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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1900 Che Salate JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor @all. | | Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. VLBLICATION OFFICE..Mnarket and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS....Z17 Telep! Matn to 221 Stevensom St. 1874 ¥ Carriers, 15 Cenin Per Weelk. > gle Coples, 5§ Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: Delivered D Y CALL avcluding Sunday). one year. 38 00 DAILY CALL ¢ncluding Sundey), 6 months. 2.00 DAILY CALL ¢ocluding Sunday), 3 mostbs. 1.80 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. o3 | EUNDAY CALL One Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year. All pestmasters are o subscriptions. Sample coples Will b orwaried when requested. UaKLAND OFFICE. vese.ee..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Wanzzer Foreign Advertising, Marguette Buildin Chicago. | NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON, Herald Square NEW YOR STEPHEN B. SMITH.. ENTATIVE: ..30 Tribune Building mCAG()_ EWS STANDS: Ebermen House; P. O. News Co.. Great Northern Hotel: sont House; Auditorfum Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Mervay HI Hotel INGTON (D. C.) OFFICE MORTON E. CRANE, Fre <ereeWellington Hotel | Correspondent. 527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | oven until $:30 o'clock. 639 | Larkin, open untii | o'clock. 2261 Mark: ck. 109 Valencia, open n until § o'clock. NW. cor- open until § o'clock BRANCH OF o'clock Columbla—*“The Ev be Wizard | at 11a m and 2 p. m tockton streets. ¥, at 1 o'clock, High-class a. m., at 1517 Mission street at 11 o'clock, Furniture THE STATE CONVENTION. State Convention has betore 1t | duty. It will make the dele- 1al Conve n, and will 1 is to conduct the cam delegat n will simply carry out the cor ention’s oi the administration by join- | g the renomination of President McKii It the rest of the party of the Union in of the resul 1 rule and a reasonable declaration of the which the party will administer the | another four When the nvention has done this the party will nd go into battle. platiorm a plain summar years. r the State convention to do its delegation and put a false position of antag- ton. rgani; We had enough rs ago> to warn sensible men against | To dogmatize about the status of | terr n now ry of our external possessions be the poore: y 1896 . as the dogmatic deciara- will be raising an issue to ob- 1 of domestic policies the | , because they concern the welfare | tions were in of ornia Republicans at odds with | the National Convention we can easily introduce dis- | cords in the local organization which will cause it to enter the campaign in a divided and weakened con- | By putting the Cal diti The Republic m_of the administration ought to be good enough for any Californian, as the prosper- ity that followed that administration has been good | er gh for the people of the whole country. | I'he State convention can find pleasant duty enough in calling attention to the beneficent results which | have followed the impression of the national platiorm of 1806 upon onal affairs, and there is no neces sity for going into a discussion of policies that are in embryo, and will receive tentative treatfnent only by the National Convention itself. 2 We have before us the interesting task of finally de- feating and destroying Bryanism in the politics of this republic th ness man’s financial stability Tts reactionary threat is a disturbing factor t menaces every lzborer’s wages and every busi- The country looks to the Republican party to meet, defeat and forever de- 1at threat. It looks to the Republican party impressive punishment upon that sort to forever admonish politicians that op- n to all that is, and building a national policy er than on the health of the coun- try, cannot succeed To adm un stroy to inflict such | of politics : posit | on the disease r. er this lesson the Republican party re- y of action and all its strength. It can ! attract the large independent vote of the . which shuns mere destruction, and believes lesome conmstructive policy. This large in- dependent vote sometimes snubs the poll entirely, even in Presidential years. But when its conscience is appealed to it becomes the active ally of the party which makes that appeal. We submit, then, that all declarations of policyi upon the new issues which have arisen since 1896 be ! left to the wisdom, foresight and experience which | will represent the party at Philadelphia. To send up a lot of disjointed and discordant declarations from the State convention will darken counsel rather than illuminate it, and California will gain a reputation for political wisdom by avoiding such action. quire therehy It must have been with thoughts of the deepest chagrin that Collis P. Huntington discovered that he had overlooked that little bit of the California and Ne- vada Railroad which leads so readily into Oakland. The old gentleman must have been absent-minded when the road was in the market. b i A lodge of the Knights of Honor believes that the time is ripe for reputable citizens to organize vigilance compiittees in protection against night thieves. Mayor Phelan ought to suggest that the gentlemen join the Protective Order of Footpads, which his policy has called into being. N | an inefficient estimate of its responsibility. | millions of dollars. THE INDIAN FAMINE, as man y millions of people as are now starving in India. More than cighty millions are in dis- tress. That means that a greater population than that of the United States is starving. The ‘reports prove that there is enough food stored in India to feed them all and carry them to the harvest. so impoverished them that they have no money with which to buy food. Great Britain's relief system has | so far reached 6nly about five millions of the number, and seventy-five millions are without succor. Civili- zation is justly appalled by the spectacle. The horror has its primary cause in the failure of the monsoon | and absence of the rain it brings, but this would not produce the great disaster that is upon India, except for the inefficient industrial organization and the peo- ple’s lack of foresight. ated serfs of Russia in their incapacity to take care of themselves. In the good years they store nothing for the bad years. They incumber the land they control and are reckless of the future in all their industrial operations. Their careless methods are of course | taken advantage of by the money lenders and usurers, and when famine comes they are entirely without ac- cumulated resources. In that land there seems to be less regard for the wants of humanity than elsewhere. The native factors and money lenders do not seem 10 feel any responsiblity for the people when distress comes. They have gathered to themselves the sub- stance of the fat years, and are callous to the necessi- ties of their victims when the lean years come to de- stroy them. It would seem that the British Government has also It has had the power to abolish Juggernaut and the Suttee. It has invaded thus far the religious customs of the peo- ple, rooted in their ancient superstitions, and it has done this as a concession to the sentiments of West- ern civilization. Why has it not extended its paternal power into the more material concerns of the people, to secure their physical welfare? Having the power, it should have the disposition to take the ryot in hand and train him in the ways of self-support. It has done this with the Egyptian fellah, who has had | his landmarks fixed, his property rights secured, his | share of the fruitful overflow of the Nile guaranteed, and his rights as a producer protected. The result is that the people of the Valley of the Nile have been lifted above the pressing want that is the specter of | England has done this in Egypt, not as the | | master of Egyptian sovereignty, but as the adviser India. and administrator of the government of the Khedive. Ii she could do this subordinate to the actual sove- reignty, why can she not do it, and more, as the un- disputed ruler of India? the awakening of the British empire to a sense of its duty to India. Millions of human crea- tures are starving. It is said, and we believe wisely, that the sending of wheat and corn to India is but little relief. There is plenty of food there, stored by heartless owners in the godowns all over the stricken What the people want is money to buy this food. Funds can be telegraphed to the relief com- mittees right in the midst of the suffering. It is said by authority that each life may be sustained for the small sum of two cents a day. One dollar will save a life for two months. Two dollars will save a life until harvest. Five dollars will carry a man, wife and child until the next crop is gathered. Fiity dollars The world cannot wait for districts. will carry five families for that period, and a hundred | dollars will save a small village. In the United States, so abundantly blessed with rich resources, it is estimated that we waste every day as much food as we consume. Every day enough to feed nearly eighty miliions of Hindoos goes into the | slop barrel in this country. If, by attention to house- | hold economy, our people would save what they now pay for food that is not consumed, but wasted, that saving would carry the whole suffering population of India to the next harvest, and would not be at all felt by our own people. The clergy of California, having at hand the or- ganization of their ccngregations as the means of working, have made an appeal to the people. There are in the United States about 200,000 churches. Each | is an institution, an organization. It is fit and proper that these should be used in relief of India. Let every citizen who can spare from his substarice even the smallest amount give it through the relief com- | mittee of one of these churches. Ten dollars from each church in this country would amount to two The average should be a hundred for each church. The organization made by the American clergy can promptly transmit funds by cable as fast as accumulated, and within forty-eight hours after the money is given here it will be saving life in far India. The Call suggests to the clergy that by common action they appoint a Sunday for this contribution to be specially made. Every hour now 300 people die of starvation-in India. Every day twelve.thousand gaunt and flesh- less human beings give up the ghost for want of food. The world cannot remain indifferent to the awful scene. The unfortunate fellow who was arrested the other day and said that he would rather steal than starve | probably thinks that the reign of the footpad is one of the institutions of new San Francisco established by the grace of his Honor the Mayor. IRELAND'S REPLY TO SALISBURY. S might have been expected, Salisbury’s speech to the Primrose League has had the effect of exciting resentment among the Irish and rousing their leaders to more earnest efforts to unite | all factions of the Irish people in a vigorous effort to bring about a realization of the deeply cherished desire for local seli-government and home rule. In that respect, therefore, the speech may result in awakening the British themselves from their dream of conciliating Ireland by soft words, and convincing them that if there is to be peace between the two countries Britain must concede to Ireland the just demands of her people. Replying to Salisbury’s speech, John Dillon, for- merly chairman of the dominant faction of the Irish members of Parliament, said in an address at Man- chester: “Irishmen can now see more clearly than ever the work they have to undertake. That task is to again make it inconvenient and dangerous to withhold Irish rights. It is not by conciliation and appeals to loyalty that the grievances of Ireland will be remedied.” Nor did he fail to point out the sig- nificance of the fact that it was just “at the very moment after the chivalrous feception to the Queen in Ireland, when an opportunity presented itself to cement the feeling between the two countries, Lord Salisbury has misrepresented Irish claims with a cynical and brutal frankness, offering an absolute non possumus to the reasonable demands of Ireland.” The importance of Dillon’s speech is increased by the fact that it was made at a meeting which was ad- dressed also by John Redmond, the leader of the wing of the Irish party which has so long been opposed O other famine, ancient or modern, has involved The ryots resemble the liber- | higher | 1 to that of Dillon. The appearance of the two leaders on the same platiorm confirms the reports of the substantial harmony which now prevails in the Irish | party. The old faction fights which followed the fall of Parnell appear to have been satisfactorily closed, and once more Ireland presents a united front to her opponents. Redmond himself is reported as saying ip Irish history, and that the fact that for the first | time in a decade he stood on the same platform with Dillon proves the genuineness of the reunion. The time is approaching for a general election in Great Britain. It is believed that if Roberts achieves a sufficient success in South Africa to redeem the reputation of the Ministry Salisbury will adjourn Parliament this summer. That will enable the Irish leaders and their friends among the British to bring the question of justice to Ireland once more fairly before the people. It is therefore fortunate that the | speech of the Prime Minister has directed public at- | tention to the issue and confirmed the union of the Irish. Ireland stands a much better chance to win now than before Salisbury made his speech. To that extent the brutal frankness of the Prime Minis- ter has been a benefit to those he intended to injure. ———— The American Institute of Music in New York pro- poses to raise $2,000,000 to erect a great edifice con- taining a hall capable of seating 8000 people, for the | purpose of holding choral and orchestral concerts; but, while the scheme is a good one, it would be bet- ter to have a number of small auditoriums. When music gets to be so loud as would be required to fill |'a hall of that kind it will cease to be a fine art and | become something of a hippodrome. ITH the report of the Democratic minority of | THE MERCHANT M@RINE BILL. Wthe House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, the public has been presented | | { with a summary of all the objections which the oppo- | nents of our merchant marine can offer to the policy ‘ and to the bill now before Congress. The objections are of many kinds and include false statements of facts { and erroneous conclusions from facts which are un- disputed. A striking example of the misstatements of the re- port is to be found in the declaration: “It cannot be shown, from the history of subsidies, thft they eyer materially lowered freight rates or increased the com- merce of the countries granting them. Trade condi- tions, and not trade theories, fix the rates which ship- | pers will pay and which ship-owners can get. Neither | does the history of subsidies show that any cotntry 1 has ever built up its merchant marine in this way."” | In refutation of that statement the experience of | every commercial nation in the world can be cited. | Official statistics recently compiled by E. T. Cham- berlain, United States Commissioner of Navigation, j show that in 1873 Japan's steam tonnage was so small | it was classed with “‘scattering” in the shipping lists i of the world, but now Japan has taken seventh rank | among the nations with respect to merchant marine. | The present subsidy legislation of that country con- ilemp]ales a possible expenditure of $5,000,000 an- "nually, and under its operation the shipping interests | of the country have grown to such an extent that the tonnage of Japanese steamships clearing from the United States for Asia in 1898 was greater than the corresponding American tonnage, and it is, moreover, noted that her ship-building industry has so far de- veloped that Japan has become one of the seven na- tions of the world that can build steel steamships of | 6000 tons. The record of the German merchant marine is even | more striking. In 1885 there was hardly an impor- tant shipyard in Germany: all the large steamships of that country were built in Great Britain. A policy of governmental promotion of the shipping interests | | of the empire was established by Bismarck, with the result that the expansion not only of German ship- ping and ship-building, but of German commerce and German manufacturing for export, has become | one of the marvels of recent years. Within the com- | paratively short time since the inauguration of the | Bismarck policy the merchant marine of Germany ' has increased 693 per cent. Germany now builds her | own ships, instead of buying them from Great Brit- | ain, and through the advantages the subsidized lines | offer to German merchants and manufacturers, Ger- | | many has become a close rival of the British in every | market in the world. By way of specific objection to the bill before the House the minority report says: “Such a large amount of subsidy practically put at the disposal of | the few who benefit by this bill cannot but tend t» unite, even more closely than now, the great ship- | building, ship-owning and railroad interests con- | serned in this measure. By the time these few interests | bring in their foreign-owned ships and get their ships now being built into the subsidy race the $9,000,000 limit will undoubtedly be reached. Hence, it will be to their interest to combine to stop competition and to prevent their subsidy rates and profits from declin- ing. We believe that such a combination would be | completed soon after the passage of this bill.” Against that charge may be put the statement of ex-Senator Edmunds, that the bill provides “for the systematic payment limited to a definite period of time, of a sufficient compensation, and only a suffi- cient one, to American vessels sailing to and from foreign ports in order to enable them to perform the voyage with a fairly full cargo of American produc- tions, and return with a fairly full cargo of imports. Without these cargoes the ship-owners could not af- | ford to make the voyages and thus get the compensa- tior. The effect, therefore, would be to help carcy American cargoes in American ships to every foreign port where such cargoes could possibly be disposed of, and thus open American trade in ports where American vessels are now almost never seen.” Thus the bill is to benefit not one class but all classes of Americans. It is estimated we are now paying over $200,000,000 annually to foreigners to carry our commerce for us. In 1808 we carried only about 8 per cent of our own imports and exports. Such a policy is wasteful and foolish, and it is cer- tainly time to put an end to it. In a recent speech to a Kansas audience Bryan is reported to have said: “I am asked as often as once a week whether I have abandoned silver. To that [ answer no. But suppose I should abandon silver, what difference would it make? I am not the people.” The truth of that statement is strong enough to work both ways. What difference does it make if Bryan stick to silver? He is not the people. The Boers, it is announced, have decided not to blow up the Johannesburg mines. They have prob- ably reached the conclusion that gold fights gold bet- ter than lead and that it is wise to have something leit after the present struggle is over. . The Johannesburg shell fattory has resumed work. mw&umfin«-m«lmhfiflthgfitfi less spirit seems to have been a little premature, - | the meeting marks the close of a disastrous chapter | The drought has | of governmental promotion of our shipping interests, | mission from a Nome merchant, MUNKACSY 3y M MChase., Famous Artist KNEW Munkacsy very well, and the news of his insanity was a great sur- prise to me. His was a very marked personality in art. He impressed every one who met him with his strong per- sonality. He was a man of fine physique and a tireless worker. Born a Hungarian, his real name was Michael Loeb. He took his art name trom Munkacs, the little village in which he was born—a very common habit among European artisis. HMis first and perhaps his greatest pic- ture was “The Last Day of the Con- demned," and it is pleasant to know that It was an American who enabled him to complete the picture. He was living at the time in a garret in the city of Dussel- dort, when he was brought to the notice of John R. Hay of Baltimore. Mr. Hay found Munkacsy Jaennfless. wrapped in a shabby ulster, and workin; at his great picture without either foo or fuel in the room. He at once lent the artist money, and when the picture was finished it was bought and sent to Paris, where it secured for him both fame and fortune. He made his home in Parfs and his Studio became one of the sights of the Munkacsy's madness must have had some unknown origin. In his youth he was a cabinet maker, and it is said that when confined in the asylum he returned to his early trade. His skill as an artist entirely deserted " him, This would indi- cate that the cause of his insanity was not his art, but perhaps some physical de- fect of the brain. It rarely occurs that a painter finds his way to a madhouse. Our profession im- poses a tremendous straln sometimes in the effort to attain a result, but it is a stimulating rather than a depressing strain, The greater the genius the great- er the madness is a common saying. But the artistic temperament permits larger scope for individuality than almost any other. If Mr. Whistler, for instance, were anything but an artist, I presume he would have been locked up long ago. He is not in the slightest degree insane, but his scorn of conventionality would in any other calling have persuaded people that he was out of his mind. There is noihing in the study of art that tends to create derangement of the mind. Our calnnf tranquillizes the brain. The variety of interests, themes and studies which a painter commonly enjoys does not permit the mind to become " in- tense in any one line. Painting should pmduceh an’ even halan;:el und"poxsc of mind—the very reverse of insanity. ‘WILLIAM M. Ci-lASE. WHY Do MEN OF GENIUS BEcorME INSANE? STEIg;TZ . WMMDe VisseR ,Chess Cha 1s it chess playing that fills our asy- | HAVE met Steinitz and watched hlm‘ play, and am convinged that there is some other reason for his |nsan|ty} than his chess playing. l lums? Do not journalism and every ' other profession contribute more patients | to such Institutions than chess? | After the worry apd drudgery of husl-“ ness a game of chess is a relief and re- | laxation to the mind. I regard it as a | great preventive of insanity. Scores of men have their minds wrecked by the | anxieties of business life. Business re- | quires concentration of attention and in- tense thought. The res of a false move | in business may be ruin or serious lo What better mecthed of mental recupera- tion than a game of chess with a friend? But there is no doubt that some of the chess experts go too far. For instance, | last week in Philadelphia, just before he | sailed for Europe, Pillsbury played blind- folded against twenty tables at the same time. He won fourteen, drew five and lost only one game. Such a feat must be an | unendurable tax upon the mind if pro-| longed, but Pilisbury declares that he feels no evil effects. | My opinion is that when a man plays three or four hours in an evening and | goes home and dreams about knights and | castles and pawns prancing around on the | ceiling it is time for him to stop. The exerclse of any human faculty tends to develop_it, if other faculties are not neglected. Many a young man has lost his health and strength by too much athletics. In all things moderation should be the maxim. It was Addison who wisely safd: “I think it a csa('llna‘} ruhimo; rl’llsz oo much addicted 0 {‘r?llnég'be o W. M. DE VISSER. —_———————— She Wouldn’t Tell Him. A storyAllustrating the reticence of the | Scots Is credited to lan Maclaren. A | train was at a station, when a porter put | his head into a carriage and called out: | ““Any one for Doun? Change for Doun! | Any one for Doun?” ‘No one moved, and | in a few minutes the train was speeding | along, not to stop again for nearly an’ hour. Then an old Scotswoman turned to a lady sitting pear her and said: “I'm | for Doun, but I'd not tell that man so.” | ————————— Great Improvements. | “I see,” remarked the observant board- | er, “that meals are to be served in Chi-| E | treet cars. ! %R hen,” asked his meighbor, “will sleeping ‘cars be put or the Philadelphia | street railways?’