The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1904, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY., MARCH 7, 1904 i e i | ; ence. BY MISE ADELINE KNAPP. Editor “The House New York, The and the e wree,” Etc.) wyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles) 1 received a er recently from a ung gir in the country. She | s that she is living at home and | teaching music her village; but that she is weary of the monotony of country life. She wants to come | to the city and become independent. | She says she knows she could not teach music i n: her attainments are not su ie ) word about asks if 1 advise her about get- g a position in an office or a store. is sure s ould give satisfaction 2 saleswoman. | Now s dear girl not only has :|: home, but a good one. She is needed | in it. moreover daughter always is | needed. Her social position is good | in her small community: a horse and | buggy at her al when she needs it and her m teaching gives her enough mon to clothe herself nice- | ly without taking her to@ often from | heme. What more does she want? | What does she mean by being inde- | pendent—on the salary of a, sales- | woman, or a clerk in an office? | She feels dependent upon her| father and mother because they give | her food and shelter. e is a poor sort igh who cannot make | a more than adequate return for that: But she wants, forsooth, to be “in- dependent The idea of what they consider economic independence is curiously fascinating to many girls. The inc ndence bacillus is even | busier g girls than is the the th it inocu tims w a vainer ¢ stage-struck p usually b to work but the y vatio ndent usually nd h'((m doses lasting leave character »egin with, this idea of independ- is in iteelf fallacious. It is the little boy’s descrintion of a certain road which he was asked about. It don't £0 nowhere, and if it did there ain’t nothing there. The notion that a giri at work in any of the avenues usually open to her and for the average wages independent is stultifying to the | intellect. T girl ho feels that in such rk she is tter off and more self-r ting than her father's home is stupid. or has not grasped the fundamental idea of self-respect. She may be earning enough to satisfy her v s If these are reduced to the low- est possible terms e may feel freer away from the restraint of home, but instead of being independent she is in- curring a moral debt to the community which she can never discharge. Her so-called independence is, for the most part, only indulged self-will. She has turned her back upon a place in which society needs her to enter one which curtails her own time and opportunity | and which tends to lessen the opportu- | nities and the earnings of others to| gain that which profits not. Society does not need the girls. By sr]-l ciety I mean the body social, which makes up communities. It needs them in the gatherings for social intercourse, and it needs them in the work of pre- serving the social state. This is the| work of women. They are the con- servators of scciety, as men are its| builders. The home sense becomes | dulied by disuse. vet the home sense, the home-making talent' in women, is the very bone and substance of the so- cial state. The restiess, uneasy desire to be out and doing something for herself, which s0 often possesses the young girl who has not vet got her bearings toward life, is 2 thing to be held in check. It must be examined critically before it is pronounced good. It is not neces- sarily a wholesome or desirable im- pulse, any more than a habit of inor- dinate novel reading is desirable as showing one to be intellectual or a true book lover. “Who are vou,” 1 often feel like ask- ing a girl who expresses this wish, “that you should put the desire to do for self above the desire to do for so- ciety? Do you imagine that you are helping society any by turning your back upon that which upholds and con- serves it to gain for yourself a tem- porary thing not worth having? Do you fancy that you are ‘independent 2nd seif-supporting when you take the | midnight he became very uncomfort- | ered the enormous deficit of wurst, and | mistaken for | outdoor life, | forebodings aside. | rainy time which belongs to your home to earn an amount which you could “°‘|nquaud hovels of @ecently live upon without the help of that home? It is not all of life to earn ‘money, my dear. It is nobler and bet- “ ter to earn a rounded, useful living in a sense which makes your life a center of helpfulness, your personality, a key- stone in some strong arch of the great social structure. Frighis About Discase. LY F. L. OSWALD, &. M., M. D, {Author of “'Physical Education.” ““The Reme- dles of Nature,” Etc.] (Copyright, 1904, by Joscph B. Bowles.) A few minutes, rescued from years of educatifnal absurdities, would suf- fiee to acqueint millions with the char- symptoms of many diseases tbn yield m‘l!v t6 simple remedies applied in time. ° The knowledge of predisposing con- dition is of .almost egual importance, and that cimumstance avould often give home treatment an advantage x3 Patients of all classes are now and then apt to be more candid with them- ives than with their doctor. “The devil knows what made him bald- headed,” says a Spanish proverb; but even baldheaded deacons might hesi- toete to confide such secrets to their medical advisers, Fevers, closely resembling some forms of typhoid, are often induced by dietetic excesses, and I remember the case of a glutton who caused an epi- demic scare by concealing his freaks trom a board of health officers. Coming home too late for supper and finding hat his wife had stepped out for a at with a neighbor, he revenged him- | if by raiding the pantry and devour- ing about a yard of stale liver sausage, besides cabbage and pickles. After able and the next morning felt the ap- proach of a fever. Rest and a day’s fast ;uld have allayed the domestic panic, but the mystified doctor remembered complaints about contamination of the weater supply and ordered the patient| to ¥ Closed windows and a red- hot stove completed the mischief, and before night they hed him in delirium, | and the neighborhood gossips in a shriek-and-cackle sensation. The health inspector called the next morning. Should he confess? Not if he could help it. Much easier to pose as a victim of neglected sanitation. Only on the third day his wife discov- to obviate a sanitary blockade com- municated her suspicions and at once straightened out the tangle of grew- some conjectures. Chronic catarrhs are still oftener more _gerious disorder: Sleeping night after night in an illy ventilated microbe den at last over- comes the resisting power of the stoutest organism. The lungs begin to fester, and nature has to remove the wasted tissues by the expurgative | process known as cough and expecto- The risk of a final aggravation ration. always exists, but, even after a year's catarrhs will yield persistence, promptly to the specific of nature—a liberal supply of pure air—cold pure air preferred. Tuberculosis, in ail but the last part of the development, admits of the same remedy, but recovery is less rapid; the deep-eaten sores have to heal before the cough stops altogether. Consump- tion can also be recognized by the fre- | quency of night fevers and an abnor- mal increase of temperature above a 100 degrees Fahrenheit every evening in | some cases. But the two most char- acteristic symptoms of consumption are the hectic flush, glaring on the| heeks of the patient's otherwise pallid face, and the steady progress of ema- | ciation. The muscles shrink: the con- gested lungs are no longer able to ful- | fill their proper functions in the work | of blood manufacture. and the starved | system has to fall Lack upon its re- | serve stores. p Hemorrhage is a suspicious but not altogether conclusive symptom. Con- sumptives have been known to perish of a gradual decline without ever hav- ing noticed more than a faint admix- ture of blood in their sputa. On the other hand, blood-spitting can be brought on by the irritation of alco- holic excesses, Disregard of the warning, indeed, may develop tuberculosis in that spe- cially horrid form known as galloping consumption. But the misgivings caused by an oc- | casional trace of pulmonary hemor- rhage can generally be settied by home diagnosis and a few pertinent ques- | tions: Alcoholic excesses? Overexer- | tion? Region of the chest injured by fall or blow? No night fever? No hereditary predisposition to lung dis- eases? It isn't consumption then. Dropsy is not rarely simulated by swellings that may indicate nothing worse than a transient irregularity in the action of the heart. Ill-compound- ed blood, in the form of a watery fluid, is deposited here -nd there about the region of the main joints; the feet es- | pecially become swollen to an exlenti | that obliterates the Intervals of the! sinews, and can be felt more or less | | perceptibly by the tension of the ex- panded skin. One very frequent pre- disposing cause is physical inactivity, following protracted periods of active, A brief experiment will suffice to set | Get into weather- proofs and take a twelve-mile tramp through mud or wet snow the next day, and notice the result on those problematic swellings. Ten to one that they have not only subsided, but vanished, and will not reappear for | many a day. True dropsy cannot be scared off so easily, and its appear- ance is generally an after effect of serfous heart troubles, or of the liver derangements that average reckless in- temperance. The grip (“grippe”), alias influenza, is fast becoming a synonym of catarrh. “‘Caught the grip, poor fellow,” remark the neighbors of an American citizen whe is confined to his bed as a result of exposure to the vitiated air of auc- tion room or crowded streetcar. The patient accepts the explanation, to- gether, perhaps, ‘with gifts of cough candy, etc., but, instead of being be- wailed, ought often to be congratu- lated on his total lack of acquaintance with the grip of the actual grippe— “influenza,” influencing a victim’'s sys- tem for years, and, like caviar, import- ed genuine only from the depths of darkest Russia. Its sources of supply are the crowded and unspeakably the East Russian boors, in the treeless steppes, where animal warmth is made to supply the scarcity of fuel, and where a dozen rustics often crowd into a twelve by twenty cabin to fuddle with quass, or dry their reeking furs on a smolder- ing brick stove stuffed with peat. Be- fore the end of winter a dug-out of that description becomes an arsenal of lung microbes, and early in the spring the accumulations explode in the form of pulmonary epidemie. . Sweeping from town to town the conflagration gath- ers strength, till its sparks travel whole continents, and after a brief chilling in the damp of the ocean fer- ries, blaze forth again on the we‘ shores of the Atlantic. ——————————e -3 A Guess.—Sunday school teacher— Now. can any little boy tell me what is meant by “profane history”? Tommy Boggs—I guess it's the kind yer swear at when yer have hr study it.—Philadelphia Ledger. | out the East. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « « « « . «+ o . « Address All Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . s ....'....mmwml.r. SPRING TRADE STILL BACKWARD, HE chief feature of trade last week was the marked T backwardness of the season. This has been ap- parent for several weeks, but last week it was es- pecially pronounced. Deep snow in many parts of the country and extremely cold weather almost everywhere except on the Pacific Slope have respectively retarded transportation on railroads and country roads and thus impeded the distribution of goods and deferred the de- mand for spring goods, which should have opened sev- eral weeks ago. These unfavorable features are reflected by the coun- try’s bank clearings, which showed a decrease for the week of 182 per cent, with almost all the very large cities in the column of losses. The decrease at New York was 288 per cent, and while much of it was prob- ably due to the lack of activity in Wall street, it cannot be gainsaid that the holding off of the usual spring de- mand for merchandise was the cause of a good deal of it. Pittsburg, which reflects the condition of the iron and steel industry, fell off 24.4 per cent; Chicago, the center of the grain and provision trade, lost 4.5 per cent; Balti- more, probably on account of her recent fire, 252 per cent, and San Francisco 18.3 per cent. New Orleans, owing to the continued large cotton speculation there, gained 300 per cent. The aggregate clearings made a little better showing than last week, though they were still below the two billion mark, being $1,067,687,000. The failures for the week were 236, against 229 last year. The above exhibit is unfavorable. It may be almost wholly due to the inclement weather, and such is the gen- eral opinion expressed in the regular weekly commer- cial reports from all over the country. The opinion is also general that with the return of good weather the deferred spring demand will appear and business resume its suspended activity. Another condition, illustrating | the effect of unfavorable weather upon trade, is found in the railway earnings, which show a loss of 2.2 per cent in February as compared with last year. For five vears or so these railway earnings have shown a uniform gain over the preceding year, but some months ago the increase began to diminish and now they are showing an actual loss. 5 In spite of this falling off in the volume of business, however, collections are reported good in almost all parts of the country, and funds are plentiful everywhere. The failures, while more numerous than in 1903, are as a rule not large, and none of them have been sufficiently seri- ous to cause apprehension. The current speculation in staples, alluded to last week, continues, but is abating and no longer feverish. In provisions it has begun to wane, as the outside spec- | ulators have at last woke up to what everybody except themselves has seen for a month, that they have been | eagerly buying high-priced goods which the great West- ern packers have been industriously unloading on the greedy and unreasoning purchasers. The speculators now find themselves carrying a load of pork and beef prod- ucts over which they can ruminate at their leisure and get rid of as best they may. Less is heard of gcotton, too, though the market is still unusually active and attracting a good deal of at- The situation in coffee is similar to that in pro- The collapse of the upward movement, which began with a legitimate basis of low prices during the closing months of 1903, 1s due to an inevitable reaction from a vast and feverish speculation. The liquidation of this particular speculation was enormous during Febru- ary, so much so that not only have the plungers come to grief, but the regular dealers have become scared off the market and are purchasing no more than they actu- tention. visions. ally need, and even then with more or less trepidation. | So much for plunging in the necessaries of daily life. These, as well as stocks, burn the fingers. American will insist on speculating and rushing reck- lessly into trading arenas where angels fear to tread, he must take his medicine when it is handed out to him with a leaden spoon, as it always is, later on. The American money and stock markets continue in the same condition as for some weeks past, both being quiet and featureless. The former is easy, with plenty of funds at reasonable rates, and the latter is flat. The public still refuses to romp with the Wall-street tiger, and as a stock market without the public is like the play of Hamlet with the character of Hamilet left out, there is of course no business worth talking about. The war, too, has its effect, by depressing the foreign bourses, which unfavorably affect our own stock market through sympathy, so the stock exchanges all over the world are at present comparatively quiet places. Such is the commercial and financial situation through- As will be seen, it is the reverse of sen- sational. The situation in California remains as for weeks, with the exception that the recent copious rains in the northern half of the State and in parts ot the San Joaquin Valley have placed the country in most excellent condition for farm work and given us prospects of splen-| did crops, upon which we are now basing estimates for another year of prosperity. Our banks have all the money necessary, the light stocks of grain, hay, hops, dried fruits and other products of our soil, on which we depend so largely for our prosperity, practically assure us of good prices for our 1904 crops, and what more do we want? Our local and export trade are both keeping up well, real estate transactions are numerous and large, building operations are active and the great influx of the new population of homeseekers continues. The last is the best sign of the times we have. If the railroads con- tinue their present broad and intelligent policy of at- tracting homeseekers to this coast by means of reduced rates of transportation, we shall be surprised, when the next census is taken, to see how the State has grown. And our increased population will make us stronger, richer, more famous and more important among the States. T statements of the Mormon faith and practice, in the interesting testimony of President Smith before the Senate committee.” There has been much mystery about the Mormon doc- trine of revelation. While the seat of the church was at Nauvoo and Joseph and Hyrum Smith were in charge, revelation figured in politics. During that time Colonel Hoge and General Baker, afterward eminent Califor- nians, ran against each other for Congress in the Nau- voo district. General Baker arranged with Joseph Smith to have a revelation that the Mormons should vote the Whig ticket. The revelation reported on time, and prom- OBEYING REVELATION. HE public is for the first time getting authoritative But if the | heard of it, he went to Nauvoo and “saw” Hyrum Smith for a Democratic revelation. On election day Baker got one vote in Nauvoo and Hoge got the rest, and was elected. Baker was tindignant and taxed Joseph Smith with bad faith. But the prophet declared that under the rules of the game the last revelation bound every mem- ber of the church except the one to whom the first reve- lation was made, and claimed that he had kept faith by voting for Baker. Hoge claimed the distinction of being the only man who was ever elected to Congress by di- rect revelation. ; Again the church has a Smith at its head, and he dis- courses interestingly apd under oath about revelation. He says that a revelation may be followed or not, as one is inclined. It is evident that the revelation busi- ness is a fast and loose affair. The revelation enjoining plural marriage was obeyed in a spirit of resignation and alacrity. But the later revelation in 1890, canceling it, when the divine source of revelation got wind of the Tucker-Edmunds law, has not been accepted with gen- ( eral pleasure. The gentile world will be surprised that the Mormon President looks upon revelation so lightly. But all must | concede the convenience of the system. If a prophet get a distasteful revelation, he waits till the ticker grinds out another more agreeable to him, and then becomes obe- dient. We are of the opinion that the enlightenment that will follow these disclosures will weaken the Mormon hierarchy. It will not destroy the church, but will take out of its practice the mysteries and secret ways, and conform it more to human reason and common sense. Murderous cranks, hent on the assassination of any- body in authority, appear to be an uncomfortably estab- lished feature of Washington public life. Wnen a fellow has to wear a coat of mail and distort himself in a daily effort to dodge bullets his impression that a public office is a private snap is likely to be corrected. H o the State, during which every parlor of the Native | Sons was visited, for the purpose of getting the opinion of the members regarding the proposed celebration of NATIVE SONS AT ST. LOUIS. g e R. McNOBLE, grand president of the Native Sons | of the Golden West, has just completed a tour of | Admission day at the St. Louis Exposition. Mr. Mec- | Noble reports that three propositions have been sub- | mitted to the Native Sons and that they seem to be about evenly divided in their preferences. It was pro- posed either that there be a general celebration of Ad- mission day by the Native Sons at St. Louis, that there be one celebration in California and one at St. Louis ori that the Native Sons be represented in St. Louis on | Admission day by numerous delegates. ‘ McNoble says he is in favor of the first named ' idea—to have a great Admission day demonstration at | St. Louis by the Native Sons. As this proposition is novel to the general public, although it has been d154: cussed for some time by the Native Sons, much interest will attach to the reason that Grand President McNoble | gives for his advocacy of it. | In the first place it would be a great ad\'erlisemcntl for California, he says. It was voted at the last session | of the Grand Parlor that the order take part—how much at that time not being determined—in the St. Louis Ex- position. It was also admitted that it would be appro- priate to have a California day at St. Louis, and Admis- sion day wonld seem to be the most appropriate for" making California manifest. A committee was ap- pointed by the Grand Parlor to ascertain material facts. This committee consists of H. R. McNoble, Lewis E. Aubury, H. C. Lichtenberger, Charles H. Turner, Charles E. McLaughlin and James L. Gallagher. It has been organized into sub-committees and has considered the situation from various points of view. The committee has not decided on the adoption of any plan for the Ad- | mission day celebration in 1904 yet, but the liveliest in- | terest exists among the Native Sons in Ihc outcome of the deliberations. The grand president says that to have the entire State celebration in St. Louis would furnish an event concern- ing which there would be a vast amount of talk. The newspapers of the entire United States would discuss it. The proposition is to have the usual costumes, bears, bear flags, floats, reproductions of early mining scenes, etc.; indeed, to outdo any similar home attempt at typical Califorina pageantry. If the celebration take place in | St. Louis several counties, among them Stanislaus, Fresno and Merced, have promised to send a carload of products each to St. Louis for gratuitous distribution on Admission day. It is also proposed to run two special trains to St. Louis to carry the great number of those who might be expected to take part in a California celebration in the exposition city. One train would start from San Fran- cisco and one from Los Angeles. The special trains would carry only Native Sons, representatives of the State government and writers for the California press. Governor Pardee and all the members of the Grand Parlor would be on one train. An application has been made formally to the transportation companies for a low rate to St. Louis and return. In the text of that application it is set forth that “we expect to organize the membership throughout the Stata in order to have a large percentage participate in the celebration upon California day. We believe that sev- eral thousand can be induced to make the trip providing a very reasonable rate can be made by the transconti- nental transportation companies. If such rate can be made we propose to arrange a parade, by Native Sons exclusively, that will attract the attention of visitors from all parts of the world, and in this connection we desire to state that, with our twenty-five years of experience in parades and public demonstrations, we believe that the people of your company, like the greater portion of thie people of California, will not ask for any better proof of our ability to get up and manage a successful parade and demonstration.” The decision in this matter rests with the Native Sons. The proposition indicates that the younger men in the order are alive to the benefits of having Califorina talked about and that there are many among them who would willingly give their time and spend their money to ieve that end. Emperor William has fied his purpose to greet Admiral Evans on his voyage home, shake hands and ex- change compliments. Let the meeting between the sail- or man and the war lord be significant of sometlung broader and deeper than the greeting of two individuals. Let it express the sentiment of two great nations that ised to be worth what it cost. When Colonel Hoge | want peace and friendship, not strife and war. . i | reached that stage when | to say, | it and | against one of my kind. | magnitude, | the TALK OF l+-———————'——_'_'—_____—P THE TOWI;J( el A Soldier of the King. Judge Henry A. Melvin of Oakland, who returned from New York Tuesday evening, has recruited his stock of good stories. Here is one he tells: “My fried Captain Champe S. An- drews, a brilliant young attorney and one of the most charming gentlemen I have ever met, took me to the Dis- trict Attorney's office and introduced me to District Attorney Jerome. The latter invited us to go to luncheon with him and we had a merry party at the table, composed of Judge Jerome, Captain Andrews and Chief Clerk Henneberry of the District Attorney’s office. Judge Jerome is a past master ir the art of story telling. He told one on Mr. Purdy of the New York bar and former Recorder Smythe. Purdy was { defending a man before a jury in Re- cerder Smythe's court and the case had it became proper for defendant’s counsel to ad- dress the jury. Rising and placing his hand on the defendant’s head, Mr. Pur- dy said: ‘Gentlemen of the jury, my unfortunate friend is a soldier of the king!" “ ‘What's that?’ roared the Recorder, who was a stickler for decorum and frowned upon any attempts to go out- side the record. “Nothing abashed, Mr. Purdy replied: ‘I am glad your honor did not hear, for it gives me a chance to say again that | my unfortunate client is a soldier of the king, and I mean, your honor, King Alcohol!” “He then proceeded succhssfully to convince the jury that long-continued | excesses had made the defendant in- | sane.” His Advice. He enjoyed distinction in the under world as a man skilled in erime and ac- quainted with the internal economy of many penal establishments. Highway robbery he had reduced to a science ! and as a footpad he had no equals. His system played him false at last, how- ever, and arrest had been followed by conviction and sentence to a long term at Folsom. The day before leaving the | county jail the felon was visited by a newspaperman seeking an interview, “No, young feller, T aint got nothing " replied the prisoner. “Here's some good advice, though, if you'll take follow it if you ever get up Its’ me to the so I aint hurting my busi- If you ever get held up, vnunz feller, never holler for help. Shout ‘help! murder! thieves! police!” and every window that may be opened will be closed and fastened; doors will be barred and bolted; ears that may hear you will turn deaf and two out of every three cops will take a wide clrcle in search of help before they | answer your distress signal. The foot- pad knows this and all your yelling went’t phase him none. “If you want to scare him off quick- ly, just take a deep breath and holler ‘fire!” for all )‘flur lungs are worth.” woods now, Ness none. Flustered Some. Attorney Garret McEnerney sel- dom takes a case that is not of some except it is to oblige a friend. He recently had a case in the Superior Court which, though it involved only a few dollars, interested him because it was to right a wrong done on old man, a friend of his. It was an action to set aside a judgment obtained against the old man by a collector, which judgment robbed the ! old man of his savings of a year. McEnerney is blunt in his dealing with people who take advantage of law to further their own ends and has no hesitancy in using plain language. It did not, therefore, sur- prise the court nor those present at the hearing who knew McEnerney when the attorney, after calling the collector to the stand, said: “Mr. Blank, what was the first thing you did when you made up your mind to shake down Mr. Jones?"” The bluntness of the question flus- tered the collector and he remained flustered during the proceedings that followed and the judgment he fraud- ulently obtained was set aside. Suggestion fiz—r_Bcrkelfy. The London Globe of February 16 contains an item which should interest our frisky young college youth. It says: “To-day being Shrove Tuesday, the time-honored custom of tossing the pancake was again observed at West- minster School, in the presence of a considerable number of visitors. As in previous years, the ceremony took place in the large hall. Shortly before 1 o'clock the scholars were assembled under the direction of the headmaster in the hall, those selected to compete for the prize of 1 guinea, which goes to the boy who secures either the whole or the largest part of the pan- cake, being drawn up in order at the entrance end of the hall beneath the bar over which the pancake is tossed. The other boys were stationed on the far side of the bar, and eagerly fol- lowed the proceedings. At 1 o'clock the school cook, in his white apron and cap. and bearing in his hand the pan containing the pancake, entered the hall, preceded by the dean's verger. Marching to the far side of the bar, and taking careful aim, he threw the pancake over the bar to the other side. A stern struggle took place for posses- sion of the cake, and eventually it was secured by H. F. Saunders of the Sci- ence Sixth, who emerged from the scramble with the largest piece in his hand. He was loudly cheered as he was led away by the dean's verger to receive the guinea whicl. he had won.” If President Wheeler, for example, should advocate the annual tossing of a doughnut from the clock tower at Berkeley the spirit for “rushing” would vanish immediately. Graftovich. ! To Petersburg came three American business men to secure a gold mining concession. There are 851 places whete #old is found in Russia, and our friends wanted the privilege of working one of those places. First, they had to deposit $50,000 with the Ministry of the Interior @s “good faith.” So much for the regu- = * lar, legal part of the programme. Now for the irregular, illegal part. They kept in their room at the Hotel Europe a bag of hard, cold cash in golden rubles. This cash they doled out in in- stallments, first to this Prince, then to that Count, for “influence.” Each time they handed out the money they were told that their proposition had been found good, and promises were made that the concession would be speedily | granted. Each time the would-be con- cessionaires belleved that they had ac- complished something, and each time they were disappointed and had to re- fill the money bag. The wearisome de- iay in the negotiations continued week after week; technical obstacles, each more serious than the preceding one, were brought forward; and so weeks grew into months, and the Americans were not one step nearer the goal. De- ciding that bankruptey would come be- fore any kind of a definite conclusion could be obtained, they went away with what cash they had left and an accum- ulated amount of disgust. Their $50,000 was returned with all legal formalities, but considerably more than that sum was left in the hands of the Princes and Counts. Such has been the experi- ence of many other Americans seeking to do business in Russia, each in sheer desperation abandoning his enterprise. —Leslie's Weekly. The - thletic Japanese. In a Japanese town one cannot walk far without being confronted by ath letics in one form or another. In the streets you can rarely escape the painted and gaudily dressed tots, who turn baby handsprings, execute somer- saults and do other infantile stunts in a wheedling effort to secure the “hairy foreigner's” wealth. A Japanese matsuri were not the fair it purpor without the bespangled tight-rope pe former, the bamboo ladder eclimbing youngsters, the wrestlers, tumblers, spearsmen or fencers. So deeply rooted is the native love for the strenuous life that the national sports of other lands have been tried in Japan. The Mikado, with many of the imperial family, attends the annual spring races in Yokohama: but nothing in the line of imported sports so ap peals te the Japanese as cycling and baseball. Cycling clubs are secattered all over the empire, thousands of American bicycles spin across the isi- and and the foreigners experience dif- ficulty in keeping even a few of the records and trophies out of native hands. The Tokoyo baseball team is an ef- ficlent organization, and it frequently drubs the teams from other ports and cities. At the Yokohama ericket grounds excellent and sharply contest- ed games may be witnessed oceasion- ally between the Tokio native team and the Yokohama foreign organiza- tlon.—Outing. Answers to Queries. DRAW IT MILD—S., City. It is said that the expressions “Come it strong’” and “Draw it mild” were originally used by the leader of an English orchestra to violinists, when he wished them to play loud or softly. TREE FROG—J. D. R., Oakland, Cal. The color of the tree frog varies from pale ash to dark brown, with several large, irregular blotches of greenish brown and white, and abdomen yellow- ish near the thighs. This frog can change its color, apparently, at will. PAYNE AVD OTHF‘R“—H A M., City. A full report of the trial of Payne, Mrs. Surratt and others for conspiraey to assassinate President Lincoln is to be found in the folios of the New York Herald. There is a file of those papers in the Free Public Library of this city. SENATORS — H. 8. B.,, Ukiah, Cal 4ny Senator of the United States will become possessed of letters addressed to him, directed to Washington, D. (. If such reach there when the Senator is absent they will, according to in- structions, be forwarded. REGISTRATION—IJ. I, Gilroy, Cal. When a citizen who has the qualifica- tions that entitle him to registration to enable him to vote he must take a solemn oath that he will give true an- swers touching such qualifiaction to entitle him to registration. Should he make a false statement as to name or any other material fact he would be liable to prosecution for perjury. WORLD'S POPULATION—A. C. S, Cloverdale, Cal. The population of the world, according to race, as estimated by John Bartholomew, F. R. G. S. Edinburgh, is as follows: manic or Aryan (white) in Europe, Persia, etc., 545,500,000; Mongolian or Turanian (yellow and brown) in the greater part of Asia, 630,000,000; Semitic or Hamitic (white) in North Africa, Arabia, 65,000,000; Negro and Bantu (black) in Central Africa, 150,000,000; Hottentot anid Bush- man (black) in South Africa, 150,000; Malay and Polynesian (brown) in Australasia and Polynesia, 35,000,000 American Indian (red) in North and South America, 15,000,000; total, 1,440.- 650,000. That of the Chinese Empire is given as 426,447,000 Pt O— -rownmf. &lflmh xl:e. fruits and candies. 50c artistic fire- etched men M for Eastern friends. 715 &r’m . above Call bldg.* ————— Special il!wr-l-fl.o‘n supplied daily to business houses public men the Press Clippifig Bur Al Cai~ > eau ( 113.