The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1904, Page 8

———— Ah Loy's Atonement. out the middle of January, 1876, the Pacific Mail Company’'s steamship China sailed from Hongkong for San Francisco with several saloon passen- gers and a large number of Chinese in the steerage. Like other ships of sim- fiar construction, the China was pro- pelled by & huge wheel on either side | revolving between two wide beams, the whole being inclosed in the usual semi- circular paddie or wheelhouse. Cold, wet and disagreeable weather, with strong head winds and seas, was encountered soon after ieaving Yoko- hama, but the voyage was entirely without Incident until the fourth night, when we were all aroused by the night watchman's tragic cry of “Man over- board.” As soon as a slight temporary confusion had subsided, we that & watchman who had just fin- tshed his midnight inspection and was on his way to report to the deck offi- cer had been knocked down by a Chi- nese passenger, who, rushing furiously pest him to the lee or starboard bow, plunged into the sea The officer on watch responded so promptly to the watchman’s alarm that, as the ship was moving but slow- iy against wind and wave, her progress was arrested almost instantly. The night was intense dark, sea extremely rough, s the tempera- ture =6 low that the rain turned to ice as it fell on the decks and rigging. In fact, conditions generally were $0 very the to attempt to lower a boat and thereby imperil an entire small boat’s uch a dubious quest. After hat prolonged detention an for *“full speed ahead” caused the old ship to resume her struggles against adv e winds and waves. At a ge ! muster and roll call of the following morning that one of them, s missing, and an was made in the ship's log book. Soon after the com- pletion of the above mentioned muster a saflor happened to enter the store- on room, situated in the forward part of the starboard paddiebox, and “while doing a loaf” casually glanced through a small opcning in the bulkhead and watched the revolutions of the paddle- wheel. While trying to peer through the fast falling showers of spray and foam he saw. but quije indistinetly, an bject somewhat resembling a human being lying on the opposite paddie- beam. The discov of such an ob- almost inaccessibie position xcited the curlosity of many rew, and it was captain should learer view machinery ject in an soon the wheels vered to be man. Afier had been re- uppesed corpse secured eck it was Chinese passen from th bulkhead mz-—d by a &s Ah Loy ing companion, end, under the lmpression that had seen a supernatural obje fled In terror to the lower decks. our rescued passenger near the wheel, under & constant show- er of icy cold water and spray for more than eight hours, I was not surprised &t finding him cold and lifeless, his eyes fixed and expression- Jess, Bis limbs rigid, with a decidedly sub-normal bodily temperature. In spite of vigorous treatment several days eiapsed before he was-able to re- late his edventures. When finally able to converse he stated that be was the eldest son of a widowed mother and for several years had been laboriously saving a sum of money sufficient for his journ to California, but just as he bad succeeded in accumulating the long desired amount his mother unex- pectedly passed over to the spirit world Being the eidest son, he fully realized that it vas his filial duty to provide his mother with & burial in keeping with long established usages and family tra- ditions, but knowing that its cost would so deplete journey would be indefinitely postponed he decided to give her a humbler and less expensive sepuiture. After thase solemn rites were duly performed he resumed his weary task of making good the amount he had been com- pelled to deduct from his savings, but he soon realized that although the body of his maternal ancestor had been ¥ laid away to rest her immortal part seemed so sadly disturbed and dissat- isfied that it began to show its dis- approval in various dark and mysteri- ous ways. Many specious promises were made, with frequent presents of roasted and decorated pige, as well as several coats of lacquer for his patron joss, which gained him temporary surcease from his disquieting tormentors, until & happy turn of fortunc’s wheel en- abled him to undertake his journey much sooner than anticipated. Leav- ing his country and graves of hjs an- cestors did not, unfortunately, bring velief and contentment, for no sooner had the darkness of his first night at sea surrounded him than he found himself besieged by legions of ances- tral shades, violently upbraided him for trying to evade by flight the performance of the duties taught by the much revered Confucius. Finding that promises failed to placate his tor- mentors, he unwisely turned to the se- dAuctive pipe for relief, and for a time enjoyed an undisturbed and peaceful oblivion. but when his supply of the Poppy became exhausted his ghostly 0 TR learned | yrable that it was considered