The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1904, Page 8

STREET, COVENT | YDON, June _16.—Al- | »dy knows that Bernadin’ ras far from an ideal.] character, vould have expected the ot “Paul and Virginia” to make, I'events, 3'Fpmclenuy.lmpassién(—d And -this, * even at fifty-six, was courting’ his twenty-year- Felicite; for that was only 4 iozen- years after the publica- But St. | hich con- stuff of which “Paul { Their tone is | 1ow when h f-his. famous-love-stery. Y s betrothed. nia". was made. .¢ unimpassioned as if the au- almost thor had bieen writing: to-the merest friend, -though it possible the fact one-was the daughter of’ s pubiisher had something to 1lids. “I Jay -aside an important he begins one epistle, conde: “in order to answer at once kigd letter,” @nd in absolutely f his missives does the author of the . mosi -beautiful of Jove- realy - “lét himself -go.” He rends a lot of time, however, in assur- 2g his-lady-love. that the diference im ages really ‘miatters little.: “Soc- he ‘says, “‘was older than I he married a .young woman, and he- had even two. wives at_one time, &ffer the custem of the-country. Sena- c# married Paulina when' he was very old; and yét she was so much in love with him that when he committed sui- «ide she did not wish to survive him.” memoir; scendingly, you none oné stories And anot letter; St. Pierre leaves Off quoting Epictetus—of all: people—to ox “Oh, what a wonderful book Neture” He js material “enough, too,.:in his ynany instrizctions fo.his. Fancee as to liow she mi&y ‘merit more completely 2% devotion. - Excessive embonpoint s, e tells her, Qistasteful-to him, and he asks her to avoid it by eating less! ior = her spelling what it might he, En grace,” he says, she should write in msking a favor, and not:"en grasse.” Mei costume aiso . tequires “regulation: Her “coefluré” causes people. to turn Tound to look at her and she should not Wear her brown -hair without powder 1ogether with red shoes. and :a yeHow neckerchief But then it always has been believed thet St Pierfe’. was more or.- less cracked ™ Both his s6n-and his broth- €r died. mad. -He began lifel'as .an army officer on foreign service, but at tiirty-five was kicked out of the ser- vice, and turned up-in Paris without a cent in his pockéts. He had ‘discoverad ry fhis time that he:could write,” how- ever. and the publication of two works on.the study of Nature kept “him out -¢f thé poorhouse until, when his yéars -numbered ‘half a century, the book ap- pearéd . that ‘made “him - world famous And,- it s said, brought him offers of merriage from haif the maideén. Jadies of.the gréat world of Paris. It is said ihat the unfortunate -girl to ‘whoni he write his chilly “love letters” heeven udlly beat. - » Hogarth’s house at. ‘Chiswick, in lhe £ublirbs ‘of London; has been ‘lpenqi 1o thé pudlic just'in ‘time -to perniit’ the f Amesican filsltofl this r.to id.another to: the dong list of Iltfirary ines’in .England. that ‘our country- men”seldom miss visiting.- Hogarth; whose London house, destroyed years age, stobd in Leicester Square, used -the Cirswvick ~‘cottage as & summer. & e home. Visifors ‘will be :able to see his greve, Loo. which ll in the cemetcn near by. L There seems no chance, unluekily; that-the house in Wandsworth, anather suburb of London, where George Eliot | once lived, will be available soon as a literary “shrine.” It is -about to be marked, however, with 2 commemora~ tive tablet stating that the authoress made her home there during 1859 and 1860. This- house—“Holly Lodge” it is cailed—was visited often by both Her- bert Spencer and Charles Dickens and ii was-there. that “The Mill on the Floss” was written. In the garden. nmd- a tree planted by Geox:e Eliot, J )! Bnmn s not ovmond .of pre. siding ‘at dinners, but his well-known enthusiasm dver cricket would not per- mit him’ t6 refuse tb occupy the -chair at the. banguei given'the other evening to the team ihat was victorious at'the Antipodes. -In the course of his brief speech Mr. B-rr‘le -declared that cficket WAs undoubt:dly the most divine game ever-invented by man, end said he thought the nan who invented it did a bigger thing than the ‘man who wrote “Hamlet.”