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- — — Motiwe Power of Water BY GEORGE FF ERICK WRIGHT, A M, LL.D. (Aughor of T The power sand. grave remarkable ¢ velocity make acc velocity stones of a et eers can rning the remove whi ways. The trs increases sixty-four doubiing of the - veiocits increase the d the | times, e in- pebble which it at first thougt theless ciate the duced by George Frederick Wright. urrent, he 7 by the par- that are they are rolled ak the stream gether 2 . The erosive power of a stream flowing . over g rocky bed is determined by its abil- ity to shove along gravel over its bottom. It is these par- ticles of eolid matter that accompligh the erosion, acting as a rasp, or more properly a sand blast, “the solld rock beneath the channel of a stream. In ¢ to do this, however, there has to be proper adjust- ment between the supply of loose solid . matter to be transported and the volume and vélocity of the water. If there is ‘more sand and gravel than the current can handie, this will accumulate upon the bottom and fill up rather than deepen the bed. If there is too little material the stream will flow .effecting much erosion, while if there is just the right amount of solid material to be shoved along it will deepen the chan- nel with great rapidity There are many striking examples of the work which has been accompiished by rivers in deepening and widening their channels. We look upon the rise of moun- tain chains as being most majestic fliustrations of the power of natural forces, but the fact is equally impressive that in many cases rivers which run across the line of mountain elevation are #ble o wear down their channels as fast @# the mountains rise, and thus maintain thelr anclent onward course. The Hudson River has thus sawed down a channel through the solid rocks which in ancient geologic times arose across its course at - West Point and below, all that pictur- esque valley of the Hudson being a valley of erosion. The Delaware River has worn an even more striking gorge through the Blue Ridge at the Delaware Water Gap, where it cuts directly across the very hard strata of Medina sandstone consti- tuting the Blue Ridge, forming perpendic- ular walls on either side 1000 feet In <helght. Simflar gorges are found in the Busquehanna and Potomac and many other rivers along the Appalachian chain just above where they emerge upon the surrounding lowland. We often speak of such rivers as “bursting” through their barrfer. But there was no bursting in the operation. These gorges were cut by the slow process which we have described, 1he rivers lowering their channels gradu- ally as the mountains siowing rose across them. 7 Among the most striking examples of rivers which have by erosion bottom of | and and pebbles and | or sandpaper, | over the rocks without | the vast prairie regions above and below. The Yenisei River has cut a similar gvr[e! across the granite mountain chain which | rose up to separate the fertile plains of | Minusinsk from the vaster plains of | Northern Siberia. . Coming to our own country, we have in | addition to the streams already men- | tioned gorges and canyons on a most im- ive scale in the upper part of the; River, where the east| branch cuts across the Allegheny Moun- tains south of the State of New York and forms the beautiful Wyoming Valley. | | which is wholly one of erosion. The west branch has likewise cut a gorge of equal | ensions fifty miles or more in length est of Williamsport, which is fully 1000 | feet in depth, as one can see by the fact that here the coal mines on either side are that distance above the bed of the stream and of the raflroad track. Coming to the other side of the Aliegheny Moun- tains one strikes into the various branches of the Ohio River and finds himself in a trench several hundred feet below the general level of the land and extending for more than 1000 miles in léngth until the river emerges into the center of the Mississippi Valley. The upper part of the | Missiesippi occupies a similar gorge for a still greater distance. Everywhere along this portion of their course on ascending her side of the rivers to the summit one will find himself upon a vast plain, ex- tending off in either direction, whose main superficial irregularities are those which Lave been produced by the erosion of the countless smaller str »s which joined together make the great rivers. 1Wonders of IIII?,‘"(I.