The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1902, Page 6

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SMITH........30 Tribune Bailding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CABLTON........c000ese...Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Equare: Murrey Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel; Palmer House. receive BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untll $:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'cloek. 631 McAllister, cpen until 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin. open until 9:80 o'clock. 1941 Misslon, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 c'clock 1086 Va. lencia, open until ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § oclock, NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, opem until ® c'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl 9 p. m. THE CONCERT OF EUROFPE. W HEN the new year comes in it will find the nations of Europe strangely confused as to their mutual interests and their various antagonisms. Diplomatists appear wholly at a loss to know in what direction to extend their alliances and from what side to look for danger. Nations that are in conflict in one part of the world are bound together by a common peril in another, and so equally balanced are the opposing forces that only time and circumstances can determine which of the two is to dominate the situation. The most notable feature of the time is the union of Britain and Germany for the purpose of compelling Venezuela to do justice to British and German cap- italists. The two powers have also good reason for acting together in Africa and in Syria, but in other respects they are rivals whose rivalry is rapidly be- coming a2 deep-seated popular antagonism. Rudyard Kipling has recently expressed in vigorous verse the popuiar indignation in_ Great Britain against the policy of the Ministey in actifig with Germany; while among “the Germans antagonism to everything British has long been so outspoken and so bitter as to subject the. Kaiser himself to something like ill will on account of his supposed subservience to British influences. On the other hand the historic antagonisms be-| tween Britain and France appear likely to be set aside | for a time in favor of an era of good feeling. Therg | have been expressions of mutual good will both in| London and in Paris, and it would not be at all sur- | prising if the coming year should bring with it-some | kind of an agreement in regard to Morocco and the | Nile which would give the two . nations the best reasons in the world for standing together in the im- mediate future. Another significant tendency toward peace in the | place of old estrangement is to be found in the recent | relations between France and Italy. While Italy! doubtless holds to the Dreibund, it seems that the old alliance is not now so formidable as it was. Austriz is too much disturbed at home to be very strong, and Germany no longer feels the need of | Austrian and Italian support as in times past, so the} alliance arranged by Bismarck weakens in every | direction, and at the .present time is hardly more | than 2 formality. Strangese of all the movements of the time is that| in Russia toward friendly relations with Great Britain. | For ages the British and the Russians have looked upon one another as hereditary foes doomed to fight to the death for supremacy in Asia. Of late, how- ever, the Russians have been more disturbed by the Germans than by the British, and there has flamed | out among them an avowed hostility to Germany | coupled with an expressed gesire for amicable ar- rangements with Britain in dealing with Asiatic questions. The new feeling in Russia is not confined to the populace. It has found expression from high officials. A good deal of attention has been given of late to a paper by General Komarov, declaring that the rising wave of Pan-Germanism is a menace to the Slav: and calling for vigorous action to prevent Russia from falling a victim to what the writer galls “the| merciless self-seeking in politics and commerce” of the Germans. It appears from all this that Germany is meeting ihe opposition which invariably conironts those who are pushing their way rapidly to the front. Enter- prise must be always more or less aggressive. He who is behind and would make his way to the front must hustle others out of his way. Kaiser Wilhelm has forced Germany forward at a tremendous rate of speed. He has built her up as a commercial nation 19d as a colonial power, making her influence felt in every part of the world from Europe to Asia. Naturally he has aroused antagonism by so doing, 20d to some extent has arrayed a formidable force 2gainst him. Fortunately he is as wise in counsel as hie is bold in action. It is not likely that he is going to risk a war with any of his hostile and more or less envious neighbors. Still as the situation stands he has hardly a strong friend in Europe, and the new year will bring him many a difficult problem of world politics to solv The liquor license law in Minnesota has been so censtrued by the Supreme Court as to make it a aisdemeanor