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

T HE /SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1vul e e all. | = .eiees.nn...FEBRUARY 12, 1001 RPN e i+ Bt Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephohe Press PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, S. F. Teleph. Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOM: 217 to 281 Stevenson St. Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ngle Copies, 5 Cents. PACIFYING CHINA. FLIABLE reports of the doings in China multi- R ply as time goes on. They comé as a running commentary on the extraordinary demands of the powers for indemnity and blood atonement. The evil doings began with the advent of Field Marshal Von Waldersee, who arrived after the real fighting was over and the last organized force of Boxers had been routed and dispersed. But Von Waldersee was commander-in-chief of the allied forces, and must do something to justify his journey and his high position. An American, Mr. { Millard, has described the situation as consisting of three distinct phases—resistance, punishment and re- | since the President seut in nominations for promotion, and these nominations have never been acted upon by the Senate. At each session of Congress I have prepared and submitted bills asking for rewards for these officers; no action has been taken upon them. In each of my annual regorts I have urged the matter with all the force possible, but it attracts no attention.” It is certainly time to get the Sampson-Schley con- troversy out of the way. The general mass of the people of the United States have long since dismissed it from memory, and there is no reason why Congress should not do so. Like the other events of the war, it has gone into history and should be left for his- torians to wrangle over. Whether the victpry is rightly due to Sampson or to Schley is after all a KING PIERPONT FIRST, BY DIVINE RIGHT OF WAY EDITORIAL UTTERANCE - IN VARIETY Passing of the G. A. B. The Grand Army of the Republic stil makes such a brave show upon parade that it comes like a shock to learn how ‘rgldl its numbers are decreasing. Since e ranks have been reduced from 400,489 to 276,662, a great division compris- ing 123,827 men has obeéyed the last com- mand and marched in mystery beyond the call of human volce or sight of human eyes.—Chicago Times-Herald. Absorption of Nations. % Single Bishop Thoburn thinks it is all right top DATLY CALL. Ginclaaing \:ngc-the first natural, the second necessary, the | minor matter. The battle was fought by the whole S AT dowe e 4 DAILY CAI c third crgminal. . DAILY CAI subscriptions. forwarded when requested. | o { hange of address should be | ND OLD ADDRESS in order compliance with thelr request. | taken part, which have been nothing but expeditions | for murder and brigandage. Cities have been entered The latter has been marked by the German punitive expeditions, in which the French and British have without resistance, and whose people, by orders of Li HUng Chang, had reccived the foreign troops hos- pitably, feeding them and furnishing all needed sup- fleet, and every ship bravely performed her part. The heroes of the West Indies merit recognition equal to that given to the heroes of the East Indies, and there should be no further delay in giving it. — \ THE KANS@s way. RS. NATION snfashed enough plate glass ~ evils. The I outcome of the Bi ar, ent lsol‘i’xgglho Creator made take in permitting such a diversity peoples, and has now called upon ¢ stronger nations to help him correct The Bishop seems flrmly planted o “Might makes right” proposition — napolis News. For Herself Alone. Hundreds of cranks are b mafis with letters to Miss M the Brid ening his word as a gentleman that it is not ¢ ] itably, feeding the : : o regentiy Toberiedd im0 kit I oo sty Sl T e L 5 1 ds, and such cities lave been systematically }ooted and hacked enough cherry bars to get a stock a2 marry them. Every Welter semares < and every Chinese murdered who dared to resist the of that notoriety “which is a step-brother to ku > C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Fuseger Foreign Acvertising, Marguetts Bullding. Obieags, | breaking of his doors and theft of his property. One of these forays visited the city of Tuliu, which fame, and then she accepted lecture engagements and NabZ mdpey, but for her éwn dear se he desires her. As they say so, t fhat e R e e | : s ‘left Kansas to the demon rum while she went forth ‘Ja'e’fie:'?!n’ésf‘ii’&'.l’i’fiib‘x‘.'