The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1901, Page 4

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Grand Opera-house—"‘Secret Service." “entral—'‘Held by the Enemy."” der Two Flags.” ‘The School for Scandal.” corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties , and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and her's—Vaudeville. » Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By F. H. Chase & Co.—Monday, 2 Market street. July 8, at 11 o'clock, ———————————————————————————————— 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMUER. ©Carl! subscribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by notifying The Call Business Ofiice. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Pesorts and is represented by & local ageat in i towns en the coast. BUSINESS STILL GOOD. X spite of the remarkable hot wave over the major portior of the United States, the holidays, labor strikes and midsummer shutdowns and stocktak- 11 of which operzted severely against trade last , the country’s bank clearings showed a gain of per cent over the corresponding week last year. + a bad showing, though the percentage of favorable and materially checked wholesale trade and led to the frequent shutting down of mills during the heat of the day, but it stimulated the retail demand for summer goods of all descriptions. The staples maintained the slight improvemen noted the preceding week:” Boots and shoes continued | n f21l lines, the spot demand show cturers are buying less now stiff holders in view v advance in hides. Wool and ther better movement, but the lower. the export trade is ations asked by hold s, ner qu o foreign countries. -There is and steel, but this is said to be the cqy ive demand, es, stocktak- i of the y e the first ing the same time last year, and st $74.747,000. A was the marked were ¢ of this statement g to show a more conservative znd better v and speculative market. The banking insolvencies amounted to $15,839,000, 5,822,000 last year. The second quarter of c a better showing than the first, the = liability per failure being the smallest ever known, while failures in June were the smallest of any month this year. Wall street was practically deserted last week, the Stock Exchange being closed for three days, and the extreme leat cutting down business during the other three. The market was without especial feature. »p prospects of the country continue brilliant. The wheat yield, as already mentioned, will probably but oats and corn will doubtiess run ighter th: expected som@ sections, hot weather having been against corn in the southwestern beit. Both corn and cotton are looking better than zlong in the spring, the injury dome by the cold cather several months ago having been largely re- be very large, 1 n in the v paired The situation in California remains about as before. Crop condition's show no material change, the grain and hay yield turning out heavy, while the fruit yield is realizing the anticipations of those who predicted along in the spring. Thaus uit is bringing good prices, and hay is sctually advancing, something not often experienced at the very time the new crop is coming in. The wholesale merchants continue to express themselves | satisfied with the demand for goods and report money casy and collections fully up to the average of good vears. Otherwise the local sitmation exhibits no features calling for especial mention. In addition to the expendifures for the war in*South Africa the British expended $92,000,000 last year in fighting famine in India. Empire is a costly game; a government might iust as well trv #» run a country newspaper. 5 thar has been the rule for some | The hot weather was the principal un- | The domestic | nd brokerage failures as compared | | THE RANGE IN WYOMING. HERE is great dismay among the range stock 1 owners in Wyoming. Dispatches from Chey- enne say that Wyoming has more public domain = |illegally fenced for range than any other State in the ! West. The large and small stockmen and the ranch- ers have had a practical understanding by which each gets his share, and all have fenced it in contrary to the law. Burt little attention has been paid to this prac- | tice by the Federal Government since two Territorial ; Governors of Wyoming were removed from office for | fericing Government land. That was long ago, and | the belief that public officers should obey the law in | | that respect seems not to have become frenzied, so to speak, in Wyoming. » The Secretary of the Interior has been inquiring i into this fencing proposition and there are indications | that legal war is about to be made upon it, which is right, for the law should be enforced or repealed. But i“rom one point of view this violation of the law is interesting on account of its cause. The livestock |industry is of first importance to the whole country. | Its zone of most economical production is on the arid ranges, where' the only use of eighty acres out of !every 1co is stock-grazing. One-fifth of the whole |arid area may be subjected to cultivation finally, but | four-fifths of it must always remain grazing land and | be the reliance of the country for its supply of beef, ‘mutmn. wool and hides. The men who have invested money and years in stock find themselves on the point }of inflicting suicide upon their business. Occupation iOf the public rartge in common destroys it. Much of ;iz is permanently returned to desert conditions and all | of it is impaired by overstocking. The feed being free |to all, human selfishness induces each to get all he !can. This hard law of necessity operating on the jrange has produced two conditions that may be | studied with profit to the country by members of | Congr | The first is a state of war between rivals for ex- | clusive possession of the public range upon which ali | have equal rights. This is a sanguinary phase of the | situation that every year becomes more appalling. ‘;Stock is slaughtered and left to rot on the piains.- { Herdsmen are killed, whipped or driven off and for- bidden to return under penalty of death. The courts iuf nearly all the inter-mountain States have on their | eriminal dockets cases originating in this warfare over | the free range. The small stockman and the rancher suffer, though they do not participate in the carnage. | The range necessary for the life of their stock is the | battl®eld. The combatants are usually from a dis- | tance and their country suffers, as do neutral States jon whose soil hostile armjes meet and fight. | In Wyoming, except on the Colorado and Utah | border, all the interests which elsewhere war and | suffer, seem to have agreed on a policy, which is also Ecaused by the iron law of necessity. The big and little istockmen and the ranchers, be it noticed and remem- | bered, have by agreement divided the range on the “pub]ir domain among them, have fenced it in and are dwelling together in lawless peace and harmony. This comfortable comdition is about to be destroyed by enforcement of the law against fencing public land. But when that law is enforced the range problem is not solved. At will never be solved and our meat { supply assured until the stockmen who fight or fence |in violation of the law are made leaseholders of the | range. g ¢ | Itiswell that Wyoming is the present storm center. l‘T‘Je Congressmen from that State have usually op- i posed leasing the range lands and wanted them ceded {to fhe States. The public men of Wyoming have | earnestly contended that if leasing were adopted the large and small stockmen and ranchers could never | agree on a division of the range into leaseholds. - But !it seems they are able to agree upon a fair division i when they are going to fence it in violation of the Hlaw. Why can't they agree in obedience to a lease | law as well as in disobedience of a no-fence law? | ! | The joy of the commencement season in New Eng- land was marred by the declaration of a gentleman who seems to have spoken with authority that the { high schools and colléges overtax the strength of the | average student and graduate weaklings. The dis- | cussion over the subject is almost as hot as the { weather. T T—— MOROCCO AS A PROBLEM. OME time ago a brillianf delegation from Morocco appeared in London ostensibly for the | purpose of congratulating King Edward upon ‘his accession to the throne. S ! ters that the British Government has been intriguing with the Moors for the purpose of gaining a port in | their territory; but while the subject was being dis- | | cussed it was announced that the Sultan intended to | send delegations to Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg, i and then the British became suspicio The delega- "tion to Berlin reached that city last Saturday, but for { what object they made their visit no information of | any value has been given to the public. Morocco has risen to importance in the world by i reason of the invention of steamships and long-range guns. In the old days Great Britain, fromythe formid- | 2ble fortress of Gibraltar, dominated the’ entrance to | the: Mediterranean and had a safeguard for all her commercial and other interests in that sea. No sailing wyessel could traverse the narrow strait without com- |ing under the guns of the fort, while no guns then {known to man could successfully assail the fortifica- | tions either of the rock itself or of the port in which | the shipping lay. Very different is the situation now. Steamships can keep well out of range of Gibraltar, |and disappearing guns intrenched on Spanish soil could render the naval station untenable. The conse- { quence is that the opposite side of the strait is now a | point of great strategic advantage and each nation believes the other is trying to get it. R | A recent British authority on the subject says: | “Over a hundred years ago Nelson, who was also the Mahan of his times, declared the possession of a port ! on the Morocco coast to be a necessity for England lin any European war, and more than once he was strongly tempted to take one. Bismarck, soon after | the Franco-Prussian war, singled out the Morocco ‘question as a certain bone of contention among the | powers; and, speaking in 1891,. Lord Salisbury pro- ! phesied that it would be as great a trouble to Europe ‘and as great a menace to peace as the other Moham- ‘imedan countries farther east used to be twenty years lago.” N | The country is not rich, but possibly it might be . made so under a government that could give security to indusfry. At present it is but a land of despotism jand poverty. No power would care to annex it or { who annexed it, were it anywhere else than just where lit is. Tts geographical position; however, makes it | desired of all. In France and Spain a belief prevails |that the British are trying to get some sort of arrange- ment with the Sultan which will give them control of a harbor and a fortress opposite Gibraltar. On the other hand, the British assert that the French have Europe watched the | , | event with suspicion, for it is believed in many quar- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY -JULY 8, 1901 TROLLEY CONDUCTOR made dnd are making a determined effort to get a footing in the country by enlisting recruits for their Algerian army from among the Morocco tribes, offer- ing them not only pay and clothing but French nat- uralization. Furthermore, Russia for some reason has interested herself in the question and has recently established a legation at the Sultan’s court. It is under these circumstances that the Sultan has principal powers. It is not quite clear what he is aim- ing at, but if we may trust the reports made by out- siders, there is a scheme on the part of Russia, Spain and France to get possession of enough of the Mo- rocco coast to offset Gibraltar and thus dq away with Great Britain’s supremacy inf the Mediterranean, and the Sultan is sounding the nations to find out whether it would be safe for him to join the combina- tion, THE EPWORTH CQNVENTI’ON. : S the date of the assembling of the Epworth A League convention approaches the magnitude of the meeting. becomes more and more evident. It was at first estimated that the convention would draw to the city upward of 30,000 visitors. As reports came in from different points in the East showing the degree of interest taken in the meeting, . the estimates increased until now the committees in | charge of the arrangements have found reason for expecting the number will be upward of 60,000. The coming of so large a number of people will, of course, tax the resources of the city. It is, however, a tax which we can readily and willingly stand, for it will yield an abundant profit. In a very important respect: the entertainment of so large a number of visitors representing 21l sections of the Union is a matter of business which'concerns every one who has any interest in the growth of San Francisco and the development of California. - We make earnest efforts to advertise the resources and the advantages of California, and consider that we have achieved sonte- | thing of success when we can get people to read our pamphlets and our. circulars. Now, here are many thousands of young men and young women who are | coming to see the city and the State with their own eyes. Certainly it is nothing more than strict business for us to provide handsomely for their reception and their entertainment. From now until the convention assembles is but a short time. Whatever is to be done in the way of providing funds for the entertainment of the conven- tion and whatever preparations are'to be made for decorating the city should be entered upon at once. The finance committee recently made an earnest ap- peal for subscriptions and reported that it had in sight | only some $14,000 of the $25,000 required for conven- | tion expenses. Since that time there have been nu- imcroas subscriptions, but the full amount is not yet made up. It should be forthcoming early this week. | One of the pleasing features of the arrangements is | the request made of the various counties to contribute {an exhibit of their fruits, flowers and other attractive eroducts. The exhibits will constityte a good expo- | sition of some of the resources and industries of the | State and will help to impress the minds of the visitors | with the richness and fertility of our soil. ‘The reports they carry back to their homes will be of advantage to us, and, indeed, a good many of them may find in the land a sufficient inducement to bring them back to settle here. g It is to be borne in mind. finally, that the money | for copvention purposes and every dollar of i'hwifl l?e | spent among our own people. All the delegates pay | their own expenses. We are not asked to do anything %cxcep( what it will be to our own advantage to do. Tt is a case in which every citizen should take a pride | in helping to make the entertainment and the conven- tion the most brilliant and the nrost successful in the history of the league. A BRITISH JOKE. B millionaires who buy castles and steamship lines, furnish locomotives and construct under- ground railways, the British, it' seems, have been taught how to make a joke. They have looked upon Morgan, Yerkes, Carnegie and the rest with apprecia- | tion, and while most of them perhaps have growled, some of them have had a sufficient sense of humor to laugh. : An illustration of the humor is to be found in the suggestion that the next matriculation examinations at the universities, or higher civil-service examina- tions, include these questions: Geography—Draw a map of the United States, mark- ing London. Glasgow and Birmingham. Rule of Three—If a man does a piece of work in four Y the recent invasion of their land by American | the salary? Political Economy—Yankee millionaires over here state that they feel as if this were their own country. The German Emperor when last visiting us declared that he felt perfectly at home. Account for this. History—Write a note on the invasions of Great Brit- ain and the rebellion and subsequent subjugation of the Angles. Give dates of accessions of Yerkes I, Sloane, Morgan, the contractor, and other conquerors; also of the beatification of St. Carnegle. Say what you know of any of these. Trade Problem—You are an English manufacturer. An extensive order is received for locomotives for the trans-African railway. Which would you do, demand the entire alteration of the railway to fit thesixlocomo- tives you have in stock, or recommend an American rival? Travel—You are an American millibnaire traveling for recreation. Which would you take back with you as souvenirs, London or Paris? State your reasons for preferring one of these trinkets. There is good humor and good fun in the suggestion, but none the less the skit serves to show how com- pletely the Briton bkas been subordinated by the’ American. It is not altogether an idle question to ask if it take an Englishman four days to do a piece of work how much quicker will an American. do it. We are beating them in the industrial competition all along the line from the great managers like Morgan and Schwab down to the men who swing the ham- mers. London, Glasgow and Birmingham are not yet in the United States, but some day they may be. Since science has ptoved that a certain family of mosquitoes are among the most active agents in the dissemination of malarial diseases it is believed that portions of Africa which have been deadly to Euro- peans can be made inhabitable by exterminating the mosquitoes, and accordingly the British are about to engage in that task. The fight will be longer than that against the Boers, but it will not be so costly and will doubtless do more good. It is said that if the international salt trust manages to work successfully other great industries will be organized on an international scale, and perhaps the high court of nations may yet find work to do in regulating trusts instead of ‘arbitrating between gov- ernments. After a suspension of diplomatic relations ever since the shooting of Maximilian the Austrian Gov- ernment has sent a Minister to Mexico, where he will | doubtless be well received as a novelty. suddenly taken a notion to send delegations to the’| | asked for by the committee is to be expended solely | days, how much quicker will an American do it at half" GRADUATE S FROM YAL 3 i | | plac i self through college by working Haven and Westville trolley line. night, collecting the fares of the ¢ p. m. he would go to bed for five hours’ again claim his attention. Stephanove is a native of the town United States at 16 years of-age. for a time, and then entered the Monson uated in 1895, and went to Yale. his studies to get the degree of Master. struction, after which he will retdrn to the subjects he studied at Yale. ® ACCUSES RUDYARD HAT Mr. Rudyard Kipling is much indebted to at least two other poets for suggestion and formation, and that it is essential for him to notice their claims by some attempt at de- | nial, is a fact, and I can point out two in- stances clearly in poln(iq says a writer in -w York Telegraph. lhIet ];Ise impossible to read the chantey of the “Coasters,” written by Thomas Flem- i Day, author of “Songs of Sea and {Snagfl," apubllshed by the Rudder Publish- y ing very |ing Compary in 1898, without be 2 fogcnfly reminded of Rudyard !{(pllngs verses on the Bolivar. Mr. Day’'s screed runs: Overloaded. undermanned, Trusting to a lee; Playing I-spy with the land Jockeying the sea— That's the way the Coaster goes, Thro' calm and hurricane. Everywhere the tide flows, Everywhere the wind blows, From Mexice to Maine. " And in the last stanza (for it is in the first and last that the suspicious similar- ity exists) these lines occur: Cargo reef in main and fore, Manned by half a crew: Romping up the weatker shore, Edging down the Blue— . That's the way the Coaster goes. Scouting with (he lead, etc. Here -is the Kipling stanza from the «Ballad of the Bolivar,” rising like a lit- erary wraith to accuse its creator of un- due familiarity with Thomas Day’s verse: Just a vack of rotten plates, Puttied up with tar, s In we came and time enough, 'cross Bilbao Bar. Overloaded, undermanned Meant to founder, we Euchred God Almighty's storm, Bluffed the eternal sea. Stronger and more vital verse than Day's equally meritorious stanzas, but bearing the' mark of possible plagiarism. Also, it is not easy to forget while read- ing Kipling's Once we saw —— —— Some damned liner's lights go by like a grand hotel; Cheered her from the Bolivar swampin' in the sea. To forget that Day wrote in his poem “On 'the Bridge": A mass of lights like some huge hotel PERSONAL MENTION. Jesse R. Grant of San Diego is stopping at the Palace. $ Mrs. Beckly and daughter of Honolulu are at the California. C. A. Mun, U. S. A., and wife are regis- tered at the Occidental. “W. P. Herring, a banker of Colusa, spending a few days at the Palace. Jules Cain, a merchant of Newman, is making his headquarters at the Lick. W. A. Gerber, a banker of Sacramento, is making his headquarters at the Palace. Able and H. F. Arizarb, leading mer- chants of Arcadla, are visiting at the Lick. A. R. Hochheimer, a wealthy mine own- Is Lick. William A. Parish, owner of Denver and California, is stop- ping at the Palace. L. O. Louizauz and C. E. Day, two prominent oil merchants of Bakersfield, are guests at the Lick. Dr. James E. Gardner, U. 8. N,, has ar- rived from th: East and is making his headquarters at the Palace. E A. B. Adams, a prominent New York clubman, who has been in Mexico inspect- ing his silver mining property, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. J. J. Spleker and her daughter, Miss Georgle, will sail for Honolulu on the Ventura Thursday. Miss Spieker will remain there two months, while Mrs. Spieker will return on the next steamer. ——————————— SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15, $60 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S. S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. 7:30 a. m., when he would take up his studies and begin attending classes. CONSTANTINE DEMETER STEPH ANOVE, A YOUNG MACEDONI‘AN, WHO WAS EMPLOYED AS A C ONDUCTOR ON A NEW HAVEN CAR LINE AND WHO HAS JUST TA KEN A COLLEGE DEGREE. ONSTANTINE DEMETER STEPHANOVE, a Macedonian, who has just taken a degree of Master of Arts from Yale TUniversity; supported him- as conductor on a night car of the Fair For six years he went on duty at mid- “owl” atrons, and worked until owl” car D until sleep, after which the trolley car would of Bansko, Macedonia, and came to the He worked on a farm near Canterbury, Conn., (Mass.) Academy, from which he grad- He graduated from Yale in 189, but continued He will go to Germany for further in- his native land to become a teacher in KIPLING OF BOLDLY AND FREELY PLAGIARIZING Eastern Writer Asserts That the Noted Poet and Novelist Helped Himself to the Works of Others. She rises fast and is soon up well, Rushing along 'neath a smoky pall, A mass of lights like some huge hotel, Ablaze for its annual boarders’ ball. Another instance speaks for itself quite | as loudly as the foregoing. There is hard- 1y a child from the seal rocks at the CLff | House to the Battery who has not droned | out the fact that Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand, Green-walled by the hills of Maryland. Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach tree fruited deep, Fair as the garden of the Lord, To the eves of the famished rebel horde, On that pleasant morn In the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain wall, Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot into Fredericktown. e e e e and. This verse seems almost too familiar for any plagiarism. Not even the writing of a heroic play in which the devoted old | Barbara Frietchie is transformed into a beautiful young girl could remove the deeper impression of the poem. Consequently, it was rather a shock to grown up infants who had been elocution- ally trained upon this verse to read in the opening of Rudvard Kipling's “Ballad of DEVELOPMEN E| OF THE NAVIES OF THE POWERS Four cruisers of the Bogatyr type. to be buiit at Russian yards, have Des: named Vitiaz, Almag, K. kopf. The two latter ar Sea fleet. - 1 The present enli: . ed force in the British | navy numbers 106,507 men and boys. Of | these 49,222 the sailor branch, 25.95% | {In the engineering. 15,461 in the marine | | corps and 12,8 in other branches. i IS | | In the projected Briusn battleships of | 118,000 tons, there will be a return to the broadside battery of the fivst sea-goirg ds. The casemate system has been | | abandoned in recent modern battleships. such as the Mikasa, Beneditto Brin and the five ships of that class authorized by i | the late Congress for the United States . 1 & v | The Farfadet, one of four submarins boats building at Rochefort, was launched May The vessel's length is 185 feet inche: i breadth 9 feet 6 inches, and ent 185 tops. A single screw o gine worked by electric power is to gi a surface speed of 12.25 knots. Her com- plement is one lieutenant and a crew of eight. « s . The Belleville boilers in the British cruiser Hermes. are to be taken out and replaced with Babecock and Wilcox boiler= The ship was completed October 3, 1889 and after a commission of less than une vear on the North America station limp home with her engines almost broken down and her boilers unfit for further ser- vice. | | France is building nine sea-going torpe- | do boats of 161 tons, 4i00 horsepower and | a calculated speed of 29 to 30 knots. The | boats are 144.2 feet length, 15.2 feet beam and 10 feet draught. Six are being built at Havre, two at Bordeaux. and one at Nantes. Their average cost is about $205,- | 090 complete, against less than $200,000 for | similar boats in the United States navy. . B The four hours’ full power trial of the British cruiser Pandora, of 2200 tons, | | place June 5 and did not come up to e pectations. The vessel was down to he | designed draught and it was caiculates that with 7000 horsepower the speed would !be 20 knots. The engines developed 75 horsepower, but the speed was only 19.72 knots. The ship is fitted with Reed water- tube boilers, the coal consumption of which averaged two and a half pounds. > 1 The new British 7%-inch gun is of fifty . and has a total length of 32 feet Its weight is 7 toms, or 5 tons less than the American S-inch gun of forty-five calibers. The weight of mount and shield is 12.8 tons. It fires a 200-pound shell with a charge of sevent nine pounds of nitro-cellulose at an initial velocity of 3000 feet pe: . develop- ing 12.4% foot tons, against 16.302 foot to: of the new American $-inch, that fires a 250-pound shell with a muzzle velocity of | 2800 feet. Wi German armor plate manufacturers are said to have made an offer to supply the navy with armor at a reduced price of | $480 per ton. against $55 hitherto charged. The profits are calculated to have been from $5,000,000 to $5,750,000 on 16.000 to 18.060 tons delivered during the last three years. A Rhenish syndicate recently offered to .beg'ln delivery in 1903 of armor plate at $387 50 per ton, upon which Krupp and ) the Dusseldorp maker reduced its prica to $480_ still giving them a profit of 3240 to $250 per ton. T ; AARusslan cruiser is to be built at i Schiehau, Germany, which, on aecount of its high speed and other characteristics, is being denominated as a destroyer of torpedo-boat destroyers. Her length is 257 feet 6 inches, and the displacement only 3000 tons. Engines of a collective horse- power of 17,000 are calculated to . give a speed of 2 knots. The main battery consists of six 45-pounders, placed in a two-inch Krupp-plated turret forward. Besides these guns she will carry eight smaller ones, two Maxims and six torpedo tubes. The French torpedo-boat destroyer Epee, of 319 tors displacement and 35700 horsepower, built at Havre, has passed through a six hours’ continuous trial with success. For five hours the average speed | was 29.36 knots. with 272 revolutions, and | during the sixth hour. with 305 revolu- tions, the speed averaged 29.61 knots. The contract of-26 knots was thus largely ex- ceeded. French trials are now more se- the King's Jest” the following lines: When springtime flushes the desert grass, Our Kafilas file through the Khyber Pass, Lean are the camels, but fat the frails, Light are the purses, but heavy the bales. As the snow-bound trade of the North comes down To the market square of Peshawur town. Meter, phonetics and formation are identical, although the motive is dissimilar. Other points of suggestive similarity oc- In “The King's cur in the two poems. Jest,” A murmur of voices, a reek of smoke, To tell us the trade of the Khyber woke. In “Barbara Frietchie,” A tinge of sadness, a flush of shame, Into the face of the leader came. Such a similarity of formation seems to lie far outside the percentage of accident in unconscious cerebration, particularly when coupled with the other instance. ‘Whether the Kipling works quoted be quite @ it e R e e e e e R @ er of Willows, has installed himself at the | and Hair. Salts of tartar (carbonate of a wealthy mine|in making the same. one ounce of the greater than the others, it is possible to conclude that they might have been the result of observation as well as inspira- tion. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. DIMES OF 1831—H. C. R., San Miguel. Cal. Dimes were coined in the United States in 1881 PORTLAND CEMENT-E. T. M., Kale- spell, Mont. Portland cement is manu- factured in California. OREGON AND IOWA-—Subscriber and J. C. C,, City. The measurements of the Oregon, U. S. N., are: Length, 348 feet: beam, 69.3; depth, 27.2; displacement, 10,288 tons. Those of the Iowa are: Length, 350 feet; heam, 72.3; depth, 26.10; displacement, 11,340 tons. SHAMPOO—J. M., Oakland, Cal. Sham- Poo is a mixture for cleansing the head potassa) is the principal ingredient used salts is dissolved in a quart of soft water | and it is applied to the head and rubbed until a lather is formed. The mixture is then washed away with clear water and the hair well dried, after which there should be an application of bay rum. ISLAM—Enquirer, City. Islam, which is the designating name of a temple in San Francisco of the Anclent Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, means “Re- signation to the will of God.” It is the word generally used by Mohammedans for their religion. Muhammad explains it to-mean five duties: 1-—Bearing witness that there is but one God. 2-Reciting the daily prayers. 3—Giving the legal alms. 4—Observing the Ramazan or month’s feast. 5—Making the pilgrimage to Malk. rah once in a life time. Makrah is the capital of Arabla, a sacred city celebrated as the birth place of Muhammad and the site of the sacred circle. | vere than in any other navy, as the Brit- ish navy requires only three hours for vessels of the destroyer and torpedo boat classes and in the United States navy a trial of two hours is considered suffcient. The British battleship Formidable, 15,000 tons and 15,000 horsepower—begun March 21, «'%98—is at last near completion. Her thirty hours’ trial under four-fifths power took place on June 9, resulting in 11813 horsepower, giving a speed of 16.81 knots, with 101.95 average revolutions of the two engines. All of its twenty Belleville boil- ers were in use, carrying 257 pounds of steam, and the coal consumption averaged 1.89 pounds per unit of horsepower. One important factor in the trial was that the ship was about eleven inches deeper in the water than the normal displacement of 15,000 tons called for, indicating an ex- cess of about 720 tons displacement, and the speed under such conditions was very satisfactory. The full power speed is cal- culated at 18 knots. e r— 2> A CHANCE TO SMILE. “D upesson dat goes froo life actin® hahd to please,” said Uncle Eben, “runs de riesk o’ habbin’ folks take him at his ‘word an’ quit trying”.”"—Washington Star. In the Swim.—Borrowell-Going to take a vacation this summer? 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