The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1904, Page 32

THE .SAN FRANCISCO CALL, : SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1904 Sy ERSIN | s72eWORLD | - — there have | stones, | velrg | both hemi- eft to France | ) have dis- | e the real heated electric en- | ss lasting e produces . r pearls is always fa £ the > The lead . Paix say ey »{ more are able avant, reatly Dub has tional F shery and Congress of 1900 M. Du- i the cess of his a cc s of tages of his ex- as many s before f any t showed pe: congress the him a him tc s under the most } he at once e he began a| climatizing e waters Dubois’ upon the now Is. 1 from ds. The ani- rwent some slight mo splanted from | ns on being t n to the Mediter- they proved unimportant, | of breeding the con- | eeded without inter- | oysters have ever | ch ovster beds. En- his success on the shore | js, M. Dubois brought some specimens of his pearl oysters to his | Jaboratory in Lyons, and N was once more | successful, imens containing small but | ere exhibited a short he Acade of Sciences, | een fo that oysters n French wa- increase rapid size ters there is every hope that M. Du- | bois’ pearls will in time attain the di- mensions required for the article of commerce. It is not likely that prices will be | affected by this artificial production— at Jeast not for some time to come. Until the quanti placed upon the market can be pst doubled the value of the jewel will not be appre- ciably dim hed; its hold upon the hearts of women is so firm and its v front rank of cov- position in t eted ornaments so ting that it will | probat rever be other than costly. | &] The ue of M. Dubois’ discoveries | js nmow recognized the French | Academy of Sciences, and great in-| lLis investigations.— | terest is taken in Washington Sm‘, No living thing, not even a scared| jackrabbit, -can travel with the speed displayed by sueh birds as the stork | and the northern bluethroat. Not only | do these birds fiy with a speed which | can hardly be conceived, but they keep | .up their rapid flight for one or two thousand miles at a stretch without ap- parently tiring. Evidence has been collected recently | which shows that the bluethroat flles “from Central Africa to the shores of | the Worth Sea, a distance of 1600 milles, in less than a day and a night, and | making it moreover in one uninter- rupted flight The storks, \\hl(‘h spend their E'I'n-l mers in Aust Hungary and their| winters in India and Central Africa, are -also marvelous travelers, and | make their journeys twice a year in one unbroken flight each time. From Budapest -in Hungary to La- hore in India is about 2400 miles in an air line, and the storks make the jour- ney in twenty-four hours, thus travel- ing at the rate of 100 miles an hour for the whole distance. The storks which spend the summer in Central Europe and the winter in Central Africa travel with the same rapidity. Slatin Pasha, an Austrian in the ser- vice of the Khedive and now Governor of the Central African provinee of Dar- fur, was for many years a captive in; the hands of the Mahdi and the Khalifa when the dervishes killed Gordon and established their empire, new over- thrown in the Soudan. One day at'Om- | stork r jmer the | distance of esults achleved | | sort of vehicle and beast of burden and | | nearly every invention of man for quick | durman he saw a stork with a mel&l band attached to one of its legs. He! caught the bird and found engraved upon the band the name of an old friend in Austria. He *wrote a note to his friend and | tled it to the metal band. When the rned to Austria for the sum- friend saw the letter, caught | the stork and read the message, which was the first certain assurance that the outside world received that Slatin was still alive. Th stork, as was proved by the dates, made the journey from Omdur- man to the Austrian country place, a nearly 3000 miles, at a speed of more than 100 miles an hour. s s e The American and English firms to which the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany has recently awarded the Con-" tracts for the construction of the rail- road tunnels under the North and East rivers at New York City have already | taken the preliminary steps necessary | to active operations. The contract for the iron castings, which will be the’ largest ever let, will be awarded In a | | day or two. The work on the tunnels will require 322,765 net tons of the cast- | ! ings. Practically every iron foundry | in the world is interested in the con-! tract and has submitted bids. The details of the tunneling of the' two rivers and the necessary facilities in and about New York City, which will | be in keeping with the gigantic engi- neering project, have been made known by the railroad company. The western | unnels will connect with the Pennsyl- vania tracks at