—Pittsburg Chronicle | Telegraph. | ART AND ARTISTS Marius Dahlgren, the artist who played such a prominent part in the recent real life drama of the trustful painter and the wicked auctioneer, wherein the latter de- materialized with Mr. Dahlgren's round- trip fare to Nome, sailed yesterday on the | Aloha for those icy regions. Mr. ]J.flhl- gren goes mining with the S. S. 8. Com- pany, a camp of six friends, and intends to make Cape York his headquarters. He will stay a year. Joseph D. Greenbaum has n;nrly com- : study nude, a_com- pleted a large study of the - com- will find its way north about the end of this month. Nome as an art center pre- sents itself in a new 1 tion of the unemploye thitherward. 3 Charles Rollo Peters, painter of moon- light, mystery and Monterey, is fast win- ning recognition in New York. He has cold a number of pictures recently and his fine studio on Thirty-fourth street is be. coming well known among art patrons. ‘Another Californian winning fame abroad, but this time in Paris, is Mis: Sara Senter Whitney of Oakland, whose exceptional talent secured her an entrauce into the studio of Rodin. By the kindness of Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst she will spend another vear with the famous sculptor, | and it is predicted that the work of "this charming California girl will have inter- national place at no far distant date. Boardman M. Robinson, the young Paris jan portrait painter to whom Miss Whit | ney ‘is engaged, is now in San Francisco and will make a stay of some months among us. Miss Evelyn McCormick has gone to Monterey for her summer study of the country and will not return to the city for some months. John W. Clawson {s at work upon a portrait of Colonel Trumbo. The striking portrait of Miss Hadenfeldt. which cre- ated so much attention at the Bohemian Club, is still to be seen in his studio. “It’ is_not generally known.” said Pro- fessor W. Armes, “that the facilities in San Francisco for making collections of Japanese prints are unequaled. The professor himself has a fine collection of specimens of the ronobo, Hokusai, Yeizan, Toyokuni these prints, cnnhflnlnf work of Utamaro, Ha Hiroshige, Shunsen, | and all the more famous representatives of perhaps the most essentlally artistic nation in the world. CHANCE TO SMILE. In the Dining Car. He—TIsn't it dellghtful to be dining to- gether without a chaveron? She—T should say so! Marriage is cer- tainly a great economy.—Puck. Ambitious. “What I want,”” said the young appli- cant, “is a chance to rise in the business.” “Very well. How would 5:30 a. m. suit you?'~Harvard Lampoon. Not Fitted for It. Visitor—When you are grown up, will vou be a doctor, like your father? " Bobby—Mercy, no! Why. I couldn’t even kil a rabbit.—Brooklyn Life. The Difficult Thing. Teacher—Now, boys, who can tell me which is thfi 1r5’oat dificult thing to ac- in cyclin; q“(%h”brfls %f }Fells-—The bicycle, sir.—Tit- Bits. An Accommodating Neighbor. Pilano Tuner—I called to tune your 1ano. ¥ !n.:toiy—l did not send for you. Plano Turer—No, but the man next door did.—Cornell Widow. One Effect of the War. His Wife—If you can stop reading about the Boer war for a few minutes, I have somethlng to tell you about the cook. The Suburbanite—Yes? Is she going to trek ?—Puck. 'Tis Ever Thus. Mrs. Henpeckke—Doctor, I need a tonic. I am all run down. Doctor—Let me see your tongue. Mr. Henpeckke (sotto voce)—He won’t find much evidence of it there.—Philadel- phia Record. The Explanation. “Maria, Maria, why (puff, puff) can't vou (faugh!) let me buy my own Christ- mas cigars?"’ “I didn’t buy any Christ- mas cigars for you this time, John. Those are some of the cigars you bought to give to your friends last fall when you thought onbvere a candidate for office.”—Chicago une. The Advantage of Polygamy. 1 see,” sald the old statesman to Amos Cummings, * you are having a fine time over B m H. Roberts of Utah. It reminds me of what ned when id Bill Hq r came to the Qelegate from Utan Ferritory’ a oo a0y nted ca ttalions, He was ible old soldiers ‘would stock brok one of the W ight and the atten- tfanlsl is dh‘ecled! that he had heard from his wife, who was 11l and—*"if you plaze, sor, can I have for- ty-eight hours’ lave?” “You say you have heard from your wife,” said the captain, smelling a rat | and beginning to turn up some imaginary correspondence on his table. | “I have, sor.” ! “Ah!" replied the officer, “I have heard | from her, too, and she asks me not to give | you leave, for you only go home to get | drunk and break the furniture.” “She wrote that, sor?” s, es. “And does that mean, sor, that I ecan't | have my lave?” “It does." The man saluted and went to the door, then turning suddenly round he said, “If you plaze, sor. may I say something confl- | dential between man and man? “Well, what is it?” answered the cap- tain. “Why, sor. under this roof are two of | the most eeligant liars that the Lord ever | made—1'm not a married