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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SYNDAY, MAY 29, 1904. SE——Y OF THE CALL, EET, COVENT May 16.—It is he idea of W. 8. A Fairy's Dilem- . £0 emi- IS t, that it is no onder the 3 work it up e all Mr. Gil- write no more for be said at once uthor of “lolan- Bab Ballads”—the two ns that the new Gar- recalls—could have con- robably no one else could s brilliant piece of s, Rosebud, hopelessly has under- demon who, be- bert that the Gilbert and ““The ed, t knack at with a has no himséif in numbers and has provided dictionary, are creatures e stage has not known days of the Savoy. And us librettist has out- Dignified judicial lumi- military men and siastics always have been he verse rhy bumy p gome so far as to picture a and frusty Judge transformed Baronet of the Life into a pantomime clown nious vicar bewitched sarlequin in the skinni- vangled tights. To a first-night the jsatire gave glee but no offcns whether the plece will be a popular success no one has ventured to prophesy The whole thing is a burlesque on the time-honored English pantomime. When Mr. Gilbert raises his curtain we find that Rosebud, the good fairy, is in disgrace with the Fairy Queen. Her mission is to help along lagging love affairs. Those in the neighborhood, however, have gone but indifferently for some time, and the Queen of the fays has. decreed that unless Rosebud s off a coup of some sort she will st into the back row of the ballet, “along with the stout ones,” as Mr. Gilbert puts it. Anxious to avoid this, Rosebud has been watch- ing a sort of double-barreled love affair that has been going on in her vicinity, the suitors in the case being a some- fairy what timid country vicar and a Baro- met in the LI Guards. The vicar is in love with a learned Judge's daughter, who, for courtship purposes, has dis- guised herself as 2 hospital nurse, but Rosebud notices that the Baronet also frequently offers attentions to this lady and the fairy believes that the military man’s intentions toward her are mnot honorable. Here is an opportunity to | intervene. She seeks the ald of the | Demon Alcohol, an evil spirit, with, however, conscientious scruples that Jhandicap him considerably, and after some trouble induces him to carry off the lady to the Baronet's flat in White- hall Court, whence she, the good fairy, will rescue her just in time and restore her to her ecclesiastical lover, But when the scene changes to the vicar's drewing-room we find an un- expected state of affairs. It seems that the churchman's sweetheart's father, the pompous Justice Wortle, does not approve of the vicar as a sultor, and in order to deceive him the reverend and the Baronet are in the habit, in public, of devoting themselves to each other's lady loves. 80 when Rosebud appearing through a bookcase—bursts upon the vicar and the Baronet's sweetheart and assures them that she will devote herself to straightening out their af- faire, they inform her politely that her services are not required. Nevertheless ehe perseveres, and soon terward the demon carries off the to the Quarters of the “bold, buccaneering Baronet,” as the fairy supposes him..No end of comic happenings follow, but finally the fairy discovers that she has made a fool of herself and helped no one, and then it is that, out of plique, she transports the vicar, the Judge, the Baronet and his lady love to “The Revolving Realms of Radiant Reha- bilitation” and metamorphoses them into the familiar pantomime figures of pantaloon, columbine, harlequin and clown, respectively, in which guise they are obliged to perform in the pub- lic streets, but finally are set down in the vicar's drawing-rootn, to find a criticism of their enforced histrionic efforts in the London Times, the some- what erudite style of whose critic Gil- bert parodies amusingly. Al ends happily, with the right lovers united, and the fairy comforted for her disap- polutment by the demon’s promise to renounce his calling and marry her. At the end she is calling him “George.” 5wl e Soclally the opening of the Royal Opera season in London this week was not quite as brilliant as usual, the King and Queen being absent in Ire- i&nd and the display of #nd dizmonds being fairly modest, - The Covent Garden opera house is not &0 spacious and gorgeous a place as . ke Metropolitan in New York, and fhe fart that most of the singers come Wifkar Airectly after the rigors of the Arsavican weason somethmes gives an sngression that ibe whole affair is a & shop-worn. But there was one fstans of the opening night this year & CLovent CGumflen that opera-goers in #8a [ atian Smten huve bad to do with- W Taet festure was the ’lfl/... 