The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1899, ... MAY 16, 189 CKELS, Proprietor. EAKE, Manager. | Communications to W. S. L ..Market and Third Sts., S. Fv shone Main 1865, ..217 to 221 Stevenson Streed phone Main 1574 RS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. PUBLICATION ¢ DELIVERED BY “ARRI Postage: , one year. ay ), 6 day Call), 3 m Month, Terms DAILY CALL (I Y s > authorized to recefve subscriptions. forwarded when requested. ....908 Broadway GAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Adver Room 188, World Building ng Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFIC TR C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Adverti ng Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, Sixteenth, open untii 9 o'clock. 251§ sion street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner T y-second and AMUSEMENTS. and ‘“Cavalleria Rusti- Vaudeville every afternoon ties. ghth—Bat- cement Exer: Evening, Friday even AUCTION SALES. | day, at 11 b Real Estate, at 6 v ok, Furniture, at 1. m., at 220 Valen- THE REGULATICN OF TRUSTS. can be expected from such a trusts as that adopted in In fact, such legislation is m t 1 good enforced it is's ; e ¢ combinations of capital which are great industries in t ctions upon the s magni- enter- governments to Legislation to that end iich would materially guard the lic with interfering with any ng for the promotion of vast in- of stock comp. t smaller competitor: From these two sources f offenses of trusts, and if they 1 s reason to believe the eco ich has b the devel tal could be left to its t danger to the general we! 1 operation wi to wik ization has been extent ch over capita n by the fact that since the beginning year there have been organized in New with an egate capi han $1,500,000,000 t review of the su his sum exceed s all the gold, silver, 1 circulation in the United therefor have been not machinery could not indeed, represents buildings, money remair an enormous sum, which rep resents nothing but speculation. Yet upon the whole of it the companies will endeavor to pay dividends, in the e wvor will not be scrupulous as to the means of obtaining revenues If now by any supervision the Government could prevent gorporatibns from expanding their business with so much fictitious capital a long step would be taken in protecting legitimate business from cut- throat competition. If trusts could be made to repre- sent no paid up capital their number \\'mxldi’ be less 2 eir temptation to unfair business mgth- ished all corporations, particularly ng what e known as public util s and water compa nies ha the one portion being i is of stockholders and sther in those of ders, and they extort munities revenues st set is taken from cient to pay dividends nd interest to the other. Thus there nies just about e c by such comp: 11 twice @ 1t tuke se legally permitted to ernment is already secking to prevent rail- v corporations from making unf; i with an increasing understanding of the complex ity of the problems involved it is 1 will succeed. The chief issue of the time, thercfore, in dealing with | trusts is to check over c ition. If a law could be enacted requiring the enterprising men who have | floated. $1.300,000000 of stock in New Jersey to the ¢ in or quit business there would be a ing e e s An enthusiastic jingo suggests Roosevelt and Funs- Republican Presidentia there are two serious objections In the first place it i in the second place Kansas would e the names reversed. f inquiry court seems to be final by nobody. The beef contractors t should be followed by the retirement of Gen- \iles, while the country is of the opinion Alger The report of the be regarded 2 Judg vorce to Cissy Loftus .reported to ivised her to marry again, it if he were standing in with divorce lawyers shed to provide another case. ....Marquette Building | 41 Mission street, open untii i0 o'clock. 2291 Marke¥ | not endure half-slave and half-free, for between the two there was an irrepressible conflict, applies with still greater force to a republic ruling without their consent twenty millions of “island subjects.” Men who look beyond politics to the principles of government, which are the foundation of all politics in a free State, will readily apply the principle of the ir- repressible conflict to a republic which governs citi- zens at home by their éonsent and subjects abroad against their consent. The meaning of General Lee's statementis painfully plain. It is an expression of Confederate assent to imperialism, to the permanent subjugation of our island subjects, because it will compel the same civil and political subjugation of the negroes at home. This deepens and darkens the problem and must 2dd to the anxieties of all who thoughtfully consider it. It means the control