The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ! mold and expecting it to take the un- | natural shapes without blunders and | protests. | Publication OMoe /.. oi iuivecanvasforsanornanisat @ Ceitteiiiees......Third and Market Streets, S. F. THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor o « « « « « + + . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager .MARCH 3, 1904 THE SPRING FLOODS. ECAUSE the usual spring floods, in the rivers of | Many tragic sights that I have seen |in homes where such formalism ex- {ist and where childhood is judged | by parents who have no sense of hu- | mor make me feel a profound relief | | when 1 hear a hearty laugh from the | {lips of 2 father or mother. For their | | little new born souls need such laugh- ter as flowers need sunlight and rain. THURSDAY.... B California, are the only floods we have, the papers make ‘much of them for news purposes, but it is well not to make too much, lest they be taken by East- ern readers as the €gual of the floods in the valleys of the Ohio and the lower Mississippi country. With every acre counted, the tilled lands involved in our floods seldom reach 30000 acres. While the flood is a very | | - Let us laugh with them and laugh at | | them! Tt has been sententiously said | | “that Rome died laughing,” for “the Romans were shouting and applaud- | ing In the theaters when the vandals | were bursting open the gates.” If/ people had more children and a finer | appreciation of the unconscious humor | in their thoughts and words they | | would not need to go so often to cir- cuses and theaters for hollow and | empty laughter. The laughter pro-|{ voked by childhood is as the music made by the rain upon the roof or the | Humor in Litile Tots. EDEE D.D. The t wind among the tree tops. | o T { B cople’” Bowles.) who wopright There are m ‘are not good which make r banker or b Jose ny good I a man a first-class gen- statesman or make a first- “Morally considered, laughter next to the ten commandments.” ‘Stupid people who do not know | how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.” “One good, hearty laugh is a bomb- shell exploding in the right place, | while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots 18 rents.” The qualities mer- rily those which make it leader at whist social or parties, model it off.” mother A home without laughter is a lower In order | the qualities | Without verfume, a bell without make good parents ome|50und, a lamp without light. | > A keen sense of humor is as neces- | g o P ercgs complete | ;v in a parent as a keen sense of | ues, but there | is necessz in a Judge. justice ¥ 1 tiz Two Aspects of Panama. select pro- serious matter to the owners of the inundated lands, it makes comparatively little impression upon the general production of the State. Our rivers are land builders and these floods transport silt that raises the general level of the country. Man cannot wait for nature to complete her slow construc- He wants to use the land before its natural level is completed, and does so by shutting out the water with dykes and levees. When the rising waters make a breach in these, the land is temporarily submerged, but in the process it is raised a little and its fertility is in- tion. | creased, so that its future production compensates for the loss of part of one season’s crop and the cost of re- pairs. The water soon recedes and the same land is planted later in the season, for the climate of California permits the use of land for such a variety of crops that only lack of water can keep land out of action for a whole crop year. Putting floods among the accidents to which agricul- ture is liable in a very small part of California, an ex- amination of the effect and comparison with the accidents that beset crops in the East leave such a balance in our favor that it may be said that a wise farmer in the East would gladly trade his chances for ours. There an in- exorable condition limits him to one crop a year. If wét weather destroy his small grain in the shock, or early frost spoil his corn, he cannot plant a later crop of any- Panama is not without development | responsibil- cem to LR links in the in the present or promise for the future, | next genera- even away from the zone of great ex- | > as much indif- pectations along the canal. Minerais | of a pump chain another over the influence in the ere in good evidence, gold, manganese, copper and coal being found in prom- | ising deposits. The central mountain | are but little occupied, and | r them are many beautiful and healthy locations. There is a flourish- | ing commerce, and some of the places | along the seacoast are of importance. Bocas del Toro and the Chiriqui Lagoon region enjoy an active fruit trade, and the tr chi f H of shipwreck. ay moral If accountable to ter and