The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1898, Page 7

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. SSSSTS e | PUBLICATION OFFICE........Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson street Telephone Main 1§74 T N FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)!s “Ecr?l:d by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents aweek. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.... ...One vear, by matl, $1.50 908 Broadway e, DAVID ALLEN. Room 188, World Building Eastern Representa: NEW YORK OFFICE WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFKCE....... eesseases Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, eorner Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until ©:30 o'clock. 62! MoAllister street; open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open unti! €o'clock. 2518 Misslon street: open untll 9 o'clock 06 Eleventh st.; open untll9 o’clock, 1505 Polk strest cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second end Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—The Bostoni 1 Troubadours. ppened to Jones.” | | streats—Speciaities. | ille. | Mechan! Calijornia Joe 10 Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. d—This day, February 17, Turkish P February 17, Stationery Store, at | By Frank W. Butters Rugs, at 116 dutter street, at y Emil Cohn—This da; 11 o'ciock. | turday, February 19, Horses. at Oakland | sdav, February 24, Real Estate, at | PUT UP OR sHUT UP. S independent as the proverbial hog on ice is the yellow f: cannot stand up it can fall down on er of Mission street; when it A 1e face of the demand of The Call that it should either prove the truth of its denial that John R. Grif- fiths was at Agnews at the time Peter Camarinos died or acknowledge the error. Finding itself in‘a slip- pery place it has fallen down, and loudly claims to | be sliding on its own slipperiness and not on that of the location. itself and It has taken the latter course | n its own grease. Since the Examiner has fallen down we have desire to pursue the subject further. When brought the issue before the public and offered to de- posit with Mayor Phelan $1000 to be divided among the charitable institutions of the city if the Examiner could show that the denial it ma of the story pub- lished in The Call was well founded, we had no other no we object than that of impressing upon the public mind the accuracy of the reports in The Call and the false- ness to which the yellow journal resorts to discredit rews which it is too slow to get. That object has been accomplished. The Examiner yesterday refused to stand by its former words, but announced in screaming type that if some other issue of its own selection be taken up it would meet The Call half way. We challenged the Examiner to maintain the truth of a statement made in its columns and stated the challenge in the straight Saxon words, “Put up ov. shut up.” The Examiner has done neither. The hog on ice, whether he stands or falls, can always squeal, and this particular stuck pig squeals wildly. We have no desire to inflict the squealing upon the public an further, and therefore resist the temptation to k the sprawling nuisance and provoke it to further noise. We simply profit by the opportunity to brand | the thing once more as a public'liar, and so pass on to other things until a new offense from the jealous faker calls for new redress and new exposure. In the meantime our original challenge stands. OVERWORKING THE CHILDREN. /\/\ that their children are forced to do an un- | reasonable amount of work in the public schools. A few years ago a child of 12 or 13 ad- 1 vanced to about the stage of the seventh grade of to- day would be under no necessity of studying at home | in the evening, or at least but rarely. Now, to keep | up with the prescribed course the child must study | often as much as two hours in the evening. There is something wrong with the system which exacts | this. A child has a right to leisure for recreation or | for the pursuit of some branch, French, German or | music, not in the curriculum. Many children com- plain of trouble with their eyes, and namra[]y! enough. If they pore over books during a large part i of the time they are at school, and must devote their | evenings to the active pursuit of the same industry, | not only their eyes, but their bodies are being sub- jected to undue strain. A little girl of 11 recently re- marked that she had twenty-seven examples to work out one evening. She had complained to her | teacher, who had cheered her with the information | that if she would give two hours’ faithful application | to them she ought to be able to work them all. | Possibly this was true. But there is no justice in the demand that any girl of 11 after a day in school | shall give two hours of faithful application to any form of knowledge concealed between the covers of | a text-book. ANY parents are approaching the conclusion | e a———— The