The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1904, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, |DECEMBER 11, 1901 / THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL PUBLICATION OFFICE... 04 SUNDAY..... .DECEMBER 11, 19 WARS AND STRIKES. EWSPAPER readers foliow the war in Asia by the meager reports which come from the respective headquarters of the contending armies. They read of the movemeats on l!!\: r. below Mukden. Kuroki crowds Kuropatkin, and is in-turn. Nogi captures 203-Metre Hill and dominates Port I'herc are bombarding all day and bayonet fights at mgh\. word encounters: All of this is interesting as it tells of the fluctuating fortunes of and more or less stirring, a far-away war. % On the same page that carries this news of the distant confiict s the daily report of another war nearer at hand, and under ex- ] adlines we have, in dispatches from Duqugin, Illinois, ing like this: “Another attack was made on Zeigle? last night. began at the pumping station two miles north and spread he mining town, which is under siege and responded chine guns. Doth parties conceal the number of casual- with such variations as are made v by changes in the tics of the investing forces and in I 's of the besieged. The blockade is not complete, we are i, because the besieging force has not yet been able to comr?l_etelv inclose the town, and the besieged are able to secure provisions, to This is repeated every day tolc th water, ammunition and reinforcements. : This is the first attempt to reduce an American town by siege since the Civil War. The only protracted siege in that struggle urg. and the daily accounts of that event read very ose of the siege of Zeigler. But what is it all about? Zeigler is a coal mining town, and the owner of the property resists t} onizing of the mines. Having a force of workmen willing to the mines and willing to work with union or non-tinion miners on equal conditions, the owner desires to mine, ship and sell the 1 produc on his property. This desire of the owner and disposition of his employes are resented and resisted by strikers and the union miners of the district. These forces nearly surround the town, in entrenched camps, well supplied with arms and 1munition, and are carrying on a regular siege, with all the inci- dents of public war. The investing forces make sallies and capture stores on the way to the fortress, and every day there is shooting from the rifle pits and trenches, and every night there is a general assault. The besiegers have not yet brought artillery into action, but there is no reason why they should not use it, as well as the small arms v have. Their siege is supported by assessment levied on miners ar and near, a regular war tax, such as Japan and Russia exact irom their people. They have not yet resorted to the sale of bonds, ike other belligerents, but this may come if the resistance is as stubborn as that of Port Arthur. The commander of the forces ide declares his ability to hold out and make successful his policy zing his own property in his own way, and the general of the investing army announces his capacity to maintain the siege indefinitely. This is not a public war. The State of Illinéis is at peace with all the world, yet war is being waged on its soil to sirike down property rights and to destroy the right of private mtract The owner of the Zeigler mine has the legal right to work his own property in his own way, if he can find employes ready to accept his terms. This he has done, but the armed force which surrounds him refuses to permit him to employ whom he pleases, and to his employes the right to work for whom and on hat terms they please. This is the fundamental issue that is being 1t out in a prolonged action at arms. It is an attempt by and slaughter to compel emplover and employes to submit to the arbitrary will of men who are third parties and have no legal lation to the matter at all. Submission of one man to the arbitrary i another is a surrender of his civil liberty. What is the State of Illinois doing in the premises? The bill »f rights in its constitution guarantees civil liberty to all its people. Governor Yates has taken an oath to enforce the constitution and the law. If the defenders of Zeigler are compelled to surrender to a superior force they surrender civil liberty, not only for them- selves, but for all the people of Illinois. If an armed and illegal force can compel such surrender at one place and not be punished for its act, the same may be done at all places in the State. If the law is powerless at Zeigler, it will be so from Chicago to Rock Island, from Galena to Cairo. Such demonstrations as this at Zeigler are insurrections agains: the civil state. Succeeding in one place and enjoying immunity, they may spread to many places and then insurrection develops into revolution. Under a republican form of government the rights denied at Zeigler are fundamental. When and where they are suc- | cessfully denied, republican government no longer exists. The issues between the owner and the Miners’ Union at Zeigler dis- appear in the presence of the greater issue of civil liberty. Are the besiegers at Zeigler above the law and are the besieged below it? INTERSTATE RAILWAY RATES. 3 e = al will EPORTS from Washington indicate a conflict between the' President and the Senate as to the legislation upon the sub- ject of interstate railway rates which was foreshadowed in the Presidential message. The Senate is said to have determined that nothing shall be done until next Congress, while the Presi- dent desires immediate Congressional action in the matter. It is hard to say why there should be any delay in an act of justice such as this. The evils which would be rectified by the action which the President has outlined are r#al and pressing evils, and they are inflicting an injury upon the trade oi California and upon that of other States from which recovery will in any case be sufficiently slow. The President’s suggestions were moderate in the extreme. He did not propose to clothe the Interstate Com- mission with arbitrary powers to fix railway rates, but only to de-| cide, subject to judicial review, what shall be a rsasonable rate in such cases where the given rate has been challenged. He believes that this would constitute the most important legislative act now needed so far as regards the regulation of corporations, and in this belief he has the hearty concurrence of the commercial sections of the country. » This is, of course, only a part of t‘ne larger question, which by the declaration that “we must strive to keep the highways of commerce open to all on equal terms.” To do this rebates must be stopped and the law which was intended t6 prevent railway dis- crimination in interstate and foreign commerce must be enforced. The satisfaction with which the Presidential assurances were was generously outlined in the Presidential megsage and epitomized E | received will be measurably tempered if it transpires that the Sen-| ate is resolved upon a postponement. The President showed a great knowledge of the conditions, as well as a great sympathy for the needs of interstate commerce, and his hands must be strength- ened for the speedy actomplishment of the needed legislation. CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENT. HE meeting of California development organizations, which T was held at Sacramento on June 18, 1903, has already borne good and substantial fruit. The object of that meeting was to promote the closer co-operation of the various development efiorts now active throughout the State. To that end it was then decided to form a promotion committee for each county, such committecs to form part of a counties committee of the Central California promotion committee. It was further determined that the counties committee hold meetings semi-annually and at such other times as may be deemed advisable. As a result of ¢his admirable arrangement it is now announced that the second semi-annual meeting of officers and ta- tives of all Jevelopment | = | | N OF WEALTH T first it was merely the rumor of a rumor, then it became an au-| thenticated report and last the | town—or at least that part of it which considered itself indu- bitably ‘“upper crust”—thrilled | with the knowledge that Hemingway | fact that he was on a visit to his aunt, | that has an attraction all its own. To ! Trent was to spend a month with his aunt, Mrs. Ordway. Set down in black and white, this) fact appears insignificant, but just' think a moment and repeat the name over and over to yourself—‘Trent,| Trent,” and you will doubtless begin to thrill, for the name of Trent is known | wherever pickles are eaten or money | is spent. ! It is oniy fair to the present Trents| to explain that it is a far cry from the original pickle—or rather from the littie patch of ground on the edge of a young city—where that first pickle—that Aladdin’'s lamp of a pickle—grew, to| the present representatives of the fam-| ily. 1 Hemingw Trent family, aged 26 years, was com- | ing to Carriston for a visit. A blaze of ng up in anxious mother- | at first rumor of this fact, and gh they guarded eye and lip, some | ks flew and little additional fires ! ang up in the hearts of marriage- able daughters. Finally the air became | surcharged. Adamantine father-hearts ve signs of emotion—a restiessness, a | tical, lingering survey of daughterly | ms. Several rush orders for gowns | of more than ordinary beauty were sent scurrying across the continent. And ll} was significant that this finery to come was never mentioned—not even be- | tween the best of friends. i Amid all the intense, subdued flurry of preparation there was one family that remained sereme. Mr. and Mrs. | Barry of Barrydene went their elegant, languid way, undistracted and un-| moved, though they, too, had a mar-| riageable daughter. The way of the Barrys had long since ceased to be af- fluent. 