The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898 Tall EMBER 10, 1 SEPT JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor. Address All Communications tguvgifwffgen | PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone Main 1865 ‘! EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents o week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. YHE WEEKLY CALL. .One year, by mall. $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE +e....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE ...Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. -Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. Y CHICAGO OFFICE.. -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2201 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky strects, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Number Nine. ‘A Marriage of Convenience.” First Born” and “ Turned Up.™ hall We Forgive Her Tivoli—* Rigoletto.” Orpheum-— Vaudeville. New Comedy Theater—* The Leading Man.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Spanish Bull Fight. Ulympia—Corner Mason and E¢dy streets—Specialties. Mechanics' Pavilion—The Irish Fair, tutro's Baths—Swimming. Kecreation Park—Baseball this afternoon. Coursing—At Union Coursing Park. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. Ingleside Racetrack—Races. San Jose Agricultural Park—Excursion and Barbecue, Sun- day, September 11 Columbia AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, September 12, Real Estate at 14 Monwomery street, at 12 0 clo CALIFORNIA’S YOUNG BLOOD. HERE is a lesson in the celebration now in >ss at San Jose. The enthusiasm of the Sons and Daughters of the great com- Ith is not all due to the social instinct nor ation to have a good time. Underneath it all is a current of pride in the State, a confidence in | a future full of promise, and a jubilant note for a past oi honorable achievement. It must be remembered, also, that a large propor- tion of resident Californians were born outside the confines of the State, that here are representatives of every State and Territory, who have chosen to make their home by the western sea, and as it was the place of their choice, so has it become the place of their | affection. They are as loyal to it as those who in | this old Spanish domain first saw the light of day. They cannot participate in the formal celebration as fully as the members of the order who turn it into a gala time, but they are with the natives in spirit. As California’s younger generation is proud of the State, so is the State proud of its sons and daughters, | and among all who here abide there is felt a thrill of | approbation at the fervor with which Admission day is made an imposing occasion, significant and im- pressive. We congratulate the participants in San Jose's festal season. Much of the material develop- | ment of the State must depend upon them. Theirs will | be the duty of shaping its destiny and making the | most of its resources. To- they play; but life is made up of work, and when the relaxation is over they can return to sterner vocations with zest re- newed. R ————— | A man named Gugg been nominated for Governor of Colorado by the anti-Teller Republi- cans. If he can carry that name to victory he is the most astute statesman that State has ever produced. “Guggenheim” fails to inspire. It baffies the poet | and places thorns in the path of the orator. The | gentleman’ should have gone into politics under an | alias. There are indications that the Cuban Junta will still endeavor to exist at New York and direct the destiny of the island. There are other. indications, however, that so long as Cuba is directed by any au- thority in the United States the seat of the authority will be at Washington. The Junta only escaped out- living its usefulness by lacking that quality. Presidio troops ought to be sent to Honolulu if the only excuse for not doing so is the alleged lack | of a camping-ground there. It is beyond belief that the islands do not afford space for a few thousand soldiers. Nobody is to be punished for the offense of killing an obstreperous politician or two at a Colorado con- vention. Statesmen over that way are too busy re- forming the government to bother about trifles. The new French Minister of War wears a single eye-glass, but he will need one for the other eye be- fore he will be able to discern much joy in his job. Governor Tanner of Illinois declares the peace convention to be held in Chicago is a money-making scheme. Yet why should he object? Isn’t he in? Whether water or wine shall be used in christening the Illinois may depend upon the ultimate destiny of the wine, provided the august occasion spare it. Colorado’s Silver Republicans needed some pun- ishment, but there was no real excuse for killing them off. This course was too severe. Perhaps Alger feels like having that reporter court- martialed. There are diplomatists who believe the speaking of the truth to be a crime. The delegate to a Colorado convention who fails to fortify his person with a bullet-proof shirt may justly be accused of recklessness. When General Shafter reaches his old station he will discover that the slanders circulated concerning him haven’t hurt him any. S Pops need not worry about the selection of a name for themselves. Whatever the title chosen, the real name will be mud. CoeRE Perhaps the runior that Esterhazy had hanged him- self arose from the common belief-that he deserves hanging. 3. ey When Pando says there has been no war in Cuba one naturally wonders what the general thought he was running away from. T e There is not the slightest doubt but Aguinaldo can have all the fight he wants. - OUR PROPOSED TROPICAL COLONIES. N this and a majority of the States both parties lhavc declared in favor of territorial expansion. Even fusion conventions, made up of the flotsax_n and jetsam which has no principles except opposi- tion to the Republican party, have resolved in favor | of holding all territory dominated by our arms in the brief Spanish war. Impassioned public speakers and reckless news- paper writers have fed the flame by talking of_the naval and commercial value of colonial possessions in the tropics. Human greed has been stimulated by overstatements of the commerce of the hot islands we are asked to take under the flag, and Europe has not been slow to see the advantage of drawing us out of our impregnable continental position and pol- icy and getting us where we must be a party to the quarrels of the nations and the wars of the creeds. By an illogical statement and a misrepresentation of history the proposed possession of tropical colonies is put as the analogue of our acquisition of Louis- iana, Florida, Texas and the land for which we paid Mexico after our superior military strength had beaten down her weak guard and she was vanquished. The land we took by these several processes was for the expansion of our continental possessions. It had upon it but few civilized people. The red In- dians were still lords of the soil, and as the United States gradually acquired the right of eminent do- main over it, by treating with the tribes, our own people, Anglo-Saxons and their congeners, our fel- low citizens, members of our body politic, settled upon it, planted there American institutions, admin- istered by Americans, and in due time on all that territory rose American states, guaranteed a repub- lican form of government, as required by the Federal constitution. All of this territory was within the north temperate zone. None of it was so hot or so cold as to furnish physical conditions inimical to the Anglo-Saxon. Our race, northern blood, which first came before the footlights of history, the sur- vival of unknown ages of struggle with the austerities of nature in the north, wherein the fittest had so sur- vived that their prepotency is still in the thews and sinews of their posterity, was destined to flourish in the temperate zone. It has not flourished elsewhere. Our extensions of territory from 1806 to 1846 were only to acquire ampler scope and verge for us, a homogeneous people, where we could make American states and plant homes, filled with the children of American parents, trained in the ways and traditions of their fathers. The orators and writers who are holding out false hopes and false lights to the American people are spreading abroad the expectation that this process is to be repeated in the tropical islands we are asked to hold. This is a deception, perhaps not always deliberate, but always a deception. The Anglo- Saxon race, as a race, cannot live in the tropics. Adult individuals of that race can sustain life in the tropics, but Anglo-Saxon homes, wherein children are born to take the places of thetr sires, are im- possible under a vertical sun, for tne white child | does not grow to be a strong adult. This fact is so well established in anthro-biology and ethnology that it is beyond controversy. The experiment of founding Anglo-Saxon colonies in the tropics had been tried out long before our time, and | failed wretchedly. The last one was near the close of the seventeenth century. William Paterson, the Scotchman to whom Great Britain owes the scheme of the Bank of Eng- land, fired by the success and profits of the British East India Company, organized a Scotch company | to plant a Scotch colony on the Isthmus of Darien. It was a glittering lure. This colony was to found a new state, a nation, which, by commanding the isthmus, was to dominate the oriental trade, that prize which Wisby lost to Venice, to be snatched in turn by Genoa and Amsterdam. The shares were eagerly taken by the Lowland Scotch and the expedition sailed in the midst of cheers and enthusiasm. The colony was planted | and rosy tales went back to Auld Reekie of the growth of “New Edinburgh.” Let Macaulay describe what followed: “Nothing happened but what might easily have been foreseen. The company had, in childish re- liance on the word of an enthusiastic projector, and in defiance of facts known to every educated man in Europe, taken it for granted that emigrants born and bred within 10 degrees of the Arctic