The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 19, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, S e e s e e e ai e S s e s e e e i P Dl R e e NO EMBER 19, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ddress All Communi; Market and Third streets, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. ciaesasasessnsasaes 017 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carrier this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. year; per month 635 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by matl, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........... vesereeiienes...908 Broadway Fastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE .Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE: ... s 2scecu eriinanensanaed Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CES Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until BRANCH OF| oven until 9:30 o'clock. 615 SW. corner Sixteenth and Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock n until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1503 c NW. corner Twenty-second NON-PARTISAN FREEHOLDERS. HE action of the Republican, Democratic and Populist inty organizations Wednesday evening in agreeing 1o a rtisan Board of Freeholders, to be voted for at the 27, will be approved majority of the community. It is unfortunate mmittee cou'd not have been in- an independent election to be beld on December 1bat the Citizens’ Charter C Had 1t coal ve obtained substantial recognition, Asitisi rally to its ticket the support of no large y of citizens, and with oniy the Non-Partisan party, the esced with the regular party organizations it might h wil n Democrats and a convicted boodle newspaper behind can hardly fail to lose all its candidates. Indeed, if the ac- ris newspaper drab in solemnly assuring the public in e of the Citizens’ Committee that every man in San inconnected with its organization is a rascal and a continues to be the feature of its campaign for & re not sure that the good work the committee black new charter we 3 bas done at its charter meetings will not be wholly discredited. acter of the Freeholders nominated by the fusion- ists need not be discussed. They are all old resiaents, and the th nds who know tnem can testify their interestin the To say that these fifteen the political bosses, as will be fre- d for i uture welfare. ns are *“‘owned”’ by quently asserted by the boodle sheet referred to, or that if elected they wil not strive to make a charter in which the s of every class will be protected—even the right of bood- newspapers to ply their nefarious trade—is to perpetrate on cred:ts for a moment ominated to make a char- 1o corporations and corruptionists. When the bosses for thas kind of work they select different material. ifest absurdity. No sane j the allegation that they have been ter for name This fusion of the organized political elements of the city indicates that the prospects of getting a new charter are hright- ening. There is now practically no opposition to a non-partisan The Board of Freeholders nominated ans’ Committee is composed of equal political ele- on December 2 w for this city the Citiz and unless vote ve the contest a ich is un wl , We are cer 1 to have a non- ine CALL bas aiready said that par r convention. no charter can be adopted which does not rise above party poli- hts and foster the interests of all classes. | verify this judgment. an ch nd preserve ther We think the event w JUNKETING PRISON WARDENS. trips that in recent years have en- wbied pend money for private jollification not one has been more idle, more useless, more aggra. vating t0 taxpayers and more inexcusable on any grounds than that whch Wardens Aull and Hale recently took to Washington, at the invitation, it seems, of the Attorney-Gen- F all the junketin cflicials to eral of th= State. The son assigned for this trip is that the Attorney-Gen- eral thou it woeula be necessary for Aull and Hale to be in Washinuzion when the Durrant case came up for hearing before the Supreme Court. Why lLe thought their presence neces_ v, or what he expected them to do or say, has not been mede public. The Supreme Court could hardly be expected to need them to explain the law, and cenanly the Arttorney- G:neral couid not have thought they would be wanted to give evidence. The trip of the two dignitaries seems, in fact, to have been designed as a pleasure expedition, made for the pur- pose of helning the Attorney-General bave a good time. To make the journey to Washington and see the sights re- quired the absence of the Wardens from their posts fora month and the expenditure of about $1000. Whetber tne pris- ons profited anything by the absence of the Wardens is not ht clear, but certainly the taxpeyers have protited nothing by the expenditure of the money. en had there been a need for the two oflicials at Washington, the sum aliowed for the journey would have been excessive, and, as it was, the expenditure was an unm tigated waste of public funds. There bave been many complainis in California of the evi] of junketiag trips at public expense on the part of officials. Such expeditions in the past have nearly always had at least a semblance of public business to justify them. In this case, however, there was not even a semblance of business, for no in- teiligent man will accept the excuse that the Wardens were needed at the Dur t learing. The proceeding constitutes something like a scancal in prison aaministration and the directors who authoriz d the junket and voted $1000 for it owe the public an explanation of thisas well as of a good many other things they permit. As affairs are going it appears that a California penitentiary is a soft snap for all concerned, from the convict to the Warden Another boy whose biighted atfections could not withstand the addition of mixed drinks has hidden the combination un- der the waters of the bay. Human sympathy finds the effort to go out to such vnfortunates alinost t0o great a strain. There are 100 many of them, and the excuse they have is not valid. It isnot to be supposed that because several eniightened nations have agreed that the seal 1s a badiy abused creature any pause will be made in the process of its extinction. The abuse touches the heart, while a cessation of the abuse would touch the pocket-book, and this is sacred. an Jose girl of seventeen who staved out of school a day to get married and the next day resumed her studies as usual really seems to have been less in need of a husband than & parent of common-sense and possessed of a siipper. The danger that Hayti would whip Germany seems fo have passed. Yet only a day or so ago it appeared fully as imminent as that other danger that Spain will whip the United States. So let Uncle Sam not be as one without hope. The 8 Apparently the ferry-toat Bay City is well equipped for the accommoaation of people with sincere suicidal intentions. One may drown very effectually in thirteen minutes, the time re- quired to send a boat to the rescae. The Eastern baseball players are more fortunate than they reatize. To have acquired the disregard of the yellow journal, which is in the baseball business itsell, is to be rated as little less than a boon. Mr. Hayman’'s intimation that he controls some New York papers is important if crue, but it is surprising. Most of those papers act as if beyond control. The Supervisors’ Commitiee on Morals is naturally puzzled. It bas wandered faithfully through the tenderloin and hasn’t found any morals. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. AS this country reached the parting of the ways? Is it H considered and decided that we are to forget the advice of Washington and assume a position that will compel us into the complications which vex the countries of the Old World? It is to be hoped that for reasons of expediency, if not out of respect for the Federal constitution, the annexation of Hawaii will be rejected, and we will continue within the safe and prosperous lines followed heretofore. Americans are not children, crying for something because it is pretty. Our Government is under a written constitution, and senior to that is the Declaration of Independence, which was our defense before the world and our justification for the formation of a government resting on the consent of the gov- erned. That idea as a working policy has survived in ful] strength until now. Its ferment caused the anti-slavery agita- tion. That institution was held to be inconsistent with our professions, obnoxious to the principles of the Declaration, in nonconformity to the spirit of a free government. To secure conformity we made war, at a cost of billions of dollars and a million lives. Is it possible that after this supreme sacrifice we propose to annex Hawaii, practically by conquest and against the unanimous protest of the natives whose sovereignty of that soil is their birthright, in order that we may govern them without their consent, and therefore unjustly, no matter what the merits of that government may be ! The whole proposition lies outside our own constitution. In that instrument no warrant is found for a distant colonial system. It contemplates a continental system only, by the absorption of territory that can be erected into States and guar- anteed a republican form of government. This can never be done with Hawaii, unless we make the State there to consist of about 2 per cent of the population, for it is highly probable that the Americans will never exceed that percentage of the total, for climatic reasons which annexation cannot change. Our labor laws cannot be conformed to the industries of the islands, and if these are to continue there must be a system of colonial labor laws differing from those of the home Govern- ment. Out of this necessary divergence of necessity wilj spring a method of government at right angles to that pro- vided by the Federal constitution. It will be semi-feudal in its nature, and the world will be amused at the spectacle of the republic imitating monarchy in its colonial system, while mouthing about the rights of man in its continental system. Self-government is on trial in this matter. Our institu- tions are brought face to face with a danger more insidious than was Southern slavery. We are asked to sacrifice our individuality, our republican character, our peculiar position among the nations and stain our escutcheon with a policy that has been their common odium. If we do it, then instead of a beacon-light guiding the world on the way to the enfranchise- ment of man, we are a jack-o’-lantern betraying mankind into deeper mire. If we do it, let the great effigy of Liberty en- lightening the world, that holds its torch high over New York harbor, be crowded from its pedestal by a figure of Janus, the god of a two-faced nation. CONGRESS AND DIPLOMACY. ‘ R JELL-INFORMED correspondents at Washington an- nounce that in his forthcoming message to Congress the President will devote much attention to Cuban affairs, but at the same time desires tnat Congress will take no action on the subject lest it may bring about strained relations with the Sranish Government, or in some way interfere with his «fforts to put an end to the war. 1t this should be the policy of the administration we shall have this winter a revival of the old controversy concerning the right of Congress to take an active partin managing the diplomatic affairs of the nation. It will be remembered that during the Cleveland administration Congress passed Cuban resolutions which the President ignored. The question then arose whether the power toreco nize the belligerency or the independence of a foreign country 1s vested exclusively in the Executive Department of the Government, or whether Con- gress has not some control of the matter. It is strange that so important a point in our governmental machinery has never been settled. The issue has been raised several times and there are not only authorities but precedents to be cited on both sides of the controversy. The discussion precipitated by the action of Cleveland resulted in what was virtually a victory for the execu ive, and this may be taken as an evidence that Presidents hereafier will not permit their hands in foreign affairs to be forcad by Congress no matter how eazer majorities in both houses may be to do so. Outside the question of constitutional right, the argument in favor of leaving the initiative in foreign affairs exclu-ively in the Executive Department seems unanswerable. Foreign na- tions have no direct dealing with Congress. There is no diplo- matic machinery by which Congress can make its recognition known to other nations and put it into effect.. Itis the Presiaent alone who, through the State Department, communicates with foreign countries and receives embassies from them, and he alone, therefore, can declare the attitudte of thiscountry toward any foreign people. In the course of the controversy during the Cleveland ad- ministration it was suggested that1f a joint resolution recog- nizing the independence of Cuba should be passed by both bouses of Congress and be ignored by the President, the issue micht be raised in the courts in proceedings against filibusters, and the courts would then be calied upon to decide whether or no a recognition of belligerency by Congress is a recognition Ly the United States Government. In no other country could such a contest arize. In all other nations the power of dealing with foreign governments and that of recognizing the independence of revolting states or revolutions against esiablished governments is vested clearly in the hands of the executive. It would be well to have the question with us determined one way or another. If Congress is to have nothing to do with the recognition of foreign coun- tries, it ought not to waste time discussing resolutions on such subjects. OUR MAYOR FROM OAKLAND. AYOR PHELAN communicates to a iocal paper in re- gard 10 his interest in an all-night ferry service between San Francisco and Oakland. The Mayor’s residence in Oaxland has no doubt led him to study the inter-city transportation, and the means of getting from the Mayor's office in the City Hall to his home across the bay. We fear, however, that he has left some things out of his calculation. There will be required an all-night service on the sireet railways in both cities, for what shall it profit the Mayor or any one else to be lancded at the shore line of the bay on either side at some hour past that at which graveyards yawn and bave to walk. We admit tuat being Mayor of one city ana living in the otheér may give rise to a need of emergency trans- portation. A screw might get loose over hereatlor2a. M 3 and no one but the Mayor could tighten it, and the walking across the bay is wet. But, has the Mayor considered the effect upon people wio are not Mayors, but who devote those hours to sleep when the Mavor's train goes thundering through the town putting an end to their rest? It is true that he might leave the municipal screw-driver with Colonel Sullivan. 1t might be useful in h is great work of uniting the locai Democracy Mr. Adams, deposed :ngloriously from his throne as socia! dictator, and cheerful clown in whose antics a world took inno- cent joy, yet has no cause to complain. True, he was bounced, fired, kicked out, but not a suggesiion as to sending him to an asyium for teeble-minded donkeys was made at the meeting at which he was stripped of his scepter as well as his Ccap and pells. Since the murderers of S8an Quentin have formed so inter- esting a Bible clas-, 1t seems almost a pity to break it up through hanging them one at a time. Perhaps by swing- ing them off in a bunca continnity could have been preserved. FPER ONAL G. & Nixon of Nevada is & guest at the Palace. Isnac Bird, a merchant of Merced, is at the Grand Hotel. Dr. J. W. Jesse of santa Rosa is a guest at the Grand Hotel. H. 8. Lustre and wife of Santa Barbara are at the Cosmovolitan, A. H. Duckerand wife of San Jose are regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. Hervey Lindley of Los Angeles registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. O. H. Refchling, the well-known hotel man ot Jackson, is at the Grand. J. L. Bruml, a merchant of Lockford, regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. P. Carroll, a wine man of Petaluma, is in the city, a guest at the Grand Hotel. Peter Musto, a Stockton merchant, is in town, stopping at the Grand Hotel. D. W. Maratta, ex-Consul io New Zealand, is in the city, a guest at the Grand Hotel F. 8. Wensinger, a dairyman of Freestone, registered at the Occidental last evening. Ed Mathie, general superintendent of the Los Angeles Brewing Company, is in the city. J. E. Poingdestre, a well-known mining man of Yuba, registered at the Grand Hotel yester- day. F. Eliis, W. Cook and A. E. Hartshorn are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopol- itan. James Shesgreen, agent of the Louis James Company, registered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. Charles W. Hammond of Upper Lake arrived in town yesterday and is stopping at the Cali- fornia Hotel. Frank G. Newlands of Nevada arrived in the city yesterday morning and is sojourning at the Palace Hotel. George R. Stewart of Crows Landing, who is shipping cattle to Honolulu, is'in the ecity, slopping st the Grand Hotel. L. M. Wood of Copper River, Alaska, arrived in the city yesterday and inscribed his name on the Palace Hotel register. Dr. 8. J. Call, surgeon of the United States stcamer Bear, arrived in the city from the south yesterday end registered at the Grand Hotel. Herman Schussler, chief engineer of the Spring Valley Water Works, returned to the city yesterday from a business trip to New York, Boston and Harrisburg. The business re.ated to the purchase of fron and steel, Governor Budd was in the city yesterday attending to some private business affairs. He will s0on con‘er with the Adjutant-General on the proposition to provide an artillety regi- ment of the National Guard from the existing infantry organizs CALIFORNIANS iN . ASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 2 8.—~0. V. Eaton of San Francisco is at Willards, W. H. Huntington of San Franciscois at the Oxfird. T. A. Burns and wife, L. Stickles of San Francisco, and H. H. Carsten of Redlands are at the National. CALIFORNI\N5 IN NEW YORK. W YORK, No Windsor—Mr. 18.—A! the Grand Unfon— and Mrs. A M. OF THE GRIDIRON BIff ! and a bang, ana the fun bering! Thump ! and a thud, and ibe horns are locked ! Sprint and scurry and save your skins, » twisted and kulls are knocked. eld swee s a wolfish pack, ver the field with a cu a/ing yel Surely the scen - doth no hing 1ack: Holding the mirror to vaaie’s hell THE EALLA: 8 Padded and plated the men are lined, Braced and ha deged they he word. Seem hey t0 vou of human fid— Are they not like to & savage herd ? Shaggy the hair on each matte! head, Fiery the ev. by the cushioned noss: Stlent they walt til! the wo d 15 suid Pitching them forwaid agalnst the foes. All in & ‘anzle the fighters full, I egs widiv waving from under the heap ! ! Se: ihe limp form ¢ om tie midst tiat thes haul— | Dexd ? He's no dead—he is only as eep. | Strained is exch muscle awaiting the woid. hrilied with excl emet behold one and all ! Fiercely th v mix up—the signa 13 heard— Crushing and trampling—a d_his fs foorball | —C eveland 11ain Dealer. FLASHES OF FUN. A Wi'liam goat, with low-bowed head, Rushed wid y forth to buit— A moment later he lay dead ‘With a shat ered cocornut ! The fello hat he sought to crushe The vict rin the froy— Turnel out to b & center rush, l Who met the goat half way. —Chleago News. A locomotive traveling in New Jersey has covered one mile in thirty seconds. It is hored to lower that record with betier pace- p. making.—Pick-Me “Yes,” said the nicc little woman with gray eyes, *“I buy all my husband’s cigars and neck- tles. Istrive to anticipate his slightest wish “I wonder who it was,” said the jealous maiden lady near by, “who first said ‘Antici- pation is better than realization.’”—Cincin- nati Commercial-Tribune. “The tandem bicycle is a faflure =0 far as conrtship is concerned.” “Why?' “The girl cen’t look the man in the eye t- see whether he Is in dead earnest.”’—Chicago Record. Husband (furiously)— schaum pipe brokan? sense did it happen? Wife—I don't know, except that when I got up this morning I found your meerschaum pipe on the front doormat and your shoes on the parlor mantelpiéce. Husband (mildiy)—Oh, well, accidents will happen.—Tit-Bits. ere’'s my best meer- How in the name of “Well, you know, ‘a woman’s as old as she looks’”’ “In the morning, or after she’s ready to go downtown?"'—Chicago Jourual. ““Pa, isa woman ever a pessimist?” “T'll have to refer you to your mother, my boy."—Cleveland Platn Dealcr. (E T T ETTTTTTTVEY SEE BRET HARTE'S GREAT STORY E N NEXT SUNDAY. It is one of the best he has written. Connanannnnnanesessanns’ REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. N(:w York Press. A woman can strixe a harder blow with her beck hair than she can with her fist. When & man looks aamiringly at a girl with a short bicycle skirt it is generally her nerve thet strikes him. All through life it's generally the man who wa8 100 luzy 1o cast any vote that talks about what “we’ aid. Babies and women always have an advan- tage over other people because they know they are irresponsiolt, The siory that & man once waked up his baby to see it lgugh was got up by a girl with no married sisters, When some men get to heaven they will expect 0 see everybody fall down flat on his iace while they walk up {ront to let the Lord congratulate them. SHATTERING A POPULAR IDOL. Chicago Times-Herald, Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, should cuthis nair now and come in from the reservation. He has betrayed one of the prin- cipal secrets ot his long-haired fruternity. I arccent interview he explains that bre glass bails with a rifl from the back ol & horse is sccomplished by using cariridges fii.ed with smail shot instead of a bullet, and adds: ‘A maun ought to be able to ride astreak ot excited ijghtning and break glass balls with such en outfit as that.” Alas! Do ail popular idols have fect of clay? # TEN cents for a bottie of Low’s hore- hound cough syrup, 417 Sansome st. * TYPICAL SCOOP ACHIEVED BY YELLOW JOURNALISM Among the babtts of the Eraminer people is that of sending to a New York gentle- man, who is afraid to visit San Fraucisco, adaily copy of that paper. In this copy various items are marked “‘scoop,” and in the cffort to make the array of “scoops’” im- posing veracity is cast to the winds, and conscience—but why speak of conmscience where the saffron dppendiz is under consideration? Here are two heads covering Oakiand matter, and serving to expose a new & trick which has become chronic with the Hearstlings: From the *Cali” of November 9. CANNOT BE OF [ISE FOR YEARS Water-Front Snits May Have to Be Again Con- ested, The City's Attorneys Believe Taat the Highest Court Should Be Reached. Power to Order Furtber Litigation Now Rests With the City Coupoil. 0AxLAND OrFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.} 408 Broadway, Nov. 8. The attorneys for the city are now debating what action to take. The Supreme Court bas sent the case back to be retried and there is some doubt as to whether it 1s necessary to have a new trial before the case can be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. Some of the atiorneys are of the opinion that a writ of error could be taken out in the United States Suprem Court, while others are in- clined to believe that until the case has been retried and again reviewed by the Supreme Court the highest court in the land would not have acquired jurisdiction. From the Fxaminer of November 12, WHTER FRONT CISE WY BE APPEALED Oakland Attorneys Will Apply for a Writ of Error. Suit to Be Taken Before:the United States Supreme Court. The Federal Tobunal Can Over- rule the Decision of the State Judges. WILLIAM R DAVIS' The Grounds for the Application Have Not Yet Been Decided Upon by the Lawyers OPINION The battle for the rights of the peo- ple m the Oaklana water front case bas not yef ended The propasihon o carry the case to the bighest court of the land fi.llv sustarns the contention of ~The Exammer” that the contest shoult not cease ughl the Supreme Court at Washington bad finally passeton the menits ef the wmportani questrons imolved s - . As by so plain a tale yellow journalism may be put down, there is no necessity for treating the facts at length, In brief, they portant news the Ezaminer failed to obtain. amount to this: THE CALL published 1m- Seven davs later the latter published ss news the same oid information, adding nothing to its detail, and throwing not the Jeast light upon the situation. The Ezaminer doubtless went eastward with a joyful “scoop’’ stamped upon a story which was 1n reality nothing but tangible evidence that the Appendiz had suffered de- feat again. Perhaps such tactics may deceive the timid New York gentieman, but they donot fool snybody here. COLONEL HEAP'S NEW BUOY LIGHT. The United States Lighthouse Board has been muking official tests of the new acetylene gas buoy light, with which Colonel D. M. Heap, U.S. A, engineer of the hird lighthouse district, has been experimenting, and which give-Jpromise of revolutionizing this branch ot the lighthouse serv ice. Colonel Heap, says the New York Herald, had the new buoy light moored about 500 yards from the Long Island shore, directly opposite and those who went down to the sea aiL night were astouished by its briiliancy. the lighthouse depot at Tompkinsville, S. L., One of the buoy lights now in us: was moored abresst of the vew lizht, and sccording to the caleula- tions of experts who witnessed this unofiicial test, Colonal Heap’s bu v light—for practically it 1s nis invention, although he modestly disciaims it—outshone its competitor at the ratio of three to one. The new buoy light i 300, the _electrically lighted buoys average 200, and the buoys 1ighted by the old gas system are 100 candli-power. The acetylene lignt it 1s announced is farsuperior to its competiiors in luminosity and penetrative qua:ities. The new illuminant COLONEL HEAP AND HIS NEW GASLIGHT BUOY. resembles a limelight in color. but is cofter in effect and does not hurt the eyes when one looks at 1. Moreover, according 10 the experts, the while the cost of the buoys used under thé ola new Luoys can be manuiactured for $350 each, system is about $1000 each. In the buoy designed by Colonel Heap the ingredients that go ro make the new gas are stored in toree pipes whicn are connected directly with the burner of the lamp. What those ingredients are he declined to make public. but he showed how the gas is made by pouring a grayish powder into a glassful of water. The effect was as in the mixing of a seidlitz powder. A match was applied to the fosming liquid, an erated. explosion foilowed and then the gas was gen- The new buoy light, in addition to being more powerfui than the electr.cilly lighted buoys, has this advantage: When one of the Intter gels out oi order the whole chain ot con- nected buoys is affected, and. this has been a subject of greatcompiaintupon the part of mar- iners; whereas the new buoy light, standing alone, is alone affecied, and can be 5 ‘ea1ily ro- placed by nnother. standard buoy light of the serv ce. This point, it is thought, wi.l count \Irgu}y in favor of its adoption as the RONTGEN RAYS—CsU ING THE BLIND TO SEE. Westmiuster Gazette. Some interesting experiments with the X rays among the blind at Carlisle are reported Ly Mr. Hodson of Hulme. The resuits in the case of Barwise Storey, who has been biind for twenty years, were very remarkable. Experi- ments were continued for about an nour. On entering the room he was sensible of the brigntness of the ordinary electric light, but on the X rays being turned on he saw much more than this. He could distinguish the greenisn hue of the light, the globular form of the glass tu which it is contained, and, separated from this by what appear-d to him usa dark line, the fncandescent tube below through whicn the lignt is econveyed to the globe. Later on he was even able fo distinguish the dark line of the Crookes tube inside the giass. He described a:1 these accurately to persons vresent refore he was ailowed 10 touch them. On being allowed to handle the giobe he found it exactly corresponded {0 the impres- sion made upon him by his eyes. except that to theeve 1t appeared much larger than to the hand. Perhapsthe most remarkable thing of all, however, was that on coming out of the chamber. info the open air everything ap- peared much brighter. It is noticeable that all the blind ger.\onl experimented on could distinguish the greenish hue of the X rays. FIRST SCIEN .IFIC KITE-FLYING. Appleton’s Popular Sclence Monthly for Oc:ober. The famous kite exreriment is described by Franklin in a letter dated October 19, 1752: “Make & small cross of light sticks of ced the arms so long as to reach to the ionr corners of alarge,thin silk handkerchief when extend- ed. Tie the corners of the handkarchief to the extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite which,being properly accommodated with a tail, loop and string, will rise in the air like those made of paper, being made of silk is better fitted to bear the wet and wind of a thunder gust without tearing. To the top of the upright stick of the cross Is to be fixed very sharp-poinied wire rising a foot or more above the wood. ‘To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the si k and twine joiu a Key may be fastened. ‘lhis kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stapd within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet, and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the irame of the <oor or window. As soon as the thuuder- clouds come over the kite the poinied wire will diaw ihe electric fire irom them, and the kite, with all the twine, will be electrified and stand out every way and be attracted by an approaching finger. And when the rain bas wet the kite and twine you will fina the electric fire stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckie.” NOTES AEOUT NOTABLES. ‘Thanks to the activity of Canon Rawnsley, a movement has been set on iootin England for the erection at Whitby of a memorial in honor of Caedmon, ‘‘the father of English poetry. Miss Mary Rachel Dobson, a daughter of Austin Dobson, is one of the most active workers in the university settlement for women in Bombay, India. Their work is prinecipally among the Parsees. The report that there is only one surviving schoolm: te of Abraham Lincoin has been dis- proved. Mre. Susie Yeager oi Rhineville, Ky., now in her 90th year, was a schoolmate of the greatemancipator at the first school session he atiended. The members of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences are still trying to raise the $50,- 000 required to purchase for the academy the paleontoiogical collection of the late Professor Edward Drinker Cope. Thus far they have suceeeded in getting $7000. The well-known stinginess of the late Alex- ander Dumas has given rise tos variety of anecdot:s. We are told that ne was onca asked whether he ever gave anything to tne poor, and he answered: “Oh, yes. When come across a bad piece of money 1 always gi it away to a blind man.” Rev. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas, the famous lib- eral preacher of Chicags, in speaking of the fmpossibility of & busy pastor reading for himself all oreven a majorits of new books, says he has frequently reviewed books in pub- lic that he never read for himseif. With re- liable assistance, however, he has never been deceived as to the real thought of & writer. A few years ago, arccording to the Boston Transeript, an inventor who had devised & new sleeping-car tock his plans o Mr. Pull- man. The latier, after looking over them, : “There is an idea there. I wiil give you $100,000 cash for your patents.’”” Tue in- ventor was a poor man and he would not ac- cept the terms. He said that if the idea was worth $100,000 to Pulimsn it was worth mil- lions to him. The car was buiit and proved & financial failure, and it is believed that even to this day the inventor does 1ot know where the ‘4den”” was whose presence Mr. Pull. man discerned in the working p ans. SIGNIFICAN.E OF A CLAMOR. Washington Post. The clamor for cheaper sleeping-car rates, 80 the officials declare, comes mostly from people who never patronize them. There is nothing strange in that. They are doubtless striving to get the rates in res may paironize them. SO m ik ey ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NI N- Cove, Cal. MOUNT SANHEDRIN-—S,, Cuffeys The height of Mount Sanhedrin, i? L'iend& cino County, is appr. ximately 6000 feet. A HALF DiME—A-render, City. A halidime af 1853 does not command & preminm, b:; such sre cffered for sale at from 25 to cents. O'REILLY AND O'RYAN , Cuffeys Cove, Cal. The O’Reiliys figure in history, but this d¢ partment does not find any record of t O’'Ryans. ARITHMETIC—R. 8, City. This department does not xuswer questions in arithmetic. solve problems nor furnish solutfons to puzzles, and consequently cannot answer your ques- tion in multiplication COLLEGE TERMS—S,, Cuffeys Cove, Cal. In the colieges und universities of the United States freshman is the term applied to a stu- dent during the first year, sophomore during the second year, junior durins the third year and senior during fourth year. RELIGION—S,, Cuffeys Cove, Cal. The con- stitution of the United Siates, article I of the amendments says: Congress shall make 1O Iaws respecting the es- tablishment of relizion. or prohibiting the free ex- ercis thereof: or abridgiug the freedom of speech or of the press. or the right 0f (he people peaceably %o sssembie and to petiiou the Government for & redress of grievances. A Hussaxp's RiguT—L. P., City. All prop- erty that a husband had before marriage is his individual and separate pmpeny,z a‘x;lq he, afier marriage, has a perfect right to dispose o1 the same without the consent of his wife. If, however, after marriage, he, with money earned during muarriage, should place an im- provementou that property, the improvement becomes community property. HoOLLAND—A. S., City. This department has been unable to cbtain the mames of all the Ministers of Holiand since the year 1800. The present Premier nnd Minister of Foreign Affairs is J. Roeil; Minister of the Interior, S. von Houten; Col, . J. N. Bergsma; Justice, W Vap der Kaay; J. B. Spenger Van E k; War, Lie peral C. D, H Schueider; 'Marive, M. Van der Wy Walerways, Commerce and Industries, W. Van dér Sleyden, DrAw PEDRO—S., city. This correspoudent submits the following in draw pedro: thin two of ont—No. 1 bid 1. No. 2bid2 No. 3 passed. No. 4 bid 6. No. 5 bla 7 on sce, jack, game aud jedro of ¢lamonds and did not better bis haid Game—No. 5 Id the ace of diamords; five trumps, but no points fell. No. 5 led game and No. 2 taking the trick with the n did not fail. No 2 led ace of no ouwe irumped. No. 2 again’led suie’_and No. b5 dropped _pedro in, and as No. 1 had no trumps, No. 5 saved his pedro, making six pcints Then us No. 5 was 8bout to lead u smal: suit card. No 4, who had the gueen, stated that as No. 5 had made his points (sithough he bhad not), threw down his hand, which he!d his queen, and No. b saved bis jack. Atthe time No. 4 stated that No. 5 bad made his points, No. b 1emuined silent, neither denlgd or sffirmed No. 4’s stmemeni. Thereiore, No. 4, aiter throwing awayv his hand. stated that he made a mistake, but #ssll (he other players were inter- «s'ed in he gume he could not forfeit thelr rights. Query—Was No. 5 rightfully entitled to the game? This has been submitted to & number of men well versed in the matter of cards and the aimost unanimous response is about as follows: There 1s norule coveringthe ques- tion in dispute, but no mun s -ould be allowed 10 t0ss (ff poinis when snother’s interesis are fuvolved, except in w legllimate manuer. No. 4 <hould take up his hand and pl yitout Auother sulution of ihe question Wou d establish a precedent that would admit of coilusion bstween any lwo piuyers in a game. ALASKA.~ Philadelphla Star. All circumstances and all resoarches seem to point to the positive fact that Alaska was setiled, or rather populated, by acciient ana not by any diplomatic pian. Had a party of men or acolony sent out by a government made definite plan for the scttlement of the | country for the sake of its furs, o1l and other commodities there would have been some manner of record kept either by tie men in | authority in that piacs or by the State from which they were sent, and thus we would bave possessed some definite history, and we woula hope for some form of literature, however d-ficient in rhetoric; but every year it becomes more and more certain (hat we snall never kuow, except through con- jecture, more than we do to-day. And in this We see an openin: for just such a wonderful imaginary history as that of the Knle Va a, or the sweet, strange story of Hiswatha. Not irom the pen of u tous:s!, or # hisioric bard born in snother land, but we see among the bright openiug intelicets of the Alaskan nas tive cnildren the (rospect that some day Alaska will huve a literature of her own, born in the imagination of some of her own chil- dren and painted in the c lors which the holy love oi country wi | make cxquisitely veautiful. 'SHROD WASHINGTON JAMES. LITERATURE KEEPING THE INTERESTATHOME Indianepolis News. It is astimated that Europe has sent us back 000,000 of our securities 1n the lastsix montys in the endeavor to prevent the ship- meli vf gold to our shores. Europe iswei- come to continue the process so long as she desires.” We shall Lo able to take care of them. CALIFORNIA glace fruits,50c Ib. Townsend's.* s nai e “GOLDEN PoPPIES,” a California calendar for 1898. Also “:Chinese” calendars now ready for mailing at Sanborn & Vaii’s, 741 Market st, FPECIAL Information daily to manufacturery, business houses and pubiic men by the Press Ciipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * e “The face of every woman is a history or & prophesy,” said Mrs. Margaret Sangster at the annual banquet of the Emma Willard Associa- tion recently. “I have no sympathy with women who try to efface wrinkles. A woman has no business to look younger than she is, There is a history in every line of her face.”” “Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrap" Fias been used over fiity ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. 1t toothes the child. softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels ond is the best remedy for Diarrhaeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Lrugsists in every part of the world. Be sure ani 86K 10T rs. W inslow's Soothing Syrup. 25C800uis —_————— CORONADO.—Almosphere is perfectly drv. som and mild." being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Rourd- trip tickets, by steam- ship, inciuding fifteen days board at the Hotei (a Coronado, 860; longer stay $2 50 per day. 4 dew Mouigomery sireet. San Francisco, or A. W. Bailey, manager lotel del Coronado, lsie of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorade. —_————— John Sartain, the artist, who died a few days ago i Philadelphia, had many interesting ex- periences during his life of 89 years. He knew Charles Dickens as a boy pasting blacking labels in a Loadon factory. Thomas Hood’s “The Song of the Shirt” and “The Bridge of Sighs” were first printed in a maga- zine published by Sartain in Phiiadelphia in the "40's, NEW TO-DAY. Many persons cannot take plain cod-liver oil. They cannot digest it. It upsets the stomach. Knowing these things, we have digested the oil in Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- liver Oil with Hypophos- phites; that is, we have broken it up into little glob- ules, or droplets. We use machinery to do the work of the digestive organs, and you obtain the good effects of the digested oil at once. That is why you can take Scott’s Emulsion. s0c. and $1.00, all druggists. BCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yorl X