The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRI1DAY, ...... NOVEMBER 16, 1900 VON WALDERSEE'S POLICY. OUNT VON WALDERSEE is in China at all ( only as the commander in chief of the allied { forces, which marched to the reduction of Pe- I1OHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. tddress A Com MANAGER'S O cations to W. S, LEAKE, Manager EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. .. 217 te 221 Ste Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carrt si a5 Mail, Including Postage: ing Sunday), one year. $6.90 CAL ding Funday), 6 months. - 3.0 A noluding Sunday), 3 months - 1.80 Y CALIL—By Single Month.. . 8¢ Y CALL. One Year.... . 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. - 1.0 All postmasters are to receive rded when requested. cee...1118 Broadway GE KROGNESS, sing, Marquette Building, Chicago. tance Telephone “Central 219.”) SPONDENT: ie....Herald Square Manager Foreign A (Long T NEW YORK CORR CARLTON. .. : NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH . ....30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. 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Ang Dutchman.” Wite.” nd Eddy streets—Specialties. ~Vaudeville every afternoon and ity Fund Associated Theatrical Mar- THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. d organization of the Irriga- d in Chicago on the as will forward s of the congress. tood to be the storing of bution to the irrigable soil o weral legislatio; it for settlem nt and furnish a by our citizens, who in agricul- pendent homes, draw their sup- d add to the country’s surplus »d consumers of the world. subject of irrigation is forestry, n of our timber area and its.extension the restoration of its vegetable cover : by renewal of the natural forage troyed by overgrazing, due to 1ge in common by herdsmen vered to the congress by Mr. of Agricuiture; General Miles of ors Foster, Carter, Beveridge and business men such as Charles A. Bartlett, George F. Stone, J. J. Hill Northern. and John E. Springer, National Livestock Association. mated that 75,000,000 acres of land may itful by irrigation. That is 470,748 quarter pable of supporting a population of 2,333,- Such an addition to the producing and onsuming power is ¢f great importance, but it does | )t represent he results of irrigation and the for- ligics which are impinged upon it «asing the ranges and preservation of the forests mean the sustenance of many more and range 1 millions of people All the West will look with interest for the conclu- s reached by this congress. The temerity of the colored trooper who found time and opportunity in which to rob his fellows at the Presidio is a very clear proof, if no other was present, that the Tennessee regiment is not among us. raise a fund of $100,000 for the double purposs N A MEMORIAL FUND, /:\ of providing for the widow of Rear Admiral Philip and establishing a permanent memorial of the hero himself. In order to accomplish the double ob- ject it is the intention to invest the fund so that dur- ing the remainder of her MOVEMENT has been started in the East to the income, and aiter her death the revenue will be devoted to a seamen’s home, where it will be known as “the Admiral Philip memorial fund.” Hard! y claim now made upon the liberality and patriotism of the American people is worthier than this. Admiral Philip, after a service.of forty years in the navy, during which time he upheld the noblest ideals of American manhood, died rich in honors but .poor in fortune. The pension of his wioow is said to be only $30 2 month, a sum far from fiicient for her wants even upon the humblest scale of life, to say nothing of her dignity-as the widow of an admiral of the navy of the United States, It will be remembered that after the battle of San- tiago Rear Admiral Philip, whose ship had taken 1 distinguished part in the fight, assembled his crew to join in thanksgiving for the victory and 3ddressed to them the memorable words, “Don’t cheer, boys; the poor fellows are dying.” That phrase is destined to live as long as men cherish noble sentiments of generosity in the hour of victory. It was significant o the charactér of the man, and we proudly believe it is also significant of the character of the nation, A cause of this kind needs n6 commendation. It is probable that in the rich East it will not be diffi- cult to raise the sum desired for the fund, but it is possible Californians may desire to contribute to it, «nd therefore it is to be noted the announcement has Leen made that all contributions should be sent di- iect to the treasurers, J. P. Morgan & Co.,, New York: agreements for i payal at @ future date may be forwarded to W. O. > secretary, 3 West Twenty-ninth street, New York, su the whole irrigation | the country west of the ninety- continue to urge