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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 30 1899. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Talephone Main 1868. ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Matn 1874. BY CARH 15 CENTS PER WPEK. Single Coples, B cents. by Mail, Including Postage: EDITORIAL DELIVERED 1day Call), one year. .0t zy Caell), § mont! 8.00 inday Call), 3 months . 1.50 Mon! 8¢ e Year 1.50 1.00 Year = e authorized to receive subscriptions. will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE ... .908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Forcign Advertising, Marquetts Bullding, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C.CARLTO Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR.. ......29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Enerman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northera Hotel; Fremont House: Auditorfum Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Weldor-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, #1 Union Squarey Warrsy Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...... J. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open unt!l 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll $:30 e'clock. 639 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 e‘slock. AMUSEMENTS. fa—'"Mme. Sans Gene.” bia . . Monday Night 31, at 11 o'clock, August 1, at 12 August 3, at 11 o'clock, 12 o' s August 10, at ock, EXAMINER PERSONALITIES. wling for the flag s FRiSH: r early an W 1 bu g was to be nailed to 1200 ) s away was not discussed nd there that lasted s not finished when she d States has since then , and the Examiner, snarling discus- From the ar until now that paper, such discussion, has with responsi- 1 the field. No spirit principles of the e itself it entered upon a dead of the Maine as sandwich , and the United States to beg money nen ed agents and appoin dead who lost their lives It succ >. Morton and William C. Whitney When Hear tried to get the use of ex- nd but Mr. he declined to permit the Maine to sing scheme for Mr. Hearst killed the matter at once. It en to their senses and people ded in bunkoing st name th lost prestige, old be on en ind which was designed papers and their low attack on General Shafter, a sol- had been proved in battle from the planned antiago campaign advertise by the blackguard abuse of that is the subj ct of personal nst natural obstacles at all, and has obeyed the hich is a soldier’s first duty cannot discuss the political policy 1 kes his presence and action in that pre- 1st, in the best w 1ay be due in the Philippines, against Otis for his use of to carry out instructions and s initiative has beerr used in to his conduct are unimpeachable. that put him there and set his task for ed by to do 1 the Examiner. If it have proved has done to carry out but lies at the door of than he 11t is not his. ! York Jourtial and the Examiner, whict ve done their best to make such policy appear 1 execution feasible. ists like Hearst cannot turn attention from mistakes, by making a scapegoat of Otis. there is, is at home, not in the Philip- the officers orders with a valor and dash which not with and soldiers in a hard execut dded to t e glory of American arms. e e iceman Barry, who has ambition (0 become a 1t, arrested and charged with burglary the other a 13-year-old-boy caught peering through a win- dow pane in the house of Market-street Railway Man ager Vining. Barry made a fatal mistake. Under the law, stealing a look is not more than petty larceny. 89 | = | ity parish of San Francisco. C. V. S. Gibbs, still in | There are men of all races in San Francisco, but all ...Wellington Hotel | peedily to an honorable and suc- | would not permit Mr. Hearst to | himself and since then | sk assigned to him in | 1d to their orders, his | AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. Sunday last there was a celebration of the | O fiftieth anniversary of the organization, un(?cr | the auspices of the Episcopal church of Trin- active business but the only survivor of the original communicants, delivered a most interesting address, in which he traced the detailed history of the parishand astonished the younger members of the congregation by the record of eminent men and women who had been connected with i work, both in its spiritual and in its secular departments. Mr. Gibbs himself had been the | president of the Society of California Pioneers, had | extricated St. Luke’s Hospital from a condition of | virtual insolv v and raised it to its existing pros- perous condition and, during a life of long duration and of intense activity, in which he had touched almost every public interest except political management, had | established a reputation in which there was no flaw, | and that resembled a brilliant trail of light. | Yesterday the Congregationalists began the cele- bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of that form of religion in San Francisco and again the chief spokesman was the only survivor of the first local communicants—David N, Hawley, a gentleman of whom it may be justly said that, in all the relations of life, he has maintained the high standard of the He, too, was enabled to Episcopal representative. | group together in his account of the labor that had | been performed by the Congregational denomination, in this city and on this coast, the names of men and women who are known far beyond the limits of the State of California. These two incidents have been mentioned plrely for During the next few months For sev- P an illustrative purpose similar celebrations will rapidly accumulate. s or more prior to the adoption of our enty-five State constitution the Catholic church had main- tained effective missions, the history of which is as familiar as household words. Even before the close of the last century the religious element had | permeated the Indian population of the Spanish prov- {ince that has now, under American auspices, attained ction among the States of this Union. The | high disti extraordin intelligence, education and enterprise of the pioneers of 1840 have been repeatedly eulogized. { But these semi-centennial illustrations enter into the | history of the world as the most convincing proof of the loftiness of American civilization, wrought into | symmetry and beauty by the great constitutional re- public | The thirteen Colonies, which in the first instance formed the Union, largely owed their origin to relig- But no such motive power drove to the shores of the Pacific. ey came here simply in the search for wealth a centuries before, the Spanish had gone to Mexico and Hardly had they reached our soil, however, ious persecutions. California pione to Peru when the genius for organization, the deepest and the ent in our composite race, especially strongedt eler under the American system, controlled the situation with unparal Not only were hes of every sort planted, but before January 1l or charitable society then existing in the United States was firmly estab- Itshed in our midst. Trade and commerce were in- stantly marked by system and by order. f y and strength. led vigor and success. chure frate 1, 1850, every Society w fra 1 into A" complete form of government for the State and for counties and consister for municipalities, which in the debates of 1850 re- ceived the encomiums of the first statesmen in the country, of such men as Clay and Webster, sprang into being almost at a stroke, and the men who com- posed our first Constitutional Convention, taken from and from the ordinary walks of life, the professiona istituted a body scarcely equaled in the records of rerica. Even lynchings were not the wild outbreaks of the present day. Th ized to the usual course of justice in legal tri- ; were temporary expedients, analog bunals It has been the fashion to refer to the early Cali- fornians as mere adventurers, hunting for gold, wild, undisciplined and turbulent. They have been miscon- ceived by great writers and in the pages of leading re- | views. In fact, they were the very reverse of this false characterization. They exceeded all precedents in every part of the globe in the speedy formation of a progressive commonwealth. Within two or three fter the migration of 1849 San Francisco, pro- possessed of all rs vincial the elements of American civilization, and from this it is true, was nevertheless center the force of organization extended to the ex- treme limits of the S Our school system covered every county and every municipality, and in no newly admitted State has it ever been equaled. This fact will be admitted by every trained educator who has e studied the subject. Necessarily for many years there were other and less respectable features in our communities. But down to the present date we have produced no degradation such as exists in whole quarters of Paris, London, Now and for all time our early history will shine resplendently | in the annals of human achievement and in the per- manent literature of the future, in the glowing stories of the beginnings of States, California will be relieved | from unjust odium and will stand among the leaders ‘ of American civilization. New York and other metropolitan cities. | | | THE TURN BEZIRK. AN FRANCISCO has a joyous and jubilant welcome for the turners and the {riends who have come to gladden as well as to honor the ity by making it the scene of their biennial festival. | No race of people better understand the art of life than the Germans, and no class of Germans have de- veloped more fully or more sanely the joyous side of that art than the turners, so that a turner festival never | fails to show a scene of as wholesome and hearty en- joyment as earth affords. No feature of German life is more distinctively characteristic of the race than the various turn vereins to be found wherever Germans exist in any numbers. The athletic young German does not tend like the Anglo-Saxon to football games or to similar sports. | He seeks the gymnasium and there develops every S | general agility, strength and suppleness he is perhaps | superior to the young men who carry off the honors | of the ball grounds. | As to which of the two methods of training the |body is the better, authorities differ. Fortunately we |in the United States have both methods, for while our {tendencies are toward the sports for which