public would like to know more about thei transaction by which a fender was adopted. There has been a suspicion that no device would be ap- proved without being sustained commercially and its good points emphasized by gold trimmings. It is| only fair to the Supervisors to say this suspicion is | still harbored, and to clear it away ought to be re- garded by them as a duty and a pleasure. i It is stated that Peary stands in the foremost rank of Arctic explorers. He does more than this; he is | the foremost rank. No other brave pioneer has the distinction of being the father of an all-white baby born quite so far north, and no other has monkeyed around the exclusive Arctic circle so extensively without having discovered something. While the police announce with pleasing faith that there are no confidence men left in the city, no citi- zen in whom the bump of credulity.is not abnormally developed will take his hand off his pocketbook while | in a crowd. Supervisors will not be much concerned over any- thing the Grand Jury may say about them. They are - not noted for delicacy of feeling. Nothing short of ~n ‘adictment will ever cause them uneasiness. | the Wilson bill, R THE THREE SILVER M@ANIFESTOES. HE Bryan Democracy, Populists and free silver TRepublicans have sat upon and incubated a triune manifesto to their followers, summoning them to fusion on free coinage of silver at 16 to I. This document, so abundantly fathered, impeaches the administration for maintaining the gold standard and making the lives of the people “bitter with a hard bondage.” This is also an impeachment of Andrew Jackson, who said in 1836 that “gold is the universal and only honest standard of value.” But Jackson is dead and cannot defend himself, even against the attempt to identify him with fiatism. The address, continuing, says: “The continued rise in value of gqld—or, which is the same thing, the continued fall in prices—must inevitably transfer | the property of all those engaged in active business, | the actual creators of wealth, whether by hand, brain | or capital, to those who, avoiding the risk and effort of active business, only draw interest.” The address fails to state what these wicked men | will do then, when they have destroyed their capacity to draw interest by destroying the power to pay it. The farmers of Mr. Bryan's State paid off $26,000,- 000 of mortgages in 1897, and Kansas proposes to exhibit at the Omaha fair a full carload of mortgages paid off last year. When Mr. Bryan was in Congress, in his speech on wisely distributed lowered instead of raising prices to the consumer, he said that the general fall in prices was due entirely to increase in production by labor-saving inventions. Now he sees a new light and lays low prices to the gold standard. It needs no argument to prove that if the so-called and Klondike Exposttion, | demonetizing of silver in 1873 made prices fall, inde- | pendent of supply and demand, of production and consumption, the fall would haye been immediate, sudden and final. It would have affected not a few | but all values. The fact is that silver has been more coined and more used in effecting the world’s commercial ex- changes since 1873 than before. Of the specie used in moving the foreign trade of the United States, Great | Britain, France and British India for the four years ending in 1864 the proportion of silver was 40 per cent; for the four years ending 1890 it was 45 per cent. Mr. David A. Wells says: “It would seem that if the scarcity of gold on prices had originated and operated as the advocates of this theory claim, such infiuence would have been all pervasive, synchronous, irresistible and constant as the influence of gravita- tion, and that something of correspondence, as re- spects time and degree, in the resulting price move- mients of commodities would have been recognized.” Saurbeck’s tables, dealing with forty-five articles, show an average fall in price, but they do not show a universal fall for all articles, nor a uniform fall for such as have fallen. Pork fell 4 points and cotton 49; beef 19 and petroleum 68; oats 28 and wheat 52; tin 19 and iron 49; coffee rose 23 points. The investiga- tions made by a sub-committee of the Finance Com- mittee of the United States Senate in 1802 traced the price fluctuations of 223 articles since 1860 and showed the same lack of uniformity. Fifteen articles of house furnishings fell 30 points; thirty-five articles of lumber and building materials rose 22 points; metals and implements fell 26 points; food rose 3 points: wages rose 6o points. Between 188 and 1890 farm lands rose from $18 g9 per acre to $21 31, i've- stock per head from $13 03 to $14 63, the average wages of factory laborers from $346 to $484 per a num, and of teachers from $195 to $2351. In economics a tleory is not good unless it ac- counts for all cases to which it is applied. Those who say that the gold standard has made low wheat must explain w! veal, butter, eggs and milk. In