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6 Che Sakase Call. THURSDAY. .......00iesssseessss -APRIL 11, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commupications to W. 5. LEAKE, Mensger. MANAGER’S OFFICE. .......Telephone Press 204 nsekmsmebed da oo bt T e VUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. DITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1901. EXPULSION OF THE NEGRO. HE process of disfranchising the Southern T negro and nullifying the Federal constitution goes gayly on south of Mason and Pixon’s linc. By one device or another the black race is being deprived of all political rights. With rare exceptions the negroes take it as stoically as they did slavery. Long accustomed to subjection, they accept its latest form without wincing. As the emancipation procla- mation found most of them unaware of what had hap- pened, this partial reversal of that great decree of liberty moves them not to protest. The issue promises to assume the exact form in which the institution of slavery finally presented it- Terms by Mail, Including Postage: self. The bondage of the black man reacted upon DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year. ’:: the white. It made him the sole arbiter of the lifc oATLY ,c-flj' :::3::::; g::::}v.;: fifi 150 | and destiny of other human beings. He became ac- DAILY CALL—By Single Month, ¢ | customed to the autocratic use of authority over men TEDSE - CANL. Do Yger X lx'.: who were as little entitled to protest as the beasts TKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive bserirtiol Eempile coptes will be forwarded when requested. 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CRANE, Co URANCH OFFICES—&2] Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 6% McAllister, open until $:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin, open unt!l $:20 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o’clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 109 Valencla, open unts] § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cor- ner Twenty-second snd Kentuckv. open untll $ o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. c. Central—*Ingomar.” Tiveli—""The Idol's Eye.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. r—*“Tennessee's Pardner.” Grand Opera-house—*‘Cinderella.” ‘More Than Queen. “The County Fair,” Sunday night. corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. es, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and scher's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Tanforan Park—Races. AUCTION SALES. Eldridge & Co.—This day, at 11 and 2 o'clock, 145 Stockton street. Horse Exchange—Monday, April 15, Horses, Easton, rsian Rugs, at By O tal 21 Howard street By G. H. Umbsen—Thursday, April 18, at 12 o'clock, Busi- ness Property, at 14 Montgomery street. <= ——— T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residesace during the summer months ean have } their paper forwarded by mail to their new | addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent im - tow. on the co: BOOKS AND PUBLISHERS. OME interesting information concerning S book trade as seen from the standpoint of publishers was brought out at a recent trial in London of a suit by an Irish author against Con- able & Co. for failure to publish a book in time ior presentation to the public at the date agreed upon. The book was a romance dealing with -affairs in Ireland from 1600 to 1720, the period following the battle of the Boyne. The author desired to have the book in the hands of the retailers by St. Patrick’s day, believing it would Lave a better sale at that sea- The publishers failed to bring the work out un- til April 20, and it was alleged by the plaintiff that not only did he suffer loss by the delay in publica- tion, but also by the failure of the publishers to push | the book in the United States. The defense claimed that the delay in publication did not affect the sale of the book, that the firm did endeavor to obtain sale for it in the United States as well as in Great Britain, and expended £25 in advertising,it. For the purpose of getting expert testimony con- dity of the defense representatives of son nd. One of these testified: “It is practically iripossible to get a book by an unknown author taken up in America.” Another said that when books by unknown authors are presented to retail book dezlers they “treat them as a horse would a thistle in his nosebag,” and upon being asked by the court, “What does the horse do?” he replied, “Shakes his | hezd and snorts.” The most curious bit of evidence, however, was 1at given by a traveling salesman for a leading pub- liching house, who, when asked concerning the ques- | tion of loss through the delay in publication, answered | that from a business point of view he preferred the- ology in March and novels in June and July. Herein we have another illustration of the differ- ence between experts zrd laymen. In the light of re- cent successes achieved in this country by works whose authors were absolutely unknown to the Ameri- can public, it is not easy to find justification for the statement that it is “‘practically impossible to get a book by an unknown author taken up in America.” Nor is it easy to understand why in March theology ould be more popular than a2 novel. Evidently there are mysteries in the book business, and