Harrison, near Newark, N. J. The two tubes. which will be placed thirty-seven feet apart, will pass under Bergen Hill. The tunneis will be constructed in sections, the first to extend to Weehawken shaft, a dis- tance of 5910 feet. The next section ex- Is from the shaft to the New York State line, about the center of the river. The distance from the shaft to Ninth avenue, New York, is 9257 feet. | With the exception of a small section | of thirty-four-foot span, a section of 1096 feet of triple tunnel and a section | of 605 feet of four-track tunnel, sections consist of two individual tun-{ nels. The eastern division, from Ninth | avenue to Thomson avenue, Long Isl- d City, is 18,800 feet long. Iroad company, in awarding | the c t, paid particular attention | to the specifications relative to the| making and quality of steel and iron; castings to be used in the work. The these | specifications require that the cast contain not less than 1 per silicon, not more than six-| f 1 per cent of phosphorus and than thirteen-hundredths of 1 per cent of sulphur. It is also spec- ified that no mill cinder, white or burnt | iron or scrap shall be used in the man-| ufacture of the castings. The pitch. ! into which the castings are to be dipped while in a white heat, will be distilled from coal tar and must be free | from naphtha, and the material de- odorized by a solution of 6 per cent| linseed oil. The tunnels will be lined with cast iron or steel plates flanged | and bolted together.—New York Press. | ore It would be almost a physical im-. possibility for a man to hide himself | remote corner of the world with- discovered at last by some insignificant agent of the world's mail service, the machinery of which ope- | with clocklike regularity. If a| ye view of the different railroad | mboat lines which carry the | Id be taken the giant spider’s | \\(b thus formed would appear woven | | in a pattern so intricate that the mmd would balk at the mere suggestion of | unraveling it. And besides the regular | steamship and railroad threads of this | snaze muld ayprer e of housanie | of cross lines, representing pony routes, | dog and sled tracks, swift courfer and | runner “trails,” and even reindeer, whaling ship and canoe lines. Every | transportation have been pressed into | the postal service, and it is possible for a letter to go around the world under conditions so strange that th mere history of its journey would form a story of thrilling interest. If a man should start from New York and travel northward to Alaska, then | down the coast to California and take | ship to Manila, and follow the lines of travel to Hongkong, to Singapore, to Canton, to Tokio, to Vladivostok, to St. Petersburg, to Vienna, to London, | to South Africa, and finally to South | America, touching on the way at sev- eral Pacific and South Atlantic islands, and thence back to his starting point, he could travel a distance several times | greater than the circumference of the ; lobe. If he ordered his mail forward- ed to him, and left correct addresses | | | behind at each place, the letters would dutifully follow him and finally be de- | livered to him in New York a few days after his own arrival there. All that | he would have to pay extra for this remarkable journey would be a dollar or two in tolls, which would represent | the charges for forwarding exacted by some of the countries through which it passed. There is in the Postoffice | Department at Washington the envel- | ope of a letter which traveled in this | way 150,000 miles, and another which | came safely through a trip of 125,000 ; miles. BEoth are marked and stamped in 2 way to baffle any except a very expert decipherer of puzzles.—St. Nich- olas. R T ‘When Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonetic shorthand, predicted fifty vears ago that English was destined to} be the universal language, he was! Jaughed at. His prediction is no longer laughable. English is now spoken by about 125.- 000,000 people. A century ago it wa spoken by 20,000,000 people only. Dur- ing that period no other leading Euro- pean language has made the slightest advance. German has held its own, is spoken now by 80,000,000 people, but this is no higher percentage of the tctal number of the people of Euro- pean stocks than it had a century ago. Abraham Lincoln foresaw m,ooo.ml English-speaking people in the United | States alone, and later prophets have | described it as the home of 300,000,000 / L5 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor . ... ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publicatlon OMfon ..o ss+4s osdugnisesstabssssh @ tiieeceieiien... Third and Market Streets, S. F. SUND ~\Y spirit of among ancient present devout EASTER TIME. IKE many other great Christian holidays, Easter is expressive of a thought and aspiration and rejoicing that were in the world and men ages before the day acquired its significance. The refinement of thought and the faculty of observation have had their seat in the temperate acutely marked lapse of plant | rection in the rial significance zone. There the four seasons are and the solstices and equinoxes, the life into sleep in the fall and its resur- spring, are events of the deepest mate- to man. If no spring were to follow the winter, then the sleep of plant life would be eternal and }hat part of the human race dependent upon the fruits of the soil would disappear from the face of the carth. the bursting of The observed No wonder then that man devoutly celebrated the buds and the return of verdure. resurrection of the fruitful possibilities of the earth soon underwent an application to the state of man. to life from th have a glorious resurrection and a second life? Paul, in preach the observed fa As some power brought bloom and fruit back e tomb of winter, why should not man St. ing the resurrection, made ample use of cts of renewal of life in the fields. This was because the people to whom he preached, by long custom were familiar with the change in the vegetable kingdom and had learned for ages to regard it with feelings of awe Indeed, they had gone beyond that. and thankfulness. The ancients, who worshiped at the family hearth, on which the fire was never quenched, “the second life.” | positive faith. They believed that the influence of those had long believed in what they called . It was with them a confirmed and who had entered upon it was around the living, and so they invoked th eir ancestors and looked upon the family tomb as the abode of those who had entered upon the second life. of the ancient This belief was wrought into the civil polity nations and races. Rome was prepared for the acceptance of Christianity by it, and the transition was made easy by the Christian story of the resurrection. So, from pas the horizon of t ages, and a practice reaching beyond history, this season and its celebration as a time of hope, renewed life and rejoicing came down | and has become ; tian traditions and celebrations. ! under the highe other millions the most firmly seated of modern Chris- To-day many millions, r lights of Christianity, are joining many living in a lesser light in solemn and cheerful observance of the great feast which has the same significance for all. It is remarkal we call pagan of this season homes the children to-day expect ble that observation among the ancients caused the use of the egg as a symbol of the resurrection of life. In Christian the gayly colored cggs, and art has wrought the egg form out of many materials for Easter use. The pagans used the egg to symbolize the source of life as St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity. « That was a far gone time, but modern science finds the source of 1 the egg, the cell. ife just where the ancients found it—in From cells proceed the life of man and of other animals, and from cells the life .of plants | emerges, and b the cell perishe y them is built up. If the egg failed, if d, life would have no renewaly no resur- rection, and the influence of the vernal equimox would conjure with a barren world. To-day in every zone the story of the resurrection is | told, and music hope lead the material plenty and ritual and high expression of human thoughts of men from the renewal of and comfort upward to the unfailing | beneficence of the power that is the final cause of it all. In all this there is not such a widé distance between the materialist the surface. Th and the supernaturalist as seems upon e experience of ages provides that neither can put aside the impulse and lesson of the season. One may see in it fested only in t while the other lation for the final cause of the law. only the working of law that is mani- he unerring recurrence of its phenomena, explores the mysterious and seeks revet But each is com- pelled to reverence, in admitting that man is dependent upon some system which he cannot create for himself, Philosophers | but of which he is a part. and metaphysicians have not failed to observe the long leading and prolonged preparation of man for Christ meant for the race. hreds and fibers of the new. ianity and the further progress which it In every old system there were the It required one surpass- ing influence to weave these together into a fabric that surpassed all of which they had been parts. This in- fluence came into the world and did its work, and in the observance saluting it as t of this old and universal feast men are he master fact in the life of the race. Mayor Olney of Oakland is perhaps the most keen- sighted man in California. At a recent meeting of the Alameda County Teachers’ Institute Mr. Olney looked into the future far as human eyc can