The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1900. JANUARY 12, 1900 RECKELS Proprietor. }I\II)AY JOHN D. Sp C:w"u'\ catic s to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .ll-rkn and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 186S. 217 to 221 Ste Main 1874, EDITORIAL ROOMS. Telepho Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ueluding l‘o-lmx DATLY CAL uding !nudln. one yvear..$8.00 DAILY CAL . 8.00 DAILY CAL . 150 DAILY CALL—By Single Month .. 65c SUNDAY CALL Ome Year. . 1B0 WEEKLY CALL Ome Year . 100 All postmasters are authorized to receive sabscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested | Xhodesia with those of the Transvaal. | heavy mining license is required, and 50 per cent of | |a royalty. |it as a tenant. | laboring men in the Transvaal is seen in the more lib- | eral laws. | 400 feet for a payment of 2s 6d a month, or 62 cents, | and one man may take as many claims as he likes for | that payment on each, and his tax is 5 per cent of the OAKLAND OFFICE. ©. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Foreign Advertising, Marguette Build- tug, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: ©C. O. CARLTON ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: LUKENS JR. .29 Tribune Building PERRY CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unton | Square; Murray Hill Hotel. ‘ WASHINGTON (D. C.) ()I‘I ICE.. Wellington Hotel ! J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. . BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, cormer of Ciny, opem until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, | open until 9:80 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open | until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Lurkin, open umtil 830 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock corne enty-second and Kentucky, lock. o. the Butterfl; his afternoon. e every afternoon and | nd Ellis streets—Specialties. Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. 1 ny way come of them all nt by the That or our y regarded as one of the ad ninistr; are not yet ex- powers was unless uld do so, and up been done. It appears, te Department is well satisfied with s no reason to doubt the good e Govern way ts concerned, and it | s settled, for the present at any ean Government is going to inter- ion of our trade in the exercises control. | | deny. uence” What has | in China. been gaine: e Department, therefore, is all that we or desired. We have no wi to take g emberment of China, nor would our pe ng to accept a share of the spoils if mbered. All that we have asked for is a r ade equal to that of the most fa- | vored that we have obtained by the as- surances now g Since the State Department has secured our com- mercial rights in it remains for Congress to enact | w‘nrh will enable us to turn them | to ad I profit our merchants and our | ttle to have an open door awaiting ina if they have not the means of reach- ing the door on equal terms with foreigners. It will require ships to carry our products to the Orient, and we must provide them. Russia is rapidly opening a railway communication with China, and Great Brit- ain, Germany and France have subsidized steamship lines competing for her trade. In the face of that right to trade with the Chinese will without such legislation as will 1g of our merchant marine. rse of trade were determined by geo- the Chinese trade in foreign goods ghbors. In this, however, as in other and sagacity can overcome adverse situation. If European nations rchants in obtaining the trade of China ent remains in the future as supine e past, they will get the bulk of the rommne to see California goods mm«/ d from there to China to be larger [fufi\ for the British middleman ornia producer. The logical result is therefore the shipping e open door will be hardly more nbow. energy as it has been i trade and we s If the howl of the disappointed continues to echo in political circles a “Phelan promise” have about the same meaning as a “Gage brick.” The “double cross” seems to be altogether too weak to suit the case. —_— Something worse than a San Francisco jury has been discovered. Tt is the New York police force. For particulars see press dispatches concerning their tion in the case of Murderer Walter Rosser. If official critics continue to punch holes in the charter that interesting instrument will be past re- pairing. The croakers already see enough defects to make the city a bankrupt in six months. 1f General Methuen be deemed crazy merely bey cause he frets over the victories of the Boers, it will not be long before half the homes in Great Bntam | their suppression. | binations are good and wherein they are evil. st wholly ours, for we are her natural | will begin to | A BOER VIEW. | | HERE has been recently published in London an ante-war letter from a member of the Trans- vaal Volksraad; written last summer, which dis- proved Mr. Chamberlain’s claim that the Boers wanted to bring on war to enable them to dominate South Africa. The writer blames Rhodes for the situation. Great sums of English money have been |sunk in the non-productive mines of Rhodesia. | Rhodes sought to secure in the Cape Colony elections a majority favorable to incorporating Rhodesia with that colony in order to divert the English public | from its mining losses, and perhaps squeeze more | money out of new investors. Failing in the elections, it is charged that he de- liberately conspired with Chamberlain to force the { Transvaal into war to re-establish his reputation by adding a rich mining province to the empire. This Boer letter contrasts the - mining laws of In the former the gold taken out must be paid to Government as No one can own ground, but must hold The superior advantages offered to Any one can take a mining claim 150 by output. The great influx of miners made necessary ‘more of the machinery of government. This member of the Volksraad admits that the laws are not all per- fect, but he invites comparison with the laws of any other country, asking his correspondent to cite to him jany country in which all the people subscribe to the perfection of the laws under which they live. If other nations have perfect government why is it that in all of them, including England and the United States, | there are reform parties which have a place in politics d command millions of followers, on the theory at the government can be made better by reforming ts laws? We are inclined to think that this shrewd Boer has |put to the so-called superior nations and the great powers a question that will rest upon the conscience of their people. They are in the habit of claiming the right to go abroad to establish by force ideal government for others when the very existence of re- form parties in the midst of thent is proof that they He says: ve no such government at home. “We ing w tisfy unless we give of our independence, | we wiil concede no more. We will steadily proceed upon our own initiative and grant such reforms as may be necessary, but we are not going to gwe our a T t“e misery they \\ul cause. If we fight-n is for our homes and our independence. Chamberlain and Rhodes be fighting for?” The war, not begun when this letter was written, is now far on, and up to this time the unwilling party to it has proved that when men are defending their homes it is a mistake to attack them with contempt of their reasons and their courag Dur ing the recent campaign \h\or Phelan per- d in one stock expression in his speeches south of Market street. He insisted times without number | that he felt that south of the slot he was surely amiong ends. Since then he probably remembers the cry the man who said: “God help me from riends; I can take care of my enemies.” G my ROOSEVELT ON TRUSTS. OVERNOR ROOSEVELT of New York has joined the mighty host of those who in these days are denouncing trusts and clamoring for In the report of hisannual message he is quoted assaying: “That abuses exist, andthat they are of a very grave character, it is worse than idle to Just so long as in the business world unscru- pulous cunning is allowed the free rein which, thanks tc the growth of humanity during the past centuries, we now deny to unscrupulous physical force, then | just so long there will be a field for the best effort | of every honest social and civic reformer who is ca- pable of feeling an impulse of generous indignation and who is far-sighted enough to appreciate where the real danger to the country lies.” There will be no question of the excellence of that wisdom. It has, however, the defect of being a repi- tition of what has been said and heard, written and read, many times. What is desired now is some clear statement of the wrongs done by trusts, so that the people may be able to distinguish wherein those com- When the injuries inflicted have been accurately defined it will then be possible to provide something in the way of a remedy, but there is no profit to anybody in vague denunciations. Governor Roosevelt is an advocate of the strenuous life, and therefore it is not too much to ask of him that he strain himself a little and grapple with the problem like a statesman. Having one Bryan to lift up a roaring voice of general condemnation; we do not need another voice to assist him. It is safe to say the people are perfectly willing to support any well directed legislation designed to put an end to evils the trusts produce, but they are still waiting to hear what are the evils and what is the remedy. The issue offers an opportunity for distinction to the true reformer, but it will yield no more honor to “Rough Riders” than it will to “spread-eagle” orators. e e The controversy in Great Britain concerning Sir William Butler increases in bitterness, and becomes more interesting as it grows more bitter. Some ac- cuse him of neglecting British interests while in South Africa on account of sympathy with the Boers, and charge him with an offense closely resembling trea- son. On the other hand it is asserted he was the only British officer in South Africa who told the truth, and that the charges made against him are due to the spite of Cecil Rhodes. As a gratification of in- tellectual curiosity it would be pleasing to know the truth, No one wishes Butler to lecture, but he might write a book. v — e A BLOW AT THE BELLES. OMEN who never before have wished to hold the office of United States Senator will long to hold that position now. It would not be sur- prising if delegations of fair creatures appeared at the capital of every State in whose Senatorial delegation there is a vacancy petitioning the Governor to ap- point a2 woman to fill it, and to appoint her at once, for time is presing. The cause of this agitation