The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1901, Page 6

: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 'fiEDNESDAY; "MARCH 13, 1901. MARCH 13, 1901 " JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor |CALIFORNIA AND THE PRESIDENT. l ALIFORNIA’S welcome to President McKin- ‘ ley should be made notable enough to win a | son when the full beauty of the land will national repute. He is to come to us at a sea- under its fairest aspect. Nature herself will garland Address Al Commupieations to W. S LEAKE, Macager. MANAGER'S OFFICE .. ..... .Telephone Press 204 | PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, . F. | Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. single Copies, 5 Cents. DAILY C DAILY CALL (inc DAILY CALL (3 ALL—By Single Month All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 1 subscribers change of mddress should be ~ in order ir request. r to give both NEW to insure & prompt and ¢ OAKLAND OFFICE. +++.1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazager Forelgn Advartising, Marguatts Builing, Chieago. (Long Distance Teleph *Central 2619."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. . - Herald Square NEW K REPR! TATIV] STEPHEN B. SMITH . . .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hftel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Murray Bill Hotel CHICAGO House; P. O. News C House; Auditorium Hotel. Great Northern Hotel; WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF MOLRTON E. CRAN BRANCH OFFICES—iZ1 3 k. 3% Hayes, open u until $:30 o'e McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 6 ...1406 G St., N. W. Correspondent. Montgomery, corner of Clay, open il 9:30 o'clock. 633 L , open until 20 o' clock 1 Mission, open until 10 ¢ X Market, til 9 o'clock. 109 Valencia, open t open until § o'clock. NW. cor- Around the World in E ch Opera Comyp THE MONUMENT TO WHITE. nt resolution it is proposed by the appropriate $2500 of the Legisla- or the purpose of erecting tor Stephen M. White. While f the authority of the Legis- spriation from that fund, it tion will not be agreed to. and would establish a ; much greater wrongs would et that the people proposal to erect t the o rove of ¢ a monument to the giited brilliant and useful service d whose patriotism was as All citizens desire that nbrance Stephen M. ¥ a monument raised t phase of the issue there of Upon th i opinion worth taking into ac- ver, it is proposed that the money 1 Il be taken from the Legislative raised another question, and n is given to it, the judgment of ¢ to the proposal. gent fund was designed by the there ve ) the Legislature and can be appro- Over It can be Legislature chooses, but it 1t of the fundamental law of the 1d be used solely for the expenses of The very fact that the constitution gives ive branch of the government full contra! he consent of the Governor. e has absolute control. of the fund ought to render the legislators extremely careful the use of it. Let once a precedent be es i for appropriating any portion of it for other than strictly legislative expenses, and there is no tell- 1ng what uses may be made of it later on. In ppropriating money for a monument to Whits the Legislature should proceed in a manner worthy of the Stage~find of the statesman whose service it interds to commemorate. A bill appropriating the sem designed for the monument should be drawn up in due form and enacted as any other appropriation Lully It should be passed by both the Assembly and tne Senate and receive the sanction and signature of the Governor. If provided for by an appropriation made in that regular and formal way, the monument will stand as a clear expression of . the will of all branches of the government of California, and there | would never be any word of dissatisfaction from the people. If on'the other hand the sum be taken from the contingent fund there will be always a feeling that the appropriation was made irregularly and in viola- tion of the spirit of the constitution, Let Stephen M. White have 2 monument erected by the people of California in strict accord with their laws. He was himself a great constitutional Jawyer, strongly devoted to the conservation of all the safe- guards of our fundamental law. The money to defray the cost of the memorial which the State is to raise over his tomb should be provided in strict accord with the governmental principles of which he was all his Iife a stalwart champion. P — Among the optimists of the time none is more san- guine and cheerful than Booker T. Washington. Da- spite all the political and social wrongs and lynch law outrages inflicted upon his race, he goes right along talking and writing of the bright outlook ahead and assuring the negroes that if they practice industry an 1 thrift they will soon be out of reach of such white men as are trying to thwart their progress: and it is worth notipg that Washington practices what he preaches Some enterprising men in San Jose hope to get the Carnegie library building in that city so far a4- vanced that the President can lay the cornerstone when he comes out on his visit; and it is to be hoped they will succeed. It would be a good way of show- ing the world how fast San Jose can move when she gets started. »e used solely for legislative purposes. | be seer his road with flowers from one’ end the State to the other, and we may be sure that the ladies will be prompt to raise | bowers of beauty around every station where his train is to stop. So far then as the festal features, of his | tour are concerned, we need have no fear of the re- | sult. The President comes to the most beautiful State | in the Union, and he wiil find it worthy of its fame. | There remains to be considered other phases of the | welcome. The President will be attended by his Cabi- net, and he has announced that he will not place him- | self in the hands of any committee, but will arrange his own programme. That determination cannot be | in any way distasteful to us, for we can wish no better | than that our guest should do what is most pleasing to himself and his party, and see in the State that which he and they most desire to see. Whatever ar- rangements are made therefore should be prepared with | the full understanding that they are primarily for the honor of the President, and all other purposes are secondary. 1 Next to the pleasure and convenience of the Presi- dent and his party there must be taken into considera® tion the will and pleastre of the people of California. He is the elect of the people, and his welcome should be popular in form as well as in spirit. There should be no attempt on the part of a clique to monopolize him, or to keep the people away from him. He is to be the guest of all the Californians, and accordingly the people as a whole should be in evidence at every notable feature of the reception given him. Adfter the people comes the welfare of the State. The tour of the President and his Cabinet is mainly to enjoy a holiday in California, but statesmen of their rank are in the habit of learning the needs of their country even when resting from their ordinary labors. | To every member of the Presidential party the visit to the State will be an opportunity to learn much con- cerning its resources, its industries, its possibilities and its requirements in the way of Federal legislation. To | aid them in profiting by the opportunity will be the | duty of every Californian who comes into contact with | them. Ina particular degree the duty rests upon the men who represent the great interests of California to make clear to the President and tothe Cabinet wherein the welfare of the State can be served by them in thei~ official capacity. In all the glory and the glow of the grand parades, festivals and receptions, we are not to overlook the fact that the President has come to see not only the beauties of our land but its wealth and | worth and wants. For the purpose of providing an adequate recep- | tion, the requisite committees should be appointed at once. In sclecting the men who are to act fer San Francisco in the matter great care should be exe:r- cised. In affairs of this kind there are always many persons eager to be prominent in order that they may bask in the sunshine of the Presidential presence and make a show of being something in the way of great men themselves. As a rule such persons are not nos- able for public spirit or for patriotism. They are in no way representatives of California. Their presence on the reception committee could do the city and the State no good, and might do some harm. Let all such seekers after a passing notoriety be denied. Let us have in the forefront of our people to welcome the President none but men who are recognized as fitted to illustrate our commonwealth. William. McKinley merits a reception such as no man ever received before. He has been the states- man of prosperity. As Senator Hoar once said in the Senate, he “is the most loved President we have ever | had.” He has served the people faithfully and well. He has made our national welfare the wonder of the world. Let us give him a welcome that will be ideally Californian, |THE AMERICAN CATTLE-GROWERS. at Denver on the sth inst., appears by the re- ports to have been a conspicuous success, The convention sat three days, including one night session. It adopted a constitution, seiécted Denver as a per- manent location and outlined its purpose to make that city an exchange point at which cattle men can meer, at the time of the association’s annual convention, for the purpose of bargain and sale, purchase and | exchange of cattle. This will prove a great economy and convenience for the men who grow stockers ani | those who sell their calf crop to the rangers and for the breeders of bulls in Iowa and Missouri. The | annual meeting will also be an annual cattle marke:, | not for beef but for the stock that is to be grown into [ beef on the range. l The association is limited in membership to men | whose paramount interest is, cattle growing. At ths | | | THE first annual meeting of this new association. convention of the National Live Stock Association in Salt Lake City, in January, the sheep interes: ag- gressively dominated, and cheered Professor Lind- | quist when he read a paper denouncing the cattle in- | terest as so irjurious to the country that its suppres- | sion by law should be considered. That roused the | patient cattle men to resistance and the new organi- ‘ zetion is the result. | At its first meeting the feeling was strong for pro- | tecting the forest reserves against all grazing, and for | increasing rather than decreasing their area. The | issue of leasehold protection of the ranges on the pub- | lic domain was squarely made and carried with only | twenty dissenting votes in the entire assembly, in | which eighteen States and Territories were represented. The leasing resolution was introduced in the first | day’s session and referred to the executive commit- tee for report. This seems to have stirred the sheep men and politicians in the Colorado Legislature, and that body proceeded to pass an anti-leasing memorial to Congress, informing that body that the people of Colorado were unanimously opposed to leasing. This inemorial was sent to the Cattle-Growers’ Associatioa | fo; indorsement and was promptly voted down, nine- | tenths of the Colorado delegates voting against it. Having suppressed this pernicious move of the politi - cians, the convention adopted the leasing resolutions and appointed a committee to draft a bill for a leasing. law to be introduced at the next session of Congress, The association, which was started in January, al- ready has a paid membership of 500, and the secretary is notified of 1000 applications for membership to be passed upon by the executive committee, which is ju. structed to admit only those whose paramount inter- est is in cattle. It.is expected that the roll of next year's convention will show a membership of nearly 3000, which will demonstrate that the cattle men re. sent Professor Lindquist’s Cclassification of them. zmong the pests of the country. 4 Californian, F. C. Lusk of Chico, was elected resident, and the exccutive committee for this State are Jeff Bradley of Merced and W. M. Newhall of San Francisco. EXFURGATED FICTION. T is just now made known that the book committe: of the Boston public library has an Index Expur- l gatorius, on which appears nearly every recent novel that has made a star in the reading and literary { world. The impressionist school of readers will be appalled to know that “To Have and to Hold” heads the list of recent fiction ‘that is rigidly excluded. The reason given is that the agony of this novel is too much bunched up, and that there is enough of it t> have been evenly distributed as a misery through the whole book. “Eleanor” and “The Soft Side” are excluded as hectic and unwholesome. Others are sent into outer darkness for excess of sentiment, surplus of romance and lack of artistic construction. The “purpose” novels, written to point a moral or adorn a tale in propagation of some social, ethical, religious or politi- cal theory, are mowed down with all the impartiality of the Reaper, Death, “Who mows the bearded grain at a breath, and the flowers that grow between.” And this is in New England, the native heathof Har. riet Beecher Stowe and Edward Bellamy, where “Un- cle Tom’s Cabin” was a sub-Bible, and Hawthorne displayed morbid moral anatomy, and “Looking Backward” captivated all who dislike to wash dishes! The modern Boston idea seems to be that the peo- ple must not be trusted to chew their own literature, lest that which is sweet on the lip shall turn bitter in the moral stomach. Therefore, the case-hardened masticating committee of the Boston library will chew and spit out all books that are judged unsuitable for public digestion! After all, there are some modern instances of the wisdom of their plan, if it could absolutely put such books out on the first base. The lady who sat up till nudnight reading one of thése recent purpose novels and immediately rose and got a gun and killed her husband while he snored on his pillow is an awful example that the committee might quote in justifica- ticn of its action. One very sound and sober-minded lady, of a literary turn and celebrity, has said that romance does more harm in the world than whisky. So it would seem that another Carrie Nation is needed to hack romance into kindlisg wood, and with her hatchet abolish that partner of whisky in the work of undoing the human rzce. But it was not always thus. What better women have lived than our grandmothers, who wept pure pearls over the sorrows of “Alonzo and Melissa,” “Paul