the British are noted, we have among us a German element | sufficiently strong to infuse the spirit of German ath- | leticism throughout the country. The young Ameri- can of the future will be able not only to hold inter- | national college matches with his British cousins, but |to contend victoriously in the turner contests of his cousins of Germany. Whatever may be the differences of opinion con- [cerning the relative merits of the two methods of }phy cal training, there is none at all on the subject of music. The bawling of any American or British football team is not like the singing that is heard in the festivals of the turners. We shall have that music I(-f friendship and joy with us through all the days of rac muscle of the body to an equal degree, so that in | the festival, and all genial hearts will be responsive to lit. Itis going to be indeed a halcyon and vogiferous | time and one that will be remembered for many a day. | For the turners and for their friends, therefcre, we have a welcome of more than ordinary cordiality. |are alike in the humanity that delights in meeting generous hearts and sharing with them the joys of a festival big enough to take in a whole city. So long as the bezirk continues and the turners are with us | San Francisco is theirs. If they do not see what they want, they will please ask for it. A POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION. Y the committee in charge of the work of pre- paring a suitable reception for the California volunteers on their return from Manila an ap- peal is made to the citizens for funds to defray the expense of the grand ceremony, display and other | i | festal features of the welcome. It goes without saying such an appeal will be met by prompt contributions. He will be a niggard Californian, indeed, who will not be glad to contribute something to the fund intended for such a purpose. The subscription in fact will be popular in every ! sense of the word. Popular because it will appeal to all the people and popular beeause all the people will When all contribute to a fund | of this kind no one need give much, but it is im- portant that all should give promptly. The troops are on their way home. There is none too much time left for arranging the jubilant welcome that is in- tended for them. It is desirable, therefore, that the committee be supplied at once with the money needed to make the welcome worthy of the city, of the volun- teers and of the occasion. With the excitement of the war upon us we made a civic holiday to bid our volunteers farewell, and it was amid the applause of thousands of proud and patriotic voices they sailed away to the Philippines. They now return to us with victory, to find us rejoicing in the | sted in extorting 30 It is but right they receive it with favor. peace which their valor as e B i o el o promptly from a beaten foe. should receive on their return a welcome which will attest the pride of their fellow-citizens in their service and the general joy over their home coming. To pro- vide that welcome money will be needed. It should be contributed gladly, liberally and promptly. GOLD IN CIRCULATION. —LLIS H. ROBERTS of the United States E Treasury in the course of a recent address be- | fore the Maryland BankersY Association | strongly urged them to assist the Government in put- | ting gold coin into general circulation in the East, and pointed out that since the volume of paper is re- stricted it is only by an enlarged use of gold coin the | currency can be increased to meet the demands of commerce. . { After stating that since July 1, 1898, the gold in cir- | |culation had increased by but $62,100,570, while the | net amount in the treasury increased from $189,444,714 | to about $246,000,000, Mr. Roberts said: “Such an increase in the yellow metal available for | currency, with the demand real or alleged for addi- tional circulation, gives vital form to the question, | Why not add to the use of gold coin? Under exist- |ing laws the volume of United States notes is defin- itely restricted, while silver certificates cannot ex- ceed the standard silver dollars in the treasury, nor | the treasury notes run beyond the bullion held against | them. The national banks while adding to their cir- culation $13,451,004 from July 1, 1898, to June, 1899, are now quite steadily drawing in their notes, mak- ing a reduction against bonds last month of $1,041,860 and thus far this month of $216,500. Practically, then, | without new legislation, the only way to increase the | currency is by the use of gold coin.” | Obviously, as Mr. Roberts said, the question for | Eastern bankers about gold coin is not—can they get but will they use it? The issue is a strange one to people of the Pacific Coast, where gold is in such cir- | culation that paper money is a rarity hardly ever seen | in the course of retail trade. In the East, however, the people have grown accustomed to paper and the | banks appear to be unwilling to educate them to the | use of gold. ‘Even among the more influential news- papers of that section there is an opposition to the use of the yellow coin. The Néw York Times, for example, in commenting | upon the subject recently, said: ] *“Gold coins doubtless have all the merits which were ascribed to them by Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, but they also .have the inconveniences which he admitted they pos- sessed, and the chances are that his arguments for the more extended use in ordinary business transactions of value’s best representative will be as little heeded as controverted. The citizens have had many painful and expensive proofs that paper currency is open tc serious objection of more sorts than one, but then it is so handy and coins are such a nuisance!” Against such prejudice as that it is almost impos- sible to argue effectively. A people who prefer soiled paper for money and regard gold coin as a nuisance | are well nigh beyond the reach of reason. We have therefore, in the East the strange spec(’ac]e of a com- munity complaining of a lack of money in general cir- | culation and yet refusing gold, which the Government is literally begging them to take off its hands and | put to use. t | Another San Franciscan has distinguished himseli abroad. Harry Bostwick, son of Rev. Henry E. Bost- wick of Trinity Presbyterian Church in this city, was | manager of the Seoul Electric Company during the riots which followed the killing of a child by one of the cars. A Korean mob was soon clamoring for his | blood. With a single American companion he faced and dispersed it. All he did was to raise his hand and exclaim “Chorikah!” which in English means | “Git.” His air was so determined and his pronun- | ciation of Korean so bad that the heathens “got” in | a hurry. —_— | Time and again since he has been a champion pugi- list, Jim Jeffries, handy as he is conceded to be with his mitts, has been caught by observant reporters trying to slip money to some poor man or woman. | No &ne ever caught him at it before he went under | Brady's management and still they say he has im- | proved in the use of his hands. H g —_— f Before the Czar’s Peace Congress adjourns and while it is still on the subject of conventions, would it not be wise for the delegates, in the interest of uni- | versal peace, to recommend the prohibition of Demo- | cratic conventions in the United States? | A dispatch from Seattle announces the destruction | by fire of the Goliah, which, it is claimed, was the l oldest steam vessel on the coast. Must be a mistake somewhere—what's the matter with the Growler? | The spirit of American activity is contagious. Even the volcanoes in the newly Americanized territory of Hawaii seem imbued with it. S & | the city yester | late arrivals at the Occidental. BIGGEST RACE OF MEN.IN.THE WORLD + O R e S o 2 2o ] ‘] PR N S N S ot et S SOR o o o ol g G R o o S S o QO+-0-004000900060100000+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+040+0+04000+@Q They Live in the Antarctic Regions and Have Just Been Discovered Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who has just returned from an exploring expedition to the South Pol tographs of a race of cannibal giants discovered by him near the Antarctic Circle. The e been denied by scientists, but Dr. Cook has not only seen and talked with them, but bring beyond argument that the biggest race of human beings in the world is to be found in t are clad Thelr strength and endurance are remarkable. forms of both the men and women miles in a few hours. AROUND THE ? 7CORR]D0R5 1 Judge Ansel Smith is registered at the | Grand. | Tke Cullberg, a banker of Arcata, is a | guest at the Lick. | Sherift C. F. Blankenton of Socora, N. | Mex., is at the Palace. | Ex-Congressman W. A. Piper is serious- | 1y il in his rooms at the Palace. | Edward Deckum of Honolulu is one of | the recent arrivals at the California. W. F. George, a prominent attorney of | Sacramento, is at the Grand, accompanied | by his wife. G. F. Pock, a wealthy real estate man of Stockton, is one of the late arrivals | at the Grand. | Dr. O. A. Ktrk of Fort Bragg arrived in | v morning and registered | at the Grand. Captain G. Q. Foster of the misslonary schooner Robert A. Logan s a guest at the Occidental. S. Gordon, one of the leading mer- | chants of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick, ac- companied by his wife. E. I. Johnson, one of the best known merchants of Boston, Mass. is among the E. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Gault of Portland, Or.. are registered at the California. They [ come to this city for recreation. A. C. Rosendale, a wealthy and popular | merchant of Pacific Grove, was among vesterday's arrivals at the Grand. | ‘W. S. McCormick, the Salt Lake banker, | who recently made a $50,000 gift to the Roman Catholic Cathedral of that city, Mrs. H. K. Hanna of Jacksonville, Or., wife of Hon. H. K. Hanna, Judge of the First Judicial district of Oregon, is visit- ing relatives in this city and Oakland. George J. Denis, the newly appointed Code Commissioner from Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. He comes to attend a meeting of the commi on that is scheduled to take place to-morrow. Joel S. Priest of the Salt Lake Herald | is at the Palace from Utah. He comes as | the advance guard of those who will | travel to this city to welcome home the | boys of the Utah Battery when they re- | turn. Colonel W. L. Hardison of Ventura is a guest at the Palace. It is reported that assoclates of the colonel who have been in Peru for some time looking for the | hidden treasures of the Incas have been | successful in their quest. | e e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 29.—Henry Zieman of San Francisco {s at the Bartholdl; Thomas C. Wortling of Los Angeles is at the Marborough; C. G. Lister and wife of San Francisco are at the Manhattan. Miss F. H. Porter was a passenger on the Lucania, sailing for Liverpool to-day. PP PS600960600000 ¢ COMMUNICATIONS 3 9900000800000 09 % SUGGESTIONS TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES To the Editor of The Call: Notleing an editorial of yours regarding “Forest Fires and the Necessity of Their Prevention,” 1 take the liberty of a suggestion. Year after year in this and other parts of Santa Barbara County fires occur in the surrounding hills and mountains. The country now Is)becoming gradually de- nuded of many of its trees and forest patches. This year, however, no fires have occurred, and it is attributable to the vig- flance of the United Statds Forest Rangers, who are now employed at a falr salary during the summer and fall months to patrol the Government forestry re- serves, and with it they patrol all the adjacent lands around about. They watch each individual that comes within their allotted territory and prohibit any camp- fires in the mountains where there is the Jeast apprehension of danger, every man being interviewed and watched. They also have facilities for extinguishing an incip- fent fire Now {if the State could have such a patrol over its mountain lands it would be of incalculable benefit and would solve this matter of fires in the mountains and the destruction of forests and denudation of the country’s water sources. Very re- spectfully, L. E. BLOCHMAN. Banta Marla, Cal., July 27, 1899, B by Explorer Cook. From a Photograph. in furs; the men arm themselv W The men can outrun any hors o A SONG FROM THE FRONT. The following verses published in a re- cent number of cedom, Manila, serve as an interesting illustration of the songs our soldlers are composing and singing when off the firing line: VOLUNTEER REGULARS' LAMENT. Respectfully e Sam and inley We are getting tired of soldiering in These sultry Philippines And rather sick of hard tack, bolled Rice and pork and bean: But we've stood it with tr As is the only proper way. And we never thought of kicking Till they swiped our travel pay. e Yankee grit, You sent us here on transports That went tumbling like a log, And the grub on which you fed us, sir Would almost kill a hog; But we lived on hope and s Not a wopd had we to say; But we've ot a kick ing Bince you swiped our travel pay. a breeze, y We left our farms and ranches And our business in the town: We crossed the trackless ocean And whipped the § Forced the gates Where the Spaniards lon And now must lose that A private's travel pay pittance, We have slept in muddy trenches Charged the bamboo, thick and thin, Crossed rice flelds, bogs and marshes, ramped through mud that reached chin; Now our sky is dark and Of hope there’s not a ra 'Tis a case of total eclipse Since you swiped our travel pay. our suded, ‘We haye trounced the Filipinos: Yes, have fought them day and night— Never questioned for a moment If the cause was Wrong or right. Many a brave, true-hearted comrade That has failen by the way Is a greater loss to some one Than our paitry travel pay. Well, some time we may get a chance To even up the debt, For some of us are living now, And will live still longer yet: But some cold November morning Some candidates will say, “Oh, that they'd never meddled with A ‘soldfer’s travel pay KIOW. EABESTE STE@RIES of the FUNNY MAN. Heroes Should Get Together. “Bay, I got a great idee. “Wat is 1t?"” Battery L. “Make Jim .(Yieflrles a committy o' one to e 0 out on pier an’ eorge Dewey.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. —_————————— Worse Yet. “That man cheated me out of a cool million.” “Ah!—wouldn’t let daughter, I suppose.” “No; he let me marry her, and doesn’t glve us a cent.” i ————— With the Hunting Set. Miss Chase—That sporting widow who got the brush to-day has been in at the death a_good many times. you marry his Miss Hunt—Yes, and each of them left | her a fortune.—Brooklyn Life. — e Mutual Joy. Stubb—Did their marriage end happily? Penn—Oh, ves, they managed to get to Dakota while the divorce law was still valid. —_————— Faro Jim was deputed by the other famhlers ot Pansy Gulch to compose ?he nseription to go on the tombstone of a departed member of the fraternity. It was brief, to the point, and read as fol- lows: ‘‘He done his damdest. could do no more ‘Exchange. —————— “Why do they call a ship ‘she?” “Because her rigging costs so much, I guess.”"—Wasp. P99 0960000000600 ¢ PRESS COMMENTS : POPPOSCEOPOPPICOPPIGOESPOSP AFTER PEACE, WHAT ? The Congress of the United States, which can alone fix the terms on whic! the Philippines are to be held or released, will meet in December, if not earlier, and will then take up the subject, the most momentous that it has had to deal with since the Civil War, perhaps the most momentous that ever came before it. We shall then be at the turning of the way and must decide whether ours shall be republic dedicated to the principle Tabbing everything within reach and olding subject peoples without any in- tention of either introducing self-govern- ment among them or of allowing them to \ of receive Uncle | Angels | vernment or a conquering nation | r regions, brings pho- tence of such a race has always back photographs to prove e frozen south. The monstrous ith bows and arrows and wooden clubs. n a long stretch. They can cover fifty The nearing sue must be I:\vh]c\e 1t for themselves. of the time when this | fought out among ourselves has prompted | Senator Davis of Minnesota to take an early stand in favor of perpetual reten- | tion"of the Philippines. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela- tions adv that the Filipinos shall be held as a subject race permanently and not provisionally. There is a certain | frankness about this proposal that com- mends it to our admiration. It leaves no room for skulking or for half measures —New York Evening Post e § Why Shafter Is Attacked. Santa Rosa Press Democrat. People are getting heartily tired of the aminer’s continued assaults upon Gen- Shafter. His management of the Santiago camp: was perfectly satis- ctory to that journal until its corre- spondent was made to know his place. nce then there has been nothing too | mean the Examiner could say about him. ‘Tho fight being made against Shafter is | not doing him any harm, becs the public is thoroughly acquainted with the | motive which prompts it. | ser_that carries its personali- | such length injures itself more | than any one else. People become Inclined | to_question the motive back of its every action. The result is always a loss of | prestige and of influence and very often a loss of business besid e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHIEF YEOMAN—The pay of chiat veoman on a United States ship is $60 per month. 5 FRE CONSUL—Mea, Greenville, al. address of the Consul for ance In San Francisco i{s 604 Commer- | i CH i cial street. The ., City.. Captain G. D. Sigsbee was on board the Maine when she | was blown up in the harbor of Havana | on the 15th of February, 15%. FOUNDRY—L., Cit department nnot advertise where you can purchase | such a quartz mill as you desire, as it never advertises any business firm. 102 FRUIT QUOT Subscriber, C | The quotations in the commercial « ums of The Call will give you the price | of frult to pac \nd from that you 1y the value of a like aches and pears. | can figure out any amount of prunes STATES AND TERRITORIES-C. O. K., City. There are forty-five States n the American Union, thirteen original and thirty-two admitted. There are as Terri- tories, New Mexico, Arizona, Indian, Dis trict of Columbia, Alaska and Oklahoma. THE HOTTEST DAY—H. H. and H. L., City. By the question, “What was the | register on the thermometer on the hot- test day this year up to and including July 27" does mot convey any idea as to What place the Information is desired about; but presuming that the writers refer to San Francisco, the answer is— April 20, 1599, 80 4-10. LANGUAGES , City. There are 2150 languages. The principal ones are: nglish, French, German, Russian, Span- Italian, Portugue: This departme -, Chinese and Jap- t has not the space | to aevote to an article on the varlous branches of these languages. At the li- | braries you will find_books on philology that wiil give you the desired informa- tion. | TWO TRACTS | of 1and of equal A.S., City. If two tracts ¢ productive character, each of 160 acres, are planted in wheat, one | being dead level and the other all hills and hollows, the hily territory will have | Btore surface on which to plant grain than | the flat one, but as to the results no one ¢can say with certainty that the hilly ter- fitory will yield more grain than the flat Surface, as much may depend on condi- flons. one being that the hilly territory Will mot have as much moisture and that might have some effect on the yield. BUNTING WITH STARS—R. D., West Oakland, Cal. In hanging bunting with | stars on the biue, the stars should go at the top, with plain bunting red and white | undernéath, Bunting of that kind takes the place of the United States flag. With plain bunting of the three colors, which Bre intended to represent the American tri-color, the red should go at the top, then the white below that and the blus still below that, S0 as to make the har- mony of colors—red, white and blue. A BALLOT—C. Oakland, Cal. A | voter has the right to write the name of person on the blank space under the ted names on a ballot if he does not to vote for either of the regular nom inees, or he may write the same name on each blank space on_the ballot, but he must not place any distinguishing mark | on the ballot, as for instance the address | of the person whose name is written in. Write only the name. Such a ballot would | nave to be counted, but the man who cast it would be casting his vote away. | e PO by | cal. glace truit 50c per 1> at Townsend's. * | et Special Information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ A