The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY., OCTOBER 29, 1908. | ‘ | | Mechanics of the Body. BY R. C. LATSON, M. D. Bditor Health Culture Magazine, New York; Author of “Common Disorders,” *‘Physical Training,” “Food Vaiue of Meat,"” etc) Man i the acme of the world—the masterplece of time. be regarded as a mere speck in the uni- verse—a tiny, biped insect, clinging to the surface of a pianet which, while great to him, is one of the least of the countiess spheres which make up the celestial pro- cession. In another and perhaps a truer sense, however, man may be regarded as & microcosm of the universe—a repetition in miniature of all the myxiad activities of the universe—as Victor Hugo said, “An infinite little copy of God.” For in the human body we find activities corre- sponding to all the activities of all the life forms, plant and animal, in the world. in the human body is found the analogue of every other living thing. There is not @ device kngwn in all the range of archi- tecture or mechanics which is not also | word to his wife in public, columns may | In one sense he may | + large takes in the wealthy, stir up the dissension, exaggerate it, perhaps, and | flash it in its every phase before the pub- | le. In short, two pecple’'s marital differ- | e which should be sacred to them alone, become at once public property, | whereas in the cases of the poorer, less | prominent persons, their private quarrels £o unnoted. If a millionaire says a sharp be printed on the subject. If John Smith, | a $12 a week clerk. throws his wife down- stalrs the chances are against his note- worthy act receiving a line of printed comment. Feremost, however, among the reasons for especial matrimonial unhappiness among the rich (if such unhappiness real- | ly exists to a greater degree than 2mong the poor) is the “marriage of con- venience.” Among people composing the wealthy set in our large cities marriages are oftener matters of volicy and desir- ability than the mere outcome of mutual affection. There is, in many cases of this gort, no real love from the very outset. ' Women marry men of great wealth and ! social position because their families are | | ambitious and desire to see them well | placed in the worid. It is but natural under such circum- stances that more or less jar and lack of congeniality should ensue. Nothing but an unusual degree of tact can avert such | | friction. Such people are, after all, but human, and a woman who is forced by her fam- | 1y’s ambition to marry a man for whom | she has no natural inclination or affec-| tion is not unlikely later to meet a man | with whom she falls seriously in love. | This is a condition which might perhaps | have been wholly avolded had she been | born In a less exalted financial sphere and | allowed to choose a husband for herself. Family fortunes are thus maintained or raised, sometimes at a cost far greater than mere money involves. I SRS - { Another cause is the manner of life led by 80 many of the very rich. They have little of real interest to occupy their at- tention. Their lives become idle and va- pid. There is too much leisure. Where a poorer woman would be too busily occu- found in the human body 4.8 We look with admiration upon the great inventions of man—the printing press, the automobile, the typesetting machine, the giant steamship, the great bridge, the towering “sky seraper.” originality—the creative power—of man But as a matter of fact in all the inven- tions of m: which is n a repetition of some part of the human body : The pulley, the lever, the inclined plane, | the hinge, the “universal” joint, the-scis- sors, the gri doors, a bellows, a pump, a camera— each one of these devices invented by man is but a repetition of the same mechanism found in some part of his own wonder- fu! body. No palace or cathedral ever bullt has had so superb an arrangement of arches and girders as we find in the body of mar No water way on earth is as perfect in design, as commodious or as populous as * the grest thoroughfare of the body, the equal in complexity or ingenlous methods by y wastes are removed; irrigation plants of which we re crude in comparison with ular eystem by which the di- is conveyed into the blood. the trumpet, the grand organ, ese and many other are constructed upon the production of the human v ‘ompared to the ner- vous system of man, the electric tele- graph is so crude as to be absurd. And it may be added that even Marconi, with his musical i1 principles wireless telegraphy—a system of “‘com munication without contact”—is meref copying the action of the individual ceils in his own wonderful brain and nerves. long ago, in the dim ages, before houses, before writing, before language, when men lived in caves and saw all things in one color, some primeval human being found that a great stone, too heavy to be moved by sheer strength, could be Taised