The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1900, Page 6

THE AN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1900. FRENCH CANADIAN SENTIMENT. latent feeling in he final recovery to her that had been lost old Acadie referred to lation to are presumably correct, wherefore it will be seen that | rat terriers will'be among the most welcome gifts that you can take to your Parisian friends this summer. No exposition tourist should go without one. e e In the debate on the financial bill Congressman -5 83 Ec:EEESEE-ENENEEREEEE , ¢ Notable Deaths of the Day . -85 5585888 SFRECKVELSt’PrVn;Hetov Boutell read a number of letters from Thomas Jei- | B—fi—E—B—-N—S—N—N-5-5-5-2-5- 8 5§88 n W. . LEAKE, Manager cations PUBLICATION OFFICE, . Market and Third, §. F. Teiephone Maim 1865, EDITORIAL ROOMS....Z17 to 221 Stevemsom S« Telephone Main 1574, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, § Centa. Term DALY €A DAILY CA &» DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday). 3 months. . DAILY CALL—By Single Month . SUADAY CALL Ome Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year.... ae All postmasters are authorized to rece subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Maneger Foreign Advertising. Marguette Build- ing. Chicage. CORRESPONDENT: NEW YORK €. C. CARLTON % i < . .Herald are AEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR - Zoo en overing Otympia, corner Mason e is streets—Speciaities. Penorema Battle of Manta Bay, Market street, near li—Song Recital, Monday evenirg. Jasu- Assoctation—Races 1o-day 11 o'clock, High Markat street THE INCURABLY INSANE. nting of the State h these incurables are co: hout which it is by some m mind or fortune r themselves. We had supposed outgrown the Towa ce there is like discos i by the man wh for the purpose ding the rack e as a proper of justice to extort confessior umb- y of courts used ms poorhouse stewards may fortunates those whose knows that even with the best mpossible under such con- infirmaries California it is to find a trained physician as su- perinten These infirmaries are the analogue of the lowa poorhouse, but the latter is in charge al medical man, and is only visited occa- e County treatment of suc observer « cour not uncommon ent ways of sio! Physician, who administers and drowsy syrups to the poor for 2 fixed der such a system the insane are sure not per care as bee of the number of insane Calif Their number is due to the re all the insape in the State are furnished t and most eniightened care that science give them. At Agnews A ne are specially cared for. It was d they are sent from the other in- darkened days there. But even and diagnosis do not stand with help- in their pockets. Observations, treatment, final cure are 2ll the time in action, and fiorded every encouragement to a favorable compl >raia ns of change and final cure for those who enter the place in hat said that the lowa system was adopted for economical reasons, but we insist that no modern State can afford that kind of economy. California has borne the burden of the best care attainable for her in- sane and has been criticized abroad for their number, ned in five asylums confi We have now a suspicion f the insane of lowa were cared for in like man- ner and registered in State institutions, it will be found that she has had 2s many as we and has cared for them with far Jess humanity. The whole Union will await with interest the effect upon the Iowa Legislature oi this report of the Beard of Control. members of that board is William Larrabee, who has been three times Govermor of that State, and an other is Judge L. G. Kinne, who has served 2 fu’! term as Justice of the Supreme Court, so that what the board says has behind it authority of unquestioned personal eminence. hat The people of California may well felicitate them- | this reason the Budget Comm | ary 36, at 1l s m. and | rely vegetable state that indicates total de- | One of the | er it was true as to re than a cen- incorporated 5 2 W of reveng a plague spot Quebec Who k rortality ng the cong rom generation to generation, by di re some time takes strikes as part of the widespread catastroph t based on con ed under the and the sympath igic is the end of all governme Such sentiments would not British flag if they did not co those to whom they are add They have a certain interest this country cause Canadian annexation to the United States cherished some quarters here nong the Engli n Canada corporation of B be publ in be orters But we want no i into this republ with them a hostile and in ple. We have sufficient trouble bought of Spain, ch carr; bad title we have t seamed and hree ce: srule and with its bar sinister furtt ed by the i account. If it shall pr: grown by red with the revenges of ed on has nations, it England's the reputation of ce ot e ged by any civilized fi ¥ swollen because unch will appear that the Fren Canadian estimate of situation is not without warrant The Fire Commission has establis list.” d a “waiting It is a safe bet that those who know the w: of our new governors and are relegated to the “list have lost confidence in the tsuth of that adage which | assures them that everything comes to n who waits. W A PARISIAN PLAGUE. HEN you go to Paris this summer take your rat terrier with you. You will probably need him yourself, and if not you can dispose of him to advantage. You can even sell him to the landlord of your hotel without fear of having him served up to you as lamb cutlets, for at present in Paris rat terriers are worth more than spring lambs. The demand for terriers is due to the fact that the | construction of the new exposition buildings has brought upon Paris a plague the like of which has | never been seen since the days when the rats overran | the town of Hamelin. It appears that the sewers in | the city have for years afforded for rats a refuge where { they had nothing to fear and where they bred in large numbers. In making excavations for the new build- | ings along the banks of the Seine the rats were dis- | turbed, and, being forced out of the sewers, took refuge in the neighboring houses and in the markets. It is stated by a correspondent of the London Morn- ing Post that Dr. Henry Thiery of the City Hygiene | | Service has published a report of the extent of the evil, but without being able to suggest a satisfactory remedy for it. According to statements taken from | this report, the rats are so numerous in the districts near the river that the inhabitants are afraid to allow their children to cross the garden or the courtyard | after dark. The markets have been infested to such an | extent that rat-hupting has been abandoned in e- spair. It is stated that on Acheres Plain rats esti- mated to be ten thousand in number have been seen | at once on two acres of ground planted with beets. Paris, which are very numerous, live on the best | of terms with the rats. It is asserted they can be seen | trotting about together. The city cat has lost its | reputation in Paris. He or she still enjoys killing a | miouse, but with other food to hand a rat has become rather large game from the feline point of view. For on suppressed this selves that while there has been occasional misman- | year the credits for the cats kept in the storehouses of agement of our insane institutions it has been con- | *he Ministry of War. The cat as an official is now fi_ned to the merely political part of their administra- 'only to be found at the Ministry of Finance and the tion and has rarely touched their scientific and hu- | Council of State. mane side These statements, being taken from official reports, An interesting detail of the story is that the cats | ferson, with the object of showing that the illustrious author of the Declaration of Independence was not sc good a Democrat as the Bryanites claim. In one of them Jefferson asks a friend about to visit England tc make inquiries at the Herald's office for the arms | of the Jefferson family, and says: “It is possible | there may be none. H so I would, with your assist- | ance, become a purchaser, having Sterne’s word for coat of arms may be purchased as cheap er,coat.”” 'The letter is interesting, but it Iy fair to draw from it the con lusion Mr. 1 does. It shows that Jefferson wished a coat 1s as a family ornament popular in Virginia at | that time. but it also shows that he was indifferent he got it ifrom his ancestors or 1i, and in that indifference lies had to by the elem I RECENT dispatch from London quotes’ the ’_\ Calcutta correspondent of the Daily Mail as { ing: “While the official statement that no is felt concerning Afj i H have good reason to beiieve the Indian Government s received disquieting information regarding Rus- sian movements in the direction of Persia. Russia is taking advantage of the ‘Transvaal trouble to strengthen her armaments and push ferward her out- posts along the Persian frontier with a view to ulti- e annexation, a design in which Germany would probabl uiesce in consideration of receiving rail- ncessions.” way It is inevitable that the British sh. feel some 1 about the situation in India. For more than irty years Russia has been pushing her way south- 1 across Asia. It has frequently been asserted that er the completion of the trans-Caspian railroad n of India would be practicable when- he British force of white troops available for e was materially weakened by reason of a here. That time has now come. The Britis ve employment in South Africa for about every sol fier they can spare, and, if there were no other factors the problem, Russia would have her long-desired opportunity for the invasion of India. The new factor in the problem is Germany. A Ger- vndicate has recently obtained from the Sultan f Turkey a concession to build a railroad from some a ian invasi ar h man point on the Bosphorus across Asia Minor, through | the FEuphrates Valley to Bagdad, and thence to the Persian Guli. That concession is one which has ong been sought by British, Rt n and Aus- as German syndicates. T alousies of vers prevented any of then m obtaining til the recent treaty between Great Britain and | ny opened a way by which the Germans gained { eted prize. It is well known the British yortant railway concessions i ica dur- rg the recent visit of the Kaiser to England, and it s Bagdad railway was considered at the 1s are now an aggressively colonizing people. They have long been engaged busi- ness in Asia Minor and do a considerable proportion of the banking and railroading of that country. The new concession gives them something like a para- | mount influence there and offsets the influence here- tofore exercised by Russia. It is clear that by reason of their interests in the Bagdad railroad the Germans | be more or less antagonistic to Russian agg<es- for, as the situation is now, the re them an opportunity of becom- sions upon Persia. Germans have bef e the Russians and the British, a great Asiatic power. 2 The ve drawing troops from India to strengthen the army in South Africa confirms the belief that they have a treaty with Germany which will afford them protec- tion from any attempt on the part of Russia to in- vade India. When Channing found himself forced to oppose Great Britain to the strength of almost the whole of Europe, united under the league of the ing, fact that the British are talking of with- “Holy Alliance,” he supported the United States in | e, designed to prevent ! proclaiming the Monroe doctrin: European powers from attempting subvert the South can republics which had just declared | their independence. Upon a memorable occasion he | boasted, 1 have called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old.” The present states- | men of Great Britain have done something of a simi- lar kind. They have called a new power into Asia to redress the balance there. Germany in Asia Minor be favorable to Great Britain, but at He serves British purposes well. to Ame may not always the present time According to a recent official report the entire trade between Germany and her colonies last year | amounted to 14,766,000 marks, while the cost of main- taining them was 14.788.000 marks. It will be seen from the figures that the colony business is much more glorious than profitable, as we are likely to find out before we get through with the Philippines. Tod Sloan’s view of the situation in South Africa is not calculated to cheer the.English heart. Al- though his sympathies are entirely with the British, the jockey's knowledge of pace has led him to the belief that they have no walkover in the Transvaal. Ludwig Lutz of this city is accused by Henry Her- bert and David Wilson of having practiced on them a skin game in a sausage factory deal. In such trans- | actions men should be careful, as the chances are ten to one some one will put a horse on them. If the authorities in the City Hall continue to hold their secret sessions to discuss business of public in- terest citizens may have to arm themselves with jim- | mies and dark lanterns to obtain information of affairs of which they have a right to know. Santa Cruz County is having a rise in real estate that was neither expected nor desired, and very prop- {erly does not receive the encouragement of real es- tate agents. Over two acres have shot upward about fifteen feet. 1f Mayor Phelan “appointed” his other commissions as he did the Police Commission there is little wonder that the newly “appointed” officers like ways that are | dark. Some things, they say, look better in the dark. | Since Mayor Phelan cannot fulfill all of his cam- |paign pledges he would benefit the city greatly by | showing more discretion in deciding which to break | and which to keep. It is said that a Merced woman, accused of mur- der, seems to realize her position fully. In this she appears to have a distinct advantage over the man whom she shot. | American pride has been humbled again. Foxhall ;Keene went to England to teach our English cousins | how to hunt, and now he is in a hospital undergoing | repairs ANOTHER ARGONAUT GOES TO THE GRAVE AMES S. WETHERED, a pioneer of pioneers and one of the mov- ing spirits of the old vigilance com e, died Sunday i last at his home ; d the three-score end was not unex- as he had long pa and ten mark his pected. James S. Wethered was born at Ba timore, Md., March 2, 1824 H cestors were among the founders of the commonwealth of Maryland. When 13 vears old young Wethered received his portion from his father and started out in the worid on his own account. In 1844 he captained a mule train that carried trade across the Allegheny Mountains and on and out in the Wi ern wilderness to Santa Fe. His men had many brushes with the Indians but came off victorfous. In 1846 he cap- tained another train over the same route, and in 1847 he started for Cali- fornia. In company with John Finley and some others he bought and loaded the clipper ship Rhoze Hill and started for the Golden Gate via Valparaiso and Honolulu. ° his old home early in 1849 in the Uk again the same’ year wit! ed tired on a competenc Mr. Wethered wa everal a member of the ilance committee. In 1860 Mr. Wethered was married of the authc the wife of Lieutenant Woodworth, U. to the front as a volunteer. Mrs. ping and commission merchant. o000 E At the latter place they stopped thirty days, and 2 co was finally reached on August 11, 188. On his arrival here Mr. Wethered went to the Sutter Creek flelds and there did remarkat h another cargo of merc he met with the usual ups and downs of co vears ago. . ever met in California. He was a life member of the Pioneers, organizers of Monumental Engine Company 5 of “The Old Oaken Bucket. children, are all living. Woodworth Wethered gineer in the great copper mines of Michigan. The daughters are Mrs. H. Mar- tinez, Mrs. Selim E. Woodworth and Mrs. E. T. Kruse. 8. N, Kruse is the w Mrs. Wethered survives her hus 9000000000000 THE LATE JAMES S. WETHERED. San Francis- well. He returned to ip Lexington, and came back From that time o b 1 he finally re- States Assembly in the first Legislature th one of the f a mem! to Miss Mary J. Woodworth, daughter The issue of that marriage, four the only son, iz a clvil en Mrs. Woodwor During the of the well retired. 'NOBLE WOMAN GOES | TO ETERNAL REST L] ISTER CORA SEAWELL of the @ 1 erhood is more e at 5513 Mrs. Wiliam @ F. Lorey Sister [ ] Cora made her ho: b4 bie woman stretch i the floor of her r L4 [ [ ] [ ] * sister ! of so many ® . and ® Sister Cora was one L J s of all the Episcopa ® was known for her che L] tion. kindness to all and un ® She labored early and I ° cause, and in her i e K J poor sick and needy trien |® At the time of her death Sister Cora ® . was connected with St. A Nan; Mi Y ® SISTER CORA SEAWELL, Py 0000 L -9 0 0 0 060 00 0000960 | s | ‘ JOHN MAGEE PASSES AWAY. | | Ex-Vice Consul at Guatemala Who Received $50,000 for a Beating. John Magee, formerly British Vice Con- sul to Guatemala, and the man who pro- | voked an international controversy that brought him $3#.,00 and the Guatemalan Government to apologetic knees, died in | the Oecidental Hotel early yesterday morning. He wz route to Guatemala, | { but was overtaken with a liver disorder | | that resulted in death. | Mr. Magee arrived here from Paris | January 6. s a Scotchman by birth and for ears served in the Brit- | s o vice. While in Guate- e the mark of the Barrios | and one night was waylaid ns who gave him a beating | . For cvery lash adminis tered the Guatemalan Government was | forced to pay Mr. Magee $1000. The deceased leaves a widow and sev- eral children, who will inherit a large for- | | Gevernment by hired ruffia with the 1 tune, builded in Guatemalan investme His widow and cf now in-Pari: and have den death of the ex is now in Gray's under ment, awaiting orders f JOHN FOGARTY'S DEATH. Ex-Deputy Fruit Inspector Passes Away After a Few Hours’ Sickness. John J. Fogarty. a bartender by pation and formerly a deputy fruit in- spector, died suddenly vesterday morning with symptoms of ptomaine poisoning. He came home to his residence at 1018 Powell street half an hour after noon last Sun- day from the Bowhead saloon, corner o Clay and East streets ployed, suffering with cramps. His symp- toms became more painful, and at 4 o'ciock Dr. Bunnell was called in to pre- scribe for him The unforty where he was em- te rapidly man grew Gerebeiedeiedeie® { ADAILY HINT FROM PARIS, ; © + i ® + £ + @ ¢ ® + > + ¢ : | P PP U S A S S S S N A S S D S P e e T % + @ + @ + @ 4 @ i VELVET DRESSING GOWN. This dressing gown is of bright drab | liberty velvet, cut straight and falling in | | graceful pleats. Over the pleated yoke is a collarette, with lapels of old red velvet, covered with guipure and trimmed with chinchilla. The apron is also o(tsulvure. The garment is edged with old red velvet and chinchilla. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ITS VALUE—C. M., Santa Rosa, Cal. A five-dollar piece of 1846 does not command a premium. Dealers’ price for the same is from $7 50 to $8 50. CIVIL SERVICE—A. C. R, City. The only information obtainable in regard to the civil service examinations under the new charter is such as is furnished at the office of the commission in the City Hall - CLASS JOURNALS-W. E., City. If | the {you will go to the reference room of the Free Public Libra: rou will find there py of Rowell spaper Directo: which will give you a list, in the back part of the book, under the head of class publications, of the periodicals you inquire about. PLAYING CARDS—C. 8., St. John, Cal Playing cards are known to be of Eastern origin, but when or by whom first intro- duced cannot be ascertained. It how- ever, tolerably certain that they origi- nated in Arabla and wers brought into Europe during the crusad In an an- clent “History of the Garter” there is an extract from a_wardrobe account of Ed- ward I, datéd 1377, in which a game called four kings" is mentioned. As Ed- ward, before his ascension to the throne, resided for some vears in Syria. he may have learned to play cards while in that country. They were certainly introduced into Europe in the fourteenth century and they are id to have been brought to Viterbo by the Saracens in 1379 From the fact that an entry occurs in the treas- ury books of France of “5) sols of France pald to Jacquemin Gringonneur for three acks of cards for the amusement of the ing” (Charles VI) in the year 13%8—one year after that King lost his reason—it as been erroneously stated that piay- ing cards were invented for his amuse- ment. but they were certainly known in France before Charles ascended the throne, for in the romance of “‘Renard le Contrefait” it i= mentioned that cards were in use n 1340. occu- | | worse, and at § o’clock yes | Dr. Green was sent for, b rived Mr. Fogarty w: 4 The deceased was 30 years old and h: will be held on Thu ‘Woodworth Left No Will. OAKLAND. Douglas B. home in_Dimond Ja and but I W — - Death of Edmund Noyes. Oakland Man Dies in Jackson. ecial D! all JACKSON, Jan. L.—At 4 F. P. Waggershauser he of Oak amputa last. He was at in pursuit of his yea will accompany to-morrow. - Killed by a Mule. t Special to The Cal WOODLAND, Jan. 15.—Henry Flel, a epherder employed on G. W. Scott's farm near Madi: met with a viclent s foo dragged a he Cal HALFMOON BAY, Jan. —Peter J. e a prominent ed at his m 9 o'clock aft Death of Miss J. M. Walbridge. OAKLAND, Ja J A NAVAL IMPOSTOR. George Neustadt Posing as an Officer of the Navy on Leave of Absence. at he was with Admival witfe of Manila Bew Dewey “He a st.; tel. Ea —————— Townsend al. glace fruits, b, at 735 Market st.. will move back Febru- ary to Palace Hotel, 539 Marke. st. - —_————— Special information supplied datly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 142 * A Bankrupt Housewife. wife, Mrs Lugar da e Brun Silva, ho residing in Castro Monterey Count yesterday insolvency in United Her lia- Personally Conducted Excursions. In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sieeping cars via Santa F* Route. Expertenced excursica 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 Wednesday. To St. Louis every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 623 Market street. —_— Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the world re- nowned South American appetize ator, cures dyspepsia, arrhoea. fev —_— e — The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route Connecting train leaves 5 p m. Monday. Wednesday. Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line fo the East. Ticket office. 525 Market street. ———— Inspecting the Scene of an Accident. Coroner Cole yesterday aftérnoon took out a jury to inspect the scene of the fatal accident to Miss Rose Lawler last Sunday afternoon the crossing of Seventeenth and Harrison street: Nb testimony was taken. the visit being merely to acquaint the jurors with the topography of the locality. The inquest will be held on Thursday Healthy Girls Make Zarina Cigarettes—not Japs or Chinamen Y/ Russian Blend— sweet smoke