destiny of s summoned into life. i1 select “4 begutiful g of sternness with gentleness.” the father to be all rd steel cranite when a urbed or as AL a1l tho: mpathy ch: in > mom: and tender- t, the = you under its feet, the second it will 1 iceberg! d place (be prepared for a ame “a keen sense of t the importance of ing with child life and > not cognition has it had that I t xaggerate and throw it proportion. But I had al- Peonle who cannot see a being parents!” busines; lend is still offered on favorable terms, | some of it Government land, to be had for the taking. Probably the hill coun- try back of the Chiriqui Lagoon will | become one of the most favored agri- | cultural regions in the tropics. From | Chiriqui southward the coast is mnot uch occupied. Nearing Colon, cocoa- | nut groves become prominent and on scuthward, among the islands of the| San Blas coast, such groves become very abundant. In the interior of the San Blas country are lofty, mysterious | mountains, little known because the San Blas Indians are hostile. It is siated that among these mountains gold is abundant; and from their po- sition in relation to other gold-bearing regions of Panama and Colombia that is not improbable. Farther south the | limits of the republic of Panama are| in the swamps of the Darien region. Along the Pacific the land is not| greatly different from the Atlantic por- | tions of the isthmus, excepting that in | the northern portions the hills come | more frequently close to the sea and thing, and if the loss be so, large as to disorder his finances, he burdens his land with a mortgage to tide him over to the next seed time. Here he waits a brief space and then crops his land to something else, for every day in the year is seed time and harvest in California. Most of the flood districts, in the sag of the great valley of Cal- ifornia where the waters meet, in six weeks from now will show no sign of the inundation, but every acre will be growing some crop. The land owners whose fields are involved naturally protest against such publications as make possible an analogy between these floods and the vast disasters of the same kind on Eastern rivers, When the enormous drainage of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers joins, and the snows of Nebraska, the Dakotas and on the far watershed of the Yellowstone melt and meet the rains on the drainage basin of the Mississippi, an overflow is caused that overwhelms mil- lions of acres from Quincy to New Orleans. These floods sweep away the crop possibilities of an entire year. They cover a width of more than a hundred miles, and their occurrence is a calamity that affects the revenues of States, and the welfare of millions of people. In a misfortune so vast the little and brief floods of the val- ley of California are lost sight of entirely. Those Eastern floods frequently make necessary the intervention of the Federal Government, and large ap- propriations are made from the Federal treasury, in vain effort to check them or to aid the people who are im- poverished by them. In this State the land subject to occasional overflow is of great fertility, because it is | flood made land, the alluvium dissolved and divided fine- ly by the water, to make it the best medium for plant food. This land is the equal of that built up by the an- nual floods of the Nile, on which were the world’s an- cient granaries, and which to-day, under more skillful to be full of ab- themselves to nalities of life (so many of whi rational) the lit- peopl make ludicre blunders an unavoidable n at some places gravel bluffs and coral | limestones are exposed to the action of | the surf. Well off the coast below Pan- | ama City are the pearl fisheries, in the | urdities the existing waters surrounding groups of islands, | cultivation, is regenerating Egypt, industrially and finan- cially, making it a greater country than the shepherd kings dreamed of. | But California could spare all of these flood lands, and by transferring the energies of their owners to other by cessity. Nine- some of whigh are of considerable size, | tenths of the things they do in contra- ' and whose climate is said to be de- a to - the customs are lightful. Near the Costa Rica bound- quite &s rational ° customs them- ary on the Pacific side is the David ®elves, and are done because they can- region, a rich country, hospitable and fiot see any reason in many things eager for development, where Amer- being as they are (and no more can jcans are sure of a hearty welcome. 