1f the Heingways, for whom | Trent was named, had left a ram-| shackle shanty far behind them, the Barrys, on the other hand, had come | from a rare old colonial mansion that| overlooked the River Severn. The only difference between them was that they ! BY KEITH GORDON. asked him none of the usual questions ! into her eves. with which the others had pestered him until he wondered impatiently if |and a moment later he had tied his Indeed, she didn’t seem to be very clear | the graveled path, where the grass grew as to his identity, so that he felt ccm- | unrebuked. Everywhere there was dis- pelled to refer rather diffidently to the| order, byt it was of the pictorial sort, |they had nothing to think of but him. | horse and was walking bbside her up Mrs. Ordway. Even then her face was| Hemingway Trent, impassive. | grounds that were bathed and shaved “Rather a stunning girl—that Miss| aimost as regularly as their masters, Barry,” he remarked to his aunt the!lit was oddly charming. His companion, next day on their drive as she pointed | however, noticing his musing, lingering Barrydene to him, while he noted with| gaze construed in a different way. interest its picturesque decay. The| ™ “‘pities us, I suppose, because we stucco house was a beautiful, soft rav.: haven't a head gardener and two or and what had once been a garden after | three asgsistants,” she thought to her- accustomed to | beauty. Near a corner of the house he | utterly unaware that the castle of her the Italian manner was now overgrown and neglected, ‘yet full of wistful caught the gleam of a light gown and energetically tried by means of hyp- notic suggestion to cause his aunt to stop, but she sat placidly beside him, mind was being assaulted. Trent reasoned that if you pass a self resentfully. Thereupon she decided i to shock his sensibilities still more. | “It’s rather informal, I know,” she, said glibly, “but I'm going right on/ with my work,” and she led the way | around to the rear of the house. “You see, I've just been doing a few of the small fine pieces myself, the Chinaman brings them back streaked in so many | shades of pink and blue.” “WHILE THE CITY EXPANDS ITS EDUCATIONAL WANTS SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED P i e A S S e AP S ————l Every rapidly growing city faces| | proposition the city of San hancllco! is no exception. First of all municipal | wants demanding attention are the! physical needs of a city. Its unlury{ | needs of water and sewerage, its pro- tection from fire and from marauders lare essenttal to its existence. Then |next in importance, a cause dear to levery American, 1s the education of | the children and youth, and, In these | days it may be added, the education of the masses’of the people through- out a lifetime. San Francisco now has a population closely bordering on half a milllon. The causes which have given it a sud- den impulse and have brought its re- cent strong growth are permanent ones. Soon’ there will be three-quar- the future head of the She looked at him furtively, but it was evident he was thoroughly mysti- fied. She was obliged to be more ex- plicit. “Washing, you know,” she elaborated, pointing to an Indian basket heaped with linen that stood on the grass. “Now just make yourself comfortal and talk to me while I work,” and she proceceded rather ostentatiously to spread out some dainty handkerchiefs and napkins on the adjoining rose bushes, while her caller looked on in shocked, speechless amazement. “Oh, I say! you know. It's ridiculous; it's an out- rage. Get a Chinaman who'll do the right thing. There must be one some- where.” Miss Barry became sweetly pensive. Resignment spoke from every line of her face. “There are some,” she admitted, “but they charge, oh, fearfully!” Then, with g | You oughtn’t to do this, | ! ters of a million people here, and, not long after, a million persons. This pro- | phecy is deemed by many residents to | | be wild and visionary, but it is certain | | that the rest of the country does not | . share in the bellef of San Francisco's | | moderate growth. It is elsewhere a | common expression that San Fran-| cisco is sure to become one of the | | great cities of the world. This local pessimism is unfortunate for the city’s future welfare; it pre- | cludes sound judgment for the needs i of the hereafter. It Is wholly unllke]‘ | the dominant spirit of Chicago. In | | that city every resident has believed | . in its great future and has acted ac- cordingly from the days of its village | life to the present hour, when it is the | ! home of 2,000,000 people. It is not| true, however, that the majority of | school is allowed to be unprovided with “Come—pray do,” she Invited sweetly, | grave municipal problems and to this | a garden spot. In the high schools of these progressive Eastern citles thor- ough manual training In advanced work and complete commercial study fit the boy and girl to step into their chosen pursuits thoroughly prepared. Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of the New York schools, has lately said in an address at Cooper Union: “Play is Imperative in the school as afforc relaxation for the puplil. ng Gymnastics strengthen the body and help to build up a healthy mind. Athletics is a sy tematized form of play and strength, } the courage, self-control and loya to one's fellows through working gether to one end. Manual tr: cuiltivates the mental and moral of accurateness and truthfulness. W out these four forms no school is do! its perfect work.” Considering the subject of Industria] education a little more in detail, look at the outlays In New York for this purpose. That city Is now constructing two manual training schools each of which will cost nearly $1.000,000 an $100,000 more for the machinery. Thers will be in the molding rooms a cupola of one ton capacity for melting fron and also a brass furnace. In the forze room will be found a 250-pound steam hammer, besides numerous steam en- gines and electric motors. Look out on East River and see a vessel an- chored there which contalns a nautical school for the boys who are ambitious to be sailors. Bathrooms are provided in the school bulldings of the over- crowded .tenmement districts. Nearly 5000 free lectures were given to adults last year In 143 lecture centers. The teachers, too, are not forgotten by an H ! out in her mind. had started at different ends of thc! chain. | Still, Brenda Barry, only child and| chief depository of the practical sense | of the house of that name, was usually | filled with a tingling resentment when | she heard of the enormous fortunes, of the “new” people. Being a woman, | she could not fail to feel the subtle | - B | tenseness in the social atmosphere and | “Oh, I say, you oughtn't to do | | for the same reason she instinctively | this, you know!" | divined its cause. And to say that she | jo = 3 was scornful but faintly expresses it. | There was nothing about the good- | looking, athletic young fellow whom | she met a week later to justify that| scorn. He was the usual thing—a very ! much washed, immaculately dressed | voung man of the day, with a desire to | please which was so apparent that! Brenda had to goad herself into remem- bering how frightfully new and dis- gustingly rich he wae. person’s house often enough you are, pretty sure to meet that person. On | the third successive morning that he passed Barrydene she came through the gate in the neglected hedge just as his horse jogged slowly by. : She wore a short pink gown, with sleeves turned back and collar turned, in, and in her hand she carried what' appeared to be a wet napkin. She This attitude on the part of one, greeted him with a negligent nod, put- whose head might well have been|ting him still further at ease by her turned by the flattery and attention | inqui he was receiving on all sides mollified! *“Have you—I don’t suppose her somewhat. Then, by chance, she | happened to encounter a rather vindic- ! tive glance from Helen Carrington’s| violet eyes—Helen was wearing an ex- | have—but have you seen a small dogx, that looked as if he were sneaking | i away from Home?" Trent was off his horse in a mo-| the disgraceful affair hands locked behind her she stood back and regarded the bushes where all the sweet Tose faces were now hidden from the sun, with a virtuous enthusiasm. “That saves papa as much as a dollar,” she said proudly, “and every little helps.” Trent murmured something, he did not precisely know what, so busy he was trying to think what it must be like, the financial condition that made the saving of a dollar so great a thing. Brenda éevertly watched him with flendish delight which was, it Is true, modified when she discovered that his surprise was changing into a sort of awed admiration Still she managed to convey to him before he took his dazed departure that she usually spent the early morning hours gardening, working in another pathetic reference their need of economy. Promptly the next morning Trent, clad in the most disreputable clothes he could procure, might have been seen hanging about the Barrydene hedges. When the daughter of the house finally made her appearance—it was not so early though as he had been led to believe—he walked In boldly announc- ing with the simplicity of the early | Trents—the market garden ones—that | he’d come to help. . !turned a riotous red, and she tried to e you | dissuade him, but for an hour or more ! he digged and delved at her side right Miss Barry's face sturdily. Once begun, there was no stopping him, and Carriston watched aghast. When quisitely simple gown that had not, ment, while he assured