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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
Scotch Women Tipplers

One of the Edinburgh magistrates,
Bailie Stevenson. has been supplying
some remarkable figures concerning the
local drink traffic. He points out that
the convictions for drunkenness in
Scotland during 1906 numbered $4,000,
an increase of over 5000 as compared
with 1905; and an equally lainentabIe
fact was that of these $4,000 were con-
victed of this offense for the first time.
The same steady increase had been
going on in Edinburgh. until last year.
when 6.993 persons were convicted of
drunkenness in the local courts, an in
crease of $50 ever the previous year.
The bailie thinks one Of the most
painful and distressing facts in connee-
tion with the drinking customs is the
growing habit of intemperance among
women Last year there were 2,434
convictions recorded against women in
Edinburgh for drunkenness. an-increase
of 123 over 1906. and 216 more than
in 1905. Over 100 were convicted of
being drunk in charge of child Many
innocent young lives were being yearly
sacrificed through the intemperance of
mothers In Edinburgh last year there
were 7,649 births, and of these S62
children died before attaining the age
of IL months. That was equal to 112
per 1000 births, while the ordinary
death rate was only 1925. Among the
many contributory factors to female
drunkenness the bailie specially me-
tions two-the large number of gro
GERS license and the abuse of the Jug
bar.-w Westminster Gazette.
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Napoleon iii at Sedan

Sarah Bernhardt. mentions in her me-
shot under him at Sedan. Some having
thrown doubt on her statement. says
the London Telegraph. and denied that
the emperor was ever in personal dan
ger at the time. Baron verly. son of the
late colonel of the Cent Gardes gives
what he affirms to be the authentic
account of the unhappy sovereign's per-
sistent attempts to court death when he
saw that defeat was. unavoidable. On
September 1, 1870, at o'clock in the
morning. Marshal MacMahon. returning
wounded to Sedan, met the emperor
riding out to Bazielles. Napoleon III
realized that the situation was des
perate. He rode slowly out, depressed
and thoughtful, under a hail of shot.
During an hour he inspected the posi-
tions.s Bullets rained on his escort
Captain d'Hendecourt was killed few
feet away from the emperor. The lat
Ter, deliberately seeking death. alight-
ed, ordered his escort TO remain be-
hind an embankment, and walked up
to a cemetery on a height, where he
stayed for another hour, exposed to fire.
He mounted again and rode to another
part of the field. General de Courson
and Captain de Trecesson were dan
gerously wounded by his side, but not
a bullet hit him. The emperor at last
seemed to despair of meeting his death
as he sought it and rode back to Sedan
at noon. In the town itself shells fell
thick, and while the emperor was rid
ing with his escort up the Grand Rue
one burst just In front of him, wound
ed one of the Cent Gardes and killed
the two horses of two aides de camp.
Napoleon III looked on stolidly, under
standing, perhaps. that IL was not his
fate to die in action. The story that he
had two horses killed under him is.
therefore, not correct. But there is no
doubt that the unfortunate emperor,
beaten and i'll, pathetic and tragic
figure, did deliberately seek death on
the field to escape the disgrace of Sc
dan, which he foresaw.
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Answers to Queries

FOR THE INSANE. E. NJ, Aptos,
Cal. How many hospitals are there in
California for the care of the insane,
and where are they located? How many
patients are there in each at this time
Who can furnish the figures?
There are five hospitals in California
for the treatment of the insane: One at
Stockton, another at Napa, the third at
Agnew. the fourth at Patton. San Ber-
nardino county, and the fifth at Tall
mage, Mandocino county. To obtain the
desired figures write TO the superin-
tendent of each hospital.
MIGNONETTE - Subscriber, City
Whence came the flower called
mignonette, and what does it mean in
the language of flowers?
The flower is native of northern
Africa and of Syria. The name, which
is the diminutive of the French one.
mignon (darling), means little darl-
ing" and in the language of flowers
expresses your qualities surpass your
charms
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH - Jeane,
Pleasanton. Cal. What island is reput-
ed as containing the fountain of youth? ?
1t is said that in the days of Juan
Ponce de Leon (1460-152D that individ-
ua1 was told that the fountain sought
for, the one which by bathing in its
waters would restore the aged to youth,
was on the island of Bimini, said to be-
long to the Bahama group. De Leon
never found it. as it is only "a fabulous
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island" The Indians of the Antilles
hrmiy believed that there was such an
island and fountain.
ASSEMBLYMAN--.A A, Oakland. Cal
What are the duties of an assembly,
man and what is he allowed in Califor-
MIA per diem and for mileage and ex-
penses2
The duties of an assemblyman are to
assist In the passage of laws for the
state, within the limits prescribed by
the constitution. The pay of an assem-
blyman in this state is So per day for
sixty days, the constitutional limit of
each session of the Legislature. Mileage
is 10 cents per mile from place of resi-
dence to Sacramento and return: con-
tingent expenses not to exceed SIS dur
ing the session.
PRooF-Subscriber, City. What is
meant by artists proof as applied to
steel engravings?
1t Is the first print of an engraving
which is submitted to the artist for In
spection and any alteration he may
deem necessary, after which he signs
the same. A very limited number are
printed.
IF I SHOULD DIE"-Subscriber
City. Who wrote the poem IT I
should die tonight?
1t was written by Belle Eugenia
Smith and was published for the first
time in the Christian Union June is,
1873,
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Brazil's Black Diamonds