some enterprising publisher should write a work on the subject and illustrate it with diagrams. By way of relieving the overcrowded districts of the city the London County Council has purchased 225 acres of land in the suburbs and will erect thereon houses sufficient to acccmmodate a population of 42,000. The movement is but the beginning of a gen- eral plan for clearing the slums, and promises to be the most notable municipal venture of the time. It is, in fact, a mecessity of the situation, for certain ssc- tions of the great city are now so crowded it is im- possible for the authorities to enforce among the population any kind of sanitary regulations. - Russia’s latest annguncemcnt is to the effect that lier pecupation of Manchuria is designed to be “tem- porary only,” but China is naturally averse to taking chances. In the history of aggressive empires tem- porary possession has been known to last'a long time. General Miles has expressed for publication the Liope that the Cubans in forming their constitution will do nothing rash.” The general should suggest Gomez as a guiding star for Cuba, and then even the most conservative critic could take no offense. ‘ the | that perish. Having taken away liberty the master could take away life. The effect on the white man was bad; it made him carry the stiff neck of the final judge into his Gealing with his white fellows and caused in him, first, intolerance of resistance to his authority, and finally intolerance of adverse opinion. These habits have long survived the abolition of slavery and the failure of the rebellion, and have been the great bar o the progress and prosperity of the South. Until recently throughout that region, and now in some parts of it, Northern men with needed capital and enterprise must submit to be treated as unwelcome intruders, or. retreat from an atmosphere noxious to energy and progress. ern man is jarred out of his indifference and brought face to face with his own interests. That Senatorial travesty on statesmanship, Morgan of Alabama, has recently announced that not only must the negro be disfranchised but that his expul- sion from the South must follow. Then, this mar- plotting parody says, “the Southern people will be happy and free.” But, from the Potomac to the Bayou Teche, South- ern labor is performed by the negro. As a miner, _mechanic, millman and agriculturist he does practi- cally all the work in the South. Southern manufac- tures, lately so crescent and promising, are based entirely on negro labor. From shucking oysters on Chesapeake Bay to withstanding the deadly miasma in the rice fields of the Louisiana lowlands he is the indispensable factor in Southern industry. The white owners of great plantations farm-let their lands to negroes and are enriched by the rents which black lzbor pays. When colten rose to 10 cents a pound last year and rolled weaith into the South, she would uot have had enough of that staple to clothe her own peeple had it not besn for negro labor which pro- duced the crop. £ Under these circumstances the Southern look with aversion upen Morgan's expulsion pro- gramme._. If executed it would instantly plunge the Scath into conditions which would make the poverty ceused by their rebellion seem like luxury by com- parison. The old Southern theory that no gentleman can work with his hands 1s current among the rising generation. There are no hands there to take up pick and spade, hod and plow handles when the ex- pelled negroes would lay them down.’ It is a hopeful sign that the South sees all this, | and some of its best men declare that though dis- franchised and shorn <f his political rights the negro should be made to understand that his personal and property rights will be crotected as a means of keep- ing him where he is. Tillman of South Carolina iidorses Morgan and | adds to the contempt in which the decéncy of the country holds him by abusing Booker Washington, who .is toiling to give the negro just the industrial training which the interests of the South require that I'e; laboring population should have. Morgan and Tillman are raising a new issue which whites living by industrial development and the other by political demagogy. The Supervisors and the Board of Public Works have again been called to a halt by Auditor Wells for ordering in a decidedly irregular way the appro- priation of public money. If public officials = were made individually and privately responsible for their irregular public acts a very necessary lesson in civic FOREST PRESERVATION. CONSULAR REPORTS for April contains a tave ‘Beutelspacher of Moncton, Canada, com- menting upon the efforts of the Canadians to provide the plans of the British Government for increasing the forest area of India. These measures undertaken morality might be taught. communication from Commercial Agent Gus- for the preservation of their forests and describing by our neighbors to the north and our British cousins | are of interest to us, for it is high time that we entere sericusly upon the task of preserving the forests of this country. It appears from the report that the British lohg ago found out that many cf the greatest evils that afflict the. people of India are due to the wasting of the aucient forests, and accordingly, as far back as 1844, steps were taken to pravent further waste. It is only during the last twenty