The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1900. UESDAY | JOHN D. Al SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communic; ns to W. S. LEAKE, Manzger. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 1S6S. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Main 1874, Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, § Cents. Terms by Mail, including Postage: DAILY CALL Sunday), one year..8$6.00 WEEKLY CALL Ome Yeam All postmasters are Sample coptes will be forwarded when requested VAKLAND OFFICE +...1118 Broadway c. Manager Foreig: GEORGE Advertising. Marquette Build- ing, Chicage. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. G CARLTON...........0.00...Herald Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.: Great North- ern Motel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NXEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Walderi-Astoria Hetel: A. Brentane, 31 Unien Sguare; Murray Hill Hote NEW YORK R PERRY LUKENS JR... WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellington Hotel ENGLISH, Correspondent. RESENTATIVE: .29 Tribune Buildin BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montzomery, ope: corner of 9:30 e'clock. 300 Hayes. ) o'clock. 639 McAllister, open ‘elock. €15 Larkin, opeam until ‘elock. 1941 Mission, opem :mtil 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9 . 106 Eleventh, open umtil ® o'clock. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, unill 9 o’clock. Clay., n 1l epen AMUSEMENTS. Aladdin Jr.” Symphony ~Concert T T- e of Dean Maitlan concerts, Tuesday afternoon, March 6. Vaudeville every afternoon and n and Eady = recitals, Mo the ext the attorneys for racetr. etors of the downtown or a li- to week, that the silence of the gave consent to poken for the press and the pulpit has public and once more the forces that a year ago are united to with- the project. lers he new assault. The sermons preached on Sunday against a renewal of track gambling were notably strong. They came 1 some of the foremost pastors oi the city, repre- denominations of religious faith, for ind, plainly affecting public mor- e are no differences of sentiment among nons can hardly fail to have a g influence among all classes of ym this time on we may ex- st the gamblers to be waged was the crusade that broke théir power al 1e of this k Such s ntest again nder of the First English Lutheran eside track-gambling as “a putrid A business that brings no re- ‘the poolseller r that which he takes but anguish and E. A. Woods of the First ficers of our city govern- ceived the votes of men of different parties he community, for e pledge that under the new charter we should B spected. We were promised a new rts is not a step upward.” Caraher of St. Francis Church said t year I have met 2 number of unfor- nates who have lost home and property through he races and I have also known deluded o foolishly expended their savings and their the betting ring, leaving their children to life’s necessities. Our young women are room system and this should v the p evented in future by curtailing that evil power.” = Rev. Philip Coombe of Richmond Congregational h said: “Scarcel§§ anything could occur that would be more injurious to healthful growth, more ruinous to business integrity, more degenerating to public morals, more defiant to good sentiment, more flensive to official trust than this.” Rev. John A. B. Wilson of Howard-street Methodist iscopal Church, after expressing surprise that the uestion of renewing the license of the gamblers should have arisen, asked: “Are there not already a sufficient number of men in San Quentin as a result of this iniguity? Are there not enough women lead- ing nameless lives who were led down by one or the other of these evils?” Rev. W. E. Dugan of the Stew- art Memorial Presbyterian Church said: “Let our Su- pervisors remember that to reopen the Ingleside track means that every inch of it will be paved with wrecked b . blasted hopes and ruined homes and ce- ed by an blood.” Rev. John Hemphill of y Presbyterian Church said: “Open the race- track, we are told. and it will attract people to our city who will spend money with a free hand. So does the carrion attract the buzzard, but we wish neither buz- ard nor carrion.” The Rev. Dr. Hutsinpiller of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church summed up the argurhent by say- ing: “Granting that men must have recreation and same sport, no sensible man is willing to concede that what has proved a nuisance in the past and was closed hecause of its bad effects upon the morals and the manhood ofthe ¢ity—ves, and thewomanhood, too—no jear-brained man, I say, is ready to concede that the Noard of Supervisors of our city can open