The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1903, Page 6

— BY GEORGE FREDE 2 LL. D. b Age in North America,” Glacial Pertod, 3, by Joseph B. Those who live in the well- watered portions of the world, where rich vege- The prevailing southwest winds are constantly blowing the material So irregular are the drifts, however, that innumera- | ble hollows are left between them; and so slow is the movement that vegeta- tion covers their slopes and water is preserved in them: hence they furnish | favorite centers for ranchmen.’ R b The arid lands of Utah and Arizona | and other portions of the great West/ afford-¢nnumerable illustrations of the activity of wind in drifting sani into regions distant from its original source of supply. The desert of Sahara, Ara- bia and the region about the Red Seca | are covered with such moving drifts, | | but most attention has been attracted to thein ICK WRIGHT, A. M., | tation covers the surface and protects. it from the denuding force of the wind, can have little realizing sense of the this ever-active geo- Yet even in some well- effectiveness of gical agency watered regions dunmes are familiar | phenomena. Dunes are simply “drifts” of sand, closely resembling the snow- fis of winter, and protection against As in snowy regions one sees long lines of close board fences some distance from the windwerd side of the railroad to them is secured by similar means. stop the drifting snow on its onward career, so he may in many places see windbreaks to stop the driftirig sand. But in many cases where a windbreak is not suf- ficient a constant force of workmen is necessary to remove the sand from the track at stated intervals or after every unusually severe storm. At such places the raflroad companies,.to their sor- row, learn the enormous power of this gonstantly acting geological force in transferring finely comminuted earthy material-from one place to another. One of the best known localities for observing dunes is found on the gouth- eastern shore of Lake Michigan. ly all, if not all, the railroads ap- proaching cago from the east pass through this series of dunes as they come around the southern end of the tions of Europe, where they have ocea- sioned the population an immense amount of trouble. The coast of Nor- folk in England is fringed with sand hills fifty or sixty feet in height, where in more than one instance whole vil- lages and ancient churches have been buried by the material. In Eccles the fvillage church in 1839 was almost com- | Near- | lake Many of the dunes are very | fresh, with no covering of vegetation, and rise, like snowdrifts, fifty feet or | more above the general level. Others are of such age that they have been | covered more or less with vegetation, | trees of considerable size deing found upon them. But in all cases the ac- n of the wind, in moving the sand southward from the lake, is evident. ‘The wind blowing from the north keeps an exposure of bare sand upon that| side and drifts it over into exposures of equally bare sand upon the outer margin. The width of this belt of dunes around -the south end of Lake Michigan averages a little more than mile. The material, being clean- washed sand,- is unfit.for agricuitural purposes, and the area is occupied by very few hoises, and those mostly be- longing to railway employes. s R The source of the material of which Yhese dunes are composed and the rate movement are Subjects of great i The sand is derived, first place, from the shores of the lake farther rorth, which are constantly be- eaten into by the waves and cur- repts. Al along the western shore, from anston to Racine, the waves @re wearing away the shore at an av- erage rate of three or four feet per an- ram. The material that falls into the lekes from the bluffs thus eroded worked over by very and floated into deep water, while the &:nd remains near the shore and is gradually washed southward by the prevailing currents. Every one in Chicago knows how land is forming on the shore, giving rise to legal contests as to ownership. From obsgervations of the United States engineers it was found that 129,000 cubic yards of sand were annually £topped by the two plers which were extended out into the lake 10 @eep water. This vast amount rep- resented, however, but a fraction of the whole amount of sand that was being carried by the currents past Chicago to the south end of the lake. On reaching the south end of the lake the sand is washed up by the waves during storms and left for a consid- erable portion of the year exposed to the action of the winds, which have drifted it out into the belt of dunes, with which so large a portion of the traveling public is familiar. But owing to the fact that the prevailing winds of this region are westerly the largest ulation of dumes is found upon the ellst sbore, in Michigan. Travelers upon the Michigan Central Railroad cannot fall to have noticed these great @érifts of sand, nearly 109 feet high, at Michigan City. This belt of dunes, ebout & quarter of a mn'nlde. rising sometimes to more than 100 feet in | height, extends northward ajl along the shore, being specially prominent at St. Joseph and Grand Haven. In many places they threaten to overwhelm whele villages and to compel the rafl- roads to remove their tracks to get out of the way of the drifting material, while in some cases houses and forests have been Nfld out of sight. RS It has been rxro!ltablo.!n dwell thus fully upon the dunes around the south- castern portion of Lake Michigan, not because they are thé largest or the most conspicuous in the world, but be- cause they are the most accessible and the best known to ‘the people of the TUnited States. In some respects a still more interesting belt of dunes occurs In Western Nebraska, stretching nearly across the northern part of the State, epproximately parallel with the course of the North Platte River, but at a distance of many milcd from it. This consists of a beit of sand hills a haif- in the | is | the waves until the | finest particies .are washed out | | enveloped it, pletely hid by the drifting sand which while thirty years later the same wind which had buried the church uncovered it and exposed it to view upon the other side of the dune. The churches of St. experiences, while in 1668 a part of San- ton (Sandtown), near Thetford, slowly blown in from five miles to the west. In the course of a century this dune had traveled four miles and spread over 1000 acres of land. More Bo. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. ing Hints. [Athletic Expert New York Evening World, | Author of “Muscle Buflding,” Etc.] (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B, Bowles.) Boxing, as you depends fully as much on defensive as on aggressive work. The man who de- fends himself badly is at the mercy of any ordinarily good opponent. Whereas the man whose attack is poor, but twhose defense is excellent, will often | ©in against & far more “showy” antag- onist. To-day's lesson, therefore, will deal with the art of “ducking.” - T e The sidestep, as we have seen, car- ries the whole body-out of danger. The “duck,” on the other hand, protects only the head. Often there is no time | to sidestep, and it is not expedient to guard with either hand. In such an in- stance the “duck™ is a veritable boon to the hard-pressed boxer. In ducking (as In sidestepping and ln: | ewinging) everything depends on speed, timeliness and perfect accuracy. An awkward or tardy execution of this | maneuver, or a duck at a crisis when a guard with the arm or a sidestep are called for may lead to unpleasant cob- | sequences and may give the other man | just the nxlenlng he has heen playing | for. If you slud}' Ih‘! lesson with especial | care, however, and follow faithfully its instructions, you will, with a little practice, easily master the art of duck- ing and will learn to avoid the (e\\ pitfalls it sometimes involves. A e Put on the gloves and let us begin. | (Remember, when drawing on the “mitts” to use as much care and gen- leness of treatment as though you were donning your $3 50 Sunday peari- kid gloves. In this way your boxing- gloves will last twice as long. It's not boxing that knocks gloves to pieces nearly so much as it is the carelessness | with which they are put on and off.) Take the first position. Go through all the points we studied up to the present, with the straight left lead for the face. These “back lessons” must all be gone through with, daily, and es- have pecially before taking up any new points. There are two regular ducks. They | are known as the "llmlghl duck” and | the “duck to the side.” We will take | up the “straight dack™” first. Let your sparring partner lead your face with his left. throw your head tasthe left and slight- ly forward. Throw it far enough to| the left to enable it to avoid the other | man’s lead, and then bring it around in a sort of circle, still following the leftward trend and bringing the head around until it completes the cirele and is once more in its normal position. I I can better make this clear by ask- ing you to try a little experimen the forefinger of the left hand vertical. Now poke the forefinger of the right hand at it vertically, aiming for the top knuckle. As you do so describe a circle with the end of the forefinger of the left hand, still holding it verti- cally. You will see that this finger tip is thus thrown forward as it nears the end of the first half of the circle, and that it returns to its former vertical position as it completes its circle. Meanwhile, however, the other forefin- ger which was aimed at it has missed it entirely. The left forefinger tip cir- cled completely around it without be- ing touched. That is just the way your head should avoid a straight lead when you duck straight. Throw the head to the left, remember, in all straight ducks, and let it come around, forward in a large enough circle to avoid the blow. g - e e Always duck quickly. yet never too soon. For your sparring partner may merely be “feintjng” to make you duck, and if you fall into the trap he may land on you at willl while vour eyes are temporarily off his face. If you duck too late you run into his blow.: When ducking a swing or a hook re- member that the blow s not tnvclln: straight forward, but is taking a sort of haif circie at right angles to the eir- cle your head is describing. Therefore if you bring your head back to its nep- mal pesition before the swing or hook has wholly passed by, you are liable to recefve the full force of the blow on your head or face. Many an amateur has been knocked out through this mis- calculation. The “duck to the side” we will take up in next 's issue. 