The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1904, Page 8

THE D. Bowles) 3 Russia and Japan v compared to a contest between @ whale and an elephant. In the long | run it. will be ‘of-little avail for Japan | to win v on the sca and oblain | a fopthold upon the border of -the Asiatic possession | of Korea will s tle perma- | nent advants m.contending with an expanding Russia approac A little at- tention geograpny of the region will show how strongly in- wrenchedis thie Russian-j even though . su- premacy Korea is a iriou nsula, re- lated td Manchuria soméwhat as Italy is to Central " llurc > % area of as large as New York. a area of nearly ing about as has an 400.000 gquare miles’ b ge =8 that portion o the Fnited st cast of the Missis- siypi River and north of the Ohio. = Across‘its ‘éntire northwestern border Kores is separated fromr Manchuria by ! & range ¢f ‘mountdins almost as inac- cessible as the Alps.’ whichi separate Italy from - Europe.” The south termipus of ‘this ineuntain. range is a pramontory the - Chinese . Sea; and Turnighes ~ihe remarkable harbors Port: Arthar and- Pélny . But & 1 | ielands practically contifines.the across. the mouth' o; of l’umh 10 the -Shantun, i dlso a moin oni “the morth "and Weihaiwei south ‘were - the siropgest fo of Ihe Chinese . which .w ¥ the in their with China’ in-18: The -pla tk mpaigiis against China was :essentially D to that]| upén: which out against Ru - stroy F pture of Pnrl Ai- thur a force landed on the Liac- tamg Peninsula to the x f Port At- thur, befw 3 “Thente, rgar, the vietory, e of ‘the fort.” A i capturing 3 their ve'sajd thit ly in.front, he were | capture they and that-it v the rear. It. er the ‘R jmportanc ations, - hut more ini héther the eai- be Russian s ing line behind overcome Aas ¢ diers “were. " But even tzken- that post. T sirength i 500 miles. from’..Né Liaotung River and oye into the Sungari River, large cities of Multden, wan and.Quan< 2 ldiers Arthur ~l'nul‘l hu, l’f‘ { the low pass | passing by the | Teling, Kai- This an ex- ceedingly fr from, 50" to 100. miles in ated through | its entire length by the Ru ~Chi- nese Easte , It is in this portion of- “that the iarger | part of the population of, the province | d. - The re an am- ply supp! J with the food mpiished | by the Ri sleting . the railroad was tc at various poin (e long the lin v months ago I received one ‘of ‘the promine: Oniy | i letter | n| | a from s 1 know have boe comm prekent frnm it | v is likely to nlay. a “most t the north- | ern part ft= horses; hent#e Hoing one. of cipal “wealth ‘g well knows, the -Coses a large pertion’ef the Russian amy;‘td oceupation, feel -mbst at home herseback and this is the branch of The service in which the Japanese ars specially . deficient, There aré no Borees -worth speaking of in Japan, 4rd their * cavaly is consequently scarcely more’ than a caricature. |-approached only o | of the question. | boat, | boat of equal capac {ed on évery side by j raliey s . fumous far | 8.} layi - et army only with the greatest difficulty, since ‘the Russians alfeady occupy the ‘only practicable passes in the lower portions of the range toward its south- west: extremity. From the mouth of the Yalu. River to Mukden a Japanese army would be compelled-to fight.a continuous battle along'a road that ‘could easily-be fortified tor a dlslance of 150 m Everything mrna theremre npon the facility with which the. ‘Russians can reach this fertile valley in south- ern Manchuria, so closely in the rear of Korea. But supposing that the = V‘Ju'xianese should coramand the seca and thus cut off access to the valley from that side, it is still approachable by a well built raiiroad in the rear; which not only comes all the way. from the center of Russian power, but taps the resources of the vast empire of East- ern Siberia, which is nst far away. in much of the speculation upon this campaign the writers seem to forget that there is a large population of| of the industries which employ labor. the most warlike portion of | cimpel an. employer to do busitess in order to employ 1cks, Rusisans, already the in Eastern Si- | [ beria, so ‘that the Russians haye but | te mobi the army in that portion of the empire to more than double the forces already In the field, for there Russian population of 500,000 in the provinces east | e Baikal, of which mer > the predominant element. there is nearly half a are subject to military st of whom would take ally as did ‘the Amer in the time of the revo- Nor is this road in any danger of