The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDA The ol @all DECEMBER 1, 1902 SATURDAY. . JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A A A A A A tddress All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. .. Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Pre EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Tele e Press 202, 1. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunda DAILY CALL (including Sunday), DAILY CALL (including Sunda; DAILY CALL—By Singie Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Yea All postmasters are subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND GLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. CAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, 1 Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distence Telephone “Central 2619."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.......00000000-..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Urion Square: Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel WASHINCTON (D. C.) OFFICE. 1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—2 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:39 o'clock. 3 Hayes, open until $:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 616 Larkin, open untll $:30 o’clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, ixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia, open 3 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cor- 4 Kentucky, open until § o'clocl AMUSEMENTS. Columble—"The Singing Girl" Tivoli—"A Jolly Musketeer.” ambra—Herrmann, the Great Minstrels. house—*Lohengrin.” ‘Seven-Twenty-Eight.” . corner Mason snd Bddy streets—Specialties. Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and tes, Fischer's—Vandeville. Recreation Park—Baseball Tanforan Park—Races to-day. £ AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Lyang—Monday evening, December $, at 7:4 —Thoroughbred yearlings, at 721 Howard street. . y B. P. Oliver—Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, Real Eetate, st 223 Sutter streei. o'el December 12, THE GLASS WOCRKS DISASTER. time draw some cannot give heed to that lesson now. This is no time for moralizing upon the causation of accidents or the uncertainty of human life. At present all hearts are too tender in the soreness of sympathy for the afflicted families to attend calmly to any cold, unsym- pathetic discussion of the calamity.. A direful tragedy en the city in its hour of joy, and neither the jay nor the pulpit to-morrow can utter any other words than those of mourning, joined with such consolation as it is in the power of human sympathy to offer to human sorrow. < UT of the Thank a day of joy tc a day of overwhelming grief ;me our people will 'doubtless in. good lesson of benefit for the future, but lling disaster that turned al in San Francisco from appa giving i they has be press tc ich accidents are unfortunately only too common the of mankind. Hardly does any great national festival pass without leaving a record of dis- aster and death. In moments of joy men dismiss their ordinary care, and when excited by the enthusiasms of large crowds become thoughtless of danger. Thus zccidents in great cities upon holiday occasions fol- low one another in each succeeding year ‘with unfail- ing regularity. It is true they seldom occur uypon a scale of such magnitude or under circumstances so direful as that which fell upon the spectators of the football match from the roof of the glass works on Thanksgiving day, but still they are always calami- ties and teach through the fearful: lessons of sorrow need of the exercise of the greatest care on all ccasions and under all circumstances that gather ght-hearted people in large numbers to some scene of popular festival or state céremony. Even while still sore with the iceling of grief over sc many blighted and sorrowing homes, the people of San Francisco will note with thankfulness the excel- lent work done by the police and by the hospitals of the city and the physicians generally for the relief of the victims. All upon whom responsibility in meeting the emergency rested did their duty with promptness, efficiency and fidelity. Of the police not only those who were on duty but many who were off duty re- sponded at once to the call made upon them, and within a time comparatively brief every one of ‘ths sufferers was removed to a place where medical and surgical assistance with tender and careful nursing could be given. Nor was there any avoidable delay in giving that aid. Considering that it was a public holi- day and that physicians like the rest of the citizens were scattered about at various social or festa] gath- erings, the promptness with which.they were gathered to the post of duty was a striking illustration of how effectively modern civilization has disciplined the members of the profession in the work required of it. Where all deserve commendation for duty faith ful:y performed it is something of an invidious task to select any for particular praise, but justice requires that special mention be made of the work of the Southern Pacific Hospital and its staff. That institu- tion was bound by no law to open its doors to the sufferers who were brought to it, and yet it did so without one moment of hesitation. The call of hu- manity was obeyed as if it had been a divine com- mand, and nothing of energy, expense, skill or cars was spared by the officers and the attendants of the hospital in relieving the stricken ones so far as it was possible to do so. Out of this proof of the existente of a spirit of genuine humanity in the city the general mass of our people may draw something of comfort. The minis- trations of friends will do much to comfort the ai- flicted homes, while pastors of the churches will re- call to them the consolations of religion. That is as much as can be done now, and with abundant sym- pathy for all the sorrowing ones the people will leave it for the officers of the law and the Coroner’s jury to determine whether or no there be any one to blame. CEE——— > The Board of Supervisors has reached the conclu- sion that our Police Department in every matter af- fecting public interest is inefficient. The board should remember, however, that the police, whatever they cannot do, are admirably qualified to take care of themselves. SHIPS AND PROTECTION. '["HE Colusa Sun has stated, ably and fairly, the opposition to Government aid in the rebuilding of our merchant marine. Its position is simply that such aid is the extension of the American policy of protection to that industry and business. In view of the results of our moderate system of tariff support of American industries, one need not run away when its application is proposed for the benefit of such an important industry as ship-build- ing. But is this opposition on right lines? Is the analogy complete? We have the largest seacoast mileage of any of the nations. We have a greater number of seaports and harbors, and we produce more surplus of all articles of commerce, that must seek a market abroad, than any other people. With all this interest in blue water shipping we have lost our supremacy of the seas. Our people have parted with their seafaring spirit. Sailing the oceans is practically abandoned by Amer- How are they to be redirected into that their icans. channel for the profitable employment 'of energies? Primarily it is a question of transportation, by sea, of our own merchandise. Our land tramspor- tation is the best and cheapest in the world. It em- ploys a million of men in its various departments. It is one of the great wage and profit paying industries of the country. In its development it was constantly the recipient of some form of public help. In its very beginning it found a difficulty that it could not sur- mount without Goverament assistance. Our first rail- roads were blocked by the impossibility of securing right of way for their lines. It was discovered that construction of an extensive system was impossible if railroad builders had to bargain with each individual landholder for the right to build a line across his pos- While this difficulty lasted capital would not invest in railroads. Beginning in New England, this question was fought out. It divided parties first in New Hampshire, where finally railroad corpora- tions were given the power of condemnation under the right of eminent comain, in recognition of their quasi-public character, and the public necessity for an improved transportation system. Then development | began, and was continually aided by loans of the public credit and by gifts, outright, of State and mu- nicipal bonds. When it was seen that the settlement of the West depended upon building railroads, the public domain was given to those enterprises. The first great grant was secured to the Illinois Central through the efforts | of Stephen A. Douglas. We need not remind the Democrats of to-day that he was a leader of their party, nor that their rational conventions demanded Government aid, by subsidy, for the construction of an overland road to the Pacific Coast. The building of our American roads has employed millions of American workmen. It has employed other immense numbers in the manufacture of their equipment. Take out of our industries those that build locomotives, cars and wheels, and manufacturs steel rails, and an industrial paralysis would fall upon the land. Yet all of this mighty structure of American | activity was built upon Government recognition, aid and encouragement. What the advocates of a re- vival of American shipping ask is that this Govern- ment do for ship-building and blue water transporta- tion what it did for land transportation. Our railroads carry our commercial surplus to the seaboard and then it is taken for marine transportation by foreign ships, built in foreign shipyards and manned by for- eign sailors. We pay foreigners now in freights over 1 $200,000,000 a year. Is it good business sense to deny | the right of this Government to pay a subsidy. of $10.