The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1904, Page 22

22 THE AN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1904. ’ THESANFRANCISCOCALL| JOHK D. SPRECKELS......cccc00 sssssscsssssscsscssssssss Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO R JOHN MONAUGHT.....ccuunronsnnsssssssasssssscosssanssnns..Mianager PUBLICATION OFFICE........ - THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO | SUNDAY..... ........4.......DECEMBER‘ZE. 1904 THE BIRTHDAY. | O-DAY the Christian world does not make holiday alone. It: accommodated its great holiday to an observance long before born in the instinct and knowledge of man, which selected the | winter solstice as the birth of a new solar year, the end of the lengthening night and beginning of the lengthening day. It was 'CHRISTMAS G bBY MARTHA McCULLCCH-WILLIAMS. HRISTMAS without greens! Tfhmh'he fell :llent, drinking h;dt.he ){?‘{ le! There surely of the sunshine, of the rapid whirl t::xz?“b}: some of a sort in | tRTOUSh the soft December day. this big farming world,” Le- | The landscape grew more - barren, more broken, the fielas were smaller, ona sald almost tragically. {the farmhouses meaner, and less Her cousin and host, ‘Amos Baker, | thrifty. By and by the road ran down shook his head. 1a steep ridge, only to climb an oppo- “None nearer than Sinking Fork,” he ' site one steeper still. The sun had be- said. “That's twelve miles off—and the ) 8Un to sink—Norrie looked up at it 13 REENS Something of all this floated nebul- | ously through Leona's mind as -hef watched Norrie at his joyous obedience. | “‘The best branches are over on that far side,” he said, flinging off his coat, and scuffiing out of his shoes: *“We'll take just half a dozen—the tree won't miss 'em. I'd hate to leave it ragged— | scmehow this clump seems to belong to me—I found it first when I was little | s T LY e Vi LOVE IS A MUCH STRONGER INFLUENCE IN THE LIVES OF MOST WOMEN THAN AMBITION BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. R AVE you ever counted up how many things there are that a woman cannot afford to do? Their names are legion. Their -sum includes matters of conduct and matters of conscience. But, for daily chances against finding anything even 2Pprehensively, then sent the blacks | more than a boy.” human and natural in the early Christians to idealize the physical fact of the solstice by associating with it an event which meant, in a ' spiritual sense, the end of the dark days of the race and the birth of ' a brighter future. | 1f 21l they idealized has not been realized by Christendom it 1s not their fault. They gave to the world its highest ideal, and while man has fallen far short of that model still the result has been and ' _“Wen't you say please?” Amos asked fuls of long, lacy fronds. .The green i s . | banteringly, he went toward the Dbriersalso were in evidence. She caught continues to be uplifting. It is not beyond the range of a secular doo,.f’r fio’;,,a:meane, him with the | Up Amos’ pruning sheers and began paper to express the impression that man everywhere is better than prettiest face of contrition. | to cut things right and left. She was . 5 5 H pos ¢ill, and ‘thanky sir,’ |80 intent that she did not see Norrie his fame and at heart is better than he seems. The evidence of this u,?rs,fi;’.‘:{f;sl e e worh. o] SlD awky!h BEE pr ahor e Rive Wekad is not, confined to those who follow the Christian ideal, for there arc ask,” she said, laying her hand on his | UP to see him dragging in a fine young 3 2 A holly ful 4 other high motives which affect for the better the conduct of men, 2™ e e becrlen STHE Ride my brother-in-law, he’s worth a dozen - 3 of that other fellow.” promises to disclose much of the greatest interest concerning that center of Buddhism and the effect of that philosophy upon the Asia- with a pretty flush. Amos looked supernaturally wise. of millions who have found in them the needed ideal. It was found gimeracks till the carrier - wishes rural at Tibet that the Kah-gyur, or bible of the Buddhists, has expanded T¢g delivery had never been thought of “You should not peek—it's ungentle- : % - 4 A manly—even in your private mail box," book of this bible weighs ten pounds and the whole requires a dozen yaks for its transportation. Now, in illus i spirati 3 portation. Now, in illustration of the aspiration of shouldrn’t Hirt> be sald: “Bub toaey I'm bound to give you a chance—Nor- | instinct which has been one of the means of promoting civilization, gjga € paid for 2 copy of this bible 7000 oxen and