The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1898. FRIDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts. S. F | Telephone Main 1888. EDITORIAL ROOMS...... .. 27 to 231 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574. THE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE -One year, by mail $1.50 seeee--..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Bailding | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, { WASEINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ...Rigge Houso ‘ C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CH4CAGO OFFICE..... -4 -Marquette Bullding €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—82T7 Moptgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open unti 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o"locfi 1941 Mission street, open uptil 10 o'clock. £291 Mark street, corner th, open untii § o’clock. 2518 Rission street, oron until 9 o’clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kantucky streets, open untd 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—*A Stranger in New York"™ Columbia—“Shore Acres " California—"0ld Lavender.” Alcazar— The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown' Morosco's—"Pavements of New York."” d the Saflor.” 1—Paloma Schramm, thls afternoon. e Passion Play." Wallace, “Untamable Lion.” a lddy streets, Specialties. Oakland—Races. g boating, fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. day, April 15, Turkish Rugs, at 106 THE LAW NO LONGER MOCKED. i steal IME was, and not long ago, when to murder a man in California involved less risk of any punishment save that of conscience than did the 1g of a ham. It may fairly be said that this time has passed. Now when murderous passion is given free rein there follows with reasonable promptness a 1 trial, and, with reasonable certainty, the guilty found guilty, the punishment is administered. De]ay% has go the senseless and irritating ity is no longer tolerated. Several men are | now in the penitentiary under sentence of death, and they do not expect to escape. They are acute | enough students of events to know that they went too late into the business of assassination. Once con- d ion would have meant nothing but the begin- | ning of a series of trials. Now it means the paying of a bitter penalty. | The reason for this change is not hard to trace. The struggle to keep Durrant from the gallows was | fought with all the ardor of the interested advocate, | all the subtlety that technical construction of the | tute could devise, and yet in the end effort proved | When Durrant went through the trap he car- | ried with him the hope of many a bloody-minded etch. It w then, and months have showed the soundness of the belief, that the execution of Durrant would produce marked and beneficial These are already appearing. Before long dy processions to the gallows must have vis- ect upon the persons wont, in the firm convic- tion that no punishment would follow, to indulge | The record of criminal his- | tory shows that there is nothing so disliked by the | murderer as to be hanged, and, given in advance the nce that such a fate awaits him, he will stay his is | = out of favor; v s believed homicidal tendencies. NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION. "l"HI{RF. is a Madrid editor who is in a peculiar ate of mind, and probably threatened with a touch of fever. As a reasonable measure of pre- | caution he ought at least to call in a doctor. He shows in the following that something is the matter with him: “We laugh while our teeth clinch, the bile turns in our stomachs, anger heats our blood and our hands instinctively seek an avenging weapon.” Now there is nothing in the condition portrayed to cause a sane man to laugh. On the contrary, he ought to grow serious, turn his editorial duties over to the office boy and go home. A man who laughs when the bile within him has turned has more to fear than a disordered liver. He is already touched by paresis. This in itself, however, may be no par- ticular disadvantage to an editor in Madrid. Per- haps the yellow journal thrives there too. Laughing through clenched teeth is also a sign of the abnormal. No genuine mirth is that which comes hissing from between the incisors. It is a poorly dis- guised anathema. But to laugh while the blood is boiling in the veins and the hand reaching for a weapon is the worst of all. In the whole world there is only one person privileged to do this, and he is the stage vill It is his right to begin operations by ejaculating ““S’death” and to finish up with a mocking “ha ha,” this last marking the instant when he sticks a knife into the back of unsuspecting virtue. In the kindest of fraternal spirit, and with all pos- sible abhorrence of slang, we counsel the Madrid editor to soak his head. ———— The fact that no news as to naval movements is to be given out hereafter will have no visible effect upon the yellow press. It has not depended upon the Navy Department for its “news,” and, indeed, has given that department much information of a surprising character. If Secretary Long wants to keep track of his boats he will have to direct a sharp watch on the Saffron War-Cryer. e Spaniards are said to regard the armistice as a clever piece of diplomacy, but it is not easy to see how a trick so transparent can deserve such a charac- terization. Rather it was meant for diplomacy and turned out to be a bit of buncombe. g o Sre ks Blanco's justly celebrated armistice is very like the commutation of sentence a murderer might issue to himself while on the way to the gallows. It might comfort the murderer some and in no way delay the execution. Tf anything had been needed to cause this country to have entire confidence in Fitzhugh Lee the Span- ish papers are supplying it. They are doing him the compliment to try to impugn his veracity. It may be set down as a safe proposition that any measure receiving the approval of Ragan, Drucker and Waller is not designed for the betterment of the schools, g . i o | a cause of war, it is a cause that raises up for her no | | allies. GETTING IN LINE. HE House fairly lined up with the President. Th was a little mixed in getting there, but it ar- rived, with no more serious incident than the use of a bound copy of the Congressional Record as a concealed weapon to determine a question of | veracity. In this there was nothing incendiary, and at last all but nineteen members voted for the resolu- | tion, which conforms as nearly as possible to the President’s policy. The fact that the minority, after days of embit- tered comment on the message and criticism of the President that overwent the bounds of decency, fell in and supported the resolution is very significant. They are mindful of public opinion and have had time to hear from the country and to know that the peo- ple are with the President. General Fitzhugh Lee came home, to make his progress to Washington through a lane of cheering Americans that stretched from the Gulf to. the Potomac, and when he came to | advise Congress it was to the effect that the Presi- dent was right in counseling that body not to recog- | nize Cuban independence under the existing so-called republic. The yellow sheet in this city, which be- comes more flippant and disloyal in its comments in proportion as its ignorance fails to grasp the situa- tion, indulges in the incendiary headline, “Congress Surrenders to the President,” and at the same time editorially commends I.ee, knowing that Lee advised against recognition of the Cuban insurgents’ govern- ment and counseled precisely in line with the Presi- dent. In the excitement of the hour some of the people may fail to notice this policy of hypocrisy and de- ceit, but it will become common knowledge before long. One is amazed at the faulty and fatal leadership of the minority in Congress which induces its following to denounce in the most torrid terms a policy which in less than a day it also leads them to vote. The party in the country which that minority is supposed to represent will grow tired of such folly. That party was in precisely such a way led during the Civil War into the wilderness of defeat, where it wandered for more than half of forty years. The President and the House now stand together | on the Cuban issue as an American question solely. If war is the best for American honor and interests there will be war, and it will be fought to the right conclusion by American pluck and valor. The House and the President have isolated Spain. In her inter- national horizon there is no ray of hope for an al- liance with any Continental power. The policy of the minority would remove her isolation and give her | allies. o Judge Maguire, by a strange inversion, if not per- | version, of reasoning, says that the House action, for ‘ which he voted, invites European intervention, when that is just what it prevents. Intervention may be offered whether invited or not. If offered it will be declined because no European question is raised. If Spain treat the House action as If her dismemberment occur as an incident of such war, as it will, the fault is hers, not ours. | But if we begin with a demand for her dismember- | ment and make her refusal a cause for declaring war against her, the whole cleavage of the issue changed. It then becomes a European question and | is | she would probably find allies. | The country intends to stand by the President and Lee, who stand together. l:the Board of Regents it appears that the affairs of the State University are in a flourishing con- | dition, and that the outlook for its improvement in | many ways is most excellent. | In the first place it was noted that the endowmenti fund is now valued at $1,041,000, and while there are | some fears of a diminution of this by reason of a | possible depreciation in the value of real estate, the prospects that the fund will soon reach the $2,000,000 are most excellent. Public interest in the university ; is increasing, and donations are likely to increase with | it at an equal ratio. | An evidence of this increase of public interest in the | institution is afforded by the fact that the meeting was | called upon to consider no less than three donations, | two of them being of considerable value. These were the donation of J. K. Moffitt of $100 to be used in the purchase of books for the library, that of the Alaska Commercial Company of an almost priceless collection of Alaskan articles, and that of Mrs. Phebe Hearst of a sum of money amounting to nearly $12,000 to defray the cost of a needed addition to the mining laboratory. Another pleasing feature of the meeting was the letter from Professor Keeler accepting the appoint- ment as director of the Lick Observatory. The name of the professor has already been associated with the observatory by reason of the work which he per- formed there while acting under Director Holden, and his coming, therefore, will not be regarded as in any sense the importation of an outsider, even if such an importation were objectionable. In his acceptance the professor reminded the re- gents that he is a Californian by affinity, inasmuch as his father was a forty-niner, but this claim was not necessary. The professor was himself one of the pioneers of the observatory and did much to give it an early prestige in the world of science, and it is for that reason as well as for his fitness for the position that he will receive a welcome to his new office, not from the regents only, but from all Californifns who know his abilities, and on that knowledge base a hope of increased repute both for himself and the ob- servatory while he fulfills the duties of its director-in- chief. Taking all things into consideration, it is evident that the new movement in the university which be- gan a short time ago is rapidly advancing. When the great plan of arranging for new and stately buildings and ornamental grounds has been definitely decided upon and the full scope of it is made public, the long- expected new era of the university will be at hand. State patriotism and private munificence will then unite to make the institution the foremost of its kind in America, and not inferior to any in the world. THE STATE UNIVERSITY. | . ROM reports submitted at the recent meeting of According to the English Consul at Havana Americans remaining in that city are in no danger. It must be remembered that the American flag hav- ing ceased to fly there, a great source of irritation has been removed. S o According to an English critic such ships as the Towa and Indiana are for the purpose of tickling the imagination. Yet the Spanish are an imaginative people, and they do not seem to be tickled the least little bit. PSS Spain regards Weyler as a hero. This country looks upon him as a scoundrel who deserves to be hanged. There is reason to fear that an understand- i o s ot i o i 0 i o B b | churia. finterests in countries where THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. N esteemed correspondent calls our attention to the fact that in presenting a statement of the prerogatives which will be exercised by the Mayor under the proposed new charter we have omitted to mention that among the administrative bodies to be appointed by him there is a Civil Service Commission. 1t is the opinion of our correspondent that this was an important oversight. He thinks that | the Civil Service Commission will provide the Mayor with a key to the entire municipal situation, as through it he may confer respectability upon his po- litical machinists and foist them upon even those heads of departments who may attempt to resist his will. Our correspondent, however, is mistaken in think- | ing that we unintentionally. omitted to name the Civil Service Commission as one of the administrative bodies which are to be appointed by the Mayor. We ! igriored that board with malice aforethought. To 1 our mind the commission as outlined in the charter | is certain to prove a useless expense, if not a laugh- able farce. Its members are to be chosen by a Mayor who will control practically the entire municipal gov- ernment. How a thing thus created could stand be- tween the powerful Mayor embodied by the charter and the political patronage of the city is a problem which time could solve in only one way. It is our opinion that the first, or at least the second, Mayor elected under the proposed new charter would refuse to appoint any Civil Service Commission at all, for undoubtedly sharp lawyers could find some rational excuse for advising that the whole scheme is impracticable or invalid. But even if the commis- sion were regularly appointed and its work carried out, nothing could prevent the selection of adherents of the mayoralty machine. We did not include the appointment of the Civil Service Commission among the important functions to be performed by the Mayor under the proposed new charter for the reason that we regard it as a use- less appendage to the government—a mere sop to the reform element which the politicians would subvert or refuse to execute. Even if the Civil Service Com- | mission under the charter were a practicable body it would never be able to stand up against the pressure certain to be exerted from the outside to overturn its rules. We all know that the politicians in “doing” politics trade offices—State, Federal, municipal and county. The commission would have to resist not only the influence of the political bosses of this city, but that of the bosses of the State and adjacent towns. It never could survive the ordeal, no matter how well intentioned its members might be nor how deter- mined to perform their duty. If the first Mayor created by the charter did not laugh the commission to scorn, even if he were forced by public opinion to appoint three men who would attempt to execute its powers in good faith, it would | be because he was not a humorist. INVASION OF MANCHURIA. THE N article in a recent number of the Nineteenth f\ Century by a prominent British officer ex- plains to some extent the anxiety manifested in England at the operations of the Russians in Man- Recent news indicates that the designs of the British upon this province are being to some ex- tent threatened by the persistency with which Rus- sians are pushing their way eastward. Sir William Harcourt once said that England has no great trade the people wear no clothes. Tt is not surprising, therefore, that English- men should be more anxious about affairs in China | at the present time, where the people wear clothing, than about occurrences in Africa, where the colored population usually appear in society quite unadorned. Captain Younghusband, the British officer to whom reference has been made, states that the greatest forests and the best timber left untouched on earth are located in Manchuria; navigable rivers traverse the land in all directions; there are rich mineral de- posits, soil that yields readily to cultivation and a hardy population of about 20,000,000 which has never been fleeced by the Caucasians. The captain esti- mates that Manchuria would easily support double the number of people who now inhabit it, and he does not wonder that all the western nations are casting covetous eyes upon it. Certainly British trade in such a locality must have high possibilities, and that Eng- land should sit down and see the country overwhelmed by the Russians is out of the usual order. What is to come from the Russian invasion, how- ever, is yet to appear. The latest' news indicates that the Russians have actual possession of the north of the province and are in control of the principal sea- ports. There is no doubt that by building a few rail- roads and scattering a few traders over the country they will ultimately gain control of everything. The Chinese are too weak to oppose them, and it is not exactly plain how the British are going to place ob- stacles in their way. It must be noted that in plundering the weak na- tions of the Orient the Caucasians of the west are exceedingly punctilious. They always have a valid excuse for their movements and take possession of property that does not belong to them only after careful deliberation. There is but one ground upon which the British can march upon Manchuria, how- ever, and that is that they are better “civilizers” than the Russians, which is probably true. School Director Waller seems to have an uncon- trollable faculty of placing himself on exhibition. He cannot realize that he is at his best in repose, and in a state of activity constitutes an unpleasant display. Before this little affair shall be finally settled there will be a general understanding that the practice of expelling American Consuls on penalty of death does not meet with the approval of this country. For some unaccountable reason the Cisneros woman has not come forward with an opinion. Pos- sibly the people who found her have had the great good fortune to lose her again. By the vigor with which the Spanish papers attack the message it is apparent that the document has points of merit which Americans may have over- locked in a hasty first reading. Mr. Huntington’s boast that he will be good for thirty years yet could perhaps have been more cor- rectly phrased. He means evidently that he will last for that length of time. Three highwaymen tried to rob a groceryman, and the row he raised about it resulted in their capture. The up-to-date groceryman does not keep his sand in the sugar. Evidently the colored troops remember that they have the reputation of having fought nobly, and pro- pose to live up to it if given the chance. Mr. Hanna seems to enjoy life under the lhfdow of N4 Hotely NEXT SUNDAY'S CA HO {s the most beautiful woman in all the Western States? Most likely you have your own idea on this subject, but you might find trouble in getting others to agree with you. The directors of the Omaha Exposition thought this way when they decided to have the features of the loveliest women in all the West on the Medalllon that is to commemorate the big fair. the directors were equal to the occasion. But They decided to make a composite of all the combined loveliness in the West and let it be a repre- sentative of our womanhood. is pretty well under way. ready been decided upon, This ‘work has already heen started. Many of the beauties from some States have al- There will be some beautiful pictures of them In fact, IN NEXT SUNDAY’'S CALL. And you can find out all about how the work is being conducted by reading the article that accompanies them. There is one young lady in this city who had longings to be a man. As she could not change her sex she decided to change She tried it for a while, but soon repented through life in masculine attire. her clothes and go of her act and went back to skirts. The reasons that caused her to change her mind are all given IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Of course you are interested in the Paris Exposition. Everybody is. To be sure, everything is not yet finished in the gay French capital, but the architects, decorators and designers have all their plans made, so that they know exactly how it is going to look. If you want to know all about this and also a number of other things connected with the fair, READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. “Love and the Capello” is the title of as pretty a story as you ever read. It is by a well-known author and will be published complete 5 IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Were you ever nearly run over by an electric car, and did you feel like killing the motorman? Did it ever occur to you that he is not always to blame for accidents, and that very, very frequently he saves the lives of careless people? ‘Well, that's the way the motorman looks at it in a good many instances. At any rate, there 15 his side to the story and he has a right to tell it. He has been given this chance and IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. You can read about how it feels to be im constant danger of infuring people. after all. You will find out that the motorman is not such a bad fellow There has recently been discovered not a thousand miles from this city § most wonderful petrified forest. It differs from any known natural won- der of this kind in the fact that many of the tree trunks of considerable height are standing. gion and a splendid description of it There will be some fine pictures of this interesting re- IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. The recent discovery by The Call expedition of the long lost turquoise mines of the Aztecs and the wonderful hieroglyphics on the rocks near by has aroused the greatest interest in this subject. writings in many parts of our country, and they will be marized There are other carefully rock sum- IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. And these will not be all. and dozens of beautiful pictures. There will be pages of other speclal features The latest gossip about books and authors will be unusually irteresting and the Fashion page will be strictly up to date. Right from Paris, in fact. the way of reading, be sure to get So, if you want the best there is to be had in NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. i e, IT WILL BE A MOST INTERESTING NUMBER, FILLED WITH FINE FEATURES COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. W. J. Kendrick and wife are at the Grand. Maurice Blum of Vacaville is at Baldwin. T. G. Palmer from Chicago is at the California. M. Warren from Boston is a guest at the Occidental. Samuel Kahn, a merchant of Cincinnatl, is at the Palace. Mrs. Charles A. Adams of New York is at the California. T. W. Johnson of Sacramento is regis- tered at the Grand. J. O. Beall, a large fruit man of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. Hugh Foy. a big contractor of Seattle, is a guest at the Grand. John Cross, a business man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Thomas Hender, one of the Supervisors of Sonora, is at the Lick. James Gallagher, an attorney of Fresno, is registered at the Grand. J. M. Keogh, a cattleman from Salt Lake City, is at the Lick. the Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield Baker have taken rooms at the California. 