that the appropriation, if made, become available in time to relieve the pinch in university finances, and that if some other method be more desirable the alumni, faculty and Regents will maka use of the next two years in familiarizing the people therewith, so that the next Legislature will be prepared to adopt it. We repeat that California cannot afford to list her university among the indigent and infirm, and the Legislature has no higher duty than its proper and prompt relief. ) The case of Stanford University is widely differ- ent. The Stanford bills are merely to help that uni- to help itseli. versit The rumor runs that these bills will not pass be- catise of the Ross incident and. its sequences. We hope this is not true. The troubles at Stanford have their precedent and analogue in the political difficul- ties at Berkeley, in which several of the professors, including one of the Le Contes, had to resign. But Berkeley outlived all that. Harvard has had a mem- ber of one of her faculties hanged for murder and another rests now under the same charge, but Har- | vard was not injured. The Stanford affair is a passing incident. Within a year it will have receded so far as to be forgotten Therefore it makes no part of a reason why this Leg- islature should not proceed to vitalize the amend- ments to the constitution which the people so gen- | erovsly indorsed. | It is a truth ‘that is beyond question that the real | fulness of the State University began with the rise | Stanford. If either decline now the other will sui- | It is a matter of great pride that only California s within its borders two such institutions. No other i te in this Union has room.for two of equal capac- ity and usefulness. In possessing them California has n:ore than can be the boast of any nation in Europe. | The Legislature should rise above any sentiment | generated in the passing confusion at Palo Alto, and pass the Stanford bills. Their effect is to be for all time, for the unlimited | future, for the enfranchisement and equipment of that | university to help itseli. It should not be made the | present victim of a narrow partisanship of a group of | professors who have let their temper destroy their judgment. Stanford should have its bills and Berkeley should | have its money, and the high competition of the tw> should be favored, to the end that each may do its | best for learning and letters, to the honor of Cali- torma. | A shrewd cbserver who was recently among us | and had reason to know of what he spoke told us that we are’losing a vast trade with Manila because | of our great lack of ships. In conjunction with this fact we ought to take what consolation we may out of the announcement that at Washington every obsta- cle for delay is being placed in the way of the subsidy bill. l ment of the twentieth century is to be the exten- ! % sion of the telephone to an equality with the tele- graph as a means of long distance communication. Since Bell and Gray perfected the telephone, and its use has been adapted to constantly lengthening land lines, electricians have looked forward to a telephone cable to Europe as something sure to be. The progress ‘in telegraphy over long distance cables laid in deep water has been great since the country read. ! “All right, De Sauty,” flashed under the Atlantic over Cyrus W. Field's first cable. Reinforcement of the current, enfeebled by leakage, was the first problem | to be solved, and its solution was found in the local I | circuit. Since then various facilities have been added until the ocean service is as certain as that on land, and a San Francisco merchant can order a cargo in Calcutta and get notice of jits delivery in less time than he can order and receive a pair of suspenders from a store three blocks from his desk. Electricians now so fully command the situation | that they are sure to mdke it possible for the San | | Francisco merchant to make his Calcutta order not only verbal but vocal. He will take down his phone, call Calcutta, get it s easily as he does Oakland, and | talk with his party on the Ganges as plainly as he { does to a customer on the Sacramento. @ TELEPHONE TO EUROPE. T is probable that the first conspicuous achieve- I"paign and by intrigues for a share in the honors that | liberal. | since in facing the constituencies for a new election | | and a change in the person of the sovereign in Britain | on a socialist platform in the United States. ‘We put Calcutta as an extreme, for if we command Europe by telephone we will command Asia also. It is belicved that the problem has been already solved. It was a problem of insulation and reinforce- { ment of the electric current. The invention is made | by Professor Michael Idvorski Pupin of Yonkers, | N. Y., professor of electrical engineering in Colum- | bia College. His invention has been purchased by | the Bell Telephone Company, which will proceed to |install it. The inventor calls his device a “choke coil,” which prevents loss of energy in the current by conversion into heat or any other form of leakage. Professor Pupin says it is applicable to land lines and for the same purpose, to preserve energy, and that in their operation it will effect a great saving. This economy he estimates at $120,000 a year on each land dircuit between New York and Chicago. If this be true, it will be seen that telephone communication | from San Francisco to New York, without relay, be- | comes a certainty. On a direct line there are now | the truth of history. It will be strange if civilization | two gaps between the Pacific and Atlantic. One of | these is between Reno and Ogden and the other is between Denver and Omaha, or an aggregate of about 1300 milgs. i tween points fifty miles apart. Jf all these expectations are realized by his inven-~ tion we may expect that it will be in use within twp | make Russia a standard for any one but Pupin believes that communication with Europe | of Russian soldiers in China, and is will be as audible and as certain as it is now be- | to make of Christian civilization. years. The fact that it has been bought for half a million and a yearly royalty of $15,000 by the Bell Comp_any is evidence of its worth, for the Bell peo- ple have experience as ample as their resources and would not invest so much in a doubtful patent. There would seem to be but one more possible ad- vance in the use of electricity as a means of transmit- ting the voice, and that would be the application to it of Marconi’s. wireless system. The introduction of the Pupin coil will be watched with interest by electricians and by the business pub- lic of the whole world. UNDZIR THE NEW KING. DER the British system of government Par- liament closes with the life of the sovereign who summoned it. Consequently, despite the fact that this Parliament was chosen only a few months ago, it will now be dissolved and a new Par- | hament called in the name of the new King. More- over, it has ever been the custom for British sover- cigns on acceding to the throne to mark the event by the bestowal of honors, including peerages, and it is known the custom is not going to be violated on this occasion. By reason of these things the pe- | riod of mourning for Victoria is going to be dis- | turbed by preparations for the coming political cam- | { | are to iollow the coronation. As a matter of fact the political campaign has al- ready begun. Reports from London show that an | effort is being made to discredit the Salisbury Min- istry by spreading abroad the impression that the w: ih South Africa was begun in spite of the Queen’s wish, and that by reason of its effect upon her mind it ‘hastened her death. Such tactics can hardly be called legitimate politics, but they will have some in- fluence in determining the votes of sentimental peo- ple, and perhaps the Conservatives may really be weakened in the coming contest because of them. 1 1 | | | The struggle for peerages’ will constitute an im- portant factor in the fight. It was noted that at the | recent election several of the wealthiest and most in- | fluential members of the Commons did not offer | themselves for re-election, and it was generally ba- | lieved their reason for withdrawing from politics was ' that they had expectations of obtaining peerages | with the beginning of the new year. The distriby tion of honors at New Year, however, was far fro Not a single new peer was created and com- | paratively few knighthoods were bestowed. It was believed at the time that the limitation put upon the New Year's honors was due to Salisbury’s opposition | to any increase in the number of peers; but the death “ of the Queen makes it probable that the Prime Minis- ‘ zer was aware she could not live long, and so with- held the desired honors for the purpose of bestowing | them at the coming coronation. It would at any rate | hzve been good politics for him to have done so, | it is just as well for him that he still holds in his | hands rewards that so many influential men wish to | obtain. 2 | It has been fl:gg:slgd +n some quarters that the { beginning of the new reign will be marked by a re- | vival of an agitation for the overthrow of the crown | and the establishment of a republic in Great Britaia. | Tt is indeed quite likely such will be the case. Every | Presidential election in this country brings to the | front all kinds of reformers and reform candidates, will doubtless have a similar effect. The republican agitation there, however, is not likely to be of much more importance than the nomination of a candidate The British are more than satisfied with their form of government; they are proud of it. More- over, the more intelligent among them know that the crown is the only tie which holds the great colonies b Dr. M. 8. Jaffe of Sacramento is a late | to the empire. Australia and Canada are willing to admit the constitutional sovereignty of a monarch who is as much their representative as that of Eng- land, but they would not feel loyalty to a partisan President chosen by British votes, and in whose elec- tion they had no share. Of the succession of the new King to the throne | without disturbance there is therefore no doubt, but | Salisbury is not so safe. The coming campaign will in all probability be one of the most