The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1901, Page 6

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Alhambra—* Alcazar— "N “014 Jed Prouty.” Central Theater—‘Woman and Wine.” California—" n Hearts.” le - se—""A Virginia Courtship. pia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. nd Theater — Vaudeville every afternoon and je — Benefit performance for families of wreday, January 17. Lecture by Rev. Peter C. Yorke, sckey Club (Oskiand)—Races. AUCTION SALES. . January 12, af 13 o'clock, i Racetrack January 12, at 1 o'clock, ANTI-AMERICAN COMBINE. he German Kaiser is influencing h nst the American policy of 1g with that empire. s original policy for setting up shambles in China, imitating Alaric, Attila, Genghiz Khan and Tam- erlane, having been Jefeated by the United States, he ow believed to desire reprisals against us and 1s ose the quite general condition of y of our trade supremacy. As far as the American people are concerned, they want their Government to stand, as it has from the beginning, for justice and right in China. They recognize the ill effects of the bloody policy of Von Waldersee, who, under the pretense of hunting for Boxers, has sent out punitive expeditions, which are 1 slaughtering raids, in which men, g for that pu opean jealot jer th e iron heel of his troopers. influence Europe to enact inhuman the responsibility be upon those nations which gorge themselves with blood. The United States may be powerless to prevent it, but our d be kept clean. atest phase of the diplomatic tangle furnishes or believing that the United States may be R and that if we withdraw from the concert both will be out benefi. e rest of Europe would think twice before plunging headiong against the protest of this country and Russia. The reasonable world is getting tired of the con- troversy and desires that it be settled. Responsibility for the delay is constantly put upon China, but in great part belongs to the other Governments, which are so watchful and suspicious of each other that thev delay decisions and mzake acute changes in their view ot policy. Meantime Chinese trade is suspended and commer- cial interests everywhere are being sacrificed to Euro- pean politics. roor supported by Russia, - One unaccountable feature in the present stage is | the hostile attitude of Anstria toward the United States. It was supposed that the incident of mutual withdrawal of diplomatic intercourse between the two | Governments which occurred some years ago had passed, leaving no asperity of feeling. There have been some minor troubles which do not justify the heat that seems to be shown at Vienna. This country has received as immigrants a great many subjects of But in they Americanized and have furnished in Wisconsin, Jowa, Texas and Nebraska many citizens of prom Among them is Mr. Edward Rose- water of the Omaha Bee and Mr. Jonas of Wiscon- sin. President Cleveland sent Jonas as Consul to Prague, his native city. and the Austrian Government refused his exequatur and there was some rasping cor- respondence about it, ending in Jonas being accepted. These incidents, however, do mot furnish adequate provocation for the reported Yankee-phobia which seems 1o possess the Austrian court, and that feeling must be referred to Berlin influence. ————— ich will be proposed at this session of the Legislature is one providing for the nomination of candidates without the intervening uproar of conyentions. Martin Kelly is not the author of the bill. out of favor at Vienna for a long time. this coun nce. Among the primary laws whi —— So the Southern Pacific Company is out of politics, It would be interesting to know, then, what it is pleased to call the shameful business its agents are in at the Capitol in Sacramento. Perhaps these agents are farmers. New York has been pronounced absolutely incor- rigible.. It is announced on the highest authority that only personal, Christian influence will purge the city d&emfiddflfls'hkhnfleaumlumiv. Valencta. open | hildren, innocent and guilty alike, ars | Such action might be | One class of these, from old Bohemia, has | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1901. THE SHIPPING BILL. OREIGN ship-owning interests are working l:had to postpone, paralyze or in any way defeat the bill to secure an American merchant marine. Their stake is the largest held by any interest that can be affected by Congressional legislation. year we paid in freight to these foreign ship-owners $160,000,000. That vast sum went abroad from this country to pay the profits of foreign owners and ship- builders and the wages of foreign workmen. If by some compulsion this country had been laid under tribute to Europe and compelled to pay that amount in one year our people would be up in arms and ready for war to end the drain forced under duress. The interest on that sum at 5 per cent is $8,000,000 a year. The shipping bill proposes to assist American ships by the payment of $9,000,000, or only $1,000,000 more than the interest on the money we pay to Europe for transporting our merchandise to its market, In fact, then, it is proposed to help shipping to the | extent of only one million a year, since keeping the | year's sum at home which we now pay to Europe addsé | its increment to the national wealth. | Great interests centered in New York and influenced | by the foreign shipping combine are on record to the | effect that “American cargoes under the American | flag” is a mere sentiment. It is a pretty good Ameri- | can sentiment that will keep $160,000,000 a year at | home as profit to American ship-owners and wages o | American ship-builders instead of sending it abroad. ! We are perfectly aware that no prejudice will be left | unappealed to by this foreign influence to defeat the | bill. Already Senator Hanna is being roundly abused | for advocating it, and even Republicans are whispered | into frantic declarations that he will ruin the party | by it. | | If the party can be killed by legislation that stops ‘;a foreign drain of $160,000,000 a year by spending ) only $1,000,000 in excess of its interest, let its epitaph | be, “Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord,” for | no party ever laid down its life in a better cause. We would like objectors to tell us why we need a navy if we are to have no merchant marine? Do | not Americans see that the foreign argument against | merchant ships, if it prevail, supplies a home argu- | ment against a navy, so that we are simply being used as tools by foreign Governments which fear our naval svpremacy and wish to avert it? Last year American ships were paid only $15,000,000 for American freights, and it may well be asked why we need a navy costing $200,000,000 to convoy and | stand ready to defend such a trifling American inter- | est as that $15,000,000 represents. This subject was thrashed over in the campaign and every possible appeal was made to prejudice | against it. Can any one say that these appeals were reflected’in the vote? The people want American money paid for freight- ing our goods in our cwn ships, because they want to restore our merchant marine by the work of American ship-builders. It is time that the foreign influences at work against our people should be uncovered and made to fight in the open. | | | | NATIONAL GRAB GAME. THE EBATES in the House of Representatives on D the river and harbor bill have been fruitful of a species of satire and a kind of humor that have the advantage of being instructive as well as enter- taining. They go far toward demonstrating that ap- propriation bills for internal improvements are in the pzture of a national grab game, and that Congress- men who are most zoncerned in it are not so much national statesmen as the mere representatives of con- stituencies. In the debate on last Thursday, for example, Cush- man of Washington displayed before the House a large chart containing figures of a size that could be read easily by members the re- motest part of the hall. On the chart wers displayed the names of the States having rep- resentatives on the River and Harbor Com- mittee, together with the amounts of appropriations proposed for each. The figures showed that for those States the bill carries direct appropriations of $14,238,260, and authorized expenditures of $24,457,889. For the remaining States the bill carries appropria- tions direct and authorized to the amount of $38,349.- 000. Thus the members of the committee assigned to their States about as much as they conceded to all the rest of the Union, and there are ten States and Territories that receive no appropriations whatever. As for Washington, Mr. Cushman complained “it has been overlooked like a white chip on a faro table.” He went on to say he represents a city that has a tonnage of 6,000,000, and it had been put off “with the measly sum of $30,000.” Then he shouted, “If you think my vote can be bought at that price you are off your base.” Warming to his home theme he 2dded: “Imperial Cacsar diyided Gaul into three | parts, but he was an ancient and a provincial; had | he lived to the dawn of the twentieth century he would i have divided ‘gall’ into parts enough to give one to each member of the River and Harbor Committee.” Perhaps the best contribution to the debate was that of Hepburn of Iowa. That statesman attacked the committee for granting such large appropriations to the big cities of the Atlantic coast, and said the ap- propriations were made merely because “some freak ship-builder saw fit to build an abnormal ship.” He { declared: “Because a Scotch ship-building firm was building a ship to draw thirty-four feet the last river | and harbor bill decided to increase the channel in New | York harbor to forty feet; now this bill proposed to deepen the channel at the Boston harbor. Next year Philadelphia would demand deeper water; then Bal- | timore, Charleston and New Orleans.” In conclusion, he argued that ship-builders eould be compelled to conform the draught of their ships to the depth of the water in the harbors they were to enter and not com- pel Governments to adapt the harbors to the draught of the ships. The idea that ships should be made to fit harbors instead of making the harbors to fit the shipg is one of those inland views of maritime problems that can be best pictured in a comic paper. It has, however, somé basis of reason, for there must eventually be some adaptation of the ship to the natural configura- tion of the world. We cannot remake the earth to suit the ship-building trade. Finally it was disclosed in the debate that one of the members of the committee, Bishop of Michigan, has in his district six counties fronting on the lake, and he had put into the bill a harbor appropriation for every one of them; while a member from Florida on the committee had managed to obtain an appro- priation for a harbor that is not to be found on the latest maps. Such are the things a Representative has to mect ir seeking to promote internal improvements in his State. It it any wonder that men of long experiencs are needed in Congress? Is it strange that member- ship on the River and Harbor Committee is regarded as a “pudding” in which none but old members are entitled to share? in Last | THE MERCHANTS' associaTion. | CENTURY’S HOROSCOPE IS CAST BY HERMES| UTTERANCE { Y way of New Year greetings the Merchants’ { Association Review presents to the people in the January number an earnest plea for united action in all movements tending to the advancement of the city. It very justly says: ‘“Mere location in the highway of commerce will not of itself create 1 metropolis. Climate and soil will not determine the result. Many of the worst failures in cities are the world’s ideal spots; some of the most success- ful communities are almost barren of natural re- | sources. That city carries off the palm whose citizens | seize the opportunity.” The Merchants’ Association can with good grace make this plea for unity and for action, since it has itself practiced what it preaches and set the example it desires others to follow. The Review states that 1 there are at present 2500 legitimate business houses in | San Francisco, and over half of the number have al- ready enrolled as members of the association. That in itself is a record to be proud of. It is questionable whether any other large city in the Union has an insti- tution devoted to the sesvice of the public which has been able to draw to its membership so large a pro- | portion of the business population. The success which has attended the association is due to what it has done for the public more than to what it has done for its members. It is because it has proven itself useful to the whole community that the | business men of the city have in such large numbers | united themselves with it, and that fact is creditable | alike to the organization as a whole and to the indi- viduals who compose it. The success attained in the past gives promise of greater successes to come. More than half the busi- ness houses of the city are now allied with the asso- | ciation. Why should not all be allied with it? i The conditions of the commercial world at this time render it important that San Francisco exert the full force of all her enterprising men at this junctura. The rapidity with which Pacific Ocean trade is de- veloping and shaping its course makes this a critical i period in the history of the city. As has been said by the Review: ‘“As certain as the earth’s revolution, one of the world's greatest cities will exist on the Pacific Coast. Whether it will be on Puget Sound, or in | Oregon, or in Central or Southern California, will depend upon the comparative capacity of the peopls of Seattle, or Portland, Los Angeles or San Francisco to win the prize.” Here, then, are a great issue and a golden oppor- tunity. We cannot meet the one with assurance of victory nor fully profit by the other unless there be unity of action among our citizens. The men who have upheld the Merchants’ Association in the past | should support it now with increased ardor, and those | who have hitherto held aloof should now unite with 1‘ | it and make up for former apathy by zeal in the future. THE METRIC SYSTEM. ITH this Congress an earnest effort is to be | made to bring about the establishment in this | country of the metric system of weights and measures. It is indeed time that something were cone in that direction. The Russian Government has decided to establish it throughout the Czar's do- minions, and when it goes into effect there ourselves and the British will be the only civilized people on® earth who do not use it. That there is a commercial advantage to be gained | by adopting it has long since been pointed out not only by our Consuls but by British authorities who have made a study of foreign markets. The machinery made and used throughout Continental Europe is gauged and constructed according to the metric sys- tem. The workmen are familiar with the measure- ments of that system, while they do not know the measures of America and Great Britain, and con- scquently if other things are all equal the articles that conform to the metric system are preferred in the market. | Some time ago it was reported from Germany that | the Iron and Steel Manufacturers’ Union of- that | country had adopted a uniform system of metric di- mensions for all articles of universal consumption, and it was announced at the time that the reason for the step was that competition between great manu- facturing nations has now become so keen that every point of advantage is a matter of importance, and | experience has shown that in dealing with people who use the metric system there is a big advantage in | using the same measurements. | The market in which the metric system is used is | very large. It is estimated that two-thirds of the peo- ple living in civilized countries use that system, and the number is increasing, for it is to be noted the metric system is growing in favor in all parts of the | world. When it has been established in Russia there | will be another vast market using such measurements | It is clear, therefore, that if exporters of America and Great Britain wish to compete on even terms with | their rivals they will have to follow the example of | the majority. Of course it is not expected that the system could | be put into operation at once. The bill now in the | hands of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights | | and Measures provides only for the use of the met- | ric system in all transactions by and with the Gov- ernment after a fixed date. The operation of such a law would compel the people to acquaint themselves with the system and would thus prepare the way for | the adoption of such measurements in private busi- ness. v It is probable the change in our weights and meas- ures could be effected with much less difficulty than appears at first thought. The terms, “Metres, grams, ! kilos,” etc., appear strange to us, but we are a people who easily adopt new words, and the calculations would be no trouble to us at all, for these are based upon the decimal system with which our coinage has made us thoroughly familiar. The greatest trouble would be in getting our scales and measuring instru- ments changed and in applying the metric system to our subdivisions of fand, but even in those respects the reform could doubtless be worked out without entailing any great amount of confusion. It is to be noted that the British are working for the new system even more eagerly than ourselves. Not long ago the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Great Britain adopted resolutions declaring that whereas the present system of British weights and measures is “in the opinion of her Majesty’s Consuls responsible for great injury to British trade, this as- sociation urges her Majesty’s Government to intro- duce into and carry through Parliament as speedily as possible a bill providing that the use of the metric ‘system of weights and measures shall be compulsory within two years of the passage of the bill, and sug- | gests that meanwhile the system should be adopted ir all specifications for Government contracts” Since Russia has already acted and Great Britain is preparing to act, it is surely time for the United States to give the subject serious consideration. We must | which deserves miore attention than it is 1 ship. | message will probably have aftermath. | The action of the Senate must have been { adequate idea of the legislative amenities, | though doubtless it was inadvertent on Boston Astrbloger Predicts Great Things for Uncle Sam and Celibacy. WHAT THE PLANETS AND ZODIAC HERMES. HE horoscope of the twentieth century has been cast for the Bos- ton Post by a noted astrologer, known in astrological literature as “‘Hermes.” Mercury stands in the tenth house of the Zodiac, and Mars in the seventh house, both in angles. Mercury rules the destl- nies of the United States, and its dom- inant position over Mars shows that the United States will ruie the whole of North and South America, but not without fight- ing with Germany and England, for Mars, the ruler of those countries, stands in the house of open enemies. Uranus, the ruler of Russia, however, stands in the power- ful ruling tenth house, and near to Mer- cury, showing a possible coalition between | Russia and the United States. Uranus and Saturn, rulers of the rising sign, portend universal changes in politi- cal and intellectual circles, and point to a growth of \socialism. The spread of education, commerce, aerial and submarine navigation, increase AND NATIONS DURING THE PRESENT CENTURY, ACCORDING TO — INDICATE WILL HAPPEN TO MEN of mechanical invention, are all indicated by Mercury strongly placed in the tenth house elevated above all other planets. Celibacy will increase, as Is indicated by the conjunction of Venus with the moon In Mars’ second house of Scorpio. Wars and rumors of wars and business disasters are shown; the first by the po- sition of the sun in the house of con- gresses near to Saturn, and the second by the gosl[lon of a retrograde Neptune in | the house of speculation. Speculation in general will be very active in the opening | vears of the new century. | The outlook on the whole is optimistic | and rose-colored, Sagittarius rules the eleventh house, the house of hopes, am- bitions and of congresses, parilaments, ete. Jupiter, its ruler, lpglylng to a con- junetion of the sun, and the moon in con- Junction with Venus in the ninth, are both grand testimonies of an optimistic world outlook for the twentieth century, Governments will yleld popular meas- ures to the people; religlous creeds will | near a better point of common under- standing, and bigotry will decline. STATE PRESS COMMENTS ANENT THE LEGISLATURE Southern California has the Speaker of | the House, the Governor and a United | States Senator. Good showing for one- fifth the population.—San Bernardino Times-Index. P Governor Gage has something to say In his message regarding legislative trading, likely to receive.—San Jose Herald. PRI There is no doubt that the Legislature i1s wide awake to the fact that the Chi- nese exclusion law is near expiration and that measures must be taken acordingly. California must not be backward about expressing herself on the subject.—San Jose Herald. .. “Caldwell of San Bernardino” is the way the Assoclated Press referred to the Senator from this city. And so this is the outcome of our etruggies to have a states- man all our own. e goes up to Sacra- mento and loses his tag the first day.— Riverside Morning Enterprise. s The Sqpate will have thirty-four com- mittees instead of twenty-seven, as in 1899, and as the number of Republican Senators equals the number of commit- tees each member will have a chairman- It remains to be seen whether or not each committee will have a clerk.— Sacramento~Record-Union. o5 . L The contretemps as to the Governor's inspired by some member who had an in- the part of some of the Senators. The in- cident is not in itself important, yet it ad- vertises California abroad as lacking in | particulars that a civilized State ought to | stand for.—Alameda Daily Argus. . . The people of Southern Santa Clara ars agitating county division. All the terri- tory south of a line running east and west of Coyote will be in the new county. It is also proposed to take a slice of the north- ern end of this county. Gilroy will be the county seat. The new county would have | a population of about 5000 and an assess- | ment valuation of nearly $6,000000, An at- | tornay is drawing u& a county division bill | to be submitted to P —Hollister Bee. The Native Sons of the Golden West have obtained a lease of the old custom- | house at this place from the United States Government, and at this session of the Legislature a bill is to be introduced mak- ing an appropriation for its restcration and maintenance. At the same time an | effort is to be made to get an appropra- | tion for the purpose of restoring and | maintaining Colton Hall. It is to be hoped | e present Legislature. | yer, Bobs?" T:r"'l'finm" is that he stands up for every- | grants since 1862, EDITORIAL IN VARIETY Rewards of Journalism. Edison, John Wapamaker and Richard Watson Gilder were all amateur journal- ists, o g and editing a newspa- per before he was 16. Glider alone stuck R ?r.:mwll:o 1o how. the wealthiest of the three —New York World. Kipling’s Prophecy. Now that “Bobs” has become an Earl, He'll wear a coronet Where 'is ‘elmet used to set. <ipli ds, he , BT yer, Bobar ©One of the peculiarities eserving. The other day DO e "ot the. soiliets as his com- rades,” and said they were “‘heroes on the fleld of battle and gentiemen on all other occasions."—Toronto Mail. A Disgusted Clergyman. Reyv. Dr. Parker of London is sald to bs very much disgusted over the non-suc- cess of his venture as editor of the Lon- don Sun. He was given entire charge of that paper, a la Sheidon, and started out on his brief editprial career with a nrm' determination to “elevate the standard of journalism.” From all accounts—and chiefly from his own testimony—he a pears not to have been any more success- ful in this undertaking than are some so- clety actresses who essay to elevate the stage.—New York Evening Post. McKinley Is Brave. The vexed question of precedence at of- ficlal functions has been set at rest by President McKinley, and ambitious con- sorts of Cabinet officers need struggle longer for social apples of Sodom. M McKinley merely accords‘to the leading executive, judicial and legislative repre- sentatives of administrative authority the soclal prerogatives which comport with their high official status and privilege: and so ends happily—during the McKin, regime, at least—a complication calculate KL rovoke mental stress and social tur- l.l‘;o& in Washington high life.—Chicago Record. Magic in a Kiss. Is osculation intoxicating? It has fallen under the ban of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In fact, it has been ade a subject of espectal concern. Thera S PO for it that there is magic In a kiss. at it is an impropriet —that is, the promiscuous kind—is tted even by the gullty kisser and the equally gullty kissee in the caution, “iiss and never tell.” It is an acknowled exhilarant, a stolen sweet, a surreptitious delight, and many other characterizations of a naught- iness that's nice, but it has not re- of that class of intoxicants against the temperance crusade was being It certainly is not an inebriant — Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Pope Leo’s Vitality. The most interesting le- T. ni, the Poj y declares it probable that Leo XIII will live to the age of 100. He is now %, and has occupied the papal throne since L His remarkable record of recent act!v shows the Pope to be @ man of extrao: dinary vitality, and whether Dr. Lapponi's pmphe«:{l is literally fulfilled or not, he already holds a unique place in the annals of longevity. He is the most distinguished survivor in the new century of that fa- mous group of great rulers and statesmen who dominated the last halt of the cen- tury gone—Bismarck, Von Moltke, Glad- stone, Disraeli, Queen Victoria and E peror Franz Josef.—Kansas City Times. Demand for Pacific Cable. Now that surveys have established the fact that a direct route for the Pacific cable from San Francisco to the Philip- ines is feasible, the demand for the lay- ng of the line is increasing in our West- whic ern States. California is stretching out its communications with the rest of the | world, and every day direct and quick communication with the Orient is shown to be the great need of the western coast of the continent. San Francisco has been called the “right hand of the continent.” though to speak more correct! I3 hand” would seem the better title, it bas been long in learning its possibilities. But now that it has started to press for- ward as a great exporting and importing city, the need for the Pacific cable has be- come paramount.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Great Year for Immigrants. According to the report from the barge office at Ellis Island, New York harbor, during the year just closed, 369,573 immi- grants were landed. This was an increass of 90,727 over 1869, which, in its turn, was marked by the heaviest influx of immi- The Hebrew immigra- tion is one-eighth of the total, and the greater percentage of this class were R stan Jews. The Irish, German and Scan- dinavian immigration has fallen off re- markably. Under the system that now prevails undesirable or pauper immigrants are not allowed to land. lere were 794 deportations during the past six months. It s also believed that the number “undesirables” who reach this country from Canada is much less now than be- fore the Treasury Department adopted the present regulations, and provided for r that these measures will pass without opposition and will receive the prompt and | unqualified _approval of Governor Gage. | No other of the early buildings have the | kistoric value of these structures, on one | of which was hoisted the flag that pro- | claimed the sovereignty of the United States over a wealthy and glorious em- pire, while in the other was framed the constitution of the commonwealth. The Legislature will certainly be remiss in its duties if it fails to provide for the pres- ervation of these buildings.—Monterey | New Era. 2 PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. F. W. Richardson, U. 8. A., is at the Grand. B. F. Brooks, a Bakersfield oil man, is at the Palace. D. B. Hapson, a Seattle lumber man, is at the Grand. Captain R. 8. Spilman, U. 8. A, is at the Occidental. J. W. B. Montgomery, a Chico rancher, is at the Grand. Senator A. T. Currier of Los Angeles is at the California. Miss Grace Hamilton of Manchester, England, is at the Palace. R. C. Burgess, a beet sugar man at Con- cord, is at the Occidental. Senator J. B. Curtin of Sacramento is registered at the California. Commander and Mrs. F. G. Roberts of Mare Island are at the Occidental. W. H. Hammond, a capitalist and land owner at Eureka, is at the Grand. James H. Hill and wife of Los Angeles are spending a few days at the California. BE. A. Tuilan, United States Fish Com- missioner at Washington, is at the Grand. A CHANCE TO SMILE. HUCHE. Cora—S8o you think the mistletoe is the ‘I’no-t?:wmpflne decoration for the holl- 8 ficrrm——‘hl, my dear. It undoubtedl smacks of Christmas.—Puck. 2 ““1 sometimes think I'd like to live on the planet ?I'J,nnu-." 80’ . "Wefi. a fellow can claim he can see four moons up there without being con- gd:lnd too convivial.”—Cleveland Plain ealer. 3 Oh, Christmas-tide, thy discipline quite moves my soul to weep; ‘We give away such lovery things we mad- ly yearn to keep. Z —Chicago Record. Mrs. Tatum Mr. tarts And suspected Master Tatum; Asked him what he took 'em 4; Frankly he replied, “I 8 ‘em.” —Philadelphia Press, “Mister,” sald l(elnderh? Mike, “have you ‘a quarter you coul { o “What do you want with It;" And with a look of pity and reproach came the answer: 1 jes’ wanted money enough to &o_be- ear of New ear day; dat's nll."-—Wuhu‘mon Star. a no an’ swe nex . married 1 P B e u s a And fust l!nn-n fl' try. % Poor cl —Philadelphia Record. - ANSWERS TO QUERIES. McKINLEY AND BRYAN-D. E. A Lohg Beach, and others. McKinley's po; ular vote in 1886 was 7,104,779; in 1900, 233,715, Bryan's vote was in 1896, 6,502,925; in 1900, 6,235,668. | THE HAGUE CONVENTION-F. B. R., i City. Neither the Orange Free State nor | the Transvaal republic was represented | in the Peace Conference at The Hague | which commenced in May, NO SUCH CONFESSION—City - Sub- scriber, City. The Rev. George J. Gibson is not dead. He never made a confession in connection with the murder of the two girls in the Bartlett-street church. POPULAR VOTE—J. M. W., City. Your question and those of others as to the popular vote for President of the United States at the November election, 1900, are deferred for answer until official Staie shall figures from each obtained. ks o o MUST RENEW CITIZENSHIP—C. 8, Sacramento, Cal. If John Jacob Astor, born in the United States, after going to England and becoming a citizen of Great Britain, should return to the United States he would be an alien, and to re- sume his former American citf P would have to apply for naturalization papers just the same as any other allen. HOMES FOR OLD MEN-—A. §., Los Gatos, Cal. The Oid People’s Home, San Francisco; Pacific Hebrew Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites, San Francisco, and the Altenheim at Fruitvale receive old men. The age of admission varies ears, and the smount to be ing to condi- as to such condi- tions address the superintendent of each of these Institutions. LUMINOUS PAPER—F., Oakland, Cal. The following is the manner in which lumincus paper is prepared: Dry and thoroughly mix by grinding three parts of gelatine, three parts of potassium bichro- | inspection at Canadian ports.—Buffalo Commerictal. FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. —k L e e — round the bottom with mauve muslin roses. P A —— Cholce candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotel * —_——eee Best ey ipecs, 20¢ to 5de. Look out mate and thirty-seven and one-hal s of calclum sulphide. Stir one part of the wder with one and one-half parts of iling water to a thickly fluld paint. A DIy Ohie OF (w0 coats with a brush to paper or cardboard to be made luminous lA’ny druggist can put up this prepara- on. HOMESTEAD LANDS—-B. M. M., City, To ascertain where a certain piece of homestead land is located as to section ip apply_at the office of the ‘nited States Land Surveyor in this ‘0 ascertain what land s open to stead entry In.California send for of lands in each b Y ha s A m law decisions a divorced eglasses for 81 4th st. (front of barber store, gro.)s - Townsend's California glace fruits, ¢ 3 in fire-etched boxes or A nice present for Eastern 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building & —_————— business houses and public .‘- .:. Bureau &Alld'l Sl L elephone Main B i e e Sage signal