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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. BSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free #nd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler..§0.15 and Su CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 six months, by mail.. 5.00 and & CALi, three months by mail 1.50 nd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 CaLi, one year, by mail. 1.50 ear, by mail. 150 OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, Californ ta. Main—1868 Telephe EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICE:! Montgomery s:reet, coraer lock. v: open untll treet; open until 9:30 o'clock. reet, open until :30 o'clock. eenta und Mission sireets, open st n street, open until 9 o'clock. et, open o'clock. cet; open until 9:80 o'clock. second and Kenmtucky 1505 Polk NW. cerne; streets; open till § o’ OAKLAND OFFICB: 998 Broadway. ERN OFFICE: Park Row, New York Cltys Z, Eastern Manager. EA Rooms 51 and & DAVID M. FO! “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- JMMER MONTHS. THE Areyou oing to the country on s vacation? 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It is going to be a Greater New York in name, but it may turn out to beonly a bigger Brooklyn in style. k has come to the conclusion The be is not so sick after all and shows » de- | take his medicine. ors enough in Los o electrify the whole y seem to be doing it. e to Secretary Gage is not only a good finau- ese exclusion v the right man for the a canal project is coming n and this time it has than ever, for it is said the s pushing it. one thing to be said for produces more Mayors to han any other city on record ity is not much below the ion s a chance to make work for a unemployed on the Hall of is pushed instead of drag- rded 10 be an eternal As all reports from Cuba in these days ies for the patriots it ap- yler has had to dismiss 1d be no question at Wash- | strenathen the energies of the friends of { | | Secretary Sherman is known to be favor- | able to the enterprise and there is every |ley desires to make its accomplishment THE NIOCARAGUA OANAL Evidenceshave been given in many of the recent dispatches from \‘,'sshingmu that the project for constructing the Nica- ragua canal will soon come to the front again in Congress and will be supported by the whole force of the administration. | Both scandals should be probed by inves- tigations which will touch bottom before they stop. A WASHINGION RUMOR. According to dispatches from Washing- ton published in THE CALL yesterday an effort is being mad: by the New England Marble Company to obtain from the Go! ernment contracts for furnishing material for the two Federal buildings which are to be erected in Chicago anda San Fran- cisco. 1t was further asserted that the New Englanders had a “strong pull” and there are chances that they will succeed unless the quarrymen of the West are prompt and vigorous in counteracting their ef- fort This story may be no more than a Wash- ington rumor. In the very nature of things it cannot be traced to an official source. It is nevertheless one of sufficient importance to attract the attention of Californians and to awaken them to the vossibility that the stone to be used in our new building may be brought to us from the far East instead of being taken from our own quarries. Such a danger should at once arouse the commercial and in- dustrial bodies of the State to take what- ever action may be necessary to over- come it. The truth of the rumor is confirmed to some extent by the statement in the dis- patch that Californians now at Washing- ton are trying to have the upper structurs | of the building in t. City constructed of | California stone. It is said that the selec- | | reason to believe that President McKin- one of the prominent features of his term of office. It was announced in Tue Carn a few days ago that the statement made last winter that the Nicaraguan Government regarded the concession made to the Maritime Canal Company as forfeited was in some respects erroneous. The conces- sion has not been forfeited, and Secretary Sherman, who is reported to be now en- ged in negotiating a treaty with the Greater Republic of Central America for the completion of the canal, issaid to have reached the conclusion that the best menns of carrying out the project will bs under the original grant to the canal company All these reports are encouraging. They give assurance that the present adminis- | tration, so far from being antagonistic to the great undertaking, is not even indiffer- ent to it. The President and the Eecretary of State are already at work arranging | treaties under which it can be carried out, | and the chances are that when Congress meets in regular session next winter some definite plan will be ready for submission to that body. Itis known that the Sen- ate favors the enterprise and there is every reason to believe that a majority of the members of the House are equally in- clined to cafry it out by the assistance of the Unitea States and under control of our Government. The importance of the canal is such that every particle of news affecting 1t is a matter of general interest. For that reason there will be close attention given to the subject, now that it is about to re- appear Practical issue before Con- gress. While the subject has been long under discussion, it has never become threadbare, because every one who favors it fully recognizes the strength of the op- position and knows that unless its sup- porters are incessantly active it can never be accomplished. The news from Wash- ington will, therefore, revive the agitation on the subject all over the country and tion of the stone will probably be made by the officials of the Treasury Depari- ment, though Congressman Loud beliaves that in this case the usual rule will be de- parted from and the choice of material left to the Committee on Public Buildings. California has a right to expect that home material will be used for the con- | struction of the building in San Fran- cisco. We would lose much of the benefit expected from the construction if any large portion of the material is brought from the East which could be obtained here. Itis probable that the selection of the