years, however, that the work has been conducted on scientific principles, under charge of expert foresters from France and Germany, assisted by students from the school of forestry near Dchra. At the present time there is a forest re- serve in each province, and the acreage is being con- tinually increased. Notwithstanding the compara- tively short time since scientific forestry was under- teken it is stated: “A large revenue is already de- | rived from the forests by the Government of India, and it is expected it will steadily increase.” The Canadians are learning the lesson taught by the experience of India, and have for some time past made efforts to protect their woods. The experi- menta] farms of the Dominion Government have en- | covraged tree-planting by farmers, and it is now pur- posed to have the provincial governments establish forestry departments and assist in the work. In the meantime the United States is doing hardly auything in the way of cealing scientifically and com- prehensively with the problem. There still lives with us the belief that our forests are inexhaustible.” Qur lumber industries are conducted in such a manner as to waste as much as is used for merchandise, and, furthermore, nothing eflective is done fo provide against forest fires even in well settled communities. So destructive have been these different forms of waste that in our older States the people are already beginning to experience some -of the evils that have befallen the woodless districts of India. In the April number of the Forum A. H. Ford, in discussing the effect of the destruction of forests updn our water- ways, says: “New Englend was the first section to fee! the effects of the deforestry of a magnificent area oi timber land. Rivars that fifty years ago carried spmmer and winter a stezdy stream sufficient to turn In the new phase of the negro question the South-~ will divide the Southern people into two classes, on, many millwheels now race fiercely after every rain and then dry up almost completely. In the Missis- sippi Valley devastating spring freshets are now ex- pected as a matter of course, while in- summer time the dredges are kept busily at work digging chan- nels in the shallow beds of the streams. * * * In the deforested portioas of the West the soil is a clay loam. Deprived of shade it quickly bakes in the sun. Over this hard crust the water rushes in torrents without ever penetrating the soil, or on the great level plains it lies in shallow lakes to be quickly evap- orated by the sun. * * * The reforestry of de- nuded lands should be the first step taken toward the development of our rivers as channels of interstate traffic.” Such is the p@ture given of affairs as they now exist in a country where the people justly-boast of a higher degree of intelligence and practical sagacity than can be found among any other people in the world. Is it not time, then, that some of that sagacity be di- rected toward saving the United States from the fate that has befallen so large a portion of the once fer- tile regions of India? Recorder Godchaux has decided that having the privilege he will now ignore civil service. He prob- ably feels that his example upon other officers can- not possibly be of any good, and- perhaps may be of some harm and in harmory with the local administra- tion of which the Recorder is so distinguished a rep- resentative. STEEL TRUST PROBLEMS.. [: ROM the organization of the steel trust there has issued discussion enough to form a library of itself. Nor have the effects been confined to discussion. In several quarters action has been taken cither to profit by the big combination or else to guard against the results that are expected to flow from it. The actions ro more than the discussions bave been confined to the United States, and from Europe we get almost as much evidence of the far- reaching influence of the trust as in our owa country. London dispatches recently announced that reports are current in Germany of a movement in that coun- try to bring about a combination of the big steel manufacturers in Germany with the steel combine in the United States, so as to form an organization that can dictate terms to the world. The report quoted an unnamed American millionaire now visiting Germany as saying: “We do rot fear England in America, nor does Germany. We simply fear each other, but the world is big enough for both nations and the rival trusts are going to harmonize their interests. Mr. Morgan will be here in April. After he begins it will not be long before an international cartel to regulats prices and products will be formed. We do not fear England because her machinery is obsolete and her ren are spiritless and grcund to a low level by false unionism. America and Germany are going to stand together and dominate the world politics of business. 