- 000,000 a year for ten years, that ships may be built in American. vards, by American workmen, to be owned and manned by Americans, to carry our &ur- plus to its market and save to our own people and our own industries the vast sum that we now pay an- | nually to foreign ship-owners? | We do not think that Democrats like Stephen A. Douglas, Wiliam L. Marcy, Levi Woodbury, De Witt Clinton, Lewis Cass, Albert Gallatin and Rob- ert J. Walker would have hesitated a moment if they had been brought face to face with the conditions which have given us the largest foreign trade in the world without our own merchant marine to carry it | to market. If it is a good thing not to do our ocean transpor- tation, why would it not also be a good thing not to do our own transportation by land? This coast owes its development to railway transportation that was constructed by Government aid in land and a loan of credit. Does the Colusa Sun think that was a bad and profitless thing to do? Would it have us go back to the transportation conditions that were superseded | by rail? J Has not every industry and every acre of land made a profit far beyond its share contributed to se- cure that system of transportation? Our railways were aided nationally and municipally upon the right ‘thcnry that each man who contributed as a .tax- payer got his money back and a permanent dividend !.on his.investment. If this were true, and it is true, of our, railroad system, it must also be true of our | merchant marine and deep water transportation. wdirect appropriation from the Federal treas- ury in behalf of irrigation in the West. The matter must be looked at practically. The Eastern land-owner is not friendly to the aided development of a new area to compete with his unaided industry. The fight, on that line, is likely to be so prolonged that the progressive ‘destruction of forage and forests will enlarge the desert area and more than double the final cost of its reclamation. All this may be avoided if the West will' wisely un- derstand and energetically promote its own interests by a policy which is entirely within its own control. 1f Western interests will prepare and present to Con- gress a bill for an act to lease the arid grazing ranges on the public domain under such conditions as to pre- serve.the forage and forests and devote the income of ' the leases to’Government irrigation works, it will be giving permanency to the grazing business, to the meat and wool supply of the country, and will be pre- serving the natural conditions upon which irrigation depends. It will be also installing and enlarging an object lesson, which will usefully educate the East in the' merits of irrigation, and lead by natural steps to a further enlistment of Federal aid in reclamation. The matter lies with the stock men themselves. They desire permanency of their business, but its end is now in sight, as the extirpation of the forage is casily calculable. They desire also the development of land that may be subjected to tillage by irrigation. | They want the moisture of the range preserved by’| saving its vegetable covering, for they exist by the af- fluence of the deep springs and the constancy of the watercourses. 3 No such opportunity has ever before been offered a great industry to perpetuate itself and become the agent of new development as is now offered to the grazing interests of the West. The East has no sessions. NATIONAL IRRKGHTION. E have noted the Eastern opposition to afiy | they became numerous. feasible and justifiable ground upon which to oppose it. With the law made optional, to be adopted and operative only in such counties in the arid region a3 petition for it, and even then with no compulsion on the Interior and Agricultural’ departments, which “may”—not “must”—lease even when that policy is requested, the passionate and prejudiced opposition in the West should cease, and irrigators and stock men should present a united front. If they do they will win, and will be iccomplishing something while the process of educating and informing the East is going on. @ COUNTRY EDITOR'S WORK ARELY in this country and at this time does ths editor of a country paper recelve justice either at home or abroad. The value of his work for his community is not appreciated even when the | work itself is recognized. He is of the class of prophets who are without public manifestations of honor either in their own country or elsewhere. He is expected to serve his party, his friends and all the industrial, charitable and holiday enterprises of the county without recompense; and his neighbors gen- erally deem it a.personal favor to him when they pay him for his paper. Such being the rule in all parts of the United States, any instance of public and gen- erous expression of a debt due from a country com- munity to an editor of its local paper merits wide circulation. For that reason we direct. attention to the praise now being given to Henry M. McIntosh, the editor of a paper in Albany, Georgia. * - The occasion of the praise given to Mr. McIntosh is the showing made in the census reports of the de- velopment that has taken place in the country around Albany since 18g0. That district in Southern Georgia | was known in times past as the Georgia desert; or the | pine barrens. It is a low, flat land of sand and pine trees; the water was unhealthy and the inhabitants were afflicted with chills and fevers. Men of means avoided it. Rich planters