The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 27, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, JOHN D. :PR:&.KELS, FProprietor. *dd ess A OFFIC E..nnrket --cl Tllrd. Telephone Main 1868, PUBLICATION to 221 Stevensom St. inT4. EDITORIAL ROOM 217 Telephone Main Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ngle Coples, 5 Cent by Mail, Including Postage: VEEKLY \..L One Year All postmasters are smuthorlzed to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded whea requested OAKLAND ...1118 B dway OFFICE ss, Suilding, Chicago. ““Central 2618.") YORK CORRESPONDENT: Heraid Square ENTATIVE ..30 Tribune Building Waidort A 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON D. C. lington Hote MORTON BRANCH OFFICES wwomesy, corner of Clay, open untll 9:80 o'clock k. © Allister, oper open until 1 Market, pea AMUSEMENTS. »w night. Were Twenty-five,” o and ert Hall—Vaudeville 2, &t 11 o'clock, Horses, at 1:30 o'clock, Horses, at on comes from Wash- se has passed a bill apprc ver $200,000 to pay Cou ers for horses taken fron The bill to its author, who is about aiter country is grat to Mr. troduce a bill to pay the Con- courtesy of the House on d at Appc attox. ssed as a courtes retire he His moderation equaled glad that he and did not take in we are “critters” “bluebacks. en for the is that these horses n of Lee’s terms of surrender to that Grant, was on the formed that his terms were not those under his command. It is t this incident does not figure in the jerate complaints that have been pub- who s been omitted, and as under the terms the taking of horses was plain not reasonable to suppose that chance to pillory “the Yankee ve gone unimproved. en Lee It ng the curiosities of war and peace that the first people kn of this horse-stealing is the ng of the hand of Congress into their pockets forty years after it happened! It e horses were abandoned by Lee’s t in the confusion of transition from battle om war to peace, some were lost, edible that Grant's officers, aware of the der ediately quit fighting and went to steal- In its delightful spasm of courtesy the le it put 2 garland on the hat of Judge a stain on every officer and soldier of fornia the incident has a pecu- I\r all the Union States, had to the Federal Government in ral treasury was empty and the State credit was alled on the States spend money and use their credit in behalf "his they did. he Uni generous. That response saved it enlarged at once the military ener- which otherwise would have ym the exhausted fountain of i dollars for the Federal Govern- to the United States over s, since it would have cost that slied from the eastern side of the fensive measures which we equipped {ot on ereby saved 1 the repayment of this money to Cali- been repaid to every other State in the A commission of the War Depart- of both houses, officers of the have concurred in reporting that it is due ees the S »s it would be 2 good thing to have the bill for its introduced by some ex-Confederate who is about to retire from Congress, when it would prob- y be passed as a courtesy! There is nothing vague about this claim. It was not delayed until nearly forty years after the war | ended. In the way pointed out and required by the 2ct of Congress which invited the expenditure the agents of the State have documented and proved every penny of the expenditure. This was done as long ago as the administration of Governor Booth. t not a dollar of it has been paid, and the State still waits for Congress to do justice and treat California as the other States were treated. This is the reason that Californians feel a peculiar interest in the bill to pay Lee’s “‘critter soldiers” for horses alleged to have been stolen by Grant's men nearly forty years ago. In these no opportunity to gird | s not seem to have suffered itself to con- | to equip | Their response to the | alifornia spent | the pledge but the law of the | te and should be paid, but it is not paid. Per- COMPULSORY EDUCATION. HE most vital problem touched upon at the re- cent institute of the San Francisco teachers was that of compulsory education. And it is to be regretted that it was only touched upon, not dis- cussed. The majority of parents who read this article are doubtless aware of the fact that the State of Califor- nia has an excellent compulsory education law; the minority who know nothing of this law are pre- cisely those for whose benefit it is intended. For them the very caption of the statute contains an ethi- cal lesson of vast importance, for “An act to enforce the educational rights of children” implies the as- sertion of a corresponding duty on the part of parents. Is the mu.un) who are shirking the duty imposed by the State a large one or a small one? If large, the next Teachers’ Institute might well devote to the discussion of this question alone. its According to the last published report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the number of in the State