by another method. So he wedged 2 long stick between the rock and the ground, placed another stone under the stick and then by pressing down upon the other end of the stick easily moved the stone, otherwise too heavy to be lifted. This far-off human or subter-human be- ing, more ingenious than his fellows, was utilizing a device now known to engineers @s a lever of the first class. Yet in the very act of bearing down upon the stick, ‘the improvised crowbar—in the act of standing with elightly bent knees—our primitive engineer was in his own body calling into requisition a number of levers ©of exactly the same kind, all made in the most perfect manner. There are a number of pulleys in the body—muscles which pass through a pul ley of bone to move certain structures. The most familiar and the most beautiful of these is the muscle known as the su- perior obligue muscle of the eve. This muscie is attached to the bony structures behind the eyeball and extends forward and upward till it reaches its “pulley,” then, turning sharply to one side, it is buried in the eveball. Its action is to ro- tate the eveball on antra-posterior axis. The digastricus, a muscle in the fore part of the neck, is also an excellent example of a “pulley. The action of the incisor teeth in cut- ting and that of the molars in masti- cating the food is In strict accordance with the principle of the scissors and the grist mill, one stone turning upon an- other. As to hinges, the body has dozens of them. The joints of the fingers, toes, knees and elbows are perfect hinges. At the ghoulder and hip are found beautiful samples of the “ball and socket,” or, as mechanics call it, the “universal” joint. Inclined planes are found in many places, notably at the wrist and ankle joints. In the veins, which carry back to the hea-t blood returning from the tissues, are most beautiful little trapdoors, which also act #s valves, opening to allow the blood stream to move toward the heart, but closing promptly to prevent “back flow.” The heart itself is & marvelous pump (or rather two pumps, for in reality there are - tweo distinct hearts, whidh, though joined together, ure quite separate organs), the wetion of which, with its compiex inter- dependence upon many conditions and its compengatory powers, must be regarded as one of the most perfect merchanisms in the world, propelling every minute «ighty-tour times its own weight of blood, first to the lungs and then to the tissues. Viewed from any standpoint, the human heart is one of the most wonderful things known to man. ———— Wealth Matrimony’s Peril. BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON, (Author of *‘The Congueror,” North,” ete.) ! am mot prepared to say, as an un- Gualified assertion, that there is more marital infelicity among rich men than in other classes of society. But there are many reasons which might go toward bearing out the claim. For one thing, people who are very rich are often prominent soefally. When such couples fall out the newspapers, eager for ®ossip and knowing the interest the world “*Senator We epeak of the | ) there is not one little device | dstone, valves, filters, trap- | No sewerage system known | pied with her home and familiy the wom- | an whose home cares are reduced to a minimum by money has time to become bored by her husband or to yearn for other interests. T bave an old-fashioned belief that a husband and wife should be real help- | meets; that a husband’'s business cares ! and perplexities should be understood and shared by his wife: thzt his business losses should be her losses and his tri- umphs her triumphs. Often among the rich this is not the case. The wife, brought up to wealth and luxury, gives little heed to the source of that Juxury, nor in what way the riches that surround her are gained. 8he knows little and cares less about her husband’s business affairs. She has no real sympathy with him in his hard- ships and trials, and in consequence he is sometimes apt to go elsewhere for appre- ciation and advice. Should his fortune be swept away his wife, who knows nothing of his frantic efforts to keep that fortune together for her sake, blames him for careless management. If her own money | i= also involved In the crash she has still less sympathy for the man to whom she attributes the misfortune. All she realizes is that the one attraction which made him | bearable has been removed. And she looks elsewhere for the happiness she has lost. There are, of course, countless excep- | tions to this rule. There are many happy marriages among the rich, many luxuri- ous homes where as true affection reigns | as in less splendid dwellings. | e S Still another cause of uncongeniality | ’among the rich is the absence of family | life. In ordinary homes the husband, wife | | and children meet daily at table and else- | where and the sweet old-fashioned home relations maintain. If