The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1900, Page 6

THE FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1900 — e WEDNESDAY ... Al Commun IR'S OFFIC OFFICE Telepha W. S. LEAKE, Manager Telephone Press 204 Market _nnd Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL X0O Tel siome Press 202. Cents Per Week. Centn. ing Postage: . Delivered by Carriers, 1 Stngle Cople Terms by Mail, Includ ers are muthoriz subscriptions. rded Al postmast when requested. Eample coples will 1 e of aAdress should be D OLD ADI S in order ance with their request. OFFICE ...1118 Broadwsay ©AKLAND ‘ding. Chicago. 2601.7) | YORK CORRESPONDENT: W € C. CARLTON.., NEW YOR STEPHEN B. SMITH NEWS STANDS A. Brentsnc, 81 Uniom Square; .Wallington Hote. Spectalties. afternoon and THE DUTY OF REPUBLICANS. b the Republican Business ide and pot of the Rep formed of delegates to have long s minations are we pledge very good, but the Republican friends to join ninate strong, for the convention ol of the club ien, then in that o ¢ better elemen uld put n appeal In short, the figh: an oppo: at the primary. eir gangs should begin in inued at every point of and driven out of the Re- putl Th men are btedly right in de claring that the success of the Republican par only be obtained by nominating persons for office f ace of the voters.” will cor he experience © bt. The dz yw dog” tickets 1s proven that beyond blicans would tolerate v has gone hy. If creditable men in office Republicans odiuw uch rest upon equently wil vel there is to be d prefer to h of men let elections go hy That les- late, and the busi- Democracy, and cc ult rather port unworthy men. eon has been given many imes of apply it to the issues before us. only good nominations, but or them and make sure of them. <s men should no demand them not get out, worl ed the door of China by knock- When we have o i will then be an easy way t off its mt of European and for the 'purpose of se to get any amo rrms and weapons . ings deadly to ail who undertake to go in. Forest fires are now blazing first in one part of the State and then in another. They appear to be able to illuminate everything except the intellects of the silurian obj laws. Shou'd a Russian army succeed in getting to Peking the Czar will be in 2 humor to call another peace con- ference and propose that there be no more fighting and that every one keep what he has,, 7 to 221 Stevensom St | € | punished with the greatest scve: CUBA LIBRE. T Jast it scems as though the Cuban revolution 1 \ is about to produce the fruit for which it be- gzan and continued up to our intervention. The people are to vote for a constitutional cour- | vention, which is to formulate a fundamental law. | When this has been adopted the form of government { for which it provides will be instituted, and Cuba libre will cease to be a dream and become a fact. The oi Cuba, unlimited except by bsolute ir pendence er hemispherical position, will be no less gratifying to her people who fought for that result than to those -ns of the United States who feel keenly that the citi honor of this country is involved in keeping its pledge | | made in the declaration of war against Spain. But such citizens of the United States must not for- get that there is only one kind of independence. There is no qualified kind. Our forefathers, in the pinch of our revolutionary war, made a treaty with In that con- France which made her suzerain to us. reed to mak out her consent. After that agreement was made, in , France came our assistance against England 1d the purpose of our revolution was accomplished When we entered upon our experi- ntal independence, however, we discovered that we were T a limitatio: vhich was the purpose of our revolt. Accordingly we immediately procecded to violate our treaty with by her help. France, and assumed the risk of war with our ally and benefactor. Now, notwithstanding this chapter in our own his- tory, the statement is made that our Congress will re- | vise and amend the Cuban constitution before it be- comes operative, and that Congress will forbid Cuba to make any treaty without our consent, and that »a libre shall not in lebt 33 Wi HET ying into debt unless we permit it! propcsed programme we protest. It even the letter of our pledge. If the of judging how far to pledge not fit to be free from Spain. incapable redit, they are are not fit to assume and discharge interna- obligations they are not fit for that indeper h we declared they had of right. the seeds in of Cuba. e wh programme is full of It mak of future It exceeds ouble. suzera ded or attempred by any Government in this Cuba should be left independent in fact, tion than is upon every Govern here. Her membership in ¢ of nations should be the sole re- the Monroe f y iction upon her international relations, and that - st her right to sell herself to a foreign ar as the pledging of her credit goe As function of a free government is the unre- tricted control of its fiscal. Unless it re of its own credit, its people are de- ed ¢ 10st important part of their schooling independence. Again, the American Congress has y more right to revise and amend the Cuban con- own can control the has the Spamish Cortes. The people of the United States are not anxious up trouble in Cuba of exactly the same kind land found ir the Transvaal. The suzera not compatible with republican institu- tions, and we have a full suit of functions on hand at present and need no additions. Cven time, it appears, cannot go the pace which has started by the reckless adventurers at Cape ome. The dispatches announce that somebody made the startling discovery a few days ago that all the clocks in camp were an hour slow. THE SUMER’S FIRES. NE would =upimse that after the wide publicity given to the damage done by summer fires in our mountain forests some extra care would be taken by people who resort to the mountains to vent fire That this is not the case, however prevalence cf forest fires. ugar pine regi is being shaven The finely timbered country be- tween the forks of the American River is all on fire, a large the flam, County bare b, and higher up the Sierras the conflagrations are and widespread. tions, exact knowledge is difficult. The fool who starts a fire by carelessness doesn't know what he e scoundrel who does it viciously is Lumero has done, and too smart to talk about it. 1i fools and fire could be separated very much harm The summer fool usually goes to the mountains in the society of a cigarette, and casts the noisome remains of his companion in the dry | grass, where it is almost sure to start a fire. summer fool have a pipe for company he is usually so absorbed in getting it lighted properly that he throws the still burning match into the grass and goes on his way puffing his tobacco and leaving destruc- | tion, danger and may be death bel would be avoided. 1 of this sort was recently observed by some children in start a fire in that way. Experience had taught them the awiul consequences that wouid follow, and | they bravely attacked the fire and extinguished = it after a hard battle, while the hulking fool who had | committed a felony walked off unconcerned. Several Winchesters in that neighborhood were soon brought | out, and if he had been found he would have beea 1 taught that life and property are not to be destroye:d by being too lazy or too indifferent to extinguish the fire on a match before casting it away. | Some more agitation of this subject, that will teach people the law in the case, will result in the capture of a few of these fools and sending them to prison. | The crime is arson of the vilest kind and should be i The element of malice is presumed in their case, and when they shed fire in the dry season where it is sure to cause a con- flagration there should be no attention paid to the plea that they did not mean to do harm. Evervbody in Califorpia is interested in preventing forest fires and in punishing those who start them. The destruction of the forests is greater every year | Last year the siain fires did not | instead of less. | der way by the last of June, and July has witnessed | the origin and ravages of a score of fresh ones. TIn our cities we maintain a costly Fire Department to extinguish fires and a police to detect their begin- | ning. Yet if all combustible property in the cities of éCalifnrnia were to burn, the loss would not equal | that wrought in one summer by forest fires. The ac- | tual destruction of merchantabie timber is appalling, | but every acre burned over in the mountains lessons "' the fertility of an acre in the valleys. When the moun- tain forests are finally extirpated the fruitfulness of | our valleys will disappear. { The wealth of Ctlil'qrnia lies in the operation of {two natural laws, evaporation and gravity. With !the equilibrium of nature leit undisturbed their | operation is beneficent. | by evaporation is trarsported to the mountains and | precipitated, and gravity transports it back to the no foreign treaty with- | )t independent, but that the treaty of 1778 was ‘ incompatible with that perfect freedom | ave even the poor privilege of As for the origin of these | If the | d him. One fool | start until September. This vear they were well un- | The moisture that rises | ocean, enabling it to perform many useful offices on the way. The forest floor holds it back so that it is distributed, a proper proportion entéring the soil to | fill the deep springs, and the rest finding its way into | the surface channels, where it furnishes power, per- forms irrigation and benefits man in many ways. When the fool and his fire come along and burn the forest off, evaporation and gravity become the scourges of man. The streams no longer have a steady and uniform flow, but are torrential when the | rain falls and dry at other times. The forest floor being destroyed, the water does not penetrate the soil, and the deep springs cease to be affluent. Aridity increases, fertility declines, and the cities may as well burn, for that which supported them has been de- stroyed. It may be said with safety that no expense s too great to secure immunity from the awful proces- sion of consequences that will issue from the forest fires. Something must be done to stop or minimize [ them. The fool @nd his fire must be kept out of the | mountains or brought out a prisoner. | i There are so many good Republicans in the dis- tricts where Dibble and Wolfe are seeking nomina- | tion that there is no reason in the world why the party should take the risk of trying a yellow dog can- | didate on the voters. D Y THE FIGHT FOR THE HOUSE. ™ HAIRMAN BABCOCK of the Republican (-} Congressional Campaign Committee has once more given warning to the party of the danger that the various elements of opposition to the admin- istration may carry so many Congressional districts as to give them control of the House of Representa- tives. Such success on the pagt of the malcontents would prevent the enactment of many important measures that are expected of the next Congress, and thereby seriously interfere with the progressive wel- fare of the country. % . In describing the situation Mr. Babcock, after pointing out that in the Southern States the Bryanites have 120 Congressmen sure, and that almost every State that gives its electoral vote for Bryan will send a solid Bryan delegation to the House, went on to “For our part, the States which will give their | electoral votes to the Republicans will at the same time have 40 per cent of their Congressional delega- tions Democratic. Just Jook at the Democratic rep- resentation in this Congress from New York, Penn- sylvania, New Jersey and other strongholds of Repub- licanism on national issues.” The election of Repub- lican electors from the State of New York is not going to pull through the Republican representatives from New York City districts. West of the Missouri River we will have to fight to hold what we already have. In the Northwest there are some districts which are too close in their pluralities to be com- fortable. That will push us into New York, Penn- sylvania and Massachusetts to make gains to offset almost certain losses in some Middle West districts. The fight will come to a point where every vote will | count.” | These statements must not be looked upon as a mere campaign exaggeration designed to rouse po- itical ardor. They are fully justified by the facts. The Call has once or twice had occasion to direct at- | tention to a movement among Gold Democratic papers in the East to support Democratic candidates | for Congress while cpposing Bryan. It is therefore | certain that in many Congressional districts the vote | for the Bryanite candidate for Representative will be | larger than the-vote for Bryan himself. The old | dyed-in-the-woo! free traders have accepted the | Presidency of McKinley solely because they had no | other recourse against Bryanism, but they will be very willing to handicap his administration by the election of a Democratic House, and doubtless a good many of them will seek to do so, in accordance with | the counsel of their Eastern organs. In the face of such an emergenty a grave respon- sibility rests upon the Republicans of every State where there is a single Congressional district in | doubt. The margin of Republican control in the present Congress is so small that the Bryanites will have to gain very few seats to overthrow it. There is therefore not a district in which the party can af- ford to take chances. To Californians the lessons of the situation are of particular importance. There is not an absolutely sure district in the State. There is not one in which | a faction fight or any just ground for dissatisfaction | among the rank and file of the voters would not be | dangerous. At the conventions, therefore, the great- | est care must be exercised to eliminate anything like | boss domination or unfairness in the selection of can- didates. As Chairman Babcock has said, “the fight will come to a point where every vote will count.” e e | It will of course be a good thing for the better ele- ments of the Republican party to defeat any unworthy candidate the bosses may succeed in putting on the | ticket, biit it will be better to defeat the bosses in the primaries and prevent them from having anything to | do with the nomination of Republican candidates. Kaiser William talks, but the Czar sends forth his armies, and thus we have another illustration of the truth that a fellow who swears he wishes peace may often be quicker on the fight than the one who brags | of what he is going to do when he gets a ready on. | The national Democracy is threatened with the loss | of a more or less useiul ally. Some of the Silver R publicans have been guilty of the grossest heres against Bryanism by declaring that they never will take their medicine straight. China has pleaded with the powers that if Tientsin | were destroyed it could not be rebuilt in one hundred vears. This ought tc suggest one way at least of | keeping some of the Boxers out of bloodthirsty mis- chief. One of our local fishmongers has been caught sell- ing charks for sturgeon. The expose of the probate cutrage by The Call has probably created the im- pression that sharks are game well worth baiting. | The Paris Exposition is out of luck. As a celebra- tion of the dawn of peace it is a failure. Nearly every visitor who goes to the city comes away with a wild desire to fight the first thing that comes along. SR E | The alarmists who zre fearful that the Filipinos can | never be Americanized may content themselves that | they are mistaken.. Some of the little brown men have already been caught counterfeiting American dollars. The Grand Jury has done well in indicting three | cf the conspirators engaged in the looting of the Sul- | livan estate, but it should remember there are others. i The powers are not yet certain whether to call ths 1 Chinese outbreak war or anarchy, but they are fairly | certain they cannot call it off. 3 i 4 The Republican Business Men’s Club will not be ! true to its name unless it does business as well as | talk it |@+o0000000000e0e0 HIS FUTURE LINE B B e B S GRS S S @eT 4005060066500 6000006000060 B o] . By Mrs. S. L. Baldwin, HINESE women are probably the most industrious of Oriental women. Even the women with little feet employ themselves in various ways. They do needlework, work | for the temples and make paper flowers, which they are fond of wearing in their hair. It is not unusual to see a woman up to her knees in mud wearing most elaborate head dec- orations. For the temples they make incense sticks, print cloth ana paper for the dead and make dead men’'s money. The lat- ter is made of vellow paper cut in slits, and has gold or silver foil pasted on one side. This they believe to be current in the other world. Besides this, they print picturesof clothing, furni- ture and articles of general utility upon cloth or paper with wooden stamps. These are burned at the grave. The “kitchen god,” which is found In the kitchen of every house, is elaborate according to the means of the pro- prietor, and this, too, is made by the women. It is a banner- like affair, made of paper, and may have, if the family whom i is to protect is poor, only the name of the god written upon it. Or it may resemble somewhat the old picture medleys which were made of advertising cards. In the latter case it is covered with representations of vases of flowers and domestic antmals cut out of red paper and pasted ingeniously together. Every | New Year's day this is burned, and ascends in flame as an of- | fering to the ‘upper ruler,” and a new god must be ready to | take its place. If evil words are said before the kitchen god he will make a bad report, and evil will descend upon the household. Filial piety is the great virtue of China and disrespect to- ward parents or those who are older is a crime. Older brothers and sisters are always addressed as ‘“‘older brother,” “older sis- ter,” and a measure of respect is shown by brothers to sisters who are their seniors. At table guests are always seated ac- cording to their ages, and the second question of courtesy is always, “What Is your honorable age?” The first is, “Have you eaten rice?’ This is equivalent to our “How do you do? Obedlence to parents is demanded by the civil law, and dis- obedience is punishable by arrest and imprisonment. When I was in Peking a few yvears ago my attention was called to the loopholes that perforate the wall of the city, and I noticed in one place that there were three of these quite close together which were closed. The reason for theciosing of these and a few others that I discovered was explained to me as follows: Parricide is in China the greatest of crimes, and when such a deed is perpetrated the murderer is killed, his house is razed to the ground and the dirt under it dug up. In addition to this, in Peking the loophole in the wall facing the district in which the crime was committed is closed as a perpetual testimony against that section, while the prefect of the city and at times the Governor of the province are in danger of degradation from office for lax ruld. Although this is an ancient | custom in Peking, the number of closed loopholes is not great. The Chinese wall is a favorite promenade for foreigners. From it may be seen the yellow tiled roofs of the palaces and S | | i POSDSPBRWS DL oo b e SR AR AR AA A VIEW OF CHINA'S BACKYARD WORK OF THE WOMEN. —————n OF USEFULNESS. IS TS i e K a2 Ne o WEEN THE WAR IS OVER. ' — ago News. [ R e e e R RS S R R SRR SR R g 5404060304000 CHINESE Methodist Missionary. sote groves in the Sacred City, and stretching away outside the vast plain, bounded by hills. There is no pleasure to be derived from riding in Peking. I took eight drives in a Peking cart, and live to tell the tale, but it took every minute of my intention to keep all my joints from dislocating simultaneously. The carts have two wheels placed on solid beams, and the rider sits flat upon the floor. They are drawn by donkeys or mules. Manchu women wear their hair in a broad, stiff bowknot, which distinguishes them from the Chinese women. The Man- chus have never bound their feet. Footbinding has received its death blow, and heathen officials are memorializing the Go ernment to abolish the practice. The gueue which is worn by them is a badge of loyalty to the Tartar Government. The standard book of etiquette in Thina was written by Lady Cho twenty-seven hundred years ago. Lady Cho was the widow of a distinguished literary man of North China, and after his death was faithful to his memory. Her husband's brother was historian of that dynasty, but when his work was half completed he lost his sight. The Emperor sent a messen- ger to him, asking who could finish the book, and the reply was returned that only his brother's wife was capable of do- ing it. The Emperor sent for Lady Cho, and she was con- ducted in the greatest of state to the Emperor’s palace. Thers she completed her brother-in-law’s work so satisfactorily that it is impossible to tell where the man left off and the woman began. Lady Cho afterward wrote “Instruction for Women and Girls,”” which has even yet no rival. In the book she gave the duty of women from birth to death. There are chapters on “Instruction of Children by Mothers,” “Duty of Daughters to Parents,” “Duty of Children to Teachers,” “Filial Piety" “Hospitality, and How to Receive Women Guests,” and direc- tions for caring for clothing, how to put it away at various seasons, how to prepare their husbands’ food, reverencing their husbands and reverencing their mothers-in-law. In the chapter on virtus is this terse advice: “If your parents are sick, loosen not your girdle to lie down; and if they die, your very bones should bleed.” Regarding hospitality this ancient writer say: demand nothing. As hostess, exhaust hospitality An exhortation for women not to yield to laziness is par- ticularly clever, and refers to the effort that a woman with a torn garment makes to hide the rents, in these words: “A lazy woman is always ragged. She is forever pulling the west over to hide the east.” The last chapter ends with this walil: must die.”” Regarding the capacity of Chinese women as scholars, I have found them eager for instruction. The same spirit that makes the Chinaman’s highest ambition to have a literary son causes him to take kindly to the educating of his daughters, and no jealousy has so far been shown by the men lest the women usurp their positions. ‘As a guest, “All that are born L. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacra-| mento, is at the Lick. W. Aubrey Fortescue of Ben Lomond | is registered at the California. Mark L. McDonald of Santa Rosa is |afternoon of the 16t among the guests of the Lick. g 8. McKeown, a prominent citizen of An- geles, is a guest of the Palace. John Sparks, one of the cattle kings of | Nevada, is registered at the Palace. i W. H. ‘Nichols, a leading merchant of f men Courtland, is a guest at the Grand. S s B IR | A. B. Lemmon, a well known cmzend of | | santa Rosa, Is registered at the Grand. 3 Mrs. C. T. Mills, president of Mills Seml- | §d. {6 2scertain how nary, has returned from a trip East. lion the s woala 0. 0. Webber, a well known attorney of Santa Rosa, is registered at the Lick. Thomas Marshall, a prominent mining | man of Grass Valley, is a guest of the | Lick. McManus, Federico Scott, Abelino Tejeda, bano, Italy. ETIQUETTE OF Menlo Park, Cal. son to a well known mer- Stance J. Arzave, treasurer; PERSONAL MENTION. |20 % Mavionado, Franc zd, Carmreon Jimenez; Alej S | Prospero Espinosa, Vidal Medina, Esteban Ybarra, Santiago turo Suarez and Anastacio Montero. There will be literar: i ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DIED OF WOUNDS—A. G., San Colum- To_ascertain the names and number of men in the Union and Confed- jor, brigadier and the like would require a search of the war records of each army. scarch that no one would .undertake. The rule of etiquette in driving horses does mot require a per- erform an impossibility. f a gentleman is driving a horse executive commit- < Ciran | FROM THE JOKE BOOK. Salvador Villalobos, | WILLING TO HAVE SUCH TROUBLES. “There is no reason for you to envy me,” sald the prosperous person. “I have as many troubles as you.” . “I dessay you do, mister,” admitted Dis- mal Dawson, “but the difficulty with me is that I ain’t got nothing else."—Stray Stories. P Olmedo, Alberto | . Raul Gallardo, Ar- | v exercises on the | h and an all-night WHY SHE SAID IT. re the title of gen- Th the profix of ma. | , BODbs—My wife told me last night that I was the smartest man on earth. Dobbs—Huh! She was talking through many of these died | her hat. ounds received dur- She was talking for her require a further Bobbs—Oh, no. hat.—Baltimore American. ON HIS GUARD. Ida—It is so court :h{.l: uthrTUn B o e May—It is not courtesy, it s prud: He knows it she holds it he will lol:m: DRIVING—H. A, For in- Morris Michael, chant of Woodland, Grand. W. Mead, a well-known raflroad man of Portland, Or., is registered at the Occi- | dental. A. B. Chaney, proprietor of the South- ern Hotel of Bakersfield, is registered at the Lick. | J. A. Pauly, a San Diego pioneer and a | yeoman of the days of the boom, is stop- | ping at the Grand. 1 Crarles L. Morrill, | the oil men'of Southern California, is a | guest of the Grand. 1 is stopping at the | prominent among A. A. Grant, the well-known raflroad | contrgctor, Is at the Palace, having re- cently arrived from Albuquerque. . Louis G. Dreyfus and family of Santa | Barbara are at the California. Mr. Drey- fus is one of the most prominent citizens of the channel city. Captain Jack Crawford wires to Gen. eral R. H. Warfield from Tacoma that he will arrive in San Francisco in the trans- port Rosecrans. The ship sailed from Ta- coma vesterday. George C. Dillard, passenger agent of the Santa Fe route in Syracuse, N. Y., and Charles A. Marsh, passenger agent of the same line in New York City, are here | i studying the conditions of passenger traf- | fic in this city in the interest of the com- | pany they represent. The mail steamer Australia salls for | Honolulu to-day with a full list of pas- | sengers and every ounce of cargo she can rry. i {he vessel are Hon. M. M. Estee and wife. | On his arrival at Honolulu Mr. Estee will | assume the duties of Judge of the District Court of Hawail. Accompanying Mr. Es- tee will be Miss Ryan, his private secre- tary, and R. Mailing, who will be clerk of the court. J. C. Baird, who will be United | States District Attorney of Hawali, will | also be a passenger. Others who will go i to Honoiulu on the Australla are Prince | David and W. H. Cornwall, two of the | delegates from Hawall to the Democratic National Convention, and Oscar T. Sew- all, president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. —_—e—e—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 20—C. C. McDougall | of San Francisco is at the Gilsey. L. D.| Waring of Los Angeles is at the Empire. —————— MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY IS TO BE OBSERVED The ninetieth anniversary of the inde- pendence of Mexico will be celebrated ap- propriately by the Mexican colony of San Francisco on September 16. The fnitiative | has been taken by Hon. K. Coney, Consul General of Mexico, who called a meeting, at which the following cammit- tee was elected to take charge of the af- fair: ” Hon. A. K. Coney, honorary président; Charles Baer, president; Gustav 3 vice president; A. de la Torre Jr., secre- tary; T. Arteche. assistant secretary; J. | dense and are called Among those who will go out on |53 | ber of Commerce has addressed a letter to | spect which the United | ply states that he will lay the matter be- | store, best eyeglasses, specks, 10c to 40c. L s e il el or pair that require him to hold reins and whip at the same time, and while doing this there comes up from the oppo- site direction a carriage in which there is a lady of his acquaintance, he need not raise his hat. A pleasant smile is all that is requisite. He is not required to take chances with the horse or team he is driving in order to show his politeness. PEAT AND TURF—W. S. S, City. The difference between peat and turf is thus explained by Professor Silliman: “In many northern countries the vegetation of mosses, ferns, sedges, confervae, rushes, reeds and many small plants accu- mulate in morasses, swamps and low places, each winter adding its quota to the mass of decomposing vegetable mat- ter, in its turn making the soil of a new vegetation in the ensuing spring. Thus, considerable accumulations are formed in process of time, the lower portions of which are black, unctuous and somewhat cat, while the upper layers are spongy, fibrous and less per- fectly decomposed and are called turf.” _ THE WEALTH OF NATIONS—A. G., San Columbano, Italy. There are no exact figures as to the wealth of nations. There are approximations based upon the amount of money in banks ans figures furnished by the census, which give a general idea. The latest figures gbllshed are: Argentine _republic. $1.660.000.000; Australia, $4.950,000,000: Austria, $18,080,° 000.000; Belgium, $4.030,000,090; ' Canada, $3,250,000,000; Denmark, $1,830,000,000; France, $45.300,000.000, Germany, $40.551,000,- 000: Great Britain and Ireland. $48.600.000.- 000000, Holland, $4.935.- 755,000.000; Mexico. $3.190.- $1,410.000,000; Portugal, Spain, $7.965,000,000; Swe: Switzerland. ' §1,620,000,000; | $100.000.000,000. 33,475,000 United State: e Trade With Bolivia. President Charles Nelson of the Cham- Senator Perkins calling attention to the handicap local merchants are laboring un- der in their efforts to build up a trade with Bolivia. He states that the people of that country are very desirous of pur- chasing from California wines, flour and canned goods, but competition from Chile and France prevent. Both of these coun- tries have many advantages in this re- tates has not, owing to treaties. Senators Perkins in re- fore Special Commissioner J. A. Kasson, with the view of securing equal treaty | advantages. ——————— Cal glace fruit 50c per > at Townsend's. * —_——— §1 Fourth, front of barber and grocery L3 Special information supplled daily lo’ business houses and public men Press Clippin Burnnp(Alun'- 510 lllhl? gomery st. Teiephone Maln . — HE KNEW HER. “Home already, P A 3 aaiome alx v, Percy, dear? 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