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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1904. The English Authors. Spectal Correspondence " BEEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, . HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARD! LONDON, Aug. 6.—Au- thors are scarce in London at present, most of them having elected to spend - the holiday season either in the coun . try or on the Continent. H. G. Wells, ‘who has not been feeling particularly fit of late, has taken his family to Switzerland. Just passed the proofs of his new romance, “The -Food of the Gods” which is ;‘nmmg out in volume form in the fall. -Miss Mary Cholmondeley re- mained in London until*the end of the season, but she now has taken Lady Lugard's house, near Dorking, where she hopes to complete her present lit- erary task, the first long novel she has undertaken since the publication | “Red Pottage.” Miss Colmonde- Jey is so conscientious a worker, how- ever, that it may be eight or ten months before she surrenders her manuscript. Willlam Le Queux, whose #Hunchback - of Westminster” made its appearance only a few days ago, is at Castor. his country house near Peterborough. been spending some time in the West but is now on his way back. Joseph Conrad has been busy for some final revision of his tromo.” but he left go for the shores of By and on its blue he intends to combine pleasure Indies ith business, for the story which he ans to w next will have its scene laid t wbouts. G. K. Ches- ierton 1 met one broiling day last w puffing ng through Charing arms full of books and eaded for a rail- down im the living at a lit- wmother little place. until October.” He is of the series of ¢h are appearing here at home in Harper's bundies He station. back the last g o1 E: W. Hornung, author of “The Cracksman,” is with his his country home, East Rus- - Stalham, Norfolk. He is at on a series of stories to be called “Hawkes of Jermyn Street,” of which the h be a young English- . man Wwhose wits have been polished up ".im_Park row, New York. The stories are-to begin publication dn the United tates and England next January. - It will be interesting to hear if H. : B.-Marriott-Watson has guessed right about “The O’Ruddy.” This, of course, 1= the Irish novel of adventure which Stephen Crane left unfinished and which was completed by Robert Barr. Marriott-Watson divides his time be- tween writing novels and doing crit- “icism for a London newspaper, and in commenting on the Crane-Barr story .recently he remarked that it was not # matier of great difficulty to tell where the first writer ended and the second began. Promptly Nr. Barr .challenged him to do this and Mar- riott-Watson has now come up to the “scratch by making a definite guess. He says: “Barr must take up the story about chapter 27, and for pref- erence I should say on page 252.” Which may interest American readers, essuming that the English and Amer- fcan editions are paged similarly. At this writing Mr. Barr has not stated whether his brother novelist's guess 1= right or wrong. ° Marmaduke Pickthall has not scored as heavily with his new story, “En#d,” 2s he did with “Seid the Fisherman,” and in his next romance he. .will return to the scenes of the earlier story. With this idea he is planning to set off for the East before .Jong and will spend the winter in Eyria Dramatized versions of two recent English novels are promised for the . fall. Ome of these is Madame Al- banesi’s “Susannah and One Other’— originally called “Susannah and One Elder”"—the other Frances Harrod’s “Taming of the Brute,” which has been running as a serial in the Pall Mall Magazine. The latter dramatiz- ation will be used by Forbes Robert- #on and Gertrude Biliott. Then, of course, there is the stage version of Justue Miles Forman's “Garden of Lies,” which George Alexander is to produce. Apropos of the Pall Mall Magazine, evidently William Waldorf Astor is not satiefied with the resuilts of his at- to before going ke | Frank T. Bullen has| | railroad tie | 0b0-acre trac |tain a ITHE SAN PRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . « ¢ o« .. . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: Publication Office. . ... . i e T IINY T it Manket Blicety;, & % z e DAVIS IS NOTIFIED. | South. {and | el | proves in character and the value of | BRIDAN. . TR R. DAVIS, the Democratic nominee for the M Vice Presidency, has been told of his nomination. Mr. Davis is fifty times a millionaire, and very properly the scene of his notification was White Sulphur Springs, an aristocratic resort in the mountains of West Virginia. Mr. John Sharp Williams was selected to spring the surprise on the venerable candidate, and did it in one of his characteristic speeches, composed of political badinage. The venerable nominee responded. He has had much political experience, having served twelve years in the Senate. He refused re-election, went into partnership with Rockefeller in the Standard Oil trust, and pro- Riachian fofbat: ke Saluis. it et ceeded le pile up his \fast fortu.n.e. Like Rockc(eller,‘he chantsbie Sl anh . the - ralk otibcgan life in a laborious position and poor, and like erowth of the several species. This| Rockefeller he is fond of boasting about it, and did not n trained men of the bureau w!ll; forget to do so in his speech of acceptance. That part ray special attention to the silvicul-| of his speech into which he put the most emphasis re- tural characteristics and the Commer-| . ..o 1o (he cost and economy of government. He dis- 1 possibilities of these trees. They| 5 Il also apply the information col-| covers a deficit in the treasury, because for the fiscal lected by the bureau in the last two year ending June 30 the expenditures of the Government vears, embodying it in practical sus-: exceeded the revenues by $41,000,600. gestions for conservative forest man- A candidate should not shuffle with figures nor misrep~ ;.::‘r:;‘em by timberiand owners o the| resent the fiscal condition of his country. The'excess of The aim of a commercial tree study expenditures over receipts was caused by the eash pay- is to secure the information necessary | ment of $50,000,000 for the Panama .canal and railroad, for the successful application of for- and was paid out of the surplus remaining in the treasury estry where the tree forms an import- fr,n ithe previous year, Yet Mr. Davis says: “Tffere could ant part of the forest crop. It in-| b & 3 volves, among other things, knowledge | D¢ N0 stronger evidence of the extravagance’ into which of its methods of reproduction, that it | the Republican party has fallen and no more potent ar- may continue to form a part, and very | gument in behalf of a change to the party whose tenets likely a larger part, of the forest, in-| haye always embraced prudence and jeconomy’ in admin- ‘l‘)‘:r:(ll, O'f’yh'::: a:::;‘l:;‘;g- ‘:;;:“ °;u‘;:;i :terilng the 'peup]e's affairs. The cost of government rate of growth, on which depends the | as 'argely mcreas.ed under Republican rule. 'Fhe ex- calculation of future returns; of the| penditures per capita for the last years respectively of conditions of Ifght, soil, moisture, etc..| the administrations given, taken from the reports of under which it flourl!‘ih(l;s ‘:m—n'inn: the Secretary of the Treasury, were as follows: In 1860, ::’;l:: FI‘):(‘[E:"‘\B;‘; “:h‘iph"‘e i;a;ss‘;_ under Buchanan, $2.01; in 1803, under Harrison, $35.77; ciated in the various types of forest in 1807, under Cleveland, $5.10; in 1901, under McKinley, in which it occurs and what manage- | $6.56; in 1904, under Roosevelt, $7.10.” [ ment can do to improve conditions for) The population of the country in 1860 was 31,000,000. it; of when it will pay to plan for It} 1, yo5, ¢ is 85,000,000, more than two and a half times as as part of a permanent timber-produc- ! = X s g ing forest, and of how it ought to be| &reat. Therefore, if the Federal expenditures in the lumbered to secure the largest present | latter year were only for the same objects as those of and future returns. In the light of 1860, they should, to keep pace with the population be the knowledge which such studies fur- | {wo and a half times as great as under Buchanan. This ::P‘:“ ‘:: lf;‘):::;;;n:’ ‘;ZT‘:nl;"sp;a‘:‘ r;‘;: would bring the per capita up to $5.005, with the Gov- tracts in which the trees studied form | ¢rhment doing no more for the navy, the army, and with or can be made to form a valuable | 10 increase in the objects of expenditure over 1860. part of the stand of timber. In that| But since then we have added to the Cabinet depart- case lumbering does not mean rulning | ents agriculture and commerce. In 1860 the Federal the forest, denuding the ground and| o0 o H T L th 5 leaving it barren or to grow up in; = G S maintaining jetties at the mouth worthless brush, but a regular timber Of the Mississippi. It was not annually expending ten output, while the forest constantly im- | millions to levee that stream and keep it from destruc- tively flooding the cotton, corn and cane lands of the South. It was not standing the cost of fighting the boll weevil to preserve the Southern cotton crop. It was not annually expending millions to improve the harbors of the country to accommodate our vastly increased com- merce. » It was not 'spending more millions to keep the novels under the pen name of Allan| McCauley. HAYDEN CHURCH. | Forestry Problems. This field season the Bureau of For- estry will complete certain studies of important commercial trees in the| The species under investigation ; ere yellow poplar, white, red, black ard chestnut oak, chestnut, white pmej hemiock. A great mass of data| Leen collected as a basis for| showing the proportion of these | species in various types of the Ap-| its growth. Acing under its general co-operative offer, the Bureau of Forestry is now preparing detailed working plans for | several tracts of timber belonging to private owners in the States of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and . o : x 2 bid o Biouth Caraling. - sl Aif thi problems hio f|m,|> flfmdmg the» towns of West Virginia. It of management presented may be | Was not building and maintaining a first-class navy, and briefly indicated. In Kentucky the suffered for its neglect in the Civil War that ecame the owner of a 40,000-aere tract wishes to retain a large part of the property in forest for continuous production of In West Virginia a 30,- the property of a min- ing company, must be made to main- permanent supply of timbers for use in the mines. In the same State another working plan for 5000 acres of timberland aims to secure a steady in- come from the sale of the timber grown, The problems of management pre- sented the bureau differ with changing forest conditions and with the various purposes of its owners. The bureau field force examines the forests and counts and measures the trees to de- termine the stand of each specles, the rate of growth and both present and prospective yield in board feet. Hav- | ing this information, and knowing the habits of growth of different species, the bureau is then in position to give definit€ advice as to the proper course | to pursue to attain by management ' any specified end. = This branch of the bureau’s work is | of importance not only, to the owners of large timber tracts, but as well to those whose holdings consjst of merely 50 or 100 acres. The pufpose of the bureau is not to benefit any particular | owner or set of owners, but to en- courage and establish conservative for- estry everywhere for the general good of the nation. Individuals derive di- rect benefits from this work, but the knowledge and experience thus gained by the bureau are for application to whole sections and contribute to the scientific knowledge and practice of forestry. There are now twenty-elght experts conducting the commercial tree stud- ies under way in the four States above mentioned. While these agents of the | bureau are on the ground, owners of timberlands or small woodlots in those States should seize the opportunity, so conveniently at hand, for obtaining a preliminary examination of their hold- ings. This will be done by the bureau without cost to them and would cer- tainly prove highly beneficial to their interests. The bureau is glad to re- ceive applications for such exam- inations. following year, finding its commerce exposed to the de- { struction that was wrought by the Confederate cruisers. It'was not buying the Panama canal and giving the world’s commerce a short cut between the great oceans. All of these and other objects of expenditure necessary to the general welfare were cared for in addition to the objects of expenditure in 1860. It is conceded that | expenses increase with population when there is no in- crease in the objects of expenditure, so, every item re- maining as in 1860, in 1904 the increase following popu- lation should have made the per capita $5.005. With all the new objects of expenditure, including the canal and navy, Mr. Davis finds the per capita to be $7.10, or an increase of only $2.005 over the extended ratio of 1860. If, however, he insist that any increase over the per capita of 1860 is evidence of waste ‘and extravagance, Mr. Cleveland must have been a waster, for his per capita ex- ceeded that of 1860 by $3.09! As Cleveland's per capita was $5.10, Roosevelt has exceeded it by only $2, or $1.00 less than Cleveland's excess over Buchanan. At $7.10 expcngimrc per capita, our people are getting the attention of their Government to at least twice as many useful objects as under Buchanan. Their Federal Gov- ernment is costing them now %9 cents plus a month per capita. That is 14 and three-fourths cents a week plus, or a little more than two cents a day. How much of that two cents does Mr. Davis agree to knock off? The Government is building a great nmavy, improving rivers and harbors, has bought the Panama canal, aided agri- culture, inspected our meat exports, hunted down the boll weevil; furnished a preventive of blackleg in cattle and done more than any other people get from their government. Will Mr. Davis agree to keep it all going for less than 2 cents a day per capita? This form of attack will be heard throughout the cam- paign. The citizen will be reminded that he is enslaved and oppressed, degraded and impoverished by the impo- sition of two cents a day, for the enjoyment of the great- est, freest, best and most useful government on earth. The cry is pitifully ridiculous. Dutch soldiers campaigning in Sumatra have en- countered the extraordinary obstacle of struggling against barriers of living women used by the natives as advance guards and protectors for their fighting men. This condition may be accepted with perfect confidence as one advance in the progress of lovely woman that will not become popular with the fair sex in its struggle for recognition in the new thought. cott, a supervising engineer of the Federal irri- THE SERVICE OF WATER. Wgation work, in regard to the service of water, To Live a Century. Sir James Sawyer, an English phy- siclan, has formuleted the following nineteen rules for prolonging life to 100 years: 1. Eight hours' sleep. 2. BSleep on your right side. E are in receipt of a letter from Colonel Lippin- ceeress . .,AUGUST 19,3 9-! 904 he gets, a depth of water sufficient to cover the land 5.7 feet, and that the ratio of land to water practically varies every month in the year. Under the Yuma project the midsummer use is estimated as a miner’s inch to less than two acres of land. and a half. fornia, we find nearer to an acre In the Klamath district in Northern Cali- three irrigations per season practically all that were used, and that about six inches in depth is applied to each. two acres. This is at the rate of a miner’s inch to You are entirely right in saying that the amount of water required varies with the soil, crop and climate.” The country will be glad to know from this high au- thority that the practical irrigators, in charge of the government worky know that no hard and fast rule can be made for the duty of water. Such a rule would cause great loss and widespread disappointment. The Yaqui Indians are again making life a most un- comfortable uncertainty in Mexico, and more rigid meas- ures of punishment are being taken by our southern neighbor. There seems to be no escape from the conclu- sion that the only way'in which to make the noble Yaquis good red men is the method pursued by the American pioneers. The its effectiveness remedy is severe, but results vindicate and justify its employment. BALFOUR "AND HIS BURDENS. NGLAND, e in the midst of traditionally reserved and conservative in the expression of political opinion, however heated her domestic controversies may be, is now a political campaign that for violence of invective, for extravagance of censure or of praise, ac- cording te the point of view of partisans, may well rival the boasted history of the American stump. For in- sinuation of unworthy motives, for denunciation of pub- lic conduct and methods, for sweeping allegations incompetency, we must look for models to our of dis- turbed® and agitated British cousins, who have passed through a barren but very bitter Parliamentary session and now await with impatience the election and forma- tion of a new Government that may or may not satisfy the politicians and the people of the nation. In the great parliamentary battle which has been fought for many months and which was ended by the King a few days ago three great figures, representing as many definitely defined public policies, were in English eye. the Far above the others in public praise or condemnation, lauded for qualities recognized by friendly followers, or denounced for failures construed by the desires of the opposition, was Mr. Balfour, the Premier. Hardly second in the agitated gaze of the English | people, a master of empirical suggestion and reform or a dangerous theorist trifling with the country and its prosperity, as y ou please to look at him, was Joseph Chamberlain, the nearest approach in England to the manners and methods of an American statesman. then came Sir Henry~€ampbell-Bannerman, who, in the | fire of controversy, has been characterized as the leader | himself and he was a good little boy, of honest men, exposing the straightforward heresies of ' staring all around and never uttering And Chamberlain and the dishonest subtleties of Balfour. Through a long series of great debates, during which | seven desperate but futile attempts were made to oust the Government, these three men have been before the English public as the shining marks for indorsement or rebuke. And now, with Parliament adjourned, the coun- try rings with speculation regarding the character and | personnel of the next Government. A writer in the Contemporary Review, professing complete knowledge of the situation, assumes that the next administration will be a Liberal one, but as the presumption is evidently an expression of the hope of Lord Rosebery, it has been advanced only to be assailed bitterly and vigorously. As far as English public opinion may be sifted there appear to be three available Liberal Prime Ministers, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Lord Spencer. fthat the King should send for Sir Bannerman and Lord Rosebery and Subsidiary to this suggestion is another Henry Campbell- Lord Spencer as leaders of the opposi- tion and deputize the latter to form an administration. While this brilliant scheme is hatching the other forces are saying nothing to indicate their final purpose in the organization of a new Government, Meanwhile partisan papers are bristling with adjectives of abuse and giving to America a few examples that encroach upon recognized supremacy in this field paigning. of political cam- FREE SEAS FOR FOOD. 1 HE laws of modern war exempt non-cothbatants from its ravages. This exemption does not merely cover their exemption in actions at arms. It in- cludes their right to life and their means of existence. Extending this principle, it means that they have the right to a sufficient and uninterrupted food supply. Were it otherwise non-combatants could be summarily starved to death, which battle. Great Britain an imported food supply. is more horrible than to be Stricken in | depends and will always depend upon This accounts for her stren- uous objection to Russia making food contraband. This question of food is a common tie of peculiar strength | between the United States and Great Britain. the surplus food, she has the demand for it. We havs No wonder, then, that she insists that the exclusion of non-combat- ants from the sphere of military vengeance shall cover their right to have food and to live. by the sympathy of Continental Europe, insist upon | If Russia, backed making food contraband, it amounts to no less than a decision for the The interest scarcely second extinction of Great Britain. of the United States in the issue is to that of Great Britain. Our prosper- ity depends upon a foreign market for our surplus food and fabrics and fiber. If these are contraband, every | war anywhere is a blow at us, and we are made' to suffer its destructive consequences, although not a party to it i and innocent of its cause. Russia is playing hard upon the Continental jealousy our | | TALK OF THE TOWN | - Hospitality Enforced. Eda Wright, Tax Collector of Mendo- cino Cougty, and Bob Duke, the well- known young lawyer of this city, have just returned from a hunting trip through the northern part of the State. Wright is authority for the fol- | lowing: “Just before taking the trail we en- ered the hotel in a small town for luncheon. Seating ourselves at a table, | Duke ordered a bottle of choice wine jand two porterhduse steaks. Imme- | dintely afterward a typical back- i woodsman and his helpmate drove up | in a prairie schooner, behind which | was tied a large hound. They entered | the dining-room, seated themselves at | our tabie and ordered some cold meat, | | which they had aimost finished when lour repast was brought in. Duke| | poured a glass of wine for himself {and one for me and we began eating. ' | We had taken but a few mouthfuls !when we were startied to see our | farmer friend reach for the bottle of | wine—which he evidently thought was | common property—and generously fill | | his capacious water tumbler and that of his wife from our private stock. | Duke, having invited me to the wine, { was much embarrassed, but said noth- | ing. “When the farmer had drunk the wine, however, and reached again for the remainder of the bottle, my friend’s patience was exhausted, and, flushing up, he arose and left the table te seek the proprietor for an explana- tion. Before he had time to return ithe bucolic gentleman, thinking Duke |\had fintshed, reached over and dumped the remainder of his steak into a pa- | per, with a remark about the small- ness of my friend’s appetite and that | the meat would be good for his dos. The couple then arose and drove off, just as Duke returned. My apprecia- tion of the comedy was so keen that I | was unable to answer his inquiries as | to the whereabouts of the steak until the wagon was well out of sight, when it came about that he gave another but more varied order for refresh- ments, after which we went on our way." The Priest’s Curtains. , | A well known attorney who lives in the Western Addition is blessed with a | family of six boys. Willie, the young- | est, 1s a great favorite of the parish | priest, who frequently dines with the | family. A few Sundays ago Willie | was taken to church for the first time. He had been drilled how to hehave i a word. ‘When the priest entered in his robes ‘Willie’'s eyes nearly bulged out of his head. He tried hard to follow Lis mother’s advice to keep quiet but he j could not restrain himself. Nudging | one of his brothers next to him he said so that he could be heard distinctly: “Gee, Jimmie, look at Father — wiv lace curtains on.” He was promptly led out of the church by his chagrined mother and told that he was a very naughty boy. The Quest. | | Dear heart, T lately passed beneath the pines, The stately pines, the pines that sigh and sing: I climbed great mountains where the west winds bring Faint odors from the vale of wheat and vines, In search of Peace. i emn lines Of great Sierras rise, and i fling 2 Mad music to the crags where cedars cling, | Above old Ophir's wealth i mines; I stood where sol- torrents of yellow | But could not see her face. | 1 stood | Where Merced, boasting of her awful leap Down the great cliffs of lone Yo- semite— Join flood— Sang, as she passed me near a cav- erned gteep: “Beyond the Hills of Time she waiteth thee.” —George N. Lowes. A Linguist. A prominent Senator, who claims to be rather more cultivated than some of his colleagues, prides himself on his knowledge of Itallan. During a recent visit to New York he patronized & ulrefi bootblacking stand, and as he got into the seat directed the boot- black, in his best Italian, to make | haste, as he was trying to catch the : train. i The bootblack stared at the Senator | for a moment in apparent perplexity, | then answered briefly: | “Me no speak English.” | A newsboy standing on the cormer | had witnessed the incident with In- terest. “He ain't no I‘enchman," he ob- | gerved, confidentially, as the Senator | got down from the stand; “he's a | bloomin’ Dago. Talk Italian.”—Har- ! per's Weekly. The Foopskirt Problem. , And then Eag old Joaquin's turgid The Kalamazoo Council has under | consideration the dredging of Kala- | | ! » sand, a plagye and pestilence breeder. They have dammed the river and been damned by riversiders. The merits of these ancient skeleton balloons beat brushwood biind for straining water and retainingresiduum. All sorts of floating wood trash found a foothold and lodged in them. They became shallows and the shallows of pestilence for which the hoopskirts were responsible. All these antique memories of the maids and mothers of many years ago should be scooped out of Kalamazoo and something done to put them out of action, though heaven knows how it can be done. Possibly a deep pit in some secluded place would hold them. They should be planted as near the center of the earth as possible lest some sclentific researcher for prehistoric remains find and ex- ploit them as the bones of the pre- Adamite Kalamazooloos.—Detroit Trib- une. Roosevel: and Bismarck. In the City of Mexico, quoting President Rooseveit's utterance on the Monroe doctrine and imperialism made In his recent speech of acceptance, draws the following pe- culiar deduction: “Could the formidable cellor’ have sald more? did practically A journal after ‘Iron Chan- In fact, he say the same when he undertogk the construction of Ger- many. It is not by Parliamentary speeches nor by votes on majorities, but by blood and fire, that great contem- poraneous questions must be settled. After forty years the soul of Bismarck, the Minister of an ancient monarchy, has passed into the President of a uthful democracy. Does not this seem curious?) Polite Ever. The Japanese proprietor of a tea shop In the East End of London has been much annoyed by the incessant howling of his neighbor’s dog under his window while he was trying to sleep. Therer came~a night “whem his patience gave way He raised the window, stuck his head out, and called to his neighbor in terms that indi- cated that his English environment was gradually undermining his native politeness. Jones,” he said, “will you do the kindness for request the honorable dog that he stop his hon- orable bark? If you don't, by gosh, 1 knock his jam head off!"—Irish Weekly Times. Answers to Queries. THE CITY HALL—A. Jose, Cal. The highest point on the City Hall, San Francisco, is 325 feet from the level of the street. O. 8, San IT IS LATIN—T. W. G, City. The phrase submitted is Latin and should be written in three words, “Ego amo te,” which means, I love thee. LIFE OF A NOTE—S. T. M. C., City. The life of a promissory note in Cali- fornia is four years If executed within the State and two years If executed outside of the State. WASHINGTON, D. C—E. 8, City. The residents of the city of Washing- ton, D. C., have no direct voice in the appointments to office within the Dis- trict, having no vote in District or na- tional affairs. A TIP—A. L. 8, City. When a lady accepts the courtesy of a friend who is the owner of a private carriage to ride in that carriage, she would be guilty of a breach of etiquette to “tip” the driver of the carriage. PATENT—Subscriber, City. Any one who receives a patent from the United States for any article has the exclusive right to manufacture such article, therefore no one would have the right to manufacture a patented article, even for his own use, without being lable to prosecution. NEW STATES—W. F., McCloud, Cal. The last on the list of States admitted into the Union was Utah, January 4, 1896, and the last Territory organized was Hawall, June 14, 1900. Attempts were made since November, 1900, to have Arizona and New Mexico admit- ted as States, but the measure failed. SLANDER — Subscriber, Alameda, Cal. In law, slander is not a penal of- fense and, therefore, not the same as libel, which has been defined as “writ- ten slander.” Slander is subject to an action to recover damages. The amount that might be awarded, if 5 PRy | mazoo River from the city of Cooper, of the United States and Great Britain. The advocates o gistance of several miles, for the of a united Continent to oppose the trade of the United ‘ deepening of the bed in some places tempt to give London a high class monthly magazine. (Under the editor- ship of George R. «Halkett the Pall in which he says that “There is not a place in California or anywhere else on earth where a miner’s inch of water 3. Keep your bedroom window open all night. 4. Have a mat to your bedroom door. | judgment was found for the plaintiff, | would depend c¢n conditions and the jamount of damage resulting. 5. Mall has been almost, if not quite, as good as the leading American maga- zines. Too good, apparently, for one understands that the price is about to be reduced from one shilling to six- pence—ithe ordinary magazine price here—which probably means that the periodical is to Be *“‘popularized.” Since her arrival in this country eome time ago Kate Douglas Wiggin | hzs mixed a good deal with women writers here and work in partnership kas been ome of the results. I am 1old that her new book, ‘“The Affair at the Inn,” is the outcome of a collabo- ration between Mrs. Riggs, Miss Jane Findlater (author of “The Green Graves of Balgowrie”), her sister, Mary Findlater, and Miss Charlotte Etewart, who has published several is made to irrigate 500 acres of land, or anywhere near it.” This is professional confirmation of our statement, made in a review of the expectations roused by some theorists. Colonel Lippincott adds that: “In some dis- tricts in Southern California where the water is all Do not Lave your bedstead against the wall. 6. No cold tub in the morning, but & bath at the temperature of the body. 7. Exercise before breakfast. % Eat little meat and see that it is well cooked. 9. (For adults.) Drink no milk. 4 s > - . 10. BEat plenty of fat, to feed the| tributed in pipe lines, or cement ditches, they occasion- oel’]ll, w:lc‘ladd‘el:r:‘y disease germs. ally make a miner’s inch serve as much as ten acres, s T e cants, which destroy | 1,4 ycually where the water supply is not so limited a 12. Daily exercise in the open air. duty of a miner’s inch to two, three or possibly five acres 13. Allow no pet animals in your lv- ing room. They are apt to carry i is customary. In most instances where we are planning disease germs. irrigation works we are making an absolute determina- 14, Live in the country if you can. tion, by a season’s measuremént, of the am 15, "Watih ibbe’ thren Din—rishibe | o e o wiler, Sl AR Mialin. water actually used in growing crops in that particular :0. Have a change of locality. z s A s S H T-hrm-t-uno;nhlu-n. For instance, under the Yuma project we find there is used a pumping system, where each man pays for what States are ready allies in her endeavor to rewrite inter- | and the removal of sandbars in others. Our demand for the protection of our | The estimated cost of a thorough job is national law. commerce will have no European sympathy outside of Great Britain. With her our interests make common $20,000 and for half the money, it is! believed, the situation can be material- 1y improved and the damage by floods cause. The’qnestion is far more serious than at first greatly lessened. appeared upon its face. It joins against us and Great Pritain the political enethies of her empire and the cbm- mercial enemies of our trade. If Japan bring the wartoa speedy conclusion the issue may pass without a decision. But, though Port Arthur fall and the Baltic fleet share the doleful fate of its two predecessors waters, the possibility of getting help from other Con- tinental nations by this appeal to their political and in Eastern | | If the dredging is undertaken par- iucular attention should be paid to | that portion of the river within the | moisture. | corporation, which has never recovered, , SLUGS—Subscriber, Port Costa, Cal. If the houss you refer to in letter of inquiry is Infested with slugs, it is be- cause the buiiding is very damp and the best way to rid the place of the slugs is to remove thg cause of their presence, that is to do away with the Quicklime, also chioride of lime or common salt in quantities, will | even with time’s help, from the chok- | drive the slugs from the place, but ' ing of the channel received during the | hoopskirt era of forty years ago, when | every castoff crinoline found its way | to as near the middle of the stream as | a wounded and outraged male member commercial ambitions may cause Russia to needlessly l of the household could throw it. Thoss prolong the war. Our people should comprehend the gravity of the issue and prepare for action defensive of our interests. L7 old hoopskirts are there yet, save the comparatively few—which are many— raised out by fishermen with hook and line. They are there by the thou- ~ they will appear somewhere else. 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