The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1904, Page 8

1V ashington Gossip. BY § W. WALL. (Special to The WASHINGTON, March United States Supreme Court re tn the old and main building of the Capitol and is entered immediately off & narrow passageway that is a part of the sroughfare that extends the length of the building from the door of the Senate to the door of the House tatives in the north and south The narrow passage sep- arates the courtroom from the clerk’s wings s well. In all the big building passage was the most frequented ning of the merger decision wd in the courtroom over- ) it. Before Justice Harlan v begun the reading, it was n the Senate and in the House this members from each body the rush. There had been a hint that the opinion was to be handed down and newspaper men already hud their written to file. The mere an- nt that the decision had been urtled away over the wires before it was known how it was to go. s being announced, it became a race ctween the several press associations as well resentatives of great new over the country to get 10 t and the wires to get the e wire e es away. The read of the | opinion was followed :n its course by 2 comstant stream of bulletins to the telegraph operators in the lobby and in the p galleries f followed these and | senting opinions as quick- d be had for transmis- sion. Jus Harlan’s opinion con- | tained 24,000 words and the whole story with interviews as sent in some in- stances contained 30,000 words. The proceedings of Congress and all other matter was sidetracked for the time being. No such test of capacity had been applied to the telegraph wires in Washington for a long time. The mountain of words, however, was licked up in good time and other rou- | tine handled as well. Among the news- paper men there was little time for talk during the day, but the next morn- ing in the press galleries it was the pride and boast of every man that had had anything to do with it that his paper had got to the street several easy minutes in advance of all of its competitors. The decision was the topic of the cloakrooms of both houses, the Iobbies, the departments and the White House before the reading had concluded in the courtroom and so has continued since with speculation as to ite wide and deep effect in politics and business—as great, say the leaders, in one as in the other. o, 9 ® The little room where sits the Su- preme Court formerly, from 1800 to 1859, was the United States Senate chamber. Here sat Thomas Jefferson 2s the presiding officer in 1800 and John C. Calhoun in 1859. Here fig- ured Webster, Chase, Stephen Douglas, Ben Wade and a long line of distinguished men. It was in this room that Preston Brooks assaulted Charles Sumner. Here the Louisiana purchase was determined. There is 2 bill in Congress now for the con- struction of a splendid building for the Supreme Court in the Capitol grounds, but so there has been in almost every Congress for many years. The bill cannot muster strength to get through. Though the approach to the courtroom is not impoging the room itself is deemed adequate and its as- sociations hallow it. Besides, it is very convenient for the lawyers in Senate and Houre, who frequently drop in to argue a case or to listen. S Bandwiched in with all the legisla- tion that is done this year is a great deal of politics. The Congressional Record is calied upon to do mission- ary work for both parties with its every day’s issue. In the House the routine of business is relieved by fre- quent speeches of a purely political character and the names of prominent men and candidates are often ap- plauded when named. Even Cleve- land, who has been openly repudiated by Democrats on the floor of both houses, got a cheer when' eulogized by Mr. Patterson of Tennessee re- cently. But the demonstration that followed the enthusiastic reference to Speaker Cannon by William Alden Smith as a possible some time Presi- dent provoked an ovation that leaped from the floor to the galleries and last- ed several minutes despite the Speak- er's Jabor with his gavel. The refer- joined | A handing about of offices to aspirants is =till a matter of regretful discussion with the members. At the meeting held in Senator Bard's office there was a very frank discussion of the merits of the case. Senator Bard, who had proposed the plan by which the mem- bers of the House were to have a voice in the distribution of patronage, was cited by McLachlan as offering a most horrible example of the evils of the present system. McLachlan said that Bard had in a number of instances selected his most inveterate and out- spoken enemies for appointment to of- fices of great dignity and influence. He declared that he had not only not been consulted, but that in at least ore case where he had protested the ap- pointment had been made notwith- #tanding. This had worked injury to his political interests besides offering a slight to him as a Representative and he was very much of the opinion erefore that the proposal offered by Mr. Bard himself, by which nothing | of the kind could occur again, should | adopted. The instances he named were the appointment of L. H. Valen- tine to the office of United States Dis- trict Attorney for the Southern Dis- trict, the appointment of George L. Keeby as Assistant United States At- torney, A. W. Kinney as Receiver of the Land Office and J. C.