and Virginia” and “The Scottish Chiefs”? And our knotty and gigantic old grandfathers, did they not resort to the haymow Sundays to read in secret “Rinaldo Rinaldine,” the unexpurgated “Ara- bian Nights,” “The Decameron” and even “The | Pirate’s Own Book”? Were they any worse husbands, fathers, and espe- Jally grandfathers, for that early and stolen glimpse into an unreal world, where in the fairy land of fiction in.possible lads and lasses lived and loved in an im- probable way, and such robbers as never were, robbed in a way that never was, and ¢ven Alibez and the Devil misbehaved impossibly in an impossible desert? As it was proved on her trial that the lady who 1aid down her novel and took up her gun to do her tusband to death, and muss the bed clothes with blood, owed the old man a grudge anyway, we thinlk that extenuating circumstances may be pleaded in be- hzlf of the novel. Her crime might be attributed to lzte coffee or the effect upon her nerves of a mis- matched ribbon, or anything else that would play with a harsh finger upon a too sensitive nature. The Boston plan is in denial of the free agency and personal responsibility of human beings. The re- r:ark of Cain, “Am I my brother’s keeper,” has been nisread and misinterpreted into a solemn negative affirmation that man is the keeper of every other man, ard that idea has introduced much evil into humaa society. Ii every man is his own keeper it will keep him tusy, and if he do it well his example does more fi his brother man than if he interfered with his rc:ajf ing, his eating and his drinking, and dictated the path by which he must approach his Maker, " The story of Eve and the forbidden fruit has been uniformly misinterpreted and its misapplication has been thundered from every pulpit. Its real lesson is that in human nature there is an unquenchable and ineradicable disposition to seek the forbidden, to pur- sue the excluded and keep company with the out- lawed. “How delicious it would be, if it were only wicked to drink it,” cried the French womnian, as she swallowed a glass of water. % Our apocryphal ancestress was merely used to teach the unwisdom of forbidding too much. Therefore, let the expurgatory committee of the Boston library beware lest it do more harm than good by writing “Thon shalt not” across the book list. Here is a story from real life in New York as good in its complications as was ever put into a farce. The health inspectors of the city while vaccinating every- ‘body in a quarantifted apartment house came upon a burglar engaged in ransacking a suite that had been left by the occupants. The burglar, with considerable coolness, declared himself the occupant of the flat and submitted to vaccination. While the inspectors were busy in another apartment detectives who had been tracking the criminal came in and arrested him. When the inspegtors came down and found the de- tectives they compelled them also to undergo vacci- nation before taking their prisoner to jail. It was a case where the law had a victory at every turn of the game. ¢ SR When the Harvard dormitory known as Trinity Hall was burning, one of the students occupying rooms in the building opened his piano and began to play “Fair Harvard,” and continued to do so until the flames were under control. The circumstances under which such nerve was exhibited render it little more than a piece of recklessness, but all the same such coolness shows a man of more than ordinary character. For Nero to fiddle over burning Rome was one thing, but to make music while your own house is burning is a different affair altogether. In the squabble over appropriation bills in the closing days of the late session of Congress the comparatively small sums proposed for the expositions at Buffalo and Charleston were denied, but Senator Vest man- aged to save the $5,000,000 appropriation for St. Louis, and once more the States have an illustration of the advantage of having an old hand in the Sénate to look after things. —_— From the way trade sentiment is running in Great Britain it would seem to be time for the free traders to get ready to bury their dogma and raise money o build a monument over it. Great Britain rejects the Senate proposals on the Nicaragua canal question, but makes no proposals of her own, so nl‘would seem to be up to us to play a lone hand. Dew‘it mly\pt‘be managing the British War Office, but he is certainly keeping the army running. The first effort known to history when women's pleadings gained legal rights was the asking from Moses by the daughters of Zelophehad for a share in their de- ceased father's real estate. The daughters of Zelophehad were not members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, but an independent non-auxiliary association, doubtless considered very presumptuous in asking such favors. But after their re- quest was granted no other woman felt any compunctions about