The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1900, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1900. FRIDAY _.JANUARY 19, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Ali Commun cations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, §. F. kS n 1565, Sunday). 3 mon DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL Ome Year.. . WEEKLY CALL Ome Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested DQAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS Manager Foreign Advertising. Mar ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLYOS....... ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: LUKENS JR. ..29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont Hou Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: storia Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. PERRY OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, m until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister. open ]l $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 clock. 226, Market, corner Sixteenth, open ®mtil o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9 106 Eleventh, op: until ® o'clock. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. BRANCH Cla Chutes, Zoc and Theater— evening Mzson end ET s streets—Specialties Sherman-Cla [ Western Turf Association—Races wry subject to s of the totally urpose of the away from re is by Senator Foster of Wash- le 1947. It provides for leasing for grazing only wi of the ninety- d The Se y of Agriculture is to ne whether such lands are more valuable for or any other purpose, and they shall be d and described in terms enabling their e metes and bounds. I be one cent per acre. re area that may be leased to one individual, leasehold shall be for the smallest patible with the best utilization of the land ; purposes. Leases shall be made only te he States in which the leasehold is lo- ions organized under the laws of The minimum cated, is to the interest of the United States to consolidate areas for grazing purposes to lease under this he Secretary of the Interior is authorized to public grazing lands with the States, or pri- , for other grazing lands of practically Two provisions of this act seem sinister and should | receive aftention in committee. A carporation may become resident and receive leases. A natural per- son must be resident in same State with lease- hold. Nothing in the bill gives protection or prefer- ence to present owners of herds. Under the bill cor- porations with foreign stockholders may lease all the lands in any grazing region while not owning a hoof of stock. To trespass on a leasehold is a misdemeanor punishable by fine of $500 and six months in jail. Therefore such a corporation, having leased the lands, will have the owners of cattle at their mercy, punishable for trespass and compelled to let their herds starve or sell to the corporate leaseholder at any price the corporation may choose to pay. In this way the half-dozen large meat-packing corpora- tions can not only control the ranges, but take the herds now grazing on them at their own price. The bill should safeguard the herd-owner and not his possible despoiler. The other sinister feature is the exchange of lands with States or private owners. In working it will easily be the means of transferring to the United States ranges that have been over- stocked and fed out in exchange for others which, while “practically of equal value,” are fresher land and not exhausted of their forage. The Western cattle-owners will do well to pay some attention to the questionable features of the bill and secure their amendment in committee. If they do not they may wake up to find their ranges leased to cor- porations and their property at the mercy of stran- gers. The revenues of the bill are to go to the Statés, to be used by their Legislatures for water storage and irrigation. i England is not more generous in explanation of that little affair of the seizure of American goods our history books may have to put our famous tea-party in the background and give the post of honor to a flour sale. —_— The Sacramento minister who mnarrowly escaped being thumped by the irate husband of one of the fair members of his flock has probably arrived at the conclusion that labor in that particular field is love’s labor lost 2 No limit is put | __ . _ | I they continue to deny the right of our own people | MOUTHPIECES. | E regret that the administration seems to be | afflicted with what may be described as a ] smallpox of “mouthpieces.” Senator Beve- | ridge was a recent addition to these oral afflictions, | : | {and among them are several heavy burdens in the 'shape of newspaper organs, which grind in m;timc, |to the disgust and sometimes fear of Republicans, who apprehiend the consequences to follow the dis- | cordant and calliopean chorus of these mouthpiece; One has come