stone will soon be made and our citi- zens should act promptly in urging upon those in authority to require the use of material from California quariies. AROUNL THE CORRIDORS. A littlo book of selected verse by Howard V. Sutherland will be published shortly in this City by P. J. Healey. The verses have, for the greater part, been floating around in different publications for the last few years and will make a volume of about eighty pages or so. The author, still a young man, began his active literary career in Califoraia as a re- porter on THE CALL about three and s half ars ago; he then became associsted with mes H. Barry of the Star for two years, and later had charge of the News Letter. Mr. Sutheriand does not pretend to have any great messagas to convey, and merely | hopes to become known as a writer of simple rics and love songs and as a stanch upholder of the West. the measure by increasing their hope of speedy success. LESE MAJESTE. The motion made in the Reichstag by Herr Bebel to repeal the clause of the German penal code bearing upon the crime of “lese majeste” has started a de- bate the outcome of which will be waited no little interest mot only by the people of Germany but throughout the world. This portion of the German law is so clearly a relic of barbarism that it is| difficult to understand why an enlightened people like the Germans have tolerated it, and the manner in which it has been en- forced under the present Kaiser has long been a disgrace to his reign. In the debate upon the motion, Herr Bebel pointed out that there has been an enormous increase in the number of trials for this offense, and that the scope of the Iaws has been <0 widened by the judgment of the courts that it is now construed as ‘lese majeste’’ for 8 man to make ‘“disre- spectful” remarks about the Emperor. even when the speaker is in his own house and talking in the presence of only | Further- | the members of his family. more, the courts are said to have com- ington as to whether the new Federal | pletely altered theoriginal concention of building in this City is to be constructed | the offense by inventing a crime of “ind1- of stone trom tk fr hic way labor all the cers whatever it may be for the rest of the world, Turee new major-gemerals and three new brigadier-generals in short order wi'l start promotions all along the ne and give a lift to somebody in nearly every regiment in the service. The passage of the Greater New York bill has had a saddening effect upon Chi- cagoand the once aggressive city is now developing a true Quaker spirit, as béfits a community whose ambition in life here- to be arival of Philadelphia for po:ition of second city in the Union. e W ing to this co try to look for work it is noted that there is a large influx of Ger- | man ziris at Loncon. Berlin may bave to make up the deficiency from Rassia and Russia from Central Asia. So the world goes round and woman keeps moving. In comparison with last year there have been comparatively few flower festivals in the State this season, but wherever they have been held they have been highly suc- ces and jerhaps next spring all the lively cltiss and towns of the interior will revive the last year's glorles and break its record. Senator Hoar’s statement that the sugar- andal of the Wilson tariff and the dicate bond dealshould be in- to the uttermost and probea vestigated until the examination touches bottom is a clear expression of popular sentiment on tie subject. The peopie would approve such an investigation and would like to see it bsgun at once. According to Secretary Woodruff of the National Mubicipal League, “every indis cation points to a very general movement among the larger cities for the adoption of reform throngh charter amendment during the coming year.” ment San Francisco will have to join sooner or later. Charter amendment may come high, but we must have it. In beginning an agitation sgainst the “lese majeste” laws of the empire, the German raaicals will bave the sympathy of liberal men all round the world. The imprisonment of a citizen becauss he | speaks “disrespecttully” of a ruler is a relic of barbarism even if the ruler doe: happen to be a kaiter clothed with divine right and endowed with a new uniform every day. Those New England people who call themselves protectionists and still are Joud in their opposition to a duty on hides are just a little bit hidebound in their ideas. In order thatit may be Na. tional, protection must be made to include the raw material of the West as well a the finished product of the Eastern miils. In other words the hide must be in it with the shoe. The President 1s receiving invitations from all parts of the country to attend celsbrations and expositions of one kind or another, and if he accepted half of them he would be kept busy all summer. That is what comes of being a popular Pres dent. Cleveland was not disturbed in such a way, as the people had very little desire 10 shake him by the hand and were per- fectly willing to let him spend hLis time fishing in selitude at Buzzards Bay. In this move- | 1e quarries of California or | We want | cused persons who had not named the This is to be a boom year for army offi- | | Kaiser. When freedom of speech among | le Irish and English girls are com- | rect lese majeste,” and condemning ac- Emperor, but who were merely supposed to have meant him in making rem which could be considered disrespectful. It is significant of the situation in Ger- many that before the cebate bezan one of the Socialist members of the Reichstag arose and warned the pablic in the gal- | leries that several dstectives were there, | and they had better refrain in discussing the debate smong themselves from ex- | | pressing any opinions which the courts | could construe as being violations of the Jaw and offensive to the dignity of the educated and intelligent men is so re- stricted, .as this, it is time for the bolder lesders of liberalism to begin at once a war for liberty. There can be no right government among a people who are debarred by penal statutes from the privilege of discussing the conduct of their rulers. Milton clearly expressed the supreme value of free speech when he said: “Give me the liberty to think, the liberty to utter and the liberty to write