The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1898, declined to answer some quosuons!con\'nlescent state after her fllness and her “yes” or *“no,” saying that one | she had taken a car ride out there. She part of them required one answer and the | had never gone to the Columbia cafe, but other a contrary one. tured him severely upon his evasions of | She had never seen Mrs. Dunning, but questions: the first time he has felt called | knew there was a child in the family, as upon to do so during the progress of the | the father had told her so. trial. Mr. Hosmer asked if Mr. Dunning had The witness who had lightened the|ever asked for money. The witness | gloom of the tragic trial reeking with ar- | thought he asked if she had tried to met senic, poisoned candy and tales of illicit | some from him. She drew herself up in- love, gave way to Mrs. A. F.| dignantly as though it was preposterous, irant, her at Healdsburg Col- | and she was about to give a sharp answer oft-told tale of the | before she understood the question. She ie A. Livernash | said he had asked for money. He visited lege. manner in which M! Judge Cook lec- | she had gone to the theater of that name. | he confidence of Mrs. Botkin. ernash told Mrs. Grant that she | 1d Mrs. Bqtk'n she was a ‘woman of | the world. To Mr. Hosmer she said she | ore no ill will toward Miss Livernash. | Mrs. kin was the next and the last | e defense and with the con- | her cross-examination Mr. Knight said: “That is our case, if your | Honor please.” | Under Mr. Knight's careful questioning | the defendant went on with the carefully | worded narrative she commenced the day | before. She first said that the letters in her trunk from her husband the divorce he seemed so ~axi cure from her, to the end that h might bestow his cooled affections elsewhere. In response to questions regarding he respondence with Dunning, she s on the eve of his departure for C its battlefields they had an understanding | that a rerular correspondence was to be | kept up. He was to write of the war and | h which he | the stirring incidents th passed and also to tell her with what suc- | cess he had pul'~~ himself together to be | what he not at that period | He had written her three letters en| route. Her letters to him were equal in | number to those he wrote, perhaps more, | » ng that our fr all tim on the contrary, we were to follow up another's movements. He was an: s to know of my succes in dealing with my husband. I admon- | ished him that it was best that he should | be with his family, where lempl:ulnn‘ would not be strong. We never at any | time discussed the matter of each of us | getting a divorce and being thus able to| marry. 1 would not consider the matter of a divorce, and my husband has no w of procuring one, although he has repeat- edly asked for one. | “My friendship with Mr. Dunning was | open’ an board. We went about | with my d's consent, as he wanted | me to have a good time so long as I was | in the company of gentlemen. While I/ was at Geary street Mr. Dunning’s | financial condition was pitiable in the | treme. It was such that it would excite | pity in any woman. He was in extreme | want, and I helped him. I do not care to refer to what I have done for him. About this time he went to Salt Lake, In | an attempt to better his condition. He | remained away. five months, but did noth- | ing, and then wanted money on which he could ret He wired for funds so that he could return here, and I sent him the | necessary funds. When he left here he| thought he had gone for good and that | he would never return. While he was in | Salt Lake he sent me what purported to | be an anonymous letter. With it he wrote me that he had received it from his wife and t he did not know who had sent it. To his wife he had laid the blame at the door of Mrs. Calimbertie, but he really did not know who wrote it. He said that his enemies and mine apparently did not intend to let us alone. I thought the letter W the work of some one who had lived at Geary street and who had not en-| joyed the good times we had there. “T also suspected Mrs. Seeley, who had an enmity to rd me. 1 had seen Mrs. Dunning’'s handwriting, as he had shown his wife'’s letters to myself, Mrs. Seeley and my son Beverly. He would read to us what she had to say about their little | girl, of whom he was very fond. The anonymous letter was not a copy in the handwriting of Mrs. Dunning, as has been testified to in this case. As well as one's memory can be depended upon, the letter was a perfect counterpart of the other anonymous letter: “Did you on August 4 send by mail a box of candy?”’ asked Knight. “1 did not,” was the answer. “Did you ever send & box of candy to Mrs. of postage as I knew all about such mat- ters and freight charges from the wide ex- perience I had as a purchasing agent. I never wrote to Mrs. Dunning and I never addressed a letter ‘John P. Dunning.’ It was always J. P. Dunning Esq.’ I had | no enmity toward Mrs. Dunning. I had | never seen the woman in my life and never sent her a letter of any kind. I certainly never saw the box of candy | until it was shown here and was never in the candy shop. I never went to the Owl | drug store. 