The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 6

B T — i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1897. APRIL 3, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .§0.15 Daily ‘end Sanday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily srd Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 8.00 &nd Sunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily end Sunday €ALL, oye month, by mail. . .65 Bunday CaLL, one ye 1.50 W ELKLY CALL, oBle ¥ 1.50 BUSINESS - OFFICE: 10 3larke: Street, Fan ¥Francieco, California. Telephone . ¥ Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street Teleptione . .Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:reet, corner Clay; open atil o'clock 439 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'elock.: 15 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenta and Mission streets, open ntil 9 o'clock. ission street, open unt inth street, open until 8 o' 1505 Polk street; open uniil 9:30 o'clock. NW.. corner second 4nd Kentucky. streets; open Lill 9 o' OAKLAND OFFICB: 98 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 Park Kow. New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- Leave orders to-dsy for THE SUNDAY Carz and assure yourself good reading for to-morrow. The European concert cannot sing any tune to which the ‘members can keep step for five minutes: The troudle with th+ Mississippi is_that it -will neither keep its bed norlet-any- body. on its banks keep theirs. It will be none too often for you to think every day whatyou can do to ad- vance the construction of the boulevard. In some respects the most extraordinary event of the year recently happened in New York—a messenger-boy outran a thief. Senator Morgan is right. 1f we are to help the famine-stricken people ‘of India why not help the war-stricken people of Cuba? The Greeks have offered to buy Crete, but the Turks would not sell,and thereis nothing left now but a fight or en arbi- tration. It'was inevitable that the New York Chamber of Commerce shouid oppose the new tariff bili, inasmuch as it is not a foreign importation but a home produc- tion. The cuts which the Governor made from the appropriation bill will count as pud- ding for the people. What has been saved from the tax levy adds to the com- forts of home. Young Bailey of Texas’™ the new Democratic leader of the House, is aid 10 have asp.rations for the Senate, but if be is wise he will stay whers heis. He may live to be Mr. Speaker if he behaves himself, Some Kansas officials who were sent out to seek a crazy man to take him to a lunatic asylum are said to have been sarprised to find him serving on a jury in the Circuit Court, but why they were sur: prised is not explained. As ex-Senator Brice s to build a-new house in Ohio it may be regarded as seitled ihat he intends to be a candidate for the Senate at ‘the next election. He always lives in Ohio when he is a candi- date and in New York after he is elected; McKinley is making no mistakes in the selection of men to fill the offices of the country. Every appointment.he has made so far has won public approval and confirmed the general expectation that we are to have a good -administration in everyrespect. During the reign of Victoria the debt of England has been' reduced by about $1,000,000,000. - It has taken sixty years to make that amount of * reduction, but nevertheless it is a good showing, and no nation on earth can equal it except the United States, There are people in Washington who say that McKinley threw open the grounds of the White House to the public simply to afford standing room for the office-seekers, but there is reason to be- lieve the story is the ouicome of Demo- cratic calumny, The new law of the State prohibiting divorced people from remarrying within a year will give Nevada s chance to start matrimonial industry that will perhaps yay bstter \han prize-fighta. A law of that kind in one State is always equiva- lent toa bounty conferred on an adjoln- ing one. The revenues of the Government for March exceeded the expenditures by over $9,000,000. It was the rush of importa- tions 1o escape the highec duties of the new tariff that did it, however, 50 in all fairness the surplus should bs attributed 10 the Dingley bill rather than to the Wilson tariff. A Tarkish. statesman is quoted as say- ing that Turkey and Greece would soon satile their differences peaceably if the vowers would iet them alone, and there )s reason to believe he is tight. Certainly up to this time the great nations have done nothing except to irritate both sides 2nd help neithe: The New York Custom-house did a Tushing business in March and came near breaking the record. It would do a big business this month also 1f the House had not enactei-a clause putting the new tariff into effect on April 1. That action Was & surprise party to the importers and seems to have caught them nappine. The appointment of a committee on committees by the Republicans of the Benate wiil have the effect of bringing the oreanization of that body to an immedi- ate issue. The Democrats and the Popu- lists will have 10 take action one way or another. Either they must combine and organize the Senate themselves or else they must get out of the way and permit the Eepublicans to do so. Now that the Senate h Eecretary of War to pla chartered merchant vessel at the disposal of the Collector of the Port of New York 1o carry American contributions of food ip the famine-stricken people of India it wlll be in order for the British Parliament _to contribute something to the sufferers from the Mississippi floods. Kindness should have its reciprocities as well as trade, | attention given it. <A SURPLUS AT LAST. Treasury reports for March show that the receipts of the Government were $9,004,000 in excess of the expenditures for the month, and thus the Wilson tariff has apparently shown