The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDA FEBRUARY 16, 1904 ——— Earth Movements. FREDERICK WRIGHT. A. M., LL. e Ice Age in North America, Asiatic Russia,” etc.) 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) evel of the ocean is more con- t than that of the land. The ex- of the ocean is three times « at of the land, and its depth ten times as great. 11d be sunk in the ocean, t raise general water level 300 feet. In general we 1 perfect confidence that s represent ist which have been he eariiest geological continents represent ns h. with many os- h on the whole, been It probably is not true, as is ofte tated, areas of land have shifted places in past at continents were found > main ocean beds now lie, t without interruption continental areas. Still of evidence that of the existing conti- ious ‘times below the that the ' eans swe the best e this is true, It seems 3 € t during the sub- of eas below the sea either as shallow main o For sedimentary cover the Mis ippi bz ng from the Allegher J Rocky Mounta So shal- rnal seas. t depth of little more than a s of coal 1. But the lev- After . a large ul stable matter that 1 o coal had taken nd very gen- a, 4 were ught in from b g for the coal; so was turned into rock it otect it and preserve it This process of slow f ing of the Mississippi ued until thousands of ¥ material had been as the Mississippi is nent into the Guif of - present time. These , like the leaves of a record the various downward of the long coal period. untries, especially in Eng- China, there is the same rec- long continued downward movements of continental areas during his downward movement had con- ed always the coal would have been essible beneath the depths of the where, indeed, much of it does still a In Nova Scotia the best seams are mined many miles and at a of many hundred feet below the bottom of the sea. .In England also some of the best seams of coal are fol- out underneath the sea, and it supposed that coal veins are con- ments tinuous from southern England to the Ccntinent far beneath the bottom ef . ver Strait. But fortunately the nward motion of the coal area was 1e time arrested, and the contrary ment begun, which has brought | priceles material within easy »f men in the mountains of Penn- a4 and China, in the hills of Eng- d in the plateaux of the cen- t nd. western States of America. « llustrations of great changes in nd ievels are too numerous to be men- tioned in detail. In Colorado there was iual subsidence of land below sea Ie iring the carboniferous and cre- t areas until from 12,000 to 15,000 f sediment had accumulated over nking area. But at the end of period the area began to rise and se has continued until the present when it stands many thousand feet above the level of the sea. Similar witness to such changes of level is borne by extensive sedimentary ks containing abundant sea shells e geological age, which are found height of 10,000 feet above the sea = Pyrenees, the Alps and-the Cau- mountaine, and at a height of feet upon the mountains of, Cen- ja. A map of the eastern con- tinent during the early part of the ter- tis period shows a great Mediter- rapean Sea covering all Central Europe ard extending into Asia, submerging the highlands of Thibet and most of the mountains of Turkestan. But that this was not a general subsidence of the continents is evident from the sim- ple fact that these areas are covered h sedimentary strata. If mud and d 2nd gravel are deposited in water there must be some area not far aways from which they could be derived. VWhile these general facts concern- ing changes in land level in ancient geological times beyond all question e impressive, less attention than ther merit has been given to the facts showing that corresponding changes are still going on, and have produced iking results within recent times, point to interesting conclusions with reference to the future. In con- nection with the glacial period, which is the most recent 6f all the geological epochs, these changes of level are very evident and connect themselves with the carly history of mankind. At the close of the tertiary period. which culminaied in the glaciul ersy tae cen- %his time, 1t all | portions of | > water during long | vegetation that | so that | gher lands to form | 3 tral and northern part of-North Amer- |ica stood at a level of 2000 or 3000 feet above that it at present occupies. This is proved by the existence of in- | numerable channels now deeply buried by glacial debris, or extending out into the ocean across the shallow, sub- merged shelf of the continent both upof the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In Illinois, in Ohio and in Central New | York these buried channels are found down below sea level, showing that the land must have been very much elevated to allow the streams which crossed these rocky gorges to make their way to the sea from