The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1904, Page 8

HE SAN FRANéISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1904 | s far above the average of the rest of | | really Mines and Mining. Jficial report of the twelfth an- n cor on of the California Miners’ Association has been issued by Edward H. Benjamin. From this the relative importance that was at- hed by the convention to hydraulic mining as a topic for discussion is made The printed mat- The special pa- to clearly appear ter cc 195 p. ad and the speeches that were delivered, and the vhich the pres- jers of « were 1 e association was set e-half of the publica- or O naining 100 pages or n upon hydraulic akes fifteen pages, or about sixth of the whole. 1al report supplies the exact s more or less technical ad- nd papers that men of promi- ence submit and, as corrected, hey are now given for the first time re a valuable heir entirety. They ribution to the knowledge of min- n this State. ng a period of years the cyanid- g of gold-bearing sulphurets has en- ed the attention and enlisted the > College of Mining of the Uni y of California. One of the lead- ing addresses to the miners was de- livered by him. There is continual discussion of the problems attending ng., which is one of the most important operations connected with mod mining. In a general way what Professor Christy sald was re- ported at the time of the convention. There are certain definite averments of technicalities, have a considered as adding to which are now pre- in official form. of Christy's ments i that, “If this subject is given e right kind of attention it will be easily practicable to add to the annual output of the California mines from $5.000.000 1o $6,000,000 a year, be- will mean that a large num- mines which now lie idle be- they contain just enough free g0ld to pay expenses, will become pro- and profitable producers as This puts the matter cledrly devoid im to popu r interest, One Professor state- cause ducers well within the line of a commercial propo- sition. The entire address being in the annual report, it is available to all who wish to learn what Professor Christy has been able to accomplish experiments that have extended through a period of six years. in Professor Christy’s opinion, where there are produced from five to ten tons of sulphurets a day and there r available for grinding, there is no reason why sulphurets cannot be treated when they are properly com- posed for favorable treatment, at a of §5 per ton. Under favorable conditions $25 material, which in many cases does not pay now, might yield = profit of $15 per ton anll possibly more. In the annual report of the Califor- nia Miners’ Association -convention there are also special papers by Mark B. Kerr upon “The Storage of Waste Waters for Mining Purposes”; by Ed- ward A. Rix, on “Compressed Air Min- .ing Plants”; by C. H. Dunton, on ‘Slate Deposits”; by Harry P. Stow, on ““Canvas Tables”; by E. C. Voor- heis, on “The Use of Fuel Oil in Roast- ing Concentrates for Chlorination”; “by W. H. Storms, “on “The Mother s w cost Lode in Amador County”; by John B. Tregloan, on “The Development of Abandoned Mines”; by Dr. C. 7 Deane, on “The California Oil Indus- try”; by Frank W. Griffin, on “The Gold Dredging Industry”; by F. A. Leach, Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint, on “United Methods of Receiving and Treating Bullion.” " There is enough in the annual report to make it valuable for general read- ' ing and also of interest in the Califér- nia_classrooms where California’ min- ing is under consideration. No obstacles seem to be powerful enough to restrain the enterprise of the Pacific Coast mining man. Me- chanical difficulties are overcome, re- gions far removed from. centers of supplies turn from desert areas to mining caimps, extreme temperatures ranging from the cold of the Arctic circle to the heat of Death Valley are cheerfully confronted; dangerous rap- ids are traversed, daily hardships are ehcountered with a stoicism that is admirable. No desert that is rich in minerals nor any mountain range, however precipitous or difficult of ac- ¢ess, can retard the footsteps of the _&0ld seeker or the search for eother | . valuable metals. Towns are founded, run their period of prosperity and, when the mines give out, unless they “have other resources, decay. But the miner ever pushes onward, tireless and fearless. These remarks are suggested by one of the latest towns to be started. This is Camp Roch- " ester in San Beérnardino County, about forty miles east of Daggett and eight railes southwest of Ludlow station on the Santa Fe Railway. Around Camp Tochester are several groups of mines troducing gold and copper. A very good account of the general con- ! . ditions regarding climate, etc., are supplied by the Mining and Scientific Press. Under similar conditions * other towns have been founded on the desert: " “A rarge portion of the southern section of California—that portion sbuth of “the Tehachapi Mountains— is desert—a vast arid territory