of California hLl\\un the e and seventeen was 324,008 Of num- ool registers ¢ and grammar grades of the in private schools). white children 0,740 were enrolled on the sc! 2,335 in the prima blic schools, 21,405 difference between the number of census children and the number enrolled in schools is 53,358. Where were these fifty-th children? Perhaps they were educating their parents. ee thousand A closer study of the statistics brings out the dis- agreeable fact that this showing is everr worse than For of the 249,335 children enrolled in 187,038 (ahout it appears. the primary-and grammar grades only 75 per cent) actually belonged to the s ing that ever: one of the 21,405 ¢ in attendance, actua must still add schools was we to the 5. nc.xrly one-third the school popula school, 3 4(\,'l~l)v t is, tion of the State— pub! ho do not belong to any t not about time that something cation law? ulsory edt e a better show- S the report of June 30, 2 at large? Wel n Nw the e attended public ster the between schools at any time was 46, pri schools, 830 The number of children between 5 and y time during the school year was 19,468. Nearly twenty thousand an Francisco growing up ig- norant of their duties and responsibilities as American citizens! It was to reach the parents of such poor waifs that the Legislature passed the compulsory education law of March 28, 1874. For more than a quarter of a cen- tury that law has been a dead letter on our statute- book, and its provisions must be so unfamiliar many that no apology need be made for dwelling on them briefly here. The la tory. It requires that the parent “shall be required” to send his child to school for at least two-thirds of the time during which a school is taught in his dis- twelve weeks of this time must be “consecu- children mber of ate not attended school at a 17 who have trict; tive.” quired to post three notices of the law in the most public places in the city or to publish the same for three weeks, during each June, in some newspaper. Parents uho fail to comply with the provisions of the act are gi 1or, punishable for the first offense with a fine of twenty dollars and costs; for the second offense not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty, with costs. If this law could be enforced upon ail negligent heads of families in San Francisco to-morrow, and if the dollars collected were placed in a straight line with their circumferences touching, they would stretch along Market street a distance of two miles— | from the ferries to Franklin street. ' y of a misdem The duty of enforcing the law is placed pri- | marily upon the clerk of the Board of Edu- cation, who, upon the written complaint of any teacher or taxpayer, must prosecute any o fender or be himself liable to the fine of riot less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars. The census marshal is required not only to furnish the Board of Education with complete lists of children of | school age, but also to note on such lists all children | not attending school who are liable to the provisions | of the act. The teacher “shall call such list morning on the opeaing of school,” report the per- sistent absentees to the Board of Education, and “said board shall therewith proceed to prosecute parents,” etc. | Nothing could be clearer than the provisions of the !act. The responsibility for enforcing it, moreover, is put exactly where it properly belongs, and the ex- pense is amply provided for by the heavy—but none | too heavy—fines collectable. i Citizens who may think the enforcement of this law | impossible must believe that the average of human virtue and intelligence is higher in the State of Maine | than in the State of California, for the city of Portland | has a compulsory education law not dissimilar to | ours—and it is enforced. Compulsory education has been carried further in | Germany than anywhere else, and it is from Germany we can learn the most in attempting to enforce our own law. In his book on European schools Dr. L. | R. Klemm tells us that in Prussia the process is sum-- mary and effective. “The father is summoned before the Police Court and is called upon to explain. If no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming the father is fined. This fine is increased twice in case of back- sliding, and finally ends in imprisonment.” The school | age is 6 to 13, the time requirement eight months in the year. In cases of extreme poverty the State pro- | vides necessaries. In Rhenish Prussia so thoroughly has the law been enforced that of all the young men | drafted for military service less than three-tenths of | one per cent are illiterates. _ | We turn to the last Federal census and we find that { | in the United States in 1800 the illiterates numbered over six millions—thirteen and one-third per cent of | the population. | These figures carry their own warning. A republic based upon ignorance is as a house builded upon the sand. e e e Aifter