The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1904, Page 32

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. MAY 15, 1904. i { | | | fiisss oy London Literary Chat. ‘, Snecisl Correspondence | 1IEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT | GARDEXN, LONDON, May 4—Most of | the b of the late Dr. Samuel | Smiles mention that the fa- | smous author of “Self-Heip” had a de- cided talent for painting, and originally | wenied 1o be an artist. The fact is| mentioning, howe' as an nd-: ditional p of his meny-sidedness. | ad man, lecturer, rot only turned rail - Surge r varied employments, | | | u* made some sort of a success at| each of And the tk i by s literary veteran, who has )ust! passed a at 81, are significant, as| showing how many different subjoc«si appealed him. “Physical Educa- ‘ T The Huguenots in England and | Ireland” and “Thrift” are not titles | that suggest works by :he} wame and though most of his | rks are similar in being bxo-‘ the careers that he under- trace wera unlike enough—com- did, those of Stephen- | eng er; Thomas Edward, the John Murray, the publish- the barber, poet and phil- and Josiah Wedgewood, the graphica of, perhaps because of hat few men’s works ever ap- proached the circulation of “Self-Help,” X ne seems to have any idea of how | Smiles made out of it. For cher and His Friends,” how- Smiles received $10,000 down. | the profits of “Self-Heip” its! »uilt himself an uncommonly house in the suburbs of | and on the foundation. stone | nlaced a copy of the book from | oung men of =0 many nation- imbibed its writer's prin- on oneself. Cecil| one of these. Opening a| a small South African | much Dr Dr au comfortable was which alities have ciple “I have | r. 1 dom't| about that. But there's one £ I know and am sure of, and that nd here he lifted Dr. Smiles” “Self- | that we have here what is still maker, a character- sery made yesterday at largest public libraries in 1o whether there still was ierable demand for “Self- ¢licited the reply that only one of the kind was called for so often. That, Americans will take some pride in hearing, was Lorimer’s “Let- ters From a Self-Made Merchent to His Bon.” Dr. & immense vigor even when near 9 excited the wonder of every | one who met him. Within a year of his | death—at $1—he stiil took his morning walk. smoked three or four cigars a day, indulged in a certain number of glasses of port, and did a good deal of reading—without glasses. One of the| = that this old Scotchman read | his death was “Wee Macgree- or. | It will be welcome news to the ad- mirers of the late George Gissing that an opportunity is now offered them to show their appreciation both of lhe’ man and his books. The English So-| Rciety of Authors, London, has invited | contributions to a fund for the purpose of keeping flowers on his grave in the little cemetery of St. Jean de Luz in the south of France. It is from a Frenchman that the suggestion orig-| inzlly emanated that this tribute shouid | be paid to Gissing’s memory, and in meking it he recalis the fact that when Guy de Maupassant’s mother died she bequeathed a sum of money ,to the French Society of Authors to be de- voted to a similar pious purpose. o v re Some critics of the late Sir Edwin Arnold's work have asserted that much of his poetry lacks inspiration; that he harnessed his Pegasus whenever he had need of him and turned out verses much as he wrote leaders. How far wrong these critics are has just been shown by & writer who quotes what Arnold once told him of his methods of poeti- cal composition. “I do nat at any time force poetry,” he said; “I must be thor- oughly in the mood. These moods come imperatively, but very irregularly. My method is this: Either I write first, and roughly, on scraps of paper, or my daughter takes it down from my dic- tation—zhe is the only one who can do so for me—as I walk up and down the room and smoke. 1 put the rough notes in my pocket until the next day. Then I read the verse over and over, correct and copy all out myself, altering it very much and filling it up. These scraps 1 enter into a sort of daybook or ledger until the work is nearly fin- ished. 1 treat the matter thus com- piled as the rough draft. I go over it myseclf, polish it and transcribe it into a second book, which may be called the poem itself, but still in a rough state. Then I copy it out again, and finally, in a fair manuscript for the printer. Every line of the poem, there- fore, passes through my mind three or- four times.” ot . Rudyard Kipling, it seems, is addict- Lady of the Snows.” beer haunting Kipling for some time befor= the thing happened that furnish- | the ordinary mind as about the most | bon.” | interest i everything is light and airy. British imports, which would strike prosaic piece of intelligence that could be gleaned from a newspaper. But it fired the imagination of the Poet o Imperialism. He heard it on a Satur- day. On Sunday he mounted his wheel | —he was then staying at Torquay—and | when he returned recited the verses to | Dr. Gowers. He said that he did not intend to publish them for a week or two, but his friend urged that they should be printed at once, and they | were dispatched red hot to the Times. 