The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1898, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1898. 2 Mrs. 8. A. 8 - THE PANAMA CANAL. PACIFIC SLOPE MEN. fessor and Min. Gesras Smersatll, Gatoe. ,F o ] : sty burg, 1ll.; Mrs. L. M. Murphy, San Jos P8 B HILE the project for constructing a ship OMETHING of an old story is that of the Clarence Smuth, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. El- B ol canal across Nicaragua remains in a condition wonderful rush of the Oregon around the gg';‘e'm’;‘ns“h‘;‘l:!r Ctolain ;?g_g‘;:ilfiuffig: MONDAY that may be best described as “open for dis- Horn and her arrival at the Floridan coast in R rmed g o Gag:, Sl T .SEPTEMBER 12, 1808 JOHI\i D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. o Smsyare s T L Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. I‘I‘HLICATIOEV OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. 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AMUSEMENTS, White Flag.” art.” t Born” and “ A Tragedy." of the Living —* Woman's Wit." 3 1es streets—Vaudeville Vaudeville and Spanish Bull Fight. Mason d Eddy streete—Specialties. TRADE TAME, BUT SATISFACTORY. [ OT weather interfered with trade all over the | last week, except on the Pacific Coast, | e the temperature was below the normal. robably the direct cause of the shrinkage in k ten important cities | red with the same week 1 1s much more in the East s coast, owing to the humidity of the East- which renders the transaction of busi- d the mercantile element al at the summer resorts. Still, com- ts abound wita rosy accounts of the state 1out the land. in general w countr clearings, off as comy t weather me ern climate, a burde keeps s about the same as for | stern citiesallreported marked | , and Chicago could not ship | T h to satisfy the demand. The | trade of the Northwest, which has been | al for several months, was fully up to its no change ool and cotton being quiet, wheat wun- ttled and iron remarkably active. The failures of country numbered 142, against 173 for the same 1 1897 and 308 in 1896. Wall street labored | under the reaction previously noted, an advance in money rates h g checked the buying demand. The s not serious, however, and will probably d ar with' the resumption of gold im- iticipated action by the Government to ilation of its funds. Less favorable abroad tend to give the wheat mar- ore tone. though the improvement is thus far cant. Railway earnings continue to show a ing gain, and prices for the leading lines of ndise are said to be the i vhest for five years. e. The staples showed weel Wi ports crop reports fro e points about cover the condition of trade throughout the country east of the Rockies. The local situation is in fair shape. Fall trade is opening up well as a rule, and while values for most of the staples are stationary, there is no particular The fruit trade leads all others in point of interest, and the growers are real- izing prices fully up to the anticipations of the most guine. The canners have had to scramble for choice fruit this year, to the infinite gratification of the orchardists, and with the exception of a period of ten days or so when the market was choked with peaches and pears scarcity has been the rule since last spring. It will probably be some years ere the fruit- growers of California again sell apricots at $60 per ton, pears at $50 and peaches at $65. Nor is dried fruit a whit behind the fresh article,the only difference being that it is scarcer, as the fancy figures paid for the fresh fruit cut down the usual output of dried fruit considerably. The grain trade of the State is languishing. Prices are fair as a rule, and for several cereals they are good. But the light output diminishes the gross revenue materially. Wheat exports will be small this year, and, indeed, much of the grain will come in from the north. Provisions are moving off fairly, and some dealers report an increased demand. The wool, hop and hide markets are very dull, with apparently no desire to take hold on the part of buyers. The ennual wine question is again coming to the front, as the grape crop in the northern part of the State, at Jeast, will be short, owing to the dry season, and this may have a hardening effect on wine, which is low at present. Jobbers of merchandise continue to report a sat- Isfactory outward movement, accompanied with com- paratively easy collections. There is a large supply of money in the usual channels, readily available at the regular rates of interest. Failures are no more numerous than usual at this time of the year, and are generally small. The bank clearings of San Francisco continue to fall behind those of 1897, a loss in business directly traceable to the dry winter. There is less grain to change hands, less fruit to can and dry, less of every- thing, in fact, that the farmer produces. Consequently there is less movement in all lines of trade, and the result is immediately shown in decreased bank clear- ings. Still, the