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ial Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. LONDON, June 23.—Wil- son Barrett certanly has the knack of finding effective plots for his plays. The Néver, Neve nd,” the drama that ger recently wr uation that new, and the idea of Durham,” which Barrety produced at Liverpool the other night. is even more striking. It teils the of a man’s scheme for bringing down vengeance on the head of his own father. The parent is Lord Mountfallon, a wealthy and pleasure- oving English peer of lowly birth, ste # wor nd Durham. th of the play, is the illegitimate hild of the two. At the beginning of the drama we see him, as a young | the stain on his d determined to revenge him- d his mother, and throughout ay the day of reckoning comes and rer. Durham’s nic man, handicapped by seif 2 name of “Lucky” is well deserved. Fortune wherewith to carry out his plan of revenge comes to him as it came to Monte Cristo and he gets to be a great financier. His plan is to ruin Lord Mountfallon, to get pos- | session of his ancestral home and to his mother there, but the piece matically with Durham turr his purpose by the mother, om as he is ready to strike the final d crushing blow. The play’s recep- t Liverpool was so enthusiastic rett means to bring it to Lon- don as soon as possible, and I under- stand that the disposition of the Americar rights is already being Giscussed It reall of the Ame been and th does seem as if a new pian- d arisen. He though he has ghteen years away from home, now, perhaps, more Teuton 1 Yankee. His name is Otto Voss 1is two piano recitals in London focused on him much ecritical attention, the general feeling being. apparently, that even Paderewski has found a rival in this clean cut, solid Jooking young man of 28 or 29. When he 8 or 10 years old he appeared in New York a few times as a wonder- child pianist and since then has been have studying in France, Germany and Austria putting on the finishing | touches with Paderewski's teacher, the mighty Leschitizky, and finally be- 18 the assistant of that famous cer of great pianists. Voss left Leschitizky to become first professor of the piano at the Cologne Consery- atory and is now well launched as piano virtuoso. He is a rare com- pound of strength, delicacy, really marvelous technique and emotional qualities pretty well under con- trol and has the personal magnetism that made the dif- ference between Von Bulow and Ru- binstein, for example. He is not what would be called a “pretty” man, but he seems to have enough virility, sin- cerity and steadfastness to carry him far indeed. At any rate, you will probably have an opportunity of judg- ing of him, for he is planning to make & big Americn tour late in the ai- tumn. We expected better things of Max Pemberton. Hie first play, “The Finish- ing School,” which was brought out at Wyndham's last night, is genuinely amusing in svots, invariably pictur- €sque and occasionally rather dramatic, but when it was announced several months ago that there was to be a stage piece by the author of “The Gar- den of Swords” and “Kronstadt” we looked for something decidedly original in the way of plot. That, however, is exactly what Pemberton has not given us, for his heroine is just another Lady Ureula, who dons boy’s clothes in order to visit her love therein and promptly gets embroiled in duels and that sort of thing. Oddly enough, we had the same situation at Wyndham's a few weeks ago, when “The Sword of the King"—brought over from the United *ates—gave Ida Molesworth an oppor- tunity to swagger about in knicker- bockers during the short time that the 3lay lasted. it was announced some time ago that arrangements were complete for pro- ducing Pemberton’s maiden comedy in the United States, and after some prun- ing has been done it may enjoy some fator with audiences at home. Charles Wyndham revived “The Liars” at his new theater last evening for the last time. For the last, because the acting rights of this Jones play Wwill run out at the‘end of next week. The author, however, was not on hand 1o oversee the rehearsals. Mr. Jonés is @t the seaside working on a new play, which it is understood has been com- missioned by Wyndham. Bobrikoff’s Killing Expected. ST. PETERSBURG, June 22.—Little surprise was occasioned in official cir- cles here by the news of the assassina- tion of Nicolas Ivanovitch Bobrikoft, Governor General of Finland. The re- lentless measures which he adopted to crush out every vestige of liberty among the Fins arrayed against him every instinct of patriotism of that sorely oppressed people, and it was feit that it was only a question of time when one would arise to rid his coun- trymen of their tyrant. Bobrikoft was chief of staff of the se, contained a sit- | who has betrayed | St. Petersburg district when, in 1898, the reactionary advisers of the Czar, having determined on the complete Russification of Finland, began to cast around for a man best fitted by tem- perament and training to carry out that policy. Before that the Govern- ors of Finland had been men of cul- tured stamp and high social position, but for the work to be done it was felt that a man of a sterner type was need- ed. Three nrominent Russian states- men declined the position, being moved thereto perhans by considera- tion for their own personal safety, after which Bobrikoff was given the appointment. “You will inspire yourself,” the Czar, “with the endeavor to im- press upon the population of Finland the supremie importance of their com- plete identification with the common fatherland.” The task thus set upon him was to break the national spirit and to wipe out the constitutional lib- erties of a people who loved freedom and who enjoyed it by virtue of the fundamental laws of the land, which their Russian sovereigns have success- i wrote | f | | | THE LATE BOBRIKOFF. OF TIM OF AN ASS | I ively their sworn on succession | observe. | Bobrikoff enforced this programme | with : | delight him to show his aversion and contempt | ruthless severity and seemed to ; in the opportunities offered | for the dearest traditions and senti- ments of the people whom he had been sent to rule. Wholesale decrees of exile and deportation to the interior of Russia were issued against the most | distinguished leaders of Finnish opin- ion. All the leading newspapers were | suppressed. Edueation, except of the most rudimentary sort, was practi- cally forbidden. The Polytechnicum in Helsingfors, the only technical in- | stitute in Finland, was closed. All} meetings of students were stopped. A | Count was exiled because his wife, who | had the misfortune to be an "xtelh’nt; singer, gave concerts in aid of Finnish | schools. Protests proved worse than useless. They were invariably follow- | ed by still more ruthless acts of op-| pression. Same of the leading jurists of Eu- rope joined in an address to the Czar protesting against the flagrant viola- tions of Finland's constitutional rights. The Czar's acknowledgment of it took the form of a decree invest- ing Bobrikoff with despotic powers and empowering him on his own re- sponsibility to take whatever steps he | might deem necessary in the event of | the measures adopted by the Finnish authorities proving insufficient. He made full use of his extraordinary | prerogatives and his iron grip tight- | ened upon Finland. He turned the Senate into a Russian police bureau, | in which only the Russian language was spoken and only his own orders | carried out; he appointed Russians to | all important offices and overran the | country with Russian spies. In the eyes of the Finns he becme the incar- | nation of the most merciless form of | Rusisan tyranny. Deprived of every legitimate means of obtaining redress against the tyrant it is small wonder that his assassin, Herr Schaumann, ! should have concluded, as he stated | |in a letter found on his body ad- | dressed to the Czar: “There is only |one way to take in self-defense for rendering him innocuous. The rem- | €y is violent, but it is the only way.” different verdict upon him. He trans- formed Finland from a loyal province to one that would welcome any oppor- tunity to rid yoke. When Nicholas I had to con- front the united forces of France and England he intrusted the care of his capital to the Finnish regiments and full worthy did they prove of the trust imposed in them, but Czar Nicholas IT would not dare now employ them for a similar purpose. Whatever perils may beset his empire he must know that it would be futile to.appeal for the support of his subjects in Finland, whose chartered liberties he sent Gen- eral Bobrikoff to trample under fooi and against whose laws, traditions and In a message to Bobrikoff’s widow | the Czar has declared that Russia will'| ever treasure her husband’s memory as | that of a true hero and nohle patriot, | but history will pronounce a highly | itself of the Russlnn{ nished the country language he conspired .with M. de Plehve and all the forces of reaction. ——— s Editor—This stuff isn't poetry! It's the werst r-t I ever saw! Poet—Oh, come now! 1 tried to sell it to a popular ong house and they wouldn't | Y¢3rs: take it.—Puck. | many I'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, jULY 9, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « o « v o a0 o s o Addrcs; All Commaonications to JOAN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication OMfice ............oeesenen: Ctttteteiiiiiiiiiniiesiiiie e st - Third and Market Streets, S. F. ..JULY o, 1904 A RHINOCEROS. SATURDAY LOOK into the Democratic convention on the A road and after arrival at St. Louis closely re- sembled that view of Madrid enjoyed after Asmo- deus had lifted the lid off the town. The party needed a respectable man to run for the Presidency and has been advertising for an eligible for two years. The responses have not been numerous, because about all of that class left the party in 1896 and have not found a low place in the fence over which they cap jump back into the reservation. Those wno have ‘done so are all objectionable to Mr. Bryan, and so, as one after another has answered the ad.: “Wanted—A respectable gent. to run for the Presidency. No salary and must find himself,”. Mr. Bryan looked them over, like the master of the ballet does the girls who want a job at butterflying behind the footlights. One he finds thin in the shanks since 1896; another walks on a parenthesis acquired by traddling in 1900; another toes in on the Kansas City platiorm, and still another cannot be shaped up to suit, even with a straight-front corset, having gorged himself out of shape with the plutocrats. : Mr.” Hearst did not answer the ad. for obvious reasons, and has blayned August Belmont and Davjd B. Hill for purposely wording it so as to shut him out. has He has established newspapers in several cities since*! the competition began, in order to have adequate facili- ties for expressing himself, and it is suspected that even then thoughts arise in him that are incapable of suffi- cient utterance. Of course, they are about other people. His sumptuous, satisfactory and ornamented opinion of himself has been made familiar to the public by himself and goes gayly on its way through the country, a thing of frills and more than earthly beauty. So ’for many months the inquiry has run and been answered by gent. after gent, but at the meeting of the convention-not one was certain of the job. Mr. Olney has ,been in cold storage in Massachusetts and has even cultivated popular manners by ordering a toothpick with his usual lunch at the club, on a glass of ice water and the New York Evening Post. But he is too remote, roosts too high up in the empyrean for ordinary people to gall their withers carrying torches fer him. Judge Parker has been in lavender at Esopus, hoping that the office would come up the Hudson and make { @ landing, and Senator Gorman has sat inside of him- | self, apparently with neither friends nor enemies, In a job lot of favorite sons have responded from but they are among the “also men- Divided and at feud among themselves, ail candidates have, perhaps unconsciously, fur- with one of the most remarkable incidents in the history of American parties. When- ever Mr. Cleveland sat down, slept or addition ates, tioned.” of these has risen or waked, hunted, fished or cat bait, they have all shown the liveliest fear of him. Mr. Bryan, as the “Keeper of the Party,” has found it necessary to repeat to the country again and again his story of Cleveland's crimes in the Presidency, and Mr. Hearst, in his string of news- | papers, has told the country how bad the ex-President is, and how abhorrent to him. Still the worshipers in the temple of Jefferson show an alarming tendency to take down the new idols and sell them for junk and to dust and dress the old god and put him in the shrine from which they all dragged him by the heels only eight years ago. The singular part of this situation has been that the men who wanted Cleveland were not alls among those who have been steadfastly his triends. The most conspicuous among them were mer. who rejoiced when his reputation was burned in 186 and its ashes scattered to the four winds. John R. MclLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer put on thicker paint and more feathers than any other chief that danced around Cleveland’s scalp when Bryan took But even he was anxious to nominate the Princeton sage and had the whoie Ohio vote in his boot, to be pulled for that purpose. He declared that Cleveland was “a d——d old rhinoceros,” but even a political pachyderm was more popular than any other man in the party or the country. Without discussing Mr. McLean’s good taste in re- sorting to the wet side of a zoological garden to find a pet name for an ex-President, it must be admitted that the situation was suggestive and deserving of study. It revealed the inherent infirmity of the Democratic party, its tendency to go mad and not recognize the sound of its own voice. The country wishes it may recover from its malady, but will not trust it with powc‘r because of the radical fluctuations in its feelings as shown by its treatment of Mr. Cleveland. Republicans note this with keen interest and with the intentjon of avoiding such a misreading of public opinion as is making the Democracy appear like an escape from Bedlam. The people like and want Roosevelt and the | mummers and those who gnaw in whispers at the repu- tations of strong men will make no headw ay in imitating the daffy Democracy. The “hobo girl,” that strangely undesirable evolution of modern America. has reached Oakland and proves herself as completely as unlovable as she has been rep- resented. The “hobo girl” is a woman tramp, more de- graded, more offensive and infinitely more pitiable than the male of her association. She should be made to know that society will insist upon protecting her from herself, even if she has to be punished in the process. W rose, Lockwood and Fulton school districts in Alameda County are considering ways and means to provide a union high school that shall accommodate the boys and girls in those istricts, the Women’s Council of Sacramento is similarly concerned. Sacramento needs a new high school structure and is striving to obtain it. The Alameda County districts that have been named must either have their own accommodations or send abroad to take the highet edu- cational branches the pupils who come from the gram- mar grades. % A meeting has been held in Fruitvale and jt was there stated by T. O. Crawford, Superintendent of Schools, that an expense of $10,000 will be necessary the first year to rent and equip a building and employ the necessary teachers and that the cost for the second year will be about half that of the firs Sacramento’s proposition naturally involves a greater outlay. If the voters consent bonds will be issued to erect a building adequate to the city’s needs for many The office of the Women’s Council, as they view it, is to persunde'the‘\’wlm ‘flgat it is neccuav and HIGH SCHOOL MOVEMENTS. HILE the people of the Bray, Elmhurst, Mel- for the public good to have Sacramento well abreast of the times in all educational facilities. Very likely the women of the Alameda County districts, seeing what their Sacramento County sisters are doing, will take an active part in promoting high-school education among the districts in which they reside. A house to house canvass has been suggested by the Sacramento women as an efiicient way to reach voters. In Alameda’s dis- tricts also the voter is the person to whom appeal must be. made. * It will not be necessary to search far nor to go outside of the State of California to find striking examples of the material benefits that accrue to any community that has due care for its schools. A high school is the intermediate step between the grammar grades and the university. It is needed, if viewed only from a business standpoint, by every large community or district that wishes to keep its desirable | residents from moving away to where there are good | accessories to education. The public at large will wish good luck to the Alameda County districts now acting together and to the Sacramento women who are deter- mined to bring home to the children the best. facilities that can be secured. — According to the latest reports from the scene of newsless war in the Orient the Russian battleship Ret- vizan is not only afloat, but recently made twenty knots an hour in a speed test. Within the brief period of a few months the Retvizan has been destroyed, restored, destroyed again and again floated to affront the en- | emy. If this sort of thing keeps up the Flying Dutch- man will be a worn-out theme of wonder even for chil- dren. THE SUNDAY CALL. HE feature of The Call Magazine to-morrow will T few riage,” the novel which, since its appearance a months ago, has rapidly one of the few entirely original novels of the past few seasons. It is from the pen of Miriam Michelson, for a long time a member of The Call staff, and who, until her departure for the wider fields of the East some time ago, was one of the best-known newspaper this State. . The novel is an elaboration of a short story by the women in -same title which appeared in one of the magazines and which made such a forcible impression that Miss Michel- son was at once requested to continue the adventures of the irrepressible Nance, which she did with such signal success that the book has been enthusiastically | heralded as the one literary find of the year. The story deals with the career of Nance Olden, the female accom- plice of a professional crook, and with her ultimate re- generation, and is at times exciting and always interest- ing. The story will be fully illustrated and will be pub- lished complete in four installments. Among other noteworthy fiction features will be one of Norman Duncan’s famous Newfoundland stories, “The Chase of the Tide,” told with all the vigor and strength that have made this author famous as a writer | of stories of the simple, rugged fisher folk of the New- foundland banks; “A Corner in Paradise,” an original little storiette by Keith Gordon, aptly illustrated; stori- ettes by Colin S. Collins, Euphemia Holden and Ruth Santelle, all names familiar to magazine readers: “That Terrible Fiscal Question,” by Jerome K. Jerome, and the usual Sunday morning talk by the Parson and a pithy fable by Nicholas Nemo. The leading special article is a sympathetic study at close range of Henry T. Oxnard. the sugar magnate, which is of especial interest in view of the possibility of Lis being chosen as the next Senator from California. The article is by Alired Dezendorf and deals especially with the personal side of Mr. Oxnard and his home life. In “The Hand-Painted Summer Girl,” Augusta Prescott describes the latest Eastern fads in fancy decorative hand painted work on fans, parasols, hats and various articles of dress; in “The Natural Woman,” Colonel Kate gives some good advice as to preserving beauty without artificial aids; Helen Rowland contributes a page on “The Domestic Training of the Tot,” and on the Women's Page Madge Moore describes the latest femi- nine type, the “Fichu Girl.” “A Morning Row on Stow Lake” in three colors is the first of a serfes of full-page drawings by John F. Woolrich, depicting scenes and incidents in Golden Gate Park and on the Ocean Beach. These will appear from time to time. The puzzle page, as usual, announces the names of the one hundred and fifty lucky guessers and furnishes material for a new contest. “Pop Goes the Weasel” will be found upon the music page, which, as usual, is in colors. An internal revenue system for the Philippines has been established by the Federal Government and great promises of a self-sustaining island éolony glitter in the air of national finance. There is at least some gratifi- cation in the fact that while the Filipinos plainly can- not govern themselves oif a great American standard of | ™ conduct, they will at least be forced to pay us for making the attempt. Another glorious advance has been made by British arms in Tibet and hundreds more of inoffensive people have fallen before the march of greed and aggression. The British mission to the unfortunate country has be- come a “war.” The next step will be the justification and glorification of British soldiers by British states- men and then the incident will be considered closed. John Alexander Dowie is home again and a scofting world jeers no more at his pompous pretensions. His progress was anything but royal, but in the record of it he has seen fit to place San Francisco upon his bad books. This is clearly one of the best recommendations that we have received in some time. Dowie should con- gratulate himself that he has been of use to some one. AL~ Several very proper visitors to the St. Louis Exposi- tion have made vigorous protest to President Roosevelt against the alarming lack of civilized garb that distin- guishes some of the semi-savage representatives of the Philippine Islands. The critics should remember that propriety is not prudery and that even truth looks good to man when it is naked. The Supreme Court of Nevada granted a new trial re- cently to four convicted murderers, one of whom stood self-confessed of the terrible crime of which he is ac- cused. It is not generally that we are given so clear an i}lustrafion of the fact as this, that law is not always justice in American courts. \ be the first installment of “In the Bishop's Car- | leaped into favor as | \,‘v Ho, Nellie! T | Hey. Nellie! running away. No error in this state- ment, for she was in motion. She had left all she owed to her people, all she owed to duty, and she was surely run- ning away. She had stood on the cor- ner of Mission and Nineteenth streets long enough, she thought, and now with the light wagon and its load of milk-cans clattering behind her she was running away. Nellie caught a glimpse of her driver as he came out on the sidewalk with a pint-measure in his hand, and she heard his startled | call. The idle dogs on the block bow- | wowed an earnest protest to her law- less action, but she only ran the faster. The big policeman issuing leisurely | from Guggenheimer’s grocery with the | froth still on his mustache threatened her with the majesty of the law, but Nellie was running away and she kicked joyously at the bluecoat as she | swept by him. Down Mission she galloped, leaving i'," ¥ H ; 8 | ‘ \ ‘ 1 | | | | , | | ; i | | | i i | | | [ il ‘ i { | | | (| l [ ] | | | I , SRR | |+ o 2 a can here and there, dodged through ! Seventh and swung into Howard head- ing for the ferry. Probably she ex- pected to fetch up in some rich Ala- i meda hayfield. But she didn't. A big { phonograph with a megaphone at- tachment was howling from a saloon as the runaway drew near and just | then it sang, “Hey Nellie! Ho, Nellie! Bring the broom along— Hey, Nellie! Ho, Nellie!” Gone was Nellie's determination to take a vacation. She slowed down ahd !as the machine repeated the strain | stopped. Nellie’s runaway was ended. Gould Stood the Test. George J. Gould and President Ram- sey of the Wabash Railroad have been | inspecting that system very closely this spring and one of the features that excited Mr. Gould's interest was the system of physical examination estab- lished by President Ramsey some time ago, says a New York telegram to the Baltimore American. All applicants for places and all employes connected with the movement of trains are re- quired to submit to a thorough exami- nation as to their physical’ condition, evesight, hearing, quickness of action, “e . | *“You have got this thing down fine, | Ramsey,” remarked Mr. Gould, after physician’s question blank. “Yes, I think our method covers all the points,” said President Ramsey. “Anybody that passes this examination can felicitate himself on being a pretty good man."” “Say, I would like to try it,” said Mr. Gould, impulsively. “Have you an ex- aminer on the line that does not know e?"” After a moment's reflection, President Ramsey replied: “There is a new ex- aminer in Pittsburg who came from New England, and I am sure that he never saw you. I will give you an or- dinary card entitling you to an exam- ination and you can go alone and see him.” keen-eyed marksman and all-around athlete donned a cardigan jacket over an outing shirt, and, with an old cap on his head, sought the Wabash's phy- sical examiner. The result of the in- terview, as subsequently reported by the examiner and passed.up to Mr. as follows: “This applicant in almost perfect physical condition, as indicated on the accompanying chart. His biceps and | chest measurements above the aver- age. I have marked eyesight and hear- ing each at 100. Recommend that the applicant be passed. He would make a good brakeman, and after awhile might be trained for the post of loco- motive engineer. Appears to have nerve as well as good eyesight.” Sources of the Peerage. Progress is revolution in disguise and by degrees,” a well-known Tory has recently said, “it is destined