owning the land of the 1egion had their homes either on the coast where healthful sea breezes blew or in the mountains of the northern part of the State. Few persons had any confidence that it would ever be a fruitful and popu- lous region, and when the timber men began to cut off the pine trees, and so destroy the only visible wealth of the land, it was believed the time was not far distant when the whole region would be com- paratively valueless and scantily inhabited. Now, here is the surprise. The census shows that this region has grown more rapidly than any other | part of rural Georgia. It has increased beyond all other sections in population, in diversity of industry, in commercial activity and in wealth. So marked has been its superiority in progress during the decade that public interest has been aroused and the sub- ject studied, with the result that the country editor has become all at once a notable figure, for it is_con- | ceded that he and his paper have been more influential | in promoting the progress of the community than any | other factors in it. : The explanation is simple. A planter who was dig- ging a deep well in search of pure water, free from the unwholesome elements in the surface waters of the country, tapped a vein from which an abundant stream flowed forth. Here was proof that the country is in an artesian belt. The country editor took it up, and week aiter week Le preached artesian wells until | With their appearance sick- ' ness diminished. It was then found that bad water i had been almost the sole cause of ill Liealth; that the | climate is really wholesome; that the odor of the pines in the air gave vigor to weak lungs, and then the editor began to boom the country as a health resort, and he kept at it until a company built a tourist hotel and people began to go from the North to spend | the winter there. To supply the hotels fanqm began to grow fruit and vegetables and the soil was found - to be wonderfully fertile; then the editor urged the planters to give up cotton and cultivate watermelons | and truck gardens. They followed his advice, and now the country is getting rich. : While this story is interesting in itself the chief interest is in the moral of it.: Mr. McIntosh is not the only country editor who in season and out of season has advertised the resources of his community, and in bad years or good years has urged }_fi's people to keep moving in the direction of improvement. There is not a single county in California that has not an editor who has done much of that kind of work. Our ex- clianges show how prompt country editors are to ad- vertise and promote anything that even so much as promises good for the community as a whole. These | men never get the praise the Georgia editor is now getting, but most of them as fully deserve.it, and Cali- fornians should be prompt in giving it. ; And now the authorities at Washington have de- cided that the flood of Chinese “students” to our shores must be stemmed. Federal officials must have discoveréd that the people of San Francisco have no desire to constitute themselves an educational insti- tution for .coolies. : The good people of Berkeley are in a serious di- lemma. They bought sugared water for whisky ani now -their Trustees say that they shall have the real stuff. The experiment of being wicked appears to present to the community more difficulties than a trial in virtue. & Our Chinese residents have solved a problem which | has proved too difficult for malefactors less yellow in hue. The Chinese gamblers are running “wide open,” and even the police are discussing the propriety of licensing crime which cannot be suppressed. A Chicago minister is emphatically of the opinion that churches, in order to succeed in these days of degeneracy, must put on a continuous vaudeville. The reverend gentleman should remember that one cannot learn a new trade in a day. 3 American military authorities have decided to be more strict in their treatment of Filipino prisoners, This rule will not be carried into effect, however, un- til a few prisoners, upon whom to practice, have been captured. e e et | The suggestion has been made that the new presi- dent of the Southern Pacific Company will abolish the political bureau of the corporation. Somebody must be giving the new executive some very excellent advice. B | filing & petition by 3 per cent of the quali- |in_the Mrs. Lease, the Populistic orator of Kansas, has de- cided to divorce her husband. The lady has evidently discovered that while Populism may be advantageous there are certain relationships in it which are not pop- ular. i & . S The lady who has paid her local taxes under pro- tect that she has no tight to vote should not forget that there is compensation in all things. There are many of us who vote but pay no taxes. 