The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1904, Page 6

INSTRUCT | Our Friend the Animal. | reforming a drunkard. we old fellows, BY F. L. OSWALD, A. M, M. D. n,”" *“The Reme. | Ete.] opyright, 1604, by Joseph'B. Bowles.) An Ame n scientist a few months 2go published & list of “lost hrts,” but failed to include the long-neglected art | f keeping ¥ sters out of mischief. he free circus games of classic an-| tiquity solved the problem for 800 years. They had nothing to do with man-| slaughter in Greece, little or nothing in | nine-tenths of the Roman provinces. Most of the country towns were too| poor to indulge in gladiatorial festivals | and indemnified themselves with acro- s and zoological side shows. The an lanistea, or dealers in wild beasts, had agents in every seaport town and customers in every city, from | Syria to Spa The citizens insisted | m free show The supply of that demand cost the | Government millions in slandlng‘ arenas, but saved billlons in standing | nies. It had to feed and train all| the monsters it could get hold of, but| even a few boxes full of dragons would | have cheaper than barracks full of dra <. batches of grizzlies less battalions of grena- | than tus, Trajan and Hadrian often| turned loose a hundred trained lions in | one day; but they kept the world quiet with twenty-five legions. They knew to choose between recre- lutions, between menag- All in all, theirs of lesser evils. | tees of free popular en- have given way to asso- the suppression of popular and military expenditures reased twenty-eight times. De- f the spice that would make »f toil digestible, millions vielded to the temptation of with conspiracies. Blue laws in have provoked the red flag of anarchy. the burden of the war t t become intolerable, the of classic Rome will have opted; but reform, like char- ould begin at home. We should try the zoological recipe to anish the tedium of our firesides. Pre- g a family with a cage full of = might keep the too convivial familias more at home. Master find coons more entertain- Jocko might prevent might ng than cards. jags The station agent of a little Texas border town a few years go had a pair of capuchin monkeys left on his hands, and finding time between trains rather dull, decided to adopt the weaz- en-faced waifs. There was a big pile of old hoxes in the rear of kis freight- house, and with & dime's worth of wire pails and e litile biue paint he con- | tr to rig out quite an attract looking ape asvilum. Besides a hay- stuffed vy and a big feedi-g trough, th a horizont.1 bar, grapple swing and several playthings that could be rolled | around the sand-covered ground fioor. Thus encouraged, the four-han’ed ac- robat=z “acted” while daylight lasted, and if apolause can reward accom- plishment had no cause for complairt. The platform of the little freight depot was crowded with sightseers. Traffic improved, shippers would go out of their way to patronize that special sta- tion and get an excuse for enjoying the free show In rainy weather the voungsters of the neighboring school- house, who used to pass their recess in a wvacant tobacco barn now made a rush for the “monkey house” and agreed to respect the by-law against smoking. There was an anti-rowdy regulation, too, and young hoodlums behaved to propitiate the proprietor of the free circus. The only malcontent of the settlement was the owner of a Mexican restaurant, with dramshop annex. 5 Before the summer had lasted a| month loafing in the Mexican's den had almost stopped. To accommodate the crowd the free museum Wwas now and then shifted to an adjoining wood- shed, where an amphitheater of cord- wood offered a chanc: for eserved seats Visitors came from distant ranches for the special purpose of see- ing the capuchins act, and applause before long led to imitation. The at- tractions of the woodshed tabernacle were completed by all sorts of gymnas- | tic apparatus. Even the Mexican then recouped his losses; his youngsters peddied cakes and soda water. There was a slight risk of more tonic bever- | ages, but the station agent could quote the regulation against the sale of in- | toxicants. A zoological museum with a temper- | @ance restaurant could be made a factor of 3 orm in hundreds of American country towrs. * A free exhibition of boa constrictors would save the natives | from the risk of more distressing scr- pents. But for purposes of domestic redemp- tion even a cage full would often give desired results. There i no end of fun watching the tricks of the indefatigable little foragers, and they-muitiply like petriots in a pension office. The speckled varieties of pet rats are as active as weasels and bold enough to tackle competitors ten times their =ize. 1f permitted to run about the floor they have no hesitation to charge muskrats and even rabbits, three or four bouncers sneaking up from differ- ent sides and then making a simulta- neous rush, on Von Moltke's principle of converging march routes. An amusing phenomenon is the danc- ing mania of pet cranecs, that can be hought on the Rio Grande for $1 apiece. | Standing listless on one foot, the Amer- fcan cousin of the stork might be sus- pected of paralysis, but suddenly start- e about in & circle, then for- like the leader of a minuet, right. like a star actor chaj miration. Cranes are first-class frog ecatchers and almost equally adroit mousers. The suspicious appearance of their long, i legs tempts rodents to ap- proeci them within a few feet, and merely to stop in surprise at the first | think you can “make each athep over” | risoners had a water tank, | of white rats, ! slight motion of the watcher’s hend.l swwhen the sharp bill suddenly descends with the swiftness ¢f an arrow or of a | whaler's harpeon. That prehensile spear gives the autocrat of the lagoons {an almost unfair advantage; his up-l tives may twist and bite, but might as well try to gnaw the fangs of a steel | trap. Cure for Cupid’s Ills. = | BY CHARLES FREDERIC GOSE, D.D. l | (Auther of “The Bedemption of David Cor- #on," etc) ng, 1968 ty Joseph B. Bowles) ; And %0, you yvoung >engaged” people after you are masried? Ah! Perhaps | you also think you ¢an cuse a cat from | | scratching, a dog from Biting and | horse frem balking! You evideatly | know but jittie about the vitality and obstinacy of personal characteristics. | When a young gir} talks glibly about | | who know life, must be pardoned if we heave a sigh. When a young man con- {fides in us that his sweetheart is a flirt, but that he proposes to “take it out of her” after the wedding day, we cannot help shaking our heads. If you want to make any great change in your loved éne, better try it before the wedding ceremony. It will certainly be easler then than later on. Remem- ber, please, that though you do your hair up-in curl paper every night, it always unkinks on.the following day. The old proverb does not say—as the wife inclines the husband bends! Ask people who have been married twenty-five or thirty years whether | they have ever succeeded in effecting any great alterations in each other’s | character. Ninety-nine out of a hun- | dred will answer emphatically, No! What they have all observed is the con- stant intensification of original char- actefistics. Or, where great changes have come, they are not along the lines they had marked out. The fact of the matter is (however little to our credit) human nature resents deliberate efforts at alteration by others. Constant and reiterated criticism and correction | anger us and produce an obstinate re- action. We can change little children, but not “grown-ups.” “It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.” Let a woman tell her husband three times a day “not to eat with his knife,” and at the end of a month he will probably throw his fork out of the window. Let a woman ask her husband every time he goes out of doors if he has brushed his hair, and some night he will come | home with it shaved close to his head. | Too much and too oft repeated criticism raises an evil spirit in us. The bottom facts about the influence of married people over each other are | these: Influence here (as everywhere) is largely unconscious. What we really try to do, we fail to accomplish. If we alter each other at all, it is in unex- pected ways, and almost invariably by exampie and not by criticism or sug-| gestion. Did you ever happen to notice that! the marriage ceremony says—not will! you “make” each other better or worse, but will you “take” each! other for better or for worse? There is nothing better worth remembering than this—that we “take” each other for what we are, and not for what we can ‘“make” each other to become. Nothing but disappointment and un- happiness can result from these nag- ging efforts to alter the characteristics and dispositions of our husbands and wives. It is easy not only to drive them into open rebellion, but to goad ourselves into unhappiness over their | most trivial defects. Suppose a man’s wife has a saub | nose! He has to put up with it; doesn’t | he? Could anything be more foolish than for him to say, “Until this wo- man gets that snub out of her nose I will not even enjoy her pretty hair and her beautiful teeth!” You may reply that this is a physical and ir- remediable defect, but that her bad grammar or her carelessness about her attire is not! Well, you may argue as you will, your dilemma remains the | same. You can either overlook a de- fect you cannot cure and enjoy virtues | that are real and beautiful, or you can keep nagging way at this one de- fect until you are both of you mad, and the happiness has all gone out of | your home. ' Of course there are vices of the soul | which I do not believe we are called | upon to endure in one another. There | are even minor deficiencies of a naturel against which we ought perhaps to| make a resolute stand. But these are | only the exceptions. | The rule is—take each other as you| are! Overlook the imperfections that! | you cannot cure. Keep your thoughu“ | away from them. Pass them by. There | are quiet, gentle ways of exerting a) pressure on the bad habit. if you only | | de mot let it irritate you and make | | your heart unhappy. But it is a| thousand times better to let it alone and forget it. Just keep thinking about | all those other gooC and mnoble quali-| | ties! Isn’t it a dreadful thing to see some | super-refined and hypercritical woman allowing herself to be exasperated by | | her husband’s habit of picking his| teeth, to such a degree that his de-| votion, purity, unselfishness, courage | and honor are all forced into an| eclipse? The habit is a bad one—yes! But it isn't bad enough to justify your | riling his temper and rousing the devil | that lies buried in his heart. And it/ isn’t bad enough to warrant your get- ting that excitable spirit of yours all perturbed. Just try and remember how | easy it is to become critical and how | like a maggot the fault-finding dispo- sition grows. | War Over Mills. In the case of Ada Crowling vs. Joe Mudrow, recently decided in the Su- preme Court of Arkansas, a controversy involving one-quarter of a cent was decided. The* case involved the title to a piece of land which had been sold for taxes, and the title was attacked becausge of the alleged illegal sale. The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts, which showed that the legal amount for which it could be sold was $4 28%, while the sale was | made by the collector for $4 29, thus exceeding the legal amount by one- quarter of 1 cent. In the opinion Jus- tice Hughes said: “The only question in this case is, Does a sale of land for one-quarter of a cent more than is due upon it render | the sale vcid? Tt is true that a sale of land for taxes for an amount substan- tially in excess of the amount due upon it will render the sale void. But in this case the overcharge was not sub- stantial, being for only one-quarter of & cent, an amount less than the least | coin iesued by the Government. 3 | “To hold this sale invalid would seem to be absurd. There would be no waw of making the exact change, and it seems trivial, and more reasonable that the party whose duty it was to pay the tax should pay one-quarter of a cent too much than that the Government should loze tl -quarters of a cent, The excess in this case was trifling and did not" invalidate the sale.”—American News, X JOHN D. SPRECKELS, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL PIogtletor < o v e o o o o o o Address All Commuskatioas.to JORN McRAUGHT, Manages | sesereceso . Third and Markes Strests, 8. F. -FEBRUARY 1, 1904 TRADE MORE UNSETTLED. OMMERCIAL conditions were not as bright last ‘ week as during the several preceding weeks. In- tensely cold weather checked all branches of busi- ness for several days and seriously interfered with rail- way transportation, while reports from the iron and steel- industry were unfavorable. The spring demand for mer- chandise, just opening, was brought almost to a standstill by the zero weather, and building operations in a large number of cities and towns were almost, suspended, Specutation, too, which was showing signs of resump- tion, fell off again, and altogether the situation presented a quieter aspeet, while there was Jess optimism expeessed in the regulat weekly reports ta the different mercantile agencies. ¥or all of these less favorable conditions the weather was probably largely responsible, Nobody feels like doing business or moving goods with the thermom- eter ranging from.zéro to 40 and 50 degrees below. - The South, however, being ‘out of the path of the re- markable cold wave, sent in good reports, the section feeling the stimulus of the boom in cotton. High - prices for this great staple have sent a thrill over the whole Southern region and an enormous acreage is promised for the coming season. Toward the close of the week there was a break in prices, however, and an enormous business in futures was done at New York and New Or- leans. The bulls were still full of confidence, however, the leaders were heavy buyers at the decline and the week closed firm. ,But those interests handling cotton in a legitimate way, such as wholesalers and manufacturers, continued to regard the nfarket with a cautious eye and bought ho more than absolutely necessary to fill imme- diate requirements. The future of cotton goods is caus- ing a good deal of speculation among manufacturers re- garding the course of quotations_during the year, and all mills show a disposition to go slowly and thus avoid being caught with large lines of high-priced material, which the public may not be able to take off their hands. The iron and steel trade, too,-is in ah unsettled condi- tion. The returns from the industry-at the close of the year are reported less encouraging and rumors 6f a pro- pesed cut in quotations make the trade shy about oper- ating. The Iron Age in a recent rather pessimislic-}e- view of the market, bluntly said that the conditions were less favorable and that the trade must adjust itself to them. These rumors and admissions from well-posted authorities affected the stock market,-and the further re- port that the dividend on the preferred stock of the steel corporation might be reduced produced an unfa- vorable effect on Wall street and sent the whole line of stocks down several points. The bull leaders, tired of sustaining the market, quietly stepped aside and the market fell: back of its own weight. Private wires from New York brokérs to their San Francisco correspondents said that the bull interests found themselves confronted | by a stone wall, that they were loaded with large lines | of stocks without a market and that, though large inter- ests were still arrayed on the bull side, fhe bears were steadilv becoming more aggressive. o Another disturbing feature in the stock market wiich Jed to the weakening in values was the freely expressed opinion that cheap and plentiful money was not likely to continue much Iong':! Early ratification of the Panama canal treaty. would n the payment of millions of dol- lars to Panama and the canal coripany stockholders, while there are certain overhanging new capital issues which might draw on the money market and thus advance rates. Another factor in this situation is the decline in the inflow of currency to New York. .Of course much of this is hypothetical and may not occur; but it has its ef- fect on the money market just the same. When mopey is concerned a rumor is often more potent than a fact in depressing the market. We 'lglow the fact and can see what it is doing, but we do not know what a rumor may result in, and uncertainty stops the financial machinery until the outlook becomes more clearly defined. The situation in the West, like that in the East, has been more uncertain of late. The large outside pur- chasing of provisions, wlach has recclitly been the - hief feature on the Chicago Poard of Trade, is diminishing, and though the packers have unloaded large lines of their product on the genéral mublic stocks are repdrted ac- cumulating; receipts of hogs are larger than a year ago and a continued liberal. movement in hogs is freely pre- dicted, which points to lower quotations for provisions later on. The tendency now is to sell, as the market is becoming rather unwieldy. The crop’ outlook continues good, as the wheat is well covered with snow and thus protected from the freezing weather over a great portion of the beit, and though the top growth of the plant is small the root growth is healthy and enlarging. The wheat market itself presents no especially new features. The world has plenty of the grain, is not buying with any eagerness, and whatever excitement appears in the market is caused by the manipulations of Armour, who is doing something or other with the market, nobody knows exactly what. 0 The bank clearings of the country still continue above $2,000,000,000 per week and the losses and gains a§ com- pared with the corresponding period in 1903 are about equally distributed among the largest cities, the net in- crease for the week being 1.2 per cent. The increase at New York was practically nil, being .8 per cent, and the largest increase was at New Orleans, 81.2 per cent, due wholly to the enormous dealings in cotton there. Pitts- burg, the center of the iron and steel industry, lost 22.1 per cent, and Chicago, the center of the grain and pro- vision trades, lost .3 per .cent. The failures during the week were 302, against 243 last year, while the railway earnings for January were 3.8 per cent larger than in Jan- uvary, 1903. Conditions on this coast remain as previously reported. The markets here are now largely a question of weather. There has been sufficient rainfall in the central and northern parts of the State for the present, but the south is still suffering, with the cattle and sheep dying in somé of the southern counties. Taking the State as a whole the crop outlook is fair and the commercial and financial situation excellent. . THE FERRY ODORS. HE letter from a subscriber which appeared in The T Call January 28 suggesting that a sure way to re- mind San F-:anciscnu at the St. Lpuis Exposition of home would be to there reproduce in the copy of the union ferry depot the “familiar odors “of stale fish, de- cayed vegetables, horse manure and other vile smells through which the commuters have to pass,” has inspired another open letter printed in this paper on the 3oth inst. to the same end and suggesting that a remedy in the shape of frequent washing of the docks be applied. , z There can be no question as to the justice of com- plaint in this matter, but frequent washing of the docks is not the remedy. The cause itself should be removed. The experience of a thousand or more passengers dodg- ing for their lives horses attached to heavily laden wagons filled with all manner of materials not primarily intended as Arabian perfumes is not a comfortable one. Standing trucks of pouitry, fish, fruit and vegetables, each adding its .unit to the ill-smelling whole, are scarcely esthetic and are very disagreeable if not unhealthy. Any one familiar with the fersy knows what is referred to, and to jneke a verbal analysis of its too familiar smells wauld be impossible. There is a’ nuisance there which has been folerated too long and should be removed. The termifius of a great transcontinemtal railroad, which is the gatewdy throngh which thousands pour almost con- stantly from its overland and suburban traffic, justifies providing & passageway Ior passengers away from the dauger of teams and the offenses spoken of. There is one other point in this connection which may be noted in the interest of comfort, if not health, and that is the open drinking water tanks on the main decks of many of thé ferry boats. A rusty tin cup hangs by a chain and the thirsty are compelled to dip down into the common pot, where thousands of others have dipped be- fore them. They dip, sip and drip this corporation nec- tar, and not infrequently what is left in the cup is thriftily returned to its common font to mix with the like savings of thousands of others, but to be again dipped up and dripped back by the next thirsty victim. The custom of drinking from the water that has been touched to the lips of some men might be dangerous. The matter could be easily remedied by simply using a closed tank with a faucet. San Francisco must keep pace with the best that is, and while she may not be expected to ‘welcome all guests at her front door with cut flowers she must at least show the common courtesies attaching to a host by providing pure water and a clean entrance to the city. ; In its efforts to ferret out the terrorizing rascal that sought to levy blackmail by the threat of wreck and wholesale murder the Southern Pacific Company is doing the State a distinct service by rounding up ex-convicts abl:oad in the land. It is well to keep an eye on these worthies and trust only to that reformation which the menace of peniientiary gates inspires. Government a participant in the sumptuary sys- A tem of the Stateg.whith affect to prohibit the use of liquors. In souie of such States liquors, even wine, beer and cider, are outlawed; they cease to be property and are subject to seizure and destruction, leaving the owner without recovery or remedy. Up to this time the right of a citizen to have in his own house and for his own use liquors has been protected by the interstate commerce laws. When sent ‘from one State into another in the original package property in liquor has been inviolable. A citizen of Kansas can buy a case of wine in California and have it shipped to his FEDERAL PROHIBITION. N attempt is on in Congress to make the Federal home for use as part of the diet on his own table, and the prohibition law of Kansas cannot touch it because it is commerce originating in another State. Now it is proposed to stop this. Mr. Hepburn, who represents a prohibition State in Congress, has introduced into the House a bill which provides that when liquor in original package is consigned from one State into another as soon as it enters the State of its destination becomes subject to all the laws of the latter State. : This means that when a case of California wine enters Kansas, consigned to a citizen of that State for his pri- vate use, it ceases to be property. The car or warehouse or the owner’s house may be entered by force and the wine taken out and destroyed! The proponents of the bill claim for Congress the right to pass it under that clause in the Federal constitution which gives to Con- gress the right to regulate commerce between the States. We are not aware that the courts haye yet held that under that grant of power Congress may destroy com- merce between the States. Wine is an important article of commerce produced in California. Has Congress the right to prohibit commerce therein between California and Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Texas and South Carolina? It is known that in the prohibition cult tobacco ranks next to liquor. How long will it be before that is pro- hibited by the same States and the tobacco producing States will fall under Federal prohibition of their com- merce? ‘When the right of sumptuary legislation is once conceded a wide field is opened for interference with natural right. It is a dangerous experiment for Congress to destroy the equal application of the commercial law of the coun- try by forbidding commerce between any of the States in any property that has legal existence and protection at the place of its origin. 4 In morals it is a serious question whether force has ever produced permanent good. The work' of Father Mathew and the old Washingtonians did more for ab- stention from the abuse of liquor than has been done by the modern idea of force. Congress should long con- sider before it makes the Federal Government a party to the idea of forcing morals or religion by law upon any of our citizens. 3 T Power and Gas constitutes a valuable contribution to the journalistic record of the -prozfess of San Francisco along all lines of industrial development. The number is creditable not only to the management of the Journal, but to the city as well; for it affords evidence that in our structural work and in our use of electrical energy and. electrical appliances we are abreast of the most progressive cities of the age. There is no longer any doubt that electricity is to furnish most of the artificial power and light used by civilization in the immediate future; but comparatively few people realize to what extent it already provides for the needs of the city in those respects. The various arti- cles of this annual of the Journal will, therefore, furnish ‘something of surprise to its readers, for while it is in no sense of the word a “boom” number, it nevertheless shows San Francisco in a manner that will increase her prestige as a city of light and energy. — / POWER AND LIGHT. HE annual number of The Journal of Electricity, ‘honored, daring life ended by his own will, he said sneer- ingly, “This is British justice.” And so it was—the jus- tice that knows no favorites, that is as implacable as fate in its pursuit of the dishonest, great or smalk. British justice is one of the splendid achievements of modern * As Whitaker Wright dropped dead, his disgraced, dis- | With a Grat of Salf. Governor Brady of Alaska told & story tha other day of an Eastern col- lege athlete who came Weet after grai- uation and secured position on a large sheep ranch. He appeared at the ranch-house about supper time one day, very hot, very dirty, out of breath and apparently thoroughly tired out. “Helia! What's been doing? Had some troudle with the sheep? quiréd the manager. “No; the sheep are all right, but those confounded lambs gave me 2 peach of & t'me.” “Lambe® said the manager. ~We have no jambs on this place.” : “You bet your lfe you hav in- sisted the college-bred herder. “Some of the liveliest lambds I ever saw, I corraled 'em, though.” The manager grabbed his hat, hav- tened to the corral and found that his helper's athletic prowess had enabled him: to vound up and impound . mnot lambs, but seven biz jack rabbits. Protected. She writes the society “stuff” for the Oakland page of a San Francisco paper. She wouldn't like to see herseil “played-up” in print as a heroine, how- ever much she likes to feature the do- ings of other people, so, in deference to her wishes, her name is carefully salted down. But it happened that she was late one night in going to her home, when suddeuly there loomed up out .of the gloaming a big burly man, wearing a mask over his face and car- rying what looked to her like the ofi- spring of an old-fashioned smooth- bore cannon. “Throw up your hands!” manded. All her woman’s pride was instantly ruffled up to the very last pin feather. She sacrifice her * dignity before the shrine of that frowsy ruffian? Noj never! And besides she had no money, anyway. “1 will not throw up my hands, sir!” She did not flinch so much as an atom’s breath. She only looked at him with withering scorn. She despised him. “Gimme your money then, or I'l—" As he hissed the words he rubbed the nose of the pistol against her fore- head. It felt cold, clammy, deadly, but it did not scare her a bit. “I will not give you any money, wretch! I am the society reporter oa the San Francisco Tomahawk and I'll write you up.” It thoroughly cowed him, i im. The poor man fled. he com- unnerved Increase of Insanity. London, says Dr. Robert Jones, is re- sponsible for the production of over seventy insane persons a week. In 1859 there were in England 36,762 insane, or 1 to 536 of the population; there are to-day 113,964, or 1 to 203. The re- covery rate from all cases of mania is also decreasing. being now 38.4 per cent. Melancholia is increasing, and also premature dementia. The same complaint com from the continent. Some statisticians contend that the in- crease is not real, but due to better census taking, segregation and the great increase of the population, but there is a general comviction that the increase is altogether too definite to be explained in those ways. For the past six yéars the total increase of the insane in both public and private institutions of New York has averaged 708, but the Increase to October 1, 1803, was 941 over the previous year. The increase in the State hospitals, not in- cluding the twc asylums for the crim- inal insane, was 918, as against 663, the average of the past six years. There are at present nearly 26,000 patients in the insane asylums of the State. Dr. ‘White of Washington contends that there is more insanity in New Eng- land than elsewhere; and the amount decreases steadily as one goes from Boston west, or from Boston south.— American Medicine. A Favor.. The following gratifying compliment is from the Marysville Daily Demcerat: “One of the best publications in the State and one that exercises greater influence among all classes of people is the San Francisco Call. Under the management of John D. Spreckels The Call has advanced to first place ameng San Francisco journals -and it is deserving of liberal patronage. As an advertising medium to give pub- licity to the great resources of Califor- nia it has no superior, and the liberali- ty shown in free exposition of interior counties is greatly appreciated. “In political matters it has been a foe to crocked work.of officials and its expose of jobs on several occasions has won for it many friends. The Call during the coming political campaign in California will be found clean, re- liable and up to date in the best news.” Nebraska Sod House. T dine upon dishes of silvér and gold In a glitter of china and glass: 1 walk upen carpets so thick and so soft They mutfle all sound as 1 pass. In a chamber of asure and white Under satin and down, but alack! In the dead of the night, when I'm lying awake, My thoughts will go wandering back To a little sodhouse in Nebraska. The floor it was bare, ened logs Were covered with pictures—old prints From the very few papers that drifted our way— And the window was curtained with chintz. But oh! what an army of beautiful dreams Came out of the firelight to play, And tell me of all the grand things I would do ‘When, grown up. I could journey away Trom the little sodhouse in Nebraska. I wouid buy for my mother a gown of black =i and the smoke-black- And a bonnet of roses and lace; But alas! ere I tasted the fruits df success The xrave-mold was over her face. And sitting alone o'er a bottle of port I hark to the wind in the night, As it moans and it groans, and I think with a pang How It wail® far away o'er the site Of the Iittle sodhouse in Nebraska. I am tired of the languorous lilies of X long for the wind the 250 £ Disastrous Irony. whose ‘“personalia” is “The irony of Lord Bowen, a noted Jurist, once proved very disastrous,” + sTeat stress on the enormity of the offense with which the prisoner is charged, but 1 think it is only due to tize prisoner to point out that in pro- ceeding about his enterprise he, at all events, displayed remarkable consid- eration for the inmates of the house. For instance, rather than disturb the owner, an invalid lady, as you will have remarked, with commendable solicitude he removed his boots and went about in his stockings, notwith- standing the inclemency of the weath- er. Further, instead of rushing with heedless rapacity into the pantry, he carefully removed the coal-scuttle and any other obstacles which, had he thoughtlessly collided with them. would have created a noise that would have aroused the jaded servants from théir well-earned repose.’ “The Judge then dismissed the jury to consider their verdict. and was horror-struck when they soon re- turned to court and pronounced for the acquittai of the prisoner.” S¢. Louis Notes. Nearly 30,000 pieces of odd and rare money, representing millions of dollars, are stored in the vaults of a St. Louis trust company preparatory to being placed on exhibition at World's Fair. The collection eontains both metal and paper money and embraces parts of some of the most valuable coin collec- tions in the country. - Forty carloads of building material have arrived at the World's Fair grounds for the Oregon building. The structure will be a reproduction of Fort Clatsop, erected at the mouth of the Columbia River nearly a century ago. Seventeen totem poles and 200 pleces of building material for the native buildings of the Alaskan exhibit at the World’s Fair have arrived in St. Louis. Fifteen Hydah Indians will erect the native houses. The International Association of Chiefs of Police will hold its 1904 an- nual meeting in St. Louis, beginning June 6. The sessions will be held at the Hall of Congresses on the World's Fair grounds. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company will erect two.or more sta- tions at the World's Fair. The stations will be in operation daily and the du- plex system will be demonstrated. Two messages can be sent from tHe same station simultaneously and be receivéq simultaneously at another station. In addition to the stations, historical wire- :es; telegraph apparatus will be exhib- ted. Answers to Queries. MI-CAREM—C. G., City. mi-carem, or midlent, Thursday, March 10. This year will fall on STTAM VESSEL—A. B. W, City. The United States law says: “It shall be unlawful to employ any person or for any person to serve as a master, chief mate, engineer or pilot on any steamer who is not licensed by the in- spectors, under penalty of $100 for each offense.” Any of the dealers in boilers for steam*launches cr manufacturers of gasoline engines for such will give you the character of motive power re-ruired. ASSIGNMENT OF INTEREST—Sub- scriber, City. The assignment of the interest of the mortgage may be made by a proper instrument and when the same is recorded it affords constructive notice to all persons of the rights of the assignee against an unauthorized discharge or a subsequent assignment. In a few States a mortgage is not as- signable by law, but the assignment of the note carries the mortgage with it in equity. AFTER DINNER SPEECHES—Nov- ice, City. What a person should say when called upon to make an after din- ner speech depends altogether upon conditions. No general rule can be laid down. If it is to be an impromptu re- sponse, say but a few words; If a set toast, the toastmaster generally notifles the person selected, and then the speak- er has time to prepare and should talk to the subject and not away from it. NATIONAL HYMN—A. I, City. The United States has no national hymn, that is no hymn has been so declared, but by common consent “The Star Spangled Banner,” “America” and “Hail Columbia™ are recognized as the national airs. Two of these have a smack of official sanction in the fact that in the United States navy the band, where there is a band on ship- board, plays “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” at morning colors and “Hail Co- lumbia™ at evening colors. THE BROTHER JONATHAN-G ., Cayueds, Cal. The steamer Broth~- Jonathan was wrecked on the shore about_ten miles northwest of Crescent City July 30, 1865. Treasure on board. ship and cargo were valued at $250,000. If any of the treasure should be found at this late day the party recovering the same would be entitled to a rea- sonable amount as salvage, but not to exceed one-half of the value of the- property so recovered. The party re- covering the same would have to notify the Sheriff of the county. & SUG?.R‘XN xmmhcflber. City. ugar ound in nes, though in certain kinds very little exists. Ac- cording to Frescenius the sugar in four kinds of Rhiné wines amount to exactly six-sevenths of the after evaporation. very little