The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, T JESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Strest Tel ne Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s cerved by carriers In this city and surrounding towns | for IS cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE __One year, by mall, $1.50 ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. .....Room 188, World Bulilding DAVID ALLEN, Advert! ising Represcatative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.... ...-Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE........ ...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. ERANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o’clozk. 387 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'ciock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbla—""A Parlor Match. Califor: Ur Alcazar—*Alaba Tivoli—'The Mascot.” Moroseo's—"“Temptation of Money."” Orpheum—Vaudeville Comedy- ith Before the War.” The Chutes—Gorrilla man, vaudeville and the zoo. Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, speclalties. EButro’'s Baths—Swimming. 5 villon—Charity Bazear. « Track—Races to-day. in December. AUCTION SALES, By Killlp & Co.—Wednesday, December 14, at 10:30 o'clock, Buggles, Wagons, etc., at corner Fifteenth and Valencia streets. By G, H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, December 13, at 12 o'clock, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery st. THE SCHOOL BO@ARD BOODLERS. i HE rumor that the creditors of the School De- partment are about to begin suits against the bondsmen of the Directors for the recovery of their claims is calculated to cast a ray of sunshine | upon the spectacle of squalid corruption with which the Board of Education is now surrounded. If the suits can be made to stick a great point will be gained. Hereaiter solid citizens will hesitate to become bonds- men for boodling School Directors and that species of cattle will have difficulty in qualifying for office and in holding office while boodling at the public expense. Besides, it is well to resort to law before resorting to the homel xpedients of rotten ctor harge t b that 100l Board ring have except a disposition to | z a period Hence it ought to the men who guar- fact, responsible for placing have been enabled to for whatever the teach- f the School Department have lost 1alversation oi two to p ers and cred through th, Moreover, this method of attack may make an im- pression upon the b warks of these boodlers. 8chool Board ring has laughed at the people, flaunted | the police, defied th courts and sneered at the Grond Jury. Nothing in the form of law has seemed to give it the slightest concern. Perhaps judgments which will make its friends and supporters pay something for the luxury of ng with it may serve to bring it to time. idently the members of the ring are without moral sense. They belong to a class of public | thieves who set all regard for decency and appear- ances at defiance. the best thing to do with such men is to take their property from them, which can be done by attacking them through their bondsmen. ] by the United States the Examiner, which has a “National Policy,” says, “We are not given to selling millions of human beings to the highest bid- der.” It should have added, “We are in favor of buy- ing millions of human beings without their own con- sent and against their own will, after warning off all bidders but ourselves.” This is the same paper which, as our correspondent, Publicola, said proposed to “nail” the American flag tc the ancient tree of despotism instead of leaving it to flutter in the soft breezes of liberty. D There is nothing reasonable in the claim of Spain that the treatment meted out by this country has been harsh. When a nation seeks war and gets licked its chances of being rewarded with a bouquet and a God-bless-you are slender. The poundman fined $200 for the use of improper language will be obliged to net quite a number bi dogs to get even, and it is safe to say that while doing this he will be extremely guarded in his remarks, _— It is a little hard to understand why, when a battle ship comes into contact with anything, from a sand- bank to a floating hencoop, the battle ship alway. the worst of the collision. BUYING HUMAN BEINGS. N referring to the proposed sale of the Philippines s gets P A It is only fair to state that the Botkin jury is not such a bad lot as the pictures published in an evening paper make them appear. The white man who claims to have been initiated into a highbinder tong has in him the elements of a Creelman. R s New York soldiers who are chafing to get home ought to reflect upon the blizzards they are missing and be glad. The Czar is said to be still dreaming of peace, but during his waking hours his mind evidently takes an- other trend. | focus, fix it there more firmly. | made in 18g6 was repeated Next to a coat of tar and feathers | A CURRENCY SESSION. HE first act of the Republican national ad- T ministration elected in 1896 was to call a tariff session of Congress, in which the Republican party immediately proceeded to redeem its pledge made to the protectionists of the country. This work was begun and finished in a shorter time than has been required in the preparation of any of the great tariff bills passed since the civil war. Under it there has been a marvelous expansion of trade. The com- mercial balance has shifted to our side and we have become the creditor, instead of a debtor nation. This process has turned the flow of gold to the United States, until we possess more now per capita than ever before in our history. The revenue results of the tariff, it is true, have not been as satisfactory as its effect upon trade, but the high credit of our Gov- ernment enables it to replenish its treasury and tide over any such temporary lapse in revenues. These high and satisfactory conditions of trade, in- stead of pushing financial and currency reform out of “xpanding trade re- quires a perfectly sound foundation. The sounder this [ is, the greater is the possible expansion, without run- ning into'the risks of speculation. The Republican pledge to sound money legislation in more positive and 1808. The silver sentiment in the party, which had spread like the mycelium of a fun- gus, through the influence of local expressions of pol- icy and prevailing ignorance of the subject prior to 1896, was largely eliminated in the Presidential cam- paign. The influence of men of knowledge and con- victions and courage on the money issue has be- come dominant in the party, and the State platforms this year reflected their sentiments, so that the Re- publican Congress which comes in on the 4th of | next March is committed irrevocably to this reform. But pledges are like constitutions. They are inchoate unless vitalized by legislation. The sound money Republicans and their faithful allies, the National Democrats, have recognized the inutility of attempt- ing to redeem the sound money pledge with the pres- | ent adverse Senate. Such attempt would have ended in defeat, and defeat would only have emboldened and encouraged the fiatists, and discouraged the | | sound-money men. This tolerant and proper view | of the situation brought all sound-money men to- | gether in the State elections of this year and they | | fought the way to victory with singular courage. | They not only held the House, but gained the Senate. | Now they want the prompt and beneficial use of the | clearer tones in power they have won. That can be best done by an extra session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. Let us have a currency ses- sion of Congress as soon aiter the 4th of next March a: the President can call it. Since the election an expression has been made by the leading public men in Indiana, Iowa and Wis- o ney Republicans in those n the desire for such extra | | session. No State . and the policy represents the views expressed named. Mr. Payne of Miiwaukee,' Rep an National Committee, | it and redemption of the by the party demand that we ct of currency reform at the | nt. We have redeemed our | question. Now let us redeem | n the financial problem.” | C. Spooner says: “That a wise cur- 1 should be passed at the earliest op- I believe,” General Ed. S. Bragg, Gold Democratic leader: | “An extra session of the Fifty-sixth Congress seems a necessity if the administration intends to define and settle the monetary policy of the United States.” Ex-United States Senator William F. Vilas: “I believe that if the Republicans intend to keep faith with the people and carry out their pledge to reform the currency, their opportunity has come and their duty is plain.” Ellis B. Usher of the Gold Democratic