The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2. 189 T 2, 1809 AUGUS JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. c ;c:::\fi’fiAKE. Manager. .Market and Third Sts., S. F ain 1568. 3 IT to 221 Stevenson Street PUBLICATION CFF! Tele EDITORIAL ROOMS DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 156 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents Te -Ea %hgé & %65 T OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. €. CARLTON....... Herald 8quare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... ..29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS S8TANDS. Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Botel] Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Hotel; A. Erentano, 81 Unlom Bquare; WASHINGTON (. C.) GFFICE ...Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—627 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until §30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 c'clock. 65 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | SAN DOMINGO AFFAIRS. : HE assassination of President Heureaux, after | iT serving sixteen years in that office, seems to | | have been intended to prevent his election to‘I | another term, though it had the pretext of personal | e usual means of effecting changes in the per- | sonnel of that country are revolutionary, it is not 2 a revolt has followed and threatens to ed here an Immediately there is cernment must intervene to pre- ave had three this country si we became inde- two of our Presidents have been assas- rope had treated any of id reason for sending allied armies be¢ome gene outcry th vent a rev revolutic pendent, ce ted fleets here to take charge of us, what have made to such an in- er would our people vasion? ed wide- countries, war, ‘visi on other starved while their cotton spinners o les rusted for lack of the raw cotton to spin. , ancient or modern, has visited upon tk commerce such distress and loss. Yet we | tr fought and ended it, in our own way, and would have resisted to the last man and last dollar any interference, though upon the plea of imperiled interests and rupted trade. he mongrels of San Domingo have exactly the | same rights that we had. The right of the discon- tented to revolt is not limited numerically. We have had the whisky rebellion, Shay’s rebellion and the civil war, only three, but we may have others. We‘ | have had two Presidents murdered, and our average |in both respects is not much behind that of San Domingo. Of course every American observer knows that if eated i 1941 Mission street, cpen until 10 o'clock. | Market | o1, ERTN SR e street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clogk. shjs jicoddmabiation pesm B 0RDE EAERSE Mission street, open untli 9 o'clock. (06 Eleventh | active interference, it will be not through fear of any street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open unt!l 9 o'slock. AMUSEMENTS. Alcazar— Romeo and Jullet.” Grand Opera House—'‘Boccacclo.” 2. Olympia, corner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. Interstate Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- tle of Manila Bay, Butro Baths—Swimn ng Races. etc. AUCTION SALES. hursday, August 10, at 13 o'clock, et, Real Estate, at THE EMERGENCY HOSPITALS. i HE Board of Health has certain powers and a latitude of discretion. When it is using these | powers and this discretion it should be care- ve reason on its In a contro- with the ‘Supervisors over an appropriation work, the board sought to furnish t lesson by closing all of the emer- e There is no evidence of any for this act. These hospitals are very nec- ary in a large city. They are humane 1stitutions | the tempo: reception and emergency trea of the victims of accident. One of them is lo- ted in Golden Gate Park, where driving and road are of frequent occurrence, and as it is re- elp and surgical a ance, is a i Another is on 1 ps attend upon the load- ps and life is frequent ed g of a torn artery and suffering | injuries. An- | ause there was criti- | ment by the Board of Health of es that should be filled by gentlemen or t , the board, in pique, and willfully, | closed these hospital the City Hall this act play of brutality in the | 1 his hand and wrist | and in immediate 1 fit f was radial art brought d on account of d been declared | anitary conditions, and the p the wounded man. say to the Board of if it had a legi- | itals. If a doctor | h on reet he should on for refusing to render much more grievous is the the taxpayers re- is required to te reason for cl d a man bleeding to ked out of his pro But hos nce. him assista offense of one v fusing help to a in the discharge of hi Such