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S AR S B s Book. n Aruh! respondence. 13 GARD LONDON, April 25.—For three ‘months A. Henry Savage Landor has n in London, and “vet mot T of his large ci ‘cle of friends has known of h whereabouts. At a Westminster hote ~where this grandson of the poet, Walter dor olis, he has been shut up, elf all social pleasures, so Philippines in peace, undis- ‘Gems of the East” e of this book on the callers where Savage Landor has a whole year, living among savage tribes to be found in »r has emerged from lets little bits of his the archipelago, where Land Tus seclusi - experiences several close shaves, escape = especially loud in his the courtesy of the United which not only at his disposal, but ¥ for the explorations d him for the year in dealing with savage nent need bes, Mr with those of the Philippines, and | “. returned t don looking as youthful | a&s ever ar rfessing that he thor-| ved his adventures. He says he let the savages see that are bim, 1 only were they in des cughly enj that th. perate m when he wanted | to measure heads. Then they| thotght was trying to work a spell on them. But the end he succeeded | heir fears, and has, measurements, brought skulls for anthropo- | wh aral history section of have a red cover, adorned | Stars and Stripes, and which ultaneously in and Berlin, Mr. no less than thirty words used by thirty fferent tribes in the islands. This ex- rer, who is a wonderful linguist in European languages, can pick up one . m ve languages in an un- ime and thus make ne with any savage §£. to _be £ th f the S 2 he inglish with a for from her that charming little es- with vineyards and Fle in which and mother, one | Ttaly near fathe ves orence, hd two sthers, all quite un- with spirit of adventure tes the author. Tt is to this| s real home, that Mr. Landor | latgr this month. ever smokes, never drinks iquors and hardly knows the f fatigue. As one example urance, when the war be- een China and Japan broke out the fulfilled publisher’'s sudden lete the writing and « book on Korea, from had just returned, within That month he had prom- in Scotland with Lord he th - ised o stay Glenesk and, as there was royaity #taying in the house, he was not only " anable to cancel his engagement, but Je had to join in everything that was . going or all day so that his writing done during the hours of allowed himself three , each night and at the end ht days his work, includ- trations and covers, was d in the r~ub!:sher's hands. s novel, “When It Was of which I see are ng in the United States, yme “send off” at the hands » of London the other day. ndeed that reference to rk of fiction is made from re. and the compliment to was (he greater from the reviews w > u he always lives when in| t write his long projected | Landor got on wonderfully | he did not! Besides the book, | - Her last instructions were to this i | curious effect: “I desire that my coffin be not made of oak, or of any durable wood, but, on the principle of earth to earth bur- ials, of the lightest and most perish- able materials, merely sufficient to carry my body decently to the grave, and without any ornament or inserip- tion whatever. I desire to be carried to Llanelltyd Cemetery, not in a fun- eral hearse, but in one or other of my own carriages, driven by my coach- man, at his usual pace. And I desire that neither thep nor at any other time may my friends or servants wear mourning for me.” Apropos of this strenuous woman's death, a literary acquaintance of mine recalled a use of her name by Darwin to which Huxley often made laugh- ing reference. Speaking of some man | who had just perpetrated a screeching anti-vivisection pamphiet, Darwin re- marked that he wrote “like a female Frances Cobbe.” Reg “Egypt.” annual report on that country and the Soudan, “is in a state of transition and {the problem of adapting the whole machine of government to meet the ‘\\Anls of a society which is almost be- wildering in the variety of its com- ponent parts becomes daily more com- plex.” There is, however, nothing bewil- dering or complex in this report, which is a fascinating and lucid sum- | mary of the economic and social con- | dition of Egypt to-day. ! Lord Cromer has not only in hand | the financial regeneration of a coun- | try which Ismail Pasha left burdened with a debt of £100,000,000, but the | task, which requires far more adroit- ness, of transforming the vacillating yptian into a good citizen. | The bond which united the former rulers and the ruled in Egypt was, on the one hand, reliance on superior force, and, on the other hand, the fear