itself sufficient for once 10 meet the requirements of the Govern- ment and to provide a revenue equal to current expenses. Itisonly in appearance, however, that thiscondition exists. The excess of reve- nues is due to the larce importations brought into the country for the purpose of forestalling the D.ngley tariff, whose establishment cannot bs much longer de- layed. Had it not been for this rush on the part of importers the reports for March would have shown a deficit as usual, and the country would have been a little fur- ther in debt then it was at the beginning of the month. According to reports from New York as soon as the importers heard that the Dingley tariff was to go into effect from April 1 they acted promptly to obtain the benefits of the lower duties under the Wilson law. In one day at the New York Custom-house the receipts amounted to $1,726,453, and of this the sum of §$1,268,232 repressnted duties on goods withdrawn from bond, leaving the smount of duties on direct importations at $458.230. The receipts at the New York Custom- house for: Mirch amounted to a total of $17,579,633; They w-re exceeded in any ome month only once before in tiie history of the Government, which occarred in 1872, just afiera 10 per cent reduction in the tariff.. It will be seen, therefore, that the sole reason why there is a surplus of reve- nue .this month"is the consciousn on the partof the importers that. the new tariff is mear at hand. Ii'is a question whether the clause of the Dingley bill putiing the new tariff into effect on'April 1 will be sustained by the S nate, or if so sustained would be upheld by the courts. This question, how- ever, does not affect the action of the im- porters to any great extent. They are taking no chances. They have brought their goods into the country, have taken them out of bond at once and paid the customs duties. Thus does the Wilson bitl in its closing days steal a surplus from the Dingley bill and make a showing for itself which is not widely dissimilar from obtaining credit under false pretenses. CULTURE AND ENOWLEDGE. If the object of President Harper of Chicago University in getting the Count- essof Aberdeen to deliver the convoca- tion address was simply that of advertis- ing the institution anu attraciing public attention it has been abundantly attainad. The dddress of the Countess delivered on Thursday was more fully reported and widely printed thsn any other address of the kind which has been delivered in this couniry for many years. The attention given to the address was due mainly to the fact that it was the ad- dress of a countess. This is we believe the first instance of the choice of a woman to make an oration of the kind before a great university in America,and the high social position of the Countess adaed 10 the at- traction which the movelty bhad for the public. When full allowance is made, however, for tbe interest_ in the personality of the speaker it will be found that the address itselfl was in every respect worthy of the The theme chosen was “The University and Its Effect on the Home.” It dealt with the contrast be- fween knowledge and culture, and was de- signed to point out that our universities should aim to give a culture which can be carried into the home and add to the value of family life as well as a knowledge which 1s usefui in the office, the laboratory or the market. “The home,”” said the Countess, “has not reap d that barvest of benetits from uni- versity education which might have been expected.” This fact she attributes to a defect ia the bomo and declares that the average home isnotyet fitted for its mem- bers to get all possible good from univer- sity education. - The majority of students g0 to college unprapared for the higher training they receive there, and as a con- sequence gather knowledge of special kinds rather tean true culture and schol- arship. The work of fitting the home to the university and preparing it to send well- trained students to the seats of learning is to be performed, says the Countess, by the higher education of women. Much has been accomplished in that way and the movement is rapidly progressing. The universities have developed tie heartsana minds of women, and they in turn have developed in the home a culture which did not exist there before. The outlook for the future is therefore a hopeful one. The home through highly educated women will gain more and more benefits from the universities, and the universities in turn will gain more and more from t e homes. That is the ideal which the Countess of Aberdeen sets be- fore Chicago, and it will be well worth while for the uuiversity and the city to give heed to it. THE MISSISSIPPI PROBLEM. The Chicago Zimes-Herald is regarding the rising Mississippi out of the corner of its weatber eye, and a low, dubious whis- tle is the result of what it sees. Like TaE CALL, it procetds to set its flood-editor to work devising some gigantic plan to stem the awtul current and put an ena to the catastrophes which tue overflowing waters bring upon the bapless lowlanders every year. It is a problem which is rapidly Torcing itself before the whole country for solution. It becomes more serious every day and every year. Several plans bave been proposed. The levee system is pronounced a total failure end impossibie of improvement to any practical extent. C. Ellet, an engineer who is familiar with the river from one end to the other, advises the building of huge reservoirs mear the upper end, in which to siore the excess of water in win- ter and from.which to liberate it in sum- mer, thus keeping the river always uni- formly full and navigable, without danger of an overflow. The Government would have (o build these reservoirs and there would have to be considerably gore than two or three of them. Yet the plan is to all appearances feasible, i somewhat ex- tensiye. Ottler less