The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1904, Page 6

THE FRANCISCO CALx, ¢ MONDAY JANUARY 18, 1904 Starch. BY MALCOLM McDOWELL. [Author “Shop Talk on the Wonders of the Crafts.”] (Copyright, 1804, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Said the wholesale grocer as he picked up a fingerful of the article in question. “Have you ever considered the part which starch, just plain, ordinary starch, plays in your everyday affairs? Don’t you know that it would be prac- tically impossible to live in these times without starch; that if starch were suddenly removed from the earth thou- sands and ten thousands of working people would be without employment, and that what vou call the industrial world would get a shock which would | be felt in every part of it? ‘I went through a starch factory not long ago, and since then I have had more respect for the article which we sell by the carloads. The other even- ing at dinner I looked around the table and room and mentally catalogued the ‘starch’ effects. My shirt bosom was uncomfortably stiff because of the stuff, and the dab of powder on my wife's nose 1 knew had more or less perfumed starch in it. The biscuits brought in by the maid were light and flaky because of the baking powder | used in their making, and the basis of a baking powder is starch. Starch gave the elegant finish to the napkins and tablecloth, and the pudding which came along later was largely built up on corn starch The wall paper was kept on the plaster because of starch in the paste, | every picture in a frame was pasted with starch, and I knew that the Brussels carpet under the table, at one part of its making, had been fairly soaked in starch so as to make it stiff and firm. The cotton fibers of the stuff of which mv wife's shirt waist was ade had n ‘sized’ in starch during the process of making the cloth, and the cotton thread used in sewing it had been treated with starch the same way. ““The wall paper also had been ‘sized with the white stuff, and I suppose the covers of every book we had in the house were pasted with starch “Millions of bushels of corn are used every year in the manufacture of this essential product, and considerable | wheat is consumed also in making what | iz known “wheat starch.’ ‘Potato’ flour is potato starch, and in the good old days our grandmothers used to get their starch by grating potatoes, mixing the mash with water, and then, after allowing the mixture fo settle, secured starch by frequent decanting and wash- ings. “In principle that is the way starch is made from corn to-day, although much expensive machinery is employ- | ed and every menas possible used to | get the largest yield in its purest and | l | and if there were no slumber whatever | insomnia, and it is a much worse con- | mind absorbs this suggestion. -+ than the water and dissolved gluten, gradually get tq the bottom and stick to the slate, and at night, when the flow is over, the troughs are covered with wet starch, snow white, from four inches thick at the head, graduating to a mere film at the foot. The next morning the starch is shoveled on to wide belts, which convey it to cement cisterns, where it is agitated again with cold water and then pumped into settling tanks. This process is repeated several times, and then the mixture goes into the separating tubs, where the several grades of starch arrange themselves in layers, the poorest and lightest being st the top. Each grade is drawn off and the starch goes into boxes, which are lined with loose pieces of unbleached muslin. The meshes of | the fabric are too small to allow the starch to escape, so that only the water is drained off. “After ten or fifteen hours the boxes are turned upside down, the blocks of starch fall out to be sliced into smaller blocks, which go into ovens, where the moisture is evaporated. The crust | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL) { JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « « « « « « . + . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office ...........cceiaan .....Third and Market Strects, S. F. —— ANU I I e, s coenerisens s JANTIRIY U85 1004 | SPRING TRADE OPENING EARLY. HERE was an encouraging feature to trade last T week. It was the early opening of the spring busi- ness. It seldom opens so promptly after the holi- days and is often.delayed as late as the Ist of February. But last week’s reports all indicated a resumption of business after the holiday lull, with indications of agood demand for general merchandise during the rest of the winter. In this respect, if in no other, the new year is opening better than the old year closed. There is still another improvement in the comparison. The feeling of pessimism and dread so general and con- spicuous during the last half of 1903 seems to. have dis- appeared altogether and is replaced by one of buoyancy and confidence. This is particularly noticeable among the New York bankers, who are pleased with the unex- pected abundance of money and the cheerful trade re- ports coming in from all over the country. Private re- ports received in this city last week from the best posted operators in Wall street said that the stock market was in splendid condition, and were it not for the Eastern war clouds would doubtless be active and at higher quo- tations than those now prevailing. But the Eastern complications are delaying the reaction which everybody which forms over the blocks is scraped off with knives, leaving hard blocks of | starch. The starch is again subjected ! to a dryigg heat, and finally is ready | to be packed. The fine starch of the | best grade is pulverized and becomes ‘corn starch’ for cooking purposes, and the other grades are packed sep- arately into boxes ready for shipment. | So you see, after all, it is a simple | matter to make starch—all you need | is a good deal of money to start with. | The consumption increases yearly, so you need not fear being without a mar- ket.” | i | Insomnia. BY DORA MAY MORRELL. (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles) Oniy the victim of insomnia knows how it takes the nerve and life out of | those who suffer from it. It is said that ten days without sleep is the long- est time that any person was ever able to go before insanity or death followed, ! | one would become mentally unbalanced in less time. Any one who has known the horrors of a mind that cannot rest will find it easy to credit that statement. The true terrors of insomnia are known only to | the individual who has lain night after | night with body heavy with sleep and | mind working every instant. One victim of this trouble said: “It | is & queer experience 1 have just been through. I heard Ida come into the | room, knew all you said, heard her go | out; indeed, I knew all that was going | on, and yet I awoke by hearing myself snore.” That sort of sieep is genuine dition than the usual sleeplessness, be- cause, though the body is getting a measure of rest, the mind, which needs it moe, Is more alert than before one | sought sleep. It is a most painful state. The first step toward a cure is to change the suggestion in the subjective mind, and this is no small task. When | one h had gight after night of wake- | fulness it is one of the hardest mental tasks possible to approach one’s “couch as one who lies down to pleasant dreams.” Naturally, the objective mind will be ying, “Of course you won't | sleep any more than you have for a month. You'd much better take a sul- fonal powder,” and the subjective Such a one should never be strengthened by being put into words, but, or the con- trary, should be driven out whenever | trade is showing more life and a gradual resuscitation | znd the output of the crude material seems to be increas- | | water mark of 20,000,000 tons to 12,000,000 tons, the nor- | not give much promise for the immediate future. Hides, thinks is coming by leading the general public to hold aloof, expecting that a formal declaration of war will cause a transitory decline in stocks, thus presenting them |an opportunity to step in and buy' for the rise which | would probably follow the first decline. As long as the { war situation hangs as a menmace over the market the much desired and expected reaction cannot very well take place. : The industrial situation is.showing some |mprovm.1ent and the favorable statements from the dlfiergm lines unfavorable ones. The iron and stesl outnumber the ’ irom the depression of the past six months. The read- justment of wage schedules to a lower plane went into effect January 1 with practically no friction whatever, ing again. The decline in this branch of the inlustry was very severe, the production falling off from the high mal quantity being about 17,000,000 tons. Many plants Lave resumed operations and a better demand for struc- tural material is reported, while the decline in quota- tions seems checked for the moment at least. The textiles, however, are not making as good a show- ing as iron and steel at the moment. Lower prices are | quoted for new lines of woolens, which is an undisguised | disappointment to the trade. The cotton industry is still seriously hampered by the unsettled prices for the raw material, fluctuations being sharp and frequent and every day or so severe. This of course renders manufacturers very cautious in buying and also tends to keep the whole- sale merchants out of the market except to fill immediate wants, such as keeping up assortments, etc. Provisions, too, are not in satisfactory condition. The great Western packing concerns at Chicago and else- where several weeks ago loaded themselves up with a large line of pork and beef products and then unleaded them upon the scattered outside trade, which now holds the great portion of the stock, with the market depressed and slowly. declining to a lower plane of values all around. Stbcks of everything in this branch of industry are reperted large and steadily accumulating, which does however, are more active and have lately developed more tone, with some advances, notably in foreign descrip- tions. The statistical condition of the markets is irregular. The country’s bank clearings showed a loss of 18.8 per cent last week, with about half of the largest cities on the losing side of the -exhibit. The aggregate clearings, however, kept up to a good volume, being about $2,265;- 000,000. The loss at New York was 27.8 per cent. The failures for the week were 324, against 267 for the corre- ing instead of putting it out, in order to continue in em- | ployment. At the end of the season expert and disinterested men, familiar with the burned region, were employed to re- port the loss caused by the year’s fires. They have just reported that fhe loss is $813,664, a sum that would have kept the forestry school going for several genera- tions, and would have supplied therefrom expert fores- ters to guard against fire. who would not have spread it for the sake of employment. The Mute. Policeman Shannon, a brawny blue- | coat on the Oakland force, hasn’t re- | covered from the shock yet. It was all because he tried to hold up a be- lated pedestrian, who proved to be a deaf mute and couldn’t respond to the demands of the insistent patrolman who had stopped the silent wayfarer during an early morning watch. i 6 H H 3 Shannon saw the object of his watch- v desertin New York is now figuring up her gains by deserting Pl sopine o oo Sk o g st ?he school t.)f forestry, anq fhe peoplg are.again 'demand- | rapidiy along the street. The police ing protection of the fertility of their spil and the flow | ryles require that belated citizens | of their streams by proper official action. | shall be. stopped and unless satisfac- But when will California get awake to the importance, | tory Tenltvb:e CIV:‘I': the lfaccn:ti‘;q‘;:::- 2 son mus’ sen 0 police he: al of her own forests? At present they are deserted by the | e Ine TR - TTew iR i | State. In seme years the fire losses have run into the | tains for the proper lookout at night| | millions. “After us the drought and desert” seems to/for suspicious characters. So Shan- have been the sentiment of our people. We need for- non hailed his man. No response. estry schools in our universities, to supply trained men. Asain did the patrolman g?‘_"’ hail. We need a Forestry Commission con_:posed of S“Chl:ii“:ai?a:e";;?edt:i s:jtn?'r ?‘L“: ‘f_fi:;:% men. We need every care and protection that can be | pearing figure. Another call and only given to our forests. Will we get it? {an echo of the bluecoat’s cry respond- ed. The silent figure still swung on The hot wave. of reform which has been sweeping ' ItS Way, heedless of all effort to attract over America_n municipalities ha§ struck MilwaA\:i‘(ee, and: “f wonder It: the man's & rogue - or to the astonishment of the natives she hae joined St.'crazy,” thought Shannon hustling Louis, Minneapolis and Grand Rapids in the indictment | along and getting close enough to of offending officials. San Franeisco is notorious for be- | “;Ch"-‘ good :fl’;d"" the unresponsive o X s gy _ | pedestrian’s shoulder. ing a year or two behind prevailing style.s,_but surely op. With s grént of surpiiee the heldup portunities seem numerous enough to join the proces- | z tizen stopped and tried to escape Shoey. | from the heavy clutch. This only| l'aroused Shannon's suspicions. | ‘“Oh, no, my boy. I have you now, | and you'll tell who you are before you get away,” declared Shannon. MERCHANT MARINE COMMISSION. OLLOWING the F Roosevelt in hi§ annual message. a bill has been introduced by Mr. Gardner of Massachusetts pro- viding for the appointment of a commission to report to Congress at its next session what legislation is desir- able for the development of the American merchant marine and American commerce. The commission is to be composed of the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmas- ter General, the Secretary of the Department of Com- merce and Labor, the chairman of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House, three Senators to be designated by the President of the Senate and three Representatives to be desighated by the Speaker—at least two of these Senators and two of the Representatives to be Democrats. Until:this commission reports it is hardly likely that any effective step will be taken to provide for our mer- chant marine the governmental protection it requires to maintain itself in competition with the subsidized mer- chant fleets of other countries, and it is therefore to be hoped the commission will be promptly created and set to work. The consequence is that we have to pay to foreign ship- owners a heavy annual tribute in the way of freight rates that ought to be kept at home for the promotion of our shipyards and our merchant service. In a recent address Mr. Austin, Chief.of the Bureau of | Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor, presented a striking showing of the rapid growth of our export and import trade as compared with that of Great | Britain, France and Germany. marks he said: “These three countries, combined with the United States, supply one-half the total international commerce In the course of his re- of the world, and it is therefore unnecessary to con- | sider the other countries, in an attempt to determine what our commercial growth has been as compared with the other great nations of the world. Taking still the year 1870 as a starting point, and comparing condi- tions in the four countries in 1878 with the latest avail- | recommendations of President | Our foreign commerce is expanding enor- | mously, while we have no adequate fleet to carry it.| | Not a murmur from the now thor- | oushly excited man. | “Who are you?” demanded the pa- | trolman. Not a word. For ten minutes Shannon struggled. | The mute made signs and almost frac- tured his fingers trying to enlighten | the' patrolman. At last he managed to { get a bit of paper and a pencil. In the | filcker of the street light he wrote: “I'm dumb.” “I'm ——!** ejaculated Shannon, as { he dropped his hold and went a@bout- | face to the other end, of his beat. | | | Justice Never Outlaws. There is on record in the old judg- ment books of the Justice of the Peace |now stored away in the basement of | ! the City Hall a case in which Judge | James C. Pennie decided years ago.. | Judge Pennie occupied the bench for over thirty years,. and although he| knew very little law he administered the law of justice in such a way as to hold on to his place against all odds. The case alluded to is briefly this: Sam C. Harding, then a collector of bad debts, one day met a man whom he had known for years. The man borrowed $20 of Harding, giving his note for the same at 6 per cent inter- est. The note was merely a joke at the time, but years passed on and the borrower made a big strike in the Ne- | vada mines and years after he visited the city with his pockets bulging out with gold coin. In a saloon on Mont- gomery street the new Croesus met ! Harding. A rough bantering was in- | dulged in, in which Harding took of- fense at some remark of his friend. He then upbraiced his friend's ingratitude in not paying his debt. The man swore he would never pay the $20. Harding sued him and when the case came to trial before Judge Pennie the statute of limitation was invoked. “There is no statute,” said Judge l o - he will go and lie down until the next hour approaches, when he will repeat his performance. His rest and sleep he takes during the daytime when th men are about the house. Back to the Ice Age. Our friends in the East are worrying over the cold weather. Says the Bos- ton Transcript: “Since the recent abnormal cold there are not wanting people who believe that the theofy lately advanced by some scientists is correct. This is that the northern hemisphere is entering upon a new period of glaciation. Other evidences than the late unlamented blizzard come rapidly to hand. Every- body knows that the past summer was phenomenally cool here, but Boston takes pride in having summers cool enough to advertise any health resort “News comes, however, from distant Alaska that the output of gold for the vear has been only $6,921,157 this year, as against $8,345.800 in 1892, This deci- ded fdliing off is laid to the extremely short summer on the Summer Penin- sula, where are located the greatest placer mines, the time between thawing out and freezing up being much less than on previous years. “Round the other side of the northern world the latest news from Captain Coffin, in command of the Artic explor- ing ship America, is that the ice is fat south about Spitzbergen and he will find difficuity in making the usual northing before the ship is frozem in. The previous Zeigler expedition had the same trouble and the failure of Com- mander Baldwin is in part attributed to this evidence of cold beyond the nor- mal. “Of course, the scientist may be wrong in their apprfehensions, and the forecasted glacial period may not be really approaching. but surely the common signs all point in that direc- tion. When learned men and goose-bone prophets agree it is no wonder that common folks look upon the thermom- eter with distrust and a certain amount of rancor.” - Ito’s Escape. Marquis Ito, on whom so much de- pends in the Far East, had a narrow escape of his life in the adventurous days of his youth. He and his friend Inouye incurred obloquy by their ad- vocacy of the Europeanizing of Japan, and their political opponents resolved upon their assassination. Ito was tracked to the house of a lady to whom he was attached, but the lady hid him so securely that he could not be found, saying that he had left her -ome hours before, and that she would be glad if the strangers would ...ve her also. They departed, and Ito fmanaged to get on boar.. a vesseb bound for England, most attractive form. If you split a | retarns | sponding week last year. The range for the general run | able data, it may be said that the exports of France have | Pennle, “by which an honest man fl“’:‘;'::""_‘. ::n‘b:“e"fo:ih::“';_.‘;’;m::; | grain of corn flatwise you will see the starch jn its natural condition, but en- veloped in substances which later be- come the refuse of the starch factory mixed with gluten. This giuten must be washed out and the refuse stuff ce- moved in order to get the pure starca, &nd the process in general runs about as follows: “The corn is received, shelled, and every bushel is registered | sutomatically. Then the grain is sifted, | run through a blower, which removes | the dirt and dust. The clean corn then is taken to the steeping-room, where there is a series of large vats or tanks made of cypress wood. These vats are partially filled with hot water and about | 3000 bushels of corn are fed into each | tub. The corn is kept in the steeping | vats for three or four days. The treat- | ment graduvally softens the flinty grains and partial fermentation takes place. The scum which rises to tne top is skimmed off, and finally the hot | water is drawn off, and the softened parboiled corn dropped on to a con- weyor, which carries it to the millroom, where large burr wheels grind it. Cold | water is fed into the mills with the corn, and the mixture, which looks like | thin gruel, runs through pipes into a | stone cistern, where it is constantly agitated with more cold water. “From the cistern the mixture is | pumped on to a serfes of sieves called | shakers. The sieves are made of silk | bolting cloth, and the frames are con- | stantly shaken by machinery. The! sieves are on a slant, and the contin- uous trembling -releases the starch granules from the refuse, which slides off the ends of the screens in bins and later is sold for cattle feed. The starch granules, with the water, fall through the meshes of the bolting cloth upon a cement floor, run into a gutter and then into a cistern. From this cistern it is pumped to the first settling tub, where it is allowed to rest over night. The sour water on top is drawn off and fresh water, made alkaline by a weak solution of caustic soda, is run in and thoroughly mixed with the starch. “The weak alkali dissolves the gluten which sticks to the starch granules, making the starch comparatively pure. The starch is allowed to settle again, and then is taken to the runhouse, in which are a number of shallow troughs about three feet wide and twenty feet icng, made of slate. The slate bottom is perfectly smooth, and the troughs slant on a grade of about one inch in eighty feet. The sides of the trough are made of stone or cement. The starch and water mixture slowly en- trough, or ‘ways,’ and almost imper- ibly moves toward the lower end. “The starch granules, being heavier | | weighed and | To replace a rooted suggestion with another is not easy, but it must be done if one is to return to refreshing slum- ber without seeking new scenes which of themselves will usually change the suggestion. That is' one reason why the country helps one to sleep. Imme- diately ome says, “How delightfully quiet it is here. I know I shall sleep to-night,” and that thought drives out the other which has been keeping re- pose away. ‘When one wakes in the night the proper thing to do is to keep the mind calm and to think “how pleasant it is that I can go to sleep again.” After a month’s wakefulness it is probable that this thought will not at once produce the desired glumber. It may not to- night nor to-morrow night, but it will in the end. When morning comes if inquiries are made the reply should not be, “A wretched night, I scarcely slept at all,” but “1 slept very well part of the night,” ignoring all the wakeful hours and making no allusion whatever to them. Not once through the day should there be the expression of a doubt whether sleep will come or not, but the mind should be made to feel that sleep is certain to come. The thought should be constantly kept in mind that sweet sleep is waiting with the Zarkness. This is the one cure for insomnia, and it has nothing against it, mot even improbability. It was the method discovered by the writer after months of testing fruitlessly the va- rious cures usually advised. It takes time and a strong will to put a decided suggestion to rout when one is first beginning to practice this meth- od, how long depending naturally enough upon the control one has over one’s mind. Possibly this may be called self-hypnotism, but it has the merit of strengthening the mind at the same time that it heals the trouble. Nothing but good can follow the ac- fuisition of the power of driving out harmful thoughts by better ones, what- ever form the undesirable thoughts take. It may take a month to make this remedy effective, or it may take a longer time, but when tne ability to do this is once one’s own it is always dt hand. One may work this cure if one will under the most adverse eircumstances, but it is well to have one's surround- ings for one’s aid rather to have to struggle against them, is some- thing of an effort at best. There should be close attention to the details of ventilation, and to the comfort of the room, and the atmosphere should be that of which the would-be is unconscious, for the body should be at ease. A warm room is more condu- cive than a cold one to slumber. of staples was the highest for a year and 37 points above the low level of 1896, though 7 per cent below the high- est point of 1000. The exports of wheat and flour from the country were 2,771,000 bushels, against 4,878,000 last year. The distribution of ‘general merchandise is in- creasing, the best reports coming in from the West and Seuth. In California the weather is the governing factor at the moment. While the central and northern parts of the State have reccived sufficient moisture for the present, the south and southern end of the San Joaquin Valley are suffering from drought. The Weather Bureau re- | ports pasturage almost gone and some sheep and cattle dying on the ranges. Corn is being fed to stock in these sections, but this is expensive. According to the Weather Bureau the current year is the dryest known since 1863-64, when no rain fell at Los Angeles during the whole winter. But they depend largely upon spring rains in the lower part of the State. Otherwise the condition of business in California is satisfactery. Money continues plentiful, the local and export business of this port continues good, there is no pessimism expressed in any quarter, and with the usual spring rains fair crops are practically assured. Prices for almost everything in the farming line are above the aver- | age of the past few years and in some lines away above it. This is especially noticeable in hops and hay, which are bringing fine prices, while ‘\no line reports any de- pression, except possibly raisins, which are dull, with a large line of last vear’s crop still on hand. Taking the THE* COST OF FOREST FIRES. HE State of New York, in obedience to an impera- increased $277,000.000, those of the United Kingdom | $443,000,000, those of Germany $607,000,0c0, and those | of the United States $1,028,000,000; the increase of the | United States being equal to that of Germany and the | United Kingdom combined, and nearly equal to_all of the | three countries under consideration. Comparing the growth by percentage of increase, it may be said that the United Kingdom shows a gain of 45 per cent, France 50 per cent, Germany 110 per cent and the United States 260 per cent. In 1870 the United States stood at the bottom of the list, her exports being less than those of any of the three nations named; in 1903 she stands at the head of the list, her exports being greater than those of any other of the countries under consideration. These figures, it is proper to say, relate to exports of domestic merchandise only, and do not in- clude the re-exportation of foreign or colonial merchan- dise, which forms a considerable share of the total ex- ports of the European countries” in question, especially the United Kingdom.” Such is the nature of our commerce across the seas. We are the richest of nations, the most enterprising and the most progressive, and yet we have hardly a s visible showing among the merchant fleets of the world. Since it seems that a commission is deemed necessary to make these and similar facts known to Congress be- fore legislation can be obtained, it behooves us to get the commission promptly. The Gardner bill should have the cordial support of all friends of our merchant service and should be enacted without delay. — The announcement has been made that the year re- cently ended was the most successful in the history of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Oakland. No State as a whole, therefore, the outlook is fair. T tive public necessity, a few years ago embarked upon the conservation of her remaining forests. Farmers complained of increasing aridity of the soil and decline in its fertility. Streams once of full and constant flow, and furnishing valuable water-power, 'were dry half the year. The headwaters of the Mohawk, the Hudson, the. Susquehanna and thé Delaware, once fed by tim- bered watersheds, were stripped, and the -initial flow of the streams growing less. Under these circumstances the preservation of existing forests and the replanting of denuded lands became a pressing necessity. A forestry school was started in Cornell University, with Dr. Fernow at its head, and the State made the necessary appropriations for its support and equipped it for caring for the timber. Subsequently, for reason that has not been plain, the pretext being economy, the appropriation ceased. During last year vast fires raged in the Adirondacks, where the State | owns nearly 2,000,000 acres of forest. Hastily impro- vised means of fighting fires were made use of. Men were hired at $2 a day, under unskillful and insuffi- cient oversight to fight fire, and were detected in spread- | form it is Folsom. better news could record the activity of any community. It is such institutions as the Young Men’s Christian As- sociation that protect the youth of the cities from the appalling temptations that inadequate laws and lax ad- ministration have made possible in American life. Ex-Congressman Driggs has been sentenced to serve one day in prison and to pay a fine of $10,000 for the part he played in the postal frauds. This should linger in our memories as one of the curiosities of American justice. Driggs deserved a longer imprisonment or none at all. He has been submitted to an unnecessary in- dignity or the laws that provide equal justice to all have been outraged. where people caré to have the use and benefit own property, has been sentenced to years' imprisonment in Folsom. Th: be the opportunity of Joseph’s life. His motorious incli- wing and if there is a place in California that needs re- i/ oy should be prevented from recovering 1 his just debts. Judgment is rendered | for the plaintiff, with costs and inter- est,” The amount in the decree when the principal and compound interest was entered amounted to $1600. It was paid, rather than stand an expose by taking an appeal. { The Brrkcleg'_H ills. H Somewhere on the Berkeley hills, The bay breeze blowing over, Somewhere on a round sea slope, Where poppies crowd the clover: | i { | There shall T make my home For lcve of the out-door hours. | For love of the long year’s peace The days among the flowers. without either food or drink. Then he introduced himself to the skipper and proposed to work his passage to Liver- pool as a steward. Answers to Queries. PROSPECTING—W. 8. C. City. For information about prospecting for minerals in California call at the min- ing bureau in the Union Ferry build- ing. SOUTH AMERICA~—Subscriber, bastopol, Cal. For particular informa- tion as to the resources of South America you should write to the United States Consuls stationed at dif- ferent parts of that territory, stating exactly what you wish to know. Se- For love of the far bay views, The shippings’ deep sea story, The sun's descent on the mount In purple state and glory. For the grassy flelds and the orchards The pimbernel in the close, The emerald green magnolia And ever the winter rose. For a glimpse through the oak’s old arches Of the scholar’s cap and gown, For a touch with the onward striving That haunts a college town. Somewhere on a round sea slope I shall live my life’'s joys over In a many-windowed cottage ‘Where the popples light the clover. —Lillian Shuey. Dave, the Fire Dog. In a Western Addition engine house there is a dog named Dave who pos- ‘sesses rare intelligence. Dave knows the taps on the fire gong as well as the men attached to the company. As soon as the first tap is sounded on the ond round comes in. If the box is one to wbich the engines respond he will jump about while the horses hitched, whining a cry of expected joy of a run. be for,an outside section himself on the are 155 ] z ® g < » g ] FRATERNITIES—Subscriber, City. According to official figures- the strength of the Masonic fraternity in the United States and Canada in the latter part of 1902 was 901,968, and that of the Odd Fellows 1,320,956. The nu- merical strength of the Order of the Eastern Star was 250,000. ROTTEN ROW—Enq., City. Camden has traced the expression “rotten row” to rotteran (to muster); hence rot, a file of si% soldiers. Another derivation is the Norman retten row (roundabout way), being the way corpses were car- ried to avoid the public thoroughfares. Others suggest route du roi (route of the King), or that it is so called from the soft material with which the road is covered. This is the name of a fash- jonable driveway in Hyde Park, Lon- don, and the English people are of the opinion that the name is a corruption of the French name route du roi. RELEGATED—A. B, City. There can be no question that the sentence “Drinking men are being rapidly rele- gated to the rear,” is correct, despite the action of some captious magazine editor who struck out “to the rea and explained that relegate means “to send back,” The latest dictionary defl- nition is that relegate means “to send away, or out of the way, s to some