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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY,‘ jUNE 15, 1904. 5 Touching the Duke. Special Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT/ GARDEN, LONDON, June 1—Al-, though the land in the vicinity of | Floors Castle, which the Duke of Rox- | burghe is now transforming into golf | links, forms part of his estate, it has | cost him $30,000 to scquire possession | of it for his own use. Sandy MacPher- =on, one of the Duke's Scotch tenants, held the property in question on a long lease and Sandy was not born north of the Tweed for nothing. When the Duke's agent called upon him with the view to making some equitable ar- rangement for the his lease the canny Scot perceived that the opportunity of a lifetime had come to him and grabbed it. He named an exorbitant figure for the trans of his holding. The agent didghis best thing approx: ure, but ating a reasonable fig- y was obdurate. He had read out the Goelet millions and, furthermore, as a golfer himself, knew that his ten acres constituted the best avai ground for golf links on the ducal estate. Also, that whatever the Duke might be disposed to do in the matter, his American wife would never be satisfied with anything less than bes: He finally told the that he would se the Duke in—well, Jericho, before he would part with his lease for a “baubee” less than the price he had named. This message was con- veyed to the Duke, who, after express- ing some very emphatic and forcible opinions concerning Sandy, yielded at last to his terms. much, for he knows that there is ¥ ty more where it came from, but it was being victimized in such a fash- jon that made him feel sore. As he expressed it, “It is very hard that one | fact, so unpopular has his rule become | cannot get possession of his own prop- erty at a decent price.” The Duke has been an enthusiastic golfer for some years, but has never attained to any high degree of profi- ciency in the game. Not long ago he played with the Laird of Skibo over the latter’s private links, but it proved to be a case of the old man beating the boy, much to Mr. Carnegie’s joy and the Duke's chagrin. It was after this the Duke decided that he would have golf links of his own and model them after those at Skibo. Meanwhile he is taking lessons from a professional at Berwick. When the links at Floors Castle are ready he will take lessons there from the celebrated Ben Sayer, who has coached some of the most dis- tinguished amateur golfers in the coun- try, including Mr. Balfour, the Prime Minister. The Night March. A. G. Hales, the war correspondent for the London Daily News, sends from Toklo to his paper a piece of vivid - descriptive writing which is by far the best that has come to print during the present war. It follows: “It was about 8 of the clock when the great sight began. The night had come on with sudden darkness, not a etar lit the black mantle that over- hung the world, there was no moon and the shadows cast by the dwellings in the unlit streets were scarce darker than the surrounding void. A mag- netic calm had Yallen upon the capital as if the people were gathering them- selves together for one great patriotic effort. Suddenly the scene was changed. The tramp of armed men rang out upon the night. Short, sharp words of command, spoken, strangely enough, in the English tongue, cut through the clank of falling footsteps, and then we knew that the Imperial Guard was on its way to the forefront of the war. Then the people poured out of their homes as a river, in the full of its flood, pours over its banks. They came in rivulets; they came in torrents; and from every throat went up a shout of pride, a wild, shrill cry of welcome and farewell, and through the ever varying cadences of the hu- man voices came the reverberating tramp of warriors’ feet, and still the shadows lay upon the land. “It was weird, that march in the night, with the swelling cheers waking the echoes, the clank of arms, e shuffling footfalls of the populace, and ever and anon a bugle’s note. Then once again the scene was changed, ten thousand lanterns flashed into view, lanterns carried on bamboos by men and lads and boys. Lanterns of every size and shape; lanterns pure white or blood red, lanterns green and gold. Lanterns round, square and oblong— all carried high in the air above the heads of the marching men, and as the troops passed on each doorway opened wide, and every doorway sent a man or boy, armed with a blazing circle of flame, to swell the throng, until the very air danced with a blaze of beauty. Banners held aloft in women's hands sparkled in the gor- geous gleaming folds of light, until the gager's eve was dazzled by the rainbow hues that had sprung into be- ing from the very womb of night. It was a sight to be when the head grows gray, a sight that none who saw it will forget, a sight no man could merely imagine or imagination invent. Far up above the blackness Jay