_"1‘2‘.1!3;‘1%‘1‘; e ot | was erm:'red without firing a shot and found to be | to win pin money on the platiorm. En route to - Tad Sy A e NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: | already in possession of a British non-commissioned g > f C. €. CARLTON ...Herald Square | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | STEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building | 3 ORK NEWS STANDS: ria Hotel: A. Brentano, 8L Union Square; ANDS: Great Northern Hotel; | WASHINGTONX (D. C.) ¥ ...1406 G St., N. < W MOETON E. CRANE, Correspondent. officer and two privates. burned the town. When another large city was entered without resist- ance by order of EarlLi the troops were fed. There was no Chinese military force near. The inhabitants were non-combatants and unarmed, incapable of resistance. The day the allied forces took possession the streets teemed with people and the daily life and business flowed normally. The next day shops were closed and the streets were deserted, except by German, The troops looted and BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open o ntil 9:30 o'clock. 633 ek | | French and Italian soldiers wheeling«carts loaded woman's piercing scream broke from the muffling | depths of a cluster of houses and spent its echoes in the empty streets.” Chicago she passed across Iowa like a conqueress. That State has had her kind of hysterics and has cherished a desire to make people sober and religious by statute. For years the prohibition movement there suffered from the name of its leader, Mr. Todhunter, whose peculiar and thirst-suggesting cognomen was wrought into ribald verse by the scoffers. All Western Iowa turned out to hail the great Carrie, the war angel of Kansas, the bearer of glad tidings and a hatchet. The old lady made speeches, prayed-and extended the glad hand at every station, and when she reached Des Moines business was Ladies could go to her carriage. But, iike some of the storms that sweep across i"‘\~._.~_°°°°f_fi{ ) VIR JET] [ '““»yi"fi;,‘l?.fl. | with stolen property. The cx(y“ v:as systematically | blocked by the crowd and the police had to hew a "nh,e,-fll,%mg:;?:?e:ndnyw;fik ; lencia, open | 100ted. The narrator says: . “Now and then a | path with their clubs before the captain of the Smash rule the Turk simply savs that the k. NW. cor- | - An Heir to Italy. Rome has gone half mad dver the pros- pect of the birth of an heir to the thron “The Syndic of Rome and his coun ors are already deep in deliberation ov the solemn duties of high festivity res lnf upon the capital, and assoclations of all kinds, not excepting trade umions, ars beginning to organize subscriptions for every manner of present.”” Well, here's to the Italians! It's a fine thing to see a nation cheering up.—Boston Journal The Tyrannical Turk. The edlct of the Sultan of Turk bidding alten Jews to acquire pr the Turkish empire or to main country longer than three months one time is a disgraceful admissi for- - already knows that he cannot with any race that possesses the qua of energy, intelligence and thrift —Ka City World. those great prairie plains between the Missouri and the Mississippi, Mrs. Nation’s tempest seems to have spent itself at Des Moines, for she received notice that her Chicago lecture was canceled, as only $12 Pauperism in England. Late returns from the pauperism of tI United Kingdom give food for reflection amgng those studying the course of Eng- land. A nation may lose a portion dustries and yet be great in c It may either lose or win in war wit! affecting its future. But when a natior even while its wealth increases, finds total pauperism swelling it has need j All who resisted robbery were killed, and even the | Sikhs and Sepoys sickened of the mere butchery of | unarmed men while they were begging for mercy. | White civilian looters now go almost alone through- | " . worth of tickets had been sold. | out North China and demand money and take prop- | ~Then Mr. Nation arose and roared in his wrath. It | erty from the terrified people. One of these enter- | peop ; | was his first roar since these proceedings began. It prising persons started in with no capital but a mule | SUGGESTION FOR A CROWN FOR THE GREATEST RAILWAY AND STEEL MAGNATE IN THE WORLD. AFTER DESIGN BY AN ARTIST ® FOR THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE. — 3 FATHERJOHANNOFKRONSTADT les."” streets—Specialties. ternoon and . X was in disapproval of Mrs. Nation’s tour abroad | afligently k to reform things. When % Recital, to-merrow atter- | Cart and '}1,1‘“ mm:;d until he 1]5 rich. He had only to | while unsmashed saloons remained at home., He said 5 R flfilgfim""’:fllp:‘e’i‘:’?‘gotm%“‘fi";’:-‘ P - . e & P enter a village and announce that he was a “high, top- | P & i H H i : A land Sherman-Clay Hall—Piano R: orrow afternoom. , | he had invested his hard-earned money in the smash L 000 population, has 7,000, and Ireland, - : ., o ’ m 700,000, has also 97,000, it alifornia Jockey Club (Oakland | side English war man” and rob the town as easily s | reform and had stood by his wife while she was any eople of the pire Ook]ng Tot oniy that the current ideas copeern- . e Black Bart used to stand up a mountain stage. This | making the domestic rum-Seller seck the cyclone cel- 158 1hESS Semintrich ML B UGN RUC that where the wealth is greatest there the proportion of pauperism is the larg- est.