National Committee: “The currency question may be set- tled at an extra session in time to have it disposed of before the Presidential campaign of 1000. In my the | opinion this is what the people expect of the Fifty- | sixth Congress. ThC . voted for.” This is what the Gold Democrats | These views are supported in interviews by Wis- consin Congressmen Cooper, Esch, Davidson, Jen- | kins and others. R | In Indiana John P. Frenzel, Gold Democratic Na- | tional Committee, S. P. Sheerin, former Secretary | National Democratic Committee deposed at Chicago ;ir: 1806, and Republicans like F. L. Powell, John | Marshall, Robert Graham, Congressman Royse and | | scores of others, who are at once recognized by any | one acquainted with the public men of that State | as the leaders of party and public opinion, concur | in the views expressed in Wisconsin. In Iowa Judge French, J. J. Richardson, Ed. Campbell, Colonel Martin, W. 1. Babb, Gold Demo- crats, and Governor Shaw, all the Republican mem- I bers of Congress and Senators Gear and Allison con- ! cur. In Nebraska the same condition of opinion ap- | pears in many interviews. | This reform is especially precious to the West, as | protection was to the East. The West has made | the change in the Senate and held for the party its | control of the House. To that control California | contributed nearly one-half the majority which will | exercise it. The voice of this State should be raised | effectively for a currency session, for it will be heard | with ‘rcspcct E CHARACTERISTICALLY CREELMAN. HE latest interview of the Examiner with the T Pope is characterized by the Creelman touch. | That is, it is so palpably a fake that no observ- ing intelligence is under the slightest obligation to believe it. Creclman has reached that state where, in common with Baldwin, he has lost power to deceive. | The difference is that Baldwin acknowledges the situ- | ation, and seems rather glad of it, while Creelman | keeps up a wordy pretense of honesty. This interview does not purport to have been had by Creelman, but by Philippe Tonelli. As though to give it standing, however, Creelman prepared an in- troduction. He may have done this seriously, but possibly it was done as a Baldwinese stroke of irony. In it the regular correspondent directs attention to an interview he secured in 1890 with the Pope. Perhaps there was such an interview; far more likely not. But why did Creelman omit ‘allusion to his interview with the same notable sent over during the progress of the war with Spain, and officially denounced as ficti- tious the instant called to the notice of Cardinal Rampolla? Why did he not strengthen the hand of Tonelli by a brief account of the interview with the Queen Regent, an interview indignantly repudjated as soon as printed? Why not an account of the let- ter bearing the signature of Madame Dreyfus, and by her denounced in Le Temps as a swindle and open forgery? 4 He might have set forth incidemtally the other fake lposifiou of Minister to Spain. | We cannot trade off the hero’s home. interviews presented in the paper, which he has the doubtful honor to supply with tales rich in imagery, but barren of the valuable element of truth. It was the Examiner that ascribed to Mrs. McKinley words never uttered by her, and which has at various times printed “interviews” with princes and potentates who had never heard of the existence of the sheet, nor so much as acknowledged the impertinent card of its representative. Aside from being discredited by the Creelman in- troduction and eulogy, the latest interview is silly. It conitains no gleam of anything which may pass for information. It could have been written in New York or Madrid as well as in Rome, and by the office boy as well as by Creelman, save that the office boy might have a trace of conscience to hamper him. Where the Examiner made a mistake, in addition to the stupidity of indulging in a fraudulent scheme, was to permit the name of Creelman to appear. Those familiar with the methods of that romancer and brag- gart will not doubt for a moment that he was guilty of the entire article. HILE we are giving so much attention every THE VIEWS OF SOME STATESMEN. W day to more or less commonplace views on the various issues before us—the Philippine ques- tion and the problems of the future—it will be just as well to ponder a little on