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

THE SAN The " 25ise - Call. SDAY. ................ MARCH 6, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aégress All Communications to W, 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER™ OFFICE........Telephone Press 201 FUBLICATION OFFICE. ..} Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. / Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALE (Including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months.. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are anthorix subscriptions. Bemple coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mall eubscribers in ordering chanze of address should s perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 0 insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. QAKLAND OFFICE. ..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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NW. cor- ec nd Kentucky, cpen until $ o’clock. “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Sembrich Opera Compan: ELECTION LAW. to are not encouraging f a satisfac passage « Whe the much in the w election law never ) amend are en- s toward the Such reports PrC »een made, gre vet t Id arouse ent of a s it of all par- be no party antagon: an measure, terests ergence of veen those of the peo- tions the Leg ill be well under- g enough to nd that the candidates of 2!l n ledged to enact a definite and clear. lared the were former once for the enact- s which followed at without such a v better than so many from sneaking tricks e, were committed by the bosses and primaries, and in many the voters had hardly any ing who should represent h nominated the can- s of every ue became one of praetical poli- pointed out that the only obstacle in factory law to regulate the conduct of primaries was the opposition sure to be mad pt corporations. That seated time and again, and warning was needed. The ses- ing to a close, and no measure designed ting the rights of voters at the primaries has vet been enacted. It is time for the people to speak i passing a satis bosses and corr The Call T is now evident the out A dispatch from Indianapolis reports that “a fero- cious Bengal tiger” recently escaped from its cage the zoo of that city and made an attack upon a wild ss from South Africa. The conflict was short. The wild ass kicked the tiger into something like a coma- tose condition in the first round. The incident in elf is slight, but in these days when so much interest is taken in the conflict between the tiger and the don- key factions in the Democratic party it may be worth noting as a pointer on the.result of the big fight. R A The Westminster Gazette of London, in comment- ing upon the organization in this country known as Daughters of the Revolution, spoke of the members “dandy women”; and now the ladies may know what sort of reputation they have abroad. They might as well call themselves the daughters of Yankes doodle. - It is stated that one of'the men who was foremost in burning the negro Alexander near Leavenworth has whirled in and married a negro woman, and now the whites and the blacks of the neighborhood ars disputing as to which race gets the worst of the bargain. The ladies of San Jose who devised recipes for using prunes in making bread, soup, salad, jam, jellies, preserves, candy and pickles deserve credit for thei- | talent; and it will hereafter be a very poor bill of fare that isn't full of prunes. TRUE VS. FALSE LABELS. HE Internal Revenue Department has decided T to put a stop to the sale of domestic - liquors under foreign labels. This is right. The frand is a mean one and harms the domestic producer. The California clarets sold under French labels are usually inferior. Falsely labeled as a Poutet claret, second-class. | Californiasclaret ‘is preferred to our good red winzas under their own label. As a rule poor wine takes refuge under a French label, and consumers who would re- | ject it as swill under its own name pay three prices | for it and drink it worshipfully under a French alias. | In this way wines that never ought to see market ar {all, or go to it prematurely, figure at hotels as St. Julien, and Chateau this and Chateau that, when they should be spilled or distilled, and their phr\'eyors | should be fined for a fraud. | California wine-making has greatly improved since | those who engaged in the buginess have discovered | that vineyards are not to be planted nor wine made | by the rule of thumb. When General Naglee hunted | for brandy in the soil, and then tore up vineyard aiter | vineyard unti] he secured the right grape to get the | brandy out of the ground, he marked the beginning | of the scientific era in viticulture. Following him | came Charles Wetmore, hunting white and red dry wines in the ground, with the assurance that if chem- istry found them there the right grape could be had to extract them. When he found the right soils in Livermore Valley its development began, and those standard vintages move themselves and give their color in the cup in testimony to his genius. The rule of thumb has