. “Indeed,” the author went on, “it was not certain that the same mwan’ had nof done both. He probably invented the game during that year or two when €ven Sidney Lee did not mmknw what he was about.” - . . . Cuthbert Hadden, the biographer, writing ir * the Fortnightly Review, says he has heard many suggestions that there should be a tex on novels in order to check the ever-increasing flood of romantic rubbish that pours forth here as persistently as it seems to in the United States. Mr. Hadden ex: presses the opinlon, however, that an imposition of this kind would be of mo sevice. “No tax,” bhe asserts, 1 “would restrain & novelist who was Aesured of the ultimate success of his own work. As matters stand at press ent the publisher may quote him a biil of $400 for. the production of a $1 50 novel. Supposing that $100 more were to be added by.way of a tdx, would that prevent the publication of the author’s story? Not a bit of it. The $500- would be paid as cheerfully as-the 100 by a writér who expects to get it all back, and something more, when the merits of his novel have at last dawned updn a generally undiscerning public.” HAYD! CHURCH. Death Holds llu' Secret. Special Corfggpondence., HEADQUARTERS OF THE.CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, June 16.—It is a queer quest”which Robert Shaw of Grimsby has undertaken and which, by advertisements in the newspapers of | this country, he beseeches ali and -sun- dry who have any knowjedge of the matter to assist him. He wants to find out ‘who were:the parents of the little girl “with light blue eyes, light flaxen hair and a fair skin” who fifty-one years ago was kifnaped from her home near Manchester. His own particular interest lies in ‘the fact that this little girl subsequently became -his wife. That was thirty-six years ago, and last March she died. Now that he has lost her Shaw has set himself the task of discovering whe she was and establish- ing her identity. That there is some rcmantic mystery connected with her early life seems certain, but after such a long lapse of time it is extremely | doubtful if he wtl succeed in unravel- ing it. "When he first made her acqunlnlance she was an attraetive lass of 17 years and living in Hull with a mature widow, Mrs. Payne, whom she had been taught to call “Grannie.”” Mrs. Payne ‘was strongly opposed to the girl’s'mar- riage to young Shaw, hinting -myste- riously that if she came by her own she ‘might some day wed a lord. His sweetheart told Shaw that she could distinctly remember when she was a very small child playing in a béautiful garden in.front of a big house with stone steps. Suddenly a dark woman leaned over the wall and offered her some candy. When she stretched out a hand to take it the stranger grasped her and pressed a handkerchief over her face. The next thing she remem- hered was heing ln a train with “Gran- nie.” After her protege’s marriage.to Shaw “Grannie” relented and eventually made her home with the young couple. One day she met with a bad accident, | and fearing that she was going to die called Mrs.’ Shaw to her bedside and told hér .that she had a confession to| make which had long lain heayy on her | conscience. She said that she had de- | ceived the. girl as to their r_elaflonsh!p and wag not her grandmother, or any kin-to her. Her father, she declared, | was a wealthy man and lived at Eccles, niear Manchester. Prior to his marriage | another woman who had abundance nt‘ money was deeply in love-with hifh. To be revenged on him and her suc- ceseful rival she took’ advantage of their absence at the races to steal their | child. - “You are that child,”” said Mrs. Payné, “and the woman ‘who stole you-| gave me £800'to carry you away and‘ bring you up.”’ Mrs. . Payne did not die, however, un- til long years afterwatd, and meanwhile |. Mrs. Shaw told her husband nothing hr\ the confession, fearing that it v&nuldr turn him against the "old woman, ‘to whom: she - had become greatly at- tached. It was not; in fact, until she| herself was near. death that she repeat- |- ed. the. strange story ‘to her husband. Whatever.others may think.of it, he is convinced nu.t it is true and is-leaving |- no-stone unturned to get at the facul of his‘dead wife's parentage. e - Deatle by: L'g]z ting l(or»e than. 700 persons were k|ued by llghtmng in the United States in 1903. 