The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1904, Page 32

s e e e — i .are _suth as whitev . coronation _vice hs . period . Eenius upon portraits of his Majesty. 1SCO.- CALL < N MAY 8. 1904 D L A— BEN GARDEN costly survivals of | ons ere more strik- which attention has | and which involves nual tax of $24,- for the maintenance public act | 09 | of Lon- | was re- an ard ain number, share. Al- by the ancient 1 was | City of | the force would - fifey | wards have raised but with that blind | Ro)y when { authorities, been pald year after year kick. Now, at last, some d audacious enough to | exaction own func- | most str survival - ndon, was appealed | ided that the tax | id. An appeal has and out in the British decision courts. The presen the M enth Ro) money sh another ed in 2 beneficiaries of the tax| Battalion of the Sev- Fusilicrs, though why the be bestowed on them is rchaic mystery. It is expend- sorts of queer ways. Items hing the barracks and minations, which cost the accounts. But most all appears an annual $1250 to the secretary of the fund. Sinecures exist in London | that would meke an -American poli- tician turn green with envy " For v fourteen years no ser- held at St George's | h’s lane, in the heart of 1891 the roof was dis- | afe and the Bishop red the building closed, o funds available to of its repair. Recently | r business purposes. this time its rector, the coll, has been drawing a a year and doing ab- othing to earn it, living | Ripon, where he is hedral and in receipt antial income. Justi- | lustrious example, it that for the same h clerk has had no *tions of conscience about| g $200 2 year for services that | r rendered; that the beadle has annually $150 a year from the for merely signing the receipt is salary, and that the humble blower has continued to draw $60 vear for doing nothing. Yet within the Church of England it is stated on high authority there are no less than 7000 arvation livings.” 8120, figure i surprising of payment of Church, Botc fied by such ar is surprisi not com; vocketi he ne pir orgz The King as a Sitter. The artistic world has lately noticed an inclination on the part of the King 1o grant more sittings to portrait painters than at any previous time in his Majesty's career. The fact has been all the more com- mented upon because the King is un- derstood to have no great liking for “the studio pose.” Moreover, the czlls upon his Majesty's time were never so great at present. These circum- stances notwithstanding, the royal sit- tings graciously accorded of late have become so numerous as to necessitate the fitting up of a room in the north wing of Buckingham Palace as a studio. In this, as in other respects, the King ie always prepared to recognize irrespective of nationality. Hence the large number of foreign artists resident in London who are at present or have been lately engaged Mr. Weigall is executing a three- quarter Jength portrait for Wellington College. Mr. John Longstaff, the Aus- #gralian, is painting another to the order of Earl Beauchamp. Other commis-| sions are belng or have been recently | completed by M. Emil Fuchs, M. V. O, and M. Mordecai, while E. A. Abbey, R. A., is painting the official picture of the coronation, in which 250 portraits will appear—all the originals of which, ! including the King and Queen, have ‘granted special sittings. M. Emil Fuchs, to whom the King sat & number of times for the present postage stamps, the coronation medals and the portrait for the King’s Prus- sian regiment, is enthusiastic on the subject of his Majesty’s qualifications &s a sitter. “Before the King enters the studio,” s2id the famous artist, “he has decided in exactly what manner and position hie requires the portrait to be painted. With t#t wonderful tact which dis- tinguishes him, he talks of nothing but art. He tells of the great pictures he has scen in his world-wide travels.” His Majesty has “a refined and culti- -~ | his retaining that arf | phenomena. | ous spr vated taste in art. But that is not to be wondered at,” said Mr. Fuchs, *‘for he has lived among the great creations at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Marl- borough House and Sandringham. Sur- rounded daily by the best in the world of art, his Majesty quickly detects the poor or the mediocre.” 