‘! Body. BY W. R. C. LATSON. M. D, Editor Health Culture Magazine, New York.) The human bo the resuit of na- ture’s best effor through millions of vears to build a perfect mcchanism. A simple and beautiful fllustration of this is found the arrangem of the fibers which support the rounded ends of the long bones. In the femur, the long bone ¢ the upper leg. the strain upon the up- r end com every direction, because iy this portion of the leg sup- rt th tire weight of the body, but , being a ball and socket or “‘uni- int, the head of the bone must resist pressure In every direction. o AW st have been well on toward 1 hefore he began to use pipes d water from the or ho wonderful water, in varijous fluids, blood, lymph, b chyle, rspiration and so on, in constant fuctuation. Every ushin; paiin, iver—every laugh. yawn movemen ns a change in the wonderiul of the body. The Udes of the body—a volume might be And these tides, for through the medium written about them! y. size from the alimen- has a diameter of from ¢« and a length of ne to several i about thirty feet, to the smailest biood (known as capillaries, from thelr suppused rese! to a hair, aithough aptlla whire in a d network we will he body, triking of ail of all their , intestin , perspiration, are all el d and man out of the bloud by eans of cc one of which is a minute filter. most wonderful thing about th after all, not their number or minute size, but fuct that they ring filters, wide awake and inte! ch knows what it wants and takes up their ie these tiny filter cells combine, semselves side by side and form- called a gland. These glands thick net- work of fine b'ood tubes (caplilaries) just described, out of which the collection of | fiiter celis, called a gland, selects the ele- ments it needs to produce the particular fiuld required. These glands are infinite- Iy numerous and vary in sige from those | too small to be seen with the naked eye up to the liver, the largest gland in the which is about a foot long and. s four pounds. The glands are very ing and important and will be giv- apter to themseives later g Other interesting mechanical devices of the body are the bellows and the camera. The former is found in the lungs, or rather in the action of the trunk, which permits the operation of the lungs. The chest, like the bellows, tends always to return to the collapsed condition. The muscles, however, which are attached to | the ribs and to other fixed parts above | them, have an action which forces them upward and farther apart, and thereby | increases the capacity of the chest cav- ity. This increase of the size of the chest causes the air to rush in, and thus | the lungs are filled. i The eyeball corresponds most perfectly | to the darkroom of a camera, and the eye to the sensitive plate. The resem- blance is complete, even to the inversion | of the image. It is not generally known perhaps that the image thrown on the retina of the eye, llke the image which | the photographer sees when he ducks un- | der the black cloth, is upside down. Yet ! in reality everybody sees everything up—” side down. This matter will be more fully discussed In an article on vision. Meantime we may mention that many of the most ingenious attachments invented for the camera are merely clumsy varid- tions of nature's heautiful devices install- ed many miilions of years ago in the vis- ual apparatus of the animal. s ANy Of the body as a commonwealth, of its marvelous water way, Its irrigation sy tem, its fluctuating tides, its musical 1 struments, its rhythms and its w: all these will furnish texts for future ar- ticies. Thus far we have merely taken 2 quick glance at a few of the countless wonders of the human body. Notes From St. Louis. - The United States fisheries bufldi the World's Fair at St. Louls is fln;l:h.‘.t Mr. Snyder, the represen United States Fish h 2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CM SATURDAY, THE SAN FRANCI OCTOBER 31, 1903. SCO CALL Manager JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Publication OFffice.......uuuueirrrnsns o g .Third and Market Streets, S. F. SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 1903 A SOLEMN DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP. ITHIN the last few days the political atmosphere of San Francisco, \}'ll_ich for weeks has been clouded by false issues, absurd pretensions and the babel of conflicting pleas and as- pirations, common sense, his analysis of the events which have fessional heelers, pendent upon good government, safe administration and the proper, economical expenditure of publici moneys. In the triangular fight for Mayor one fact cannot be gainsaid. | him inevitably the correct course to pursue at the polls. . ; the pitiable, slanders of the chickadee newspapers fortunately count for nothing with | the mechanic who wishes well for his city and with the merchant whose prosperity is absolutely de- has cleared. 