all the howls of economy, the darkening of streets, the squirming of economists, the city will have a deficit after all. Why not pawn the Hall of Justice to a collector of curios and raise enough money to run the city government for a few days? Even the most optimistic believer in the future of Cape Nome must now be apprehensive of serious evil. | The Standard Oil Company has decided to invade the | town and tap the district. BRI The muddle into which the courts have thrown our pugilistic parasites is a reasonably safe indication that we will not suffer after all from the threatened raid of the New York “pugs. Bl Now, the | 358 who were never enrolled 61,397 who were | to | 1guage of the statute is absolutely manda- | The president of the Board of Education is re- | each | such | THE WASTE OF WATER flT the meeting of the executive committee and advisory council of the Water and Forest As- sociation on Friday the announcement was made by President Thomas that good work has been accomplished thus far; that contributions have been so liberal hardly any more money is needed for pres- ent purposes, and that prospects for future work are excellent; but that there has been a failure in the efforts to bring to the association the number of members it should have in order to achieve all that is desired for the public welfare. It is strange that a lack of membership should be the one defect of the association, since there is hardly any other organization in the State whose purposes | affect so considerable a number of persons and whose | work will be of more benefit to all. It would be diffi- cult to find any large class of people in Cilifornia who e not more or less interested in the conservation of These matters vitally concern the welfare of the State, and the organization which has been formed for the purpose of solving the problems of forestry and of irrigation should count its active workers by the thousands. Elwood Mead of the Department of Agriculture, who has been investigating the problems of irriga- tion in California, gave in a short statement of his | examination of the subject a striking illustration of the advantages of irrigation to our farmers and fruit- growers and of the ill results which have followed the inadequate irrigation laws. Describing an irriga- | tion district near Woodland he is quoted as saying: “Under the ditch every form of flower and fruit which can be produced in California is being successfully grown, and the farms would attract settlers from any agricultural district in this country. Above the ditch I can count on the fingers of one hand the products which seem to me to be a success, and a large popu- lation can neither be attracted nor supported if those lands are to be farmed by the aid of rainfall alone.”™ Mr. Mead went on to say: “The benefits of irriga- | tion are recognized by every farmer with whom I i talked. yet there is only one ditch taking water from | the stream, and fully three times as much water was passing the headgate as flowed through it; in other | words, three-fourths of the water was running to aste. Not all of the water is wholly lost. A large | part of it sinks into the gravel of the river bed and finds its way by percolation under the valley and is then pumped up from depths varying from fifteen to | twenty-five feet. That is the situation in midsummer, | when the rains have ceased, but there are times when the creek is a torrent, 300 feet wide and 15 feet deep. At the head of the creek is a natural reservoir capable of storing the floods and distributing them when needed, but so long as the water which the stream now carries is not made use of there is small couragement to provide a larger supply.” It is not from carelessness merely that full advan- tage is not taken of the water that is running aste in the district. Mr. Mead say “There are wo canals built years ago which cover some of the best lands in the valley, which for years have been practically abandoned. An inquiry as to the cause of this resulted in the same answer in both cases—con- troversies over rights to water of the riparian pro- prietors, controversies with rival appropriators and a lack of harmony between water-users and ditch- owners.” Such is the condition of affairs in one locality, and similar conditions can be found in many others in the State. California needs a well-ordered system of ir- rigation and of forestry, and the association which | aims to provide that should have a liberal support, not only by contributions of money, but by the | operation of a large and active membership. en- co- Such | a membership ought to be promptly forthcoming. | AN ANTI-SHEEP LAW. | | i ! the driving of countless thousands of sheep into Idaho and Wyoming, to help eat out the ranges there which were already carrying more sheep than they ought. Still, as long as the ranges are common the starved flocks of Arizona and Utah have as much right to them as any others. Wyoming has met the