1 do not know Mr. Grey. I never met him and never had any talk with him. 1 never made a purchase of | arsenic in ‘me’ life in San Francisco or| in any other place. I never pur d the handkerchief shown here and I never had anything delivered to me from any shop in this city. “When Mr. Botkin was disc ing the question of us being divorced I consuited Attorney W. H. L. Barnes with a view to T ting his efforts in that direction. | When Mr. Dunning went East we had no | discussion and no understanding as to my joining him there., I hoped for the best | for him and never contemplated that mat- ters would be otherwise. On July 31 I was ill in bed and did not leave my room with the exception of the time I went to telephone Dr. Terrill. The Jap served dinner to me in my room and placed it near my couch. On the following day, August 1, I gathered myself together and, after making myself presentable, I went to the shop downstairs and made a num- ber of purchases of eatables. They had no buns which I desired, so I took a loaf of bread and some fruit. I then went to | a chemist's shop and made some pur- chases of toilet articles and returned to | the hotel. On the stairs I met Mrs. Price, | who reprimanded me, saying that in my | iliness 1 should have had the Jap or her | lad to serve me. I had these parcels when I met Mrs. Price. “Mr. Dunning never told me his wife was passionately fond of candy. He used to say that with her high ideals of life she was too good for him. I always ad- vised him to go to his wife. I never dis- ed marriage with him. It would be an impossibility. | Mr. Hosmer, in his cross-examination, | had Mrs. Botkin again trace her move- ments throughout the State from the first | time she met Dunning until Chief Lees placed her under arrest. Her course led her from boarding-house to boarding- | house in this city, with trips to her rela- tives in Oakland, Stockton, Healdsburg, Eureka and Ferndale. To Mr. Hosmer she said she first met Dunning in the autumn of 18%5—she thought in September. At the time she was living at 2217 Bush street. She did not know where Dunning was living and did not learn until some weeks later. She told of the meetings with him at various places, but usually at Ingleside race- course. Off and on between the betting he left the ring and chatted with her. Shortly after, in response to an invitation, | he visited her at her apartments one af- | ternoon and stayed about an hour. He | then extended an invitation to her to dine and shortly after she accepted. They went to Delmonico’s and had a private dining room upstairs, where she said they re- | mained the usual length of time required to take a meal and converse—about an hour or an hour dnd a half altogether. The witness said she was frequently out with him during the years 189 and 1897 and dined frequently with him. She did not recall the restaurants, but they were | always cheap ones after the first splurge, | and she said she paid for them more fre- | quently after the first time than he did. | She acknowledged to having been in the waiting room of the Hoffman House cafe and also in the Hamilton House, Oakland. | The latter time was while she was in her { | | | | | nished him with food when he had no | pair of scales | sidered good if | rect. her frequently at Bush street. After dining with his wife and child he would | stroll out for a walk and would usually call on her. He would discuss his success or failure at the track during the day and then rejoin his family. When pressed for an answer requiring a_date tne witness pleaded bad memory. While she was on Bush street she frequently met Dunning downtown. Dunning went to live at 927 Geary street about Christmas, 189%. He there so continuously that the little of four, consisting of Dunning, Mrs. and Beverly, all de- only proper uld take a room therc. One was v: cant at that time and he took it, s ing untll the time he went to Salt Laxe. Mrs. Botkin said-she was in his company continuously. She took meals with him, or rather he took meals with her, as she corrected herselt to s He was con- stantly in her room after he returned from the races, and after a day at the track he was frequently without funds. As to the character of the social life there she sald they all dined together, and then there were games of whist and other ames with cards, after which she would provide refreshments in the shape of tea and salad. Mr. Dunning and her son, Be erly, would drink beer, and ‘“bracers made of whisky. The witness occasionally took some of the “bracers” as brewed by | the men, and admitted that she finally grew to like them. Mr. Hosmer tried to get at the nature of the intimacy existing between the prisoner and Dunning, but she bristled up and was rapidly growing indignant when her questioner desisted. He did ask if they spent the entire nign* together, and she said, “He had his room and I had mine. She said her husband in Stockton knew she was keeping company with Dunning, and that he knew him under his real nam. “Beverly, my son, knew him as ‘Jack and in the letters of my husband waere ‘Jack’ is used it means Dunning.” The couple corresponded regularly while Dunning was in Salt Lake, and said some of hers were long epistles. She did not have him come back at her wce, although she sent him the money for h fare and was glad that he returned. told of him sleeping on the of t Press Club at times when he did not hav the money to secure a room. She fu she The witness acknowledged tha was, at the foot of Market street on the day on which the box of poisoned candy is supposed to have been maued in this city. She was on her way to her sister's at Healdsburg. She told in detail the checking of her trunk and the purchase of her ticket. She had to hasten, as she just had time to | take her small luggage and get the boat. It was about 7 o'clock—just—gloaming— when she reached her destination. Tw days later she drove across country with her sister, where she remained until the trip to Stockton to seek the protection