such meas- Mrs. Philip can have | | king and the rescue of the legations. The powers, joined in that emergency, felt the need of a common {action and that the expedition should have oné head. The French commander was & hali-caste negro, and | there were objections to him. Japan waived her right | to ask supreme command for her very able field mar- | shal, who was on the ground and in command of her excellent army. So, finally, it was settled that a Ger- | man officer should take command, and the Kaiser named Von Waldersee, who was accepted by the al- | lies. Instead of proceeding to his post of duty and taking command of the relief column he remained on exhibition in Germany, catching and throwing bou- quets and mistreating the spirit in which his com- That imand had been accepted by the other nations. | acceptance was no admission of the superiority of ! | German military organization, and it was not cour- | Yet it was treated in that spirit, a distinct affront to the assenting powers. i Before the Count embarked from Germany for the | scene of his duties the reduction of Peking was over, | the legations were relieved and the whole issue was | shifted from the military to the diplomatic stand- point. Negotiations for settlement were on, and any | further military aggression became wanton and | malicious, calculated to impede a setflement and im- | peril that peace which is the object of the pour parler [into which the nations have entered with China. Von Waldersee's present course in sending out what he calls “punitive expeditions” to raid the coun- try and murder non-combatants is a crime comparable only with the original Boxer outrages. It is an in- sulting defiance of the known policy of the United | States and is intended to make impossible of accom- | phshment the world's desire for peace in China, and | on terms that will not be a reproach to the Western nations. f Americans protest, to a man, against this making { of offensive warfare while diplomacy is trying to se- i‘ure peace. We have entered into negotiations with i China, and that alone is an admission of the right of | that nation to speak for itself and to be heard with | respect. On any other basis negotiation is a farce. | Distasteful as occupation of any part of another country may be to us, we may be compelled to insist | on a legation guard at the Chinese capital in order that our Minister may not be again exposed to the | danger that beset him from June until August. But the necessity for such guard will disappear if Peking | be made an open city, in the same sense as the treaty | ports. I the negotiating nations proceed on the line of reason, and with the purpose of doing justice to | China while exacting it from her, there is no doubt that this open policy could be finally secured. All of this prospect of permanent peace on a basis that China can assent to without destruction of her self-respect is destroyed in the germ by the merely | ruffianly course of Von Waldersee. He may be merely the agent of the hidden purpose of other Continental Governments besides his own. He may not be acting on his own initiative. It may ;he that Germany is encouraged by the unchristian | expressions of American missionaries, who have been | in the Middle Kingdom by virtue of the forgery of the treaty of 1860, and so may be proceeding upon the | theory that American sentiment does not back up the { administration of the country in its humane and pa- i cific views. | Ii this be so, Germany should be undeceived. The | people of this country want peace in China. They They { want the open door through which to reach its trade. | tesy to so treat it. | which was | want the integrity of that empire preserved. | and other nations may as well be informed that this | | country will not permit the ignoring of its rights in | these particulars, though reached round-about by | contempt for the rights of China. . r——————— s | The investigation which the Board of Supervisors | is now making into the financial affairs of the Spring Valley Water Company indicates that the corporation i‘s conveniently ignorant of the value of its own prop- | erties. It would be reasonable to suppose, therefore, | that it would not object if the public took advantage { of the same convenience if the time ever comes to make the municipal acquisition of public utilities a reality. —_—e ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. Y the action of the meeting at the Hopkins In- | B stitute of Art on Wednesday evening the Pa- | cific Commercial Museum has taken another step forward in that career which promises to speedily realize many of the most sanguine expectations of its founders and promoters. The resident Consuls of various foreign Governments were at the meeting, was called to the establishment of the museum and of the