The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. MARCH 21 m;: . Saving Our Forests. By Giffcra Pinchot, Head of the of Forestry.) Bef ussion of the forest reser que the West there should be a cles rstanding of the | creating and reserves. rance of this policy, | in some meastire hy staken interpretation of Governme in policy managing thes ed y justi m occasional it by ove ficials, m to reserves which they would be the first to drop if they understood the| true situation. but one aim creating forest re- serves—the best permanent use of the lznd by the people and the prevention waste of of its resources. The m..«n\..- of most forest manifold. They may in- production of lumber, or of or of pasture, or the conser ation of water. One of these func ions may be the most important or all may be fairly well balanced, but in any case the industries and Te- sources of a region, or a State, should be considered as parts of a whole ch contributing to and sharing the general good. Practically every im- portant industry in the intermountain States, whether mining, agriculture, grazing or lumbering, depends for its xistence upon the forests of and the forests can serve all >sts best only if placed un- gement which will prevent us or uses the « x v t B v promotion of one at the ex- pense of the aggreggte good of all. A trip through the whité pine of the Great Lakes region, or igh a hundred other once forested of the world, will convince ny man of the short sighted abuse of timber resources, and of the effect of t ant forest fires on permanent ity For a while times are towns and railroads are built; s are cleared and prosperity is| evident evervwhere, but it does not la nly the best timber is cut, while llions of dollars’ worth of poorer material, which in time would be worth quite as much, is destroyed by fires. These fires also kill all young growth and seed trees and eventually turn the land into a desert, which is abandoned by its owners and does not even pay taxes. The mills are moved away, the towns abandoned, the far- mers find themselves without a mar. ket, and the enterprises, and some- times even the counties, which were built upon such unstable foundations, become bankrupt. This is not theory; it is history written in lumber district after lumber district, not only all over the United States, but throughout the world. The lumbermen were not to blame; it was only the natural outcome of conditions which obliged them to con- duct their business in this way or lose money. The private owner of tim- ber often cannot afford to do other- wise. But the Government can, and this is the reason why every civil- ized country in the world, including our own, has adopted the forest re- serve system. If suficiently large and weil dis- tributed areas can be held as re- serves, only the mature timber cut, and the young growth protected from fires, there is no reason why lumber- ing should not be a permanent and profitable industry. Small mills scat- tered over the timber districts will perpetuate local prosperity, and the price of lumber to the resident will be low. Without reserves the pres- ent tendency toward syndicate own- ership of all commercial timber is apt to result not only in wasteful use, but in the disappearance of the small mill and in high prices for lumber. Almost if not quite as important is the relation of forest reserves to mining, - aich absolutely requires an immense amount of timber and a sus- tained supply of water. In all cases its profits depend directly upon the cheapness of these commodities. With- out protection from fire, and from en- terprising lumbermen who may ac- quire all the timber around them and ship it out of the States, many im- portant mining camps are certain to be in serious straits in a few years. One of the objects of forest reserves is to preserve the timber for its logical users. Reserves do not make it more difficult for miners to secure timber, for prospectors are allowed free use of all they need ard large concerns can pur- chase as cheap or cheaper than from private speculators. There is no inten- tion of working hardship on legitimate industries, for the desire is simply to secure the following objects: I1—Maintenance of the area under one management. 2—Establishment of fire protection. « 3—Preservation of resources for local use. 4-—-Reguiation, as far as practicable, of grazing' and timber cutting so as to prevent waste and utilize the full pro- duction of forest and range. #—Protection of young growth so as to insure a future supply. Prospecting and locating of mijning claime are in no way interfered/with by -eserve regulations, for the mining laws apply exactly as on the public do- main. Settlers and others are allowed free all the timber they use. Reser- woirs, roeds, stores, and similar enter- prises are permitted upon application. Grazing by sheep and cattle is permit- ted with only such restrictions as prove intact incompetent of- | citizens have objections | The Government has | these | INST RUCTIVE JVI‘UDIDJ‘ ‘ { i | | i