2 : —_— 2 The Phoenix physician who wanted $3000 for stop- ping a flow of blood from a lady’s nose must have ac- ing is an expensive operation. ’ DECEMBER 1, 1900. SUGGESTIONS FOR A NEW ~ PRIMARY ELECTION LAW —_— v will not be entertained. These columns are always open for the free discussion of matters of communications of moderate length being invited for that purpose, The holding itselt responsible for the opinlons of the writers. blic interest, 1 in no way ‘Anonymous communications e 3 s R S AT S s SRy 2 B e BT US| Editor of The Call: Since January, 1585, three primary election laws have been passed in this State and the next Legjs- lature will enact another. ough we shall have the guidance of t! Supreme Couft decisions and the recent constitu- tional amendment, the subject still pre- sents points of rare importance. In this matter, especially, detail, or method, is of the very essence of a just and effective law. The Stratton law of 1899, in my judg- ment, constitutes a good groundwork, but the modifications called for by court de- cisions and permitted by the amendment referred to call for great care and will be best {llustrated by brief reference to the previous enactments, At the session of 189 several proposed primary laws were presented. Judge Spencer, chairman of the Election Com- mittee, requested me to prepare a com- mittee bill, which I did. The chief dis- cussion in committes arose over the pro- vision I had inserted, requiring a sepa- rate ballot-box, labeled with the party name, for each political party partieipat- ing, which was not in any other proposed bill. The contention in favor of this pro- vision was that ome of the chief evils to be prevented was the custom at the old system of primaries of Democrats voting at Republican primaries and Republicans voting at Democratic primaries, by which the - unscrupulous elements commingled and combined. It was argued that if all Pmlea voted at the same date and place n the same ballot-box at a party primary, the evil might often be increased, rather than diminished, as it could be carried out without the shame to which such acts were exposed when done: openly where old-fashioned primaries were held sepa- rately.. ‘anls view was adopted by the committee and the act was reported in | the Assembly as a general law. When it reached a final vote Judge Spencer found that the country members in the main felt they did not need the law and would not support it unless it was limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Judge and myself both thought this course would probably render the law unconsti- tutional, but as It could not then pass otherwise, Judge Spencer so amended fit, and the Supreme Court declared it in- valid as being local and special. The Stratton law of 1397 retained the provision of the act of 1865 as to a sepa- rate ballot-box for each Pulmw party, but it was declared invalid by the Su: preme Court and among the nds as- signed it was very clearly intimated that the Legislature did not then have power to prescribe and fix a test oath in the law. he Stratton law of , proceeding upon the theory that no test for voters was necessary, provided for only one bal- lot-box. It also limited participation at a Eflmary election to those parties which ad previously polled 3 per cent of the total vote in the State or locality, where- as, in the previous law, in addition to such parties, all political organizations. fled vonlz’irs were admitted to participation 'The Taw of 169 was declared {nvalid be- cause it so limited the parties which cculd participate and it was also decided that political parties had an inherent ht' to existence and could not be de- :’tgo:'ed by having their delegates selected by their opponents, as might be the case w{mre no xenl is provided at such a party meeting or election. Now,‘lhe new amendment o the consti- tution permits the test to be inserted in the law or allows the law to provide that the several political committees may re- spectively preseribe a voting test lor_ thel; respective parties at the primary; an here will arise a matter of grave impor tance. A test there must be, and this of necessity requires the provision of the act of 18%, assigning a separate ballot-box to each party—for a test would be a farce where all parties vote in the same DOX. It would not be a compliance with the constitution. There will be those who will want the law itself to prescribe the 1?.::(. Others will insist that tkis is not feasi- ble and not elastic enough to meet the conditions of separate political organiza- tions, and that each party should be au- thorized to prescribe the test which the conditions require. If divisions upon this point should be found strenuous it may be suggested that political committees given power to prescribe the test for their respective arties, subject to a limitation fixed in he law—as, for instance, that no test pre- scribed by any party shall prevent a per- son from voting in the box of such part who declares that he affiliated with suc party at the last general election and I3 now in affiliation with it, or if he was not 2 voter at the last genera] election that It is his Intantion to suppor: at the ensuing election the political party in whose box he seeks to deposit his vote. These suggestions are jllustrations by me and not necessarily the form of wopds I might personally finally favor after full hearing before a legislative committee. My purpose now is to draw attention fo these points and cell out careful expres- sion of