The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL AY, JANUAR . INSTRUCT RRS—Y i B s B HN T. MORGAN. Bowles.) Joseph B a few of “‘the reasons for me” as to the great of the Nicaragua route and ar that almost everybody a route is impossi- anxious to be right Wy v 1ator on these ques- tions, and tha out this great scheme, which no other tes a UNITED STATES SENATOR | WHO CONT INS SELEC- | TION OF PANAMA ROUTE. | 4 s e Americaz cou is able to accom- plish. no E tic coun- try will be permitted to attempt, should be “clear decent ithout | the reproach of ir glect of the rights of r of combina- | tions wit al or other lcaders of | parties or sects ir ¥ to ride | down opposition or > own- -ters and cla ts zhts with - confiscation and denial of instice. If one man, whose opinions would be of @s lttle value as mine are, if he were . mot President, can reverse and brush away as chaff the conclusions of all the great and scientifi men who have| studied these questions thoroughly during the past two centu and can " crush all who dare to question his wis- dom, it is time to look more deeply into this matter and see whether he can also crush the statute laws and the rights : of. Congress . I'think that the appeal to party disci- pline to force his opinions on the coun- .try and his measures of aggression on | foreign countries, in addition to his power as commander in chief of the army and navy, which he us2s with a | dreadful latitude of construction, isso _strong a proof of heart failure in the present wild movements that { am en- couraged to hope that there are still some barriers that we magrely upon .to protect the peace and save the com- - merce of the country. I regret that party discipline is to be used as a do- mestic police fl)r('g to pratect “the transit” in Panama and to guard the -interests of the New Panama Canal Company. That we will get a canal, if one can be built at Panama, I have no “doubt, for the President has said so. Yet tkis result is not so clearly certain or 55 safe, as if he should obey the | Spooper law. The Spooner amendment to the Houle‘ bill did not substitute the Panama route for the Nicaragua route. It only gave & preference in the selection of routes to the Panama scheme, upon certain conditions that are now impossible. The giving of this preference, as stated and regulat.l in the Spooner amendment, did not replace the Nicaragua route or condemn it with even a shadow of dis- approval. On the contrzry, that law is as firm and decisive as to the merits of the Nicaragua route as the Hepburn bill, the language of which in this re- spect was copied from that bill. The Spooner law orders the President to cause the isthmian canal commission to excavate and construct the Nicaraguan Capal if Colombia should fail within a reasonable time to ratify a treaty with the United States making certain con- cessions and stipulations prescribed in the Spooner act. From the beginning it has been & proud mission of our Government and ur country in working | | capitalized at 2 per cent, : United States to be kept in mind in people, under a providence that is as peculiar to them as the founding of the kingdom of Messiah was to the seed of Abraham, that we should lift up the western -ate between the oceans. The wily Briton, sleepless in vigilance and wise in forecast, saw that we were preparing to cross the sea with ships through dry land, | and she set hersc1f across our path and held us in check for fifty years. What we suffered in that period it is usel@ss now to recount. In the time of waiting we grew so strong that open opposition to ug by force became too dangerous to our ancient kinsmen, and Great Britain retired apparently to gather the fruits of rich harvests at Suez, which she had captured by stealth, and she even be- came our friend. She has so fallen in love with us indeed that she gives us encouragement in our raid on Colombia, which is contra bonas mores, knowing that Panama is a morass, in which our strong limbs will flounder, and we will sink like a mastodon mired in a quick- sand. France essaved to rid herself of a body of death that she had created to take the honors that belonged to us, but the Panama canal died” on her hards, and France had been so long | chained to its cadaver that she is sup- plicating us to relieve her of its pres- sure. De Lesseps had been here and had distributed great wealth among bank- ers and easy-going officials in high places, who learned that the presence of the agents of the Panama Canal! | Company among us, old or new, was a certain indication of “‘pay dirt.” ] These always welcome universal| | bankruptCy in markets and morals| | when they are not caught in the fall, | and they surrender at once and at dis- | cretion. The seed planted by De Les- | | seps, which cost him the recorded de- | | cree of a convicted felon, and is a bar | | sinister on the escutcheon of one of the | world’s foremost benefactors, still ger- | | minates among us, and our bank- | ers and corruptionists of high and low | degree still dig around the deadly crop | in search of the pot of gold. If they | ! find it they are glorious and immune | from the stinging arrows of public| | opinion, and that hope justifies the ef- | fort and condones the disgrace. i | | Flint on Panama Canal. BY CHARLES R. FLINT. | onsul _General to and Costa | ca: Organizer of U. S. Rubber Company, | Pacific Coast Clipper . _American- | Hawallan S. S. Co., Atl Coast S. S. | Co., ete.] | (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowies.) A canal between the Atlantic and the | Pacific is the greatest project of the | century. It will undoubtedly benefit the | | world at large, but it will be of especial | advantage to the Latin-American re- publics, particulariy Colombia and the Central American States, as the dis- | | tance saved by them will be proportion- | ately greater than that saved by other | countries. The opening of the calal will mark | | important changes in the lmernatlona]' | trade. The wheat and other products of the Pacific slope, which have hereto- | fore been carried around Cape Horn, or | | through the Straits of Magellar to Eu- | rove, will then have to traverse less| | than one-half the distance. Many arti- | | cles of merchandise can be placed in | | markets where heretofore it has not | | been possibie for them to compete. For | ample, although the lumber of Ore- | gon is the lowest cost lumber in the world, but little now comes to the At- lantic because of the long distance | around Cape Horn. The question as to the relative cost of the different canal routes can bz | passed upon intelligently only by en- | | gineers after a thorough investiga- tion; general impressions of others, who are often prejudiced by personal | interests, are of little value. We must accept the report of the engineers who ! made an exhaustive investigation as | to the relative merits of the different | routes and who have reported in favor of Panama. As to the title of the property re- quired for the construction of the can- al, it would appear that entirely satis- | factory conditions are offered by the government of Panama, which condi- tions are embodied in the Hay-Varilla | treaty. Certainly if the United States fur- nishes the cash necessary to build the canal and give other nations the ben- efit of that construction at the same rates of toll as paid by its own ves- sels, it should have the most favorable conditions possible to justify the enor- mous outlay which will be necessary for the successful compl:tion of this gigantic work. In considering the relative .aerits of the different routes, the question of locks, the length—Panama forty-nine miles, Nicaragua 183 miles—the fact that the Nicaragua route would be the shortest distance from the Atlantic ports of the United States to its Pa- cific ports, have all been taken into consideration, and in view of the work already done at “anzma the engin- eers’ estimates and all tkings consid- ered, 1 have no question but that the | Panama route is the bast. Another item to be considered is the cost of maintenance of the canal, that of Nicaragua being estimated at $3,- 300,000 per annum and Panama at $2,- 000,000, which difference of $1,300,000 about the present rate of United States bond in- terest, would amount to $65,000,000. A very important advantage to the considering the cost of the canal is that which would obtain in case of war by being able to transfer our war ves- sels and transports from one ocean to the other. The importance of this was brought home to us by the famous voyage of the battleship Oregon. It costs the United States to support its navy $75,000,000 per apnum. If its effi- ciency is increased ten per cent by the facility of being able to transfer its ships from one ocean to the other, it would mean an advantage to us of $7,500,000 per annum, which, capitalized at two per cent, would amount to $150,- 000,000—more than sufficient to com- plete the Panama canal. The projected canal will tent influence in the Latin-America, and will tend to cement intimate commercial, financial and po- litical relations between the Americas. prove & po- e of | several of the tfusts to meet the smaller returns on the | have so unsettled this market that the mills are operating | ing of confidence throughout the East and West. | But there is not much expectation of higher prices for | fornia may have to be drawn upon for supplies before THE SAN. FRA NCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . « + + + « » . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication O™ice. . ...mmngrmsms.n esseess sacassncnsisesenasssnnescese - JANTUARY 4, 1904 OLD AND NEW TRADE YEAR. MONDAY. ,HE year just closed was onec of the most remark- Tablc, commercially, that the country has ever had. -1t was a year of uninterrupted retrenchment and re- adjustment, of enormous liquidation, and yet this liquida- tion was so skillfully met and managed by the controli- ing financial interests of the country that it was chiefly confined to the stock market and only indirectly affected general trade, and even then not seriously. But the ef- fect on the stock market was extremely severe. Values of securities of all classes, industrial and railway, shrank to such a degree that the shrinkage mounted far up into the millions and was called “the rich man's panic.” Vast syndicates, floated with great eclat and hurrah a year or two previously, were so unmercifully investigated and pruned by the banks that their assets, largely of a paper character, declined enormously. A number were forced out of business, others went to pieces of their own weight, and others, notably the shipbuilding and steel trusts, were subjected to the rays of a financial searchlight that ex- posed a condition of affairs not at all complimentary to their promoters and managers. And all this happened without any commercial panic and its completion found the country’s trade on a safer and better basis than be- fore, with money abundant everywhere«and the mercan- tile community- still optimistic and confident of the fu- ture. This is the conditicn of the country to-day. If there is one feature more prominent than others at present it is the abundance and ease of funds. We passed through the fall without any stringencv worthy of the name and the moving of the crops has thus far been ac- complished without any recourse to drastic measures to relieve a tight money market. This was an agreeable surprise all around, as a stringency had been apprehended as far back as last spring. Never before has the country been so well supplied with ready cash. The gold supply in the United States Treasury a month ago was reported above all previous records. Our foreign obligations have been ‘liquidated down to a small compass and our foreign trade balance makes a favorable showing. Reductions in quotations for iron and steel, provisions and sundry other great necessary staples, have stimulated trade in these branches, which are reporting renewed activity in the demand and at generally steadier prices. But as a rule the tendency in prices "is still downward, as they were too high for several years, and finally got beyond the capacity of the public purse. There is a limit to the purchasing power of the public as well as to that of the individual, and that limit has been reached and in some lines of trade overreached. A recession in these lines has occured as a logical sequence. There was little or nothing new in trade last week. There never is during holiday week. The featyre was the announcement of sweeping reductions in wages by capital caused by the great liquidation of 1903. This is an unwelcome beginning of the new year to hundreds of fhousands of workmen, but thus far the readjustment in wages has not caused any serious labor troubles. The staples show no marked changes and the few noted are in the direction of stronger markets. Wool shows more tone, with increased buying by mills. “The sensational advance and subsequent reaction in cotton with caution and keeping close inshore as far as pur- chasing raw material is concerned. - Hides are reported steadier. Coftee is quoted firm and active. Lumber is irregular, being quiet in some sections and moving off freely in others. The grain markets of the country showed little change until the close of the week, when they were affected by Saturday’s war scare. Wheat promises to be an abundant crop all over the world and up to Saturday the large consuming markets of Europe refused to get excited over the threatened war between Russia and Japan. The Government estimates our corn crop at about 2.200,000,000 bushels, which imparts a feel- With plenty of ready cash on hand and large crops of wheat and corn to further increase the supply, with the earnings of the railways larger than a year ago and ex- panded building operations already outlined for the com- ing spring. the outlook for trade in the United States during the first six months of 1904 is certainly promising. general merchandise, nor of any pronounced increase in mercantile activity. As far as our local California conditions are con- cerned the prospects are optimistic. From all around us, north and south, come advices of depleted supplies - of grain. hay and other forage, with intimations that Cali- the crop year is over. This of course imparts a feeling of confidence all over the State. Our wool, hops, hides, canned and dried fruits have been bringing returns highly satisfactory to the farmer and orchardist; our real estate markets have been more active than for years back; our chief city is growing enormously, and our banks, city and country, report large supplies of money available for sol- vent borrowers at normal rates of interest; and the only cloud on the horizon to-day is the lack of rain in the southern part of the State, which is becoming a source of apprehension in some quarters. The northern and central parts have thus far had enough moisture for farm- ing and grazing qperations and no complaints of dry weather are heard from San Francisco northward. With average rains from now on even the southern half of the State will probably pull through all right. A Russian newspaper, speaking, thought, by gov- ernmental inspiration, says that Russia will permit no- body to execute a diplomatic dance upon her Apeaceful disposition. This is possibly one of the astute ways in which the Czar chooses to inform the world that what | he acquires dishonestly in peace he is prepared to pro- tect in war. AUSTRALIA’S LAND GRANT ROAD. N the furtherance of a monumental scheme for open- l ing to exploitation thousands of square miles of . virgin country and linking the north and south coasts of the Australian continent by a transcontinental rail- road system, the Government of South Australia is now prepared to copy the policy of the United States in the building of the Union Pacific. It stands ready to re- ceive bids for the construction of a railroad from Port Darwin in the northern territory to Oodnadatta in South Australia, the present terminus of the line run- ning inland from Adelaide on the Southern Ocean. For each of the 1063 miles of railroad necessary to complete the cross®ontinental system, the Government will grant in fee simple 75,000 acres of adjoining land from the public domain with secured rights to all mineral or ripa- rian values attached thereto. The bids close on May 4, 1004. 23 : Tl}ia indnoelw/nt of the South Australian Government to procure the construction of its great railroad invites comparison with the land-grant scheme which fostered the completion of the Union Pacific in the sixties. When Congress decided to assist in the financing of this rail- road jt first granted to the company every alternate section of land for ten miles on each side of the track and subsequently raised this bonus to cover every twenty miles_on both sides of the rails. Moreover gold bonds to the total value of $20,328,000, maturing in thirty vears and bearing 6 per cent interest, were apportioned out upon the completion of each twenty miles of roadway. Through less pressing need and the presence of more available capital, the South Australian Government is not moved to hold out such a lavish prize to hesitating investors. The question of the Government ownership of the proposed railroad is not yet settled. Fuyrther, the blocks of land offered as grants must abut alternately upon the one side and the other of the roadway. It is safe to say that the public lands thus offered by the antipodal Government to insure the development of the vast interior of Australia have a potential value as great as that of the undeveloped plains of our own great West in the sixties. In a comprehensive pamphlet, issued by the South Australian Government, the reports of experts upon the resources of “the bush” ate set forth. The northern territory, which the projected sys- tem will traverse, has an area of 523,620 square miles, nearly five times that of Great Britain. For 1200 miles it has a seacoast with harbors and navigable rivers. In the virtually unexplored interior, though drought js suf- fered as in the plateau States of our own country, the conditions are favorable for artesian irrigation. The whole interior contains gold, both placer and in the form of gquartz; but the difficulties of transportation have made the mines practically worthless. The very prom- ising agrarian and grazing resources have only recently been exploited. For the restless energy of capital the land-grant rail- road project and the development of the interior which will follow upon its completion should offer a profitable vent. Certain it is that the opening of the heart of the Australian continent will be the precursor of a new epoch in the industrial life of all the states therein. The great wealth hidden in the interior needs only the talis- man touch of the steel rails to become revealed. Santo Domingo is now in the happy possession and de lightfully uncertain enjoyment of four full-fledged, amb tious war parties, each determined to do and die in the sanguinary service of the gay goddess of liberty who presides over its half of the little island. This condition may safely be characterized as ideal. What a splendid crop of dead patriots these four war parties ought to produce as a preliminary to the restoration of peace for decent citizens. THE USES OF TIMBER. E scratch a match for our convenience in get- W ting a light or a fire, and without thought of what a match means. In this country we scra!ch‘malches every year that require four billion feet of pine lumber in their manufacture. That represents 400 acres of virgin pine forest. matches remained as now, without increase, the ‘boy just born will by the end of his three score years have seen the destruction of 24,000 acres of pine for the manufac- ture of matches alone. The railroads consume ninety million ties annually in renewal of their substructures, svhich means’ the annual destruction of three billion feet of timber. The telegraph poles required annually amount to 750,000. demand for ties and poles strips annually 100,000 acres of timber. The demand for shoe pegs uses up yearly 3000 acres of hardwood, and lasts and boot trees require the use of a half million cords more. paper takes yearly 80,000 acres of timber. All of these uses are minor demands upon the forest. High above them is the demand for building lumber, dimension tim- ber, furniture and ship-building. The rapid destruction of the forest far outruns replanting. The efforts of nature to renew the forest are thwarted by annual fires, which not only destroy the young growth, but join the match ‘A4 Pledge. “Talk about New Year’s resolutions,” said an old miner at the Lick House yesterday. “T shall never forget one that was made in a camp down in Ari- Pete's. Pete was as ugly a specimen of frontier gin slinger as I had ever run across. Everything was whisky that night. of them called him over to join the temperance sermon that fellow poured “Before he got through every moth- i a bunch of us, and he said: Let's pull it down.” sy door and put out the lights. It was | denly there was a terrific explosion, a “At davlight some of the boys found { bullet wound in the head, a pistol “*To all of you—Pete stole my wife blew in. The boys eyed him, and one crowd. He drank, once, twice, three times, then he turned on us and the { out would have made Neal Dow turn in his grave. 'er'u son of us had taken the pledge and had drifted out. The stranger followed ‘“‘See here, boys, you can't keep that pledge as long as this gin mill stands. “Just drunk enough to do anything. | we waited until Pete had shut the flim- the only whisky shop in the camp. Our stranger friend had disappeared. Sud- | crash and ‘Pete’s’ had been blown to atoms. Pete went with the mess. the stranger's body near the creek that |ran alongside ‘Pete's’ There was a | graspea*in the right hand. And pinned tq the ragged shirt front was this note: from me. I've settled accounts. Keep your pledge.’ " A Bubbl-. James P. Treadwell spent his days in a dank smelling elevator down on Sansome street, tugging hour after hour upon the shiny cld rope which acted as the brake cn the old-fashioned water elevator. His shoulders had become rounded by { much tuggings on that self-same rope. | and the cheerless light of the shaft had leached his face to a prematurely old | shallowness.” But for each of the busi- | ness men who stepped daily into his di- | lapidated lift, James P., as he was fa- | miliarly calied, had a cheery nod and a | the price of such and such a commodity | up for barter. ‘depri\'atlfln James P. had managed to { put aside from his niggardly monthly pay enough to bring his account at the bank barely into the four figures. Then { came the Nome excitement. The head { of James P. grew light with the tales { of fortunes made in a minute, and thcse | | precious four figures In the bank were | transferred to his eredit for stock pur- chased in the Yukon Gold Dredging and Exploitation Company. According to T. P. Whitelaw was to be fitted with a gold dredging outfit and the gold weuld be ripped from the bed of the Yukon like shingles off a roof. | But one fatal morning James P. read | by the misty light in his elevator that | the T. P. Whitelaw had gone down off Mendocino, an absolute loss. With a | sigh. almost a choke, James P. turned { Eauvesdropper Caught. | “If there is one thing I detest more Wood pulp for | than any other,” said a prominent at- | | torney, “it is to have some one glancing over my shoulder when I am writing a letter. The other day I was penning a communication to a friend ¢f mine and | who is well-méaning but ill-mannered. | sauntered into my office and without any ado began to look at what I was | writing. Zona a few years ago. New Year's eve | forty of us were jammed into Colorado “Along about midnight a stranger | word abeut the condltion of stocks or | | Through many vears of pinching and | while seated at my desk another friend, | | | | | had visited Washington to see Mr. Jef- | terson, who was then President. | It is not remarkable that a letter written by Thomas Jefferson should be | extant, for Mr. Jefferson wrote letters | by the thousand, and at a time, too, | when his fame would cause them to be | treasured, but it is remarkable that a fragile sheet of paper could be kept for S0 many years by a roving band of In- !dians who had no other habitation than | bark huts. The letter was addressed | to the Poncas, Otoes, Iowas, Osages, Sacs, Foxes, Pottawatomies and Sioux | by President Jefferson. The Indians from whom Mr. Darman obtained it | seemed to have no knowledge of its im- | port, but were keeping it among other | papers of little or no historic value. | Mr. Darman lived among the Indians | and learned to talk their language flu- i ently, and it was while he was llving | among the Sacs that he found the let- ter. The fact that it is addressed to | the only inhabitants, at that time, of | Oklahoma gives additional interest to ; the letter. Foes of Ocean Travel. In his article on the methods of de- stroying the half-sunken vessels that float the ocean, in Harper's Magazine | for January, H. H. Lewis gives some interesting information as to the num- ber of these ocean wanderers and their remarkable voyages. “The statistics collected so far state | that the average number of derelicts | says Mr. Lewis. “The year 1893 was the | most prolific, 418 floating derelicts of every degree being reported to the bu- | reau. | “Take the remarkable case of the | Fannie E. Woolston. Left by her crew | off the American coast in 1891, she | drifted for three years and six days. | covering in that time more than 10,000 miles. In the course of her wandering she follgwed the gulf stream over to ‘,Englnnd. then took a jaunt down the | European coast, and finally, true to her | country, returned by devious ways over If the consumption of | the glittering prospectus the wrecRer “the equator back to America, where she | was wrecked three degrees north of the spot where she started adrift. | "“The schooner B. R. Woodside, an- | other famous derelict, began her career | several hundred miles east of Savan- nah. She started off toward Europe by way of the gulf stream, changed her mind when near the Canary Islands and turned back to within twenty miles | of her starting point. Then she drifted south to the islands of Florida, became mixed up in a storm and went zigzag- ging across the ocean. She crossed her own path a number of times and was sighted by forty different shipmasters, who made haste to report her maneu- vers to the Hydrographic Bureau. She was a particwlarly dangerous specimen of the genus derelict, and there was great relief in marine circles when it was reported that some enterprising craft had vicked her up and towed her to Abaco, New Providence. “The honor of being the most remark- | and shoe maker, the railroads and telegraphs and the.t “The communication was of no par- | able derelict probably belongs to the pulp mills in destroying the old timber as well. When American land-owners understand the profit of planting. timber, and are willing by that means to en- rich their heirs and their estates, every holding will be in part devoted to a crop of trees. A farmer in_Indiana fifty years ago planted white pine on part of his land. He is now 68 years old, but finds that 100 acres planted to white pine, 100 trees to the acre, is now worth $30,000, putting the value of the lumber at only $10 per thousand feet. In all the prairie States, and in the deserts where irrigation is being introduced, and in the valleys of California, evéry land-holder ‘may do better than devoting all his land to annual crops by planting part of it to merchantable timber. The man in Indiana lived to see his tree plantation equal an investment of $2000 running fifty years on 6 per cent interest compounded annually. He did not have the $2000 in cash to invest, and if he had he could not have invested it at 6 per cent compound interest on security always safe. But he had the land and could get trees for nothing out of the forest. Prudent men resort to life insurance to safeguard their families, and that is wise and well. But the prudent land-hblder who desires to do something for his children gnd grand- children can beat both current rates of interest and life insurance by planting trees of the kinds that have com- mercial value. By devoting part of his land to'a tree crop he does more than appears on the financial side of the matter. He enriches the landscape, affords shelter for the birds which destroy the insect enemies of his crops, and he increases the fertility of the rest of his land for annual crops by increasing the moisture. It is a matter of ob- servation. that “treerplanting in Nebraska has extended the tillable frontier of that State westward at the rate of about three miles a year. On our deserts a great ally of irrigation will be found to be tree-planting. If it be where only the cottonwood will grow, dense plantations of that tree will by and by be sought by the wood pulp mills, and the cottonwpod renews itself rap- idly by seeds and suckers. While we are looking to the State and National governments to do much in forest- ing, it should not be forgotten that every land-owner has it in his power to profit himself and improve his io- cality by using part of his land for a private forest. - The Indians now happily resident in Nevada are dane- ing their war dances, drinking fire water and otherwise conducting themselves to indicate clearly that they are looking for trouble. This is unfortunate, as Nevada has s0 few of the noble red men leit that she needs what she bas if for no other purpose than as curiosities. = B ticular importance, but it made me | Fred B. Taylor, the craft that was run nervous to have scme one else read it. | into by the Trave in 1592. The sharp I was for giving vent to my feelings, | bow of the trans-Atlantic liner cut the but hit upon a plan which I thought | would teach my friend a lesson, so I| wrote on the letter: | | “T would write more, but a con-| | temptible scoundrel is looking over my shoulders and =c I will close, etc.” “What was my surprise when my im- polite friend blurted out: ““Why, the idea. I wasn't reading| your letter at alll'” | Milk in Bricks. The inventor§ of a method by which milk is now being solidifled on a con- siderable scale confidently believe that i their discovery will rot ‘only abolish| the many dangers of the dairy, but will | eventually do away with the dairy| itself. They are confident, that is, that the day of liquid milk is over. People who have tried to solidify milk before have employed too low a tem-| perature in their fear of decomposing | its fats and sugars, and in consequence | have failed. But by the Just-Hatmaker | process the liquid milk is whisked round polished cylinders kept at a flerce | heat by steam, and comes off in a few creamy-white sheet five feet in width. | This is reduced to powder and may be! compressed into cakes. The features of the product is that it is still potentially milk—the whole milk and nothing but the milk, and to make new milk at any time it is only neces- sary to add the seven parts of water which have been evaporated. The result is sald to be difficult to distinguish from fresh milk. Its cream rises naturally, and it may be made into butter or cheese. The powder and cakes keep indefinitely, and samples have been sent round the world and kept for three weeks in Shanghai, re- turning ouite fresh. Obviously it is im- possible to water, skim or adulterate solid milk, and a fact to which the in- | the profession of derelicts. | La Favette sat to her for their por- salling vessel squarely in half, and by all rules of marine procedure should have sent her to the bottom. Strange to relate, however, the two parts re- mained aflcat and each started off on its own hook to become a member of The stern was blown north and finally brought up on Wells Beach, and the bow, guided by an Inshore current, went scuth and came to grief opposite the Carolinas.” - Madame Tussaud's Wax Works. Anent the centenulal celebration of the founding of Madame Tussaud's fa- mous waxworks in London the Daily Globe of that metropolis gives the fol- lowing interesting facts concerning the romantie history of the madame: s “She left Berne as a girl with her uncle, whose skill as a modeler in wax of portraits and anatomical subjects was such that the Prince de Conti in- duced him to settle in Paris and aban- don the profession of medicine. There Mile. Grosholtz (the name of Madame Tussaud before her marriage) became seconds in the form of a continuous| even more sought after than her rela- tive. At his table she met the great men of her time; Voltaire and Rous- seau, Franklin, Mirabeau, Necker and traits in wax. The interest of her me- moirs, published in 1838, lies in the fact that friend and confidante as she | was of the royal house, she came into | contact with many whose doings make up the history of the fall of Louis XV | Owing to her connection with the royal house of France she was imprisoned during the revolution, and had as her | fellow captive the luckless Mme, de | Beauharnais. who lived to be the Em- press Josephine. Among her earliest experiences was the modeling of the heads of prominent victims of the Ter- ror, some of them fresh from the guil- ventors attach extreme importance is that all attemnts to cultivate microbes on it have failed. ‘A Valuable Relic. Hubert Darman, now living on al farm near Jones City, Okla., has an in- t;mu&: relic wi he obtained m the Indians p: to the openi ‘ottookhhoml to settlement. The n‘l‘!: is an autograph letter written by Jefferson, April 11, 1806, and given to a delegation of Indians which ’ lotine; and it was only by the fall of Robespierre, whose portrait, like that of Voltaire, still remains in the show as originally fashioned by Mme. Tus- saud, that she was saved the fate of some of her subjects. ——— G t— 'ruv-n:: California glace frults ana P O Y friends. 715 Market st.. above Call Spectal hbn—m supplied dally to P Ciosme B "e.?