The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1svu JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. /ddress Ali Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager 'L BLICATION OFFICE..Market e Main 180S. Single Copte Terms by Mail, Incl DALY CALL (nclnding DAILY CAL DAILY C DALY CALL—By Single Month. 65, SLADAY CALL Ome Year . . 150 WLEKLY CALL One Year . veess 100 il postmusiers are authorized to receive subscriptions. tawple copies will be forwarded when reguested UAKLAND OFFICE.... ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGIZ KROGNESS, Mamager Forcign Advertining. Marquette Build- ing, Chicage. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. €. CARLTON. .Herald Sguare NEW YORK PERRY LUKENS JR REFRESENTATIVE: 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NE Sherman House; P. 0. News Co. ern Hotel; Fremont H. TANDS: Great North- rium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Wal Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC Wellington Hotel 3. F. ENGLISH, nt. BERANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgzomery, corner of open until 9:30 eo'clock. 300 Hayes. en mntil 93 o'clock. €39 McAllister, open 111 #:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, opem until 30 o'clock. 1941 Mi ntil 10 lock. 22061 Market, o 1096 V AMUSEMENTS. he Old Homestead.” »arkest Russia.” ratic concert this afternoon. 14 rpheum—Vaudev « Eye.” e The Girl From Paris.” Never Ax ater—Vaudeville every afternoon and er of Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties, ed Animal Show. Recital Saturday afternoon. nics n—Tra Sherman-Clay Hall—Pianc Race Track—Races. AUCTION SALES. This evening, at § o'clock, Paint- ct on the part itical health of Mayor and his whole city, time in al- kow- M or's and 1 walks abroad. ad the evil the city in a of that coercion of money are made public, capable of estigation it have the n at all. The ier permanent sus- to the ends of the there was a single for other seaports will 1 from this harbor, and checked at a season when motives posed, its threats ¢ indeed is concerned his pretense and a caped it, passed his is line of sentrie and, if there were had the chance to hite people all over the city. quarte s of w refore, served no purpose as a pro- as a sk of the flimsiest purpdse and was n if the pretext for it city by flashing abroad The r, was quick to spread st and to back the follies the utmost. Bad news travels ncisco is being posted all s a plague city, the Mayor's Board rely doing politics. It has taken the n who died after a month’s ill- a chronic ailment of longer culated a guinea-pig with them g for the pig to die! It is highly prob- with either the chronic or acute e was upon us ut the partnership in destroying the The microbe of cernible in the glands of a 1e body of a guinea-pig. to isolate Mayor Phelan’s Board Chief of Police and inoculate a hog lentify them as political microbes i San Francisco, who are under sus- they are right. If the Board of eason for the scare and quarantine ned without efficiency, are of the police to maintain it. If alth found the plague in Chinatowr lowed it to escape and roam Ii the Chinese carry it about ered the kitchens of hundreds of homes over town, in the person of Chinese ters, who found it easier to run the win at fantan against a white player en the game before. s ——— of Porto Rico has issued urgent appeal for food for the starving peo- »f the island, and thus the tropical paradise the would enrich us all turns out to be an r charity and begs for the means of sub- guinea-pig was Pc Congress will please take notice it will avail us very ¢ to construct the Nicaragua canal, fortified or d, if we do not provide for building up the marine to make use of it. f the Grand Jury cannot find evidence enough in ¢ cace on which to base at least one indictment for perjury, it will be safe betting it could not find an phant in an ordinary haystack. < been so easy to save the big trees that our co-operative energies might now be used to advan- smew o do something else for the State. rican merch e MARCH 9, 1900 | ri-Astorin Heotel; A. Brentane, 31 Union | | ANOTHER IMPERIAL PENSIONER. { £ Ol Rl i THE country has become reconciled to pay‘in'g the Mahometan Sultan of Sulu and his chiefs | a pension of $10,000 a year for consenting to lg.t | the stars and stripes float-over his-harem and his I slaves. General Wheeler has visited and dined with our Sultan and reports the feed good and his Majesty’s hospitality fair for those parts. $ This being settled, we are now extending our xm.- perial pension system to the ex-Qucen of Hawaii. | The diplomatic appropriation bill provided ‘C.)l' pay- ing her a lump sum of $250,000. On the motion of Senator Hoar this has been amended to a cash pay- ment of $20,000 and an annual pension of $10,000. | We heartily approve of this pension, for it_ is an ac- knowledgment of the illegality and injustice of our | overthrow of her sovereignty, and theft of her coun- try. The so-called revolution of 1893 was nothing more nor less than the overthrow by an American naval commander and man-of-war of a Government with which we were at peace and in diplomatic relations, and the independence of which we had guaranteed by solemn treaty. There was no revolution. There was a conspiracy between foreigners domiciled in Hawaii and the American Minister and the commander of the Boston. It was an exact counterpart of the Jameson raidsupon the Transvaal, with the sole difference that | our Government made no pretense of disavowal, | while England did have sufficient regard for interna- tional decency to call Rhodes and Jameson to ac- count. But we then proceeded upon the pretense that the people of Hawaii had by revolution overthrown a dynasty and proclaimed a republic. That genius of evil, Senator Morgan of Alabama, made his cele- brated speech about crowns that fall in this hemis- phere lying where they drop. Dole took over to him- self the Queen’s estate in the crown lands, and as pub- |lic property captured the regalia and muniments of the ancient royalty and sold them at auction for junk. | He seized the great Hawaiian flag, made of silk and presented as a personal gift to the Queen by the na- | tive ladies, and gave it to the daughter of Congress- man Berry of Kentucky. If it were public property he had no right to give it away. If it were not pub- |lic property Miss Berry is in possession of stolen goods. Ajter all these acts and pretenses have ended in an- nexation of the islands as something their sovereignty in the Dole Government had a right to do, the United | States Congress admits that it was by robbery and not by right that the Queen was despoiled, and com- | pels our people to pay her conscience money down and a pension of $10,000 a year! It is an act of justice to her, though there is no law ror constitutional authority for such use of the public funds. Tt is an admission that we wronged her, that ! we took from her that to which we had no right. It can be justified on no other ground. If the annexa- tion of Hawaii were what the Government pretended it was, an agreement with a justly established foreign sovereignty that had a right to merge with ours, we would be under no legal nor moral obligation to pay the Queen any sum whatsoever. The resolution of annexation neither ecreated nor recognized any such obligation. By it we agreed to pay President Dole’s debts, amounting to about $5,000,000, and that was the sole financial responsibility which we assumed by law The Call has held to this from the beginning, and is proposition to pay a pension this Government pretended had passed to it by as- sent and not by purchase. It is an admission that the honorable course for the United States would have been to replace the Queen in possession of her sov- ercignty, of which our Minister and our navy had de- prived her, and then negotiate with her Government for annexation, if that policy were desirable. But we did not do this. We treated the Dole Government as of right in power, and according to the theory upon which we took over the islands we should pension Dole instead of the Queen. e view of the proceeding amply justified by this for a sovereignty which Since the Board of Education has taken to fining teachers for “a grave breach of discipline in not sus- taining the board,” we have a new illustration of the Kaiser William way in which things are going under the new charter. It may be good discipline to force teachers to support the board in everything it does, but it is very poor taste and falls a long way short of personal liberty. PURE FJOD REGULATIONS. Y the Committee on Manufactures there has B been submitted to the Senate a report showing the results of investigations into the adultera- tion of articles of food or drink, together with recom- mendations as to the best means of providing a rem- edy for the evil. The report declares that the practice of selling adulterated foods and artificial substitutes | for pure foods is widespread. Many of those engaged lin the selling or the manufacture of such adultera- | tions or substitutes frankly admit it, but claim they | are forced to resort to it by the competition of the market. Two methods of applying a remedy for the evil have been proposed. One is to place all important articles of food or drink under the internal revenue law, as has been done with butter, cheese and flour. The other is the establishment in the Department of Ag- riculture of a bureau with authority to fix the stan- dard of purity for foods, drinks and drugs. A part | of this plan provides also for an examination of all | imported articles of food or drink, as it is said !Jarge amounts of adulterated foods of foreign manu- facture are imported and sold here, although their sale to consumers is forbidden in the countries where | they are manufactured. Of the two plans proposed the committee favors the | latter. It is conceded the first has worked well so far | as it has been applied, and it is said the pure flour law has absolutely prevented the sale of adulterated | flour in this country, and, moreover, has so increased | its reputation abroad that the sale of American flour in foreign markets has increased 25 per cent. Never- theless the committee thinks it would be inexpedient to put all articles of food under the internal revenue law, because it would be cumbersome and vexatious to the trade and to the consumers to require a stamp to be affixed to every package of foods of all kinds offered for sale. | The people of the country are not devoled to any | particular plan of action on the subject. Almost any well devised law will suit them, provided it have a | national scope and be fairly enforced. State statutes | or local ordinances on the subject have proven ut- | terly inadequate to deal with the evil. As there is no way of preventing the import and export of goods | from one State to another, a suppression of the manu- facture of impure foods in any commonwealth has no other effect than that of conferring an advantage upon the manufacturers of impure foods in other States. A bureau of the Department of Agriculture having authority to fix the standard for all articles of food and drink. and to require all such articles to be rightly labeled with the name of the manufacturer, the time and place of manufacture, and the nature and ingre- dients of the article contained in the package. would doubtless prove a sufficient remedy. At any rate it is one well worth trying, and it is to be hoped a law to that effect will be enacted -at this session of Con- gress. ——— President Wheeler is quite right in . desiring the Berkeley team of track athletes to go East to com- pete with the teams of Eastern universities, but his argument on the subject, “I wish you to show the East we are civilized out here, and this is one of the best ways to do it,” is rather curious. Why send a team to show the Easterners we are civilized? Why not send it just #r the fun of licking the tenderfeet? GETTING READY FOR WORK. HILE Republicans in all parts of the Union Ware confident the coming election will result in an overwhelming defeat of the Bryanites, they are not going to take any chances of losing a single Congressman through a neglect of organized work: All reports are to the effect that throughout the East the party is preparing for an earnest and -vigorous campaign, animated by a desire to rid the country of the mischievous free silver agitation for the rest of this generation. It is not yet clear upon what issues the coming contest will be fought, although it is certain the re- nomination of Bryan will give an immense importance to the money question, and that it may be again, as it was in 1896, the dominant question in the minds of the voters. It is well known, however, that many Democratic leaders are groping for a new issue, being sagacious enough to know that another fight for free silver will be equivalent to marching through a slaughter-house to an open grave. It is therefore likely the tactics of the oppesition will be to confuse the campaign by a multitude of issues, leaving the candidates and stump speakers in each district to give prominence to the one most likely to be favored in that locality. Such being the case, we shall probably have the sil- ver question put prominently forward in the silver States and in the South, where the Democrats are generally in favor of imperialism, while anti-imperial- ism and anti-trust' issues will be made conspicuous in the East. Thus the Republicans will have to con- front something like a guerrilla warfare, and must be prepared for it. It is evident that such tactics on the part of the Bryanites will be more dangerous to candidates in Congressional districts than to Presidential electors. It is quite. possible the election should result in an overwhelming victory for the national ticket and yet leave the Republicans with a minority in the House of Representatives.. By carrying one district for fres silver and imperialism, and another district for anti- trust and anti-imperialism, the Democrats, while | being divided among themselves, might after all pre- vent that complete Republican victory which is essen- tial for the best interests of the country. The important point of the campaign, therefore, is to assure victory in the Congressional districts. To that end everything should be done to provide for thorough organization and complete harmony in the party ranks. The greatest care should be taken .o assure nominations for Congress that will be satis- factory to the rank and file of the party. Nothing in the way of snap judgment, boss rule or faction trick- | ery in the selection of candidates for Congress should | be permitted. The party must put forward as its lead- ers strong, able and upright men in every district, or we may have the chagrin of seeing a Democratic ma- jerity in a Congress elected in a year of Republican prosperity. at 0 B —— The Filipinos are not putting up as brave a fight as the Boers, but they will probably be able to keep it longer, and in the end make it about as costly us as the Transyaal war is to the British. HUMANITY TO THE BOERS. N another column we print an appeal to the people l of the United States by the New York committee, of which Hon. George M. Van Hoesen is chair- man. Judge Van Hoesen is of an old New York Knick- erbocker family, dating from the.first Dutch settle- ment in New Amsterdam. After a successful expe- rience in journalism in Iowa when a young man, he returned to New York and entered upon the success- fu] practice of the law, and in due time was elected to the bench, and served in the judicial office with high distinction for a long term of years. We give this sketch of his career to properly dif- ferentiate him from the crowd of self-seeking poli- ticians who use the Boer question merely as a useful play upon the sentiment of hereditary enmity to Eng- land. Judge Van Hoesen, like the majority of Ameri- cans, would feel no differently toward the two South | Atrican republics if their enemy were Germany, Rus- sia-or France. It must be remembered that the Boer population is not numerous. Women are in the trenches fighting by the side of their husbands, fathers and sons for the liberty of their country and the integrity of their fire- sides. Want, illness and suffering are abroad among them. No cause has ever appealed more strongly to the humane sympathies of the world than theirs. Some Americans, with much ostentation, have con- tributed a hospital ship and stores to Great Britain. They are going up to the help of Goliath against David. Let the masses of our people show their sympathy with the weak against the strong. This great republic should not hesitate to succor the dis- tressed farmers of South Africa who are in straits and misery in the midst of the agonies of defense against the world’s greatest empire. The people of all nations have been thrilled not only by their courage and endurance under suffering, but by their own humanity toward the soldiers of their mighty enemy. English authorities have been compelled to disclose the kindness shown by Boers to the British wounded on the battle-field. Boer sol- diers have given their last mealie and drop of water to suffering English soldiers who fell smitten in ac- tion. They have shown no spirit of revenge, nor have they been careless of the demands of a humane spirit, in the midst of their own misfortunes. Surely that widespread sympathy for the abused Cubans which swept over this country in 1808 was not. a fleeting show, a passing fashion! Pity’s sweet foun- tain in the hearts of our people must still be affluent, and we count surely upon the extension of substan- tial aid and comfort to the people embattled upon the far veldts of Africa, whose stout hearts have not quailed in their awful loneliness among the nations. It is a pleasure to certify the high character of the New York committee and to assure Californians that whatever funds are intrusted to Judge Van Hoesen will produce for every dollar a hundred cents’ worth of benefit to the people who need from the people of the world that friendship which is denied to them by the nations of the world AN' APPEAL FROM THE BOERS. DITOR The Call—-The New York committee to ald the allied 'republlcl of Bouth Africa invites the co-operation of the citizens of the United States in giving all encouragement and assistance consistent with the neutrality laws to the sorely tried patriots in their fight for freedom. The consclence of our country and the world revolts-at the spectacle of a civil- ized and Christian nation engaged in the awful work of destroying the two small republics and extérminating their people. Within the last three months oae hundred mass-meetings have been heid throughout the United States, which have been attended by over 1,000,000 citizer: at which the friendly offices of this Covernment have been invoked in the inter- ests of mediation and peace. Up to the present time President McKinley has not felt justified in giving ear to these appeals. ‘We therefore urge the citizens of the United States to continue to hold mass- meetings, for the purpose of informing the national administration of the true sen- timent of the American people in regard to this cruel and unwarranted assault up- on the liberty of two independent republics. This organization, having establicshed headquarters at the Morton House, Unlon square, New York, requests the various Transvaal committees throughout the country to enter intd correspondence with our secretary for the purpose of joint political actton and national organization upon this most urgent question. We ask to be informed of public demonstrations, and will supply petitions, pamphlets, cte., giving authentic information of the causes of the war. We strons- ly recommend that every possible means by petition and otherwise should be util- ized by sympathizers with the South African republics to influence our Senators and Representatives at Washington in the Interest of mediation and peace. of Police was requested to 1! rule be enforced, and he has Issued ders to the watchman to see that_no clubs use the rooms in the future. This action has made the owners of halls jubi- lant. the or- —_————— + 4444444040 40000 Dr. Eltzholtz has made a study of plague cases for five years in India and will tell in next Sunday’s Call some facts as interesting as they are astonishing. The article will be illustrated by pictures from the doctor’s own private collection. Remember this story is written by one who knows and is upen a matter of vital importance to every i Californian. G+ 4444444444004 044440 —_————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. aa e S AR as e R e R s Immediate financial assistance 's absolutély necessary to enable this committex to carry on its work of edueation and philanthropy. We are acting in accord vlvlth the Netherlands Red Cross and the Widows’ and Orphans’ Funds, Whose recognized representatives are members of our executive committee. All contributions in behalf of the purposes of this organization will be imme- diately acknowledged by Kilisen Van Rensselaer, treasurer, 5 Wall street, New York City, and in the public press. Sympathizers with the Boer cause are request- ed to write for literature, etc., to the.secretaries, Morton House, Union square, New York City. GEORGE M, VAN HOESEN, Chairman. P. A. MOYNAHAN, Secretary. INSURANCE SCHEMES and their relative welghts are announced for the ation for col to be of RO" d - !\i’r&u}y 3, eopmun.fu?'n ':102: . e n __roq 3 . {¢ 2, experience 1. total 1 wr:: pac- The Call does mot hold ftselt responsible for | SHOUIST BLYIS of BerriaroD o o legibil- the opinions published In this column, but | ity. accuracy, quickness and neatness. presents them for whatever value they may {or 'em 2 ]In{hg R 'ui,.“l!‘l‘l;- have as commmunications of general interest, '-"ll?:"l(.:':ln. :'I’zl;fl:l}:")m m::: lon dee “g'e‘:’;:. Editor The Call—I have noted with care made. e £ all that has been published regarding the |Mined by a satisfactory proof of continu- ous and faithful or in similar wor —e—0—0—0—0-3-+0@ PASHION HINT FROM PARIS, i G000+ @ Independent insurance scheme of the R W oqbrist Southern Pacific Railway Company, lim- ited to its employes. Certain recent oc- currences, not necessary to detail here, called my attention to the fact that up to this time no employe of that com- pany aged or disabled in its service has ever become a public charge in the State of California nor been compelled to enter & poorhouse. Its present insurance scheme is of in- terest to me as a taxpayer and to all my fellow citizens of California who are tax- payers. It takes in all present emploves, without medical examination, regardiess of age and physical condition, th t least 50 per cent of them would be barred out of participation in any other form of Insurance. If killed in the service of the company I believe the indemnity is zmoo and the ordinary death indemnity is $1500. I believe also that hospital facilities go with the system. The great Pennsylva- nia Rallroad has for years operated a similar scheme, and out of its experience and accumulations has now been able to add a pension system to aged and inca- pacitated employes, who retire from ac- tive service upon a pension that assures their support and makes them independ- ent of charity. Now, as a citizen I approve and applaud the Institution by a great corporation of such a scheme as assures to its thousands of employes immunity from pauperism. no matter what accident and incapacity may | befall them. By enforcing the habits of temperance and thrift necessitated by such a system it becomes an ally of pub- | lic morals and by securing its employes | against the need of charity it relleves the | taxpayer. 1 wish that such a system might be made common to all ecorporations and companies and individuals which employ large numbers of men, for it would in- crease the number of perfectly independ- ent men and familles in the community and decrease the numbers of the needy and dependent. I hope that aventunllr a Southern Pa- cific pension system will grow out of this and that thereby the lives of its thousands of employes mni’ be delivered of much of the care which is upon men, & JOHN P. IRISH. ————— A PARADOX. Herr Muller was a Government clerk, | and when he retired on a pension the | @46 486+ 0+o+6+0 newspapers published a paragraph to this i s it effect: “After working thirty years in Govern-| The dress represented is mauve liberty | ment offices Herr Muller retires to private | gatin, the decollete trimmed with draped life, and will, with his wife, enjoy a well | poyggeline de soie; the skirt, with an| earned rest. open tunic edged with flat pleats. and the 4 underskirt and apron of Pompadour silk. Q@+ ¢ ¢+ 69/0¢ 36+ @ There is a guipure flounce round the bot- N tom, braided with chinchilla in front. The | sleeves are tied with black velvet. WEDDING BELLS RING MERRILY Nuptials of Dr. Brown and Miss Hillyer Surprise Their Friends. Quietly and without word of intimation to their many friends Miss Helen Hillyer and Dr. Philip King Brown were married on Wednesday afternoon In Mrs. Phebe | Hearst’s apartments in the Hearst bulld- | ing. Supreme Judge Harrison performed | the cefemony and Dr. Horatio Stebbins pronounced the benediction. The fair oung bride is a sister of Mrs. Fannie | 1lyer Deupreg and the prolefv of Mrs. Hearst. Dr. Brown is one of the best known of the younger physicians of tuis city. He is the son of Dr. Charlotte Blaka | Brown and a brother of Dr. Adelalde | Brown. | Dr. and Mrs. Brown have left for an ex- tended Eastern tour, and it will be fully six months before their friends will wei- come them home again. Miss Hattie Kinkly, a belle of Redding, was married on Sunday, February 25, to | Charles Edgar Hand, private secretary to | the Johnson-Locke Mercantile Company of San cisco. The couple were united by J‘.dfi‘r Carroll Cook at his court cham- bers. 1lllam Roberts, a friend of the om, and Miss Marie Kimball of Red- ing, the bride’'s best friend, were called | upon as witnesses, and were the only ones let into the secret. After the ceremony the bride returned | to her home in Redding, where she ex- pected to remain for the present. But the secret was too good to keep, and now every one knows it. The charming young bride Is a brunette with a mass of wav:" | dark hair. She is extremely popular with the young set. Mr. Hand will shortly go to Reddlnfi for his bride and they will leave for New York to reside. AROUND THE 2 CORRIDORS John J. Doyle, U. 8. N., s at the Ocel- dental. - Dr. Douglas Brown of New York is at D e R R e e A e S R e R e e A e e d [ o A SRR e e R e e I e g This shows Herr Muller at work, and w0+0+0+0+0—ma B O o o e S @+ 0+ 0-+6+0@ |the Palace. Here he Is enjoying his “well earred | Frank Barrett, a banker of Palo Alto, is rest.'—Fliegende Blae{ter. at the Lick. John Spars of Reno, Nev., is registered at the Palace. PLAN TO WIPE OUT J. B. Treadwell of Bakersfield is a guest MUNICIPAL DEFICIT |t the occidental Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is regis- tered at the Palace. Marion Biggs Jr., a capitalist of Oro- wville, is at the Grand. ‘W. E. Duncan, a wealthy mining man of Oroville, is at the Lick. W. A. Veth, a prominent wine man of Fresno, is at the Grand. Dr. G. G. Shannon, a leading physician of Tulare, is at the Lick. oy Contemplates Large Loan by Citizens to the City and a Bond Issue to Repay It. The Supervisors’ Finance Committee yesterday listened to a proposed method suggested by the North End Improvement Association to relieve the present munici- pal financial stringency. The plan con- | sounding of the particular current. | quires to boil water. | August 20, 1891. Eligibllit; | 1s restricted to ‘women who are lineal Je- | years, and who is descend | cestor who, “‘with unfailing loyaity, GUANO—Merced, Cal. .For the informa- tion about guano from the Clipperton Islands, a communication should be ad- dressed to Macondray & Co., this eity. FIVE-DOLLAR PIECES—F. M., City. ‘This department has on several occasions announced that no premium is offered for United States $5 pleces coined after 1834 THE TRAIN.NG SCHOOL—M. W., Bis- bee, Arfz. The naval training school on the Pacific Coast is not at Palo Alto, but is located on Yerba Buena or “Goat” Isi- and in the bay of San Francisco. PRISONER OF ZENDA—S. H. J, Ala- meda, Cal. The first edition of the ““Pris- oner of Zenda” was issued In 13%. The lay was first produced in New York City Kx 189, so this department is informed. McKINLEY'S PARENTS-A. O. S, City. The father of President McKinley was born on the Dougherty farm, Woif Creek Township, Mercer County, Penn- sylvania. His mother was born on a farm eight miles from New Lisbon, Ohio. A CALIFORNIA BANDIT-C. M. B, Davenport, Iowa. In the early days thers was a bandit In California known as Joa- quin Murietta. There was, after his cap- ture by Sheriff Harry Love, a book of his life of the dime novel order issued in San Franeisco. CURRENTSJ. C., City. The swiftness of bay currents depends upon conditions. The difference of surface and under-cur- rents can be told only by observation fi: depth at which motion or perceptible mo- tion of water ceases can be told only by experiment. MELTED LEAD-M. J. H, City. Lead has to be heated to 534 degrees before it melts or 332 degrees more heat than it re- The human hand cannot be placed in boiling lead without injury to it. It is likely that you have your idea of placin the and In melted lead from the side degree of some secret soclety, where to test the courage of the candidate, he is required to “thrust his hand Inté a pot of molten lead™ and when he does It he finds that he has plac- ed it in a pot of mercury, which, in the dim light and the surroundings of the lodge rooms, has the appearance of what it purports to be. DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION —Subscriber, City. The General Society was organized ir the city of New York to membership scendants of an ancestor who was a_ mil- itary or naval or marine officer, soidier, | sallor or marine In actual service under of the thirteen colo- the authority of SO G8 THe L iret < e Continen ‘on- nles or States, or o gress. In the Daughters of the American Rev- olution any woman may be eligible for membership who is of the ea(;e of eightee from an an- dered material ald to the cause of | endence as a recognized patriot, as s fer or sailor, or as a civil officer in ons | of the several colonies or States, or of the | United Colonies or States,” provided t: he applicant shall be acceptable to ths ociety. Every application for member- hip must be Indorsed by at least ons member of the national soclety, and is then submitted to the registrars general, who report on the question of eligibility to the board of management, and upoa its approval the applicant is enrolled as a member. —_—e—————— Townsend's Cal. glace frults and cholco candies baek to Palace Hotel, 639 Market.® —_——————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 lont gomery street. Telephone Main —_————————— Camera Supplies. ‘We have added camera supplies to our artists’ materia] department. Everything wanted in draughtsmen’s and architects” supplies, artists’ materials and equipmcnts for amateur photography is kept In this department. The prices and goods are right on all_the things we sell. Sanborr, Vall & Co., 74l Market street. . e —————— Sanchez Is Convicted. Arthur 1. Sanchez was found guilty of an attempt to criminally assault Miss Jean Glassman yesterday. He will be sen- tenced Saturday. —_————————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothcrs for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colfc, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarthoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. c a bottle. —_——— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santz Fe route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the weifare of passenzers. To Ciicaxo and Kansas City every Sunday. ‘Wednesday ang Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sundsy and’ Friday. Ticket office, 623 Market street. parande 1> « - Incredible but True. Passengers on the Union Pacific “Overland Limited"" can leave San Francisco fourteen hours later and arrive in Chicago nearly five hours earlier than those via any other lime. D. W. Hitcheock, General Agent, 1 Montgom= ery streat, San Francisco. — e Bids for Street Lighting. City Attorney Lane yesterday informed the Board of Supervisors that, ngoumh- standing the fixing of the rates for gms and clegiric Hghting, It 13, under the char- ter, the duty of the board each vear to call for bids for such service to be sup- plied to the city and county. ———— ADVERTISEMENTS. ANEMIA is thin blood. It.causes pale faces, white lips, weak nerves and lack of vitality. Ablood- enriching, fat producing food-medicine is needed. templates the loan of $250,000 to the city by a number of public-spirited citizens, to be repaid by the issuance of bonds. Edgar Painter, who represented. Andrea Sbar- boro, president of the assoclation, stated the latter gentleman had assurances from several citizens and business houses of a large subscription to_the fund. The com- mittee directed Mr. Painter to secure the necessal pledges by responsible and bona fide signatures and when the amount had_been subscribed it would recommend to the board that an election be called for the bond issue to cover the loan. The $250,- 000 includes the sum of $20,000 to defray the expenses of the election. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foster of San Ra- fael are staying at the Falace. J. W. Barbour, a speculator in the Han- ford oil lands, is at the Lick., J. A. Chase, a prominent merchant of San Jose, 1s a guest at the Palace. D. J. Crowley, a wealthy business man of Tacoma, is registered at the Grand. —_———— City Hall Not for Social The Board of Public Works has adopted a rule which Is intended to prohibit the et motch&mbmhtbecnynnufurw- or te Rules for Examination Papers. =K :nfld\m S m. Heretofore dra- The Civil Service Commission has issued a set of rules for marking the examina- tion papers, and the following subjects have used the rooms and the city’s gas for rehearsals and business meetings, but the new rule Will put a stop to the practice. The Chief goes to the root of the trouble, strengthens and en- riches the blodd, and builds up the entire system. For Anemic girls, thin boys,and enfeebled mothers, it is the Standard remedy. SCOTTE BOWNE, Chemintss Nevw Yorlt