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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1900. WEDNESDAY D SPRECKELS, Proprietor LEAKE, Manager 4il Communications to W. S. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Main 18GS. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 te 221 Stevensonm St. Telephone Mzin IST4 Delivered by Carricrs. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Inciudinz Postage: DILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (nch day), 8 months DAILY CALL (inc g8.00 8.00 1.80 DAILY CALL—By esc BUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Year. 1.00 All postmasters are receiv Becri Sampile copies will b g CAKLAND OFFICE........ KROGNESS. Marquette Building, when requested. +ees1118 C. C. CARLTON, Herald Square NEW YORK REFHESENTATIVE: ! STEPHEN B. SMITH... 30 Tribune Building | NS STANDS: Co.; Great Northern Hotel | EWS STANDS { Erentans, 31 Dnlon Square; | | A Waldort-Astoria Hotel, Surray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C) MORTON E CRANE Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—I Monigomery, corner of Clay, open ©otfl $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 | McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 930 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open mntil 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, opea untll 9 o'clock 1096 | Walencls, open untd 5 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untll | ' clock. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, mbla—"The “The Wizard 4 Opera-house The = nd Eddy streets—Specialties 4 Th re lle every afternoon this afternoon. AUCTION SALES. A NEW FIBER. ed from Alr. J. R. Boggs n County, California, a hank p vine. It was decorticated i very strong, presenting On account of the ler fiber may be very g e in spinning a v commends it for a paper- mak r e it would require but little ble ng r 1 the constant lookout for new e we have gone to sisal ther plants which produce | cconomic use. Even in flax fiber cannot be used also to fiber it is different. The vine may | f hops without injury to.its fiber, o the profit of hop-growing to the | value of by-product e of the sample sent to us it | decortication is easy, presenting which have so far effectually ramie culture into this | n of forests in sup- cxploration of othe Corn stover has been con- y has mot succeeded in di- dant silicate that is present in the forced an far chemis stalk is rebellious to manipulation, nt results have been reached. v chemical experiment can demonstrate ulties in digestion to pulp of the hop vine fiber, to the non-professional observation it presents none of the problems that have been found in corn stor We are inclined to think that Mr. Boggs may have made an important economic discovery. Up to this time the existence of fiber in the hop vine seems not to have occurred to any one else. Commerce and production have had to acknowl- edge the immense results of the economic use of cot- tonseed oil. It turned the seed, whick had been a nuisance at every gin, into a by-product of such value as to affect the price of every acre of cotton land in the South. It gave added importance to the declara- tion of 2 New England statesman, that if Massachu- setts had had the cotton plant it would have become at once the richest commonwealth in the world. If this hop fiber can be demonstrated of economic value for twine, rope, fabric or paper, the hop in- dustry will at once gain an impetus that is at present incalculable. California, Oregon and Washington are great hop producers. If ten dollars an acre could be added to the value of the crop by use of the fiber, the industry will advance to first importance. then expect that the finest Bohemian hops, richer in lupiline than our ordinary article and commanding always a gilt-edged price, would be generally intro- duced, and 2 double value be yielded by every hop field in the West. The Agricultural Department ut Washington should at once take up Mr. Boggs’ dis- covery of this new fiber and test it. It will be neces- sary to know if it need the chemical change in rot- ting, required by flax, and under what conditions its best decortication may be secured. It may well be that the world is about to receive the Boggs fiber as an important addition to its in- dustrial resources. B — far no 1iff diffy the The protest of the workingmen of this city against the manufacture of Chinese “citizens” and the impor- tation of Japanese coolies has risen to the dignity of a warning against the corruption and probable subversion of American civilization. The Eastern track gamblers have left us. carrying with them thousands upon thousands of dollars won on the course. We may now prepare, therefore, for the summer crap of embezzlers, disgraced employ dishonored officials and ruined homes. The press censors in South Africa appear to be