The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1906, Page 8

w THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JORN D. SPRECKELS............ s2s2esssssesesessssssses. Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO casearsreeas.aesensossManacer THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO SOHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATION OFFICE. FRIDAY... s seiemesnsinerees MARGH “2, 5000 THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. Ty \ UT of all the hysteria, conflict and confusion abroad about the O isthmian eanal comes one clear note of determination that the great work shall go on. The physical conditions under which it must be prosecuted were no secret, The sad result of Paterson’s Darien colony scheme made the world acquainted with those conditions long before they were affirmed by the observations umboldt and by the tragedy of Strain’s exploration. date of these three experiments with the climate of the science was without equipment to mitigate the effects of mid and tropical conditions. - Pestilerice came when it chose and slew unchecked. The Panama railroad was built by a’greater sac< rifice of human life than would have been caused by war in the same region and lasting an equal time. The French <company, miodern as it was, faced the same stubborn climatic obstacles and fell before them, but since then science has been at work. We learned much during our occupation of Cuba about tropical sanita- tion. We traced yvellow fever to its source and found out the means its pmpagatimi. and when we left Havana it was as$ healthy as ton That result was not obtained by any chance or accident. H ¥ It was not because the tropical pestilences were resting for another:at- | It was brought about by scientific sanitation, by mearis which | tack proved that the endemic and epidemic diseases of the tropics can he controlled and prevented as easily as the characteristic diseases of the temperate zone. These experiences taught the administrators | e canal work that -something must precede digging on the of Panama en, and the insects that carry yellow fever and malaria must estroved, proper food must be supplied, and all that science bettering the conditions of life in the tropics must be an organization effected that will persistently use these means to prevent the sacrifices that were formerly nécessary to ac- great constru r ) two antagonistic camps. The engineers went there g the canal. The professional prifle of Mr. Wallace pushed him , the digging line, and made him chafe at the expenditure of time @nd money in sanitation. -When he could not dig he resigned, in i, This e the press and the politicians at home a chance e Sensational writers ran down to the isth- n 1 twenty-four hours, did not find ships passing through th the dirt flying. and ran. back home to tell unfair fairy € scredit of the management. Time and money- have Dry and comfort- s are slowly appearing. ing ready to make the dirt fly. i good hospitals are provided. fever-carrying insécts, a persistent war is made e is built to facilitate the transportation of ber is the sickly month on the isthmus, if one month out in that respect. Sanitation has successfully that in December only four white em- out of 1700, and out of the whole 22,000 canal employes he isth only 20 per day were laid off for sick- \s the rate of sick leaves in the street cleaning department York City is 27 per 1000 daily, it must be admitted by. the. ged critics that the sanitary deépartment of the canal ad- 1 has done something. When jt is understood that its work must. absolutely precede any progregss in the construction work it will be seen .that are getting ready wisely.” The men who are doing this prepara- are attending to their business. They are not quarreling selves nor with outsiders. They are not seeking news- tations, nor are they objects of interest to members of Their names are not known to five hundred péople in They have been assigned to a difficult and im- nt duty, and are interested only in its perfect and faultles discharge.. They have sewered Panama, the only city with sewers all Central America. = They have furnished dry and wholesome rs all along the line of the eanal. They have' reformed the the men as to quantity and quality, and while it may not he heir work is finished it is so.far advanced that the engi- ve have any suprem tl New nifica - wo ong th D Congress the United States. paper YOr: neers be interrupted by an epidemic. It is quite necessary that the impatient people at home ‘shall uriderstand these things. impossiblé to transfer to the isthmus either the lahor laws or the labor conditions of the temperate zone. Men work slowly therec. They have to if they would last long: Science can take care of ever) thing excep: the vertical sun. Under it men move slowly. It is fair to say that their performance in an hour only equals that of a quarter-of an hour in the temperate zone. Their hours of labor should be left to the officers immediately responsible for them and | their work. They are tnder constant medical oversight, and that means that they are-under humane and merciful supervision. Their tifgth will be conserved.and their health safeguarded. necessary, in order that the needed volume of voluntary labor mav be had. % : The American people may cast off their grumbling mood about the canal.- It is a stupendous undertaking, in the midst of appalling difficulties, but it will be accomplished and our fame will in no respect suffer. S During the municipal campaign there was every evidence that the administration which sought re-election did not propose that San Francisco should be a Puritan city. - His Honor the Mayor gave utterance to certain free and loose sentiments on the subject of per- sonal freedom. and sociability in a seaport town, and tenderloin and tough. loin blazed forth their approval of the Labor party ticket, and supported it with a unanimity and zeal that seemed to have their origin in official promise of 2 good time coming. To what extent the lid had been on before, it began to slip off after the election. The Goddess of Chance set up her shtines, and in a-high soprano cried in the,midst of her devotees, “Let her roll.” The coy slot machine came out of hiding and invited the wayfarer to try his Juck. All of the Nine Muses of vice and folly disported themselves, and the dice rattled cheerfully on every bar. Then sud- denly, “click!” thé trap was sprung. -The lid was clapped on. The Goddess of Charice seized her wraps and ran over the roof, and the Nine Musés went into their stockings for cash bail. The administra- tion winks at “thé boys” no more, but sets its face sternly toward the mark of a high calling, and sits onthe lid and sings the son. of Zien. PUTTING THE LID ON. OMEBODY has made a mistake, and everybody .is surprised. It is not necessary to go hniting a mean motive for a good ac-| tion, but for- all that the free and-éasy element among the voters bas a grievarice. * It fought valiantly for the hand that now smites it. On election day, from the rising unto the setting of the sun, it punched the voting machine for the Mayor’s ticket straight. It had a tip and put up its money and its ballots, and now the machine it created turns it dowf, runs over it, hunts it .into its innermost retreats and speaks -of it offensively, in-addition to hauling it into the police court. Alas, and alack a day! When such friends fall out, the good_and the cynical will: think things and laugh. . - Piusburé has 2 boy who cannot stop running -when once he starts, and <his parents do ‘nét know what to do with him. He was cut out for a Santo Domingo soldier.—Washifigton Post. . i = There must be drainage, dry quarters for the | jon work in that most resistant climate. | of this preparation was not made without dividing the | The honses are | their damp breeding places, to exterminate | go on with their digging, in the certainty that it will not | They should understand also that it is| This is| | +77-—v’- —PHILADELPHIA RECORD. [ " Arctic Explorer - ! Becoming a Joke = 3 | { | ol T.is now dlmost time for us to begin | l to get ail worked up and overheated about some amateur polar- explorer. | At this season, when the ordinary man | is' hugging ‘the steampipe and feeling like cutting off Lis nose to spite his | influenza, one of our popular nonpro- fessional rorth pole champlons usually | | comes down stage, wraps the spotlike] | around him and announces that he is’ ready to hit the trafl with all magazine; | and ‘picture Tights reserved, says.a | writer in the Neiw York _-Bvening’ ‘World. We promptly fall for him. New York { is ever strong for the north pole dash. | Possibly it is the sympathy which one | establlshed eold feet center feels for apother. If Colonel .William ~ @ Avy-y | crockett Mann’ had confined his ‘well- | known talents for finding out things 110 the remote north he might now be speaking nightly at Carnegie Lyceum | on “The Effect of Arctic Currents Upon | Factal Follage” Instead of spending his | days side-stepping a man: fvith eve- |'glasses and a Lakeville (Conn.) hatr- cut. : :Xew York raises a fund for the ax- | plorer Yansen and his three childrem, {by giving him a farewell banquet, | where all the: scientists and ‘museum | curators in' town respend to the toasts. After the guest of honor has sat at the | head of the middle table in his large, | white cravat from 9:30 p.