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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-25
Via sausalito Ferry

SUBURBAN SERVICE. STANDARD GAUGE.
Depart from San Francisco daily at n :O5
I AS. S:25, 9:1O. D 80. II 90 a. m: AS 3.I5
D.
Arrive at San Francisco. daily. at f6:4O
.35 Sis. $50 9.35 1880 a. m: 1 80 2.55
AIS. 5:O5. 5;42. 6;22. 6:57. T.4O and 1872
..
fDaily except Sunday.
For Fairfax daily. at Z AS a. m. also SAT-
urdays at :15 D. m, and daily except Satur-
day and Sunday at 5.15 p M
THROUGH TRAINS.
T:f5 a. m. daily-Cazadero and way stations
S.l5 D. m. Saturdays Only-For CazaderO,
etc.
Sis D. m, daily. except Saturday and sun
day. for Tomales. etc
TICKET OFFICE-6J0 Market ST.
FERRY-Union Depot. foot OF Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-25
AUCTION SALES
Ga II 81
100 100
Horses, Horses, Horses
THIS Day.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 25th
At IL O'Clock al

" E-I1F III md HARRISON STS
BY order Of c. r. suggett and lame. p... -.
Elko. New.
1 l. VII sell 100 head OF CHOICE RANGE,
HORSES. weighing from 0CO 10 400 MS, -.
% head Of this stock is well broker c.
neaVy Doned solid chunks suitable Fo- coD
tractors and any kind * heavy deivs-v
We want intending purchasers to come a,d
examine this stock thoroughly before ne ~
oh SAFE. as II has been a long time since sucL
q cnolce lot OF young horses have been put on
Snis 1 market 70 be forced on to the 5igbest
also have seven head OF CHOICE SOr-ND
1OCNG MULES. The above stock must be
seen 70 be appreciated and must and viii bs
sOld S WATKINS Auctfo,ssr
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-25

Young Ladies' Institute-The annual re-
quiem high mass for deceased members of
the Young Ladies' Institute will be cele-
brated at 9 a. m. in Sacred Heart Church.
Los Angeles. on Saturday, November 26
ELIZABETH c. p. TERRY, Grand Pres.
JOSEPHINE T. MOLLOY, Grand Sec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
The Word "Some,"
the New Orleans Times Democrat.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
lone other word that is overworked is
the word some and I think 1t is about
time to call a halt on the abuse and mis-
use of this useful member" said the OBJ
servant man. I'VE use some when all
else fails. We often press it into service
without any sort of excuse, often making
a fierce assault on grammar in order to
do it. Some are we will say, and some
are not Some what? Men or dogs?
Some take the men and some take that
and forth. Some is a good word a
convenient word, but 1 can't say that it
is at all definite in it's meaning now. What
does some mean anyway in nine cases
out of ten when it is used in writing and
spelling? Some used to mean sum- "a
certain one,' one, or. pluralized in the An
glo-SaXon sumo But we have drifted
away from the earlier meaning of the word
There is no reason, of course for quarreIing
with the sufiixes Something, sometime some
where. some one and so on, are all right
am speaking of the lone word some We will
say for instance there is some reason.
How much reason is some reason? We
say there is some choice of this or that
thing happening. Do we mean by this
that the chance is great or small? These
are merely suggestions as to the constant
misuse of the word some There are
daily in any paper we may pick up, or
in any line of conversation we may listen
to, many evidences of the abuse / have in
mind, and the fact has suggested to me
that it was time to put some on the ia
booed list for a while"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
The Country Beautiful.
From the Portland afelsPress.