1t is well for the voter that now his own good judgment, his own been agitating the city, point out to The cries of partisans, the buncombe of pro- It stares at the intelligent voter in every sign of the campaign. It speaks in the records of public meetings and in the opinions of men who place the welfare of their city above petty partisanship. It is told in the movement and fluctuation of parties and in the changes in party affiliations. It is plain beyond dispute to every This fact is pre-eminently that Franklin K. Lane is hopelessly third in the Mayor- ! enough to observe. one having interest alty contest and cannot by any stretch of sympathy or imagination be considered a factor in the race. Every vote cast for him is a vote wasted. Every vote for h Every ballot given in compliment to him is a trifling with serions issues ernment. 1 is negatively a vote against good gov- andea jeopardy to the proper administration of San Francisco and its affairs. Every voter who has at heart the best interests of his city, who wishes to see it prosperous and vrogressive, who wishes to see workingmen employed and well paid and merchants successful in their undertakings, who desires a moral, healthful, businesslike conduct of public affairs, must silence senti-| ment and accept conditions. He must recognize that in this campaign the Mayor counts for much as the representative of policies and principles and as their active administrator in office. The voter. then, in duty bound must cast his hallot for him who has naturally the best chance | its in himself and in his personal and party following the better elements of 1 and civic life. It is plain, therefore, to every one that Franklin K. Lane cannot win, and that | Crocker can. A vote for Lane is a wasted endeavor, whatever its motive, and a vote for | Crocleer is a distinet, material contribution to the cause of a growing, healthful, progressive city. This, to win and who represe politi Henry is palpable to every sober-minded observer. It is { of Crocker 1 that where ain that the natural partisan support of Lane is divided beyond hope of union, while that enthusiastic, rational, systematic and thoroughly organized in united front. While a vote | for Lane does not figure positively in the Mayoralty contest, one for Crocker contributes to a result, ! that result should be the intimate concern of every well-meaning citizen of San Francisco. Those! ve foilowed the progress of the campaign have noticed, if they have noticed anything, that J.ane was received a year ago with acclamations and every demonstration of sympathy and sup-| port he is now greeted with jeers, insults and repudiation that has bordered on personal violence. Wherever he has gone to this, his natural following, he has done so at the hazard of new indignities. On the other hand, Crocker has entered even this stronghold, that was a year ago Lane's and is | and has met with sueh marked encouragement as to hold forth every indication of material ! \gain, to enforce doubly this condition, Crocker stands at the head of a united party | which has been cleansed of its parasites. His long career as a man of business and a merchant has \von; im the emphatic, non-partisan indorsement of men whose only partisanship in municipal politics is an insistent demand for a clean, honest, economical and businesslike administration. any question to the voter of what to do? On the one hand a vote is wasted and great interests are, -dized. On the other the cause of heaithy city government is indorsed and supported and aid is now divided, support irom ar Can there be, then, given to the restoration of the city’s good name. Itis before the voters to choose. HERE is no doubt thet the peoplg of the North look T with a degree of compiacency upon suppression of the negro vote in the South. The constitutions of the Southern States which have been so amended as to strike down the franchise that is conferred upon negroes the fiteenth amendment all make a remote provision cctoral rights of negroes in the future, based upon by jor the an educational qualificatio: ise, however, consists in giving free and ample cducational advantages to the young of that race. It is plain that, with the ballot to protect him, the negro can secure for himself the opportunity of education. But without the ballot he must look to the white voters for educational privileges. What he may expect in the matter is shown by recent events in Mississipy In that State a Governor has been chosen upon the issue that the white people will permit oniy the taxes paid by negroes to be devoted to schools for that race, and that the expenditure