-m. until | twenty minutes past 2 in the morning | listening to savants working the super- fluous statistics out of their systems | he is inured to any horrors the frozen zone has in stock. The Sunday supplements join in. We are regaled with photographs of “Ex- plorer Yansen and his three children, | Gwyndolin, Gladys and Isadore Jr. Explorer Yansen opening an egs. Explorer Yansen in polar costume | with his favorite husky dog.” The one on the left is the | planatory: | dog.—Fd.) Half a million cheering citizens see 1the intrepid discoverer depart. Often he doesn’t get very far. Either he en- counters rough weather outside of Sandy Hook or he finds he has forgot- ten to bring along his camera, or he hires a nonunion Esguimau guide and | the crew go on a strike. But some- times he actually disappears beyond the Banks. That is the cue to get the rescue expedition under way. It never seems to occur to us to send the res- cue expedition on ahead so it can get settled down cozy and ship-shape and accoxding to Hoyle and be there wait- ing, all ready to rescue the explaorer when he staggers in gnawing’ his last rubber overshoe and deliriously mut- tering of. the bum accommodations above the cirelé. One day, a month hence, meets us. s i1,” he says, “they’'ve found Yan- | a friend sen. “Yansen?' we ponder “Let's see; he's the guy who makes the health underwear, ain’t he?” “You don’'t know any more than a deputy police commissioner” retorts the friend, scornfully. “Don’t you re- member the fellow who went away on the good ship Chilblains, and what his wife had to say ‘in the papers and—'" “'Oh, ves,” we exclaim brightly. “So they've found him, have they? I hope they extradite him. It's time we were 1 mists, anyhow.” Such is fame. So Yansen returns with two of his toes in a glass bottle and opens his lecture tour in Brooklyn to an- audlence just large enough for four tables at five-handed euchre pro- viding the ushers’sit in. —_— o A LIKELY REASON. : % i A milkman in a country town not far from New York was brought before the local court to answer to a charge of adul- teration of milk. *You are charged said the Judge, "with a most ‘serfous of- fense, of scHing adulterated milk. Have you anything to say in answer to the charge?’ “Well,” your worship,” replied the milkman, *“the night before it was raining very hard, and the only um:fi can give is the cow must have got wst ‘through.”—Harper's Weekly. s N [‘globe. Lof Newtown Highlands, (Bx- | reflectively. |- fixing some of these here Swede biga- e A_rmigs Put to Sleep 1 All efforts to end- warfare ‘.::(!W! those of the Peace Union have been in.the di- rection of increasing the horrors of war by making the weapons and their mis- siles of death more powerful, and luus wiping the enemy from. thé face.of the An cntirely new scleme has been recéntly worked out by C. M. Wheaton néar Boston, Mass., Who proposes to put g stop to all international strife by means of a power- ful gas, which will have no more disas- troug effect than that of putting the en- emy to.sleep. Thus an entire army or the sailorg of a whole fleet may be put as effectualy out of' businc s as if they had been slain, Mr. Wheaton says he has worked out all of the details’ of his scheme, but fie 1s not ready. to give it to the public at this th e. He i= firm in his convict.on that war -will be made. impos- | sible’ with his scheme. EXPERIMENTING. “That face would stop a clock,” said a West Philadelphia father glgncing from a window at ‘an unbecsm? destrian. “Why, papa™ asked the fittle curly- headed.three-year-old on his knee, cran- ing his neck to catch a glimpse. ' 3 . ““Because it*is so ugly, boy," answered the father, absent-mindedly. It was that evening that the father came down stairs after dressing for din- ner to find his boy standing at tiptoe on a hall chair staring up at the big, round - face of the grandfather clock and giving the most hideous twists to his pretty baby face. “What in the world are you doing, boy?" asked the surprised father. “Trying to stop the clock, para,” was the surprising answer. — Philadelphia Record. LOOK IT UP. A ‘professor, who when asked a ques- tion was in the habit of saying,| “That's a very good point, indeed: look it up for yourself,” was once much disgusted with a student who had failed to answer a very simple question. “Mr. Jones,” said he, “I'm surprised that you, who are going to teach, cannot answer such an elementary question. ‘Why, what would you Jdo if one of your pupils were to ask it?” “Well, professor,” replied the other, “if such a. thing had happened before I came here I'm afraid I would have said plainly that I didn’t know; but now I think I'd do just as you do, and say, ‘Look It up, my boy, look it up.””—Chicago Inter- Ocean. —_————— YAM'S IMPORTANT MISSION. Yamhiill Hutcheroft expects to leave to- morrow for Tickville to find out a man’s name he forgot last week.—Hogwallow Kentuckian. MIRROR OF FASHION sx f SEPARATE WAIST FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL. ARROW black velvet rib- bons form an effective trimming for this ruby - red henrietta separate blouse, admirable for wear with a black tailored skirt. Over a tight-fitting lining the henri- etta is pleated from the:round voke to the waistline. The front double box pleats are stitched their entire length, while those from the shoulder are discontinued at the bust line. Several rows of the vel- vet ribbon trim the round yoke and simulate little bolero ets in the front only. The back to poin 1 Rev. vHu;o Trotl'er's - Proposal to Katrina 1 EV. HUGO TROTTER was a mag- R nificent dxample of the absolutely commonplace. He was as much a triumph _of standardization as the American ‘locomotive or-the American steel bridge. His principles, his ideals, his ~fastes, his pastimes—all were standardized, and you had the impres- sion that he could be duplicated at any time from the factery—not that I am | saying this to his dispraise. On the contrary, he was a harmless; pleasant creature with. whom otie could have made-out very well on a desert island; a good man, in his way, kind and mod- est and unassuming, liked by his neigh. bors and adored by his chjldren. Although he was voted ‘“safe” it| must not be thought that no awateh was Kkept upon him by Johanna Van Ingen. That thinh,” hawk-nosed old watehdog took no chances, and. when there were signs of hie tucking him- self away in a corner with the daugh- ter of the house, a loud “yap” was sure to drive him into the, open—to pass around the tea, whisk muffins and breathe those agreeable inanities with which a-consclentious man pays for his hospitality. ~ The flerce light that beats | upon a throne he was as nothing to the | calcium beneath which Mr. Trotter con- | ducted his wootng. He never could talk to Katrina with less than one other person present, and the general average was six. s Mr. Trotter determined to put all to | the hazard and risk a declaration. ¥or | three visits he carried a red-hot littie | note in his ve~t pocket, but was never | lucky enough to find an opportunity to slip it stealthily ihto Katrina's hand. As for speaking openly—he was nearly | as helpless as a street beggar being | “moved on” by the police. In regard | to her niece Auni Johanna was a past’| mistraes in the art of “moving on” the ineligible. c But at length Mr. Trotter's mome: came; or, at least, he snatched it from the malign fates, with the courage born of desperation. It .was at an evening party, as Miss Katrina was getting through a very indifferent rendering of “Robin Adair.” 'A young man was turning over her musie. Suddenly his tace wore the contorted expression of one about to Sneeze. Mr. Trotter edged in, tense and breathless, like a little Indian from behind a thicket. His op- portunity came as the paleface fe aside. Mr. Trotter seized his place, caught the music 'rom an unresisting hand, squeezed himself in front of that sneeze, ind dlscovered, to his joy, that there were still two more stanzas left of that enervating ballad. “I love you!" he gasped, and then waited, trembling, for something awful to happen. Katrina’'s head sank a little lower. “R-R-Robin A-A-Adair,” she qua- vered; “oh, R-R-Robin A-A-Adair!” ¥ ARV IR l “Passionately!” ejaculated Mr. Trot- ter. Qe pretty girlish head sank a little lower. P “This is my only chancego say it— will you marry me?” & “R.R-Robin A-A-Adair=yes’ sang Miss Van Ingen. “Meet me at your gate tomorrow, at 10 o'clock, and we'll fix ii—license, everything, my darling—trast it all to me!” A This was how, the next day, Miss Van ingen became the runaway bride of Rev. Hugo Trotter.—From “The Humanizing of Van Ingen,” by Lloyd Osbourne, in Success Magazine. § R WISE YOUTH. ' “But can You support me in the style’ to which I have been accustomed?™ she asked. " “He smiled. . “I don’t think.I should have any hes- ftancy in promising that,” he said. .| not mind these things it 1 did not have | And she pounds her grand plano till it makes OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS l By A. ]. Watethouse. THE UNFORTUNATE PESSIMIST. NCE upon a time a Forlorn Pessim- O ist and a Blessed Optimist mét, terly. and the former was weeping bit- - wBrace up, old boy!" quoth the Blessed Optimist. “What ails you, anyway?’ “Ah me! ah me!” responded the other, “you cannot imagine what a-hard job it is to be a pessimist in these unfortunate times!"” * “In- what respect are the times un- fortunate?” g ¥ ! “Why, the sun insists upon shining, and | the birds upon singing. and the flowqu‘ upon being fragrant, and—But 1 should | 1 such infernaily hard luck myself.” “How is it hard?” “Wel}, I tried farming for a while; and | I used to prophesy that there would be a | drouth, but ne drouth wouid come; then | 1 said 1 knew there would be a flood. but the flood wouldn't arrive as announced. Failing in this, 1 tried the mercantile; business and prophesied panics which | didwt panic.© It was ‘enough to dis-| céurage any active pessimist. ’n""A I tried one thing after another, but I'm willing to be bilessed if anything would go wrong. Now I am heartsick and de- spondent. Ah me! Ah mel!” | “Try qptimism for a while;” urged the | cheery man. “Does it work?’ was the guery. “Sure!” “Get everything you desire or expect? Everything you prophesy?” “Oh, ‘ne, certainly not. But what does | that matter, as long as you feel confident i that it will come later?” “Ah, well!" sighed the Forlorn Pessim- ist, “I couldn’t think dof becoming an | optimist, anyway.” | “Why not?” “Oh, my reason tells me that every- thing is wrong, even if it is not wrong. It & a darned hard world, what with its | misplaced sunshine, singing, fragramce | and—oh, it is a hard, hard world, and it is particularly tough on pesstmists:™ { Agalh the Forlorn Pessimist fell to weeping, and as the Blessed Optimist had | some sunshine In his heart which he de- sider to scatter abroad; he was compelled | to leave him. } Moral—It is in yourself rataer than ia | external circumstances. Very largely you | make your own life, and it wears a smile or a frown, as you choase. | “I see that he uses the letters M. A. after his name.” “Yes, I have noticed it.” I syuppose that he fiust be a university graduate?” “I do not know. but I don't think so.” “For what do the letters stand, then? “Well, judging merely from my obser- vation of the man, I sheuld say that they stood for Mainly Asinine.” “ hear that your husband.gets beastly drunk.” “I hear that yours Is beastly when he is sober.” “You spiteful thing!” Both parties turn en’ the faucet. CONCERNING ETHEL. ! Ethel's neck is round and slender and as white | as winter smows: Ethel's iips are ripe and tender, and her cheeks are like the rose; Ethel's form 1s like e fairy’s—if a fairy’s form ¥ou know— And within her optics there is of skies aglow; Ethel speaks both French and German—so, at least, I've often heard— { | Just the blue | vour blood to curd- | She 1s quite a winner. and has captu “hearts a few. But at conversaziones she would tall an arm | off you. | Le. | Feith. 1 know. once at a’party it befell that we two met, | And, though I was feeling hearty, T bave mot | recovered vet, like°a ceaseless, babbling %pring, | But. though she kept. talking, talking, yet she’ never saic a thing. i Once 1 thought that she was stricken by the | pallid hand of death, y But the hope was merely transient—she had paused to take a breath; 3 And 1 trust you will not blame me, nor will feel I dia her harm, ‘When I say that 1 absconded—for I wished to save my arm. “Did you have a pleasant time last evening?’ “I—1 think so.” “Don’t you know?" “Well, not exactly—but I waked up in a Hammam bath this morning; so I am sure that I must have had.” LIFE WENT SINGING. Life went singing down her vale, And her cheery, cheery song Trill of birds and drone of hees, Ard the drowsy breezes sung Lullables to all the trees. “Ho and ho!’ | Miss Alice Hager. ot | Ezra, | Bighth,” “Julius Caesar, Ah don’ know es Ah perzackly ‘grees éu then she suddenly realized that _knew her folks kept but one serv- t; that the gown she wore was last season’s style, and that her mother had let the upper hall bedroom to a roomer {who was in the gimlet department of a downtown hardware store—Clevelanl Plain Deal A FILLER. wid de culled man an’ brudder 'serts de brack man am superyah to de THE SMART SET By Sally Sharp. — fiubert Howe Bancroft was host al an elaborate dinner in Tonor of Pro- tessor Henry Morse Stephems at the St. Dunstan en Wednesday eveming, among the guests being President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Governor Pardee, Ru~ dolph Taussig, N. D. Rideout, Bishop Nichols, Isaias W. Hellman, Pr. Chester Rowell, James A. Waymntire, Lovell | White. Archbishop Ricrdan, Frederick J. Teggart, Judge Charles W. Slack, Jacob B. Reinstein, Judge W. W. Mor- row, Frank J. Symmes, Professor Ber- nard Moses, Garret W. McEnetney, E. E. Hewlett, Joseph C. Rowell, Rev. Dv. Voorsanger. Professor George David- som, Rev. Bradford Leavitt, Jobn' E. Budd, Arthur Foster. William Thomas, Dr. J. Dennis Arnold, Rev. Dr. Clampett, Dr. Charles N. Ellinwood. Char':s Stetson Wheeler. Guy Chaffee Eari, James W. McKinley, Hepry W. Ballantine, Dr. Minot J. Savdge of New York. Rev. Peter C. Yotke, Jobn A Britton, Judge M. C. Sless, Curtis Hill- yer, Waldo Story. Frederick W. Dolir- mann, Professor William James of Har- vard, Paul Baneroft and Philip Ban- eroft. - . @ Miss Marguerite Gros will entertain at a luncheon on Saturday to be given in the Palm Garden of the-Palace. T N Mr. and Mrs. Frederie Wilson Kimbie left yesterday for Hanford, Kings County, where they will stay until mid- | summer. . Several box parties are being made for the Paxtdn concert, which is fo take place March § at the Tivoli. Ths aftair will be a soolety event, among these to entertain being Joseph D. Red- | ding, Mr. Zeile, James D. Phelan, Mrs. John D. Spreckels Jr., Mrs. Henry Ed- wards Huntington, Mrs. Ernest Willard Crellin, Miss Marjorie Josselyn and Lent will be filled with pastimes of a pleasant, if more serious, nature, lee- ture courses prevalling though the subjects are to be entertaining as well as instructive. . . Several patromesses, . including Mrs. Ralph C. Harrison, Mrs. L. A. Kelley, Miss Ardella Mills, Mrs. E. 'W. Stadtmul- ler, Mrs, Sophia E. Peart, Mrs. D. A Bepder, Mrs. B. F. Norris, Mrs. Helen Hecht, Miss Evelyn Aronson, Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. Samuel Bell Wake- fleld and Miss Horten, will promote a series of readings to be given by Miss | Stella King of New- York at Century | Hall on the mornings of March 12, 13 and 26 at 10:30. The programme for the *three days will consist of the | Brownings: Elizabeth Barrett Brow! ing—"Rhyme of the Duchess May," “The Sleep,” “My Kate,” “The Dance.” ‘Mother and Poet Romance of a Swan's N * “A Court Lady,” “Sen- Robert Browning—"“Rabbi Bea “Andrea del Sarto,” “Count Gis- “A Forgiveness, “Pisgah Sights,” “Home Thoughts,” “Theoerite,” “My Last Duchees,” “& Tale,” “Love Songs,” from “Pippa Passes.” Shakes- ch Ado Abeut Nothing,” “As “Twelfth Night,” “A Win- King John,” “Henry tbe “Macbeth” nets.” mond,” and “Henry the Fifth.” o The Channing Auxiliary amnounces a series of Jectures to take place in the parlors of the First Unitartan Church on Tuesday and Friday evemings of March and April. Henry Payot will -give a coursé of twelve with illustra- tions, the subjects to deal with she principal countries and cities of tha worid. . The board of directors of the auxil- lary comsists of Miss Ardella Mills, Mrs. Bradford Leavitt, Mrs. Lyle M. Fletcher, Mrs. A. E. Buckingham. Mrs E W. Stadtmuiler, Mrs. Jobn T. Scoit- apd Mrs. Willlam E. Leland. Tickets may ! thes door. By g b PPN S S . i g g p R . o The lectures. with their dates, are: Tuesday, March 6, 8 p. m, “The Land of the Rising Sfn,” Japan: g March 9, $ p. m., “In the Shadow of the | Pagoda,” Burma: Tuesday, March 13, § P. m., “Under the Eaves of the World,” India; Friday, March 16, $ p. m., “The Pearl of the Orient,” Ceslon; Tuesday. March 20, $ . m.. “The Land of the Temple Builders, Egydt; - Saturday, March 24, 8§ p. m. “The Edge of the Orient,” Hely Land: Tuesday, March 27, s m., “The Eternal City,” Rome; Fri- day, March 30, $ p. m., “The Lily of the Arno,” Florence; Tuesday, April 3, & p. m., “The Land of the Castanet.” Spaim; Friday, April 6 3 p. m. “Under Tur- | quoise Skies,” Riviera; Tuesday, April 10,8 p. m. “The Quéen City,” Paris; Friday, -Avoril 13, 8 p..m., “Turrets, Towers and Spires,” Brittany and Nor- mandy.- TS The Golden Gate Kindergartem will present Miiss Marie L. Shedlock in a reading of Hans Christian Andersen’s tales on March § at Century Hall. the ‘proceeds to revert to the kindergarten, .| whieh Is directed by several of our prominent society women. ——————————r ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SALARIES—S. E. A., Grass Valley, Cal. Mining Bureau, Unien Ferry bullding, San Francisco, Cal. . ‘GROUND MOLES-J. B., Haywards, Cal. There is ne better way to destroy = ground moles than to use traps spectally made to catch them or to use mole poison. Such can be obtained from seed dealers. COSTA RICA—J. G, Vallejo, Cal. In Costa Rica, "Argentipe republic, Charles \