1 A teacher became exasperated . with a little fellow who always said, “I have went home,” and made him stay after gchool until he had written the gorrect .phrase, 1 have gone home,” 500 times. :But at the end of the long columns he ;added, “Dear teacher, 1 have got through and “went home!” A little girl was writing a composition . én-“The Rabbit,” and found herself in “the predicament of the poet Schiller, who said of himself, “1 have been for vears trying to describe a hero without ever having sken one.” This being the case with the iiftle girl, she asked the “teacher “if the rabbit had a tail.” “A " &mall one—none to speak of,” she re-| rlied. ‘Whereupon the little girl af- firmed in writing: ““The rabbit has ‘a =mali tail. but you must not speak of 1. ow, what is the parent to do who hasn't a keen sense of the humor in) the thousand and one gituations into which the ignorance of childhood crowds it, and the quaint remarks in which it describes its impressions of life? A stranger was calling in a home' - that was fill of noisy boys. A half-| dozen of them were rolling and tum-| “bling en the dining-room floor, shout- | *ing 2nd pounding each other until the ! guest became alarmed and asked the| father why he did not interfere. The go0d man had not even heard them, but looking over his shoulder at the rioteus mob he said with the utmost | tranquillity, “‘Let the lambs play!" | 11 is the ability to distingush the | Ismblike from the wolverine qualities | On the swelling tides of the Pacific one sees great steamers passing up and dcwn the coast to the city of Panama, where commerce awaits, impatient at the barrier of separating the mighty tides of the Pa- cific from the waters of the Caribbean, where the tide scarcely rises at all The waters on either side of the isth- mus are as different as the waters of | one side of the earth can be from the waters of the other side. Now the time is at hand when they are to be united. T The great southern continent has been for almost a century vitally in- terested in the various projects to con- nect by a canal the Atlantic and Pa- cific oceans. But South America has comparatively few voices of public opinion, and .it has been difficult to | ascertain just what the consensus of | opinion is among South Americans re- garding the indépendence of Panama and the relations of the United States to the entire canal project. The general tone of the South Ameri- can press in its comments, so far as | can be ascertained, has been surpris- | ingly mild and reasonable. Much bit- ter opposition to what has been termed “the Yankee policy of aggrandizement” might have been expected, especially in view of what we have been hear- ing in lhs last few years about North American’ insolence and the imperti- nence of the Monroe d.ctrine. The | present occasion might have been ex- pected to figure as a sort of climax to Latin-Afnerican dislike for the United States, The animosity of Latin America for Tncle Sam, however, has been a good less than fifty mil«s, in the child that makes the wise pa- | deal stronger in the newspapers than rent. And this true perception is root- | in fact. The earliest comments on the ed in the sense of hiimor. The sub-| independence of Panama and the canal lime and the ridiculous,the grave and | treaty were very mild, but later there the gay lie so close together as to be | has appeared a spirit of animosity, Aistinguishable only by a trained sense | aroused no doubt by the reports of of their true relations. “Humor is|opposition to the President in this the invisible tear in the visible smile.” | country and the utterances of Senators “Humor i of a genial quality and|and other public men on the “unjusti- closely allied to pity.” fiable interference” of the United .Ah! There you come upon the deep | States. This later feeling has influ- #nd subtle beauty of a sense of humor | enced most of the South American in the parent! It is the feeling of pity | countries to refuse recogmition to the that lies back of the emotion of fun.| new republic. Venezuela, Peru, Nica- All right minded parents realize the!ragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and pathetic element in the ignorance and | Cuba are the only Latin-American _inexperience of the child. They laugh, | countries so far to extend such reeog- but Thy also weep (secretly) at the | nition. The canal will so plainly and piteous situations in which the little | Jargely benefit the entire southern con- stranger finds itself among all the ar- | tinent shat it is not surprising to find tificial conventions of our stiff andso few expressions of fear or dislike formal social system. There is some- | toward our Government for the part thing terrible about pouring the fluid | it has played in bringing about the nature of a little child into this rigid ' present situatian —Review of Reviews. fields suffer no loss in production. While this could be done®t will not be, for the reason that there is no need of it. These lands will continue to pour their product into our horn of plenty, and their owners will prosper in spite of storm and flood. i Those qualified to speak of