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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1900. 6 : 4 i i 5 L s S S S S ey el ok o b PORITICAL HYEDEANY: lt et of e et Miley Emmiits o e e ere ARt | Che ~Smkewe Call. | v o mers e, o pory | L St S0 i TWELFTH UNITED STATES CENSUS. | .AUGUST 8, 1900 I California platform, is making good Senator WEDNESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. kddress All Communications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE....... .'l‘eleApfih__nna Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. ¥. Telepbose Press 201. | 17 to 221 Stevemson St. Preas 202, EDITORIAL ROOMS.. Telepho Deltvered by Cerricrs. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Inciuding Postages By Singie Month..... EUNDAY CALL Ope Year. WEEKLY CALL One Year.. All postmusters are nuthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will s forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be pacticuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order | %o insure & promp¢ and correct compliance with their request. CAKLAND OFFICE +++1118 Broasdway C GEORGE KROGNESS, Mzneger Foreign Advertising, Marqustte Building, Chicago, | Quoug Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.... . Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH,, 0 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS BTANDS: | Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, A. Ereotane, & Unios Square: ®eurray Bl Hotel. WASHINGTON (D, C.) OFFICE MORTON E. CRAN .Wellington Hotel’ Correspondent. BRANCP OFFICES mery, corner of Ciay, epen Vaudev ets—Specialties. lie every afte: Fischer's—Vauder Sutro Baths—Open , by their aggres- , th violation {f every interna 1l right of China, have supplied which has made it | wporarily impossible for China to perform her in- | gations. The ts and the sacking of Tientsin were acts of mili- tary aggression, based on reports of slaughter of the n legations at Peking which have proved to for an uprising the provoca assault on the Taku | have been false. The conduct of the Russian troops in those actions s now, for the first time, being made public at arms in deta The American missionaries who reached San Fran- | of the scenes | Rev. Mr. Hayner, a Methodist at Taku was caused by false | reports started When the Chinese | officers found themselves overpowered and capitulated and marched out of the forts and offered their swords in surrender, they were shot down by the Russians ke a lot of dogs.” Mr. Hayner says that in one village the Russians drove the women and children into the river, and when they attempted to come ashore they were all shot and their bodies floated away on the stream. He adds that the brutality of the | minions of the Czar was astonishing in these days of supposed civilization. Mrs. Drew, wife of the Tientsin Commissioner of Customs, says that when the foreigners vacated their | houses in that city after the surfender the residences looted. the Russians stealing everything they | could Jay hands on, and they went around carrying | the heads of Chinese on their bayonets, U It is gratifying that all of these refugees highly com- mend the coolness, humanity and good judgment of Admiral Kempff. His abstention at Taku and refusal to believe the Russian report and follow the Cossack | aggression have made Americans the most popular | foreigners in China. Indeed we may congratulate ourselves that Presi- | dent McKinley, while standing firm for our interna- tional rights, has tempered firmness with the highest sense of justice and the most intelligent appreciation | of the difficulties of the Chinese. | It is reported that this wise attitude has impressed the Czar, who seems to see the hopelessness of justi- fying to the world a seizure of Chinese territory as long as America’s example stands in the way. Itis believed now that he is willing to join the United States in an agreement that the integrity of Chinese territory shall be respected. 1f this be true it is 2 conspicuous diplomatic triumph for the United States. It will be in the interest of Lumanity, justice and the righteousness of the world | and will do more for civilization than a million sol- | diers and a thousand battles won. | The great fear has been that out of the Chinese | situation would issue a prolonged war, first against | China and then by the jealous European powers rgainst each other. If we succeed in drawing Russia, England and Japan into line with the United States and get them in agreement to respect the territorial rights of China, the war there will be of short dura- tion, and the apprehended after consequences will | rot take place. cisco on the Logan were witnesses which they describe. missionary, says the cl. he Russians. were | | | | | Some surprise has been expressed at the fact that | the Hall of Justice, as yet undccupied, is in a condi- tion too filthy to be tenanted. The authorities ought ; to congratulate themselves that the structure is still above ground. ST Uncle Sam is learning the bitter lesson of what it mieans to be 2 money changer. The introduction of American coin into Porto Rico has almost destroyed the government of the islands. The return of the refugees from China and their story of barbarous warfare has brought to our very doors a realization of the terrible tragedy of the Orient. | the whole party, save the handful of gold men. | therefore, the true sentiment of the party to-day? | ered, and nine years Hill's cynical indorsement of the Kansas City plat- form. He said that one part of it could be advocated in one section of the country and other parts in other sections. The free silver declaration is good in Colorado and the intermountain States, but is offensive in the East. Therefore Hearst's Journal proceeds to give a lethal dose of editorial to free silver. He declares that it is not in present politics, but was put into the platform out of consideration for the personal feelings by a two-thirds majority. Therefore, the Journal vs, in no contingency can the Democratic party be expected to legislate for the restoration of silver, and that the silver issue is dead and out of politics. To this the Stockton Mail makes reply that “if four years ago it had been printed as a forecast of Demo- cratic sentiment in 1900 it would have been hooted by If it is, what a lesson it conveys! It presents the Demo- crats in the posit of taking the medicine prepared fi by the Republicans and saying it is good. en the Republicans four years ago would not have dared to treat the silver question as a dead issue. Now the only thing that has happened to alter the situation has been brought about by the agency of the Republican party. It is the very thing which the Democrats and scores of learned publicists through- out the country had warned the people against. They | declared that from the bold position of holding all obligations of the Government payable in gold, no hat the language of the contract might be, ment of a law affirming the gold dollar to of value, was a step so easy that it would 3 ken. The results following such a con- 1on of the currency were pictured as of the direst At-ast it has happened, and we find the ng in it as a whipped child, simply n accomplished fact. The efforts of the rmal to make it appear that the gold in no contingency be in danger from the h has resoived in favor of free silver con- s the great anomaly of the campaign to date. tes cannot be coaxed over by any such Indian pretease, whereas there are a lot of es and good, hard-headed Democratic votes id throw themselves to anything to beat a v =0 pusillanimous, treacherous and contemptible o seek support from the enemy by promising to be d to it.” There you have it upon the country. Democracy is one thing in New York and quite another thing in California. But the California convention has specifically indorsed the Journal as a great exponent of Dempcracy, and it ex- matt acter. pounds to the effect that no contingency can arise in | vhich the party will overthrow the gold standard es- tablished by the Republicans. Yet the daily papers are talking of Chinese duplicity as an article superior to any of which the Caucasian is capable! e e James Taylor Rogers continues to insist that he should not be compelled to talk. It is possible that even he thinks that his actions in connection with probate affairs are far more eloquent than any words { he could speak. EDUCATED FILIPINO *"SAVAGES.” T pine Islands, but the truth is that these people are neither “rebels” nor “savages.” They are not “rebels,” because they have never en their consent to the bargain by which they were turned over to us by Spain, like so many sheep, for ing the “‘rebels” and “savages” of the Philip- | the consideration of twenty million dollars. Neither are they “savages,” as a brief survey of the history of education in the Philippines will show. Only two years after the Hudson River was discov- before the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock, the Dominican Fathers founded the College of Santo Tomas at Manila. In 1645—about fifty years before the time when the good people of Salem killed twenty old women and Indians for witchcraft—the college of these benighted Philip- pine “savages” was :rected into a university by Pope Innocent X, and regular instruction was given by a faculty of arts and a faculty of theology. In 1734— fifteen vears before Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania—a faculty of law was added. In 1845—threc years before gold was discov- ered in California, when the water-rat dived where now run the Montgomery-street electric cars and when the coyote howled on the site of San Jose—in 1845 the University of Manila had 581 students; in 1858 —ten years before the University of California was founded—it had 1c00. That is a pretty good rec- ord, in higher education, for “savages.” You cannot have a university without fairly good primary and secondary schools leading up to it Even if we knew nothing about such education in the Philippines, this irrefutable, a priori proposition would prove the existence of such schools. have concrete testimony as to the existence of such schools in the accounts published by Mallat (Paris, 1846), Semper (Wurzburg, 1869), and by Maiche | (Paris, 1887). According to these observers the “Indians” (Tagales and Visayas) of the Philippines had alphabets of their own and could read and write even before the arrival of the Spaniards. Blumen- [ tritt, the German ethnologist, who has made a close | study of the ethnic traits of these “Indians,” says that | the number of those who attend the secondary schools and the university is “relatively very large,” and that from them have come such politicians as Rizal, Del Pilar and Ponce; such artists as Luna; such eth- nographers as Florentino and such linguists as Lak- | tar, “who are all known outside of their own coun- oy The Deutsche Rundschau for 1807 contains a biographical notice of Jacobo Zobel de Zangroniz, a Spanish-German who was born in Manila of wealthy parents and received his university education in Ger- many. Returning to Manila, he became distinguished as a litterateur and a scientist. His testimony as to the character of the Filipino “savages” among whom he lived is strangely at variance with that brayed out by yellow imperialists who concoct foreign “news” at home. “Two-thirds of the Tagales can read,” he says, “and about half of them can write. They are a cheerful, peaceable people, are disposed to enjoyment, and have an eye rather to pleasures and things that are beautiful and attractive than to the wuseful and profitable. * * * Art, especially music, is their passion.” It is too much to e‘pect of yellow journalists that they should be able to write, but it may be presup- posed—rashly, perhaps—that they share with two- thirds of the Tagales the capacity to read. To those of them who possess this accomplishment we commend lthe perusal of the Precis upon which this article is of | | Colonel Bryan, though the convention was against it Is it. | The Janus face is glowering | HE yellow journals teem with reports concern- | But we | There was undoubtedly a good deal of tactical good sense in the determination.of Oom Paul not to risk a pitched battle with the overwhelming armies of the British and stake everything on the issue of one fight, but after all he might just as well have done so and made a Waterloo end for himself instead of petering out so obscurely that no attention is paid to him. '_I port on Sunday, reported speaking the tugs Rescue and Tatoosh sixteen miles northwest of Cape Mendocino with a log raft in tow, and it was | added the rait appeared to be going to pieces and big logs were floating out from it. Later reports are to | the effect that the’logs are drifting all'along the | Mendocino coast. That, of course, means a serious menace to shipping, for the logs floating about the | seas and tossed by the waves imperil every vessel | across whode course they driit. | The evil results of the attempts to tow huge rafts along the coast have long been known to all who have any dealings with marine affairs, In times past, when similar means were employed in transporting lumber from Maine to New York, the dangers to shipping along the Atlantic coast were so great and the dis asters so numerous that it was found necessary to for- bid the practice. It is now high time for preventive measureg to be adopted on this coast. A bill to that effect has been presented to Congress by Senator Perkins, but no action has as yet been taken upon it. New efforts will of course be made to bring about the enactment of the measure at the coming session, but | i the meantime it will be worth while to consider | whether something in the way of remedy cannot be provided at home. Could the Harbor Commissioners forbid the tow- ing of these huge raits into the bay, or reiuse them landing privileges, the profits of the business would be at an end, and the business itself would stop. | Nobody would tow a raft down the coast if he could not bring it into the harbor. It would seem, there- [ fore, to be well worth while for the Commissioners to see what can be achieved by their authority in the matter, for Congressional action is slow, and in an emergency