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The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
Her Rating.

He was an elderly son of the Emer-
aid Isle who entered the Office Of the
Board Of Supervisors and, addressing
Chief Assistant Clerk John Behan, re-
quested permission to look at the as
sessment books. Behan informed him
that the books had been closed by the
Board Of Equalization on Monday after
acting on all applications for reduc-
tions.
The Irishman appeared disappointed
and then asked Behan to procure for
him the assessment figures on property
owned by a certain Mrs. McFadden,
and Behan volunteered to obtain
the data Behan then looked the
matter up and found that Mrs.
McFadden was assessed as fol-
lows: Real estate $4,000, Improvements
S21OO, with a mortgage of $500 on the
property. Behan duly conveyed the in
formation to his inquirer, who thanked
him in these words:
Il am very much obliged to ye
young man. Ye see. it wasn't for me-
self 1 was asking. I just wanted to
know how much Mrs. McFadden was
mortgaged for-her that puts on so
many airs with her neighbors." And
the Hibernian softly chuckled as he
took himself off.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
Do Beasts Think?

In Harper's Magazine for August
John Burroughs effectually disposes
of the idea that any of the lower
animals is capable of thought. After
recounting many interesting tests. he
says:
s.Animals have keen perceptions
keener in many respects than our own
but they form no conceptions, have
no powers of comparing one thing
with another. They live entirely in
and through their senses. To all
that inner world of reflection, imagfn-
alton, comparison, reason, they are
strangers. They never return upon
themselves in thought. They have
sense memory, sense intelligence,
and they profit in many ways by ex-
perienceSbut they have not soul mem
ory or rational intelligence. All the
fundamental emotions and appetites
men and the lower animals share in
common, such as fear, anger, love
hunger, jealousy, cunning, pride, curl
osity, play; but the world of thought
and thought experience. and the emo
tions that go with it, belongs to man
alone.
II ID do II AAAC PoI IOAAC WOIlu were
divided into two planes, one above
the other-the plane of sense and the
plane of spirit. In the plane of sense
live the lower animals, only now and
then just breaking for moment, into
the higher plane. In the world of
sense man is immersed also; this is
his start and foundation; but he rises
kpto the plane Of spirit and here lives
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
GROWTH OF VALUES.

IT. HERE is general advance IN values in California
counties estimated by the county Assessors
While all the returns are not in enough are avail
able for the year 1904 show the growing prosperity
the State When all the Assessors are in hand
they will make a collective showing that could be used
with advantage outside of California inform inouirers
concerning actual conditions. In the mountain and val
ley counties alike the Assessors find that there is
taxable property than there year ago.
In Siskyou County, for instance there advance in
the assessment roll of $I,I5oooo compared with the
roll for 1903 The increase in the total for Marin County
is $Io73o5o making total of $I3,oo4435 The value OF
Alameda Counys property of all kinds is placed for as
purposes $Io824o4o3; Oakland is assessed
for $524o4oSI Berkeley for $I2,3o8,486; Alameda for
$22327oo The increase in the total value of
Alameda County is $3,SS46oo, and to this should be
added least $2oooooo to represent the amount
deducted from the Contra Costa Water Company's as
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