to hand which attempts to show its | loyalty to Republican principles by a haif column of severe abuse of Senator Hale of Maine for introduc- ing a resolution of inquiry into the British seizure of American , in neutral bottoms, and bound for a neutral port. Senator Hale desired the facts as known to the administration to be put before the representa- tives of the people in Congress. The ships Mashona, Beatrice and Maria were seized and were held so long that the owners of their cargoes of flour may feel some solicitude and other Americans engaged deep water commerce may share it. But the Sena- torial mouthpieces immediately joined their mouths in obstructing Senator Hale's resolution, and he was frowned upon as an enemy of his country. The news- paper mouthpiece referred to took it up, and with fine scorn asked: “Does Senator Hale’s gorge rise at the remembrance of the service England rendered this country when we interfered in Cuba's behali? The service was unsolicited, but important. From the day the United States struck Spain until Spain cried enough England pleasantly suggested to Europe that there must be no interference.” Therefore, it is to be inferred, we must let England pirate our deep in | water trade, rob our merchants, and must support her also in piracy on the high seas against the commerce of Germany and other countries with which we trade and are at peace! The American people have not a scrap of evidence that England held Europe off our back in the Span- ish way. If she did, and claim as an equivalent vice our assent to search and seizure on the high | seas, against which we fought the war of 1812 and whipped her, her motive was sinister and her action is not entitled to our gratitude nor respect. Ii we were near by we would really suggest to Senator Hale to rouse the mouthpieces again by introduéing ar other re: on asking the adm: on to furnis in its pi that England held our coat while we whipped ¢ The people have a right to that evidence. They are continually drawn upon in one v or another to drop a penny s - on pain. in the slot as payment for that service, with- out, knowing whe it was neci ry or was rendered at all al newspaper mouth- piece which does Hale to a crisp for into the ‘piratical seizure n flour goes still farther lishmen for criticizing war to destroy the two republics. ng the British soldiers this American Tory “The man at home has his part to play he man in'the field. And he is playing raising a premature and unreason- uation that has not yet had time He is giving aid and comfort to the He is filling Oom Paul with encouragement, President Kruger and General Joubert get the at 2 change of Ministry in England means a le repetition of the Gladstone surrender they fight the harder and prolong the war to the ut- in their power. Impatience has not hitherto been recognized as an English trait, and this is no proper time to take it on. To divide in the face of the common enemy and engage in passionate quar- rels, with political advantage as the ultimate end, would be poor and discreditable business for a great people. The British soldier is full of fight, and who all say how soon it will be the other fellow’s turn to suffer?” We hope that Goldwin Smith, Herbert Spencer, | Professor Bryce and other Englishmen - who have spoken with British bluntness about the republic- murdering business of their Ministry will be good now, along with Hale. . But the phrases are not yet put together which will describe the renegade wretch who calls himself an American and exudes Toryism from every pore. The administration should suppress its fool friends. | to information in the possession of their Government | which highly concerns them, and to spit in the direc- {tion of the English liberals and philosophers who do | not indorse the murdering of republics because they | own gold mines, the political row ahead to be hoed will be longer and hotter than it needs to be. e e It is said that Germany, anent the Bundesrath sei ure, has entered a strong protest to the British Goyv- | ernment. It will probably be found to be made up of | limberger. | REFORM GOING BHCKWHRD.. N the course of a discussion between two well- known lawyers in the columns of The Call during | the latter part of November concerning the en- | forcement of the civil service provisions of the new charter one of the disputants gave it as his opinion that the section which confers permanent tenure upon | all who secure appointments under the civil service | | rules is unconstitutional. This attorney contended | that the limitation on terms of office imposed by the | words of section 16 of article XX of the State or- ganic law, “But in no case shall the term exceed four J_\-ears," applies to all officials in the State of Califor- nia, county, municipal and State. In support of this | opinion he cited several decisions of the Supreme | Court. But it appeared that none of these decisions were modern, or, if recently rendered, that they were not in point. The latest case cited was that of People v: ;Pcrry. which is published in the Seventy-ninth Cali- | fornia Reports. In that action the Supreme Court | decided that meémbers of the Board of Health of this | city were “officers” within the meaning of the con- | stitution and could hold office not longer than four years. The legal doctrine contended for, however, received a few days ago ample support in the case of A. T. | Patton vs. the Board of Health, an action in which | the point was again raised for the purpose of main- ;taining perpetual tenure. Patton was a health in- spector. When the Burns politicians took charge of the department early last year they dismissed him and placed one of their own retainers in his place. Pat- ton applied for reinstatement to the courts, alleging that the statute under which he was appointed pro- tected him during good behavior. On December 29 the Supreme Court decided the point, affirming the doctrine of the Perry case and that of the others already referred to. The court says in the Patton case that the health inspectors of San Francisco are “officers” within the meaning of the State constitution (section 16, article XX), and that, as no term of office is fixed by the statute estab- pleasure of the appointing power, but in no case for a longer period than four years. Attorney Mec- 1 Enerney represented the Board of Health in this mat- lithing the Board of Health, they hold during the ! ter. He also represented the victorious party in the | Ferry case. Thus it appears that his theory that no | official in California of any class whatever can hold office for a longer period than four years has been | thoroughly established, and, moreover, applied to the | municipal subordinates of this city. The doubt thus resolved makes the permanent tenure provisions of the new charter unconstitutional | and renders the whole civil service system created by | the instrument nugatory and void. Of what use will be to establish the merit system of appointment to | office in this city if, at the end of every four years, | there is to be a wholesale removal for political pur- poses? The new charter places the Civil Service Commission entirely in the hands of the Mayor. That | official is authorized to appoint two Commissioners in { each term, and thus can always bend it to subserve kis political purposes. The restriction on terms, moreover, applies to the Police, Fire and School de- partments, which are brought by the charter under | civil service rules. Some of the new charter “reformers” who, in the mad pursuit of office, have forced these uncertainties upon us, should now inform a suffering public what they think they have gained by throwing the entire government into the spoils vortex while attempting to establish an unconstitutional merit system. The issue as to the tenure of policemen, firemen and schoolteachers would never have been joined had not the new charter set up civil service reform. Now it is inevitabfe. The thing is settled at last; it is all over with the Boers. Tod Sloan has descended from the saddle and says England must come victors from the South African discussion. E people have been treated to a continuous show of dissolving views. The bright pictures which were presented to the voters during the campaign by the Phelanites have been one after another fading into gloom, leaving in their places about as black prospects as the people of this city ever looked upon. It appears we are not to have even the economy that was promised. The administration cannot con- duct ‘the affairs of the city on the dollar limit levy upon the assessment stated in the campaign pledge and has begun to seek a means of evading it. It is characteristic of men that instead of honestly acknowledging their error and dealing frankly with the taxpayers they are endeavoring to obtain more money by a sort of flim-flam game, and have sought DODGE’S LATEST DODGE. VER since the new city government began the to induce the State Board of Equalizers to act as con- { federates in the scheme. Assessor Dodge’s proposition to the Equalizers is | perhaps the most extraordinary ever made by one offi- | He informed the board that-after | cial to another. having gone over the subject carefully with the Mayor the two had agreed that the only way by which a sufficient revenue could be procured to defray the expenses of the municipal government under the new charter, with a tax levy not exceeding $1 on the $100, was to increase the assessment of property to the extent of $100,000,000. They wish that assessment for the city, but are not willing the State should have the benefit of it, and accordingly they ask the State Equalizers to agree to reduce it to the amounts when they equalize taxation for State pur- poses. Such being the