From the Portland sfe1aPress.
While the cities ana larger towns of the
United States are giving more and more
| attention every year, and proitably. too.
to the identifying of streets and the maxi
ing of parks. may we not hope that the
! movement will In time extend to the
smaller towns and villages and even to the
country lanes and byways of our agricul-
tural communities? How many of us who
have not seen the country lanes In England
have painted mind pictures of this sum-
mer beauty, with hedge and bower and
country park? OF course, We can expect
nothing like this to be accomplished in
this country all at once, but we may hope
that individual pride and common effort
will soon show a tendency to develop the
possibilities that offer in every rural COM
munity. The state of Maine, from being
the summer resting and recreation ground
of so many thousands of people, has es-
pecial motive for moving along these
lines.
And If we but stop to think what has
been going on during the last ten or fif-
teen years perhaps we shall conclude that
the leaven is already working. How many
more village improvement and sidewalk
repair and cemetery societies there are in
country villages than there were a score
OF years ago. How many more public Ii
braries have been built and what a for
ward movement has been made in the ar
chitectural beauty of country school
houses and churches. And, again. the
trolley is playing it's part in bringing about
the country beautiful. For so long as
country places are not much seen they are
likely to- develop little pride of appearance.
But with the trolley extending to small
villages and along country roads through
out the state, there is being made a pro-
port1onate effort to make the country along
the way and the villages through which
they pass cleaner, better kept and more
attractive. There is little prospect of mu-
innocent funds being provided for beautify-
Ing the smaller places. but the people who
live in country villages and on the farms
along the country roads may continue to
do much themselves, as they have been
effort. Let the good work go on i'm in
creasing proportions the years bring
greater spurs to effort and larger oppor-
tuntieS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
blood affections which have in late years
made such terrible inroads upon the num-
bers and vitality of the red men Of this

blood affections which have in late years
made such terrible inroads upon the num-
bers and vitality of the red men of this
country.
The only bodily Affections which DR..
Kempf reports to the Medical Record that
he found among the aborigines were fevers
and diseases produced by cold, such as
pleurisy, pneumonia, rheumatism, dysen-
terry and wounds from accidents or battle.
Naturally, the remedies of the Indians We're
simple and few in number. When sick an
Indian refused all kinds of stimulating all
ments, but drank profusely of cold water.
In addition to this, in proper cases the In
dian resorted to sweating, purging. vom1t-
ing and bleeding, and finally, when all rem
edies seemed to be Intellectual, the medicine
man was called in to try his amulets and
lamentations on the patient.
These methods of cure are still reSorteo
to among blanket Indians who are removed
from the influences of civilization. But be-
fore we smile or condemn these practices,
we should consider our own history. 1t was
only a few generations ago that our ideas
of the Indians. The more intelligent of the
to magic and lamentations. but the concoc-
lions which they manufactured to cure dis
eases almost pass belief. oliver Wendell
Holmes, in his Medical History of Massa-
chusetts," has made a permanent record
of some of the practices then prevailing
among the colonists. Governor Winthrop
was a devout believer in the efficacy of
sowbugs, while the Rev. Cotton Mather
used upon his sick friends such absurd and
foul pellets and indictments as no Indian
ever dreamed of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
THE YANKEES OF EUROPE.
The Remarkable Progress Made by
Budapest in One Generation.

Emil Zerkowitz. Editor Of the Export Review,
Budapest.
Since 1867 Budapest, the capital of the
kingdom of Hungary, has grown with the
rapidity Of an American city, which its
appearance and its energy indeed suggest.
In 1857 Buda had $1,000 people and Pest
10000. United they attained 1872 600 people
in 1870 in 1902 751O
The number Of pupils In school grew from
10000 in 1874 to $1,000 in 1903. And there
was room In the schools for all.
The commerce of Budapest grew from
19, 000, 900 crowns in 1874 to 100000 in
1903. The state railway stations In 1880
handled a million passengers, in 1903 over
twelve millions. The Hungarian zone sys-
tenn of railway tariffs is famous the world
over.
Budapest is a splendid show place" The
traveller who revisits Budapest at ten-year
prising beauties. The Andrassy avenue is
one of the most famous streets Of the world.
From 1880 to 1880 Budapest at ten-year
miles of new boulevards lined with inter-
minable ranges of splendid palaces.
From 1890 to 1900 Budapest created a
great number of fashionable streets, with
gorgeous palaces, the new parliament house
at cost of forty millions, the new royal
palace, the splendid buildings Of Kossuth
two new bridges, the public and private
buildings of the Liberty square.
More than hundred miles of electric
street railways carried in 1902 65,OO0,0Oo
passengers.
From 1874 to 1901 more than billion
crowns have been spent in buildings In
Budapest. and 1t is still growing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
BUOYS ON THE COAST.
Lighthouse Department Uses Seven
Kinds to Mark Dangerous Channels.

From the Bangor Commercial.
The late disaster to the steamer City of
Rockland in making an early morning pass
age through the somewhat difficult Muscle
Ridge channel and her serious bump upon
the Upper Gangway Ledge, during thick
fog, when entering the Penobscot river
with the want of proper signals on some
of the islands and lodges on that portion
of the Maine coast, has called attention
to the buoys and other signals to naviga-
ton under the control of the government.
Seven styles kinds of buoys are recog-
nized and used by the lighthouse depart
as the nun, can, cone, ice, whistling, bell,
ment of our government. They are known
and spar buoys, and, according to their
size the nun, can and ice buoys are divd-
ed into three and the spar buoys into four
classes.
The nun, can, cone and ice buoys are
made of steel. The upper part of these
buoys are generally modelled in the frus-
trum of a cone, with the exception of the
ice buoy, which is similar in shape to a
spar buoy, tapering at the ends.
These buoys are fastened to the ledge
or bottom of the channel by means of
chains, shackles, swivets and ballast balls.
water at all stages of the tides.
The lower ends of the mooring chains of
these buOyS are also connected either to a
sinker or a mushroom anchor, which is an
central shank.
The bell buoy is circular shell of steel,
forming the main body or float of the
buoy. The bells used are made of the
best quality of bell metal, copper so per
cent and block tin 90 per cent, and usually
weigh about 200 pounds-we believe the
government stipulation is that all bells
for sea buoys shall weigh 206 pounds.
Perhaps the most ingenious of all the
classes of buoys used by the lighthouse
board Is the whistling buoy, which is fitted
with an apparatus by which air compressed
by the movement of the waves is made to
escape through a tube, thus producing a
whistling sound. This apparatus consists
of whistle check valve, and the neces-
sary connecting pipes. The whstllng buoy
is protected by an outer guard or cage.
There are three classes of spar buoys,
ranked according to length and size; from
the first class, As to 80 feet long, down to
the fourth class, 20 feet in length, to be
placed in position in accordance with the
height of the incoming tide in order to be
effectual. These are usually moored to Z
mushroom anchor.
buoy used for marking the course of the
channels. These are cone-shaped buoys
about thirty feet in length attached at the
bottom end by shackles and straps.
The colors of the buoys are interesting.
Red buoys mark the starboard or right
hand side of the channel coming from sea-
ward, and black the port or left-hand side.
Midchannel dangers and distractions are
marked with buoys having black and red
transverse stripes, and midchannel buoys
marking the fafrway have longitudinal
black and white stripes. Buoys marking
| board and front buoys are numbered from
the seward end of the channel toward
the harbor, the black bearing the odd and
the red the even numbers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
The Sulpicians.
From the Westminster Gazette.

From the Westminster Gazette.
The Order of the Sulpicians, which NJ.
Combes threatens to dissolve because it in
trigued against the bishop of DIXON, was
founded by Father Jean Jacques Olier in
1641. 1t exists for the purpose of providing
seminaries for the education of priests, and
not only possesses twenty-four Summaries,
in which 30 members of the order are en-
gagged in teaching, in various parts of
France, but also controls similar educa-
tional establishments in Montreal, Balti-
more. Washington, New York and San
Francisco The seminaries were closed dur
ing the revolution, but were reopened
through the influence of Father Emery in
1908. The present quarrel arose because the
sulpicians endeavored to persuade their
most promising pupils to join a monastic
order, and the bishop accused them of ex-
ercising undue influence in the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
MAN-THREsHING MACHINES.
New Tangled Ways That Grind Out the
Lives of Workers.

Ernest Crosby, in the Craftsman.
Some years ago saw in an English jour-
nal picture of a horse treadmill engaged
in threshing, and beneath it was the device,
Primitive Method Of Threshing Still in
Use in the Scilly Islands, As it was the
same method which we had always prac-
ticed 1 was filed with mixed shame and re-
sentiment.
1t was therefore with feelings of COM
placency that 1 received the suggestion that
this year we thresh our oats by steam. The
machinery arrived in two or three ponder
Gus wagons, like q circus procession, ana
was duly installed. Two men came with 1t,
one to run the engine and the other to feed
the oats into the machine, but 1t required
a small army of local talent to bring the
oats down from the bays of the barn ana
to carry away the baskets of oats and the
heaps of straw and of chaff which piled up
with miraculous rapidity.
Br-r-r-r-rrrr! what hideous, noisy, filthy
machine One of the pleasures of farm
work is that you can talk as much as you
like, but the din of this engine made con-
versaton impossible, and gave you head
ache We are rather proud OF our barn
and consider 1t a substantial edihce, for II
is built of stone, and measures $50 feet by
80, but this Internal machinery shook 1t
from top to bottom like an aspen leaf.
teamwork is generally clean, but you
never know how much dirt there is in a ton
of oat straw until you thresh 1t out by
steam. A little bit of smut makes the air
black and you begin to wonder If any soil
was left in the field. In a short time the
men look like coal beavers, their eyes turn
red, their threats raw, and there is more or
less coughing.
Horses are sometimes sensible animals.
We brought out the refractory ones and
led them up as near as we could to the en-
CINE, in order that they might get acquaint-
ed with it, but they absolutely refused to
cultivate friendly relations, and every nerve
in their bodies protested against the trans
formation of a barn into a steam factory.
And we had little taste Of the bad re-
suits of factory work on the workers, too.
Our men are a strong. strapping lot, but
they had to work much too fast to feed
the black brute, and the pace that kills, !"
of which we are all so proud, was too much
for them, and SO was the horrid noise and
dust We threshed Cor .thrashed," as the
native dialect has it, for three days, but
when 1t was all over on the fourth day,
the men looked as If they had been
thrashed instead of the oats, and three
were actually invaded, and the full force
did not report again for duty for two or
three days.
But apart from these highly practical re-
suits of steam farming, it was the uglness
of it which impressed me. Ugh! The men,
cry of 1t has half spoiled the barn. 1t is as
If we had called the devil from Sheol to do
our work and had somehow sold our souls
in the bargain. From the bottom of my
soul / hate machinery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
STRANGE MATHEMATICAL GIFTS
frodigies Who Could Answer ofband
Difficult Arithmetical Problems
From T. P.'s Weekly.

From T. P.'s Weekly
AnIant musical prodigies are intelnr,hl~
ana even natural, compared with Infant
mathematical prodigies. How account FOR
the 1ntuitive faculty by which some chill.
uren. unable to read write or cipher can
answer instantaneously the most commit.
cateo ar1thmetcal problem? Zerah Colburn.
e. 81 at Six could neither write nor cipher
ana yet could answer. apparently byS
u1on' ana unhesitatingly, all kinds Of
arithmetical questions. At eight he came
on snow from the United States to London.
ana answered In a moment and accurately-
such questions as: How many mfnutes
are there in forty-eight years?" The child
not only answered 1t at once and correctly
out instantly added the number of seconds
contained IN that period. By what mental
process he arrived at these answers he
could not explain
Here again as a question which George
Bidder, the son Of Devonshire laborer.
answered at the age Of twelve, in one
minute 1t was put to him In the London
stock exchange: IF the pendulum OF IS
CLOCK vibrate the distance of nine fnchea
h hnu t mon ar In second Of times
course OF seven years. fourteen days two
hours. one minute and f1fty-six seconds
each year OF 86S days, hours. 4s minute3
Within the minute the boy had answered
correctly: 2165. 625. TAN. In miles, 34178
miles. 41o yards, two feet and three-Quarr
tiers of an inch.
But the classical case of this kind was
that investigated by a committee Of such
scientists as M. Arago, M. Libri and NJ
Lacroix at Paris. They examined Vito
Mangiamele, the son of a Sicilian peasant.
eleven years of age, putting him to such
questions as: Find the cube root OF
8, 70G. 416''-which the boy did within half a
| minute. Find the tenth root Of 2S2 475,-
243'-which he did within three minutes.
Then came this poser: what number has
the following proportions-that If its cube
is added to five times it's square. and then
AZ times the number and the number 40 be
subtracted from the result, the remainder.
is zero?" M. Arago repeated this question,
but while he finishing the last word
the boy replied correctly: 1.-THE number Is
five"
Two things strike you about this extra
ordinary congenital faculty-i&s mysterious
ness and its usclessness. In exemplfication
of the two take the case of Jedediah Bux-.
ton. He also worked out almost inStan-
taneously the most complex problems; but
he could give no account of the mental pro-
cess by which he solved them This pro-
cess was so far from being correlated with
intellect. or even intelligence, that when ,
JededIah went to hear a great preacher
or went to see Garrick in Richard III,
his sole interest in the sermon or the play
was the counting up of the number OF
words uttered by the preacher or by the
actors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
PETRIFIED MAN.
Historic Giant is Discovered in New
Mexico.

From the Albuquerque iieidlu
The giant of Abo pass or. at least.
portion of that historic parsonage, Is now
in Albuquerque. He Is not in museum,
nor is he in a coffin, although he Is very
decidedly dead one. Instead, that part
of him which Is in Albuquerque is suspend
ed by a wire from the wall Of the office in
w. L. Trimble's I'd street livery stable.
where recently number of well-known
ethnoogists examined him and pronounced
him the real thing That portion Of the
giant which has been transported from the
original resting place is the head complete
and the neck to the shoulders. w. L.
Trimble and F. E. Sturges, the discoveries
of the head, tell a remarkable story of its
discovery and transfer from the pass to
Albuquerque. ii 2
Several weeks ago these gentlemen made
an overland tripyto Abo pass to see the
work on the Santa iFe cutoff. While driv-
ing through the pass one day, thus runs
the story, Mr.. Sturges espied queer look
ing rock sticking out above the ground
and called his companions attention to it.
Mr.. Trimble Immediately pronounced 1t a.
human skull and in another instant both
men were down on the ground making
excavations around the rock. They found
it not only a human skull, but also a solid
petrification of an entire human body of
great size, imbedded in the solid rock. For
hours the discoveries toiled with their prize
They borrowed a crowbar and an ak and
cut away the hard flint formation around
the head. After working three days and
three nights without food or drink they
brought the head unbroken from it's long
resting place. Mr.. Trimble wanted to GO
after the rest of the body, but Mr.. Sturges
protested that 1t would be cheaper to I'M
port a set of air drills and shoot 1t out So
they marked the spot and came away,
bringing the head with them. 1t is a re-
markable specimen, whether genuine or
| not. The head is that of giant. with per-
feet features and having a distinctly Eth
opian cast Of countenance. The neck is
massive, and the veins and muscles are per-
fectly outlined in the rock. Even portions
of the teeth show where the rock has worn
away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
Snapshots, 1000 a Second.
rom the London Glob

From the London Globe
An Italian named Luciano Butt has per-
fected a Photographic apparatus capable of
registering the incredible number of 1900
Photographic impressions per second. The
most minute and least rapid and casual
movements of birds and insects on the
wing which have hitherto defied science
can, 1t is claimed, be registered with accu-
racy, thus opening a new world Of natural
observation to ornithologists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
Freak Vegetables and Fruit.
Country Life in America.

From Country Life in America.
In the chIldren's freak garden we grow
rnonstrosities and curiosities, from pear
shaped tomatoes to Sandwich Island pump
kins, and from serpent gourds to garden
lemons and from Spanish peanuts to stag
horn potatoes. The seed catalogues abound
In novelties. the growing of which GER
tainly serves to interest others besides the
children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
Fallacy of "Blue Blood"

From the General PractitiOher
The fact is that. as every observant medi.
cal practitioner sooner or later realizes
there is no great difference of the kind that
theories of s'birth'' assume between ons
man and another. The basis of this fact
no doubt, is that the whole popuiauon OF
this country is so mixed and so connected
by marriage that for any one individual TO
pride himself or herself on ancestry ID
scientific absurdity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
INDIAN DOCTORS OF OLD.
Cold Water, Sweating, Purging, Vomit.
ing and Bleeding Were Remedies.

From the Kansas City Star.
Undoubtedly the American Indian In his
primeval state was a fine specimen of phys
ical manhood. DR.. e. j. Kempf. who has
made a careful investigation into frontier
history, has found that before the Indians
were contaminated by the white race they
were never afflicted with smallpox, measles.
tuberculosis, govt, scurvy, insanity, nerv-
GUS diseases nor any other OF the Ills and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10

This hammock Is a bargain" said the
salesman. land it's quite strong and ser
viceable."
Let me see" remarked the summer girl.
musingly. Pm 100 and-er-will 1t hold go
pounds ?'-Philadelphia Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10

Keep EN-, sub? No. sub; not mo- dan
about two hours arfter git 'em."-Chicago
Tribune.