The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER b5, 1898 Tall 1808 Che 'SATURDAY....... ¥ —— — JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F NOVEMBER 5, Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS..... .....21T to 22! Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. | THE WECKLY CALL.coosceeenes One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFKCE...... <.veeseesess--908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. .....Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... ..Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open uptil 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | wntll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ene | Kentucky streets, open untlii 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—""The Transit of Leo. Columbia—*'Sowing the Wind. California Theater—*‘Hogan's Alley.” Alcazar—*‘Ambition.” Morosco's—The Indlan.” Tivoll—"Grand Duchess.” Comedy Theater—*The Crust of Soclety.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. The Chutes—Lillian F. Smith, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Saratoga Hall-Anniversary Ball, Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. Oakland Race Track—Races. Ingleside Coursing Park—Coursing. Glen Park—Mission Zo nday. Rosenthal—Coming in December. | THE GOVERNOR’S INFLUENCE. F such a misfortune were to befall California as Maguire’s -election, let no one be deceived as to the influence he will have upon legislation, or his power to advance his declared policy to “do away with all vested rights and titles and ownership in land.” The Democratic platiorm on which he is running | has this plank: “We favor a constitutional amend- | ment abolishing the State poll tax, and giving to counties and municipal corporations the right to adopt and change their systems of taxation for local purposes whenever a majority of the people of any such county or municipality shall so determine.” The Populist fusion platform on which Maguire is also running has this plank: “We favor the repeal of all poll taxes and demand the exemption of all personal property from taxation. We also favor the submission to the people of a constitutional amend- ment which will give to counties and municipal cor- porations the right to adopt such a system of taxation for local purposes as the people of such locality de- sire.” These planks are in accordance with the action of the single tax junta which urged such an amendment to the constitution upon the last Legislature. If it be proposed in the Legislature of next winter does any one doubt that Maguire as Governor would aid it by all the means in his power? If he succeed in getting it before the people, it will not have to receive the votes of a majority of all the people to adopt it. ©nly a majority of those voting upon it will be necessary, and they may be a minority of the total number of voters in the State. The single tax land confiscators, as shown during the present campaign, are in a compact organization. They support Maguire to a man. Constitutional amendments are voted on at a general election. The next general election will be in 1900. It will be a } Presidential campaign. Public attention will be cen- i tered upon the head of the ticket, and the great gen- eral and national issues involved. The majority of | the people will be indifferent to constitutional AUCTION SALES, By Frank Butterfield—This Day, November 5 Furniture, at 850 Fifth Street, at 11 o'Clock. THE FINAL RALLY. TO-NIGHT at Woodward’s Pavilion will occur the most remarkable meeting of the campaign. It will be the final grand rally of the Republican | forces, a time of jubilation that the hard work of the canvass is over and victory in sight. The candidates | for Governor and Mayor will be present, as well as the prominent orators who have been making speeches throughout the State. Doubtless the ca- | pacity of the place will be taxed to the utmost. The | committee having the affair in charge have been fairly embarrassed by the enthusiasm. At first it was con- templated to have the uniformed clubs attend, but there are many others who wish to be in line. The | clubs will assemble at Market and Montgomery, | thence marching in three divisions to the pavilion, | each division preceded by a drill corps. There will be all along the way, as well as at the pavilion, plenty of music and an abundance of fireworks. In fact, to- night will be notable as a scene of joyous celebration, and will show how confident are the Republicans in 2 sweeping victory Tuesday. A CONSTITUTIONAL “BUG.” HE attention of voters should be called to a Tparagraph upon the official State ballot by which the ambitious legislative jobbers evi- dently aspire to secure the adoption of constitutional amendment No. 7. This amendment provides for increasing the pay of legislators and splitting biennial sessions into two parts—a device which would enable the lobby to do much of its fine work away from the | Capitol at Sacramento. On the official State ballot opposite the words | “Yes” and “No,” by which voters may express their approval or disapproval of the amendment, appears the following description of its purport: ‘“Amend- ment No. 7, being Assembly constitutional amend- ment No. 34 (providing for adjournment of Legisla- ture for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days during each session.”). Nothing is said about increasing the pay of mem- bers, yet that is the main purpose of the amendment, there being no doubt that the recess proposed was invented merely to carry along a proposition to lengthen the legislative sessions and make them more expensive. For the purpose of thoroughly uncover- ing the “bug” which is here disclosed we append constitutional amendment No. 7 in full. It proposes to change section 2 of article IV of the constitution to read as follows: Section 2. The sessions of the Legislature shall commenze at 12 o’clock meridian on the first Mon- day after ithe first day of January next succeeding the election of its members, and shall be biennial unless th: Governor shall in the interim convene the Legislature by proclamation. The Legislature snall then remain in session for twenty-five days, after which it must adjourn to some date not less than | thirty nor mors than sixty days from the time of adjournment. If the two houses fail to agree apon a time at which they will resume their session, the Governor shall, by proclamation, fix a date for such reconvening, which shall be within the limits above prescribed. Upon reassembling, the Legislature shall complete its session. No pay shall be allowed to members for a longer period than seventy-five days, ani no bill shall be introduced in either house except at the first twenty-five days of the session, without the consent of three-fourths of the mem- bérs theceof. The duration of legislative sessions at present is sixty paydays. Ordinarily the members sit ten days without pay, making the session practically seventy days in length. Constitutional amendment No. 7allows pay for seventy-five days, or makes the session eighty days long and grants a vacation between times to enable the lobby to perfect its jobs. The effect would be to increase mileage and expenses to the extent of $25,000 or $30,000 per session without any corresponding return to the taxpayers. That there is a “pull” behind this amendment is manifest from the fact that its real purport has been kept off the official ballot, evidently in the hope that voters will be fooled into supporting it as an innocent change in the law. Every taxpayer should vote against it. It is a tax- eating device and nothing else. No good can be ac- complished by increasing the duration of legislative sessions; if they are increased the money they cost will be thrown away. One evidence that railway employes are not being bulldozed to vote for any particular set of candidates is that the Examiner says they are. Aside from this is the fact that there is no possibility of forcing a man to vote any other way than the one pleasing to his own judgment. He stands in the booth with his ballot and his conscience, and to interfere with him is impossible. One of Spain’s Commissioners is said to be ill, but the marble heart of Uncle Sam is really enough to snake the whole lot of them sick. 5 | amendments. But not so the single tax confiscators. | Such a condition offers them just the opportunity | they desire. Not one of them will forget the con- | fiscating amendment. Not one of them will neglect the opportunity offered to destroy “all vested rights, titles and ownership of land,” and, though in a mi- nority, they may easily carry the amendment. Now, as to Maguire’s influence if he were Gov- ernor when such amendment is before the Legisla- “ture. Every one who knows the position of the Gov- ernor in our system knows that unless there is a two-thirds majority to override his veto, he is the Legislature. Members have pet measures for the benefit of their constituencies, the fate of which in- volves their fate in politics and public life. Does any one pretend that they will stand up against a threatened veto of such measures balanced against their position upon the single tax amendment called for in Maguire’s platform? They may be opposed to land confiscation, but how easy it is for them to think and say that as the question goes to the people who vote on the amendment they can wash their