The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1902, Page 6

formed & w army The he rity. Wit r odge W posses: assemt represe ‘ we wa X entic but ¢ g cof will be ( will sw ne w tes and Pyth nde ry basis, of a hip and surity of Govern- Pythian sword and The Uni- as is n of Wher- ation na- prove hout the se much s, With were too on cities, nvention ing be more into 50,000 THE SUNDAY CAIL. J THOS HWBGSTAFF SHEW PHOTO a of e the representea emblages Uniform unusual nuous Tect bearir niform Kank aw | to th Rank mposed he var it can tz Now we want There are Lodge who do rm action ndations. anged Sup: me g military order. Why the ws for us? has grown so rapid- has become unwieldy under the stem, and recently has becn n standstill for lack of the young men 57 s its own laws and be inde- be given u desree of military trairing with have been agitated for army oy vears, and we look 1 the for able at the coming su- In a we have préme sessions. An indication of the had a wonderful growtt more favorable sentiment concerning our In the Uniform Rank thi desires is the innovation introduced this year. We have fifty com vear by Supreme Chancellor Ogden Feth- Danies, with a membership He wrote to all the brigadier gen- Oof abouf 1500. W companie., s ng the o name their first and Were recentl instituted ;:1,_,] }f" e s s ‘L‘,m,,.al Al- Crockett and Watsonville, Th. though the uit will not be announced oINS convention has given an unti] the Supreme Lodge meets, there is IMPEtUs to the rank in Califor- no question of an almost unanimous de- % although actually the in. sire to re-clect Major General Carnahan. C[TEHSE of membership s the cul- The relation of the Uniform Rank to the Jaton of <he work done in the Government of the United States is a s Rentaive Is Ghich Five regiments constitute the bri- we pride ourselves, for lifornia. The bri we are recognized as among the reserve l“r,)w’ da. The brigade o forces of the nation. We drill according cefioey B to the tactics of the United States army, genersl, CUF.. MoGlakhan with chang made necessary by the use . e & - of the sword instead of the rifie; we are _ Chief of staff, Colonel T. A. Nerney o. Yhe e i San Francisco officered like Uncle' Sam’'s men and our BReisco, o uniforms are patterned after the army Drisade Chaplain, Major C. M. West- dress. If the Government makes a change in uniform we alter our military garb accordingly. One of the objects for which the Uniform Rank was founded, as General Carnahan has said, was that EX EE TERRAPIN CATCHING, Among the singular occupations of those who live along the -rivers and ~ ou ter ne- rtiet sea wate of t 1t. W' squas water. MOONS OF SALT. take the you de-, ieth of its weight h of the r in the er bulk ate also he huge hat does re miles « mile and one 200,- A thir- creeks of the stern Shore of Maryland is that of the 2 catcher. “It takes a peculiar kill,” said a veteran terrapin hu Oxford, in Talbot at County, a weeks ago. “It requires tleth of this should give us the bulk of long vractice for a man to catch terra- the salt contained in the great waters of pin Some drag for terrapins with rakes, the globe. but the real hunter sees no art in that Rounding the figures, we get something like 7,000,000 cubic miles of salt. If it were taken out and spread over the surface of My weapon is a pair of tongs, or ‘oyster paws,’ as we call them. I stand in the bow of my boat and my boy pushes the the six continents they would be covered canoe along. I keep my eygs scanning with its snowy powder to a depth almost the bottom. When I see a blue speck in equal fo the height of Bunker Hill mon- the mud, I know that it is a terrapin’s ument, in Boston. nose put out to get air. Touching the spot, To put it another way, if all the earth a bubbie mes Up, and [ know what that were salt wa 5 : o 1 thrust my ‘tongs_ n_and pler thece vouid he Enongh 2l S api by b Lihy o naul salt in it to make two globes of solid sait times I catch many 200 in thg but very little smaller than our moon. course of an hour or s i but my son is N Lot @ble «y catch them. Whyr Oh, because he has not learned the art of finding the blue speckZ-the art of sight- Ing them. It is a kind of woodcraft, and in woodecraft experience is the great teacher.” \ lake of Salnas. . Assistant Adjutant general, J. P. Abboth of Oakland. Assistant judge ad- vocate, general, Colonel George Samuels of Oak- iand. z Assistant inspector gen- eral, Colonel L. S. Calkins of Nevada City. Brigade mustering officer, Colonel G. S. Adolph of Los Angeles Brigade engineer, Colonel C. . Lindsay of Santa Cruz. Brigade signal officer, Colonel T. Crowley of San Francisco Assistant quartermaster general, Colonel R. F. Burns of Auburn. Assistant Commissary general, Colonel C. . Patton of San Francisco. Assistant surgeon general, Colonel E. C. Dunn of Fresno. Alds-de-camp—Major J. A. Luken of Pasadena, Major B. V. Sargent of Sali- nas, Major J.'M. Keenan of San Fran- cisco. Major E. E. Whitney of San Diego and Major Harry Simi-of San Francisco. o3 5 A RAINFALL OF ACID. According to a recent consular report a remarkable phenomenon occurred last vear in Naples and In the neighborhood generally of Vesuvius. This took the form of rain which was charged so heavily with hydrochloric acid that considerable damage to vegetation was the result. The volecano is always pouring out from its summit a cloud of steam, and it is known that this vapor is charged with acifl ex- halations; but there scems to be no pre- vious record of this acid contaminating the rainfall. The phenomenon lasted for about a month in the spring of last year, and_during this short period the leaves and” buds of the sprouting vines were caused to shrivel up, and had the appear- ance of being burnt. The cereals grown in the villages adjacent to the mountain also suffered severely from the acld rain, and the mischief reached as far as LoHMEYER IHEW FHOTO Palma, near Nola, where hazel nu grown in large quantities for expor These nut plants were practically ruin all the young shoots being destroyed By an old law sufferers from volcanic action can get a remission of part whole even the of the land tax, and th applicants for relief on accou rain.—Chambe: Journal. SHALL THE CORSET STAY? ARIS or is the home of fashion and French women, while not more charming and bcautiful than women of other nationalities, cer- tainly know how to dre Three or four years ago, much to our surprise, there was a decided war made in Paris against the corset, and a recent Parisian Journal says that it has revived again. Several fashionable dames in society in that city are to-day insisting upon the abandonment of the corset. This news, coming from Paris, will interest San Francisco women as well, and it will be entertaining and instructive to the femi- nine mind to hear the pros and cons upon this subject. Among the prominent women in Paris who have foresworn the corset Is La Duchesse d'Uzes. This lady is a well-known leader and originator of fashions, and her influence is far-reach- ing. She Is the originator of the automo- bile, was famous in the Boulanger affair and now boldly declaims against the cor- set. When French women, too, send abroad the story that there is a corset war, then it is quite timé for us to con- sider it too. If the corset goes into disuse A[hink of all the hygienic clubs of advanced women, all the physician speclalists, who will crow in trilumph and say “I told you so!” But the question is, Can women go with- out corsets and still be a delight to the eye? It has been a matter of common knowl- edge that several of our leading actresses have abandoned the corset. It is true that Elsle de Wolfe wears only a ribbon corset, just a small band around the waist to be some support for the skirts. Miss de Wolfe is very slight, and can well afiord to renounce the steels. Nance O'Neill, that beautiful creature, “tall and divinely fair,” wears only a slight band, and her figure is beyond crit- fcism. Mi bird’ Ada Colley (the “Australian song ) wrote recently to a friend as fol- lows: “I don’t wear the regulation cor- set at all. I wear a simple ribbon corset band as a sort of support. If I were MEDAL DE:GNED BY M A SAMUELS . ut I should cert inly be obliged to weas ruld we: I very think r all the the weli-known French e anything will ever come ued war against the corset. ht fronts are as come,” she said et too stout, and @ théy do without something to h? About 40 the averag ump, and at 3 getting nation thinks more of the French, and its v one knows that neither or Mrs. Leslie. Carter there are many others Plenty of o antidote to the x in these adva muscular sha we Let cutlin is the best tiff corset, and e young, supple, admired in our cise ve Is greatly then, keep to the new modes and only with the figure not confined, as it is in the high tight corset. But let us, on the other hand, declare against the maseu and eminine in woman. A natu ral reaction from the regular corset figure has set in from golf and other sports of the society girl of to-day, and some of the sweetest gowns are worn without stays. Of course no girl has any ambition to be a ‘““Helen of Troy,” and garments that compromise between Gre- cian draperfes and ‘‘Mother Hubbards™ have ne attraction for them. One stout woman said to me: “What a fright I should look without corsets!”” But doubt- less she would look much better than she does at present. So much depends upon one’s exercise and habits and persever- ance in the right management ot the bedy, What conelusion, then, do we reach re- garding this interesting part of woman’s appearance? It would doubtiess have been better had our women never fallen under the fa. ation of these rigid, unlovely ar- ticles, and doubtless the hygienic rules are badly distorted by their usage, but while the practical woman of to-day admits all these facts and is proving her willingness to compromise in the matter by modifying the corset, still we dare positively affirm that the corset, in some sliglit degree at least, has come to stay in both senses of the word. ——— ON THE OC=AN BED. M. J. Thoulet has investigated the con- stitution of the ocean bed, and finds that the more deeply it is penetrated the less the proportion of slime and the less cal- careous matter. On the other hand, the proportion of sand grains and pure clays increases with the depth. No regularity obtains in the distribution of the non-cal- careous mineral grains. This normal dis- tribution appears to be more pronounced the deeper the ocean bed itself lles below the water surface, but in any case the variations due to ocean depth are small. ven in the deepest water the constitu- tion of the bed shows traces of the condi- tions prevailing near the surface of the ocean above the bed. The latter remark is of importance, as the author points out, when we consider that a comblete analysis—chemical, mechanical and min- eralogical—applied to ancient geological strata is competent to shed a flood of light upon the ancient econditions that prevailed at the surfaces of oceans that have long since disappeared, leaving no trace other than thelr effect on the an- cfent ocean beds. —_— POINTS ABOUT LINEN. HITE linen walsts are trimmed with straps of colored linens green, biue, pink or linen col- or. There afe two short straps, pointed and hollowed in at the center, put on lengthwise down the front plait, and two other fancifully shaped straps run down, one from each shoulder. There is a fancifully shaped top to the patch pocket on the left side of the waist, and narrow turnover cuffs of the colored linen to the sleeves. The buttons are large, flat and pearl. Ready-to-make-up linen comes now tucked and embroidered, as well as hand embroidered only. A white linen frock as the front of the bodice embroidered in colors, several shades and stock, cufis and bands around the skirt are 1 knotted with the colors to m » are three dou- ble-shaped b t on to the skirt, run- ning entirely around it m the front breadt which is plain. bands are like shape: . not more than two inc fastened to the skirt c . but finished f stitehing in the dif- . to be found in the embroi- dery. They are set well upart, the upper band not more tha a few inches from the walst line.—New York Times.