The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1904, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1904 Speculation. oseph 8. Bowles. ) many { is | »f men | rade gam- in into reverse heard sited a pool-4 ho “sat in the purpose In proof | he reader to st Ahair-i K e of ‘ sugh inyestiga- wted and cor-1 ember bf the com- | rvedly took the P speculator ren- indispensable services to the distributicn of crops. dy, tk report stated, must | speculative risks of changes | ket between the time when are harvested and the time | are used by the consumer. The farmer might store his grain him- | if, but he would have to insure it | d take the chances of loss in various | orms. Thi ould require more cap- | ital than hé possesses, and if he were | to borrow for this haphazard purpose | be would have to pay higher interest than before. For similar reasons the | nsumer cannot store the grain in| large quantities and keep it until he is | ready to use it. The result is that a separate cmss{ experts has been developed who | make it their business to store the | crops and take the chances of loss and gain involved in that calling. In| other words, the speculators of ihe corn and wheat pits are the dis-| ributers of the nation’s farm pro- | ducts. The commission found of that | these men did the work on a closer | margin-of cost than the farmer could | do it. Thus the producer gets bet- | ter prices and the consumer gets cheaper bread than if there were no professional speculators, Intense com- petition among the dealers themsel\'eul‘ to cut down their n profits to bring the producer he consumer closer together. The ers are forced constantly to seek to reduce the risks of their business, while the mails and the telegraph en- able the farmer to keep informed as to the latest conditions of «he market. The grower can convert his erop quickly into cash capital and turn his | attention to preparing for the next| crop, leaving the speculators to attend | to the risks and worries of distribu- tion. Before future delivery trading, as now practiced on the various boards of trade was established, every coun- try grain dealer was a speculator in cash grain and had to contend with all the uncertainties of the markets. To- day he can work on an assured margin | of profit by making sales for future delivery. To illustrate: A dealer in| Jowa buys 10,000 bushels of ear corn | in January of farmers and store it in | his own crib. It will be spring be- | fore ’t is fit to shell and ship, but the | dealer orders the commission mer- | chant on the Chicago Board of Trade | sell 10,000 bushels of corn for May delivery. Thus he has secured his profit, although he does not have to deliver the corn in Chicago for five | months, the length of time it will | take to cure. The dealer has made what the public would call a specula- tive transaction, but he is certainly | speculator. ‘For has he not | nated the risk of changes which would possibly occur within the five months? In the same way millers and grain dealersthroughout the world trade in “futures” in Chicago in order 1o avoid speculating in their business. Confusion reigns so generally in court decisions and the minds of the public the press that one cannot but reach the conclusion that there bhas been a lack of intelligent investi- gation and education as to the func- tions of speculation. Take, for in- stance, a case where one sees a chance to make a profitabie deal on a corner lot. He does not buy the property out- right, but puts up a sum of money which gives him the option of buying it at a certain price, say in sixty days. A week later he has an opportunity to sell the ot for a Jarger sum than he agreed to pay for it, and he does so, making a profit on the transaction be- fore option matures. His transac- tion is just as much of a speculative character as the Yuying and selling of grain and stocks on margins, yet who ever thinks of branding the man who speculates in real estate as a gamtler? He is generally regarded as a bensfac- tor, for by carrying a part of the “sur- slus area” he helps to increase the value of the balance of thie land in his city, township or village. A speculator on the Board of Trade “ { in prev The! | ting wonderful rays for a time not yet | measured or known, in | preciable change | products or secu e market of the pressure of r he may buy and thus aids nting depression in values vet if = man with $10,000, put up as | margins, buys 100,000 bushels of | wheat, thereby providing 2 market for this product of the farm, he is “dubbed™ a gambler, while in fact he is performing the same service as the land speculator. Magnetism. BY MALCOLM McDOWELL. (Auther of “'Shop Talk on the Wonders of the Crafts.”’) (Copyright, 1004, by Joseph B. Bowlep) Radio-activity is a scientific term | of elastic int retation which has been | sadly overworked Whenever | radium, uranium or thorium has been | n i, and they all have figured lately. largely in print recently, it is pretty ! : ain that “radio-activity” or “radio- | ve” has been used several times. | re has been so much of the purely eculative nonsensical written dium and its astonishing power and naturally emit- and about r; of spontaneously without any ap- the substances, that the layn s at all interested such thiag beginning to belfeve that some scienti®ts, like actresses, | have press agents in their trains. i It is evident that the earnest, sincere men who discovered and are experi- menting with and testing the marvel- s radio-active bodies are not to be 1eld responsible for the exaggerations wild speculations of uninformed | for the men whose bril- ant achievements have gtartled the sciemtific world are extremely conser ative in what they say or write about | themselves, their work and results. But out of one of their laboratories came a few words the other day: “It n W | may be that our invdstigations may | lead us to the truth about electricity | 4nd magnetism.” Many tivws men have believed they | held the solution of the mystery of elec- | tricity. They have called it a fluid, an emanation, an emission, a flux, a cur- re they have said it was etheric| vi tions, waves of the equally mys- | terious ether; they have thought it to| be molecular movement or a form of energy which slid over conductors at | | an unthinkable speed, like rubber bands | sliding over a lead pencil. They know | its effects: they have learned how to handle it and make it do useful work, | but what it is is beyond them. But when you come to think about it | magnetism is much more mysterious | te the ordinary citizen. The average | man has some sort of understandable | idea of a current of electricity. He at | least can see the sparks and feel the | tingle of the “juice,” but when he ob- | serves a magnet at work and stops to figure it out he just naturally gives it | up. He remembers in a hazy way that | when he was a high school scholar ne ! learned that electricity and magnetism | were coupled together; that electricity turned soft iron into magnets and that | magnetism started electric currents. | When a boy he carried a small horse- | shoe magnet in his pocket or magne- tized a steel knife blade by rubbing it with some other boy’s magnet. There is nothing brilliant or spectacular about a magnet. It exercises its mysterious power quietly. It is this unostentatious | characteristic which makes it so inter- esting to one who looks for the uncom- mon in common things. Have vou ever considered the part| which the magnet plays in your every- | day life?~Did it ever occur to you that | without the magnet ships would not at- ! tempt to navigate out of sight of land, | for the needle of the compass is a bar | magnet? Do you know how many mag- | nets are in daily use in your home? | Every telephone and electric doorbell has its magnet. Without magnets the telegraph instruments would be silent, telephone. exchanges would be closed, fire departments would go back to high watch towers, for there would be no alarm boxes worth pulling. Without magnets electric street cars would stop | running and electric lights would cease | to glow, for there would be no dyna- mos and electric motors. Railroads would have to go back to the days before they were paralleled by telegraph wires, and hotels would be compelled to return to the wire or cord pulled bells of the old-time inn kind if magnets should be taken out of the| world. And, of course, all these th(ngs[ would be if electrieity should suddenly | suspend business, for the industrial | magnets are electro-magnets—pieces of | soft iron, wound around wjith insulated | wire, to be made active magnets when the electric current cireles around the inert iron through the wire. Men kaew of magnetism and em- ployed it long before any one ever dreamed of electricity. It is pretty well established that centuries ago the Chi- nese used the compass—it is believed they invented jt. The ancient Egyp- tians knew of the power of the load- stone—the dark iron gray mineral fou among ‘some iron ores, to attract iron to it. The old writers call the load- stone “leading stone,” “quick iron” and “lovestone.” The Chinese have an an- cient tradition of a mountain of mag- netic ore which formed an island and which drew out the iron bands from ships that chanced to come within the limits of its attraction. Magnetic chariots or wagons were used in China as late as the fifteenth century, and they were the compasses which