The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1903, Page 6

— INSTRUCT A Word to the Married. + BY CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS, D. D. [Author of *The Redemption of Cor- sor. The Loom of Lafe ] (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B. Bowles.) There is v one possible discovery more terrible than a man’s finding that the girl he marries for her guiet gen- tieness is reality a termagant. “It is better to dwell in a desert Jand than with a cor tentious and fretful woman."” What is a man to do who finds out that his wife is a vixen? Th2 ducking stool i€ aut of fashion and the jail yawns for 2 wife beater. Is the case a hopeless onme and must he settle down to let that tongue wag on for- e It is a serious question, and be- many men whose ves are a torture on account of rheir fretful, complaining wives, it is out of place to joke. cause there are so There is a congenital tendemey in some women to nag and fret and fuss. God help them! They are 5s much to be pitied as blamed. In dealing with them the first experiment should be made wi flence. It is not *oo much to say th the very existence of a home is imperiled by the presence of a shrew, for the disposition to fume and ecold is certain to increase with the passing years and the growing-burdens of life. And no matter how patient a man may be ntinuous dropping wears away a stone. The quietest and most placid per is liable to explode under the i ssant strain of a vixen's and as “back talk” provoke a quarrel, the hu: shrew arn to hold his t is not enough, however, simpl woman wno is the vietim thsome infirmity will taik as long as any one will listen. But there and ust this 1 1s a psychological law in which there lies some hope. She will not talk tc herself. It is among the bare possibil of life that if she sces her husband clap on his hat every tine | €he opens her batteries, she may learn to keep still for fear of This, however, is but a siender hope. The disease is 100 deeply seated for su- perficial treatment and requires heroic measures. Nothing but the exercise of masculine authority backed by the highest kind of moral power wiil work a lasting cure, and it is because busbands hesitate to resort to this extreme meas- ure that so many homes are wrecked by shrews Most men are utterly dispirited by a shrew’s ceaseless outcry against life. A few experiments convince them of the incalculable force of this unhappy | disposition, and they give it up as a bad job and fiy to the saloon for conso- Jation. Stili other men are too cour- teous to oppose and struggle with a wo- man. There is in every true gentleman an instinctive deference for her sex and | tolerance for her little weaknesses. Nothing is more offensive than his su- perior strength and will. And nothing is more dangerous. The moment peo- ple lose sgif-control they resort to vio- lence. THEere is but a sten between resistance and wife-beating. An in- stinctive fear that a blow will be the conseguence of & brawl has kept many @ man quiet and patient until he found rest in the grave. For all men who do | Dot possess the highest type of moral power and the most perfect self-con- trol there is no safe way but silence and non-resistance. There are, however, me:s who possess qualifications for delivering women from the influendes of this devil of fret- fulness and fault-finding, and it is their duty to exercise their powers, not only for their own sakes, but for their wives'. For the finer natures of such WOmen are as sure to go to pieces un- der the evil influences of tnis pernic- jous habit as are those of their hus- bands. What must a man do. then? Resist it. Stand firm and flat-footed against it. Tell his wife he will not have it. Warn her that she will ruin her own soul and his and perhaps break up the home. This is not a matter to be minced! It is not a vice to be excused or condoned, being every bit as serious @s drunkenness. A common “scold” is not a whit more respectable than an inebriate. Termagants do not reel and fall down in a stupor. They do not emash furniture and pawn their Jewel- ry for whiskey. But they do fill the cups of their husbands and their chil- dren with bitterness. They quench ali domestic joy. They throw a continual shadow over the household. And the shrew ought to know it. There is no real obligation on a gentleman to per- mit his life and hie home to be ruined from a sense of chivalry. His wife i 2 woman, but she is also a moral egent and accountable for her conduct. T What such women mneed is to be brought face to face with the moral depravity of shrewishness. Poor things! They are often sick and nerv- ous. Those natures are as delicately tuned as Apollo’s Iyre. The listle dis- cords of daily life produce agony. Trifies Wre exaggerated into enormities, Tt's hard. We lay our pity at their feet. But still—they too are endowed being left alone. | !lumuc asylum because she was per- mitted to work herseif into a frenzy ’ over the trifles of housekeeping t still be sane and happy If her husband had possessed the moral power and had exercised his authority to hold her back from that most inexcusable of all sui- | cides—the destruction of a soul by fret- | fulness. { Riches Out of Waste. | BY MALCOLM McDOWELL. | tAuthor of “Shop Talk on the Wonders of the l (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B. Bowles.) | Chemical experiments with waste | products have made millionaires of | many men. The industrial chemist is | the wealth producer of the industrial world. By transforming waste prod- | ucts into by-products he not only has added millions to the revenues of man- ufacturers and miners, but has brought "‘]tm‘n luxuries to the hard pan of daiiy necessities. There was a time when every slaugh.- ter house and packing establishment was a public nuisance and a breeder of disease and foul odors. This was be- | cause the grease, offals and all the cast-outs pvhich went under the gen- eral head of "waste™ prodiicts were ac- tually wasted. To-day the word “waste” is practically wiped off the slate of packing house vocabulary. The old joke that a Chicago packing house uses every part of a pig except its squeal and*is canning squeals for grand juries is a concise statement of the real conditions in such establishments. There is a great sewer which carries | the water from the Chicago stock yards to the Chicego River. Not many vears ago this water was bubbling ! with the gases of decomposition thick with™ floating grease and rot- | ten refuse. + Now the water is about | the color of very weak beef tea, and | as harmless. Thgt is because the in- dustrial chemist has discovered and de- | veloped methnds which have made the waste by-products, and what was once | cast into the sewer is now carefully col- lected to later become finished prod- ucts of great value and large import- ance. | Take the one item of blood. Thou- | sands of tems of fertilizers are made every year from the red gore, which | gives local color to up-to-date packing | houses. The produced fertilizers are chiefly valaable for the large amount | of nitrogen which they contain, and | nitrogen is one of the most necessary | parts of plant food. Fertilizers made | at a big packing house from blood and | ground bone are shipped to all parts | of the world. No part of an animal killed on a | slaughter floor of a modern packing-! house is lost or wasted. Formerly the | caul fats went into the cheap tallow | products. Now they are utilized for | the manufacture of oleomargarine ofl, | the chief component part of bunerlne! or oleomargarine. The Intestines are made into sausage covers. Pepsin is| a modern product which the industrial chemist gets from thé sfomach and gall | is.used by printers, painters and dyers. | The blood goes into fertilizers, much of | it is used in sugar refineries to clarify | the syrup, and imitation tortoiee shell, | buttons and other articles are made | from a preparation which has hydraulic | pressed blood as its princrpal constitu- | ent. The common fats, unfit for mak- | ing oleomargarine ofl, are rendered into | tallow; the hide is sent to the tanner; | the bladders and weasands are used for | | packing snuff and putty in and for scores of other things; horns, blade bones and shin bones are made into buttons, combs, knife handles, etc.;| hoofs, hide trimmings, sinews, knuckles and other scraps are made into glue, and all offal not otherwise used is con- | verted into fertilizers. [ For years glycerin, now used in im- | mense quantities, was a wasted pro- duct. Soap makers and, in fact, every | manufacturer who uses fatty -oils, for- merly sent the waste adrift in conven- ient streams. But now the waste from fatty oils is treated with alkalis, the glycerin is collected by evaporation and distillation and great quantities | of it are used in making useful explo- | sives. | Industrial chemistry applied to the | petroleum industry fairly revolution- | ized the manufacture of ofls. The | | Standard Oil Company may be the | | mother of trusts, but it has done more | to develop and encourage industrial | chemistry probably than any other con- ‘ jcern or institution on the face of the | earth. Originaily crude oil was refined | | to obtain kerosene for illuminating pur- | poses. The waste was enormous. To- | day the by-products in the manufac- ture of kerosene are more valuable than the principal product. By various | | processes of distillation and the addi- tion of acids and alkalis, erude oil is split up into gasoline, naphtha of va- | rious grades, kerosene, lubricating oll, | paraffin, vaseline, cosmoline and scores j of other preparations and carbons for jarc lights. It is when 6ne remembers that but a few short years ago every one of thess products except kerosene was wasted, that one appreciates the importance of the expert chemist in the industrial field. Time was, and not so very long ago, when coal tar was regarded