in the feminine ranks is a bill recently introduced by Senator Hoar. It bears the pleasing title of a bill for the protection of song- will be Junatic asylums. The new police broom sweeps clean in Chinatown, but where is it sweeping the rubbish to? Other parts of the city should be as clean as Chinatown. | of the ladies, for they are ever ready to uphold law which protects the pretty birds, the sweet singe: of the air, from the wanton destruction of cruel men. The title, however, is deceptive. It is aimed not at What will | birds, and is therefore calculated to win the luptg men who kill birds, but at women who wear their feathers. There is nothing in it which forbids the killing of birds, but everything to prevent the selling of the feathers for drnamental purposes. In the first clause the bill declares “that the impor- tation into the United States of birds, feathers, or parts of birds for ornamental purposes, or for any purpose except food, be and the same is prohibited.” An exception is made of importations for museums, or for zoological gardens, etc., and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make regulations for the admission of birds or feathers for such objects. The second clause declares: “That the transportation of birds, feathers or parts of birds, to be used or sold, except such as are excepted in the first section of this act, from any State or Territory of the United States to or through any other State or Territory of the United States, is hereby prohibited. Whoever shall violate the provisions of this section shall, upon con- viction in the-district where the offense shall have been committed, be punished for each such offense by a fine of fifty dollars.” It will be seen that the bill not only excludes the importation of the rare plumage of the beautiful birds of tropic lands, but prohibits interstate commerce in effect it will no longer be permissible to send the feather of the Oregon gray goose to decorate the hat of fuss and feathers in earnest, and there is not a 1 single woman in the Senate to stand up and support feathers. There has been started a movement to ob- tain for women seats in the stores, and it is a good | are seats in the Senate. TREASURY DEPOSITS. Squirics of the House of Representatives con- cerning the deposits of public money in certain | himself from any charges or suspicions that may have been directed against him. He has not, however, such deposits. The Secretary states: “The reason for utilizing authorized by law when the receipts of the treasury were exceeding its expenditures, has been to avoid large sums of money from active circulation to the | treasury vaults must inevitably cause. The policy the Government for many years, and a departure | from it under similar conditions would certainly | It is true the system has been long followed by the Govemmem, but it has been the cause of scandals °| At the present time the Democratic party is assailing ornamental feathers as well. Should the bill go into of the California belle. The issue is going to be one the right of the feather-hatted sex to sport their | movement, but what women need most at this time ECRETARY GAGE in his reply to the in- | national banks has made a complete vindication of offered any adequate defense of the policy of making national banks as depositories for public money, as the disturbance to business which the withdrawal of %thus pursued by me has been the established policy of | cause disastrous results.” under every administration since the practice began. | a Republican administration for favoritism in making | deposits, while four years ago the Republican party was assailing Secretary Carlisle under a Democratic | administration upon similar grounds. The evils of | the system are so plain that they need only be stated | to be understood. In the first place, when interest rates range from 6 to 12 per cent it is manifestly un- | fair for the Government to lend sums of money amounting to many millions of dollars to certain | banks without interest. The practice does indeed put i‘hc money in that way into circulation, but as banks and speculators are thus induced to do business on the Government money, it becomes dangerous for the | Government to withdraw the deposits when they are | needed. Thus a double evil is worked by the policy, first in advancing public money to certain banks with- out interest, and second by the injury done to the financial situation when the money is withdrawn. Secretary Windom directed attention to the evils ‘of the system in his report of 1889, in the course of | which he said: | It necessarlly involves temptation to favoritism of the most objectionable character, It makes the treasury more or less dependent upon the banks, on account of the difficult and delicate task of withdrawing the deposits when wanted without cre- ating serious disturbance of finaneial conditions. It involves the exercise of a most dangerous power by the Secretary of the Treasury, whereby he may, if so disposed, expand or contract the currency at will, | and In the interest of certain favorites whom he may select. It is grossly unjust to the Government to grant the free use of its money, while it pays to the very par- tles thus favored 4 and 4% per cent Interest on its own bonds which are pledged as security for the money thus | recelved. It is to the credit of