The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-16

ment would advise you to call at the Free
Public Library reference ROOM and in
the cyclopedias there read very interest
ing and instructive accounts of these
structures
EXAMINATION AT MARE ISLAND
T. r., San Mateo, Cal A person desiring
to take an examination under civil service
rules for the position of mechanic at the
Mare Island Navy Yard should request
an application blank and information
from the secretary of the Board of La
Dor Employment at that place.
ANTS-G. H. J., City. An easy way to
exterminate ants is to smear a plate with
lard and place it where the insects do
most congregate. The lard will attract
the insects. they being very fond of it.
They will be caught on the lard and when
there are number caught that way hold
the plate over hot stove and the lard
Will run into the fire with the ants and
cremate them. Then prepare the plate
anew.
AN IMPERSONATOR- Subscriber. Sail
mas, CAL If you are possessed of "a fall
setto Voice-mezZo- soprano-some knowI-
edge of music and would make a good
female impersonator," you had better Of
fer your services to some reputable man
ager of a vaudeville theater and if Won
have the gift you claim for yourself You
will be engaged. Before you send your
picture for publication as an impersona-
acknowledged as such.
INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY-G. F. X,
Los Angeles, Cal. If a husband or wife
owned property before marriage, never
made it over as community property the
exclusive ownership rests in the one who
owns 1t. If the party dies without having
made will the property is distributed
according to the law of succession. AS
you do not state what relatives the dece-
dent left 1t is impossible to tell the man
ner of the distribution. This department
refers you to that law, which is quite
lengthy.
PERSONAL PROPERTY p, City.
Personal property is not exempt from
taxation in the State of California. The
constitution of the State says: "All prop
erty in this State not exempt under the
laws of the United States shall be taxed
in proportion to it's value provided that
a pp99pe eres used for free public libraries
erty used exclusively for public schools
and such as may belong to the United
municipal as eo 21are or to any eounty or
shall be exempt from taxation
PERFUMES-E. p A, City. Perfumes
are extracted from flowers by enf1eurage.
absorption or masceraton, from the roots
by tturation, and from the seeds by dis
tllauon. The process is divided into
four distinct operations, viz: a. Expres-
SION, ~ distillation, go masceration, and
(G absorption. At the Free Public Ii
brary you will find books that will give
you lnformatio as to the application of
these methods for the extraction of the
ouor , from the tuberose and other flow
ers. This department has not the space
to give the several processes.
EASTERN ADEPTS-G. E., Pacheco,
Cal. This correspondent asks a number
OF questions in relation to the power of
the Eastern
principally in the north of India and Thi-
bet, who, to establish beyond the shadow
OF doubt that man possesses a soul,
separate 1t from the body and rejoin 1t
at viii, and so forth. The questions were
submitted to one who has made close
study Oh the matter and his reply is:
These questions call for the expression of an
Individual opinion, since they concern matters
mat in the Western world at least do not
come under the head of exact science Before
exact science admitted the rotundity of the
earth any statement whatever upon the sub
ject could have been considered merely an opin-
ION so 1t is to-day with these subtler forces
OF nature The Theosophists, who affirm as
proven hypothesis these occult forces so en-
tertalningly described by A Conan Doyle and
other writers, disclaim either authority or d.
vine revelation for their doctrines and insist
that each individual only prove or disprove
them for himself and for himself alone.
there are extant many Well authenticated
accounts of the Adopts and Yogis of India and
Thibet and their remarkable knowledge of
natural forces, but there are also many who
dlscredit them From the standpolnt OF the
Theosophist all the questions asked should be
answered in the affirmative. The materialists
declare them all moonshine or imaginative.
The agnostics decline to answer However, one
of the greatest of agnostcs. Huxley once wrote
that 1t reasonable to suppose that there
were beings superior TO men as men to
black beetles In the Eastern PHILOSOPHERS
there are infinite grades beings both
sides of and somewhere along in the
ascent from the ordinary man there must be-
of course. those who can accomplish all the
occult fests referred to in THE Mystery Of
Cloomber." providing only that the Eastern
PHILOSOPHERS are the true ones. and that is a
question that person has right to de-
eide for another.