passed away. The cut and try period in the vintage of this State was its archaic age. The sacchrometer and appiication of alcoholic affinity, the knowledge of the chemical laboratory, have changed | riethods and results. Our wines need no counterfeit | label, nor do they nesd to go to market masked like a stage robber and bearing an assumed name like a pickpocket. | The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has taken the right position, and his agents should soon eradi- | cate every label factory. There are some in this city. | There -are wholesale wine houses here which accom- modate the retailer by putting up his case goods in | foreign labels. Poor Zinfandel goes out of them gew- | | gawed as to label and flirting as St. Julien, and do- mestic brandy goes its way as Hennessey Three Star. These houses should be raided and their nefarious | fraud be made unprofitable. But there is still another form of fraud that is for- | bidden by the internal revenue law and should be iw:m‘he(L detected and punished. The law against | false labels applies to any label or'brand that misrep- | resents the character of the contents of a package. A case in point was the celebrated bogus brandy shio- ment that occurred a few years ago. Forty barrels of raw corn high wines, from the Willow Springs dis- tillery at Omaha, only six weeks out of the worm, was mixed with fifteen barrels of yearling brandy and the whole colered with burnt sugar, flavored with cognac and stretched with water to make 110 barrels, , “Pure Old California Grape Brandy.” This | lurid mixture was shipped illegally in defiance of the FRANCISCO Naval Officer, who exposed the fraud and sought to stop it, and after he overtook it in New Yérk and continued the exposure the Treasury Department actually ordered the iabel changed and permitted its shipment to Liverpool! The original label was a fraud and the change ordered by the department was a fraud also; each violated the law. The Internai Revenue Department should have an eye to enforce- ment of the law against all false labels, whether they misrepresent the origin of the article, as the French labels do, or its character, as was the case with the bogus brandy. Whisky labels and brands are changed | the time, though this is forbidden by law. Tha brand of reimported whiskies is defiantly changed | right in the Government warehouses, with but little effort at concealment. A few stout fies and fiscations will put an end to th lawful practices. | | | | | con- pernicious and un- BRITAIN'S COSTLY W@R. PORTS of last week from London announc- R ing that Dewet was in full flight at the head of | a disorganized tand, that Botha had made over- tures for surrender, and that the end of the South African war is in sight, have not been confirmed. In | fact it is now stated that the officials of the British War Office do mot believe the reports. Kitchener, it is said, has not yet completed the organization of his army of mounted infantry designed to sweep the Transvaal and consequently is not yet in a position to force the fighting and close the war. In the meantime the cost of the struggle mounts higher and higher. The cry of the Government to the people is the refrain of Kipling’s famous song: “Pay, pay, pay!” It was stated at the opening of the present session of Parliament that the war expendi- tures up to that date amounted to about $407,000,000. { Since then the same large rate of expenditure has been continued; so that if the war should be speedily ended its total cost in money to the empire will hardly 2mount to less than $600,000,000. That is a huge sum to pay for empire; and it is doubtful whether the profits of trade and commerce with the conquered province will ever yield a fair return upon the invest- ment. % The enormous cost of the war must be met by new taxes and it is not easy for the Ministers to find a means of levying the new burdensof taxation without ! in some measure deviating from the free trade system. It is stated that taxes on beer and tobacco and the ‘income tax have about reached the limit of public endurance. Those 1axes it appears are already as heavy as the traffic will bear. It is now suggested that as some sort of tariff duties on imports will have to be imposed, it would be well for the Government | to discard the free tiade principle altogether and | adopt a fiscal policy, which, while providing revenues for the Government, will also protect the industries of the country. | Until the Ministry submits its revenue bill the ques- | tion for the public remains one of academic interest only. Up to this time the discussions on the subject have been vague and indefinite. The suggestion’ of | the adoption of the protective principle comes f-om many sources, but has not yet been taken up by any eminent statesman. Evidently the free trade senti- | ment of the people is still too strong for politicians | to éppose, but it is by no means certain it will re- | main so after the new tax bill has been submitted. ; ‘When the British taxpayer perceives what he will have | to pay for the conquest of the Transvaal and remem- bers that he has to pay it in the face of an indust-ial competition so’keen that he can hardly make a living, | he will begin to look upon the ggctrines of Cobden | from another point of view. e will find himself confronted not by a theory but by a condition, and it is not at all unlikely that in the face of that very | serious condition many of them will come to the con- clusion that the principles of free trade are mot so universally true as they supposed. Thus, while the war in South Africa is prolonged and the huge cost mounts higher into the millions of dollars with each succeeding week, the pressure of the burden of taxation is slowly changing the temper sof public opinion at home. Salisbury's Ministry is losing strength. . It seems certain that the life of this Parliament will be short, and when the next appeal to the people is taken. there is sure to be a party which will demand revision of the entire fiscal policy of the nation; so that the costly war for the conquest of the Boers may bring about an economic change in Great Britain almost as notable.as that in South Africa itself. IN THE MATTER OF WEATHER. EE el 2 NCE more an inauguration day has dawned O upon Washington amid clouds and rain and wind. Once more thousands of people will talk of the glories of the day with voices made hoarse by colds caught while watching the paradggor listen- ing to the inaugural address. Once more some hun- dreds of people will be sick for a week by reason of the exposure. Once more there will arise 2 demand for a change in the date of ipauguration, and once more the country will be compelled to listen to de- nunciations of stormy March. ! While that racket of cdughs and sneezes and curses miakes life mournful in the East the happy dweller on the Pacific Coast walks abroad in the blessed sun- shine, watches the fruit trees blossom, catches the fragrance of flowers and the song of birds, and in rapture declares March weather to be elysian. Evi-’ | dently the inauguration ceremonies of the President of the United States should be held in San Fran- | cisco, and the President, after taking the oath of office amid the blisses of our fair days, could then go East to take up the worries of administration in the stormy East. The Boston Transcript has recently been moved to express a wail of discontent over the sort of winter | the twentieth century has imposed upon the Atlantic | coast. The Transcript admits there has not been this winter anything of what Elizabeth Stuart Phelps once called “ruffian weather,” but it adds: “We have had a continuous performance of cold weather that gets to be as monotonous as any other continuous going- Hardly a break in the cold has there been since Christmas time. Sunshine we have had in plenty, but of a heartless quality—it has always been rather stern and reserved. Somehow it hasn't flooded roads or rooms as it ought. . Not once has it been so benign as to inaugurate a season of ‘thaw.” Upon January on. | thaws the householder has heretofore counted as tend- ing to make his calls on his coal pile intermittent. So hereafter we shall call that ‘soft spell’ a tradition, not a climatic habit with us.” All of that is very sad, but we cannot sympathize with it. It is impossible for us to get up even a polite shiver of condolence with those who are thus suffering from blighting blasts and diminishing coal bins. Everything around us is too genial, too glow- | ing and too altogether lovely for us to so much as understand how there can be any one who objects to the sweet and sunny days of glorious, blossoming | March. We, cannot sympathize with the Eastern folks, but | they might share our gladness if they would. The way to California is open to all and there is room here for a flower-garlanded home for several millions of the folks of the shivering East. Let them come West, where there is no ruffian weather, but where the sunshine floods the roads and the homes and HISTORY AND SOCIETY. THE foreign legations at Washington make up circle touches general society, it has troubles of its own. out one day that the Belgian Princess Carlotta mar ried the Austrian Prince Maximilian, and the pair makes the ‘whole land beautiful. the diplomatic society of the capital. While that In the romance of royal life on the Continent it feil entered upon what was regarded as an ideal life in | beautiful Miramar. And then one day zmbition came as a tempter to the milk white castle and Maximilian followed the siren to Mexico to found an empire. He was an amiable Prince, given to luxurious tastes, and had in him but little of the rough and ready fiber that quali- fies empire builders. Senator Gwin said of him that while his empire was cracking under his feet he studied botany/ gave garden parties and stuffed birds. So his ambitious scheme went glimmering, as such have gone before, and he was stood up and shot by the Mexicans one morning at Queretaro, dying like a brave and honest gentleman. Then his Princess went home and her reason faded, and she lived on, a melancholy reminder of the fleeting quality of ambition and human hopes and dreams. All this was long ago, but it is well uhderstood that it is among the grudges laid up by the Old World against the New. It has come back like a wraith to disturb diplo- matic society in Washington. The men in the lega- tions are not responsible for it. “But the ladies, God bless 'em,” as the toast runs, have been avenging the wrongs of Carlotta and her Prince, until the Belgian Minister has had to take his wife and go where it is not so torrid socially as the lady has made Washing- ton. It began by her refusal to recognize the Mexican Minister. If she omitted any,slight or snub, even in her exile she is sorry for it. She seems to have had the sympathy of female legationdom from the Continent generally, ard, so to speak, they have put a bent pin in every chair that Senor Azpiros sat in. The feud finally became the terfor of the White House and the State Department. It was all the worse because it was not a man’s quarrel. It is hard to handle ladies, who defy any power on earth to rake them associate with any one when they take a notion not to do.so. So, for a long time the ghost of Maximilian and the vacant face of his demented wife have refused to “down” at every diplomatic function, until it became necessary to take Madame the Bel- gian Minister’s wife away. That fact in itself is evi- dence that she wor her campaign and set the pace for her successors. It seems that the only way to kesp the diplomatic peace is for Belgium to send a bache- lor Minister to Washington. By talking for thirteen hours Senator Tom Carter killed the big river and harbor bill, and doubtless feels proud of the feat; but if he be wise he will not travel during the summer holidays in any part of the country where the people had an appropriation in the bill and were counting on it. 7 * L Doubtless Pat Crowe has been wronged by th: suspicion that he kidfaped young Cudahy, but all the same he has been writing too many letters of pro- test. If he cannot be held for kidnaping the police should at least arrest his mania for letter writing. Uncle Sam’s soliiers are likely to have another chance to make some good Indians. The Sioux, it is said, have serious intentions of rising in rebellion. CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1901. Healthful Influence of By Sarah S III-WOMEN’S CLUBS Those who were present at the trans- Mississippi Congress some years ago will never forget the genuine burst of laughter and, withal, the sympathetic thrill which went through the audience at the tell- ing of the story of why a woman In Oklahoma wished to belong to a club. She lived in a remote country district and | was obliged to ride or drive many miles to attend the club meeting. “What's the use o' you goin’?"” demanded her hu!hand: “Hain’t you got nice scenery out here?" “Yes, John, I have,” said the little woman. “I've got scenery and I've got you; but it's my opinion that Eve in the garden of Eden was glad to ses the cherubim and | the flaming sword—she got so tired of just Adam and scenery.” The description which George Eliot | gives of sad Mrs. Transune has its coun- | terpart In the history of multitudes of | good, capable, talented women before the | days of clubs and kindred organizations. Ee = | | [ | 1 Sarah S. Platt Decker. | |+ = “A little daily embroidery had been a constant element in Mrs. Transune's life; | that soothing occupation of taking stitches | to produce what neither she nor any one | else wanted was then the resource of | many a well-born and un}mppxK woman.” | Again: “Tt is a fact perhaps kept a lit- | tle too much in the background thot | mothers have a sclf larger than their ma- | ternity and that when (heir sons have be- | come taller than themselves and are gone from them to college or into the world there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for thelr boys, reading old letters and envying yet bless. ing those who are attending to their shirt buttons.” It is probably the longing to escape fromn | the monotony which must inevitably come in a life spent absolutely in home dutles which has been the chief factor in the ! wonderful growth of the club and feder- | ation movement. | Husbands and Fathers Give Testi- mony. What is the effect upon the home of this | broader life of the mother, sister and | daughter? Let us have the testimony of | the husbands and fathers themselves. “You're the boss of the Woman'’s Club, | hear.” said a big, red-faced but kindly- | looking fellow to the gentle president on the street, not long ago. “Well, I want to ! tell you that I bless you and the club from the bottom of my heart. You see, my wife | was terrible sad: she lost a boy a year ego, and we haii't been o very prosper- ous, but she joined the club. Why, marm, | she's a ehunsed woman and our home is a | new place. She's so busy she don't have time to cry, and we have so much to talk It you ub, | about we don’t talk of troubles. | want any backing for your Woman's | marm, just count on me. Another president tells this story: Go- ing up on the car Saturday noon she over- | heard the conversation of two youns hus- | bands about spending the half-holiday. *T | always stay at home and take care of the bables,” said a broad-shouldered, sunny- | faced man, *‘and let Mutiie go to the club. You see, we have three liitle ones; we | have had hard luck and cannot afford a nurse, and we have no money to spend for theaters, concerts or even books any more: Mollie has so little in her life out- side of home; and, Jack, I want to tell ou that, much as I love the bables, I know there isn't any work In the world so care of three lively voungsters; so I give my Saturday after- noon to the children, and Mollie comes home so happy and cheerful, and we talk over all she has heard, and it helps us bear_another week of grind. I tell you, wearing as takin PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPIC —_—— PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. ————— tion Upon the Activity and Ideals of American Women. Ermroc e . P. Decker. (PRESIDENT OF THE COLORADO STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. EX-PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF DENVER AND EX-VICE PRBBID,ENT OF THE GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS.) —_— (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) | Indirectly | “no interests, nothin; the Woman's Club s a means of grace.” T could multiply -this testimony a thou- | sandfold but for the desire to reach other phases of the question. Increasing the Dignity of Mother- hood. The chief abjection raised to clubs for women is that women must be mothers, and the whole life must be regulated with reference to that high calling. But does the mother rise to the dignity of her posi- tion if she is simply a physical mother? No. As one mother says: ‘“‘Let her life be full to the brim of hafnln 8, knowi- edze, mental and physical activity: let lofty emotions and vigorous thoughts fill | her being: let her whole existence expand to Its fullest extent: let her forget mother- hood; she,will be the better mother for first being a perfect woman. A woman | becomes morbld who simply retires within | herself to brood over her fitness or unfit- ness for her coming glory.” How many a home has changed in its | atmosphere entirely through the club in- | fluence! Where formerly the dinner-table conversation was a mixture of trivialities or even worse gossip. now the topic of the dav at the club takes the children into new fields, and vigorous discussion or research is the result. A winter of the study of Holland in the club some years since was a liberal education to a large family in the history of that famous country because of the interest of the young people of the household in finding out facts the club study overlooked. A genuine rivalry made evenings all too short and stimulated both intellect and reason. Business Training and Fresh Air. Another result which is most potent in its effect on the home life is the trainin; in business methods which the club life furnishes. The work of the club has brought such responstbilities of mnnneftng financial affairs. hiring and bullding club- houses, arranging lecture courses and studying civil and legislative problems, that gradually this influence olp ‘busines: management, system and effort to save time and streagth l'z y and lawful conduct of affairs is making_itself felt ‘in the home management. Madam no longer dawdles away the glorious morn- ing in a steam-heated apartment over the needlework which h in“that de- lightful “‘German Garden” calls an inven- for kee; ApDIvImE hels heaTts uAts wiodumn Noj; she has & meeting at 10 o'clock. She has learned to be systematic usiness like in her affairs. Her houl:n :mbat be in order, the day's work arr: her- =elf In business dress to keep the a to ment. And here we say that there ‘were no other rals i for women's fl:‘bc. every husband, fnh«r » brother and 7or Shouidsing puseis of pradag io e S. Club Life and Federa- AND WOMEN'S HOMES. ing women of the stay-in-the-house habit and forcing them into the open air. ‘Whether from the fact that in the old days much of the work of women was done indoors or from the idea of their delicacy and inability to battle with the elements, it is true that the average or usual woman has always had the stay-in- the-house habit. Twenty-five years ago women went out of doors onl{ 'hes called by the exigéncies of family life an the few social duties which the time de- manded. Many instances could be cited of women in iniddle life who were ex- pected to take only the weekly outing of church-going. But the club has brought committee work, classes, city improve- ment societies, Pingree gardens, kitchen gardens, institutional work and soclal service, all of which mean more cr less time out of doors. Instead of the pale, sllent mother at the lunch or dinner table comes the vigorous, cheerful, happy wo- man, full of the day's work and experi- ences—a better friend, a better comrade and bringing into the house an infinitely more wholesome atmosphere. No tonic, no medicine, 7o science, can take the place of this out-of-door habit in its ef- fects upon the mind, body and well-being of present and future generations. What the Unmarried Woman Gaine. Again there is the effect of the club upon the home of the ringle woman, and mfluence upon matrimony. Not s0 many years ago the unmarried woman had no home; she ‘Just lived with somebody.” The “‘somebody’ either Ignored her existence or made her the drudge of the family. She had no position, to live for, and was constantly reminded that even'in death she wouid not have the privilege and honor of having “Mrs.” carved upon her tombstone! In those days before the club had taught women that there were beau- tiful pleasures in the world, interestin things to do, helpful llves to be If even though not married, a woman almost forced into matrimony. We all know the stigma which attached to an “old maid”; but to-day the “girl bache- lor” is as free and happy, and ¥ at lib- erty to have almost as many pleasures and interests, as the man who has chosen not to marry, because perhaps he, like the woman, has not seen the one who can flll his life and make It complete. Best of all the single woman is permitted to have her | home, her own home, her household | goods; she has learned through the club | that there is helpful companionship and | recognition, and that life may be full and | rich.” This woman will marry for the sole | and only reason why a woman should enter Into tha: blessed state, not to es- | cape a deg-ra(fln% and unfortunate posi- tion, which was forced upon her because of the old-time traditions, and hers will | be the true marriage and the ideal home. ‘Women’s Gains and Losses. Finally, let us balance our gains and losses in’considering the Influence of the woman's club. We have gained the out-of-door hab! we have lost the “crazy-quilt’ and im- possible fancy-work habit. We have ained an in ndence and freedom of ress; we are fast losing the long skirt and the heavy, unhealthful garments. ‘We have gained a fair sense of the soclal truth that “an injury to one is the con- cern of all”; we have lost the old, narrow, selfish love for our own and our own onl. We have gained the ability to discuss subjects in an impersonal manner and without bitterness. We have lost the old | sewing-society fashion of weeping over a | difference of opinion with a neighbor. We | have gained in some measure the knowl- edge that should belong to every citizen | of nation, State or city. We have lost the | helpless ignorance which has kept unjust | laws regarding women on our statute books for all past time. We have gained to the people hundreds of libraries, many .city ordinances to bet- ter promote the cleanliness and virtue of our homes, the preservation of many sacred historical spols, the genuine help and uplifting of multitudes of the tempted | | and the poor, the sick, the unhappy, the overlooked ones in' life’s road; we have lost the exclusiveness, the pride of birth, position and wealth which has been over- | thrown by the democracy -of the club. We have gained to some extent knowl- "d‘fe of business affairs; we have lost the old helplessness wnich made every wo- man with property a prey to the nephew | or cousin-in-law or speculative relative who lay in walt to devour her patrimony. We are gaining the idea that mere be- longings are not the whole of the home, an at cheerfuiness, intelligence and fresh air are mora to be desired than much furniture and bric-a-brac; we have lost the old fashion of personally scrub- bing all the paint ir the house twice a year and—wonder of wonders—we have even gone so far_ad to put off washing from the sacred Mohday to another da; under stress of circmstances. More Gains to Follow. We have gained a blessed fellowship and cameraderie with our husbands, sons and brothers, as well as with one another. Right-minded men dc not fear this new Iiberty. In six years of travel in the - terests of club and federation work, from the beautiful city home to the log cabin of a mining camp, I have found that everywhere the most enthusiastic club women are, as the Irishman would say, the menof the family! Some one has said: “The cure for the evils of liberty is more liberty.” The fu- PERSONAL MENTION. Lynn Helm, a merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Francls A. Zee, a vineyardist of Madera, is at the Palace. E. S. Gordon and wife of Santa Rosa are at the Palace. L. L. Chamberlain, an attorney of Au- burn, is at the Grand. E. Teller, a merchant of Sacramento, is registered at the Palace. L. §. Upson and wife of Sacramento are staying at the Occidental. C. J. Cox, a merchant of Hollister, is registered at the California. S. N. Griffiths, a lawyer and ofl man of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. George 8. Towle, a lumber man of Towle, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. Thomas F. Flint of San Juan res- istered at the Palace yesterday. John de Laittre, a flour manufacturer of Minneapolis, is staying at the Palace. F. T. Sutherland, a mining man of Oro- ville, accompanied by his wife, is a guest at the Palace. George B. Sperry of the Sperry flour mill of Stockton is spending a few days in the city apd is a guest at the Occi- dental. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bross of Portland, Or., are visiting in San Francisco. Mr. | Bross is the managing editor of the Ore- | gonian. | F. D. Hunter has been appointed assist- | aant general freight agent of the Colorado | Midland Railway Company, with head- quarters at Denver. John Ward, a brother of the deceased Captain Ward lost on the Rio de Janeiro, arrived from Raleigh, 8. C., yesterday and is registered at the Oceidental. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 5.—The follow- ing Californians are in Washington: H. Franklin, at the Shoreham: W. D. Walker, at the Arlington: H. L. Close, at the Ebbitt; Henry L Kowalsky, Mrs. R. Cohen, Miss Cohen, R. Valrees and two sons, E. H. Parrish, at the Raleigh; Mrs. M. M. Twombly, Miss Twombly, at the Metropolitan; R. Lincoln, at the National; Mrs. W. H. Brown, at the St. James, all of San Francisco. —_— e - CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 5.—The following Californians are in New York: From Sam Francisco—T. P. Bisland, at the Park Ave. nue; C. W. Parkinson, F. C. Torrey and wife, at the Everett; R. L. Irving, at the Mariborough. From Los Angeles—D. J. Bernstein, at the Cadillac; L. de Roulet, at the St. Denis. FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. * . 4 * LITTLE GIRL'S COSTUME. This dress for a girl of eleven to four- teen years is of chamols colored ecloth, trimmed with fvory cloth and string eol- ored guipure. The short sleeves are fin- ished off with bouillonnees of white mousseline de soie, tied in with black vel- vet. The waistband is also of black vel- vet. —_—— The fearsome rumors fly from lip to lip! The man has disappeared utterly. ’ gultplglon oints !: hSl vhlfe! ut has she mur i stmply become an authoresss . o "' For the moment the police are quita . _They profess to have clews, but nobody believes this.—Detroit Journal. # Cholce candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* f Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* Eye glasses. spees, 15c to 40c: look out St 4th, front of barber shop and grocery. * ————— Specfal information supplied dally to business houses ard publf® men by the Press Clipping Burcau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomaery st. Telephone Maln 1043. . | ture will bring us the man and woman, face to face, not leaning one upon the other, but upright—partners, friends, com- rades, lovers. ANSWERS TO QUERIES, HYDROGEN GAS—J. R. F.. Grass Val- ley, Cal. Hydrogen gas is fourteen times lighter than atmospheric alr. HALF OF 1831-M. 8. R., Berkeley, Cal. A haif-dollar of 1831 does not command a premium from dealers in old coins. MISSOURI CLUB—-M. W. S, City. The resident of the Missouri Club is E. A. Bridefora, Clunie bullding, this city. 4 CANNOT BE—F. L. 8., City. A suppo- sition and a fact are not co-existent. A supposition is hypothetical, a fact is something that exists. TO VALDEZ ISLAND-L., Mountain View, Cal. The steamer that carries the United States mail from Seattle to Val- dez Island, Alaska, is the Aloha. She car- ries the mail once a month. VELOCITY OF THE WIND—J. W. F., Ripon, Cal. The velocity of the wind fc measured by an Instrument called an anemometer, the simplest being what is generally known as the hemispherical cup, which consists of four hemispheres or cups fixed to the ends of two horizontal fron bars crossing each other at right nnfles. and supported by a vertical axis which turns freely. The cups revolve with a,third of the wind's velocity and the in- strument is so constructed that 500 revolu- tions are made while a mile of winds sses over it. The revolutions are regis. ered by a system of wheels similar to those of a gas meter. The differénce be- tween two readings gives the number of revolutions passed over during the inter- vening time, from which the miles can be calculated and the rate per hour. In me- eters 3 the wind is arrived ¥ eitter at b method - ent from that given. ’lg* force Is dm". tered by means of 2 pencil on paper that is prepared with luated lines. The largest sponge ever sent to market was from the Mediterranean. It was ten feet in circumference and three in diame- er. % A thoroughly equipped night school. A few months spent in studying arithmetic, book- keeping. shorthand and penmanship at Heald's Business College Night School will fit young men and women to fill clerical positions at good salarfes. Many causes Induce gray hair, but Parker's Hailr Balsam brings back the youthful color. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. —_——— The lowest human habitation is sald to be that of the coal n1nen in Bol some of whom make their dwellings at :hpolm over 2000 feet below the level of @ sea. A GOOD STORY A certain young lady in del- icate health was advised by her doctor to take a half-teaspoon- ful of Scott’s emulsion of cod- liver oil after dinner—once a day—and found herself almost suddenly growing robust. So small a dose is by no means the -rule; the rule is whatever the stomach will bear —not more. Another rule is: take it on every least occasion, but not too much; don’t over- do it. ‘We'll send you a little to try, if you like. SCOTT & BOWNE, o9 Pearl street, New York