1t will be remembered that in Canada some exception was taken to the title, and this Dr. Gowers considers “an in- stance alike of ingratitude and pervert- ed oversensitiv Lord Nelson's infatuation for the beautiful but faithless Lady Hamil- ton is generally regarded as the one rerious blot on the memory of Eng- land's greatest soldier, but in the es- timation of collectors of autographic | letters that fact will rather add to | than detract from the value of an| epistle he wrote her and which is to be offered for eale at Sotheby’s early next month. It is dated September 25, 1806, and is headed “Victory Off Lis-| It reads: “l am anxious to join the fleet, for it would add to my grief if any other man was to give them the Nelson howl, which we say ls warranted never to fzil. 1 have read, my Emma, with much your letters which I got at Merton, but I must have many others 2float. I do feel by myself—what you must have felt at not hearing from me from January 29 to after May 18. I fancied that they had been stopt by the Admiralty on the account of Sir| John's orders. ®* * * I mention all! these circumstances that my dearest | Emma should never think that her Nel- son neglects or forgets hes for one mo- ment. No, I can truly say, you are al- ways present wheresoere 1 go. I have this letter ready in case T should fall in with anything from Lisbon home- ward steering. May God bless you my best, my only beloved, and, with my warmest effections to Horatio, be assured I am for ever your most faith- ful and affectionate, ete.” This is supposed to be the last com- plete letter penned by Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, and if anything can condone his passion in the eyes of puri- tanical moralists it is the depth and sincerity of his affection for this wom- | an which is betrayed in every line of it. An unfinished letter written by him to Lady Hamilton and found after his | death in the cabin of the Victory is now among ihe nation’s heirlooms in the British Museum. A letter written Wellington the day after Waterloo 1 also be a feature of the Sotheby | sale. The Iron Duke was proof against | any form of feminine infatuation and his moral character was without stain, | but for all that Nelson is undoubtedly | the more popular hero of the two. | HAYDEN CHURCH. I kere Royalty Is. The private apartments of Windsor | Castle have been so changed that no| one who saw them prior to Queen Vie- | toria’s death would recognize them to- day. This is especially the case with Quéen Alexandra’s personal suite of | rooms, which were those that Queen Victoria kep: specially as her own. Thus all the old-fashioned furniture and hangings have been removed, and, instead of being somber, as formerly, The win- dow hangings of the Queen’s bedroom and those of her bed are of white sat- in, embroidered with the imperial crown, while the walls are paneled in soft rose silk, and the furniture, of which there is not overmuch in this room. is of the daintiest empire period. The dbessing-room and bathroom ad- Joining the bedroom are quite different | to what they formerly were. Tho‘ dressing-room has pink marble tables | and silver fittings, and the bathroom | is paneled with white marble and Sheraton wood. All the fittings in this room are of silver, while the marbles used come from Greece, from quarries | which have only recently been opened E after having been closed nearly 1000 | years. The predominating color of the | King's bedroom is Irish green; the silk | panels, the window hangings and the | thick, heavy carpets—the latter woven | in Ireland, not in Turkey—are all of | that color. The sltting-roem of the | King, which is the apartment used as | a bedroom by his father, has a high| wooden dado of fine solid mahogany, with beveled panels and pilasters run- ning all around it, and it has been painted an ivory white. The ceiling is not painted, but is left perfectly white, though just below it runs a deep frieze | of pale sea green hue, which sets it | off very well. The ceiling is dec- orated with moldings of flowers and fruit. The carpet is deep red velvet pile, the curtains are of red silk to maich the carpet, and thus a warmth is given to the room | which it might otherwise have lacked | by reason of the white ivory color of the walls. The furniture is all eight- eenth century, reupholstered and pol- ished to suit the King's taste and the color scheme of the room. The King's bathroom is of pink marble and pan- eled in cedar wood. A Mommsen Anccdote. Our European exchanges contain many good anecdotes concerning the late Theodore Mommsen, the great German historian. They refer chiefly to his absent-mindedness, which was one of this learned man’s most conspicuous fallings. On one occasion the profes- sor was engaged in his study in pro- found researches and failed to notice the presence of his servant, who an- nounced lunch was ready. The servant asked if he might bring it in to the professor, and, receiving no reply, laid the table near his writing desk. Re- turning ten minutes later with some fish, the dishonest menial found the soup untouched. Thinking it too good to spoil, he sat down and finished soup and fish unobserved of the professor. The remaining courses suffered a sim- flar fate. About an hour later Momm- sen looked up from his work, and, feel- ing a wacuum, proceeded to the kitch- en to ask why luncheon had not been served. “But the professor had his expostulated " said the his- torian of Rome; “how could I be so for- ‘getful?” and returned peaceably to his ] | study.— Leslie’s Weekly, | shown in Wyoming, Colorado, | prescriptibie pri { politics. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL \OHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . » . + . . . . . . Address All Commonications o JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager +++..Third and Market Streets, 8 P. eiero . MAY 15, 1904 WOMAN SUFFRAGE. T has been suggested to the Governor of Colorado l that he havc the militia on guard on election day in Denver. 1t is a city election. Mr. Thomas- Patter- son, Democratic United States Senator, has, in a public speech, denounced the Democratic candidate for Mayor «s a corriptionist and an expert in defiling the ballot box. Recent elections in Colorado have been impeached as criminal reversals of the actual will of the people. Mr. Shafroth, an able Democratic member of Congress long in the service, whose seat in this Congress was contested on the ground of fraud, after examining the evidence re- signed znd asked that Mr. Bonynge, the comtestant, be awarded the seat. It may be said that these events are not singular in American politics and that similar disorders appear in ofder States and what are regarded as better ordered communities in the East. But such events and revela- tions in Colorado take on peculiar significance, because that State has woman suffrage, and in the crimes against <8e purity of the ballot box it is shown that women were participants and in some cases the active agents. This is unpleasant. It is a rude awakening from the dream of universal suffrage, in which the ballot in the hands of women has been pictured as a purifying influence that would purge grossness and crime from American politi- cal methods. It has been insisted by the proponents of woman suf- frage that not only would politics be whitened and burn- ished but that through the influence of woman upon the laws the grog shop, gambling and the grosser vices that are the degradation of society would disappear. This has been the claim of that good and strong woman Miss Anthony and of her co-workers, the late Mrs. Stanton and that devoted band that chose for its life work what it called “the emancipation of woman.” There seemed much reason in their argument. Insist- ing that the home derives .its beauty of character, its cleanness of 1if€ and all that makes it sacred fromi the presence and influence of woman, all of which is con- ceded, the conclusion was reached that the same influ- ence enlarged upon the ample field of politics would bring it under the same ideal conditions that bless the home. Has the expectation been realized? That is the question that must be answered and the facts to answer it must be sought in the States where woman suffrage is the law and the political emancipation of woman is complete. We do not violate a proper neutrality on that issue nor abandon a position that is receptive, a mind open to argument, when we express the opinion that the facts as Idaho and Utah do not support the argument for universal suffrage. . To this it answered that if election frauds and the persistence of <hould suppress are arguments against But is vice that the law female suffrage they also impeach male suffrage. this begs the question. No one has ever claimed that the mere deposit of suffrage solely with would make an.anti-ferment against the evils of society. From the side of male suf- frage it is merely claimed that the ballot is not*an im- ilege, but that it is a responsibility. It has no inherent virtues nor self-acting merits. Men_are it nor it by them. In its use they neither gain nor losc any pre-existing quality or charac- teristic. As a responsibility they may discharge it well or ill as they do other obligations. Tt is merely a device and the only means for ascertaining the will of the ma- jority in a free society founded upon the theory that the majority rules. But for woman suffrage it/is claimed that the ballot in woman's hand is a more sacred thing. It is an exor- cism of vice, a sort of sacramental thing that takes on the healing influence of moral medication for the cure of those evils that are in the marrow of all human