The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904. —— | | ! | | | | | | Correspondence. RS OF THE CALL, | NRIETTA STREET, LONDC.{, 14.—Contained in the last news- m Vienna are »m & new work by an Austrian officer on the In a Little Garrison Town,” which might h at attracted almost as & book, had not have s F lieutenant been first in atter work, -which pro- e the existence of whole- n in the army of the is called “In K. and N, has the sub-title, — | sust turning tnto the grounds of Un- | lished in the Times of Herbert Spen- | philosopher to whom his word is law | | may feel called upon to revise their es- dershaw, his residence, when one of the car wheels struck the gate, and the automobile turned completely over. Sir Arthur and his brother were pinned un- | derneath, but, luckily, in such a way that they were released a few moments after the accident, with only a few bruises. . . Judging from the foretaste just pub- cer’s “Autobiography” disciples of the timates of many famous literary per- sonages after they have read his last work. It seems that although Spencer | admired Ruskin at first because he crit- | icized the paintings of Raphael, the‘ | p o) - £ - philosopher considered “The Stones o i Even the austere Greeks loved luxury and Cleon could Venice” mere barbarism. “That one, he writes, “who has written and uttered | | such muititudinous absurdities should | have acquired so great an influence is to me both surprising and dishearten- ing.” That Carlyle should be called a phil-| osopher “riled” Spencer. “He thought in a passion,” wrote the author of “First Principles,” “and was perturbed by emotion.” J. Stuart Mill he consid- ered quiet and unassuming, but a man who took too grave a view of things in | his later years. Huxley, according to Mr. Spencer, despite his scientific train | of thought, “was a sayer of humorous thin, one of these comments of the philosopher’s, however, is more striking | than that made upon George Eliot. | “There were reports,” he says, ‘that I| was in love with her and that we were! about to be married, but neither of | these reports was true.” He speaks ad- | i e Doy | miringly, however, of George Eliot's A - Its author, ROW- | . on e Voice” and of “the sympathetic | ever voided a punishment Sim- | ue'enat transfigured her face.” In; 1 suffered by Bilse—and in- | arother place he says “physical beauty r the pecuni |is a sine quon non with me, as was | rdom—for, before | once happily proved where the intel- | he threw up his | lectual traits and the emotional traits ~ | were of the highest.” s anonymously, | A g Art Under Difficulties. sporting world. At| i iticisms on what he al-| Tyere are several instances of men ate of the Aus-|,53 women deprived by nature or ac- astic, and it i8] igent of their arms having recourse na that the book Can-|io the lips as a means of earning a red by the powers that be. | jjvelihood. One of the most remark- of “In K. and K. Diensten” | gple is the case of James Carter of the garrison towns of P.|goggeshall, Essex, who at the age of (Prague), K. (Kracow) and Pre. (Pre- | 99 was crippled for life by a fall of gemyol), the latter of which is described | forty feet from a tree. Paralyzed | as the most corrupt of all. The writer | from the head downward, he was says that the regiment in which he|compelled for the rest of his life| served was commanded by a Colomel [to lie on his back. He, how-| chwitzer, nicknamed “stupid Dow- |ever, taught himself to draw and who, declares, mounted his|Paint and even to etch with- the A mouth. His most famous picture was horse no more than ten times in a year. | .., pa¢ Catcher and His Dogs,” and The officer’s lectures are described bY | ¢ ypis Lapaseer declared that he had e author as “helpless stammerings,” | never geen a finer piece of drawing lares that his rank of gen- by truckling hd and he and lickspitt "The lieutemant | celonel of the regiment is said to be sor of several orders, but ab- | ompetent. For years, says | the author, he embezzle moneys n this easy means of earn- | ¢ by his adjutant, Lieuten- | who, however, himself | finally began | used his position to intrusted to him, be- | than the white terrier. More recently | we have Mlle. Aimee Rapin, who, | born without arms, painted with her! feet; and Francois de Mentholen, who was also born without arms and with oniy one leg, but who, in spite of this terrible affliction, succeeded in winning | the first Raigecourt-Goyon prize in the | Salon some years ago. { Bartram Hiles' career, however, if | not unique, is none the less interesting | on that account, for it is a remarkable | “head o o b h,,{‘,',‘ w:,f o ,,’:‘,L," “',,i,_,, At ot | Instance of what pluck and persever- e D e & himest | ance will accomplish under conditions by Tevorting. the adiutent who mas | #hich would overwhelm most men; | ,;”',‘,,p,.l :’E i\, \,,u".\ ,‘"{,.r,m,;,mom | but probably Bartram Hnesd:lono E eind e s at what cost the splendid re- and degradation. The lectures delly- | KPOWS at P 1 ‘ered by the major of the regiment | were, says the writer, such monuments | of incapacity that he finally had to ask | the captain not to correct him before | the younger officer: nraged at this | humiliation, however, he vented his | spite by ordering horseback exercises 10 be held in the open air—instead of in | the riding school—the thermometer at the time registering below zero, and | by ordering th. regimental doctor to reject all cases of sickness in connec- tion"with the riding school, “until not a map of them was left.” The book is filled, also, with accusations of vruell)“ on the part of the officers toward the | men tinder them. Concerning the work, | the Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung says: “In | how far these occurrences, admitting | their accuracy, can be regarded as | typical of the whole army, we would | not like to decide. If the corps of of- | ficers were to have but a 10 per cent so- | lution of this putrid pus In its ‘vener- | able’ body, we should have to describe | it as compietely diseased and morally | poisoned. Will Herr V. Pitreich (War Mirfister) be able to refute the suspicion of disease? All!mugh the United Services College | nations, the subjects including model- 6t Westward Ho has graduated over|ing In those early days, and in later | 1200 pupiis since iis establishment in vears, Mr. Hiles made a point of | J*74. public interest in the place has|siuqying every branch of art, prefer- Leen keenest—since its doom as a | school was sounded recently—as Rud- | yard Kipling's alma mater. The col- was, of course, the scene of Co.,” and nearly all the characters drawn therein are associated with Kipling's school life at Westward | Ho. The master described as the| “head” still is connected with the school in the person of Cormell Price, one of the few of hie instructors for whom Kivling had a good word to say in thie account of his schoolboy days. Kipling’s old room is still to be seen, likewise some of his old schoolbooks, | with many characteristic autographb in- scriptions. The United Services College # being transferred from Westward Ho to Harpenden, the North Devon town being hard to get at, whereas Harpen- den is only twenty-five miles from London. e iy It is not generally known why the project to mark with a commemorative tablet the house in Metz, Germany, where Paul Verlaine was born has sud- denly been abandoned. It seems, how- ever, that just at the last minute some one connected with German officialdom hit upon an old poem of Verlaine's in which he “roasted” the Kaiser, when William II instantly gave orders that no further honor to the poet's memory should be paid in the Fatherland. e Little or nothing got into the English newspapers regarding Dr. Conan Doyle’'s recent motor accident, but it was a remarkably close call for the author of “Sherlock Holmes.” The lit- erary knight, who recently has become one of the keenest of automobilists, was motoring back to his home at Hindhead with his brother, and was sult we now see has been attained. Bartram Hiles was born in Bristol, | and in his early childhood developed a strong love for drawing, which, curi- ously enough, became more intense | when, at the age of 8 years, he met| with the tramcar accident which de- | prived him of both arms. So he lPti | to work to train his mouth to hold and | use a pencil, and after some months’ | | constant practice he had the immense | | satisfaction of being able to draw with i ‘n strong touch and to write quite| legibly with his mouth. “Two years |after the accident I.could write and draw as well as most boys of my own age,” says Mr. Hiles, “but it took me six years to acquire a freedom of line and touch.” As a matter of fact he had accomplished a great deal more than this, for it was when he was only 10 years old (two years after his ac- cident) that he gained a “first-class excellent” in the second grade for | freehand drawing at the School of Art | he was attending in his native city. From this time tie young artist made rapid and remarkable progress. Sent to attend the art class at the Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, Bristol, he successfully passed several examil- ring to do this rather than to keep one particular line. He took a first-class certificate for modeling. He used to beat up the clay with his chin and mouth, and finish off with modeling tools held in his mouth. This, as may | be imagined, i8 not pleasant work, and | Mr. Hiles, having obtained his certifi- cate, has practically given up this branch of his art. At 16 the artist exhibited his first picture and succeeded in finding a | purchaser. But though his career was | now fairly started, it still required nearly six years of work before he ob- tained that absolute control of his mouth and the muscies of his neck which was essential to his success. While still a student at the Technical College, Bristol, Mr. Hiles succeeded in winning his national scholarship, val- ued at 100 guineas, and tenable for two years; and during his stay at South Kensington he carried off several val- uable prizes in open competition. Mr. Hiles now went to Paris, where he studied for some time, but recetving a commission from his native city to paint a series of thirty water colors for an exhibition to be held in Bristol, he returned to London to carry out the work. Twenty-seven out of the thirty paintings found purchasers, among the latter being Queen Alexandra (then Princess of Wales). ' Mr. Hiles is an exhibitor at the Royal Soclety of British Artists, the Institute of Painters in Water Cblors, the Dudley Gallery and other well- known gallerfes. Choice specimens of his work were acquired by the late Queen, and also by Mr. Walter Crane, Mrs. Cornwallis West and many well- known connoisseurs of art.—London Chronicle, | Egyptians the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . .. . ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager - oA S SR T B SR e Pobontien OIS i..toosaseissneswviesbiveapds @ teeesetenecivess..Third and Market Streets, S. F. THURSDAY _...APRIL 28, 1004 EXTRAVAGANT MAN. T last the long expected blow has fallen. Modern A society is frequently arraigned for its extrava- gance in the non-essentials of existence. Modern society is not acquitted by a showing that ancient soci- ety had the same habit. Among the Assyrians there was fondness for fine raiment, for jewels and mansions and flowers. Mr. Egibi, the Rothschild of Babylon, was looked upon just as J. P. Morgan is to-day. Among the gentlemen who cornered the corn and linen market and gathered much gear thereby blowed it in on good clothes and houses, and carried the ostenta- tion of wealth to the bedecking of their tombs, so that the passers-by might say “there lies a rich man housed elegantly in death and in his very bones enjoying a luxury denied to his betters.” always carry his ward in Athens by declaiming against their extravagance. When we come down to Rome we find dinners on nightingales’ tongues, wine by the buck- etful and the guests emptying themselves emetically in order to sit down and go through the bill of fare again. So nations and peoples begin in simplicity and end in course dinners and gold toothpicks and dyspepsia. They then enter upon the breakfast food and crust coffee pe- riod and rebuild their stomachs to go the pace again. It has been often Charged that women are responsible for these extravagances in victuals and drink, in clothes and houses, and horses and carriages. In our own coun- try there is luxury alongside of comfort, and comfort a neighbor to penury. Mr. Blaine defended free tobacco by declaring that the weed was originally a luxury, but by use and habit had bécome one of the necessaries of life. He was mindful of the fact that what one genera- tion adopts as an extravagance the next learns to treat as a necessity. Since the organization of women’s clubs and the demand for woman suffrage this question of ex- travagance has been under discussion. The suppressed woman has laid it at the door of tyrant man and poor man has countered by charging it to luxury-loving woman. So the ineffectual debate has gone on, each side asserting the responsibility of the other. But fine houses and fine clothes, cut glass and silver, good victuals and good drink have lost nothing in popularity. At last the matter came up for final and authoritative decision. The ladies of the California Club wanted it settled and went at it in a business way. They met and verbally battled over a resolution which stated the ques- tion thus: “Resolved, that women are largely responsible for the extravagance of cur modern life.” It was a self- accusatory statement of the case. It brought man to book before his betters and he was found guilty. We ad- mit that he was gallantly defended. " From what we know of man he does not deserve the sweet things said for him by the ladies who came to his rescue. Everything was said for him that could be said for such a creature, but his fair foewomen were not to be blinded by the ar- guments for the defense. They cast sentiment to the winds and did not flinch even when reminded that they seemed to forget that their fathers were men.. Man was fully exposed and elegantly roasted to a turn. He was proved guilty on every count and the verdict went against him. He was conyicted of uncalled for extravagance, and if execution could follow judgment would be put on bread and water, jerked out of his tuxedo and into over- alls and sent to do time in a shack. Lovely woman is vindicated. She does not like jewels | and silks, delicate dinners and a fine house, and in pro- viding these for her man is simply thrumming on the strings of his own vanity and making eyes at himself. Was it Othello who said: “Woman, thou shouldst have few sins of thine own to answer for, thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man!” If not Othello it was | some other man, which is the same thing, for it was simply a specious and illogical defense that man has put up ever since Adam hid behind Eve. From now on extravagance will decline. The ladies have decided that hereafter the extravagance of man is not to be exhibited on them. No more diamonds, gentle- men, nor silks nor laces, nor any vanities. If you must have fine houses you must inhabit them alone. You may gOrge to your goozle strings on costly food, and swallow your own hot, rebellious drinks. Woman stands for a simple cottage, cresses and corned beef, and as for per- sonal adornment she is the lily incapable of paint. Well, it was time for man to be taken down a peg or two and we are glad he got it. After months of investigation involving palpably pa- tient industry our police report material progress in the opinion that the highwaymen that have been operating for months in San Francisco are organized. If our peace guardians will now only adopt the heroic measure of fighting organization with organization something may be done to restore the peace of mind of the rest of us. COLONIES AND THE NAVAL POWER. URING the ten weeks of fighting fn the Far East D there have been developed many remarkable facts for the consideration of statesmen and military tacticians; perhaps the most significant of all arises from the present relative positions of the two contestants both on land and sea. ] With the joss of the Petropavliovsk and the gallant commander of the fleet in the East Russia has been brought to extremities. She now has hardly enough vessels at Port Arthur to put up a creditable defense; of- fensive operations are rendered entirely impracticable by the overwhelming preponderance of power on the part of the Japanese fleet. Unless the Port Arthur squadron is reinforced by the addition of a part of Russia’s re- serve fleet in the Baltic the naval arm of the service in Manchuria ceases to be a‘factor in either offense or de- fense. As a result of Russia’s fatal weakness on the sea Japanese transports have swarmed to the Korean coast with impunity and that country is now in the hands of the brown men. This precipitous fall of the naval arm of Russia’s ser- vice must bring to the mind of every colony-holding power a question for serious reflection. If a nation’s navy goes to pieces what power can save its colonies from seizure by the enemy? In the present instance Russia’s navy before the war was heavier, on paper at least, than that of the Mikado by several thousand tons, et before three months of fighting have passed the Czar's ships are reduced to a desperate defense, and Port Arthur, his most easterly outpost, is sorely beleaguered by the enemy. Though this part of the Czar's domain is on the other side of the globe, it is fortunattly connected with the base at home by a thin line of rails, sufficient pro- vision perhaps to insure a retrenchment of losses on the ! tieth century2 . sea by successful land campaigns. But were England and Germany, aided by Russia, say, to come to grapples, and the combined fleets of the Slavs and Teutons to suc- ceed in delivering a crushing blow to the ships of Ed- w'nrd, suddenly revealed to be lacking in estimated strength, temporarily paralyzing their efficiency, what power could prevent the blockade and probable downfall of Cape Town or Bombay? The disasters at Port Arthur have forced it in upon high lords of the admiralty and keepers of the treasury that a nation that hopes to hold colgnies on the other side of the globe must not only have a large navy, but one that will answer pound for pound to the fighting strength accredited it on the books of the navy office. Since our Congress grudgingly appropriated the money for the Dolphin, first of the new navy, in the 80's the rapid advance of the nation as a world power and the recent acquisition of dependencies beyond the seas has demanded a navy commensurate with our growing as- pirations. This has been given us. More than that, there has been more powder burned in target practice than was ever exploded at Manila Bay or before Santiago. As a result this nation has what the Russians had not—a navy whose strength is actually in excess of that cred- ited to it by the figures of the statisticians. While we continue to build and to drill our ships the Philippines are safe, but no longer. | In their administration of justice the Federal courts are teaching the tribunals of the State a salutory lesson. It is noticeable and encouraging that malefactors in the United States courts prefer a plea of guilty rather than a trial and its intelligent conclusion of conviction. An offender that pleads guilty to an offense in the State courts creates a reasonable doubt as to his sanity. Tsonal lines. Mr. Bourke Cockran jumped into the fight with a personal attack on the President, ac- cusing him of destroying the constitution and sending the Goddess of Liberty forth in tatters and rags to beg bread from door to door. 3 When such accusations are made the personality of the accuser is put in issue. Naturally Mr. Cockran was put under the electric light. He is a picturesque person, equipped with interchangeable views of American affairs. The best use of his ability was checked by a suddenly ac- | quired fortune that has made it unnecessary for him to stick to anything long. When Tammany needed robust | and impassioned oratory in its business and had need of | gesticulation, verbosity and volume it sent him to Con- | gress and kept him there as a foil to Tim Campbell and | its other members, whose function was to set and bait traps while Cockran beat the bush and drove the game. | When no longer needed Tammany dropped him, when | he immediately used his gift of muscular oratory against | Dick Croker and all his works. ’ | In 1892 he was with Tammany a.d Hi'T against Cleve- land and outroared the thunder of that stormy night in the national convention denouncing Cleveland. In 1893 he supported Cleveland in Congress. In 1896 he refused to have anything to do with the gold Democracy and went into the Republican party and supported McKinley directly. In 1900 he jumped back and stumped the coun- | try for Bryan. Now he is again with Tammany and | against Hill and Parker. Such an erratic record hardly deserves the edge of his scalpel which Mr. Dalzell dulled in dissecting it. Mr. Cockran is not taken seriously any more. He is | looked upon as an actor, playing the villain’s part to-day | ERRATIC STATESMANSHIP. HE closing debates in Congress continue on per- | i and the hero’s to-morrow. His return to Congress to | succeed McClellan was hailed with delight by the dis- tracted Democracy, for it was in need of some one to spell Champ Clark, Sulzer and De Armond in oratorical tom-tomming. In this year's campaign he will be heard on the stump, heard for miles, but without impression, because the man who changes every four years reverses himself utterly and relies only on the violence of his statements and the noise made in uttering them ceases to have influence. His speeches for McKinley could be printed as Republican campaign documents now, and his speeches for Bryan could do like service for the Demo- crats. The city of San Mateo promises that between now and June 1 at least fifty new dwellings and stores will be in process of construction. Congratulations to our next-door neighbor. [ They have an automatic scavenger department over at the Judson Powder Works. The company simply gath- ers its annual refuse together, touches something to it, and it goes off itself. J. P. Morgan’s faith in the trust principle was not shared by the English shopkeepers, who demanded spot’ cash from him for their goods, after reading of a slump in some of the Morgan securities. —_—— A gigantic plan is on foot to make the oil of the coun- try do its own traveling instead of being carried on rail- roads at enormous cost. Pipe lines are to be laid from Texas to New York, with branches to the various oil wells. Public investigators have determined that the pris- oners in the County Jail are improperly housed. It is unfortunate for the denizens of our ancient bastile that they did not have the necessary discretion to choose better quarters. They may live in hope, however, of jonly in cases | other great emergency will a change Candidate for Napa. When friends of George F. Hatton, the well known attorney and politi- clan, meet the first question they u_k each other is, “T wonder how George's scheme is working It happened this way. Hatton was dining with Fire Commissioner John J. Barrett, Judge Kerrigan, Judge Lawlor, Billy Humphrey, Jack Bon- net and a few other kindred spirits. Some one remarked that there was $160,000,000 in the Mint. Hatton dropped his knife and fork on his plate and a faraway look stole over his features as he murmured, “Wouldn't that jar you?"” He remained silent for a minute and then brighten- ing ‘up sald, “Do you know how that coin could be got? No? Well I'll tell you. | “There are twenty-four watchmen, I believe, at the Mint. Give each watchmen say' $20,000, in all $480,- 000. There are about 800 policemen and $20,000 to each would make $16,- 000,000. That would enable you to get into the Mint without interference. You could buy a ship for $1,250,000 and for carting the coin to the ship and subsidy to the captain and crew say $1,000,000. These sums total $28,- 730,000. You could sail to one of the South American republics and if your destination were discovered you could hire an army for say $50,000,000, and |still you would have $81,270,000 at | your disposal. Isn't it a great scheme?” There was no answer to his ques- tion; the other diners simply stared at each other and one of them signif- icantly touched his forehead. The others nodded. Noteworthy Exception. He had followed a plow on his Kansas farm with moderate success and, having accumulated a surplus of shekels, he and his faithful wife start- ed on a tour of the coast. They came westward on a Santa Fe train and had planned to return home by the long- est, roundabout way in order to get the biggest possible ride for their money. Like many other Eastern visitors, when they reached California they loitered about until the farmer realized that if he went back to Kan- sas over the route he had contemplat- ed he would arrive too late to plant the seed for the coming season’'s crop. He called at the local Santa Fe office, talked with Passenger Agent Duffy concerning a rerouting and Duffy agreed to place the matter before As- sistant General Passenger Agent Greg- ory. Rerouting of travelers is an under- taking that involves much clerical work for the railroads, for reappor- | tionments of rates have to be made and much trouble is given the audit- ing departments of the different trans- portation companies, which share in the proceeds of the traffic. In con- sequence a rule has been adopted that of sickness or some in the routing of round trip tickets be authorized. Gregory reminded Duffy of this fact and remarked as he ! glanced through the door of his of- | fice toward the expectant farmer and his wife: “That big fellow and his wife cer- tainly don’t look as if they are un- | comfortably ill, Duffy, and I can't see where the sl* rule applies to their case.” “Well, T'll tell you,” replied Duffy. “T'll admit that he is not suffering from any physical ailment, but from what I gleaned in conversation with him, he is derned sick of his ticket, and I don’'t blame him.” The rule was violated and the farm- er and his wife went back to Kansas over the shortest route available. Mining for Mastodons. Mining for mastodons is one*f the new industries of the Klondike. Verily it is & novel and interesting sight. Wil- llam Foster of Dawson, according to the Dawson News, has just returned from a 60-mile jaunt to the find of mastodon bones on Quartz Creek. He describes the skeleton and his journey to it as follows: Gy “We climbed down a ladder in the shaft thirty-eight feet deep and groped our way through the drifts with lighted candles for about 150 feet, when we came upon his roval highness at the end of this drift. He was facing with his head in a horizontal position at about three feet above the floor of the tunnel and was looking at me as if he might have kneeled down on his front legs when he had, some thousands of years ago, given up the ghost. One of his tusks was still frozen fast in the robf of the tunnel, while the tusks and the fore part of his head were sus- pended in the open space from which the gravel had been removed after thawing it out with ordinary steam points. The tusks are about six feet long and seven inches in diameter ‘where they are firmly embedded in the sockets of the skull. They are curved upward and taper gradually to their upper ends, which are about two inches thick. “The sensation of meeting this silent monster of prehistoric origin in such a place, associated with gold in the more sanitary surroundings in Marin County. e e The recent discussion of municipal officials and in- surance men, looking to an extension of city fire limits, is one of those affairs of local life the vital importance of which cannot be exaggerated. There are in San Francisco many places in which the beginning of a fire might easily mean the end of the best part of the city. | The Election Commission has overlooked one vital ' fact in its efforts to suppress the practice of its employes | in selling their salary warrants to money sharks. As long as service in the government of the municipality means extravagance, improvidence and their attendant evils men will seek money wherever and however they may. The unspeakable cruelties perpetrated by the Belgians on the people of the Congo State are teaching a terrible lesson to the world. When the most inoffensive of civ- ilized nations will practice savagery upon defenseless beings, what may we expect of the boasted humanity that finds its alleged ideal in the standards of the twen- Pr frozen gravel, is something so novel, 80 interesting and awe-inspiring that I cannot being to describe it. The ' specimen is almost perfect, so far as the skeleton is concerned, - although there is no hide nor hair so far in evi- dence. The skull is about five feet long, the immense eye sockets are per- fect and a large cavity in the top of the skull marks the former resting place of his gigantic brain. This cavity was also filled with frozen