7 ‘A writer in.the. Boston Tran- gmm says: "“'East of the 100th mer- idian- thunder storms occur al] over the country, but west of it, except- in |- the Rocky ' Mountains,.the frequency of storms diminishes until on the Pa- | ; cific Coast therg are practically none. Thie greatest number of storms occurs in Fierida, in the Middle Mississippi Valley and the. Middle Missouri Val- | ley. TFhe greatest number of deaths in any single State (1896-1900) was 186—in Pennsylvania. Ohio came next with 135, Indiana and Illinois and New York having 124 each. As to the city and country, the more dense the population-the smaller the rate to the 1,000,000 of population. Besides this the metal roofs, telegraph wires, etc., of the cities serve as conductors. Lightning rods, as ustially put up, are of no use. A tin roof with gutter spouts leading to the ground is much more effective. Barns with treen hay seem to invite lightning. %l Mercenary Soldier. ~Tie Chiriaman h the embodiment of the business spirit,-and the established principles of tnmc Ppermeate even the soldier ranks. The secret of China’s inglorious ‘military career, in- recent | years is that the rank and file.had not been paid. The Chinamén’s ryling pas- sion for business displayed itself in the war with Japan. A general in the Jap- anese army told me that after the first fire from his regiment of infantry the Thinese troops arrayed against him disappeared: like a mist. Not long thereafter they reappeared In the rear of his army, rétailing vegetables to his soldiers.” Nevertheless, he was confi- dent," "there was no lack of bravery among these thrifty deserters. Inquiry thelr wages, and that they lived in no n that their miserable: cash allotment as heroes would ever come ‘their way.” When they could coin an opportunity into profit, the alternative —of ingloriously facing the firing line without pay—naturally failed to kindle ~—Harold Bo! u mrfllb:::l- o Ice in the July ‘developed that they had not been paid-; | of conviction, | in its’ coming national i c:mpalgns upon perscnnlmes, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL) JULY 1, 1904 \Z‘HN D. SPRECK'E.S. Propmtnr e e eso e e onAddress All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Pnl:llcatlnn Omee e A R D08 s o o) nrvino st - e s BN A ATk Sm S F. FRIDAY ~— THE DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK. HERE is_evidently 2 feeling that is not confined T to his immediate supporters that Mr. Hearst still stands a chance for the St. Louis nomination. There is a palpable falling off in the fervor for Parker, His support in New York has weakened, and Bryan’s inflience in several Southern States has been strong enough to prevent the direct instructions that Parker’s friends expected. The other avowed candidates, except | Hearst, have no prospect. of controlling the convention, and at present the outlook seems to be Hearst or a dark ‘horse. The convention will lack the presence of many of the strong men of national reputation who were in the councils. of the party prior to 1896. The néocl;cy is more”in evidence than the.element which led from the close of the Civil War to the end of Mr. Cleveland’s last term. While it is claimed that the reorganizers will control the convention, there is no prospect that they will be logical and adopt the gold Democratic platform of 1896, with such few changes as events make necessary. Major Watterson is, the leading newspaper exponent of reorganization, but Kentucky turned him down, with considerable violence. His position is illogical, since he persists in repudiafing Cleveland with a vigor that is hardly second to the zeal of Mr. Bryan in the same work. He sees in Cleveland the same.qualities which he imputes’ to Roosevelt, and regards them both as danger- ous to’ the republic. . * Watterson is skilled in scenting danger to the republic, and if he be a true prophet we are already deprived of most of our liberty, and Cleveland and Roosevelt are about to strip us of the smaller remainder and put the tatters and remnants up at auction in rag fair. Hé seems to have no choice for the Presidency, but is unusually skillful in proving that every other man’s- choice is dy- namite in the cellar of the Temple of Liberty. If one may judge by what he says he would support Mayor McClellan the most cheerfally, in the belief that the Goddess of Liberty might survive his nomination. The platform is to be the matter of most interest in the canvention. The free traders recently held a con- venticle in -New York to celebrate the birthday of Richard Cobden. They rang the tocsin to call atten- tion to the surrender of the Democratic party. to protec- tion, and proceeded to devise ways and means 'to rescue and put it in the line of free trade once more. The notable address was delivered by Mr. Louis Ehrich of. Colorado., He denounced protection as “An insidious scheme by which favored beneficiaries are permitted to pi’ck the pockets of the community while the Govern- ment holds the victim down and prevents rescue from the outside.” He mourned excessively because “A dis- tinguished citizen of New York who has lavished mill- ions in the purchase of art treasures is debarred from importing them into dur country because the Govern- ment -would fine him excessively for bringing to the re- public what would be more precious to us than all the wealth of the Indies.” That distinguished citizen is Mr. J. Pierpont Mor- gan. If he is able to lavish millions on art in Europe, common sense would say that he should be able to con- tribute to the revenues of his own country by paying the tariff on his collections. Tt is evident that, while the St. Louis convention. will pretend to commit the party to protection, its denunciation of the Dingley tariff will get all of its vigor from the sentiment of free trade. If the party ever get the power to make a tariff, its con- ditions will' be dictated by the free traders. . Mr. Ehrich concluded his address with this: “If the Democratic party had the manly courage that is born and the practical wisdom which flows from the highest lessons of human experience, it would, convention, adopt one single plank “which would read: ‘The Democratic party favors “the total and immediate abolition bf every tariff duty, and the introduction of absolutely unrestricted freedom “of ‘trade with the nations of the world.’” 3 We, cordially join. Mr. Ehrich in wishing that the Democratic party will reach that high illumination and cxaltui state of coutage. Then it would present a defi- hite issue on which the country could pass. Tt merely follows, the Republican party, either whally adopting its principles,” 6r. hiding in their shadow and making its or on artifices which -mean nothing. All men admit that there are two definite, antithetical and exactly antagénistic economic policies, protection and free trade. There is no middle ground, no hali-way house. If free trade is ever to prevail in this country it must be by a campaign made openly, as Richard Cobden made his fight in England. The attempt to make a sneak on the people will never succeed.” If the country is to have protection, it demands it from the Republicans, the party of protection. That part of the St. Louis platform will-be awaited with some interest, for the people want to see how com- plettly the Democracy can put on a mask. Thé first American. warboat built in the Philippines has been -launched in Manila Bay, and will do_patrol duty on the rivers. and inland waters of the islands. Let us hope that Uncle Sam may never be compelled to construct another and may he be ready soon to l!" thns. T checked violence that early appeared in ‘the stable- . men’s strike. Up to this time more than a score of assaults have been commiitted upon -non-union work- ingmen, and most of-the victims have been ‘severely in- jured, some of them are gemunently ‘impaired in their capacity to earn a living, and one has suffered perhaps permianent brain trouble by bemg brutally kicked on the head when he had fallen insensible from bléws. Identification and proof the most direct failed to pun- THE EXPECTED HAPPENS. HE CALL raised an early warning . against the un- ish one of the men arrested for one of these outrages. | A jury found him not guilty 'in the face of proof that was unimpeachable. This absolute and sinister sur- render of the law and paralysis of its functions only em- boldened the mistaken men who have been raiding the town: On Saturday night 2 group of them, reported to be five in number, attacked two workingmen and felled one to the sidewalk, and it is said fired at the other, who returned the fire, killing one of his assailants. The blood: of ‘the dead.man is not upon the head of the man who only defended lmnself It is upon the heads of the jury which gave immunity to violence and ‘outrage by its ver- dict of acquittal in.a similar case,"and it is upon every man whose duty it is to enforce the \hw and who has neglected that duty. Immcdmely following this tngu: culmination to the immuriity given to disorder was a cowardly assault up- on a non-union freight handler of the Southern Pacific. 