presently of nearly 25,000,000 THE HEAVENLY TWINS. HE nearest approach to a classical immortality Tthat Governor Gage and Daniel M. Burns will ever make is conveyed by the ironical use of the phrase, “par nobile fratrum,” or “a noble pair of | brothers.” Their intimacy is as close, if not as pure, as that of Jonathan and David. It is quite likely that they will be as inseparable hereaiter as they are now. The State is filled with narratives of their relations to | each other, which unite them as intimately as the Siamese twins. It may be presumed that the people can, still identify Daniel M. Burns. He cannot be remembered by any great deed he has done, by any noble word he has | spoken, by any sound principle he has advocated or v statesmanlike measure he has originated. His | achievements in petty municipal politics or in his | former official connection with the State, though oft- | of subjects at home and abroad. No Northern im- | en threshed over in the press, were not in themselves perialist can find fault with General Lee's Confederate | enough to rescue him from oblivion. ‘But, as the rail- | repudiation of the Declaration of Independence nor | road candidate for the Senate of the United States, | with the tone of contempt in which he refers to it. without a single intellectual or moral qualification, | Nor can any such resent the air of exultation with | with a record, to use David C. Broderick’s celebrated | which the Confederates hail what they properly regard 1 . “dripping with corruption,” and in hardened | as the early triumph of the principles for which they tisregard of popular sentiment, he stands upon a pin- | stood in 1861. There is a very faint trace of political nacle of unenviable notoriety, miry and slippery, yet | difference between a government owning “subjects” inguishable amidst the fetid exhalations of the |and a master owning slaves, and there is no moral nor of politicians with whom he is most intimately icthica] difference at all. The whole issue is illuminated associated by its statement to the Confederates. The battles And this is the selected adviser of the chief execu- | fought abroad are for the subjugation of 13,000,000 of tive of the State of California, who stood on a high | blacks at home, for a constitutional change denying perch during a long canvass and roared his independ- | to them self-government, for repudiation of the Decla- nce of railroad influence and of every form of hos- | ration of Independence as an absurdity. ility to the public till he became hoarse and his| 1In this view it stands the Republican party in hand isteners stunned! He sounded his own immaculate | to examine its ancient charts and see whither it is rity through the gamut of a bugle, with the under- | drifting. If the premise and conclusion of the Con- one of a trombone. A mere interrogation that even | federate leader are admitted the Republican party has suggested the possible existence of a suspicion among | no further reason for existence. If it affirm the right those who did not personally know him that his tem- [to hold subjects it cannot deny the right to hold | perature toward C. P. Huntington was not below |slaves, and all the terrible and glorious history it made s much indignation as the honest |in the first four years of its power fades away like the parrot felt when he admitted he could talk but ! morning mist. > denied the right of his interlocutor to ask him if he | The view of General Lee is that of General Wheeler, wanted a cracker. The aureole through which he | Senator Morgan and the whole list of most influential | shone as a candidate while the railroad was “out of | Southern leaders. They see in conquest and empire transfigured him into the semblance of a {and the owning of subjects not only a positive his- party saint, whom the people could pro torical vindication of their position in 1861, but a b | by e It 11 i1 | F t J | zero excited in him | | | | politic ximately wor- [ { ship while the common wirepullers glared and tore | present and future advantage of the first order. It in the distance { makes them again masters of the negroes. It puts | Sa with locked arms would | their heels once more on the neck of the blacks. It ecism than the individual :m!