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

Japanese Can’t 11'ear Shoes. Unfortunately, civiliza- tion, which has penetrated the land of western the rising sun, has prevented the Jap- | from making the full use of their native quality of good walkers. Their feet appear to be less adaptable to modern ideas—a tion at the best. their brair adapt thar superficial Although elegance and fashion have | taken hold on them to such an ex- tent that silk hats, dress coats, ey glasses, white linen shirt fronts and many-colored rosettes have been read- ily adopted, not the same the case with shoes. The nation is still re- fractory of the shoe; it submits to it rather than accepts it. The states-4 man who returns home from the House of Parliament or the ministe- rial offices in a frock coat, silk hat and varnished boots makes haste to take | off the shoes, which are to him a ver- jtable instrument of torture, and re- place them by straw sandals or wood- | en shoes. half or three-quarters civilized Japanese suffers in his feet | what must it M. Matignon asks, for the poor little foot soldier brought if a be, from the wilds of the island of Jesso or Tison Suna? Up to the time of his incorporation in the army his feet have been absolutely free. As soon as he reaches his regiment they are inclosed in a sheath of leather more of e rigid, which will incommode him, render him footsore and make him aimost ess on the march. In the campaign of 1900, when the Japanese troops had no long marches, | this of the feet in shoes had | opportunity of displaying turc much It w 1865 in Manchuria. The forced marches were most trying: ¢he winter was se- was considerable. A large proportion of the rank and file and not a few of- ficers marched in the little straw san- dals of the copniry, which were per- fect during that season, but incapable of withstanding the intense cold as prevails in Manchuria during the win- ter. me officers, whom M. Matig- non met in Japan in October, 18 when thes tion in China, told him that the shoe had done more injury to their men than the bullets of the Chinese. This just consideration of hy- giene,” he says in conclusion, “will no doubt have its weight with the the- orists of strategy, who settle battles and victories upon paper.” It must not, nevertheless, be forgotten that in the days of old Napoleon won baitles with the legs of his “gognards,” and in the present day, on the plains of | Manchuria, victory will perhaps fall | to the lot of the army which has the best feet.”"—Paris Edition New York Herald. Sceking for Talismans. When the late Professor Sommer- villie of the University of Pennsylvania, the learned collector of gems, charms and mascots, had set his mind on some curio heard of in one of his meetings with Orientals, nothing could bar the way. Were it in the center of the desert of Sahara or on the topmost pinnacle of the Himalayan mountains, he would go after it and keep up the search until the treasure was found, purchased and placed on exhibition at the university museum. American gold was Professor Som- merville’s magnet wherever he went. He thus describes its efforts on one of his expeditions: “Om one occasion we desired to visit the famous Dilwarra temples in India and for that purpose ‘engaged two jin- rikishas and a number of natives to draw them, about twelve in all. The temples, as you know, are set in a magnificent grove of mango trees on a mountain top and surrounded by great hills. With a fair measure of tact and money 1 hoped to secure from the peo- ple of the vicinity some of their odd 1alismans and rings. - I sald to the chief rikisha man: ‘Now, Lala, what will you do for me if I double your pay? 1 want to make this journey in half time, and if you accomplish it you shall be doubly paid.’ “He went to his helpers at once and informed them that I was a Prince. We started out under the contract. He ran ahead of the convoy, raising both hands in the 2ir and crying to the uastounded people: ‘Here comes a Prince. Down with you. Here comes & Prince.” . “And during the entire twelve miles’ ride I was treated to the un-American experience of seeing the people cover their faces and drop abjectly to the ground in obeisance and salutation, only daring te look at me through their parted fingers. But my amuse- meat at thus being treated at a Prince was nothing to the gratification I ex- perienced in securing from this peo- ple—who did not dire to refuse so au- gust a personage as I—some of the most interesting inscribed talismans that I have in my collection.” Odd Effects of Altitude. The British Tibet expedition, which has required the existence of troops at altitvdes of from 10,000 to 15,700 feel ubove sea level, has furnished a number of instances of the effect of a high eleviiion on life and habits, I'here has been considerable mountain sickness among the men, who were s different in the campaign of | the number of forced marches | returned from the expedi- | }mmo unused to such altitudes, and | also a large amount of indigestion due to undercocked food. At elevations of 15,000 feet water { boils at about 180 degrees Fahrenheit, | and, consequently, the ordinary | amount of cooking is quite inadequate. At such a height it is almost impos- | sible to boil rice properly, while of | the several kinds of dal, or ordinary red lentil of India, there is only one | variety that can be cooked at heights over 10,000 feet. For such elevations there should have been provided cook- ing vessels with air-tight lids provided with safety valves, which would blow off at a pressure of fifteen pounds to | the square inch, or approximately that of the atmosphere at sea level. An- other effect of the altitude and tem- perature was the difficulty in the oper- ation of the magazines of the rifles and the mechanism of the Maxim guns on account of the congealing of the oil, which lost its lubricating properties. This could have been remedied by sup- plying glveerine for lubricating pur- poses.—Harper's Weekly. Seats on Paris Bourse. It may be said that a seat among the seventy (they call it a charge) costs about 3,000,000 francs ($600,000), or sometimes 2,500,000, and a charge earns “lfrom § to 15 per cent (net) a year, | =0 that the annual profits are from | $30,000 to $90,000, 'or more in exceptional | years. But these are usually divided | among several associates, for it rarely happens that an agent is the sole own- er of his seat. More often he has paid for on half of it or a third of it, and has three or four silent partners who | own the rest and who may again have subpartners, so that you will hear of a person owning an eighth or a sixteenth of a seat, or even a thirty-second, these being simple investments that carry no rights or privileges on the bours i As to procuring a charge, the thing :has none of the stock exchange sim- | plicity, where the main requirement for | getting a seat is to be able to pay for it. Here a candidate must be a French- man and at least 25 years old. He must have served four years in certain forms of business. He must be per- sonally acceptable to the agent from whom he would purchase the seat and often to his family, including the women. He must be passed upon by the seventy with formal voting, as if he were joining some select club, which | he is. There must be no stain on his business record, and no slur on his per- sonal character. A candidate was re- jected recently for bad habits, and an- other for no fault of his own, but be- cause his brother had been concerned | in questionable transactions. With all this favorably settled, there is still needed the approval of the minister of lflnanu- and the sanction of the pre: dent. This makes it clear enough why | many of the ablest dealers on the bourse have not been members of the parquet, but of the coulisse. They could not get into the parquet.—The Century. The T “aluable Tele phone. From the flgurf-’s given it appears that in 1902 there were something more | than five thousand millions of tele- phone messages exchanged in the United States. If it is assumed that half the messages sent were sent be- cause it was merely convenient, there remain two thousand five hundred | miilions of necessary communications, of consequence as affecting the busi- ness or social activities of the Ameri- can people. To find « ut how much time was saved we must assume an arbi- trary average. On long-distance mes- sages this might run into days for each communication. On nearby calls it might be but minutes. If we assume, as we may safely do, that the saving of time on each necessary communi- cation in asking the guestion and get- ting an answer, or o.. imparting or re- celving information, will average at least ten minutes by telephone over any other available agency of commu- nication, we find that the saving on the two thousand five hundred mil- lions of messages of the exigent and important class exchanged in 1902 was twenty-five thousand million minutes, or 416,666,666 hours, or 17,361,111 days, or 47,830 years. If we allow fifty years for the maxi- mum average of useful life, the ten minutes’ saving on each of one-half the messages of the 1902 telephone ser- vice would aggregate the entire life- time for purposes of work of more than 956 able-bodied men employed as messengers, By as much as we should vary the assumed average saving of time per message our totals would in- crease or decrease. Probably ten min- utes per message is far below the fig- ure which would be warranted—Elec- trical World. Cost of Subtway Disaster. The disaster which occurred in tke Paris “underground” less than a year ago has proved a costly matter for the Metropolitan Company, lessee of the line. Compensation cost close upon $235,000 and loss of traffic amounted to over $160,000. The total income of the railway for the year was $3,530,000, and of this, under the terms of the conces- sion granted by the Paris municipality, there