American officials that no Secretary of the Treasury has ever been convicted of making a personal profit out of the money thus advanced to the banks. It is none the less true, how- ever, that these deposits nearly always have been ad- vanced to banks of the same political faith as the Sec- retary of the Treasury at the time. Thus, while there has been no personal wrong, there is always a politi- cal scandal, and will be as long as the system is main- tained. It is time Congress take stepl to remedy the evil. It ought not to be difficult to devise some better man- ner in handling public mone; There are some deadly weapons which the British are perfectly willing shall enter Boer territory. A German ship was stopped by a British cruiser and machinery that looked suspiciously like cannon was found. It proved to be for a distillery, and was not confiscated. If the Boers can’t be reached in one way they may be in another. Ll S It is bad enough for a highwayman to make you throw up your hands, but it is adding insult to injury to force you to admit that you like the game. France is making the Dominican Government do both by exacting its cash claim with a humble apology. The price of wounded feminine hearts has mate- rially advanced in this city. One that is admitted to be sixty-three years old recently brought $35,000 in court. It is appalling to think what one just one- third as old might cost to a gay deceiver. — Senator Beveridge has loosened the tongue of elo- quence and wants us by all means to hold the Philip- pines. Somebody ought to assure the Senator that we are doing our best, but he ought to remember the story of the captured eel General Buller seems to be making the usual preparations for another “victory” over the Boers. A Durban correspondent announces that he has or- dered twelve hundred additional stretcher-bearers to the front. The newly organized American Panama Company may be a bona fide concern, but it looks very much like an attempt to pass off upon Congress the biggest gold brick on record. If some of our local ex-officials who have just been retired to private life share a sentiment of the com- munity they must feel greatly relieved to be out of office. When British warships began to make American products contraband of war that Anglo-American alliance commenced to look like moonshine after all. S S e — LOOKS MORE AND MORE LIKE A BIG WHITE ELEPHANT. L e o e ol e e o S o Nervous.—Lifs B B g 2R 2 2 SRORY SRR S RS ,wwo—o—o—o—%‘ Uncle Sam—I Wish That Confounded Thing Would Quit Expanding. It Makes Me AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. A. E. Hall of San Jose is at the Lick. ‘W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, Is registered at the Lick. H. E. O'Brien 1s here from Los Angeles and is a guest at the Palace. George F. Ditzler, a prominent fruit grower of Biggs, is at the Grand. Dr. J. H. Payne, U. 8. N., is among the arrivals of last night at the Palace. George F. Blakesless, a wealthy mer- chant of Los Angeles, is registered at the Lick. ‘W. Sarles, a leading business man of Gonzales, Cal, Is at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday. E. G. Pluke, a prominent paint and oil merchant of Eureka, Humboldt County, is stopping at the Lick. G. W. Harney, a well-known real es- tate man of Marysville, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Benjamin P. Barker, a wealthy wine man of Livermore, is at the Palace on a short business trip to this city. Captain Stanley Edwards of the British army is at the Palace. He arrived yes- terday from Australia and is on his way | home to England. W. G. Nevin and J. R. Hichcoek, the Santa Fe officlals, are at the Palace. They came to San Francisco on business and will return to their headquarters in a day or two. J. F. Archibald, editor and proprietor of the Sydney Bulletin, 1s at the Occiden- tal, accompanied by his wife. He arrived in the city yesterday on the Australian steamer and is gulng directly East on a business trip. 2 Professor M. Asulh, the eminent Bos- ton scientist, is at the Palace. He re- turned yesterday on the Australian steamer from the South Seas, where he has been for some time past making an exhaustive study of coral life and pur- suing other interesting sclentific re- searches. —— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A. 8. Kennedy of San Francisco {s at the Cosmopolitan; R. J. Rose of San Francisco is at the Sturtevant; H. D. Johnson of San Fran- cisco is at the Imperial. ————————— R R R “What to do when your best girl says ‘yes.’” Is it a funny story? Just wait and read it in next Sunday’s Call. Laugh? Why the pictures alone will make you fairly scream. Besides, one of the best comic writers in America wrote the story. Don’t miss it! PO = + 3 + + + + + + + + + Fret 4444444444444 AR R R e U BOER OR BRITON. WHICH IS RIGHT? The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published In this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call: Impudence in manner and impertinence in matter characterize the efforts of those pro-British Americans who attempt the Impossible task of de- fending the wolf who at the wrong end of the stream accuses the lamb below of muddying the water. According to one of them, the writer of the “Plea for Eng- land” In your yesterday's issue, the hon- est, honorable and traditional sympathy which the great mass of the American