The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1905, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL . Proprictor JOHN D. SPRECKELS.. 3 Z % ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN MCNAUGHT... s beraeees oae PUBLL ~ _THIPD AND MARKET STREET! SUNDAY . .....NOVEMBER 26, 1905 THE CRY FROM ALASKA. the Alaska Territorial Convention are a y most men knew that there were but it was supposed, especially in 1ere for temporary purposes, attracted by, veries, or hoping to pick up some valuable furs, 1 either case of making a stake and returning to lisclosed in this convention that 60,000 Ameri- that the resources of the Territory are such 1 ing population. general v were removal of restrictions upon railroads, e g laws 2 tor i cpansion of teiegraph and mail facilities and for the con- st f trails and wagon roads. All of these things mean the p ent settlement of a country. A more useful judiciary is called the convention asks for proper and suitable public build- 3 to house the increasing public business caused by rapid settle- and development of resources. Alaska flares up suddenly the northern sky like an aurora borealis, and all eyes are T " 2Cross turned to the new land of promise, sprung out of the tundra and | a has been in possession of the United States since 1867.! administration was military, established in 1868. We have i s affairs for the brief period of thirty-seven years. Rus-| its sia began her over-sea expansion toward this continent in 1728, when | 4 perial genius and ruffian, Peter the Great, commissioned Vitus | , follow up the discovery of the sea that bears his name by r the land beyond. Bering’s ships divided and discovered at two widely separated points at about the | nand of the St. Paul, made the coast ind it in sight of Mount St. Elias and This made Alaska the property of & nent rikoff, in cor £ discovery. s land was promptly occupied by fur traders, and trading | litary stockades were built, and the land was Russian | 741 to 1867, a period of 126 years. Then, apparently in the | she had drained the land of its wealth and resources, | to us, bag and baggage, Indians, otters, fur seals, | y and all. It terminated Peter’s ambitious plan of control of ific coast of North America. That plan named for us Rus- 1 San Francisco and the Russian River in Sonoma County, r's flag was once the symbol of jurisdiction over both. e felt surer of ourselves we would now own a continuous from San Diego to the Romanof Mountains. If we had adopt- Oregon boundary Ned Hannigan’s defi of “54 degrees 40 tes or fight” British Columbia would be inland and Esquimalt northern Gibraltar. But we were flying at the throat of Mexico to make her let go her land north of the Rio Grande and , and were not feeling strong enough to fight Great Britain 1e for possession of the coast line. Otherwise we have the coast from Victoria to Port Simpson. Perhaps e may trade the Philippines to England for all British and so consolidate our continental domain. atter of interest just now is that Russia sold to us a pos- s probably more valuable than all Siberia. The Rus- sians did no more than tap the fur supply. In the 126 years of her occupancy no roads were built and no facilities supplied for i1 mmunication. Indians were massacred or converted to the orthodox church according as the soldier or the priest desired and credit at home. The gold, coal, copper and tin were en over by the Russian heel and their existence was unsus- The vast forests made no suggestion to sluggish Russian rprise, and the frozen orange, supposed to be juiceless, has pped into our lap, for a consideration. It is interesting always to speculate about what history might e been made by a slight change in position or lack of it. If 1 not bought Alaska in 1867 it would have been a Japanese d ibjects of the Mikado would be studying their ethno- tives, the Eskimos, at close quarters. . But we took over ate and its resources thirty-seven years too soon for this, and time have made more development, found more resources, more wealth out of Alaska than did Russia in a century and a The American habit of organization and self-government duced order there. The people meet, elect a chairman and ions. Already they have advanced so far as to have an d a judiciary. Now they want a Legislature and a del- Congress. After that comes the State of Alaska, saddling ic Circle, lit by the pole star, dividing the year into one day and one night, and in sunshine or dark seething with American terprise. - One very interesting incident of the settlement and develop- ment is the considerable number of women who have entered the Territory as mining prospectors and owners of business enterprises. We look northward and shiver at the climate. But these American women have made the trip from Dawson to Nome, have hunted gold »n the shore and creek bars and under the tundra, have found it and dug out fortunes, all the time enjoying ‘the best of health. Un- consciously they have rendered the Territory a greater service than strong men, for they have exorcised the fear that its climate was