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| i ! I | — ephens DUBLIN, May 11 & undoubt it will ever writes a b be called “R *tinguished Folk W Ha Met In case cables have not reached Amer- jea of the rable fuss | that over Davy has Steph virtk is the ol » passed his sixtieth d that he | er of Kings- list of in the way of busi- ows whose ac- guai ness i ed heads ry a one. Crown- and illus- joined in the | have | the | ristocrats us ©ol ers have that all rik b tulations reac ens over from world | selling newspapers Davy has n ! < r before he h is sixth birthday having im to make an early start | in he support the family. Pos- came pi b . as inc vears »péd his pow of | ror and genial qu.u ties he won the triendship of many distinguished men among them. His customers, many of | whoir can claim as more than ac- quair s, incla the King, the Emperor of Brazil, Queen Victoria, | the Prince of the Princess of Bismarck, the Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Clarence, the | Duke of Cambridge, the Duke 2and | Duchess of Teck, tk wn Prince of | Austria, the Napoleon | 11, the Prince Imperial, Lord Bea-| consfield, Lo Charles Beresford, Lord Ormonde, Lord Castletown, Lord | Duncannon, Sir Henry Irving and a\ host of other notables, Among his most treasured souvenirs | is 2 sovereign which was given him by Queen Victoria on the occasion of her | last visit to Dublin in 1900. He first | met the late Qu when, with the | Prince Consort, she landed at Kings- | town over ferty vea ago, and in all of her by patronized all kindly words to him, which were far | more highly prized than her liberal payments. He first made the acquaint- ance of King Edward when he was a | very youthful Prince of Wales and has met him so often since and received s0 many gold coins from him that he preserves only one as a souvenir of their :acquaintance. The King loves a good joke and a good laugh and was invariably assured of both when, in stepping ashore from the royal yacht, he stopped at Davy's stall. Of Prince Bismarck, who visited Ire- Jand twenty-five years ago, Davy does not entertain particularly kindly recol- Jections, for the “man of blood and fron” tossed him a handful of French coppers in exchange for the newspapers he bought, and passed grimly on his way. Of a different sort was the un- fortunate Emperor of Brazil, who after listening to some of Davy's funny stories offered him the post of court Jester. Familiarity with statésmen en- ables him occasionally to venture on jokes at their expense, and he tells with high glee how in the days of the Land League he frequently slipped extreme Nationalist newspapers containing ‘carjcatures of Gladstone, Forster and Balfour into the hands of these gentle- men after they had crossed the Irish Bea. Sometintes Davy is called the “um- brella knight,” and thereby hangs an amusing story. He was selling news- papers one evening in the saloon of the mail boat when she got under way end was rounding the pier head when he reached the deck. Not wishing to go to Holyhead just then, he took a header overboard, intending to swim | mshore. But some of the passengers raised such & hubbub, fearing he would be drowned, that a boat was lowered and he was unwillingly brought back to the steamer. When he had been pro- vided with a dry outfit he set about characteristically making the best of the situation, and sang and danced in the saloon for the amusement of the delighted company, which included the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The latter declared he would reward Davy with knighthood, and Davy obeyed with alacrity the command to kneel. Taking an umbrella from an adjacent rack the Lord Lieutenant administered @& hearty whack with it across the nmewsman’'s shoulders, exclaiming, “Arise, 8ir Davy!” Stephen’s news stall has long placed kim in comfortable financial circum- stances, and for the last twenty-one years he has crossed the channel regu- Jarly to see the Derby and exchange greetings with some of his “illustrious customers, On this occasion he dis- cards his sou'wester and working out- fit for a silk hat, frock coat, white waistcoat and patent leather boots. Sir Henry Irving gave him a dinner on one of these annual visits at which several mnotables were present, and Lord Arthur Hill introdiced him to the Lord Mayor of London. In a letter wishing him many happy returns of his birthday Lord Charles Beresford deplores the fact that they are “both beginning to suffer from Anno Dominl.” But Davy still rises at 4 o'clock every morning, winter and summer alike, to meet the incoming mall boat. The gallant admiral he counts among his best friends, and he ts she invariably | and spoke some his s jand ran down | | if Lora Beresford had stuck to selling | newspapers he ! twelfth century, they involuntarily did |2 good service to one of the prettiest |a dull white robe or cassock, a black | over the head), and a woolen girdle. | describable air {and all THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., MONDAY, MAY 23, 1904 %eWORLD i 3 -y fond of relating how on one oceasion his Lordship seized his papers the platform selling them. Davy admits that he never found a better deputy, and thinks that would bave proved a very formidable rival. Trappists in England. When the French Government ex- pelled the little community of Trap- pist Brethren from the Abbey of Mel- | leraie, near Nantes, where this rigorous | order first established itself in the | agricultural districts in Devonshire, England. 