people evince for those gallant Boers bravely defending their hearths and homes from the wanton incursion of free- booters and pirates is “sentimental trash, born of prejudice, envy and ignorance.” I am, notwithstanding, after reading that “plea,” inclined to think that we who sympathize with the Boers defending their own country have as moral and Intelli- gent a basis for that sentiment as have those who sympathize with the British invadi a country not their own in any sense of the word, and that possibly we know as much ot the genesis of this war they ms’l’he trek of 1834 may have been over the slave question; but let us reverse the case and sup that the Dutch had been seized with a plous spasm against slave rfl before it struck the vitals of the Britisl and had issued a peremptory demand that all slaves held by the British should be freed, and this without adequate financial compensation. What wou have haj ened? The British would have told the ulch to mind their own ten command- ents. But “the British found grace first, and the British conscience cannot stand the lln! vl ltl nelxhbun. and therefore the trek of nd therefore the trek of 1.843, and theretora the trek and blood: hed of 1848; and therefore the war u(d forcible annexation of the Transvaal in 1877, and the war of 1, when the rightebus British were handily whipped. and therefore the Jameson raid of when 400 of the sinful, vulgar Boer f&rm- ers, with only small arms, whipped nearly twice that number of the pious raiders armed with Metfords and quick-firing Maxims; and therefore finally and 1utly the present righteous Chamberlain annex | of the Jameson raid, and all because (one reason is as good as another for the wolf) those bad, bld Boers would not give up thelr slaves in 1834 There are to-day two x gx of tplfltflotl ‘who will be found on two inds o The first, like tho gallant Otls of Los Angeles, will xolmd defending his home and countr y going thousands of miles away to Atlmck with fire and sword those of other ‘weaker men. This stripe o tfle'." are nnl"‘ll afinity pro~Brlu. bt!:c (rlna‘.n veldt is the nn.turd pl-ce tor “tbe al ey- land to ng 0% the “coulto 'omes defe of Englan ‘When Beaconsfleld was told on one oc- casion of the revoluti utterances of the Lhen) ultra-radical berlain in he House of Commons, he dashed off and tl v of the man by “Oh, he vunt!l ‘m be a o m&u thlnk dukes, and they will be when all the rest of the American people are donkeys. ‘The second kind of patriot is, brlefl!. he who, while willing to spend himself and his all for defense, sternly declines to contribute one cent of money or one drop | of blood for offense, because others who | think a nation dares be less moral than Its Individuals would be dukes. f this second kind of patrlot are tha great mass of the American ‘Haoplo this kind are the slm{lg kindly, honut, hardworking Boers of South Africa, de- fending the land of their birth agalnst aliens whose business is robbery; who have traveled thousands of mfles to plun- der and pillage the peaceful homes of a peaceful and primitive people who ask only to live their own lives In their own wa And shall we who conquered this right for ouml\’es from the same old foe deny {t to them H. J. WEEKS. Oakland, .Yanuary 10, 1900. Grd+2 02 +000+0+0+0 A DAILY HINT FROM PARIS, B O R R R R S SECEE S S o o B e L e A o o o S o L e R R e e R R i S = ] SAPPHIRE VELVET DRESS. The dress represented is of sapphire velvet; the corsage a bolero edged with sable; sleeves and walstcoat of sky-blue satin, with trellis of ribbons. The apron is of the same satin, embroidered, and the bottom in the style of the walstcoat and sleev: —_—————————— THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. In his great book on the century now ending Alfred Russel Wallace holds that “to get any adequate comparison with the nineteenth century we must take, not any preceding century or group of centuries, but rather the whole preceding epoch of human history.” This he does in the fol- lowing comsamuve list of the great in- ventions and discoveries of the two eras: OF THE19TH CEN-OF ALL PRECED- TURY ING AGES. L Railwa; 1. The mariner's Steam: ¥1le compass. ; Electric tele- 2. The steam en- graphs. ne. 4 The felephone, | 3. The telescope. 5. Lucifer matches|4 The barometer 6. Gas {llumination.| 7. Electric lighting. 8. Photography. 9. The phonograph. 10. Roentgen rays. 11. Spectrum analy- sis. 12. Anesthetics. and thermomse- ter. 5. Printing. 6. Arabic numerals. 7. Alphabetical 13. Antiseptic sur-| 9. Electric science gery. founde 14. Conservation of|10. Gravitation s tablished. energy. 15. Molscular theory|11. Kepler's laws. 12. Th e differential 18. V?loclly o( light! calculus. directly —meas-|13. The circulation of ured and earth’s) the blood. rotation experi-|14. Light proved to Inentlll) have finite ve- loc!tI 17, The usel of dust.|15. The development 18. Chemistry, defl-) 3f geometry. n‘ ite propor- 19. Meleorl and the meteoritic the- ory. 20. Ghrg".‘ epoch. 21. The antiquity of 2. Organi Tutl rganic evolution shed. establishs 23. Cell theory and embryology. 24. Germ theo! of disease and the function of the leucocytes. e ARG THE CALL LEADS THEM ALL, South Bend @?&{ Wilicpa Harbor The San Francisco Call's edition of De- cember 25 was magnificent In mry line, and particular. The Call is 1 57." best -:d most reliable nemp?r.’ I: San Franci s B B SR ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FILIPINOS—L L., City. The Spanish Government never recognized “the Fili- pino Republie. TEA GARDEN-B. 8. C, Stoekwn. Cal. ‘The article referred to was a clipping tro‘m ‘lnnother journal and the loe-my was no SNOW IN Mh‘crflnfl, City. Snow to the depth of four inches fell in San Francisco on Sllnday. December 31, l.l It did not snow in San Francisco Dece! ber 31, 1881. A MUSTACHE—B. 8., City. If a man hu l mustache that is “falling out,” he lnmvoltmddn it a fresh -urt “n- Fo does not ko emwoum erl' consul sician or haved. eep upper lip KISMET—A Constant Reader, City. “Kismet” is from the Arablc and means “it 1s Mud.¢ It is a Mohammedan m m% It ted lot™ in “Paul g } off,” 1887, has fate the universal kism crastinates in Turke Tn Turiisn it s quismet. in Persian :’!&d Hindoo quismat and Arabic quisma. ‘NATIVITY—W. A. 8. and J. 8. B, City. | The answer to the question, “What count man is one who was born in Ger- ¢ in Sweden and naturalized Hn lge United States?’ is that he is a | German, having been born in that coun- try, but is a d{lltn of the United States by reason of his naturalization. NOTICE OF DEATHS—S. and B., City. The Coroner of the city and county of San Francisco is not notified of .J death that occurs. He is only notifie where a person dies who has not been at- tended b %ehyslcx-n or in cases whers a crime i'ma en committed or thers reason to believe that a crime has been committed. DEPOSIT FOR GAS—L. M. V. B, City. The legal question as to .he right of a gas company to demand a deposit from an intending consumer is still on appeal be- fore the appellate court, and until that matter Is disposed of it is more than like- ly that the consumers will have to submit to the demand of the gas companies or go to law for failure to put in gas on prem- ises when requested so to do. NAVAL APPRENTICES—-C. C., Ingo- mar, Cal. Boys between the ages of 14 and 17 may, with the consent of their par- ents or guardians, be enlisted to serve in the United States navy until they shall arrive at the age of 21. A boy of 14 must not be less than 4 feet 9 inches tall, weigh not less than 70 pounds and measure not less than 26 inches around the chest when breathing naturally; at 15 years, 4:11 feet, §0 pounds and 27 inches; at 15, pounds, 28 inches. MARINE WHITEWASH—W. R., Sacra- mento, Cal. The following recipe for whitewash sent out by the United States Treasury Department for use at light- house stations has proved by experience to be the best for inside or outside work: | Slack half a bushel of unslacked lime with boiling water, keeping it covered during the process. Strain it and add a peck of salt dissolved In warfa water; three pounds of ground rice put in boiling water and boiled to a thin paste; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of clear glue, dissolved In warm water; mix these weil together and let the mixture stand for several da Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or ortable furnace, and when used put on as | hot as possible ' with either painter's or whitewash brush. Townsend's famous broken candy 10c pound while at 73 Market street. . —_———— Note 81 Fourth street, ic barber, grocer; best eyeglasses, specs, 1 to 40c. . —————— Selling depot for Waterman Fountain Eens and Koh-i-noor pencils. Sanborn, vail & Co. . —_——— Spectal information supplied dafly business houses anc public men b, Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. George Raabe’s Will. ‘The will of the late George A. Raabe, a well-known grocer and capitalist of the Mission, Was flled for probate yesterday. Decedent beqfeaths his estate, which ie valued at over $i00,000, to his immediate relatives. to the ont- . —_—— Personally Conducted Excursions. In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourtst sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday. Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Welnesday. To St. Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 623 Market street. ————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for ffty 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 Colle, regu. lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sals by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mra. Wiaslow's Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle. —— The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Connecting train leaves § p. m., Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office, 625 Market strest. —_———————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantags of the round-trip tickets. Now only 30 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay, §8 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_—_——— He Assaulted a Lawyer. James Little, who assaulted Attorney William A. Bowden of San Jose a few weeks ago, was convicted yesterday on a charge of simple assault. He will be sen- tenced Saturday. 'VERTISEMENTS. Old Childr Many children look too old for their years. They go about with thin faces and sober manners not in kee ing with robust childhood. If it’s your boy or girl, give *Twill fill out the hollow places, increase the weight, and bring a healthy color _ to the cheeks. The im- provement continues lon after they cease’ using the Emulsion. Get Scott’s. Sac. and $1.c0, all druggists, SCOTT & BOWNR, Chemists, New York, l