her that though: later on the ~ardening led to the usual seen the light before—and suddenly her! he had encountered no such animal, : resuit, Brenda looked him straight in own plan of action was clearly mapped | he was sure that he could find it should | the eve. “Too much soothing syrup,” she re- flected ironically. “What he needs is a tonic.” This mental comment of hers may have had something to do with|to come in,” Trent ventured boldly. the delightful sense of refreshment| Miss Barry was all demureness young Trent felt in her presence. She > > for! a moment, then a wicked gleam danced * | she command. She put away his offer. ; e “Oh, he'll come back! Only, he knows | just as much as the others,” she said it's wrong—and I like to be obeyed.” | “I'd obey in a jiffy—if you'd tell me| only laughed. } “I fancy that I have angled for you breathlessly. But Hemingway Trent “What difference so long as I like your bait?” he questioned.—Copyright, | 1904, by T. C. McClure. i merce in California, will be held in Pasadena on December 17. It seems that there are in California no less than 146 of such organi- zations and that they spend a very considerable sum of money every year in furtherance of their laudable objects. To a certain extent these objects are local, but to a much greater extent they are general, and the advantages that must accrue from unification, co-operation and centralization are many and obvious. A movement such as this is the outcome of a wholesome and patriotic enthusiasm for California, and certainly no State in the! Union has better justification for the publicity which is sought. There is no part of the world that can offer_better investments nor happier homes, and the extent to which the committee can make | this known is one of the measures of their service. The whole community participates in the substantial benefits, resulting from these efforts, and the whole community shauld show its appreciation. At the forthcoming Pasadena meeting the special topic for consideration will be “Californian Publicity,” and it will, of course, be treated by practical men in a practical way. Publicity implies population, trade and prosperity; it means an ever larger place for California in the markets of the world. How large that place may be is necessarily a matter for con- | . | jecture, but the promotion committees will doubtless make it a appearance it has been received with the welcome which its excel- lence insures, but the world is a big place, and much earnest and | mittees are following. California ought to have its representatives not only throughout the East, but also throughout Europe, in order Californian produce may become the recognized standard of excel- lence. . HE latest Japanese successes at Port Arthur have immeasur- ably increased the difficulties which await the Russian Baltic than the destructive impact of Japanese shells, which can search out well nigh every corner of the harbor and make it entirely their plans, which they naturally do not divulge, but it is hard to understand what those plans can be. The ships which have been Baltic fleet will arrive under all the disadvantages inseparable from ! a long voyage, while Admiral Togo has had abundant leisyre to of the Russian ships since their voyage began, on the Dogger Bank and elsewhere, gives some color to the suggestion that the Russian ance of doing something. THE CANTEEN SYSTEM IN THE ARMY. I in the United States army, and it is even stated that those who were most instrumental in its abolition are mow anxious | reason to assume that a soldier is lacking in the same intelligent ‘sclf—oontrol\that characterizes other citizens who do not happen rise to other and far greater evils, as must always be the case where a mistaken morality is allowed to interfere with the right the difference between good and evil and to choose between them. matter of experiment. Wherever Californian produce has made its - unified work must be done along the precise lines which the com- | that ‘every opening market may be promptly filled, and in order that PORT ARTHUR AND THE BALTIC FLEET. I fleet. Port Arthur can now give them no better welcome impossible as a refuge. The Russian authorities, doubtlesd, have | lying in Port Arthur harbor are now practically destroyed. The refit, and to perfect his plans for a vigorous attack. The behavior authorities have no plans except to desperately maintain an appear- T seems probable that the canteen system will be re-established { for its reinstatement. After all, there appears to be no particular to be soldiers. The abolition of the canteen appears to have given of every human being, within certain obvious limits, to recognize i v STOP DEER KILLING FOR SEVERAL YEARS, SAYS CORRESPONDENT Editor The Call: In The Call of No- vember 30 I notice a lengthy article re- garding killing and selling of game; also a proposition to limit the