3 " THE POSTAL FRAUDS. mile or 86 in* width, which is slowly | traveling eastward across the State. from | | that side-and drifting it over to. the | | northeastern side, thus gradually shift- | | ing the line of the belt. in the more thickly settled por- | Piran and Gwith- | ian in Cornwall passed through similar was | overwhelmed by sand which had been | have already seen, | On guard:!| beginning | for | As he leads | it. Hoid ! jOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor - ITHIE SAN FRAN'C,ISC P N ek a el (TR B R L - Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager | Publication Ofllce mld and Market Streets, 8. F. P P .DECEMBER 1, 1903 and maladmunistration in the Postoffice Department is now before the country in Mr. Bristow’s' report and in President Roosevelt's vigorous and clear epitome. The | evidence shows that these criminal indirections began under | the second administration of Mr. Cleveland and have con- | tinued under three ensuing administrations and under three | different . Postmasters General, of whose personal integrity | there is no room to doubt. | One gratifying sidelight thrown on the affair is the de- | veloped fact that Congressman Loud, chairman of the Postoffice Committee of the House, instigated and advised this investigation,.and procured an appropriation of money for that purpose. He, like any public man, may have had those under him who traded on their contact, but there is { every evidence that he had reason to believe that the de- partment was being misused to despm\ the Government, | and, acting upon that belief, set in motion the inquiry which has probed the matter to the bottom. In a matter that reachés so far, and involves the rela- tions of so many officials and so many private individuals, it is only natural that many may seem to have had guilty knowledge and criminal relations with the heads of the scheme who are innocent of wrongdoing. Their connec- tion, while innocent; may be a misfortune, though their reputations are subject to vindication as the cases pro- ceed. In its large outline the case is one in which the Gov- ernment, outside of its proper political functions, is engaged in a vast business, making necessary immense contracts for transportation and for supplies of merchandise of many kinds. The annual expenditures in carrying on this busi- ness amount to nearly one huridred millions. The persons employed in it number about one hundred and thirty thou- sand.” It is not so managed as to support itself. Its expen-, ‘THE entire scope of the frauds, corruption, mistakes .‘"mm“ is only $1 20 per capita per annum. The defi- | cit. has to be made good by annual appropriations from | the treasury. | If it were run as a private business it would be wholly supported by the revenue derived from those who patronize {it. But as.long as the facility exists for charging off its deficits to the general taxpayers the annual deficit will ap- pear. It is an example of* the opportunities afforded by the Government being in business. Members of Congress seck popularity by cheapening the postal service to those who "use it. So we have a progressive cheapening of stamps, and cost per pound in the express business done hy mail, in the commission on money orders and in the carrying of second class matter for the benefit of the | patrons of the business, while there is not a corresponding | reduction in the expense of running it. All deficits go | into the postal deficiency appropriation and are footed by the taxpayers. We have here a situation which invites corruption, and since the early history of the department the invitation has | been accepted, under all parties and all administrations. | The present condition of the department, as disclosed by Bristow's report, is simply the explosion of operations that have been going on for ten or fifteen years. It has seemed | to be impossible for such colossal business operations to be | efficiently m'anz;;cd and safeguarded by the Postmaster General.” He has, as a member of the Cabinet, to share | in the properly political functions of the Government. Mat- ‘ ters of patronage engross his time and attention, and the | outline and detail of the vast business of his department ! have to be committed to subBrdinates, who may or may not be selected for their integrity or fitness. They are so numerous and their dutjes so intricate, and their extension to contacts with the business of the country so far reaching, that the head of the department cannot hope to inform ! himself of either. ¥ The general auditing system of the treasury, applied to the political part of the Government's functions, is, as far as they are concerngd, an efficient check, but even this seems to fail when it deals with the Postoffice Department, and to fail because it is a business. To illustrate the differ- ence between business as carried on by a corporation and by the Government: In the business of the Pullman Car | Company, amounting to millions every year, account is ‘kopt of every cake of soap, every piece of bed clothing, | every towel, comb and hairbrush. The gencral average of | every car in the use of these supplies is known, and any aberration is immediately examined. If an increase in use appear the reason has to be known and the consumption I’satislaclorily accounted for. | In the transaction of the postoffice business no such sys- tem appears, so we have a sudden increase in the use of a special kind of ink, amounting to $10,000 a year; in mani- folding stipplies of $40,000; in other articles of $3,000,000; in a mail bag fastener of $130,000; automatic cash registers, $74,275: and so on through the list of merchandise, great and small, in which the Government was compelled to deal in its business, and the system of audit does not seem to have noted the aberration from the average, or to have been capable of finding thesreason for its existence. A pri- vate corporation can trace a cake of soap or a coarse comb. The Government is incapable of finding a leak of $3,000,000! ' These frauds that are revealed will be punished. The President means what he says. It falls to his lot to correct abuses that were begun when he was a private citizen and that had accumulated to their existing volume before he be- came President. Let us hope that out of it will come pun- ishment of the guilty, vindication of the inmocent, and, what is of equal importance, an enlightened attempt to in- vest this Government business with business safeguards. — i QUEER COLOMBIA. HE announcement by General Reyes that he is author- T ized to offer the United States all canal privileges on the isthmus of Panama free of cost, either initial or fu- ture rental, is something more than surprising; it is amus- |ing. He says he has authority to do this from President Marroquin. - So. Minister Herran had authority from Mar- roquin to make the canal treaty, which the Colombian Con- gress rejected without giving adequate reason for such ac- tion. Under the Colombian constitution the Congress has to ratify any new treaty, arrangment or agreement that Reyes may make now. Of course the price that he exacts for this gift to us of all we want on the isthmus is our consent that the forces of Marroquin shall be free to invade ] ma*from the sea, and by slaughter reduce the new republic. After this is done, and we have parted with the opportunity that is glven us by the new sovereignty of the isthmus, there is no guarantee that Colombia will fulfill this agfeement any more than she did the last one. TIn effect it is an offer of a stupendous bribe to the United Slates ‘to permit mur- der and disorder on the isthmus. - In some respects it is fortunate that Colombia’s *pdlicy takes that shape, for it will be difficult for any self-respect-| dizures per capita’ of our population amount to $1°36; its | -physician and a citizen, interested in all three capacities in | ing American to consider such a remarkable proposition unless: the Panama junta should decide that she will peace- fully surrender her de facto’sovereignty, return to Colom- bia and get now, under this offer, the completiop of the canal, which has been her steddy purpose. If she do this we could Hail Colombia as restored to sound and disposing mind and memory, take her at her word and the canal without nroney and without price. Otherwise this offer will go into history among the curiosities of diplomacy, and evi- dence of the repentance of an international dog in the man- ger. Panama is not heard from in the matter. The ofie'r may divide the isthmians and may prove to be a test of their steadfastness and statesmanship. The Panama situation continues to hold the stage among our, domestic questions. It is evident that the Democratic press of the Southern States will not support the proposed partisan attack on the President. Journals in Memphis and other Southern commercial centers re- . - A Young Incorrigible. A well-known resident of Alameda, the father of three children, is never hairbreadth from death suffered by his youngest, a sturdy boy .about 8 years tired of telling of the many escapes of age. Last Saturday he wore a pnrtlcularly worried look and a friend whom he met on the ferryboat asked him the cause. “It's the boy, I suppose, George,” he said. “Yes, it's the boy again’~ sald George. “That boy will be the death of me yet. Two. weeks ago I warned him not to go near a neighbor’'s house a because one of the youngsters, schoolmgte of my lad, had diphtheria. Of course as soon as I left the house . my boy did just what I told him not to | do. He trotted right over to the tor-. gard the Panama