again this venue to gambling and wastefulness.” From these words, uttered by persons speaking with the responsibility and with the authority of pastors of the people, the Supervisors, who may have been in- clined to favor the gamblers, may learn a profitable lesson. San Francisco is not giving tacit consent tn ler own shame and the ruin of numbers of her people. She has uttered her protest and it behooves her officials to heed it. hure hu ( y »od government and that the wishes of the peo- | sco and surely the licensing of these crime- | PARTY DIVISION. HE CALL recently advised that there be little or Tno legislation at this session of Congress for our new possessions. This advice was given be- cause opinion on that subject in the Republican party | is neither crystallized nor unanimous. The issue has rot been profoundly examined. The facts in the case are not yet widely known. A legislative . policy adopted now has no assurance of being right as a | permanency. It has no assurance in our present state of knowledge of being adapted to the situation with which it will deal. The Bryan Democracy, stand- ing in opposition, has exhibited all the features of an epportunism which may do harm. A few months ago | its organs were loudly demanding that the flag be | “nailed to the Philippines” and that the government Now they are |as demanding that the constitution be in |all extended to the same Philippines and Yorto Rico as well! There are supreme difficulties, turn which way Con- gress will. As we for the first attempt at legis- ion, in the case of Porto Rico, has developed a di- ision of sentiment in the Republican party which | destroys the integrity of its majority in the House. The Bryan Democ in that body promptly de- |'serts the position of its organs, which demanded non-constitutional government, and lines up for ex- | of those islands be non-constitutional. brazenl saw, | v tension of the constitution to all these posses- sions. This is in line with their opportunism. They are lacking in that sincerity which originates | | in principles and convictions. They are now denounc- | ing President McKinley for nailing the flag to the | ?hilippines and taking Porto Rico, both of which they were demanding eighteen months ago. | acts ‘| Had he taken neither they would be denouncing him now for the omission. Faced by such an opposition, it behooves the Republican party to digest its policy | at leisure and finally so found it on immovable prin- | ciples and known facts as to avoid such divisions as t led last week by Littlefield of Maine and promptly supported in the House by the Democratic minority. | A year and a half ago the Bryan Democratic press was pointing with pride to the imperial policy of Great Britain as worthy of our imitation. They were prais- ing-the democratic freedom of the civil institutions of England. Now they are denouncing everything Eng- ) as stoutly and profanely as did-old Petrius Stuy- vesa Governor of New Amsterdam. who carried it | to the extent of chopping down the glish cherry trees which grew in front of his house. There is no doubt at all that if this administration should be involved in a warlike controversy with Great Britain ns and leaders nd become hysterically pro-British. he habit during our civil war. When Slidell, the Confederate envoys, | from the deck nd. coln and Seward ilting Engl And, when | after mature con Confederates to nd, they attacked Lincoln for what they called “a cowardly surrender.” Faced by such an unstable and unprincipled opposi- tion, Republican leaders must see that their duty is to profoundly study the new and afflicting problems which have come out of the Pandora’s box of the nd not proceed until they are sure of lines that will keep the party intact. When we advised this course recently we did not expect as prompt an object lesson as is furnished by | the situation developed in the House last week. Sup- | pose that the division led by Mr. Littlefield shall, by alliance with the Bryan minority in both branches of Congress, succeed in securing free trade, throughout the campaign the labor vote of this country will be besieged and besought to defeat the Republican party because it has been forced to competition with a tropical wage of 235 cents a day. The country, right or wrong, holds the party in power responsible for government and for a great many things that government cannot do. Tt will be weak and useless thérefore to answer this persuasion of the labor vote by ying the situation to the minority. It will be: “You had a majority in both houses of Congress What they did is what vou consented should be done.” And the Republican answer can be only a confession of the division of sentiment in the Republican party and therefore