pretty much as a waste product. But the in- quisitive industrial chemist began pick- ing it to pleces, and now the most beay- tifui analine dyes are produced from the once despised coal tar, and numeraus valuable drugs result from its distil- lation and chemical treatment. Anti- | pyrine, antifebrin, acetanalid, phenace- | tine and saccharin, which is 280 timos | sweeter than sugar; sulphopal, which | puts nervous people to sleep, are some coal tar drugs, and benzine, benzol, creosote ofl, naphthalene, lampblack and innumerable colors and dyes are produced from the residuum cailed coal tar. In the manufacture of glucose chem- i : £ i B | i i | i ? ia i ! : i i # il | better. | ter is making a poor showing. The provision trade is TI{E SAN FRANCISCO CAIL, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1903. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor - - - - - - - - - Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager e LTy S @ etitetieeie......Third and Market Streets, S. F. MONDAY . ...DECEMBER 14, 1903 TRADE ON A NORMAL BASIS. RADE seems to be about on a normal plane at Tprescm. There is no depression of any conse- quence, nor is there any particular activity in any line. In other words the situation is about as usual just before the holidays, when tl)e wholesale trade is about to take stock and therefore quiet, and the retailers and jobbers are doing most of the business. No activity need be expected until along in the middle of January and in some years it does not appear until the 1st of February. It is worthy of remark that the feeling of apprehension, not to say despondency, which crept over the country during the early fall months has passed away. The enor- mous liquidation in Wall street has ceased, and with it the depression whichis apt to accompany a sharp decline in stocks. Trade reports now coming in show a better state of affairs than was expected several weeks ago. A mercantile agency has just sent out broadcast.a set of questions to the more important lines as to the condition of their trade in coraparison with 1902 and the returns are satisfactory. New England reports a gain of from 10 to 15 per cent in hoots and shoes, cottons and_ruhber, with the outlook in lumber and woolens problematical. | The lumber sales are 25 per cent less than in 1902, but the situation in wool is improving. The Southwest reports a general increase of 10 to 12 per cent, but the Northwest reports a decrease of about 5 per cent. In the Southern States the conditions are favorable and the recent sharp advance in cotton has made business lively in that impor- tant section of the country. The dry goods market at New York is reported in an unsatisfactory condition. The Pacific Coast sends in excellent reports, with export and local business up to the average of this time of the year. % Against this good exhibit, however, there are some lines which are not ‘naking a good showing. The rail- road earnings are not keeping up to théir previous gains and money is returning to New York from the West more slowly than expected. This is not serious, how- | ever, for funds are mauch more plentiful and accessible than anticipated some months ago, and even if the return movement is delayed some weeks no particular derange- ment will result as far as present indications go. The best three barometers to trade are now making an improved showing. The bank clearings have at last got over to the right side of the book and last week were 4.2 per cent la‘ger than during the corresponding week in 1902. It has been some time since these ex- changes showed a gain over the preceding year.” Condi- tions in the iron trade are better, as orders, though still small, seem to be increasing and there is much less de- pression in prices. Some recognized authorities in this line say that the bottom has been reached and that hence- forth any change in conditions will probably be for the Time will tell. It is said that the cusrent quar- looking up at Chicago, where the cash demand is reported fine, and though the packers are trying to force down prices for cured meats they are accumulating stock in their cellars, the supposition being that they expect to seil out these holdings at higher prices later on. If the exhibit of these three birometers be accepted as good indicators of the condition of trade then general business is on a better basis than for seyeral months past. Though still lower prices are expected all along the line, as pro- duction is steadily overtaking consumption, it is thought that the recession will continne to be gradual. If this proves true then no serious effects will accompany the decline in prices. / A gratifying feature of the general situation is the ex- cellent condition of the farmers. They seem to be finan- cially strong all over the land. Large crops and good prices for several years have placed them as a class upon their feet and they are prepared to hold on to their produce until they