practical suggestions have been offered, and only one more practical one. This latter seems to be the ideal and only expedient. The Times-Herald claims the original conception of it, and pro- pounds it as follows: The simplest of ali plans is the adoption of irrigation in Northern farming, or in those Stales whose waters are tributary 1o the Ohio and Mississippl. It would accomplish two great results—it would make farming mor profitable and it would prevent the disastrous floods. Waters stored on Northern farms for use in midsummer cannot devastate the low countries to the southwara, while our farmers would never suffer from a season of drought. At present the situation all along the Mississippl Valley is one of the gravest that the residents thereabouts have ever nad to face. The water is simply spread- ing over the whole valley, driving every- thing before it. It has the city of Rose- dale, Miss., entirely submerged and its 1000 citizens fleeing to the hills. Refogees coming shiveringly into Jackson decla that half of the miseiy hasnot been told— that no pen could describs it. Andall the time the water is climbing over the levees at the rate of an inch per hour. Is it not time for sometning to be done? We would advise those farmers at the upper end to begin irrigating pretty soon if they are going to do it atall. The Times-Herald |, should urge its prorcsition persistentiy and systematically where it will accom- plish the desired result WILL THE SENATE AQT? The Senate has been doing a fine lot of resolving about Cuba during the past week. Thursday it had befcre it four measures affecting that battle-rocked island. One was to instruct the American administration to inform Spain that we are unpersuaded of the justice of Murderer Weyler's ireatment of prisoners of war; another was the Morgan resolution con- cerning the letters of Maximo Gomez to Presidents Cleveland and McKinley; an- other was a joint resolution to extend belligerent rights to both the Spanish and Cuban Governments in the ports and ter- ritories of the United States, and the fourth was an injunction against the ac- quisition of Cuba by any European power. Of course nothing definitive came of this resolving, there being a lackadaisical | absence of unanimity back of it. The Senate hadn’t much else to do, its discus- sion of the proposed Nicaraguan treaty, looking to the completion of the canal, baving curled up to the blue sky several | days before. So it would seem that a good way to defeat one of the impending disappointments of this mundane life would be to forego at the outset any hope that these Cuban reso.utions will amount to anytuing more than the same soaring vapor, Senator Morgan stated Thursday that he was going to introduce still another proposition iu Cuba’s behalf—one provid- ing for the shipping of food to the fam- ished Christians in Crete and Cuba, asthe American Government has already de- | termined to send a ship-loaa to the starv- | ing people in India. Isitlikely that this | manifestly fair and consistent proposal | will go through? We venture to dare one more di-appontment in this matter | by earnestly hoping that it will. We | should like to see America be at least a | little fairer than the other biz powers of | the world, who are b:ing unfair to a de- | gree which civilization has seldom seen equaled. FLR UNAL John Tiernan of Utah has arrived here. F. C. Lusk of Chico is here on & short visit. William Lawrence of Denver is in the City. F. Selgrath of Salt Luke is at the Occidental. Mariin S White of New York is at the Palace. Dr. D. E. Osborn of St. Helena is in the City. Ex-Congressman Louttitis here on & short | visit. ¥. 6. Weasinger of Freostone Is at the Occl: | dental. Herbert Bars, a business man of Redding, 1s at the Russ. J. W. Sewell, & butcher of Redding, is a late arrival here. J.W. Bailey, s miving man of Montana, is at the Grand. J.J. Doyle of Sants Cruz is among the lats rrivals here. J. M. Cox, a business man of Visalls, arrived here yesterday. P. A. Neiison and daughter of Utsh are at the Cosmopolitan. Arthur Lincoln, s well-to-do merchant of Monireal, 18 iu town. Chatles Ham and family of Frankfort, Ind., are at the Cosmopolitan. J. Naglee Burke, Mrs. Burke and children, of San Jose, are at the Palsce. J. McArthur and Mrs. McArthur of Aber- deen, 8. D., are at the Grand. Lieutenant Richard Inch of the United States navy is at the Occidental. R. McMillin, W. K. Moffat and W. McCall of Scolland arrived here yesterdsy. Ex-D.strict Attorney James F. Farraher of Yreks 8 registered at the Palace. W. G. Albertson, & business man of Tahiti, hes arrived here on his way East. Rotert Grahnm of Los Angeles s a latoar- rivalin the City. He is at the Palace. B. J. Wood, & business man of Los Angeles, isin the City, accompanied by his wife. Geoge F. Beveridge, a lesding mine-owner | of Santa Rosalia, Mexico, is at the Palace. Charles Carps, the wholesale wine mer- chant, s:arts for a tour of Europe on April 9. Alexander Kleuffer, & mining man of Cust City, daho, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Ex-District Attorney James W. Bartlett of | Weaverville is among the late arrivals in the | City. John C. Lewls, a leadiog grain and general | commission dealer of Portland, has arrived here. . The members of the Golden Gate Excursion, consisting of about thirty Eastern people, are | atthe Palace. Thomas L. Darbey of Denver, who has been | engaged in different enterp:ises in Colorado, | is registered at the Oceidental. . D. H. Fitzzerald, a wealthy tin-plate manu- facturer of Pittsburg, Pa., is quartered at the Russ, He)s nere on a sight-seeing trip. George H. Darbrow, who has for & long time been iuterested in the borax beds near Salton, on the desert, has arrived here aiter along absence. Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, who, with Mrs. Reid and the children, has | been putting in the winter at Pheenix, Ariz., | has arrived fa the State, accompanied by hi family, and is now at Milibrae. Thomas B. A. Price of Boston, who s con- nected with important mining transactions, is at the Palace. Mr. Prica says there is a good feeling in Boston toward safe mining enter- prises. “You kuow,” he said, “that about all the big copper mines of this country are ownea by Boston capital. This is true of the Calumet and Hecls and other great mines of the Lake Superior region, and of the Montana. propertier. They have made money and con- sequently they feel kindly toward legitimate projects.” CALIFORNiANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 2.—At the Plazs, R. Hart; Holland, J.J. Crooks, Miss McKins ley, H. H. Scott; Hoffmap, A, M. Samuels; Continental, J. F. Davis, Mrs. Anna Piper of San Diego arrived on the Ems from Genos. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Tmpossible!” her husband exclaimed. She smiled kindiy. onventionally, yes,” she answered artistically, no. In other words, she would have those roses for her hat, even although they were robin’s- egg blue and did cost $25.—Detroit Journal. “but “Why do s0 many modern writers seem to prefer notorlety to iame ?” “Because & men hgs to climb for fame, but be can get notoriety by an easy tumble.”— Cleveland Leader. “When you stepped on that gentleman’s foot, Tommy, I hope you apologized?” *Oh, yes; indeed 1did,” said Tommy, “and e me 10 cents for being such a good “Did he ? And whatdid you do then " “'stepped on the other and apologized again, butit didn’t work.”—Harper's Round Tabl “Electric lighting,” sald Bilkins, “‘doesn’t seem to be such a modern ides after all.” *‘How is that ?” asked Wiikins. *‘Well, you sce, Noah must have used the ark light.”—Detreit Free Press. Pull her tail it you want to make a Maltese cross,—Elmira Star, | quently the expression “I lit the ga: ONE OF THE MOST STARTLING SCIENTIFIC DIS- COVERIES OF THE DAY, An eminent Oakiand scientist claims to bave made an important discovery, which will do much to elucidate the theory of gravitation and explain its operation. In other words, he contends that he has at last learned the “mechanical why and wherefore” of this wonderful lawof nature—s detail which originally es caped the powerful and comprehensive intel- lcet of Sir Isaac Newton, The people of San Francisco who are inter- «sied in science—and what up-to-date person 15 not?—will be eager to learn all abent this discovery. They can do so0 by obtsining a copy of THE SUNDAY CALL. Who has notneard of “Oom Paul”? The President of the Boer republic, who has proved himsell a match for the ablest diplo- maisof Engiand,is a man of international reputation just now, and people are inter- ested i knowing about his personsl charac- teristics, as weil as his political opinions. THE SUNDAY CALL Will tell something new of Kruger. In these days of stress and competition, when the majority of mankind is moved by poiitico-economical considerations, there are many people, even in San Francisco, who cannot Go forth under the open sky And listen (0 nature’s teachings. To such as these Adeline Knapp's charming proge idyls will forcibly appesl. Those who seek for “books in the running brooks and sermons in stones” wiil find food for refl-ction in her sympathetic delineation of the aspects of nature. The Fashion page of THE SUNDAY CALL s the most ably edited on the coast, and those of both sexes who are anxions to dress well should never fail to consult it, The true story of a Spanish senora near San Diego, who rules a family of eighteen, will be told in THE SUNDAY CALL. Then there is the Children’s page which will possess many new and entertaining features, Clark Russell, the novelist of the sea, is the suthor of “The Last Eutry,” which is now run- ning in THE SUNDAY CALL. To-morrow’s installment of this thrilling romence will be found highly interesting. The book page, like good wine, needs no bush, All the reviews of current publications are ably and {mpartially written. Some of the most eminent philosophical thinkers of Californ’ have atiempted to solve the problem of existence as presented in the query, “What Are We Living For ?” THE SUNDAY CALL will tell you all about it. The foregoing are but momentary glimpses of the many good things which may be found in THE SUNDAY CALL. Order it from your dealer to-day. FOR GREECE AND C(RETE Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the 108 fui- with nixh Hope aud fear whose e but fise and sword in sight: ©One aione, whose nume i3 one with giory, ces Lhe light. Hella motlier of the spirit, sole supreme 1n war nd peace, | Land of light, whose word remembered bids all fear and sorrow cense, | Lives ngain whi o ireedom lightens eas:ward yet for sons of Gre ce. Greece. where only men whose manhood was as codhead ever trod, Bears the id witness yet of light where- shod : eece, was always very man Now the winds of old that filled her salls with triumph, when the fl-et Bound for deah from Asia fled before them stri ken, wake to greet Ships fuli winged agaia for freedom toward the sacred shores o1 Crete. 