The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1904, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1904 Gold Dredging. BY MALCOLM McDOWELL. en Wonders of the ) yright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles) | issia is negotiating with American | m s of hydraulic machinery for | £ gold dredg The Czar’s repre- | ve has been in this country for | time ting ex g gold dr Apparently with th placer se floating gold ex- which, according to | the principal | world with | satisfied tracting machines ex b come ving the is one of the ne ten or tv a small w Australia, z appeared in Oroville, e redges—and the s Xind of be employed to fit could nal cut a drainage groves of Cali- erating them by ele ed by water power many excavate a ditch for: tric miles di In Colorado the endless chain of steel buckets is lifting the gold-bearing material out of -its bed within sight of high bars and gulches, where a few years ago the cradle and pans of the old-time placer miners, those heroes of Bret Harte and Mark Tw caught the grains and nuggets for which men risked their lives and | sou s all different now. Placer mining it used to be called the “poor man’s clance”—is done on a wholesale basis. Skilled mechanics, with improved ma- chinery, go down to bed vock or hard pan, forty-five feet sometimes, after the gravel and sand, which carries the gold, and do it much after the fashion \ { { of other mechanics, who with similar machinery deepen river channels or cut through sandbars in harbors. This | new_ industry breed of mining engineers. pesite of a hydraulic engi gold prospector, placer miner, topograph- ical engineer and boat builder. One such is W. W. Dyar, general manager of the American Gold Dredging, Ccm- pany,’ operating near Breckenridge, Baid he id dredging is just ginning. It has taken us some years te develoo the machinery we now em has developed a new | It is m- be- { | | ploy. There seems to be no doubt that | this method of gold mining will be- come one of the great industries. Rt | car be said, in a general w that | wherever there is a large deposit of | gravel and clay carrying free gold— | in sghort, wherever there are placer | mines—gold can be dredged. In most placer mining districts there are | guiches and slopes having sufficient | grade to mine by ‘ground sluicing cr| urdinary ‘hydraulicking.’ \ “Ground sluicing is simply running | water over the ground, picking the material and shoveling into smail siuice boxes, leaving enough grade io | run the water In ordinary hy- EyCraulicking water is brougit to the working in pipes under preesure and | jetting from mpozzles called ‘giants’ vashes down the gold-bearing al. These were the two methods of er mining up to the > dredg: mad arance. The ne sity for neing dredges grew ont f | this condition; the high bars and hes were worked by ground sluic- ard hydraulicking because there enovgh grade 1o carry the water ngs down hill—away from the «But down below these high bars whes were larger. valleys con- tamning gold-k gravel beds in} which there w grade to | carry off the ese flatter gravel beds are very extensive, and generally richer in gold. In order to ‘slujce’ thi= material it was necessary dig it and then Jift it to a height which would give the requisite grudv:l for properly working the material. The dredge does t it is a self-contain-d machine whick scoops out and lifts up the material, screens out the large bowlders and coarse rocks and then sluices the material with the water which it raises with its own pumps.” The dredge consists of a ScOW or pon- | “gold-saving tables” {'heavier than the clay, sand and gravel | again it is onlv necessary to provide a thing different from what she has. | That is human nature. In the words of an observing old woman, “Folks is | always wantin’ to have what they | | roomy kitchen, where it is a journey | Rather more expensive, but more en- {of a problem. | scrubbing. . 2 not pass through the perforations in the screens is either dropped back into the dredge pond at the sldes of the boat or is carrfed by a “stacker”—a form of conveyer—to the land, where it is stacked in ridges. The screered material in which is the free gold passes into sluices or over with sufflcient water to carry it along. Gold being sinks to the bottom of the carrying screen, and as the gold seeker knows the right incline and , the, proper amount of water which will carry off the lighter material apd yet leave the gold behind there is no trouble to se- cure the precigus metal, at the same time permitting the “tailings” to run down the sluice way and back into the pond or on to the land. The tailings | then fill in the pond back of the dredge about. as fast as the chain of buckets | cut out a new pond bed in front. As| the same water is used over and over fresh supply sufficient to make up for seepage, evaporation and boiler use. Houschold Hints. TINE TERHU In City Te on Narrow