The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1903, Page 8

*'FHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903. | | | 1 # Cc————— Bowles.) the » surprising to him who about ps no t t‘me as that the pounds water other and ecighing 15( ned with thicker If the weig human bod of the total the fluids of - blood, by d matters, the avier than water. the fluids of the o The ming article. me are used are so slew in being at the Some of move like body about been recogmized and e are more than th fixed and on s, in reality, ue d fluids are £ and passing out of while at the sa time ‘they ant renewed. Among fluids may be mentioned aces in the body ich constantly xed be this we so disposed that h surfaces; as in the chest rface of the lungs and the e of the chest are covere? pleura, which is a closed ning a serous fluid, which moist- the surface and prevents undue triction during respiration. Two interesting fluids are the tears nd the meibomian fluid of the eve. The and stored vp in two little glands, one the inner side of each-eyeball. If any foreign substance lodges in the eye the formed of the fact by a deli- cgraphic arrangement, and a is poured out for the pur- odging the intruder. The s a whole is one of the most delicate and beautiful in the body. The meibomian fluid is formed by a em of tny glands situated on the der surface of the evelids. On the - are about thirty of these - the lower lid contains al- many. T ducts of these ner edges of the glands most as 1ds open on the lide ard pour forth fluid which pre- vents the lids from adhering. to each bali. other or to the eye! . These fixed fluids, however, are much Jess important and much less interest- ing than the fluids which fluctuate through the body. Of these the one most essential to all the life processes is the blood. The blood is the center of all activities of the body. blood enter the oxygen from the lungs ané the digested food, while out of the blood are filtered the other fluids or the material from which they are made. The total amount of blood is about one- eighth of the body weight—that is, about eighteen pints (nine quarts) in a person weighing 144 pounds. The blood, while in constant motion from before birth to death, varies somewhat in its distribution. As a general thing it may be said that of all the blood in the body ope-fourth is in the heart and great blood tubes near the heart, one- fourth in the muscles, one-fourth in the liver and one-fourth in the rest of the body. By a marvelously beautiful and complex arrangement of the. mner- vous system the caliber of the blood vessels is regulated in accordance with the requirements of the system. Through the action of the nervous sys- tem the arteries (blood vessels) of the part used or to be used are increased in diameter. By this increase in cali- ber the part receives more blood, and the glands (which are merely filters) have more materjal out of which to manufacture their products. S 04 5 For instance, the thought of food or the eating of food causes an increase in the caliber of the blood vessels (arteries) going to the stomach. This increase means more blood to the part, and the glands of the stomach, which produce the gastric juice from the blood, receiving more blood, be- gin to pour out their fluid It is estimated that the amount of gastric Juice so poured out is usually not less than ten quarts a day. The quantity of saliva is probably from one to two quarts, an8 that of intestinal Juice, while not exactly known, is probably quite equal to the amount of gastric juice. Then there is the bile, of which there is produced from the blood from one to two quarts. Al this fluid— &hout five gallons—is withdrawn from the blood and returns into the blood INSTRUCTIVE STUDIE.S | sack of circalating | ht of | rt is considera- | od as a whole is | may | ., | equation. Into the | ! every day. For, of course, the fluids red out into the mouth, ‘the stomach and the intestineés are reabsorbed with the digested food, again entering the blood and suplying material for the maintenznce of the life process. iy mph circulation is peculiar ard nt. During the passage of the thro=gh the capillaries a portion plasma, or fluid part of the | escapes from the vessels and | bathes the tissues, which select from it the materials they need for their | sustenance. The excess of this plasma | not used by the tiséues is reabsorbed Ly a set of vessels called the lyrgoh- | itics. These lymphatics unite, forming | larger and larger trunks and finally | ending in two ducts or tubes, one on | | each side of the body, which return the | lymph so absorbed into the blood | stream near its entrance into the heart. | | i mpor of t Marriage a Partnership. BY MRS. VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER. (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B. Bowles.) All the