\-anccs forever the principle that the weak have no vction of the Governor that | rights except by the will of the strong. It forever lidate that was. There is no,| forecloses against Jefferson’s doctrine that strong and al tastes, which may | weak, high and low, all men are born equal and with xcite curiosity or surprise, but nevertheless belong | certain inalienable rights. It overthrows finally and | to the region of undebatable privacy. So the affec- | destroys that protection of inherent right in which | tionate blending of rancid oil and muddy water thus | Jefferson believed. Inalienable right disappears from personified was wonderingly observed and mutely tol- | the world. None will make its fight, none respect its |erated. But when the legislators had dispersed and | expression. The weak and humbie will be born into 1 in their scattered homes in the midst of their ! the world unequal and with only such rights as the relieved constituencies the plot thickened until the | strong choose to give them. ve been a greater nization after the ¢ d the Senatorial ¢ | accounting, however, for perso | e RANCH AND RURAL LIFE The use of wood pulp for paper has not entirely obsoleted rag paper. Many a housewife on a ranch has wondered what to do with old clothes that are past wearing. Formerly the ‘rag man” used to make his rounds and trade tinware for garments that had served their time and been dis- charged as clothing. In London there is a paper mill that makes a special kind of paper. Near by is a flat, barren plece of ground where old clothes are buried to undergo a ground sweat in preparation for use in the paper mill. A corner of this grave yard is set aside for old linen goods. Thg linen is placed in boxes, called coffins, in layers, with finely pulverized soil between each layer, and the coffin is then buried and limewater is sprin- kled over the grave. At the head of each grave is a wooden headstone bear- ing the date of the interment. After a fortnight the coffin is raised, me linen is taken out, put in a warm blanket and rushed to the paper mill. This supplementary retting produces some chemical change in the flax. The average wheat yield in the United States is thirteen bushels and in Europe thirty bushels per acre. A Clydesdale horse recently exhibited in New York is the biggest horse in the world. He weighs 3000 pounds, is 20% hands high, 32 inches arour{d the arm, 45 around the stifle, and is 11 feet 4 inches long, and his head is three feet long. An inquirer wants to know the wealth of nations. Mulhall's tables give it as follows: United States, $81,750,000,000; Great Britain, $59,030,000,000; France, $47,950,000,000; Germany, $40,260,000,000; Russia, $32,125,000,000; Aus- tria, $22,500,000,000; Italy $15,800,000,000; Spain $11,300,000,000. These compu- tations are based upon values of real estate, buildings, railways, merchan- dise and the circulating medium {n each nation. Experiments are on in Europe with new feedstuffs as a dairy ration. The stuffs tried are cocoa-molasses, molasses distillery refuse, blood mo- lasses and bran. They all gave good results in milk except molasses distil- lery waste. 2 In a life of 70 years a man spends 25 years in bed, 12 years in work and 12 in play, 6 years in eating and drinking, 6 years in walking, 3 years in dressing, 1 year and 5 months in illness and wastes an equal amount of time. It takes him 12 weeks in putting on his shoes, and he spends 3 years in making his toilet. < " The wild rose grows all over the world except in Australia. ADVICE. There was some one or other who had a quaint way Of merrily saying “Furgit it!"” Don’t keep on bewailing your lot day by day. It isn't your duty, so quit {it. There’s no use complaining of how things are run. This earth has its sorrow and likewise its fun. If you find you can’t right any mischief that's done, “Furgit it! Furgit it! Furgit it!” Grim winter has lingered, but gnarly old trees Strive for blooming and murmur “Furgit it!” And the echo is caught by the whispering breeze. Regret? They would never permit it. Our troubles we've had, and we'll have them again, But when solace invites only folly seeks pain. Let us grieve when we must and till then sound the strain, “Furgit it! Furgit it! Furgit it!” —Washington Star. STATE NOTES. The Tulare Times says a farmer down there was offered 50 cents an acre for his wheat crop for pasture by a sheep man. The farmer was just start- ing for town and told the sheep man to call next day. That afternoon the farmer drove home in the rain and his wheat crop is now worth $20 per acre, due to the shower. The Alta Advocate says that seines will be needed to harvest the wheat sown on the dry bed of Tulare Lake last winter, for the lake is refilling with water. The Sacramento Bee reports the net profits on twenty acres of sugar beets at Courtland to be $634, or $31 70 per acre. n Eastern poultry raiser is looking for a location in Contra Costa County. He puts the net profit of the business here at $2 per hen per an- num, and intends to keep 8000 hens. There is complaint of fruit dropping, and it is wrongly ascribed to the dry weather of last year. Quite to the contrary, it is due to the wet weather in March of this year. The orchards that were in bloom when the heavy rains came were injured by washing the pollen from the bloom so that fertilization