The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1899, Page 6

...DECEMBER 22, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Saress All Commun cations to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephos Market and Third, S. F. 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. .....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Teiephone Main 1874, Dellvered by Cnarriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), one year..£30.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 ng Sunday), 3 mouths.. 1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. +++.B0S Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Forelgn Advertising, Marguette Build- | ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON .Herald Square NEW YORK RE! FERRY LUKENS JR. . 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House: Avditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS ST Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Bren Squnre; Murray Hill Hotel DS: o, 31 Union WASHINGTON (D. C.) J. F. ENGLISH, ¢ .Wellington Hotel rrespondent. 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AUCTION SALES. —This day, at 10 o'clock, Trunks, Va- r stry THE LAWTON FUND. the movements which have been started to provide homes, monuments swords of honor tes to the popular heroes of the h Spain, none has been more deserving of port from the public than that which ind to provide for the family of ton, e recent death has cast loom over the Christmas season. a g to note that responses to the appeal d have been made almost as soon as the and that they have come gnd are com- 1l sections of the Union. Reports from are to the effect that Adjutant ) is at the head of the committee having General charge of the movement, has already received large contributions, and from the principal cities of the as been given ample assurances of more. In projecting a fund of this kind which will derive | its contrib 1s from the patriotism of the whole people it would be in the worst possible taste for any 1 per to make an ostentatious parade of port of the movement. 1 OF NEWSP activity This is not an occasion on which the public will pardon any attempt advertising or boasting of exceptional zeal in The one object to be kept in view is the relief of General Lawton’s family, and all the honor of the occasion is to go to the mem- ory of the hero himseli. at sel soliciting contributions. ers in the army and in the navy won deeds of daring and r the war with Spain, but when the ts of the time are past and the history of the contest is written the more lasting honors will be given to Lawton. He is the true hero of the war and Lis title to that high rank on the page of history has now been sealed by the blood of his martyrdom on the field of battle rity by conspicuous patriotism ¢ excitem Lawton was one of those men whom we are proud to regard as typical of American manhood. He was a seli-made soldier. Endowed by nature with the y for leadership and command, but deprived by fortune of the opportunities of a military education, he entered the volunteer army of the republic as a private during the Civil War and by distinguished ntry made his merit known. It was no ordinary man who amid the mighty armies of the Union dis- played such courage and such fitness for military s that within four years he won promotion step step and became a brevet colonel at the “age of facy can valor and generalship, and he achieved the honors of the army and the love of the people by the arduous service of a true hero. Devoting his whole life to his country he made no cfiorts to acquire wealth. It is therefore doubly im- portant that the pe 'y generous and loyal con- tributions should n » the fund required to clear the debt on his wife's home. It is certain that all cities of the Union will be prompt in responding to the ap- peal made for the fund. San Francisco must be among the foremost and the most liberal. Marlborough desires to go to the front and fight the battles of his country against the Boers and has offered to equip 1500 horsemen at his own expense, but possibly the Vanderbilt millions will help a little. Unless the British manage to win at least a skir- mish victory pretty soon the war in the Transvaal will become so monotonous the public will cease to care whether the news be censored or not. Not the least of the many reasons for satisfaction in the Christmas scason is the fact that Congress ad- journs and gives the country a rest until after New Year's day. He was one of the brightest exemplars of Ameri- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ¥RIDAY, DECEMBER DIVISION IN CANAD@. QUITE remarkable development of the Boer war is the appearance of divided sentiment in Canada. The liberal French Canadians are A quite free in their expressions of antagonism, and | are not without allies among their fellow citizens of English blood. Professor Goldwin Smith has de- clared himself to friends in England as an active opponent of the South African aggression, and to a friend in California has written: “The end of the British empire seems to me certain. It will be that of all the empires before it, notably of that Spanish em- pire of which we have just seen the final collapse.” The ancient