The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1900, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDN 1900 WEDNESDAY 5. LEAKE, Manager Communications to W PiBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, Telephone Main 1865, . F. ROOMS. .. .217 to 221 Ste Telephone Main 1874, EDITORIAL on St. 15 Cents Per Week. , 5 Cen uding Postage: Delivered by Carriers, Singie Cople Terms DAILY CALL DAILY CALL (in DALY CALL (in. DAILY CALL—By SUADAY CALL Ome lear. WEEKLY CALL One Year. . e All postmasters are authorized to recelive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested luding Sunday), Single Month. OAKLAND OFFICE €. GEORGE KROG Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON........ ...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: TERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.; Great North- wrn Hotel; I'remont House; Auditorium Hotel. YORK NEWS STANDS: oria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Hill Hotel. MWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. WRANCH OFFICK Clay, open umntil open until Montgomery, corner of 0 o'clock. 300 Hayes, pen until open until 10 I Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open til 9 o'clock. AW. cermer second and Kentucky, n wuntll 9 AMUSEMENTS. cess and the Butterfly ** on end ason and Pllis streets—Spectalties. to-da: in the nature g commentary on the new charter, the course of which he explains to the St ELAN'S message i: they can do and what they must leave and may be learned, but it is he Supervisors, whom » regard as a kindergarten class, enefit from it. wers as chief he M inistratc vested in himse! Phelan say: " d adm the laws a diture of The Com- ble to him and he is respon- Therefore there should be loy: e two branches of the govern- d commis mission; have to express lic ac- for which the Mayor stands.” plain declaration that under the new char- overnment and the Commis- v to carry out h licy. he may by the C for ymmyssioners. The Mayor at purpose. Thus, accord- n of the charter, those 1e people have had such high ex- - independent bodies serving the welfare of the municipality, but merely a lot of 11 f which tl not portant of posed the duty of pro t the purity of elections law. o can call the Mayor to account i d be found to embrace the disposal of too many fices promised in violation of law dur- ing the campaigr getting votes There is nothing like making a test of all the powers of the new g at the start, and the District Attorney, therefore,’ should take note of the Mayor's voffice-distributing policy at once. ; Among the defects of the charter the Mayor notes what he calls “slight disconnection between the duties of the Supervisors and the duties of the Assessor” due to the t that the Supervisors are required o make the tax levy not later than the last Monday %n June, while the Assessor is required to turn over his assessm roll to the Supervisors on the first Monday in Ju Thus the board in acting upon the tax levy will have no official information of what the assessment for the year is goimg to be. That defect the Mayor hopes to overcome by inducing the Asses- of or the sake sor to make an “unofficial” statement of the approxi- mate assessment. It is an awkward method of doing business, but pe »s it can be made to work until an amendment can be effected. The decision of the Supreme Court that the Board of Hea t subordinates irrespective of the appropriation for its maintenance, and that the subordinates mwst be paid out of the treasury tot boards, a power which the Mayor regards as “illogical may gives and by parity of reasoning to certain other and vicious.” Nor is his view in that respect to be dis- puted, for it is clear that if a board can at will under- take expenditures in excess of the appropriations granted there be very little chance for the en- forcement of econ t point is made in the statement: > be no authority under the charter to An excelle “There seems fix telephone rates board to see th portion to the v of their property.” The out- at it could in that direction b passing to print a resolution imposing taxes upon telephone machines, and the new board should enact the resolution without delay. Of the closing suggestion of the Mayor that the city should have a flag ‘there will be much said as rk of designing one begins. If other cities have a flag San Francisco should have one. We have no design of our own to offer, but whatever is accepted must be neat, not gaudy. e s e going board did wh: soon as the wi Fashionable audiences at the Metropolitan Opera- house, New York, are suffering more this season from the fleas than ever before. The management lays the blame on the pet dog show of last fall. Friends of the dog say that the fleas came over with the Milanese chorus supporting Calve. The audiences can take their choice. have made in the campaign | and therefore it is the duty of the | the companies pay taxes in p-o- | SEIZURE ON THE HIGH SEAS. UR last war with Great Britain was fought on O our protest against her right to seize