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Granf Opers House—*Around the World o Eighty Days.” house—Sembrich Opera Company, March 18 The Black Flag.” Faust.™ ~Vaudeville. r Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities. Theater—Vaudeville every afternocm and AUCTION SALES day, at 11 o'clock, Horses, Bus- reet. Co.—Tuesday, March 12, at 10 o'clock, rket street. WRECK OF THE RIO. saster at sea has pre- unpleasant and blameworthy the wreck of the Rio. It is in evi- re violated right and left. ‘The rders not to make or leave port ngineer was under orders to be but he was in his room. The der orders to report distress ign of wreck and trouble. He heard death scng of the Rio’s whistle and n to it. As far as the investigation has rred passengers had the benefit of none guards upoa which all who go down to the ely § safety in making or leaving rt controlled by z civilized Government. The the interests of San Francisco are deeply of untoward incidents. We by t any human foresight, courage n i ate all elements of danger on desire to be lenient and respectful of of those who are involved in the re- for this heart-breaking disaster. But at e one cannot avoid feeling that the long ecord of the Pacific Mail Company should hed it to extra caution. The loss of nine- teen great ships in fifty years should have accumu- lated an experience that would have raised safeguare ‘erhaps it has. We don’t know. The action of Cap- in Ward in permitting his ship to start in the fog 1ave its explanation in some bad half hours that have who do not make time. Is it dread of at makes them take risks? St ers are sometimes overloaded, or their cargo = badly stowed. The captain has to take the. risk. s he authority over the agent to refuse more cargo en his capacity is reached? The wreck of the Rio all these and other issues, in which the public a keen interest. our harbor properly buoyed and equipped with P for thei istles and lights? Would a bell or whistle on ock have prevented this disaster? Does the nment do its full duty by San Francisco har- Have we the automatic lights, duplicate light- p and other safeguards which it is considered the of all Governments to provide for the safety of ners?’ All these are vital questions. Two large steamers the Pacific Mail Company have laid their bones in the Golden Gate within gunshot of each other. 1f hat had happened to the Cunard line in New York harbor its significance would ha(e been understood. 1t would have been taken as implying lack of skill or cipline on board, or failure of the .Government to pe rt, light and buoy the harbor, or both. Ounr dommercial bodies, which comprehend the great importance of these safeguards to the good rep- vtation of the port, and have knowledge of the im- portance of that reputation to every interest here, should make themselves felt in securing whatever 'may be done to remove the bad impression made by this latest and saddest sacrifice of life and propegty. It is too late to save the ship that lies at the bot- tom, but it is not too late to take measures to keep others from joining her. ong the things bard to understand is the con- ed defense of the delinquent life-saving lookou¢, er his confession that the sinking steamer’s distress was heard and not heeded, by the superinten- of that service. 5 meets this confession by a plea for suspension gment until the matter is investigated! The con- imits all that an investigation could find out I5 is this sort of thing that demoralizes a service and makes it unfit for its functions. The Oakland Judge who expressed a desire the other day to adjourn court, leave the bench and thump an annoying attorney probably believes that an ar- gument on the jaw is more effective than one with that instrament. Y 5 S K. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1901. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR ; THE SAN Francisco CALL. Strange Story of How England Won Egypt THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. RESIDENT McKINLEY'’S inaugural address p is marked by a directness of expression rage among statesmen. He announces with satis- faction that much has been done during the past four years to provide legislation needed for the welfare of the country, but does not hesitate to point out that much remains to bé done. The greater portion of the address is devoted to the issues growing out of the war with Spain, and on each of those issues he speaks with clearness and with force. It is indeed gratifying to note the difference between the conditions of the country now and what they were when McKinley made his inaugural address four years 2go. At that time, as he has said, “There was great anxiety with regard to our currency and credit. None exists now. Then Sur treasury receipts were