empires were in decay unobserved by their people. When the measures regarded as tending | to permanence of their existence were taken history ! finds in the means used the inoculation with fatal dis- case, which finally destroyed that which they were intended to preserve. | In these days, therefore, guided by past examples, | the philosopher is able to diagnose the case of em- pire better than in other times. The spread of empire requires the acquisition of unwilling people, of alien and diverse 'races, and where climatic conditions give to these physical per- sistence and deny it to their conquerors a poison is taken into the imperial body which finally destroys it. A year ago the idea prevailed that other races being moribund, and other nations in decay, the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race owed to humanity the duty of possessing at once the estates of the feeble, and there were high dreams of a division of the world between England ‘and the United States. Against this iridescent reverie the best thought of England has now taken up arms. Englishmen in the temperate zone, who value their relation to the em- pire, are apprehensive of its speedy fall through an unwieldy expansion which secures the enmity of the world and weakens imperial power of resistance. The doctrine that the weak have no rights to be respected by the strong is now clearly seen by thinkers to lead ! to the weakening of the strong, and to the ultimate overthrow of all that strength has guarded that is beneficial to mankind. No wonder that Goldwin Smith, Herbert Spencer and the guild of British thinkers are sounding the note of alarm. In the United States a selfish and imperial policy, | transformed from the altruism of our Spanish war, has been notably opposed by the scholars and phil- osophers. Against them stand the politicians, who consider not the past nor the future. In their brief day they reach for profits, power and glory, and are careless of the distressing difficulties they are creating for the generations to come. Here there is a cheerful prospect of a reaction, in which the still, small voice of reason as it is uttered by the wise will be heard above the bugles and the roar of guns. But in England the imperial habit is | fixed. It is an appetite that grows with what it feeds on, and an instinct which reaches out continually for new victims of its greed. The somber forebodings of Goldwin Smith may be realized before this generation passes away, and the British empire may fall, carry- | ing with it the vast benefits to mankind which have originated with the English race. If the land of the | world were unpecopled and all parts of the planet were equally adapted to the perpetuation of the Anglo-Saxon race from generation to generation the universal empire of that race might be more substan- tial than a dream. But no political policy can over- come the resistance of nature. It is quite likely that the British empire, by violation of the everlasting principle laid down by Mr. Blaine that forcible an- nexation, carrying with it an indignant and hostile people, is wrong, is in danger of disintegration. Senator Hoar, although he ranks as one of the foremost authorities in the Senate, was not appointed on either of the committees organized to deal with our “colonial possessions.” Fortunately the Senator’s influence is not of the kind confined to a committee- room, and when the time comes to settle the issu growing out of our occupation of Cuba and the Phil- ippines he will be heard by the whole country. CHAMBERLAIN'S NEW SONG. HEN he was urging his aggressive demands upon the Boers Mr. Chamberlain, for the pur- Wpose of winning over the British public to sup- | port him in his jingoism, spoke contemptuously of the strength of the Transvaal and scouted all sug- gestions that the “handful of farmers” would dare to | resist with arms the power of the British empire. Even after the war began he continued to hold forth | jauntily upon the subject and gave encouragement to | the popular belief that Buller would make something | like a holiday march across the country, and aiter | dictating peace to the conquered rebels would enjoy | his Christmas dinner at Pretoria. | It was not long, however, before the southward | sweep of the Boers put an end to his jauntiness. He saw the British troops in South Africa shut up in the intrenchments at Mafeking, Kimberley and Lady- | smith, and the victorious “farmers,” as he called them, making ‘a successful invasion of Natal and Cape lCcIony. He perceived that it is impossible to keep the truth from the British public even by the most rigid censo‘uhip, and, being too astute a politician not to know how to adapt himself and his speeches to a change in the situation, he has altered the tone of his oratory and is now trying to rouse the war spirit of the country by describing the contest as one which will demand the exercise of all the patriotism of the people. In his recent speech at Leicester he is reported to have said: “But this is a great war upon which we have entered. It is not a small task that this country has, not for the first time in its glorious history, un- dertaken. We are told that the Transvaal is a weak power. Weakness in war depends upon many