above all other liberty.” This is, indeed, the | fundamental right of man, and the law of ese majeste’’ which denies it is as higha tyranny as can be imposed upon any peo- ple. THE CHAPMAN OASE. The speech of Senator Hoar on tho reso- | lution of Senator Allen summoning El- verton Chapman to appear befdre the Senate and purge himself of contempt by answering the questions which he de- clined to answer when called as a witness betore the committee engaged in investi- gating the sugar trust scandal is one which awakens a renewed hope that the investigation will not be dropped and that the veople will in the end be made fully acquainted with the inner history of that transaction. Senator Hoar's speech was made in re- ply 10 a statement of Senator Gallinger that the resolution ought to go over be- | cause he did not desire to be again sub- jected to the annoyance of the investiga- tion. Mr. Hoar said he desired the sugar investigation, as well as an investigation of the sale of bonds, should proceed to the uttermost and should ‘‘touch bottom before it stopped.” He had no sympathy with anybody who would whistle either of these two inquiries down the wind. The Senate, he declared, ought to bring Chapman before its bar and propound to him again the questions he had refnsed to answer, and if he did not ‘mow answer he should be committed for contempt, whether the President pardoned him or not. This is the kind of talk the people like to bear from the Senate. The circum- stances under which the sugar duties were fixed in the Gorman tariff constitute one of the gravest legislative scandals in our history, and for the honor of tae Sen- ate the subject ought to bs thoroughly in- quired into and the truth made known. Moreover, as Senator Hoar suggests, the bond deal made by Cleveland and Carlisle with the Morgan syndicate shouid also be examined. Itisevident that such inquiries wonta be worse than useless unless witnesses can be compelled to testily to a Senate com- mittee a3 fally as they would be com- pelled to doin court. The issue is one of the greatest importance not only to the Senate but to the Nation. It is gratifying to have a Senator of the influznce and ) force of Benaior Hoar insist upon com- He believes poetry should come from the | beart and that it should appeal to the heart. Certain of the verses that will appear in the coming volume were written before the writer to this country, but most of them first the light in Caltforni. This collection of poems,” said Mr. Suther- land yesterday, “is to some extent made up of poems printed in leacing Saa Franeisco and rn and Southern pubiications during the | past two yeurs, but & number of other poems | have been ndded. I hope to get the book out in a short time, and may also say that if it meets the expectations of some of my friends who have urged me to make the publication, I shall be more than pleased.” - Mr. Sutheriand, as soon as he gets his menu- ript in shape 8o he can leave it, wiil go to the mountains for a short time, and later will visit New Yorx. | Upon a night loug after 1 diea | Irose aad passed the porials of her heart. | Therein no wreck nor rutn 1 espled. Bat fair and quiet lts dim-lit chamber lay And asweet silence b eathed 1n every part. | 4nd 1 who had ouce dweli there, sioud and | Anad thought, “While T have stept in the cold H claz, MEMORY. | How soon the stains of grief were washed away, | That s00n some tenant new might here abide.” And as I thoughr, one qulety entered in, And in h's hand the key to every door. 1 bowed my head and turned away and sald, “Pardou me it I return 1 dwelt here on I dwell here no more.” But he th my hands within, | And said, te'er thy sieward’s is Is thine: | My name is Memory. aud this p uce is mine.” | CHARLES C. TJx In Scribner's. MEN AND WOMEN. “Sol” Miller, who was the editor of the Troy (Kans.) Cniet for forty vears, died the other dey. His fund of eceentric humor made him | well known all over the State. R. L. Stevenson, Professor Henry Drummond | and “Ian Maclaren” were classmates at the | Edinburgh University, and not one of the three won distinction as a student. As & gendarme on his way to jail with a pris- oner in Mexico City was about to be run down by & train at & railroad crossing the prisoner dragged him from the track, saving his life. Mrs. Raymond, the mother of the president of Vassar College, has given the Foreign Mi sionary Society of the Epiphauy Baptist Church, New York, $11,000 for the education of heathen women. In New York is 8. Carmon Harriott, whose fatbe: left him a large fortune, which is 10 go t0 Carmon’s wifo when he gets one. This extra- | ordinary provision has prevented young Har- riott from getung married. The Countess von Linden has been selected by the University of Halle as substitate for Mr. Brandis, professor of zoology, during his { leave of absence. The Couatess has already acted as assisiant to the professor. Mexico nas lost its most popular poet in the person of Guillermo Prieto, who died st the City of Mexico recently, a very old man. He was one of the few survivors of the signers of | Mexieo's declarstion of fudependence in 1824. | WITH YOUR COFFEE. “And what was done to the serpent, Tommy, after Adsm and Eve were forced to leave the Garden of Eten?” “He was seutenced to travel on his shape for life,” retuffied Tommy.—Harlem Life. Papa—"Sine qua non” means something you cannot do without. Little Frank—Oh! & wheel.—Puck, What kind of langusge was that you were | talking to the baby just. now, mamma?” said | litt'e Ethel. | “Thats baby talk, my dear,” replied the mother. «And d1d T once understand that, mammat” —Yonkers Statesman. “He may be all very well at story tellinj but he doesn’t know much about the turt.” «“How do you know?” “Why, he made the favoriie win.”—Pjok- Me-Up. “For a while he was clear out of his mina about that girl.” R “And now?” “On, now the girl is clear out of his mind.”— Indianapolis Journal. “When we were first married you gave me half the close “Yes. “And now you act as if T ought to keep my coat and trousers hanging over the hall banis- ters.”—Chicago Record, She—How funny that you should be a Pres- byterian, while your wife is an Episcopalian! He—Wnat makes you think she is an Episco- lplfllllf She—Didn’t you say she was & confirmed in- valid?