The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRA ¥, 0 CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1900. _DNESDAY ..MARCH 14, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprie mmunications to W. & C ress Al C . LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, & Cents. by Mail, Including Postage: tincluding Sunday), one yea Delivered .$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 | DAILY CALL (inclnding Sunday), 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—HBy Single Month.. . 65e SENDAY CALL Ome Year.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE. L1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Bulld- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON...... . ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: 26 Tribune Bullding PERRY LUKENS JR... NEWS STANDS: % CHICAGO ; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. ¥. ENGLISH, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9 o'clock. 300 Hayes, en until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open 30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, opem until lock. 1641 Mission, open until 10 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, ek tock. til ® o'clock o'cloek AMUSEMENTS. rpheum—Vaudeville. wnd Opera-house—'"The Girl From Paris.” e Loved Him 80.” o to-night. e Brownies in Fairyland,' Thursday after- Because he Idol's Eye.” Never Again.” Have You Seen Smith.” and Theater— d Eddy streets—Specialties. Animal Show ay afternoon. AUCTION SALES. Gay, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at at 11 o'clock, Furniture, at 224 Turk rhursday, March 15, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 2170 at the expense of sending a nbia to inspect ish Col docks and fortifica- secause he was denied admis- 1t to roam at will among the itive that England is laying in s and things to the we line with fortifi- agua canal’ in order to attack ands th ides the Ni As it is a matter of 4000 miles from Juan de Fuca to the Pacific end of tle carnage, unless the Examiner telegraph or the long distance 's idea of fortifying seems to wn gardening, for ornament, or a freshment or sociability. If its into the Esquimalt works, nd told to run his head in gun and bring home a tompion would have concluded that all is is country and England, and the guns in firing salutes while the band plays d at Quebec, one at Gibraltar, at Esquimalt. These are the ne- ice had a few citadels also, XIV ravaged ed the flag of the Bourbons to it 2 hostile and indignant in 1870 the Prussians paid as much ose works as they would to so many d the French garrison were pained to sermans march right past into France help themselves to the stuffing of her, ntier forts and great guns. hich the Examiner reaches its fious Albion intends to bombard - Francisco from Esquimalt begins ith refusing it admission to see the guns and works! Now if the Examiner will send its expert on guns Gibraltars up to the Presidio, where our Govern- 1t is placing hidden batteries, disappearing guns, Zalinski’s dynamite rifles and azimuth scales for aim- i t he will be as sternly denied admission ht to use his kodak as he was at Esqui Reasoning on the same line and from the the Examiner will be forced to the ry after Louis attentior cch hor see the same prer X conclusi England and America are afraid, and against which s are building citadels, and buying powder, for do they not both deny to it the rights of a free com- moner, 2n amateur photographer and an inventor of facts? Ve have a suggestion to make to the Examiner, in view of this Let it eliminate England from the world’s politics by refusing to let her name appear in its news columns, as it does the name of Congress- man de Vries. By the simple use of its disappearing blue pencil it can make all the works of Esquimalt as harmless as mud pie. This is its plan of, campaign h De Vries, and it already gloats over his remains. If it can wipe him off the slate, it can also in the same way dispose of its two rivals in the regulation of (he world, Great Britain and the United States. ation. Recent reports from the Philippines are very clear evidence that the “war” has degenerated into some- thing with no more éxcitement than a rabbit drive. The natives are proving desperately easy game for American bullets. The “boy preacher” who is doing such remarkable work among the backsliders in this city might try his persuasive eloquence on that “boy burglar” who is ating such a disturbance in Monterey. if the announcements of the enthusiasts who are urging a great bond issue for Oakland are true the people across the bay must have in view a plan to tear down their city and build 2 new one. News Co.; Great North- | Vaudeviile every afternoon and | duel between the two points | on that it is a naval power of which both | PRESIDENT WHEEL_ER’S CHANGE. FEW months ago President Wheeler of the /\ University was in harmony with the imperial- ists. Like many others, he is now brought face to face with the practical questions of government and policy, which come to the front along with what was then hypocritically called our providential des- tiny. Large words and allusions to the flag no longer | answer. Reference to the brave sacrifice of our troops, as endured “in defense of their country,” no longer suffice to describe an errand of invasion and conguest. The mud and mire into which a foreign pelicy fathered by Morgan, Money and other Dem- | ocrats and left as a foundling on the R | step has led the country are now impeding us. | The early and timely warnings uttered by Senators Hoar, Wellington, Hale and Mason are being daily justified, and men like President Wheeler are im- pressed by the situation and no longer speak in the | color of thoughtless enthusiasm. : | In his address to the Monticello Club on Saturday ! last he took new ground and higher than before. | It is now seen plainly that we must inflict harm | 2apon_constitutional government at home, no matter which way we turn in providing government for out | | tropical possessions abroad. 