the recent utterances of some statesmen whose views are not commonplace. It is always the unexpected that happens, and pos- sibly one of these fellows with unexpected ideas may call the turn. There is Senator Kyle, who proposes that after hav- ing purchased the Philippines for $20,000,000 we shall now sell them for $200,000,000—a scheme that would not only gain for us a profit of $180,000,000, but would provide us, further, with the pleasure of watching a general scrimmage among European nationis for the privilege of being the purchaser. A still better scheme is that of Senator Chandler, who proposes that we trade the Philippines to Great Britain for Canada. The swap would be a good bar- gain from every point of view. We should by that one simple act get possession of the Klondike and get rid of Aguinaldo, two things most devoutly to be wished. The defect of the scheme is that it alarms the Canadians. One of their poets has been already so moved by it as to fear our professions of friend- ship and to sing of our natignal eagle-bird: His voice is mellow as music; it hath a most unctu- ous “quack.” I hope all in good earnest, but I won't take anything back. I'm jollying you, Mr. Canuck, I hope you will listen, my buck— Xeep your nose to the wind, and keep your eye skinned, for the Eagle that talks like a duck! Our own country is not the only country, how- ever, where statesmen of originality have freedom of thought and speech. Canada herself has some of them. One of these proposes that Great Britain trade Jamaica and her other West Indian islands for the New England States and annex the latter to Can- ada. The scheme has its merits and might be worked but for the fact that Dewey has his home in Vermont. Most original of all is a certain Mr. Turgeon, Min- ister of Colonization and Mines in the province of Quebec. This statesman, in a speech made in France on the occasionof a demonstration inhonor of Champlain, the founder of Quebec, told the French that within a comparatively short time both Canada and the United | States would be disrupted. The Germans, he said, are taking possession of the Mississippi Valley and will eventually set up a government of their own. Then the French Canadians, who are overrunning New England, will add those States to Quebec and set up a French nationality. Altogether the honors of statesmanship are about even between the countries, with the advantage a little in favor of the Canucks. It is about time some of our poets were singing a song of warning against the beaver that honks like a goos W shopping should go forward in earnest. It is a good plan to make a resolution not to wait for the coming of Christmas week before making the necessary purchases of gifts and delicacies for the great day. The golden rule for all shoppers at this season of the year is to go early and avoid the rush. This week the weather promises to be fine. Next week there may be rain and sloppy streets. This week there will be a fair opportunity to shop in com- fort. Next week there is sure to be a crush and a crowd in every store where Christmas novelties are kept. Every argument of personal convenience, therefore, tends to impel the wise to wait no longér, but to get their holiday trading done at once. Personal convenience, however, is not the only thing to be considered at this season. Women whe can afford to shop in the daytime by reason of having leisure while others are at work should remember that a great many persons are of necessity compelled to do most of their shopping after working hours. They should, therefore, do their shopping early and make way for the workers. There is no reason why the average woman should throng the stores until late and crowd the’6 o'clock cars, when the general mass of working people are going home and are tired. If those who have the opportunity to shop early in the day will do so and get out of the way for the evening crowds it will be pleasanter for everybody. There is nothing to be lost by prompt shopping. Every form of Christmas novelty that will be offered at this season is now in stock and ready for sale. Nothing can be gained by waiting, but on the other hand much may be lost, for the most attractive arti- cles will go fast, and the stocks will be rapidly de- pleted. Moreover, in the rush that is sure to come with the closing days the clerks cannot wait upon customers as attentively as they can this week. A word to the wise: Finish your shopping this week and next week you can watch the crowds struggling in the thronged stores and enjoy the sight without having to mix in the scramble. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. ITH this week the pleasant task of Christmas Nobody can blame the Spanish Commissioners for having declined to dine with the Americans. They have been humiliated, and a dinner would appear to be a method of rubbing it in. Manifestly there would be injustice somewhere if Chicago Aldermen were to be hanged and members of the San Francisco Board of Education escape. Cubans are welcoming American troops vocifer- ously, and there are a lot of microbes in the island waiting for a chance to show their attachment. The public will be best satisfied with the Baldwin Hotel when the site shall have become a hole in the ground. In not interviewing the Ahkoond of Swat the Ex- aminer is permitting a great opportunity to go by. There is not going to be any mad scramble for the A STUDY OF THE RAINFALL. The October bulletin of the climate and crop service of the ‘Weather Bureau, California section, issued by the Department of Agriculture, con- tains an elaborate study of the seasonal and monthly rainfall at San Fran- cisco from 1849 to 1898 by Marsden Manson, one of our most accurate stu- dents of the subject. Owing to the keen interest felt in the subject by all Californians at this time we reproduce the tables given by Mr. Manson and his conclusions drawn from them. As Mr. Manson points out, the rainfall at San Francisco has been quite accurately and continuously recorded since 1843. Up to 1870 the record was kept only by Thomas Tennent. Since that date it has also been kept by the United States Signal Service and by the Weather Bureau. The fol- lowing table gives the monthly and annual rainfall, the totals and means from 1849 to 1898: showing mean, monthly, Table of monthly rainfall at San Francisco, Cal., 1545-1868, seasonal and yearly rainfall for forty-nine years: % TETE ] > ) > -} % PlE|2|F|5|5 £(z|¢ 2 gl bgralalse Saso & SEASON. g BhlRuE e : i esahe: 1 | ; e - 5 ' {e=) | | 0.00{ 0. 1849-50 ’ ' f { 0] 0. ) | | 00’ 0.00} / | 1 { { 0.00( 0. | 000 0. | 0.00 0.00] 02/ 0.00] 1 | 0. 0. 0. HammomnsoasaSopwicmmemons 2ishiknbahzagkatbssatiahussaRBRs gHiEeeEaNaRRBEIRLERY EonnShommmwoatasunoniare SER2223822223R22330R8383238 PP ePee oo oonoo00000000000000000900 28883832332232232230232330222222388 AERRiRAos e RsoohR s SRR R B R e SR e AR A BBoLaRRRs neRESRPePRaREPER232088S20S3RS RSB S RN A eSS BN RP I RB SRR INS SR ERARSIAZZRY 0.00] 3. 177 4. 0.00] 0 033 0. 0541 1 0.67 0. 1 0.. 0. [ 0. 0 0 0. 1 4 0.. 0. 0.48) 0 808 3 0.02| 0 0. 2. 4 4. 1.4 0. 0.00 0 050 1. 076 0 007/ 0. 859( 1. 0.0 0 0.00] 0. 1.83 B 0.34 0 0.00] 2. 6.82| 3. 1.5 0. 00 0.03| 0. 18] 3. 288 0. 21 0 0.00| 0. 3.72| 4 “1.00] 1. 00 0. 0.02| 0. 0 7.63| 2 0.74f 0 00 0 0.00( 0.40| 0.15, 390 2 023 0 00 0. 0.03 0.00 255 000 1 0.78) 0. 00 0 001 0.13| .60 134 0 0.63] 0. 0 0. 0.24] 026 419 2.12] 8 1.6/ 0. 0 0 0.1 0. 135 1 7.200 1. 0.00f 0 00 0. 0.04 0.20 3.41 1 6.13| 6. 0.08| 0. 00, o 0. 0. 18 | 3. 008} 0.1 00| 0. 012 1.39| 1719 | 4T 2l 020, 0. 00! 0 0.04) 0.00( 047 | 353 1. 0.23( 0. 0] 0. 0.00 007 2811 1 | 690! 1 0.1s| o o1 0. 0.04 011 2.7) 5 3.94] O 0.00f 0:02 0.01] 0. 0.00 083 1.6 9 2.1 3 0.66] 0. 00| 0. 0.02| 269 6.35( 0. 032 1. 0220 0 0| 0. 0.0/ 0. 27| 4. 49| 5. 0.24) 0.04f 0.00] 0: 0.3s 3 5| 0.00 432 18| 1. 01| olo1| 002 O 0.l 0 7) 2.66 11'07| 12.52) 4. o016/ 0.01f 0.01f 0.00] 0.1 1 7| 0. 3 4.90[ 8. 2. 0.05 01| 0. T | 078 4.08) 445 2.2/ 187/ 2. 112 0.0 0.00] 0. 0.00 0.05( 0.33 12:33) 8.89| 4.64| 0. 022 0.63 0.00/ 0 0.25 054 1.84| 3.85 1.es| 2.96] 3. 021 0.04] 0.00| 0 026 2:06] 4.18) 2.01) 1.92| 1.04| 3 352 0.01] 0.00] 0. 0.42 140 1.60 0.92] 364 6.65 . 0.2 251 0,04 0.3 2355 0.26 7.68| 2.3 0.30] 1. 0.04/ 0.19] 0.08] T 011 072 17| 4i08 742 0.24] 2. 037 001 023 T 001l 14sf “ol8al 2007 1l90] 824/ 0 0.08) 0.07 0.01 0.29) T | 09| 334 51 0.84] 3 038 021 0.1 0:01 0.3 013 299l 580! 128 072 1 2.0 003 0.01 T T | 7.28) 2.99 13.8]| 9.61| 5.16] 4. 107 00 002 0.00 0.31 000 0.00 325 08! 7.6 1. Izl o1 010 002 077 0.04| 0.56 562\ 2,42 2.80] 2. 186 T [ 0.00 0.00f 002 165 $a1| 60| sio5! 2.75) 4 015 0.08| 0.00 0.02f 0.21f 0.16) 4.18| 2035 5.99| 2.69] 0! 1310 0.5 T | 0.00 105| 1.7 0.38| 9.01| 6.9 2.31 1 069 000l T { 0.09f 077 011l 178 143 84| 0.28) 2 072 0.0f 0.04] 0.09) 0.521 15| 4.56| 4.34| 2:26] 4.41] 4 o.61) 092l T | T 010/ 170/ 1.06| 1.72] 112 2.13] o. 144 019 0.00) T . 4&1.362;132 65 252.:9'211.33‘173.3‘4! 152.3;‘: 92&; = g.ga .. ol 5 A1) 4.9 .5 .1 ! 3 . ‘ | B pRe d e Mean seasonal..| | 3.89] | 18.60] 1 Autumnal ‘Winter ummer rains. rains. rains. In this period of forty-nine years the normal seasonal rainfall has been 23.4 inches. In the period under consideration there have been fluctuations in seasonal rainfall from 7.4 in 1850-51, to 49.2 inches in 1861-62. The mean seasonal precipitation for the entire period is 23.4 inches, the mean for each month and for each season of the year being given in the table. The entire period may be subdivided into flve classes, (1) extremely dry, (2) dry, (3) average, (4) wet, and (5) extremely wet years. This subdivision is an arbitrary one (as would be any subdivision whatever), and the follow= ing classification is made: Extremely dry years, less than 14 inches; dry years, from 14 inches to 19 inches; average years, from 19 inches to 28 inches; wet years, from 29 inches to 35 inches; and extremely wet years, over 85 inches of rainfall. Based on this classification we have the following: The seasons of 1850-51, 1862-63, 1863-64, 1870-71, 1876-77 and 1897-98 have been extremely dry, the mean monthly rainfall being as follows: Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March. April. May. June. 0.5 0:94 © 089 LeS 4T3 LWL TG 113 0.8 0.8 Or an annual rainfall for these vears of 10.8 inches. The elght seasons of 1851-52, 1872-73, 1881-82, 1884-85, 1886-87, 1887-88, 1890- 91, 1891-92 were dry years, with an annual rainfall between 14 and 19 inches, the mean monthly distribution for these years being: Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March. April. May. 0.3 0.62 1.20 4.8 231 3.46 8.02 141 0.50 Or an average mean rainfall of 17.39. The twenty-three years, '18,3-54, 1854-55, 1855-56, 1856-57, 1857-58, 1858-59, 1859-60, 1860-61, 1864-65, 1865-66, 1868-69, 1869-70, 1873-74, 1874-75, 1878-79, 1879-80, 1882-83, 1888-89, 1892-93, 1893-94, 1894-95, 1895-96, 1896-97 were years of between 19 and 28 inches, with a mean monthly distribution as follows: Dec. Jan. Feb. March, April. May. June. €08 454 3.08 835 198 1.06 0.a1 Or a mean seasonal rainfall of 22.37. The seven years, 1849-50, 1866-67, 1871-72, 1875-76, 1880-81, 1883-84, 1885-86, were wet years, the extremes being 29 and 35 inches, with a mean monthly distribution as follows: v. Dec. Jan. Feb. M 830 64 462 Or a mean seasonal rainfall of 32.21. The five extremely wet vears having a rainfall in excess of 35 inches were: 1852-53, 1861-62, 1867-68, 1877-78, 1889-90. The mean monthly distribu- tion of rainfall of these years was: Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Feb. Ma 0.01 179 3.46 9.9 6.21 4 The mean rainfall for these five extremely wet years being 40.89 inches. The relation between each of these classes and of each class to the mean monthly distribution of rainfall for the entire period is shown in the following table: July. 0.00 Aug. 0.04 July. 0.02 June. 0.09 Aug. 0.01 Sept. Oct. Nov. July. Aue. 0.23° 1.00 2.9 1.01 0.01 June. May. 0.46 Sept. Oct. arch. April. July. A"E' 0.09 081 3.50 2.65 0.18 0.03 0.01 June, 0.08 July. 0.01 Jan. 1157 April. 2.13 rch, May. Aug. 5 0.48 0.01 Roro 21 & sa2 2 e falin £23 bl - I 585 Mean monthiy distribu- | 5 [ 5 | § £ e tion of rainfail for: el 245 |8 B 553 Six extra dry v {0 Eight dry yea 0.38 Twenty-three a | 023 Seven wet vears. | 0.03| Five extra wet years. 0.01 Entire_period.... | oz In connection with these statistics compiled by Mr. Manson, it should be noted that the official weather report for the State gives on December 11 the following table of the seasonal rainfalls to date, as compared with those of same date last season, and rainfall in past twenty-four hours: ast Last This L Stations— 24 Hours. Season. Season. Eureka . . 0.00 8. 2.7 Red Bluff 0.00 % Sacramento 0.00 3. San Francisc 0.00 387 Fresno .... 0.00 1.66 San Luis Obispo. 0.00 141 Los Angeles 2.48 San Diego. 119 Yuma . o As the conclusions derived from his studies of the tables given Mr. Man- 80N says: “Ifythese figures and the resulting curves yield any guide in forecasting seasons, we have the following: Both dry and extremely dry seasons are deficient in autumnal rainfall. In extremely dry years the greatest monthly deficiency occurs in December and continues through the spring. In dry years the greatest deficiency falls in January, followed by a spring in which the departure from normal rainfall is light. The five extremely wet years have maximum is in January, followed by a wet spring. _In wet years the autumnal rainfall is heavy, followed by a maximum in December, which continues above the normal through the rest of the winter and spring. In extremely wet years the maximum rain- fall is in January, continuing well above the normal to April, and falling sharply below the normal in May. “These variations in the winter rainfall are primarily due to the changes in the position of the lines upon and along which the areas of low pressure originate and move in their course from the North Pacific into the interior of the continent. It therefore becomes important to know the causes and conditions controlling this shifting or restriction of the belt of rain distribu- tion, for when these shall become known it will be reasonably possible to foretell whether a winter will be one of deficient, average or excessive rain- fall.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LARGEST STEAMERS-S., City. The largest steamers that sail in and out of cated at the corner of Stockt: - cisco Strects, having been placed thors i }gi;g andh malirétalned dnlt thafl position until . when it was_discont! - placed by station No. 184. s B the port of San Francisco at this time. ¢ 4. are the China, Clty”of Peking and the| A BAGK DATE-OId Timer, City, The rizona. 15th of February, 1810, fell on a Thurs- day. CIVIL SERVICE—W. R. 8., Vallejo, Cal. There is no civil service commission- er for the Pacific Coast. Civil service ex- aminations are held twice a year. The spring examinations usually occur in March and April and the fall examina- tlons in September and October. An ap- JAMES K. POLK—N. N., City. James K. Polk was elected President of the United States at the election held in 1844 He served four years from March 4, 1845. PICTURES—A. R., City. A man looking at a newspaper picture of individuals that is drawn to represent an idea and not any particular individual is at liberty to liken the faces to any nationality he alarm system of San hlu'm £ desires without let or hindrance. SELLING A HOMESTEAD-M. H., City. In Calirornia the law is that the homestead of a married person cannot be conveyed or encumbered unless the in- strument by which it is conveyed or en- cumbered {s executed and acknowledged by both husband and wife. The consent of a court is not required in order to sl a homestead. FRESNO AND MONTEREY—J. M. P, Gilroy, Cal. The articles of incorporation of the Fresno and Monterey Rallroad were flled in January, 1893. The incor- orators were: A. W. Jones, Kansas City, o0.; C. L. Walter and Alexander Gordon, no; Harry A. Green, Monterey; W. J. Hill, Salinas, and Willlam Palmtag and Thomas Flint of Hollister. FIRE ALARM STATION—G., City. There was in the early days of the fire ncisco a fire tation known as No. 1. It was lo- plicant should decide what kind of an ex- amination he desires to take and then communicate with the department in which he wishes to seek admission for in- formation as to date of examination. The dates are usually published in the daily gnperu. There s a separate examination or each department. ZIONISM—R., Bakersfield, Cal. A per- son desiring to study Zionism or the at- titude of the Jews toward a return to Palestine should read Graetz's history of the Jews, in five volumes, and the fol- lowing articles published in the periodi- cals: “Jewish Colonies in Palestine,” Con- tempor: Review, Vol. 73; “Jewish - tion,” Blackwood's, 183; “Zang;vnla‘:'fd the Jews,” Spectator, 80; “Mission of Zion- ism,” Current Literature, 23; “Return of the Jews to Palestine,” in Public Opinion, * Amerjcan Review, 167; *“Zionists,” wood" view Black- s, 163; the same (condensed), Re- ot Reviews, 11 “Sonismp b + 42; same, Current Lit- erature, 22; ‘“Jewish Colonies in Pales- tine ‘Hafper's Weekly, 4l; “zionite Movement,” Harper's eekly, 40; and “Jews Returning to Palestine,” Mission- ary Review (new series), 9. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Z. A. Greene of Boston is at the Palace. D. Richarason of Seattle is at the Lick. J. H. Wilson of Corvallis, Or., is at the Lick. M. G. Coxe of Peking is at the Occi- dental. S. McP. Rutherford, U. 8. A., is at the California. W. H. Wilber of Chicago is.a guest at the Palace. A. Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. John H. Wilson of Honolulu is a guest at the Palace. A. C. Shaw of Raymond is a guest at the Occidental. Frank Carolan and wife of Burlingame are at the Palace. Professor O. L. Eiliott of Stanford is at the California. A. Oestmann and H. Clement of Japan are at the Palace. J. W. Dinsmore of San Jose is a guest at the Occidental. Attorney E. M. Norton of Healdsburg is at the Occidental. Mayor M. R. Snyder of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand. Capitalist J. D. Carr of Salinas is regis- tered at the Occidental. Attorney H. Stanley of New York is registered at the Palace. Mrs. H. Bertrand Price of Philadelphia is a guest at the Palace. Charles Sumner, a wealthy cattle dealer of Bishop, is at the Russ. P. J. Golden, a miner from Virginia City, is a guest at the Russ. ‘William Raush of Bath and T. A. Hen- der of Sonora are at the Lick. State Senator 8. N. Androus of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand. Ralilroad Commissioner H. M. La Rue of Stockton is at the Occidental. Mrs. J. M. Moore and Mrs. Margaret Black of Honolulu are at the Grand. Captain J. T. Smith of the steamship City of Peking is a guest at the Cali- fornia. Otis Poole, the well-known Oriental traveler and author, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. T. H. Stice of the State Hospital at Napa is staying at the California for a few days. H. D. Lausen and John Beam are stay- ing at the Grand. Both are prominent citizens of Oroville. C. B. Shaver, superintendent of the Fresno Flume and Lumber Company, is registered at the Grand. David Hitchmott and P. C. Thresher, two merchants of San Anselmo and Sacramento, are registered at the Cali- fornia. Mrs. Colonel Barber, wife of Colonel Barber of the First New York Regiment, with her small son and daughter, are at the Palace. John Grove of Hilo, Hawall; W. Koller of Berlin and Thomas Inglis of Edin- burgh are at the Palace. Dr. Howard Humphries of Honolulu is registered at the California. He has just returned from Mexico, where he went with Mr. Ena of the Inter-Island Naviga- tion Company. The two gentlemen went to Mexico to look after mining interests, and Mr. Ena to benefit his health as well. —_—ee————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 12—Dr. A. C. Hart of San Francisco is at the Marlborough. E. M. Leddin and wife of San Francisco are at .the Manhattan. L. Zohl of Los An- geles 1s at the Vendome. —_——————— Your name stamped in gold letters on fine leather goods free of charge at San- born & Vail's. . —_—— Time to send your Eastern friends Town- send’s California glace fruits, 50c 1b, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 627 Market st.* e — Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——— Max_Beerbohm, who was one of Au- brey Beardsley’'s most intimate friends, says that the morbidness in the artists work reflected only one side of his nature. “With all his affections,” says Beerbohm, “he had that inborn kindliness which is the beginning of all good manners.” —_—— EICK HEADACHE ABSOLUTELY AND permanently cured by using Moki Tea. A leasant herb drink. Cures constipation and teenth Cemurg. e ndigestion, makes you eat, sleep, work and hap) Satisfaction guaranteed or moaey At No Percentage Pharmacy. —_——— No Christmas Table should be without & bot- tle of Dr. Biegert’s Angostura Bitters, the fin- est appetizer, imported from South America. —_———— “I do not hate you, child,” protested the woman in the case, or cases. The other was a mers slip of a girl, or at most a slip and three-quarters, but she had the feelings of her sex; and she quiv- ered with rage. “The conceit of her!” she hissed. “To think herself prettler than I am!"” For the gist of 4 remark is often in its application.—Detroit Journal. -OPEN EVENINGS. Beautiful HOLIDAY GOODS Pictures, Statuary, Vases, Ornaments, French and Dresden Cabinets, Onyx Pedestals and Tables, Lamps, Art Novelties, Fine Crockery and Glassware S. & G.GUMP 113 Geary St. SPECIAL TO-DAY Ladies’ Dress Skirts. At $12.50. LADIES' BLACK SATIN DRESS SKIRTS, Spanish _flounce, fan-pleated backs, double lined and bound ‘with velvet, worth $17 50, sale price $12 50 each. Murphy Bullding, - Market -and Jones Streets.