obtain satisfactory prices for it. The cotton planter of the South is on velvet. The wheat planter of the West and Northwest is getting a good price for his grain and the fruit and grain growers of the Pacific Coast have done well for several seasons. As for diversified farming it is paying excellert dividends everywhere. Hops, hides, wool, dairy produce and the hundreds of minor products are bringing good returns, and wherever we look we find the agriculturist doing well. Perhaps it is this condition that imparts renewed confidence to the business situation, for as long as the farmer prospers the rest of the country will not be visited by any'serious depression. The stock market continues quiet and devoid of espe- cial feature. Stocks are firm one day and weak the next, with no particular tendency in either direction at the moment. There are no signs yet that the public have returned to the speculative field, and the market there- fore continues almost exclusively professional. Money is still in good supply all over the country, and as already pointed out interest rates are much lower than expected | some months ago. We are importing gold, another good sign. Our foreign balances are running more in our favor than for a yecar past. Competent authorities in New York say that most of our foreign obligatighs have been liquidated and the steady imports of gold tend to confirm this statement. Taken in the aggregate the condition of trade throughout the country is excellent. But we must not overlook the fact that the era of abnor- mally high prices is over and that the tendency is toward a more conservative plane. TRANSFORMATION OF STANISLAUS. HE Stockton Independent editorially arrays facts Trclative to the transformation of Stanislaus County through irrigation that must be interesting to the people of the State at large. It says: “The transforma- tion effected by the introduction of irrigating canals into sections that have been devoted exclusively to grain farming is well illustrated by Stanislaus County, where a boom is on that is amazing not only to old residents of the county.” Among the particular facts cited by the Independent in support of its assertion are several relating to recent sales of realty, and these probably afford a safe way for forming a judgment as to the appreciation in which Stan- islaus County lands are now held. “Yesterday,” says the Independent, “the Modesto papers recorded the sale of a tract of land near Ceres 'at, $150 an acre, the purchaser being a newcomer from one of the Middle Western States. Many sales are recorded every day and most of the transactions are for small par- ‘cels of land, from ten to fifty acres each, at prices from $40 to $100 per acre, according to location and the im- provements made with irrigation in view. A few ago any of the Stanislaus lands that now bring from $40 to $100 per acre could be bought in any desired quanti- | ties at $20 per acre and large ranches could be bought for $1o to $15 per acre.” " R R Countty lands Concerriing the purchasers of Stanislaus it is said that “they are principally newcomers, who know the value of water on lands and who are ready with their savings earned in a less favored country to start life anew yherc‘every promise is given of large returns.” The Independent speaks of other parts of the San Joaquin Valley that are receiving large benefits from irri- gation and says: “The picture is not alone that of Stanisla County, for the southern section of San Joaquin County, just across the Stanislaus River dividing line, is fast changing into an irrigation district and land values are going up by bounds, while the old timers are rubbing their eyes and wondering if the reports that come to them can be true. A leading Stockton banker saiq only yesterday that his institution had just sold a large tract of San Joaquin sand land under the irrigation canal for $350 an acre that a year ago would have been transferred to any purchaser for $15 per acre Having silenced its crowing roosters Alameda now | wants to get rid of her cats, dogs and rabbits. I this | sort of thing continues only the trumpet of reform will be heard in her streets and even this will be a nuisance for want of a subject. 