The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1903, Page 30

30 INSTRUCT IVE ,J‘TUD + | —_— | A Cuban Adventure. BY HON. (Ex-Julge of WAUHOPE LYNN. ! First District Court of New | ) | This story does not deal with any ex- | perience of mine as Judge or states-| of a pericd of my life when ypung-and oung—a nexperienced lawyer. | d T been less young and less inex- | ced I would not have risked my foothold at the New | pting an invitation m ther to spend an plantation. Jown by overw.rk, A could wrestle more | with the problem of snatch- | rtune from a profession | 4 if 1 could first| nd complete rest. newly acquired overcrow¢ So, early in vember of a certain | year farther b n I care to re- member, T 1 self a welcome and | a decidedly happy guest at one of the finest plantations on the Cuban coast. | The whole lace was like fairyland | York eyes—a dreamy, laz_\',‘ colored fairyland. For weeks I amused myself loafing about, toms, exploring the | g on the broad waters of | »d and sparkled at | f the cliff on which the e was built. | was the nearness and the water, I was i ly by my host ne By he first broa is an ideal fact that, despite | ious warmth of | ed most urgent- | T go swimming. | I asked him, when | d the subject. “That | of water for bathing, | hat fun it will be to | nds at home, who are | under the advance of | them I swim in the n every day in November.” I'm sorry,” he replied courteously, “to deprive you of any pleasure, and | r to rob you of the de- | crowing over your Gotham But I'm afraid you might not | live to record that swim.” { Being, as I have said, very young, | and being, moreover, strongly possessed | of the legal spirit of investigation, I| pressed him to explain | “We don't like to speak of it around | here,” he said at length, “because it is | & tragic subject to more than one of | us. Have you heard the native negroes or the Spaniards about here mention el more espe light of friends after a moment’s | thought; “passing by the quarters last | night I heard a negro mother ‘telling | her baby that unless it stopped crying | ‘el lobo marino’ would catch him. My | Spanish is still a bit rusty, but, ‘el| lobo marino’ should mean the ‘sea wolf.’ 1 supposed it was some local bugaboo when she said it.” ‘It is not,” answered my host grave- “It is a shark.” “I thought tiburon was the Spanish word for shark,” I said. “It is,” replied he. “It's the generic name for shark. But the shark which has made this bay a terror to swim- mers has the local nickname of el lobo marino. Sometimes he is spoken of as el calamidad del mar (the scourge of the sea). He it is that keeps our beau- tiful bay free of bathers.” “How large is he?” I asked, curiously. “All sorts of reports are abroad as to his size,” responded the narrator. “Per- sonally I've seen him but once. From that one quick glance I should say he must have been close to twenty feet long.” “But,” 1 protested, “I've always heard sharks don’t molest men. They say the theory that sharks are man-eaters is just an old superstitution invented by sallors, and that sharks only feed on dead bodies.” “They say s0, do they?” retorted my host; “then ‘they’ couldn’t have been with me in my yawl when my best fisherman, Andrea, fell overboard. There was & rush through the water and T caught just one fleeting glimpse of the monster as it dragged him under. He never came up. There are a dozen other men along this bay who can tell you similar stories of el lobo marino. That is why I beg you not to swim in these waters.” For at least a day I was greatly im- pressed by what I had heard. Then I began to experience a longing to get one glimpse of this dreaded monster. While I could not doubt my host's word, yet I felt the stories concerning the huge shark must in some way have been exaggerated. . I caught myself floating along the bay’s surface by the hour, in my boat, leaning far over the gunwale to scan the perfectly clear depth beneath me for. some trace of “el lobo.” In northern latitudes, no matter how clear the water may be, the human eye can seldom penetrate it more than a few feet. But along Cuba's coast, in many places where coral formation is most prominent, a man can look down from his boat through three fathoms of crystal-clear water and discern every object lying on the gleaming white coral sands below. ly. | swim; | seen enough sharks to know their un- | | he hid himself behind a mass of inky fluid, drawing his body and arms up into a compact ball. Still no “lobo,” and at last I decided | he was a myth. ! One morning I rowed around the point a half mile beyond the house and | anchored to a tiny coral reef that rose | to about twelve inches below the sur- | face a quarter of a mile from shore. ! From there I cast my line and| watched the baited hook sink slowly through the clear water. This was | my favorite fishing ground. Yet to- | day I cast for a solid hour without | getting a single bite. { The tide meantime was running out. | At last my rock rose above the aurlsce‘ of the