1 think that one day the industries of the entire world will be syndicated.” Another report is to the effect that the steel manu- facturers of Scotland and the north of England have agreed to combine for the purpose of resisting the competition of the steel trust. According to this story, a British syndicate are now working low grade ores at Dunderland by the Edison process and are getting rcturns which encourage them to believe they can cempete successfully with American ore production. The chairman of the syndicate, Joseph Lawrence, is | reported to have said: “We have proved the exist- ence in part of the Dunderland property of 80,000,000 tons of ore. There is reasonable hope that the other parts are proportionately as good. It is our present intention to ship this ore exclusively to British iron- masters, there being already a market for it at su- perior prices. There seems here a promise of a sup- ply of high-grade Besssmer ore adequate to the needs of Great Britain for some years, so it will not be long, to use Mr. Edison’s own words, before the great Bes- semer plants take on a new era of prosperity.” In this country as well as in Great Britain there have been expressions of confidence that the new process devised by .Edison for converting iron oras intc steel will break the monopoly organized by the big trust. It has been hailed as an evidence that no monopoly can be formed that American inventive genius cannot overcome. About as soon as a trust gete control of the market in any line of production some inventor will devise a cheaper and better means of manufacture and thus prepare a way for success- ful competition. B Y The theory is a stimulating one and offers a seem- ingly satisfactory solution of the whole trust problem fo far as it relates to manufactured goods. Unfortu- nately it does not take account of the fact that the trust might buy up the invention. The managers of the steel combine, for example, have as good a chance as any one else to profit by any new invention Mr. Edison may devise. In fact, if the combine be strong enough it may effect a monopoly of invention itself. In the meantime it is to be noted the United States Investor declares a conviction that the prime purpese of the steel trust is to promote speculation. After de- scribing the John Law craze in France it says: “We. don’t for a moment suppose that the American peo- ple are going to make such fools of themselves over Mz:. Morgan and his steel combine as the French peo- ple did over the marvelous Scotch financier in the | first quarter of the eighteenth century, but unques- tionably the new steel combine has been formed for the purpose of stimulating speculation, and the pro- moters, we take it, will be vastly disappointed if it does not foster a more unrestrained speculative move- ment than has ever vet - been witnessed in this | country.” ) From all these reports and opinions it will be seen that the steel trust is far more exciting to the indus- trial world of Europe and America than is the strug- gle in China. The good and the evil of it are noted everywhere, but it is too early to say which predomi- | nates. There is hardly any sort of a senate in the Anglo- Saxon world that is satisfactory to the people of whose legislation it has charge. We are talking of changing the methods of electing members of our Scnate, Great Britain wishes to abolish her House of Lords, and now in Canada a cry has arisen for making a clean sweep of the Dominion Senate. _— San Francisco has had many armies within her | gates during tpe last two years, but none have come - with an assurance of welcome more hearty than that | which will be given to *he army of Epworth Leaguers | who will come to us in July. —_— The lady Democrats and suffragists of Denver ap- pear to have been apt students and quick learners of Democratic political methods. One of the women | voters was arrested the other day for a palpable fraud | committed at the polls. The Fresno pioneer who at the age of 04 is going 10 venture once more cn the sea of matrimony pos- sibly wants to demonstrate that the daring of his | youth has not vanished with his age. PAPERS ON . CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. How Best to Adapt Activity to Complex Conditions, Destroy Nervous Unhealth and Prolong Life. L S S, By Dr. N. S. Davis, Chicago. COPYRIGHT, 1901 VIIL—WORRY. Mental worry is a condition of the hu- man mind generally resulting from the combined influence of fear, anxiety and .doubt or uncertainty, and is almost al- ‘ways accompanied by increased excitabil- ity of the nervous structure of the body. It is a mental condition the opposite of confidence and contentment, and is very prevalent in the more highly civilized countries of modern times. For the more thodern civilization advances the more varied, enticing and complex become all the industrial and soclal relations of hu- man life. Consequently the more nu- merous, tempting and uncertain become the conditions, motives and possibilities presented to each individual composing the community. The condition of mind called “‘worry,” when well marked and persistent, exerts a depressing and debilitating effect upon all the functions of a living body. It causes the heart to beat more frequently, but with less fcrce; the breathing to be less deep, thereby taking less air into the lungs, and furnishing less oxygen to the blood; a general sense of weariness, with less appetite, and less refreshing sleep. Habitually receiving less than is natural of the oxygen of the air through the air- cells of the lungs into the blood, the sense of weariness or of being “tired” becomes more constant; the natural secretions of the stomach, liver, pancreas and foilicles of the intestines are diminished, causing both “indigestion and constipation; and metabolic or molecular changes in the tis- sues of thesbody, constituting both