failed. Especially peaches will grow to a certain size with- out fertiiization and then they wither and drop. It is no sign of any dis- ease in the tree, and the only injury is the present loss of the crop to the extent to which it drops. Mr. Alden Anderson of Solano County has shipped cherries already to New Orleans, Kan City and Chicago. is to the front this however, it does not | pment | The figures are | cct in the New | ion fully double the investment, | air discriminations, | ticket for 1000, but ate was involved and a private anomaly became a | | public nuisance. ; For it was soon apparent that these heavenly twins | cre not the mere victims of an unaccountable and an | engrossing tenderness, but that they had an engage- | ment togetl r. Huntington as proprietor | and Will Her as manager. The Governor, | who had quickly anmasked when the railroad carnival nd out tongue voters who had registered his victo began who stuck his t the duped . cagerly prom- | ised to caricature Nero. who appointed a horse to le of Penns msulate the exam | fied at Wash | clashing merc Ivania was rati- wgton. Meanwhile the rewards of the enaries were to be distributed, and who could be so representative an intermediary as his alter or his other self? ient rehearsals were over and the parts rized. Up went the curtain, gently tinkled ter’s bell and the open spec , is apy acular drama . which, like a Chinese pla ently in one All the interested spectators see is rapid changes of scene, with the same crowd tumbling over ea ict and never to end. other from one point to another. And, amidst the general tumult, the only fixture is the | receptive Gage and the whispering Burns. | same precious rumor the silver agitator was told that by upholding Miles he could discredit the administra- | tion and thus help his own party. Gage is | | South. wvered in the orange groves of the 3urns is there. A rapid shift is made to the recesses of the executive chambers in the State Capi- tol. Burns is there. The rush of steam is heard and Gage soon appears in the port of the Palace. Burns i ishes into one of the dim recesses hostelry. The coat-tail of Burns Gage reappears on the ento bank of our California Tiber. re. Gage va chitecturz glides from the 1 crow¢ Burns is there. Shaded nooks, obscure corners, open porticos, festive grill rooms, all the resorts and all the refuges of | the haunted purveyor of political viands, follow each other in prompt though irregular procession. But amidst all the transmutations the prompter is un- changed, there is one vociferous gang, one hypno- tized Gage, and one eternal and indescribable Burns. The audience is numerous and respectable. des Republicans who will have to participate with { their means, with their influence and with their labor in the realistic performance And their chief interest now is to ascertain whether the will finish their disrepu- of the coming year. worst actors they ever saw table parts and allow genuine stars and a good stock | company to take possession of the stage. ; SELF-GOVERNMENT. 1l Stephen D. Lee, chairman of the history committee, to the Confederate re- union at Charleston contains’the following sig- “The reception given our benevo- | lent intentions in the Philippines is certainly of a char- | acter to inspire a wholesome respect. We are not likely in the future to hear so much about the right en who have not yet learned to govern them- | selves to govern others by their votes. The doctrine | of the Declaration of Independence, that governments { derive their just powers from the consent of the gov- erned, had something of a shock in the war between the States, and the island subjects of the United States | will find little comfort in reading that celebrated in- | strument by the light of subsequent history. The dif- ficulties of the race problem abroad ought to bring a charitable judgment of the same thing here at home, and we may reasonably expect our Northern brethren | | to meet us hereafter rather in a spirit of inquiry than | | of rebuke. The recent movement to put the su-: | premacy of the more educated upon a constitutional | {and legal basis, thus banishing the :pecter of misrule | from our borders, is steadily gaining progress.” It will be observed that this is a deliberate assertion ! of the rightness of the ethical basis of slavery. It is difficult to disagree with the conclusions reached by | the Confederates if the premise of subject races is ad- | mitted. The statement is a renewal of the academic | discussion that was brought on by Lincoln when he " : “If a man govern himself, that is liberty, that is | self-government. But if he govern himself and an- | other man, that is tyranny, that is despotism.” : The nature of the government given to the other | {man, its goodness, its benevolence, did not