water. I decided to row home. | On pulling up the anchor, however, X? found one of the flukes was entangled | in a jutting bit of rock a foot or two | below the surface. I could not reach it, | so I stepped out of the boat on the| rock, and plunging my hands into the water, disengaged the anchor and lifted it back intc the boat. A light breeze | was blowing, and as I was wiping the | water from my hands I did not notice | that the boat was slowly drifting away. | By the time I turned to step aboard it ! was at least ten feet distant. I watched | it recede with more amusement than | chagrin. I had longed for a chance to! vet I had not wished to go! counter to my host's request. But under circumstances like these he sure- Iy could not object to my rescuing his ! boat before the tide bore it off to sea. | 1 disrobed quickly and laid my clothes on the rock, meaning to swim | to the boat, climb aboard and then row | back for my garments. At last I was ready. The boat was nearly a hundred yards away by this time. Reveling in the prospect of aj plunge in those cool waters on so warm a day, I drew in a deep breath and| dived off the reef. Down, down, I went, far below the surface, until I had al-| most descended to the coral sands that | carpeted the bottom of the bay. Then | I struck out, swimming under water | in the direction I knew my boat had taken. It was a delicious sensation to | feel the cool caress of the crystal clear | water, to have made myself part of that marvelous submarine world. On and on I swam. At last I looked oblong shadow lay athwart the glittering white sands, al- most directly above me. “I must have swum farther than I| imagined,” thought I, “to have reached my boat by this time.” The next moment I felt as though the waters about me had turned to ice. | For it was no boat that swung idly above me, but an encrmous fish! I can shut my eyes and see him now —the white underside, the tremendous | expanse from the snubbed oval head to | the faintly quivering tail. And it turns | me half sick to recall it. | It was undoubtedly “el lobo.” I had | mistakable shape. And this fish was a shark, but far larger than any other shark I had ever seen. I did a lifetime of thinking in the next ten seconds. He had not yet seen me, for he was facing in the same di- | rection as I, and I was not yet quite | up to him. | I had a general idea where the boat should be, and I swam for it with all my strength, still keeping close to the bottom of the bay, and making a de- tour to avoid the shark’s eye. I swam hard, putting into every stroke all the power and speed of which I was the master. My heart throbbed like a trip hammer and I could feel the blood banging against my temples. | Moreover, it was growing momentarily | harder to keep from breathing. My lungs ached and burned and my chest | seemed bursting. Still I swam on, not | daring to rise to the surface, until I should be far out of the shark’s line of | vision. Finggly I looked up once more. A short distance ahead of me I could see the shadow cast of my boat. But, the same instant, my blood turned cold again. For, still almost directly above ! me, hung the shark. That he had not seen me I was sure. At first I fancied I had made no real progress at all, but was still where I had first seen the monster. Theh th truth dawned on me. The shark had | seen the boat and was creeping gradu- | ally up to it; perhaps in the hope that some one might fall overboard; perhaps merely for such food as a fisherman might toss into the sea from his lunch | basket. He and I had been swimming at the same rate of speed toward the | same object. | I was no more secure from him than | 1 had been before. And my lungs were | paining me horribly. Perhaps he had | loitered thus about my host's boat the | time the luckless Andrea fell over- board. With a last effort I took a half- dozen [ rapid strokes forward that brought me under the boat and a yard or two beyond it. Then, driving my feet into_the sand and putting all my remaining strength into the movement, I sprang upward toward the surface. Before I reached the upper air the shark saw me. The shadow of the boat, luckily, veiled me until T was nearly at the top; otherwise I might not now be writing this. He rushed forward, displacing the water and rocking the boat. That was my last submarine view of him, for the next instant my head was above water. I drew in a big breath and swam for the boat, which was barely six feet away. I splashed as hard as I could, churning up the water in hopes of frightening the monster. He reached the spot where I\ had risen, then wheeled and, turning on his side, struck again for me. I was hauling. myself over the gunwale of the boat as he | operation for nearly eighteen months and the effect is seen | docer. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBEK 22, 1903, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . . . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office.....ceceeecaccsson .............