fine, the theory of these three manifestoes is a fallacy. Its statement of the motive of the advocates of the gold standard is an appeal to prejudice and a demagogic folly. The persons who own the money in the loan find of the country and get interest on it arc very largely the working people and widows, orphans and estates, for whom the savings banks and trust companies act as trustees. -PUSHING THE INVESTIGATION. EPRESENTATIVE HILBORN has intro- duced into the House a resolution directing the Committee on Military Affairs to make an in- vestigation of the recent discovery that defective shrapnel has been furnished to the army by private contractors. The issue is thus brought fairly before Congress and it is to be hoped no favor for the guilty parties nor the pressure of the business of the session will cause the committee to hesitate in taking up the matter while all the circumstances are still fresh in the public mind and popular interest in the subject is keen and strong. 4 In the first reports of the affair it was stated t the defective shrapnel discovered by the tests at the Presidio was furnished by the American Ordnance Company. To our special correspondent at Wash- ington, however, it was stated by an officer of that company that the ammunition did not come from his company, but from the Hotchkiss Company before the consolidation. It appears the American Ordnance Company is something in the nature of a trust and represents a consolidation of several of the largest corporations engaged in that business in the country. It would of course be unjust to hold the entire combination re- sponsible for defective ammunition furnished by one of its members before the consolidation took place, but nevertheless it ‘will not be overlooked that the combination was probably formed to make better profits out of the Government, and doubtless re- ceived a share of the gains made out of the defective | ammunition in question. Mr. Hilborn is quoted by our correspondent as saying the Government should as far as practicable manufacture its war material, as there would then be no temptation to furnish unserviceable ammunition. The cost to the Government would perhaps be more, but it would be better to stand that than to run the risk of having to face a war with our troops and navy so poorly supplied that they would be sent to slaugh- ter rather than to battle. Against this reasoning there is nothing ‘to be urged. If we cannot obtain good ammunition from private contractors the Government should- by all means set up a manufacturing plant of its own. It is by no means certain, however, that we cannot find contractors who will furnish good ammunition. Our manufacturers are quite capable of producing as good war material as any in the world, and if the proper inducements are held out by the Government they will furnish us with military and naval supplies of un- questioned quality. One of these inducements should be fair: prices for the goods, and another should be prompt punishment for supplying the army or navy with defective goods. We have for a long time held out the first of these, it'has not made low beef, wages, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1898. and the frauds discovered in the shrapnel at the Presidio afford a good opportunity for trying the other. The Military Committee of the House should see to it that the thing is done and done promptly. | THE UPROAR IN FRANCE. from helping him, has acted upon the excita- Z ble Parisian populace like a red banner waved in the face of an angry bull. It has aroused passions | that have carried old animosities to the verge of | reasonless rage, and at the present time the outcome of the trial is as likely to be a riot as anything else. It must not be supposed, however, that the stormy mobs of Paris represent the public opinion of France. Excitement in one form or another is the normal condition of life among a large portion of the population of Paris, and France is too much ac- customed to their extravagances to. be seriously dis- i turbed by them. Almost every political crisis causes a violent uproar along the boulevards, but it is sel- dom that anything more than noise and a few duels | emanate from the confusion that seems about to | hurry the republic into chaos and old night. | The most serious feature of the present situation is the fact that within a short time the Deputies are to meet their constituents. The Government is thus | compelled to some extent to comply with the will of | the leaders of the excitement for fear of their in- [} OLA'S detiant championship of Dreyfus, so far in reply to the claim that protection | fyence over the rabble on election day. The loss of | | a comparatively few seats in the Chamber of Depu- | ties would mean the overthrow of the present Minis- | try, and the Government dares not take the risk of | too strongly opposing the sentiment of a class which, ‘ however small it may be in comparison with the | whole voting