nutri- tion and waste, are diminished, causing impairment of the vital properties of the blood. For all the functions just named are directly dependent upon the constant and adequate supply of fresh oxygen of the air through the air-ceils of the lungs into the biood, and the liberation of car- bon in-the air exhaled. How Worry Shortens Life. Consequently, when persistent mental worry impairs the efficiency of respiration and circulation by depressing the influ- ence of the vaso-motor and pneumogas- tric nerves, it indirectly disturbs and de- presses all the more important functions of the body and lessens the individual's vital resistance to any and all causes of disease. He is more quickly overcome by either mental or physical exertion; he is more readily affected injuriously by at- mospheric vicissitudes, and he more cer- tainly yields to_the influence of tubercular and all other disease-producing bacilli or microbes. His chances for long life, therefore, are very much diminished. In- deed, T have never known a man or wo- man habitually afflicted with true mental worry who lived to three score and ten years. The class of people who enjoy the high- est average duration of life and furnish the most numerous cases of unusual long- evity is the clerical, and such others as are chiefly engaged in sclentific and in- tellectual pursuits. Their occupations in- volve less expectation of either rapid pe- cuniary gains or losses, and if affliction threatens them their mental anxiety is tempered by the ever present hope of a better life bevond this. Serious and protracted worry is mani- fested first most frequently and injurious- ly during youth or school days; second, at the period of choosing one's occupation and the first few years of its pursuit, and third, at the middle period of adult life, when business vicissitudes and domestic cares, discords and misfortunes are most frequent and severe. ‘Effects of Worry on Children. The most active causes of the worry during school days are the arranging of children of different temperaments and capacities in the same classes, assigning them too many studies, and ' then con- stantly stimulating their ambition to ex- cel and intensifying their mortification at every failure. By such processes the younger and more timid ones are kept in a constant state of apprehension or worry until many of them lose appetite, become restless at night, often complain of head- ache and are retained at home, and not a few of them become affected with, cho- rea or St. Vitus dance. Among the older pupils many are found whose ambition to stand high in too many classes leads them to study late at night and to omit daily, free, outdoor exercises, in consequence of which_ their blood receives less oxygen from fresh air in the lungs, and the func- tions_of both brain and stomach become impaired and the mind depressed or wor- ried, and by the time they have completed the period allotted for school education they ~have become permanent invalids from so-called neurasthenia, dyspepsia or tuberculosis, this all ending in shortening the duration of life. Beginning a Career. Perhaps the most critical period of hu- man life is that when the young man or Woman._ finds it_necessary to choose an occupation for life. Comparatively few are contented to follow the occupation of their parents by which they could, with reason- able certainty, accumulate all the neces- sary comforts and conveniences of life and make themselves useful members of society. On the contrary, such is the all dominating influence of wealth, and the social display it renders possible, that the desire to make money, and to make it fast may be said to be the ruling passion of the age. As the, citles are the chief centers of trade, manufactures, professions, all spec- ulative enterprises, and almost all varie- ties of labor, the young of both sexes are constantly migrating from the rural and agricultural districts to the cities, in the expectation of making money faster or gaining more desirable social positions. Consequently they find every line of busi- ness, from street-sweeping and bartending to floor walking and superintending in the great department stores, all crowded with applicants for employment. The avenues to the several professions are no less crowded, and their successful practice even more difficult. Therefore, large num- bers of both sexes are constantly found either wholly unemployed, or so unsteady that they are constantly in a state of de- pressing anxiety or worry, lest they fail to Obtain even the necessaries of life. Those of less education allow themselves to be acked into overcrowded and ill-ventilated ouses and workshops, at the lowest wages, which, added to the depressing in- fluencé of persistent mental worry, soon makes them subject to attacks of disease, especially of typhold fever,and consump- tion, or they become desperate and yield to vicious habits and a brief life of vice and crime, not infrequently ended by suicide. ~A’ large proportion of the better educated apply for clerical work, either as salesmen or saleswomen in shops and stores or as hookkeepers, typewriters, ete. Having left home to seek their fortunes they are _directlv confronted by three sources of worry. The first is caused by., fear that they may not find suitable em- ployment; the second, by anxiety lest they may fail to give satisfaction where they are employed: and the third, still more anxiety for rapid advancement in both position ‘and pay. TUnwholesome Conditions. As has been previously stated. mental anxiety cr worry always lessens the depth and efficiency of respiration, which is fur- ther lessened :F all r_occupations requiring mental attention. Consequently a large portion of those young men and women who pass from a free outdoor life to clerical work in shops, stores and of- fices, in a few months in to complain of being “tired.” They insist that they are tired every night, and just as tired when they rise in the morning, with but little appetite. To “brace up' they take one or two cups of strong coffee or tea, and but little food for breakfast. This affords a little nervous exhilaration for about two hours, en it vanishes, leav- depressed and tired than before during the remainder of the day. In addition to coffee many of the young men add the smoking of a cigar of to- bacco after each meal, or the taking of a glass of beer. both of which. by. lessen- ing the sensibility of the brain, diminish their senses of weariness or depression for igestion an hour or two, but also retard di and impair the vitality of the protoplasm of the blood and tissues of the body, and therefore hasten their -failure of health and add to their mental worry in the same reportion. It is by the foregoing com- iration of influences that many theu- sands of both sexes begome converted into dyspepstics, neurasthenics or consump- tives before they complete the first thirty years of life. And other thousands of the men unconsciously to themselves are far \%lc to road to drunkenness, poverty and 3 An Example of Mental Worry. That mental worry is capable of play- ing the part I have assigned to it is illus- trated by the following cases: Miss A, aged 23 years, up to four years previous had_ enjoyed good health and more or less free exercise in the open air. As she had to earn her own living she chose the dressmaking business and en- tered a dressmaker’s shop for that pur- pose, and immediately began going to ths shop as soon as she was through break- fast. She worked diligently until 6 o’clock in the evening, with only time for a hasty lunch at noon. In a few months she be- gan to feel weary, with failing appetite and digestion, which added to her anxiety through fear of being disabled by sick- ness. She persevered with her work and became gradually worse until at the end of three years she came to my office look- ing pale, thin n flesh, with an expression of anxiety bordering on despair. I tolé her that on rising from the bed in the morning she should spend one minute in taking full breathing and free movements of her arms in all directions, by which she would renovate the air in her lungs, add several cubic inches of oxygen to her blood and quicken the whole circulation; then have her breakfast at such time that she could spend half an hour of walking and free breathing in the open air before arriving at her shop for work, and when the day’'s work was done she could take her evening meal as usual, but never let the whole evening pass without going out half an hour or more in walking and free breathing before going to bed. By doing this faithfully as long as she spent all the day indoors she would sleep nights and recover health. I saw her three years later looking well, and was assured by her that she had literally followed my advice concerning exercise in the open air and soon recovered ability to sleep and gooa digestion without medicine of any kind. The Man Who Took No Exercise. Mr. C called upon me ten or twelve years since, comptaining of some degree of indigestion, slight irregularities in the action of his heart, especially on lying down at night, when his stomach was dis- tended with gas, and great mental depres- ston and worry through fear of sudden death from organic disease of the heart. He was an intelligent business man, much confined to his office, and during the last year, since having been told that he had permanent disease of his heart, he had ventured to take no active exercise and was losing both appetite and sleep. After a careful examination of his condition I was able to say to him that he had not the slightest disease of either heart or lungs, and that he was in no more danger of sudden death than was any other man in the community. On the contrdry, he was assgured positively that if he would live on good, wholesome food, take no strong tea or coffee and no kind of liquor, either fermented or distilled, but instead take from one to two hours of outdoor exercise each day, he would soon be well. Five or six years later I met aim in good health and spirits, and all without any other medicine than fresh air, wholesoma food and mental confidence. Effects of Alcoholic Drinks. But the most severe and protracted cases of mental worry are caused by the habitual use of alcoholic drinks, aided by other .anesthetic and narcotic drugs. It is not so much mental worry that these produce in those who drink as it is in their wives, mothers and children. On thz drinker theéy directly dull the sense of propriety, sear the conscience and pro- duce progressive degeneration, ending in physical and mental imbecility if not in- terrupted by outbreaks of reckless crim- inality, often including murder and sul; cide. But can any one comprehend the amount and intensity of the mental worry endured by 100,000 wives and mothers in our coun- try whose husbands and fathers are spend- ing much of their time and money in the salcon or_clubhouse with its bar and card table? Many of them become so much weakened in vitality by the continued worry caused by ever-increasing dread of the fast approaching disgrace and poverty that they become easy victims of con- sumption or other infectious diseases, and not a few of them become Insane. Neither does the mental worry, and nervous ex- haustion end with theSe. For the inves- tigationg of the last half-century have shown conclusively that children begotten by parents whose blood and tissues are daily pregnated with alcohol are born with so little vitality that one-half of their number dle before they attain to 5 ears of age, and of the remaining half per cent prove to be affected with epi- lepsy, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, lnaanfi\w or physical deformity, leaving less than % per cent of the whole number to arrive at adult age healthy in body and mind. By the most conservative use of well-ascer- tained facts and figures it may be safely said that half of all the insane, idiotic and | epileptic; more than half of all the pauper- ism. public and private, and three-fourths of ali criminaliy in this country are easliy traceable, directly or indirectly, to the uss of fermented and distilled liquors for PERSONAL MENTION. Frank Buck of Vacaville is at the Palace. F. W. Rust, a merchant of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Grand. Lieutenant Colonel Lysle, an English army officer, is at the Palace. H. H. Hunter, & mining man of San Jose, is registered at the Grand. C. F. Quigley, a merchant of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wife are at the Palace. . ¢ Dwight Hollister, man of Portland, Grand. Mrs. D. Holland, Miss Holland and Miss Annie Holland of New York are at the Palace. . Ex-Senator James McCudden and his daughter from Vallejo are registered at + the Grand. E. H. Vance, the prominent lumberman of Eureka, and his wife are stopping at the Grand. Baron de St. Laurent, acting French Consul in this city for the past few months, returns to assume charge of his old post at Vancouver, B. C., next Mon- day. John D. Spreckels, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Grace Spreckels, and Mrs. ‘Walter D. K. Gibson, came home yester- day on the steamship Ventura from a de- lightful voyage to Australia and inter- mediate islands. e — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. New York, April 10.—The following Call- ornians are In New York from San Fran- cisco—Dr. Danziger, at Hoffman; J. Law- rence, at Broadway Central; L. H. Lewars, at Sinclair; E. James, at Ven- dome and L. A. Marson at Imperial. ANSWERS TO QUERIES* FOURTH OF JULY-E. G. C., City. The 4th of July, 1876, fell on a Tuesday. IT IS CORRECT—H. A. W., Oakland, Cal. It {s grammatically correct to use “to the wife of John Jones, a son,” when announcing a birth through a newspaper. A BILL—J. K., Sebastopol, Cal. The question, “When does a bill outlaw?” is too broad to admit of a deflnite answer. g'fial\.x should have stated what kind of a a prominent fruft is stopping at tfhe SURFACE WATER—J. A. L., Orange- vale, Cal. An owner of land has no right to rid his land of surface water by drain- Ing it upon or through the land of another adjoining his. ODDS—W. A, City. If a horse Is 7 to 10 or 12 to 1, the odds that can be had to play him for show depends upon condi- tions in each race. There is no set ruie to govern the matter, ATTACHMENT-J. K., Sebastopol, Cal. This, department fis advised that “if a party owed bills, had rented a place but had not paid the rent,” the creditors could not levy on the premises. APPORTIONMENT-C. C. H., Ingomar, Cal. The matter of apportioning the num- ber of Representatives to the several States, under the recent census returns, has not yet been determined. A NOTE-J. K., Sebastopol, Cal. A promissory note, if made in this State. runs four years; if out of the State, two years. Actlon on a note that has matured and is not paid must be commenced within the time stated. HORSES—G. H. L., Fruto, Cal. A per- son having horses to sell that are suitable for the United States cavalry should send a letter to the post commander, Presidio Post, San Francisco, and it will be deliv- ered to the purchasing officer. WINTER GARDEN FIRE-A. O. 8., San Rafael, Cal. The Winter Garden, at the corner of Post and Stockton streets, San Francisco, was destroyed by fire om the 4th of August, 1883. The alarm for that fire was sounded at 1:11 o’clock in the morning. OATS AND BARLEY—W. W., Castro- ville, Cal. The price of oats in San Fran- cisco in 1880 was from $1 to $135 and bar- ley from 67%c to S5c. In 1881 the price for oats was from $115 to $150 and barley from 7T7%c to §1 20. The prices fluctuated at different seasoms of each year. LAW OF HUMANITY—-M., City. This department knows of no law except that of humanity that will move an Indi- vidual in charge of a towboat or other vessel to give towage or such help as may be necessary to a person or persous in a rowboat when such are in danger. A WAIVER—J. K., Sebastopol, Cal. The law of California exempts certain prop- erty from execution, but if a party leases a place and in the iease the lessee stipu- lates that “if at a certain time he does not pay the rent, he (the landlord) shall have the right to seize any property tha: the lessee might be possessed of,” that would be a walver of the right the lessee would otherwise have under the law and the lessor would have the right to levy on anything the lessee would have owne:- ship fn. FROM OTHELLO-C. C. H., Ingomar, Cal. “Who steals my purse, etc,” is from Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and is in-the foi- lowing, spoken by. Iago to Othello: Good name in man amd woman, dear my lord, 1s the immediate jewels of their souls; Who steals my purse steals trash—tis some- thing. nothing: "Twas mine, "tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he that fliches from me my Robs me of that which not enric And makes me poor indeed. A CHANCE TO SMILE. name s him, drinking gurpnses. If such use could be entirely discontinued it would increase| Yeast—I can always tell what the the average duration of human life more | my wife. than 33 per cent during the next two gen- erations and diminish more than 50 per cent the total sum of mental worry and distress in our country. 1f I am asked how this can be done I answer, as I have been answering for more | than fifty years, simply by placing alcohol and all liquids containing 2 per cent or more of it on the statutory list of poisons, dangerous to the public health and morals, and to be sold and dealt in under the same | regulations as corrosive sublimate, ar- senic, strychnine, ofl of vitriol, etc., and every dealer to be personally responsible for whatever damage occurs to those with whom he deals. That it belongs on that list is obvious to all who look or think, | for it kills more human beings every week than all the poisons now on the stat- utory list do in a year. Here Is a Remedy for Worry. { Regarding the best means of preventing or mitigating the other varieties of men- | tal worry and nervous excitability, it s | sufficient to say that they consist in re- moving or lessening the causes mentioned | in connection with each variety. Cease goading our children into the utmost haste in their education. Repress in omr youth the inordinate desire for wealth and | vain ‘'show. Remind them that he who hasteth to be rich more frequently cometh to poverty, and that “pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a 141" Teach them that "they are most happy who contribute most to the happi- ness of others and thereby diminish the dominance of numan selfishness. k to | impart confidence and hope to those who | worry. . Hope is not only “an anchor to | the soul,” but when united with confi- | dent exrectatlon it is a most efficient tonic | TR St I % successful ph; who inspires his patient with ?he”g‘c;rtl confidence and hope. It is the invigorat- ing effect of hope and confidence that con. | stitutes the efficlent agency effecting most | of the cures attributed to Christian sei ence, faith curists, magnetic healers and others. So long as the young son of King David was dangerously sick the mind of was o intensely worried when the death of the lad put an e the torturing anxiety and soubta olt‘dn‘n: father, he calmly arose, washed himself. adjusted his raiment and partook of his accustomed food. When his courtiers manifested their “astonishment his only reply was that the loved one could never but in due time he should go to ceasing of doubts and fears, confident f mfln the son in and i T -@%‘5 his mind all worry once dispelled from and replaced it with the calmness of hope. orating all the functions of the | S ‘weather is going to be bif Crimsonbeak—indeed! Is she as fickle as that?—Yonkers Statesman. The Proper Thing.—Mistress—I hope I didn’t disturb you and your lover when I went into the kitchen last night? Cook—Not at all, mum! I told him that you was my chappyrorc!—Puck. “Pat, do you know what is the greatest barrief to the habit of drinking?” 17" “Oh, you do, eh? Well, what 1s 1t? “An “empty bottle, sure,”—Ric! Dispatch. . P ond “John,’* sald Mrs. Stubb, so loud ‘that I touched vou.” “Is that so, M: 2" sald Mr. Stubh and she wondered why he examined hi vest that had been hanging on the chair.— New Orleans Daily States. “you snorsd ““Omne of the component parts of sugar,” said the professor, “is an essential in the F&g}pofl! on of the human body. What is The grocer’s boy_snapped his fin; 2 citedly and when bidien to answer i he could promptly yelled: “Sand.”—Catholla Standarad. The Margin for Labor.—New Clerk— What are your office hours? . Employer—Well, how much time do yoa think you can spare us from your cigar- ette smoking?—Chicago Reeon{ . ““One trouble’ bout dis vearf,” sald Un- cle Eben, “is dat folks is inclinéd to be tco absent minded ‘bout what dey owes other folks an’ too remembersome 'bout what dey’s lookin’ foh deir se'fs.”—Washington ar. Yeast—Henry says he can always tell ifa has money by the way he acts. Crimisonbeak—Why, I thought the ac- tors mnever had any money.—Yonkers Statesman. ————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —_———— Cal. glace fruit 30c per Ib at Townsend's.* ——————— " Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 o:‘tt gomery street. Telephone Main'1042.- * ‘When a mosquito has imse] Fith human blood he mu%h; =~ Are you prepared to stand the severity of win- ter? Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters buld up the