killing of deer to two in one season. The fact of the matter is, if it Is the object for deer to increase, a law must be passed to stop the killing altogether for a few years. | As it is, as long as hunters are allowed | to hunt deer they will kill all they can | and pay but small regard to whether | they are does or bucks, and some of them go so far as to shoot cattle in mistake for deer, not using the neces- | sary precaution to know what they are | ghooting at. This is well known here. | and, as a consequence, cattlemen are In | favor of stopping the killing of deer and | thus save more cattle. Little attention is paid to the game laws in the mountains, as some will | kill to use whenever they get the i chance. Two members of a sportsmen’s | club killed quail out of season. and. as an excuse, said they thought they had a right to, being members of the club. J. 8. WEST. Elk Creek, Cal, Dec. 5. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CALLERS—Sunshine, Golden Gate, Cal. When callers are received at a house, gentlemen or ladles, it is proper for the one receiving the call to offer either a luncheon or light refreshments. 1t would also be proper to offer either a small cup of coffee, tea or choco- late. NOTARIES — Subscriber, City. In California notaries are appointed by the Governor. Application for = such appointment should be sent to the ap- pointing power. To be a notary the applicant should have some knowledge of legal forms and of the law that gov- ers such officers. TO CLEAN FEATHERS—O. 8., City. The following is given as a means to clean feathers: “Dissolve four ounces of white soap, cut small, in half a gal- lon of water, not quite scalding hot, beating this into a lather, then putting in the feathers, rubbing them gently with the fingers; then rinse in very hot, clean water.” SOUP—S. F., City. Whether one eats soup or drinks sodp depends upon the condition of the soup. Some soups are so thin that it is impossible to . eat them, but one swallows them in spoon- fuls, while others are 6 thick that one has to masticate the ingredients, there- fore one must eat such. Books on eti- quette say: “Soup is always served first; eat it from the side of your “When eating soup avold | ment forbid that opinion. the citizens of San Francisco entertain | @Ppreciative munieipality. Any teacher, the bellef that San Francisco will have | °F Supervisor, who has given thirty-flve a slow growth.. The successful efforts | Yars' service, twenty of which have put forth for the bonding of the city | Peen spent in the city schools, may be for modern improvements and those | ®tired on haif pay when disabled, qr now under way for its artistic develop- | °0 reaching the age of sixty-five. The total expenditures for New York's pub- But the regrettable truth is that !¢ schools for 1904 wiil be over $21,- while this vision of expansion has par- | tially dawned upon San Francisco, ef- forts for the development and advance of the public school system of the city are paralyzed. Charter amend- ments are discussed and action on them Is indefinite]y postponed. The new school buildings will be erected at an uncertain date. It is even pro- posed that many of them shall be frame structures, when the fact is that hardly any city of 10,000 throughout the whole country will consent to the use of any material but brick or stone. It is next to impossible to secure any marked increase of appropriations for the schools. The city authorities con- tent themselves with annually grant- ing $350,000, which is added to the State’'s allotment of $1,010,000, mak- ing a total expenditure for the year of $1,360,000. g Notwithstanding all handiéaps, the Board of Education and the force of superintendents are doing their utmost to direct the teachers along the best lines of educational progress and are successful—to a certain extent. The work done by the San Francisco schools ranks well with that of many Eastern cities. But, it must be re- membered, this work is performed largely on the old lines of a dozen years or more ago. The educational world has been advancing in that pe- riod in ideas and practice to a wonder- ful degree. Yet San Francisco practically stands still. The educational leaders who have recently returned from visits among the schools of the East tell but one story, and that is that San Fran- cisco is far behind the times. New York, Chicago, Cleveland and | many other cities have grasped the idea that school education should be a real preparation for life work. Com- mencement is made by a wide adop- tion of the kindergarten. The psycho: logical truth that play is a powerful element in mental, as well as physical, development is' adopted through the ample school playgrounds or by the use of the platformed roofs. Gymnasiums and manual training form part of the equipment and courses of even the elementary schools. School gardens prove to be no less