sentiment in the world does | not mask the fact that marriage is a | contract. Despite a halo of veils, orange blos- soms, vows of devotion, Lohengrin pro- cessionals, Mendelsohn recessionals and | “The Voice that Breathed O'er Eden” as a voluntary, the marriage service is as much a business contract as is one fcrmally drawn up in a dingy office and decked with red seals,and sprinkled | with dreary references to ‘‘the party of | the first part” and “the party of the secend part.” | Nor does the marriage state lose one iota if its solemnity and bea:ty by be- | 7ag a business contract instead of a | mere goiden thread of very fragile and fragible love vows. For only by following out the con- tract idea and the partnership clause therein implied can marital happiness | be made certain and permanent. | Sentiment in married life is very beautiful, Without it such life is like scng wofk without music. But when | sentiment ignores businesslike manage- | ment of domestic life it lapses from | sentiment (which is the essence of love) into sentimentality (whose first letter | | is i*s only connecting bond with “san- | ity”). | | True marriage should be a joint part- | nership, in which “the party of the first | part” and “the party of the second} part” should (as in regular business | firms) be permitted to do as he or she | pl , allowing ‘to the other member | of the firm the same privilege, so long | as neither does anything to endanger | that firm’'s strength and integrity. Two men who enter business partner- ship do not quarrel daily as to wmchi shall rule. There is no question of su- periority or mastery. There is equalil}" and the harmony that nothing but| equality can bring. Nagging, too, is a | conspicuously absent ‘quantity in the Were two men to plunge | into endless disputes as to which was | really the ruler, and were they to seek | tc win each point by nagging, such a | irm might, with rare good luck, endure | | for “one consecutive day.” | Yet husband and wife who resort to | the same unpleasant tactics are expect- | ed to remain as one until “‘death them | | do part.” It is essential if they would avoid | | misery that married “‘partners” shnuldi remember that if a thing cannot be had | | without nagging it would better not be | had at all; that when two people mar- | | ry neither merges forever all individu- | ality, but that both still have an in-| | alienable right to their own ideas, be- | liefs and opinions; that it is a mistake to try to force each other into any ac- | quiescent states of mind. C— | | . If two people truly love each other mere difference of opinion on a few—or | many—subjects is no bar to happiness. | The little differences of opinion amount | to no real difference, and with a tactful | hand at the helm it is easy to steer around the rocks. These rocks are, after all, usually nothing more formid- able than pebbles. The sooner husband and wife learn that it is better to waive a point than to carry that point through a storm of | tears and in the face of a blast of hot Hsmper the sooner will real conjugal | happiness dawn for both. | It is hard to understand why the | early fathers did not enlarge the list of seven deadly sins to eight, in order to include nagging. Perhaps because the | example of Samson’s fall through much nagging was then so much fresher in the people’s minds as to render a sepa- rate warning on the subject less neces- sary than now. It is a sin that brings its own punishment. Note Kipling's warning to his countrymen, who are prone to nag and worry the Hilndu: For the Christian riles And the Aryan smiles, And it weareth the Christian down. Far more does it wear down both nagger and naggee in the married “firm.” Another rock whereon many a good- ly married partnership has come to grief is the subject of money. I truly believe that the greatest drawback to married happiness between persons who love and trust each other is lack of money. By this I do not mean the slenderness of the family purse, which enforces | mutual economy. In cases of that sort true lovers are often drawn far more closely together than were they multi- millionaires. What 1 refer to i the feeling on the part of the husband that the money he earns is his, and that each penny he doles out to his wife is given in the light of a benefaction, and to the idea of many a wife that she is a far better judge than her husband as to the per- centage of his income he can afford to give her, The idea of business partnership alone can keep this particular serpent from the domestic Eden; can prevent the harmonious menage from degener- ating at times into the discord of a menagerie. L ] I do not believe that if the average woman saw her husband was willing for her to have the same liberty as he himself demands she would, as a rule, complain or scold as often as she does under other conditions, - | they set for themselves. SAN FRANCISCO CALL , Proprietor. . . . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office...... .Third and Market Streets, S. F. THURSDAY . .NOVEMBER 26, 1903 BE THANKFUL. HE old Puritans were a stern and unimaginative I ' people. Life for them had been a series of hard knocks, and their natures were armed for aggression and resistance. They had a definite idea of the rights of human reason and human judgment, joined to a strongly superstitious faith. They were willing to become wanderers on the face of the earth to find a place that they could exclusively people and where they could found and de- end a theocracy in which they would be free. The enfranchisement sought for themselves was regarded as a birthright which they were unwilling to share with others. Long persecuted, reaction and resentment made them the persecutors of others. But in their splendid seli- will and independence were exactly the qualities needed for the work they chose and for the foundation of the common- wealth which grew under their hard hands. No other people in the world at their time could have mastered the task The generations which have fol- lowed them have been the beneficiaries of their character and work, and out of the Puritan nature the hardness and exclusiveness have been leached until gentleness joins firmness of purpose and both are gilded with the spirit of | universal liberty. They founded Thanksgiving day as a substitute for Christ- mas, the observance of which, with elaborate ceremony and ritual, they identified with their persecutors. But Thanks- giving had not long been constituted before it took on the cheer and hope, the social expression and sentiment of peace on earth and good will toward men which their Eng- lish ancestors had put into the observance of Christmas. The descendants of the Puritans now observe both days with equal respect, and both have become holidays na- tional in their character. Formerly Thanksgiving was pro- claimed by the Governors of States exclusively. The first proclamation of the holiday by a President was by Mr. Lincoln, and it made a great stir. It was denounced as another act of Federal usurpation and a blow at the sover- eign rights of the States. Opposition Governors were in- clined to proclaim a different day, and a decidedly thankless feeling was engendered among those who at that time were interested in making capital against the administration. After the war for a considerable time the day was felt to be identified with Northern sentiment. Its remote Yankee origin was against it, and it was therefore quite generally ignored in the South. Now, we believe, this has all passed away, and throughout the Union there is observance of the holiday. It is everywhere a day of family reunion, of pilgrimage of children far scattered to the old home; and when that is impossible members of families gather and greet in social intercourse and enjoyment. It has become a day for remembering the less fortunate, not in charity, but in fellowship. The plenty that blesses the prosperous overflows upon the tables of the poor, and the brotherly spirit moves all who can to see to it that every one has occasion to be thankful. So, as a day of fel- lowship and good feeling, it levels all classes and removes the distinction between rich and poor. This spirit makes the world brighter and fulfills the command to remember our neighbor. In the hardest times we of this new nation and strong are not left without cause for thanksgiving, since our worst| estate has in it more than others enjoy at their best. We may see trade slacken and industry slow down, and tables grow lean, but the earth yields in abundance, and it may be said truly that the American spirit desires that none suffer for food and shelter. This spirit goes out even to those in bonds, and every one reads with pleasure al- ways that prisoners all over the United States have their | better sentiments and their early recollections of innocence and uprightness aroused by having brought to them some of the cheer of Thanksgiving, California felix, land of the great happiness, has always cause for thanksgiving. Her landscapes are poems, her climate a blessing, her richness abounding. To live here is to dwell in a perpetual romance, and if there were no formal proclamation human nature would agree upon an occasion for the enjoyment and sharing of our abundance and the expression of a thankful spirit. Our tables are spread as none other. Vineyard and orchard send to them the orange and grape freshly harvested, and fig and berry and all green things growing in our perpetual garden, garnished by our ever-blooming flowers, make this.a day for emphasizing our winterless land and the fruitfulness of a soil that never rests but gives up its wealth to man every day in the year. Grant that the snow