The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1899, Page 6

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Butterfield—This day, at 11 o'clock, Furniture, at 30 o'c August 10, at 12 o'clo THE RETURN OF THE VOLUNTEERS. 1e volunteers from our own State, Washington, Montana, Wyo- Tennessee, and ed away seven ST year {aho, Oregon, 1 Towa nd ry from New les to battle. tl alth and filled with zeal to do their duty by the in The issues of war were then shown the weakness of Spain could she do on land? In our last 1 we won constantly at sea, but d battle, until Jackson s and won a victory *ngland was then the oung soldiers ‘were country. Dewey But wh war with lost as regular Pa uncertas at sea. rita y in ev at New had been d hey marched like her bore them away dropped ¢ down, and fi topmast hidden behind the gre: ts ached and eyes flowed tears, aflc Now the big transports bring them back, thousands of them living and a thousand oi them dead. No army ever wced s ulties as they have ich held them on * found in the pected war wt the other side of the earth, after the legal expiration of their enlistment and the accomplishment of its ob- ject in the overthrow of Spain. They have sweltered in camp and boiled in the trenches. They have rushed through muddy swamps against the longer range guns of the enemy to get within the striking distance of their less effective arms. They have obeyed every order, except one to retreat.- Placed in a novel situa- tion from a point of view, called to a kind of fighting in which tactics were useless, each man has been his own captain and general officer. The im- portance of individual initiative, which is the peculi gift of the American volunteer, was never as well in the hard campaigns which have changed faced boys into bronzed and seasoned vet- shown as these fair: erans. Their duty was the hardest ever taken by American soldiers. We have on our pension roll yet nearly a score of people who draw for service rendered in our revolution of 6, a war begun a century and a quar- ter ago, and the same roll bears the names of those pensioned in every But from Concord to Santiago, no troops under our flag and fighting for it have ever faced such a task, in such a territory, against such an enemy and under such climatic ter- rors, as these young veterans who are with us now and are going home. They have in all things acquitted themselves like men and soldiers. Not forgetting that they were cit zens of the republic, they have not forgotten that they were soldiers of the fatherland. The chapter in which history records human cour- age has been doubled by their deeds. The soldier’s story, continued from one hard war to another, from Marathon to Manila, under all suns, and all com- manders, has gained a thrill from their sacrifices, and when it is all over, and there is no further call for hard death in hard fighting far away’ from the homes that have to mourn, they must be gallant men and ar since. that cause great that can sustain the interest of the | story at the height to which these volunteers have car- ried it. California cheered their going as she. does their return. The Golden Gate is the wide way by which they enter Go country.” May they return to its sympathy and support, its opportunity open in civil life, to home circles unbroken and home hearts made fonder by absence and its perils The Oaklander, whe is being sued for divorce be- cause in his frolicsome moods he would jump on his wife, set fire to her hair and smash the furniture, must have been something in the nature of a Kansas cy- clone when be became real gay. The Supreme Court has granted a new trial to Albert Verenesenieckockdbckhoff, convicted the murder of Mrs. Mary A. Clute probably think that his name is punishment enough without stretching his neck the length of it. of A. Brentano, §1 Union Bquare; | * | the most of the field and other hard work is performed Francisco fresh from their homes, | ory in a land of ro- The learried Justices | | | [ HE people of this country have but a passing | T and temporary interest in the military pers.on—: alities arising from the Philippine campaign Accepting the declaration of Colonel Denby that if | we want the ‘Philippines we want them as an asset, a | piece of property of value to the American people, it | |is in order to secure as much information as possible | | bearing upon the asset and property which we are | seeking to secure by costly military operations. i It has been widely published that the Philippines | offer splendid opportunities to the American home- seeker and that an American from Florida or ,\Iain_e can go there confident that the climate will not impair nor work the physical degeneracy of his children. If