to make the peers powerless and the poor prosperous.” The description will re- mind many of the phrase uttered by Cromwell: “There will never be a good time in England till we have done with the lords.” ' ‘What is the value of our peerage of TALK OF THE TOWN | Her name was Nellie and she was scrutinizing the book of rules and the | The millionaire, crack polo player, | Gould by Mr. Ramsey, ran lomelhlnxl et Lord Beaconsfleld answered in “Coningsby” many to-day? the question years ago: * “‘Ancient lineage,” said Mr. Mill- anclent lineage. The real old families of this country are to be found among the peasantry; the gentry, too, may lay some claim to old blood. I cam point you out Saxon families in this country Wwho can trace their pedigrees beyond the conquest; I know of some Norman gentlemen whose fathers undoubtedly came over with the Conqueror. But a peer with an ancient lineage is to me quite a novelty. No, no; the thirty years' war of the roses freed us from | those gentlemen. I take it after the | battle of Tewkesbury, a Norman baren | was almost as rare a being in England as a wolf is now.’ . { “1 have always understood,’ said | Coningsby, ‘that our peerage was the finest in Europe.” “‘From themselves,’ said Millbank; ‘and the heralds they pay to paint their carriages. But T go to facts. When Henry VII called his first Parllament there were only twenty-nine temporal peers to be found, and even some of them took their seats illegally, for they had been attainted. Of those twenty- | | nine not five remain; and they, as the Howards, for instance, are not Norman | nobility. We owe the English peerage | to tbree sources—the spoliation of the | churah, the open and flagrant sale of | hanors the elder Stuarts and the | boroughmongering of our own times. Those are the three main sources of | the existing peerage of England, and, in my opinion, disgraceful onmes.” " | Lord Beaconsfield might have added | a fourth origin of the existing peerage, ‘}m wit, the bestowal of honors upon | the mistresses of the kings and their | illegitimate ildren. This decorous | nation, therefore, delights to honor | these who have inherited titles from | such shametul sources!—London Truth. by Hope. The good time is just over yonder Where the light in the clear heaven shines: The blithe bltlms ar:,sil:‘lgnl’. glad bells are ringing. T'T:ntll‘nu- wind whispers sweet to the vines! There is never the ghost of a sorrow, And love is reali And heaven scems S0 | That the angels we hear And their songs in our hearts we re- peat! souls that through trouble have striven. They rise to an infinite height; Love-gifted and strong. With no sigh in their se They dream in the lil The and light! The deep wings of peace brood above th ver a_thorn's in the sod; They pass to the glory | Of heaven's old story. The beautiful gard Atl And T s of God! a Constitution. Locating Fracturé of Bone. A very simple method of locating fractures in bones, particularly in long by the aid of a tuning fork is proposed by a Chicago surgeon. A tethoscope the bone as near as possible to the point of sus- pected fracture and on the side where the skin is thinnest. Then a vibrating tuning fork is placed against the flesh near the bone, but on the other side of the fracture if possible. If the bone is continuous a distinet. clear sound will be heard in the stethoscope, but if the break is between the two, this | sound. will be faint and irregular, as | the vibrations will not be transmitted | past the break. Of course this method | depends upon the fact that hard bone is an excellent conductor of vibration, while tissue s not. » Perhaps even a more valuable application of this idea would be in finding out when a break has knitted properly, for when the joining is again perfect the sound will be as clear as that of an unbroken bone. | | ones, | | | is placed over Ansteers to Querie. FORESTERS—Subscriber, City. The first ccurt of the Ancient Order of For- esters in San Francisco was instituted December 23, 1874. It was also the first on this coast. BACK PAY—Subscriber, Sharon, Cal. If you have a claim against the United States Government for back pay as In- dian agent on a California reservation between 1850 and 1859 address a com- munication to the Congressman of the district in which you live. COTTONY CUSHION SCALE-S. R. | M., City. The State Board of Agricul- | ture-gives the following as a wash to be used on fruit trees affected with cottony cushion scale: “Reosin, twenty pounds; caustic soda (70 per cent), six pounds; fish oil, three pounds. Place these ingredients in a large boiler, pouring over them about twenty gal- lons of water. and cook thoroughly over a brisk fire ‘for at least three hours: then add hot water, a little occasion- ally, and stir well until you have not less than fifty gallons of hot solution. Place this in a spray tank and add cold water to make the necessary amount. Never add cold water when cooking.” The amount mav be diminished by re- ducing the proportions of ingredients. —_————— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* N“-ehl information supplied ‘h“’":" siness houses and public men ] Press Clippiog lumu":r\ll';n'l» 230 Cal- iforuia strect. Telephone Main 1043, *