an outing or good time of any sort is afoot all the family participate in it and it becomes a general merry-making. A sorrow to any member of the family becomes in like manner a general grief. Such experiences go to- ward the closer knitting of family ties. In many rich families, however, the children are put out of sight, in a nur- | sery with a governess or at some fash- | jonable boarding-school, and are thus de- prived of any knowledge of what home life in its truest sense really {s. A multi- | tude of soclal engagements, too, rob the | husband and wife of much of each oth- er's society. How can home exist in such | circumstances? The wife is absorbed in | the duties that throng the path of a wo- man of fashion. The husband's time and thought are taken up by his business or | his club. Absorbed in diametrically dif- ferent interests, they naturally drift ! apart. In the summer the wife goes to Newport or to Europe. Her husband stays at home watching the stock market and taking advantage of such recreation as comes his way. T think there will in time be a reaction from this sort of empty, idle, vain exist- ence. People will tire of it, will see how little it amounts to and will return to the | “home idea.” —_——— Shows Thrift in Church. i A lady visitor at a fashionable resort on the Maine coast this summer went to the Universalist church in the place the first Sunday morning of her stay and was politely shown to a seat. There was no hymn beok, however, but the occu- pant of the pew behind her reachei over and piaced one in her hands. At the close of the service the visitor turned around and thanked the person, saying, as she was to attend that church all summer, she should like to buy a hymn book. ‘““Well,” said the other woman, “I guess you can have that book if vou'll give me a pair of black gloves, No. i."” “Very well,” said the visitor. The next day she went to Portsmouth, purchased the No. 7 black gloves for $150 and auly received the use of the hymnal in ex- change for them on the following Sun- day. Yankee ability at driving a bargain is by no means extinct,—Boston Herald. Bre'r Williams Speaks. “Dis here vacant law,” said Brother Williame, “is rasin de mischief all roun'!" ““You mean ‘vagrant’ law.” “Well, whatever you call it. Tt keeps me preachin’ ever’ night in de week, an Sunday; but, bless God, it gives me de finest opportunity in de world fer takin’ up collections. De whoie tion done gone ter -:wk .en :.n.kln’ money!"” Here's the way a Southwest Georgia brother jubilates: “Flne crops, good health, the fiddler turning for the dance an’ the gals all willin’'!"—Atlanta Consti- tution. A Difference. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes of Boston told the other day an aneedote of his father, the noted poet and physician. Judge Holmes said that a prolific young novelist, whose works are now very popu- lar, once consulted his father regarding his_heaith. man ‘said, after - T write “Not for your constitution,” Dr. Holmes corrested him. “For your reputation.”— Kansas City Journal. “Perhaps,” the young his symptoms— THE- SAN FRA NCISCO CALL |JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor - - - « - + « - . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager | BARSOHAD Woe.; § 5o ) 14052 mmss Sharabansuies o teveeeeseeses +on...Third and Market Streets, S. F. THURSDAY .. el o S OCTOBER 29, /4903 THE LIES OF THE CAMPAIGN. ERHAPS it may scem too harsh to call the misrep- P resentations that are published for political effect lies. The Scotch have a soft euphemism for that sort of thing and call it a “whid”" The anti-Republican corners of the present triangular fight in this city have been the source of many whids. Early in the banner and streamer campaign of Mayor Schmitz his brush and paste brigade plastered the Fair- mont Hotel structure with bills, which assured the reader in large letters that the Mayor is “tried and true.” As this disfiguring of the structure could be only by the assent of the owner or contractor, immediately the word was glee- fully passed that th: owner, Mr. Hermann Oelrichs, was supporting Schmitz, and this rumor heartened the Mayor’s forces for many days. Then the “tried and true” posters were efiaced, and this begot another whid to the effect that capital had reared its reptilian head and struck at the Mayor through his posters. These two whids were politically ingenious. If the biils were left to raise the presumption that Mr. Oelrichs looked with favor upon the Mayor, it would help to ingratiate him |into the confidence of the capitalists and business men of | the city. Being ordered down, the excuse was iurnished_ [ for an appeal to the labor and non-capitalist vote to resent the insolence of the rich. Mayor Schmitz so well under- stood the political value of the conclusion of the incident | that he referred to it in his speeches, and drew out a