sessment. San Benito County shows an increase of
$4,000 compared with 1908, and total value of
$6,26I,885.
Yolo County has increased in taxable property $s45-
6o2 year, and its total is S52ooI62 Placer County
is $226ooo; Nevada County's $5zo1o Stans-
laus Countys $I,4o2o3o, with valuation for 1904
of $I4287o52 The very large advance in Stanslaus is
due principally to the enhancing value of irrigated dis
trcts. The west side and border grain lands
reduced for The increase in real
to $I,2I4o55 in Improvements $Io2oI5 and
in personal property $2o84Io Tehama's
to $oooo2o5, increase of $4,000 from
year. The assessment value of sheep and goats was
reduced in Tehama County Had these animals been
estimated to be worth much they were assessed
1903 the total increase of assessment would
to 100000.
The decrease in Kern County, which amounts to $780,
I63 compared with the preceding ROLL is accounted
for by the fact that the McKtrck branch railway is
assessed locally but by the State board The
ments Kern County oil lands reduced about
I2 per cent and there is also noted decrease in the
assessment of personal property. Modoc County prop
ery has been assessed for $4o2o4 In the county
275 miles of irrgang bitches that assessed $I3
6Io. The increase in Trinity County amounts to $343
8I the total amounting for 1904 to 81 ooI
S43. Mendocino Countys assessment roll is than
$oooooo larger than it last year The total valua
ton of $I57o76 does indicate the real value of the
countys resources for there 400 miles of railway that
assessed on average only 1894 per mile
These are but random notes taken from the
of county Assessors in a few counties. The complete
returns, when they finally summarized, will const
fine official record of the advancement of this
State in all material things in twelve months.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
CeleYity.

George Wesley, a tailor OF Austin.
Texas, makes a speciality OF pressing
mems clothes. He has placed just out
side his store door a liquor barrel,
painted green, and painted in bold.
black letters on the barrel is the fol-
lowing:
For Men
Only.
Stand in Our
Barrel While
We Press Your
Pants
For Is Cents.
Tailor and Cutter.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

The Board of Supervisors has under consideration a
designed to correct of the annoying
that traffic in this city 1t is in
tended force the railroad companies post on their
cars notices telling specifically which side of eyerv
street cars must stop; and any violation of the pro-
posed written regulation will be regarded misde
meanor. Such law would be accepted by citizens as
miracle of good sense and courtesy
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

The Hndoo Prince who has been great pains to
prove his royal lineage to the good people of Oakland
must remain with six months longer prisoner in
the Alameda County Jail, held in penalty for the
romantic and Improbable offense of petty larceny Our
friendly feeling for prncely has effect upon
justice, which is blind Prince and pauper alike.
Our only treasures that Princes may steal from with
out prosecution are our ambitious girls
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

The Health Board has risen to the dignity of great
occasion and has resisted emphaticay any inter
ference proposed by the Board of Supervisors as
edy to various and picturesque violations of the civil
service law. The seriousness with which our different
municipal departments discuss the farce comedy of local
civil service has ceased to be joke An hour of
candid discussion would show that civil service has been
dead long enough to deserve decent burial
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

The gentle art of pursuing and furnishing bribers and
corrupters of public morals being practiced with
summate skill and commendable energy in ST Louis.
Several offenders have recently been brought to book
and oficadom in the exposition city is agitated by
serious prospect of exposures yet come Let the good
work go 1t is highly purifying St Louis and by
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
MEN ananMAa1EERS IN
THE E3R.z tie WORLD

lies. It's perhaps most popular feature
are reproductions Of the cartoons of
Charles Dana Gibson, who is almost
as well known here as at home.
HAYDEN CHURCH.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

Thieves and officers of the law fought pitched battle
the other night in Oakland and the marauders were
driven from the of prospective punder disorder
The incident is exceptional instance of the oolhard-
of evil doers, most of whom have good to
know that Oakland is of the unheathest towns in
the United States for them in which attempt ply
their trade.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
Sunday in Team.

The sun is misty yellow and the sky is
haZy blue,
And the chime-bells ring out quantity,
Near and deeply, fair and family,
Each one following it's fellow in an echo
clear and true.
Through the streets, clean-swept for
leisure,
Many feet make haste toward pleasure.
And the sound is as the rustling of the
leaves in paths we knew.
How 1 wish l were a-walking in the
autumn woods with you!
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

Special information supplied daily 20
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). $50 Ca
horn1a street. Telephone Main 1ak2. .
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

his proper life. He Is emancipated
from sense in way that beasts are
not
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

Townsend's California Glacs fruits IN
artistic fre-etched boxes. us Market se. :
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

