The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1904, Page 8

GARDEN, LONDON, ‘Sir Charles Wyndham was practically off his own stage the other boecd evening g declared on every hand f] g must be done to British means of in a theater. vy will be done. check this ¢ many with abolition, likewise the custom { char for pro- grammes—not to mention the censor- Ehip and theater dinner that re- sults in fashionable folk arriving in | the middle of the first act; vet all these draw s to play-going in Lon- don we still have with us. However, it is her' amusing to ecompare the wvarious opinions that have been of- this portentous subject since What is the origin of the “boo” as an uncompli- mentary manifestation no one seems t how, but it is & rare thing for fered on the affair at Wyndham's. fhe final curtain to fall on a London producti without some boos being heard d when the pit and gallery | are really on the war-path, the bovine sounds /that come from them are ab- solutely deafening. The “boo,” how- ver, may mean anything. Some of the “boo-ers” arrested at Sir Charles Wyndham's playhouse the other might Geclared that although they disliked w's new play, “The Bride " most heartily, they made a Tow had pleased immensely in. Wyndham's previous production Was mnot re-en- gaged. The fact that it is “booed™ “ doesn’t necessarily mean, either, that a play is doomed. William Gillette had 2 lot of this sort of thing to face on the fi night of “Sherlock Holmes™ in London, but he played it at the Lyceum fof nearly twelve months. Perhaps it should be observed that some “boo-ers” “boo” as-a matter of It is a London first night m to “dead-head” all of the house except the pit and gallery. The “ear- nest students of the drah-ma" seated " these parts declare that the stalls dregs circle are in duty bound to applaud a piece whether it be good or bad, so if the pit and galleries deem @ play to e the latter t_e “elieve in voicing their opinion as loudly as sible in order that the dramatic critics may not be able to write that the piece was favorably received. By the way, whe writers on' theatri- cal matters are largely to blame for the abuse, greater even than “‘booing,"” that has sprung up in London lately. ¥For. some time, mixed up with the “boos,” there have been expressions of cpiniop shouted from the gallery and these some of the critics have been foolish enough to quote. As a conse- quence there is reason for believing that the kind of jibes with which Wyndham was literally deluged the other night are now delivered by their authors for the simple purpose of “get- ting into the papers”—a tendency which the following skit, published the other day, hits off rather amusingly: IN THE PLAYBOOERS' CLUB. Tom: It was epoch-making, I tell yer. What'll yer 'ave to drink? Dick: Small Bass, please. I say, the papers ‘ave done me proud, eh? I} 'Ow d'yer mean? hy, don't yer remember me Ow about organized ap- They've all got that. _Tom: And I yelled out, “We want ter £et ter bed.” It's in all the papers. Harry: Of course you-did, an’ so dia 1. Tom: You @id? " Harry: Didn’t yer "ear me? I ‘eld my 'ands like that and ‘ollered fer all 1 was worth. Dick: Com: off. You didn't ‘ave a line in the,papers after Alexander's show. ., Tom: Didn't 1? your 'aiy on,” then? Dick: I dunno. Tom: They 'ad it in the Telegrawf, anyway. : ‘Managers, however, have the remedy for this sort of thing in their own kands. They could snuff it out by the simple American expedient of number- .ing the seats in the gallery and selling tickets for them- just as they do for the other parts of the -house. Then it woul@ be simple enough to identify boo-ers and other ndisy ruffians and refuse to admit them after one o ’ense. And this would also do away with the queues of people waiting in all weath- ers for the gallefy and the pit. Here- tofore, nowever, the proprietors Lon- don theaters have been too penurious to ibaugurate such a reform. Belasco and Long's “Darling of the Geds” is about to be withdrawn at His Mpjesty's Theater, where it will have been played fof about 150 nights. Tree will follow it with several Shakespear- can revivals, by means of which he - expects to finish up the season. At one of the chief London music halls a King's protege is to appear next week. This is Yvonne Lamor, whe s of Spanish-Irish extraction, and who will give a sort of musical mono- lggue. Mlle. Lamor's kingly protector N was, not Leopold, this time, but the ill-fated Alexander of Servia. When the actress was a girl the menarch came to see her frequently at her fath- er's house in Madrid, but never al- Jowed her to suspect his true rank. Fivally, with her father's consent, he sent her to the Paris Conservatoire and then to Frankfort and Vienna. But , Bever, unti] in company with her fath- 'Oo said, “Keep as been threatened | because an actress who | er she paid a visit to Belgrade a few months Lefore his death, did Milie. | Lamor know that her munificent friend was Servia's King. After !1_9 died, she appeared successfully in Vi- enna and other European capitals. She spent her early years in Ireland, speaks English perfectly and expects to make a success in London. The management of the Royal Ba- varian Court Theaters sends me an announcement that the Richard Wag- ner and Mozart festivals in Muhich will run from the 12th of August to the 11th of September and from the 1st to the 1ith of August, respectively. Among the artists already engaged are Ma- dame Milka Ternina and R. Van Rooy of New York. Should the Dead Awake. It is a strange and startling com- pany that would fill the abbey if its honored and dishonored dead could | wake up in the night. The son of Charles Stuart would meet the daugh- ter of Cromwell; William Pitt would | | be standing, it might be, with a pugil- |ist or a spy; Robert Browning would | be in the company of a writer of dis- graceful plays. Great and little, good | and bgd, famous and infamous, meet lat this shrine of immortalities. The | shelter of the abbey has not always been so jealously guarded as it is to- |day. Here, in the holy quiet of the cloisters, is a monument to—a prize- | fighter! Why it is here probably no man knows—no man in the world | knows why some of the people buried iin the abbey should ever have been | there. John Broughton, if he had ever any |title to a place at Westminster, has certainly not left it clear to his pos- terity. He was a waterman, who lived through most of the eighteenth century and revealed his bent for fighting and knocking his brother ,down. He knocked his brother down' so well that he left his boat to become a “public bruiser,” and his booth in Tottenham Court road was the resort of the elite | of the bruiser-loving fraternity. You would have found even royaity there, | until one day when the Duke of Cum- | berland backed him for £10,000 and Broughton lost. The Duke never for- gave him, and though he had made | his protege a Yeoman of the Guard, | he took away his patronage and left Broughton to grow rich alone at his theater off Oxford street. There he | fought watil he died and was carried | to his grave by five pugilists appointed by himself. He has a niche in fame asithe father of prizefighting in Eng- land, and it is surely the strangest claim that any man has ever had for being honored in the most sacred spot of English earth, among statesmen and poets and kings. < There would be room for all our great men in the abbey if great men |only had been buried there. The doors |in centuries past were thrown open very wide. The Duke of Buckingham buried a Scotsman there for no other | reason than that he was his friend, {and on the funeral day a dog was buried in Tothill Fields in public ridi- | cule. 'homas Parr, though he did not write #ems, was not a poet, could ad- vance, at any rate, one claim to lie in Poets’ Corner. Was he not the oldest man alive? That is reason enough, clearly, why he should lie where Shakespeare does not lie, and it was reason enough in his day, it would ap- pear, why he should lie among our | Kings. Parr, if the inscription in the abbey speaks the truth, was 152, and lived under ten rulers.of England. He mar- ried again it is said at 122 and threshed corn at 130. He began life as a farm servant in Shropshire, and would have died no doubt on his Shropshire farm if the Earl of Arundel had not un- earthed him, brought him up to town by stages and presented him as a “piece of antiquity” to the King. “What,"” asked Charles Stuart, “have you, who have lived longer than other men, done more than other men?” And Parr in- formed the King that he had done penance in a white sheet when he was 100. Parr was exhibited as a curiosity at a tavern in London until he died, and in 1635 the “old, old, very old man" was buried in—Poets’ Corner! He had perhaps ofe other claim to the honor than his years—he adopted the religion of his ten Kings and Queens. He came into this world raw, said he to Charles Stuart, and he saw no good in being broiled out of it. More bitter was the insnult paid to the dead when Thomas Thynn was laid in the abbey in 1632. He was an infamous man, murdered in Pall Mall by the creatures of a Swedish Count who wanted to marry Thynn's wife, a girl three times married at 17. The men were hanged at the scene of their crime, where Waterloo place now is, and the assassination is pictured in bas-relief in Westminster Abbey, where the vil- lainous Thynn lies wifh Chatham and Dickens and Wilberforce. In the same company lies Aphra Behn, the barber’s daughter, who was the first woman-+to live by her pen in England. She was a notorfous and scandalous person, fit for the court of Charles II, who used her as a spy, and some of her plays were the worst ever acted. She delighted in her wickedness and rests with the saints. The stage in olden times was more closely allied to the church than now. Thomas Betterton tottered off the Hay- market stage into a grave in Westmin- ster Abbey. He was old and crippled with gout when