a confession of its inefficiency. e s Spanish the right policy o Their answer is ready. Truth, they say, will be found at the bottom of a well. They must have some ‘pretty deep wells in Montana since Senator Clark took up a residence in that State. e e — | GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN. ISPATCHES from Berlin announce that, not- D withstanding the natural sympathy of the Ger- man people with the Boers, the trend of public | opinion is distinctly in favor of the British. The newspapers, which are supposed to speak for the Gov- ernment, have taken the lead in bringing about the change of sentiment, and it is generally believed they are largely inspired by the officials of the court, if not by the Kais self. The argument used is not one which appeals to the higher sentiments of the German people, but to their interests. Thus, for example, the Kreuz Zeitung is | reported to have given an elaborate review of reasons why Germans do not like the British, but to have con- cluded by saying: “Notwithstanding this, England’s | downfall would mean a distinct disadvantage to Ger- many in every part of the globe. Therefore it is no part of German patriotism to uphold the cause of Eng- land'’s enemies.” Such statements go far to confirm the reports cir- culated at the time of the Kaiser's visit to London | shortly after the outbreak of the war, that an agree- | ment had been reached by the two governments to | their mutual advantage. It was a case of give and take. Large concessions were made to German rail- way interests in South Africa and British opposition | to the construction, under German control, of a rail- | way from a Mediterranean port across Asia Minor to |a port on the Persian Gulf was withdrawn. The | British also gave up their interests in Samoa to the Germans. What the Kaiser conceded in return for | these and perhaps other favors is not fully known, | but it seems clear he has promised Great Britain a | free hand in dealing with the Boers and is keeping his word. | There are many reasons why the Germans and the | British should act together at this juncture and chief i among them is the growing power of Russia and her | alliance with France. Russia threatens Great Britain in India and China, but she threatens Germany at home. The financial and diplomatic arrangements, | by which the Russians get something very much like domination over Persia, were aimed as much at the | Syrian interests of Germany as at the Indian interests of Great Britain. It requires no great knowledge of affairs to perceive that the famous concession for a railway from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf is worth very much less to the Germans now than it | was when it promised to give them supremacy in Persia. Thus the Kreuz Zeitung ‘s probably speaking from a knowledge obtainetl from official sources in declar- i tish ship, they attacked Lin- | we_surrendered the two | | | | | would put them out of power. | which they might choose to embroil themselves. ing that “England’s downfall would mean a distinct disadvantage to Germany in every part of the globe.” The Kaiser has pushed his commercial expansion far beyond the reach of his army to defend and his navy is not yet strong enough. For the time being, at any rate, it is necessary to his schemes that Great Britain should remain powerful and successful. With the passage of time there may come a shifting of interests and then the British will have to look elsewhere for allies. In the present crisis, however, it seems they can rely on Germany to prevent the interference of any other nation in the Boer war, for the Kaiser not only appreciates the concessions given him but has a forward look to favors yet to come. . ————— The success which has attended the Mayor’s literary venture, which his Honor calls “Making Corporations Pay Their Taxes,” should spur him to another effort. He is particularly well qualified to discuss “How to Make Purchased Mayors Stay Bought, or Why I Fell Down.” l ratified by the Senate and that the way to the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal will be cleared thereby. A great many airy propositions have been made by men expert in other things than statecraft. A civil A FORTIFIED CANAL. T is believed that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty will be | engineer proposes that we annex Nicaragua as an American State in order to have the canal on our own territory. This ranks with the British proposition to take Delagoa Bay from the Portuguese. The pro- ponent of the scheme says that the present people in power in Nicaragua would favor it, if they dared, but that to do so would precipitate a revolution which This means that such annexation would carry with it a hostile and indignant population, against which policy Blaine so strongly declared himself in his instructions to General Kil- patrick. To take Nicaragua would do more than this. Ir would cut in two the system of South and Central. American governments. It would arouse suspicion and solicitude in Mexico and would be held to justify the fear expressed by the press and public men of that republic that the policy of the United States is to subvert the independent governments now existing be- tween the Rio Grande and the Straits of Magellan. This suspicion is abroad in all the nations that would be affected by that policy and has already ma- terially alienated from us the commercial sympathy and trade of nearly sixty millions of people. This | process of alienation should not get impetus, either would immediately | from the annexation proposition or that to fortify a | waterway which will thereby be rendered non-neutral. We do not want the political company of the alien races which people Central and South America, nor do we want the treaty complications with Nicaragua and Costa Rica which will be necessary if we secure their consent to fortify on their soil. The measure of their demands has already been taken in the terms of the Frelinghuysen treaty, negotiated in the last days of President Arthur’s administration and withdrawn | by President Cleveland. That treaty bound the United States to defend the territorial integrity of | those two nations and thereby assumed for us an in- sufferable obligation, since it in effect obligated this Government to furnish them a military establishment at our cost, to defend them in any complication in It meant that we would have to support them in any Quixotic quarrel they might engage in and was prac- tically a standing and permanent declaration of wa: by the United States against any country to which our little proteges chose to offer battle. That they will now accompany consent to fortify the canal on their soil by like exactions, or others still more excessive, there is no doubt. This is foreseen by Admiral Dewey, who opposes | fortification because it will make the canal a battle- ground instead of a neutral highway for peaceful com- merce between the two oceans. It will not be hard to effect, with the great com- mercial nations, the neutralization of a wide zone of | water at either terminus of the canal, and our navy will find no difficulty in defending such zone and thereby protecting the neutrality of the canal. If we | build and administer it. who can reach it except by | water? As its operation involves the use of locks, what hostile fleet can get through it if the locks are | opened and emptied and made useless? In the extreme case of a foreign war; which is unlikely to come, we have means of defense involving less cost and assuring greater safety than any fortifi- cation, or any treaty engagement with the Central American States, made on the lines of the Freling- huysen convention. The ways of the Market Street Railroad Company are inscrutable. The corporation’s employes have been ordered to refuse a right of way to public am- bulances and yet the company knows that ambulances are absolutely essential adjuncts to the railroad system in this city. If the Eastern track gamblers are to have license to fleece the people of San Francisco, the victims of the fleecing should have license to resort to default- ing, embezzlement and robbery to get even with the community that licensed the fleecing. Once more the courts have defended a shipper against the attempt of the Wells Fargo Express Com- pany to shirk taxes upon him, and now it is time for shippers generally to join the fight and force it to a finish. 2 If Assessor Dodge had made a proper assessment of property there would have been no deficiency in the municipal revenues, but now because of his “ways that are dark” we are all of us threatened with dark- ness. Mayor Phelan might with propriety appoint a guardian for his tongue. If his Honor continues to talk at inopportune moments he will surely blurt out the whole secret of his compact with the yellow sheet. —_— ‘ The Federal authorities are seriously disturbed at the danger of missing an occasional member of a ship’s foreign crew touching at this port. And still the landing of “merchant” Chinese goes merrily on. Mayor Phelan on a cloth of gold hurling defiance to critics ought to suggest an idea to the competitors in that flag emblem contest. Ajax defying the light- ning might serve as a model. There is a movement on foot in national military circles to abolish post chaplains. Recent events in- dicate that this may be one way of modifying the in- fluence of post canteens. There is every reason to believe that the Mexicans will soon have an opportunity of making a great number of good Indians. The Yaquis, it is said, in-- tend to attack Guaymas. The viéor displayed by the new polic; authorities in arresting Chinese gamblers is charming, but why are the white gamblers left unmolested? D R R O R I S S o 2t ] | @———0——0—0—o—9— THE CANAL AND THE CARTOONISTS. : B e S e S S e e A SR D S S R Y THE JOINING OF THE OCEANS. —The Philadelphia Inquirer. D e 2 o e e e o o o AROUND THE CORRIDORS F. H. Lang, a rancher of Salinas, Is a guest at the Lick. Willlam H. Devlin, a prominent attor- ney of Sacramento, is at the Lick. Rev. L. Norman Tucker is registered at the Occidental from Vancouver, B. C. Frank H. Buck, a wealthy fruit raiser of Vacaville, is a guest at the Palace. E. C. Creller, 2 well-known mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Grand. Jesse D. Carr, a capitalist of Salinas, s among the recent arrivals at the Occi- dental. R. E. Jack, a banker and capitalist of San Luls Obispo, is a late arrival at the | Palace. & Hon. R. Boyle is registered at the Occi- dental from London. Mrs. Boyle is with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Baldwin are at the Palace from their Mountain View ranch in Santa Clara County. Judge W. E. Atwater of Derby, Conn., is at the Occidental, where he arrived last evening, accompanted by his wife. Dr. A. A. Finch, one of the leading med- | ical men of Astoria, Or., is a guest at the | Occidental while on a visit of pleasure to this city. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—B. F. Mitch- ell of Fresno, who was minute clerk ote the last California Legislature, has ar- | rived in Washington and succeeds Miss Parsons of Modesto as private secretary to Representative. Needham. Miss Par- sons has been appointed clerk in the Cen- | sus Bureau. W. C. Hawley, Posimaster | of San Jose, is at the Raleigh; Ralph Hot- ton and wife of San Francisco are at the | Metropolitan. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. %.—W. Bement and | W. R. Holding of San Francisco are ali the Empire. Willlam Montgomery of Los | Angeles is at the Netherlands. | T ST (R £ T B AR - FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. i -0 L R e e e e e e TS Sk o o o b ol Qe ed 000t edededse® COSTUME FOR A YOUNG GIRL. i This dress is made of a light colored material, beige or gray. The short bolero | sets off the neck and the walst, giving a | glimpse of the lace chemisetfe. It fs | | trimmed with small black velvet ribbons, the belt being made in the same way. The SKirt falla in pleats in the back and is or- namented with a few black ribbons at the bottom. LUNCHLONS AND DINNERS Last Days of the Season Keep the Swell Set Busy. IS8 ADDIE MURPHY gave a delightful luncheon yesterday afternoon at the University Club, and entertained thirty-five young ladies. Not a belle or a debutante was missing from the group that enjoyed an elaborate menu most daintily served. The guests were seated at three round tables, each one of which was gorgeous with ex- quisite blossoms. Miss Bernice Drown gave a dinner last evening at the home of her parents on | Jackson street. Covers were laid for thirty-six. | Mrs. A. Redding entertained society young people at dinner last evening at her home on California street. After din- | ner dancing was in order. The affair was in honor of the hostess’ daughter, Miss Ellita Redding. Mrs. Willlam Whittier will give a din- ner this evening. Covers will laid for ‘hteen. After dinner hostess and guests 11 go to the Mardi Gras ball. el BOLAND IS THE LEGAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR Judge Seawell Hands Down an Opin- Judge Seawell yesterday handed down a decision confirming the election of Pat- rick Boland to the office of Public Admin- istrator. In this opinion the court set forth the fact that in the recount Farn- ham had to his favor 23,132 votes and Bo- land 23,335, giving Bolan@ a net majority of 208 votes. During the recount Farnham lost 621 votes and Boland lost 681 votes. These votes were thrown out by reason of ap- parent distinguishing marks which were | also of a business house at | it had been suggested the Aslatic Asso- | clation_could perform. | elers in England, | formation of an Asiatic assoclation In this apparently due, however, to the ignoran o? voters );.nd not to fraud. Fa o oriGr 15 Laat the Jemanits BF rafings 01 0 e le; Y. Of mads Tudge Seaweil admitting ballots whi go contestant mfl%\fld have Mch cast out for various irregularities, am will | in | ISSOCITION T0 EATEND ASATI TRADE PROPLSED Committee Has Been Ap- pointed to Call Meeting of Trade Bodies. Representatives of Houses Carrying on Business With the Orient Confer in Regard to the Matter. it o A meeting of San Francisco business houses and transportation companies in- terested in the extension of trade with the Orient met at the Chamber of Com- | merce yesterday, George A. Newhall pre- siding. Among those present were: J. 8. Fearon of New York, James Otis, M. H. MecAllister, Morris Marcus, L Steinhart, Henry T. Scott, Joseph D. Grant, C. J. King, R. P. Jennings, W. R. Wheeler, H. D. Loveland, Charles E. Miller, George D. Cooper and John O. Blanchard. Mr. Fearon is a member of the Ameri- can Asiatic Assoclation of New York and Shanghal, China. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the feasibility of establishing a Pacific Coast branch of the American Asfatic Association, which Mr. Fearon favored. One point made was that the association had a political as well as a | trade value. The open door to China, he | said, was largely due to the influence of the Asiatic Assoclation. W. R. Wheeler said that while he was favorable to anything that would tend to | increase the trade of San Francisco in the | Orient, it seemed to him, as he listened | to what had been said, that the Commer- | cial Museum would be prepared to do all Mr. McAllisr reported facts concern- ing the organization of associations else- | where for the promotion of trade with the | Orient. He said London had a society | with 500 members, known as the China Association, composed of the most promi- nent bankers and merchants and finan- and. that they had caused most of the improvements in the treatles between Great Britain and China. New York had the Asiatic Assoelation previously mentioned. An American As- soctation of China had also been formed in Shanghai. Mr. McAllister suggested that the Pacific Coast organization might | be called the Pacific Coast Branch of the | American Asfatic Assoclation of New | York, or, a separate organization | should be preferred, the name of the Pa- | cfic Asiatic Assoclation might do. | Mr. Newhall suggested the appointment of a committee of five to consider the city, with power to call together the trade bodies if they should think it advisable to do so. He named as the committes Henry T. Scott, Joseph D. Grant, M. H. McAllister, R. P. Schwerin and George D. Cooper. The meeting left further consid- eration of the subject to the committee and adjourned. ONLY TWO WEEKS’ PAY FOR SICK ABSENTEES Civil Service Order That Has Caused Consternation in Federal Circles. Port Collector Jackson has been noti- fled by the Treasury Department that hereafter employes in that branch of the | service will not be allowed pay when off | duty on account of sickness for more than fourteen days in any one calendar year, without permission of the depart- ment. The notification was productive of much dissatisfaction and adverse com- ment In the Custom-house. Heretofore each emploere had been allowed fourtcen days’ vacation in each year with full pay, and in case of sickness pay for not ex- | ceeding thirty days. | The Treasury epartment has fu\lnd‘ thit frequent absences of employes under plea of sickness have embarrassed the | public service, and that political consider- atlons have been very often brought to bear upon collectors to grant extended absences from duty under full pay when oftentimes such Ices were not neces- sary. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CORA AND CASEY—A. 8, City. Neither Charles Cora nor James P. Casey, hanged by the Vigilance Committee of 1856, left a son who was sent from Hollis- ter to San Quentin for life for the killing of a man. ALGEBRA—A. P. O. P, City. As X 1s one of the unknown quantities, you will have to study that branch of - glenltic?um etfllnla '.:lh.fi value o:uxw{t‘ cmlnnuo’t explain n space allotted depc.r?mmt. ek RAIN STORMS—A. P. O. P., City. It is asserted that after a heavy cannonad- | ing rain falls on a battlefield, a: | the reason for this is that the count?n:gl:: | concussion finally reaches the rain clouds | and bursts them. | CAKEWALK—E. R. 8., Winnemucea, Nev. The latest features that have been introduced in the cakewalk is for the genflemm to try and kiss the lady and ave her coquettishly escape. | tots of walkers the boy un;’s\;.."fi'cn::i: | garter from the little girl'a leg, which has | n fastened below : been taster he knee, and then RECOIL—M. Bowman, Cal. Recofl in gunnery is the backward movement atter | discharge. When the charge contained in a Eu ) sudden expansion into | equa{ force in eveo mfi‘;refi:k bt Adlg sistance offered by the R more or less easily in the M“So which moves img chan, that of ng by Reaviet gun e, the s forced distance, but the gun with lumc:rfl:-: must feel the reaction and is driven bnc{- ward a certain space, ordinarily a few feet. The recoll occurs as soon as the ball leaves the plece. The recoil of a T rifle, commonly called “small arms.” is known as theis | kicl” and is felt on the shoulder of the | A CONVICT-J. M. K., City. The defi- nition of “convict” is “a person who has been proved guilty of an offense alleged :flalnst him, especially one found g\gfity er trial before a legal tribunal by the verdict of a jury or other legal dethlon. hence_' a person undergoing penal servi- :v:g&’ .h:athelstfi} ;'enu a person who | rm a con but the term Is generally ATAE o e ore =lttad to a tentiary. No convict who released either the San Quentin UNCLE SAM WILL GO IT ALONE. | ported 15,000,000 rabbit skins, and the d s —The Brooklyn Eagle. or Folsom penitentiary of California restored to citizenship unless It be by pardon by the Governor or by the pro- visions of the Goodwin act. TO DALMATIA—A Subscriber, Wat- sonville, Cal. The fact that you are a native of Dalmatia and that you are a naturalized citizen of the United States will not progect you in the matter of an obligation to thé country of your birth before you became an American citize: If before you became a citizen of t! United States you had not performe military duty in the land of your birt should you return there now you wo be liable to perform that duty, and y h American citizenship would not protect you. . RABBITS—Q., Hollister, Cal. The means used in the Australian colonies for the destruction of rabbits are rabbi proof fences, poisons and the introductic of the natural enemies of the rabbit such as cats and other carniverous an mals, but the latter have become as grea a pest as rabbits. During the past five years the New Zealand colony has ex mand fs increasing. Recently the ca ning of rabbit meat has become a large industry and promises to become an im- portant onme. These exports have been principally to the European markets. INTRODUCTIONS-A. W, City. This correspondent asks: “If a lady is seated and is introduced to a gentleman, is it proper for her to retain her seat or should she rise?’ In the first place, the gentleman should be Introduced to the lady and not the lady to the gentleman. As a general thing an introduction should be acknowledged by a bow. That ing the case, how can a lady bow gracefully while she remains seated? It is courtesy to the one who is introducing and the one who- is h“lng introduced for the lady to rise, and In that way show that inter- est {s taken in the formality, but an el- derly person or one who Is an invalid is excused from rising. Not to rise shows indifference. If, in addition to the bow, ;he Y(:lfind is offered, it should not be re- jected. THE GOLDEN GATE—A Subscriber, City. “The Golden Gate” is applied to the entrance from the Pacific Ocean to the bay of San Francisco and not to an imag- inary line from one point to another. It lies in latitude 37 degrees 48 minutes north, and longitude 122 degrees and 30 minutes west from Greenwich. The entrance is a strait about filve miles long with an aver- age width of one and a half miles. The name Chrysopaloe or Golden Gate first ap- 8«.:‘- in the “Geographical Memoirs of ‘alifornia” and relative map published by Colonel John C. Fremont in the early part Many are under the impression that the name was applied to the strait because gold was discovered in California and that as in those days the strait was the principal avenue of entrance to the State, which was designated as the Golden State, it was called the Golden Gate, but it was descriptive, not of the literal golden regions within, then as yet undiscovered, but merely of the rich and fertile country which surrounded the shores of the bayv, and of the wealth of the commerce of the Pacific, passing through the strait vould certainly give to the future great city of the place. The name was probably sug- gested by the Golden Horn of Constanti- nople. 2 R, f Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* i Specfal information supplled dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clij '3 u (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * ) growled Bickett. “I suppose,” replied Mrs. B, cause she has no trousers pocket to carry her hand around in.”"—Chicago News. F “I don’t see why a woman s holding her skirt with one # Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars vie Santa Fe route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the weifare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal ang Toronto every Wednesday. every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 23 Market street. —_———————— Incredible but True. on the Union Paciflo “Overtand Limited” can leave San Francisco fourteen hours later and arrive in Chicago nearly five hours earlier than by any other line. D. W. Hitcheock, Gen. 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