accepting the wenefits which accrued through this pre- sumption. From that time on some women have been brave enough to ask for cer- tain desired rights from their legal supe- riors, and many women without hesita- tion ‘have accepted the results of their work. The great woman movement of the last half-century had in it, however, fewer of the societies which ask for rights than it had of socfeties which sought to confer bounties, or ‘asked favors for themselves or others. The religious, sbolition, mis- sionary, humane, temperance and philan- thropic organizations were of those that sought to give help to others. There were through the early years small groups of earnest women who did ask for women-all rights which men en- joyed. They asked this merely on the ground of justice and not because of the great good they might nccomgl\lh. ‘which latter motive doubtléss would have proved more powerful to the majority of women. Besides those groups of women there have come to great prominence in the last ten or twenty years other groups organ- ized principally for self-culture. ese are the women's clubs. They began with exhaustive studies of the past, but soon came to thorough study of the present—of living people and living questions.-Having hearts, they could not fail to be touched by grief; having minds, they could not be prevented from searching for causes and suggesting remedies, and, having con- sclences, they could not be withheld from earnest, consecrated effort. Grievous Results of Unjust Laws. To some the wrongs urder which thelr own sex suffered appealed strongly, and they discovered that ur.just laws were the foundation of some of these wrongs. They believed that married women ought no longer to suffer under the disabilities theretofore imposed by law—that they should have a right to their own wages, a right to control property given to or earned by them, a right to a share in their children’s custody and training and to a portion of the family income and a right to help choose the family home. They said that women should have a right to recelve the benefits of schools supported by public money, a rignt to fair and equal wages at employment for which they had special adaptation, a right to enter any profession or employment, a right to jus- tice In_the courtroom, a right to protec- tion of their persons from assault ana disease and protection of their property from unjust seizure, unfair taxation anl outside encroachments. Such legal right should be assured to ail women. ~When a woman or a elub of women began to think about these subjects they soon wished to secure legal rights for women. While It may be mawral for a club woman to claim a great deal of what has been accomplished to-be due to the influ- ence of clubs, it must be admitted that it is only recently that the clubs auxiliary to State and national federations have in- terested themselves in securing legal ree- ognition of these rignts, for only curing the last decade have (hese combinations of clubs arisen, and long before that many States had made changes in the law re- lating to women. It might be safely sail that before the organization of the Gen- eral Federation of Wom-n's Clubs or State federation much of this work had been done by other organizations of women, notably the suffrage associations Work of Individual Reformers. Progressive, cultured women twenty, thirty and even thirty-five years ago ac- complished many changes. Women like Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony lec- tured from town to town about the in- Jjustice of depriving women of these rights and aroused many to petition Legislatures, Congresses and City Councils. Some Influ- enced their law-making friends. For in- stance, in_Illinois, in those earlier days, men like Judge Tuley, Judge Bradwell, the late Senator M. B. Castle, the revered Senator D. L. Whiting, felt 5o much the spirit of equality which was the goal of the women of their families and acquaint- ance that thex made the woman's cause thelr own, and labored to pass laws just to women. This Was not merely the gra- tuitous effort of chivalrous men, but work influenced to a great extent—how far we can never know—by such women as Kath- erine Tuley, Myra Bradwell and Lillian Vhiting. The securing of certain rights, such as the right to enter professions, has not been, as a general rule, the work of any organization, but of {ndividual women. Take, for example, the right of women to practice law, striven for in various States during the past thirty years. That women were forbidden to practice law did not in- convenlence many women nor appeal to the sympathies of the mass of women. So the particular woman who desired this right made her individual struggle alone through courts and Legislatures and when {he Hfght “was once established, it stood there for all women. Unselfish Labor for Others. Some clubs in their infancy have been afraid