—New York Press. velling the recaleitrant witness to testily. | A WONDERFUL CAST. Next Sunday’s CAzL will contaln an sccount of the discovery of a cast made from the orig- inal death mask of the great Emperor Napoleon. This is interesting in itself, no mattor where the cast may have been found. But to add to the interest the cast was found in Mexico andat the present time is in the ¥nited States. Itisromantic in the extreme. Infact,a novelist with the most fertile imagination conld evolve nothing stranger. There isno doubt of the genuineness of the cast. Itisone of five that were made from the original mask taken shortly after the death of the great general and there are plenty of ietiers and pspers to prove all tho claims mado for it. Sunday’s CALL will tell all dbout the valuable relic—how it came t0 be made, where it disappeared to and what 1ts future will be. ' There will be also an account of some of the' straugest edifices in tne world. They were discovered & few years ago, but the facts in regard to them have just been made public. Some of the great observatories ot the world will be described by Professor Holden, who, as everybody knows, is as competent an observer of such things as may be found. There will be aiso & story of one of the strangest men alive, who follows. the most extra- ordinary occupation imaginable. A well-known writer paid a visit 10 an unfrequented part of the Presidio this week and tells in THE sUNDAY CALL all that she saw and heard there. There will be a number of other interesting things in THE SUNDAY CALL, among them being a story by Dan de Quill abouta tiger hunt in Indis, some facts about high buildings and “Leading Shivs by Trolley.” In addition there will be the children's page, which is also interesting to “cbildren of larger growth”; the book page, fashions, society, eic., and all the news of the day. “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.” Letters From Our Readers on Topics of Current Interest. President Jordan on State Duties. [Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: President David Starr Jordan of the Leland Stanford Jr. University commands my respectful attention whenever he addresses the public, for something of his large and forceful personality imbues whatever he says and clothes 1t with & certain air of authority which well becomes the man and the place ke fills. One does not need 10 agree with him in order to be impressed with the vigor of his thought and the force of his words, I also think there is less cantand more truth, as he sees it, in what he says than in the speech of most men who address the public. He may say blunt things now and then, but is that a fault in these aays? It was a loss I regret that 1 did not hear him address the Pure Food Congress, but I read and laid aside the meager newspaper reports of what he said for the purpose of asking pubiic consideration of certain duties of the State, which he set forth with his usual force and effectiveness. The verbal accuracy of the reports may be open to inquiry, but the internal evidence favors the claim of inaccuracy. My comments are based upon the assumption of substantial accuracy. He is reported to have said “that he came to speak in order that he might show the deep interest he felt in the movemsnt; not that he knew anything about pure food, not having seen any to his knowledge since he left the farm, twenty-five years ago. He thought the law with Teference to the manufacture aud sale of impure food did not go far enough. It should not not only be made very unprofitable, but extremely disagreeable. Every offender should be fined and sent to jail.” This is strong talk and much to the point. Hecited Aristotle as authorlty for it. Aristotle says: “Itis the duty of the State to reach every worthy end,” and President Jordan gives an example of State duty in conformity with the law laid down by Aristotie. Hesays: “Private individuals cannot analyze buking powder and other adulterated food, but the State can.” I think no one will dissent irom this view of State duty, and that all feel the need of State action in this line of duty except the “offender,” who s to “be fined and sent to jail,” for it no doubt is true that Rogue ne'er felt the halter draw With good optuion of the law. President Jordan then quoted Herbert Spencer as saying: “Save the people from the con- sequences of their own folly and you will fili the world with fools.”” “The deduction is that people must commit folly,” says President Jorden, “and suffer the eonsequences if the world is 1o grow any wiser.” Then why should President Jordan address the Pure Food Congress? Why should there be a Leiand Stanford Juuior University and a Dayid Starr Jordan president of it? If every child must be burned in order to dread the fire, and every untutored girl com- mit folly and suffer the consequences if they are (o grow any wiser, we have no need of the university and a Jordan to teach us the nature of folly and the wisdom needed to avold it. President Jordan next quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying, “Man has the right to life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness,” and then proceeds to say: “If ail the legislation was given the unemployed that they ask for it would fill the world with unemployed. It is not a wise charity to find work for the unemploved. The entorprise of finding work 1s what makes men.” In his position and with his munificent saiary as president of Stanford Universit when he speaks thus of the unemployed, 50 many of whom have wives and helpless children in sore need of food, clothes and decantshelter, one is reminded of the ancient philosopher who wrote an able treatiso on the advantages of poverty and used s solid gold table on which towriteit. ButI must defer to another time some deductions I desire to make from these views of President Jordan JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 835 Market street, May 13, 1897. FRATERNAL _fiEPARTMENT. The Presentation of a Handsome Flag to La Estrella Parlor of the Nutive Daughters. Whatever La Estrells Parlor does it does | well, and this assertion is based upon wnat it | has done since its organization a year ago. This spplies with special force to what this parlor aid last Wednesday night in celebra- | tion of ;s first anniversary in Native Sons’ | Hall. To commemorate this event in the life of the | parior Miss Helen Kruse, who is as patriotiz | ns any one can possibly be, made for the par- | lor a magnificent American flag nine feet long and of proportionate width of heavy silk rib- bon. Speaking of the flag, the handsomest owned by any parlor in the State, one of the officers suid: “dfiss Kruse was engaged for | nearly nine months in making this flag, every | stitch was nand-sewed by her, and the white | silk embroidered stars each 100k two hours of | her tiwe in the making, but it was a labor of | love and of patriotism, and she as well as | every member of the parior feels pgud of those glorious stars and stripes, and while we venerate Old Glory, we love this particular one the more because of the noble-hearted maker and the unselfishness that prompted her to present it to the parlor.” The hall had been decorated in star-spangled pale blue and light yellow, with & proiusion of garlands, baskets of flowers and lantern while in_frontof the stage (here was a large | bank of evergreen, in_which were distributed | potted rosos of various hues and fairy lamps of many colors. Over the stage was suspended star-bedecked, festooned, light material of the prevailing colors, and across itin silver let- ters was the name of the parlor. The leiters were of novel shape and a relief from the golden block ones so trequently used in deco- rations. Suspended from the center Of the hall was the embiem of the parlor, that which indicates its name, an_immense star of taste- jully arranged material. Aiter_the grand march, which wes led by Senior Past President Miss Louise McCarthy ana President Mrs, Lucy Barbich, there were two dances, and then followed the presenta- tion of the’ flag, the gift of Miss Kruse, who was the first vice-president of the parlor. There was an introduction by Mrs. Mary E. Tillman, the grand president of the order, which was followed Dy & patriotic address by Miss Mariana, Be: tola, Juniop pest president, the one who during her term of office induced tho parlors to display the American flag at every meeting and on all public occasions. At the conclusion of Leraddress she, on behalf of the donor, presented the flag to the parlor, and in s graceful speech it was received by Mrs. Barbich, the president, who pledged that it wiil be solémnly guarded ‘snd cherished by every member of the parior. "This was folowed by tha singing of “The Flag Thet Stirs Our Souls” by Mrs. Grace E. Dodge in & manner that moved the large sudi- ence to long and hearty spplause. The singer was joined in the beautitul chorus by the voices of twenty young Iadies who were con- cealed by a large flag that served asadrop currain. ~ Atthe close of the song the orchestra played “The Starspangled Banner,” and, ihe ag being raised, exposed & magnificent tab- leau representing the Goddess ot Liberty (Miss Helen Kruse) presenting California (Miss Minnie Klevesah.) with the flag. Miss Emm: Fenstermacher personated Eureks, the whole making a most beautiful, patriotic California picture, i After that there came ‘La Estrella Drill” by twenty young iadies, some attired all in red, others ail {n white and the others all in blue, suggestive of pairiotism snd decidedly effec- tive. The arill, a very pretty and dramatic one, was under the ‘management of Captain Irelan, and it was loudiy applauded. Then iollowed dancing, which was kept up until long after miduight Asa memento of the event there was pre- sented & souvenir programme, Star shaped, that bore upon its jace embossed tho Ameri- can and bear flags crossed and surrounded by Caitfornia poppies, in the center of which ap- peared the piciure of the donor of the flag, while underneath were medsilion piotures of Mrs. Tillman and M Bertols. The affair was under the mansgement of the foliowing-named, who can claim the credit of having given one of the most enjoyable enter- tainments ever given by a local parior: Commitiee o1 arrangements—Mrs. Lillian Cerlie, Miss Sophie Asmus, Mrs. Lucy Barbich, Misa Julia Vaslio, Miss Carrie Fonstermacher, igeltinger, Miss Minnie Kleve- Miss Lura Champfoa, Mrs. Annis Dar- floor director, R. W. Martiand; assistant floor director, Mrs. Annie Aigeltinger; recep- tion committee—rs. Lucy Barbich, Miss Lou- ise McCarty, Mis Helon Kruse, Mrs. Alice Kleves: s. L Gals, Miss Tillie Rothman, s; tioor committee—>iss Mamie McGrath, Mrs. {Annje_Kiernan, Miss Gussie Bernhard, Mis: ‘Alice Munder, Miss L. Whi M1ss Pheebe Nolte, Miss Emma Feustermache: Gelden Gate Council, N. U. At the last held meeting of Golden Ga Council No. 551 of the National Union there was presented a request {fom Miss Irene Hast- ings, & young pupliof one of the publicechools of the City, for & contribution on her list t the Lincoln monument fund. On motion of J. H. Baker the sum of §5 was con- tributed, the monument fund was sweiled, gnd the itiile" soltcliors neart (was’ made 2ppy. ‘Ohe candidate was initiated, fourteen appli- cations for membership ed upon, and arrangements wers made for & smoker to be given on the 25th inst., to which the members of all the councils will be 1avited. Treasurer Theodore Frolich, who recently met with an accident by a fall from & ladder, appeared in the council in a somewhat dis- abled condition. Edward Dillon Jr., ex-president of Paetfic Couacil, hasof late sent aflarge bouquet 10 the president of each council at each meeting. Woodmen of the World. Golden Gate Camp, Woodmen of the World, at its last held meeting initiated two candi- dates in the presence or & large number of visitors from other camps. During the soclal portion of the meeting thers was presented a programme as follows: Vocal solo, C. W, Bel recitation, Dr.J. C. Beinbridge: voeal solo, George J. Stroug; ventriloguism, J. H. Greet. kens; an address on “Wooderaft, Head Consul M. T. Moses, and remarks by Consul Commander Saisbury of Peralta Camp. This camp will give a Social dance on Satur- day, the 221, in Native Sons’ Hall, and on the Monday following will hold an inérease meet- ing and smoker in the banquet hall of the same buildiug. There will be presented to the visitors that evening & good programme, the flad hand of weicome and some fragrant avanas. Foresters’ Outing. The members of the local courts of the Ancient Order of Foresters and members of the courts across the bay will meet on Satur- day, day and evening, at the Chutes, where they will have a gala time. The committee that has charge of the affairs flatters jtself that it has prepared an interesting programm for the occasion. b 5 Mission Council No. 3, Y. M. L The twelith anniversary reception of Mis- sion Parlor No. 3 of the Young Men’s Insti- tute will bs given in Mission Parlor Hall on the evening of Fridav, the 21st inst. The com- mittee in charge of the function announces that the grand march will be at 9 o’cluck. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, A NicREi—T. H., Oakland, Cal. Without a knowledge of the date of the nickel you name in yofir communication it is impossible to tell if it has any special value. THE UNIVERSITY—J. M., City. Write to the recorder, University of California, Berxeley, Calu, and he will farnish you a tist of ltehy- books you desire information about. To BECOME A NoTARY—J. L., City. If a per- son desires to become a notsry public he shouid familiarize himse!f with the laws of the State and if possibie serve fora time in the office of a notary. INGLESTBE 70 CLIFP—Several Subscribers, City. The distance by road from the terminus of the cars that run 10 Ingleside (o the ocenn beach, thence along the great highway 1o the Clff House, is within a fraction of five mul A Prior—C. W., Berkeley, Cal. A man who wishes te fit himself for a pilot in the Bay of Sen Francisco must study the bay, its currents sad obsdunl‘:llonl. Probably the best way that e can do that is to serve an apprenticesn on one of the pilot-boats. - b LotserY TICKETS—N. N., City. There is sn ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of Francisco that declares it to be a misde- meanor for any one to have in his possession a lottery ticket. This, of course, inciudes Chinese lottery tickeis. The Buperior Court has npheld tnis ordinance. A E0NG—R. 8. R., Watsonville, Sants Cruz County, Cal. After the term of the copyright of a song has run out any person has the right torepublish it, with or without new variations. Copyright runs for twenty-cight years, and expires then unless renewed. The renewal is for ifourteen years. If you will Jook at the pieces of music you name you will discover if the copyright still protects them. TORRENS LAW TRANsFERS—B, C. D., City, and X.E. 8., Pasadena, Cal. The law in regard to the transfer of land will not go into effect un- Ul the 1st of next July. The law cove thirty-one pages of closely printed matter an is 100 long for reproduction in this depart- ment. Itcan be scen at the office of the la: library, What fs cisimed for the new law is: 1. The title to real property Is greatly simplifiea without radical changes in the general law. Stablli:y of title, with safety to purchasers and moitgazees secared. 3. The ownership uf prop- erty, either in tawn or country, is shown by the register at a glance, aud wheihe; bered or not. 4. It Increases the property. B. It enables both venders and chasers to accurately ascertaln the expensss of carrying ou: any sale or trapsfer. G. It protec trusts, estates ant bsoefl 7.1t preve iraud and protects purchasers and morikagees from misrepresentations. 8. It has secured the chif advantages of the old system of recording o deeds (of which notice 13 the most Imporiant principle) ana hAs operated o sto almost en- tirely dispeuse with Investigations of prior title, HEKTOGRAPH—M. M., Ala County, Cal. The following is given asthe method for making a hektograph that, if lowed to remain Tor two daysaiter using, will not need washing, but will absorb all theink and not interfere with the making of & new transfer: Soak an ounce of Cooper’s gelatine over night in enough cold water to coverit well teking care t 1l the gelatine is swelled, Prepare a salt-water bath by dissolving two ounces of common salt in a pint of water. Haet seven or eight ounces of pure glycerine over the salt-water bath to a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit, Then pour oft from the geiatine all the waler remaining unabsorbed, 8dd the golatine to the bot glycerine, continu- , Contra Costa ing the heating for sn hour, carefully stirring the minture occasionally, avoiding as much as possible the formation of bubbles. Finally add twenty drops of oil of cloves to prevent decomposition. The composition is then ready | 10 pour iuto the shallow tins in which it is fo e used. After the tin is filled it must remain in & leve! position in & cool place for at leas: five hours. TEACHERS' PENSION—C. R., Prindle, Cal. The 1aw in regard to teachers’ pensions has been smended to read as follows: Section 8 [a]. Any teacher who shall have served in the public schoo s of this State for a perlod of thiry tencher or school officer, and who shall have been subjec: to the burdens {niposed by 1his act for thirty years, shali be entitled to reuire and to receive from tue pub.ic school teachers' sonuity and retirement fund the sum Of thir. dollars ($30) per month In counties, and fitty dol- | 1ars per won:ii in (onsoiidac-d cities and countles, pavabe quurterly: and any techer who shall have become incapacitated for performing the cu- | ties of a cescher, and who shall nave been a con- | tributor to tue annuity fund for at lea-t five years. | shiail e entitled 10 ret.re and Lo receive an a1 nuity from the pablic rchool teacheis’ annuity and re- tirement fund equal to such proportion of the maximum annuicy granted under this ac: as | the time that he Or she has been subject to the burdens imposed by this act bears to the period of thirty years; provided, however, that any annuity shall be suspended 1f its recipient retu.n to serv- ice In the public schools, and any annuly less | than two-thirds of the maximim annuity shail cense If the Committee on Reiirement constituted in mection 5 of this act shall at any time decide | that its recipient has been restored o the capacity | of performing the duties of a teacher aad has been reim bursed fiom the annuity fund at least the full amount of his or her contribution thereto: pro- vided further. that such proportionate reduciion aball ot apply to those LOW employed in the pub- lic schools