The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1899 Caaek i B { JANUARY 28, 1809 pretor. T JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pro Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street E Telephone Main 1874 PUBLICATION OFFICE RRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. sSirgle Coples, § cents Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday Call), 6 months, DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months. 5 AY CALL, one year KLY CALL, one year. & ‘All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. 908 Broadway DELIVERED BY CA Sir OAKLAND OFFICE.... NEW YORK OFFICE..... DAVID ALLEN, Adverti .Room 188, World Building ng Representative. WASHING TON (D, C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcatative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | 106 Eleventh | Mission, street, open until 9 o'clock. Street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ena Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—¢'The Wizard of the Nile."” ‘A Contented Woman." aza en and Women." Tivoli—*"The Wedding Day.” ©Orpheum—Vaudeville. Comedy—*Ténnessee’s Pardner.” Chutes and Zoo—Planka, the ‘‘Lady of Lions.” Olympia—Corner Mason and Ellls streets, Specialties. Qentral Park—The Steeplechase. Oakland Race Track—Races To-day. Ingleside Coursing Park—Coursing to-day. Metropolitan Temple—Plano Recital Monday evening, Feb- ruary 6. ‘AUCTION SALES. Wm. G. Layng—Saturday, January 28, at 11 a. m., Howard street, Horses, Buggles, etc. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, January 30, at 12 By G. o'cldck, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery street. EXTEND THE SEAWALL. E of the measures which commends itself to the judgment is that introduced by Senator Braunhart relative to the extension of seawall southward. Phat there is necessity for mor re evident day by day te should be well within the bay is equally clear. The Braunh measure seems to leave little to be d. It-provide t only for the wall, but the lishment of the fand by which the improvement wharfage is be- de a vbte of the people. - There'can hardly be a doubt the wail will be ‘constructed, for the need of it is palpable. . -’ The maritime business of San Francisco is on the increase. There has been, particularly since the growth of the Governmen transpart business, serious embarrassment ‘for wharf room. There is no-reason why ships should be ebliged to anchor in the strggm.and wait a,chance to getto the dock. The delay involvedis costly and wasteful. -San Francisco has perhaps the finest natural harbor in the world. Every, advantage should be taken of the fact, and the n_ advocated by Senator Braunhart cannot meet with opposition. It is something de- rpur.'xli(“cly by the tendency of the city to gro very improvement on the water front is a distinct benefit'to the whole city, and here is a f improvement which means much to the exten: & schene 1uriciy The bill, we understand, has passed the Senate, and it should not-meet with opposition either in the other House or at the hands of the executive. )a HASTENING THE MILLENNIAL DAWN HERE exists the possibility that Assemblyman Tt’ummcm is a joker; if he is not, he is a joke. His plan for hastening the millennial dawn shows signs,_of having been conceived while the gentleman was in a happy dreani €oncerning the time when sin shall be no more. He wants candidates to be for- bidden by law to treat anybody to a cigar, a drink, cven of sodawater, and then to swear that the com- | paign *has "been conducted without resort such wicked devices. There is a law now which provides that every can- lidate must under oath set forth his expenditures. > statements are filed promptly enough, but no- is expected to believe them, and nobody does. h ‘the Caminetti bill a law, the unhappy candi- would simply have to swear a little harder. Wheti* sidh*a stite of morals exists as will permit a candidate to ge a campaign without buying a few cabbage Jeaves and “smiling” with his friends there will be" no need of any law on the matter, for’the milfennium will be here, and drinking and smoking have become things-of the past. It is not to be anticipated that the measure will . It ought not to, for it would, if it could be en- foreed, -work a great hardship upon the worthy army of touts“to whom politics is a business, and who, but for the kindness of the candidates, would have to - snatch cigar-butts from ‘the gutter and either drink Tydrant water or go thirsty. Let the Legislature, in this thing of being truly good, not crowd reform’too fast, lest there be a re- lapse, and the last state of politics be worse than the first, thus not 'encouraging the arrival of the millen- niumy but rather retarding it. e e DICKINSON’'S BILL. Tth‘c remarkable Senate bill authorizing the slaughter of journalists was ascribed to Sen- ator Dickinson. It should have been credited to Sen- ator Morehouse. The.Senator from Santa Clara thinks the newspapers have not treated him with the deference due his character and worth. The value of his -opinion is not under discussion here. Anyhow, Morehouse is the genius who thought out and promulgated the scheme of an open season for writers and artists. An apology is due the Senator from Marin. to NOT HROUGH inadvertence, the introduction of e o s There is no need of alarm Mecause the soldiers on board the Scandia have money in their pockets. Of course they will gamble, but they won'’t get any Bar- bary Coast whisky. Senatért Mdrehouse is understood not yet to have selected a site for the private graveyard where he pmp\vasesrlo plant obnoxious journalists, AsSemblyman Dale did the Charlie Ross act for three days very successfully, 00 | true citizenship. the | nd that the extra | be maintained, and submission of the scheme to | |HOWARD E. WRIGHT'S EXAMPLE. HE name of Howard E. Wright flares like a Tbeacon before the young men of California, into whose hands its development is about to pass. The restiveness of the people against political corrup- | tion has been manifested for years. That form of dishonesty has been very general and very rank, but it could not be permanently endured in a State, mighty within itself, facing the Pacific, which is the world’s arena for the twentieth century, and producing a | high type of womanhood and of manhood, in which | moral perception is the necessary accompaniment of 1 intellectual breadth. Within the last few years much has been done in | this State to spread the knowledge of the elements of Among other things, able and | learned men, many of them connected with our State | universities, have delivered courses of lectures upon | the constitution and upon our national history be- fore large audiences, of all political and religious creeds, in the principal cities and towns of the State. The fundamental truth that the permanence of our institutions and the spread of American ideas, through natural channels, depends upon the intellect, the education and the integrity of individual citizens and upon the extirpation of every form of political tergiversation, has been enforced and illustrated, un- til the combined effect has almost attained the dignity of a popular demonstration. The movement thus definitely launched is rapidly spreading, until there is a fair prospect that it will receive the support, as it unquestionably has the approval, of the mass of | our citizens. | Various organizations, in which the tide of our | Western civilization is rising, are indicating their in- tention actively to participate in this great educa- tional work, through which the Grand Army of Amer- ican Citizens may insure the salvation of the country , and the fulfillment of its destiny. | The proceedings at Sacramento, therefore, in ‘re- lation to the Senatorship, however dexterously con- cealed, will not escape the calcium light of popular scrutiny, and the exposure and the fall of the Speaker of the Assembly, his foolish surrender of oppor- tunities rarely within the reach of men of his youth and of his limited experience, will serve to prove that corruption, like murder, “will out,” and that there can be no future for a legislator who sacrifices his own | independence and his own honor. In other States and countries men who have sold | their influence, when detected, are personally shunned, or, in the English phrase, “sent to Cov- | entry.” This is the rule by which the United States will have to be safeguarded. Our tolerance in mat- ters of religion and of politics, which, within its proper constitutional sphere, cannot be too wide, must be withdrawn when the print of bribery appears on the forehead of mercenary representatives of American constituencies. MR, PERKINS AND THE CHRONICLE. HE Chronicle of Monday last instfucted the Tchis]ature to instruct Senator Perkins not only to vote for the treaty of Paris without amend- ment, but ‘to swallow his own convictions, publicly expressed and shared by the ablest statesmen in the country, and vote also for the annexation of the Philippines as a territory of the United States, and for the admission of the Filipinos to full citizenship, which the Chronicle has frequently declared is the | legal result of territorial acquisition in Asia under our | form of government. { The ground for the demand for this new instruc- | tion is the assumption that Senator Perkins has con- ceded “that a State sends men to Congress as agents, and not as principals.” The expression is inaccurate, because an ordinary agent is usually invested by his principal with some discretion. This, however, is not the Chronicle’s interpretation of the views of Senator Perkins in reference to instructions. The kind of agency it means is the mere authority, automatically exercised, and on national as well as State questions, to record legislative decrees whenever they are pro- mulgated. Senator Perkins has a brain of his own. ! He is well read in the history of his country. He has had a wide legislative and executive experience. He has associated at Washington with the greatest Amer- ican statesmen. How will he like the Chronicle’s ac- ceptance of his letter to the Legislature as a com- plete surrender of his own individuality and of his relations, on all national issues, to the entire popula- tion of the Union? We cannot and do not believe that the humility and self-abnegation of Senator Perkins are so extreme as this extraordinary demand of the Chronicle would | seem to indicate, and we think that the views ex- pressed by The Call on the same day this demand was made are an accurate exposition of the true situation. That Howard E. Wright and his boon companions in the Legislature should have the power, in con- junction with better men in the same body, to dic- tate to Senator Perkins how he shall vote on a ques- tion involving the terms of the Federal constitution, our practice and our precedents in acquiring terri- tory on this continent and the rights and interests of seventy-five millions of people, is too absurd for serious consideration. Senator Perkins is 2 man of intelligence, of knowledge and of character, and his own manhood would not permit him to look his fellow Senators in the face and acknowledge that on national affairs he was governed by telephonic or telegraphic communication with Sacramento. Whether the treaty of Paris i, or is not ratified without amendment, we look for such a contest as the world has rarely seen before men of the ancestry and position of Senator Perkins break their constitutional obligations and, against their own intellects, judg- ment and patriotism, vote to convert this nation into an Americo-Asiatic republic, or into a colonizing empire modeled after the type of Great Britain. THE MERCHANT MARINE BILL. ENATOR BOYCE has done well in submitting S to the Legislature a joint resolution urging upon Congress the prompt passage of a bill for the upbuilding of the American merchant marine. It is full time to enact this legislation, so long needed to do justice to our sailors and our ship-builders. The very fact that we are to this day without any adequate protection or governmental support for our shipbuilding interests is itself proof of the far-reach- ing power of the forces that are opposed to such legislation. We recently directed attention to a state- ment of ex-Senator Edmunds that while in active politics he had fouglit for such legislation for twenty- five years, but had been always baffled by hostile in- fluences. The power of that opposition has not weakened either in strength or in resolution. It is as potent to-day as it has ever been, and it is there- fore important the friends of the measure should be vigorous and persistent in, supporting it. The life of the present Congress is rapidly ebbing away. The day when it will end its term will soon arrive, and there is much business before it. There are grave issues of army reorganization, of Hawaiian government, of the Nicaragua canal, to be discussed, and the opponents of the American merchant marine will take advantage of these to postpone consideration of the bill, if possible. They will fight for delay if they cannot hope to defeat the bill by any other , Teans, and it is against such tactics the friends of the rieasure must guard. One of the most effective means of supporting the bill under these circumstances is that of impressing upon Congress the urgency of the measure and the strength of public demand for it: That can be done by the adoption of such resolutions as that intro- duced into the Legislature by Senator Boyce. When Congressmen are made to tinderstand by the declara- tions of Legislatures, Chambers of Commerce, and all forms of organizations known to the country, that the people demand the enactment of legislation that will promote our shipbuilding industries, they will be less easily induced by the opposition to postpone the issue and leave it for the next Congress to deal with. MURDER AUTHORIZED BY LAW. Tthroughou( the country for the correction of what their authors deém to be public evils. These bills are all framed upon the theory that it is possible to regulate everything by law—a theory so utterly at variance with human experience that its entertainment by any sane person is marvelous. The common law of England was based on the customs of the people, and it grew, thrived and developed with them. What the people thought and did was sacred. All the courts attempted in law cases was to discover the custom which governed and interpret and give it force.. The American’ idea of fixing the common law by statute is exactly the opposite of that on which the HERE are few greater curiosities than the bills which are introduced into legislative bodies H magnificent legal system of England has become the wonder of the world. If an American legislator's view of a theatrical performance be obstructed by a woman’s high hat, he immediately introduces a bill making it a misdemeanor to wear hats in the play- house. If the cartoonist bother him, he at once frames a law making it a felony 'to ridicule a man, no matter how ridiculous his acts may become. If a rewspaper prod him with printed words, he turns his attention to the law of libel and attempts to abridge the liberty of the press. If the carelessness of trainmen cause a railroad accident he introduces a bill requiring them to be more cautious. In fact, there is nothing of a utilitarian character which he will not attempt to do by law, never thinking that after all unless statutes accord with the customs and sentiments of the people they do not become a rule of action, but a source of irritation. The limit of legislative interference with the cus- toms 4nd habits of the people, however, may be said to have been reached when a bill is introduced to pro- mote murder. It would not seem to be possible to conceive of any human ill for which homicide would be a panacea; the law at present does not justify it on any ground except self-defense, though juries ‘sometimes acquit outraged husbands and fathers who commit it on the ground of insanity. Yet a California legislator entertains the idea that murder should be justified when a person, deeming himself aggrieved, kills a newspaper man. We venture to say there is no instance in the annals of legislation in which personal to this. Making murder the pastime of frauds and politicians may be denominated the highest achieve- ment of the art of changing laws to suit the whims of legislators. ¢ This bill is not likely to receive much consideration at the hands of the Judiciary Committees, many of whose members are, still happily sane; but if it were to pass, what would be the effect? Only brave and reckless men_ w?\_:ld follow the profession of journal; | ism. Tinfd jodijgalis&é would write in secret, leaving their colleagues, clad in armor and loaded down with knives and pistols, to defend the craft from assault. Under such a condition who would be killed in lar- gest numbers—the frauds and politicians or the jour- nalists and artists? It should be easy to answer this question. . The life of every man who even addressed a journalist would be in danger. Newspaper offices would become not places for collating and printing news, but slaughter-houses, and legislators would be slain in the halls of legislation by the wholesale. We think the author of this measure after a short trial— if his life were preserved—would be the first to advo- cate its repeal. Barbers will petition the Legislature for the enact- ment of a law requiring that no craftsman be allowed to lather and cut without having undergone an ex- amination. The telegraphic mention does not specify the character of the examination. Possibly it will be in grammar and the principles of English construc- tion. A reward of $30,000 has been offered for the con- viction of anybody voting illegally in Pennsylvania. This is too much, for it is sufficient to tempt the pri- vate detective to “detect” the innocent, and a lot of false swearing can be done for the amount. Senator Ashe, who has in great measure depended upon the press Yor the making of his fight, now seeks to curtail newspaper freedom. This is about the style of gratitude which caused Caesar to exclaim, “Et tu, Brute!” There is no reason why Senator Morehouse should dislike the papers. When he proclaimed himself as one of “stainless heart” every paper in the State did all it could to spread the information. RN i Aguinaldo has been empowered to declare war, b\:t if he is a person of discretion he will not do it. Aguinaldo might by modesty and tact get Uncle Sam to let go, but he can’t lick him. et In Colorado the people are fighting their way through snowdrifts, and in this part of California they are asking that summer chestnut, “Is it hot enough for you?” ool The gentlemen who went to Sacramento to testify as to-the purity of Burns ought to have enjoyed the experience so much as to have never thought of mileage. = e There is no need to feel alarmed over the Sunday law introduced by Senator Simpson. The gentleman himself will advocate it, and it is foredoomed. At least the outraged legislators when they begin killing journalists should be required to see the graves of their victims kept green. The Mormon elders who are being persecuted in England ought to come back to Utah, where they are appreciated, and run for Congress. It is to be hoped that this summer spell will not fool the buds into getting out so soon that they will die of it later. Truth is mighty, and of course will prevail, but it oc_msinnally gets groggy at first and has to wait for its second wind. The rumor that Sacramento has a case of small- pox will never scare a Burns tout away. feelings have influenced the framing of a law similar | 05 308 30¢ 308 306 308 308 30 308 308 08 306 208 308 X0 R 00 00 0 0 O 0N O DN RO DR RE QK WANT TO BE RID OF WRIGHT. == Editor Call, San Francisco: 308 308 308 308 308 3060 X % % 1 A large number of the voters of the Seventh Ward who voted for Howard E. Wright are very anxious to subscribe for a railroad ticket to send him to Mexico. Could you kindly advise us through your columns if this proposition is accept- able to Mr. Wright, as we are anxious to raise the money at once? CALL READER OF SEVENTH WARD, OAKLAND. EAST QAKLAND, Jan. 27, 1899, LOPBOLOH GO OY =3 CLOSING OF THE SCHOOLS To the Editor of The San Francisco Call: One of the most ifnportant ques- tions has been placed before this com- munity by the action of the present Board of Education. A question which not only concerns those who are di- rectly made to suffer by the decision of this board, but it is a question which in. its. consequences means the retro- gression—almost the degradation—of one of the most enlightened and one of the richest communities on the face of the earth. This State has been well supplied with funds and resources for educa- tional purposes. Enormous sums have been at the disposal of men who by the vote of their fellow citizens were intrusted with the educational affairs of San Francisco. ‘Those funds, which would have been more than sufficient to conduct our educational institutions, have been squandered by the former Board of Education and the present board is facing a depleted treasury. This is the situation at present. Now the new board met and decided to abolish one of the most useful in- stitutions in the city and State—the Normal School of San Francisco. The closing of the evening schools, discharge of a number of good teachers, curtailing of other necessary expenses, etc., shall follow. Here arises the question, Is this the right course to pursue? The Normal School of San Francisco, founded by one of the best educators in the West, Mr. Swett, twenty-three years ago, has educated several thou- sand teachers of whom almost any community could be proud. At present 135 young ladies attend the Normal, and of this number more than 100 expect to pass their examination at the close of the present term. Only four months remain to complete their studies and recefve their diplomas; but here comes the guardian of education and closes the doors of that noble institution—the Normal School. If this decision should prevail it would deprive the city of one of her best schools of learning of which she should be proud; it would blight the hopes of all the candidates for the honor to possess a well-deserved di- ploma, and it would disgrace the Board of Education. Only $4000 is needed to conduct the Normal School to the close of the term and 106 students of this institution will present a petition to the Board of Edu- cation at the meeting to-night that they are willing to provide the funds neces- sary to conduct the institution to the close of the term. Gentlemen of the Board of Education, there is only one honorable course to pursue. = Reconsider and annul your former resolutions and uphold that old and noble institution—the Normal School of San Francisco—until such time as the Legislature shall make provision for the State of California to conduct it at its own expense. This city and our State should not be d prived of this school of learning; whi has done its share to give to them e name of one of the most enlightened and one of the brightest common- wealths on the face of the earth. THEODORE PINTHER. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Ernest Sevier, the Eureka attorney, can be found at the Lick. H. 8. Allen, a Sonora mining man, is registered at the Grand, Architect L. U. Grant of Salinas is registered at the Grand. George W. Tatterson, a Stockton real estate dealer, is at the Grand. Lieutenant Randolph Ridgely Jr. of tle McCulloch is at the California. Dr. and Mrs. Bernhelm of Butte, Mont., are among the recent arrivals at the Pal- ace. Professor James E. Keeler of the Lick Observatory registered at the Palace yes- terday. W. L. Stewart of Santa Paula, who rep- resents the Union Oil Company, is a guest at the Lick. Congressman Francis G. Newlands of Nevada arrived in the city yesterday. He is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Moore, nee Miller, of Oakland, who are on their bridal tour, are at the Occidental. F. 8. Wensinger, the well-known dairy- man of Freestone, Sonoma County, is a guest at the Occidental. A. W. Jones, president of the Monterey and Fresno Railroad, is among yester- day's arrivals at the Palace. ‘Willlam Doxey, the publisher and book dealer, returned on last night's overland. He has been East on a business trip. George W. Allen and wife of Clinton, Towa, are at the Occidental. Mr. Clinton is a prominent lumber merchant in lIowa. Mr. and Mrs. J. Furth of Seattle are stopping at the Palace. Mr. Furth is a leading banker in the Puget Sound coun- try., J. C. Bull Jr., the well-known Arcata contractor, has returned from an extend- ed Bastern trip and is at the Lick for a day or two. Dr. Cullen F. Welty and J. F. B. Gil- christ of Cleveland, Ohio, are here to en- joy summer weather in January. They are at the Palace. Postal Inspector T. H. Houpt of Find- ley, Ohio, a close friend of President Mc- Kinley, arrived from the south last even- and and put up at the California. United States Marshal J. H. Shine, one of U. 8. Grant's chief lieutenants in the Senatorial fight, came down from Sacra- mento last night. He will return to the scene of action to-day. W. W. Smith, for the past year chief clerk in the Northern Pacific freight office in this city, will become chief clerk of the Pennsylvania lines on February 1. His successor in the Northern Pacific of- fice has not been named. Freight Agent H. C. Bush of the Santa Fe has gone to San Diego to be present at the inauguration of the new steamship line to the Orient, which is to connect with the Santa Fe. The new steamer Bel- glan King, which is to make the initial trip, is ready to sail. Other Santa Fe offi- cials who will assist in celebrating the departure of the steamer are General Manager Nevin, General Passenger Agent J. J. Byrne and General Freight Agent Edward Chambers. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK " NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—L. L. Lillis and wife, Stanley Glidden, F. B. Badler and wife of San Francisco are at the Plaza. ————— Bishop Montgomery of Los Ange- les has a sermon to the workingmen of America, in next Sunday’s Call. HOW TO STOP THE SCANDAL To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: The present state of affairs at Sacra- mento cries aloud for remedial legisla- | tion. Legislators have shown them- selves unfit for public voting, as the | common herd of electors did long ago. Let the Australian ballot system be ap- plied to Senatorfal elections and the scandal will cease. Colonel Mazuma's occupation will be gone, as the uncer- tainty of the delivery of the goods will be the most effective bar to the pay- ment of the price. It is sad to have to say it, but one must deal with man as he is and not as he ought to be. Make the balloting for Senator sectet and the gordian knot is cut. Yours truly, HENRY THOMPSON. San Francisco, Jan. 24, 1899, ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NEWPORT AND CENTENNIAL—C. G, B., City. The steamer Newport is owned by the Pacific Mall SteAmship Company. The Centennial is owned by J. C. Eilis. BRIDESMAIDS — Morning ~ Wedding, City. At a morning wedding with a nup- tial mass it is proper for bridesmaids to appear with or without hats. It is a mat- ter of individual taste. GOLDEN GATE PARK—J. H. W., San- ta Cruz, Cal. Golden Gate Park in' San Francisco has an area of about 108 acres. The length of the main grounds is 16,750 feet, width 2250 feet, length of panhandle 1750 feet, width 412 feet. THE CLAUS SPRECKELS BUILDING —J. 8. W., Folsom, Cal. The Claus Spreckels building, in which are located the business offices of The San Francisco Call and the press rooms, is an 1S-story building, the height of which is 315 feet. SWANS—C. F. , Dinuba, Cal. A friend of this department has kindly fur- nished the following: * ‘Swans sing be- fore they die; 'twere no bad thing should certain persons dle before they sing,’ will be found in a work entitled ‘British Po- ets, From Falconer to Scott,’ a continua- tion of Dr. Aiken’s work. It appears among other epigrams attributed to Cole- ridge” The thanks of this department to D., City, for furnishing this informa- tion. COFFEE-T. B., City. Whether coffee should be boiled or not is a question that | has been agitated ever since coffee has been used as a beverage, and it is as far from definite solution as it was when first mooted. How to make coffee is & matter of taste, but:those who claim to be judges | of coffee declare that the proper way is- to pour boiling hot-water over the ground coffee grains, ground just before using, the strength 1o i-be determined by the taste of the user. In this manner the aroma of the fresh made.coffee is pre- served, while in boiling it passes away. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—S., City. The government of the District of Co- lumbia is vested by act of Congress, ap- proved July 11, 1878, in three Commission- ers, two of whom are appointed by the President from citizens of the District having had three years’ residence there- in immediately preceding that appoint- ment and. confirmed :by the -Senate. The other Commlissioner ‘is detalled by the President of the United States from the Corps of Engineers of the United States army, and must have lineal rank Senfor to captain or be a captain who ha# served | @t least fifteen years in the Corps of En- gineers of the army. The Commissioners appoint the subordinate official service of said government. STAMP FLIRTATION — “Snowball,” City. The following is given as the stamp flirtation: Stamp inverted on right hand upper’ corner means ‘“‘write no more.” Stamp inverted on left hand upper corner means a declaration of affection. Stamp in the center at the top signifies an af- firmative answer to a question; oppo- site at the bottom means a negative. Stamp at the right hand upper corner fixed at a right angle asks the receiver if he or she loves the sender; in the left hand corner it is a declaration of hate. A proffer of love is made by placing the stamp on a line with the surname. If the party addressed be engaged a reply is made by placing the return stamp in the same place, but reversing it. THE CENTURY—T. McG., Agnews, Santa Clara County, and C. R., City. The Christian era dates back to the beginning | of the first century, and was fixed in 525. The first century does not begin with the |’ birth of Christ. The date of the birth of Jesus is now generally fixed a few years— at least four—before the commencement of the Christian era in the accepted chro- nology. The’ reasons for this are not given, but the réckoning of dates from the birth of Christ did not begin until A. D. 5%. The precise date of the birth of Christ cannot be determined. The century closes with the last second of 100 years; consequently the present century will close at the last moment of the year 1900, and the very next moment, the first of 1901, will be the first of the twentieth century. NATIVITY AND CITIZENSHIP — A. M., City. This correspondent, in asking the following question, confuses nativity with citizenship: “My father came to this country from Europe, was never natural- ized. I was born in San Francisco, am now of age. Am I entitled to vote with- out having to obtain papers?” The son of an alien resident of the United States is a native of the United States and enti- tied to all the privileges, in which is in- cluded the right to vote, but such a son on arriving at maljorlty must elect which cmzenshlg he will adopt, that of the country of his birth, or that of the country of his father's birth. If on ar. riving at majority he performs any act which his nativity entitles him to he takes upon himself the citizenship of the United States; but if he desires, he can refrain from the performance of any such act and claim the citizenship of the coun- try of which his father is a native, and in due form become a citizen of such and doing so he is to all purposes an alien and, although born in the United State: would have, should he desire in the f ture to exercise the rights of an Ameri- can citizen, to be naturalized. THE TENDERLOIN DISTRICT — N. M., City. The term ‘‘Tenderloin District” was one that was used by a police cap- tain in New York City a number of years ago when there was a change of captains from one district to another. This par- ticular captain was one who had never been able to_get into the better districts of the city. He felt disgusted that one of his brother captains had been assigned to one that he was anxigus to get into himself, and in a tone of ¥isappointment, while discussing the assignments that had been made,said: “That fellow always gets the tenderloin and I get the cheap cuts,” meaning “that fellow” was always as- signed to the districts in which lived the very best class of peoFle and that he ‘was assigned to districts in which there was only the riff raff of the community. Of late years the term has been perverted by persons who had no idea of its origin and meaning, and who have erroneously used it when speaking or writing of sec- tions that are occupied by disreputable people. According to the intention of the coiner of the phrase that part of a city in which there is the greatest amount of wealth and the least possible call for po- lice interference is the tenderloin diserict, ———————— A Touching Remembrance. On a railway journey Morley had for companion an old gentlemax who hag been trying to make himself more com- fortable with the aid of a somewhat de- flated air cushion. Professor Morley was glowing to blow it up for him, but his action was arrested by the exclamation: “'Stop, sir, stop! That cushion contains my deceased wife's breath!”—From * Life of Henry Morley-” i e JUDGE HEACOCK SCENTS PERJURY ~ CLAD INSILK Typical Chinese Case Before Him. RESPECTABILITY CALLED IN | PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE SIX COMPANIES CONTRADICTED. Two Principal Witnesses Swear to & Totally Different State of Facts and Are Dis- credited. Another {llustration of the recklessness with which the Chinese commit perjury in the Federal courts was exhibited yes- terday in United Commissioner Heacock's court. Yee Yut Hing, a boy of 10 or 11 years of age, and Yee Wat Hing, a young man of 2 years, sought admission to this country on the ground that they were born in Elko, Nevada. Hing, the 10-year-old boy, swore before thé Chinese Bureau that he was 20 years old, and that he went back to China many yvears ago. An air of respectability was imparted to the proceedings by the introduction of a dignified looking Chi- nese, past middle age and wearing the long silk skirts of the well to do mer- chant. He gave his name as Yee ¥oo Yung, his occupation as merchant at Elko, Nevada, and president of the Hop Wah Company, one of the Chinese Six Companies, he alleged. He claimed to be the father of the boys, and said that he and the mother went back with them to China more than ten years ago, and that he himself returned in 18%. He had sworn before the Chinese Bureau that he had never had a portrait of himself taken until the time he sat for his p_hotosragh when he was making application in 1590 for a landing. Then he swore yesterday before Commissioner Heacock that there was a painting of his in his home in China, and that it had been taken full length. When asked why he had sworn before the bureau that he never had a icture taken before 1890, he replied that fie hna mibmdctstaod the question put to him in the bureau. His attention was called to the fact that the 10-year-old boy, r-old, had testified that his father’s portrait at home was only half length—from the head to the waist. This did not discompose Presi- dent Yung in the least. He explained that the portrait had probably been worn by the length of years and had been re- painted without the legs. The boys had testitfied that the other identifying -witness, So Fat, had been a frequent visitor to them at their mother's house in China.. 8o Fat took the stand and testified that he was never in their house in his life. Yee Wat Hing, the older son, swore that for five years prior to his arrival here he had heen employved as a laborer in a village several miles from the village in which his’ mother lived, and that during that period he had not lived at home. The reputed father, President Yung, swore that he received a letter by every steamer from the mother of the boys, saying that Hing, the elder, had. not worked for five years and was hanging about the house idle. Judge Heacock sald that there could he nc doubt as to the contradictions in the testimony, and that nothing remained for him' to do except to remand the petl- tioners. 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