of public questions ~and others older may have but tardily outgrown their infantile fear of the bugaboo ‘‘woman’s rights.”” But the clubs as a rule are not now alarmed at the discussion of public questions. Much of their public work is, however, on local and municipal matters and on State and national questions which affect men and women equally. The preservation of forests, of cliff dwellings, of noted historical spots, of places of re- nowned beauty, of colonial manor houses, of churches, of battlefields, of records, the efforts in behalf of Rmper management of State institutions, Yhe work to perfect the ublic schools, to establish State traveli ibraries—this valuable work takes mu time, is helpful to the community at large, is work with lawmakers, but is not an ef- fort to gain legal rights for women. How- ever, many clubs are now instructing their legislative communities to look after the rights of women. 't is Interesting to notice that organized womanhood has cener to discern the actual injustice to a small number of un- fortunate and suffering women than to see the posible wrongs to the many average normal women. They have asked for wo- men custodians of women eris Is in jails and police stations, for form Echools! to help girl delinquents, for wo- manly care of women paupers and s for legal protection to women workers from long hours, unjust fines and unsani- urfl conditions. The clubs of Wisconsin, Georgia, Con- necticut, 1linols, Massachusetts and other States are asking better legislation for werking women and children. The clubs of Georgia want matrons in all city jails. Michigau clubs secured the parease of a bill making it obligatory to we women physicians in State institu- tions where women and children are held. California and Vermont clubs are working for a similar law. The Chicago Woman's Club has long stood for thi Florida clubs are alread; the of protection o from to 18 years, and States will indorse such bill pre- sented. a also asked that the mar- ;l::;mutflrlabcmhedhomm(nu Bitter Defeats Met by Women. ‘This work planned relates to the | rights of women, but is par ","' th‘. ‘unfortunate or hélnln: g::fl :fil {ho:: ‘measures will pass, for woman's has its limits. The New York d‘:m this keenly when their 0 failed lom They '(or a State in. dustrial 1 for. , where household arts and crafts be taught to as other estab! schoois were ng 'manual work boys. They felt that the |PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. —_——— PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Why Women Organized in Clubs Should Seek to Obtain Equality of Rights With Men Under the Law. By Catherine Waugh McCulloch. (COPYRIGHT, 1901) IV.—INFLUENCE OF WOMEN’S CLUBS IN SECURING THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN. —_— sixty homes in their State for fallen women would not be so overcrowded if as girls the Inmates had been instructed in some useful occupation. The courtesy of the legislators and their, promise to Elv3 the matter careful consideration encour- aged the women. Their hopes fell when later they received word that the funds were so low and the necessities for other objects so eat that the apxrcpfl-don needed could not be made. About the same day, however, the Legislature had funds enough to establish in a male col- lege a_chair in veterinary science at the cost of $200.000 and to appropriate $150,000 for a military parade. It is natural to suppose that these unselfish women ear nestly desired something in the line of rights and power just then and wisl that they were not limited to begging for such bills as favors. nd Michigan ear- In Illinois, Kentucl nest efforts were for better accom- modation for women students at the State universities and colleges. The Illinois bill was vetoed by the Governor, but the Michigan measure was successful. In some of the States the women are _{u begging admittance to such schools. The Georgia Club_urged a bill admitting women to the State University and to ihe Textile department of their school of tecli- nology. Barnest Work Now in Progress. Notice that these efforts are purely un- selfish, the securing of rights for women other than the petitioners. Even the effort to secure laws allowing women to be placed on school Loards is not so much to gfve women rights as to improve the schools. ~In Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Georgia and Tennessee the State club organizations work for this and many local clubs in States where such laws have been previdusly work to have their provisions carried out. Delaware clubs are working to secure a vote on school questions and the Minne- sota clubs rejoice over success in gaining the vote on library matters. = The Eeorsia clubs were able to prcvent the passage of a bill forbidding a woman the right to be Assistant State Librarian. Connecticut clubs are investigating the guardianship laws; Massachusetts and Missouri