enter into | the question at all. The fact that it was government without consent made it despotism. The joint state- HE report of Gene nificant passa at It in- | |ignore the general or Alger will resign. | intri | traor Surely Mr. Moorfield Storey spoke with the voice of prophecy when he said in 1806 that “our form of government and our free institutions can endure any vicissitude and misfortune, but they will hardly sur- vive victory in a foreign war.” court o [ strong movement has been started, seemingly by | the meat packers of Chicago. to hopelessly discredit General Miles and force him from the army. The at- | tack has been maintained continuously ever since the THE FIGHT AGAINST MILES. “3IROM the manner with which the report of the quiry has been rec ived it is evident a report was made public and has been pushed forward | | under as many forms as ingenuity can give it. One of the most cunning of the devices to injure the general was put forth a few days ago in a report that “General Miles is observing the letter but not the spirit of the obligation to accept the report of the army beef court of inquiry as final. He still talks to friends about a packed court, and they are quietly working for Congressional investigation. William J. | Bryan’s influence has been sought.” It is said in the From this story, told with repeated assertions that | it emanates from “good authority,” it would appear the general of the army is engaged in a political in- trigue against the President and the War Department, that he has formed an alliance with the noisiest agi- tator of the country for the purpose of fomenting dis- cord and gratifying a personal spite. If such a story should find credence among any considerable number | of people it would seriously injure the general's repu- | tation, and to that extent aid the angry beef packers in their efforts to deprive him of his rank and force him linto retirement. | Fortunately the concoctor of the report, the Wash- ington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean, was led by excess of zeal in the cause of the beef con- tractors to go too far and betray the animus of his story. By way of making a contrast to the alleged subordination and intrigues of Miles, the report says Secretary Alger is well satisfied with the situation and will continue to do his duty as heretofore with- out fear or favor. The report then goes on to say: Should there come a time in the future when Miles shall attempt to have the Secretary overruled by the President, then Secretary Alger will refuse | to submit to intimidation and will maintain his self-respect by surrendering the portofolio. He has stgod between the President and enemies of the ad- ministration for many months and taken abuse that was meant for and in fact applied to the President. But he will not submit to being used as a means of reconciling Miles and creating harmony with an in- subordinate official. If the President wishes a Sec- retary of War who will truckle to the discredited major general in command he will have to find an- other man, as General Alger will not do so. It will be seen the story concludes by speaking of General Miles as a man already discredited, and holds cut the hardly veiled threat that the President must It is a fair supposition that all the first part of the story about the gue with Bryan was about invented solely to make occasion for the closing passage. The fight against the general has clearly become one of ex- dinary bitterness, and it would be worth while to have a Congressional investigation if for no other purpose than that of disclosing the men who are { backing it. It is announced that certain prominent men in New York are arranging to welcome Dewey to a banquet which will cost $100 a plate, and if they do the dinner will not be any too good for the admiral, but at the same time it will prove there are some millionaires in the big city who can make even patriotism take asi- nine forms. The British continue to talk of the advisability of keeping an open door in China, but it is noticeable that whenever Russia shows a desire to walk in the British hasten to shut it with a bang. 3 Senator Mason’s pure food commission is not living up to its title by any means. It has found plenty of ment of Seward and Lincoln that the republic could adulterated foods, but the other kind eludes pursuit, Solano County sugar beets and fruit. peaches. There was no dropping there, thinning is a necessity. 