unbroken, below the earth was wrapped in shadows, while in the earth and sky a blaze of brilliance e s | relinquishment of | to beat him down to some- | agent | carried proudly by men called forth to battle for a nation’s honor. “The lights gleam ruddily on bold, unflinching eyes and faces fixed in the stern lines which duty carves and hon- or glorifies; and as my eyes ranged over that glittering mass, made up of men and women, and warm, strong colored things, nothing looked to me so grand, so strong, so noble, as the proud, calm faces of the Imperial Guard fixed like flint. “Now the dense mass grows denser. From every alleyway and lane, from every street and high road, the peopie poured with lanterns held aloft, a dozen feet above their heads, Then some one broke into song. A swift rush of voices followed, as wave follows wave upon the coast. Women and children sang, men danced and tossed their lanterns high, boys clapped their hands and sent shrill treble sounds far out into the night. And yet above it all, above the babel. of sound,, above the cheering and the song, came the stern, strong tread of the men who were marching to victory or death. “They swing along with the meas- ured stride of men who knew what marching meant, each man wrapped in his heavy jet-black overcoat, his knap- sack on his back, his bayonet by his side, his rifle on his shoulder, the yel- low facings showing on each front. Steadily they moved amid that storm- ing, swaying, fire-girt muititude until they reached the railway station. Then, as if each soldier were part and parcel of a machine, they passed along the platform into their places. There was no hurry, no confusion, no shout- | ing, no sterming, just a low evord of command at intervals, and prompt, | unquestioning obedience, and every | seat was filled by the man appointed to fill it; and in a moment, without a | hitch or a blunder, the troops that were | the pride of the capital flashed out | into the night to cross steel with the gray-clad men from the far-off North, while the women were left behind to weep and to work, to watch and to wait, as women must when war is loose | in the land.” { ‘A Disgusted Ruler. The administration by Prince George | of Greece of the island of Crete as governor general, nominally subject to the Sultan, but in reality the appointee of the great powers, and which was inaugurated under the most auspicious | circumstances five years ago, with It was not the fork- | every prospect of success, has resulted | ing out of the money that he minded %0 | in a dismal failure, and it is probable | | that ere long there will be another | insurrection on the part of the ’nallve!. this time not against the Sultan, but against Prince George. In | with the Christians, as well as with | the Turks, that a short time ago the | Mayor of Canea, which is the me- tropolis of the island, and Professor Jannaris, formerly professor of Greek of the University of St. Andrew’s, in Scotland, and one of the leaders and certainly the most respected of the Christian residents of the island, were thrown into prison by Prince George for having addressed a petition to the Greek Government entreating that Prince George's brother, Nicholas, who is married to the Grand Duchess Helen of Russla, might take his place as governor general of the island. When Prince George heard of this he was furious and caused the Mayor and the professor to be arrested and has prisonment each for no other offense than for sending this petition to Athens. The fact of the matter is that Prince George, who is heartily sick of his en- forced residence on the island, which- he regards as an exile, and where he professes to be bored to death, is com- pletely under "the influence of his Athenian secretary, M. Papadiamanto- poulos, a brother of King George’s fa- vorite A. D. C. This man with the phenomenally long name practically controls the entire Cretan government without any regard %o the much vaunted and elaborately organized council of the Prince, developing in this fashion a rule far more autocratic than that of any Turkish governor general who ever directed the des- tinies of the island in the name of the Sultan. Art and Matrimony. An interesting story is told by the London correspondent for the New Yerk Herald. Recently a sale was had of the art collection of the late C. H. T. Hawkins. The Herald correspond- ent, referring to Mr. Hawkins, says: “Though a great art connoisseur, he had no idea of the effective arrangement of his treasures. In fact, they were distributed about his house in the most haphazard fashion. Priceless antiques were to be found in odd ocrners, while masterpieces of painting stood stacked on the floor or with their faces to the wall. This disorder gave rise, some years ago, to a curious incident. In his domestic menage there came a time when the overflow of the treasures prompted Mr. Hawkins to suggest to his wife that she should stay one night at a hotel in order to avoid the in- convenient want of space which a new consignment, arriving that day, had caused. She acted upon the sugges- tion, nor did she leave the hotel fo the following sixteen years.” Like Ants., The German geographical paper known as “Export” says that there i are 7,642,650 Chinese living out of China —or, in other words, “as many as the total population of Sweden and Nor- way.” According to Export's figures, America has comparatively few Chi- nese, only 272,829, a few less than the British island of Hongkong alone boasts. Formosa has 2,600,000, but that used to be Chinese, and they simply haven't moved. Siam is the “greatest goal of actual immigration, having 2,500,000 Chinese, who have absorbed pretty much all the active trade of the country. In the Malay Peninsula, also, 895,000 Chinese have nearly mo- nopolized trade under British rule. The Sunda Isles have 600,000. - The Philippines, where the Chinese are al- ready a problem, have only 80,000 of had them sentenced to two years' im- | TTHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor » . . « . - . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager v+ sssscsssssssscen.....Third and Market Streets, S. F. cessiesssss. . JUNE 15, 1904 THE MONEY STANDARD. | i HE reported mining combination to be made by | i TMr. Rockefeller takes on much interest in view of the financial legislation of the world. Charles A. Conant, who was the secretary of the Monetary Com- mission appointed by the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Convention, has just issued a monograph on the “Evolution of the Gold Standard” which is of historic value. The Monetary Convention of 1867, called by France, in which nineteen nations were represented, declared for the gold standard with only the dissenting vote of Holland. The delegate of that kingdom explained that he differed only on the issue of the time which each na- tion should judge to be necessary for effecting the change. The evolution of the standard was on the line of natural selection.. Cattle were once the standard of value, and from the word “pecus,” cattle, we get “pecu- lium,” the Latin term for private property, “peculate” to steal such property, and “pecunia”smoney, and its Eng- lish forms, “pecunius,” full of money, and “impecunius,” without money. From its Spanish form, “pecos,” we get the name of the Texas river and valley, where cattle ranged. | The next step was the adoption of iron as the stand- ard, and that was followed by copper, the money of Rome. Hence, we have “aestimara,” “to value,” from “as,” the yord for copper, preserved in our English form “estimate.” The extension of Roman conquests brought in. silver, which succeeded copper and was long the standard. That period is preseryed in the French word “argent,” silver, one of the terms for money. Gold followed silver, and has long been the actual standard of value by natural selection. There is no evidence that control of production of cither of these standards has ever affected its quantity Money is of value to its owner only in exchange, and that exchange puts it within reach and in the pos- sible possession of any who have anything to exchange | for it. The standard will never go backward. A prop- osition to reverse the order and go back from “oro” to “argent,” “as” and “ferrum” to “pecus” again, would find no advocates in the commercial woxld. The discussion is likely to be renewed again, for the report of Rockefeller's intentions will no doubt cause the unsound money advocates to raise the wraith of a gold corner to support a contention for the overthrow of the establighed standard. Such a course will natur- ally fall in line with the use made by the same people of the industrial combinations to assault a protective { teriff. The elements are present in the economic situa- | tion to renew the assault of 1890 on the tariff and the | stundard of value. If that be done it will require the greatest firmness and intelligence and the most enlight- ened use of reason to prevent some form of panic dur- 11 § the campaign. | All expert observers foresaw that the great expansion ! of trade that began in 1897 would be followed by a re- action. That reaction is in progress now. Let alone, it is natural and wholesome. But if jackdawed about in poli- | tics and croaked about on the stump and in platforms, it may be quickened into a panic. If the Democratic party have at heart the best interests of the country, its National Convention should frankly indorse the gold standard legislation of 18go. It had leaders in the past who were cadpable of this. That party got off on the wrong foot in the Civil War.. It lost the confidence of the country thereby. It continued in opposition to measures, military and civil, for the restoration of the Union, and promised to be an irreconcilable force, like the English non-jurors who refused to accept the action of the convention of 1688 in giving the crown to William 1L The man most responsible for this attitude of