clubs the laws relating to women employes, and the clubs in several other States are making special study of laws relating to women and trying to Secure better enforcement of good laws. Rhode Island clubs are publishing a vol- ume of the laws relaiing to women. The foregoing is what the clubs are now actually dolng or what they did last year. Such’ unselfish charitable work in the improvement of laws deserves suc- cess, but has often been followed by fail- ure. For example, the Georgia clubs worked faithfully for a bill to raise the a8e of protection for girls from 10 years, for_a bill prohibiting the labor of children under 12 in factories and for a bill to admit women to the State Textile School. All three of these measures have been defeated by the Georgia representatives, representing surely not the womanhood of the State. The Vermont Legislature has also de- feated a woman's club bill providing for women on boards of asylums where women are confined. These are bitter lessons. A Georgia woman in the Atlanta Journal says: “Women in Georgia are growing a little tired of hearing about their influence as being all-powerful and finding it upon test to be absclutely nothing.” But as long as women are deprived of the ballot they must expect many defeats of cherished bills before the continual dropping of per- suasion and petitions and influence can ‘wear away the stone of prejudice. Much Still Remains to Be Done. Notwithstanding such defeats the State Legislatures this winter are meeting many progressive clubwomen ardently “cham- ioning bills to secure various legal rights 'or women. They also meet members of the suffrage associations, whose primary object is the ballot but who have alway: worked also for lesser ri s. The Na- tional American Suffr: Associations, when required by State socleties, has been recommending to each the legislation most needed and most likely to win suc- cess. Lawmakers will have little opportunity this winter to-err ignorantly. There is much _yet to be accomplished, though after-dinner speakers, referring to the progress in the nineteenth century, gen- erally talk in such glowing terms of woman’s advanced ition as to lead one to infer that there is nothing more to be desired. But there is still something more to be done before all the rights of women are secured. The twentieth century has a chance to improve on the past. In some eight States wives have elther no control or only partial control over their own property, and in twice as many no control ever their wages. In some States the law of courtesy still prevails by which the husband has the use of all the wife’s real estate during his life; even after her death, should she have ven birth to a lving child. In these tates the wife has only dower in her husband’s real estate—that is, the use of one-third after his death. ‘While many States provide for a wife's support suited to her condition in life. which, however, is often hard to enforce, in others she can compel no support unless divorced. Why Women Need the Ballot. In many States wives are made equally liable for family support, but in most they are allowed no share in family income. In three-fourths of the Statés mothers are not equal to fathers in the guardianship of their children. In about haif the States the age of protection for a girl's chastity, called the age of consent, is 14 years or lower. In many States M“cuuyn is no crime. In several of the States women are pot admitted to the bar nor to hi Bhoois of Tearning and ‘can hoid no Slea tive position. In all the States, except the four where women vote, the wages of women are on the averaze mueh lower than those of men’ employed on the same kind of work. The knowledge of such gross inequality and legal injustice convinces woman that they are yet distant from the millennium. Even when laws are theoretically fair and ecual it 1s difficult sometimes to se- cure their just enforcement for women in courts officered only by men, elected or appointed by men only.” Women'’s lack of political power operates to their disad- vantage In securing and enforcing legal ggm:. Frm'n khel- that hath not political ] are taken Wa Ve Fights which she hath, o ‘he lesal 'he struggle to secure the ballot. for women is another story, but until the bai- lot is obtained women will meet with many defeats In securing further lega! rights and in holding fast those now al- lowed. The ballot in the hands of Ameri- can womanhood will be the one assurance of stable justice to women. _—— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Irate Pa—Did you tell that dude he calls on you every ather t that !'u: oft promptly going to have the gas tu tg m.? at 10 p. m.? Daughter—Yes, paj Trate Par_And what did he say to that? Daughter—He said he would consider it a personal favor if you would have it turned off at 8:30.