has had to be handed over to the relief of the city rates the sum of $1,- 140,000. Then, after deducting the work- ing expenses, which were in the neigh- borhood of $1,500,000 (42 per cent of the receipts), it was possible to give a divi- dend of about 6 per cent. The year has been one of great moment to the Paris company in the matter of capital ex- penditure upon the new power station, the conversion of the system of elec- trically working the trams to multiple unit, etc., and a great deal of new roll- ing stock is now in course of building. The lighting and traction supplies are now effected by entirely separate cir- cuits, so that in future the stoppage of a train through failure of the power circuit will not mean that there will be no light available—a matter which will be remembered was one of the chief causes of the panic at Paris. The un- certaking so far completed represents about twenty-two miles out of the twenty-six miles which constitute the first section. The new generating sta- tion, which is now almost ready, has a plant of about 20,000 horsepower. ~ JITHE SAN THANCISCO CALL \ § THE 'SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. JULY 16, 1904. JOHN D. SPREGE.S. Proymtor oo elsie @ pre o wr Adress Al! Cnmmmkaflou to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager .......Thlrdlndllrkusms.’l?. s \’l L'RD AY ..JULY 16, 1904 ! CASH FOR FRUIT. OMMENTING on the prospectus issued by the ‘ Citrus ion, The Call directed attention to its proposition to promote the ca8h sale of citrus fruits in California by encouraging the buyers to appear where the crop is. The great leak in the orchard profits of this State occurs between the consumer, and the pro- ducer. That leak is not due to freight charges, which are a known quantity, and do not account for the eva: poration of what the consumer pays before it reaches the producer. The trouble is that the producer is com- pelled to take all the risks of the business until the fruit is in the mouth of the eater. Cash sales at the shipping point nearest the orchard would end the grower’s risk there and he could go home with his cash in his pocket, knowing just what he had, without lying awake pondering the problem of who would rob him most, and how. If the Citrus Union or any other organization can approximate this desirable condition it should be encouraged. It was with that view that we enlarged knowledge of its!purposes. In doing this we were only promoting a commercial prin- ciple that is of the greatest importance to all the pro- ducers of perishable property. They have nothing to say about the cost of carrying it, nor about the final price to the consumer.” They lose control of it entirely when it goes into the cars. Yet it continues at their risk until its final consumption. Everybody who touches it between the producers and the consumers' makes money out of it. The railroads take their freight charge in advance. The middleman takes his commission. The boxmaker takes his. cash in ad- vance for his boxes. The producers pay cash to every- body else with whom they deal in picking, packing and transporting their fruit, and it is the most wasteful and unbusiness-like system that compels ‘them to give up possession of their property without getting cash for it. It is so easy to misunderstand a newspaper and to ascribe to it a sinister motive, that we seem to have been misunderstood this. We are in receipt of a letter from a member of the Southern California Fruit Exchange which opens the subject by saying: “I was surprised to read in your paper of June 28 your edi- torial entitled ‘Cash for Fruit' You seem to be under some misapprehension as to the personality of the Citrus Union and the amount of fruit controlled by them.” Then follows an exposition which it is not necessary to reproduce, by which it appears that the shipments this year have been divided as follows: Southern California Fruit Exchange, 46 per cent; Citrus Union, 32 per cent; Independents, 22 per cent. The writer continues: “I inclose circular issued by the Southern California Fruit Exchange, as I feel sure that you do not wish to use your great influence in damaging the cause of co-operation among growers. There is no question as to the advisability of selling our fruit for cash in California, but this much is desired and can be obtained only when the large majority of the growers see the wisdom of combining their interests with their fellow growers in a co-operative organization, such as the exchange.” Now, without enforcing the suggestion that it is natu- ral for a man to see salvation only in his own taber- nacle, we desire to say that' whoever may or whatever organization can advance the orchard interest by foster- ing cash transactions in California will have our support. It is the commercial principle for which we contend, not for any special instrument for its accomplishment. We are even willing to be criticized unjustly if that will aid in such agitation as will inspire the combined wits of the producers to seek ways and means by which their fruit will mean cash at the shipping station, just as the Eastern farmers’ wheat, corn, oats and livestock mean cash at the nearest railroad point. 1f co-operation will help, by all means co-operate, but we beg to suggest to our correspondent that co-opera- tion is not best secured under the sectional banner of the “Southern California Fruit Exchange.” The North- ern Citrus Growers have an appreciable and excellent output. Their experience is that marketing their fruit under the stencil of the Southern California Fruit Ex- change causes it to be thought East that Porterville, Oroville, Palermo, Cloverdale and Lincoln are in South- ern California. They do not like to merge their ind uality in that way. The great experiment of co-operation will go on more rapidly and satisfactorily if the directors of that organization can content themselves with drop- ping the sectional adjective. Every one knows that not a single grower south of Tehachapi would join a “Northern California Fruit Exchange,” even if it held out the pros- pect of material benefit. The stake is so great that it should not be imperiled by an adjective. in Emperor William has been roundly denounced by a German editor for displaying a marked interest in af- fairs American and a decided friendship for the people of the United States. While we may safely leave the future of this scribe to the attention of the Emperor, it is not untimely to suggest to our German quill driver that the world is big enough and good enough to per- mit of friendships and perhaps benefits even out of Ger- many. I us. The West Shore railroad has built a sidetrack from Esopus to Judge Parker’s house, the news- paper correspondents have been equipped with high power field glasses and located in the hills overlooking the candidatial residence. The millinery of the lady members of his family is under public scrutiny and a ground plan and front elevation of his coachman has been secured for use in an emergency. Those, however, are mot all the signs of activity at the front. Two nights after his nomination the candi- date, at the dead hour of 1 a .m., heard the sound of hoofs in his barnyard. He arose, found and lighted a candle and in his dignified shirt tail went out the back door to see what was the matter. One of his coach horses had got loose and was in the yard. The Judge sought to catch him and with the candle in one hand and persuasion in the other followed the hackney round and round the barnyard unsuccessfully. That horse had more sense than the St. Louis convention. He demanded a declaration of intentions before he was caught. The account of this thrilling adventure becomes neby- lous at tWe close and the reader is left in doubt whether that horse was returned to his stall or is still walking round and about the barnyard pursued by the Presiden- tial candidate, candle in hand and feeding mosquitoes as he goes. But we know the campaign is upon us by the publication of such incidents in the daily and nightly career of the candidate. Judge Parker has left privacy behind. He must understand that he can’t regulate his THE FIGHT IS ON. NDEED, the campaign, with all its honors, is upon stable in his shirt tail now without having millions of readers know it. It is a semi-agricultural incident and he should endeavor to have more of the same kind. He should be detected setting a hen, or bringing home a moon calf in a wheelbarrow, while its excited dam keeps up a running fire on his rear. All of these things are useful just now, and Esopus should be the fountain head of all kinds of rural politics. The Supervisors have taken the initiative in what they believe to be necessary legislation to amend the char- ter. It is perhaps unnecessary to observe that the pro- posed reforms will affect neither the incompetency nor the extravagance of the various municipal bureaus that have made the City Hall a haven for many sons of rest. Amendment from the supervisorial point of view does not mean correction. THE SUNDAY CALL. T the second installment of Miriam Michelson’s famous novel, “In the Bishop’s Carriage.” This book is almost twice as much in demand at the leading libraries as any other one piece of fiction, and next to Winston Churchill’s “The Crossing,” is the best selling book of the day. It may be of interest to know that Miss Michelson is a California woman, who had been | widely known here as a newspaper writer until she turned her attention exclusively to fiction, and that her first newspaper experience was received upon The Call. HE Sunday Call Magazine to-morrow will publish The story will be completed in two more installments. || Aside from the novel, there are, as usual, any number ! of high-class fiction features. “King For a Day” full page illustrated story by W. A. Fraser, in which are related the humorous experiences and final complications of Lawrence