The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1898. Call PTEMBER 17, 1808 SATURDAY.. jOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. Lf;fi\jfiE, Mlnager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is | served by carriers In this clty and surrounding towns | for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE veeese.-908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D, C.) OFFICE Rigge House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... ...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, opem until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 194( 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 Eieventh | street, open untll 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. B ‘A Milk White Flag.” Macbeth.” Tragedy and *The First Born.” “The Land of the Living men."”" audevilla Comedy Theater—* The Leading Man.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville. e8—Z00, Vaudevilie and Spanish Bull Fight | —Corner Maeon and Eddy streets—specialtios. tutro’s Baths—Swimming. Recreation Park—Baseball this afternoon. on Coursing Park. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. Columbi; Baldwin A SILLY SHEET. % appropriation by the Third street Demo- cratic organ of the credit of forcing the Super- visors to adopt a reasonable tax levy is a reflec- t he intelligence of the people of this city. Neither the Finance Committee nor the Board of Supervisors ever had the slightest intention of levy- ing a tax of $2 10 on the $100 valuation. The organ | imagined that rate, set it up as a scarecrow and pro- ceeded to demolish it with much sound and fury. It | has been established beyond controversy that at the time the organ began its taxation crusade the Finance mittee had not considered the levy and the Su- ors were scattered all over the State enjoying a upon t | | | | by imperialism. OUR TROPICAL COLONIES. S the only people who can live in the tropics fl are such as are found there now, we must study them, in view of the pretense that these islands are to be held, to pass a territorial novitiate, to eventually become States in this Union, with rep- resentation in the Government. This pretense is sustained in order to make smoother the palpable violation of the constitution Our soldiers who are coming home from the war in the West Indies bring us information about the people who are able to live under that ver- tical sun. This adds only to what every educated man knew before. A majority of the people on all the | Spanish islands in the West Indies are of the most intractable negroes and hybrids. The colonels and generals who figured as large as Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon in the yellow press a few months ago turn out to be but little better than roost robbers. That four hundred years of Spanish possession of | these islands finds a majority of their people of negro blood is evidence added to that we have already pre- sented, that the vertical sun drives all humanity to shelter under a dark skin. Not a single American citizen who values the integrity and perpetuity of his country will favor the admission of such a people to fellow citizenship, now or ever. At the close of the Civil War we gave citizenship to our own negroes, and have carefully prevented their enjoyment of it. No American cares to repeat the ex- periment in the Antilles. Putting the negro ballot into the constitution and keeping it out of the ballot- box may yet produce great evils at home. We don't want the risk of still greater abroad. Turning from the American to the Asiatic tropics we find a still more difficult situation. In the Philip- pines are ten millions of people, of about two hun- dred tribes and tongues. In the rich poison of that tropical soil they increase like maggots in a dung- hill. There are a million Mohammedans and a mil- lion Chinese. There are untamed native races and a swarm of hybrids that would drive an ethnologist crazy to classify. The virile blood in all this human mixture is Malay. the only Asiatics who never feared a white man. On the Philippine coast are two hundred thousand Malays who live by piracy. For three centuries the influence government and the Catholic missionaries striven to plant religion among these people. have It has a revolt against the church. Every priest who caught is slaughtered like a predatory animal, and nuns and sisters of the church are deflowered and slain without compunction. Witness the number and vexation of the problems we assume when we yield to the cry of political hysteria. “Hold the Philip- pines!” Can the same government deny polygamy to the Mormons in Utah and permit it to the Mo- vacation Besides, the organ knows that every newspaper in the city opposed the imposition of a greater tax this year than will be absolutely necessary to carry on the government. True, none of them attempted to make “politics” out of the subject, but all discussed | the question seriously and reached the same conclu- | sion. If the Supervisors had been in any doubt as to the condition of public sentiment with reference to the tax levy previous to the organ's outcry—and there is no evidence that they had mistaken it—they could have been under no delusions after all the pa- pers and some ofithe taxpayers had spoken. But the result is exactly what might have been ex- pected from a newspaper whose entire stock-in-trade is blather and flap-doodle. In the tax levy the organ | had a “sure thing” political