The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1900, Page 6

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NW cor- . open until § o clock AMUSEMENTS. r's Romance™ We Were Twenty-one." rner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties, and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Lacia” and “Huguenote.” utro Baths—Open nights motive the commis: Phelan ons to.adminster the he city government have ling executive sessions for the fairs as are under their dent desire to the meeting, the proce tinue the peopic soon be unable to obtain any work of municipal has ew charter sion a be- e service and commission has suci the charter makers of public business, r government, y they were care mission only should ood that tt ervision which should t d the Civil Service Com- n and the Board of hold secret meeting: All commissions have to perform and should be con- citizens may know what is s done roposition that unless the Con sioners are doing and are carrying on the affairs of hem it will be impossible for the wer good or bad service is or.jobbery prevails in the ¢ it to be forgotten that a resort ses a suspicion that there is some- ion desires to hide from the pyblic i honest, why should not all be oard of importance. Possibly and even probably- ug sis time no corrupt scheme has been secret session by any of the commissions, true that secrecy gives an oppo: nd affords a temptation to it. ght to know what the commis. it the duty of the press to The sooner. therefore, the practice ve session and concealing from done and said about public busi- he better it will be for the com- for if once popular suspicion of 1 it will not be easily allayed. sions are issions the wrongdomng be 2 ed it The Examiue again indulged its hat it of steal- ing the news. With that effrontery which charactérizes hardened t ef the yellow sheet has stolen one oi the famous surgeon, Dr. George Shrady, who is in this city at the instance of the New York Herzld and 1 Call to investigate the plague While The Call does not sanction theft it es the yellow kid on his ability to distin- which. is worth stealing. the repc A Detroit conventicn of ministers is convinced that our solemn duty placed- upon us by the glorious prin- ciple of expansion is to work toward that goal where we will assimilate with our new oriental citizens. The gentlemen ought to st: s in’ Chinatown. They will find that there is some enchantment in distance. Some. of the distingnished members of the United nate incline to the belief that ex-Senator Clark of Montana constituted littie more than a diver- sion ‘for the public. The gentlemen probably forget that “the public does not take kindly to an indecent exhibition. * 4 veverend ¢ States —_—— The industrious’ correspondents are .planning an- other war between Russia and Japan. -The story has been told so often that it does not now possess even the interest of a clever fiction. The “boxers” of California must feel a certain kind- Iy interest in the “boxers” of China. Both are very well aware that they are obnoxious to the public and bath are under the ban of official displeasure t the game with | CLEAN OUT D THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1900 CHINATOWN. R. SHRADY'S signed statement, which we publish in full this morning, gives to the people of San Francisco the information that while no living case of bubonic plague is known to be in Chinatown, yet a corpse has been discovered in which | evidences of the disease are manifest. It further makes known the fact that there is nothing in the situation to justify a panic, but that the conditions are such as to impose upon San Francisco as an imperative duty the thorough cleansing of the plague spot, even |if it have to be done by fire. The words of Dr. Shrady should be iimpressed deeply into the mind of every citizen. He speaks with the authority of a well-won eminence in science, and with no other pur- ! pose than that of guarding the interests of the city and of humanity. He says: “What seems to be necessary for San Francisco to do at the present juncture is to empower the health authorities to draw the fire lines. so to speak, round the infected buildings. Empty every infected House of its inhabitants. Keep the tenants in quaran- tine in some safe place, some house of detention, until all danger from the disease with them is passed. Then as to the house, let it be thoroughly disinfected that there shal! be no chance of any infection remaining. 1If that be imposSible, then resort to the radical measure of burning. ‘1 believe the safest thing to do with any infected house is to take no chance short of the firebrand. It may cost money, but what is money against human Tif Such is the counsel science gives. What response shall San Francisco make to the | We believe there will be but one answer: demand upon her? Clean out Chinatcwn, clean it out thoroughly, remove the plague spot from the city, leave not one of its foul buildings standing, nor one of its dark, dirty, underground passages unclosed. Purify the spot by destroying every Chinese habitation upon it. The work which San Francisco is thus called upon to do is one that should have been done long ago. Orther cities in the United States and in Europe have cleared out their slums by removing the dissase infected structures that stood upon them. What we bave to do is, then, nothing extraordinary in the history of sanitary improvement. only to follow the teaching of science. We have In no city in the civilized world is there a slum more foul or more menacing than that which now threatens us with the Asiatic plague. Chinatown occupies the very heart of San Francisco. 1t ig” a bit of the most degraded Asiatic filth set in the center of a city of Western civilization. At best it has been a disgrace to the municipality and a ource of wonderment to travelers that it should be tolerated. , So long as it stands so long will there be a menace of the appearance in San Francisco of every form of disease, plague and pestilence which Asiatic filth and vice generate. The only way to get rid of that menace is to eradicate Chinatown from the city, and see to it that in whatever quarters the Chinese take up hereaiter they live above ground, in clean houses, and with some re- spect for sanitary laws. To destroy Chinatown will of course cost money, but to permit it to remain will cost more. The scare which now prevails over the discovery of a few sporadic cases of plague has already cost the city a considerable sum in the loss of tradg and business. and beiore the alarm dies away it will cost the city and the State together a loss more than sufficient to pay for Chinatown twice over. It will be economy to destroy Chinatown, but of far more value than economy is the supreme consideration of human life. It is in the name of humanity itself that science de- mands the destruction of the pestilential quarter. - The issue is not one for discussion, but for action. There cannot be two sides to such a question. Clear the foul spot from San GAS COMPANY EXTORTION. Francisco and give the debris to the flames. OME time ago The Call in the performance of S its duty to the public found it necessary to point out the illegality of the action of the gas company in compelling persons desiring the use of gas to make a deposit with the company before it would furnish the supply. literally extorted from the public, and in the aggre- gate constitute a large sum of which the company has the use and from which it derives. a considgrable profit. Following the exposure of the fraud a test case was brought into the courts and judgment ob- tained against the company. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, fcr the gas company, like other corporations that practice extortions upon the pub- lic, will not surrender its illegal gains so long as it can possibly retain them. It is now evident that the fight made by The Cail for the rights of the people has had a good effect “Men who know their rights and knowing dare main- tain” are refusing to submit to the extortion. Judge Hebbard has just decided in the case of F. J. Bayer vs. the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company that the plaintiff is entitled to receive a supply of gas without making a deposit, and that the company in l.cutting off the gas supply of the plaintiff rendered it self liable for damages, which in the case before the court were assessed ai $20. Some features of the case are especially interesting. Ii is stated that in opening his account with the gas company Bayer yielded to the customary extortion of a deposit and placed with the company the sum oi $8. Last year the company presented Bayer with a | bill for $9 10, and Bayer offered in payment the cer- tificate of the deposit and $1 10 in coin. The com- | pany refused the tender and shut off the gas. Bayer ! then stood upon his legal right and gave the company a written demand for gas. The company yielded. The first bill presented to him was for $10 20, and once more Bayer tendered the certificate of deposit of | $8 as a part of the payment. The company, perceiving | it was dealing with a man who knows his rights and is | not afraid to defend them, surrendered and accepted | the payment. Bayer, however, having been subjected | te annoyance and damage by reason of the company’s | illegal actions, sued for damages provided by the | State law, obtained a judgment in his favor from the Justice Court, and the judgment, as we have said, has | now been confirmed by Judge Hebbard. | The case shows that if the people submit any longer | tc the extortion of the gas company they will have rone but themselves to blame. The law is on the | side of the public and the courts are ready to uphold it. The fact that the company surrendered to Bayer as soon as he asserted his rights is a proof that it