Jones, captain of a tramp steamer, who for a day rules the vast empire of Burmah in the stead of his_twin brother, the Chief Commissioner. “Stinson’s is a Clever Counterfeiters. United States Secret Service Agents Foster Chief Louis the other day of Marcus Crahan, who had passed upon bookmakers at the race track $30,000 worth of counterfeit $100 gold notes. said “Every time he went out with a wad of notes he was fortified with an advertisement in a newspaper Harry Moffitt and Thomas B. were discussing the capture by Wilkie at St. “He was a slick worker,” Tommy. announcing that he had found a sum of money and requesting the owner to call upon him, prove property and pay for the ad and he could have the money. Well, when Chief Wilkie got upon his trail and caught him in the act of shoving the queer with the dope in his pocket, Crahan flashed the ad and told Wilkie that he found the bills | in such and such a place and was waiting for the owner to come and claim them. This would have been a good defense if he hadn’t been caught red-handed, and he saw it, too, after the Chief had a quiet talk with him. So he confessed, told the Chief where the plates were concealed, Chief interceded for him and he got only fifteen years instead of ninety- nine years, the full penalty for the crime.” “Almost as slick an operator, only on a smaller scale,” said Harry Moffitt, ‘was George Cummings, now doing a four-year stunt in the State prison at San Quentin. Cummings and his two brothers made counterfeit dollar pieces at Fruitvale, where they lived, and, riding through the country on their bi- cycles, passed them upon storekeepers " and hotelmen in all the small towns between Oakland and Stockton. When George W. Hazen, Tommy Foster and Diplomacy,” by Curran Richard Greenley, a tale of poli- tics and love, is the leading story upon the storiette page, which contains also stories by Keith Gordon, E. W. Sargent and S. T. Stern. “The Meows of a Kitty” receive an illustration from Bronstrup that is quite a classic. In “The Yellow Mask,” Jerome K. Jerome dis- cusses the so-called Yellow Peril. The leading special article is a study of Victor H. Metcalf by Alfred Dezendorf. The article, which is purely concerning the man and his home and personal life, is of especial interest in view of the fact that Mr. Metcalf, recently appointed Secretary of Commerce and Labor, is the second man from California ever to receive a Cabinet position. “The Soul of Black Folk,” by a Southerner, is a sympathetic study of some interesting and typical colored types. 2 1 “Styles for Vacation Days,” Augusta Prescott gives | some helpful hints to prospective visitors to the sea shore and mountains. On the Woman's Page, Madge Moore writes concerning embroidered stocks, the latest feminine fad, and answers correspondents. John F. Woolrich has a handsome full page poster of “A Drive in the Park.” The music page, as usual, is done .in | three colors, and the puzzle page announces the names of the winners on July 3 and furnishes material for an additional week’s guessing. On July 24 there will begin in The Sunday Call Maga- zine a new series of the famous Mr. Dooley articles. | Finley Peter Dunne, the creator of Mr. Dooley, is under an exclusive contract with McClure’s, and The Call, in the face of keenest bidding on the part of other large newspapers on the coast, has secured the sole right to publish these articles north of Los Angeles. A suggestion has been made in the Board of Super- visors that it will be eminently proper to regulate the character of private detective work and to supervise | those that engage in it in this city. It is strange that | such a reform has not before forced itself upon the City | Fathers as a necessity in the cause of decency. The only adequate reformation of a private detective is his suppression. T ‘pression in Finland in punishment of the assassi- nation of Bobrikoff. The act of one boy is to be punished by inhuman treatment of a whole people. The act itself was provoked by the Czar’s faithless violation of a solemn treaty, followed by a system of tyranny and | oppression unknown in the modern world outside of Holy Russia. 1t was supposed that a brutal autocracy had exhausted its ingenuity already in devising ways to punish and re- press the Finns. Not only was every free movement denied them, but the Russian Government, concluding that the despicable policy of which Bobrikoff was the in- strument made them hate him and his master in thought and sentiment, visited upon them additional punishment for what they thought and did not express. There will not long be room in the modern world for a nation that knows only cruelty, the most reckless and inhuman, as the means of controlling its people. It does not seem to be within the providence of events that Russia shall flourish while using force and repres- sion alone as the sole protection of its vile and corrupt government. It is murdering liberty in Finland and trying to assassinate civilization in Japan, but the shadow of vengeance is following close upon the most criminal and oppressive government that exists. A combination of nations to partition Russia and cut it into pieces small enough to be civilized and receive lib- erty would be one of the most creditable acts of this century. FINLAND AND THE CZAR. TE Czar has ordered additional cruelty and re- A 19-year-old youth of New York killed himself the other day for what he was constrained to consider dxs- appointment in love. A sympathetic world must con- sider the young man dead as distinctly an advantage to his presence alive. If what he calls love at nineteen prompted him to suicide his sentiments at thirty might have spurred him to seek the annihilation of the species. —_— The unseemly and grewsome quarrel of local under- takers over the poor privilege of burying the pauper dead surely is disagreeable proof of the desperate agencies to which some men will resort to earn a few miserable dol- lars. The municipality should .find some way to keep these men and their affairs out of the public sight and consciousness. el While at breakfast President Roosevelt received the news that Alton B. Parker had been nominated for the Presidency by the Democracy. There is absolutely nothing to indicate, however, that the information thus imparted so early in the day either interrupted or dis- turbed the chief executive in his enjoyment of the meal. | smartest of them get caught. | of Uncle Sam never sleeps.” | product of a factory myself captured the men and the out- fit we found that George Cummings had scooped out hollow places in his | shoe heels and hidden some of the money there. Then he had smeared his shoes with mud so that we wouldn't think of looking there for anything. “Well, clever as they may be, the The eye Further Instructions. He entered the department store And asked to be shown The route to reach the clothing floor, Then he would go alone, The courteous floorwalker said: “Three aisles across, then down Four dl le; you then keep straight| ahes The man be; an to frown, “You take the elevator then.” The fioorman next observed; “Get off the car at No. 10 ..(The man was quite unnerved.) “Across four aisles, and then you turn Six counters to your right; Look to the left and you'll discern A distant ruby light. “Pass under that and then you're near The clothing stock you wish”— The man cried out: “iI cannot hear! You gabble like a fish. I never heard such silly tall You're having sport with m Your jocular designs I'll balk"— The courteous floorwalker bowed And said: “Turn to the right, Go down the aisle until the shroud Department comes in sight; From there just thirteen aisles you trace Until you reach the paints— Beside them is a desk—the place Where you may make complaints.” —Life. Costly Foof vear. Shoes selling at $1000 a pair are the near Madison Square. To style it a shop would be to insult the artisans employed therein. They call it a “footgear institute,” and | the proprietor goes by no less a title than ‘“curative orthopedist.” The wearing of these $1000 shoes is, in the main, a hobby, and is based on nerves gcne wrong. For there are some per- sons, it seems, who are plagued with sensitive nerves in their feet which ache so excruciatingly that nothing can assuage the pain but shoes “prescribed” by a physician-cobbler. The learned cobbler listens to a tale of toeache with attending nervous lis- turbances and examines the patient's feet with critical serutiny. Every hill and dale of the foot is inspected and studied, and especially is a sharp look- out kept for the sensitive nerves, which ultimately are sure tc be found. A volume of notes is taken and the pros- pective customer naturally becomes im- pressed with the severity of his ail- ment. Next, and what is very impor- tant, a plaster cast of the foot is ta- ken, and if the patient's purse is pro- portioned to his plaint the physician- cobbler is apt to enter a new order in his book. ‘The shoes are made of good leather, but do not generally follow the lines of the latest fashions, rather the reverse. It all depends on the views of the heal- er. Some sufferers are scientifically shod in exchange for $500, $350 or even $100; but those customers who prefer te pay the highest prices are satisfied with nothing less than a $1000 pair. The shoe bills of one New Yorker—a rich contractor—who rides the ortho- pedic hobby have footed up to $50,000. Yet the shoes he wears are queer- and Express. Origin of “Dixie.” There are several explanations of the origin of the song “Dixie's Land.” Everybody knows the name of the jolly comedian, Dan Emmet, who im- mortalized the ballad, but few know where he got the phrase. One theory, long since exploded, was that the ex- pression “Dixie’s Land” came from the phrase Mason and Dixon’s line. The other was that a certain farmer down in New Jersey, just before the war, ran his fields with negro labor and as- sumed the manners and the bearing of a Southern planter. His name was Dixie and topical songs of the period referred to his estate as a miniature southland. Audiences which did not know the local reference took the song as referring to the real south, and Em- met, in his famous ballad, sc used the expression. However, there is another story and one which brings the subject home to New Orleans. For twenty years prior to the Civil War the Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana was the great financial in- stitution of the South and ranked among the one or two very largest in the land. Its name was as famillar the | { able nor is any one else able to looking contrivances.—New York Mail | PR T upon the Paris bourse and the London | exchanges as is now the name of the City National Bank of New York. In the days of “shinplasters” and depre- ciated State bank currency the issues of the Citizens’ Bank passed at par all ‘over the land. | The best known issued was a $10 note, done in red upon one side and black and red upon the other. The feature of this denomination was that the most corspicuous part of the en- graving was the French word “Dix.” Upon the river steamers, on the ships bound for New York, on the stage coaches which went west from Galves- ton, these bills were termed “Dixies.” Not one man of any twenty that handled them knew that dix meant ten. Upon the upper Mississippi and the Ohio people began to speak of the South as Dixie's Land and as the years passed they fcrgot why the name was applied. The gamblers who won lus- cious rolls of the “Dixles” at poker | played with the roof removed, the vic- | tims who gave up their rightful wallet- fuls of red and black currency, the Irish deckhands and the negro roust- | abouts—all spoke of Dixie’'s Land. | The Civil War came on. Months | passed and Butler’s army cccupied the | city. Butler ordered the Citizens’ Bank | to pay back all deposits to private in- | dividuals in Confederate bills and or- dered that all sums due to officers or representatives of the Confederacy | should be paid to the United States | Government in United States coin. More than $225,000 was thus confiscated | and the bank has now pending in Con- gress a war claim for this amount. Later General Butler made the Citi- zens’ Bank the United States deposi- | tory and distributing center for the territory under his charge. After the war came new banking laws, new customs, new ways and habits of thought. The “Dixies” had gone out during the changes inaugur- ated immediately before the Civil War and by the end of that struggle and the naticnal banking law of the late 60s the once-famed currency was for- gotten.—Cincinnati Engquirer. - A Russian Victory. Time. 1905 "Twas on a June-time evening; old Skryd- loff's ‘work was done, And he beside his mansion door was sit- ting in the sun. A grandchild with a spell-less name was playing there beside, ed him questions that his rely tried. on the Yalu once she “when Uncle Sawedoff's lad Was blown into next Wednesday-weei, you sure were to the bad? “I can't explain the thing.” said he, “But ‘twas a Russian victoree.” “Now, eried, nd yet,” she cried, “at Nanshan Hill they wiped you from the earth, Until of Russians round about there was a fearful dearth; At Vafangow they did the same—'twas there, as I r That Uncle Hilojacl Novitch was finttened ‘gainst a wall. | At Liaotung and otherwheres they nerd- ed you like sheep And made you do a Putnam stunt by crambling down a steep.” 1 you dispute the Czar?” eried he. ach was a Russian vietoree.” | “But when at last the war was done,™ that spell-less grandchild urged, “When_ horse and foot and navy in one frightened mob was merged, ‘When things the Japs had clamored for they got, with interest, And all Manchuria became ‘the yellow eril’'s’ nest, Nick had figured up and found that he was down and out, With all his spjendid army turned into a ss rout™ u kidoviteh,” snapped he, a Russian victoree.” Baltimore American. When Answers to Queries. MINNESOTA—Subscriber, Ross Val- ley, Cal. The area of the State of Min- mesota is 83,365 square miles, of which 79,205 miles is land surface and 4160 square miles water surface. LANDS IN NEVADA—Me, Stand- ish, Cal. For information as to when the United States lands will be open to settlement in the State of Nevada, address a communication to the United States Land Office, Washing- ton, D. C. PROGNOSTICATIONS — A. A. F, Petaluma, Cal. This department is not “tell the number of people who will attend the World’s Fair at St. Louis between May 1 and December 1, 1904, nor “tell what the popular vote for Presidential electors in 1904 will be.” The number of paid admissions at the Chicago World's Fair was 21,590,854. The popu- lar vote for Presidential electors at the election of 1900 was 13,961,566, With | these figures as a basis you can make as good a guess as any one else. DOGS—Subscriber, City. 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