museum has been begun, and we may expect ere long to see something in the way of trade re- | sults. In this connection it will be worth while to note efforts now being made in Boston to attract trade to that city, as it may be of advantage to us to imitate them so far as they are applicable to our conditions. There is no commercial museum in Boston, but some of the railroads centering in the city have perceived the benefits certain to accrue to them from increased foreign trade at the port, and have had agents abroad seeking to procure it. Speaking of the work of one of these agents, Mr. Crane, who has been traveling in Europe working up trade for the city, the Boston Globe says: | “He visited not only London and Liverpool, and Hamburg, Glasgow and Hull, but Rot- tadam, Antwerp and Copenhagen. Direct re- sults of gratifying character were reached in the assurance of an increase in steamship service to Boston in the near future, and the likelihood of th= speedy establishment of new lines of commerce hay- ing Boston as the American terminal. From the officials of the Rotterdam line, for instance, there is already the promise of a regular service to Boston of three sailings a month. The Elder-Dempster service will be improved as soon as opportunity offers, while the Dominion line is soon to receive the accession of a new steamer and must prove more efficient than ever. Cheered by these promises Mr. Crane appears to be quite sanguine that Boston may yet receive much of the foreign trade that now goes to New York, and consequently her railroads will obtain the traffic that has helped to enrich the New York roads. He is quoted as having said: “Owners who are looking around for profitable routes for their steamers are also coming to understand that it is much better to send their tonnage to the second important port on the Atlantic, where steamers can sail right up to the Mudfindplenyolroom,mnhomdthekufips to New York, where, to begin with, they find compet- ing_ lines ahead of them and will for z chance to dock their vessels. In those statements there is a lesson which rail- and through them the attention of their Governments | the scope of its work. Thus the commercial activity | have to fairly fight roads having terminals in San. Francisco ought to find profitable. 1f the comparatively small lines which center in Boston find it worth their while to work up the foreign trade of the city at their own expense, surely the Santa Fe and the Southern Pa- cific can perceive an advantage to themselves in co- operating with the Commercial Museum in promot- ing trade with this port. It is a good thing to have | called the attention of foreign Consuls to the work | to deal with merchants and traders direct. The Bos- | ton plan has had good results there, and would doubt- less be equally profitable here. . The latest reports from China indicate that the allied powers are now most pressingly concerned with the serious problem of how, after having forced an entrance into the Orient, it is easiest and safest it') get out. i ONDON recently celebrated by a popular out- L burst of delight the return of the City Impe- | < rial Volunteers from the war in South Africa. | and New York a few days later had a similar demon- stration over the great victory for McKinley and prosperity. In both cities the streets were thronged with tumultuous’ crowds, and it was noted that a considerable number of women shared in the uproar and took the jostling with a frolic welcome. There was, however, a wide difference between the | tone of the two celebrations and a wider difference | in the manner in which the women of the two cities | acted and were treated. The contrast is so striking as | to be worthy of note as an illustration of the national characteristics of Americans and Britons as displayed {in great crowds. That the contrast may be fairly presented we give accounts as published in papers of the two cities, and written by reporters who were eye-witnesses of the facts. The New York Sun in describing the celebra- tion of the McKinley victory in that city says: This brings us to a notable feature of the celebration —the vast number of women who took part In it, vying with the men, the college boys and the street urchins in blowing horns and megaphones, swinging rattles and waving flags and campaign devices. With few excep- | tlons, too, they were obviously respectable women, most- |1y young, but including also many of matronly appear- ance and not a few crowned with the dignity of gray hairs. It was a great spres and these women, making up probably a quarter or a third of the crowds, were as demonstrative in thelr enjoyment of it as were the men themselves. A contagious spirit of comradeship A TALE OF TWO CITIES. | | I prevailed among them and the conventional feminine re- serve was cast aside for a liberty of Intercourse which was not abused. They were like boys out for a frolic. * * * What was the consequence? Was not the prev- alent good temper and considerate behavior of the crowds directly due to the presence of so great a num- ber of women, many unaccompanied by men and many others with such escort? At any rate, in all that bofster- ous crowd and that wild frolic there was no clash of rude and coarse behavior. Political enmities were for- gotten in the prevalent spirit of fun. Nor were the high spirits manifested the product of artificial stimulants, except in small measure; yet never and nowhere has there been more complete abandonment to merrymaking than there was by the men and women who thronged | Broadway from Twenty-third to Forty-second street on | election night. Evidently women have come out of the seclusion of homes to share in the tumultuous frolic of men; and if the consequence is always to be as it was on election night, it will be good—certainly for the men. | The Westminster Gazette in describing the wel- | come of the City Volunteers in London says: The excitement in the streets, particularly from Fleet | street to Plecadilly, last night surpasses anything yet experienced. Even Mafeking night, though perhaps more boisterous, was not equal to this volume of surging hu- manity. Unfortunately there was only too much of that unseemly horseplay which threatens to become an un- | governable factor on such occasions. The hope is ex- pressed that London has grown weary of this kind of festtvity, and that it will die out spon. It is sincerely to be trusted that this hope has justification in fact. The drunkenness among women and young girls was a par- ticularly noticeable and deeply regrettable phase of the street scenes. Enormous throngs surged along Fleet street, the Strand, Piccadilly, Praed street and the Edg- | ware road, flying peacocks’ feathers, beating respectable persons with bladders strung on strings and sticks, roar- ing out the coarsest of songs and indulging in wantofl ribaldry. The well behaved who came out to see the decorations and flluminations had to suffer at the hands of these riotous individuals. A contrast of that kind cannot be put aside lightly as a mere accidental occurrence. The New York | demonstration, being of a partisan character, might have been expected to occasion fights here and there between pugnacious supporters of different parties, but nothing of the kind occurred; while the Lon- | don celebration, being of a patriotic character, ought | to have been thoroughly good-humored and har- monious, but it was the reverse. The most notable point of contrast, however, is the revelation of the attitude of the men of the two cities toward women who joined them in the frolic. In New York the ap- pearance of the women on the streets kept the crowds | orderly and respectiul, but in London the opposite happened. We can feel a just national pride in this evidence of American manliness and rejoice in the knowledge that it is not in New York only that such respect for womanhood is displayed on all occasions. —— | It is probably not gratifying to Professor Ross of Stanford University that in a public and very unfor- tunate scandal he has gained more fame than was his reward in years of serious endeavo D | rains the woods of many parts of the State i became dry enough to furnish another illustra- | tion of the urgent need of some system of forest pro- tection. These lessons come at a most opportune’ time, for we are to have a Legislature in session this winter, and it is well to have the importance of this subject thoroughly impressed upon the public mind so that the desired legislation may be adopted. The dispatches of November 11 from San Diego ireponed a forest fire raging in the mountains back of El Cajon and threatening to devastate a wide re- | gion of coyntry. On the same day reports came of another fire in a different locality of the same moun- tains. On November 12 dispatches from San Ber- | nadino reported the destruction by fire of a lumber mill, and added: “The further damage will be the burning of the forest beyond the mill. The flames are sweeping up the canyon, which is covered by heavy timber.” On the same day came dispatches | “wom Salinas announcing: “Forest fires are raging in the foothills east of this city. Great damage has been done. Already several thousand acres have been burned over.” 3 These reports show once more how serious is the loss to California from the lack of a systematic pro- tection against forest fires. Of course no system could prevent them altogether, any more than the best regulations in our cities can prevent fires there; but something can be done to mitigate the evil. The FOREST FIRES AGAIN. URING the warm days that followed the first annual direct loss runs