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A== =5 e [.on Special Corresp: 20e of The IADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 6 HENRIETTA STREET, INT GARDEN, LONDO corded in these letter: Piisen's” reception by London’ Frankly i “The Prince of critics | looked | Belle of rs wes none too hearty. Yike another American frost a ia Yh of the Town” and “Th Fic and trans-Atiantic dw here were glum, so much having been expected of the new The'| play has been kept cently passed its fiftieth n —but I for one had a management might &t all costs over ar production on, hov sht, cion that the ! touch as severa! further productions are to be made Bhaftesbury. recent visit to tk ater, he ver, left no doubt that “‘The Prince of Pilsen,” like Giliette’s “Sher- * has captured the public pprov- On the night | bury not a seat 1 attended the Shaftes was vacant in the reserved portions of the house and the pit also was crowd- | | | ! ! Bl ottractions, and is being awaited with | peciai interest. The young American riter’s rcmanl published serially - in the Windsor Magazine, was! voted one of the best of recent years. | Moreover Sydney Grundy, who has, amatized it, thus will make his re-! ppearance, for since this dramatist | hed Mrs. Langtry with “The De- iittle or nothing has been George Alexander, too, | ed to be particularly attrac- ' the hero in *“The Garden of | which read to the St. s' company for th- first time yes- | HAYL CHURCH. | was AMillions tn Gardens. Tt has been said that there are a e of noblemen in the United King- spend more every year on gardens than wouid pay the of- salaries of the entire Cabine extravagant as the statement may r, it is well within the limits of dom who truth. Further than this, there are, on the best authority, more than 5000 “seats of the mighty,” or at least of the rich. | the gardens of which cost their owners anything aimost from £500 a year up- | ward into the thousands: while there are as many more which demand be- | tween £200 and £300 a year for their | mzintenance. Of these 10,000 British gardens an annual sum estimated at 2,000.000 is spent for labor alone; other round milllon pounds at in the purchase of seeds, manures, and the general and upkeen of the gardens and glass houses. To this must be added the tens of thousands of dens of the well-to-do hich sums ranging from £10 to perhaps £100 a year are spent, | and the hundreds of thousands of more modest gardens, each, however, a source of pride and pleasure to fts owner, which t from a few shillings | to a few pounds a year. It is difficult and. perhaps, invidious to say which are the most costly gar- dens in Great Britain; but among them | are certainly those of Trentham Hall, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 25 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL !J_OIAINVD.SPRECKELS.PW..........AddtessAIlCommiufimh]OBN McNAUGHT, Manager Pablication Office . wiiiiiiieen...Third and Market Streets, S. F. CONDITION OF TRADE; MONDAY HE condition of trade remains about the’ same as T for several weeks past. The weather and crop prospects are still the governing factors, and as the former has improved and the latter are excellent, the confident feeling which appeared a month or so ago is still apparent. There will be a loss in the wheat crop irom earlier estimates, but it will not be as large as | feared ten days ago, while corn and cotton are making a most excellent showing. It ds figured that on the present outlook we ought to get a corn crop of about 2,500,000,000 bushels, yielding the growers about $1,000,000,000, not to mention its added value in pork and beef. The cotton crop, if it | amounts to 11,000,000 bales, which is an average estimate | at present, should return the planters about $400,000,000, to say nothing of the increment to railroads, exporters and manufacturers; so that from these two crops alone there ought to be an enhancement to the country’s wealth of more than $1,500,000,000. Then there is a wheat crop of something like 615,000,000 bushels, now worth some- thing like 87% cents per bushel, or say $550,000,000 in round numbers. The three crops, therefore, on the present basis of prospects and prices figure out an addition to the farmers’ pockets of fay $2,000,000,000 during the coming year. Of course, this is only one re- sult; there are many others in the form of railroad earn- ings, wages, clothing, shipping, etc. In fact, the list of industries benefited by these three crops might be in- definitely extended, considering that their ramifications radiate into all branches of trade. This exhibit is what the leading financial and commer- cial interests of the country are basing their cheerful views upori at present, and as it is simply a case of arithmetic, unconnected with any speculation, it must be admitted it is a very fair foundation upon which to build expectations. Of course, mishaps are possible, but these are always figured in as contingencies. On this showing Wall street is shouting “Good times!” and try- ing to run up the price of stocks, though, it must be confessed, with indifferent success, for just as soon as the public are prepared to re-enter the investment field something comes along and scares them off again. For instance, when better reports were being received from the iron and steel trade and it was freely said that the bottom had probably been touched in this industry, ed—the surest possible sign of success. | Welbeck Abbey, Lord Bute's gardens It was an enthusiastic house, too, and to prophesy that the piece will run for 300 nights seems to me to be keeping well within the mank. It will not be as great a success as “The Belle of New York,"” firet because there are not more than one or two songs which cap compare for catchiness with those in which Gus- tave Kerker's ecore abounded, and— though comparisons be odious—the cast contains few, if any, members whom the audiences here will take to their hearts as Edna May, Phyllis Rankin, Dan Daly, Frank Lawton and E. J. Sullivan, who played the “polite iunatic,” were taken. John W. Ransone seems to be the popular favorite at present. His interpretation of the trav- eling brewer, “Vas you effer in Cincinnati?”’ does not appeal over here as strongly as it must have done at home, but he gets his laugh from beginning to end and is es- pecially funny in the song—which he | bas substituted for “It Wes the Dutch” | —“I'm On the Water Wagon Now,”| though audiences here have only a| vague idea of what being on the water wagon means. The “Song of the Cit- | fes” is a great go, particularly the New | York girl's part of it; but, speaking| generally, it seems to be the chorus work’ and the novel “effects” that hit | the audiences here hardest. If they| can keep on doing as well at the Shaftesbury as they are at present the success of Musgrove's “London home | of American musical comedy” will be | essored. with his constant query, | R According to reports from home | Americans have been offered one or two rather indifferent entertainments in the musical comedy line from this side of the water recently, but one which is likely to reach the United Btates before long is practically sure of its welcome. This is “Sergeant Brue,” the new musical comedy by Owen Hall, author of “The Girl From Kay's,” which has succeeded “A Chi- mese Honeymoon,” at the Strand The- ater. I said something soon after Owen Hall started work on this piece regard- ing the novelty of the main idea. “Sergeant Brue” is, of course, a police- man, who is jeft a tremendous fortune, which is to remain his, however, only while he remains on the force, unless it should happen that he is made an inspector, when the testator permits him to retire. Brue, however, is a man of few brains; an inspectorship ls! practically out of the question as far &s he is concerned, and so though pos- sessed of the incom: of an American millionaire and of a house in Park Lane, he is compelied to keep on pa- | trolling his bezt day after day as con- sclentiously as if he were drawing the ordinary salary of a “bobby.” After awhile, wiifle off duty, befriends a well known “crook,” who out of gratitude declares that he will enable Brue to win pro- motion by discovering to him the “felonious litle plans” of his con- freres. But the coups thus arranged never come off; always land Brue in hot water, in fact, instead of getting bhim, any nearer his inspectorship. How he finally attains this rank it would mot be fair to tell, but it is only after many laugh- able situations. Here the part of Sergeant Brue is played by Wiliie Edouin, and is quite the best thing he has done since his Hoggenheimer in ‘The Girl From Ka; The part of the erook is taken by Arthur Williams, who was seen in the United States with MHawtrey in “A Message From Mars,” and the scénes between these two are among the best that have been given on the stage this season. Uniess new songs can be interpolated, however, the piece will have to depend on its humor for its success, Madame Liza Lehmann’s much-talked of score hay- ing proved indifferent as a whole, though one bright exception is a ditty called “Mother Eve,” novel both in theme and melody. Altogether “‘Ser- geant Broe” will give an American | company no end of opportunities, . . . George Alexander's production of | “The Garden of Lies,” dramatized from Justice Miles Forman's story, is #® be one of the first of the autumn | may be sure that he recks little of the | planted thousands of Scotch and Nor- however, it happens that Brue, | at Cardiff Castle, the world-famous gardens of Chatsworth, and those of the Rothschilds, on which .gold has been lavished like water. One gets an impressive idea of the extent of such gardens as these when we hear that the kitchen garden alone at Welbeck covers thirty acres, that| the houses in which peaches. apricots and nectarines are grown stretch for a | quarter of a mile, and that to stock | them cost as much as £10,000. When a millionaire sets his heart on making himself a lordly pleasure-garden we cc ot long ago a very rich man in the ! north of England discovered that one section of his gardens was rendered | useless through exposure to the keen east wind. This was not to be toler- ated, said the great man, and to keep | | the eastern blasts from trespassing he wegian fir trees to act as a screen, pay- ing as much as £5 for individual trees. This little whim cost him“nearly £20, 000, but he considered himself amply rewarded by seeing his wilderness turned into a paradise of flowers. In such gardens as these it is quite | usual to employ as many as seventy | or eighty men and boys, so that a Cabinet Minister's yearly salary may easily go in wages alone. It is said that there are 900 country houses in Great Britain each of which employs a staff of over fifty men; of these, 200 | employ between eighty and 150, while | sixty of them employ over 200; and the | large majority of all these male serv- | ants are gardeners of one kind or an- | other. In addition to the cost of labor there | are repairs and alterations of houses, furnaces to be fed, walls built for fruit growing, nets for protection, tools to buy and replace, and—often the most costly item of all—seeds and plants to | purchase. Baron Schroder is credited | with having spent £40,000 on his col- lection of orchids, and Sir Trevor Law- rence with an expenditure of £30,000. Joseph Chamberlain has thirteen glass houses containing, roughly, 6000 plants, many of them of great \‘aluei and gathered from almost every part of the earth where orchids are to be found. The plants are arranged in dif- | ferent houses according to the time of | flowering, so that the succession of ex- ! quisite flowers never fails the whole year round. Each plant bears its num- ber as well as its name, and it is said that Mr. Chamberlain knows every one of his floral pets.—London Tit Bits. Slav Measurements. | At the recent gathering of the As- | sociation of Academies Sir A. Geikie moved a resolution, which was unani- mously adopted, in favor of interna- tional co-operation in the efforts to obtain “precise determination of ievels in mountain chains subject to earth- quakes, with the view of ascertaining whether such chains are stable, or are undergoing movements of deviation or ‘;depresslon." Another proposal aimed to secure measurements of the value of gravity, with the object, so far as geological questions are concerned, of throwing light on the internal dis- tribution of masses in the earth and ,on the rigidity or isostasy of the ter- ! restrial crust. These problems call for | minute and rigorous observation. In | this way it is believed to have been proved that the land about the city of jNew York Has been subsiding since | 1875 at the rate of about 1.45 feet | (nearly 17% inches) per century. DPos- terity 1000 or 10,000 years hence will { bove a right to know not merely how high Etna or Vesusius was in 1904, but what were the elevation and appear- ance of Beachy Head; how much the old .ock has lost by waste of the sea =t its foot, or by denuding rains on its summit and flanks; or how mu " may have gained by uplifting forces. They will know these things in 2904, ijust as they will know how the stars and nebulac are distributed in our skies, and the knowledge will be very the Tron Age comes out with the cynical remark that the only improvement visible in iron and steel is in Wall | street, whereupon the buoyant market gives two or three gasps and slowly collapses like a rent balloon. Or the packing-house strike is no sooner apparently settled and the commercial atmosphere begins to clear when the men take their dinner pails and walk out again, and there is another collapse. Or just when the wheat crop is looking fine and the weather is reported almost perfect along the whole belt, Kansas comes along with the third flood this year and down comes our house of cards again. There is always something happening to that brilliant pasteboard mansion. Still, with all these backsets, the crop outlook is ex- cellent and even the most conservative interests of the country are looking forward to another fair year. It will be quieter than its three or four immediate pre- decessors, but nobody expects anything serious to hap- pen. There is too much money lying around. We are very, very rich, and furthermore, sound. Almost al! dubious elements have been eliminated and we are doing business again in more of the old-fashioned way. Labor troubles are the principal drawback at present, but it will be observed that they are briefer and less violent than they were a couple of years ago. Wiser counsels now prevail and strikes are fewer and more quickly set- tled. Capital