1 5 He was alone and powerless to resist an attack made by a dozen cowardly and brutal men who pounded him into insensibility .and broke his jaw. No good -citizen and no decent man, no man fit to belong to an American labor union, can feel anything but detestation for these cowardly tactics. pected that some man will defend himself and more men will be killed. There is a rising sentlrnent in the commumty that if a railroad company or a stable owner surrender to such violence a most damagfgg blow has been struck at de- cent citizenship and law and order.” The law is for all. None are above it and none are below it. The man who desires to use the streets on his way to or from his law- ful occupation -must be protected in that use. If he is compelled to protect himself and daes so, efli:nently :md well, he deserves the support of the whole commumty —_—— A very natural inquiry has been made in referente to one of the demands, listed as a necessity, made by the Federal Government for the proper care of the Indians now under the benigh gniding influence of Uncle Sam. The various reservatlons want ninety ‘tons ‘of soap for. Poor Lo. Our cursory contact with the noble red men impels us to suggest that their educators teach them to use soap externally, not internally. Anybody Wwithin the distance of a city block of an Indian knows that lf he_ all %’o‘“ it as T aig.” uses soap he eats it. —— "TWO TYPES OF PIONEERS. - Z HE pioneers of ‘the State of Washington have j\.'as_t T met at Seattle and celebrated the twenty-first an- niversary of the formation of their associatiorn. Last week the Fresno County pioneers held at Fresno their first annual reunion. To be a member of thé Fresno County organization it is necessary to have re- sided in Fresno County twenty years. There were sixty pioneers of Fresno .at banquet The Washington ‘pio- neers had several mdred members at their gathering, - Among the Washington pioneers are the Rev. .Myron Neels, who' first saw Washington in 1848, -and Mrs. Nancy Bogart of Renton, who -settled. in Washmgton in the same year. Many influential persons belong to the Washington pioneer assocxatmm ‘The - Fresno society includes the leading: people of the county.’ Both bodles are, therefore, representative. The two gathermgs ‘must suggest to the reflectne thc wide divergence between the past and present and the existence of two types of pioneers; in the veins of both of which runs gqod Amencan_ blood and in the brains of whom are the American characteristics of pluck, enter- prise and persistence. The pioneers of the State of Washington, like the pioneers of California, came to a new country. Theirs was the mission to found a new commonwealth and to add to the Union an imperial State. They began pnmmve]y. depending upon the nat- ural resources in gold-and other products in which the" Pacific slope abounded. Those who were not miners were farmers or traders to a large degree. They came’ to a land of possibilities of which they had Tittle ear]y conception. Knowlcdge came slowly, ushenng in a new era with deliberation. Dreaming the years ‘away under soft skies; the hnd> of the Mediterranean reveled in their centuries -old her- itage of vine-clad and fruit-dowered fields. To their dwellers the Pacific Coast of the United States seemed as remote and its territory as much a terra iricognita as | was the great Northwest when the poet - wrote his sonorous line about “the wolf's long howl irom Oonno—v laska’s shore.” It fell to the lot of the earliest pioneers of: the Pac:fic- Coast to tell to the world that here’ they had found an empire in extent and affluence. It was the dcstmy of the later pmneers, those of Fresno County, whose m:mbe:A ship needs to run back only twenty years_ for its gene-: sis, and of their fellow workers in many places,.to mg-’ neer the way for new industries. that should _amaze France, Spain and Italy, by planting greater vineyards and more cxunslve orghards, competmvc wnh foreign lands. Which. type- of pioneer performs the greatcr gerv:ce to mankind—the one that dares all t6 new home xcross desetts and mountain - anges: or by voyaging over stormy seas and founds a’ State, or’the one that, finding