The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1900. Call. THE END OF THE BUBONIC SCARE. UBONIC plague does not exist in Chinatown. As an epidemic it never existed | there. That much has been made evident by the investigations of Dr. George F. { D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor, Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Man: 3 PUBLICATION CFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Tel 1868, Grand Opera-house—*‘14 r—*A Superfiuous Husband.” —Vaudeville When We Were Twenty-one.” and Eddy streets—Specialties. every afternoon and Mas: Theater—Vauder pia, corner Zoo mnd cis” and “‘Huguenots.” & Park—Courding to-ay. ng Park—Coursing to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Chase & Mendenhall—Monday, June 4 st 1732 Market Horses G. La yng—Monday, June 4, &t 11 o'clock, Horses, st t. LEGISLATION VERSUS DLEMAGOGY. foretold by The Call, the Democrats in joudly clamored manded governmental refused to support a proposed by the Repub- enounced with great vo- part of the Republicans ion as to ? give bin ns the evils that resuit atic leader, en- rdson, the Democr: owers to get He perm fect one. . This is a proposi- Il be b re the next session of Congress the peor This is a ra ze it when the ggested it in Chi- Since that d silent, but we are now You can either approve it st it mable to dodge the issue, and solution or go on ose the latter al- a long harangue in s are the resolution. hypocrites To 1i the Republicans on to pass the resolution it was in the sst resolution came up for debzte | Shrady, the eminent specialist who came from New York at the request of The Call and the Herald to seek oyt the truth and make it known. Every step taken in his signature. Nothing has been exaggerated, por has anything been concealed. The rumors arising from ignorance or from half knowledge have been refuted and the scare dissipated. The situation is cleared up. San Francisco has nothing to fear from China- | town if ordinary care be exercised, nor have other localities anything to fear from San Franciscor { Dr. Shrady’s final words upon the subject are emphatic and convincing. In an in- | terview published in The Call yesterday he said: “In consideration of the fact that the | people of the United States have expressed great uneasiness at the situation in San | Francisco, I want to declare positively that there is not the remotest danger of con- | tagion in San Francisco if the proper radical measures recommended are carried out. I ; do not apprehend any danger in the future. It seems to me so evident from the present condition of things that plague does not exist in San Francisco that I would not hesi- | tate to spend the summer in this city with my family if it were necessary so to do, be- | lieving thus that I would run no special danger and with the knowledge that I would be | absolutely free from contagion.” i The declaration of this eminent authority that there is no danger of bubonic plague |in San Francisco, based as it is upon conclusions drawn from a thorough investigation | which disclosed only a few sporadic cases of plague in Chinatown, and not one single liv- | ing case, will put an end to any further anxiety on the subject among intelligent people of all parts of the country. With that phase of the situation, then, we need deal no fur- ther. There remains to consider the counsel of Dr. Shrady given to the city itself; that of the duty of cleaning Chinatown of all its filth and disease-breeding germs, and keeping it clean hereafter so long as it stands in the city. | Upon that point Dr. Shrady’s language is worth noting and remembering: “You | must not make an excuse to clean the spot because there is plague here,” he said, “but you must act solely on the ground that the district is in a filthy condition.” That is the sum and substance, the pith and point of the issue. The movement for the cleansing of Chinatown is not called for by any menace of bubonic plague, nor: should it be un- dertaken as a temporary remedy applied to a temporary evil. It must be planned and directed toward the eradication of everything that is pestilential or foul in the Chinese quarter, and it must be’ maintained as a permanent part of the health regulations of the city. In other words, Chinatown must be first thoroughly disinfected, the underground burrows closed up, the buildings put into good sanitary conditions, and then the health | and fire regulations of the ¢ity must b.e enforced there with firmness and with thorough- | mess from this time on. i The prompt and liberal response which the business men of the city have made to the call for money to aid in the work of the health authorities .is in the highest degree | gratifying. Such large subscriptions and voluntary contributions to the fund will give to the country at large the amplest and best assurance that the people of San Francisco do not intend to take chances with pestilence, nor will they hesitate in applying the re- Guired remedy for such evils as exist, no matter what it may cost. : i Such being the condition of affairs, there need be no longer any anxiety about the plague, nor about any menace which may have been lurking in the slums of Chinatown. San Francisco is all right. | |ANOTHER UITLANDER GRIEVANCE. HENEVER the British Government W pletes the work of conquering the Transvaal | satisfying all the claims of the gold-seckers against Republic in the interest of the Uitlanders, and | the original possessor of the land, it will find more com~ WHAT VALUE HAVE THE PHILIPPINES? T is daily becoming more evident that the natural resources and commercial possibilities of the Philippines have been greatly overestimated. Every trained observer who comes home and tells his | story does something to dispel the illusion that in the investigation and all the results obtained thereby have been frankly stated over his own| * i | | | R. GOODWIN'S contention is un- doubtedly true. We are only a few tens of thousands of Vi from the pithecold ape and considerable portion” of the pub- lic does still “‘want the nasty things” of the stage. Little more than 200 years ago, as we may see in the comedies of Con- greve and Wycherley, the entire theater- going public wanted things put down even below the level of “Zaza" and “The Tur- tle.” Now the mudlarks are in a minority and the police have clipped their wings 80 that they cannot dive as low as they were wont. There has been some pro- gress. Mr. Goodwin's courage in tellling the mudiarking portion of the public just what he thinks of it is unconventional and admirable. But 1 cannot follow him when he claims that the presentation of a mere- tricious play is entirely the public's af- falr and not at all the actor’s. On this principle the public should allow an open market for the rotten fruit and diseased milk; the fellows who sell this rotten fruit and diseased milk should not be re- strained, for it must be the public’'s busi- ness whether it buy the stuff or not. Yet experience has shown it is both wise and necessary to prosecute sellers of diseased food; they ere enemies to the heaith of soclety, “‘Why blame the actor?” asks Mr. Good- win. rst, because an actor is a man and a citizen, who, like every other citi- zen, must refrain from any public exhi- bition that offends public morals; second, because an actor who expects the public to respect him must_respect himself. It looks a little as if Mr. Goodwin were fearful lest the public and the critics should take *“When We Were Twenty- One” for an immoral play or a forbldden topic. If this be so, I am sorry he gave us credit for so little power of discrimina- tlon. We understand, I think, that the theater is not a kindergarten; that it is not even a place pour les jeunes filles; | that it is rather an institution that ap- peals more powerfully than even the novel to a vast class of men and women; people who are capable of thinking for themselves, but who realize generalized truths most strongly when presented to them through the medium of the emo- tions. Such people ask only of the dra- matist that his treatment be serious and in conformity with the laws of human ex- peciorice:s This oliscrved, :there. are vory ew subjects they would consider im- proper for stage treatment. oS Nearly two years ago I expressed the opinion that George Bernard Shaw's “You Never Can Tell” (published in 189%) was the, best English comedy of the century. How the managers have managed to over- look it all tkis time passes my compre- hension; yet ’tis not so wonderful after all; the most intelligent manager 1 ever knew had never read and had but_acci- dentally heard of “Le Gendre de M. Poirier!” However, ager—Frank Curzon, I thin PO discovered Mr. Shaw in the land of his adoption. “You Never Can Tell” has just been produced at the Strand Theater with the most gratifying success, and some American manager has lost the chance of his lifetime. I have urged two managers in this country to consider the play, but they would not even read it. Mr. Archer has a long account of the play in the London World of May 9. He classes it as ‘a_philosophic extravaganza, ingeniously humorous, brilliantly witty and revealing under its irresponsible surface aspects an intellectual capacity of the first order. Though the managers have not yet dis- covered the fact, id’r. Shaw is assuredly one of the two or three leading forces to be reckoned with in the theatrical world.” I respectfully commend this play to Mr. Goodwin's consideration. It contains a part for him—the Seraphic Waliter—that would afford full scope for his whimsical humor. L The nineteenth century annual meeting of the Actors’ Fund was held in New York on the 15ith of May. Louis Aldrich was re- elected president and John Drew vice president. The president urged the pur- chase of a home in New York for old and disabled actors, where those now being cared for in outside institutions could be cared for more comfortably and with less expense. He also called attention to the fact that of the 631 applications for relief received bysthe society only 3§ were from members with dues pald. Vas there ever a profession contdining so large a propor- ton of grown-up children as does the The Actors’ Fund is one of the noblest 8vnd best administered charities in the United States. Shame on those who tra- duce it; who bite the hand that feeds; who refuse it their support while in prosperity, but rush to its sheitering arms at the first breath of adversity! These wretches re- ceived from A. M. Palmer a well merited castigation, in words no less true than eloquent. He sald: ‘“The cruel things that are sometimes said emanate for the most part from those people who have never taken the trouble to enroll themselves in the mem- bership of our fund, and the cruelest and meanest thing they can utter is that which they seem most ready to utter, namely, that our president and our of- ficers are merely secking. in all they do for the poor people of our profession, to get advertisement and glory for them- selves. Never was there a greater slan- der. Never was there a more viperous lie.” The truth is, that to the faithful and loyal worker in a cause like ours there comes a glory which rises far above all considerations of esteem ‘r praise or pub- lic or private recognition on the part of others. It is a glory which such a one has within himself. "It is the satisfying reflection that, as he has passed along 2 through life he has been able to live some- | times outside of self, to do somfething to ease the burdens of the poor, to smooth the pillow of the sick and to make lighter even the shadowy pathway to death. And if to him there never comes even a whis- pered ‘Thank you' from the objects of his care nor a word of appreciation from the Some London man- | lookers on, it affeats him not, for there is k—has at last | still left an inward satisfaction, a glory ST jYLE'. _pooee and an exultation of thought over the good he has accomplished, which is to him a _possession far richer than any amount of public praise. “Such is the glory that these good and true men of this Actors’ Fund, whom I see around me, possess to-day, and no matter what the malicious and the en- vious may say, such, and such only, is the glory they covet.” I am not sure but that there is a play In Mr. W. C. Morrow’s excellently written novel, “A Man: His Mark” (Lippincott). There is certainly a fine theme—the hero- ism of a man whom nejther detraction nor the opportunity for revenge can turn aside from the performance of duty—and there are also at least two intensely dra- matic situations. The order of scenes in the play would have to differ from that in the novel; rearranged, they would come about as follows: Act 1 would be laid In San Franeisco an would center around Laura. It woul show her quarrel with her loyer due to her jealousy of Ada; her plan for reveng- ing herself upon Ada by convincing Wil- der that Ada had thrown him over, the means by which she carried out this plan and the resultant death of Ada. Wiider, of course, must not be allowed to ses Laura in this act or to have the least su: plcion that she is the cause of Ada’s death. Act 2 would show the interior of Wilder’s hut on the slopes of