valuable to child nature in the United States than in France, where it is said that no | If it be true that San Francisco is, | educationally considered, in a stagnant | condition, it is not difficult to ascertgin | the cause. It is wholly and entirely for | the reason that public sentiment has | not been awakened to the needs of edu- cational improvement. The busy com- | mercial or professional man, unaware | of the tremendous advance and high | educational standards of this period, is mot conscious that the modern rich developements of school life should be realized, at least to some extent, by his | own boys and girls. That they will | hereafter be handicapped for want of | the most thorough training this ag~ | can give does not enter his thoughts ! He pays his taxes, hears that his chil- dren are “doing well™ in school and is content. | There is one way, and one only, | that is now visible by which the pub- | ic mind may be awakened to a just | sense of local educational wants. In | this city is a civic body that is large, thoroughly organized, powerful. The | object of its existence is to care for | the public good. The value of its previous efforts for the welfare of the city Is beyond estimate. It makes no mijstakes. Its name is the Merchants Assoclation. If this assoclation with its wealth of membership, resources and character will take up this meas- | ure in its own thorough-going, broad- | gauged manner of transacting busi- ness there will be no failure. The re- ports of the committees of the asso- clation, co-operating with the school authoritles in exhaustive local and Eastern Investigations, will carry weight with every citizen of San Fran- cisco and their recommendations are merally certain of adoption. The value of such a movement in behalf of the public schools of San Francisco cannot be computed. To say the least, the results will be on a par with the uccessful labors of the asosclation in promoting the bond issue of $18,000,- 000. Virtually such a work carried to completion amounts to relaying the educational foundations of this city. Will the Merchants’ Assoclation as- sume this work of transcendent im- portance? To a body of men organ- ized expressly to promote public in- terests few finer opportunities ever come through which to render their city a distingulshed service. G. G. B — THEIR SHYNESS. So their engagement is broken? Yes; they were both too shy to get married. ‘What? ‘Well, you see, he was shy of money, and she got shy of him when she found it out.—Philadelphia Ledger. A Birthday Mystery. - Here is a strange little puzzle, which has the same answer, independent of the fact that no two people solving the puzzle were born the same year and consequently use the same figures. ‘Write down the flgures of the year you were born, and from this take away four. Add your age at next birthdav it it comes before January, otherwise your age at your last birthday. Multi- Ply the result by 1000 and from this de- duct 685,423. Substitute for the figures corresponding letters of the alphabet, as A for 1, B for 2, etc. The result is a Chinese table delicacy which is used in this country for electioneering pur- poses. Strike out the first letter and transpose those that remain to form a word. NEWTONIANA. Newton had just discovered what made the apple fall. “But,” they protested, “do you know what makes the hints drop at this time of the year?” And with the almanac he laboriously counted up to Dec. 25.—New York Sun. The Wonderful Maguey Tree. The wonders of botany are appar- ently inexhaustible. One of the most remarkable specimens is the Mexican maguey tree, which furnishes a needle and thread ready for use. At the tip of each dark green leaf is a slender thorn needle that must be carefully drawn from its sheath. At the same time it slowly unwinds the thread, a strong, smooth fiber attached to the needle and capable of being drawn out to a great length. —————— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st. and Wakelee's Drug Store. . —— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Call- fornia strect. Telephone Main 1042 CRIENDS. OU are my friend, for you have smiled with me, My help and hope In fair and stormy weathery 1 like you for the Joys you've whiled with me, llove you for the griefs we’ve wept together. I've held your hand vhqn life wzs go'd tom Angl shared with you Its ery gracious greeting; You've brought good cheer when earth was co'd to ma And mads me feel your warm heart fondly beating. Though all the world was deaf and dark to me. And [ong the night, and bleak ths winds and biting, *1know full weN that you wou'd hark to m And set my path with lamps of Love's g'ad lighting. You are my friend, for you have smiled with me. My help and hope In falr and stormy weather ; llike you for the Joys you've whiled with me, llove you for the griefs we’'ve wept together. - NIXON WATERMAN, In New York ¢