cover- { tending eastward | sometimes nearly | broza, flat valleys with no sign of ver- ! dure other than sparsely . scattered sagebrush and greasewood. An oc- casional clump of mesquite is the only 1veins riments of Professor S. B. Christy | | some instances | at large expense. { depth of 330 feet. l ing thousands of square miles and ex- into Nevada and Arizona, in whieh the annual rainfall is a minimum, and where the range of temperature is represented by 140 degrees, while the mean temperature the Pacific Coast. The range of tem- perature within twenty-four hours is 100 degrees. The effect of such unusual climatic condi- tions is to produce/a desert—rugged. serrated mountains separated by beautiful thing to be seen in desert valleys. Often the central por- | tion of a valley is flat as a floor and is composed of a broad expanse of! fine silt or cla hard as pavement | und glaring white in the fierce sun- | light-——the bed of a dry lake. | The vision may clearly distinguish mountaing 150 miles distant through the clear, dry atmosphere. The dis- | tant mountains seem near and those |near at hand are startling in their | ! barren ruggedness. Out of this land of silence and death rise scores of such ranges, isolated buttes rounded hills and few of them there are which do not contain mineral or deposits of value. Among | these the names of many have already | become familiar to the miner and )ector—-the gold mines of Rands- | and those of the Panamint sec- | n. of Slate Range and of Death Valley; the silver veins and borax de- | posits of Calico, the gold, silver and ! copper of Providence Mountains, an(l‘ and ]‘ the gold of the Cargo Muchacho | Range: the silver and copper of Lava | Beds district, and the gold of Pinon Mo 1ins. These are only a few of | those already noted in the Mojave and | Colorado desert region.” | The immediate neighborhood of! Camp Rochester is remarkable from a plivsical point of view. “Within a radius of ten miles of this camp are several | extinct cinder cones of typical form, | marking the site of as many volcanic vents, which are the seats of the dying volcanic activity which has in the past tieen such a prominent characteristic of this portion of the desert. The old- | est rocks of the region are intrusive— | diorites and quartz porphyries, and | later, often overlying these, are rhyo- | lites, rhyolite tuff and breccia, ande- sites, etc., and still later the black oli- vine basalts, which, coming up through | the volca vents, spread over many | square miles of the country. The in-| dications are that the most recent eruptions were of a quiet kind, in which | the lava rose in the craters and over- flowed, the molten rock extending in| ten or twelve miles from the craters. = Later the cinder! cones were built up about the vents| and the internal fires slumbered. How ! long these volcanoes have been silent | no one knows, but the lava looks| startlingly fresh to one who walks over | its rough, twisted and gnarled'smhre.} | The large amount of ashes and tufi forming hills in the region south of Lavic, a station west of Ludlow, in-| dicates that prior to the basalt flow the volcanic activity of the region was | of a vielent type, in which vast, | amounts of material were ejected.” | Into this region a railroad, eight | miles long, connecting the mines with the Santa Fe at Ludlow, has been built. Stamp mills have been put up | The reclamation of the desert to the uses of man is pro-| ceeding. i | The Defender mine in Amador County is reported to have been opened to the | The Veith placer mine, near Mokel- umne Hill, Calaveras County, has been | bonded to J. L. Green. | | The Carson Creek mine in Camlaveras ‘l County has started forty stamps. | The California Debris Commission | has issued a permit to the New High- land Company to hydraulic at the iMameluke mine, near Georgetown, El | | Dorado County. | A deposit of slate is being opened in | | Inyo County near Laws. The Inyo County papers say that it locks well. | Some large figures are contained in | the annual report of the Associated Oil Company, which mines for petroleum in Kern and Fresno counties. The sales for the last year amounted to $2,374,799. | The transportation charges on the oil | represented by this value amounted to 1$1,226,200. During the last year the | company has increased its daily oil out- put by 7000 barrels. | Thirty mining locations were filed in Mariposa County in February. O'Brien has been placed in full pos- session of the Grass Valley Consoli- dated Mining Company property in Ne- vada County, near Grass Valley, by a decision in the Superior Court. | The hydraulic mine at the head of Nelson Creek, Plumas County, has been started up by Donohue & Metcalf. { Development work has been com- | menced on the Irish-American group of mines in San Bernardino County, near Java and west of the Needles, The Garvey Bar mine in Siskiyou County will be worked by dredger. The mine is at the mouth of Humbug Creek. The Chloride mine iri Trinity County | is reported to be about to start work. According to reports from Alaska, thirty well drilling machines will be { put to work in the Kayak region and beach mining machinery has gone in to be used at Yakataga. Thirteen hundred men are employed in the Boundary district in British Co- lumbia. . During the year 1903 the importations of mining machinery into Canada amounted in value to $1,281,000. The Arctic Chief copper mine in the | Yukon territory is reported to have been bought by L. L. Lane, C. D. Lane and J. H. Conrad of Montana for $80,000. The Bingham mining camp of Utah is credited with turning out 800,000 tons of ore per-annum, yielding a profit of $5,000,000 a year. 3 —_—— Bruiser—I heard you were laying for. Snoozer to make him fight. Did you succeed? 