falling off is not serious, and, in- deed, is not as pronounced as might have been ex- pected. change in any description. —————————— Mr. William E. Costley should not be left to fight alone the battle for the rights of the people against Wells, Fargo & Co. Every shipper should resist the imposition of the holy tax-shirkers. The newspapers of the city by combining defeated the attempt of the rorporation to rob them, and other shippers will achieve the same result by pursuing the same policy. L S It'is not wholly to be regretted that under Swiss {aw the assassin of the Empress Elizabeth cannot be put to death. It is worth while preserving one of that ipecies to see what can be done toward making him repent before he dies. ety N You will be able to recognize the Native Son for cussion,” the Panama enterprise is moving ahead, slowly indeed, but with sufficient momentum to jus- tify a fear that if something is not speedily done on our part it may be completed while we are yet talk- ing, and the great waterway will be under European instead of American control. According to a special correspondent of the Lon- don Chronicle, whose name is not given, but who is described by the Chronicle as a British resident of Colon and a thoroughly experienced and competent engineer, the outlook for the successful accomplish- ment of the great undertaking of De Lesseps is by no means discouraging. In his report he says the work at present is going on but slowly and the progress is small. The enter- prise is hampered by the intrigues of the impecunious Government of the republic and the opposition of the Panama railway, but nevertheless something is being done, and the labor on the canal is never wholly stopped. It is estimated there have been expended upon the canal about 53,000,000 pounds sterling, and that about £16,000,000 of this sum represents work actually done, while about £10,000,000 more represents “experience bought and paid for,” shop machinery, buildings and appurtenances which are necessary, and therefore of value to those who may undertake to complete the work within the next ten years. It is added, however, that if the work were to be begun over again with the | this demand for paper exists. fit condition to go at once to the fighting line of the fleet off Santiago. It has been recounted many times and explained in many ways. Credit for the great performance has been given to the naval architects who designed her, to the men who constructed her, to her gallant commander, Captain Clark, and to her skillful engineers. Now, however, a new explanation of the feat has been put forth, and as it comes from Chief Engineer Milligan himself it is of interest, not- withstanding that the story is a more than twice-told tale. The New York Commercial Advertiser quotes the chief engineer as having said in a recent speech: “At one port Captain Clark told me he wanted to make the next port in ten hours, at fourteen knots an hour. I told him I didn’t think the men could stand the strain. Soon afterward I found there was a meeting among the assistant engineers, they insisting that they could make the port in ten hours; and so we did. The men stood three watches at the engines and two in the fireroom. Most of our men are Pacific Slope men.” . That incident deserves commemoration among the records of the war. There are thousands of brave knowledge and experience now possessed, all that has been attained thus far could be duplicated for about fifteen millions of pounds, and this sum is regarded as a not unreasonable estimate to put upon the prop- erty of the canal company upon the isthmus. Regarding the possibilities of the work from an engineering point of view the correspondent says: “I favor a sea-level canal, which I believe to be more feasible here than a lock system canal, and quite as economical of construction. Either can be built; but the sea-level canal will undoubtedly give the greater degree of satisfaction. Under competent di- rection the Panama canal can, in my opinion, be com- pleted as a sea-level canal for twenty-five or thirty millions of pounds sterling, and the work, if taken in hand vigorously, would be completed in ten years— maximum.” From this showing, made upon what is presumably a competent and impartial authority, it appears that the French enterprise is by no means dead. Whether it will revive to full life and draw from European cap- italists enough money to complete it will depend upon the course taken by the United States with re- spect to the Nicaragua canal. There will be no need of two waterways, and if our project is pushed for- ward the French scheme will be abandoned as un- profitable. If we continue to delay, however, the Panama enterprise may be carried out. We shall then see the consequences of hesitating in a great movement of this kind. The waterway will be opened, but not b: merican energy, nor will it be operated in American interests. THE CRETAN PROBLEM. Y the outbreak of fanatic violence in Crete, re- B