for one man to treat another, and now tije boys would just as soon have prohibition. and Castro says he is fighting for honor; that combination be arbitrated? ' | be made there, to be beneficial must be voluntary. | and look forward with confidence and courage upon | understood. It would be strange if out of the insanity | THE €AN IRANCIECO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 1902, NATIONAL PROGRESS. > . | HE year closes to-day. At midnight ends a year T that has reachea the high water mark in our national progress and accumulation, Taking it ! | a5 the end of the decade our increase in all directions may be judged by the reliable figures. Since 1892 our population has increased 21 per cent, and our wealth nearly 45 per cent. Individual deposits in national banks have increased 81 per cent, and in savings banks 6o per cent, and in State banks 161, and in private banks 41, and in loan and trust companies 270" per { cent. Our stock of gold has increased go per cent, | and our money in circulation 40 per cent. The con- | trast in conditions is fairly shown by an increase in goldsin the national treasury of 147 per cent. The conditions of transportation exhibit with accuracy the | commercial activity of the people, and their produc- tive power. In the decade, the tons of freight carried one mile by rail increased 78 per cent. The value of | farm products increased 53 and of farms 27 per cent. The stability of business is disclosed by the fact that concurrently with the vast expansion, in volume, of all kinds of business, the increase in busincas failures was only eight-hundredths of one per cent! ' Our increase in metal production was enormous. Our gold product increased 138, petroleum 27, copper 76, coal 75, pig iron 94, steel 173 per cent. The value of our manufactures increased 39 and the number of factory employes 21 arnd wages 19 per cent. No nation in the history of man ever went forward, economizing and increasing production and wealth, as rapidly. A study of the rapidity of the rise and progress in that time may well incline thoughtful | people to ask whether the apex has been reached. Remembering that in all production and increase of wealth the gain far outruns the increase in popula- tion, the conclusion is justified that our progress has been so sound and has such a strong foundation that no immediate reverse may be feared. Of course re- verses will come, no man can foresee when nor why, but when the next occurs it will surely find all of our | people better prepared to meet and weather thel storm than ever before. Our deposits in savings banks, owned by 1885067 depositors, amount to $1,037,408,264. That large sum does not entirely represent the savings of labor, for many workingmen own life insurance, stocks of various kinds, and their homes, representing their share of the fruits of the general prosperity. In the decade now closing this country has become {a formidable competitor not of one nation merely, but of the world, in its power to produce a surplus, and by its export affect the markets of the world. Of | course our future progress depends upon the power of those markets to absorb this surplus at a rate which | pays a profit on the production and cost of export. | This makes it plain that we have a vital interest in the prosperity and consuming power of other nations. Our prosperity increases the wants of our own peo- | | ple, which must be supplied by labor other than their | own, thus increasing the mutual exchanges of com- | jmerce. While our own wants increase we desire a| ! like increase in the wants of other nations. One thing seems sure as to our commercial future. | If the awakening of Chima continue, and the wants | iof her vast population increase, we may expect that | i what now seems the apex of our production and com- | merce will soon be left behind in our onward march, {and the increase of 1902 over 1892 will seem small ! when compared witfl that of 1912 ever this-year. The | I American press should, therefore, urge, every efiart] { looking to the peace and development of China. We | | should continue to stand for justice to that empire | {'and its people, and should labor to free its territory | from aggression, and to compel respect for its civiliz- | | ation and civic institutions. Whatever changes may | The Western nations must teach by example and not by gunpowder. China alone can easily more than double the trade of the world in the next ten years. Mr. J. J. Hill's statement that if we could sell to China one cent’s worth per day per capita of her poptlation it would ! exhaust our surplus states truthfully the possibilties. Such a trade would more than exhaust our present surplus of all kinds. Within such a margin we may see the future that is promised to our commerce by that one country. So the outlook conduces to an optimistic view of our commercial and industrial future, and as we hail a new year and salute the old as it passes we may felicitate ourselves upon all that it has brought to us, the promise of the year and the decade to come. s e All evil, it is said, is simply a phase of good not of‘a Castro there should develop a South American | federation powerful enough to protect itself not only against the world but against itself. D coming almost -every week of new efforts on the part of influential Southern men and women to procure the enactment of laws preventing | child labor in factories, shops and mines, there was | a sanguine hope that the worst of the evil was over, | and that from this time on it would rapidly diminish. Of late, however, the news has been by no means so | encouraging, and it now secems probable that a sys- | tematic campaign of education on the subject will | have to be undertaken | Despite the earnest efforts made for remedial legis- | lation in that State, the Georgia Legislature has ad- jjourned without doing anything to prevent or even 1‘mingale the evil. Moreover, the investigation into | the condition of the anthracite miners in Pennsyl- | vania has brought to light the fact that a large num- { ber of children are worked in the mines of that State | in defiance of the law. Similar disclosurgs have’ been { made in New Jersey, and doubtless if equally search- | ing investigations were made in other large manufac- | turing and mining States a like deplorable condition lof affairs would be found. In short, while the | Southern States have ro laws on the subject, in many | of the Northern States the laws are violated, and the situation of the child appears to be about as bad {in one as in the other. It is a familiar story that a large proportion of the | Southern cotton-mills are owned by Northern cap- litalists, and that the influence of the capitalists has been adverse to factory. legislation. They have in some | cases directly warned Southern communities that if any efforts were made by legislation to prevent the employment of child labor they would withdraw their | investments. That is a favorite form of putting cap- | italistic pressure upon society. It has been heard | all over the U CHILD LABOR PROBLEMS. URING the past summer while reports were nion to a greater or less extent, and in | the South was so portentous that the women’s clubs of Alabama made a direct appeal to the clubs of New ‘England stockholders of Southern mills to induce A | has led to a study of | mation or an individual feel regret not for doing | tion. The appeal has evidently lud little effect, for it seems the millmen fought the child labor bill before the Georgia Legislature and defeated it. The issue is not within the scope of Federal legisla- tion. It is a matter with which States will have to deal, and the outlook is not promising. It may seem reasonable to hope that within a few years the Southern States will follow the example of the North in enacting proper’laws against child labor, but what can be done to prevent evasions of the law such as are now going on unheeded in some of the Northern States, where the laws seem to be all that can be desired? Our Eastern friends are always complaining, but this year they seem more unreasonable than ever, for despite the cold weather and the high price of coal they are already growling that the snow and the rain have honeycombed the ice and the crop threatens to be short. TO QUERIES BY - CALL READERS NO SUCH RIGHT-—B., Alameda, Cal. To erect a bullding for the purpose of ! renting the same for questionable busi- ness purposes is a violation of the law of | the land. INDEX OF THE MIND—C. O'C., Oak- land, Cal. The line “Fair on the face (God) wrote the index of the mind” is from “The Purple Isiand,” by Phineas Fletcher, 1633. 7 z ( CYCLOPEDIA—L., Redwood City, Cal. ! There has not been any new edition since 1891 of the cyclopedia asked about, but there was published in 1897 a supplement i of five volumes. % i _ AREA—O. T. T., City. The aggregate ! area of Europe in square miles is 3,731,647. | That of Texas is 266,011. The smallest con- | tinent is the Australian, which has an OVERUSE OF DRUGS. larea of 3,285,000 square miles. URING the recent agitation in New England { D over the effect of the prohibition laws atten- various narcotic and stimulating drugs in those States where the use of liquor is most stringently prohibited. The interest awakened by the disclosures the growing use of drugs throughout the country, and the result of the inves !tigations shows that the drug habit ,is hecoming‘ ? | alarmingly prevalent. H A committee of the American Pharmaceutical As-| sociation appointed to investigate the matter is said 'to have 1eported that within the past five years the demand for cocaine has increased 400 per cent, while the sales of morphia and opium increased during tlw:‘ same period by 500 per cent. It is estimated that an increase of 20 per cent would cover all the “legiti- mate” demands due to the increase of population, and the excess of increase can be due only to an ab- normal development of the drug habit among the American people. The drugs named in the report are by no means | all that were found to be of frequent use in the New England prohibition States, so that the report cited does not show the whole extent of the growth of the drug mania. Furthermore, it is worth noting in this connection that some time ago the Eastern press di- rected attenticn to a growing