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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
IDEAS. NOT FANCIES.
Retired Literary Man Lays Down
Rule for Composition.

From the New York Sun.
when in doubt-don't
That. gentlemen" said the retired lit
erary man to his class of ambitious
young literary aspirants, would be
good maxim for you to hang up over
your writing table, it's application for
you being:
Don't write unless you have something
to write
UNLESS an idea comes to you with at
don't try to write it-now, and never, if
you can so train and SO deny your
selves. mistake a mere fancy for an idea.
We have many pleasing fancies that,
bright as they may be, are still but
fleeing, intangible; that will not bear
mailing down. Don't waste Your time
trying to put such fancies into form,
for the more you work over them the
more you will rend them, TIL you have
left of them but colorless Ehreds and
patches dry and useless, like so many
dusty cObwebs, and, like cobwebs, finally
to be brushed away.
I'VE have. I repeat, many pleasant
fancies which will not bear the rude
handling involved in transcription.
though in passing they may. as gentle
showers do the earth. help to make fruit
full our mental field. Enjoy them, but let
them pass, content thus to enjoy them.
and satisfied with such stimulation as
they may afford. The idea worth writing
and worth writing now, I say again to
you, will come to you with at least some
feature Of 1t sharply defined; with some
thing about it that will make to you a
direct living, personal appeal; it will be
something that you awake to and greet
with grateful smile.
(Which brings me to say that such
ideas may still be but vital fragments,
perhaps the striking opening, or maybe
the felicitous ending of a story: or it may
be that there come to you both at once.
And happy you we'll may be If SO your
brain provide you. With what inspira-
ton you may now set out; with what
suspicious beginning and with what joy
Gus ardor You may now press on to that
felicitous ending. This is something
worth while-a joy to you. as. let us
hope. it may be to your reader.
Cor there may come to you, all alive.
an idea that may be vital and yet be but
a fragment and even as such complete,
clue. Don't rudely wrestle with this
Treasure it, put it away. store it in
your mind to take root and there TO
grow. 1t will attract other ideas to it,
gradually but surely IL will form, and
then some day and suddenly perhaps 1t
will say:
Now write mo-
And as you write you may-and with
what profound satisfaction!-n the
story's foliage discern some Of those
pleasing fancies that once had charmed
you now come back to you. serving now
in their only true function-to adOrn.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
IN SESSION TEN MINUTES.
House Of Representatives. Adjourns
Until January 4.

The House was in session but ten min
utes today and adjourned until January 4.
In addition to routine practically the only
business undertaken was the designation
of Representative DalzeIl Of Psnnsyiga-
mia as presiding onicer for the ~ In tAe
absence Of Speaker Cannon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
GRANT Is NOMINATED
FOR ALMAS' POTENTATE
Slate Of Officers and Representatives
to Imperial Council Are Chosen
at Meeting.

Almas Temple, A. A. o. N. NJ S., met
last evening to nominate officers for the
ensuing year and representatives to the
session Of the Imperial Council, to be held
in New Orleans next April.
The nominations follow: Alexander
Grant, for illustrious potentate: Thomas
c. Noyes. for chief rabban; Adolphus
Guide and James T. Gibbs, for assistant
rabban; ". Hamilton Smith, for high
priest and prophet: John A. Ellinger, for
oriental guide; Francis A. Sebring. for
treasurer, and Harrison Dingman, fer re-
corder.
The nominations for representatives to
the Imperial Council were made In the
order named, as follows: Alexander
Grant. Louis A. Dent, Louis Goldsmith,
William F. GUIDE, Jacobus 8. Jones and
James 7. Gibbs.
Two candidates were received into the
temple, the short form ritual being
employed In their initiation.
The elections viii take place Tuesday,
December ., from 2 to o'clock pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
SNATcHED FROM DEATH
MINER RESCUED AFTER
WEEKS ENFORCEMENT.
Had Been Buried by a Mud Slide
Six Hundred Feet Under the
Subjective Others Missing.

MARQUETTE, Mich, December L.
Frank Condello was snatched from death
last night after a weeks entomhment,
when rescuers found him alive in the
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company's mine at
Negaunee He was buried 600 feet be-
meath the surface a week ago yesterday,
along with three other men, who were
caught by a mud slide. Peter Mundi was
found dead near Condello, but the other
two men have not yet been reached.
Had Plenty of Water.
Condello is In surprisingly good condi
ton. He was buried in a space only
few feet square and was without food.
He had plenty of water, however, and
when he was taken out Of the mine he
was able TO walk with only one man sup
porting him.
The rescued miner Is married and his
is a happy home now. Mourning has
turned to joy. for hardly any one had
supposed that any of the men could still
he alive Mundi was a single man aged
about thirty.
The four miners were entombed when
a stream of mud suddenly gushed into
the sublevel where they were. 1t is sup
posed that in firing a blast hole was
broken through the roof.
Rescue Work Difficult
The mud was as thin as batter and 1t
coursed its way into the mine like SO
much water. 1t poured from the sublevel
into the main level for 200 feet. This
made rescue work difficult, but removal
of the slime proceeded without min
ute's intermission ever since the acci-
dent
Now that one man has been found alive
the rescue work continues with renewed
Vigor, with the hope Of saving the two
miners still entombed. They are Oscar
Wattalli. married, and Victor Makki, sin
gle. 1t Is not known In just what part
Of the sublevel they are, but II is hoped
- find them within the next twenty-four
hours.
Condello is In the Negaunee Hospital
and was not allowed to talk to reporters
last night. 1t Is said he will be out in
time to spend Christmas with hts family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
FIVE ROBES RECOVERED.
London Fire Ruins Yield Up Their
Dead.

LONDON. December 2l.-Flve bodies
we're recovered this forenoon from the
fne-nade ruins of the dry goods store
~ the Chaplain quarter. The known dead
sHmber eight.
The search was continued throughout
tie day. but was necessarily slow, ana
aaity list can be determined.
Il appears that all the employees have
bssn accounted for, but there were hun
n. is of Christmas shoppers on the spa
cs,is floors when the IRE broke out yes
: lay. Claims for insurance which
IN to fan exclusively on British COM
pa1ses. show that in addition to the dry
goods store some twenty-five business
esd residence places adjoining were
bs.sned out or damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21

paign funds to printing and travelling
and personal expenses Of the candidates.
stationery, postage, freight telegraph.
telephone, the dissemination OF informa-
ton, the holding of political meetings
and demonstrations. including the pay
ment Of speakers. the organization OF
clubs, the renting and maintenance OF
necessary Offices and halls. and the pay
ment Of clerks, stenographers. the en-
ployment of watchers and challengers at
the polls, the compensation Of voters to
and from the voting places, and legal
expenses incurred on account Of Htiga-
ton incident to the election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
Canons Park.
ON the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Canons Park. Edgware, which has been
burgled. was once the property of the
Canons of ST. Bartholomew. Smithfield
Its memories cluster chiefly round James
Bridges. Duke of Chandos, who gained
the estate by marriage with the heiress
Of Sir Thomas Lake. Paymaster to the
forces in Marlborough's wars, Chandos
feathered his nest in the bad old fashion
with some three millions. Two hundred
thousand OF this was lavished on Canons.
Three years after Chandos' death-that is
In 1747-his sons difficulties were such
that the splendid mansion was pulled
down and its fittings dispersed. New Col
lege. Oxford, still possesses the handsome
gates which formed the south entrance
The modern Canons is a place OF but
small architectural interest, and the once
extensive domain of the "princely Chan
dos'-the "Timon'' of Pope's "Epistle on
False Taste''-has of late years been cut
up into desirable building plots
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
MUST FILE STATEMENTS.
Exhibit Of Campaign Funds Requir
ed of Presidential Electors.

A bill to require candidates in the cleo
ton of presidential and vice presidential
electors and members of Congress and
committees in charge Of their campaigns
to file statements of contributions and
expenditures was introduced today by
Senator Crawford Of South Dakota.
The bill limits the expenditures Of cam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
A French Pluralist.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
An enterprising shopkeeper living In one
OF the large suburbs Of Paris has had
painted on his shop front the following
inscriptions: OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES wig
maker, hairdresser. laundress" Inquiries
made by a Paris contemporary show that
NJ. Forgeron tEmile Jean Baptiste
Eusebe) exercises with great skill the
professions of matchmaker and barber,
and his worthy spouse washes the linen.
NJ. Forgeron Is also the leading drummer
Of his town and Of his commune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
.ance. When the struggle ended in 1915

France. When the struggle ended in 1915
many of the soldiers found that their
wives had married again in the belief of
being widows. The formal selling of the
wife was regarded among the ignorant as
legal solution to the problem thus pre-
scented. and it is said that the authorities
Of the day deemed it best to shut their
eyes al the proceeding.
certain amount OF fOrmality had to be
observed, however. before the sale was
considered legal, even by the most igno-
rant Yorkshire writer mentions two
conditions which must be carried out to
make a satisfactory sale. The price of
the wife must not be less than one shl
ling, and she must be delivered to her pur-
chaser with a new halter round her neck.
The same writer records the case of the
woman who zeal0usly preserved the re-
ability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21

John C. Edwards died at his home in
Blandford, near Petersburg, Va, yester-
day, after an illness of twelve months.
He was for thirty years an engineer
on the Norfolk and Western railway. and
was a. member Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-21
Wife Selling.

From the London Chronicle.
The frequent reports of wife selling at
SmithfieId in the early nineteenth century
were one Of the results of our war with
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
Leases and Sales
ONLY ONE WAY TO SHAKE IT OFF

Unhappy is the man or woman with
a bad back No rest, no sleep, no
peace al. all. 1t begins III the morning,
when you get up from bed so lame,
sore and stiff that il is hard to bend
over to put your shoes on.
All day there is ltavy, dull, throb-
bing pain in the small of the back, just
over the kidneys 1t hurts to bend
over, TO lift anything or even TO get
up from chair Any sudden, awk
ward movement sends a sharp, DART
ing twinge through the sore spot.
When night comes the sufferer re-
tires TO fitful sleep, can't lie comforta-
bly, in any one position, or turn over
without painful effort.
Don't look at backache as merely a
muscular pain, that it will pass away
with rest. There is deeper trouble
Nine times out of ten it is the kidneys
that throb and ache, and there can be
no relief until the kidneys are given
help.
The kidneys have big work to do.
All the blood in the body is coursing
through the kidney filters constantly,
to be freed of uric poisons. 1t is a
heavy enough task when the kidneys
are well, but a cold, chill, fever, or
some thoughtless exposure, or overin-
diligence in liquor, tea, beer or coffee,
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18

an adjoining unimproved half of the
same realty the old Baldwin annex
property, another building, also for
business uses, viii be erected directly
by Aronson.
Two new bank structures viii soon
be in Market street, both of which
viii be fine in architecture and costly.
The bank building of the Union trust
company is partly erected. The steel
frame is in position. In the same
neighborhood the San Francisco saw
ings union will erect q bank building
that viii represent an investment, with
land, of something like s1,000,000
A somewhat interesting bit of gossip
relates. to the changed conditions exist
ing along the line of the Hyde street
branch of the California street road.
in the region through which that line
runs between the junction of Market
and O'Farren streets and the north
erly terminus at North Beach, there
were formerly scores of residences, an
array of stores, theaters and other
buildings. Since 1905. in the era of re-
habilitation, the residential section in
Hyde street north of California and the
other residential section that was
along Hyde. Pis4e and Jones streets has
now been rebuilt largely with homes.
On the contrary, the apartment house
has come into vogue. From these is
derived so much business for the Cali
fornia street railway that the volume
of travel, at least during the greater
part of the day. is reported to be
about equal TO that secured just before
the confiagratiOn of 1906
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
| White investment company
building, to be erected at the
northeast corner of California and
Battery streets.

cessful ladies' nights last season the
ewspapermen have decided to give a
number of parties this fall, and to-
nights hop will serve not only to
start these entertainments, but also
to celebrate the election of new
board of directors.
More than 300 cards have been sent
out and the responses indicate that
the clubrooms in Market street Will be
thronged when dancing commences at
$50 o'clock. A special orchestra has
been engaged, and the club dining
room has been arranged not only for
dancing, but ALSO for an informal en-
tertainment.
Among those who Will take part in
the entertainment are Nine. Caro- Roma,
the prima donna soprano; Miss Anil
Signor Joaquin WanreIl. the Spanish
basso; Mr.. and Mrs Walter de Leon,
Fred Hornick. and Francisco Tolini,
the Italian magician
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
Vast Volume OF Real Estate Sales s Two Thrds Of Year
LARGE LEASES
ARE NEGOTIATED
Transactions That Show Steady
Demand for Locations
Down Town

Harrigan, Weidenmuller & Rosenstirr
report the following leases consum-
mated in their Office:
National Cash Register company Of New York
TO +. de Ruiz. store at 11:S Market street for "A
term OF nine years at total rental of S:s} 7fJ
Gertrude Byber Hollis trustee, TO Pascal. Du-
bedat < Co. store and basement at IS and -
California street for term OF five years AZ
total rental Of $1f.OOO- Gertrude Byber Hollis.
trustee. TO Scott. Magner & Miller. the upper
floor of the two story building situated AZ
and A California street for a term OF two and
half years at total rental OF 81 500: Eastern
Outhtting company to client of the firm. the
store at Sf2 and S44 kearny street for term
of eight years at total rental of Sl6.500:
Forester Il Lausten gto Jensen & Ryberg. store
at 3O1 Sutter street for a term of two years at
a total rental Of 50. 100; Johann Schmidt com
pany to Schultze novelty company. one dOor in
the building at the southwest corner Of Second
and Natoma streets for period of two years
on private terms: Merchant investment company
TO w W. Fish Co. part Of the third floor OF
431 Bush street for a period OF two years.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18

los Tiffany avenue TO William Chappelle for ).
GepoScl. price 81. 25o. Lot in Thirtieth street
80 feet west of Dolores 25xi14 feet. price
$500. to Peter Hansen: lot and improvements
at Ill Bemis street TO c. Il. Anderson; lot in
Fifteenth avenue. 30 feet west of L street. To
Il. Haberlin for r. 4. Beer; lot in Eureka
street IS5 feet north of Twenty second, 25x
1859 feet price SLIGO. TO ii. G. Nogt for Viii
liam 0'Connor; lot and improvements at 4414
Winnie Moody: lot in Laidey street 20 feet
west OF Fairmount street, TO Julia Bunyan for
F.G. Sebe; lot in Laidley street. 250 feet west
Of Fairmount. to- Julian Bunyan; lot and In-
proyemeDts I21 Tehama street TO Harry
Dillon for Annie L.. Leopard. price 81. 800: lot
and improvements al 1926 Vermont street 10
Annie Aigren for Agnes Douglass. price 81, 800;
price sis150, to George ". Palmer for ". l..
Gott.
The following is a list of leases
closed by the same firm:
Hyde, Lewis & Hyde lessons, Marin Brothers
lessees. Sixteenth street near Julian avenue,
five years. for $4,000 Charles y. Gibbins les
sor. W. Hage and C. Nick Iessees. 2626-S Mis-
sion street. ) years AZ total rent of S14.100;
cast corner of Twenty FIRST and Castro streets,
five years lease at total rent Of $2.100: Lay L.
Price lessor Joseph West lessee. Oh Valencia
street, two years total rent 81, 40; Joseph
Levensaler lessor. John A. huffman lessee. S69
Guerrero street. two years lease. S720; III. n.
Turreli lessor. w. Merkiewih. lessee. 2635-37
Mission street. year lease at total rent of
81. 400; estate of r. kranse lessor, George
Skenk lessee. 3053 Twenty fonrth street. three
years. S720; estate of b. Krause lessor, George
Trick lessee, 3077 Twenty fourth street three
years $500.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
Dingee Park Popular

1--WE are not surprised at our success
in selling Dingee park lots, said j. X.
Howell yesterday. I'm fact, We expect
to do even better in handling this prop
erty during the next three months
than we have in the past. OF all the
tracts we have ever put upon the mar
ket Dingee park shows the greatest
future in the early stages of its devel-
opment of any property we ever han
died.
lone of the most successful real
estate investors in California recently
expressed great confidence in the future
of Redwood City, particularly Dingee
park. This man is close to both South
ern Pacific and the Western Pacific
railroad officials and we'll informed, in
addition, as to the plans of the Western
power company, corporation which
expects to invest millions of dollars
bringing power from San Francisco
and adjacent towns.
:. I believe. he said. and unpublished
facts that L know of strengthen me in
my belief, that in the oak covered lots
of Dingee park lies the greatest field
for small investment in this part of
California. / know something of the
plans of certain businessmen regarding
Redwood City and I will say without
hesitation that if 1 had brother with
only $100 or 5000 cash / would advise
him to get in and secure a lot in
Dingee park. 1t would make one of
the safest and surest small investments
ever made in this state.'"
Since May 1 ZIG lots have been sold
in this tract by Baldwin & Howell,
an average of nearly two lots a day.
These lots in nearly every instance
have been sold snugly, SO that at least
175 or 200 individuals are already rep
resentative of the ownership of this
property.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
TO ADORN
A HIGH BUILDING
Pretty Ornamental Work De-
signed for White Invest
ment Company Structure


The northeast corner of California
and Battery streets viii be adorned be-
fore the first of the coming year with
fine structure erected for the White
Investment company. The plans. by
Lewis F. Hobart, the architect. show a
structure of 10 stories and basement,
stIbdivided into stores, Offices and lofts.
The materials employed mainly in con-
structior are red brick, steel frame,
stone and terra Gotta trimmings for the
exterior. .
The foundations are ready for the
steel framework. The cost viii be
$500, ,O00. A feature will be an elaoo-
rate vestibule, elliptical in form, that
will be finished with Vermont statuary
marble.
Ornamental features for the exterior
of the structure viii include cast iron
baIust rades ar each floor level. The
long lines of the design are relieved by
high window openings and large nor
izontaI band at the ninth floor level, TO
be treated with figures, in relief, Oh
CupidS.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
Make Sales in Mission

Sala & Sala report another favora bic
week of the Mission, having made sew
eral large sales. The firm reports a
rapid rise in Mission real estate. They
report the leasing OF two large apart
ment houses and the renting of several
flats. The following is their weekly
list of sales:
4 Lot and improvements. 1872 Guer-
rero street. to ID. Nj. Stevens by Henry
Lghtner, $4,000: two flats at Douglas
and Seventeenth streets to w. Har-
rington by r. Lewis. $4,000. two flats,
359-361 Lexington avenue to Lee Es-
tess. by Fred Schell: lot at Fourteenth
and Stevenson streets to J. Coaty by
&c Sheerer. 81 400
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
IRISH VOLUNTEERS TO
HOLD ANNUAL PICNIC
Big Athletic Meet to Take Place
at Shell Mound

Company A of Irish Volunteers will
hold its seventeenth annual picnic to-
morrow at Shell Mound park. Several
thousand tickets have been sold for
the event The company will assemble
at the new knights of the Red Branch
hail. 1888 Mission street, at O'CLOCK
tomorrow morning in full uniform ana
march to the ferry, headed by mill
tary band.
The crack athletes of the bay coun-
ties will compete in the track and neld
events, which will be under the
auspices of the p. a. A. The military
features will include assault and
equipment races. There will also be
an exhibition drill and a tug OF war.
The committee on arrangements IS
composed of the following.
Lieut.. r. Il. Mahoney Sergeant ". J. Shea
fchairman) Sergeant T.. J. Reilly
Corn i T. Brosnanl Private A, kilmartin
fsecretary) J. II. Collins
Private j. +. McArdlel Z. j. helleher
ttreasurerD
The reception committee is composed
of the following:
Sergt. p. J. Kenny 7. Kirk
Sergt NJ O'Nein Corporal J. Caldon
Sergt. j. Brodie Il. O'Leafy
William McsIahon E. Mulhern
T. Kelly A. Tarrant
j. j. O'Connor Martin 0'Connor
D. corbett james Mccarthy
Maurice Murphy John Mccarthy
Mathew Murphy j. Condor
Donald FLYNN p. Herlihy
r. Murnane j. klng
Frank Dugan p. Gallagher
J. Downs
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
FIVE YEAR SENTENCE
FOR THEFT OF Is CENTS
IncorrigibIe Youth May Repent
While Breaking Rock

A Is cent theft caused five years
sentence in Folsom to be passed on
John Alenter by Judge Dunno yester-
day.
Alenter is a young man, but SO
worthless that there appeared TO be
no possibility for reformation except
through the discipline of prison The
Knudson. the complaining witness.
Alenter snatched the purse, but was
unable to escape.
Fred Evans was sent to San Quen-
tin for three years, Charles Williams
for IS months and Daniel Doherty to
the county Jail for 80 days by Judge
Dunno yesterday, all for the crime of
burglary.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
Sunset Heights Sales

Filmer & Meacham report the fol-
lowing sales:
Ursula Yager to >sIary J Barrie lot in east
line of Stanyan street. lao feet south Of Grat-
tan. consisting of two fats; $3.50.
John ]. Dignan Minnie Getz. lot in east
line of Cole street. 49, feet north of Frederick,
and two flats for 50. 800.
T. c. Horn 10 Elizabeth E. Donohue. lot in
east line of Cole street. between Alma and
Rivoli. consisting of a two nat building, new.
for $4,000.
Edward J. Dufey to Robert Morrow. lot in
east line OF Edgewood avenue, 27:6x116 feet,
for $1,000
Claude McGee to William c. Fmer lot in
east line of Edgewood avenue south of Belmont.
35xl16. for SO. $50.
William c. Filmer of the firm of Filmer &
Meacham is about to build home at the cost
Of Ss.000.
Filmer & Meacham report an active
demand for lots in Sunset heights
which is building up rapidly.
The same brokers recently leased
for the Donahue estate to the Sani-
tary laundry company the southeast
corner of Herman and Jessie streets
for term of years. A building of
large size will be erected on the site
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