The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1904, Page 8

1 HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY., APRIL 2, 1904. | | | S e Dbt i & anics. and Mining. In: Jeis them one month the Louis- fana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis will: b€ Gpened and the 18 indus- f the T 1 ‘States, together w v rclies of enterprise, »ill fuive their representative exhibits ar I ai:d epen 16 the scrutiny of Be world ¥n tie mining building California will Jiave. famples of what is produced by TE mires \d allied energi 6 Arizona, Oregon, gton, Missouri, Utah, Fdaho, - Montans a and other B tories will how what any other iing has 1 r use-in its develop- e fact is determined ns ore in sufficient in sufficient quan- and haie ra g and profitable the property can- d-on a large Scale, in es, with the ready money to be availak its im- In this it differs that is founded 1ters of population A great. exposition or world’'s fair supplies an -opportunity for mining men 1o .come to the front. Gold ores ores attract attention e ®hown. People from » world scan the mineral re hown; read all the msles that L3 Jiterature thereto appertaining that is placed within their reach; make in- quiries-and gewerally acquaint them- selves “with the veral mining sec- tions of the world and gain knowl- edge Concerning methods and condi- tions of afl sor 1€ s ‘manif to the advantage of ]l ‘ceuntriés or States that contain nes “to advertise mineral resources. The: State hext or country that makes the show naturally enough, the talked about. The -interest of drnjans is now keen in reference the that California mineral show will make ax compared with other sec- tions There is.a great dearth of informa- this _point. to Colora great jon- on pected do display. is ex- It make a B ir probability in gold ‘and specimens and in its erray of literature in regard to Crip- ple Creek and ether regions within its borders. ‘Micligin can be relied upon 10 - make. an. imposing -demonstration of @18 ahility-as r-producing Arizona will-dlso be entitled an fr this cc tion. Mis- souri. whl -bé.-noted for what it can show if)y Jead.- Many places will make special-dis s:-.The coal States will have Jessons of rare-value for the man who' s sufficiéntly - equipped with in- formation to : fully .comprehend. So will:the great vil-pradieing portions of the . Fiited tes-<~ Pennsylvania, Ghi,: Texas, - Lo na, California. The oil région of. Baku might have heeh’ répresénted- but for the war be- tween Russia -and Japan. Of -8l the Stares ip this Union and of sections in the: wond that mine Cali- fornja’ i€ best entitied to a record for va- fals thaf ¢an be profitably produced. "Moré .than two’ score min- eral siybistaniées afé found i California ng -quantities. ‘The mining re- terids froin the nerthern: to the sauthern. Hiné. of- the’ Stafe. Of all thc erent:array ‘o counties all but three prodiiced . somé - shineral last year, in sufficient amousit to figure in the annual yeport: of “ e - State Mineralogist of Califarnii 3 > The ‘goid eutput-.of California does nut féad: all-other. States in this coun- 10y “neither. dees ‘ité copper product nor it petroléum output, lead, but the fiaté makes a large showing in each of thise “mineral sources of wealth. It has gems: I has niter in large quan- .titles so -Jarge in fact that it may eventuaily. outclass Chile as a niter producer. ‘It- produces -vast quantities of ‘borax. Its @eposits of building ma- teridls areé large ‘and greatly varied The: full- sigsificance -of the coming exposition, in' St. Loypis as related to California . mining” “interests may or may -not have . been. appreciated at horré. .. While some of the counties ‘have imade .prepardtions to be largely yepresented, - there dite some that ‘are scantily’ in evidence, and others not at ol A:Jigt 6f the ‘exhibits that have beeri ‘gathered in California for show in the wiming.building at St. Louix has been -compiled , for . reference at the State Mining Buveau. in ‘this city. This excludes samplés of petroleum #nd methods of petroleum mining and nsphalt, whitk . will be a special show. The list_aiso pxcludes certain very vi uable specitpens of high grade ore that have besn sent on by the contributors privately or have net yet been for- warded. to. the, State Mining Bureau. With these exceptidns the data at the buread very fully indicates what Cali- fornia will show in ite collective min- eral exbibit in the mining building. > - M The counties of Alameda, Amador, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Caiaveras, El Dorado, Fresns, Inyo, Kern, Lake, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Monterey, Mendocino, Napa, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Santa Barbara, S8an Benito, San