i | 1 'x from outside | [‘,( priority and equity, competiticn. While it is true that many of the | earlier reserves were established with- | out investigation sufficient to prevent the inclusion of some agricultural land, this is impossibie under the present em. Now the land is carefully ex- { amined and mapped and the lines are | drawn to exclude all considerablé areas | susceptible of settlement. Small agri- | cultural areas are provided for in the ‘I»gislau(xn just recommended by the | | Public Lands Commission. This sys- tem removes one of the strongest argu- | ments which has been made against reserves. A no less welcome change will be the proposed new policy of re- | ducing control from Washington to a { minimum and placing more authority in the hands of local officers who are | familiar with their State conditions, and will thus be free to conduct the business promptly and acceptably to the people, unhampered by red tape, | unnecessary restrictions and delay. To | accomplizh this end a bill has been in- troduced in Congress to transfer the reserve managemeny to the Bureau of Forestry, in the Department of Agri- culture, and its passage will result in ‘[sn immediate revision of the many | cumbersome and restricting regulations which have caused dissatigfaction. | These two changes will remove prac- tically all objections which are now | urged against forest reserves. In short, | the object of the Government is not to blot these areas coff the map, but to | protect them from fire and to manage Ilhem =0 the people can get more from | them than they do now. The Censors. | ‘War correspondents are hook writers {in reserve; and this is their chief | function in - shatersi ‘campatgns: In south Africa the censorship was so rigorously employed that the English | press did not receive any adequate re- turn for its enterprise and the enor- mous expense of the service. The spe- | cial dispatches were mutilated at head- | quarters and held back by the block- | \ling of the cable lines; and the public { was mainly dependent upon the offi- | cial dispatches for information, and | these were condensed and often ren- | dered unintelligible by inscrutable pro- | cesses of revision at the War Office. At critical times, when there were British reverses of when important movements like Lord Roberts’ march to Kimberley and Bloemfontein were impending, London was the best center of news, because there was more or less leakage from official seurces. There was a | legitimate cause for complaiat on the | part of the English people, who were payving heavily for the war in blood | and treasure. They were intensely in- | terested in the campaign, yet were not allowed to have an intelligible account | of it from day to day; and this was not in consequence of any lack of en- terprise on the part of the London and | provincial journals. The press was well represented by a competent staff of correspondents; but the military censors were most arbitrary in their methods, and the dispatches were held back and clumsily edited and condensed by officers who were without the train- ing and judgment requisite for an in- telligent discharge of their functions. Good descriptions of battles were re- served for the mails, and were not printed until a month or five weeks after the fighting was over.—New York | Tribune. | A True Criticism. George Dalton Morgan, who brought from the Orient a Japancse | bride, told the other day a story about | the Japanese seafighter, Admiral Uriu. | “In Tokio,” he said, “Admiral Uriu' i= regarded as a kind of Haroun al‘ Raschid. They declare there that he | investigates personally — sometimes | even in disguise—every detail of the| workings of the Japanese navy. Hence many odd adventures befall him. “Once Admiral Uriu got wind of cer- tain complaints that had been made | against the soup served on a torpedo- boat in his squadron. Hé shot from | his flagship in a launch one day at meal time and boarded this torpedo- | boat just as two sallors came from the | kitchen carrying a huge and steaming caldron. *‘Halt!” the admiral shouted. that caldron down.’ “The sailors, with wondering looks, obeyed. ‘Set "Eow he said, “bring me a spoon.’ ‘ officer hurried forward.. “ ‘But, admiral—' he began. i “‘Never mind, sir. There’s a com- plaint from this boat, and I'm going to settle it now,’ said Admiral Uriu. “He lifted the lid from the caldron, ladled up a spoonful of its contents, ' and, after blowing on the liquid, he swallowed it. Then he made a wry! face. ““You call this soup?” he exclaimed. “Why, it is nothing but dirty water.’ “‘Yes, sir,’ said one of the sailors; ‘we have just been scrubbing the galley floors.’ "—Buffalo Enquirer. Her Revenge. A Japanese woman, when abandoned by her lover takes a peculiar and pic- turesque revenge. When she no longer has any doubt as to his faithlessness she gets up in the middle of the night and puts on a pleasing dress and wooden sandals. Attached to her head- dress she carries three lighted candles and suspended to her neck hangs a small mirror. She takes in her left hand a small straw effigy of the faith- less one, and in her right a hammer and nails. Walking gravely to the sanctuary she selects one of the sacred ;| trees and nails the effigy securely to the trunk. She then prays’for the death of the traitor, vowing that if her wish is grented she will take out the nails which trouble her god, since they are fastened to a sacred tree. Night after night she comes to the tree, add- ing one or two nails, and repeating her prayers, persuaded that the god will not hesitate to sacrifice the man to save the tree.—London Mail “‘How will you have vm.lr egg?” said Miss Pinchem to her new boarder. “My egg?’ he said, inquiringly. “Why—I—I'll - have it. mua. 1 guess."” THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propricto: . . . . . .. . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Fubbleation OB . ites isiatrstsaisiass i @ “iiiiieestes.e....Third and Market Streets, S. F. s i showed more animation. best, and storms, more or less severe, checked the dis- tribution of goods in many sections, no.tably on the Pa- cific Coast and especially in California, but on the whole the business situation was encouraging throughout the BUSINESS STILL EXPANDING. | HE revival of acuwty in general trade noted a week or ten days ago was still more pronounced last week and the whole line of domestic commerce country. The leading feature, of course, was the panicky break in cotton, which carried with it over the dam the lead- ing bull operator, D. J. Sully, whose holdings were about The disaster occurred on Friday and in the frenzy to realize the day’s sales were run up to about 300,000 bales. 1,500,000 bales. mous nfi‘eripg!. 2s the cotton came pouring in upon the | market from all qu the market went di Just what effect this great break will have on the cotton manufacturing industry remains to be seen, but the re- sults will probably manifest themselves this week as soon as the cyclone has cleared off. Another feature of the week was the decisive vote by which the bituminous coal miners decided to accept the proposed reduction in. wages without declaring a general strike, which would have worked great mischief to the manufacturing industries at the very moment they were commencing to revive. the continued improvement in the iron and steel trades, which showed an expansion in the movement and a cor- responding steadiness in quotations for most descrip- | tions. Both presage more activity in the steel trade, which has been | languishing of late, and which, when dull, exerts a de- pressing influence throughout the country, and vice versa. A third welcome feature was the moistening of the great wheat fields of the Southwest, where a prolonged season of dry weather was beginning to damage the crop. week by a dry dust storm which swept over Western Kansas and Oklahoma, doing more or less injury to the | growing plant in that regi features worthy liquidation in provisions at Chicago, where the outsid- ers, realizing that they have been quietly loaded up by the great packers, have begun to sell, the liquidation re- sulting in a weaker market for all lines of cured meats. Hides are reported firmer and more active, but the de- mand for woolen goods from manufacturersis disappoint- ing, though wool is selling more freely. lumber trade is reported quieter owing to unfavorable Othe: building weather, erally firm. The tendency lower prices, and featureless all over where the market has been lively with sharp speculative | fluctuations for some little time. have been almost wholly due to the Armour deal, owing | to its purely local character, but Armour is now said to | be out of it and preparing to take a season of rest and recreation in Europe. antly supplied with wheat and the markets in all coun- tries are tame and featureless in consequence. The usual weekly statistics exhibit nothing particularly difféerent from the conditions which have prevailed for several a loss from the corresponding week in 1003 of 14.8 per cent, with the largest cities about evenly balanced in the gain and loss column. and Pittsburg 30.1 per cent, while St. Louis gained 26.3 per cent, Minneapolis, the seat of the fidur industry, 20.3 per cent and New Orleans, the great cotton mart, 55.6 The large increase at New Orleans is not sur- prising, as the current wild activity in cotton there would naturally run up the volume of clearings; but a gain of 20 per cent at Minneapolis, which has been sending in complaints of a stagnant market for flour, with the mills preparing to close down if the inquiry does not improve, is rather paradoxical. 