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i | ! o | | ; i | | { 11 | -~ Ll i 3 | Whom the King Homors. | B! { Epecial Correspondence | 7 THE CALL, | COVENT In Eng- cles, especially, much | interest has been aroused by the pres- | here of Professor Arminius Vam- | mous Eastern explorer and | the ity { of Great Britain. But now, reading the | Turkish, Arabian apd Persian news- | papers as 1 do, I see that the Orientals | are becoming disillusioned, and that re- spect for England .increases as Rus- sia’s glory wanes.” The London Book 1Vorld. | Special Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, May 30.—Hun- garian opinion to the contrary not- withstanding, it is impossible to com- pare the genius of the late Marcus Jokai with that of Alexander Dumas. but in almost every other respect the famous Magyar novelist was the coun- terpart of the great Frenchman. In actual fertility Jokai surpassed “The Three Musketeers'” author, for even with the assistance of his faithful corps of literary hacks, Dumas never equaled the Hungarian's tale of 200 romances and 350 collecjions of poet- ical works, not to mention several It is probable, in fact, that this a world’s record. Like Dumas, Jo- kal had lived a Jife full of adventure —and one that included a lot of ac- tual fighting-—before he turned to ro- mance writing as a trade. Bluff good humor was one of the most striking pl THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « « « « « o + « « + Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager TUESDAY S ——— .JUNE 14, 1904 . ROCKEFELLER'S LATEST. - HE latest report about John D. Rockefeller T charges him with a design to merge the mines of [ America and perhaps of the world in one combina- tion, headquarters under his hat. These mining combi- nations have heretofore been managed by the Roths- childs, who are supposed to control the world’s produc- tion of quicksilver and copper. I an American has risen who can see the Rothschild hand and go one better, it is a matter of interest to financiers. As a matter of fact great mining combinations are not new in this country. The Haggin and Hearst in- terests were equal in holdings to the Standard Oil be- fore it invaded Europe. Senator Clark has a genius for such combinations, and his interests run from Mon- tana'to Mexico. It is not plain that he and Heinze and Senator Kearns and the Haggin interests will gain by going into the larger Rockefeller combination, as it is reported they intend doing. The silver mines of this country and Mexico are al- ready practically controlled by the Guggenheims, who are believed to have been responsible for the advance in the price of silver which began last year. A mining differs from one made in manufactures. The history of gold discoveries in Colorado and Utah and in Alaska proves that no one can estimate the fu- ture of that leader of the precious metals. As gold in the ground is potential money of practically unchange- able value, the next prospector may make a find that combination qualities of both men's work and Jo- | (] be entirely independent of Rockefeller and Roths- kai resembled Dumas in writing al- most entirely on impulse—seldom knowing in advance what ffas going to happen to his characters. Both romancers were also dramatis both editors at one time or another. Dumas, again, Jokai died prs a poor man simply as the r-is of open handedness to all and sandry who applied to him. The waifs and strays that perpetually were quartered upon him in his house at Budapest were exactly the sort of parasites that Dumas maintained at his chateau of Monte Cristo long after cence absurd. . his reduced | earning capacity made such munifi-| ..o kinds the principles by which the Standard Oil child combined. It is perhaps easy to control an independent manufac- turer and compel him to enter a rival combine or go out of business, but-this is impossible in mining. When a Mexican peon can find a mine, as Pedro Alvarado did, and in a year acquire such wealth that he can afford to offer to pay the national debt of Mexico, the difference between mining and manufactures in the power of com- bination over them is made apparent. The recent reve- lations in copper in Alaska prove that even that metal ! cannot long remain in the control of any combination. Again, it is hardly possible to apply to mining of its LIS / / \ \‘| W2 Stanley J. Weyman must feel de- | Company has made its profit, which has been won by economizing in methods and cheapening the product to cidedly gratified over the practical the consumer. Gold cannot be cheapened, from the Ineany which the oty of Qurews hhs present outlooke It is not a perishable property like just taken of expressing its satisfa : Y d f tion with his story, “The Long Night.” | 0il that must be consume in ‘ofder to earn a profit to Geneva is, of course, the scene of the | its producer. While some is lost and:wasted, or put latest Weyman romance and the au-| where it is not a part of the actual currency of the ardly could have had any more convincing testimonial to the faithfu leading citizens