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Loot in Mrs. Nation's Wake. The Anthony Republican is at hani with a full account of the joint-smashing crusade led by Mrs. Sheriff. A terribio feature of the work, says this paper, was the opportunity offered and eagerly selzed for looting. Men and boys followed the civilian stealing, however, is petty larceny compared | ar, but he declined to equip her as an invading force to the looting done by the military, under the eye of | to carry war into the States with which Kansas is at | the officers who represent the various Christian na- | peace. tions that are there to protect religion and its mis- So Kansas has a divided Nation. It appears that sionaries. | : £ | the Nations have disagreed before. The smasher and It is reported that an attaché of the American lega- | her husband came from that seat of universal calm, Upon Him as a Saint There are two men in Russia who can | that they might go to the church and Join say and do what they pléase. The heart | g\eraenl"e,::ly'she:yc&wczg::d':d °,'fl npne;m: of the nation is entwined around them, | re k o and the Government dare not touch them. | neft Mo*hers with screaming bables in thef, " 1 They are Tolstol and Father Johann. Th | tried to quiet them. Father Jonamn gavs people look upon Father Johann as a him a severe look, and told him that it | { McKENZIE'S CONTEMPT. the United | n given yesterday by 3 A . f Appeals, adjudging | ticn is in possession of over $700,000 in money and o Texas, and it is said to be of record that when Mrs. int; was he who wi sing the di ‘bance. | Women from saloon to saloon and helped | 3 2 . | saint; they believe that he has the power as as causing sturbance. i 2 3 i e & " i1 B i 3 ks B th T g, | After th rvice the two ladieg went | themselves to many gallons of liquor and Kenzie gu of contempt of | valuables stolen from the house of Lu Sen, the-un- | Nation chafed under the conjugal yoke Mr. Nation | {8 B e e o ol cutos with | ack t> their home, and presently Father | many thousands of ciars. The result wis therefor in the County | fortunate Chinese nobleman who was executed by he most striking and re- iordcr of the Empress Dowager because he was op- int country. The record : posed to the Boxer uprising against foreigners. His | H. Noyes, United States Dis- | family has been outraged and oppressed, and finally " | robbéd of all they had, by the very people in whose | that the town became filled with drunken men and boys. Boys could be seen spew- ing about the streets from the unaccus- tomed use of tobacco, and a number of them were drunk who probably had neye tasted liquor before in their lives. ¥ gather from the Republican’s account th the occasion became a big town dru Johann came to them. He listened while - the lady who spoke Russjan explained their errand. Then he put out both his hands, and drawing Mme, M——s head to- rard him kissed Rer gertly on the fore- ead. “When two cr three are gathered to- gether,” he said, solemnly, and then, had the habit of bringing her around with a horse- whip. Their neighbors are now of the opinion that if Carrie carry her hatchet too far afield, on her re- turn to home base she will need it to defend herself from a licking at the hands of her reformatory their own eyes. The old priest is more | than elghty years of age. He is too frail to walk alone in the crowd that flocks o his side the moment he appears in public. Soldiers walk on either side of him when- ever he is seen in the streets and have hard work to keep the crowd from crush-, ing him. When he comes to St. Peters- one of t 5 as denounced as “shocking.” me of the principal acts of | behalf he lost his life. The missionaries will hardly and it is a sad and curious commentary decis . : ries | husband. burg Ms followers stop the traflic in.the | UrlnE LoN T & B . o hegan % | on this kind of temperance education.— J Ne smection with the litigation before | expect that family to build many Christian churches. | Surely this is an interesting reform movement. The |~ Father Johann lives in Kronstadt, says | mutter long prayers in a voice that was | Kansas Citv World. time of his arrival at Nome with Mc- the latter for disobedience | the Court of Appeals. It dwells and corruption disclosed by these arrest of a parallel in the history of | e within the United States. a The defense | ed under legal advice in dis- t is pronounced to be simulated, not- | f attorneys testified to the Another defense, that yond his control when the writ 1 to be equally unfounded, v oath of the same attorney. | testion about the facts which ' f this infamous judge. nt allows this man Noyes to remain | offer an insult to every honest al bench andto the whole bar It is understood that McKenzie in high places, including Sen- | least one member .of the Cabinet, but if | ter and magnitude can escape | action of Congress and the | mies in honor of the mem-4 arshall should pass for a hollow | E v congratulate itself that it was sound the alarm on account of this | d that all its statements then ul inquiry, have been fully | solemn form by this decision, e greatest interest through- ut the United States ve then said in commenda- | tion of the Federal courts of this circuit has also been realized, and the people will regard them with in- creased favor and esteem for this merited rebuke and f corrupt practices in judicial proceed- 1 the Fede United States. es have fr Legislature of the State and the commer- | cial bodies of this city should unite in supporting the 1rts and the administration of the law by pub- ng this abuse of justice in Alaska, which v can fisa trously affected the general business of I's ¢oniession that he entered.into a litical conspiracy with the Examiner to divert some in his official bestowal to selfish profit-making schemers not only proves that he has stooped to that which is discreditable, but that on occasions he will betray his. pals. Mayor Phela e of the richest A whisky trust has been -established ifBDenver, where it is said more liquor is drunk than in any other American city in the Upion. This is one of the few cases where the consumers may be able to chea: the menopoly by caliing upon their internal reserve. David B. Hill of New York says that he will not under any circumstarices accept the Democratic nomi- nation for the' Presidency. If this means anything it means that David has been too long 2 mourner to head the procession in another political wake. It is to be hoped that the legislative investigation into the affairs of the local Police Department will be sufficiently thorough tc prove to Mayor Phelan whar everybody ¢lse knows—that white men are the vic- tims of licensed Chinese coolies in this city. o) A measure has beea introduced in the Statt Legis- lature to abolish grand juries. Perhaps it would be unfair to suggest that those who are interested in the bill consider it to be a measure of protection. White men, it is said, are leading Indians to battle S | emperor. | lesser importance, like Greece, or that are in a semi- | counts in politics. Ever since the outbreak of the war ed great detriment to many of our citi- { —— s | EDWARD'S TITLE, HORTLY after the, death of Victoria it was stated in the dispatches from London that Edward desires to have more prominence given to the title of emperor than to that of king when the time comes for his formal coronation. Not much at- | tention was given to the report at the time, for it was regarded as nothing more than rumor. It now ap- pears, however, that the subject is likely to become one of some importance, and when Parliament as- sembles it may be requested by the Ministry to change the title of the sovereign and crown Edward as Whether the agitation was started by the King does not appear, but the discussion of the subject is going briskly on. The London Law Journal has | openly advocated the change on the ground that the present title is not sufficiently expressive of the im- perial character of the domain over which Edward is to rule. It says the time has clearly come when the i title of “emperor” should no longer be confined to | India, but should be made to include the whole of the widely extended empire. It is further maintained that in our time the designation “king” has come to be more and more associated with monarchs of states of dependent condition, iike Prussia. As Great Britain | is neither a weak nation nor a dependent nation, her monarch should bear a title which, to the modern world, signifies the ruler of a domain of the first class. The question is a seatimental one, and yet sentimenz | in South Africa there has been a growing spirit ot in Mexico. This ought to be one of the cases where the color of the skin is absolutely no indication of what is underneath. imperialism in the great colonies of Canada and Aus- head of their states known as Emperor of the whole British empire, rather than as King of the compa a- | tively narrow islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Parliament to change the title, and consequently it is | not improbable the world may be called upon to hail Edward not as king, but as emperor, on the day of ——— JUSTICE FOR THE BRAVE. OUT of Secretary Long’s recent letter to Senator “failure to recognize the services” of Lieuten- | ant Hobson, Captain Clark and others of the fleet that fought at Santiago, there has come a renewal of of Sampson and of Schley. The renewal is to be re- gretted for many reasons. In the first place the whole subject has been threshed over many times, all the will ever agree as to the conclusion to be drawn from them. We are thus having a controversy that injures the repute of the navy, engenders antagonism between all for no good end. The worst of it is that while that quarrel goes on naval officers who are not in any way responsible for it are kept out “of their deserved In the.course of his letter the Secretary says: “I feel keenly the lack of any recognition of Hobson, whose feat is famous the world over.” Concefning*‘ trip around the Horn to take part in the battle is one of the marvelous feats of naval war, he says: “Captain Clark is two numbers worse off now than if there had fleet have been promoted and rewarded while those of the West Indian fleet have received nothing. tralia. It would be gratifying to them to have the That fact may have some influence in determining his coronation. Morgan, explaining why there has been a the old controversy between the opposing supporters facts are known, and it is not likely the contestants two officers, both of whom the country honors, and promotion. the case of Captain Clark of the Oregon, whose flying been no war.” In other words, the men of the Manila | .u_e,Su-muyn: “It,is more thnm»yyemm to Mrs. Nation's methods. | a college student, attacks his father and intimates that the people made a mistake in electing him Governor. hatchet-swinger for prohibition married to a con- genial spirit who does not need to get drunk to use a | whip in enforcing matrimonial discipline! Kansas would not be Kansas if this were the only rift in the lute. The Governor of the State is opposed But the Governor’s son, Perhaps if Governor Stanley could borrow Mr. Nation’s horsewhip and use it on his rebellious son the official air of Kansas would be clearer. In the midst of all this hurly-burly it is probable that common sense enough may appear to resubmit prohibition to the voters and get from them a de- cision calmly made, and one that will be backed by public opinion. In the present condition of things there it is per- fectly certain that unlawful liquor-selling will cease during the spasm of excitement, only to be resumed again under circumstances that teach disrespect for all law. ADVANCEMENT OF UNIVERSITIES. NE of the most gratifying features of American O life is displayed in the promptness with which nearly every demand for higher education is complied with. As soon as it is known that a uni- versity of the first class is in need of funds the funds are forthcoming. A The latest illustration of that fact is furnished by the people of Baltimore in dealing with Johns Hopkins University. That institution has outgrown its present quarters in the city. Room is needed for expansion. Only a short time has elapsed since that need was first announced to the public, and already | steps have been taken to amply supply it. Five citi- zens of Baltifore have come forward and offered to donate to the university 151 acres of land, described by the Baltimore American as “being amir ated on the outskirts of the city.” T made provided that the sum of $1,000, bé raised to increase the university endowment, Thlt‘_atipulation is put in the offer because in the present cofidition of the university finances the gift of land would be a burden rather than a benefit to the institution. It is not to be doubted that the required million will be speedily forthcoming. Johns Hopkins will then entér upon a new era in its history. It will no longer be confined to comparatively narrow quar- ters within the city, but will have a spacious campus, ample for all the needs of university life. It goes without saying that when the trustees enter upon their new domain they will follow the example set at the University of California, at Stanford and at Chicggo and prepare plans for the harmonious group- ing of the university buildings; and that the structures will be of a high ocder of architecture. Thus the United States will have another great seat of learning, notable for beauty and magnificence as well as for the education it provides. = The movement at Johns Hopkins should be a stimu- lus to California, and prompt the people and the Legislature to promote the State university by all means in their power. Money devoted to higher edu- cation may be said to be invested rather than ex- pended. It advances cvery interest of the common- wealth; it prepares a way for future good of inc_lk;ul— able value, and its benefits flow forth to all classes of the community. In the closing years of the last cen- tury many millions of dollars were voted by States or given by munificent millionaires to the cause of higher education, and it is eyident that the new century will continue the good custom. The time is not far dis-| tant when American universities will serve as models the Pall Mall Gazette, and people of all classes travel thousands of miles that he may heal their diseases. If the sick can- not come themselves their friends come instead and beceech him to pray for them. His eyes are supposed to have miraculous power. By looking into people's faces he can read not only their thoughts, but their history, and he advises them about the future with such satisfactory resulis that their faith in him is unbounded. A lady in Switzerland who had a sick son heard of Father Johann and decided that she would go to Kronstadt and ask him to pray for the boy. Friends in St. Petefsburg put the matter before the priest, and asked wheéther he thought it would be of any use for Mme. M— to come so far. “No,” he repiled; ‘“let her remain in Switzerland. God can cure her son there. I will pray for her, and she need not come.” But the lady was not satisfied: she came {o Kiouktady beinging aifother lady Wit her as interpreter. ey found rooms in his house set apart for people from a dis- tance. Everything was very simple, and the moderate sum of one rubie (two shil- lings) was charged for the night. At 4 in the morning they were awakened | scarcely audible, ‘When he had finished he turned around and walked-brusquely away. Mme. M— touched his arm and pointed to a purae full ot}{nm which she had placed before him. e turned back a moment, seized the purse and walked off. He had not gone many yards when the ladies saw a poor man come up to him begging. Without a moment’s hesitation Father Johann drew the purse out of his | pocket and glve it to him. Money is nothing to Father Johann. He takes what | each chooses to give and hands it to the first who asks. s Once a girl pushed her way through the crowd to his side and said: “I have a friend whe has something wrong with her | eyes. The doctors say she must undergo an operation or she will become blind. ‘What {s she to do?" “‘She will get well,” replied Father Jo- hann without a moment’s hesitation. ““There is no need of an operation.’” The sirl went away perfectly satisfied. This is only one of the thousands of cases brought to him daily. Sometimes while the people are telling him their ‘woes he reads the newspaper, and more than once he has fallen asieep while lis- tening to some long story. PERSONAL MENTION. J. R. Foster, a hotel man of Marysville, is at the Lick. 5 Dr. J. D. Hodgen has returned from an extended Eastern visit. P. B. McCabe, a merchant of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. R. Robertson, proprietor Springs, is a guest at the Lick. R. M. Seltzer, a mining man of Red- ding, 18 registered at the Grand. George T. Cameron and wife of Bakers- fleld are guests at the California. General W. F. Forsyth and Lee L. Grey, raisin growers from Fresno, are at the Occidental. Jackson Dennis of Sutter Cgeek and W. H. Haley of Grass Valley, mining men, are at the Grand. 1. Katz, a merchant of Port Townsend, Wash., arrived in tie city yesterday and is registered at the Lick. ot Gilroy R. S. Ruble, traveling passenger agent | of the Union Pacific, with headquarters at Ogden, is in the city. J. P. Rasmussen, a paint and oil mer- chant, and B. Langley, a raiflroad man, both of Portland, Ore., are guests at the Grand. ' A. J. McSorley, a prominent attorney of San Andreas, and R. B. Butler, a fruit man of Fresno, are registered at the Grand. H. Wittenberg, the connected with - Portland Cracker Company of Portland, arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Grand. E. O. McCormick, general passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, will leave for Chicago Thursday to attend the convention of the Transcontinental Passenger Managers’ Assoclation which convenes next Monday" g e e SR CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—S. C. Bart, at Cadillac; J. H. Clark, at Albert; J. 8. Flynn, at Cadillac; 8. Gerson, at Broadway Cen- tral; H. Glass, at Colonnade; W. M. Heron and wife, at Hoffman; E. E. Hew- Jett, at New Amsterdam; Captain L. J. Hubert, &t Grand Union: J. Marks, at Herald Square; Mrs. A. Martin, at Nor- mandie; J. Coleman, at Rossmore; J. C. , at Holland. - L Oakland—J. A. Britton, at Im- perial. I r—— S The system of rnun! on the unimproved 1and values seems o bé growing in favor with the local authorities of New Zea- land.. Hitherto the land and improve- ments have been equally Ifable to be taxed for local purposes, but a recent act of | | Ma | ary the least windy. ANSWERS TO QUERIES’ LUZON ISLAND-F. M., City. For clerical lgm tions under the Government in the Philippines. address the military governor of the d of Luzon, P. I. OLD HORSE SALE—A. R., San Joge, Cal. The old horse sale by Wells, Fargo & Co. this year will probably take place in rch. " The fact is usually advertised prior to the sale. ch. for thirty days CHEVRONS--A. J. K., City. The gold | chevrons on the coat sleeve of a sergeant | of police in San Francisco and the white ones on the sleeve of a patrolman, indi- cate the number of years he has been on the force. Each chevron means five years' service. UNITED STATES LANDS—W. H. D., City. For rules and regulations concern- ing the taking up 6f Government land make application at any of the Uhited States land offices. If you desire laws on that subject you can find such in the e Public ‘Library in San Francisco. NEWSPAPERS—-E. E. H,, City. A per- | son having information to impart to a newspaper should address gimself to the managing editor. If It is a matter of great lmportance he will give it personal