and frost of the East bring their substantial pleasures and supply the charms of contrast, yet one cannot help feeling that if the Pilgrims had landed here New England would still be as wild as Labrador, and their rugged souls would have been sooner softened by our sunshine and scenery. California has every material blessing to be thankful for; but there are things of the spirit here, in the fraternity, charity and ineffable graces of life that are inspired by nature's gentleness and majesty, without which merely material prosperity would be as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. In these beatitudes of the spirit Californians share with their Eastern friends the graces that money does not buy nor wealth express, but which are the common inheritance of rich and poor. Here with peculiar persistency we hold as our social creed that “A man may have an honest heart, Though poortith hourly stare him; A man may tak his neebor’s part, Yet have no cash to spare him.” But, above all, we are grateful that this is a land of Hope, in which the man who is down to-day may be up to-mor- row because of the abundance of opportunity and the ease with which nature yields to the honest toil of man. So, let us enjoy the spcial, spiritual and brotherly oppor- tunities of the day, spill greatly of our abundance into the laps of those less blessed, and, fellowshipping, all men be thankful. ——— Grand Rapids has followed the lead of several other Amer- ican cities and in a spasm of civic morality has indicted for bribery seventeen men who formerly occupied positions of dignity in her municipal councils. Isn’t it strange that these alleged malefactors are never caught while they are committing their offenses, or is there always a wide area of connivance into which no probing inquiry can break? — WORKING FOR IRRIGATION. HILE the people of San Joaquin County are re- joicing over the completion of the Manteca irri- gating ditch in the southern part of the county, the citizens of Butte County have been holding meetings at Gridley to devise ways and means to have the Butte County canal constructed. Of the effect of the Manteca enterprise the Stockton Record says that in three years a desolate sand plain has been converted into a fertile, wealthy country. Manteca means butter in Spanish. “The Manteca skimming station stasted four years ago, with thirty-five cows furnishing the milk. "To-day 6000 pounds of milk and 658 cows are handled daily,” so says the Record. When the completion of the ditch was celebrated Gov- ernor Pardee and President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California were among the speakers. The significance of the enterprise was indicated by Professor Fortier of the University of California, who estimated that the water in the ditch would irrigate’ 200,000 acres in May, 62,000 acres in June and 17,000 acres in July. At Gridley, so reports the Biggs Argus, there was a mass meeting and later in the day a conference in the Rideout Bank, The latter gathering was encouraging. An agreement was reached that “the company sell to the | non-landowners who desired to help along the irrigation project what is termed, for the want of any other name, a ‘floating water right, which the purchaser must locate on a particular piece of land within a period of two years after the completion of the canal. This location may be made by purchase of land or by sale to an actual owner of land. The proposition met with favor immediately, and within a few minutes the business people signed contracts covering a thousand acres of land.” The Argus says that with 5000 acres pledged in Sutter County and 3000 acres secured in Butte County there re- main but 2000 acres to add to make the project a success. o m——— An old man, who had taken all the degrees in a strenuous alcoholic career, dictated to a typewriter the other day a tearful letter of earthly farewell and then disappeared. The oniy possibly redeeming feature to the maudlin incident is not yet a matter of record. His body has not been found by the proper authorities. — SPEED AND SAFETY. HE installation of a new ferry to Oakland should T stimulate settlement on the east side of the bay. Whenever a new facility appears that is its natural result. The land lines on the other side which connect with the new bay route tap districts splendidly adapted to residence purposes and which will soon be sought by thousands of people who do business in San Francisco but who prefer for all or part of the year the change afforded by the Contra Costa Mountains and the suburbs of Oak- land, Berkeley and Alameda. The scenic advantages are unequaled. When the new tunnel was opened through the mountains to connect Oakland with Contra Costa County it was discovered that the road to it is a scenic boulevard of the greatest charms, perhaps second only to the