he trembled through his last triumph before a house packed with great people, and in two weeks the same great people were gathered again in the abbey to see the actor go dumbly through his last part. Here lies Mrs. Bracegirdle, and here, too, Ana Oldfield, her rival for fame. Born in a tavern, she went on the stage almost before she was in her teens, and she grew up a woman with a great gift and po character. The ready dean of the abbey found her a place when she died, and Ann went to her grave as she would have gone to a play. One v‘:l: not, sure, be frightful when one’s And, Betty, give this check a little red. Pope makes her say, and the actress ‘was laid in her coffin decked with Brus- sels lace and wearing new kid gloves. The preacher in the abbey buried her, I he told the mourners, “very willingiy and with much Mail - satisfaction,”—London s 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,® FRIDAY, TUNE 3, 1904, THE' SAN FRANCISCO CALL AJOHND.SPECKELS,Pmprim..........AddressAllCommmkaflonstoJOHN McNAUGHT, Manager e I S e S S R R e o R +si +e....Third and Market Streets, S. F. FRIDAY v i ve o ooimsoesishosis isnbopmabae v o ho, Sl it o s WINIE. £ 190 ' BRYAN'S PLATFORM. HE Nebraska Democracy set the pace in 1896 and T 1900 and proposes to keep it up. In its State Coun- vention Mr. Bryan ruled supreme. He wrote the platform_and took his place upon it, as the leader of the delegation to the National Convention. This means that there will be no complaint of a dull time in St‘. Louis whén he gets there. He is better seasoned than in 1806, when he caused such a stampede as was never before seen in a deliberative body. He retains all of the gushing and impulsive quality that won his first candi- dacy, made more persuasive by his experience in hand- ling men. With him and Hill, and perhaps Bourke Cock- ran and the Southern contingent of spell-binders, at work the National Convention will be as lively as a swarm of grasshoppers. In the Nebraska platform he rewrites his long digested views. He demands the continued issue of paper cur- rency by the Government, and that the silver dollars chall remain as a full legal tender lien upon the gold held by the treasury. This monetary programme is lit- tle less offensive than his free silver issue, and in many respects has equal capacity to disorder our national finances. He demands a revenue tariff, and proposes a constitutional amendment for an income tax. The social- istic features of the platform of 19oo are reaffirmed. These include the New Zealand and Australian plan of government ownership of public utilities and that sys- tem of forced arbitration of hours and wagés which has helped make the Australasian colonies the highest taxed countries in the world. The most radical plank is that which demands direct legislation by the initiative and referendum of course. The party has been going rapidly in that direction. It means a complete revolution of our constitutionial form of government by eliminating its representative feature and practically abolishing its legislative branch. In its working this plan will finally abolish the judicial branch also, and leave the executive standing as the sole rem- nant of the scheme of constitutional government so wisely and carefully devised by the fathers. This radical. scheme is urged by the cry that the peo- ple are to be trusted, and by frequent reference to Jef- ferson’s views on that subject. There is no evidence that Jefferson ever contemplated such a system as di- rect legislation. He gave many signs of being aware that the direct rule of the majority, by the plan now proposed, would terminate the rights of the minority, and of courde thereby end a republican form of govern- ment. It has been wisely said that Mr. Bryan’s plan of di- rect government, consisting of an executive only, charged with the administration of laws made in the ballot box, would be a failure, if every citizen were as wise as Sir Isaac Newton. The plan pieces in harmoniously with the denunciation in this platform of the\ use of the in- junction to protect property. It is the final dependence of property rights, as the habeas corpus is the final pro- tection for the rights of person. Mr. Bryan demands that such issues as are now taken into the courts on applicatipn for an injunction to protect property shall be decided by a jury. The motive for such a demand lies in the desire to prevent courts from protecting property in labor disputes. If, in such a dispute, the partisans of one side desire to enter upon private prop- erty and confiscate it by forcibly denying its use by its owner, Mr. Bryan would submit the issue to a jury, of course composed of the partisans of one side of the con- troversy or of their sympathizers. - Property rights are &quitable rights, and a jury cannot pass upon a question of equity. To make such a propo- sition and have it backed, as it was in 1896 and 1900, by one of the great parties of the country, and to renew it now, is evidence of the rapid growth of the anti-property sentiment among the people caused by the loose teach- ings of the Democratic party since it laid aside its brains. The process has been a distinct advance into socialism. The motto of that cult is “Property is rob- bery.” If that premise is granted, property is not’en- titled to judicial protection, and all property rights fall, including the right of contract, which the courts hold to be not only a property right but the foundation of all property. A party that has this virus in its blood, as proved by Mr. Hill's expropriation platform in New York and re- affirmed by this last utterance in Nebraska, is not a party to be trusted with power in this country. Of course all good citizens regret that this is so. Parties are a necessity in republics, and their general purpose should be so in line with the constitution as to make personal and property rights safe, no matter which wins. It is among the political vagaries of the day that Mr. Bryan’s platform, which makes *necessary the destruc- tion of the constitution, attacks President Roosevelt for disregarding' “constitutional limitations.” We have often called for a bill of particulars to back up that charge. It is one that the Democracy habitually makes. So fixed is that habit that it denounced Mr. Cleveland, its own President, for conspiring against the constitution and striving to destroy that fundamental law. The charge was as little true then as it is ‘now. ABq’t evidently that is to be the campaign slogan of a party which proposes to destroy every constitutional guarantee of the rights of property. Governments are instituted among men to secure the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness. For that the constitution was devised and for that it is administered. All men have under it the liberty to acquire and hold property and have it protected. When that right fails and falls the constitution is a dead letter. The aged rascal who used the mails of the United States Government as an implement in his scheme to cheat gudgeons of their coin in wild-cat mining opera- tions must pass a period of punishment in San Quentin for his pains. Meanwhile the Federal mails are still open and the world moves merrily on with its burden of fools waiting to be plucked. A very large part of the American public insists upon an inalienable privilege of being foolish. CANADA’S UNOFFICIAL CONSULS. €CORDING toe«the reports of our Consul at AThree Rivers, Canada, the merchants of the Do- minion are about to inaugurate a unique system for the protection and advancement of their trade abroad—nothing else, in-short, but an unofficial consu- lar service, which shall be designed to do for their business interests what the regular consular service of the empire seems to fail of doing. The Canadian Many- facturers’ Association will place in every foreign city where Canadian commerce has a foothold paid business agents whose duty it shall be to perform all the offices of a Consul in relation to trade and whose reports will be embodied in the trade journals published by the as- sociation. The Manufacturers’ Association has this plaint to make as the excuse for their organization of this irregu- lar consular service: “Canadian manufacturers have found themselves much hampered,” says the associa- tion, “by not being suitably represented in foreign cities likely to prove trade centers for the Dominion. The United States consular service, extending of course to all foreign countries, looks after such matters and thus the American manufacturer has long enjoyed an advantage which Canada and even England does not receive, for the British consular representative is still a diplomat and not ‘a business man such as the United States is ac- customed to send out,” The projected move on the part of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association will be an innovation in the trade relations existing between British colonies and the mother country, for it will signify that the colony feels justified, by the implied inadequacy of the British con- sular service, in becoming independent of the mother country in the matter of trade reports from foreign centers. The power of the association that fosters the project and the extent to which the systém of paid agents is to be incorporated will make practically a rival corps of unofficial agents to the regular consular system of the empire. How the champions of the pan-British Zollve- rein in England will view this indication of sturdy inde- pendence on the part of the Canadians is problematical, It would certainly appear that the merchants of the Do- minion feel able to stand on their own feet, irrespective of Chamberlain’s schemes. Our fellow business men on the north cannot be blamed for “going it alone” if, as they claim, the British consular service is not adequate to fill the needs of Great Britain and Greater Britain also. The compli- ment the Canadians pay our consular corps may be de- served now, but will be far more appropriate when Con- gress shall have organized our service upon the broader lines of the merit systemlof selection and promotion. Then our country will have the excellence of British .Qonsu]x: organization with the added merit of the fine business practicability that has dra’wn the envious com- ment of the Canadian merchants. Sir Thomas Lipton is the generous giver of a cup to be held as a trophy for the competition of American yachts in American waters. Sir Thomas is evidently a believer in the truth that to him that hath shall be given. He can't lift our cup, so he will give us another. Pos- sibly he wants to show some Americans at least how it feels to lose. B there are as many boys as girls in the grammar grade of its public schools who will, this year, apply for admission to the High School. Heretofore in Bakerdfield, as in other cities, the girls entering the High $chool have been much more numerous than the boys. Why should there be fewer boys at any point who appretiate the advantages of an education? Why should the girls dee more clearly the good that resides in cul- ture? It is probable that, generally speaking, the boys and girls have very little to do yvith determining whether they shall continue to attend school in the upper insti- tutions of learning after they have completed the gram- mar school course. The parents regulate that. For this reason it is to be inferred that the fathers and mothers of boys in Bakersfield, in this year of grace, are wise in-their day and generation. Never have the benefits to be derived from judiciously directed study been more evident. Applied to the lowest and fundamental condition, it is easily to be seen that assimilable information and, even more than that, the habit of thinking in a definite direc- tion makes easier the earning of a livelihood. If the boys leave school when they are very young the very strong minded may succeed, but the majority are not as well equipped to struggle with material conditions as the girls are who remain at their books. In any city the forward march of the girls into paying occupations is noticeable. They win place by what they know and what they can do. They are qualified to become con- fidential clerks, stenographers, teachers, searchers of records, bookkeepers, and are found later in the per- formance of duties that not many years ago devolved mainly upon men, As to the pleasures derivable from cultivation and asso- ciation with those of kindred mind there need be no argument. Birds of a feather flock together, according to an ancient proverb. Knowledge and general mental refinement unlock so many doors to enjoyment, to which they are the sesame, that whosoever learns will strive to learn more, From any point of view, then, the parents of ‘Bakersfield, who are caring for the minds of their boys as well as for their immediate bodily needs, are doing well. They are setting a good example for the parents of boys everywhere. WISE BAKERSFIELD PARiENTS. AKERSFIELD points with pride to the fact that The Board of Public Works is exceeding wroth at what it is pained to consider an inadequate appropriation to it of public funds for the next fiscal year. This ap- pears to be the first cheerful sign in connection with the administration of this municipal department, which on times without number has indicated an alarming disregard for the city’s money. Economy or wise expenditure certainly is not an attribute of the Works Board. “ihaicbialas 5 The little l(rmy of men who live and have their being in the remunerative service of the municipality have lifted their eager voices in loud acclaim and want a half-holiday every Saturday. It is quite possible that they have speci- fied Saturday to round out a week of half-holidays. The discernment of more than an ordinary observer is neces- | sary to detect a full day’s service for a full day’s pay in the City Hall. ———— An effort is to be made to induce the police chiefs of the United States and of Canada to meet in annual ses- sion in San Francisco next year. By all means bring the thief catchers along and have them here at the height of the racing season. Our worthy sleuths might then be introduced to the crooks of the continent and the general public would reap profit and some peace. A Chicago ghoul, placed on trial- for an atrocity committed in connection with the Iroquois fire, went mad the other day in the courtroom, driven frantic by the tormenting of a guilty conscience. Humanity still has something- of good to its credit when even intuitively it will rebel in insanity against the deviltry of debased reasom, by 4 B il “Line’s Busy.” Now he has just paid the telephone company for a new instrument. Mr. Blank, a somewhat irascible old gentleman who is the senior partner in a wholesale firm down on Front street, had just returned from a ten years’ absence from San Francisco, during | which time progress in the arts and | sclences here in the city of the hills had gone on apace. On the first day that Mr. Blank oc- cupied the office so long vacated by him, something happened. “Give me Larkin 411, central” said the senior member as he swung round in his easy chair and took the tele- phone receiver from its hook. There was a pause, a click and then came the answer: “Line’s busy; call again.” “But are you sure you got my num- ber?” “Line’s busy; call—" “Well, no need of getting so sharp about it,” breathed Mr. Blank, threat- eningly. “If you—" “Line’s busy; call again,” came with metallic persistency. “Well, do you think I ecan’t hear you?” Mr. Blank's face twitched and the crimson began to mount up into the zone of his collar. “Line’s b—" “You impertinent hussy, you disre- spectful young bundle of skirts—what do you mean by—" “Line’s busy; call again.” The shipping clerk nearly bit his pen in two as he saw, Mr. Blank shoot past him to the store room in the rear. Like e threatening storm cloud the senior member charged back with an ax swung at full polse over his shoulder. There was a crash, a blur of words— and then they told him about the new phonograph attachment. The Old Homé's Call. Come back! My little lads, come back! My little maids, with starched froeks; My lads, my maids, come back! The poplar trees are black Against the keen, lone, throbbing sky; The tang of the old box Fills the clear dusk from wall to wall, And the dews fall. - Come back! I watch, I ery; Leave the rude wharf, the mart; Come back! Else I shall break my heart. Am I forgot: My days as they were not?— The warm, sweet, crooning tunes; The Sunday afternoons, ‘Wrought but for ygu; The larkspurs growing tall, You wreathed in pink and blue, Within your prayer-books small; The cupboards carved both in and out ‘With curious, prickly vine, And smelling far and fine; The pictures in a row Of folk you did not know; The toys, the games, the shrill, gay rout; The lanterns that, at hour for bed, A charmed but homely red, Went flickering from shed to shed; The fagots crumbling, spicy, good, Brought in from the great wood; The Dark that held you all about; The Wind that would not go?— Come back, my women and my men, .'\nd tlzke th-em nll agnl:\: Come Back! Come up the still, accustomed, wistful lands— The poplar-haunted lands. You need not call, For I shall know, And light the candles tall, Set wine and loaf a-row. Come back! Unlatch the door And fall upon my heart once more. For 1 shall comfort you, oh, lad; Oh, d-ugldlt'er, I shall make you wholly lad! ‘The wreck, the wrong, The unavailing throng, The sting, the smart, Shall be as they were not, Forgot, forgot! Come back! And fall upon my heart! —Lizette Woodworth Reese Atlantie. in the June Calling Down a King. “King Edward has been taken to task by the London Times editorially,” says La Marquise de Fontenoy, “for his altogether too conciliatory attitude toward the Irish people, on the ground that it is likely to imbue the Inhabi- tants of the Emerald Isie with alto- gether fallacious ideas and hopes con- cerning thg policy of his Government, and reminding him that, no matter what his personal sympathies may be, he is bound by the restrictions incum- bent upon a constitutional ruler, and that the policy which will be followed is ‘that of a constitutional ministry supported by a parliamentary major= ity Then the Times proceeds to des- cant on the unwisdom of his saying anything either to the Irish or about then, since he cannot afterward ‘de- scend into the arena of ceptroversy to protest against illegitimate inferences from his words to explain away ambi- guities and to correct misrepresenta- tions,” adding that under the circum- stances it is well to avoid giving the Irish people ‘a chance of plunging into speculations so unfettered by rule.” Un- less I am “much mistaken, this is the first time since the early portion of the reign of Queen Victoria that the London Times has ventured to thus read a lecture to the sovereign.. In these days the Times was continually attacking the King's father, the late Prince Consort, on account of his al- leged unconstitutional influence upon the late Queen, to whom the abuse | to stand he had to be taught to move forward, which he attempted to do by making high steps as if he did not know where the floor was. Not for | geveral weeks did he learn first to talk and then to read and write. At this stage Dr. Siddis, a noted spe- clalist, took charge of him and his efforts to make Mr. Hanna remember | his former life were gradually attend- ed with success. First the patient be- gan to dream of his past and on awak- ing would mention names and places without knowing their significance. Finally he led a boy life and an adult life side by side, in the latter showing himself an accomplished scholar and-in the former a child, but in neither state did he remember his { parallel existence and if he. went to sleep in one condition he invariably weke up In the other. By progressively reducing the hours of sleep, however, the specialist .at length succeded in narrowing the gulf of transition separating the two phases of consciousness until Mr. Hanna would pass from one to the other while awake. At this stage a most extraordinary development took place. A third per- sonality, which Mr. Hanna belleves to have been his “soul,” gradually estab- lished itseif. In this third state he was conscious of the two others, and for a Igng time the new “soul” strug- gled for mastery, finally absorbing the other states of consciousness. Then the mind and memery of Mr. Hanna returned and his cure is now com- plete. “The agony I suffered when I real- ized my condition,” says the victim of this strange| experience, “was beyond all words to express. I was one of two personalities, but could not make up my mind which one.” French Prayers Futile. The thrilling stories which are com- ing home from the war teil magnifi- cent bravery on both sidesi and ap- parently of deep religious sentiment in either army according to its faith. Much of it sounds strange enough to English ears, particularly the dedica- tions by the Japanese of themselves to strange gods. But it was ever thus in war. Dean Ramsay's famous time- worn story of the two old ladies of his church is applicable to-day. “Was it no' a wonderful thing,” sald one of them, “that the British were aye vie- torious over the French in battle?” “Not a bit,” said the other, “dinna ye ken the Breetish say their prayers be< fore gaen into battle?” “Aye,” re- turned the first, “bWt canna’ the Frenchmen say their prayers as weel?” The reply was characteristie: “Hoot! Jabberin’ bodies, wha could understan’ them ?”"—St. James Gazette. . Answers to Queries. SADDER MAN—S., City. “Sadder and wiser man” is from “The Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor ColerMge, . 1798. The lines are: § A sadder and wiser man He rose the morrow morn. WOMEN—S.,, Napa, Cal. In the State of California women are eligible to hold any educational office. There is nothing in the laws of the State that says that a woman shall not be ap- pointed to a deputyship. COUNTY OFFICES—S8., Napa, Cal In California no person is eligible to be elected to any county office who at the time of election is not of the age of 21, a citizen of the State and an elector of the county in which the duties of the office are to be exercised. FRASER RIVER SALMON—Subd., City. Fraser River is in British Co- lumbia, and the law regulating fishery in that territory says: “No salmon shall be taken in any of the waterg of British Columbia between the 15th of September and the 25th of September of any year, nor from the 3ist day of October to the last day of, the fol- lowing February, inclusive.” 3 FEMALE MASONS—J,; . Janesville, - Cal. The Dictionary of Masonry says: “The landmarks of speculative Masonry positively excludes females from any active participation in its mysteries, but there are a few instances in which the otherwise unalterable rule of female exclusion has been made to yield to the peculiar exigencies of the occasion, and some cases are well authenticated caused much pain and annoyance. But | where this ‘Salique law’ has been vio- since then the Times has always been the first of the great organs of the English press to champion the cause of the sovereign against even any sus- picion of criticism. That the Times should pow have come out in this fashion against the King is, to say the least, remarkable.” His Three Selves. Most remarkable psychological phen- omena have been observed in the case of the Rev. Thomas Hanna of Jenkinstown, Pa., who has been un- der treatment in New York after be- ing thrown on his head from him trap. ‘When he regained consciousness after the accident his mind was that of a child with strong receptivity. On | discovering that he could move his limbs in imitation of his medical at- tendant he crowed with joy like a baby and lashed out vigorously, cry- ing with annoyance when his move- ‘ments were restrained. He could not feed himself, get upon his feet or walk, After he had learned |lated from necessity and women have been permitted to receive at least the first degree. Such, however, have been only the excention which have given' confirmation to the/ rule.” In the case of Hon. Lady Aldwerth; not Adolphue, she managed to remove a brick from - the wall of a room where a Masonic lodge, No. 44, of Donerale, Ireland, was in session, and she managed to_learn all about the first and seeond degrees, and when she was discovered she was initiated into those two degrees. She, being a woman of influence and cul- ture, profited by the lessons she learned by stealth, and thereby initiation, and became a good, charitable, second de- gree Mason.- Mrs. Beaton was initiated - into a lodge in Norfolk, England, and Mme. de Examtrallier ‘was initiated - into a loedge in France. ——ae e Townsend's California GI artistic fire-etched boxes. 11;‘;"%&'2 —————— . Special Information supplied’ ::::.— holu.-.‘ and p:lilh :-“t: ifornia strects. Telephons Iu'.’x‘i % ‘