being interrupted. | “who million special | The only point at which it is possibly | sccessible to japanese jnvaders is near on the Liaotung while 200 miles of the Port Ar- thur end could be cut off, and yet leave the Russians in possession of most iniportant vantage ground | Neéwchwang and Mukden. northern fortress on the Pa- is Vladivostok. ‘This is of | me mportance, and is more thor- ¢hly protectéd than any other naval oast m in the world. ‘Situated on a bay as magnificent as' that of San | Francisco or of Rio Janeiro, it is sur- rounded with mountains and can be | by a Jong and tortu- nd is therefore practi- invulnerabie from an attack hy vhile to the north an inhospitabie bordered by an abrupt and imi- passible mountain chain-renders-an at- tack from the flank or rear entirely out Like the interior val- ley of Manchuria, also, theé one stretch-. ous channel, cably oast ing 400 miles morth of Vladivostok. is | rich in agricultural resources and ca- pable of supplying all the food pro- | ducts that are necessary, while coal] mines render. them independent of for- elen mations for théir supply of fuel. is. much discussion- over ‘the value of the Trans-Siberian d. The Japahesé and some oth- ers take the view that it is so long a liné and so poorly- built that it will| not be of much worth in forwarding | troops and supplies. e Though the 1 is long and a e track, the sidings are ample, | and the gauge is such that any amount of rolling stock can “be. utilized upon| it from the other Government 'roads. When traversing the road ‘in -1900,. at the. time of the Boxer revolution, we had ample opportunity to léarn much at first hand of the capacity for-tran porting troops. eral weeks,.as we’ loitered along. this great highway, we < a gay .going .east- fuli res roportion of | each s and military” stpres; no visible reason why there should | nct have been twice that. number, ex- cept that at that time there was unl) one ‘steam y-boat for (ranspornng trains acress Lake Baikal. But that ferry-boat I have seen thirty cars | | at. one ti ith 1500 soldiers. The-| -ho was able to make only | trips a day. But latér -a .second ¥y was put on, so that 6000 soldiers a day could easily be carried .across, while in the winter when the lake is frozen over from Jan-’ uary to May, the tfack which jis la across will make the transit even eas- than in-summer. ke Baikal however; a nterrup! o “the. T Railroad, and for the pr iminishes -its " military lake is 400 miles I serious ns-Siberian sent ‘greatly value.” The It is surround- ecipitous nioun- iabis several thousand feet in height; which are pen ed only by two or three river valleys coming into it from’ the east and.by a single gorge.through- which the Angara River conducts its ‘waters into the plair h_is the contour, rom the point where !he rallroad | River to the available Lermln'xu of the railroad upon the other side is a dnce of fifty miles, ivhich. the cam .:-n es have te traverse to'make i the ‘cojinedtion. To-.get around the south end of the isvoives ine build ike with a railroad & of nearly ult regions in which a i -lron | was ever eonstructed. : v, the, Russian Govarn- bout ('mn]’vll!hlng and wititer will have ac- from' St. tok and Port Arthur. continug ko Viadi this o eome,. for- the present . emergency,. by a track across the ice, which will be' reazonabl until May ‘1. ‘For 'hundred.s of years 4 continuous streim of gledges have r.ros;nd the lake between these points upon the ice during the' winter. - There will be no Gifficulty therefore in trans- ‘porting 1o.the seat of war this com- ing spring . 300,000 well But horsemanship .the Cossack has the |pean Russia to augment tHose already same superiority over the Japanese|in the field (numbering, 1 suppose, that the Japanese has over Rl,lh in | about 300,000), and the equal mlmber seamanshiy. who may be brought into. the field by “As already said, the Ru-hm occu- | filling ‘up and mobilizing the skeleton pying this central valley.of outhern regiments in Bastern Siberia. _Such is Menchuria are protected on the east-|-the elephant ‘which the ,nm ern flank throughout the entire dis- | whale has attacked. The' situation is tance, extending from Newchwang to | the most remarkable in the ‘world’s a distance of 600 or 700 history. The issue will depend upon miies, by the lofty snow-clad Long thpntrhflmdthanuflumh mummu, which cen be pen-[and the ability of her mmury etrated from.the Korean side by anlers. ) o But this is a great | Day. after day for sev- ; and there| 1g and on thé