the affairs of Russia have informed the world that the Czar is in no hursy to strike a blow at the land forces of Japan, now intrenched in Korea, but in good time and in the fullness of prepara- tion would drive the Japanese into the sea. It is per- haps timely to offer the uncomfortable suggestion that Japan is aiso playing the game and will probably object | in her strenuous way. T tably in proceeding decently and in order, with- out wrangle or appearance of faction, to the elec- tion of Congressman Dick to succeed Senator Hanna, Ar.aDick has represented the Akron district in the House for four terms, including the present Congress, and re- signs his seat as a Representative to take that of a Sena- tor. He is a young man, aged only 46, but has 3 long and creditable experience in politics. It was known that as Senator Hanna felt the uncer- tainty of life and the weight of age he indicated his wish that Dick should succead him, and the party in Ohio has not only respected that wish, but has affirmed its confi- dence in Senator Hanna’s judgment of men. He rarely failed in that faculty, which he had in a degree equal to the late'Samuel J. Tilden's skill in seeing the gapacity of others and selecting them for a career. In Tilden’s case both Cleveland and William C. Whitney were brought to public life by this faculty of foreseeing the results of their individual quality. That Mr. Dick's career will in like manner justify Senmator Hanna's judgment there is no doubt. The Republican party is more concerned, however,. in the selection of Senator Hanna's successor as chairman of the National Committee. In the last two campaigns the West was the Republican battle ground. The finan- cial issues promoted by Mr. Bryan had their origin and stronghold in the West. Senator Hanna was peculiarly fitted to fight that field and he did it, with tactical skill that was the admiration of his party and the confusion of the opposition. Now, however, the scene shifts and the battle field moves with it eastward. Roosevelt’s strength in the West is inviolable. This is true not only of the cis-Missouri country, but of the trans-Missouri States of the Middle West, The dalliance between Wall street and the trusts and the Democracy makes the East the battle ground, and acting upon the good judgment that made Hanna the general in two Western campaigns it is pro- bable that an Eastern man will be chosen to head the committee. The party and the country will wait for that selection . e % i HANNA’S SUCCESSOR. - HE Republicans of Ohio have acted most credi- with much interest and some anxiety. It is not well to underrate the strength of the enemy. Though appar- ently without any overmastering issue, the Democracy is fully equipped for appeal.to every sordid prejudice that can be touched into glow. It must not be forgotten that the Whig party came out of its hali-dug grave in 1840, and carried the country on the single issue of Van Bu- ren having a set of gold spoons in the White House. If Hearst is the candidate we may expect such a cam- paign carried on, on perfectly artistic lines, for the men who are hired to plan for him are past masters in that kind of politics. If they leave untouched a ‘single hectic jealousy, foetid hatred or putrid prejudice in the country, it will be by accident: The chairman of the Republican committee will have a task in meeting a campaign of | that kind, equipped and bugled and bannered by every gaud that trust money can buy. i A Hungarian statesman who wanted to know the| other day if the United States intends to grant equal | privileges to all nations in the use of the Panama canal | in times of peace and war was urged to possess his in- quisitive mind in patience until some nation more con- cerned should make the inquiry. Let the gentleman ap- ply to the bureau especially provided at Washington for the answer of impudent queries. GERMAN ATTITUDE TOWARD AMERICA. USSIA is wailing long and loud against what it R terms the rank ingratitude on the part of Amer- jca in withholding from her the sympathy and encouragement due a Christian nation and a friend who is in combat with a pagan and an upstart people. To this cry is now added that of sympathetic Germany, whose press comes forward with invective and cartoon against the pro-Japanese sentiment manifested by citi- zens of the United States. The most violent organs even go so far as to state that when Japan is given a trouncing by the sacred concert of the European powers, it will be good employment for them to try a little sua- sion upon the most western of the white nations, “whose | growth during these hundred and fifty years has been like that of some coarse turnip behind the barn.” Of course it profits not to take heed of the mouthings of the jingo German press—its breed is even of a more fearful and wonderful stripe