The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1900, Page 6

Call. | DECEMBER 18, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A A i I tddress Al Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE ...Telephone Press 201 FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. ¥. | Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Simgle Coplen. 5 C Terms by Mefl, DATLY CALY (incloding Sun ®.0 DAILY CALL ¢ncluding Sun 3.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday). 3 months. 1.6 DAILY CALL—By Single Month 5 | SUNDAY CALL, Ope Year g4 v | WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authorized to reccive | =ubscripsfons. Sample copies will be forw--ded when requested Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should b particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order | %o insure & prompt and correct complisuce with thel * request. | Broadway ..1118 CAKLAND OFFICE.. . GEORGE KROGNESS, | Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Buildin (Lopg Dietance Telephone “‘Central 2619. YORK CORRESPONDENT: Herald Square NEW C. €. CARLTON. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ... .80 Tribune Bullding | NEW YORK NEWS ETANDS: | Weldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, & Union Bquare Murray Hill Hotel. l CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: | Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Fremont House: Great Northern Hotel Augitorfum Hotel. A Tale of Two Cities. e Butterfly.” * Saturday ecialties afternoon and night. o Thursday, Fr 33 Sutter street, Beoks. iday, December 21, at 11 o'clock corher Natoma and New Mont® | and Satur- | LYNCHING LADIES. MORRISON of Eldorado, Kansas, was »i the amatory attentions of Mr. Castle had a large assortment and bestowed recipien t M e ns, alzo upon Miss Wiley. A marriage er followed and Miss Morri- hing but Mr. Castle’s attentions Mrs. Castle wore an air of triumph 1g, but be that as it may, there he two women a great gulf of exas- | one day with razors, and when Castle’s throat slit beyond re- pair and the poor lady died. For this encounter Miss | Morrison has just been on trial, and a jury failed to It is believed in Eldorado that she can- hat her discharge will follow. onvict her % man whose surplus stock of was the remote cause of the lamentab'e | » be arkable seli-control. It is alleged that during | e trial of Miss Morrison for the crime of making widower, he declared that the affair bored him, | a seli-centered sor of person, and so-he got up a party and went hunting! i The ladies of Eldorado have divided into two camps, I them there is talk of organizing a lynch- | hanging Miss Morrison to a lamp post | i she is set iree. This is to be done ladies, with no aid, comfort or as- ing party and o1 telegraph pole The social fabric of Ei- dorado is split in two by the heat of the affair. The newspaper has been stoned by the Morrison ty, and that young lady defies her petticoated ene- | nies, and says she does not fear them. | It is strange that none of the indignant and pros- | pective lynchers has thought to discuss Mr. Castle. | “Hell hath no fury like 2 woman scorned,” and as | Miss Morrison was obviously scorned, the gentle dames should admit that she had a right to out-hell hell Our advice may not reach the stirring and excited scene of these events, but if it could we would advise the angry ladies, who seem so regardful of Mr. Castle’s feelings, that in lynching Miss Morrison they may deprive him of a second matrimonial experience that would add to the exhibit Kansas can already | make as a land -of v itude and novelty. HELP HOME INDUSTRY. ROM the rains that have fallen so profusely in l::all parts of the State, we can draw good auguries | of bountiful crops to come. We shall therefore | have large quantities of all kinds of California luxur- ies for sale next secason. Why, then, should we not take time by the forelock and at once do our best to make an eager market for them? The season is propitious for such an undertaking. Between now and New Year's day a great multitude gifts will be sent from this State to the East. These gifts should be articles of California production. No other articles will be so welcome to the Eastern rela- tives or friends of Californians, for no other will be sc thoroughly a Californian gift. Thus a double ben- cfit will be gained. We shall not only patronize home industries ourselves, but we shall help to create a de- mand for them in