‘e,............. «+...Third and Market Streets, S. F. NOVEMBER 22, 1903 THE PACKING COMBINE. SUNDAY HE suits instituted by President Roosevelt against T the meat combine have been won by the Government in the lower courts and are pending on appeal. The revelations of the trial have roused the livestock interests of the country to take defensive measures that will reinforce the law and that will protect the producer even if the law in s present condition fail. The case of the livestock growers is on all fours with that of the fruit growers of California that is now under investi- gation by the State Board of Trade. The price of meat to the consumer is high, while the price paid by the slaughter and packing houses to the producer is low. The producer wants both to be governed by the natural law of supply and demand to the end that the man who sells meat on foot and the one who buys it on the block may have their natural rights. At present the combined packers meet every day and fix the next day's price for livestock. This is done irrespective of supply and demand. This system has been in in a comparison of prices. Just before it began No, 1 beef on the hoof sold in Chicago for $7 50 to $8 65 per 100. To- day the same quality brings only $3 85 to $4 50 per 100, making a difference of about $30 per head ‘on animals of 1000 pounds weight. In the case of hogs the decline is $4 50 per head and the decline in mutton sheep is proportional. Applied to the total of livestock marketed under these artificial prices the loss to the livestock growers amounts to $865,000,000, or equal to one-fourth the value of all the livestock in the United States. If this enormous sum had been saved to the consumers of meat in the form of reduced price on the block a national economy would have been effected. But instead of carrying the reduction forward to the consumer the price of meats, fresh and cured, has remained the same, and what the producer has lost has been pocketed by the middlemen. ? This squeeze has moved the livestock interest to action. The loss of $30 on every steer represents the loss of the grower’s profits. How to save something for himself is the problem. Its solution will be found in restoring competi- tion to the market and the renewal of natural relations be- tween the producer and consumer. To this end the livestock men of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indian Terri- tory, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming have organized and capitalized an independent packing company, officered by men experienced in the slaughtering and packing business. Its operations will reach from the producer to the consumer and will bring them into the right relation. This company will buy, cut and dis- tribute meat to the retailers of the whole country and will force the existing combine to deal fairly with both ends of the market. With the interstate commerce law enforced transportation facilities must be equal, and so there can be no rebates to shut the new company out of a market. In this system there seems to be a suggestion to the fruit growers of this State. No one desires to oppress or to elim- inate the middleman as a distributer of products. He is a necessary factor, but when his greed is unrestrained he be- comes the oppressor, of producer and consumer alike. With- out going to the extent of organizing a distinct distributing agency a thorough organization of the fruit growers could demand the presence of its own trusted agents in the dis- tributing centers to oversee the processes of transferring fruit from the commission firms to the retailer. Honest and expert men in such a position could easily stop the practices which now seem to arrest the profits that are in the price paid by the consumer and prevent them reaching the pro- It will certainly pay all the producers of raw food stuff and of fibers in this country to watch the effort of the live- stock men to protect themselves and apply its methods to their own industry. It is a trite.saying that the prosperity of the country depends upon the soil and upon those whose labor brings from it the great staples which constitute the necessaries of life. The position of such producers is pe- culiar. The manufacturer or the merchant or professional man can quit. He can readily change his occupation. But it is not so with the man who is tied to the soil. Production is with him in a large measure compulsory. He can neither quit nor change. When production loses profit the loss goes back to the value of his land and he cannot sell it and get enough to carry him over into some other bread- winning occupation. Sc he has to stay with the soil and part with his surplus for whatever the middleman chooses to give him. The position of the consumer is the same. He must exist, and while he may limit his consumption of the necessaries of life he must have them, for it is compulsory. This ena- }blcs the exploitation of producer and consumer and both | classes are interested in controlling the cupidity of the class that stands between them. B —— The redwood lumber manufacturers of California have chosen a woman to plan and supervise their exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. This particalar woman, having com- plete and sympathetic knowledge of the subject, becomes the surest pledge that the redwood lumbermen of California will | have the most complete and most artistic exhibit of its kind at the great fair. WHAT!S THE ‘MATTER WITH HEARST? R the United States that met in Washington the day before. On the contrary it appeared that President Roose- velt had called William Randolph Hearst to meet in special session to attend to grave affairs of state and legislate for the United States. Mr. Hearst made this plain in all of his papers. The galleries were crowded to see him meet and or- ganize himself. He said in his own papers that when he appeared in answer to the President’s proclamation “all eyes were strained” and the thrill of a great sensation passed down every backbone. horig 7 EADERS of the Examiner of November 10 were im- pressed by the fact that it was not the Congress of struck. I felt something brush my foot; the boat whirled sideways from a sudden jar, and he had wheeled once more to the attack. This time, however, I was already over the gunwale and lying panting and exhausted in the bottom of Yet, though 1 gazed with straining eyes, I could never catch even a mo- mentary view of the great shark. Trae, I saw several other sharks, rang- hing | feet the boat. ' 1 had missed death in a horrible form and had missed it by barely an inch. One of his California admirers read the thrilling descrip- tion and wrote to the Colusa Sun: “Hearst is to-day making the administration look for cover and he will make a bright page of Democratic history within the next fortnight.” Time will be called on Tuesday and men are getting smoked glass through which to read that dazzling page. But meantime what is Hearst doing? The supporters of Presi- dent Roosevelt are not yet convinced that he made a mis- take in tactics by calling Hearst in special session to give I raised myself to my knees and looked over the side of the boat. There, not three feet below me, €l lobo marino, motionless, alert, wait- ing patiently for me to fall overboard. I was moderately safe, of ‘course, in the big, heavy Cuban boat. But I con- te.ldldnocdnw;reuiytreem until I had recovered my clothes, rowed back to the plantation and once more felt ‘solid ground beneath ‘my P G h G him the chance to make the President run to cover. The President on the contrary seems to be doing business in the open. Since Hearst met Panama has been recognized, a canal treaty made and the completion of that great work brought nearer than it ever was before. We are credibly informed that all the Cabinet officers are still on duty and that the public revenues.are being collected and disbursed and not a cog in the wheels of Government is idle or rusty. All of the Democrats in the House but ten voted for Cuban reciproc- | ity, the one administration measure before the extra session. Besides that no measure of general importance has been con- sidered. What is the matter with Hearst? Where is that “bright page”? What is he writing on it and with what manner of pen? He has two days more to finish it. Hijs solitary ad- mirer sits waiting, as Israel waited for Moses to bring the table of stone down out of the mountain. The administra- tion refuses to stay under cover and things move along. Can it be possible that when William Randolph Hearst is brought in touch with great affairs of Government, in company with practical legislators, he cannot make good on his brag? Is! he like Calamity Weller, who got into Congress by promising to pass a law giving the people “a more and a fittener cur- rency” and then didn’t know how to do it? The great expectations invested in the member from the New York tenderloin are turning sour because a man by the name of Williams, from Mississippi, is made the Democratic leader of the House, and all that seems to be left of William Randolph Hearst is the “every eye” that was strained and the spinal thrill of the first day. The indictment of United States Senator Dietrich on charges of the gravest character in connection with alleged ! postoffice frauds has led this national scandal to such a crisis | that one of two courses forces itself upon the American pub- lic as an immediate necessity. Either grand jury accusations | should be based on something more substantial than ex- parte statemerts or the Federal Government should hasten to clerr its skit;ts of alarming and, apparently, widespread frauds. T fore whom lynchers have been brought for trial. The | cases somewhat offset the travesty on justice that was displayed in the trials of lynchers in our own State in the Modoc cases, Last summer a mob tried to force the jail in Danville, IIL, | t> get at an accused negro. The courage of the Sheriff frus- | trated the design of the rioters, but they succeeded in killing | a negro who was not at all involved in the matter and was under no accusation. Those who were identified in the at- tack on the jail were arrested and put on trial. The leader was tried and convicted of an attempt to murder and is undergoing a sentence in the penitentiary. Since then A REMEDY FOR LYNCHIN'G. 1 HE law has been vindicated by two judicial officers be- | change in the habits of either | prisoner dead cn [resign now." TALK OF THE ‘A Cracked Diamond. “It was early in the settlement of Nevada,” said an old prospector, "anfl the only jail they had was the Sheriff’s cabin with a lock on the door. For a long time business was scarce, but at length a man named Sullivan killed a fellow in another town, was brought over and placed in the improvised bastile. He was an acquaintance of the Sheriffs and the two lived in peace and amity. They slept in the same bunk and the key hung on a nail inside the door. They loafed around town to- gether all day and if the Sheriff was in a card game, which he usually was, he would give the key to the prisoner and tell him to lock himself up. The latter made no attemapt to escape, al- though he had every opportunity. At length his trial came and he was sen- tenced to be hanged. This made no man until the time of the execution ap- proached. “Then the Judge insisted that the Sheriff take better care of the prisoner. The Sherift returned to the jail, found the prisoner smoking calmly in front of the fire, and throwing his revolver and cartridge belt on the bed, an- nounced his inptention of resigning. “The Judge,' he said, ‘tells me that I| must Keep you locked up all the time and have some fellow watch you night and day until you are hung. I told the jackass you were a friend of mine and would show up for the hanging all right, but he told me to do what he said or quit and I'm going to resign.’ “Sullivan tried to persuade the Sher- iff to lock him up, but the latter re- tired, leaving the key on the nail as usual. During the night he was awak- ened by a pistol shot and found his the floor and this note beside him: “‘Friend Jack—This was only a ques- tion of a few days with me anyhow, so what's the odds. You won't need to Sullivan.” ™ She Was Puzsled. A brave little widow, who is doing her best to provide for herself and her | three children by keeping a little bak- {ery and notion store in the Mission, gets many a nickel from the children in the neighborhocd of her store. A few days ago she was telling some | friends about the little tots who fre- | quent her store, and In the course of her conversation she referred to a lit- others who were identified have been convicted, and the Judge in passing sentence said: “You may thank God that you are not here on a charge of murder instead of an attempt to murder, and that I am not sentencing you to be hanged instead of to the penitentiary. For as sure as you live had you gained entrance to the jail that night you would have committed murder, not once, but probably a dozen times.” };l;‘_a:j“‘dy’v who lived but a few doors It may safely be concluded that lynching will not be popu- |~ “gha is the cutest little girl,” declared lar in Danville hereafter and that “leading citizens” will not | the widow, “I have seen in many a be found heading mobs to infiict unlawful punishment upon | day. One day last week she came into men accused of crime. ‘The satisfaction in the outcome there | the store and’asked for 5 cents’ worth is not confined to the Judge, who did his duty, but extends pOF Gend S04 5 SOuis Worth of cindy. to the jury, which was willing against all pressure to do its | share in vindicating the majesty and supremacy of the law. ? It will not require many such instances of efficient punish- ment to stamp out lynching and convince impulsive and pas- | sionate individuals that the chosen executors of the law must | in all cases be trusted-to effect its orderly administration. | The other recent instance which admonishes the hot tem- pared occurred in Delaware in the case of the lynchers who burned to death a negro who had been guilty of an abhor- | rent crime. Judge Lore in charging the jury before which | members of the mob were tried said: “No man has a right to commit that crime because he believes or fears that some other person who is entrusted with the execution of the law will fail or has failed in the performance of his duty.” It will be remembered that in the Delaware case a minis- ter of the gospel incited the lynching by casting odium upon the courts and declaring that it was improbable that they would do their duty in punishing the guilty wretch. His | sermon was immediately followed by the lynching, partici- pated in by some of the members of his flock, who were di- rectly encouraged by his intemperate harangue. It is to be regretted that he was not indicted as an ac/cessory before the fact and sent to the penitentiary with those whom he adyised to commit crime, The air has been beneficially cleared by these two Judges, who conspicuously honor the legal profession and vindicate the bench. Things are rapidly nearing such a pass in this country that lynching would soon go beyond substituting the criminal law, having for its excuse the nature of the crime or the fear of laxity in enforcing the law. It threat- ened to pass over and invade the execution of civil justice and to treat decisions of courts or the delay of them in civil cases as the excuse for mob outbreaks and the attempt, by un- curbed passion and aroused savagery, to undertake enforce- ment of a mob’s idea of civil justice. Such progress in vio- lation of the law is to be expected, and when it occurs it means the entire subversion of the law and the obsoleting of its instrumentalities and processes. The result would be anarchy and the destruction of government by law. The courts have before them the task of arresting this evil where it is. They will do it by such prompt administration of justice as is compatible with the preservation of human rights. In this they should be assisted by the bar and by all good citizens called to duty as jurymen. If the present condition of the law permit too great delay, prolonged to the injury of justice, that is a grievance to be corrected by legis- lators when they make codes and rules of procedure. The mob can no more substitute the law-making power than they can take the place of the officers chosen to execute the law. When they plead obstruction to justice in the statutes and rules established for judicial procedure they.do assume the right to usurp the place and functions of the Legislature. So it appears that lynching is set up to displace and replace two of the co-ordinate branches of our system of govern- ‘ment and is a far reaching evil that cannot be too soon nor too sternly repressed. The Illinois and Delaware Judges have done their duty and the chorus of approbation which has followed their declarations should give strength to that judicial courage which is the ulem 8 Thirty dead and fifteen cruelly maimed and wounded is the latest record attesting the triumph of American railroading. The incident was a head-on collision in Illinois, the occasion was an act of divine providence, the responsibility is of course nobody’s, and the result is another indication that the operation of our railways must sooner or later be placed under the direction of our criminal laws. Our railroads are making deth too expensive. ] Sem——r—— " A Western millionaire, lacking an ear, has bought one from an impecunious tradesman who thinks he can struggle through life hearing enough with one. The process of graiting is already partially successful and the millionaire is happy in the prospect of hearing clearly what the rest of us may say of his job lot anatomy. While many will readily fend an ear very few care literally.to sell one. ~ f - I fixed up her purchases for her and was about to give the packages to her when she burst out crying. She sobbed | most pitifully, and T ran out from be- hind the counter, picked her up in my arms and asked the little darling what was the matter. “For a minute or two she could not tell me, because of her tears, but finally she opened her tightly clenched little hand. In the little pink palm were two nickels and at sight of them she began crying again. “‘Tell the baker lady what's the mat- ter with the little dear,’ I said, coax- ingly. “‘My mamma gibbed me two fI’ centses,” she said between her sobs— ‘i’ cents for tandy and fi' cents for thread, and I don't 'member what fI’ cents she gibbed me first.”” His Choice. De turkey gobbler roos’ too high In weather col’ an’ murky; But ef I shine de 'possum eye ‘What does I want wid turkey? De rabbit gwine pitty-pat Across de medders grassy; He streak er lean en streak er fat, But 'possum fat en sassy! En_springtime fetch de bird en bee, En all de bud en blossom; But falltime is de time fer me, Kaze falltime fetch de 'possum! —aAtlanta Constitution. Incredible. ‘Would that we had some like this: One of the most remarkable barber- shop stories extant has a local setting, TOWN + haikwan taels, which at the official valuation of the halkwan taels in 1902 would make the total value in United States currency $3,854,920.—Harper's ‘Weekly. Decrepit Spain. No recent political event in Spain has created such a stir as the pessimistic nature of the speech In which Senor Silvela announced to the Cortes his re. tirement from public life. He said that he resigned because he had come to the melancholy conclusion that at pres- ent Spain does not want a fleet, nor an army, nor public instruction. It is interested only in material reforms, in agriculture, in industry, trade and public works. For his part, if he were to remain in office, the country must want an army, a fleet, and such a for- eign policy worthy of it, a foreign policy frankly accepted without fear of the risks. To be on equally good terms with everybody is not a policy. To combat this state of public opinion he required the backing of a robust and stable party. At certain moments he had fancled that he might obtain it. ‘When the illusion vanished, with it went all the courage which enabled him to hold office. He was a man who had lost faith and hope. It was expected that the Prime Minister, Senor Villa- verde, would vigorously protest against so fainthearted a conception of Spa!n's condition, but he failed to maks any reply. World’s Fair Notes. Abraham Lerner, a Roumanian of Detroit, will exhibit in Michigan's dis- play at the World's Fair a postal card, on which he has written 7300 words. The work was done with an ordinary fine-pointed pen. The first exhibit for the United States Government building at the World's Falir arrived at the exposition grounds recently. It Is a standard pattern postal car owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is completely equipped with up-to-date appliances and conven- iences and will occupy a place in the United States Postoffice Departments exhibit. Among the police exhibits from San Diego, Cal.,, at the World's Fair will be a reproduction of Old Town Jail. The jail was built half a century ago at a cost of $3000. An interesting story in connection with it is that the con- tractor who censtructed it was its first prisoner, and easily made his escape from it after he had built what he said ‘was a model prison. Among the features of Louisiana’s transportation exhibit at the World's Fair will be a miniature train of rice cars and cane cars, made of wood. There will be a real steam engine, though proportionately Illiputian, to draw these infantile devices through miniature fields. The cars will be load- ed with sections of real sugar cane and tiny sacks of rice. Sundials. There is an old-established firm In London which devotes itself almost en- tirely to the making of new sundlals and the renovation of old ones. The largest dial ever erected {is six feet square, and now records the time when the sun shines on the wall of Old Tile House in Buckinghamshire. Sir Walter Besant has a fine modern sundial in his garden at Hampstead, and is absolutely vouched for by one of | ang Captain Penton another at Chal- the most truthful men in Baltimore. font Park, Uxbridge. Another well- A gentleman who wanted a shave | gnown man has gone so far as to have stepped into a well known barber-shop. The barber bowed and smiled a polite good morning. a beautifully carved sundial erected on the marble stone which covers his fam- ily burying-place. A handsome sun- The gentleman hung up his hat and | gia] was recently erected for the Duke waited until there was an empty chair, A Workman quletly sald, “You're next,” and the man took his place in the chair. ‘The barber prepared him for shaving, adjusted the chair to the most com- fortable pose, and without a word went right ahead and shaved him. The barber didn't ask him if he ¥ant- ed a haircut. He didn't remark “They’re gettin’ a little lor’g, sir.” He didn’t say “Shampoo to-day, sir?” He didn’t talk politics. He didn't comment on the waather or the news of the day. > He didn't try to get confldential. The barbers didn’t stand and kid one another while they worked. The one who was doing the work didn’t say “Gettin’ a little thin on top there—little tonic?"” He didn’t ask “Comb Baltimore American. Trade With Manchuria. The trade of the United States with Manchuria, China, shows no perceptibie change in 1902 as compared with 1901. Figures just compiled by the Depart- ment of Commerce and r show that the total imports into the port of Newchwang, the principal doorway through which Manchuria is at present supplied, amounted in 1902 to eighteen million haikwan taels in value, against seventeen millions in 1801, and eight millions in 1900. The official report of ‘em dry f I I s of Sutherland in the gardens at Chor- ley Wood, Surrey. Sewing Bees to Rescue. According to South African Exports, there should be an increased demani for goft goods in British East Africa. A notice in Nairobi, by John Alns- worth, the sub-commissioner, states that natives entering the town must be decently clothed. Missionarfes, fet- tlers, etc., are asked to encourzse the wearing of cloth by natives in their employ; while the police and Govern- ment officials have instructions to warn the blacks that they will not be allowed in Nairobi unless they are wearing at least an ordinary loincloth. So civill- zation stalks on. Soon, We UDPOSS, there will not be left anywhere one clad as “nature first made man.” e Music for Towa. Music will be an attraction in the owa building at the World's Fair. Former Lieutenant Governor Larrabee of that State has presented an $8000 pipe organ to the Staté commission. The organ, which is a large and hand- some instrument. will be installed in the Iowa building and Will furnish the music for all the State functions to be held there during the fair. Concerts there will rival those given in Festival Hall. The Iowa building is completed and is a roomy and comfortable struc- fire- candies, 50c in artistic hed boxes. A nice present &"m-.hnsmrmu.m.cm —_———————