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Olympia. corner Mason and Fady streets—Spedialties. , Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and yville Racetrack—Races- to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Fred Chas>—This 1722 Market street, Horses. By A. M. Scott & Co.—This day, at 11 o'clock. Horses, at %1 street By G H. day, at 11 a m., at Umbsen & Co.—Monday, June 24, at 12 o'clock, Choice Property, at 14 Montgomery street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN POR THE SUNMER. Cal: subscribers contemplating a change of resideace during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new ®ddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. Thix puper will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local agent im ®ll towss om the coant. MRS. NATION'S LAST CHANCE. INC S and Mr. Nation fled from the conjugal presence to live with his children, there has been some danger of that energetic lady and her hatchet passing public view. it the novel and extraordinary in moral and po- litical reform never goes aright until it secures dis- ciples While Mrs. Nation went around playing a resound- ing solo with her hatchet she w: an object of interest or of fear, according to the pgint of view. . While she bandied words . with Justices bf “the Peace or browbeat Judges she amused the multitude. While she cheerfully consigned smokers and drinkers to hell she awestruck the many who still believe in the mysterious and fear the power of prophets, seers and revelators. ~ But all that time she had no real dis- ciples; and even Mr. Nation growled about the ex pense and pointed to Lis buttonless trousers and un- washed ¢hirts. But ail this is changed. The prophet- css is not without honor, though it comes from out- side her own country. The stone finéd by a Kansas court has been laid for a corner in Nebraska. In Bryan's State a tbwn of 1200 inhabitants at the spring election nominated and elected a ticket pledgéd to import Mrs. Nation and consult her and follow her adrjce in everything pertaining to the government of the municipality. The officers so chosen have organ- ized and notified the lady to come, and stand ad- journed .itil she appears, .with hatchet in her hand and blood in her ey2. The officers explain to their constituents that they will not move a wheel until they get her advice. As her knowledge of laws and constitutions has not been shown to exceed that off Moses, Solon, Justinian, Honorius and other prac- titiomers; -ancient and modern, it is not probable that she will be subject to the limitations which knowledge implies in putting in practice this novel scheme of government. It will be, in fact, a Carnation set up within the State of Nebraska and exceptional to all the statutory regulations governing municipalities. What she says goes, and that's the end of it. It will-be interesting to watch the smasher as she enters upon and rules her new estate. Perhaps her somewhat varied and unfortunate personal expe- riences will be the guide of her new jurisdiction. Her first husband floated hencé on the flowing bowl, and it is alleged that her second applied physical discipline to her to such an extent that Texas refused to con- tain him;and her grandson mixes drinks in a’Chicago joint. If all lives had touched and ‘shared an equal series of abnormalities she would' be everywhere welcome s an expert in morbid experiences. Her government will naturally be based upon the principle that all peo- ple have lived and endured as she has. That is the theory of her crusade. - The Jate Immanuel Kant would say that what to her is posteriori she assumes 10 be a priori to 21l others. But hers is a mistaken theory. It is not only well bist necessary to basciconclusigns upon the average znd not upon the extreme of human experience. All are not happy, and all are-not anhappy. All women have not witnessed the alcohglic extinction of one husband, and perhaps been physically disciplined by, another, and all grandmothers have not had frivolous grandsons whose sole gift was in making a_cocktail move itself aright and show its color in the cup. Government cannot consider extremes alone, yet it is Mrs. Nation’s idea that only the abnormal is norral. | E Mrs.. Nation was actually fined by a court, | such | NEW LAW ON CONTRACTS. HE attention of the legal profession and the Tlaity has been fixed upon the Supreme Court and engtrossed in its decision of the island cases “to such an extent that contemporary decisions of vast importance are not considered. One of them, of far- reaching influence, has just been rendered by Hon. Smith McPherson, Judge of the United States Dis- trict Court for the Southern District of Iowa. It re- vérses all the courts in a matter that has been the subject of a vast mass of litigation. Life insurance policies contain a suicide clause, providing that if the policy holder take his own life, sane or insane, the insurance contract is vitiated and the policy is void. A life insurance contract peculiarly affects