of the Swiss city are bout to send him. “The Long -+ | - over to this | [ | ntalis? w ;. and who was received in audi- e this week by the King. The pro- or, who is over seventy-two, is here to arrange for the publication, in Eng- | lish, of his autobiography. the prepara- | tion « hi nished only a short | time He always has been a bril- liant writer and his unique experiences | and intimacy with all sorts of distin- guish Ik must have supplied him with material for a really fascinating | The professor possesses 2 marvelous knowledge of Oriental tongues. Alded by this and disguised as a native in most instances he was able to study eimost unknown Eastern countries with greater accuracy. One of the principal results of his travels through Central Asia was to make him a Russophobe and an Anglo- phile, for he maintains that the Rus- sians are the worst civilizers of -bar- barous and semi-barbarous nations, while Anglo ons are the best. Pro- fessor Vambery regards the possession of India by the Britich as a blessing for the mative population and for hu- manity, and on the other hand he would regard the capture of India by Russia as a misfortune for the natives and for humanity. He has never ceased to warn England and the world of Russia's dark designs in Asia, which he has done as much as any one to cir- cumvent. Professor Vambery is a personal friend of the Sultan Abdul Hamid, and he regards Turkey's ruler as a much maligned monarch who is unjustly held responsible for the misdeeds committed by his ministers and courtiers. Vam- bery has written much in defense of the Suitan in this sense. Long after he became a persona gratissima at the English court, Vambery was excluded from high society in Budapest, where he resides, so that when the present King of England, then Prince of Wales, paid a visit to Budapest, he was greatly surprised not to meet the professor at several of the dinners given in his honor by members of the Hungarian nobility. The Prince called on Vambery to ask him why he was not present, and on hearing that Vambery was not in the most exclusive set, he said: “Professor, to-morrow there is a grand ball at Prince Esterhazy’s house, I will pro- cure you an invitation, and you wait for me outside the ballroom.” The | French especially for |in Egypt, is now on his way to this| nines of Sib Night” is now being translated into circulation in | world, still, fixed in position # the arts or wherever it is, it is potential money. ness of his treatment of the famous ; 2 | “Escalade” than the illuminated ad-| It is said that the gold stored in the Vatican in ob- dress and bust of Calvin which the| jects of art and in other forms equals in value the gold coined and used as money by the entire continent of But that Vatican gold is merely stored. It is not consumed nor destroyed, and it is easily think- turope. Switzerland. | able that if the world’s need of gold as money grew et g ! 4 5 2 Williain Dean Howells'is mow at| STONE enough to outweigh the considerations Folkstone, the fashionable English Which keep it stored in other forms, it would be madJ seaside resort, where he intends to spend several weeks, prior to begin- | ning the study of life here, which he expects will keep him in this country | until the end of autumn at least. Rider | Haggard, having completed his tour | country. Henry Sienkiewicz, author of | “Quo Vadis,” who was married for the | third time a few days ago, is spend- | ing his honeymcon at Vienna. George Calderon, who published a diverting book a year or so ago called, “The Adventures of Downy V. Green, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford,” has' writ- ten another, which he calls “Dwala,” and which has a plot of some piquancy. | An American showman, in Borneo in | quest of monkeys, becomes possessed of one that from the first shows signs of unusual intelligence and, soon after- ward, electrifies its owner by begin- ning to talk. This is “Dwala,” who is, in fact, the long-sought missing link. Naturally the showman looks forward to coining money with him, but just as the American is about to leave for London, Dwala escapes. He finds his way to the village of a local tribe, who instantly make him their King. But gold is discovered in the vicinity, Eng- lish folk turn up and Dwala is taken in hand by a British member of Par- lament, who brings him home, pro- vides him with money and eventually launches him in society. Here his suc- cess is immediate and ere long the ape- man goes into Parliament and finally becomes Prime Minister. Not until after his death of eonsumption is the discovery made that he had a tail. K. and Hesketh Prichard’s ingen- fous and exciting stories of the all- ventures of Don Q, the Spanish brigand, which have been a feature of Pearson’s Magazine, are to be intro- duced to the American public presently in book form. The “K” in this literary | combination stands for Kate, the name of Hesketh Prichard’s mother, who has collaborated with him in nearly all that he has wriiten. She went most of the way with him on his recent ex- plorations in darkest Patagonia, and is planning to accompany him on a hunt- ing expedition to Labrador next autumn. Never were mother and son better chums than these two. In ad- dition to all his literary work Prichard is one of the most famous bowiers among the younger generation of cricketers. Red Ink Straight. mobile to respond to that need. Of course there will at onceé arise a fear that such a combination as this engineered by Rockefeller may so control the output of the precious metals as to pinch the nations that use them as currency. But with the a and South Africa in operation and con- stant discoveries in Alaska, it is difficult to see how this could be done. If attempted, it might have the same dis- astrous effect on the combine that the independent out- put of copper forced upon the Sofiete des Meteaux, the first copper trust, in which Mr. Haggin had some quite disagreeable experiences. It is probable, too, that such a policy would run up | against the law. If a railroad merger is in restraint of trade, how much more is it in restraint of trade to at. tempt to limit the output of the~money metals which are the very blood in the arteries of commerce? As the resources of the law have thus far proved adequate to control for the public interest all other forms of combinations, and @s none has been found will- ing, even if able, to long defy both natural and statute law,#the people can afford to wait with patience until Mr. Rockefeller’s plans and* purposes are more fully disclosed, and if they run counter to the public welfare the people and the Jaw will know where to strike him. Servia, it is said, is trembling on the brink of another revolution and King Peter "s suffering all the tortures of anxiety that constituted the dread prelude to the death of King Alexander. As long as the Servians confine the practice of their notions of right and wrong to them- selves the rest of the world can view the situation with complacency and supreme unconcern. We have troubles of our own. F that a Los Angeles man has invented a flea trap. There is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in the exclusive and other circles of the pulex irritans, but joy reigns supreme wherever this frisky and elusive parasite makes life miserable. The authori- ties at Washington evidently consider the product of the Los Angeles inventor a boon to mankind, for they have promptly issued a patent to him, and we may expect, therefore, to hear soon that the trap is in successful operation and that all sufferers from the agile insect which is possessed of a suctorial proboscis are enjoying gratifying relief. It will be interesting to know how this newest of traps is constructed and how it is to be used. Is it large or is it small? If it is large and it is placed in a corner HAIL, THE FLEA TRAP. LEADOM has been startled by the announcement next night the elite of Hungarian soci- ety had assembled to meet the Prince of Wales, and the distinguished com- pany were awaiting his entry into the ballroom, when the doors were thrown “Down in the Indian Territory last week I came across a new phase of the tippling habit,” sald M. B. Arthur of Cincinnati. “It is against the law of the Territory to sell any Intoxicants, and open, and the future King of England appeared with his arm linked®™n Vam.- bery’s. In this way he walked down the ballroom and taking the explorer up to several Hungarian magnates, he asked them, “Don’t you know my very good friend Vambery, who has con- ferred morq honor on Hungary than Hungary has on him?” Vmbervmuolceuhwbyuu upper few hundreds of Hungarian so- clety and thanks to Bdward VII's championship, his right. to associate with them has never again been ques- tioned. Speaking on the subject of the pres- ent war the other day Professor Vam- %M‘-mhm eyes Mohammedan w mmmmmm the expedients resorted to are startling to a man who has been used to free traffic in rum. A druggist at one of the best towns In the Territory told me that his sale of perfumery and red ink has been immense, and that a great part of these liquids were taken as peo- ple ordinarily use beer or whisky. I myself saw a half-breed toss off a glassful of red ink and smack his lips with an air as expressive of satisfac- tion as though it had been a nip of the best rye or bourbon.”—New York Tri- bune. : G o 29 The latest statisticar estimates for the German empire place the popula- tion at 58,549,000 From these figures it appears that the population has in- creased 1.46 per cent in the last year. or in the middle of the room, will it be taken for a mouse trap and lure the small rodent quadruped to its fatal por- tals? Or, if it is small, will man dangle it from his watch chain or wear it under his suspenders? And will lovely woman have it hanging from a string of beads, or, in- stead, conceal it beneath her peek-a-boo shirt waist? And what sort of bait will prove most alluring to the ingended victims? Of course, the trap will have to be baited, otherwise Mr. Flea and Mrs. Flea and all the baby fleas and their sisters and their cousins and their aunts will hop, skip and jump by the trap, giving it but passing notice, continuing without let or hindrance their jolly gymnastics and attendant feasting. Surely cheese cannot be used as bait, for every man would then chun his neighbor as though he were a leper. Nor would sugar do, for the saccharine substance would attract the members of the musca domestica family, ‘commonly called flies. And no man and no woman, nowadays, cares to have any one say, “There are flies on you.” The inventive genius of the southland is to be heard from to enlighten us as to these things, However, we — must sing his praises, for he has done nobly, indeed, in giving to a long-suffering world an article that will have as much terror for the pulex irritans as cyclones have for the Kansans, or Japanese mines and torpedoes have for the MuscoviteS. Before long we shall be hearing this query in streetcars and on street corners: “How is your flea trap working to-day?” At a recent State conference of Democrats in St. Paul the argument submitted was up to that high standard which the opposition has found it expedient always to maintain. Several debaters were sent to a hospital, an incipinent riot was suppressed -and an overcharged at- mosphere for blocks around demonstrated to the most incredulous that the Democracy of Minnesota is health- ful, vigorous and mentally normal. ITH the close of the schools in mid June the W California vacation begins. Russell Sage, who is hale, hearty and acqul')z'tivc at near ninety years, has recently decried vacatighs. He thinks them, bad for a man, unfitting him to do good work when he gets back to his office. On the other side, the late Sen- ator Stanford said it was impossible to do much work without taking much leisure. It is also reported re- cently that B¥kers in the East look with suspicion upon clerks who do not- go out to lunch and avoid taking vacations. It is said that experience in embezzlements and defaults proves that such clerks are usually the ones who rob the bank. We think that Mr. Sage is wrong. Probably he has made it profitable to avoid vacations and put in his time studying games, in which he can outplay the other financiers who are resting by the sea or in the moun- tains. But it will not do to evolve a general rule from his experience. 8 In California nature lures the children of men to a summer rest. This State was planned for vacation time. A few hours’ travel at slight expense will relocate us in the midst of just such a change of scene, surround- ings and altitude as we require. From the hot valleys our people can go to the mountains, where waterfalls tinkle and brooks babble, and bosky dells and the glory of wild flowers make them forget the cares of life and the jostle of the madding crowd, or with equal ease and economy -they can seek the sea coast and sport on the beach, refresh them in the surf or lic in the sand and hear the great voice of the vast ocean, restless itself but preaching rest to those who listen. Wise are the men and women who plan a vacation and take it, not in the contacts of a fashionable resort, but by seeking the mountains or the shore where they cap-<ast off the restraints of convention, wear comfort- able clothes, eat reasonable food, keep natural hours and renew the wholesome experiences of life, which are apt to get overrun in the rush and hurry. If money making were all there is of life, Russell Sage’s idea would be justified. But it is far from.all, and it seldom sweetens existence when made the chief end of man. It is among the minor motives of existence, and when it is not made to serve nobler things, but becomes the master motive, it is little conducive to happiness. VACATION TIME, The suggestion has been made public that there is/a slight probability of Champion Jeffries retiring after his approaching “contest.” The absurdity of the suggestion is apparent in its very utterance. As long as the affairs of the plug-uglies are matters of even incidental interest to the public these worthies will never retire. The coin of the foolish is as valuable to schemers as is the money ) of the wise. T ness in its march through our States and Terri- tories and islands of the sea hgs reached Minne- sota, and as a result the chairman of the Democratic committee is in the hospital with a split lip and a scalp stitched like a baseball cover. The Hearst movement in that State seems to work like a cyclone; and those who get in the way are guilty of contributory negligence. The telegraph flashes the news that when the Hearst banner, inscribed with the ]agem:l, “Purity and Reform,” was( unfolded in that State a pocketbook was unfolded also, and that thereafter it became easy to get the primaries in Minneapolis. In St. Paul, however, the bearers of the banner proposed to let virtue be its own reward, and Mr. Hearst did not get a single delegate. From this we assume that in the Minnesota Democracy virtue does not pay as high wages as other employers, and if she is working as a side partner of Mr Hearst he ought to send a disbursing agent with her on these business trips. Mr. Dan Lawler of Minneapolis, anti-Hearst and good fighter, failed entirely in opposing the great purist and reformer, while over in St. Paul, with only the memory of Pat Kelly to lead, reform and purity of the Hearst brand had not whereon to lay its head. : The Minneapolis gentleman whose disabled coun- tenance is in hospital as the result of a contact with the Hearst banner and barrel is named Bowler, but he evi- dently does not understand the game, for he was bowled out in the first round. 5 . On the general field it appears to a looker-on that interest is declining in both Hearst and Parker. Mr. Hearst’s lavish assistance extended to the needy Democ- racy made him an object of interest until it seemed ap- parent that his disbursers were getting more of the needful than did the needy. Judge Parker, the farmer of Esopus, had some vogue until friendly reporters be- gan to write B{n up. When one deseribed the hair on his hands as ‘bleached a bright Esopus interest began to evaporate. It seems now prob- able that when the man of “soap” and the man of Esopus meet in the convention the loud whinny of a dark horse will be heard in the political timber, and they will both retire from the field. \ HEARST IN MINNESOTA. HE great cause of personal and political righteous- sorrel by the sun of Boston is in an ecstasy of approval of the music cure, that strange fad which is supposed to provide a rem- edy for many ills. Enthusiasts say that any musical in- strument will do the trick, but a violin is preferred. It is very evident that the worthy denizens of the Hub have not heard some of the violinists that have drifted our way. —_— Four million pounds of tobacco were burned at Rich- ‘mond the other day and now it is up to the statistician to tell us how many of our inspiring youth have tem- porarily been saved from early graves and what bless- ings of omission have been showered upon the rest of us by a decrease in the output of the cigarette. TALRK A New Variety. It was in the steamy sickly lounging- room of the Hammam baths along about the third hour of the morning when the last of thé wobbly patrons had been pounded into semi-consciousness and lay stretched in soporific ease along the sofas. One only was noisy and par- ticularly disagreeable. “Yessur, 1 helped Jeffries train, helped Fi-zimm'ns train—help um all train. Been pounded t' a pulp loz a' times. I ain’t 'fraid o' no man ’at walks, I ain’t. Ain't ’'fraid any- thing, 1 ain’t.” His tangled staccato punctuated the snores with dreadful in- sistence. It was evidently billed to run until morning. Over on a lounge in the cornmer a long, lean individual, cowled in his bathrobe like any monk of Chartreuse, grew restive under the interminable drone from the lips of the ex-punching bag. He was probably dreaming of old circus days and did not care to be interrupted. At last he sat up wearily and began in the most matter-of-fact way to make some startling evolutions. First he gently slid both sandaled feet X8 OF THE TOWN i L | utterly, and she became idle and for- sook her loom and needle. y The sun king thought the husband the cause of this and determined | separate the couple. he order. "the husband to remove to the othe side of the river of stars and told hin that hereafter they shovld meet but once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month. The sun king tien called myriads of magpies, which formed a brilige over the floor of stars, over which the lover-husband sorrow- fully crossed the river of heaven. Then the magpies flew away, filling the air with their chatterings. | After this the young wife returned to her loom and worked diligently every day, but every evening the two would go and stand by the banks of the rivér and gaze longingly at each other. Once a year they were allowed to cross the bridge of birds, except if it rained, when the magpies would b2 swept away. But usually the sky was clear on the seventh evening of the seventlt month, and the lovers met with great joy. So in ancient times the people of Japan celebrated this date, hoped for clear weather and wealth and happiness for all, while the girls made a wish that they might be skilled * GOT 'EM__ THIS TIME, [ ISTAKE—WORSE THAN —p around his neck with consummate ease, then he slipped off the couch onto the palms of his hands and, using these foot-like, with his knees around his ears and his head thrust forward from beneath the folds of his bathrobe, he waddled down the floor of the room—a most horrible spectacle. The talkative gentleman was sprawled out in an easy chair, gulping down beef tea. Suddenly there con- fronted him from around the corner of his seat this unearthly apparation, toes waggling, face twisted as if in agony, swaying from side to side upon the unsteady foundation of the two hands on the floor. There was a splutter of beef tea and a gurgling shriek, then from beneath the nearest sofa came the feeble cry, “Boys, the doctor—quick—they've come again. No mistake this time—worse than anything I ever had.” ‘When they had taken him upstairs the long, lean man carefully uncoiled himself and sought his couch with the air of one who was again fancy free and at peace with the world. School for Scrubwomen. - A new phase in skilled domestic ser- vice is the English Association of Trained Charwomen, a self-supporting body managed by the Woman’s Indus- trial Council. Through advertisements ‘women who are considering the timely question of spring housecleaning are informed that the association will fur- nish for a small fee competent, honest and clean charwomen, thoroughly trained in all such work. The appli- cants for membership in the training school are chiefly widows with children to support. They are required to pro- duce two good references, one of which must be from some Institution or re- sponsible person known to the secretary of the council. If the references are perfectly satisfactory the candidates are put through a course of training in some large house under a certified teacher of domestic economy. This course includes instruction in all kinds of housecleaning, and also in rough ‘washing. As those who know the aver- age charwoman will readily imagine, it serves the purpose not only of instruc- in needlework. This is the legend of the Tth of July, when the herdboy star and the spin- ning maiden star cross the Milky Way to meet each other. The Traveling Habit. The entirely new feature which t interurban roads have introduced into the traffic situation is the promotion of what may be called the traveling habit. There are citizens of New Eng- land to-day who can remember when prayers were offered in the churches for the hardy traveler of Boston who proposed to undertake a trip to New York. Steam communication has les- sened tenfold the minimum amount of urgency which would induce a trip of a hundred miles, but it has remained for the electric road to keep people con- stantly traveling short distances, im- pelled by motives which would not have been sufficient to start them even five years ago. A twenty-mile journey on a steam rallrodd requires as much preparation as a 200-mile journey, but the interurban car, leisurely traversing the streets of the town to collect its passengers at frequent intervals is such a convenient, lazy way of getting around that it seems not to require much in the way of plans or of pack- ing. To choose between the morning train at 8:13 and the afternoon train at 3:57 required decision, to cat the train required forethought; while now- adays if at 10 a. m. it seems casually Ladvisable to go to Jonesport, all that is necessary is to wait for the hourly in- terurban car to pass the door.—Ray Morris, in the June Atlantic. “Answers to Queries. FROST—Subscriber, City. The rec- ord for twenty-two years preceding 1903 shows that the earliest frost in Chicago, Ill., was September 1. SHAFTER'S RETIREMENT—A. Ci General William R. Shafter, S. Ay;‘was, by operation of law, placed on the retired list June 30, 1901. DANIEL WEBSTER — Subscriber, City. Daniel Webster never was a Cabinet officer but once. That was in 1850, when he was appointed Secre- tary of State by President Fillmore. MINING BUREAU—S. W., Oakdale, Cal. The California Mining Bureau in the ferry buildifig, San Francisco, is open daily from 9 o’clock in the morn- ing to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, ex- cept Sundays and holldays. PRIZE MONEY—H. T, City. Any one who believes that he is entitled to prize money for having fought with Dewey at Manila Bay should make ap- plication to the Congressman of the district in which he lives, who will ad- vise him in the matter. VANDERBILTS—A. O. S, City. The Vanderbilts of New York are de- scendants of Commeodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was born on Staten Island, N. Y., 1794. He married So- phia Johnson in 1813 and his second marriage was to Frances Crawford, in 1869. He died in 1877. tion, but also of a test. The cost of the| PIGEON'S FEATHERS—Subscriber, course is $2 60, which is paid either by | City., There is a superstition that no the woman herself or by the person or | person can die on a bed or pillow con- institution recommending her. Those | taining pigeon’s feathers. In “British who come through the course success- | Apollo” appears the following: “If any fully are registered by the secretary, | pody be sick and be a-dying, if such lie who secures positions for them. 4 Japanese Legend. Have you ever read in the “Stories From the Wonderlore of Japan” about “the meeting of the lovers' The leg- end runs thus: On the banks of the silver river of heaven (which we call the Milky Way) there lived a beauti- ful maiden, who was the daughter of. the sun. Her name was Shokujo, and she was so serious and so busy that all called her the “weaving or spinning princess.” At last the sun king thought to®marry his daughter to a young man who kept a herd of cows on the banks of the celestial stream, but no sooner was she married than her character seemed to change upon pigeon feathers such will be lan- guishing and never die, but be i pain and torment.” FOREIGN LANGUAGE—Constant Reader, Oakdale, Cal. 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