taking a mental vacation. News is gradually leaking out that the British frequently fight with the cruelty of savages. Chicago. | | opened ports is being used by the Filipinos in buying | the new Philippine Commission, is evidence of his We might | | THE PHILIPPINE WAR HE attempt to subdue the Filipinos goes on, un- abated, with great carnage and no end in sigit. Time and again General Otis has sent assur- ances that it was all over, and time and again it has flamed up, not with the fitiul flash of dying embers, but the lurid light of a fresh conflagration third Volunteers at Catubig, which nineteen Americans were killed and two wounded. The sur- | vivors were in great straits when a relief party ap- peared and raised the siege. May 2 General Otis said in an interview just before leaving Manila for home: “You know I am rather pessimistic. I am not inclined to take the sanguine view prevailing in certain quarters, yet I have held the opinion for a time that the thing is entirely over. 1 cannot see where it is possible for the guerrillas to effect any reorganization, concentrate any force or | accomplish anything serious. We have 116 military posts north of Manila and 94 south of the city.” May 3 there was a desperate fight at Leambanao, in the center of the island of Panay. The Twenty- | sixth Infantry was surrounded, four killed, and six- | teen severely wounded were left on the field, and the | survivors retreated, having a very narrow escape. Mr. Wildman, late Vice Consul at Hongkong, says | that all the money paid for hemp at the recently in arms and ammunition, which they find no difficulty | in getting into the islands. Our friend the Sultan of Sulu is on his way to Singapore to protest against | the tariff on imports into his domain, which has in- creased the cost of the necessaries of life. The people of the United States make policies and unmake them. The people have on hand this prob- lem, lying at a great distance from them. They must | —_— On May 1 came the news of the siege of the Forty- | | facts. | gaged in waging an unjustifiable war for the over- possible and devoting their speeches and their docu- ments to other issues. A good many people would be deceived by such tactics if the sound money men were to play into the hands of the Bryanites by dis- banding and announcing that the money issue is no longer before the people. There will always be a firancial issue before the country so long as there is a powerful party seeking to degrade the currency. Bryan stands for the Chicago platiorm to-day as much as he did four years ago. It is for that reason have swarmed into the Democratic camp to the ex- clusion of the conservatives support him and make | his renomination a foregone conclusion. The money question will be with us, in fact, so long as Bryan- ism is a power in politics. ———— Work has again been stopped on the Hall of Jus- tice. Perhaps the name of the building jars on the present administration, and a change might rush progress on the structure to completion. ————— BRITISH INFLUENCE WITH TURKEY. RITISH newspapers reflect so fully the popular B fondness for growling and grumbling that much must be allowed for exaggeration in the complaints they are row making against the Gov- ernment for not upholding British interests in various parts of the world. Nevertheless some of the state- ments of the grumblers appear amply justified by One of these is the complaint that while en- throw of the Dutch republics in South Africa the Ministry has sacrificed the interests of the empire in | other localities, and particularly in the Levant. A correspondent of the London Chronicle, com- menting on the situation, points out that Russia has | obtained almost absolute control of a large part of face the truth as revealed by daily experience. Too much cannot be said in praise of the President's de- sire to get at all the facts. He has at no time been in- tolerant or disposed to pursue a personal policy. His recent appointment of Judge Taft, a pronounced and vigorous anti-expansionist, to the chairmanship of purpose to give the issue ripe examination and to pre- vent that examination from being ex parte. The problem is the country’s problem and belongs no more to the President than to the people. He takes and stands by the position that these islands are not vet under the constitution. They are not yet an in- tegral part of the Union of the United States. Our | military commanders on the ground are as much at | sea on the question as are the people at home. One | thing stands out in bold relief. The Filipinos are not conquered. Their spirit is not broken Their | capacity for resistance has not begun to be exhausted. | Whether as guerrilla fighters or in regular formation they make up in swiftness of movement, stealth of ap- proach and sudden disappearance in retreat what they lack in tactics and discipline. We have 210 military posts and garrisons in the | island of Luzon alone, and yet the natives attac slay and retreat, to attack again, regardless of own losses. their There is no evidence that any but the smallest frac- tion among them are our reliable friends. Let us dis- the fairy tale that we can depend upon them at cemented in a common interest against us. profe. If they friendship it is only that they may use the in- tercourse thereby secured for the advantage of their | own people. To illustrate: It has been frequently declared offi- cially and privately that Panay was a paradise in its friendly peacefulness. government have been inaugurated there, and we have heard much about the reopened schools and recru- descent industries. Yet the severest reverse of the whole war has just happened to us in the®happy isle of Panay. Along with these reports come rumors of two hundred of our officers, in the various com- | mands in that service who Lave their resignations in the hands of General Otis, anxious to escape the | noisome climate, the vertical sun and the poison air | and water, and get back home. These things instruct the people. They are not par- tisan material for any politicians. They are informa- | tion acquired in the dear school of experience. They stand against the theory that this territory iy in the Union and that its people are citizens of the United States, to be of us and with us forever, whether we will or they will, or niot. e Phelan’s organ defends the makeshift policy of his present term of office by complaining that the policy of his former term was so wasteful no money was leit in the treasury for street lighting or sprinkling. Thus, according to the organ, the blame rests not upon the Mayor of to-day, but the Mayor of yester- day. To the public, however, there is no difference | between the two. It is Jimmy now and it was Jimmy | then, and the issue he started then is the one that is | up to him now. | ISSUE. | BRYAN AND THE MONEY EPORTS from New York are to the effect that | ER when ex-Secretary Morton retired from the ! office of president of the Sound Money League | he urged the league to disband, giving as a reason | | therefor that with the passage of the currency bill con- | | firming the gold standard the mission of the league had been fulfilled and nothing remains for it to do. | The counsel was not followed. The league chose a new president and continues its organization, the members being of the opinion that the work which it | undertook has by no means been fully accomplished. The league is right. It is true that the financial measures recently carried through Congress place our finances on a firm basis and establish the gold of a repeal of the law is by no means slight. So long as Bryan is the candidate of a great party of the peo- ple, and so long as he stands as a champion of the Chicago platform demanding the remonetization of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, so long will there be need of a careful watch upon financial issues. It is to be borne in mind that while at present both branches of Congress are under control of the Repub- licans the margin of control is not so large but what it may be lost should Bryan be clected to the Presi- dency. * It has been recently pointed out by ex- Comptroller Hepburn, treasurer of the Sound Money League, that the terms of thirty Senators expire next March, of whom eighteen are Republicans and twelve are Democrats and Populists. Of the cighteen Re- publicans eleven represent Colorado, Delaware, | Idaho, Tllinois, Towa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska (two), Oregon, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming, States which cannot be depended upon with any certainty to re-elect Republicans, much less sound money men. This fact was referred to as one of the things that might compel the league to con- tinue its activities during this year. It is now fairly certain that in New York and the Eastern States generally the Bryanites will make the campaign by ignoring the money question as far as as allies. To expect it is against nature. They are \ Promising experiments in self- | standard by positive declaration of law, but the danger | Asia Minor, France has increased her influence in Syria, Germany has obtained the overland route for a railway from a point on the Mediterranean across Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf, while Great Britain has obtained nothing. British influence in Turkey, once all powerful, appears to have fallen to zero, and counts for little or nothing in the affairs of that part | of the world. Tt is not the loss of political prestige, however, that irets the correspondent so much as the loss of trade. On that subject he says: “Looking at the question from the commercial point of view, England has not had the smallest share in the profits that have been reaped by other countries. Germany has the netway of Anatolian railways, and not a year has passed without her obtaining large orders for Krupp guns and Mauser rifles and other munitions of war. France has obtained concessions for quays and warehouses and for the Salonica-Dede Agatch and other railways, and now the French Cassaba Railway Company has secured 40 per cent of the profits of the Bagdad line. Germany is beginning to establish a connection with the Ottoman navy by undertaking to reconstruct the cruiser Assari-Tewfik on the Kiel yards, and even Ttaly has been given the reconstruction of the Mes- sandieh at a price which leaves an enormous margin of profit. Only England, which saved Turkey in 1878, has got nothing, and the whole fault is with our Gov- ernment and its officials, who havé mismanaged our political interests and will not lift a finger to help commerce.” While the facts stated are doubtless correct enough, it is unfair to hold the Salisbury Ministry solely re- | sponsible for them. The time has gone by when Great Britain could dominate the Old Wosld, and dictate what should or should not be done in Asia and Africa. At the present time her statesmen are com- pelled to make concessions in order to obtain favors. It is certain that Germany obtained control of the rail- way route across Asia Minor by reason of an arrange- ment with Great Britain which assured the British a free hand in South Africa. Salisbury yielded in one place in order to win in another, and his course was probably the best that could have been taken, since by adopting it he brings Germany into the Levant to assist in counterbalancing the rapidly augmenting power of Russia. Still, the fact remains that British influence in Turkey is a thing of the past, and British merchants and manufacturers have lost a figd which once promised to be a rich market for their trade. The Sausalito poolrooms have reopened. This is another reason why the streets of our city should be lighted after midnight. It requires money to play the game at Sausalito. Fand particularly those of the United States, have been supplied with a continual stream of infor- mation concerning Paris. The social structure of the people, their politics, their follies, their statesmen, students, grisettes, actresses, ways, means, manners, morals and immorals have all been described and illus- trated a hundred times over, and yet, since the expo- sition opens, it appears that all we have been told heretofore is not half that should have been told. Almost every day we learn something new, and, moreover, some of the new things are of deep interest and concern to all Americans who intend to visit Paris during the ;xposilion season. One of the latest bits of information, valuable to tourists, is furnished by a correspondent of the New York Times, who, in commenting upon the state- ment that if a stranger die in Paris the landlord has a claim therefrom for damages to his property, goes on to say: “I not only heard this, but unexpectedly found it to be true when I was in Paris. At the same A WARNING FROM PARIS. OR many a year past the people of the world, ! hotel with me was an American gentleman, accom- panied by his father, the latter being in feeble health. One night the father suddenly died from a heart at- tack. There was nothing contagious or infectious about the case. Nevertheless the officials, who came in their uniforms, accompanied by secretaries, in- sisted on fumigation, for which a large sum was de- manded and paid. Then came the undertakers, and | you should have seen their bill! It was nearly a yard | long, with about a hundred items. Of course there is so much red tape in France and so many Government monopolies and taxes that it greatly adds to the ex- pense. But then, to cap the climax, came the out- rageous and exorbitant demands of the landlord, who insisted on being paid for new furniture, new carpet; new wallpaper, as well as a solatium for his excite- | ment and distress and the possible injury to his busi- ness, which was nil. The consequence was that my friend had to pay over $1000 before he was allowed to leave the country with the corpse of his father.” With that much by way of warning no thrifty American will go abroad with a determination “to see Paris and die.” The motto should be “See Paris and live.” Tt will be a poor policy for our people to g0 to the gay city for the purpose of providing hotel- keepers with a means of getting their hotels fumi- gated, refurnished and repapered at our expense. It may remain true as of old that “all good Americans g0 to Paris when they die,” but none who has a proper regard for ihe welfare of his heirs will go there for the purpose of dying. =~ i ! solely that the Populists and the silver fanatics who | = Is a Wlan Old at J%r@.’ x5 “«“ NO !n By the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, the Great- est Orator in'the Senate, 66 Years 0/4. ¥ observation in life—and T suppose 1 have employed as many men as any one alive, or been at the head of great corporations, or asso- ciated with them as counsel in a way to judge of the capabilities of people who are discharging the most important func- tions in the business world—is that age has nothing to do with it. The most brilliant and capable men I have ever had as my assistants broke down at 45, It is well known that Byron and Napo- leon had exhausted their powers and mentality at 36. Gladstone at & told a friend of mine that what he considered his best work, and his friends universally admitted to be the best of his life, was done after he was 70, _On the mnney»makln‘f side, Commodore Vanderbilt commenced business at 12 years of age. At 70 he was worth $16,000,- 000. At 83 he left $104,000,000. T happen to know the figures in both instances. Thiers and Bismarck both did their best work after 60, and that upon which_their fame will rest, while William Pitt, Napo- leon and Lord Chatham were at their cli- maxes under 30. Precociousness rarely lasts. matter in such geniuses seems to be like a pocket mine in Colorado. It Is very rich, but it plays out quickly. Men who develop slowly keep growing, as a rule, as long as they live. An extraordinary instance of this is the present Pope, who overns the great Catholic world of two undred and fifty millions of people with greater wisdom and discretion at 8 than at any time of his life. bogg-g=B-3-8-8:3-3-F-F-F-F-F-F. 5] President Wc%‘n- ley’s Opinion. No man over 40 years of age should be sent to teach the colo- nists to become good Americans. Young men are quicker to per- ceive what is wanted. The gray e R=R=R-2-F-F-F-F.F-1 ey g R g =R- 825" Q50040400540+ e0 ? - b & . k3 *P eI ei e ebe DO ede b e | v i . @ $ ® ;& £ 4 4 ® * b + i % 3 . b + % e + b¢ $ ° t )¢ . L d 3 > BISMARCK, Bot et et esteieiere® R R R Pee e eoe Y By Martin H. Glynn of Albany, Youngest Member of Congress, 28 Years 0/d. EVER has there been a time when ”(he young man did not hold his ewn against his older brother. I KBe!ore he was 22 George Wash- ington was considered the ablest officer in the French and Indian war. Lafayette proved himself one of the greatest gen- | erals at Monmouth before he was 2L. Al- exander the Great made himself King of Macedon before he was 20. Before he had seen his twentieth birthday Napoleon had virtually created himself master of the world. s At 20 Demosthenes was the greatest ora- tor in Greece, and at about the same age Caesar enjoyed a similar,distinction in Rome. Before thirty birthdays had passed in the life of Daniel Webster he had be- come the greatest statesman and orator of his time. While Gladstone may have done his greatest work in the sunset of his life, at 23 he was a big enough man to be a member of the House of Commons | and Lord of the Treasury at 26 | Alexander Hamilton had become promi- nent at 23, Thomas Jefferson at 26, John Tyler at 21, Faraday at 22, Galileo at 18. Humboldt at 21, and Audobon before he was 20. The sewing machine was invented by Howe before he was 27 and the cotton gin by Whitney while yet in his twenties. The steamboat was invented by Fulton while still a youngster and the marvels of electricity by Edison before he was 3. Ruskin stood at the head of the literary world before he was 24, and Washington Irving had dome his best work before reaching the age of 25. These names could be increased for a dozen columns. The young man may not be as reliable | as he whose hair has been whitened by years, but he is the yeast in the leaven of litfe. He can work and will produce as great results as his older brothers it only the world will cease to believe that no good can come from a younger generation. To the old man I doff my hat. They are | our Nestors, our Platos, our makers of wisdom, our preservers of safety. For the young men, as a young man, I assert that though they may be guilty of the crime of routh, they still can do to-day what they have done In the past and stand in the front rank of men in all walks of life. PERSONAL MENTION. T. C. White, a banker of Fresno, is the Lick. Senator T.. A. Whitehouse of Gilroy is at the Lick. E. P. Colgan, State Controller, is stop- ping at the Lick. A. M. Ward, a capitalist of Reno, is stopping at the Russ. W. R. Carithers, an attorney of Santa Rosa, is at the California. D. Keith, a prominent business man of Salt Lake City, Is at the Palace. H. M. Wilmot, a well known lumber man of Truckee, is stopping at the Russ. Mrs. J. D. Redding arrived yesterday from New York and is a guest at the Palace. Rev. Bartlett Roper of Petersburg, Va., is a guest of Rev. W. L. Clark of Benicla. Edgar Halsted and W. H. McInerney, Honolulu planters, are registered at the Occidental. James Dunsmuir, the millionaire coal dealer, of British Columbia, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. P. T. Turner of Stockton, accom- panied by his wife, is making a