1 requires him to speak | Gilbert's wit, but never be- | of Dr. Hans Richter in the conductor’s chair—a fact which seemed to glorify the performance of Mozart'’s “Don vanni” The orchestra and com- ! pany were superbly drilled and it | seems to be the general opinion that the opera has not been so well done before for a generation. It was given practical complete, the usual cuts { restored, and in conse- | rformance be at 7:30. | Altce Nielsen of American comie opera occasion made her 1 grand opera; hough she di ons of gome of tk human and | fame, first a r: won sincere 7 | turbed the tr: tics by making Zerlina who on th i cri { | i i At the recent in London, a littie 4 rded Jike a fairy tale formed | the substance of the speech of Lord| | Selborne in responding to the toast of | { the navy. Recently, he said, they had | had o o goud reason to realize | how inseparable were the greatest risks from the seaman’s life. They were b | sinning to learn also what a modern | naval war meant. Still, those days of the immertalized by Captain Marryat were mot altogether past. | A few weeks ago two small cruisers, | Britieh and American, found them- | selves in a port, which should be name- less, and discovered that the annual revolution was going on. The Govern- ment was in possession of the town, and the opposition were rapidly ad- vancing to attack it. The two captains | put their heads together — for there were many British and American citi- zens In the town, and much British and | | American property — and they sent a | Jjoint note to the combatants warning | them that, however much fighting they | { chose to do, they (the two captains) forbade them to fight in the town. The Government and the opposition | both wrote back to say that their ex-| cellencies should be obeyed; but, as ! their excellencies had forbidden flghl-’ ing in the town, would they kindly say | where the fighting might take place. The two captains were quite equal to | the occasion. They surveyed the coun- try, and =selected a position \\'hh'h? would do for military | rivers, hills and everyt Academy ban ece of history | ravy then carefully order of proceedings. drew up the They intimated | that this position was to be held by the | Government, that the opposition was to | retire a certain number of miles and | might then proceed to take the position, but—and these were the rules—If the | Government once abandoned the po- | sition they were to be held to have been | beaten, while if the opposition were un- | able to take the position they must | withdraw. The terms were accepted without de- | mur, the Government occupied the po- | sition, the opposition withdrew, and in | the course of two or three days ad- vanced to the attack. There was a| terrific amount of fighting, an immense | amount of ammunition was expended, | |and a great many lives were lost. | Eventually the Government went on| the run and retreated pell-mell through | the town into the fortress, But the | moment the opposition arrived at the | position which the Government for- | merly held, they ceased firing—not one;‘ single shot was fired after the Govern- | ment had abandoned the position. ! When the opposition had occupied ! the position and the Government had ! retired into the fortress, both armies | hoisted a flag, “Referees required,” and the two captains, with the Union | Jack and the Stars and Stripes flying, | then sol:m:ly went up to the fort. The army of the victors (the oppositi | lined the streets and prese pe’:io ar:)nr;'.‘ All the shutters of all the s 0OpS were taken down, and the population turned | out and heartily cheered the referees. Then came the delicate and diplo- | matic question of arranging the terms | of peace. The two captains decided that in respect of the men of the army of the Government they must lay down their arms and should then be allowed to go free. The opposition accepted those terms without question. They then said that the genmerals of the Government, and they thought ' the Prime Minister, too, should be allowed | to leave the country unmolested, but to that the opposition at first strongly demurred, thinking that they ought it once to be shot. But the two captains pointed out to them that revolutions were a flourish- ing institution in the country; that there was no reason to suppose that this was the last, an@“that to shoot the leaders might a precedent dangerous to the leaders of the oppo- sition at some future time. After a great deal of consideration and a councll of war the strength of these arguments became apparent to the opposition and the late government and their generals were sent out of the country unmolested. The only thing that then remained was for the two captains to see that the soldiers in the fortress lald down their arms. That was seen to, and the army of the late government then left the fortress. The moment they left the fortress they were met by the gen- eral of the Victorious opposition, who offered them double pay to join his army. Without a moment’s hesitation and without a single dissentient voice the offer was accepted, the vanquished soldiers resumed their arms and then formed part of the escort of the army of the opposition which conducted the two captains back to their cruisers. This amusing story by Lord Sel- borne of a comic opera war evoked much laughter from the distinguished company present.—Boston Transcript, Christianity in Japan. Some of the prominent men of Japan are Christians. To this creed belong one member of the imperial Cabinet, two Judges of the Supreme Court, two Presidents of the Lower House of Parliament, three Vice Min- isters of State. In the present Parlia- ment the President and thirteen mem- bers in a total membership of 360 are Christians. In the army there are 155 Christian officers, or 3 per cent of all, and the two largest battleships are commanded by Christians. , In Tokio three of the daily papers Have Chris- tian editors, N W | { T | epidemic broke out in Oakland, | deaths. THE. SAN FRANCISCO CALL S eesereetiteiietieeiieaiiiesiiiiiiessessssseaaaass oo oo o Third and Market Streets, S. F. MAY 29, 1904 cees eeersiean A CITY MILK SUPPLY. HE supply of a great city of those things that are among the absolute necessaries of life is a matter of the highest importance, because it concerns the health and life of the people. Of all food supplies milk is the most important. It 'is a prime necessity in every family and i the sole food of infants. It is also the me- dium through which disease is most easily and most commonly communicated to man. The typhoid epidemic at Stanford University two_years ago was caused by the vile conditions in one small dairy. The owner of that dairy caused the deaths of young men and women in their prime of life and hope. 1f he had met them on the street and shot them dead he would But he killed them by slow poison A few years ago a typhoid cgusing about forty Its origin was traced to azsmall dairy where everything was reeking with filth. The owner of that dairy had been guilty of a great crime, but he went un- punished. Now the dairies in the outskirts of San Francisco are found to be in such condition that the milk they furnish should not be fed to pigs it is so filthy, Many years ago dairies of this kind in and around New York City were 1ed 2s a result of abnormal infant mortality. conditions found were appalling. At that time science had not revealed bacteriology, and men could only infer that snilk from animals in the physical condition preva- lent in those dairies must carry death with it to the users. Immediately there arose a crusade against “swill milk,” which gave to the sanitary inspection of dairies an im- pulse that is still felt. As far as investigation has gone it is apparent that the dairies lodged around the edges of San Francisco are in a condition as deplorable and as dangerous as the swill- milk establishments of New York. The buildings, barns and milking sheds are dirty. The cows have no range on pasture, nor access to natural conditions, nor proper food. They stand and lie in their own dejections and are milked without washing and with their flanks in a dirty condition. In many cases the water they drink is con- taminated, and the same foul water is used for washing the milk cans and perhaps for thinning the milk. The cows are, as a rule, in a condition to excite pity and the calves are treated so cruelly as to warrant official inter- ference to protect them. The moral of it all is that these pestiferous and death- dealing dairies around a city should not be permitted at all. The sale of their product should be prohibited. It is impossible that they should produce wholesome milk. That can only be done by cows that have free range on pasture, with natural food in abundance, eating only what is wholesome and living in pure air and the sunshine. Not a pint of milk should be permitted to come into San Francisco from any other conditions. Within easy reach of this city, by water and land transportation, are districts adapted to dairying, where the best forage for producing milk is to be had in abun- dance and where the water is pure and every condition iz kindly to the cow and favors the production of pure milk. If our sanitary authorities will continue their in- vestigation and abandon the idea that these filthy little dairies can ever be put in a proper condition to produce wholesome milk, but forbid the sale of their products, we may reasonably expect a milk supply from pure sources. It is a fearful thing that here where nature produces so lavishly the finest forage and outdoor conditions the most favorable the people should take their milk supply from emaciated and diseased cows, standing belly deep in mud and filth. In the pleasant country around us are ideal conditions for dairying decently and wholesomely. 1f the business were permitted only under such condi- tions we would have cows fed on pure pasture, milked in clean and wholesome sheds and the milk preserved for market, not by drugs put by devices for immediately cooling it to a point that will ehable its transportation to the customer in proper condition for use. Under such a system for supplying milk it could be prepared for keeping any proper length of time in proper vessels, by the Pasteur process for sterilizing. The peo- ple should appreciate the importance of rigid rules to control this most necessary and at the same time most dangerous of all food supplies. have been hanged. 1 escaped punishment. e n The Board of Public Works has placed itself on rec- ord with a promise that it shall concern itself strictly, cénscientiously and effectively with the task of keeping public thoroughfares clean. It may be well to remember the promise and view it in the_ light of whatever perform- ance the Works Board reveals. It is encouraging to know, however, that a sense of duty lingers in the minds of the officials involved. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. E notice that the press of the State is circulat- W ing a statement derogatory to the Associated Charities of this city, which seems to be based on a misunderstanding of the object and purpose of that or- ganization. This misunderstanding is to the effect that the charities is expected to furnish funds for the relief of those in need. As its ordinary income is less than $4000 and its expenditure is a little more the comment is made that its income is used up in office expenses and the compensation of its office force, which is sneeringly re- ferred to as “of the female persuasion.” As we understand the purposes of the Associated Charities it is not an almoner at all. The many benefi- cial organizations and charity committees of the differ- ent churches are constantly appealed to for relief by strangers and by* beggars of all descriptions. Among these there is a large percentage of impostors. The un- organized public is appealed to every day, on the streets, for relief and charity by promiscuous beg’ars. It was found upon investigation that indiscriminate giving by individuals and organizations was an evil in itself. It encouraged imposture, and diverted from the worthy poor a vast charity fund which, directed in proper chan- nels, would help the desérving poor to a better condition. To do this required some means for investigating each case. Church and beneficial organizations could not do this and individuals were less qualified for such work. It was known that often the worthiest indigents, become dependent through sickness, accident or other misfor- tune, were restrained by pride from asking help and kept their distress concealed until they became martyrs to their self-respect. Some organization was needed Ahat would find them out and assign the task of relieving them to the proper church or society on which they had claims of fellowship. . . g To do this work the Associated Charities was devised. It is the business of those who administer it to examine the cases of all applicanu\ior charity and to see that they The | are relieved by whatever organization they have the most claims upon. If a church committee is applied to for re- lief it refers the case to the Associated Charities as a rule, first furnishing enough means for immediate relief during the time an examination is being made. If the case is reported worthy the relief is continued. If not it is withdrawn. Even such highly organized bodies as the Masons and Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and EIRs find it necessary to use the mockery of the Associated Charities to protect themselves against imposition. If such be necessary in their case how much more necessary is it for church communities and private individuals. The Associated Charities have command of the liber- ality of many wealthy people who make it a rule to givea stated sum to charity every year. They want to give this wisely and where it is needed and not indiscriminately and for the use of frauds and impostors. The only way they can do this is by co-operation with the Associated Charities. That organization also receives and distri- butes clothing and fuel properly when furnished by the charitable. It is in communication and co-operation with the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America and all associated persons who do charity work, and is the gen- eral clearing-house for all charitable effort. The artlicle referred to says that eight ladies are em- ployed in the Associated Charities of San Francisco, and complains that their salaries and car fare amount to $2048 15 per year. That is only $368 51 apiece for a year’s work and car fare! Instead of complaining that it is too much, as the article does, we should all be ashamed that it is squyftle. For rent, telephone, printing and postage the sum of $1100 30 was spent, and that is out of proportion to the amount of good done by the devoted women who ad- minister associated affairs. We have no doubt that they save the waste upon impostors and frauds of many times the cost of their work and confine it to cases in which it is really needed and where it does good. We make no apology for this indorsement of their work and com- mendation of them, hoping that it may not only overtake and correct the misrepresentation of their purpose but that it will stir the community to a sense of its duty to them. Their equipment should be better, their income larger and their pay increased. The Federal Commissioner of Immigration stationed at this port has decided in the case of an Italian an- archist that an expert maker of bombs and infernal ma- iglades attracted the attention of Henry TALK OF Draining the Everglades. There are great agricultural possi- bilities in the Florida Everglades. Though they are yet merely an ex- pansive waste of swamp and lake and jungle, T venture to predict that they will be the location of hundreds of fertile farms within ten years and will by degrees develop into one of the! most productive tracts of land in.the world. The barrier to the utilization of the Everglades has been, of course, the water Which covers the greater part of them to a depth of from one to six feet. But is has been found en- tirely practicable to drain off the wa- ter. Work to this end has already been begun and is being pushed rap- idly. When it is completed a tract of land 160 miles long and sixty wide | will have been opened to cultivation. | The size of this region is not as im- portant as the remarkable productiv- | ity of the soil. The latter is not only absolutely virgin, but has been fer- tilized by animals and vegetable life through many centuries. I am confi- dent that its crops will lift Florida to a place among the leading agricultural States. The project of draining the Ever- B. Plant in the early '90’s, but he was by no means sure that the scheme was feastible, so I, acting under his direc- | tion, undertook an expedition tMfrough the region. Despite its proximity to centers of population, it was then for the first time thoroughly explored by white men.. Ours was virtually a voy- age of discovery. We paddled our light boats on lakes and camped on islands that, I have good reason to believe, had never before been visited by any human being but Seminole Indians, and by these but rarely. We under- went so many hardships that some of our party were compelled to turn back, but our efforts were not in vain, for we ascertalned the important fact that the Everglades, along the whole 160 miles of the eastern side, are rimmed by a rock ledge. We further- more learned that all of the lakes are several feet above sea level, and we decided that there was nothing what- ever to prevent the water of the lakes chines is not such a man as Uncle Sam cares to have | within the confines of his domain. The decision is emi- | nently just. OQur political agitators, storming every- thing in sight with the artillery of their lungs, make noise | enough to suit us and fortunately commit no more harm E than the assault of exploded wind upon our eardrums. I teach the people that the transaction of much of the business of this country by large corporations, given | the bad name of trusts, is an evil that has originated in our protective tariff. This course is taken in order to | effectively ambush another attack on protection. But as large a part of the business of Great Britain is | transacted by corporations between which and our trusts ‘ there is no appreciable difference in economics if there | is in law. There have been organized in Great Britain | 77,579 of such corporations, with a stock issue of $29 0€2,110,245. A majority of these floated their stock and® went under to the loss of the shareholders, just as the | wild-cat trusts in this country did to the loss of the in- FOREIGN TRUSTS. T is believed to be useful for partisan purposes to | made in this long ledge of rock. | chief question before us pertained to | making artificial outlets through the i tract of land of almost unprecedented from flowing into the ocean and leav- ing the land drained if vents could be The the practicability of cutting through the ledge In various places and dredg- | fng out outlets into the Atlantic, which is not more than two or three miles away at numerous points. Experiments proved that this work would present no great difficulties. It was merely a matter of a great deal of | digging. Henry M. Flagler took up the project and it is being carried out by his lieutenants. We are not only rock, but are also, by ditching and dredging, turning large bodies of wa- ter into rivers and creeks which flow to the ocean. The work has progressed far enough to enable me to predict confldently the opening in Florida, | within a very few years, of a great fertility.—Success. Nathan Hale. vesting public. H The Manchester Chronicle says that last year 1629 of' these corporations became insolvent, inflicting a loss of $145,995,000 upon the public which had taken their stocks. | The same authority says that «4n the last ten years the | lcsses from the same cause have amounted to $2,725,- 240,000. It is declared that this lost capital was never represented by valid assets. That is to say it was watered | and fictitious capital. The Chronicle declares that there must be legislation to protect the public against the lu‘e of such investments and that “It does not meet the case to say that we can- not legislate for fools; we must so legislate as to protect | the nation from unscrupulousness, dishonesty and fraud. | The Board of Trade has been urged by the stock cx-j change to deal with this abuse and a serious effort must 1 be made to safeguard our commercial interests by making | the law very stringent in dealing with abuses of flotation under the limited liability system.” ! All the features familiar to us in the United States ap- pear in Great Britain. Under free trade stock watering and luring of investors go on just as here under pro- | tection. The revenue system makes no difference. If | our Democratic politicians were in Great Britain we sup- pose they would be pointing to free trade as the mother of trusts and the wicked inventor of stock watering. United States Senator Gorman has given to Repub- licans and Democrats alike another evidence of the judg- ! ment and shrewd common sense which have dictated and | directed his political career. At the recent State con- ventiori in Maryland Senator Gorman gave his best ener- | gies to prevent any indorsement of himself for the Presi- | dential nomination of the Democratic party. And nobody ' for a mdment believes that Gorman tolerates the chances of any oqier aspirant before himse! A CORRECTION. HE CALL, under date of the 13th day of March, T 1903, published a special dispatch from Washington dated March 12. This dispatch stated that some of the money placed in the hands of United States Consul Victor E. Nelson, Bergen, Norway, for payment to fam- ilies of Norwegian blue-jackets killed in the destruction of the Maine in Havana harbor had not reached the relatives of those soldiers, although it was said the money was given to Nelson for distribution; that after an in- vestigation by the State Department upon this charge Consul Nelson was cabled for his resignation. The Call published this dispatch in the course of its business without any personal knowledge of the facts as alleged, but finds upon examination that it was misled, and that the statements contained in the dispatch were not true. Mr. Nelson did not receive any money for dis- tribution and it is not the custom of the department to make such distributions through the hands of the Consul, consequently it was impossible that there should have been any investigation of that charge, and it is equally im- possible that the State Department should have asked him for his resignation for any such cause. The Call takes pleasure in making this correction and placing bc(ove public the proper statement of these facts, 3 > 4 | Sapient shrewdness, lightning eye; | A spy, if you will, yet no common spy. | He found one Knowlton, of ‘Congress’ wn, | Stood with him there on Harlem plain, | Said ]glo']ton. colonel of Congress' wn, { Fit for the perilots task you plan, Washington wanted a man to serve His country. Not in the martlal way; Not in the flurry and dash of fray, But coolly and with metallic nerve, ‘While Howe and Clinton, adroit as uiles, Thronng'rl the green flatland monotone Long Island spreads vetween stream and plain, With bloodthirsty British, miles and | miles. “Your Excellency. I know a man A captain in my stancn Yankee clan, Still young, yet a patriot to the bone.” So Nathan Hale, being chosen, went By night through the foeman's drowsy ranks; He thought of his home, where the deep-grassed banks Of Connecticut lean to her spasrMing flow. - He thought of the girt he longed to wed; He thought of his mother, worn and ent With years; of his youth’s ambitious zlow; - He thought of ing drea For a weak brief moment bowed his ead. But he did not falter; he pressed right on; His pluck had the old stern martyr ring; He woulg do this covert and vulpine dtheue. and with shudder- thing For*his bleeding land, u.her loyal son. A fox for cunning. a snake for stealth, Rich were the owledge he galned and stored. Had fate but willed him to bear its wealth PBack to the Washington he adored. Yet, no; with his triumph nearly scored, With the sands of Long Island almost un; Oft his venturous feet, with the hope of bright Rehabilitation in manful fight, A passionate truth-lover, noble, young, Scholarly, fresh from his books at Yale, They (:1“‘h! him and killed him, TOWN THE e L — title page and read In correct print: “The Poems of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. Selected and Arranged With All Ob- jectionable Passages Excised by George Yenowine, Editor of ‘Tsaae Watts for the Home,” ‘The Fireside Hannah More," ete.,’” .with the usual publisher's name and date at the bot- tom. Field glanced up at the book- seller. He stood there the very pic= ture of sad solemnity. “I'l take it,” said Field, faintly, producing the mon- ey. Outside Yenowine was missing. At his office the boy said that he had just left, saying that he was going to Standing Rock, Dak., to keep an ap=- pointment with Sitting Bull QOur Golden Fruit. In an article upon orange growing i California, contributed to the June Booklover’'s Magazine, Allan Suther- land gives the following account of how our horticulturists profit by the golden frait: “Orange groves, in full bearing, fre- quently yield handsome returns on the investments made. A crop of five acres recently sold for $1575 on the trees. Some orchards yield as much as $1800 per acre. Ordinarily a carefully culti- vated orchard of ten acres ought to yield a sure annual profit of from $1200 to $2000. In full bearing, the average orchard yields about $150 per acre. Good orange land may be bought from $50 to $130 per acre. Groves, includ- ing all the water rights and privileges, have sold as high as $2500 per acre. About $50,000,000 capital s invested in California groves. Records of the State’s product show that the ship- ments in 1388 were less than one mil- lion boxes; in 1399 they had reached four and onme-third; in 190 a little more than eight; and in 1903, eleven and a half million boxes. “This year 30,000 carloads of oranges have been shipped out of the State, enough to pay a handsome dividend. Growers are looking hopefully to the construction of the Panama canal, which they think will reduce one-third the present freight rate of 90 cents a box which the railroads charge . on New York shipment Castles for Sale. Two English castles are about te come under the hammer, each included in the sale of extensive estates. Ilings- wear Castle, So:th Devon, will be of- fered this month, with several prop- erties in the neighborhood. It dates from the reign of King John. During the civil war it was strongly garri- soned by the King's men, but was successfully stormed by the army of Sir Thomas Fairfax, early In the year 1646. The garrison were taken prison- ers. The Hanwell Castle estate is to be offered next month. It is situated in Oxfordshire, and the sale will in- clude the whole of the village of Han- well and part of the village of Dray- ton, near Banbury. This was the seat of the Cope famlly, and James I was twice the guest of Sir Anthony Cope, the celebrated Puritan leader, who died in 1614, Answers to Queries. TIME DIFFERENCE—Reader, City. There are sixteen hours difference im time between Manila, P. I, and San Francisco—that is, the sun rises thers sixteen hours earlier than it does here. PUBLIC DEBT—Inquirer, City. The public debt of the United States was highest in 1366, when it was $2,773,236,- 173 69. The lowest it has been since was in 1391, when it was down to $1,546,961,695 61. At the close of 1908 it was $2,218,883,772 89, FORT RILEY—Subscriber, City. Fort Riley, the United States military reser- vation, is one of the suburbs of Juno- tion City, Kans. It comprises 20,000 acres, was selected in 1852 and in 1855. It is now the location of a per- manent school of instruction for the United States army in cavalry and ar- tillery practice. GEORGIA DIVORCE — D., City, The law books of Georgia bearing date of the current year do not contaln anything to the effect that “It does not need any other requirement in order Nathan Hale! . —Thenla‘:e EDGAR FAWCETT In The Reader. Field Outwstted. Eugene Field was a bock collector and' one of his favorite jokes, accord- to obtain a divorce than the publica- tion of a notice of commencement of action in a newspaper.” There is a provision that an action for divorce may be commenced after the party seeking such has resided in the State for one year. If personal service of a summons cannot be made on the party ing to the Philadelphia Post, was to enter-a bookshop where he was not known and ask in the solemnest man- ner for an expurgated edition of Mrs. Heman's’ poems. One day in ilwau- kee he was walking along the street with his friend, George Yenowine, when the latter haited in front of a book- shop and said: *““’Gene, tne proprietor of this place is the most serious man I ever knew. He never saw a joke in his life. Wouldn't it be a good chance to try again for that expurgated Mrs. Heman: Without a word Field en- tered, asked for the proprietor and then made the usual request. “That is a rather scarce book,” came the reply. “Are you prepared to pay a fair price for it?” For just z second Field was taken aback; then he said: “Cer- tainly, ‘certainly; I—I know it's rare.” The man stepped to a case, tcok out a cheaply bound volume and handed it to Field, saying: “The price is $5.” Field took it mervously, opened to the from whem the divorce is sought, a copy of the summons must be pub- lished in some newspaper of general circulation in the place where the party is known to reside and a copy of the summons must be mailed to the last known address. If there is no an- swer after a stipulated time there may be a judgment by default. The com- plaint for divorce must set forth the grounds, which are in that State: Vio- lation of marriage vow, incapacity, willful desertion (three years), habi. tual intemperance, felony, cruelty, fraud, insanity or idiocy at the time of marriage, consangunity and deception by wife at time of marriage unknown to husband. —_—— Townsend’s California Glace fruity n artistic fire-ctched boxes. 715 Market st « et Spectal Inf subplied Al Mortees et R o R