From a comparatively small area in
the central portion OF the state OF
Bahia are taken almost III not all of
the worlds entire supply of the black
diamond of commerce, used for the
purposes of what is known as the dia-
mofd drill This area lies along the
upper waters of the river Verde a
tributary OF the great river San Fran
cisco, mostly in range OF mountains
known as the "Chapada Diamantina."
The American geolOgist. j. c. Branner.
in surveying the greater part OF the
northern half of the state OF Bahia.
included this diamond district in his
surveys and In connection Herewith
made a most important discovery It
had not been supposed that the dia-
mond district extended at all to the
west and north OF the river Verde. but
DIR. Branner's explorations reveal the
fact that the same diamond bearing
strata extend almost as far as the
river San Francisco. covering an area
of from 1000 to 5000 square miles.
The diamonds are found In gravel and
conglomerate formations
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European Armies

In a return just presented to parlia-
the crown at home and abroad on the
active list is given as 445,7s1, as COM
pared with Germany's $4,000, Frances 3
677,5S1 and Austrias s,6Ss. Thus
the British army appears nearly two
thirds of the great German army and
more than equal to the Austrian army
The figures, however. are, for COM
parative purposes. fallacious. for
whereas Germany's army is practically
all in Germany and composed of Ger
mans, more than half of the British
land forces of the crown" consists of
the Indian army. which is tied to India
The British reserves, including volun-
teers, yeomanry, etc, number 547.696;
the German reserves 3.400, ,00o.--w west-
minister Gazette
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Vegetable IsingIass

Consul General Henry B. Miller of
Yokohama makes the following report
on the export Of agar agar (vegetabls
cole or isinglass) from Japan:
According to the local press. it is
stated that agar agar, derived from
seaweed, may possibly replace gelatin
as a basis for photographs processes.
II is further stated that lecturing be-
fore the royal photographs society W.
F. Cooper said that IT has certain chem
fcal advantages over its rivals and will
In time mark a revolution IN photo
graphic emulsion making.
The agar agar. known as cole vege-
table or isinglass. is much produced in
this country. The total exports for ii
months ending November 80. 1907.
amounted 10 about 100000 pounds.
valued at s4sS.715. The average price
per pound exported in 1906 was 25
cents, In 1905 % cents and in 1904 21
cents
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The Smart Set

man. The announcement of Miss Days
engagement followed very closely upon
the end of her school days and was
made before she had been formally in
troduced to the social world. She is
extremely popular with the younger set
and is an unusually pretty and accom-
plished girl. Mr.. Downing is we'll
known in club and banking circles
here and he and his bride will make
their future home here.
Mrs. T. Walnmorgan Draper and Miss
Dorothy Draper have returned from the
southern part of the state and are
again in their San Rafael home. Mrs
Draper, who went to Redlands because
Joined by her daughter last week. ana
they returned together.
Several dinners at the Presidio will
precede the regular fortnightly hop to-
night and the dance will be followed BY
the usual suppers IN. the homes of Off
GERS row. About 30 Of the city's maids
affair. among whom are Miss Marie
Rose Deane. Miss Engracia Critcher.
Miss Helen Sullivan. Miss Marjorie
Sheppard. Miss Marie Churchill Miss
Maisie Coyle. Miss Ethel Shorb. Miss
Marian Lally. Mrs. J. X. Steele. Miss
Elsa Draper. Miss Edith MeecaIf and
Mrs. Linda Bryan.
Two San Francisco girls. Miss Pillar
AIRED and Miss Mary Riley, who have
been the house guests Of Professor and
Mrs. Morrison at Annapolis. will return
this week to California
Mrs Patrick Calhoun will leave town
in few days for visit in the eastern
states, to be gone for several months.
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ROLLO IN PoLlTlc s

touched the Southern Pacific largely artificial This would
that Hartman planned deliberate third OF his work
force political The Call hestaes believe that
could be wicked To such suspicion the word
might we'll superserceabe undersapprs
the blame Roosevelt 1t perhaps significant that DR. Aims
worths letter given out for publication in the Hearst
which Mr. Hartman find convenient and
compaant medium OF publicity In the whrgg of parties
find Mr. Hartman giving his moral support the indie
pendence league. One good turn deserves another
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Chinatown Church
Founder Returns

B. HartweH arrived Lhina
SH1nolo"H @LuiSH visiting friends in Oakland
TOuHoeT KctuTHS Hartwel the
his years
Chinese through his efforts
by
Hartwe field Of the Chinese
with husband
present visit to California
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It's up to the climate of California
to add to its fame by putting Fight
ing Bob on his feet.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

The motto is to be restored to the
coins, but there is nobody rash
enough to predict that this will in
crease the scramble for them.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

Venezuela is fortunate that Uncle
Sans patience is SO greatly in excess
of Castro's sense.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

There is no doubt that Ruef.
through force of habit, would object
if offered his own selection of judge
and jury.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
NOTE AND COMMENT

Things look rather black for the
negro soldiers reinstatement bill.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

Forester Pinchot appears to sort of
have his enemies up tree.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

n.-..-..s "Wanted-Chorus people who sing"
'oi'So This opening of ad
VI SnoTuS oiflS Sundays papers, placed by comic
also
necessary only apparently need always
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VioIefS Reward
EndeavOr Girls

VoIefs Reward 80: -, Edar ,ro~tsrs went 70 ~.
Endc5V0r Urls - to and with the
Aerward they their church. and It was nouee a
OF
maidensh from their fellow church
members, who that the county jail should
yield such boom with voice the fa
Christian Endeavorers replied:
ABE Ruef"
OF the and
awaiting their had with big bouquet the sweet
scented purple blossoms
divulged
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
The InSiider

by Abe Ruef's gift of violets and ferns to
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

4 FTER a visit of nearly two
~ months in San Francisco Mrs
George Harding will leave town
on Monday evening next and re-
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
Conditions in California

yesterday
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New-York tribune., 1908-02-16

and trustworthy; and then that remarkable and
ndisputable instance IN the experience OF Helen
Keller However | shall speak of that at another
time For many years | believed that | remem-
bered helping nv grandfather drink his whisky
toddv when | weeks old: but do not tell
about that any more now; L am grown old, and my
memory IS not as active as It used to be When L
was Younger | could remember anything, whether 1t
had happened or not; but my faculties are decay
Ing now and soon | shall be 50 | cannot remember
any but the things that happened. 1t is sad to
90 to pieces like this; but all have to do It.
INl his place was IN the country four miles from
Florida He had eight children and nteen or
twenty negroes. and was also fortunate IN other
WAYS particularly in his character. have not come
across a better than he was. L was his guest
for two or three months every year, from the fourth
YEAR after we removed to Hannibal till | was eleven
or twelve years old. | have never consciously used
hIm or his wife IN a book; bat his farm has come
very handy to IN literature once or tw1ce IN
Huck Finn and in " Tom Sawyer, Detective
moved 1t down to Arkansas. 1t was all OF SIX
hundred miles, but it no trouble 1t was not
; very large farm.-tive hundred acres, perhaps
but | could have done It If 1t had been twice as
large And as for the morality of 1t, 1 cared moth
Ing for that | would move State II the eNlgencies
Of literature required 1t.
II was a heavenly place for a boy. that farm OF
my uncle John 5. The house was double log one
with a spacious floor (rOOted M connecting 1t with
the kitchen In the the Ia bic was set in the
middle of that shady and breezy floor and the
of them Fried chicken, roast pig, wild and tame
turkeys ducks and geese; venIson Just killed;
SQUIRRELS. rabbits, pheasants partrldges, pralr1e
cIicl1lS biscuits hot batter cakes, not DuckWhedt
cakes hot wheat bread. not rollS not corn Pohe'
fresh corn boiled the succOtash butter beans
string beans tomatoes pease, Irish potatoes, sweet
rotafoes butterrnilk, sweet milk, clabber
t~aterrneions. musknnelons. cantaloups.-all fresh
New-York tribune., 1908-02-16

negro quarter ana tne TOBACCO
fields The front yard was entered
over a stile, made of sawed off logs of
graduated heights; | do not remem-
ber any gate In a corner of the
front yard were a dozen lofty hickory
trees and a dozen black walnuts, and
n the nutting season riches were to
be gathered there.
Down a piece. abreast the house.
stood a little log cabin against the
rail fence; and there the woody hill
fell sharply away. past the barns.
the corn crib. the stables, and the
tobacco curing house. to a limpid
brook which sang along over its
gravelly bed and curved and frisked
in and out and here and there and
yonder in the deep shade of over
hanging foliage and vines, "a divine
place for wading And it had swim
ming pools too. which were forbidden
to US and therefore much frequented
by us, for we were little Christian
children. and had early been taught
the value of forbidden fruit.
IN the little log cabin lived a bed
TlGOtn WlilIc HtdtCh SD NC Ncllisiii
whom we visited daily, and looked
upon with awe; for we believed she
was upwards of thousand years
old and had talked with Moses. The
Younger negroes credited these sta
tistics. and had furnished them to
us in good faith We accommo-
dated all the details which came to
us about her; and 50 we believed that
She had lost her health III the long
desert trip coming out of Egypt, and
had never been able To get it back
again She had a round bald place
on the crown Of her head, and We
used to creep around and gaze at it
IN reverent silence, and reflect that
1t was caused by fright through see
ing Pharaoh drowned We called
her Aunt Hannah. Southern fash
ION She was superstitlous. like the
other negroes also, like them, she
New-York tribune., 1908-02-16

from the garden, apple pie, peach pie pumpkin
pie, apple dumpngs peach cobbler-l can re
member the rest.
The way that the things cooked was per
haps the main splendOr; particularly certain few
of the dishes For instance the corn bread, the hot
biscuits and wheat bread and the fried chicken
These things have never been properly cooked IN
the North in fact no there IS able to learn the
art 50 far as my experience goes The North thinks
it knows how to make bread; but this is gross
superstition. Perhaps bread IN the world Is
quite as good Southern corn bread, and perhaps
bread the world quite bad as the Northern
imitation of it. The North seldom tries to try
chicken and this is well; the art cannot be learned
north of the line of Mason and Dixon, nor anyW here
in Europe This is not hearSay; 1t is experience
that is speaking. In Europe it Is imagined that the
custom of serving various kinds of bread blazing
hot is American but that IS too broad a spread
1t is custom in the South but is much less than that
IN the North In the North and IN Europe hot
bread considered unhealthy. his Is probably
another fussy SuperStItIOu like the European
superstition that ice water IS unhealthy. Europe
does not need ice water, and does not drink 1t. and
yet notwithstan ding this its word for 1t is better
than ours because it describes 1t. whereas ours
doesn't. Europe calls it iced water Our word
describes water made from melted lce,- drink
which we have but little acquaintance with.
1t seems a pity that the world should throw away
so many good things merely because they un
wholesome | doubt if God has given us any re-
freshment which taken IN moderation, is unwhole-
some except microbes. Yet there people who
strictly deprive themselves of each and every eata
BILE, drinkabe, and smokabe which has in anyway
acquired a shady reputation They pay this prce
for health. And health is all they get for 1t How
strange it isi-it is like paying out your whole tor
tune for a that has gone dry.
The farm house stood IN the middle OF a very large
yard and the yard was fenced on three sides with
rails and the side with high pallngS, against
these stood the smOkehouse: beyond the palings
was the orchard beyond the orchard the
New-York tribune., 1908-02-16

A > | have SAID
~ that vast plot
l. OF Tennessee
and lone hundred
thousand acresl was
held by my father
twenty years intact
When he died IN I647.
He began t. manage
I ourselves. Forty
years afterward, we
had managed II ali