scheme of the Assessor, it becomes a matter of concern to the taxpayers to know upon what classes of property he proposes to make the $100,000,000 of increase in assessments. When asked by the Board of Equalization if he intends to put the increase upon corporations the Assessor answered: “No; the corporations are assessed up to the limit We propose to place the increase on realty.” From that statement it appears that if the scheme go through the homes of the people will be burdened with an assessment for taxation under the new charter $100,000,000 in excess of what was imposed upon them in the past. The Assessor, who was so loud in his | declarations during the campaign of an intention to | make the corporations pay more taxes than they have been doing, now laughs at his promises, mocks at the people who trusted him, and proposes to let the cor- porations alone and heap up the burden upon the | owners of real estate. i It is hardly likely the State Board of Equalization will consent to take part in the trick which the in- genious Dodge has devised. 1If that sort of game be permitted to one county it will be imitated by others where unscrupulous men obtain the office of Asfes- | sor, and the consequences will be unceasing scandals { in which the Equalizers themselves will be involved. | The trick is an outrage and should be so treated. i HOW IT WORKS ! IN LONDON. | SINCE the Mothers’ Union of Golden Gate has | begun a movement to enforce the law requir- | ing employers of women to provide seats for them in their places of business, it may be interesting to note that the people of Great Britain are engaged in watching the operation of a similar law. The British act, which was passed last August, went into effect with the beginning of the new year, and re- | quires shopkeepers to provide seats for their female assistants, under a penalty of a fine of three pounds. It appears that in London many of the shops are so small and are so crowded with counters and other | fixtures it has been difficult to find space in which to provide the seats. As a result there has been a good deal of ingenuity displayed in constructing chairs, or | stools that can be readily folded and put out of the way when not in use. . So great was the demand for seats of the kind | that ever since the passage of the act the furniture | factories have been busily engaged in trying to de- | vise and construct them on improved models, and there has been recently a “shop seats exhibition,” in which the public has taken a good deal of interest. | Over 200 models were displayed, and all of them, it is said, are arranged on the automatic principle, so that they fold themselves up or slide out of the way the vinstant the person who has been occupying them rises. | From the alacrity with which the shopkeepers gen- | erally have arranged to provide the required seats it is believed there will be very few efforts made to | evade the law. In fact, it is noted that many shop- keepers provided seats as soon as the law was enacted without waiting for it to go into effect. Still the | papers announce that several associations, as well as | the city officials, will keep a lookout for offenders and will promptly prosecute them when detected. As | the Chronicle puts it: “No doubt attempts will be ' made to evade thelaw, and it may be necessary to | convince the worst offenders that when Parliament ‘ has passed an act for good and sufficient reasons it ' must be obeyed, whatever the cost or inconvenience.” | The excellence of that sentiment is beyond dispute, "and it would be gratifying to have the California law | i enforced with an equal efficiency. Y A former deputy poundmaster is credited with hay- ing captured Moody, the soldier-robber. The cap- tor’s knowledge of vicious animals probably led him \into the chase. original | ONCE A YEAR FOR FIFTY YEARS IN A MASONIC LODGE e = e e A s e e e s aean e | 04040000040000000+000+0-0000000000+0+0@ [ e AU MOSES, - WHO VISITED CALIFORNIA, UNCLE «BILLY” NO. 1. F. AND A. passed to the great beyond. The last carpenter and millwright by trade he was a Town Trustee. of the Pacific Coast, of the Sons Lodge in Rochester, N. Y., of Felloweraft March 5; lime degree of Master Mason. shipful master of Golden Gate Lodge that lodge ever since. . are alive, George J. Hobe of this city, Mr. Moses. been created a Knight Templar and a Accepted Scottish Rite, past wise mast: Council. past most venerable master thereof. the founder of the Order of the East preme Grand Chapter in May, 1869. first matroh. In recognition of his se created venerable past grand patron o was presented with a beautiful jewel ally for him and which will become ex: burden of life. 4040404040404 Q040¢0409040¢04040+04040404040404040404040¢040404040404040+@ @¢0+04040 4040404040 AST night William Schuyler Moses, superintendent of the Masonic Cem- etery of this city, known throughout