transported the book to _ “How nice! Norrie is never saucy,” i . . Budd Chistians 3 .. his heart over again, for at least the :'n\rr(r J} the Buddha as Christians do the coming of Jesus, and be Eentiedh thod. el Rt hiey = SR " 3 % sent the horses away at a slapping So the Christian world at this greatest of its feasts will honor pace, he put all thought of this un- & et T . ey : Presently the way bent at almost a men tog Ja‘cr. The nomadic Mongols, who traded their substince | oo le. Norric feined B thae for a sacred book, instead of being looked upon as dupes of supersti- by He smiled at her. “Suppose 1 should but they all converge upon practically Leona said, with a dimpling smile. It iem and Christendom is the common spiritual tie and aspira- fearful joy—he, too, had read and in- 2 known rival from him, resolved to en- and said, letting his free hand rest over re. re so low and the faster. A mile farther on he stopped, :'zelley hfi?;lyhl\lx!;n‘;\ eme name.” . and sprang out, saying as he lifted Le- ““You, must take me to the head wa- . D@ to her feet: “You'll want your sup- ters. I know I shall find what I want ' Per before you get it I reckon—but here | there,” Leona said imperiously. “Get We are. $ out the wagonette at once! No matter | Leona cried out in raptures. Before if Christmas is ten days off, I know a her stood a clump of pines. On beyond way to keep greens fresh.” down the rocky slope, lay matted arm- never saw anything like it,” he said, as he hoisted it into the wagonette, and Then he fell to ! made it fast there. the same center of 2 spiritual ask you to say ‘yes’ to Norrie Gordon. purpose. I've a great mind to do it. If Norrie is The English expedition into the land of mystery in high Tibet “H-m. You are sure there is another fellow?” Leona queried saucily, but tic mind. The Buddhistic scriptures, which teach much that is £ o " T s : 2e Thicats A “The; us ,” he said. * found in their Christian analogue, have profoundly affected the lives nree times a week and. flowers. and —those are signs I've never yet known | to 108 volumes of 1000 pages each, and that 225 volumes of com- to fail.” mentaries upon these voluminous scriptures have been printed. Each Leona said severely, pursing her lips. Amos' shook his head at her. “You 1an for higher guidance, it is told in Tibet that a tribe of Mongols, ng on the semi-deserts of high Asia, moved upon by the spiritual rie will go with you on this fernchase, ¥ because I'm bound to go someWwhere thei; :r»,.nn;\ on a caravan of yaks. It became Athe1r guide and af- [ 0AF J0 S 5 enchanting that Norrie, forded the ideal which they sought.. They studied as devoutly the just then ccming through the door, lost | | tion that binds the rac i —ri terpreted the signs of the post. But i that b ds the race together in one purpose—right living and the bond gpe et B G s Al ueg HR practice of the common virtues. its ideals most by respg-cting th§ir l\'inship_tp the ideals of men who joy apjeast one blissful day, basking in hold to other forms of expressing the spiritual need that joins all | the sunshine of Leona’s smiles. tion are be respec s ; i Leona's clasped ones: “The Fork is| | e to ri( DACUC(I because they sought something better than Jist ahead—but youwil find mothin | . they had, and above all that having found it they lived up to it. there. 1 know—I hunt around it every | % 5 At this Christmas season there be those in the Christian world f:”'mlnwn?d:r it yc-%hdare g0 down ":‘ ’ With a little laughing cry she who make lamentation bc_cansc they say people are falling jcags of ‘:h‘xng‘:figreenerie)dg‘:. Ceroms. e B G spoh-Nastien LY away from religion. The philosophers do not sympathize with this vine, ferns and big green briers with | work, wrenching up ferns in armfuls, leaves like wax. I know of a holly bush, too, and a clump of pines—" | and tearing down mats of brier. Leona view. Man never falls away from religion. As well talk about the annihilation of matter or of force as say that man separates himseli “Why aren’t you taking me to |looked at him with some:ning of awe— | > o Rk & : e : : them?” Leona interrupted, her eyes he was so slight, and light on his feet, o i religion, which is no less than his own conception of his place damiuk. sHe Y Bajer’ acodited’ hifo with the b i universe of which he is a part. Men fall away from theology Norric smiled back at her, but there e none the worse for it. The venerable Dr. Lyman Abbott has Was an anxious under-note in his voice, o o = = s e 1 - as he answered: “Because they're a I recently that he has