sulting in the killing of a number of British soldiers as well as the looting of the British and the German consulates at Candiz, the reported al- liance between Great Britain and (vermany will be put to a test that will soon make known to the public the extent to which the two powers have agreed to co- operate in international affairs. It is true the treaty as reported does not directly | refer to the Cretan question or to any other problem | growing out of the rapid degeneration of the Turk- | ish empire. Such issues, however, appear to be neces- sarily involved in it by reason of their close relation to the affairs of Egypt and Syria that are the main and essential features of the agreement. It is clear that if Great Britain is to be assured a quiet posses- sion of Egypt, and German interests in Syria are to be | guaranteed a peaceful development, the two powers will have to act with a united force in maintaining order in Crete and in all adjacent parts of the empi-e of the Sultan. Whatever motives of selfish gain may have moved the British and the Germans to arrange their re- ported alliance, it is clear that joint action on their part in Crete would be in the interests of humanity and the welfare of the oppressed people of the island. Events have proven that the Sultan is incapable of | fulfilling his treaty obligations and protecting Chris- tians il his dominions. Nor, since the disastrous re- sult of the war with Turkey, can Greece be expected to do anything to prevent the anarchy and slaughter arising out of the antagonism between the hostile races and religions among the inhabitants. As it | was necessary for us to intervene in Cuba, so now it is necessary for some power of first-class strength to intervene in Crete. | Experience has shown that little reliance can be | placed upon the much vaunted “concert of Europe.” That institution is as yet too inchoate and confused | to act with vigor upon any issue. The reported al- liance between Great Britain and Germany, however, furnishes exactly the power that the time and the | occasion call for. A combination controlling the | greatest fleet and the greatest army in the world, pos- sessing unlimited wealth and made up of the two most masterful and vigorous races in Europe, could easily | settle the Cretan problem—and such is their prestige among nations they would hardly risk a war in do- ing it, for it is not likely that any power or combina- | tion of powers would interfere with them. This situation of affairs gives a new interest to the | old problem. The world has heard so much of Cretan . insurrections for three generations past it would pay but little attention to the present one were it not for | the possibility that it may bring to light the terms of | the new coalition and cause the allies to make a joint | demonstration of their power in the Levant. The | crisis is like that of the suspense in a theater when for a long time ordinary actors have gone on devel- oping a plot and the climax has been reached and the audience waits for the stars to appear in their dom- inant roles. In the Cretan tragedy the scene is all set, the supreme issue is reached. What will Britan- nia and Germania do when they step forth upon the stage? Now that arrangements have been made for ex- tending the Valley Road southward so as to have con- nection with a transcontinental system, the railroad monopoly in the State will soon cease to exist, and to point to the collapse of the octopus and say “I did it” or “I helped to do it.” S R g Along with the appointment of a committee to investigate the conduct of the war there should be another to investigate the conduct of the yellow jour- nals that have slandered everything connected with the army from quartermasters to the War Depart- ment. | has never used anything else. not a single agitator or yellow journal will be able |. S Solty Several cases of wife-beating have been notable in that the beaten wife failed to appear and beg mercy several days yet by the fact that his hat doesn't fit. for the brute in the dock. | 2 men in the armies and navies who follow wherever their leaders go, and obey without hesita- tion every word of command. The engineers of the Oregon, however, showed a courage and ardor of patriotism above that. After their officers had de- cided that a certain work desirable in itself would impose too great a strain upon them they held a council of their own and insisted upon undertaking the task. Their enthusiasm had its way, and their physical manhood as the results showed proved equal to the strenuous task their valiant souls had prompted. Due attention must also be given to the statement of the chief engineer, “Most of our men are Pacific Slope men.” Among the people of the East there is a vague theory that the mildness of the Pacific climate and the absence of what they call “the bracing rigors of winter” tend to weaken the muscular and the ner- vous strength of the white race—producing a sort of low vitality like that of