of such taxes for that purpose il be wholly in' the hands of thie whites. This limitation and segregation of the school fund is de- structive of the purpose of the free, common school sys- tem. No onc will reasonably expect that even the taxes paid Di. custom, or by taking advantage of the weakness or ignor- ance of its victim, the thirteenth amendment is violated. The fonrteenth amendment was likewise made necessary by the Civil. War and its result. Tt makes all persons born or naturalized in this country citizens of thé United Si and of the State wherein they reside, and forbids the abridg- ment of their rights as human beings, and deprivation of life, liberty or property, without due process of law. Many Republican leaders and wisc men devoted to the The merit of this vague prom- | maintenance of the Union and of the rights of man have admitted that the fiiteenth amcndenent differs from other two. The thirteenth amendment declared in force December 18, 1865, before the disbanding of the Union armies had been completed. The fourteenth was put in force July =8, 1868, three years aiter the close of the war, but aiter its necessity, as supplemental to the thirteenth amendment. had become clear. But the fifteenth amend- maent, the enfranchising clause, did not become a part of the constitution until March 30, 1870. As we have said, many wise men admit that in its adoption was the element of a partisan necessity. While history leaves no doubt that before the war was half over its secondary purpose was revealed to be the destruction of sfavery, at no time was negro enfranchisement one of its objects. That came later, the was TALK OF THE TI OWN - “Quarts” Billings Talks. | Down in one of the hotels on lower | Kearny street, where every old miner who comes to town to spend his “‘wad” sits around the checker table and min- gles yarns with his chewing tobacco, old “Quartz” Billings of Tonopah was de- claiming against the peculiarities of Ne- vada justice the other night. ! ‘“There was that row of the Ragtown | miikmen to prove that there ain't enough | justice In that State to put in your eye,” quoth Quartz, accurately flooding a fly at ten feet range. Now, there was Smoky | Watson, who kinder ‘spicioned Yaller Dick—I disremember his last name—of milkin’ the cows belongin’ to him and | sellin’ the milk after skimmin' off the }rrnm to feed his bullpups with. Smoky didn’t mind the stealin’ of the milk so | much as hé did the feedin’ of the cream | to Yaller Dick’s bull pups; but afyway he had “Yaller Dick arrested. “Well, they got a jury together before {0 Tribunal in Washoe City. The evi- i dence that cum in in that case was | enough to string forty horse thieves, but | the meost of it showed that Yaller Dick’'s | wife did most of the milkin’ of Smoky's cows, so the jury came in and found Yal- | ler Dick guilty of milkin’ a cow in the | second degree. | “The Jedge he couldn't find a punish- ! ment to fit the milkin’ of a cow Iu the | second_degree. and he wore out the town dicshunary lookin’ for one, so Yaller Dick | went free and jestice was beaten agin. { “And then there was the case of the fel- { ler that killed and et up Bueno to Hell's !calf. Bueno to Hell was purty fond of that calf, and when he found its hide hangin’ in a big greaser's cabin he bought up the Sheriff’s office and had the greaser landed in the caliboose. Well, that greas- er certaintly put up a good case of self- defense. “He sald he was workin' in a tunnel, and he was drivin’ in the side of a hill when he looked up into the face of that { calf. The tunnel was so narrow the calf ! couldn’t turn round, and it had the string- halt and couldn’t baek up. The greaser sald he tried to get over and around the calf, but he couldn’t make it, and the| critter wouldn't lie down. So he took a pick and dug his way through the calf to liberty. “The jedge didn't belleve tha story, and | told the greaser to go and bring the tun nel_into court as an exhibit. - Well, the| greaser hit out, and some say he pulled | the tunnel in after him: but anyway he ain't been seen since, no more'n has the | { man that got took in at that busted min- | iin" camp Excelsior, about who Charley Goodwin wrote: * “The last of him that was ever seen Was at Huffaker's drinking nitro-glycerin.' " | The Sleeper in the Dark. “I won't wake the poor devil up. I'll just shove his. feet off the sidewalk tnto the doorway and let him have his sleep out.” Thus soliloquized a big, buriy police of- | ficer out on Laguna street the other night as he stood over the figure of a man that was stretched out on the pavement. | Btooping, he grasped the ankles of the sleeper and carelessiy swung the out- stretched legs into the doorway. ‘An hour later he passed the spot again.. The sleeper was still there. The officer lcoked at his watch and noted that it was after 3. “I'll have to get him out of here before the sergeant shows up,” he mut- tered 11 give him a half hour more to snooze. Thirty minutes later the good-natured officer again stood over the figure in the doorway. ‘“‘Here, old man,” he said, not unkindly, “time’s up. Hike out of this. Not a move came in response to the of- ficer's words. Startled, he took a match from his pocket and struck it on the wall One glance at the face in the doorway he took and then straightened up. “He has had his sleep out, all right,” he softly said as he walked over to the call box. “Send the dead wagon to Pine and Laguna” was the message he sent. An Oriental Rebuke. Wong Kai Kah, commissioner for China to the St. Louis Exposition, administered to his fellow passengers on the liner which brought him to San Francisco a jesson which few of them will forget. Highly educated, occidentalized and de- lightfully companionable, the comnis- sloner was the star passenger and high tavorite before the Hongkong Maru en- tered the Golden Gate. For the first few days of the passage, however, his time | ’ E3 - gles were made to fit very closely, and Mr. Glampee displayed muech skill in buflding it. The cover was varnished the same as the balance of the coffin. When the time came for putting the mortal frame of Mr. Glampee into his self-made home, it was found that the coffin_was several inches too short. But it wa# re- called that that was the way its bullder had intended it should be. And, in ac- cordance with his request, his body was placed in the coffin with his feet protrud- ing out at the bottom end.” Italian King's Stmplicity. “One great source of the popular sym- pathy enjoyed by King Victor Emmanuel is his complete absence of vanity, in which he again presents a striking con- trast to his friend, the Emperor Willlam," says a Paris correspondent of the London Times. “On a certaln festive occasion, in reply to a pompous and florid discourse by ona of his Ministers, the King, instead of a regular speech in the same style, content- ed himself with a warm shake of the hand and a ‘Thank you,’ to the scandal and dismay of the court. In concert with the Queen, he suppressed ‘le ridicule quadrille d’honneur” at the court balls, and thus relieved a number of gouty and decrepit celebrities of the necessity of taking a turn on the floor with Princesses and ladies of honor. Victor Emmanuel considered that to be an absurd and hu- miliating spectacle and abolished it. His taste for the automobile affords him op- portunities of avoiding tedious and ex- pensive official receptions. He is opposed to all state parade, and has quite ex- cluded it from his private life. He loves solitude and tranquillity and speaks of his island retreat of Monte Cristo—a s0i- itude suspended between sea and sky—as his moral sanitarium.’” No More Waste of Powder. \ccording to English naval reports Ad- miral Sir John Fisher, the new naval com- mander in chief and Governor of Ports- mouth, who is regarded in naval circles ir Eurgpe as among the most eminent of the English raval commanders of the present day, has introduced a reform at Fortsmouth which might be copled with advantage both in this country and abroad. He has issued an order abolish- ing three-fourths of the salutes custom ary in the service. Every warship arsiv- ing at Spithead until now, even if oniy for a stay of a few hours, has been com- pelled to salute the flag of the commander in chief with a number of guns, the sa- lute being acknowledged In the same man. ner. In future visiting ships are not to fire salutes. The captains are, as hereto- fore, required to pay their respects to the admiral, but Sir John Fisher does not want any mofe of what the renowned Mr. Mantalini would describe as “dem’d non- sense”” in the form of salutes of some twenty-four guns. Of course, this order only applies to English ships. But it would be a great advantage if other nations were to adopt the reform as well, as a large amount of money Is wasted each year in these salutes. Smoking in Sunday-School. (At Wellington, Somerset, not long ago, boys were induced to come to Sunday-school by bribes of cigarettes and tobacco. On certain of ";'! lch’nhl' this is said to Pave had disastrous effects. Oh, teacher, I'm so havpy In my little Sunday-sehool: For my pipe is drawing nicely, And the mixture's smoking cool. And I find it very pleasaat Just to sit_here blowing rings, by the negroes will be so used by the whites as to produce | in response to a supposed political necessity. But, notwith- what they should of proper school facilities. If the power | standing that. there was in the fifteenth amendment a exist to so limit the endowment of public schools for | higher purpese than partisan interest. There were those who | was taken up with his own affairs and his fellow travelers saw little of him. Wong dresses in Chinese garb. To the average Anglo-faxon all Chinese look ‘While you give us your reflections On the Babylonian kings. On a morning in October T resolved to change my ways, negroes, it also exists to permit a limitation of the use of the poor facilitics that will be provided. It will be seen that under such circumstances the promise that the ballot shall be the prize of intelligence and education is of but | little value. useless. Already other aggressions are appearing in the train of those constitutions which nullify the fifteenth amend- ment. It is in human. nature to get something for nothing, advocated it as necessary to the negro for the preservation of his freedom. ‘Let the South beware of proving that they were right. Let the South beware of proving to the North that nullification of the fiftcenth amendment is not It may, as a legal proposition, validate the | for the purpose of saving white people from negro rule, | ! constitutions of which it is a part, but practically it will be but is ior the purpose of returning negroes to slavery. et s o7 ncrncn Purely by accident it has been discovered that the Mace- donian Committee thought very seriously recently of ki naping an American millionaire, then resident in the land and in no direction is thic disposition more plainly mani- | of thievery and assassination, and holding him for ransom fested than in the desire of man to own his fellow man, or to get the bencfit of his labor without compensation. In South Carolina and Alabama, it is revealed by judicial pro- ceedings tiat negroes in large numbers have been reduced to involuntary servitude. The process is cloaked under various pretenses, usually being considered as the satisfac- {ion of an execution for debt. But, under whatever excuse it flourishes, it is practically the reduction of the negroes to a condition of slavery. It is now announced that this system is generally prevalent in Louisiana,’ and in the parish of Onachita it has been under investigation by the Federal authorities, and the courts of the United States are appealed to for its suppression. s 1 The people of the North are apparently willing to see the fifteenth amendment fall into disuse, though even the Democratic State convention of Massachusetts protests by the Government at Washington. In their splendid projecis of outrage and murder the Macedonians should ; Jearn something of Amierican politics. We think very much of our missionaries and very little of our millionaires. have only one Miss Stone and scores of Cranes. b L SRR The wealthy owner of a Tucson hotel looked too long upon tanglefoot the other day and in true Arizonan style proceeded to “shoot up” the establishment, frightening women into hysteries, driving men to the tall trees and sending his loving spouse to cover in the cellar. His esca- pade is like the flavor of old wine, reviving in memory that splendid touch of local color for which Arizona once was famous and unique. ot Some of the hysterical newspapers published for the against its repeal. Buf between the disuse of that amend- | patronage of our Canadian friends are fearful that in our ment and censequent suppression of the negro vote, and | greed of conquest we may set designing eyes upon Green- the denial of schooling and his re-enslavement, there is a | land and annex it to our expanding and glorious republic. | wide guli. The Northern sentiment, which listens approvingly to Senator Tillman's diatribes against the political equality and domination of the negro, and believes that white minorities should not be governed by black majorities, will not be found indifferent to this recrudes- cence of slavery. The thirteenth and fourteenth amend- ments were made necessary by the result of the Civil War. To have won in that struggle and then to have written no new authority into the Federal constitution would have made the war an inconsequential folly, a useless sacrifice, a mighty effort without excuse for its beginning and with- out glory at its close. So the thirteenth amendment was incorporated, providing that: “Neither slavery nor invol- untary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any jurisdiction.” place subject to their 4 | those rare examples of heroism in which we ail take pride. k¥ due of Hissesvice g Let the alarmists still their fears. We won't need Green- land until we discover the north pole, and then we may make it a way station for our airships on the journey north : PARGE L s Invalid bonds, mysterious fatherless notes, gold bricks, dodging directors, crooked officials, gross impositions upon the public, and dishonesty, special and specific, have char- acterized the revelations in the investigation of the ship- building trust. A few exhibits in convict stripes and the occasional entry of a new arrival at a penitentiary would complete the picture and preserve the unities. G > e ——— The unfortunate case of the physician of Des Moines ‘who, in his endeavor to save the life of a child, inoculated himself with a deadly poison, presents to Americans one of death be their We | alike and such passengers as addressed him did so through the medium of that curious abomination known as “pidgin” English. “Watch me jolly the haughty Chink,"” said a man from New York one bright forenoon. As Wong approached the group in which the speaker was sitting the New York man advanced and in a loud voice ‘When you caught me, teacher, naj You chased me many days. For you whispered to me gently, As in vain I strove to pass. “I have smokes for little children Who attend their Seripture class.” Oh. teacher, I'm—excuse e For a moment, if_vou wiil; I am feeling shghtly—botne Why won't the floor keep still? The bemeh on which I'm sitting opings waid: “*Washee maller, Wong, old man? Belly muchee hot. Allee time no bleeze. Bime- by you and I go bottom-side, take one iecee long gin fizzee.” Laying & hand on the shoulder of his misguided, would-be host but ordained vietim, Wong, speaking without a trace of foreign accent, delivered himself in a loud voice as follows: “My dear sir,| have heard a great deal ! about ‘pidgin’ English. When at school in Hartford, Conn., however, where I be- gan the study of botany and philosophl- cal subjects, [ came to the conclusion it was impracticable. At Harvard and And- over 1 found no use for it and in China my own langauge serves me passing well. Under the circumstances, my time being ! gtherwise fuily, and, I think, more profit- | ably occupied. I never acquired what I \ understand to be an amusing but not very intellectual form of patois. I do not un- derstand ‘pidgin’ Engiish, sir. I' wish you would not use it in addressing me. If French, German or Spanish, or even Latin, Greek or Hebrew would suit you better than the English I prefer to speak, 1 could manage to follow the thread of your discourse. But no ‘pidgin’ English. Cut that out, sir.” The New Yorker that night paid for much cold wine and Wong Kai Kah, the vindicated, proved himself a good fellow by joining in the festivities and demon- ! efrated his occidentalization by proposing the famous navy toast: “To our wives and sweethearts. May they never meet.” ‘Builds Unusual Coffin. ! Says an exchange: “A German who | died in Missour! recently was buried in a remarkable coffin. He was a very eccen- tric old fellow, Lome time ago be fenced i % Beems as frisky as a lamb. Am I—am I going—going Am I going to—yes, I AM! —London Globe. Answers to Queries. UNITED STATES TREASURY—J. O, City. The assets of the United States ;r‘r.n_-ru'ry December 31, 1893, were $308,788,- elve months later th, 782,754,950, e amount was PAJARO VALLEY—Stranger, Oakland, Cal. Pajaro Valley in Santa Cruz County ‘was so named by Father Junipero Serra, who discovered it in 17680, The name means bird valley, CRIBBAGE—Subscriber, City. It is an old time rule of cribbage that should either party neglect to play when he can in, under thirty-one; his adversary may mark two hole: EGGLESTON—E. C, J., City. The ad- dress of Edward Eggleston, the writer, is_in summer Joshuas Rock on Lake George, New York: in winter Century Club, New York City. OOPS—F. E. G., City. From the re- port of the adjutant’s office, Washing- ton .D. C., it appears that the troops sent to the Philippines prior to July 18, 1902, was 4135 officers and 123,508 men. THREE PER CENT—W. H., Thoreau, N. M. June 13, 1888, the Secretary of the United States Treasury was authorized to issue not to exceed $100,000.000 of cer- tificates of indebtedness to. bear interest not to exceed 3 per cent per annum, not exceeding one vear from date of Issue. He was also authorized to issue 3 per cent bonds not to exceed $400.000,000, re- deemable in ten years and payable in twenty vears, the proceeds to be used only to meet the anticfpated war expen- diture. The funded loan of 1891 at 4% per cent was continued at 2 per cenmt. —_——— ‘The nigger in the woodpile isn’t a mark- er to the tarantula in the bananas.- Port- land Oregonian. .