engendered by the abuse of that force. “Stated in the most general terms,” “the main object to generating Egypt. ays Lord Cromer, be pursued was manifestly to substi- | in place df that The new bond had | tute another bond { which had existed. | to consist partly | of the mass of the population, partly in the establishment of the conviction that the Government was strong. This has been the basis of British policy in Egypt, | now say with confidence that “at no | former period in their long history have the people been so prosperous or | are to be pre-| g, contented as at present. The official body as a class have vet become accustomed to the use of to the weapons which a civilized system of government has placed in their| : hands. They have yet to learn that {there is a middle term between the exercise of unbridied authority and the weakness which shuns all respon- sibility. “Time, patience and the application { of sound, just and reasonably liberal principles should enable all the dif- ficulties which may arise from these and similar causes to be solved with- out resort to any heroic remedies. On this solid basis the superstructure bis mother | cap pow be improved and completed in such a manner as time and experi- | ence may necessitate.” How exceedingly sound the financial | management of the Khedive's admin- | istration has been may be judged by a | glance at the illuminating and under- | standable figures which Lord Cromer { has incorporated in his report. Every penny of | which have been spent during the last eigfiteen years on canals and irriga- | tion has-been charged to revenue, and | the Suakin-Berber Railway, estimated | to cost one and three-quarter millions, / tions of past years. An interesting sidelight on the so- | cial life of the country is afforded in the section devoted to marriage. The great facility for divorce al- says Lord Cromer in his in the contentment | in the gradual growth of confidence in | | the intentions of the rulers and partly | and Lord Cromer can | the eight millions | { will be paid for out of the Accumula-; THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,] }OHND..P!ECKELS Proprieto: . . . . . . « « . .-Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: Publication Office ..Third and Market Streets, S. F. WHAT WE ESCAPED. SATLRDA\'.. HE feeling of public anxiety that existed during T the pendency of the issue between the Carmen’s Union of San Francisco and the United Railroads was caused not only by past experiences here, but by a knowledge of the losses caused elsewhere by long and bitter strikes. This fecling of anxiety was shared by the carmen themselves. What we escaped may be measured by the results reported by the New York State Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration on the strikes of 1903. These numbered 192, against 142 in the preceding year. The losses far exceeded those of 1902, when they were 272,285 working days. In 1903, the number of employes affected was 117,000 and they lost 3,000,000 days’ work and wages. In the buvilding trades strike 37,037 em- | ployes lost in wages $6,754,751. In all the disputes and consequent idleness of the year, workmen lost over $10,000,000 in wages. 3 The loss to business is incalculable. The delay in building, loss of rents and interest, the extra insurance risk, the slower movement in real estate, the insolvency of many enterprises and the effect of doubt and uncer- tainty that pervaded, business and industry made it a vear of stress and 1 in New York. It is no wonder that out of it all conservative men, like John Mitchell and Mr. Buchanan, are leéd to declare that the economic Joss of strikes far exceeds the advantage usually gained by them. The experience of New York was nearly | duplicated by Chicago, where, it is said, the loss in wages and other collateral sacrifices have made a deep and damaging imprgssion upon the progress of the city. Looking upon the record of these distant disturbances and counting up the losses under which other cities wince and flinch, and making a study of the c‘usn’cf it all, we may sec how near San Francisco came to le#d- | ing off the industrial year by a similar experience. But, ! instead of that we have led off in a condition of fair | industrial peace, brought out of a situation which threat- ened-a prolonged and costly war. It mny be expected that other cities will be attracted by our success in escaping causes which have made them suffer so bitterly. Capital, which is timidly in flight from storm centers where'its investment is unsafe, will be led to investigate the better conditions- which safety for it here. All interests, of labor and capital alike, are safer where there is industrial equilib- rinm and a degree of freedom under the law. TIt'is | fortunate for San Francisco that the streetcar issue was so long pending that it attracted attention throughout the Union, and that other cities, judging by their own unhappy experiences, were confident that a peaceful issue was impossible. | When pecace did come, on terms honorable and satis- i factory to both sides, those who had eypected the oppo- | site result were informed and educated as they would not have been if the matter had acquired only local notoriety. The contrast is so marked between what | was peacefully settled here and the carnage and de- struction that raged around the streetcar systems of | Chicago and St. Louis that investors are sure to be at- tracted to thiz city, where reason and right thinking are in control of employers and employes. Disorder is infectious. Man is an imitative animaj, and methods good or bad adopted by masses of men infect leading to widespread disorders. The streetcar men, by keeping the middle of the road, using their own common sense, and the officers of the United Railroads, by showing a rare capacity for looking on both cf an issue that so mightily concerned them, have set the pace for the year. When that pace has become custom and habit to those who take it, a great example is set, making for the peace and pros- perity of other years to come. We do hesitate to say that the settlement was worth millions to San Francisco, not merely by pre- venting the sad waste of a strike, but by the good repute with which it invests the city. | promise other masses, sides not The Empress Dowager of China has decided to give to the American Government the only portrait of her- self ever painted by a foreign artist, who, in this instnace, is a clever and ambitious American woman. We may look upon this as a double concession from the strange ruler of Peking. She probably wants us to know that she doesn’t look as bad as she acts and that our artistic sense is equal to the task of presenting her favorably at least on canvas. lowed by Mohametan law tends more | {than any other single cause to under- | | mine family life in Moslem countries. | I am inclined to think that the prac- | tice of divorce, equally with that of polygamy, is diminishing, but that large numbers of Moslems still avail themselves of the provisions of the| {law to get rid of their wives cannot e doubted. During the past vear 176,474 cer- tificates of Moslem marriages were registered. There were 52,992 cases of divorce. In other words, for every seven women married there were | | rather more than two divorced. In a great many cases, however, xhc{ husband takes his wife back again| | after divorcing her; and as in these |cases a new certificate of marriage is | not necessary, the reunion does net ap- KUROPATKIN'S TACTICS. ENERAL KUROPATKIN is still explaining the G Russian reverses on the Yalu. Even from the meager reports thus far given out no military training is required to make it plain that the battle was one of the great actions at arms that will figure in his- tory. The fact that the Japanese carried completely . a Russian position of first importance is prdoved by the eiaborate works and entrenchments in which they found and from which they drove the enemy. Kuropatkin takes pains in every report and explana- tion to dwell upon the Japanese superiority in numbers. But he does not emphasize the other fact—that the Japanese crossed a river to assault a force protected | | . fact'that the :x:hrr;\ :( ::o::'o:. pr:.fisi\d pear in' the statistios—London Ex-| behind vast works and \\'?th its artillery permanently E on estminster | ooy | mounted and capable of instant and deadly service. 2 il Mr Taavaa l | When an'army is behind Protfclive works, with artillery “whether of you have read that All for Tko. light and heavy, one soldier is equal to ten in a force . semarkable work of fiction, “When It otedt | that makes the assault, In fact, from a mili 12 . Was Dark® It paints, in wonderful Lieutenant Fasaki of a Japanese wxr-z 3 = . a polors, what it seems to me the world would be iIf for six monthe, as in the . @tory it is supposed to be the case, | owing 10 a gigantic fraud, the Remr- fon might be supposed never have occurred.” " Although in her time Frances Powell Cobbe both wrote and spoke on the | . subject of woman's rights with the energy of Susan B. Anthony herself, the wide attention which her death stiracted the other day was due prin- dpaily to the unusual commands con- point, the advantage was with the Russians. One feature that persistently recurs in Kuropatkin's reports would be amusing if anything so grievous as war can furnish amusement. He puts blame upon General htalinsky, whom he says he directed to retire with- | things T had in my bosom were the ©Out fighting. This is echoed by the Novoe Vremya's charm you sent me and a photograph | !nilitary expert, who says Major General Kashtalinsky's {of Iko (the lieutenant’s ‘eldest son).| report proves clearly that the Russians should have re- ship writes to his wife fter all there is plenty of luck in battle, and a fellow | of good luck cannot die even if he wish | to. For instance, a shiot pr ball cannot | hit a lucky dog like me. On the occa: | sion of the fight of February $ the onl Dui the fight I took on : e? i f « Qh"“‘l;e ~ ”:’flmf the | tired. _ “Retire” is a military euphemism for “retreat.” broadsides; but when range lnd’ All critics will agree that the Russian army would not increased I ordered to cease firing. have been whipped if it had not fought. But why had _ tained .in her will. She evidently had | Then I teck out Iko's photograph and | " horror of being buried alive, for she | turned its face toward the scene of . lgft strict instructions that Dr. Had- | battle, addressing it as if it were Iko in | wen of Gloucester, a former co-worker | person. ‘If @s & result of this war,’ I| a stand there? < im her anti-vivisection campaign, | said to it, ‘the situation of the Far East Th desired to th should perform on her body “the oper- | is firmly fixed and no war should occur rec ;J‘P;mn:l:“““::o;:d ‘:'nver l:bfom um:m‘ stion of completely and thoroughly | during vour lifetime, then you might| P oo ¢ POt PRI g sévering the arteries of the neck and | think yourself born in vain as an of-| COStly preparations to prevent a crossing. - Why, then, windpipe, nearly severing the head al- | ficer's son. Therefore you should care- | should they retreat without firing 2 gun and let the (w.nulcl-&rmm_f.m fully observe this scene even from Japanese cross. in peace? “m“nommthg in the grave absolutely impossibie. your photograph, so that the sight may 1 h osed the crossing Miss Cobbe went further, however, by | inspire in you the proud warrior spirit generals who_obp, thy E.:au onpased. it declaring that If this operation was | worthy of agnan. If, however, fortuns | bravely and vainly were acting upon the original plan to not performed and at its completion | favors you With a chance of being un-| defend that part of the river where the Japanese must cross, if at all. It is useless to palliate what happened, mor is it brave or wise to minimize the action gf ‘the witniessed by one or the other of her | der fire, as I am now, then there is all Japanese by harping upon’ their superior fumbers. They et | months and money been spent in works to protect its | position on the Yalu if it was not the intention to m;kg executors and testified by the same, all | the more reason to observe the scene the beguests in her will were to be | carefully for your future benefit.’ "— made pull and void Omaha Bes = crossed a river fighting, assafted and carried a strongly fortified position, and by storm captured thirty of the forty guns mounted to defend it. The harbor police are having considerable difficulty in suppressing that peculiar parasite of seaports, the bay pirate. Fortunately there is very little of harm left in the wharf pest except the romance of his name, and that is not even formidable enough to inflame the imagina- tion of a small boy. And there is not a small compen- sation in the fact that the “pirates” excuse for exercise. ‘"THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. v lished of the fight between the Japanese fleet and the two Russian ships bottled up in Chemulpo | harbor, but the Sunday Call to-morrow will contain, ex- | clusively, the first official report that has been received | ppe puplishers are very desirous of | in America. It was written on the day of the great one-sided fight immediately after the sinking of the Variag and the Koreitz, by’ W. A. Marshall of the United States | steamship Vicksburg, senior officer commanding, who, with his ship, was stationed in the harbor at the time and was, therefore, a keen and critical eye-witness of all that took place. In it he tells how Captain Roudnoff sailed out with band playing to meet the whole Japanese fleet of two battleships, -six cruisers and twelve torpedo craft, and was battered to pieces in one of the most heroic naval battles in all history, of the damage done by the Japanese fire and later by the Russians themselves, and how the men of the foreign fleet went to the rescue of the Variag's survivors after they had been abandoned by the Koreitz before she herself was blown up. B This long and minute report was sent to the com- mander-in-chief of the United States force on the Asiatic | station, and besides being official makes up one of the most interesting accounts ever written of a modern battle viewed from the calm, cool, unexaggerating stand- point of one who is himself versed in the science of | the terrible game. 3 As to the awful havoc wrought the photographs, whlch were taken immediately after the battle, exclusne]y for | the Sunday Call, ever built, and which had seen only eighteen months of service, now looks, lying near the torn and battered hulk of her sister ship, the Koreitz. Taking the war zone in a sweeping circle there is also an article in the Sunday Call to-morrow written by Eli T. Sheppard, former United States Consul Gen- eral to Chinkiang during the Chino-Japanese embroglio, | who writes of “Port Arthur, the Tragic Monument of | Li Hung Chang’s Diplomacy,” which gives the secret history of the forts that are now holding the Japanese | at bay with such grim tenacity. Following the zone still farther round the circle there is a story of the Philippines from the pen of Albert Sonnichsen, who served with the American forces, and therefore knows.of what he writes at first hand, entitled “When Lawton’s Charger Ruled Vigan.” Swinging back around the circle the Sunday Call will present the first installment of three full illustrated pages of Headon Hill's exceptionally powerful novel of Russian life, entitled “By a Hair's Breadth,” which ! rather sensational title gives no idea of the sweep and ! strength and serious revelations of the story itself. It is indeed a novel of rare interest just at the present time, | while the eyes of the whole world are focused on St. Petersburg, for it tells of the plot and counterplot that keep the Czar in constant jeopardy and how marvelously be is safeguarded by the dreaded “Third Section.” Switching off ‘at a slight tangent there is an article | from the pen of Maynard Shipley on the Kings,” all-powerful Menelik II. This article is especially im- portant in view of the negotiations now being conducted with the United States. Making the circle of the world complete and coming much nearer home, the Sunday Call to-morrow will print an article on “Record Breaking Automobiling in California,” which not only tells of a remarkable feat “King of just accomplished but illustrates it with one of the most | It is so large that it | striking photographs ever taken. fills up the whole page from top to bottom and from corner to corner. And in the line of summer fashions for men and women, which is quite apropos, there is a full page on the correct dress for gentlemen, illustrated with a full list of photographs, and a full page for the gentler sex, in fact two full pages, both completely illustrated with the finest half-tones ever reproduced in the West. One s “The Picture Veil.” which is a chic and sensational novelty, and the other, under the heading of “What Women Want to Know;” is “The Sweet Scented Satchet Bag”"—how to make it and how and when to use it and when not to use it. Agd on page 15 Jerome K, Jerome has one of the cleverest articles that ever came from his pen, entitled “Beauty by the Bottle,” which will create no end of dis- cussion between men and women for obvious reasons. Pictorially and artistically the Sunday Call to-morrow will be of unusual interest. There are two full page multiple color pictures that will find their way into frames on the walls of many homes. A Baron from the Netherlands on adventure bent and secking Indians to slay pursued his hazardous journey recently as far as Chicago, where in disgust he gave up the chase. have possessed himself in patience, waited for the St. Louis convention, and spotted game that will make Indian chasing a child’s play. A glimpse of the Tam- manyites there to be assembled would fire anybody’s blood. A woman suing for twenty-five thousand dollars dam. ages for lacerated affections was awarded in compen- sation by a jury the other day the modest sum of one dollar. It would have been cheaper had the lady become a devotee of the faith cure. Then she would not have been forced to suffer the harrowing comparison be- tween what she thought was hers and what a jury in its diverse wisdom sometimes thinks. 'l'ht Chinese in Honolulu appear to have been far maneeepuvefl!anthm&llowshmmahorbmgm principles that actuate certain unlovely classes of Amer- jcans. Two coolies, sentenced in the island capital to an hpmnmtoffift«nyunmhrdlzbm begged to |cars be put to death rather than be mage suffer the indignity of hard work. ThmmmtsdnhncflyOwdnhl fathér thin Criental. give the police an | ARIOUS and numerous stories have been pub- ! show how one of the finest warshlps' on justice and crime in Abyssinia, under the | The Baron is no true sport. He should | f | TALK OF ‘No Roomn for Him. In replying'to the toast, “The Pro- | gressive Jew,” at a banquet where sat a mixed assemblage of Jews and gen- | tiles the other night, John Rosenfeld Iamuxed his hearers with the following anecdote: “A few days ago,” he said, “a can- vasser called at my office and urgently | requested an interview. The man was well dressed and had the gift of gab— in fact, he was gn artist in his line. He bowed himself ih, and without waiting to be invited seated himself in a chair. After the usual inquiry on my part as to what I could do for him, he said: “‘Mr. Rosenfeld, I am a canvasser i for a new work that is about to be published in New York by an eminent | scholar from Poland; it is on the life ‘and history of the Wandering Jew. having the work introduced in San Francisco among the more enlightened | Hebrews, as it will in a measure do {away with considerable of the prejudice that exists against our race. The sub- scription is only a matter of 35, and to such a public spirited Jew as yourself it will have interest. What number of copies will I put you down for?" “I was astounded at the man’s gall, iand before waiting to hear further from ihlm I rang for the bookkeeper, and when he entered the room I said, ‘Give this man $20, and see here,’ I said to the canvasser, ‘'keep that beok in New York, and keep that Wandering Jew jon the move until doomsday. We ;Jews in America have no use for any more wanderers; we are happy and | content, and have found the happy { land long promised to Moses. We have no room for wanderers, but plenty of places for industrious Jews. ™ Going Some. Mercaftile clerks with many letters to write to India tradesfolk are to be ! pitied. The following, picked at ran- dom from the books of a London firm dolng business in India, are not at all a | bad specimen of the general run of names throughout the empire: Jogavajala Seethasamachendrudu. | Manthri Pragada Suryanarayana. | VangarPathangy Vijayaraghavachar- | riar. Conjeeveram | Mudliar. Poonamalie Shunmugasundaram Mud- | lar. Keduramangalam Subramanist Chi- | dembera Iyer. Peruvayel Coomaleeswarenpettah Ra- jaruthna Moodliar. | Thus put, the names do look strange Muttukumaraswamy | and savor something of being a terror { to the English man or woman who tries fto pronounce them. But if words \\ere | divided—divided as they rightly may | be—instead of being run together, there would be no confusion. ‘“Muttukumara- swamy” is an awkward word to pro- | nounce, but “Muttu Kumara Swamy” ‘ has nothing to cause any one any trou- !ble. Again, “Vijayaraghavacharriar” | seems a jaw-breaker of a word; it is ! euphony Itself when properly divided into “Vijaya Raghava Charriar.” Why, 11 wonder, d6 not Hindu gentlemen in | Southérn India help the foreigner to Aunders!snd and to promgunce their names by writing them in the way I | have indicated?—United India. i The M fodern Baby. They say that I must not be rocked Because my brain might addle! | If 1 could speak, they would be shocked: | Ira call that flddle-faddle. | And yet, of course, they ought to know— | TStill, T can’t help but wonder | If some one rocked them years ago When folks were apt to blunder. They stand around me, looking wise, And say they must not pet me; A gentle pat to soothe my cries They claim would further fret me. My raising must conform to laWw Down te each jot and tittle— Did people hold them off with awe ‘When they were bald and little? They say that bouncing me is sure To make me Very nervous. That children’s frames cannot endure Such sadly thoughtless service. Yet these phlegmatic scientists, 1 Ere they began to toddle Were bounced until their chubby fists Played tattoos on the noddle. ‘When I stretch out my willing arms Inviting them to frolic, They rise in wondering alarms And talk of croup and colic- It's hard to be a baby now; They will not pet or jump us, And when I sleep. my peaceful brow Must lie straight with the compass. | When I grow up, of course I'll be A triumph scientific; But really it seems to me My hard luck is terrific. If I could only speak my mind— But then they would not thank me, One unbanned custom they would find— They still think they may nk me! —Chicago Tribune. Harnessing Lightning. To harness the electricity on Pike's Peak and by means of a metallic cir- cuit conduct it to the base, there to be stored for use as motive power for the cog road—that is the scheme of the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway. The proposition, according to the general manager, Mr. Sells, is feasible, and affords the only practical means of employing electricity on the cog i road. The one obstacle in the way of car- ! ryving out such a plan is the static {electricity with which the air is charged above the 12.000-foot point. The fact that Pike's Peak overtops all the surrounding mountains makes it tricity that would otherwise be dissi- pated over a large area. In the ordinary trolley line power comes along the trolley wire from the power station, thence into the motors under the cars and returns to the earth, completing the circuit. The heavy currents on the coming so quickly and so would, if applied direct, tear the natural grounding spot for elec-|is THE TOWN or power-house in Manitou and return- ing without going through the earth. The pole of the car will take the power in the ordinary way and trans- mit to the motor, but it will return on the other wire to the power-house and not through the earth, thereby pre- venting' the burning out of the mo- tor. The poles which will cgry these wires will each have at the top a lightning-rod designed to attract elec- tricity which plays around the peak so fiercely. The theory is “that the poles will catch the “juice” and trans- mit it through the rails of the cog road to the power-house in Manitou, where it will be transformed and stored for use. They will take the electricity off the peak and transmit to Manitou, where it can be used for driving trains up and down. The cog road management have al- ready begun dpon plans and specif- cations.—New York Herald. A Colonial Calf. In 1631 Thomas Dudley, deputy Governor of the colony 8f Massachu- setts Bay, wrote the Countess of Lin- coln a letter of nineteen pages, in { which he tells her an incident in the early history of the colony that would otherwise have been forgotten. It goes to show that the Puritan fore- fathers, even the staid magistrates, had some humor. The matter was fresh to the mind of the writer, for he closes his letfer by saying. “I am now this 28th day of March, 1631, sealing my letters. “Upon the Twenty fifth of this March, one of Watertown, having lost a Calf, and about .. n of the Clock at night, hearing ‘ne howling of some Wolves not far off, raised many of his Ndighbors out of their Beds, that by Discharging their Muskets near about | the place where he heard the Wolves he might so 'u( the Wolves to flight, and save his c “The Wind serving fit to carry the Report of the Muskets to Roxbury, three miles off, at such a time; the In- habitants there took alarm, Beat up their Drum, Armed themselves, and sent Post to us to Boston to Raise us also. “So in the morning the Calf being found safe, the Wolves affrighted, and our danger past, we vem merrily to breakfast.”"—Youths' Companion. For Creditors. A Parisian who has been much ane noyed by duns has conneeted his bell handle with a powerful electrical bat- tery and switches on the current at psychological moments. So far the po- lice have declined to interfere. Answers to Queries. A NOTE—A. H. T, Taylorsville, Cal. A promissory note executed in the State of California holds for four years. MEXICAN WAR—Subscriber, City. During the war with Mexico, April 24, 1846, to July 4, 1848, the number of troops engaged on the side of the United States was 39,954 regulars and 73,776 volunteers. DIVORCE — Nevada, Carson City, Nev. A person divorced In California cannot marry again until one year after the court has decided to grant the divorce, for the reason that the decree is not entered up until twelve months after decision. JOHNSTOWN FLOOD—P. J. H,, City. The town of Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.; on the Conemaugh River, at the junction of Stony and Cone- maugh creeks, 39 miles southwest of Al- tcona and 79 miles of Pittsburg, was almost totally swi out of exist- ence by a flood caused by the breaking of a dam on South Fork Creek, May 31, 1889, MALT—M. F. C., City. from barley. Its manufacture involves with water enough to allow the grain to swell thoroughly. The steeping lasts about sixty-five hours, or until the grain is well swollen and soft, when the water is drawn off and the grain is thrown on the couching floor in a heap. There it lies for twenty-six hours or more, until the temperature lm to 60 degrees and the grain to give off its absorbed water. o called sweating. The point of H 1 % g H i ¥ : i [} i