flying visit to the city. Judge Stanton L. Carter of Fresno and Judge J. M. Mannon of Uklah are stop- ping at the Lick. John Ross and John Burch, mining men, arrived from Mexico yesterday and reg- istered at the Russ. Colonel Charles E. Claypool, United States District Attorney of Washington, is a guest at the Grand. Ex-Congressman Geary of Santa Rosa is at present at the Lick. He will leave for Cape Nome within a few days, having put aside all political and legal ambitions for the chances of wealth to be obtained in the mines of the far north. Paul Isenburg, the wealthy Hawaiian planter, accompanied by Carl Kenoch and Betty Duden, arrived in this city yester- day and are stopping at the Occidental. They have been in Bremen for some months and are now en route to Honolulu. Mrs. J. J. Wren, formerly of this city, who went to the Klondike and located claims there, was recently married at Dawson to H. 8. Anderson, formeriy con- nected with the North American Trans- portation Company, but now engaged in managing the mining interests of himseif and wife. The claims are said to be quite valuable. Mr. Anderson is a member of a distinguished Scotch family. —_—ee————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 8—Dr. Henry Ryfkogel and wife, and Mrs. Lyman C. Park, of San Francisco, are at the Shore- ham. at ———— G — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May S.—Dr. G. Chismore of San Francisco is at the Holland; Er- nest A. Husing of San Mateo is at the Grand; F. Caponelli of San Franeisco is &t the Astor. . THE INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in th's column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call-Dear Sir: T have been requested by a number of persons to write this communication. T trust you will find space for its publication. 1f the judges who officlated at the an- nual debate between teams representing the Leland Stanford Jr. University and the L‘niverslt{_ of *California, held at Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, last evening, will kindly state through the public prints in what manner their deci- sion was reached and on what it was based they would greatly obuge many who do not agree with them. I have spoken with a number of persons regarding the award and I have ¥let to meet one, save a rank Stanford adherent, who considers the award just. I have even been told that known Stanford adherents and sympa- thizers have admitted the injustice of the decision. After laying aside every prejudice 1 have in favor of the University of Cali- fornia, and after a close study of each speaker's argument, I am utterly un- able to find the least warrant for the judges’ conclusion. 1 express the opinion of a gren many fair-minded auditors when [ say the decislon is utterly with- out warrant or justice, after taking into consideration the merits of the case as presented and the methods of its present- ation. Very respectfully, WILLIAM L. OVERSTREET. Berkeley, Cal., May 6, 1900. —_— e The Pope and Decollete Gowns. It is not generally known that papal etiquette does not countenance decollete gowns in the Pope's presence; moreover, his Holiness holds them in great abhor- rence. This is rather awkward for those who are not aware that it is considered a breach of etiquette to appear at a Papal reception in ordin; court dress. For in- stance, a short time since some Ameri- can women who were visiting Rome, ‘wishi to attend one of his receptions, made their appearance in ordinary court dress, having availed themselves to the llest extent of the decolletage. His liness was horrified when he noticed them, but ;: the ltlxn;l rel;‘flned from rsonal notice. taki, on evertheless, vention in future. A cortain well mnbio ‘ardi form th R R quette. e Cardinal was a man c:.»t fihe world, and realized that the matter must be approached with the utmost tact and v. After due consideration he ap- the ladles and addressing them 'he Pope is old-fashioned and ke decollete; but,” he contin- ued, waving his hand lightly in the air, “for me, I am quite accustomed to them, you know; I have been &0 much among savages that I do not mind them.”—Chi- cago Times-Herald. .—0—0—0—0—0—0—04—0—0—0—, | 4 FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, ¢ 0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—& R e L e e S o B T T e S I I SO S A S S [ R e e et i ot e e ] SPRING CLOTH DRESS. The dress represented is for a young gir). It is of pastel blue cloth, embroid- ered all over with gauze to match. The corsage is crossed by a scarf, which forms a drapery over the skirt. The tunic is of Soth bralded, and the rest of the SKIrt is plain. —_—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS SUBSTITUTE CLERK-D., San Jose, Cal. A gubstituts clerk in & hflrst»cl;.:: or any other postoffice who wishes to come a substitute clerk in the railway mall service must take the civil service examination for that department. A LETTER—E. W., City. A letter ad- dressed to a person, delivered to and re- ceived by that persom, is the personal property of the one so addressed. The writer has no proprietary rights in it after it has been delivered. For the receiver to send back a letter to the writer upon demand is a matter of choice. TWO STRAITS—Sub., Port Costa. The narrow body of water that connects San Francisco and San Pablo bays is called the Strait of San Quentin. Raccoon Straits are between the north shore of Angel Island and the south shore of Marin County, between Peninsula Point and Point Bluff. NOT SPIRITUALISTS—-G. H. B, City. The several published lives of Abraham Lincoln and of his wife make no mention that either was ever a spiritualist. Lin- coln “favored and assisted all forms of Christian religious anization and work and thanked God for the churches—all the churches.” CHICKENS—J. A. P.. City. Diarrhoea in chickens is usually brought about by too much green or soft food. In such cases the diet must be changed and water be given sparingly. A remedy for this trouble is a composition of five grains of powdered chalk, the same of rhubarb and three grains olg}‘fnne pepper. TEETH=B., City. This department is willing to answer questions, but when a question comes in the foll is unable to do so: xln;l‘;l?ns;h:r”n: following: My wif= has a son born with two teeth and double crown, the teeth are in lower jaw and are central incis- ors,” The correspondent has evidently omitted something. CENSUS ENUMERATORS-J. F. B., Castroville, Cal. The compensation of census enumerators is fixed by the Direc- tor of the Census at from 2 to 3 cents for each inhabitant recorded, 15 to 2) cents for each farm and from 20 to 30 cents for each establishment of productive industry. He is empowerded to fix a when the collection is difficult. g:‘; travel pay is ailowed unless fixed by the Director of the Census. DESTRUCTION OF THE MAINE—N. F. P., Newcastle, Cal. At the time of the destruction of the United States battle- ship Maine it was dark. The City of Washington was about 200 yards to the southward and stern of the Maine, the Alphonso XII was about north- Ward and westward and the %n war the nmmn the | There of the 3 other vessels distant 200 yards and upward, yards to Were Those on the nearest vessels could not ob- serve much more than the outlines of the Maine. No dead fish were observed in the bay after the explosion. It is stated that as dusk comes omn the fish in the harbor of Havana leave for the open sea, to re- turn at_daylight. The testimony taken during the investigation shows that there was a shooting up of a great mass of flame and debris, but there is no account of any perceptible upheaval of water other than that produced by the lurch of the vessel. ED L.ISH ARMY AND NAVY-C. R, Hydesville, Cal. The enlistment in the English army is for twelve and then for nine vears. The daily pay of a private In the infantry is 1 shilling per day, 12 in cavalry, 1213 in_artillery and 1% in_the engineer corps. The seamen for the Eng- lish navy are recruited from the appren- tice boys. There are various ratings in the navy from £24 to £106 a year. Boys receive from £9 to £1 THE SUBLIME PORTE—W. J. 8., City. “The Divine Porte” is not the correct title; it is “the Sublime Porte.” That is the name given to the building in which are the offices of the Grand Vizier and other high functionaries of the Ottoman empire, hence the Turkish Government it- self. A quay on which were mounted several large pieces of artillery ran along outside of the whole length of the sea wall, which as well as the wall of the ci in which the building is situated was [ plerced with a number of gates, but only one was in general use. That was the eat gate of the Seraglio, the Bab-i- fi‘:xmayum, or imperial gate, that sublime porte from which the Ottoman Govern- ment derives the name by which it is best known. BILLIARDS-F. H. H., City. The fol- lowing is the record of the best perform- ances at billlards: Best run at three-ball ton, Mass., December 21, 137. Averag: Best at four-ball carom game McDevitt, New York, January §, Best at champion’s game, three-ball caroms, 14x28 lines—398, George Sloss match of 3000 points (500 per night), Pari France, January 30-February 3, 1882; best in America—351, J. Heiser, 600-point match, New York City, February 14, 1854, Best at English spot stroke barred game— 1392 points, John berts, in match, Man- chester, England, May 3. 4, 18%4; push and spot barred—i80, John Roberts, London, England, June, 18%. English sbot stroke game—3304, W. J. Peall, 15,000 up, London, November 3-8, 1890. Fourteen-inch baik lins me, with anchor nurse—366, J. Schaefer, New York, December 16, 1893; anchor nurse barred—3s9, Frank Ives, Chicago, IIL., De- cember 6, 1804. Eighteen-inch balk 1 anchor barred, except for five in 600 up, F. 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