The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1904, Page 8

el 20y YA 5 German Minister Coming. Special Corresponence April —In further pur- ‘suance of his blished policy of “vorrowing for industrial Germany erything good which the United offer, Emperor William Pru: 1 Minister of ecdor Moeller, to ust, study the in- St. Louis ve in e s deputize f the tion gnd make an exhat tion of commerce and view introduce in Germany what- ever he finds worthy of recommenda- tibn. His trip will be what the Ger- mans call & “Studienreise”—literally a “study udienreisen” to the United States now consi: ered 1 of the equip- a modern, up-to-date Ger- man must h: Dozen: s and manu- fatherland and it is a wil- est German busi- order his Min- are @0 indispensable part ment whic facture t Emperor ness man of all isters to f Herr M and 64 » " mans occupying high Government rank mes from *‘self-made” stock. ficers and high counts or no- attached to their . however, is the 4 “buergerliche” w1 throughout the country » long Moeller” .n acpount of his extreme height. Moel- Yer ranks as the leading authority and " Yrankest advocate of the trust system ollow suit who is a 0 tphalian - §m German. He believes that combina- tion is the ord e age and that mmless great manufacturing interests " pogl issues for a common purpose Ger- many cannot hold its own in the mar- #ets of the world in competition with -ihe” great combines of America. He thinks, however, that the American “gommunity of interests” idea is not -jdbal, because of the overcapitalization . Beature and the placing of too much power in a few bhands. Herr Moeller is the most popular ~ Cemmerce Minister Germany has ever -“had, because he ranks as a practical . smanufacturing company. marn. He still retains his interests in his machinery manufacturing and tan- pery business at his native town of Bielefeld, Westphalia. and is a director banks, insurance companies and va- rious other industrial enterprises. He speaks English perfectly, an accom- plishment now common among the “ higher class of German officizis, and dooks for all the world like the presi- dent of some big American bank or He is thor- cughly democratic in manner, ap- proachable and communicative, and is sure to prove a revelation to Ameri- carfs whose idea of the German official icenjures up some stiff, severe bureau- crat, with a military manner and baughty exterior. Thé Prussian Minister of Commerce will be accompanied to America by four of his department chiefs. Their reports . on-American cofditiong are certain to be thorough and exhaustive, as every- thing of that character is in this coun- try. He will be the third official the Kaiser has sent to the United States én such e mission. Privy Councilor Goldberger, whose report in a book en- titled “The Land of Unlimited Possibil- ities” created a sensation here, was the - | s understood to be carrying much New | | | form | | ed, and upon | | | | first sight. | | Yike a dove, except for its webbed feet, | |dark eyes of the few Ger- | first. Prussian Finance Minister von Rheinbaben was the second. Herr Moeller contemplates his American journey with great satisfaction. He is a student, as well as an admirer, of commercial America and believes that the republic and the fatherland are destined to divide the lion’s share of the world’'s trade between them. His Majesty’s Racers. Special “Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, April 24.—Rich- ard Croker will have his newly ac- quired residence in Ireland full during the time the King is visiting Ireland and no end of leading lights among the sporting fraternity of New York wm( be there to see the “Boss” and the| King trying conclusions at the' Leop- | { ardstown race meeting. In consequence | of the death of the Duke of Cambridge, | King Edward decided to withdraw all | but & few of his horses from important | racing engagements. He has consented | |that ome or two racers which have | | been in training in Ireland under the | care of McNally shall sport the royal colors during his Irish visit and on each occasion he will be opposed by one cf Croker’'s best, a horse signifi- | cantly named St. Patrick’s Day, which York money. Life on Bird Key. Out in the Guif of Mexico sixty-five miles from Key West toward the set- ting sun, rise half a dozen barren | sand bars from the exquisite turquoise blue waters. One of these, Garden | Key, 1s 2 Government fort and eoal- | | ing station, another is the Loggerhead | | Key, our last outpost toward Cuba and | Central Ameriea. Other islets are un-{ tenanted. save when the great sea! turtles crawl: one alone, Bird Key, is pre-empted by the birds. It would be | hard to find a more desolate or iso- lated region. Though the climate is warm tbroughout the year, it is not | until May that the feathered hosts ar- | rive from the far South at this sandy | rendezvous. In the van come the nod- | | dies, a few about the first of May, and the rest within a few days. A week later the sooty terns pour in, and it is id that within a week after their arrival both kinds begin to lay. At the time of our coming nearly all the birds | had eggs and were devoting themselves | to their family cares. | To reach the buildings from the lit- tle landing place we had to pass| through a tract of bushes, and here it was that I saw the first nests of the noddies. Upon the tops.or in the forks | of the bushes each pair had built a| rather rude vet fairly substantial plat- of stic only slightly hollow- ch one sat a dark gray bird. There was something about these | graceful little creatures that instantly took me by storm—a case of love at The noddy is very much |in size, in form, in the softness of its | | plumage, the expression of its large | and its gentle, confiding ! ways. There is no wild affright as the | stranger approaches. Just a shadow | of fear is evident, but the birds sit | | quietly on their nests, hoping and | trusting, and do not fly unless &p- proached almost within arm’s reach. Then they flit gently away, alighting | {upon a neighboring bush until the in- truder has withdrawn, when they re- turn directly to their charge. It seem- | ed remarkable to find birds so per- fectly tame.—Outing. ! (‘Imn;l;: oil Pipes. The long pipes that carry crude | petroleum from the oil wells to the | refineries many miles distant are| cleaned by an ingenious device, which | is described by a writer in the Omaha Bee. As the oil flows through these un- derground conduits some of the paraf- fine in the fluid incrusts the sides of the pipe and proves a serious hin- arance to the free passage of the cur- rent of oil. The device that is used to remedy this evil is a knife about two feet in length, with a sharp edge, constructed | like the thread of a screw; indeed, the | knife resembles a huge headless screw. | It is, of course, slightly smaller than the pipe through which it is to pass. | When the thickness of the crust of | parafiine renders a cleansing necessary this instrument is inserted in the pipe | at the il fields. The pressure of the stream of oil drives it forward, re- volving rapidly as it hurries along, and scrapes the channel clean. It turns and twists and cleanses in this manner throughout its whole journey and finally drops from the piper in the midst of the vast stream of petroleum that empties into there- ceiving tanks. Its edges are duller than when it set out on its journey, but otherwise it is in perfect condi- tion. It is at once shipped back to the oil wells, where it is sharpened and laid away until its services are again needed. The Red Moon. The director of the municipal observ- atories of Paris gives an interesting scientific explanation of the hoar frosts of spring, and one that again vindi- cates the soundness of observation em- bodied in proverbial sayings. In all countries of the world the “red” or April moon has been considered from time immémcrial dangerous for vege- tation, and the fact, though crudely expressed, is fully confirmed by modern science.” During April radiation of heat from the earth at night is considerable, while absorption of heat from the sun during the day is still slight. At the same time, thé low temperature clears the air of vapors, with the result that the moon shines more brilliantly, and, the combined resuit is to produce those sharp falls in temperature that cause the hoar frosts dreaded by farmer and agriculturist.—London Globe. “I suppose you and your daughters agree pretty well?” “Agree perfectly, except on just one point.” “I'd prefer self-supporting sons-in- law.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, | nieres he was pinning oneMr. Hearst's coat. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1904. 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CA L.LE AR T SR . 0%, GPIRIEG h SM s Saea e o 3 JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . ... ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT. Manager Publication Office . = .Third and Market Streets, S. F. HEARST WINS THE HAWKEYE. HE Hearst boom is like one of :the old-style T prairie fires that used to burn in the blue joint grass. It would strike a wet place and seem to go out and the watchful farmers would go home and go to bed. Then the wind would rise and the smoldering sparks would jump into dry grass and pretty soon the fire would blaze high again, and the tocsin would summon the sleeping and’ swearing farmers to do more back firing. Two weeks ago the Hearst boom struck a wet place and seemed to die out. The Parker farmers in the party went to bed and while they slept the sparks caught in Chicago and had burned all the Parker blue joint in Cook County. The boom then jumped the Mississippi and soon the political welkin of Iowa was lit up by a conflagration that destroyed all the opposition grass. The Democratic State Convention at Des Moines was the liveliest seen since the days of Will Tomlinson and Cow-and-calf Cole. The Parker forces made up in fight what they lacked in numbers, but the Hearst faction Yalued them, even as the Japs did the Russians. The Hawkeye delegation went Hearst a-whooping, though not without several painful episodes. which® members of the peace party sincerely regret. It seems to have been something of a race war. Against Hearst were Con- | gressman Wade, Jerry Sulliyan, the last candidate for Governor, and M. F. Healy, three leading Irish Demo- crats, who have probably received copies of Mr. Barry's newspaper, in which Mr. Hearst is despitefully treated in prose and poetry. The leading delegate at large is General J. B. Weaver, a picturesque and miscellaneous figure in politics. For- merly a Republican office-holder, he became a green- backer and was that party’s candidate for the Presi- dency in 1880, receiving 306,219 votes. After that he served a couple of terms in Congress and in 1892 was the Populist candidate for the Presidency and was sup- ported by Bryan, who had just acquired the symptoms of the fusion habit, from which he still suffers. Weaver’s stock rose. He receivad 1,025,187 popular votes and 23 electoral votes five States. His campaign was made on the stump with Mrs. Lease, the steam siren from | of Populism, and was one of the novelties and wonders of the contest. Mt. Hearst will do well to keep his eye on aver and his pocket-book handy, for the general is a sgduc- tive speaker, has the habit of running for office,’ and there are certain tones in his oratorical voice that send the reason of men fleeing to brutish beasts for shelter. | Weaver has all the breeding of a dark horse, and when he whinnies nominations stop grazing and run to him. Weaver’s colleague, Judge Carr, has despaired of the republic these many years. He has done it on the stump his newspaper, and if the country had gone really to the dogs every time he has seen it going by this time its bones would not be worth gnawing. The other delegates at large are less known to fame, though they have been introduced to her. One of these, Mr. Wadsworth, was selected by the ribald opposition to use his name as a financial suggestion, the charge being madg llg“.:m@s of the stuff” were on hand. One feature of the convention painfully displeases us, at this distance. The Hearst boom acts upon oratory like a ferment in a mash tub. That is one of its most pleasing effects. Wherever it appears oratory of the deepest dye is heard making adjectives sweat like a harvest hand in depicting the virtues and greatness of and in even Mr. Hearst. For proof of what we say we need only to refer our readers to the columns of Mr. Hearst's papers. But in‘the Des Moines convention the follow- ers of Parker, outvoted, outclassed and outlawed, re- sorted to ribald interruption. Whenever his boom struck the rock of oratory and produced an affluent fountain of beautiful paeans, the Parker parties damned the pactolian stream by totally irrelevant inquiries as to the amount the orator received for the vocal bouton- This pain ful species of cold-blooded interruption was varied by referring to the orator’s collar as brass and specula- tions as to its cost, when probably it was no worse | material than celluloid, So the light that should shiné in the speeches was compelled to flicker in the resolutions. These assail the evils of taxation and whack the trusts and do them to a finish. They are accused of seizing every avenue of human endeavor and that it “is compelled to pay tribute or cease to exist” We heartily agres that levy- ing tribute on an avenue is actionable and ought to be stopped. Avenues have a hard time any way. This maltreatment of avenues is in the next resolutjon charged up to the tariff. We Venture to quote the tariff | plank entire: “We denounce the vicious tariff system, fostered and perpetuated by the Republican party, under which the trusts have been born, bred, fattened and multiplied, until they have every industrial interest by the throat. and we demand the repeal of every tariff which denies equal opportunities for all.” So it is the apparent purpose to make an assault upon protection, via the trusts, and Mr. Hearst will repeal every tariff that denies equal opportunity for all. Per- haps it would be ungracious to call upon him for a bill of particulars, to specify the “every tarifi” that is doing these mean things to poor old “equal Opportunity.” A man who is out for Lincoln’s boots should not be dis- turbed by such questions. —— After years of costly experiment the Federal courts seem to have found a way to keep out of this country the horde of Chinese coolies that have been forcing the barriers of exclusion under the thin disguise of “native sons.” As yet, however, the very admirable corrective of criminal proceedings against the white allies of these Mongols has not been used. M Angeles Times, sounds a note of warning re- specting the quality of oranges in that part of the State. He says: “While no one is able to swear by bell, book and candle as to the cause of decadence in a large number of orange crops every season, all will agree as to the fact.” I have scen a number of orange groves this season, laden with fruit, with scarcely a merchantable specimen in the whole lot. Localities that were producing 50 to 75 per cent fancy fruit a few' years ago now put out large quantities of standards, a less amount of choice and a few fancies. Orchards whose fruit would bear the strenuous ills of a month from tree to market, without loss, are now producing fruit that will not hold up long enough to reach San Fran- cisco. Without frost or other climatic injury, there are DEFECTIVE ORANGES. R. JEFFREY, agricultural cditor of the Los thousands of boxes of oranges this year that are too poor for shipment. A large portion of this year’s crop is of the highest quality, yet we see decay in hundreds of carloads, even this early, and some of the fruit has been refused the benefit of even a try at the markets ior its very worthlessness. The time has come when the existence of the citrus fruit industry depends upon the keeping quality of the oranges and lemons, no mat- ter what methods of selling be determined upon.” Mr. Jeffrey thinks the cause of puffy and poor oranges may lie in over-fertilization and recommends that the ground in orchards be protected against ferment of fer- tilizers by heat by shading it with crops of peas or barley. The puffy and poor orange has not yet appeared in the Northern California citrus belt. But orchard owners will do well to study the subject, for prevention is easier than cure. In deciduous orchards poor fruit is sure to follow over-bearing. The deciduous orchards in which the fruit is judiciously thinned continue to produce first quality creps and fruit of even size and excellence. We believe that the Southern California orange growers have not thinned their crops. The anxiety for many hoxes and many carloads for export leads them to leave the trees to bear at will. It is not possible, even in citrus fruits, to associate excel- lence with over-bearing. We agree with Mr. Jeffrey that the popularity of citrus fruit from his section will surely wane “unless the growers find some means of suppress- ing the production of so many carloads that cannot be handled to the consumer without decay, and with- out other poor qualities that are now so disastrous to the market.” We suggest that they try thinning to the extent of a few thousand carloads, while adopting such other means as deeper fertilization and shading the soil. The Japanese have at last forced their valorous way to the Manchurian side of the Yalu River. Land fighting ot dignity and seriousness sufficient to enlist the atten- tion of the world has begun. must now face the far more stupendous problem of getting back alive into Korea. Even stupidity will not explain the lamentable showing thus far made by the Russians. 2 ° SHIPBUILDING COMPARISONS. LOYD'S Register of Shipping, the standard En- L glish journal of marine statistics, has recently published a review of the shipbuilding now in progress throughout all the yards of the United King- dom. Aside from the warship construction, now at the highest mark of activity, the Register notes some fig- ures on the building of merchant ships which should have a strong appeal to those who hope to see the American merchant marine flourishing again on the seas. Lloyd’s returns on the shipbuilding interests for the last quarter ending March 31 show that, excluding war- ships, there were 308 vessels of 988,664 gross tonnage under construction in British yards at that date. Of these 353 were steam vessels and the remainder of the old sailing class. For the use of the British merchant marine 265 of the vessels building are designed; 15 of them are under construction on orders from the colonies and the others are being built to fly the flag of foreign countries. The total tonnage of vessels build- ing in British yards is 90,000 higher than it was at the end of the preceding quarter and comes very near the high-water mark established in the month of September, 1901. Adding to these figures a total of 74 battleships with a gross displacement of 377,115 now under course of construction brings the whole record of shipbuilding for the last quarter up to something weil calculated to inspire our own struggling industry with envy. For, in contrast to that display of energy in the build- ing of ships, our ‘own figures are pitifully meager. In all the yards of the United States, save those on the Great Lakes, whence figures have not yet been obtained, the shipbuilding for ' the same quarter is represented | by the construction of 63 steam and sailing vessels of over a hundred tons burden, the ltotal tonnage of which is 122,935. Of these vessels 17 are building at the Philadelphia yards, 16 at New York, 12 at San Francisco and other coast concerns and the remainder at the smaller yards on the ‘Atlantic Coast. Under the benign influence of subsidies the rival mer- chant marines of foreign countries have so flourished that every year our merchants p.y full $200,000,000 in tolls for the transportation of their goods in foreign bottoms. With Great Britain, France and Germany the United States supplies one-half of the total international commerce of the world, according to the recently enun- ciated statistics of Mr. Austin, Chief ¢ the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and. Labor. The increase in the exports from the United States since 1870 is equal to that of the United Kingdom and Germany combined, yet our output of vessels in which our goods might be carried to the markgts of Europe is over 8o per cent less than that of Great Britain, our strongest rival in the carrying trade. From such a position favorable legislation by Con- gress alone can raise us. No stronger argument in favor of the passage of the shipping bill could be found than that made eloquent by the comparison between the fig- ures Lloyd’s Register gives for British shipbuilding and those representing our own feeble activities in the same industry. A gentleman whose sense of the religious proprieties was outraged a few days since smote a lady friend on the head with a heavy chair because she insisted upon diverting herself in a game of cards on the day dedi- cated to rest. While one may not gainsay the morality of the strenuous gentleman, the most conservative must question his method. He should be placed in an institu- tion where the enforcement of Sabbath calm is like that of every other day, a mere matter of discipline and routine, i g a8 Teachers in the public schools of Oakland have reason to believe that a little agitation will win for them the concession of no reduction in salary because of forced absence from duty due to illness. In urging their re- quest it will be eminently wise for the Oakland peda- gogues to ignore the precedents created by school au- thorities in San Francisco. It appears to be a tradi- tional policy of school officials here to make the in- structor lose what she cannot fight for. At the approaching summer school of the University of California instruction is to be given in music by a competent professor of the art. This has been a long- sought feature of Berkeley training and records a good beginning in a field neglected. Let us hope that the ex- periment may lead to a permanent accession to the col- lege curriculum, The troops of the Mikado | —_— TALK O Guaranteed as Genuine. When the remittance man at Naga- saki talked of a dilapidated but gen- uine Stradivarius violin which he was willing to sell for $20 he found a ready listener in Chief Officer Randall of the army transport Sheridan. Ran- dall is known among his shipmates as the Paderewski of the banjo. He knows more about violins now than he did when he acquired the remit- tance man’s “Strad.” “Can you fix this up?” asked Ran- dall of the violin expert at a local music establishment when he had brought his prize home. “Yes, indeed,” replied the expert, after carefully examining the disman- tled musical instrument. “Sure we can fix it. Cost you $30, though.” “Oh, that's all right.” Randall had been reading up on old vielins and knew something of the market ;-’onh yof the seasoned products of the fam- ous Cremona workshod. “What do you think of this instru- ment, anyway?” asked the sailor. “Well,” he said, “when we have done that $30 worth of work on it it will be worth about $8.” “Eight dollars,” gasped Randall “Why, man, you're crazy. Read what that plate says. Read it.” This is what the expert read en- WHY, MAN. READ WHAT AYE. EIGHT DOLLARS! YOU'RE CRA | THAT PLATE | graved on white metal necure‘y set in the fiddle’s neck: “Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1700. This signature is guaranteed. No vio- lins genuine without the name on the little white plate.” “Did you noticé the date the expert. : “You bet I did,” said the sailor. “1700, and that’s the time he turned out his best instruments.” “Did you notice the metal.” “Of course I did. Guess I showed lit to you. What's the matter with the metal “The metal's all right, but I wonder where the deuce Stradivarius got held of a piece of aluminum. Her Blighted Affection. | She glided into the Receiving Hos- voice at the phone attracted the at- tention of the chief steward, who saw that the woman had her mouth to the | trangmitter but without removing the receiver. Upon his inquiring whom she wished to speak to, she answered that she wished to communicate with Gen- eral W. H. L. Barnes on a very im- portant case. The nature of her troubles she at first hesitated to com- municate, but on a little coaxing im- parted the information that she wished to commence an action against Admiral Dewey for a breach of prom- ise of marriage. She stated that she was a schoolmate of George Dewey and that when they were together in the past he promised to make her his wife when he arrived at legal age. She now understood that he was old enough to marry and she wanted him to keep his promise. Plum Blossoms. Now the plum trees, white with bloom, Fill the air with sweet perfume; ‘Whispering breezes, breathing soft, #‘tlr the bloomy boughs, and waft Sweetest fragrance in the air, And the petals white and fair, Loosened by soft winds that pass. Float like flakes of scented snow Silent to the ground below, ‘Whitening the soft green grass. Tropic isles of spice and palm, ‘Where is endless summer heat, And where skies are fair and calm, Never filled the roving breeze As it sped o'er southern seas With a scent more softly sweet Than the delicate perfume Of the plum tree's snowy bloom. Busily the honey bees Toil among the blooming trees. Feasting in sweet scented bowers On the fair and snowy flowers; Softly humming as they creep O'er the petals, crawling deep Into each fresh blossom-cup, And, soon after, bringing up Treasure which they full well knew Gleamed there, although hid from view. In the meantime light winds pass Softly through the flowery mass, , And the petals, white as snpw, Float, wnh-llnmln‘f course and slow, sllent‘n to !t:s tr&un below, i e soft green grass. e Tovuson; 1n. Netionsl Magazine for May. A Hint to the Mayor. SAN FRANCISCO, May 5. Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: win you allow me to suggest through the medium of your popular paper the im- portai of the Mayor of our city ap- pointit his committeés to for the celebration of the Fourth of July? Already the Native Sons and the labor organizations are at work preparing for their respective days ana truly the Fourth of July is the day of all days to every American and ample time should be taken. Yours respect- fully, FRANK C. DUNLAP. No More Love. The Senate of this republic at the time when Patrick Henry Hanway was given his seat therein was a thing of granite and ice to all new- comers. The oldsters took ho more notice of the novice in their midst than if he hgd not been, and it was Senate tradition that a member must hold his seat a year before he could speak and three before he could be listened to. If a man were cast away on a desert island the local savage ‘might be relied upon to meet him on the beach and welcome him with either a square meal or a club. Not 80 in the cold customs of the Semate. The wanderer thrown upon its arctic shores might starve or freeze or per- ish in what way he would; never an oldster of them all would make a sign. Each sat in mighty state, like some ancient walrus on his cake of ice, and made the new one feel his littleness. If through ignorance or worse the new one sought to be heard, the old walruses goggle-eyed him ferociously. If the new one per- sisted they slipped from their cakes of ice and swam to the seclusion of the cloakroom, leav- ing the new one talking to him- self. This snub was commonly enough to cause the collapse of the new one, after which the old walruses would return to their cakes of ice. When Patrick Henry Hanway came to Washington he was unhampered of even a shadow of concern for any public good. His sole thought was himself; his patriotism, .if he pos- sessed any, had perished long before. Some said that its feeble wick went flickering out in those earlier days of Civil War. Patrick Henry Hanway, rather from a blind impression of possible pillage than any eagerness to uphold a Union which seem top- pling to its fall, emlisted for ety days. As he plowed through mud and rain on the painful occasion of a night march he addressed the man on his right in these remarkable nquired | words: “Bill, this is the last damned time T'll ever love a country.” And it was.—The Illustrated Sport- ing News. Answers to Queries. SHEDDING HAIR—A. S, City. fur-bearing animals shed hair. It is part of nature’'s work and there Is nothing that will prevent a Spitz dog or any other animal with a hairy coat from sheddir® the same at certain pe- riods. All THE MADSTONE—W. pital cn her tiptoes, and, going to the . : Prdimg d{fl! S., Cltyé that hun, on the wall, ere is considerable ‘erence o 'elep:o?e "éemralf The s(mn!e‘oplnion as to the value of what is i3 % 5 known as the madstone, those who have studied the matter for many years not being unanimous as te its merits. It is a greenish porous stone, sald to possess the property of draw- ing the venom from the bite of a mad dog or other animal afflicted with hydrophobia. PEBBLE—A. M., City. Pebble is the trade name for a transparent rock crystal or quartz used in the making of lenses for eyeglasses and spectacles. This class of crystal is obtained from Madagascar, Switzerland and Brazil. That from the last named country, on account of its exceptional hardness and transparency, is the pre- ferred pebble for the use of opticians. There are very few substances in na- ture that are hard enough to make a mark on quartz pebble. DAVY JONES' LOCKER—A. O. S, Oakland, Cal. It is a common thing for sailors to say of a person who is dead that he has gane to “Davy Jones' locker.” Smolett, in = “Perigrene Fick]e." says: “Davy Jones, according 0 the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep.” A locker, in sailors’ phraseology, is something that locks up or keeps any ~ ‘ng safe. Hence to go to Davy Jones' locker is to be placed in Old Nick's lockup. —————— S WHITE HOUSE EXPENSES—G. T. D., Oat Hill, Napa County, Cal. The bulk of the expenses of the White House, Washington, D. C., are paid by the President out of his salary. There is, however, a contingent fund, appro- priated annually by Congress, which meets part of them. This is under- stood to ecover all repairs and furnish- ings of the mansion, the care of the grounds, greenhouse and the salaries of such employes as night watchman, a doorkeeper, janitor and policemen also the President’s private secretary and assistant clerks and finally such expenses as stationery, postage stamps, etc. It depends somewhat on the President’s wish what shall be paid out of the contingent fund. T ascertain what the amount of eon‘: tingent appropriated was each Pr‘::mflu term since the 0‘,".' of Jefferson it would be necessary to examine the records at Washing- ton, D. C. MMM‘M artistic fire-etched m‘mm.{!