| Cline Collector of the Port at Los Angeles; Brown, brother-in-law of Kinney, as Forest Reserve Supervisor, and Fickert, Assistant United States Attorngy at San Francisco. None of | these were political friends of his, said | McLachlan. One of them had attacked | him with insulting epithets/in the | streets of Los Angeles and Brown, the Forest Reserve Supervisor, had lined up-forty rangers in his employ to fight him at the polls. He said he had pro- posed his friend, Luther Brown, for the | Assistant United States Attorneyship | at San Francisco and Mr. Bard had recommended Fickert because some cne | eise had asked him to. % Bard disclaimed any intention of ap- peinting men objectionable to McLach- lan or any member of the delegation. He had, he said, set for himself a rule when he came to the Senate to recom- mend for réappointment all officers ap- ted under the McKinley adminis- ion who had conducted their offices | properly. He had steadfastly observed this rule save in the case of Frank | Flint. The appointment of Valentine | in his place was in response to the| | urgent request of a group of men to| | whose support he was largely indebted | for the honor of a seat in the Senate | and who had urged his nomination as a recognition of a large element of the Republican party in California. With | regard to Fickert, Bard said that he and Perkins had agreed to leave the| appointment of his assistant to Wood- | worth. Woodworth had recommended | the promotion of McKinlay and the ap- | pointment of Fickert, and he, with Perkins, had simply passed the recom- | mendation along. With regard to the postmastership at Sacramento, which | involved another infraction of his rule, Senator Bard said he had been in- fluenced to recommend R. M. Richard- | son for the place by very strong in- | dorsements of Republican leaders. Bard said he had notified Coleman a long| time ago that a change was contem- plated and had given him time to pre- | sent counter indorsements. These had | come very tardily and had not weighed | with those of Richardson. 7 i The offer of $1000 for the production of a letter written by Representative Victor Metcalf, wherein he asks any- | body to line up anybody for him for the | United States Senatorship, which was | made by Mr. Metcalf at this same| meeting, still stands. The offer was | called out by a declaration of Senator Perkins that the story of the letter had come to him, but he said he did not believe it and he would pay no more attention to it than he would to the other story which Metcalf had said had come to him to the effect that he, Perkins, was asking his influence in behalf of Oxnard for Senator. Metcal? declared that he had assured Senator Bard that he, Metcalf, would not enter the lists against him should he be a candidate and he would so reiterate. The meeting, therefore, was not with- out interest though it failed of its pur- pose. The tart interchange has not in itself done harm, for the failure of | the proposal must necessarily have left some bitterness, and perhaps the frank expression from both sides has served | to clear the atmosphere and effect a better understanding. Representative Metcalf has been be- fore the Sundry Civil Appropriation Committee during the week urging an appropriation for the purchase of the toll roads of Yosemite Park, for which there is such urgent demand in Cali- fornia. The appropriation asked for i $208,750. Representative Needham makes a special plea for the Merced Valley rcad and $80,000 appropriation. Warren B. English of Oakland is in the city in behalf of the appropriation. A Wise Cat. The London News gives credit to a cat storv which. certainly attests strongly to feline intelligence. It says: “A cat at New Barnet, having had her kittens drowned on four occasions, made provision thereagainstfor'the fifth, Opposite her master's house stands a very tall elm tree, under which it is said Bishop Latimer preached the night before he was burned at the stake. ence came during the heated discus- sion of Mr. Bristow’s famous postof- fice report and the opportunity. so tak- en advantage of no doubt relieved a good many overwrought feelings, as well as testified to the popularity of the Speaker. The story is printed here that just about the same time that Mr. Cannon was receiving this Presi- dential nomination by so representa- tive a body as the lower house of Congress his county convention at home was indorsing Mr. Roosevelt. And this indorsement was forwarded at once to the Speaker, who transmit- ted it to the President with his com- pliments and this couplet: 3 “If 1 was so soon