4 STOCK AND WOOL PRODUCERS. ALLS have been issued by the National Livestock ‘ Association and the National Wool Growers’ | Association for their respective annual conven—; tions to be held simultaneously in Portland, Or., com- | mencing upon the 11th of January. That the doings of | the two bodies of producers will be of momentous inter- est to the wool growing and livestock interests of the | country is evidenced by the gquestions which are sched- uled for discussion. It is evident from the tone of the summons sent forth | to delegates that combination among the producers against the meat and wool trusts will be-the absorbing ! question of debate. Secretary Charles F. Martin of the | Livestock Association thus sets forth the need for con- certed action upon this point on the part of the stock- men: “The decline in the value of livestock of the nation during the past eighteen months because of the manipu- lation of prices by powerful combinations in the Eastern markets and other causes amounts to more than $750,- | { i TALK- O ~ o e s She Fired Things. “I was-discussing the holidays with a friend prominent in business cir- cles in this city,” sald a well-known San Francisco bachelor, “just after I had accepted an invitation to dine that evening at his home, when he startled me somewhat by saying he was glad I was coming out, because his wife ‘would probably. fire some dishes,” and he'd like to have me there if it oc- curred.” Now just why it was desir- able that I be present when anything of so domestic and personal a natgre was on, I couldn’t imagine, except it be that I might get any of the dishes that missed him. I asked if she fired things often, and he replied, ‘Oh, yes: nearly every night lately.’ Not being a very artful dodger I was wondering how I could back out gracefully, when he added, ‘You see, she’s firing the! china that she paints for Chrlstmul presents.’ Then I feit foolish. She was only addicted to that habit that you cane pronounce with either a hiss or a cough, but usually spell ‘ceramic.’” Gilded the Deer Hounds. “You want something funny from the musician’s point of view?’ said Louis Homeler, leader at a Ilocal thea- ter. “Why, musicians never joke—but —well, let's see—yes, something hap- pened once when I was leader of the| old Baldwin Theater that you might think funny. I didn't, thougn. I was fond of hunting in those days and, hav- ing arranged one Saturday tc go to the Livermore hills, I tied my brace of deer hounds under the stage until I could finish the matinee. After the show I donned my hunting suit, led the dogs out and started down Market street. It was a bright, sunshiny aft- ernoon and before long I noticed the passersby all seemed in rarz good hu- mor and that” their approving smiles seémed coming my way. I was inno- | cent of any special effort to please and didn’t understand. “As I progressed, however, the fun seemed to grow. * Finally a friend stepped up and said: ‘Louis, it's very | artistic I know, but rather sensational | ©00,000. This with the other matters mentioned have | tended to discourage somewhat the stockman. These | conditions should, however, be the incentive for every one -engaged in the industry to attend this convention | and assist in devising methods to rectify permanently | these evils.” He-further says that the only remedy is for the stockmen to combine and provide competition by building independent packing plants and encouraging new markets. Should the delegates determine to fight fire with fire @ critical period in the mecat market, of the country will necessarily ensue and the action of the con- ventions in this matter will therefore be watched with more than passing interest. Both the stock and sheep men will raise an issue upon the question of forest reserves and their control by the Department of the Interior. Though mutually antago- nistic upon the disputed right of sheep men to pasturage upon the Government reservationss the two bodies are | united in opposition to the prohibition of grazing upon Government land which is not actually a part of forest | | i | | invested in this and dependent indus- I 'sins they eat, 190,000,000 pounds, and you shouldn’t do it I said: ‘Say, what's the matter with you, anyway? He pointed to thé dogs. And, heavens! | If the scene painter hadn't applied a | { coat of bright gilt to the hind quarters | of both dogs and the afternmoon sun shining thereupon had made the pic- | ture that had merited so much ap- | proval. Well, I didn’t care for innova- | tions in dog styles, so left them in the { first saloon, to be removed under the | charitable cover of night.” | The Grape Market. The cultivation of grapes for the mar- ket, for raisins and to make wine has become an important business of the United States during recent years. Two hundred million dollars of capital are tries. California supplies the people of the country with practically 1l! the rai- and the same State, with New York and Ohio, produces annually 24,000,000 gal- clad watersheds. An attempt will be made to memorial- dze Congress upon the necessity of creating a commission | tb examine all reserves and eliminate from them all non- | forest lands. % Further it will be urged upon Congres: by resolutions of the two bodies that legislation chould be enacted which will compel the movement of stock trains to main- tain a minimum rate of speed of twenty miles an hour. With this recommendation is projected another request- ing that a right of way of such trains over those bearing dead freight be enforced. Four thousand telephone companies, operating with a capital of $200,000,000 in eleven cities of the Middle West, have been incorporated into one gigantic combina- tion. TIn