aver-. - about, Irkutsk. | however, that | 200, oet [iniies 6 (rack through one of the.most | it is ‘spe-t 4t there will be, a “Pétersburg |- | | | | Penin- | | | { | i saw very regularly | [ der ‘ be confidently aniicipated. upon | ciion i3 temporarily over-|- free: from interruption | equipped ¥n-| troops from Eastern Siberia and Euro- | dons the field and mdufiry ceases. SAN' FRANCISCO CALL, T{/ESDAY, MARCH 1, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D.. SPRECKELS, m..........m;ummummuAm Manager MA-R(;H ‘1, 1904 ‘THE ARBITRATION BILL. E recently noticed the réport. of the Massa- W ihns:hs commission against compulsory arbi- tration. That. repert covered all of ‘the esseir- tial" points, and -seemed to exhaust the subject, Since New Zealand has been so widely advertised as the lard of no strikes, because of her compulsory’ arbitration: law, theorists in this country have been enthusiastic over the plan. . They leave out of their calculations. two impor- tant elements, one afiecung the employer and the other the émploye. In New Zealand the law soon became a matter of poh-» tics. The. vote of the -employes far exceeds that of the employers. As a result the decisions of the arbitration officers, . who -depend .upon- politics for their places, fav-. ored the greamr number of voters. But it was found im- possible to compel employers to stay in business under conditions that left them no inducement in the shape of profit. So there began, and continues, a-disappearance ‘As no law ean labor at a wage scale arbitrated to his disadvantage, so nothing can compe! a labering man to continue- work at | a scale-that-is below what he believes is a proper stand- aril of life. The New Zealand plan is an illustration of the evil effects of a purely arbitrary and artificial inter- | ference with the.natural law of supply and demand. ° The bill-now before Congress, to provide a permanent and costly tribunal for compulsory arbitration, has all of the pernicious features of the New Zealand plan. The u»mmme«» that has it in c¢harge is consulnng the labor union IQd(‘C\'\ of the country, and their answers are not { favorable to the proposed iaw. The principle cannot be too often stated that in this country there is'no power to compel a iree man to work. When by voluntary idleness he incurs the penalty visited upon vagrancy,-he Jlegally loses his status as a free man, and the comequences are. | upon him. s Our system does not permit ‘he infiiclion' of'co'mpul‘ sory labor or compulsory idleness. -Under it no free man can legally be compelled to work nor to- be idle. * 2 ‘would be an_ interference with natural right, Equal to-the | holding of .men in slavery. that this is the reason which even vitiates: a. labor. con- { tract. . A workman may make a contract,”as an i_ndwid\ial, and may perform it as far and as long as sits him,.and While: e performs it he must live up. z His cmplnver'cah‘bc compelled, in like ntan- swhile it is’ no longer: conditions. ner, to keep his part of such'a contract, mlly in.performance by the other - party.- The variations from this rule occur only v\hcu propert)- is i judicial ciistody, or in the case of contracts on the| high seas, or m the publu service. \’\rhen the underfak- ing is between cirizen and citizen its. performance by the ()f rDurse thls coudu n_ of ]tzal laborer ‘is v (.lumar\ dom of labar. to-performi it, it is the right of the cm[r]n)e_r (_u placr. tm(l an\'ll\hlg which pre\vmé' anotlier lilarl t cmplu) er;and the unpln)ye This beifig the natural and Icg;\l coudmun of ldbnr in:l hich | the United States, a mmpulmry restraint ;upen |l would compel the employer to run hu busmfi.s AT nish work and pay wages; or.tlié- L~mploye Ao umlmu: labor under conditions that are not to his, interest; is 'm-. ~||her.1hh'. the comimittee their opposition found to be as emphatic as that of -the labor. k them it brings in sight the conditions: tha \\l.vlmmg and ob:nletmg the mduqnes of N consulted by re, ;\n(l no one can insure the d’L‘C!!lD! gree than th from-a tende‘hc) tha't compultory arbitration, dun businéss. . Taking men and politics as they are, such a resu}t may In the superficial view- it may- | be said that the labor leaders should favor ‘a system. | which throws . tlie disputes over wages and - hours into- politics. which will in effect: make the workingmen ‘them- selves the arbitrators, ex parte, of all issies.against thé¢ employers. It'does them much credit that they look up- on this as an apparent and .not,an actual advantage cause no power exists to compel one man to’ c_mpluy_an-' other. When the pressure of pr‘hctically ex parte arbitra’ tion reaches a certain point, capital, the employcr, abarl-v Such a law is no rémiedy. The real cure: ]IES in pro-. tecting the degal equality of all men, and ‘their. right io| work or to qui( without arbitrary |nterfcrcnce irom any. source, . This is the same as saying that the solu- tion - lies in the free exercise’ and cnjo:,mcm by o ery man of h|s ‘natural right. Theorists .are amiable people, who are no doubt Sin- .u»rc]) 1mpre‘st‘d by the’wdes and the mistakes and mis-. chances of humanity, alvd really belle\e that - they ".are susceptible of purely artificial remedy. But- thg equality of which they dream can never be, for it means equnlity of achievement. - Nothing can destroy equlhty of oppor- tunity under our Government, and nothmg can create |- Meri differ in the qullmel of |. equalify of achievement. thrift, industry, tempcrance and Judgmem, and no . way will. ever be found to abolish that difference. -Instead of yielding to artificial remedies, it is increased by the:r ap- plication. The personal” equation will always. remain the great and ruling factor in human affairs. -Every man js entitted, "as an individual, to benefit hlmself by his su’ périor sk||| strength, ‘endurance and enterpflse. and ¢o- ciety is itred in proportion as lhns right ‘is in ':ny man- ner interfered with. ! The pmpcsed legn=lauon is of doubtful conu-tunon- ality, bist there is no doubt of its mexpedwncy A MORE BEAUTIFUL BALTIMORE. . IT-HJ N two weeks after the total demhon of W ts establishment and plant during ‘the .great fife, the Baltimore News resumed publication in a tiew plant of its own. That is a single 1Ilus:uhon of the spirit of thie people of the stricken city and of the energy with which the’ work of rebuilding hns been undertaken and is ‘being carried on. ; There is. of course, nothing lurpnlmg in mch reports, A simjlar display of recuperative force has followed every duasieg that has befallen an American city in ecent “times. It has matfered not in what section of the Union the disaster has occurred—North or South, East or West —the sanguine nature of the people is everywhere equal to whatever calamity befalls; and whether it be Chicago, ‘Boston, Johnstown, Galveston or Baltimore, the report | mthlbwsaltoqoidemhllmysamryci ‘going ta benefit & 1is desired .in Baltimore will’ have to be surrendered for a We have :xpla_meq before: | We have no doubt. that if empl(vyen. are alsoj’. " Laré ‘pride of possession -tion, beuuse ,they enable a farmly 10 § tion and its -tawns, wil reconstruchon beg\m at once ‘and presscd ~fcrward ymfx mdomleable energy - In each case, moreover, the wor-k of recons(ructxon 1s undertaken with-a vi penor to- the old. So often, indeed, have great municipal’ xmprovemenm followed destructive fires or floods that in some respetts the calamities miglit be themselves looked upon as benefits. The rebu:lt ‘Chicago, Boston ‘and Gal- veston has each been superior. in-the magmficenec of its bujldings and in its sanitary arrangements to the old, and a’similar enefi: is likely to accrue to Baltimore. A’ recent feport of the at:ps taken toward _profiting by the- fire to make much ‘needed improvements i he néw. Baltimore—an ideal city, wnh straight,” .wide streets in the business district, with bmldmgs of the- latest. pattern- and rost- modern construction, and here ‘and there small parks where houses stood before—has been planned by “the Mayor's’ advisory ‘board "and -the work ‘of putting the plan- into “execution will be begiun this week. *° % *.-The' committee first'. ‘will decide where the- initial building operations are to.be begun. The ‘work of clearing the old streets has been carried on cughfares first and on such as will rctam their old lines the first bulldmg will' be ‘begun. * *.* Where new streets are to.be cuf through the city must ‘condemn the land and ‘this will- take some little time. The land for the small parks also must be secured, but. it is-believed ‘that civic pride will. _prevent the property owners from throw- ing obstacles. in the way.” Such is the spirit with whu:h Amentans meet dlsa‘ter and turi .calamity itself into the service of progress and improvement. . It i, of coursé, not to be expectcd that all the great thmgs planncd for Baltimore will be carried otit: There: are always-some opponents of progress in every. community and, ‘mareover, there: are al\wys per- sons who will anmgom"e anything which they-. believe is ome one else; consequently, mtch that time at fea Nevertheless, the new Baltimore is going to bea more beantiful Baltimore and it may be thit ina V. 3car< lhe peoplt of the cny will’ be talking of the fire i bng.-m a‘new era of progress’ and ,g lvbtrally and patFiot- }lowever -a famxly may be divided due to the economic he.u producer flx whea( grow- penu nent a .. the rotation and e have hcld on,; sowed “heat ‘t6 the-cost of production, cndured the lmses ‘of bad yeirs and blamed the ‘réilroads, until at Fist thiey | up ag:unst the same, .problem that .overtook -the small land- lmlde years ago. The result-is a cessation of the aggrcga(mn of* eit;\h’: and thexr progressive .subdxvmnn into ‘small ho]dmg: a Advermy has anquen:d the | *_The land has nobler - uses than wheat grosving and these uses. support a greater- popula< ive w‘:ll and-acqurire - a competency on less acreage. - It is espeécially inspiring to redd’in the commumcanom ‘to The Call by Mr. Valley Dcvclnpmcm Association, that the present land | values are based. on what the land is worth for wheat | and grazmg purposes. That means that buyers can ‘take i ‘| on.the valuation fixed hy an mdus(ry that is pafisuig away | and, by mbvectmg it to ‘nobter uses, ‘get the profit of the | increased value fixed by such uses. Mr. Beard says that | many Sacramento Valley ‘orchards give a fet.profit of $100 per acrz=annually, while alfalfa yields. $235. to $4o per. acre, and where da ry cows are kept this is increased | to §60° and $70. The land that will-do this is. to be Had'| ‘at wheat land prices. - “1n this the arouscd v:lley is accounted- for. The buyer _géumg ]-us holdlng at raw land pnces and will recuve -thé in¢ ement of vlhxe put upon it by his own labor. ! 1f this' goes on “that, valIty will soon teem with popula- | get an impulse that wili startle e ‘State has neéded just such condmons. There : them.. .hu been too much tendency in this State to hold land 'so” high® that the buyer can- add. no increment by his labor. . He has heen .expected to pay for undeyeloped land. all that- it wnl] ‘be. worth when developed.” Wise ‘men, wha are a desirable addition’ to the -population of a | State,- -will- nof b\fy land. under such circumstances. Tltey will not put apon it’ improvements and intensive tillage ifi the r:rtamty that ¢hen it will ‘be worth only what they paid for it." All Cafifornia may go to, the aroused | Sncrlmeuto' \‘alley, study its ways and be wise. Frmce-and the United States Rave found time recently to give casual dlunmon to the feasibility of a treaty of drbitration thy shall be so sweepmg in its obligations’as to minimize t ponubnlmes ‘of, war. Whilé nething that makes for the, peaceable sohmofl of, internationa] diffi- culties may’ be, “conisidered utopian we must not forget the Czar of Rnssus_ wvision of universal peace when he pro- jected The Hague tribunal. Viceroy. Alexieff has the unigue expadient of establishing,his Manchurian headqunners on a fortified _train that may be moved vl:rmr the umfisnfly de- mand. - There is little wonder that JW daring enough to obstruct the Viceroy’s speedy communication with St._ Petersburg are summarily hanged. Why dm-’z the nwm ‘hire a balloon? w_to making thé new .city far su- ! -the city | with the idea of opening up the most -important thor- | ‘difficulties, it is aftér all. the | er. when ‘outside trouble. | et hange of indistries. [up and what he could or could not do | - But ‘the yield | of Iandcd estates into iarger hold—: "The Wily Salt. Since the day when the nnt tow- boat pulled a helgless vessel from dan- ger to safety and charged handsomely rtnr the service towboat men and master mariners have waged a war ol_ wits. The big:ship's necessity has usually been the tugboat’s opportunity, and commander,” whose only hope of secur- ing help.at regular rates lay in con- cealing_the extent of his necessity. The old ship Courser, whose hull is. now doing duty as a coal huik, once .sprang a leak on her way here from a northern lumber port. She was load- ed with redwood and could not sink, but if she became water-logged the chances were very much in favor of her turning turtle, drowning all on board and going to pieces. All hands| were kept at the pumps, and by dint | | of constant labor the outrush of water | from the pumps more than kept pace with the flood which poured in through an oven geam. As the Courser ap- | proached the Golden Gate a tughboat was seen approaching. The sallors were { worn out and ceuid not have kept up the battle much longer.. Thé captain, however, did not like