man. —_———————— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ANNIE MOONEY—J. G., City. Annle | | Mooney was abducted from Belmont, San | Mateo County, July 15, 1883. I | - MCKINLEY'S FATHER—M. ) | For answer about McKinley’s fa Answers to Correspondents Sunda: | . May | | ONLY WAY-S. S, City. This spondent wants to know the name of the author of a play called “Only Way.” Can corre- | | | any reader of this department give the in- | | | | formation? | PENSION AGENCY—A. S., Wheatland, | | Cal. There is a United States Pension Sidney L. | Agency in Washington, D. C. A 4 Allan | { Wilson is the pension agent and Bussius the chief cles A QUARTER WITH ARROWS—H. M., | City. A United States quarter of a dollar | with_arrows at the date does not com- |mand a premium. One without arrows commands a premium of $17 to $275. i A DIVORCE—Subscriber, Monterey, | Cal. If a person divorced in California | should go to the State of Oregon to get | married_shortly after obtalning the di- | | yorce and the ‘marriage is valid in that | | State it will be recognized as valid in this | State. DEFACING COIN—A. D., Michigan | Bluff, Cal. There is a law against defac- | }ing United States coin—that is, if it is the intention to pass such coin as current— | but there is no law to prevent a person | from melting into a solid ingot or any number of ingots all the coin he has. FOUR-DOLLAR PIECES—A. A. En. | City. The coln dealers’ catalogues do not | make any mention of the United States | four-dollar gold pileces that were issued | in 1879. Some few coins were struck off as an_ experiment, but as they did not | meet with public favor they were with- | drawn. T i A SOLE HEIR—R., Denver, Colo. If a | man dies and leaves all his property to his widow, technically, she not being the | executrix, would not have the rlngt to make a lease of property. but if she did and the administrator did not file a pro- | test it is gosslble that the court would recognize the lease as binding. BERENICE—E. E., City. The name is Berenice, a word of four syllables. Bere- nice was the sister-wife of Ptolemy IIT, who vowed to sacrifice her hair to the | gods if her husband returned home the vanquisher of Asia. She suspended her | hair in the temple of the war god, but it | was stolen the first night and‘Cnnon of Samos told the King that the winds hay | wafted it to heaven, where it still forms the seven stars near the of called Coma Berenic COUNTING IN CASINO-J. J. P., City. If on the last deal in the game of casino cards are even and A has five points to n;:ake ;nd ‘1,3 has three points to make and there has been no agree players that each uhmc':ue:tl ah: 'h‘;e:xnail;: a point, then the one who has spades counts first, for the rule is that the count. 1n{ shall be: Cards, spades, big casino, little casino, aces and sweeps. In a game Where A had five to go and B had three | to .fo the cards were even and A had bi, and little casino and two aces and B has spades and two aces, B would win, as he had the right to count first. VICE PRESIDENT AND CA — H. E. B, West Point, Cal. BanlcP:E"l‘he death of Vice President Hobart, William 8. Frye, President pro tempore of the Senate, has been acting as Vice Presi- | dent. ‘The members of Presidens Mot | ley’s Cabinet are: John Hay, Secretary | of State; Lyman J. Gue,.secreury of the Treas: Elfhu Root, Secretary of War; John W. Grlgg;.“Auomey General; Jc‘mles El"o Eml!she.c k. Im-stttr General: Ethan A. Hitehcook, Secretary of the 1h terior, and James Wi vy ilson, etary of WCENTVRY-Relative to the title “Cen- n a lon Eme 's essa; a friend of this department sends this ex- goluuuon: “The word ‘Cen ot (et oo b dat , where fish 15 i pure and s | | White Hous: | Russ. | Angeles are at the Empire. MEAD IS MTER VACRANT WATERS FROM THEHILLS Expert From Agricultural Department Arrives to Begin Work. —— Will Sign a Contract To-Day for an Investigation of the Flood Water Resources of the State. —.——— The Department of Agriculture, throug Elwood Mead, its irrigation expert. will to-day sign a contract with the California Water and Forest Association for the be- ginning of an investigation of the water supply, water rights, duty of water, etc., on the various rivers of the State north of the Tehachapl Pass. By the end of August, If present expectations are ful- filled, reports will be ready to file that will throw a flood of light on this matter, which is of such great importance to the State. These reports will also serve as the basis of proposed amendments to the present laws bearing on water rights. Mr. Mead arrived in the city yestepday and at once conferred with officers of the Water and Forest Association. In an in- terview he said the field work about to begin would be under his special super- vision and that he would have eight as- gistants, as follows: In the study of the Yuba River, Marsden Manson; Kings River, C. E. Grunsky; San Joaquin River, Professor_Frank Soule of the State Umi- versity; Salinas River, Professor €. D. Marx of Stanford University; Susan River and the Honey Lake country, Pro- fessor J. M. Wilson of Nevada and W. E. Smythe of Susanville. Irrigation from storage reservoirs In the Sweetwater River district in Southern California—J. B. Schuyler of Los Angeles; storage water rights on the Los Angeles River, Edward M. Boggs. The work south of Tehachapi, Professor Mead said, would all be done by the Gov- ernment without assistance, but the work north of Tehachapi will be with the co- operation of the California Water and ]‘,‘\rPst Association. The work will be pushed as rapidly as possible in order that the reports may be ready for the next session of the California Legislature and also for Congress at its next session. The chief object of the work of the Agricultural Department in the fleld, Professor Mead said, would be to ascer tain a way by which the water supply of the State could be systematically utilized and also to determine the amount of water tha' can be stored. A conferemce with the Water and Forest Association’s executive committee will take place to- mOrrow. e e TO SAVE THE REDWOODS. The Superviso; Indorse Resolutions Adopted by Academy of Sciences. The Board of Supervisors officially in- dorsed yesterday the resolutions adopted recently by the Academy of Sciences look- ing to the preservation of the redwood forest known as the “Big Basin country, situated In the counties of San Mateo and Santa Cruz. Preliminary steps were taken at a meeting held May 1 at Stanford University to acquire the lands ‘upon which this forest is gro g for a national park. The Supervisors adopted resolutions which recite that the forest tract is with- in thirty miles of San Fran . em- braces an area of about thirty-five thou- sand acres, covering the watershed from which flows the San Lorenzo River, the Pescadero, Pomponio, Butano, Gazes, New Years, Waddel, Scotrs, Big. Mill, San Vicente and Boulder erecks and numerous other mountain streams and is the finest body of redwood timber in the world, many of the trees exceed- ing sixty feet in circumference. Sawmills have already commenced ecutting this forest into thnber products. - The Super- visors appreciate the importance of urg- ing immediate action in the premises and indorse the resolutions adopted by the California Academy of Sciences. PERSONAL MENTION. Colonel N. J. Colton is registered at the Palace. Dr. Weldon of San Pedro is a guest at the Grand. B. F. Shepard Jr., a druggist of Fresno, is at the Grand. Senator E. C. Voorheis and wife are guests at the Palace. Dr. P. E. Doolittle of Toronto is’ stop- ping at the Occidental. Richard A. Parker. mining expert: of Boston, is at the Palace. P. A. Stanton, a Los Angeles real es- tate man, is ai the Grand. Fred Conn, the borax mining man of Santa Ana, is at the Russ. N. Stetson of New York. accompanied by his wife and daughter, is at the Pal- ace. A. J. Sproule, a mining man of Denver, en route to Nome, is stopping at. the A. B. Wood, the well-known mining expert of Detroit, is registered at the Palace. Celia Dyer, Mrs. Duff, W. C. Hayne, J. Shirey and O. A. Cutter are at the Occi- dental, en route to Nome. Edmund M. Burke, Mayor of Santa Bar- bara, arrived in this city yesterday and is stopping at the Grand. Dr. F. R. Hovel of Arcata, one of the most prominent physicians of Humboldt Cdunty, is in this city. Dr. Hovel was chosen as a delegate to the Republican State Convention. —_—e——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 14 George C. Hig- gins of San Franecisco is at the Hoffman; L. Barton and Charles Dewgs of Los Order of Pendo. Last Thursday night Golden Gate and Volunteer councils of the Order of Pendo | tendered a reception to the supreme offi- in the social hall of the Alcazar Suilding. There was @ good attendance of the membership and friends and under the direction of the committee of ar- | rangements there was presented an in- rogramme of entertainment. :;‘;eul’ll,:ci e 1 !(en(ures being contributed by H. L. Bachelder, Miss Mabel Pfeiffer, A. A. Williams, Henry Abbott and Irene Palmer. There were instructive ad- dresses by Supreme Secretary Ernest Duden, Supreme Councilor A. P. Tugwell, Supreme Vice Councilor G; K. nd W. T. Jones, chairman of the committee of arrangements. PREREREEPESSSS- Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_———————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by _ the 1) Bureau (Allen’s), 510 & t- Py sitect Telephone Main Iz —_—— Confused. Excited Lady (at the telephone)—I want my husband, please, at once. Voice (from the exchange)—Number, please? lease? Excited Lady (snappishly)—Only the fourth, you impudent thtnc'—sxch’m. —_—— Finer and Faster Than Ever. Beginning ITED,” the Union Pacific’s splendid 0%~ hour “fiye’” to Chicago, will leave San Francisco datly at 10 a. m, instead of 3:3). The FAST MAIL will leave dally at 6 p. m. instead of and —— All lovers of the delicacies of the table Dt-ll-flll-.--&nh--n'a 3