exciting of re- | cent times, and the Liberals, though without a leader cr a platform, will undoubtedly contest almost every scat and do their uttermost to win the right to in- augurate the administration of King Edward VIIL @ STRANGE STORY FROM CHINA. l:York Sun there has recently come a strange story concerning the killing of the German Min- ister in the Chingse capital last summer. It will be remembered the killing was described as an assassina- tion, committed by a2 mob, and it was everywhere looked upon as an outrage against not Germany only but all civilization—a murderous effense for whick Germany had-a right to demand redress even to the extent of putting to death all concerned in it. According to the story of the Sun the killing was rot committed by a mob, nor was it an assassination. The writer says: “The murderer was a soldier. At the outbreak of the Boxer troubles he was stationed in Hataman street, with orders to shoot any fog- eigner who tried to pass. The killing of Baron von Ketteler was done in 6bedience to these orders. It is admitted by foreigners, including Dr. Mumm von Schwartzenstein, the present German Minister, that the man would not have been executed in a Euro- pean country.” As for the soldier himself all accounts say that he has become semething of a hero to the Chinese. In describing him one rcport stated: “The man who was o soon to die was cheerful during the period of waiting. He laughed heartily several times. ‘He said his name is an honored one and that he is an honest man.” ! : If the Sun’s story be true it can be readily under- stood why the condemned man bore his sentence of death with such fortitude and gayety of heart. Ii he were acting under orders as a soldier and did no more than his duty he had the consolations of military discipline as well as those of patriotism and religion to sustain him. Moreover, he doubtless knew that when the Empress of China gets back to power again she will make his name one of which any Chinese might be proud. The incident is worth investigating for the sake of ROM the Pcking correspondent of the New has called upon China to put to death a man whose deed in any civilized country would haye been honored as a stanch devotion to dangerous duty. ——— Japan, it is said, has been horvified at the atrocities Perhaps ifthe Jap- anese critics were to that is m}h«hflfln‘m dvllplmm ti;h; M'fi Hersell ° A A A Ak kD kD kAR A MARS HEARS BACK TALK. I 2 { P u | | | 1 | | | | — G { THE OWNER OF THE EARTH—JUST WAIT TILL I GET UP THERE, YOUNG FELLOW, AND YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU SIGNALED.—ST. ! LOUIS REPUBLIC. * T BT ATSAATS A AT AT AT k T A SR TR TS TSR TAT@ | Beggars Have Pride. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN BRUSH WILL CASE 0 EDITOR CALL: which this statement occurs: rendering an opinion to their liking by psychical powers which the Scientists statement was not_true. Scientist of New York City, Express, said: mental influence to affect the decision case, is an accusation common to the replying sin or sickness. charging Christian Science with their The following from the Chris with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary authority in Christian Science, and no quested to give him aid. but is the power of God. = San Francisco, January 22, 1901 PERSONAL MENTION. | C. R. Tillson, an attorney of Modesto, is | at the Lick. E. F. Maxwell, a Bakersfield oil man, s at the Grand. The Rev. F. J. Mynard of Hanford is | at the Occidental. | Rev. P. Van Schee of Auburn is regis- | tered 2t the Grand. James O'Brien, a mining man of Smarts- ville, is at the Russ. arrival at the Grand. / 8. M. Griffith and W. H. McKenzie, c\(l! men at Fresno, are at the Lick. R. E. Jacks, a banker of San Luls Obispo, is registered at the Palace. Manager J. A. Fillmore of the Southern | Pacific is again confined to his home by {llness. A. 8. Moore, agent for the Northern Pa- cific in Olympia, Wash., is registered at the Russ. H. M. Reed of Reedley and E. R. Reed | of Bakersfield, prominent oil men, are stopping at the Grand. ‘W. H. Armstrong, an iron foundry man of Vancouver, is spending a few days at the Occidental with his wife. Thomas Watson and wife have returned from an extended stay in Surrey, Eng- land, and are at the California. H. E. Huntington, vice president of the Southern Pacific, has gone to New York to attend to matters conected with the Huntington estate. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—H. &. Bond of San Jose and Mr. and Mrs. Leopold W. | Michels of San Francisco are at the | Arlington: J. McMillan and Curtis H. | Lindsey are at the Shoreham; J. H. Wiley | and wife are at the St. James; F. M. Far- rar and O. F. von Rhein are at the Ra- leigh. All are of San Francisco. st Totin e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—San Francisco: J. H. Wilcox is at the Grand Union; M. A. Hirschman is at the Herald Square; F. H. Speddy is at the St. Denis; E. Maguire is at the Savoy; W. B. Peck and Mrs. W. B. Peck are at the Empire; H. Roulller is at the Murray Hill. / A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Did you ever know a | man to stand up for anybody’s mother-in- law? Mr. Crimsonbeak—Oh, yes; I think so. I | stood up for one in a street car to-day. “Gave her vour seat, did you?” “That's what I did. #What made you think she was some- ‘body’'s mother-in-law? i use she rever thanked me.’ kers Statesman. One of the churches in a little Western town is so fortunate as to have a voung woman as its pastor. She was called to the door of the parsonage one day and | i '—Yon- farmer of German type. “Dey der minister lifed In dis house,” he said. . “Yes, weplied the fair pastor. *“Vell-m—}—I vant to Kit merrit!™ “To get ? Very well, I can mar- ry you,” -,u the ministress, encourag- "*3)’1&, but I alreaty.” the discoricerting Feply. SBrookiyn Lite, “Dobbs made a lot of money this sea- S ¥ ¥ 'anmmiv«yhtm Ing history,” .;!g th-rd‘:k in tlnm book “You don't say?" eus- “How do ot Just to him—Phlladelphia Press, " In a regent issve of your paper an extract from an Eastern editorial was published under the title of “Scientists in Coprt,” “Before one of the New York courts there is a contested will case pending, and every day with Christian Scientists whose avowed object is to influence the Judge in Any one at all familiar with Christian Science would know that the above Mr. Willard 8. Mattox, “This false charge, that Christian Scientists ers in their arguments against Christian Scientists. never enter another’s thought uninvited, and then never except to destroy The conflict to-day is between two mental forces, the Christ mind and the carnal mind, or hypnotism. Science textbook, “‘Science and Health of hypotism is contrary to the teachings of Christian Science: diminish your ability to become a Scientist, and vice versa. | H., French Camp, Cal. ““How ?" out road maps for all the floors ln”g:r‘?‘* departmen! ‘ltorol."—CMfl'ob E3 in the courtroom is thronged the silent exercise on his mind of the believe they possess.” a prominent Christian to a similar editorial in the Buffalo are exerting of Judge Fitzgerald in the Brush will hypnotists and mental malpractition- Christian Scientists In this instance, own methods. hypnotists are Baker G. Eddy, shows that any use *“We have no B N P e P T moral right, to attempt to influence () the thoughts of another, cxcept it Dbe to benefit him or we are personally re- “ * * * Any hypnotic power you may exercise will ) The act of heal- { ing the sick through Mind alone, of casting out error with Truth, shows your X position as a Christian.” The power of Christian Science is not hypnotie, o FRANK W. ZALE. 0 L N N P D PN PN N 1 ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SALT LAKE-LOS ANGELES-W. M. The city of Salt Lake, Utah, is nllmrmt northeasterly from Los Angeles, PADDY RYAN—A. S, City. Paddy | Ryan, the pugilist, was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, March 15, 1553. This devartment is not advised of the cemetery in which his remains were laid at rest. LEGISLATURE—H. E. ‘Woodland, Cal. If by the question “Can you tell me what the Legislature of Massachusetts is cailed to-day?” yop mean the political complexion of that body, the answer is that it is Republican. On joint ballot there are 214 Republicans. 64 Democrats, 2 Soclal Democrats and 4 Independent Cit- izens. The market at the Oil Exchange in San Francisco is controlled by the demand and supply. The prices fluctuate through de- velopment and manipulation. The price at which the stock of a company is placed on the market is declded upon by the di- rectors of the company placing it. The {:‘" value of stock is the price that has een fixed by the directors at the time of incorporation. The buying and selling of ofl stock is conducted on the same lines as lltw kbuylng and selling of any kind of stock. * FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. %+ SUEDE COLORED CLOTH MANTLE. o e o 4 e, St Sy e Mror a_bolero, and ti are na =l capes of cloth’ and fox fur. The the cuffs. are trim with fur encircled S%Re Wrisks with Fola raid. —ee—— EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Hard Legal Nuts. The opening of the new century imposes upon the Supreme Court of the United States the decision of the most important questions which it has had to settle dur- ing the one hundred and twelve vears of its existence.—New York Evening Post. What's Eating Smith? ! Hopkinson Smith is a clever painter, story teller, lecturer. globe trotter—a good fellow generally. How could he have been so left to himseif as to call “I'ncle Tom's Cabin” the most vicious book that ever appeared? He must have swallowed a | twin of the microbe that set Mark Twain talking about the “polluted’” flag—mean- ing the flag of the United States.—Hart- ford Courant. A Crimeless Town. Cincinnati has a suburb which should Fave its name and fame shouted from one end of the land to the other. It is Hyc Park, and it has a population of 170 of the most orderly and quiet souls that ever got together. Hyde Park has a po- lice justice, but for a year he has had nothing to do. During the last year of the century this town of 1700 was abso- lutely crimeless.—Salt Lake Herald. Must Mean Harrison. Matters have come to a SOrTy pass lg a Republican of unquestioned legal ability cannot make public so often as he pleases his conclusions concerning a constit tional question of grave moment, or coi | cerning the moral phases of that qu tion, which may appeal to him proloundl}: | without being accused of party disloyalty | for_doin having improper motive | attributed to him.—Chicago Tribune. Marconi and Mars. . - ¢s it is possible-to communi- cate with Mive: if there are any people | on the planet to respond to our signals. | Distance, he thinks, can be overcome by his wireless telegraphy. The only trouble likely to occur wili arise in making the Martians, if there are any, understand | what we are trying to say of them. On the whole, it might be better if we should do our first experimenting with Venus. | Owing to the natural quickness of her sex, she would be more likely to grasp the | situation.—Chicago Inter Ocean. An interesting 1t { | of Mexico in the 5 = by the beggars o s ° protested solemnly to the ’;':}'ernmer | against an edict that no one shall tra o e ing unless he prov T O ety without other me to be entirely n: support. . From the tome of their remon- strance the beggars evidently consider |this a tyrannical interference with a | we y _ca 3 Mexican beggar Socant want the impression to get abeoad | that necessity drove him into the alms- asking business. He wants it known that it is a chosen profession.—Dallas News. | Madame La Grippe. - As far back as 17 old Noah Webster in- troduced Mme. La Grippe to this count The old lady had long before that periodical visit to Euroge under the mors pretentious name of Influenza. The dis- ease was then supposed to have its origin in star dust thrown off from the heavenly | bodies In their flight. But the pedple did not_become greatly enthusiastic over Dr. Webster's _theorfes, for in about a year Mme. La Grippe caught up her train and left tne country suddenly. But_ she made several subsequent visits, in 1837, in 1547 and 1848, and finally in 1389, 180 and 1391 her visit was so spiteful and malignant as to assume the proportions of an epi~ demic.—Boston Globe. Bride and Groom Grilled. | It is an 0dd but entertaining comment on the soclal structure of our democracy that a contemporary bride and bride- | grcom of some public importance (Van- derbiit-French) were both ignorant of the location of the birthplace of their respec- tive mothers. To go for a marriage li- cense and not be able to fill out a blank demanding the maiden name of a ma- | ternal greaz-rannmmhn might be pa denable, but is not family of enough sig- nificance after all In this ancient city to make a knowledge of one's mother's birthplace a component part of one's | education? Would it not be a useful sub- ject to introduce into the curriculums of fashionable kindergartens? Then, when | young pedple of position arrived at a mar- rlageable age and went to take a competi- | tive examination at the Registrar's office, they could pass with honors.—New York M#il and Express. Blarney in Russia. Dispatches from St. Petersburg told how the Russian Finance Minister, M. de Witte, in_submitting the annual budget | extolled the Czar for his work in China ! in rather generous terms. “The Czar.” he said, “Is a great Christian Prince who | follows no impulse save that of his heart, Who has shown the world by a sublime example that the extraordinary might of Russia is bound up with a profound love of peace.” To-day the St. Petersburg | dispatches tell us that De Witte has just received from the Czar a gift of 200,000 | rubles, and that he has expectations of high preferment. There are men in pub- lic office in America who have been known | to say pleasant things of their employers for a less Important consideration, ‘Whether in Russia they do that sort of thing in a bigger way we do not know, but the course of events in Manchuria, when examined In connection with M. de Witte's eulogium, suggests that the St, Petersburg rate for blarney in high places | is pretty stiff.—New York Commereial Ad. | vertiser. | f Choice candies. Townsend's,Palace Hotel.* % Wilgus ofl burners. Office and salesroom 514A Mission street. Telephone John 2408 * f Townsend’s California glace fruits : ts. S0e 4 aflnfl. in boxes or ts. A nice present for Eastern €39 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding. © Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Cllpmr,:l; Bureau (Allen’s), m‘ionl- gomery st. Telephone Main 1043. . Hohkonigsburg in Alsace, the remain: of an early medieval castle, 1s to be r: stored by the Kaiser aiter the manner in which Plerrefonds was rebuilt by the ar- chitect Viollet-le-Duc for = the ress Eugenie. ANEMIA is little red in the blood. The red in the blood is the oxygen-carrier. Better to breath with half of one lung than not have enough red in the blood. The blood is full of digested food ; but it can’t build muscle and nerve and bone without gen. ' Scott's emulsion of cod-liver oil puts red in the blood: the oxygen-carrier. Itis like build- ing a railroad into a famine- stricken country. ‘We'll send you a littleto try, if you ke, -« SCOTT & EQWNE, 409 Pearl strest, New York,