93 per cent, the highest of any State. The new winer per ton, on basis of 22 per cent sugar. $12 and the M on $10. year with great crops of hay, grain, All the men in Vacaville who were idle have been put at work thinning , and the crop set is so heavy that The Government crop report puts the condition of California wheat at at Geyserville has contracted for grapes at $10 and $12 The Zinfandel on that basis will bring WILL INSPECT THE CITY’S ARMAMENT | ENGINEERS WILL ESTABLISH RANGE-FINDERS. Officers Arrive From Governors Isl- and, New York, Charged With Important Duties. Major J. P. Storey and Captain H. L. Harris, of the Engineering Department | of the United States Army, arrived yes- | terday from Governors Island, New York, | and registered at the Palace. They will | immediately proceed to the inspection of | the fortifications and armament at points around the hay. The visit of the two officers to this city is in line with the plans of the Depart- ment to put San Francisco and the pen- | insula on a modern war footing. the past year the antiquated guns that have been used for vears for no other purpose than an occasional salute have | been displaced by the more powerful and | effective engines of recent invention. Mortar batterles have been put in until the swales of the foothills hack of the | Presidio bristle with them. Range finders for the new guns and the batterles have not vet been installed, the visit here of the two representatives | of the Engineering Department. | They have already inspected the port | at San Diego, where they es:ablish»d] range finders ‘at Point Loma, and after c(‘mYlellng their work here will proceed north and inspect every fortification along the coast as far as Vancouver. e !ANSWERS TO CORRESIONDENTS. POLICE PENSIO{\—’A, 8., City. No act of the Legislature has affected the pay- ment of pensions to police officers. GUIDE OF SANVFRAN(‘ISCO—-REadf'r, Vallejo, Cal. Any first-ciass book store | will procure for you a San Francisco | street guide. COLONEL OF THE FIRST—J. F., New York, N. Y. There is no such officer as| “the colonel of tive First National Guard | of Caflfornia.” | EUCHRE—A. F., City. In a game of | euchre, four handed, if A plays alone | agains{ B and A takes three tricks and B | two, A scores one point. THE SAN FRANCISCO—H. F. M., City. On the 5th of April, 1899, the cruiser San Francisco was out of commission and was | | at the Norfolk Navy-yard. HUNTINGTON'S AGE—F. K. G., Oak- land, Cal. Collis P. Huntington was horn | | October 22, 1821, at Harwinton, Litchfield | County, Cénn., so last October he was 17 | years of age. CHAFING—J. P., Ben Lomond, Cal. Persons who are troubled with chafing of | the armpits find great relief by wearing absorbent cotton between the parts which rub together. TO MOUNT HAMILTON—City Sub- scriber. The most convenient way to reach Mount Hamilton from San Francis- | co is via San Jose, from which place there 1tsla line of stages to the top of the moun- | ain. MARRIAGE LICENSES—A. S. City. A marriage license issued in Alameda County could not be used in Mendocino County. Such a license is valid only in California, in the county in which {t is issued. e S S NICK CARTER—A. S, City. “Nick Carter, the Detective,” who has been writing a number of detective stories, is not known in police circles as a detective | who ever figured in the annals of crime and those who apprehended criminals. STOCKING THE" CARDS—G. W. B,, | City. By a process known to sporting men as ‘“‘stocking the cards” a deck of cards can be so arranged that even after the cut all players would not have an equal chance for a good or a bad hand. DIVORCE-L H. R., Sanger, Cal. A di- vorce that is valid in the United States is valid in Canada. Such a divorce is, generally, also valid in Great Britain, but there are some instances where it would not be valid in the lalter country. as, for instance, relating to British subjects | when a question of residence ig involved. THE PYRAMIDS—A. 8., City. The Pyramids of Egypt all have an entrance, During | & and this duty is the primary object for | 1 | Personal property | taxation in the State of California. generally from the north. This depart- ment would advise you to call at the Free Public Library reference room, and in the cyclopedias there read very interest- ing and instructive accounts ~of these structures. EXAMINATION AT MARE ISLAND— T. R., San Mateo, Cal. A person desiring to take an examination under civil service | rules for the position of mechanic at the Mare Island Navy Yard should request an application blank and_ information from the secretary of the Board of La- bor Employment at that place. ANTS—G. H. J., C An easy way to exterminate ants is to smear a plate with lard and place it where the insects do most congregate. The lard will attract the insects, they being very fond of it. They will be caught on the lard and when there are a number caught that way hold the plate over a hot stove and the lard will run into the fire with the ants and cremate them. Then prepare the plate anew. AN IMPERSON nas, Cal. TOR—Subscriber, Sali- If you are possessed of “a fal- edge of music and would make a good female impersonator,” you had better of- fer your services to some reputable man- ager of a vaudeville theater, and if you have the gift you claim for yourself you will be engaged. Before you send vour picture for é\uhllmtlon as an impersona- tor yvou had better wait until you are acknowledged as such. INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY—G. F. K., Angeles, Cal. If a husband or wife owned property before marriage, never made it over as community property, the exclusive ownership rests in the one who owns it. If the party dies without havin, made a will the property is distrlbuteg according to the law of succession. As you do not state what relatives the dece- dent left it {s impossible to tell the man- ner of the distribution. This department refers you to that law, which is quite lengthy. PERSONAL PROPERTY — P., City. is not exempt from The constitution of the State says: “All prop- erty in this State not exempt under the laws of the United States shall be taxed in proportion to its value: provided that property used for free public libraries. and free museums, growing crops, prop- erty used exclusively for public schnof;. and such as _may belong to the United States, this State or to any county or municipal corporation within this State, shall be exempt from taxation.” PERFUMES—E. P. A, City. Perfumes | are extracted from flowers by enfleurage, absorption or masceration, from the roots by tituration, and from the seeds by dis- tillation. The process is divided into four distinct operations, viz.: (1) Expres- sion, (2) distillation, (3) masceration, and (4) absorption. At the Free Public Li- brary you will find books that will give you information as to the application of these methods for the extraction of the odor from the tuberose and other flow- ers. This department has not the space to give the several processes. EASTERN ADEPTS—G. E., Pacheco, Cal. This correspondent asks a number of questions in relation to the power of the Eastern Adepts, existing at present principally in the north of India and Thi- bet, who, to establish bevond the shadow of a doubt that man possesses a soul, separate it from the body and rejoin it at wiil, and so forth. The questions were | submitted to one who has made a close study of the matter and his reply is: These questions call for the expression of an Indlvidual opinion, since they concern matters that in the Western world at least do mnot come under the head of exact sclence. Before exact science admitted the rotundity of the earth any statement whatever upon the sub- Ject could have been considered merely an opin- fon. So it i3 to-day with these subtler forces of nature. The Theosophists, who affirm as proven hypotheses these occult forces so en- tertainingly described by A. Conan Doyle and other writers, disclaim either authority or dl- vine revelation for their doctrines and insist that each individual can only prove or disprove them for himself and for himself alone. There are extant many well anthenticated accounts of the Adepts and Yogls of India and Thibet and their remarkable knowledge of natural forces, but there are also many who discredit them. From the standpoint of the Theosophist all the questions asked should be answered in the affirmative. The materialists declare them all moonshine or imaginative. The agnostics decline to answer. However, one of the greatest of agnostics, Huxley, once wrote that it was reasonable to suppose that there ‘were beings as superior to men as men are to black bectles. 1In the Fastern philosophies there are infinite grades or beings on both sides of man and_ somewhere along in the ascent from the ordinary man there must be, of course, those who can accomplish all the n ‘“The Mystery of providing only that the Eastern philosophies are the true ones, and that is a question that no person a right to de cide for another. tto voice—mezzo-soprano—some knowl- | ] AROUND THE CORRIDORS » Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is a guest at the Lick. J. Maginnis, a railroad man of Los An- geles, is staying at the Palace. T. J. Eager and wife of Boston, Mas: are registered at the Occidental. W. W. Chapin, an iron pipe manufac- turer of Sacramento, is at the Palace. J. M. Striening, a fruit packer of Santa Rosa, Is making the Grand his headquar- ters during a brief stay in this city Joseph Simon, who broke the deadlock in the Oregon Legislature and was elected United States Senator, is at the Palace. Henry C. Davis, United States Marine Corps, arrived from Washington, D. C., last night with his wife and took quarters at the Palace. Dr. A. H. Suggett, a prominent den of Marysville and a member of the Alum- ni Assoclation of the Dental Department of the University of California, is spend- ing a few days in this city. Assistant Superintendent J. C. Fraser of Pinkerton's detective agency, Who re- cently traced Samuel M. Findley, default- ing Tax Collector of San Luis Obispo, to Lima, Peru, and caused his arrest, will leave Callao with Findley on the steamer Santiago on Saturday, due to reach Pan- ama May 20, and expects to arrive in San Francisco on or about June 1 _——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 15.—William Lund of San Francisco is at the Savoy. D. F. Garretson of San Diego is at the Man- hattan. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGT! WASHINGTON, May 15.—J, H. Hazzard and wife of San Jose are vifiting friends in Washington. H. Osgood of Los An- geles is registered at the National. —_—————— READY FOR A NEW TERM. New Rules for Admission of Pupils to the Lick School. The new term at the Lick school will open July 3l Pupils will be limited -to seventy-five boys and thirty-one girls. The school, will be free of charge for tuition, and will be open to an o girl of this State who has completed the eighth grade of the grammar schoo upon the following conditions: Applicants will be admitted upon satis- factory recommendation from their for- mer teachers, principals or school supe intendent. T June 1 of each y places are reserved for qualified apoil- cants. Applications received after June 1 are not acted upon until July 15, and {f the number of such applications exceeds the number of places remaining, then competitive examinations will be held for those whose applications were fil later than June 1. This examination w be written, and the applicant’s qualific tions will be judged by his av.uty to ex- press hlmsvlf’ clearly and correctly }‘,\_ means of simple English sentences; by his knowledge of the processes of arit metic, and by his acquaintance with the leading facts of United States history and descriptive geography —_— ee———— In the Divorce Court. Decrees of divorce have been granted Phoebe M. White from Michael White on the ground of infidelity; Alexander J. Hepburn from Alice Hepburn on the ground of willful desertion; Eva F. Suy- dam from William H. Suydam on ground of desertion. Suits for have been filed by Fanny Wright a 1 John A. Wright for fallure to pi X S. Beardslee against Frederick Beardslee on statutory _grounds, and ustino Manuel Faustino against Maria Fa v for desertio —_—e——————— The Martha Mulcted. United States District Judge de Haven decided for the Government erday in the suft of the United States vs. the Mar- tha for $2000 damag=s allcgnd to have been sustained by the United States coast sur. v steamer Patterson. During a hea gale on the bay about a year ago the Ma tha drifted into collision with the Patter- son. The master in chancery was author- ized to fix the amount of the damage. me e Cal. glace fruit50c per Ib at Townsend's.* e e ‘ Special information supplled dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 10:2 ————— Cigar Smuggler Held. William Clay, driver of the donkey en- gine on the steamer Queen, was held to answer yesterday by United States Court Commissioner Heacock on the charge of smuggling. He was caught at 4 o'clock in the morning spiriting a valise filled with Mexican cigars from the mer. —_—————— Y. M. C. A. Excursion via Burlington Route. Leaving San Francisco Thursday, May 18, 8 a. m., the Burlington route will run through tourist cars to Chicago, in charge of a manager for those desiring to attend the Biennia! Con- vention, Y. M. C. A, to be held at Grand Rapids, Mich.,, May 24. A Tourist cars will also run from Chicago to Boston for those desiring to extend thelr jour- ney to Eastern points. Full information given and reservations made at 32 Montgomery st., San Francisco, or 972 Broadway, Oakland, » —————a— Rock Island Route Excursions. Leave San Franclsco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island rallways. Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Manager and porter accompany these excur- elons through to Boston. For tickets, sleeping car accommodations and further information, address CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Railway, 624 Market st., S. F. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet and makes walking easy. Cures Corns and Bunlons, Swollen, Callous and Sweating feet. Sold by all drus; and shoe stores, 25c. Ask to-day. Sample FR Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. B —_— e —— It you lack appetite try half a wine glass ot Angostura Bitters half hour before meals. Made by J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. — ee———— John Duenberger Drowned. The man whose body was taken from the bay alongside the steamer Umatilla, near the Broadway wharf last Sunda John Due was identified ¥ as berger, a paperhanger. He w on Saturday night and was v toxicated. FOR | BREAKFAST: