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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1901. THE POLICE INQUIRY. CBRUARY 6, 1900 WEDNESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. £édress All Commurications to 8. LEAKE, Manager, FUBLICATION OFFICE. ..M. Telephone Press Z01. ket and Third, S. ¥. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to Telephone Preas 221 Stevenson St. 202, Deltvered »w Carriers, 15 Cente Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mafl. Including Postages DATLY CALY, (including Sunday), obe year. DAILY CALL ¢incluling Funday), months. DAILY CALL @including Sunday), 3 months. All postmasters are authorized to recelve subseriptions. Eample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mall robecrfbers in crdering chance of addmess should e particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order Lo meure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. YAKLAND OFFICE..............111S Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Yazager Fereign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicage, (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2618.™) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: < C. CARLTON. crreccessess. Herald Sq NEW YORE REPRESENTATIVE: MTEPHEN B. SMITH +80 Tribune Buliding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A Bremtano, §i Unmlom Square: Mursy Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Preciopt House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTOX .. C.) OFFICE. ...1408 MORTUN E. CE_\NE, Correspon: BRANCH OFFICES— Montgomery, corner of Clay, opsn wotil 920 c'clock. 300 open mntil 9:30 c'clock. €83 Hayes, McAllister, cpen until $:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open unil | #:30 o'clock. 1M1 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. Valencia, opea ©otl] § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 3 o’clock. NW. cor- the &' Urbervilles.” amus O Brien.” of Satan.” “Judah , corner fason and Eddy streets—Specialties. eville every afterncon and .Telephone Press 204 - rproposed investigation of the alleged partner- ship between vice and the police establishment in this city. No doubt the decision to make the inquiry was in- fluenced by the peculiar position assumed by the | Mayor and the Police Commission, who are credited with desiring to derive public revenue out of a wide- cpen Chinatown. At the first glance the investiga- | tion seems futile because of lack of power to act. The charter does not give to the Legislature, nor the Governor, nor any State authority, the right to re- | officer holding under the city charter. From that point of view an investigation could only result in an exposure or a vindication of the local govern- | ment. The State cannot compel the city government | to enforce its own ordinances. It may safely let them | become a dead letter, and the State is powerless. | Therefore, it is asked, why investigate at all? It is expensive. It may prolong the session. It may re- veal a state of things injurious to the repute of this city without disclosing any means of remedy. Looking on that side of the matter there is no ap- pearance of utility in the proposed inquiry. But, after all, the city is not independent of the State. The city government is not charged with the enforcement of its own criminal ordinances alone, but must also up- hold the criminal laws of the State. There are State statutes of arson, burglary and murder, and when the servants of the city government arrest for any of those felonies they act under the State law. If they refuse to arrest for arson, burglary and murder, shall | it be said that there is an open season in this city for | the offenses that are winked at? Shall it be said that laws because the charter officers of San Francisco re- | fuse to act? Such a condition of things is unthink- | able. In such a state of things the State would by its | own instrumentalities- enforce its laws this | municipality. Now on the line of this investigation there runs a tate statute, parallel to every city ordinance, against the public offenses that will be inquired into. If the | inquiry demonstrate that these offenses go "unpun- ished, and that the charter officers, who should en- | force the law against them, are in lucrative partner- | ship with those who commit them, the power of ths | State in the premises will appear. | It would then be entirely competent for the Legis- within | [ | s | lature, in the exercise of the police power of the State, | | to provide a force of State constabulary as large as | the city police force, charged with the enforcement | of the State law against gambling, lotteries and the | other vices which it is charged are now overlooked by | the local government. HERE is a great variety of opinion about the | move the Mayor, or the Police Commission, or any | | the State of California cannot enforce its criminal | For instance, if the alleged | liance based on a British preferential tariff in favot of American goods must be taken as a strictly Scar- borough view. Those views are famous, but they are mainly seen through mists, and there are always illu- sions in them. ! C n the current number the publication of the { proceedings of the recent convention of the leagve in this city. In doing so it preserves in a | convenient form a great deal of information of value to all who take any ingerest in municipal “problems. | Among the more instructive articles published in the number for this month is the statement by A E. Preck concerning the use of oil upon the streets in Redlands. It is short and does not give all the de- tails necessary for a full understanding of the sub- ject, but it none the less serves the very useful pur- | pose of directing attention to the success that may be attained in street and road improvement by the use of oil, Redlands has been using oil upon her streets for two years, and in commenting upon it Mr. Brock said: “We have found it a great success. It has, in fact, settled the question of dust with us. Two years ago, when we adopted the plan, water was very scarce, | and that moved us to try the experiment of using oil. We have not a single complaint from any person in | the town in regard to the use of oil. It has satisfied | everybody much better than water, and what is one of the best features of it is that when the rainy sea- son comes it protects our roads and keeps them in better condition than would otherwise be the case by | putting a coating upon the streets. One objection that was raised to it was its getting on ladies’ dresses and on bicycles, but all of those objections have been practically settled. There is nothing whatever detri- mental in the use of oil upon the streets, and the more we use it the more we think of it. There is no doubt we will continue to use it instead of water.” A system of street sprinkling that not only lays the dust of summer but serves to protect the road- beds during the wet weather of winter is certainly a desirable system for communities that are unable to | afford asphalt or other good systems of street paving. The two things from which the State suffers most along the -highways are dust and mud; and if both of them can be largely eliminated by the simple process of sprinkling with oil, the task of street and highway improvement will be a comparatively simple one. Upon the economic side of the question Mr. Brock said, “We believe it cheaper than water.” In reply to a question as to how oiten the sprinkling was re- peated he said, ‘Three times a year will keep the dust OIL FOR STREETS. ALIFORNIA MUNICIPALITIES contines | | | | 3 Great Britain and the United States through an al- | +—— ENTER CARTOONIST, EXIT MRS. NATION OF THE LADY. IF KANSAS SALOON-KEEPERS WERE FOXY THE FUNNY MAN ON i THE ST. PAUL' PIONEER-PRESS THINKS THEY COULD GET RID | ’ + R Y ] EDWARD VII AND THE KAISER. l and His to show my approval of your conduct .Emperor Willlam—Dot's nice. King Edward—Yes; ish army! pully goot feller. I'm going to make you a field marshal of the Brit- I vill now do myselluf the honor to gif you somedings, too. i An Imaginary Conversation Be'ween a Royai Uncle | Nephew.. King Edward—Well, nephew, I'm greatly pleased with you. In fact, I want in a practical way. | | Emperor William—Py golly, aln't dot sphlendid! Vat do I get mit it? King Edward—You get the right to buy yourself a field marshal's uniform and sit in a front seat at all the reviews. | Emperor Willlam—Shake me of your hand, my lieber onkle. You are a EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Progress of Denmark. Denmark has within a few years re- claimed 2000 and 0dd square miles of pre- viously waste land, w! been_re- garded as almost valueless. About five- sixths of her territory is possessed by mall freeholders and peasants. The peas- :ntr hn:ve established some 400 banks, chiefly under their own management. 'rheyyhnve set up cattle breeding societies, co-operative steam dairies, bakerfes, tories and mills. To-day Denmark is the second country In the world in regard to wealth per head of its population.—Chi= cago Journal. Fashion for One-Armed ’xu; N A rather gFewsome fashion has been discussed in certain military dress- ing-rooms. Several officers who have left an arm behind them in South African hos- pitals have been exercised as to the prop- er treatment of the vacant sleeve. ¥ho flat of fashion has now gone !orth.'d he empty sleeve is to be worn, pinn on the breast; and with the coat sleeve a full shirt sleeve also, o that the white sinecure cuff ln%l‘u lk? l:e d:;';n“.'i‘-":&; rpendicular white band, Wt g:u%n, upon the faultless coat.—New York un. Presidents’ Sons in Line. fo! The sons of former Presidents are to be invited to serve as aids on the staff of General Greene, the grand marsl the arade at the inauguration exercises 1 eh'uhin ton on March 4, but the son o one of them is omitted m the lists as blished. Sons of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, arfleld, Arthur and Harrison &re men- tioned. John Tyler's son seems to have been forgotten. One of former President 'l?ler’s sons, Lyon G. Tyler, is %nlldent of William and Mary College, Virginia. The gentlemen who are arranging the exe< ercises for March 4 have apparently over- looked him.—Port Townsend ‘Predicts a Great War. Aside from the Pope, who is a spiritual soverelgn, the cldest reigning monarch in Europe is King Christlan 1X of Denmark, but the oldest in duration of reign is the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, who has ocecupied the throne of the Hapsburgs since )Mg, He is now 71, and owing to the death of his only son Rudolf his heir is Francis Ferdinand, a_nephew: Mr. de Blowitz, the sagacious Paris correspond- rancis Joseph, and he predicts a war when the Emperor dies.—Buffalo Commercial. Spoliation of Finland. The spolfation of Finland proceeds apace. It is now decreed that no gather- ing of people for the discussion of social, scientific_ or economic subjects shall be permitted without special license, and even then only in the presence of the po- lice. Thus the members of the facuity of the University of Helsingfors must not come together to discuss the nature of the canals of Mars without first getting a permit from the Russian police, and then must have a Cossack, knout in hand, among them at thelr meetings. Truly, Muscovite civilization is a fine thing.— New York Tribune. RBaulers of the World. | - e = P14 i s = gt 2 Vietoria removes all | desire of the Mayor and of the Police Commission down.”. The mntm"ml }‘“d he went on to say: “Is Bet you can't guess vat it vas. I am going to make you an admiral of der b\fi",?ng“.?;"lhl'f?&i‘\? ru!ers"o( the world— to get public revenue out of a wide-open Chinatown |2 poor grade of oil with an asphaltum base. The imperial Cherman navy! How Is dot? | Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. There are King Edward—Splendid! Willle, you're a brick! And what do I get be- | more Presidents than any other one kind : : were carried out, a State constabulary would take the | Price of it is varied, the first we bought being $1 2 g s bR [of ruler. There ars twenty-two Presi- By Wm. G, L Monday, February 11 Horses and | place of the police and close the wide-open district. | barrel, and now it is $1 25" He added: “Anpther Emperor William—You get a peautitul cocked hat mit gold laces und fez- & | FERtS; Sixteen JOnes, elgven, Duies ales, at 721 % street. 2 . . SHAFROTH'S REFORT. J ™\ [TV SHAFROTH of Colo- F% ra the minority report of the Com- | ge, Weights and Measures agamst the princ e Overstreet and Hill bills to complete the gold standard legislation. { yrity report restates the whole free silver d jollows closely Bryan's editorial on the subject in his newspaper. Mr. Shafroth overlooks not | cientific features of the situation, but its | | ttee ple o He seems, like Bryan, to think that our y is now in the same position as d that is the fundamental mistake | n made by that financial school. | coins are composed of a definite amount | 1 called gold, a substance made | buman desire, which is the only A gold coin when it leaves the mint value in that contzins exac metal which is | 3 the stamped upon i ace. In a five-doilar gold piece is | put five rs’ worth of gold, and in an eagle there ; is ten dol 1, and in a double eagle twenty | gollars’ w When these coins come from thi | y may be melted in the fire, or be hammered th every image, letter and legend they lose no value, for the metal in | them is ts weight reduced by changing * their € rom coins to meited or hammered bu?- | lion. They y from hand to hand as property not by their no: ! value, but by their weight, which fixes the a of property called gold which they contain. The Government itself receives them by , 2nd provides by law that when abrasion has reduced their weight below the limit of tolerance *they shall ccase to pass at the full value they had on nt, and thereafter they pass only for by their weight. It is a daily ex- the Custom-house, Sub-Treasury and | Office to see the Government | red in payment of its claims, to s getting the proper quantity of picperty in payment of taxes and liens, With the s h of property calied silver. In five silver dollars only $2 30 worth of property; in ten such there is only $3 60 of value, and in twenty of nly $9 20. They are not taken by weight. igates the Government to maintain all n equality. As the gold coins are 1 the law means that the Government shall | be prepared to pay $20 to any citizen for $9 20 worth | of silver coined into dollars, with a nominal, not ac- | tual, valve of $20. | Up to this time, however, the law has not provided | | | | Jeaving the 1 the value sk at Revenue perience ver dollar the case is different. It is r, but actually contains only 46 cents’ ~re aw obl of its currency at of i for the interchanging of silver and gold coins, which is mecessary W discharge the Government's obliga- tion to keep 2l its currency at a parity. This is to be | effected by the Overstreet.or Hill bills, which have the same object and do not differ materially in the | method of reaching it. Mr. Shafroth affects to see in this the forging of another “endless chain” for de- pleting the gold reserve. But he forgets that it was not the gold redemption of the greenbacks, but their immediate reissue to be redeemed again, that com- pleted the endless chain. There is no such legal re- quirement in the case of silver or silver certificates, and any attempt to make such use of them is therefore casily frustrated by the treasury. As for the general policy of treating silver dollars as a promise to pay, the gold standard people are not responsible for that. It is part of the small tinkering that went on from 1878 to 1893. The load of depre- ciated silver was dumped upon the treasury by the sil- ver standard people, and if they had had their way we would now be upon a silver basis, running to ‘ruin with $500,000,000 in silver worth and with a purchas- \:ng power of less than half its face, and every green back and national bank dollar of necessity worth less " than half its face, for there would be no standard ex- cept the 46 cent silver dollar ? which to redeem it. - \ Under the mayoralty of Fernando Wood, in New York City, there was alleged a condition such as is charged here, and the State of New York met it by the Metropolitan Police Commission, the creation of State law. When the prohibitory law of Massachu- setts was disregarded by the police of the cities.of that | commonwealth, a State constabulary was created by the Legislature to enforce it. In this aspect the coming inquiry takes on a mora serious feature. It is not an idle investigation, with no power behind it to remedy the evils it may dis- close. The State of California creates municipalities, and they are not superior to their creator. The peace and morals of all the people, their protection in per- son and property, are the concerns of the State, and | its power does not cease at the boundary of a city. | ‘ | ‘ A CENTURY FORECAST. & a century ahead” and to “present a twenty-first cen- | tury newspaper as we think it will probably be.” It is asserted that the aim has been to make “the fore- cast as accurate as the information at our disposal and the known expectations of scientists and experts will allow.” A publication of that kind is interesting. It does not repeat any of the sensational extravagances of prediction to which we are accustomed, and on the | whole is a very mild-looking sheet. It is printed on tinted paper, having no illustrations except those de- | signed to show the improvements made on the water front of Scarborough during the century between 1901 and 2001. The Scarborough forecasts are of course uninterest- ing to us. In the matter of world politics, however, we will note with some interest that the forecast speaks of the “predominance of the United States and Russia, the decadence of the Latin races, the gradual | eclipse of British naval and commercial supremacy, the deepening color of the black and the yellow belt. the immense development of and the Oriental industrial ‘competition,” as ‘things already foreseen in 1901. The review goes on to say: “On the other hand, the ‘yellow specter’ of a'Chinese invasion of Europe which haunted the minds of nine- teenth century Emperors and journalists has proved to be a nightmare, while the growth of Germany in power, wealth and population and commerce has far exceeded the. most sanguine expectations.” Aiter noting that in 1901 there “were four great world states, Russia, Great Britain, the United States and Germany,” the supposed reviewer of 2001 says: “In our day the United States, with her 400,000,000 of white inhabitants, is beyond comparison the most powerful of nations. * * * Her navy is superior to the combined fleets of Germany and Russia. New York has become the world's financial center, and the development of the Pacific seaboard has been one of the greatest marvels of the century. * * * Amer- ica's greatest rival is Russia, which, leaving out of ac- count the Eastern races, possesses a white population of over 400,000,000. The industrial development of | Russia; though not so rapid as that of the States, has been wonderful enough, and her military supremacy is bewond question.” Up to that point the account of the nations in 2001 is not esSentially different from what would be made by an intelligent American, but here is a2 new proposi- ticn: “The events connected with the establishment of the German confederated republics in South Amer- ica led to much ill-feeling between the United States and Germany, but their relations with our own coun- try have contintied to be excellent, and for the last half century a kind of informal Anglo-Saxon alliance has existed, founded upon the preference given to _American goods and the declarations’ of our Govern- ment in support of the Monroe doctrine.” It is to be borne in mind that Scarborough 'is mzinly noted as a seaside resort. The people are never thoroughiy serious even when most so, and censequently this picture of a Germanized South America organized as a confederated republic and protected by the Monroe doctrine supported by . South America, | thing I would like to mention is that we_have no dif- | ficulty at all in collecting from the property-owners | two cents a foot on each side of the street, while the total cost is eight cents a foot.” Upon that showing there seems no possible objec- tion to the system on the score of cost. There is an abundant supply of oil in California for sprinkling purposes, and if the use of it become general it is probable that with the improvements in the methods of using that will surely result from long continued | experiments it will go far toward solving some of the ; hardest problems that confront us in the task of pro- viding throughout the State good streets and good highways. A arr————. FRANCE PAYING HER DEBTS. O ROM the Scarborough (England) Post we have | eceived a supplement issued by that paper on ‘ January 1 giving “a serious attempt to forecast | NE of the unexpected things of the time is the appearance of France in the role of a nation practicing economy in all departments of ad- ministration and actually getting ready to begin pay- ing off her vast burden of debt. The facts were brought out in a recent debate in the Chamber of Deputies, when the Minister of Finance | in replying to a question concerning the expenditures | of the Government stated that the comparative in- crease of expenditures in France of late years has been less than that of any other nation. He is quoted | as saying that in Great Britain the increase has been | 36 per cent in eleven years, while in France it has | been but 5 per cent. - | Coming to the details of the subject the Minister is reported to have stated that the deficit of 108,000,000 francs caused by the iacorporation of the special mili- tery budget with the ordinary budget would be partly niet' by the sale of national property, yielding 13,000,- ©00 or 20,000,000 francs, and by that of the fortifica- tions of Paris, which would produce about 150,000,000 francs. The floating debt was reduced every year, and | a first step had been taken for the reduction of the permanent debt of twenty-two milliards. In five years -that debt would be automatically reduced by 500,000,- | 000 francs. That is certainly an excellent showing for the re- | public. It reveals the fact that France has entered upon the new century with bright prospects ahead of her. If now her statesmen can avoid a jingo policy of expansion in Africa and China, or other schiemes that would entail wars and expense, the heavy burdens her people have beep carrying would soon be materially lightened. It would be curious if the lesson of econ- omy taught the French by the hard experience of the nineteenth century should enable them to become one of the most lightly taxed of nations in the twen- tieth, while people who are mow lightly burdened | should by lack of economic teaching rush into expen- ditures that will place them within fifty years where France has been ever since the collapse of the em- pire. The municipal policy of Mayor Phelan is becom- | ing explicable. He is urging that white gamblers be licensed to prey upon the public and to contribute to the city treasury with crime-stained money because he demanded of the Police Department that Chines= malefactors and highbinders be legalized in their trade in order that San Francisco might be a finan- cial gainer in the profits of disgusting viee. ) The people of Alaska are complaining that the Federal Commissioners chosen to protect their game live thousands of miles from the scene of their du- ties. If the mining troubles of Nome are any indica- tion the best place to protect things in Alaska is at ‘Washington, i S L The gypsy prince over whose dead body a nomad tribe has been mourning in Oakland had at least one satisfaction not usually enjoyed by royalty. He was not troubled by either the cares or emoluments of state. It is a far cry from the story of the man with the hoe to a panegyric on royalty, but Edwin Markham has sounded it. Perhaps he wanted to show us that the practice of poetry is a trade after all and that sen- timent does not necessarily mean sincerity. ] zers! King Edward—Don’t I get a ship? Emperor William—Nein; Dealer. ; ; | PERSONAL MENTION. Judge J. M. Mannon of Uklah is a guest at the Lick. J. F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, is registered at the Lick. Walter B. Honeyman and wife of Port- land, Ore., are at the California. J. R. McLean of Boston and Charles E. Capen of Eastport, Me., are both at the Palace. R. J. Weller, well known on the turf, arrived from New Orieans yesterday and registered at the Palace. B. F. Meyer and Oscar Figel, both resi- | dents of San Francisco, are guests at the Tampa Bay Hotel, Florida. Patton R. Cheatham of Nashville, Tenn., | arrived here vesterday and is at the Occi- dental. He is chairman of the Nashville reception committee appointed to welcome | the returning First Battalion of the Thir- ty-seventh Infantry, which is composel entirely of members of the old First Ten- nessee Regiment. Cheatham wil awa't the arrival of the transport Sheridan. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—M. Bischop is at the Sturte- vant, H. Chartler is at the New York, G. A. Gullman is at the Grand, C. M. Curtin ig at the Imperial, E. Koring is at the New York, E. Leszepresby is at the Ca- dillac, C. M. Smith and wife are at the New York, J. B. Wattles is_at the Man- hattan, O. Ellsworth Is at the Continental and Mrs, B. C. MacDonald and C. Wil- liams and wife are at the Manhatfan. From Los Angeles—M. Fx Hickop is at the Astor and O. M. Horn is at the Broad- way Central. - From Oakland—R. D. Hammond is at the St. Denis. FASHION EINTS FROM PARIS, + * WHITE CLOTH DRESS. This stylish costume is of whita cloth. The short bolero is crenelated at the waist, and the blouse is of guipure, embroidered th |d. The collar d lapels mmmed ‘with silver loxm:nd o3 bordered with Irish guipure. The pagoda sleeves are finished off with guipure. ————— At Hotel Del Coronado The season is now on at full tide. American and European plans. Best of everything, in- mmmumm—m’m 4 New / St., city, for special ticket. i but you get blenty schooners!—Cleveland Plain | B i e e i SR ST ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | DIVORCEE—Subscriber, Santa Cruz, | Cal. The representatives of the church you name will not unite in marriage a di- | vorcee who was legally married. CONDUCTORS—R. B. M., City. The| Market-street eystem of streetcars {n San { Francisco employs about 1200 condu@ton‘ and a like number of grip and motor men. There is no mutual protective so- clxet),ve!ar either of these classes of em- | ployes. ETIQUETTE OF THE STREET-T. J. | M., City. A rule of etlquette on the street is that if a gentleman is walking with a lady a bow made to her must be ac- | knowledged bly; him by slightly raising his | ougl hat, alt! the one bowing is a| stranger. g | DISTANCE-M. C. J., City. If the| ferry landing at the foot of Market street | is laid down in the rallroad schedule as | [ six_miles from the Sixteenth-street depot | in Oakland, a person going from the ferry | will by ferry-boat and car presumably | travel six miles in reaching the station. SOLDIER—M. L., Alameda, Cal. A sol- | dier who has been honorably discharged | from the United States army and belleves | that he is eligible to admission to a sol- diers' home should make application either by letter or in person to the com- mandant of the home. PONY EXPRESS STAMPS-X. V. B., Quiney, Cal. Pony express stamps have a market value according to color and de- nomination. The prices charged by deal- ers are as follows: Ten-cent chocolate, 75 cents; 25-cent blue, $2; 25-cent red, 2% cents; §1 red, 75 cents; $2 green, $2; $4; 34 green, 35, and $4 black, $4 SEPARATE PROPERTY-J. B., City. The property which husband or wife was possessed of before marriage Is the sep- | arate property of the husband or wife, | Either can dispose of the same without consulting the other, and the signatures of both are not required to a deed. Coms | munity property is that which is acquired during marriage. CHICAGO—H. K., Berkeley, Cal. There are a number of “Trade papers published in Chicago that circulate among whole- | salers,” but as you do not designate the particular trade, this department is un- able to answer the question asked. Name the particular trade and if there .is a paper devoted to it in that city the in- formation will be imparted. NORWAY-B., Oakland, Cal. On ac- count of the Guif stream the climate of Norway is milder than that of any other country in the same latitude. Those parts that are removed from the influence of the sea have a cold winter and a hot sum- mer; the coast regions have a mild win- ter and a cool summer. Only the more in- terfor fjords freeze. Barley ripens as far north as 70 degrees north latitude, and po- tatoes can be raised in the most norther!. regions. i POPULATION—G. V., City. The popu- lation of the fifteen largest citles in the United States, according to the census of | 1900, 1s: Greater New York (including Manhattan, Bmok‘l‘%n. Bronx, Queens and Richmond), 3.4§7,202; Chicago, 1,69, 5i8; Philadelphia, 1.293,657: St. Louls, & oston, 560,892; ' Baltimore, 508,251; Cleveland, 3%1.78; Buffalo, 353, San Francigeo, 342,182; Cincinnat], $25,%2; Pitts- | burg, 321618; New Orleans, 287,104: De- | troit 704; Pashingtin m'!.,{gw-ukze. 285,315, and A DISASTROUS WRECK—C. §., Sacra- mento, Cal. ‘“What was the year in which a disastrous wreck occurred in the Chari- ton River, Missouri?”" is too indefinite to admit of an answer. Correspondents who | want information should always give | some ldea of the time an event occurred and the character of the event. From 1\!(!’“0!1 asked it Is Impossible to de- termine if the correspondent wants to be advised about a ship wreck or a railroad wreck, or ‘whether the particular wreck oecurred In the early days of the State. HAWAIIAN PAPERS—H. K., Berke- ley, Cal. The following is a list of the bapers published in the Hawallan Islands: Hawaifan Gazette, semi-weekly: Dally Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Datly Bui- | letin, Dally Hawalian Star, Daily Hono- ! lul Republican, _ Daily Independent, Aloba Aina. dally; The Friends, monthly: Anglican Church Chronicle, monthly: Hu- mane Educator, monthly: Pa | Pacific, monthly; A1-‘lmmlul|x i o 3 uarterly: Y. M. C. e K ‘week! guese), weekly: As Novas ) Weekly, E MBfllJM also several Chinese and Japances punl® cations. 1 ie 1it. Khans, two Ameers, one Queen. one K dive, one Shah, one Bey, one Mikado, one Maharajah and one Rajah, making seven- ty-five males and one female. But two of these rulers have more than one title— King Edward heing also Emperor of In- dia and Willlam of Germany being a King as well as Emperor. The oldest of the rulers is Sidi_All Pacha, Bey of Tunis, who Is now two years older than was Queen Victoria, while the youngest active ruler is Queen Wilhelmina.—Iowa State Register. Holland in Festal Array. While England is in mourning, and for a period which will not soon come to an end, the little kingdom of Holland, just across the channel, is bright and gay with many signs of rejolcln%e The banns of marriage tween the -oung Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Duke Henry German; of y have been published amid scenes of genuine jubllation, streets in The Hague became illuminated and a veritable “royal progress” was arrangel for the yvouthful sovereign. Two days after the day appointed for the burfal of Victoria the wedding festivities of Wil- helmina and her Henry will begin. The burghers of the Netheriands are glad to belleve the time is near when they may well “rejoice with them that do rejolce, ’ and universal good wishes are extended to their sovereign and her chosen con- sort, who seems to have made an excel- onnrb impression In Holland.—Boston Globe. Church—Ts that all your wife's hatr she's got on? Goth‘am-Sure: she’ss had it off and on for twelve years.—Yonkers Statesman. It's well to clear one’s life course of its stones And make the going smoother day by day; Byt vet it is not fair to throw them so at they may tumble in ano s waw —St. Louls Star. “Why don't T discourage him if yoa dq_n‘;thclre for him?”* . won't_be discou . He s really in love.”"—Detroit Free Mr. Gayboy (over his paper)—Well welll Here's another shocking story of crime. Truly, one-half the world doesn’t know how the other haif lives. Mrs. Gayboy (significantly)—Yes, and very frequently a man's better half doesn’t know_how the other half lives.— Philadelphia Press. — Stranger—What {8 your name, little boy? Little Boy—Willie. Stranger—Willle What? Little Boy—Willle Don’t, I guess. 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