of this kind every day of delay adds to the dangers. The profits derived from successful raft shipments must be very large, for attempts to raft millions of feet of lumber to the city are made every year, notwith- standing that in nine cases out of ten the rafts go to pieces. It is said that half a raft landed in San Fran- cisco will pay a dividend. The business is seemingly something like a gamble, in which the chances are against the adventurer, but a big reward awaits the one who makes the trip successfully. The sup- pression of the attempts in that direction would, @ MENACE OF THE SEAS. “HE collier Wellington, on her arrival at this therefore, be no injury to the legitimate lumber trade, | while it would be of great benefit to all kinds of ship- ! ping. * The subject is one the merchants of the city should at once investigate for the purpose of devising means of checking the evil in advance of the action of Con- | gress. If it be found that nothing can be done by | local authorities, then appeal should be made at once to the officials at Washington. It is quite possible | that something could be effected in the way of rem- | edy by the Federal officers under the general powers given them to regulate coast trade. Nothing will be lost, at any rate, by an agitation of the subject. The | evil has been totally suppressed, we believe, on the | Atlantic coast, and there is no reason why a similar | policy should not be enforced here. It is reported that the United States Minister at Constantinople duns the Sultan every two weeks for the money due on American claims, but the country will take notice that up to this time there has been no report of his collecting anything. | O holiday crowds that flock to the woods during { the summer scason to beware of the danger of starting those fires in the fields and the woods that are so disastrous to the State. In these warnings it has been assumed that the danger of such conflagra- tions was to be found almost wholly in the negligence and carelessness of hunters, campers and others wan- | dering in the woods and meadows, but it now appears there are some people sufficiently vicious and reckless to deliberately start fires with the intention of de- stroying crops, pastures and forests. In the reports from Los Angeles concerning the fires in the mountains in that section of the State it was said: “Not to carelessness or accident alone is attributed the widespread havoc wrought by the fire in the San Gabriel forest reserve. To the act of criminal negligence, to which, with apparent justice, is ascribed the origin of the conflagration that has been raging in the mountains north of Sierra Madre for nearly two weeks, now is gdded the crime of in- cendiarism, according to late reports from the scene | of the fire in the Little Santa Anita canyon. If these reports be true, the fire which broke out afresh in the Little Santa Anita Wednesday afternoon was de- | liberately set in three different places by some mis- | creant.” i There is hardly any kind of malicious mischief a ras- cal can commit with such comparative safety from detection as that of starting a fire in a field or in the woods, consequently when a person is detected in committing such an act the punishment should bs | about as severe as the law permits. Our forests are | being destroyed too rapidly by the hands of those who at worst are only reckless or careless, and we cannot admit any plea to be made in mitigation of the of- | fense of the man who deliberately starts such a five. | The act is one of wanton criminality and the cost to i FOREST INCENDIARISM, VER and over again The Call has warned the the community may run up into millions of dollars. Its punishment should therefore be as swift, as stern and as sure as thebjustice of the State can effect. r—————— | France is building for herself a treasury of American ill-will. First it was our wines against which,she discriminated, and now it is our fruits. It is within the range of possibility that she will go further in her antagonism to us and try next to inflict upon us her manners. ¥ Democratic dodgers may declare for free silver in Colorado and denounce it in New York, but they can- not evade the candidacy of Bryan himself. That is one of the issues of the campaign that cannot be dodged. Bryan will have to raise his calamity howl much higher this year than he did in 1806 if he expects to have it heard above the Whirr of the wheels of in- dustry and the songs of a prosperous people. It has been often said that about every acre in China is a cemetery, and that seems to be about all the ad- vance guard of civilization is finding there. Bone: Ta fhe. lateat pivice. Sanborn, B Market street, S PN SRR S S N, e [ hode it e S T e e | 1 1 PRy A\ (/A NS 1 r THESE STATES HAVE ’—.:V W—'-——t-‘ MOST DENSELY THE MOST CITIES SETTLED AREA tei ot SOME FACTS AND SOME T e e e census will show . se ea o that more than half the FIGURES REGARD’NQ THE Lfr::::g s‘::te! ’:m “b: urban population of the 3 Sountry' 1 fnoltided 1a ENUMERATION OF 1900 | srown o e sciudea o! - ’ in e two squ: o Vislon of Siates, eom- T grees between latitudes prising Maine, New Enumerators Numbered More Than Half a Hundred l_ganddfl,a_ndcl:;zx:{;ll: 0. Ve : { 3 and B, s !l\:i‘-:«';‘:::,v\‘lxfi.'-nn\"1':::::.'; Thousand, and Count Must Be Completed | New York. Brookivn. 3 o City., oken, Isiang. . -GoRnacHous. December 1. | Willlamsburg and Long New York, Sow Jersey by Dece | Isiand City, with a to- ARG FannsYIYAIL Director of the twelfth census, William R. Merriam. Sal pepotation of abous TECTESY Enumeration of populations began June 1 e LS CENSUS WILL SHOW Time allotted for enumeration ..... Two goek,; DECREASE SHOWN IN 22,000,00 TERS Population count must be complete ec. — 38 UG Y2 = Time required for completion of last censu St:rwn years ; "‘ZLVCE FAMILIES A Estimated time for compietion of present census Wwo years The average size of & 200,00 1 Number of census enumerators . 200 | {3"have decreased, but AUauL SN LA v ial agent 3 2,90 with an inerease In the voters {n the United Number of specka a‘fien s-ll.lm:”r.k”two B e By e o s States, Those in charge Number of clerks who will wo s ing in 3 dwelling. ow: of TRt htatiiies e ulating Statistics. . c.ocoecuee cuvenenen i o ing ¥ ‘tne mumber - lleve that fully $0 per large apartment houses cent are native born. _—‘v—_—“’k% built. i AN * < PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare is at the Pal- ace. R. C. Terry, a wine man of Clayton, is at the Lick. Dr. J. G. Van Vieck of Los Angeles is registered at the Grand. A. E. Vail, a mining man of Oroville, is registered at the Occidental. G. E. Kennedy, a prominent vineyard- ist of Livermore, is at the Grand. George Goodman, the Napa banker, and his wife, are stopping at the Palace. James Colins, a prominent fruit grower of Courtland, is registered at the Lick. F. P. Tuttle, a prominent fruit grower of Auburn, is a guest of the Occidental. A. 8. Bangham, assistant adjutant gen- eral on Governor Gage's staff, is at the Occidental. Gerrit P. Wilder, the well-known steam- ship man of Honolulu, is stopping at the Occidental. H. P. Wood, president of the Chamber of Commerce of San Diego, is registered at the Occidental. E. 8. Valentine, a well known insurance man of Fresno, is at the Lick, on his re- turn trip from the East. Father T. C. J. Stenmans, secretary to Archbishop Chapelle of New Orleans, is a guest of the Occidental. Dr. E. B. Armstrong of the cruiser Charleston is at the Occidental. He was with the =hip at the time of her wreck. Mrs. Thomas R. Bard, wife of United States Senator Bard, accompanied by her children, is stopping at the Occidental. She is on the way to Honolulu on a pleas- ure trip. General E. P. Williston, a veteran of the Civil War and the war with Spain and a pr st marshal at Manila, kas been re- tired with the rank of brigadier general. He returned from the Orient on the Sher- man yesterday. W. C. es, assistant engineeer of the Southern Pacific Company, left yesterday on a trip to the eastern part of Nevada. His work will be for the improvement of the main line, principally devoted to the straightening of curves and reducing of grades. First Lieutenant Martin L. Crimmins, son of a New York millionaire, returned on the transpert Sherman yesterday after serving with the army in the Phiiippines. | He was a bjg feliow, but his fighting | weight is now ninety-five pounds. Major Cole accompanies Lieutenant Crimmins and as an effect of the climate has fallen off to ninety-two pounds. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—U. 8. Grant Jr. | of San Diego is at the Hoffman; Robert | L. Lowrey of Los Angeles is at the Em- | pire. [ R e e o =S ow—ovojo—@—'«&*wofi&@»r@ e > e D eLeDebeD —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—S. G. Chap- man of San Francisco is at the Arlington; Mrs. J. Miller and daughter of Los An- | geles are at the National. CULLED FOR CALL READERS The German Emperor possesses in all 111 residences. The railway from Tientsin to Peking, a distance of about seventy miles, was the first constructed in China. The ‘‘cow tree” of Venezuela glves a fluid resembling, tasting like and possess- ingka close chemical affinity to cow's milk. Endless leather belts, acting as moving staircases, convey the patrons of the large Parisian stores from one floor to an- other. A New York druggist said recently that according to his experience men use hair dyes to a much greater extent than women. Mayor Colonna of Rome has begun a crusade against expectoration. The sign E vietato da sputare is now up in all tav- erns and tobacco shops. A Cleveland Judge has decided that “Any woman is justified in_scolding her husband if he comes home drunk and ill- | treats her and the children.” A prize has been offered by a German | socicty for the best design for an electric | railway upon which trains can travel at the rate of 125 miles an hour. Publishers say bgoks on the Hispano- American war do fot sell. The authors write too much about stratégy and too lit- tle about individual acts of heroism. The Chinese are infefior to Europeans in physical strength, but show a marvel- | ous amount of endurance. They will work ‘nlneteen hours a day without complain- | ng. An estimate of the money lost on the turf throughout the world during each | year places the amount at $250,000.000, of which 350,000,000 is lost on English race | courses. | Fruiterers have reaped a rich harvest from travelers for Europe this year. The basket of fruit has almost compietely usurped the place of the box of flowers as a farewell gift. od giraffe skin is worth from $10 tnAsssom uth Africa to-day, and much | more in_Europe. i On a hinting trip | ten or fifteen years ago it was a common matter for one hunter to kill forty or fifty giraffes in one day. A curfous legal wrangle has arisen in Chapman, Kans., over the attempt of the county authoritiés to collect the dog tax on a canine btlnn[lnf to a clergyman. The latter insists that the animal watches faithfully about the sanctuary, and, therefore, as church property is exempt from taxation by State law. =~ The annual crop of mushrooms in France Is valued at §2,00000, and it is said that there are sixty wholesale firms in Paris dealing exclusively in them. In the Department of the Seine it appears there are some 3000 caves in which mush- rooms are grown, and about 300 persons are employed in their culture, and rarely leave these caves. Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's." —_————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allon's) 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone Main X = Cameras, photographic supplies, books on photography and books for unmounted Printing and _devel ng . & Co., T41 | vard averages 13 knots. O+es20000000000+0 FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. i I 0—0—0-0-0*—0-0-0-0—0—0—0—0—.‘! bd * o 1 3! . 2 pe | >0 11 @ . bq * bl +| @ ¢| *o e >0 s | N 2| h-4 e i e o o e e e ot ] DRAB TAFFETAS DRESS. | The dress represented is of bright drab | taffetas, made in zigzag pleats down to the bottom of the skirt, where the full- | ness begins to develop. The yoke is orna- | mented with parrow black velvet. The | walstband is of draped taffetas. | G A AT | { HORSE PULLS OWNER'S TOOTH. | —_— | A horse performed the dutles of a den- | tist at Babylon, N. Y., the other day, and®, in a most expert manner. | ‘Willlam J. Smith was at work on his | place with his horse, when the animal | became restless on account of the flies and switched its tail vigorously. To Smith's | utter astonishment the horse’s tail became | caught in the stem of his pipe and yanked | it out, carrying an incisor with it. The tooth was extracted as quickly, Smith says, and with no more pain than | if the operation had been performed by a dentist. The tooth was perfectly sound. ———————— PROVERBS OF LI HUNG CHANG. Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns. An old man marrying a young wife is like a withered willow sprouting. Would you look at the character of a Prince, look at his minister, or the dis— position of a man, observe his companion, or that of a father, mark his son. Those who sometimes cannot be deaf are unfit to rule. Let the family of a man who has brought them comfort look up to him as up to heaven.—London Daily Mail. . ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BEARDSLEY, AND CRANE-B. 8. R., Vallejo, Cal. Audrey Beardsley died in Mentone, France, March, 16, 1388, and Stephen “‘rane <ied in Bad}nwener. Ger- many, June 5, 1900. THE MONTICELLO-S., City. The steamer Monticello under forced draught can make 15 knots an hour. Her regular speed between this pert and the navy BREMERHAVEN TO SYDNEY—A., City. The distance from Bremerhaven, Germany, to Sydney, Autralia, via the Suez Canal is 11,650 miles and via the Cape of Good Hope it is 12,920 miles. A steamer will make the trip in about fifty-five days. THE ZODIAC—W. R. City. The zodiac is an imaginary broad belt in the heavens, extending about 8 degrees on each side of the ecliptic, within which the apparent | motion of ‘the sun, moon and the most conspicuous of the planets, being those known to the ancients, are conflned. It is when the moon is in that imaginary belt that she is. alluded to as being “in the zodiac.” SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR—C. M., Ciiy. The inhumane manner in which the Spanish Government treated the inhaoi- tants of Cuba; the act of treachery by which the Maine was destroyed ln?.l’ 29 men on board of her were killed and the refusai_cf the Spansh Government to allow United States Minister Woodford 1o sresent the ultimatum of the United tates, asking for a cessation of hostilities In Cuba, but giving him his passports, were the leading causes for the Spanish. American war. " The reason that the United States paid $20.000,000 for the Phil. lgpine Islands was because it was one of the provisions of the treaty of peace. —_——— Gave Lunch for Charity. The Ladies’ Home Missionary Society connected with the Howard-street M. E. Church gave a luncheon in building yesterday to raise mnitll;; !cl;lr“fil; carrying on of mission work in of the city under the ch: o'fml! t: coness. Mrs. J. A. B. Wilson, Mrs. F. Blanding. Mrs. F. H. Moon, Mrs. M. (& Mrs. E. P. Hewlett and Miss ‘tossen, )clengx'er carried the affair to a financial suc. ————— William A. Marshall’s Will. The will of the late William Armagh Mu;.hall. who died July 29, was filed for robate yesterday by Blitz W. Paxton. Bocelhnl bequeaths his entire estal which is valued at $96,000, to his mother, E. Marshall, who is named as exe- to serve without bonds. Mrs. Mar- led a renunciation of her right to as administratrix in favor of her son- in-law, Blitz W. Paxton, ! cuf | vided with spectacles to counteract fail ART AND ARTISTS. HIS is an etcher's year in San Fran« cisco. The latest to arrive in the city are some lovely examples of the bril« liant Frenchman, Paul Helle almost all “dry points.” lection, originally exhibited in Lon- don, called forth the highest praise from the English authorities, including Fred- erick Wedmore and G. P. Jacomb-Hood. In the original catalogue is printed also a complimentary letter introducing the artist to the English public, by M. Hel« leu's friend and admirer, Edmond de Gon- court, who titles the collection “Glimpses of the Grace of Woman.” Says Frederick Wedmore in the Maga- zine of Art, June, 1895: Up to the present time sixty piites Bave besm exscuted by tha briliant and delightful sketcher whose eulogium I make. Scarcely ome of them I think has involved s sitting on the part of our oF two of strenuous i st e h ? | and delighted but untired labor has suffk for the production of each dainty and ess masterly qwork. Edmond de Goncourt calls these dry points ‘“les instantanes de la grace de la femme''—‘“‘snapshots,” shall we trans- late it, at the charm of modern womanh the womanhood of the drawing room—‘‘snap- shots,”” sometimes, at the charm of refined childhood. In Helleu's etched work, the connolsseur will welcome what is practically the complement of the etched work of Vandyck, who in his ore or 20 of plates (wonderful painter though was of women) undertook only the por- traiture of certain distinguished men. G. P. Jacomb-Hood is equally flattering in his comments on this distinguished member of the jury of the Salon of the Champ de Mars, desecribing his work as ‘“drawn with a delicacy and sureness of eye and hand akin to that of the Japanese draughtsman. But the etchings are here, a dozen or eighteen of them, to be directly appre- ciated by the dry point worshiper in their essentially French delicacy and chic. In the dry point there is, of course, no ele- ment of the unexpected, as with the acid- bitten etching, which is always somethi of an attractive adventure, but one m: be sure with the dry point of an exact faithful regroduc!lon of the artist'’s thought. The spontaneity, grace, gayety of the method are delightfully exemplified in M. Helleu's work. Some caarmir children (the artist’s), a portrait of Ml Ellen Helleu, a thoughtful, spirituel child face, and several studies of gir' and women's heads and figures, make up the attractive list. Mrs. Mary Curtis Richardson has re- turned from a summer sojourn on her ranch, looking very well. A lttle story, recalling the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson, is told of Rav- mond D. Yelland, the late artist. As with the novelist, the artist’s devotion to his art became only more marked as with his failing health the difficulty of its service increased, and the work of each suffered no diminution of vigor to the last mo- ments of his life. Mr. Yelland's last work was done on his deathbed. a week only before he died, and the little picturs which received his latest touch was the graceful gift of the dying artist to a valued friend on the occasion of his silver wedding. SRS SRS M A pet Maltese cat belonging to an Eng- lish woman has been successfully p eyesight. 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