The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1901, Page 6

CO CALL, ESDAY, @ TRIBUTE TO CHARACTER. HE world-wide respect shown to the memory of Che +SolEse Eall. Nopabsssinatosses B RBRUARY-E. 28 I I Victoria is the emphasis of the first month of the | new century. In this city there was a demon- JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Agéress Al Communications to W. B. LEAKE, Manager. ne Press 204 et and Third, S. ¥. 201. L .M Telephone Press EDITORIAL ROOM: one Press 202. Delivered w Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. > Matl, Including Postages inaing Sunday), ope year. mg Sunday), ¢ months. DAILY CALL (including Bunday), 3 months. Y CALL—By Single Montk, Mafl subecrfbers in ordering s particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in orer %o msure a prompt and correct complisnce With thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE .-.1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Hucager Pereign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Ohleag, (hong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618, NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: % € CARLTON........c0vsesees.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .. -8v Tribune Building NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A Bremtans, Sl Uniom Square: Morrey Eill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Ebermen House: P. 0. News Co.: Great Northern Hotel; Premont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. "MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BHRANCE OFFICES—2T Montzom uotl $:39 c'clock. 30 Hayes, ope: fer. opeg uotll $:9 o'clock: Larkin, open un“il clock. 1541 Mission, open until 1) o'clock. 261 Market, til 9 o'clock. 109 Valencia, cpea open until 3 o'clock. NW. cor- eorner of Clay, open 51 $:30 o'clock. 633 > RAILROAD AND POLITICS. Al anw = so long as anythin he State and the to so long a the law nues to bhave and Company will never be out of cs so long as Herrin, or any other inted to the headship of the power to use the patron- of the road in political affairs. act, the head center of the cor- ern Pacific Company. le to go over the whole of the 1 record of Herrin’s political deals cific Jaw department uffice it to say that ever since he has been in that office he has been better known to the people of California as a political boss and wire- puller than as a lawyer. Is fact, railroad politics ap- pears to have been his business and law his pretense, and in many instances his affiliation with the worst elements of politics Las been so open as to consti- tute a public scandal. Such is the relation of the railroad to politics. The people know it and the attention of President Hays is directed to it. It is useless to bind the hands of the subordinate officials so long as Herrin is left free. 1f President Hays be in earnest in his resolve to take the rzilroad out of politics he should at once notify Mr. Herrin to attend strictly to the law business of tlie company or leave the office. age and the Herrin has been rupting forces o It is not wort Jong 2nd sha since he became head of the Southern P: IS Three measures designed t6 prevent a repetition of he outrages perpetrated upon San Francisco and the State by the Board of Health with its plague scare have been introduced in the Legisiature. One of the bills has a distinctive advantage over the others in that it makes the offender guilty of a felony. A fear of the penitentiary has a tendency to make officials discreet. Admiral Dewey admits that as 2 boy at Annapolis he had the interesting experience of g hazed. He has not told us, however, how he feit as an old man when, after his declaration of a Presidential ambition, he was dazed. = One of the trustges cf the Utah Agricultural College has seven wives and thirty-nine children. He prob- ably feels that his position demands of him that he personally provide student farmers for the institution, The State Legislature does not appear to be over- joyed at the suggestion that it invesfigate the aileged corruption of our local police. Perhaps the Legisla- ture wants to adjourn before next summer. .217 to 221 Stevemson St. | | stration that ‘was novel and creditable, when thou- | sands of quict people, of all divisions of the social or- | der, joined in the memorial service offered in her | henor. Perhaps not ope among them all had ever | seen her, and not many of them had ever scen the | land where she was born. But all paid a most sincere | nd heartfelt tribute to her, and all were the better for that impressive and public expression, which had in it | no element of personal display nor vainglory. hour all over the world. In the British Isles and in | the crown colonies' of the dead woman’s vast empire there was no more fervor and profound feeling than were shown in tie United States and throughout the | world. ‘: This widespread ascription and this community of | eclemn and respectiul feeling did not originate in any | awe of royalty, or of distinguished descent, or in po- | litical reasons. People with the most deeply seated | republican principles, and others at the other extreme | of the long catalogue of governmental forms, the de- vout supporters of autocracy, mingled in memorial | ceremonies and made theirs the grief of her own fam- and her own people. Never before in the history cf man was such a scene. Never before did respect for the great dead of one country pass oceans and and national boundaries and the limits set upon the dwelling-place of races and follow the sun around | the world The Egyptians were severely just to their | dead. It was the ambition of the dying to leave a | good name, but that consolation was never given to the undeserving. If the public voice condemned the deeds of any person done in life, then the established law reached beyond the grave and gave a sting to death. When an Egyptian died the judges of the dead ked in a boat for the farther side of a lake on se shores they sat in judgment. Before them ap- peared the accuser, and if he proved that the dead had led a bad life honorable sepulture was denied. To this process the memory of king and peasant alike was subjected. ir lives lest the state should suffer by accusing hem, or pointing out their sins and faults, their vices and their follies. But when a king died he was no nore a king—he was 2 man, like other men, and had o0 exemption from the 'judgmenz which raised his memory to everlasting honor or condemned it to ever- lasting execration. Among that ancient people this custom was the | means of making a good character to be prized above riches and honors and power. The king could lord it while he lived, for he was king. Baut, dead, he was { 2 man only and had n g to leave to posterity but his character. That ancient custom was derived from human na- ture, and we have just seen the whole world repeat, i of this princely woman the solemn judg- racter. she was E d to ell the Queen over tens of millions, and over hundreds of millions, but she world a higher duty than she owed to n From her exalted station could ve gone out noral influences so sinister and se- ductive as to have made the world of her time another | Sodom. But hers was a white throne, and as a moral woman of vestal character her influence had no ons ruled. | bounds. | reached farther than her empire and made her the sharer of the joys of every home where virtue ana right living brought happiness. It was because she red rightness of life and gpod motives with good women in every station of life, and not because she sat upon a throne and did no more, that for one day from sunrise to sunset the whole world ceased its res and its gain-getting and laid a chaplet on her : cof Power and pomp, glory and ambition, pass and are not, but character endures among the world’s forces, after empires, kingdoms, principalities and powers are forgotten. S | SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY. l United States will deliver a commencement ad- dress at Berkeley in May. This will make it the red letter commencement in the history of the insti- " | tution. | Seen in all its significance there can be no more in- His lot in life was cast in common with that of a vast majority of his countrymen. Born into that happiest | of all conditions, the need of personal exertion to | achieve his career, throughout his ‘youth he helped | maintain the frontier home of his parents, minded duti- | { fully all the obligations of son and brother, wrought ! | patiently with his hands and was a helper in all the | humble enterprises and simple ways that were needful | in that good Western life of a half century ago. { Emerging from toilful youth, strengthened and | equipped with self-denial and independence, he pre- | pared for the profession of law,and went forward from | | that to honorable public preferment, carrying with | him always the stout heart, ingrained integrity and personal independence that were the endowment of his early experiences. As member of Congress, Gov- ernor of his State aud President, he has offered to ! his young countrymen a worthy example to be fol- lowed with honor. As he stands before the twenty-five hundred stu- dents at Berkeley every young man may see in him and his history the impressive possibilities which are open to them all. Every mother will see what she most devoutiy wishes her son to become, not in the clevated station only, but in the character which has earned that station by deserving it. In this honorable matter, so rich in benefits to the student Hody and through it to the State, California has certain duties which cannot be neglected with credit. When President McKinley stands on campus he should not be the guest of a pinched and starving university, Faculty and students should not i feel lik- a charity school, tattered and groveling for | a pittance of cash or cringingly grateful for notice in its forlorn and disinherited condition. . The univer- | sity should that day rear high its crest as the chief pride of the State, jeweled with the public confidence, | having in its treasury the power that commands the | best teaching talent.to be had, and able to assert its claim that none excel it in an equipment to do the best work in training the best minds that can come to its halls. In default of the right to be in that attitude there will be some shame in showing our commercial great- ness, the variety of our resources, the accumulated re- sults of our great wealfh and the alluring promise of our future. The sun that shines on mountains. and plains, bathing orchard and vineyard in its kindly warmth, will be clouded to the clear eye of a states- man who knows the power of knowledge and thesduty of the State to create and conserve that power. The Legislature is very properly concerting official | What occurred here was manifested at the same ! Monarchs were spared during | It was stronger than her armies and navies, | T is announced as certain that the President of the | spiring incident than the presence of the President. i that | means of welcoming the President, to heigliten the easure of his stay, and to impress him with the po- }tent%alilie; of our people and of the land where their Iot is cast. Let us remind them that all the means they provide and all that private lavishriess may add thereto will be in vain unless we are able to boast a | State university that is not treated like a stepchild, a | poor relation or a pleader for alms. 5 | The coming of the President and his appearance at | commencement does not in any way increase the university needs nor create a new duty. But it serves | to usefully emphasize the duty of the State. | It was a stroke of genius on the part of President | Wheeler to secure the presence of the President of the United States; now let the Legislature move for- ward to its duty in order that the greatest good may come to the State. The acceptance by President McKinley is the act of a statesman. His great position may be atilized for the good of his countrymen in no better way than in the encouragement of iearning and letters. i AN EASTERN PRIMARY LAW. :CONSIDERABLE attention is being given in | the East to a primary law whose working was | tested at the last election in Minneapolis and, it | is said, gave well nigh universal satisfaction. The law | was devised by Assemblyman Day of the Minnesota i’ Legislature. When the bill was under consideration :‘_he Legislature refused to adopt it for the State at { large, and limited its application to counties having | a popul n of over 200,000, which was tantamount | to confining it to Minneapolis. From the reports that come to us it appears the law worked so well in every respect that it will be worth while for the California Legislature to give attention to it in devising a primary law for this State. The | plan and operation of the Jaw are thus described by ! the Philadelphia Public Ledger in recommending the | adoption of something like it in Pennsylvania: Minnesota has a personal registration law. Under the Day act the voters of Minneapolis are afforded an op- portunity of taking part in an official primary on the { first of the three days of registration and/on the first | day only. The polls are open from 6 o'clock in the | morning until § o’clock in the evening, and the primary is conducted by the ordinary registration officers. When the citizen has qualified himself for registry he has an option of taking part in the primary. If he so desires | he is given two slips of paper, one containing the uspirzn‘s for Republican nomination and the other for Democrgiic nomination. He marks the candidates of his choice, folds the papers into ene packet and returns | box. At the close of the polls the packets are opened | and the ballots that are marked are counted, provided that, where a voter has marked two ballots, that only is counted that has the greater number of marks. A person who desires to get his name on a primary ticket | must secure a petition signed by names of voters to the number of at least 5 per cent of the number of votes cast in his party for the same position for which he desires*to run at the last election, which petition is presented to the County Auditor, together with a fee of $19 to defray partly the expense of the ballots. The law defines what a political party is, compels such parties to nominate by the general primary instead of political primaries, and makes provision for independent nom- inations by nomination papers. | Of the working of the law at the first test it is stated the election was a quiet one, and the votes were | rapidly polled. At the close of the day it was found | that 32,000 citizens had registered and voted, or 10 | per cent more than the entire vote cas by Minneapo- lis in the last State election. It is added that within twenty-four hours the newspapers had collected and published the returns, and the public knew who had | been nominated without a single conventionr having been held. So satisfactory does the law appear to the East that it is said bills providing for a similar system of pri- mary elections have been introduced in the Legisl: | tures of no less than fourteen States. Of course the measure would not in its entirety be practicable or | expedient in California, but none the less a law thac | has proven itseli so excellent aiter a practical test in a large city should not be ignored by the legislators of any State who are secking to devise a satisfactory system of conducting primary elections. SANITARIUMS FOR CONSUMPTIVES. N evidence that along with the materialism of ‘ fl the age there has been a steadfast development | of *genuine humanity, is. to be found in the rapidity with which sanitariums for consumptives are | being established since first the al#rm over the spread of the disease led to the closing of many health resorts against them. It is now quite clear that conSumptives will not find the healthier regions of the world bar-ed against them. Ample sanitariums will soon take the places of the hotels, and in all probability the new order of things will be better than that of the old. It appears that the first sanitarium of the kind was | established in Austria and achieved a notable success. Germany, noting the good accomplished by the Aus- | trian experiments, established similar sanitariums within her borders. Massachusetts followed the | European example and New York was quick to profit by the lesson. A little later a sanitarium was estab- | lished near Philadelphia, and now the Legislature of | Minnesota has under consideration a bill setting apart | a tract of land for a sanitarium and appropriating $150,000 for the buildings and $50,000 annually for operating expenses. The Minnesota measure is being strongly advocated by the Chamber of Commerce and otlfer influential | organizations. It has been stated by the advocates | of the bill that in Minnesota more than twice as many | people die from consumption than from any other disease. It is believed furthermore that with proper care the disease is by no means incurable, and that therefore the proposed sanitarium will be one of th | most beneficial institutions of the State. It is in the highest degree gratifying to note the | progress of a great movement of this kind for the good of afflicted humanity. It is a proof that in the eager pursuit of wealth our people have not become indifferent to the best impulses of the heart, and in many of our commonwealths at any rate are willing t> share the expense of helping back to health those upon whom disease has fallen. X p————y s By a decision of college authorities Yale students will be able hercaftemto graduate in three years in- stead of four. This should ndt, however, be taken as an announcement that the football course is to be cur- | tailed; its material will simply be drawn more fre- quently from the studént body. One of the Colombian revolutionary leaders is on his way to New York to purchase arms and ammuni. tion for the rebel forces. There is some satisfaction at least in the fact that we can derive a little substan- tial benefit from the quarrels of our annoying south- ern friends. : E News reports from the State capital are lacking wretchedly in the announcement of one incident which most observers have been expecting with con- fidence. There is absolutely nothing yet to indicats that Colonel Mazuma has arrived on the scene. Oklahoma wants to be a State. Some Jf its citi- zens, tempered more by discretion than fired by ambi. tion, might strive first to make their abiding place a respectable Territory. s them to the officers, who deposit them in the ballot- | FEBRUARY 5, 190 | CHICAGO WATER MICROBE PARTY; : NEW FAD IN ST. LOUIS SOCIETY. One of the Jqurnals of the Lake City Pokes Fun at Citizens of the Missouri Metropolis. | | | XCITEMENT runs high in St. Louis, says the Chicago Tribune, now that | the United States Supreme Court has decided to give that town a chance .‘ to prove all the horrible things it has been saying about the Chicago drainage canal. The water question has invaded all classes of society. One of the most popular society diversions is a charming game called “‘water, water; what's in the water?’ The guests are all equipped with a microscope | and four drops of river water, and the person who finds the biggest microbe menagerie wins the prize. The things that the St. Louls people see in the water that comes down from Chicago are, indeed, strange and weird. The other night at a St. Louis | reception one young woman discovered a microbe party in the drop of water | she examined. An entire microbe family were caught at home, giving a recep- tion for all thelr friends and neighbors. Mrs. Microbe secemed to be assisted | in entertaining by Mrs. Willlam Bacillus, while Miss Gwendolyng Germ played several beautiful airs on the plano. The scene was photograpked by flash light, and coples painted In colors are now in great demand In every home 4n St. Louts. } <+ — LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The Call invites letters from the people on matters of current interest, holding ftself, however, in no wise responsible for views expressed therein. Communications iIntended for this column should not exceed four hundred words. £ SURVEYORS AND THE LAW, EDITOR CALL: Knowing that you are County Surveyors of their respective | at all times ready to devote space in your | counties for twenty years and over, to valuable columns for the benefit of jus- | Submit to an SzETanatign ‘k:gvfn]rde & board ice, I have taken the liberty of sending | or University professors? ould the tice, I have 3 fessors be qualified to tell such surveyors you the following letter for publication: | whether they shall continue their profes- Assemblyman Schillig has (by request) | sion or not? It weuld seem to me like a Introduced Assembly bill No. 462, which, | Erand farce if such should ever come to v an issue, because we know that any o if it became a law, Would disqualify every | 31l issue, because we kmow that any of licensed surveyor in the State, no matter the surveying in their respective counties v ¥ ing how many years he had been practic than ali the official professors of the State his profession, and would compel him to | submit to a re-examination before a board put together. | & biil simiiar to the one -deeklng recog- | of examiners appointed by the Governor | nition has been ignored and voted down ngad composed gr‘:ly of professors of civil | by three preceding Legislatures. The act engineering of our State university. We | relating to the licensing of land ‘survey- have been personally acquamnted with | ors, approved March 31, 1861, and now in some of these professors and know them | force, is perfeetiy satisfactory to the to be thoroughly well-learned gentlemen | great majority of surveyors in California and mathematiclans of great merit, but | and no State in the Union can show such who have had little experience in actual | a competent corps of surveyors as we surveying. Therefore may ask, Are | have here in California. these gentlemen qualified to examine a | This new bill would also create an ex- | surveyor who has for many years been | pense to the State for salaries, whereas practicing his profession and been duiy | now there is none. licensed as a land surveyor by the State Last but not least, let us keep our authorities? May I ask, Would it be just | worthy universities out of politics and and would it be a credit to our State uni- versity to compel sxcrhmecn 8s W. l;.é’e!cx ! uba County, A. H. Couiter of Cala- | wctio 3 N (\"Erz;“z‘nunly, ©O. H. Buckman of Napa |. A. VAN DER NAILLEN JR, County, 8. J. Harris of Mariposa County. | Licensed State Surveyor, Deputy U. C.'S. Tilton of San Francisco County and | M. S. and Ex. U. 8. Deputy Gov. Surv. | many other veterans, who have been | San Francisco, February 2, 1%l confine their efaminations to their own students, which is legitimate, and causes no dissatisfaction. “«CHRISTIAN FORGERY.” : editorial, entitled | fluence the public mind “gi‘:]}::pr (1;113{“"," \);1‘:: printed in The | country. And it is perfectly clear to any Call of January 29, you make a grave and [cgf?(ul student of the facts that it was startling statement. It is that “the treaty | (10 JoUNE FOMRE e ern ideas and his perhaps ill-timed move clause permitting Christian ln]ssiom.\rles’ in any pagan = to introduce e tignal ided to operate outside the treaty ports and to | and methods Into the imperial _schopls eme‘l and own compounds in the interior | that caused the reactionary usurpations 3 » o - | of the Bmpress Dowager. And of course (of China) was forged’ and you o et | inasmuch as the Christian missionaries assert tha : s ] | are largely, if not mainly. to be credited 186) was perpetrated by “a Christian mis- | with the jntroduction of modern scientifie e fon of that | Gtely materel that they. showd i ihe o Lention of rely natural y 8 n the NS with- e s ookt fault | Boxer thought be chargeable with all this editorial the writer hereof has little fault | Boxer thought be chargeable with all this to find. Your criticism of looting :oldler;l. B i Sty diie Fomati tn Thate Tethor whether Ge:;mn. grf'::ch ordAl::fllt‘::ly! land, Hence the e el!&rtl to exterminate the entirely rl , AN no doul - | missionaries and . their converts, ong But the usgsertions and assumptions run- | with all other “foreign devils” The | ning through that editorial to the effect | Christian missionaries, I suppose, would | “hina | in this sense be entirely willing to be that the present awful conditions in C | charged with being the cause of the pres- are in any large sense chargeable to the | on¢ troubles in China. It is the usual re. acts of Christian missionaries are Unwar- | ault of the first triumphs of the Gospel of Tanted by any facts that have come un- | Christ in any land hitherto under the der the writer’s notice. If the editorial | sway of other religious ideas. But this is means to assert that so-called Christian | far from indorsing ‘‘fergery, vengeance nations agah;gebl:,x'l‘llec ;o‘rmtg::vga;n;t‘g: % | and 'lls;::lxghte}';‘"awhe;?::rim;hinad in the <in 5 - | year 1501, or n; and age. Wisely culminated in the ~Boxer” out- I’ The case'Is 8o Important. and your se- rages, the future historian will no doubt | sertion is so serious, Mr. Editor, that I fully indorse your view. But if it is in- | trust you will in your next issue either tended to assert tnat Christian missiona- | withdraw the accusation that “a Chris- Hes s '@ class are to blame evidence 15 | ton missionary’ committed forgery in em“lel, wanting that will confirm your ;A;:mectlon v:ilh nt:; treaty :5 lfl or else sition. e your readers the name of this “Chris- p(}' may be freely nted that the suc- | tian'" forger, together with all the facts cess of Christian missions in that anclent | and authorities the case. land has astonished and finally alarmed | Trusting to your semse of fair play, I the followers of Confucius, and that more | am respectfully yours, or less of persecution always arises when . 8. MATTHEW. Berkeley, Cal., February 2, 1901. Christianity first begins powerfully to in- B e et ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. N formation as to the number of new build- | ings erected in Alameda County during the year 1900, application should be made | to the Assessor of that county, either in | person or by letter. % THE GAME OF EUCHRE—E.,, City. If A and C are playing partners in a game of euchre against B and D, B has the ) fo cofer 4, 5 Shoget 1y, may net | D and A pass and B turns down the trump, C has the right to make the trump next, though he has not a trump in his hand. THE PRESIDENCY—A. 8., City. There is nothing in the constitution of the ! United States to prevent a man who twice | in this city and county during the rendition of any programme on the stage or platform of suchtheater, but every hat, bommet or other head covering shall be removed from the head of the person wearing the same during the time of performance in such theater or during the rendition of the performance on_ the ntage or platform of such theater; provided, that the above inhibition shall not be held fo include skull caps. lace coverings or other small or closely fitting head dress which does not m- terfere with or obstruct the view of the stag. or platform of such theater of persons in the Tear of such wearers while in such theater. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS—This department will always cheerfully answer questions that are submitted if the an- swer is obtainable. So many questions are sent to this department that it is im- possible to publish the answers the after the questions are received. , The rule Pre: is that all t e o o (I, P | & s le ns e e B T ot Washington did not make any rule set- | Order of filing. Corres ts who ting fi that “swice in the ‘A Constant Reader” or “An Old Sul c!:fir Is emugh for any man,” but he de- | Scri as though it were something to clined a no: tion for a third term. H sha; of to ask for information, and s then add, “I desire an answer In the next ‘WHO WROTE IT?—A subscriber to The {?I“!sl:l: l‘;.:uld tlol" or “It Is! fmportant answered a i Call wishes to know who wrote the verses | [0 that. revs Wil Rupens o A0 from which the following extract . is|idly as ability to o e >+ o i procure the same and in the will e B e ead o “are anxions for an Ity Nothing to o | swer should, ‘ma their request, inclose & ‘But whine ajl day. self-addressed stamped envelope. The P i names of correspondents and correct ad- THE HAT ORDINANCE—N. N., City. | dresses are often of to this The San Francisco ordinance relative to g‘wm:;“'““ &nu one in ot esins b o hetes e as ok |yt SR e e ey i not. 1y, clear, as is often the case. other Bead Sovering within'agy Heinesd theatsr | publisned: 5 g | | Ber enduring fame. | | Mansion. The latter | a L e e S e e H'“””””.‘: Western educational idedw EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Edward, Rex, Imperator. As Kln} of Great Britain and ~mperor of India Edward VII sigra himself E. R. 1. Ome more letier w ake in Erin— | Springfield Repubrica; | The Busy Iconoelast. And now the lconocl prove that Oregon. T1 across the mountains was | with this in view and & | signedly or accidentally Irv-s\ll:. Before long the | be out to prove that Lincc ts have set out to not save y allege ak, perv | Bioux City T Bureaucrats in War Office. Seeretary R | pletely und | President, mander-in-¢ e ficers, who, fro spective staff dev | bureaucra | Springfleld Republic | Olive Schreiner’s Captivity. Olive Schreiner-Cronwright and her hus- |band are pr: d prisoners in their | home in Ca; . South Afriea, by the British. She is the author of two nov- ry of an African Farm™ and ’els—“T’he Si | “Private Trooper Halke works a Edouard Rod, French critic, pronounces the latter wor< | among the very foremost produetions of English literature century. And he | bit too high. Ma: y | tivity produce and » the world works | of equal worth™Deseret News, | President’s Residence. King Edward is crit his reply to the Pre the White House inst superior wor! in her cap- give ignation of the s pointed out as t known to the the finer pot However, th and ther courtesy. | the aadre ives had address. — toria spent compara- me n London and peculation whe e of her | now” there is much the new King will reside at Buckingham Palace or in the couniry. A matter of this sort m: ear of not much importance in the , but in Europe it i3 | different. The court sets the fashion and the mode of proced s | When the head B certain city the nobility others who pay court to Kings, Queens and Emperors are ge thither. Soefal lifs is_quic nee with I | tablishea preee {in the metrope enced by the cour Hope for Ireland. Justin McCarthy may be mistaken in his | assertion that accession of Albert E | wa of the passage of the home Ireland ion of which in that | year split the Liberal party and sent men iike Joseph Chamberiain and the Duke | Devonshire over to Tory coalition, which they have remained ever since. T' Prince was said all along to have lea toward the Liberals om mést of th measures of policy. There is some reason to believe that this represents his actual attitude. The e the British island the lifetime of Albert Edwara. He was on terms of personal intimacy with many of the leaders in the democratic movement — Gladstone, Morley, Bright, Russell and rhe | rest. In theory. ‘of course the British monarch of these days has mo politic The “speeches from the throne™ are wit- | ten by the Premier of the day, whoever ha chances to be. and their bias is toward t | Tories or the Liber according to wh | party Is In power. A monarch who is per- | sonally popular, however, as Victoria was | and as Edward VII is likely to be, can, without infringing on the prerogative of the ministry of the lay, use an influence with the ministers whaich will, accordinz | to his attitude toward it, accelerate or retard any measure which is brought be- | fore Parliament. The British sovereign, notwithstanding the theory that the ma- jority of the House of Commons, with its comamittee, the ministry, are the govern- | ing powers, is very far from being a cipher.—8t. Louis Globe Democrat. PERSONAL MENTION. Otto G. Never, manager of the Hotel Paso de los Robles, Is at the Palace. | Colonel John T. Harrington of Colusa s | at the Palace. | Godfrey Holterhoff Jr., formerly with the Santa Fe Raliroad, arrived in the city. | yesterday. He has been appointed Secres tary of the Valley road, to succeed Alex- ander Mackle. | Harry Frodsham, formerly city ticket | agent of the Chicago-Northwestern, has resigned to go in the oil business. His | position has been filled by Walter H, Cline, formerly ticket agent of the Cana- dian Pacific. s | CALIFORNTIANS IN WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—Arrivals: Ral- eigh—W. H. Maloney, W. A. Maloney; National-R. Lincoln: St. James—F. W. Ely, J. C. Leopold. All are from San | Frageisco. | e | A CHANCE TO SMILE | *“Why did that young man leave so | suddenly?’ asked Maude. “It was my fault,” answered Mamie. “I thoughtlessly got to talking about the | beautiful summer haze by the river. I | forgot he was a West Point cadet.”— | Washington Star. | | Mrs. Jason—What is that you are tryin® | to_sing, fer the land's sake? Mr. Jason—“The Lighthouse by the Mrs. Jason—Well, if you expect me to git the washin’ ever dome, youw'd better be thinkin’ of the woodhouse by the saw, | —Indianapolis Press. Hungry Higgins—Wot do you think? A woman called me a animated scarecrow this mornin’. & Weary Watkins—TI've knowed you sence the early eighties, but 1 never seen no animation about you yeq—Indianapolis Press. | , “Would you rather be wise or beauti- | ful?* asked Fate of the ung o Coy Yor “Beautiful,” replied the damsel. i F".!Ah. youhnro":"se already,” eonnrencafl | Fate, as_she up a package of cos~ metics.—Baltimore American. . Poverty had knocked at the door and {m{eh was struggling with the window atel Al sighed the woman. “We are ngnlxo, er bound together by those golden chains *No, we're stra together now!™ ob- n“arl.“d the man, doggedly.—Detroit Jour- f A Customer (In the complets - | ment store)—I notice so many couples | taking the elevator for the thirteenth floor. Why are— The Ribbon Clerk— are taking ad- | vantage of the special offer in the matri | monial department. Rev. Mr. Splicer is performing ceremonies to-day at half price.—Brooklyn Life. ————— Cholice candies. Townsend's. Palace Hotel.* ———————i Cal. glace frvit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_———————— Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and pubiic men the ne-cnm?mmmw-).- gomery st. Telephone Main 1042, The no tacks sales ?mfi:& et upon to mail another e