so- ciety. We appreciate the enthusiasm and devotion which can see in such a ballot the means of making of \all so- ciety a place of purity, modeled upon the best homes. If such a result were possible it would end all contention. But the experiment is still on trial on a very extensive field. The home condition has not been projected into Has the political condition been projected into the home? Moral conditions are never at the angle -of repose. They are restlessly moving in one direction or the other. men not changed. by | Woman, free of the responsibility of the 'ballot, has pro- tected the home against the demoralization of politics. Can she do so with the responsibility of the ballot box upon her? Can she march and fight and do home guard duty at the same time is the problem. and fighting accomplish nothing but leave the home cit- adel unguarded can”her field duty be justified? That is the problem and the answer of facts in Colorado does not seem to sustain the argument for woman sufiragc. Now and again the smoke of inquiry and of scandal is still seen hovering over the postoffice. Only the most stubborn cffort can subdue a conflagration of rascality stich as swept in the last few months over this great de- partment of the national service. We should not be perturbed therefore as the investigators rake through the ruins of reputations and a little smoke of exposure arises. THE EXODUS TO CANADA. T is announced that bills have just been passed by Congress to throw open to settlement this summer four great Indian reservations in the West. One is in Montana and comprises 1,010,000 acres of land; an- other is the Rosebud reservation of 416,000 acres in South Dakota; a third, the Devil’s Lake reservation of 104,416 acres in North Dakota; and the fourth, the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota, containing about 400,000 acres. Our Department of Commerce and Labor has been examining for some time into the cause which - has prompted nearly 12,000 American families to remove to the Canadian Northwest in the last year, and it will be interesting to note how far the opening up of these vast tracts of land will go toward stopping that tide of emigration. The drain would be of less effect were it not that those leaving constitute a desirable class,” going to the agricultural districts to become producers. The new comers from Furope are to a large extent dumped into our cities to consume rather lhan to produce. and ' therefore they have not a’ lendency to offset the loss. The per capita” wealth of those leaving is also consider- ably in excess of those arriving. - As yet no satisfactory reason for the exodlu has. been : advanced. So far as known no exception can be taken Ca.nndzs methods in oflermz mkcefltnll to loute W If her marching within her borders, and she has unquestionably done some clever advertising, but that alone is not sufficient to cause so many Americans to leave their country. The movement could possibly be checked by counter- advertising through the departments at' Washington, and it presents to our own State Board of Trade and to the California Promotion Committee, as well as to our various county organizations, a chance to earn new laurels. We have yet much available land in this State that surely is as good as the average in Canada, and it is difficult to conceive of any reason for the movement to that country other than a difference in land values, Our. organizations should get in touch with the Department of Commerce and Labor in order to be in a position to intelligently show the facts, and should then invite here, to the best of all places, those-in the East who, because of worn-out farms or other reasons, are about to relin- quish their birthright and los¢ their American identity in | {o"tne hour of 12 he takes from his | the rigorous climate of Western Canada. A Bakersfield coroner’s jury, in a display oi discrimi- nating intelligence customary in these adjuncts of the law, has decided that nobody was to blame for the death of the prize fighter who was recently killed in a fistic encounter .in the southern town. Ignoring the very pal- pable effect which the blows of the victorious plug ugly must have had on the deceased, might it not be well to fasten responsibility upon the authorities that permitted the murderous exhibition? Wrcgular mail from Lookingglass, Oregon. It | comes in an envelope printed on both sides with a prospectus of the contents which were behind the sealed flap. It is the announcement by Mr. James In- man of his candidacy for the Presidency of the United | States upon a platform to be made known later. Mr. Inman is a cautious man and says that his plat- form will be kept from view until the other parties, in- cluding the Prohibitionists, have announced theirs, when | he will spring it upon the country and proceed to besom | things. The only glimpse of it at present permitted is his statement that “it will be an evolution out of the old rut as it were.” We think that will fill a long-felt want. He is frankly verbose about what this platform will do ANOTHER CANDIDATE. E are in receipt of important information per ! when it gets in its work, for it is to make this country a | “white-winged messenger of peace and life.” what we want, only we insist on some guarantee that when it gets wings it shall not fly away. convinced that with white wings the country will give | everybody “a dinner, home, clothes and a bed.” This poultry idea of government is original. It is in- teresting. We take it tc mean that the country, when duly winged and feathered, is to Jay eggs for the people. After exploiting as far as he chooses his hen coop no- tion of government he piques public curiosity by briefly remarking: “My running mate, a woman, will be an- nounced later.” This is as it.should be. A government on the poultry plan needs a woman. No chicken ranch succeeds without one. He closes by announcing that this preliminary docu- ment is mailed only to leading publications—we bow—in this country and in the capitals of ,Europe, also to the President and Cabinet and to foreign potentates. Then Mr. Inman, “saluting the world and extending the hand | of friendship to the human'race,” signs his name. Mr. Hearst will take notice that he is not the only candidate for the Presidency who blows his own horn. It is to be regretted that both want to run for the Presidency. for Mr. Inman would make a fine candidate for second place on Hearst's ticket, though it would in- volve a breach of promise to the woman who is to be announced later. The young student of Berkeley who becagne a thief that he might be on dishonest equality with his richer fellows has not only been taught perhaps’ the bitterest lesson of his existence, but he has served as a warning example to hundreds who may be tempted but will not fall. The crushing humiliation of his shame will be more potent for good than a thousand admonitions. ART IN THE REICHSTAG. E get a twinge instructive in the differences in forms of government by events abroad. The German Reichstag has taken up the art battle between the impressionist and classical school of painters. The impressionists complain that they are excluded from the German art exhibit at St. Louis by the rules of the game made by the Kaiser. Their woe has been uttered in the imperial ‘Parliament. A great many people, doubtless crude agd unlearned in art, regard the impressionists as a school of freaks, who daub different colored- paints haphazard on canvas and leave to the impressions, the imagination, of the beholder, the task of clothing the result with form and motive. The impressionist painter is believed by such to have the sense of color only, and to leave such trifies as drawing and. perspective to the unimaginative and commonplace sotls who bow down to form. We by no means wish to excuse the Kaiser for inter- fering with the paint market by knocking at the impres- sionists. - Perhaps their work is'an important factor in developing the imagination. That faculty of the mind won't work atall unless it get a job. ‘When the severely formal and. classic painter puts on canvas a horse it is recognized, even by the humble pilot of a “squeedge” in 2 livery stable, as a horse. Therefore he suffers from atrophy of the imagination and - never rises above his “squeedge.” ~ But when an impressionist hitches up a horse on. canvas the beholder is left in doubt whether it is a horse, a sheep, a griffon, a sphynx or just some spilled paint. Now set such a horu to plowing thé imagination of a “squeedge” pusher and who can foretell the result? It may develop his imagination until he will write poetry, for his experience will naturally lead him to mount Pegasus, or he may tell fairy tales, engage in figuring out a Democratic majority at the next election or immerse himself in some other work of the imagination. : ‘We regret that Count Posadowsky, the imperial Home Secretary, addressed to th. . Reichstag slighting remarks on. this subject that excited l-ughter. The land of Schiller and Goethe should be respectful toward the iny effable architecture of the imagination. Who will say now that lovely woman can't throw flai when she wants to? At the recent annual field day gunu ‘of Vassar College a dainty and -demure miss | from Poughkeepsie increased the baseball throw distance to one hundred and ninety-five feet u:d three inches. * That is | Mr. Inman is | An Unknown Botanist. ‘Whether he be a man of sclence or a crank is all guesswork, but the strange actions indulged in by him for the | past six yearsshave attracted the atten- | tion of the few who have noticed his | peculiarities. The man seems to be a foreigner from his dress, his general appearance and also his accent. This strange in- dividual makes a periodical visit to Golden Gate Park on the first of each and every month with a regularity only equaled by the revolution of the earth round the sun. Getting off the car at the Park entrance on Halght street, he walks directly to the Panhandle, y Where a large fir tree stands out in prominence. Just as his watch points pocket a tape and makes -careful | measurement of the circumference of the big fir ‘tree, noting the same in a memorandum book which he carries | wrapped in a piece of oil silk and tied ! about with a string. Having perform- | ed this delicate operation he takes ob- | servations on the leat expansion, the | height and other features of the tree, ! also making notes of the same. This | done he leaves the park and returns to | the city. l With the exception of one gripman jon the Haight-street line, this strange | individual has never mentioned his ob- Ijert in taking observations on his fa- { 1 vorite tree. To this man he once con- fided the information that that tree grows one inch in circumference every \year with a proportional height and i exvansion. This valuable information | he is going to leave to future genera- | tions when he dies, but no man shall | ever read of his discovery until he | passes away. He wishes to be consid- ered as a great botanist. } Chinese Names. The Associated Press, with commend- able enterprise, has prepared for circu- lation a lengthy compendium of Chinese words, made familiar in the press dis- ! patches on the war, with their English | equivalents. This list, which follows, ; will be of great interest and ready as- sistance to readers who are following closely the panorama of events in the ! Far East: Alin, mountain range: Balgasu, town; | Cha, barrier; Cha-hwang-mu, boom; Chai, fortified military cam; Chau, district city, islet; Chin, town: Chow Chow, rippling of water; Chuang, bor- ough: Chuen, channel; Chung yuen, mainland: Fau fu, buoy: Fau tau, roadstead: Fu, departmental city: Gau, harbor: Gol, streamlet, small river: Hada, mountain range: Hia, lower; Hai, sea; Hai kau, bight, creek; Hai klo, cape; Hai mun. estuary; Hai yau, gulf;: He, black; Hai | kau, strait; Hiang tsun, village; Hien, Chau, district, city; Ho, river; Hola, or Holun, town; Ho tun, light- house: Hu, lake; Hung, red; Hwan, bay; Hwang, yellow; I, barbarfan; Kau Khou, mouth; Khi, streamlet; Khlao, bridge; Klang, river; Kiau Khlao, bridge: Kin, gold; King, capital city; King chi chau, peninsula; Ko, rocky peak, headland: Kou, streamlet; Kwang | lau, lighthouse; Kwan, custom- house; Ku, valley; Kuan, forti- fled military camp; Lau, tower, old; Li, inner, also one-third of a mile; Lin, forest; Ling, chain of hills; Lung, tiger; Ma, horse; Ma tau, jetty, | port; Miau, temple; Men, gate; Muren, | stream; Nan, south, southern; Ni, mud; Nor, lake; Nui, inner; Omo, lake; Pau tai, fort: Pe, pel, north, Pe, white; Phu, village: Po. lake: Psi, north; Pu, sea- shop; Pwang she, rocks: Sampan, boat; Sha, sand, sandbank; Shan, san, hill, mountain; Shan hu, coral; Shang, up- per; Shan ting, mountain chain; Shan tau, bluff, cliff; Sha sten, shoal; Sha tan, bar; She, stone; She tan, reef; Shin, spirit (celestial); Shui, water; Si, west, western: Siau ho, rivulet; Slao, small: Sima (Japanese), island; Siwo (Japanese), current; So, town, village; So, fortified military camp; Ssu, vil- lage; Ta, padoga; Tau, island, head; Tan tu, clay; Ta, great; Tchuan, Tchu, stream; Tcheng, town; Tchang, vil- lage; Than, rapids; Thsuan, streamlet; Thsun, village: Thing, subprefectural city; Tien, village; Ting, Ti tau, pro- montory; To mu, wooded; Tse, small lake; Tsi, village; Tsiau pi, cliiff; Tsui sha, gravel; Tsui wel, rocky, stony; | Tung, east, eastern; Tutan, ferry; Ula, river; Ussu, small river; Wan, bay; Wi ! mo ti, isthmus; Wei, outer; Wel, mili- | tary post; Yang, sheep; Yen tun, bea- | con, buo; Ying., fortified military camp; Yi, post town. The Climbers. O ya so far beyond me on the Height, I cannot hear your voices as ye stand Facing the Vast, invisible to me. But I can see your gestures of delight, And something guess of that wide glo- rious sea, The glimmering isles of that Enchanted The winds which from that ocean fresh- y blow. And so youn, Vision lifts me toward the Helgh' | Although yc have forgot me far below. But you, my brother, you, my near of Who some few steps above me on the Look smllrnx back to cheer me ever on, Who lend a hand as I the chasm leap, And stay your haste that I the crag may win, Tnlnklnl( l! scorn for Strength to climb You, wuh 'your morning song when sings the lark. | You, wlm your surer footing where I | You, wlth unflagging purpose at high 001 earted trust when comes the n And qu \et da l OWC it that T climb at all iR “From The Outlook. Rai;‘ing S ponge.,r. An interesting investigation now be- ing carried on in Florida by the Bu- reau of Fisheries has for its object the discovery and development of meth- ods by which the valuable sheepswool sponge may be cultivated artificially. The method which promises the most satisfactory results is that of using cuttings. Large sheepswool sponges are cut into small pieces, which are tastened to an insulated wire fixed in the water, so that the sponges are sup- ported a few inches above the bottom. These small bits, placed at close in- tervals along the wire, soon heal and form an organic attachment to it, and very soon begin to grow. It is too soon to predict just what the results will be, but the indications are so far very . encouraging, and it is believed that the time is not far distant when the sponge fisheries of Florida will be vastly increased in productiveness and value.—National Geographic Magazine. His Nerve. Last of all they told the story of old Captaln Conkling and the Holyoke dam —a story known to every -diver. It seems there was a leak in this dam, and the water was rushing through with so strong a suction that it seemed certain death for a diver to go near enough to stop the leak. Yet it was ex- tremely important that the leak be stopped—in fact, the saving of the dam depended on it. So Captain Conkling, who was in charge of the job, induced one of his divers to go down, and re- luctantly the man put on his suit, but insisted on having an extra rope, and a very strong one, tied around his waist. “What's that for?"” asked Conkling. “That's to help get my body out If the life line breaks,” said the diver. “Go on and do your work, repiled Conkling, who had little upe for senti- ment. It happened exactly as the diver feared. He was drawn into the suction of the hole, and when they tried to pull him up both hose and life line parted and the man was drowned, but they managed to rescue his body with the heavy line, just as he had planned. Then Conkling called for another diver, but not a man responded. They said they weren't that kind of fools. “All right,” said the captain, in his businessiike way; “then I'll go down myself and stop that hole.”” And he called the'men to dress him. At this time Captain Conkling was 75 years old and had retired long since from active diving. But he was as strong as a horse still, and no man had ever questioned his courage. In vain they tried to dissuade him. “I'll stop that hole,” said he, “and 1 don’t want any extra rope, either He kept his word. He went down, and he stopped the hole, but it was with his dead body, and to-day some- where in the Holyoke dam lie the bones of brave old Captain Conkling, incased in fulf diving dress, helmet and hose and life line, buried in that mass of masonry. No man ever dared go down after his body.—From Cleveland Mof- fett's “‘Careers of Danger and Daring,” the Century Company. Answers to Queries. TENNY—W. T. B, City. Tenny, which ran a race with Salvator in 1890, was a stallion. THE COLORS—Sub., City. The colors worn by the jockey who rode Mee- hanus February 22, 1904, wore orange, with red cap. THE GOLDEN GATE—A Subseriber, City. The Golden Gate, the entrance to the bay of San Francisco, is one mile wide at its narrowest part. ‘WEDDING PRESENTS—N. N., City. ‘Wedding presents if engraved with ini- tials should bear, if for the lady, the initials of her married name; if intend- ed as a present for the husband and wife then it should bear the inital of the family name of the man. UPPER TEN—UPPER CRUST— Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. “Upper ten,” as applied to soclety, was coined N. P. Willis and was first used by him to designate the fashionables of New York City, who, in his opinion, gumbered 10,000. “Upper crust” is sometimes used to designate upper ranks of society. It seems that long. long ago the upper crust of a loaf of bread was the orthodox part of a loaf of bread to place before distinguished visitors. Furnivalle, in his “Manner and Meals of Olden Time,” has the fol- lowing: Furst pare the quarters of the loffe round alle Then Rutt ihe vpper cruste for your souerayne and to him alowt. BRUNHILDE—A Subscriber, City. Brunhilde or Brunehaut, born 534, died 613, was the daughter of Athana- gild, King of the Visigoths. She be- came Queen of Austrasia in 5863 by marriage with Sigebert, one of the four song of Clotaire. Her sister, Gal- sunda, had married Chilperic. King of Neustria and a brother of Sigebert, who at the demand of his mistress, Fredegonda, abandoned and murdered his Queen. Brunhilde determined to avenge the death of her sister, so she induced her husband to invade the do- minions of his brother Chilperic. ‘While besieging Tournay Sigebert was killed and Brunhilde was made a prisoner; she escaped to Austrasia, deposed Childebert, who was occupy~ ing the throne, and re-established her authority. She then became ambitious and reckless. Having instigated a was between her grandsons, she was cap- tured by Clotaire IT, son of Frede- gonda, who subjected her to torture and insult for three days, after which he caused her to be tied to the tail of a wild horse, which being turned loose dragged her to death. Her remains were then reduced to ashes, which were scattered to the winds. Genuine eyeglasses. specs, 20¢ to Goc. $1 4th st. front Key West Oys. 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