who shail have flled the notice herein- fter specified wihin uinety days after the pas- age of this act In coun cities and countles where L 10 which this act is amen: ble, and within nine ment of the fund berelnafter s counties or coosolidated cit d_connties and who shall huve paid at the of their retire- ment an amount qual to what they would have paid into the fund had they been contributing ibirty years. FERSONAL. I B, Hebron of Salinas is & guest of the Grand. W. W. Love of Helens, Mont., s at the Occi- dental. George Branch of Lakeville 18 & visitor in the City. Dr. C. E. Hailstone of San Jose is here for a brief stay. J. . Lively of Port Townsend, Wash., is at the Grand. Dr. C. W. Kellogg of Lakeport is among the late arrivals. . Fred Canads, & business man of Ogden, Utah, 1s at the Rus: J. A. Cooper, an sitorney of Ukiah, arrived here yesterday. George W. McMann of New York is registered at the Occidental. R. G. Raybould, a well-to-do resident of Salt | Lake, is at the Grand. R. B. Saffold, an attorney of Trubody, ar- rived here yesterday. Thomas R. Minturn of Minturn, Colusa | County, is in the City. C. H. Jordan, a leading business man of Pasadens, is a visitor here. J.J. Brice of Washington, D, C., special Fish Commissioner, is in the City. John T. York, City Attorney of Napa, is| smong the arrivals at tne Lick. { Alfred Dixon, a miniog and business man of | Michigan Biuff, arrived here yesterday. H. Y. Atlie de Haven of Paris, France, ar- rived here Wednesday and is at the Palace. George W. Maynard, an sttorney of New York, is in the City on professional business. The Rev. and Mrs. William A. Hollidey of Brooklyn, N. Y., are among the arrivals here. | Nathan W. Bianchard, s business man of Santa Pauls, Ventura County, is at the Palace. John A. MclIntyre, the mine-owner, who re- sides in Sacramento, is here on a business trip. Senator A. J. McCone of Virginia City, Nev., owner of & large iron foundry, is at the Occi- dental. D. T. Davies, superintendent of the Carbon- ado coal mines, near Tacoma, Wash., is at the Palace. Frederick H. George, assistant manager of an extensive packing company in New York, 1s fn the City. A. B. Jackson, president of the Bank of Sa- | isin the City, accompanied by his son, who is here from Southern California. | N. E. de Zoe, an 0ld and wealthy resident of Modesto, who is director in one of the local Dbanks and & large real estate holder, s in the | City, accompanied by Mrs. de Zoe. Carmen Ortegs, owner of a rich gold mine in Sonora, Mex., and who visits this City every | year or two on the average, is in the City, He came yesterday and is at the Occldental, John N. Luning, the millionaire son of the late capitalist, Nick Luning, has arrived here | from New York, where ne has been some time, and is at the Palace. He is accompanied by | his wife. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.—At the Pla; L. Brehan, C. H. Baker, H. Arnold; St. Denis, G. W. Frink: Metropole, Mr. and Mrs, H. G. Morse; Hoffmsn, J. D. Spreckels; Windsor— W. Meyer, Miss A. Meyer; Gilsey, H. L. Van Winkle; New York, E. P. Allen; Imperial, N. C. Kingsley, Park-avenne, 5. M. Sherman; Grand Union—H. F. Terrill, W. A. Terrill. Mrs. H. E. Brackenbury, Miss G. A. Bracken- bury and Miss AL V. C. Brackenbury left the Plaza and seiled on the Kcenigin Luise for Bremep. Christ Nilson Christiansen, Dr. Paul C. Ehrhardt, Miss Else Kuhimann, Joseph Pabitmann, H. H. Pripp, Miss Bertha Zuber oi Los Angeles, Fred A. Spengler of San Mateo; Edgar Mills, Miss A. Mills and Miss F. Mills, of Menlo Park, also sailed for Bremen. W. Cohen 1s here buyine. SMOKE HOME CIGARS. A Few Facts Presented by the Cigar- Makers’ Union for Public Con- sideration. The following address o the public, insued by the Cigar-makers’ Union of San Francisco, will doubtless receive earnest attention at the handsof thinking citizen: Can e city prosper where its leading busi- nes: l;wn are jobbers iastead of manufac- turers We hold that & jobber is a detriment to a & manufacturer assists in which means prosperity g in said city. im toat we cannot make as good s cigar here as they do in the East. This sistement we brand as a falsehood. Wa defy the jobbers to contradict the following: 1st. We hold that our manufacturers have the same chance in_the tobacco market as in any manufaciure 1n the United ~iates. 2d. That our mechanics are as gooa asin any part of the United States. 3d. That our climste here s better adapted for mavufacturing of clgars than any other States in the Union. Those jobbers when coufronted with the above facts will then turn and tell the smokers that tne wages in this City are too high. We aiso brand that as a faisehood. The wages paid in San Francisco are no_higher than in any other city in the United States, excepting the flithy tenement-ouses, the cigars from which are almost exclusively handied by our jobbers. Enlx lover of San Francisco must think of the old maxim that self-preservation is the | first_law of nature. By smoking no other | cigar tban that made at home our busines: depression will soon dissppear. The jobbe will be compeled to oven factoriés, and thereby become public benefactors or conduc thelr faker business somewhere else. SR Nénn.n‘nv, President Press Committee. AL DALE, Secretary. . THE SEOOND OFFENSE Bradbury Agsin in Trouble for Spitting in = Streetocar. ‘W. B. Bradbury, the wealthy horse- owner who was arrested again Wednesday night for expectorating in a Larkin-street car, was committed by Judge Low yester- day morning to tweniy-four hours in the County Jail. He was released on $25 bail, pending his hearing on habeas corpus befors Judge Beawaell on the 17th Contest of Jaucob Z. Davis’ Wiil. Judge Coffey yesterday refused an applica- tion for further delay in the contestof the will of Jacob Z. Davis. The trial will begin next Monday morning. Experts have been exi mu& will for several days, and it is unde; that an effort will be made to prove the signatures to the instrument to be o forgery. community, whe! the growth of s aity, to everybody residin The jobbers clai i URDERSFORGER SHAFTE He Will Be Assigned to th: Command of This De- partment. Reception and Presentation of a Sword at the Presidio Cub Brigadier-General William R. Shu_fler received a message by wire from