see and saw a condition in which the teachers of the State will be bet- ter paid than they are now. The lives of politicians teach us that Mr. Olney is entitled to another look. CLARK ON ROOSEVELT. CHAMP CLARK serves in Congress, lectures to the newspap city he shows summer Chautauquas, and also writes for the ers. One nevef knows in which capa- the real Clark. As a lecturer he and Senator Dolliver of Iowa make up their routes and travel together. travel apart. and does not Congressman. on “The Vice Evening Post.” public men, lik As a Congressman he and the Senator As a newspaper writer he goes alone, recognize himself in the capacity of a His latest newspaper work is an article Presidency,” published in “The Saturday that medium through which retired e Mr. Cleveland, and active public men, like Senator Beveridge, make their views known on all subjects, from In this articl fishing to the "Eastern question. e Mr. Clark mixes statistics with obser- vations upon the personality of Lincoln and other public men. He places the Vice Presidency highly, and de- clares that there are only four citizens of the republic who could refuse it on rational gfounds, if offered to | them this year, dore Roosevelt, and fhiese are, Grover Cleveland, Theo- Chief Justice Fuller and Admiral Dewey. The chief interest of the article is its discussion of Bresident Roosevelt, in which Champ Clark the writer is not recognized as Champ Clark the Congressman and politician. He says: “Colonel Roosevelt seems destined to remove the the Presidency transaction. hoodoo from Vice Presidents who reach accidentally, at least so far as the nomi- | nation is concerned. That will be merely a pro forma His coming into power was under most when the twenty-first century dawns.| favorable surroundings; the country was prosperous; his As the learning of English is compul- | sory in India, 300,000,600 more people ! are being annexed to the munh-l speaking world. party united, triumphant and aggressive. With the laudable ambition of being elected President, he has exhibited much more tact than he had been credited with, and though very much disposed to have his own way, he has created no schisms among Republicans. At first the veteran leaders looked askance at him, but gradually he has won them over, and one by one they have given in their adhesion until he has no organized opposition for the nomination. It would appear to a looker on in Vienna that the precedents do not apply to Colonel Roosevelt.” That is an hongst expression of opinion by Champ | The precedents are that a Vice President succeeding to the Presidency has never The people will agree that these do not apply to President Roosevelt, and that he is more likely to serve two full elected terms than to end his career as a succeeding Vice President. —_— Clark, the newspaper writer. been elected to the first place. The squabble of two plug uglies to determine who won in their recent exhibition of fisticuffs is of timely in- terest in connection with the fact that one of them re- ceived $15,000 of the people’s money and the other pock- It is perhaps pertinent to the issue to sug- gest, under the circumstances, that whoever won the eted $8o0o0. public of San Francisco lost. AMERICAN TRADE IN BRAZIL. IN his last report to the Government Eugene Seeger, United States Consul General to Brazil, makes some !Con!clence which ‘would be liers & {90 statements relative to American southern republic. South America to a degree which without competition. for supplying Brazil with a complete tirely by German and English capital. “There are various causes for the discrimination in fa- vor of English importers and contractors,” “and it is only just to say that as far as the national ad- ministration is concerned there is not the least prejudice against the United States and its industries. tc a large degree financially dependent on England, and as long as this powerful influence exists American com- petition here will be seriously handicapped.” The report of our Consul General is but another ar- gument in favor of the passage of the ship subsidy bill If one wonder why it is that England and Germany are supreme in the Brazilian markets, as they are in every other mart south of the Mexican border, he hasfonly to turn to the record of the merchant marine of thosé two countries and compare that with the meager showing our ships make upon the seas to find an an- swer to his question. It was through their merchant ma- rine that England and Germany first came into the rich field of South American trade, and it is through their merchant marine that they remain in undisputed posses- The coming of their ships brought about the es- tablishment of the banks as a means of financing the countries with which they were doing their trading and added to their prestige in the markets of the republics. The United States, with scarcely the flag of one mer- chantman upon the lower Atlantic, was naturally out- by Congress. sion, stripped. If the merchants of this country would have any voice in affairs commercial in the Latin republics they can do so only through the medium of American freight car- is too valuable a What we have lost we can re- gain and add to by ever-increasing percentages through the upbuilding of an American merchant marine. riers. The trade of South America thing to lose entirely. By the stern decree’of Missouri justice a bank rob- ber of that State was hanged the other day in expiation of his offense. is erroneous. THE EXPERIMENT STATION. HE CALL, as an original proponent of the Sacra- T mento Valley location for the Federal plant ex- periment station, is highly gratified that Chico is finally selected and the ground obtained. The Sacra- mento Valley Development Association took the matter in hand, and the whole valley concentrated upon Chico. We are pleased, too, with the area that has been sscurcd. The station will occupy 300 acres of fine land, with irri- gation, drainage and everything that can bring it into ! the highest action. There will be finally the greatest plant experiment sta- ! xbot:mica] garden more important than the Kew . Gardens in London or the Jardin des | Plantes in Paris, for the sufficient reason that the climate and fixed physical conditions make it possible to have at Chico the greatest variety of plants ever grown in the same soil anywhere on earth. When it is in full action it will employ hundreds of men, will be a school | of instruction in vegetable physiology and pathology, cultivation and uses, and will be not only of the first | practical importance to California, but will be one of the greatest show places in the United States. there is the strongest stroke for the State in all its his- tory since the discovery of gold. The Sacramento Val- Jey has needed just that impetus to its progress. many towns have stood as one for Chico and therein have learned the valuable lesson of the force of associa- tion in the world, tion and the benefit of pulling together. The Agricultural Department is entitled to the grati- tude of our people for this significant move in their in- Secretary Wil- son has become such a strong factor in the sroductive in- dustries of the country and has so clearly seen the possi- bilities of California that to lose his services at the head of the department would be regarded here as a calamity. His organization of the scientific and practical ener- gies of the department has been solely in the interest of the American agricultural producer, and when his w’ifl be seen that he profits of all our rural terest and it should receive their thanks. plans are perfected in their results it has added millions to the .APRIL 3, 1 trade country which cast an instructive light upon the position our merchants hold in the commercial activities of the Consul Seeger’s report would seem to indicate that while the American commercial invasion of Europe is in its heyday the commercial powers from across the water are checkmating our trade expansion in is perilous to the American manufacturer and the American ship owner. According to the Consul’s report the contract for har- bor improvements at Rio de Janeiro, involving the ex- penditure of $30,000,000, was awarded to a London firm Official calls for bids to supply the Government with coal for all its railroads and steam- ships have, until the recent protest of our Consul, speci- fied that only Cardiff will be accepted. A recent contract circulation of nickel coins was awarded a German firm after the pro- posals had been posted in Rio and London only. Seeger's report runs; every enterprise, either of a gov- ernmental or a private nature, is controlled almost en- says Seeger, The incident is encouraging, as it indi- | cates with sufficient clearness that the current that Missouri confines her hangings strictly to one class Its location i minutes I was ready and stepped into ! woman. | of farewell symposium, as it were. But | Danforth a few mornings ago as he ! woman out and turning to me said, | who day in and day out appears at the | around him partaking of his bounty, ; these smiles that a teacher, recently as- ! all the world. TALK OI‘ THE TOWl;J/ Stweet Violet. ! “I have a younger brother,” quoth the fellow at the head of the table; “I also have, or rather did have, a goat. The goat was given me by a friend as a joke; the younger brother I could not help. The brother is no kid, ditto the geat. His name is not important (o the story, but the goat’s name is Violet. “It happened ome time before I had decided definitely to become a bachelor that I was very much In love with a young lady. Should have known bet- ter, for she was one of the kind who will have you call on Thursday nights and the other men on Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday nights—but you don’t know that. But I digress upon a subject which has no charms. To get back to the story, I had a nice lit- tle stand-up-and-go-to-it fight with the fair one on the night before I went north on business. I had Intended everything to be soft and lovely—a sort | no so. “Just as I went down the front steps of the dear one’s house I struck a dra- matlc attitude and sald, ‘To-morrow I will be far from here, but you will have something to remind you of me I guess.’” Of course I meant the gullty result of her shocking bad behavior toward me. “The next day I had not got very far away on the train when my heart soft- ened toward the young thing back at hcme and T dropped off at a station and sent the following message back to my younger brother: ‘Take violets to Lorena. Tell her a peace offering from me.’ “Now my younger brother claims that the telegraph operator left off the ‘s’ on the end of ‘violets.” I think that my younger brother is a consummate ass. “Anyway she returned Violet with thanks, saying that she certainly had had something to remind herself of e ‘A Disappointed Cupid. “Some people do not know their own minds for five minutes,” sald Cupid was opening up the marriage license office. As he spoke he yawned and rubbed his eyes. ‘“Come In,” he sald| to a newspaper man to whom he ad- dressed the remark, “and I'll tell you why I think so.” “Last night about midnight I was awakened out of a sound sleep by a ring at my doorbell. I got up, slipped on a portion of my clothing and went to the door. At the curb in front of the house was a cab, and standing on the doorstep was a young fellow. He asked if I was Mr. Danforth, and when I told him I was he wanted to know if it were possible to get a marriage license at that hour. I told him it was, and asked him to wait a few moments until 1 got dressed, when I would go to the hall with him and issue it. In a few the cab. “The young man was already in the vehicle, and sitting beside him was a I judged by her figure that| she could not be very old. Well, we! drove along in silence for several blocks, and then the woman addressed a remark in a very low tone to her companion. He answered, and then asked me the address of the nearest Justice of the Peace. After I told him| he again turned to the woman, and for at least five minutes they conversed in very low tones. Just as the cab turned | into Larkin street the young fellow, with what sounded to me very much like a curse, rapped on the cab win- dow and yelled to the driver to stop. When the cab came to a standstill the young fellow jumped out, helped the ‘We have changed our minds.’* “Uncle Tom.” “Uncle Tom"” the children call the bent, white-haired. Llack-clad old man schoolhiguse and distributes a big bag of candy among the little ones. The teachers also call him “Uncle Tom,” and so do the residents in the immedi- ate neighborhood of the school. He is a kindly old fellow, and though, when the little tots are not gathered there sometimes can be seen a look of sadness in his faded blue eyes, his face is generally lit up by a smile—just such a smile as one usually associates with a happy, contented old age. It was while “Uncle Tom's” face wore one of signed to the school, asked him why he was so fond of the little ones. ! “Lord love ye, Miss,”'said the old * will stop at the hundredth revolution of their own accord. The only possi- ble explanation of this is that the ani- mals can count a hundred. But how can a hen, even though she may learn to count seven easily enough, grasp the idea that it is wrong to lay an egg on Sunday? That is the only feature of the case that I can't under- stand. What is your explanation of % “Well,” replied the bald-headed boarder, “the only reason I can offer why the old hen never lays an egg on Sunday is that she never lays an egg on any other day of the week, and hasn’t for two whole years.”—Youths” Companion. Life’s Tavern. -— . In this old Tavern there are rooms s0 That 1 would linger here. I love these corners and familiar nooks Whereb‘l”hlve sat with peaple and with The very inperfections and the scars About the walls and cefling and the floor, The sagging of the windows and the door, The dinginess that mars The hearth and chimney, and the wood lald bare There on the old black chair. The dear dilapidation of the place Smiles in my face, And I am loath to go. Here from the window is s glimpse of sea, Enough for me; And ew;eery evening, through the window rs, Peer in the friendly stars. —And yet I know That some day I must go, and close the And see the House no more. RY BURT MESSER, in the Apru Atlantic. Flying Jewels. Of all the birds the humming birds, | especially when young, seem to dis- play the least fear, says a writer