The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1904. INSTRUCTIVESSTUDIES BY / ) EN AND — Jefiries’ Boxing Style. ERT PAYSON TERHUNE, New York Evening World, “Muscle Building,” etc) 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) opyright v boxer has a style more or less his own—a style of defense, attack and pose, into which he gradually drifts or which he has planned out as most ef- Ev fective for 2 man of his build and speed It is not well for a beginner to as- sume any particular "stylg" He should rely wholly on the positions, mo- tions, etc., prescribed by his boxing master. The regulation attitude and movements are far better in every way than any novice can mark out for him- self. They are the outcome of decades of study and experience, and he must indeed be a most conceited youth who thinks he can improve on such tactics. For that reason I have ~-aited until the . 1 The Famous Jeflries “Crouch.” P S % latter part of this series before touching onseny of the variations from the hard-and-fast rules governing the manly art. Do not deviate from any of these rules until correct boxing has be- come second nature to you. Do not, above all, allow tricks of slovenly or | awkward carriage and motion to creep | into your work: mor imagine that, by | such tricks, you are forming a style all your own. For you are not. You are merely weakening your attack and de- fense. Individuality in boxing does not con- sist in ignoring established maxims, but in improving on them. And no one | who is not a thorough master of a sub- | Ject can hope to improve on that sub- | Ject | What I shall now teach, therefore, is only for the use of students who have | advanced to a degree of skill justifying | its use. If you are a beginner cut out | this %esson (not in the slang sense of the term) and save it until you are suf- ficiently skillful to warrant you in studying it Nearly every professional boxer has, by dint of many experiments, laid out a style of his own. I shall outline sev- eral of these styles, together with some blows invented by the best modern box- ers. If you find any of the attitudes available in your own personal case adopt them at discretion. You will, in any event, find the blows easy to learn and most effective against men - ho are not acquainted with them. When Fitzsimmons first fought Jef- fries for the championship of the world the former expected to meet a man taller than himself and trained with that idea in view. To his sur- prise he found himself confronted by a man %ho stood scarcely five feet in height, 2 man who crouched awkward- ly instead of standing in the conven- tional attitude. Jeffries, though six feet two inches tall, was in such a position as to take at Jeast twelve inches from his stature. His great Jeft arm was stretched out almost straight in front of “him, his feet much farther apart than the ordi- nary eighteen inches (yet not so far apart as to prevent quick motion), the heart and win'd drawn back by reason of his position and further protected by his right hand, which was held near his body, his chin drawn in close among the powerful neck muscles, the hard, bony forehead being thus made the most prominent portion of the head, the protruding left shoulder adding to the protection affordéd to the vulner- able jaw point. Small wonder that this utterly unique attitude confused the veteran Fitzsimmons! The first time I boxed With Jeffries I was familiar (by sight) with this famous “crouch,” yet I found it most confusing. The advanced left arm, swift and accurate of motion, met and stopped nearly every rush. Wind and .heart were out of reach. Swings glanced off his left shoulder, and such straight blows as reached the -jaw found it protected by a mass of throat | sibilities because they Have brought to | Whence Comes Fertility? BY G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, A.M., LL.D. (Author of ““The Ice Age in North America,” “Asiatic Russia,” etc.) (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) It hardly needs saying that in general the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon the fertility of its soil. In some few cases, it is true, nations may pros- per because they have a monopoly of mines, of manufactures, or of the means of trade and commerce. But the larger part of tie things which minister to the necessities and the comforts of mankind are the direct products of the soil. The relation of the soil to the under- lying rocks, however, is dependent upon | the action of transporting agencies which are at hand. Where there are | no. transporting agencies sufficient to | carry away the disintegrated particles | as fast as they accumulate over tHe surface we have what is called “resid- ual soil,” whose character will partake | entirely of that of the underlying roc: If the underlying rock is a conglom- | erate or sandstone the residual soil | will be composed of nothing but sand ' and gravel, which is capable of sup- | porting only a limited variety of veg-| | etable lite. But even such soils are not without | their higher values. When Professor Lesley was asked why the Lord made | | those long stretches of unproductive | sandstone rocks separating the Lehigh | {River from the Susquehanna and ex- | | tending in a broad belt across the en- | tire breadth of the State, he replied | | that, in the first place, they were useful | in holding the world together; and, in the second place, in providing the vast populations on either side with pure water and pure air, the two most val- uable gifts the Creator has to bestow upon men. R S The celebrated Wyoming Valley on the Susquehanna, the Shenandoah Val- ley in Virginia and that of the upper | Tennessee are illustrations of that ag. ricultural wealth which is supplied by the disintegration of limestone rocks. | In numerous places in Central Penn- sylvania. as in the mountains south of ‘Williamsport, there are limited out- crops of limestone over which have | sprung up flourishing communities sur- rounded by barren sandstcne moun- tains, as islands are surrounded by wa- | ter in the sea. | | The blue grass region of Kentucky is similarly situated, being bordered by barren outcrops of Devonian subcar- | boniferous conglomerates. and sand- stones, while the thin covering of soil | resulting from the disintegration of the | | Silurian limestone supports a vegeta- tion which furnishes the elements most | necs y for the best development of | | cattle and horses, and so in consider- able measure accounts for the pre-emi- | nence of that region in those depart- ments of industry. It would not be strange, also, if the pre-eminence | claimed by the Kentuckians for the | beauty of their women and the strong | physique of their men were due to this gift from nature of a richly endowed limestone soil. | | | But =0 limited are these deposits of rock containing the concentrated ele- | ments of fertility that an undue por- | tion of the world would be barren if it were not that nature is provided | with elaborate means of transportation, | whereby the richness of one section is | carried to another, resulting in a com- | mingling of elements, which is of the | highest advantage. During the long | geological ages water, ice and air had | | been engaged in transporting and de-“ | positing in distant regions the residual | soils which were accumulating thou- | sands of years before man came upon | the scene. The flood plains of nearly | all rivers are rich in agricultural pos- | them the elements of soil supplied by | the entire river basin. The Mississippi | Valley from Cairo to the gulf is a de- posit of sediment to which the whole up- | per portion, extending from the Rocky | {to the Allegheny Mountains, has fur-| nished its quota, and so it is with | nearly all the larger river systems of | the world. The Nile, the Indus, the Ganges, the Yang-tse-Kiang and the Hoang-ho fur- nish old flood plains of great extent, where agricu -re has been carried on for thousands of years with little de- terioraticn of the soil. The vast plain of Eastern China, through which the | great canal wends its way, is little else than the combined deita of the two great Chinese rivers, P In the northern part of Europe and of the United States and in the south- ern portions of British America gla- cial .~ has been the plow and the har- row and the scraper which have pre- pared the region for its most successful cecupation by man. The northern part of the United States is living to a con- siderable extent upon the richness of Canada. Everywhere down to the lim- its reached by the ice of the glacial period Canadian bowlders are found. mingled with the finer grist of Cana- dian rocks which was ground off from the highlands by the ice and carried in its movement south for hundreds of miles. A European expert has tavght us how to enrich our soil by grinding up the granite rocks, contain- ing a large amount of feldspar (which i the basis of clay) and other elements of value, and spreading it over the socil. An eminent authority in the United States recently asked me if we could not accomplish that purpose in the United States by grinding up the Ca- nadian bowlders. The answer at hand ‘was, nature has already performed that work for us. The ice movement of the glacial period ground a large part of the elements it brought with it to finest powder and spread it far and wide. It is estimated that on an aver- age the deposit of glacial grist over the northern part of the United States is 100 feet thick. When I had nearly completed the survey of the glacial boundary in Ohio twenty- years ago I chanced to meet Professor W. I. Cham- berlain, the accomplished secretary of the Board of Agriculture, and showed him the line -across the State. - He at once remarked that that line separated the more. productive agricultural por- tion of the State from the least pro- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor + + « « + « « + + « Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager .Third and Market Streets, S. F. PALMS IN OAKLAND. N our big sister city there is raging the battle of the I palms, brought on, we are persuaded, by The Call's articles on the use of palms as a street tree. A pro- fessor in the university lifts his pen against the palm. To him it is a pest. He looks upon it as Shylock says some dc upon the harmless, necessary cat. He wants the streets lined with elms, which shed their leaves and hali the year scud under bare poles. As this is a winterless land, and he is from a winter country, he desires to give a winter aspect to our cities. " Byron says “the cold in clime are cold in blood,” but Californians are not that kind. As our climate permits the presence of summer glories all the year, we want the good old summer time, all the time, in our street trees as well as in our temperatures. To set out trees that are bare in what are winter months by the almanac is to despitefully use our climate. It is ours and we should make the use of it. Califernia is the semper idem and semper virens State. At this moment travelers from the East over the Central Pacific see ripe oranges on the trees in Placer County, from Clipper Gap to Rocklin. If the ideas of our anti- palm professor were,applied, the people of our gateway county would strip the orange trees of their yellow Ifruil and evergreen leaves, so as-to make the winter- worn Eastern folk feel at home! So, likewise our mer- chants should display in front of their stores arctic over- shoes, sleighs, cutters, bobsleds and other snow-going vehi¢les, and quantities of ice skates. Such an exhibi- tion would imply frequent snow and much ice. Our climate is free from thunderstorms. We do not dodge the lightning. If Olympus had been here, Jove would have thrown bouquets instead of thunderbolts, for he could not have found a thunderbolt with a search warrant. But in the East they must have the protection of lightning rods and lightning insurance companies. Again, applying the theories of the professor, we should ignore the thunderlessness of our climate, and invite the lightning-rod man here, and put up rods on our houses and barns. If the Eastern man cannot sing the songs of Zion in a-“winterless land, should we dress in fur gar- ments, cut down our evergreens, salt the green grass of our lawns, rebuke and behead the January bloom, all to immerse him in his accustomed gloom? The cause of the palm in Oakland is upheld by a citi- zen, Mr. Bell. He has absorbed the cheer of California sunshine, and rings like a true joy bell. 'We doubt whether a dirge could be got out of him. He sees the enormous value of our climatic asset, and proposes that we get a dividend out of it by using palms for street trees. He wants no bare and cheerless limbs, to take all the pleasure out of our sunny welkin. He does not be- lieve that Eastern people come here to find what they have at home. If they did, they would save railroad fare and huddle against their base burners, curse the coal man, listen to the gale whistle in the bare trees, rub their chilblains and shiver and sreceze from October tq April. He believes they come here to escape all that, to get away from the ground hog, and come where they can hear the meadow lark and robin in February. There- fore, he wants to give them'in everything the contrast they seek. He would line our streets with tropical trees, which find that nature here is no stepmother, and flour- ish as in their natural habitat. He would lift up our palms to make oath to our winterless climate, and there- in he is wise. We would regard it as a distinct injury to any Califor- nia city to fail to use climate in tree setting. Florida advertises herself as the land of the pine and palm. Rail- roads going south have their “Palm Limited” trains to carry tourists to that ague-smitten peninsula. But the palms are there, lining the streets, and they are an at- traction which offsets the lack of zest in the Florida cli- mate. How would it look to advertise California as the land of the red oak and water elm? Yet that is just what the professor desires to do. By their trees ye shall know them, may be said of California cities. We hope that sunny Oakland will not be known as “the city of the wintry trees.” United States Senator Dietrich has escaped prosecution on a charge of bribery on the score that when the alleged administered to one of his high station. The Senator is mistaken if he thinks that any sentimental interest will attach to his service as a Senator because he is a gentle- man with a disagreeable past A GENERAL ADVANCE. T most striking fact presently observable is that pros- perity is widespread. This is well. The good for- tune of one section is the benefit of all others in this State, common interest and common destiny being theirs. Not long ago this paper called attention to the large transactions in real estate in this city during the year 1903. The total consideration for properties sold was more than $47,000,000. The significance of this may be made more apparent when it appears that the large sum was more than double the entire value of the mineral output of the State in the preceding twelve months, the latest period for which any complete statistics are avail- able. : % While San Francisco advanced in all material things the same good fortune attended Los Angeles, Fresno, Stockton, Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland and its sister communities on the east shore of the bay of San Fran- cisco, and in fact all large towns in the State that have made returns through the medium of the local news- papers. Special editions of the publications of the interior have given many interesting facts. “The valley towns and cities are particularly sensitive to.the, agricultural con- ditions obtaining in the country of ‘which they are local centers of trade and enterprise. So it follows that if towns and cities thrive in California the proof is accept- able that the agricultural interests are not falling behind, but are steadily advancing. The same applies to mining. As evidence that prosperity has extended its beneficent influence from the most southern to the most northern boundaries of California and that the future is bright with promise the Del Norte Record ‘comes in oppor- tunely with words of good cheer and satisfaction. Del Norte breasts the ocean surges where California finds its northern limit. “Laboring men,” says the Record, “need not seek other parts to find employment. The great copper belt of this county is receiving atten- tion. Tt is in the hands of men of means and the work AKING a comprehensive view of California the dactive. Taking down the reports by counties, it appeared that the counties in the glaciated area produced, on the average, twice as much per acre under cultivation as did those south of the of opening the mines and erecting smelters will make the country more prosperous than ever. There is no doubt but railroad construction between this place and Grants | offense was committed he had not taken the oath of office | The sawmills and camps will be in operation to their fullest capacities, which® will give more employment than heretoforé.” There are other circumstances to which the Record refers, but this is sufficient to indicate the buoyant tone of the whole. This is the spirit in which all California has begun the new year. All portions of the State would seem to have seen the advantage to be derived from mak- ing their merits known. There has not beerr so mutch outward manifestation of interest and vitality, taking the State as a whole, at the beginning of any year in a long time. There is reason for hope as Del Norte County sees in common with its entire sisterhood of California counties. : The Federal Government has loosened its purse strings and through its generosity we are to have an immigration station to cost $200,000. No better addition to the na- tional service in this city could be suggested. It will more than repay 'its cost by removing from San Francisco the imminent danger of contagion from the Chinese detained in that worst of bullpens on the Pacific Mail dock. D INDIFFERENT TO FATE. OUBTLESS the merchants and the manufactur- ers of San Francisco know their own business better than any one else, but there are certain re- sults made evident in official statistics of trade which point to the conclusion that however well they may know their business they have not been very dilligently attending to it. how our trade with Alaska and the Philippines has lagged in comparison with that between those countries and the Sound’ ports, and Has also published the com- ment of leading commercial men on the subject. Taken together the two form a very instructive lesson. show that despite the energetic movements directed to various objects of recent years, we are still, in some very important respects, maintaining our proverbial “in- difference to fate,” and are patiently waiting for destiny to bring fortune to us without exertion on our part. In commenting upon our lack of a due share of the trade with Alaska, one of our most prominent merchants said very blandly: “Alaska will buy in San Francisco what it can obtain here at better advantage than anywhere else, and will probably buy nothing more.” shows an attitude of indifference to the whol€ subject, for it evades the real issue in the sase. The vital point in commerce is to supply markets to better advantage than any competitor and to make the purchasers in those markets aware of the fact. Who is to determine what goods Alaska can obtain to better advantage in San Francisco than elsewhere? Surely our merchants and our manufacturers ought to have a voice in the determi- nation of such questions. Trade advantages are of many kinds and are by no means solely dependent on natural advantages. Men of enterprise and courage can overcome less energetic competitors, even though the latter have many natural advantages. whatever goods the San Franciscans can offer them on better terms than any one else, and with our superior capital and prestige on the coast we ought to be able to capture and to hold most of the Alaska trade for years to come. One thing is certain—he who tries for nothing will win nothing. Only by entering actively in all the com- petitions of the world and the time can San Francisco attain the commercial eminence for which her position with relation to the Pacific Ocean commerce of the United States entitles her. We have at present an op- portunity to make a special exhibit at the St. Louis Ex- position and should exert every energy to display one that will compel attention and command admiration. Such an exhibit would go far toward instructjng all visi- tors to the fair, and through them a much wider circle of business men, as to the nature and variety of the many articles that can be purchased here to better advantage than elsewhere. That would be doing something at least to hold our trade and to extend it; while if we do nothing, the Alaskans and the Filipinos will never know ».vhat we have to offer or why they should trade in our market at all. A markable educational movement whose object is no less than the establishment of a branch of Yale University in the city of Changsa, capital of the province of Hunan, China. An association to foster the project, with President Timothy Dwight at the head of it, has already raised $17,000 and has the promise of suf- ficient fungs in the near futuré to insure the success of the new college. Already a young graduate has looked over the new field and pronounced the sentiment of the higher classes in Hunan to be strongly favorable. High officials of the Government have guaranteed the im- munity of the school from the attacks of the reactionary counselors in the imperial court. The establishment of an affiliated branch of Yale Col- lege in China will mark a distinct advance in the educa- tional spirit and tendency of the times in the Emperor’s domains. China is waking up. Her wise men are be- ginning to see that if she would maintain her integrity in these grasping times she must have the wisdom of her foes, who hedge her about on every side. Perhaps a few of the very far-sighted ones see that it needs only the touch of knowledge to brush away the clouds of the centuries and make China one of the powers of the earth. Just as soon as the Flowery Kingdom feels the prop of her own trained minds under her and can do away with the artificial support which has to be paid for into the pockets of Europeans will she become a nation of inde- pendence and progressiveness. / 5 Fortunate it is that the scheme for education which the Yale association has mapped out for their guidance in the college project is not founded upon the missionary idea. Our proselyting in China,” worthy though the cause may be, has not been an unqualified success. By a fair-minded person it even.can be seen where the Box- ers had some justification in believing themselves in the right. To the average Celestial mind it appears, and with good excuse, that knowledge of a strange deity must accompany the priceless learning of the West. In their determination to eliminate all idea of the mission spirit from the working scheme of their college the Yale alumni have approached their task in the manner which best promises success. A CHINESE YALE COLLEGE. GROUP of Yale alumni have just launched a re- In giving his testimony a few days ago Charles Schwab naively remarked that during his entire life he has been connected with the steel industry. The beauty of his ad- Pass will begin in the spring. The route has been sur- ! mission is that most of us are quite ready to agree with ‘weyed and '!he\rc'm, no great obstacles to overcome, | him only we wouldn’t think of spellng it just that way. Stolen Joys. While talking with some friends the other day a well-known jurist remarked that not véry long ago he was strongly tempted to commit the crime of kid- | naping a child. The jurist is a married man, but no olive branches have ap- peared to bless his home. “About & o'clock one evening” he said, “a policeman called at my house leading by the hand a pretty little girl about 3 years of age. She was able to tell her name, which was the same as mine, but did not know where she lived. The officer brought her to my house thinking she might belong to me. I happened to answer the doorbell, and when the little thing saw me she sald, as hereyds swam with tears: “Am I 0os *ittle dirl?’ I said, “Why, of course, you are,’ as I picked her up and kissed her. She put her arms around my neck and hugged me, and my heart filled with a joy it had not experienced for many 2| of Switzerland. day. President of the Confederation, he will assume direction of the foreign affairs He took a large part in framing the Simplon Tunnel Conven- “I told the officer to leave word at|tion, and much is expected from his the police station that if any one in-|conduct of the various commercial quired for the child she would be found | treaty negotiations.—London Globe. The Call has published figures showing | They | The saying | The Alaskans will buy in San Francisco | at my house. When I carried her into the parior my wife was met with the same tearful query from the little one, and she smothered her till I became jealous. The child was soon quite at home, and I began to regret having ad- | mitted to the officer that she did not belong to me and psay inwardly that | her parents would forget all about her. My prayers were useless. We had just finished dinner when the child’s mother | called and took away a blessed ray of | sunshine that had come into our child- | less home.” Gallantry Ao, Captain T. D. E. Wilson, superin- tendent of the Occidental and Oriental | Steamship Company, has developed a grouch on the subject of politeness as practiced in street cars. “No woman ever manned a strap while T occupied a seat,” said Wilson | yesterday, “but hereafter they can jdangle till they drop and they’'ll find | Wilson taking his full nickel’s worth of seat.” Now, Cantain Wilson is the soul of | chivalry, and a declaration of this kind | sounded strange to those of his hearers who knew the courtly nature of the speaker. He explained: i “Coming down town on a Haight | street car the other morning I was the only man passenger. I had ridden most |of the way swinging on a strap, but just before we turned into Market | street two girls ot off and I dropped gratefully into the space their going | haa left. “I was barely settled, however, when a stout lady accompanied by a fat hus- band and leading a vicious looking bull- | dog boarded the car. The lady glared | at me. I got up, bowed toward the va- | cant seat and resumed my strap. “The ‘thank you’ that never came was hardly expected after the glare, but I certainly never looked for what followed. *“‘Jump, Brutus,’ I heard the lady | gurgle. There was a growl, a scratch- | ing of feet and a gentle thud. When I :lurned my gaze toward my lost seat | there sat Brutus, licking his ugly chops contentedly, while his’ mistress patted | the beast's head and looksd affection into his bleary eyes. “The other passengers showed some indignation at first. They glared at the woman, stared at the dog and then turned their glances up to me. A pret- ty girl smiled. A grin broadened a| face across the aisle. A chuckle sound- | ed behind me, and when my eyes again | swept the faces of my fellow passen- | gers they were all grinning: I felt the Anecdotes of Williams. In a Washington hotel one day John Sharp Williams found himself ome of a group which was lionizing Collis P. Huntington. The great man was en- joying his favorite relaxation from business cares; he.was telling again the secret of his success, beginning with that famous first dollar that he sayed. “I made ome rule early in life, and I have always kept it,” he saild. “I never allow pleasure to interfere with work.” “I prefer never to allow work to in- terfere with pleasure. So you will ex- cuse me now,” said Willlams, and with- drew. The Democratic leader sits in the cen- ter aisle, well back under the shadow of the gallery. His slight figure seems unimpressive beside that of the robust Payne, the Republican leader. His lin- en is as fleckless as any Southern gen- tleman’s. If otherwise he is not care- less about his clothes, he is at least careful not to appear too tidy. Chang- ing styles do not affect the old-fash- ioned standing collar with the wide opening at the throat and his little black tle. The tie is never securely in a bow, and when it falls down some intuition seems to remind him of the fact and he ties it up loosely again. just as he would adjust his spectacles. “Williams is always in fatigue dress, but his mind is always on active ser- vice,” said a fellow member. “If I ever see that tle in a tight bow I am going to break a lance with him. I believe | he might lose his temper, then."—Col- lier's Weekly. California Press Day. California editors, 150 strong, will be at the world’s fair all during the week of May 16, which has been des- ignated as International Press Con- gress week. On Tuesday, May 17, the California contingent will feel a pro- prietary interest in the exposition, for the management has set aside that day as “California Press Association™ day. The Californians are planning to make the day a noteworthy occa- sion even for so important a week. The editorial party will travel in a pecial train. The California commis- sion will assist in making the “day” a success, and the elaborate secial functions in the California building are planned for the occasion. Answers to Queries. FLOOD'S BEQUESTS—W. S, City. | blood mount to both cheeks. A mist | The list of Christmas donations by | dimmed my eyes. The lines of fa€es| Banker Flood was published in The Call became the smiling mouth of one big|of December 24, 1903, page twelve. Cheshire cat, with that, bullpup grin- ——— ning in the foreground. Omne look was| RIO JANEIRO—N., Vallejo, Cal. The sufficient—I left the car. After this|steamer Rio Janeiro sank in the en- ‘Wilson keeps his seat.” His Vision Dispelled. On his hands and knees, along a long dark, rubbish littered passageway crawled the officer. Visions of medais were running through his mind. get a medal, sure,” he soliloquized, sub- duing an oath as his knee struck the sharp edge of a tin can and he felt his “inspection day” trousers)tearing. “The Chief will surely maké me a ‘plain-clothes’ man for this.” The passageway was long and the officer was indeed brave to venture the trip, especially with the knowledge that somewhere in. the darkness ahead lurked the crouching form of a man, who only a few minutes before had into the passage. Foot after foot crawled the officer, bent upon doing his duty and doing it well. Suddenly he arose, andswith a sharply uttered *“Surrender!” grasped the feet of a man who, intent upon his task of climbing up a water pipe that ran up the side of the building forming one side of the alley, appareatly did greund, the officer on top. “What the —,” came with a gasp from -the figure underneath. “I'll show you;” puffed the officer, grasping his prisoner by the throat, and, after considerable fussing, striking a match. name of “Henpecked Sam.” R “Well, I'll—. Say, what are you doing here " angrily shouted the officer. “I live here,” gasped Sam—as the officer’s clutch had not been a light one—"1 promised my wife I would be home at 10 o’clock and it’s now after 12. I was just trying to make a sneak.” The Stiss President. Can- tonal Government of Neufchat Four years ago he entered the Federal Coun- cil, where he has established the rep- utation of a man of ripe experience and judgment, fertile in resource, never | _Special information supplied baffled by a difficulty and capable of finding an outlet to any deadlock. As stealthily and almost noiselessly run i trance to the bay of San Francisco, Friday morning, February 22, 1901 WEDDING PRESENT—E. R. I, Oakland, Cal. Wedding presents in- tended “for a young lady about to be married” should be inscribed with the { galore decorating his manly bosom |initials the lady will have when mar- “I'll | ried. PANAMA—J. H. B, City. Colon was formerly called Aspinwall, after one of the builders of the isthmus railway. It was afterward changed to Colon in honor of the discoverer of America. Prior to the recent trouble in the Pan- ama end of the state of Colombia Colon and Panama yere in the state of that name, but now they are in the repub- lic of Panama. CASTING LOTS—Stranger, City. The ttle bamboo sticks noticed in the Chi- nese temples are used in ceremonies to ascertain if certain wishes will come to pass, Every large templs has from one hundred to one hundred and fifty stanzas of poetry relating to a variety of subjects. h stanza is printed on a separate slip of paper. The temple has a quantity of sticks corresponding to the number of stanzas and referring td them by number. These sticks ars called “lots.” They are drawn before some idol in the temple, never in a private house. The individual who whhpulwlymummuuhlm, self on his knees before the | bows low, states his name and gives his residence, then states what he wants one of tha numbered sticks falls to the ground. The applicant picks up the stick, places it in a censer with the number toward the god and then by means of the ka- - pue. which ¥~ throws in the air, the fall means, according to position, “yes,” “no,” “indifferent.” This is sup- b friends. A Eastern 415 Market st.. above Call bidg. * —_—— daily to ana men_by the