4 John Longstaff furnishes an interest- ing account of his experiences while painting the King’s portrait at Buck- ingham Palace. The unfinished picture hung in the palace studio. “After a little time, and without any warning,” says the Australian artist, | “the door opened and in walked the! King, followed by an equerry, who| me forward and introduced me. The | King went up to the picture and, after | looking at it attentively, turned and | remarked that it looked ‘very digni- | fled” Looking again, he made a sug- | gestion in reference to one portion, and stood beside the frame so that a com- parison might be made. I made sev- | eral notes, after which the King and | | T gazed at one another for a féw mo- | ments, during which I rapidly made mental memoranda.” When in town the King occasionally | | drops into the studio of some artist | engaged upon a picture he is inter- | ested in. One of these surprise visits he recently paid to Alfred Gilbert, R. A., wha at the time was working upon a statue of the Queen. Mr. Gilbert had his shirt sleeves rolled up and was wearing an apron when an assistant burst in upon him with the announce- “The King is coming!” Gilbert, so the story goes, seized his silk hat instead of his coat. Then | when the King entered the workroom | the sculptor realized that he was wear- ing a silk hat and a long apron al"ld‘l that his ghirt sleeves were still tucked | up. Conscious that he must look very ridiculous, Mr. Gilbert essayed to re-| move the hat. But the King, thinking | that the artist wished to uncover in | ceremonial salutatic insisted upon e. Repeatedly, when he suspected that the King was not looking, Mr. Gilbert tried to dis- | encumber himself of the hat, but his Majesty always caught him in the act and smilingly urged him to restore the | headgear.—London Mail. Nature’s Attic. Around the head of the Guilf of Tri- este, in the southern part of Austria, and extending across the base of the Istrain peninsula, is a plateau of lime- presents some pecullar | ne which | | Full grown rivers.issue from its sides, disappear under other hills, to reappear } later at some distance point. Mysteri- | s rise through the bottom of the Bay of Trieste, in times of heavy rainfall bubbling up with a violence | sufficient t6 endanger small craft. In the heart of Cherso Island, which is | in the middle of the Gulf of Quarnero, is the Lake of Vrana. It is surrounded | entirely by hills, and Hes in a basin said to be forty-five fathoms deep. The | level of the water is reputed to be at| least forty feet below the level of the | sea about the island. It has no ap- parent affluent or effluent, vet the waters are always fresh and cool. It is believed the lake is fed by some sub- | terranean passage, leading out under | the bay from the Istrain Alps, possibly from Monte Maggiore itself. Some distance to the northward is a | lake which disappears for weeks at a | time. This sheet of water, known as | the Lake of Zirknitz, is about four miles long and from two to three miles broad. Villages, chapels and castles are reflected in its waters. Frequently in July, although not every year, the | waters begin to disappear, and in August the bed, fifty feet below the | surface at some points, at times grad- ually appears. From twenty to twenty-five days are required for the entire lake to be dis- charged. When the bed is revealed the peasants plant crops of barley where only a short time before they were drawing their nets. uncovered sometimes for many weeks. The peasants gather their barley and hay from the bottom in the meantime. Then with a rush the waters return, the basin being refilled sometimes in a period of twenty-four hours. The limestone which forms the bed is perforated with a vast number of cav- erns and fissures. Nearly thirty of these are visible. They are funnel- shaped, and some of them are fifty feet deep. The peasants give them names, such as the kettle, the sieve, etc. There are twenty-eight openings which draw water off, only twelve of which both' draw off and discharge water. They connect with caverns and subterranean passages penetrating be- neath the surrounding mountains. In this neighborhood also is the Grotto of Adelsberg, the largest known cavern in Europe and one of the most beautiful in the world. It has been ex- plored for a distance of four or five miles. Through a portion of it flows the River Polk, which takes this sub- terranean method of reaching its des- tination. Besides the fantastic caves and grot- toes are deep pits, varying in diameter from a few feet to several miles, some of them having forests and agricultural lands at their bottoms.—New York Tribune. Birds and Poison. Birds seem to have no discrimina- tion whatever in regard to poisons, probably because they have almost no The bed remains | sense of smell and swallow their food without masticating it. They are terrified to paralysis by the appear- ance of a poisonous snake (unless the terror be due to dread of the appear- ance of the serpent rather than to an inherited knowledge of its venomous power); but such intelligent birds as rooks will pick up and eat poisoned grain, and crows and ravens readily eat poisoned eggs or meat. Chickens will eat the poisoned seeds of labur- num and die from its effects. Whether birds such as tits and greenflinches ever do so does not see mto be known But wild birds are frequently found dying in gardens, though apparently they have been in good health a few hours before, ‘and their death may probably be due to the consumption of poisonous seeds, : \ T HE SAN FRANCISCO CAILL S@@S. Proprietor . « « o . - o . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: 3 @ eieesescsceseee...Third and Market Streets, S. P. ST B s o B s s bionaie v Y - 85,2004 MORE HARMONY. HE Democratic sons of harmony are an odd lot. T Mr. Belmont wants harmony and went up to Washington to find it. While he was experiment- ing with his tuning fork Mr. Hearst went at him with his pitchfork and told lim to his face and in large type that he is a predatory and improper person, of the kind doomed to the county jail and unhappiness when Mr. Hearst gets settled in Lincoin’s boots and the White House. Then Mr. Villard of the New York Post sought harmony editorially in that old and interesting publica- tion, whereupon Mr. Hearst accused Mr. Villard of rob- bing his sister and gympathizing with Grove Johnson. It is supposed that the origin of the aspiration for harmony is to be found in Princeton, New Jersey, when Mr. Cleveland is at home, and otherwise wherever the fish are biting when he is not. This supposition is dis- quieting to Mr. Bryan and no less so to Mr. Hearst. When the sounds of Democratic contention cease and a harmonious silence falls blandly and peacefully as a love- ly sunset, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst both stick their fingers in their ears and cry out, “Who made that si- lence? It's Cleveland.” Mr. Cleveland has a sense of humor, and in his old age it has not departed from him. A leading actor in the events that were staged for history in the last cen- tury, he bore strange burdens and was a past master in the gentle art of making friends and also enemies, and they both stick to him like hotel pasters to a globe-trot- ter’s trunk. Ope of the most serious crises of Mr. Cleveland’'s second term was the weakly and anaemic condition of the treasury. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Car- lisle were watching nights with the gold reserve when it was so sick it could not sit up and notice things, and | really the national credit was getting ready to quit the job. Of coursc men differ as to the cause of this. Some say it was due to a falling off in revenues caused by tariff tinkering, and others that the endless chain of greenback redemption was drawing out gold and the President couldn’t stop it. Whatever the cause, it was the plain duty of the President to preserve the public credit and save the Government from bankruptcy. Upon this all were agreed. . Mr. Cleveland tried to get his party to help him pre- vent national insolvency, but it said unto him, “Ha! ha!l go to. The public credit is to us no more than a tinker’s dam, which is made of wet bread. We are for gréen- backs, poor silver and well executed counterfeit cur- Go chase yourself around the White House lot.” Whereupon Mr. Cleveland, having only a few hours left before the last riches in the treasury would take to them wings and fly away, proceeded to ring in a hurry call for J. Pierpont Morgan, August Belmont and the few others who had not been sent to the poorhouse by the hard times, and using what little legal authority he had, and a lot of patriotic sand, persuaded them to give up a few millions to save the treasury. It was borrowing money in time of peace, and Mr, Bryan, who up to that time had never had more than $4 75, denounced it as a crime. He could not have bor- rowed $10 himself, and took it as personally offensive that a President whom he disliked could borrow $60,000,- 000 between sundown and sunrise, * Mr. Cleveland’s offense in the eyes of Bryan and Hearst seems to have been that when he wanted money he went to the men who had it, instead of appealing to those who had none. The country was full of busted bankers, and Mr. Cleveland was expected to borrow of them instead of going to Mr. Morgan and Mr. Belmont, who were still solvent. The ex-President has just printed a too long but very lucid and satisfactory explanation of his action. It is in the interest of harmony, to soothe the sore heart of the Democracy by proving that the only President it has elected since 1856 was not a common thief. But just iook at the effect on Mr. Hearst! He declares it to be a defense of Mr. Belmont, who has been proved over the longest leased wire to be outside the almshouse and jail when he should be in both. Mr. Hearst writes and prints in vitriol his opinion of Mr. Cleveland. He also declares and does it boldly that Mr. Belmont is the agent of Rothschild! That settles it that we are to have Roth- schild in this campaign. Harmony may pack her things 2nd go. rency. The German troops now campaigning with ruthless energy in South Africa are meeting with severe reverses and are suffering great distress. The experience of the British has evidently taught no lesson to the predatory nations that insist under the mask of progress and civ- ilization upon preying upon defenseless people. Retribu- tion will come some day. T eign country, might find some cause for reflection in the annually recurring phenomena attendifig the American celebration of the Fourth of July. The people of the country make great preparations, months in ad- vance, for the celebration. Handsome young women are PATRIOTISM IN THE COUNTRY. HE spectator of events, especially one from a for- | voted for as goddesses of liberty. Available talent is dis- cussed before an orator is sclectea to do justice to the occasion. Fire companies, military organizations and many civic societies regularly enroll themselves among those who desire to keep alive still the memory of In- dependence day. Schoolboys afd schoolgirls and the population at large take interest in the preceding prepa rations and are enthusiastic when the real event is in progress. The cities are less enthusiastic on the whole. Per- haps it is because they are more ‘used to pageants of various kinds. Possibly the holidays are so few and the country is so attractive that the population desires to visit rather than to celebrate. Very likely, when a hack politician is mouthing and exhorting the people to re- member the principles that actuated the fathers of the republic and is exhorting the auditors to emulate them, the spectacle is not very edifying. Nor is the quality of the original poetry about the bird of freedom always ex- hilarating. The city procession is apt to be very in- adequate. At all events the preparations for the Fourth of July in the cities are never taken up earnestly long before the anniversary of the natal day of American freedom. j In the interior of this State and in many other:i"ourth of July becomes a topic of engrossing interest before the close of the month of April and by May all the par- ticulars for a demonstration are practically arranged. Half a dozen communities in California have now under way their plans for the Fourth of July. A perusal of the country papers will repay any person to whom the idea of Fourth of July is not yet presented. He will see that the fervor and love of the Upited States are unmis- takably strong. Columns of space are devoted by some of the country dailies to the coming celebration that is yet more than two months distant. This is not excep- tional. One day a notice appears in-a paper in the north- ern part of California. The next day an article of similar import may be found in a journal published in the upper end of the San Joaquin Vailey. The advantage of this is mainly its effect upon the minds of the boys and girls.. So many topics are now taught in the schools that there is not great time for any one. History*is a part of the course of public education in many grades, but American history is not taught as thoroughly as it might be. There ought to be no topic more engrossing to the American boy and the American girl than the story of American independence. When the significance of that is lost' American patriotism will be harder to define. Therefore it is well that the interior shall continue, year after year, to make much of the Fourth of July. It is-an example which the cities might profitably emulate proportionately to their population. Until very recently the Russians were profuse in promise-but’ poor in performance as far as their prow- ess as soldiers iy concerned, but they have now shown the world that they can inflict horrifying damage upon their enemy even if it be at the cost of their own lives. Japan is buying with terrific cost every foot of ground gained in Manchuria, partment of the University of Nebraska analyzed OLD FOOD FRAUDS. OT long ago a professor in the agricultural de- N every known brand of tomato catsup, with the re- sult that in go per cent of them he discovered the basis of the condiment to be good old yellow pumpkin, colored and flavored to fool the consumer. Again in another State of the East an investigator made the discovery that in the low grades of coffee there were three beans made of dough to every one of nature’s own product— a discovery by the way which had its precursor in our own city several years ago. Thus the tale runs of glu- cose honey, spices made of wood dust, and fruit pre- serves that ‘have nothing fruity about them save the coloring. Our pure food experts recognize two classes of food frauds: the one that substitutes for the ostensible article another which is cheaper but not necessarily de- leterious to the health of the consumer; and the one that makes use of poisonous substances deliberately for the purposes of preserving or giving color to the food compound foisted upon the market. In the first instance the adulteration is very often performed with foodstuffs every whit as nourishing as the real article—beef fat, glucose and pumpkin have their high percentages of nutriment; no harm is thus done the consumer save that of simple fraud. But in the case of adulterants poisonous in their nature the public is being daily endangered by “preservalines” and the like, which are nothing more or less than formaline, a poisonous chemical compound. Mineral coloring fluids contaming arsenic and lead salts are not uncommon adulterants; unhealthy yeast ferments and mineral “quick-rising” powders add their quota to the danger. Of course our officials of the Department of Agri- culture at Washington and the scientists of the agricul- tural experiment stations in every State are unceasing in their endeavors to root out the evils of fraudulent foods. State laws obtain nearly everywhere making it a crime to sell adulterated foods under false labels, and boards of health in all our large cities concern themselves with the same problem. But the same old food frauds continue in the most ingenious guises. If the company flooding the market with adulterations does comply with the law in the matter of placing on the package of the prepared food offered for sale an analysis of its chemical contents, it will cover this statement with a filigree work of design or hide it under the smallest of possible type, and the indulgent consumer goes on his way in blissful ig- norance. During the past few days there has been held in the Mechanics’ Pavilion a pure food exposition under the auspices of the Retail Grocers’ Association. Visit& who have attended the display have been offered the opportunity to see for themselves what a good, pure food product was and to make comparison between that and many of the articles that have long held place on their pantry shelves unworthi A general campaign against food adulterations, official or otherwise, is at all times in order. It can never be effective until all consumers awake to the dangers that are constantly threatening them and unite through common knowledge of the frauds to bring about their speedy termination. iily. :),‘II was killed in the oncluding day of the session by that old but invariably effective weapon—talk. 1f it were not for the imagined abilities of our statesmen in the field of oratory the nation would be inflicted with The Round Valley reservation House of Representatives on the incalculably pernicious legislation. Let us hope the ! THE YOSEMITE. Washington solons will never cease to talk. HERE is a disquieting rumor that a concession is T to be granted for a shooting gallery and bowling alley in Yosemite Valley. Of recent years there has been too much disposition to impair the primitive beauty of that valley. People who go there in the right purpose are attracted solely by the matchless natural grandeur of the place. It is the one peculiar spot that has no rival on the planet. It is the last place on earth that should be given over to catch-penny business and midway plaisance attractions. Yet a tawdry village, offi- cial in its origin, has been created there, and the nobility of nature is sacrificed to the profit of souvenir fakers and all sorts of people whose presence and business are unnecessary to the sanc enjoyment of the wonders na- ture wrought. Proper and comfortable hotel and camp accommoda- tions, a safe trail and guide service, a reasonable satisfac- tion of a natural desire for photographs of the scenery, are-all that should be there. People who want to shoot and roll tenpins can find facilities for both in the city. It mars and cheapens the wonderful valley to fill it with such things. s = 3 . ‘The Native Sons have started a movement for reces- sion of the valley to the Nnional‘fiovernmen‘t, to end divided jurisdiction there. is the Yosemite National Park under Fedes tion, while that of the valley is in the State, fas ted by Congress. 1f the State Commissior. p ““Little Egypt” ideas about the valley, the good sense and taste 1 argument for giving % * Forgot His Name. Dr. Beverly Cole, the late dean of the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of California, at times during the last years of his life was troubled with a loss of memory. It greatly em- barrassed him and he strove to hide the fact that his great mind was slow- 1y but surely giving way before the weight of his years. He did not al- ways succeed, greatly to his chagrin. It was only a few months before his death that he had a little experience that brought home to him the fact that he was getting old. It happened in this way: One Sun- day, when he was awaiting the agrival of an important letter, it dawned upon him that mail was not delivered on Sundays. He accordingly went to the postoffice station nearest his home, and took his place in line with the fifty or more people on the same errand as Limself. When he reached the window he asked if there was any mail for him. The man at the window handed him a slip of paper and a pencil and said: “Step over to the desk and write your name. Next.” Dr. Cole withdrew and went to the desk as directed. He started to write and suddenly stopped. He bit the pen- holder, scratched his head, looked sheepish, and finally swore and drop- ped the pen. Then he picked it up again, but without better results. He could not remember who he was and it was only when an acquaintance step- ped up and said “Good morning, Doe- tor,” that he regained the use of his faculties. ‘Then in a rapid manner he wrote Dr. Beverly Cole, stepped over to the window, handed in the slip and got the letter he was looking for. “Red Hot's” Luck. “Yes, old ‘Red Hot’ Frost was a man who was just born to luck.” The con- ductor slipped his lantern off his ariu and dropped down into the cushloned seat fcr a little rest. “You see ‘Ked Hot’ was a conductor back on the Albuquerque division for a great many years, and he knew that country like a book, as weli as all the short-card men and faro bankers west of the Arkansas River. ‘Frost's luck’ came to be known all over three Siates and as many Territories as the ex- pression for just pure, blind luck—the kind that hits you in the face whether you will or not. “One day ‘Hed Hot’ dropped off into Tombs=tone with plenty of time and some money on his hands and he im- mediately began tv Lunt up a gambling | game. About that tim= there had been a wave of reform in that lovely ham- let of Arizona, and nearly everythir was closed up, ind ‘Red Hot’ had a most given up the idea cf getting into a game when he me: a friend and told him of his trouble. “ ‘Well, Frost,” says the friend, ‘T can lead you to a faro deal, but it is abso- lutely phoney. Everybody knows that they don’t run a straight game.’ “‘Did ‘Red Hot’ Frost ever buck at a phoney game in his life?’ says ‘Red Hot.’ ‘Lead me to it." “Well, sir, would you believe it; but ‘Red Hot' nestled down next to that game, and before the night was over he was $700 to the good. When he got up to go he turns to the banker and speaks right out: “ ‘I'm sorry that little pin in the faro box wouldn't work to-night. When you want to come the game of delay- ing the cards with the little pin you want to have one guaranteed to work overtime, Some day when I have time I will teach you a trick about a faro box that skins the little pin game alive.’” In Lilac -Tide. In lilac-tide the glades burst green, In lilac-tide, In lilac-tide; The meadows, color-splotched with flow- ers, Glow in the sun; and liquid, from his bowers, lark lets fall his paean. The In lilac-tide the brooks run free, In lilac-tide, in lilac-tide; Their music, mellowing on the air, Rises, as flowing quickly on they fare, Crescendo, to the sea. In lilac-tide the air hangs sweet, In lilac-tide, in lilac-tide; The trodden moss, the moistured mold, And all the pungent odors of the wold The fragrant lilacs greet. —=Stanford Chaparral. From a Coiton Stalk. M. W. Marsden of Phllndelphla.\ and Joseph Wile of Kentucky, who several months since had a lot of cotton stalks shipped to Philadelphia to have them analyzed, to find if there w~as some- thing valuable in them, returned to Gonzales recently with samples of what was found in them and exhibited the same to a meeting of citizens. The stalks were found to contain $2 to $4 worth of sugar to the ton, to make fine samples of paper superior to wood pulp, two pleces of material resembling cel- luloid, smokeless powder composition, alcohol and a valuable fertilizer. Mr. Marsden thought that an acre of aver- age stalks would amount to about three tons, and that in the South 70,- 000,000 of stalks were going to waste that were capable of producing that many hundred million dollars. These gentlemen show their faith in their in- vestigations by offering to erect a plant at Gonzales for the conversion of the stalks into the various articles shown at a cost of $75,000, with a possible in- crease to $250,000, if the citizens would take $25,000 preferred stock. There is no such plant or industry yet in opera- tion. Shimose Powder. Since the war between Russia and Japan began a good deal has been heard of the Shimose powder, which, _in the gpinion of military experts, gives Japan a great advantage both on land and sea. The experts have been reasonfig from what was known of the destructive effect of the powder in the naval batties already fought, for it was not until a few days ago that a detailed description of what the ex< ::'o:vn can accomplish reached Lon- The description shows the powder to be even more powerful than was sup- The compound, which was in- posed. vented by Professor Shimose, is of much greater explosive force than gun cotton or dynamite. Whereas, a sheil with a bursting charge of the com- pounds ordinarily used in Europe is broken into comparatively small num- ber of fragments, the majority of which are scattered through a very limited arc, the Shimose explosive shatters the projectile into from 2000 to 3000 pieces, which are driven In every di- rection with equal force, so that noth- ing can live In the vicinity. It is claimed that, in spite of its tremendous power, the powder can be handled with perfect safety. It also has the advantage of cheapmess, its cost being about half that of gun cot- ton. Value of a Thirst. A curlous and most interesting case is now .before a Colorado court. A gentleman from that peerless common= wealth, it seems, has recently been tarrying at one of the health resorts for which it is famous. He quaffed long and copiously of the springs, in the hope of recovering from what ailed him and, so far as the record with succeeding in getting well. But with 'returmnz health he made the sad dis- that one of the supreme joys of his life had been destroyed. For years Le had L-en accustomed to an occasional “nip” ¢ two at various hours he day, delighting in the re- sulting sense of rest and mild exhil- aration that adjusted his being nicely to the realities of life and re soul from melanchol The on back to the health rt, indeed, was the absence of Colorado tanglefoot, and his returning heaith was doubly wel- come in antici n of the little time that he would have in celebrating his | return to the comforts of home. But, alas! on entering the first thirst em- porium he discovered that his sys | put out of tune at the health resort, positively abhorred whisky. He had been surreptitiously railroaded into tee- totalism! He therefore brought suit for $25,000 damages, and the gase is on. This, we beli is the’ first attempt to obtain legally an exact appraisement of the monetary value of a vigorous thirst. Hitherto that thirst has been regarded as worse than worthless.— Newark Times. covery raw- Essence of Orange. A remarkable industry in Paraguay is the preparation of essence of orange leaves. More than 150 years ago the Jesuit missionaries, who then ruled that secluded country, imported orange seeds and planted groves, which have now become immense forests, filled with small establishments for extract- ing the essence, which is exported to France and the United States for use n soap and perfumery making. It is also employed by the natives in Para- guay as a healing ointment and a hai* tonie. Joe and the Cuckoo. The London News, with its typical English broadness of view, recognizes the wide democracy of nature. In the same paper in which it notes the re- turn of Joseph Chamberlain from his vacation it shares a fine courtesy by publishing the fact that “the cuckoo was heard by Mr. F. H. Allen at Ged« dington Chase, near, Kettering, on the 14th instant.” e ] Answers to Queries. WOOD FIBER—A. S., Stege, Cal There is such a material as wood fibex pulp. SALOON LICENSE — A Reader, City. 'The saloon license in San Fran- cisco in the year 1902 was $21 per quarter. BALDWIN HOTEL FIRE—A Reader of the Call, Vallejo, Cal. The Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco was destroyed by fire November 23, 1898. NO FIGURES—S,, City. There is no compilation of figures that shows the number of the male and of the female population of the entire world. RED CROSS, SOCIETY—-H. J. 8, San Luis Oblsp)h Cal. Mrs. J. F. Mor- rill, 1782 Washington street, San Fran- cisco, is the president of the Red Cross Society in that city. MONTANA LANDS—H. R. H, City and C. W., Reno, Nev. For informa- tion relative to public lands to be open- ed insMontana, address a letter of in- quiry to the General Land Office, Washington, D. C. —_— KEARNY EXCITEMENT—O. A. S, City. What was known as the anci. Chinese riots commenced at Chico, Cal., March 14, 1877; July 25 of the same vear attacks on Chinese wash- houses in San Francisto were made and stopped by the police. What was known as the Kearny excitement de- veloped in August of that year. This week gen. eyeglasseg. Spec: 50c. $1 Ath, front Kev West Oy e Hourss —_———— Townsend's Californta Glace fruits m artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.» —_——