The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1898, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1898 Address All Communications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 22| Stevenson Strea! Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall'$6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.............ccoone NEW YORK OFFICE.. ...Room 188, Wor!d -Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Adver(lfln} Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. ..Riggs Houee €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. t One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAdlister street, open until 9:30 eclock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. Columbta—+On Probatior Aleazar—+The Merchant of Ventce " Morokco’'s—Ordeal of Two Sisters Tivoli—"La Gioconda " Orpheum—Vandeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vauvdeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Clympia- Mason and Edd ¥ streets—specialtics. Mecbanics’ Patilion—The Irish Fair, Park—" The Battle of Maniila.” tutro’s Baths—Swimming. State Fair—Sacramento. September b. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W, Butterfield- This day. August 24. Saloon. Stock and Fixtures, at 1561 Mission street, at 11 o clock. By Sulllvan & Doyle—This day, August 24, Flie Depart- ment Horses, at 3% Sixth street, at 11 0 ciock. MONTGOMERY AVENUE BONDS. visors to levy a tax for the liquidation of Montgomery avenue bonds marks the conglusion of one of the most remarkable cases known in the history of San Francisco. A greater municipal swindle was never perpetrated, and yet it cannot be said that the blame was ever successully fastened upon anybody. The scheme from the first conceived and executed itself. The history of the affair is worth recounting, since lesson that should not be lost. Over HE dismissal on Monday by United States Cir- cuit Judge Morrow of the angient suit brought it twent conveys a €ars a should be cut through to rth Beach, diagonally from Montgomery street—a region which at that time was the center of business and municipal activity. A dise those who had laid out the city without such an ave- nue, and the newspapers demanded immediate action by the Legislature. At one time it seemed as though North Beach would secede unless the avenue were immediately projected. The agitation resulted in the passage of a law which authorized the opening of Montgomery: avenue, the formation of an assessment district, the condemnation of the necessary property and the awarding of the consequent benefits and damages. This statute pro- | vided that the work might be started upon the filing of a petition in the County Court, signed by the own- ers of a majority of the property, measured by front feet, affected by the improvement. Such a petition was filed instantly, commissioners were appointed, surveys were made and assessments were levied. Almost before the people of North Beach could wink the street contractors were at work, paving, sidewalking and sewering Montgomery avenue. Real estate went up all along the line of the back yards which had been turned into corner lots by the scheme and things at North Beach boomed. Then came the crash. Somebody refused to pay an assessment. The proceedings for the opening of the avenue were taken into court, and it was found that the petition which was intended to confer jurisdiction on the County Court was insufficient. A majority of the frontage was not represented. A corporation had signed by its president and secretary without authority of its board of directors. The courts thereupon declared the entire bond issue invalid. The bondholders, many of whom were property owners whose real estate had been taken, have been endeavoring ever since to recover their money. Their last resort was the United States courts. There an action has been pending for nearly twenty years. Judge Morrow has at last disposed of it by dismissal, and the openihg of Montgomery avenue has been finally consummated without cost. The entire result may be summed up with the verdict that often attends railway accidents—nobody to blame. Yet, neverthe- less, the holders of the bonds were the victims of a cold-blooded robbery. According to Private Healy, a Manila correspon- | dent of The Call, the soldiers have learned to hate the natives as cordially as they do the Spanish. The way Aguinaldo’s men have acted does not tend to excite a fratérnal feeling for them, and a few of them ~eould get hurt without exciting any emotion zkin to SOrrow. One purpose of the society formed by the Army of Santiago is that the records of the war shall be pre- served. Probably Mr. Hearst would like a copy of | those records to put on file, provided they contain a dispassionate account of the artistic manner in which his outfit was bounced from Cuba. There may be excuse for a poor vagrant, but there isn't for a rich-one. Judge Conlan did well to send Miser Cunningham to jail for six months, but the old skinflint ought to be charged fancy price for board. China has been having a rebellion for quite a while now, and the killing of a few hundred soldiers is a common event, deemed worth about ten lines in the American papers. A favorite tune at Sacramento is “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-Night.” Also the time mentioned got there about as soon as the tune. e e Cator's announcement that he has been forced out of the Populist party has some importance, as it must indicate that another party is about to acquire him. ———— 5 That was a nice act on the part of Hilborn to con- gratulate Metcalf, and only a mighty mean man would think of trying to read betwen the lines. . 1f the Harneyites are able to entertain the notion that they are not dead, surely none would be so heartless as to deny them the joy of doing'so. The Alaska rush shows many symptoms of revers- ing itself . 3 808 —= | citizens, ss120+:::908 Broadway | many years ago to compel the Board of Super- | ro somebody suggested that an avenue | | THE PREFERENCE OF THE DELEGATES HOSE who look upon California as.a glorious Twhole have their sentiments satisfied by the ‘temper shown by the hundreds of representative " delegated to the Republican State Conven- Jtion. To them there is only ene “locality,” and that |is California. In casting about for a standard bearer k—for the party’s ticket and principles in the impending S- F- | fight, one hears the Jeffersonian qualifications put | {«forward to the exclusion of geography and the points | of the compass. Is he competent? Is he honest? Is ille a supporter of the constitution, with a record of | fidelity to the party and its tickets, State and local? | are the questions asked about the different aspirants | for the high honor’and hard duty which the com- | mission of the convention will lay upon its choice. Has he the dash of Dewey and the intrepidity of | Hobson? Can he take the enemy’s range, stay be- lyond it and sink him? These are the qualifications | required and the nominee may be confidently expect- | ed to have them. | The search among candidates for the one most | nearly conforming to what the convention seeks and this people will indorse ‘has still, during every one | of the last twenty-four hours, led delegates to the | standard of Mr. Gage. It is now evident that if he is | to be beaten here it must be by a man who can now be proved to have these qualifications in a higher de- gree. The situation on his side is singularly free from | trading, bartering. and combination. The practical | politician may sneer at this as poor politics. But it is the essence of honorable politics. carries ‘a trading stock into the convention, to be nominated by swapping votes which come to him not on his merits, but because he can give an equivalent, is not chosen on account of his fitness, but because of qualifications in-which every apple woman is his equal and every horse jockey his superior. The Re- publican party is in no mood to turn a convention | into a bargain counter. Its responsibility is too great, its duty too serious, to set up a junk shop. The peo- ple want stability, statesmanship, presence, address and trained talents, in the candidate, to the end that dignity and regard for the public welfare may char- acterize the State administration which they propose to install in power. The cool heads in the Republi- not propose to make the choice of a candidate for Governor contingent upon ability to trade votes for | State Printer, or any other office. | These sentiments and the sense of the situations ; so far have led to a constantly growing consideration | and respect for the claims of Mr. Gage's friends in his behalf, and his fight, made without bosses, back- | ing or push from any source except the impetus of | his conceded merit, has been a gaining fight to this time. ] yachtsmen of this country to defend once more the America’s Cup, which is now by far the most famous trophy in the annals of yachting. The e AN IRISH CHALLENGER. | ROM across the water comes a challenge to the ion of the idea at once caused its general adop- | challenge has been brought to this country by the | tion. The pioneers railed at the shortsightedness of | Honorable Charles Russell, son of Lord Russell of | Killowen, and he is quoted as saying he is confident | it will be accepted and the detaiis of the race speedily | arranged. | A novel interest is given to the proposed match | by the fact that the challenge comes this time from | Ireland. Sir Thomas Lipton, who is backing the en- | terprise and will provide the yacht of the challengers, | is reported by his agent to have long been of the opin- |ion that as both England 'and Scotland have repeat edly tried to win back the trophy and failed, it is ‘:ime Ireland should make the attempt. The contest- | ing yacht, therefore, is to be built in Irish shipyards, } named the Shamrock and manned by an Irish crew. | The wrangle that followed the attempt of Lord | Dunraven to win the trophy in 1895 resulted in dis- | gusting a large number of Americans with the whole | business. At that time there was a fervent hope in imany quarters that there would never be another in- | ternational contest. The ill feeling of that time, how- ever, has passed away, and there will be a general satisfaction in having another race. The rivalries of the past have done much to improve the art of yacht building, and there is little doubt that further im- provements will result from future contests. The history of the cup is a remarkable one. In 1851 the Royal Yacht Squadron o_f England offered for competition, open to yachts of all nations, a trophy known as the “One hundred guineas cup.” It | was won by an American yacht called the “America,” and ever since has been known in this country as “the America’s cup.” Nine times attempts have been made to win the trophy from us, but in every match the Americans have been successful, and the contest has now reached a point where each renewal of the attempt excites the keenest interest in both countries. The struggle for the cup has, in fact, become the greatest sporting event in the history of the world. Where there is so much excitement and such large betting there naturally results more or less ill feeling. Some people Jose their tempers whenever they grow excited on any proposition, some get angry in every contest with a foreign rival, and some are naturally surly and show a disposition to fight whenever they get a chance. While these people are always more or less conspicnous in the discussions that follow international matches, they represent but a small | portion of any Anglo-Saxon community. Both in | America and in Great Britain there is a genuine fond- ness for sport and the fair play that sport necessitates. Therefore the approach of a new contést in the pro- longed rivalry for the great cup will be hailed with general satisfaction, and once more the cry will go up, “May the best yacht and nerviest seamen win!” I | 1f Shafter returns to California there will doubtless be a great reception in his.honor. And it is just as certain that the paper which has devoted itself to stration, since it will be unable to prevent the dem- onstration. When the Post prints the head: “The Poisoner Will Soon Be Behind the Bars,” and uses such type that the apparent statement is “The Poisoner Behind Bars,” the Post in its feeble way has gone into the bunko business. ‘When those speculative Englishmen who are about {ound it, a castle in Spain would be a good place to store the treasure. There should be every effort to catch the brute who killed the elk at Golden Gate Park. Such a fiend at large is a menace to the safety of the community. Enough naval captains art on the sick list to dem- onstrate that a summer cruise in southern waters is different from a vacation sometimes. Probably an American vessel can now go to Havana without the risk of being blown up. The war has ac- complished something. There should be no delay in squelching the scheme to have bloomer girls or any other girls acting as t bootblacks at the ferry. % % A candidate who | can'party know and feel this popular demand, and do | vilifying him will claim the credit for any demon- | to ‘start out after a ship laden with pearls shall have | "RETURNING TO THE RANKS. W report from Salt Lake that the Silver Repub- | licans of Utah had closed up their State head- quarters and were about to abandon further attempts | at a campaign of education in support of their freak monetary policy. News now comes from Seattle that a similar condition of affairs prevails there. The men who followed the Silver Republican leaders in Wash- ington during the Bryan campaign are returning to their allegiance to the party of protection and sound money, and the leaders themselves, in many in- stances, are acting with the same wisdom. The reasons for the change of sentiment among the misguided Republicans of two years ago are many. In the first place, there has been a marked return of prosperity to the country at large and all classes have benefited by it. This has enabled all except those who are willfully blind to see that the evils which befell the industries of the people during the Cleveland administration were due, not to the gold standard, as the Bryanites asserted, but to the Democratic tariff legislation, and to the incessant disturbances of finance and business which the agi- tations of the free traders and the silver fanatics brought about. As soon as it was known that McKinley had been i | | more “direct the affairs of the nation, confidence was | restored, trade revived, the mills reopened, industry resumed its work, labor and capital found occupation for their energies, and the dawn of prosperity began to illumine the horizon. From that time on the con- dition of the country has improved. Wheat rose while silver continued to fall, and the main argument of the silverites was refuted and demolished by the resistless logic of accomplished facts. These demonstrations in the domain of commerce and'industry served to prove the truth and soundness of the Republican claims during the Presidential campaign, and led to a reconsideration of the subject by all Republicans who had been misled into bolting their ticket and voting for Bryan. Then came the war with its demands for a loyal support of the ad- ministration and the army and navy while fighting a | foreign foe, and at once the great mass of the wan- derers returned to their rightful party and are now as loyal in supporting Republicanism as they were in the days before the silver craze of the panic years misled them. If to these factors there had been needed any other to impel the wandering Republicans of '06 to return to their former allegiance it would have been found in the course pursued by the Bryanites since it has been made clear to them that they cannot make a svccessful campaign this year on the silver question. Deprived of that issue, they have gone wild in search of others. They have raised in different States different standards, but all of them are inscribed with demands which tend to Populism or to outright soctalism. Conservative men can no longer act with that party, even if still holding to the theories of bimet- | allism. The struggle is now one of settled govern- ment against the fanaticism of innovators who seek | | | \ profiting by the spoils they may gain from the gen- eral ruin. Under conditions now prevailing it is not to be wondered that Silver Republicans are return- ing to their place in the ranks of the party of pros- perity, and that conservative Democrats are follow- ing them. There is no other place for any one to go who is opposed to experintenting with socialism in the goverpment of this country. | | NEED Of A FORESTRY POLICY. HE revelations made by'our correspondent in Tthe Shasta region may well command wide- spread attention. The forest acreage of Califor- nia bears more wealth than all the rest of the State, above ground or below it. This wealth is direct, in the money value of the timber crop standing and the power to reproduce that crop permanently, and it is indirect, in the value of the forests to the miner and agriculturist as a conservator of water. It may be said with truth that the same amount of water will fali on the bare granite of our mountains when de- stroying the forests has stripped them of their soil as ncw. But that water will flow suddenly into the streams, converting them into torrents, and will run rapidly away to the sea beyond recovery for eco- | nomic use. The climate of the State is largely an effect of the forests which clothe the mountain flanks. | When these are deforested and their soil is washed away, physical conditions will approximate those of the agesert. The changes of temperature will be more acute, the lability to frost in the foothill orchards and vineyards will be greater, and vast areas, now fertile, will lose their character and cease to yield. Il our policy of destruction is not arrested it may be said, verily, after us, the deluge. If we were moving blindly to these intolerable | consequences, ignorance might be some excuse. But | we have before us the example of older countries. Moses found Palestine flowing with milk and honey, a land full of corn and wine. Then its mountain slopes were covered with forest and groves dotted its plains. These are gone and the land is a desert. Where the daughters of Shiloh danced in the vine- yards, the sore-eyed Bcdouin crouches in the sand. The grapes of Eschol are no more, and Naboth’s vineyard glistens in the sun, a blear desert that no Jezebel would covet. In all the wide stretch from the Euphrates to the Scheldt, the same process of deforestation has been for ages bringing on the same conditions. Governments have now taken the alarm, and trees are the wards of the nations, from the shores of the Adriatic to the Bavarian Tyrol. More millions than were yielded by the vanished forests are being spent for- their renewal. Forestry has become a profes- sional occupation. It is intelligently promoted by | Austria, Germany and France. Already natural con- ditions are reinstated by art, and the artificial forests, as-carefully harvested as a crop of bread corn, are beginning to bring a revenue in excess of the cost of caring for them, and in many of those countries the forest lands promise a permanent and increasing yield. In this country we have too much politics, too much discussion of party differences and too little politic and intelligent public attention to the preser- vation of the most valuable of all our natural re- sources. What makes the difference between the desert and the sown? Trees, and nothing but trees. That land is most attractive to man that has forests or the conditions for their production. We have already pointed out the analogy between prairie and forest conditions. Nature marked and fixed the con- | | | | i a land for the support of life and for man’s habita- tion. Man proceeds to destroy these conditions and then bewails his lot when it is made hard by his own ignorance and greed. . Let California be wise before it is too late, and save the tree which is the mother of the fountain. When the Democrats adopted their free silver ‘plank no question arose but they did not mean it. E directed attention a short time a&go to a elected and that the Republican party would once | to overthrow all existing institutions in the hope of | ditions of fertility upon which depend the fitness of AROUND THE ° CORRIDORS. H. B. P. Carden of Marysville is at the Occidental. W. K. Price and wife of Fresno are guests at the Lick. Colonel J. A. Hardin, a large cattle raiser of Santa Rosa, is at the Russ. George E. Goodman of Napa is at the Palace and s accompanied by his wife. A. L. Eccles, a prominent citizen of Trenton, New Jergey, Is registered at the Grand. G. M. M. Ross of Petaluma put his name {on the Occidental register yesterday | morning. W. M. McDougall of Placerville is mak- ing the California his headquarters for a few days. L. Mebius, a well-known Sacramento banker, is registered at the Occidental with his wife. George K. Rider and wife of Sacramento and Fred Zucker, a Los Angeles mer- chant, are at the Grand. Richard = Foote, proprietor of the “Mother Lode” of Jamestown, will be lo- cated at the Russ for a short time. UM G One of the most =3 I¥ touching scenes o MY @ in ‘“‘Heartsease,” - the play now be- ¥ VERY, VERY ¥ ;0 performed at & POOR MUSIC. ¥ the Baldwin The- I ater, that DL OGO wherein Henry Miller, in the principal role of the young composer with a fine sense of honor, dis- covers the duplicity of his brother, who | has stolen the music of his opera. Upon hearing the familiar strains on which he had lavished his best talents, he says in tones of the utmost endearment ‘‘My poor music,” and a world of meaning is con- veyed in the three simple words. The company was showing in a one night stand somewhere in Oregon a short time ago and it appears that the local agent experienced some difficuity in gath- ering a suitable orchestra in the town and was obliged to hire musicians of more or less doubtful ability, some of whom were employed in saw mills and | boiler works, so that their sense of musi- cal hearing was not as acute as it might have been. Some seven or elght were thus pressed Into service, and the only rehearsal they had was just a half hour before the performance, the opening of the doors being delayed to give them a chance to become familiar with the musie. ‘When the audience had been seated the improvised orchestra played an overture that was simply execrable, the number of diseased notes being unlimited. When the play had proceeded and had reached the point where the orchestra performs the music that had been appropriated by | the rascally brother, Henry Miller, with a Jicense only accorded to a star, who was already familiar with the discordant strains evolved by the amateur musicians, sadly sald, “My very, very poor music,” with a doleful, lingering accent on the | “very.” Needless to state the point was | { lost on the audience, but the members of | the company were almost convulsed with | suppressed laughter, is Thomas R. Minturn of Minturn, in Qhe} San Joaquin Valley, and W. R. Rust and | wite of Tacoma, are at the Palace. | W. C. Pardillian and wife of Helena, Montana, are making a pleasure trip to this coast and are guests at the California. | J. C. Templeton, who has extensive min- | ing Interests in Helena, Montana, has taken apartments at the Russ with his wife and five children. Among the arrivals at the Grand are oDr. J. Friedman of St. Louis, Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton and John A. Me- Intyre, a mining man of Sacramento. At the Lick are registered W. R. Ca- ruthers, a merchant of Santa Rosa, and F. Barrett, who has ofl interests in Los | Angeles. The latter is accompanied by his | ‘wife. Captain James E. Lombard, U. 8. N., who came up on the Corwin from San Diego, will go to Mare Island, where he will be stationed in the future. He is temporarily located at the Grand. Dr. M. J. Blackwood, surgeon of the Monadnogk, who came here in charge of twelve sick men who were injured in the battle of Manila, will leave for his home In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to-day. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. er, Oakland, Cal. James G. Maguire born in Boston, Mass., Febmuygfl, elS;;.u GARFIELD—H. J., 8t. Cloud, Minn. None of the published accounts give the caliber of the weapon that was used to kill President James A. Garfield. CONWAY-LAWLER FIGHT—H. A. R., City. The ten-round contest between Conway and Lawler at Woodward's Pa- vilion July 2, 1897. was decfded by the ref- eree in favor of Lawlor. LOS ANGELES TEAM-C. B, City. During the time that the games were played at the Haight-street grounds there was a team of baseball players that was known as the Los Angeles. RELIGION—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. This department does not answer ques- tions about the religion of indiyiduals, un- less the individuals themselves make a public announcement of the same. With regard to the material named- you should place yourself in communication with some reputable first class drug house. This department cannot adver- tise such. SHILLINGS—T. F. L., City. The United States mints never issued any shillings. There were, however, colonial and State colnages. In 1783 shillings were {ssued in Marvland, and Pinetree shillings in Mas- sachusetts about 1662. TAXES—Miner, Coulterville, Cal. State and county taxes are used exclusively for State and county purposes. The Federal Government has its own and independent method of collecting revenue from the ::Illllen! of the several States and Terri- ories. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION—G. L., City. The next examination for teachers for the public schools in this city will be held some time in October, at a date to be fixed. Candidates for certincates must be rroflclent in all studies below and includ- ng the grade in which they apply for a certificate. CITIZEN AND ALIEN—Canadlan,; City. A native born citizen or a naturalized citizen of fhe United States has an ad- vantage over an alien in this that he has a volce in the Government. An alien may hold land. He may also inherit in any of the States, unless there {s a law ‘to the contrary, and such law has been held to be constitutional. NEWS FROM MANILA--Curlosity, Sac- ramento, Cal. It is true that it takes a letter about thirtv days to reach Sacra- mento from Manila, but the news of the surrender of that place and the battle be- fore it was received by telegraph. The news was prepared at Manila, sen t b; transport to Hongkong and from there transmitted by cable and finally by tele- graph to the Pacific Coast. TRANSFER OF LAND-B. C., City. If A agrees to purchase a plece of prop- erty from B he should have a searcher of records, titles and deeds make a search for the purpose of ascertaining if there is any incumbrance on the prop- erty, unless there is already an abstract of search. If there is, he should have the search continued from the date of the abstract, The transfer is by deed, and the purchaser should see that the seller lves him a clear deed. It is not the luty of the purchaser to clear off any in- cumbrance on the property, = ENLISTED MEN—Mrs. W. H. 8., City; A. T, City, and A, 8., Alcatraz. Men who enlisted in the regular or the volunteer army since the declaration 3f yar with Spaln, now that the war is over, may make personal application for a by addressing the Secretary of war. It | strongly suspect, there is nothing h'gh time gg | ose who | d so with | for three grant the discharge berore t enlistment has expired or not. enlisted in the regular army di the understanding that it was a years, but there was a tacit understands ing that at the expiration of two years of that time they would, if the war was over, be ?'!ven an opportunity to leave the | service if they desired to. Vhen an en-| listed man is given his honorabl e dis-| charge he is given transportation to the | point at which he enliste INDIAN ALLOTMENT—W. M. E., Het- | ten, Cal. The law relating to the allot-| ment of land to Indians on reservations' provides that the allotment shall be! made to Indians, and that ‘‘one-eighth of a section of land shall be allotted to| any Indlan on any reservation * * *| | stringent discipl | might wish to vl Itsl numerous c:&’:’efi ranged on the circular system, most cases empty, and as remanded pris-| oners cannot be subjected to the same ine as convicted criml- had fallen into a dirty and neg- The authorities have made der of throwing the prison embers of the public who isit it from curiosity. The e been deplorable. Only behind in the ing visitors sons on remand. nals they lected state. the final blun open to those m consequences hav ht warders were left el pris round, on for the purpose of show , and doubtless they _counted upon a plentiful harvest of tips. But of the 400 odd persons who presented themselves at the prison door in the guise of visitors on the day that the ancient building was thrown open all except two or three were .ex-convicts and malefactors, whose ob- ject it was to ‘‘make hay'’ amid the sur- roundings of their former confinement. have the same allotted to him or her and“ to his or her children.” The law also says: “For the purpose of determining the descent to the land, to the heirs of any deceased Indian, it is provided that whenever any male and female Indian | shall have cohabited together as hus-| band and wife according to the customs and manners of Indian life, the issue of | such cohabitation shall be taken and? deemed to be the legitimate issue of the | Indians so living together, and every In-| dian child, otherwise illegitimate, shall | for such purpose be taken and deemed | to be the legitimate issue of the fatherl of such child.” —_— { RECONCENTRADOS—K. L. H., Wood- { land, Cal. Senator Proctor, when asked | to explain the term “reconcentrados,” as used in connection with Cuba, replied: “All the country people in the extreme western provinces, about 400,000 in num- ber, remaining outside of the fortified towns when Weyler's order was issued, were driven into the towns, the fortified | ones, and these are the reconcentrados. | They were the peasants, many of them | farmers, some land owners, others rent- | ing lands and owning more or less stock, | others working on estates and cultivating | small patches.” | Weyler's order was: “I order and com- | mand that all inhabitants of the coun- | try or outside of the line of fortifica- | tions of towns shall, within the period | of eight days, concentrate themselves in | the towns occupled by troops. Any in-| habitant who, after the expiration of | that period, shall be found in the unin- | habitable portion 'shall be considered a rebel and be tried‘as such.” Other por- tions of the order directed that such in-| habitants should drive their cattle into | the towns and that the order should take effect within the eight days from the time it was issued. In some of the places the inhabitants did not receive five days’ | notice. Weyler never made public his | reasons for the order, but it is to be inferred that it was for the purpose of reducing the number of those who mi) join the insurgents. PATRICIA KIRKLAND—If the spots on the hands are freckles apply this wash; Sal ammoniac (powdered), one dram; distilled water, one pint; eau de cologne, two fluld drams. If, however, the spots are in the nature of moles, which I that will remove them. The coloring matter which constitutes these is deposited in the deeper portion of the sub-cuticle and they are impossible to reach. MRS, L. A. T.—The distressing condi- tlon of your nose must be due to some physical disorder—indigestion of some sort probably. Go to your druggist and | have this prescription filled: Extract of | dandelion, one dram; powdered rhubarb, | q. s. Divide into three and a half grain ilis and take one every night or oftener ? necessary. Attend strictly to the daily | sponge bath and to the diet, eating plenty of truit and good wholesome food, avoid- ing rich, greasy things, sweets and pickles. Prick the white head with a fine needle and press the contents out very | gently, else you will bruise the skin and add to its {rritated condition. Apply listerine, diluted in three times as much | boiled watcr, for several nights. Then mix a small pinch of borax with two tablespoonfuls of some gooa cologne and apply for several nights. Let me know | how this treatment acts. Much patience | is required., when one starts in to de- | velop the bust. First of all you must discard all pads and be sure that the | clothes are loose, particularly the under- | garments. -Then: massage gently with cocoanut oil, rubbing around and around with the'palm of the hand. Do this every nl%hl It will be at least eight weeks before any development will be noticeable, but it will surely come if persisted in. Exercise with the arms will help, also lenty of tepid baths and a diet of good attening foods, such as rice, butter. po- tatoes, eggs, cereals, milk and game. —_— ee—————— BOOKS AND THEIR READERS. The meeting of the American Library Association at Lakewood, on Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., on Monday, will have more than a technical interest. The range of topics to be discuss'd is a wide one, and embraces almost every point of impor- tance in the collection, care and intelli- gent use of books. Especlally valuable and practical will be the addresses on the best method of organizing classes and schools for library training. Equally im- orlfln!,egerhaps, will be the discussion y train experts of home education through libraries. This is the twenty- third year of the association’s existence, and it is well within bounds to say that every year has marked a distinct advance in the public appreciation of libraries as educators. There has been a notable in- crease in the number of public libraries, and where they are established it 1is found that they are used with profit and pleasure by every class in the community. And along with the more general appre- ciation of libraries has come the bellef that if the best results from ‘lLiem are to be obtained they must be selected with wisdom and judgment, and managed on some technical and scientific system, which at the same time will not be com- plex or confusing. Only in this way can a library subserve its real mission, which is admirably expressed in the motto of the association: *The best reading for the largest number, at the least cost.” In| the days when reading was less general than it is now, and before the present vast output of books good, bad and indifferent, it was a comparatively easy thing to es- tablish a public libra; The late Rey. Dr. Francis Vinton, of nity Chureh, in this city, used to deliver with great ap- proval a lecture on books, in the course of which he described a ‘‘gentleman’s necessary library,” consisting of just twenty-five books! Those days of sweet simplicity are gone forever, and even the bare catalogue of the books which the average intelligent man would like to read would make a goodly volume. In the field of general lit- erature the horizon has been immeasure- ably widened since the accession of Queen Victoria, while at the same time the in- dustrial arts and the countless divisions of modern science have each produced their quota of hooks which, if not destined to an immortality of fame, are yet wseful to a large number of people. oreaver, books in the world. And of these some, at Jeast, may have a vermanent value. Indeed, the modern reader is very much like the modern editor; he is obliged to sift a great deal of chaff in the hope of possibly finding a few grains of golden wheat.—New York Tribune. —_—— WOMEN AS LIBRARY WORKERS. In the first ten years of its existence, from 1887 to 1898, of the 217 students who matriculated from the New York State Library School forty of the graduates ‘were men, and 177 were women. Of four other prominent library schools there have been none but women students from the first. Women are monopolizing - brary positions, as well as filling the li- brary schools. To be a successful libra- rian proper tralning is as necessary as in any other profession, and librarians are chosen more and more from the ranks of library graduates, and the libraries throughout the country are fast coming under the management of women. In such prominent libraries as those of Yale, Columbia, the Public Documents Library of Washington, and the Newberry Li- brary of Cmcuin, women graduates of li- brary schools have been very successful in the work of cataloguing and classifica- tion. In the large Western cities women are more frequently found holding the osition of chief librarian than in the ast, although Mrs. Ellen Coe-Rylance has been for fourteen years director of the New York Free Circulating Library, while in Hartford a woman has held a similar position. e — PARISIANS ARE QUEER. For some time past it has been ds to pull down all the Paris prisons, 3&‘1%‘2 La Saute (conducted on the most approv- ed modern lines), and to rebuild them somewhere in the provinces. Mazas Pris- on—that gloomy structure just opposite | is discretionary with him whether he will the Gare Lyon—has of late b = ized solely for the wnnnmonteg? ';:lxl»- | ed. every day is adding to the mountain of They rushed in a body along the corri- dors,’;rom cell to cell, raising a terrible din, and breaking everything they could lay their hands on.’ Doors were reduced 1o’ splinters, windows were smashed, the fow trees planted In the prisoners’ exer- ©ise yard were torn up, and finally the mob divided into two armies and fought a playful battle with brickbats and 3 he condemned cell in particulas e ed, and its wall covered with was wreck bizarre inscri A terrible fe: respectable visitors wi mitted with (hhi' mob, ?ngolk‘ complaint to the neares sar; p(the warders had been ovi wered), and uitimately the prison was ¢ eared by a strong body of police. It will be kept closed in future.—Pall Mall Gazette. —_——e———— THE MODEST MULE. Perhaps no living creature has been the victim of more odium and derision than the Government mule, and yet this worthy animal has many traits which commend it to Uncle Sam. Recently the War Depart- ment issued an order for the purchase of 1000 of the long-eared beasts, and a St. Louis paper makes the boast that Mis- souri will furnish the great bulk of these valuable recrults. An army officer of con- siderable experience—experience both with people and mules—supervises the purchase of the animals. Three classes are want- First, the heavy ‘“‘wheelers,” which to the wagons, and then the es, to be hitched in the cen- while last come the light tions. ar seized the two or three ho had been ad- they made e commige will be nex “swing" mul ter of the team, mules, which will serve as leaders. | is not every mule that can pass muster, | and the red tape incident to army enlist- | ‘ment applies rigorously to these unpre- tentious creatures. By the time the ex- perts get through with the mules, the lat- ter, If gifted with conversational powers, could boast of physical .perfection and | perfect dental equipment. Amiability, too, s considered, and a beast that shows a tendency to kick is barred the opportunity of_serving his country. When a mule is accepted a numeral— either 1, 2 or 3— is stamped with a hot iron on its hoof to denote the class to which it is assigned; and last, but not least, the significant letters, “U. S.” are singed upon its side. Although the operation Is not particularly painful, the markings re- main_throughout the life of the animal | and thereby it acquires a lasting badge of honor and an entree into army circles.— Richmond Dispatch. e WHY HE SOAKED SHAFTER. | It is reported that while Santiago was surrendering General Shafter and Sylvester Scovel, correspondent of the New York World, came to blows. The fracas is further explained by the fol- lowing: BAR HARBOR, ME., via Megaphone on top of Pulitzer building, New York, July 16.—Sylvester Scovel, Santiago de Cuba: Hearst is beating hell out of us. Do something! Quick! PULITZER. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, via Pack Mule to Bailquiri, thence by Towboat Ananias to Key West, July 16.—To Joseph Pulit- zer, Bar Harbor, Me.: Yours rec’d. Shaf- ter is getting real gay. Won't let me fix the whole surrender. Says he ought to have something to say about it. What shall I do? SCOVEL. BAR HARBOR, ME., etc., July 16.—To Scovel, Santiago de Cuba, ete.: Soak Shafter. Rush details hefore you smash him, and be sure to hit him on the exact spot mentioned or the Journal will have us again. PULITZER. o —St. Louis Star. —_— e Cal. glace frust 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® e Special _information supplied daily to Business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_— You will find the latest things in wall paper at Clark’s, 653 Market street. * —————————— Hicks—Wheeler and Brassey met for the first time yesterday and they got on together famously. They kept up thelr talk until late in the evening. Wicks—What were they talking about? Hicks—Bicycles and golf. Wicks—But Wheeler doesn’t know any- thing about golf. Hicks—Neither does Brassey know any- thing about bicycling. Each kept it up oo his favorite topic without listening to the other.—Boston Transcript. —_— e Northern Pacific Railway. First-class rate as well as second class re- duced 75 per cent to all points in Montana, Min- nesota and the Eastern States. Elegant serv- ice, Qining cars on every train. Only line oper- ating through upholstered tourist cars. T. K. STATELER, G. A., 638 Market st., S. F. — —e—————— First and Sscond Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 625 Market. ———————— «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fitty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mra Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25 a bottle. _—————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $80 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at ho- tel; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Franclsco. ——————————— Only the best for the best only. Among the Barrels, §63 Market st. ADVERTISEMENTS. MACKAY'S Furniture Must Go! 1 Tfim DEPARTMENT TO BE EN- 1 TIRELY CLOSED OUT. $33,000 WORTH_OF FURNITURE AT ACTUAL COST. Stock complete in every detail. A rare cpportunity to buy good goods. At auction prices. A few quotations: g1 SOLID OAK CENTER TABLES..45e SOLID OAK DINING CHAIRS....90¢ SOLID_OAK COBBLER 20CK. ERS ..oooceee L ST CEDAR BOX o ENTM .. 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