olerable. Tpassengcr cars constructed of wood. The majority of the fa- talities in accidents on railroads are due to the splintering, crush- ing or burning of wooden cars. The Pullman cars, by reason of the enormous quantity and strength of the wood used in their construc- tion, are the safest cars now in use. But their immense weight, nec- essary to their safety, is not feasible in the ordinary day car. The roads are resorting to steel cars and it may be expected that all American roads will finally be equipped with them, and wooden cars will be as unknown as are large wooden frame buildings in cities The first experiment with steel cars was in the freight equip- ment. Steel gondolas were made/in Pennsylvania for carrying coal. Next steel box and stock cars appeared. In derailments and colli- sions it was found that these steel cars were not telescoped nor broken up. They held together and retained their form. From that test came the suggestion of the steel passenger car, which will com- bine lightness, strength and safety. This substitution of steel for wood in car building means an enor- mous drain upon the steel supply, and also the obsoleting of one mechanical trade and the introduction of another. The mechanics who build wooden cars will be out of a job and the construction of steel cars will introduce a new trade. If the result is greater safety in travel all the necessary sacri- fices will be justified. The railroads will economize by the 'changc. When a wooden car is broken up in an accident it is gone, there is no salvage. But the steel car cannot be destroyed and all of its metal goes hack to the shop for rerolling, THE NEW CARS. HE movement in railway equipment is toward the disuse of A Saegerstown (Pa.) barber drove four robbers away from a bank. Few of them can talk like that.—New York World. SRl e TR Trusts must go. A Cincinnati man has been forced to beg because they closed a factory in which his wife had ‘a job.—Chicago News. OSSN &S e amendment and extension of Fed- | = | | THANKSGIVING TU it’s fashionable to get it in RKEY—Cheer up, brother. the neck. — About this time of the year BALTIMORE AMERICAN. Mecca, the sacred city of the Moham-, medans, is thus described In “With the | Pilgrims to Mecca,” an article trans- cribed from the narrative of Ibn Jubayr Ali of Bandar Abbas, and appearing in the December Everybody's: ““Mecca lies in a biistered valley among the bare brown hills, a city filled to over- flowing with an ever-growing throng of the faithful gathered from all Islam. In the teeming streets arriving pilgrims, for- getful of all things save their desire to! reach the sacred gates, press by in fran- tic haste, heedless as to whom they jostle. | Noiseless, swaying camels surge through | the crowds as a ship sweeps through a | restless sea. Water carriers, laden with their bloated goat skins, shriek thelr | wares into the tumult; close in the shad- {ow of the walls of Haram, the great | mosque of Mecca, squat the public scribes, each one surrounded by eager, | dark-skinned men awaiting their turn to | bridge the distance between remote cor- ners of the world by the power of the | scribe’s ready pen. Pariah dogs roam in packs through the streets, seeking what devcur. Women, bundled be- sembiance of human forms bunched on grotesquely small Men and beasts are powdered { with gray, gritting dust sthat fills the | eves and chokes the throat to parched Smarting. Under the smell of dust and! they may | yond anl | amble by, donkeys. heat Is the musky scent of camels; with [it @ blend of garlic and odors from the { IMPRESSIVE PICTURE OF MECCA l refuse that litters the streets. The sun beats down in blinding heat on the steam- ing streets; the air throbs with the din of a score of thousand throats; a pande- monium split at times ag with a knife the savage scream of an angry camel.” g e “Like a gigantic catafalque, somber, shrouded in mystery, the Kaaba rises out of the seething sea of white-garbed humanity that crowds the great Sacred Square of Mecca. Its door is covered with plates of salid silver, studded with silver nails, From the exterlor of the roof, above a stone marking the Sepul- cher of Ishmael, which lies at the base of the northern wall, there projects a horizontal, semicircular rain spout, five vyards long, twenty-four Inches wide, made of massive gold. Within, the roof is supported by three columns of aioe wood; the walls are hung with red vel- vet alternating with white squares in which are written in Arabic the words: ‘Allah-Jal-Jelalah’'—'Praise to God the Al- mighty.” The building is packed with pllgrims, praying, weeping, beside them- selves in an ecstasy of passionate devo- tion. Mingled with their voices there rises from outside the chant of the Tal- bih, the .song of the Winding-Sheet, which every pilgrim must sing on enter- ing Mecca, on donning the sacred Ihram, on entering the Haram, and on starting for Mina, the Valley of Desire and Ara- fat, the Mountain of Compassion.” he lit a fresh cheroot and leaned back | in his chair, “don’t talk Arizona to me. | It ever there was a place on this broad | footstool that is kin to the hot here- after, it's Arizona. Of course, I'm | speaking of the desert country. Not any more in mine, thank you. “Oh, you want the story, do you? It was back in the early '60's—quite a while, when you stop to comsider it. ‘Bucky' Wilson was with me and we were on the hunt for one of those mythical mines supposed to haye been abandoned by the Indians. We were in a saloon in Yuma one night—the night before we started—and there picked up a dirty greaser by the name of Pedro for a guide. ‘Bucky’ kicked like a wild steer when I engaged him, but I stuck | to it that he was all right and just the man we were looking for. He claimed to know all about the desert country, 50 the next morning our outfit started. Besides our own horses-we had two pack mules and we calculated that we were fixed for at least a two months’ trip. ‘Bucky’ insisted that I was ‘lo- coed’ to hire the greaser, but the fel- low apparently knew his business, kept his mouth shut and did his work. We had been out a week or thereabouts when one night Pedro’s actions aroused my suspicions. We had been skirting the desert country nearly all the way {and for the last two days had been obliged to depend on our canteens for water. All through the day the greaser had promised that we would find fresh water ‘manana.’ When we camped that night I concluded he had either lost his | way or was up to some dewiltry, al- | though I said nothing about it' to | ‘Bucky.’ We all turned in right after supper and I at once pretended to fall into a deep sleep. As usual, Pedro slept near the horses in order to look after them should aything happen, and that night I lay In such a position that I could watch every move he made. It must have been 10 o'clock when I saw Pedro raise his head and peer over in our direction. “Satisfylng himself that we were asleep, he got up quletly, saddled one of the best horses and then came over in a roundabout way to where ‘Bucky’ lay. I hadn’t the remotest idea of what he was up to, yet common sense — — ‘ AN ADVENTURE IN ARIZONA e -3 “Arizona,” exclaimed the major, as should have told me that it was noth- ing good. In a few moments, however, all doubts were set aside when 1 saw him lean over ‘Bucky’ and try to get at his money belt without waking him. ‘Bucky,” by mutual consent, was treas- urer of the outfit and had something like $300 salted away in the belt. In a case like that argument doesn't amount to much, so I made for the greaser, pulling my gun as I went. Within two feet of him I pointed it straight at his dirty heart, pulled the trigger and—the thing missed fire. By that time he was on me. It only lasted a minute, but in that time I found a man with muscles like steel and the strength and quickness of a mountain lion. When I got up from the ground and wiped the blood from my mouth he had alread, mounted the horse and was making for the mesquites. Reach- ing over, I got my revolver, took care- ful aim and fired a second time. He pulled in the horse for a moment, reeled a bit in the saddle and started again. That's the last I ever saw of Pedro. It was all over before ‘Bucky’ realized what had happened.” “How did you find your way back to Yuma?” “We didn’t,” went on the major. “It was the horses, and what we went through I explained in the first of my story. No more of the desert country for me. Hereafter I'll take to ®he mountains, where every tree is a friend and real water exists.” “By the ay, major, what ever caused that dcar on the lower side of your neck?” “That,” replied the major, as he un- buttoned his blue shirt and displayed a long, ragged scar within half an inch of the jugular vein, “is my friend Pedro's card. He gave it to me when he left.” “And you say you have never seen him since?” “No. 1 understand, however, that less then ten miles from where we camped that night the skeletons of a man and horse were found by some prospectors: few years later. The sad- dle near the horse had the initials G. B. D. on it.” “Did that have any special signifi- cance?” 5 “Nothing—except that they are my initials.” E———— ] — Killing off your neighbors does In Chicago, evidently, it is necessary Dispatch. Kansas City Star. | Colonel Henry Watterson calls brotherhood.” T. R. can regard this hicans.—Houston Chronicle. - the tariff wall runs.—Baltimore Sun. The new Democratic Treasurer of {in Russia than anywhere else.—Washington Post. » allariiotg iy o A stranger in Chicago had his pocket picked while at prayer in church. With Pennsylvania and Ohio Democratic, the pivotal State may soon | be Texas or Florida.—Buffalo Courier. TH e T not accomplish liberty any quicker to watch as well as®pray.—Pittsburg 0 A President Stickney of the Great Western Railway, who indorses Presi- dent Roosevelt’s rate demands, may become known as the Big Stickney.— LR T T President Roosevelt “a,messiah of as a conquest of the last of the Mo- —_— A foreign trade of a billion dollars a year is proof enough that the en- terprising Americans are not limited to the “home market,” around which —_—— Speaking of the vaunted “deliberation” of the United States Senate, the Smoot case has been deliberated upon for three years and is now right where it started—Kansas City Star. —_— Pennsylvania is an Illineis mar;, who Chicago’s chief of police wants to put all the nude statues there in | got-his start in the world by knowing how to tie a knot that would not winter clothes. He would make high art look like a roll of carpet.—Balti- more Sun. slip under any strain. That is just t & he kind of man that fills a long-felt jwant in the Pennsylvania treasury.—St. Louis Republic. l LFun From Yonkers Church—I see Alaska’'s canned salmon output is estimated this year at $10,000,000. Gotham—Let some other country try to beat us if they can. HARD WORK. Yeast—What's worth having is worth working for? Crimsonbeak—You're right A man works hard to get a girl, and then he has to work hard to keep her. LIKED IT DARK. Mother—That young man comes much earlier in the evenings, now, than he used to in the summer, doesn’t he, Laura?" Daughter—Oh, yes, ma; but, you know, it gets dark so much earlier now! WHERE DID HE GET IT? Bacon—He made all his money in Wash- ington. Iigbert—And {s he rich? “Very.” ““Wus he a Congressman or a walter?” ON THE WRONG BIDEH, Bacon—That man is always on the wrong slde of a question. Egbert—How do you know? “Why, I've known him for twenty years, and in all that time I never knew him to think the same way as I have!” BACK TO CHICAGO. Dearborn—And did you shake the dust from your feet when you Ileft New York? ‘Wabash—Well, I don't know that I shook it from my feet exactly, but.I know I got rid of all the dust I had, all right. REASON FOR YELLING. She—Why, those men at the Stock Exchange run about, yelling like a lot of crazy men. He—Well, 1 guess you'd yell like a crazy man if you paid $60,000 for a seat and then couldn’t sit down. TOO YOUNG TO OBJECT. The Major—I suppose down in Kentucky they don't use water, even for christening children? The Colonel—Oh yes, they do, sah; but, you see, a fellow who is being christened is too young to put up any kick. A A_DIFFICULT ACCOMPLISHMENT. Patience—That dentist of mine is a re- markable man. Patrice—How so? ““Why, he can actually smile when he's looking down in the mouth. REFEREED A FIGHT. ‘ Pop!” “Yes, my son.” *“What do you think? Our minister has been actin; as a referee at a fight!” “Don’t talk nonsense, my boy." 5 “I'm not, pop. The fight was in the cholr.” NUMEROUS PICTURES. Bacon: “I see ‘'» Baro. has two oil paintings in one of his rooms.” Egbert: “They are his ancestors, I sup- pose.” “But in another one olose by there are hundreds of pict@res.” “Yes, no doubt they are his creditors.” DIFFERENT VIEWS. “When a contribution comes from your neighbor and you speak of it as a flea bite, it seems very small,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things; “but if the contribufion comes from the flea ft- self—well, you don’t consider it such an insignificant thing.” NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. “] see there are a couple of ofl mag- nates in the audience,” sald the minister to the doorkeeper at the lecturs; ‘“give them back their money. I won’t have any tainted money! *“You needn’'t worry,” replied the door- “they both came in on free DEGREES OF KICKS. “Let me tell you something, Sam,” said the overseer; “the blow of a whale's tail is the strongest animal force in the world; the kick of a giraffe is second, and the stroke of a lion's paw the third.” “Oh, well, I s'pose, boss, by de time dey gets down to de kick of a mule dey'd have us belleve it is just a gentle lub tap.” HATEFUL. Patience—Met the lovellest man at the party last night. Patrice—Indeed! 5 “Light hair?” “Yes.” “Light eves?” “Of course.” “Light skin?” “And light pocketbook, no doubt.” PUT HIM OUT. Bacon—Did you ever hear that fel- low Swallow sing? Egbert—No. “He must be flerce.” ’ “Why?”" s “He told me he started singing in a house last night and they put him out.” © “You're joking.” “No, I'm not. He told me he was singing and some people were talking and they p‘ut)im out.” LOOKING IN THE FUTURE. Mrs. Bacon—I see by this paper that Alexander Wilklnsl#.w of London uses his arm as a genealogical tree. It has been tattooed with dat In addition to.his own and his wife's birth dates and the record of their marriage he has the name and date of the blrth of each of his children. Mr. Bacon—If Alexander should hap- pen to lose his wife and go courting agaln it might be eml for him to have his family around the girl so much of the time.—Yonkers States- +———-———_—’+ GIVE ME YOUR HAND, MY DEARIE | TH BY A. J. WATERHOUSE E way is long and the trail is steep— Give me your hand, my dearie, dearie— And the chasms beside it are black and deep— It is, ah, when the soul is aweary, weary!— Yet give me your hand, for we two must tread The maze of our days to the blue o'erhead, And with you by my side I need not dread What the morrow may bring, my dearie. MY feet are astray on the misty ways— Give me your hand, my dearie, dearie— No light is agleam in the sullen haze— Ah, Doubt is a wraith that is dreary, dreary!