up into many millions of dol- lars, and the indirect losses are incalculable. No section of the State is free from such disasters. Dur- ing the dry season reports of fires follow one an- other almost as regularly as the days. ‘We are per- mitting our great timber resources to be burned up wmfiigul;m:m;flm to save them. NOVEMBER 16, 1900. CROWN PRINCE . IS BURNED TO DEATH | the museum has undertaken, but it would be better GYPSY Only Son and Heir to King Stanley Gathered to His Fathers. < Prince Leon, heir presumptive to the throne of Stanley, King of the Gypsies, is dead, says the writer of a recent article in a Chicago newspaper. His body lies in state—all the state which can be gathered about a small bier in a miserable hovel in the throneroom of the Gypsy nation at Forty-seventh street and Archer avenue. The Prince, a tot of five years, was try- ing to feed a fire in the cook stove of his mother, the Queen and consort of King Stanley, his father, when the paper car- ried the fire to his imperial kilt robes and ignited them. Before her Majesty, the Queen, could reach him from the fortune- telling booth which she occupied he had been fatally burned. There was no sadness in the Gypsy nB-I tion last night. No remorse, save in the mother’s heart, was felt for the dead. Their theosophy taught them to belleve that he had gone to a happier life, and they unselfishly rejoiced. While the death may terminate the pres- ent dynasty in the rule of the nation, the Gypsies were none the less glad that the royal ¢hild had been spared the trials of 2 nomadic existence similar to the one they themselves are leading. The mother rejoiced that her child had been spared those tribulations, but the mother’s heart compelled her to weep. A canvass of the nation brought out an accordion and a violin and a player for each. By the flare of torches there were dances such as are frequently seen only in Sicily and along the Mediterranean shores. o There will be a simple funeral, vet it will be the grandest yet held by the Gypsy natfon. According to the rites of the Gyp- sies, a prince of the royal and reigning dynasty must be buried in royal ground. As the Gypsies have no reservations in Chicago cemeteries, the funeral will be in the country, but where the leaders would not say. PERSONAL MENTION. Colonel C. C. Royce 6f Chico is at fhe California. T. L. Carothers, the Ukiah attorney, is at the Lick. . State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San -Juan is registered at the Grand. L. A. Blinn and wife of Los Angeles are stopping at the Palace for a few days. John F. Lenaghan, an extensive East- ern tobacco ralser, is stopping at the Russ, United States District Judge Olin Well- born of Los Angeles is registered at the Palace. Kelly Briggs, owner of the Velveteen Stock farm, also owner of the racing horse Velveteen, is at the Russ. P. J. Glldemeester, one of the proprie- tors of - the big Stelnway Plano Manufac- tory, is among the late arrivals at the Palace. John D. Spreckels and family returned to this city vesterday. Mrs. Spreckels and her children have spent several months in Europe. They were met in New York by Mr. Spreckels, who accompanied them home. J. G. Rothwell arrived at the Occidental yesterday from a trip to the principal Eastern cities. Mr. Rothwell has been getting points on modern hotel manage- ment, as he is the owner of the handsome new Hotel Moana now being built at Wai- kikl beach, Honolulu. .XI. E3 | L3 FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. | [} L s DRESS OF SUEDE COLORED VEILING The costume is of suede colored velfling. The corsage is made in flat pleats, witk bands of guipure encircled with narrow biack .velvet. The front and lapels are of guipure. The short sleeves have lapels of black velvet. The yoke is of gulpure. The skirt is ornamented with guipure in- sertion and black velvet. A CH NMO SMILE. “A genius,” writes a small boy, ‘‘is born first, an’ raised. afterward. But the worl’ don’t know he’s a genius 'till somebody sprains their leg by stumblin’ over his grave.”—Atlanta Constitution. fr Tommie cup ag: ‘Well, he has nerve.” “It takes nerve to be a great adver- tiser.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Jones—Oh, doctor! is my husband still frrational? Doctor Dosem—Extremely so. When I told him your mother was coming to-mor- row he.smiled.—Judge. “And now,” said the Fiji chief to the Boston missionary, “have you anything to request before we proceed with the cere- mony ?" “Only this,” replied the missionary, "pl(e):.!g put A tew beans in the poc with me.”"—Harlem Life. Lipton is after the Ameri- “That is what I call a moving appeal,” sald Tenspot to Gazley. ou call what a moving appeal?"* 'This note from my landlord teiling me that I must vacate because of non-pay- ment of rent.”—Detroit Free Press. Little Rollo—Have you ever faced death on the battlefleld, Uncie Ebenezer? Uncle Eb.—No, but I've been operated on_for appendicitis.—Chicago Times-Har- all Little Willle—Pa, what's a financier? Pa—A flnancier, my son, is a man who is capable of Inducing other men to pile up a fortune for him.—Chicago News. Mrs. Goodsoul—I think its a perfect shame that !;he enrl{ settlers killed off Indians the way o e it is. Just think wfl:'wbveeb m’: they used to sell for a few glass beads.—New York Weekly. ribbler—The question of aerial naviga- tlgn seems t:‘ have mfu"‘fu’f at last. Ml s Niminy il ur ?ua aof mnu:'m o 3 Se es, we paragraphers feel 't keenly. Its simply ible to make 1 Joke out of a name like that.—Philadei- phia he . o e ey By chanoe o e Sanr e 3 -l * $ob in de Legisiatur® dis term?” . "% g:;: mw; what do 3’:‘. oxpoctl?" P2 Gt AL g L i lators Bits¥'—Atlanta Constitation. -5 “There are two kinds ot business cour- | Rinat are they?” e “Well, the. kind we extend to people ‘who and the kind exty - e s ANSWERS TO QUERIES. EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY NEW YORK WORLD—It will strike us as strange that after the long struggie for electoral reform Great Britain, with a population of nearly 1,000,000, can cast oni 43180708 votes. From this it would appear that fully one-half of the British | freemen are still disfranchised. And while | the average vote required to choose a member of Parliament is about 8000, there are still boroughs with only 3000 voters. | while in other election districts there 15 | voting list of 30.000. PHILADELPHIA LEDGER—Some edu- | cators encourage self-depreciation in the child, whereas he needs the assurance that he is well worth improving and en- | nobling. He can easily be led either to | self-contempt or to seif-respect, and may soon learn to distinguish what tends to | the one from what tends to the other. To | be convinced that mean action is h»'xm’l‘il’s} him is a great safeguard; no one | to sink, and the sense of honor Is a | tinual incentive to rise, | BALTIMORE AMERICAN- 5 | st g0 we a | Guired and before we can go ahead with | the work of organizing and establishing a | Government theére it is absolutely essen- | tial that the insurgents be overcome and thelr insurrection suppressed. Congress will hold up the hands of the President in | this matter, and the executive should have no hesitancy in putting in operation & | strong and vigorous policy. | LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL— The cotton mill buiiding movement in the We owe | o FLOUR ON A CAR—S‘..— City. { South, which attained such extraordinary A ten-ton | proportions the first half of the year, nas | + CRIET RS freight car will carry ninety barrels of | flour, seventy of lime and sixty of whisky. | | RAILROAD CENTER—A., City. The | city in the United States at this time that | Is Classed as the railroad center Is Chi- cago. HOSPITAL—A. W. W., City. There is no hospital in San Francisco that is spe- ga}ly devoted to working women and | rls. RAZZLE DAZZLE—Disputer, City. In| the dice game of razzle dazzle aces are high, consequently five aces will beat five sixes. THE CIVIL WAR—J. H. B., City. The cost of the Civil War (including all ex- enses growlng out of the same) to the nited States was $6,159,929,900. RUSSIAN CALENDAR-—M. C. J., City. The Russians have not adopted the Greg- orlan calendar. When we write October 19 the Russians write October 8. FIGURE FOUR TRAP—M. L., City. The easlest way to adcertain how to make a figure 4 trap is to have some one show you how. It is doubtful if you could make a| success by following printed directions. OLD ENGLISH BANKS—I. B. T., City. | To ascertain the names of private banks | in London or Liverpool from 1825 to 1530 | you should address a_communication to | the Bankers' Clearing-house, in Postoffice | court, London, Eng. | RENT—Subscriber, City. If you moved away from a house owing five months’ rent and stored your furniture, and you are now working earning a monthly sal- ary, a portion of that salary and part of your furniture is liable to attachment. MAUDE GONNE—J. H. H., Keswlck‘: Cal. Maude Gonne Is a wealthy woman | ot Europe who has been noted for her | interest In the cause of the Boers, and | who has offered to help Oom Paul Kruger | during his stay in Europe. ‘ i WEIGHT OF BELLS—Enq., Oakland, | Cal. The welght of the bell on the City Hall, New York, is 22,300 pounds; that of St. Peter's at Rome, 15,807; that of St. Paul, London, 11,470; that of St. Ivan at | Moscow, 127,8%0; that of Moscow, unhung, | 440,000, and the great bell of China, 120,000. | THE SUBIG INCIDENT—A. 8., City. | The only details that this department can furnish as to the Subig Bay incident dur- | ing the Spanish-American war are those | { which appeared in the San Francisco Call | | of July 14, 