HE complete destruction of the fine grazing invasion on the border with sanitary quarantine in’ | front and Winchesters in the background. It is un- derstood that if the quarantine officers don't find | scab on the sheep they will soon find holes in the shepherds. In Idaho an old law has been found pro- hibiting the grazing of sheep within two miles of a | residence unless they belong to the owner thereof. Under this law an invading shepherd has been ar- rested, and the courts will be called on to decide whether it is a constitutional means of abridging the free range of the commons on the public- domain. Of course it will be found unconstitutional. If the range is free, nothing can abridge its use by all stockmen, and the settler must submit to have the | grass gpawed clear to his fences, and his own stock starved. He may them think that he is thinking enough to see that his salvation depends not upon unconstitutional laws of his own State, nor upon the mouthing of politicians, but upon a Federal law to mght to a leasehold of the range that abuts on his land. The famine-smitten sheep of Utah are doing mis- | sionary work. We desire to speed them on their de- structive way. They find a meadow in front of them | and leave a desert behind them, but nothing else will teach some men that free range means no range and a speedy end of the grazing business. ‘When Senator Spooner challenged Senators Allen | and Pettigrew to say what the Populist party would do four years from now they were silent, and yet it would have been a safe prediction to say the party would be doing just what it is now—howling calamity and nominating Bryan. —_— While the City Fathers are concerning themselves with the preservation of the forests of Santa Cruz and San Mateo they might spare a few minutes to an effort to get San Francisco out of the woods of darkness into which the policy of Mayor Phelan has thrown it. —_— Local officials, under the ingenious guidance of the Mayor, have been caught times without number in efforts to throw dust in the eyes of the public, but the most flagrant endeavor is involved in the threat to leave city streets unswept during the month of June. The improvement clubs of the city are again insist- ing that our municipal administration is not only ex- pensive but worthless. The clubs should remember that his Honor the Mayor is an expensive luxury, for awhile at least. The City Fathers have decided that freak advertise- ments in San Francisco will no longer be tolerated. Can this be a covert attack upon that Phelan folly known as our municipal flag? | SUNDAY, to | lands of Arizona and Southern Utah has caused’ | end the free range by leasing it, and protecting his | MAY 27, 1900. R. ARCHER tells seven or elght years ago Mr. Pinero was asked to mention some | ture he had faith.” He picked out Haddon Chambers. Thanks also to | the Indefatigable Archer, we can follow the garish days of “Captain Swift" more subdued and pleasanter | “The Tyranny of Tears.” “Captain Swift” {s a melodrama pure and simple; none the less a melodrama i because its scenes are laid in what Is sup- posed to be good society. The success of to the | tunate for the author—fortunate in that it brought him bread, butter and reputa- tion; unfortunate in that the said repura- ! tion was of a kind highly undesirable for | a man who wanted to be something more than a dramatic hack. But melodrama made Mr. Chambers, and to melodrama he was therefore enslaved for years. “The Fatal Card” is as full of harrowing sen- sationalism as a prize fight Is blows, and is padded with a comic ‘‘re- | lief” (poor word!) that is beneath con- | tempt. “John-A-Dreams' shows an effort | to do something more artistic than to | strike off another chromo-lithograph at the Adelphi Theater press; but you cannot | outline on zinc for years without injuring | that delicacy of touch required for fine work on canvas. “John-A-Dreams,” which starts well as a character play ates into a mere series of “leads-up meledramatic situation that is worth nothing when you get it. “Boys Together" is a bload-curdler of the blood-curdlers, wherein the hero skewers one of the vil- | 1ain’s hands to the table with a knife “in order to torture him into signing with his other hand a confession of his villainfes.” In this incident, worthy of that “sancti- fied” king to whom the good bishops ded- !icated their Bible, Mr. Chambers seemed to have exhausted the possibilities of the horrible, for in his next play, “In the Day | of the Duke,” a faWly fought duel was the strongest thrill-producer he allowed himself. Bushels of and shillings must by this time hav hambers m(lopcmh nt of the Luml(‘,‘u , for in “The Tyranny of Tears” he has deliberately turned his back upon ! them, and eschewing all sensational de- vices has made a direct appeal to inteili- gent people. Wonderfuliy this for a first appeal, when you cons the kind of hack work the poor man has been doing for the last ten years, and all who love the stage must weicome this «d- | dition to the little band of playwrights, | numbering now some half-dozen, who fur- | nish food for thought to the KEnglish | speaking world. e ‘ It is '\nnounced that Bernhardt and Co- uelin will descend upon our benighted yvember tor a farewell tour. 3 la shores next 1 21 “Camille,” “La Tosca.” rano de Bergerac’ h and Coquelin—** and “Tartuffe.’ If Coquelin would onl; much pleasanter it wouid be! Duke of Reichstadt was a weakling about whem it is impossible to make a strong play, “La Tosca” is a vile glorification of come alone, how For the brutal realism, and for there should be propriety in On_the 224 of next October Grandmamma Sarah will reach the re- spectable age of Hamlet, I think, would have had difficulty in looking that age, and in spite of Mr. Donneily I cannot “coming dramatist in whose fu. | | the woods in our forests and the water in our streams, | ¥ Chambers and mark his advance from | lights of | & that play was both fortunate and unfor- | full of | Adelphi_sixpences | made | us that some belleve that he was written by Bacon or | And past !rmx he was a woman. . | Since Mr. Man: :id _has grown rich (and lazy). lmnk to rano de Berge- rac.” thére seems to be not one manager and bot one in the United s with b ge and money enough to take a lit for the sake of orig- | Inal art. Read ces from Lon- don_and French farces the syndi- s g 3 gz 2 | As to the m: nies, from whom one might have hoped for something better, they shrink from the very mention of a new play as a cat does from water. The actor-manager system. with all its faults, is better than the system which s reduced the American drama to_its :nt state of cadaveric rigidity. The i it too often pro- duces plays made to fit some particular actor, doés produce something original: we produce practically nothing. There is inducement for men of ability in our | country to become journalists and novel- ists, so journalism and n¢vel writing flourish: there is no induc ment for a man who can make five douars a day In ny other profession to turn playwright, we have almost no drama. And as Mr. Meitzer recently pointed out, the few playwrights we have—Mr. Thomas, Mr. Carlton.” Mr. Fitch—have made no ad- vance during the last few years; he might have added that Mr. Fitch has even gone back. Men write pl ays primarily because they are born with nstinct to express them- selves matic form; the demand for their product cannot create the instinet, but the instinet will not find expression or will find hut scant expression, unless | there exists encouragement in the shape of demand. In London this demand Is actively personified in a dozen actor-man- and ability, such , George Alexander, actor, Henry thur Jones would be em- }»nmz' d in the 1d loughs of melodrama, Mr. “nu!:l be mere] French farce Mr. Carton a paragrapher and mbers—I think he came from lia. so he would probably be writ- dvertisements for the Greater-Aus- -Refrigerated - Beef - and - Mutton- &m;puw: Association. Conditions in the United States to-day are such that the actor-manager system is impossible except in Jocal stock compa- nies. But there are signs of a break in the once omripotent syndicate that takes ! Henry Mill of th agers—m Sother: he London ac! free to develop their o s. Competition among them nlll cieate a healthy demand for nacive work, best amo ¢ be and it is more than probable at the supply will be forthcoming. “Paolo and Francesca,” bv Stephen Phillips, is the finest dramatic poem writ- ten in England since the death of Brown- ing. It to Ge Alexander and conts gnificant _an- nounceme ay was commis- sioned b xander and accepted for prndur‘l(nn at thf- St. James Theater.” That seems to me a tolerably good result of actor-managership. Can you imagine a poem with a passage like this: O God, thou s creatures bound Together by holds the stars n pa bright; By wh hrals the earth | Ana all the waves of the world { ™ moon. | sl st together, sun Int to the even when faints thy | souls thy stars like ashes fall, | B sh us who cannot part? | Can you imagine st ich a play, “commis- sioned” for production” at the Knicker- bocker Th r, New York, and dedicated, let us say, to M rs. Klaw and Eria lb.‘l"' e The t difference between the results attain Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger and tho ained by George Alexander Is not surprisng when we remember that he forme the are in the theatrical business e dollars that are to be made, atter is n it because he Is. n artist “By their fruits ye em.” For my part [ prefer P aslo and Francesca” to the In the mopolitan Miss May Ir- win has to _conceal behind a veil of Irw h e sensible ldeas about (i’v bu reer. Her ¢ her practice (has become) an f the stage as a_ca- ight. exemplified in after the player is cepted entertainer and e is bound to , that ,Dermanent em- he history of the d_in England, h be is, is to at inence in his pr stage, both in bears out tl reat men Garrick, Kea one of save Kea drink. Why di the Comedie C: too original. too forceful, controlied by any man but himseif. 