unpromlsmg areas m which all agricul- | tural ‘endeaver would seem to be expcnmcntal leads the | way to make ‘arid acres’ blossom as the.rose; and “scat- | ters plenty -o’er a smiling land”? The answer w prob- | ably ‘be that’ their labors are. complementaxya—-—th:t oflei follows the other as a ‘sequenee and that thie cve.nts were equally inherent in American character. The men of Waflnngton talked at their . reunion of the days of 'so and '60; those of Fresno spoke of what has been-accomplished in a comparatlvely few years. A majority of the Fresno s;zeakers were when | pioneers poor, willing to earn their living by any hon- | nrable means at hand.- A present judge told how he ! had worked on a threshing machine. Another recalled | that every one laughed in derision at the bold man who | ventured- to set out the first grape vines, forérunners of | the great vinéyards that bave given Fresno the primacy as a raisin center. Since 1883, so it was set forth by one of the speakgs‘ the population of Fresno County has grown from gooo | to 43,000; its raisin production has risen from 500,000 pounds a year to 6,000,000 pounds; its wine annually | amounts to 3,000,000 gallons and its brandy to 1,000,000 gallons; it has become the home of the Smyrna fig; in all directions it has advanced and, as claimed truly by | one speaker, it has been: demonstrated that there is no twenty mile square surfncc anywhere that is more pro. ductive. i The eatlier p:oneers ha,ve won afiect?onate regard and history will award’ to them great praise, : They have been succeeded by nnother crop of p:oneers—plqneers of industry—whose labors are equally beneficial. * e The lplefldld labor of the Pacific Canmcrclal Museum in exploiting -and extolling the advunzes of San Fran- cisco as a great trading port for the entire Pacific is al- ready bearing good fruit: Serious Imerl of inquiry, so widely scattered as to come from Bolivia, China, New Zealand and Japan, are being received and it begins: to look as if we are to reap that reward that comes to him who looks out for hintself. A good beginning argues a sterner cluse for what 'u lepmnately our own, i —_—— 3 California’s delenm to thie Democratic Natimu] Con- vention started on their mission in solemn silence. Hand- icapped as they are they probably feel the awfil réspon- sibility of miingling with the great representatives of their party at St. Louis and pleading for a cause already lost. The delegation, judging from its depmmve' shoild bezdmwbflhleeh.onxunfun. 3 If they are.continued it may-be ex- .| Danforth as the soldier waiked out .rather dejectedly. -| But what of that? ‘| elusive, ome of- the most compiex ‘and éek- gold. or a. | TALK or Tm; TOWN Beat Him to It. One day recently when "Cuvid" Danforth was reading the names of’ those to whom he had issued marriage licenses to _the - newspaper reporters entered a soldier who expressed a desire to secure the .necessary matri- monial permit. Danforth asked the newcomer to be seated until he got through and then resumed his read- ing of the names. All went well until Danforth ‘read the names “John Senon—Mar! Sturgis,” when the aoldler arose ami said excitedly: } “I beg your pardon. -, Did I henr you aright? Was. that’ l{'cen.le for John Selton and Mary Sturgis " . “Yes-sir, those are the names,” re- ‘plied Danforth. “Well that’s thé limit,” said the sol- dier. Selton beat me to it all right. ‘Why, the girl promised to marry me last night and I told her I would se~ cure the mtrrln;e lcense to-day.’ She must have seen Selten and accepted him, too, but I guess he did not stop on the way to tell some of his friends ell, you're in hard luck,” said “But’ I hlwe yau will call again soon.” - “You just bet I will, but T will be here when" you -open up your bffice next time,” said the soldier, as he slammed the door. ¥ The Race. It tell out in a cértlln year of grace, An elephant dnd donkey ran a race. The people gathered there, from far.and near, . 3 A few to bet, but miore to see and cheer. An odd race, truly! For the larger beast Outweighed the other fifty times at least. The donkey, said the wisd. © Malkes up ln swiftness what he lacks in size. The elephant both bulk and strength ‘combines,- But isn't built on strictly racing:lines. The denkey s friends thus figured on the And cheered each other—they had ' grounds for hope. After much jockeying the race began, The elephant quite cleariy-in the van. He ke'pt hi: lead. He ambled round the Nor* wasted any time in looking b‘ck. And thus to tne tliree-quarter post he sped, * A dozen tlephmtlfle lengths-ahead, ‘When, fuelln: that there ‘was no further He slackened up a trifle-in his spesd. “Go it, you- donkey!" yelled -his friends.. “He's- beat! Now crowd him The:dohikey hexrd. His fly!nfl hcofs now talrly spurned the dir Put more glngar in He madé a final t. Along the homestretch now, without a. <heck. He sped, and soon the two were neck and | necl They neared thé wiré.: Then, 'mld_deaf- - ‘ening cheers, The donkey suddenly thrust out his ears. | But that bhmed el'phan! with all his stry Shot out hln frunk -and" beat him by a lenglh ~(‘hlrugo Tribune. according to his daily custom there | been made aware of a rather remarka- ble editorial article, admittedly written by the Prince, in which, commenting on the recent meeting of Prince Ferdinand ot-Bulgaria and King Peter of Servia. he expresses his approval thereof, de- claring it.to be “the first step toward the only rational and only safe Balkan policy—namely, the formation of a fed- eration of the Balkan states under the Protectorate of Russia.” At the same time the article reminds the world, and more p.rtxcularly the King of Servia . and the Prince of Bulgaria, that Mon- teriegro was the first standard-bearer of liberty in the Bajkans, leaving them to draw the logical conclusions com- cerning the Prince’s claims to the lead-. el‘lhiD. * This idea of Prince Nikita of Monte- negro ‘is likewise the policy of the Gov- ernment and people in Russia. They all aim at a Balkan federation under a Russian protectorate. Thus the Fan- . Slavist Society of R which, bear- ing the title of the Sla'v. Benevolent So- ciéty, Is in reality one of the most in- fluential poMtical organizations in Eu- rope, has' just. elected. King Peter of Servia to be.an honorary member, pro- claiming him .as one of the pillars of the movement for the unification of all the Slavic races. But; to return to- the Prince of Mon- ‘tenegro he is the .only ruler who can be described as a newspaper man, and, of’ course, he enjoys all sorts .of ad- vantages ‘over his fellow editors, ‘pub- lishers and leader writers in other ¢.intries, since he is not subject’ to any press I~ws'and has no fear of libel suits before his eyes. As he’is'a haird drinker, his utterances .in his newspa- - per are often’ characterized by a great deal of vVigor, making up in that re- pect, in fact, logic and sequence. - The paper fre- quently contaifs poems written by the King’s second and ‘favorite son, Mirko, r who is 3 poet and composer of merit.- It has, however, no comiic supplement; at any rate, not in thé Western sense of the word, for the Montenegrin con- ception of humor-is somewhat grim. . It ta’a great pity- that - could not have been invited to the. in- ternational press parliament at - St. Lauis. Me would cert - 'ihe W:zafd Burbaflk i have met recently tn a little vine- mantled cottage, not far from the Pa- cific, a remarkable man, known to ex- perts throughofit the country and- be- yond, vet one of the least known to the general public. Luther Burbank has evolvéd more extrsordinsry and, in- deed, more marvelous . Dlanl -Jife t)iln any other man.: Without the training of the college or the univérsity; he yet leads in bne of the most subtle and baffling departinents af modern re- search. 3 On‘a wind-swept mesa h- finds a’ wild' flower of some. native beauty, but insignificant in: size, and, in the main,’ ,uncome]y. He. takes this flower and gives it.a new life; increases its size,’ doubles its vigor, hastems .its. spring- | time appearing;:or, if it suits him, ‘he | transforms it - utterly, producing: a flower unlike anything wh.lch has yet | blossomed. He finds two trees, néither | | one, to hig mind, filling its true place in | thé. world—hé joln- them and praduces a new tfee possessing the best.of both. One such tree he has made which is fncw the most rapidly growing. tree’ known in’ the ‘temperate zomes of the ‘ world and .one of the most pmhflc of all’ nut-producing 'trees. He takes a small, unpalatable fruit, ‘ln{erior in size and lacking in nutri- {tion, and makes it over into another frult, large, rich, toothsome,. beauti- ful. A little daisy, small and imper- fect, appealed to him one day and he developed tk> insignificazit flower into -one several inches in. diameten, He {takes a flower with a large, showy. 'bloom, a handsome creature among its. | more delicate companions, but hav- ing an offensive odor, and gives to it a delicate, fragrant scent.” He has changed the hue of the yellow poppy into silver or amethyst or ruby. He has driven the pit from the plum and filled its ‘place with substances rich, | juicy and sweet. He created a wal- nut with far thinner shell-—so thin, |infleed that the hungry birds could perch upon the. branches, drive their | bills - through it and rob the nut of its meat. This would not do and he reversed the procen and bréd back until hé had a nut of just the right shell thickness. - Incidentally he draeve \the tannin from the walnut and has [left the meat almost as white as snow. “A Maker of New Plants apd by W. 8. Harwood in the July Sertbner‘l.. E ¢ I A Raval Ed:lor Evrnpe has -one rel‘nlnc sovereign ‘who is not_only the owner of d news- paper, but likewise its ~ditor and prin- ciral editorial, or leader, writer. The sovereign in question. ! the ro lgnlu' Prince of Montenegro, and. !he paper which he owr< and edits, and in which he writes, is the “Glas Cznogorca” (The Voice of the Montenegri- It is the only mewspaper published in Monte- negro, the Prince tole no cem- peti’ % in this particula; branch of industry, and as it enjoys the monapoly of advertisements as wel as of ne itiza prolific source of revenue to the Prince. It is carefully read by all the f-ceign dip’ mats aecredit.’ i asfde from anything else, would havas commanded ‘attention and good will, owing: to the enthusizstic ‘admiration- professed by the lafe Mr. Gladstone. for for what they lack in ~ the * Prince v have proved .. 1 one of its most plcturesque ‘figures, and, his Hterary Bbllluel.—L. H!rqu\.e de - Fontenoy: A :Lr'(yrs to Ouen'u. F. O. B.—Subscriber; Oakland. The. fnitials ®. O B. 1s & commercial term for “ftee on board.” . RURAL ‘B., Folsom, Cal n|nn is published in Lflg Angeles. - WEDDIVG ANmRSARY'-G. 8, City.” The fortieth annliversary of a wedding s called ‘the “ruby wedding.™ THE PRESmENT —-luhcflber Ala- meda, Cal. There is no law that pro- hibits the “Piesident of the [Tnited States from leaving the territorial lfm: its of the country dur)nz his un. of office. it COLDRS OF THE FLAG-R. H City. The meaning of the , cqlory . of the American flag are: Red, courage, or daring; white, purity; blue, Justice, or fidelity, Another explanation fs: Red, love; white, mflty. and blue, truth. MATTER- OF ‘HISTORY.— City. If you will go td the Fres Pub- lic Library and spend’ a short time reading up the histories of the United- States you will find the Mormtmn you desire about the settlement of dif- ferent States by whites.. This depart- ment cannot give space to the great number of questions asked on this sub- Ject. - lNDEPENDE T CANDIDATES.—P. B. J., Oakland, Cal. This department has not been able to find any precedent for an individual placing himself be- fore the public as an independent can- didate for President .of the United States. If an individual wished to do sa he would urdoubtedly have to be guided by the laws of each State, aw for instance in California he would have to secure the ndmes of a statdd number of the voters af the State before could get Tepresentation on the ballot. WHITE SPOTS — — A correspondent Who a few days since fead the answer - in this department nbont white spots on finger nails writes from Visalla on | this subject ‘Bavin. read your an- i ” c CALIFORNTAN. —Mrs. H. ¢ The Rural Califors swer in The Cail about white spots on - the nails of the hands | wish to the readers of -the qlu!'y column-t’h:‘:' the white spojs stand for cold or in- flamed lungs. If a person catches cold and it locates In the throat, white spots will appear high on the finger nails and stay theu antil’ the nalls grow out and the spot Is removed by cutting. Such spots on the left hand indjcate an affection of the left lung and on the right hand o€ ‘the right lung. This is not super- stition; but can be verified by one af- fected with spots on the finger nails. You are right, they cannot be removed, until they grow- out.” ' ———— ‘Townsend's California Glace artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 l-'r"l‘:.d.‘! Special Informas supplied- daly to m\-—- “‘m the Torte voone -m.....‘.‘“"" % o8