— Yet give me your hand, and we'll still press onm, Though the shadows lurk and the mists are wan, And the book of our love together we'll con, Though the day may be gray, my dearie. O-DAY I am lacking the courage I knew— Give me your hand, my dearie, dearie— For the pathway of life with our hopes we strew— Ah, me, for the eyes for the dead hopes tearyl— Yet give me your hand, for I know but this, That care is forgotten in Love’s sweet kiss, And he buries our woe 'neath the sod of bliss, As together we walk, my dearie. THIS MAN POSSESSES $100,000, YET HE LIVES ON 22 CENTS A DAY ‘With $50,000 in the bank, and as much more invested In tax titles in Omaha, Lincoln, Denver and other citles, A. J. Seaman, a well known resident of Omaha, has reduced his living expenses to the minimum, spending only 22 cents dally for board and room and less than $5 a year for clothing. Fashion in clothing his room or table cuts no figure with the old man. He bas limited his board bill to 15 cents each day, and has maintained that standard for many years. “And I guess I git along 'bout as well as any other fel- low.” he says. “I guess I live about as cheap as any man in the United States,” says Seaman. “Any man can live on an economical basis all right if he will just watch expenses. *‘People have been lying about me. They say I don’t spend but 7 cents a day on bread and meat and coffee and tea. It's a lle. I spend 15 cents every day, and I have not tasted coffes or tea for nearly thirty years. I don’t mind people telling the truth about me, but I don’t want no Hes.” Seaman is & tax title buyer and annual- ly makes a pilgrimage from Omaha through Western cities, going as far as Denver and Kansas City. He Invests $50,000 in this business, and as fast as he can dispose of a plece of property on which he holds a claim he transfers his money to new titles. “I'm glad I ain’t got no folks,” says Seaman. “Kin folks always want you to help them out with a little money. I ain't got any and I'm glad I ain’t.” ‘When the scavenger tax sales of Omaha were going on Seaman was a close at- tendant and a close buyer, but when the sale was over the old man handed in a check for more than $25,000, and the bank cashed It without looking up his account. “Do you see these shoes?” sald Seaman, holding up a substantial boot. “I bought ‘em at a second-hand store. Gave 0 cents for ‘em. That was two years ago, and I'll wear them for another year at least. I don’t throw away no money on cobblers, either. When my shoes need mending, I just do it myself. I put this sole on with a piece of leather and some carpet tacks. But it's good, just the same. ¢ “Then these trousers. I paid a dollar for them and bought them new. They were the first pants I bought from a store for fifteen years. My vest cost ¥ cents at a gecond-hand stors and my coat another 20 cents. I got beat on this coat, though. It ain’t near as good as one I bought for 15 cents about four years ago. And the hat cost me another 10 cents, too. I bought it from & man who had just bought a new hat. I saw him come out of a hat store and I braced him and got his old hat. It's a pretty good fit. And he gave my dime to the clerk and told him to buy a cigar with it That's mighty wasteful and that clerk never wili be worth anything unless he quits smoking. “But say, I got a bargain In my sum- mer hat. Went down last winter and bought a straw hat for 2 cents. Then I put it away and when summer came I was ready with my new straw hat.” Counting his entire wardrobe, Seaman was dressed in less than $2 worth of clothing. Seaman and a friend “bached” sev- eral years ago and at that time Sea- man figured that he was spending $1 20 a week for his meals. “That was too expensive, so I left that friend. It costs me only $1 05 when I live alome,” he says. Seaman frequently buys a loaf of bread or a ple and takes it home with him, where he eats It In his room. “And I've got the coal trust beat all to pieces,” he says. “I don’t use any coal at all 1 stay downtown until bedtime. Then I go home and go right to bed. When I get up in the morning and eat my bread and take a glass of cold water, I get right downtown. So you see I haven't got the least use for And that’s how I beat the coal Seaman is a member of the Young Men's Christian Assoclation and spends almost all his thpe in that bullding There he transacts all his business and escapes paying office rent. He is a de- vout student of the Bible and In younger days was a member of the Congregational church. Now he is in- clined to scoff at sectarianism and takes a broader view of the Bible's teachings. “Some people in this world want to make a great splurge,” says the old man. “Instead of paying their debts they make new. ones whenever they can get credit. But you bet I don't.” RAILROAD TIES FROM CORNSTALKS One inventor has come to town with something entirely new. He is J. T. Schaffer of Rochester, known as an ex- pert on hydraulic machinery. He is also an expert on induration, or the harden- ing of substances to make them both fire and water proof, and is well up on ex- tracting flulds from solids, says the New York World. The inventor's scheme is to manufac- ture rallroad ties out of cornstalks. He has with him at the Victorla Hotel a sample block or brick of his indurated cornstalks, which is as hard as a rock and of a grayish color. There are in the TUnited States about 210,000 miles of sin- gle track rallway, for which are required 500,000,000 wooden tles. The annual re- newal of ties is about 100,000,000. The wood is giving out and Mr. Schaffer would use pressed cornstalks as a substi- tute. Having figured out the geographical re- lation of the roads to the corn belt, Mr. Schaffer has decided to run his plant to the railroads Instead. of distributing his tles from a center. As a thrashing ma- chine travels about the country “setting up” at farms where it is required, so this inventor intends to draw his machinery by locomotive to sidings along the corn and sugar cane belts and turn out as many ties as may be demanded. It would require a train of four or five cars. About twenty-five hands would be employed, ALICE BLUE—M. U, City. The dress material designated as Alice blue was 50 named in honor of Miss Alice Roose- velt, who wore a gown of that color on the occasion of the inauguration of her father as President of the United States. PEDDLING—Subscriber, City. In the State of California every traveling merchant, hawker or peddler who car- ries a pack and vends goods, wares and merchandise other than the man- ufacture or products of the State must pay a license of $5 per month. It is the duty of officers to discover If a person who peddles goods has a license or not. o . CHECKER§—G. W. H, Siletz, Or. The leading authority on the game of checkers or draughts is Joshua Sturgis, ‘who has published “Guide to the Game of Draughts.” For laws, hints and dia- grams of the American game, as well as for reference to the Polish and Span- ish varieties of the e, consult “Checkers, a Treatise of the Game,” by A. Howard Cady. NATIONAL AIR—Reader, City. There 1s no national air in the United States— that is, Congress has never designated any of the patriotic airs as a national an- them. The nearest to this is the recog- nition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by the United States army, which is played at reveille and at sunset. The following is a recent order recognizing air: “Whenever ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ son at a military station, or at any place ‘where persons belonging to the military service are present in their official ca- ANSWERS TO VARIOUS QUERIES and a tle could be turned out every thirty seconds, or 1200 during a working day of ten hours. “Oak ties,” said Mr. Schaffer, “cost $133 in Northern New York. The cornstalk substitute costs one-third less. The latter will outlast three wooden tles. “All naflroads soak their wooden ties in creosote to lengthen their life,” continued Mr. Schaffer. “The objections to creosot- ing are that it does not prevent water from soaking in between the splkes and wood flber. Again it is very expensive, and in the third place creosote is a dead- 1y poison. “To the steel tie there are objections, the noise and the lack of elasticity, which prevents the tle from springing back into place after the ends have dropped into the roadbed. ““The Wabash experimented with cement ties, but it was necessary to insert wood- en plugs Into which to drive the spikes, and the water, swel the plugs. burst the cement. In Pa they tried ties made out of paper, but the cost was pro- hibitive, and, by the way, no insect that lives can penetrate a cornstalk tie, for the cells are all filled with ‘indurator’ or hardening substance. “Spreading of the rails is the cause of most of the accidents,” says the Inventor. “Now I would dovetail the rails into my tle, and then there would be no ‘spread- pacity, all officers and enlisted men pres- ent will stand at attention, and if not In ranks will render the prescribed salute, the position of the salute being retained until the last note of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.” The same respect will be ob- served toward the national air of any other country when it is played as a com- pliment to official representatives of such country. Whenever ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ i1s played as contemplated by this paragraph, the air will be played through once witnout the repetition of any part, except such repetition as is called for by the musical score. At every military post or station the flag will be hoisted at the sounding of the first note of the revefile, or of the first note of the march, if a march be played before the reveille. The Color’ is sounded by the fleld music while the flag is being lowered the same re- spect will be observed as when ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' is played by the band. The national flag shall be dis- played at a seacoast or lake fort at the commencement of an action and during a battle in which the fort may be engaged, whether by day or night.” & Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies in artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. Special information supplied dail 4