Means,”. etc.) (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) | The well furnished kitchen and pan- | try! Probably there is not a house- keeper in the country who has not her | ideal of what she would like these to | be. What this ideal is depends upon | the housekeeper and her surroundings. The -only- point on which one can bé tolerably sure is that she desires some- E HERRICK. | “Liberal Living hain’t got and to be where they ain’ So the country housekeeper feels at she would exchange her broad, from the stove to the sink and from the pantry to the mixing table, for; a compact little city kitchen, with all the conveniences she knows these to pos- > dwellers in flats meanwhile, al- though acknowledging the convenience of being able-to stand in the middle of the room and reach anything on-the walls, on the range or in the pantry from that one position, frets at her craumped quarters, and thinks if she could only have one of the Kkitchens presided over by out-of-town friends she would gladly resign some of the advantages of her city tents. Most housekeepers are more or less | dissatisfied with their kitchen walls. | They know that the whitewashed orl calcimined walls are undesirable and ! are yet doubtful how to change them. The whitewash or calcimine blackens and stains with smoke and the fumes of cookery and cannot be cleansed ex- cept by removal. The housekeeper who can afford it has her Kkitchen wall painted and then is able to wash this off when it is spotted or darkened. But,even soap and water fail to have effect upon the paint after a while, and the old coat must be mended by a new «ne. If this is put on year after year over the old layer the 1w is likely to blister and crack and the wall to pre- ent an unpleasant, warty appearance. | | during, is an oilcloth covering. For this the ordinary table oiicloth, plain | or marbled, is used, and it is applied as | burlap or heavy paper might be—with paste. At the top it is finished off with an ordinary wooden molding. This oilcloth Goes not discolor so rapidly as does paint and may be kept clean for.a long time by washing or scrubbing. | The ceiling in such a room may be painted, although here. too, the oilcloth might be used. But it seems unneces- sary expense. Those who have used oilcloth claim that it wears longer and looks better than half a dozen succes- sive coats of paint. The kitchen fioor is also something Some covering it must have that can be washed. The rag rpet, which in our childish days | was the regulation floor covering of the kitchen, does not appeal to this generation. They want something | more sanitary Bare boards, plain or painted, are excellent if needed help | is at hand to keep them clean. But| spots show on ihese boards and they | can be made really clean only by | S0 oil cloth or linoleum | seems better. The latter costs more and wears longer. If it can have a couple of good coats of varnish after it ie laid its wearing pdwers are said to be much increased. When it comes to the furniture of the kitchen, much depends upon the space to be filled. The owner of one of the large kitchens of which we have spoken would not think she cowld do her work without two or throz tables on which to prepare her food or wash her dishes. The necesasity for close packing has taught many things to the dweller in | limited #pace. One clever woman has devised a “double decker” table. A shelf has been fitted to hér table un- derneath and here she keeps bowls, chopping trays and the like that she needs most often. It saves her steps if she can reach under the table for toon from 100 to 140 feet long and about forty feet wide. Its principal feature is the endless chain of-steel buckets “ .which works upon the upper body of the baat and which can be raised or low- ércd at the forward or digging end by means of steel cables. The steel buck- s. efs—according to the size of the dredge —have each a capacity of three to ten .+ cubie feet. 2 Fhe pqwer for operaing the chain of . " buckets is applied at the upper end of ihe ladder by means of a flat sided . Mrum called a “tumbler.” As it revolves Uit gives motion to the buckets, which “- descend . through the water info the gravel bed, each bucket scooping out its capacity of material and conveying it up t6 be dumped into a hopper. At the forward or cutting end of the lad- der is another tumbler which has large flanges on its sides so that the buck- ets cannot slip off. 1 The scooped up, dripping wet mate- rial falls through the hopper on to what she needs instead of crossing the kitchen to get it. Another house- keeper has put her shelf above the table instead of below it. Sti!l another, to whom economy was an important consideration, made her kitchen table ‘of a good-sized dry.goods box set on end. Across the rhiddle of the inside shesplaced & shelf. The top of the table had a sheet of zinc nailed upon it and the inside of the rough box was lined with heavy brown paper, neatly pasted on. There are few women who have lived long in narrow quarters without learning the advantages of rows of nails or ‘hooks’ To hang up as much as possible ‘n order to economize | shelf space for things that cannof be hung up, is the principle that regu- lates them. Jelly molds and sets of THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL)| JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor o .