hands of responsibility by- transferring it to the ballot-box, thereby saving their pet measures from death at the hands of the Governor by his veto. When The Call asked Maguire if he would make this or any use of his influence in favor of the single tax he refused to answer yes or no to the question. We have continually warned the land-owners and the depositors in savings banks, who have an equity in land titles and land-ownership by the mortgages on land which secure their money loaned by the banks, that Maguire's election will promote the destruction of all vested rights, titles and ownership in land. It will destroy the title and with it the saVings bank mortgage which depends upon that title. As all men know, when a savings bank, acting as trustee for its depositors, loans money on a land mortgage | it demands the exhibition of a good title to the land vested in the borrower. This is his vested right, which Maguire proposes to destroy. When it is de- stroyed the mortgage which depended upon it is de- stroyed also; the bank has no title on which to fore- close. The owner has lost his land by Maguire’s plan of confiscation, and if pursued by the bank to judg- ment on the debt has nothing left from which to re- spond on a deficiency judgment. By the last report of the Bank Commissioners for 1896 there were in this State 159,856 depositors in savings banks. They were the owners of $131,653,- 634 deposited in such banks. Of this vast sum over one hundred millions are loaned on real estate. The value of land in the State, as assessed for taxation in 1896, is $761,348,080. Add to this the land mortgages | of savings banks, and there is the grand total of | $861,348,080 of property in this State dependent solely on the vested rights, titles and ownership in | land! Therefore, when Judge Maguire says, “We pro- | pose to destroy all vested rights, titles and owner- | ship to land,” he proposes to destroy at one stroke nearly one billion of dollars’ worth of property in | California! . If any man think the State can stand | that he should vote for Maguire. If he think, how- ‘e\-er, that it would be a blow destructive of the State, as it will be, let him oppose Maguire with all his might. S of names the public may confuse: William F. Fitzgerald, Republican nominee for City and County Attorney, with E. L. Fitzgerald, Democratic nominee for Public Administrator. E. L. Fitzgerald, candidate for Public Adminis- trator, is the carpet-bagger from Oakland whose crooked record has been exposed in The Call, and for whom no man should vote. William F. Fitzgerald, the candidate for City and County Attorney, is one of the leading lawyers of the city, and a man of the highest repute—one for whom everybody should vote. Fix the names clearly in your mind and make no mistake on election day. WHY EDWARDS SHOULD WIN. THE TWO FITZGERALDS. OME danger exists that owing to the similarity N nominating J. G. Edwards for the Board of Equalization in the First District the Republicans did wisely. They chosea man who has lived for thirty years in this city, whose reputation, by no means local, is without blemish, and who by energy and force of character has risen to the proprietorship of the best Underwriters’ Journal published in this country. Such strength as there is in a rugged per- sonality, spotless integrity and a long record of hon- orable achievement, Mr. Edwards had, and bringing it into the campaign he lent dignity and force not only to his own canvass, but to the entire ticket. It is not alone in private life that Mr. Edwards has been successful. He was a soldier, and bears the scars of wounds received as he fought in the history- making battles of the Civil War. He possesses still the military quality to the extent of being almost se- 1vere1y conscientious in his dealings with men. He is not given to compromise, and no personal interest can swerve him from a course which he conceives to be right. As a member of the board Mr. Edwards would be a resolute and fearless champion of the in- terests he would represent. A membership on this board is a significant posi- tion. It is not one to be lightly bestowed. This can- didate is eminently fitted for it. Beyond a loyalty to his party which never faltc'rs, he is in no sense a politician, but he has won a host of both personal and political friends. They know that in public office as in private life he will be devoted to duty. It is not always that a candidate, strong in himseli, has the privilege of drawing strength from the weak- ness of his opponent, but this advantage falls to Mr. Edwards. The opponent is John P. Dunn, a person projected from the sandlots into unenviable notoriety, and since then thirsting, hungering and scheming