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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19
FACTS FOR eacHELoRs.

Some curious figures have lately been
made public by a celebrated Berlin
physician which seem to point to the
fact that If a man wants to live long
and preserve his health and strength
he ought to marry. These figures may,
perhaps, serve to make up the unde-
cided minds of young men who are
hesitating about taking the plunge
into matrimOny.
Among unmarried men between the
ages of 80 and IS the death rate is q
per cent. Among married men be-
tween the same ages it is only 18 per
cent. For forty-one bachelors who live
to be 40 years of age seventy eight
married men triumphantly arrive at
the same period. The difference gets
all the more marked as time goes on.
AT so years of age there are only %
bachelors to 4S married men; at 70
there are IL bachelors to q who are
married, and by the time they reach 90
the married men are to 1, for there
are of them to every bachelors. And
yet, in the face of facts like these, we
still find men daring to remain single.
1t really is as much as their lives are
worth if they only came to think of it.
Men may talk of their lives being
shortened by domestic worries and
anXieties and cares. That is all rub
Dish. Statistics must tell the truth,
and these statistics of the Berlin doc
tor say that the man who is a bache-
lor stands in far greater risk of a
shortened span. OF course any wife
can tell you she knows where the Sc
cret lies.
Men who have somebody to look
after them, to feed them properly and
see that they change their wet boots
and come home at night at reasonable
hours-these are the men who keep
easily well and live long
The miserable bachelor who has no
one to care whether he lives on burned
mutton chops and sleeps in damn
sheets, whether he leaves his top coat
at home when he has the influenza or
gets Overheated at cricket and then
lies full length on the wet grass-this
is the man who defrauds the insurance
offices and goes down to an untimely
grave.
He may not sleep any the better for
having a widows tears to bedew the
daisies above his final resting place, but
at least he will not have quilted the
world ''unwept, unhonored and unsung."
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Value Of The Nicaragua Canal
to the Pacific Coast

of trade. This increase in certain
classes of land will be so pronounced
that it may amount to so per cent or 100
per cent of present values.
Perhaps the most immediate and sat-
isfactory accretion will come to the
timber lands of the State, especially the
redwood lands, every acre of which
will be made suddenly available for
profitable numbering. Wheat lands
would properly be enhanced from ten
to twenty times the amount that could
be saved in transporting the product
of an acre to Liverpool. The value of
pastures might not be increased by so
noticeable an amount per acre, but the
percentage of appreciation would quite
likely be higher in consequence of the
facilities that would be afforded for
the shipment of cattle and meats di-
rect to European markets and the
economies effected in marketing the
wool produced on the coast. The ap-
probation would certainly be sufficient
to remove all danger of early forfeit
ure to the membranes acquired by
past miSfortunes. Because of the high
value of fruit lands, the direct effect Of
the operation of the canal may not add
so large per cent of value, but the ac-
tual increase in acre value is likely to
be much greater than in the other
classes.
The census of 1890 reported 1884
farms in California with a total area
of 21,427, 293 acres, of which 1929. S37
acres were under cultivation The value
of this agricultural realty was estimat-
ed at $697, 1860, and the annual pro-
ducts were valued at over $S7, OOO. 600.
This would indicate that the gross re-
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# HE poular sentiment in favor of
the Nicaragua Canal has largely
resulted from agitation proceed
ing from the Pacific Coast, especially
from California, where public opinion
has for several years been practically
unanimous in favor of its construction.
There are easily understood reasons
why the people of California should be
the first to grasp the full Importance of
this great enterprise and continue adj
vocating it with unfagging zeal and
energy, when large districts of the
East, though destined to share equally
in its benefits, are apparently indiffer-
ent. The Californian has more at
stake. He is thousands of miles far
Their from the great markets of the
world. He is larger producer than
any other inhabitant of the whole
country. The stirring conditions of
life have taught him to look for new
channels of operation and to constant
ly seek new markets. He has come in
closer touch with the gigantic energies
of a rapid civilization. He has famil-
iarized himself with the necessity. in
engineering ventures, of expanding
large amounts in order to bring about
large results. But chiefly his jealous
interest in this project is traceable to
the fact that the staple productions of
the State are of such a bulky nature
that the mountain barriers and long
distances will not permit of their eco
nomical transportation by land.
believe that the first direct result
Of the construction of the Nicaragua
Canal will be marked increase in the
value of all productive real property in
the State. The first fruit will even
come before the canal is completed.
AS soon as the Government has guar
anteed its construction, capital is
bound to discount time, anticipate the
increased dividends resulting from the
use of the waterway, and invest in all
available property promising advan-
tages in consequence of the new route
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The completion of the Nicaragua
Canal would Immediately energize
every port, roadstead and trade center
on the coast and the interior water
ways of California. The activities that
would be set in motion at these points
are Unreasonable. The impetus would
not only be felt in shipping and COM
mercial circles, but the ship-building
industry would be stimulated to a de-
gree never before known at any Doint
on the Pacific Ocean. These results ara
inevitable and must be admitted by all
who have made a study of the tremen-
dous energies that will be induced by
the canal. Every port on the coast will
become in fact an Quitting point, and
also way station in the great traffic.
/ am prohibited by the limited scope
OF this article from considering in de-
tail the benefits that the opening of
the canal would bring to special pro-
ducers. The shortening of a waterway
by 10000 miles is of such mighty con-
sequence that the wheat growers of the
San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys
do not have to be reminded again of
their direct interest in the ENTERPRISE
The lumbermen who have experiment.
ed in sending cargoes around the Horn
to Africa and Europe. to Boston and
to Buenos Ayres. have so long been
clamoring for the canal to enable then,
TO reach the markets of the east that
II is only mockery to explain to them
The certain benefits accruine there
from. Wool growers, leather nanufac-
turers, fruit associations and producers
OF all imperishable goods, are too fo
miliar with the economies of wa+er
transportation to doubt the beneets -
be derived from the canal. In the conn
ty of San Joaquin stand seven imnort-
ant factories that are sending goods to
Eastern points that can be reached bv
water, but which are now Skinned nv
ran because the voyage around the
morn consumes too much time.
While the events of the past few
months have made it almost impera-
1--WE that the nation should hasten the
construction of the canal for strateeic
reasons, and that access may be had
to the commerce of the Pacific il ;s
sun true that the benefits that tha
completed canal would immediataI,,
bring to California and its peonIe viii
fully balance the entire cost of +be
great enterprise.
7 M EDnv Vi
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THE WORLDS BUDDHIsTs.

1t will be surprising to many to know
the vast number of Buddhists there are
in the world. 1t is the chief religion of
Siam, Burmah, Japan, Corea, and it
has millions of followers in China and
India.
There are in Japan $4,000 Buddhist
temples, and in the city of Kioto there
are $500 temples which are devoted to
this religion. Some of the most gor-
geous temples Of the world are the
wonderful structures in which Buddha
is worshiped at Bangkok in Siam. AT
Rangoon, in Burmah, there is a famous
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turns from agriculture in the State are
annually about 1917 per cent of the
value of the farming lands. 1t would
be- l think, a very moderate estimate
to compute 10 per cent of the value of
agricultural realities as the immediate
accretion to be expected as a result of
the completion of the canal. But in
order that we may be well within the
margin of certainties, 1 will venture
only the positive statement that agri-
cultural properties will be increased 5
per cent in value. Computing this on
the estimate made by the census au-
thorities nearly eight years ago, Cali
fornia is assured of the enormous lump
benefit to the chief producing class of
$34, S55. S31 So AS this increase in value
is derived entirely from the enhanced
value of the farm products then it is
apparent that the value of the annual
output would be increased between
four and five million dollars.
If we turn to a consideration of the
accretion of value to timber lands, still
more marked results are obtained In
the counties of Humboldt, Mendocino
and Del Norte are still standing at
least rs, 900, 900 feet of merchantable
redwood. Five years ago a prominent
lumber manufacturer of Humboldt
County said to me: Were we merely
assured of the construction of the Nj
caragua Canal before the end of the
century, it would add one dollar TO
the stumpage value of every thousand
feet of redwood standing in this coun-
ty''
do not consider that a wild state
ment, and few will dispute that the
construction of the canal will add at
least 25 cents to the value of every
thousand feet of redwood now stand
ing. Computed at this modest fieure
it would give the enormous sum Of
$1S,75O,0OO as the enhancement in the
redwood lands of three counties.
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%HY is so much business of
the interior diverted from
San Francisco? This is
w question which puzzles and
troubles every merchant
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-22
THEY WANT 1T FREE.

Citizens of Atchison Bring Suit To Test the
Value OF Alleged Watered Stock.
TOPEKA, Kan. Oct. 20.-ProceedingS
in quo warranto were instituted in the
supreme court yesterday to aunul the
charter of the Chicago II Atchison
Bridge company and declare the bridge
across the Missouri river at Atchison
public bridge for all except railroad
purposes. The proceeding is brought
in the name of the state on the rela-
ton of l.. c. Boyle. attorney general,
but the real fight will be made by the
city of Atchison. When the bridge
was built the company issued stock to
the amount of S., 900, 900. of which the
city of Atchison took 100000, giving
its bonds, worth par, for it. The COM
pany also issued $1,000 900 bonds. but
afterward Cancelled $500, 900. 1t is al
legged now that the bridge cost only
$500. 1000 and the Atchison people con-
tend that the city is the only bona fde
stock holder connected with the trans
action.
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MURDER POSTPONED.
A Prospective Case for the Coroner
But Nobody Died.

Dut NoDOuy
Two fashy colored boys stood in the hot
sun in front of the railway eating house and
looked at each other with their eyes rolled
sideways. Look hyah, you piece o dahlS
meat, | got some bonehandled trouble in
my pocket waitin' faw you if you even come
round that baby tryin' to undamine me!'
SLOW up, boy! You's on slippey road,
an if you don't drive caihful you going to
fall right in dat ditch, fus thing you knows"
Don't get me stahted, coon! Don't rouse
ME. l wouldn't like to do it, but could
jus lay hold of yo' dahk body and cut it
up into rubbah balls. l amt used dat razah
faw whole week now, an it's gettin' I'M
easy. can feel it movin' in my pocket an
sayn': 'Mistah, let me get out. an do
someping."
Look heah, you bettah sing dat razah to
SLEEP, 'kase you evan reach faw it you jes' see
whole atmosphere full O niggah wool.
striped shirt, and blue cloze. Yes, sch, YOU
have to be geth'd up in basket. l got
piece o shiny hadwaih in my pocket, an
it sings sweet an low, and ev'y time it
speaks to You it hans you pound O lead.
Look out faw me, boy!"
Hush, coon, l really love trouble"
Don't staht nothin' less you want to
lose money faw yo' folks. Costs money to
plant a coon. yes, sch. You don't get dem
sivah-handled boxes faw nothin', no, sch.
Got any o dem papah cigahs, Henry"
Henry reached for his package of cigar
cites, and the traveller, who had been wait
ing to see murder done, gave an exclamation
OF disgust and walked into the railway sta
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RAGPICKERS OUT.
Refusal to Recognize the Union Causes
5000 to Quit Work.
WHAT A HIGH DIVER DID.
Il. p. Sheedy Jumps on the Louisville
Bridge, n Distance of 1OS Feet-No
Big Beer War for Chicago-Ag-
Gravated by Saloon Crimes-

New YORK, Oct. 20.-The latest and
most novel development in the contin-
uous series of labor troubles on the
east side is the strike of 5000 ragpick-
ers in the employ of Kaplan Il Gross
man. The cause of the trouble is a
demand for higher wages aud the re-
fusal of the firm to recognize the forma-
ton of a union. Five thousand more
threaten to follow suit.
What a High Diver Did.
LOUISVILLE. Nv. Oct. COX. Z.
Sheedy. the high diver. leaped from
the Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge
into the Ohio river this morning, a
distance of los feet He made the jump
at the request of a number of friends.
He was not injured in the least and.
when pulled into boat that was wait
ing. said that he would leap from the
tallest tower on the bridge Saturday.
He did not go under water more than
three feet.
No Zig Beer War for Chicago.
CHICAGO. Oct. 2O.-The Chicago and
Milwaukee Brewers association has
decided that the so-called pool. the ex-
istence of which was endangered.
would be maintained for the present
and the price of beer would not be al
lowed to go any lower than 81 bar
rel.
Aggravated by Saloon Crimes.
ST. Louis, Oct. 20. Aggravated by
the number of crimes committed in
saloons on Sunday. Col. johnson. pro-
scouting attorney, has notified the po-
lice department to arrest all saloon.
keepers who open their places to sell
Intoxicating liquor on the Sabbath.
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How to Make Ten.

More than half the Tea consumed in the
United States and Canada is of Japanese
growth, yet, the majority of Americans APP
parently do not understand how to prepare
it SO as to develop the delicious qualities
which it contains. The Japanese Govern
ment has appropriated large fund to aid
the Japanese Tea growers and Tea mer-
chants in prosecuting this educational work,
and it is hoped that American ladies will
be apt students. The main Bureau of the
Japanese Tea Guild has issued an official
recipe for making japanese Tea, the transla-
ton of which is as follows:
First.-Use small, dry and thoroughly
clean porcelain teapot
Second.-Put in one teaspoonful of tea
leaves for each cup of tea desired
Third.-When using japanese teas, pour
on the required quantity of fresh boiled wa
ter, and let stand with closed lid from =
to 3 minutes. Never boil the leaves. In
order to retain the natural flavor, japanese
tea leaves should be kept in tight can OF
jar. free from moisture.
Note.-To thoroughly enjoy the natural,
delicate and sweet flavor of japanese Teas,
neither sugar nor cream should be used.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-22

CONNECTICUT has just adopted, by a
ballot of its citizens, one of the most
sweeping constitutional provisions yet
framed against illiterate voters. The
amendment to the state constitution
received an immense majority, more
than nine-tenths of the voters giving
it their approval. The amendment
provides that Every person shall be
able to read in the English language
any article of the constitution or any
section of the statutes of this state be-
fore being admitted an elector.''
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THE outbreak of yellow fever in the
south and the serious interference with
business calls attention to the need for
national quarantine regulations. The
health authorities of the Gulf and Mis-
sissippi valley states have at times
agreed to act in concert in all matters
of coast quarantine, and to report each
to all the others every case of con-
tagious and infectious disease in their
several jurisdictions. But" comments
the New Orleans Picayune, 1.-The greed
of human nature and the keen compe-
titions of business operate against the
thoroughness of the measures taken
for the general 'afety."
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-22

DURING the short time the arbitra-
ton law has been in operation in New
Zealand it appears to have worked
we'll. Under the act in question the
colony is divided into districts. A
board of Cancellation composed of an
equal number of workmen and en-
ployers can be constituted in any dis
trict, and over this is a special central
tribunal, which possesses appellate
functions, and whose decision is final.
The penalty for the non-observance of
the award is limited to s., 500. Nc
strike or lockout has occurred since
the act has been in operation. Trades
unions can sue and be sued.
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Beware of Ointments for ca tarrh
That Contain Mercury,

As mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do is
often ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co, Toledo,
O., contains no mercury, and is taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen
uine. 1t is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. j. Cheney & Co. Testi
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 15c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Bloody Street Fight in Ke.A,cky.

LAwRENCEBURG, KY, Oct. 2O.-Purvis
McGaughey was shot in the head and
Burt Hayes had his skull crushed here
yesterday afternoon in a street battle
between the former and the latter, as
sisted by four brothers and an uncle
The trouble arose over so cents in a
game of cards. The town was crowd
ed. and much bloodshed was imminent
at one time. All but the injured were
lodged in Jail. Burt Hayes is in n dan
gerous condition. McGaughey VIII
probably recover.
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THE Chicago Tribune complains that
criminals are growing holder. 1t cites
numerous instances of stage and train
robberies in California, in spite of the
fact that highway robbery is a capital
crime in that state. AS to Chicago,
the Tribune declared that hardly a
day passed without its atrocious crimes,
like that recent one in which a woman
was assaulted and robbed in street
car. "All over the country" the COM
plant goes on, 'crime declines to yield
to the softening influences of civiliza-
ton"
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DIR. KELLOGG, at the Civic Philan-
'thropic conference at Battle Creek,
Mich, recently said: "Notwithstand-
ing our marvellous accumulation of
wealth and wisdom, we are certainly
going down physically toward race ex-
tinction. This assertion will doubtless
appear reckless in face of the we'll
known fact that the average length of
human life has been doubled within
the last two centuries. The true meas
ure of vital endurance is not the aver
age longevity, however, but the num-
Der of individuals per thousand or
million who attain great age"
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WANT GREENBACKs RETIRED.

The Monetary Com mission Decides on the
Abandonment of Treasury Notes.
WASHINGTON, Oct. e6.-During last
week considerable progress was made
by the national monetary commission
here in disposing of some of the smaller
questions preliminary to getting to
work upon the body of the report No
conclusions have been reached on any
of the larger questions. save that it is
nearly certain that the commission will
recommend the retirement of green
backs; but the manner of their retire
ment is entirely in the air.
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AN enthusiastic church member of
Philadelphia has just contributed 81 to
the church on his birthday, pledging
himself to double the amount on each
anniversary of his birth for the rest of
his life. If he keeps his pledge and
lives long enough the church will have
plenty of money, for the amount of his
offering on his birthday 25 years hence
will be something over SIG, 900, 600.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-22

THE invention and proposed applica-
ton of a new missile called 1.-The infer.
nal bullet" will certainly add another
terror to war. The latest death dealer
is a projectile intended for the rifle,
and so constructed that it enters the
human body as die cutter into steel.
As it cuts its way into the opposing
flesh it broadens and expands, produc-
ing a wound that no surgeons skill
can heal. Rival military authorities
of Europe have raised the question as
to the admissibility of the new bullet
into the uses of modern warfare. 1t
is seriously regarded by some as bar.
barous and unfair accessory.
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THERE are go modern steamships fit
for cruising now available by the
United States navy in case of war, ex-
elusive of regular war vessels building
or in commission, and there are rapid
fire guns enough to equip Is of them
within week.
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ABOUT % men and women in Boston
are trying to establish a branch of the
English Legitimation league there
The object of the league is practically
to abolish the marriage ceremony and
substitute for it contract dissolub BILE
at will by which the man and woman
shall agree to live together as husband
and wife and to recognize as legiti-
mate any children that may be born
of the union.
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XVII.

Lieutenant there's no use trying.
We're only twenty, and there must be
two hundred of 'em. They've got that
stage losd long before now, escort and
ell. The whole things over with. If
there were any women 'twould be diff
ferent; eSery man of us would go then
to try to rescue them; but there were
only men. I'm as sorry for Col. Sweet
as you can be; but we can get his body
when the Indians have gone. We can't
afford to lose any more of our people"
The speaker was the captain of
party of Texas frontiersmen-range
they were afterwards called, when
their organization was more complete:
but these were the days when the Lone
Star state was uninvaded by railways
and when to its very heart-far as the
capital - the savage Kiowas and
Comanches often raided in full force,
ravaging the scattered settlements far
and wide. Lieut.. Lambert, his duty fin
ished with his testimony in the case of
the deserter Riggs, had obtained permits
sion to delay his return few days and
taken stage to Lampasas, where Floyd
Walton was stationed with his troop.
Lambert would not willingly return
without seeing him and delivering in
person the little packages SO hurriedly
prepared 1t the new home. Then. too,