un- | as the spray had | the | apparently | his savings that his | tormentors grew more and more im- portunate, 2and one of them, more ma- levolent than its fellows, insisted that he could only atone for his sins of omission by casting himself into the sea. After enduring the distressing mental tortures for several nights, he decided that if needs must it were bet- ter to make this atonement quickly, so, vielding to an impulsive obsession, | plunged into the sea. Instead of sink- inz instantly, he vaguely realized that he was being carried away on the sur- face of a huge wave until drawn into a whirling mass of waters, where, after being tossed about until exhausted, he was thrown upon the refuge already described. Completely bewildered and exhausted { by his struggles, he had no sooner de- | ctded to rest quietly and wait the turn of events than he hazily realized that his resting place was beginning to move and that he was being deluged by lcy torrents; then a helpless be- | numbing feeling of extreme coldness | {overcame him, and he passed jpto a state of complete unconsclousness. To account for Ah Loy's marvelous escape from drowning, and from being | crushed by that enormous paddle wheel, and also by what mysterious in- | voluntary method he gained his ref- !uge, a place quite inaccessibie while | the paddle wheel was in motion, sev- eral theories have been advanced. The hypothesis most commonly ac- cepted by seafaring men is, briefly, as follows: The China was moving slowly against & heavy head sea when the man jumped overboard, and that he was instantly caught in the swirl of a cross sea, which carried him backward “alongside” the ship until he reached the wheel, when suddenly meeting an opposing sea, or back wash resulting from the sudden arrest of the paddic wheel, he was thrown up under the paddle box and landed on the paddie | beam, where he was afterward found. On the arrival of the China in San Francisco about three weeks later Ah | | Loy, having fully recovered, was per- mitted to land with his fellow passen- gers. - About two years later, when I | chanced to see him, he told me that of {late all had been well with him; in fact, | as soon as he had earned and sent enough money to China to give his | mother a burial in keeping with her | station in life, his nights had been | passed in peaceful repose, entirely free from those terrifying obsessions that formerly oppressed him. MILAN SOULE. San Francisco, May 27, 1904. Is Leopold Insane? [ Is' King Leonbld becoming mentally | unbalanced? And will it be necessary | for the Belgian Government to “insti- | tute a regency and to intrust the sov- ereign nower to his brother, the uni- versally respected and exceedingly pop- | ular Count of Flanders? That is a ques- tion which is being asked to-day, not alone at Brussels, but in the various Furopean capitals, and which is a mat- ter of no little concern to the State De- partment at Washington. For the King's extraordinary action in repu- diating without any reason the agree- ment made in his name and by his ex- | plicit orders with the American cop- cessionaires of the Canton-Hankow Raliroad by his plenipotentiaries, ex- | Minister de Volder and Colonel Thys, | {has not only led these two gentlemen | to sever their connection with his busi- | | ness enterprises, but has likewise re- ’mu»d in an “international incident” | | between himself and the United States | | Government. For the latter has no in- tention of permitting him to carry out what appears to be his project of con- | verting into 2 monopoly of his own this -ssentially American enterprise in| China and of ousting therefrom by un- | feir means the American syndicate to| which, on the strength of the recom-! mendation of the State Department, | the concession was granted. It is no| doubt partly due to this that the Bel-| glan Envoy at Washington has made | arrangements to spend the summer| within easy reach of the national capi-| tal. King Leovpold has also quarreled | with the directors of the Congo Rail-| | road to such an extent that they have | all resigned, among the number being | Baron de Goffinet, who is treasurer of | the royal househoid, and Count A.| d’Oultremont, brother of the grand, master of the court. Finally, the King | is reported to have quarreled violently with Pripcess Clementine, stories to| this“eflect being printed without denial | or interference on the part of the au- thorities in several of the leading pa- | yers of Brussels and Antwerp. Princess Clemertine was the only one of Leo- pold’s tnree daughters Who had re- mained with him throughout all his dif- | ferences with his family, so that he is now at variance with all his children, |as well as with his only brother and heir, the Count of Flanders.—Balfimore American. Langunages of India. The English hn\eteen the rulers of India, or a large part of it, for a cen- tury at least; yet there are only 252,- 388 persons in the Indian empire who can speak the English language. This number, compareG with the total pop- ulation, may be called infinitesimal. There are 147 languages recorded in the census as being spoken to-day in the whole country, but twenty-five of them, which are spoken by 221,137,673 per. | sone, are closely allied members of the Aryan sub-family. Nowhere is a non- Aryan tongue superseding an Aryan one; and it sheuld also be noted that the classical Sanscrit for many cen- turies has been profoundly influencing the modern vernaculars. The tram tion of “Ramayana,’” one of India’ jgreat epics, into a dialect called Dwadhi, by £ native scholar who lived at the time of Shakeéspeare, is now “the one Bible of 90,000,000 people."' Among the many Indian languages, it is pointed out in the census reports, there are some with great literatures and vocabularies, rivaling in richness the English, French or German. While some, too, have no past, others have lived 3000 years. It is not easy to be- lieve, in view of these facts, that the English language will ever occupy the field in the Indiah empire. Certainly, it must take an exceedingly long time for it to drive out the richer native forms of speech. | will be vastly enlarged. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL| JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor . o « o o o« oo - Mdtus All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publiuuon Oflce .......mrdandmstmls.s.i‘. —_—— .....JUNE 16, 1904 m—— e CALIFORNIA IN THE CABINET. THURSDAY HE news irom Washington scems to make it cer- T tain that California will have the Secretaryship of Commerce and Labor, provided Hon. Victor Met- cali, Representative from the Third District, will con- clude to leave his seat in Congress to enter the Cabinet. While his district and the State will regret to be de- prived of his services in the House, the whole State will be gratified by representation in the Cabinet, and espe- cially if he be the representative. California has not fared well in Cabinet representation. It was expected that we would have a member of Pres- ident Harrison's Cabinel, but uniortunate divisions arosi between the friends, respectively, of Hon. M. M. ESE? and Hon. John F. Swift, and neither was chosen. Either one of those gentlemen would have made a cred- itable and useful adviser to the President, but our tend- ency to divide and oppese, which was. then at its height, kept the State in the background. When Mr. Cleveland was elected the second time it was confidently expected that he would choose a Cabi- net officer from this State. So strong was this feeling that Oregon and other Western States formally sup- ported the appointment of some one from California. But the Democracy of the State was riven its whole length by the feuds and factions that originated in the famous Stockton convention of 1884, and it was found impossible to unite on any man. Mr. Cleveland got no farther West than Nebraska in making his Cabinet se- lections, and the State was again seated on the stool of repentance with a dull thud. When President McKinley was elected he took the reins in his own hands and ap- pointed his old personal friend and fellow member of the Ways and Means Committee, Mr. McKenna, to the Attorney Generalship, and afterward, in the face of an energetic opposition, transferred him to the Supreme bench. 2 The Republican party of-California has learned much since 1880, and is at present distinguished by a stronger unity and sense of cohesion and a common purpose than ever before in its history. It has learned that the source of power in the popular branch of Congress is in getting good Representatives and keeping them there while they are willing to serve and stay. If they be- long to the majority of the House, of course their in- fluence is progressive, and each is able to do for his lsr:mediate constituency the things needful, and when ch constituency is well served the whole State is cared for, as far as it needs care in national legislation. San Francisco dropped out of line at the last election by defeating twe experienced Republican members and sending two new members of the minority. These failed to attend to the great interests of this city, and we lost much. Not content with inattention to their own dis- tricts, one of the minority members went outside and defeated, by objecting, the measures of his Democratic colleague in the Napa district, so that we had the ex- asperating experience of three districts losing their rights through sending three raw members of the mi- nority who put in their time fighting each other. Fortunately the Republicans learned wisdom. They put McKenna into Congress and kept him there until his contacts and influence were strong enough to make him Circuit Judge, transfer him to the Cabinet and thence to the Supreme Bench. His old district seon took up Mr. Metcalf and has kept him in the House since his entry in the Fifty-sixth Congress. He has achieved a place on the Committee of Ways and Means, a position in which the revenues and commerce of the country are cared for in legislation. To be an active member of that committee is to be in the most important of parlia- mentary relations to the Government and the interests of the people. To be a member of that committee is an honor equal to the chairmanship of any other committee of the House. Men are chosen to it on their merit, as judged by the leaders of the two parties on the floor. The minority leader, who is the candidate of his party | for the Speakership, selects the minority members of the Ways and Means Committee, and his successful opponent, the Speaker, appoints them, The Speaker, | in turn, selects the members of his own party for the majority of that great committee. These selections being upon merit and capacity solely, it is the higheat evidence that can be given that Mr‘ Metcalf is in the first class in the House. If he enter the Cabinet, his power to'benefit California, without abating anything due to the rest of the country, It is greatly honbrable to the Third District that it has made such excellent selections for its Representatives that they are chosen as the only Cabinet officers the State has had selected by the Pres- ident. if called upon now to select a new Representative, | we are sure the same wisdom will be shown by the party there. As any nominee can be ‘elected, the party shows great intelligence in putting aside the temptation to nominate any one below the high grade of McKenna and Metcalf. Republicans of the rest of the State do not look with envy upon the good fortune of the Third District, but rather are inclined to keep on following the good example set by the party there. Several people “that cannot plead ignorance of the city and its ways have found it convenient to sleep in that they were robbed. They should be arrested and prosecuted for contributory negligence in the commis- of the town. Any one that will sleep im a public place should be able to accept the consequences with com- INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. fi S a matter of course all addresses delivered at ~ tion were infused by a cheerful and almost a glowing optimism. That fact to a large extent weakens It does not, however, destroy thef'r value altogether. Some of them were made by men of such well balanced enthusiasm for any cause whatever, and as a conse- quence will be found encouraging even to those friends it realized in any measurable time. The address of Judge George Gray, for example, was course of his busy life he has had a long and varied ex- perience in dealing with large international issues, In Delaware, he served as a member of the Peace Commis- sion in Paris in 1808, was a member of the Joint ngh was appointed one of the four Amcncm representatives in the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague. | the ferry building and have awakened to the discovery sion of acts that have a tendency to injure the fair fame posure. the Mohonk conference on international arbitra- their value when judged from the standpoint of reason. minds that no optimism could betray them into a blind of international peace who are least sanguine of seeing by no means that of a mere dreamer of dreams. In the addition to his service as United States Senator from Commission at Quebec: in the same year and in “1go0 When a man of that character and standing speaks on an international issue we may be sure his arguments are well considered and his conclusions well founded. It is, therefore, gratifying that his address was not only a for peace but a statement of a firm conviction that it'is quite likely to be attained at no far distant time. After reviewing the whole subject Judge Gray said: “The establishment and continued existence of the per- manent Court of International Arbitration will make it more difficult in the future than it has been in the past for nations to engage in war. I believe that its influence | will grow slowly but steadily and that each resort to its decisions will tend to form and strengthen the habit of looking thitherward to settle international difficulties | by an appeal to reason instead of by an appeal to arms.” | An equahy important utterance on the subject was that of Dr. Trueblood, secretary of the Peace Society, who after citing the Venezuelan arbitration and the Alaskan | award, recounted the treaties of arbitration conciuded between Great Britain and Franee, France and Italy, Great Britain and Italy, Holland and Denmark, Great Britain and Spain, France and Spain and France and Holland. He concluded by saying: “The movement which led to these treaties has not yet spent itself. of other. Governments, some of them in South America, for similar agreements. Within the last month it has become known that Norway has commenced negotia- tions for arbitration treaties wijth no less than ten Gov- ernments. It is known that several of the powers of Western Europe have approached our Government with proposals for treaties of arbitration similar to those al- ready concluded in Europe.” Facts