0d born man, the song that spake of and thiere 5 God by trus: (hat shows him nough t0o dice 0 dare. Now muy light agiin the beacon Mt when those We Worship were. ALGERNON teeuin Century ANSWERS 10 O«RESFONDENTS. WIXDOW-GLASS—F. O. B., City. The following shows the difference of the tariff on glass under the McKinley bili and the Wilson biil: HARLES SWINBUBNE, In the Nine- Robert.G. Ingersoil, has written a letter io an Atlantic paper denying the statement recently made by an Atlanta paper that she is a Presby- terian. Prince Alexander Imeretinsky, the [newly sopointed Governor-General at Warsaw, is the son ef the last independent prince of the Cau- casus aua was formerly regarded as the Rus- sian candidate for the Bulgarian throne. One of the Engligh bishops is also a geolo- gist, Being acked (o say grace ata swell pri- vatedinner he stood up and performed that innction, but went straighton while on his feet with s geological disquisition, which he haa been pouring into the ear of his neighbor when interrupted by the summons. John Cooper Van Tassell, the oldest resident of Greensburg, , nas just died at the age of 95 years. His father, Willism C. Van Taseell, fought in the warof 1812. Hfs grandfather tought in the revolution. Mr. Van Tassell was not a soldier, but in the War of the Rebellion seven of his eight sons took part. Aneventof nationalimportance will shortly take place in France. Itis the retirement of M. Delber, the executioner, who, now that he has guillotined 502 criminals, thinks it high time his successor was appointed. He is 63 years of age, and has been forty years in his country’s service. The German Emperor is seid to be a very fine shot, although obliged to use his gun only |__ McKinley bill. Wilson bill. TUnpolished crown and window glass, not exceeding| 10x15 ... bt oeee (13 49.11 111 Arove 10x 15 and not e<ceeding 16x24 i 200.:9 |1 Above 16x24 and no: exceedl 1 24x30 | 11655 [115¢ Apov and not exceeds 12 .94/ 1 Al aboy 6 1n..... 11527 11 Polished cyinder and crown glase, Dot excreding| 16x2410....... g Above that, not exc eding 24x30 Tn that. not exceedl ¢ ac.... Fluied, rolled or roush UG e Above 10x15, not exceeding 1Bx Arove 16324, not exceeding 34x £0 1 All wbove 24330 in. 3 Piaie glass, unsl v-red, not ex x Above 16x24, not exceeding 24x30 io. Avove 24x 0, not exceediug 24x60 in. All above 4380 in Pplate slas Plate glass, cast. poilshed, siivered, npt exceeding| 16x24 In.... . £ Above 16x24. not excerding 24x30 in. Above 2 x3U, not exceeding 2:x60 to. All abov 24x60 D ... Lookin:-glasses, ¢ , tramed. Glass not provided fur above Spectacles and eyeciasser Lens s, cosiing $1 50 per Kross pair. . X Siained oc painted window-glass and mirrors framed | 45%. 20.28| 24.45| 14 60,33 unf!u &g, ft. 30.69| | 10c »q. fi.. 80.0. |20 62.26 ' 36c 45.00/(3,% “Lit THE GAs"—A. W., City. “Lit” is the) with the right hand. The weakness of his left preterit and part participle of light. conse- is cor- rect. Tie AuteNHED-M. J. R., Centerville, Cal. The Altenheim, & home for aged German peo- ple. s located 'in Fruitvale, Alsmeds County, Aletter addressed to the superintendent will Teceive atiention, and he will surnish ail de- sired information about the home. STRAITS OF MAGELLAN—G. G. H., Vina, Te- hams County, Cal. Sailing vessels bound from Ean_ Francisco to Liverpool genersliy avoid the Strails of Magellan becaunse the pas- sage is too perilous on account of the many rocks in the channels. The course is around Cape Horn. HALP DoLLams—P. de M., City. Deslers in coins do not offer any premium for half-doilars | of the United States bearing dates from 1880 10 1890, inclusive. These coinsarenot scarce. Possibly they are not plentiful, from the iact that as the coins become worn the are withe drawn from circulation. A MEASURE 1N CONGRESS—A. J. P., City. A measure that is passed in the iower house of Congress and requires its passage by the Sen- ate and the signature of the President cannot, after it has been rejected by the Senate, be pasced again by the lower house by & two- tbird vote aud then be presented by that body 1o the President for hi: nature. Tie Mussisare—T. P., Pike City, Sierra County, Cal. The following table gives the slope in inches per mile of the Mississippi River between the points named : Points— High. Low. Cairo to Momphls & Memphi It Hel €85 L ble Vicksburg {0 mouth Red Rivel 2% Ked River 1o New Orieans Y Above the mouth of the Ohio the slope is about 6 inches per mile, except at the Das Moines and Rock Island rapids, which are 24 and 22 feet respectivel THE SLAVS—S. R. G., San Jose, Cal. The following named books will give a great deal of information about the Slavs’ hisiory, lan- gusge and literature: “Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavis,’ by Thom- sen; “Race and Language.” by A. Lelevre; Historical Geography of Europe,” by E. A. Freeman, In Jobnson's Cyclopedia, edition of 1895, there is an interesting and concise accountof the Slavs. In addition the reader will find much of interest in Scharfarick’ work on the Siavs, 1843 and his “histo; Janguage and literature 1816, ana Miklosich’s Ve Siav Sprached,” V. LAW A8 To EsTATEs—N. S, Bakersfieid, Cal. The question axked in relation to the settling up of an estate is based on circumstances that could not exist in this State for the reason that if an esinte of a deceased person is brought Into court and an executor is uppointed, i parties in jnierest cannotof their own free will “drop ii" ana allow the widow to do 8s she pledses with the property. The court would Lave o say someihing about it. If. however, such a state oi things exists, sa it is Tepresented in the communication, the va- 1idity of the disposition of the puwer‘{ would become & matier for judicial determination, one this department cannot pass upon. MEN AND WUKEN Bishop F. D. Huntington (Episcopal) of Syra- cuse has confirmed 22,000 persons during the twenty-seven years of his episcopate. 8. P. Leimer of Pawnee Rock, Kans., had a new house on the site of the one that was burned within twenty-four hours ater the fire, It is rumored thet the Duchess of Baxe. Coburg-Gotha is anxious to- have her daugh- ter, Princess Beatrice, married to the young Kiug of Servia. Miss Maud R. Ingersoll, daughter of Colonel arm has forced him to train himself to hold the gun orrifle lixe a pistol, sud his arm is very steady and sure. Toe strength of his right arm has wonderfuily augmented by con- tinual training, and he can bear the greatest iatigue withont feeling it. 4 AUDITOR CALLS A HALT. Mr. Broderick Says That City and Couuty Hospital Expenditures Are Far Too High. As a result of Auditor Broderick's visit to the City and County Hospitalon Thurs- day last the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors was notified yester- day that it was time to call a halt on the expenditures for repairs to the sewer sys- tem of the institution. Mr. Broderick did not lay any blame at the door of the Supervisors, but stated that the excessive expense was the fault of the Board of Health in using iron pipe at $250 per foot when stone pipe at 35 cents 8 foot would have served just as well. He declared that in consequence improvements that were to have cost $500 will ron into $4000 or $5000 if earried out. He asked the committee not to authorize any more demands for the present, as he would be compelled to refuse to sign them. The committee agreed to look Closely into the matier. Later the contractor for the work pre- ented demands on the treasury arawn on “‘urgent necessity’’ blanks for over $800. Auditor Broderick refused to consider them and told the contractor o place them on hospital fund blanks and have them indorsea by the Finance Committee. DENNIS JOROAN'S MONEY. Litigation Involvi Recent Leg tive 4ppropriation. Suit was commenced yesterday by Thomas R. Hayes ags inst Dennis Jordan, Wells, Fargo & Co., Carl Spelling and others for the purpose of determining who is entitled to the money recently voted to Mr. Jordan by th I‘fil’l"m Jordan bad a ciaim against the State for $79,000 on account of work and material urnished in constructing the Folsom Penitentiary. An understanding was tinally ched and Governor Budd on Thursday signed the bill appropriating $63.563 to puy the claim. When Jordan went through bankruptcy several years a-o Hayes acied as assignee for the benefit of the creditors. He no alleges that Jordan omitted the State’s indebtedness to him from his schedule of assets. For that reason he asks that Jor- dan and all others holding assignments from him be restrained from coliecting the money f1om the State; that the cash id into court and thatenough of it be held to pay the demands of Jordan's creditors with interest from the date of his insolvency. des goge Diyorce Suits Filed. Suits for divorce have been filed as follo Teresa Frances Day for desertion; Deborah La Fusier sgainst eury F. Fuster. desertion; Margaret J. Jones t Charles Jones, desertion; Sallie Baker sgainst Karl H. Baker, fatlure to provids Louisa Rahn against John Kahn, desertion, —————— Louis Metzger Heads a Soap Factory. - Articles of incorporation of the Mission Soap and Candle Works have been filad by Louis Metzger. Louis Schoenberg, Richard O’ Connor, Juiius L. Frankiin and Henry Morgenthau, with a capital stock of $250,000. CUPID CAUGHT N MID-AIR Genial Phil Hastings} to Wed Pretty Miss Millie Viola, She Is Queei of the Air and H: Gider of the M.mic Attraction. A Wedding Hastily Arranged ani a Bride Who May Chang: Her Mt o Itall depends upon the pretty, daring bride. If Mile. Millie Viola does not change her mind, Monday, at noon, Phil Hastings, the press agent of the Orpheum and the Chutes, will lead the graceful aeronaut to the altar of Dr. Kip’s Second- street church, and there in the presence of his many theatrical and bohemian ainst Alexander Day, | friends promise to love and protect her. Genial Pnil met his blushing bride at the Chutes. He was at once smitten by her pretty face and graceful figure, arid when he saw her dangling by her toes from a dizzy, dazz'ing beight he vowed a | solemn vow to make her Mrs. Hastings. Phil's wooing was swift, straight and successful. He lost no time in useless | courting, but stormed her heart at once, and without & murmur the aerial artiste capituiated. At first the date of the wed- ding was not mentioned. Then a horrid theatrical contract, threatening to sepa- rate the lovers for iour months, spurred Phil on to action. He urged an imme- aiate union, and on Wednesday night Millie Viola promised him the hand that goes with her heart should be his on Monday at noon. Phil has been attending to all the de- tails of the wedding. The limited time previous to the ceremony has not per- | mitted the anxious lover to send out| cards. *‘Monday at noon,” he tells all his | iriends. “*Come on. Dr. Kip's church on Second street. You know, right next to the brewery.” Arnd ail this keeps him so busy that he can scarcely stop to shake his many well-wishers by the hand. He bas so much to attend to. There is the bridal trip and neckties and patent leatber boots and pink shirts—in short, a well-regulated press agent’s troussean. But Phil is not the only busy party to this contract. There is the bride, who, by the way, when she steps on terra firma | {is known as Miss Ruby Horaker. She | also has “things’’ to prepare. With a| iriend she is domiciled at 437 O'Farrell street, and since she has set tue day has been up to her eyes in gowns and wraps and tue other articles necessary for a bride’s outfii. “I'm nervous,” she says. “I wish it was over. So much to do in so shorta time. Mr. Hastings, though, is attending to all of it. We are to be married in some chareh—I don’t know where—and I really don’t know whetber we are to heve a wed- ding breakfast. I'm =afraid Phil is not well enough to eat a big meal. But we | are going away—to Monterey—ior a whole week. That is why I get married on Monday. Mr. Hastings has to be at the Orpheum on Sunday, and 1f I married later in the week that Would spoil my out- ine.” Miss Viola, otuerwise Horaker, holds determined views as to the marriage state. In the first place, the wedding prepa tions annoy and ruffle her, and she is not q certain whether she may not yet change her mind. However. she is positive that she is not | going 1o settle down. *I'm’ getting ma; ried to have a betier time—not to sett down,” she sententiously remarked. “If Phil does not give it me—"" and an expres- sive -nruf of the shoulders left nothing to the 1magination, Miss Horaker's wedding gown is to be of brown ster, Miss Eseie Horaker, e niece, Miss Luiu Raywood, will be her bridal attendants. ., | Dr. Happersberger will be on hand to | H the wedding circlet to the groom and | ncidentally to offer condolences if Miss Horaker changes her mind. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, Modoc Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Mon Give a Smoker to Friends. Modoc Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men heid ashort, but interesting session on Thursdsy night in | s hall io Red Men's buiiding, the reason for the early quen hing of the council fire belng to open lta doors to friends, who had been invited to atend a smoker and listen to a talk on "Social Problems” by Great Chief of Records C. F. Burg- man. During the evening M. Kraus who has just returned from the sout the State, presented the tribe a handso Iton picture of a red in full war patat. It is made from the bsrk of & palm. the edges of whic! being frayed by nature form the long, fiowing hair- When the yalefaces had been admiited the pipe of p ace was handed around, toat is, each individ- | ual was handed & pipe of peace or a piece of pipe (the best T. D.) and a good smoke was enjoyed. | Hermann Guttstadt. past sachem, in & happy, short talic weicomed Visiting Red ‘Men and paie! aces. “Then he introduced the ta'ker of the evening, the great chief of records, who spoke for haif an hour on the subject of the condition of society Which has brought about the atate of affairs +xis; ing {n San Francisco at this lime, namey, the | number of unemplored men, and suggested that | there is e way 10 overcom- such a condition and that is to practice the liberalism hat marks the Order of Red Men,and that one branch of the com- munity sbould neipthe \ther, Instesd of trying o | scquireev. rythiog to the detriment of the otner. His ta k showed a complete knowiedge of the in- | dustrial coudi fon of tne City, State and Unied | States. Hia Instructive address was loudly ap- platded. Then the talent of the evening was in- | troduced. ~ After an overture by M Krimer, | Joseph :Sution sang “We Are Kings To-uight. | “H-urietta” and “1'li Be Trueto You Ma Honey:" | Professor Meyer gave selections on tue piano; | Measra. Primrose and Frane gave selections on the mandoiln and guitar: then George Calvert gave comic recita lons in dialect: Mt ssrs. Gallindo and Pallino xuve populsr aits on the mandolin and Enliar, ana the programme closed with & negro dislect recitation by Jacob Fowszer. The guests and members then wen: to the baaquet-roo whers they spint am hour around tue fes board, oo which had been spread & fesst of corn and venison. Friends of the Forest. The monthly social of Ploneer P lor, Friends of the Forest, on Tuesday night wi 4 lighttut affair tha: was aitended by many of the friends of the members a3 well as by representatives of Eichmond and Lincolnpariors. Prominent among those present were M. Boehm, Dr. Leffler and Dr. | Patten. I he affair was nce, with numbers be- tween each dance on the piogramn e, which had been arranced by the commitiee consi ting «f Mrs. Lena sholten, Mrs W, . Neal 6. Mrs. ¢ Brace | Mrs. J. Jeffcies. Mra. B. Mackret ,Miss M. Gunther | and Miss . Phipps. Particular features of the evening were: Iiano solo, Miss “Turner; 1ecl tion, Miss Frances suckland: vocal soje. M. A Neale: gultar and mandolin duer. cbson and: Patten od baslo e e, “There wi gultar and banjo duet, Rel brothers. collation during the even- ing. April Fool Party. Orinda Parlor, N. D.G. W., which bas in its membership alarge number of young ladies, who are merry and are alwaya planning when not engaged in the serious work of the parioror g ving private ming.rel en ertaluments after adjourn- ment of the parior, some arrangement to enters talo Iis friends. On Thursaay nichi the parior #d & high time telow stairs. for it gave an April First party in the banquet-hall of the Native Sons' bullding. which is In the basement of that bul d- ing. There was a goodly at:ndance and a flue Pprogranime of dances. Ope which was frequen 1y on ihe programme and much enjoyed was the theat waltz. During the evening there was & Trdoy sale—that is. a number of the members of $he parior 5:00d on & iow platform. conceaied from the audience by a large American flag, sud 11l Sror R ot P Rative Lons, annosmsd | o Purlor, Native Sons, announced that hehad beon chosen auct-oneer And thac ho | master; { Biron, officer of guard; Sumvel Higglos, ofi- | Miss Floy Rose exhibition, one pairata time. the hishest bidaey to have the owaer of them as & parc er for ihe evenin. “The Iim t was 25 cents. but some went below that figure. One enthuslas fc individual. who rajsed every cne 5 cen:s until he was dec ared 1o Icky man, paid his money to Mrs. L-ua 8. Mills, sctng as cashier. and was very much surprised to discover - that tine owner of the shoes he had o:d on was his wir. There w one palr on exhibt {0n tha. noue of the gentleme seemed aux.0u- to bid 0. but one did bid a nick a of for them, aud, bel.ig the lone b ader, he c the prize, and ic was a prize, for the shoes, th large, belonged t0 0.1 Of the bandsomes iadigs o1 the parior.. Then fofiowed the dunce, duri: which eac.: par.icipint wore what he or she found ina bonbon. As the evening wore on Jight re: fre<hmeuts were merved. had charge of this affa was Mrse Lena B. Milis, filled last night by the members uid frien Bay City Circle, Companlons of the.Forest. I of who hisd kathered for the purpose of €nio; pr.ze domlino party - hat had been arranzed by following naméd commlttee on enter:ainme: Marks (chuirman), Miss Millie Berkueim. Mry. Paul Kotb, Mrs. Gooaman, Miss Lubosch: Mrs. C. Burke, Mrs. C. Gu and Mrs. Heller ALl those who took part in the grand march were Tequired 10 wear a domino. and thate, was & com- mits € to pass Upon the meris of particivatis us ©0 their qualifications Lo rec Ve three prizs (ha were uffcred. Une was for tie hand somestdomp i another fo: the most beautiful face sggn unier huod ana the thir . for the wo:st 100king fec modesty of the winner of he second pri Yented her a i0wing ber name to_be mpde publi while the one that was s3 ugy thac she kot the prize did not want the wor.d 0 kBow 1t Lo the straln of Barne.Us orchesira %as ke sl p Inie bour. Army and Nuvy Union. 5 Third Artillery Garrison No. 161 of the Rég- ular Army and N 8 Angel Island last Monday. * The, followiig- named were insta.led as officers for theensu ing term: Wiliiam O'Coanell, senior commander; Marian s Mitchell, junior vi commander X H. Chick, quartermasier; Oscar Fwhlan, pay- Patrick White, officer of day; George ce- cer of ‘waich. The garrison is yet in its infancy, but it has every reason to 100k forward 19 & prosperous future. Oro Fino Parlor, N. D."G. W. Oro Fino rarlor No. 9. Native Daughters of the Goldea West, will give its tenth anniyersirs ball in Native sons' Hail on tne evening ‘of the 32d inst. A commiiee appoiuied to jake charge of the affair wili do iis uimost 10 make this a Very pleasing affair. Order of Pendo. Supreme Secretary Ernest Dudeff left on Satur- day on & visit to the councils in Los Angeles. Colo- rado, Kansus, Chicago, Indiana and Montana. H expects to e 5one Lwo months. . FOR OHARITY'S SAK”E. for ~ext Saturday Night. Next Saturday evening Leland 8. Ramsdell’s farce, “Fifteen Thousana D lars, or A Lottery Ticket,” will be pro- duced at Armory Hall in Alameda. It will be a charity performance, the pro- ceeds to be distributed among the poor of itable Association. The boys associated with the young author are Herbert Clark, Clarence Oliver, Rovert Valleau and Le- land Price. . The story of the play relates the trials of Farmer Pumpkinkhead and his wiie and their triumph over misfortune. The au- thor is only 15 years of age, but his work is said to be bighly meritorious. The re- hearsals zive promise of an excellent even- ing’s entertainment. The cabdt is as fol- lows: . oot ity 1 Pumpkinhead, Leland ; Mandy Pumpkinhead, Herbert Ciarl nderbilt and Bunko-sicerer, Clarence m Vai- deroils, Kobert Valleau; Officer Murppy, Le- land Price; *cops,” newsboys, Duich band, etc. In addition to the farce the following programme will add to the evening’s en- tertainment: (3 Piano solo, Miss Helen Entzmgn; recitation, club-swinging, Rita Myloth vocal solo, Mary Linderman; three old jiys in song and tne real’ ballet, Clark. Oliver and Ramsdell; tenoc solo, Rubert Vaileau; fire- ciub swinging, Rita Myloth; plsutation songs and dauces, Clipper broihers; tenor solo, Clarencs Oliver; Massa troupe of Jspanese acrobats. iz During the performance Miss Mary Lin-, derman will present to the Alafeda Alertd the championship banner prepared for them. —_———— GENUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to 40c; Sun- day« 740 Market, Kast shoestore; weekdays 35 Fourth street, next bakery. © .. dmirevhive by ol RS TOURIsTS—California glace fruit, 50¢ 1bs ngl- egant fire-eiched bxs. Just what you, want for Eastern friends. Townsend's, Paleve Hotel B'd" pmid s il it FPECIAL information dsily to mamrufacturers; ‘business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mdéutgomery, * e e After the experience meeting: Deacon Brown—1I think you ought to adopt*the five- minute rule at experience meetings. Elder Smith—That's right. Some of sinners seemed to think tney jvers i United States Senate.—Puck nose Santa Fe Limiled From San Franclsch Three and » Half Days to Chicago Via tanta Fe Route. To sccommodate our Northern Callfornla pa- trons, son Mondays and Thursdays the first- ciass Pullman sieeping-car leaving San Frao- cisco at 5 P M. will connect at Barstow with the Santa Fe vestibule Yrain, carrying dining-car, buffet, smoking-car d Pullmsn pal ace drawing-room sleeping-cars for botf St. Lou and Chicago via Kaosas Clty. This shortens the running time tweive bours. Sendsfor literaturs cescriptive of our rcute. San Francisco ticket office, 644 Market sireet, Chronicle bullding; tele- phone main 1681. Oakland, 1118 Broadway. ., Santidsetaelin REailroad Tickets to the Easf via Rio n and Denver and ande Railways, e rates, with through Pullm buffet and tourist sleeping car service every da Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday ‘Wednesday and Thursday. Onlv line permiiting stop-over at Salt Lake Uity on all aiasses of tickeis Detalled Information and tickets furpished a: 14 Montgomery street, or 314 California street, iy hange of Time. Taking effect March 28, the Nqrtherd Pacific overiand traln will leave Portland at 1L A . in- stead of 1 P. ., thus making connection Kane for all points In the new Kootenal mining district. Tickets at lowest rates 4o Rosslan1, Northport and Trail. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market sireet, San Francisco. i Fom COUuGHS, ASTHMA AND THROAT DISORDERS “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are an effectual rem- edy. Sold only in boxes. Rmen it . As 2 stomachic, when the digestive organs ara Inactive and need stimuiating, especlally afier dlaner, pothing can equal Ayer's Pills. S g, Jinks—T understand Scorcher has designed a new style of wheel. Binks—Where did he get the ided ? Jinks—Out of his own head. Commercial Advertiser. ew York POWDER \ Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for it great ieavening streneth and healthfulness. Assures the 1ood agaifist A’.}:lm ::d all ngu of adulierat.on COmmMOR to the chesp Would cffer to the highest bidder the ‘Iriibies on "RO¥AL BAKING POWDER Co. NewYors Dancing An Evening’s Entertainmont Promised .. Alameda by the Alameda Women’s Char- " committee Tnat Miss Alma Heime's. Miss A. McPhulips, Miss , Eduh Higgins and Miss Annie i pe . Bay ¢ty Circle, of ¥ i Soeclal Hall, In the Alcazar biilding, wagwell vy Union was instituted'at W. H. Maitison, adjuiant; Leou , d