2 Broncobuster—No: T called him ev- erything 1 could lay my tongue to, but there was no fight in him. Bruiser—Did you call him a Servian officer? - Broncobuster—No; 1 never thought of it. Next time we meet I'll call him that."—Boston Transcript I. | in | London. { ness of those of to-day. { itself. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Pablication OMI0S ........cecsesesesioras R8T AR AT RIS e WAL B SRR . . . Address Ali Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: .MARCH 26, 1904 NAGGING CHINA. T is evident that Russia is determined tQ nag China into an overt act. Indeed, Russia is pursuing a course that makes non-action by China an excuse for violating neutrality. Chinese civil administration and sovereignty are over Manchuria. As we have shown, our last treaty with China recognizes this. 7The administrative euntity insisted upon by Secretary Hay extends to the province that Russia has been trying %o grab. Probably had Japan not opened war this grab would be complete by this time, and China have been crowded out of Manchuria. Intent upon that policy, which she has pursued in violation of her promises to all the Western nations, Russia now demands that all the civil and military officials of China now in Manchuria be withdrawn, on the ground that it is necessary in order that Russia prosecute the war properly! The Czar has exactly the same right to demand that Chinese civil and mili- I may | tary officials be suspended, on the same ground, through- out the empire. It is a claim that Russia has the right to use neutral territory for war purposes in a cam- paign‘ of conquest and aggression. If she can so use one province of China, she can make the same use of the whole empire. The case is not analogous to the presence of Japan Korea. That is in pursuance of a treaty and by the consent of Korea. 1f Russia had made her secret treaty China she could make the use of Man- churia which she is now claiming. But in the absence of such a treaty the demand is equivalent to a declara- tion of war against China, and a violation of Chinese neutrality. What view the rest of Europe will take in the matter it is impossible to foretell. Russia has gone courting with |in every capital on the Continent and has sought to sugar herself everywhere, except in Washington and If continental Europe assent to all her de- mands, and- as a result she succeeds in effectuating her policy in Eastern Asia, the continental statesmen of the occasion to regret the supine- All of Russia’'s moves are for They treat Russia as if that empire were the whole world, and the scruples and objections of others are not to be considered at all, except by allaying them with diplomatic lies, or over- bearing them with force. 3 The attempt to raise the fears of the world by ghattering about the yellow peril makes no impression upon thoughtiul people. The world has no fear of Asia. It has seen in Japan what can be accomplished by the assimilation of Western civilization. There a nation has been regenerated in the brief space of thirty years. The art and science of the world have been received and applied and Japanese scholars and scientific men have shown themselves the equal of any. It is suffi- cient that Japan has made more progress in civilization in thirty years than Russia has in a thousand. TIi civ- ilization mean peace and strict regard for the rights of others, absention from war until forced into it by self-defense, and its prosecution without brutality to non-combatants, Japan is the superior of Russia. The Czar has no civilization to impart to Eastern Japan has. Which influence would the world prefer, that of Russia or Japan? The question answers England holds a peculiar position in the struggle by reason of her treaty with Japan. It is evident that she prefers the position of umpire, rather than that of a combatant, and will as long as possible hold her- seli ready to tender good ofiices between the parties, or to render them if asked. The United- States will remain neutral as far as the is concerned. Our moral power is great, next generation will have her own aggrandizement. progress, Asia. Government { and will not be supplemented by our physical power. But, while this is the attitude of the Government, the sympathy of il real Americans is with the representa- tive institutions of Japan and not with the bloody and cruel autocracy of Russia. They are impressed by the spectacle of the Mikado assembling the Parliament, | that he may have the advice of the immediate repre- sentatives of the people, while in Russia there is no Parliament, the people have no voice, and what is there called patriotism exists only among the ruling class, with whom it is not love’of country in the sense of making sacrifice’ for it, but love of country because it can be made to sacrifice for them and pander to their power and selfishness. The Russia that would deserve the patriotic devotion of the masses would not be the country for the small number who now control the empire and sap its re- sources for their own benefit. To therh the conquest of Eastern Asia means the adding of hundreds of millions of burden bearers to produce by unrequited toil the mdans of aggrandizement for the small number of aris- tocrats who rule Russia. With such a programme Americans can have no sympathy, no matter what appeals are made in the name of apocryphal services which Russia is said to have been ready to render during our civil war. The real force that held England back in those days was exerted by the famine smitten cotton spinners of ILan- cashire, who in the midst of hungér and privation, caused by our embargo on cotton, refused to consent that the Ministry should side with the Confederacy. “They turned the scale, and if we are looking for those who deserve gratitude it belongs to ‘the starving men of Manchester, who stood for human liberty in days that were darker for them than for us. We owe a debt to the representative Government of England, which enabled the voice of her people to be heard in our behalf, and none to the absolutism of Russia, the vast majority of whose people were so steeped in ignorance that they did not know that we had a civil war and that freedom was at stake. v e e SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. MERICA is on the watch and the great “White A Squadron” may soon undergo spme very lively shuffling, for it {s a fact that the conflict between Russia and Japan has served to call more attention to the stupendous task that devolves upon our navy than all the previous actual experience gained in the Spanish- American war, As an example of one of the huge problems that tha Navy Department is now grappling with, which has risen suddenly from the international complications of ‘the last few years, it may be stated simply that more than one hundred millions of square miles of water now require the protection of navies, and official reports emphatically declare that our contribution to this police duty is inadequate in size and illogical in co Which micins, in plain fighting terms, a5 pointed out by Commander J. D. Jerrold Kelley, U. S. N, in a special article written for the Sunday Call to-morrow, that America has neither the requisite number of fighting ships nor th& concentration to meet any formidable ad- versary. ? After all the notable additions that have recently been made to our mavy this startling condition of affairs sounds very exaggerated, but as Commander Kelley further points out not one in ten thousand knows the present distribution of our fleet, how it is subdivided into squadrons, nor even where each squadron is at| present located, nor yet, what America would be Iikely’ to do or could do in the event of becoming involved®! with any of the big powers, now watching so breathlessly the developments in the Far East. In all of these de- tails Commander Kelley's article in the Sunday Cali to-morrow is nothing short of a revelation, though it is more particularly important in its masterful expose of what America is planning to do with her war ships— no less a juggling of the various squadrons in a way that will set the whole world thinking. \ Quite as brilliant an article and one that is equally pithy with news is a long dispatch that has just been received by the Sunday Call from its special correspond- ent in the Orient, O. K. Davis, whigh gives a thrilling account of the unprecedented difficulties and ironclad regulations that the wily, faciturn Japanese military authorities are heaping, upon the great army of foreign | correspondents now fuming impotently in.Tokio, while the war is being carried on in the most exciting fashion, | entirely free from the keen eyes that might give the rest of the world the graphic accounts it hungers for. Still another timely article on a kindred topic gives the official marching songs that have just been adopted by the European armies, This is indeed one of the most intercstihg outgrowths of modern warfare. These, of course, are only a few of the special features in the Sunday Call, which artistically, will be very much in the nature of a banner edition. Prominent among the | beautiful photographs is a full-page multiple color calen- | dar picture of a perfect cherub of a ckild, making up the central figure of a composition entitled “April Show- | ers.” Those who are saving these calendar pages each | month will have an artistic collection worthy of fram- ing at the end of the year. H Equally interesting as examples of modern photog- raphy, quite apart from the clever articles that accom- pany them, are the pictures of the “Cherry Blossom Girl,” a creature who will be not alone fascinating to the men, and the pretty maid with the painted Easter eggs who will attract men, women and children alike. On the “Scrap Book Page,” among many other catchy | items besides “A Catechism of Civics” and “The Ameri- can Girls,” is a snapshot photograph, taken in the snow, that is quite as remarkable in its way as the wonderful leap of the woman :t depicts sailing through the air like a meteor for a tance of sixty feet. How she did it and why makes one of the most fascinating features of the Sunday Call to-morrow. | However, ithere are many more things, particularly in the field of high-class literature. As an instance there is the fifth installment, made up of four full pages, of “To-morrow’s Tangle,” the brilliant California novel, by | Miss™ Geraldine, Bonner, the famous California writer, | which has suddenly gained such a tremendous vogue that it cannot be procured at the libraries, even by applying weeks in advance, while at the book stores it will 'eost five times what it can be procured for in the | pages of the Sunday Call. Tt might be as well to mention | that it will be concluded ‘on the following Sunday, | April 3. In addition to all this there is the third story in the | series of deep-sea vagabond tales by Albert Sonnichsen, who has_lhe distinction of being the literary lion of the hour in New York just at present, entitled “The Vigi- lantes of the Silver Star.” Tt is a true tale of our own invasion of the Philippines and is as weirdly strange as its name purports. In splendid contrast is a sweet little Trish romance, “Darby O'Gill and the Good People,” by Herminie Tem- pleton, that will delight old and young alike; the “Meows of a Kitty,” and some “Fables for the Foolish,” etc,, etc., all making up a splendid modern magazine. BRINGING THE SECTIONS TOGETHER. HE coming excursion of t}:e business men of San T Francisco, to be made under the management of the California Promotion Committee, to many places in Southern California and in the central coast counties, is admirably designed to give influential peo- ple a better understanding of the State. It is therefore certain to result in good. The Promotion Committee reasonably hopes that the special train, which will leave San Francisco on April 6, will be filled with those to whom invitations have been extended. The copious rains have made the lands beau- tiful with verdure and have insured plentiful crops for the year. The charms of scenery to be viewed en route are manifold. The material progress that the several Catching a Tartar. Former Congressman Maguire is re- sponsible for the story that follows. is the old phrase, “catching a it never was applied with stronger force than to this tale “Down in Arizona I had a client who was in fail awalting trial for murder,” says Maguire. “He told me the story of his life. It was alive with crime. He had béen a ‘sure thing’ man, gold brick seller and all that sort of thing. His plan was to pick up a likeiy vie- tim, take him into the country and palm off a gilded brick for all the real gold he could induce the patron to part with. 3 “Ohce he went to Oaklapd, found his man and won him with a yarn that he and a ‘pal’ had stolen a valu- able gold brick from a big assay office: that the ‘pal’ was dying in an out of the way place and had the brick, but wanted to get rid of it. It was a bar- gain. “The pair went out to Crockett, or thereabouts. In an old ramshackle hut they found the ‘pal’ on a cot, choking and gasping in the near reach of death, apparently. From under the blankets came the brick, the hacking sufferer painfully telling the story of the crime, | etc., ete. ictim being duly impressed with the genuineness of it all was supposed to bite quickly, but this one didn’t. Offers to sell at wretchedly low figures brought little encouragement. At last the intended purchaser invited his guide oug doors. “‘See here,’ he said to the steerer, ‘what’s the use of me buying that gold bar. I'll just go back and choke that thief's breath out, he's nearly dead anyway. We'll take the brick and no- body will be any the wiser.” “Do you know that it was all I could do to keep that ‘rube’ from killing my pal?” said the prisoner to Maguire. “‘I didn't care whether I ever sold another brick until I had got that fellow far enbugh away from Crockett so my pal could escape safely. It was| worth the weight of the brick in good gold to lose that triek."” The Phantom Mill. Dr. Arthur T. Piercy of Oakland is authority for a story which possesses an esthetic commingling of romance and ghostly mystery. While returning home from a recent trip to the Sierra Nevadas he was driving at dusk along a wild mountain road during a thun- der storm. In the pauses of the storm he suddenly distinguished the most lugubrious sounds as of groans and wild shrieks, which, with the swirling rain and moaning wird, were meost ap- palling. The doctor marveled much at -the unearthly noises, but putting away visions of things unnatural, he proceded to investigate. Following a side ravine, whence the - noises came, he finally arrived upon an old mill, long since abandoned. It was overgrown with wild ivy and erosion had worn the bed of the stream much below the picturesque wooden wheel. The recent storms had swollen the water to a point far higher than usual until it had at last reached the ancient wheel, which, proud in its ability still to do a turn, had again started and was grinding its oilless way around at the bidding of the rushing torrent, shrieking out its delight at finding it- self once more of use in the world. The Millinery Menu. [Spring bonnets are to be trimmed | with small fruits; flowers will appear in the summer designs. This is done to prevent the women from wearing the spring hatsail summer.—Millinery edict. ] A few potatoes on the brim, Arranged in some artistic plan, ‘Will put the wearer in the swim, But only through the month of Jan. Some early lettuce, torn to shreds And woven in a dainty web, ‘Will nod upon the stylish heads That know, what is the mode for Feb. Young onions of the palest green, Arranged to form a swaying arch Of tossing tops. will soon be seen 3 As quite the only thing for March. Strawberries, with a net of lace .That simulates the Dlght whipped cream, ‘Will form a finish for the face That April's styles will gleam. cause to A bunch of cherries. and green peas, -+ - ney. Sir Mortimer does not take kind- Iy to our skyscrapers. “If the em- bassy were at the top of one of these,” he said soon after his arrival, “T should ask my Government to buy me a bung- alow."—Leslie’s Weelgly. Diseases of Metals. Many metals show symptoms of pois- oning, rendering them unfit for use. Thus steel can by means of small quan- tities of hydrogen and under certain circumstances be very seriously affect- ed. Let us take two steel bars of the same material, both heated to a red heat, one surrounded by air, the other exposed to the influences of hydrogen or hydrogen gas, chilling both bars in water after heating; we shall find the bar heated in hydrcgen to be brittle, whereas the other bar, heated in air, will turn out to be far superior. The hydrogen has in this instance acted like poison upon the heated steel, and very small quantities of such poisonous mat- ter will suffice to produce very violent effects. The disease in question can be radically cured, it only being neces- sary to anneal the peisoned bar, re- peating the process by heating exposed to air. The poisoned steel, by being allowed to lie for a long time, will with- out any further expert treatment, show signs of improvement to a certain de- gree, the poison gradually leaving it. A Dbetter treatment still is boiling in water ci oil, which process may be compared to using warm compresses in the case of human beings. Similar symptoms of poisoning, caused by hydrogen or gases contain- ing hydrogen (as gas for lighting pur- poses), are apparent in ccpper when exposed to red heat. Not every kind of copper is susceptible to this poisoning in equal degree. Metals can become diseased from im- proper treatment, as, for instance, cop- per and steel when exposed a certain length of time to temperatures exceed- ing fixed limits. The copper in conse- quence loses a great part of its du-- tility and bending qualities. In steel the disease can beccme so virulent that a steel bar so infected can on falling on tfe ground break to pieces. The technical expert calls such disease “overheating.” —Harper' Magazine. Now Is It? Ellen Thornycroft Fowler has write ten an article in an English journal upon what she considers to -be the hu- mor of the midland counties of Eng- land. Says she: “The typical humor of the midlands—like the typical scen- ery and character of the midlands—is distinguished by common sense and moderation; it aveids all excess or ex- tremes; it is essentially the humor of the happy mean—the humeor of the mid- dle way. It is shrewd without being caustic, gay without being rowdy, homely without being coarse. It is merely humor—humor pure and simple, lacking alike the brilliance of wit and the cruelty of satire: and because it is humor, rather than wit or satire, it is difficult to define. Its jokes have an aroma rather than a point; its rep- artees an atmesphere rathe: than an edge.” Then she gives the fellowing as an example of pure midiands humor: “First Polite Native—Wheo's 'im, Bill? “Second Ditto—A stranger. “First Ditto—Eave 'arf a brick 'at ‘im, then.” That must be a joke with an “aroma."™ Answers to Queries. And little apples, too, will sway Upon the bonnets that will please The fashionable folk in May. A wreath of roses—bear in mind That they must not come in too soon. You're out of style if we should find You wearing them preceding June. The morning glory hat will be ‘The idol bf each woman's eve, ‘When. garnished with skyrockets, she ‘Will see it flourish in July. communities to be visited can show and the promise of advancement they possess will be a source of ‘commen- dation and legitimatc pride. With the sight-seeing goes the speech-making, inter- change of views, better acquaintance with men and meth- ods, acknowledgment and enjoyment of California hospitality that is generously proffered in advance by cities and towns through leading citizens, the realization of how great this State is in all its various sections and how closely united it is by the common advantages of location in proximity to the sea, by its common climate, by its removal by so many miles from the eastern centers | A turkey wing and pumpkin shell of population that its destiny is manifestly and peculiar- Iy to be worked out within its’own borders and by its own patriotic and State loving people. These considera- tions are of importance and their significance will not be overlooked by the keen-eyed and sagacious men of business and affairs from this city. California is receiving greater advertising abroad than ever before. The interest is consequently greater as its attractions are made more generally known to the dwell- | ish Embassador at Washingten, has ers in less favored regions. At this time there are thou- sands of strangers in the southern part of the State, wko will be interested in the excursion, The poppy hat—now, do not let Your recollection slip a cog. To be in fashion, don't forget You must wear poppy hats in Aug. The golden wheat and rye, through W c The zephyrs of the summer crept, Will make a bonnet rare and rich And rule the thirty days of Sept. If you should wear chrysanthemums, Your friends would « be extremely shocked Should you forget that bonnet comes Upon the fashion stage in Oct. Are millinery’s treasure trove— You'll find that they'll do very well To show you're up to date in Nov. A Christmas tree, with ornaments Of tinsel balls and candle grease, ‘Will make a hat that represents The nobbiest design of Dec. - y . —Chicago Tribune. Sir Mortimer Durand. Sir Mortimer Durand, the new Brit- had a wonderfully varied and interest- ing career. From the time that he was in India acting as a political agent as it may afford | to Lord Roberts, witnéssing the capit- them opportunities for gaining much information. The | ulation of an Ameer, heiping to smooth season is ow.ortnne and the reasons for the excursion are many. ‘ A long list of places is on the itinerary. The fertile | attaining the t Santa Clara Valley is one of the sections to be traversed | Said that per in its entire length by steam, and the new electric fines will give a chance to see its charming area at close range the wheels of progress at Simia, through all his diplomatic progress there was never any doubt as to his It is the only time in all his life that he found himself discon- of Queen Victoria at Osborne and a and to the best advantage. Every part of the State tra- | stock of unexceptionable cigars was ssurreptitiously versed by the excursion will be found to possess its own peculiar charms. The tour, from every point of view, should prove to be a consoicuous ” o ~ i gars and blew the smoke up NEVADA CANAL—A. 8, City. For information about the transfer canal of Nevada address a communication to L. N. Taylor, Geological Survey, Car- son City, Nev. , ANGELS' VISITS-Nema, Pleasan- ton, Cal. “Like angels’ visits, few and far between,” is a line in Campbell's “Pleasures of Hope.” Bilair, in “The Grave,” has “Like those of angels, short and far between.” Both writers, however, appear to have borrowed from John Norris, who died in 1711. He, in “Transient Delights,” has: ‘Like angels’ visits, short and bright.” {‘_::pbell was born 1777 and Blair in 7 PROPERTY—E. L., City. If a man marries and at the time of such mar- riage is possessed of property, it is his separate property. Should he die pos- sessed cf such property and not leave a will, the surviving wife would be en- titled to one-half if there are no chil- dren, and one-third if there are chil- dren. A divorced woman has no p erty rights in the separate property the man who was her husband. LEAP YEAR—D. M., San Leandro, Cal. If a year was made up exact! 365% days we should have a leap year every four years regularly, but as there is an excess of 11 minutes and 10.3 seconds every vear, this excess is com- pensated for by dropping the leap year at the beginning of three out of four centuries, thus equalizing ‘he time gained through the century. The length of time thus established makes an error of only one day in 3325 years. No year is a leap year that is not ai- visible by four without a remainder. As the year 1830 cannot be divided by four without a remainder, it was not a leap year. —— e ——— ‘This week good eyeglasses. specs, 25c- 50c. 79 4th (front Key's Cel. Oys. House.* —————————— ‘Townsend's California Glace fruits and candies. ln( . ln'-:!tcr::: nice presen: stern frien: above Call building. * # information supplied daily to Teornta stoset Teleohone Main 104 * - <