the face of this alarming array of money who will have the temerity now to say that talk is cheap? D the pretty joke undertaken by®some: festive voters in the good town of Amesville, in the State of Ohio, when they nominated, last spring, a tramp for Mayor on an independent ticket as a means of having | fun on election day. It will be recalled that the people of the town thought the joke so good that a clear ma- jority of them voted for the tramp, and were horrified | next morning to find out that they had elected him. An appeal was made to the Governor to remove him, but the Governor refused, on the ground that he had no sufficient cause for such action, so Amesville has been getting along as best she can with the genial tramp, who came to town to ask for a free lunch and was given the Mayoralty as a handout. After the first announcement of the joke and its con- sequences, the country at large ceased to take interest in the affair and left Amesville and its Mayor alone to get along as best they could. It appears now that they have been having a frolicsome time. announces that the “joke Mayor,” as he is called, was recently arrested in that city on a charge.of intoxication and sent to jail because he had no money to pay a fine of $1 and costs. The report added that his Honor ex- plained his presence and his hilarity iff Canton by say- ing’ he “is taking a slight vacation from his arduous official duties.” Evidently the joke of the merry men of Amesville has turned out to be something in the nature of a con- tinuous performance. Between the day when he entered upon his arduous official duties in Amesville and the day when he was arrested for trying to paint Canton red, he has doubtless had a high old time and contributed much of gayety to the annals of that section of Ohio. His chief work, however, has been that of furnishing the American voter with a good object lesson on the folly of playing monkey tricks with politics. No other city ‘has ever made quite so ridiculous a showing as Ames- ville has made.in this case, but some have fallen not far short of it, and if the average voter will now give serious consideration to the results of the folly of the Amesville men, there will be better municipal officers in a good ‘many cities hereafter. 3 | —— A Chicago physician, for reasons generaily unknown, argues that dirt is health and under the pain of physical | disaster we must not bathe. It must be highly interest- ing to the people of Chicago to know that whatever hu- m; i upon whom t6 base A CONTINUOUS JOKE. OUBTLESS a good many people will remember an specimens this e cist fo ‘his unclean conclusions he discovered in the Windy City. i A report from Canton | lons of wine. The annual grape crop, before any of the grapes are changed to wine or raisins, reaches $15,000,000 in value and nearly 750,000 tons in weight. The amount of wine made in the United States is, however, very small compared to that produced in the coun- tries of Europe. Even Turkey, whose Mohammedan population drinks very little wine, produces nearly twice as much wine as the United States. France, in 1901, produced 1,523,233,200 gallons of wine, while this country pro- duced 29,500,000 gallons. But Caiifornia alone has a grape and wine producing area almost equal to the whole of Franc# so that some idea can be formed of the great possibilities of this important industry.—National Geo- graphic Magazine. From Out of the East. ! The Public Ledger of Philadelphia prints a story to the effect that the chance finding of a well-laden persim- mon tree by three Reading Nimrods was eventually responsibie for a forced abandonment of a long-anticipated hunting trip and the fagging of a pack of valuable dogs until, even a day later, they were unfit for further effort. The huntsmen were Letter Carriers | Charles B. Dutt and David Evans and Charles Ritter, a Reading business man. Each ate heartily of the p:isimmons and presently, when time came to re- new the chase, not one could whistle a note. They called all their lung pow- er into play and exerted, all told, « ffort that would have made the wildest spasm of the calliope sound like the benumbed chirp of a haif-frézen cricket. They blew, singly and together, forte, | mezzoforte, fortissime. The dogs had threshed about impatiently while the lip-pursing feast went on, gotting far- ther and farther away, until, when the hunters finally decided to renew their quest for game, there was not a dog in sight. Again and n the pursed lips were ‘purposely and as often the echoes answered nothing. Wearied finally, the trio started homeward, leav- ing the dogs afield. Hours later the pack stragzled to their kennels, weary and pathetically mystified a quartet of canines as ever starter a bird. Now, really, can that be so? Champagne Dance. A correspondent of The London King relates this striking instance of the stupldity of native servants in India. The cccasion was a big dinner party in Calcutta, and among the host's serv- ants was a khitmagar, (table servant), whose duty it was to go round with the champagne, or, as the natives call it, “simkin.” Unfortunately the man was a bit “dotty,” or else had been stupefying himself with opium, for ‘when he began with the principal wom- an guest a terrible contretemps oc- curred. The woman was elderly and deaf, and she habitually carried about with her an ear trumpet. When the man came round with the champagne she was talking, and did not hear him say “Simkin, ?" He re- peated the questicn in a little louder being asked I THE T 1 TOWN | | - it was a new sort of drinking vessel, but, anyhow, he promptly filled the trumpet with champagne. Lost in the Catacombs. A group of tourists, including sevaral English and German visitors to Paris, have just had an unpleasant experience in the historic catacombs which under. mine the older portions of the city. The party had, as usual, entered the cata- combs by the Rue Denfert-Rocheresu, and in single flle were proceeding, un- der the leadership of a gulde, through a narrow gallery which runs toward the Montsouris Plain. They had been walking for about a quarter of an hour when an English gentleman, in the middle of the long Indian file, stopped to examine some human remains and the inscriptions. This halt divided the party into twe, and when the Englishman had con- cluded his examination the latter por- tion started op at a trot to join the leaders. But in doing so they took a wrong turning, and only after they had gone some distance did they @iscover their error. The first portion of the little expedition was by this time far away, ani neither the guide nor its members appesred to have taken any notice of the a”:sence of the remainder of the party, though the guides have orders to count tiie number of persons who go down_into the catacombs and the number who come out. For two hours the lost party wan- dered from gallery to gallary befors they at last found an outlet. The la- dies were very much frightened and even the men say that the experience was not a pleasant one.—London Standard. Deadly Perseverance. The fatal issue of a recent French duel causes discussion of what the Pa- risian fencers call the “Coup de Mon- serrat.” The history of this stroke is romantic. The hero of ‘the story was a young Parisian musiclan engaged to be married to-a young lady of Bor- deaux. Quarreling with a cousin of his fiancee, he got his ears bexed at the Bordeaux Club. Ignorant of fene- ing. he dared not resent the insuit, and renounced his engagement. But he also took fencing lessons from one Monserrat, a maitre d'armes of Tou- Jouse. Monserrat taught him one trick only,, and he practiced. it for a year. At the end of that time he returned to the Bordeaux Club, slapped his man’'s face, and being called out, instantly ran his opponent through the body with his cunning lunge.—New York Tribune. ‘Answers to Queries. THE LOVE CHASE—“The Love Chase” was written by Sheridan Knowles. OKLAHOMA—M. B, City. Okla- homa is an Indian name and means “beautiful land.” FIRST CLASS CRUISERS—E. H. W., City. The Tegrible of the British navy is a first class cruiser, not a bat- tleship. GRANT—Subscriber, City. General U. S. Grant, while making a tour-ef the world, arr’ved in San Francisco September 20, 1879. ELECTIONS—C. E. C, Novato, Cal. The total vote for Governor in Massa- chusetts, Jowa and Ohio at the election November 3, 1903, had not been an- nounced officially up to date of your letter of inquiry. CITY OF CHESTER-T. G. City. The steamer City of Chester was run into by the steamer Oceanic in the bay of San Francisco during a dense fog August 22, 1388, and was sunk. Thir- teen lives were los! BEER—Subscriber, Berkeley, Cal There is no record of the first brewed beer, but ale .’as known as a beverage as far back as 404 B. C. Herodotus as- cribes the brewing of “barley-wine™ to Isis, the wife of Osiris, and a beverage of this kind is mentioned by Xenophon, 401 B. C. “Lager” beer derives its name from the fact that it is beer that has been-placed in a depot for some time before being used as a beverage. i ADIEU—AU REVOIR—Reader, City. Those who speak the French language correctly do not use “adien” and “au revoir” synonymously, but do so with a full understanding of the meaning of ‘the two phrases.. When French people part in the expectation again soon they say “Au revoir,” which Mt- erally transiated means “hope to see you again,” but when they part for a long period, as for instance, going on a journey, they say “Adieu,” corrupted into one word from “a Dieu,” “to God.” In the latter case the persons knowing the uncertainty of life, and having no assurance of ever meeting again, com- mend each other to the Almighty.. —— . Strong Hoarhound Candy. Townsend's.® It is time to express Townsend's Glace Fruits East for Christmas now. - oot oo . Townsend's m"“.rmfl friends. fllifl‘lflfl—-fln‘lm . Special information supplied I*; % ‘men e e W s