in Country Life in America. It is a dif- ficult matter to train a young canary bird to follow one about the house or | to come when called, yet we have had several humming birds which were perfectly domesticated and more thor= . | oughly tame than any bird I have seen. Two humming birds that g: up with us were given a small place in a closet in our sleeping apartment. At the first approach of daylight they would fly out into the room, the door being left ajar, and directly to the bed, | hovering over my face, their loud humming noise awakening me at once. | There was no mistaking that the birds wished their breakfast and they could not be driven away. At times I would pretend not to see them and they { would finally alight on the bed, utter- ing the quaint little sound, now per- haps a protest, then would hover over my eyes, so near that the wind from the rapidly moving wings was quite sufficient to arouse me. When I held out my finger one or both would alight upon it and gaze at me in a manner which spoke volumes to any one imaginative enough to think they un- derstood the language of birds when they are hungry. Their food consisted of sugar and water, which was fed to them with a chopstick-llke straw. Immediately upon seeing it they would poise in the air and lick the drop on the tip until they were satisfled. Occasionally they would poise before the big red flowers printed on the curtains. They recog- | nized the pictures of flowers on sight and endeavored to press their bills into them. Artificial flowers were ap- proached in the same way. In a word, these most helpless, the smallest of all birds, required no education, no train- ing from parents; it was all instinctive. Answers to Queries. SEVEN AND A HALF-M. G, City. The game of seven and a half is not de- scribed in Hoyle, consequently there cannot be a “decision according to Hoyle.” N [ S— IN ' WYOMING—C. H. L., City. fellow, “I love 'em all because once, years ago, long afore you were born, I had a little niece. She was fair-haired and had such bright blue eyes that to me she was the bonniest little lass in Then"—and here the old fellow's voice quivered and broke, and with a shaking hand he wiped away two big tears that coursed down his cheeks—“then she died. In my old age her memory haunts me, and these llme ones help me forget the misery of my' last days. Their ‘Uncle Tom’ is sweet to these old ears, Miss—almost as sweet as the ‘Uncle Tom’ ot my little blue-eyed pet.” v Uncle Wilinot's Hen. “speaking of the inteiligence of dumb creatures,” observed the bald-headed dia boarder, “my Uncle Wilmot has a hen ! on his farm in the country that never There is nothing in the laws of the State of Wyoming that prohibits com- marriages. In the absence mon law of Any positive provision declaring that all marriages not celebrated in a manner prescribed shall be void a marriage without conformity to such regulation is valid if the parties have entered into a contract of marriage ac- cording to the common law. ARKANSAS—Subscriber, Citv. There are many people who pronounce the name of the State of Arl as if written Ar-kan-sas, while others pro- nounce it as if written Ar-kan-saw. The legislative body of that State settled this matter in March, 1881, by adopting Ar-kan-saw as the proper pronunciation, holding that that was the pronunciation as heard by the French when it was spoken by the In- ns. TWO O’CLOCK—C. A. M., City. Two lays an egg on Sunday at any .,...,,,:me!oc k a. m. means 2 o'clock ante of the year.” the other boarders at once. “You don't expect us to believe that, do you?" said the man with the pointed beard. “It’s the solemn truth,” rejoined the other. “I can testify to it of my own personal knowledge, and can prove it by every member of my uncle’'s fam- ly.” “It doesn’t seem absolutely impos- sible to me,” said another boarder. “Some animals can count. This has been proved in the case of oxen that are used in certain foreign countries as the motive power for pflnmn mills or irrigation machinery. are driven a hundred times Nl.nd a circular track and then allowed to '#est. After a few months the OXen | itornia This statement aroused | or before 12 o'clock noon. Night is the da k half of the day of twenty-four hours, that part of the complete day during which the sun is below the horizon; the time from sun- set to sunrise. Morning is the first part of the day, strictly from midnight to noon. In a limited sense morning is the time from a little after sunrise or the time a little before sunrise, or at break of day and extending to midday (noon). In the strictest sense it is not proper to say “at 2 o'clock at night.” * —_—— Townsend’s California Glaca fruits and choice m in artistic firé-etched . boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends 715 Market mt. lhnv. Call building. * 7 e ry e fi B St