circle would enjoy excellent health within 10 degrees of the equa- tor. Nay, statesmen and scholars had been deluded into the belief that a country which, as they might have read in books so common as Hakluyt and Purchas, was noted even among tropical countries for its insalubrity, and had been abandoned by the Spaniards, was a Montpellier. “Nor had any of Paterson’s dupes considered how colonists from Fife and Lothian, who had never in their lives known what it was to feel the heat of a distressing midsummer day, could endure the labor of breaking clods and carrying burdens under the fierce blaze of a vertical sun.” After disease and death had prostrated the enter- prise, Macaulay describes the closing scenes: “Those who were not laid on their beds were yel- low, lean, feeble, hardly able to move the sick and to bury the dead. The cry of the whole community was: that death was all around them, and that they must, while they still had strength to weigh an an- chor or spread a sail, fly to some less fatal region. The men and provisions were equally distributed among three ships—the Caledonia, the Unicorn and the St. Andrgw. Paterson, though too ill to sit in the council, begged hard that he might be left be- hind, with twenty or thirty men, to keep up a show of possession, and await the next arrivals from Scot- land. But his offer was disregarded. He was car- ried on the St. Andrew, and the vessels stood out to sea. The voyage was horrible. Scarcely any Guinea slaveship has ever had such a middle passage. Of 250 passengers who were on board the St. An- drew, 150 fed the sharks of the Atlantic before Sandy Hook was in sight. The Unicorn lost almost all its officers and about a hundred and forty men. The Caledonia, the healthiest ship of the three, threw overboard a hundred corpses. The squalid survi- vors, -as if they were not sufficiently miserable, raged fiercely against one another. Charges of incapacity, cruelty, brutal insolence, were hurled backward an forward.” " We quote at such length that our readers may see plainly the likeness between what happened 203 years ago and the events of the last hundred days, even to the historian’s description of the men turned yellow and lean by the tropical climate. A second expedition followed, to find desolation where it had expected to arrive at fertile fields and a flourishing colony. ~With a strange infatuation, its embers set about rebuilding the ruined fortress of- ew Edinburgh, but the fate of their predecessors overtook them. Their story was written by Borland, the Scotch minister who went out with them. What happened is told in the old preacher’s introduction, which is in the language of the messenger who an- nounced to Job the destruction of his people and property by the Chaldeans: “I alone am escaped to tell thee.” These scenes have been so recently duplicated, even to the crimination and recrimina- tion, as to remind men who choose to do their own thinking that natural conditions in the tropics do not change. . It is a fact in. gynecology that male and female, born in the tropics of Anglo-Saxon parents and reared there to adult age, if they escape the effects of the climate so long, are to each vther barren and impotent. So completely has nature set bounds to the habitation of men that she cuts our race off ut- terly when it attempts a foothold in the tropics. Behold, then, the folly of that dream of a colonial empire, settled like our continental possessions by Americans, to cteate a Greater United States and put a star spangled belt around the earth at the equator. COLORADO REPUBLICANS. ARELY in the history of American politics has R a convention that began with so much promise ended with such a lame and impotent conclu- sion as that of the anti-Teller Republicans in Colo- rado. The opening speech of ex-Congressman Bel- ford was an epitome of the proceedings. It started out with a forceful declaration in favor of genuine Republicanism, but concluded with the assertion that the remonetization of silver is to be expected from the Republican party. Mr. Beliord is quoted as saying he was tired of being a political tramp and wanted to get back to the Republican party. In this sentiment he was sup- ported by another speaker, Judge Hilton of Denver, who in his turn declared he was tired of being a po- litical maverick. From such statements one would infer that the speakers and those who applauded their wogds would turn away from the course of tramps and mavericks and become once more thorough- going Republicans and stanch supporters of the great policies which are now the cardinal principles of the Republican creed. The speakers, however, were not sincere in their words, or at least not sufficiently sincere to act in accordance with them. Perhaps they were so tired that they could not get a move on to go further, and so remained where they were. At any rate, after de- claring their longing to be accounted once more Republicans in good standing, they and their ap- plauding fellow members of the convention adopted a platform, the money plank of which declares: “We favor the restoration of the money of the constitution by throwing open the mints of the country to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.” The only difference between that plank and the cor- 1esponding one in the platform of the rankest Bryan- ites is that the Bryanites demand such remonetization of silver without the aid or consent of any other nation. That is indeed an important difference, but it is not vital to the issue between the contending parties. The free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is not Republican doctrine. Any politician who advocates such a monetary scheme will remain a political tramp and a maverick as long as he con- tinues to call himself a Republican. The division of parties on that issue has been made clear by the cam- paign of 1896 and the events that have followed it. There is no longer any room among Republicans for leaders who would revive the agitations on the silver question or menace the contifivance of the existing gold standard. It is to be regretted the convention did not align the anti-Teller Republicans of Colorado squarely with the national organization on this issue. It would have been good politics to have done so. The Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republicans, headed by Senator Teller, had already declaréd for the Bryan- ite money plank, and genuine Republicans had noth- ing to gain even in Colorado by following the same course. There are, however, in Colorado, many gold | Democrats and many independent voters who appre- ciate the usefulness of the existing monetary standard and a clean-cut, straight, vigorous fight made for the sound money a victory might have been won like the party in Colorado would have bravely upheld the principles of national Republicanism, and its leaders or mavericks. d NEW YORK EXPERIMENT. pfurest fires, the State of New York is about to undertake on a large scale an experiment in for- discussion in that commonwealth, and according to reports the prospects are such as to virtually assure There are now in the possession of the State of New York about 1,100,000 acres of land in the chased from time to time for the purpose of protect- ing the woods of the district and guarding that im- vested in “the Forest Preserve Board,” and in the main the management has been satisfactory, but it prise now under consideration provides not only for the preservation of the forests, but for their cultiva- According to the outline of the plan given by the press of the State it is proposed to purchase 30,000 ment and put it under the control of Cornell Uni- versity for a period of thirty years. The new depart- York College of Forestry,” and it is to have complete direction and management of the experiment in every. The legislative act which authorizes the undertak- ing of the new movement declares the proposed col- it may deem most advantageous to the interests of the State and the advancement of the science of for- such times, of such qualities and quantities and in such manner as it may deem best, with a view to ob- scientific management and use of forests, their regu- lation and administration, and the production, har- a revenue therefrom.” The comprehensive programme outlined by the act will no doubt prove its wisdom. It is well known that European governments have been able to make as of indirect economic value to the surrounding districts. It is now to be tested whether our State State in the Union has more concern in this subject than California, for in none are the forest interests would follow the example set by New York, and, if not going so far as to provide for the cultivation of a system of protection for the woods we have. E ] tax levy let them reflect that part of the extra ex- pense will be to provide them with a monkey ranch. to all forms of industry. Had these been appealed to that achieved in Oregon. Under any circumstances would never again have been referred to as tramps ROFITING at last by the loss and damage of est management. Such a project, at least, is under its success. Adirondack region. This vast area has been pur- portant watershed. The control of the property is appears it has not gone far enough. The new enter- tion and improvement. acres more of the Adirondack region for the experi- ment of the university will be known as “the New respect. lege shall conduct “such experiments in forestry as estry, and may plant, raise, cut and sell timber at taining and imparting knowledge concerning the vesting and reproduction of wood crops and earning is highly creditable to New York, and the results forest cultivation an industry of direct profit as well governments cannot accomplish the same ends. No greater. It would be well if the coming Legislature forests as a profitable trade, would at least establish It people are distressed at the prospect of a high The reflection may soothe and comfort them. =READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL! September 11th—Will Contain: | ' LASTOF THE PAGE By ALICE RIX. AHUNAS RN e o S S REVELATIONS OF UNCLE SAM'S NEW ATLAS. £t el - - Tbow - - I Was Presented lo the .7) ope. BY A CALIFORNIA GIRL. L 2 Z MAN WITH A MICROSCOPIC EYE ckedest City of the West STRUGGLING - TO REACH e POLES TRAVELING ACROSS THE CONTINENT WITHOUT A CENT By A WALKING GENTLEMAN. S OF OTHER SPECIAL FEATURES! ... JUDGE BELCHER REPLIES TO MR. MONTEITH. THE VON ARNOLD CASE. Editor Call: In yesterday's Call you published Mr. Monteith's criti- cism of my action in declining to remit the public fees for filing the plain- tiff's complaint in the case of Von Arnold vs. Arnold. The published state- ment of Mr. Monteith is misleading and I desire to set the matter right. I refused to remit the fees for Mr. Monteith’s client because it was not a proper case for such action. The presiding Judge has no business or au- thority to give away the public moneys, and only in a case of extreme ex- igency is he authorized or justified in remitting fees of litigants. In this case, if the defendant were here and were whipping and beating his wife, throwing stones through the windows of her house, calling her ..le names in the presence of others and seizing every opportunity to make her pres- ent married life a burden—even life itself a sorrow—and she were without means to prosecute her action, payment of fees. This is not such a case. understanding and her eyes were open when she married. her husband to England and there left him. it would be a proper case to postpone the The plaintiff was of mature She went with He is now undergoing penal servitude for an offense against the laws of England and is not in a sit- uatfon, even if he desired, to do his wife any harm whatever. The plain- tiff's case, therefore, is not a case of exigency and does not justify the remission or postponement of fees. cause of her married state. She Is undergoing no hardships be- The presiding Judge is, as it were, a trustee of public funds in all cases where applications are made to remit fees of litigants and he would be derelict In duty and properly subject to all manner of criticism if he were to make orders of remission save in cases of manifest propriety and exigency. A case like that supposed would be such a case; or a case where there i{s a drunken father or mother, or both, and there are small children, subjected to immoral influences, and the So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children were seeking guardianship, no property rights being affected, is a proper case. letters of In the one instance the wife would be entitled to public protection and to be placed in a situation to defend herself; in the other the public itself is interested. The morals of children are a matter of public interest, for some time they will come along and take the places we tasks we leave unfinished. leave vacant, and assume the In declining to remit the fees of Mr. Monteith’s client, the presiding Judge was polite but firm, and there was no heat displayed save the heat of Mr. Monteith and no storm except his storm. The presiding Judge is and has been very often importuned by a cer- tain class of attorneys to remit fees, but never before has he publicly been taKen to task in such matters for discharging his exact public duty. Mr. Monteith speaks of the difficulty of justice for the poor. Justice is equally accessible to all, and is the same for -Bvery one, however, will readily recognize that there is a great dif- teith is mistaken. all. Mr. Mon- ference between the pathos of deserving poverty and the bathos of Mr. Monteith. Very respectfully, EDWARD A. BELCHER, Presiding Judge, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘Warren Sexton, an Oroville attorney, is at the Grand. C. T. Bliss, a big lumberman of Car: son, Nev., is at the Palace. Louis Deane, one of Nevada's leading cattle men, is at the Russ. Joseph Paseholy and wife are among the arrivals at the Grand. Alfred Steckler, a New York merchant, 18 registered at the Palace. ‘W. H. Taylor, a prominent merchant of Livermore, is at the Baldwin. D. H. King and wife of Portland have taken apartments at the Palace. . Edgar T. Wallace, prominent in mining circles of Yreka, is at the Palace. A. Bettens, manager of Byron Hot Springs, Is a guest at the Baldwin. J. H. Dockweiler of Los Angeles, well known In legal circles, is a guest at the Grand. _ z Dr. W. 8. Taylor of Livermore arrived in the city yesterday and registered at the Palace. Thomas E. Brady, a prominent mining operator at Great Falld, Montana, is stay- ing at the Palace. H. N. Savage, a well-known civil and hydraulic engineer, of National City, is registered at the Grand. W. W. Jones and A. B. Wright. of Stanford University, are among the holi- day arrivals at the Grand. J. W. Henderson, a prominent banker of Eureka, and his family have taken apartments at the Lick House. Bessie Bonehill-Seeley, who will star at the Orpheum next week, arrived from the East last evening and took apart- ments at the Baldwin. Colonel Macfarlane, C. Walters and daughter, Mrs, A. Allayne Jaynes and F. A. Hartmann, all of Honolulu, aré among the arrivals at the California. . Miss M. Browne and Miss Ethel Root arrived in the city yesterday from Santa Paula, a growing city of Southern Cali- fornia, and took apartments at the Lick. Percy Elder ot London, Dr.J.V.Forrest, a resident of India; Hart Buck of Hong- kong, H. F. Heinlein of Yokohama, Bler- ens de Haan of Amsterdam, are among the arrivals on the Coptic and have taken apartments at the Palace. Prominent among the arrivals at the hotels are Dante R. Prince of Fresno, Henry G. Turner of Modesto, C. A. Camp- bell of Red Bluff, T. W. Ward of Visa- lia, E. W. Gilmore and wife of Los Ange- les and C. K. McClatchy of Sacramento. Ensign P. N. Olmsted, U. 8. N., who ‘was on the battleship Indlana and wit- nessed the destruction of Admiral Cer- vera's fleet at Bantiago, arrived in the city yesterday. He took the first train for Mare Island, where he will be sta- tioned for the present. Judge Alfred S. Hartwell of Honolulu, J. K. Farley of Koloa Kaual, H. I.; Paul G. Fiedler and wife of Yokohama, Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Griffin of Shanghai, Mrs. Walter Bramhall of Yokohama, and M. A. McGilllvray of Chieng Mai, Slam, ar- rived on the Coptic last evening and reg- {stered at the Occidental. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Dr. Stanley Still- man of San Francisco is at the Windsor. J. Sternberger of San Francisco Is at the Imperial. ——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MAIL CONTRACTS — A Subscriber, Capay, Cal. A person holding an original mall contract may sublet the same to another. THE CLARA NEVADA-T. F., City. The Clara Nevada left Seattle ‘he last time in January last, but this department cannot furnish the exact date. MAIL TO KOTZEBUE—-J. W., Wat- sonville, Cal. During the comlrfi winter mail will be sent to and from Kotzebue Sound whenever opportunity offers. LOTTERY AGHEHNCIES-Mrs. U. D, Pleasanton, Cal. [This department has time and again announced that it does not advertise any firm or business. For that reason it will not advertise “several places where lottery tickets can be pro- cured by a lady.” NOT A PREMIUM COIN—A Reader, City. A half dollar of 1838 sells at from 75 _cents_ to §110, but it is not a coin for which dealers pay a premium. In the mndorlg miun of cases the amount of e at 1s pald by dealers, for colng.r is | €0 small that it will not leave enough to pay for car fare. COST OF A PATENT—W. 8., City. The fees for securing a patent is the same whether the invention is a small one or a great one. The application must be made in writing to the Commissioner of Patents at Washington, D. C., and ‘the applicant must file in the patent office a description of the same in full, clear, con- cise terms. He must also furnish a draw- ing of the exact size of the invention, If the nature of it admits of the furnishing of such a drawing. If the Commisssioner requires it, the n¥»lic&nt must furnish a working model. he fee is $15, to accom- pany the original application for a patent, and $20 for the patent. There aré but very few persons who can properly attend to the requirements of the patent office Wwithout the assistance of an attorney. The simplest way for an inventor to se- cure a patent is to engage the services of a reputable attorney, whose fee for “a *“small invention” ought not to exceed $30. FALLING STARS—G. E., Pacheco, Cal. Astronomers divide meteors into several classes—aerial meteors, as winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, as £fogs, rain, snow, hail, etc.; luminous meteors, as those due to the action of elements in the alr, as rainbows, halos, parahelias, mirages, etc.; electrical meteors, as lightning, auroras, etc.; and igneous me- teors, as shooting or falling stars, star showers, bolides or fireballs, aerolites or meteorites, etc. According to_ Professor Newton, the term meteor in_later days has been generally limited to the last group or igneous meteors. It is univer- sally admitted that igneous meteors are caused by small bodies which have been traveling about .the sun in their orbits, come to the earth’s atmosphere and, in general, burn up. Shooting stars, in tra- versing through space, are consumed. There is no connection between shooting stars and the end of the world. —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ———— Speclal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, S S el Trunks, valises, ladies’ pocketbooks, let- ter and card cases, alligator bags, travel- ing sets, lap tablets and Mexican carved leather goods for fall trade have arrived and now on sale. Playing cards, comps, brushes, mirrors, perfumery and fojlot are ticles In this department at_ the lowest prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market, * prasiihie R-Ra H R Plymouth, England, has | last” the water supply provided for the town by Sir Francis Drake, 300 years ago. The old sea rover bullf a leat, or open aqueduct, twenty miles long, to bring water from the hills of Dartmoor to the town. A large reservoir s to be uilt. outgrown at —_—— First and Second Class rates agaln reduced via the Santa Fe route. 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