these dis- tant inland points. The " cities of Cleveland, Ohio, and Syracuse, N. Y., are built over such buried gorges. The Delaware, the Hudson and the St. Law- | rence rivers then emptied into the sea | 1100 miles or more east of the present shore, running through deep gorges or canyons, which crossed a level coastal | ;plmn. The fiords of Greenland and of | Norway and of the Pacific coast of | North America bear similar testimony. since they probably, in most cases, mark the lines of ancient rivers which coursed through them to the sea when the land was so much elevated that what are now the bottoms of these | channels were occupied by rushing mountain torrents. In short, these fiords are drowned river valleys. ! Bending the Twig. BY MRS. VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER. | tCopyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) | A parent is no less a parent because the child hasgyattained years of so-caled | discretion. One feels at times that they | should be termed years of indiscretion. The relations with which we have to| do just now are those that exist be-| | tween the child and the parent—espe- | clally the mother—after the boy or girl | | 1s beyond the boundaries of the nur-| | sery—that is, after he has attained 10| or 12 years of age. It is at this point | | that the young animal feels a desire for | | freedom, and if not properfy curbed| this freedom will at times amount to| lawlessness. It is safe to assert that the worst chil- |dren in the civilized world are the | American children. I do not mean that | they are more vicious, more unprinci- | | pled than children of other nations, but | | they are certainly less amenable to just | authority, less respectful to their elders | |and more sure of themselves, their rights and independence. If one doubts | this let one note the manner of the| average girl or boy of 14 toward the mother. A few weeks ago in a crowded ele-| vated train in which I had managed to | get a seat a mother, daughter and| | father stood in the aisle directly in| | front of me. I could not help overhear- | | ing their conversation. All were hand- somely dressed—the father and mother | | evidently people of education. The! | mother sighed wearily and said to the 14-year-old girl that she was tired. | *Of course, you are,” was the quick | rejoinder. “I told you if you took the | elevated you would have to stand. But | | you would do it.” ““But,” said the mother, in gentle ex- planation, “it takes so much less time to come this way.” | “Well, then,” was the pert rejoinder, | “if you are glad you came why do you make so much fuss about it? You're| here, so let the matter drop!” { The mother, after the manner of the obedient American maternal, subsided into silence, and the father, hearing all | | this conversation, administered no re-| buke to the impertinent child. Had she | been 40 instead of 14 she deserved | harsh censure for thus addressing a ! person clder than herself, and that per- son her mother. Still, the mother was to blame more than the child. Had she not been al- lowed to go wrong from her cradle, speaking impertinently, she would not | do so now. One clever but disrespect- | ful girl voiced this truth when her | mother, chiding her for impertinence, | added: “Margaret, I now appreciate that you | were not spanked often enough when you were a child.” The girl's eyes flashed. “That was not my fault,” she re- sponded. “If you did not see your duty toward me then, you may pay for it now."” Verily the education should have be- gun in childhood—yes, even in baby- hood. 11, there are girls and boys who, having been tractable in infancy, feel that when they leave the childish stage they need no longer obey. This is the | case in nine homes out of ten. Mothers ask: “What shall I do with my girl, whe insists upon going to parties when I think she should be studying?” “How | can I make my son study? He wants to leave school now instead of taking | the course we had planned for him.” Ah, the pity of it all! And the evil | lies at the root of our system of child training. There is but one remedy. It is that each home shall be a monarchy in which father and mother are king and queen, the children the loyal and loving subfects. The law followed is the law of love, always accompanied by justice. The children must feel that love is back of everything, and that if they neglect to obey this law, justice will step in. This is not an impossible | state of affairs. I know one home in which the children, growing up to men’s estate, dread more seeing a look of disappointment on the face of the dear mother than they would the lash of a whip. While young they learned to obey, ané as they grew older their | sense of justice showed them that love | for them and unselfish regard fof their symmetrical development physically, mentally, morally were the ruling pow- ers in the home. After the age of six |or seven years was attained punish- ment was never necessary. It should not have been. With years of discre- tion should come the feeling of “no- biesse oblige” that makes a boy or girl honor the parents and respect them- selves too much to swerve into paths that are evil. —————— . ” An Tlinois woman is said to have confessed that she stole a lead pencil | twenty years ago and has just paid the owner of the store for it. And yet there can be no doubt that she meant to do the write thing when she took it | | T THE BAN - FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . .. . ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager PHBECALION OBIOB . 4525 o50stssonsviihsmmoctiinth @ et reesesiaeaste ttesasebsesasmecntnantsoasttrasascscsssssnssmescss ono . FEBRUARY 16, 1904 TUESDAY tesessssccieniesess . Third and Market Streets, S. F. THE DEATH OF SENATOR HANNA. HE country loses a conspicuous and honorable personality in the death of Senator Hanna. His career was characteristically and creditably Amer- ican. Born in Ohio, when frontier conditions were upon that State, he received his most valuable scholastic train- ing in the public schools and developed his remarkable business faculty in assisting his father, who was in mer- cantile pursuits in Cleveland. The family is of Quaker stock and must have in it an element of great strength. His cousin, Mr. H. H. Hanna of Indianapolis, the son of his father’s brother, is one of the foremost men of the country, to whom we owe the improvement in our finan- cial legislation and the final adoption of the gold stand- ard. The Senator eafly saw the business possibilities of the lake traffic and the importance of the iron industry in Northern Michigan and began development as the builder of a lake fleet, the owner of mines and dealer in iron products, in which he amassed his fortune. It is mainly owing to his pioneering that the largest water tonnage in the world, past a single point, passes Detroit every year. He was unknown in politics, except locally, until 1896. In that year his exertions procured the nomination of McKinley, between whom and him the tenderest friend- ship had long existed. As chairman of the Republican National Committee he took charge of that remarkable campaign, and it was his quick eye that saw the turn in the issues when the nomination of Mr. Bryan gave to the Republican party the advantage of appearing as the advo- cate of sound money. He was a great believer in the triumph of right princi- ples by right methods. His fearlessness of discussion was shown during that campaign by his order to the superintendent of his iron mines in Northern Michigan | to give all the employes a holiday to hear Mr. Bryan speak in the town nearest to the mines. £ He was appointed to the Senate March 5, 1897, to succeed John Sherman, who became Secretary of State. In 1808 he was elected to complete the term and for the succeeding full term, which expires March, 1905. The present Legislature last month elected him to the term expiring March, 1011, by the largest majority ever given a Senator in that State. He was a most useful Senator. His capacity for work and knowledge of affairs were utilized in the business of the Senate. In debate he was skillinl and successful, al- ways sustaining himself in a running fight, even with that rough rider in discussion, Senator Tillman. He was a man of plain life and most humane impulses, lovable and approachable in personal intercourse and a promoter of good works and morality. He organized and headed the Civic Federation for the purpose of se- curing justice between employers and employes and end- ing industrial wars. Though he was a delegate to the National Conventions of his party in 1884, 1888 and 1896, and was appointed by President Cleveland a director of the Union Pacific Railway, he excited no antagonisms until he entered the arena as the champion of his friend McKinley. Then he had to endure the abuse which is always the advertise- ment of the success and ability of its victim. But in his case the sustained attack made upon him had an element of virulence unusual in American politics. The first im- pression made by it upon public opinion was ffnfavorable to him. But he went straight on and outlived it, having the satisfaction of seeing himself entrenched in the re- spect of his countrymen as a sincere, upright and espe- cially level-headed American. % He is the last of the older generation of Ohio men who | have so deeply impressed the destiny of their country and will be sincerely mourned by the good men of all parties and by all Americans who realize the force he exerted for the honor and welfare of his country. Charles E. Murphy, chief of Tammany, says he will not permit the New York delegation to the Democratic National Convention to be pledged to any Presidential candidate. Mr. Murphy might have added that there is nothing in the history