judgment by previous considera- tion among legislators and others. find many excallent men are semsitive to taking an oath as to future political action. € test required by the act of 1897 was in effect an oath of present in- tention to support the candidates nomin- ated by the delegaies which were elected at the primary. In a body of nearly one hund men from various parts of the State who retained me to carry that law before the Supreme Court nearly all of them said they would not take such an oath, as they could have no real intent to vote for candidates until they knew who they wers and what principles they fa- vored. The remaining detalls which will be new in the law of 1901 will be the protisions determining in what cities, counties and cities_and counties the official primary shall be mandatory. After fixing the ter- ritory In which gflmaflea must be held under the law the question arles, Shall this law be optional in other parts of the State, and if so, in what manner shall the option be exercised? Shall the local com- mittee of any one political party be able to put it in operation in a given locality, or shall it, in addition, require consent of the Board of Supervisors or City or Town stees, who provide for the expense. or may. it be demanded upon petition of a fixed percentage of the qualified voters | of such locality? These questions of im- rtant detall’ were not voted upon by he people and will ' require =careful thought at Sacramento before final ac- tion. THOMAS V. CATOR. San Francisco, Nov. 29, 190, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DIME OF 1839—Subscriber, Oakland. | Dealers charge from twenty-five to fifty cents for a dime of 1839, but do not pur- chase such at a premium. JOHN DREW, THE ACTOR—M. E. A., City. John Drew, the actor, was born in Philadelphia, November 13, according to one biography, 1853, and according to another, 15o4. WOMEN IN THE POSTOFFICE-M. E. A., City. Under the civil service ;ules a woman may take an examination for any Postoffice Department D ne is Capable of fillng. HALF OF 188—F. L., City. A half dol- lar of 1838 with the letter (31 batwee:“ Lhne’ b remiu: Dust and the 43+° Shose without such O do not command a premium. NATIONALITY—K. W. F, City. A man’s nationality is that of the country in which he was born, no matter what his arentage may be. A man born in the Y‘nlted tates of German parents is an American. SIGNING A LETTER—A. M. L, Berke- ley, Cal. A lady wrlténg t; l‘pelTon] '2: does not know whether she Is single married should_sign her name wfl‘: the i r Mrs., as the case may be. Biherwice the receiver cannot tell how to address the reply. CHAUTAUQUA CLUBS — Subscriber, Bolinas, "Cal. For information about Chautauqua reading clubs in this State, fddress & communication to Mrs. E. J. Dawson, secretary of the Chautauqua Assembly, San Jose, California. . THE AMENDMENTS—H. C. 0., Tracy, Cal. As soon as the result of the vote in each county in the State of California on the sevem{ amendnients presented shal' have been compiled, the same will be pub- lished in the columns of The Call. SEA GRASS PAPER—P. C. B, Sacra- mento, Cal. This départment has no in- formation about the manufacture of sea grass paper to be used for window panes, other than what appeai in The Call a sh'é;t time ago in an article descriptive of such paper. - THE CALIFORNIAN—R. B., City. the 1ith of November, 1900, there record in this city of the whereahout: the steamer Californian. The last advice about_her prior to that date was of Octo- ber 17, when she left Taku for Maniia. She was then to sail for Nagasuki and then for this port. CIVIL _SERVICE—Reader, Oakland, Cal. If you will write to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., for a manual of exan;h::u::‘x}s‘t:; ified civil service o e Unit g::!:gs;':u will be furnished a book that will answer every question you ask In re- lation to the brauches a man has to be proficient in. BRYAN IN SAN FRANCISCO—A cor- respondent alluding to an answer that was given to another correspondent about W. J. Bryan's arrival in San Francisco writes that on one occasion “he came r from Oakland mole on a tug in com- my with W. W. Foote and other prem- inent Democrats. The party landed from the tug at Mission-street wharf No. 1 and from there was driven in a carriage up Mission street.”” This is evidently aot the same “asion as the one referred tc in the answer previously published. DESTROYING TO SAVE-C. F. F, City. If the chiet engineer of a fire de- partment should order a house to be either torn down or blown up to prevent the spread u: a em::-lgfltlon, the owner the property would not have O anar e chief enginser or munlcipir ity for reimbursement. It has been El‘d in this State that such an act is not tak- ing private property for public use. That decision, rendered many years ago, has never been reversed. DUNNING—L. F. J., City. There is law in California that will g tallea ~dunan ften as he call * "’ as often as pl 5 ARl T Dart an (2 the. oredlior perses i e e Bl Tested for - or-if -t take the height from the ground t eaves; add to this last on!ar half o? 523 height from the eaves to the top; multiply the length b‘elt‘h:t.bu‘mh' and the pro- duct by the all = {iivide the amount by 316 find the nugs of cubic, yards and multiply by the bumber of pounds in a cubic yard, about 142 pounds—to be accurate weigh one cuble yard of the hay.. The question in the leiter of inquiry cannot be answered ay‘rm;he Teason that the height Is not CONVENTS—A. C. R, City. The Pre- sentation Convent of St. Cesaire is In_the town of that name. It Is a town of Que- bee, County of Ronville, on the -River Yamaska, thirty-three miles north of Montreal. There is the convent of the Dominican Fathers, the seminary of St. Hyacinth, the mother house of the Gray Nuns of St. Hyucinth, in-the city of St. :g:ant}% a clignotfleuebec on the Ya-' ver, - northeast of Monny 1 Vo § it e SKELETON IN .CLOSET—Edna, City. The following is ‘given as the origin.of (Plne saying, “There is a skeleton in every closet”: “A soldi i fother, who compiained of URhappincss, telling her to have some sewing done by some one who had no care or trouble. Coming in her search to one who she thought must be content and happy, she told her what she wanted. e lady ‘took her to a closet containing a_human skel- eton. ‘Madame,’ said she, ‘I try to keep my sorrows to myself, but I wiil tell you that every night I am compelled by ‘my husband to kiss this skeleton of him who was once his rival. Think you, then, that I can happy? The inference is cer- tainly too clear to need interpretation.” FOR NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES-J. G., Green Valley, Cal. In relation to prop- erty that has fallen to the State for non- payment of taxes the law of California vides as to sales that “‘whenever the tate shall become the owner of any property sold for taxes the deed to the tate shall be filed with the Controller. ‘The Controller may thereupon by a writ- ten. authorization direct the Tax Collec- tor to sell the;:)roperty or any g:n there- of as in his jud t shal eem. advisable in the manner followines - H, must first give notice of such sale for at least three weeks In some newspaper pub- lished in the county or city and county, -if -there be no such paper published posting a notice in each of three conspicuous places in the county. or city and county, for-the same purpose. CHURCH PROPERTY-E. J. L., Bur- roughs, Cal. This correspondent calls at- tention to the article that was published in The Call a few days since asserting that the amendment té-the constitution of the State exempting church property from taxation had been carried, and writes ““The total vote as published is 110.52¢ for and 75,428 against, a frlnd total of 185,952, two-thirds of which is 193,98, You ctaim that the amendment was carried. As it requires a two-thirds majority to effect an amendment, how do you explain it? Please enlighten anxious readers.” If the correspondent had familiarized himseit with the constitution of the State he would have saved himself the trouble of :nfllctl‘x'l‘l‘u'he Tettee n'{gl zoflng into a long lon. 6 woul ‘0'11;1‘: have found the fol- “If the people shall appro such amendment or amendmenta. or oay of them, by a majority of the qualified ;rler:‘:nn v::ln{ thg;eon such amendment ients sl th#hmmn"“““o - 1l become a part of e explanation is that it require: simple majority, and not a t - jorl{ » to carry an nmendmen't‘?.m"d' - THE PRESIDENCY—Subscribes y. There has never been a dechlnnr.ctc ‘t‘l:e therein, by EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Sunday in Philadslphia. It is notorious tlat many travelers make it a point never to stay over Sun- day In Philadelphia if they can help it, because they don't krow w{at to do with themselves, there bemg no place where they ean go but cnurcfi. and in summer time many of the chirches are closed.— PHILADELPHIA INQGUIRER. Prosperous Porto Rico. As Porto Rico is prosperous and busy, there ought to be littie difficulty in get- ting up a budget that shall bring about perfect freedom of trad- with the United States. The whole scheme of taxation left by the Spaniards must »e abolished and a more equitable one substituted for if. This may take time, but t should nof re- quire mueh time, for the way has been well prepared for it.—BOSTON TRAN- SCRIPT. Must Have Our Own Ships. We realize that in order to gain our roper place as a trading nation we must B onr own ships fo. carcy our own goods, more than % per cent of which are now conveyed by cheap-wage subsidized foreigners. The Spanish war brougkt a vivid awakening, when we saw our GOv- ernment unable to procure the indispensa- ble colliers and transports from our own starved and stunted merchan: marine— and when we saw, moreover, foreign cor- porations that had grown rich out of our frelght and passenger trade, dcliberately stab us in our hour of need anl sell to Spain fast “greyhounds” to harry our coasts -and destroy the last remnant of our tonnage.