The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAI WEDNESDAY. NOVE’.UBER 30, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL .;()"; D’ 7§|‘|{l7(’fil:l.§ § e v{’fpfic!'}:‘ JOHN McNAUGHT ?l:mirl PUBLICATION OFFICE ..NOVEMBER 30, 1904 FOREST PRESERVATION. i eeting of the Waters and Forests Society inspires st in the subject of forest preservation, which Pro- rling has introduced to the readers of The Call, and most interestingly discussed in our columns by Joa- His essay opens up the subject in all of its phases and 1l be interested in his statement of the agency preserving the forest by being permitted to keep the derscrub down. g issue, indeed, on the forest reservations. Yor- o doubt, when the forests were open domain used in com- i ck men for range, destructive fires were caused by the sth by accident and design. The copse was burned to open ground for the grass next yeari The fires set for that rpose wandered at will and destroyed everything as they traveled. seemed but one way to stop this and that was by denying the n fores the livestock men entirely. Then the grass grew :nchecked and -s started by lightning or any other cause were carried by it through the forest. So the old problem is upon us, 1¢ sheep and cattle are excluded from the forest range. 1 rnishes an example of tolerance and the open mind v, which should characterize the whole debate. Big fires sv may be averted by little fires that conserve. Other effective, may be found. If so let them be adopted. is a burni er t nta ir He is a woodcraitsman by long experience in this State and Oregon, when they 1 a state of nature. There are others like him who knew the forces hen their primitive features were upon them, before ax il and fire, had marred them. We would be glad to hear nore of these pioneers. There are yet alive, also, torest Indias ur mountains, who can talk, if they will, about what they r ancestors did in the forest, and it would be in- teresting them their estimate of the forest. Did t in economic regard? Did they appreciate the necessity o ving i Was their semi-annual of fire for the purpose primarily of saving the forests from destruction? Or was uch use primarily to facilitate the taking of game, the preservative ect on the forest being secondary, collateral and not intended? It would be very interesting to know what the Indians thought of the forest, in fact. Did they conceive of its relation to their welfare, to their means of existence? The tribes are passing. If we could know what they knew and what they thought about the forests, it 11d throw some light upon the subject as discussed by their civil- s wo ized and m jestructive successors. In our mountains there is some evidence that Indians had noth- ing to do with some of the fires which left marks thousands of years ago. There some evidence in the groves of the Big Trees that ng anic eruptions lava streams communicated fire to the ex- g forests. If this be true, all of the marks of ancient fires should be held in evidence against the Indians. It is hoped that during the coming session of the Waters and Forests the scientific foresters will give us the benefit of their knowle , and that Mr. XMiller may be present to say some- thing about the primitive conditions which he knew so well. It may be, too, that the subject of pasturing, under proper restrictions, the forest reserves, to keep down the dry grass and remove one danger from fire, will be considered. But, above all, this meeting will put into shape a State forestry law, for action by the Legislature. Such law has been ecarnestly urged for years, and the lack of it has added speed to the disappearance of the forest. The Indians may not have been strictly scientific foresters, but they were not de- stroyers. They needed no legislation on the subject, for they found the law of the woods ready made by nature. We have to look to the Legislature, and this time our urgency should not be in vain. not Society >AMERICAN DIET. HE recent great strike in the Eastern meat trade was expected to | uch inconvenience and distress in consequence of a meat famine. There was a prolonged shortage in the meat supply and prices went up, but there was no indication of distress or incon- venience. This had something to do with the complete surrender of the strikers. Their leader, Donnelly, had declared his intention to cut off the meat diet of the people. But the people went on eating and thriving and his expected reinfdrcement and support from a meat famine smitten public did not appear and he surrendered with- out terms. It was a surprise to him and has caused a study by others | of the meat element in the diet of the people. | Every one has noted the enormous increase in the use of