1t is nearly two years since a band | | of strange-looking, silent men, clad in waist-girdled robes of somber hue and forbidding cowls, came gliding through the quaint little market town of Kings- | idge. The inhabitants xazed with astonish- ment, possibiy not unleavened by a scnse of awe. The newcomers were Roman Catholic monks; this much they understood. But whence did they come, | and what did they want? | Then gradually their story was pieced together, and it became known to the wondering yeomen and gossiping | lassies that this band of Cistercians | had come from France to settle down in the traditional land of freedom; that they had acquired the big estate | at Wood Barton, Leddiswell, with its six hundred acres of fat soil, and that they meant to live in this pastoral retreat. The Order of La Trappe is one of the{ most rigorous in the Papal faith. Its members literally consign themselves to a living death so far as communica- | tion either with the outer world or \ themselves is concerned. The sol- | itary exception. when they break the mournful silence is at the morning | greeting, demento mori!”"—" "Remem- | ber death!” | They sleep in their own coffins upon | These coffins are placed slant- w A Trappist monk never knows' the bliss of slumbering supine, unless he be ill | In the gray of the dawn they steal forth like shadows, for manual labor forms one of the great ethics of their creed. A long spell of inarticulate prayer heralds in the mute tdsks of | ch dayv. A frugal breakfast -is fol-/ wed by one of the sternest of the aily obligations—each man digs one shovelful of earth from out of his fu- ture gra And .n the Trappist monk | hes his last he is laid to rest in me robes in which he passed his | day life. Their habit consists of l)x eve: scapulary (the cowl can be pulled up Yet, watching the members of this | devoted band at their toil it is impos- | sible not to believe that they are hap- | py in their intense self-denial. An in- | of peaceful serenity | to rest upon the features of one They believe that the most | austere abnegation is the surest road | to eternity, and they live up to their | simple ideal earnestly, perseveringly— | but always silently. | Most usefully do they fill their place seems incredible self-containment of their | lives. They not only support them- | seives by the honest sweat of their| brow, but they give abundant alms to | the poor who present themselves at the | | monastery gates. Surely an order mv admire and respect by men of all creeds | are these monks of La Trappe. The transformation they have effect- ed in their Loddiswell estate is a source of marvel even to the sturdy Kingsbridge husbandmen themselves. | When they tock over that demesne it | was wild and neglected in the extreme. | The restoration of and additions to| the buildings will not be quite com- pleted until about July next. Mean- while the gloomy old manor now looks like a typical monastery. But it is mainly in the lands sur- rounding their abode that these ever- silent, somber-looking men have wrought such striking changes. No model farm can compare with the per- fect order and high state of cultiva- tion which marks every rood of those six hundred acres; and they have re- claimed tracts which throughout liv- ing memory have been waste and bar- ren.—London Dalily Express. Our Per Capita Tax. A table has been prepared and issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor indicating that, despite the great size of the appropriations, this country is per capita more cheaply maintained than any other in the world, with the exception of China and India, and pos- sibly Russia. It coets, according to this, just $797 a year for each man, woman and child in the United States ta run the government, as against $980 for Canada, $9 45 for the German empire, $9 54 for Sweden, $10 09 for Spain, $11 45 for Portugal, $11 40 for the Netherlands, 31240 for Cuba, $1268 for Argentina, §14 27 for Austria-Hungary, $1730 for Paraguay, $1740 for Belglum, $17 84 for France, $2139 for the United Kingdom, $37 69 for Australia and $38 38 for New Zealand. Russia’s per capita expendi- ture is approximately the same as that of the United States. The Balloon in War. ey Some interesting experiments have just been conducted at Bienne, France, for testing the practical utility