the Democracy was Vallandigham of Ohie. He was a for- | cible character. His ancestors had bled on the Belgian | plains in the battle of the Golden Spur. He was the victim of military banishment during the war, escaped over the lines and made a dramatic appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1864, and wrote the peace-at-any-price platform on which McClellan was nominated. He seemed the least likely of any man to accept what others saw to be inevitable. Yet he lived to write the Dayton platform, without re- serve accepting the whole results of the war, the re- | stored Union, the abolition of slavery and all. His position in the party is now held by Mr. Bryan. | If that gentleman would move in the St. Louis conven- | tion to accept the gold standard, declare for its neces- | sary collateral, the flexible banking system and expan- sion of currency to meet the fluctuating necessities of credit and abandon his past theories, he would relieve the Republican party of the burden of sustaining alone the public and private credit of the country, and would clear the field for discussion of other subjects in the year’s campaign. Will he do it? or use. The situation in the Far Eastern war has resolved itself apparently into a puzzle or one of those diverting searches for a missing personality. The world and the Japanese are asking, “Where is Kuropatkin, the re- doubtable chieftain of the Czar's fighters?” He is as elusive as a will-o’-the-wisp and as harmless as the angel of peace. IMPROVING SHASTA ' COUNTY. HE Board of Supervisors of Shasta County nd Tthe Merchants’ Club of Redding are working to- gether on a plan of some considerable extent, hav- ing in view the improvement of Shasta County on a large scale. Streams that run through the county, in- cluding the Sacramento River, the Pitt River, the Old Cow Creek and Clear Creek, need new bridges, and it is proposed to supply these. Shasta County is moun- tainous and requires good roads available, with the mini- mum amount of interruption, the entire year. Equally are the roads engaging the attention of the Supervis- ors and the Merchants’ Club. It has been the proud boast of Redding that it is the third interior shipping point in California in vol- ume of shipping business moved, being a supply point for the plant of the Mountain Copper, Company at Kes- wick, for the mines of Trinity County. for Bully Hill, Kennett and other mining camps. It has grown, in a comparatively few years, from a small community to a city of leading importance in Northern California. This is largely to be attributed to the back country that is tributary to it. r Redding has contributed to the prosperity of Shasta County and the county has been instrumental in the growth of its local business center. From Redding a system of roads radiates, along which, any summer day —and on- winter days when any road in the country is - passable—there may be seen a multitude of vehicles, piloted by skillful teamsters, en route with freight of all kinds. Towns and hamlets many miles distant await the arrival of the teamsters and the wares that are in their charge. Prompt and certain communication de- pends on keeping up the condition of the country roads and the safety of bridges that span large streams. The people of at least two counties—Shasta and Trinity— are directly interested in having the facilities for travel as good as they can be made. In addition to the bridge and road programme the Shasta County people are also concerned in providing themselves with a hall of reéords, to stand in Redding. Every Grand Jury in Shasta County has recommended, during a series of years, that such a building ‘be pro- vided. A bond issue is now proposed to raise the necessary money for the several improvements that are recommended. The Redding Free Press says that the prospect is good for putting Shasta County “on a foot- ing with other prosperous and progressive counties of California.” A Santa Cruz man was sentenced to Ed year’s imprison- ment in San Quentin rccently for stealing a mattress. In these days when the necessaries of life are compara- tively easy to acquire by anybody with a will this seems to be rather a stiff price to pay for a bed. A OUR QUARANTINE OFFICE. LEXANDER CRAW, the horticultural quar- antine officer at this port, is in demand in Ha- waii, where the planters want him to stop the in- sect ravages upon the cane plantations. He is offered a five-year contract at $5000 per annum. Here his pay is $2400 per year, with no certainty of tenure, as political changes may at any time retire him from a post'in which it is stated that he has saved millions to the fruit- growers of California. Our people must revise their ideas of the compensation of the entomologists and vegetable pathologists who stand guard over the in- terests of agriculture and horticulture in this country. Some of our foreign critics have said recently that while we have great activity of intellect we lack pro- fundity, and are not producing the deep students in science that are the founders of things and the pro- moters of the real material progress of the world. Per- haps that is because such students must consider where- with they shall be fed and wherewithal they shall be clothed. In the two lines of vegetable pathology and entomology. the student must depend upon public em- ployment, wherein his income is less than that of a hodcarrier or stonecutter. But the fact that it is pub- lic employment causes its private beneficiaries to dis- miss all sense of obligation fo increase the reward to a figure commensurate with the vast importance of the service rendered. Japan took our best vegetable pathologist away from us on a long contract at five times the pay given him here in government employ, and now our best entomol- ogist is to be lured from us by a salary more than double what we pay him. Even scientific men must pay some prudent attention to their material interests. They may be sure that when they die we will bury them with gratifying ceremony and high ascription, and perhaps erect to them a monument of perishable stone. That is good as far as it goes, but it is nothing to the opportunity to live decently, care for a family, and be delivered from the daily torment of scheming to make one dollar do the work of two dollars. Mr. Craw should not leave his post here. The hor- ticulturists should see to it that he does not. In the certainty of his tenure and the sum of his compensa- tion, there should be encouragement for others to pre- pare to take his place, when he must give it up. One mistake in the quarantine office, one day’s neglect of duty, may land here some pest that will destroy the fruit industry and all the canning and drying interests that depend upon it, and work injury to the transporta- tion interests to which it supplies tonnage. The inter- ests at stake are too great to take any risk. Another “lifelong friend of Lincoln” has just died, being the second in a week or so. What a boy Abe was for making chums, and how they have lasted since his birth, a century ago lacking five years! > B dents and casualties at sea we all get in the habit of thinking that they constitute a great majority of the injuries suffered by people whose names figure in the anndal chapter of accidents. It happens that the very general use of accident insurance furnishes the means of getting accurate statjstics that reveal the cause of accidents. The president of one of the largest acci- dent insurance companie$ has given the statistics. By these it appears that only 4 per cent of the accidents oc- cur on railroads and less than 1 per cent on steamships, while nearly 25 per cent of accidents occur to pedes- trians, nearly 19 per cent indoors and at home and near- 1y 16 per cent at home outdoors. These latter classes of accidents do not reach great publicity and are not taken into account by the readers of newspapers. From these statistics it appears that traveling on foot is more than six times as dangerous as going by railroad and about twenty-five times more dangerous that traveling on steamships. A man is more than four times safer on a train than in his own house. The bicycle accidents are about the same percentage as those on railroad trains, and streetcar travel is nearly as danger- ous as that on steam trains. The accidents by horses and vehicles are nearly 19 per cent, or more than four times in excess of those by rail. The natural horse is more dangerous than the iron horse though there is not as much said about it. 7 It would appear from the figures that if a2 man want to be real safe and come out sound he should live on a railroad train in preference to staying at home, either in doors or out. Walking is the most dangerous of all means of getting around. There are people who will not start on a railroad journey on Friday. So they go on foot and suffer for it. Among the minor causes fire- arms and bites of animals are about the same, a fraction over 1 per cent. Yet we would say, offhand, that gun- powder causes a much larger number of accidents than any bites. The subject, from the standpoint of the accident insur- ance companies, is very interesting to the public. The fact that rail and steamship travel cause such 2 small percentage of accidents will be reassuring to the timid people who make a will before they buy a railroad ticket or go down to the sea in ships. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. ECAUSE of the publicity given to railroad acci- .wuz de scrap about, anyhow?"” TALK OF THE Gratuitous Assistance. “No, nor you ain’t man enough to put me off; neither.” The truculent individual on the end seat of the car hoisted his shoulders and squared off at the conductor. The man in the uniform pulled the bell rope for the motorman and began to reach under his seat for the switch bar when the truculent individual sprang upon his back and began to rain blows upon him. Just as the mo- torman started back to assist his fel. low operator somebody started the car going from the front and he had to race back to control it. It began to look bad for the conductor. Just then a man who had been lounging on the opposite seat, appar- ently asleep roused himself. He stood up, stretched his arms with a slight vawn and then reached over and, grabbing the conductor’s antagonist by the scruff of the neck, ha lifted him off the car. The unknown champion followed after swiftly, dellvering a strong right hook on the jaw of his victim as he reached the ground. Then he proceeded to “wade into him.” Be- fore a half minute was up the trucu- lent individual looked like a sea bis- cuit out of a shipwreck. 1 The conductor rang the bell as the signal for his ally to get on the car. That powerful individual reluctantly | left his task with a final short jab to the ribs and swung himself to the car rail. “I'm much ebliged—" conductor. “Aw, say, dat's a’ right. began the But wat Craziettes. A callow youth with city ways Came to a beelet's hive; He poked his finger in to find If beelets were alive. They were! \A masher made eyes at a maid, Then wondered if the other Husky coming toward him was The pretty maiden’s brother. It was! A small boy found a rusty gun— The kind that isn’t loaded— He pulled the trigger just to It couldn't be exploded. v It could! prove A farmer had a_stubborn mule Away down South in Macon; He thought that if he'd twist its tail The mule perhaps would waken. It aid! A lovely girl; a crowd of men; A street where mud was splashin’; he hoped the men would never know Her hose was in the fashion. They knew! G. H. R. Perdicaris and Tangier. The capture of Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley by the brigand, Rais- souli, is a matter of more than ordin- ary and personal concern. Tangiler is within five days’ journey from London. It possesses so many natural and cli- matic advantages that its popularity as a health resort was likely to in- crease more and more. Under the lead- ership of Ion Perdicaris the European residents had constituted themselves into a sort of borough, elected a mu- nicipality and duly procceded to im- pose taxes on each other. They used the money thus collected to build some sewers, to pave some streets and, in fact, to introduce sanitary improve- ments which rendered the place more habitable. Therefore, more. visitors came, land increased in value and so many new and European houses were built that, had this continued, the pic- turesque character of the place would soon have been destroyed. Then peo- ple would cease to go to Tangier and all this building would have proved useless and a dead loss. But the Moors rebelled. They did not, perhaps, great- 1y object to the improvements made at Tangier, particularly as, for the mo- ment, it brought in a golden harvest, Even with th of the mos gigantic animal in the world is far from being without danger. Talk of big game shooting! What yarn ca the most experienced shikari spin equal to one communicated by Thomas Southwell to the ecurrent quarterly number of “The Annals of Scottish Natural History": “A blue whale, har- pooned by a Newfoundland whaler in Placentia Bay in March, 1903, not be- ing sifuck in a vital part, towed the steam whaler Puma a distance of 122 miles, the screw being reversed at full speed the whole time, and not until twenty-six hours had elapsed was it exhausted and killed."—New York Tribune. qual, or blue whale. armament the pursuit Gutta Percha Scarce. The last source of gutta percha de- veloped is that in the Philippine Is- lands, but here the regions which pro- duce this material for the market are confined to the islands of Mindanao and Tawi-Tawi. The method of har- vesting used as present by the natives consists in cutting down the large trees, ringing the trunk, lopping off the larger branches, and then catching the milk as it flows out. This is very wasteful, as but a small part of the milk is .secured. Fortunately, how- ever, this process pays only with large trees, so that the smaller ones are not destroyed. This method of harvesting has been prohibited and rules provide for tapping the trees, but these have never been enforced. At the present time the gutta percha trees have dis- appeared from the coast regions and are along the large rivers. The various governments with tropi- cal possessions in the East are study- ing the gutta percha and rubber situa- tion, with a view of determining proper methods of propagation and harvest- ing.—Electrical Review. Kit Carson's Rifle. It is perhaps not known to all the world that the rifle of Kit Carson, the great Western hunter, scout and ex- plorer, is carefully preserved and may be seen by those who know its where- abouts. At the time of Kit Carson's death he left his rifie to Montezuma Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in whose charge it has remained ever since, an object of great interest and very highly prized by all members of that society. Montezuma Lodge is one of the oldest organiza- tions of that nature west of the Mis- souri River. It was organized so long ago as 1849, at which time the ancient town of Santa Fe was just beginning to take in'part the color of the west- ern-bound Anglo-Saxon civilization. Fremont's first trip to the Rocky Mountains was made in 1842. There were few white men in all that part of the West at the time of the founding of Montezuma Lodge, but Kit Carson was one of these early members. To his brothers of the society he left what may have been one of his most cherish- ed possessions.—Fleld and Stream. but they could not tolerate BEuropean ideas at the court of their own Sultan and in the interior of the country. Little by little the Sultan has lost his authority and the cduntry thas fallen into a state of anarchy. It is not probable that even Rais- souli and his wild men would willingly do Perdicaris or Varley any bodily injury, but Perdicaris is not in good health and at his age the rough ex- istence he will be forced to lead may produce evil results. Perdicaris all his life has been devoted to good deeds. No one could be more popular among the Moslem Moors, whom he has de- fended over and over again from the extortion of Jew and Christian usur- ers, acting under the cover of the pro- tege system. It will go hard with Raissouli and his tribe if they injure him. To the European Perdicaris has Answers to Queries. TYPE METAL—A. 8, City. Type metal is composed of lead, antimony and copper, about half and hailf of the first two named and a very small quantity of the latter. The composi- tion of type metal varies, however. It is sometimes made of lead and anti- mony alone, and the proportions are different for large and small type— the small type containing a large amount of antimony to make it harder. THE NAKED BEAR—S., City. “Hush! the naked bear will get thee.,” which appears in Longfellow's “Hia~ watha,” refers to a threat to children. According to an old Indian legend, the naked bear was larger and more fero- cious than any of its specles. It was also been a constant friend and the leader in all practical useful works. It was Mrs. Perdicaris who organized the soup kitchens when there was dan- ger of cholera, so that the want of food should not prepare the way for the outbreak of the disease. In all public works that have contributed to render Tangier clean and healthy, Per- dicaris was the principal initiator and donor. The cause of public health had in him its first and most useful cham- pion, while in regard to the cruel abuses practiced under the protege system he has been Instrumental in bringing about reform. Shooting Whales. Two whaling stations have been quite naked, save and except one spot on its back, where there was a tuft of white hair. It was common to say that the naked bear came around t take away unruly children, for th purpose of producing the same effec’ on children as saying, “Look out, here comes the bogie m: IN CASE OF WAR—R. C., San Jos®, Cal. In case of war a foreign coun can draft its absentees who owe mill tary service who have located in the United States and have become citizens thereof, but it cannot come to this country and take the subjects to forc them into the army. If, however, such as have not performed military duty in the country where they owe such duty should return there, they are liable to established in the British Isles, and | be impressed in the military service de- three more are to be. station costs $40,000, there must be As a whaling | spite the fact that they have becom= citizens of the United States. This some evidence of a stock of whales | Government does not Interfere with the still in British waters. It seems only a question of time, however, and no] very long time either, when these mighty and harmless mammals shall disappear altogether. Their “path is in the great deep,” and they managed | ‘to hold their own against the old class of whaleships and harpoons thrown by hand, but it must go hard with them before the modern fast whaling steamer, armed with swivel guns for the discharge of harpoons. It is only since the invention in 1866 of Foyn's destructive bomb harpoon, an explo- sive projectile which bursts within the carcass of the animal, that the Nor- wegian whalers have dared to attack the formidable blaahval, Sibbald's ror- Special ness houses and public men by tho s Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 Cal phone Main 1043, keeping or enforcement of an obliga- tion which was in force before aliens became citizens. —_—e——————— “See Were, my poor man,” said Mrs. Kindart, “I'd give you a nickel if I wasn’t afraid you'd get drunk on it.” “Yer needn't be afraid, lady,” re- plied Weary Willie, “I never expect to have no such luck as dat.”—Phila- delphia Press. & L ——————————— Townsend's California Glace fruits i artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st* —_———————— information supplied dally > e ifornia street. Tele | -