pro-| prietary cereal foods. These foods have almost taken the place for- merly held by patent medicines in the advertising columns of the newspapers. Their production must be strenuously profitable to justify such expenditures for introduction. Fifty years ago the only cereal food known, besides the products of wheat and rye flour and cornmeal, was oatmeal, and that was imported and was rare and costly. Now no breakfast table is without some form of mush or grits. A thorough investigation of the subject shows that Americans eat 36 per cent less meat per capita than fifty years ago. But we eat more wheat, poultry, eggs and cheese. In 1880 our consumption of eggs was 920 dozen for each 100 persons. Now it is 1700 dozen for each 100. We eat 17 dozen eggs apiece, and the hen has assumed an important place in economics. In 1850 we consumed 430 bushels of wheat for cach 100 persons. Now the consumption is 623 bushels for the same number. Corn and potatoes show a similar increase, while in forty years the consumption of oats as human food has increased fourfold. Fruits have increased in consumption many hundreds per cent | and are now in some form a part of the diet of all the people. They | are used at all seasons of the year, as canning and drying have made | them accessible all the year. Though our domestic fruit product has { been increased and extended into many varieties by the horticulture | of California, yet we pay an annual banana bill of $8,000,000, and lines of steamers ply between Atlantic ports and the banana fields of Central America and the West Indies to carry bananas alone. Baron von Humboldt first brought the nutritive qualities of the banana into notice by proving that an acre in that fruit furnishes more nourishment than an acre in any other crop. | These changes in diet have proceeded on the line of natural selection and are not the result of 2ny reform movement. People go more to the field and orchard for food and less to the shambles and abattoir. The place of meat has been largely taken also by fish. | When Scth Green began teaching the possibilities of fish culture, | and showed that an acre of water would supply as much food as an'1 acre of land, fish was a luxury in many parts of the country. Now | it is a cheap and regular market food everywhere. Rivers and lakes are regularly restocked and kept in"a productive condition by the! hatcheries, and new kinds of fish are introduced into. waters where | they were not indigenous, as the shad and striped bass were brought | to California, and the supply is regular and abundant. Canning has also extended the use of fish as it has that of vegetables and fruits. All of these articles make up a desirable diet upon which health and strength may be sustained with the use of less mieat. The products of the dairy, of poultry, of the farm and orchard, are con- : stantly increasing in volume and are capable of indefinite expansion to meet the needs of an irfcreasing population. We are adding to the Jist of edible fruits and vegetablgs, and with the increase in their use | and decrease in the consumption of meat there is no sign of decrease in the strength and endurance of our people. Every man is as capable of doing his share of work as ever, and there is a prospect | that the use of meat will continue to decline until it reachés a point | cause that represents its proper hygienic proportion in the diet of human beings. ADAM ZOUFFLE | BY H. M. JOHNSTON. one girl in the world that has a hand Jjust like that. ‘“Can you tell me her name?” HYLLIS,” T said reprovingly, “I don’t like it.”” 1 5 “Dom’t like what?” she|asked, slowly regaining my Wits. questioned in mock surprise. Madame Zouffle consulted the stars But 1 was not foolish |a bit and then the lines of my palms. enough to go on and tell her “It starts with a‘ P,” she said at what I didn’t like. She would only |length. =~ “P—Ph— It looks like o : Hgier ; s have laughed at me if I had. Tl a “You're right,” I told her. “It's| mit, l(:s all very nice to see a slr! |a very serious quarrel? I think a very help with the decorations, and for my |great deal of hgr, you know. Can part I like to see them do it. It's|you tell me if she's deeply offended?” proper that a girl should take an in- | “I think she is,” said Madame Zouf- terest in the cause of charity; but|fle. “At all events, she ought to be; when it comes to every fellow about|YOU have treated her very badly: { . 5 o | “What have I done?” the place wanting to hold the tacks | zagama Zoume studied the lines in the dark corners, it seems to me | very carefully. that it’s time to call a halt. “You have practically given her to “You don’t think I'd even let one | understand you don’t care for her at of them hold my hand, do you?” asked |all. You have told her vou don't care Phyllis icily. | it she holds the hand of as many men . as she wants- to. That sounds as “No—but—" I stammered. “Perhaps you mean to insinuate that | fljrt with as many men as she I'd hold theirs, then.” rleased.” “Yes?” 1 said it with the rising | Phyllis was holding her nose very \ % ly L inflectio | thing. I didn’t give assent to any- ““And is she doing it?” | evening.'” in Madame Zouflle's voice. It sounded almost like a suppressed laugh. I assumed the most dignified air. “And the men—did they like it?” I queried. | Madame Zouffie could not tell. The lines were not sharply enough de- \ fined. ““They’d better be careful,” I said, flercely. “I'll jolly well punch their heads if they don't. Besides, it's the | 1ast chance they’ll have.” | Now, for a mere outsider and just a common fortune teller, I must say that Madame Zouffle took quite a re- markable interest in my affairs. “Why?'* she asked. ~Why their last chance?” “Because I'm going to tell her to- morrow that she must stop,” I re- plied, grimly. There was an odd glitter in Madame Zouffle's eves. “And will she is it do anything you say?” she asked. “She must be well trained to obey your ‘Lie down, Carlo,” every time.” “She’ll do it if she loves me” I said. “By the way, I haven't asked you: does she love me?” Either the light was very dim or there was something wrong with Madame Zouffle's eyes. The question necessitated her bending over and making a very close scrutiny of my palm before she was able to answer. * : | The warm, soft folds of her hair were | “Perhaps you can tell me if directly in front of me, and I kissed \ I love her.” them, ever so slightly. She didn't - - e | feel it. | “I don’t know,” confessed Phyllis— |1 mean Madame Zouffle—at last. “It high indeed. There was only one thing | looks partly as though she does and I could do and retain my dignity. I must get very angry. 1 16 “I'm sure you may if you want to,” | though she doesn’t. | does—sometimes. 1 retorted with affected indifference. | “NE Y UMC was not looking at I—1 think she Phyllis laughed. I was quite sure | ja° She was still examining my 1 was going to get into some sort of | hand ever so carefully. So I ventured trouble. I always do when Phyllis | again. “What is there about me,” I asked, “that she does not like—sometimes?"” “You don't always treat her very laughs just that way. 'hank you, sir,” she replied with a e \] | ~'She has held the hands of a great H \\ | many of the gentlemen present this There was a suspicious little quiver | then again just the least little bit as | QUARRELS OF LOVERS. Bu Dorothy Fenimors. FAIL to see that there is anything either profitable or poetic in lov- ers’ quarrels. A poorer augury than they are for married happi- ness is inconceivable. They are | useful only as sign-posts ,which point out a dangerous road. If a couple quarrels before marriage, they will quarrel afterward. If a man is jealous of his sweetheart he will be ! Jealous of his wife. If a girl does not .ihonor, by word and deed, the man | whom she has promised to wed, 'tis | not to be exvected that marriage vows will maKe her loyal. ! One variety of lovers' quarrel, it is | needless to say, is as harmless as the | motive which inspires it. This is the | quarrel which is meant only as a teaz- ing pleasantry, an excuse for, or a though you were giving her liberty to ' provocation to, renewal of ardor. Often [this is a sauce plquant which gives relish to courtship. The genuine quarrel, however, is a | thing to be regretted, unless it 1is | plainly a salvation to both parties, | saving them from a marriage which would end inevitably in divorce. A reconciliation may appear to be com- plete, but it cannot put matters upon their original basis. Something is gone, | something indefinable, from the deli- cacy and the pervasiveness of that | emotion which animated the wooing | and ‘the winning. THE SMART SET= BY SALLY SHARP. The bridge party given by Mrs Willlam Robert Sherwood in Century Hall yesterday afternoon was a large | and brilliant affair. | The vparlors and hall were called | into requisition, the guests filling | many tables. The game incited its customary enthusiasm, and undeniable | pleasure reigned among the following participants: Mrs. George Shreve, | Mrs. Alexander Garceau, Mrs. Robert | Hooker, Miss Sally Maynard, Mrs. M. | | P. Jones, Mrs. Daniel Drysdale, Miss | Bolton, Mrs. Burroughs, Mrs. H. M. i+ A. Miller, Mrs. Louls Monteagle, Mrs. | Reginald Brooke, Mrs. Milton Jones, | Mrs. Samuel Boardman, Mrs. George Wheaton, Miss Ethel Cooper, Mrs. Alexander D. Keyes, Mrs. Grayson Dutton, Mrs. Harry Williar, Mrs. Nel- son Eckart, Miss Agnes Buckley, Mrs. Stafford Parker, Mrs. William Horn, | Mrs. Arthur. Wallace, Mrs. Voorhies, | | Mrs. Henry Dutton, Miss Jennie Blair, | | Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Henry Clarence | | Breeden, Mrs. George Grant, Mrs. Farquharson, Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. | John Fenn, Mrs. Edwin Newhall, Mrs. : Scott, Mrs. William Mintzer, Mrs. | Fred Tallant, Mrs. Charles K. Harley, | Mrs. William Masagee, Mrs. Stuart Rawlings, Mrs. Frank West, Mrs. S. | E. Dutton, Mrs. Thomas Benton Dar- | ragh, Miss Clara Durbrow, Miss Anita | Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Thomas Porter | Bishop, Mrs. H. L. E. Meyer, Miss An- | | thony, Mrs. Fred Sherman, Mrs. Bal- lantine, Miss Grace Baldwin, Mrs. { Edward Pond, Mrs. Edson Adams,l | Mrs. H. H. Sherwood and Mrs. H. P. | Dimond. . | The wedding of Miss Genevieve L. | | Smith and" Robert Jackson Graham | will take place to-day in St. Paul's| | | Episcopal Church. | i Mr. and Mrs. Graham will reside in | Miss Christine Pomeroy will en-| tertain at luncheon at her home next | i | | their own home, recently completed, | . . . | Sunday. | at Van Ness and Clay. ‘ . . - | Sharon, Mrs. George F. Chapman, M | Mrs. Charles Morris and Mrs. pleasure, and several of this season’s buds besides other guests were present. Wy Hermann Oelrichs is entertaining as guests at the St. Francis Charles Oel- richs and Harry Eldridge of New York. . - Porter and Miss Amy Porter at luncheon at Covers were Mrs. entertained yesterd the Hotel Pleasanton. laid for fodrteen. . . . The Christmas exhibition and sale of the Sketch Club will be held at 1308 Cal- ifornia street, beginning December 1 and continuing through the 10th. ., Mrs. J. L. P. Berry will entertain at a large tea on December 10 to introduce her daughter, Miss Edith Berry. The affair will be held at their Washingt street home from 4 to 7 p. m. &, B @ concert by the Orpheus The Club | given last 8vening for the Protestant | Episcopal Old Ladies’ Home was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. Un- der the patronage of these well-known people the affair was a social and finan- cial success: Mrs. Monroe Salisbu Mrs. H. E. Huntington, Mrs. A George Shreve, Mrs. W. H. Taylor, Mrs. Horace L. Hill, Mrs. John C. Kirkpat- Meyer, Miss Wilson, Miss Deering, : Miss Tiffany, Miss Andrew Griffin, !ri(‘k, Mrs. Robert Bruce, Miss Merison, 3 rt, Miss Grac ‘kley, | Miss Hamlin, Mrs. A. Tm}'n.. M i e S e S | James Ellis Tucker, Mrs. Coo Morton. The institution is one commands the respect and kindl of all people, this sentiment being fully demonstrated by the presence of so many. « Miss Suzanne Kirkpatrick will give a dance in the ballroom of the Palace to-morrow evening. . Miss Marie Wells and Selby Hanna will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels at dinner this evening. Miss Alvce Sullivan entertains Miss Anita Harvey to-day at luncheon. The Forum Club will hold a recep- | tion this afternoon, and all business The engagement is announced . of | =7 n g e Tt | Miss Margaret Littleton Lenehan of | (“l‘”(‘:;;;‘i:“i ‘;‘;“a‘:‘}“r'm*';u:'“w““ o :?hhih agi;)’w Frederick W. Foulkes of ‘ passed, the Forum Club being notable ol S b 53 [ for their ability for intelligent con- Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wheeler are | o atom e preparing for a trip to San Diego, and | | will be gone about a month. { . B | Mrs. H. M. A. Miller will entertain | at tea on December 15. . B . | Miss Anita Harvey, who is receiving much attention these days, shared hon- ors last evening with Miss Marjorie Josselyn at a dance given by Mrs. Mayo Newhall and Miss Newhall. Their home on Post street was the scene o(! The Cap and Bells Club is preparing a programme to savor of colonial days, which will be p nted in December. The principal features will be under the supervision of Mrs. W. P. Bucking- ham, Mrs. T. G. Crothers, Mrs. Bl enberg, Miss Langworthy, Mrs. V. Driffield, Mrs. Charles Stewart. The engagement is announced of M Louise Mauzy of Indiana to Charles Albert Schroth of San Fran- cisco. deep courtesy. will avail myself of your kind permission this evening.” The place looked quite different at night, with all the lights going. And really, the booths were very pretty. Y couldn’t see Phyllis anywhere, though. Then Grace Rawshaw came along and took me in tow. “You haven't had your fortune told,” ghe informed me, “and you really must. Besides, I'm curious to hear it.” ““Who tells them?” I questioned. Grace looked at me funny way. It was stupid of me not to have found out what parts the girls were to take. “Why, Madame Zouffle,” Then she tittered all booth. You never saw such a jam in all your life. I'm sure every fellow I knew was there. “You'll have to wait your turn,’~ Grace told me. Then she went to look for more victims. I found out after- ward that this was what she was sup- posed to do. You Madame Zouffle. It was a long time to wait, too, until all that crowd got tkrough, and I wandered away twice. Fach time Grace Rawshaw came and took me back. Finally 1 got inside. she said. It was a lit- tle tent all hung with red and there was just room for you to sit on a camp stool in front of the fortune teller. But even then you couldn't| see Madame Zouffle. She was alll wrapped up in one of those fluffy | things like a Moorish woman, and | when she spoke her voice was deep and masculine. I was sure that part! was affected. She reached out and took my hand. “You have quarreled with your lady love,” said she. “Yes?” said I, vaguely wondering | ow she knew. | Then I happened to glance at her | hand. There were no rings to iden- tify it, but the third finger on her left was just a little red, as though' there might have been one there not so long ago. And then—well, I may be a duffer, but I knew. There’s only h IMMORTALITY. HEN I was grass, perhaps I may have wept As every year the grass blades paled and slept; Or shrieked in anguish impotent, beneath The smooth impartial cropping of great teeth— I don't remember much what came to pass When T was grass. When I was monkey, I'm afraid the trees Weren't always havens of contented ease; Things killed us, and we No doubt we blamed the 1 have forgotten my rebellion’'s shape When I was ape. Now I have reached the This stage of living is enveloped in, And hold the spirit of my mighty race Self-conscious prisoner under one white face— I'm awfully afraid I'm going to die, Now I am I So I have planned a hypothetic life To pay me somehow for in ane awfully | the way to the | couldn’t catch a glimpse of | | | | “if she could only hear you say that, r . 5 | may have my faults; I'm morally certain she | | expected me to know. | me I actually think you ought to b lon your hand,” argued the fortune p.nq judgment until she should con- A girl cannot afford to quarrel with ' | the man to whom she has given her | ‘Stingy promise, if she can afford to marry | not that. But vou always| him The day is coming when hlsi thick of yourself and your OWN PEr"| ways are to be her ways, provided they | L ?:j: as well as I|&rs honorable. A womanly woman, | do that this was a libel. Ever since | When she marries, enters upon a life I have know Phyllis—but what's the | of sweet service, in Love's name; and good of arguing about it? Phyllis her husband’s contentment marks the | knew it, too. £ | horizon of her own. “If Phyllis were here,” I remarked, | [,ve will not survive continual mis- | of | understandings. Love needs to be Foawing how utterly false it is. It's|Wanted: it must know that it is neces- | true,” I went on, magnanimously, “I!sary. In no less degree does Love but I'm quite | need to be trusted; the cornerstone of convinced that the dear girl would |the perfect edifice it builds is confi- | not say that was one of them.” | dence. Madame Zouffie did not reply. She o5t gifferences between lovers could | sebined «to- have Warse GEXS | easily be explained away if both would | ev.e.‘;'vhm else can you see?” I ques-| lay aside pride and would stop to real- | well,” said Madame Zouffle. *“Your that you are very selfish.” you would have an opportunity tioned. “Perhaps you can tell me if | ize what they are certain to appreciate : I love her.” | later, the importance of the present, “You think you do,” answered | the living moment. A bride whom I know found among | The | her husband’s possessions what looked | in her | to her like most damaging testimony tone. | against him. From out a bunch of| “Wrong again,” I replied. “You're his papers fell two photographs of ac- | a very poor hand at your business. If | tregges. On the wrong side of the re- you've told the others here this even-| o0\ " 0 " o TR Ly o | Su've tola | Spective cards written, rom | ingno more. iihe ee X ! your friend, Minnie M. and “Yours | up for obtaining money under false ever, Katharine K.” At first she was | pretenses.” | almost prostrated by her jealousy and | “I can see several other girls here ' fears. But, wisely, she decided to sus- Madame Zouffle. | “When I really do not?” “When you really do not.” fortune teller was very positive teller. 1 laughed. “Excuse me, please,” I murmured; i front her husband with these evidences | of an unregenerate youth, and give him — -+ OL D FRIE i I looked up and saw that Phyllis’ eyes “but I do a bit of palmistry myself. Now, right here in your hand"—I! turned her palm over—*I can see any | number of heartless flirtations. There seems to be one In progress now, in| fact.” | The palmist looked up into my face and I guess she must have seen that I knew her. But she wasn't Very cer- tain. I never winked an eyelash. 1 “No I went on, “this dimple | shows—why, how very odd that you should have a dimple just like that. | But I think that clinches my argu-, ment, for I know a girl like that, and | she's—" | And then some one boxed my ear. | were twinkling. “You're such an old stupid, Jack, i dear,” she sald. | (Copyright, 1904, by Hubert McBean | Johnston.) never could tell wh, earth or sea or sky— comfortable skin my toil and strife. Blessed or damned, 1 some way must contrive That I eternally be kept alive! In this an endless, boundless bliss I sce-— Eternal me! When T was a man, no doubt I used to care About the little things that happened there, And fret to see the years keep going by, And nations, families, and persons die. 1 didn’t much appreciate life’s plan When I was a man. —Charlotte Perkins Gilman. | maintain her mind a chance to defend himself. ‘When her husband saw the pictures he laughed, and tore them up, without showing to her watching eyes a sign or guilt or confusion. He had bought the pictures when at college, and in a streak of boyish folly had written the signatures on the back of them himself. It comes within Love’s part to excuse follies as well as faults. “To err is human,” and to forgive is usually good sense. A woman's heart Kkeeps its freshness all her life, if she is able to in an attitude which tries to understand the motives which prompt the mistakes of those whom she loves. - “Forgiveness Lane is old as youth— You cannot miss your way; 'Tis hedged by flowering thorn for- sooth, ‘Where white doves fearless stray. “You must walk gently with your love— Frail blossoms dread your feet, And blooming branches close above Make heaven near and sweet. “Some lovers fear the stile of pride And turn away in pain, But more have kissed where white doves hide, And blessed Forgiveness Lane.” GEORGIA NUGQGETS It's mighty strange dat de man what holler de loudest got de least ter say. De good book say you must love yo' .enemies; but ef you done dat in time er war, whar would you be? Looks ter me like it's foolishness ter sen’ cloze ter de heathens. What dey n‘eeda is umbrellas.—Atlanta Constitu- tion. — Townsend's California Glace frults In artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ———— Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia strect. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——————— California for 1905. California poppy, poinsettia, Chinese and redwood calendars. All new—best ever—ready for mailing. Sanbo £'Co. 741 "Market street. Forih v | A FLEAS—Subscriber, Newark, Cal The placing of pennyroyal or of chamomile flowers where fleas abound will drive them away and in many in- stances extermirate them. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS—M. E. W., Santa Maria, Cal. The First | Congressional District of Calflorniai contains 43,805 saquare miles and the Eighth District contains 67,381, A LOAD—A. A., Oakland, Cal. A horse can pull a load that is evenly distributed on a four-wheeled wagon | with less effort than he can if the load is “packed at the tail end of the wagon.” The reason is obvious. SHORTHAND—S. A. H., Oakland, Cal. If you are a studious individual you can master any system of short- hand by yourself, but you will find much more difficulty in that way to become perfect than if you had a competent teacher. CRIBBAGE—W, A. M., Selby, Cal. Hoyle is authority for the statement that “the old habit of counting all court or face cards as tenth cards in cutting is obsolete, the king being NDS. o He-Do you remember your old school friend, Sophy Smythe? She—Yes, indeed, | do. So silly, tcol What became of her? He—-Oh, nothing. Oniy-I married her. most absurd looking thing: ANSWEKS TO QUEKIES. higher than the queen, etc., and the ten below the knave.” HONOLULU—X. Y. Z., City. The in- dex of The Call does not contain any account of any such incident asked | about as having occurred in Homnolulu between a foreigner and a quarantine officer. The Call does not have an in- dex of what appeared in other news- papers. DIVORCE—A. S, City. In Cali- fornia, under the present divorce law. a final decree of divorce is not signed until one year after it has been order- ed. At the expiration of that time the party in interest would have a right, by attornev, to go into court and ask | that the same be signed. MEIGGS—A. S, City. This depart- ment has not been able to ascertain upon most diligent incuiry, in what year an agent of Harry Meiggs came to California and reimbursed those who in the very early days of San Francisco loaned money to the late Harry Meiggs, who after leaving this State became a railroad king in South [