Diego. San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Shasta, Sierra, Siekiyou, Solano, San Joaquin, Trinity, Tuclumne, Tulare, Ventura and Yuba have mineral exhibite either on the way to St. Louls or jin readiness to send. This enumeration shows that the mineral ‘belt i& long and wide—"from SBiskiyou to San Diego and from the! | Sierra to the sea” in the current phrase. San Francisco does net figure as an! exhibitor of mineral products of its | own, as might be easily surmised, al-| | though in the annual reports of the! | State Mineralogist this city is credited | with mining a considerable quantity of | rubble every year. The city offices of ' men connected with mining interests, have contributed aragonite, ground| yellow ocher, crude yellow ocher, pow- | der, slate, calmanite and onyx, and | manufacturers of mining machinery | have also contributed to make up the characteristic California mining show. The State Mining Bureau draws on its | exhibit in the ferry building for the SL( Louis Exnosition to some extent. The | State Mineralogist also has provided a large number of photographs illustra- tive of mining in California, the resuilt | being very good and comprehensive as | regards all phases of mining. Attention is called to the fact that gold ores are contributed by nearly | every one of the counties’ mentioned in | the foregoing. 3 | Gems are contributed by San Diego County and Sonoma County, garnets | by both. Asbestos comes from Sierra | County, having been mined ia the vi- | cinity of Mountain House. Cinnabar goes to St Louls from several coun- | ties. The follbwing recapitulation shows to | each county the mineral substances, | apart from petroleum and mineral wa- | ters, that have been contributed for St. | Louis: i Alameda County—Ores, livestock, | glass sand, fire clay, coal and manga- | nese | Butte—Copper, gold, lead, magnetic | sand, fossils, stratite, petrified wood, | gravel, quartz. Calaveras—Copper, gold, silver, blue | stone. Colusa—Cinnabar, fron. 3 Contra Costa—Limestone. Ei Derado—Tale schist, sulphur, py- rites, gold, iron ore, asbestos, slate. Al- together thirty-nine mines and quar- ries in El Dorado County take part in the county’s contribution to the ex- hibit. Fresno—Copper and gold. One mine alone contributed. Oil is also to be shown sulphur, chrome | alena, lead, silver, gold, cop- ash, iron, salt, limestone, an- | timony, fossils. Inyo County was en- thusiastic and seventy-one mining com- | panies contributed. Kern—Pure tungsten, gold, scheelite, copper, silver, tellurium, sylvanite, tei- luride, lime, borax. Thirty-seven Kern County mining companies are repre- | sented. The ofl .wells are contributors to the special petroleum show. Lake—Cinnabar and sandstone. Angeles—Firebrick, gypsum, sil- | alt, oil. { Maripcsa—Gold, jron, mines showing. . Mendocino—Copper from one mine. Nevada—Copper, copper paint, ce- | ment, gold, silver. | Placer—Gold, granite, marble, orna- | mental quartsz. | Plumas—Copper, gold, limestone, fos- sils, coal Riverside—iron, ‘coal, gold, silver, as- bestos, fire clay, granite, San Benito—Cinnabar. San Bernardino—Geld, silver, copper, cement, lime. San Diego—Manganese, copper, gold, | silver, iron, tellurium, arsenide, tellu- | ride, galena, garnets, «pidate, shale, oil | sand. The products are from thirty- four mines. San Joaquin—Window glass, firebrick, paving brick, briquettes. San Luis Obispo—Copper, cinnabar, | fossils, brown iron, bitumen, petrified wood, crystallized lime, limestone, py- roxinite,” silica, infuserial earth, koa- lin, gypsum, all from fifteen mines. Santa Barbara—Lime rock, litho- | graphic stone, infusorial earth. Santa Clara—Magnesite and cinnabar, Shasta—Copper, gold, chalcopyrite, flue dust, briquettes, felithian, talc, porphyry, asbestos, iron, from twenty- | three mining companies. i Sierra—Gold, galena, petrified wood, | asbesto: A it Siskiyou—Copper, gold, from twelve companies. Solano—Cinnabar and cement. Sonoma—Aragonite, concretan, silica, serpentine, copper, gold, gilver, cinna- | bar, pyrites of irom, brdwn hematite, | onyx, petrified wood, mineral paint, red hematite, garnets in metamorphic slate, | from thirty-one mines. i Trinity—Gold. Tuoldmne—Gold, copper, iron, from forty-eight companies. Tulare—Roasted magnesite, Ventura—Muscovite and lime rock. Yuba—Gold. galena. Ten | | lead, coal, The gold and some other minerals are- in several shapes—in ores, gravels, otc. The aim in the foregoing has been only to mention the different minerals.” The purely mineral exhibit of California will weigh about fifteen tons. The min- ‘erals and structural materiais fill four | freight cars. Three carloads have beén started. The mineral arch to stand at | the entrancesof the California mineral | exhibit will weigh eighteen toms. It will be composed of building stones do- nated