The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1901, Page 6

L . .MARCH 28, 1901 JOKN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor 411 Communicstions te W.S. LEAKE, Manager. RS OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, & Cents. # Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday). .36.00 Y CALL Sunday). . 3.00 CALL uding Sundav), . 1.50 CALL Single Month . e One Year. . 1.50 LL, One Year. 1.00 postmasters are authorized to receive subscrirtions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested. o & chanse of address should be [ » NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order rompt and correct compliance with their request. OFFICE..............1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazager Foreign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Chissgo. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2618.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON. . +++.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. 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Thas per will also be on at 1 ummer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towss on the coast. RESULTS OF VOTING MACHINES. HOR Y after the Presidential election last fall the results obtained nce that have t he “An the advocates of the new confirm almost everything that e machines. s of the American given in the “Annals” it ap- State alone 377 machines were rent cities, including Buffalo, afficient population to put the mechanism horough test. In that city the different wards at rates vary- votes an hour. There was no or trouble with the machines. In e where time was kept it was noted that | two minutes, and two of them d split their tickets. In eleven of the the city-over 800 names were on and yet o swiftly did the machines per- g to be carried on that not only did every le time to vote, but there were por- when the machines were idle. Out i 66,6c0 upward of 70 per cent had wit ve am) ct a total vote voted by noon. A notable feature of the system is the quickness the returns were obtained. The report of the voting at Buffalo says: “The polls closed at 5 p. m, and § before that time a swift bicycie rider reported at every polling place with a label on his wheel which gave him right of way over every- thing on the street and permission to make his utmos: speed. In less than five minutes after the polls close1 I reports from every district were on their way to the City Hall * * * The results in all places where voting machines were used were placed at once on the wires of the Asspciated Press and the Bell Telephone Company and were communicated to both Presidential candidates béfore 6 p. m.” To show the advantage of the machine by contrast with the old system the report states that in 1896 it took eight hours and thirty minutes to finish and file the returns from! Buffalo. Speed, however, is not the only good result from the machines. It was proven that with the machine it is just as easy to split a ticket as to vote it straight/ and in general the splitting was done much more accurately than in voting the Australian ballot under the old plan. Thus by the reports from Northampton, Mass., where seven machines were used, averaging 450 voters to the machine, it was found that the num- ber of blank votes was decreased at least 50 per cent 25 compared with those of 1896. At Ithaca, N. Y., where 2800 votes were polled, the clerk estimates that the machine saves the city ard of $500 a year in printing expenses and the salaries of clection officers. It is noted, moreover, that the result of the vote in that city at the last elec- n was known accurifely within fifteen minutes after with w the polis closed Speaking of the subject generally the report says ystem: “It is fair, rapid, aegurate, nd as nearly fraud-proof as it is possible an device to be. The first and absolutely ssary step in all referm is to make sure that every i=ction is an honest cne—is a real expression of the people’s will—and this the voting machine does with- any uncertainty whatever. * * * The name oi every candidate nominated appears plainly befors i where he cannot help seeing it, e on exzctly the same footing, as easy to move one indicator as #nother. Finally, it is to be uoted that the use of the ma- chines will be largely increased in the next elections. Cleveland, Ohio, has voted to adopt them, and Chi- cago and Philadelphia are moving toward the same end. In fact, the Peansylvania Legislature is ex- pected to provide for the adoption of the machines throughout the Stats. time the rer | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH ¢8, 1901. L CHILDREN. REST FOR SCH EPORTS submitted to the Board of Education Q on Tuesday concerning the results of tests made of school classes relieved of the task of studying at home are so | favorable to the reform movement that it is now reasonable to expect. the practice of requiring school-children to study at home as well as in the schools will be abolished. ’ The schools in which the tests were made are the, | Horace