the Masonic world as “Uncle Billy” Moses, paid his fiftieth annual visit to California Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in the Masonic Temple. He visited that lodge for the first time on the 17th of January, 1550, in a two-story frame building on the east side of Montgomery street, between Jackson and Washington, which was the first Masonic hall in San Francisco, and of which a sketch is fur- nished, with the portrait of the Masonic veteran. Since that first visit it has been the custom of Mr. Moses to call on Call- fornia Lodge on or as near the 17th of January as pessible. When he entered the hall last night he looked around in vain for the brothers who greeted him with a fraternal welcome fifty years ago. &0, he will be the last of the group of Fellowcraftsmen who occupled stations in or faced the East when he entered the dimly lighted lodgeroom. All have the hand of fellowship to him in the lodgeroom was the late Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson, who passed away February 15, 154. The worshipful master who presided on that occasion of that first visit was the late Levi Stoweill, who afterward became the secretary of the Grand Lodge of California. Uncle “Billy"” Moses was born in Rochester, N. Y., August §, 1327, and came to California on the bark Alice Tarlton, arriving in San Francisco Bay January 11, 1850, after’ a passage of nearly nine months around the Horn. A and made the beautiful Corinthian columns for Esmeralda Lodge instituted in Aurora, then in Mono County, but now in Esmeralda County, Nev. He re- sided for a time in Yreka, where he was secretary of the Fire Department and In 1855 he returned East for a short time and there married Miss Addie Warren of Fredonia, Chautauqua County, returned to California. He is a member and for many years held of the American Revolution. February 19, 1849, passed one week later On November 8, 1552, he was appointed wor- that office when the lodge received its charter and he has been a member of Of the charter members of that lodge only three The veteran Mason is a member of San Francisco Chapter, Masons, & member of California Commandery, venerable master of Yerba Buena Lodge of Perfection of the Ancient and almoner of Godfrey de St. Omar Council of Kadosh and past grand chancel- lor and venerable grand master of the Grand Consistory of California. He was elected a knight commander of the Court Council of the Thirty-third degree for the southern jurisdiction, and on the unanimous recommendation of the Crand Consiétory of this State he received the order and jewel of Knight Grand Cr the first and only one in California to receive that honor from the Supreme He is an active member of the Masonic Veterans' Association and is Golden Gate Chapter under commission as deputy grand patron of the Su- ‘oooooo 040404040 404040404 04040+9 ¢ ] . . . Ran S S 2 4 + 1 * é + ’ 4 & M., LAST NIGHT. | So far as the Masonic records one of that band of pioneers to extend 0000o000000o000000000040000.00‘0000‘00 [ Ao went into the far north of the State N. Y, and of the Astronomical Society the office of marshal He was initiated in Valley to the degree to the sub- was raised under dispensation, and was elected to Rev. John F. Damon of Portland and Royal Arch Knights Templar, having in 1888, and is past Knight of Malta er of Yerba Chapter of Rose Croix, of Honor of the Supreme , thirty-second degree, being He is also a noble of Islam Temple and ern Star in this State, having instituted He is also a noble of Islam Temple and rvices to that order he was recently f the Grand Chapter of California and indicative of that rank, created speci- tinct when he shall have laid down the O0404040404040404040404040404040604040404040404040404604040 404040404040 +| éNGLISH PEOPLE ARE VICTIMS OF A GIANT POLITICAL GAME President Jordan’s Recent Lecture on the Boer War Arouses Warm Comments. e ible for The Call does mot hold itself responsi the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call: The Boers are right. The English people are the vietims of a_ gigantic political bunko game. The ancient roots of the present bluster were sown by James L. 1t has been carried on by Disraeli, Chamberlain and Cecil Rhodes, wha is a sort of Boss Tweed in South Africa. As a rule England never stirs up actual fight- ing if the people on the other side have clothes on. Chamberlain has England in his power. The basis of England's policy is inequality among men. It has always been so, and that is why our forefathers left England. Her idea of a foreign pol- jey is never to strike except when the enemy is down and has no pow- erful neighbor, and never to strike below the belt when the vulnerable points are above. Chamberlain says there must be English supremacy in South Africa. We could say the same thing about North America. Why has not a little people as many rights as a mighty