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Hotel IRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery. cormer of until 30 eo'clock. 300 FHaves o'clock. 629 McAllister, open 615 Larkin, open until 1541 Mission, open atil 10 oclock 1 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until » e'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until v'ecloc 106 Eleventh, open until ¥ o'clock. Twenty-second and hentacky. tock. coraer until 9 o s afternoon From Paris r—Vaudeville every afterncon and AUCTION SALES. NICARAGUA AND COSTA Rica the two Cent American be for the time dissipated f—— g n old feud in carly Presidents of that repub- He had the genius of a states- ictive faculty of a state-builder. who were not up to his and patriotiém. Among or Frederick Mora, devel fe that promised benefit to en to look forward nd renew T ctions s and knocked them ancestor. ambitions and used 1 the howev n down in con- scheme: reasing rather Finally Z= meast iollowers. perate es. enemies He Nica- atutes cognize that of and his im in infamy. g the money o! arged him with it were s ny to ten it upon him He deiense, was found of years to Sing Sing was easy to prevent his plomatic representation to our Gov- ved his full term At its expira- n to Central Amer was of the recent war scare was the f: a expected re- Id master, and con- f his victim in Costa Rica as leclaration of war. If we don’t next ion we may vet hear of a d his name and the high T 3 ch will at once avenge the wrongs he suffered and work changes in the politics While building the canal is pending es have the keenest interest in all that al politics of Nicaragua, and it will ep an eye on the movements of Mora, he is sure to be the storm center of the isthmus time to come. fects the well to me f the stories of the effects of the blizzard in re as thrilling as a dime novel. In several ars on the elevated roads were stopped and passengers had to get out and walk over the sleet-covered slip they came into contact with the third rail killed instantly. As a midnight h a walk could hardly be beaten in the turous parts of the globe. ey be rth noting that in the whole course of the Nethersole and Parkhurst nor Anthony Com- part. There seems to be a new era ! round and the old reformers have York against Olga er Dr. y ation of his new opera to “Myself, shed esteem and unalterable perhaps the only vhere the recipient of satisfac- instance on record a complimentary dedication reciprocated the feelings expressed by the author. tern reports are to the effect that Paderewski g bald, but as tickets for his entertainments command high prices it is evident the that his art depewded upon the length and ¢as erroneous. the people of the southern counti 1ce of his hair cannot get nto the rain belt and be happy. There is room for rt of the State. v would be an outrage to destroy our big ey seem to be the oniy thing about us that ties, with the consciousness that if by i enongh to suit them down theré they can move | CHINATOWN QUARANTINED. effects of a groundless scare about bubonic plague in Chinatown. Science leaves no uncer- tainty possible. The bubonic microbe has been iso- lated and identified, until it is as easily recognized as Mount Tamalpais. Our local sanitary authorities, | acting with the Federal quarantine officers, ought to "l‘HE police authorities should be mindful of the | be able at once to settle the cause of the “suspicious | death™ of the Chinese which caused the quarantining ‘rf the whole Chinese quarter. This should be done | promptly and there should not be here the needless repetition of the scenes in Honolulu, where science abdicated control to reasonless fear. | Burning buildings and destruction of property will gue if it be present. It was very active quarter of Hongkong a few years ago, and microbe was identified by the Japanese bac- teriologist, Kittisato, and the pestilence was stopped in ten days by drenching the whole quarter, streets, houses and all, in a solution of caustic lime. We are sure that the highly intelligent Chinese Consul, Mr. Ho Yow, and the Six Companies, will readily co- operate in such a cleansing of our Chinatown, plague or no plague, and it should be had any way. This peculiar Asiatic pestilence may be expected to make a sporadic appearance in every country that is with the Orient, es- an Asiatic population is domesticated There are diseases that appear in all crowded populations, | not stop the pl ines jin the C ation pecially whe! under such circumstances as to propagate it. which seem to serve nature’s quite benevolent pur- pose of keeping the population down to the food sup- ply. When these diseases appear they prove to be gely ra as this plague is, and experience with it proves that Occidental races are but little subject to al diseases to admonish they are mor and must not crowd to- close Consumption and typhoid, let fever, are constantly present . performing the same office that the the A not to make use of a Care shot be taken grounc jic to effect purposes in China- town that lie m its sanitary condition San co does not care to turn trade away