'He feit. as eve man of power must feel, that if he were | ger to bring out the best that him he must work out his own This our men of power can long as they are content to be by enterprisng speculators. n to the speculator: but how about the respect of the artist? thing less urgent than a deman Pinero for immediate pin mor . haps a_ whimsical desire to fool ‘the to the top of its bent, could have Mr. Pinero in putting his name 1bbish which makes up two-thirds of “The Amazons.” If he Is regardless of reputation it may not unjustly contended that the eritics need not worry themselves .about it. True, vet surely it is a pity to see a man who could create the characters of Paula Tanqueray and the Duke of St. Olpherts satisfled to it the ears of the groundlings by mak- ing fat men crawl through thin holes in hedges and thin men bark their shins by be tumbling over horizontal bars. 1 not make it play a farcical romance doe any the less a farce, and occasional clever touch in the ln“m)‘rdl‘,xl’\ of Tweenwayes zons™ 18 just as much a farce as anything of the De Souchet school. The night I saw the play at the Califor- nia Miss Chapman made little effort to part with spirit, and considering re of that part one can hardly blame her. Mr. Howard as Tweenwayes casily carried off the honors, Mr. Neill's an shoulders and deep organ-tone tting him for such a very Hilht play. 1t seems to me he would make ideal Captain Swift. Those who praise imitations of other actors do No man accomplishes to_say great— price charged Mr. Neill has been giving good performances of fairly good plays. But his company seems overworked and tired out, and while We shall be sorry to lose them I, for my part. am giad to belleve that they are go- ing to enjoy a well earned r. LU PONT SYLE. Considering tk e PERSONAL MENTION. | Nathan Falk, a merchant of BOXSP. Idaho, is'at the Lick. 1. Cullberg, a merchant of Arcata, is at the Lick with his wife. C. E. Pearsall, a business man of Eu- reka, and wife, are at the Palace. man, is registered at the Palace. G. Alvarez, a leading business man of Guaymas, Mexlco, is at the Occidental. W. E. Travls, a Star route contractor | of Salt Lake, arrived yesterday at the Palace. A. 8. Calkins, a ngwspaper man of Ne- vada Ci and his wife, are guests at the Occidental. H. C. Rothe and W. In the recent fire that swept away the en | tire business portion of the town of Lake- view they lost all their goods and have come down here to secure new Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckel | panied by their niece, Miss Annle Brem- mer, and Mr. Spreckels’ secretary, Mr. | Seeger, left last night on their speci | for New York. They will go to Europe, spending a few months at the Paris Ex- position, returning to San Francisco in about eight months. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 26—5 H. Westfal! of Redlands is at the Plaza; Ben McPherson, Arthur Peyton and J. M. Gamble of San Francisco are at the Hoffman; F. T. Hoyt of San Francisco is at the Gnsey. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. Leave of absence for four months has the military academy. Acting Assistant Surgeon William Rob- erts has been ordered to proceed from Washington to Tampa, where he will re- port by telegraph to the adjutant general for orders. After the completion of his duties at Tampa he will proceed to Havana, where he, will report to the com- ng general for assignmen in the division of Cuba. SRt First Lieutenant Clarence C. Willlams, ordnance department, has been ordered to | take charge of certain inspections to be made of smokeless powder in the course of manufacture at the powder works at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, and at South Amboy, N. Captain Bdward C. McDowell, assistant quartermaster, United States Volunteers, has been relieved from duty as quarter- | master and commissary of the transport Terry and has been ordered to the trans- port Rawling in_a similar capacity. He will proceed to Philadelphia to take tem- porary station and superintend the repalrs to be made there upon the Rawlins. Leave of absence for two months on ac- count of sickness has been granted to g{lrst Lieutenant John K. Cree, Sixth Ar- ery. Ledve of absence for three months has been granted to_Second Lieutenant Hay- wood Robbins, Fifteenth Infantry, on ac- count of sickness. A board of officers, to consist of Major Samuel R. Jones, quartermaster; Captain William . Hamilton, Seventh Artiilery, rst Licutenant Willlam J. Snow, Seventh Artillery, has been_appointed to meet at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., to investi- Fate and report upon the acquisition of and necessary for barracks and officers’ quarters at that post. Another leave of absence for three months, upon a surgeon's certificate of disabilify, has been granted to Captain Edward R. Bolton, Sixteenth Infantry. First Liéutenant Frederick C. Gignoux. Eleventh Cavalry, has had another month added to his lea~e on sur; &leon s certificate. One month has been added to his leave, on surgeon’s certificate, to Captain James B. Erwin, adjutant !