habit among the' patrons of restaurants to mix all kinds of catsups, sauces, salt, pepper, vinegar and oil, and drink the mixture. It was known as “the condiment habit,” | and it was reported that some customers were so noted for it that the restaurants which they habitually patronized had to exclude them virtually by refusing to supply them with their desired drink. [ It is not at all clear what has caused this sudden craving for abnormal stimulants among the people. | It appears to be confined mainly to the Eastern States, for it has not been noted to any extent on this coast nor in the South. The people among whom the habit is growing are abundantly fed with the best of foods, they have abundant work to oc-| cupy them, and there is outwardly no apparent rea- | son for the development of such a craving. ! Probably it would be better if the American people | would acquire the European habit of drinking wine at dinner.” The moderate amount of alcohol in a pure | California table wine would doubtless be found ample to satisfy all the demands of nature for something ta | soothe the nervous system worn by the rush and ex- citement of our highly organized and intense civiliza- ' tion. At any rate if the Eastern reports be true the | problem is one with which social reformers will have | to grapple in earnesf, for the Boston Globe in com- menting on it says: “The drug habit has become so enormous in this country that one is sometimes almost tempted to say that in comparison the liquor evil might almast be forgotten.” Reports from Washington are to the effect that the | lobbyists sent to boom the bill for annexing Indian Territory to Oklahoma and admitting the joint com- | monwealth to statehood have fallen out and are now fighting one another so fiercely that it looks as if the scheme would fall through. S AMERICAN NERVES. HE report of Dr. McDonald of the Bureau of T Education in Washington' upon the bad state of American nerves need not be disquieting. It is true that those abnormalities which relate to the ner- vous system, and crime is one of them, have been on the increase in this country and that the rate of in- crease is unchecked, but that need not cause alarm. ‘We are not all going crazy or. getting “nerves” in a milder form. The American people have had a big job on hand during the last century. Before them was the material conquest of the richest of the continents. They moved forward from frontier to frontier, enduring trials, act- ing upon individual initiative in’situations where ac- tion had no precedent and facing dangers and depriv- ations which called for all their nerve force and self- control and often self-restraint. It nceds no argument to demonstrate that the effect upon their descendants | is shown in neuritis, in abnormal nerves. But that| ferment will work out in due time. [ Another cause of trouble in the American nerve | must be sought in our foreign immigration. We are | taking in a mass of peculiar people who are the result | of long governmental repression. Their nerves are | jangled out of tune and when crossed upon the American form of ncuritis a mongrel nerve is pro- | duced that affords a museum of manifestations. We | may well say that if our people are crazier than others | it is because this is a bigger country and when we | are crazy at all we have to live up to our size. The recent applications of science will go far to re- move some of the causes of the condition which Dr. McDonald deplores. Rural isolation is set down as a | fruitful cause of nerves. But our interurban electric | roads and the telephone are removing that sense of | isolation and solitude which has been the bane of rural life. Now the families of farmers many miles | apart chat over the telephone. The old folks talk ' about the crops and the young ones bill and coo by wire. The rural delivery of mail brings the farm house into daily contact with all the world, and rural | life, robbed of its solitary feature, will be®benefited by the simple conditions, the outdoor life and the wholesome exercise which will put tone into the American nerve. — England, it is announced, is sorry for the part she played in the Venezuelan affair. And we are sorry also for any standard of morality which makes a | to Taylor, to Geary, out that .street to “~ HIGH SCHOOL—J. W. R., City. There ! virtue; .red rosebud, pure and QUICK THOUGHT—A Reader, City. If you are not endowed by nature with the power of thinking quickly it is very tion was directed to the extraordinary use oi doubtful if there is any method that will ' say that they have several times assist you to ‘“‘cultivate the art of quick thinking.” MAZARIN OF LETTERS-C. Oakland, Cal. *The Mazarin of letters” was a name given to @ Alembert, (1717-1783) on account of his influence on the literature of his time. ACROSS THE CONTINENT-H, W. 8, Covelo, Cal. The index of The Call does not contain any .record of the ‘‘shortest time made by a pedestrian by the most | behind, the two straight shining lines of direct route from New York to San Fran- cigco, or from the latter to the former,” NITRO-GLYCERIN EXPLOSION—A. S., City. The explosion of nitro-glycerin in the yard in the rear of the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., when it was located on the northwest corner of California and Mont- gomery streets, occurred on the 16th of April, 1866. ALCOHOL IN LIQUORS—Subscriber, City. According to published tables the greatest percentage of alcohol is to be found in Irish whisky, 58.9, and the lowest in small beer, 1.28. The percentage in| sparkiing champagne, is 12.61, in claret 15.1 and in cider 5.2 to 8.9. MISSION WARM BELT—A. L. P., City. “The Mission warm belt” is that part of the Mission district between Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth streets, east of the Twin Peaks or Bernal range. Itis a section of ihat district which is particularly free {rom the cold winds and fogs. CLUB TO OCEAN—A. M, City. The distance from the Olympic Club to the Scal Rock House at the ocean beach by the most direct. route, which is Post street Point Lobos avenue, to the beach, is| 29,000 feet, or nearly five miles and a half. i~ no age limit for admission to the Girls’ High School in San Francisco, which is located on Scott street, between O'Farrell and Geary. That is exclusively for girls. Girls are admitted to the Lowell High School, on Sutter street, and in the Mis- sion High School. SALARIED OFFICERS — Subscriber, | City. In The Call of the 1ith of Novem- ber, 1902, there was published a complete list of all the salaried appointments that the Governor of California may make. By consulting that list you will be able to ascertain what appointments George | Pardee as Governor will have. MARRIED NAME—A. H. S., City. In; all legal documents a married woman | must sign her given name and the one ! she assumed on marriage, but she must | power of movement.—New York Sun. not preface it with ‘“Mrse.” A married woman has her cards printed with the | name or. initials of her husband's Chris- | led an enthusiastic sportsman to do a lit- 0’C., | From personal experience and much in- Jean'le Rond | a French mathematician ' { Gatineau Valley drove a pair of deer | more than an hour lately. SOME ANSWERS |HEADLIGHTS HYPNOTIZE WILD ANIMALS road in the Megantic district, near Hull, a track car propelled by a gas engine last before him. The car was sent along at after a mile's race. ' frightened creature, and both men shout- | ed vigorously to it to elear the track. The {only result’' was another spurt of speed, which the deer kept up until its feet slipped through a high trestle. Then the deer, three-year-old male, was made | into veémison. - The curious feature of this hunt was the persistence with which the deer kept to the track between the Tails, instead of i turning aside to the safety which a bound | or two would have afforded in the brush. The engineer, in reporting the occur- rence, said that three times last summer | he was obliged to stop his motor car in | order to get deer to leave the line. This |Teport and the fact that engine drivers run | | down moose and deer racing before them tle investigating on his own account. formation received, a very ingenious ex- planation of this curious habit has been educed. It is a faet known to some children that, if a chicken's bill is held to the floor to a chalk line drawn straight before it, the bird becomes fascinated and apparently unable to withdraw itself from it. So it appears that when fear is driving from track on the right and left have a fas- cinating or hypnotic effect upon deer, and that as long as they are kept moving swiftly they are unable to turn to either side. The driver of a fast freight train in the twenty-four miles before him in a littie At the end of | their run one of the deer collapsed and fell. The other stood stupldly staring at the big engine as it stopped, but when the men descended it jumped away and escaped. The deadly fascination of the steel rails was well exemplified on the Kazubagua plains, in the same region, this week, when a grand pair of Scotch stag"hounds ‘were seen passing through the open coun- try from the north, driving’a deer before them along the track of the railway. ‘Without heeding the shouts of the men at the station, the hunted thing, which had evidently come from a long distance, bounded along with some difficulty, fol- | lowing all the curves of the track down to the Stag Creek bridge, through which it tripped, and was then killed by the hounds. The section men on the Pontiac Railroad chased a little herd of three deer for some | miles with their handcar, and drove them right up to an approaching engine. As the men stopped to lift the machine clear of the track, the deer slackened their speed, looking helpless to right and left as they ran on, as though afraid to cross the shining rails. Thus they allowed the engine to send them all to destruction. Probably at night it is the glare of the powerful headlight that attracts, con- fuses and then hypnotizes the deer into helpless stillness. Old engineers are well aware of the hypnotizing effect of the ! headlight of an engine upon members of the deer family, and will, when possible, stop and drive the creatures aside. In the course of conversation some of these men recited many instances of run- ning, into deer