and Jle country to a diversion of commerce that may have no existence, or ickly identified and removed v, and no one finds tainty is requisite reached. science and experience that there be any other as rs than Asiatics is y from plague enjoyed s China, India and Hawaii becomes n their own racial climate need be felt by our non- they are rehensio: f the suspicions Asiz e are sure that our public authori- tic here should prove to t d by the general demand that they t with promptness, discretion and scientific accu- racy, to the end that the first alarms of a suddenly developed situation be not suffered to rise to a feel- —— About all that is known of the situation in South Africa is that Roberts has his army lined up along Modder River and the Boers are entrenching them- In Joubert's army they are singing camp-meeting hymns and Roberts’ men are More R selves in front of him. whistling “One er to Cross.” GOLDEN AGES OF LI'I:ERHTURE, RA\ RELY, even at any of the greatest universities of the world, have students been afforded a bet- ter opportunity to study the whole course of the literature of the nations, under able instructors, than that given to the readers of The Call in the series o The Golden Ages of Literature,” now running as a part of the spring course of home studies. The design of the series is to take in the whole sweep of literature, red and profane, from the days of hieroglyphic writing in old Egypt down to our The contributors to ird Everett Hale of Bos- ceton, Professor Palmer of own time and our own country. the course include Dr. Edw ton, Dr. Parrott of P: Yale. Professor More of Harvard, Professor Smith of the University of Wisconsin, Miss Vida D. Scud- der of Wellesley, and a number o nt. emin Tt days of s far the course has been carried down to the Homer and the G so that it has hardly more than begun. The series as a whole is to include thirt i Egypt, Assyria, Persia, China, Judea, Greece, Rome, ITtaly, England, France, Germany and the United States given by the eek epics, six studies, covering the literature writers of each paper of the literature of the age with which the paper deals, there is added a list of works which students who desire fuller infor- mation can profitably study. In fact, the course con- stitutes a guide of real value to the wonderful story of the literature of all nations and all ages, and merits the attention of all who are interested in literary topics. The prospects of the Liberal party in Great Britain are brighter than they have been at any time since Gladstone’s death, and the only explanation of the ! brightening is that Rosebery has quit the party. MR. KASSON'S TREATIES | OMMISSIONER KASSON, according to re- C ports from Washington, is busily engaged in | making preliminary studies for a reciprocity treaty with Italy, and expects to begin negotiating | for such a treaty within a short time. As that coun- try is a producer and an exporter of fruits and wines and other articles which come into competition with the products of California, it is likely we shall have another fight to make for self-protection when the Commissioner gets through with his work. Under these circumstances it is gratifying to learn there is but little chance that the Kasson treaties with France and with Jamaica will be ratified. It seems to be now conceded that the opposition to the treaties is | sufficiently strong to defeat them. That opposition | comes not alone from California, but from all parts of the Union. Even the manufacturers whose inter- ests are not directly threatened by the arrangements of the treaties have in many instances declared against them on the ground that they would afford precedents for breaking down the protective policy of the coun- try, and would lead sooner or later to other treatiss !in which manufacturing industries would suffer. Mr. Kasson has defended his French treaty by | arguing that we make concessions on only 126 num- bers out of the 705 of the tariff, while the French make concessions on all but 19 of the 654 in their tariff. He further claims that our concessions amount tc less than a 7 per cent reduction from the tan§ rates, while the French amount to an average reduc- aised by the re- | others hardly less | In addition to the comprehensive summary | tion of 26 per cent. That is a specious and good showing, but it will be remembered that when the treaty was under discussion in the Chamber of Depu- ties the French Ministers, with an equal array of fig ures, showed that all the concessions were on our side and that the treaty was of vast benefit to France. It is not worth while to juggle with the details of statistics of that kind. As a matter of fact the pro- posed treaty was to admit to the markets of the United States a large number of French products at much lower duty rates than those fixed by the Dingley tariff. That would have meant injury, if not ruin, to a considerable number of American industries. Thus the treaty would have destroyed the universality of the protective principle. It would have sacrificed some interests for the benefit of others. Such a pol- icy would of course have been unfair and inexpedient. | There must be protection for the farmer as well as | for the manufacturer, for the fruit-grower as well as | for the cotton-spinner, for the Californian as well as for the people of Mr. Kasson's State, Iowa, for other- wise there would soon rise a discontent which would reopen the whole tariff controversy and renew the agitations and discords that so disturbed commerce and industry while that issue was at stake between political parties. B It is rather an odd result that a war begun in the name of humanity on behalf of the Cubans should have had the effect of leading up to what promises to | be a general slaughtering of the Filipinos, who had | nothing whatever to do with the oppression ol the Cubans. THE MARKET-STREET PROBLEM. | ETWEEN the merchants doing business along | B Market street, on the one side, and the owners | and drivers of teams on the other, there has arisen a controversy as to the best means of taking care of Market street, and incidentally of all other streets paved with asphalt. The horse-owners and drivers, backed by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, protest against the sprinkling of asphalt pavement, because when moist such pave- ments become so slippery as to endanger teams that are driven over them. On the other hand, the mer- chants contend that to leave Market street un- sprinkled entails a large ihjury to merchandise and a continuous annoyance of the public by dust. | Each side to the controversy has valid reasons to support its contention. It is indisputable that when asphalt pavements are wet they constitute a serious menace to teams, and indirectly to persons; but it equally true that in a city so dusty and so windy | as San Francisco it is absolutely necessary to do something to lay the dust and clean the streets. There is but one sure solution of the problem. The Call some time ago directed attention to the fact that in Eastern and in European cities the authori- ties sprinkle the asphalt pavements with sand in the early morning, while they are wet with fog or dew, and then sweep the sand away later in the day. The | sand serves a double benefit. In the first place it pre- vents the pavement from becoming slippery when wet, and in the second place it affords a material which when swept up carries with it all dust or other refuse of the streets, leaving them dry and clean for the traffic of the business hours. As the practice of sand-sprinkling has been adopted in nearly all notably clean cities where asphalt pave- ments have been laid, it may be taken as proven that such sprinkling is a necessary adjunct to asphalt pavements. In no other way yet devised is it possible at an economical cost to settle the double problem of getting rid of dust without making the pavements slippery. In San Francisco the cost of sand-sprinkling can- not be large, for there is an abundance of clean white sand to be had with no further cost than that of dig- ging and hauling. plan is not a novel one, and does not entail the risk of an experiment. It has been tried in many places and has proven so advantageous that it is now in gen- eral use in some of the largest cities on the globe. Certainly something will have to be done, for we can- not expose the merchants and the passers along Mar- ket street to the dust and the winds of the coming | summer without doing something ta clean the street | and keep down the dust: neither would it be right to | resort to sprinkling, which would make the asphalt slippery. There are times and occasions when cities need sand, and this is one of them. S given rise to fears that the orange crop of the State will fail this season and that the supply in the Eastern market will fall far short of the de- mand. On that subject the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune published recently a short but instructive edi- torial for the benefit of its readers, reminding them that the United States is no longer dependent for oranges upon Florida, but has a source of supply in { California. Aifter reviewing the history of the cultivation of oranges in this State, the Commercial Tribune says: “Only a few years ago a California orange was any- thing but pleasant to the taste, and the prediction was general that it would be impossible to produce palatable oranges on the Pacific Coast. The fruit was coarse grained and acrid to the taste. The growers were not discouraged, however, and after years of trial they have succeeded in producing an orange as fine grained and palatable as any grown in Florida. From a commercial point of view the test has proven a success, and this is a legitimate criterion. In 1808 it is estimated that about 8000 carloads of the fruit were sent East from California, and in 1899 about gooo carloads. This year the shipments will be 14,500 car- Icads and will sell for $4.600,000, of which sum about half will go to the growers.” In the meantime the Floridians are speculating as to the future of orange-growing in their State. The Florida Times Union advocates the cultivation of small groves under protection of some kind. It says: “Let the horticulturist mightily enrich and cultivate | one acre, two acres, or three acres, according to his cloth; reef it up snug and taut as a ship made ready | for a gale: then it will pay him to protect it, any- where in the old orange belt where geology and to- | pography have set up a fingerboard. Trim the trees up like a Cromwellian Roundhead, low and solid tops, like the Dutchman’s horse, ‘low down and wide out,’ trees from which a man can stand with his boot- Leels on the ground and pick six boxes. Oranges grown under cover, unvexed by West Indian gales, | unpricked by thorns, juicy with a conserved moisture, as fine as silk, as luscious as only Florida can pro- duce—every box knocking a big hole in a Northern $10 bill.” That is perhaps as good a suggestion as can be made for Florida, but in the meantime the orange in- dustry of California, carried on in the open air and free from danger of frosts, is rapidly increasing its output, and perhaps the time is not far distant when Floridians will be saved the trouble of growing oranges, as they can get all they wish from California. THE ORANGE SUPPLY. EVERE frosts in Florida during the winter have N FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH It is to be remembered that the | 1900. WOMAN Is Neither an ANGEL Nor an IDOL— [ R e T S == 3 BY IDA HUSTED HARPER. NE almost can imagine he sees the fine political work of Susan B. Anthony behind that terrific ar- raignment of women by Cardinal Gibbons last Sunday. It is just what was needed to stir them up on the eve of the National Suffrage Con- vention. The path of the progressive woman is made so smooth and flowery nowadays that there is danger of paral sis of the fighting faculties from disuse. It will give her self-complacency a jolt to hear his Eminence: 1 regard woman's rights women and society leaders as the worst enemies of the female sex. They rob women of all that is amiabie and tender and attractive, and give her € in return but masculine boldness and brazen effrontery. They are habitually preaching about woman's rights and prerogatives and have not a word to say about ner dutles and responsibilities. They withdraw her from those sacred obligations with ambition to -usurp a position for which neither God nor nature ever intended her. Under the influence of such teachers we find ing the household duties, gadding about, nevel at peace unless she is in perpetual motion, never at ease unless she is in a state of morbid excitement, Her afflicted husband comes home to find it empty or occupled by & woman whose heart is void of affection for him. Then arise disputes, quarrels, recrimination, estrangements, and the last act in the drama is often divorce. 1 speak thy saber truth when I affirm that for the wrecks of families in our country woman has a large share of the responsibility. There is & keen satire in this constant assertion by the dignataries of the Cath- olic_church that the home and mother- hood are woman's sphere when there is no other institution in the whole world which imposes celibacy upon so many men ana women, making homes impos- sible and motherhood out of the question. The Cardinal has so ‘“‘mixed _those babies up” that we caunot tell whether | it is the soclety leaders or the woman's | rights women who have reduced the sex to a condition of “‘masculine boldness and yet the precepts and practices of the two are as wide apart as the poles. As this space is consecrated to the suffragists, I will take up the cudgels in their behalf and let the fashion maga- zines defend their votaries. “They are habitually preaching about woman's rights and prerogatives and have not a word to say about her duties and re- sponsibilities.” What his _ Eminence should do is to run down to Washington to the Woman Suffrage Convention, now in session, and hear some of the papers: “Woman's Work in Philanthropy”; “War and the Work of Women”; “Conditions of the Wage Earning “Women of Our Country”; “New Professions for Women Centering in the Home”; “The Duty of Woman Citizens of the (United States in the Present Crisis.” Do not these savor very strongly of duties and responsibili- ties? The trouble with a great many peo- Ele besides Cardinal Gibbons is that the; ave no comprehension of what the suf- frage advocates are striving for. Their prlncl?nl argument for the ballot is that it will give them greater power to dis- charge what they consider their duties and responsibilities to thelr homes and to the State. ““Neglecting their household dutles, gadding about, perpetual motion, morbid excitement’’— that must be the soclety women, and yet the same charge 1s made against the woman's rights women, and | 118 just as true and just as false about one as the other. Mrs. Jellaby, the famous prototype of the Woman-Who- Neglects-Her-Home, did it because she was so absorbed in the heathen of dis- tant lands, and the church always has encouraged this foreign missionary spirit. As a matter of fact, households some- times do suffer because women give too much time to religious duties or temper- ance work or socfal affairs or club life or the advocacy of equal rights; and, on the other hand, there are women who render valuable services to one or more of these pursuits and vet reserve always the best of themselves for their homes and fami- lies. It depends entirely upon the disposl- tion of the woman, not upon the nature of the object which claims her Interest. The general assertion may be made that homes were never so beautiful, so well appointed, so l¥ertectly managed as tnex are to-day. he modern woman coul give her dmother a world of infor- mation on sanitary plumblns, drainage and ventilation, prevention of disease, hy- enic cooking and correct dress and diet 'or chifldren. The percentage of sickness has greatly decreased and families, in all classes, never had so much comfort as they now enjoy. Any unprejudiced per- son must admit the truth of these state- ments, and at the same time acknowledge that women are doing a grander work than ever before in the schools, the churches, the charities, the reforms and all the varied departments of human ac- tvities. “Her afflicted husband comes home to find it empty or occupied by a woman whose heart is void of affection for him. Then arise quarrels, estrangement and often divorce.” Well, of course we could glve a more unbiased judgment in regard to all this iIf we knew at what hour the affiicted_husband got home., and whether he was drunk or sober, and where he had been spending his time previous to his ar- ‘Under the old dispensation the wife rival. at expected fo sit patlently at home twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four, nwaltfnx her lord’s return, and then to “meet him with a smile.”” When it was not lodge night it was club night, and when it wasn’t either he had to go down street to see a man, and, finally, it struck her that she might as well have her lodge and club and go around the corner occa- sionally to see a woman. St. Paul told the wife to learn of her husband at home, and this is what she learned. “1 speak the sober truth when T affirm that' or the wriclu o’t nmiLles m‘ our country, woman has a large share of the responsibility.” Probably she has. She grew tired of sitting on the safety valve and got off. Ever since people quit living in tribes and divided up into households the respectability and responsibility of the family have been Ellcefl on the woman. If poverty stared them in the face it was because she was a poor manager. If the husband took to drink it was because his home was not made I dren went to ruin_ it mother did not train them right. woman, especially in the higher circles, neglect- | which properly belong to her sex and fill her | .Mfl+woflflfl+fi-m—mfl—%—fl+0+0’ | She IS HUMAN IDA HUSTED HARPER'S Apswer to CARDINAL GIBBONS. in their own name; they are g their time about getting anfled—— all this and much more, and yet “‘woman worship” is the besetting sin of the pres- ent generation. Just think of the good times our grandmothers missed because they were afrald the men wouldn't love them, when, if the dear souls only had known it, the men would have loved them all t:‘le be:ter for going ahead and doing as_they pleased. But the great daily goes still further and declares that “‘woman is neither an angel nor an ldol—she is human.” It will be an immense relief when this idea Is generally accepted. To keep up to the angel standard all the time is dreadfully wearing, and to try to be even a little ln{ property takin, D R I B R e . S SR S R SRR S SEORY S 5 & D R R S S S S e e mat el ] been continually held responsible for con- ditions entirely beyond her control, and if the approach of the new century firis her in rebellion it need occasion no sur- prise. The stronger and more philosophi- cal among women are willing ‘still to bear the respuusibllllfi, but they demand the power which righttully should go with it. The weaker and more reckless women are inclined to get rid of it entirely. But let this be remembered in this talk about divorces, that the vast majority are obtained by wives because of the short- comings of husbands, and not by meu be: cause women have failed in their obliga- tions. The statutes under which these are secured are framed wholly by men. In not one had women any share; it is mea alone who stand sponsor for their vai- idity and necessity, Cardinal Gibbons says women are tryin to usurp positions for which neither Gos nor Nature intended them. We wish these had been specified. When first they asked for an education beyond the ‘‘three 1's™ they were told that neither God nor Na- ture ever intended that woman should understand Greek and mathematics. When they wanted a chance to earn a living they were warned that God and Nature inténded woman should only cook and v. In fact, they never have attempted anything outside the four walls of home without having this admonition held over their heads, but they have found that whenever they could circumvent man and do the things they wanted to they got on all right with God and Nature. It seems very strange that God always should have selected man as the medium through which to express his revelations in regard to woman, and that these should invariably correspond so closely with what man himself wanted her to do. It wus through direct revelation that woman was compelled to endure the horrible degra- dation of which we read throughout the Old Testament. Joseph Smith received a revelation which was used to persvada credulous women into the relations of polygamy for fifty years. The priesthood of both the Cathelic and rotestant churches continue to declare themselves the mouthpieces of God to mark out the boundaries for women. Thus far and no further. The masses of women may con- tinue to be coerced for several generations longer, but the ranks are beginning to break. Ultimately woman will settle these questions with her own judgment, Ler own consclence and her own God, with- out the services of a go-between. Free- dom of choice, liberty of action—God and Nature never Intended that these bless- ings should be granted to man and de- nied to woman. . Dr. Lyman Abbott should change the name of the “Outlook” to “Leoking Back- ward,” as far as its attitude on the fran- chise for women is concerned. The noted divine traveled all the way to Boston, the other day, to plead with a legislative com- mittee not to report favorably a bill for woman suffrage. The burden of his argu- ment was that the majority of women were indifferent or opposed. Then why did the reverend gentleman try to prevent the Legislature from submitting a woman suffrage amendment to the Massachusetts voters, which would give the women an opportunity in the campaign to show where they stood? Every winter when this question comes up before the Legis- lature of that State the brainiest women of the commonwealth appear In its behalf, and every year the opponents skirmish around and get a man to plead for them that the voters shall not have a chance to pass upon this question. Dr. Abbott and the rest of the opponents have been driven at last to the one objec- tion, that the majority of women do not want the franchise, which they continu- ally shout from the housetops. How are théy going to prove this assertion? Hun- dreds of thousands of women have peti- ticned Congress to grant them the right to vote, but less than a dozen have peti- tioned that bod‘ not to grant this right. In the New York constitutional um%fl‘n of 1894 over 300,000 women of that State petitioned the convention for a suffrage amendment, but, although the ‘“antis” made an active canvass, only 15,00 names of hoth men and women were secured in ogwnltlon. Every State and Territory in the Union has its suffrage organizations, while in not half a dozen are there any anti-suffrage organizations. In Wyom- ing, where equal suffrage has prevailed for thirty years, the official statistics show that a larger percentage of women vote than of men. @ same was true in Wash- ington Territory during the three years when women voted there. In Colorado, Utah and Idaho the percentage of male and female voters is about the same. If figures can prove anything, these ought to prove that of the women who have 55 clared themselves one way or the other the majority certainly have indicated that they do want to vote and will vote when they get a chance. But even If this were not the case, by what law of precedent do the opponents of woman suffrage demand that no women shall have the ballot until a majority ask for it? When religious qualifications for voting were abolished It was not done at the request of a majority of those who were disfranchised. When property quirements were done away with and the workingmen were enfranchised it was not at the demand of a majority of these workingmen. When the ballot was given to negro men it was not by the desire of a majority of thelr number. When Congress conferred the franchise on all Indlan men who would abandon tribal relations it did not do_so at the behest of a majority of the red brethren. Now, by what reason- ing must suffrage for women wait until a majority of them actually express a de. sire for it, when this has not been done in one single instance in the case of men? . s . A great metropolitan dail; expresses the opinion that “next to m-:onhlp our besetting folly nowadays is woman worship.” Go to: how can this be pos- sible when women are deing everything under the shining sun which they always have been taught would alienate man's affections? They are being educated in the same schools and carrying off the honors, which naturally must feeu!.n his respect for them; they have dropped the cllnflni—vlne role. which cannot gflll to diminish his tenderness: they are compet- ing with him in business, which is sure to destroy his chivalry. They are gning in for athletics, they are attens clubs, they are travel all over 4 s 1ing the world with- escort. are. and spending their own wages and hold- tin god 1s a strain on one’s nerves. sides, it Is very lonesome on a pedestal, especially if one is fond of gentlemen's soclety. Then, too, one gets awfully tired of playing a part, and we women have known all the time that we weren't an- gels. It will be pleasanter all around when the fact is recognized that we aro only mortal, and then perhaps we be treated as human beings. . s . Apropos of everything which has been said thus far, I want to tell a little story. At our hotel was a beautiful young girl, educated, clever, thoroughly up to date. A handsome feliow was paying her the most devoted attention, whenever he was sober enough to do so, and all of us felt very anxious lest his attractive manners and lavish display of wealth should win the girl. One evening late she came into my room, and, settling herself among the pfilows of the couch, said, “John proposed to-night; went down on his knees, said 1 was the only power on earth that could save him, and if I didn’t consent to bg his wife he would fill a drunkard’s ve. Vhat did you say?” I asked ath- lessly. “Well,’ she replied, “T told him that I was not running a Keely cure, but if he really wanted to be saved from a drunkard’s grave I could give him the ad- dress of several which I had heard highly recommended.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A HALF OF '57—D. L L, City. A half- dollar of 1857 does not command a pre- mium. Dealers charge from 75 cents to $110 for such coins. A GERMAN THALER-R. W, City. A German thaler of 1845 does not command a premium, and-the same may be pur- chased from $1 to $1 %. A SILVER DOLLAR—N. M. E., Eureka, Cal. A silver dollar colned in the United States In 1865 is worth one dollar, for it does not command a premium. STATE MINERALOGIST-J. H. 8, St. John, Glenn County, Cal. The State Min- eralogist has his office in the State Mining Bureau, ferry building, San Franeisco. Communicate with him in regard to in- formation desired about ofl wells. ARE AMERICANS-D. M., City. Chil- dren born of foreign parents in the United States are natives of the United States and Americans so far as that name dasig- nates persons born in the Union of States. ‘When such children attain majority, if the parents in the meantime do not be- come citizens of the United ‘States, they may choose to be American citizens or citizens of the nationality of the father. P —— Townsend's Cal. glace fruits and choice candles back to Palace Hotel, 639 Market.* —_————————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burn“ (Allen's), 510 ke gomery street. Telephone Main' 1042. — e Trunks and Leather Goods. ‘We have the largest line of geod trunks, fine valises and sylish dress-suit cases In the city, and there is no end to the va- riety of traveling sets, ladles’ books, card and letter cases, billbooks, Mexican carved leather goods, cigar cases and ladies’ belts. Sterling silver initials for pocketbooks at 25, 40 and 75 cents each. | Giit initials and lettering In gold, free of charge, of all leather goods purchased in our store. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mar- ket street. . Women’s Club to Meet. The regular monthly meeting of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Club will be held on Saturday evening, March 10, at 3 o’clock sh: residence of and their frie Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfare of passensers. 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, 625 Market street. —_— Incredible but True. Passengers on the Union Pacific “‘Overland Limited” can leave San Francisco fourtéen hours later and arrive in Chicago nearly five hours earlier than by anv other through car line. D. W. Hitchcock, Gen. Agt., 1 Moatgom- ery st.. 8. F. . at 771 Haight street, th s, 4 Clara Foltz. Suffragh re invited R Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters possesses an exquisite flavor and is a sure preventtve for all diseases of the digestive organs. Little Sisters’ Infant Shelter. There will be a meeting to-day of the members of the Little Sisters’ Infant Shelter at the shelter on Minna street, near Sixth, when the officers will present their annual reports, showing what was done during the past year. CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. At AMALGAMATORS, A K1 Mtg. Co.. n e e e HAND or power machine that saves goid. On exhibition 129 First st., S. F. BEACH GOLD CONCENTRATOR. SAVES All the Gold by Gravitation. No - silver. Hand or power. In operation 14 ‘D“l*r CENTRIFUGAL AM:LOGAMATORS. SAVES fine gold. In dally operation at 254 Beale st., San Francisco. GASOLINE ENGINES, HERCULES GAS ENGINE WORKS (s filling many orders for Nome. 141-148 First st., 8. F. GOLD SEPARATOR. MARSHALL Gold Saving Machine. 229 Fol- som street, Oriental Gas Engine Company. OILS. !.gllm 'ATING O1l,__Crude and Gasolins. NsvgN & McGUFFICK. gnhur st., S, F. PLATI;: FOR SAVING GOLD. Schaezlein & Burridge, Hardle m oft 3 o vy Sutfer and Bush PORTABLE HOUSES. BURNHAM-STANDEFORD CO., Wi and ist sts., Oakland, or Builders’ Ex. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS, Lift Gold-Beart Sands perfectly. tion at 625 Sixth st BYRON TACKSAN 1y MARSH STEAW PuMPS fresh or salt wat slutce boxes; hIgh or low lifts. " Simonde. 35 Mavkie e T FUMPS AND GASOLINE FNGINES. Al kinds of Pumps and Gasoline Engines. WOODIN & nr ‘I!.l'(".. 8. P ENGI'ES, BOILERS, ETC. BA! & HAMILTON, foeet et on e e A R TENTS AND OVERS. NEVILLE & CO. mamufacturers, bags. tents, covers. 31 and 3@ California st. ».