Mann, the Broadway and the Hearst. - From | every one of them gocd reports came in. James H. Simmons of the Horace Mann School reported making a careful comparison of the work achieved by the class from which no home study was required with that of other classes, and added: “I confess that T am surprised to find that the ‘no home study’ class holds its own with the rest. I have watched the | work closely, and the examinations were carefully prepared and conducted. I desire to continue the ex- periment further.”” From the Broadway Grammer School there came a joint report signed by several teachers declaring: "Ihe work of the no home study section has equaled in every respect that of the home study sections.” The teachers add that in their judg- ment pupils should do the greater part of their work within school hours. N. A. Wood of the Hearst | Grammar School reported that the percentages of the | pupils not required to study at home were as high or higher than they had been when home work was imposed. He added that in addition to the good.re- sults shown in the lessons there was also an improve- ment in the deportment of the pupils under the new system. It is announced that the Board of Education has been so well satisfied with the results obtained from the tests that it will have the experiments continued and made upon a more comprehensive scale. Tt ¢an hardly be doubted the new tests will be as favorable as those already made, and that within a comparatively short time it will have been demonstrated to the sat- isfaction of even the most conservative teachers that home work is not a necessity for pupils in our public sclools, and that the children may be left free to em- ploy their hours at home in something other than school work. The San Francisco tests justify the action of those | who sought to bring about the cnactment of a State law forbidding home study to be imposed upon the children of any of our public schools. The issue is | one of no little importance. It concerns every homa | ence. in which there is any child in zttendance upon the schools, for it means the relief of childhood from one of the onerous burdens imposed upon it by our sys- tem of education, and cannot fail to be felt beneficially by all whom it affects. Up to this time our system of education has hardly passed the experimental stage. It began with a prac- tice of teaching a child little more than reading, writ- ing and arithmetic in schoolhouses that were bare, ill-ventilated, frequently ill-lighted, and in many ways | not only uncomfortable but actually ,prejudicial to health. With the advance of education, howeyer, the public schools system taught schoolteachers and parents about as“much as it taught children. One re- | form after another has been brought about, until now public school education is so different from what it was a generation ago that old=time teachers would | hardly recognize it as the outgrowth of their work. In this work of improvement much has been done to care for the body as well as the mind of the child, | 2na everything wisely done in that direction has proven about as beneficial to the brain as to the muscle. The new movement toward ridding the pupil of Qle task of home study 1s in the same direc- ticn. It tends to give the child more hours of recrea- tion, and the result has been brighter minds and mors ing hearts when ihey return to school. I* is to be hoped the bill.passed by the Legislature to put an end to home study will be approved by the Governor. If he ever had any doubts about its wis- dom they can hardly remain after the reports of the tests made in this city. — ME@RYLAND’S ELECTION LAW. ORMAN’S.ambition to regain power in Mary- G land has led the Democratic majority in the Legislature of that State to enact an election law which has revived public interest in the suppres- sion of the negro vote in the Southern States, and may probably raise it to the position of an important if not the chief issue in our politics until redress has been obtained. The Maryland law is cunningly de- | vised. It is apparently a frank adoption of the Austra- | lian ballot pure and simple, but it really provides a | system of voting that cannot be used by the illiterate voter unless he should. receive assistance from the election officers, and it has been stated that the pro- visions of the law regulating the selection of thoss officers are such as to enable the Democratic machine to entirely control the elections und virtually dictate the result. The Baltimore American says there are 26,000 col- ored illiterates in Ma:yland, most of whom are Re- publicans, and 18,000 white illiterates, most of whom are Democrats. Thus if all should be excluded, and no trickery resorted to, the Republicans would still sustain a much heavier loss in voting strength than the Democrats. That fact and its significance are so | well understood it is taken as a foregone conclusion | that Gotman can be re-elected to the Senate if he de- sires. In fact, the Democrats have apparently cap- tured the State, and they have effected it by a cun- ning method of disfranchising the colored vote. There is one ray of light in the situation. The Re- publican leaders are busily engaged in utging the negroes to learn how to read so that they will be able to vote notwithstanding the Democratic scheme. In commenting upon that phase of the issue the Ameri- can says: “The colored illiterates are eager to learn to read and to distinguish the names on the ballots, nor have they, for the sake of receiving instruction, any hesitancy in coming forward and confessing their illiteracy. The case with the white illiterates is en- tirely different. New as is 'this agitation, it has been already demonstrated that the whites resent the im- position of an educational qualification, and that they wilf lose their votes rather than confess their inability to properly distinguish the names on the ballots. In view of this it is indisputable that, while striving for a mean partisan advantage, the Democrats are daily | shaping the proposed new election law after the man.- - ver of a boomerang, which in the end will turn and strike them that threw it.” Should the law have the effect thus suggested it would be one more instance of good resulting from evil. In the meantime it is to be noted that the sub- ject has aroused the attention of earnest men who be- lieve that the suppression of the colored vote by the Democrats has been carried too far. According to re. ports from Washington: “Leading Republican mem- bers of Congress say that at its next session Congress cannot refuse to ignore this wholesale denial of the right of suffrage to men who are entitled to it under the Federal constitution, and that a bill will be pressed for | rations and other things needful to keep them from :going on the warpath; but little is being done for | these peaceful wards of the nation, who are in every | the condition of the Indians has now become so acute | hored the attentio | to make way for the new-comers. The Spanish friars | of the old days were poor and weak, while the United | then, sinte the friars did so much for the improvement | the only alternative to starvation. passage enforcing the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, which provides for reducing the repre- sentation of States curtailing suffrage. It is now recognized that a mistake was made at the last sessiorn in not meeting the issue when the reapportionment act was under consideration.” Suh reports give encouragement to the hope that there may be then ‘another good effect of the Mary- land law, and that in addition to leading to an increase of instruction among the colored voters of the State it will lead also to the adoption of measures by Con- gress which will redress the wrongs of the voters in other Southern States. Thus it will be seen the scheme of Gorman may have far-reaching conse- quences, and the steps he has taken to return to the Senate may cost his party dear. X THE MISSION INDJANS: ROM the office of “The Indian Rights Associa- [:tion," at Philadelphia, there has been issued a pamphlet on the condition of the Mission Indians of Southern California which presents a strik- ing array of evidence of wrongs committed against the Indians ahd makes a strong plea for justice. The pamphlet was written by Constance Goddard DuBcis, and contains extracts from reports. on the conditions of the Indians by Helen Hunt Jackson an: Abbot Kinney, special commissioners of the Govern- ment; Mr. Estudillo, at one time the Government representative at the sgency; Father Ubach and Rev. H. B. Restarick of San Diego and Rev. Joseph H. | Johnson of Los Angeles. All of the reports agree that the Indians have been badly treated; that their condition is deplorable through no fault of their own, and that immediate relief should be given by the Gov- ernment. It appears from the reports that much of the land in the reservations set apart for the Mission Indians is utterly barren, and that the whites have been con- tinually encroaching upon whatever portions of the reservations as are worth having. It is said the reser- vation at Capitan Grande is mostly made up of the steep, bare sides of the mountain walls of the canyon, and Father Ubach is quoted as saying “Capitan Grande is a disgrace.” p It is pointed out that-Fith the Mission Indians we do not have to combat the habit of nomadic exist- They were partially civilized long ago by the efforts of the Spanish friars, who taught them not only religion but the practice of industry and thrift. Their very pegceableness, however, appears to he again§t them, for Bishop Johnson is reported as de- claring: “If they were bloodthirsty savages the Gov- ernment would probably provide them with ample way mote deserving than the savage tribes who have received so much of the nation’s bounty.” In addition to the ovils caused by the neglect of the Government, it is alleged that further wrongs havc resulted from the aggressions of the whites and that that unless steps be immediately taken by the Govern- ment to protect the reservations the Indians will be driven off their lands altogether, as if they were “no more than herds of wild deer to be driven back in advance of the white man.” . Charges of so grave 'a mnature, resting upon such good authority, tc not to be ignored, and it is to be n of the Government will soon be directed to the wrong. California wishes more whits settlers and has a ready welcome for all who come, but she is not so lacking in untilled land nor so unjust as to drive a few poor Indians from their homes in order States Government is rich and strong, and surely of the Indians, the United States might at least main- tain what was done for them, and not, through re- . | peated wrongs, drive them to resort to savagery as THE MORMON IDE@. S we predicted, thes Utah law which prevents fl any prosecution for polygamy except on com- plaint of husband or wife is already put for- ward as similar to the adultery statutes of other States. Senator Evans, its author, says: “My object in presenting the bill was twofold. . In the first place it was intended to keep down public agitation by taking away from certain agitators the opportunity to arouss periodic furors against the Mormons directly, and indirectly against the State of Utah, and for that rea- son its primary purpose was for the good of the State. I believe that a general act upon our statute- beoks in conformity with the laws of Michigan, Min- nesota, Iowa, Oreg_on and North Dakota, and even more liberal laws, would create much less agitatior: throughout the country than the practice which has heretofore been resorted to of arresting every few weeks some Mormon on a charge of unlawful co- habitation and having the arrest announced in flam- ing headlines by all the newspapers throughout the country which can be induced to take up an anti- Mormon crusade. Everybody knows that these ar- rests have been made for political and religious pur- poses and not with any patriotic desire to enforce the law.” ) It is quite interesting that any man can be as bling as the Senator pretends to-be. 2 The object of his law is just as plain as the moun- tains of his State. It is not to prevent the prosecu- tion of former polygamists by persons outside their families. It is to enable the church to safely resume poiygamy as a religious institution and hold those who practice it harmless and safe from the law. In urging such a palpable violation of its pledged faith we assure the Mormon hierarchy that it makes a capital mistake. Lad faith is odious under any circumstances, and in this breach there is no element that can toleratc or excuse it. g The country will bs roused to indignation and an arcndment to the Federal constitution will be adopted within two years that will brand Utah as leprous and pastiferous, and leave upon her honor and the gooid name of the church that rules her a stain that cannot be washed out. RO Wau Ting Fang has once more risen up to say that the; Chinese were civilized when the races now occupy- m:l Europe and America were barbarians; and now we have to consider whether a man can be justly con- sidered a good diplomatist when he goes about raking up old sores in that reckless sort of way. A S i NS - Dispatches from Chicago antounce that a young man has started out to make himself king of the corn market and has thus far been very successful. Just now they are calling him the “Napoleon of the corn- pit,” but to-morrow his name may be Dennis, [PAPERS ON THE SaN Francisco CALL. ' How Men of Brain and Brawn May Use Their Faculties Without Injury to Health or Strength. COPYRIGHT, 1901 The word rest in some languages means by their maladies. They have learned to | a. measure of distance, a mile, for in- stance; in one of its anclent forms it con- tains the idea of rejoicing or pleasure. ‘When the doctor advises rest to his over- worked or overworried patient, if his ad- vice is of practical worth it will include suggestions and directions as to the meth- ods of measuring both work and rest, and of adding to that rest such recreation as | a] is most suitable to the patient's needs. Simply to tell a sick man that he must rest, without showing him the best way of ‘doing this, will usually be of little ser- vice. Sometimes, indeed, the effort to rest becomes itself a task, or what Is rest for one man may be a task for another. Honest labor, physical or mental, should not impair health nor shorten life. The man who works with his brain, if well equipped, should stand longer hours than those usually forced upon the average | mechanic, provided food and rest are properly supplied. The word rest as here used covers not only simple repose or in- action of body and mind, but reaction and sleep. It is not work which maims or kills, but overwork, ill-regulated work and work out of season. Underrest and Overwork. Underrest is often as great an evil as overwork. To say that a man is over- worked is not exactly the same as to say that he is underrested. Some of those who work hard do not in reality over- work, but they do not know how to rest, even though the time and opportunity to rest are at