revolution as offering to this country an | pigden house to find out for himself | opportunity and do not indorse the narrow partisan view that it must be neglected or seizing it denounced because the national administration is Republican. These papers warn Southern members of Congress to look before they leap and to be- ware lest they become ob;tructicnists of the canal and try to create a situation that will indefinitely defer that great work. All these are signs of hopeful independence, which will impress the public opinion of the whole country. p—— The baby republic of Panama, speaking through men that have no rational right to be her spokesmen, believes that the question of sovereignty and security will be solved by the possession of a few warships. It might be safe to. give Panama a keg of gunpowder, a fuse and a match. She will be taught probably in good time that children must not play with dangerous toys. EYES AND EDUCATION. . A Bee of an, address delivered by Governor Pardee to the Sacramento city and county teachers which easily ranks in the forefront of utilitarian talks. The Gov: ernor’s theme was “The Eyes of School Children,” in which countless thousands of parents are directly copcerned. “I take it,” said Governor Pardee, speaking as a Governor, a the public schools and the children attending them, “that vour duty toward these children is not discharged when you listen to their recitations, mark their examination papers and send home their report cards for the signature of their parents. It is necessary in my judgment that you exercise due care not only in the makmg of sound minds but also sound bodies.” ‘What followed was a feeling plea for the children. “Many a child,” said Governor Pardee, “who cannot properly see the blackboards, who cannot plainly see the print in the books, whose efforts at seeing may be painful, gives up the unequal struggle and quietly accepts the verdict of ‘stupid’ rendered against him by those who come in contact with |- him. Others rebel against the unjust charges and become school Ishmaelites. So, I say, the questiom of your chil- dren’s eyes is a'most important matter. Upon it frequently hangs the future success or want thereof of children in our schools.” This eminently practical topic, which was dealt with at considerable length, attracted and held the attention of the educators assembled. As the teachers represented only one section of the State and the subject is one of universal ap- plication and equally engrossing to all educators and to all parents who have children in the public schools some addi- tional points from the address are selected for their im- portance for publication here. Governor Pardee said children often go into the lower grades of the schools with perfect eyes and normal vision and in-a year or two their eyes begin to trouble them. They have headaches and eye pains and cannot see well and begin to drop behind in their school work. In other words, while | their eyes were congenitally perfect they have acquired eye trouble. Putting glasses on children was declared not to be a fad but a necessity. “They are as much a necessity to the children’s eyes as are crutches to broken legs.” No child, said the Governor, should be permitted to sit 1 doubled up at a desk holding a book not more than six inches from his eyes. teen, sixteen or eighteen inches from the eyes is an octlar crime. “I come here to-day,” said he, “to preach to you in the interest of the children the gospel of sit up straight.” He went on to say: “To aid your little people in acquiring the proper reading distance habit see to it that the smaller thildren are not seated at the larger and highet desks and be equally careful that the larger children are not seated at the smaller and lower desks. Either misfit of child to desk is ascholastic abomination and should not be allowed. 1 know of no more unhygienic practice than that of having school children seated according to their individual rank in their studies, their po- sitions in the schoolroom changing as they ascend or descend on the roll of honor. Rank in school should not determine the desks that scholars should occupy. Length of leg and height of body should always determine that. And any scholar compelled to sit either with his knees doubled up under his chin or his feet dangling in the air or his desk under his chin or beyond his easy reach has or ought to have’the privilege of visiting an equal torture upon his un- observing teacher.” P — Our winter crop of burglars is now being diligently har- vested by the police. Fortunately it is being collected and housed without any unnecessary violence or bloodshed. The police are to 'be congratulated on their early endeavors. Later in the season, when the night birds have gained ex- perience with practice, there would be a needless murdesing of ‘citizens who have scruples against being separated from their property. The Denver man who wrote a book establishing to the sahsfacnon of Denverites the reality of heaven and hell now says his effort was simply an unnecessary