The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1899, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1899, The L58 \ .D.\V SDAY R 15, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e e Address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. I UBLICATION OFFICE. ...Market and Third Sts., 8. F Telophione Main 1868. DITORIAL ROOMS.. ..217 to 221 Stevenson Stree! Telephone Main 18%. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copies, 8 cents, Terms by Mail, Including Postaget DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year........$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § montha. 3.00 DAILY CALL {izcluding Sunday Call), 3 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month . 450 EUNDAY CALL One Year.... 1.50 WEBKLY CALL One Y, 1.00 ALl postmasters are authorized to recelv. subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when rquested. OAKLAND OFFICE................cc0n0000 .....908 Breadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Mafquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. 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NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'cloc AMUSEMENTS. mith Left.Home, Happened to Ji m Indla.” Merry \Innuch % | RELIGION IN SCHOOLS. | necessary to the | young. outside it ; f ular ground been said about god- gious bodies on either rel which divides the i practice to introduce religious of the state t It is strange, 1 rage She 7 has a reeable the e pol to s give ace a monopoly of pity, but embraces 1 its pl phy 2 th treat it with polite respect | wit 3 1promising their own beliefs. | Ii tion which lifts man alone in its | 1ilosophy that includes all that and mystery of life cannot If this relig v and protection for all life, bad a country that it has satisfied for centurie 1 the schools free of its influence and occu- pied only with secular instruction, Christianity should el with it in that re- on of compas- help object to stand upon a le It is the devout belief of Christian mis they ionaries that rry a revealed message from on high, and in ¢ presence of that bel But, why f we all stand in awe. ssion bearing a divine seal, - the fleshly arm of human govern- the 2 »ott in favor of ploy 1e the delivery of Dr. Lymaa 2 the missionary field with u.xrrl hing it with human blood, and sow- bones and the marrow of the in for a harvest of faith, one f irrevere saying that ought to be sent to the Chris- that they withdraw their | ar schools and come home and as a prepa y not be nce for It pressure by our Gove be resisted r abroad as the ch that the demand for diplomatic 1ment on Japan in this matter 1sed and re If our Government ap- pez pion of ecclesiasticism in the public schools of another nation we don’t know why it should refuse to enforce the same rule at home. 1f that come to pass there wil an end of our honor- ble policy of religiou on. Such toleration | in its best sense has n existed except where edu- cation is purely secular 1 be tole: ¢ The two soldiers who poisoned sixty of their com- rades at the Presidio as a huge joke ought to be made to feel how funny it is to be locked in an Alcatraz | dungeon. Their sense of humor is altogether too far | developed to permit them to remain at large. After the cruel way in which the Governor trifled with the feelings of Colonel Chadbourne the gallant hero of dress parades ought to have good grounds for a suit against Gage for breach of promise. The latest bulletin from the sickroom of Vice- President Hobart says he takes milk with his meals | and milk punches between meals. “What's the mat- ter with Hobart? He's all right.” . We seem to be able to take everything in the Phil- fppines except Aguinaldo or a rest. | sonal hur | able. | ing of the Legislature ir | personality, | volves the overthrow R | hardly of any importance at all. | the succession was first to the Vice President and | through the Cabinet. | the' Presidency, and NEXT YEAR'S ELECTION. 1 iséue of prime importance, which will domi- | i | HE Republicans of Lx)nnrnn have before them | nate the election in this State next year unless = | it is sooner settled by the party itself. ttl { settle | and upright public sentiment. ‘| A vacancy in the United States Senate is to be filled. mged through last win- led because the rank that the An effort to it was prol ter's session and failed. Tt 1 file of the party determined vacancy should be filled properly by a man fit for the place | adhered > session i that at all. It was this determination, flexibly by the people, that made respect fruitless of results. at 1s ! orial issue or-not to Unless the sea czmpaign the goes into next y fight as an element of Republican w <neas that may not be overcome. It is in no spirit of persc cor or wish to in créascifriction. or atlee lapywlicre a feclinie ofipe: liation, but with the purpose only of serv ing the State and the party, that we say the party cannot prevail next year either if Colonel Burns is appointed by the Governor, or is elected by an extra i session, or it to the decision of the voters next November. If appointed by the Governor and seated by the Senate the and unquench- The appoint will hold only until the meet- 1001, and the place must be that body. Not even the Colonel Burns is bold enough to issue becomes rank nt the full t end of filled for erm by stronge that, as an open candidate, a Legislature I Nor can any elected that will choose him one say that if he is elected for six years at a spi session of the present Legislature the party can rally in 1900 from the effect of an act so disappointing to its rank id file Considering the effect of leaving the place open, with neither appointment nor election, to be fiiled by next Legislature, it will be impossible to climinate Colonel Burns from the conte He may | protest t he is not a candidate, but protest will be in v The Democrats will m him the ate. The assault upon the Repub- ¢ form of an assault upon his flesh and ptation to defend him that will not be possible for blood to be the situation and be W xl and ln wise. Since the election in this city the limitation to Jocal | affairs and the nship which Mr. Phelan | secured th. ican votes which elected him ha Democratic press, true to iflower partisan journalism, has felt tened light and heat that a new sun has s n turned to s the party’s cl If the seat nate be will be nomir for it in the Democ convention. He will re the people in the on of his prestige, gainst him? the s three successes in this If Colonel streng 1 be Legislature declare they the are will vote for Phelan, man for fear of i in amb epl White was an avowed Demo- candidate for the United States Senate. It was nown that any State convention of his party since 1886 would h: chosen him had the issue been pushed. True, the Ex r fought him and had 3 didate its candidate had not a B it would stick vote White was the only open, avowed, irank candidate. The Repub- licans had no candidate in s but their campaign | was adumbrated by the suspec 1bition of Mr. M. H. de You The Democrats made him the Re- Republican for the ned not one tell the people whom he proposed non e e disow him, but to support for the Senate From the moment that situation developed the end was in sight. White won, and carried the electoral ticket under the wire with him. If the Republic with Phelan in White's place. the result. It is believed that if the Governor appoint a Senator it will be Co um‘ Burns. a sentiment of per: 1 it s perm a like situation next year, let them consider now This is based on 3 we are told, which n some situations would not be open to criticism But that sentiment is misused when its satisfaction in- the Governor's the loss of California to the Republi year. The Legislature is not dominated by any such sen- timent. It is in touc If it listen to the voice of reason and bow to the promptings of party loyalty and look forward to the battles yet to be won or lost it has it in its power to flank the Democratic situation completely and take from that party the only issue upon which it can hope to carry the State next year. valty, of party and an column next h the m es of the party. a USELESS OFFICE EPORTS of the convalescence of Vice Presi- dent Hobart are doubtless received with grati- fication by all who notice them, but it is ques- tionable whether any considerable number of people do so. In fac good many are hardly aware the Vice President is sick, and not a few have forgotten that the incumbent of the office is named Hobart. The office is one in which the people have but little interest. Old John Adams, who was the first man in the republic to occupy it, declared it to be “the most insignificant office that ever the mind of man contrived, or his imagination conceived.” judgment thus pronounced at the beg: ginning of the Government has been confirmed by the experience of t, a later vears, and Colone! Ingersoll once described the Vice President as “an official who is paid a hand- some salary to stand round and wait for a funeral.” It is because of its uselessness that the people pay but little attention to the incumbent of the office so long as the President continues healthy and active. Of course the public is sorry that Mr. Hobart is sick, but the sorrow is due solely to the sympathy | with himself personally. They are sorry for the man, but not for the Vice President. Indeed if the office were to sicken itself to annihilation and pass out of existence there would be little or no regret. At no time was the office ever important except | that it provided a successor to the Presidency, but since the adoption of the new law of succession it is Under the old law then to the president pro tem. of the Senate. That meant a possibility that the succession might go to a man of a different party, for the presiding officer of the Senate is not always a supporter of the ad- ministration. Under the new law it passes from the Vice President to the Secretary of State, and from | him to the Secretary of the Treasury, and so on Thus there is no longer any danger of a member of the opposion succeeding ro- therefore no importance at- tached to the Vice Presidency. If the Vice President die there will be regret that a good man is dead, When we say | d we mean adjusted in line with public opinion | >d by one fit before the next | in vain that Repub- | The | ! but no regret whatever that we have no longer a Vice President.. In fact, under the new succession act there is no feason why there should be a Vice Presi- | dent, or why any one should be paid a salary to stand round and Wait for a funeral, p port of Rear Admi flected upon Congress Dewey have had the effect, revision of the report, and when it is officially issued it will be found to have been so altered that there will be little or nothing in it to which any one can rightly object. REFORMS IN THE NAVY. RESS criticism upon those portions of the re- and upon Admiral the comments upon his work, and it is probable the | na are eliminated more attention will be given to thos: recommendations which are of genuine merit Among the things to which the attention of Con- gress is directed by the report is the wastefulness and inadequacy of the receiving-ship system, and the ad- vantages which would result if our warships out of active service were manned by a skeleton crew and kept in good repair, available for immediate service in case of an emergency, instead of being laid up and cared for only by watchmen. It is pointed out that with our expanding commerce and our increasing in all parts of the world it will no longer be expedient to leave great battle-ships or cruisers lying idle in port, force sufficient to keep them all fairly well manned and ready for use. To that end it has been recom- mended that the receiving-ship system be supplanted by a policy of maintaining permanent barracks at the larger naval stations at which accommodations could be provided for the crews of the vessels held in re- intere: serve and for the new recruits and apprentices needed in the naval service. The report made by Assistant Secretary Allen | relative to the naval militia contains recommenda- tions in line with those of the rear admiral. In sub- stance that officer says that as the personnel act has made the term of service of enlisted men in the navy four years, the same periods should be fixed for the enrollment in the naval reserve, and the reserve offi- cer should be promoted in war time with the regular officer with whom he holds the same date of com- mission. It is also recommended that steps be taken for the organizatior of a permanent coast signal tem from the retired list of the navy and the employ of the lighthouse andlife-savingservice. There are sev- thousand of these men, and with a small appro- priation and an annual drill for a few days each year they would be competent, the report says, to take up their duti With a retired naval officer in charge of each light- house district, and an officer in charge at the Navy ! Department and the necessary paraphernalia at the nearest navy d ready for use, this necessary adjunct of war could be put in working order in twenty-four hours. era It will be seen that the object of these recommenda- tions is to obtain an increase in the naval force of the nation. Congress, while liberal enough in provid- ing for the construction of warships of various kinds has not been equally liberal in providing for the aintenance of the number of men and officers neces- for manning the ships. The most important naval work before this Congress, therefore, will be that of making due provision for the care, mainte- nance and navigation of the fleets have con- structed, and the reports of the two officers we have quoted suggest the means by which it may be best | accomplished. we FTER a long rest the Senate Committee en- }THE ADU! TERATED FOOD PROBLEM. |/ \ gaged in an ‘nvestigation of the extent to which food a: .icles on sale in this country are either adulterated or wholly compounded of somec- {thing quite different from the articles they purport to be has resumed its hearings, and we are once more receiving information which will increase the demand for the enactment of a pure food law. It is gratifying | to have the subject brought back to public attention at this time, for Congress will soon assemble, and | efforts should be made throughout the country to | bring about the enactment of the desired law at this session. The recent hearings have added nothing of any particular value to the | public. In fact, the agitation for protection to the | | producers of pure foods against the ruinous compet- ing of the manufacturers of fraudulent articles has | been carried on so extensively that all who take any | interest in the matter at all are fairly familiar with the | subject. It is very well known that almost every ar- ‘tiv le of food in the market has a fraudulent article | competing with it, and that the frauds are so in- geniously devised that while in many cases injurious | to health they cannot be detected by either sight, | taste or smell. | The evil of the fraudulent trade is not due to adul- | terations only. In many cases harm is done by sell- | ing unadulterated foods under labels representing them as something different from what they are. For example, the dairymen of New York, by careful su- pervision of the cheese product of that State, made New York cheese a standard article of trade, won for it a high reputation and gained a profitable market in London. No sooner was the repute of the New York cheese known, however, than fraudulent cheese- | makers in other States put the New York label upon ‘inicrior cheese and sent it abroad. The result was | the ruin of the market which the New York men had | built up. In that fraud there was no adulteration, It ; was simply a case of false labeling. ! Many similar wrongs are done in the same way. | Some time ago in reviewing the fruit-packing trade in that city the Philadelphia Record noted that some | enterprising firms there have been buying up dried | plums in districts where they are cheap and putting them on the market labeled “California prunes.” The Philadelphia men are not the only packers who put California labels on worthless or inferior fruits. There is a great corpgration in New York that grinds up apple-cores and apple-peelings and refuse apples that are unfit for drying, and out of the stuff com- | pounds jellies, jams, preserves of all kinds/ and by | flavoring it in various ways makes it serve for apri- | cot, peach, plum, orange, currant or any other kind of fruit conserve there may be a demand for. Tt is hardly worth while to gather further informa- tion on the subject. The people are aware that almost | every article in the market from luxuries to medi- | cines is either adulterated or imitated. ~What is | needed is not more knowledge on that subject but a | clearer idea of the most efficient remedy. Up to this time the best that has been proposed is a national label law requiring every article to bear upon its label conspicuously a true statement of what the article is and where, when and by whom it was packed. Right Tabeling will go a long way toward solving the diffi- culty of the problem, and an act requiring it is clearly within the power of Congress to provide. al Crowninshield which re- | it is said, of causing a | The rear admiral has acted wisely in profiting by | service will derive benefit from the wiadcm,; for now that the objectionable features of the report | There should be in the navy a | | 14 dent which occurred as a b & ton to take a ship for the 4 Stood on the garden- wall, and shouted with enthusia the departing soldiers. | preserved in a sc | | of its occurrenc: | of the 13th was | 4:30 0’clock in the morning T first observ . | mination | From a point in the heavens about fifteen | | degrees southeasterly from our zenith the | | | point of the compass. | man of Vancouver, B. C information already made | Palace. | be thus reproduced at this date. | in their course, | like that of the rush of a distant s | rocket. | tance of about five miles. 4 ville, Cal. Mrs, W. J. Sleppy of St. Paul has kind- immediately upon the outbreak of war. |1y forwarded to Notes and Queries the following clipping from | newspaper of Thursday, 11883, a Philadelpha November aphook by the late Mrs. L. G. Stees. a most rare and interesting paragraph, to This is the description of the extraordinary scene as given by an eye-witness on the day “The meteoric shower a rare phenomenon. A it, and continued to notice it until its te at 6 o'clock, two hours later. to the horizon These described in curved lines, of the parallels of longitude on an arti- ficlal globe. They were generally T mbling much an terrupted line. They ceased to appear when within about ten degrees of the hor- izon. I did not see a single meteor pas the meteorie pole which T have described, nor one pass in a horizontal direction Several of them afforded as much light faint lightning. One of them In the north- east was heard to explode with a sound meteors darted in eve The time from the explosion was onds, which gives a dis- It left a ser: about twenty s CHEERED THEIR SOLDIERS AGAINST THE BOERS B+ +HIBDOH+04H 92+ PII4O 0960040494015 0@Q YOUTHFUL ENGLISH PATRIOTS. This picture, reproduced from the London v of troops were on the march to Southamp- ape to fight against the aved their flags sm. The throngs of people lining the sldewalks became almost as much interested In the excited youngsters as they were in B e R O R e O R .THE LAST METEORIC SHOWER. 13, | which was cut from the paper and | her mother, | Tt is certainly | paths were | imilar to those | short | m- +® Graphlc, represents an inci- Boers. The youngsters as the smiling soldiers passed B e R O R O S R S O O R R S e R R R U SO o pentine cloud of a bright glowing color, which remained visible for fifteen or twenty minutes. Millions of these me- | teors must have been darted in this show- er. I was not able to remark a single one whose proximity to me was greater than | any other, by being Interrupted between | | my vision and any distant object, such as | trees, houses or the high shore of New Jersey west of me. The singularity of | | this meteoric shower consisted in the untless numbers of the celestial rock- | | ets. and more especially in their constant- ly uniform divergence from the point fif- teen degrees southeasterly from the zen- | ith.” The writer closes his description | with the following explanation of the phe- nomenon: “These meteors are supposed to be gaseous, and when inflamed by some | cause not explained appear darting through the heavens, generally in various directions.” The following editorial re- marks on the same subject appear in a Philadelphia newspaper: “The remarka- ble display of meteors on Wednesday | morning continues to form the subject of conversation in every circle, and our ex- | changes come to us decked out with | graphic descriptions and {llustrations of the strange visitation. A gentleman from Boston describes the scene in that city in much the same language as is used by those who saw the wonder in Philadel- | phia, and as far south and west as we | have heard from the shower of fire was 1s incessant as it was In this cit AROUND THE CORRIDORS D. McKay of Sar‘rdmf‘nm is a guest at | the Palace. F. M. Swasey, a leading business man of Redding, is registered at the Grand. P. J. McCormick, a wealthy contractor from Los Angeles, is a guest at the Lick. Henry Doyle, a mining and business s @ guest at the C. Bush, a prominent jurist of among the recent arrivals at Judge . C. )((ddlnz‘ the Grand. W. H. Stacey, a capitalist of San Jose, |18 among the arrivals of yesterday at the Occldental. J. H. Barbour has come up from San Diego and is registered at the Palace for a short stay. Dr. E. S. O'Brien, one of the principal physicians of Merced, is at the Lick on a short vacation. Francis Cutting, a well known and pop- ular attorney of Stockton, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. Herbert A. Kidder, a prominent and in- fluential politiclan from Sacramento, registered for a short stay at the Cali- fornia. Captain F. Tucker, a lucky mining man from the Cape Nome district, is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday from Seattle. Charles Teague, a wealthy land-owner and heavy oil speculator of Fresno, is a guest at the Grand on a limited business trip to the city. Dr. D. P. Durst, one of the best-known medical men of Wheatland, is at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday on a short visit to the city. C. H. Clapp, a wealthy coffee planter of Honolulu, is on his way to his island home after an xtended visit to New York. He Is staying at the Lick. T. C. Harbison, formerly a well-kncwn newspaper man of this city and now editor of a San Bernardino paper, is up to attend the Water Storage Convention as a delegate. C. B. Booth, Charles E. Richards, T. BE. Gibbon and C. A. Edson, four delegates from Los Arngeles to the Flood-water Storage Convention, arrived in the ofty yesterday and registered at the Palace. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—M. A. Roths- child of San Francisco is at the Holland; Thomas Derby of San Francisco is at the Hoffman; J. W. Chisholm of San Fran- cisco is at the Manhattan; J. J. Gottlob of San Francisco s at the Herald Square. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RANK OF COMMODORE—B. & D., Marysville, Cal. Under the provisions of the ersonnel bill, the rank of commodore K United States navy was abolished. THE COMSTOCK—S., City. There is no “undersround tide which ebbs and flows in the Comstock during each twenty-four hours of the day.' A WEDDING GIFT—Subscflber, City. In Answers to Correspondents, October 15, 1809, there is given the answer asked for in relation to the engraving of a wed- ding glft to a bride. OLIVE OIL MACHINEBY—H Vaca- If you desire to make olive ail is | you should use a Olive oil machinery is | for your own family, small cider press. expensive. DECOCTIONS—D. L. B., Berkeley, Cal. A decoction of boiled herbs or barks will keep if placed In bottles tightly corked so as to prevent the admission of air. THE CENTURY—H. B., City. The next century will commence with the Ist day of January, 1%0l. See answer to another | | correspondent In Answers to Correspond- | ents, October 22, 18 AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD—A |and B, City. By the expression “at peace | with the world” is meant that the indi- vidual or nation has no quarrel with any | individual or nation or people. At this | time the United States cannot be said to be “at peace with the world,” for they lmm- an armed contention with Aguinaldo | and his people. RAISING A HAT-B. J. E, City. “Should a young man who is a clerk for a large corporation raise his hat when one of the directors bows to him on the street?” asks thig correspondent. He is informed that no one can afford to be | rude to another, no matter how high or | how low the other is. If the director | thinks enough of the clerk to recognize | him on the street with a bow the clerk ’shnuld think enough of the director to be | polite to the extent of raising his hat in recognition of the salutation. Clvility | does not cost anything and always creates a good Impression. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE— Subscriber, City. United States Civil Ser- vice examinations are held in San Fran- cisco generally in April and in Novem- ber. The dates are arranged by the Civil Service Commission at Washington to- ward the close of each year. It is impos sible to tell, at this time, when the Aret | examination will be held here in 1900. To obtain an application blank the can- didate for examination should address a | communication to the department in | which he or she seeks to be examined. | uThose who apply for spectal pension e aminer, artmental service, ar exam- e T e e e wein penmanship, copyving from plain _cop: copying from rough draft, law and pen- slon law. For such positions the appll- cant must, as in all other branches of the civil service, undergo an examination and take his chance of being one of the eligi- bles, when a vacancy occurs. There is no telling when a vacancy will occur in that | department in this city. WIDE-TIRE LAW—C. E. W., Nicasio, Marin County, Cal. The following is the law of California relating to wide tires in California, passed by the Legislature of 1897: The width of tires for wheels upon wagons or other vehicles to be used upon the public highways of the State of California shall be for the following styles of wagons as follows: 'wo and three-quarter inch steel or thimble-skein axle, 1%-inch tubular steel or iron axle, not less than 3-| (nch tire; 1%-inch steel or iron axle, 2%- inch tubular or iron axle, not less'than 8l%-inch tire; 3-inch steel or thimble- skeln, 1%-inch steel or iron, 2%-inch tubular steel or iron axle,not less than 4-inch_tire; 3%-inch steel or thimble- skein,13% or 1% steel or iron,2% tubular steel or iron axle, not less than 41- inch tire; 3lg-inch steel or thimble- skeln, 2-inch steel or irom; 2%-inch tubular steel or iron axle, not less than 5-inch tire; 3%-inch steel or thim- ble-skein, 2Y-inch steel or iron, 3 or 3% inch tubular steel or iron axle, not less tham blg-inch tire; 4-inch and larg- er steel or thimble-skein, 2li-inch and larger steel or iron, 3%-inch and larger tubular steel or iron axle,not less than 6-inch tire. Other styles of axles must have tires of the same width as those of equal carry- lns capacity above. enumerated. All in- termediate axles must have tires of the same width as the next larger size above specified. WEBSTER'S PLAN 1§ CRITICIZED BY HIS CO-WORKERS Do Not Indorse New Curriculum. e Superintendent of Schools Webster is not to be permitted to inaugurate in the city’s schools the new curriculum which he announced two weeks ago without the criticism and even condemnation of me P of his -educators, though all of the teache: nd principals i department and all of the School Directors save those of the board who known to be of the book ring are with him come to his ears during the that many of the big guns ou county, and particularly those of the stitute, are preparing for a concerted at- tack upon him and his radical policy On October 23 Supmimendun Webster issued a circular in ch was embodied the essence of all the experience he ha had as head of the biggest municipal school department in the West ports from the teachers in the deps and by his own close ohservation he become convinced that pupils in the Ic schools would be better fitted for practi- cal life and advanced to a greater state of preparedness for university work if more time was given them for the study of the essentials, and less attention di- rected to the frilis that have been intro- duced into school work during the pas few years. He based his circular upon that conviction, and ordered that such subject; “humane ed- ucation,” music, drawing and other the- orist innovations be either eliminated or relegated to the 'luxury list, to be in- dulged in but once a week. The time thus saved he divided between the essen- tlals—grammar, arithmetic, spelling, com- position and the like. The teachers in the d"l'ir(mr“t talking about back a week, nn:l paren the dawn tion. pedagogues who are arithmetic and point Many of them the last risen to fame and fat ability to make the sim ordinary curriculum look lik plece of patchwork, and they any one occupying as prominent tion in the educational world Webster attempting to revolut ideas and experiments that have pru\n\l profitable to them. Oakland was first to raise a howl, al- though it was not a loud one and was merely prelilminary to the chorus that is about due to be heard. The institute is to come next, and it is known that a num- ber of prominent lecturers in that organi- zation are preparing condemnatory papers to be read at the next meeting. Me2 while Webster, with parents, teachers and the School Board back of him, is rapidly getting his plan into smooth running or- der and gathering matter with which to answer the arguments to come, Which- ever way the present clash of opinions turns out, the inevitable bandying of ar- guments, pro and con, prom much of value t6 those addicted to p 0gY. of era those Not _so, fond of hem lace by tudy in the ;:d\hl\ Lecture for Charitable Work. The first of a series of free lectures to be conducted at the Good Samaritan Mis- . 246 Second street, will be given this i ror Phelan, whose subject il Government.” lectures be given L < Jordan of Stanford, Professor Le ¢ rlntfl I. M. Scott, President Wheeler of Berke- ley and others. e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_————— TLook out for 81 Fourth st. or grocer. Best eveglasses l0c S Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ T. 5c barber and 40c. * —_———————— Captain Henry’s Death. Coroner Hill announced yesterday that he would take possession of the body of Captain Henry of the Cyrus Wakefield as soon as she lays up at the dock and hold an inquest as to the cause of death. The fact that the body is in this county gives | the Coroner jurisdiction of the case. — e ——— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success, It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Collc, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, Whether arising from teething or other causes, For sale by druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 25ic a bottle. e Tourist Excursions. 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