The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1901, Page 4

THE SA 4 . TROUBLE IN M@NILA. ¢{1¢ = = HE chronic afilictions of the Philippine situation | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aédress All Cemmupications 1 MANAGER'S OFFICE. . PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, 8. ¥. Telephone Press 201. €. LEAKE. Menager. Telephone Press 20 EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 1 Stevenson S Telephone 217 to 3 Press 2o Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. A 5 Cents. ALY ALL All postmasters are authorized to recelve eriptions. forwarded when requested ‘ ar. OAKLAND OFFICE... L1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNES Fereign Aévertising, Marquetts Building, Chicags, **Central Rl YORK CORRESPONT ¥ ..Herald Sguare NE STEPHEN B. - v TIVE SMITE .. » Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS § A. Bren ANDS: - ntgomery, corner of e a'Trk L’ Adglon.” it Off lub (Oakland)—Races AUCTION SALES. Layng day, February 11, Howard s , | principles of men increases in the ratio of the distan: | Las never declared war against the Filipinos. are at present aggravated by the discovery oi evidence of a widespread system of communica- | tion between American | island towns and the F pinos all over the archipelago | who are under arms and, as ex-President Harrison | puts it, “submitting with difficulty to the Divine will.” | It is alleged that this system of communication is | <o perfect that through it the ordinary commercial and | financial operations are performed. Cargoes and in- | voices of merchandise are transmitted, and the bills of exchange follow the bill of lading with about the same certainty as if the tramsaction were between Chicago and New York. By means of this system the produce of the interior enters commerce and its value goes back in exchange. Fven arms and ammunition are sent to the hostile | camps. The active agents in this scheme are Ameri- | cans who appear to have Spanish partners, and the profitable business is operated under passes and per- mits issued unwittingly by the United States military authorities. It is not a subject for special wonder that this condition prevails in the islands. They area long di nee aw The seat of final authority is so v that it is reached with difficulty, and such cal administration as the islands have at our hands seems to be based upon either hatred or contempt of 1 the native people. o During our Civil War this Manila method had its | counterpart along the military frontier. The North- ern trader wanted cotton, and the Southern trader wanted quinine and saltpeter. In spite of all military vigilance the two classes managed to get together, and cotton found its way behind the Union lines and what the South needed in'cxchangc crossed the Con- federate lines. In that time the papers were full of charges that high military officers were concerned in | this illicit traffic, and in a percentage of cgses this wi no doubt true. War is a demoralizing agency. I tendency to destroy the conscience and debauch t | of its theater from the home center and the base oi civil oversight and public opinion. The problem in Manila is what ta do with the plan- ners and beneficiaries cf the scheme. That will largely pend upon the decision of the Supreme Court upon ¢ issues now before it in the Porto Rico and-Philip- pine cases. under the constitution then military arrest and trial They are amenable to the they can_ be ar- Congress In the | constitutional sense there is no war in the islands and; therefore, no public ¢nemies. The army- is there on police duty only. The situation has its counterpart in our Indian uprisings. The frontier traders alwa; have communicated with the Indians, and traffic wi them has been but little interrupted by hostilitie of civilians must cease. vil law only. It is doubtful too i raigned on the grave charge of treason. nd Spanish residents of the | J-prompt passage of the canal bill. If the decision be that the islands are | in no wise to diplomacy. Soldiers will settle it in the first place, and then it will be left to statesmen to show what they can do to reconcile the conquered to accept the King of Great Britain and Emperor of | India as “Supreme Lord of and over the Transvaal.” DISSOLVING VIEWS. ROM the present outlook it appears the great expectations of the work to be done by Congress " at this session are not to be realized. The halls | of both houses are filled with a multitude of words | and time is on the wing. In a few days we shall have | reached the 4th of March, the term of this Congress will be at an end, and there.will remain to be dore by | the next Congress many of the most important things that were expected of this. R With what high hopes the country looked. forward | only a short timesago 1o a speedy beginning of the | work of construcrink the Nicaragua canal. The Re: : publican party; in control of ail branches of the Gov- | ernment, was pledged to the work. The adntinistra: | tion favored it and urged it. Treaties had been madg gthat provided for entesing upon it without delay ot | international complicatiois. Everything promised the All those bright | prospects have been clouded over. The construction | of the canal has been postponed indefinitely. : the shipping bill for the upbuilding of the American merchant marine, but there has been' displayed sucli an antagonism toward ‘the measure it is extremely | doubtful if it can be carried in the few weeks that re~ main of the session. It looks now as if there would be another year of waiting before we can obtain for our shipping industries that governmental aid which is necessary to enable them to compét: on equal terms with the subsidized merchant vessels of Europe. i Next ‘in order is the bill for the reduction of war revenues. The 1eduction was promised’in the Republican platiorm. It was recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury and by the President. The House promptly adopted the bill providing for it. | The Senate took the bill and struck out neatly every | line of it, sending back to th& House a virtually new measure. Now the origination of revenue bills is a | prerogative of the House, and it is believed the mem- bers of that body will resent the action of the Senate in destroying the House biil and making a new one.. So there is‘every prospect of a deadlock on that issue, | and tax reduction will probably be among the things for which we shall have to wait. z Finally there is the river and harbor bill, from which | so many constituencies expected great things. It isthe | richest bill of the kind, on ‘record—veritable plum | pudding. The House put into it appropriations | enough to make a total of about $69,000,000, and the Senate raised the amount fo nearly $80,000,000. In its | present shape it appears to be too, rich for_the admin- | istration. There is a rumor that if sent to the Presi- denth he would veto it. ' The Senate comumittee is at.: There were sanguine expectations of the passage of | SOCIETY- — BY SALLY SHARP — | Babeock, FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1901 AM confident that the awful thunder- ing of the cannon that disturbed the revelry on the famous night pre- ceding Waterloo wasn’t a circum- stance to the excitement caused by the announcement of the Scott- Martin and Crockett-Scott engagements. The truth of the matter is, none of us were prepared for it. Some were evan | incredulous until they got, con, tion of | the delightful report over the telephone. | Mrs. Crockett was 'terribly disturbed | about an announcement that she’ rightly characterizéd as premature. Caro and | Her mother had planned a Sunday tea for. their nearest and dearest, and ar- | ranged that their piece de resistance should be the announcement of the ba-| trothal. But alas for the plans that will {‘gang aglee”! What a deal of specu- lating - was " done as to who had given | away the preclous secrct. Well, I'm glad it wasn't a, woman that told it Next time, I wager, when a thing is to be kept secret, a happy prospective groom won't go and tell his best and most prom- | inent man friend that he is about to ea ter the holy state and that the cousin of his fiancee is going to do likewise. LR Never were there more elegant tables than the two round boards at which Mrs Carolan entertained thirty ladles at luncheon on Wednesday last. The affalr was in honor of Mrs. Page Brown. and was given in the private dining-room at ti> Palace. As I intimated before, the tables were artistic and more than usual v beautiful. - In the first place, they were round tables and in the center o each stood aa immense basket of plnk‘: and white roses that shed their -!rfl!-] rince through the meshes of the fluffy | white tulie that was draped around them. | But it wasn't the flowers that consti- tuted alone the beauty of the table. It was the service. All the table accessories | were of solid gold, exquisite in pattern | and' dainty in design. And they were ar- | ranged in.a fachion so artistic—not an | easy thing te achieve with a golden | service.” A magnificent sight—those tables with the handsom: women In gorgeous gowns seated round them! Among the ladies who assisted at that delightful function were: Mrs. William | Crocker, Princess Ponlatowski, = Mrs. | Joseph Crockett, Mrs. Joe Grant, Mrs. George Pope, Mrs.. Frank, -Mrs. Willlam Mrs. Harry Babcock, Mrs. Chase, M Irwin. the Misses Carolan, Mrs. Osgood Hooker, Miss Daisy Casserlv, Miss Carrle Taylor, Mrs. Walter