in 1p the case of the toard, even if it were a good case, and will only add | to the stench of a case already known to be bad. We warned the members of the Board of Health not long ago to beware of viol profession and their obliga by yielding to the demand of blackguards in the plac- | ing of their official patronage. By not heeding that warning they became the laughing stock of the com- munity and scem determined now to become also the | objects of its detestation. | The California Volunteers gave up good positions, l lost their salaries, left their homes and went to thc‘! Philippines to figh mean man who at this time refuses to contribute to | the fund to prepare for them a grand welcome home. i si ing the ethics of their | ions to it as gentlemen | r the republic, and it is a very | Tt is said that certain recent political disturbances | seem to indicate that Governor Gage intends to think | for himself. The Governor’s friends always did insist that his administration would be one of surprises. After closing up the receiving hospitals, if the | Board of Health will now close itself up the people | will be half ready to accept the situation and call it | square. John Nicholl, an East Oakland capitalist, says a Miss Jane Hodge proposed for his hand, whereupon he told the bold young thing to “ask daughter.” According to the evening papers a man named Johnson has arrived fresh from Dawson. He had been on ice long enough, why shouldn’t he? S Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease proposes to put into the new “spook” trust the ghost of a show the Populist party has for existence. Tom Ketchum, the Texas highwayman, appears to | have a talismanic name. The officers are still looking E for him. The Board of Health threatens to quit. There are some things too good to be true. | cwenty times that to make | go abroad seeking | men can't live there a | possible and use thei | done as well w D | edge acquired by experience. ar total exports to hs ending May, e profit were 20 would cost damage to American trade. C San Domingo for the eleven mor 1899, were valued at $047,367. If per cent it was less than $200,000, and er! The real reason for urging sire to assume more of the more glo Wt ¢ as little as eisure in politics. country, in con- in 1801, and it became ixty years ago. A revolu- | to the United States ican Senate the good e done very storms. tion a separat in nary ek San Domingo has ‘ ce wh well without San Domingo an out us. island first bes e its rulers the; to reject d me free and the black at once established an When the a racy. g mor r with the nomencla- ture of the kitchen with Heraldry and the Almanach de Gotha, they solemnly invested each other with such titles as Duk Count de Bouillon, Baron de Succotash and the Baronet Boeuf ala Mode. At bottom our American imperialists lust for something like that, and we beg to suggest that they depart and colonize the ague- smitten, mosquito-burdened, sand-crab populated plains of San Domingo and grow up with the coun- try, in the enjoyment of titles acquired by the old aristocracy derived from the menu. de Champignon, the According to the réturnmg heroes of Nebraska, Aguinaldo is in a particularly embarrassing plight. If he refuses to fight he will be shot by his followers. If he fights he is likely some day to dangle at the end of a rope. He ought to send to The Hague for an arbitrator. The friends of the “bad” Sheriff of Socorro, who persists in flourishing his pistols at inopportune times and in ill-chosen places, ought to get him out of the city, as he is likely to leave us with a bad impression and a broken pate. D TROPICAL CLIMATES. ISCUSSION on again concerning the fit- ness of the tropics to sustain an Anglo-Saxon population and transmit it, physically and mentally unimpaired, from generation to generation. The Chronicle devotes a column to this subject, with the conclusion in these words: “No territory has been acquired by our Government in the tropics | in which an American, whether from Maine or Flor- ida, may not make his home in safety, and with the assurance that its warmer sunshine will visit no de- | generacy upon his children.” There are no physical nor historical facts to sustain | that conclusion. Certain recent English and Ameri- can writings, semi or pseudo scientific, have attempted | to contradict the experience of ages and the findings of science in that respect, but they can by no means | be taken as authority to overthrow the world’s knowl- | That the death rate of European military bodies in | tropical Asia has decreased in the last fifty years has no bearing at all. England, France and Holland, which have all maintained armies in the tropics in | that time, have by the enforcement of discipline and a relentless watchfulness in post and camp, and by the selection of salubrious locations for garrisons,” mate- | ‘rially decreased the waste of life which was the rule | in their armies fiity years ago. | But when we speak of the effect of tropical climates ‘ upon the Anglo-Saxon, we mean the average man, those from Maine and Florida, who without fortunes | go as home-seekers to the torrid zone, as they went to the upper Mississippi Valley. The tropically salu- brious locations are not on the levels where such men must seek homes, or the lands from which their own | labor must get them a living. | The millions of our people, who labor on farms or in the industries of the country, cannot in the torrid zone pick out a location nor be the beneficiaries of the | discipline of a military post. They must go where the work is, and if they thrive it must be by the same toil which wins success here. This leaves out of the | possibilities of their situation the devotion of the time and precaution which the wealthy may devote to | | warding off the horrors of a vertical sun, the poisons | of humidity and the relaxing and strength destroying | effects of a climate to which white labor can never | adapt itself. The rich man or the officer who can wear pajamas and a cork hat, and hammock himself | to be fanned by a servant, is not a representative of Anglo-Saxen population. Let the Chronicle or (hef pséudo-scientific writers quoted by it point out a sin- | gle community in the torrid zone where the labor, | skilled, unskilled and agricultural, is performed by Anglo-Saxons, and its contention will be proved. Tt/ is true that the Latin races withstand the'poison and | pelting sunbeams of the tropics better thaa the Ahglo- Saxons. Yet those races have never produced in the | torrid zone a pure-blooded laboring population. They lmongrelize with native races and have left everywhere | wouldn't need a port. | more barbarous than the bullets used during the a hybrid people in their wake, in whose veins the su- perior blood is deteriorated by its association. The Anglo-Saxon mongrel has not even physical strength and is short-lived, so that our race has not even a physical survival in hybrid form. The pure Spanish, French and Ttalian blood in the tropics is not transmitted, with unimpaired quality, from generation to generation. Statistics of Euro- pean marriages in French Guiana show a survival of 141 children of 816 married Europeans, and every one of them dwarfed, wrinkled and with physical and men- tal infirmities. This is true everywhere in the tropics where altitude does not nullify latitude. The same rule covers the domestic animals of the temperate zone, which degenerate in the tropics. It is not wise to tempt Americans from Maine or Florida to go home seeking under a vertical sun. William Paterson tempted the lowland Scotch in his Darien scheme and lured them to death. When the Acadians were banished after the war of 1762, thirteen | thousand of them perished by the climate in French Guiana, whither they had gone to seek homes. The Chronicle has now discovered that the Ha- waiian Islands are natire’s chosen refuge for white labor, though situated in the tropics. But a few years ago that paper thought otherwise. When the Scandi- navians were induced to go there as contract laborers on the sugar plantations, the Chronicle said: “The same inducements are everywhere held out to the emi- grant, easy labor in a sunny island, where the wind | never blows rudely, where the sea breaks musically | on palm-shaded shores; where every prospect pleases 5 and only man is vile” The result was told by the | Chronigcle, taking a typical case of a strong young | man of twenty-two: “When he arrived he was set at work at Hilo, a region where the rain falls nearly every day. In a few months he was reduced from a strong youth of twenty-two, weighing two hundred | pounds, to a condition of decrepitude that brought his | weight down to one hundred pounds and his appear- ance to that of a huge mummy.” As for the North- | men, the Chronicle said: “The hot climate enervates | the hardy Scandinavian, and adds to his discontent and restiessness.” McKinley—Good Heavens! was it a GROWING ON HIM, n elephant I bought or a mastodon? (From Life). ADA REHAN WILL STAR With Daly's Choicest Plays. ALY'S Theater has passed into the possession of Augustin Daly’ hase includes the theater its general theatrical equipme It does not include the pictures, statua and other works of art which adorn the lobbies, the green room and Mr. Daly’s of- fice. To Miss Ada Rehan at the ‘same time and Yet that paper now speaks of Hawaii: “With a cli- mate to which the white man readily adapts himself, | without inconvenience or menace to his health, these | beautiful islands of kindly welcome and perpetual | spring present no obstacles to an easy and noiseless justment to our political system.” But if Hawaii were what the Chronicle said it was, what is to be said of the Philippines, where the Amer- ican from Maine or Florida would have to do his plowing under two feet of water with a mud buffalo, under a vertical sun that poisons every breath he draws and every drop he drinks? ac Several Stanford students have been held as spies by the authorities of Brazil. Some of these days the suspicious inpudence of certain South American re- | publics will be rewarded by a visitation of blood andi were sold the scenery, properties wardrobes of th hapespearian ductions and three comedies. These C ntire equipment of Ado About the Shrew,” summer Night's Dream” and The last hamed was never its costumes, armor for which it i pro- Nothing, 320, are packed aw at the theater. Miss Rehan ice of the comedies 11 undoubte ~hool for Scandal, Country_ Girl” and an unnamed and un- produced comedy . W. Pinero. From the executors of Mr. Dal realized about $100,000. Under the will Miss Ada Rehan will get | 2)_per cent. TUnder Daniel Frohman's management Da will continue to be a producing theater, conducted in the interest of dra- matic art in its highest phases. Ada Rehan will now become an dependent star, acting at the head of her own company_in the plays in whkich she won most of her fame. The modern and recent Tt i5 generally conceded that Klaw & E! death which will herald the fact that the United States | musical productions made by - | have been turned over to J. C. Duff, Mrs. s still on the map. | Daly's brother-in-law, to be disposed of. The California Code Commissioners, after months | of laborious effort, have arrived at the conclusion that the Penal Code is a book of errors. They could have | reached the same conclusion much earlier and easier | | by taking a census of the uncaged criminals of the | State. / et — THE DUMDUM BULLET. CCORDING to reports given in British papers | fl of the results of experiments made with dum- dum bullets and other missiles of the kind, the controversy over their use in civilized warfare is pre- mature. The tests have proven that such bullets of | the kind as have been submitted to the British Gov ernment at any rate are unavailable for use by reason of danger to the users. The object aimed at by the inventors is the con- struction of a bullet sufficiently small to be used in rapid-firing rifles, but of sufficient destructiveness to render an enemy struck by one of them incapable of further fighting. The bullet used by the Springfield rifle of the pat- tern of 1873 was about half an inch in diameter and weighed 500 grains. When that bullet struck a bon | the bone was shattered, and a man struck in any vital part by it was too seriously wounded, if not killed out- { | right, to do any further fighting for the rest of the | campaign. To gain an increase of velocity and carry- L | ing force and to enable the soldier to carry with him | a larger number of bullets, the missiles of recently | | devised rifles have been reduced in size until now that | of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle of 1893 has a caliber of but | .30 of an inch and weighs but 156 grains. It is claimed that this bullet, while effective enough against | x | civ zed men of a highly strung nervous organization, | is of little avail against savages. To make the small missile as deadly as the big one | used to be, the dumdum and other bullets of the kind were invented. They are small, but have at the end of them a portion of lead which is uncased. The lead spreads when it strikes the body, and as a conse quence makes a big wound; and if it strikes a bonei shatters it. It is therefore an expansive, but not an explosive, bullet, and according to its advocates is no American Civil War and throughout the world at that | period. 3 The opponents of the dumdum assert, however, that | tests prove the bullet to be worse than its inventors | designed it to be, and the recent experiments in Great | Britain appear to fully justify the assertion. The ex- | periments were made first with & cartridge known to the British War Office as “Mark IV.” Tt was found | to be utterly valueless. According to the Manchester | Guardian, it splintered in the rifle and clogged the | bore. The primers sometimes exploded backward. It is conceded the dumdum is an improvement on the “Mark IV” cartridge, but even that is not wholly | satisfactory. Speaking of experiments made with it the Guardian says: “Experiments were made with an ox, which proved that the bullet with its soft rounded tip invariably ex- pands during its passage through a body. It leaves behind it bits of lead and fragments of its envelope, and the ‘hole of exit’ measures from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter with jagged edges. Muscles and tissues are torn and displaced, and the bones ex- tensively splintered. For this precious missile we have sacrificed our good name at home and abroad, and it is humiliating to reflect that ‘if in its improved form it be abandoned now it will nbt be because it is an inhuman but because it is a dangerous bullet. The lead that expands in a wound will also expand in a | rifle barrel and leave there some of the splinters which were intended for the enemy.” On such a showing it is clear the Mark TV will not be favored by the firing line of any army. Improve- ments may make it safe after a time, but until such improvements have been made the controversy over the dumdum and the Mark IV will remain a purely academic discussion. The easiest way to end Canada’s grievance over the lack of an ocean port to the Klondike country would be to take the Klondike from her, for then she ol | cratic | that kind he would have langer will become the owners of them, cither for the firm or the theatrical syn- dicate, The list in- cludes The Runa- way Girl,” ~ ““The likely that he will secure it. The remainder of Mr. Daly’s estate— plays, ghts, prompt ooks and_rights ys—will be re- tained by Mrs. Daly. Two members of the Daly company have said that they will not continue in it. It is certain that Charles Froh- | man will have his choice of the members, and that this choice will include Mrs. Gil- ert. Mr. Frohman said In speaking of the change: “The negotiations were opened and closed in an hour. new purchase wi not change my present plans and book- ings. Daniel Frohman will manage the theater to suit himself. hn Drew. will not appear on Da PPOPPPPPPPOOOPISISISS : PRESS COMMENTS : ITEEEEEEEEEREEEEER AN UNHAPPY PROSPECT. In the sudden complication in Cuba aris- ng from the question of the surrender of arms borne by the native troops who fought for the independence of the island there is a grave menace of conflict with the United Stat Government unless a firm wisdom prevails in the management of the delicate problem. Should a clash of arms result from this deplorable condition the people of the United States, while supporting measures necessary to American control of the jsland, will bitterly regret the short- sighted statesmanship responsible for such a lamentable development. —The realize that the war in the Philippin could have been averted by wise and con- siderate action on the part of the ad- ministration. They will contemplate with sadness the necessity for a further sacri- fice of American lives in Cuba caused by the same bungling methods which_ pre- cipitated war in the Far E St. Louis Republic. AR B i Hearst as a Politician. Riverside Press. Some interesting symptoms of Demo- harmony are developing in San Francisco. Little Willle Hearst, proprie- tor of that freak newspaper, the Exam- iner, is anxious to_fill his father's shoes as Senator from California. He has i curred the hogtility of the “blind boss, Buckley, who opens up on him as follows in an interview in The Call: “The present proprietor of the Exam- fner came to me in the State Convention of 1850 and wanted me to defeat the aspi- Fations of Hon. Stephen M. White, who Was seeking the indorsement of that con- vention for United States Senator. This I refused to do. He afterward, through an agent, wanted me_to secure for him a franchise for the Electric Improvement Company from the Board of Supervisors. | His agent offered to sell me 3000 shares of Electric Improvement Company stock at $2 a share, stating that when the franchise was granted it would be worth 376 a share. I leave it to the public what I was to do with this stock. informed his agent that if he wanted to do business of as I was not engaged in it.”” This is just a preliminary note or two to show the range of Buckley's orchestra- tion, so-to speak. If Hearit really gets nto’ the fight the blind boss promiises a full chorug of music that will be extremely pleasing—to the Republicans. Still Climbing. Windsor Herald. Tt is with pleasure that we place the San Francisco Daily Call on our ex- change list. The Daily Call, under its present able management, has taken its place in the front rank of Pacific Coast journalism, and no mistake about it. THE ‘STATISTICIAN. It is but justice to the editor of the Stat- istician and Economist to say that each vear his work grows better, and the com- Dilation of facts he presents more inter- esting. The twentieth izsue is now being delivered, and a hasty glance through it shows that it fully sustains the reputa- tion of those that have gone before it. An index of twenty-two pages will be found at the close of the volume, which the busiest man or woman can find time to master, within a compass of which are recorded the latest achievements in nearly all branches of industry, to which the reader is referred for all principal facts contained in the issue. It contains over 400 new and corrected pages, included in which will be found the Governors of States; members of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses: Presidential elec- tion of 1898 by counties in each State of the United States; also a condensed re- %ort of the elections held in each State and ‘erritory of the United States in to- gether with the Gubernatorial and Con- gressional election in California by coun- ties in 1898; acts of ithe Fifty-fifth Con- gress, ete, The work is_published, as usual, by L. P. McCarty, Clay street. | greatest rival, Charles Frohman. its furnishings and | t. “As You Like aid Mr, Daly paid | to do it himself, 'AROUND THE ; CORRIDORS J. J. Gilhuley, U. 8. A, 15 a guest at the Occidental. Dr. L. R. Ellis of Sonora is among the arrivals at the Grand. B. Maroni of Louisv the Palace with his family. le, Ky., I8 at Vacaville, is a guest at the Grand. F. Keller, proprietor of the electric light works at Selma, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. J. L. Bond, one of the leading phy- sicians of Ukiah, is a guest at the Lick. Robert Lloyd, U. 8. A., is among the army men who yesterday arrived at the Palace. D. F. Garter, Chiet of Police of New Or- is among the late arrivals at the John Thoman. a vineyardist of St. Helena, is at the Grand. He arrived last evening. R. Robertson, proprietor of the Gilroy | Springs, at the Lick. Ex-Senator Frank McGowan last evening from an extended through Humboldt County. Holden, a prominent jeweler of has returned after an extended trip throughout the East. He is at the Lick. Ex-State Senator Robert Bulla has ar- rived in the city from Los Angeles. He is taying at the Grand. M. H. Walker, the Salt Lake banker and capitalist, is at the Occidental, ac- companied by his wife. w. is among the late arrivals returned tour S. Bangham has come down from Sacramento on a short business trip and | is registered at the Occidental. A. A. Burke and wife of Ukiah are reg istered at the Russ. Mr. Burke has just returned from the Klondike, where he had exceptionally good luck. | Henry Dubbis, an attorney of note fromt Bakersfield, is at the Russ, where he is | staying while attending to the legal busi- ness that brings him to this city. Press is at the Palace. He arrived last evening for the purpose of reporting the| return of the Tenth Pennsylvania Volun-q teers. The balance of the Philadelphia contingent will arrive to-day. G. E. Maguire, formerly general agent | of the Texas and Pacific, has accepted | the responsible position of contracting | freight agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee | His many friends will | and St. Paul lines. { the absence of any | George Nox McCain of the Philadelphia | MAY DETERMINE THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY MONUMENTS BELIEVED TO CON- TAIN POSITIVE RECORDS. John Zachert, a Mining Expert, Offers Information That May Prove of International Importance. John Zachert, 2 mining expert, residing at 655 Grove street, claims to possess in- formation which he believes will ha an | important bearing on the Alaskan bound- ary dispute. Zachert declares that the | 0ld Russian boundary is defined monu- ments placed at short intervals, and that inclosed fn each is a chart of the R possessions. He is of the belief that the Aupiicates of the charts are on file at St Petersburg. Zachert says that an exp dition would have little trouble in finding 2nd following up this boundary line of monuments, and that the charts would prove of inestimable value in settling the dispute between this country and Canada. “Seventeén years ago, While prospecting in the southern part of Alaska,’ said Mr. Zachert yesterday, “I happened to camp in an unfrequented place where, to my astonishment, I found a worn-out Russian inscription carved on a rock. Being fa- millar with the Russian language, I learned from the inscription that in 1833 a Russian topographical expedition had camped there. A few hundred feet from thoet rock the Indians indicated to me a monument and told me that the Russians | built it. Thinking that e valuab, | documents were buried under it, I was | about to_dig them out,. but the Indiafs tk and prevented this. They thought that monument might cover their superstition would not per: to delve into a man’s last rest ““After that I came back to Bitk | tigated among the Kussians the value my discovery, and found that the spot | which I had stopped_was on th { demarcation of the Russian pos | and that the monument marked the | where documents defining that tion were buried. I tried to i | ernor Morris, llector of the ms, to investigate; but in t! not worth the trouble to kan boundary. No a RRR a 0! | about the Ala was ever tak Z “T believe that if an expeditio gent to the north it could w trouble find this lin | point at which I made | 2bout thirty miles sout rned through the manoff, who published two v tuting Go' reports Alaska, that the Ru d several copper boxes the documents defining t treaty of n "to bu bo d a g duplicates to be fi tershurg. Probably tw are buried in the Alaska. The lett | were four or nches long and c out. The monument W four fe | and built of slab stone: It wa. 100 feet from the rock. It ig proba are ot monument t Prince of Wal Island and Fort gel. As I understa the boundary dis pute hinges on a difference of opinfon as to where tk 3 n range | is located. { where the Russians | of the mountains to lie. _—e—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. { — | RETURNED SOLDIERS—C. M., City. | The Astor Batt returned to San Fran- cisco_from t ilippines on the 13th of last January RECORDING—T. W. C., Burlingame, Cal. The laws of California do not pre- { scribe the time when a deed transfering real estate shall be recorded. THIRTY DAYS' NOTICE—H., City. In express agreement, when a landlord desires a tenant to Te- ause he desires to tear down the premises and build anew he gives the ten- ant thirty days notice to vacate. ONE CENT PIECE—R. G. M., Oakland, Cal. A one cent piece of 1827 i not one for which a premium is paid. If you will send a stamped and seif-addressed envelope the address of a coin dealer will be sent you. Such are not advertised in this department. HAYING BOX—This department is asked for infoymation by a correspondent about a ‘“haying box" said to be used in Copenhagen, ‘‘to heat food and keep it at the same temperature for days, and even weeks, as it was taken from a stove.” Can any of the readers of this department enlighten the correspondent on this sub- ject REGENT QUEEN OF SPAIN-W. C., be pleased to hear of the good luck that| Manka, Cal. The full name of the Regent has befallen their favorite. [ s st [T amuseMENT T feen o || THAT ENDED IN DEATH! past week saw | | the noble-hearted | though gauche laundry girl Kiss the | | wounded arm of her lover, Lafebvre, they | | little thought that the wound her lips | | saluted wasareal one; not one placed there | by paint brush and cosmetics, but one imprinted by the stern touch of a rifle ball | as a fitting makeup for the drama of war. | The incident in the life of Harrington | Reynolds, Frawley's leading man, which | | gave him the wound that he now uses in | his impersonation of the character of La- | febvre will bear teilin i | "Mr. Reynolds comq a family of Brit- ish soldiers. Two offhis uncles died in the | Crimea. His fathel was several times wounded in the same campaign, his broth- | er has just been invalided home with an | ankle and kneecap shattered as the result | of a little excursion he took recently with | General Kitchener,and Mr. Reynolds bears | the scars of no. less than three nasty | | wounds to remind him of the days when he was a captain in the Thirteenth Hus- sars and went campalgning against the | savage Kaffirs in South Africa. | The incident of the wound in the arm | is connected with the first attempt of Mr. | | Reynolds on the stage, and is as follows: | | While in the African bush the officers were | wont to divert themselves with private | theatricals when things grew dull. One evening a play was to be presented called “The Area Bells,” and Reynolds and an-| other young officer, named Ivatt, were cast | | for the part of women because of their | youth. A stage had been rigged up in the | jungle and the costumes were provided by | the regimental tailor. | The entertainment was progressing sat- isfactorily when it was interrupted by the | sound of heavy firing. The pickets came | hurrying in, firing as they retreated. Boots and saddles were sounded, and the | “young ladies” of the piece had to mount | costumed as they were and go into a | | charge wherein they lost eight officers | and ninety men out of a total number of | about 350 engaged. Reynolds came out of the fight with his sword arm shattered | | and uscless. The body of his companon, | Ivatt, was found in the brush next day. | It was literally hacked to pieces. The | character of a dashing soldier is not en- | tirely a new one to Mr. Reynolds. | e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 1L—Mrs, F. G. of San Frandisco, is:at the Btartesrs George Steck of Los Angeles, P. Liebes and J. W. Kelley of San Francisco are st | the Vendome. C. C. McDonald of San | Francisco is at the Normandie. Mrs, Ur. | toya of Red Bank is at the Marlborough, [ A. A. Echestrom of Los Angeles is at the | Gllsey. Mrs. A. W. Jackson, the Misses | Jackson and E. W. Newhall of San Fran. cisco are at the Holland. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Frank bit of San Francisco is at the fi:‘le’:::r William Groves of Los Angeles is at the Johnson; J. H. Fox and wife of San Fran- cisco are at the Wellington, | —_———— Customs Receipts for July. Customs Collector Jackson reports hav- Ing recelved $563,472 e f Jujy ustoms du- 43 1 he month of July. witnessing | Gross-Selowitz, or Zidlochorice, the performances | July 5 of “Madame Sans | Gene” at the Cal- | ifornia during the | | Queen of Spain is Marie Christine Desiree Henriette Felicite Reniere. She is ‘the I-| daughter of the late Karl Ferdinand, have | Archduke of Austria. She was born in in Austria, 1, 188. was married in_Madrid No- Vember 29, 1879, to_Alfonso XII, King of Spain. became a widow November 2, 155, and was chosen Queen Regent until the legal majority of Alfonso XIII, which he will attain in 11, when he becomes 1§ years of age. COCAO AND COCOANUTS-H. P. R, San Gregorio, Cal. Cocoa is a corruption of cacao. The cacao, or chocolate tree, produces the material from which the chocolate of commerce is made. It is known by the botanical name of Theo- broma Cacao, and is of the natural order Byttneriaceoe. Its growth Is from sixteen to forty feet in height and it produces a fruit that is shaped like a cucumber from six to eight inches long, yellow and red on the side next to the sun. The cocoanut is the fruit of a species of palm known as Cocos Nucifera. The palm attains a height of fronf sixty to a hundred feet. MARRIAGE—J. F. F., Los Angeles. If a person was divorced in the State of California and before the year after which such person may again marry has expired should go on a vessel outside of the three- mile limit and be married, such marriage, under a decision rendered in this State, would not be legal. If such a person ould go to Mexico, comply with the laws of Mexico and marry there within the vear by a Presbyterian or Methodist minister from the United States such marriage would be legal, provided the minister of either sect was recognized and authorized by the laws of that coun- try to perform the ceremony. MISTRESS—H. M., City. The word mistress in_speaking of a woman is one that depends upon the sense in which it is applied as to whether it is offensive. In familiar use the word has been con- tracted to missis or missus, a form re- i{arded as vulgar, except when written rs. and used as a title co-related to Mr. Mistress is applied to a woman who i.s authority or power of control, as over a house or other persons; to a female head, chief or director; to a woman who s served by or has the ordering of others. It is proper to address a married woman as the mistress of the family, or to speak of the mistress of a school. It is also a title. of courtesy, neariy equivalent to madam, formerly applied to any womanor girl, but now specifically to married women, written or abbreviated and pro- nounced misez. —_———————— Cal. glace frult 50c per ™ at Townsend's. ¢ e e Messrs. Nagle & Nagle, the well-known attorneys at law, have remo Emma Spreckels building, 927 Myggket? '{hg ———— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureay (Allen's). 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * ——e Escape of Flesh and Urquhart. Customs Inspectors Flesh and Urquhart have returned to their duties along the water front. They had been working in the Chinese bureau for more than a year, and go out of it with clean reputations— an unusual phenomenon in the bureau. Ahe hinfory o8 —————— : “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Hes been used for fifty years by milllons of mothers for their hildren while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wina lates the Bowels and fs the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. Tor sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. ‘Winslow's Scothing Syrup, 2¢ a bottle, —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage of the round trip tickets. Now only 380 by steamshlp, Including fifteen days’ board at hotel; lopger stay, $2 80 A New Montgomery ' ntreet, San mrarily o ¢