gravel, which Charley Swanson dug out with the end of his candlestick and his fingers. Samvles of this gravel will be panned and the gold washed from the brain of this mastodon will be ex- hibited to hundreds of thousands of people from all parts of the world who will visit the World’s Fair at St. Louis. ' Lofty Lakes. The most lofty lakes are found among the Himalaya Mountains in Their altitudes do not, how- ever. seem to have been very accu- rately gauged, for different authoris &lve widely difterent figures regarding | Hnia | : e sl them. According to some, Lake Manasarowar, one of the sacred lakes of Tibet, is between 19,000 and 20,000 feet above the level of the sea, and if this is so it is undoubtedly the loftiest in the world. Two other Tibetan lakes, those of Chatamoo and Surakol, are said to be 17,000 and 15,400 feet in altitude, re- spectively. For a long time it was supposed that Lake Titicaca, in South America, was the loftiest in the world. It covers about 4500 square miles, is 924 feet in its greatest depth and is 12,000 feet above the sea. In spite of inexactitude with regard to the meas- urements of the elevation of the Tibetan lakes they are no doubt con- siderably higher than this or any other. Our Colored Consul. Our consular representative at Viadi« vostok, Eastern Siberia, one of the storm centers of the war in the Far East, for six years past has been Rich- ard T. Greener, the first colored grad- uate of Harvard College and one of the most consvicuous and successful mem- bers of his race in the walks of learn- ing, law and politics. Mr. Greener was admitted to the bar in Washingtan in 1877. He was dean of the law faculty at Howard University for five years. He removed to New York in 1883, and there he was for several years an ex- aminer in the municipal civil service board. The consulate at Viadivestok increased greatly In usefulness after Mr. Greener assumed charge.—Leslie’s Weekly. Shower of Greenbacks. The regular board meeting of tha Newsboys' Literary and €rap Club of Greeley square was adjourned with.. startling suddenness yesterday after- " ‘, noon, when it began to snow green- - backs. At first nobody knew where the money came from, except that it came and that it was money. The members of the Literary and Crap Club were not the only persons who saw the flakes of long green fluttering on the breezes of Broadway. Scores of pedestrians join- ed in the chase after the elusive bills; conductors and motormen deserted their posts, and presently, as the bills settled here and there, Broadway was treated to the biggest game of sexram- ble ever seen. So great was the uproar and exeite- ment over the fact that the flying bills were of all denominations from $1 iu‘ $50 that nobody noticed a little, weep- ing woman in black standing by the Greeley statue. She was the owner of the money—$1000 in all—which she had just drawn from the Dime Savings Bank. In crossing the street she had dropped the roll, which was caught up and whisked away by the mischievous breeze before she had time to recover it. She made known the facts to Police- man Dever of the Tenderloin station, and described herself as Mrs. N. Kers- ten of 209 East Thirty-fourth street. Deyer was able to recover most of the money from the crowd, but Mrs. Kers- ten was out $23 in the end. The News- boys' Literary and Crap Club of Gree- ley square dined in Broadway last night.—New York Times. Answers to Queries. TWO STEAMERS—L. B., Columbiay Cal. The steamer Frisbie is a propeller and the Corcoran a stern wheeler. CHINESE PROVERB—A. 8., City. “To cherish a bad man Is like nour- ishing a tiger; if not well fed he wiil devour you” is a Chinese proverb. COLORADO’'S CAPITAL—O. 8., City. The State Capitol of Colorade is not located in what is known as South Den- ver. It is on Capitol Hill, about the center of Denver. PROBLEMS—H. W, City. This de- partment does not answer questions in the line of arithmetic, problems and the like. For that reason no answer is given to the weight of a certain num- ber of bricks. OF CHINESE PARENTS-M. F., City. There is nothing in the constitu- tion nor in the laws that says that a son born to Chinese parents in the Unjted States is not eligible to become President of the United States. HOMESTEAD—A. B, City. A piece of property on which there is a mort- gage can be declared a homestead, but the property is subject to execution for a debt secured by mortgage before the recording of the declaration of home- stead. MAGGIE MITCHELL—B. P. C, City. Maggie Mitehell, at one time a prominent actress,-was a native of New York, born of Scotch parents in 1832, After filling child parts in the old Bowery, New York, she made her de- 1851 as Julia in the “Soldier's Daush- ter.” It was she who in 1862 brought out " and made it the popu- lar play that it was for many years. e S pe— m-mh Glace fruits and boxes. A nice = present for 2