« « + 4. .. . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager e ————————T———————— e ————— T EEE———— Publication Office . ««..Third and Market Stroets, S, F. o e — e TRADE OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN. —— HE busineés outlook has become uncertain during Tthe past week and it is impossible to forecast fu- ture trade conditions with any accuracy. This un- satisfactory state of affairs is due wholly to the compli- cations in Europe and Asia. It is easy enough to sce that if a general war breaks out among the great Euro- pean and Asiatic nations and this country keeps out of the hostilities there will be an enormous call upon us for ail sorts of army and navy supplies, which will produce abnormal business activity agd high prices throughout the country; but if, unfortunately, thc United States should be drawn into the conflict there is no knowing what may happen in a commercial way. Everybody sces this, for the handwriting on the wall is plain enough as far as it goes, but the impossibility of knowing just what this country will feel itself called upon to do creates a ieeling of doubt and uncertainty that has already affected the speculative markets and may soon affect general trade itself. 2 At present, however, we are gaining rather than los- .ing by the Russo-Japanese war and its concon’xi(}nt dis- orders. Both countries are ordering goods from us, especially on the Pacific Coast, and the prospects of a | strife lasting some months has led to sharp advances in the cereals, but thé depressed condition of the foreign bourses, on which intérnational securities of évery kind have been declining, has cast a damper on our own stock market. Money has thus far escaped serious stringency, but- it is slowly hardening in Europe. Speculation in stocks and bonds has fallen to a low ebb, both here and abroad, as is quite natural under the circumstances. No- body wants the bonds of a nation plunged into a devas- tating war unless the standing and power of that nation are so high and puissant that its continued prosperous existence after the war, no matter how it results, is prac- tically assured, and even the bonds of such nations do not empt investors. 5 Capital dreads war. Thus we see a general downward tendency in the bonds of all European nations. During the past week English consols, supposed to be about as safe as any security in the world, have steadily weak- ened, while Russian and Japanese issues have declined daily and Bulgarian bonds have been unsalable. The bourses of every financial center in Europe have felt the strain of uncertainty and have reported business light and extremely sensitive to every vague rumor. Wall street stocks have come to a standstill and the whole arena of stock speculation, both in this country and abroad, reflects the hesitating and dubious signs of the times. Though this country is thus far comparatively free from any prospect of foreign entanglement there is little doubt that if the present complications were confined to Russia and Japan business would be much better than it is. Our crop prospects are good, our internal demand for merchandise and produce excellent, our national treasury amply supplied with gold reserves and our banks carrying large amounts of cash. Our foreign trade, while more or less affected one way or the other by the war, is of large volume and the goods we export are bringing comparatively high prices. Collections are reported good all over the country and a general atmosphere of stabil- ity and confidence pervades all classes of trade. Still there is no knowing at what moment Europe may break out into a vast and disastrous conflagration, which may produce consequences which we cannot possibly foresee, hence our exporters and importers are proceeding with caution, our financiers are watching their accounts and the whole commercial situation is thus kept in a state of suspense, for which the country itself is in nowise re- sponsible. Locally the American markets are active. Under the stimulus of possible war in the Balkans, which of course means a partial if not utter suspension of wheat ship- ments from Russia and the Danubian countries, wheat has started upward and is now rising rapidly under large speculation, whilé reports from Chicago say that the market, already broad, is expanding, while the Continent, at last awake to the situation, is advancing its bids for the grain in this country. The minor grains feel this quickening , impulse and are g.oing up in sympathy. Speculation in provisions, with the bulls predominating, is keeping that market up in spite of the bearish feeling among pacikers and professional traders, who regard the market with indifference and give it no support. There are only three important lines of trade lagging at the moment—coffee, cotton and iron. The two former hay= lately been int the throes of liquidation, though there las been a reaction in cotton during the past few days, and pig iron has weakened as a result of a backward demand, increasing production and a reported accumulation of stock. The wool and hide markets are repo-rted steady and in good condition for sellers, while dry goods have become more active in sympathy with cotton, with buy- ers briskly replenishing assortments and paying * full prices without hesitation. - The ‘general distributive trade of the country, while good, is backward, owing largely to inclement weather throughout the East and West, which imparts an uniavorable aspect to spring trade. There was a sharp drop in the bank clearings last week, the decrease from last year being 24 per cent, with all but three or four of the largest cities showing marked losses, ranging from 2 per cent at San Francisco to 32.7 per cent at New York, the pronounced loss it the coun- try’s metropolis being due probably to the stagnation in Wall street. The clearings themselves, fell below the $2.000,000,000 mark, being $1,734,205,000, the smallest vol- ume for some time. The failures for the week were 287, against 247 last year, and included some insurance com- panies thrown into insolvency by the Baltimore fire. Here in California we are enjoying a rise in the prod- ucts of our soil, dae to depleted supplies of cereals and the demands of Russia and Japan upon our granaries. From the. selfish standpoint of dollars and cents we are profiting by’ the Oriental war, which is putting 2 good deal of forcign money into our pockets. The recent rains and the war almost assure the California farmer another fine year and the realization of this imparts a feeling of confidence to the whole State. We are find- ing immediate markets for everything we produce and ‘at prices which keep us well supplied with funds. Hence the outlook for 1904 in California is decidedly bright. ' | : % 4 A TEXTBOOK FOR NEW VOTERS. T HE “American Protective Tariff League T sounded the first gun of the coming Presi i “ 4 campaign by circulating throughout the country the speech upon protective tariff delivered before the House by Representative James T. 2 sota. As the caption of the pamphlet indicates, this val- uable study of the tariff question is designed to serve as a textbook for first voters, be enabled to gather the e: out of all the nebulous haze oimm and fancies | has | civilization they will buy in our marts. We should prepared }o.ull them what they need. McCleary of Minne- | by the use of which they may | ¢ in | the past tense. which their newly enfranchised political discretion is enveloped. Not one new voter out of five hundred, be he college bred or otherwise, has any clear conception of the tariff question, its history and its present day aspects. When the great minds of Congress have gone astray upon this very subject times innumerable since first a Congress became the established legislative branch of the Gov- ernment, it is not to be wondered at that not only young citizens but thousands of voters, seasoned by many cam- paigns, have only the most rudimentary and at umes the most distorted conception of what protective tariff is and wherein its superiority over the free trade system’ can be made manifest by actual statistical demonstra- tion. Yet it is the tariff "question which is the . great underlying factor of American political life to-day, come what other questions of the hour there may. The money in our treasury, the position of our markets in the great world mart, the prosperity of our merchants, manufac- turers and agriculturists at home—these things are to! be affected for good or ill by the intelligence of the voters upon the tariff issue. It behooves every young voter, therefore, and every old one whose knowledge of the points at issue in the great question of prosperity is fragmentary or biased by prejudice, to write to the New York headquarters of the American Protective Tariff League and procure for his instruction a copy of this clear and succinct statement of the case for protective duties. After reading it he will have at least to do a like amount of reading on the op- posite side to be convinced against the present system of national financial strength, and that will make him what he should be—an intelligent voter. California politicians are making active preparations for the part they are to play in the approaching national campaign. Reputations will go up and down now in the scale of bias and partisanship, and the great Ameri- can voter will take to the tall timber to guard against the fire of abuse, bombast, buncombe and blatant oratory | THE YELLOW BUGABOO. with which we hoist our favorites into public view. HE joining of the struggle in the East seems to T have thrown over England and all of the other Eu- ropean powers a most disquieting pall of nameless fear and haunting uneasiness. Not many days ago a London paper devoted three columns of its space to an elaborate plan for the invasion of England by Germany, adding parenthetically that no harm was meant to Ger- many, but that the working out of such militdry puzzles is a useful pastime, which may be turned to service at the most unexpected moment. Now there is a book upon the Eastern question which by its dismal prophecies of untold woe in store for Europe has succeeded in rousing the nervous ones in Great Britain to such a pitch of ex- citement that they are afraid to turn around and look under their chairs. This “Asia and Europe,” by Meredith Townsend, is the reiteration of the old bogy of a “yellow whirlwind,” but in this instance there is a touch of brown to the cyclone, for the author would have it that all India will unite with China and Japan in the near future to form an invincible Asiatic alliance, whose cohorts, like a second Tamerlane’s, will sweep the white race from Asia and turn the tide far back into the heart of Europe. Asia, many times invaded, has never been conquered; on the contrary, the author feels that the Far East move- ments of the last few ycars which have culminated in the present war have merely precipitated the crystalliza- tion in this seething hell pot and that the whole white race may soon expect the outburst which is to sound their knell. *“India will fly to pieces,” says Townsend; “the ancient hostilities of race and creed and histéry, none of which have we had time to extinguish, will re- vive at once. Within five years of our departure we shall recognize that the greatest experiment ever made by Europe in Asia was but an experiment after all. Asia, which strvived the Greek and the Roman and the Cru- sader, will survive also the Teuton and the Slav.” The good people of England who follow the lead of | the London Daily Mail in seeing in Meredith Town- send’s book a weird prophecy more portentous than that of any witch should pause to take accounting of the facts of history before allowing such an auld wives’ tale as that to startle them into nervous tremors. They should remember first and above all else that no nation has | been able to become all-conquering until it has reached the supiniation of/the civilization of the times. may be called a nation of comparatively high civiliza- tion,” but it is inconceivable that even with her leader- ship groping China or halting India could ever become a ! menace to the European powers so long as they continue in anything like their present condition. Even granted that all of the Oriental countries were enabled o reach a high state of national culture and civic life, it is diffi- cult to imagine a force which could bring together Buddhist and Taoist, Mohammedan and Christian of a dozen different bloods, to act as a unit against Europe. The present war between Japan and Russia will prob- ably prove to be the greatest contest in point of interests involved which has been waged in the East in mod- ern times. Far from deciding whether or not the West shall be master of the East, the present conflict must de- termine whether chief dominion in the East shall lie with a typical eastern nation or with a partially civilized eastern race come back to the home of its ancestors. This is no supreme fight between the Orient and the Occi- dent, upon the result of which hinges the future of Europe. To those of us that care to follow the trend of passing events with that fidelity which involves correct informa- tion Russian names have been a delusion, a snare and a thorn in the flesh. In the official St. Petérsburg account of the attack on Port Arthur one of the captains rendered distinguished service. He was Kusmenkaravayeff. How can a fellow with a name like that hope to have it echo down the corridors of time, much, fess of fame? —— The Pacific Commercial Museum has undertaken th= | commendable task of informing us of the character, needs, demands and prospects of countries bordering on the Pacific. Ocean. When Russia and Japan have suf- ficiently paid their obligation to the splendid unreason of war and have'set themselves back years in the march of be . ‘In recent inquiries that have bren brought into being the nest of corruption which was built in the postal ‘service the fact developed that United States Senator Dieu;i{.ch‘is a compromise representative of Nebraska in he uppef hm at Washington. Since then the status dmhwwwmmm.w,in ~ »” TALK OF THE TOWN The Ariful Skipper. The waters in the vicinity ef the Far- allones were blanketed in fog, and the energy of the sturdy tug, outside on a ‘“seeking” expedition, seemed a waste | of time. Suddenly from far to seaward came the sound of a ship’s fog bell. 1 “A limejuicer out there,” said the| tugboat skipper. “I'm going to get that lemon-pelter, and he's going to pay a stiff price for the tow. Go forward, you, | and heave the léad.” f “Why, we're out at sea. Plenty water | here, sir. Don’t believe I can get bot- | tom at all,” demurred the deckhand. “Do as I tell you. Heave the lead, | and keep on heaving until I say quit.” | The captain climbed into the pilot- house, yang for slow speed ahead and taking the wheel steered a cautious | course toward the sound of the sailing vessel's regularly ringing bell. { The PBritish ship Cockney loomed up | ahead. Her commander was pacing the | poop, at frequent intervals peering anx- | iously into the haze. His face lightened ' j When he saw the tug, but developed a | look of serious interest as he noticed * experimentation was extremely danger- ous. There have recemtly been pub- lished, however, records of some ex- periments carried on by M. S. Leduc. with the ebject of using the electric current to produce sleep and of study- ing its effects on the brain generally. In early experiments it was shown that the busy -leadsman and heard after|in. prain is the best conductor of elec- | each cast: | tricity in the human body, being about “Twenty-five fathom and no bot-| 455 ¢imes more conducting than mus- | tom.™ cle. It was also observed that when a | rd said the towboat skipper. His attention was engrossed apparently with the leadsman’s chant. He would §niff the air suspiciously and make fre- | quent ‘:isi!s to the pilot-house, where { he made ostentatious examination of . ¢ flowed. However, when the elect- | his chart. rodes are placed on the forehead and | Within a few minutes a sailor Was | jeck and the current sent from back | heaving the lead from the Cockney's ¢4 front, the effects are innocuous so bows. In duet the leadsmen chanted: long as a mild current is used, and in | “Twenty-five fathom and no Dbot-|gome cases may be beneficial. Accérd- | tom."” ling to M. Ledue, the most satisfactory | The towboat skipper spoke: current is one of 4 milliamperes at 30 | “Fraid I can’t do much for you, cap- | yoits, which ig brokem or interrupted { tain. Better get your boats ready.” {106 times a second for nine-tenths of “Boats!” bellowed the British tar.|(pe period of interruption. The first '“Why. man alive, there's plenty Wwater | effect noted was the disappearance of | here and we must be miles from the the faculty of speech, after which fol- | Farallones.” lowed the loss of the motor faculties. | “Where do you think vou are, ¢ap?” | Under ordinary conditions there is no | asked the towboat skipper in a sad|affection of the respiration or pulse ! tone. unless the current is increased, and | The Cockney’s commander gave hiS | then it may cease. The patient is said pesition, which was substantially cor- | to awaken instantaneously from the electric sleep and to experience a feel- ! rect and safe as any part of the ocean. | The tug boat man shook his head. ing of refreshment.—Harper's Weekly. | “You deep-sea fellows are pretty | careless. Before you cross that poop 4 twice your ship may be hard and fast in the clutch of the cruelest rocks in | these parts. I'm pretty anxious myself iand I don’t draw a third as much as you do. I'm willing to try to get you { clear, but won't promise too much. Better have your boats ready The man’s tone was convincing. Mis- | takes are easily made in navigation {and the impenetrable fog shut out all ! possibility of getting bearings from | | buoys or landmarks. I‘ “What will you charge to take me | tians. |in, captain?”. asked the now alarmed | The Modesto Herald sa: “The San | Britisher. . | Francisco Call has been signally scoop- | “Ought to ask more, as I'm risking | ing its eontemporaries on the war my boat. but seeing there’s not much pews, giving the first information of sea I'll do it for $4000. the outbreak of hostilities and follow- The Britisher bianched. He beggzed. |ing it with the first account of that | He threatened. He cajoled. 5 outbreak—the successful dash of the “Make up your mind quickly,” was | Japs on the Russian fleet at Port Ar- | the only response. “I cam't afford to | thur—by an eve witness. Good paper, i risk my boat much longer. Hurry up.” | The Call.” The Cockney was towed in. Her skip- | From the Palo Alto Times comes | per cengratulated himself on saving | this: “The San Francisco Call is giv- { his shin by the judicious expenditure | ing excellent reports from the scene of jof $4000. The tug-boat captain kicked | the war in the Orient. Its publishers | himself. | announce that they will have the serv- “What a sucker I am. And him so |ice of every reliable news agency in Might have had $10.000 just as | America and Europe, and have sent s | the noted correspendent, Oscar King | Davis, as a special representative. Such enterprise will add to the popu- | larity of The Call.” continuous current was passed through the head from onme ear to the other, that the sensation of giddiness