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Show U WIFE OF fiRMAN ENVOY TO UNITED , STATES VISII-O- SB F San Francisco Woman Horrified by Stories of Reptiles. Boa Constrictors, Rattlesnakes and Dozen Other Kind of 6erpents Been by Citizens If Hysterical Stories Can Be Believed. t'CII has Loon written on the subject of the bachelor maid. She hasx-cone of the fmet of the new works of creation. She has Isrn saul to have the mental poise of independence and experience and, like the ship in the sonnet, where she goes the winds stir. Hut little hns been sauTof the spinster man And he is corning to Is- - just as common a species as the bachelor maid. He has learned like his sister that bachelor life haa too many fascinations to gne them up for the responsibilities of family life and, like his sister, he refrains from marrying just as long as he can keep his he art intact, and even then he makes a noble Iruggle. But the spinster man grows set in his ways much sooner than the bachelor maid, who, the more Bhe mingles with a busy world, the niorcTshegro ,i In jr r a e and intellect. San Francisco. Boa constrictors, water snakes, gopher snakes, black snakes, rattlesnakes, garter snakes and a dozen other varieties of the rep tile family have been teen In and about Parnassus Heights during ths last week. If the hysterical stories r lated by saucer-eyecitizens of tha section are to be believed. Rumor has it that s king cobra was killed at the end of Stanyan street and, further, that a rock python, mea feet In suring from four to twenty-nin- e length, gave battle to an army of rei dents In Woodland avenue and escaped Into Sutro forest after having h ugg edt h ree m e n . Th e python was said to be a femnle. Patient investigation, however, dls closes that the rumors are somewhat but that, like many exaggerated, rumors, they have a foundation In truth. A rattler, carrying ten rattles and a button, was killed in Sturo forest the other day by John Pedlina, after it had almost frightened Mrs L. ,T. Cranz and her daughter, who reside in Belmont avenue, into hysterica. And the venomous snake measured five feet ight inches in length, aa anyone can verify by calling at the Park museum, where the reptile rests In alcohol. Also two big blackanakes, of variety unknown to the sober citizens of the district, have been encountered and overcome within thelast week in Stanyan street. Each maauredo ver six feet In length, as likewise can be with A) proven by communicating Guyton, a carpenttr, who haa earned the title, among residents of Parnassus Heights, of "the snake charmer.' iluyton killed one of the reptiles and "Snakes" Miller, a plasterer, captured and imprisoned the other. Now, these three serpents were all subdued within an area of less than 600' square feet and near the residence of Dr. O. C. Joslen in Woodland avenue. The doctors neighbors say that the monsters escaped from captivity In his backyard, where they were being held prisoners, but this the medical man stoutly denies. His wife insists that the last of their pets died a year ago, and th doctor declares they passed away some four months ago. Both Insist that no snakes aver escaped from them, but that all were gathered In by the grim reaper. However, the snakes have been encountered and slaughtered amid considerable hysteria among the women citixens, and not a few quakings among the men. D. L. Westover, owner of a house now in process ot repair at 1161 Stan-yastreet, rewarded "Snakes Miller, a plasterer employed on the building, with one dollar for killing the six-fobiacksnake foundTn the' front yard. -Westover frequently . Inspected his dwelling, but has not been seen there, it is said, within the last few days. John Herman, contractor on the building, Is displaying great haste In repairing the structure, and his carpenter, A1 Guyton, who caught one of the reptiles alive. Is working feverishly be aide" him.' Where from is somewhat of a mystery. - That they really appeared is certain. d The spinster man, who values Ins singleness and secliwon, one fine discovers himself in a decp rut of habit. He is an old maid in the day much Tidieuleel sense of the expression. - He is often sensitive and full of little peculiarities about his food and his clothe's especially his clothes, which must be just so. lie ge ts alarmingly used to his own things, and camping out does not agree with him. He wants his own bathtub and his own heart trees and his bright particular clothps brush. As a matter of rhoUcimpk by CIMlMl, Vaablll Th Countess von Baoftrff. whose husband is Kaiser Wilhelms fact, he ss a .very crotchety individual, is the spinster man. to America, ia among the neecomers In Washingtons diplomatic set. envoy She The old maid has practically died out among womplana a brilliant season fsr tte embassy. she but en, reappears again in the old bachelor, who loss by not marrying tliq very thing which the bachelor girl gains by the same untrammeled state. The hnchelor girl is seldom lonesome. She has t her her work and a thousand outside resources friends, rj to keep her amused. But the lonesornest soul in the Monday the lad leaves for New Tork world is tbepirisler man. Little by little he narrows Van in Washington Carted MiW and Switzerland, where he will be eduhis acquaintance to & small circle, and sooner or later llions of Dollars Thrisl CityT cated musically- - at the expense --of x Paderewski. JitLComes t he poiiit w lien his smoking jacket and Through the kindness and strategy slippers are his regular evenings solace. lie is not of the wlfe ofthe pianist was the FfM Would Haa Carrlad Bills Wagon especially happy, but he doesnt know what is the matlads talent brought to Paderewskis Covay Road Fifty Ml kids ter with him, and he doesnt understand that he is attention. It transpires that when from Atlantis to Pat! t --v Paderewski played here the boy went lonesome hopelessly and unutterably lonesome, ne Soma Comparts J . to the theater and tried to secure an is not even ambitious any more, because he has nothaudience with the master. Paderewski lc fashlng-to-l was in an 111 humor and turned him Washington. Visitor ing to be ambitious for. who have their eyea opej aay aeo, off. Struck by the crestfallen appearonce or twtee a day, a big dosed wag- ance of the boy, the pianists wife There are two fundamental reasons on drawn by three sturdy vhlfc horsea called him back and asked him to apback up pear at their private car why women workers Mould be organized drtva up Fifteenth street th ' curb at on el the enPaderewski was displeased when the into trade unions. The first is that the against trances to the treasury i prUnent. but consented to hear boy Thera la nothing especial:; b distinct him. appeared, good of society demands such associated So impressed was the pianist effort. It ia a significant fact that wher- gulsh this wagon from Ids i others, that he jumped to hla feat In surprise. that there are usual! rwo men He declared he knew, ever labor is highly skilled and highly paid except only one other on the front seat betide th fiver and In who could play classics trade organizationiollows aa a matter of two other men standing f the back withtheoneworld hand. course, and in its wake comes a higher atep. But when th vlgV notices The Johnson boy thought be had the number of packages thatife taken standard of living for the family and for off th been forgotten until a letter came th extra wagons, this complement the community. Wherever labor ia un- of attendants ceases to occaipn com- other day from Paderewski from The letter contained funds skilled and underpaid,, organization is diff- ment or surprise. It seems h x quite and for the boya musical eduplans natural, andthe comings j golnga cation. icult, and the maintenance of a high stan- of the wagoa attract llttla attention. dard of living ia well-niTat there is n romance ilbat that impsosible. Shoe Lae Saves Him. Much of this unskilled and underpaid van which reaches out to eery man, woman in Pa. Hla action In leaning child and th Darby, who ccsntry work ia done by women, sometimes in competition with men, sometimes has spent n dollar bill or say other over to tie hla shoe lace saved the jnot, Bomefinies by wonten who are the sole wage-earneof a family; amount in currency, for thst matter. life of Walter Salisbury while he was sometimes hy. wQmcnLwhp suppTt wage eamedby the In the last 24 years. For rery piece working out a blast in Squire quarry man of the family, sometimes by woinen who have no f&milies either to of paper money that has ken Issued In the TMfted Btates during that time Aa Salisbury was working below an be to supported by. support or has first ridden In that vsgon, and overhanging bowlder weighing "about The second reason tor the organization of women is the education the total equals all ths money there 400 pounds It became -l- oosened and la In the world A crashed down toward him. which the trade union offers to the woman herself. Women have always A recent calculatioa aom By a remarkable streak of good forfrolsced done more than their shore of .the work of the world, and now, for the rather remarkable comparisons. For tune, just at the time thqt the huge fiMlimeJthcy are beginning to realize its value. The path of woman in instance, the report saji: I rock began to fall. Salisburys shoe taodern industry has not heen strew h, withTrosesbut it string of bay wag- lace became loosened, and he .leaned surely is leading ons!3t20would tak a to miles long bid the money over totlaJL when the rock crashed her to a position of dignity and influence unknown to women of the past, that has passed throng! this old van. over the place where his head had and no other factor in her progress It the packages were piled one on top been only a moment before. He was of the other they would make n monu- slightly Injured otherwise, however. seems to be comparable. in usefulness m M ment IS miles high. I th bills were lr with the trade union. placed end to end th itrlsf would be 250,000 mllea long, or equal to ten Occasionally a word or so about Mars tfmes th distance antnl the world. They would carpet a road SO feet should be of interest. This ruddy neigh- wide from New Tori to San Francla-co- . bor of ours revolves at varying distances Their weight in ioal would sup- Mlnsrallst Makes Discovery. of Perl-dotiNear ths Rlvsr West from the earth. At times he ths average famiy with fuel for may be as ply 250 years. Had an exprt begun countf City Hall. far distant as 234,000,000 miles; at other ing this money In thirty of Columtimes as comparatively near as 35,500,000 bus he would have ben half through Little Rock, Ark. There may he a miles. His mean or average distance from when President Tiff was Inaugu- diamond field under the city of Little Rock. Jftbe speculations of J. F. the sun is some 141,000,000 miles, which rated.' ia rather an Interesting It 8o old Whitlock, a minerallst,' have worth. should be compared with the mean distance wagon after all. Its are not long, He claims to have discovered of Neptune the farthest planet 2,791,-000,0- although they are atips an Igneous rock formation important It miles. The mean diameter of the brings the currency igp the bureau that U the native bed In which diaof engraving and where It monds are found, on the bank of the ruddy planet' equals some 4,230 miles and is printed, to the pin ting, treeury department, Arkansas river, within the limits of his volume or size is some 15 one hun- scarcely half a mile arty. Th money this. city. The rock is said to be of Is packed In bundles ach dredths that of our earth. Ilis-masweighing the same nature as that In Pike counor 12 and eadcontalnlng 1,000 ty and in South Africa, from which pounds, one-tenabout that of our world weight equals 6,000,000,000,000,000,-00- 0, sheets with four bit! o the sheet diamonds have been taken. (KK tons! The density or solidity of Mars is about seven-tentthat The value of each nckage depends, It was Mr. Whitlock's yacht, which of our planet, while the density of our moon equals about that of course, upon the denomination or lies anchored In the river just west tlse of the bills t contain. One of the city hall, that led him to this of our earth. Bodies and weights upon the Martian surface would weigh, package which was composed altodiscovery. The present low stage of of course, less than upon the terrestrial surface (about 38 gether of $10,009 bib and was worth the Arkansas river has exposed por$10,000,000 was on hauled.' That tions of the bank that have not been local bundle, but even out of the water before for years. The statement isattnbuted to Beer? when the bills'are f the lowesTTI While im- Whitlocks tary Wilson that laborers eat meat three nomination, one dolaf, the packages attention was attracted by fragments are worth $4,000 eat. times daily and are not content with of a peculiar looking rock which was any It la because of the value of Ita found In considerable quantities on but the best cuts and can afford to buy load that the old the bank near the waters edge. He tagon 1 accompa. them. nied by four men, two In front and f up several specimens, exgathered The experience of every laborer in this two behind, besides)! driver. Uncle amined them closely and then carried Sam is country is $r refutation to the Btalement of 'hold-up- " not taking tif chances on a them to Commissioner Tucker's office even if la so abort and compared them wftb specimen ' i the secretary. Each of these met Ja heavly armed from the South African and Pike diaand ready to tackk any man or party mond fields. Indeed, housekeepers of even the Both be and Commisof men class middle $he state- West" that ahoull attempt a Wild sioner Tucker are confident that the display In 6 neighborhood of olive-greerock is peridotlte. ment Housewives could tell him tliat the the wagon. "In every well that Is practically prices of meat are almost prohibitive, so In Little Rock, iron fere containdug D far as the choice outs are concerned. !J$!CAL GENIUS ing mica Is found, says Mr. Whitlock. "This goes to Indicate that the rock The prices of even the less choice parti Paderewski Disco-er- s the city was formed by underneath Wisconsin Boy are on the increase and are fast, soaring beyond the reach of moderate Who Can Pty Classics with volcanic action. Now, it Is a , . fact that peridotlte la formed purses. Five fingers. One good feature of this increased cost of meat is that therewiU b by volcanic action. Hence the fact Ra Crosse, Wk In Donald Jobn-o- that this rock has been found gives less of it consumed. This will be better for the people, for the American a Centemil lad born with on every reason to believe that there Is as a general rule, eats too much me.it. nn. Paderewski, (be celebrated plan-st- , a vast bed of peridotlte under the 'believes be k&s found a genius city. This might or might not contain Such a course will He to the adxmtage of health and pocket books. ho will become world fumed. diamonds. Large quantities of pert- - r HAULS IIUCH MONEY .. IJ ot 8wlt-serlan- gh rs Har-Tiso- to-da- w Barred- - from Stejson Teaching Christian' Science."' Kirs. Her License Revoked Because S' Gave Students In New York Wron Idea of tho Eddy trines. y Doc- Boston. Mr.' Augusta E. Stetson. Tork, has not xr "dismissed from the Christian 3clence church, according to a statement from Alfred Harlow, Chalrm-- n xf the Mother church committee ca publication, but has bad her licem-.- i is a practitioner revoked. Mrs. Ster-)o- n still retains her membership ia the church. The move Is the result of a lovg Inquiry in the methods employed by her in teaching. The board of directors tn its report finds that Mrs. Stetson teaches her students that the New York branch of the church, with which she is connected, is the only legitimate hristlan Science church in that city, that she- - has been teaching an. erroneous sense of the doctrines, that Mrs. Stetson has so far strayed from the right as to be unfit for the work of a Christian Science teacher. The trustees of the church have of adopted amendments to the the church that will prevent,- It Is bee lieved, s recurrence of exactly troubles experienced by the trustees in the case of Mrs. Stetson. Section 2 of article 3, on the care of pupils. Is amended to read as follows: "Christian Scientists who are teachers shall carefully select for pupils only such as have good past records and promising proclivities toward Christian Science. A teacher shall not assume personal control of or attempt .to dominate his pupils, but he shall hold himself morally obligated to promote their progress In the understanding of divine principle not 5f New been-"expell- by-la- the-sam- the class term but after it, and to watch well that they prove sound In sentiment and practical In Christian Science. "Tie shall persistently and patiently counsel hls pupils In conformity with the unerring laws of Cod" and Bhall enjoin them habitually to study-th- e scriptures and Science and Health with Key tQ the Scriptures, as a help 5 thereto. only during NEW Ira RAILROAD PRESIDENT Rawn Works Alp from Tel-graph Operator te Chief. ExGL ecutive of the , Monon. Diamonds at Little Rock ts - it ' perl-dotit- e, 00 s th hs six-tent- hs ve cai-refut n ONE-ARME- well-know- n. n New Tork. At a meeting' ot the db rectors of th Chicago, Indianapolis A Louisville (Monon) railroad in New dotite are found which do not contain Tork, October 14, Ira Q. Rawn, of the Illinois Central, waa diamonds. chosen president of the road. He sucSNAKE IS MASTER OF. SHIP ceeded W. H. McDoel, who retires from the presidency' on November 1, Comes Out of Hold of British Steamer but who retains his place In the directorate and as a member of the execuPeruviana and Whole Craw tive committee. Makes . Retreat. Mr Rawn has beenconnected with Where a big snake the Illinois Central since 1903, having Philadelphia. came from which made its appearance been made assistant to J. T. Hara-baat that time. He rapidly was In the pantry of the British steamship Peruviana as the vessel came up the Delaware river the other day pussies Capt. Jones, master of the Peruviana, and all the others on board. The crew say that hissing sounds had been heard In the vessel's hold all of the way across the Atlantic, but no one could be Induced to go below and Investigate. The first tangible evidence that there was a menagerie below was secured when the snake appeared in the galley and wanted things his own way. 'Tne stewant-tHd-wthtok thatthere was any reason for having two bcises in the culinary department and k(led the snake. The Peruviana came here from Lulea, wheic snakes are un common. Prior to that she was engaged In the Brazilian trade, where It Is believed the snakes came on vice-preside- -- board... .. , , , The other reptiles are hid away in remote places where It Is impossible to locate them. Ira G. Rawn. Pokes Squirrel with Gun. Tork, Pa. An accident similar to that which caused the death of Sam-ie- l Smith, at Blttersvllle, almost cost th life of Ira Eberly of Daliastown. Eber-lhad knocked a squirrel from a tree, but It was only wounded, and dragged itself behind a fence. With the butt of bis gun Eberly tried to poke It out when the weapon was discharged, th .hot tearing bis cap almost to piece and the powder spattering bis face. ! jL. - advanced through the offices of gen ral superintendent of transportation assistant general manager and gen eral manager. Before going to the Illinois Centra he was general superintendent of ths Baltimore A Ohio. He started hb railroad service as a tele graph oper ator on the Baltimore A Ohio at Ctn cinnati. 29 years ago. He' Is now 2 years old. t , I |