to be done for, ‘What was I ever begun for?” 8 . . - The failure of the pegotiations look- ing to peace in the California delegu- tion and a speedy and . satisfactory Pussy made a nest in a hollow up this tree about sixty feet from the ground, from which she regularly descended twice daily to be fed. At the end of some weeks, during a terrific thunder- storm, when the five kittens which had been born in the strange dand historic place had reached the venturesome stage, Mrs. Tabby brought them down one by one, crossing the road with each held in her mouth, and deposited in the kitchen. The kit- tens were kept, and were eagerly sought after when the circumstances became known.” “I see that prize fighters fight in a ring,” remarked' Miss Giddygirl. “What kind of a ring is it?” “An en- gagement ring 'is used for sparring,” remarked the old bachelor, “but when it is a fight to a finish a wedding ring ' is used, I believe.”—Chicago News. ' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Jonnn.srmcm.s.mm..........mmmmmummjonmuuenr,num T Publication OffiCe .......ccevesccsscssccaccncces GEE ..o ... Third and Market Streets, S. F. B e T ines- o BEARCH 22 aUng THE SOUTH AGAINST LYNCHING. HE whole country hears with pleasure the protest T against lynching made by the Confederate vete- rans of Mississippi. It is a powerful utterance in favor of law and humanity, and while it will be influen- tial in the South, it is no less a call to the North for co- operation in an effort to relieve our national reputation of a stain that persistent lawlessness has put upon it. The way for this action was prepared by the Governor of Mississippi, who personally interfered to save the life of a negro from a mob that was bent on lynching him. Governor Vardaman has been the object of much un- favorable criticism on account of his position upon the school quéstion and his advocacy of a taxation policy that will cripple schools for the negroes. But this 1s condoned by his courageous stand for the law. He has done more good by the example he has set for blacks and | whites in his State to follow in support of the law than his radical views on education can do harm. He has | rendered the whole country a distinct and valuable ser- | vice, for which the North will give him full credit. i We do not hesitate to say that the North needed his {example more than the South, for we have been the critics of the South in respect to lynching, while at the same time we have tolerated mob murders, in States where the passions which cause those crimes have far less excuse than in the South. What possible excuse is there in States like Ohio, Indiana, lilinois; Kansas and California for mob law and lynching? All of those States boast of the intelligence of their people and the independence of their courts. In every case of lynching in them the law would have dea]t adequate punishment to the persons who were executed cruelly and unlaw- fully. There is absolutely no excuse for lynching. Grant that there are delays, and that sometimes a criminal escapes through the folly of a jury, even that is better than to injure the good name of a State and tarnish our national reputation by resort to lynching. The good effect of this Mississippi movement will be felt in the South, where the negroes, simple, ignorant and imitative, when they see white men disobey the law, are themselves in- cited to violate it in their personal conduct. Lynch law is anarchy in its most dangerous form. It is proved that it is no restraint upon criminals. They fear only the sure and arderly processes of the law, and when it is administered promptly and fearlessly they soon learn that escape from its punishment is impdksi- ble. But lynch law they may evade, and its conspicuods element is that the rage that it expresses iZ as often turned against the innocent as the guilty. What possible excuse was there, for instance, in the conduct of the re- cent Ohio mob, which, after lynching a negro, put the torch to all buildings occupied by negroes, endangering the lives of innocent women and children and threaten- ing the whole town with a general conflagration? We have many’ national societies and organizations that deal with issues of manners and morals, habits and conduct. The Mississippi Confederates may well invite their old comrades in arms throughout the South and their old and gallant foemen in the G. A. R. throughout the North to join them in a national movement against lawlessness and lynching. Such a national society, formed originally by the veterans of both armies, would be a service to the whole country as great as that which these soldiers in their youth sought to render to their re- spective sections by enlisting to fight for an idea. If such a movement become general, lynchers will not es- cape punishment as easily as heretofore. And when a few score leaders in lawlessness, orth and South, are suffering punishment by the law which they have vio- Jated, mobs will be less common and respect for the law will be greater. A Every man, white and black, in this country needs the protection of the law, and when this fails he has no safes guard for any of his rights. The only way in which one man can be sure of legal protection is by considering it his duty to see that every other man has the same. The man whe lets his passions lead him into joining a mob to murder a criminal by lynching has simply endangered himself by weakening the legal safeguards to which he looks for his own defense. Governor Vardaman could do good missionary work, South and North, by inviting the Governors of all the States to meet in convention to consider ways and means by which to make good the oath they have taken to~see that the laws are faithfully executed. This is one way and a good way, to bring about a permanently’ better understanding between the North and South. Tt is a sub- ject of national importance. When the whole country has passed a year without a lynching, the patriotic pride of our people will be restored, and we can look the other nations of the world in the face without blushing for our lawlessness and inhumanity. The people of San Francisco have seen the exhibit that will represent our public school children at the St. Louis Exposition. The display is an exceptionally commenda- ble one and reflects high credit upon pupils and masters. By their work our boys and girls have proved themselves worthy of praise and good will. They have set a stand- ard that will make comparison with others easy. O troduced by Captain Daniels, which declares the " waters of the Colorado River to be more valua- ble for irrigation than navigation. Upon their use for ir- rigation depends the conversion of the Colorado Desert, in Southern California, into extensive date orchards. The Colorado carries a volume of water sufficient for such conversion of the desert in addition to the diver- sions of the stream for irrigation after it emerges from the Grand Canyon. " There are questions, however, which the bill of Cap- tain Daniels does not settle. The boundary between the United States and Mexico, fixed by the treaty of Guada- Jupe Hidalgo, was indefinite from where it left the Rio Grande near Rincon and followed the Gila to its conflu- ence with the Colorado. To rectify the line and make it definite, the United States sent General Gadsden of North Carolina to make a new boundary treaty with ‘Santa Anna, who was the President of Mexico in 1853. The result was what is known as “the Gadsden pur- chase,” by which we acquired for the sum of $16,000,000 an amorphous ,iece of land that zigs and zags all the way from El Paso to Yuma and thence follows the ori- ginal line to the Pacific Ocean. - It was the intention of the United States to run the fine due west from El Paso, with the view of &qnifin. the northern bight of the Gulf of California and controll- ing the mouth of the Colorado River. When we paid for THE COLORADO RIVER. TR Washingtofi correspondent notes the bill in- Gadsden’s purchase it was supposed that he had accom- plished this. But he was a man unskilled in diplomacy and ignorant of the Spanish language. The region cov- ered by the treaty was then as unknown as darkest Africa is now and so we missed the chief value for which we paid the wily Santa Anna a large sum. A glance at the map will show how little we got and its small im- portance compared to what we paid for and failed to get. Gadsden’s inexpertness leaves the Colorado an interna- tional stream, and therefore liable to cause contention with Mexico when we make such a large diversion of its waters as will be needed to make fertile the Colorado Desert. The Daniels bill may control the water in the United States and disuse it for navigation in order to de- vote it to irrigation, but Mexico owns the flow within her territory for navigation or irrigation and we will be subject to constant contention caused by the divided sovereignty of the stream. In view of this we shpuld make a new boundary treaty with Mexico to repair the errors of Gadsden. To do this requires the transfer of a strip of territory lying I?c- tween Nogales and the gulf and a worthless portion of Lower California below Tia Juana. It is probable that this treaty could be made now with the Diaz Govern- ment and our California members of Congress should urge it upon the administration. “If we wanted the mouth of the Colorado in 1853 we surely want it more now, and should save all disputes about diversion of water by ac- quiring it as soon as possible, —_— % The whaleman who escorted.himseli the other day with a brass band, decorated himseli with flowers and gave noisy demonstration to the idlers of the city that his departure, to him at least, was worthy of spectacular recognition is still a child of innocent inexperience. He did no more than many of us have done before and mahy would like to do again. He simply did it in the wrong way. O existence is more devoted to activity than the do- mestic hen. long before “tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep,” has fallen from the grateful eye- lids of mankind, the cheerful hen and her husband, gal- lant chanticleer, are astir. The husband of the feathered females of the barnyard and chicken ranch is awake before the sun sends its first beams over the eastern horizon, and even may be heard stentdriously sending his chal- lenge to neighboring chicken coops not far from the hour of midnight. When the dew is on the grass chanticleer and his nu- merous wives, availing themselves of the still enduring slumber of man, more especially of woman, are likely to be digging up the flower garden -nd the lawn and the vegetable garden, and the dirt flies as stout yellow legs by the score work with vigor and certain purpose. When the breakfast hour is over and there are scraps from the table, the appetite of the hen family is still unappased. At the regular ration hours there are no visible reasons why the roll should be called for the hens—they are “all present or accounted for.” Every farmer’s wife expends enough energy in a week in “shooing” hens from prohibited haunts to perform great stunts in the culinary line if the power were ex- clusively so directed. Small boys throw enough stones at hens to make them expert marksmen. A great indus- try is built up in the marketing of the hen family as the basis of fricassee, chicken pie and other culinary prod- ucts dear to the palate of bloomy youth and rheumy age alike. . It is estimated that every hen is able, within certain limits of its age, to yield an income of $1 per annum to its owner. Theoretically, therefore, one has only to raise 1,000,000 hens per annum to become a millionaire in twelve months. From every point of view the hen, therefore, is an object of concern. Its cheerful cluckings may be a reasonable soliloquy or self-congratulatory remarks upon its own usefulness. : Some recent figures that are published in the Petaluma Weekly Poultry Journal, which is an authority on hens and all that appertains to “biddy,” show that all the other acts of the busy hen are surpassed by its industry, in California at least, as a producer of eggs. Accord- ing to the statements of the veracious chronicler of the egg-laying industry of Californi. -where the climate enables the hens to work twenty-four hours every day in the year—3,407,334 dozen eggs were produced in Petaluma and in the immediate vicinity of Petaluma last year. Reduced to units from dozens the eggs that are attributed to Petaluma hens in one short period of twelve months numbered exactly 39,888,008, and all were good eggs when they were laid. Can any other birds in the United States give so ex- cellent an account of themselves? Laid end to end, and contiguous, these eggs would form a chain that would extend with an unbroken food supply, two eggs deep, clear from San Francisco to Chicago. While the ac- tivity of hens in general is the subject of comment the world over, that of the Petaluma hen is deserving of es- pecial commendation. Our hat is taken off to the Peta- luma hen for her useful achievements, and may nothing take place to addle her eggs and so curtail the immense family of her worthy descendants that may spring from them. THE BUSY PETALUMA HEN. 7 all animate nature probably no single individual War tacticians, who know so much from the vantage point of distance and safety and lose no opportunity to tell all they know and more that they suspect, are sorely puzzled to explain the military movements of Japan and Russia in the field. Let the experts possess themselves. in peace and patience. Wait until the great armies finish a few of their contemplated actions, and then the fighting sharps can say with the rest of us—I fold you so. If there be gny one that had doubts of the vigorous health of the Missouri Democracy let him silence his fears. Missouri is in line and ready for the campaign. The Kansas City contingent of the faithful met in con- vention recently and only accident or an indulgent providence prevented riot, deadly encounter and blood- shed. If the Democrats could fight their foes as they do themselves they would be impregnable. PR B - I Incredible as it may seem a powerful German trust is seeking a combination with American and British trusts to destroy what it fears will be disastrous competition. It would be difficult to conceive of a sterner retributive justice than that which can destroy these vast aggrega- tions of capital by the very means used by them to kill their competitors. Let the trusts fight. Their war is everybody else’s triumph. o ' » | promptly answered, ‘Yes, ma'am.”” Told Who He Was. He was a short statured son of toil. Regularly every morning he would wander into a downtown cigar store, but net to buy. On entering the place he would take out a disreputable look- ing clay pipe, fill the bowl with to- bacco and light it on the cigar lighter which was placed at the end of the counter. Then, after giving the pipe a few puffs,.he would silently wander out of the shop agaln. The cigar clerk stood this little bit of pantomime for several mornings, but when he realized that it was not the intention of his visitor to repay the accommodation by the purchasing of his commodities, patience ceased to be a virtue. One morning the runty man went through his performance as usual, when the clerk, advancing threaten- ingly toward him, said: s “Here, now, I'll have no more of that. You get right out of here.” “Get out? Do you know wh am?” “No. way 7" “Why,” in a confidential whisper, | “I'm the man that comes in here every | morning to light his pipe.” | - | | Gowning the Bar. | o I I don’t. Who are you, any “The published information that Frank Jordan, clerk of the Supreme Court, had received a letter from ‘Washington, D. C., asking the feeling out here among members of the bar as to the advisability of their wearing gowns in court,” said a San Francisco lawyer, “brijg# to mind an incident | which occurred when that custom was instituted in New York City a few years ago. A Police Judge, smooth shaven and austerely gowned in black, had before him a small boy charged with some slight infraction of the law. ‘Wishing to temper the judicial wind to the municipal lamb, the Judge asked: the terrified offender, ‘If I let you go home this time will you promise to be good in the future? The bewildered boy looked at the gowned figure before him, and apparently not being able clearly to classify the legal being, Dr. Behr's Welcome. The late Dr. H. H. Behr at times gave voice in rhyme. The following bit of verse in his peculiar vein was writ- ten by him for an occasion when mem- | | bers of the Bohemian Club had killed the fatted calf to commemorate the re- turn of Dr. George Chismore after a prolonged absence: Apollo said in minor key, To Esculapius, M. D.: “On Pust, not far from Kearny street, This very night good fellows meet, To welcome home one tried and true. Hie there in haste and e ff like you, And 1 myself attune bis ly.=." The Difference. ‘ “I once saw the art of successtul| story telling exemplified in a very prominent way,” said Senator Foster of ‘Washington a few days ago in a com- | pany of friends. “During one of our political campaigns a speaker had un- dertaken to tell a story that was in- tended to bear upon Ignatius Donnelly, who was opposing him. The story was told laboriously, and it was received with all the solemnity that would be expected during a funeral sermon. At its conclusion the story teller smiled and looked over his audience to see if he could detect a ripple of apprecia-| tion, but there they allesat with sol- emn faces. It had fallen perfectly flat. “In a short time Mr. Donnelly arose to reply, and referred to the story that had been told by his opponent. | “‘That story, he said, ‘was intended | to reflect on me, but it didn’t go. Now, | my friends,” he continued, ‘I have a lit-| tle story I want to tell you.” | “With that Donnelly retold the story that had fallen flat. It seemed to me at the time that he repeated it word for word, but from the time he began the story until it was ended the audience | was convulsed. It was pronounced to| be the best story that had ever come out of the Northwest.” “Fell us the story, Senator,” one of his friends suggested, becoming curious | to know more of that narrative, once | funereal in its effect and then laden | with the spirit of wit. | “Oh, no,” replied the Senator. “I have | not sufficient confidence in my story telling ability. Now that I have pre- pared you for the story as a remark- able one, it would be doubly hazardous to attempt to repeat it.” Senator )‘Mar's friends are willing; to offer a reward for that story, either dead with flatness or alive with wit, if any one can deliver it to them. They are being consumed with curiosity to know what it is, but the Senator can- not be induced to venture upon its tell~ ing.—Washington Star. A Korean Legend. The origin of the Korean imperial family, which is just at present ex- periencing the pressing attention of both the devil and the deep sea, is sufficiently picturesque—that is, if it is possible to beljeve the legend which relates it. It seems that the favorite wife of the King of a certain province in North China was walking along the | banks of a river, when she noticed something approaching with the cur- rent. The something proved to be a large egg, from which, when it was broken, e -~ged a boy child of great beauty. She carried the infant to the King, who seems, however, to have been of a skeptical turn of mind, for he ordered the child to be at once thrown into the royal sties, which housed a peculiarly savage breed of pig. Far from killing the, child, how- ever, they lavished porcine attentions upon him, which, being related to the King, caused him to repent, to have the child brought back to the palace and to name it “Light of the Orient.” The boy grew up to so many virtues 4and other excellencies that the King again grew jealous and sought his death. The young man heard of it and fled. Closely pursued, he arrived at the Yalu River. He fired an arrow dnto the water and at once a great| | of their rations., | snuff. |* = shoal of fish appeared and formed themselves into a living bridge, over | which he crossed the river in safety | On the other side he found an amiable | nation, who elected him their King, and | from him the present dynasty is" de- scended, or purports to be, which is | much the same.