the inhabitants of tropic countries. A multitude of victories by Californian champions in all forms of athletic contests has demonstrated time and again the falseness of the theory, but it still sur- vives. It is fitting, therefore, to impress upon the public the fact that the heroes of the engine-room who carried the Oregon through that record-breaking feat were Pacific Slope men, and that they endured the terrific strain without breaking down at any point from the time they steamed away from California un- til they forged ahead of other warships at Santiago and won the honors of the battle that destroyed the fleet of Spain. THE PAPER MONEY HABIT. Y reason of the large supply of gold and the B comparatively scant amount of paper currency in the East a curious illustration of the force of habit has been furnished by that section of the Union. It appears the people there have become so addicted to the use of paper money by long usage that they are unwilling to employ gold for general circulation, notwithstanding their appreciation of it as a standard of value. This preference for the accustomed form of money appears from all reports to amount to a serious evil in the financial world. The Boston Herald says: “The short supply of paper money is causing a good deal of inconvenience to business and obstructing the movement of the crops.” After pointing out that there is no real scarcity of currency, it goes on to say: “The only trouble is that paper money cannot be readily obtained to satisfy the demands of the harvesting section, and that gold coin does not meet the popular demand.” . It is not in Boston and New England only that The Philadelphia Ledger says: “The United States treasury now holds more than $206,000,000 in gold. It holds this vast amount largely because it cannot get rid of it. The people do not care to be burdened with gold .or pocket money, when paper is so much more con- venient to carry.” The Philadelphia Record con- cedes that this statement is in the main correct, but maintains that the preference for paper money is con- fined to the cities, while it will have been noted that the Boston Herald asserts the demand for paper comes from the harvesting districts. As a matter of fact, it appears the whole Eastern section of the country, cities and rural districts alike, der:ands the familiar paper; and so annoying to financiers has this demand become that the treasury officials at Washington are quoted as having ex- pressed the opinion that the people should be com- pelled to use gold so as to correct what one of them has called “their vicious preference for paper.” This statement has roused the wrath of Boston and the Herald of that city, after referring to it as an “assumption characteristic of the official mind,” re- terts with some indignation: “Unete Sam does not take kindly to the idea of using either gold or silver coin in circulation. He likes paper money. He wants it kept as good as gold, but he does not want to carry the latter about in his pockets. His choice should be respected, and, in point of fact, it will have to be”” The whole controversy is a striking proof of the domination of habit over the human mind. It will be news to Californians that Uncle Sam does not take kindly to the idea of using either gold or silver coin in circulation. In this State our honored uncle The Philadelphia Record speaks of bank notes as being “almost always foul smelling and filthy from constant handling,” and thie being so it would appear that the Washington official was correct in describing the Eastern fond- ness for paper as a “vicious preference.” Altogether the situation is amusing. A thirsty Kentuckian, crying “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,” has no quandary equal to the perplexity of financiers with gold, gold everywhere and no money to meet the popular demand. Up to this time more wealth has eome from the Klondike than has been caried in, but matters are rapidly taking an opposite turn, and before long a statement of the balance of trade will make an Eskimo smile. —_— In the confusion eamp some are Democrats, some are Populists and some are Silver Republicans, but the sandlotters lead them all. Whenever the campaign becomes too hot for him Maguire can console himself with the reflection that a cold day is coming. —_— It is not certain whether John J. Valentine prayed or swore when he heard of the Costley suit, but his language was Biblical. There is reason to believe the Maguire boom would run better if Gallagher would let her go. e DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUN SPOT. The general large sun spot is composed of many sectlons more or less scattered, but that of September 2 was one enormous single spot, about 51,000 miles in diameter. Adjacent to its eastern side were two almost im- perceptible markings which began to develop on September 7, and have since become three penumbral tracts, thus forming in all a group extending over an area about 140,000 miles in length. One of these tracts spread into connection with the large spot, which is otherwise little changed except from the effects of a less foreshortened view. At the time of writing it shows some symptoms of scattering, but will probably remain visible for some days yet. Having kept a record of solar disturbances for eleht years past, I find that it has been equaled In size and conspicuousness by only three or four groups during that period. September 10, 1898. ROSE O'HALLORAN. WHITE MEN IN THE TROPICS. As It Is With the Englishman, So Will It Be With the American. From the London Speaker, August 27. There is a mural inscription in the old church on the Chelsea embank- ment which describes Franceas our inveterate enemy, and though we have been for eighty-three years at peace with the French people there are doubtless some Englishmen who still think of France as the worst enemy of Anglo-Saxon expansion. We venture to think they are mistaken. France is not our worst enemy, nor Germany, nor Russia. Malarial fever is the most deadly of all. The question whether Englishmen or Americans can exercise with advantage permanent dominion in the tropics depends mainly on whether they can succeed in mastering tropical disease. The question arises in India, in Africa, in Cuba and Manila; it may arise be- fore long in Southern China; in all essentials it is the same question every- where. The waste of life and of vital energy in the tropics is the gravest difficulty of empire. Let us see roughly what it means. We have ruled India for more than a century. The native people are, with few exceptions, peaceful and docile and industrious beyond compare. They produce a large proportion of men of ability who can be trusted in all but the very highest places of government. The small military population of the north produces some excellent soldiers. The Government has been organized so as to re- quire the services of as few Europeans as possible, and private traders pro- ceed on the same system. India is therefore run by a white population of 150,000, of whom half are soldiers. Yet the difficulty of maintaining that force i{s enormous. The average Indian life of the Staff Corps officer or civil- {an is between twenty-five and thirty years, if his health lasts, as against forty-five years at home. Yet the term cannot be extended. To get men to stay so long, the pension has to be enormously increased as a reward for the last few years of service, and the pension is earned at the risk of phys- ical or mental collapse. The Britisher in India is past his best at forty-five, when he would only just have reached full intellectual maturity at home. The rank and file of the soldiers do not stay on the average more than four or five years in India, but it is quite enough for most of them. Making all allowances for the vicious habits of a few stigmatized by the Comman- der-in-Chief, the main cause of the decrepitude or industrial inefficiency of so many who have returned from India is the climate. The climate of In- dla threatens to destroy our system of voluntary military service. India. has been so long governed by England that care can be taken, except on the frontier, to locate trcops and other whites in comparatively healthy settlements. A considerable part of Northern India is not technic- ally within the tropics, and there are plenty of hill stations. Thus there are advantages in Indla as compared with many other hot countries. A few years ago some enthusiasts told us that Africa was to be quite a different place; that in the high lands of the center white men would be able to live, and breed and rear their children—become colonists, in fact, and not merely administrators. Sir John Pope Hennessy, who had not stewed in Lagos for five years without learning to see the worst side of things, always fis- counted these optimistic prophecies. He told us that tropical Africa could never become a white man’s country. It may be he was wrong, but he has not yet been proved wrong. The enthusiast’s idea was that altitude was more important than latitude. Get away from the marsh lands by the sea and malaria would be left behind. We never felt much confidence in those promises of good health for Britons if they got away from the sea. Even in the tropics the sea gives health. The best hope for the fever-stricken man is to get him on shipboard. In the interior he has a slightly less chance of catching fever, but he is more likely to die if he catches it. These high- lying health resorts somehow belie their first promise. Uganda is very high up, but only exceptionally tough men can stand its climate. The country on the way to it is so pestiferous that Sir Arthur Hardinge recommends that no more workmen should be sent there from Northern India: they cannot live in this terrible land. There is a poor chance for the English- man where the Hindoo cannct survive. Nyassaland is also turning out badly. The death rate among the whites has gcne up to 100 per thousand. The last report from the Governor shows the climate to be the real difficutly. Fever extends much farther south. Black-water fever has been known in the Bechuanaland Protectorate at an altitude of over 3000 feet, and on the 20th parallel of latitude, and that in & great thirst land where there is scarcely a spring, much less a marsh. The Americans in Cuba are already finding malaria worse than the Spaniard. Tt is said that Mr. Chamberlain intends to tackle the problem by ap- pointing a small commission of eminent medical men, who are to visit the Gold Coast in the healthy season. We cannot hove very much from this @troke of statecraft. British troops have stewed in that “little military hot- house,” Malta, for a century, but no doctor has discovered a specific for the type of recurrent malaria known as Maltese fever. So far the only medical discovery which was thought to have made European life in the tropics less deadly was the use of quinine. But the merciless Dr. Koch has recently produced strong reasons for believing that quinine does more harm than good. He has discovered that since quinine came into use, ma- laria has been much less common among women than among men. For well-known reasons, women cannot take as much quinine as men, and do not, in fact, dose themselves with it as men do. Hence he argues that qui- nine may, in its reaction, predispose to fever. We are not quite convinced, and would, indeed, put to him another question. Why is it that Spaniards and Portuguese can live and thrive after a fashion where Englishmen ean- not? It may be partly because they are bred in a warmer climate. It may be partly because they have less cbjection to miscegenation, and there- fore live In different relations toward native women. It may be partly be- cause they drink less spirits. Put we venture to believe that the main rea- gon 1= because, like English women, they work less than do Englishmen. The very vigor which we bring with us from our island home, and which has enabled us to pick up the ricnost bits of the world for our race, is, in a sense, our undoing. A white man can live in the South, but he must be content to vegetate there. Englishmen prefer to work and die rather than vegetate, and somehow we cannot wish it otherwise. ‘We have no wish to see a new race of English-speaking men who eould 1ive but could not work any better than Spaniards can work. Every race has its sultable environment: ours is in the temperate zone. Of course, it may be worth our while to sacrifice a moderate number of lives year by year in order to keep open tropical markets and govern and civilize tropical peo- ples. But there must be no foolish misapprehension about the meaning of these acquisitions. So long as the tropics are fatal to full vigor, conquests in the tropics cannot be spoken of as an expansion of England, like settle- ments in North America or in Australla. They may be markets, but they cannot be homes. It is, perhaps. just as well that the Americans, likewise, should have had to face this fundamental difficulty at so early a stage of their colonial conquests. They may perhaps face it in a different way from us. The bodily frame of the Yankee is not a bit more immune from mala- ria than ours, though it may be that the Inhabitants of the Gulf States have acquired a certain immunity on the principle of the survival of the fittest. But the American, owing to his more mixed origin. has a power of absorbing and utilizing other races which the Encglishman has not. Possibly the Americans will be able, in Cuba and Porto Rico, at least, to evolve out of the Spaniards, who can stand the climate, a race with powers of gov- ernance. But we fancy that for many years, at least, their new possessions will mean to them, as India and Africa mean to us. a heavy. if necessary sacrifice. What statistician has ever been able to figure up the cost of ma- laria in lessened human efficiency? | tate the breeding retta, Miss Chispa Sanborn, Clarence T. Wendall, Dr. R. W. Smith, E. G. Mac- Baine and Miss Mollie Pratt. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PETALUMA—H,, City. The population of Petaluma, Sonoma County, is about 3500; some place it at 4000. That of Sania Rosa, in the same county, is about 7500. MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE—W. L. F., City. The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art 1s open from § o'clock in the morn- ing until § o’clock in the afternoon. The free day 1Is the first Friday in each month. WARSHIPS—W. 8., Lemoore, Cal. In times of peace the war ships of the Uni- ted States are painted either white, lighs yellow or some other light color. In tinre of war they are painted black for the reason that a black ship is not so prom- inent an object for the enemy to alm at as one painted of a light color. EVENING SCHOOL—C. T., City. The evening school known as the Humboldt Evening BSchool, located in the school building on Golden Gate avenue, near Hyde street, is a free public school. This is no reason why young ladies who at- tend there cannot take the course in ar- chitectural drawing. FOREIGN CARRYING TRADE—J. M, City. The statistics on commerce and | navigation are silent as to the amount that is paid yearly in the United States to foreign ships, but the statistics show that the value of the foreign carrying trade for several years past will average $1,500,000,000. TO CLEAN SATIN—Mrs. X, City. The following is given as a method to clean satin: “Four ounces of soft soep, four ounces of honey the whitexof an egg and a wineglassful of gin, mixed well together. With this mixture scour the article (which must be unpicked and laid in widths on a table; a kitchen table will do) with a rather hard brush, thorough- ly; afterward rinse it in cold water, leave to drain and iron while quite damp with a piece of thin muslin between it and the iron, or it will be marked on tae ironed side. The satin, when laild on the table, must be kept quite smooth, so that every part may come under the brush.” MOTHS—E., Lone Pine, Cal. Moths deposit their eggs in early spring. If al- lowed to remain in the dark, the articles in which such deposits are made facili- of the worms which come from these eggs, and it is the worm that does the mischief. The articles should, before being put away for any length’ of time, be aired, well shaken, and, if clothing, be beaten with a light rattan, then wrapped in freshiy printed newspéaper, as printing ink is something that will prevent the approach of moths. Camphor is also an excellent article for keeping away moths, but is not desirable to use with fur, as it has a tendency to turn the color of the fur a lighter shade. Articles that are put away should be ta- ken out and aired in the sun at least once a month, If that is done and newspapers or camphor is used there will not be any ravages by mo | MINING LAW—Miner, Coulterville, Cal. | This department is unable to find any law of California that requires that work | Clark’s, 653 Market street. | ders solicited. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Judge T. B. Bond of Lakeport is at the Grand. ‘W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. F. A. Hihn, the capitallst of Santa Cruz, is at the Occidental. J. Rummelsburg, a merchant of Win- ters, is at the Grand. Superfor Judge T. C. Law, child, are at the Lick. J. G. Hamilton, a large land owner of Hollister, is at the Russ. Edward T. Plerce, the principal of the Los Angeles High School, is at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rosenstock have returned to the city for the winter and wife and ‘will reside at the Palace. N Sherifft Tom Cunningham of Stockton is at Baldwin. He . t f a l&hnrtea States M:n;::ll:htl%. IngknaL e Dr. L. P. Hall of Dixon is at the Grand. 8. F. Black, State Superintendent Public Instruction, is at the Lk:l(.":l = Willlam Ferguson and J. H. Laudon of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers arrived in this city vesterday to attend the counell of the grievance committee, of which they are members, Colonel and Mrs. W. D. Sanborn gave a party at their home at 2500% California street. In honor of Mrs. S. A. Sanborn of Galesburg, TIL, the mother of the host. and Mr. and Mrs. George Churchill of Knox College, Galesburg, TIl., on Saturday evening. The entertainment was in the nature of a musicale. The California Quartet, composed of Clarence T. Wen- dall, C. L. Gage, Dr. R. W. Smith and E. G. MacBaine, with Miss Mollie Pratt as accompanist, headed the list: but solos were rendered by each member of the quartet and by Mrs. W. A. Taaffe. Among the guests were: Hon. and Mrs. Dan Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Will Cole, Mrs. M. Bresse. Mr. and Mrs, C. L. Gage, Mr. and Mrs. W. N..Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. Samuels. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Taaffe, to the extent of $50 shall be done on a | mining claim before notice can be record- ed. But there is a law that was passed in 1891 which says: Whenever any mine owner, company or corporation shall have performed the labor and made the im- provements required by law for the loca- tion and ownership of mining claims or lodes, such owner, company Or COTDOTa- { tion shall file or cause to be filed, within | thirty days after the time limited for per- forming such labor or making such im- rovements with the Recorder of Deeds n the county in which the mine or claim is situated an affidavit as to the labor performed and improvements made and | the value thereof, which affidavit shall ba | prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. Cal. glace frult 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® e e This week; best eyeglasses; specs; I5c to 40c; 66 Fourth street: look out for No. 65. * —_——————— Buy wall paper and window shades at Country gr- [ S — Special information supplied dally to business houses and publi: men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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