The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY,. DECEMBER 21, 1903. solemn d hearts hlnkun by n thousand every most startling ques- > relations of the sexes. a genersl discussion iples nor a criticism It is an ap- and women rrible discovery of bility of their human life tragedy. The of this suspicion is like losing one's life drop. In all such ex- burning question is, dure the bitter ceaseless sor- on or disrupt which they has been all greater tior and t with meek resign hateful bond” Undoubtedly the former answer is the lam ife. But with w a wild protest it is answered by these tor- sred hum earts! “We have been - life’s greatest ry. “We happi- have a right to t prin- juired to when it is This is an is wrung It ses a rightness the such sufferers are bound to remember that to some great degree (whose limits may not be ac- urately defined) their individual hap- piness must be subordinated to the g00d of the state. This is a principle | against which the soul struggles in | vain. The same mysterious obliga- on that incites men to suffer wounds and death for the good of their coun- try the battle field ought to in- site them to suffer marital unhap- piness if need be. It is easy to re- sent and repudiate this duty, but it is impossible to deny it. The frightful increase of divorce is a national peril. The very existence of righteousness in the state is threatemed by it. a citizen is exempt from the respon- sibility this involves. The tories of the revolution and the copperheads of the rebellion were not a whit more false to their country than are the ! people who for trivial and contempti- ble reasons threaten the stability of our government by breaking its most solemn contract and spreading the fa- tal pestilence of easy divorces. . . . In the second place, the people who are contemplating divorce ought to realize what pusillanimity and_selfish- ness prompt the vast majority of these unholy disruptions of marriage. It was only a few days ago that a man peti- tioned for a divorce because his wife was getting old and he wanted a younger 'one. And this is scarcely more contemptible than the motives that secretly prompt the majority of the people who break this sacred tie. In some form or other it is almost al- ways self-love. People whine and say: “We are not happy!” Well, in the name of God, be happy! You have as good a chance as the vast majority. Nine out of ten of the couples that have at last achieved contentment have won it against exactly the same sort of odds which you are encounter- ing. “A right to be happy!” One gets tired of this childish plaint. What most people want of life is happiness without | effort. What most people seek in mar- riage is the adoration and slavery of the person whom they marry. Men marry women to have purr and caress and coddle Women marry men to have them d and pet and ‘flatter them. Untrain to high moral obligations, insensible to sublime ideals, incapable of self-con- trol, they enter into the “holy” estate of matrimony absolutely and solely for their own pleasure. No wonder they make shipwreck of it. of aill peonle who find married life un- endyrable, but it most unquestionably is true of the vast masses, and it is not irreverent to say that even the Di- vine Power is incapable of making such peaple happy. The trouble with nine out of ten of all the couples who find their marriages unendurable is that | they are mad because the other party | to the contract is not willing to be a slave or that they themselves are not willing to pull their share of the load. It is self-love that is making marriage the despair of the age. . If you are unhappy and desperate take another tack. Abandon your old scheme of happiness. Do not any long- er try to achieve it by attempting to | extort it from your husband er your wife. Try to get it by self-sacrifice. Try to get it by giving it. Divorce will not insure it. PR you will take that same selfish heart into another alli- wnce. But even if fhis is not true. even if people have exhausted every power in trying to make their married life a blessing—do not disrupt it except for that last, final and sufficient reason. You knoiw your present ills, but you ! do mot know what you are fiying to. It vou cannot dwell under the same roof, ; Not | them “ them. | This is not true | 1x.mrrinze is a sacred thing. There is a mystery in it. A certain holiness in- heres in that strange relationship. It carries its own avenger in its bosom. We may not lightly trifle with its au- gust nature. Think of the dangers of divorce; think of its disgrace; think of its possible regrets; contemplate its al- | most . certain self-reproaches. | Tt is best to be patient and resigned. | Whatever we sav, however much we may rage and protest—individual hap- piness is not the object of existence in this life. To do one’s duty is the su- | preme cbligation. Tt is right to desire | happiness and to labor for