population, is nevertheless active, vig+ orous and aggressive enough to be a dangerous foe. | The men who are making the most violent de- | monstrations against Zola and Dreyfus are known to | be opposed to the present constitution of France. i They are divided into two parties which on all other issues are in violent antagonism to one another, one faction being socialists and the other monarchists, | but for this fight they have combined, each being | willing to help the other tear down the Government and take chances as to which will be able to seize the | spoils after the common victory. The campaign cry by which the combined factions have succeeded in exciting the Parisian populace is | The people are told that “The honor of the army. Zola has insulted the arms of France for the purpose of defending a traitor. on the streets and threatened with violence as he goes and returns to and from the court. The same cry will be sounded during the campaign throughont France when the elections take place, and it will go hard with the Ministry if the opposition can fasten upon it the suspicion that it is lacking in loyalty to the army of the nation. The outlook is grave beyond a doubt, but the re- public has met and weathered many a fiercer storm than this. The Boulanger movement was more dan« gerous because it had a leader who was a popular favorite, and in whom large numbers of people be- lieved they saw a new Napoleon who would redeem Alsace and Lorraine from the Germans and restore the prestige and glory of the arms of France. The present movement has no leader. The pas- sionate regard for the army shown in the excitement that attends the trial of Zola is ample proof that ifi | a military leader of commanding eminence were | forthcoming the republic would be in extreme dan- | ger, but there is no young Napoleon in sight. The opportunity is present, but the man is absent. The | | chances, therefore, are that the present excitemen? | will never spread beyond the boulevards of Paris, and | that when the elections take place a sure and safe majority of conservative republicans will be elected to maintain the present constitution for another long | term of years. ‘ | T ————————— | A committee has been endeavoring to ascertain | whether the poor people of New York City buy the | proper sort of food. There is nothing surprising in | the conclusion reached that the poor people are guilty. They do not buy the proper material. They | sometimes invest their money when hungry in some- thing which lacks the nutritive properties of some- | thing else. They have even been known to neglect to purchase food of any kind, and the fact that they have starved to death upon persistently manifesting an obstinacy so reprehensible shows that nature will not tolerate any foolishness. | | Perhaps a statement made in the New York World and copied in The Call had not dawned in all its beauty upon the hurried editor who used it. The World had written of some men whom it described as mortally wounded, adding the information that part of the number would be likely to die. Men with morzal wounds are viewed by students of warfare as having | their chances of longevity seriously impaired. —_— The burglars who keep right on about their regu- lar business must have overlooked Captain Bohen's confident and cheering view of the matter. Accord- ing to the captain all such characters have been run out of town. Would it not be wise to detail a good man to call upon these burglars and inform them not only that their conduct is annoying, but is taking all the beauty out of Bohen’s story? e “Notwithstanding the vigilance of the police the games thrive.” So reads a news account telling of places in which pools are sold to women. It is an in- teresting account, but at one point the writer evi- dently felt an impulse to be facetious. To mention as “vigilance” that attitude which permits the game was clearly intended as a joke. { _ / If General Clay shall get the divorce he seeks perhaps the country may be cheered by noting his absence from the public press. However, the issu. ance of a burial permit to the general would be even more pleasing, and carry with it a more perfect assur- ance of peace. — Another man while hunting has fatally shot a friend. There needs to be a closed season for friends, and until it shall be provided the man who does not know one end of a gun from another should be forced to do his hunting in solitude. There will be a shade of doubt in relation to the death of the Gilroy man who is said to have tried to cut off his own head with an ax. An ax is not looked upon by the practical suicide as a weapon suitable to the emergency. —_— Foreign papers say that Zola, even if acquitted, could not live in France. They do not go to the trouble to state any reason why he should desire to It is for this he is howled a# | MUSIC AND One of the stars of the Damrosch-Ellis, opera company at the Metropolitan Opera-house this season is Mile. Toronta, a youthful