attention. If it Is an ordinary item of news he will direct some the information. TR0 Ty L = T WINDY DAYS—C. P., City. Every day in the year in San Franelsco may be called windy, for there is searcely a day in the year when there is not some wind. During the year 1900 the average velocity was nine and one-half miles. In that year July was the windiest month and Febru- CABIN BOY—A. J. K., City. The duties of a cabin boy on board of a steamer and on board of a salling vessel vary in ac- cordance with the rules that govern the ship. Such a boy is generally expected to perform such duties as his age and physical capacity will warrant. His prin- cipal duty s to wait on the passengers and officers of the ship. SCHOOL DISTRICTS — F., Salmon Creek, Cal. If a schoal district was formed in a courfty, the requisite number of children was secured, petition sent to the County Superintendent and all other requirements were compifed with, and a year has passed without any action Mnr taken in d_to establishing a school, the residents of the district should lay the matter before the County Board of Education and ask for reasons. A MONTH'S RENT—R, R, City. It Is ‘generally understood that a person who President Diaz. The serfous fliness of President means much to Mexico, would be to that country far more tentous than was the passing away Queen Victoria of England. To Porfirio Diaz, soldier and statesman, who has ruled over Mexico so jong and so well, is due all of that country’s rapid advance of the last quarter of a century. Substantial as that advance has been, the best ob- servers have feared that when Diaz re- nounced the Presidency a period of dis- order and disturbing change would follow, and it has perhaps been this feeling that has caused the man himself to give up more than once his cherished desire for retirement. He Is now 79 years old, and the question of a fit successor is ohe vital moment to the perpetuation of tho republic which he has done so much more than any other one man to found and pre- serve.—Philadelphia Times. A Third Sex. In 1840 Harriet Martineau found only seven gainful occupations open to women, and of these but four took them away from home. In 1890 nearly 4,000,000 Ameri- can women were engaged in 360 out of 369 occupations. At present there are prob- Diaz and his deatn r ably 5,000,000 American women engaged In about 400 gainful pursuits. uropean women are still more “advanced.” In 1899 only 12 per cent of American women Wers engaged In what might be called exclu- sively bread-winning occupations, while in @ermany the percentage was 25, and in England 27. In France 40 per cent of the factory ‘“‘hands” were women, and outside of the factorles were thousands more of female workers. Henry P. Finck thinks this invasion by women of the bread-winning occupations must_inevitably change the character of ec! As they in the same pursuits, follow ideals, their thoughts and feel ) lieves, their tastes and mann. and even their features, must gradually approxi- mate those of men. The final result then would be the creation of a sex antagonism which can have but one of two effects.— Chicago Inter Ocean. on, engage the same he be- ur church? ' - Malaprop—No. {ndeed. He doesn’t believe in no church. i Mrs. Browne—You don't tell me? Mrs. Malaprop—Yes, he don’t belleve in nothin’. He's a reg’lar acrostic.—Cleve- land Leader. “From v owledge of telegraphy.™ said m': 3?3; :l‘:vl to the operator, “do you think it possible that the earth ever can recefve n?;;nals_.from , as’ Tesia jone? thinls B S nawered the overator. “we often get myslttrl.r]\xs =ignals on our rez- instruments. “l‘!“lrlut is it possible those n|!:n:!s ever can be interpreted intelligently " ““Undoubtedly they can: in fact, T think an experien operator could have told Tesla at once what Mars was saying to him. “You do?;".whn.t do you suppose Mars W ably 1t was ‘Get off the lne, you it big ham! “—Buffalo Express. “I do not believe in telling a child ghost storles to_ frighten him when he Is naughty. When Clifford is naughty I ex- fain the germ theory to him and have Bim look through a microscope at bacte- ria. It frightens him terribly. and at the same time Inculcates sclentific knowl- edge.""—Detroit Journal. vz St AR ' Chotce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* oo b o Cal. glace fruft Sc per Ib at Townsend's.® —————— pplied dally to Special information sul - public | iy o tells a you:: man all ‘When a for tha e St e e Press gomery £ hires a room by the month has the priyi- ‘lege of the room for thirty days, but cus- tom has made it an unwritten law that .if a room is rented on the first of a month the oécupant has the use of the untfl the fl.ntt t{uhe following month, ir- pective of that the mon my have thirty-one da; It a e ber, 190, the next month's r{m ‘was and plyfl".lo“un the of as Toom | the occasion of e Al — -+ @o to the Inauguration. Santa Fe will make excursion Caltforma points to Washington the