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T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1900 .MARCH 13, 1900 RECKELS, Proprietor. 5 F. EDITORIAL ROOMS Delivered Terms DAILY CALL uding Postage: '), one year..86.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month... . 65e SUADAY CALL One Year..... ees 150 WEEKLY CALL One Year... . vss LOO All postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. fample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE. .1118 Broadway C. GEORG Mansger Foreign Advertisin ing, Chicag: KROGNESS, Marquette Build- YORK CORRESPONDENT: NEW . CARLTON Herald Sguare NEW YORK REFRESENTATIVE: PERRY .29 Tribune Buildin LUKENS JR... | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: [ Sherman House: P. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. ANEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldori-Astoria Hotel: A. Brem ., 31 Unmion Square; Murray Hill Hote WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. HRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open nniil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 0 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 lock. until 9 © o'clock AW open Market, corner Sixteenth, open ock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9§ 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, 19 oclock. AMUSEMENTS. e You Seen Smith." Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and and Eddy streets—Specialties. | afternoon. AUCTION SALES. { All that has Doyle—This day, son streets. yle—Wednesday, March 14, at 11 o'clock, , March 15, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 2170 at 11 o'clock, Horses, at | EXPANSION AND CLIMATE. & ing in regard to the phy- tropical the medical authorities two years is the extreme limit of Those authorities year in that climate its en- y so rapidly that a three years’ A warship is not an un- | i it is as sanitary as a hos- is used; s the best in quality and prepara- f our new posses- ippines. artificial ice is manu- t from contact with the steam- yet with 2all these advantages al medical experts decide that two years is fatal. at the medical service of the | of a still briefer service on er is out to return alarge nmands sent out last sum- be taken by fresh troops, the East. are glad that at last there is this official admis- e Call's contention that a tropical climate is of the temperate zone. It will aid in people from the consequences of their A year ago, when we iography of v nviting the “American home- grate to the Philippines, Cuba i grow up with a country already over- by tropical races and under a vertical sun white men as a lethal dose of mor- eception the to the pl ics will be largely guided by subject edge on th: y with this official recognition of the vity wrought by the climate, affirming degeneration of the constitution of white there is news of the renewal of warlike activity the Filipinos and the assurance of an army 1t the present rate of progress their re- not be subdued for ten years, during all litary force there must be main- present figure, of about 70,000 men. The repeat the history of the Acheen war, which nd has maintained for thirty years, at such cost that it has eaten up more than all the revenue derived from her tropical possessions in the We may look for the same result as to rev- and for still more serious physical results, be- disciplined guarding he deadly effects of a tropical climate. Official medical authorities are especially concerned by the very large number of cases of insanity among our soldiers in the Philippines. Lunacy is almost cause we are not as well in epidemic in the ranks and is supposed to be the effeqt | A great many suicides | of the intense vertical sun. ave been caused by it. even among officers. The Ancient apd Honourable Artillery Company of Boston has sent $350to the Honourable Artillery Com- * pany of London for use of the members of the Lon- don company in the war with the Boers. As the two organizations are of a social rather than a military ure. and have many affiliations with one another, the gift is a sort of courtesy rather than a war contri- | but all the same the Bostonians might have n better taste by selecting some other form of at this time. —_— Because “war is hell” is no reason why General Roberts should refuse to show something of courtesy his captured foes. It is to be remembered that ac- ording to the proverbs of all nations the devil is = Predictions from Washington are that the proceed- W | only 3000. and | te policy for disposing of our re- HNOT;-'IER KENTUCKY CRISIS. HILE we are boasting of our equipment for judgment of the capacity of other people for seli-government we are furnishing the world an object lesson in our own incapacity therefor by the .assembling of two armies in Kentucky to prob- | ably battle over the State government. | The Call long ago pointed out the working and | probable results of the Goebel law. It is an elab- | orate statutory mechanism for fals of an election, suppression of the will of the ma- jerity. That it was used to deprive Taylor and the Republican State officers of the places to which they had been elected was made evident when the State Returning Board, by Democratic votes, declared Tay- lor and his colleagues to be elected. To overthrow this decision in the Legislature Republicans were ousted from their seats, to be replaced by Democrats, and then a strictly partisan committee was appointed which reversed the finding of the Democratic Return- | | ing Board. Before the report of this committee was made to the Legislature Governor Taylor, who had been regularly inaugurated, adjourned the Legisla- ture, having the legal right so to do. Then followed the assassination of Goebel, the administration of the on his deathbed, and the pretended suc- cession of Beckham, who ran and was defeated with him on the ticket for Lieutenant Governor. The State now has two governments. Taylor is in oath to | possession of the State House, the great seal and other muniments of authority. He is in command of one section of the State militia, and Beckham is or- undantly sup- wetermination. There is a clash of military authority which may re sult in fighting for the State armories. The situation is further confused by the offer of a reward of $100,- 000 for the assassin of Goebel. That large sum has stimulated detective ingenuity, and several Republican ganizing another. Both sides are plied with arms, ammunition and State officers are under arrest for that crime. So large a sum will make perjury easy and pay for the manufacture of a case against innocent men, so that those under arrest feel uncertain about their ability to secure a fair trial. The disorder has therefore penetrated every branch of the government. It has extended like a plague from the ballot-box to the bench. Potent passion pervades the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the government, and free institutions are n word ndition owing the Civil War common in Louisiana, Arkan- being made a mockery In the disturbed strife of this kind v sas, Missis E outh Carolina. But it was then excused as a necessary part of the vast chaos and demoralization caused by war. Now, however, there is no room nor reason for such excuse. Kentucky, like the rest of the country, was at profound peace Democratic State convention met. last s ppened ce began in that convention. Goebel was a man of vaulting ambition and violent Blood tood in his own party to be y to win his His 1 was compassed by the violent expulsion fa umber of regular delegates and the cor- ruption of others; the prolonged session of the con- characterized by such shameful features ood and State pride of the better Dem- Another convention was held and by and unscrupulous nature vas already on his d he was u de zht be nec f any act that 1 dless egal or moral obstructions. ocracy revolted. ticket was put in the field, headed a competing John Young Brown. Imost brought the State into civil war during E tion the campa y Colonel Bryan was warned that ign | he was in danger of being shot by the members of one faction if he went into the State to speak for the ticket of the other. The Republicans conducted their campaign in an manner and won. It is estimated that their actual 1 as 40,000, but this was cut down by the legalized ra ty of the Goebel judges of elec- tion, until there remained an apparent majority of In a well-ordered, seli-governing com- | munity that majority should be as sacred and in- violable as one of tens of thousands. But the spirit of Goebel survives him, and his partisans are deter- mined to g any violation of law or any <application of its principles which may suit them. There is no doubt that the righteous cause of Gov- | ernor Taylor suffers from the murder of Goebel, though no proof can be found connecting him in any way with that crime. This feeling, however, should not obscure the issue, which is one of law, order and istice, in which there is no doubt Governor Taylor has been in the right from the beginning. S ———— State Controller Colgan and the State Board of Ex- | aminers have fallen out, and as a consequence the | owners of $200,000 worth of claims for the support of half-orphans, it is said, will not get their due. What conclusion is to be drawn from that? W!hc Democratic national convention meet early in June, and succeeded in having it post- poned to July 4, he gave evidence of his power in Democratic councils and proved himself to be a lcader whom the Bryanites will have to reckon with and treat with respect. By baffling the scheme to call the convention prior to the date fixed for the | Republican convention he gained another month of [ time in which to organize the opposition to the Nebraska man. That accomplishment, however, is not the only evi- dence given of Gorman’s activity and leadership in the higher councils of the party, however lacking he may be in influence among the rank and file. The call issued by the Democratic National Committee for | the election of delegates to the convention sounds | more like the voice of Gorman than of Bryan, and is an astute appeal, not to free silverites and radicals, but to the conservative elements of the country. The appeal says: “All Democratic conservative re- | form citizens of the United States, irrespective of past | political associations and differences, who can uriite ! with us in the effort for pure, economical and con- | stitutional government, and who favor the republic and oppose the empire, are cordially invited to join | us in sending delegates to the convention.” In that address there is much of false pretense, but | there is also much adroitness. It is a foregone con- clusion that Bryan’s nomination will mean another orderly p power t THE VOICE OF GORMAN. HEN Gorman d | the nation and of all who have money in the banks, | and that no conservative course on any great issue | | will be a part of the policy of his platform. The ap- | peal, therefore, to conservative supporters of eco- !nomiczl and constitutional government to take part | in honesty nothing more than the defeat of Bryan. | 17 it do not mean that, then it is but a false pretense | and a snare. x Gorman is sufficiently sagacious to perceive tha ings of the House this week will be dull, so it is | the silver movement is dead, and that another fight worth while to be on the lookout for a racket of some | for free silver will come very near meaning death to kind and a high old time. Democracy itself. He sees in the prevailing oppo- ying the results | These two Democratic fac- | ed Bryan's desire to have | disturbing agitation affecting the financial security of | lin electing delegates to the convention can mean | sition to the jingo movement toward imperialism a chance to rally his party to a new issue that will save |it from Bryanism, and has determined to profit by ;the chance so far as he can. It matters little to him that imperialism is advocated by same of the most | conspicuous leaders of Democracy in Congress and |in the country. He is just now seeking for votes, 'and in doing so has spread this appeal to mugwumps |as a fisherman would spread a net to catch gudgeons. | ——— Since the thing which the Board of Health calls | “bubonic plague” took over twenty days to kill a | Chinaman afflicted with other diseases, and eighty- | two hours to kill a neglected guinea-pig, it is evi- dently a slow poison in this climate and not at all like the terror of the Orient. B York Sun an interesting account is given of the quantity and quality of petitions sent to Congress, and the manner of their treatment when they arrive there. In these days when every yellow journal in the land makes a feature of getting up “mammoth petitions” on all sorts of subjects, and then cites them as proofs of its potent influence in shaping legislation, it will be worth while for the public to give some passing attention to what the Sun correspondent has to say. | There was a time, of course, when Congress gave respectful consideration to every petition presented. but that was in the days when petitions were compara- jti\'ely rare, and when it was not easy to get a bill providing for some desired legislation introduced | into Congress. In these days, however, Congress permits the introduction of any and every sort of bill and authorizes its publication as an official docu- ment, and as a consequence petitions asking for con- | sideration of this or that measure are no longer re- | garded as of any particular value. “ Describing the history of the average petition, the | writer says: “It has its birth in some reform cru- sade. It is circulated and its growth tenderly nur- | tured. Some morning it turns up in the mail of a ;member of Congress in Washington. If he followed i | PETITIONS TO CONGRESS. Y the Washington correspondent of the New his natural impulse it would go to the wastebasket. Instead it is turned over to the tender mercies of a clerk. That is generally the last the Congressman ever sees of it. The clerk hurriedly indorses on the | back, ‘Petition of Richard Roe and others, asking | for the passage of a bill,” etc. Congress never hears lof it. It is taken by the clerk to the document room and joins a hundred or more others on all conceivable | subjects. Here another clerk prepares a brief notice | of it for insertion in the Congressional Record, and of legislation on the special subject mentioned, pre- | sumably to be considered solemnly by the committee | and at the end of the session to be stored among the Government records. From then on the petition is in constant jeopardy. There is not one chance in a thousand that it will ever be opened. Observant persons have noted that an amazingly small propor- tion of the vast number of such documents referred to the various committees are ever heard of more. Even records rooms they have been known to disappear in some mysterious manner. Nobody seems to know how, and, as a matter of fact, nobody cares.” Despite the carelessness with which they are han- | dled and the indifference of Congressmen to them, the petitions stored away in the Capitol amount to | an enormous number. They are piled in the vaults | of the basement, in the attic and in document rooms | on both the Senate and the House side of the build- ing. The records of some of the great “freak peti- tions” of the yellow journals are curious. Thus it is noted there was one day presented a monster peti- tion purporting to contain 4,000,000 names request- | ing intervention on behalf of Cuba. “The petition | was mounted in a great reel and was resplendent with American and Cuban flags. For several days it stood in an adjacent room and was viewed by thousands. Finally some inquisitive clerks took upon themselves the task of counting the names. When | the petition was unrolled the entire center was found | to be a blank. Instead of millions of names the pe- tition contained, by actual count, but 11,000, and the most of these were evidently written by half a dozen persons.” Congressmen who desire to know the will and wish of their constituents do not wait for these yellow | freaks to be presented to them. Of course requests from persons known to the Representative or from accredited and responsible organizations are given | attention, but the mighty mass of such documents are | of no effect on legislation whatever. In fact, it is probable that most of the yellow petitions are as ‘»thorough fakes as the one the inquisitive clerks ex- amined, and were the fading and decaying mass thoroughly overhauled there would be doubtless found whole stacks of Examiner-Journals rolled up | inside of petitions, partly by way of stuffing, and | partly to avoid the necessity of sending too many to the garbage crematory. Pe————— | The London “Tailor and Cutter” has begun some- thing like a crusade against the use of khaki uniforms on the ground that they make “the drab world look duller and dingier than before.” It says the word ia | Hindoostanee means “earth color”; that “the Greek | dictionary gives us kaa-kaa, dirt; the Welsh vocabu- lary, the German, Spanish, even the Maori, has the same word, spelt a little differently, it is true, but in every case the meaning is the same. It is of the earth, earthy—dirt, of the dirtiest kind; that is the meaning of the word which has come to be looked upon as emblematical of British patriotism.” It is certainly an interesting coincidence that the dirty work of imperialism should be carried out by men clothed in a uniform whose name in so many original languages means dirt. If the report from Washington be true that the President has decided to take a firm stand in support of the reciprocity treaties, we shall have an oppor- tunity of seeing how easy it will be for Congress, backed by a resolute public sentiment, to compel a “firm stand” to get a move on itself. Since an Oakland girl estimates that she has been damaged to the extent of $50,000 by the refusal of an Alameda man to keep his promise to marry her and give her a home in that town, what would have been the damage if she had been disappointed by a San Francisco man? The Frenchmen who have come to New York with the intention to make a trip to the Klondike on an | automobile deserve credit for their courage, but they are evidently in woeful ignorance of the difference between the roads of this country and the highways of | France. The fruit-growers of Southern California doubtless think they are having a hard time with the drought, but if they read the complaints of the Florida orange- growers over the frosts in that State they will find reason to be satisfied where they are. the petition is sent to the committee having charge | after petitions come from committee and reach the | R R e e ] [ R s S S SR SRS e s = S e o g “HANDS ACROSS THE SEA” (NEW VERSION). ~;\\\“\\\\\\\§*\ | | | & 4 ~New York World. L S e L S HIGH SCHOOL PRIVILEGES DEMANDED BY THE NORTH END The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinfons published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call: I am indebted to my old friend Joseph Catania and his sons of the California market for the information that in all the public schools of this city north of Sutter street, from the bay to the ocean, there is not a single high school or commercial class. Why this discrim- ination against this fmportant and popu- lous part of the city? Don't the pcople of the north end and north central sections of the city pay their school taxes? “Me thinks” they rather do. I will ever honor | the ploneers who first settled around the old historic plaza (Portsmouth square) of Yerba Buena and made this city what it is to-day. They paid the taxes and spent | their money to make the south end, the Mission and the Western Addition. Shall their children now be deprived of cqual educational facilities with the children of the rest of the city? It is a gross injus- | tice and deserves the severest censurs and condemnation of the School Board. | Of course, with our little peanut Mayor |from the 'Panhandle, and his pigeon- brained and narrow-minded School Bourd | from the Mission, the north end and nerth | central sections (the most important part of the city) must be deprived of its fust and rightful opportunities for the chil- dren's education. There was a high school | and commercial class at the Washington | Grammar School, corner Washington and | ! Mason_streets, but they have been abol- | ished by the small-minded persons who unfortunately misgovern the pubhc | schools of this city. The people of (he | north end and north central section should | Fise en masse and demand their just| rights, to which they are e ually entitled | with the rest of the city. You will earn the thanks and lasting gratitude of the | | parents of the sections named by alve- | | cating and insisting upon the establisk- | ment of a high school and commercial therein. classes in the public schools | very respectfully. XOUIE Very RefRes 100N ETINGLITZ. | Room 1, Montgomery block. | San Francisco, March 12. 1 AROUND THE CORRIDORS E. H. Ramsay of Honolulu is at the Oc- cidental. U. Culbertson and wife of Michigan are at the Grand. Douglas S. Cone, a banker of Red Bluff, is at the Palace. Mayor W. H. Lamb of Santa Crus is a | guest at the Grand. | J. B. Hewlitt, a wealthy land owner of | Bakersfield, s at the Lick. | Colonel and Mrs. W. B. Keeler of Chi- cago are at the Occidental. George H. Dewey is registered at the Palace from Wheeling, W. Va. William Shaw, a prominent Sacramento attorney, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. F. W. Hatch, a well known physi- cian of Sacramento, is at the Lick. C. D. Plato, a Modesto merchant, is reg- fstered for a short stay at the Lick. | Railroad Commissioner N. Blackstock | of Ventura is staying at the Grand. C. Kadno, a traveler from London, is an arrival of yesterday at the Palace. T. W. Patterson, banker and capitalist, is registered at the Lick from his home in Fresno. | Thomas More, a capitalist of Santa Barbara, is among the recent arrivals at | the Grana. A large number of Raymond excursion- ists arrived at the Palace vesterday from the southern part of the State. Dr. H. H. Brown of Chicago is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday, ac- companied by his wife and daughter. E. O. Doremus, a prominent insurance | man of Newark, N. J., is a guest at the | Occidental, where he arrived yesterday. MARY DID HER BEST. The public schools of a certain New England city have recently taken toan ex- acting form of art. The puplls are placed before a model and told to sketch as they | see. One day a little girl was seated in a chalr on the platform and her classmates | were given the usual order. | The results varied. Some of the draw- ings looked like a human being in a state | of repose, others like wooden dolls. But one little girl had drawn the chair and a tiny figure standing in front of it. “Mary,” sald the discouraged teacher, ;dlan i say, ‘Draw Amelia as you see e es'm. ‘Well, 1s she standing in front. of the r o'm. She's sitting in it.” en why didn't you draw her sit- ‘ears came into the child’s eyes. Sh | was misunderstood. hid o “But I hadn’t got to it she sald. “T was just ¥oln to bend her down when you rang the bell.”—Youths’ Companion. —_—————— In a Boston Primary School. “What are the inhabitants of the Sulu archipelago called?” “There is no specific name for them,” re. plied the little Boston boy. “They may be classified, perhaps, under the genecral name of fish. There are sharks, flying- fish and others, with tortoises or turtles of various kinds, which, however, are not fish, but—" “What are you talking about, Ticklo- well? I am asl lnf ou about the Inhabit- I-n!ll of the Sulu ld:nd-."’ o your pardon. You asked about the inhabitants of the Sun: arcol. pelago. 1 assume that everyhody knows an archipelago is merely a sea or body of water interspersed with islands.”—Chicago Tribune. The Savage Bachelor., “By the way,” said the Sweet Young Thing, gently, “I read not long since of a lunatic being restored to reason by a blow on g:‘e th'gt%v “lgulthutmhwu a lunatie, not an ot. at she gave - f\ll!loko: at hf“ dl.}l| :n ‘. S COCRRG by ew of an 0 cured ‘way,” theSavage Bachelor h:fwnnd '.uufi.xf swer. ‘‘As soon as she hit him with a flat- iron he applied for a apolis Press. EEroos. SeIndian “1 suppose,” he said, as they e, Shef S S ot hsr-c..’"mthInEhha m';."g: on. mind,” sald wouldn’ wete [ an she saw you.". cago 8- n'm DNGER AHEAD FROM THE SILE OF FIREWORKS Fire Marshal Towe Sounds a Note of Warning to Citizens. —— The Charter Conflicts With the State Law in Not Requiring Vendors to Pay a License Fee. e Fire Marshal Towe scents great danger to the city on the mext Fourth of July celebration through a conflict between the charter and the State law as to the sale of fireworks. Under the State law | no person may offer fireworks for sale | e | without first obtaining a permit from th Fire Marshal and paying a license fee of $10 to the license collector. This kept the sale within reasonable limits and enabled the Fire Marshal to keep watch over dealers. As a result fires decreased from between forty and sixty on the Fourth to from five to ten, and the loss entailed was in_proportion. T?le dealers, chiefly Chinese, begin prep- arations for the event early each year, and this year the Fire Marshal has issued four retall permits and one wholesale per- mit for the sale of fireworks, the retailers paying each the $10 license and the whole- saler a $50 license. Now he has discovered that the charter does away with the license fee and he has refused to issue any more permits till he congults his at- torney. He has also advised Chief Sulll- van of the Fire Department of the dan- er and the Chief will lay the matter be- ore the Mayor. | There is a clause in the charter giving the Board of Supervisors power “to im- pose license taxes and to provide for the collection thereof, but‘no license taxes shall be lmPosed upon any person who at | any fixed place of business in the city ana county sells or manufactures goods, wares or merchandise except such as require permits from the Board of Police Commis- sloners, as provided in . this er.” Therefore no license fee is necessary for any one selling fireworks, and as it was the only deterrent every small store- keeper will be wanting to sell them, and it !ge Fire Marshal can be compelled to {ssue permits to every one who makes application the danger is only too appa- | . —0—0—0—0—0-0—0—0—, FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, ¢ LIBERTY SATIN DRESS. The costume represented is of lavender. Liberty satin, draped, trimmed with bands of silk gauze ribbon, between frills | of black lace, runnin round the skirt, wit sage and skirt. length. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR — Sub- scriber, City. “The Absent-minded Beg- ar,” by Rudyard Kipling, was ished In The Ea& D__‘ TR QUEEN VICTORIA'S SERVITOR—P. P., City. John Brown, who for many years was Queen Victoria’s servitor, AT nable it t] not give the cause of death. e °° POSTAGE TO MEXICO—E. H. C., Fire- baugh, Fresno County, Cal. Postage to Mexico, Monterey or any part of the Mex- ican republic is the domestic rate of post- age from the United States—2 cents per ounce or fraction thereof. COOKING SCHOOLS—Reader, Benicia, Cal. If there are any cooking schools at Vate hstititions and this deparsimars or- Vi ul s and this - n‘ot uv«dMnmimTher'a o Coontas classes coni with the eds - stitutions of the city. s ke BEE CULTURE—F., Santa Rosa, Periodicals devoted to bee culture :3:. The American Bee Journal, Chicago, IIL; ‘Bho:cxuwr'n Rev}ew, l"llnBt, Mich.; and ‘anadian Bee Jou: = rnal‘. rantfort, On- down the front and bows on the cor- The sleeves are half seller. TRESPASS—L. 8., City. If you own an unimproved and unfenced lot outside of the city proper and you wish to keep your neighbor’'s cow off that lot or prevent §im from tethering her on the lot, place a | fence around the property and if he then enters the premises to tether the cow there, you would have cause for an action for trespass. | POLL TAX—O., Oroville, Cal. The law of California says that an employer is | authorized to pay the poll tax of an e ploye who has refused to pay the sam: upon demand by the party entitled to ¢ lect the same, and says further: “Ever persor. who pays the poll tax of another | may deduct the same from any indebted- ness to such other person.” LIBRARY TRAINING-M. C. B, Visa- Ha, Cal.” There is no library training school in California. There are such else- where. There is the New York State Li- brary Training School, Albany, N. Y.; the Pratt Institute Training Class, Brook N. Y.; the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia Pa., and one or two such Institutions in Ilinots. GOLDEN GATE PARK—C. C. Stock- ton, Cal. Outside of a few notes in guide books there is no published description of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, other | than what appears in the Park Commis- | sioners’ report, made annually to the | Board of Supervisors and printed in t | Municipal Reports. Any book dealer w procure for you guide books of San Fran- cisco. LYDDITE—Subscriber, Pine Grove, Es- | meralda County, Nevada, and G. A. O., | Stillwater, Cal. Lyddite shells are filled with an explosive of that name. The | nume was derived from the town where | the inventor lives. It is said to be ten imes more powerful than dynamite. In the preparation of this explosive carbolic acld is treated with a small proportion of nitric acid, and the picric acid resulting is fused by a secret process which renders it =afe to handle and of tenfold increased power. When burned in the open air iyddite will vanish with a bright flame, but_without exploding. It is only when confined in an air-tight space, like the in- | terior of a torpedo or projectile, and ex- ploded by detonatiom that it is destruc- tive. Another advantage over dynamite is that it will not make gunners sick to handle it. In loading dynamite the gun- ners get some of the nitroglycerine on their hands, which gives them nausea un- til it is washed off, and after the firing the men are compelled to wait for twenty or twenty-five minutes to allow the sick- ening vapors to pass off before they can lgproach the gun to reload. With lyddite this waste of valuable time is avoided. —_————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend’s.* —_—————————— Cameras and photo supplies in artis:e’ material department at Sanborn & Vall 741 Market street. —_—e—— information supplied dally to Special business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. » —_——————— “And how did you and grandpa get along?” inquired the doting mamma of the precocious child. ‘““He was pleasant as ple,” replied the cherub. “As pleasant as pie?” *“Yes, mamma. Short and crusty.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. ——— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Experienced excursion comductors accompany these excur- stons to look after the welfare of passenzers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, To Boston, Montreal —_—— Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. The best liver medicine. 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