it. But it is | sheer idiocy to be mad and frantic be- cause we do not find it. There are no | marriages or very few where it has not been secured by never-ending self-ab- | negation and effort. And even where | happiness (the gushing, exuberant hap- piness of the rare ideal marriages) oc- curs w ut effort it is because those | hearts were unselfish to begin with. ’1"‘.’11!nrc I’mfih BY MALCOLM McDOWELL. [Author of “Shop Talk on the Wonders of the Crafts.”] (Copyright, 1808, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Every so often the newspapers record | the death of some inventor of a great | labor-saving device, and the types read that he who made fortunes for others| himself died poor. There Is nc doubt | that many originators of great things| derive no benefit from their in\'enth‘mm& A prominent attorney who makes a| jalty of patent law exolained the apparent ingratttude and selfishness nf: men who made money “out of the.poor | inventor” in this wise: “It unquestionably is true that in many instances the inventor gets noth- i ing and the maker of the finished pro- | duct of what may be called the raw invention gets everything. But it must be remembered that the original idea often is crude, impracticable and stand- | ing alone is of no tangible value. This idea may be set forth in a drawing| which depicts something which cannot be made, or if made cannot be used. The idea is the germ, the life principle | of something, which if developed along | practical lines and assoclated with tried | methods and mechanisms wiil produce something useful, something wanted by many people that its monopoly | /brings large revenues. The inventor | may have secured a patent; the Gov- ernment gave him a protected monop- oly: gave him the privilege of controll-| ing the making of something which he | couldn’t make. The practical man, the | adapter, happens along, discovers the| possibilities for practical utility in the patented but impractical idea, and in- | vents the ways and methods and de- vices to turn out a practical finished | product in quantities sufficier:t to meet | the demand and at a cost low enough | to market it at a profit. Sk “It does not follow that the practical man has more money than the inventor, | but it frequently happens that he risks more money ard uses more brain ma- | terial and works harder attempting to | put the idea on a practical footing than the inventor does. He makes a for- tune, the inveator dies poor, and every- “The poor inventor was | spes ! one exclaims, robbed.” “This is no exaggerated exhibit. 1| | know of many such cases. Hundreds and hundreds of inventions which have | proved to be of great value-—some of | ,nwm listed among the revolutionary, | the epoch-making inventions—would have gone no further than the pictured ! | idea or the patent office had it 1ot been | | for courageous, audacious, hard work- | | ing, strong-willed, practical men, who | | | stood to lose everything they possessed | | when they started out to make the | crude idea u finished produrt. | “A man came into my office one| | day with a little device used to-day in| | almost every machine shop. He had whittled it out of wood evenings. A mechanical engineer working on a| ]‘small salary for a large manufactur- | ing goncern happened to be in the of- fice. He saw the wooden model, and offered the man $250 for the sole right to make it. The offer was accepted. The engineer planned and built a com- plicated machine, which was but a combination of well-known mechan- (isms and mechanical principles, to | make the tool. Before he had turned out the first article he had mortgaged his little home and gone heavily in debt. It took him several months to reach the productive point, but he Then he went out to | make a market for the tool and to-day he is wealthy. Now which of those two men deserved the fortune?” . % | never wavered. Not every inventor, however, fails to | realize large profits. The number of ! successful inventors can never be fixed, for it is only when lawsuits bring.out | | the facts or the probate courts sched- ule the estates that anything like def- inite information as to the incomes of successful inventors is disclosed. Butf it is interesting to learn that some of the largest incomes were received by inventors of small things. Thus the man who conceived the idea of stick- ing a rubber eraser on the end of a lead pencil made, it is said, tens of | thousands of dollars a year from his invention. The roller skate and the re- | turn ball made’ their inventors mil- | lionaires. The inventor of an improved ! steel pen in England built up a huge fortune and was knighted. The shoe lace brought millions to the man who | introduced it, and a young woman who | llved in South Africa derived a prince- ly income out of the invention of a curling iron. One of the stock illustrations used by | people who believe in the “little drops of water, little grains of sand” idea re- |lates to the invention of metal plates, | extensively used some years ago to | protect the heels and soles of boots | and shoes from wear. This invention | found its way into court, and the evi- dence showed that the inventor had made more than a million dollars ‘a | yvear, and one year had sold nearly 150,000,000 of the little plates. —_———— An electric motor for unloading ba- nanas’has been introduced in New Or- leans which handles 15,000 bunches ln i :rouu’r, working at three hatches, and it is protected from the ll.;ifit ‘bruise. o to buy hea 'ly, “hxk opfls simply dull. | The condition of k this coast is largely a refle | produced this year and at good prices as a rule. | more than 100 per cent over the cost of production. ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL|" . Address All Communications fo JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager oG OGS & - - oo e G @ eteeeesessmcssses.Third and Market Streets, 8. F. .....DECEMBER 21, 1903 CHEERFUL TRADE REPORTS. HE more cheerful tone in trade noted a week ago T still continues. Although this is the season of the year when no activity whatever is expected business is good almost everywhere and is actually expanding in some parts of the country. The recent pessimism has almost wholly disappeared, and now that the great shrinkage in values on the New York Stock Exchange has practically ceased the gloom which was settling down over the country has been succeeded by a feeling of confidencc and buoyancy. The retailers report an ex- cellent holiday trade and the jobbers are sending equally bright reports. The wholesale trade of course is quiet, as it always is just at the turn of the year. Nobody anticipates a recurrence of the abnormal ac- tivity and high prices of 1902, however. That era is past. A Presidential election is the chief number on the | programme for 1904 and business always slackens off in Presidential years. So we need not expect great things in 1904 unless another foreign war should arise and again ! throw us into the feverish activity of a temporary boom. But business, activity which has war for its base is not a healthy condition. The reaction is too severe and the ultimate consequences too serious. Better dull times and peace than activity and war. The leading features of the current revival of trade are a better feeling in iron, an increase in building permits in many of the largest cities, presaging lively building op- erations next spring, the resumption of work by many mills in different lines throughout the country, excellent returns from the railroads, easiness in money where a serious stringency had been apprehended, imports instead of exports of gold, an almost complete liquidation of our foreign obligations, a decidedly brighter feeling among the financial interests of New York and fine crop pros- pects almost everywhere. Against these encouraging features. however, we have an unsatisfactory cotton mar- ket, with higher prices checking the demand and pro- ducers restricting output, a diminished demand for flour in the West and Northwest, which has caused a number of mills in Minneapglis to shut down; a decrease in bank clearings and an increase in failures. The loss in bank clearings last week was 13.3 per cent as compared with 1902, with more losses than gains among the dozen largest cities. The failures for the week were 329, against 267 last year. The provision market, which is an excellent barometer | to trade, is showing more tone, with the Western pack- ers accumulating stock in their cellars, expecting to get higher prices for it in the near future, while at the same | time they are trying to beat down the price for hogs. The New England footwear factories are sending in good reports, but the cotton and woolen textile mills do not re- port any activity in their lines. Raw cotton is-high and unsettled, which keeps manufacturers nervous and afraid of that throughout the eastern sections of the country. Business in’ general is better here than there, however. There is a steady demand for the products of our farms and orchards, which is cleaning up everything that we Many branches of agriculture are more than prosperous. Our dairymen have had successively three or four of the best vears they ever had. The grain growers and hay farm- ers have been getting fine prices for their wheat and for- age. The hop growers have been selling their crop at The livestock raisers have found a ready market for their | stock at better prices than were thought possible five years ago. The canners and fruit driers have been active purchasers of the staple orchard products for several sea- sons. Wool, though dull at the moment, has brought in fine returns to the owner of sheep. The exports from | San Francisco by sea during the first eleven months of 1903 amounted in round numbers to $44,000,000, as com- pared with $38,392,000 during the corresponding period in 1902, and $37.450,000 in 1901. Besides these exports enormous quantities of produce went out of the State by rail. It is expected that the sca exports from San Fran- cisco during the calendar year now closing will amount to about $50,000,000. What better showing could Cali- fornia expect than that contained in this paragraph? Of course this agricultural and mercantile prosperity is having a Mighty effect on the pockets and spirits of the community. San Francisco is growing as it never grew before. Great buildings are going up on all sides and every mechanic in town can get all the work he wants at wages which would have turned his head a few years ago. This activity in building has stimulated the real estate market and realty prices have gone up sharply during the past several years, while thousands of pieces of land have changed hands. Innumerable building lots, held for years by owners who were unable to improve or not sufficiently speculative to build upon them, have passed into the hands of moneyed men, who are putting up all sorts of structures, modern and attractive. The San Franciscan who returns after an absence of ten years elsewhere no longer knows the town. From pres- ent indications the transformation during the ensuing ten years will be equally pronounced. This expansion in the city is being duplicated in the country, where the thousands of Eastern and Western colonists, taking advantage of the low transportation rates offered by the railroads, are buying up tracts off the great ranches and turning the State from a great wheat field and stock range into a country of small and highly cultivated farms, the best basis for a State’s pros- perity. Land that could not be sold a few years ago is over the State come reports of activity in land transac- tions and at better prices than owners expected to city cannot be anything else than prosperous. OUR MERCHANT MARINE. A vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 6,087,000 in the merchant marine of the United States. The fig- as a commercial nation when investigation shows that of that amgunt there is only a tonnage of 879,000 regis- either in the fishing industries or in domestic trade. The significance of the figures is made the more clear tonnage registered for foreign trade was 2,496,000 and that licensed for domestic trade was 2,704,000. Thus in doubled, while our foreign trade tonnage has diminished to about one-third of what it was. now being transferred to these newcomers, and from all realize. Of course under these conditions ghe State and CCORDING to the latest statistics there are 24,425 ures are large, but they cease to be flattering to our pride tered for the foreign trade. All the rest is employed when contrasted with those of 1861, at which time our the space of forty years our domestic tonnage has about A report on the figures says: “It is significant that the decline of our merchant shipping has been entirely in | the e fituflfiwwflnnw‘vefiu’mm - subsidized foreign competition and is unprotected by the Government. Laws as old as the nation, framed by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and their suc- cessors, exclude foreign vessels from ‘the coast trade, the lake trade and the river trade of the United States and reserve absolutely to American vessels the carrying of freight and passengers from one American port to an- other. But while the coast, lake and river shipping has been thus protected and has prospered as has no like ton- nage in the world the American fleet registered for ocean carrying from an American to a foreign port has had none of the consistent protection which has been bestowed upon other industries.” Facts and figures of that kind hardly require comment. The plain story carries its moral straight to the mind of any one who is sufficiently interested to give it any at- tention at all. Under a system of protection our domes- tic merchant marine has kept pace with our growth as a nation, while without such protection our deep sea mer- chant fleets, exposed to the competition of subsidized lines of other nations, have been well fnigh driven from the ocean. Surely it requires no argument upon that showing to convince intelligent men that if we would have a merchant fleet capable of carrying our foreign commerce we must grant it the protection which has been accorded with such good results to our coasting fleets and to our industries on land. B The new republic of Panama is now being recognized as of the family of nations by its neighbors. Brazil and Nicaragua have held forth a friendly hand and there are indications that others of the Latin-American sisterhood will do likewise. It is always well for a nation as well as an individual to have a powerful sponsor and an ag- pressive godfather to give inspiration to the battle for life. gf paso THE CHINESE TREATY. UR commercial treaty with China was ratified by O the Senate without opposition. The significant and gratifying feature in.this action was the recognition by Senators of the unfriendly attitude of Rus- sia. Thn empire has held a high hand in Eastern Asia against our interest while all the time reminding us of her traditional friendship. There has been heretofore a disposition in official quarters to seemingly accept Rus- sia’s own stitement of her sentimental and practical | friendship, although her acts all belied her words. Now | it is admitted that the new treaty with China is less fav- orable to our commerce than it should be, because Rus- sia, backed by the presence of her army in Manchuria and of her war fleet in Chinese waters, has China under | duress that extends to control of her treaty-making | power. | This presents a quite new international issue. The | world has not recognized such Russian suzerainty over China, nor is it conceded by China in any treaty. Yet it practically exists, and that not by any declaration of war upon China, but in the palpable circumstance of the' presénce of a Russian army able to make a threat ef- fective. The situation is peculiarly galling to this coun- try and the other powers concerted in the suppression of the Boxer rebellion, for Russia’s army remains in China | by violation of her pledge made to the other powers. It is of importance to us that in this treaty China went as far as she dared go in expression of her friendship for us and her hospitality to our trade. The advantages secured will be promptly used by our merchants and the results will serve to reveal, the far greater advantages which we might have secured had China been a free agent. The othér commercial nations share the situation | with us. They are all hampered in making trade treaties as we were. When the full conditions develop Russia may find herself with something more than China on her hands, for she may have to deal with a concert of nations | that neither respect her word nor fear her armies. Senators of both parties agreed in characterizing the treaty as limited by Russian duress, and it is satisfactory that this serves a rather official notice upon Russia that | we see through her false pretenses and unfriendly eva- | sions. The trade of China, in the prospect of the prog- ress and development of her four hundred and twenty- five millions of people, is a prize 6f sufficient magnitude to require the use of the combined surplus of the com- mercial world. If she were free to open her empire to all nations then competition in commerce would be an uplifting influence felt by all her people. We are con- vinced that Russia will not be permitted to reverse the policy of the nations by agam closing China to all trade but her own. i The Omaha grand jury got busy the other day and in- dicted with becoming flourish of trumpets a United States Senator, an adjutant general, a State Senator, a postmas- ter and several other officials of minor degree. . It is such incidents as this that vindicate our abiding faith in popu- lar government. If the people had no concern in the ap- pointment of these men we would probably know nothing of their delinguencies and would have neither zest nor scandal for our general elections. SR PR The citizens of Berkeley, inspired by well wishes for their pretty town and .for the University of California, have started a vigorous campaign -against gambling which appears to have gained a foothold among the col- lege youth. The crusaders are to be congratulated that in such cases the presentation of an awful example is generally effective. The university regents may take also some comfort in the fact that they have contributed an accidental co-operation. ——— In a two hours’ hunt recently Emperor William killed nine stags and 'thfee boars. Won't somebody who knows give President Roosevelt' his Majesty's hunting recipe? ‘Whatever else may be said of the tactful acquirements of the Emperor he certainly is an expert in the selection of | architectural beauty. { touch me on the elbow, press agents. —_— ‘There is good reason to believe that William Jennings Bryan, now touring Europe for his health and ours, will soon meet the Czar of Rus: 1t is sincerely to be hoped that the Czar, our traditional friend, will not forget that Mr. Bryan is the man we didn’t elect President of the United States. The mannfacturers of pottery in the United States ‘have determined to unite themselves into a gigantic trust. This appears to be the first of its kind that suggests to the public that it may be easily smashed. It may easily be placed in the category of perishable combinations. 3 X —_— Winston Churchill, the young English hunter of fame and fortune, is coming to America to look for a wife. Ten't it time that the wise men of W:owon saw of placing a prohibitive tariff upon qg our available girls? £ 'l‘ The Incuvitable. Photis Frettos snld pineapples and bananas down on East street. Every day, sunshine or fog, found Photis there, waving a frayed duster over the stock of rusty fruit and smoking innumerable cigarettes. But Photis also took in a goodly number of nickels and dimes and as each piece of money was slipped into the little cigar box Photis, would smile a faint smile, for each clink of the silver in that box brought him nearer to black-eyed Yvonne—Yvonne, the girl with the lus- trous hair and full, round lips—Yvonne, who had promised to be his wife. But there blew into the bay with the trades a ship's cook from Crete. That shi; cook was a great bronzed man with fiercely curling mustachios and a swagger of the sea in his gait. «On Sundays he wore the starched and fluted skirt of the fatherland with the gay silk scarf tied about his middle. He had been a fisherman under the em- ploye of Yvonne's pap back on the Aegean. He visited Yvonne's papa for old sake's sake. Ah! that fluted skirt of the father- land and that brave silken scarf; how the baggy trousers of Photis Frettos did shrivel into insignificance before such an array! And Yvonne, what thought she? The Sunday's trade was slack, so Photis Frettos trundled his cart back to the little shack on Broadway and climbed the long hill up to where the old castle used to stand. In the pocket of his shiny coat he carried a precious bank book; the long line of ink figures added up at last to the goodly sum which sweet Yvonne of the black eyes had set as the signal for the wedding bells. Yvenne's papa met Photis Frettos at the door and told him that on that very morning Yvonne had married the ship’s cook with the starched skirt. And the laugh which Yvonne's papa then gave shriveled the cockles of Protis Frettos’ heart. Church and State. “The effect of a Biblical quotation upon the mind of an ignorant person is sometimes very startling,” said a well-known clergyman some days ago during a conversation with members of his congregation. long time ago that I was standing in front of a sacred edifice admiring its 1 felt some one and turning saw beside me a little bit of a woman and a man, evidently her husband. “ ‘Please, sir,” sald the woman, “will yez be after telling me the meaning of the sign over the dure? “Gazing upward I saw a white stone tablet over the portals of the church | and I read aloud for the edification of my inquisitive friend, ‘If he will not | hear the church let him be to thee as a hedthen and a publican.’ “ ‘Publican, publican,’ she repeated, nodding her head with an I-told-you-so air, then, turning to the little man by her side, she said, with a voice full of triumph, ‘It's a liar I am, is it? Now, will yez vote agin the Dimmicrats? ™ A Tiny Samaritan. Into the crowd the little tot rushed, pushing and shoving aside, with all the strength of her tiny arms the grinning men and yelling boys who comprised it. To the right she shoved a bdig burly fellow, to whose elbow she barely reached, and to the left she pushed two boys who tried to Impede her progress. Her flashing black eyes so awed those who turned to see what had | interrupted their fun that they stepped out of her way and allowed her to reach the circle they had fermed about a little curly dog to whose tail had been fastened a cigar box, and whose fran- tic endeavors to rid himseif of the tor- ment was the source of the crowd's amusement. “Shame, shame,” cried the little one, stooping and picking up the frightened animal. “Poor, poor doggle,” she cried. tenderly patting the quivering beast. Then back with a snap went the ring- letted head of the little miss. Her eyes fairly blazed with anger, and with scorn expressed in every feature she stepped fearlessly back into the crowd. | Not a man or bay oposed her, and when as she stepped in the open she turned to give a last look of deflance, not an eye met her's. Red Sea Unchanged. Since the earthquake in Palestine last April some one circulated the story that the mouth of the River Jordan had been so affected by th;&]lock that the level of the river had n altered to such an extent that at the place where the historic river goes into the Dead Sea there was now a waterfall of considerable depth and strength. This is altogether false, and no change whatever has taken place at or near the mouth of the Jordan, says the London Graphic. The writer has just spenit some days there, and made it his special business to investigate the mat- ter. Much has also appeared from time to time in papers and periodicals about steamboats navigating the Dead Sea. This, too, is a fabrication. The only boat on the Dead Sea is a small sailing boat about twenty feet long. This vessel makes trips, as the wind al- lows, from the north end of the sea to the bay on the eastern side of the tongue that divides the water near the middle. Here at this terminus some Jews are located. The whole concern is, in fact, in the hands of Jews, who at a low rate buy wheat and barley from the Arabs, to be delivered on the seashore. An Ancient Church. A religious ceremony, has just been performed in a remarkable church in the heart of Milton Abbey Woods, Dorset, England. The little churen was erected there in the year 93% by King Athelstan and dedicated to St. Catherine, and until the Reformation regularly used by the monks of ilton: Thereafter it fell into disuse, and in process of time into desecra- tion. In turn it was utilized as a pig- ‘eon house, as a laborer's cottage, as a “It was not a | * -+ | the manor, resolved to restore it. The | restoration was completed about a week ago, but has been so reverently done that most of the old Saxon, Nor- man and Perpendicular work it con- tained remained intact, and an incised “Indulgence” inscription on its south door has been perfectly preserved. Our Regular Army. On October 15 the regular army of tha United States—according to the acting adjutant general’s report—consisted of 62,000 men. These were scattered over the earth from Porto Rico and Cuba on the east to Alaska, Hawail, China and the Philippines on the west. The force in Porto Rico has been reduced to 237 men and that in Cuba to 748. Therns are 210 men in Hawall and 156 men in China. Sixteen thousand men were re- tained in the Philippines, although it is proposed to reduce tnis number to 12,000. About 44,000 are in garrisons in the United States. In times of peace Spain planned to keep 4000 soldifers in Porto Rico and 13,000 in the Philippines. The United States is able to preserve order with fewer men im Porto Rico. Its Philip- pine force is about equal to that form- erly employed by Spain. The islands, however, are kept in much better order than was the case under the ol regime. The militia includes 117,000 men. Of these 43,000 are within twenty-four hours of New York and 29,000 are with- in the same time of Chicago. With'n a day 51,000 could reach the Canadian frontier east of the Mississippi. In the Spanish-American war about 30 per cent of the militia entered the United States service. About 100,000 of the present guardsmen have declared them- selves ready to respond to a call by the President. Not all of these have the equipment necessary for fleld ser- vice, and it is hardly to De supposed that In the event of war 100,000 could be depended on for the army. Still, the condition of the national defense is far better than before the Spanish war, and it is likely to improve from year to year. Love Powders. One of the lIowa Indians, according to an Oklahoma paper, is making a good living by selling so-called love powders. Little, peculiar shells found in the creeks, and the root of a certain kind of morning glories, furnish the sole ingredients of the love comipelling powder. The shells ana roots are dried and ground to powder; then, after mak- ing a sort of paste of the mixture, the lovesick swain or squaw smears it over his or her face; then the love powder painted person goes close to the one whose affection is to be captured. It is claimed that the besmeared person is always victorious. — Y 4 ‘Answers to Queries. - MUSHROOMS—M. D., City. By an order of the Commissioners no one is permitted to gather mushrooms in Golden Gate Park. MAMIE KELLY—A Subscriber, Bak- ersfleld, Cal. Mamie Kelly, a schoolgirl, was murdered in this city November 10, 1886. ASSESSMENT WORK—Subscriber, Relief, Cal. According to a decision as- sessment work to the amount of $500 a year must be made upon each separate tract. THE CHURCH MURDERS-S,, City. No one ever confessed to having mur- dered the Lamont and Williams girls in the” Bartlett-street church in this city several years ago. There is no treaty between the United States and England that requires either country to deliver up an indi- vidual for hon-payment of a simple debt. FEATHERS—Inquirer, City. ‘Feath- ers are curled by the ribs being scraped with a bit of circular glass in order to render them pliant, then by drawing the edge of a blunt knife over the filaments they assume a curled shape. LOST PAPERS—B. ¥. J., City. If you made your declaration of citizenship in New York City and lost the paper is- sued to you and now desire to apply for second papers in this city, you must write to the court that issued you the declaration paper for a certified copy. Upon inquiry by letter to the clerk of that court you will be advised as to what the cost will be. TURKEY—Subseriber, City. It has been asserted that the custom of hav- ing turkey for Thanksgiving comes from the Puritans, who, when there was a Thanksgiving day, went out in the woods and shot wiid turkeys for the dinner on that day. The Puritans having set the example of turkey fo Thanksgiving it has been followed b: all who came after them. ————— ‘l'o'nlond: Californta glace fruits and w a IQM in artistic fire- bm-. nice present for Eastern friends. m st.. above Call bldg. * e mflmfluwmh ALY street. Telephon Main 0@ % & Yo i A f < « L4 NO SUCH TREATY-L H., cm.‘