The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1900, Page 18

THE FOURTH IN PARIS. HE California Commission to the Paris Expo- T sition calls upon the newspapers to contribute money toward a Fourth of July celebration in | Paris, under its auspices. . . R s | We decline to contribute to this festive occasion in a2 ions to W. S, LEAKE, Ma | the French capital. California has not fared so well <.ee.s.Telephone Press 204 4t the hands of the State and Federal Commission as Third. 8. F. 1o induce a festive fecling at such long range. Gaur wines have heretofore been shown in interna- | tional expositions and have had award: certifying They are now better ihan ever. The vintage is better under- SPRcCKELS, Proprietor. 2ddress Al Commun MANAGER'S OFFICE. PUBLICATION ® CDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. their high merits. The industry is older. tal necessary to carry our wines to proper bottling age, and they reach the market in better form than ever. But, by submission to intrigue, or inattention to duty, they have been excluded from competition, and are out of the iunning entirely. The pretext upon which this has been done is that they bear French names. Therefore our apricots and prunes | should be ruled out because they go under the same name as apricots and prunes produced elsewhere. It might have occurred to some one in our sumptuous outfit of Commissioners that they bear French names Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE. . ..1118 Broadway NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: stood. The industry has now embarked in it the capi- | .. Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: SMITH...... 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Premont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWES SETANDS: Waidort-Astoria Hotel; A Bremtano, 51 Unios Square: Murray H Hotei. WASHINGTON D. C ....Wellington Hotel MORTON E Correspondent tgomery, corner of Clay, open open untl $:30 o'clock. 633 lock. €15 Larkin, open until BRANCH OFFICES —£27 until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market. $ o'clock. pen until § o'clock. open per 1096 Valencia, open W cor- K ntil 9 o clock AMUSEMENTS. A Day and Night of the Gh: Monday, * to-morrow night. and JEFFERSON @ND CROKER. H T has True, camy one man- there J and Senator rman. But the real Richard Croker. Colonel ittee support of and the director g is dore until Mr. supposed last year that e Saratoga conference ut another candidate. \ir. Croker’s arrival in New his estate in England. The for Bryan as soon as n estate, which is the rein is. The Sara- 15 be boss of but orator himself saw a sec- glass darkly. Since 1 with his natural Bryan's nomination. en- ker has reached » Tweed and Joha he Den from Tammany ce spirit of Tilden, who York and hunted Tweed faded out, and a acy back to prison Tweed albeit a neater looter er of dividends of po- litical ement, is accepted without qualm or question as the t I s pe platitude Colonel ng his idea of audience to take Hanna. Without very handy at s fortune was made e upon great en- yed labor and paid wages. Not a to him, and he y after his supremacy in the busi- coln to Mar fend Hanna, for he s can be trace ness world had been acquired. Mr. Croker is a very rich 1 His n surely outnumber Hanna's He has not for years followed any legitimate busi- ness, and w he ceased to engage in any open and honorable occupat He had not even by 1 v investme earned money laid a foundation of business and went into politics very dollar of his vast fortune has been acquired in the expert manipulation of the rers, or by the toll taken out of e Tammany machine ve any legitimate investment 1at abor t employs and wages. business of tithing drunk- e. he desired to stand before nean men. So he bought an England, where with ives like a lord, only visiting it becomes necessary to dictate the i v, which is the cat he e his abundant store wds he invite the cttention of Colonel m Jefferson to Dick Croker. It d from such a height to such a stoutest parachute will be in rags be- start and finish. Every dollar of Croker's ions has on it the tears of shame, the curses of the T e sweat of the taxpayer. The Demo- cratic party has been trained to do his Witing as t mice old gentleman, Mr. Fagin, trained Oliver wist to fake wipes We suppose there gre moments when Colonel Dyran rests from his labor of carrying his whole be- lcved country on his back and lays the United States down, as a mother does her baby. If such moments there be, will Colonel Bryan, while he keeps the flies off the mewling and puking republic, please tell us what he thinks of the contrast between Thomas Jef- ferson and Dick Croker? We may then judge of the degeneracy of a party that has declined from the statesman who founded it to the boss who drives it 2s he does one of his English coach horses. because our vineyards have been planted from French