of that kind count for something. They show that despite the armaments of the nations and the wars now going on the tendency of civilization is toward peace. Already the effects of that tendency are notable and it is reasonable to expect they will be even more notable in the future. In a “Thirteen Club” of matured idiots at Bridge- istence by suicide. With twelve such distinct examples of what not to do the thirteenth crank of the group neither original, spectacular nor healthful to the town. Bridgeport, however, may look upon the end of the club SECTIONALISM DEAD. T HE Confederate memorial service in honor of the at Nashville on Tuesday, was attended by a large number of the Confederate veteran soldiers. The recent morial day was generally made the occasion of high ascription to the valor and devotion of the Confederate It is a matter of soldierly honor and seli-respect to give due credit to the other side. The soldiers of the the victory in that long war. The vanquished were overcome by men and mighty men by whom it was no “soldiers of both sides when the war ended. Its opposite was sometimes expresd€d by embittered civilians. Seen entered in history as evidence of American valor and spirit, and soldiers and civilians have come to the same view. Lee, who is the historian of the Confederate veterans’ organization, expressed the joy of the South in the great of qur fathers” and putting “the South on her feet again.” South is drinking deep of a prosperity exceeding any- thing her people knew under the institution of slavery. gree of prosperity would not be there, and this seems to be understood by the people. “dead and buried.” He pictured the great destiny of America, and the joyful determination of the South to strenuous’ conflicts, conquests and glory of the country.” That is said in the right American spirit and is earnestly nor misfortunie for any part of the republic. The pros- perity is for all, and progress and happiness cannot come, are for all. Therefore, all should work together in those things which fhake for the material welfare, as port twelve members have closed an uninteresting ex- certainly should be able to escape a death that is as a material contribution to its welfare . anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis, held observance throughout the North of the National Me- soldiers. Union overcamé men and mighty men when they won disgrace to be conquered. This feeling was among the in perspective those hard days and hard battles are now At the Nashville memorial General Stephen D. and general prosperity of the country, “exceeding that In this hearty expression is food for reflection. The We venture to say that if slavery were still there this de- The orator of the day declared sectionalism to be do her full part in the “opportunities, responsibilities, reciprocated in the No: There is no separate fortune touch one alone. So misfortune and disaster, when they all must suffer if the general welfare fail. With a flourish of tfumpets and much official ado the police raided a Chinese gambling house recently and carted gamblers and paraphernalia off to jail. This is an excellent beginning in the worthy work of reform. If somebody will now point out to the police a few of the gambling dens operated in contemptuous publicity by white men in this city we may all have a chance to congratulate the police on well directed activity. A series of Federal army scandals, involving a smash- ing of the moral code, statptory and otherwise, from levity of conduct to suicide and worse is evidence in- disputable that Uncle Sam's soldiers that are stationed in San Francisco and its neighborhood do not confine their strenuous activities to the trade of fighting. These. gallant men of Mars should not forget the means that brought Samson to his end. —_— Chicago attempted recently to raise by subscription fifty thousand dollars with which to hold a “sane” cele- bration of Independence day. failure, as might have been expected. The American small boy, whether in Chicago or anywhere else, will insist upon being vigorously insane on July 4 and his elders reserve the privilege to encourage him with every means at their command. —— s John Alexander Dowie is moving his restless, un- happy and unwelcome way across the earth back to his American followers. London hotels refused him a lodging recently and he was forced to a- disagreeable makeshift.” It is at least consoling to know that our tolerante of impostors serves as a warning to our | friends, even if it records no lesson for us. A street sweeper of this city received a medal the other day for bravery displayed in saving the life of a child. This man certainly possesses traits little in keep ing with his lowly condition in life. Municipal energy that could give him a position in hamony with his char- acter would be worthy of applause. It is not difficult to _donceive of some medals as mockeries, . France is in negotiation with a number | The project was a flat, < «Their Déficiencies. Two men were talking of the defi- ciencies of dealers in antiques. “I am nct likely to forget,” remark- ed one collector, “the easy confidence with which one dealer assured me that |a plate depicting Lafayette’s visit to this country in 1824 was at least 150 | years old. He pretended not to hear *me when I diffidently tutored him in ! ates.” “My latest experience concerned a plate,” said the other collector. e | went ‘Into a queer little shop the other | day just tc see if 1 could pick up any- | thing; and the proprietor, &ho spoke with a fharked foreign accent, called | my attention to some plates on a | shelf. “ ‘Staffordshire!” he cried, | sively, ‘the genuine Staffordshire! reproduction. No, The real!’ “‘How old are they?" I asked. “‘How old” he repeated. ‘Ah, that I cannot say. But very old. The real! The genuine!’ “Earnest little man! What was the use of telling him that the Brooklyn bridge, pictured so beautifully in blue on one of the Staffordshires,” wasn’t publicly opened until 1883?"—New York Sun. No “Amazin’ Grace.” You may talk about religion—but I found it there—twas when 4 Old Jolly sang “Amazin’ Grace, Bostwick said. “Amen!” The old-time flower gardens smfiled in my sweetheart's face | When " Jolly led the saints along and sang “Amazin’ Grace.” God bless him for that singin'! It took me back to where I saw the starlight fallin’ on the tresses of gold hair! Why,—'twas only over yonder, meetin’-house, an’ then— But Jolly led the saints along, an’ Bost- wick said “Amen!” I bet those men had mothers! Jolly sang it, low an’ h: “To Canaan's bright an’ bll!lful scenes, where my possessions lie!” For the old-time sweet religion—Iit kept &a-comin’ whe Jolly—he sang * Bostwick said “Amen’ an’ at the an’ It was great to be there with ‘em! Like 3 a bird my soul took wing, "And I listened to the dear old songs my mother usedto sing; And when light streamed through the casement—well, I—couldn't see it then, - % For Jolly sang “Amazin’ Grace,” an’ Bostwick said “Amen —Atlanta Constitution. ‘A Communication. SAN FRANCISCO, June 15. Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: In the issue of the 13th in the news of that date telegraphed from Chicago there appeared a statement that Dr. Frank ‘W. Gunsaulus in his baccalaureate ad- dress to the graduating class of the Armour Institute said: “There never was a more interesting falsehood than ‘All men are created free and equal.”” That is not so wide of the mark, but he went on to say: “The Declaration of Independence was the work of an hour of intense excitement and on every national anniversary this phrase is misquoted because when it is taken from its context it is false.” The inference from the doctor’s ad- dress is that the phrase, as quoted, i contained in that immortal document. It is surprising that a man of Dr. Gun- saulus’ attainments should so blunder, as the phrase, “All men are created free and equal,” does not occur in that great instrument. The same misquo- tation is frequently made by orators nd writers. The Declaration states: “We hold these truths to be self-evi dent; that all men are created equal.” Dr. Gunsaulus seems to apologize for the breadth of the quotation as he would have it, by saying: “The decla- ration was the work of an hour of in- tense excitement,” which is altogether an unhistorical relation. Jefferson probably did not build better than he knew. As his work was writ, so let it stand and be read forever more. L. G. MOISE. Vastness of London. There are about 6000 miles of rail- way in Greater London, and it is es- timated that something like 600,000,- 000 separate journeys are made by passengers annually. The number of journeys on an average weekday is over 1,500,000. An idea of the vehicu- lar traffic in the streets may be gath- ered from the statement that in twelve hours 16,054 vehicles of all kinds passed a particular spot in Piccadilly, and a full service of 690 'buses pass the Bank of England in an hour. The number of passengers carried by the London trams in a year is over 300,- 000,000. A census taken of the num- ber of pedestrians who crossed London bridge on a certain day showed that they totaled 116,902, and in nineteen and a half hours during a day in April last year 248,015 people crossed the roadways at the bank. - Restriction Removed. Attention is called to the fact by the ‘Washington Post that next month (July. 29) the prohibition imposed by The Hague conference upon the discharge of aerial tornedoes from balloons or flying machines will expire by limita- tion. It was with the greatest difficulty that the powers represented at The Hague conference, through their mili- tary delegates, managed to reach an agreement upon rules governing war, and this particular section was bitterly fought over, although it is one of the few which the United States Govern- ment accepted without reservation. At the end of July a new fleld will thus be open to the inventor of flying achines and dirigible balloons, which may now enter the fleld of warfare without violation of the rules of war. Sea Breezes on Tap. A member of the h'nel Academy of Science is sald tc be enjoying sea ‘breezes in his Paris home by manufac- turing a liquid which he diffuses through the air of his apartment. The recipe for the compound is given as follows: In ten volumes of oxygen- ated water containing- a hundredth oart of ether charged with ozone he m,n.h impres- | dissolves a small quantity of sea salt. By means of a vaporizer this liquid is distributed in the air at the rate of one hundred and twenty grammes per hour. It is said that by this means the apartment becomes saturated with the scent of the sea and that the slightest draught of air creates the illusion of a wind sweeping over a sandy beach directly from the wide waters of the Atlantic Ocean. One’s faith is not strengthened. how- ever, when the narrative proceeds to relate how this ingenious scientist, while inhaling this mixture, seats him- =elf in his arm chair, with his eyes closed and “listens to the lapping of the waves while breathing their odor,” for he holds to his ear a shell in which he can hear the murmur of the rest- less sea. Such an attitude and occupa- tion seems more fitting for an old poet than for a professional man of science. The Water Wagon. A water wagon it is called In the shops, but it is not ordinary water that is meant but carbonated' waters and the numerous bottled beverages that serve to quench thirst and make life more endurable in sultry summer days. The contrivance so named is a willowware barrel mounted on wheels and provided with handies so it may easily be moved about to any desired piace on the porch or lawn. The bar- rel is fitted with racks for bottles and glasseg and represents one of the sea- son’s Wovelties in the way of adjuncts for the country home by the shore or inland.—Brookiyn Eagle. A Sonnet. Rose-crowned, rose-tinted, of all months the queen, June scatters petals through the per- fumed air Her flower-message to the world to ear: That blossoms beautiful must lose their sheen— Must pass from life; no fate may inter- vene To hold th-ir sweetness or thgir beau- ty rar “hich thlrm the hearts of mankind everywhere, But fading, dying. shall no more be seen. Yet through their coming has been new delight And Dnr!h has yielded hours of perfect blis: The 'ln(ry darkness casts no more its blight And less of life has gone awry—amiss; Our daily paths have seemed more sweet and bright Since June awoke the roses with & —Boston Transeript. Anstwers to Queries. CASINO—L. M., City. In the game of casino, unless the players agree to count the points as they are made, the rule is to count in the following order on the last deal: Cards, spades, big casino, little casino, aces, sweeps. LEVI LEITER—A. B, City. The published biographies of Levi Leiter of Chicago do not make any mention of his family affairs, and these do not tell of his religion, that of his wife or chil- dren. This department has no knowl- edge in relation to-this matter. STEELHEAD—J. A. B, City. The steelhead is the large sea trout or salmon trout of the Pacific slope (Salmo gairdneri). The salmon trout of Europe resembles the salmon In form and color, and is, like it, migra- tory, ascending rivers to depogit its spawn. EMPEROR NORTON—Subscriber, City. Joshua A. Norton, who was one of the characters of San Francisco of the early days, generally known as Emperor Norton, died of apoplexy at the corner of California and Dupont streets January 10, 1880. He was a native of England, about 65 years of age. His remains were buried in the Masonic Cemetery. THE BOERS—Subsecriber, City. The Boers in the South African republic were agrigultural people prior to the Boer-British war. The year before that war there were in the republic about 12,245 farms, of which 3636 belonged to the Government, 1812 te outside owners and companies and the rest to resident owners and companies. It was estimated that there were about 50,000 acres of land under cultivation. The agricultural produce was, how- ever, not sufficient for the wants of the population. INSANE PATIENTS—J,, City, The following from the Political Code of California is the law on the subject of committing insane patients to any of the asylums: 2175. The cost necessarily incurred in de- termining the insanity of a poor or it person and securing his admission into a State hospital and the of proper clot! for him in accordance rules ana adopted by the Sommmiesion is a_chargd upon the county or city and county Whence he is committed. Sueh costs inciude the fees of the medical examiners by the Judge ordering the commitment. If the person sought to be committed is not a poor or indigent person tl may, m Ih ‘Ilau‘hh t Judge charge the co'h of the proceedings to the per- application for an order of na-lhx nt may be entered l“lm Bim for the amount thereof and en- forced by execution. Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_———— Special hhflunon -»n.d to Dusiness houses a mm,lh. “Mu‘ %mu umuo Cat-