inade- | quate to meet the current obligations of the Govern- ment. Now they are sufficient for all public needs, and we have a surplus instead of a deficit. Then I felt | constrained to convene Congress in extra session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government. Now I have the satisfaction to an- nounce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000. Then there was ! deep solicitnde because of the long depression of our manufacturing, mining, agricultural and mercantile industries, and the consequent distress of our laboring population. Now every avenue of production is crowded with activity, labor is well employed, and American productions find good markets at ‘home and abroad.” The country, looking back to the years of the first bard fight against Bryanism and free silver, has ample reason to rejoice that the common-sense of a majority of the voters was sufficient to save the republic from and the people had Bryan been elected it is impossible to say, but it would strely have been far different from that which prevails. Instead of being able to contrast our good fortunes of the present with the anxiety of the past four years'oi Bryanism would have brought us to a point where we would look back upon the conditions of four years ago as a period of comparative prosperity and security. It is significant of McKinley’s progressive states- manship that he does not dwell long upon the record of things accomplished, but proceeds at once to direct attention to things which remain to be done. Upon that point he said: “The national verdict of 1896 has for the most part been executed. Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with un- diminished force upon the Executive and Congress.” That declaration gives the country hope that the pledges to promote the construction of the Nicaragua canal, to upbuild the American merchant marine ana to provide an adequate immigration restriction law will be speedily fulfilled. It gives assurance that the administration will urge those great measures upon Congress at the next session, to the end that every promise made by the Republican party to the people will be faithfully kept. Upon the questions involved in our relations to Cuba and the Philippines the President’s declarations are clear and emphatic. He expresses gratification at | the recent act of Congress defining the policy which the legislative branch of the Government deems essen- tial to the best interests of Cuba and the United States, and announces an intention to uphold that pol- icy to the end, so that there shall be secured to the | Cuban people a “free commonwealth on abiding foun- dations of right, justice, liberty and assured order.” In the Philippines the President points out that he ’i: seeking to establish peace and civil government. By far the greater part of the inhabitants, he says, | “recognize American sovereignty and welcome it as a guarantee of order and of security for life, property, liberty, freedom of conscience and the pursuit of hap- piness.” He declares emphatically he will protect the loyal Filipinos against the aggressions of insur- gents, and he adds: “Force will not be needed or used when those who make war against as shall make it no more.” o Such are the President’s declaritions concerning the chief issues before the republic. There is everything in them to confirm public confidence in the adminis- tration and not a word to give rise to any fear of dis- turbance in domestic or in foreign affairs. The people can draw from it a renewed assurance that the admin- ist‘ation of the government is in safe hands, and that | whatever emergency arise we shall have in the White House the right statesman to dea! with it. O fornia capital is invested in raising rice it Eastern Texas. That rice field was opened by 2 number of settlers from Iowa, who interested Gov- ernor Shaw and a group of Iowa capitalists. The ter- ritory adjoins the rice lands of Western Louisiana, and is well situated for the flooding that is necessary { to the crop -and the draining that is required at har- vest time, when the grain is cut with a reaping ma- chine and threshed iike wheat, after which the “paddy,” as the unhulled rice is ‘called, is taken to the mill, which hulls and fits it for consumption. Texas, from the Brazos eastward, is fitted for both rice and sugar growing. 5 But the marvel is that California capital should go away from home to raise rice. Thel tule lands of the delta of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers and their borders present an ideal situation for rjce cul-+ ture. These lands when leveed have every facility for flooding and draining, and their fertility and .dura- bility excel the quality of the Texas lands. 1t is 2 mistake to treat rice as a tropical cereal only. It is the leading field crop of Japan and of parts of China that are by no means tropical. There is no reason why. it should not flourish in California and even become eventually an article of export to Asia: Li Hung Chang is authority for the statemeft that the population of China is about to overtake the food supply, and that rice or a substitute must soon he largely imported to take its place. With this prospect | in view it is quite worth while to experiment with rice on the overflow lands of this State. Much of the land in the Yolo basin, which is periodically flooded, resembles the rice land of Eastern Texas. The river islands, in the delta, that are under levee, ought to find rice a profitable crop at a yield of two tons per acre, which ought to be reached. We are large im- porters of rice to supply the demand of our Asiati population, who prefer it to any other cereal. Its successful culture would diversify our crops, and on properly protected tule lands would add desirably to the possible rotation of crops, which is the life of the. soil. 2 The milling is not a costly process, and if an experi- ment in the culture should succeed the placing *of a mill does not require much capital. Time was that California did not bread herself, be- cause it was thought wheat would not flourish here, Then came a time when it looked as though this S could provide the world's Joaf. The uses of our soil have been discovered empirically, and one after an- CALIFORNIA RICE. UR readers were surprised to learn that Cali- the menace of that financial fallacy and demagogism. | What would have been the condition of the country other valuable products have been a;lded to our cornu- copia. The man who will try his properly situated land with rice may well'be written down in the future a benefactor of his State. i - It is a subject of interest just now that the railroads are putting the State under inspection of intending immigrants. If a great number of people would leave the Upper Mississippi Valley to raise rice in Eastern Texas, there is no reason why some should not be per- suaded to found the same industry here. TROUBLES L means to compel Chicago husbands to support their wives. It appears the three charitable societies of that city have reported more than 2000 cases of want caused by the desertion of their families by husbands, and have asked that something be done to check the evil. The response of the Legislatu-e has been made by the intfoduétion of a bill providing that a husband convicted of deserting his wife shall be confined for a term in penitentiary and while there shall be required to work at some profitable trade, the earnings whereof shall be turned oves by the State to the family left in want. That makes the third Eastern State that has had its attention drawn this winter to matrimonial infelici- ties that cannot be cured by divorce. In Connecticut they have been disctissing the advisability of estab- lishing a whipping-post for the punishment and re- form of husbands who beat their wives. In Delaware they have been trying to devise a means of dealin out square justice to women who beat their husbands, and now Illinois seeks to restrain deserters. It would seem that since divorces are so cheap and easy in the East husbands and wives who could not get along together without fighting could readily quit and start anew. Evidently, however, the seeming ease of divorces is deceptive. There are troubles that cannot be reached by legal separation. The husband either desires to thrash his wife or to fly from her without paying the costs of a divorce suit and run- ning the risk of being saddled by the burdens of ali- mony. r While we have no such troubles as these in our fair land of happy homes we can none the less sympathize with the Eastern legislators who have to deal with them. Undoubtedly wife desertion is bad. Some of our Eastern exchanges declare it to be worse than wife-beating. To leave a family exposed to want and in danger of starvation, they say, is a greater wrong than to whip the whole family from mother to babe. On an issue of that kind we cannot pronounce judg- ment. The relative demerits of the two evils are bet- ter understood in the East than herd, and we cannot do better than to accept the decision of the experts of that section. The desertion of families may there- fore be conceded the crying evil of the time on the other side of the Rockies. It makes not only the wife cry, but the charitable societies cry, whereas in wife- beating there is only cne who has to weep. Since the wrong has been carried to the extent de- scribed it is certainly time something be done to pre- vent it. When in a single city there are reported more than 2000 cases of want caused by husbands de- serting their wives and