this true it settles the matter. Ii the arable lands are open to homestead settlement, or to acquisition at a figure not repugnant to American ideas of their productive value, and the ation is sparse and the climate a rreeable, our f e assurance that will get their his energie is popt | peor reward. If these conditions are p worked a great change in the history of tropical economics. The people in all tropical countries have always been poor, measured by the temperate zone standard of wealth and comfort. The wealth of the | world has always been in the temperate zone. Tropi- labor has always been slave or servile labor in some form, and where the social foundation is ¢om- posed of non-assimilable servile labor there is but lit- | tle progress and a faulty civilization. All this is to be | reversed if Americans can work in the Philippines as | they work here, and if the population is not already | crowded and lands are open to settlement. | The Call to-day publishes interviews with the Ore- | gon volunteers bearing upon these physical facts. The | | answers are to a few set questions, and while they differ in an estimate of. the character of the Filipinos, | they are bractically unanimous as to the physical facts. They agree that the climate is not suited to our people and that Americans cannot work there. Even | the Filipinos avoid labor as much as possible and | nt there will soon be | | by Chinese coolies. If Americans escape the acute | diseases which are endemic there, these volunteers year's residence in that hot and humid ps their energy and undermines their | strength. The common answer is “No place for a white man.” As to the ownership of land, there is | general agreement that the custom, which began with | the extension of Spanish power around the world, was followed in those islands. Spain sent out two | classes—soldiers and churchmen. The soldiers paid no attention to production. They made conquests and held them. The church orders, composed of skill- ful men, well informed, gave their attention to the productions of the country and the conversion of the | people. In this way it occurred that in all the Span- ish colonies the church and church orders owned the | | land. Indeed, this custom was not confined to Spain, for such ownership of land was common on the European continent and in England. In the Philippines what the church does not ign syndicates, principally British. linese is the principal labor em- | agree that climate own is | taken up by for On all the land Ci ployed. Angl of ow ons do not like to be tenants. The pride ership is upon them, and not many Americans, even if climatic conditions were agreeable, would seek the Philippines to become tenants of the charch or of | British syndicates. Just what our Government will do with the land question remains to be seen. In all of the Spanish colonies in this hemisphere the church property was confiscated as soon as they became in- dependent, and we believe that was part of Agui- naldo’s programme ir: the Philippines, which our con- | quest of the islands will prevent. The future must de- | velop our policy. The church property in England | was confiscated by Henry VIIL. The first appearance in history of the trust, which is a political issue now in this countsy, was the effort made by the church to save its lands by putting them in trust, in the hands of a combination of laymen. In the Philippines this country can follow up con- quest by wiping out all land titles and declaring the | land public domain, open to acquisition by all citizeas; or it may respect all such titles and bar private owner- chip of the only lands there that are fit for tillage. The present owners will greatly benefit by our mili- ion of the country and the order which srced by the presence of garrisons. It is to be hoped that the American press will give to the'people the information brought home by the They are intelligent men who have had the benefit of a tion and much practical | experience in that climate. will be seen by the answers we publish to-day, the volunteers are mostly drawn from farm life and show a fine knowledge of its requirements. What they say about such life in the Phlippines may be depended upon as reliable. volunteers. ar’s observ s An oil exchange has been established to boom the trade in the State. The Southern Pacific Company | generously provided some of its deluded passengers the other day with a special train consisting of an engine and an oil car. There is no necessary connec- tion between the two facts, but Uncle Collis is an adept at cheap advertising. Principal McNaughton of the San Jose Normal School must rather enjoy the investigation which is now being made of his character. His critics have been after him for nine years-and he seems to fi.nd no monotony in the proceedings. DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATIONS. OME months ago Henry Watterson, who is a S man of strong intellect and independent char- 1 acter, published a letter, probably in the Cou- rier-Journal of Louisville, entitled “What Shall the Party Do to Be Saved?” It was, of course, the Demo- cratic party to which he referred, and, after proving incontestably its abandonment of principle in the so- cialistic Chicago platiorm,. his conclusion was that its salvation’ depended upon its return to its own characteristic doctrines and the selection of a new candidate for the Presidency in 1900. If Mr. Watterson was correct, then as his advice has been wholly disregarded, the Democratic party- is doomed to defeat, if not extinction, in the coming na- tional campaign. But in fact its doom had been sealed before he wrote. The election of 1896 was a complete Republican victory. The State elections of 1808, how- ever, even more definitely settled the fate of free sil- | ver at 16 to 1 or at any ratio incompatible with its bullion value, and, coupled with almost simultaneous action throughout the world, including Japan and sev- eral of the South American republics, and recently followed by the virtual restoration or substitution of i the gold standard in India, for years at feast closed the record of bimetallism, even in a form that would rot have been unacceptable to a large number of American Republicans. These State election$ also arrested the rising tide of that false Democracy, permeated by Populism or ernment by changeable majorities for the constitu- tional government established by the founders of the republic, in which the rights of individuals and of mi- rorities were protected. On June 24, 1778, Alexan- der Hamilton, representing the ideas of the Federal or Conservative party that afterward became the in- heritance of the Whigs, and anticipating the pre- dominant features of the national constitution as sub- sequently framed and adopted, identified State “The States can never lose their power till the whole people of America are robbed of their liberties.” He was arguing for the Federal Senate, as it was framed and has always existed, on the ground that it would preserve the individuality of the States as ‘members of the Union. While the system of biennial elections of Representatives by direct vote in Congressional districts insured the constant impression of popular opinions upon Congress, it was believed that the longer terms of Senators and their direct relation co the States were effective guarantees against dentraliza- tion on the one hand and rash legislation on the other. That a change in the mode of electing Federal Sena- tors by the transier of the power of choosing them from the Legislatures to the people is in progress is an incontestable fact. For years it has been alleged, to some extent unjustly, that the upper house of Congress has become a plutocratic club. It is certain that seats in that body have been purchased, as even Boss Buckley acknowledges. The spectacles in Cali- fornia, Pennsylvania and other States during the pres- ent year, and in which both parties were implicated, have added strong impetus to the movement. Such offensive exhibitions of corruption have accumulated for a generation, until their stench became intolerable, {and relief a necessity. But the deference to popular sovereignty implied in its direct exercise by the people in the selection of Senators does not necessarily involve any revolution in the constitutional functions of the Senate of the United States. On the contrary, it is expected to re- store that illustrious body to its ancient foundation. It is the mode and not the result of election that is to be altered. When the Federal constitution has been amended, as in all our previous history, Senators will represent their respective States as well as the Union. The question applies to means and not to ends. The transformations and the exchanges of parties are'among the curious episodes of modern times. It has been seen that, even prior to the formal estab- lishment of the Government, the leader of the con- servative political element in the. country, accused indeed of aristocratic proclivities, firmly believed in the preservation of State autonomy. Thomas Jeffer- son, the actual founder of the Democratic party, car- ried this fundamental proposition to its furthest pos- sible limts. There was one great conception, there- fore, upon which both parties were practically united. State rights were the slogan of the Democrats, and out of an extreme development of this doctrine the se- cession faith originated. The Chicago platform and the fusion platforms of last year abandoned every principle that had made Democracy respectable and, down to 1861, with brief interruptions, had retained for it the control of the Government. The socialistic theories that have been substituted for the Democracy of Jefferson, strongly indorsed on the point here more immediately con- sidered by Hamilton and to which Mr. Watterson sagaciously desired his party to return, obliterate in effect not only State lines, but county and municipal divisions, and propose to weld the entire population of the United States into a huge and unwieldy mass of human beings, provided for by paternalism. "1f these theories should ever be practicalized, individual- ism would be lost and humanity reduced to the level of an automatic machine. The fusion Democracy has yielded up the ghost of Jeffersonian Democracy. Its vitality is gone. What- ever elements the Democratic party ever possessed that harmonized with our political system and guarded life, liberty and property have been appropriated by the Republican party, which stands for State rights, subject to the integrity of the Union, and to the main- tenance and fulfillment of every constitutional obliga- tion. Former political attitudes have been reversed. The doctrines of corrupt, offensive and injurious cap- | italization, as distinguished from the just use of the legal power of combination and accumulation, are in their essence the substance of fusion Democracy. The fusionists are in a sorry plight. The Exam- iner, with its national and internal policies, inconsist- ent in themselves and contradicted in practice, is their appropriate organ. But noise and froth and constant repudiation of Americanism are their only capital. They are fussy but harmless. When Zechariah ob- served the horses red, speckled and white, he asked | a visiting angel: “What are these?” and a man replied: “These are they whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.” And then the men who rode the horses added: “We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold all the earth sitteth still and is at rest.” The fusion Democrats belong to the age of Zecha- riah and not to the nineteenth century. e — Washington statesmen are beginning to disturb themselves seriously in an effort to determine how the Filipino war will affect politics. They might dis- cuss with better profit the query of how politics will affect the Filipino war. The press censor at Manila must be away on a vaca- tion. Through some strange oversight of the authori- ties the correspondents were permitted to report an act of exceptional heroism on the part of a Filipino officer. The Trustees of the State Normal School at San Jose have applied the whitewash brush to Principal McNaughton. Many of the alumni are still of the opinion that the doctor should have had the boot. — The great railroad strike at Cleveland seems to have reached a very happy stage if not a conclusion. Each side claims a victory, neither is willing to trust itself and both are afraid of each other. As the Democratic National Committee is com- plaining of a laek of money, it is clear the people are too prosperous to care very much whether the old calamity mill is kept running or not. And now the subordinates of the national naval bureaus have been talking too much. The authorities at Washington ought to make a requisition for some deaf and dumb clerks. Peace hath her victories as well as war. Sir Julian Pauncefote, it is announced, is soon to be elevated to the British peerage in recognition of his services at The Hague congress. The Cubans are about to send a deputation to ‘Washington to ask our intentions, so now if Uncle Sam means to wed the Queen of the Antilles it is time for him to say so. To outsiders the ruction in San Domingo may seem like a revolution, but to the people of the island it will hardly count as an oscillatign. They are used l practicalized socialism, that sought to substitute gov- | to such things, autonomy and freedom in. the following language: = — PHILIPPINE DECLARRTION ‘2% From the New York World. WILL SECRETARY OF WAR ROOT BE ABLE TO GET AROUND THESE ? AROUND THE CORRIDORS Judge M. E. 8anborn of Yuba City is a guest at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Goerk of Sacra- mento are at the Grand. __ E. O. Miller of Visalia 1s one o late arrivals at the Palace. Rev. B. D. Sinclair {s registered at the Occidental from Lakeport. Charles N. Margetts, a wealthy cattle man of Templeton, is staying at the Russ. J. C. Craig, the Woodland banker, came down to the city yesterday and registered at the Grand. U. S. Grant Jr. and his family arrived in the city vesterday from the south and are at the Palace. C. A. Burcham, a wealthy mining man of Randsburg, is at the Palace, where he | arrived yesterday. D. J. Paddock, a ‘well-known rancher of Santa Rosa, is at the Russ, where he arrived yesterday. H. A. Schram, a prominent fruit grower of St. Helena, is at the Lick on a short business trip to the city. Colonel John Cross, one of the leading citizens of Los Angeles, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. John Ena, vice president of the Inter- Island Steamship Company of Honolulu, is at the California with his wife. F. G. Ostrander, District Attorney of Merced, and Sheriff C.. A. H. Warfi®M of the same place are both staying at the Lick. G. L. A. Smiith, formerly manager of the Occidental and now proprietor of the hotel at Ben Lomond, is a guest at the Grand. John A. Payne, one of the best known and most popular of the residents of Los Angeles, is at the Grand on a short visit to this city. Professor J. E. Stubbs, brother of Vice President Stubbs of the Southern Pacific, is registered at the Occidental from his home in Reno. Graham E. Babcock, son of the pro- prietor of the Coronado Hotel, is at the California, accompanied by his wife and sister-in-law. Dr. C. F. Matthews, a ‘wealthy dentist and mining man of Angels Camp, is a guest at the Grand. He Is here in con- nection with the sale of some large min- ing properties in which he is heavily in- terested. Bd €. Denigan of the firm of Thomas Denigan, Son & Co., wool merchants, has returned from Humboldt County after an extended business trip. He reports quick sales, and that the output of wool for this season has been remarkably good. Judge W. Henning, the newly appointed Code Commissioner from the south, ar- rived in the city yesterday and met the other members of the commission infor- mally. The first regular formal meeting of the commission will take place at Sac- ramento on August 21. Sir Henry Heyman, the violinist, has returned to the city after an extended trip to- Alaska. He went as far north as Cape Nome and had a splendid time in evéry way. The trip was taken for purposes of pleasure and health and Sir Henry returns with the satisfaction of having accomplished both of the objects that sent him cruising among the ices bergs of the north. A party of distinguished Central Ameri- cans have arrived in the city and are staying at the Occidental. They are F. Monteverde, Treasurer of Hermosillo; J. E. Almada, a millionaire merchant of Cu- lacan; C. Echeverria, a big politiclan and leading capitalist of Hermosillo; Rafael Yxabal, a Congressman of the state of Sonora; Enrique Cappel, one of the mer- chant princes of Mazatlan; C. Ortego, a wealthy mine owner of the same place; Jose Somulen, who is one of the wealth- fest men that Mazatlan possesses among the multimillionaires she counts among her citizens, and General F. Canedo, Si- naloa. === -9y Ths the Anclent Mariners assem- WORKED IT blew yesterday afternoon at their OFF ON usual place in the THE COOK. little snuggery back of the bar. It had been some time since they | a8 he stepped off the break of the poop had gathered. The Spanish war had called for their services in one way and another, and many a strange scene had been wit- nessed and many curiaous episodes enacted since last they were together. “You may put a little red pepper in mine this time, Charlie,” said Bruguiere. *“Ever since I made that transport trip to Manila my lower hold feels a little draughty unless I put a cargo of pepper aboard to warm it up a bit. By the way, McGregor, did you do any soldier carry- ing during the war?” “No,” replied the gentleman with the mahogany countenance seated at the weather side of the table. “I went looking for whales, and carried nothing but dry casks and an insurance policy. That was 80 heavy that I nearly turned turtle."” “Well, m' bucko, if you want an experi- ence that will turn your hair gray b Itwun watches just take a turn at volun I know of nothing that's like it uniess it i carried away. ““We had all sorts of trouble going down last summer. The men were not used to the sea. Neither were their officers, and the result was that the ship looked more like a barn in distress than a respectable sea-going craft. The deck got so thick with grease that we tried it out afterward and made double our wages by selling the proceeds to a candle firm. We used to have out the wind-catchers at our port- holes, and the men on deck utilized them as receptacles for the stale beans they threw over the side. “The officers were worse than the men, and altogether it was the —— ship's company that you ever saw. One night the captain, after remonstrating with the colonel on the laxity of discipline, went forward to speak to the men himself. He carried a lighted cigar in his mouth. Just a cattle ship with the pens some one soaked him with a wet pillow and drove the weed half-way down his throat. He never said a word, but, turn- ing on his heel, entered his cabin. A few minutes afterward he sent for me and said: ‘Sir, T have been in command for twenty years, have sailed on everything from a scow to a three-skysalil-yarder, and this is the first time such a thing has happened to me. I can’t clean out that whole — regiment, but ‘I must get sat- isfaction somewhere. Send the cook to my room.’” I sent the cook. He entered, and I saw the door close. When we ar- rived at Honolulu the galley angel re- signed and was taken ashore. The regi- mental doctor afterward told me it was the worst case of face contusion he had ever attended.” —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Frank Vanness, E. 8. Yergason, A. D’Ancona, Mrs. R. Reston, all of San Francisco, are at the Fifth Avenue. L. E. Hanchett of San Francisco is at the Normandie. MILLICNS WORTH OF TIDE LANDS IN LITIGATION IT INVOLVES VALUABLE OAK- LAND ESTUARY FRONTAGE. Mary Gwin Claims to Be the Successor of Original Grantee and Demands a United States Patent for the Property. g A petition involving the title to several million dollars of tide land property on the San Antonio Creek, the Oakland es- tuary and other places in Alameda County has been presented to United States Dis- trict Judge de Haven, and will be argued before him on Monday, September 4. The petition is from Mary E. H. Gwin, as intervenor, and asks that the Secretary of the Interior be instructed to issue a patent to her for the lands of the Rancho de San Antonio, better known as the Peralta grant. The avermentg of the petition are that in January, 1852, Antonio, Vicente, Ignacio and Dominico Peralta filed a claim for the lands mentioned before the United States Land Commissioners. The Com- missioners and the United States District Court confirmed the validity of the claim of the petitioners on January 26, 185. In 1856 the United States Supreme Court con- firmed the validity of the grant and the claim of the petitioners and remanded the case to the United States District Court for further proceedings. The District Court on November 30, 1859, amended its decree to conform to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1866 Congress passed an act that in the | event that no survey of the grant had been requested before the passage of the act nor within ten months after its pass- age the Surveyor General of the United States was authorized to survey the grant | in_conformity with the decree. The petitioners had not asked before the passage of the act or within ten months after its passage for a survey, and in 1895 the Surveyor General surveyed the grant and approved the plat of survey. In the petition Gwin and Francisco San Jurjo (since deceased) asked the Com- missioner of the General Land Office for a patent of the grant, but the Commis- sioner refused. The Secretary of the In- terior confirmed the decision of the Com- missioner and refused to issue the patent. Boyd & Fifield appear for the petfitoner who claims to have succeeded to the titlé from the original grantees. Mr. Boyd said last night that the San Antonio ranch was granted by Mexico to the United States as a part of its Cali- fornia concession. By some oversight or mistake when the matter was brought into the United States Court squatters were allowed .to come in to raise a contention as_ to the location of the boundaries of the grant, and the United States undertook to confirm and make valid to the grantees of the Mexican Government all the land which Mexico had g‘rlanted to them. But as there could be but one owner of the property, it was not possible for the Mex- ican grantee and the State of California to own the same property. The United States compelled the Mexican grantee, Antonio Peralta, to -submit his title to th% lt!gned Bttates Cogr:h for examination an e court agrees at th 4 ln‘lndfw&: hl!? 5 € grant of n forcing Peralta into that tribu United States assumed the attltufl:aé!t»t:xe: ordinary litigant and abdicated its sov- ereign Tight of exemption from suits and thfi ef!Becua olt judgments or decrees. r. Boyd, in reply to a question, admit- ted that It whs barely possible that ofher 1 d that ere were adverse | was a clertcal looking .the reverse takes place—that Travelers should know it be involved in the matter | gostura Bitters neutralizes LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. Not Bound by Notions. One member of our local theatrical col- ony tells this story on himself: He was spending the summer in a suburban town, and as he iIs an exceedingly fastidious gerson he found it somewhat difficult to nd quarters quite to his liking. He went one day to look at rooms iy a house on the Tennallytown road. e landlady Seel‘nfi‘{l not at all impressed by his per- sonality. My name is So-and-So,” he said. ‘Are you in office?’ she asked. - ‘Certainly not, madame,” he replied, with dignity. “I am a professional. I am an actor, madame.” = “‘Oh, well,” she answered, cheerfully, “that wouldn't make no difference if you paid in advance. T ain't got no old-fash- ioned prejudices.”—Washington Post. An Unnecessary Explanation. He was describing a holdup in which he had played. the star part. 3 ““Yes,” he said, ‘‘the biggest rufflan held me so tightly against the brick wall that I could feel the mortar scratching my backbone. ‘Gimme your watch!” growled. I gave it to him immediately.” There was a pause. “Gave it right up, eh?” said a breath- less listener. “Yes,” sald the victim, “I did.” Then he dreamily added: “You See, I was pressed for time:"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Uttered the Sesame. The late Senator. Sessions of New York an, always wear- ing an immaculate white cravat, but hi appearance was in some respects decep- tive. The will of Stephen Girard provided that no clergyman should ever be al lowed to enter Girard College at Philade! phia. day Mr. Sessions approached the entrance. “You can't come in here,’ tor. said the jani- “The — T can’t!” said the stranger. “Oh,” said the janitor, ‘“excuse me.” Step right in.”"—San Francisco Argonaut. The Joke on Splints. “Awfully good joke on young Spiints, fsnt it?” “Didn’t hear it. “He sized a .man up for appendicitis and favored kim with a hasty operatio: “What's the joke? Man dead?” “Man’s dead all right _enough, but that ain’t the joke. They found out at the autopsy that he was born without any ill)ppelndlx. How's that?’—Cleveland Plain ealer. B — ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DANIEL WEBSTER—D. M., Duncan’s Mills, Cal. There is no record of Daniel ‘Webster's ever having killed a man. AUTOMOBILE—S. N. S, City. H. P. Taylor is the agent of the automobile who \'ls}fie{i this city in the interest of the new vehicle. EXPERT AMES—Subscriber, City. Dan- iel Ames, the writing expert, was not called to Paris, France, to testify in the Dreyfus case. He was shown some sam- ples of Dreyfus’ handwriting and a photo- graphic copy of the bordereau at his home, and he gave an opinion thereon. GRECO-TURKISH WAR—J. A. R, City. This department has not the space to enter into a history of the Greco-Turk- ish war of 1897. In the American Cyclope- dia, new serles, volume 3, 1897, to_be found in the reference room of the Kree Library, there is, under the head of “Greece,” a twenty-¢olumn account of that war. TO STOP A PAPER—W. B., City. If a publisher sends you a paper that you did not subscribe for notify him that you do not want it, and if the publisher persists in sending it notify the postal authorities that you will not receive the paper, and the authorities will in turn notify the pub- lisher that the paper is refused. PLANTS TIN SLEEPING -~ ROOMS— Flora, Napa, Cal. The general effect of plants is to purify the air. The leaves of plants and trees inhale carbonic acid gas, the poisonous element of the atmo- sphere thrown out by animails in breath- ing, and give out oxygen, the life-giving element, without which animal life cannot. exist. The constant actior of the leaves is one of the natural agencies by which the proportion of carbonic acid gas is kept at a minimum. Carbonic acid, without which plant life could not exist, is poison- ous to animal life—not, as is usually sup- posed, because it is itself a poison, but because when more than a certaln pro- Fortion of it is in the air respiration is mpossible. It is not a polson to the stomach_or blood, but is deadly to the lungs. House plants should never be kept in sleeping rooms, nor, indeed, in any rooms generally occupied, if the matter of ventilation is not attended to very carefully. Every green lgaf on tree or glant sucks in during the sunshine car- onic acid from the air and breathes out oxygen, but this only in the day time. During’ the night this action ceases and is, taking in oxygen and throwing out carboni The young shoots ang flowere of a.llcplaafl?i breathe in oxygen only; consequently they may actually vitiate the alr.%ust as ani- mals do, by increasing the proportion of carbonic acid. From this it may be noted :ll‘::egmaapeg‘:fie b);‘ pl&lt'llla in houses is when {ng, also at night. o A, —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's. * —_——— Special information supplied business houses and pubiie mend‘nf‘;y :1:: Press Clipping Bureau P Eomiery street, Tolephene Sata Tz Ot that Dr. Siegert's An- impurit Fr A ties in water