the East and thus bring about an increased patronage from the people of those States, It can hardly be necessary to remind Californians that we have every kind of article appropriate for Christmas remembrances and delights. We have wines, fruits, raisins, nuts, beautiful woods, pictures, books, and many kinds of bric-a-brac. Why, then, should we spend our money for articles of that kind from Europe? In particular those industries engaged in working up our orchard and vinéyard products into fine wines and the finer forms of fruit preserves and confections merit liberal patronage. Although this is the- best fruit and vine country in the world, we still import from abroad large quantities of fruit confections and wines. There is no reason for that sort of thing. It is a result of the blind conservatism that goes along the old way instead of turning aside to a better. Pat- ronize home industries this Christmas. A single gift will not be much in itself, but it will help to make a market that will consume large quantities of California goods lzter on. Be a helper in the cause, . & | color from a pale to a dark green. | corrects this. THE SAN FRANCISCO CAi;L. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1900. ANCIENT MEXICO. R. LOUIS DYER’S enthusiasm hag lighted /\/\ American interest in the researches proposed in the island of Crete. That work, which wiil reveal much that is now legend, tradition and romance in the archaic age of the Greek tribes, is of importance to all students; and will doubtless receive much finan- cial assistance in this country. But we have nearer to us a more interesting field | for the archaeologist. There have long been evidences ofi a remote Chinese occupation of Mexico. It will be remembered that the excavations of Troy, made by Schiiemann, developed evidence that in the Troad, under the Greek remains and beneath those of the predecessors of the Greeks, were found pottery, jewelry and metal objects, that were clearly of Chi- rese origin, proving that a Chinese city had once oc- cupied the Troad. Tn Mexico have been developed evidences that that ancient race had a foothold there, land developed institutions which influenced the Tol- | tec and Aztec civilizations. Mr. E. P. Vining of this city has recently published a summing-up of evidence hsaring upon the Chinese origin of the primitive Mexican races. Since that publication the author’s conclusions have been con- firmed by a startling discovery in the City of Mexico. The Two Republics says that excavations in that city have uficovered an old Aztec teocalli in the ruins | of which have been found a thousand jade beads. Beads and ornaments of jade have been found in Mexico before, but this last find amounts to nearly a half bushel of highly polished beads, ranging in The most numer- cus are two centimeters in diameter, and of the ordi- nary bead form. % Unfortunately, the Spanish conquerors of Mexico ruthlessly destroyed as much as they could annihilate ci the ancient Aztec and Toltec records. escaped them had to be too ponderous for their icon- oclastic rage to extirpate, or was hidden in the ground. In this way evidences disappeared that would now be | {invaluable to the archaeologist and historian. But enough did escape to rouse the keenest interest. The Aztecs prized jade ornaments above all other per- sonal adornments, holding them more precious than diamonds are now. The Two Republics says that jade is found only in China, but Captain Evans, an archaeologist. of repute, He states that jade is found only in Siberia, India, China and New Zealand. This cor- rection, it will be observed, does not at all mar the importance of the jade find in Mexico. Mr. Vining in his work gives the cvidence, from Chinese records, that a Buddhist priest reached Mexico in thé year {490 A. D. and returned to China, and his report to the Emperor became common knowledge throughout China, Japan and Korea. President Diaz considers the new discovery of such importance that he has devoted $200,000 for the pur- pose of a complete excavation and examination of the teocalli. As the Chinese language has been writ- ten longer than any other living tongue and has | changed less than any, it is possible that under the Mexican teocallis and their mightier predecessors, the Toltec pyramids, may be found inscriptions in that language which will reveal the origin of the primitive American races. The theory held is that the Chinese and Tartars | coasted in their primitive craft up