helpless children, it is high time the law undertake to suppress the practice. W Philippines it is worth while to give special ai- tention to anything in the way of comfort and joy that comes from that quarter. For that reason we note with satisfaction in a copy of the Manila Times, just received, a speech by a Filipino which is at oncc glowing, patriotic and graceful. It appears that when the Filipmo employes of the Ordnance Department were to take the oath of alle- giance to the United States and the flag they deter- mined to make a fiesta of the occasion and to perform the ceremony with something of dignity and-grace. At the close of the formal oath-taking one Hugo Ascension, chosen orator of the day, made the follow- ing speech: “Filipinos: Thisis the hour in which ithe light spreads itself over the fields like a mantle of gold; when the ancient trees, with their clinging parasites, lazily move their great crowns in the breath | of the early breeze; when the shrubs greet the day with the delicious odors of their flowers, on whose ten- drils the dew has left a pearl which the sun turns into a beautiful gift from a serene night of love; when the birds raise, in concerted choir, their hymn of praise—in short, all nature salutes the father of life, the luminous representation of the Creator of the world. Now that we have had the happiness of being- gathered under the starry banner, do not doubt, Fili- pinos, that the grand republic of America is that which will conduct us, be it late or early, to the moral and material good of these islands: Therefore, you who have signed and sworn your fealty to this grand nation, join with me in crying: Long live the starry banner! Long live our colonel! Long live our lieu- tenant! Long live AMERICA!” There is something attractive and charming in the Filipino idea of making a festival out of the ceremony of oath-taking. It is far better than the way the thing is done in this country, where the naturalization of a citizen is carriedjout in a manner so perfunctory it can hardly appear solemn even to the most devoted patriot. Moreover, Ascension’s speech, while flowery, as befits his tropic race, has a good deal of well tem- pered sense in it, and shows what Filipino loyalists IN THE EAST. EGISLATORS in Tllinois are trying to devise A FILIPINO ORATION. E get so much in the way of ill news from the hope for from this country. It is to be trusted the confiding natives who take the oath of allegiance to our flag with such joyous ceremonies and such high hopes are not going to be disappointed. Whatever we do in the islands should be done honestly for the moral and material .good of the people. It will be our own fault if the starry ban- ner which Ascension so earnestly hailed should ev‘r be anything else to the loyal Filipinos than a symbol of peace and prosperity. The gallant officers of the Solace, who seem so fear- iul of customs authorities that they ran away with their ship, have set an example which, for men of their trade, is dangerous to establish even in times of peace. They should not even be afraid of themselves. Many of the Filipinos, it is said, are now ready to take the oath of allegiance to Uficle Sam. It is evi- dent ‘that they have already learned that cherished American custom of making good resolutions simply for the privilege of breaking them. ' 4 A R An English statesman has made the very pertinent inquiry of what neutrality means in the twentieth cen- tury. The conduct of his country is absolutely proof that he will have to go from home for an answer to his question. - That very interesting practice of peddliné gold bricks to susceptible and gullible persons seems ' to have some vogue in Europe: Don Carlos, the Span- i;h pretender, has resigned his. pretense in favor of is son. : : . . as a Colony and Gained Neither a Protectorate Nor Revenue. By Alfred Stead. (COPYRIGHT, 1%1.) IIIL—EGYFT AND THE SOUDAN. The position of the British in Egypt is| without parallel in the whole world. There | is no protectorate over Egypt, there has | been no acnexation and yet, to all in-| tents and purposes, Englgnd rules the | ccuntry. | | Egypt does not bring any revenue to Ergland—in fact, it costs large sums an- rually to maintain the occupation. There ; is always the chance that the develop- | ment of Egypt may enlarge the market | for British goods, but as the policy of | the open door is adhered to with the greatest firmness, this method of making | the occupation worth while does not seem | particularly and selfishly good. Of course, as the prinepal shareholder in the Suez| canal Great Britain feels bound to Insure | peace and good government in the coun- | try_through which the canal pasSes. ‘The position in Egypt 1s somewMat sim- flar to_what would have been the case | iu the Philipgines if America had ailowed | the Filipinos to govern the country under | Spanish suzerainty, with an international bpard to manage the. revenue and expen ture of the islands. Such a state of affairs would naturally suggest chaos and | impracticability of any sane government; yet this is almost exactly the position | England occunies in Egypt, with, in addi- | tion, several other obnoxious restrictions to contend with. That under the circum- stances it has been possible to lift ths Egyptian people as much as it has done, and to introduce good government, is most + in 1882 to establish a good government for 2gypt. Much has been done since then, but the material upon which the English officials have to work is so little progress- ive that much time must be spent before the Egyptians really appreciate the mean- i ing of freedom. About 60 per cent of the population be- longs to the agricultural class—the “fel- lahin.’* These people are conservative and primitive in their habits and are uniformly cheerful despite the centuries of oppres- sion which they have undergone. Food is cheap, and there is no appearance of ab- ject poverty to be found. A peasant can live well on a plastre (5 cents) a day. The greater part of the population are Mohammedans, but they are not particu- larly. fanatical. In upper Egypt are to be found the Copts, or native Christians, who form about one-tenth of the population. They are credited with being less hones than their Mohammedan ‘fellow country. men and are looked down upon by the lat- ter. “" British Reform in Egypt. Turning to what has been done in the way of reform since 1882 by Great Britain in pt we find, naturaliy enough, that tho changes instituted were not at all pepular at first. The native officials found out that they were no longer free to extort money, the weaithy landowners discovered that no longer was all the wa- ter theirs for Irrigation: and even the “fellahin” were disappointed because their creditors flocked back and demanded payment of loans contracted in lsmail's time. However, year by year the condi- Egyptian Water e 253) A Venders, Cairo. creditable to England. This is still true, even if we impute to her the most unfa- vorable motives for all the good work done. ‘Granted. for the sake of argument, that the British intend to remain per- manently in Egypt, does that at all lessen the value of the fact that now the an- nual taxes per head of the inhabitants amount to only 17 shillings 6 pence (3420), as compared with £1 2 shillings 6 pence ($544) in 1881; or that the proportion of debt per head is only £10 2d ($4344), as compared with €14 &s 9d (36985 in the former vear? Whatever may be the pol- icy of Great Britain with regard to Egypt, it will be an unhappy day that sees the Egyptians restored to that complete free- dom under which extortion and the ecor- vee so luxuriously flourished in the olden times. How the British Entered Egypt. In the time of Napoleon the struggle be- tween France and England for a colomal empire was principally fought out in Egypt, and sirce the construction of the Suez canal the courtry has become still more important, politically as well as commercially. Egypt is the Nile and the Nile is Egypt. Without the one great river there would only be a desert where cnee flourished the civilization of the Pharachs. Thus we see plainly that it really is not of such great importance who occupies Egypt as it is who occupies the Soudan and the country of the upper Nile. Since the last war in the Soudan, which resuited in the crushing of the der- vish power, that country has been placed under the joint control of England and of Egypt, quite irrespective of the situatiorn in the country of the lower Nile. By this stroke of policy in gaining control of the Nile the position of England in Egypt is ractteally rendered unassailable, and Ens‘and may now remain there as long as it shall desire to do so. Eeypt is a tributary_state of Turkey and pays annually a Yribute of about £7§L& (33,630,000). The Khedive, however, ts practically independent, as far as his own territories are concerned. 1In the time of the Khedive Ismail, after 1883, the Suez canal was constructed at a cost of some £16,000,000 and thousands of lives Great Britain bought Egypt's rights in the canal, and thus the country through which this important waterway runs has no share in its success. The share pur- chased by Great Britain for £4,000,000 is now worth at least £20,000,000. Disastrous Rule of Ismail Pasha. When Ismail Pasha came to the throte in 1863 the national debt was only about £3,000,000, and vet in 1876 it had mounted to £89,000,000, and this without any cauze except the awful extravagance of the Pasha. To meet the interest on this debt and to pay the increased taxes the inhabi- tants of the country were squeezed and ruined without mercy. Thus it was a re- Hef when the deposition of Ismail took lace in 1879, and the dual control of g‘rflnce and England was established. The finznces of the country were in a fright- ful condition and it was not possible for Egypt to repudiate its debts. Europe was bound to intervene and after long negotia- tiors an an; nt was arrived at whereby the_interest on the debt was re- duced, but Egypt was not allowed to nd any money without the consent of . The “Cafsse de la Dette,” a of representatives of the great pow- recciver and controller of'the finances. c consent of this board has to be obtained before any money may be spent or any loan raised for extraordinary needs. This fact nices-n.ruy hampers the Government, and the British officials es- clally, as many of the powers represent- Efiflgfi'\hfl board are not friendly to Great n. Character of the People. Although the work of reform h: ro boar ers, acts ad begu: upon the deposition of Ismail it naturally | < could not ameliorate the condition of the people at once. Commem:ln§ in the army, a revolt arose under Arabli Pasha, and took place in Alexandria and Tan The country was an when: Bhgland. intervenoy oo 1t d restored the the revolt. red Khedive's authority and then set to work tion of affairs becomes more and more satisfactory to the people and the advan- tages of law and order are so apparent that there is no longer any grumbling against reform. Great Britain abolished the corvee which had formerly been in force for the clearing of the canals by forced labor of the peasants. The loss such forced labor meant to the peasants was considerable. Now only at high Nile are they liable to be called upon to prevent floods. In 1881 251,263 men were called out for the corvee; in 1867 11,069 only were called out. Growth in Prosperity. The devclopment of the irrigation sys- tems of Egypt has wrought immense im- provement in the condition of the country and the more recent plans for conserving the water for the dry seasons and thus insuring constant crops will still further berefit the land of the Nile. The figures given below show how much is due to im- proved irrigation. In 1882 the cotton crop was 2,846,000 kantars; in 1396 it was §,879,- 00 kantars. The sugar crop for the same years was 26,687,000 kilos and 73,597,000 kilos respectively. The courts of justice were reoi d and mixed tribunals were introduced (ol deal with cases in which the parties were of difterent nationalities. The composi- tion of these tribunals was partly native, partly European. In the native courts crimes have greatly diminished. In 139 there were 1366 cases; in 1597 there were 1424 cases. ‘The population of Egypt has increased in fifteen years b_; 43 per cent. It was 9,734,000 in'1897. Taxes are lower than ever before. French Opposition to British Rule, England's ‘great enemy in t 1s France, which opposes all reforms, simply because they ureEnrnpolefl by “perfide Al- Though England is paramount in Egypt. French is still allowed to remain the official language with Arabie; French wspapers are allowed a free hand to read any reports they may wish as to the work of the British. In fact, there is no restraint upon the French in little things and it is the knowledge that only in these little things are they free to do as they llkke which makes them so furious against ghe prolonged British occupation of E; to be able EYPL. In the Soudan it is too early to form any idea as to how the new rule will work out. Tt is probable, however, that as soon as the military rule gites place to the civil the le of the coun- :‘g{‘xg“n;:'e:;: lnl\ m;( X, nefits of their ow e, an - fle and lndepenflante.: th \v‘l’lmm‘e o ey much more rapl o pldly than will A CHANCE T© SMILE. “I couldn't witl - i n’ hstand his final argu. ‘What was 12" big dlamond ring."—Chicago Record. ““What,” asked the s ill progress ever the fel- tranger, town espiectally distinguiehed Tor? Evers town s s to have some industry or som’ cl cteristic that makes it a little diffes from any other %hct. I intend to write a book on the subject some day es. "* sald the old in] - tant, “you might =say that this yer ?::‘n ain't never ast Andrew Carnegie for no library yit."—Times-Herald. “I say, Jones, you remember Lo . the chap who used to tell such lrem‘;f:%::.' storles? “Ye, what about him?"” ~Th¥ poor fellow is Iving at death's oor. “What; hmsn't he got out of the habit yet?"—Pick-Me-Up. \ “Fm watching the movements . dramatists ynfi fear and u-emum;."! = y S0 “I'm afrald some one of them will Insist o Mr, Bi 7 :rp.pg_%flfln: r. ryn- ‘Common- — PERSONAL MENTIORN. Jesse R. Grant is registered at the Pal- ace. F. P. Spters of San Jose ia at the Pal- ace. J. F. Stevenson, a Courtland rancher, ¥ at the Grand. W. F. Peterson ghd wife of Sacramento are at the Palac B. K. Pearse, a merchant of Gautemala, i{s at the California. V. 8. McClatehy of the Sacramento Bee is at the California. W. E. Woolsey, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. M. S. Wagy, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is a guest at the Lick. V. Brigneie, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Grand. H. H. Nichols and wife of Courtland are guests at the Grand. C. R. Downs, a Sutter Creek mining | man, is at the Occidental. H. M. Mosher, a business man of Los | Angeles, is at the California. A. Clark, a lumberman of Forest Hill, |18 a guest at the Occidental. A. W. Simpson. a dry-goods merchant of Stockton, is at the Occldental. | M. M. Harris, an attorney of Los An- | geles, is registered at the Grand. | _Colonel W. Forsyth, a vineyardist Fresno, is registered at the Occidental. | _W. A. Bell, connected with the Electric | Power Company of Placerville, Is a guest | at the Occidental. | E. Duryee, of the California-Portland | Cement Company, with headquarters at IColmn, Cal, is at the Lick. | J. D. Farrell, president of the Pacifie | Coast Company, is registered at the Pal- | ace from Seattle. Henry R. Levy, a business man of San | Bernardino, has returned from New York and Is registered at the Palace. Professor T. Takamatsu, of the Engi- | neering College at Toklo, who is on his | way back to Japan from the Paris expo- | sition, is at the Occidental. | T T A CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | | NEW YORK, March 4—The following | Californians are in New York: From San | Franctsco—B. Ambler is at the Astor, { Mrs. R. C. Clark Is at the Grand Union, | D. M. Moses is at the Herald Square, J. L. Sole is at the Broadway Central, W. | D. Walker is at the Herald Square. M. J. | Cann is at the Imperial, P. D. Martin and Miss Wurkheimer are at the Holland. From Los Angeles—W. Cusrer s at the | Park Avenue, C. E. C. Hodgson Is at the | Victoria, J. F. Oliver and wife are at the | Gerard. | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. I INSTITUTE OF ART-F. J. T, City. fl"or admission as a student in the Hop- | of kins Institute of Art make application at the institute for terms and conditions. ALEXANDER DUMAS-M. E. 8., San Jose, Cal. Alexander Dumas pere and Alexander Dumas fils always wrote over their respective names. Neither of the Dumas was ever known in private life as Duplex. UNIVERSITIES—L. M. W.. Uklah, Cal. Of the 411 universities and colleges in the United Sgates 107 of those who hold the office of president or presiding official are designated by the title “reverend” and are doctors of divinity. The nmame and title of the president of the University of Cali- | fornia is Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D.: that of the president of the University of Southern California, George F. Bovard A. M., D. D. the president of the is David Jor- Stanford Unive | aan, ¥ Starr IRISH LANGUAGE—B. C. M., Fresno, Cal. The Irish (Gaelic) language is one | of the still living Ceitic languages. The al- | phabet consists of eighteen letters, nama- ly:a,b,e.d, e f.g hilmnoprst and u, corresponding in their forms with the Roman characters of the fifth century "The oldest existing specimens of the Iriah language are in sepulchral inscriptions in Ireland and in the glossares or interpreta- tions affixed to Latin words in the docu- ments translated by Irisa ecclesiastics of | the eighth and succeedirg centuries, now preserved in some Continental libraries The most ancient maauscripts in Ireland containing original matter in the Irish language are the Book of Armagh (ninth century) and the Book of Hymns of some- what later date. The Irish language in its modern forms is still spoken commonly | by the rural classes and native land own- | ers in Connaught, Munster, the remote | parts of Ulster, the south of Leinster, as | weil as in the islands off the west coast of | Treland. ,T FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. — & + foul DR?S FOR A GIRL. . s dress is composed of tartan velvet \body and corselet 0f bright drab cloth, with fancy braces of the same cloth. The scarf Is of bright drab liberty silk. ———— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_————— Special information supplied daily to ness houses and public the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 'lo.u gomery st. Telephone Main - Splendid fire-etched California views on all our boxes used for California Giace Fruits and Candy—1, 2. 3. 5 Ib boxes—all ——————————— In pinety years the Spanish-speaking n rinety y geoole of the wor'd have inereased 199,000 to 42,800,000, S———— e —— Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorater. 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