by individuals and corporations | ih all parie of California. State Mineralogist Aubury is now in St. Louis. He has gone to install the exhibits and to superintenl the erec- tion of the arch. He will remain away until this work is completed, possibiy for two months. The mineral exhibits, together with all other articles from California in- | tended for disply at St. Louls, have | been shipped by the California Com- missioners, and the exhibite remain- (ing in the State are in charge of their { representatives in this city and in Los Angeles. { How California will compare as an { exhibitor of minerals cannot be told | ‘until the other large mining States : | have made their installations. As there | | is almost a blockade at St. Louis now | | on account of the inrushing of all sorts | of exhibition material, it may not be possible within a month to estimate | what sort of a competition California | miners have set up. “I'm a lightnin the applicant for ““Then you'll not do here” the proprietor of the powder works; “you'd blow up the institution.’-— Philadelphia Press. ’ | the State platform of 1902, of the extreme theories of [ socialism. | pended by a force they could not resist. as | ‘'mind. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « . « « o « - « . o Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager FublORtion M08 5.« ss4cssitesirbensiolshon @ tetteiseeeeseen....Third and Market Streets, S. F. .APRIL 2 1904 HILL IN THE SADDLE. SATURDAY.... T is evident that the political fortunes of Judge l Parker have been placed in the hands of David B. Hill. This is fortunate for Judge Parker as long as his fight is within the party, leading up to the nomination. Beyond that point the scene shifts. Mr. Hill got his political training under Tweed. He was a sub-lieutenant under that Tammany chieftain, who knew him as “Little Dave,” and used him in the Legislature in that series of acts which led to the, complete control of New York City by Tweed, and to looting it in the sum of $29,000,000. When Tweed was brought to an account by Tilden, Hill went into retirement and let his chief take his medicine. He was resurrected as Lieutenant Governor, became Governor and then Senator. In the Senate, during Mr. Cleveland’s second term, he led in all that demoralizing opposition to the President which finally took his party away from his leadership. Hill had begun this course in 1892. He called the celebrated “Snap Convention,” by which he secured, with the assistance of Tammany, a delegation to the National Convention pledged against Cleveland and led by Bourke Cockran. In the Senate he put all of his sub- tlety into breaking Cleveland’s power. Ile opposed his nomjnations and opened the way to the final attack under the leadership oi Bryam, which overthrew Mr. Cleveland completely, and so demoralized the party that its moral weakness has made it receptive to the influence of Hearst. No one knows what Mr. Hill's ulterior plans are. He has grafted upon the party a series of strange issues, and an administration influenced by him wé6uld repre- gent every wild and hairy plan that would win a few votes, no matter what the effect upon the country. There is reason for believing that Hill really fearegl the reappearance of his old enemy, Cleveland. To pre- vent this, he has encouraged the anti-Cleveland senti- ment among the up-State Democracy of New York to an extent that seems to have made him master of a situation in which he can dictate to Tammany. = It is natural, therefore, that Tammany should treat with him by agreeing to support Parker. No Demo- cratic candidate has found favor at the polls when supported by Tammany. Tammany opposed and fought Tilden, and he had a popular majority. It fought Cleveland in 1884 and he was elected. It supported him in 1888 and he was beaten. With Hill's help it fought him in 1892 and he was elected. Tammany supported Bryan twice, and he was beaten. The Democracy of the country do not take kindly to the ways jof Tam- many and look with aversion upon a Tammany national administration at Washington. Mr. Hill's power to assimilate any issue that.seems to have votes behind it was shown in his adoption, in The anthracite coal strike had f{ocused public attention upon the coal supply. The coal opera- tors were helpless and unable to meet the demand for fuel because their control of their property was sus- People were not making particular inquiry into the cause of the coal shortage. They wanted coal. That situafion offered to.Mr. Hill a chance to influence an existing public opinion and perhaps catch some votes. He took advantage, of it by ‘making a joint bid, that appealed to the socialists and to the of people who were not socialists. He made it by putting in the Stage platform an expropriation plank, raising