229, against 220 last year, but with the single exception of the Sully collapse, were not of serious importance. Apathy still prevails in Wall street. at a low ebb and the break in cotton, with the failure of | its bull leader, is regretted by the banking and other financial interests, who fear that it will give the public another fright and effectually check any further aggres- sive bull movement in stpcks for the present. erable disappointment is was showing signs of awakening activity, and within the past few days there has been a‘welcome drift in quota- tions toward a higher range of values. All this recovery aid buoyancy seemed swept away on Friday, however, and the general stock market sym- pathized with cotton by going off a point or so, with a disposition to realize all along the line. may prove merely temporary, however. two or three days will probably tell the story. Condi- tions are certainly in favor of a better feeling in bonds and stocks, as the great financial interests publicly an- nounce that they have released all checks upon an up- ward movement in prices and, indeed, are quietly advis- ing their customers to invest in good dividend-paying Money continues abundant at rates and readily accessible to solvent borrowers, and the financiers say that the chances for profit at the pres- ent plane of values are larger than those for losses. Hence the panic in cotton came as a wet blanket per cent. securities. of these This was r months. Wall street. The whole. above and wheat has been singularly apathetic conditions show a satisfactory trade throughout the country, taking the situation as a California continues to make a bright showing, as the drenching rains now sweeping over the State, while doing more or less damage along the river bot- The weather was not of the Brokers were astounded by the enor- | rs. It was a deluge of cotton and | n as if there were no bottom to it. Another important feature was “features are encouraging, as they | partially offset toward the close of the of mention were continued | The Eastern but the different markets are gen- in wheat and cor- has been toward the world except at Chicago, This activity seems to The fact is the world is abund- The bank clearings last week showed New York fell off 22.9 per cent The failures for the week were Speculation is Consid= press:d, for the stock market The depression At any rate, reasonable to state of toms, almost insure abundant crops of everything this year. T ALKALI LANDS. HE irrigation experts of the Department of Agri- culture at Washington and the agricultural college at the University of California have reported that their work of surveying the Fresno alkali lands, which has been carried on since the summer of 1902, has now approached so near completion that actual work upon the construction of drainage canals may be inaugurated at any time. Their estimates place the cost to the State of these necessary drains at $260,000, and their report assures the ranch-owners about the southern city that with this expenditure there will be reclaimed from aridity several thousand ;cm‘of valuable orchard and grain lands. The work these experts have been doing in the Fresno district has called to the notice of agriculturists one of the most peculiar anomalies presented by the modern i science of systematic farm production—that of too much irrigation being a hindrance rather than a benefit to the lands upon which it is applied; for the concentra- tion of alkali upon the surface soil has been a phe- nomenon coincident with the introduction of the ir gation ditch system in the Fresno district. The physics of the surface precipitation of the alkaline salts is sim- plicity itself. It is merely that the presence of a num- ber of irrigation ditches add greatly to the volume of subterranean waters through seepage; the level of these waters consequently rises until in very low elevations the surface of the ground and the height of the sub- terranean flow strike a tangent and the alkaline sub-; stances in suspension in the waters are precipitated out | upon the surface of the soil by evaporation. Even though this destructive operation of the laws of nature is due to the presence of irrigation canals it be- came evident to the experts from Berkeley, who first undertook the study of the situation, that since the waters from Kings and adjacent rivers were absolutely | essential to the continued fertility of the country, irri- gation could not be dispensed with, and the only remedy | which could be brought to bear would be that of drain- age for the alkaline seepage water. Upon an appropria- tion of $15,000 made by Congress in the summer of 1902 | Professor Elwood Mead of the University of California ! and also head of the Bureau of Irrigation at Washington went down to the southern fruit district to direct the work of a party of Government engineers in platting the contour of the country and determining the proper steps to be taken for the creation of an elaborate drainage | system. C. G. Elliott, who has remained to comple!e the work inaugurated by Professor Mead, announces in his report that drains from five to seven feet in depth | and laid out in half-mile paraliel lines will rid the low | country of the destructive alkali. With the remedy for this destruction of acres of the richest fruit land in the State now found to be prac-' ticable by the experts from the Washington agricul- | tural bureau it remains for the State to set to work im- | mediately’ upon the construction of these seepage chan- | nels. Each season which brings with its alternate damp- ness and sunshine additional strata of the noxious salt to the surface renders more and more worthless land which should be bringing forth its sown seed a hun- dred fold. The Japanese-Russian war has come as a boon to those of our fellow citizens that love to spread their learning in glittering generalities before a wondering public. The conflict to them is bristling with potenti- alities of world disaster, but after we reduce the clash to its lowest terms and to its most sensible expression ! it is nothing more or less than a case of grab and greedi- | ness on the part of two nations. T extensive tree and plant experiment station near Chigo. This is for the purpose of serving the in- terests of the fruit planters and ranchers of Northern California. The department is continually searching the world for trees, vines and plants that will add to the varieties now in cultivation and use. It also uses such experiment stations as schools of instruction in the best AN EXPERIMENT STATION. HE Agricultural Department desires to locate an | and most improved methods in horticulture and agri- | culture. The experts of the department desire to aid the people of California in making the best and most profitable use of the natural resources and climate of the State. In many v.ays such a station is useful. It will dis- tribute the fig wasp, the blastophaga, to the end that the Capri fig, which preserves the wasp for its work in fertilizing the Smyrna fig, may be available in the Sac- ramento Valley and in the foothills, to which many believe we must look for the best dried fig supply. It is known that the variety of our nut crops may be greatly extended. The true filbert will flourish here if properly planted and cared for. Its crop is important. We now import great quantities of this nut, which comes into favor as the wild hazel nut disappears from the East. The Irish filbert is but little known here and is not often seen in the market. But it is a large nut of excellent quality, and if its planting be promoted by such an experiment station it may be made to occupy land that is not in action for any other profitable pur- pose. The best variety of the pistache nut can also be do- mesticated here, and it is the purpose of Mr. Swingle of the Agricultural Department to introduce it as soon as this station furnishes proper facilities. The large pistache is used as we use the almond. The tree has the advantage over the almond of being a late bloomer, when the rains cannot interfere with it. The nut is now imported for use in confectionery and also as-a table nut at a high‘ price. California can produce it in quan- tities to supply the American market. Our great suc- cess with almonds and English walnuts should induce our planters to encourage everything that will add to our variety of nuts. The proposed station will be used also to enlarge our varieties of deciduous fruits. the best fruit climate in the world, we should never abate the effort to use it up to its full capacity in the kinds of fruit that we may raise. It is to be hoped that the people of Chico will see the importance of this opportunity and enable the depart- ment to secure the desired location. They were liberal to the State in the location of the Normal School, and we venture to assure them that this experiment station is not second to that school in its importance to them and to all Northern California. They can afford to be liberal. Their locality has recently felt the impulse of progress and has received large numbers of well satis- fied settlers from the East. The advertisement it will get from this proposed station will warrant them in donating to it the land it require ./ China has created marked concern in the capitals of the world by seizing the first opportunity for freedom from international treaty restrictions to order enormous quantities of modern arms from the most famous of German gun-makers. It is very evident that it will re- quire something more than Secretary Hay's note to preserve the “administrative integrity” of the Celestial Empire. The Empress Dowager should .advertise for a fool killer, A Reports of barbarous reprisals upon the Germans by the savage blacks in South Africa have sickened the world with horror, meager as are the details of the ter- rible warfare. = Yet is not retaliation one of the inviolable laws of nature? We know enough of the regrettable sit- uation to understand that there are two sides to it. There is not a creature alive that will not fight when hurt. Having | b . The Fall of the Navy. This is the true story of the Royal Hawalian Navy. It was in the days of the kingdom. Some one at the court of the dusky islanders conceived the dea that Hawaii should be graced by |a navy. This was particularly desired because King Kalakaua had a row on hand with his brother monarch at ! Semoa. So a navy was acquired. The navy cousisted of a converted | teak