than that on this side of the Atlantic; but as the course of world diplamacy moves along it behooves American statesmen to keep a close eye upon the empire of William Hohenzollern, At first glimpse it would seem that there is a very wide frontier between the interests of the German state and those of our own. We have no colonies along the Congo nor de- pendencies in China. There are no contending spheres of influence in any barbaric state which harass the deli-| cate diplomatic balance between nation and nation. The | strife of trade seems to be the only gage of battle which | has been taken up between us, but the force of circum- ! stances is bringing this country nearer every day to a probable clash with Germany somewhere south of the Isthmus of Panama. Consular reports from our representatives in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay are filled with the re- cords of German colonization, German trade develop- ment and German hands behind Presidential chairs down there. Only recently the Germans succeeded in obtain- ing from Paraguay a fat trade concession for one of their | lines of steamers and not many months ago an arrange- ment was made with the Government of Argentina by which several thousand German agriculturists were es- tablished in a colony on the Plata under practical seli-| government. So the tale runs continually. 1t may be said that if the Germans are capturing South America it is the fault of our American traders themselves, and that the Monroe doctrine cannot be in- voked to keep out the merchant and the tiller of the soil who choose to make their home in South America. But, as this paper recently pointed out when the time comes for a pan-American railroad to connect the United States with the llanos of the Amazon and the Plata there may be grave trouble. At its present rate of growth German influence bids fair to be the dominating factor in South American poli- tics within fifty years. When America wishes to build its road down across the spine of the hemisphere it will be, not with Brazil or Colombia that she must deal, but with Germany, and it is that fact which renders the de- velopment of a sentiment hostile to us among the Ger- man people a matter of serious import to both countries. The Democrats of St. Louis must, regretfully be it said, be enrolled among the decadents who have lost the fire and vim of youth and live pitifully in the mem- ory of deeds done and gone. They held a convention the other day, chased one another out of the windows, in- terrupted a murder trial and contributed liberally, it is true, to several spectacular breaches of the peace, but not a single Democrat was killed. The days when the Dem- ocracy made history have gone. L The women parishioners of one of the most fashion- able churches of Oakland, bending obedient head to the persuading admonitions of reform, have decided to doff their headgear in church. With such a revolution ac- complished without the clash of argument and warring tongues, and with Easter bonnets even now flaunting their feathers before feminine eyes, who will not say that the spirit of self-sacrifice is in the air? e, That a good thief does not always make a good liar has been demonstrated in young Hooper, the romancing rascal who has been sentcncsd to spend the rest of his days in the penitentiary after trying to inflict his name with the odium of a dozen crimes he did not commit. | not cover such a case, but she protest- | meals. A few of his ilk would demoralize the best police force on earth. It is so easy to solve mysteries of crime by a convenient and complaisant liar. — While facing the threat of a deficit in county funds the officials of Alameda County are trying to determine to their own satisfaction the meaning of the word “expendi- ture.” That's easy. In public affairs it means the spend- ing of every dollar that drops into the treasury and then a session of the Grand Jury to discover who spent it, why they spent it and why the public reaped no advan- tage. ’ San Francisco low life supplied a tragedy a few days since as inevitable,” logical and convincing as a well- written play. A man and a woman, both morally unfit, lived briefly, drank, quarreled and died; one a murderer and suicide, the other a yictim. There is more food for reflection and a sterner lesson in life’s obligations in this gloomy drama of the slums than in' a’ dozen ser- mons. TALK OF Love’s Young Dream. Her eyes were full of shy, sweet confidence, if not assent, as they looked up into his. What he was saying to her was inaudible, but the other people had no doubt it was something exquisitely tender. They were utterly unconscious of the other passengers crowding about them as they stood there on the upper deck of the ferry-boat. It was evidently a happy chapter in love's young dream. A moment of silence between the two. What need of words? They watched the gulls sweeping and swift curling hither and thither in pursuit of the fragments of bread tossed into the air by some children on the boat. Then George bent low and whispered softly to his inam- orata. A smile of perfect joy lit up her countenance. All doubt and tim- idity disappeared. Slowly and delib- erately she spoke, as if to give fullness H to her expression. All the while her eyes enveloped him with a look of ravishing sweetness. He had touched Angelina’s heart, and her words told the delight she felt as she said: “You bet I like icecream.” No Cure, No Pay. An elegantly dressed woman about 35 years of age called at the bond and warrant clerk’'s office at the Hall of Justice last Saturday afternoon and ap- | pled to Assistant Louis Ward for a warrant. “What are the circumstances of the | case?” courteously inquired Ward. | “Well,” she replied, “I was induced to | try a two days’ cure for the liquor habit at a place on Market street. I} paid the usual.fee, which was very | stiff, and after the two days expired on | Thursday I was discharged as cured. Yesterday I was seized with an over- powering desire for strong drink, and I am worse than ever. Now, I want you to give me a warrant for the arrest of | the man for obtaining money by false pretenses.” Ward assured her that the law did ed and insisted upon getting the war- rant. When Ward politely but firmly refused her request she became very indignant, and left threatening to take the matter before the Grand Jury. Solicitude. Alice, the three-year-old daughter of a local newspaper writer, is the happy possessor of a fine appetite, which she uses to advantage at all One day at dinner Alice had partaken freely of the dishes prepared | for her special delectation and then | expre: a desire for some cake. “Alw' said her mother, reprov- ingly, I do not think you should eat any more. What an appetite you have, to be sure! You certainly must have a hungry-bug under your apron.” Of course Alice had to know what kind of an animal that was, and after her mother had informed her to the best of her ability she resumed im- portunings for cake. “Now, Alice,” said her mother, "I‘l]1 tell you what I will do. I will give you two pieces of cake—one for you and one for the bug. But, remember, you must not ask for any more.” Alice ate the two pieces of cake in silence and then looked longingly at the cake dish. Her mother’s injunction not to ask for any more had made a deep impression, but finally the temp- tation was too great and the young hopeful blurted out: “Mamma, I think the hungry-bug wants another piece of cake.” ‘A Decbt Not Outlawed. Several days ago Senator Nelson went over to Baltimore, where he ad- dressed a large gathering of mer- chants and business men at a ban- quet. In the course of his remarks he alluded to a visit he made to Bal- timore a long time ago. He told how he marched through the city as a pri- vate in the Fourth Wisconsin Volun-, teers and of his subsequent warlike operations in other parts of the State, including the capture of a horse down on the BEastern shore. Regarding this latter achievement, the doughty Minnesota Senator spoke playfully, but in considerable detail. His account pleased the company around the table immensely and, in- cidentally, it pleased the Senator that he should be such an entertaining post-prandial orator. Now he is not without his regrets for his playful speech, for yesterday he received a letter from a resident on the Eastern shore demanding, in very serious manner, full payment for that | cyty, 3 horse. This Eastern shore man writes that he was not present at the ban- quet tables, but stood in an adjoining corridor and heard what the Senator said. The letter gives additional infor- mation, so that Mr. Nelson has no doubts of the claimant having been the genuine owner of the captured equine.—Washington Post. The Projickin Winter. T dunno what de Winter mean! He say he gwine ter go, En w'en de birds is buildin’ nests THE TOWN * the time consumed, in the case of or- dinary railroads, in letting off und» taking on passengers at stations. The new trains, as planned, will consist: of cars propelled by separate motors and will work, says a writer in Harper's Weekly, in the following manner: “When a station is approached the passengers and baggage for that sta- tion are moved into the rear ear, which is cut off just before the point is reached. The passengers desiraus of boarding the train take their places in a car on a siding at the station, which proceeds to the main track .at full speed and catches the passing train, to which it is coupled and the passengers and baggage transferred. Those for the next station are’ then- received, and in turn the car is duly dropped. The scheme is most fan- . tastic, and at