of her husband. Mr. Hosmer after this re- cital took her abruptly on her trip to Eu- reka, which she described in detail. After drawing from her an acknowledg- ment that she had frequently purch; articles at the City of Paris, Mr. surprised everybody by saying: all, your Honor.” Mr. Kniguc asked if any juryman desired to ask Mrs. Botkin any question. She stood up promptly, but the twelve men in the jury box had noth- ing to say. Mr. Knight then said case, if your Honor plea: Mr. Robart was recalled. He said he knew of the bag for letters at the steam- er's side and had known that letters were sent to this city for mailing. The court then adjourned until next Tuesday mornin; “That is our Railroad Company to Dissolve. A petition for the dissolution of the Visalia Railroad Company was filed in tne office of the County Clerk yesterday. The dissolution of the corporation was deter- | mined upon at a meeting of the stockhold- ers held on the 22d inst. The petition for diseolution was presented by the direct- ors of the corporation—H. E. Hunting- ton, J. Kruttschnitt, William Hood, B. A. ‘Worthington and W. G. Curtis. No rea for the application for dissolution is given. —_——— WILL WEIGH 150 TONS. Giant Scales Installed in the Govern- ment Gunshops in Washington. Everybody is perhaps aware that the large scales upon which the entire freight cars with their loads of many tons are weighed are considered im- mense, but with all their immensity, Uncle Sam has gone all the railroads in the country one point better by install- ing at the navy-yard one of the largest in the country. This machine can outweigh the largest rail- road weighing machine by fifty tons, and its results must be accurate to a pound, while rallroad scales are con- they approach any- where near fifty pounds of being cor- The new scales are placed on | the track going south from the great gun shops and just opposite the forge shop. They are 48 feet long and - 12 feet wide, and rest upon a cement base built upon long piles. The ground is somewhat low, and it was necessary to utilize the services of pile drivers to se- cure a stable foundation, which is one of the requisites of an accurate weigh- ing machine. The cost was about $1200. Much of its fine and sensitive balanc- ing apparatus was manufactured for special use in the new machine, and the completed structure is considered a model and marvel of modern mechan- ism and American ingenuity. In order to illustrate the accuracy of the counterpoise of the machine to a reporter the Superintendent of Yards and Docks picked up a half brick which | was lying on the ground near by and | | tossed it on the huge platform of the | machine. He then consulted the long brass lever in the reading box along the side of the scales and found that the record of the brickbat was just a pound. Turning to the reporter he said that the machine is so sensitive that it can weigh anything from a pound of sugar to a trio of thirteen-inch naval guns, and weigh them accurately, though it will probably eke out a long existence | at the famous gunshop without having the chance to weigh an ounce of the former. the old scales, which have just been replaced. A thirteen-inch gun weighs about fifty-five tons, weigh two of the monsters, reclining on a forty-elght-foot car track, and not tax its capacity to any great extent. All the big guns of the new navy will be weighed upon these colossal scales.— ‘Washington Times. ——— Stuart Robson tells how to win success on the stage in next Sunday’s Call. —_———— Fusion in the Pottery Trade. A discovery has been made which will revolutionize the whole of the porce- lain and pottery trade if successful. It is that the clay, molded wet and baked, can be fused by means of an electric furnace and cast in molds exactly like castiron. If the mold is sufficiently smooth inside no glazing is needed, but should any be required powdered glass is sprinkled over the surface of the casting while it is hot enough to fuse the glass, —————— To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al druggists refund the money if it falls to cure, 2Zic. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet, that he | The capacity of the new scales | is 150 toms, or double the capacity of and it may be | readily seen that the new scales can | instead of being| FRAUDS IN SAN JOSE'S ELECTION Recount Will Elect the Contestants. |WERE ROBBED OF VOTES | i LYNDON, CONANT AND AGGELER GALNING. to “Count Out” James H. Camp- bell for District Attorney. Special Dispatch to The Call. | { SAN JOSE, Dec. 23.—Interest is in- | creasing in the contests over the elec- tion of Sheriff, Treasurer and City Jus- tice, and the disclosures thus far made | indicate that fraud was perpetrated by the “gang” at the last election. count is progressing very slowly, but two precincts having been tallicd to- day. At this rate three weeks will be required to recount the county. In the | Second Precinct of this city, Lyndon gained ten votes. The net gains of | the contestants in the three precincts |of the city counted are as follows: Lyndon (She 12; Conant (Treas- urer), 3, and Aggeler (City Justice), 4. | If this ratio keeps up-these officers | will win on the vote of the city, and it will not be necessary to count the outlying precincts. An organized attempt to count James H. Campbell, the Good Gover | ment-Democratic nominee for District | Attorney, has come to light through the contest. The ballots of the First and Second precincts show that B. A. on, Rea's candidate, was given he was not entitled to. The ‘inct will show about 8 votes The e Third Pr | counted illegally. for Herrington. “gang” made an especially hard fight to elect the District Attorney, and it | was reported fraud was perpetrated in | the hope of accomplishing it. | contest of Campbell's election, but knowing onmes declare it will never come to trial, now that evidence of fraud has been unearthed. The peti- tion, which is signed by L. O'Neal, al- leges that 600 votes were counted for Campbell that Herrington. The matter was up be- fore Judge Lorigan this morning, but no date was set for the hearing. Campbell was given the certificate of { election on a majority of 39. BOB BLANKS WILL DIE. Kentucky’'s Governor Refuses to Re- prieve the Negro. FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 23.—Governor Bradley to-night refused to extend clem- :ney in the case of “Bob” Blanks of May sentenced to be hanged on February 1 23 next, thus closing a rather sensational | chapter in Kentucy history. aulted Teenie Bay- | Blanks, a negro, as | girl, in Graves ley, a 12-year-old whi | County, in January He escaped into | Ilinofs, and_ Governor Bradley made Tequisition and had Blanks brought to Louisville. On the date of his trial the adjutant general, with a company of State troops, accompanied the negro | { | back to Louisville. He has since been in il there, and will not be taken to the | scene of his crime until a few days be- | fore his execution. A MAN OF NERVE.” | He Gave a Remarkably Cool Recep- | tion to a Burglar. “Coolest man 1 ever met,” tells the | reformed burglar, “was right here in Detroit. No matter how it was done; I got a line ¢n his house. knew where the silver and jewelry were kept, and also knew that he had some wealthy visitors with diamonds and other costly ] trinkets well worth gathering in. 1 went through the rear window as quickly as any glazier could have done and the burglar alarm never chirped |a note. I sat down to satisfy myself | that no one in the house was stirring |and to smile at a little iron safe that | an expert could open with a hairpin. I was just about to begin the campaign when I received a slight tap on the shoulder, and whirled about to be con- fronted with my cool gentleman, a re- volver held ¢n a level with my fore- head. His hand s as firm as a rock, there was a darncing light in his eyes and his color was perfectly natural. *‘Glad I happened to notice your en- trance,’” he remarked in a pleasant voi ‘Anything I can do for you? “ ‘For—for heaven’'s sake,don’t shoot,” I managed to stammer. “'Sorry to violate the etiquette of hospitality,” he laughed, ‘but I have an | irresistible impulse to bang away, and | you're standing right where I'm going | to shoot. It is just possible that I can | restrain myself for a couple of seconds, { but not a moment longer.’ He was | grinning like a big good-hearted school- | boy, but I knew what was expected of |me. I dove through that window like | a streak of lightning, never stopping | for my kit, ran three miles and just | caught the train for Chicago. If I | had that man's nerve I fear I never | would have reformed.”—Detroit Free | Press. P LA < — WHY THE CREW GREW FLESHY. | Phenomenon Expltuned by the Pres- 1 ence of Much Arsenic Aboard. | The German bark Zion, which ar- | rived at this port recently from Fowey, | England, brought a rather peculiar rgo. It consisted of 1800 casks of china clay, but in addition there were on board 300 casks of arsenic. This part of the cargo had a remarkable ef- | fect on the crew. ! The fact that arsenic as well as strychnine helps the formation of adi- pose tissue when taken into the hu- man system in minute particles is well known, and both drugs have become favorite tonics for convalescents. board the Zion the men slept very near the large array of barrels containing the drug. .They were stored in the hold, near the forecastle, and partially exposed to the rays of the sun, which streamed in through the open hatch. ‘When only about a week out from port one of the erew mentioned to his | scribable odor was coming from the casks containing the drug. It was not long after their attention had been called to it that they all noticed the later. Several of the German tars be- came aware of the fact that they were filling out their clothes to a much greater extent than when they shipped. Many aqthers, as days went by, became abnormally stout, in vast contrast to the former slim appearance which many of them presented before the, land was left. One man gained, it is said, twenty-five pounds. Others were affected to a less extent. But the ag- gregate weight put on by the entire crew was little less than 400 pounds. Several of the sailors are known here, and they are said to be scarcely recog- nizable when contrasted with the old days. The entire sudden taking on of | | | avoirdupois is attributed to vapor, which, generated by the action of the sun on the casks, was inhaled by the | seamen as they slept and acted in pre- | cisely the same manner which it does when given as a tonic in a preserip- tion. Captain Hammes, who slept aft in the vessel, entirely removed from the arsenie, does not show any effect of the inhalation.—Philadelphia Times. —_———————— ANOTHER BRAVE DEWEY. How Captain Samuel Sawed Jackson’s | Figurehead From Constitution. BURNING OF THE TELLTALE BOOKS Standard Oil Employes Testify. Disclosure of an Organized Attempt: The | out | Last night Herrington secretly filed a | should have gone to | Loy inconsiderable. Austria lacks the coal and Graves County, remained there until the 3 case was ended, and brought the prisoner | inon, fhat add so much to the wealth and On | messmates that a peculiar and inde- | same thing, and, strange to.say, no- | ticed it all the more forcibly a week | Now, when the nation rings with the name of Dewey, the exploit of Captain | Samuel Dewey of Massachusetts should | have place among our sailor yarns, Ben. Perley Poore in his “Reminiscences’ gives an account of the capture of the figure- head of Andrew Jackson from the ship Constitution by this daring young mari- ner. It appears when ‘the sSolid men of | Boston” ascertained that General Jackson actually signed the order for the removal of deposits from the Bank of the United | States while enjoying their hospitality | they were very angry, and soon after, on | learning that the United States frigate Constitution, a Boston-built vessel, which was belng repaired at the Charlestown navy-yard, was to be ornamented with a full-length figure of General Jackson, they regarded it as an insult. The carver was ordered to stop his work. This he declined to do, and had the half-finished block of wood removed to the navy-vard, where his work was | completed under the protection of a guard | of *marines. When the figurehead was completed and fastened to the cutwater of the Constitution she was hauled to her anchorage and a vessel stationed as a guard on elther side of her. The indigna- tion of the Bostonians had now reached fighting pitch and Captain Dewey deter- | mined the head should come down. Late | one night, during a violent storm, he dropped into a rowboat and started for the vessel. All was dark except when lightning shot across the sky, illuminat- | ing the harbor and guiding Dewey to the Constitution. Making fast his boat to the bow of the 1, he climbed up, protected by some headboards left there the day before. A | sharp saw soon did the work, and an hour later Dewey entered the door of Galla- | gher’'s hotel, where a party of friends | anxiously awaited him, bearing aloft the grim visage of Andrew Jackson. Uproar- fous shouts greeted him, and he at once became the lion of the Whigs. Commo- dore Elliott, though frantic with rage over the insult offered his chief, was | powerless to do anything. Soon after — HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF PAPERS DESTROYED., How the Company Prevented an Ex- amination of Its Records by the Board of In- quiry. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CLEVELAND, Dec. 23.— Evidence was obtained from additional witnesses to-day to show that books belonging to the Standard Oil Company had been destroyed on November 20 and 21. The first witness examined before Notary Mason to-day was George Fields, who was said to have sent employes of the company to the general offices after the books that were alleged to have been destroyed. Fields said he was employed in the car shops of the Standard. He said he was instructed by telephone to send two men to the general office. Moran said he was sent by Fields to the general offices on November 19 after boxes of books and papers. Ed- ward O’Hea and Meclnerney went with Dewey went to Washington, taking his |him and Harry Gabeline and Henry trophy with him, where it was passed | Schaf came in the afternoon. Moran around among the leading Whigs. Finally | saiq the boxes were about four feet he called on the Secretary of War, taking the head tied up in a bandana handker- ef. “Mr. Dickerson,” said the captain, “I | am the man who removed the figurehead | from the Constitution, and I have brought | it here to restore it.” Secretary Dickerson looked in astonigh- ment at the man who had the boldness to “ such an indignity upon the adminis- ation. “Well, si he exclaimed, ‘““so you are |'the man who had the audacity to disfigure | Old Tronsides?” I took the responsibility.” I shall have you arrested immediate- y."” and the Secretary reached toward his bell to summon a messenger. square and weighed about 300 pounds. He said that the hallway was so nar- row that he lowered them to the ground with a block and tackle through a win- dow. The boxes were lowered upon a wagon and taken to a storehouse on Independence street. Moran said that on the following Monday morning the general office tele- phoned to the car shops for two men. McInerney and himself were sent. On that morning they took some boxes from the storehouse to the river pump- | “Stop, Mr. Secretary,” Interposed the |house. He did not know whether they captain. ‘“You, as a lawyer, )?nnw that | were the same boxes that they had got there is no ¢ ute against defacing a | Saturday. They took the boxes to the furnaces and burned the contents. He admitted that he had talked to Attorney S.-H. Tolles of the Standard in regard te the destruction of the books. On cross-examination by Attorney Tolles Moran said that he knew a lot of books and papers were burned a year ago, but he did not help burn them. Books were burned on Saturday in the car shops and on Monday in the pumphouse. Nobody said anything to him about the matter. Several other witnesses appeared to- day, but their depositions were not taken. Constable McMahon was sent to subpena several bookkeepers and clerks employed at the Euclid-avenue offices, but came back with the report that he had been unable to find any of the men.he had been locking for. Another effort was made to-day to sub- pena Secretary Squire of the Standard Company and Frank Rockefeller, but neither could be found. The taking of depositions was contin- ued until 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ship of war, and all you can do is to sue me for trespass, and that in the county | where the offense was committed. If you | desire t, T will go back to Middlesex County and stand my trial.” i After a few moments’ reflection, Dick- erson admitted that he was correct. Then, | asking him to wait, he stepped over to the | White House, followed by an attendant | carrying the head. At the sight of it the | President burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. “Why, that,” he cried at length, “why, | | that is the most infernal graven image I | | ever saw. That fellow did perfectly right. | | You've got him, you say? Well, give him a kick and my compliments and tell him | to saw it off again."—Leslie's Weekly. S e A FLOATING EXPOSITION. | The Shipload of Its Products Which | | Austria Will Show in the | Orient. | Austria-Hungary lags behind in the | race for foreign trade. Hungary is given to agriculture, and her manufactures are industrial activity of Germany. Most of the manufactures of the empire are pro- | duced in the rugged parts of Austria proper, and though in variety and volume they fall far below those of Germany the | country is capable of much larger produc- | | tion, and is now trying to expand its trade. The latest effort in this direction is the floating exposition, which is to start from Trieste in December. It will spend tue next six months Vls!flng all the leading | | ports of India and the Orient and a few islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. | A large steamship has been chartered | from the Austrian Lloyds Steamship Company, and the imperial Government, has encouraged the enterprise with a grant of $20,300. Among the ports to be visited are the Piraeus, Salonica, Constan- tinople, Smyrna, Alexandria, Massowah, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Calcutta, Ra goon, Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon, Bata- via, Cebu, Manila, Canton, Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, Fuchau, Shanghai, Wei | Hal Wei, Cheefoo, Port Arthur, Nagas- akl, Kobe and Yokohama. | ..The ship will carry samples of Austro- | Hungarian products, and .ue entire ves- sel, fitted up with booths and llfihled by electricity, will be a vast storehouse of exhibit Each exhibitor wili pay accord- ing to the space ne occupies, and thirty or forty experts will accompar'll}' the floating show to give information. The exposition will be free to all, anu its arrival in each port will be announced in advance in the newspapers and by posters und circulars, Catalogues printed in four languages will be distributed sratuitously, and the agents on board may receive orders, but | can se only at the prices fixed by the ex- | hibitors. An ice machine will be on board | to insure the freshness of all the products, | particularly the wine and beer. This enterprise {s not original with Aus- tria. It was tried with success by Switz- erland years ago. The larger country answer to your question about dating back a mortgage was answered in this department October 15 of the current ear. A mortgage may be dated back. 'he question of date is only effective from the time of delivery. PARK POLICE—O. 8., City. A person desiring information about the park po- lice force of San Francisco should make application at the office of the park po- lice in Golden Gate Park. There all in- forgn:lt(on as to qualifications will be fur- nished. THE VOLUNTEERS—Anxious, City. There is no volume published of the “na- tivity, age, birth, etc.,” of the volunteers. Such record is in the shape of muster rolls in the different States (office of the adjutant general) from which men vol- unteered, and at the War Department in ‘Washington, D. C. FREE LICENSE—W. M., Oakland, Cal. If you desire to obtain a free license in order to peddle you must make applica- tion to the Board of Supervisors, and if that body deems your case a deserving one you will no “doubt obtain such a license. What your rights are will be explained by the party issuing you the license. ANARCHISTS—H. B. H., Campbell, Santa Clara County, Cal. In Russia the agitators against the Government are called nihilists and not anarchists, though both classes are formed for the same purpose—the destruction of an existing Government. In Russia people of all classes have been charged with being ni- hilists, men of high standing as well as | may well take other lessons from the little republic, for Switzerland, _an | those of the lower classes. inland state, devendent upon ' for- SOLITAIRE—Mrs. B., City. ¥here are several games known as solitaire that may be played with cards. There is Nidgi Novgorod or Russlan solitaire, played with a full pack; the Hopeful, also played with a full pack; Pistols and Coffee for Two, D]nged with two full packs, and Ex- celsior Patience, played with one full | elgn ports to receive and dispatch all | its imports and exports of commodities, is, | in_proportion to its population, one of theé | | leading " commercial nations.—New York | un. | e e A Sergeant’s Opinion. On a recent trip West we rode for many | miles, in sleeping and dining cars, with an TWO FURNACES WERE USED | on_earth he was whistling. ack. This department has not the space %’o give the rules for playing these ames, but they can be found in Hoyle's Games, latest edition, which can be obtained lml- a SmaPEICS from Jealers, ith marbies, games of solitaire playes s which can be obufined from dealers in toys. WASHINGTON ELECTION—N. J. M., Santa Cruz, Cal. To obtain the number of votes cast for the candidates for Unlte% States Representatives from the State o Washington you will have to address 2 letter of inquiry to the Secretary of State of Washington. THE FIRE LIMITS—A. O. S., City. The fire limits of San Francisco are as fol- lows: Commencing at the intersection of the shore line of the bay with the east- erly end of Greenwich street, west to Sansome, Sansome to Broadway, to Pow- ell, to Sacramento, to Stockton, to Sut- ter, to a point on that street 206 feet west of 'Powell, thence westerly to O'Farrell street, to_Mason, to Ellis, to Taylor, to Eddy, to Jones, to Turk, to Letl.venw!:vrthf to Golden Gate avenue, 137:6 feet east 0! Larkin street, thence north to McAllis- ter, along McAllister to Polk, to Hayes, to Van Ness avenue, to Fell street, to Franklin, to Page, to Gough, to Market, to Valencia, to Herrman,to West Mission, and Mission to Ninth, to Minna, to Sixth, to Howard, to First, to Folsom, to Steu- art, to Howard, to the bay, thence north- erly and westerly along the water front to the point of commencement. For a more minute description by metes and bounds see the ordinance of the Super- visors, No. 2027, in General Order of the Board of Supervisors. A MUSICAL MECHANIC. Carpenter Who Did Not Comprehend Halevy’s Inducement. “The Queen’s Musketeers,” which is again a great Parisian success, was first brought out at the Opera Comique, when Halevy was distinctly down on his luck. Indeed, he was counting upon the suc- cess of his new work as a means of get- ting his affairs into_order ain, says T. P. O’Connor in the London Sun. He had taken the very best of care with it, eliminating every phrase and every bar that smacked of the commonplace. Espe- cially—and_here lies the whole point of the story—he had been at infinite pains to avoid repeating himself, and to strike out every motif that might lead his critics to accuse him of plagiarism from his former operas. The rehearsals went on capitally; the artistes were delighted with their parts. Everything foretold success. One day, as he left the theater after rehearsal and took a stroll along the boulevard, he heard somebody whistling a tune near him. He listened in amazement, for it was a_tune that he recognized only too well. Heavens! it was just the air of the song which he had written for Captain Roland in his new piece. Unconsclously he had been composing from memory. He went up to the whist- ler, a worthy workman, who was still continuing his tune, and asked him what “My friend, you are surprised,” said the man, “and no wonder. Do you know that there is not another man in the streets of Paris who could whistle you that tune?” “Why?” ‘;Beca.use it's a song that nobody knows ye Indeed?” “Certainly, because it is in the new plece that they are rehearsing at the Opera Comique.” “‘A-a-a-ah!” said Halevy, with a deep sigh of relief. ‘“But how on earth is it that you know it?" ““‘Well, because I was putting up a par- tition yesterday in the opera house—I am a joiner by trade, you know—while the song was being sung.” “I did not ADVERTISEMENTS. “AtSLOANE'S” Mahogany Finish Table of stylish design.......4At $3.00 Large selection of Solid Mahogany Crotch Veneer-top Tables in new Colonial de- signs at greatly reduced prices. Fine selection of Rush Seat Rockers of the latest designs in either Tobacco Oak or Mahogany finish..... 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Why don’t he me the 20 francs to keep on whistling ", Early Marine Engineering in the| United States. | In 1830 songs for the engine room were | unknown, and in many of the boats, when | the pilot was in his house (if there was one) or on the deck over the engine room, he would signal to the engineer by the | strokes of a stick or cane upon the floor | of the house or deck. All boats, of course, | carried bells, and by them all notices of de- parture and of arriving were made known, and all salutes between boats were given by their bells. To blow steam, as is now done by a whistle, was intended to be a challenge or an insult. In July, 1 _e first steam launch, the Sweetheart, feet in length, 4 feet inches of beam, and 3 feet deé:m, engine 4 by 12 inches, wheels 3 feet 6 inches in diameter, and boiler horizontal fire tubu- | lar, designed and constructed at the United States Navy Yard, New York, by the writer, then v hief Engineer of the navy, was completed, and on her trial and succeeding trips around the city of New York was saluted with the bells of | passing steamboats and cheered by peo- ple, who rushed to the ends of the plers to witness the novel sight. She attained a speed of 8.5 miles per hour. The engine was subsequently transferred to tne United States Naval School at Annapolis. | Fuel, up to the vear 1836, was wholly pine wood, though about that time some owners of steamboats commenced experi- menting upon the practicability of using anthracite coal. A steamboat on her route of six or more hours could not have the capacity in her fire room to contain all the wood required, and was compelled to pile it upon her side houses; and such boats as were on a long route, as from New York to Providence, were compelled to fnvade their upper deck with wood, and upon leaving the city had somewhat the resemblance of a floating woodnlani. —Charles H. Hasswell in Cassier's Maga- zine. it e Mrs. McKinley’s Joke. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Mrs. McKin- ley is saying some bright things these days. The other evening the wife of a| prominent citizen of Washington, while Visiting the White House, happened. to mention that she had received a basket of mushrooms from an unknown source, and, fearing that they might not be gen- uiné, had taken them to the market where she usually bought her vegetables and had them carefully looked over be- fore they were cooked. “What were you afraid of?” . McKinley. was afraid we might be polsoned inquired d die. “I thought you were a Presbyterian,” retorted the President’'s wife, “and that Presbyterians never die until their time comes.”’—Chicago Record. | intelligent young man, a sergeant in an | Ohio regiment, going home on sick fur- lough to recuperate. While mourning his forced inactivity during the war, he spoke most plainly and soultlvely of the real | reasons which underlald many of the | complaints as to the treatment the troops | received. Most (Promlnent among them | s the lack of I!clgline in many of the | volunteer regiments, brought about large- Iy by the unwise mingling of officers with | their men when off duty. Some of those | in command would, perhaps naturally but | very unwisely, participate in athletic games and sports during hours of idle- ness, and then be surprised that their commands, when on duty, were looked upon as being more in the nature of ad- vice than an order to be unquestionably | obeyed. The remarks of our soldier friend | were in accord with universal experience, | which has ever shown the importance of | keeping up most rigldly the lines which | divide privates and officers, if that disci- pline is to be maintained upon which the safety_and well-being of all depend in ‘war.—Episcopal Recorder. ————— American Farmers Slandered. The London Spectator says: “You can- not rid the m'erai‘e Aterican farmer of | the idea that when silver and paper | money are plenty times will be good."” The average American farmer deserves a | better reputation than ‘this. He showed | in the recent election that he does not | think silver and paper money in abund- | ance necessarily make good times. In that election he declared that silver and paper currency need bracing up, and that old must be used to do the bracing. The | farmer voted for the preservation of the | gold standard. It was the farmer's vote which saved the gold standard from as- sault in the next House o Representa- tives, If the farmers had been faith- less to the cause of financial sanity the Republicans would have bgen beaten in the election. In the manufacturing and commercial region the Republicans lost ground. They xalned&round in the ag- ricultural districts. hen the Specta- tor d!fiest! the recent election returns from the Western States it will have a higher opinion of the American farmer. St. Louis Globe-Demaocrat. TAKE toys for the children, will be sold at saving if you come our way. Other Cut Prices. Light Capes or Jackets, $10 kind... Ocean Bpray White Blankets, $§ kind. Citron, finest and freshest, 20c kind... Cranberries for immediate use... Comb Honey, finest stock, 15¢ kind. Mince Ples, home made, 25c kind. Chocolate Bonbons, have no e-ual French Mixed Candy, fresh made. Ralsins, 20-Ib boxes $1 50, L layers Christmas Magic, by Professor Hoffman, in next Sunday’s Call. THEM ‘We may not be able to deliver goods bought after 12 to-day. Our Cut Prices Christmas lines of goods, to eat, for show, to give as presents, or © o9 L N Prices all day and during the evening. come. It will be a big day for us and will be a big day for you in money- AWAY. Will enable you to see them home......J .. .. Come early in the day. Ample force to wait on all who SMITHS CASH STORE 26-27 Market St., S.F, NVITES the attention of the public to lthe need of IMMEDIATE and SUB- STANTIAL DONATIONS if the institu- tion is to be kept open. The ‘‘Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses” is In desperate circumstances. During the past year there has been no public entertainment given for this worthy charity, and because of the gen- eral interest of the people in Red Cross work and needs of soldiers the hospital has received but little private help. DO NOT FORGET THE SICK CHILDREN. DONATIONS of groceries, linen, cloth- ing, fuel, drugs, etc., WILL BE SENT FOR at any time designated. Donations received at COULTER BROTHERS, 227 Sutter Street, Use and Faclal Soap 7 Faclal Cream. If you have a Hump Nose, Roman, Flat, Pag, Red or Broken Nose, or any mark or blemish on, in or under your skin, call on or write JOHN H. WOODBURY, 127 West 42d st., N. Y., 163 State st., Chicago. UNITED STATES BRANCH. STATEMENT ~—OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— Helvetia Swiss Fire INSURANCE COMPANY F ST. GALL, SWITZERLAN: 0%, SNITZERLAND, oN THE the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Calle fornia, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Cash market value of all stocks and bonds owned by cx . Cash in company’s office. . P Cash in bank; - az,66 a1 Interest due and accrued on all stocks and loans. L. 3518 68 oo 73,139 60 Total assets. . BB b apusteq LABILITIES. sses adjusted and unpaid........... Loases in process of adjustient op L S n suspense. P B -l Losses resist % ] Gross premium: ning more than one year, $50,761 12 reinsurance pro rata.. Due and accrued for salaries, rents, g 7 Ao All other demands against the com- & pany .. - 30,0288 o esduidead wesiees $251,530 88 INCOME, Net cash actually recelved for fire premiums 52 Recetved for all other sources Total intome. EXPEN Net amount paid for fire losses (in- cluding $15,702 54, losses of previous T, ac e L e Paid for State, natioral and locai 401 15 14,008 23 Total eXpenditures.................. §203,564 11 Losses incurred during the year...... $130.35 17 Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks. Premiums, Netamount of risks writ-| ten during the year.... Net amount of risks ex- pired during the vear.. Net amount in force De-) cember 31, 1807, $46,867,208{ 456,581 15 31,500,088 318,871 19 -| 36,055,649 856,511 40 ELIJAH R. 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