their disposal. spent so much time in learning how to work and in working that they know nothing else. This is true of men in all walks of life, but especially of business and professional men, some of whom s®ill further dissipate their energies in their efforts to recuperate. The doctor who deals with the over- worked and underrested has always a serious problem presented to him. A man comes to him with a story of failing pow- ers of attention, of irritable temper, of confusion of ideas, of a feeling of feeble- ness, of pain or discomfort in the head or spine, of restlessness by day and sleep- lessness by night, and asks for advice that will bring relief; a woman comes with a story of undue emotionality, of mental de- pression, of interference with normal funetions, of weariness and hopelessness— with many of the symptoms of the man, and where these are wanting with others of her own to make up the lack; the child or youth is brought with a story of bad conduct, of choreic twitchings, of loss of interest'in school work, of failing strength and often of special disorders of diges- tion or excretion. In most of these cases what is most needed is rest. The value and virtue of rest should be made as much the object of the earnest physi- clan’s study as drugs and waters, instru- ments and commonly accepted methods | of treatment. Rest as a Cure for Organic Disease. Rest properly taken does much to pro- long and make.comfortable the lives not only of those suffering from functiona: diseases of the nervous system, but for a considerable percentage of those who are afflicted with organic and often ‘n- curable disease. It is rest on which we must most rely for the relief of that pre- eminently American disease, neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion. A’ well-known clergyman, in an even better-known religious journal, recently delivered himself of the opinion that there is no such thing as nervous prostration, defining the condition which is called b this name by saying that it is “simply lack of will power, a sinking into imagin- ation which plays havoc with religion and usefulness.” The clergyman is not alone in this opinion, for not a_few otherwise well-informed physicians hold the same view. They seem to believe that neuras- thenia is a good label with which to ex- cuse a man for his shortcomings, or to procure for him a holiday; or perhaps be- cause hysteria and melancholia are so often associated with neurssthenia, or neurasthenfa is so often the soil from which_melancholia and hysteria develon, | the affection 1s- not regarded as worthy of a separate habitation and name. I be- lieve, however, that there is a more or less ‘serfous functional nervous disorder which in Its pure type should be d nated neurasthenia or nervous prostration, and for this affection rest is the best ren:- edy, although other measures may prove | useful adjuvants. The neurasthenic, like Serenus in his letter to Seneca, finds himself “in a state of mind which, although not_the worst, is particularly complaining and sullen.” ' am neither sick nor well,” he says. And vet he is sick, but fcrtunately it may be only for a season, If he seeks and obtains the rest which he requires. How Rest Prolongs Life. Rest serves a greal purpose in preserv- ing the usefulness and prolonging the lives even of those who are stricken with in- curable maladies, but maladies which do not necessarily soon threaten death. 1t is well worth while to lay stress upon this hase of the subject, Many a man through [aneritance, mistortune or fault. hia bes come the vietim of an organic disease of the nervous system or of some other part of the body, a digease which cannot be cured and which fllls him with dread an1 despair when once he has become aware of its presence. Such a one should not say to himself: “I am sick and cannot ge. well, therefore I may as well give up and wait for the end"—but just as the healthy man should study his limitations, so should the sick man study his. His in- quiry sheuld be directed to determine how he can make himself or keep himself most useful, which he is afflicted. I have sometimes =aid that 1 feel inciined to advise life in- surance companies to risk endowment Dollc)rs of ten or fifteen years on many cases| of chronic disease “of the nerves, spinal cord and brain, with the same con- fidence that they would on those in good health, with the proviso that such 'pa- tients be instructed and agree to follow a course of life to be prescribed for them. Many a case of locomotor ataxia, of pa- ralysis from neutritis or clot. of diabetes. or of Bright's disease has almost as good a chance of ten to twenty years of life and a latge degree of usefulness as his healthy neighbor has of twenty to thirty yvears. Like the man growing old. wha he needs to do is te change his plane activity. Drugs and other well chosen methods of treatment will do something for him, but more can be done by rest and change in mode of life. . Combating Serious Dis:zases. The stary i told of a man suffering from loes tor ataxia who