mountain road that climbs Tamalpais. People cannot be kept away from such fine locations for homes except by extraordinary circumstances affecting access to the spots which so allure the fancy. Only one thing can spoil the prospect opened to the east shore of the bay by additional ferry facilities. The new line challenges the Southern Pacific ferries to a trial of speed. The history of the latter system furnishes evi- dence that safety has been its first motive, While com- muters occasionally growled about speed, they were a unit in commending the provisions for safety. Now, if rivalry sacrifices safety to speed, the effect upon the eastern shore will be disastrous. We get frequent reminders of the nced of consulting safety first in the accidents, usually without casualty, that occur in the bay fogs. It is a maxim in all transportation that as speed rises safety declines. San Fran- cisco is interested in building up her tributary territory. he more attractive the eastern shore is made the better or this city. Thousands of people will come to settle there who do not care to live on this side. But from the moment of their settlement there they become tributary to this city. They wish to cross the bay—to go and come at will— and the opportunity to do so is one inducement to settle there. But get among them the idea that speed has over- taken safety and settlement will cease. It is an age of enterprise and progress and adventure. The prosperity of the last few years has equipped thousands with ability to live where they please, to cast their lines in places pleasant to them. But they will not in doing so take on risks and anxieties that offset the advantages which attract them. Let us have a safe ferry service first, and sacrifice not a bit of it to speed, mr——————c The German Princess who eloped recently with her coachman is said to have observed simply the commands of a family habit. It is suspected that this cruel report is nothing more than the shrewd invention of some enterpris- ing agent of an automobile house. THE COLOMBIAN DEBT. HERE is some indulgence in gloomy anticipations T about the Colombian debt and the probable refusal of Panama to assume a proportion of it. We believe the bonded debt of Colombia held in Europe amounts to $10,000,000 in gold. Panama claims that her local revenues have been appropriated by the Bogota Government to the amount of about $8,000,000, no part of which has ever been repaid. The new republic is willing to let this go, but is disinclined to assume any part of the national debt. As far as the revenues of the isthmus seized by Bogota are concerned, Panama may as well consider it a permanent investment; for if there is anything that disgusts a Central American Government it is the idea of ever paying any- thing. The rule, in case of assuming or changing sover- eignty by revolution or conquest, is that debts do not go with such change. For instance, when Texas by revolution became independent of Mexico in 1836 and set up the Lone Star republic she assumed none of the natim;nl debt of Mexico. If the Con- federate States had achieved their independence none of the holders of the bonds of the United States would have looked to the Confederacy to pay a proportion of them. An exception may be made in Panama because of the interest of the United States in the independence of the isthmus and the safety of the canal. The expectation .of Bogota that we will recede is vain. Colombia has sowed of the wind and must reap of the whirlwind. As the British bondholders feel that their security is impaired, there is no doubt that the United States, as an act of amity, will ad- vise that Panama assume as much of the Colombian debt as her 300,000 people should pay. Even if this suggestion be not adopted there will be no European complication and no war upon,_ either Colombia or Panama, for the issue pre- sented is for The Hague court. It is a question of equity, and not law, and that court can be trusted to decide it. The process will be a joint action of Panama, Colombia and the United States, by protocol agreeing to arbitrate at The Hague, naming the arbitral issues and pledging them- selves to abide by the award. There is no doubt that if Colombia would quit thumping her chest, tearing her hair and yowling about her honor and institute good govern- ment, peace and prosperity among her people she would beable to pay her foreign debt and return the millions she has wrested from the isthmus for the enrichment of her TALK OF THE TOWN | Remarkable Plea. “The astuteness and resourcefulness of a number of criminal lawyers in this city,” said a Superior Judge a few days ago, “have kept many a guilty man out of jail. There is one lawyer here who secured an acquittal of a man charged with a forgery a few years ago under circumstances that, to say the least, showed him to be a trickster beyond compare. “The man was guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt and the jurymen who were to decide his fate thought so to a man up to the time this attorney presented his case to them. Then he shattered the prosecution's case to atoms, and he did it simply by calling the jury’'s attention to the hands of his client. ‘Look at this man’s hands.’ he said, with all the force of a trained orator; ‘could they, tnick and ungain- | 1y, calloused and stiff as they are, wield a pen with such skill as must have been the skill of the man who wrote the signature on this check? It is pre- posterous to suppose that such hands are capable of performing such a deed.’ “Well, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty after being out little more than an hour. It developed the next day that the accused during the en- tire three months that he was confined awaiting trial had for hours at a time paced up and down in his cell rub- bing and slapping his hands against the walls that formed the sides of his cell His labor saved him from the felon's dungeon.” Her Poor Baby. It was during the still hours of the forenoon and the attaches of the Emergeney Hospital were at leisure, waliting for something to come in to relieve the monotony of the day, when a neatly attired woman with a sweet face and polished manners walked in and inquired for the doctor. Im her arms she carried a bundle encased in a white woollen shawl. The surgeon on duty readily responded and inquired the lady’s trouble. “Oh,” she exclaim- ed, “my baby got its leg broke and 1 want it fixed.” The polite doctor led the woman into the operating room and prepared to attend to the case. Unwrapping the bundle, the doctor found in the multudinous swathings of cotton a white poodle dog with one of its limbs encased in a bandage. A smile spread over the doctor’s face when he said: “Madam, we do not set dogs’ limbs here; this place is only for human beings who get hurt by ac- cidents. Why don’t you go to a veter- inary surgeon?” “Oh, because he might handle my pet too roughly and I want a kind- hearted doctor, who will not inflict pain upon my darling,” sobbed the lady. Further explanations were cut off by the doctor abruptly leaving the woman and her pet to lament upon the hard- heartedness of doctors in general and this one in particular. Pope Carries a Watch. According to the observations of a titled European diplomat Pius X has violated another rule of pontifical eti- quette. The latter has prescribed that the occupant of the chair of St. Peter should never make use of a watch, and although Leo XIIT had received hun- dreds of watches, many of them adorn- ed with jewels and of great value, he was always obliged when he wished to know the hour of the day to inquire for the information from one of the prelates in attendance. Pius X, how- ever, will not hear of any restrictions of this Byzantine character, and per- sists in carrying and in making fre- quent use of the cheap nickel watch which was his inseparable companion when he was Archbishop and patriarch of Venice. Perhaps the reason for its remaining with him was just because it was of no monetary value and would have fetched nothing at the Mont de Piete or pawnshop. For at Venice he was so freehanded in his charities that he was always in financial straits, hav- ing even pledged his archiepiscopal ring in order to give the money raised thereon to some deserving case of charity, within three months before his election to succeed Leo XIII as Pope. Knew His Business. He was a new conductor on the Va- lencia-street line and had not been long out from the ‘“ould sod.” He rather felt the importance of his new position and was inclined to exercise his little .| authority on the slightest provocation. Everything went swimmingly on his first trip to the ferries, but on his way back his troubles commenced. ‘When his car reached Lotta's foun- tain two ladies got on and took seats. The new conductor came through the car for his fares and was handed a nickel by one of the ladies, who said at the same time: “Please let me off at Tenth street.” The other lady likewise tendered the conductor a nickel, saying: “I want to get off at Twenty-sixth street.” Mr. Conductor looked first at one lady and then the other, and with a lordly air said: “I'll do no such a thing. I know my business. Ye both got on together and ye'll both get off together.” Obeying Orders. ‘Henry Labouchere as a young diplo- mat was fond of amusing and bewil- dering his superiors. For instance, it is said that once he was instructed to come home to London from Constanti- nople. He wasn't heard of for some time and was apparently lost in the midst of the Black Forest or some of the other lands that intervened be- tween him and home. He was at last traced, and then calmly wrote that he was obeying orders and was making his way homeward, but that as his chief had forgotten to send him any money to pay the expense by the or- dinary methods of traveling he was working his slow passage on foot. —_————— Ready for Commitment. The Iowa idea has broken out in a new form. Dr. Latta of Colfax, lowa, wants Iowa to profit by an odd feature - of the St. Lo World's Fair in the way of a whale farm, to be conducted on a water covered pasture, the whale milk to be sold instead of the milk of cows or goats. He puts the suggestion in this way: “My proposition is to catch fat, tresh whales, bring them up to the World's Falr ground by way of the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River to a wet pasture, this pasture to be suitable for the maintenance and the milking of these animals. Now, in order that you may understand the commercial value of this undertaking, I will give you some figures. “Suppose we obtain thirty whales. Each whale has, according to the en- cyclopedia, thirty breasts; each breast will supply eleven gallons of milk twice daily; each gallon is worth §, so that the sum total per day would be 30x30x32, or $19,800. Each whale is good commercially for 100 days. At the end of such period the magnificent sum of $1,980,000 would stand to our credit.” * Unusual Decision. Snyder sells “temperance drinks” in a Kansas town. A complaint of beer-sell- ing was lodged against him. He admit- ted on his trial that the wet goods in question looked like lager and had the lager smell. But sometimes things are not what they seem. Snyder’s defense was that his beer was an innocent, make-believe beer, and not the perni- cious alcoholic beer prohibited by Kan- sas law. A Dbottle was produced in court. Snyder's lawyer asked the complaining witness to sample the con- tents and say whether or not it was the same stuff he had bought in Sny- der’s place. The commonwealth's law- yer objected and the Judge sustained the objection. Snyder was convicted and his lawyer took an appeal. Now the Supreme Court of Kansas affirms the judgment of the District Court. “On the trial of a defendant for selling intoxicating liquors contrary to law, a witness for the State,” says the learned Justices, “cannot be asked upon cross- examination to drink from a bottle of strange liquor proffered him and then to state if such liquor is the same as that he had previously purchased. witness cannot be cross-examined upe dublous drinks.”—Hartford Courant. A Wayside Jingle. ‘We worry about the weather, With happy days in flight; ‘We've had enough of sunshine, An’ the rain’s all right! ‘We heard the Summer singin’, An’ reaped the daisies white; ‘We've had a world of sunshine, An’ the rain’s all right! It's give an’ take, my hearty— The bloom, an” then the blight; ‘We’ve known Life’s sunny weathes, An’ the rain’s all right! —Atlanta Constitution. Curious Phenomenon. A curious phenomenon has Jeen no- ticed in the tropics that can never be seen at higher latitudes. A mining shaft at Sombrerete, Mexico, is almost exactly on the Tropic of Cancer, and at noon on June 21 the sun shines to the bottom, lighting up the well for a ver- tical depth of 1100 feet or more. Answers to Queries. STRAWBERRY—C., City. The straw- berry (fragaria) is designated as a plant of the order Rosaceoe, and not as a vine. The plant has runners by which propagation is effected. —_— ‘WITNESSES—Subscriber, City. The prevailing rule is that there should be at least two witnesses in California to a marriage, whether the same is per- formed by a Justice of the Peace or any one authorized to solemnize a mar- riage. PANAMA FLAG—E. R, City. This department has no other information relative to the flag of the republic of Panama than that which has already been published in The Call, to which article reference is made in the letter of inquiry. WASHINGTON'S PALLBEARERS— S, City. The Ulster County Gazette January 4, 1800, gives an account of the funeral of General Washington and names Colonel Simms, Ramsay. Payne. Gilpin, Marsteller and Little as the pallbearers. The funeral was held De- cember 20, 1779. BIRTHDAY—Asker, City. A lady who attends such an event as the cele- bration of an Emperor’s birthday weould certainly not attend such a function in ordinary street dress and remain Present with her hat on. even if “she occupled a seat way back.” 5 et CHINESE—C. G.. City. _Aceording to the census of 1900, the Chinese popu- lation in San Francisco was 13,954. Be- fore the restriction act went into effect it was in excess of 40,000. Tn 1900 the Chinese population of Chicago, TlI, was 1209, There are no figures that will show what the exact Chinese popula- tion of either city is at this time. ———————— Townsend's California glace fruits and " hence, "k Dice tremmnt Tor Easton friends. 715 Market st, above Call bidg. * — e Special information daily to houses and vr‘nhlfie I:,--'! the