third parties. The second party to such a contract, the per- son insured, cannot get any value received out of a life policy that runs to the surviving beneficiaries. Their interests, then, are affected by the form of con- tract made by the policy holder, and it is their interest with which the courts deal in life insurance Jitigation. clause was litigated before Judge McPherson and he decided the clause void, because a sane man cannot make a contract that shall bind an insane man; while sane he cannot bind himself not to do certain things if he become insane and make that the essence of a contract. The insurance contract was held valid and the policy payable to its beneficiaries. We think that the equity of this decision will be seen gt once and that insur- ance companies will abandon that clause in their con- tracts. Tlluminated by Judge McPherson’s decision it is plainly seen that an insurance contract might as well | provide that it is to be void if the insured die of any other disease besides mental disorder. Mental and | physical diseases may come against all human precau- tion, and to bind a man not to die of insanity through suicide is like binding him not to die of any other disease. In the nature of things such an undertaking |is impossible, and such a contract is against good * | conscience and public policy. | The Judge has risen above technicality, disregarded | stare decisis, precedent and settled rules, to rise into | the higher atmosphere of legal principles and bring ;(!oxvn therefrom an application of the science that is | 2s novel as it is necessary to the doing of justice. It will be seen in the future that the application of this principle will affect the contractual relation in other directions, and wherever carried and properly applied it will be found serving the ends of pure jus- tice. “Judge McPherson is a graduate of the law depart- ment of the Towa Wajversity, has served as Attorney General of the State for two terms and for three terms in Congress, and was appointed to the bench by President McKinley. It is probable that the genius shown in this deci- sion and the fame of it in the profession will mark him for still higher judicial preferment. 3 | RETURN OF THE OREGON. A FTER her glor;; voyage around the Horn, her share in the victory at Santiago and her service in the Orient, the peerless Oregon has returned to San Francisco td rest for a time in the bay that first received her. Tt is right and fitting that her return was greeted by a distinguished welcome, for she has reflected so much honor upon the port where she was built that she deserves honors in re- turn, In the navies of the world many a battleship floats | upon the waters, but of them all the Oregon is at this It is undeniable that she is the most | time supreme. | famous warship upon the seas. Her voyage around the | durance. No other vessel of her cla as had her | machinery and her hull so continuously and so tre- ‘ mendously tested, or has borne the test with such re- | markable success. She made a voyage which in itself | amazed the naval experts of the world, and at the end of it she arrived wpon the scene of war not only fit | to ehter battle but did actually enter battle and stand | pre-eminent in the conflict. The oldest and the greatest ship-building ports in the world would be proud of constructing such a | vessel as the Oregon. 1t is therefore but natural that San Franciscp should feel a joy in her matchless feats and her peerless position among the warships of the time.. She attests the skill and fidelity of our mechan- ics and ship-builders not less than thé courage and seamanship of her commander and her crew. She was built stanch and strong in every part of her com- plex mechanism, a fit upholder of the flag of the re- public, and it is with a patriotic satisfaction as.well as a civic pride we welcome her home again. MANCHURIA AND' ITS TRADE. O Americans, British, Germans and Frengh who a:re opposing the acquisition of the.country Hy the Rus- sians are making much ado about nothing. Now, however, comes a report that the Russian Government | Horn was a magnificent triumph of speed and en- NLY a short time ago Prince Krapotkin in an article in the Forum declared Manchuria an rangements have been made at St. Petersburg to es- | tablish at Kirin, one of the largest towns of Man= churia, a permanent exposition "of arts‘ang industries for the purpose of promoting ' commerce. with the people. 