The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, * Hozw to “Pack Up.” | | | BY DORA MAY MORRELL (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) is enough to lay them one on another, first making sure that they are smooth when laid. The upper tray remains for hats and | anything eise. Most trunks have boxes | for hats, but where there are none it | is easy to make the hats safe by tying | them in with tape. It Is a simple mat- ter to catch the tapes where wanted Ly means of small tacks. Boots should be thoroughly dusted before packing, and then, being in good | order, should be wrapped in cloth bags. ' This protects them and makes it safe! to place them in any part of the trunk. There is nothing more hurt by pack- ing than books. Even with the best of care their backs will wear off and their bindings loosen. One who loves books well will put corners of each cover into | protecting triangles, which any book dealer should be able to provide, and if | each book is wrapped in manila paper that will also prevent much of the wear and injury. If one has a large library by all means have boxes made of a size There is no family in this restless country which has not at some time to struggle with the moving question and its difficulty of packing so that “three remov shall not be “as bad as a fire” n among those for- tunates who live in one house all their lives there will be at some time | e necessity for moving goods and chattels if only for a sumnier at the beach, and then those who avoid all these iroubles have trunks to pack. No one escapes that. | The whole art of packing well may be summed up in a few words. It is this—pack closely be breakages when goods are packed so tightly that they cannot shake or move about. The writer, having been born under a wandering star, has e ience, and now can pack jars of rves and dozens of eggs to be carried in an ordinary trunk with per- fect safety, much to the surprise of kind friends, who say: I shall love 10 have you take them, but you never can get them there without breaking.” There will never | | to hold books of the same height. When | one is packing he is quite Iikely to wish | tbat all books were of a bigness ex-| ternally, for it is very difficult to make | 500 books of varying length and thick- | | ness lie together smoothly, as they! | must or have crumpled leaves. | When it comes to packing furniture | the method followed by the profes- | sional is quite different from that of | | the amateur, naturally enough, as the professional has no interest in lessening : the weight and the .orresponding | freight rates. Crating most things is necessary and will be found an econ- omy in the saving of wear on the goods, | | but two chairs may be boxed seat to| | seat and thus save something. Unless | | one puts the whole thing in the hands of a professional it will be necessary to ed the uncertainties of packing|get everything ready for boxing. Chairs | how to circumvent them bv much | mayv be placed as stated, separating | | them by papers, and in the squares made by the legs may be packed bed- | ding, sofa ‘pillows, anything of that nature, and over all there must be a layer of paper and then one of burlap, | made tight. This protects the:furniture | and its contents. L SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieto: . . . . ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT. Manager Pablcation OfICe +....vvsseennesnneeeressnnens, @ tievesecesesnes...Third and Market Streets, S. F. S SATURDAY.. LYNCHING NOT SECTIONAL. YNCHING, even of negroes for. murder, is not sectional as between North and:South. In the South a majority, of the victims are black, while in the North a majority are white, but Northern com- munities enjoy lynching a negro as much as any in the more enthusiastically cheerful than such crowds usually The good shots at the victim were cheered, and there was a picnic air abroad that relieved the gloom of the proceeding. This differs from the Southern way. Down there the shadow of a solemn duty i§ cast over a lynching, and men go to it grimly and) without a smile. So, it may be said that in the North lynching is an amusement and in the South a ceremony. { . It is said that in the recent Ohio lynching there was a spirit of admonition tosthe officers of the law. While it is but little satisfaction to the fellow who is lynched, to know that he is merely used as a means of discipline, to men in office, perhaps that was the motive of the mob. It is said that many homicides have occurred in that county recently and juries have been lax in punish- ing the guilty. Under such cirdumstances it would seem more effective to hang a few jurymen. Instead of this being done, it is probable that members of the slack juries were in the mob, helping it to do mutder and cheering the good shots. ‘ Every lynching produces a crop of criticism of the law and the courts. If the matter is examined it will be, found that laxity lies with the juries.y They are drawn from and represent the body of the people. They are the representatives of the community in the ad. ministration of the law and are the sole judges of the facts. They are not always carefully selected, but no doubt Judges and attorneys do as well as they can. Yet sometimes relatives of the person on trial get on juries, and in one case in this State the man who committed the crime for which another was on trial was a member of the jury- and succeeded in having the innocent man acquitted. Tt is plain that if critics of the courts will look into cases ip which justice fails they will find juries, that is to say, the people themselves, to blame. In the Ohio Iynching appeared another matter for are. A& packing trunks comes more fre-| " g = : ] e # : quently to ordinary mortals than ‘”H) "m:"‘_::;‘s;;l'lnpxe;;“f':“‘“Mam_ serious reflection. The cheerful mob which murdered < X he ¢ y Vi y . y . . packing furniture, it may be well 0| 000" Ginblice 1¢ properly wrapped | the negro was followed by an incendiary mob that was with that for the first lesson. all trunks nowadays have two trays, which much more conven- fent. Into the bottom of the trunk | should be placed all of the heaviest things, books, boxes, efc., and a8 even- Iy as possible. Frail articles never should be packed without being spe- cially wrapped so that if they were dropped they would be whole after they struck the floor. For very deli- cate things wrapping in clothing is not | enough This good as far is il‘ goes, but it does not protect enough. Crympled newspapers of soft quality are better, but best are wisps of hay if that is to be had, and if not then | excelsior. This must be used gener- | ously and the article rolled in it un- | til nothing can be seen or felt of its| begin Near may be thus carried. A two-foot statu- | ette was safely packed between the table, which had to be crated. Theére was ample space for the statuette, which went wrapped in quilts under paper and burlaps. | There is a very decided difference in the bill for freightage if advantage is taken of all these spaces, and it is quite as well to make the most of them as to waste one’s money on needless boxes and crates, which all add to the ex-| pense of shipping. o In shipping furniture it is very neces- | sary to wrap it so that it will not be | scratched, for one who sends goods by | | freight is always prepared to assert | that no care is taken in handling: it whether that is true or not, so it is original condition. When the due smount of soft wrapping has been | used wrap all in paper or some cloth. | No bo thus treated will break. It| won't break even if dropped on the | floor before it gets into the trunk | If one is carrying anything as easily | broken as eggshells or eggshell china | it may be tak with perfect safety b_\-‘ placing it in a box considerably larger thar st covering the bottom of | the be dust. As many articles t d herein as there e space for without touching each | other. After tlese have been placed | 2dd more sawdust, every now and then | shaking the box to make the sawdust | pack closely. It is net “pessible to pack by hand as compactly as it wiil | by shaking—something one will no- tice in a trunk after she })as traveled well to prepare for the worst. Every | particle of woodwork should be cov- | ered with papers and then with burlap | over everything. This is beside the crates which are made for the wrapped | | articles. . . . The only safe way of carrying pi(--‘ tures is tc have a case made for them so that each touches nothing else, but If one does mot care to do this, there | is reasonable safety in putting them in a big box, first wrapping each sep- arately in papers and then placing lay- ers of excelsior, or hay, which is softer, | between them. Under any measure of decent treatment there should be no trouble with them if thus packed. When an articg is expensive and cannct be packed in barrel or box, but or @ while. This is the method the | MUust be eralec by itself, it will be | T oated wen she broaght eges | muCh safer to crate it so that it shoys | from Maine to New York without | What it is, for then it is handled care- | o o ol Sy fully. A large Japanese vase was | For bric a-brac sgwdust is better n excel because it will fit snug- but it not to be preferred for | rge pieces on account of its weight, d also because they do not need as packing as the smaller articles. | The experienced packer attends to | 211 this preliminary packing before be- ginning on the trunk. The art in the | whole business lies in having the small and frail things safely prepared to| stand the jarring and upsetting that is | before them. The burden of the task comes in these things, and if one is not strong it is well to take them a day before the remainder of the pack- ing is done. ; To make small space hold much | ar close bear in mind that each box put in the trunk should hold something, still ng out the principle of close packing. Ribbons and all the femi- nine trinkets should be put where they will fill otherwise empty spaces. It does not harm them and does save them. The rule is as good if one is packing masculine notions as femi- nine. o e Into the bottom of the trunk place all these boxes. As they are tightly filled they may be turned in any way most convenient with their angles. Fill interstices where sides do not come squarely with paper or hosiery, or anvthing to make things firm. The second tray should be devoted to dresses and waists. If one has an elaborate wardrobe she naturally would carry a wardrobe trunk. In packing one’s dresses it is still well to remember thatl the closer they lie the smoother they will be when they come out. Fold skirts from the top, doubling them on the gores and mak- ing certzin that they are smooth as folded. - By laying the skirt on a bed the cloth may be smoothed with the hand so that no wrinkles dre folded crated without any cover, care being taken that no part of its surface was even with the outside of the crate, and | it has taken two long trips without the | slightest harm. The handlers, seeing its worth and beauty, lifted it instead | of throwing it, as they otherwise would ‘( have dcne. It was crated as carefully as possible, but not wrapped. ° | Furniture well packed will bear much | freighting without getting scratched or marred, and if it is well wrapped it is ready for the man who will crate it. Each crate should be numbered so that | it may be seen at once what it was made for. It may serve many times if taken care of and if one is likely to | move often. Americus’ Map. | | A map of America, which was re-| ponsible for the naming of the New World for Americus Vespucci, instead | of calling it Columbia in honor of | Christopher Columbus, will be one of | the interesting relics exhibited at the| World’s Fair from the Vatican. ,The map was made at the town of St. Die, Lorraine, by Martin Waldseemuller, | and was recently found by Professor | | Fisher. In preparing a map of the! world, as it was then known, Waldsee- { muller happened across a letter from | Ameéricus Vespucei to his patron, Le-! | renzo de Medici, dated 1501, in which he referred to the newly discovered con- | [tinent. Waldseemuller marked ~ this | : practically unknown terra firma Amer- | fca, as he had first heard of it through Americus Vespucci. The latter prob- ! ably never knew that the pew land had | been called by his name, and it was not his fault that Columbus did not re- ceive the henor due for making the discovery. Tibetan Beauty. The Tibetans are not beautiful. How into it. If there are plaits or folds heed must be given to them, and the cloth folded to favor them. After the #kirt is folded lengthwise it should be doubled once in the middie and placed in the tray with this fold at the end of the trunk. That leaves the foot of the skirt in the middie of the trynk. The second skirt is placed so its fold comes at the other end of the trunk. This leaves more space in the middle tray for waists. Very fancy waists may be stuffed with tissue paper, but wists and dresses of that kind should mot be carried in an ordinary trunk. Very few persons fill their sleeves with tissue paper when packing. Usually it couid they be when, by their own con- fession, the national ancestry runs back to the king of the monkeys and a hob- goblin? Bouvalot says of them: “The very bears are better looking.” The type is midway between the Esquimau | and the Chinese. Broad, flat noses, | without visibie bridge; no eyebrows, | wide mouths, full lips, oily skins, hair as coarse and straight as horsehair, and short, square, ungainly figures— these are the elements of the unpleas- | ing picture. Through the “Soo” in 1903 passed 35,000,000 tons of freight—three times as much as was carried on the Suez canal. I four legs of an old-fashioned sewing! | that is the main source of his power. not on pleasure bent. It fired the negro quarter of the town and prevented the Fire Department from going to the rescue until the conflagration had done .its work. The excuse for this act was that the negro quarter was the shelter of idleness, vice and crime. That is_a serious matter. The Northern born and raised negro is noted for his industry, thrift and law- abiding spirit. Where negro quarters are found in towns along the Ohio River and elsewhere in the North they are built up by negro immigrants from the South. If they are a menace to community life there is raised an issue that will not"be decided by burning men at the stake mnor putting the torch to roofs that shelter women and children. Jt is an issue that is of interest te (hc“ Z\"on.h and South, and a problem that they must work out hand in hand. This must be done by elevating the negro, not in the shishy sentimental sense in which that term is used, but byxmaking him a wholesome factor in the practical affairs of the country. Booker Washington sees this issue clearly, and as | clearly states its solution at which he is toiling. Teach- ing the calculus and the catechism will not bring light into the negro quarters, North or South. Seeing the effect of idleness on the white youth of the North, we should know that neither ethics nor religion can wijth- and idleness. Teaching the negro how to work and make himself sought for his skill and his industry is the only solution, if there be any. Booker Washington is frank in stating the shortcomings of his race and When a race and its leaders conclude that .it is perfect and resent caricature of its qualities and its follies, there is no hope for that race. The professional negroes who attack | Washington and his gospel of work and clean living are worse enemies of the negro than the white men who burn him at the stake. Others should be encouragea | to follow the example and take up the work of the founder of Tuskegee. An institution like it in Ohio may make unnecessary the purification of negro quarters by fire. . Our missionary energies are-spent at a long range. We spend millions in China and Africa and keep our Government embroiled by interference with the civil institutions of other countries. Why should we spend millions every year in trying to solve problems and mend morals and manners in other countries while we have this problem on hand at home? If all the zeal that is put into making a few doubtful converts to a Chri tianity that they don’t comprehend were put into train- ing negro workers like Washington, to go among their race in the negro quarters of the North and.the black belts of the South, to teach the gospel of skill, work, economy, property, cleanliness and decency, we are of opinion that mankind would get more benefit than is gained in carrying the gospel abroad to people who don’t want it. Oakland, as well as San Francisco, is suffering from too large a crop of murderous burglars. In one respect; however, Oakland has an advantage over this city. Her police occasionally stumble over a malefactor and lock him up, while our guardians of the peace pursue the unruffled tenor of their way without even stubbing their toes. W to the _iury. in the case of the State vs. Janes, for the murder of Martin, the City Marshal of Tulare. Janes was guilty of a misdemeanor in obstructing the side- walk, contrary to a valid ordinance of the city govern- ment. When taken into custody he shot and killed the City Marshal, and, we suppase, was acquitted under the Judge's charge to the jury,‘ which carried the principle of seli-defense into resistance of an- officer. The press of the county spreads all of the instructions given by the court in reply to our comments and puts the burden on THAT JUDGE'S CHARGE. E are in receipt of very earnest but very tem- perate comments in Tulare County papers upon the jury, which was jugge of the facts. 'All that we | desired to do was to admonish courts of the exceed- ing danger there is in introducing the doctrine of self- defense to justify resistance of arrest by an officer. = | While the instractions in the Tulare case may have been balanced evenly, and were no doubt given con- scientiously by the court, their tendency is to carry the doctrine of self-defense into an action where it has no ight to go. If the arresting officer make an unpro- * ; outh. The recent mob in Ohio had all the charactgris- | jefense that have no foundation in the facts as proved | tics of mobs everywhere, but is reported to have been 1law by equipping those who break it with a defense if our statement of the effect of the court's charge | voked demonstration that puts the life of the arrested person in peril he may defend it. But in the Janes case there was no such testimony. As stated by the papers, the officer did not even show a weapon, and we find no cvidence that he had a weapon on his person when hc was killed. Under such circumstances it is surely the |more for his own protection than any- prerogative of a Judge to refuse instructions for the by the testimony. 3 2 If the arrgstigg officer had shown a weapon and threatened its use in such way as to put his prisoner in peril, from which there was no escape except by killing ‘the officer first, the element of self-defense was properly l in the case and the instruction was right. But, lacking : these facts, such an instruction was outside the testi- mony, and is calculated to hinder the enforcement of the i they murder the officers who execute it. We do not wish to be put in the catalogue of those who make it a business to criticize courts. We do not | impugn the ability nor impeach the independence of the Tulare Judge. We merely say what we think of the danger of extending the plea of sclf—‘iefense to justify the killing of an officer in the discharge of his duty. It | is ‘the busineds of the courts to protect the executive officers of the law, those to whom falls the task of re- | straining the turbulent and restricting the criminal, and ' anything that makes their duty more difficult and in- creases its danger is to be avoided. < Joseph E. Smith, Mormon, of many wives and more | children, protests that the Congress of the United States is impertinent and impudently inquisitive in seeking to inquire into the private affairs of his families. When one ! has five wives and forty-two children it is difficult to conceive how he can construe their affairs as private. They raise themselves to the dignity of a community and become, as it were, offensively public. P be a notable and pleasing example of modern art in journalism. On the first page of the first sec- | tign of the magazine is a full page photograph of Miss Lillian Spencer as a dainty, winsome, mystic Geisha girl, | reproduced in multiple colors. Both the pose and the | manner of its presentation are absolutely unique, while on the first page of the second section of the magazine is a splendid collgction of four photographs, including THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. ICTORIALLY the Sunday Call of to-morrow will | ! wild blow | good or I'll hit you.” Shanghaied. He had been toid when he signed the shipping articles_that placing his name on the paper was a matter of form, thing else. His intention was to make a trip to the Orient as a sort of as- sistant to the purser. ‘When he found himself alongside a whaler, her decks bustling with signs of an early depart- ure, his suspicions were aroused. He hesitated about crossing the gangplank. “Go on. Don’t make a fool of your- self,” said his conductor, giving him a little physical assistance shipward. don’t shanghai this chicken. I'm wise, Iam."” As he spoke he had been crowded across the plank ‘and his declaration of independence was finished on the | whaler’s deck. i Bing! Right behind the ear and from a direction which suggested that his sup- | posed friend had administered the blow. | Bing! | This time there was no mistake about | it and the recipient of this pair of stinging awakeners mixed matters with his assailant. At least he started with that purpose, but as he struck his nrnz another fist landed om his jaw and gsent him to the deck with starlight in his eyes. Just as he started “Not for me. That's a whaler. You/ called on the Senator and sald he thought he would gb back to Illinois. “Don’t be in a hurry,” said the Sena- tof. “You may be running away from a good thing.” “Oh, no,” replied the Illinois man. “The President has filled up the com- mission and slated off all the other places, and I can't see as there will be any show for me.” “I wouldn't be so sure of that,” re- plied Mr. Cullom. “If Teddy makes the Canal Commission and its employes stay on the isthmus to do their work, I think thére will soon be a vacancy for you."” to get up a tall, big-boned, black-faced | mate strode toward him. A huge black hand, heavy as a ham and greasier, was slapped across his face and the towering bulk of the sable sailor ruler | | descended not too gently upon the | prone figure. E Sitting on the new member of the ! crew and punctuating his words with | more slaps of the ham-like hand the mate remarked: | “No rough house here, matey. This | is an orderly ship. Go for'ard and be | The Mexican Peon. The typical peon, indifferent to change | and progress, is affectionate and faith- | ful in all family relations, and sets an | example in domestic life which might be | copied with advantage by many Amerl- cans. Old age is riected and cared one half life size portrait of the second and only other prize baby on the Pacific Coast. The history of these photographs, as well as of the baby herself, is truly ! romantic. Indeed, nothing could be more imeresting! than a comparison of this beautiful child with the first ' California prize baby, whose pictures were published in | the Sunday Call last Sunday. Both of these front pages | are designed particularly as mural decorations for those | who delight to save and display good art work wheni shown in novel and fascinating subjects. | Among a series of interesting stories on a page of | “Tithely Topics” is an article that gives a vivid descrip- ! tion of the excitement that has been created on the ! London Stock Exchange by the Russo-Japanese war. It ; needs only one glance at the photograph that accom- | panies this article to realize how all the rest of the | world throbs violently when this remarkable artery of | finance misses even a single pulse beat. On the same page is an article telling what strange discoveries were made about “fire-proof” safes after the recent big Baltimore fire, and how the manufacturers are coping with the “burglar-proof” problem. The exhibition of wild animals at the St. Louis | World’s Fair, which will reveal the very limit of ingen- uity, is shown in a photograph on the “Scrap Book Page,” wherein a big collection of polar bears are giv- ing a “pink tea” in the open air. 5 Some absolutely new observations about the “Hand That Rocks the Cradle” are presented with a circle of photographs that are at once as fascinating as they are original. Spring novelties in dress are shown in a full page of photographs on a page directly opposite this. Equally notable are the photographs of the snow cov- ered foreign buildings at th& St. Louis Exposition, while in the line of pure fiction and high-class literature by world famous writers there are several excellent features tc choose from. First might most properly be mentioned the third in- stallment of Geraldine Bonner’s strong California novel, which, though it is fresh from the press of the pub- lishers, has already created a great furor, so great in- deed that the Sunday Call paid $i000 for the exclusive Western rights to reproduce it complete in five or six installments. The three pages in the next Sunday Call tell of Mariposa's rehearsal in the Grand Opera-house on Mission street in San Francisco, and bring more complications in the remarkable mixed relationship, which, notwithstanding it is so thrilling, Miss Bonner is said to have taken direct from life, and end with Mariposa’s first heart-breaking disillusionment with life and love. . Next there is “The Wave That Gave Back Its Prey,” the first of a series of six original sea stories by Albert Sonnichsen, the young California author, who is just now the literary .idol of New York. . . In competition with this is Jack London’s story of “The Great Interrogation,” wherein the author presents a problem of primitive love in the frozen north that is as painful in its heart interest as it is fascinating. | Add to all this the “Recollections of and Refiections on Abraham Lincoln,” by Thomas Fitch; the “Early Spring Sowing of Books,” a record of individual opinion and criticism, -by Robert W. Ritchie; “The Japanese Red Cross in the Far Eastern War,” illustrated with photo- graphs of these almond-eyed heroines of the battlefield, and there is presented a magazine of surpassing excel- lence. — The “objections voiced by certain members of the United States Senate to the acceptance of the statue of Frederick the Great, presented . by Emperor William, ‘haven’t even the profit of jingoism. The gift has been accepted in the same spirit of friendliness in which it was offered and there the incident should end. Some of our' Washington solons can cast a more ominous shadow than will the image of the old Prussian soldier. % pee L —— Russia has expressed” the somewhat forceful opinion that John Hay is the unknown quantity in the algebraic haps is the highest tribute yet paid to the distinguished talents of the Secretarysof State. And Russia may as well bear in mind that in the solution of this inter- national problem the unknown quantity must be given something more than a nominal value A. D, the latter was practically known for. The artistic tendencies existent in his mixed and ancient ancestry are | by no means extinct in the peon of to- | day, and especially is this true of the Mexican women, who display in their love for flowers and music and the beautiful generally tastes which are none too universal among white people | thought he saw a ray of hope. | City. a moment As the force of the remark dawned on him the ray vanished and all was dark again. He took a train that night for the West. The Illinois man for Answers to Queries. FLOOD—A. 8, City. The late James C. Flood of Bonanza fame was born in Stater Island, N. Y. His daughter was bern in California. PURE WINE LABELS—C. J. M, The law requiring the placing of labels to -designate that California wines are pure is still on the books, but it is a sort of dead letter. SHEEP FEEDING—A. B, City. | There are no sheep feeding stations in (Call!orma. where sheep in large num- | bers are fed and fattened under cover, | In this State sheep are fed in the open. 1 EL CAMINO REAL—W. H., City. El Camino Real passes through the town of Salinas. An interesting ac- | count of this great highway was printed in The Call of September 15, | 1901, page 3. in this Western country. As a worker | also the Mexican woman is lnnnnely; more industrious and faithful than the man. She is a good mother, generally | speaking, aithough her children as n‘[ rule betray a singular lack of grit. The | boys seem worse than the girls in this | respect. A tap on the shoulder from the | mother will cause an 8-year-old boy m’ vell for ten minutes, unashamed and uncorrected. Boys at play together burst into wails concerning injuries, | mental or physical, minute to invisibil- | ity. At the same time, however, it must be conceded that the nendlsh‘ whoops in which the American boy | voices his reasonless ecstacy are con- | spicuous by their absence. Neverthe- less when the Mexican is grown and has imbibed to excess of the new wine | he will make up for a more subdued past by sounds as hideous and maniacal | as any American youngster can present | to a shuddering audience.—Seuthern ‘Workman. Jade as Medicine. Everything in China of any rarity whatever is certain to be dragged into the pharmacopoeia of the Chinese phy- sician. Jade is no exception to the rule. It may be swallowed as a powder or in} little pieces the size of hemp seed for| various stomachic complaints. Even| pockmarks and scars may .be obliter- | ated by being daily rubbed with a plece of pure jade. It is also considered’to be | of a moist nature, and we read of an| imperial favorite of the eighth century who was cured of excessive thirst by holding a fish-shaped jade in her mouth. And so when the tomb of the great commander, Ts'ao Ts'ao, third century, A. D., was opened 200 years after his death among the usual ob- jects found in such circumstances was a large silver bowl full of water. That the water had not dried up was ac- counted for by the presence in the bowl of a jade boy three feet in height. Jade is chiefly brought from the K'unlun or Koulkun range, between the desert of Gobi and Tibet; from Khoten or Ilchi, in Yarkand and from still far- ther to the west. In the tenth century, as the Jade hills district, though it does not appear that any jade has ever been found here.—Nineteenth Century. C:mmed W hite Man. Nearly all the edibles shipped to the mining camps about Nome during the early days of the gold fever came in the shape of canned goods. Thereby hangs this tale. An arrival at one of the camps stopped at a roadhouse for a few days until he could decide in what pertion of the country he would stake his claim. Among the baggage he brought with him was a phonograph, probably the first one ever seen in that country. | A crowd of curious Esquimaux stood by looking in amazement at the ma- .chine. The visitor, thinking the in- strument might cause them some amusement, started it going. The na- tives stood looking at one another in awe. None could solve the mystery until one fellow volunteered that he had discovered what it was. He declared that it was canned white man. Cullom’s Wit. Senator Cullom's wit 1s dry. He never laughs at own jokes, and when his jokes at the expense of some one else it is a minute or two before the victim is aware that he is being aimed at. Of late Mr. Cullom has had a constituent in Washington seeking to get a place under the Pan- CARBOLIC ACID POISONING—V. B, City. A ready antidote in the case of poisoning by carbolic acid is the administration of ordinary vinegar ad libitum. or giving large quantities of a solution of bicarbonate of soda. NATIONAL SONG—F. 8. C., City. No song has been officially designated as the “American national song,” but by common consent “The Star-Spang- led Banner,” “Hail Columbia” and “America” are recognized as national songs. BLUE BOOK-—B., Folsom, Route No. 1, Sacramento County, Cal. The nearest to a blue book of the United States is the Congressional Directory. To obtain such communicate with the Congressman of the Senatorial District in which you live. ARMY—J. B, Freestone, Cal. The recruiting requlr!menx‘ of the United States army are that those who enlist shall be between the ages of 21 and 35. A man who has attained the age of 45 would not be received in the volunteer service even in case of war. REGISTRATION—Subscriber, City. In San Francisco all registrations of voters prior to the current year have been canceled. Voters must be regis- tered anew this year and such regis- tration will hold good for all elections that may be held in 1904 and 1905. COUSINS—A Reader, City. The children of brothers and sisters are called cousins, cousins germain, first cousins or full cousins. Often the term second cousin is loosely applied to the son or daughter of a cousin germain, more properly called a . first cousin once removed. ’ LIBRARIES—Subscriber, City. The three largest libraries of the world are the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Francé, 3,000,000 volumes, including pamphlets; British Museum Library, Lendon, England, 2,000,000; Imperial Li- brary of St. Petersburg, Russia, 1,500,- 000. The library of Congress, Washing- ton, D. C., contains 1,000,000 volumes. BOSTON'S NAMES — Subscriber, City. Beston, Mass., is called the City of Notions from the amount of Yankee notions manufactured there. The city was first called the Hub of the Uni- verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wished to convey the idea that the world moved around that city. It is also called the Tri-Mountain City, from the three hills upon which it was originally built. SULPHURING VINES—A. S, Wei- mer, Cal. All the large vineyardists of California sulphur their vines as a protection against mildew and thrips. The method used is the sulphur bellows, which is so constructed that the oper- ator can expel material without ex- bellows proper which is filled with pow- dered sulphur. A tube passes from the bellows through the sulphur ud. §