Oh, the fragrance of the hollows that the
little brooks ran through!
oh. the scarlet naples burning
Like a torch at every turning.
On the way my spirit follows in dream
forever new
Where from quiet, distant meadows.
Dim beneath the mountain shadows,
Came the clank of swinging cOw-bells
down the sOftest wind that blew.
Oh, 1 wish l were a-Walking in the
autumn woods with you'll
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

MISSOURI SCHOOL OF MINES
H L., Dedrick, Trinity County. cal.
The name Of Missouri School Of
Mines does not appear in the list
of universities. colleges, schools, etc.
in the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

SIEGE-Reader. Santa Cru8: Cal.
In war a siege is the setting of an
army around or before a fortified place
for the purpose Of compelling the gar
risOn to surrender; it is also surround
ing or investing of a place by an army
and approaching it by passages and
advance works which cover the be-
siegers from the enemy's fire. Hence
a continued attempt to gain posses
sion Of a place is siege. 1t is proper
to class the attempt Of the Japanese
to gain possession OF Port Arthur a
siege.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
AnS7CerS to Queries.

THE LAUNCHING c. r., City.
The armOred cruiser South Dakota viii
be LAUNCHED at high tide. July 21. from
the UAicn Iron Works, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

MARRIED NAME-A Subscriber,
City. If you married a man, who from
the age Of twelve years was known to
all as Smith. but whose real name
was Fay, and he is now dead and the
limit of widowhOod having passed. you
wish to marry again you viii have to
give the name of Smith. The marriage
according to the statement in the letter
Of inquiry, was a legal one. You mar
ried the man, not the name, but in
marrying him you assumed the name
by which he was known. You cannot
be known by your maiden name
again. legally, unless. by a court, you
are authorized to take such name
TO MANILA-Reader, City. During
the Spanish-American war Of 1898 in
order to send a message from San
Francisco by telegraph to Manila, p
l., it had to go by the following route:
San Francisco to New York by land:
to vaIentia. Ireland. by cable: to
Brighton, Eng, cable and land; to
Havre. France, cable; to MarseiIles. by
land; to Alexandria, Egypt, by cable;
to Suez, Egypt, by land: to Alden,
Arabia, by cable; to Bombay. India. by
CABLE to Madras by land: to sing
apOre, by cable; to Saigon, Cochin.
China, by cable, to HOngkong by
cable; to BolianO, p l., by cable; to
Manila, Island Of Luzon, by land, max
ing wire distance of 1900 miles.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

INDIAN CLAIM-Subscriber. Shar-
on, Cal A person having a claim for
services as Indian agent a long time
ago, should present such claim to the
Congressman of the district IN which
he lives, or send the same to the Board
of Indian Commissioners, Washington.
D. G. Either win advise as to whether
the claim is Of any value.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

We have had our fill of rowing where
spring blossoms bound the view.
We have played in young ROmances,
Danced the nymph and shepherd
dances;
Now the summer of our loving glOws and
thrObS about us, too.
In our eye the light yet vernal,
In our hearts the fire eternal,
And when time has touched the branches
and our rose-leaf days are few.
Oh, it's then I'd still be walking in life's
autumn woods with you.
Caroline Duer, in the August ScTib-
ner's.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

WESTWARD THE COURSE-sub-
scriber. City. In the poem, "On the
Prospect of Planting Art and Learning
in America written by Bishop Ber-
kelley. an English philosopher. in the
first half Of the eighteenth century, is
the line.
Westward the course Of empire
takes it's way"
George Bancroft's epigraph to Ban
croft's History of the United States has
it:
Westward the star OF empire takes
it's way"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15
WHAT'S THE USE
TO Keep a "coffee Complexion"

To Keep a "CoHee Complexion"
A lady says: Postum has helped
my complexion SO much that my
friends say l am growing young again.
My complexion used to be coffee col
ored, muddy and yellow but it is now
clear and rosy as when I was a girl.
! was induced to try Postum by .
friend who had suffered just as had
suffered from terrible indigestion, pal
p'tation of the heart and sinking
spells. .....
After l had used Postum a week
I was so much better that | was
afraid it would not last. But now
two years have passed and ! am a
well woman. / owe it all to leaving
of coffee and drinking Postum in its
place.
81 had drank coffee all my life.
suspected that it was the cause of my
trouble, but it was not until l actually
quit coffee and started to try Postum
that | became certain; then all my
troubles ceased and l am now we'll
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by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. ~. 49,.
Look in each package for copy of
the famous little book "Tha Road to
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15
JAPANESE KILLED BY MINE.
Entire Column Of 700 Men Said to
Havo Been AnnlhlIated.

Che Foo, Sept. "a Japanese col
ann numbering approximately 700
men, while marching along at night
Hill and Division Hill, met frightful
disaster through the explosion Of an
electric land mine, September /.
The mine was carefully laid by the
Russians three weeks ago. 1t covered
nearly a mile of available marching
space. The explosive was placed at
the bottom. Rocks were placed next,
and on top of these clay was packed
80 carefully that the ground gave the
impression of not having been dis
turbed. The indications of Japanese
activity In this vicinity put the Rus
SLAMS on guard. Near midnight the
outposts rushed in and reported that
the Japanese were approaching. The
Russians withheld their fire for some
time. Suddenly they threw a search
light up the valley. The Japanese
opened with a rife fire. The Rus
slams waited until apparently the
whole Japanese column was in dan
ger zone. Then the mine was ex-
plodeG.
The force Of the explosion Knocked
a number Of Russians down and the
sight of Japanese rifles, water bot
ties, legs and arms hurting through
the lighted space made by a search
light was an aYful spectacle. Some
rocks landed inside the Russian lines.
There was one appalling moment
during which the garrison itself was
stunned, then a death like silence.
The searchlight coldly lighted up the
road and hillsides strewn with dead.
The following day the Russians
buried the dead, but owing to their
dismembered and mutilated condition,
the Russians were unable to accurate
ly estimate the number Of killed. A
Jew Japanese escaped.
The foregoing information Is con.
tanned in a small sheet issued Sep
tember by the Port Arthur Novakra,
& breakage in the press having made
I impossible to issue full edition.
A Chinese arriving at midnight
confirms the above to the extent OF
saying that be heard a report that
many Japanese had been killed by
mine but he did not learn the details.
On the nights of August 26 and u a
similar disaster befell the Japanese
lear rodut number 2, 1t Is reported,
out no details have been ascertained.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15
BALTIC FLEET
WEIGHS ANCHOR
Formidable Russian Squadron
Leaves for the Far
Ill.,. East.
HAS ALMOST FORTY PeNNONS
Gear in Person Witnesses Departure
From Cronstadt--Powerful FlotilIA
Which it is Hoped VIII Change Rus.
sian Fortunes On the Sea is OF.

Madrid, Sept. 12.-The Heraldo
says that Great Britain has protested
against Spain for having acceded TO
the request Of France to permit tho
Russian Baltic feet to coal and Wet
ual and remain at Corunna for
longer period than that permitted by
international law.
Cronstadt, Sept. 1.-THE Baltic
feet yesterday sailed for the far east.
The vessels of the fleet are as fol.
lows:
The battleships Souvaroff, Vice Ad'
miral Rojestvensky's flagship; the
Navarin, Sissoi, Veilky, Borodino,
Alexander, ILL.,, Orel, Oleg, and Osli.
aba, Rear Admiral Voelkersam's flag.
ship; cruisers Admiral Nakimoff,
Dmitri Donskoi, Aurora and Almaz,
Rear Admiral Enquist's flagship, and
several torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 1.-THE de-
parture of the Baltic fleet for the far
east is officially announced.
Admiral Birileff, commander of the
naval forces at Cronstadt, will accom-.
pany the fleet as far as Libau, whence
this modern armada of almost forty
pennants will sail Immediately fo1
the Orient.
The admiralty does not say how
long Admiral Rojestvensky will stay
at Libau, but 1t Is understood it will
be only for few days.
The plan of the cruise has not been
divulged, but it has been carefully
mapped out. Golfers accompany the
fleet for the purpose of supplying tho
torpedo boats and torpedo boat de-
stroyers whose steaming radius Ia
small. Other GOLFERS have already
sailed or are awaiting orders at for.
eign ports to meet the squadron on
the way. All the vessels are equipped
with apparatus for coaling at sea.
The general opinion is that the yes
sells will go by way of Suez, but some
rumors say that the cape route will
be taken.
The decision of the admiralty to
send out the feet In the face of the
existing situation in the far east Is
evidence Of the temper Of the govern
ment to prosecute the war to finish
1t is understood that there was con
siderable divergence of opinion on the
question Of delaying the sailing Of the
feet until the spring, but the czar
turned the scale in favor of imme
date departure.
The car will leave about Septem
Der IS for Kishinev and Odessa tc
bid farewell to the Eighth army corps
The First army corps has arrived
at Mukden.
At meeting of the cars military
| advisers on Saturday War Minister
| Sakharoff recommended the SENDING
! of an additional $4,000 men to the
| far east.
The brief report from General Ku
| ropatkin, which was given out Sun
day. constitutes the latest news from
| the front. The place at which the
dispatch was field is not indicated
but the report seems to show an nj
most entire suspension of active
! operations on both sides.
The few news dispatches driftine
In all refer to phases Of the las
weeks fighting, which are alread!
known
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15

Every housekeeper should know
that II they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time. because 1t
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up In A-pound pack
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Starch Is free from all injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you a
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He knows that Defiance Starch has
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ters and figures 10 ozs." Demand
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15

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During the four years since / stopped
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15
kURoPATkIN ARRIVES SAFELY.
Japanese Abandoned Attempt to Head
Him or On Wednesday.

MIN UT On wednesday.
st. Petersburg, Sept lit seems
to be definitely established that
Field Marshal Oyama's tired troops
practically abandoned on Wednesday
the attempt to head off General Kuro-
patkin and the latter's army has safe
~ arrived at Mukden after frightful
experiences in foundering through
mud and mire over the Mandarin road
. Some descriptions Of the scenes
tlong the line of retreat are almost
Incredible. They tell how the men
ay down In the mud and slept in a
irenching rain and without shelter.
1t Is evident that the last deter
mined effort of the Japanese to bring
kuropatkin to bay was made on Tues
lay, but the Russian commander-in-
chief faced about and with two corps
,f artillery beat off the Japanese while
he remainder of the troops continued
he march to Mukden. After that
the Japanese could only hang onto
the tanks and try to shell the re-
Teating column from tho hills.
Tho outposts arc still in contact,
but they are not even exchanging
shots.
A late Associated Press dispatch
sent from Mukden describes the hor.
iible plight OF the tentless and shell
terlesg soldiers.
The detailed statement Of Russian
losses which it Is promised will be is
sued today is awaited with intense in
terest. The general expectation Is
that the losses will approximate 20
600 as against 10000 for the Japanese
Tho work of burying the dead was
left to the Japanese, who were forced
to attempt the task as a matter OF
self-preservaionl but 1t was almost
impossible. The awful rains have
handicapped the work of cremation
on which the Japanese relied and
only shallow trench burials were pos
sible under the circumstances. Not
only is this work one of the greatest
difficulty, but 1t Is almost valueless
from a sanitary point of view, the
storms undoing 1t soon after it is
completed.
The correspondent says that r.
800 wounded had passed through Muk-
len hospitals up to Sunday and only
he most severe cases could be at
ended to by the nurses and surgeons
dany, therefore, had to be left to the
'ough but we'll meant care of their
comrades
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-15

1000 KILLED IN BATTLE.

New York, Sept. 8.-Two thousand
men were killed and four thousand
wounded in the recent three days bat.
tie between the Uruguayan govern
ment forces, and the revolutionists,
according to Herald dispatch from
Buenos Ayres, Argentine, Gen. Vas
quez, minister of war, who led the
government troops Is asserted to have
been driven back abandoning arms
and ammunitions.