for office. The unpopularity of Dunn will add to the Ed- wards majority, but even against a rhuch more for- midable rival the election of the Republican candidate would be assured by a safe and.emphatic lead. THE LEGISLATIVE TICKET. ALIFORNIA is now well assured of a Repub- Clican Governor and a Republican State adminis- tration generally. She should be also assured of a Legislature strongly Republican in both branches. In view of the important local issues to be dealt with by the Legislature and of the fact that a United States Senator is to be chosen this winter, there can be no question but the people should give as earnest a sup- port to the Republican legislative candidates as to any others on the ticket. A Legislature controlled by the Maguireites could seriously disturb the affairs of the State, even if Ma- guire himself be defeated. At this juncture of our affairs we cannot afford to have a set of radical ex- perimenters tinkering with the legislation of the State. A single tax bill or other measure of the kind passed by the Legislature weuld, even if vetoed, discredit the commonwealth. Throughout the East it would be regarded as an evidence that the dis- satisfied elements of the State are sufficiently strong to be dangerous and menacing to all the interests of capital and industry. We have seen what befell Kansas, Oregon and Colorado when the Democratic and Populist fusion came into power there. California, though financially and industrially stronger than any of these States, would, nevertheless, suffer to an almost equal ex- tent from a similar course of fanatic legislation. The only safeguard for prosperity is to elect a conserva- tive Legislature as well as a conservative Governor and State administration. Moreover, the people should elect a Legislature that will return to the United States Senate a stanch supporter of the national administration. California at this juncture must stand by the President. There are great problems of home and foreign politics to be dealt with in the next two years, and for their satis- factory settlement a Senate in harmony with the House of Representatives and with the President is essential. The empire State of the Pacific Coast must on this issue line up with the foremost of her sister States. and be represented at Washington by Senators who will assist in carrying out policies for the general good. Fortunately, the Republican nominees for the Leg- islature are personally strong. Their fitness for the office, their devotion to genuine Republicanism, are not to be doubted. They are men who can justly claim the votes of independents and conservative Democrats as well as of members of their own party. None of them are advocates of any such political folly as the single tax, none would favor legislation designed to drive ‘capital from the State, impose heavier burdens upon the farmers and harass industry in response to the clamor of the thriftless and the discontented. The issues of the campaign have been made up. The canvass is near its close. All that remains to be done to assure a government of prosperity is for good citizens to rouse one another to the importance of voting on election day, and voting the whole ticket. THE SUPREME COURT. Court, the most august tribunal of the State, ought not to be subject to the frequent changes prevailing in offices and departments which may re- quire a knowledge less profound and where an expe- rience less ripe may be trusted. This year the Republicans offer two candidates, both already on the Supreme bench, both on record as wise and upright jurists. In point of learning and ability they may safely be said to hold an advantage over their opponents, while years of training as Jus- tices of the Supreme Court have added to their capa- bilities. No ’prentice hands are desired where great questions involving human rights and even human life are to be adjudicated. Let us have those who have been tried. Mayor Phelan has made a direct appeal for the de- feat of Justices McFarland and Van Fleet. They ac- quired his ill-will by upholding a law he had sought to violate. So would they uphold any law on the statute books, without fear or favor. This is why there is public confidence in them, and why the peo- ple will decline to make a change. THE NEXT SHERIFF. N that of Henry S. Martin, Republican candidate for Sheriff. Even with a man less popular than Mr. Martin a canvass marked by such untiring zeal could not well lead to defeat. The gentleman prob- ably has as many personal friends as any resident of this city, the place of his birth. Here his interests are centered. Here he has worked and prospered. He is a man of business standing, clean record and ac- knowledged ability. Nobody doubts that under his care the affairs of the Sheriff's office will be admin- istered with the utmost honésty. There will be no favoritism, no laxness. The intrinsic worth of the man, his wide acquaintance, the general confidence in him, and his own boundless energy, constitute a com- bination which assures the certainty of his election. NOT AIMED AT BORDEN. Y Examiner against Rhodes Borden, whom it now supports for the Superior bench. This was not done in any sense as an attack on the Judge, who is a worthy man and an able jurist. The sole purpose was to show the inconsistency of the Examiner, the hollowness of its pretensions of friendship, the mock- ery of its aspect of sincerity. Judge Borden has made a good record. It is his misfortune to be on the wrong side and to be opposed by men equally able and fair. Personally, The Call finds no fault with him, and used a weapon taken from his friend, the Examiner, so as to make clear the sort of friendship the Examiner displays. Judge Borden is handi- upped_by his journalistic support. THERE is a natural feeling that the Supreme O more systematic canvass has been made than ESTERDAY occasion arose for quoting the WORKING THE VETO. NUMBER FOURTEEN. Editor Call: As the day draws nearer when the plain citizen—that is, you and I—must deposit our votes in the ballot-box, it becomes more and more necessary to think coolly and consider well. In the heat of battle some men lose their heads and some become clear-eyed and steady. The plain citizen cannot afford to lose his head. He is the person most concerned in the el_ection. You and I must pay the cost. You and I must not be carried away with the enthusiasm of great meetings, with the rush of the orator’s voice, with the glare of the red fire. When the meeting is over and the orator is fulfilling other engagements and the red fire is red ashes, the cost of it all comes on the plain citizen. Therefore you and 1 must think seriously and calmly on the issues that this election decides. THE CONTEST FOR THE MAYORALTY b Is not a mere contest between persons; it is a contest between ideas. Mr. Phelan stands for a system of government that this republic repudiates. He stands for an autocratic power, for the centering of all the offices in himself. He appeals to the people to make him King of San Francisco, and in order to make him King we must put all his creatures in office. The question, therefore, before the plain citizen—that is, before you and me—is this: Is Mr. Phelan such a man that we can trust him with the dic- tatorship? Shall we preserve the restraints that the forefathers embodied in the law to prevent the republic from receiving harm or shall we consti- 'tute‘Mr. _;amcs D. Phelan our guardian to do our thinking and our govern- g lor us THE PLAIN CITIZEN STUDIES Mr. Phelan’s record, and he finds that Mr. Phelan’s most boasted actions are such that they arouse at least the suspicion that he is acting not in the interest of the city, but in the interest of Mr. Phelan. We find that he has been using his office to increase and to consolidate his political power, and we see that his cry for good government and the protection of the people is, when interprete?, a cry for the glorification of Eis Honor the Mayor. Perhaps in no matter is this more evident than in_his vetoes. Every one knows that the amount of street work done in San Francsico is enormous. Contracts are being let continually. The most of this work is done at the ex- pense of the plain citizen, and in places not traversed by the general mass of the community. Every one knows, also, that the greater part of this work is entirely unnecessary. It is passed in nine cases out of ten over the protest of a ma- jority of the property-holders. The general public has not much interest in these jobs. A sidewalk on Z street, or a granite curb on Three Hundred and Sixty-fifth street, or a bitumen plaster on Bernal Heights, does not stir the popular magnetism. It is the Mayor’s duty to veto these jobs if he thinks they are improperly or unnecessarily proposed. But Mr. Phelan does not waste his time on such trivial affairs. Unless he can plant his veto in the middle of Market street as a barricade against wicked Supervisors and from the top of it harangue the multitude on his own virtues, Mr. Phelan has little use for a veto. AGAIN AND AGAIN PROPERTY-OWNERS Have gone to him with their woes, but Mr. Phelan did not believe in work- ing the veto power too hard. They have shown him by facts and figures that the work was unnecessary and unjust, but that did not disturb Mr. Phelan’s luxurious repose. There was nothing in it for him. It would not help to gain him more votes or to stir the people to enthusiasm for him as the exponent of good government. Therefore the poor property-owners—all of them plain peopie like you and me—were compelled to pay for im- provements which when done to the Market street property of rich men are paid by the city. THE GAS VETO Is also another sample of Mr, Phelan’s care for the interest of the plain citi- zen. Mr. Phelan, it is said, is interested in the competing company. That ‘company, being thrifty, is not anxious to spend money without seeing some quick returns in sight. It will not erect poles and lay pipes until it has some use for them. If plain people like you and me go into business we are com- pelled to purchase our stock and take chances. Customers may come or not, as fortune favors us. Suppose we should say that we would not spend a cent in stock until we had secured from the city the contract for supplying the particular commodity in which we dealt. This might be good business, but it would not be particularly patriotic. Mr. Phelan does not wish that the company in which he is said to be interested should spend money on an ex- tended plant until the city would agree to buy its light. This is sharo busi- ness, but Mr. Phelan cannot very well claim that the veto by which he tried to enforce it is an evidence of his desire for good government. A PLAIN CITIZEN. DR. WASHINGTON DODGE'S VOTE. The Candidate for Assessor Explains It in a Letter to Father Yorke. Editor Call: It would be a great favor to me if you would publish this letter and the inclosed. A few daysago I called on the nominees who had voted for the Sailors’ Home to purge themselves before the people. Only one has accepted the invitation, and that is Dr. Washington Dodge. He has written the following ncte to me: Reverend P. C. Yorke—Dear Sir: In your recent lecture in Oakland and in one of your letters guhlished in the press you have criticised my vote as Super- visor on the lease of the Sailors’ Home and on the election of Christian Reis as Treasurer to succeed Widber. I must Rrotes! against any interpretation of my vote that would convey to the public the impression that in the discharge of my official duties I had at any time acted with unfairness or failed to be governed by liberal principles. In the matter of the Sailors’ Home lease, I was informed by a member of the boa{ld, whom 1 knew to be a Catholic, that the settlement was acceptable to all parties. As to my vote for Treasurer, I did not know Mr. Reis personally, but I did know that he had been Treasurer of the city some years before and had been a faithful officer. In this connection let me say that I am opposed to any form of religious intol- erance. I would not accept a nomination from any organization representing the spirit of groscrlplhm. en 1 was a candidate for Supervisor two years o, I refused the nomination of the Americen Protective Association and one of my opponents received that indorsement. Respectfully yours, WASHINGTON DODGE. San Francisco, November 4, 1898, Concerning this statement I deem it my duty to say that Dr. Dodge's explanation of his action in the two incidents is quite credible. Though the Monitor had spoken on the question again and again, and was dealing with it during this very period, it is quite credible that Dr. Dodge, a non- Cathclic, had never seen the Monitor or even thought of it. When a mem- ber of the board known to be a Catholic informed Dr. Dodge that the ar- rangement was satisfactory from a Catholic standpoint, who can blame Dr. Dodge for believing him? The same remarks apply to the Reis matter. Now in my dealings with this case all I have ever asked of the persons concerned was an explanation that would hold water—an explanation that in any ordinary business matter would satisfy any ordinary business man. As the votes were public matters I deemed it right to stand by the prin- ciple that the explanation uld be public also. I want to be just. ters nothing to me who wins or loses, but I do not wish that any candidate shall have reasonable cause to accuse me of being unfair. Therefore I ask you as a special favor to me to publish this letter and the inclosed. Nothing could give me greater pleasure than this. It is not with joy, I assure you, that I have been compelled to speak of these men. 1 have spoken because it would have been a crime to have remained silent. I have spoken simply for the sake of the people who have fought for prin- ciple and fair play. If they do not assert their rights then they shall be the sport and the mockery of every picayune politician who takes their votes and then betrays them. PETER C. YORKE: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TO SAN LUIS OBISPO—A. D. S, Colusa, Cal. Read the advertisement of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company in The Call for dates of depagture of steam- ers for San Luis Obispo. The fare is $5 50. been set apart to her b; isposition, an disposition heirs, exclusive of the husband.” It mat- except such portion thereof as may have udicial for her support and mal nljemmce, e:tcurgfi sorlion is Bub&ect to her testamentar; in the absence of sucg oes to her descendants or STATES IN THE UNION—S., Pasken- ta, Tehama County, Cal. There are at this time forty-five States in the Union, thirteen original and thirty-two admitted, zhtlzxééut s0 admitted being Utah, January GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE—H. ‘W. H., Grass Valley, Cal. According to ‘Whitaker's Almanack for 1898 the popu- lation of England at the close of 1897 was 27,501,362; Wales, 1,501,163, Scotland, 4,025,647, and Ireland, 4,704,750. Total, 37,- g?'% That of France is given at 38,- “In case England was beseiged by a foreign fleet and could not secure sup- plies from the outer world how long would her provisions last her people?”’ is a question that no one can answer, even approximately. WINE AND MALT—A. C. 8, City. This department cannot, in the space al- lotted to it, give the process for making grape wine and malt liquors. If you will go to the Free Library in the City Hall you will find books there that will give you all the information on that subject and will tell you just exactly how to make both. This ‘?-rtment has no knowledge of the particular wine receipt referred to, eonaequentlg cannot advise you as to what should be done in the matter of leaving a demijohn corked or uncorked during the process of fermentation. MASONS AND ODD FELLOWS—A. R. 8., City. By various methods Free- masonry has been traced back to the old Roman Empire, the Pharoahs, the Tem- ple of Solomon and even to the times of the tower of Babel and the ark of Noah. The name Free Mason appears in Eng- land for the first time in_ statutes 25 of Edward I of England, A. D. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows ‘was organized in Manchester, England, in 1812, thol:fih isolated lodges existed or to that, the oldest whose name has reserved being the Loyal Aristarcus No. ), which met in London in 1745. COMMUNITY PROPERTY—P. T. R., City. The Civil Code 8t California says: community property, without administra- tion, belongs to the surviving husband, l"upon the death of the wife, the entire | — . CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. The telescope not only reveals more than can be seen by the eye alone, but the sensitive film surpasses the power of the eye when aided by the telescope, for the camera records on the film objects which the eye cannot see through the greatest magnifying lenses. No matter how far away or how dimly it shines, the light of the faintest star in time impresses the film, and thus that which is invisible to the eye becomes visible on the plate. In celestial photography the camera is kept moving during the taking of a pic- ture. The exposure sometimes lasts sev- eral hours, and if the camera were sta- tlonary the motion of the earth would soon carry the subject out of line with the telescope. e camera, therefore, is at- tached to the tube of the telescope, and the object to be photog‘nphed is brought into the lens at the intersection of two Then, by a system of clock- work, the telescope moves so that the subject occupies the same position on the plate duri the exposure. In the pic- ture of the Swift comet may be seen small ‘white lines. These are the marks or trails of the stars. The telescope was adjusted to the speed of tne comet, and as it trav- eled much faster than the stars, the pho- tographs of the stars appear as streaks instead of as points of lights It 1s another curious feature of celestial photography that a plate may be exposed several nights on the same subgeel. I have seen_ star-cluster and nebulae pic- tures which were exposed, the former on two and the latter on four successive evi . The {icmre showing the nebu- lae required a total exposure of thirteen hours and forty-four minutes.—From St. Nicholas. B— A CLEAR CASE OF NEMESIS. Each year for seven years there has ap- peared in the famous agony column of the London Times an in memoriam notice of a young man who was murdered in Scotland about the year 18%0. “‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay thee, saith the Lord,” is the guotation that 'has always accompanied the notice. The alle; mur- derer was tried and acquitted of the crime, more from the lack of positive evidence than from any belief in his in- nocence on the part of the jury. The no- tice may or may not appear when the an- niversary of the murder comes around again, as the alleged murderer has now been convicted of forgery and fraud and has been sentenced to a long term of pe- nal servitude. It seems to be a preity clear case of Nemesis.—Boston Herald. AROUND THE ' CORRIDORS Dr. G. H. Strowbridge of Portland, Or., is at the Lick. Dr. C. T. Hibbert, U. S. N., is stopping at the Occidental. Thomas Fox, Postmaster mento, is at the Lick. Dr. Willlam M. Wheeler, U. S. N, is & guest at the Occidental. Ex-Mayor and Mrs. B. U. Steinman of Sacramento ‘are at the Palace. W. H. Perry, a prominent lumber man of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. Mrs. A. B. Butler and Miss Butler of Fresno are guests at the Palace. Judge Jarrett T. Richards of Santa Barbara is a recent arrival at the Palace. ‘William H. Ryan, a large leather mer- chant of Rochester, N. Y.; is at the Pal- ace. Lord Abinger of London, accompanied by J. A. Logwood of St. Louis, is at the Palace. H. J. Corcoran, a steamboat owner and capitalist of Stockton, is registered at the Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Burnside Peck of New York City are stopping at the Palace. J. G. Taylor, a prominent cattle man of Lovelock, Nev., accompanied by his fam- ily, is at the Russ. Whaling Captain James A. Tilton and R. J. Cominskey have returned from Alaska and are at the Russ. Dr. T. H. Morris has returned from an extended Eastern trip and taken apart- ments for the winter at the Russ. Dr. A. C. Hart, professer of clinical den- tistry and microscopy in the College of Physiclans and Surgeons in this city, has gone East for a two months’ vacation. While there he will visit the principal dental colleges in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, studying the latest methods in connection with college work. By spe- cial invitation he will read papers before the Academy of Stomatology of Phila- delphia and the Odontographic Society-of Chicago, and the Central Dental Soclety of New Jersey, on the prevention of de- cay in the teeth. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORE. NEW YORK, Wov. 4—8. T. Ackerman of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. R. A. Tuttle of San Francisco {s at the Ven- dome. E. Rayier of Los Angeles is at the Cosmopolitan. —_— e TIME TO SMILE. He—Here it tells of a doctor who says impoliteness is a disease. - he—So it 1s. And in the street car it I generally found to be well seated.— Philadelphia Bulletin. “How women change,” who has been married a year. used to write to me and send me a of kisses in her letters.” “Um,” said the man who has been mar- ried a quarter of a century. “But now, when I leave for the office, she just gives me a peck. And a short one at that.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Strange that the author of the ‘Easy Road to Wealth’ should— “‘Oh, I know that old gag. He died in the poorhouse.” “You are wrong. It was his publisher.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. _— e ——— THE STORY OF TWO PULLETS. They live neighbors up on Indiana street, and for years had been intimate friends exchanging confidences and gos- sip as women will, attending the same church, going to the same picnies and buying at the same stores. Each bor- rowed freely from the other, but the one forgot to return about a third of what she received, and this is the rock on which they finally split. One of them keeps chickens and her en- joyment in looking after them Is only less than that of eating them. They are pets and her special pride. “Lucy,” said the careless neighbor, as she rushed to the back door of Lucy's house the other evening, ‘‘Ah jest done hab som comp'ny 'rive heah from Can’'da an’ dey hain’t a mou’ful ob meat in de house. Won' you let me hab dem two pul- jets dar in de coop an’ in de mo'nin’ Ah'll go down to de mawket an’ get you two ob de fines' dat money’ll buy.” I will, sho’.” ucy thought of the potatoes, the bread, thlé eggs, ngd the other things that had never come back and resolved to sear her conscience. “Ah’d lub fo’ to let ‘{ou hab dem pul- lets, Rosie, but Pete done sole ’em las’ ebening’ fo' a sick man. We'se . got to husle 'Toun' an’ buy some mo fowls right SOF— 3 of Sacra- sald the man “My wife ushel . Ah’s bel a'flgt then a casioa-ttined sx;mi“ccame he coop and Rosie an from the coop Chanded look. able caught-you-re and in haughty tones she exclaimed: “Look it heah, woman, ef you rothah bleed dat dar ole roos dan me, dat es us.” sex.l!ld now they never see each other.— Detroit Free Press. Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's® —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public m)mslg”u the s Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), ont- g;::ery E&eet. 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