the ided of pay- ing ‘the emergency rate, to which the’ { towboat that saved his ship would be | justly entitled. “Stop pumping,” he ordered. “Get your pipes, light them, lie down on the deck ldad-and take a smoke. Keep your mouths shut about the leak.” - “Want a_tow, captain?” asked Dan Haskell, who was in command of the | tug. “Guess I'm’ doing al! right as it is. ‘What'll you take mie in for, Dan?” ““Hundred and fifty."” | * “Too much. Give you a hundred.” “'Split lhe- difference. Mnke it one twenty-five.” After some appnrenl hesitation, but with many an-anxious glance over the | side of his rapidly settling vessel, the Courser’s captain agreed to pay 3125, and the tugboat’s. hawser was ‘made fast. The securing the big rope sealed | | \ i the Courser'’s forward bit when the "| salling vessel's skipper sang out: . “AH hands to the pumps and lvely. | Dan, we're leaking like a sleve, Go| like hell, and take me to Missi m flats, |° | Where she can rest on the mud.” llf’unh’.-l o Kitow: : A well known locdl athléte bécime a trifle too strong and energetic some | e ago and while trying to splinter la few werld’s records in the- gymna- !'sium one.morning broke his right arm. | He -went o a physician to injured member dressed and while un- '| der the care of the medical man made | |-the latter's life a burden with his ques- tions- as to how -long he would be laid | after the arm had healed.’ "The doctcr was’as kind aml lhnu.ght-'- ful as’ most doctors generally are and | exercised a ‘deal of patience with his inquisitive patient. "One moining th; latter strolled, irito the office of the | M. D. looking ‘a little mare umruv\ful | thain ever. ' “Why, what's the matter now? quired the physician, looking up. ‘The forlcrn athlete gazed lungmgly | into- the | vered. - ““Was just thinking,” ih vhether or not I -will be able to | play the pianc when this bum ‘arm:of {tivme is healed.” ” in- quoth | the athlete, “for I never could play be- fore:” e | Talked Too Much.- The keenness of - Attorney ° Thomas Hickey won him a case in quick fash- | | ion before Justice of the Pegce Dln‘?la' | the other day. He was the auorney | for the defendant in an action brought | | by a man named Dodson. It was an action ty recover $100 on an alleged | contract. Dodson was_ placed ‘on the i stand and questioned by his attorney. | The plaintiff’s answers practically null- | - i Beard; ‘secretary of .the, Sacrameno.| fied hi# suit and ‘his attorney. tried | by every:means in his power to pre- vent him from taiking wildly., Hickey _smiled pleasantly during. the proceed- “ings, and when Dodson’s attorney said, | “That's our cake, your Honer,” Hickey ‘jumped to his feet and said, “It's the | case for the defense also, your Henor.” “Judgment for the defendant,” said blniela, much to the disgust of Dod- | son,"who could not see that by his own | \olubmly he had rulned his own case. Abo.'rt Our War News. e | tomary -enterprise, has already dis- | patched a special correspondent, Oscar K. Davis, to the Orient to report the confiet now raging in the Far East. To }get authentic war news and get it quick {is no easy matter. The world is anx- :icusly watching, it might be said, évery " hour for.the important events now ["transpiring at the seat of the conflict. 1A special correspondent only is able to furnish this news, and the special ,m\ln have marked ability and expe- rience if the first report of an im- portant event is to be relied upon. Mr. Davis has both experience and ability. %and The Call's war news we believe will be authentic and up to the hnnr. | Paso Robles Record. Strange Land Tepures. Every student of English history or fiction has read of ancient leases of property which require rent’to be paid in peppercorns or roses, or in some other curious way. The Windsor Magazine describes some customs in cennection with land tenure which are still more cur.ous, Whenever a certain estate at Chingford, in Essex, passes into new hands the owner, with his wife, man servant and maid servant, goes on horseback to the parsonage and pays homage by blowing three blasts upon a horn. He carries 2 hawk upon his fist and his servant leads a greyhound, both supposed to be for th- use of the rector for that day. The newcomer receives a chicken \mmnfl.-mummw none realized this better than the ship’s | the bargain, and hardly was it atound! of the brand. have the | face of the doctor before he | hy, of ccurse you will,” answered the doctor. “There is no question | - anut > Sl i A “Well, T am glad of (hdl replied ‘The San Francisco Call, with its cus- | ] | | horse and a loaf of bread for hid grey- | hound. After dinner the owner blows three blasts -and then with his party withdraws from the rectory: The “Castor-Whip Tenure” is even more remarkablé. On pa!m Sunday every year a servant from the Broughton estate attends serviee at Castor church with a new cart whip, and after cracking it three times in the porch, marches wiih .it to the | manor house. When the clergyman begmfl lho ser- mon the servant quits his seat. A | purse containing thirty pieces of silver is fixed at the ‘end of the whip-lash and, kneeling on a cushien, he’ hoids { the purse suspended over the head of the clergyman until the end of the ser- mon. Then purse and whip are left at the manor house. | The “Whisper Court” at Ro(‘lfarvl, | Essex, is a strange -Michaelmas ob- | servance held under the.superintend- | ence of the steward of the masor: The businéss of the.court is carried out at mignight.in theé open air. C The ‘absence of a tenant is punish- able" by a fine of double his rent fo each hour he Yails to be in attendance: no artificial * light except a °firebrand is permitted; the proceedings are.re- corded by means of one of the ember's “The roll of fourteen tenants is called over @nd answered to. in a whisper; and’then they kneel and swear allegiance. - ° The explanation’ nf-v:hls‘nlq_vera-‘ |'mony. is’ that very many years ago. lha lord of the manor,-after an ab-- { sence. from: his’ estate, was returnitis | ome by night. Passing over King's ['Hill he. accidentaliy heard some- of "his -discontented tenantry plotting his _sassination and, thus' warned, he’ ‘reached home by an unexpécted - route. He enacted that from that time’ fortn | the tenants on his estate should as- . semble every.year exactly at the same. time to°do him hom :ge round a p which he erected on the preuse spe \\her? the pln!lPlfl met. - e ;l ,\m('h‘ Rose.. A rese ‘there grew on a hluflled h!l!h A\sw and ages ago; “That rose was fed by the. waters ¢ | “Leith In the long. the" l"“K ago. Now that rose which grew on the blasted heath, Ages and ages ago, Was the one bright hope. m the dau.. ters of Leith In- the long. the long ago. - single.rose in our garden fair, fome beside the sea; is a single rose in your Titian - hair at's all the world to me; that sweet, e is the glnd- . dest thing. * In the days that come and go: 1t's like to the simple song you sing. Wh=n the e “ndle light burns low. 4 —Paul Du Shay.- :lnyr; ers to Queries. BILLY EMERSON—H. A. ¥., City. Billy Emerson, the minstrel, died in Dinan’s Hotel, Boston, Mass., Febra- ary 22, 192 FRANCHISE—A Constant Reader, City. The franchise to’ the Ferries anll Cliff House Railroad in San Fran- | cisco was granted March 19, 1884, for a period of twenty-five years. At thiy | time there is no information as t» | what will be done with the road when | the franchise expires. | COPPERHEADS—A. E. S, San Jose, Cal. Copperhead was a name applied during the Civil War to Northerners who'sympathized with the South. It is the name of a snake that prefers dark and moist places and is said to sting | from behind, hence the allusion is ob- vious. LEFT-HANDED MAN—L. O, Fruit- vale, Cal. There is no record of the number of left-handed men who have become first-class mechanics or book- | keepers. The fact that a man is le’t mded does not prevent him from be- ing a good mechanic or a good bookkeeper. 1 { THE “ARCHER—L. J., Berkeley, Cal. Sagittarius is the southern zodia~ cal sign commonly called the Archer. It represents a centaur drawing a bew. The constellation is east of Scofpio and is specially in the Southern United States a prominent object inthe sum- mer evenings. Any almanac will give the dates when it appears, i CORBETT-SHARKEY—M. D. F., City. The match between Corbett and Sharkey.in the Mechanies’' P vilion, San Francisco, June' 24, 1808, which resulted in a draw at the end of four rounds, was under Marquis of Queensberry rules, with 5-0z. gloves. The match was under the direction of the National Athletic Club and the following conditions: -SharRey to be awarded 35 per cent of the net pro- ceeds if awafled a decision. In the event of a draw he was to receive but 25 per cent of the net preceeds, Cor- bett to receive 50 per cent of the gross receipts. The contestants to select a referee at the rimgside, and if they could not agree the clubs to select one. referce to decide at the end of the fourth round which appeared to be the stronger and better man. ———— TM- Clm M fi* d TR A el et -———...—-—— me-. R o