stock, which has retained the names borne in France. The presence of a wine expert like Charles Wetmore or Captain Niebaum or Mr. Rossi would have been felt beneficially by this State. But none such was present. It is noted by returned visitors to Paris that in many other respects we have got the worst of it in the management of our affairs by the commission. We will celebrate the Fourth of July at home and the commission can do the star-spangled act in Paris, if some one does not forbid its use of “Old Glory,” be- | cause its stars and stripes are the same color as the French tricolor, in which event we suppose it will submit as it has to every other encroachment offered. Indeed, the commission seems to have officially ac- quiesced in the condemnation of our wines. It was furnished with a complete variety of wine in large quantities, to be used in private and official hospital- ity. The only official function of which we have no- tice, in which our commission has been the host, was an elaborate banquet given to Commissioner M. H. de Young. A copy of the highly illuminated menu has been received. ‘The affair was at the Hotel Ritz, on June 6. The meuu was gotten up as a souvenir, and the banquet was at the expense of this State, paid for out of the $130.000 appropriated for the yse of this commission. In the menu is the list of wines used at the feast and paid for by the taxpayers of this State, and there is not a single California wine in the lot! Of course our taxpayers and wine-growers will feel like leapirogging each other to pay for a Fourth of July spread in which California wines will be discred- ited by this remarkable commission. How can the State expect any different treatment from what it is getting at the exposition, when its offi- I cial representatives snub its own products and put its wines on the swill list, instead of giving them place on the bill of fare at their official functions? We do not wish to be understood as attaching blame to Mr. de Young. He was the guest of the California Commission, and of course had to eat hay and drink stump water if the Commissioners set it be- fére him. . When one thinks of it, there is a feeling of wonder that the Commissioners do not snub the Fourth of | instead of celebrating it. It is quite an Ameri- July ca American products which have been ruled out by the in the world’s competition and under the world’s eye. We regard the action of the commission as inflict- ing a deeper injury than the exclusion of our wines fom competition, since it is their official indorsement of a most prejudiced zpd harmful judgment. The donors of the wines given to them- for hos- pitabie use are doubly despoiled, since their pro- ducts are injuriously discredited and' the money “is tuken from their pockets to buy foreign wines to grace an official banquet and supply guzz?: for official throats. WHAT SHALL THE COLLEGE TEACH? N his “Congideration of Herbert Spencer’s Essay iucation” (July Cosmopolitan): President on Jordan points out what progress has been made since the publication, same forty years ago, of that epoch-making little book and adds two generaliza- tions not without value. The first of these is that the curriculum Spencer advocates is evidently planned for the average cultivated manand overlooks the needs of the exceptional man—the man, for instance, “who is born to mipister to the esthetic feelings of others and to those alone.” For such a man the road to cul- ture may be found to be almost entircly within the confines of the old classical curriculum. The second generalization is that “each course of study must be individual,” and that “any prearranged course of ad- vanced study is an affront to the mind of the real student.” This statement must stand or fall according to the interpretation you give to the word *“ad- vanced.” Nowhere in the course of his article does President Jordan say just what he means by “ad- vanced study.” The common meaning of “advanced studies” in a mnodern American university is studies among, which the student is allowed to choose after he has com- pleted his sophomore year—that is, after he has mas- tered those elementary subjects which are, properly speaking, not university work at all. If this is Presi- dent Jordan's meaning for “advanced,” we fully agree with him, for the young man of twenty who has been two years in college and finds himself unable to decide upon a specialty should at once retire from the university If by “advanced” Presi- dent Jordan means all college studies, we cannot think that he is wise in declaring that a prearranged course of studies for the first two years is “an affront to the mind of the real student.” Most boys who go to college are not “real stu- dents”; they know too little of life, too little of the comparative values of different kinds of knowledge to be able to answer Mr. Spencer’s famous query, What knowledge is of most worth? This is a question which in its early stages should be answered for them by those who have studied the science of education,’ | and the editor of the Cosmepolitan is quite right when he declares that President Jordan’s article does not answer this question at all. swerable, unless we are to confess that the world has | learned nothing about education between the time of | Plato and the time of Jordan. { Let us disregard, as does Mr. Spencer, the man | who, as the poet and the ichthyologist, is born with s decided a bent in one direction that no curriculum | can turn him in any other; he will develop in his ‘own way. But for all others certain subjects are surely of primary importance, and to the acquisition | of at least the elements of these the student should be | required to devote the first two years of his college icoune‘. First in importance must come biology, or lthe science of life, which includes, of course, hygiene and physiology: this is no less necessary for girls ) institution, and should take its chances with the | ficers sent there to see that they have a fair chance | Yet it surely is an- | | than for boys. To this should be added the elements | of physics and of chemistry, for the man who knows | nothing of the transferences and the composition of | ferces knows not what kind of a God's universe he lives in; he will never realize, as it should be real- ized, the inevitableness of cause and effect, and he will be in perpetual danger of mistaking for truth the | poetic fictions of half-thinkers. Enough mathematics’ to develop in him the idea of necessary relation the boy must also be given, together with training in French or German and in his own language, literature and history. A boy who faithfully follows—or can be made to follow—such a course of study for two years knows where he stands in tha intellectual world; he is then fit_ to choose his advanced study or specialty; he is hardly fit before. If he finds the curriculum as here sketched hard ‘or distasteful, that simply means that he has not brains enough to take a higher education, and that he had better desist from the attempt to get THE CHINATOWN NUISANCE. L R A I B A S BTN TR TR TR K R R RN Wm ¥ Miss Bobbs Power of Ratiocination Michael and His Lost Angel. N the third act of Jerome's play, “Miss Hobbs," the hero Teads the herolne a lecture on the “Whole Duty of Woman” that might have been drawn from the “Data of Ethics” of Herbert Spencer, and that certainly would have saturated with delight the soul of that sympathetic old bachelor. Without reservation woman is told that her highest duty is to be found in the rearing of children, and it is taken for granted that in the exercise of this :o-ca!led highest duty she will find also her highest pleasure. This last supposition, be it noted, is one that commands a wider assent from men than from women. In this age good and intelligent women abound to whom the rearing of children does not appeal as the whole duty of woman and to whom the prospect thereof affor®C little or no pleasure. Such women commonly remain unmarried, and who shall say for them that they have not chosen the better part? Although they could not express it as one. | l:for the project of those who favor the removal of the Chinese from that locality, and should it | ever become necessary to enter upon the achieve- | | ment of the project there will not be lacking popu- llar support to sustain it. At present, however, it is | not needed. There is a simpler remedy which if thor- | oughly tried may prove sufficient to eliminate the | evils of which the public complain. That remedy it is in the power of the municipal authorities to ap- | ply. It is nothing more than the enforcement of the | health ordinances of the city. The Chinatown nuisanée is made up of a host of | violations of law. If the owners of property in the district be compelled to have their buildings put in’| | proper repair, supplied with adequate plumbing, sewer connections and fire escapes, kept clean and well ven- tilated; and free from overcrowding either above | ground or below ground, much of the Chinatown ‘l nuisance will be abated. It is fairly certain that many | of the old rookeries in Chinatown would not - be profitable ‘to their wealthy owners if the city ordi- nances were enforced in that district as in other lo- | cgli\ies, and consequertly the enforcement of the law would compel'the owners oi such buildings either to tear them down and erect better structures, or else make extensive repairs upon them.\ Moreover, it is to be borne in mind that most of the buildings in Chinatown are overcrowded. If that be stopped a considerable number of the Chinese will have to move out of that district. Thus an emigra- tion from the quarter will have been begun without any resort to extraordinary means to bring it about. | When once begun the drift of the race will be to the new quarter, and little by little old Chinatown will | | disappear of . itself. | |- Be that as it may, the immediate work imposed | | upon the authorities is that of cleaning up Chinatown | as it stands and the enforcement within its limits of | eévery ordinance of the city. "'We have now in session a new Grand Jury. To that body the people have a | right to look for earnest work in the direction of this reform. The jury shculd make a comprehensive and a thorough inspection of Chinatown, and should re- port every violation of the law which may come un- der notice. That is the duty of the time. If the | { Grand Jury fail in its work it may be necessary to re- | ULL justification is to be found in Chinatown } i | | sort to a committge of citizens, but it is hardly likely the Grand Jury will fail. The violations of law are | too gross and flagrant to be hidden from an honest inspection, and with popular sentiment aroused as it is now no member of the jury, however partial he | may be to some of the wealthy property-owners of the 1pcality, would venture upon whitewashing a violation well as did Baron Verulam, they probably give at least a half- hearted assent to the cruel half-truth in which that worthy has declared that ‘“wives are young nfen’s mistresses, compan- jons for middle age and old men's nurses.” If Miss Hobbs had krown enough to quote this understandingly in reply to Mr. i s SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1900. it AR ST e e s * 0 b By L. Du Pont Syle. .@4@4@4@;@404Q;Q;@4@4@‘@4@&@4@404?;;3;@&“@!@40; 2 pressing his lips to Sarah’s hand. So did also the veteran General Saussier.” Then follow the names of seven other dis- tinguished gentlemen who kissed Mme. Bernhardt. To us cold-blooded Saxons the actors in such a scene appear ridiculous, and we think with inward satisfaction of how dif- ferently we would have behaved on such an occasion. But in such matters nothing is really absolute, everything is com- parative; manners, customs anad beliefs to us commendable and sometimes even sacred, to others appear as ridiculous as do {heirs to us. For instance, more than three thousand years ago experience had taught the v -es and a portion of the Semitic that murder, adultery and false witness are crimes of the first magnitude, wkich should be punished with the severest penalties of the law; yet not many years ago a dignified Arabian chieftain (living not far from Mount Sinai®) ared Mr. Palgrave (Spencer, “Study of Soclology,” chapter Xm that in his opinion God is merciful and forgiving toward those erimes, which he (the chieftain) regarded as “merely little sins.” He then added with the utmost seriousness that thers were only two really great sins—polytheism and—smoking! If Abd-el-Kareem be right, how many of the human race in | sar: Kingsearl's exhortations to cease her ‘chatter about art” | think that young man, judged by the evident limitation of his own ideas, would have been at a loss for a reply. Hobbs had clearly never thought seriously upon the woman question, for her deepest convictions are breath ascending from an uncookable m shattering of her faith {n coffee as a powder drives her for sup- port to the manly breast of the hero, who coffee is a berry. This is pretty fair farce, Mr. Jerome, but pray don’t call it comedy. . . Much of the Ibsen drama is a protest [Jerume statement of the ‘“Whole Duty of Woman.” never weary of proclaiming and Bernard Shaw of echoing that a woman has a duty to herself as well as rer children. slavery is there can be no true love. . . . . . . Mr. Lionel Strachey (Frank Leslie's for ! lowing description by an eyewitness of the first night of Ros- tand’s “L'Alglon.” *“Victorien Sardou, after himself into the arms of Rostand and kiss: | up to Sarah’s loge andembraced her. M. Casimir-Perier, ex-Presi- | dent of the French republic, accentuated his congratulations by This truth has been so little recognized hereto- | fore that perhaps the overemphasis of these zealots is neces- sary to make men realize that when they make women what | Bacon describes them they make them slaves, and that where I Bishop Cranston. . . One of the wo . rst But Miss shaken by the rude utton chop and the quality of a play, f revealed to her that has been lost to the to grasp the author’ against the Spencer- Ibsen is was offered them. to her husband and Some such misfo Lost Angel.” of modern times. ater, London, some nights. No satisfac . July) quotes the fol- . . has never so far as course of justice shall see salvation? play which is to fit into tha first week or ‘be quickly shelved. author's control may cause a play to produce a poor effect on conceptions when grasped. through being produced at the wron theater or before an audience incap: have befallen Henry Arthur Jones’ one of the most touching and poetical tragedies This play was produced at the Lyceum The- has ever come to my notice, and Mr. Jones’ hope th again introduce it to the English public under happier auspices Respectfully referred to features of our long-run system is that a t system must make a hit within the This is not a fair test of the or half a dozen circumstances beyond the worth many representations the first night. Many a good play stage elther through the actors’ incapacity s character conceptions or to express those Many a good play has failed £ time or at an unsuitable able of appreciating what rtune or combination of misfortunes must play, ‘“Michael and His three or four years ago and ran only ten tory explanation of its sudden withdrawal at he m: 1 can discover been realized. i Here is a chance for Mr. Miller. The part of Michael the third act, threw g, erifam {5 a better part than that of Sydmey Carton, good ed him. Coquelin ran o that is, and the part of Audrie Lesden offers to an emotional actress however tal her powers to the u ented a psychological study that will tax tmost. ‘What &mericans heal-lry know About Bewit ching Geishas By Yone Noguchi, After a Study of the Play. ES, I have been to see “The Geisha,” and how I like it you would know? T will tell you. The play itself—you know of it? Very foolish it is, I think, pretty certainly; but not a wonderful American drama of wild love, nor vet heroic story of Japanese samurai or hidden passion. What s {t? It is foolish American ideas masquerading in not-fitting garb of Japanese scener- fes for nonsensical amusement of even- ing. Yes, it 1s cer- tainly amusing. I laugh to see the Chinaman. He Is as one from the street. And the Marquis Tmari is good come- dian as Kawakami is with us. But those actresses- ap- pearing in Japanese dress are horrible, indeed. = Their ki- mono is put on like wrapping paper on a rough parcel. It is like unsewed cloth. They know not at all how ‘to wear fit. Y the death of Rear Admiral Philip the republic of the law when making a report upon the situation. REAR ADMIRAL PHILIP. { B Joses a hero who has added to the honor of the | 3 American navy and given a new example of | noble life to excite the emulation of aspiring youth. Philip was one of those men who have carried into war the sentiments of chivalry and the devotion of re- | hgion. His nature was singularly fine, and history has } no record of a gentler or braver man in all her annals {of war. | “The character of the nian was illustrated by his | valor and. seamanship during the battle of Santiago, | | and by his words and actions at the close. His ship, | | the Texas, was one of the foremost in the fight, and | | he himself was distinguished by his cool courage at | every period of the conflict. Courage and coolness in moments of danger and responsibility are, however, not rare in war. The superiority of Philip over the mass of fighting men was shown when the victory came. As the Spanish ships lay broken and wrecked on the shore, and their officers came up to surrender, Philip turned to his exultant crew with the words: “Don’t cheer, boys; the poor fellows are dying.” | That was one of the sublimest utterances ever heard upon a battlefield, and attests the chivalric humanity “of the brave man who spoke it. A moment later, when all was over and the com- plete victory of the Americans with almost no loss was made evident, Captain Philip assembled his men | upon the deck and said to them: “I wish to make | public acknowledgment here that I believe in God, | | the Father Almighty. I wish you all, officers and men, to lift your hats and from your hearts offer si- lent thanks to God.” Thus with chivalry and with religion, no less tham with patriotism and with valor, he dia his work in life and served his country with heart and soul as well as with hand and brain. Of such a man a nation may be justly proud. Carlyle has truly said: “God- fearing armies are ever the best of armies.” So long as such men as Philip are ready to serve the republic | in arms there will be no danger that we shall suffer " defeat or that we shall disgrace our cause by inhuman- ity or by foolish exultation and vain pride in the hour of victory. Philip merits the immortality that Eng- | lish memory has confer’ed upon Sidney for his chivai- ric thoughtfulness of others on the field of battle, and | among the utterances of great Americans which we,l | are proudest to recall should be those which at San- tiago gave to the world an illustration of the char- acter of this stainless 2nd noble soul. ' After the nominating conventions are over it is to be hoped the politicians will be wise enough to give the people a rest beiore heginning the parades and the stump speeches. There is no need of a long cam- paign of education this year, as voters have learned by experience which party means prosperity and which means- disaster. . SR R > It is stated that the allied powers have agreed to send an army of 80,000 men to conquer China, but as yet no one appears tc have made calculations as to how many men will he needed to keep it conquered. Old Sam Jones sized up the situation about right in nyin‘tllltinmrh‘uponlcomm’withflnke- publicans this year the Bryanites would be “in it” just about as much as “a pig pen in a cyclone.” Studied and severe Is every fold of Jap- dnese maiden’s dress; it speaks of fine formality, polished beauty. And so, too, her dressing of the hair. The hair of these actresses of Geisha has not any Japanese style or beauty about it; it is very poor imitation. American hairdress- ing is natural—so natural as a summer cloud. It speaks of highest freedom, care- less gracefulness, sweet passion—while Japanese shows slavish ceremony, pol- ished machine-made beauty and graceful coldness. The former is the plain, demo- cratic country's expression, while the lat- ter is the romantic kingdom's. I say not which is better, but Japanese straight, raven-black hair is hardly suitable for the wildly beautiful fashion of lady blue- eyed and rose-faced, but if one play geisha girl must look like geisha girl, | hair all the same. American lady ar- ranges quickly and roughly her with pins, roast beef, while Japanese musme ties strictly and care- fully her halr with string. “How hair looks” 1is the first thing and last in mind of Japanese # musme. These act- resses of geisha And how they move! As Japanese geisha, trained from baby girl to move like music, like . flower in the wind, 1ike butterfly in alr, with sweet looks of | child, of woman, of angel? American says “nit” when he means very much “no.” I say it! American girl has not learned to | look down; she looks at all the world as a | bright morning, without veil or mystery. Cast down your ey sometimes, dear American lady, as evening shadows over | beautiful scene; it is good that man won- EET S SRR 1 think, and make | hair | as for | must think of that, | ders a little what is under the long eye- | lashes. Try it, geisha of the Tivoll, to | make truer the picture of Japan. | But how I admire American musie, and | wonderful, indeed, is the voice culture of | Americans! It Is the song of spring rain, | sweeping river, the whispering of moun- r tain winds, the fine, | clear, high voice of birds—goodness, how wonderful! It Is true, I think, when American geisha sings, absurd “hair and dress does not matter; it is lovely poem. Japaness singers hardly un- derstand what true voice is. I hear Fu- gita at Tokio and— and—like a cat, 'ke donkeys, like Mlttle piss are they. I laugh always to sea Japanese singer's painful face. Oh, how hard he works! Dig out his song, spit it from him, groan and howl as if greatly pained—you sound crazy to American ‘ears, 1t is true! O my -coun- | trymen, come to | America and fight a thousand years to free the captive song-angel in Japanese | throat-prisons! | The music of “The Geisha™ is far away, | ike Nipponese music. The violin seems sometimes’' samisen or koto, yet much American music I like better. The “Tea- garden™ is good enough picture. I like it. That is all. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. D. M. Lindsay and wife of Salt Lake are at the Palace. R. E. Hyde, a banker of Visalla, and his wife are at the Palace. Colonel Victor D. Duboce, who has been | seriously sick with fever acquired during | his stay In the Philippines, is slowly re- gaining health. R. H. Herron, a wealthy ofl man of Los Angeles, and Willlam Pridham, printer and bookbinder of the same city, are reg- istered at the Palace. Lieutenants Peter Hastings, Signal Corps, U. 8. V., ani Acting Assistant Surgeon H. H. Van Kirk are at the Langham, en route to Bortch and C. O. | Manila. Captain N. J. Watson of Pittsburg, Kans., who fought with the Kansas Vol- unteers in the Philippines and who, after they were mustered out, joined one of the new volunteer regiments, arrived on the Sumner yesterday with his wife and they are at the Occidental. Captain Watson lost his right leg below the knee in his last campaign. during which he was dis- tinguished for his bravery. He is now go- ing home to recuperate. s _———— DEATH OF COL. JAMES M NcNULTY Editor Call: The death of Colonel James Madison McNuity at Santa Bar-- bara June 23, 1900, seems to deserve more than passing notice, as he was for nearly forty years a prominent man in our com- munity. He was born in Chemung Coun- ty, New York, September 17, 1826. Stud- ied medicine and soon after graduation removed to San Francisco, where he prac- ticed his profession until the breaking out of the war in 1861. He at once tendered his services, and after passing an ex- amination was commissioned as surgeon of the First Regiment of California Vol- unteer Infantry August 15, 1861. He was ordered to report to General Carleton in Southern California and with the Cali- fornia_column made the famous march from Drum_ Barracks (San Pedro, Cal.) across the deserts of California, Arizona and New Mexico, one of the most won- derful marches in history, and his report of this campaign made by order of Gen- eral Carleton and published in the “Re- bellion Records” is a complete and ex- haustive record of the services of the vol- unteer loldllehr!: of our State who were on dut; He was promot Y e major and. surgeon, United States Volunteers, February 19, , and remain- ed on duty in the Department.of New Mexico as chief medical officer until Se when he was ordered to the ac and -ulsxed to duty as surgeon in chief, First Division Second Army Corps, and was promoted L2 St S N c al gt caseens o6, e S A PR R enane o eut faithral and merltorlous services ag medi: cal director, !Depurtment :‘; New llnh;oa and col or \gallant a: service cal director of the o re- and by rheumatism contracted in the army to remove to Santa Barbara, where he lived quietly until his death. W. R. SMEDBERG. San Francisco, June 30, 1900. LIMITING OF FENCES TO TEN FEET APPROVED Public Improvement Central Club Adopts Resolutions Complimen- tary to the Ordinance. The Public Improvement Central Club yesterday forwarded the following reso- lution to the Board of Supervisors, ap- proving the passage of the ordinance lim- iting fences to ten feet in height: ““Whereas, the Board of Supervisors has taken such quick and laudable action in passing an ordinance relating to the re- moval of high fences and establishing a law that no fences he allowed higher than ten feet after July 1, 18l Now, therefore, be i nld‘)nli!)’ in general and this body in par- ticular is due tg the honorable board, and this resolution be spread on the minutes of this club.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FIVE-DOLLAR PIECES—A Reader, City. No &emum is offered for a & gold piece of 1837 NOTES AND CERTIFICATES-A. H., Woody, Kern County, Cal. Under the present monetary system of the United States gold certificates, silver certificates and national bank notes are not legal tender. Gold certificates are receivable for all public dues, exchangeable for gola coin at the treasury or any other moneys and are redeemable in gold coln at the treasury. Silver certificates are receiva- ble for all public dues. exchangeable for stiver dollars or smaller coins at the treasury and redeemable in silver dollars. National bank notes are receivable for all dues except duties on imports and inter- est on the public debt: they are exchange- able for silver and minor coins and are redeemable in “lawful money” at treasury or bank of iss i i MOTHER SHIPTON—D., City. The words of Mother Shipton's prophecy can be found in Answers to Correspondents i, the issue of The Call December 13, 1S97. The files of that date can at the Free Public Libr &eflgfis&x&x tor lived from 1486 to and gaineq local fame in Yorkshire, lin:l.lnd, dur- ing the reign of Henry IL. _After her death collections of her prophecies a, ared, the most “important” of - ing the one announcing that the w. would come to an end in 1881 s was issued in a collection by Charles tlind:e. of Brighton, England, in 1862, who ciain, ed to have collated the propheciss from the writings of Mother Shipton. In 1373 the complier of the proph that ae had written the 'e,m:d oet‘ .;g'fl::«d. prophecy in erder to create a sale tor his —————— In the Divorce Court. Judge Bahrs has granted Ida Carson a “m orld divorce from George Carsos fround of wiiul neglect. Suity for divorce ve been filed by M. Lorton ‘!{"’“ Frank Lorton l% cruelty; Sallie L. Hum- L e e T R T for against James W, Givon same cause ; —— City’s License Collections. e it “Resolved, That the thanks of the mu-’ | the three months of the fiscal year just ended amount to $107,224 75, divided as f April, $44.694; $31.235 75; June %. During the same quarter last year 1 the collections aggregated $122,509 7. tet Deputy Levy expressed the opinion that over $500,000 in licenses would be collected during the next flscal vear. o A S dorad 21 ‘Will Address Young Men. Rev. J. George Gibson will address the | service for young men at the Young Men’'s Christlan_Association building this afternoon at 3 o‘clock. The subject of his sermon will be, “Father, Forgive Them, for They Know Not What They Do.” —— e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— | Special information supplied daily to business houses and public m | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen'sy. 310 Mogt: gomery st. Telephone Main 1042, . ——— A woman just arrived from Australia | was recently negotiating with an agent |in London for a house in one of the | newer districts of Kensington. She asked | it it was a nice neighborhood. “It is thor- oughly desirable, madam.” replied the house agent. “They are without exception | soup and fish families.” ADVERTISEMENTS. Shieve & Company Wiil Close Their Store at 3 P. M. on Saturdays and other business days At 5 P. M., b June 30th to September 1st inciusive Market and Post Streets. CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES, o B il et s\ tpts e ool OUR GOLD PUMPS. Were ‘at KROGH SR8 S