Mount Shas- ta. To this rude refuge he would bring ura, whom he had rescued from a Jan- uary storm, In which her father had been killed. (In ghis act I would have none of the traumaflirgy and the chirurgery with which Mr. Morrow has g.m'u ully be- sprinkled the scene and which constitute, it seems to me, a blemish in his work.) In the course of their conversation Laura should tell to Wilder the story (just as she does In the novel) of how she separat: him from Ada. Here is one of the two dramatic situations I referred to. Then would come the tremendous sceme In which he denounces her as a murderess, threatens to execute justice upon her, but finally, recalled by sense of what is due to her sex and position, stays his hand. | Act 3 would show Laura and Wilder still imprisoned in the hut, would show him weak and ill from starvation endured that she might have sufficient from scanty stock of food; would show her unconscious of this part of his sacrifice, yet touched and softened by his thoughtful care for her; would show the honorable deception by which he makes her mistake Mmt.h::r Dr.” Malbone: would conclude with e rescue by the real . Malbone: the revelation by him to Laura of the real situation and the death of Wilder in the arms ‘of the woman who had so cruelly wronged him. g This play would have no comie relfef: this play would end tragically, because logically; this play would be a ‘represen- tation of an improbable but quite possible serjes of dramatic happeni true to life. For having written a novel from which so ratfonal and Interesting a play could be constructed Mr. Morrow must of course be duly penalized. And he will be, for in the present condition of the theatrical | market no one will dare to dramatize his book. METHODIST MISSIONARY ON CHINA’S CONDITION! . EV. I. T. HEADLAND, a Me‘hudh( missionary in China and one'of the professors of the Peking Univer- sity, recently passed through San Francisco on his way East. Being Ted-0Q L R R e e R PERSONAL MENTION. J. S. Hermann, a merchant of Fresno, | is at the Lick. John Drew, ‘the noted actor, is back again at the Palace, to remain over Sun- day. H. C. Woodrow, a well known mine owner of California, is a guest at the Oc- cidental. E. McLaughlin, a banker of San Jose,. a man of education and research mocrats to show the fact by voting | work of the same kind awaiting attention in West- compelling the Republicans | ern Australia. Ik appears the discovery of th_e go}d— t it. Nothing could | fields in that province has produced there a situation ) expose an sy of the kind | almost identical with that which prevailed in the 1, but the result proved that Bailey | Transvaal just before the war. e confidence enough in his own | A correspondent of the London Westminster Ga- a test. | zette, in describing the controversy now going on ¢ up the debate Dalzell pointed out that |in the province, says that prior to the discovery of e between the political parties on this | the goldfields the growth of population in Western Yemocratic and Populistic parties | Australia had been so slow that when responsible »sition to speech-making, while the | government was finally granted in 1890 the total ieves in legislation. The Repub- | population was but” 45,000, 'and the annual revenue on, placed on the statute-books | scarcely exceeded £400,000. At the end of 1898 the anti-trust law. The Democrats | population was estimated to be nearly 170,000, and the 32 on a platform containi revenue was £2,600,000. The increase in population as almost entirely due to immigration from the re and ¢ to vote ag the Government refused to comply, on the ground of the greater stake in the country possessed by those employed in agricultural and pastoral pursuits. When it was made certain the Western Australian appeals to his colleagnes to stand You charge us with bad faith. You say constitutional amendment that infringes the far-disiant China Sea we have wrested from the Span- iards a second El Dorado. ¢ The unconscious testimony of an unwilling witness is always the best.. Such testimony is offered by Mr. George F. Becker, United States Geologist, who in the June Scribner’s answers in the affirmative the question, Are the Philippines worth having? The facts he presents hardly justify his conclusion. First, as to climate. The statistics of rainfall and temperature which Mr. Becker presents seem to show that white men ought to be as healthy in the Philip- pines as in our Southern States. But the reports of our army surgeons show conclusively that they are not, and the loads §f dismal dead—few of whom have been killed in batfle—brought home by each return- the Gulf States either—this contention overlooks the consnde‘ration that you do not solve a complicated domestic problem by adding to it a complicated for- and having mixed freely for ten years with every class of Mongolian, his views on the situation in China are of interest. He said the spread of the Christian faith and even its very existence depend abso- lutely upon the success there of the party of enlightenment. “If the Empress Dowager had her way and were not kept in chéck by the fear of foreign intervention there would not bs a missionary left alive in China to-day, sald Rev. Mr. Headland. “The unruly section of the lower or criminal classes, secretly encouraged by the authorities, is only too anxious to seize every opportun- ity for assauiting European missionaries, whose presence, as foreigners, Is intense- 1 sagreeable to them. The Chinese (go\'gl"nmenl. powerful as it is, professes itself unable to suppress these bandits, whose excesses imperil the life of every but in actual practice .they have been found to employ the ugliest of Wweapons, such as knis, stones and clubs. Allied with them and still more dangerous is the ‘Big Knife Society, Whose name explains itself. These men means only, is at the Occidental and will remain in the city over Sunday. Dr. H. D. C. Barnhart of Santa Cruz and Dr. S. L. Blake of Weaverville are guests at the Lick. M. Gibson, an official of the Canadian Government, residing at Hamilton, On- tario, is at the Palace with his wife. E. A. Brinkerhoff, a wealthy resident of Englewood, N. J., is at the Palace, ac- companied by his wife and four daugh- ters. Ge®rge T. Myers, a wealthy salmon packer of Portland, who has been in the city all week with Mrs. Myers, left last night on the overland for home. He has been a member of the Oregon Legislature for seven terms and is again a candidate. —_————————— Mr, J. Wesley Griffith, principal of the ing transport prove that the tropics are indeed th in the interlor provinces. i - 3 e | missionary 1n % Healds Business College Night School steps to enforce the law ern Australian States. T:“ :“d not beea 1‘1"33 white man’s grave. gggggdo;c'ggg’:'u}sy‘°;§‘:“§‘,’,.y“f{.‘:§;§‘n and wife leave to-day for a seven montha! The great Populistic- | in their new homes before they began to complain | - gor the ynskilled white laborer the Philippines offer | foreisners, but they 1oy g.,“:%?e“‘%‘éfi P iand, Irelana, Scotiand. Belgtum, Hole der at Chica declared tha | that the expanding revenue was being spent to an e blackmail upon thel el e land, Italy, Switzerland and Yy the ler at Chicago declared that a cor | 5 _ > ¢t i no advantages whatsoever. This is now generally | most powerful of these ‘Z«i{f““i e, 18 Paris Exposition. & t should be p?.:(f‘d giving Congress | €Xcessive extent in t{he mxi‘_'e:ts ? '.lf c\?ezse:tati::; recognized, and Mr. Becker grants this fact as “seli- .sf-ci;‘lfledTE::'grs,w}‘;vlgg!ebemgneimnsl#ed regulate trusts. “Yet, when we come | icts, and to agitate for parliamentesy represchiation | cvident His contention that if this be a valid ob- | B e e teation s fo BUNKER HILL DAY TO BE th that very remedy, the leader on | 0 Proportion to their numbers. With this request |eoion ¢ nolding the Philippines we should not hold | 0btaln Vietory by the use of matural FITTINGLY CELEBRATED Committees Complete for the Big Outing to Be Held ts power of the States should be passed. Your objec- ¢ eign problem; h a bolo or machete almost tion is mot to the form, but to the subject. The | GOvernment would not concede them the desired T]g g . y;Ju merely. make matters worse. fi?ef?\:gran;nd their favorite method of e This l.:nth. i P Sy : . . % centation the Uitlanders organized a “Gold- | -1 prosperity of the Gulf States depends upon |execution is by decapitation. They are b i by > gy o proposed by the gentleman from Texas al- | fePresentatio Fesponsible for the recent assassination of by the committee In charge of the cele- | fields’ Reform League,” and began to agitate for the | establishment of a separate government of their own. | The district which they proposed to have organized as T cient Supreme Court has decided that it With that remedy alone Congress is ready ex isnot s negro labor, and the negro Question is the most dif- ficult and dangerous public question with which we have to deal to-day. ‘missionary Booth at Shan- e A ton orime, for which ihis tung, a Gmingornment is at the present moment de- redress. mflfi?fix‘mlly enough the misslonaries bration of Bunker Hill day. The execu- tive committee held a meeting in Ploneer Hall last evening and adjourned satisfled that the celebration to be held at Glen- powerless. If the trusts are not to be frightened at . ; : If not a train 1 i i & wood on the 16th of this month would sur- the prospect of this Jegislation it is bacause they know [ the state of Goldfields is said to contain more than i B ed:ogo!ogut, Mr. Becker is & trained {‘.?r"xfmzfifi" “tnhranghl:tm:cgfler:;;ermr&? {‘!:: ass all previous affairs of its kind. The : half the present population of Western Australia, and 8 gist. lis admissions as to the poverty of the Whole of Mongolia. OJZ THE REV. L. T. HEADLAND. cond giment band will be there to between it and them stands the Democratic party ! in solid phalanx. You believe in demagogy on the we believe in effective legislation upon the yet it has only ten representatives in an Assembly of | fifty members, and but six in a Legislative Council of thirty members. As an illustration of the injustice of the situation it is pointed out that in one of the older towns of the province 235 electors choose two representatives in the Assembly, while only one is ok Nith ¢ allotted to the 3370 electors in Northeast Coolgardie. C?: ,: Dc\n:;r::c 2?:;::::?:;;3]?;8;{ ;:: It is not at all likely that t}.|e agitation will ever 3 ¥ | be much more than a tempest in a teapot, and yet it stump; statute-books. That is an exact statement of the attitude of the parties on the subject. Bryanism is for demagogy on epublicanism is for legislation on ths Philippines in gold, iron, coal and forests have there- fore a value which cannot be claimed for his political theories. Of gold he says: “I have been able to ob- tain no information warranting the belief that there is any highly important gold-field in the archipelago. * * * I consider the gold resources of the Phil- ippines comparable with those of the Carolinas and Georgia rather than with those of Colorado or_Cali- fornia.” The so-called coal he declares to be “not 1oy Other forelgners, engaged in commercial or professional ursuits, live at the treaty ports, where hey are under the protection of men-of- wat guns, The missionaries fearlessly Talte Their lives Into their own hands and with more zeal than discretion penetrate hundreds of miles into the interfor, even as far as the sacred mountain of Tain, 50 miles from the. coast. Their lonely sta- tions are constantly exposed to attack and the handful of converts which they may gather round them is rather a source of danger than security. Yet, strange- ly enough, it is to these very missionaries t¥|a! China owes the initiation of ,the | Lt 2 ot 2o ot 2o o 2o o viser, also incurred the Dowager's dis- gleuure. and he would promptly have lost is head had he not made a dramatic es- cape to Hongkong. There he established himself as the head of the revolutionary Junta, which has now ramiflcations in all parts of the world wherever Chinese are to be found. “The deposition of Kuang marked the | initiation of the era of despotism and crueity under which the once patient Chinamen are revolting. There was no discourse delightful music for those who dance. The patriotic literary programme, although short, willl be excellent. Merton C. Allen, the well-known journalist and orator, will deliver the oration. Mrs. Eva Tenny will sing the “Star-Spangled Ban- mer,” and other selections will be =i dered by the Bmalada Quartet. FI thousand daintily finished folders are now | out and ready for distribution. | * Fully forty valuable articles for the games and races. More than usual | Interest is be}lng !{m'nlcin ‘zh:h?tu:hfln S it is eviden featince wil Invitations have con able number of voters will be fool & . 2 » . s igni t movement now in course of devélop- | longer any check on the Dow: i e willl be large. P sbne kot boled when | ;" teresting illustration of British nature that so | true coal, but a lignite-of the eocene age. * * * |&rcatm IorEowor, AR & Mere formaliis pie Lot | been xtended to ail patriotic societies. e anites renew their howlings against trusts Its heating effect is from’two-thirds to three-quar- | , '-The story affords a curious commen- | pointed a boy, Pu Chen, as Emperor. His | State, city and county officials, the four much rage has arisen throughout the empire against the Boers for restrictions placed upon foreign gold- seekers in the Transvaal while the Australians them- selves are placing exactly the same kind of restric- | tions upon the gold-seekers in their country. ~ The Boers have the justification that they were trying to protect their republic from domination by an alien race, but the Western Australians have been guard- ing themselves against their own countrymen. It is | thetefore clear that if the British Ministry had even g campaign. CUR STREET AR@BS. FEW days ago The Call directed attention to necessity for enforcing the compulsory This necessity is emphasized by 3 1ed reportyof the school census or the year ending June 30, 1900, ters that of Cardiff coal” Of iron ore all that Mr. Becker can say is that it “exiéfs in Luzon.” He has- tens to add: “Without true coal, however, the iron industry cannot become a great one.” The forest area he estimates at 40,000 square miles. The insig- nificance of this is brought out when we remember that the Pacific States alone contain 53,000,000 acres of forest land, the United States 500,000,000, in addi- tion to 850,000,000 acres. of waste or unoccupied land tary on the contradictory phases of the Orfental character. The last Emperor, Kuang Hsu, though brought up strictly within the confines of the palace and ed- ucated under the watchful éve of his aunt, the Empress Dowager, displayed liberal tendencies of the most alarming char- acter. This sort of thing, of course, proved too much for the watchful Dow- ager, and as there was no telling where it would end, she cut the reformer’s career abruptly short by de- posing him. While abscrbed in the study of St. Luke's Gospel he was seized one day and removed to a lonely isle, where supposed to be. Every precau- rromlslng young- 1 only claim to the thronc is that he is brother of this old woman's hulbu\d_tgg master. Though the nominal ruler of ¢his vast em‘flre, the lad is but fifteen years of age, and under the guidance of the Dow- ager is already versed in all the unfath- omable wickedness peculiar to the rich Chinese. All the teachers selected for the boy are of the most conservative char- acter, and even should he live to attain his majority China has little to hope from bis ni\le. Meam;thl; the Dowager Is se- cure in power, othing shos Iutlon ean eiit her. and tniess the grow- ng strength of the reform par her hand she will contis et e ! jeties comprising the Bunker HIll As- éfiémnf‘éoé’s of Q‘ermnm. Sons of the | American Revolution and the Ploneers. ———e———— Confirmation Services. Confirmation services will be held thts evenimg at the Bush-street synagogue, commeneing at T o'clock. During the ser- | Willie Stern, one of last i!‘ec;r'.n:“:l: rmants, will deliver a sermon oh “Remember Thy Creator.” The follow- frg nmamed will be confirmed by Rabbi Isidore Myers: Leona Breslauer, Mabel b3 . Esther Indig, Blsie Kahn, N jf;:hg'llar&mw(tl. Clemense Marx, m According to this report the number of children | : ; i 3 i he 1s st nue to gove &L . | the shadow of right to interfere in the Transvaal for | capable of timber production. is_taken to prevent his escape, and | China th Ly e . and 17 in our public schools was 50587 | tre “egortion of BriG jects, i R : e Soidiers” guatding him are Shinged | clusive lines. Roping. by plaving ‘Si aas | Pemusch, David Gatmaan, Loe” Himee 9311; tobal, SpROBF The nunbes ot | the protection of British subjects, it has an unques- % — dafly so as to obviate any possibllity of | great Dower agAINSE angther. to pemipons | Iin Avihur Jacobs, Mortis Katz. Bacas s it A A A BV um‘ f.f o8 | tionable right to interfere in Western Australia. There is one part of Chinatown at least which will | £ry g‘,",‘;-,,"n;":,,.{ e kimes R ad- | :'Lf‘;fl.’;‘.‘."y the threatened partition of her | Levy Stmop Lutz, ‘David Newman, Lu- b Wt ool public or | yypether anything at all will be done by the Minis-'| not suffer seriously from the quarantine. Sullivan A glen Reiss, rm and Abraham This showing is a trifle better of last year, but there are still far too many ing the streets or working for the sup- | | try is doubtful, but the correspondent of the ‘Gazette says: “The idea of a separate state need not perhaps be entertained seriously, though the reformers are tains 26,000 signatures. The interesting point will be whether, granted the undeniable and great under- representation of the goldfields in the Western Aus- tralian Pariiament, Mr. Chamberlain can, with any shred of consistency, abstain from bringing the strongest pressure to bear upon the Western Austra- with shot, powder and whisky; wha} are to civilize our own street arabs? se 18,656 children who ought to be in school ho are not the State of California pays the city Francisco the sum of $167,004. That money alley has been so completely isolated by permission of the authorities that its former “exclusiveness” could not be increased. . for the mobility of their armies, but the Filipinos can discount them. Aguinaldo can get ot of sight while Oom Paul is saddling his horse. If Kruger intends to fulfill his threat “to stagger humanity” before he surrenders to the British it is ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CALLED IDLEW]LD—Subscriber, City. | DRAW PEDRO—E. W. S., Vallefo, Cal. In the game of draw pedro the count is high, low, jack, game and pedro. If A has two to and holds deuce and ten, and B has fg?ll‘ to and holds ace and jack (jack coupting 5;’. B goes out t. FORCES IN S8OUTH AFRICA—Several Subscribers. About the middle of last ern slope of the Dreckenberg Mountains: The name is also given ::gwusmre, a arish of England; to a piece of territory States in 1550, between 100 and 103 degrees Wwest, north of Texas. It was not included under any Government, though often wrongly represented as in the Indian Ter- ritory. "It now constitutes Beaver County, Oklahoma. This strip was at one time called Cimarron, —_———— Services at St. Francis. —_—— Grace Carew Sheldon Here. Miss Grace Carew Sheldon of Buffalo, N. Y., is in San Francisco. Miss Sheldon who ought to be supporting them. i i e ] Th seat of Willlam K. Vander-/| .3 Dukes County, Mass., southwest of | z 2 e 4 asking for it fn a petition to the Queen which con- e e _country s 3 o Martha's Vineyard, a > is the author of two books and Is also a 2t home. We are civilizing the 2 # A great deal of praise has been given to the bilt 15 calied “iclewild,” not “Idie HOur." | 1o district ceded by Texas to fae [/nited | Journalist. She was the first mewspaper g S gr oers pape: woman permitted speech on the platform at the Internaticnal Press Congress held in Paris“in_1865. Her short address, deliv- ered In French, recefved the honor of in- corporation in the minutes of the con- gress, the only instance of such a dis- tinction being accorded to her sex. Miss Sheldon is “making a note of it” and will write on California on her return to the East. 1 be spent for the education of those children |1 i i 2 fian Ministry in order that such adequate representa- | p; 3 for him t £ tember th bout 11,000 y The Children of Mary and the Holy not for the education of some other children. | ion may be accorded to the mining communities as mhzhd :fne ;r D et o ’?}"*‘" will | SEhieh 500»5' o Bouth Atrica. ~There | Childhood Sodality of St. Francs G b rowassidra® Iere is 2 problem which demands the earnest ¥ CSE m off. were 13,000 in Natal on October i1, and at | Wilt receive holy communion at the 7:3) glace fruit 50 per 1> at Townse! “ S con- | ghall enable them to redress their grievances. the same date 5000 in Cape Colony. Sub- | 0'clock mass to-day. In the evening the S e eideration of the Board of Education during the sum. - According to o 4 £ sequently 5000 came over from India with | Vespers will be rendered by a choir of the | NOw ready, July styles Standard pat- ey watation R Sl B 4 3 ; 2 lfll reports m Paris no one can see | Sir rge White. 5 entlemen’s sodality. A sermop on “The | terns. Domestic office, 1021 Market st. * me ation. Another g year should not be | The postoffice frauds in Cuba have given McKinley | the exposition without having money to burn, and it | NO MAN'S LAND—R., Vgllombrosa, | preashed bw the frori i e Corabay FEIEDC R allowed to open without something _bemzz done o | chance to adopt and live up to Grant's famous or- | s almost like lighting ten-dollar bills to see the |Cal, *No Mam's x:‘na"v;luwgmuu.y e i tue it syoted Sallv b improve the present of i > | n ” 4 i s, plied on of South Africa between | pu : depiu:fl:mdlhon’ a&anlm,"u.mmmmgpe . |sights. 3 Bh Fatar e o bt 5 Ards-nlnflul ngmufigu:‘m wmwuwu.nn,m ut- s