159, page one, column. three. | | You can consult the files at the reference | | room of the Free Publie Library. | THE ALASKA PURCHASE-J. H. B., | City.. Alaska, a Territory of the United States, formerly a possession of Russia, | ernment for the sum of $7,200.000 at the | instance of Willlam H. Seward. Secretary | | of State under President Andrew John- | son, MASSES-J. H. H., Keswick, Cal. In the Catholic church high mass is one with | | the full ceremonial and celebrated with | | the assistance of a deacon and subdea- cons; low mass is the ordinary form of mass by a priest without musle; requiem | high mass is a mass for the repose of | the dead. TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS—G., City. | | If parties have formed an association to | engage in the business of mining and de- | sire to go°out of business, they must, if | an incorporation, proceed according to law to disincorporate, proceed likewise if only | a partnership concern, and if it is neither | simply go out of business. | PATENTS—J. S, Sacramento, Cal There are so mary paténts that have been classed as simple and have been produc- | tive of big results to the patentee that it is impossible to classify them and give the number or tell what the patentees real- ized. There have been some stray figures published, but such have only been guess work and are not reliable. WETTING THE HAIR-C. C. S., City. Those who have made the matter a study say that while there is no harm in using water on the hair to dress it, it has a tendency to make it harsh. This depart- ment has examined about 400 reclpes for the hair, but has not been able to dlscover the one asked about, the component parts | of which are gin and bitter apple. SUBSCRIPTION — Constant Reader, Alameda, Cal. If a person subscribes for a perlodical and does not desire to con- tinue his subscription, it is the duty of | such person to notify the publisher to | that effect. If the publisher persists in sending the publication It is the duty of the person to whom sent to refuse to re- ceive it. By 8o doing the person to whom | it is sent does not become responsible for the subscription. TO PETRIFY WOOD—Subseriber, City. The following is given as the method for petrifying wood or any porous sub- stance: ““An equal guantity each of gum salt, rock alum. white vinegar and peb. bles' powder. Mix well together. If after the Ifibullmon is_over you uxro:' into the liquid any wood or ous substa wil Tnis ¢ e rify it department gi it e o L hiving tested it. COAL ON STEAMERS-J. F. C, Fa- moso, Cal. Generally speaking ocean steamers In crossing the Atlantic use | from two to three hundred tons of coal In | twenty-four hours. The Deutschland. one of the l:rlseu‘: of e&he trans-Atlantie fleet, on one trip burned on an average | tons of coal a day. b S she made 600 knots at an_ ex; 1 with the size of the steamer and that it is desired to be obhhnd.m CANNOT VOTE—Subscriber, Parkfleld, Cal. In the State of California no one not a citizen by birth or by naturalization can vote at any State or municipal election, In some States an alien who declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States and who has complied with the law as to residence may vote, In those States the time of residence varies from six months to a year. The fact that an is a member of some inization in the State does not confer franchise on . CHURCHES—V. T. Santa Rosa, Cal There are no published statistics tell the highest salary s L in names of the most each denominati that any one value the cen- | pation in was purchased by the United States Gov- | PO! Ty paid to a preacher ! California, in the United :m-. t‘:: shown a material decline of late, but is still noteworthy. Plans announced for Oc- tober are for 20,000 new spindies and the employment of $600,000 additional capital. This means a great deal for the South, and it is really a very large sum when it is rememberog that it was arranged for on the eve of a Presidential election. NEW YORK TRIBUNE—If our sending American warships on triumphant errands of conquest into the waters of the O'd World and our reading the Monroe doc- trine to the Holy Alllance three-quarters of a century ago were.not acts of par: orld politics,” we should 1| to have such an act described. The pres- ence of the United States among the na- tions may be more feit now than ever be- fore, but it is no new thing. The United tates “arrived” more than a century ago. ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT—Im- agination is as essentlal to the geologist, the astronomer or the worker in any other field of science as it Is to the novelist or the poet. It not only permits him to grasp e gt quickly than a person lacking this endowment could, but it allows him to see its relations more clearly and ap- Tehend its consequences more accurate- P)’. Of course, it enables him to make the truth known to the rest of the world with immeasurably greater faecility and cer- tainty than a mere plodder could do. NEW YORK HERALD—The blue water yachtsmen of the New England seaboard believe with the Herald that the fickle and shifty Sandy Hook courses should be abandoned in the international races. These men have in memorable contests furnished the cup defenders, and from their rock ribbed coasts have come of late the hardy crews that man the American boats. The unselfish patriotism of these skilled sailormen should be an inspiration and an example to the conservative com- mittees of our senfor squadron. PHILADELPHIA TIMES—It is not pos- sible to trace to their sources all the operative causes which have kept Spain in a state of unrest, for they touch so ma and such varied interests that a measure of value for each of t be taken. The frenzy of a dec tocracy, the ambitions of the church, the impossible aims of the Liberals, the bur- den of taxation, the oppression of a use- less military force degraded to the duties of a national police and the aspirations of the Carlists are the predominating fae- tors. PHILADELPHIA RECORD—Increasing as it is by leaps and bounds, the Russian trade is certain to become a most import- ant factor in the foreign commerce of that nation which shall secure the larger share. The superiority of American goods, backed by proper vigilance and enter- prise on the part of American manufac- turers, should bring that good fortune to this country. In the meanwhile any effort by Germany to effect a commercial treaty with Russia to the detriment of this courntry's trade should meet with the most vigorous opvesition on the part of cur Government. KANEAS CITY JCURNAL—We have an idea that the English people take their litics rather more seriously than do the American genple. notwithstanding the celerity with which campaigns are bustled through. A member ®f Parifament gets no pay. He serves for the homor of it, or because he has deep grounded govern- mental convietions which he wishes to put into play. It perhaps is not disloyal to our own institutions to observe that such a system is calculated to bring true pat- riots to the front. We may readily con- celve that in our country a different order of men might seek entrance to Congress if ro salary attached to the place. NEW YORK PRESS—The microbe man s at it again. Undismayed by the riots of the unnaturalized against compulsory vaccination, he is looking for still more trouble. He has been experimenting in the laboratory of the Department of Ag- riculture and he has found present in con- valescents from zymotic diseases a - ticular enzyme of unformed ferment. g:n what an enzyme is or what it looks like is not evident, but Professor Loew at once contracted a virulent case of new idea from it. He set the enzyme on a germ and whispered, “Sick him!” The en- zyme sicked him and the germ evacuated his kopje and retreated to another prov- ince from this foreign devil. Cal. glace fruit §0c per I at Townsend's.* Epecial information suppiied dally to Dbusin houses and public men 1 the Press abnm’ B\n-unv:lln'-)‘ 510 te gomery st. Telephone 1042 - For over three years Frank Senovitz of New Haven, Conn., pald court to Sophie Seraphin of Brandford, ten miles distant. He never received much, if any, encour- agemenf, and was recently chilled for good. Now he threatens to have the girl arrested unless she refunds him the money expended for raflroad fare and resents on his weekly visits to Brant- Pord, " Mise Seraphin is willing to return the gifts, but draws the IfE at rallroad fare. Senovitz presented an itemized bill for 3309, which included the price of rail- road tickets, presents, Icecream, candy and theater tickets. —_—— AN OPPORTUNITY.—Take advantage of the round-trip steamer tickets, only 3¢ durtng No- vember, Including fifteen days’ board at Hotel del Coronado, the jdeal summer and winter re- sort. Apply at 4 New Montgomery st., city. ‘Rev. G. R. Robbins of the Lincoln Park Baptist Church, Cincinnatl, has evolved an original plan for obviating the diffi- culty experienced by the mothers of his congregation, who rather than run the risk of disturbii the meetings by the ;"Yinl \\15 their Meshwnuhl‘llerr;m:‘lnu':: ome. has had the gal church ftted wp with cots. where bables Tiberty 1o attend ADVERTISEMENTS. FAT BABY leaving the mothers at the services. Fat is the cushiox; that na- ture fills outand surrounds the little ones with, to protect their tender parts—the same with kittens and puppies—fat is not tender. Fat they must have; and fat they must be. 1f your baby is anyway short S Ersimstgnte | of his rights, givehim Scotts emulsion of cod-liver oil. ‘We'll send you a little to try if you ke, SCOTT & BOWNE, 4og Pearlstreet, New York. { =