and | search the ships of a neutral on the high seas. The war ended with the treaty of Ghent, in which its cause was not referred to at all. The struggle went against us on land, with the single exception of the battle of New Orleans, which was fought after peace was declared. On the water the honors were de- cidedly with us, and as between the two nations the point was settled. We violated that tacit settlement, however, by the search of a British ship and the seizure of Mason and Slidell, the Confederate envoys, during our Civil War. England at once denied our right to search a neutral for contraband persons or property, and Mr. Seward wisely conceded the point and surrendered the two envoys to the British flag. Since that time no case has arisen until now. Eng- land reverses herself in the Mason-Slidell case and cl Her seizure of German mail steamers at Aden and ap- proaching Delagoa Bay, on the theory that property or passengers on board may enter belligerent terri- tory, is utterly insufferable from any view of interna- tional right. It is doing exactly what we whipped her for in 1812, and it remains to be seen whether the rest of the world, including our own Government, will permit it Great Britain is also assuming the right to partially blockade a neutral port by shutting the ships of neu trals out of Delagoa Ba She has seized three car- goes of American flour, in neutral bottoms, on their y to neut flour may reach the Boers. ims the very right which she denied to us. When the wheat was rowing in the field of Dakota there was the same possibility that it would reach the Boers, and she had just as much right to send an army over the Canadian border to burn it in the stack as to confiscate it in neutral bottoms en route to a neutral port. An unavoidable duty is put upon our Government by these events. It is not only to demand payment for the property of our citizens, seized piratically, but to join the other nations in a protest against this British bullying of neutrals, and if she refuse to de- sist declare war upon her, as Madison and our Con- gress did in 1812 and for the same cause exactly. It is true that the Spanish collateral effects have given us a small taste of the sweets of pillage and piracy, but the intoxication is far from ecting the y of our people, whose pa- triotic interest it is to resent and resist the intoler- Britain. war and its majori able pretensions of Great | Under the rule she is attempting to establish by the acts’at Aden and Delagoa Ba 1 she has to do provoke a war with some weak country and then 1 world on in - Kidd's is a crime puts it y loot the commerce of the neu Such a pol makes Capf respectable, and, while piracy e death penalty in the individual ) ues when co itted by a nation It is well for France, Russia, Germany and Austria to know that the people of the United States will not their Government to even negatively sup- is British piracy. And it will be well for our nent to know that there are serious accidents r American public men who go back on the cause for which we fought in 1812 igh s THE COLLAPSE OF POPULISM. ENATOR KYLE of South Dakota, who has been classed in the Congressional Directory as S an “independent,” and who in the past has acted with the Populists, has now announced himseli as a straight-out Republican. He is quoted as hav- ing said recently: “Though I am a bimetallist, and have so from conscientious convictions for | twenty-five years, I would rather take the most un- diluted gold standard than to accept bimetallism with the ingredients of radical socialism that are now asso- ciated with it.” The Senator’s statement trend of the free sil socialism. been directs attention to the ver agitators toward something The fusion of Democracy | with Populism resulted in producing a combination | which represents and. exaggerates the worst features of both. Conservative Democrats have long since re- pudiated the Bryan party which masquerades as Democracy, and the more intelligent of the Populists and bimetallists are imitating their example. In commenting vpon the_situation in his State the | Senator said: “It is probable that the socialists, the radical Populists and the radical Democrats will get together and operate under the name of the reform purty. In the election last fall there was no organized Democratic party and no Democratic ticket. The name was completely obliterated, and yet it was not so very long ago that the Democrats cast 27,000 votes in my State. This conglomerated party never can win. The present Populist Governor was elected by | a bare majority of 300, although previously the Popu- lists had several thousand majority. In the last elec- tion the Republicans, without money and without a struggle, won by nearly 7000. In the Presidential campaign next year South Dakota will go for Mc- Kinley by from 10,000 to 15,000. The socialistic ten- dencies of the third party people and the prosperity which is being enjoyed by the South Dakota farmers | have sounded the death knell of the old movement.” The situation