has learned a lesson from the campaign which The Call started in the interests of the people. Tt will not fight any one who has the manhood to fight back.: Now let all who have been subjected to the extortions of the company follow the example which has been set them, and the vast sum of money which the company has exacted illegally from the public will be returned to its rightful owners, where it can be used in_the trade and industries of the city instead of serving the extortionate company as a source of dishonest profit. Since Mayor Phelan’s scheme to divert the lodge at Golden Gate Park from its legitimate purposes has been defeated his Honor might favor the city by con- tributing to some other public institution the little library in which, as The Call has already indicated, he is personally concerned. The old adage that there is luck in numbers must appeal to Lord Roberts with peculiar meaning. He has entered the Transvaal with a force ten times as great as the gallant foe he must meet. Such deposits have been | THE MARQUIS DE GALLIFET. ITH the retirement of General the Marquis de w Gallifet from the office of Minister of War the Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry loses the one man who gave it prestige in countries outside of France. Whatever view may have been taken of him by his own countrymen and by the majority of the Chamber of Deputies, the old Generl appeared to those who study French politics from a distance to be the one elear-headed, pure-hearted, strong man of the Ministry. It was expected that he would carry his weaker colleagues safely through all troubles that might arise, and prevent any change in the Ministry until the exposition closed, 2nd now, as another illus- tration that it is alw the unexpected that happens, he is the first to break down before the attack of the opposition and resign. The retirement is tlie more curious because from all we can learn in the dispatches from Paris it was caused by an attack led by Count Boni de Castellanc. Here is a case where a soldier of undoubtéd courage, a gentleman of the highest lineage, 2 man of stain- less reputation and a statesman enjoying the esteem of the world is beaten in a contest led by a young man whose vanities have made him the laughing stock of two continents. It is as if a lion had been driven from his post by a lapdog. Of course there is some motive for Gallifet’s action which has not been made public. The explanation of ill health is not regarded as sufficient even in Paris. Something is going on of which the world can only conjecture the nature, for it is certain Boni de Castellane must have had potent forces back of him to enable him to start an attack which would drive Gallifet from the Ministry. Whatever may be the cause of his retirement, the old General goes out of office with a record of which he may well be prond. When he eritered the Min- istry of War the French army was involved in the Dreyfus scandal, and it seemed as if the taint of dis- honor were upon the whole War Department and general staff. He was unknown to politics, but from his social pgsition and his character it was supposed he would uphold the clique that was seeking the de- struction of Dreyfus. It was announced at the time that the Royalists and all the reactionary elements in France were jubilant over his appointment. In a short time, however, he proved himself to be one 'of the soldiers who maintain the best traditions of French honor. He stood impartial at the trial, and when the end came he set about removing from the staff all who were in any disgraceful way involved in the scandal. He promoted and honored such officers as on the witness-stand proved that their conception of military discipline did not require them to be false to truth and justice. His task was to clear the army and France of the whole miserable Dreyius affair, and for a time it appeared that he had succeeded, but now on a mean side issue growing out of that scan- dal he falls before the assault of a mere dude. What will be the effect of the retirement of a man so much esteemed cannot be conjectured at this time. The Ministry on the whole is conservative and has been wisely directed. Public sentiment in France will be opposed to any change of administration until the exposition is over. Tt is probable the feeling of con- servatism will be strong enough to support the Min- isters against any attack that may be made upon them. Nevertheless it will be felt that a serious loss has been inflicted upon the Government, and the opposition will be encouraged to be more violent than ever in their assaults Since Mayor Phelan has honared us by thrusting his victorious pen into the arena of literature it might not be unwise for his Honor fo consider what he is eminently qualified to discuss—the scientific problem of how it feels to suffer from a total eclipse | the L e e e T AHE SMALLEI; COLLEGES. THE REV. PETER C. YORKE. L 4 \ Beimng the first of three articles parish in restatement of his argument before St. Mary's College that a deliberate attempt 1s bemg made to create a monopoly mn education mn this State. written for The Call | s by the pastor of St. Peter's graduates to the effect o - L4 * ‘+0+6—0—v* R G G DU PP DA SO SO S S S S s 4t i i ot o I understand Dr. Jordan aright he takes it for granted that Berkeley and Stanford aré institutions of the higher learning and that the smaller colleges are smaller not only in the number of their students but in the character of the education they give. While he differs from President Harper in matters of de- tall, he appears to accept the idea under- lying the Chicago plan, namely, that in some way the smailler colleges gave an inferior brand of education. He hints that they do not perform what they pro- fess to perform and that the cause of this lack of performance is want of means. In discussing this subject, it may be well for the present to leave Berkeley out of the question. It is the State Univer- sity, and perhaps as the State University it may have advantages not emjoyed by private corporations. Let us consider the case of Stanford. Stanford University is a private institution or college. It stands before the ‘people on precisely the same level as St. s College or the Univer- sity of the Pacific. This truth is ob- scured by the size of Stanford and by the ability and agility of Dr. Jordan. Never- theless the fact remains: Stanford is in the eyes of the State eatitled to no more rights or privileges than, for Instance, St. Peter's parochial schools. Hence if Stanford possesses any supe- riority over the smaller colleges that su- periority must arise either because it is bigger, or because it has better profes- sors, or because it gives more efficient ;e‘atchlng, or because it teaches more sub- ects. As to_the first element, 1 am glad that both President Jordan and rofessor Wheeler are convinced that there is no virtue in mere bigness. It is a consola- tion to know that they are not enrolled in the ranks of those who estimate every- thing -by size. Of course I said nothing about a university “which would measure God’s mercy on a yard of stick.” 1 did not say something about a university that would value education by = weights and measures. There are Philistines who im- agine that a big salary, a big building and a big crowd make a big school. The implied sneer in the terms ‘“‘smaller col- leges™” and ‘‘great universities” belongs to their habit of speech. As to the second element, it remains to be proved that Stanford has better pro- fessors than the other colleges. 1 have no desire to say a word derogatory of the gentlemen who teach at Palo Alto, but they will be the first to admit that there must be among them, as in every other body, members good, members bad and members indifferent.’ Up to the present their work has not been such as to en- title them to any particular pre-eminence among the other professors of California. Of course 1 mean real work; not drum- whacking. Moreov;‘er. I am not aware that the method of appointing professors in Stan- ford is such as to guarantee that they must be ‘real teachers.” ~Dr. Jordan waxes indignant at the attempt of cer- tain persons “‘to put” their own relatives or dependents into places designed for “real teachers.” How in the name of goodness are teachers appointed in our two “Great Universities?” ls it not by in- fluence? 1Is it not by recommenda- tion? Is it not, in plain Anglo-Saxon, by pull? I cannot see the slightest differ- ence in kind between the system of ob- taining lucrative employment in vogue among the ‘“better classes’” and the way the “push” gets on to a fat job. There is a difference in name, it is true. The child of nature revels in metaphors sug- i‘estlve of horsel ower and pll:r:lré\{‘e;:. ‘he college president uses a m - fled terminologY, but he gets there all the same. Indeed, it we are to look to antecedent robabilities, it is far more likely that t. Mary's College, for instance, has the superior staff. These brothers teach not for the salary, but because they have a vocation to teach. That vocation is so strong that they give up home ties and associations, the comforts of life and its ambitions in order to follow it, and it seems to me that a man's estimate of anything is to be judged not from what he gains by it, but from what he is will- ing to sacrifice for'it. I do not mean to say that vocation alove, or good will or devotion will make the teacher, because these things do not gh’e brains and train- ing: but brains and training being sup- posed, a teacher of the type of the Chris- ilan Brother stands head and shoulders above the teacher of the type employed in our “Great Universities.” As to the third element, it can be proved by facts that the smaller colleges give as CHcient teaching as Stanford, for exam- le. We can stand on the record. The iggest men in California in every walk of lffe are graduates of the small colleges. It is not necessary to name names. ervbody knows the facts. A college is a means to an end. A professor exists for hig students, not for himself. A fair test of a professor, therefore, is the result of his teaching as exemplified in the careers of his pupils. I do mot deny that ill re- sults sometimes follow the best of meth- 53 ods. But I am dealing with the normal, not with the odd. The record of the grad- uates, say of Mary's College, is the best testimony of the efficiency of St. Mary's College teaching. As to the fourth element, the apprecia- tion of its value depends entirely on what we mean by ediucation and on our conception of the functions of a teaching body. Dr. Jordan believes that a unive sity is “‘a place where a man can get il struction in anything.” Therefore it f lows to him that the more kinds of in- struction are given the bigger and better the university, * His criterion of educa- tlon is the ampunt of Instruction a man can swallow, and any one kind of instruc- “tion is as good as any other kind. He says “botany Is as noble .a study as Greek™; “it_is intellectually more profit- able to study Greek ten years than to study ten languages ome vear each™: “a thorough electriclan is better educated than a quack doctor, preacher or profes- sor.” Hence it naturally folows that Stanford Is superior to St. Mary's be- cause there are more professors in Stan- ford and the Stanford student can be stuffed earller with information and with more variety. Says Dr. Jordan: "By the time he is in his sophomore year the stu- dent ought to diverge toward his profes- sional work. To enable him to do this re- uires a great teaching force; something the smaller college cannot possess.” Dr. Jordan believes in speclau:lnf the studies thus early because according to him knowledge is valuable only as it is ransformed into action. “Whatever we T e says. “should be wi over into action.” e American university, in his mind, is superior to German thorough- ness and English culture precisely be- cause the American university leads on fo work. It is interesting as an index of Dr. Jordan’s habits of thought that there are no European systems of education worth mentioning save the English and the German. Dr. Jordan’s ideal of education seems to me to be raw, crude, shallow and ineffectual. You might as well say that a steam engine blowing its whistle is a better eungine than another at rest. ere is a_difference between power and action, and the end of education is not action, but power. Dr. Jordan’s use of the word education is on all fours with the gonular appli- cation of the term to that deeply interest- 1 al of our younger days, the educated pig. You can take dogs, mon- keys, horses, parrots—and I sugpose even elgian hare—and teach them tricks These tricks are are carried out ey are performed with thout number. complicated, the: such aceuracy, such aj nt spontaneity, that we fe hunp to deny the clever perlurm::ul ‘:IL use of reason. Yet they are as much puppets as the wooden dolls worked by Wires, except that the trainer uses living wires, stomach and the nerves that carry sen- sation from the skin. Man is a beast, but he is more. He may be taught as many A educati ruction is the nerves that lead to 3‘1: him tricks. In- st not education. Information is not learning. Botany is not as noble .nflnfimk. It may not be lect: ly more profitabl ten years | than to study year_each. horough N ma; not be well educated as a quack doo’- tor. A M““&?l electriclan may be just 11 educated as a 2 fayer or a thorough mmmm.c % certain mental or powers born in him, and the ¢ of ed cation is not to put these powers into ;: inte! Greek B R THE REV. tion, but so develop them that when they do o mto action they may go in at @& maximum of efficiency. Is a prize-fighter trained by being always in the ring fac- ing his opponent? Are there not a hun- dred things which he and his opponent must do which seem to have no bearing on boxing—a hundred things .rom whic! they must refrain. a hundred things which they must suffer? Is not rest, is not sleep as important to them as action? They have certain physical powers, and these physical powers are developed by a wide and varied course of training in Brder that at the proper occasion they may have the ability to concentrate them all on the one ebject. Actlon is the worst possible criterion of education. Why are children who are sent to work too early stunted as to their bodies? Why do plants which are forced to unnatural activity lose their vitality? Why does the field that never lies fallow degenerate into a worn-out waste, breed- ing but thorns? There must be power before there is action. All action exhausts power, but premature action cramps it, forced action blights it and unresting ac- tion destroys it. True education does not consist in get- ting students to do things. Above all true education does not consist in driving students before their time into special studies. The pigeon-hole system of edu- cation is the bane of our under-graduate universities. All specialties narrow the mind. If we go on dividing and sub- dividing groups of studies at our present rate of progress a new poet may arise, to whom the exemplar of all narrowness will not be the man with the hoe, but the man of one book. We take a boy from the grammar school and send him fto a special course at the “Great Universities. He goes in for mining. He learns the Greek names of a lot of rocks and several methods for breaking them up and finding out what is in them. It is true that Greek names look more learned than the plain monosyllables by which the farmer designates the different kinds of soil on his ranch, and chemical formula are more imposing than the rule of thumb methods by which the same farmer mixes his ma- nures: but between the two kinds of in- formation there is no real difference, and one is of as much value as the other for educative purposes. There is 2 difference. of course, in the man. The farmer may not be educated, and he knows that such knowledge as he has does not make him educated. The college boy may not be educated, but, unfortunately, he thinks he is. We have no right to do these things. of youth as Chinese women do their daughte: feet or Flathead Indians their sons’ skulls. It is a crime to de- ceive the young. There are “great” in Stitutions which line up bovs and girls instruction in that, and then say to them, “Go out into the world: beheld. yve are educated.” And God help them. They are no more educated than the yokel who sits on the fence is conversant with the man ners and customs of every cow under the jurisdiction, or the observamt lad who knows where, with a hent pin and a piece of thread, he can land twenty-one ent kinds of fish of a forenoon. All men are alike and all men are dif- ferent. The two propositions are true, but not under the same respect. All men are alike physically because each is 3 the same plan and like ShaKespeare's Jew, “fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer.” All men are alike mentally because their souls are created in the same image and likeness. Fundamentally think alike, will alike, plan alike, dream alike, just as they grow alike, walk alike, sleep alike or digest alike. Men differ one from the other, but they differ because they agree. One man has blue eyes. another black. but both have eyes. One man is slow of thought, another nimble, but both think. Now in training the body we do not begin by emphasizing the accidental differences. A certain boy may be weaker in his arms-than the nor- mal, another in his legs. We give both special exercise to bring them up to the standard. but we don't believe that the one is all arms or the other all legs. The training of the body is the same for all because the bodics of all are the same. In later life a man may make a specialty of exercises which demand a muscular torso or good calves, but whether he is to be a baggage smasher or a bicycle rider his general tratning i3’ one and the same. ore than that the moment he pegins to specialize he has to fight the tendency to deterioration experienced by the unused organs. If he has been thoroughly de- veloped before taking to a partienlar kind of exertion it will be easy for hém to keep himself in good all-round condition. If he specialized while he was immature he can never be other than lopsided. An old custom applies the name of gym- nasfum to the school. t is true.of the body is true of the mind. There is a training for the mind and it is the same for all. The reason must be trained to think aright, the will must be trained to choose aright, the 1 ion must be Informed, excited or controlled. When men have the power of reasoning correct- lv. when they have the kmr'\eége of the ideal and the habitua~ of aiming at it. when they can cxpress themselves with a certain propriety and elegance, then they are educated. Education is not what they know, but what they have the power to know; not what they do, but what they are able to do. Education, therefore, is all round and symmetrical. To train the reason and neglect the will is not educa- tion and a university that is wm,,w set aside that ancient and only. ous itrdnl!}cofl.be'l, . the inculca- tion. of a definite religious belief, is de- prived of haif its power. ersity that will not teach its s think and teach not wi al 't may have 500 professors and as many courses, but it is not educating "'.fl'.’g' 0 come to PETER C. YORKE. + B 40-000040000000-00460+0+0+00ds0-000000+0 We have no right to constrict the minds | v and dose them with instruction in this and differ- | built on | J T S S R e e I S 2 L e must go on during the plastic period and | continue until that period is past, so the | genera] training of the mind must go on uring the pericd of mental development and continue until the intellectual powers | reach those symmetrical proportions ! which provide against future lopsided- ness. With all respect to Dr. Jordan, | that period is not reached by the sopho- \{norm It Is a question if it is reached by |the graduates. Therefore the collége course is short emough for the genmeral training and the general training does not | require divergence to professional work {and a muititude of special instructors. | Hence Dr. Jordan’s claim that the coilege | education given in Stanford University | superior to the education given in the smaller colleges because Stanford ean af- ford to have more professors is as rea- sonable as the claim that the plain bread [ | buy in a bakery is worse than the same | bread bought at a confectioner’s, whero | they sall also candy and ice cream. A university is not a department store. It must have its professional schoals, but |its real work is dona not there, but in arts. | One can get a professional education any- where. One can _’9! a college education | enly at college. 0 say that the college | education given at Stanford is better than the college education given at St. Mary’s, | because Stanford has professional schools and St. Mary’s has none, is claiming credit | under false pretenses. ' Yet this is pre- cisely what not only Stanford, but all ths | so-called great unmiversities, are doing as. regards the smaller colleges. The claim may not be made in so many words, though the report of Dr. Jordan’s talk on ““Thé Higher Education of the Pacific Coast” comes very near it. In his Sun- day interview he asserts that the large universities “have many students because they meet the needs of many.” 1If the larZe universities obtain many college students because they have many profes- sjonal schools they are deceiving the pub- |lic. As a protest against that deception { I spoke at St. Mary's, for 1 belfeve It is injurious to the interests of true education and the common good. Yours truly. | P. C. YORKE, [ St. Peter's. San Francisco, May 39, 1900, | Father Yorke Will Preside. Henry Austin Adams, the distinguished | orator. will deliver his last lecture In this city to-night at Metropolitan Temple. Rev. Peter C. Yorke will preside and will address the audience. As both addresses will be lengtly. the programme will com- | mence punctuaily at 8 o'clock. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | SINGING VOICES-A B. €. ctty. Act- ors and actresses do not, as a rule, have singing voices. | PAN-AMERICAN | City. Several '~ Readers, | “Pan” = derived from the Greek {and means “all.” Hence pan- American is | all Amerfean. | FOR A TENT ROOF—E. D. R., City | For such paint o varnish as you desire for 2 tent roof vou should go to an ir class paintstore. | CEMENT-J. F. H., Bakersfield. Cal. 1t | You have mineral which you belicve to ba cement send a sample to the State Min- eralogist at the State Mining a1, Ferry Building, San Francisco. | ot At | VETERINARY—A. H. C. San Mateo, | Cal. This department cannot advertise | colleges that give instruction in the vet- erinary line. Any veterinary surgeon will direct you to such a place. PATENT RIGHTS—C. B. A., City. Tt you have cbtained a patent for a machine and parties have been manufacturing the machine. ignoring you, your remedy is by commencing civil action against the par s. FIRST PLAY—H. G. T., Ukiah, Cal. An author is paid for his first play provided it is a success. What the pay waould be is a matter of arrangement between the autbor and the manager of the the- ater at which it is produced. AT THE MINT—W. F. J., City. The mints of the United States will receive gold and convert the same into coin There is pl in the coins a small amount of afloy to harden the pure metal If a man is foolish enough to wish to de- stroy United States coin that belongs to himself he may do so, as it is his own rtoverty: but if he defaces it or debases it with intent to pass it as current coin he commits a crime. Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsen" pdunltaio . oot~ Specfal information suppited dany t» business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, e Wb ot Sy Like Iron. “Thefe’'s a suit, my friend,” saild the dealer, “that will wear like iron.” “3 ss that feller was no Har,” said the victim two weeks after. ““The suit is rusty already.”—Indianapolis Press. —————— Republican Delegates Choose Their Route. ‘The California delegates to the Repubiican National Convention at Philadelphia have an- nounced as the oMelal route the Central Pa- cific, Union Pacific and Chicago and North- western railways, and will leave San Fran- cisco June 12 at 10 a. m. on the “Overland Limited,” the §9%-hour fiyer to Chicago. The round-trip rate of 388 50 is m to all. D. W. Hitcheock, General Agent, Union FPacific, 1 Montgomery strest. San Francisco. ————— No well regulated househoid should be with- out a bottle of Dr.’ Stegert's Angosturs Bitters,