the mum\mm doctrine that when the owner of property affected by public use is unable to operate it because of a force that he cannot resist the right of expropriation arises and the State may take his property from him and operate it a public enterprise! This plan opens the way to immediate government ownership and control of all property. It disclosed the peculiar order of Mr. Hill's The condition which would give the right of expropriation was caused by unlawful acts and he assumed that a lawful public right can arise in acts that are unlawful, the victim of those acts being the sufferer, and therefore the party selected for punishment. This country has been made familiar with a variety of governmental theories. As long as they are oiily in the breath of those who dream of them no one cares to give them careful examination. But when a leader like Hill plants among the principles of his party a scheme for the universal overthrow of private owner- ship of ‘property attention is compelled. Judge Parker is put forward as a conservative. But his campaign is made 'by Hill. It is like putting George Fox in the hands of Suwarrow and insisting that the Quaker opposes war and rapine. The task Mr. Hill has on hand is to make the socialists and capitalists believe he is with them both. But he has two eyes and can wink at -both sides. necessities The King of Italy and the Emperor of Germany have met, exchanged greetings, pledged friendship and have gone their separate ways. Yet it is upon such incidents as this, trifling as it may appear, that the destinies of the people of the Oid World, for good or evil, most fre- quently depends. THE CALL'S EXCLUSIVE WAR NEWS.' DISPATCH from London announces the ‘fact A that the press of that metropolis is up in arms against the Japanese 'military authorities in Korea because, with the exception of the war corre- spondents of two American papers, not a newspaper representative is allowed with the Japanese army now operating north of Seoul; and the only news which has come out of that district within the last few weeks has been sent by the representatives of these self-same two papers. We take not a little pride in announting that these two papers happen to be the New York Herald -and the San Francisco Call. The London Daily Telegraph, in its issue of the 31st, commenting editorially upon the fact that the Call-Her- ald staff of correspondents has been supplying exclu- sive news of the recent Japanese movements about | Chenampho and Pingyang, makes the plaint that “the other special correspondents and -even the military at- taches at Tokio have beén told that they cannot be allowed to go to the front and must continue for another indefinite period to cool their heels in the island capital.” The Daily Mail mourns the fact that “the Japaneseé press censorship is rapidly tightening. It now extends beyond military movements and even includes the country in any way, even on board private ships.” et been beating the representatives of the English news- papers as well as those of the American press is not a matter which can be Jaid against the door of the Japanese Government; rather should the disgruntled newspaper managers look closer at home to find the cause of their defeat. The success of the Call-Herald news gatherers calls attention to the qualities which make a successful war correspondent. In every cam- paign the personal influence and the address of each correspondent counts for his success in gaining the confidence and goodwill of the staff officers with whom he is connected far more than a widely heralded fame as a “forceful” writer or a 'self-assertive and pugnacious author of books, turned war eagle for the nonce. It is the man who can win.recognition from the army officers with whom he is associated purely upon the merits of his own address and the evidences of his capability and integrity who will win preferment over the heads of his fellow craftsmen in the great game. Oscar King Davis, who heads the Call-Herald staff of correspondents in the East, is such a one. Many years’ experience in the difficult task which he fills and a record of past achievements have given him the power to make I successful bid for the favor of the Japanese generals, and by this favor he has been enabled to direct his movements and those of his assistants into a field which has remained closed to the rest of the army of war scribes. Up to date Mr. Davis has supplied The Call with a large budget of exclusive news of the hostilities, and it is safe to say his successes will continue to be made manifest in the pages of this paper as long as the war lasts. > _— Two Chinese coolies, locally objectionable, fought to _kill one another the other day because of their respective aspirations for the affections of a slave woman. Even the worst woman on carth can excite the spirit of rivalry in the breast of the human male. for the unfortunate weman’s sake, that the THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. Mongols did not murder each other. N its special Easter edition to-morrow the Sunday I Call will present some of the best work ever exe- cuted in modern journalism, both from an artistic and a literary point of view. There will be sixteen pages of carefully sclected and timely features. Among the beautiful art features, for instance, there is a magnificent full-page photograph of one of the most attractive children in San Francisco singing an Easter anthem amid a bower of St. Joseph lilies. There is something so peculiarly reverential in both the pose and expression that this picture is sure to find its way into a permanent setting in many homes. It is entitled “Easter Morn.” Still another attractive full-page photograph is a re- markable snapshot secured at St. Mary’s Cathedral just at the time when the fashionable congregation were leav- ing the church. It is one of the best group pictures ever presented in a modern paper. Not to be overlooked the feminine heart is the full-page picture of the dainty “Easter Miss,” attired in the prettiest and latest crea- | tions in the modiste’s art. Almast equally important are the full page of photo- graphs of the newest and most stunning Easter hats shown in the center of fashion and wealth—Paris, and ' a page of the “Floral Fancies of the Easter Girl.” This last mentioned page is sure to prove exceptionally pop- ular in a land overflowing with rare blooms as is Cali- fornia, and yet it is a strange circumstance that few know how or where to select flowers for Easter decora- tion or how to arrange them after they have been se- lected. This page shows many new and appropriate ideas. s Perhaps dearer than all will be. the page devoted to the Easter bride—what she is wearing, what she should wear, and all the dainty and fascinating frills and ful- belows without which no fashionable wedding can lay claim to pretentiousness. The photograph that illus- trates this article is ,of one of the most beautiful and attractive of the brides of the season. It will be a sur- prise even to those who know her. 4 Most appropriate will be the Eastern sermon by the Rev. Louis J. Sawyer, pastor of the Hamilton-square Baptist Church, on “The Resurrection Pledge.” This is a splendid forensic effort, artistically illustrated by two famous panels representing angels painted by Old World masters. . In the line of pure fiction there is the last installment of “To-morrow’s Tangle,” by Geraldine Bonner. This last installment is by far the strongest and most exciting of the whole book, which, next to “The. Octopus,” is perhaps the best novel ever written of California life. In quite a different vein is the fourth of Albert Son- | nichsen’s Deep Sea Vagabond stories entitled “When the Don Adolpho Turned Turtle,” while the new Puzzle Page for the children and the Scrap Book Page with all its unique features and the page of Timely Topics of the World for men and women and children alike make up one of the most entertaining special. numbers ever issued by ‘the Sunday Call. 8 3 s In addition to all this and much more besides might be mentioned the beautiful art supplement, which will be given away free with the S@nday Call to-morrow morhing entitled “An Easter Offering,” which is de- signed especially for framing. 55 A Chicago child, prompted and coached to commit perjury, led five .innocent men to the steps of the gal- lows recently and only the accident of retraction, as inexplicable as the initial dreadful lie, saved the city from | the commission of official murder. Doubtless more than one juror in this case has since reflected that not even in these days of shrewdly analytic knowledge is it possible for one ever to know whether he is right or wrong. = - " The frantic efforts of William Jennings Bryan to se- cure that $50,000 Bennett legacy prompt the people of the United States to wish that the Nebraskan were rich beyond the dreams of human avarice. Americans, be they Republican or Democrat, always wish to feel that nene but a big man has ever been granted by party nomi- nation the privilege of contesting for the exalted posi- tion of President of the United States. - oty el c—— e 1 _ A Coroner’s jury, called to fix responsibility for the death of an.unfortunate, has emphasized the necessity references to | of adopting some method to simplify the disputes in diag- calculator,” said local disturbances. ‘This censorship applies to private ,fim that arise in eur emergency hospitals. To an ordi- bookkeeping' po- jetters in addition. to telegrams. The Japanese authori- nary observer. the suggestion occurs that it might be wise | ties are striving to prevent news and messages leaving | for the people of San Francisco to insist upon the em- ployment of competent physicians and surgeons in our A0 B ook h 2 geB L TN ; 3 It is to be regretted,, fighting I in the dttractions dear to ! Old Steamer Days. A party of gentlemen were discuss- ing in the corridor of the Palace the peculiarities of different people in the manner of conducting business in dif- ferent parts of the world. “One thing that struck me as peculiar when I was in Victoria, B. C.,, a few wegks since,” sald one, “was the fact that during the noon hour one canngt make any pur- chases in the stores. Every business man closes at the lunch hour to par- take of the noonday meal.” “That reminds me,” said one of the listeners, a gray-haired California pioneer, “of San Francisco when we were thirty days away from home in the Bast, from parents, wives and children. That is when it took thirty days to get a letter from home. This was before the days of ocean grey- hounds, pony express or telegraph. It was when the mails came by way of the Isthmus of Panama and were car- ried on board of the old sidewheel steamers, When a sidewheeler was sighted at the outer station the long, black arms on the Telegraph Hill sta- 'tion would be put in position and it . was always about two hours before the steamey would come to an anchorage. That signal was for several years a signal to ignore busine: If-a cus- tomer who had not noticed the signal entered a store to make a purchase he would be told, ‘Come in later; haven't got time to do any business; steamer’s coming in.’ The intending customer lost interest in what he visited the | etore for and became engrossed with | the topic of the hour, wondering if he | would get a letter from home. The | thought of receiving news from the dear ones at home after a silence of thirty days unfitted all the old San Franciscans for business on those oc- casfons.” N i ! Garden of Gethsemane. ‘ [In the place where he was crucified | there was a garden.—John 19:41.] ',\Vhlt fragrance cooled like heavenly | ) breath ! The burning agony of death | When darkened earth with heed | Beheld. her young Redeemer bleed? trembling Ah, finer than Arabian balm The perfume of the -martyr’'s palm, And love's own incense crushed from i pain Ascended o'er the Sinless slain. ! The April breeze was on His brow. And spicy fern and flowering bough Poured sweetly for the smitten King The scented sacrament of spring. O hearts that felt His human wound, | Your sorrow groped on desert ground, Your faith, astray in piteous loss, Forgot the garden near the cross. Its foliage stirred with whispered prayer, | The primrose knew His bed was there, | The myrtle kissed the mourners’ feet That teere Him to its green retreat. The violets, dim at fading day, Grew white immortals where He lay; His presence like a holy spell Made every weed an asphodel. | | Amid that retinue of bloom | One silent Sabbath in the tomb, ! What terror told the wrath of men Their victim slept to wake again? The early stars that watched His rest Saw life rekindle in His breast, And sang till echoing heaven replied To welcome back the Crucified. No need of spikenard and of n®rrh, No more the rich man’s sepulcher For Him who walked the rosy lanes, | A soul too mighty for its chains. | The risen Christ! His power that shed On us that glory from the dead | Hath made our flower of sacrifice | A life beyond the life that dies. | Each fiery pang His pity heals, And eyery patient grief reveals The silver shining through the dross, ° | The garden blooming by the cross. | —Youths' Companion. | / Dickens’ Black Eye. Josh Hutchinson, who for thirty- five vears has been head bellboy at ilhe Galt House, is down and ouf from a physical ailment, says the -Louis- ville Herald. He is the most original character among the Louisville bell- boys, and was in the hotel on the day that Colonel Throckmorton had his famous set-to with Charles Dickens. Dickens was writing in his room and ' Colonel Throckmorton, a courtly Southern gentleman, thought he .would go to the room and see if he could not assist in giving Dickens all _the comforts of the hotel. . i The landlord went to the room of | the great writer and knocked at the | door. “Come in!"” said Dickens gruffly. | Looking up, he saw Throckmorton. “Well, what do you want?” he asked gruffly, for he had his English ideas about the standing of an inn- keeper. 5 | “I thought T would ask you if there . was anything I could do for you.” | “No! not a d—n thing!” Dickens answered, churlishly, not looking up | from his writing. 