of his organization to indicate that it can be induced to stay pledged to any nominee. I much disquieted, in fact inclined to panic, by the re- port that American naval officers are directing Ja- pan’s ships of war. In this country no naval officers on the active list-have been missed, nor is it believed here that the Japanese require such assistance. Many of their naval officers were educated in our naval school at An- napolis, and the Japanese naval academy is modeled after ours. In it her officers have been elaborately trained in naval tactics, and, like all island people, sea- manship is instinctive with them. The position of Japan in the East is much like that of the British Isles in Europe. England maintained her in- AMERICANS ON JAPANESE SHIPS. T is reported that the Russian naval authorities are : dependence by the seamanship of her people and the strength of her navy. Since the destruction of the Span- ish Armada her coasts have not been seriously threat- ened, and military authorities have generally admitted the impossibility of landing a hostile force on her shores. In our two wars with Great Britain we succeeded in of- fensively protecting ourselves against her navy, but made no attempt to invade her soil. Japan has taken a lesson from the book of England’s experience, and has built a navy modern in all its equip- ment, and in seamanship and tactics, gunnery and speed, it is stronger than the exhibit made by comparative ton- nage. If she succeed in naval warfare her position will exactly duplicate that of Great Britain. Of course it is possible that she has in her service Americans who have been trained at Annapolis, but there are grave doubts that any of them are on the ac- tive list of our navy. Russia should not be unduly ex- cited. Americans trained to war are fond of a fight, and it is not unlikely that many will be found on Japanese ships, and even in her land forces. If they choose to en- ter her service it is at their own risk, and their Govern- ment cannot prevent them. As Japanese officers they must have the same treatment as other men-at-arms, un- der the laws and rules of war. If captured they are pris- oners of war, subject to parole and exchange. The only case in which our Goveriment could inter- fere would arise if Russia ‘attempted to treat them other- wise, and then we could only demand that they be ag- corded the same treatment as Japanese prisoners of war. To refuse this would be a violation of the laws of war, for which our Government could demand and enforce reprisals. Tn the Russian army are many Frenchmen, one of the Bonapartes being a major general in com- mand i the Caucasus. During our Civil War French- men were in active service in the armies of the Confed- eracy and the Union, one of the Bourbon Princes being on the staff of General McClellan. " In the war between Chile and Peru an American was a high officer in the Peruvian army. When taken prisoner Chile condemned him to be shot, but his lifc was saved by the British Consul, whe threatened to punish such violation of the laws of war by bombarding Valparaiso. If the present war be prolonged, no doubt, many Americans and Englishmen will be found in the service of Japan, but they will be there as individuals only, and will in no sense be representative of their governments.! In the war between Japan and China the Chinese war- ships were commanded By Germans, and no one inti- mated that their presence involved the German empire | in the struggle. There is a manifest disposition on the part of Russia to kick at this country and Great Britain. But she is entirely to blame for the sympathy of the pedple of both countries with Japan. She’has repeatedly and flagrantly broken faith with both, in the failure to’ evacuate Manchuria, and while the governments re- main neutral the people resent such tactics. The supe- rior civilization of Japan appeals to Americans and Eng- | lishmen, who have no sympathy with a government that turns the campus of its own universities into a TALK OF THE Quartz on Intellect. “They du say that man is better than the critters and standin’ up pretty close nloligslde the angels, Bbut I can't go in on that deal 'thout drawin’ to a/ little pair.” Quartz Billings was draw- | ing meditative lines in the beer slop | on the bar and seemed to be in a rem- iniscent mood. “Leastwise I knew nne" sucker who wasm't better than a sheep | fer brains. He was jest a ignorantalus. “You see me an’' my friend Yankee Ebenzer wuz doin’ night shift in the 300 level of old Three Star mine up Sonora way. Things wuz goin® along as quiet as a pig in bran mash when ‘long comes a wall-eyed gazoot from off the railroad. He was out-an’-out | the most ornery specimen of God's hu- mans an' fer sense—but wait til I tell you. | “The shift boss wuz shy of men ‘count of Cornish Charley’'s bein’ jailed | shambles, and beats male and fémale students into sub- mission with Cossack whips. It is true that Michael Davitt declares that the sym- pathies of Ireland are with Russia, but this is to be taken with a grain of salt. It can hardly be possible that any considerable number of liberty-loving people can sympathize with a government that is using the sword to cut out the ancient privileges of Finland, and op- presses and slaughters Jews. As Mr. Davitt was the special writer selected by Mr. Hearst to deal with the | Kishenev massacre, it is little less than remarkable that he can sympathize with such a government as he de- scribed Russia to be. i To go back to the main question, there is every rea- son why Americans sympathize with Japan. Our pos- session of Hawaii and the Philippines has made us the dominant power in the Pacific. We want Eastern Asia | opened not to our trade exclusively, but to the com- merce of the world. This is also the aspiration and pur- | pose of Japan. But Russia seeks an exclusive control | wherever her foot is planted, that is not only a national | affront to us, but demotes us in the Pacific. Japan .is pluckily fighting our battle, and if Americans choose to enlist under her flag they are doing a perfectly natural thing. It is said upon the highest authority that both Russia and Japan are in sore need of money with which to | maintain an efficient state of war. From present san- guinary indications both powers will need a great deal more money with which to restore habitable conditions | after war is over. ¥ A by some gentlemen of Kansas City requesting | various persons of more or less local influence to permit the use of their names as members of a “Nation- al Executive Committee,” whose object is to nominate | and elect Hon. Alton B. Parker of New York to the Presidency of the United States in 1904. It is father an indefinite way of making a canvass. The | cards are evidently being distributed indiscriminately, for the one that came to The Call, after stating that the committee is to establish “National Democratic Parker for President Leagues in every voting place in the | United States,” closes by saying: “If your time is too | much occupied, please hand the request to a ‘Parker for President,’ live, always a Democrat, who will organize a league to be known as No. I in your city, county, town- ship or voting place.” | It will be conceded by any one who gives the subject w‘ due thought that the favor requested of us by the card | is a difficult one. It is not easy to find in this part of the } country a “live” Democrat who has been “always a Democrat”; how tedious then would be the search inr“ one who in addition to being a live and a perennial, un- changing Democrat, is also a Parker for President Democrat? We are inclined to believe that most of the perennial Democrats are dead, while the live ones were most of | them at one time either Populists or Greenbackers or something of that sort. It is doubtful if any of them ever heard of Parker or even so much as care to hear about him. Of course there may be a Parker for Presi- dent Democrat somewhere in the great West, and if there be an advertisement in The Call would find him. However, we have no intention of indulging in such advertising, for it would be a gross wrong to bring up some good citizen out of the quiet retirement where he has had a chance to read Judge Parker’s name and to re- member it, and put him into the forefront of his voting district as an organizer of a Parker for President league, thus exposing him to every brickbat a Bryanite can lay | hold of. There is at any rate no use hunting for a Parker needle in the Democratic political haystack at this sea- son of the y':ar when there are so many big things in sight. We may as well let the search pass, content in the assurance that if there be any such needle some Bry- anite candidate will find it the first time he happens to sit down on the stack. A HARD TASK. CARD is now being circulated through the mails | LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN. N Wednesday of last week the yellow journal pub- lished what purported to be a special dispatch from Douglas Story writing from Chefu., On the following day in the same journal Douglas Story wrote another dispatch dated London. Thgn, to the astonish- ment of lovers of ubiquity, he disappeared or blew up. Where is Douglas Story now} Or, more pertinent perhaps to the curiosity of tolerant readers that indulge the nightmares which the local yellow sheet is forced to substitute for news of the Russo-Japanese war, who is Douglas Story? On Wednesday he was at Chefu pic- turing events that happened neither on land nor on sea. He was employing the longest leased wire in the world tg describe battles that have not been fought except in the riotous imagination of the Yellow Kid. On Thursday Douglas Story was ‘in London, thousands of miles away from Chefu, torturing opinions unthought | you, gentlemen,” pressed a ten-dollar | was good, at least. for bigamy, so he puts this gazabe in pushin’ a ore car on my level. He, wuz a perfectly 'nmormous brute—could | a' pushed a hog engine before break- fast up any grade on the divide. “He worked jes six hours, that is, frum six til midnight. Then we knocks | off for the eat. He wuz a sittin’ thers | forkin’ the grub out'n his pail when | suddent he whines, ‘The damned chink | give me no ple.” | ‘““We pays no 'special attention, think- | O * nfa. In politics it is sound, in morals comr\-szve. on _social questions worthy of universal confidence. As an advertising medium it is unexcelled.— Pleasanton Times. “Seen @ Ghost.” The London Chronicle recounts the following remarkable suit just com- pleted in an English court: One of the most remarkable claims under the workmen’s compensation act has been heard at the Tredegar County Court, the Judge reserving his gdecision. in' he was a ornery brute. “‘That cook give me no pie,” he | shouts, gittin’ sort of het up when he sees us fellers lappin’ up the dried ap- ple sandwiches. | “Yankee Ebenzer looks up kinder | bored like an’ yet mournful, like a par- | son prayin' over a hard sinner. | “‘Go ring thirteen bells for pie,” he | says, short an’ sharp. | ““Well, sir, that galoot goes an’ rings thirteen bells at the shaft, which il‘ the gen'r’l alarm for fire. | ‘‘His pie don't come down in the skip, | but the manager in his pajamas comes | down. “An’ you ought to've seen that wall- | eyed man go up.” He Was All Right, but— Cupid Danforth and Justice of the | Peace Lawson are of the opinion just at | present that the world is a very wicked place. They reached this conclusion several days ago after a little experience | they had with a handsome young man and a dashing brunette, who requested | their aid in a matrimonial affair. When the handsome young man got the license to wed his charming com- | panion from Danforth he asked to be| directed to a Justice of the Peace who‘ would tie the knot with little delay. | Danforth took him to the chambers of | Lawson, and in a very few minutes the‘ dashing pair became husband and wife. | As the happy couple were leaving the | Judge’s rooms the groom, with a beam- ing smile and a very hearty “Thank gold piece into the hands of both Law- son and Danforth. “This for your trou- ble,” he said in a most engaging man- ner. Danforth and Lawson congratulated | each other, and then the Judge suggest- | ed that as business was so good a trip | acrdss the street would not be a bad thing to take. “I concur,” said DanA; forth, and forth they went. | They came back sadder but wiser men. The bartender refused to take Danforth’s newly acquired gold piece, because it was not good, and Lawson’s was similarly treated. Danforth is not| so sad as he might have been, for the $2 given him for the marriage license | Yerkes' First Venture. Charles T. Yerkes, who is now busy supplying London with an adequate rapid transit system, began his busi- ness career with a successful specula- tion that did not involve the outlay of a dollar. It was a Saturday afternoon and he was strolling along a wharf in Philadelphia, when he came to a store where an auction sale was in progress. “How much am I offered for this box of soap?” asked the auctioneer. The 13-year-old boy looked at the brand and saw that it was the same soap as that used in his home. He knew what his mother paid for it at| retail, and so he made a bid. The auc- | tioneer smiled -at him, cried the bid once, and said: *“Sold te—what's your name, bub?” “Charley Yerkes."” “Sold to Charley Yerkes for —.™ Then another box was put up and bid in by the boy, and this was continued | until fifty boxes had been struck off | to him. He had a deposit of $5 in a | savings bank, which had been there for some months. He showed the auc- tioneer his certificates of deposit and gaid he would soon return and pay for the soap. He went to the grocer witlt whom his family traded and asked him if he wanted to buy some soap. The grocer asked how much he had and what it was worth. The lad replied that he had fifty boxes and that he would sell the lot for a certain sum, naming an ! amount double that which the soap had cost him at the auction house. The deal was closed, and then the store- keeper asked the lad how he had come by it. When young Yerkes told him, the man opened his eyes and said: *“I had intended to go to that auction, but forgot it.” The boy did not draw his $5 from the bank, and thereafter it was his great pride to add to it. “It is sur- prising,” said he, not long ago. in tell- ing the story of his first money mak- ing effort, “how It grew from year to of by statesmen and diplomats into expressions wild, weird and impossible. But where is Douglas Story now? Where has this commissioner plenipotentiary, this em- bassador extraordinary of the Yellow Kid, this fabricator of hideous dreams, gone? He is not in Chefu and he is not in London. Ubiquitous as he doubtless is, is he in San Francisco? £ § Or is he of the stuff that dreams are made of? Was the man who created him on Wednesday out of town on Thursday? Has Douglas Story been lost, strayed or stolen, or has he gone to join the other war correspond- ent of Yellow Kidism, the immortal Hornbrook? The Yellow Kid is hiding_his blushing face behind his cars. year. When I was 21 years of age the money of which this was the founda- tion amounted to several thousand dol- lars.”"—Success. Complimentary. The San Francisco Call is eminently worthy to be styled the “leading home paper” of California. Within the last seven years, since the present proprie- tor and manager came into possession, it has almost doubled its circulation. As a purveyor of news it takes in the world, without neglecting the city mmmmmuw&-‘ | since. Frederick George Shellard, a lad aged 14 years, was in the employ of the Powells Tillery Steam Coal Col- lieries Company in May last. He was a pit boy, earning 10s a week as an as- sistant to his father, a collier. On one occasion the father sent him to get what is known as a “stick.” Amid the gloom and loneliness of the collier the lad says that he suddenly felt something brush past him and he W confronted by two glaring eyes. This greatly terrified the lad, for most miners are exceeding superstitious. He cried out to his father to come and hélp him, and was so evercome by what he regarded as an apparition that | he had to be taken home. The Judge suggested that the eyes were those of a cat, but the solicitor for the lad did not readily assent to this explanation. Three days afterward the father took the boy again to the colller, with a view to convincing him that there was nothing to alarm him. So great was the shock, however, that the boy had not been able to work underground The medical evidence showed that the lad now suffered from St. Vitus' dance, brought about by fright. Compensation was claimed at the rate of 5s 3d a week, but the company repudiated liability. “‘Armenian Brigands. A remarkable instance of brigandage, as the dominant and irresistible pas- sion, is reported from the mountainous district of Asizie, not far from ancient Ephesus. Here lived a man named Cla- chig, once a redoubtable brigand, but for many years a reclaimed character. Living quietly among his people, free from all offense, and attending dili- gently to his concerns, he had come to be regarded as a model peasant and steps were being taken to crown the long immunity which he had long en- joyed as the reward for his respectable life by obtaining his pardon from the Sultan. Suddenly, as though acting un- der ungovernable impulse, and from no apparent cause, Ciachig once more ok to the hills. Since then crime has fol- lowed crime and, although the time is only a few weeks, more than half a dozen murders have been commfited, mostly of Albanian shepherds. The district is in consternation, and instead of pardon a price is once more set on the bandit’s head. Fashion in Words. Every word, no less than every dog, says Notes and Queries, has its day, and now is the chance of “fiscal.” It has a close competitor in “duwmp,” but it manages to maintain pre-eminence. The use of it has increased a thousand- fold and tongues utter it glibly, under eyes that but a year ago hardly knew the word by sight. Not long ago the keeper of a registry office informed a lady who was in search of a kitchen maid that the fiscal conditions of do- mestic service had entirely changed in recent times. ‘Answers to Queries . ALABAMA'S GOVERNOR—A. 8, City. Wiliam D. Jelks, Democrat, i3 Governor of Alabama. His term will expire January, 1907, PRISONERS—Subseriber, City. Ac- cording to the reports of June 30, 1908, of the prisoners in the State prisonm at San Quentin, 1097 were rn in the United States and 432 m forign coun- tries; of these 57 were Mongolians. At the Folsom prison there were 602 na- tives of the United States and 206 na- tives of foreign countries; the number of Mongolians was 20. WEDDING ATTIRE—A Reader, City. At a morning wedding where the bride wears a traveling costume the correct dress for the groom is a traveling suit. The fact that the bride’s costume is such is evidence that the couple intend to start on a journey without delay, consequently a full dress suit would be out of place. BY DIRECT VOTES—Citizen, Oak- land, Cal. The Legislatures that have passed resolutions asking Congress to call .a convention for the purpose of considering an amendment to the con- .-umuon of the United States prowid- ing fon a direct popular vote for United States Senators are Arkansas, Califor- nia, Idaho. Kansas, Kentucky, Min- nesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. R — ‘l'ovmp:'.l California giace frults and candi a_ pound, in artistic etched boxes. 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