wood trading schooner fitted with !a third mast and full rigged. The | Hawaiian admifalty provided the navy lwlth a lot of old brass cannons, en- !listed a crew of natives and forthwith {sent them out to battle with the ob- | streperous Samoans. | Away sailed the navy to the south- | ward, bent on an errand that should ustain the honor of the Hawalian | flag and the prowess of the Hawailan | bluejacket—if he wore a jacket. A month passed and the month wore | into two months, with not a word from | the seat of war. | scanned the blue horizon with weary yes for a sign of the fleet. Not a {sign, until alorig about the eleventh week came a message that the navy | was in distress off Hilo. Explanations followed soon afterward. Everything had gone well for a few days until the jerew had consumed all of the square bottle gin it had taken aboard, when | the cruise began. They could not fight | without gin and to get it the brave i tars were ready for any sacrifice. So hey put into Hilo. They traded the rass cannons for more gin and for ! eleven weeks held out against no worse a foe than the seductive distilled strong waters from Holland. The navy re- turned in disgrace. The admiralty \wen( out of business and the flag was | lowered on the only ship in the navy. i For many years the Kaimialoha was a hulk in the Honolulu harbor, the last and the only man-o-war the royal family ever owned. A Lost Opportunity. “This world is a mighty queer plaee,” | said a prominent merchant the other | day, as he sat at lunch with a number 1of his business associates. “A little | thing happened to me this morning that .makes me think that if a few of us would do a little more thinking and act less hastily the inhabitants of the world would be better off. | “Almost twenty years ago, when I : first started in business here and had | but a small store on Battéry street, a young man, or rather boy, came into | the place and asked me if I could give | him something to do. As I was only | doing business enough to support my- | self and one clerk I felt compelled to re- { fuse him work, and tdld him so. He was insistent. however, telling me : that he only wanted pay enough to buy food and clothing. He said he had been all over town looking for work without success, was without funds and needed a place badly. ‘I have recommenda- tiones,’ he finally said, offering for my perusal a bunch of letters. I did not look at them, and finally had to tell him i that I was too busy to listen to him and walk away from him. He stood for a few minutes, and then with his head hanging walked out of the store. “This morning that young man, now in his prime, walked into my store as the representative of one of the largest clothing houses in the world. As one of the firm, he came to see me about a businss deal that meant much to me— 'in fact, meant the life or death of my ! business. I sought for concessions, but he was like adamant, and finally after a business talk that lasted for several hours he left the store, saying as he did =0, ‘I will give you until noon to de- cide." “When he came for his answer I gave { it to him, consenting, of course, to the |terms he dictated. It was when the | cantract had been signed that I learried | who my sharp opponent was. He told ! me of the little incident that happened in my office twenty years ago, and said ! that after leaving my place he had gone to the water front, shipped for a | voyage around the Horn, landed in New York and secured employment with the firm which he now represented and in which he was one of the junior part- ners.” For His Mother-in-Law. Hs stepped on his tiptoes as he en- tered the Emergency Hospital and whispered into the ear of the matron on duty that he wanted to see Chief Surgeon Brackett on very important business. The affable chief surgeon bowed gracefully before him and in- quired what he could do for him. “You see,” said he, “I am in danger ! of my life. My mother-in-law has de- | cided to kill me and I want to protect my life. The truth of the matter is that she is hopelessly insane, and to bring An anxious monarch | + ties of exceedingly fine timber. There is much of the like in this market from that locality, and it has been the source of supply for both this and the Tientsin market for ages. At the mouth of the Yalu Russia is to build the third largest sawmill in the world. Whether or not the mill is to come from the United States is not known, but a great mill enter- prise is already in process of construc- | tion, located exactly on ome of the points now in controversy. In addi- tion to this competition, which is al- ready supplying large quantities of timber and lumber to Peort Arthur, Dalny, Newchwang and to the Chi- nese Eastern Railway, the Russians are shipping quantities of lumber to all of these places by steamer from Vladivostok and vicinity and from the island of Sakhalin.—National Geo- graphical Magazipe. Honor Holds the Reins. On a quaint little street in a quaint little town Stands the quaint little store of the quaint Mr. Brown— A man whose integrity, purpose and worth Portray him as one of the salt of the earth: Whose word is coin current wherever it goes. Who mortgageu effort to pay what he Whole hand in the highway of bargains disdains A drive save where Honor is holding the reins. For this quaint little man, as is very well known, Has some old-fashioned doctrines and creeds all his own. His wealth is not measured by vessels and docks, His shares are not many in bonds or in stocks; But a notion is his that a conscience at res Is the bargain of bargains in which to invest. So his dealings and records all witness his pains To justify Homor in holding the reins. He sells a full gallon of genuine milk, A full yard of cotton, a full skein of silk; His pepper and spices, his butter and am, His coffee and lard are all strangers to sham. The sands of his life never flow to the ends Of weighting his sugar or friends.” The “gold bricks" the brains Of the man for whom Honor is halding the reins. “doing his of fraud never dazzle He is known to the “trust” who can claim A trust universal for spirit and aim; as a man ber in here to be examined by the In- sanity Commissioners would make a scene about my home that I do not want. Now, I want you to give me some chloroform in this bottle,” draw- ing a small phial from his inside vest pocket, “and when she goes to sleep to-night I will place a quantity of it on a handkerchief over her face. This will make her quiet until we can re- move her in a carriage.” “Oh, 1 understand,” said Dr. Brack- ett. “Just come this way,” leading the way back into the detention ward for the insanity suspects. Two days later poor Kemff, for this is his name, was on his way to the Hospital for the In- sane at Napa, bound tight in a strait- jacket. Lumber in Siberia. Many lumbering enterprises are be- ing established in Manchuria, Siberia and Sakhalin, with the idea of com- peting with American Pacific Coast lumber. ‘The most important is the Russian Timber and Mining Company -of the Far East, with headquarters at Port Arthur. This company is organized by some of the most prominent men connected with the Russian Govern- ment and is reputed to have a captital of 20,000,000 rubles ($10,300,000). Its principal operatiions will be on the Yalu River, where it runs down tim- ber from the forests of Korea, as well as the large forests of Manchuria. These forests are said to be very ex- tensive and contain immense quanti- The “union” he joined in his earliest youth— The union of rectitude, conscience and truth, He goes on a “strike,” and he goes there to stay, When the tempter from justice would lure him away. He has wealth in the dearth of material gains Since Virtue and Honor are holding the reins. —Boston Transcript. » Answers to Queries. E.UROPE AND OCEANICA—F. F., Tomales, Cal. The area in square miles of Europe is 3,822,320; that of Oceanica is 4,200,000. MOVING PICTURES—94, Stock- ton, Cal. Many of the living or mov- ing pictures are taken “from life” by means of a photographic instrument made specially for that purpose. * MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS—From the standpoint of music there is a great diversity of opinion as to which are the best musical compositions of ‘Wagner, Rossini, Verdi, Schubert and Mendelssohn. LAND OFFICES—J. 8., Subscriber, City. The United States Land Offices in the southern part of California are located in Visalia and Los Angeles. Either of these offices will furnish a plat of lands open for settlement and will also give a description of the land. LIFTING—The limit in lifting with the hands alone was reached by H. Leussing at Cincinnati. Ohio, March 31, 1880, when he lifted 1384 pounds weight. The limit in lifting in harness was reached by W. B. Curtis in New York City, December 20, 1868, and the limit was 3239 pounds. SOCTALISTIC VOTE—A. C. R., City. At the Presidential election in 1900 the State casting " the largest Soclalum vote was New York, which was 39 or 2.8 per cent of the total vote, while the next highest was Massachusetts which cast 39,065, or 9.9 per cent of the entire vote. DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS-Y. C. R., City. If a court grants a woman a divorce from her husband, for good and sufficient ground, and assesses costs against the defendant, the court will enforce its order at any time that it appears that the defendant is in a po- sition to meet the provisions of the order. The fact that he has no money at the time of the decree does not pre vent the court from citing him to ap- pear and show cause why he has not complied with the order of the court If at any time after the order of the court he had it within his power to obey the order, but failed to do so, the court will take the necessary steps (o punish the individual for his negiect —_——— Townsend’s California Glace fruits ant choice candies. in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market street. above Call bullding. * —————— Special information supplied daily to P CHippime Burcan (Allen sy, 209 Cate Main 1042, *