of cap- tive military balloons against infantry or machine gun fire. The Paris corre- spondent of the Newcastle Chroniele states that at a height of 800 yards a few rifle volleys sufficed to shatter the balloon, the range, it should be stated, being known in advance. At an un- known altitude var:ring from 1100 to 2000 yards no fewer than twenty-two trial shots were needed to fix the range. It was only the sixty-fourth volley that hit the balloon, without, however, do- ing it any apparent damage. The ex- periments are regarded as showing that rifie fire is not very effective, even agalnst captive balloons, at uncertain ranges, and still less so against bal- loons that are not captive | dullne ! unlimited fatness of everything. A little economy from |on earth, however, despite the almost | now on will not hurt us in the least. A few yards of |THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL IJOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « . « « . . . .. . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . ..Third and Market Streets, S. F. MONDAY Lk ks vt ek s R G R e e MAY 23, 1904 TRADE SITUATION. RADE conditions continue as reported for several weeks past. The slow but steady downward ten- dency in prices is still perceptible, and the usual T | commercial figures, on which the stite of business is largely based, still run rather against the mercantile sit- uation all over the country. The bank clearings last week showed a loss from last year of 87.per cent, with all but two or three of the largest cities on the wrong side of the exhibit. Even St. Louis, which ought to be stimulated by the exposition, | which is bringing a large amount of cash into the city, showed the insignificant gain of only 1.2 per cent, which, in view of the exceptional conditions existing there, really amounts to a loss compared with 1903. The loss at Pittsburg, the seat of the iron and steel industry, was 27.4 per cent; at Philadelphia, distinguished by its textile industries, 14.2 per cent; at Chicago, ti.e center of the grain and provision industries, 11.2 per cent, and at New York, the center of everything American in the aggre- wate, 9.7 per cent. There was a sharp loss of 258 per cent at Cleveland, which may be partially attributed to L [ I ! the serious strike of masters and pilots of lake vessels, which is greatly hindering transportation in the lake region and is said to be the most damaging labor disturb- ance of the year. Minneapolis, the seat of the flour trade, iost 7.6 per cent. Even New Orleans, which for several months has been showing large gains over 1903 owing to the cotton boom, has at last turned and is now found in the loss column, with a decrease of I11.5 per cent. San Francisco about held its own. The above figures give a very fair idea of how general business is running throughout the country. The fail- ures for the week numbered 236, against 101 last year, and the railway earnings thus far in May show a falling off of 6.6 per cent from the same week in 1903. The dullness and continued decline in the New York | stock market are ascribed to the above conditions; with the added adversities of a depressed iron and steel mar- ket, which has™been sending in poor returns for some weeks, remarkably heavy gold exports and the natural characteristic of a Presidential year. All at- tempts to organize a “bull campaign” in stocks have ap- parently been abandoned, in spite of the recognized cheapness of many of the standard stocks. It is the be- lief that the time for any extensive bull movement has gone by, if indeed there has been any such time this year, which is extremely doubtfui. a bank statement better than expected on Saturday imparted a very bullish aspect to.the market, which responded by advancing a point or so. This might have been a flash in the pan, but it was sufficient to drive some of the bears to cover and cause more or less pye- dictions of a better market from now on. The suminer vacation period, which is much longer and more pro- nounced than it used to be, is not far off, and the Presi- dential election follow closely in its wake. This brings us up to about the Christmas holidays, when the wholesale trade of the country comes to a standstill for the usual stock-taking. Hence no marked revival in gen- eral business is expected until after the turn of the year, seven months at least from now. * It is perhaps as well. It is a question whether a good lull and some further recession in prices will not be the very best thing that could happen to the country. The great financial interests seem to think so, for they are agreed that the recent wave of unprecedented prosperity had begun to make the American people a nation of reck- less spendthrifts, fond of luxury and accustomed to an However, will sackcloth in place of the rustling silks may do us good. Our brains and stomachs will get a rest and we will get a chance to chew our cud awhile and think the matter over. The bankers say that the current recession is “re- storing business to a more normal basis,” to repeat their very words, and if they, with their enormous interests, are content with the drift of affairs, why should not the *rest of us be? As far as the great staples are concerned there have been no violent fluctuations during the week. Money, which showed signs of getting harder a week ago, has turned easier again and continues in ample supply for all current needs. The turning over of $9,000,000 in coin to J. P. Morgan & Co. by the Government in partial payment of the Panama account considerably offset the drain upon the cash reserves of the banks due to the withdrawals of gold for export to Europe and imparted a different aspect to the financial situation. The move- ment of cash from the interior to New York, which has been heavy of late, has also proved an important factor in checking the incipient hardening in funds. For the moment at least the equilibrium has been largely re- established and the money market is again on an even keel, with the great body of metropolitan capitalists resting on their oars, neither adding to their holdings nor liquidating, neither selling nor buying on any unusual scale. All commercial reports agree that stocks of almost all staples are considerably larger than they were some months ago and that they are steadily increasing. Promi- nent in this respect are iron and steel, provisions, live-, stock of all kinds and textile goods. Some are showing an accumulation which is weakening prices. The flour and textile mills are frequently closing down for a few days to allow the consumption to overtake the produc- tion. But the most pronounced inactivity is reported by the iron and steel trades. The weather is still rather against business. There have been several periods of fine weather éver the great cereal belts of late, but as a rule they have been brief. The average has shown too much dampness of air and soil and too low temperatures for crop growth of distributive trade. In consequence the usual spring busi- ness has been a disappointment and has brought the couftry up to a summer which promises to be quiet. The Pacific Coast continues to send in the best com- mercial reports. Our newly developed Oriental com- merce is helping the three States out wonderfully. We are selling a large quantity of h{m produce to the American, Russian and Japanese Governments for their armies and navies in the Orient. Our supplies have been so reduced that we are going into the new crop year with our warehouses practically bare of everything, and as our crop prospects are excellent we are justified in looking forward to another year. Hence there is an air of confidence and cheerfulness throughout the whole coast and no complaints of my consequence are heard from any quarter. An effort is being made to make the Board of Super- visors a final court of appeal in the granting of saloon licenses. As a matter of course the endeavor to clothe the board with this new power is not to restrict the num- ber of licenses, but to increase it and to flood the city with more groggeries. To an ordinary observer the Po- lice Commission is frantically enough liberal in its gfant of licenses to sati_sfy even those that want everything in sight. A meeting this year in St. Louis of three hundred or more conventions 4nd induce them, if possible, to con- vene next year in some city in the West. was favorably discussed at the Trans-Mississippi Com- mercial Congress held last year in Seattle and later was taken up by the Denver Chamber of Commerce. The CONVENTIONS IN THE WEST. N effort is being made by some of the commercial plan to unite for the purpose has been already indorsed | i is always mentioned in the newspaper by the active officers of the commercial bodies stated, the National Irrigation Association and the heads of the passenger departments of several Western réilroads. An idea of the importance of the matter may be gained by noting the following list of some of the meetings that will be held this year at St. Louis: Good Roads Congress, International Congress of Electricity, Inter- national Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, congresses on engineering, temperance, Sunday rest, instruction of the deaf and an international library congress, National Federation of Musical Clubs, Federation of Day Nurs- eries, National Co-operative Congress, National Eclectic Medical Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Railway Clerks of America, Music Teachers’ National Association, American Neurological Association, Ameri- can Congress on Tuberculosis, National Educational As- sociation, American Library Association, American League of Civic Improvement jointly with the American Park and Outdoor Art Association and the Lezgue of American Municipalities. It is intended at all times during the existence of the St. Louis Exposition to have a delegation of active West- ern representatives attend every convention and advocate the interests of some city previodsly decided upon and to have all Pacific Coast and Western «ities interested join in backing such action. It has been suggested that to promote unity an advance conference of those cities be held in San Francisco and the details of a working plan adopted. Portland, Oregon, is particularly interested in the movement in view of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition to be held there next year, and the Portland Commercial Club has already engaged a manager to work for the proposition. The movement is a good one and the exceptional chance offered at St. Louis for concentrated effort should stimulate to action those cities that will profit by it. The United States is pre-eminently a convention country. There is a growing recognition here of the ad- vantage to be derived from a general discussion by rep- resentative people of trade, finance, social, religious and fraternal matters. The city that can gain a reputation as a successful “convention city” is fortunate. It has the opportunity of entertaining those people who, as a rule, are prominent in their respective communities at a time when they are enjoying themselves by combining pleasure with business and are therefore in a favorable mood to be imp[essed. For our Western cities there is more than a temporary financial benefit to be obtained by entertaining such peo- ple. In their travels they cover pretty thoroughly ali points of interest and thus see and become familiar with our great undeveloped resources, gaining a knowledge of them which could not otherwise be obtained. The dissemination of such knowledge to the greatest number should be our aim, and the plan to use the fair to that end should be heartily encouraged. Considerable agitation has been displayed in the North- west over an uprising of the Columbia River Indians, who have begun hostilities among themselves and threaten to carry the fight into isolated white settlements. ordinary observer the situation seems to afford no oppor- tunity for trepidation. It looks as if the time had c8me for the making of a few more good red men. T of city property in Los Angeles has grown $20,- 000,000 in the past twelve months. The figures of the City Assessor reveal that the increase on assess- able property is $13,000,000. There were in progress on March 1, the date when property values were reckoned, improvements that are worth between $4,000,000 and $5,- 000,000, but they were not taxed, being incomplete. The advance in the total valuation is less than it was in the preceding twelve months, when the figures showing the gain were $23,000,000. The visible addition of $13,000,000 will give $180,000 more to the revenue of the city. The Assessor finds that the slight horizontal rise in valua- tions throughout the business séction is warranted by the facts. This amounts to a gain of $2,000,000. The bulk of the improved values is reported to be in land subdivided and sold in city lots, together with the improvements. In this direction the accretion of wealth ig greater than in any previous year. Horizontal appre- ciations where there are no mew improvements are few. In 1903 there was a revaluation of nearly all the property in the city. The réassessment is practically confined this year to the business district between First and Tenth streets. City Assessor Wismer makes a stQCment that shows how sensitive realty is to improved conditions. “I have been reliably informed,” so he tells the Los Angeles Times, “that property near the site of the new postoffice went from $30 a foot to $300 within twenty-four hours after it was known where the postoffice would be lo- GROWTH OF LOS ANGELES. HE Los Angeles Times estimates that the value cated.” As usual the taxpayers are hoping that the larger as- sessment will bring a lower tax rate, while, on the other hand, the city departments are figuring what they can do with the more bountiful supply of money in uhries and improvements. e s Two more members of the local brotherhood of burg- lars have pleaded guilty before a 'court of justice and in due time will be punished for their crimes. They are set- ting a wholesome example to their interesting and dan- gerous fellows. It is high time that the thieving parasites among us realized that the community is at least entitled to their suppression after they have been caught. A B D ‘One hundred thousand copies of the annual report of the State Board of Trade are to be issued and circulated where, in the judgment of the board, they will most ma- terially aid the State. It is the boast of California that sbenhotlyn)elmmtowinhmfio-mmmd | women seeking what is best in '.he world. The matter | To an | organizations of the West to take advantage of the [ | | the ringside. | riage license; | lady. { when they approached the desk, and Conclusive. A certain city official, whom for ob- vious reasons we will designate as Mr. Blank, Is an ardent admirer of prize- fighting, while his better half is vio- ,lenuy opposed to it and has no liking for those who attend pugilistic events. In order to keep peace in the family Blank tells his wife that he never attends Boxing contests, and with that declaration Mrs. Blank is satisfied, having the most implicit confidence in the veracity of her liege lord. Blank is, however, put to the trouble of sometimes making explana- tions, for, being a popular official, he accounts as “among those present” at He generally manages to appease his wife’'s wrath by telling her it is a mistake, that he was not at the pugilistic battle and that she must not believe everything she reads in the newspapers. Now It happened that there was to be a championship contest one evening and Blank was especially desirous of going, but his wife insisted that he accompany her to the theater. Blank did so, and was miserable all evening. The next’' morning he picked up the newspaper to read the account of the fight and there, staring him in the face, was a caricature of himself as large as life with the caption: “Blank was on hand as usual.” With a smile he handed the paper to his wife. “Now, my dear,” said he, “you can see for yourself how unreliable these accounts are. We were at the theater together last night, were we not?” “We certainly were, John,” said Mrs. Blank, as she glanced at the caricature. “I never again will be- lieve what the newspapers say.” And Blank, being wise in his generation, laughead inwardly. Friday, Thirteenth. “Only four licensed to-day, boys,” said Cupid Danforth last Friday to the newspaper men who came into his of- fice, as is their daily custom, to get the names of those who had secured legal permission to wed. “This is the quiet- est day I have had in the fifteen years that I have had charge of the mar- riage license business.” “How do you account for it?” asked the scribes. “Just take a seat,” smilingly an- swered Cupid. “It will be explained, I am willing to wager, by the next couple that comes in.” In less than five minutes a hand- me young girl, evidently an Ameri- | can, accompanied by a good-looking. well-dressed young fellow, entered the office. The young man displayed none of the bashfulness that is usually so apparent in an applicant for a mar- neither ' did the young They were both business-like they maintained that air during the entire time that it required to flil out the necessary blank. They answered Danforth’s questions without any hesi- tation, and cordially thanked Cupid when he handed the prospective groom the paper that meant so much to him and the young woman. “You are not very superstitious, I am glad to see,” said Danforth, as he took the fee from the young man. “How's that?” said the young fel- low. “What has superstition got to do with a marriage license?” “It really has nothing to do with it,” smilingly answered Danforth, “only there are a lot of people who would not take out a license to get married on Friday, the 13th.” As he spoke he pointed to a large calendar on the wall. Sure enough, it read “Friday, May 13.” The young man seemed to lose his courage the moment his eves lighted upon the big black letters and figures. As for the girl, she seemed ready to faint. For fully a minute they gazed blankly at each other, and then the girl managed to gasp out somethlng that sounded like ‘“‘to-morrow.” The young fellow nodded afflrmatlvely. smiled a weak sort of smile, nd handed the license back to Danforth “It's too much for me, old man,” he said. “I guess we'll drop in to- morrow.” June. Come, mith thine Told-time witcheries of if Oh, t;wu full-breasted mother, hasten thee, Lest on “wme w|nter-weary sense there Too late thy rose, and humming of thy bee! 8o late thou art! Through many pulsing ys We nmd thy tread in heart of earth and And !3111 thy ‘breath until each leafing Yearned for thy sensuous touch to make it free. Through hnmn mon(h-. all bleak and cold an We wntchod like cmmren through the muffled pane, A tender signal from a beckoning hand, But only saw frost-flowers through the - rain. Come, conx the shyest blossoms of the ear! Blen us, sweet mother! Make the palest smile, And, with our storm-) roughed cheeks inst thy breast, Gtv:fi thy beauty for a little while. No chmulln{:fl call thee, for our h“nl are tl Thou holdest that which keeps .u things in tune— Rose leaves and kisses, love and lite's red wine— ©Oh, J'nlden-heflrted. peerless, perfect une! —Virginia Frazer Boyle, in the Century. ‘A Royal Linguist. According to the Westrxinster Ga- zette, the Emperor of Austria is one of the most accomplished royal lin- guists in Europe. It is told of him that at one of the great military reviews he addressed five different regiments— German, Italian, Hungarian, Bohemian and Wallachian—each in its own tongue; and Hungary will never forget how, fifty-seven years ago, the youth- tul Archduke Francis Joseph, when in- stalling the Governor of Prest, elec- trified his audlence by addressing it in purest Magyar, a tongue no other —— Archduke had ever taken the troubls to learn. They sprang from their seats, waved their swords in a frenzy of en- thusiasm, and almost lifted the roof with thunderous shouts of “Eljen!" The Emperor speaks both English and French as fluently almost as his own tongue. Mormon Growth. According to the Mormon authorities upward of 2000 missionaries are con- stantly in the fleld, most of them young men, and all under the supervision of experienced leaders and directed from headquarters established at central points. Hardly a week passes that the newspapers do not comtain some item concerning this invasion: Mormon eld- ers stoned in Ohio, a rich convert in New Yo - a new irrigated valley opened and settled in Wyoming, a strong, new church organized in - Pnois. Utah is, of course, under Mor- mon political control, but it is not so generally known that the Mormons also control, or at least hold the bal- ance of power, In Idaho, in Nevada and possibly in Wyoming and Colo- rado, with a strong following in Ari- zona, Washington and other States, thus electing, or at least influencing, not a few United States Senators and Representatives. Nor has the growth of the church been confined wholly to the United States. The Mormons are migrating in considerable numbers to the newly opened Alberta country in Canada, and they have taken up for irrigation considerable tracts of land in Mexico.—The Century. Broad Churchmanship. The Rev. V. B. Carroll, a Southern clergyman, tells the following story: “We were driving out one Sunday from Decatur, when we came upon a negro with a club in his hand and a freshly killed 'possum on his shoulder. We stopped to examine his prize, and the colonel said: “‘My friend, do you know it is Sun- day?" “ ‘Sartin, boss.” “‘Are you a religious man? “I are. I'se jist on my way home, from church.’ “‘And what sort of religion have you got that permits you to go hunting on Sunday?” s “‘Religion? Religion?" queried the man, as he held the 'possum up with one hand and scratched his head with the other. ‘Does you 'spect any black man in Alabama is gwine to tle his- self up to any religion dat lows a 'pos- sum to walk right "cross the road ahead of him an’ git away free? No, sah! A religion which won't bend a little when a fat "'possum heads you off couldn’t be 'stablished ‘round yere by all the preachers in the universe.’ " Answers to Queries. A BACK DATE—A. 8., City. No- vember 6, 1850, fell on a Wednesday. QUARTZ MINING—J. W, City. Quartz mining in California was car- ried on as earfy as 1850. The first mill for crushing quartz in this State was erected in Quartzburg, Mariposa Coun- ty, in July of the year named. GOOD TEMPLARS—Y,, City. If you will look in the San Francisco direc- tory, first part, under the head of “In- dependent Order of Good Templars,™ you will find a list of the several lodges that meet in San Francisco, together with the time and place of meeting. THE ROSETTA STONE—Subscriber, City. The Rosetta stone was found by M. Boussard, a French officer of engi- neers, in 1799, in an excavation made near Fort St. Julien, Rosetta, Egypt. It has an inscription in three different languages, the hieroglyphic, the de- motic and the Greek. The importance and value of this stone lies in the fact that it furnished the key for the deci- phering of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. SUN IN A FOG—A. B. C., Ukiah, Cal. The following is given as an expla- nation why the sun appears red in a fog: “When there is a mass of vapor floating in the air, as in a fog, the orange and red rays of the light alone are transmitted through it, and that gives the sun its red appearance when viewed through the moisture-laden air. All other tints are refracted and dis- persed, the atmosphere, when moist, acting in the same manner as a prism. TOLL ROADS—Two Readers, City. In the early days of San Francisco there were toll roads leading out of the city. When Colonel Wilson bujit the Mission plank road in 1851 there was a toll house on Mission street near Sixth, and one near Fourteenth. The first was to catch the teams going out to the Mission Dolores, and the other i those coming in, which could have used the plank rcad as far as that « | point and turned off to the northward and by driving through the sand in the valleys reach Sutter and Stockton streets. When the Folsom street road was built, also running to the Mission via Folsom tc Sixteenth, and out that street to tbe church. there were toil houses. There were also toll houses on the San Bruno turnpike and on the Ocean View road. —_————————— Townsend’'s California Glace fruits In artistic We-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* 1 « i