graduate of Mme. Marchesi's school. It is almost needless to say that Mlle. Toronta is a Canadian and hails from Toronto. When Lamperti suggested to a gifted young American soprano that she should name herself Albani, after her native town of Albany, he set a fashion which is growing more and more popular. Melba has given an added glory to Mel- bourne, Fanny Franeesca is carrying the fame of San Francisco abroad, and Mile. Toronta, in winning laurels for herself, is incidentally earning fame for Toronto. There is no knowing where the mania may end. The'twentieth century may see every. town and-hamlet with its name prima donna. To avoid injustice the as- | piring singer ought first to warble to the community, and be publicly indorsed be- fore being allowed to wear a city's name; otherwise we might see Mile. Oaklanda or Mile. Los Angela making a complete USICIANS. instrurients of the kind that grind out tunes, Ake sausages, by the yard. The publishess have entered ‘a number of test suite against the manufacturers of these' insittruments, and so far the de- cisions hate been in their favor. The hand-organ men fear that the ‘“Reichs- gericht” (Tribunal of the Empire) Iis about to make a decision ordering them to pay royalles. In the hope of pre- venting- this they have formed an asso- ciation entitled ‘The League of German Instrument Makers,” and they propose to petition the Government for a change in existing laws, so that all mechani- cally produced- mugic may be exempt from paying royaltiss. It is to be hoped that they will not carry the day, for there seems absolutely no'reason why they should reap, ‘'without money and with- out price, the fruits of composers’ labor and genius. At the town of Bergamo, in Italy, a grand musijcal celebration was given on the 10th inst. to commemorate the first MLLE. TORONTA, the New Canadian Prima Donna. fiasco, whereas Mile. Petaluma and Mile, | Milpeta might be winning world-wide fame. Mlle. Toronta is a very gifted Young woman, and, although only in the very beginning of her career, has already taken her place in the front rank of prima donnas. There was a time when London was ac- cused of being an unmusical city, but, Jjudging from the Postal Annual, it has now gone to the other extreme. The Pos- tal Annual gives the addresses of 5500 professors of piano, singing, guitar, etc. The population of London is at present about five millions, so that the city counts a professor of music for each 1000 inhabi- tants. The proportion is in reality still more startling, for one must deduct the inhabitants who are too young or too old to figure in the list of students, as well as the poor who have no money to spend on musical Instruction. In reality the proportion is about one professor for each 200 inhabitants. It must be remembered, too, that the list of professors does not count many women teachers who are too modestly lodged for the Annual to take cognizance of them. If with all these teachers London does not become the most musical city in the world it will not be for want of technical instruction. Thisisthe historyin brief of Mille. Agnele Heraut—La Petite Heraut—the newest vaudeville star in Parls: She studied singing with poor Taskin, who predicted a brilliant operatic career for her; sud- denly a severe attack of laryngitis de- stroyed at one blow the hopes of the master and the pupil. Most women would have given up all hopes of the theater in despair. “Little” Heraut sald to herself: “What does it matter having no voice if one’s gestures are expressive, and, above all, graceful”’ And without waiting a day Angele Heraut began to study pantomime. Three months later she made her debut at the Casino de Paris in a little act, where the public im- mediately appreciated her ability as a mime. New creations at the Nouveau- Theatre and the Folies-Marigny followed, and now “Little” Heraut has just signed a splendid engagement with the Casino. The courageous singer who lost her voice has become one of the biggest vaudeville stars in France. Leoncavallo, the author of “I Pagliac- ci,”” like Boito, the author of ‘“Mefiisto- fele,”” not only writes librettos for - his own personal use, but also furnishes his confreres with books. ILeoncavallo’s lat- est libretto is entitled “Mario Wetter,"™| it has been set to music by Augusto Machado and will shortly be produced at the San Carlos Theater, Lishon. Talk- ing of the San Carlos recalls the fact that the Portuguese police still refuse to al- low .that opera house to play “Andre Chenier,” because one of the acts ends with the “Marselllaise.” Every one seems at a loss to understand this ridiculous ostracism, for the hymn of the French republic is publicly played even in Russia, 50 one would suppose that the Portuguese public might safely be exposed to its seditious influence. As all song lovers remember the ““Marseillaise’ also comes in at the end of Schumann’s set- ting of Heine's poem, “The Two Grena- diers,” which has been sung with im- punity all over the civilized world. A rather surprising plece of musical news comes from the Transvaal, where hitherto the worship of the golden calt has been much more wide-spread than the worship of art. A committee has been formed at Pretoria, the capital of the little repuiftic, with- the object of building a concert hall and forming an orchestra to play classical music. Dr. Leyds, Assistant Secretary of State, is the president of the organization. The committee has demanded a site of the Government in the midst of the public park at Pretoria, and a number of music lovers have subscribed a sum equivalent to $51,000. Mr. Ten Brink has been com- missioned to go to Europe, especially to England, in order to engage performers and a good conductor. It is to be hoped that this interesting effort of Boor ama- teurs will prove a complete success and live there. The world is wide and portions of it are sane. — Ex-Governor St. John of Kansas is in trouble for having signed the petition of a druggist to sell whisky, and he deserves to be. The people of Kansas know what drugstore whisky is. that in the twentieth century The Call will be furnishing Its readers- with the anniversary of the death of Bazzini, the famous violinist-composer. Most of the programme was devoted to the deceased master's works. The celebrated violon- cellist, Piatti, an intimate friend of Baz- was the star performer on the oc- on. Bazzini’s chamber music has at several concerts been received with con- siderable favor in San Francisco. Pedro Saleza, a new Spanish tenor, has Jjust signed an engagement with Maurice Grau for London and the United States. He will sing in London during the sum- mer, and will make his debut in America next winter. Much is expected from Saleza, on account of his success at the Paris Grand Opera. To some extent he will step into Jean de Reszke's shoes, for he is to sing with Calve, Melba and Fames In “Faust,” “Romeo and Jullet,” “The Huguenots,” *“Aida,” “Carmen,’ ete. Sir Arthur Sullivan has a new libret- tist—no less a man than Arthur Pinero, the well-known playwright of problem- play fame. It is to be hoped that the Pinero libretto on which Sir Arthur is now busily working contains mora excit- ing material than “The Princess and the Butterfly,” the latest comedy offering that Pinero has made this country, and about as dull a contribution as New York has seen in many a day. E. J. Hopkins, the dean of English or- ganists, has just retired from the Temple Church, London, at the age of 9. He has been organist of the Temple Church for fifty-four years, but his musical career goes back to the accession of William 1V in A. D. 1830. .-t that time Hopkins was a choirboy in the royal chapel, and he sang at the coronation ceremony. Roumania wants to make a record in the piano-manufacturing line. An enter- prising Bucharest manufacturer Is pre- paring to send to the Paris Exposition of 1900 a piano that can be heard ten kilo- meters away (six and two-third miles). That will be au very well fof the people who live at the other end of town, but what about the inhabitants of the next flat? News comes from Munich that the famous tenor, Henry Vogl, is writing a grand opera in three acts, which bears the provisionary title of “Baldur.” ‘'he composer, who himself wrote the libret- to, went to Scandinavian mythology for his theme. He also helped himself liber- ally to a poem by Felix Dahn on the sub- ject of the god Baldur. Mile. Strakosch, a niece of Adelina Patti, bids fair to repeat her aunt’s suc- cesses. A dispaten from Milan announces that in “Andrea Chenier,” at the Lyric Theater, Milan, she has had a triumphal success, so much so that the recalls and general enthusiasm quite surpassed any- thing that happened when the opera first performed at La Seala. Do ® Was Newspaper writers abroad are some- times more frank than gallant, as the following instance shows: An Italian critic, who is known by the nom de plume, “Per I'ldeale,” makes the announcement that a popular Italian singer has inherit- ed a fortune large enough for ner to reure from the stage. He adds: *So much the better for her—and for art.” Mlle. Zelie de Lussan, a New York so- prano, continues to meet with great suc- cess in Europe. She has just been en- gaged for a series of representations at the Paris Opera Comique, after which she will go to Lisbon to fulfill a contract in every way favorable to herself. A magnificent new opera-house is to be built at Brunswick. According to the German custom, the theater will be used for comedy as well as opera. Ludovic Breitner, an Austrian pianist, is capturing the taste of Parisian audi- ences. MINOR POETS. No master-singers we, whose lightest word Thrills the great heart of nations, and will loat “On fhrough the ages; but a little note Or two we have In common with the bird, Such simple melody as may be heard : Poured out in winter from the Robin's throat, Who sings alone on leafless bough remote, By Nature's frost-bound silence undeterred. We sing because it pleases us to sing, The soul's low whisper echoing unatraid; And unto some of us this higher grage God gives:—to see the good in everything— The harmony from seeming discord made— The hidden glory of the commonplace. —M. G. 'W. in Westminster Gazette. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DOLLAR OF 179%—G. W. B., ITard- wick Station, Fresno County, Cal. For a dollar of 17% dealers in old coins offer from 2 to 50 cents premium. Dollars of that date can be purchased from dealers for $2 7. THE NAVAL ACADEMY-T. P., Mon- terey, Cal. For admission to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis the applicant must be not under fifteen vears of age nor more than twenty vears old One desiring to enter the academy m“~r notity the Representative in Congress of the district in which he lives and if ap ointed to a vacancy the applicant Wi e notified of time and place of exam- ination. SEALSKINS—Constant Reader, Stockt- ton, Cal. By far the greatest portion O the world's fur-seal catch is dyed in ln:- don. Some skins are prepared in the United States, but the process has ne\gf been carried on to a large extent, for the reason that the trade desires the “TLon- don_dye.” There is a plant in Brooklyn, N. Y., and skins to a very limited extent have been dyed in San Francisco. Lon- don is recognized as the place for dye- ing skins. THE LOYAL LEGION—F. 8., Klamath, Cal. The military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States was organ- ized by officers and ex-officers of the army, navy and marine corps of the United States who took part in the Civil War of 1861-65. The membership descends to the eldest male lineal descendent, according to the rules of primogeniture. There are twenty commanderies, each representing a State, and one commandery represent- ing the District of Columbia. The total membership is about 9000. NATURALIZATION PAPERS-F. F., San Mateo, Cal. While it is true that all judicial and executive officers of the United States Government are bound to recognize the seal and signature of all legally constituted courts, in the matter of an alien or a natural-born citizen going abroad he should provide himself with a passport, to be obtained from the United States Secretary of State. A naturalized citizen should have such in addition to his certificate of naturalization. The cer- tificate does not require the signature of a Federal officer if issued out of a State court, but the applicant for a passport must send it to the Secretary of State, who will return it in due time with the passport. To obtain a passport the rule is that in addition to transmitting his certificate, or a certified copy, for inspec- tion, he must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he Was naturalized. and that he is the iden- tical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature to the ap- plication should conform in orthography to the applicant’'s name as written in the naturalization papers, which the depart- ment follows. GOVERNORS OF CALIFORNTIA-J. D. and L. F., City. The following-named were elected Governors of California since 1849. Thepe is also given the year of elec- tion and the political party to which each belonged at the time of election: P. H. Burnett, 1849, no part. ohn Bigler, 1851 and 1853, Democrat; J. Neely Johnson, 1855, Know Nothing; John B. Weller, 1857, Democrat; Milton S. Latham, 189, Demo- crat; Leland Stanford, 1861, Republican; Frederick F. Low, 1863, Union; Henry H. Haight, 1867, Democrat; Newton Booth, 1871, Republican; William Irwin, 1875, Democrat; George C. Perkins, 1879, Re- publican; George Stoneman, 1882, D crat; Washington Bartlett, 1886, crat; H. H. Markham, 180, Republican; James H. Budd, 18%4, Democrat. In addi- tion to this list there have been the fol- lowing named who were Lieutenant- Governors who _ succeeded Governors elected: John McDougald, Democrat, succeeded Burnett; John G. Downey, Dem-~ ocrat, succeeded Latham; Romualdo Pa- checo, Republican, succeeded Booth, and R. W. Waterman, Republican, succeeded Bartlett. From this it appears that four Governors were succeeded during their terms by Lieutenant-Governors—three having resigned and one died. At the sixteen elections held nine Democrats were elected, four Republicans and one each Union, Know-Nothln§ and no party. In 1849 there were cast 14,213 votes for Governor and In 1894 284 548, Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_—— Speclal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, & —_————— : Trunks Movesd 25 Cents. Furniture moved. San Francise - fer Co. Office, 12 Grant ave. Tel‘.:om?rx' —_———— Jasper—What do you think Howells meant when he spoke about one of his characters being a “hen-minded” woman? Jumpuppe—Oh, I guess he meant that she never thought about anything ex- cept her own set.—Judge. s e Time Reduced to Chicago. Via Rio Grande Western, Denver and Rio Grande and Burlington railways. 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