-‘ounh Cavalry. First Lieutenant Asa Fisk, Thirty- fifth Infantry, hag been T Company K to pany F, taking the lace at First Llemslunt Gordon N. - gn.ll who was transferred to Com K. The leave of lblenee granted First Lieu- tenant Robert M. Brookfield, Eleventh Cavalry, has been extended two months and ten days, und Lieutenant Brookfleld has been granted permission to go beyond thx seas. m«mm hn hm added to the leave of Charles 8. Haight, Captain A. E. Graves, a London club- A. Wassingall, mer- | chants of Lakeview, Or., are at the Lick. | | been grantea to James M. Wiltiams, Sev- | | enth Artillery, on his relief from duty at | ]Four!h Cavalry. A month has been added { to the leave granted Captain Benjamin M. ‘Kuchler. Thirty-seventh Infantry. letered e etk ee i FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, 3 l.—o—o—o—o—o—s—o *- 0—0—0—-. b P be e sl D S R S D D A U SR S S [ R o R LU 0—0-». PRETTY INDOOR DRESS. The dress represented in the illustration is of white muslin printed with pink flow- j ers. The yoke, shoulders, wrists and the bottom of the skirt are of string colored The waistband is of pink satin. ————e——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PRIVATE ASYLUMS—E. M. N., City. { This department cannot nd\crthe the addresses and charges of private asylums f?r lhe insane in and around San Fran- cisco. MINING LAWS—E. H,, City. For in- formation about. various pamphlets relat- ing to m|n|nghfllaws apply at the Iibrary of the State Mining bureau in the ferry building. NOT AN ADVERTISING BUREAU-—- W. W. G, Williams, Cal. This depart- ment is not an_advertising bureau for divmpur'lose of finding situations for in- A QUARTZ D‘SCOVERY—M B., Hop- lund. Cal. The discovery of quartz cro) P 5! must be sunk on unoccugled public Tt must be outside of the limes of any patented or even of any valid loca- DIVORCE ‘AND MARRIAGE—Sub- scriber, Alameda. Cal. This department has on’ several occasions announced that if a person is divorced in one State, soes to another State and there is married, an the marriage is valid in the Sute 1n which performed. that such marrlage is recognized as valid in the State from which the party went in order to get mar ried. FIRST PAPERS-T. F., Occidental, Cal. If you obtained your first papers in Gal- veston, Tex., and they were destroyed by fire there is no course for you to follow but to make application to the court thav issued them for a dupllmu Cop; Y paying !ha fee that may be demanded. as you (’xou have done so, but have not re a reply, communicate with a no- tary of that city and he will procure the duplicate for ou, charging you, of course, a fee for his services. A QUESTION OF LAW—Constant guipure. Reader, City. wh-t ht: l B S VLI, R in an \mnmury condition has agains the landlord, it or axwuwr of an- u- tate is one th ery much upon tll of ‘ repnublo .kmm; omt tho facts R o R | department Is always ready to state any law about which inquiry may be made, but It will not advise correspondents what right they have under the —_—— New peanut crisps at Townsend's. ¢ —_—————— Splendid alacuma at Townsend's. * —————— Palace cream taffy at Townsend's. * —— e e——— Delicious Roman caramels at Townsend's® —————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a Ib., in fire-etched boxes or Jap bukeN Palace Hotel, 639 Market street. —_—————— Specfal information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 ont- gomery street Telephone Main 1043 ————— Jones—What makes our elevator man so | lordly? | . Brown—Oh, he's just training to be a | janitor.—Detroit Free Press. —_—————— Republican Delegates Choose Their Route. The California delegates to the Republican | National Convention at Philadeiphia have an- nounced as the official route the Central Pa- cific, Union Pacific and Chicago and North- wistern raflways, and will leave San Fran- ¢isco Jume 12 at 10 a. m. on the “Overland Limited.” the §@%-hour flyer to Chicago. The round-trip rate of $38 §0 Is open to all. D. W Hitchcock, General Agent, Union Pacific, Montgomery street, an Francisco. 1 —_——— Highway robber (who has received from | his vietim a counterfeit thaler)—See here, { you! T'm not obliged to take a coin like MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. ( OG Were successful at Nome last kR " ’!l' All others failed. In opera. s SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS. successful pump manufactured. 625 Sixth st., San Francisco. Our centritugal pumps are going to Cape Nome. are you? Better buy one: just the pu-p for &' Co- cor: Fremont and wu‘o_ GOLD SFPARATOR. tion; In operation 26 Beale st E~GINES. eam. American Mfrs. Assn., SILVER-PLATED »MALGAM PLATFS. sion st., 8. 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