which, when once their eyés had become fixed upon it, stood as though paralyzed in the flerce light of the locomotive. One of them spoke of having on two ocecasions actually pushed deer from before his freight train, the bewild- ered creature having apparently lost all The Fourth Dimension. Dr. C. H. Hutton publishes in the bul- i tian name or names, as well as his fam- | lly name, When she becomes a widow | | she drops her late husband’s, Christian | | nume or names or initials and resumes her own Christian name on her cards. ' GRAY EYES—C. O'C., Oakland, Cal | The Arabs are the ones who say that i‘gray eyes are synonymous with sin and | enmity.” In the Koran, XX, there is: “On that day the trumpet shall be sound- | ea and we will gather the wicked togeth- |er: even those having gray eyes.” Al | Beldawi explains this as referring to the Greeks, whom the Arabs abhor, and he declares that ‘“red whiskers and gray eyes” is an idiomatic phrase for “a foe.” THE POTRERO—A. L. P, City. In 1840 Jose C. Bernal received a grant to thc | Potrero Viejo, including Hunters Point | and the basin of Islais Creek, in all 4445 { acres. The Potrero Nuevo is generally | understood to include the lands east of | Potrero avenue, between Channel strect ‘on the north and Islais Creek on the | south. The lands of the old mission, | which was established in’ 1776, extended letin of the Philosophical Society of ‘Washington a paper on thé recognition of the fourth dimension. In it the author examines what would be the general character of the motion of bodies in four- dimensional space. The most interesting feature of this line of inquiry is the pos- sibility that is pointed out of construct- ing representations of the phenomena of electro-magnetism by means of vortex motions in four-fold space. Thus, a vor- tex with a surface as its axis affords a geometric image of a closed circuit, and there are rotations which by their polar- ity afford a possible definition of static electricity. A reviewer in Nature asks: “Has it occurred to the author that the property that electricity which is free to move as a conductor assumes a super- ficial distribution may enable us to form a conception of matter in four-dimen- sional space assuming & three-dimen- | sional distribution?’—New York Sun. week, he saw a fine deer on the track K plows, four-inch planks ‘spent “at sea, HOW HOLIDAYS ARE CELEBRATED ON THE OCEAN As a civil engineer in charge of a rail- The good ship Inverkip, from Greenc K, has a second mate who is disrespectful of Canada, was going over his division in | traditions and emphatic in speech. While the vessel's hold was being packed with and sundry cases of merchandise destined for the full speed and it caught up with the deer | Australian marRet he talked about Christ- mas at sea on a sailing ship, punctuating For fear of a smashup the foreman | his sententious speech with puffs from an slackened up as the car came up to the | ugly pipe. “Me lad,” said he, “them’s landsmen yarns about Christmas. I've bin afore the mast these last sixteen year, and you jes’ take me wurd om {t there ain’t any sich thing as Christmas on a full-rigged ship at sea no more 'm there is on a tramp. We uns on the Inverkip have a skipper with Christian blood in him, and the skipper's missus comes along o' him on the cruise, so we gets our time to ourselves on Christmas, along with the sea pie, salt horse, soup and boullli and strike-me-blind, with a swig of grog thrown in, but om most ships every day is Christmas as fur as work goes and ra- tions. “What's that? Don't know what strike- me-blind is. Waal! It's rice, common, everyday, ordinary rice, with suet in it and water and salt. It's reg-lar fok’sle grub, it is, and good when ye're hungry. And meat pie? You ain’t mever et of it, bet ye.. Waal, there’s everything in it— potatoes and raisins and flour and ‘Har- riet Lane’ * * * Never heard on Har- riet Lane? Waal, she was a wench as was killed in Liverpool some years agone, and chopped. up pretty bad with a cut- lass. When the lumpers find the tinned meat unusually vile they call it by- her name, sort o' in memoriam like, causc "twas a sailor as killed her. Waal, as [ was a sayin’ to ye, on most ships there ain’t no Christmas Caroline or extra grub, or any let up in the work, either, for that matter. “I remember the last Christmas day I and ‘twasn't long _ago, either—only last year. We were off the ‘Horn, about- 58 south, hove to under a close-reefed main topsail and fore stay- sail; colder 'n tarnation; four men to haul home a clew line, iceberg ’'bout three points off the weather bow, halliards,’ gunnel, spars, bowlines and everything caked with ice. I went to relieve the bridge at eight bells in the foremoon watch. The second watch turned in. The Christmas dinner was the same as every day. Slushy—that's how we call the cook, ye know—he asked the skipper to splice” the mainbrace, seeing as how it was Christmas, but the old man he wouldn't; sald as how the crew had signed without liquor and as how Christ- mas made no difference to him, and went down into the cuddy and had a swallow all to himself, There was no grog that day. The men had the usual rations of dog’s body and biscuit and lots of work to help it down. It all depends on the skipper. Our old man deals grog out on Christmas and whenever the boys had had a hard tussle up above at night or when both watches are on deck during a bit of blowing. We expect to be down in latitude 22 north this Christmas fiying afore the northeast trade winds. The captain’s missus she’s coming along, and me and the mate we're going to take along something from here to give her or. that day. The crew, they're twenty- two, they’ll get the day off, meaning they’ll have one watch to do with as they like, and then the sea pie, which mabbe is sea talk for your plum duff, and the swig of rum. That's all “And don’t go and write that we have Christmas trees and that we put our golloshes under the stove. They only do that sort o’ thing on warships; this here boat is a serious proposition. Good-by, lad; same to you, sonny. Merry Christ- mas.”—New York Mafl and Express. Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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Hindercorns, the best cure for corms. 1Scts. | casterly to an old wall which stood near | the present line of Potrero avenue, LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS—Emma, City. In the language of flowers the rose means love; Austrian rose, thou are all that is lovely; bridal rose, happy love; Burgundy rose, unconscious beauty; cab- . bage rose, embassador of love; Campion | rose, only deserve my love; Carolina rosc, love is dangerous; China rose, beauty al- | ways new; Christmas rose, tranquilize my | anxiety; daily rose, the smile I aspire to; | damask rose, brilliant complexion; deep i red rose, bashful shame; dog rose, plea- sure and pain; Guelder rose, winter, age; hundred leaved rose, pride: Japan rose, beauty is your only attraction; malden blush rose, if you love me you will find it out; Montiflora rose, grace; musk rose, capricious beauty; musk rose -cluster, charming; single rose, simplicity; thorn- less rose, early attachment; unique rose, call me not beautiful; white rose, I am | worthy of you; white rose withered, tran- sient impressions; vellow rose, decrease of love and jealousy; York and Lancaster rose, war; full blown rose placed over two buds, secrecy; white and red rose to- gether, unity; crown of rose, rgward of lovely: white rosebud, girlhood; moss rosebud, confession of love. PERSONAL MENTION. State Senator A. F. County is at the Palace. James Touhey, a stock raiser of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. Mark R. Plaisted, editor of the Fresno Democrat, is at the California. Rcbert H. Turner, an attormey of Ne- vada City, is a guest at the Lick. C. Moltzen, in charge of the lighthouse station at Point Reyes, is at the Grand. 1. B. Griffin, a well-known resident of Pacific Grove, is registered at the Russ. Judge K. S. Mahon of Yuba City is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife and son. L. C. Wilson, a business man of Red Bluff, is at the Russ, accompanied by his fomdly. 2 R. S. Fulton, freight manager of the fouthern Pacific in the State of Nevads, is at the Palace. $f - Colonel George Macfarlane, president of the Royal Hawalian Hotel Company, 's a: the California. J. J. Bradley of Marysville, who is visit- ing this city on his honeymoon, is at the Jones of Butte wrong but for being caught at it. ' Some men seem, whatever they may do, to be liv- Britain and Germany avow that they are fighting | England to bring local pressure to bear upon New !ing under a lucky star. Several deer hunters were arrested a few days ago before they could be mistaken them to cease their opposition to the desired legisla- { by their friends and killed, Occidental with his wife. : A | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—New \ LAST YEAR ? D for instance, that every nation on year? Do you know lives lost at Mont -Pelee, but was know when and where and how the of things you have forgotten However, as ‘his original plement in itself, the SUNDAY Have cal article will be, “THSR e E. H. Cox, Madera; Howard E. Hi tcn, San Francisco. St. J: -P. A. about anything that took place in the year just gone? know in what month the most things happen all over the every year and why? Do you know on what particular year all these strange things take place as they do? De according to fixed rules, and that those rules were what those rules how many airships really worked last year, able things that were accomplished by ers? When some one asks you what was the dous accident last year of course know what was the strangest crime on record? There iz absolutely no event of any importance recorded in THE SUNDAY CALL'S TABULATED = & tfi‘-‘::.t:-. - o strange THE “ KATI?” PAPFRS fi’-;“w WOXAN Everything Under the Sun in Next Sunday’s Call. 0 YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED Do you want to know everything Do i ‘world day of the you know, the globe must now make war only made las’. are? Do you kn.w or the rezuark- North = Pols, explor- mort stupen- you think of the 35,000 that the biggest accident? Do you biggest disaster occurred? Do you Do you want to politics, ABOUT vnatever that is not JIEVIEW