the Asiatic coast until they reached the Aleutian archipelago and then, always in sight of land, followed that chain of islands to ¢he Alaskan coast, down which they skirted until they reached Mexico, which is believed to have been | the country called “Fusang” in Chinese annals. Captain” Evans is of the opinion that our Indian | tribes were of Sibertan Tartar origin, as were the Scythians, who scalped their enemies in war, Anthropologists have long reasoned in the same | line, from the physical resemblance between our In- dians and the Tartars. s American universities may well turn their attention to the archaeological field presented in Mexico. The | great Toltec pyramids at Teotihuacon and Cholula are practically unexplored, as are large numbers of the lessgr teocallis built by the Aztecs. I the Spaniards had been less destructive we would have had plainer traceg of the introduction of Budd- | hism than are now known. But there exist many images of Quetzalcoatl that closely resemble the Chi- nese images of Buddha. In the case of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman re- searches in archaeology, the world has the guidance of much reliable contemporary history. But in Mexico the mysteries of the ancient races are told only by a | few carved stones and these jade beads and ornaments that must have come from Asia Five Eastern cities—Buffalo, St. Louis, New Or- leans, Charleston and Atlanta—have expositions under way or in prospect, but in the whole of the Greater West there is not one so much as talked of. Why should we permit the East to get all the benefits that accrue from such enterprises? O has taken up the fight against the free distribu- tion of seed by the Government. The contest is something like a forlorn hope, and yet it ought to end in the success of the seedsmen, for there can be no question but what the present practice of seed dis- tribution through Congressmen is a gross abuse of what was intended to be a well-administered benefit 1o the country. As at first devised the distribution of seed by the Government was confined to rare seed. "It was under- tzken for the purpose of introducing new plants and finer varieties of existing plants among the gardens and fields of the country. It began at a time when newspapers were few, communication was difficult, and the propagation of new plants was a work that might rightly engage the attenticn and some of the energies of the Government. The old conditions have changed. In our time anything in the way of im- proved seed is circulated faster by private competition than any Government can possibly do it. Enterprising farmers, gardeners and florists read with attention the periodicals devoted to their industries, and are prompt to learn of any new seed and to make use of it. While the conditions of seed dissemination have thus changed. the practice of the Government in mak- ing the distribution has changed also. It is no longer 2 distribution of rare seeds. It is a free gift of nearly all kinds of common seed. Of late years the Govern- ment annually gives away 24,000,000 packets of garden sceds and tens of thousafids of dollars’ worth of flower FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION. NCE more the Wholesale Seedsmen’s League and field seeds. The specifications call for 241,000 | pounds of lettuce, onicn, cucumber, beet, radish and melon seeds, and 15,000 bushels of sugar corn, peas and beans, besides many thousand pounds and bushels cf other products. In protesting against the injury done to their trade by this free distribution of seed, the secretary of the Wholesale Seedsmen’s Leagte says in a recent cir- cular: ; b “For years the seed trade has be;n the only business Whatever | thus crushed down by the Government, and the com- petition is annually getting worse and can only have the one.effect of driving some reputable dealers out of business. * * * The Government takes care not to antagonize any other interest except the seed tusi- ness, yet it might just as well present to the farmers’ wives baking soda or 4oap, or to the coal miner pow- der or dynamite.” There can be no question of the soundness of those statements. At the present time the only purpose sérved by the distribution of free seed is that of enab- ling Congressmen to send the seed in small quantities as a sort of souvenir to their constituents, The only thing encouraged by the practice is an expectation on | the part of a considerable number of people fo gat something for nothing. It would be better to abolish the custom; and all commercial and industrial organi- zations ought to make a common cause with the Seedsmen’s League in fighting against it. The recently published inventory of the estate of | the late Cornelius Vanderbilt has attracted a goor i deal of attention in the East and it is noted with sur- | prise that although the personal property is valued | at §53,600,000 and the real estate at $20,000,000, the | estate contained no United States bonds or other pub- | lic securities. Mr. Vanderbilt preferred to use his mioney in some industrial enterprise to investing it in bonds, and consequently made it available in ad- vancing the general welfare of all who profit by in- dustry, LEGISLATION FOR THE FL@AG. | ROMOTERS of the movement for the enact- | D ment of legislation to prevent the desecration of the national flag or its use for any un- | 1\vor!hy purpose have prepared for the campaign of education on the subject a pamphlet containing strong | and unanswerable arguments in its favor. It contains, | moreover, statements from many of our greatest men in favor of such legislation; and among them is no | less a person than President McKinley, who is quoted as saying: “Those who seek to divert the flag from | its sacred uses should be restrained by public law.” The history of former efforts to procure the enact: | ment of such legislation is interesting. We learn from the pamphlet that flag legislation was enacted in the fifty-first Congress, May, 1800, by the House oi Rep- resentatives, but the Senate rejected the bill as too | drastic. Representative J. A. Caldwell of Ohio, who in- | troduced a flag bill in Jarinary, 1894, resigned from the | Extent of Absinthe | “THE GREEN TERROR” Evil Against Which ‘the French Chamb:r Is Battling. HEN the French House of Deputies passed a bill last ‘week - forbidding ~the manu- facture or sale in France of | absinthe and.other alcoholic liquors which are pronounced ‘danger- ous” by the Academy of Medicine it rec- | ognized the terrible spread of the “green | terror,” which is said to be responsible | for the great Mcrease in Insanity and other similar afflictions among the French | people. Since 1894, as was pointed out In | the Chamber of Deputles, the amount of absinthe consumed in France has dou- bled, it now reaching the amount of 10,- 000,000 litres, or nearly 10,060,000 quarts, annually. This amounts to one quart of | absinthe to each three inhabitants, in-) cluding men, women and fldren. In Parls the reports of the Ministry of Fi- | nance show that there is absinthe seller to every three buildings in the me- | tropolis. Already the green terror has killed many of the most brilllant men of the country. Guy de Maupassant, Alfred de Musset, Baudelaire, who translated | Poe's works. into French; Theodore Bar- riere, Andre Gill, the artist, and a host | of other men of letters and of genius | burned their brains away with the green | flame and died miserable deaths. Even | four years ago, before the habit had | reached half its present strength, Henri | Rochefort startea a crusade against its | use. In his ap to the peopie he said: | ‘Absinthe is the bane of the nation and is_kiliing France.” | The French nation did not go into the | drinking of absinthe of thelr own choice. How it came to be introduced is a cu- | rious story. During the Algerian war of | 1844-47 the French troops. in Africa suf- | fered greatly from tropical fever and | many things were tried as preventives. Among them was absinthe, and it was found to be effective. The ‘soldlers were | ordered to mix small quantities of it three | times a day with the ordinary French Wine which they drank. They objected | at first to the new ‘“medicine,” declaring that it spofied the taste of their wine. Gradually, however, they grew to like it, and within a few years they were much | more willing to do without thelr claret than without their “green. spirits.” Fi- | nally absinthe drinking became such an | evil in the army that it was found neces- | sary to entirely forbid it. Now a French | soldier or sallor who is found sipping the | insidious liquor is severely punished. | But the soldiers returning from Algiers took the habit back with them and it rap- idly spread among all classes of the peo- | i fiity-third Congress. Repeated endeavors of Jacob H. | | Bromwell of Ohio in the fiity-fourth and fifty-fifth | | Congresses met with discouragement in the Judiciary | | Committee room, and Mr. Bromwell turned his atten- | | tion to other important legislation. William E. Bar- rett of Massachusetts attained no success with his flag | bill in the fifty-fifth Congress. Mr. Barrett declined a renomination. The various flag bills introduced by ' Representatives J. H. Davidson of Wisconsin, J. J. | Jenkins of Wisconsin, John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, | George E. Foss of lllinois, Ernest W. Roberts of Massachusetts, A. S. Tompkins of New York and others now lie in the Judiciary Committee room await- ing Congressional resurrection. In the Judiciary Com- | mittee room of the Senate flag bills have been intro- duced by Senators Henry C. Hansbrough, John C. | Spooner, Joseph V. Quarles, Thomas C. Platt and ! | others. In 1808 General Griffin addressed a communi- ' cation to the flag committee of the Daughters of the | American Revolution as follo “I have interceded | in behalf of flag legislation with members of the f Judiciary Committee until I think I have exhausted | | their patience, and as to those candidates for Con- | gressional nominations who refuse to commit them- | | selves to support and vote for some one of the flag | | bills every patriotic citizen ought to feel justified in | opposing their nomination.” | It is not easy to understand why legislation to pre- | vent a misuse of the flag should be opposed by any | one. Of course, a measure too drastic in its nature or | unskillfully drawn would be worse than no bill at all. | The American people in their love for the flag delight | in using it upon all occasions and it is right they | | should have the full and free use of it so long as they do not really desecrate it. Nevertheless, there is such | a- thing as making it too common, and offenses of that nature should be prohibited under a penalty of | | punishment. Thirteen States have passed such acts and the nation should confirm their action. e e |~ A thirteen-year-old boy in New York has been con- | victed of being a professional gambler. When ar- | rested he had on his person a sum of money equal to | $250, which he said he had won at craps on an original stake of twenty-five cents. To have won so large a sum at so small a game implies energy as well as skill, | and the youth may become a money king when he grows up and be a Wall street idol. A POSTPONED PROGRAMME. URING the brief session of Parliament, Mr. D Chamberlain, in reply to attacks upon him, made a statement of the policy the Government intends to pursue in dealing with the Boers. The | policy was embodied in a programme of three parts; first, the restoration of order by the suppression of the guerrilla war; second, the establishment of civil | government under the form of a crown colony, with equal rights to Boers and Britons; third, the erection | of both the Transvaal and Orange River colony into self-governing colonies like Canada or Austral‘ as | soon as possible. The programme is a good one and won for Mr. Chamberlain not only a vote of confidence in Parlia- ment, but considerable approval from the world at !large. Fortunately for Chamberlain, Parliament ad- | jcurned for the holidays almost immediately after the speech was made. Had it continued in session but a short time longer, some awkward questions would | have been put to the Colonial Minister. 'The success | achieved by the Boers in capturing large detachments | of the best British tioops within the last few days | would have made those questions inevitable; for how could there have been any discussion of the Chamber- lain programme since the occurrence of those victor- ies, without raising the inquiry: *“How are you going to suppress the guerrilla war?” It will be remembered that when Buller was on his way to the front last year he announced an expecta- tion of eating his Christmas dinner in Pretoria. He did not keep his word. Kitchener may eat Christmas dinner in Pretoria this year, but he cannot eat it in peace. He knows not at what point along his scat- tered lines the Boers may attack, nor what troop will be captured next. Clearly the Chamberlain pro- gramme is one that will have to be postponed. From the present outlook, it appears that if the establish- i ment of civil government is to wait upon the suppres- | sion of the indomitable commandos of Dewet and De- larey, it is so remote that it does not deserve to be “considered a part of i § - The local woman who is said to be making herseli heir to fortunes which exist only on paper must have i';aupud altogether too literally the desire to have " money to burn. > | rieties of wormwood, which grow from ple. It cured or prevented the fever of | the Algerfan goldlers, but it has come | near “‘killing the French nation.’” | Absinthe is made by pounding the leaves and flowering tops of varfous va- | l | may | two to four feet high In great profusion under cultivation, and various other aro- matic Plams and covering the mass with alcohol. After soaking for eight days the compound fs_distilled, yielding a green Mguor, to which a certain percentage of anise seed oil is usually added. It was first made by a couple of old Swiss wo- men who found it a good remedy and | preventive for fevers. The effects of absinthe on peop drink it habitually are admitted by medi cal men to be worse than those which fol low the use of brandy or other str spirits. It soon becomes to its devotee: the first necessity of life. To get it th: will sacrifice anything. Taken by a nov- | ice and in small doses, it has fof a time | pleasant effects. The brain and all the faculties are stimulated, and a dull per- son may under iis influence seem almost brilliant, It apparentiy has no effect when taken In small quantities on the stead ness cof carriage or the deportment of its | users. There is nothing about them to| betray that they are under the influence | of a drug. But if a single glass above a | certain amount be taken the vietim is | likely to fall like a log, all his faculties | paralyzed and entirely unconsclous. He | fe in this condition for hours. and on recovering his consciousness he will feel like a man who is suffering from an onizing disease. Tortonl’'s famous cafe was in the old days the resort of a coterie of Parisian writers and artists who went there before the dinner hour to drink their absinthe. For many years the green liquor was drawn from the same old barrel, which was geflcdlclllfi filled with absinthe | brought from Neufchatel. Among the | young men who were present every even- ing in the crowd was Theodcre Barrfere. He became a vietim to the absinthe de- mon in its worst phases, and his disor- dered brain was fllled for months with the weirdest and most terrifying dreams and visions. Thus, for instance, it is related that one night he was lying upon the bed in his room reading by the\gaslight when a iarge baboon came Into the room and looked at him in a sorrowful way. Then it went out, only to enter a moment later with a second baboon in its arms. The | two proceeded to stretch a slack rope across the room immediately above his bed, and then, walking the rope, they dis- appeared through the wall. Following closely behind them across the rope, passing in through one wall and out through the other, came all the animals which were in Noah's ark. When the ele- phant etarted to walk across the slender cord fo close above his head, Barriere gave a tremendous vell of terror, which | brought assistance and a doctor. | Alfred de Musset, the poet, became such | a devotee of the green terror that he made no effort in his later i'earu to stop its use. Regularly night after night he | went to his cafe and sat there consuming glass after glass, until he was in such a condition that he was often picked up un- conscious on the streets. le who | - | —_ + A+ MAUVE ,VELVET TOQUE. The toque represented is of mauve mir- ror velvet, with a large chased goiud buckle in {front and a bow of the velvet above it, and two amazon feathers, one of which’ droops over the back of the hat. FASHION HIMTS FROM PARIS. || 5 | | | | +* + MAUVE CASHMERE DRESS. The indoor dress represented is of mauve cashmere in the princess style. It is in imitatlon of a long tunic draped over | a violet velvet blouse, which shows over | the upper part of the bust. Beneath the | indentations of the tunic is seen a frilled flounce of amethyst velvet. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE NAVY—Subscriber, City. The navy : of the United States is greater and | stronger than that of Germany. | STREET RAILROADS-J. H. 8., City. The agegregate mileage of stréet railroads in San Francisco is 245.50. TUNNELS—A. F., City. There are nine tunnels between San Francisco and \TRiah on the line of the California Northweatern Rallway Company. BETS—P., City. The Call's department of Answers to Correspondents furnishes the best information obthinable as to matters contained in letters of inquiry, but it does not undertake to deécide bets. GLADSTONE—Reader, Colusa, Cal Miss Gladstone is not writing a biography of her late father. The family authorizel John Morley to prepare such. Miss Glad stone has only furnished data for the work. AR LARGEST CLOCKS—M. F. W., City. Among the largest clocks in the world may be mentioned the one at Btrass- bourg, the one in Westminster, London, the one in the tower of the Glasgow Uni- versity and one in Buffalo, N. LARGEST BUILDING—P., City. The most capacious building in the world is St. Peter's, at Rome. It has ; cn;ac;nl;; Phiidings 1n the United States. There is one in Chicago twenty-three stories in height. o \ CHATTEL MORTGAGE — Subscriber, Marysville, Cal. If a person gives a chat- tel mortgage on a portion of his goods and such goods are allowed to remain in slon of the mortgagor ofher :ggfl?g;’seleam“o attach i goods so mortgaged. - TWO HILLE~E., City. According to the established grades of Ban Francisco, the intersection of Union and Montgomery streets on the peak of Tele; Hill is feet above . - The intersection of “California and Jones streets, the highest point on California-street *Hill, is 300 feet above base. SPECTATOR: S A TS L L proper to write, “Miss B. was a spectator at the races to-day,” but it is not proper to write, ‘‘was a spectariss.”” Yet it would be to write either “was a spectatress or spectatrix,” for either means a female spectator. GENERAL J. F. SMITH-K. L. T, City. James F. Smith, who left this city in May, 1898, as colonel of the First Cali- fornia Volunteers and was afterward pro- moted brigadier tenenl of volunteers in the Philippines, was Military Governor of Negros I e did not return with_the He is First stiil in the Philippines. REPAIRS--C., City. This correspondent e not bound to make repairs except of such damages as occur through his negligence | or therd is a stipulation in the contract, | verbal or written, that he shall make re- pairs. THE _CRIMEAN WAR-—Subscriber, | City. The number of lives sacrificed dur- ing the Crimean war was 9,613, TABLE ETIQUETTE—F. 8., City. At a dinner party a gentleman should glways sit to the left of the lady he s escorting. ACREAGE-E. 0., City. There 1s no such word in the English language as acerage, to designate territory. e word is acreage. s RAILROAD TERMINI-N. N., City, The | termini of the Central Pacific Railroad | are San Franclsco and Ogden. For the | termini of the Southern Pacific, with iis many branches, consult either the A B € Guide or the Railroad Gazetteer, to be | found in any railroad office. THEATERS—T. G., City. The stage of the Grand Opera-hcuse in Paris is 178 feet wide and 74 feet deep; that of the Grand | Orem—houu in San neisco Is 108 feet | o -hous N York 1s 101 feet wide and 59 feet deep. ANTI-SUFFRAGE—C. H. 8 City. There is no regularly organized association in San Francisco against woman suffrage. A movement of that character was started in Oakland some time ago. If yow com- municate with Miss E. M. Van Fourteenth street. Oakland. you may be able to learn someihing of the THE GOLDEN MEAN—J. F. McC., City, Keep the ‘golden mean was one of the maxims of Cleobulas, one of the seven | wise men who was King of Lindus, in nm in l'l';e m:g %encury, B. C. The ex| on use Hora verse, freely tnnllated.yuu: T L He that holds the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that Nomy m:un that haunt pinch the poor, the rich ‘mas's A Ll'.s;(i)fi'(s R{GH%‘—J. H., correspondent asks “Can I h it the landlord will not repa[;lrdtohemror;?‘t' The rain comes in every room. I pay my rent promp notified the landlord City. This ly, have hem. e On that subect 1h . at subje C of Callfornid says: ety o The lessor of a buil pancy by human beinge et e alor 0 A Srcement to the contrary e 1 T mnmhn fltdfia‘r -u:: mph-ncy. and repair all pidations thereof which rend: ;(- u:;tn%abl‘, except such as are me-llon: Sec. 1923—The hirer of a thin uries & must repair alt ons or i theretg occasioned by | | | posed as uyne, 761 [Truits all ready for shipping. Townsen ,E:und. in fire-etched boxes cr ut he will not make | * EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Danger Ahead. Lord Salisbury, who has a Parliament on his hands, may well envy Mr. McKin- ley, who, so far from being obliged to ask Congress for more taxes, is able to recomy ) mend a reduction. [t is upon the rock L. heavy taxes that the ‘Sahabucy, gover ment will_ eventually split.—CHICAGO CHRONICLE. Moral Awakening. There are some indications of a moral awakening among the various hr:uu-ho: of the churches of Christendom. W hether it grows out of the prevalence of erime and the frequency of divorce at home or the strained relations of the nations and the great crisis in missions abroad. or wheth- er it i3 a deepening sense of responsibility that comes with the entrance upon .lh_e twentieth century, one can only conjec- ture—PROVIDENCE JOURNAL. What Is There in Hypnotism? Seriously, what Is_there in hypnotism How much of truth is mixed with the deluge of nonsense in which its curfous | psychological phenomena have been wrested into recent /prominence? The harlatans and fakers who have chiefly its exponents cannot answer uestions to the satisfaction of any one. It would seem to be a problem in medical jurisprudence worth serious in- vestigation.—NEW YORK TIMES. Where Women Voted. A study of the votes cast by womeg In the recent Presidential election does not reveal anything of a startling nature. In the States of Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah female suflrnie has full l'in;e and the newspapers of those States repor that there was nothing particularly pict- uresque about the feminine vote. In only one of the three States mentioned was there a female candidate for office, and she was overwhelmingly defeated, and, strange to relate, largely by the votes o her own sex. She may have been one of those “stuck up things.” or so much bet ter looking than the other women as to arouse their jealousy: nevertheless, sho was beaten, and a man_ got the of was ___running for—NEW ORLEAN STATES. A Good Despot. Rumors come to the outside world fro: time to time that the Czar is plannin some great reforms for Russia, and a constitution, or some approach to Ome, is confidently expected by an element o the Russian population. It is significang that there is an almost entire absence in the past few years of all Nihilistic deme onstrations. A good despot can accom- plish much in the way of reform. By few strokes of his pen Nicholas II free six times as many slaves as were emanci pated by four years of war and the ex penditure of hundreds of thousands o lives_and billlons of dollars of money in the United States, and Nicholas II bee I to_the category of d d - Sn’lr‘,.g!lbol.'lsa(}lA)B!E%EMgzPRAT. The Ministerial Profession. There were a few estions made the speakers at th piscopalian Clu dinner this past week, which showed a changed aspect going on in the Christian ministry of to-day. In a sense, there is no professional caliing which stands at a greater disadvantage. Its efficiency and its intellectual strength are evident, but these its attractiveness as a profession is on the wane. No profession receives so much ecriticism, and no profession grows so sensitive over it. No one woul re- sume to take this same sort of freedom with the professions of law and medi- cine. There the layman's criticism is either ignored or despised. Ministers, as | a class, in dealing with the people. have too largely endeavored to shape their pro- fessions in accordance with the demands of the people. Consequently they have been made uqullnle;‘l with nu‘-‘nnga freaks in criticism and are exposed _to constant attack. — BOSTON TRANS- CRIPT. PERSONAL MENTION. David Starr Jordan is at the Oeecidental. Dr. J. Dammon of Stockton is at the Grand. - Drury Melone of Oak Knoll is at the Palace. J. Kerfoot and wife of Ferndale are at the Russ. Dr. Paul C. Alexander of Angels is at the Grand. L. F. Puter, a Eureka attorney, is at the Grand. L. F. Hatfleld, a Sacramento attorney, is at the Lick. G. W. Beecher, an Arizona mining man, is at the Grand J. W. Barrett, a Sonora mining man, is registered at the Russ. Judge J. E. Prewett of Auburn arrived at the Lick last evening. George T. Ditzler, a Biggs rancher, is registered at the Grand. Adjutant General W. H. Seamans of Sacramento is at the California. Frederick Warde and Miss Warde of New York are registered at the Palace. George Blake, a Coulterville mining man, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. J. W. Fuller and wife of Portland have | taken apartments at the California for a few days. F. F. Mead and wife of New York, who are on their wedding tour, are registered at the Palace. James E. Bell, who has extensive lume ber interests in Everett, Wash., is stop= ping at the Grand for a few days. [ King, heading a party of seven Eastern newspaper men, members of the Eastern Newspaper League, is at the Oc- cidental. C. E. Peassall and wife are at the Pal- ace. 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