—Chicago News. “If you need money, why don’t you go to work shoveling snow?” asked the Il:l with the big overeoat. ‘“‘Because I'm too kind-hearted,” an- swered Meandering Mike. “I'm goin’ to feave dat sure-money snow to be shoveleq by some feller dat ain’t had de luck to fal] in wit’ no kind-hearted, philanthropic gent like yourself.”—Washington Star. Business Man—What i g Al ant—Thomas J. ; ,.1?“;0:::. t does the ‘J. J. J.,’ stand for?” = Ing. The man who stood for me when I was christened stuttered.”—Balti- more American. “Is_that painter an Impressionist asked the young woman. p~ el Ly “To a in extent,” answered Miss is under the t he is great.”—Washington m’. o ANSWERS TO QUERIES. AUTHOR—A. S., Suisun, Cal. The au- thor of “The Silence of Dean Maitland™ is Maxwell Gray (M. G. Uttiet). This has been published in paper covers. “Richard Carvel” was written by Win- ston Churchill, A HAND IN CRIBBAGE-R. 0. T. C, City. If in a game of cribbage A plays a ix and D a four. D 2 nd if the others do not play and C plays a six be cannot claim a rém of four because of an intervening card. WAGON WHEEL—S. E. D, City; and H. H. H, Newcastle, Cal. These corre- spondents ask: ‘“Why does the top of a wheel running on a road go faster than the bottom?” The question was submitted to Willlam Ryan of Miller, Mendocino County, who has devoted much time and study to this matter, and who has kindly furnished the following explanation and atagram: o+ B3 D = B B D. curves those pcints in the tire respectively de- rolling. scribe or genmerate in the “To make the matter clearer I will lution of the wheel? “The answer is § feet 75 inches. “The two points differing so much In travel during half a revolution are metrically opposite to each other on tire of wheel, and each is 2 feet perpendicu- larly distant from a level ground on which the wheel moves. That on the front side of wheel travels & feet £.2 inches in haif a revolution, while that on the hind side travels 11 feet 3.7 Inches the same tim thus making the difference 6 feet 7. inches. The distances are along the cycloid curves which those pofuts re- spectively describe (or ). To {llus- 3 generate) trate and intelligibly dcmonstrate the work of solution the accompanying dia- gram is necessary to show curves and properties thereof. PERSONAL MENTION, John Hays Hammond is at the Palace. 0. J. Larson, a merchant of Lodl, Is at the Grand. James McCudden of Vallejo is registered at the Grand. J. B. Porter of Salinas registered at the Palace yesterday. J. W. Winston of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. J. R. Weeks, a mining man of Los An- geles, is staying at the Grand. N. R. Biswell of Sacramento is spend- ing a few days at the Palace. J. D. Smith, a stock raiser of Redwood City, is a guest at the Grand. Edward J. Stratton, an ofl man of Bak- ersfleld, is staying at the Occidental. Joseph R. Patton of San Jose is spend- ing a few days as a guest at the Grand. Gerald R. Lumley, a fruit grower of Porterville, is registered at the Grand. C. E. 8. Wood, a prominent attorney of Portland, Or., is registered at the Cail- fornia. J. R. Foster, proprietor of the Western Hotel of Marysville, is a guest at the Lick. Edward Berwick, an extensive land owner of Monterey, is registered at the Grand. M. M. Gragg, manager of the Southern Milling Company warehouse at Monterey, is at the Occidental. John W. Short, pdstmaster of Fresno. Is visiting friends in San Francisco. Mr. Short was one of the proprietors of the Fresno Republican during its early days of strugsgle and distress, and it was chiefly due to his enterprise and ability that the paper became one of the ablest of the in- terior journals. oo MRG0 SRR CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 12—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—J. Lowenberg, T. C. Smith, at Hoffman; D. . Murphy, at Holland; C. Johnson, at Murray Hill; Miss J. Rosen- wald, at Normandle; T. T. Willlams, at Bowman, at Manhattan. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 12—~The follows ing Californians are in Washington: At the Raleigh—Arthur Letts and wife, B L. Dohény and wife, Los Angeles. Choice candles, Townsend's, Pelace Hotelt ———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_——— Special information- supplied dally teo business houses and public men by the Press Clip; BurnnpuiA.llon's). o Teomis gomery st. ‘elephone 1042, - Dbt Sfare e 2t e iy - < & spo: S Plows right througn it. - AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season i3 plans. Best of everything, including the char- acter of entertatnment. Apply 4 New Monigdm. ery st., city, for special ticket. Parker's Hair Balsam is the favorits for dressing the hair and renewingits life and color. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cta. Kansas City is to have a banana warehouse, large enough to h:i‘: twenty- five carloads. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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