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T .- London Stage Notes. Special Correspondence. HI'NDQLAKTLRI\ OF THE CALL, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT & GARDEN, LONDON, April 22.—Among | Nutie. Liza l.ehmann’'s admirers there \\n! general amazement when it was nnnounce-;l some time ago that the .8vore for the new musical comedy by | . Owea Hal, author of “Fiorodora,” - would be supplied by her. From “In * § Persian Garden to the sort of thing favor at the Galety seemed | y indeed, and whether the tal- | * . ented composer would be entirely hap- f Messrs. Caryll, was a matter open play of Hall's [xr undertook to Sergeant Brue,” nded to follow “A at the Strand. of the piece, with who, though having millions, can’t get off ady has been outlined in and it seems that Mme. performed the task of musical setting own satisfaction, ¥1 cofild mever e believed it would » easy,” she said the other day, I think 1 must in a previous ex- let y on Mars, have been 1 comedies before. The greatest fun imag- ¥ ~writing mus sk has been the ent on, “dramatic work . » be entirely out of { I wrote the incidental Twin Sister’ at the Duke the music to a y y of Teresa Haupt ¢ Else,” which has had a in Germany. I wrote, too, musical duologues. nd, Herbert Bedford,” con- Lehmann, “who, as you » a composer in his spare very interested in the the work I have often piano up to the telephone its on which I wanted My hasb . tipued M is kriow time, _had gress of the opin has told me that he| , deard them quite w . The author of Daisy Chain™ . | .ciaims the distinction of being the " pioneer of women composers 80 far as . ccmig opera is concerned. ‘“Sergeant | Brue”” is now in rehearsal at the Craigie's new play, “A Time to | has been written in collabora- ticn avith, not Murray Carson, her part- ® ner in “The Bishop's Move,” but Ed- ward -‘Rose, who dramatized “Under the , Bed Robe” and several other novels. *1t" will be given at the Haymarket, -when Cyril Maude ® cipal part, that of a man of forty. The £ other new play by Mrs. Craigie, which £ i€ 15 be seen ost immediately, was - written By Olga XNethersole. It is called “The Flute of Pan.” It is a comedy'and the action passes Fiorence and Venice. Miss Xethersole still is playing “Sapho” in the provinces, but she has begun to ‘inalee arrangements for the Craigie p|gm one of the first being engaging '.)uhn Hare's son, Gilbert, who was seen J last jn “The Marriage of Kitty.” Mean- whkile. “John Oliver Hobbes” has just been making a profession of faith in the intelligence of the average English axfdience which it is much to be hoped the réception of her coming pieces will " justity. - “It is absurd,” Mrs. Craigie . declares, “for managers and others to pretend that the public demand- rub- " bish. or the constant presence of some parficular individual on the stage at ‘arjy cost to the design of a plot or the reasonableness of a situation. It is ab- #urd also for actor-managers to pretend that every play must end in sickly “(and, s & result, most immoral) genti- jment. The immorality of some recent ."happy endings’ is quite revolting, but jtus of 8o feeble a kind that one is not | § pufficiently stimulated to protest ? against such viciousness. On the other ml some ‘unhappy endings' are i i equally immoral and infinitely unlikely, _ and ghe play enthusiast, disheartened, wonders why he is so hard to please? i can tell him why. The manager has W on some old fatal business or some new false effect, even for the ‘un- Fiappy ending’ The leading lady or the jeading man does, or says, & number of things which are either jarring or false; they -are seldom natural and they are neva eflecuve e - Lndfi‘ the tme of “The Wheat King"” & new version—entirely distinct from that produced in the United States—of Frank Norris’ novel, “The Pit,” is about to be given in London. It is in four @cts and is the work of two feminine playwrights, Mrs. Ashton-Jonson and Miss Eliott Page. i i . % | Probably it will be news to most‘}. at | will have the prin- | some time ago and accepted | good, old lines, too, with nonme of the em!| ments provided by troupes which have appeared at home in re- cent years. May Yohe, old-time favorite of the “halls,” is about to return to them, and no doubt there will be a stampede to see and hear the erstwhiie Lady Hope and friend of Captain Bradiee Strong. Miss Yohe will depend at first on her old songs, “Lazily, Drowsily,” and the rest, but later on she will ap- pear in a monologue called “East and West,” which is now being written for her by Mostyn Piggot, the verse- writer of the London World. . . From Croesus to Pauper. There is an old adage that when you lose your money vou forfeit your friends. Persons of an optimistic ten- dency decline to credit this reflection upon human nature. They are ill ad- \ vised. It is now three years since the catastrophe overtook me. Six and | thirty months ago I was in the enjoy- ment of an income of £15,000 a year. | T occupied 2 West End mansion in a fashionable square, I kept my horses, !my carriages, my steam yacht, and I | entertained largely. My wine cellar was ,celebrmed my cigars were beyond re- proach; my friends, invariably eager to accept my invitations, were wealthy, | one and all. Unfortunately for me, my money |was invested in speculative concerns, which, however, yielded high dhi-\ | dends, although in justice to muyself 1 must say that they were not of a| | gambling nature. I never bet on or! owned a race horse. Bging in the so- | called “swim,” my city s brought me frequent “tips” as to ;"good things” in which to deposit my | superfluous cash. Many of these | “good things” did not belie their de- scription. It must be admitted that | they swelled my banking account con- siderably. Others ended disastrously. On the whole, however, I fared amazingly well—so well, indeed, that I improvidently neglected the ele- mentary precaution of buying a rea- sonable number of securities to which little or no risk was attached. This is what I ought to have done to pro- | vide for a rainy day. Luckily the rainy day was slow in coming. I enjoyed life. In the win- er months I followed the sun in my | yacht, always in the company of sev- eral friends; on occasions I chartered | special trains. In a word I was royal- | Iy extravagant. It was important to | note, however, in view of what fol- lows that my acquaintances benefited by my extravagance rather more than |1 did myself. They drank with re- markable freedom my expensive champagne; they smoked my half- crown cigars; they “swore” by my din- | ners, each of which cost a little for- | tune. | It will thus be gathered that in dis- | tributing my shekels I did not think! | only of myself. For some ten years I | reveled in my fifteen thousand a year; | then the war with the Boers broke out First, my | which had{ {and clouds began to gather. own business in the city, | been extremely profitable, collapsed | | with extraordinary swiftness, leaving | me with unpleasant liabilities. In a fe\\* | monthe it was as dead as a door nail. | Further blows followed in rapid suc- | cession. Speculation after speculation | | with which T was connected went| wrong. There was a general smash up. | } Up to this moment I had not dreamed | that complete shipwreck was in store for me. T believed that the losses in- curred in my business would not per- manently affect my situation in life— that they could be retrieved. Having | glanced through my correspondence, the | curtain which for so long a space had remained up revealing me as a con-| spicuous figure in the drama of life as played by the “smart set” fell with a flop. I knew that my balance at the| bank—a mere £500—was all that I had of ready cash in the world. T knew, in| fact, that I was penniless, for my 500 sovereigns were needed to pay debts. | To describe my sensation Is, oddly enough, an easy task. I am of a philo- sophical turn of mind. For a brief in- stant I was stunned. Then I recovered | and went on with my breakfast, with my butler behind me. I ate heartily, consuming more food than I had done at breakfast for years. 1 felt light- hearted. As for my butler, he was so admirably informed as to the state of my affairs that he gave me notice at| 10 o'clock. I suspect that his desire to know ail about my private concerns had led him to steam my envelopes. Certainly the fiaps of the envelopes pre- sented to me of a morning had for some weeks past exhibited an unnatural| curliness, indicating that they had either been exposed to the rain or that they had been held over the spout of a kettle. By midday all my servants were under discharge. When receiving no- tice of dismissal their moods varied curiously. The coachman’s expression was sardonic; my Italian chef wept and vowed that he would follow me to the ends of the earth; the grooms en- deavored vainly to conceal their smiles; the housekeeper Hoped that her salary would be “all right.” The last scene of my human drama is a short one, for the reason that it is still being enacted. I was installed in a nice house, exceedingly well fur- nished, which my nearest relatives purchased for me. They made me an allowance. My income compared with my former earnings is a small one. I am still able to entertain, however, but chairs at my table are vacant. With the exception of two or three of the true and tried brigade, not one of those who HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, , TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: Paublication Office g....................i......... €EES ..................Third and Market Strects, 5. F. TUESDAY ABOUT OUR RAILROADS. HE British East Indian Government last year di- T rected Mr. Priestly of the Indian Railway bepart- ment to examine and report upon railroads and railroad methods in the United States. His report is printed as a government biue book, and its conclusions may be studied with profit by our own people, who are accustomed to so much criticism of the policy and work— ings of our railroad system. The Indian railroads are government ownership en- terprises, and as Mr. Priestly’s report puts them in con- trast with ours, it goes beyond the mere question of oper- ation and rates, and bears dir‘ecfly upon the larger ques- tion of private and public ownership. The first thing in cur system that struck him was the freedom of indi- vidual initiative among the offigers and employes on American roads, making men willing to assume respon- sibility and to do their duty fearlessly, because they are to be judged by the industrial and not the political stand- ard. He calls this the recognition of the fact that the best results are to be had by allowing every man to run on his own feet. Under this he admits that mistakes may be made, that might be prevented by pre- cautions that would destroy individuality, but’ such precautions would in the long run destroy the efficiency of the men and deprive the employer of their best efforts. Under our system ag it is, every man does his best un- restrained, and the desire to advance himself by merit causes him to strive solely for the best results, and to accept responsibliity. When men learn to put respon- sibility elsewhere the disposition is to pass it on, so that shirking and inefficiency are concealed as to the point of origin, and are felt only by a progressive de- cline in the entire business. This is plainly seen on the government roads of Australia, where it results in large deficits that are finally charged off to the public tax- payer. He regards railroading in America as a profession practiced to the highest efficiency, in which the man who begins at the bottom may expect to reach the top by in- dustry, fidelity and initiative. The correctness of this con- clusion is proved in the history of our railways. A long list of men in important administrative places at the head shows that the royal road to success begins at the bottom and is climbed successfully upon merit and achievement alone. As to rates, Mr. Priestly finds ours the lowest in the world, and says this is brought about by making a rate that will move the traffic and then getting profit by economy in moving it. He is puzzled to find that our rates are far below those of the Indian railways because the average daily wage of unskilled labor in this country equals the average monthly wage in India, and the same proportion is maintained through the service. Finding our railway wages the highest in the world and our rates on traffic the lowest, he feels himself in the presence of an industrial miracle, The fact is that efficiency keeps pace with compensa- tion under our system, which makes every railway em- ploye the architect of his own fortune. The section hand or member of a freight crew need not feel that he is always to be a section hand or face weather on the hurricane deck of a freight train. There is no system of playing favorites to prejudice his advance if it is in him. Nor is there the paralyzing restraint of political management to make him a cog in the wheels of govern- ment ownership. He is a free agent with his fate in his own hands, and the godof his own destiny. As commercial enterprises, Mr. Priestly finds our rail- roads on a scale that has no rival in the world, receiving no partnership protection from the state, and fighting lhelr way to the front by ability alone. Before conclud- ing he finds it necessary to apologize for his enthusiasm by declaring that it is impossible to associate with the men great in American railway administration without being infected by their enthusiasm and devouon to their profession. He credits private management with wonderful alert- ness in seeing a new idea to increase the efficiency, economy and safety of the business. Every railroad man is earnestly seeking to get at the science of the business, | satisfied that under every art is a scientific foundation. The study of how they do this makes association with them like attendance upon a great college where practi- cal affairs are taught and whete every student is prying into reasons and storing his mind with facts. The study of this report is quite a corrective of preju- dices formed at home against our railroad policy and management, and gives rise to the suspicion that we see its faults, which annoy us, more than its virtues, which serve us better than any other people are served by railway administration. One thing is sure, this blue book obsoletes the argu- ments heretofore made for government ownership and operation of our railroads. That campaign cannot be renewed unless the proponents of public ownership can show that it will hold the rate of progress shown by private ownership and install a greater excellence of administration than the people now enjoy. This we be- lieve to be impossible. —_— OakTand has been seeking to discover of late whether a distressing series of midnight hold-ups be not due to practical jokers rather than to footpads. Under the cir- cumstances it is safe tc say that any assault upon a night wayfarer, whatever the motive, is no joke. It may be idiocy, but it should be treated as crime. ‘ and syndicated newspapers to destroy the char- acter of the Congress of which he is a member. A careful reading of his indictment reveals the fact that Congress is a (allu\'e because it did not adopt “The Hearst measures.” The House consists of the Republi- can majority and a minority composed of Mr. Hearst. This minority says it had a hard time trying to do some- thing for the people. In a Washington dispatch to the New York Commer- cial we get a picture of Mr. Hearst's colors, in a descrip- tion of his appearance before the Judiciary Committee 1o read a prepared speech, an hour in time and longitude, on the matter of the coal trust, so called. The reporter says that C,}IC minority would read a while and then sit down until “the power” came and then he would tise and read some more. As nearly as the committee mld mkfl out he was at- tacking the rate of transportation on roal to.seaboard points. He was diverted from his written speech only once, when a member of the committee asked him if he thought the rate was too high, and he knew that themdumldmmuukun)man HEARST ON CONGRESS. ONGRESSMAN HEARST is using his stringed = less rate? After sitting down to concentrate his thoughts, the minority said he didn’t know, as he was not familiar with the business! When he would get his trolley on the car and rise to read some more, other questions were asked, to which, with marked hesitation, he would make the same reply that he didn’t know. Now we submit that the majority, having found out by this painful cross-examination how much Mr. Hearst doesn’t know about the legislation he proposed, should have used his absence of knowledge as the motive for legislation. In that way it would have entered up.on the broadest kind of field, and could have planted it with statutes and joint resolutions until it looked like a girdled clearing in the primitive forests of Indiana. These champions of the people who are looking for a Moses should have a show. Mr. Hearst has taken the place in Congress long held by Calamity Weller, who was sent to the House to get a law that would “give the people a more and *a fittener currency.” He was the minority in his day, and the wicked majority said that when his proposition would give the people “a more cur- rency” it was not “a fittener,” and when it was “a fit- tener” it was not “a more.” So Calamity was worn out by failing to bring the “more” and the “fittener” together in one bill, and his people kept him at home to rest. We fear it will be so with Mr. Hearst. An Oakland police officer was placed under official fire recently for betting on a prize-fight. While the action of the authorities was unquestionably justified, we would have been better pleased if they had made it clearer whether the indictment was idiocy or immorality. The offense as practiced in San Frqnmsco is almost invariably IMPROVING THE GUARDSMEN. M UCH will probably be accomplished for the Coast during the coming summer. Major Gen- eral MacArthur has conferred with Adjutant General the co-operation of the State troops with those of the regular army, and it has been agreed that the regulars an exhibition of both. benefit of the National Guardsmen of the Pacific Lauck of the National Guard of California, relative to and the National Guardsmen shall encamp together and maneuver together in August, at some place in the interior yet to be selected. The California gnardsmen who will take part will number at least 2000. Major General MacArthur says that it is his intention to devote fifteen days to the maneuvers. Several thousand regular soldiers will be encamped with the guardsmen. All the men will be instructed, under the eyes of regular army experts, in the duties of camp life and the movements of actual war. During the encampment the guardsmen will receive the same pay as the regulars and the same rations, and will in brief, be on even terms with the regulars. Brigadier General Funston, commander of the Depart- ment of the Columbia, announces that the National Guardsmen of Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be mobilized with the regular troops in his department and that they will go into camp near American Lake, in the vicinity of Tacoma, from July 7 to July 24, inclusive of both dates. The Oregon Journal says that there will be in the northern camp of instruction 4500 men and their officers. Of the entire force 1300 will be regular troops. . As in California, so in the north, the Government provides Yor the cost of the joint encampment of the guardsmen and the regulars. The grounds are selected by the Government under the guidance of the army officers and the Government also prepares the camp site for occupation. Practically, all the regulars in the Department of the Columbia, with the exception of those in Alaska, will be brought together for instruction at Tacoma. The encampments will provide for two weeks of instruction ifl real army work. This season marks the first annual mobilization of the regulars and the National Guardsmen of the Pacific Coast departments and States. The interest will be keen by reason of the novelty of the events. For the guards- men the encampments will take on less of a heliday outing character than on some previous occasions. Rigid discipline will be maintained. Strict attention to learning the duties of the soldier, with the best of in- structors—the officers of the regular army—will be expected. Natural pride on the part of the citizen sol- diery will prompt them to equal the regulars in all par- ticulars, if possible. On the part of the regulars there will be a business-like following of military duty that will prove to be a valuable lesson to those who are less fa- miliar with the arts of war. Regular soldiers are not fashioned without long ex- perience in actual campaigning, but the maneuvers of the months of July and August will be of some perma- nent value to the guardsmen. Americans have always been easily converted into soldiers from the time_of Bunker Hill and New Orleans to the bloody days of the Civil War, and later, in the war between the United States and Spain. General intelligence is the basis of this phenomenon. That will be a factor in military progress the coming summer on this coast. The public will be entertained by the military pageantry. The National Guardsmen and the regulars will mutually im- prove by contact. The interesting coincidence has been noticed at Berke- ley that the higher an average student steps on the lad- der of learning the more he undermines his health and harasses the peace of his friends by the habit of cigarette smoking. The situation should be accepted with complacency. [Inveterate cigarette smoking is deadly and serves the wise purpose of removing individ- uals that otherwise would be obstructions in the intelli- gent struggle for existence. The recent convention of leading educators and State officials to discuss the improvement of normal schools and to advance the standard of excellence which inspires our army of teachers was of such marked intelligence that it should have at least one lasting effect. It should warn the politicians that the people of California, repre- sented by their best spirits, are emphatically opposed to making the public schools a part of the spoils system of ward politics. The Board of Education Has decided that all public school teachers must reside in San Francisco, where they’ ‘enjoy employment. The decision commends itself from the home rule viewpoint, but will the school board develop it into its natural conclusion and employ only those women that are reared and educated in this city? Many school teachers in San Francisco are now nlecn MW M w 7 4’- 15 ' A Non-Conductor. There is going the rounds in certain fraternal circles a good story on a certain candidate for initiation into the order of the Mystic Shrine, which ! recently gave a big celebration at the Mechanics’ Pavilion, where after the initiatory = ceremonies 1200 persons sat at banquet. During the progress of the strange and wierd rites this pilgrim was Inducted by processes best known to the enlightened through a maze of difficult passages wherein numerous startling electrical devices were utilized. The hero of this sketch, however, failed to respond as he should have done to several sudden and well ap- plied shocks of the mysterious cur- rent. The esquires to the initiate wondered thereat that he should so calmly accept what had given many of his brethren no little cause for startling sensations. So the attend- ants investigated. They discovered that the object of their efforts had very cleverly concealed about his per- son a number of non-conducting de- vices and these operated so perfectly that the initiating shocks fell as it were on barren ground. They further found out that the candidate had suspected that some- thing might be doing and had, there- fore, heeded the forewarning thought. Suffice it to say that after the dis- covery the cuteness availed nothing. for before the ceremonies were con- cluded the pilgrim had been fully in- structed in the fine arts of high-class initiation. The Great Luck. Dr. Irones, surgeon on the steamship Coptie, was swindled into $1250 the last time he was at Hongkong. He attend- ed the races there with some Standard Oil clerks who owned a horse that was to start that day. The Standard Oit nag was favorite and Irones decided to | bet five dollars on its chances. The betting scheme at Hongkong is on the pari mutuel order. For each horse that starts there is a separate betting booth presided over by a Chinese book- maker. The total amount invested, less a commission, is divided in proportion to the amount of the bet among those holding tickets on the winner. Irones got into the wrong booth and bought five dollars’ worth of a horse that had never won anything. His friends told him of his mistake and the surgeon de- manded that the Chinese bookmaker return his monewy. “No sabe,” was the sum of the satis- faction the Celestial vouchsafed and Irones was searching for a policeman when the barrier went up and the race started. The winner was the horse whose name was printed on the medico’s ticket. He was the only man at the track who had played that horse ana he cashed the pasteboard for $1238 The Toiler. He toiled in the vineyard 'Neath bright skies and gray. Singing—"Rest will be sweeter For toiling some day!” And thanked God for winter, And blessed him for May, And looked to the light of the morning! He sang with the reapers That reaped through the years The thorns with the roses, The hopes with the fears, And light—it was bright In the rain of his tears— The light of the joy of the morning! | He toiled in life’s vineyard— Keen. thorns at the breast, But still thrilled that singing Of toil that was blest With the roses of love And the lilies of rest— And the light of a beautiful morning! —Atlanta Constitution. How to Resign. “Going to resign, are you?” said As- sistant Postmaster General Wynne to an indignant person who: had been i has been ascertained that the popular belief that the nuclei of pearls are formed by minute grains of sand or other particles holds good in but few instances, and that in most cases the pearls or pearly excrescences are pro- duced by the irritation of boring sponges and burrowing worms. The best germs result from the stimulation of a parasitic worm which becomes encased and dies.—Harper’'s Weekly. Handling a Canoe. To give any description of handling a cance in rapids would be waste of time both for the writer and the read- er, says a writer in Country Life in America. The best way to learn is first to watch some one do it, and then try it yourself under his direction. You will soon find out which is the safe water and how to force the light craft over the seemingly impossible falls. Running rapids, provided they are not too bad, appeals to me as one of the most exciting forms of sport and ex- ercise that 1 know of. Never attempt a rapid that you do not know can be run, without examining it from end to end to see that it is possible and also to get an idea how to take it. Many a man has lost his life through neglect- ing this precautfon, and remember that a rapid which is safe to-day may not be so in a day or two, as the rising and falling of the water will frequent- 1y make it impassable or at least very dangerous. I scarcely envy any one his first at- tempt at shooting rapids if he suffers as I did. From an overhanging rock 1 had carefully watched ay guide go through the galloping, foamy waters, and then, after emptying my canoe and leaving my watch and other un- necessary articles on shore and putting my heart carefully into my mouth, [ made for that noisy little run of water. What I suffered when the curling wavelets first struck the canoe was bad enough, but nothing to the agony of the return trip, when, traveling with startling speed, the whole river seemed a mass of menacing rocks being boiled in the seething water. How I got through- I do not know; but I came safely to the smooth water, and, after a rest, made another run with less trepidation. Then, loading the cance with my light outfit, I took her through with little difficulty. Answers to Queries. LAND AGENT—B. J. W, James- town, Cal. The land agent, coast di- vision, for the Santa Fe, is H. Jones, Topeka, Kans. POPULATION—G. T. D, Oat Hill, Napa County, Cal. The population of the United States, according to the census of 1800, was 5,308,483, » ST. LOUTS FAIR—G. R. City. There will be issued with the Sunday Call two more St. Louis Fair colored pic- tures: “The California Building” and “The Building of Varied Arts.” SQUABS—U. D. C, Oakland, Cal. Canker in squabs is caused by condi- tions and until the conditions are known it is impossible to prescribe a remedy. A person having squabs so affected should consult one who makes a business of raising pigeons and have pouring his grief into his ears. “Can’t stand it another minute, eh? Put up with it as long as you could, and now you're going to throw up your job and tell your chief what you think of him? Yes, I know. Last straw and all that sort of thing? Uh-huh. “Did you ever see my set of rules for | resigning? 1 framed them up years | ago when I was in the newspaper busi- | ness, and 1 have used them ever since. {1 have resigned often since then, al- ways in the way prescribed by these rules. Perhaps they will be of ser- | vice to you. Here thev are: | “Rule 1. After receiving the last straw don’t do anything for two hours. Above all, don't write anything. “Rule 2. At the expiration of two hours, write your resignation, and make it as hot as you can. Relieve your feelings and say evervthing you have been penning up in your breast. Scorch the scoundrel. “Rule 3. Then go home. ~ “Rule 4. The next morning, imme- | diately upon arising, read over your resignation and tear it up. “Rule 5. Go to work at the usual hour. “Take a copy of them.,” concluded Mr. Wynne, “and vou will find that they are absolutely essential to any man who expects to resign frequently and still continue to rise in the world.” —New York Times. X-Rays and Oysters. F At a time when considerable atten- tion is being paid to the pearl indus- try of Ceylon, and the Government is taking extensive measures to protect the oyster fisheries there, it is of in- terest to record a discovery recently communicated to the Paris Academy of Sciences by M. Dubois, relative to him discover the cause. THE LETTERS O. K.—Subscriber, City. The letters O. K. in America sig- nify “all right.” It is said that the use of these originated with Jacob Astor, the millionaire, who, when asked to approve any matter that was sub- mitted to him, indorsed it O. K., or spoke the letters. DISTANCES—H. 8., City. From Third and Market streets to the Union Iron Works by the most direct route, which is down Third to King, Fourth and Kentucky to Twentieth to the works is 13,000 feet, or nearly two and a half miles: from the same point to Islais Creek, South San Francisco, along the same route is 16,750 feet, or three miles and a fraction less than one-third of a mile; from the same point to Hunters Point drydock, via the same route, getting off on the rail- road line at Seventh avenue South and walking east, is 32,0¢" feet, or a frac- tion more than six miles. The dis- tances given are those that a person would have to walk from the starting points to reach the destinations named. LYNCH LAW—D. B. F., Oakland, Cal. Lynch law is the infliction” of punishment on persons accused of heinous offenses by people not legally authorized to inflict punishment for crime. It is said to have derived its name from John Lynch, a farmer of Carolina, who, about the first of the eighteenth century, exercised sum- mary punishment—Ilashes, torture and even death, as he saw fit—upon fu- gitive slaves and criminals, either white or black, who at one {ime in- fested the Dismal Swamp and sallied forth from time to time to prey upon the neighboring plantations. The colonial authorities in those davs fail- - ing to pursue and recapture despera- does, John Lynch and his neighbors took the law into their own hands. Townsend's California Glace fruits and, choice “Idl!l. h'm‘ fire-etched | 715 Market street. above Call badion s i business houses and public the ifornia N..-.'“.g‘ b