was pro- duced, and that objects appeared to re- volve in the same direction as the cur- The Call's War Service. The Call has had occasion to feel Jjustly proud of its war service. Start- ing with an exclusive announcement of the first clash in the eastern inbroglio, The Call has consistently furnished its readers with a conservative and c#m- plete account of affairs in the Orient. That its enterprise has been appreci- ated by the interior papers is shewn by their frahk and hearty congratula- ] { | wel ’ No Joy Without Pie. | “Some queer reasons are assigned by | | applicants for shelter at the .Alms- | house as to why they desire to become | inmates of the institution,” said Health Officer Ragan. “This is especially true ! of the old people, who come to us with | | tales of woe regarding the treatment | | accorded them by their married daugh- iters, from whom, they assert, they | | want to escape to a more welcome re- treat. | “An oid man a few days ago applied | The Jamestown Mother Lode remarks that "“The San Franecisco Call is not only giving its readers special dis- patches from the seat of war in th: Far East in advance of its competitors, but its illustrations of current events make it the best daily paper in the United States.” Answers to Queries. FOOTBALL—S. H. E., City. Tha Japan | football practice games at this time are at the Presidio athletic grounds: Idora Park, Oakland, and the cricket ground, West Oakland. for admission to the refuge for the | city’s poor, and the usual questions were put to him regarding his family connections, and so on. He informed us that he lived with his daughter at her residénce on Van Ness avenue and that she had driven him from home. Officer Cottle was detailed to ascertain the ! truth of the oid man's tale, and he pro- | ceeded to the residence designated, | guided by the old man himself. ! “They were met by the daughter, who | | disclaimed vehemently that she had *~ COPYRIGHT—Writer, City. The | driven her father from home. It ap- | ccPyTight law of the United States se- | pears that he had left his midday meal cures to authors and their assigns the j untouched when he left to go to the eXclusive right to translate or drama- Almshouse, and the dishes were shown | tize any of.their works. No notice is to Cottle to prpve that the old man | required to enforce this right. was well provided for in the way of | e b food. He also had the best room in the | SECRET SERVICE—A. S, City. house, as Cottle further learned. | One seeking appointment in the secret “Well,” said Cottle, turning to the |Service of the United States is required | 01a gentleman, ‘you seem to be all right | {0 _forward to the Secretary of the i | Treasury an envelope marked per- MEAT INSPECTOR—A, 8., City. A person desiring to apoly for a pesition as ‘meat inspector under the United States Government must be 20 years of age or over and must be a graduate of a veterinary college. H . do not want t . You' i e sonal and containing a certain form A e [to be obtained from the Civil “Yes, 1 do,- replied the old man. | © obtained from the Civil Service Then shaking his fist at his daughter Commission, properly executed and he excitedly exclaimed, ‘There has not | SUCR evidence as to experience, train- been pie in this house for the last three | 78: qualifications and personal char- months, and she knows how much | 2cteristics he may be able to obtain, g without any reference to political or “Well, you will not get pie at the relisious affiliation, which may pe con- Almshouse, my friend,’ sald Cottle, ana | Sidered as proof of s S gy~ only then did the old man decide to re- | Tens in the service. References must main with his daughter.” 1 R S ¥ FETRTIT, NATIONAL HOLIDAY — A Sub- scriber, City. There is no national holiday in the Unngd States, not eyen the Fourth of July. Congress hus at various times appointed special holi- days. In the second session ' of the Fifty-third Congress it passed an act making Labor day a public holiday in the. District of Columbia, and it pas recognized the existence of certain days as holidays for commercial pur- poses, but, with the exception named. there is no general statute on the sub- Ject. The proclamation of the Presi- The Misanihrope. He neither joys nor grieves, But cavils and mistrusts; His hopes are like the wizened leaves, Swirled down the autumn gusts. He looks askance at Life, If s0 be Mirth lurk near; He has ill-humored Doubt to wife, And is the slave of Sneer. He makes a mock of Love, And all that on her wait; Yet, howsoe'er desire may move, He cannot rise to Hate. Crimes of a former birth Elllult wr-:uon i (hefl:h ,'nb. se why, while upon ea )lmh‘e abfilo’h “hell? —Clinton Scollard, in Smart Set. Dangerous Experiments. ~ Spectal ¢ Experiments on of a living E&”“‘}'fl'u‘-‘ Call- subject with electric Bave heen sreec” Teleghons Main ioa —————e. mparatively rare, there has pre- mr :.nedmvhnle;.hflm; e pound.. in - E w&.mmm.mam ".,.'m& it