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SAN FRANOISOO. The 0ity Described-Ito Marvelous Growth-Former Fires and Earthquakes. San Francisco, the metropolis of the Pacifle coast, is the Iaigest and most important city of the region west of the Mississippi river. It is built on a peiisular washed by the waters of the Pacific ocean on one side and the waters of the Bay of San Francisco on the other. It occupies a central posi tion on the coast line of California. The city's area is 47 square miles. Its site is large and hilly, and it pre sents a picturesque appearance from the harbor. The part devoted to com merce lies along the shores of the bay, and is moderately level, with the resi denitial district on elevated ground. The most fashionable quarters are those which overlook the ocean, bay an(] towin. Kniob Hill, upon which the men who constructed the first over land railroad built their palatial resi dences, is about 300 feet above the ocean. A part of the site of San Francisco was reclaimed from the bay. Some of the most substantial structures in the business section are reared on piles driven to bed rock through made ground. Market street is a thorough fare several miles long and the streets south of it are level, but those front the north and west intersecting it have graes iln sone laaes ItS great as 50 per cent. It 's thisfeature that gives the town a striking skyline, and front ite bay it presents the appearanee of a city with houses piled on top of one another. Except the thoroughfares and a very small area near the waterfront, the streets are of ample width. Mar ket street, the main artery, starts at tie Ferry biilding and cuts across tile towl in a southwesterly direction. It is intersected on the north side by streets laid in conformity with the cardinal poinits. This arrangement produces irregular blocks, which have left soile space at points of intersee tion for placing Imionumeits. The streets soith of Market, with the ex eeption of Mission, which describes it lengthened are, cut each other at right angles. There are in all 750 miles of streets open to travel. Of these 104 are paved with rock laid on a foundation of con crete. Market street presents at all times an animated appearanec. Some of the largest department stores in the city are on this street, but tile Chite shopping ldistiret is still in the streets to the north of that thoroulglIfare Kerney, Stitter, Post, Oerry aid Grant avenue and Stockton streets. Union Square, in this locality, is a fashion able shopping ecntre. An extensive system of' boulevards exists, furnish ing a continuons drive of inarly 20 miles. Ini 1903 there were 274 miles of street carm tracks-76 electric and 86 cable, 4 hoirse andl 8 steam. l'hiere are many hotels, th~e most prominent b)einlg the Palace, the Occidental and thpe St. Francis. The latter is a mod een 12-story building of steel and stone and1 is adlmirab)ly situated on Unioin Square. The Palace is perhap. the best known hotel wvest of the Mis sissippi. San Francisco is growing very rap idly. The population in 1860 was 56, '802 and( in 1870, 149,473; in 1880, 233, 9)59; inl 1890, 298,997; and in 1900, 342,782. One-third (if the p)opulla tioni is of foreign birth. Of these the Oermans inumber 35,194; Irish 18,963; English, Scotch and Welsh 12,342; Chinese live in a - distinct quarter, Italians 7,508; Chinese 13,954. The which has taken on many of the char actei'istics of their own native land, and Chinatown of San Francisco is one of the sights to be visited by the tourists. The city has had a number of de structive fires, and an earthquake did some damage 0on Octobeir 21, 1868. In the five big fires of December 14, 1849, May 4, 1850, June 14, 1850, and May 2, 1851, June 2, 1851, the property de stroyed reached an aggregate value of * sixteen million dollars. With the com pletion of the Union Pacific road to the coast inl 1869 the city entered upon a new era of prosperity. A Railway Mixup. Among those who have beeni comn plaining of the slow railwvays in Italy is a commercial traveler, who recent ly determined that th,e Milan express should end his life. Two minutes be fore tIle train was due at a certain station he laid himself stoically across 2 th14rails. After vainly awaiting the tr-ain's approach for Mity minutes the gentlemen was compelled to relin quih tie project. He threatened to sue the directorate for inconveniene Scaused him, in whlich ease, it is saidi, S the railway authorities will put in a counterclaim for services rendered. TuE FmLOWmP OF DOGS. Always nove For A Man Who re Fond of An Ordinary Our. Culturist Magazine. I have seen a few. wretches in niy (lay, but I never saw one so utterly lost to decency that he could not be flattered by the friendly attentions of a strange dog. There is a great les son in that. No matter how superior we try to seem to ourselves and oth ers, a small voice within us will not let us wholly forget what humbugs we are. In the presence of our kind we are brazen. The calm gaze of A child sometimes shakes our self con fidence. The knowing look of a dog shatters it. There is something in brute psychology that perplexes the intellect of man and disorganizes his intuition. Man