—Manchester Guardian Debased French Army. The most significant of all the les- sons to be learned from the maneuvers of the French army, which have been recently concluded, is the failure in dis- cipline. Some incidents of the gravest kind occurred while the maneuvers were in actual progress. At Clermont-Fer- rand a sham fight was taking place under a general of division. At the moment of attack the general's staff was fired upon. Happily, not one of the officers was struck, but two horses were killed. A number of men had se- creted several rounds of “live” ecar- tridges and had taken this murder- ous means of revenging themselves on their commanders. At Niort (Deux Sevres) also, during the early days of the maneuvers, a squadron of cavalry refused to resume their march after a short halt, alleging that they were en- titled to a longer period of repose. An- other case occurred at St. Mihiel, where two batteries of artillery abandoned their pieces in the midst ofian action as a protest against the insufficiency The mutiny. of Poi- tiers occurred some months before the maneuvers. A battery of artillery en- deavored to break out of barracks, and it was only the presence of mind of a senior sergeant in closing the barracks gates and addressing the men that pre- vented a riot. Just about the same time a rebellion broke out in the Ecole Poly- technique, where a number of students, sitting for examination, left the hall as a protest- against the mtroduction of a new test subject. Students and ar- tillerymen were sent together to the regiments in Africa. Afterward, how- ever, their sentence of expatriation was revised by the Minister of War.—Pall Mall Gazette. A Breezy Funeral. One of the strangest wills preserved is that of a Mrs. Margaret Thompson, who, “In the name of God, amen,” di- rected that in her coffin should be buried all her handkerchiefs and suffi- cient of the best Scotch snuff to cover her body, says the St. James Gazette. This she preferred to flowers, as “noth- ing could be more fragrant and so refreshing as me as that precious pow- der.” Further, the six greatest snuff takers in the parish of St. James, West- minster, were to be her bearers. Six old maids, each carrying in her hand a box filled with the best Scotch snuff to take for their refreshment as they walked, were to carry the pall. Be- fore the corpse the minister was to walk, carrying and partaking of a pound of snuff. At every twenty yards a large handful of snuff was to be de- livered to the bystanders, while at the door of the testator’s house were (o be placed for gratuitous distribution two busf@pls of the same quality of Several legacies depended upon the fulfiliment of the conditions of the will, and all concerned were bidden to regard the powder as the grand cordial of nature. Answers to Queries. PROPER FORM— City. It is proper to say order.” Subscriber, a good sized PAINTER'S SWING — Subscriber, City. Painters’ swings are constructed on the principle of the center of grav- ty. RAZZLE DAZZLE—A. S, City. In the dice game of razale dazzie the ace becomes the equivalent of the highest other dice. BOXING—Subscriber, Menlo Park, Cal. Such a book on boxing as you de= sire can be obtained through any firsi= | class booksetler. SCROFULA—G. L. B, Novato. If in & case of scrofula first-class physi- cians cannot give relief, it is doubtful if any advertised remedy will effect a cure. Medical men, since the days of Pliny, have sought to find a remedy that is a positive cure, but have failed. Some remedies have given relief, but up to date none has proved an abso- lute cure. DIAMOND CUTTING GLASS—Sub- seriber, City. It has been ascertained by a series of experiments that a dia- mond does not cut the glass, file fash- jon, but forces the particles apart, so that a continuous crack is formed along the line of the intended cut. The superficial crack need not be deep: a depth, according to fine meas= urements of a 200th part of an inch is quite sufficient to accomplish the pur- pose, Stones, such as quartz and other hard materials, when ground into proper form will cut glass like a dia- ‘mond, but are not so valuable for that purpose, lacking the requisite hard- ness and soon losing the sharp edge necessary to make the operation a sue- cess. ——e—————— 's California Glace frults and candies, in ic fire-etched ‘boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Do aPket stroct. above Call building. * —————— Special Information supplied dally to ‘business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cal- ifornia street. 'r.u»:u:'-.him-