in the country at large is not essen- tially different from that in South Dakota. The an- tagonism which the Republican party will have to meet this fall will be made up of radicals of all kinds— Democrats, Populists and socialists. It will be in no true sense a Democratic party, nor even a Populist party. It will have no issue except that which the | socialists may furnish it, for it is now clear that ques- tions of tariff and finance are settled, and that it will be impossible to make a partisan issue out of problems arising from trusts or imperialism. Bryan- |ism will, in fact, represent nothing but discontent and | will have no leadérship better than that of Bryan him- | self, supported by Altgeld, Debs and other agitators | of that kind. | THE TAINT OF G nferiors is an official notice of the development | among our officials in those islands of one of the worst features of imperialism—that of accepting | bribes from the people of the subject race. A prac- | tice which begins by the acceptance of money from |'the conquered will soon become a practice of extort- | ing money, and by swift steps will advance to an evil | of portentous magnitude. ! In his order General Otis says of these alleged | cases of bribe-taking: “It is reported that passes are | obtained and transierred for a money consideration; that compensation is made for transportation of per- sons and things on public conveyances or convey- ances controlled by the public to officials unauthor- iized to receive it and for their own benefit, and that | contributions are solicited, if not exacted, and at any | rate received from subordinates for the purchase of ‘lpresent to superiors.” e extreme now IMPERIALISM. ENERAL OTIS’ order forbidding any person connected with the military or the civil ser- It is to be noted that while the general speaks of the acceptance of gifts or bribes as offenses not yet al port, assigning as her excuse that | vice in the Philippines to accept gifts from | proven, and is careful to refer to them as “alleged” cases and as “reports,” yet he intimates that enough evidence exists to support a moral conviction that some of them at least are true. Thus he declares: “The commanding general is constrained to the belief that these reports, which are in the nature of general | complaints and do not relate to specific offenses, have a more or less substantial foundation. The evil, cor- rupting and far-reaching in its effects, appears to have reached a stage whichrenders its suppression with a strong hand imperative. Commanding officers, heads of departments and others exercising control are di- rected to lend their best endeavors to this end. They will be held responsible, each within his proper sphere, that all reports and allegations of offenses of this nature are probed to the bottom and when found to be supported by evidence that offenders are brought to justice.” That an American general should have to issue an order of that kind thus early in the stage of our ex- periment in governing subject races is a warning to | which the people should give due heed. Bribe- | taking has been common enough in our political life, | but it has ever been the belief of all that the officers of our army are above such corruption. This official order, which carries with it the announcement that in the Philippines the army itself is falling from the high standard of honor with which it has been cred- ited, is more depressing than would have been a re- port of defeat on the field of battle. A check to our arms we could easily overcome, but it is a sad day | for the republic when a command from headquarters is needed to warn civil and military officers on duty among the subject people that the acceptance of bribes or gifts from those whom they are appointed to govern is not to be tolerated. We have here one of the first proofs of the cor- rupting power of imperialism. If the military admin- istration in the Philippines has been already tainted by bribe-taking, what can we expect of any civil administration we may establish there? The order of General Otis will open the eyes of a great many peo- ple who have been willing to make the leap into im- perialism without looking ahead. It is significant of what is likely to happen if we undertake a perma- | nent government of millions of people of subject races. | p ment concerning the work achieved by the Commercial Museum in Philadelphia and the | aavantages which a similar museum in San Francisco would confer upon the merchants and manufacturers of the Pacific Coast will have the effect of reviving | public interest in the subject, and, it is to be hoped, | will stimulate the efforts of those having in charge the enterprise of providing such a museum. What Professor Davidson says of the benefits accruing from the Philadelphia museum confirm the reports that have come to us from other sources. That museum has but a short history, for it was de- | veloped from gifts made to the city of Philadelphia of exhibits of various countries at the Chicago ex- | position in 1893, but it has become in that brief period one of the most notable institutions in the United States. It has attracted the attention of merchants and manufacturers of the entire commercial world and has correspondents in every important trade cen- ter on the globe. After a careful study of the working of the Phila- delphia museum and a consideration of the needs of commerce on the coast, Professor Davidson main- #tains that such an institution in San Francisco is an almost imperative requirement of the timg. He is quoted as saying: “It would be the broadest, easiest and, in reality, | the cheapest means of giving aid and information to every industry in the Pacific States—information that | can be gotten in no other manner. There never was a more opportune time in our Pacific Coast history when so many influences conspire to make the realiza- tion of a great commerce possible. The acquisition of new countries through the Pacific and the certain development of the commerce of the United States among them and the other tropical islands and in | the countries bordering on the southern ahd eastern ccasts of Asia present unique conditions. In 1897 the traffic of the coasts of Asia and of Oceanica amounted to $2,127,000,000, of which the United States shared to the amount of only $149,000,000, or 7 per cent.” It has been repeatedly stated that if a commercial museum be established here the Philadelphia museum will co-operate with it and will furnish out of its sur- plus of exhibits a nucleus around which to build up a fine array of exhibits in this city. Such assurances afford all the encouragement we ought to require. They render certain the usefulness of the museum as | soon as it is opened, for the Philadelphia co-operation means that patrons and members of the local museum will have the advantage of whatever information can be given by the managers and the correspondents of the Philadelphia institution. The time is propitious for undertaking the founda- tion of the museum and it should not be long delayed. The competition for the trade of the Orient is close and keen. We should not neglect anything which will help us to gain trade there. Our rivals in Great Britain, Germany and Russia have long been studying the demands of that market and if we would compete with them on even terms we must be equally studious. Let us then provide our city with a museum in which the producer, the manufacturer and the merchant may learn what articles are in demand in various parts of the world and where are the best markets for his goods. s ———— COMMERCIAL MUSEUMS. ROFESSOR GEORGE DAVIDSON'S state- p—— e o The servant girl problem may find its solution in Kansas City, for a movement has been started there to found a $200,000 college to train young women in the domestic arts. When a girl can graduate her way into a kitchen by taking a diploma perhaps she will take more interest in the profession and attend to its duties better. It is announced that even the chief civil service examiner has been “slated” for his position by Mayor Phelan. This is a suggestively familiar way in which to inaugurate a great policy of reform. New San Francisco is beginning to adopt suspiciously the methods of the old. A few days ago it was suggested that the Board of Public Works ought to remodel the interior of the City Hall. A few more scenes such as that enacted in the Tax Collector’s office would suggest the pro- priety of making the building a fortress. The fellow who tried to steal the Morgue wagon as the last spoil of expiring authority must feel a cer- Sallors’ Home y HINDOSTAN S LEAKING LIKE AN OLD SIEVE Her Lumber Cargo Will Be Discharged. | | — s SEALERS ARE DOING WELL —_— GOOD CATCHES BEING MADE ALONG THE COAST. SR AL Quarantined Vessels Have Been Re- leased—Two More Transports to Sail To-Day—Centen- nial Released. Ll The Chilean ship Hindostan, which put | in here In distress last Monday, will prob- | ably have to dfscharge and go on the! drydock. She was caught in a heavy | southeaster soon after leaving Puget Sound and was badly strained. The | water began to pour In and the crew was called to the pumps. Steam was got on the donkey boiler, the windmill was put in working order and a constant | stream of water was kept pouring over | the sides. As fast as the water was | pumped out, however, the faster it came | in through the open seams. Finding that the leak was beyond his control, Captain Walsh decided to put into San Francisco. | The Hindostan was on her way -from Puget Sound to Valparaiso with a load | of lumber. | An examination of the Hindostan was made yesterday by the underwriters. Even as she lies off Clay street wharf the men have to keep the pumps going all the time to prevent the ship from be- | coming waterlogged. At first it was thought that by discharging the deckload | the vessel would be lightened enough to | reach the leak, but as soon as the Board | of Survey got through it was decided to | discharge the entire cargo and dock the vessel. The Hindostan is one of the old timers, having been built in Nova Scotia In 1874, She i still a good, stout ship, but during the heavy weather her seams must all have opened up and she will now have to be recalked throughout before she can P roceed. The sealing fleet has made a good start | MISCELLANEOUS. | DOS0090000802020082B00C0C00020030000000000000000000000 A beautiful Davenport sofa during the AND A BED AT NIGHT. me Davenport Sofa Bed. PIECE OF FURNITURE A that represents the acme of style, comfort and luxury, and is much more comfortable than a couch. A Davenport may_easilv take the place of 2 or 3 articles of furniture at much less cost. We have them in solid mahogany and other woods, elegantly carved, the most modern shapes; cov- ered with English tapestry and velours. A Davenport adds beauty to any room in the home 2204 We make all articles of Furniture to order and your wants may be supplied here better than in any place we know of. Prices of Daven- $23 to $150 If you have a room to furnish or a floor to cover it will pay you to visit Pattosien’s big home store in the Mission, and we will be glad to show you through our immense establishment— whether you wish to buy or'not. Will you come ? Q@ Corner P A 16th and Mission Sts. FILLMORE STREET CARS MISSION STREET CARS YELLOW KBPARNY STREET CARS |PASE OUR DOOR. come out of quarantine to-day, while the bark Albert will probably be released to- morrow. The old-new Hartford’s anchors were skins at this time | having taken more than the crew of the Geneva had at the same time last year. During that season the Geneva took nearly 1500 skins on the coast. hove up ort yes,zl:ird;xy afternoon a'nv‘. T aptains and white crews of the | the warship will go to sea 0~ s(‘ulh:rsr“?sh to thank Captain Jepson of | da If on a four hours' run everything proves satisfactory she will start on her voyage to New York. If there should b any defect found, then she will coms back for an n“?rhaullnf. The VQSQI' is coaled and provisioned for a run to Val- paraiso, and when she goes out through the heads to-day it may be many a long day before she {8 seen again in San Fran- the steamer Queen and Captain Mecln- tyre of the colller Bristol for newspapers received. On the way up and down the coast both masters go out of their way to drop a coal oil can full of newspapers overboard so that they can be picked up by the sealers. The schooner barge Wauklakum arrived | day ¥ afur 0 the Columbia ver yesterday Iin tow clsc ¥ s tug Sampson. She and two other| The transport Aztec took aboard a load barges have been carrying rock from As- | of mules yesterday and will sail for Hilo [ e o o S S o o o g Ea e s s oo a o o o e o o ] * * @ * * @ ® . + t ® * L4 ® . - ¥ 4 3 3 L 4 % . 4 - ? Y e . : ® 3 . + : 3 > 4 Py * : : ; . ; . + : ¢ ® * . 3 pe * * ? @ * * ® @ + - L e R S R e e Chilean Ship Hindostan That Put in Here in Distress. on the coast. Bkins are now worth about $25 each, so the news will be hailed with delight_by the British Columbia owners. About forty schooners will fit out at Vie- toria, B. C., this year and nearly ever: one of them will take an Indian cre The latter are cheap men, while the white | hunter usually demands and gets all that the law allows. According to private ad- vices received by Donald Ross yesterday the schooner Vera was spoken off Point Arena on January 2 with 57 skins, the Mary Taylor on December with 23 skins, the Deana on December 26 with 33 skins and the City of San Diego on Jan uary 7 with 75 skins. The latter vessel has done remarkably well, the hunters | | carry lumber to this_port. ay. She goes to the latter port ad of Homolulu on account of th plague and will land the animals there for a run. In a week or so they will be taken aboard again and a fresh start made for Manila. The transport Tartar is loaded and will sail for Manila to-da On account of the plague in Honotulu Centennial has been released. She was being got ready to carry a load of mules toria to Grays Harbor for the breakwater | to- in the latter place, but the appropriation has given out, so until Congress puts more monéy In the treasury the barges will The Waukla- kum brought down 1,200.000 feet of lum- ber, o the venture should prove a re- munerative one. The big tramp steamer Algoa will go alongside the Mall dock early this morn- ing and the work of discharging her will | to Manila, but will now be turned back begin at once. She has eight winches to her owners. The Missouri, the new and can put out 200 tons of freight a day, | hospital ship, has rea: Nagasaki_with so that there should be no dificuity in | 260 sick soldiers en rou San Fran- getting her inward cargo out and her out- The Thomas. with General Law- ward cargo in by next Wednesday or remains aboard, is now out six day Thursday. The Hongkong Maru will also s from Manila. | Death of Mate Taylor. Willlam Taylor, second mate on the American ship E. B. Sutton, died in the erday morning. Auton- sy Surgeon Leland reported death to be | due to tuberculosis. Taylor had been very | sick since the vessel had rounded Cape Horn in a violent storm. | ———————— | Townsend's famous broken candy 10c pound while at 735 Market street. . —_———————— Note §1 Fourth street, 5¢ barber, groc best eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c. —_——————— er; . information supplied dally to the ont- . Special business houses and public men b, Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. e e— ——— Changes in Bailiffs. Owing to the assignment of Sergeant Duncan to be on duty at police headquar- | ters, Policeman Floyd was detailed yes- | terday to act as one of the balliffs In | Judge Fritz’s court. Policeman J. C. Laws | Wwas assigned as one of the baliliffs in Judge Conlan's court, instead of Police- man Owens. —_————————— Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- slons to look after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 628 Market street. ————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect suc-ess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colic, 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, 25c a bottle. e ———— The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. tain distinction of being the most unique spoilsman in the history of local politics. —_— It is said that General Buller has his hands full. The correspondents fail to add that the general can conceive of no way in which to drop anything. Carter Harrison refuses to be any longer the Aguin- aldo of the Democratic party of Chicago. At any | rate, he refuses to run for re-clection. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Con- necting train leaves § p. m., Monday, Wednes- day, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East, Ticket office, 628 Market street. —_—— e HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay, $3 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, S8an Francisco. —_—— Luxuriant hair with its youthtul color assured by using Parker's Halr Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts, SPLENDID HOLIDAY EDITIONS ]ran celebrate the close of the nineteent century whenever it is thought desirabl sses celebrate Christmas e ind_the Greeks at an- other, or New Year's day, observed at one perfod by a larg rrnpx-rnnn of the inhabi- tants of the world, at another by the Los Angeles Capital. y at one tim Of all the big grist of “special Christ- mas numbers’ issued by scores and even Pundreds of newspapers and magazires Greeks, at still another by the Hebrews, which come to the Capital's exchange and yet another by the Chinese. E? desk, none have seemed to me more & marked by originality of treatment and | L_‘i—‘; ’\f'-l"-‘IM“N--H- M. B, Sutter lavichness of execution than the holiday | goc®%: © ‘:‘-N“'\"_Y,‘;"fi_’;lde,fll"r can procure | editions of the San Francisco Call, got | (A JOT. 8 SOPY o "i‘!e on Games, out by A. J. Moore, a newspaper man | i S Sk a all the rules for play- well known to the local fraternity. Both 8 ackgammor the Christmas and New Year's Sund editions teemed with exquisite pictur fine letter press, ideas that sparkled wit the glint of newness and a thoroughness of finish that showed the exceeding care that evidently entered Into the make-up of the numbers in question. To any one who has struggled with the haunting problem of “something new’ in newspa- per making there Is cause for much won- der at the excess of new things and good things provided in Moore's Sunday sup- plements of the days mentioned. ————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | MUST PAY A LICENSE—A. 8., City. There is an ordinance of the Board of Su- pervisors in San Francisco that requires clairvoyants, astrologers and seers to pay a quarterly license of $10. A LEGAL HOLIDAY—A. S., City. In the State of California Christmas and New Year's day are legal holidays and when such fall on Sunday, then the legal holi- day Is on the Monday following. PROMISSORY NOTE—W. H. S., Mil- ford, Lassen County, Cal. If a promissory note had been given on the first day Anno Domini to run 190 years it would become due at the close of the current year. THE' GREAT EASTERN-J. R. N, City. It was Intended at one time to run the Great Eastern in the trade between England and Australia, but the vessel never went to that part of the world. WHO WROTE IT—A correspondent | from Mountain View is anxious to know | who wrote: { Let us take to our hearts a lesson, | '_No le&wn can b{l‘\{ler be, rom the ways o e tapest) On the other side of !hepsea.ry hicaidad SHARKEY AND FITZ—J. R. N., City. The reports of the fight at the Mechan- ics' Pavilion on the 2d of December, 155§, show that in the fourth round “Sharkey landed right and left on body, and knocks Fitzsimmons down with a left-hand blow on the body.” In the fifth round Fitz hits Sharkey twice in his corner, and Sharkey goes through the ropes to the floor.” CELEBRATION—M. M., City. This s & free country, and any individual or class _ ADVERTISEMENTS. Young Girls How easy it is for youn; irls to go into the "d«:fil\e.# hey eat less and less, become aler and paler and can At all druggists ; SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemise.