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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1901. @all. ver....JANUARY 8, 1901 The - TUESDAY..... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commuvications to W, 8, LEAEE, Manager. MANAGER FFICE. efhone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE t and Third, S. F. Telep Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS 221 Stevemsom St. 20%. Terms by Mail, DAILY CALY, (Including Sund: .0 DAILY CALL (including Sun 3.0 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 montbs. 18 DAILY CALL—Ey Single Month o SUNDAY CALL, One Year 1.0 WEEELY' CALL, One Year g All pestmasters are Sample coples will Ma!l subscribers in ordering particular to give both NEW ANT %o meure & prompt and o e of address should de LD ADDRESS in order itance with thelr request OAKLAND OFFICE. +..1118 Bromdway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Nanager Poreign Advertising. Margustts Building. Chicags, (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.......... Herald Sq re NEW YORK RE?’RI’SENTATT‘-!' tTEPHEN B. 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As far as is proper in ordially co-operate to such an s due to the legislative body, members, will be cheer- At the same time we ness which a newspaper a party paper to its party, wrong we will not hesi- y. to be watchful of the buke its lapses and its his policy it must deprecate h it exposes in the opposi- es not hesitate to do, for it i good report, and to use arly. things ¢ it is much older much do in the interest of ths i industries and the geat ornia make the passage more important here than ate of the Union. The problems of irrigati d the conservation of water for mining and the fostering of zgriculture and horticulture are touched on 2all sides by the law. We are yet in the early stage of the State’s development, and Legisla- tures have upon them the solemn and inspiring re- sponsibility of cutting the statutory garments of this beautiful commonwealth so that its symmetry may not be marred. We hope that this Legislature, with its heavy Re- publican majority, will see that questions of political patronage and merely personal politics are among the least of its concerns, and that the people who transacs each day’s business, and who toil for returns in field, orchard, vineyard, forest, mine and mill, have business that is the real affair to be regarded. There are trained men in the Legislature. The executive has had two years’ contact with the whole State and time to study its needs. All the knowledge gained and experience acquired belong to the people, and we will rejoice to see them made tHe beneficiaries. Let every member look ahead to the next election, when the work of the session will go to judgment be- fore the people. The voters of California are independent. They re- quire good service and do mot scruple to turm a minority into a2 majority in order to get it. The next Legislature will elect a Senator, and it is not strain- | ing a point to say that that choice will be determined by what this Legislarure does. It is the business of wise men to weigh present acts in view of the future effect, and the meinbers will be wige if they look into the faces of the people for ap- proval and guidance. An appeal will be made at this session of the Legis- lature to divide Santa Clara County. It would seem to be a wise course to confine the very belligerent politicians of Santa Clara to one county and not inflict them upon two. The revelations now being made in the local elec- tion recounts indicate that some of our voters have been guilty of grave crime, or of stupidity so gross in its character that it should be made a crime. General Kitchener has at last placed himself in con- sonance with the rest of the world. In an address delivered 2 few days 2go he declared that the war in South Africa is inhuman. | THE SPIRIT OF PEACE. T was discouraging before the outbreak of our war l with Spain, and also preceding the British attack on the Transvaal, that so many clerical voices wers | raised for war and so many churches were made to | ring with excited and exciting appeals to the war spirit. In both countries it was noticed as a remark- able condition that ministers of the gospel and women were prominent in urging war. No one has ever ac- counted for the enthusiasm for war that has been fre- | quently shown by women. They cannot feel the rap- | ture of the fight. They cannot take part in camp and march, and feel the shock of battle. They are liable to lose their protectors, their sons, their friends. The | hard consequences of war fall heavily upon them. | Yet on occasion they zre foremost in urging carnage. | It will be remembered that when President McKinley | seemed about to get for Cuba by diplomacy all that war finally secured the students of a young ladies’ seminary in New York wired him that coarse and savage telegram, “To hell with diplomacy.” Perhaps this tendency, which seems unnatural in women, is natural after all. Women admire strength, courage and adventure in men, and fear that in long maintained peace these qualities may decline and get stale. So they are impelled by the constitution of their sex to urge a revival in the hard school of war. We have never seen any explanation, psychological ©1 otherwise, of the existence of a war spirit among | the clergy. But it is among them. It flashed up vividly before our Civil War, North and South, and when the struggle came Bishops put by their shep- herd’s crook and took up the sword to fight. We are glad to read in the many sermons that have been preached in this country on the meeting and the parting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a reappearance of the spirit of peace on earth and good will toward men. The pulpits of all the Christian sects have spoken for peace. Cardinal Gibbons has spoken for his ! church in very impressive language and has suggested much that may well be studied by his countrymen. His picture of a nation so devoted to order and law that the mailed hand is unseen in its affairs, and a 2rge army is not needed in its administration, is one that must impress the hopeful and thoughtiul Ameri- can. Indeed the country may well begin now to encour- age the dove of peace to return and nest among us. Civilization should have better work to do than training men to kill each other. Perhaps in a few years the world may advance so far that a peace con- ference may meet, deliberate and not be as barren of results 2s the last. The Cardinal is too optimistic and kind to his own times in one respect. There is not much evidence to scpport his claim that war is more humane than of old. It is true armies care better for their wounded, ard enemies in battle are equally served in the same hospital and by the same surgeon. But in Egypt, in | South Africa, in our cwn stormy possessions and in China, the armies of Christian nations have charged against them offenses against humanity that rank with any which are recorded in history. Let the stain be removed by return to the ways of peace. There are indications that this republic is ready to set the example. Our high-minded policy in China, contrasted with the high-handed policy of others, is a cheerful sign. On that far field spark and tinder have been dangerously associated for months. It has sometimes seemed sure that they would ignite a world warfare, involving Europe and Asia in a more san- guinary struggle than the world has seen. But, thanks to the sense of humanity and equity at Wash- ington, the crisis seems to be passing, and the inter- ests of peace will be much advanced when it finally disappears. Count Zeppelin has accomplished much in the way of constructing an airship, but it is quite probable the credit of solving the problems of aerial naviga- tion may be gained by this country instead of Ger- | many, for according to recent reports Professbr Langley has a ship which he claims can carry six men and travel at the rate of 100 miles an hour. He | is now waiting for some one to furnish him with the money to perfect it, and it is not likely he will have to wait long, for good authorities consider his machine much more practicable than that of Zeppelin. The race is evidently close, and the end may be reached | much sooner than is now expected. C Senator to elect this winter, and therefore can watch the struggles elsewhere without being tormented by troubles of her own. There is to be a larger number of Senators elected this winter than ever before in the history of the Senate. Owing to the death of Senators or to deadlocks several States | have two Senators to elect, and in some of them there are already signs portentous of deadlocks to come. In a good many States the successors to the in- cumbents whose terms will expire on March 4 have been already elected. Wetmore of Rhode Island, | Bacon of Georgia, Morgan of Alabama and Tillman | of South Carolina have been re-elected. Bailey of Texas is to follow Chilton, Blackburn of Kentucky is to succeed Lindsay, Foster takes the place of Caffery of Louisiana, Sullivan of Mississippi gives way to Mc- Laurin, Virginia some time ago returned Senator Martin, and Vermont has chosen a Senator for the unexpired term of Senator Morrill. In several States the elections are foregone con- | clusions. Hoar of Massachusetts, Frye of Maine, Berry of Arkansas, McMillan of Michigan, Sewell of New Jersey, McBride of Oregon, Elkins of West Vir- ginia and Warren of Wyoming are sure of re-election. Two Populist Senators—Pettigrew of North Dakota and Butler of North Carolina— will have to go, the one giving place to a Republican, the other to a Democrat. The States in which there will be contests of greater or less interest are Deiaware, Colorado, Illinois, Kan- sas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, | Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Utah. The contests . in Delaware and Pennsylvania have been before the | country for a long time. They are the outcome of SENATORIAL ELECTIONS ALIFORNIA fortunately has no United States | bygone deadlocks, and may be accounted as parts of the unfinished business of the last century. That of | Addicks in Delaware is of but little interest to the | country at large, but in Pennsylvania, where Quay | is making a fight for victory or political death, the | contest attracts attention throughout the Union, for, whatever be his faults, Quay is a leader of national | reputation and influence and many large interests are bound up with his fortunes. | With the exception of the Quay contest the most | generally interesting struggle of the winter will be | the fight in *Tllinois for the seat mow occupied hy | Senator Cullom. Ex-Governor Tanner, Representa- | tive Cannon and Representative Hitt are aspirants for the place, and of course Cullom desires re-election. Tt is asserted that Tanner has entered the field solely to defeat Cullom, and will throw his strength to either Hitt or Cannon as soon as he thinks he can bring about an election by doing so. From Nebraska comes the ci us report that Sena- tor Thurston, who not long ago announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election, has changed his mind and is now making a fight for what he said e would not accept as a gift. In Minnesota Senator Nelson will be re-elected, but there will be a lively contest for the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Davis. It is also quite possible that interesting fights may be developed in Colorado and Montana, for in the latter State there are two Senators to be elected, and the State is notorious for Senatorial sensations. Finally, Chandler’s battle in New Hampshire prom- ises togarm up New England. Out of the various contests there are very sure to develop some of those prolonged deadlocks and scan- dals which have disgusted the country with our pres- ent system of electing Senators. It is quite likely. therefore, that we shall have this winter a new and aungmented demand for the election of Senators by direct vote of the peaple. B ——————— AN UP-TO-DATE 4TLAS. OR a clear understanding of the current news of the world there is necessary to every reader a comprehensive atlas for ready reference in order that the exact location of every point made important in the dispatches of the day may be easily learned. It is true The Call publishes from time to time maps of localities in which wars are going on, or other nctable events occur, but such maps are not sufficient for the full needs of readers. They do not appear in the paper every day, and yet reference to a map is often a matter of daily need. To supply that re- quirement of those who wish to follow the world's news intelligently, The Call has arranged to furnish its readers with a complete geographical and historical atlas containing an accurate compilation of facts and statistics brought down to the beginning of the cen- tury. The value of an atlas depends upon the man who @akes it. It is easy to draw maps carelessly, but it is not easy to prepare one that is accurate and true | in every detail. Recognizing that truth, The Call has arranged to obtain an atlas compiled by one of the foremost publishers of such works in the world, and offers to its readers the “Superior” edition of the 1901 Geographical and Historical Atlas, published by George F. Cram. The work contains 550 pages and includes a complete series of maps of modern geog- raphy, a chronological outline of American history, a concise account of the political history of the United States, an accurate compilation of statistics from the latest United States census reports, a complete ga- zetteer of cities, towns and villages with their popu- lations by the latest census, and, finally, special maps of Alaska, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines. Copies of the work have been submitted to leading educational authorities and they unite in cordially commending it. President Wheeler of the State Uni- versity says: “I consider that the opening up of such opportunities as this work represents for the educa- tion and information of the masses of the people is a public service.” President Jordan says: “It seems to me to be a most valuable work of reference, giving in compact and accessible form a mass of vital informa- tion. The work seems well brought up to date. 1 was particularly struck with the completeness of dat4 in the map of China.” Thomas J. Kirk, Superinten- dent of Public Instruction, says: “The name of Cram as the publisher at once predisposed me in its favor, and my expectations were fully met as I turned the leaves and noticed the fine maps, comprehensive tables | of statistics and the valuable and readable reports upon almost every conceivable subject.” The Call has obtained the exclusive right of hand- ling this superb work on the Pacific Coast, and offers it to subscribers for the cost of delivery and transpor- tation. six months is entitled to obtain the atlas for $1.50. It will be ready for delivery about March 1. HARMSWORTH'S IDEAL PAPER. ARMSWORTH'S ideal of what a twentieth H century newspaper should be, presented in the form of a New Year's edition of the New York World, has reached this side of the continent. The most striking novelty of the venture is the change in size of the pages of the paper. Instead of the ap- proximately square sheet to which newspaper readers are accustomed, the Harmsworth paper is but four columns wide, while its length is quite three times the width. To this form of paper Harmsworth has given the name “tabloid journalism,” and the name fits well, for one looks about as queer as the other sounds. The point aimed at by the editor was that of pro- viding a paper that can be easily read and conve- niently carried. The claim was made that by glancing over the thirty-two pages of which the‘paper was composed the busy man could get a summary of the news of the world in sixty seconds. Such being the aim, it seems that Harmsworth missed his mark. Tabloid journalism does not show the news as quickly as the wide page of the present form of paper. That changes in journalism will come with the cen- tury is not to be doubted. Nothing remains long unchanged in this world. Even in book publishing the old folios of the past have given place to the handy octavos and duodecimos of our time, and the future will see further alterations of form and style. Mr. Harmsworth’s New Year edition of the World is semething in the nature of a prediction of the course the coming change will take, but, like all other New Year predictions, it is but an individual’s guess. Th= journalism of the future, as of the past, will be de- termined by the slow evolution of public opinion, and if we are ever to have tabloid journalism the time of ite coming is a long way off. B Another indictment has been filed in this city against the evil of the race course. We have had crimes ranging in seriousness from petty larceny to forgery and from assault to murder, and now in the sad example of a young gambler in raving madness produced by the excitement of the track. Governor Pingree of Michigan says it cost him $450,000 to be Governor for four years. This remark- able declaration ought to suggest to the people of the State that they have had one chief executive with whom it is a pleasure to dispense, because of the dan- ger of his example. Carson City, ig is announced, is to have another big prize-fight and another visitation from thesplug uglies and their dangerous train. It had been supposed that the little city had been punished enough already. A Senate committee has decided that oleomargar- ine is “entirely wholesome,” and that, being so, it should be sold under its own. wholesome name, and not labeled “butter.” Tt is pleasant to note the rain is coming our way this winter, but it would be pleasanter if it were not accompanied by so much blowing. Every one who subscribes for The Call for | | date, contains all the 1900 census, statis- UNIVERSITY O OFFICE OF TH My dear Sir, Atlas of th o World. consider that the opening sorvice. Very sincerel W. 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Remember the Atlas is down to tics, etc., and will be ready for delivery bout March 1, 1801, al\g(\)x reference work is of more import- i | i | 1s registered at the Occidental. | gold mine, is at the Lick. He has with | Mint. ance In the educational departments of life, the home, the office and the llbruf, than a_good Atlas, carefully edited. It should be large enough to embrace all de- tails of importance, not unwieldy, clear in coloring, printing and lettering, and, above all, conveying the latest informa- tion with completeness and accuracy. Cram’'s Superior Atlas of the World is designed to provide a complete atlas of the world, containing a uniform series of maps of all countries, on a scale that will be valuable alfke for library, educational and practical uses. The peculiar featurs| of this work is its universal scope, cover- ing as it does, the entire known world. | L bl One hundred and seventy maps conve: a clear understanding and correct knowl- edge of every portion of the edrth's sur- face. They have been recently drawn and newly engraved from the records of the topographical department at Washington and from the charts of the Royal Geo- fupmca.l Soclety of London. 1 interesting are the maps of New Alaska. Africa, Cuba, Oklahoma, tl n waiia group, the colonies of the new Australian commonwealth and the islands of the seas. In addition there are tort'rnx maps lnd‘gll.nl of the principal cities of the worl One feature of the Atlas ht justly 53 styled, “An Encyclopedia of Y an Geography,” as in condensed space It gives briefly: The area, population, physi- cal features, government, rauuona educa- tion, army and navy defenses, industries, climate, etc., of eve! Territory and foreign country of the world. The numerous di s and tables pre- sent a vast amount of statistical informa- tion taken from the very latest official sources. This interesting feature will ma- terially aid all who will have occasion jo refer to them, in keeping in touch wi the constant changes that are occurri in the political, financial, commercial an religious world. 50 in cash and six months' lublai?— tion to The Daily Call will entitle you to this splendid book of reference. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L. E. Cross of Stockton is at the | Grand. Peter Johnson, jeweler of Angels, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hale of Los Angeles | are at the Grand. Senator W. F. Prisk of Grass Valley is at the Occidental. Judge E. C. Hart and wife of Sacra- mento are at the Grand. G. A. Eastman, a New York hotel man, is registered at the Lick. W. B. McGerry, a Bakersfleld oll man, 1s registered at the Occldental. J. M. Wilmans, a Newman mining man, | G. W. Towle, a mill man of Towle, is stopping with his wife at the Grand. | Dr. and Mrs. B. 1. S8andow of the Ha- | wallan Islands are at the Occldental. A. Moncure, manager of the Hearst ranch at Palermo, is at the Occidental. Robert G. Barton, manager of the Fresno Opera-house, is at the California. F. H. Yost, son of the inventor of the typewriter of that name, is stopping at the Palace. W. H. Davenport, general agent for the Colorado Midland, left last evening for Denver to attend a conference of the com- pany officials. Rallroad Commissioner E. B. Edson of Gazelle 1 the Occidental. He is here to attend a meeting of the Commissioners to be held to-day. W. C. Cannon, & nephew of Congress- man Cannon of Illinois, is at the Oceci- dental. Mr. Cannon Is quartermaster on the transport Grant. Hoyt Sherman, general Western agent of the Coloradp Southern, with headquar- ters at Salt Lake City, and who spent the holidays here, has returned home. John Costa, owner of a Sierra County him a fifty-two-ounce gold nugget which he will dispose of at the United States The nugget is one of the largest taken from a California mine in a long time. —_—————————— That Vexed Problem. “’Scuse me for being so late, m-m-my dear, but fact iz we was having a dis- dishcvssion on whether the cons’tooshun follows th' flag, or th' f-f-flag follows cons'tooshun. ““Oh, you were, were you? aid you decide?’ ¢ “Thass it. What did we decide? Jim mith says that flag don't f-f-follow thing. He says that !nJ Well, what yearsh old. when it goes anywhere it ought t-to be t-t-taken in a hack. Jim says it couldn’t by no possible meuns fol- low anything. ood crack, wasn't it? Joe's got A B-B- % “And what did you decid ‘Who? Me? Mean me, my dear? Why, 1jus” sald that the best way to soive per- oblem was to wrap cons'tooshun tight! 'round flagstaff, an’ then let "em go into it togessor. Thass th' way. Watcher think | French milliner, of it? “Well, I think If you don't pull off your shoes and follow them with the rest of {nur garments, and then wrap the blan- ets. (l‘htl around = you, there'll be enough kinds' of trouble ralsed in this family to wreck the best government that ever was formed.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. N Feat. The great storm tWat smote Galveston swept the big British steamship Taunton inland twenty-seven miles and when the waves receded the gtp was high and dry {n a reglon devoted wfn:sm‘ An Amer- &l‘.n nrné‘ w:m theerz ;‘R mc s hew nnel flolrtt& l.hey shi) The :l::p rt. }:“ 2‘.“ ml:ch t for her visit in- I 528 A CHANCE TO SMILE. McJigger—Your wife told my wife you had all your Christmas presents paid for. Thingumbob—Yes. McJigger—You're a lucky dog. I haven't bought a single one yet. Thingumbob—Neither have I for this Christmas. It's last vear's presents we've just paid for.—Philadelphia Press. “‘Cook, do we need any necessitfes for the kitchen?"* ““Yes'm; 1'd like a Roman chair, one of them Venishun lanterns, an’ some more j;lnars ]fer th’ cozy corner.”—Indianapolis 'ournal, “I wish to see a bonnet,’ Passee, aged 40. sald Miss | “For yourself, miss?" Inquired the | | ““Marfe, run downstairs and | for ladies between 18 and &" s o baty ! Bonnet sold.—London Tit-Bits. The man looked up and saw “Exit” on | the dol?r. L e | ‘‘Well,” he mused, “that let's me out."— | Syracuse Herald. 8 !{ll‘strels—l)ld you tell the lady I was | u out? 2 ls’ln’r:lm mgl;h;. ma'am. stress—] she seem doubts about {t? 5o Nve, sxy Servant girl—No, ma'am; she sald she knew you wasn't.—New York Herald. ““Who is this “Vox Popult’ that writes O e R Can'e Toll You. AUl I g can’t tell you. about him 18 that he's got the last kfll‘l’n‘ hle' ofi his name all right.”—Richmond Dis. patch. T FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. l least see nothin | th | laws makes it a crime | Georgeown, Cal. * a_waistcoat Looks Blue. The news coming lately from South Af- rica 1s very serious. It becomes clearer every day that so far from the war be- ing over it is entering upon & new and very difficult phase—London Daily News. Tammany and Vice. The committee of fifteen, appointed to look into Tammany’s connection vvi‘!dh or- her tive evidence 5‘:"‘1’:?".:’.".',7;‘{{:,'.““.4?3:’... and then pubiish complete reports. They have done a wise thing in this determination. b- licity is the first, the essential, step to- ward and all good vernment, its best guard when Obfained. Balttmore Ameri- can. One of Hugo’s Egotists. Rosslyn Ferrell, the condemned murder- er. who shot an express messenger in cold blood, asks the Board of Pardons to com- mute his sentence on the ground that he was in love and needed the messenger's money to start housekeeping. The sooner that sort of a representative of Cupid s wut into the chair and shocked into King- xom come the better.—Cleveland Press. Slow to Learn. The Bri Empire has known worss Momenta than thg prescnt; but that is no excuse for slackness. So far as can be seen the danger is great. It is not as great in a military sense as it was in the days after Colenso and the week of defeats, or after Spion Kop. but it is greater In a political sense, since we now see that these disastrous events taught our administration wisdom.— Harmsworth's Daily Mail. New Cause for Trusts. Professor Hel C. Adams, in his re- cent address at the opening of Michigan Tniversity’s course in higher commercial education, pointed out a cause of “trusts™ which seems hitherto to have been ! nored. ucity of businmess talent,” he declared, “is in some measfire responsible for the unprecedented flow of capital to the control of men possessing a genius for. business. The monopoly of which complaint {8 made s a monopoly of tal- ent. It is due in part to a deficient sup- iy of administrative ability.”—Chicago rnte‘r Ocean. May Be Prophets. Tt seems that the quiet comment of the British on the amended Hay-Pauncefots treaty has been followed as a rule by the inaifference or silence of all the seif-gov- erning colonfes. The latter evidently think it is none of their business, or at threatening about it. To this, however, there is an exception in & few of the leading French Canadian jour- nall WhlLa t):me'lu'p"r 'commen: A:: the English- ng _part o Tita ‘ang featureless. some of the French- Canadians see war and annexation writ large in an American canal.—New York Commercial-Advertiser. The Ibero-American. . How completely the hemispheric viston which first flashed upon poetic and he etic Clay’'s sight, to reproduced in t of his temperamental descendant, Blaine has vanished from our ken is evidenced negatively but vividly in the complete In- dl&:rencc of this country to recent Im- portant proceedings at Madrid. Spain has set to work to regain by moral suasion that which she could not keep by force. And the Unjted States, once s0 sensitive- 1y jealous to all encroachments from that quarter, has given less heed to the Ibero- American rival of her Pan-American Con- Srees of o decads past than to the Nght- est rumors of Carlist risings and Cabinet changes in the domain of its late antag- onist.—New York Press. We Must Keep It. The challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton, when 1t is sailed in the late days of next summer, will determine whether the trophy of supremacy in naval architecturs and seamanship shall remain with tus United States for a full half cen| . That plece of old-fashioned bric-a-! the America’s cup, a fair sample of the silversmith's art of the most inartistic erjod of the nineteenth century, has beea fhe object of rivairy between the yachts- men of America and Great Britain since 1851. It i{s an absw as an ob; of art; it is vastly significant in what its possession implies. tained here in the first contest new century, the meaning the wiil be recognized by the whole world. It ‘will be not only a success in the fl og sport but in that of industrial skill an of seamanship.—Boston Post. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HALF-DIME—Optimus, City. A half. dime of 1839 is not one of the coins for which dealers offer a premium. ITALIAN THEATERS-P. 8, City. The books of reference attainable in this city do mnot give the seating capacity of tha Theater Politeama Genovese in the city of Genoa. RUHLIN AND MAHER — Subseriber, City. The fight between Ruhlin and Maher, May 2, 1899, New York, resulted In a draw at the termination of the twen- ! tieth round. December 17 they met again in Philadelphia. They fought again ten rounds; no decision. EXPLOSIVES IN THE MAILS-S., Georgetown, Cal. The carrying of ex- plosives in the United States mail is pro- fbited. A section of the United States unishable by a fine of from $1000 to $10,000 for any one to carry glant powder or other explosives on any vessel or any vehicle by water or land that is engaged in the carrying of passen- | gers. MAIL MATTER EN ROUTE-8, The United States Re- vised Statutes say that “every routs agent, postal clerk or other carrier of the mail shall receive mail presented to him, it properly prepaid by stamps, and deliver the same for malling at the next post- office at which he arrives, but no_fees shall be allowed him therefor.” Under that law a mail carrier is bound to accept mail handed him on the route between ostoffices {f properly stamped. * OSTRICH FEATHERS—A. 8., Oakland, Cal. In the male ostrich the long feath- ers of the wings and hinder parts ars white and the short feathers of the body are jet black, while the rump and win feathers of the female are white nn‘es with gray, somewha: dusky. The general bogy color of the female is of the latter hue. The feathers of the male bird are consequently more valuable than those of the female. STERLING SILVER—C. O. T. Glen- wood, Cal. By sterling siiver is meant having a standard of value of finemess established by the British Government, said of British silver coin. The standard siiver, of which coln is minted, consists of thirty-seven fortieths of fine metal and tHree-fortieths of alloy: finen: ver plate that bears the mar means that it is made of silver of the fineness of the British standard of coin. That which is marked “coin silver” indi- cates that it is made from coin that has been melted up for the purpose and is not indicative of any particular standard. HORSE LATITUDE-G. T. R.,, Hay- wards, Cal. Horse latitude is a name glven by sailors to a belt of calm in the Atlantic extending, usually, from about 3 to 35, north latitude, where sailing ves- sels are often delayed for days for want of win ¥_years ago a large num- ber of horses and mules were shipped from the United States to the West Indles in exchan; for sugar, rum and other produects of the islands. The vessels ran short of water for the animals in this belt and many died. The carcasses thrown overboard and =aflors in vessels that passed later on, seeing the carcasses floating, applied the term to that latiud. —_———————— Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotel.* —_——————— Townsend's California glace fruits, e a ets. Moy resent m"mh or - - 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. + ess 925, Sil- k “‘sterling”