5 ¥ 71t appears from the report that the Russians have found the market of Manchuria “flooded with foreign goods,”. and that the amount of American, British, German and Chinese goods sold there is sufficient to make it worth while for the Russians to struggle to supplant them. One authority says: . “A large por- tion of the foreign goods which Russia is endeavoring to drive out of the Manchurian market is supplied from the Unitgd States.” All of that sounds as if Manchuria were a very rich country with a wonderful commercial _future. Prince Krapotkin tells a different story. He explored the country several years ago while in the Russian as this same town of Kirin, where the exposition is to be established. In describing: the -country he ‘says: plateau; wide, sandy and waterless plains on the middle Sungari, similar to those of the Eastern Gobi, and also inhabited by nomad Mongols only; great expanses of marshy {owlands on the lower Sungari, inundated during the period of the monsoon mins; poverty and a hard struggle against an inclement fa- ture: ‘a thin population scattered along the r‘ivmi-iin the deep valleys separated from each other by moun- tains thickly clothed with wood, in the Kirin prov- ince—these are what we saw during those two jour- neys. Only a few fertile plains, one about Tsitsikar, on the Nonni River, and another between Merghen and Aihun, relieve the generally poor aspect of the ter- A contract of life ipsurance containing the suicide | utterly worthless country, and intimated that - thinks so much of the province and its trade that ar-- military service. He went up the River Sungari as far- “Immense stretches of a high, cold and " mérshy” ritory. This is, in a few words, the general character {'of more than two-thirds of Manchuria. As to its |northern portion, there are surely not so many as 1000 : hunting Tungusés and lumbermen scattered over the ! whole of the territoly to the north of my Merghen route, i. e., roughly speaking, to the north .oi the | fifty-first degree of latitude.” | It is of course well known that commercial condi- Prince. Krapotkin made his exploration, but the country itself has not changed. There may be suffi- Ito bid for it since they have seemingly decided’ to | permanently annex the province, but it is not likely lose much if Russia gets it all. LISTING THE TOWN. | B getting up an entertainment for the benefit of H the University Mound Old Ladies’s Home try which in the East is known as “listing the town.”, | The business is simple and easily understood. ~The lished charity for the use of its name in getting up an | entertainment and then proceeds to list the town and sum or a percentage cn the sales of seats, or both, and the promoter gets whatever there is in excess of - liberal in support of local charities, it will be perceived that the business of working up such entertainments Charity by percentage may be acceptable in the | East, but it is not needed here, and our charitable as- moters of such schemes. If there were no other ob- jection to the method it would hc\objcctionablc irom tiofis in Northern Asia have changed greatly since | cient trade to make it worth while for the Russians i the United States or any of the European nations will <Y the activity in this city of a lady er;gaged in | there has been introduced to San Francisco an indus- promoter of the scheme arranges with some well estab- | sell tickets right and left. The charity receives a lump those amounts. As the American people are ever can readily be made profitable. sociations should not lend their names to the pro- the very fact that by lending their names and giving ‘indorsqnent to such promoters the. local charities | would encourage the practice, and befare long evils would result. Business men and others who have been ready to support our home institutions would riot know to whom they were called on to give money or for what they were giving it. There would be no ready way of dctcrmir‘:ing a meritorious enterprise of that kind from one promoted solely to make money jfor the promoter, and as a consequence there would isoon be a lack of public confidence which would re- | act to the injury of home charities. The main objection to percentage charity is that even when honorably conducted it means that a por- tion of the money that should go to the home institu- tion will pass to another beneficiary. The local thar- ;ity receives only a percentage of the income. Our | business men would thus be called upon to sustain ! not only the home charities but to pay for the privi- lege of doing it. There would be an added burden upon the community—a burden uncalled for, unneces- sary and unjustifiable. ¥ | Had the merchants and others of the city who are relied upon to contribute to every form of charitable | work been illiberal or backward in their contributions, | perhaps it would be advisable to call in a professional ipromoter to raise funds, but no such condition ex- |ists. Our people have been generous and prompt in | responding to every rightful appeal made to them in | such cases. No community sustains in proportion to | its population a more abundant charity by voluntary | contribution than does San Francisco, The calls upon | our merchants are many, and it is not fair to add to them by asking them to purchase tickets for percent- age entertainments. There are some forms of activity developed in the East of which we can well afford to allow our Eastern friends to enjoy the monopoly, and this is one of them. ¥ WOMEN FOR SOUTH AFRICA. | VER since Chamberlain niade his famous E speech suggesting an extensive emigration of British women to South Africa as soon as the war is over there has been an organized effort to edu- cate women for the work likely to be required of them should they decide upen the venture. The instruction has been undertaken by the United British Women's Emigration Society, and is being carried out with en- ergy. The number of women who have applied for | instruction is large, and most of them are said to be of a high order of ability, for the society” discourages women of the servant class owing to the fact that there is an abundance of labor of that kind already in the country. The secretary of the society in explaining the work to the London Chronicle said recently: “We welcome the time which must necessarily elapse before the country will have settled down to industry, for we do not want to send out a number of raw, untrained women. As it is, we are enabled to encourage them to train for definite occupations. Just now, by means of 2 pam;}hlet written by Lady Knightley of Fawsley we are appealing for the active co-operation of Jadies throughout the country in enabling intending emi- | grants to obtain instruction in' various departments of pragtical life, such as cooking, dairying, poultry- keeping, ‘bread-making, laundry work, needlework, cutting-out, gardening, fruit-packing, bee-keeping and cil classes for technical instruction provide the readiest .| means of ‘gaining instruction.” THe Women's Emigration Society was not called into existence for the purpose of promoting emigra- tion to ‘South Africa. It existed long before the war and has been assisting the migration of*women from the old country to the colonies. There are over 1,000, 000 more women than men in the kingdom, while in the colonies there is 2 lack of women, and the emigra- tion is therefore beneficial both to the old and to the new countries. The South African movement has grown® up out of the war and is part of a general scheme to encourage the settlement of British families in the country te counteract the Dutch element of the population and make the country surely British. While the main society in London is educating the girls at home for the work there are branch societies in Cape Colony and other important points in South Africa making preparations to receive them. There -|is said-to be a great-demand for teachers, and quite a number of them have volunteered. In addition the volunteers include housekeepers, nurses, bookkeepers, stenographers, typists and journalists.” In short, there is a grand army of women ready to move to South Africa as soon as the war is over, but from the pres- ent outlook they will have ample time to pursue their education in London before the establishment of peace 1equires them to start for their new homes. 2 e ——— It is said it will cost less than $120,000 to save the Palisades along the Hudson River from, destruction, and yet neither New York nor New Jersey is willing to pfit up its share of the money, so they are permit- stand and wait for the'Federal an appropriation, Government to make > nursing. In some parts of the country County Coun- | ting the natural beauty to be .destroyed while .they" PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Good Foaod, Good Exercise and Good Sleep, Three Elements in Winning Good Health and Long Life. By the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale. COPYRIGHT, 1301 There are books on bodily training. There are books on what people call “self- culture,” by which they mean the man- agement of memory,«magination and rea- soning powers, as they would say, of the mind. And there are books which the careless reader would call “‘Sunday books,” to be | read when one must not read Hoyle's di- rections for whist; books which try to teach about the soul’/and its affairs, and 80 about their business as if these affairs had nothing to do with a sound body or a sound ming. -, Indeed, I Wnow schools where you are taught how’to multiply and to divide, how to add and subtract, how to make a speech; or to prove something which has been proposed, where nobody says any- thing about right or wrong, duty or pleas- ure, God or devil; and where nobody cares whether you are near-sighted or whether your head aches, whether you can walk well or run well; so only you are sure that seven times seven are forty-nine and of. some other facts of that nature, the school is satisfled. Union of Body, Mind and Soul. 1 havegbeen asked to write a few words, | not too many, on regular habits in the training of life, as they look to an old man Who never had to go to bed in the day- { time and who never “‘enjoyed ill -health.” | "Body. mind and soul all belong togeth- { er; and we are foois if we try to separate { them. We must take care of them to- ether. We must train them together. We o not want first-rate_gymnasts or ath- letes unless they are first-rate men; we | do not want expert calculators or bril- liant authors unless they are first-rate men; and we have no use for the monk of the middle ages who spent day and | night in prayer and meditation, with a body which has no nerve or muscle or go and a mind which was addled and vague |in its spasmodic action. This man, with his cosdeting of what he called his soul, was not a first-rate man, nor a second- rate man. It is only by a stretch of lan- guage that he is called a man at all. ! ‘Wise Bodily Habits. The reader will please remember this necessity of absolute union of the three in the business we have in hand, although our work, of course, arranges itself under aifferent heads. While we are talking about bodily exercisé we are not forget- ting mental exercise or spiritual exercise. | And while we are gaining strength on | either side, we must gain it on the other sides also. To begin with bodily strength and the health of this part of the machine, I al- ways begin any instructions for a strong, well and happy life by the praise of sleep and by insisting that my pupil shall learn to sleep well. All things seem to follow on this; and yet sleep also depends on a well-trained mind and on a determined | soul, able, wiiling and glad to control mind and body. People woo sleep: they call sleep fickle or inconstant, and in various ways abuse it. They make ridiculous proverbs, which {imply that there is something virtuous in short nights, as if sleep were to be kept| at bay. “All this is wrong. Sleep is the restoration of life—call it, if you please, the governor of the engine. With the right sleep and enough of it the body comes up to its work every morning new born. In the first half of iife it comes up to its work a little better able to do its duty than the morning before. But this is not so if the sleep has not been sound and steady. Every one will find out how much -sleep is good for him. Then he will make it his duty or business to take that amount regularly. A leader of men fixed it in my hearing last night as twelve hours out of the twenty-four. This Is as much a duty as to eat enough or to drink enough, or to come into the house when it rains. Rules for Sleeping Well, The rules as 1 have found them are sim- | ple. They are well laid down in more | than one book. Dr. Haummond's s as | ®good as any: 1. Do not work the brain for six hours before you go to bed. Business men, so called, are apt to violate this rule. The agents of banks and other great financial trusts think they must give daylight to | their employers, and then spend their | evenings in memoranda and calculations about their own personal affairs. All | this is wrong. You may get out of as early as you please, and work your | brain ahen. But you are safest if after 13 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon ‘you give it no hard work at all. Are there not the children to play with and novels to read and Joe Jefferson at the theater and the sofa to lie upon while Marion and Hugh play a duet upon the piano? Do not work this poor old brain then, which has stood by you so loyally since you got out of bed in the morning. 2. Remember always what the bed is for and why you are in it. You ‘are there to sleep; not to add up figures in your head. Not to think out a letter to your lawyer. Not to work out the best way of putting your house lots on the market. Simply you are there to sleep. 3. If you have been working the poor old brain too late, or if you have been .eating a Welsh rarebit just before you undressed yourself, and if your head burns so that it almost sets the pillow on fire, erawl out of bed and sponge your head with cold water. At the worst, soak the feet in as hot water as they ~will bear. You want to draw away the extra blood from the brain. In all natural sleep there is less blood on the brazin than when you are awake. I have at my bedpost a long cord with a child’s flatiron attached to it. When my head is too hot I hold the smooth, cold surface of the iron against the forehead to drive the blood away. 4.*People tell you to think of sheep jumping over a wall, to reproduce famil- far strains of music, to hold the eyes open and fixed on some object opposite in the room. 7.Recall the last ridiculous vision vou had before waking. But do not en- gage while in bed in any such serious matter which will again exhaust and ex- | asperate the brain. Why Man Can Do as He Chooses. Here the reader stops and says: “This man says do this, but do not do that. Does the man think 1 can do just what I choose?” Certainly I do. That is just what the man s writing for. Are you not a child of God, made in his likeness? Can you not call on his own strength to put you through? “If you choose” you can, and just what we are trying for is to find out where you need that strength and h®w to use it. In all such rules as we are put- ting together here it is taken for granted that they are to be put through. As to sleep, then, 1 will take it for granted that vou get as many hours as you need. Some people need more, some jess. Young people need more than old people. For myself, I take ten hours out of the twenty-four—one after my luncheon or midday dinner, nine between 9:30 at night and 6:30 in the morning. ttle that matter as you need. But settle it. Hold on by your omnipotent power. If the factory bell requires 6 o'clock, or your work with hand or foot or brain requires 5 o'clock, 6 or 5 let it be. Do not change your mind every morn- 2 \nd- it is la]wnys g. good lthlng. if half a lozen ople more or less, can aj R I 7t they will say WA T e at b, at 6, at 7 for breakfast,” at whatever hour they all choose. In that case it is much easier to hold the rule. . This is to say, in other words, that it is 2 Bood thing to live at home; or In some ifamuy‘ whicl takes on the habits of home. Habits of Appetite. Talking thus of habits and sleep, I have sald what I need not repeat of habits of l;z:utc and habits of exercise. to what a man eats or drinks, let him be his own master so completely that he can gfi&hmugh a day or a week withcut | grumbling on the simplest ration possible. can do that, why, he may order sweetbreads or pate de foie gras or ten- der] steak w ver he can pay for them. But do not let us hear any grum- XVIL_REGULAR HABITS AND RIGHT LIVING. bling about_eating and drlnkln%. When people ask mg about lmokl!l'f. am apt to say that I wish they would not smoke, but that any man who can ge without his pipe or his cigar for six months and not ss it may smoke. If he cannot, why the “poor critter” is a slave, and the first thing he has to do is to free himself from that exact slavery. This rule applies pre- cisely In all matters of food. And the reason is very subtie which pre- vents us from applying it in questions as to habits of drinking. A man who has smoked one cigar can determine as well Whether he shall take a second as if he had not been smoking. But a man who has drunk one filass of whisky cannot, de- termine as to the second glass as well as he could as to the first. Here is one rea- son why he had better determine in early life that until he is 65 years old he will drink no alcoholic spirits. He will take it if the physician insists upon it, but on no other condition. You see that nobody pra- tends that the stimulus of wine or dis- tilled liquor is anything but a stimulus. ‘When you take a glass of wine or a glass of whisky to brace up for a particuiar effort, you are simply borrowing from to- morrow. Now, if a woman is thrown cut of a carrlage on her head and is senseless, it may be well to give her come brandy S0 that she can borrow from to-moOTTow's resources in pulling herself together this afternoon. But it is only in st an excep- tional case that one has any right to bor- row to-day from to-morrow's resources. Habits of Thought and Study. 1 think that the school hours of our life in cities are too many for boys and girls | who go to school forty-four weeks in the year. In the better system of the older country districts, where a school is closed after thirteen weeks' winter study, and not opened again until after a long period of work on the farm or in the household, why, there is no harm in seven or even elgflht hours a day for study, while the scholars ar~ at school. A certain dawdling habit comes in with the long scuool session which is bad all around. And many a boy and girl has to break up this habit, and turn over a new leaf when they form the habit of reading, writing and thought upon which they are to go through life. In the first place, let nol because he has not more ] two or three hours for study in every day. I do not say that-a man needs no more, if he be working out some of the great prob- lems or enterprises. If a man were de- signing a new locomotive, or if he were contriving a new pattern for a dollar watch, or devising a new light like Edi- son’s, he would give much more than three hours a day for stiff brain work— for study. But this does not mean that” a man needs more than two or three hours 2 day for book study. ‘‘Sunday will come in,” as Andrew Fairservice says, and that will give him more. In the Chautauqua courses, which have proved very well de- vised for the average American working- bo gloomy man, we find that eight closely applied | reading hours in a week will meet our re- quisitions, though we ask for more. I know that almost anybody, however much occupied, can get fourteen.reading hours every week, and for people who come to me for advice I order that, as'if 1 were a doctor with a prescription blank, and Rx at the top of it. Hours of Reading and Study. As to the hours of reading or careful study, man or woman must take it when they can. You are always safe, however, if you can leave your bed so early as to get _an hour for reading or writing or study before you go to your day's regu- lar work. Only you must take some food before you begin to work your brain. You are on ticklish Tround again if you work the brain hard in the hours before sleep. This has been raid already and the reason given. But simple reading, for the acquisition of knowledge or for pleasure, does not work or tire the brain. Reading aloud in the evening is an excellent habit In the (‘umily for the last hour or hours of a day. It is all very well to be an all-round man or woman, and to keep, in a wa; even with what the world Is doing in 1 larger interests. But all the same, who- ever takes life unrluuul" will be wise if he determines that he will keep himself well up on some one special lines of study which interests him. Is it flowers, is it the care of bees, Is it trees, is it grass, is it local history, is it history of the na- tion, is it the tariff, is it municipal light- ing? 1¥do not know. You know what you like, what interests you. You know what Y. s will be of use in your dul{ occupation. You know how you can help the neigh- bors and make the town a better town. If you know that you know what is your special line of reading, or, if you please, of study. form the habit of keeping up your read- ing in that direction. To Keep the Machine in Order. Any one who knows a bicycle ought to know enough of the machine to keep it in order. He need not be a machinist, but he may need fo take off a nut, or to put it on, he needs to know when and where to_cii, and how much oil to use. Now the same thing is true of mind and body, which is the machine which man, the soul, has to use. He may not know how many bones he has, or where the sciatic nerve divides. But he is the mas- ter. The nerves and bones and brain are not masters. He is to tell them what to do, and he is to keep them in order. He will have full power to do this if he keep in touch with the God from whom he is born. He is a child of God. God wishes to help him through if he will let him. Thus the man succeeds in whatever is in hand, because he brings to bear infinite power. ‘When I was in Salignac’s drill corps in 1861 we came at last, to our t joy, to ihe Dusiness of Aiing ihe old Springfield arms_which they drilled us with. And of course we had to pull the triggers. And of course Salignac wanted us to pull them at the same instant, the same forty-seven thousandth fraction of a quarter second. And he said: “Don’t pull as if_you onl wanted to start the hammer. Pull, ea of you, as if you were starting a hundred- There is a great deal in it. Translated into every-day language, it means, “Use infinite power for what you have to do.” Do not be satisfied wtih anything. less. Then as Long says of the Trojans in the fleet of Aéneas, “You find you can, because you think you e Or in this case, “You find you can, because you know Fiom (hes t God, spri “From thee, greal , thee we trend.”" That Ia the who 5S¢ @ And 229 man 'l'}x‘o hold:ht’o that, why, he can ‘“put through” anything he and God undertake together. . 3 How an Earnest Man Goes to Work. A man, then, addresses hi this business in a spirit wholly g:elnl"t: He does not address himself to it as a good- natured dray horse addresses himself to his business of the day. A man who is a man is estly conscious /that he has infinite power behind him to rely upon, which, sooner or later, as the day goes through, he can call upon. I have won- dered, indeed, whether the unknown writer of “‘Aladdin” had not this in mind, Alad-- din goes and comes, uses his own wits, the le. hi and memory, cnme‘d. fo'n mfi; pl:lnu, is in lov‘e with his own t, and acts, up to a cert: poin a g(m;: :ct:rs:on the -cexll:ndm é‘\;t“whtk e In ery oy ot Bt whet T e Mm'?"? and ne he H say, 1 have wq oo dci::&l" Mg‘el{. whether the unknown writer of t vh-tohugnm e ital story meant to show ‘| pound weight. really is. e and hesitaf and fails till he calls on the mfinis Ches ers. n when he does call they :::tohf;:eumdmh.m 'o_resume this whole matter: 1. Rule both mind uulm‘body with an hold. You are master. 2. For tb-bod?. enough good sleep. And my advice is that you. mind, regular work, work in 3. For the d, r work, worl the line of your genius and stop when you are 4. After you are 40 you may, if you are not a fool, choose your own rules, your own medicine and your own food. But you will find that the more that you are in the open air and the more you are with other people the better you will succeed. You will also find that there is nothing gained by brooding over failure. e PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. George Chismore has returned to the city from New York. J. Goldman, a merchant of Stocktom, registered at the Grand yesterday. John R. Phillips, a mining man of Stockton, Is a guest at the Palace. Thomas Clark, a mining man of Placer- ville, is spending a few days at the Grand. Mark Smith, a well-known merchant of Stockton, s here on business and is at the Lick. Captain C.-M. Thomas and Commander C. A. Adams of the Oregon are at the Occidental. S. C. Willlams, a mining man and ex- tensive rancher of Newman, is at the Lick for a few days. Dr. G. F. Faulkner of Salinas arrived in the city yesterday and has made the Grand his headquarters. Charles Rollo Peters of Monterey and Faris is in the city preparing to atiend the jinks In the redwoods. Ross C. Kline, Pacific Coast agent of the Wabash road, with headquarters in Los Angeles, is here for a few days on business for his company. Ceptain C. E. Haven, in command of a company of the National Guard at Santa Rosa, arrived in the city yesterday and is staying at the” California. Joseph D. Redding of New York is in San Francisco and may adjust his busi- ness affairs in a way that will afford him oppertunity “to -attend the Midsummer Jinks in Grove Bohemia. e ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 12—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—A. Davis, at Her- ald Square; G. Fredricks, at Holland; L. G. Goldberg, at Herald Square; C. D. Heiminger, at Ralelgh; B. Mauzy and wife, at Savoy; W. M. Randall and wife, at Hoffman: L. Simon, at Netherland: W. M. Weighet, at Gilsey; A. Anderson, at Broadway Central; J. 8. Ellls, at Man- hattan; J. Nordman, at Grand Union; P. Priet and wife, at Holland. From Los Angeles—J. R. Martin, Murray HIill ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C, June 12.-The following Californians arrived to-day and registered: At the Raleigh—John W Bourdette, San Francisco. At the Na- tional—Mrs. Alma Hyer, San Francisco. At the Shoreham—Mrs. P. E. Alexander, Mrs. Lewis F. Alexander, Mrs. Scott W. Alexander, Mrs. T. J. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Alexander, Los Angeles. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ONE-CENT PIECE—W. E. S, City. Dealers offer from 3 to 10 cents for a | copper cent of the United States of the date of 1802 NOT ON THE PREMIUM LIST—A. A. F., Jackson, Cal. Five-dollar pieces of | 1845 and 1856 are not of the class that are on the list of coins commanding premium. FAREIGN BORN—S. A. H, City. This department has not been able to discover any law, in any State, that prohibits a | citizen, of foreign birth from holding the office of Governor. POPULATION—H. C,, City. The pop- ulation of the United States, as shown h{y the census of 1900, is 74,610,528; of Cal- lul.'rrg-J-l. 1,485,083, and of n Francigco, enonl,h good food, enough at - SCHOOLS—J. H. B., Bakersfleld, Cal. Trades such as carpentering, bricklaying, | plumbing, blacksmithing and the like are | taught in the Lick School of Mechanical | Arts and in the Wilmerding School in San Franelsco. MAGAZINE RIFLE-J. P, I, City. Dur- ing the civil war, 1361-5, the United States | Government purchased four millinn smail arms, which included the Burnside, Sharp., Maynard and Henry rifles, the latter a | magasine rifle, TWO COINS—J. 8. W. F., Austin, Nev. A ten-dollar plece of 1854, colned In the United States, is not one of the coins for which dealers offer a premium, but deal- ers charge from $12 50 to $15 for a coin of that date and denomination. A quarter of 1838 sells at from 50 to 86 cents. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING—C. P., Sacramento, Cal. For information rela- | tive to electrical engineering communicate with the recorder of the State University at Berkeley. This department cannot ad- vertise private institutions that “at a moderate price will teach electrical engi- neering.” COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY-J. H., City. In %rder to determine if a certain college leads a certain State university in the same studles, taught in both, it would require an examination into the methods in each branch in each institution, the number of students in each particular class and the percentages for a number of years. That is a task that this de- partment has not the time to undertake. FOREIGN POPULATION—Subscriber. City. Until the details of the census for 1900 are issued from the Census Bureau it will be impossible to give the number of foreigners in the United States or the number of naturalized citizens. The per- centage of the foreign born population, according to the census of 189, was 14.8. An estimate made at the close of 1900 placed the percentage at 13.4. It will take the official figures to determine how near correct that estimate i PRESIDENTIAL FLAG — Subscriber, City. It is usual in all countries to have a special ensign to designate the presence on a vessel of a ruler of the nation. Such g flag, for the President of the United tates, is of comparatively recent date. President Anhurv:fir uelte{i such a flag in the early part of 1A, his Cabincr cons cuj in his s tion, and it was de- cided that the flag should be 'a blue round with the arms of the United tates in the center. The Navy Depart- ment ordered that the flag should be dis- played at the mainmast of any vessel ltlha“t‘bon the President. Arthur first used HOMESTEAD—A. B., Tulare County. A person who flles on land for a home- stead does not acquire any rights to the same unless he complies with the law as _to residence, cultivation, etc. derice on the land must be in person and ,_even by a member has been any fraudulent transac- there tion the matter should be laid before: na oflc-o‘ in’ the district in whicn Itx not uga'Z?:m to give decisions upon ex- parte statements. Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_—————————— w.] information supplied daily to business houses lndupubucm,-fia.m e ‘elephone h.l’!‘ 1042, “. e M e —snlie s oad Red Kaffir 3 alwavs rubs gomery