was steadily and rapidly ‘eninf worse, but who by what seemed an {ll stroke of fortune, broke his leg and was compelled to take to his bed for several months. On rising after the bone had knit it was found that he had mudc-fl s lmpro&me:{t lm ;‘I:e s g D 6 A done nder much: pre- vious treatment. Facts like this in con- nection with the teachings of physiology have shown that rest properly Qirected i one of the best therapeutic measures in the treatment of this disease. The pa- tients sufferi and from sim- rative diseases of the nervous L“‘.’m‘..',,!:i, are collected together in hos- s warés for nervous Philadelphia. _hospital, mous wards of the Sal; live on for many years velopment of their . largely be- cause their lives are spent removed from care, from the necessity of making a liv- and under what is for them goad diet hyglene. I know of patients suffering from dizbetes who have made more than one ml't\mer atxte‘; t‘lllley have been doomed oot-in-the-grave doctors, to die by! Y % e ;.:! the full 5‘:‘- et medicine ng how notwithstanding the iliness with | CURRENT TOPICS. | PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FORf By Dr. Charles K. Mills. i VI—REST—HOW IT PROLONGS LIFE. } ! | | | | i work in a more orderly and systematic | manner, and above all to seek rest and | change ‘when they are required. How Patients Lose Their Chances. One great trouble with patlents suffcr- ing from such chromc diseases is that they live in an atmospkere of unrest as re; s treatment; they are not willing to leave either themselves or thelr diseases one. They must always be up and do- ing, in many cases the truth being that the’ more they do the more rapidly they decline, They go from place to place; | they grasp at every straw of relief of- fered by the wise, the ignorant, or the unscrupulous, and thereby sometimes 1033 the few chances that are left to thelo. They should not say o the doctor, “Can | you cure me?’ but, “What can you do to relieve my sufferings, improve my health and prolong my life?” It is not necessary for such patients always to give up the work in which they are »n- gaged, but it Is always necessary that | they do this work under the requirements | of the new situation. How and wher 0 | rest are for them always among the most | important things to learn. 1 have known | not a few such patients to be hastened to their graves by trying methods of treat- ment which involve exercise of an_un- suitable or even violent character. Exer- | clse has a great place even in the treat- | ment of some organic diseases, but im- properly directed it may add to the ilis | of the patient, and hasten processes of | decay and degeneration. Some well ad- | Vvised apostles of exercise travel from city | to city and gather In the weak, the hali, and the depressed, and preaching a ser- mon which is epplicable to a few, allur> the many into a routine of therapeutic overwork which can only prove disas- trous. Avoid Unrest—Get Proper Rest. The rroblems included under a discus slon of rest as the conzerver of health and prolonger of life may be preserted from two practical standpoints; first, the avoidance of habits of unrest, and, sec- ond, the best method of obtaining the rest that is required. Much space need not be taken up with a consideration of | the first of these heads. Not a few of | those who suffer from nervous or other | breakdown do £o because their lives and | work are full of unrest. .Of two business | men who have equal amounts of work to | do and are practically equal in physical | strength and mental capacity, one goes about his task with a system and steadi- ness that do not wear either upon himself | or those with vhom he comes in contact, | the other with such restlessness and an- | necessary outprt as to keep himself in a half-exhausted state and those _around him disturbed and disquieted. Perhaps his unrest is shown in the unnecessary | steps which he takes or the unnecessary 1apidity with which he takes them; in talking too long or too excitedly; in driv- | ing when leading would do better—in brief, in expending more energy than is necessary even for the full accomplish- | ment of ‘the work in hand. The feelings | of those compeiled by fate to keep com- rany with these useful but irritating mor- tals are best expressed by the slang ex- pression, “Give us a rest”; but as a rule they never either rest themselves nor let any one about :hem rest. One set of men do their work with smoothness and with only that loss of vitality which is easily repaired by their daily income of food and | sleep; the other is always giving out more | than can be thus supplied. One saves his forces at the same time that he uses | them; the other is wasting much that he | might easily save. One physician is worn | out before his hours of work have half | expired; the other goes eveniy and quiet- | ly through the irard day’s work. The work | that nags and harasses one man scarcely | ruffles the other. } Combining Rest With Work. 4' Much of this is due to the fact that | many, perhaps most, men have not learned to conserve their forces while at work; to combine rest with work, or at | least work without unnecessary restless- | Often much could be done to pra- vent breakdown by simply seizing the lit tle opportunities which either offer or can be made, to rest body and mini, either while at labor or during the inter- vals which come in so many forms of labor. Men stand or move about at the: work, when they could just as read:ly | sit. Sometimes both men and women are | forced by the rules of an establishment | to waste their energies standing and walk- ing when they might be saved by givinz opportunities to rest when standing and walking are not required by the exigen- | cles of business. Stools without backs and desks of improper shape or size soma- times add to_the labor, and prevent rest. | which even during labor might be easily had. In the foolish haste which governs so mary, even the quickly eaten meal of the | business man is not taken with the qu.st and rest which could be obtained. He sits on a high and unbacked stool at a counter, with an empty chair and table within reach, apparently fearful lest he may be tempted by a little more comfort to pro- long the time snatched from his business. Banish the Spirit of Unrest. Much of the work that is done in this | strusgling world must be done in haste and with energy, or the results wished for will not be ol ed; but while this is true, it is also trtie that often more haste is taken and more energy expended than is called for by necessity. The spirit of | unrest dominates too much. How is rest to be secured? This ques- tion cannot be answered by merely gen- eral statements. The individual must be studied even more tHan the discase. The , rest which is one man's meat may be an- other’s poison. Rest, especlally for those stricken or threatened with nervous dis- | ease, s to be obtained through daily peri- | ods of rest and recreation, throu sea- | sonal vacations or holldays, through travel and change of climate, through well selccted reading and diversion, and through methods of rest treatment. Note—Next Thursday will 1 | an article by Dr. Mill3 on .-g”e‘..‘l“r'?éi" ez?. A CHANCE TO SMILE. } A good story is told of a British colonel | who possessed a prodigious -ppem; When in Wales he went on a walking tour | fnd stonped for a midday meal at a vil- age inn. n_inquiring what he could havi ! lunch, the landlord announced a. r m‘t’" goose, hot and ready to be served, lnr:n apple tart. The colonel was informed that half a crown was the price for the | ast. aving demolished practically the ‘whole of the goose and all the tart, leavin, 7 a few bopes and an inch of Craet fo i | the tale, he proffered the half crown. The landlord woefully accepted t and, ‘with a sardonic gtin, ejaeuiaton; O™ | *“Next time you are down this way, give my friend Jones at the house opposite s call. I will hand you three and if you will serve him the same Blrmln{hul.qnl.) Post. strolli eir properties were not g‘stqmuuc order, for when ce | sixpen way!"— ed’ from sir; it’s the putty knife. lost.”"—Tit-Bits. A well known medical jor advice: “If the child d fresh milk, boil it.” p merely spanking it? it after a while.—Atlanta Journal wHow do you like your new teacher?" “The one who came fr J asked the Titta Beston boy. oSt es.’ | when in charge has not. | thoroughfare for a gentlema ! walking with a lad: PERSONAL MENTION H. H. Austin of Stockton is a guest at Palace. m:uveflor Judge J. E. Prewett of Auburn is at the Thomas D. Petch, a merchant of Eu- reka, is at the Grand. W. D. Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, i3 staying at the California. F. H. Mallory, a mining man residing at Fresno, is at the Lick. G. H. Kraft, a merchant of Red Bluff, is staying at the California. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan are registered at the Palace. = G. W. Crystal, a fruit grower of Vaca- ville, is staying at the Gramd. Captain Winslow of the Solace is spend- ing a few days at the California. B. W. Paxton, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is registered at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs, Roblee of Riverside are spending a few days at the Grand. S. Martinelll, an extensive cider manu- facturer, is registered at the Grand. J. S. Brown and A. N. Judd, both of Salinas, are guests at the Occidental. E. C. Eaton, who conducts a general merchandise store at Salinas, is a guest | at the Lick. Peter Spreckels, a lead.ng banker of Dresden, Germany, is ‘n the city renew!iug old-time friendships and revisiting scenes that were familiar to him sixteer years ago. He was-quite a young man when L2 came first to San Francisco. He pasied many of the active vears of his youth and middle age in the promotion of in- dustrial enterprises in California. Peter Spreckels is eleven vears younger thaa his brother, Claus, with whom he was os- soctated in business affairs in early times. He proposes to remain here until June next. Under the escort of Claus Spreckels and family the welcome guest is viewing many of the Interesting features of mod- ern San Francisco. ——e————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 27.—The following Califernians are in New York: From San Francisco—L. Seissler, at the Imperial: Miss Musser, at the Manhattan; J. H. Spoker, at the Herald Square; Mrs. F. Stenbank, at the Manhattan; M. Jones, at the Hoffman; G. F. Kohl, at the Holland; Mrs. L. V. Levison, at the Savoy; J. H. Fannin, at the Imperial. From San Diego—M. F. Graat the Murray Hill e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON Tr., at WASHINGTON, March 27.—The follow- ing Californians have arrived at the ho- tels: Raleigh—Mr. «nd Mrs. A. W. Brown; Ariington—Samuel Francise ANSWERS TO QUERIES. INDIANA—R., Berkeley, Cal. Indiana is Indian, and means land of Indians. GRAND OPERA HOUSE-W. F. K., City. The seating capacity of the Grand Opera-house is about 2500. That of the Chutes Theater is about 3000, KING OF SPAIN—H. 8., Nipomo, Cal. Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, was born May 17, 1586, nearly six months after the death of his father, Alfonso XIIL SOAP BUBBLE—E., City. The reason a soap bubble exhibits so many colors is because the thickness of the flim through which the rays of light pass is constantiy Shoreham—L. A. Schwabacher; Wright, all of Saa | varying. NYANZA-P. W. City. Nyanza, as for instance Vietoria Nyanza and Albert Nyanza in Africa, Is lake, and is the native expression for Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. AN INVENTION—C. B., City. If a man who Is poor has a valuable invention that he cannot have patented he should con- sult a reliable patent agent, who wili ad- vise him what to do. THEATERS—S., City. About once a manth this department receives a ques- tion about the seating capacity of two of the local theaters. The guestion has been answered a dozen times. A PROFESSOR—Reader, Santa Rosa, Cal. As the professor asked about Is not a public man the department cannot give you his address, as it does not advertise any business or profession. COINS—M. F., Dutch Flat, Cal. A quar- ter of 1789 does not command a premium, :nor do half dollars of 1819, 1827, 1829, 1830 and 1839. These might command a pre- mium from some one who is making a col- lection. LIGHT AND LOCOMOTIVE-E., City. Light travels from the sun to the earth, a distance of about 9,000,000 miles, in about eight minutes, A locomotive traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour without interruption would require upoward of 150 years to travel that distance. Cal. As you do not mention what kind of cement you wish to be informed about, it is impossible to give in this department the composition of every kind of cement that is known. State the kind of cement and the answer will be given. THE SENSES—R.. Berkeley, Cal. When | a person falls asleep the senses, so it is asserted, surrender to the spell in the fol- lowing order: Sight, taste, smell, hearing. touch. The sense of touch is the lightese sleeper and most easily awakened, then heml-llng, then sight, then taste and then smell. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY — R, Berkeley, Cal. It has been calculated that when the Trans-Siberian Railway is com- pleted it will be possible to make the tour of the world in thirty-five days. The estl. mate of time as furnished by the Russian Minister of Railways is as follows: St. Petersburg to Viadivostok, ten days: Viadivostok to San Francisco, ten days: San Francisco to New York, four and a half days: New York to Bremen, seven days, and Bremen to St. Petersburg, one and a half days. . PILOT—J. C., Sacramento, Pacific Mail Steamship Company holds that the master of on€ of its vessels has supreme command and that the pilot In Englandgur- ing the period of his charge the whole re- sponsibility of the safe conduct of the vessel devolves upon the pdlot: except un~ der extraordinary circumstances, such as where it is evident that the pilot is acting rashly, or is intoxicated. or is palpabl incompetent. a_master would not be justi- fied in interfering with the pflot. A pilot must when in charge of a vessel arriving in the vort of San Francisco safely moor the vessel In such position as the master of the vessel or the harbor master may direct. ACCOMPANYING A LADY-G. ®, City. A writer on social etiquette says: “It is usual whea walking in a crowded n to keep to the left of a lady in order to prevent her from being jostled the passers-by. ‘This without any reference to the inside or outside of the walk.” There is another Wwho declares that “when a gentleman s y on_a sidew: his place to be by her side, he to %‘3‘,.'.'.13 €st to the street. If In crossing a street Cal. The hin until he resumes his Diace v her. earest the. A unexpected rush from the street to !i\,.: walk.” You now have twa and t you may take your choice. | : | Chotee candies, Townsend's, Patace Hotel * | ———— Cal. glace fruit 50¢ per b at Tpwnsend's® e R It l information supplied dally to pping B, AUbe, men oy the gomery elephone Main 143 % 7 At Co"ntz‘ England, all the tools and steel work ‘hmak. Wi itel er's factory magnet-