The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1901, Page 6

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NW. cor- | 9 o'clock | + 2 en L ——— AMUSEMENTS. f Maryland ana ¥ 5, at 10 o'clock, Horses ve atten of Ameri- are at work he more to The i con- tee on .Commerce eral controversy airman of the h he ex- is for the purpose American trans- of & foreign built ton- ired to build as much Ameri- | built tonnage, compelling | senger and freight facili- | the: association as nd Frye, chi merce, in class ce is revealed inad- rior view of the asso- | al, in his com- . “For strictly the benefit of Ameri- can flag is distinctly | e with that view, and | York Merchants’ Association is in | a sentimental matter than any designed for the protection of Ameri- e conservation of the energies of | ir own benefit. ‘Instead of being | is intensely practical. . An American | 3 g foreign built steamers, if“ s tonnage by American buily | receive any benefit from the law, v in a better position to procegd to the em- ip-builders and the use of | would the case of a new and 1y to be organized and enter a | ere it has no existing activities nor past ex The purpose of that-feature is to encour- e enterprise of our countrymen already engaged in ocean carrying and to get immediate results. the deriunciation of the idea of Ameri- American flag-@s merely senti- mental t among-the 'merchants of New York there is but little desire to change from depen- dence_on foreign to the. independence that will be stimulated by the bu g of American ships.. We fear this in spite of the concurrent profession of the association that it favors the: general proposition. The president of the association, Mr. William F. King, in.a reply to Senator Frye's letter, says: “We do not believe, however, that a subsidy bill is so neces- sary as to warrant the granting of power to a few to oppress tommerce, and we ‘do not believe that any legislation is so important or urgent as to sustain a charge of class legislation and all the adverse senti- ment which that will evoke.” g Does it not appear that Mr. King understands the tactical value of calling a thing by a bad name for the purpose of enlisting prejudice to oppose it? His letter would b= a stronger appeal to reason if he had explained how commerce can be oppressed | by compelling an American company to duplicate its tonnage by American construction, thus doubling the | facilities of commerce, before that company can touch or enjoy a dollar of subsidy. He makes the statement and omits its proof, be- cause it cannot be proved. e e ———— ever order to can fr a One of the enterprising New York weeklies has announced to ‘the public that it will do a,man’s read- ing for him and furnish- him information on every tepic of the time thoroughly digested; and the offer will be attractive to persons who de.not like to read, but we advise all persons who wish-to keep posted to take a daily newspaper and do their own reading. | been willing to profit himself out of his office. pua : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901. THE STATE'S CHARITIES. HE State institutions of California are adminis- tered by directors and trustees, who serve with- out pay. In the case of most of them provision is made for payment of their actual expenses when on duty. Every public institution, from the university to the Home for the Feeble-minded, is managed, ad- ministered and controlled by citizens who give to the public, free of cost, their time and such attention as they can bestow. This implies an admirable public spirit on their part, for which they deserve the good will of the people. There are occasional failures of | excellence in management, and there have been rare instances of carelessness and perhaps corruption— | cases in which an unsalaried director or trustee has But these lapses have been so infrequent as not to supply any argument against the general system. . As com- pared with the well salaried Harbor Commission, the | unsalaried boards of State institutions stand in con- spicuous and honorable contrast. This seems to prove that the payment of salaries is no safeguard against improper use of official opportunity. We do not in- tend that this illustration shall apply specifically to the existing Harber Commission, which seems to be equal to the best of its predecessors, but to the many | scandals that have stained that part of the public ad- ministration in the past. For years a proposition has been in the air for the creation of a State Board of Charities and Correc- tions. An act creating such a board was passed hy the last Legislature and sustained a pocket veto by the Governor. The subject has since been agitated, and the propo- sition is expected to take shape at the meeting of the | State Association of Charities and Corrections to be held in Oakland next Friday. : As far as the plan has crystallized it calls for a bi- partisan body, unsalaried, but with a paid secretary, who will naturally become the executive officer of the board and will really do the business assigned to it. This board will neither appoint officers and employes of the State institutions, nof purchase their supplies, but will have a visitorial and supervisory function. Tt have oversight oi the directors and trustees of the institutions, enforce a2 common system of keeping books and accounts, and will recommend to the Leg- islature the appropriation actually required for the institutions under its jurisdiction. Every one who has experience in the management of punitive, eleemosy- ry and correction work will see that a board with h functions can be of genuine service. Two things must be kept in sight in the operation of -every public institution. One is its work in the line of the purpose for which it exists, and the other is the business economy of its administration. On every local board of trustees and directors there should be some member, or members, whose knowl- cdge and sympathies are with the purpose of the in- stitution which they manage. gents of the University should be members who cher- ish, from experience, a proper ideal of university ork. The Normal schools are benefited by the pres- ence of trustees who know about the teaching of teachers, who know that not every scholar can teach, and that the ability to impart knowledge does not necessarily go with its possession. On every direc- tery for the insane should be some who are in touch with the latest conclusions of science in-the treatment of mental alienation. The State schools for incorri- gible juveniles should be very carefully officered; their directories should be men and women wise in the ways of salvation to good citizenship of the young, who have been too early perverted by neglect and bad training. Now all men of experience know that such individuals may be far less expert in busi- su ness than in the humane specialties which gquip them | properly administering an institution in line with its purpose. For that reason the merely business oversight may often be usefully given to such a board as is proposed. But such a board should havs nothing to do with patronage or purchases. Its duty should be the enforcement of business economies upon the local trustees and directors. To give patronage and the purchase of supplies would surely Icad to corruption, and as surely to the injury of the institutions, and to their iversion from their pur- pose for it Impinged upon this proposition is another that may | well be considered. The auditing and allowance of the bills of the State institutions are now done by the Board of Examiners, consisting of the Governor and other State officers. The duty is imposed upon them by statute. The constitution defines the duties of these officers, and those of the Board of Examiners are not among them. With the multiplication of State | institutions the business of the board has risen until it nearly submerges the ex-officio members who com- pose it. It is proposed to make the new Board of Charities and Corrections a Board of Audit of these thousands of accounts, relieving the Governor and | other officers of 2 duty that is a burden when added to their constitutional functions. In that shape we are not prepared to deny that there is merit in the plan for this addition to the machinery of the State. But if it take the shape of a purchasing and patron- | age agency, only evil will result from it. CHARITY AND LIBERALITY. ONDON authorities have estimated that the L contributions and bequests for charitable purposes in the United Kingdom during the closing year of the century would amount to about $20,000,000. That sum is larger than the aver- age.of annual contributions for such purposes, owin; partly to several large bequests, but mainly to the de- mands for charity made by the war in South Africa and the famine in India. How much has been given by will or otherwise for charity in this country has not so far as we know been computed with anything like accuracy. It would doubtless fall far short of the amount devoted to that purpose in Great Britain, for, fortunately, we have a population so generally prosperous it is very rare that any large charitable donations are called for. The altruism of Americans flows in many directions other than that of charity. It shows itself mainly in contributions for education in one form or another, and founds or endows libraries, art galleries, museums of science, colleges and universities. The Chicago Tribune, which keeps a list of large contributions of the kind, reports that the total con- tributions for charity and education in one form or another during the vear in this country amount to about $60,000,000. It is to be borne in mind that sum is made up only of contributions of $1000 or more, and does not include all that Americans have given for such purposes. Furthermore, the sum is about $20,- 000,000 less than that which was donated for similar purposes last year. According to a summary of the figures given by the Tribune, almost exactly half of the donations of the current year have been made to educational insti- tutions, and half of the $30,000,000 has been received by thirty-six of the larger colleges and universities. On the Board of Re- | The Methodist twentieth century thank offering has enriched educational institutions by $3,142,532. Li- braries have received about $6,500,000, mostly for new bulldings. Of this sum Andrew Carnegie has given $4,195,000 within the year. Charities have received $13,390,176, which is a little more than in 1899 Churches and church enterprises have received $8,790,- 6os, which is $6,000,000 more than the year before. Tt will be seen the old century has set the new a good example in the way of liberality and charity in America and Great Britain; nor.can it be doubted that a showing equally creditable would be made for other civilized nations were the extent of their con- tributions known. These virtues are manifest where- ever the higher forms of humanity exist, and, fortu- nately, the manifestations are increasing with the years. THE NATURAL GAS SUPPLY. s/ NE of the industrial advantages enjoyed by O certain portions of the United States during the latter part of the last century will probably pass quickly away in the new. The natura} gas supply, which was at one time supposed to be almost inex- haustible, is vanishing, and unless what remains be carefully conserved some districts now enjoying the advantage of that form of fuel and light will be speed- |ily deprived of it. Data compiled by the United States Geological Survey show that during the year 1809 the amount of natural gas utilized in different parts of the coun- have a fuel value equal to something more than 4,000, rate of consumption for more than a year or two loniger will involve opening new fields of supply and shifting, enlarging and extending thousands of miles of pipe. Out of the diminution of the supply there has come a nice little wrangle between the officers of the In- dianapolis Gas Company and the gas consumers of | the city. In a recent report to the stockholders it was announced that the directors would have to de- fer action upon the question of dividends. natural gas in Indianapolis by contract without meter measurements, being of the belief that the supply was unlimited; the result has been a great deal of wastc in the use of gas, and “notwithstanding the fact that we have expended large sums of money in new wells, pump stations and additional pipe lines in the field, for the purpose of bringing a greater volume of gas use of gas is continued.” Had the officers resjed their case at that point there would probably have been no protest from the peo- tion of the meter system. The report, however, went on to accuse the citizens 6f something worse than | wasting gas. It was said: “In spite of existing pro- i hibitory statutes a large percentage of our customers il\a\'e unlawfully increased t}?eir supply by the prac- { tice known locally as ‘boring out’ their mixers. | Every effort has been made by your managers to stop this unlawful wastage, but although the best legal tal- | ent has been employed, supported by proofs, it has been found utterly impossible to seoure a conviction, because of the fact that this illegal prae- | tice has been so generally indulged in. These vio- lators of the law are not confined to the poor or vicious, but include city and county buildings, city officials, lawyers, churches, ministers of the gospel, physicians, architects and some of the most prominent residents and business houses in the city of Indian- | apolis.” That charge of an offense which virtually amounts to stealing has been vigorously denounced as a whole- sale libel upon the citizens. Whether it be true or | false cannot be decided at this distance. It will be noted the statement itself admits the impossibility of convicting anybody of the offense. It appears, there- | fore, that the cause of all the trouble is the decreasing | supply of the gas. With the diminution in the source of supply there is a corresponding diminution in the pressure and the flow. Consequently consumers have to resort to various devices to obtain as much gas as | they did when their contracts were made. The only interest outsiders have in the controversy | 1s the evidence it affords of the decline in natural gas | supply. Communities which have had advantages | over others by reason of that form of cheap and con- venient fuel will now have to compete in manufactur- | ing without that advantage. As a consequence there | may be a considerable shifting of manufacturing plants | within the next few years, and the natural gas towns | and cities may lose some of their most important in- dustries. A FAMILY OF STATESMEN. —_— , HEN Lord Salisbury met Parliament in special | Wsession after the reorganization of his Cabinet | following the general election, it will be re- membered that Rosebery congratulated him on hav- | ing so many statesmen in his family. The sarcasm of the remark was not lost upon the British public, and | there has been ever since a running fire of criticism |and condemnation upon the Prime Minister for putting so many members of his family into his Min- | istry. | In one of these criticisms a member of Parlia- ment stated that the Cecil family is now drawing up. | ward of £17,000 a year “from a generous but un- | consenting country.” The accuracy of the statement | was challenged, and to justify it the London Chronicle | published the following list of offices held and salaries drawn by the Premier and his kinsmen: Lord Salisbury (Lord Privy Seal).. A. J. Balfour (nephew) (First Lord of the Treasury) 5000 Lord Selborne (son-in-law) (First Lord of the Ad- miralty) .. .. 483 Gerald Balfour (nephew) of Trade).. Lord Cranborne (son elgn Affairs) ..... 34 { 1500 The Chronicle adds: “These. figures, it will be ! seen, total £15,050, the amount we gave roughly in our | leading article of: yesterday. In order, therefore, to arrive at the £17,000 of Mr. Bartley, it would be neces- sary to include the sum received by Lord William Cecil as rector of Bishop's St. Etheldreda, Hatfield, | which, according to the clergy list, is £1432 gross and | £975 net. It is only fair to point out, however, that | the patron of the living is the Marquis of Salisbu-y himseli.” It is to be noted that while the grant of so many | positions in the Ministry to members of the family ' of the Prime Minister has aroused criticism and com- ment in Great Britain, there has been nothing that shows any outburst of public indignation. The peo- ple appear to have become accustomed to - support aristocratic families and princes, and to look upon | Salisbury’s action as a novelty more than anything else—but what a howl about “nepotism” would go up in this country should a President of the United States place so many of his kinfolks in high office at big salaries. z (President . - 2000 nder Becretary for For- { try was about 108,000,000,000 cubic feet, estimated to | 000 tons of coal. It is stated that to maintain such a | The re- | port went on to say the company has been selling | to the city, it has been found impossible to furnish a satisfactory service so long as the present wastefui | ple further than was required to oppose an introduc- | indisputabls ] -X—H—l- B e e 0 3 o e e Y 3 | at the Palace. | panied by his private secretary, Willlam | County, Or. A PAINFUL SURPRISE. WHEN DON'T YOU KNOW YOU'RE WHIPPED?"—INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. I “HI, WHAT ARE XOU DOING THERE? — k3 American. any but the persons fascinated. man, pery wife. widow ‘incarceration of Theodore Hook charming a person. jrfelets ¥ QUEEN WILHELMINA’'S DUKE =~ . IS A NOTABLE LADY KILLER Little Queen Wilhelmina's selection of a husband is the least handsome of the brothers Mecklenburg-Schwerin, says a correspondent of the Baltimore Gossips whisper that the Duke was taken by surprise and yet it was not the first time, in spite of being & good deal of a detrimental, that he has been admired by royal ladies. Everybody knows, says the exchange, that ‘Wwhen pretty Princess Helena of Russia suddenly broke her engagement with Max of Baden it was because she hoped to persuade her parents to let her marry the stout blonde young duckling whom Wilhelmina has selected; and the youngest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh has loved the Duke in vain. In short, Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is a good deal of a lady killer, and he knows it. Fat and plain of face and, for a royal person, distinctly poverty stricken, he has a fascination for womankind, the sort of fascina- tion that there {s no use trying to explain, because it is not One of the men who possessed this faculty to a most surprising degree was Napoleon Bonaparte's rival in the affections of Marie Louise, the in- famous and all-powerful Neipperg. He was an ugly creature, with small abil- itles, and yet smaller fortune, and he had broken many hearts about the Austrian court before Marie Louise saw and fell furiously in love with him. With everything to lose and nothing to gain by her encouragement of the he left no stone unturned until she was able to make herself Neip- In the eyes of the world it was a terrible degradation for the of the French Emperor to become the wife of an Austrian Count, but she cared not a whit what the world said, as was the case with the women who ran after the ugly spendthrift Wilkes and the mad Duc de Richelieu. ‘Wilkes was famous in his day all over England, not only as Lord Mayor and Chamberlain and a very loud talking patriot but as the ugliest man of his time and the most admired by the women. of them, with the exception of his daughter, but it had not the desired ef- fect of cooling their affections. As to the Duc de Richelieu, though men could not tolerate him, when he was shut up in the Bastile crowds of women, old and young, rich and poor, used to collect every day at the hour when he took - his exercise on the parapets and adore him from a distance, and deplore the e B 2 e e e e 2 o S B B B S i S Y perceptible to ~ He flouted and iil treated all as another ugly man who was irresistible to the softer sex, for it is proven clearly that when a man is agreeable to women they care not'im. the least what his personal appearance may be. Liszt proved this; when an old man, with a hard, ugly face, women begged permission to kiss his ugly hands and raved and sentimentalized over him as though he was Adonis’ seif. Dozens of school girls and Countesses who worshiped at his shrine cared not a pin for his music, nor understood a note of it, but were keenly alive to the charm of his personality, which no woman, so far as we 4 % :i: know, was ever able or willing to withstand. PERSONAL MENTION. Frank H. Buck of Vacaville is stopping T. Spellacy, an ol man of Bakersfleld, is at the Palace. Former Superior Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City {s at the Russ. Guy T. Berry, an oil man of Los An- geles, is a guest at the Palace. F. F. Marks and wife of Elk Park, Cal, are stopping at the Palace Hotel. L. 8. Alexander, a Watsonville mer- chant, is a guest at the Occldental. H. J. Small, superintendent of con- struction of the Southern Pacific at Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. Gerrit Fort, assistant general passenger agent of the Union Pacific, accompanied by his wife, left yesterday for Los An- geles. E. O. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, arrived in the city vesterday afternoon accom- G. Gardner. They have been on a visit to Paso Robles and have been away two weeks. C. W. Nelson, who has for several years been employed in the freight office of the | Southern Pacific in this cudy. has beel:l appointed traffic, freight and passenge: Igen( of the Illinois Central Railroad with headquarters In this city. He was the recipient of many congratulations yes- terday. H. E. Huntington left on a special train last evening to inspect the new Coast road. This will be tbe first train that will run over the mew line. It is more than possible that Huntington will re- main in Los Angeles until President Hays arrives in that city, and will journey with him to San Francisco. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—J. M. Gleaves of San Francisco is at the Johnson; R. D. S. Wales of San Francisco is at the St. James; E. Burke of Los Angeles and E. ‘W. Gould of California are at the Raleigh. —————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TWO-AND-A-HALF PIECE-M. E. E., City. A two-dollar-and-fifty-cent piece of 1853 does not command a premium trom dealers. WITHOUT THE LEGEND-M. C., Fresno, Cal. A fifty-cent piece of 1836 without the legend “E Pluribus Unum’® on the reverse commands a premium of from 25 cents to $1 25, according to condi- tion. The HORSE GUARDS—Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. The English Horse G(‘;:uds'lu ent, was instituted in the reign :f r%‘?‘v’v‘ll’d VI, 1550, and received by Charles I1 in 1661. COLUMBUS—Subscriber, Denlo, Harney While on the voyage that ade which terminated in the S gl S S the Canarfes to make ;3-1" to ships. The islands belong to Spain. A A SEAT—Commuter, Oaklend, Cal. ticket sold by a nflron? eon;vl:ly t‘“"‘l:;. tees a e from point of sale to pol to whlc’:‘::al: sold, but does not guarantee a seat to the holder of the ticket unless that is stipulated at the time of the sale of the ticket. . NO DEMAND FOR SPANISH COINS-- Constant Reader, O:\kB landfl Cle. ‘The:: nie] S S U is n> demand for e:d&“m;o‘l;;’f I;IIM. f his reign are offe as follows, Which Wil give you an idea of the market value: 12 real. cents; 1 real, 25 cents: 2 reales, 40 cents; 4 reales, $1; 8 reales, $2. HAWAITAN 1SLANDS — Subscriber, Denio, Harney County, Orred 'l’heb g‘;‘dwu- d: discove o n ‘(?:ok]:.‘::e 'n:v!!':lmr in_December, 1778, and he named them the Sandwich Islands for Lord Sandwich, who was then the first lord of the ndmln.lar. Hawali, the largest jsland, was originally called by the na- tives ee. A CITIZEN'S DUTY-P. F., City. A citizen of the T'nited States Is bound to i support the constitution, and “in case of civil war, foreign war, invasion or other circumstances calling citizens to take up arms,” cif ‘who are not in the lar army or the militia may be upon to volunteer, ir A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Yesterday I tried some of those ‘Sim- Dishes for Luncheon.’ ow did they come out?” got them done in ti o Chicans et n time for dinner. “Aren’t you worrfed a daughter’'s mannishness?* “Not a bit of {t. I saw her try to throw a stone at a dog yesterday.’—Clevi Plain Dealer. N 2 S little over your “I suppose there are lots of gossips at your boarding-house. What do you m'r:.sdy talk about?" ““Well, we usually talk about the dining- room table.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Visitor—Why are you walk down here? % ¥ e Soldier—I am on sentry duty. Visitor—Why don’t you sit down? Scldier—Because I am part of the stand- ing army.—Newark Advertiser. “What ten books would you take If you had to pass the rest of your life on a desert island?” “‘Oh, I wouldn't take books at all; I'd take things to eat.”—Indianapolis Press. George, the colored janitor, ieeded some ;non’e(y and went to the church treasurer or 1t “There isn't a cent in my hands just . said thet officer, “and won't be till next Sunday’'s collections are handed over. Can't you wait till then?" “Don’t see how I kin, Mistah Gubney,” persisted Geor “K'yarn’t run de house widout money.” “The best I can do for you,” returned the treasurer, “will be to advance you $3 out of my own pocket and run my risk of getting it back from the church.” ‘“Well, suh,” solemnly rejoined the jan- itor, “ef you don’ git it back f'm de chu’ch, Mistah Gubney, you'll git yo' re- ward in de good world, but it's diff'nt wid me. Ef I cain’t git dat free dollahs f'm you I'd like t' know whah I kin! no i EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Sailors From Inland States. For reasons of sentiment, as well as for more practical considerations, a naval force containing many men from the in- { land States rnnstI be ?re;:;;bl!o‘m!u"gl:‘s drawn almost exclusiye! h - ll;'ao! the seaboard.—CHICAGO RECORD. Wait Till Danger Threatens. Wi Id beseech those who see dan- ger to the Jibertics of our -country in the proposed army bill to moderate their transports and take counsel of history and experience befcre raising a hullaba- loo that will be objectionable to the nerves of our people, as well as the business of the wor By continually erying olf | we sha nd ourselves unnrln‘le to, reusy the people when there is really a da lhh-i?:emnh' the_fold. —FLORIDA TIM UNION. No Foreign Advice. No British- advice prompted that war with Spa ch lad up to the acquisi- tion of the lippines and to the entrancs f the United States inte Aslatic ~ t not been for that war nces the United States w figure in the Chiense question as it does now. It would not be in & position where it can reject the propositions of other n tions concérning China- and successful u'r%;:bs own on them.—CHICAGO TR Gulf Stream Myth. If by any possibility the Gulf Stream were diverted at the Strafts of Florida no one In England would be a whit wiser, for it 18 the aerial drift that has the gift of mildness in its flow. The dive sion of the ¢ Stream bogey may. im- press those who have a “smattering of hysiography,” but it has ng terrors for Klm who knows that the ‘Gulf Stream myth has nothing to rest on save the bad science of fifty years ago and its regru- descence in the present. —WEATHER RE- VIBW. The Monroe Doctrine. The coming ] American exhibition held in great eities of the United Sta | should greatly increase mutu edge, intercourse-and f the two continents of the W sphere. And in the worderful exp: | United “States indu and | which is now in if a marked exten: occur. In such manner,, though after nearly fourscore years, the Monroe doc- trine may be trangformed from a techni- cal abstraction, hdwevér potent, into & concrete and controliing factor of ex- national life.— W YORK TRIB Outlook for China. The overthrow. of the Manchu dynasty and the restoration of pure Chinese Gov- ernment might save (he empire and maks the lots of sovereignty a temporary mis- This is improbable. The Chi- nese are doubtless about to lose the right of the free hand in regulating their inter- nal and external affairs. Subjugation wiil ly hasten decay, and In the case of a vast and undeveloped empire in this age of active puhlic conquest and private ex- ploitation, when the crones and the lq- capables are being driven out of their fal- low estates by the busy and eager work- ers, decay will be arrested not far in the futire by dismemberment, partition, and the industrial dominance of e the living nations —NEW YORK ° IMES. Era of Good Feeling. Success wins respect, and when the suc- cess is something which advances the so- | cial condition of the masses of the people | and ‘increases the country's prestige in | the rest of the world it arouses thé peo | ple’s pride, banishes partisanskilp, and makes men more and more proud of the Pation and iis ofcials. No Bresident bas ever entered a term of office under Bhap- pler conditions than those which ~will present themselves to Mr. McKinley at the outset in the four years which Degin 2 few.months hence. Never was there less partisan bias In the conmsideration of the great questions with which the Re- ublicans, as (hs dom%:mm dmlil. hmgw rought forward in Congress tl '3 chown . at | this moment—ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. Uniform Divorce Law. It is the high duty of the Government to maintain _social order and bitc morals, and we have reached a t i our soclal system when it is an imperious pecessity that a uniform divorce law should come from the highest authority of the nation itself. Such a law would doubtless be ed on the lines of jus- tice, and with such a law the hazard marriages of adventurers and adveatur- esses and the disgraceful ages which now shame nearly every soclal cir- cle of the land would be finally over- thrown. Let Congress propose the neces- sary amendment to the constitution, and the States will promptly and gladly ap- rove it providing for a-uniform divorcs Faw %nat“would % supreme in _ every State of the Unfon.—PHILADELPHIA TIMES. Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotel.® i B b Townsend's California glace fruits, 50¢ a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding. * Special information supplied daily to bustne(c:-“ hnlusesn and p\m}lc.?c_nmh the Pres: ng Bureau (Ailen's). ont- Fomers st Telepho ain 106 . Holland has nine miles of canal for every 100 square miles of surface, 2700 miles in all. Gas Consumers’ Association, 344 Post st., re- duces gas bills from 20 to 40 per cent. Gas and electric meters tested. Electrical department. I All kinds of electric work promptly attended to.® ARE WE TO HAVE AN 'EPIDEMIC - OF KIDNAPING? PINKERTON SAYS “YES.” THE SUNDAY CALL JANUARY 6, 1901. A San Francisco Violinist Relates His Experiences ‘as ““Fiddler” to New York’s 400. The Biggest Game Heads and Skins You Ever Saw. Ropes of Pearls for Corsage and :Free With Next Sunday’s Call— EBduard Strauss’ Best Two-Step. How to Flirt With : a’'Fan. 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