present impracticable, yvet it must be admitted that many_ of the elements necessary, such as sep- " arate motors which can be controlled together or individually, are already developed.” Fan History. The name of the first fanmaker is lost in obscurity, but Kan-Si, - the daughter of a Chinese mandarin, who flourished in an age that is long since forgotten, was apparently the earliest lady to use a fan. So China—the cradle of the world's antique lore—was the birthplace of the fan which is'in universal fashion to-day. Chinese and Japanese men and women without fans, and it is said that the very beg- gars in the Mikado's empire receive the alms given them on the tips of their coarse fiber fans. The ancient Greeks and Romans used fans of enormous size. Somie, made of feathers, were so large that they were borne by slaves over the heads of their masters to protect them from the sun's rays and to stir the air. The first folding fan seen in Europe was a prized possession of the notori- ous Catherine de Medici and in the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI the fan became a very gorgeous work of art and was often jewel-studdad and exquisitely carved. g Catherine ®f Arragon introduced fans into England when she married Henry VII's son, and Queen Elizabeth owned some marvelous fans, one, rich- 1y crusted with brilliants, being a New Year’s gift from her favorite, the Earl of Leicester. Th. Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru brought Queen Isabel fars of Inca feather work, which are to-day in the museum of the Escurial and are unique examples of the extraordi- nary skill of the vanished race. - Spain is, of course, the lend of the European fan, and few women ecan equal thg grace of the Spanish senora in the art of using the large black fan, which she especially favors.—Weekly Irish Times. are rarely seen Answers to Queries. BUSHEL MEASURE—C. B, Ala- meda, Cal. A box 24x111-5 iniches’ square will hold a bushel, ar 23150.4 cubic inches. SCENT OF ROSES—Subsecriber, City. “You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, but the scent of ths - roses will hang round it still,” is from “Farewell,” in Moore’s poems. COLOMA~—Subseriber, City. - Coloma, at one time written Culluma, El Do- rado County, Cal., where gold wag first - discovered, derived its name from a tribe of Indians in the vicinity. . MANUFACTURER—A. C., Kelsey- - villé, Cal. A man cannot manufacturs a proprietary article and peddle the same from place to place without hav- ing a license to do so. I FUSIBLE PLUGS—Two . readers, There is a 'aw in France com- pelling the owners of steam. boilers to insert fusible plugs in steam boilefs, which plugs will melt-and 16t the steam escape whenever its pressure and temperature rises above'a cartain point. In order to insure the efficien- cy of the plugs they are manufactused by the Government. It is sald that this contrivance is the most raliable * against explosions and that it has stood the test of more than ‘forty years in that country. LA INTERNATIONAL LAW — €. W. Gonzales, Cal. Internatiomal law is a He pelt um wid de snow. 1 dunno what de Winter mean— He projick 'roun’ you so! He say: “Yo' rheumatism ‘Will soon be on de wing: Yo' ole fr'en’, Chill-en-Fever, Is comin’ wid de spring, En’ yo' bones 'll sholy rattle Lak de bones de minstrels fling!” En_den he fix ter fool me, En hush his winds, so cross, En holler: er's de sunshine You folkses said wuz los'!"” En de mockin'bird come out ter see, En freeze up in de fros' I dunno what de Winter mean, e e A s n wi En tomo fer himn tor gor | Lo sing. He mighty hard ter on'erstan’— He proj! roun’ you so! 5 —Atlanta Constitution. A Novel Railroad. A railroad whose trains never stop throughout, their journey is projected in the plans of a Belgian scientist who has recently proposed a new trans- portation scheme. The plan is decid- edly revolutionary and aims to save body of ruies established in custom or by treaty by which the intercourse be- tween civilized nations is goverried. It is divided into public and private in- ternational law. The public or liw of nations consists of these rules whickh independent nations agree as just and fair in regulating their dealings in time of peace and war. Private inter- national law is that collection of -laws that reguiates the mode in. which ordi- nary courts of justice adminster the remedies and give effect to tha rights of perties where such rights were ac- quired partly or wholly in a foreign country and where different remedies must otherwise have necessarily ap- plied. For a full explanation of this subject consult Wharton on inter- national law. 5 f———————e Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a nd, in artist - stehed boxes. “A hice present for Hasteon 715 Market st., above Call blag.* daily| to houses and public men the Press.