Washing- ton yesterday requesting him to remain in San Francisco until official orders reached him. Army officers interpret this message to mean that General Shsiter will not go to the Department of the Columbia, but will succeed General Forsyth in the command of the Department of California. In fact this announcement was unofficiaily given 10 General Shafter in Washington some daysago. It is the gossip in army circles that General Forsyth, haying been pro- moted to the grade of major-general, will s00n ask to be retired. General Shatter feels so confident of his assignment to duty as commander of this department that he has declared his in- tention 10 occupy the large house at Fort Mason, whicn was constructed during General McDowell’s administration of army affairs at this station. ATeception in honor of General Shafter was given at the Presidio Club Wednes- day evening. The officers of the First United States Infantry presented him with a magnificent sword. The speech of presentation was happily made by Post Adjatant Noble. Ladies participated in the joys of the assembly, and altogether & happy time was had. General Forsyth was there and, of course, (ame in f?ra share of the congratulations. The First Infantry band discoursed sweet music, and around the punch bowl songs were sung. General Shafter has appointed Lieuten- ant J. D. Miley aid-de-camp. Victim of the Lock Game. Frank Brown, alias Tobin, alias Kane, an ex- convict, was arrested early yesterday morn- ing by Detective Graham and Policeman Hy- man on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. He met Herman Tabacchl irom San Mateo County and took him to the Tear of the Mint, where he swindled him out of his gold watch and $10 by the lock game. e CAL glace fruit 50¢ per 1b., at Townsend's. * Lol FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢, 40 Market st.(Kest's shoe store) ;weekday o SPECTAL fnformation deily to manufacturers. business houses and public men by the Prost Clipping Buresa ( ’s), 510 Montgomey. Bemaas e iod JIUSBAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first- premium medals awarded ; more agreeeble fo the tastc and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale in bottles with registered trades mark label. > Sundays, 740 35 4th® Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The spring exhibiton is now opea daily from 9 A. M. 10 5 P. M. and grand concert every Thursday evening. Open Sundays. - ————— Aneffort is being made, and the Grand | Army of the Republic is reported to be deeply interested in it, to have & bronze tallet bear- ing President Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg placed inevery college. high school and grem- mar school in the Unitea States. Excursion to the Eust and Yellowstone Park. A party Is now being formed to make the tour of the Yellows:one Park, leaving here about the 28th of May. It will be In charge of ProfessorJ. C. Branner of Stauford Univer: Hates will be vers reasonable and accommodations first class. The Yellowstone Park can justiy Jay claim to hay- 10g more natural wonders nnd magnificent scen- ery within its bounds thau any other spot in the worid, and a trip there 13 ous that will never be forgotten. If you would Iike to join the party communicate at once with J. E. McDowell, Stan- ford University, or T. K. ateler, general agent orthern Pacific Rallway, 638 Market st., 8. ¥, o esiid o The Swiftest Train in the West— 3} Days to Chicago or St. Louls 414 Days to Now York. The Santa Fe Limited bas dining-car, bufter Mondays and Thursdays, connection is mads at Barstow with this handsome traln. Through cars to Chicago, both Pullman palace drawing-room and modern upholstered tourlst sleepers, run daily. Tickets also sold via Portland, Ogden, Los Angeles, Deming or EL Paso to all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. Ses time table in advertising column. San Francisco ticket office 644 Market street, Chronicle butld- ing. Telephone Main 1531 Oakland, 1118 Broadway: ————— Railroad Tickets to the FEast via Rle Grande Western and Denver and Rio Grande Railways, At fowest possible rates, with through Pullman buffet and tonrist sleeping car service everr Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permitting stop-over at Salt Lake Clty on all classes of tickazs Detailed information and tickets furnished & ik Montgomery street, or 314 Callfornia stres D —— “Mrs. Winslow’'s Soothing Syru; Fas been nsed over fitty years by millions ot mothers for thelr children whiie Teething with per fect success. 1t soothes the child, softens the guma, allays Pain. cores Wind Colic, reguiates the Bowels and fs the best remedy for Diarrbaas, whether aris- 10g 1T0m tee.hing or other causes. For sale by drug g18t8 In every pary of the world. Bs sure and ask for Mrs. Winglow's Soothing Syrup. 25C & botue —————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere i perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip ticksts, by steam- ship, Including fifteen days board at the Hotel del Coronado, 860; longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery Francisco. o ALrwho use Ayer's Halr Vigor pronounce it the best hairdressing in the market. Certainly, D0 other s in such constant demand. Signor Pletro Baldetti, the well-known Ital- 1an Socialist leader, who was condemned fo a long term ot imprisonment in the Crispi a ministration in consequence of his socialistic Propaganda, has just entered a monastery ana taken the vows of a community of monks who devote themselves to the service of the sick and the infirm. The Spring storms strike hard those who are thin in flesh, whose system is weak and nerves irritable. The sharp, cutting painsof neural- | gia tell when the blow has taken effect. Why wait for the signal? Scott’s Emul- sion of Cod-liver Oil with Hypophosphiteswill feed and strengthen weak nerves. It should be taken as a preven- tive in every case of weak- ness and nerve exhaustion. “Early prevention is better than cure.” So says the i For sal wWise man. 2, pgn’u‘fn?:"hm ' SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. GROVE L. JOHNSON HASREMOVED HIS LAW OFFICES FROX Sacramento to San ~Francisco and formed & Dartnership with Walter H. Linforth and George K Whitaker, with oftices at 310 Pine se. .