let- ter from Mr. Oeclrichs to the cffect that he knew nothing about it and cared less. Then Mr. Lane’s Juminous cvening organ entered the field of prevarication and has held the center of the stage. | It selected a prominent Republican business man and in- vented for him a tumultuous rush into Lane headquarters to declare his opposition to Mr. Crocker and his intention to toil tooth and claw for Lane. Though the same gentle- man has been prominent in the ranks of Crocker workers and has made speeches for him nearly every night, the sunset organ has not recalled nor corrected its whid, but has gone on inventing others with a fecundity of falsehood that would rouse the envy of Ananias. Mr. Lane, who is | a gentleman in his personal way and manner, really ought to call down his organ or make it blow a little truth on its bully tin horn. Then the Examiner, the Beelzehub, the father of liars, the leviathan of falsehood, the old, original and only Goliath of slander, has outdone the rest, as was its duty to do. It has with the scent and eyes of a ferret gone in and out of every political rat hole in the city, has turned over every chip, clawed the depths of every garbage pile and come forth reeking. The contractor for advertising space in the street cars puts up the card of a Republican candidate, in the regular course of business, and at once the Examiner | bristles with the incident as proof that the United Railroads corporation has bought that candidate for the privilege of using its cars to display his card. Two men are seen to exchange greetings on the street, and immediately Lane’s organ invents a conversation be- tween them which never took place, and in which only sod- den idiots would engage in public and in hearing of ad- verse parties. That the conversation is immediately de- nied makes no difference. In fact, the two organs vie with cne another in the invention of whids. The lying inventor of interviews with the Pope, the Queen Regent of Spain and Mrs. McKinley is not disquieted by exposure. The cnly shame it feels is for the moderation of its invention. In its view disgrace does not consist,in being exposed, but_ in failing to tell a lie more deserving of exposure. From now until the election it may be expected that Mr. Lane’s evening organ will play Sapphira to his morn- ing organ's Ananias. There must be some people whose votes may be influenced by lying or these newspapers would not invest so much ink and ingenuity.in that work. But there are far more people who are repelled from a cause that requires such tactics and uses them, and these will only gird them with a stouter purpose to rebuke lying and | unfairness by going to the support of Mr. Crocker, who is the object of this whid campaign. The report of Bristow, the Fourth Assistant Postmaster | General, on the widespread and rampant frauds in our postal service covers space equal to eighty columns in an ordinary newspaper. And no one at all familiar with the facts under- lying the inquiry has had the courage to say that Bristow used an unnecessary word or needlessly sacrificed a repu- tation. When American office-holders are bad they are bad on a big scale. PR SO RRERA Russian newspapers are authority for the assertion that the Czar will probably attempt to secure from China a modi- fication of the treaty with the United States which insures to us an open door to Manchurian trade. Russian news- papers should give the Czar the credit of knowing enough of international Qolitics to understand thoroughly that there is a vast difference between Japan and the United States and that we have cultivated a habit of defending our own. AP TR, R I In a very short time one hundred young Filipinos will be among us to be educated at our various seats of learn- ing. Each will be given one thousand dollars a year by the Federal Government while the interesting process of edu- cation is in progress. We will thus have before us for some time living examples of how curiously the loaves and fishes are distributed by a paternal government, even our own. s : The attorneys that are having such a strenuous time of it striving to probe into the secrets of the shipbuilding trust have stumbled tipon a mysterious check for $250,000 which nobody will father, nobody wants and nobody will accept. It is strange that the lawyers have not accepted these facts as proof positive that when this check was issued the treas- ury of the ship‘nilding trust was empty. LT PNl A young Delaware farmer pleaded guilty the other day it will be an effort to move the fruit.” | ern counties will make as great a seasonal to a recent attack upon a Korean Prince who was basking in the favor of our hospitality. The young fellow's excuse was that he did not take kindly to the popularity of the Prince among American girls. It is difficult to understand why even a Korean Prince should be punished for the idiocy of some American females. ———— Efforts are being made, with some apparent success, to induce King Menelik of Abyssinia to grace the St. Louis Exposition with his presence. The promoters of the' scheme are evidently hoping that reports of the fearful ac- tivity of Judge Lynch in the Southern States are either unknown or discredited in the semi-savage kingdom of the great black man. r —_— [ Fifteen hundred sausage-makers of Chicago have gone on strike, and the rest of us tremble to think of what the professional funny men of Porkopolis will do now for their daily joke. An original witticism would probably be more serious to, the public than the strike. : A GREAT CITRUS CROP. HE Los Angeles Express estimates the new citrus Tcrop of Southern California, barring the frost or other contingencies, to exceed any heretofore grown and shipped from that section of the State by nearly 10,000 cars. “The crop,” it says, “may amount to 37,000 cars, and will exceed 35,000 cars.” Accepting this estimate upon such authority, the picturesque suggestion is afforded that if all the citrus fruits of the southern tier of counties were to be shipped on one train the imposing array of roll- ing stock necessary to cirry it overland would be on the basis of the lowest figure mentioned more than 300 miles long. “Estimated in money,” says the Express, “the addition will mean to the growers, shippers and the railroad com- | panies close to $5,000,000 mare money than has ever be- fore been circulated in local territory from citrus production.” The new season will soon begin. Early in November | the earlier fruit will be ready to be moved. The orangc-} growers are inquiring whether the transportation lines | have the requisite facilities for taking the crop promptly to market. answered at this time. At the Santa Fe headquarters in Los Angeles it is in- sisted that the situation is understood, that due prepara- tion has been made and that the crop movement will be uninterrupted. “At Southern Pacific headquarters those in authority are putting on a bold front, but they admit that It is estimated that from the beginning to the end of the season 135,000 cars will be required. They will be kept in active use. This announcement cannot fail to prove of great advertis- ing advantage to the resources and climate of Southern Cal- ifornia. The upper end of the State has the same climate. Oranges are grown successfully hundreds of miles north of San Francisco. Citrus culture has not been practiced as extensively in this part of the State as in the south, but the industry is constantly growing and already has large pro- portions. Very likely in a few years the central and north- aggregate of shipments of citrus fruits as the Express now forecasts for the south in the season at hand. The capacity of widely separated sections north of Tehachapi to produce fine and carly citrus fruit was demonstrated by the Thanksgiving | citrus fair that was held in this city. The southerners are not going to rely wholly upon im- posing citrus crop figures to attract the attention of the | world. They have planned to have an acre of growing orange trees displayed in-the grounds surrounding the Cali- fornia State building at the St. Louis Exposition. The | fruit | The Express says that the question cannot, 1:»:i | with a permit for keeping same. X Just Wanted Some Germs. She was a very tall, well preserved, finely dressed old woman. When she walked into the Emergency Hospital in the basement of the City Hall the at- | taches wondered who she was and what | she wanted. She carried:a very large ;sarrhel in her hand, and they surmised | that she was looking for seme one who, | they suspacted, she feared had been | brought in to the hospital for treatment. | “Could 1 see the doctor?" she inquired of the steward. “I am looking — The steward interrupted her and told | her the doctor was not in. “I am the | chief steward,” he sald. ‘Perhaps I will | do.” “Very well, indeed,” said the woman, smiling sweetly. *“Can I see you pri- vately?” “‘Certainly,"” the steward. “Step this way. Together they walked from the operat- ing-room to the corridor leading into the wards. The woman opened her satchel as she walked away and, turning to the steward when they were out of earshot of the other people in the room, said: “I am looking for some microbes. My house’'— Instantly the steward comprehended. The woman was insane. Stepping quickly to the barred door of a cell in the insane ward, he opened it and said: “Here is just what you want, madam. Just step inside and help yourself.” Unsuspectingly the woman stepped into the narrow cell. The door was banged to and locked, despite her frantic screams and efforts to force the door open. The next day she was sent to Agnews. Such cases are frequent at the hospital. —_————— Desired a Common Dear. answered The Fish Commission s frequently in receipt of ridiculous communications from people of the interior who have rather a vague idea of the functions of the bu- reau. A retired merchant from one of the hill towns, desiring to devote some of his spare time to the study of zoology. sent the following letter of inquiry to Chief Deputy Charles A. Vogelsang: “T am interested in natural history and want to get hold of a dear for scientific purposes. Do vou know where I can buy one? If so, get a good one for me and t in a box C. O. D., together express i et the common varietles will do. I will pay all expenses.” After pondering over the communication for some time Vogelsang dispatched the following reply: “Dears of all kinds are abundant in this neck of the woods, and if you are not particular as to color or breed I can eas- ily comply with your request. Most of trees will be taken on in tubs, some in flower and some |in a box by express: If you will agree to | assume the cost of perpetual maintenance in bearing, and placed at St. Louis without disturbing the roots, the tubs containing them being buried. This will | give the idea of a Southern California orange grove in ac- ‘ tual bearing and under the customary conditions As | oranges on trees from California ripened at Chicago, thcref is no reason to doubt that citrus fruits, care being taken to | wait for the planting of the tubs until the stormy spring | weather has passed in St. Louis, will mature fully before the eyes of the cosmopolitan gathering that will to the number of millions swarm about the St. Louis Exposition. The people of the south, as will be seen from these statements, have no more intention now than they ever had to hide their resources. They are not putting their light | under a bushel. ! B e A nurse in an Eastern city, desperately determined upon suicide, swallowed a tube of the culture of typhoid bacillus | a few days ago and lived to try self-destruction again. The t lady had evidently trained herself to such a degree of cold- bloodedness that it became an impossibility for hersto con- tract a fever under any circumstance NEVADA COUNTY MINES. HE Nevada City Transcript announces that “the in- T creased activity in mining circles and the constant influx of capable and representative mining men to Nevada County, with their capital, betoken the fact and give assurance that this section is shortly to experience a min- ing boom of great magnitude—perhaps greater than we ! have yet experienced.” Particularizing somewhat the Transcript asserts that, by reason of the demand for quartz properties, an un- usually large number of claims are under development in the county on which assessment work only has been performed previpusly. “Representatives of large capital have been exam- ining and inspecting two of the leading quartz mines in this locality, and negotiations have been entered into for buy- ing them. Several other properties that have not been worked for years have been examined within the past week and trial tests of ore have been so satisfactory that there is a strong probability that they will also soon pass into the hands of new owners.” It is also asserted by the Transcript that “never in the history of this district has there been such a growing de- mand for mining properties. While local owners of mines demand, and always obtain, a fair price from outside capi- talists, they have discarded the erroneous policy of some years ago, when they would double and treble the selling price whenever prospective buyers approached. Many moneyed men who are now investing their capital in this favored mining, section are causing almost unprecedented activity and are giving a stimulus to the mining industry of Nevada County, which is increasing daily and has every indication of developing into a veritable mining boom be- fore the advent of another summer.” ° There is room in California for all the gold mines that can be discovered. No one mine competes with another in the market. Each furnishes the treasure for the financial operations of the world, and there is always a demand for more. The Transeript vaunts the fact that Nevada County has for some years enjoyed the reputation of being “the banner gold-producing county of California,” and boasts that “it is not going to lose its laurels very soon.” There are always investors to engage in working gold mines where it can be shown that profits. will follow. them would object, however, to being sent | T will promise to send you a dear who will be useful, both for sclentific study and for housekeeping. [ am not author- ized by the laws of the State to issue such permits as you require, but you may get one from the County Clerk. I wouid re- spectfully request that my old friend, Rev. L— of your town, be employed to perform the ceremony. I await your re- ply with eagerness. ————————————— He Could Not Remember. An amusing little incident took place ne day last week on Mission street, where there was an amount of street re- pairing being done by a gang of work- men. It seems that owing to the absence of the regular foreman of the gang a very large colored gentleman of the hod and a very small son of the Emerald Isle had each taken it upon himself to substitute the absent boss. A dispute arose between the two, and it was finally decided that they hold deadly combat for honers, the victor to hold the exalted position of “boss."" Articleg of war were drawn up by the ebony warrior to the effect that the van- quished should cry “sufficient,” and then there should be no doubt as to the oth- er's rights to the laurels. The Irishman readily consented and hostilities were opened. For fully ten minutes did the colored gladiator rain blow after blow upon his unfortunate adversary, but listened in vain for the word “sufficient.” At last, entirely exhausted by his exer- tions, the colored glant desisted. Up jumped his small opponent, and after de- livering a series of blows with a dex- — P - sight teach him and his will impel him to be industrious. Civilization does not produce the habit- ual tramp or sturdy beggar. He exisis in ecivilization because it is* too falsely humane to compel him to werk or starve, as savagery does. And it is a perversion of philanthropy to hoid that the tramp, or any other human being. is entitled to any place in civilization other than what his will to work can achieve. Work is the law of life.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ————— — In Solid Comfort. I don’t keer ef it's winter Dat come ter take de town; "Taters in de ashes En de chillun settin’ round; En thankful fer de blessin’ De good Lawd rainin’ down! Atlanta Constitutiols —_—————————— Answer to Queries. PARKS-—Subscriber and Others, City. Following is the acreage of the prominent parks in the world: Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 2740 acres; Bois de Vin- cennes, 2075; Bois de Boulogne, 2000; Phoe- nix Park, 2000; Prater Gardens, Vienna, 1300; Golden Gate Park, 1004; Central Park, 862; Jackson Park, Chicago, ##; Eden Park, Cincinnati, 207; Forest Park, St Louis, 1370; Hyde Park with Kensington Gardens, London, 598; Regents Park, Lon- don, 472; Victoria Park, London, 30; Pros- Hall pect Park, Brooklyn, 515; Druids’ Park, Baitimore. 600: Thier Garten, lin, 200; the English Garden. Munich, 500 The Yellowstone Park contains 3575 square miles: North Park, in Colorado, 00 square miles; Middle Park. Colo., 3000 square miles; Estes Park, Colo., § miles long, 4 wide; South Park, Colo., 3 miles long. 10 miles wide, and San Luls Park, Colo., 18,000 square miles. PURCHASING PROPERTY—-A. R. 8, City. If a married woman has money in her own right she is at liberty to purchase property with it if she desires. If her hus band owns real estate in his own right, not community property, she can pur- chase it from him and when title passes the property is not Hable for debts of the husband, provided there was no fraud in the transaction. BAILMENT—Enq., City Baliment in law is distinguished from a sale in this, that if the.identical thing delivered is to be restored, though in an altered form, it is a ballment, but when the receiver is at liberty to return another thing of equal value it is a sale. In the second case. by delivery, the title passes, but in the first it is not. * SAVINGS BANKS-C. M., Hamilton, Nev. To ascertain the reliability of the different savings banks of the United States you would have to open a corre- spondence with the Bank Commissioners of each State. Or if you desire to know about any particular banks, the commer- clal agencies can furnish that informa- tion. TARANTULAS-E. N. W, Merced, Cal. Tarantulas may be preserved in pure alco- hol, and they may also be preserved by injecting into the body a small quantity of a strong solution of corrosive sublimate, a deadly polson which should be used with great care. The tarantula is spread out in the position it is desired and allowed to become sun dried. FISH COMMISSIONER-G. W. M., Ferndale, Cal. Any communication in- tended for Fish Commissioner A. Paila- terity that would astonish a French danc- ing master succeeded in calling forth from his adversary the welcome word “sufficlent.” The crowd that had formed a circle about the two duellists heard the Irish- man gasp: “Sufficient! Begorra! that's the wurrd Oi've been troyin' to think av fur the last hauf hour.” ——————— War Talk Everywhere. “Canon Barnett, preaching at St. Paul's Cathedral recently, reflected on the way in which many human relations had come to be expressed in war terms,” says a London paper. “There was strife between labor and capital-a big fight for the schools—a tariff war—a struggle for su- premacy. It was the noise of our own in- ternal battles which drowned the eries from the Balkans. He urged that the fighting spirit was impossible to any one who accepted the gospel teaching that power is on the side of love and gentle- ness. It was not for a preacher of Chris- tianity to take sides in any conflict, but he was bound to condemn everywhere ag- gressiveness—the spirit of arrogance and intolerance, the suspicion of others’ mo- tives, the greed of others’ gain and the desire for mastery. He concluded a pow- erful discourse by asking the great con- gregation before him how any one of them could dare to call Christ his Lord and master and then aet aggressively, adopt the fighting spirit, refuse his way as impracticable, his policy of giving gcod for evil as a poliey fit for slaves and his hope of peace on earth as stuff for dreamers.”" —_————— Making of Tramps. Lack of work does turn.men into tramps, but it does not keep them tramps. The man and the job cannot always keep Every mining investment is naturally a distinct proposition. Each property is separately scanned. Definite statements are made by the Transcript concerning the success that has attended the recent investment in Nevada County mines. 1 “Representative investors of the best class have sent their agents to buy promising mines, and they are meeting with great success. Out of all the numerous properties that have changed ownership of late there is not one that is not proving a wise and profitable investment.” If the outsiders can be convinced of the entire accuracy of these representations, after investigating, the induce- ment to buy Nevada County quartz ledges will be strong. The gold output of Nevada County in 1902 was $2,142,740. Calaveras was the second county in gold i | California, making a record of $2,070,000. - apart unless the man so wishes. The proof is the fact that thousands of men have been tramps and are so no longer. And these men did not owe their escape from tramphood to anything that any- body did for them. They owed it entirely to themselves. Taking his life through, the average tramp is such because he ‘wishes to be—because he falls into the delusion that it Is easier to beg and steal than to work. One of those economic lulls known as ‘‘hard times"” may have set him t::n“:m.:‘. But when this lull was over remain a tramp un he wished to. 35 The individual human life, like the elec- tric current, seeks the line of least resist- ance. All men are prone to take the line in life on which they ean travel with least effort. Man, like other animals, is natur- ally averse to exertion ~compelled by immediate necessity. other words, aman is naturally lazy unless his fore- dini will reach him if addressed to the Fish Commission, Mills building, San Francisco, Cal. McGOVERN—S,, City. The first record of a fight in which Terry McGovern was a principal is with Frank Barmes in 1897, when he won In ten rounds. THE GREAT EASTERN-Subscriber, City. The steamer Great Bastern was an iron vessel —_———— ‘An Athletic Cardinal. “Mgr. Merry del Val, whose appoint- ment to the post of papal secretary of state has just been announced, is the first oceupant of that post (which is virtually that of the Prime Minister of the papacy) who has achieved distinction as a football player, and who is abie to talk Englis without any trace of a foreign accent,” says the Marquise de Fontenoy. “He was not only born in England, but likewise received his early education at the Col lege of Stonyhurst, where he left a nam for himself in connection with his prowess in the football field. It is not his mother, but his grandmother, who was English, his mother having been, like himself, a Spaniard. ““The Merry del Vals have always been high in favor at the court of Madrid. one of them, indeed, having been the tutor of young King Alfonso, so that the present dynasty in Spain will, as long as the new papal secretary of state remains in office, be able to rely upon a continuance of that powerful support by the Vatican which it enjoyed throughout the reign of Leo XITIT. Mgr. Merry del Val has on several occa- sions visited the United States.. But it is difficult to speak with any degree of cer- tainty concerning his sentiments toward this country, since he cannot have re- mained indifferent to the strong protest on the part of a certain element of the American prelacy at the time when there was a talk of his appointment to the post of papal delegate at Washington. In- deed, his name was withdrawn in conse- quence of these objections.” e S— “Well, well!” exclaimed the wise guy at the county fair, as the sure-thing man raked in the old farmer's last cent and hurrielly disappeared. “Didn’t you know that fellow was a robber?" “But he ain't got nome th' best uv me hen!" rejoined the rural denizen. “I got every blamed cent uv that air monev from city boarders, b'gosh!"—Chicago News. —————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candis Som.. pound, in artistic fire- ds. 715 Market st.. above i Special information suppiied daily to e A nice present for Eastern