Dean Mrs. J. A. Robinson. Mrs. Henry T. Scotl and Mrs. Willis Polk. Mrs. Brown, who is ‘well known here, remains for a few weeks the guest of Mrs. Carolan and when Mrs: Brown re- turns to her Eastern home Mrs. Carolan | will accompany her. * WH GAGEMEN o —— 1 have seen more gorgeous wedding but never more artistic oies presents, than those received by Eleanor Wood, the fair bride of Dr. Cullen Welty. It s though each one who wished T Mamiar the Youn couple had cast about for something unique and original :'? make glad the heart of a connoisseur. } inink, aso, that this successful desiie - wi-e something different easily ex- 4 s why the tables were not laden h saplicates, stoves. for things more bones moon waned. Of Il Eleanor's beautiful gifts ¥ -a patrad the most an’ old pair of Dutch candlosticks, the gift of Mrs, Reginald k. Sraith. Ah, but thev were beauties! useful when the All carved silver, and their quamt de- =iz howing they belonged to “many . "l‘hey were just the sort of fgs o un exquisite silver plate of magnificent nropartions, the gitt of Mrs. William Crosker. Mrs. Crocker's dish was as| o ern the Smith candlesticks were tent I the elegance of the mod- and all the expense of the up-to-date et dzed the Crocker plate, to my \h. most exquisiter work ever t here: the beautiful things a crystal ited flacon for smelling salts b «didly. This bottle was .t of Horace Platt, and with it his card, saying, “When in pain mber me." Sy - never was at a wedding where . the lride's mother ran so close a second to the bride as at the Wood-Welty ‘nup- tials. Mrs. Wood was simply regal, and ¢very time ;an eye rested on the bride I mir | weed A r 1h noticed that it immediately traveled on | Mr-. Her the her to her youthful-appearing mother. Waood was clothed all in white. gown was of ¢reamr brocade, and bertha of point which draped pcorsage was worth a comfortable fortune. Wherever a_jewel might with taste be fastened on-the corsage it found | a resting place. A turban of white tulle with a steel buckle and a bunch of pink roses lent the finishing touches to the beautiful costume. » e » It looks as though we were trying to rush the season. I can't tell you how many folks have already gone ovér to their Ross Valley places and I stand ready to wager that the moment we don our sackcloth and ashes the Re-s Valley | chimneys will make it apparent that the homes are inhabited once more. There seams to be a predisposition on the part of the fortunate possessors of country homes to shorten the town season. At the rate we appear to be going, it does not take an d the result was a collection of virtu to be exchanged at the | would do justice to Mrs. | dih's trained taste. Then there was | little | 0 GAVE AWAY THE EN. T SECRET? unusually close observer to see that the town season in the very near future will only extend from Christmas till Mardl Gras. P On Saturday next Edna Hopkins ana ‘Will Taylor will be married, and, like the nuptials of Helen Hopkins and Gus Tay- lor, the wedding will be celebrated at tha magnificent Hopkins place in Menlo Pari Of course it is going to be a magnificen: affair and there may also be, so T am like at the previous Hopkins-Taylor ding, another engagement announ T The Drowns—Mrs. Drown, Be: rown and Newell Drown—left on esday last for New York en rouie to Alexandria by way of Gibraltar and Naples, e & e Mre. Blair and Miss Jehnie Blalr have returned from their Eastern visit, having with them the Mises Hurley of Boston These voung ladies wil be the guests o7 | the Blairs until spring. &2 3T § Miss Susfe Blanding is expected I from New York this week. . Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stetson and Stetson's little daughter, Margare sailed for Honolulu last week. T pect to spend one month in the island Mrs, I.never saw so many elegant gowns as T did at the Bandman card y on TI day night. Such laces! Such silks shimmering satin and sueh jewels! Of a the many beautiful aresses the one t best caught my fancy was the gown wor by Mrs. Billle O'Kane. It was all duchesse lace and elegant enough to your breath away. And there was a it and a hang to it—but then I thir stylish figure of Mrs. O'Kane had = thing to do with that, for really t does know how to wear eleg: th Mrs. Bandman also looked stv % that niguc in a gorgeous black gown, and I never saw Miss Mau.look so well as she did tn her pink frogk. ol R The lagdies of the Children's Hospital a | meeting with considerable difficulty their efforts to find a_ suitable store f their proposed “rummage party.” T have been trying to get the sto occupied by J. J. O'Brien, but as y not been successful, although they not say that their efforts have altoge met with failure. A prospective tenant for the store is, so I understand. the onlv obstacle in-their way. By Wednesd | hawever, they will know the best or the worst. - If the store is to be had. mat- ters will be pushed along quickly, for the other: committees have been working splendidly without letting the prospects of no store interfere in their proceedings. @elevferfesioafrelesfustoioriesls .WW—W—W ‘!'l’l"l‘H""‘v B e a aaa ay WORLD'S NAVAL NEWS | ANSWERS TO QUERIES| PERSONAL MENTION. ADVERTISEMENTS-Pearl, City. 'rhls]' . Robert Gill, a prominent mining and correspandent writes: “I should like to | business man of Moonly, N. 8. W., is have a form of answer to advertisements ! stopping at the Palace. | work taking out some of the plums and reducing the ! | suet. Perhaps they will get it into digestible condi- tion, but the chances are slim. e | When Sitting Bull's tand left the Sioux reservation When Custer met them on the vere equipped with Winchester The French Navy will have no less than | 200_torpedo boats and 5 submarine boats in 1986 if the preseént programme, for they were unarmed. | Little Rosebud they , the bank rings nt, but imply that business is lively. Pacific Ceast and in the Gulf | ere is neither snow nor ice to interfere t year of 26.1 per t nece on th always a lull during the months he country, the two | A bette s 1s reported, and even winter and shoes and clothing, ar ther mark ympathy. is also looking up, Lumber is g r fabrics are report lier ir nged. The iron and ste in markets have ruled una- d wheat has declined under the Argentine: ation in These points ywver the main features‘oi business throughout | ng the past week. I new in Wall street worthy of | te nued active, and both profes- s s | > dealt freely, while London did s exhibited no features calling for | n ad- The price of wine was aga r Z cents per gallon for the c cents, at wine brought four or | ine men say that the ad- ‘ 1g to depleted stocks, a grow- | i for our wine and- the ravages of the | vlloxera, which are cutting down the vineyard,ar: th e hey iurther say that: grapes will.ba” gain for several vintages to come. armer will probably rush into grapes, vears the old story will be repeated s advance in wine the commercial situa- | tame enough. There were the usual | tuations in produce and groceries, and the appear- e of a little nibbling demand for prunes led to the hope that it might be the beginning of the spring call for this fruit. The cattle and sheep market fell off a little, as the quotations have lately been too higi for the public purse. The season continues propitious. The rainfall could have been better distributed, and periodical frosts pt the buds ‘n check and given the growing stronger roots. Everywhere the prospects are ported excellent. With the usual spring rains from on we ought to harvest good crops of every- quotation ve Sta good property Beyond t m here wa 1 < <incerely to be hoped that the honorable mem- | In this connection it is worth noting there is an- | th of the legislative committee which is now inves- | ting our Police Department will not follow the d of Assemblyman Wright, who played fantan and m. The gambling evil is seductive; it is an old sge that the devil places trumps™in the hands of bLeginners. : ———— The new Federal army law placing at the command of President McKiniey hundreds of appointments and gifts'will give to cur ambitious soldiers opportu- nities for promiotion which they did not receive on the battlefieid. But promotion in peace has some- thing more of substance in it than glory in war. b PR If Legislature junketing trips continue to increase as rapidly in the future as they have in the immediate | past it might not be an unwise plan for the State to negotiate with the railroads for wholesale rates on fares. Perhaps the iransportation companies might agree to accept traveling statesmen as freight. Kansas legislators want to make it a felony for any one to purchase rope for the use of a mob. Recent events in Kansas indicate that the combination of a woman and a hatchet is infinitely more hazardous to the public than a rope and a mob. Between the time of their escape from the reservation and the massacre of Custer’s force their arms were sold to them by ‘a trader who afterward became a United States Senator. With these instances so fresh in our home history it is not surpris their appearance in the midst of the turmoil and ten- | sity of a tropical war, carried on at the antipodes. DIPLOMACY IN " THE TRANSVAAL D]SPATCIIES London when Edward was proclaimed by Lord Kit- peror, but as “Supreme Lord of and o¥er the Trans- from announce that chener at Pretoria, not as King, nor as Em- vaal,” the title given was designed as an assurance to the Boers t the Transvaal is not to be annexed as crown colony subject to the King and the Par ment of Great Britain, but is to be a seli-governing* state under the lordship of the King. We have no doubt that to diplomatists, fearned in the lore of the College of Heralds; and to others whose minds are susceptible to the influence the proclamation will be a matter of impor- tance. It is doubtful, howeyer, whether the care dis- played in sclecting the title under which Edward claims rule over the Transvaal will strike the Boers any more impressively than it strikes the averags American. To accept Edward as “Supreme Lord. of and over the Transvaal” would be to surrender every vestige of the kind of independence the Boers are to tho of t | fighting for. They desire no part or parcel with either the empire or its rovalty, and although high diplo- matic authorities assure them that the proclamation means they are to be a “separate constituent of the : empire” and a “distinct political entity ‘in the aggre- Lzation, of kingdoms, states, «olonies, etc., which o fight for the full freedom that is understood of all imen and is something more than a diplomatic tech- nicality. i ; In fact, Edward’s chance of getting into power over the slender wire of a diplomatic phrase is slight. Thz attempt to do so recalls the fact that when he visited. America in the days of his youth a tight rope per- former of the time issued an advertisement inviting him to make his entry into the United States in spec- tacular and impressive way by crossing Niagara on a rope. The advertiser offered to put him in a wheel- barrow and wheel him across in safety, guaranteeing that should any accident happen to his Highness the { money paid for the job would be refunded. . Ed- ward did not undertake to cross on the rope, and we may be sure he will not undertake to enter upon do- minion in the Transvaal solely by means of the Kit- | chener proclamation. other and much more sensible scheme under consid- | eration for quieting the Boers by diplomatic tactics. [ The London Chronicle recently put forth a sugges- | tion that Sir Wilirid Laurier. of Canada he sent to i South Africa to negotiate with the Boers; and :said: “The famous French Canadian is loyal: above sus- picion, and at the same time, as a’ member of a race which was once hostile and has been successfuily | united to the empire, he has a very special right to act jas intermediary. He is himself an instance of the | important truth, which many people have lately been tempted to overlook, that we cannot build up'the em- pire of the English stock alone. The very word em- pire implies the admission of other races into our citizenship and privileges, and we should welcome the Dutch race within its bounds as heartily as we have welcomed the French. We can see no reason why the attempt should not be made, and quickly.” / While these various diplomatic, schemes are being devised in London Dewet is going merrily ahead with his attacks on British posts, and Kitchener after his fashion is working silently but swiftly at the task of providing himself with a force of mounted men tha? can follow the nimble Boers with an equal s ‘It lonks, therefore, as if the outcome would be duc g that similar conditions have caused | SHegiance to Edward,” the Boers will continue to | | self into'a We can wai dependent upon Congressional action. course, disappointments, but the peopie will take courage. A new Congress has been elected, apd in the knowledge of that fact hope can renew her youth and expectation once more take on a sanguife hue. AIRSHIP EXPERIMENTS. . i | | INCE Count Zeppelin's recent experiments with | S the great airship. he has constructed at Lake Constance comparatively little attention has been given in the news of the day concerning progress made in the direction of solving th'e problems of aerial navigation. The work is going steadily forward, how- ever, and it is even probable that other experimenters may attain success beiore Zeppelin gets his ship into shape for practical use. / It will be rememberad that in the annual report of | the United States Board of Ordnance and Fortifica- tion, made public just before the holidays, there was a | reference to tests made with the flying machine of | Professor Langley of the Smithsonian Institution. It | appears, thergfore, that enough has been accomplished | by Langley to make it worth while for the Govern- | ment to give attention to the possible’use of his in- } vention as a weapon of war. According to a receat | description Langley's latest machine is built of alumi- | num, twenty-five-feet long, six feet wide and eight feec deep. Tt is operdted by a twénty-horsepower liquid-air | engine, weighing only forty-seven pounds. On either side of the ship are sails or wings, twenty-four feet in width, supposed to represent the form of an dlbatross’ wing. Slightly abaft midships are paddle-wheels, five feet six inches in diameter, capable of making two housand revolutions a minute. From Vienna comes the report that there are great expectations in that city of a flying ship devised by | Wilhelm Kress, whose work has been promoted by | liberal qomributions from the Emperor and many ol | the nobility. His vessel is to be sustained by wing: composed of silk and extended by steel ribs. The ma- chine is to be raised and moved by two propellers similar to a ship’s screws. These while propelling the vessel will make the wings or sails face the air. With these latter, or part of them, directed upward, a power will come into action which will first support the | weight of the boat and then, raise it in the air as it grows stronger. The serews are to be set in' motion by a benzine moter of twenty-horsepower, and-of such exceeding lightness as has never been before _constructed. Tt is believed that it will not weigh more than from eight to ten kilograms per horsepower, and it will be made of aluminum. Kress expects to have his vessel ready for trial in | the spring, and Count Zeppelin also intends to make | another attempt at that season. Flying ship trials are | therefore likely to be among the amusements of the | springtime, ’a"nd'perhaps_ something may be achieved | of practical value to the world. In ‘the savage quarrel between his Highness the ‘Mayor and the local ycllow sheet the public certainiy kas one subject for congratulation. An expose of the secrets of such a combination can contribute to noth- ing else but the public godd. It is sincerely to bz lioped that the fight will not end quickly. 5 g 3 The Russian Prince who dipped i and killed himself because his paper was suppressed ‘must have scen one of the An}:ric'a.n yellow sheets, and realized that if they are tolerated anything he might have done was virtue to be justified only by seli’-‘mprdcr. \ ; " The police officer. whoswas detailed to guard the city treasury and was found sound asleep at“hi 2 probably cau;lit his inspiration from that famous epi sode in which his Highness the Mayor “hefted” watchdog of the tréasury” who didn't v " watch. for the canal, the merchant marine bill, the reduction | Catinat, of 4065 tons, are worse, than at of taxes and big appropriations. There will be, of |first revorted. The vessel reeled oft' 20 | i | } | | nto journalism | g .| AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season is The recent trials of the French cruiser | knots when accepted from the! contrae- tors, but during her commission trial of twenty-four hours the speed averaged only 13 knots and barely 17 knots for two hours. « e ‘Agigantic dredging job ha# just been completed after seven years' labor. The entrance of the Hamvaze, Devenport, and the harbor bevond it have been deepened S0 as to allow vessels of deepest draught to enter and lie safely anchored. At one time several bars in the river showed oniy four feet at low water and 700,000 tons of rock have been removed to get a uniform depth of thirty feet at low water. . The German cruiser Victoria Lbuise of 5630 tons has disappointed her designers, as her speed under forced draughf with 10,000 horsepower was only 1530 Knots, where 20 knots was calculated. The Freya and Hertha, sister ships to the Victoria Leuise, are aiso said to have been de-| ficient in speed. The latter is fitted with Durr water-tube boilers, the Hertha has Belleville and the Freya has Viclausse bellers. The explosion of a tube in a Belleville boiler on board the new sloop Mutine last December caused the death of a stoker. Before the . coroner’s inquest recently closed testimony was given that the metal of the burst tube was of good quality, but the fact that a piece of wrought iron and some wood had been found in one of the tubes when the other boilers were opened after the accldent had a strong appearance of malice on the part of some unknown person. TR A Great Britain is evidently short of men for its navy. and wild rumors were in cir= culation at Portsmouth when the Admiral- ty recently called for a hundred naval pensioners to go on board the coastguards. There is.a ship short in the West Indies for *ack of men to commission a relief, apd i "has been found necessary to draw from the coastguards young and service- ablp crews to be replaced by the pension- ers, most of whom are close on to 55 years of age, the extreme limit at which they are liable to be called for active service. . . C R | Chief, Constructor Hichborn does not approve of the 18,000-ton battleships which England contemplates building. The ships will carry no heavier armor and will not be faster than these of 15000 tons now being built. Their only advan- tage would be in their seven S-inch guns, while the drawback would be a draught of probably twenty-eight feet, presenting larger target, increased coal consumption and a material increase in cost as com- pared with the less ungainly vessels build- Hus . . . . The expenditures for new ships and armaments in the Japanese Navy are cal- culated to reach $110,000,000 for the period of 1867 to 1%06. The greater part of the naval programme, begun in 1897, has been completed, and while practically ail the ships have been built abroad. naval af- fairs have not been neglected at home. A Japanese officer has invented a new smokeless powder. which is being intro- duced in the navy: the gun factory has been enlargea and improved with the view of making the largest caliber guns at home, and it is reported that an armor plate factory is to be established. - S b The British Admiralty has ordered ex- periments to be made with torpedo-hoat destroyers with a view of improving their steddiness as gun platforms. The inten- tlon is to fit bilge keels to the destroyers if it can be dome without materially re- ducing their se:ed and maneuvering ef- ciency. ‘The s to be experimented with will first be tried at speeds of 15.20 and 2 knots, of which full data as to horsepower and turning capabilities will be taken, after which trials the boat will be docked, fitted with bilge keels and again run over the same speeds as at the prior trial and a comparison of the re- sults under the ::u different conditions -will indicate the advisability of sactificing speed in order to make the boats more steady at sea. gk of entertainment. Apply § N l‘t:u-. lew ery st., city, for special ticket. % lograpl |'tin 1s the family name of the would Ifké to know what the position le. Then if you are requested to call, the ad- vertiser will judge whetiier you are young enough. ARMY AND NAVY--Regular, City. In the United States armv a man who en- lists as a private has.an opportunity to rise until he reaches ths highest position, as is evidenced by the promotion of Gen-, eral Chafee who enlistod as a private in the cavalry and was recently sioned a major general. In the navy different. A common saflor cannot “rise from the deck and become a commission=1 officer.”” He may become a chief boat- swain, chief gunner, chief carpenter, chief sallmaker or mate and rank as a warrant officer, but he cannot attain a higher rank. A sailor, if within the age lmt, might be appointed to the Naval Aca- demy at Annapolis, and in that case he ‘would, after graduation, be in line of pro- motion up to 'admiral. ROTATION OF THE MOON—L. M. S., ©Oakland, Cal. The reason the inhabitants of the earth have never seen but one side of the moon is because that Iluminary makes a revolution on her axis in the same time that she revolves around the earth, and so always presents the same face to us. The reason for this pecullar- ity, astronomers say, is the eliptical form of the moon itself. Tt is not probable that the moon originaily started on her axial rotation with precisely the same velocity with which she moved around the earth, but it is thought that the two motions were originally not very far apart, and the fact that the attraction of the earth slightly elongated the lunar globe served to draw the axial rotation in a period of time toward the orbital movement around the earth. Now, therefore, they so nearly correspond that if the orbital movement varies the other will undoubtedly vary with it, and thus the exact correspond- ence will be indefinitely kept up. DOGDAYS—IL. M. 8., Oakland, Cal. The name dogdays is applied to that time of the year when Sirus—known as the dog star, because It is in the constellation of Canis Major—the brightest fixed star in the northern hemisphere, rises for several successive weeks at nearly the same time as does the sun. The anclents regarded the conjunctipn of the rising of this star with the rising of the sun as the cause for the great heat at that pertod of the year, which is some time during the months of July and August. As. however, this con- junction of the sun and star does not oc- cur at the same time in all latitudes, and is not constant in the same region for a long period, there ha3 been much varia- 3~ it 134 A e T R e e TR R 3 TSI LR ] that appear in the papers, ‘Wanted—| C. F. Todd, a leading citizen of Vic- navy _f:‘Ol“:{“‘:: 1\1‘,: }C)elicf A zhc es i ‘t | FSOl lhctb]”gl]‘ ‘le“; of 1df5!‘;3” are rapidly dl:»‘OII\“;]& “(“uh:igds?:\fiwvcm has heen appropriated, is | Toung lady for an {’S“%Vmfl’r correct | torla, B. C.. accompanied by Mrs. Todd. pursuit was ue c ey were withou ortunately the weitare o e country is not wh y | car . in s to answer v o= > is characterized by 2 4 gkl o e i | clarths that you. ara n young lady emd |8 stopping at the Palace. W. S. Ritchie, who has large business interests in Auckland, New Zealand, | & guest at the Occidental. Many of the leading members of the Bernhardt-Coquelin company are stopping at the downtown hotels. Colénel J. English of the British army arrived in the city yesterday from Aus- tralia and is journeying to London. _D. W. Carmichael, a well-known mer- chant of Sacramento, arrived in the eity Yesterday and registered at the Lick House. Mr. and Mrs. A. Peter and Miss Peter prominent residents of Melbourne, Aus- _tralia, arrived in the city yesterday, and are stopping at the Oeccidental. They are en route to Euro A CHANCE TO SMILE. is “How did he happen to marry his type- writer?" “She demanded an fncrease in wages, and it was a_mere matter of economy. Indianapolis News. “There's a lucky man for you!" “How's that?" “Why, he’s got a butler so dignified that he even awes the cook into submission!"— Brooklyn Life. “T was awfully glad to recelve vour let- ter stating that you had repented. But why did° you send it unsealed?” “Because they say ‘an open confession is good for the soul.’ "—Philadelphia North American. Stockman—You remember that “point- er’” you gave me on the street yesterday? Bonds—Yes: what about it? Stockman—Why, [ tried it. and as a con- sequence I've come around to see if vou couldn’t let me have a retriever.—Rich- mond Dispatch. Choice candies, Townsend's. Palace Hotel.* Cal. glaée frvit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_— Valentines for old and young; the best we have ever shown. Sanborn, Vail & Co. * C———————— * } Best eyeglasses. specs, 15¢ to #e. Look out for 81 4th, front of barber and grocery.* —_——— Specfal information suppited dally to business: houses and public men the CH 0 R Press Clipping Bureau (Allew's), nlb{u-_o- Love, in the life of romance, Is a beau- tiful butterfly, but its wings are often tion in calendars respecting the time of the dogdays. Furthermore this rising he- came later and later in all latitudes, owing to precession. The beginning of these days has been vcriously fixed by almanac makers from July 3 to 26, and their. close from August 11 to September 7. QUEEN VICTORTA'S FULL NAME- ‘W. A. R, City. A history of the late Queen Victoria has the following about her name: There was some litfle trouble obout finding a name for the baby. The father to call her Elizabeth. thinking tbat from its glo- rious traditions that would prove a name to please the people should she oecupy the throne. But the prince regent, who was godfather, to- gether with the Emperor of Russia. gave only the name of Alexandrina to the ciergy. The father pleaded that another name be added and proposed that af the regent's own name, Georgina, but the regent said that that name could nof come in the second place and as the Emperor's must take precedence, if the baby had to have another name give her her moth- er's, so the princess came to be called Alex- andrina_Victoria, and in infancy she was known as Princess Drina, a name she dropped after her accession. The family name the late Queen. if it can properiy be sald she had one, was Guelph of Weif. Upon this point the fol- lowing from the Whitehall Review throws some light: At dinner the other night a celebrated his- present torian and T put a question to singed when it flutters around the flamd of material experience. e Go to the Inauguration. The Santa Fe will make excursion rates from California points to Washington and return om the occasion of the relnauguration of President McKinley, March 4th. The tickets will be sold on February 24th and 25th and will be good to return, starting from Washington, not later than March Sth. West of Chicago. however. the tickets will be good until March 25th. These tickets will be homared on the California Lim- Skimmed mif has got into th - tries, and 1t Is now Zound to be worih :;“cr.r; to papermakers than five cents a 5” ANEMIA - The face alone is no sure index of - health; but head- ache and dizziness, no ambition, e mr. | DO force, no endurance, short breath, palpitation of the heart st mate | ON little exertion—these with o must be the - sort’s. mhll 1s the surname ml:'mcum Consort’s family? Simple, but the Wettin. Every one smiled at le idea of the Guelphs reduced to Wet- tins. point was re to Theodore Martin. ““You are quite right” said the ful bi her of Prince Consort. - Wet iy, e K‘ruc Saxony and ul.‘.,,- n P la pale face, are a clear indica- (tion of what is wrong. There is too little red in the blood. " Thereis too littlevital force. 1t is life that is wanting. Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver ‘We'll send you a little to try, it you Tike., . SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street, New York