1f we admit them to | Territorial status they become possible States and their fifteen or eighteen millions of people become | citizens of the United States. A resident of New Mexico, Arizona or Oklahoma, passing therefrom to State and lling the residence qualification of aws, is a citizen, with a vote and the full stature How and where can we draw the line ve a Porto Rican, Hawaiian and Philippine Territory? | It is a recognized constitutional principle that Con- gress in governing Territories exercises both Federal and State power, but in each case its authority is lim- ited by the constitution. That constitution grants powers to the Federal Government and prohibits powers to the States. When Congress, therefore, en- ters a Territory it cannot exceed the grant to the Federal Government nor the prohibition that is upon the States. In enforcing State authority in a Terri- | tory, therefore, Congress cannot deprive any one of !lif:, liberty or property without due process of law, | nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the | equal protection of the laws. | The Supreme Court of the United States in the | Utah case decided that: “The personal and civil | rights of the inhabitants of the Territories are se- | cured to them, as to other citizens, by the principles which restrain all the agen- | cies of gove: The four- teenth amendment to the constitution provides that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdigtion thereof, are citizens of the United States. | It is plain that if we accept the Territorial horn of the dilemma we are taking in several millions of tropical citizens of the United States. Can Congress deny to them free transit and choice of residence any where in the United States or the elector’s right any State where they fulfill its law of residence? We are convinced that to this status the people of this republic wi They will not trade their birthright for the pottage of tropical commerce. But what follows? perialism, finely described by President Wheeler as “a government from without, proceedir lines that take no account of the choice or interests of | of constitutional liberty, 1ent, State and national.” 11 never consent. g according to those governed.” Of course we may say that while we deny to these new subjects choice in the manner of their govern- ment we intend to consult their interests, but all stu- dents of history and of civil institutions know that is meaningless. No government imposed without con- sent of the governed ever considered any interest but | its own. | President Wheeler concludes that: “Spain wrecked itcelf by reason of its lust for empire, which domi- nated its entire career and lowered the plane of all who were subject to it. In that idea of colonial gov- ernment is the lesson of our danger. If any terri- tory shall be attached to this nation according to an | arbitrary bond forced out of the natural course of its history, that will be imperialism. Its worst form is that which imposes subjection arbitrarily.” If any one fail to see the rapidly gathering danger he is blind. Every attempt to legislate discloses it. Every bill for a law to touch these external posses- sions so far proposed in Corgress injures them or us in a vital spot. What further proof do men need of the irreconcilable nature of the issue? Our labor laws extended to the Territory of Hawaii destroy i s industries Hawaii and the Philippines destroys our industries. It is for this reason that The Call has advised that no | legislation be now attempted, but that the subject be left to the sober second thought of the people, which | we have no doubt will decide that we want no tropi- | cal people, either as republican citizens or imperial subjects. ——— During last year 126 people were killed and 630 | were injured by the Southern Pacific Company trains |in this State. There is little wonder that our sol- | diers faced the horrors of the firing line in the Phil- ippines with such marked indifference. They were | on familiar terms with death before they left Cali- fornia. —— H VEXATIOUS DELAYS [ NCE more the Telephone Company has gained O something of a victory over the people. | Another delay has stopped the movement toward compelling it to pay a just portion of tax- ation and give a better service to the public. The Mayor’s veto of the ordinance of the late Board of | Supervisors requiring the corporation to make the ;'swi(ch desired by a patron of the ~telephone slot | machines before demanding the deposit of the nickel q‘in the machine has been sustained, and the whole is- | sue has to be taken up again. The Mayor’s skill in detecting defects in every or- dinance by which it is proposed to tax the telephones or to protect the public against its unfair methods of dcing business serves the corporation excellently well. By his vetoes delay follows delay, and nothing is accomplished. These tactics are becoming as vex- atious and intolerable as those by which the Wells- Fargo Express Company manages, despite the de- cisions of courts against it, to shirk its taxes and im- pose upon its patrons. Since the Mayor is never satisfied with any tele- phone ordinance devised by the Supervisors, it should require him to draw up one of his own. Tt is time that his position on the issue be defined. If he pur- poses to veto every ordinance that is passed by the board, while pretending to be in favor of a better or- dinance, it is clear the corporation will succeed in escaping taxation indefinitely. Supervisor McCarthy has introduced an ordinance fixing a tax upon telephone slot machines, and it is -understood it will be taken up as soon as the ques- ordinance is based upon one which has proven suc- 1 cessful elsewhere and stood the test of the courts. ?ublican door- | i Nothing but that straight im- Free trade bestowed upon Porto Rico, | tion concerning the official paper is settled. The new There is therefore a fair prospect that we are to have [an end of delays at last. Still the Mayor may object | to this as he has done to the former ordinance on the ! subject. If that prove to be the case the demand upon him to frame an ordinance of his own will be | imperative. This is one of the instances in which the public desire for right action cannot be much longer withstood. “It appears ‘that about everything man knows how to do will be used in the wars of the future, for it is | now said that in addition to bicycle, automobile and balloon corps, the French are experimenting to see what advantage could be gained by having a corps of skilled stilt-walkers. It is believed they can be ef- | fective in placing telegraph wires and in fording streams too deep for men on foot. | SOME PERTINENT STATISTICS. | TATISTICS showing the number of employes | S killed or injured in the service of railroad cor- porations, published in the annual report of the | Railroad Commissicners, are pertinent to a consid- eration of the so-called “relief” scheme of the South- { ern Pacific Company and are a timely contribution to the discussion of the subject. The report shows that during the year 1899 there ! were 51 employes killed and 529 injured. The deaths and injugies are attributed to “coupling, falling from trains, overhead obstructions and derailments.” During the previous year the number of such acci- dents was smaller, the report for that year showing 32 employes killed and 373 injured. The statistics of the Commissioners are of course taken from the reports of the railroads and are not subject to suspicion of exaggeration. Most of the killed and the injured were of course employes of the Southern Pacific system, for that system controls the bulk of the railroads in the State. It will be seen, therefore, that the number of employes killed or in- jured for which the Southern Pacific is responsible is notably large, and that the compa will be doing 2 thrifty work for itself if i sure the lives and limbs of one another, and thus rid ! the corporation of the damages which it is now re- quired to pay under the law. Since the intelligence of the employes of the road detected the trick in the scheme, and their opposition to it was made manifest, the corporation has devised a modified plan, which eliminates some of the evils of the scheme as at first proposed, but it remains es- sentially bad. Huntington’s thriftiness was never put to a much meaner purpose than that of shifting from a rich corporation upon its employes the burden of damages for accidents for which the corporation is itself responsible, and the reports of the Railroad Commissioners make plain what is evidently one of | the chief reasons why the scheme was concocted. A report from New York announces that David Bennett Hill has begun to show signs of political ac- tivity again, but his movement thus far has hardly | amounted to more than a spasmodic wiggle, for the closest observers of it are in doubt whether he is headed for the Bryan camp or going the other way. SACRAMENTO CONGRATULATED. PON the victory which has been achieved in the U contest against the gambling fraternity in that city the people of Sacramento and their offi- | cials are to be congratulated. Mayor Clark, sup- | ported by a resolute public sentiment and ably sec- | onded by Chief of Police Sullivan, has cleared the community of open gambling and re- | lieved it from a form of temptation that leads to fraud | and crime, and not infrequently to suicide. 1 ‘When the Mayor began the contest against the gam- | blers they were defiant and aggressive, and for a time | they were able to make to any reform legislation an opposition that seemed strong enough to justify their | boasts of ultimate success. The ordinances, how- | | ever, were enacted, and then came the appeal to the | courts. The result there has upheld the reformers. | One of the principal owners of a gambling-room in | | the city was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine | of $100. That, it seems, has been sufficient to put an | !end to the struggle. Recent reports from the city are to the effect that the Chief of Police has reiterated a | determination to enforce the law strictly, firmly and | impartially, and as a consequence the gamblers are | moving out of town and seeking quarters elsewhere. | It is to be noted that the victory for good morals iin Sacramento may entail an increase of gamblers in | other communities, but they have no right to com- plain—the remedy is in their own hands. They have lonly to follow the example of Sacramento and the gamblers will have to leave the State altogether. Mayor Clark has proven himself the right man in the right place and at the right time. The University of New York has received a gift of $100,000 to erect a colonnade 300 feet long, overlook- | be known as the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. and there is going to be a redhot discussion over the selection of those who are to hold those places of honor. . A local physician is thoroughly convinced that politics should not enter into the health of our city. He would confer a lasting favor upon the people of San Francisco if he would suggest some method by which health could be introduced into politics. The agreement of the railway companies to stop rate-cutting may be a good thing, but it should be ac- Fompanied by an agreement on the part of Congress to give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to put a stop to rate-raising. Supervisor Tobin has evidently learned the gam- bler’s trick of forcing his game on the other fellow or refusing to play at all. He seems to think that the racing sure-thing schemers are the only blacklegs en- titled to a license. There is no evil, it is said, that is not unmixed with good. Since the lights of the streets have gone out after midnight the Market Street Railway Company is lighting the darkness with its hideous repairing machines. The enthusiastic, public-spirited gentlemen of the Board of Health ought to interject a little logic into their extravagant policy and quarantine themselves as a measure of precaution for the public welfare. Mo TREE Any excuse will do for giving Chinatown a clean- ing, and it would not be bad to give some other parts of the city a dose of the same treatment. Perhaps the next big battle will be fought in the suburbs of Bloemfontein, but the probabilities are ir will occur at Frankfort, Ky. The Chinese reformer who is agitating a scheme to found a new celestial empire must have serious de- signs upon his own life, can get its employes into | the relief scheme by which they will be made to in- | apparently | lin;: the Hudson River and fronting the Palisades, to | | The plans call for 150 panels in the colonnade, | AROUND THE CORRIDORS Marion Biggs Jr. of Oroville is a guest at the Grand M. Bullock, a banker of Fureka, Is stay- | ing at the Lick. | O. McHenry, banker and capitalist of Modesto, is at the Occidental. E. 8. Morine, & wealthy mining man of i Irvington, is a guest at the Grand. | Cy Mulkey, a well known stock ralser of Napa, is a guest at the Grand. | Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento { among the recent arrivals at the Lick. Dr. Nat Green of Watsonville is stay- ing at the Grand. He arrived last even- ing. . H. W. Adams, a well-known raflroad man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the | Lick. | ‘0. M. Oliver, a wealthy business man | of Merced, 1s registered for a short stay | at the Lick. | Colonel J. A. Hardin, a Nevada cattle | xing, is at the Palace, accompanted by his wife and daughter. Dr. F. Nadeau, a prominent physician of Seattle, is at the Occidental, accom- panied by his wife and daughter. Cy H. Boynton. 2 member of the State Leglislature, s registered at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday from his home in Ferndale. Mr. and Mrs. F. Mansfield and Mr. and Mrs. S. Quilhot are at the Palace, where they arrived yesterday, registering from Amsterdam. J. F. Lawless, auditor of the Oregon Raflway and Navigation Company, ar- rived in this city from Seattle yesterday, and Is staying at the Palace. Major Jose Ramon Pico has returned from the southern part of the State and is stopping at the Commercial Hotel. The major is busy with affairs connected with the sattlement of the family estate. Leon Guislain, the Belgian Consul to this city, has left on a vacation trip which will carry him to the East and Europe. He expects to remain away for about six | months. | Mr. and Mrs. Price Cross of Dallas Texas, are here on a visit to Dr. Cros: of 1132 Pine street. They will tour Cali- | fornia before returning to their home in the South. Joseph Wood, third vice-president of the Pennsylvania Rallroad, arrived from Mon- | terey yesterday, and is now at the Palace. part of the State on pleasure, and is how on his way to his home in Pittsburg. Fred H. Greely, ex-State Senator from Yuba and Sutter counties, is visiting “his city. Senator Greely has just passed a successful examination before the Su- preme Court Commissioners and expects to take up the practice of law soon in | Marysville. Edward 8. Allen, electrical engineer of the United States Postoffice Department, is In the city, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Allen, who is a brother of Acting First Assistant Postmaster General George M. Allen, Is here to superintend the putting In of several new canceling machines at the different stations of the city. Mr. Allen is staying at the Ocel- dental. R et g FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, i Wb 000000 0000e@ LIBERTY VELVET COSTUME. The corsage and tunic of the dress rep- resented are of wood-colored Liberty vel- vet. <ol is slightlv decollete, P R ow o The skirt is trimmed with a floun’m lgi black Liberty , headed by a band of guipure insertion. Coilided With Bicyclists. Martin McGuire, 869 Market street, an old man, was crossing Market and Fourth streets yuurdlx momlns when two bi- him _down, ke o f1a Raseiving 1 hera 1t en e ospital, v gvu found that his lef llflo?e‘t‘nlut' “r.i? c}f bow were badly contused. Kepner Murder. Gilbert Adams, who shot and killed I, 8. P'p,nf. barber, 44 O'Farrell street, Fob- % ¥ held t L3 .o.:.{:d" o Jo answer b.n- SaniEe SR S e e She ? 73 shot Mr. Wood has been visiting the southern | MAIL STEAMERS AND TRANSPORTS IN QURRANTINE | Gaelic From the Orient Has | a Suspected Case of Plague Aboard. | Charles Nelson, From Makaweli, and Duke of Fife, From Manila, Held for Inspection—No Chances Being Taken. PRy R Three steamers were sent into quaran- tine by Dr. Kinyoun yesterday. One of | them was the Occidental ‘Compa.ny'u steamer Gaelic from the Ori- ent; another was the transport Duke of Fife from Manila, and the third was the and Oriental | steamer Charles Nelson from Makawell, | H. 1. They will be held two or days for fumigation and will then be re- leased. | The Gaelic brought up 40 cabin, 8 second class, 1% Japanese and 147 Chinese pas- sengers. H. Arita, Thomas Chapman, Captain J. McGowan, W. H. Hamilton, Horace In- man, G. Kawata, Mrs. C. Myburgh, Miss E. J. Newton, General T. Ota, Rev. E. L. Stevens, | Bird, ¥. Cornehl, Hon. Al Grant, J. Har- | wood, H. lkeda, A. Kose, F. J. Mayers, | E. W. Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Perine and child, Mrs. M. Stephenson, Mrs. M. 8. Vall and three children, Graflin Cook, | William Friedlander, . 8. Goodfellow, |Charles Horney, R. surnitschek, Mrs. F. E. Meigs and two children, R. Mayor, | Mrs. A Ogden, Rev. T. Richard, R. Shar ples, R. H. Fisher. Soon after Dr. Kinyoun boarded the Gaellc he found there was a case of ill- ess aboard. One of the Chinese was very sick, some of the symptoms those of bubonic plague. Some blood was taken from the Mongolian's veins and this will be injected into a guinea pig. Should no evil results follow the operation the steamer will be released to-morrow. Among those in the cabin on the Gaelic | is Colonel Charles H. Bird, the inspector of the transport service. He has been for several months in Manila and is now homeward bound via San i'rancisco. Gen- eral Ota of the Japanese army also came over on the steamer. He will make a tour ‘g( the United States before going back to apan. I-Punher news of the accident on the occasion of the German Emperor's birth- day on the United States gunboat Wheel- ing at Honfikunl came by the Gaelic. A gun misfired, and while it was being ex- amined the ammunition exploded and | burst open the break block. Gunner's Mate Campbell and Wilson were killed and Lieutenant Commander F. E. Beatty and Gunners Conroy and Bite seriously injured. One thousand dollars was con- tributed by British for the relatives of deceased. The Gaelic reports that the battleship Oregon arrived at Yokohama on Fabru- ary 2l. The crew is to be given a charce to recuperate, as they have been in.con- stant service in the Philippines for a long time. Her marines assisted in the defense of Cavite and her sallors were almost con- u‘tantly engaged on boat details on tke river. The Gaelic brought up nearly 4000 tons of cargo. It is composed mainly of rice, tea, raw silk and matting. The quarantining of the Charles Nelscn was a disappointment to her owners and agents. She has a large c”io of sugar which is badly wanted at the refinery. There has been no signs of the plague at Makawell, but Dr. Kinyoun would not take any chances, so the steamer had t» go into quarantine. The Nelson brings up thirteen cabin passengers. She would have been here Monday had she not lost a blade of her gro‘rell.r on March 8 It will robably be Friday before she is' released rom quarantine. The Duke. of Fife was thirty-five days from Manila and twenty-three Naga- saki. She brought two cabin passengers and the remains of thirty-three soldiers. She had a clean bill of health from Japan, but still she has to be fumigated, as the plague is raging in Japan. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FOR CUBA—A. H, City. When the First United States Infantry left San Francisco in April, 1868, it was for Flor- ida, en route to Cuba. TRAMP JUGGLER—A. R. B., Oakland, Cal. It was the “tramp juggler,” and not the “tramp musician,’” who was married in Oakland some time ago. BATTLE OF MANILA BAY—A. H., City. The battle of Manila Bay, when Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet, oc- curred on the 1st of May, 1898. TREATY OF PEACE—A. H., City. The treaty of peace between Spain and the United States was ed in Paris, France, December 10, 1898. e peace protocol was signed and an armistice declared on the h of August preceding. UNKNOWN TO FAME—L. M., City. If Bob Rain and Jack Mayor met in the ring in Shasta County, California, July 4, 1899, the contest was evidently not worth re- cording, for there is no account of it in the daily of the time nor is there any record of it in the chronology of the ze ring for that year. For that reason his department is unable to tell “how ml‘:ly rounds there were and if it was a good fight.” IS A CANADIAN—A. H, City. A boy born in the Dominion of Canada 1s a Canadian and British subject, providi he was not born to parents traveling through theé country or to parents while the father was resident there with his ting a foreign country In that case the boy is a subject or citizen of the country the father represents. NOT PREMIUM COINS-E. L. K., City There is no lum offered for a United States half- ar of 1817 nor for a quarter of 1819. The first named may be purchas- ed for from 85 cents to $2 50, and the ter for from 75 cents to The small wer coin you have is a real of Spain of resembling | three | Those who are in the cabin are: | W. J. Treat, Colonel Charles H. | | | | I8 | the test of | perfect success. R R R R O S T R N B e S S ] the time of Charles the Third. Dealers offer such for 40 cents. FOR THE PHILIPPINES—A. H., Citr The troops that sailed on the City of Syd- ney and the City of Peking from San Francisco, May 25, 1898, were the first to leave for the Pnlllgplne Islands. They did not go there to fight the Filipinos, but the Spaniards. BRI A TOKEN-J. D. D., Portland, Or. The plece that you have with the words “Lib- erty and No Slavery” and a portraiti of Harriet Beecher-Stowe on one side and “Union_Forever” on the other, with tha date 1863, is one of a number of tokens Is sued during the war of the Rebelllon and used n place of small change. Buch tokens of different kinds sell for 2 cents apiece. POSITIONS IN THE MINT-B., San Jose, Cal. Women are privileged under the United States Civil Service rules to take the examination for any position in the United States Mint which they are capable of filling. There are three grades of examination, which include speliing, arithmetic, letter writing, penmanship. practical questions relating to specifio duties of the positions to be filled, copy- ing from plain copy, elements of accounts and United States money. DUPLEX TELEGRAPH — Subscriber, Mariposa, Cal. The fact that two cur- rents may be sent simultaneously (one from each end) has long been recognized by electricians, but the principies of the duplex were revived and patented by Stearns, an American, In 1872. At first, duplex workings were tried only on short Hnes, say forty or sixty miles, but now it is in daily use on every busy eircuit, long or short. Duplex led to diplex—that is, | two messages passing over the same wire in the same direction at once—and quadru- prl‘ex and multiplex telegraphy followed this. WAGES—J. L. W., City. The following, from the codes of this State, is an answer to the question “Are the weekly wages of a married man exempt from attach- ment?”: The earnings of the judgment debtor for his personal services rendered at any time within thirty days next preceding the levy xecu- tion, when it appears by the debtor's atiidavit or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of his family, residing in this State, supported in whole or In part by his labor, are exempt from attachment, but where debts are incurred by any such pérson, or his wife or family, for the common necessaries of Iife, the one-half of such earnin:s are nevertheless subject to garnishment or attachment to satisty debts so tncurred. —_————.——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend’s.* —_———— Spectal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_———— “Shakespeare!” said tHe enthusiast. “He is indeed the great bard!” ““That’'s right,” said the theater man- er. ‘““There is no doubt about his being eat. And there is also no doubt about is being barred so long as I am running a theater for pecuniary purposes.”—Wash ington Star. —_———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by miltions of mothrrs for their children while Teething with It scothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colfe, regu- lates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, 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. 2%c a bottle. —————— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Expertenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to 100k after the welfare of passenzers. To Chicagzo and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montrea and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louts every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 628 Market street. —_——— Parker's Halr Balsam fs the favorits for dressing the hair and renewing its Ife and color. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. —_————————r Mamma—If you eat any more of that pudding, Tommy, you will see the bogle man to-night. Tommy (after a moment's t)— ‘Well, glve me some more. I might as well settle my mind about the truth of the story once for all.—Tit-Bits. . 2 3 When there is illness in the hmnythenllnlmucnu. then a tried and true is needed; that is not the time to change a time-honored, thorough- ly tested preparation for some- thing new and untried. Stick to what you KNOW is good. Scott’s Emulsion is well known throughout the world, has stood