people? The peopls who are talking to us now about brotherhood and cousin- ship are the same stable boy aris- tecrats that flouted at Abraham Lincoln. y:l'here i‘s no )usfl?czlml; for a mighty nation to go to wai with a weak one. All claims of suzerainty were given up by Glad- stone, and I say he did the square thing by a lLttle nation. The out- siders had ro_right to vote in the Transvaal. The war started with Jameson’s raid and the English would have followed and taken in the whole country if he had been successful. Every nation that has grown in strength has grown in eace, and_every nation has gone 3 s. "~ Th licy of op- CeStion must ive way to Sobriety; Pidustry and justice. The above are brief extracts from the telegraphic report of an address delivered in the city of Oakland on the 12th inst. by David Starr Jordan, president of Stan- for University. gospel is a great pity. Yet it were a greater pity that we should not be thus frank with our “British cousins.” For us to openly or silently approve or extenuate Britain’'s present work in South Africa would be a grave crime against all hu- manity. We could not afford to so de- grade our national conscience, if we still have one. Free America would be reo- | t in her sacred duty to the world were :eh‘enlon!nll in speaking the truth and the whole truth concerning the great wrongs | that England has heaped and is heaping upon the heads of these puny South Afri- can republics. - God forbid that America should with o] %Yel and sealed lips stand aloof while England enacts this wicked edy, a crime so appalling, so reprehensible that words are inadequate to the horror and detestation feit by onlookers. And all for the sake of the b{lnd and insatiable greed which sur- rounds, permeates and envelops England like a ioathsome malady, These sturdy South African Dutch, chil- dren of freedom-loving ancestors, honest liberty-loving sons of the veldt, who in the face of a thousand dangers ha carved out their homes in the wilderness and desert, have surely established their unquestioned title to their freedom and independence, for which they are so bravely battling. Those who will take th That they are as true as | trouble to look into the history of South Africa will find that there is no doubt as to the righteousness, the justness of tae Boer cause. The South Arican republics | have been brutally dragged into the arena of cruel war in spite of their oft-repeated | | wishes for peace. It hardly seems possi- | | ble that the great body of the common people in England can realize the atrogty | | of Chamberlain’s South African war poi- | icy. It would seem as though they had | closed their, eyes to mbral responsibility | and permitted themselves to blindly | {led into the quagmires of national dis- | honor at the hands of the will-o'-the-wiap | | ambitions and hare-brained ideas of Jo- | seph Chamberlain and Cecil Rhodes. ThLese | two are the chief conspirators against | | whom (and their willing tools) England | | must charge up the heavy account in | blood and treasure that is being reeled oft | | for her in Southern Africa. They appear | to have little care or concern as to what | depths of degradation they may lead their | country so long as their unholy schemes | are duly executed. | _Candidly speaking, Chamberlain and | Rhodes both deserve to be shot or hanged {and their memories forever execrated for | the dishonor, the awful misery, suffering 2nd loss of life which they have brought | upon England alone, to say nothing of the monstrous fniquity against the South Af- | rican Dutch. Such an end for them would | be but a mild explation (not a thousandth | fpan of a just exgiannn) for the deviltry | which they have | set in motion. | None will gainsay the truth of the say- | ing that “war is hell.” It is all that even when it is justified. An unjustifiable war, | | waged by a gigantic professional military | | power against innocent, puny republics | composed of farmers and shepherds, | | whose oniy sin is that they happen to hon- | esty possess that which the greed of the | glant covets, is too diabolical, too fiendish, | for words to express. | The lizht of Eod's eternal truth turned | full upon British pretense shows no | semblance of honest justification, no rea- | | sonable defense for "Britain's crimsonad | | hands. In deepest sorrow, with feelings of | sincere pity and gmfound humiliation, we | well may ask, “Is it possible that Eng- | land's guilty stains can ever be effaced?” eliberately planned and of history, for which her honest sons will ever hang their heads in shame. It is no small or trivial matter, to be lightly con- sidered or lightly dismissed. | _An individual who is so crazed with lust | for land, gold or power that the killing of his brother man is as nothing to Lim it thereby his greed be satisfied, 1s indead a sorrowful, a pitiful spectatle. How in- finitely worse when a nation, drunken | with avarice, halts not at the wanton de- struction of innocent weaker sister nu- | tions for the mere gratification of this | same greed for “more.” There are thousands upon throughout America who are earnestly hoping and as earnestly praying that a | just Providence will so sustain and guide | | the w that that _child of the devil, | | “Chamberlainism in South Africa,” shall that right shall thousands | re- ced might shall falier at-British avarice and Brit- ish arrogance, with all their attendant evils, shall be driven In deserved disgrace from the soll which they are desecrating. a It does not seem possible that the Al- mighty 'hl;:‘ .p:e !rs‘l-:tn.‘{:nd'l house to endure w! B sucl id- ous wickedness. S S A national house builded out of the l:il :glr- ldnd blood of the inmocent s a and uncanny structure. and R Nran sl Jan, 15, 190, o ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HINCKLEY-BLYTHE—A. 8., City. The -H k Bttt ok ale o DANISH WEST INDIES—The Danish West Indles were settled by the Duteh. They are three in number—St. Croix, sot. tied in 1643; St. Thomas, in 1657, and St. She is writing one of the blackest pages | him 1f the cotn asked about is cop ::rm:ruj:fl’ver, the answer asked for ca ot be furnished. Give a full descripts of the plece and the answer will CORNISHMEN—A. 8., tion, Angel Island, Cal or inhabitants of Cornwall had a reco, nized dialect, which was probably used Cornwall and in the bordering part Devonshire, but it has eeased to be spok since the beginning of the nineteenth ce CHIEF OF POLICE. San Francisco Trade Journal So far as we can learn the friends of Mayor Phelan in the business community regret his course in the controversy over the appointment of Chief of Police his evident stand in faver of Esola for the position. They think that by so doing shadows the good record he made whi Mayor under the old charter, which w react against him in the future. One his former strong admirers says that t . acturing g a pure munie bra pal gove: them t undermine th. ing it. He fu Phelan is honest ic course romote a higher standard for the Police Depart- ment, he would unhesitaingly say that he is in favor of any good a:rd reliable person for Chief of Police, without regard to party or politics and in the absence of such a statement over his own signature the general public will urdoubtedly be- lieve there has been some kind of collu- sion to promote Esola to the position. The latter may be all that his Fiends claim, et the charges made agalist him will be promotve of intro- ducing more or less discord Inthe depart- ment and, besides, lower rither than raise its standing with the cobmunity at large. It is to be hoped that inthe inter- est of the city at large and the cause of ure municipal government thit Mayor lan and the ard of Police “ommis- ers will choose a person for Thief of Polic:rgl.lnl! whom no ch.l.rg-c.n be prefe: and who will flll the josition with credit to all in interest. Te are plenty of such men and thers i3 n¢ good reason why one should not be Gosen from among them. L R e e e e e e e ] $ A DALY HINT FROM PARIS, + * S ek B ol S8 o S an S ot e ot o 0100000000300 000000000000 00000000 0004 ‘—0—&0—0-0—0*—0-0—0—«0“0 BLUE CLOTH COSTUME. The costume represented is tallor-ma in two shades of blue cloth. The dark b . The skirt is made wit! apron, held by three stitched bands, wh run afl around the back. —_—— Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, Sc Ib, at 73% Market st., will move back In Febru- ary to Palace Hotel, 639 Marke. st. h —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Mafn 1042 * —_——— Farnham Gaining. The. Farnham-Boland election econtest proceeded before Judge Seawell yester- day. The counting of the ballots of sev- enty-five precincts has been concluded, and up_ to date Farnham huséunad 97 votes. There yet Temain 228 precincts and Flamhun must gain 183 mors votes to win. e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children whils Teething with perfect success. It soothes the obild, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colle, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from testhing or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Socothing Syrup, 2o a bottle. —_——— Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullmaa tourist sleeping cars yla Santa Fe Routs. Experienced | excursion conductors accompany these sxcur- sions to look after the welfare of passengers. 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Don’t wait until they get in, and you begin to cough. Close the door at once by healing the inflammation. Scolls Emulsion. makes the lungs germ- proof; it heals the inflam- mation and closes the doors. It builds up and strengthens the entire system with John, in 1717. OF THE TIME OF GEORGE TI—In- | quirer, City. As you do not state in letter wonderful rapidity.- and scorT oA