enabled Chinese travelers and jarmies to cross great deserts and track- {less plains. A chariot of this kind car- ried a little figure, a manikin, whose outstretched arm ever pointed to the south—not the north, as points our compass needle. A magnetized bar of steel--probably made magnetic by be- | ing rubbed with a loadstone—was con- cealed in the peinting arm and was-del- icately pivoted. The bar magnet ranged rorth and south, but the Chinese put the index finger on the south end. The magnetic chariot was drawn in front of the army, and thus served as a land compass. . Philosopher—Are you going to pub- lish an essay I left with you? Editor— Not as prose. I've read it and can't sce that it means anything. I think if you'll let me cut it up into line lengths it would run first-rate as a or Stock Exchange performs exactly | series of heretofore unpublished son- the same functions if he is a buyer of | nets by Browning.—Boston Tranmscript. | = So much for the opposihonoft‘e | pines. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « » « « » - » + + - Addtess All Communications to JORN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . - B> “ieriseseiiiesiess.. . Third and Market Streets, S. F. Seseicacrsssetanensssersscesmage v e .«.FEBRUARY 4., 1904 LEADING HOME PAPER. THURSDAY HE CALIL takes a special pleasure in inviting the T attention of advertisers and the reading public gen- erally to its Sunday edition for the last day in January. Not because that issue differs widely from late previous issues, but because it is one of the largest editions in point of circulation outside of special holiday numbers printed by this paper since it was established in 1856. Of the issue of Sunday, January 31, there were printed and distributed 85,440 full and complete copies of forty-four pages each. This enormous total is equaled by only one other San Francisco paper, and the number of daily publications. west of Chicago to reach so large a distribution can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The amount of paper required in its produc- tion exceeded fifty thousand pounds. . When the present proprietor assumed control of The Call in 1897 its circulation did not exceed 45,000 copies, and the Sunday issue was made up of from twenty-four to twenty-eight pages; one press was required in its production and the type was set by hand. At present three Hoe quadruple presses are employed and the type is set by sixteen Mergenthaler type-setting machines. The magazine section alone is made up of sixteen pages of the latest and best literature and contains numerous examples of the best newspaper art work.. Last Sun- day’s issue contained the first installment of Booth Tark- ington’s most popular novel, “The Two Vanrevels,” a page of book notes and reviews, nine ‘short stories by the best fiction writers of the day, fashion articles for wo- men, important papers on the world at large, and two pages devoted to the affairs of childhood. It is this careful attention to the requirements of the reading public, a superior news service at home and abroad, con= sistent and conservative views expressed in its editorial columns which have served to increase the paper’s popu- larity and place it on the high road to success. Of the entire Sunday edition less thgn five per cent or about 4000 copies went out free as exchanges, copies to advertisers, office files, etc., leaving a net paid circulation served by carriers, sent through the mail, sold by news boys and at news stands and on trains, in excess of 81,000 copies. This is of a special value to users of ad- vertising space, as they are thus in possession of a posi- | tive gnarantee that their announcements were placed be- fore so large a number of regular paying subscribers. On the very low estimate of three readers to each paper, therefore, an advertiser was able to place his announce- ment .before a quarter of a million of people, each one having many wants to be satisfied. While making special reference to the Sunday issue the daily edition of The Call must not be ‘overlooked. The total distribution of the daily edition, independently of the Sunday issue, during 1903 was 10,103,674 éopies, an average daily circulation of 61,034. For months The Call has devoted a large amount of space, time and money to the preparation and publication of articles re- lating to the industries of the State, and particularly to Central and Northern California. Large numbers of the issues containing this special matter are bought by differ- ent organizations and distributed throughout the East, creating an added interest in California’s resources and proving an important factor in inducing settlers tg come to the coast. The advertising columns of The Call are kept as free as possible from objectionable matter, and the paper is established as the leading home paper of the Pacific Coast. In fact, it may be safely claimed that it has a larger percentage of its circulation in the homes of people of intelligence and discrimination than any other newspaper published in California. The circulation, re- cords of The Call are al.;ays open for the inspection of | legitimate advertisers. As Joseph Chamberlain sat and listened to his de- fense delivered the other day in the House of Commons by his son he had at least one splendid gratification. ‘While Austén Chamberlain made the worst defense ever attributed to a party in power in England, he gave an example of the highest filial duty and allegiance. What he lacks as a statesman he makes up as a son. AMERICAN SHIPPING. HILE it is now probable that no effort will be W made in Congress to enact a comprehensive bill for the promotion of the American mer- chant marine engaged in foreign commerce, until after the report of a commission to be appointed to investi- gate the whglc subject, there is good prospect of the passage of the Frye bill, proviang for the extension of ! our coastwise shipping laws to the trade of the Philip- The attainment of that much of justice for American shipping would be the more encouraging be- cause it has been opposed almost as vigorously as the ship subsidy bill itself. Among the elements of opposition there are two de- serving of special notice. One of these is made up mainly of the cordage manufacturers of New England and the other is found, strangely enough, in the “Mari- time Association of the Port of New York.” The com- bination of these two forces in antagonism to a measuré designed to promote the carrying of American com- merce in American ships will help the public to under- stafll why it is that for so long a time the struggle for a | due megd of governmental assistance in the work of up- building our ocean merchant fleets has been made in vam. The plea of the cordage men was made not long ago by the president of the Plymouth Cordage Company, and was to the effect that “there is no American ship- ping adagted or available for this Philippine trade. The trade he referred to is that between the Philip- pines and the ‘ports of the Atlantic Coast. It seems he took no account of trade with Pacific Coast ports; or if he did, he treated it as something antagonistic to that of the Atlantic ports, and therefore, in his judgment, not deserving of promotion. In reviewing these statements W. L. Marvin, author of “The American Merchant Marine,” points out that the cordage man was mistaken as to the facts, there being among American ships available for trade between the Philippines and our Atlantic ports thirty-one steamers of all sizes, ranging from 1200 to 5000 tons net register, and in addition more than a hundred sailing vessels. Mr. Marvin goes on to say it may be asked why these ships are not engaged in the Philippine trade at present, and answers: “For much the same reason ‘why, before the Spanish war, there were no American steamers in the trade between our Atlantic Coast and Hawaii and Porto Rico. Foreigners, firmly intrenched in the business, would have met the first American steamer with a sharp reduction in rates, to be continued until the Yankees had been driven out of the traffic.” = iR cordage men. .pension appropriation up to two hundred millions. i e —== o — “for that manifest in the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, it turns out to be due almost wholly to the foreign element in the membership of the asso- ciation. In commenting on it the New York Commer- cial recently said: “It is a source of deep and constant humiliation that there should exist in New York to-day an active, work- ing commercial body, a large proportion of whose mem- bers is composed of sworn enemies of American ship- ping interests and openly boasts of it. Imagine a mari- time association or exchange in London constantly throwing obstacles in the way of Great Britain’s mari- time interests, or one in Hamburg laboring unceasingly to promote American commerce as against that of the German Empire! How long would either be tolerated?” We have thus a revelation that a measure designed to promote a great American interest in the Pacific is op- posed by a narrow sectional feeling in New England and a foreign influence in New York. Fortunately it) appears the combination will not be able to defeat the bill, for, as we have said, all reports from Washington tend to the conclusion fhat the measure will be duly enacted by Congress at this session. Dissolute, drunken, lawless Americans, says an au- thority, are one of the most serious problems of govern- ment and order in the Philippines. While we are meet- ing with tremendous difficulties in trying to induce the | Filipinos to accept what is best in our civilization it certainly is monstrous to force our South Sea wards to qndure what is worst among us. A few Americans less in the Philippines evidently would do the Filipinos and | us much good. M himself as a conscience, a moral sense, and de- sires to be used as what the Buddists call “the National Karma.” To adopt an entgmological and hor- ticultural figure he is a capri fig, into which the blas- tophaga conscience has crawled and thenational fig tree | will bear no fruit until the moral insect erawls out and carries the true Bryan pollen with it. In his address to the Holland Society in New York, on Peace, he'said: “The evils which afflict the body poli- tic are not due to the extraordinary development of the material resources of the world, but to the fact that the moral sense has not always kept pace with industrial ex- pansion. But there is an awakening at hand.” Yes, there always is, for those who dolefully and con- tinually deplore their own age as the world’s worst and their own country as the worst of the age. If Mr. Bryan have his way it is evident that we are to have another campaign of deploring and detraction, in which those who believe in their time and country must attack those who don’t. Mr. Bryan's utterance is a bit mystical, but what meaning it has runs to socialism. According to that cult those who make profit and those who earn should divide with those who don’t. Such an application of the conscience and moral sense leads directly to individual”weakness and national decay. Men will net sow for non-sewers to reap, and they will not reap for non-reapers to eat. Yet that is the com- mand - of Mr. Bryan’s brand of conscience. That the moral sense of this age and country is quickened and ac- tive is shown by proofs that abound. Labor has never had as good reward as here. The lame, halt and blind were never as kindly cared for as here. The young were never as well educated, and the aged in better shelter than here. The average man never commanded as much of the comforts and luxuries of life as here. Yet Mr. Bryan puts dust on his head and bellows! Does the country need lectures on its moral sense from him? Will its conscience be quickened by a man who is at ¢his moment striving with his might to take $50,000 from a widow and children that he never earned and to which he has not the slightest moral claim and only a doubtful legal one? We think not. We think that THE MORAL SENSE. R. BRYAN has assumed a new role. He presents | no judicial TALK OF THE Judicial Dignity. When Samue! H. Dwinelle presided over the old Fifteenth District Court in the early seventies he had occasion to assert his dignity in a very forceful manner one day. A man was being tried for the shoot- ing cf a second individual in the bar- room of.the old Parker House, famous in those days as a resort for members of the legal fraternity. George W. Ty- ler, a brusque. brow-beating attorney, and Alexander Campbell were the op- posing counsels. One of the disputed points at issue was the question of the width of the saloon. One witness swore it was forty feet wide, while another declared it to be only twenty-five. Suddenly Tyler pealed to Judge Dwinelle, saying: *“Your Honor knows very well that this witness is commit- ting perjury when he swears the saloon in question is forty feet wide. You yourseif know as well if not better than any man in San Francisco the depth and width of the Parker House sa- loon.” “One minute, sir,” quickly orderefl the Judge; “it may be true and it undoubtedly is true that Samuel H. Dwinelle, Judge of ‘the Fifteenth Dis- trict Court, has been in the saloon in question, and sometimes in very doubt- ful company with very disreputable members of the bar. But, sir, I want you to understand that this court has knowledge either of the place or of the competency of Samuel H. Dwinelle’s knowledge concerning it. “In the future, sir, be careful how you tamper with the majesty of the law.” When court adjourned Judge Dwi- nelle leaned his elbows on the Parker House bar and clicked glasses with Attorney Tyler. A Duty Done. Over in Oakland they have a police- man who believes in the practical ap- plication of the axiom that the “law is no respecter of persons.” And the object of the application was no less a man than Warren Olney, Mayor and ex-officio a member of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of the city of oaks. Oakland has a municipal ordinance that requires property owners to keep sidewalk shade trees o the foliage will not obstruct pedestrians. Just new, under Mayor Olney's direction, the city is being cleaned and beauti- fied along thoroughfares as never be- fore in its history. His Honor is bend- ing every official energy in that di- rection. The Pollte Department has been under strict orders to-enforc> all ordinances in bearing upon c¢lean streets. The other night Policeman Jack Gardiner, whose beat includes “Black- stone Hill,” where the Mayor’s home is located, noticed that the luxuriant growth about the Olney grounds was out of bounds. So the patrolman acted. Meeting the Mayor at his. doorway the policeman saluted and said: “Mdyor Olney, your trees are not trimmed according to regulation, and I am compelled to call your attention to them.” H “Well, well, is that so,” responded the Mayor. “I am obliged to you. It shall be done at once.” “By the way, are you a regular po- lice officer of this city?” queried his Honor. “Yes, sir,” replied Gardiner, a bit nonplussed. But as the Mayor extended his hand and ~lasped the other's in hearty grasp, saying, “I am very glad to know you, sir,” the doubts and fears, if any he had, disappeared from the vigilant patrolman’s mind. Mr. Bryan is not the man to defame his country and de- cry his countrymen, nor to usefully deplore the love of money. He has been the beneficiary of much patience and has been treated with great politeness by his coun- trymen. Before he requites this by calling attention to their soiled hands let hiri go wash his own. Secretary of War Tai¢ is emphatically of the opinion that the Sultan of Jolo is a gambler, an intriguer, a cow- ard and no patriot. What a pity it is we can’t trans- plant the Sultan in Venezuela and match him against Castro, who has been offensively and suspiciously quiet for some time. With qualities so eminently fitting him for participation in South American politics, the Sultan is wasting activities that in another environment would be productive of at least an interesting row. l are all met, the time when we were a billion-dollar country will look like a peanut. The proposed addi- tional pension legislation will at once run our annual The men are not long voters who were boys when General Garfield introduced the pension appropriation in the House with an apology because it carried thirty-eight millions, and said he was able to assure the country that that was high-water mark, and the appropriation would decline from that time on. Yet in 1903 the pen- sion appropriation was $138,000,000, having gained a hundred millions on Garfield’s high-water mark, and now threatens to rise $162,000,000 above it. ; The newest demand on the Federal Government is for $24,000,000 to build county roads throughout the coun- try. No one pretends to *:ll why the United States should build neighborhood .roads. If the people paid their road tax in money and it was properly spent, we would have the best roads in the world. But they waste the local tax, and now have been induced to ask the Fed- eral Government to do for them what they are entirely able to do for themselves. = ; It is interesting that the leading advocate of this new raid is the Democratic Senator Latimer of Scuth Caro- lina, who admits the constitutional incapacity of the Fed- eral Government to do it, but declares that the constitu- tion is violated for everything else, and therefore ought to be for this. If that were true, wise statesmanship would seem to require that the constitution be respected in all things, and not make a pin hole in it the excuse for jumping through it, like a papered hoop at a circus. Of course there is a chance to build up a road bureau at Washington, to handle these millions and have a full staff, from chief to charwoman, but it is plain that if NATIONAL ROADS. F the ncreasing demands on the Federal treasury Levery bucket is to be filled Uncle Sam’s cow will not A Verified Complaint. Many queer complaints are received by the municipal authorities at the City Hall. Perhaps the quéerest was one received a few days ago by the Board of Health. It came in the shape of a communication calling the atten- ’| tion of the board to the fact that a cer- tain lodging-house on Third street was not overcleanly. “Every time I stop theqre,” said the complainant, “I find myself the prey of bedbugs.” Inclosed with the communication was a small envelope, tightly sealed. Writ- ten across the face of this envelope were these words: “A few samples.” The Storm King. The day is dying, somber-hued, Its gloom affrights each tender flower; But o'er the land yon mountain grand Stands sentinel, in pride and power. O Storm King bold, I trust in thee, Thou emblem of eternity! Alone thou art: oh, would my heart Like thee alone, were strong like thee! I saw the sunset redden wild, One last despairing smile of fate; An instant bright in face of nlfl!. It looked serene on love and hate. rm high, inspire my soul To such nobility as thine! 'Mid tempest's ire and U{:fiun“- fire, Point thou where shine the stars divine. —Success. Like Bears. Some curious experiments have been made at one of the royal philanthropic institutions in Copenhagen. For some years back the seventy boys and girls in the place have been -carefully weighed every day in groups of fifteen nd under. Thereby it is proved that the children gain weight mostly in au- tumn and in the early part of Decem- ber. From that time till the end of April there is scarcely any increase in weight. More remarkable still, there is a diminution till the end of summer.— Chicago Tribune. Eugenie’s Jewels. The story of the Servian jewels must to save the dynasty. says the St. James Gazette. Publicity had to be avoided, and a market was not to be found in Europe, newly thrilled by the horrors of Sedan. way home for a holiday. A telegram at Bombay awaited him from one of +- - —b been to find a man with suffcient in- fluence to be able to approach the Princes of Indla in secret with a view to selling them jewels. Not less hard was it to lay hands on the man who had moral strength sufficient to carry with him surreptitiously hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of jewels in lands where the Queen's writ did not run and where the protection of the constable is not immediately avail- able. Every care had been taken to insure secrecy. The jewels had been taken to pieces; the gems removed from their settings; the latter “jointed” to ad- mit of their helding and being worn around the waist of their bearer in a belt of soft leather. The Englishman put on the belt, armed himself with a trusty revolver, engaged as trusty a servant, ard set forth on his mission. For three months he wandered over road, rail and river. The responsibility of his trust, the constant danger of dis- covery, the difficulty of disposing of his burden were worries that combined almost to Kil him. At last he was successful. The jewels were sold to a prince who esteemed them the more that they were the property of a dis- tressed Empress. There would have been trouble, no doubt, had the matter been known at the India office, but the man who discharged the undertaking afforded an example of courage and a solid worth in trying conditions which merit a place in the story of commer- cial integrity and disregard of personal danger. Far less exciting enterprises have served to make popular novels before now. Another Fly A vessel that is supposed to be the oldest ship of her kind sailing under the British flag is descrided by the St. James Gagette. It is said that “her name is the Dart; she was built at Car- rarvon seventy-eight years ago. and ever since has been in constant em- ployment. At one time she sailed be- tween Carnarvon and Liverpool; she is now engaged in the coasting trade be- tween Arbroath and ports on the north- east coast of England. The Dart has another distinction besides her age. She is manned by the oldest crew sailing the high seas. The captain is 70, the mate 72, the cook 71 and a seaman 61— a total of 352. They have been with the Dart for some years; and were all boys together.” Notes From World's Work. The farmer is satisfled if his cereal crop yields him a profit of $10 or $20 an acre. The horticulturist—and I mean by this term the man who grows fruit or vegetables outdoors—must get from $50 to $5000 per acre; and to do this he must be able to make use of every possible fact which science and practice have shown to be of value. The last census shows that there are 5,189,401 Jews in Russia. Of this number there are about 1,300,000 In Poland, and perhaps 10 per cent who live outside the pale by virtue of hav- ing served under Nicholas I and those “specially privileged.” The flags on Windsor Castle and on the castle of the Japanese Emperor fly from Oregon fir. The masts and spars on the racing vachts of Em- peror William and King Edward were shipped from Puget Sound. Washing- ton and Oregon are to supply the mil- lions of feet to be used in building the Panama canal. ng Dutchman. Answers to Queries. BUENA VISTA PARK—City Sub- scriber. The area of Buena Vista Park in San Francisco is 36.22 acres. FRATERNITIES — Subscriber, Knightsen, Cal. There are at this time in the United States about 230 fra- millicns of people. DEEDING PROPERTY—A sshasf deliver deed to the srantee mnteel.ughoe‘n then have the same recorded. The grantor can make gifts of his property in such manner as he ? iHin i i £ 2 5 g i 5 i &g (H 5 } T i H 7 . é H £ : : ] 3 j £ i i 28 i §F i § | | : | FES ¥ i H ¥ 3 : 1 | i