2 3 ! Colonel Throckmorton was growing ' heated about the colar at this time. However, he thought he had béen mis- | understood and again asked Dickens ’lt there was anything he could do for | him. “No. Didn’t you hear me?” an- swered Dickens, growing excited and gazing at the landlord as if he were a bellboy. “If there is anything I want I'll ring for it. You can go.” o That was enough. Colonel Throck- ‘morton walked quickly over to Dick- ens, grasped his coat collar and pulled him out of the chair. Dickens’ man- uscript fell all over the floor and the ink spattered on the carpet. He was game, however, and the men fought all over the room. “Dat Mr. Dickens were no gem’-. man,’ said Josh, recently, in telling ' about the occurrence. “And how de cunnel did black his eye!” 4 Fish in the Hose. A l‘few York paper prints a dispatch | from Middletown, N. Y., telling how .one large catfish put a fire company out of business temporarily and might easily have been the cause of a heavy fire loss in Middletown recently. A fire broke out in a large apart- ' ment house opposite the house of the cragk Ontario Engine Com; The dompany’'s hose was q y to the hydrant and-the on, but there all at Y * firemen unjointed sections of hose and in the last one near the nozzle was found a catfish nearly a foot long. . The fish had traveled nearly five miles through the water mains. Sweets for Children. Nearly all children, especially II_ they be normal, healthy children, crave for sweets. A great many parents, without any thought or rea- son in the matter, deny to their chil- dren all kinds of sweets. They do this from some pregonceived notion that sugar and c¢andy and cakes are bad for the children. Other parents go to the opposite extreme and indulge their children in all sorts of .confectionery, from the cheapest to the most expen- sive, allowing them to eat. rich, in- digestible cakes, jams, candied fruits, preserves, etc. They both are making a mistake. Children should be allowed to eat sweets—but the proper kind of sweets. Cheap, nasty confectionery should never be given them, neither should they be permitted to have too much jam nor any of that indefinahle hodgepodge of stuff that masquerades under the name of cake. Beware of cheap, painted candies; they are poisonous. : But give the children sweets in the form of pure chocolates, honey and syrup made from fruits. A lump of sugar or a stick of good candy now and theh will not hurt them. Let them eat molasses, but be sure it is a good quality. Fruit jellies, if unadui- terated, and plain cookies that are not too sweet are good for children. X Let the children have sweets. The system craves them. They impart warmth and energy. They nourish and build up the tissues. The best time to give the children sweets.is at meal times. Let fruits, jelly, syrup, molasses, honey or cookies form part of each meal and then children will not so often plead for candy and cake. Let the children have sweets. But see to it that they are furnished the proper kind, at the right time and in a sensible quantity,—Medical Talk. Smokeless Powder Fumes. “‘Smokeless powder has its dangers as well as advantages,” says Popular Mechanics. “While it does not reveal the location of the guns from whiéh it is fired, and does not obstruet the vision of its. gunners, it does emit a most deadly gas, which, if confined, works havoc. When used in the open field or battlements there is usually enough wind blowing to carry away the fumes, but when fired from turrets on board ship the gases are liable to be blown back into the compartment.. In -recent target practice by a battle- ship the wind blew the fumes into' the turret and nearly asphyxiated the en- tire gun crew.” 3 Answers to Queries. OHIO'S VOTE—Subseriber,. City. At the Presidential vote in Ohio in 1900 Bryan received, out of .1,040,073 votes ca#t, 474,882 and McKinley 543,- 918. ¢ . Z VALUE OF COINS—Allmed\ ‘Sub-. scriber. Questions relative to the value of coins must be accompanied by a self- addressed and stamped envelope, - ss such are not answered in'this column. NAVIES—B., City. In The Call of February 12, 1904, there was published in the general news a table showing the tonnage of the principal navies of the world. On: the 25th of the same month there was published in this de- - partment a list of the leading navies according to the number of vessels and’ of officers and men. STAR ROUTES—H. W., Napa, Cal. Star routes are those mail routes of the United States Government ori- which, owing to lack of railroad or. - steamboat facilites, the mail is car- - ried on horseback or wagons. They - are called star routes because in the route book of the Postoffice Depart- .- ment they are marked with a star: . ADOPTED DAUGHTER —L. W. B.," Oakland, Cal. There is no California .- decision on the subject of a man marry- ing his adopted daughter. The law of iegal relation of parént and child, and have all the-rights and be subject to- . all the duties of that relation.”