and labor are both tired of these injurious wrangles and there is a general disposition to avoid them. = Commercial reports last week were almost uniformly cheerful. Many of the larger cities are reporting a bet- ter jobbing and retail trade, though collections are not as prompt as for the past several years. The jobbers report a good and gradually increasing demand for gen- eral merchandise from the farming districts. There is a better feeling in the dry goods trade at New York, with- out, however, any appreciable enlargement in the move- ment. The remarkable scramble for wool has imparted a bullish aspect to the woolen trade, though there is no particular rush among the mills. Provisions continue quiet and dragging more or less at all packing points. Prices for cattle, sheep and hogs are slowly declining, but they have been too high for the good of the country at large, and the stock raiser can ctand a little deprecia- tion in his product without serious injury. There is rather more doing in the leather trade, and the packing- house strike is diminishing the output of hides. There are no features in the grocery trade worthy of especial comment. Railway earnings thus far in July show the small loss of 1.5 per cent from the corresponding time last year. The bank clearings last week were again on the right side of the exhibit, though the gain over 1903 was only -8 per cent. Still, most of the large cities showed an increase, and the aggregate clearings were $2,171,836,000, an excellent showing. The failures for the week were 213, against 191 last year, and none of them were of sufficient importance to attract attention. Money con- tinued in enormous supply and weak at 3 to T per cent for call and 2 to 3% per cent for time loans. These are pretty low rates. Our local conditions continue bright. The crops of wheat and barley in California are turning out lighter than expected, but there is no famine, and the loss in quantity will probably be offset by the excellent prices which the grain is bringing. During the early part of the week there was a scramble for barley in the Sacra- mento Valley, and in their eagerness for supplies buyers paid more in the country than the grain would bring in San Francisco. The spring wool clip is cleaned up and the fall clip will come in on a bare and very strong market. The hop crop is looking excellently and prices continue away above the cost of production—something like 100 per cent. The hop growers have been making money for several years. Stocks of dried fruits, except prunes and raisins, are cleaned up and the new crop goods are in demand at very good prices, while the fresh fruit has been selling very well all the season. The dairy trade has enjoyed a surprising demand for months, though the markets have iateiy shown the usual mid- summer dullness. The output of butter and eggs this year has been of enormous volume, but the market has absorbed it, showing a pronounced increase in the popu- lation of the city and State at large. In fact, whichever way we turn—toward country or city—we find the same helpful to the future astronomers and geologists. In these matters photog- | raphy, as the handmaid of research, can render easily and cheaply incom- parable services—London Telegraph. expanding markets for our products and the same re- ports of increasing population. If the present influx of newcomers from across the mountains continues the next census will surprise a good many people. Times in | | | California were never better than lhéy have been for half a dozen years past and the best of it is they are still highly satisfactory. Another San Francisco woman, swindled in the man- ipulations of a marriage bureau, has poured her tale of woe into the sympathetic ears of the police. Her sav- ings are gone and with them has disappeared the male creature she accepted as a husband. contribute the incident to her store of The lady should experience that sometimes but not frequently proves profitable in new ventures. A NATURAL DEATH. ROFESSOR JACQUES LOEB, P the daring vestigator into nature’s innermost secrets, has sent forth from his laboratory over in Berkeley a mes- in- sage which must startle into breathless attention scien- tist and layman alike. With all the careful condervatism of science Professor Loeb recently announced that his series of experiments in the artificial fertilization of the eggs of lower orders of life had led him to believe that for mankind a natural death never comes—that by bodily disabilities alone, and these open to curative measures, is the human being robbed of life before his time. “It is by no means certain,” said the recent exposition of artificial egg fertilization, scientist in his “that death, even in old age, can be called ‘natural death.” We know that as a rule death is caused by the fact that some important organ is disabled, but we are far from certain that such inability is unavoidable.” This tenet of the savant’s comes only as the result of actual operations in checking and turning aside the yl%gress of death in the eggs of the starfish and the sea urchin where dissolution was imminent from within the embryonic body itself and not as the result of external causes. In the grand scheme of life, of which man is supposed to be at present the highest, the most complex organ- ism, the scientists tell us that there is one universal law of grow:b. unchanged in the processes of evolution. If man may bring life to the germ of the starfish, and ward from the same /impending death, what may not man do for himself, whose life is governed by the same formula, advanced only to a higher degree of complexity? Does not Professor Loeb’s dictum carry with it an ele- ment of the sublime in the immensity of its concept? Not long ago Professor Elie Metchnikoff, a pupil of the great Pasteur, approached the conclusions Professor Loeb has announced from a different train of reasoning and experiment. By eliminating what Metchnikoff terms “the disharmonies,” or incongruities of organic action in the body, man may, according to his conception, find a natural death. Then. and then only, will the tired worldling lay him down to welcome the last process of nature, coming gently, naturally as sleep. “The normal end,” says Metchnikoff,” coming after the appearance of the instinct of death, may truly be re- garded as the ultimate goal of human existence.” Strange thoughts, these. Can man be made the arbiter of his death through science? If there is a “natural death,” whose pangs we have never tasted, will it be indeed that, enjoying such, man may feel even a longing for death when all of his tired members have gradually lost their springs of action and the true end of the day is drawing nigh? Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams. —_— of the St The authorities Louis Exposition are grumbling that the great fair has not been sufficiently advertised and that the record of attendance is suffering in consequence. Can it be possible that our St. Louis friends have designs upon the neighboring planets or are pining because they cannot placard the moon? They certainly have no complaint to make of the attention given by the civilized earth. NO STRINGS ON HIM. 1 HE first steps in the Republic_an tampaign show the perfect independence of President Roosevelt. He went clear of the machine in selecting Mr. Cor- telyou as chairman of the National Committee and in every act and frank expression shows that no one has any strings upon him. The public has the key to his next administration in his own full and free expressions. He will administer the law, regarding none as above and none as below it. He will advise the reinforcement of the law wherein it seems to require strengthening. He | will regard always that equality of right which is the American birthright. While no President has been more dutifully respect- ful of the limitations of the constitution, with the ex- ception of Lincoln. none has been more virulently ac- cused of destroying the fundamental was accused of tyranny, of destroying erties of his countrymen, and these accusations fired the | Lincoln the iib- law. brain of his assassin, who condensed all attacks upon the great liberator in his dramatic shout of “Sic Semper Tyrannis” as he jumped from the scene of his crime upon the stage of Ford’s Opera-house and made his escape through the wings. Yet Lincoln left to the country four millions more of free men than were in it when he took the oath of office and to all men more liberty than they ever had before. The memory of this should deter the Democracy from repeating upon his successor the tactics. of which they made such reckless use during the Civil War. But it will have no such effect. The high financiers, who have been checked in their schemes by the determined front of the President, are, in their way, sincere when they accuse him of interfering with liberty, meaning their liberty to dodge the law and to-violate the restraints of morality in business. But the people understand that in a republic liberty is for all under the law and that liberty for the few to disregard the law means abridgment of the just and lawfu! liberty of the | many. There is a deep-seated sense and conviction that Pres- ident Roosevelt represents all that is excellent in 4 up and attempted to participate in the citizenship and policy and principle that has been com- mon to all deserving statesmen of either party. Elder Democrats find him representing those policies in ad- ministration which they were taught to respect and Re- publicans find him illustrating that awakened national conscience in which their party was born. He has no strings on him, but embodies the aspirations of the whole people. ' Swallow, candidate of the Prohibition party for Presi- dent of the United States, declares in his address of ac- ceptance that he is far from being assured of defeat. Inspired by such optimism as this, no failure possible in the fate of man should be able to deter or to discourage. 1t is quite possible that Mr. Swallow will not be able to determine clearly what happened to him at the polls. TALK No Tea for Mattoon. Custom-House Broker J. S. Mattoon scowls whenever he is asked as to what brand of tea he likes, because the question recalls a very disagree- able episode in connection with a tea transaction which caused no end of good-humored raillery at Broker Mat- toon’s expense. Mattoon likes tea, and prides him- self upon his ability to state, merely from inspection of the used leaves, the i particular district in China or Ceylon | where the tea was grown, as well as its variety and value. One day he re- ceived from a grateful client a five- pound box of his favorite brand and this he pldced in keeping of the pro- | prietor of a chophouse not far from the Custom-house. The broker gave orders that whenever he should call for tea at his lunch he should be |served out of his personal and ex- clusive box. Mattoon is not at all selfish, and de- siring that his friends should also en- {Joy the aroma of his favorite bever- age, invited three of them to lunch with him the next day. The brokers and Mattoon were at the chophouse punctually at noon and ordered por- ter house steaks at their host's ex- | pense. When the waiter, who was a stranger, appeared with the steaks Mattoon ordered him to brew four pots of 'tea from the special box. The wailter did not seem to under- i stand. “‘Send for Spirovich, the proprietor,” demanded the broker. | “Oh,” replied the waiter, “Spiro- vich sold out yesterday and went to Seattle. He didn’t leave any box of tea here.” Mortis Dignitas. Here lies a common man, his horny ands, | Crossed meekly as a maid's upon his | | reast, | Show marks of toll, and by his general dress You judge him to have been an artisan. Doubtless, could all his life be written F THE TOWN sive rather than extensive. — —> leading him on for a while, Cannon asked, In all seriousness: ““Mr. McDonald, you say that you are afraid of being deprived of your life by the defendant?” “I do, sor,” McDonald replied. “Then you-admit that Mr. Wheelock, the defendant, can whip you?" “Not by a long sight. I kin lick a dozen of him.” “That's all, Mr. McDonald,” res- ponded the young attorney. “That’s all, your Honer,” he said, turning to the court. The Justice, with great dignity, dis- missed the case.—New York Evening Post, . In Old Jersey. Regarding mosquito broods and the number of specimens that develop within a limited area, few persons rec- ognize the fact that breeding is inten- It is net that there is a scattering of wrigglers over a large area. There is, on the contrary, a concentration of speci- mens within a limited space. The best illustration of that was seen last vear in one of the New Jersey resorts, where a small pond, with an area of 1894 square feet, produced in ome out, The story would not thrill nor start a t ear; | He worked, laughed, loved and suffered in his time, | And now rests peacefully, with upturned | brood over ten million, six hundred thousand specimens. This will seem almost incredible to those who have LA never s2zen a really well-populated Whose look belies all struggle in the | MOSaUit0-pool; but the estimate was ' past. carefully made after hours of work, in #hhomcly tnle:fyti;; trustmme. 1 Elatv? sahen’“-h.ch every part of the pond was | ple were counted. There were two The gap between a |similar ponds close by, and the com- bined -output was quite sufficient to give the place a full supply. If one million mosquitoes are distributed among one thousand porches, each will get one thousand examples; and I need not emphasize the fact that even one hundred healthy specimens s when | way, With less of awe. king And me, a nameless gazer in the crowd, Seemed not so wide as that which stretches now Betwixt us two, this dead one and my- self, Untitled, dumb and deedless, yet he is Transfigured by a touch from out the skies | Until he wears, with all-unconscious grace, | The sl?'\sc and sudden dignity of death. —Richard E. Burton, in Scribner’'s. Puissant Tsi An. ‘When the time came for adieus her Majesty mingled with her guests, the | Emperor following closely, and as Mrs. | Conger got beyond me I stepped aaldej’ for royalty. Imagine my astonishment | when the Empress Dowager turned, | tcok me by both hands, stroked my jarm and inquired how I Iliked ;China and how long I would re- gry.—Booklover's Magazine. The HT!ippmg Post. Discussion of the advisability of establishing the whipping pest for wife-beaters has been revived by the advocacy of this method of dealing with cruel husbands by President Red- mond of the New York State Superin- tendents of the Poor, now in annual convention. Mr. Redmond says that the whipping post would add terror to the wife-beater’s punishment, and ter- main, concluding by asking me to come | and see her again when I returned to visit Mrs. Conger! I did not lose my equanimity, but studied this most re- markable woman at closest range. Could she of dignified mien, deep-set, unflinching eyes, rare smile and melo- dious voice be the most despotic female sovereign in the history of the world? Has she two distinctly opposite na- tures? Is this the secret of her mar- velous power? Born in obscurity, the | daughter of a minor officer, a favorite concubine of the harem, young and in- experienced, she reached the pinnacle of authority by incredible ability, shrewd- ness and daring. Through all the in- trigue of the Chinese court since she first usurped the throne she has borne ! a charmed life, and her enemies have | arisen only to disappear with terrible | swiftness, while her autocracy remains | unchallenged. With relentless will she | has stripped the Emperor of the last vestige of the legitimate authority | which for a brief period he had exer- | cised under the wise guidance of Kang Yu Wei, absolutely controlling his every | word and act, as well as the earthly { destiny of 400,000,000 of subjects. And this most fascinating hostess, urging us to “stay longer” and “come again,” annihilating convgntionality and precedent, was Tsi An, the great woman ruler in this land of Confucius, Wwhere to be a woman, according to the | philosophy of the great sage, is to be despised among men!—From Minnie { Norton Wood's “Summer Splendor of | the Chinese Court,” in the August Cen- tury. - “Uncle Joe's” Coup. “Uncle Joe" Cannon tells this story of his early days in the practice of the law in Iliinois: Patrick McDonald, an Irishman, was a well-known character in the town of Danville. He was a loud talker and | was constantly “butting in” where he wasn't wanted. . Harrison Wheelock, who was known throughout the county by the contrac- tion of “Hat,” was another local | celebrity. Wheelock was talking with a fellow citizen in the main street one afternoon, when MecDonald came | conversation. “Get, out of this,” said Wheelock, and when McDonald at- tempted to parley, the former made a lunge at him with his strong right arm. McDonald ran like the wind, and Wheelock was close after him. Later in the day Wheelock was placed un- der arrest by a constable on a warrant sworn out by MeDonald, who charged that Wheelock had threatened him, and that he felt his life endangered. “Hat” Wheelock retained Cannon, then a young lawyer struggling for a reputation, to defend him. The case, which was heard before a local Justice, attracted a large number of the towns- men. McDonald had given his version of the affair, when “Uncle Joe" start- ed in to the cross-examination. After section ror is the element needed to awaken in a coward the sense of his obliga- tions toward his wife and his family. Answers to Queries. NEW ZEALAND—D., Petaluma, Cal. The United States Consul at Auckland, N. United States agent at Wellington is William Reid. on the subject of opportunities in New Zealand. 3 Z., is Frank Dillingham and the Either can advise you FROM THE FRENCH-R. A. F., Oakland, Cal. The French quotation which, translated, is: “If we had no failings ourselves we should not take pleasure in finding out those of oth- ers,” is from the French of La Roche- foucald in his “Maxims and Moral Re- flections.” WATER RIGHTS-11., Healdsburg, Cal. Under the laws of California a party has the right to take water from a running stream for legitimate pur- poses by appropriation. The party ap- propriating such must follow the law which requires posting, ete. TO DECLARE WAR—J. C. D., Slat- ington, El Dorade County, Cal. The power to declare war on the part of the United States is vested in Con- gress, not in the President. Article I, 8, eleventh clause of the constitution, says: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant let- ters of marque and reprisal and make rules concerning captures on land and water.” A MATTER FOR DAMAGES-M. E. W., City. If a railroad company in the process of extending s track has taken right of way on your property without your consent, or condemnation by due process of law, you certainly | have cause for action to recover dam- ages. The department suggests that you lay the matter before an attorney who will advise you as te your rights in the premises. —aita e CARDS—E. H. D, City. Cards may be sent by mail in acknowledgement of an invitation to a wedding, or with the mention, “congratulations,” writ- ten in one cornmer, to one whose en- gagement is announced or to one who is the father of a new-born baby Cards of condolence, with the written words, “with deepest sympathy,” may be mailed (but better left in person) in case of sorrow or bereavement. 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