—BOSTON JOURNAL. Newspaper Accuracy-. It is given to newspapers to be accura's —and to become true. Aceuracy is fa up to the hour of solr_fi’ to press. Trut is fact in final form. e appearance a paper every day emables it to correc its errors oftener and more promptly thar a clergyman can correct his, for he ba to wait till_the next Sunday. And i strong paper is less controlled by adver- Hsemients or parties than the averags preacher is by the drift or shift of pew rents, In neither case is the conmtrol nec- essarily “bad.”” A great many editors and a great many preachers do far better ser- vice under the comtrol or influence of folk wiser than they than they wou.d with full power to exgou all their confldent nonsense.—BROOKLYN EAGLE. Settling the Trade Balance. The question is how much longer w Europe be able to refrain from set: in cash the enormous trade balance in favor. So far this has been managed the return of our securities in addition t our payments for freight, the interest on our debts abroad and the expenditures of American travelers. It is estimated that over 300,000 shares have been sold by E: ropean holders since the election. T has put_a stop to gold imports. but cannot always continue. Either gold must come or the debt must be funded In secur- fties. We have made a beginning-at this, but money is so much higher as a rule that it would seem cash will soon be de- manded instead of promises to pay. as at_present.—LOUISVILLE COURIER- JOURNAL. Domestic Service The whole atmiosphers of domestic ser- vice here suggests meniality, which is a wrong on the servant and a handicap on the housekeeper. Make the conditions cf domestic service decent and attractive, and intelligent and reliable servitors will respond to the demand. There is ons suggestion worthy of imitation every where, whether the housekeepers engage in “home sclence receptions” or not That is that domestics be rewarded f continuity of service. By such mean: premium is put upon the establishment Just such relations between. employer ar employe as exist in the great commercia concerns, in_the mills, everywhere that labor s hired on the strength of its m and Intelligence, and yet where social latons are not considered.—WASHE TON STAR. oIRGB S PERSONAL MI MENTION. Judge W..D. Tupper of Fresno is at the California. 3 Judge 3. M. Walling of Nevada Oy is @ the Russ. < J. W. Winston, the Los Angeles mer- chant, is at the Palace. Dr. Benjamin A. Plant of Santa Cruz is registered at the Grand. H. H. Blood of Bakersfleld, & prominent oil man, is at the Grand. Lieutenant George M. Lee of Omaha, Nebr., Is at the Occidental. George W. Lindon and wife of Chicago have taken apartments at the Palace. H. W. Turner of the United States Geo- logical Survey is registered at the Occi- dental. A. Gibson, owner of the Wide Awaka mine in Calaveras County, is at the Russ for a few days. J. W. McClymonds, Sacramentp agent of the Fruit Growers’ Express, is In town for a few days. ; S J. Howard Sweetser, a prominent New York merchant, accompanied by his son, is at the Palace for a short time. Charles A. Luhrs and wife of Sacra- mento were among yesterday’s arrivals at the California. A. B. Spreckels, president of the Stite Board of Agriculture, left the ecity last evening for Sacramento. There will be a meeting of the board to-day for the’ trans- action of important business. Dr. W. R. Linscott of Santa Cruz is at the Russ. He came down to attend the football game and was among the ph: cians who hurried to the scene of glass factory catastrophe and rendered yaluable aid to the injured. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Mrs. E. Wheeler and Miss Amy Wheeler of Los Angeles are at the St. James. Ira E. Bea- nett of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt. —————— Professor—There are only two kinds of scientists. Inquiring Mind—What are they, profes- sor? Professor—Well, we class them as ba teriologists and way-back-teriologists. Indianapolis Journal. Bans ne Tommy—Say, paw, what Is lese ma- Jeste? Mr. Flagg—Impersonating a policeman. —Indianapolis Press. —_———— Peanut crisps. Townsend's. b EX. strong hoarhoind candy. Townsend's.® ————— Poplar boxes for etching. Townsend's. * oSt e i aegs il ks Chgice candies, Townsend's Puiace Hote. —_—————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- te. A nice present for Eastern friends 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * Special information supplied dmity houses and pul men by t Fress Clip Bureau ATI‘.’L‘». 510 aylon somery st. Telephone n 1042, Supreme Court of the United St. answers the question: “Is a x:fi:}':';::: of Annrlunkn;ren(l; while they were abroad or e Presi of the Uy Butu—l:m::n:: Wol "N he, within the meaning of th ‘a natural born citizen'?" rds, s e constitution, A number of ing their 1t uj law whic?‘m“ mflmvth:h:hllyl"dmt“ ;!‘upa-l" the limits and Jurisdiction ot the b:comu as citizens the yers who hold unrt. %‘mfi l;; zen’ e one in the United States, 3ud. while admi that a Wwho was ot ek e is tive of the born, consequently o omagural porm States citizen, S o i For a Cold in the Head. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. By slightly curtailing his vast personal expenses the Sultan of Turkey could casily pay Unecle Sam's little bill ana a good many others ides. flis annual outlay i# in the neighborhood 000,000, of which l‘.'.m,flwe! to clothe the ladies of the harem, 000 for his M: { rdrobe, 37,500,000 for presents. money and $5,000,000 for 00 mzzim