exhibition . of idiocy. He is too painfully self-conscious. comfort in the fact that he gratified his environment wrote down to the standards of his fellow townsmen. ng him be glad that wlntbethou(ht muhoeyfi\qtmm ‘was reasoit. Leénard Wood may be confirmed by the -United States | D™ her entire fortune, amounting to! Senate as a major general of the United States army, but of which statesmanship should take advantage, | just how sick his playmate was and | three days later was taken sick. Well, e managed to save him and for sev- eral days we have had a rest. morning, however,” while my wife and | I were-busy he managed to sneak out. We did not know he was gone until a ring came at the door, and we opened it to find a neighbor with the little fel- low, soaking wet from heels to head, | in his arms. “We managed despite our fright to| give him a warm bath and tuck him | into bed. ‘Didn’t I tell yom, you little | rascal,’ I said to him, ‘never to go near | the beach alone?” He looked at me a minute and then sat up, put his arms around my neck and whispered: ‘Papa, I ain’t been to no beach. I jest fell down Willie Smith's well.” ” Hunting Mamma. The officers told the Judge of the | the little fellow on Turk street. It was midnight; the rain was coming down in" torrents and a wind was blowing that cut llke a knife and caused even -the warmly clad officers to shiver and | shake. ‘“He was dressed just as you see him now, Judge,” continued the officers, “and seemed to be doing noth- ing but rfoaming the streets: So we arrested him and took him-in out of the FHrys "“What were you doing on the streets | so late, my little man?" asked the Judge in a kindly manner and putting his hand on the boy's head. “I was looking for my mamma,” eried the boy; “she lives on that street. She did not come to see me last week at the Orphan Asylum at San Mateo and I was fonesome.” “San, Mateo?” queried the “How did you reach the city?” “‘Please, sir,” the urchin replied, sob- | bing afresh, “I walked.” Kentucky Colonels. In the Senate cloakroom one after- noon last winter some one began chaf- fing Senator Blackburn on the exceed- ingly great numbers of “Majors” and “Colonels” dwelling in the State of Kentucky. Mr. Blackburn -took the chaff in good part; indeed, he even added to the merriment. “A gentleman from Georgia who was visiting Lexington,” he attests, “was presented {o a Major Titherington of that place. The Georgian, whose fam- ily has always been more or less in- | clined to the military, was charmed by the geniality of his new acquaintance, and, as Southerners are accustomed to | do under such circumstances, began to question him as to his antecedents. | Eventually they discovered that they were ‘kin’ in greater or less degree. “‘Now, tell me,’ said the Georgian, ‘how you gained the rank of major—in the Civil War, 1 presume?” “‘No, sir,” replied the major. “‘Oh, I see!’ responded the other, ‘then you weré perhaps in the volunteer | service during the recent little affair | with Spain * ‘No, sir,"” said the major, imperturb- To hold the book nearer than four- | ably, ‘to tell you the truth, sir, I am called “Major” because I married widow of the late Major Sparks! Saturday Evening Post. Notes From St. Louis. A monster iron statue of Vulcan weighing twenty tons will be erected | by Alabama in the mines and metal- lurgy building at the World’s Fair. This | colossal statue will be forty-five feet high and it will be a work of art. It will be cast entirely of Alabama iron, which runs like bronze in a liquid state, and will be covered with a coat of shellac. It will cost $10,000, and after the World’s Fair will be erected in one | of the principal parks of Birmingham as a permanent monument. The grounds surrounding the Ken- tucky State building at the World's Fair will be laid out in the most artis- tic manner. Large flower beds of cannas, roses, geraniums, etc., will be planted in suitable places. The lawn will be of the finest blue grass, which will be sown this fall to make a heavy sod by springtime. Rustic bridges and log cabins will adorn the most pictur- | esque spots. Evergreens and shrubbery will be eent from Kentucky; in fact, everything planted to beautify the grounds and ornament the building will be obtained in Kentucky. Relics of Dante. Now that Sir Henry Irving is In this country reviving interest in the great Italian poet Dante by his wonderful impersonation of the latter on the stage, it may be of interest to recall the fact that most of the authentic and | He should nke interesting relics of Dante are in the possession of an ex-footman, but who now bears a title of nobility obtained by the judicious expenditure of money. He was in the service of the late Countess Zucchini, who died a few Yyears ago at Florence, bequeathing to | several million francs, after hawng raised him from the servants’ hall to his coat will not be as spotless as it was. It is regrettably | the position of agent and factotum in very evident that General Wood has done some very small | the management of her property Tha things to accomplish a big purpose. King Edward has decided that he #ill not race his horses at the St. Louis Exposition. He evidently understands far better than some bu: who sent the invitation frnm of a Prince and tiu‘rohm £ Countess was the last descendant of Dante, the immortal poet of the “In- ferno,” who, like herself, was a mem- ber of the Alighieri family. Marrying very young a Count Zaechini, she left him after a few and thenceforth abandoned herself to all kinds of ec- Judge. | “Generals,” | i 20 | relatives of her motker and of her hus- band endeavored go have her put un- | | der restrain®, but the courts invariably - | decided In her tavor, declarfln‘ that This | While she avas odd she was quite keen- witted ¢nougb to manage her own af- | fairs. It had been hoped that she would be- | quezin the numerous relics of Daate, which she had inherited as the last of | the house of Alighieri, to some of the | museums ‘or public Institutions, either | of Florencé or of Rome. But they all | passed into the possession of her ex- footman, and the legal proceedings in- | stituted to upset her will resulted -in defeat.—Marquise de Fontenoy. \ . A Mother's Trust. Dbleared eyes, - His ?aée like the .map of the cmtry of Sin ° Knowinx no hope md wtnn!n( ne prize, CaMous without and hardened withinw— r VERBATIM report is supplied by the Sacramento | Juvenile Court that they had first seen | Room for him still on the xmt high- way! Comrade of shame and ¢mp‘nion of woe;, Look where he staggers and softly say:, “Mother belleved in him long ago.” - A wee babe, on her bosom he la; And 3enl she chanted an oii. sweet - "Hu-hdby. lullaby;" ever, alway, His white angels ranrd thee from er- - ror and wrong." And his lipd were as pure as a thought of God, And his eyes were bright, that are heavy and dim. | As the sleep-angels bore him, o'er flelds untrod, ; There where the t'm‘ht was lh’lllnl its hymn. Time-worn. weather-beaten—and yet she dreamed, With love int her eyes, as a molher | must; | And she saw where the sunlight over him streamed, | And the prayer in her heart was_ the prayer of trust. .| A mother believed in him, long ago— This is his passport to heights of peace, Where we walk no more with error and woe, And the pain and the travail (orev-» cease. Only a wreck, 'mid the wrecks of men, | ~ Crushed in the battle; lost, forlorn, * | Staggering on. through mire and fen, Yet to hope's heritage he was born.” Make room for him. thenm, on -the great highway! ‘Whither . twill loid him we may not know, | Out of the maze of doubt and dismay. Since a mother believed in him, long ago. —Atlanta Constitution. | The Hottentots. | The Hottentots, who are giving the German authorities in’ Southwest Af- rica some trouble at present, are a cu- rious, wizened, yellow-faced tribe. As far back as 1794-a native regiment of Hottentots was enrolled in Cape Colony by General Craig, and the present Cape Mounted Rifles is their lineal descend- | ant. The Cape Colony Hottentots had always been a cause of anxiety to the govérnment, and in 1810 the last of their chiefs who had authority, in the Cape was deposed and sentenced to penal ser- vitude i chains for life. He escaped into Kaffirland, but was recaptured and sent as a convict to New South Wales, where he died in 1830. The Hottentot is lazy, careless, and of light but active | bufld. There are about 75,000 of them in the Cape Colony, but they are most unlikely to give the authorities any trouble in connection with the rising of | their kinsmen in German territory. | ‘Answers to Queries. | CLEVELAND—R. L. M., City. The | city of Cleveland, Ohio, was named af- ter General Moses Cleveland, agent of the Connecticut Land Company in 1796, | 1ts fourder. Grover Cleveland was born at Caldwell, N. J., in 1837. MOUNTAINS—N., City. The height of Mount Hercules in the North Range | of New Guinea is given in several geo- ‘zraphk‘al works as 32,786, and that of Mount Everest in the Himalaya Range at 29002 feet. FEDERAL PRISONER-M. G. R, City. If for good and sufficient reasons 1t becomes necessary for a Federal prisoner to be removed from a prison |in one State to a prison in another ! State, that may be dome upon proper representation to the court that sen- tenged him. MAGPIE=M. P., City. This depart- | ment suggests if you desire to op- erate on the tongue of a magpie in or- der to make the bird talk and you are not an expert in that line, that you do not do it, but take the bird to a bird fancier, who will do all that is required without danger to the bird. . REGISTRATION—O. S, City. If a | man entitled to registration.goes before the proper officer for the purpese of be- ing registered in order to be enabled to vote, he has to take an oath that all answers to questions asked him are true. If he deliberately makes a false statement, and that can be proved. he is subject to prosecution for perjury. Townsend's Callfornia giage fruita and caundies mlul‘ in iati - etched boxes. A nic e B friends. 715 lfl'ld lt.. abote Call bidg. * e T W Special information supplied daily to : caii- Timeworn, weather-beaten, with u-.-