is so made that what he cannot understand exercises great er influence over him than that which lie canl. In the presence of many phenomena he reveals himself openly and quite unconsciously. He is then no longer master of the fortifleations of his soul. He drops his mask-his grotesque outer garb-his brazen shield falls to the ground, and he ei ther cowardly retreats or succumbs without resistance. There is some hope for the man who is capable of feeling ashamed in the presence of an honorable dog. That man has avenues open to him for ad vancement. His soul is still fit for expansion. His brain is something more than a dried nut. His heart has not tiulrIed entirely into a thing of rubber and valves. When a strange dog greets him he thinks better of himself. Unconsciously lie reasons: 'Villain that I am. I am not so bad after all as I might be. You can't fool a dog, and a dog is no hypocrite. Therefore I have good in mne-which he recognizes.'' The fellow is a little surprised at himself and not a little flattered. If a noble dog shows him marked favor lie becomes ''stuck up' almost immediately. If several dogs should display great preference and affection for his person lie would oon hecome unendurable to society- 1 quite too vain for association with men. Con t rariwise, should (logs bark at him generally or )erchance should one bite him lie would not feel himself 1 .cood enough to associate with snakes, but would forthwith get himself locked up as a victim of hysterical rabies, and if lie had any pathetic I kinfolk at large they would a't once insist upon having the dog put to death. For my own part I have learned a great (eal from dogs. If I am natu ral, they set me the example in early childhood. If I am faithful to a friend through his disgrace and dis aster I catinot (eny that a dog reveal e( this nobility of character to me for the flrst time in my life. If I haVe gratitudle, I saw it first in a dog. If I have enterprise, lhe dlid not neglect my early lessons. If I have initiative, so had my first dog friend. If I am af fectioniate, so was he. If I am patient in adlversity and without arrogance in affluence I could not have acquired this poise of mind hotter from men than from (logs. If I am watchful over weakness entrusted to my care, if I am forgetful of -self in guarding my beloved, if I have the courage of my convictions, if I have any heroic instincts I could have had no better teacher than a dog. Indleed1 the love of dogs, their association and example have filled my life with joy. Drummer Boy's Romance. ''I was a drummer boy in Sheri dan' s army,'' 'said L. J. Henry, of Chicago, ''and at the mature age of ffteen fell desperately in love with a little girl down in Columbia, Tenn., that I thought as beautiful as an an gel, and who seemed to reciprocate my affections, even though I was a hmted Yankee. ''All the time that m~y command stayed at her home, I managed to see her once every day, anid at night she was ever in my dreams. I thought that death would be -welcome if she (id not become my wife; and wvhen our force left for Washington all that kept me from utterly breaking down was lier promise that she wvould an swer every letter I wrote her. But, alas; though I wrote often and lov ingly, never a word camne in reply, and for months I wvent about sick at heart because of Noer supp)osed -faith lesness. ''Well, about six months ago I went back to thme south for the first time in forty years, and though Co lumbia was out of mny way I couldn't omit a visit to thme scene of my first romance. My wife and growvn daughit or accompanied me, and I told them tIhe story and that I meant to, see my sweetheart of long ago if she still lived. I had no difficulty in finding her and we had a great reunion. She was a fine looking matron and had a daughter just the age of mine. " BLACK V6*RNORS A Curious Piece of Old Time Co neotiout History. . book little known even to c< 14trs of A'merican is a volume e titi'd "Hartford in the Olden Tim Its First Thirty Years," by Scam a which, was edited by W. M. B. Hal B ley and published at Hartford in 18 There is a chapter in this book en tied "The Black Governors of Co e necticut," the very title of which w B excite the surprise of most intellige people even in Connecticut, who ha never heard of any black governo in the Nutmeg state except the go ernors of an opposite political fait a who were, of course, politically blac - The title, however, is explained al justified by a little explanaton. Befo - the Revolution and down to a peri4 as late as 1820 it was the custon f the negroes living in the state to ho an election on the Saturday succee ing the regular election day, choosit one of their number as governc Sometimes, however, no election W, held, the retiring governor assig in- his office to another. The mi chosen in either case was usually " nimposing presence, strength, fir ness and volubility; quick to decid ready to coinmand and quick to flog. He appointed a staff of military ar judicial officers, who executed his o diers in all matters pertaining to co ored people. especially questions pe tainig to morals, manners and cer ImcilieS. The fact that he had no legal stati in the province or state did not at a trouble hini or his subjects, and he al pears to have exercised a very re pover, nearly always on the side < morality and justice. The justice ( theI peace appointed by these bla( --rovernors were, as a rule, extremiel _eVere, inl Punlishing people of the own color who trangressed the lai So generally was this recognized 1; fthe whites in colonial times that whe - a slave committed some offense it wt t the cust-Inm to turn him over to tl a black justice for punishment. Such elprit always fared much worse tho if he had been tried by the reguh courts. r Among the more notable color( Imen who held the offiee of govern were: Quaw, a negro b'elonging Colonel George Wyllys; Peleg Nol who belonged to Colonel Jeremit Wadsworth; Boston, belonging to M Nicholas; John Anderson and Cu t who held the office for ten years. A r ter the abolition of slavery in Co neetiuet the custom fell into disus( "I Trust You." Suecess Magazine. I owe my salvation to three wor n you sj)oke, " he wrote. " When all t a world was against me you said, [- trust you.' " -- I every b)oy or girl w~ho has ma, i- mistakes andl gone astray could ha f such a friend a gr'eat many of the -wouldl return to a normal life. TI di feeling that someb)ody believes in i trusts us-no matter what others Il lieve or' say-touches the hea I Criminals are sometimes totallyi formed thr'ough the consciousne d that somfeb)ody still believes in tihe: t. no matter howv low they may ha y fallen. Could we realize how mu ri this trust and confidence wvould do f ,a man when everything else has fa e ed we shlould be more generous of o l- conidence in our' fellows. d ' TIinin'. a waiter doesn't make hi lose his balance. ITOMOBiLE STORY A ar Divorce CLOSSER HALE, y humorous motor-car romance--the heroine are man and wife makes it the theory of the ten-year marriage Meredith, goes with her indulgent r through France and italy for the en the grounds of "incompatibility > not exist. It takes another woman, mnobile to bring Mrs. Ward to her hich are in Color, by Walter Hale Cloth, *1.50 Ollshtrs il/ send the book, postage paid, 'cesp C/ price. D & COMPANY Eth Avenue' -New York 19. Effra THE TEACHER TAVGHT. Why Sir rdwin Arnoqd-94Wed T Use The Rod On HiX 041. London Globe. Sir Edwin Arnold, in his autobi agraphy, tells the uniquo story o how, as masterIof the Birninghal Dranunar school, lie was caned by on f the boys. The class was engaged on Cicer Some disorder occurred near th, master's chair, and seizing the can he f"gave a nasty cut upon the to temptig back of one youth wh4 eemed to be the offender.'' ''If yoi !lease, sir,'' said the boy, squiriing 'I did nothing. It was Scudamor ltat kicked ie in the stomach inder icath the desk.'' The statement was true. Seuda u.ore had demanded froil his neigh )or, quite illegitimately, the explana iol of anl obscuire passage and, no Jeing attended to. had taken tlii nueh too emphatie means of enfore ng attention. Having called th lass up, Arnold said to the doubl Vron1ged boy, who wivs still rilbblint he place: 'It is I who am most ti )ame for haviig dealt you an uniide ervedl blow. Take that cane and giv< t back to me as hard as you got it.' 'No. sir.'' the lad answered. '' an't do that.'' The whole grena c.loolroom was now listening, nmas ers and all. Arnold insisted. ".oine 'on must obey mc, and if you disobe) ain sorry to ray I shall make y4 vrite out that pa,g. of Cicero he' imes, staying ill to do so.' Wihether i t was desperation at !i Ireadful alternative or I le' sparklin yes of his class fellows, (.videw ) on in-, Itt l ye the -e . !ick ilihiz. elves of ''licking'' a master, 61x Udenly inspn-ed Jomil-. I know . " fihat I do know is tlhat he reahie, 'orth his hand, took the vane ami lealt ie no sham strcke, but the se orest and most'telling cut over im houlders. I had no idea that the ri liculous instrument could sting as i lid, like a scorpion. ''Rubbing ti lace 'i' in my own turn, I imanage ti hank Jones for his obligini- conipli mtce and then said to him: ''Breal Jhat detestable weapon across you cnee and throw it out of the windo%N qever again will we have anythin o do with such methods here.'' Sir Edwin Arnold adds that eox poral punishment is, in his view, ,owardly and' elumsy expedient an tiat ''he who cannot teach withou the stick had better get some othe blisinless. Old Shoes. gew York Post. 'There are hundreds of men i 'STw York city," said a salesman in lowntown shoe store, '' who are ind; reetly adding to the income of the coi porations controlling the shoe bus less.' A man wearing an 01(d pair I h1o00, sometimes only half worn, pui ehases a new pair and leaves his ol mes here. Gradually others accumi late, and in time there are, say, a hur :Ired pairs. These are p)laced in paste board bo0xes, wralpped anid tied(. Abou mece a month a dealer in secondhanm rootgear conmes along, b)ids on the lo ind gets it. In this way the compan p)rofits during the course of a ven somie hundreds of dollars. Of cours< die secondhand main 'gets stuck' oae in awhile, but most of them also reeu ize a profit by .selliing the shoes agai after they have been rep)aired au polished.'' 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