fight. If the Supervisors had really intended to impose the $2 10 rate that | sheet would have continued its disturbance, and at | the conclusion of the affair solemnly claimed the | credit of having done its best to avert the outrage. | Now that the Supervisors have practically decided to keep the rate down to a living figure, the organ claims that the result accomplished entirely through its efforts. How was it possible to lose such a fight as that? There is no reason on the face of the record why the victory of the organ should not have been twice as important as it is. It could just as well have imagined a rate of $4 20 as $2 10, and thus by opposing the former levy have given itself twice as much credit as it now claims. The trouble with the organ is that, buried to the chin in the wallow of its own conceit, it regards its readers as an aggregation of imbeciles. It never gives them the scant credit of being able to discover that it is an irretrievable ass and that its antics are always calculated to tickle the risibilities of a horse. Ordinarily we do not grudge the organ all the credit it can get for making itself ridiculous. This is a cold and cheerless world, and a man is mean indeed who withholds from fools any pleasure they can get out of it. But there ought to be a limit to the asininity of even so silly a thing as a yellow newspaper. If the people of San Francisco were so foolish as to swallow the organ’s self-laudatory statements with regpect to the tax levy they would merit immediate transporta- tion to the Home for the Feeble-minded. As it is, however, they laugh at the antics of the ridiculous sheet. was Judge Conlan did well to lecture dog-catchers for their brutality, but he would do better to send them to jail. The catching of dogs might be a reputable employment, but it isn't, and the dog-catcher might be a reputable citizen, but he is apt to be of a dif- ferent type. So far as these people have made a dis- play of their qualifications, intellectual and moral, they are considerably below the canines it is their joy to harass. In promising to make an expose of the “Wickedest Man in California” it is to be hoped the Examiner does not intend to make itself the vehicle for the autobiographic reminiscence of the gentleman who directs its circulation swear depaitment. People who were certain that Mrs. Botkin would be on her way to Delaware by this time made the mistake of forming an opinion without having any- thing to base it on, and such an opinion lacks value. Colonel Bryan is not in that happy position in which he can play both at soldiering and politics, and the indications are that he would rather play at politics. “What's the matter with Tennessee?” shouted Rosser after having shot an inoffensive citizen. Per- haps Rosser realizes now that a portion of Tennes- sec was on a jag. Gt eticy Pugilists seemr to be piqued because a New York Sheriff prevented a prize-fight, and yet the extent of the Sheriff’s offending was that he enforced the law. When a wife-beater is found guilty and the beaten wife begs clemency for him a suspicion naturally arises that she did not get beaten quite enough. T ey e Colonel Paty du Clam is out of a job, and really to keep such a name and a good position would be a difficult task. hammedans of the Philippines? Can the same gov- ernment deny to the Mormon church of Utah the ownership of secular property, and escheat it to the Federal Government, and permit such ownership to the Catholic church of the Philippines? If we touch the marriage customs of the Moham- medans we have to answer to their spiritual head, the Sheik Ul Islam, backed by four hundred millions of | ; = 5 | but this statement shows that his business sense and followers, who have the power to compel nearly every European nation into the contention. If we interfere with the landed rights there of the only power that has had the intelligence to utilize owner- ship, we must answer to the Vatican and the Catholic world. Yet, if we plant our standard there, and it represent the equality of right to which this govern- ment is dedicated, interference is inevitable. wish to take on these complications, the end of which none can foresee? If we admit these islands into our body politic and their people to be our fel- low citizens, we must accept these problems with that condition and we must equally accept them if we govern the islands as subject colonists under an im- perial policy. The first proposition is absurd and inadmissible. Anglo-Saxon institutions can be maintained only by the race which originated them, and that race cannot live in the tropics. Anglo-Saxon self-government is of Spain has tried to introduce orderly | The Malay and the Mahratta are | Do we | | freedom. Anglo-Saxon denial to other races of self- | government is tyranny. ~Lincoln said: “The doc- trine of self-government is right, absolutely and eter- nally right. When the white man governs himself that is self-government, but when he governs him- self and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism. What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” And that senti- ment is eternally true. It may be said that the island people can invite us to govern them, without voice, choice or representa- tion. But such government is none the less a des- potism, and we will be none the less despots, culti- vating within ourselves the spirit of irresponsible power which will react upon our home government to its destruction, AN INFLUX OF ANARCHISTS. N one issue at least, that of suppressing an- O archists, there is likely to be a concert of Europe that will result not in prolonged and futile diplomatic negotiations, but in prompt and resolute action. The assassin who stabbed the Em- press of Austria has been a more potent director of affairs than the Czar of Russia. His stiletto, fashioned from a three-edged file, has been more effective than the imperial rescript calling upon the nations to agree upon disarmament. The words of the Czar were slighted everywhere, but the deed of the anarchist will be ignored nowhere. Advices from Europe are to the effect that legisla- tion aimed at the suppression of anarchist societies will be strictly enforced in all parts of Continental Europe, and where such legislation is at present in- adequate to the result desired stronger laws will be provided. Society, in fact, proposes to protect itself against the murderous assailants who have risen up against it, and for a time at any rate all persons affili- ating with anarchist groups will be hunted out like wolves. As a consequence of the new activity on the part of the European police a considerable number of the most violent and best known leaders of the anarchist propaganda will seek refuge in other parts of the world. As a matter of course many of them will come to the United States, where in the slums of the great cities of the East there are already disciples and enthusiasts to receive and welcome them. We therefore, as well as the people of European coun- tries, are concerned in the contest against this mad spirit that threatens the existence of the social order and delights in the murder of all who are in any way representative of law and government, The speech of James G. Maguire on the immigra- tion restriction bill, in ‘which he opposed the exclu- sion of anarchists from the United States, is undoubt- edly well known to the leaders of anarchy throughout Europe. The speech was not made in a corner. Copies of it could easily be obtained by anarchists in New York or Chicago for circulation among their fellow conspirators in London and Paris. Those who read it might readily persuade themselves that since | of such legislation. a member of Congress had thus declared himself favorable to their aspirations they would find a large body of supporters here. Thus the speech will be a sort of immigration document for that class of people and may attract to our shores many who would other- wise never have thought of coming. We are, therefore, likely to have a large influx of anarchists to the United States this year, and the dan- | gerous criminal element among the discontented of the great cities will be furnished with leaders even more dangerous and more criminal than themselves. They will be ready to profit by every disturbance caused by a strike or riot, and make use of the dagger or the torch to assail life and property. It behooves us, therefore, to be as vigilant and almost as severe as Europe itself in the task of suppressing the murderous gang of scoundrels that have now shown themselves to be the common enemies of man- kind. Moreover, when we come to deal seriously with the menace of their presence in the United States it should not be overlooked that the Maguire type of orators who laud anarchy are almost as culpable as the fanatic fools who are misled by such speeches into adopting anarchy as a creed and striking at the com- mand of its leaders. THE ORIENTAL TRADE. RESIDENT JAMES J. HILL of the Great Northern Railroad Company is reported to have stated recently that his road was compelled | to refuse to haul 60,000 tons of steel rails and 30,000,- 000 pounds of cotton wanted in Japan and China be- cause there were no ships at the Puget Sound ter- minus of his road by which to transport that large quantity of American produce to Asiatic ports. From this showing two conclusions are to be drawn. First, that the Great Northern Railway, as well as all other transcontinental lines, should have di- rect communication with San Francisco, the shipping center of the Pacific Coast, in order to have the ad- vantage of the facilities for ocean transportation that are afforded here. Second, that steps should be taken by our Government to promote our merchant marine so that it will be fully equal to the demands that are being made upon it by our increasing trade with the Orient. The second view of the situation has been taken by Mr. Hill, and in the course of the interview from which we have quoted was strongly presented by him. He is reported to have said: “My judgment is that all ended in defiance of the civil power of Spain and | the fearful sums of money which the Government of is | the United States has been compelled to pay for or- dinary transport steamships suitable to be used in times of war will compel Congress to take such ac- tion as will induce American capital once more to find investment in the merchant marine that may be sailed under the stars and stripes. If.it does not, then stagnation must- settle down again over American products simply because famine won't last forever, and the United States is at the mercy of foreign trans- portation companies operating the business of the world upon water. The American people must de- mand of their Congress such laws as will enable the United States to compete with other nations and not be compelled to rely on the marine commerce of other nations.” Mr. Hill is in his political affiliations a Democrat, experience compel him to support Republican poli- | cies where the industrial and commercial interests of the country are concerned. The upbuilding of an American merchant marine is distinctively a Repub- lican doctrine, and one of the clearest utterances | of the Republican national problem adopted at the convention of 1896 pledged the party to the enact- ment of legislation to that end. The outbreak of the war with Spain and the con- sequent occupation of the energies of Congress in providing for the expenses of the conflict prevented any action at the last session of Congress in fulfill- ment of the party pledge. While that was greatly to be regretted, the delay is not without its compensa- tions. Prior to the war the country had but a faint idea of the urgent need of an enlarged mercantile marine. The subject is better understood now. * In fact the results of the war have increased the need. Men of all parties are now favorable to the adoption The views of Mr. Hill are shared by thousands of business men who, like him, are Democrats, but have learned from their own ex- perience that on this issue the Republican party is right. We have the produce for sale and the market waits. Let us provide at once the shipping to carry it where the demand calls for it. YELLOW KIDS OUT OF STYLE. ITH a steady decrease in circulation, and a Wwillingness to swear to it, the Examiner is really making an excellent showing for the morals of the community. It is demonstrating that the community is growing better, and is already too good to read the output of the Hearstlings, and that it has a conscience. While it is swearing so as to include the papers sent daily to the crematory, it could by swearing a little harder swell its circulation to the extent of a wagon-load or so. It refrains. Verily, this is an era of reform. According to the Examiner’s trained affidaviter the average circulation for the month just past was 82,030. The tabulated statement specifies that 871 of these were returned by agents. Perhaps a suspicion that the circulator took an oath-bound whack at them both going and coming is unworthy; but no matter. As unsold, in office, and as samples, the statement includes 1117, yet both of these totals figure in the imposing 82,030. As a paid circulation there is claimed 79,045. Where curiosity is excited.is as to the disposition in this table of the garbage wagons full of Examiners sent regularly to the crematory and there burned at the reasonable rate of 20 cents a cubic yard. Six days a week, with an extra dose Mondays, does this happen. There must be some object in it. The man- agers of the Examiner can hardly be supposed to print tons of extra papers merely for the purpose of giving the crematory something to do, thus en- couraging home, industry. If spurred by such hu- mane impulses it would give its entire edition to the devouring flames, and could swear just the same. There is no occasion for extended comparison. It need only be said that aceording to the Examiner's own statement its daily circulation during the month just gone was 1996 less daily than during the month before, which in turn had been an avowed shrinkage, Why this is thus is easy to understand, but why the Examiner should permit it to appear thus is a more difficult problem. There are more garbage wagons, and the stuff might be piled in them higher. The anarchist who murdered the Empress of Aus- tria expresses love for Crispi on the ground that Crispi is a thief. If the ex-Premier hears of this it will probably puzzle him to determine just how grate- ful he should feel. When General Toral arrived at his native shore he was hissed away. The offense of Toral was in not be- MODJESKA BEHIND THE SCENES. As Modjeska greeted us in her infinitely sweet woman's way we fully realized her charm and knew she could not be but great. Sitting there, surrounded by flowers, the offerings of “The Sisters” and friends, she chatted of books, dresses, horses and many things. Modjeska is an artiste, a poet, she loves everything, and finds good in everything. No trace of her recent illness Is at all manifest; she is quite herself again. Speaking of books she said: 2 “Longfellow I love best. 1 knew him first when I came to this country; his benign personality will never fade from my mind.” She spoke of him more in a personal sense than in a purely literary one. Of our English and American writers she prefers Stevenson, Hope, Emerson, Lowell and Kugene Field. Shakespeare, she says, keeps her young, ‘for,” she added, “I must be youthful to play ‘As You Like It.”” The last play she learns is the one she likes best; her repertoire must be large and varied or else she is unhappy. Once in London “Camille” was her.play for three months, and she suffered horribly. The s'am]? agony was undergone when she played Magda so many nights in New ork. The next time we see her she is gowned for Magda. It is certainly very fas- cinating to be in the dressing room of a Modjeska or Bernhardt. So much frou- frou, so much that is beautiful in the way of clothes and jewels abounds in reck- less profusion, the Yery air is rich with an Intoxicating, intangiblesomething that is to be found in no other place outside of this sacred portal. It Is a privilege that Modjeska grants to but few. The robes in which she plays Egypt's dus queen are by far the most magnificent that have ever been seen in San Fran- cisco. Bernhardt's Cleopatra gowns were beautiful, but they pale into insignifi- cance when compared to these. Of course they were made in Paris. Monsieur Rops and Modjeska made and designed them. They are as nearly historically correct as 'tis possible for good taste and becomingness to have them. For moré than twenty years Helena Modjeska has been studying Cleopatra and her gowning. The fashions changed then as they do now, not so radically, though. Madame says that the beauty of the Nile wore those straight plaits hanging down either side of her face only when occasion demanded it. For that style of hair dressing is not becoming, and Cleopatra was by far too clever to make herself ugly. The general design of Modjeska’s gowns for this play consists of garments that revel in long undulating lines. A vell is fastened on the back of the neck of each dress and this of itself gives a grace that might have lured away any Antony. Modjeska has five creations in which to personate this barbaric queen. The first robe is one of gold and gorgeously beautiful it is. It is made of gauze tissue embroidered with jewels and peacock feathers in the sacred ibis and s abee designs. The sleeves are long and flow- ing, as is the golden veil. The ceinture, Egyptian necklace, armlets, bracelets and shoulder bands are composed of pearls, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other jewels of the olden time which form such a wealth of color and brilliancy as fairly takes the breath away. Jeweled sandals partially cover the feet. A MODJESKA AS CLEOPATRA. (From a Sketch by Her Nephew.) Jeweled sheath covers a wicked twisted knife that is thrust through the ceinture. Her crown and scepter are tipped with the ibis. The second robe is of pink crepe, with a veil of turquoise blue. Embroidered in Egyptian designs with silks and spangles. Sleeves short. An ancient Jewish wedding veil, embroidered in Biblical designs with silver is used about the low neck and around the edges of the stoll, which falls from the center of ceinture in front. Jewels galore again form the ornaments of this costume.| The third dress has for,a foundation white Brussels net. This is almost entiré d with an embroidery of spangle: ilks and beads.. A white veil belongs also an underskirt of soft flesh-colored silk. The fourth is the war dre will leave that, with its sphinxed helmet and corslet, like the sphinx of the Nile— silent. The last dress—not the most rich and costly—is to me by far the most beau- tiful. So chaste, so simple, so pure. It is of soft white crepe, almost entirely devold of any ornamentation or jewels. Only a clasp, formed of twisted asps, to hold some drapery in place, and a narrow belt of jewels breaks the billowy whitenes of an artist’s dream. Next to Cleopatra’s gowns hangs Lady Mac- beth's sumptuous cloak and dress of gold, embroidered in designs of owls and weird, creepy things. Ah, but the entrancing toilettes are those of poor Camille. Here is a gown that represents pink roses. A Frenchman looked at one, and built this oration on those lines. He put about the low neck a fall of something that answers for the petals of the rose; then for the foliage he made a green velvet cape, about the neck of which he put the foam of the sea in the form of white chiffon. Then, too, the opal dress, so like .ae changing lights in that jew: But of all the al- luring frocks, the one Camille wears to the ball most allures. Tt is of black gauze, embroidered in butterflfes of jet. A wreath of white camellias goes around the low corsage. An ermine wrap covers the shoulders as she enters and leaves the ballroom. There are other ravishing toflettes, but we will leave them to please your eves as they have ours. uring this inspection of an “‘embarrasment of riches” Modjeska tells she loves pretty clothes just as all women love them, but for fads she has no liking. Her favorite flower is the lily of the valley. It always brings a smile {q her lips, because it grows wild in her-own country. She says there are three things one canot get away from—one's religion, family and nationality. She de- spises no country nor reilgion, but 0 glad and proud that she is a Pole. Fer sentiment of all sentiments is, “Live and let live.” FLORENCE. us that AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. F. B. Blodgett of Tulare is at the Grand. Dr. G. K. Noyes and wife of Milwaukee | are at the Occldental. Joseph E. Ryland, the banker of San Jose, is at the California. J. P. Niepage, a returning miner from Dawson, {s at the Russ. Charles B. Smith, a large land-owner of Stockton, is at the Grand. Robert Effey, ex-Mayor of Santa Cruz, left for Los Angeles last night. Charles Garvey and John P. Stanton of Solomonville, Ariz., are at the Grand. QUG ADRTE The following =1 $ is an unfinished o HIS g4 letter found in G the reading-room T CROWNING B o patace: I was re- turning to . the & ACHIEVEMENT. & I o X606 006 O E Q0 0 hotel after a trip to Chinatown. It was just about the time when the homeward traffic is thick- est and the streets are congested with people. There were with me about six subordinate officers, and I, of course, act- ed as commander. I did not know that before we could reach our objective point we would have to fight for our lives, but 80 it developed. We reached the corner of two cross roads called Market and Montgomery streets. The big block house, the hotel, a stone's throw away, was the place we desired to reach. Our first ad- vance brought us into the trenches. Around us whirled the fine dust of a stretch of sandy fire. The heat was un- bearable as we cut our way through a thick undergrowth of basalt, only to find heaps of dry sand as obstacles to our ad- vance. These we mounted with a gallant charge and planted ourselves and our banners firmly upon them. The descent into the further trenches was easy, but we were soon confronted by an army of pickmen, shovelers and pounders. Fight- ing our way through them all without any material damage we reached a point where we could distinctly hear the rum- ble of some great and terror-striking un- derground power. We moved onward, crawling in and out of every kind of un- warlike vehicle I ever saw and landed finally on the other side. I tell you it was a battle royal. We were covered with grime, and our faces were not distin- guishable from the dirt of fighting. I consider this the crowning achievement of my military life. I will —,” and the unfinished manuscript ended. Albert Fox of Walla Walla, the Klon- diker who s robbed of $32,000 on his way down from St. Michael to Seattle, is House. mer, Jessie L. Hurlbut and . Mains and wife arrived from New York yesterday and registered at the Occidental. Julius Merzbach has returned to this city after an absence of six months, which time he spent in looking out for his interests in Oregon, Washington and Montana. L. A. Atler, surgeon U. S yesterday the Palace. , arrived from Philadelphia and is at IN THE PLACE CAROUSEL. Proud arch hou Even like t That pou: upreared to him of mankind first! fon voice of Austerlitz’s story! udden and the bright sunburst triumph a4 its splendor on his i fleld—the fight—his foes dls Thou and the tale upon thy marble vers Dazzle the heart. Till Time himself hoary Here shall man's soul In wonderment im- mersed Thrill at the record of his quick-winged glory. About thee ci palaces—the fane Of his Caesarean line; znd yonder looming A noble arch—but bullt {ike thee in vain: For, hark! the guns of Waterloo are booming; And on Sedan the foiled Mars sinks again; (After the conqueror's crown the captive's n!) disgrace wre thy Nemesis—and thee, 5 es to front yon shaft ain e's tears to mock at thine assuming. — V. in the Quartier Latin. of shame. where A peopl Peanut taffy; best in world. Townsend's. * —_— Soft baby cream, 15c 1. Townsend's. ————— Treat your friends to Townsend's Call- fornia glace fruits, 5c Ib, in fire-etch boxes. 627 Market st., Palace Hotel bldg. ® —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ pR R S S Platinotypes, plain and colored photo- graphs, etchings, engravings and water colors are the most popular pictures, They look best framed in plain mat gilts, old Flemish and gray Large bra D are very popular on the Har- ves and Taber-Prang colored photo- Everything in this line at popu- at Sanborn . . s can be found on , T4l Market street. T — “What's all that noise?” “Those Boston girls have gone to quote ing Emerson again."—Chicago Record. ———— First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market, To neglect the hair is to lose youth and comelt- ness. Save it with PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC cures inward patns. —_——— Volunteers—Put yourselves in fighting trim with a bottle of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bit- ters to regulate your digestion. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SOLDIER'S PAY—J. H. 8., City. For information about the pay of soldiers and their rights address a communication to the Paymaster's Department, U. S. A, Pepn.rtmen[ of California, Phelan build- ng. CORBETT AND JACKSON—J. E. J., Stockton, Cal. The fight between Jackson and Corbett in San Francisco was on the 21st of May, 1891 There were sixty-one rounds, and the decision was ‘“no con- test.” DEFACING COIN—A. D. P., Holyocke, Mass. There is a law of the United States which says that ‘“every person who fraudulently, by any art, way or means, defaces, mutilates, impairs, dimin- ishes, falsifies, scales or_lightens the gold or_silver coins of the United States, or any foreign gold or silver coins which are by law made current or are in actual use and_circulation within the United States, shall be imprisoned not more than two years and fined not more than $2000.” There is no law requiring people to ac- cept coin that has been punched. oins that have been punched or muti- lated will be redeemed at the parent or any of the branch mints at intrinsic value: anks, as a rule, will not redeem de- based or mutilated coin, but to oblige cus- tomers will, sometimes, take it as a mat- ter of accommodation at intrinsic value and then send it to the mint. SEPTEMBER 18 RESCUING THE WREC RACE TO GRAB A INENT. PERFECTING A LOCATION—B. B., City. In the matter of perfecting the lo- cation of a mining claim in California the law requires a discoverer to post a notice and to file such notice within twenty days, then it requires that within sixty days he shall perform $50 worth of work I:% shall file notice of such in the office of the recorder of the county in whicn the Idcation is made, the complétion of such work being a necessary act in com- pleting such location and a part thereor. n regard to placer claims the law re- quires that withivsixty days the locator shall do at least $10 worth of work on each twenty acres .or fractional - part thereof. A failure to perform that work. will result in a forfeiture. This depart- ment can only state the law, but eannot | attempt to decide what the effect of the law is as abplied to facts. That is a matter for the courts. 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