con- siderations. It is not merely a question of numbers or of wealth. It is a question of local circumstance, of position, of methods of warfare. At the time of an unwarranted and extraordinary and insolent aggres- ! sion of attack upon her Majésty’s territories, the | Transvaal state was by far the greatest military power in South Africa. For years it has been preparing, as we now know, for this contingency, and when the war broke out, in numbers of men, in its resources, in its armament, it altogether outnumbered and ou- weighed anything that this country could possibly do for many weeks to come. You must bear in mind that in this war we are 6000 miles and more from the country in which we have to operate, and when our troops land in that country they are 1500 miles by land from their ultimate objective.” Since that speech was made the situation has be- come even more gloomy for the British. Gatacre, Methuen and Buller have been successively defeated. So far from being able to relieve the beleaguered British garrisons the forces of these generals are themselves in danger. The scene of the conflicts is far away from the frontier of the Transvaal, and the battles are being fought upon British soil. In Natal the Boers have pushed their march half way to the coast, and they have done nearly as well in Cape Colony. All ideas of an easy movement through the +- __ATransvaal have been abandoned, and General Buller, who went to the front with a plan of a straight march forward, has been superseded in command by Gen- eral Roberts. The one satisfactory feature of the war to the Brit- ish is that the jingo Government has at last realized the difficulty of the war and has taken steps to put | forth the full strength of the empire. The best gen- | erals in the British service are to have command, and | every soldier she can bring forward from her wide | extended empire will be sent to serve under them. The Boers will have to meet on the field of battle men from every quarter of the globe. They will be gathered not only from the British Islands, but from Canada, from Australia and from India. Mr. Cham- berlain no longer underrates his enemy, and the only question is whether he has recovered his reason too | late. ——————— The fund for the benefit of the family of General Lawton ought to be provided without urging. Why should any citizen of means need argument to prove that it is a privilege to be able to contribute to such a fund? l economic vagaries that can be gathered together. The great opposition to railroads in this country |is based upon the belief that they unduly interfere in politics, and this belief is justified by certain aggra- vated instances of such interference. Whereupon, in- stead of instituting measures to prevent the offensive presence in politics of those artificial persons called | corporations, the pseudo reformers plan a campaign based upon a prophecy of important economic effects which are to follow Government ownership and oper- ation of railroads. The operation feature is some- times modified, as it was in this State by Judge Ma- guire, in the proposition that the Government shall own the roads but permit their use on the livery stable plan, by letting any one use them who has or hires a locomotive and some cars. But this is so ob- | viously impractical that the concrete proposition of public ownership and operation stands as representa- tive of the scheme of the state communists. They advocate this because in other countries it is in operation. The nation that has gone farthest on this line of state railways is Germany. There they are owned and operated by the Government. Germany is the best bureaucratic government in existence. Its ‘organiz:nion is the most intensified, and its directing hand is felt in more ways in the life of the people than has ever been known before. Recently the managing director of the leading Ger- man steel plant made a tour of observation in the | United States to study our capacities in his line of ;busincss. He publishes the results in a Berlin paper. | In the metal trades he finds our conspicuous advan- | tage to be in the use of machinery. “In America,” he | says, “we find what seems to us an astonishing sub- | stitution of machinery for manual labor. Only in the | most necessary details is hand labor employed. Such a vast and skillful application of machinery offers es- pecial advantages in a time like this, when manual labor is costly and difficult to obtain.” An equal ele- ment in cheap production here he finds in the sur- prisingly low railway rates. He says: “The American railvay system far surpasses in cheapness and effi- ciency of service anything known in Europe. Freight cars of all classes far surpass in size and carrying capacity those of the German railways, and the cost ot freight per ton per mile in the United States is only 27 per cent of what it is in Germany.” Putting these two elements of cost in production together, he concludes that when the demand for iron and steel in the United States slackens there will be | a surplus for export to Germany at prices which Ger- man manufacturers will be unable to meet, especially in heavy plates, structural metal and rails. We do not suppose that any observations and con- clusions, or facts themselves, will make any difference with the political fanatics who hope to win by an- tagonizing everything that is. But' these reports of foreign observers who visit us to study the conditions of our production and ribution will not be with- out influence upon the men who choose to think. With distribution by rail 73 per cent cheaper on American roads than on the state roads of Germany the productive power of this country has such an ad- vantage as to obsolete all arguments for state owner- ship here, based on comparative rates of transporta- {tion. Therefore the plan for Government ownership |in this country will end, if adopted, in magnifying the real evil of political interference without any economic benefit to offset it. Under our system, by a seeming necessity, every business operation of the Government becomes a factor in party politics. In war and peace, wher- ever the Government appears as a producer, a car- rier, an operator in any form of business, the party | that happens to be in power stands as a partisan beneficiary. Give into the hands of the Government the ownership and opération of our stupendous rail- way system, and very soon, instead of the people owning the Government, thé Government will own the people, and the political evils now laid at the doors of railway management will appear as trifles compared to those which would follow. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. T is evident that if Mr. Bryan have his way the next Democratic platform will indorse all the The path of progress for this city lies along the proposed panhandle extension, and if that be not pro- vided progress will be balked. — @ MARYLAND ISSUE. F all the election contests that have arisen in O this country to perplex judges the oddest is one which now frets legal brains or lack of brains in Maryland. The decision of the case involves a determination of the exact point in the complex proceedings of the Australian ballot system at which the voter can be said to have voted. The issue arose in this way: J. B. Burnett of Tal- bot County went into a booth on election day and prepared his ballot. Just after he had marked it and had it ready to deposit he dropped dead. The ballot that he had prepared was afterward carried to the box and put in, though it was protested at the time by the Republican election officials. Mr. Carrington, the Democratic candidate for State's Attorney, has an official majority of one over Mr. Mulliken, the Repub- lican candidate, and it is claimed that this one is the ballot cast for Burnett by the election officer. It is maintained by one side that a man has not voted until his ballot has been deposited in the ballot- box. It is claimed by the other that a man votes when he makes out his ticket, and that having con- formed to the law in making it out it then becomes the duty of the election officials to put it in the box. Tt is further argued that the election officers have no right to refuse to place the ballot of a properly ac- credited voter into the box after it has been made out, so long as it is in legal form. It is a pretty question, and, while a similar case is not likely to occur, other cases may arise the deter- mination of which will depend upon the decision as to the point at which the act of voting is completed, and for that reason the decision of the Maryland case will be noted with interesy 2 1899. 2, FIRST PHOT - OGRAPH EVER TAKEN. lige » )y AN MNP DY UL Dot steisiedetsisiotesioisisiesiosbenesel® The first photographic portralt from 1 Draper of Hastings, N. Y., who posed for the picture in 1839. fe ever made was of Mrs. Dorothy C. Her brother, Dr. John W. Draper, who had been grea'ly interested in the experiments of Daguerre and Niepee, took the llkeness, which has collection of Sir John Herschel. since become famous. It is now in tne It is a long time—half a century now-—since Miss Draper, in the quaint bonnet and gown of the period, sat for her picture, which is £till In an admirable state of preservati it has never been surpassed by modern p. Sir John Herschel's deares: treasures. on. As a faithful and beautiful likeness hotography. As a curlosity It is one of It is a long step from the daguerreotype of fifty years ago to the wonderful photographs of 1889, in 1562 to the successful completion of the 1839 the on plctures taken were of still in its perfe utes, phers the requisite length of time to tak The method of obtaining daguerreoty From the time of the discoveries of Wedgewcod daguerreotype process by Daguerre In life. Even when the daguerreotype was tion long exposures were required, varying from three to thirty min- With a strong sunlight five minutes was considered by many photogra-, e a portralt. pes was complicated. First, a brightly polished silver plate was cleaned with pumice, olive ofl and nitric acid and aft- erward brilliantly polished with a soft bu ff. The plate was then placed, face downward, resting on supports, over a saucer on which had been scattered frag- ments of fodine, covered with gauze. The vapor from the fodine formed upon the plaie a surface of sflver lodide, which is the sensitive compound. The stage of maximum sensitiveness was reached when it ‘¥as of a golden orange color. In this state the plate was Inserted in the dark slide of the camera, ready for expos- ure. The pictures were beautiful, buc coples could not be made. Not until Dr. Draper’s successful venture was the idea of using the daguerrestype as the means of perpetuating the llkeness of individuals considered feasible. He opened & new and fascinating realm to the photographer.—New York World. JOHNNY REIFF, THE MIDGET JOCKEY, WILL STUDY IN AN ENGLISH SCHOOL OHNNY REIFF, the peer of the mid- | get jockeys of the world, has set a new standard for the boys who ride the bangtalls. Little Johnny, who has made a larger fortune before he is 15 years of age than many men accumulate in a lifetime, is golng to educate himself. He wants to be not only a smart jockey but a smart man, and in this shows a dis- position which does not characterize the great majority of bays who make money by riding on the racetrack. Reiff has been riding on the English tracks for the firm of Duke & Wishard at a stipulated salary of $15,000 a year. His success during the season just closed was 0 remarkable that he achieved great popularity and became as conspicuous in England as Tod Sloan did when he first entered upon his career across the water. Attentions from royalty did not turn the little lad's head, and last week he entered an English school. With a chance of re- turning to America and making plenty of money on the winter tracks, he has done more than other jockeys in prefer- ring to cultivate his mind. When he left his home in Wichita, Kan., two years ago, rather against his own wishes and with- out having had.the advantages of more than a few winters in the public school, he was as ignorant of the ways and tricks of jockeys as he was lacking in education. He went because his brother, Lester Relff, who had already won fame and for- tune on the racetrack, wanted him to make the same attempt. Being a born jockey, he soon became the equal of his brother. He weighs sixty-five pounds, and can ride a horse that many a stronger boy would be unable to handle. Nine-tenths of the boys who ride race horses have no schooling. Their career begins usually when they are tots around the stable. They learn to exercise horses and later to ride them in races. If they are In the least successful it means money both to them and their parents, and they stay until ruled off the track or become Incapacitated. Although money s the attraction which keeps jockeys in the business, few of them, unless they are fn almost direct care of thelr parents or because they ma- ture early in life, save money from their large incomes. Often parents whose share s wealth 1s small see a chance to live comfortably on the income a mere boy can make on the turf and they encourage sons to ride. The Reiff boys seem to be blessed with a different influence. Lester educated himself in New York while resting winters when other boys were riding on southern tracks. e Is now the owner of some ofl wells in Pennsylvania, and has an in- terest in some of the Duke & Wishard theroughbreds.—Chicago Times-Herald. A e ale TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 21.—Lester Relff and his brother John, whose performances on the English turf last summer attracted the attentlon of the racing world, have returned to their home at i‘n’nn. an ofl town south of here. The entire town turned out to welcome them. The home is a humble cottage. The jockeys will bulld a more {retanuoul residence before they return to England. AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. Hopel, a traveler from Paris, is at the Palace. E. 8. Churchill, the Napa banker, is at the Palace with his wife. 0. E. Willlams, a popular hotel man of Ukiah, is a guest at the Grand. Edgar R. 8moot Is registered at the Oc- cidental from Washington, D. C. Edward W. Runyon of New York is in the city on his annual flying trip to the coast. G. C. Davis, well known in the business world of Medford, Ore., is a guest at the Grand. Colonel John T. Harrington came down from Colusa yesterday, and is a guest at the Grand. J. T. Gribble, a wealthy mining man of 1 Nevada City, Is one of the late arriv: at ‘the Lick. Paris Commissioner E. W. Runyon came down from Red Bluft yesterday and is now at the Palace. H. W. Monnastes, one of the leading business men of Portland, is among the | recent arrivals at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Drury Melone are at the Palace from their home In Oak Knoll They came to the city to do some Christ- mas shopping. Willlam H. Avery, general agent of the Japanese steamship line, has left for New York on a month’s vacation. Mrs. Avery accompanies her husband on his trip. Mr. and Mrs. D. Kelfer, two prominent soclety people of Cincinnati, Ohlo, arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Palace. They are making a pleasure trip to the coast. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chickering, Miss Emily Chickering, Harry Chickering, Allen R. Chickering, James Rossater of SBan Franclsco are at the Empire. Allen Keith, Mrs. A. M. Skmpson of San Francisco, J. C. Kittle of Ross, Cal, are at the Holland. R. B. Hockstadter of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. M. Wiener and wife of San Francisco are at the Netherland. D. J. Maybury of San Francisco is at the Plaza. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Mr. and Mrs. Anson L. Blake and Miss Stanford of San Francigco and W. N. Armstrong of San Diego are at the Shoreham; Willlam Goldsborough of San Francisco is at the Arlington. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE ROTHSCHILDS—-M., Bishop. Inve County, Cal. The parent or principal bunk | of the Rothschilds is located in Frankiori- on-the-Main, Germany. THE MAN WITH THE HOE-8. L. P., Bangor, Me. The celebrated picture “The Man With the Hoe" was purchased by WIill H. Crocker of San Francisco for a sum a little In excess of $4000. TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS—George, City. The trustees of the Preston School are: E. M. Preston, Varney W. Gaskill and Charies H. Dunton. The trustees of the Whittier School nrcrcl C.rkPn‘er, Wal- ter Lindley and Jame: POSTAGE ON THE CALL—C. C. B., Oakland, Cal. The postage on the Sun- day Call, relsllnr edition, is 2 cents. A copy of the und.{em ue upon which a 2-cent stamp has placed will cer- tainly be forwarded to its destination ‘without delay. APPRENTICE IN THE Glen Ellen, Cal. To apprentice a boy In ‘the United States navy on this coast ad- ss the commander of the Pensacola, NAVY-H., Yerba Buena Island, and you will recelve tion, JOHANNESBURG — Subscriber, Johannesbus African repul TRANSPORT HANCOCK—C. W. C., Alameda, Cal. The United States trans- port Hancock, formerly the Arizona, went into the dock at the Union Iron Works for repairs on August 5, 1399, NOT PREMIUM COIN—L. A. C., City. There 1s no premium offered for a $5 plece of 1851 nor for a dime of 1843 nor one of 1853. The -ellln:‘gncu of the first named Is from §75 to $8 0, and the dimes de- scribed from 40 cents to $L SCHOOL DEPARTMENT-L. A, C., City. All teachers and employes of the School Department under the new char- ter will be appointed by the Board of Ed- . San Francisco, Cal., a circular of informa- is a part of the South | ucation. As the board has not yet been appointed it s impossible to know what course will be taken In regard to janitors in the public schools. From a reading of the charter it does not appear that the employes of the School Department will come under the provisions of the civil ser- vice rules. STAMPS—R. M., Santa Rosa, Cal. The Egyptian stamp described in letter of In- | quiry 1s one of the issue of 1885. It is so common that it can be purchased from dealers for 1 cent If canceied, 6 cents If uncanceled. As to the Cape of Good Hope stamp asked about, the question cannot be answered without a knowledge of its shape, color and kind of paper on which printed. There have been more than a dozen Issues of the denomination of 1 penny. MANUFACTURE OF PINS-T. K, U., La Mirada, Cal. Under the old system of making pins it required fourteen pro- cesses to make one. The head was put on sepnuulr. Now, by the use of ma- chines, 200 pins are turned out a minute, ready to be tinned and put on paper. I'he pins are put on by machinery. The ma- chine crimps the pnger and holds {t, while the pins are brou{ t up In long rows, a ‘whole row belnx“- uck on by one push a lever. In the United States pins are all made by the new process. In a few places in Europe the old plan is still followed. ORDER OF INCARNATE WORD-—A. N., San Jose, Cal. The Order of the In- carnate Word and Blessed Sacrament was formed by Venerabie Jane Chezard de Matel at Lyons, France, in 1625. In 1792-93, during the terror of the Revolution, its members were expelled from France, but Wwere re-established there again in 1827. The rule is that of St. Augutsine and is subject to the local Bishop. The houses are independent of each other. In 1%2 the first American foundation was made at Brownsville, Tex. To-day the sisters of that order have convents at Victoria, Corpus Christl, Houston and Halletville. On the first of the current year there were sisters, five academies and 315 pupils. The Sisters of Chnrltx of the Incarnate Word have the mother-house at San Anto- nio, Tex. This congregation was founded in 1565 by the Rev. Mother M. Angelique, superforess of the Monastery of the In- carnate Word at Lyons, France, and the Right Rev. C. M. Dubois, then Bishop of Texas. Their rules and regulations were q_lven them by that monastery's religion. he first foundation was made at Galve: ton, Tex. In 1869 the house at San An- tonfo was opened. There are now. two dis- tinct centers, one at Galveston and the other at San Antonio. The first general Wi hela”in' Auset, L, amuntty st, e tual rofessed mymber 112, protested movises novices 50, candidad i total, 239, The sisters conduct houses in' the diocess of 8an Antonlo, Dallas, Galveston and the vicarat in the arch- diocese .a?‘l.l lnd.'h. ocese nares - letto, Mexico. _: a ks MORGANATIC MARRIAGES—J. L., Colgate, Cal. A morganatic marriage fs sometimes called a left-handed marriage, Among the feudatories of the Lombards % ing, however, only entitled to the mor- gengabe (morning gift) without partak- ing of his rank or ansmitting any rights In the inheritance of the Eusband to her children. In present use the word designates a lower sort of matrimoniai union, which, as a civil engagement, i3 completely binding, but falls to confer on the wife the title or estate of the husband and on the children the full status of I gitimacy or right of succession. The members of the German prince s have for centuries been in the practice of entering into marriages of this kind with their inferiors in rank. Out of this usage has gradually sprung a ¢ monial law by which the | with persons of lower morganatic form invol s serious conse quences, especially to the lady. Mor- ganatic marriages are recognized not | only among the princely families among the higher aristocracy of the | pire, and in Prussia even the “Nieder | Adel” may contract unions of this kind | The royai marriage act 12, George III, | chapter 2, reduces to a position somewhat | like that of morganatic marriage ever | union in the royal family of Great Brit | not previously approved by the sovereign under the great seal, providing the prince entering Into it ig under 25 years of age | and every such marriage of a prince over 25 which is disapproved by Parllament. LIGHT BATTERY—G. R., City. After Light Battery A of the National Guard went out of existence the guns were left in the Armory on Pacific avenue, near Polk street, and no one wishing to take charge of them or pay for storage, owner of the armory being told that could do what he pleased with them hauled the guns to a vacant lot fronting on Polk street, between Broadway and Vallejo et, and there they remained ;fnr a long time, becomfMg corroded 1 useless. The brigade commander fn 1% said that they were unsafe, and that b would not allow a man of his command to fire one. The from the lot and the junk shop. A DOLLAR OF 184-M. B. 8., Oak- land, Cal. This department has on sev | eral occaslons explained that by Ly po phical error in a lengthy artk 13 'a Sunday supplement It had been mal | to_appear that there was a premium o $1000 "for a dollar of 1834, when It shoul! have been for a dollar of 1504 COMIC OPERA IN PANTS IS POOR "T HAT mysterfous person who pre over the destinies of comic opera ganizations of to-day, and w title, whatever it may be, Is hardly as Impressive as ‘“impresario,” would as certainly reject “Die Fledermaus” were it submitted to him as the editor of the Century Magazine would reject “John Gllpin.” This is not a proof that Strauss’ opera and Cowper's poem are without merit. Each has its place among the lesser classics; but neither fits In with re- cent taste nor can either regain It popularity. The plot of * maus,” which is merely the elabo of a practical joke, 3 dublous kind of humor which is amus to its perpetrator and to nobody else. have a certain amount of = that amuses on its native strasse, but we who are not of Vienna and not moved to laughter by it find it on the whole rather dull and stupid. Moreover, comic opera in “pants” is a misfit. The glad garments of modern civilization destroy all our cherished iilu- sions, cultlvated by long contemplation of the sock and buskin. The Morosco company has excelled here- tofore in light German opera, but “Die Fledermaus™ requires a most energetic rerformmnce to make it go. If the action s not swift it drags, and the music needs dash to make it Interesting. A ecasual performance is fatal and it Is a casual erformance that {s being given at the rand. No one in the cast seems able to sustain the pitch for two consecutive measures and all llnfi recklessly. In the central ensemble of the second act, which In point of fact is quite difficult, the prin- cipals flounder so desperately that the ef- fect is about the same as one might ex- pect at a rehearsal of amateurs. There are several additions to the company that I am sure would not be there if Mr. Sy- monson wi etill in controi and the ef- forts of the dependable Mr. Wolff and Miss Mason are futile against the crim- inal cu-:.yhony of these new-comers. It is only falr to’ Miss Ladd to say that she has been overworked. clearly, or that she is uns have disappeared ave probably gone to * Her voice shows ferhnpu 1 should say harshly, n need of a rest. PORTER GARNETT. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® Selling depot for Waterman fountain and other gold pens. Sanborn, Vall & Co. * Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Cllppln{ Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery s . Telephone Main 1042. ¢ The Su-Ela Tyson Murder. 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Lawson, who has been a clerk for a week with the Columbla Cloak and Suft House, Market street, was arrested yes- lcrdl‘ob{ Detectives Dinan and Reynolds and oked at the City Prison on the charge of petty larceny. " He was suspect- ed of stealing, and when the detectives searched him a mink boa was found In his pockets. ADVERTISEMENTS. ‘Fuel for Force Your body must have force, nervous force, mus- cular force, digestive force. Fat is the fuel used to supply this force. If you are weak in any of these forces, use more fuel. Thecod-liveroilin Scott’s Emulsion is the best fuel for this work. Your nerves grow stronger, your muscu- and other branches of the Teutonj i e e it Ctie s | lar power increases, and b ,,:,‘.:’,“‘d “T",‘“‘:,,,ho, her husoand | your digestion improves, ; M ‘N Wi marriage between n’mo.f" :I&d,‘:.: . $oc. and §r.00, all druggists. and a woman of inferior position, she he. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yorks