outgrown belief in teleology, a final cause, long way off—not too far for the horses andoned faith in an anthropomorphic deity. But Dr. Ab- —but so far we'd be in the night get- 1as found a larger and a greater God than he found in teleology Xus Boms: | thews and sinews of manhood. Insen- | sibly she contrasted him with the other | fellow—the city fellow, whc could, and | would give her millions—millions which | had almost tempted her to accept the | man, albeit she knew she did not love | him truly. If she had asked him to set i his hand to hard things for her pleas- | ure, she could faney his look of amazed bott and in personal form. His conception of his place in the universe has scornfully: “When you know my heart ““As if that mattered!” Leona said is set on giving those dear babies such | |a Christmas as they never saw. Your | disgust. | sister Amy says I may do just what I| Still she could not whistle him down At 2 i -dav 2 £ e please—I please to have a, Christmas | the wind. She was proud, ambitious, At all the altars of Christendom to-day there is high ascription Tree, With the whole’fiouse trifinSed m‘f“,ury.hvm‘? not the least bit suited to Jesus, and at some there may be denunciation of Dr. Abbott. But match. Drive on—like the wind—San- | to be a farmer’s wife. And Norrie Gor- this will be inconsistent. Jesus fell away from the theology of his cho and Sally will have a long rest, B : s g g % while you are helping me hack and time. He found the deity uf_JurIea a tribal God, invested with all pey.” | With a sigh she told herself she should tributes—a personality in which all the vices and all the “Just as you say, ma’am,” Norrie an- f’gt‘ doubt h"‘d h"Y l'd'”“l' E;‘“}‘l" L‘"“‘Si . e Rl S . swered suspiciously meek: “But if I;Suppose he should accept her casua 1en were alike magnified. He taught briefly, with his own haul the tree home, to say nothing of | invitation, and come down to Longly, e no message and inscribed no.word, but he left to the cutting it down, I'm to have my choice ' the sz;r place, :]orhth;thoudnfl? How of the tri - £ hic £ o of whatever is on it, or under it. Is|bare and cramped the life would appear ‘_ce"n the tribal God of his fathers one that co'us}dcred a_ll that a bargain? to him—a life wherein the circus made s his children, the objects of his care, the beneficiaries of his “It has to be—but I never thought |the event of the year, and ‘going to affection. R(‘]igiun was in the world before Jcsus and be- Yowd be such an extortioner,” Leona church of Sundays was as much a di- . and each left it larger and better than he found it. been enlarged and instead of being less reverent than before he is more devout. | well ever to be anything but a farmer. in p a | don loved his land, and his vocation too ' i Almost before she knew it, he stood | among the branches, breaking and cut- ting slender stems. Leona ran to pick | }them up as they fell. ‘“‘Stand back,” | ;he called to her, at the same time! reaching for an especially tempting | , bough. The wood of it was tough—it ! bent where he thought to break it, and § | instead of snapping it crushed into' | stringy fibers. Norrie had the impulse of mastery even over inanimate things. Forgetful that he was twenty-five feet in the air, he gave the bough a jerk so | | energetic it made him lose his balance, {and come crashing earthward. Bu!) | there were boughs lower down'—md[ somehow he clutched one with his right | iarm, swung himself up to it, and. clambered back to the trunk. Coming down this, Leona saw him hitch him- self along in a way wholly unlike his ascent. She did not know the reason, until he stood by the wagonette, say- ing almost apologetically: *I reckon | you'd better drive, on the way home— | my left arm hit that big limb when I lell..nnd put itself out of b:mnen.'.' . Longly farm at Christmas-tide made the neighbors stare. Amy had insist- ed upon a party—it would never, never do to waste all Leona had brought to pass simply upon the family. Greens were everywhere—over doors and win- dows, in nooks and corners, and up and | down the broad stairway. The tree, too, was a vision—with tapers gleam- ing thrcugh its coral wealth, and all | manner of tinsel ornaments sparkling | amid its green leafage. The tinsel had | | come from the city. So had the other fellow. Leona had been panic sticken at the outset—now _a sunny peace possessed her spirit. flnce she had seen Norrie | toppling against the evening sky—fall- | ing it might be to his death, for his' lady’'s whim, she had begun to question her own heart more closely than ever | befcre. What answer had rewarded | the questionings she did not tell. But Ennis Loring had found her more soft- ly. more subtly fascinating than ever, and was ready for her sake to keep terms with all the rural world. It amused him of ccurse that the tree bore such wondrous fruitage. Trees vere not Christmas commonplaces | 'round about Longly. So all the people ‘round about had sent their gifts to be | | piled at the tree’s fcot, and thence dis- | tributed. After’ they were distributed, | there would be supper, then the dance. | Norrie would have to be a looker-on. His broken arm was not yet out of the sling. Amos ought to have been Santa Claus, but had flatly refused. So Leona herself, made up intc a startling Christmas fairy, with a black half- mask, andsa pair of realistic wings, ap- portioned properly the Christmas tree's fruit, saying things that fitted most cases beautifully, and so doubled the value of the presents. Nobody had been forgotten—Enmis Loring stood hugging a huge tin horn—Norrie's (sound arm was fairly heaped with bulging parcels, topped with a toy au- tomobile. Then the fairy lifted from the litter of moss and greenery at the tree's foot a huge pair of spectacles and clapped them upon her own eyes. “I am looking for—the person I belong ‘to,” she said clearly. Everybody held breath as she walked up to her two lov- ers who by some chance stood side by side. For a breath she studied their faces intently, a beautiful flush showing below her hal!-r‘!k. then with a lit- tle laughing cry she laid her hand upon Norrie's, saying very low: “This is what you get for finding me these Christmas greens.”"—Copyright, 1904, by I Martha McCulloch Williams. i sald loftily, although her eyes twinkled. | version as a duty. niers who hold with Dr. Abbott are acknowledging only : ligion and see in the Father’s house more mansions and to their kin than that they too might share her prosperous peace, laces prepared than were seen of other men and in other that with her blessings they also might be blessed, crowning them- times. The Christian thought cannot be too large and as it expands selves with laurels of success and walking the world’s ways in the nen will see its confluence with the great good that is in still more gladdening sunshine of the heart. ancient forms of the religious idea. It is a wholesome thought and full of comfort that this good race of man was not left lightless and with gifts from field and orchard, richest spoil from vineyard and guideless in a world where it has no choice of entrance or of exit, to from mine? Nature has for her no gift of beauty unbestowed, no be as insects gendering in the sun for millions of vears until less than hoarded wealth unoffered, and for her no door is closed that leads to 2000 years ago the creator of them all awoke to his duty and set peace and power. Let her then ask that even as she has received so among them a light. “As a father pitieth his children” is the right r may she give, and if the California Christmas time brings with 1t idea, and what father would leave his child to perish for need of a ' tenderness and love, and kindly thought, ‘and will to help and serve, guiding hand and a light for its path? | so may she be assured that by these things all times are blessed, not In all ages there have been witnesses, and the immanence of the one alone, if she but keep within her heart, treasuring it there, some principle of kindness and fatherhood may be seen in the adaptation of ' of the €omradeship of Christmas day in California. the witness to the race and character of men till every kindred, every | Then dawns for her and for the world the undying day of peace tongue, hath its light and leading. Let us exalt ours as the brightest 'on egrth and unto men good will. and the best, but not smite our brother man for doing the same, forl! more | And what can California desire fot herself, already loaded down | 3 | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | .PEARY—Subscriber, City. The ad- dress of Robert Edwin Feary, the Are- | i tlc explorer, is “The Navy Department, | ‘Washington, D. C.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN—IL W. W. B., City. Abraham Lincoln was born in a cabin on Nolin Creek, three miles west of Hodgenville, Larue (then Hardin) County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809. ST. LOUIS FAIR—Subscriber, Rafael, Cal. The following number of admissionsto the St. Louis Fair: April, 1 day, 187,793; Ma¥, 26 days, 1,001,391; June, 26 days, 2,124,836; July, 27 days, 2,134,557; August, 27 days, 3,088,743; September, 26 day 3,651,873; San shows | | QUEER MA | says the Paris | London News. | reference, almost all of them can be translated to the best advantage into terms of the affections. For love is a greater influence in the lives of most | women than ambition, or convention, or even duty. If we are to live wisely, then, we creatures of destiny, whose horizon is narrowed to a pin-point, we must love wisely. Love, whether pro- pitious or baneful, is our guiding star. D ——— The common tendency among women in this spendthrift age is to live be- yond their means emotionally. To feel and to express, to enjoy, if not act- ually, at least vicariously through lit- erature and the imagination, pleasures which are beyond the common lot, are | the motives which cause and which feed the passion for excitement which is coming to be known as the great American vice. Our women are as prone to emotional excess as our men are to mental excess. To observers abroad this lack of personal balance appears to be the distinctive American characteristic. It is more important for a woman to . know how to balance the expense book of her inner self than it is for her to balance her household accounts ca- pably. If she gets into difficulty over ‘ the latter she can, if necessary, call upon some man in the family to help her, but in the former case she has no one but herself to depend on. This does not apply to older women only. Young girls, and especially those who have to go out into a world full | of temptations to earn their living, are breaking down the safeguards of their happiness when they stuff their minds, which are their bulwarks of defense, with flimsy foolishness. . What Ruskin says of romance is applicable to ordi- nary life. Overwrought interest in a novel, a drama, and in social reiations of any kind is fundamentally bad. “The best romance becomes dangerous if, by its excitement, it renders the ordinary course of life uninteresting and in- creases the morbid thirst for useless acquaintance with scenes in which we shall never be called upon to act.” In a word, live your own life and not any- body else’s. A British writer, studymg conditions in the United States from the books of some American women who are notable in their own country as examples of misguided and ill-balanced womanhood, has recently gone into hysterics ovef < the American woman's profanation of luve's altar. It seems that she has tipped it over. And, like a naughty, willful child, she does not care a bit. She has aimed the first great blow at the reigh of love; she stands self-con- fessed as cold of heart and cool of head; she is proverbially untrue to the male of her race; she rides over man roughshod; she is demoralizing to her sex, exclaims this poor, excited, literary man, in a frenzy of rhetoric. Now, really, H. B. Marriot-Watson, it's not so bad as that. American wo- men are by superior charm and busi- ness ability spoiling the matrimonial market for their English sisters. But here at home they might be colder of heart and cooler of head without hurt- ing themselves or injuring eivilization materially. One type of woman has, indeed, al- most passed out of our experience. I refer to the “evening primrose” variety, so dependent and gentty melancholy that they seem to have been created orly to love and to be loved. When they love, they love once and forever and usually they prefer to love un- kappily. This is certainly not an American type. But we have a type as silly and as exasperating—that of women who have, through sentimentality, lost ap- preciation of genuine sentiment and who never see the simple pleasures of life growing naturally along their wo- man's pathway. — “ABLAMED SIGHT WORSE” A bachelor,.old and cranky, Was sitting alone in his room; His toes with gout were aching. And his face o’erspreaa with gloom. No little ones’' shouts disturbed him, From noise the house was free; , In fact, from the attic to cellar Was quiet 2s quiet coutd be. No medical aid was lacking: The servants answered his ring, Respectfully heard his orde And supplied him wita everything. But still there w: something wanting. Something he couldn’'t command; The kindly words of compassion, The touch of a gentle hand. And he sald as his brow grew darker, And he rang for the hireling nurse, “Well, marriage may be a failure, But this is a blamed sight worse. —Pittsburg Press. RRIAGE TANGLE Mile. L., about to be married, has discovered, on taking steps to publ‘uh the banns, that she is married already, correspondent of the It must be so, as it is set down in black and white on the Town Clerk’s register. Her elder sister, at the same time, made an equally startling discovery. Though she had imagined herself to be the wife of the man to whom she thought she was wedded some years ago, and by whom -+ ANOMALIES IN SCIENCE Strong emotion sometimeés causes baldness. A farmer saw his child thrown from a cart and trampled under the feet of a mule. He supposed it killed, and experienced in his fright and anguish a sensation of chill and tension in the head and face. The child escaped with a few bruises, but the father's hair, beard and eyebrows be- gan to drop out the next day, and at the end of a week he was entirely bald. After Professor Taguchi of the Impe- rial University, Tokio, died his brain was weighed and found to stand second in the list of 107 brains of eminent men throughout the world whose brain ca- pacity has been recorded. Taguchi's weighed 1920 grams. The weight of the human brain ranges between 300 grams for the imbecile to 2000 grams for the man of genius. Music has been known to stop the flow of blood from wounds, says the Chicago News. During a big battle a number of wounded men were carried to a field hospital. During a lull In the roar of fighting the sounds of a fife and drum reached the injured men. The doctors noticed that in several cases the hemorrhage stopped or at least was greatly reduced. BITS OF HUMOR. October, 27 days, 3.622,629; November, ;17 days, 1,697,383. Total, 17,617,905. This { department has no record of attend- [ ance between special dates named in the letter of inquiry. ACCEPTANCE—S., City. In com- merce the acceptor of a bill of ex- change by the act of acceptance ad- mits the execution of the bill by the rawer and that it & drawn upon the that way lies the blessing and benefit of the light which shines for all. This day is given over to doing honor to the teacher who taught the universal fatherhood and universal brotherhood. In reverence let us accept this great teaching and. femember our brother man | CHRISTMAS IN CALIFORNIA. 4 ' HRISTMAS in California is sb like and yet so unlil everywhere. ‘ mas throughout the world. External conditions e, after all, but little power to change the human heart id its divine capacity for love, for service and for hope, and so to-day the world is girdled with thought forces which are more tender and more compas- sionate than at any other time, vibrant forces of good will which reck nothing of frontiers and which pass duty free through the portals of all nations and of all peoples. Surely such seasons as this leave be- hind them an afterglow upon the dark sky of human discords, and if throughout Christendom a myriad voices break in upon the harsh | hates of men by acclaiming a peace upon earth where so little peace seems to be this surely is not a mockery if it but carry that underly- ing hope which sustains and which creates, ‘compelling even the wrath of men to serve it. 1f external conditions do not essentially change the human heart they may give to its delights something of an added intensity, and this perhaps constitutes the difference between Christmas in Cal fornia and the same season elsewhere. Here in California nature) forgets her rigors and her touch is so rasely a frigid one. Her dress| Is always made glorious with flowers and her bountiful busy hands never weary in their beneficence. To the wisdom of Shakespeare there came no prophetic glimp of California or he would perhaps not have written: ] At Christmas I no more desire a rose Then wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. At Christmas time in California we may have roses to ol heart’s content, and many another gracious gift offset by-sunshin and warm airs, for here the seasons do but mark the change of na- ture’s prodigality but neder its cessation. Christmas is above all else the period of good will, for in what | circumstances the driver might be better way can men keep vivid in their minds the sacred benediction | N¢% York Tribune. of the day. If then the sons and daughters of the West could as 2! ne Rev. Dr. Zimmerman, of Baltimore, unit send a message of blessing to all the world what should that ' oq 27 Ad he reci) message be? What better thing could California’s children wish un- :&-:;nllhlnm?tl’:h- o alin e A run on a Cleveland bank was stopped the other day by the arrival =7 automobile at the bank loaded with money for the depositors. Under . excused for .violating the spee asks: “What shall we 4« and care for them as t R funds of the drawer in his hands. ther words it is an assent and en-| gement by the person on whom a| ill of exchange is drawn to pay it' vhen due in accordance with the terms of the acceptance. .The bill itself, when accepted, is called an acceptance. FIVE HUNDRED—C. P., City- The' Grammercy Square Club has furnished this department with the following an- | er relative to the new rules for the ' ame of 500: ‘The counts for the different suits and no imps are identical with those heretofore in | The difference lies in the manner of | ogue. coring. When a player makes a bid for trumps and he requisite number of tricks are captured hy the two players as partners “‘the bidder cnly | ie entitled to score” for the amount bid. The partner scores ten for.each trick taken by hin. the same as do the opponents for tricks they tal ke. Thus A and B are partners 20, 30. I Again A bids 6 on dlamonds and B raises to 8. A takes five tricks, B takes three, takes two and Do’nonm A will score 1 mercy Square Club estab- penalty of a setback where 45 evidently deliberately mis- 0 defeat a bidder's score, but s far not been fouhd neces- ' she has several children, she now finds that, far from being married to him, she is her supposed husband's sister- {in-law, as he is legally united to her sister. How the unfortunate family and | the careless Register will worry out | this inextricable situation is not known. ! The elder sister could be married again, | this time in due form, to her husband, ! but the younger sister must previously ! be unmarried, and how is that to be done? It is well known that heaven and earth have to be moved before an error on a register can be corrected, as in the example of a child to whom a wrong name has been given, which can never afterward be altered. The family of Mademoiselle, or, rather Mme. L., are seriously thinking that, instead of attempting to prove that she is not her sister, and vice versa, it will be simpler for her to divorce her brother- in-law, after which the latter will re- marry his wife, who is now legally his sister-in-law, while Mademoiselle will take unto herself a second husband, without having ever been married be- fore.. It to be hopad there is a play- wright in the family to turn the lat- | ter’s tribulations to some account. Strips Bark to Save Trees. A St. Louis man has devised a pro- cess for the preservation of trees which have been attacked by disease, and, re- markable td state, he commences by stripping off the bark of the tree and applying the solution to the trunk in this condition. Archbishop Messmer of the diocese of Oshkosh, Wis., has re- cently allowed the man to experiment with the trees around the archiepisco- pal residence in that city, and the re- sults are said to have been very bene- : ficial. Kuropatkin’s Pet Pigeon. Among the spoils captured at Liao- | yang by the Japanese army was a tame pigeon kept by General Kuro- patkin. By order of Marshal Oyama the bird was brought to Tokio and presented to the Japanece Crown Prince. It has now been added to the Prince’s pigeon cote. 4 Modest but Expensive, “Lend me five, old boy.” “Can’t do it, Charley. Any other time, but I've only got twenty-five, and I'm going to take Millle Tightous of the Variety Theater out to a very quiet plain little sypper this evening.” Cincinnat! Commercial-Tribune. A Telephonic Danger. Paterfamilias (who has just rung up the call office and has his attention di- verted by his little daughter)—Hullo, dear, coming to kiss me good night? Volce of Female Telephone Clerk (se- verely)—I beg your pardon.—London Punch. Those Boston Girls. Bessie—I suppose you have heard that Fred Simpson and I are going to be married? Florence—Yes, but of course I shouldn’'t have mentioned it if you hadn’t. I hope I have more regard for your feelings than that.—Boston ‘Transcript. A Personal Remark. “No, madam,” said the ladies’ tailor, “I can't take a penny off the price of that coat. The figure I quoted just now is the lowest possible.” “But,” protested Miss Bargen, “as I told you, I figure that I can—" adam, your figure is simply ridicu- —Philadelphia Press. . Cause. She—Grace says she's afraid of her shadow! He—I should think she would be; did you ever see him?—Detroit Free Press. ———————— Time to send Townsend's Glace Fruits by Express for Christmas. = —_———————— Townsend's Californta Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st. and Wakelee's Drug Store. d prontatviatihcsihe Dt e T Special information supplied daily to Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). ali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042