000O0O0OO0OOOOC The following © letter, which is o HIS WIFE O self -explanatory, o Wwas received yes- O THEL ONLY o terday by one of O OBSTACLE. the leading mili- o tia officers from a 0000000000 (yrrespondent in one of the interior counties. To judge by the tone of the epistle the writer would be a first-class recruit to send down to a. C“l‘l])bere Sir: My kid, who kin read with the best uf them, tells me that there air some sort of trouble between this here country and Spain. “Now, I ain't a doin’ any blowin’, but I fit all through sixty-one to sixty-five, an' have been a-killin’ skunks, wildcats an’ every other kind of varmint ever sinse. I am over 60, but that don’t count, for I kin do my forty miles a day jest as well as ever. If there is a-goin’ ter be trouble count me in an’ send me word to postoffice. It is twenty miles over there, but you will have ter send the letter there so my ole woman “'O_B‘t git it, fur if she does she will jest raise hell, an’ I daren’t go. But send the letter to the place I say an’ I will slip her an’ come. You may think I an’t no man ter be afeared uf a woman an’ that you don’t want my kind. You don’t no the par- ticular ole woman I am a-speakin' uf. Hopin’ ter hear frum you soon, I am yours truly, “P. S.—I kin bring my own rifle, knive and other fixings, so you won't have ter put up nothin’ but grub.” The officer who received the letter, swears that if he is ordered to the front, that particular old fellow shall go with him if he b#is to charter a special train to get him. James T. Phelps of Boston, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is at the Pal- ace. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Field of Monterey, together with thelr son, are staying at the Palace. Willlam H. Alford, the chairman of the Staté Central Democratic Committee, is & guest at the California. Among the late arrivals at the Ocei- dental is Benjamin Olcovich, a large coffee planter of Salvador. Charles H. Fairall, an attorney of Stockton, and F. Rosendale, a merchant of Tulare, are both registered at the Grand. J. J. Gill and daughter of Steubenville, Ohio, are guests at the Palace. Mr. Gill is the largest lamp chimney manufacturer in the world. David T. Day, the mining expert con- nected with the geological survey, who is to take charge of the mining exhibit at the Omaha exposition, is at the Palace. where he arrived yesterday from Wash- ington, D. C. H. R. Cooper, the well-known sta- tioner, who is registered at the Shore- ham, in Washington, D. C., will return home in a few days, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. George E. Morse, who have for some time been the guests of Pres- ident and Mrs. McKinley. During his stay in Washington Mr. Cooper was en- ‘tertained at the White House, and by Secretary Long, who favored him with a sail on the Potomac. He was also one of a theater party comprising Vice-Pres- ident and Mrs. Hobart, Judge and Mrs. Day, General Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Morse, Miss Barber and Miss Isabel McKenna. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 14.—Jerome B. Lin- coln of San Francisco is at the Holland House. Sig Mills of San Francisco is at the Gilsey House. W. W. Wright of San Jose is at Hotel Marlborough. Frank C. Chase of Pasadena s at the Empire THE REAL OLD WABASH. There Is trouble now along the hostile Wabash, And it plays the very dickens with the song. The old mother stands not waiting in the door- way, For her legs are not twelve feet or over long. There are waves around the home, but not of cornfields, The waving cornflelds linger there no more, The angry waters cama along and swiped them, And they're scattered down the old Ohio's shore. Ob, the moonlight may be fair alons the Wa- Ang the sunlight may be ditto through the AL But beneath the waters of a new spring ocean Are the banks of the Wabash far away. *Twas perhaps an angry providence that did it, Sent the raging waters scurrying along In the hope the sweeping flood might catch the author Who had dared enshrine the fragrant stream in song. But the man who wrote the verselets dwells in safety In a tavern on a city's busy street— He had never even seen the dirty Wabash Or his muselet would have kicked with both her feet. Yes, the moonlight's fair to-night along the vabash, But it sniffeth not the breath of new mown ay, For there's half a dozen feet of surplus water O'er the banks of the Wabash far away. —Denver Post. 0000000000000 00000 [ o o 19 (] ] 0000000C000CC000000C REBLE TUCKER, writing in the New York Sun, speaks as follows of the war records of the United States and other great nations of the world: It may not be inopportune at this time, when certain timorous ones are express- ing doubts as to a war between the United States and Spain, to look up our fighting record, as the sporting fraternity would put it. From the Declaration of Independence to the present day, a period of 123 years, the United States has waged five wars, not to speak of the numerous Indian and border skirmishes, and in every one our flag has come out on top. Can as much be said of any other nation during the same period? England has had during that period, roughly speaking, six wars, not including its fights with the natives of South Africa and_ Northern India and the opium war in China. Of these six, two—the Ameri- can Revolution and the War of 1812—re- sulted in victory for her opponents. In other words, to again use a sporting term, she lost two out of six events. France had also six wars, not counting her fights in Northern Africa and China; of these she lost two—the war with the %‘l,lied powers and the Franco-Prussian ar. Prussia out of her five wars waged dur- ing the same period lost two. Austria lost three and gained two. Russia lost two and gained two. Spain has lost every war she has under- taken during that period, unless her ten vears' war with Cuba should be placed to her credit as victorv. So much for the record. In analyzing it we find that most of the cases in which a European nation has won it has been in alliance with some other nation, as in the war of the allied powers against Napoleon, the Crimean ‘\_::ar. and the Franco-Italian-Austrian ar. In one case only did the United States have an ally, and that was in the Revo- lution. Even then the war was nearly half over when France came to our as- sistance with a fleet and a few thousand troops as an offset to the Hessian troops employed by England. In our two ‘wars with England the United States was .tre- mendously outclassed in all that goes to make the fighting efficiency of a nation, except bravery and endurance. In our war with the Barbary States the odds were not so_greatly in our favor as they appear at first blush; we were fighting, thousands of miles from home, a naval power that had exacted tribute from every maritime power in the world and was secretly backed by the money and min'a.l[hsupl\;;m"ti of G‘l";at Britain. n the Mexican War the were all with us. B vantakcs The war of secession was the greatest war of modern times. In that war the old flag completed its unbroken record oti'lc- tory, but the victors have shared the fruits of victory with the vanquished and the nation is stronger to-day than ever before to defend its flag against all gg;ne;:.} SI:n;he face gr this record how 4 erson dot W it Spfil.)ln? ubt the result of —————— ANSWERS TO CORREScONDENTS. SUGAR—C. C., Elmira, Cal. The purity of sugar is determined by analysis and the aid of a saccharimeter. By thisprocess is determined the quantity of sugar, glucose, ash, moisture and organic mat- ter that is not known. in solution. LITERATURE—A. B,, city. In general literature England ranks first, with the United States as a close second. “How do_the different nations range in the different branches?” is too Indefinite to admit of an answer. The correspondent should have named thé particular branches about which information is sought. TRANSFER PICTURES—J. M., San Bernardino, Cal. .You have been misin- formed as to pictures being transferred direct from a news%aper to zinc or alu- minum for use in the large daily news- sl»er offices. Such is not the case. The e] is not aware of the ingredi- ents. -to transfer plgg'x‘u- from news- p to white paper, but the prepara- low price that it would not pay one to buy ingredients and make it. ASSISTING IMMIGRATION—J. R. L., Everett, Wash. There 1s no law of the United States that authorizes any official to pay the passage of foreigners wishing to immigrate to the United States, nor Jyas there ever a law authorizing the out- lay of public money so that foreigners may be brought here to make citizens of them. THE NUMBER SEVEN—H. C. McG., Bodega, Cal. The common statement that seven implies perfection has no further foundation than that the cabalistic mean- ing of all odd numbers are modes of per- fection. In 1624 William Inghen, writing about the number seven used the follow- ing language: First, it neither begets nor is begotten, ac- cording to the saying of Philo. Some numbers, indeed, within the compass of 10, beget, but are not begotten, and that is the unarie. Others are begotten, but beget not, as the octonarie, only the septanarie having a prerogative above them all, neither beget or are begotten. This is its first divinity or perfection. Secondly, this is an harmonical number, and the well and fountain of that fair and lovely dia- gramma, because it includeth within itself all manner of harmony. Thirdly, it is a theo- logical = number consisting of perfection. Fourthly, because of its composition, for it is composed of 1 and 6, 2 Now every one of these being excellent of themselves, how can this number be but far more excellent, consisting of them all and participating, as it were, of all of their ex- cellent virtues. It was esteemed a sacred, sym- bolical and mystical number. There were the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, seven days of the week, seven branches of the candlestick of Moses, seven liberal arts, seven churches of Asia, seven mysterious seals, seven stars, seven heads of the dragon, seven joys and seven sorrows of the blessed Virgin,” seven peniten- tial palms, seven deadly sins, etc. and 5 and 3 and 4. 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