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Call subscribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The C This paper ‘will also be on sale at resorts aud is represented by a local agent in all towss on the coast. COUNT CASSINI’'S DENIAL. at serene SINI, Russian Embassador has departed the o:nacy long enough to take an in- from re is no truth in the recent dis- to the effect that the Czar is com- ke extraordinary precautions to assure In making this refuta- hation led a good story which no orne of the public without doing any urg correspondent who sent that he Berlin newspaper man who beer cellar at home and dated it tal, is a faker of talent. His romance walls of the Czar's study and steel armor, that the doors chanism so drranged that while the Czar is within the has five desks in his study ther, so that no one can 1 be working at any given t lacked but one element +ke yellow fakers of this country, omplete had the writer described the Czar in the steel cage and covered wit order that all persons who court dress. not content himself with de- nying ce of a steel armored room in the palace in which the Czar is kept like 2 good gold brick in a safe deposit vault. He declared a conviction of the falseness of the reports concerning the affray a: St. Pet men on the one side and the Cossacks of the guard on the other. He scoffed at the idea that any one had been killed, and said: “This report is probably based upon the fact that the Cossacks in dispersing 2 crowd used their whips, with which they are equipped. It is utter nonsense to say a hundred men were killed.” In making that declaration we fear Count Cassini was more mindful of his duty to his Czar than of his duty to speak the truth when talking to the Ameri- can people. The Cossacks of the Imperial Guard are habitually equipped, it appears, with whips, and as such weapons cannot be of use in war, it is evident they are intended solely for flogging the folks at home in piping times of peace. Such being the case, it ¥ quite within the scope of probability that in using whips upon a crowd of students and workingmen who were sufficiently numerous to feel something trength there should have been an out- 1ld not be put down by the lash and the Cossacks were forced 10 use their swords. There may have be nd doubtless was something of exaggera- 1 the reports, but the world cannot be convinced by a simple statement from a diplomat living in Wash- ington that there was, in fact, no more truth in the report of the slaughter than there was in the yarn of the steel-lined bedroom. Clearly the Czar has many troubles, and those in re the least of them. is certai break that cc tion ina There is now a seem- gly close alliance in Russia between the university students, the socialist labor party and the Pan-Slay i Nor can there be any question that the ist 1d anarchists will lend their help to th: s in disturbing the Government. It is to be noted, moreover, that a recent report of the arrests following the first outbreak of students at St. Petecs- » burg announced that among the arrested persons wers upward of 350 women students. Thus there appears to be something like a desire for a general uprising, inciuding women as well as men. No one believes that the Crar sieeps in a steel safe, but all the same 11 who invented the story had’a fairly good idea of what he vro_llld do if he were Czar. It will be remem- | n the situation in Manchuria | burg between the students and the working- | THE EAST INDIAN CENSUS. of India. It gives a total population of 294,000, 000, an increase, for the decade, of 7,000,000. But as for the first time it includes the population of Baluchistan, Shanstaks, the Chin Hills and Sikkim territory, the actual net increase is only 1.4 per cent, showing that the population is practically stationary. This census and the conditions which it reveals brings to the front again the question of the resources and the value of tropical countries. It confirms the con- clusions of economists who have always placed the wealth of the world in the temperate zone and its poverty in the tropics. There is a school of philanthropic economists who | have sought to make the world believe that the pov- érty of the tropics is due to avoidable causes, and that all that is necessary to its banishment is the introduc- tion of Christianity and what are called modern methods, meaning thereby the processes of art and science that have developed under temperate zons conditions. We regard this view as erroneous and wholly unscientific. | | The development of the temperate zone and the | transmutation of its natural resources into wealth by | | | | | human labor has been entirely the outcome of physi- cal conditions, which man did not make and cannot change. No wealth is acquired anywhere except by the exer- tion of human energy. In the tropics natural condi- ! tions are adverse to human energy, and there is non=. | Life multiplies there until it overtakes the food sup- | ply which nature produces spontaneously or yields | grudgingly to small exertion; then famine and its | partner, pestilence, stop the increase and- reduce the | population until it is below the food supply again. | This process has been repeated over and over again | in India for uncounted ages. | It is quite remarkable how little of what are re- garded in the temperate zone as the necessaries of life is produced in the tropics. None of our great cereals except rice may be found there. We wonder that the Indians are vegetarfens and that tropical people are not meat-eaters. But the reason behind it all is that as the climate does not require a meat diet the stan- | dard meat foods of the world are not produced in the equatorial belt. In tropical Central America the prin- | cipal meat used is the iguana lizard and the armadillo, | two reptilian animals, znd the monkey. Beef and pork and mutton as we produce them are impossible there. The temperate zone gets out of the tropics hardly any of the necessaries of temperate zone life that can- not be produced elsewhere. If not a stalk of cane grew in the tropics California alone could supply every ounce of sugar consumed in this country. I not a stalk of tobacco grew in Cuba or the Philip- pines, we could produce our own tobacco. The same is true of rice, which can be grown in unlimited quan- tities in the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, the low- lands of Louisiana and of Eastern Texas. This leaves but a few dye woods and spices, many | of them unknown to our ancestors, who never felt the deprivation. | It is true that England gets some revenue from In- dia and her merchant class have enriched themselves on the spoil of that poverty-smitten people, but ths methods by which w results are accomplished ars less creditable than the enlightened use to which they are put. “ The same may be caid of Dutch rule in Java and Sumatra, and was eminently true of the whole colonial career of Spain. The fancy of theorists in the tem- perate zone is inflamed to enthusinsm over the bright plumage, the serpentine vines, the brilliant flowers of the tropical landscape. But cold and sober-minded judgment tells a differ- cnt story. To the temperate zone races and physical constitution the tropics are noxious. The land, the water and the air teem with poison for the northern races. There is no such thing as acclimatization pos- sible. The northern constitution, which withstands all the rigors of its native climate, and thrives upon alter- nating extremes of heat and cold, wilts, surrenders and wears away in the tropics. The physical beauties over which the sentimental rave to the philosopher and the naturalist are the | gauds of the siren, cisplayed to woo men to death. Every nation in the temperate zone, from ancient times until now, has had.its turn with this tropical problem and has come under the spell of the siren, only to drag itself back to its frost and climatic rigors, where the energies of man are vitalized by nature. | The Boston Transcript informs its readers that San | Jose has planted 5000 acres of sweet peas for the pur- pose of providing floral adornments for McKinley, but it should have said 50,000 acres. Why will these | Eastern people insist on removing the Californian largeness from every ctory they tell about us? OPERA AND VAUDEVILLE. | OR a long time the Metropolitan Opera-house | Fin New York has been the boast of the Ameri- | can people. It has been an evidence that under republican institutions it is possible to do as much for the luxury of art as any imperial power can do. ‘While the opera-house itself has not rivaled in mag- nificence nor in beauty of architecture some of the grand opera buildings of Europe, it has nevertheless served to gather to this country troupes of singers | superior to any troupe that ever delighted the Old | World. No combinations of genius have ever been formed for rendering opera in any other country equal to those which have been drawn together primarily | for the Metropolitan, and which from that center have f gone up and down the length and breadth of the land | as far as San Francisco, delighting audiences, giving | society a chance to show itself under its fairest aspect, | and materially adding to the musical culture of the | people. 3 Under such circumstances it is saddening to learn | that the big house in New York is to serve alternately | as a grand opera-house and as a cheap variety show. | The New York Times says: “Unless plans miscarry w a complete change in the policy of the Metropolitan Opera-house will occur shortly after the close of the operatic season on April 29, when grand opera per- formances given by the finest artists in the world will give place to vaudeville at prices ranging from 15 to | 50 cents. This arrangement, it is understood, is to be !condudcd shortly, and a contract entered into be- ' tween the Maurice Grau Opera Company, the lessees | of the house, and the Lederer Amusement Company, { of which George W. Lederer is the managing director. | The latter company is to have a permanent tenancy | of the opera-house for both winter and summer, with | the exception of an interval of ten weeks for grand opera, which will begia in all probability about Christ- l mas week. The remainderfof the year will be given | over to the biggest kind of an indoor entertainment, | which will embrace circus, variety, minstrelsy, ballet, | burlesque and opera.” | Of course no one has a right to object to the lxheml:. The stockholders in the company that owns P I “HERE has just been taken an accurate cms‘us‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDA | the building have a right to seek an income on their money. If they can make it by ‘ten weeks of grand opera and forty-two weeks of variety entertainments, which seem to include every kind of performance ex- cept the prize ring, they have the right to try the va- riety. It is their affair and not ours. Nevertheless there is somethirg to regret in the fact that the most sumptuous structure ever erected as a temple of music. i:l this country should so soon in its carcer pass over to the uses and abuses of vaudeville. One by one the glories depart from the stage. Some of the best of our actresses and of our singers have left the opera and the drama for the higher salaries of the vaudeville. Commercialism rules the stage as well as “the camp, the court, the grove.” Perhaps the Pattis, Melbas and the Sembrichs of the future will take to the variety route, and it w'll be left after all to the prize-fighters to uphold the last traditions of the legitimate drama. JAPAN STANDS ALONE. ISPATCHES irom JLondon quote the First Secretary of the Japanese legation in that city as saying of the Russian aggressions in Man- churia: “Assuming that China signs the treaties, I suppose Great Britain, Germany and the United States will protest to Russia. But that is about as far as they will go and about as much as they will get. With Japan it is a matter of fighting. The ques- tion is whether we are to fight Russia now or to fight her later on. She has no right to Manchuria, and if she secures Manchuria she will be on the way to se- curing Korea, Our Government, I believe, is consid- ering the crisis. Its eyes are wide open and it will not be driven to precipitate action by the jingoists of Japan, who are openly clamoring for immediate war. Yet if they see that war is unavoidable they will not hesitate to strike.” Whether or no that statement rightly express the intentions of the Japanese Government no one not in the confidence of that Government can say, but it is certainly accurate co far as it relates to the other powers. Should the Russians compel the Chinese to cede Manchuria and should they in the face of all ths allied armies now in the Orient proceed to take pos- session of it, there would go forth from the United States, from Germany, from France and even from Great Britain nothing more than a protest. It would be a bluff which the Russian bear would be very will- ing to meet by showing his hand, being well assured that the United States has no intention to go to war for the preservation of China, and that the other powers would just as soon compound the Russian grab by making a grab of their own. Recently in the Commons when the Ministers were asked whether Russia was acting alone in China and what the British and other Governments were pre- pared to do to prevent such action, Lord Cranborne answered that the proposed agreement between Rus- sia ang China is still under discussion and that he is unable to make any positive statement concerning the matter, More significant still is the recent declaration of the London Spectator that Russia will have Manchuria and cannot be driven out. It went on to say: “ Europe likes to try the awful experiment of governing China, let it. Our business is to trade with it, and to secure that right of trading the sooner we disappear from Peking and all North China the better. All the shillyshallying now going on only increases the chances of some event, or some combination, that will plunge us more deeply into the Chinese swamp or compel us to threaten war with powers who in this matter are doing us no substantial harm. Imagine our people, already overburdened, fighting to prevent somebody, else from getting Mongolia or Shantung! We might almost as well fight for trading privileges ir the moon.” Such being the sentiment in Great Britain it is clear that if Japan wishes to keep Russia out of Manchuria she must be prepared to act without allies. Indecd the Japanese Government will have cause to be thank- ful if it be left free to play a lone hand, for the chances are that Germany at least will back Russia’s scheme in the expectation of getting something of profit out of it for herself. MRS. NATION'S NEW CRUSADE. ARRIE NATION'S hatchet is growing rusty C while that knightess errant is admonishing against the sinful round dance and the soothing cigar. She goes forth upon the street to halt every gentleman with pipe or cigar stuck in his face and orders him, in the name of the Great Jehovah and Carrie Nation, to quit, swear off and cease right there from sinning with nicotine. So far not a conversion is recorded. No one has quit. The fragrant Havana and the unfragrant nauseadora Perfecto still blaze and their smoke ascends to heaven, even as did the smoke from the garbage of Jerusalem rise over the valley of Hinnom.* Counting every smoke-filled mouth as a Gehenna, Mrs. Nation has quenched none of the fires. . A sufferer from tobacco who properly calls himself a martyr writes from New York a Macedonian cry in a big round hand, and Mrs. Nation should take the next train to the scene of his torment. He says: “My paternal grandmother, who is a native of Connecticut and lives with me, has always smoked a pipe. My mother, who is a Missourian and lives with me, also smokes a pipe. My wife is a Russian and smokes cigarettes, as does my sister-in-law, who is a Cuban. My daughter is an artist and also smokes. I hate tobacco in any form, and if grandma and ma ani my wife, sister-in-law and daughter can be made to stop smoking I shall be a happy man.” 2 Now, what is hacking Kansas bars compared to the conquest of a situation like that? The culprits are not odious men, either. They all belong to Carrie's gentle sex. Let her go and argue with that smoke- seasoned old Connecticut dame and that hardened whiffer from Missouri, and see what she can do with them. After she has carried the Fort Nicotine, gar- risoned by a female army, she may return to the pavement and “sass” gentlemen for indulging their after-dinner cigar. We are of the opinion that noth- ing short of her hatchet will break those ladies of the tobacco habit. How she is to apply her favorite weapon is for her to choose, whether the edge, or flatwise as a spanker. We will not presume to advise such an expert. The announcement that a new company with a capi- tal of $9,000,000 has been started to supply salt leads to the conclusion that the salt trust must have become too fresh to suit the market. ekl : In all that has been said and written of Count Boni de Castellane’s duel we note the omission of any ex- pression of thanksgiving on the part of the Gould family that Boni was not killed. Carnegic’s refusal to be a candidate for Mayor of New York will not surprise those who remember that he retired from bisiness mainly to have a rest and not at all with an intent to look for trovble. | eil of Jewish Women, Woman's National M ARCH 97, 1901. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS/ sex, | ship. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR | THE SAN FrANcIsco CALL. Varied Activity of Organized Women in Affairs Which Affect Municipal Life in American Cities. By Mrs. Frederick Nathan, PRESIDENT OF THE CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. (COPYRIGHT, 1%01.) PoECLS SENSSES VI.—PRACTICAL WOREK When thirty-three years ago the first woman’'s club was organized the move- ment met with much scorn and derisfon. The newspapers, reflecting public opinion, contained comments and cartoons depict- ing the women in their clubs, like the ‘men, smoking, drinking, gambling, return- ing to their homes in a demoraltzed con- dition toward dawn and endeavoring to use their latchkeys to effect an entrance. Paterfamilias was' invariably represented as an object of pity, left at home to as- sume the household and nursery cares. It is amusing, in the light of to-day's judgment, to look back upon this pro- phetic plcture. Women's organizations and clubs have been one of the most potent factors in educational, social, and rerhaps it may be possible to show, muni- cipal reform in the United States. They have been powerful agencies in the di- rection of progress and culture in the home, and from this, the foundation stone, have built themselves up to vast influence in social and political life. The oldest socleties in this country com- posed entirely of women were started for church and missionary work. In Germany socleties of women are, or at least as late as 1808 were, forbidden by law unless the object is distinetly religious, charitable or educational. Sorosis of New York is the mother of the woman's club movement. From it was evolved the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs. List of Women’s Organizations. 1 ?h‘e herewith a list of the principal or- ganizations now maintained by women: Education and Industry—Woman's Educa- tional and Industrial unions, Woman's Public Education association, College _ Alumnac clubs, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Natidnal League of Women Workers, Congress of Mothers, Natlonal Council of Women, Con- sumers’ e, Natlonal Federation of Wo- men's Musical Clubs, Women's Auxillary of Ethical Culture Assoclation, Soclety for the Study of Life, exchanges for women's work, Kindergarten assoofations, Women's Philhar- monic Soclety, Business Women's Association. Philanthropy—The various women's sewing societies, sist s conmected with churches, Women's Auxillary of Legal Ald Soclety, aux- iliaries of hospitals, homes and orphaff asy- Little Mothers' Aid Assoclation, Wo- Ald Assoclation for Dumb Animals, As- sociation of Day Nurseries, Women's Natlonal Rellef Assoclation, Professional Women's League, Women's Natfonal Indian Association, Women's Prison Association, National Wo- men's Afro-American Union, Working Wo- men's Protective Unfon, Working Women's Vacation feties, Southern Federation of Colored n’s Clubs. .« Civies—Women's Municipal League, Women's Auxilfary of the Civil Service Reform Assocla- ton, Women's Health Protective Association, Woman's Temperance unions, City History clubs. Patriotism—Daughters of the American Rev- olution, Soclety of Colonial Dames. Religion — Women's missionary _socletles, Yourg Women's Christlan Assoclations, Coun- bath Alllance, King's Daughters, Christian Endeavor clubs, Girls' Friendly socleties. Politics—National Women's Suffrage Assocla- tion, Women's Republican clubs, Women's e for Political Education, Political Equality clubs. : Domestic Science—National Women's House- hold Economic Association. A Sample Club of Clubs. The so-called department club, which Jennie June calls a ‘‘club of clubs.’ has grown greatly in importance. Among the best known of these is the Chicago Woman's Club. In_ that club there are six departments—reform, home, educa- tion, philanthropy, art and literature, philosophy and science, In each depart- ment work is carried on along very broad lines. For instance, included in the de- partment of education are the visits paid to public_schools, decorations for school- rooms and of special methods in pedagogy, establishment of _vacation schools and plaf' grounds. The members choose whichever department thei/ prefer for work; each department has its own stand- ing committees and its own programme. Several auxillary socfeties have been formed as an outcome of the work done by the woman's club. Among these may be mentioned the Protective ncy for ‘Women and_Children, the School Chil- dren’s Aid Society, the Chi Public cago School Art Society, the Chicago Political Equality League and the Woman's Model Lodfilng House Association. The club has nearly 80 members enrolled. These womeén, if isolated, could do little individ- ually to arouse the public conscience on matters that pertain to the public wel- fare, but bound together as they are by the ties of the club they are a force in the community that must be reckoned with. Clubs Having a Specific Object. In the larger citles in the East the clubs are usually formed for one definite purpose; they do not combine the various departments that are to be found in those organized in the smaller towns or in the larger cities of the West. In New York a large number of women's leagues or as- sociations have been organized not for eneral culture but for a specific object. e successful accomplishment of the ob- ject in view has led to the formation of similar organizations in other cities, until to-day there is a t network of these associations spread all over the country, Sometimes lher become affillated and grow into national movements. Among these may hehnamed the National Con- ess of Mothers' Clubs, ‘the National onsumers’ League, the National House- hold Economic Association, the National ‘Women's Suffrage Association, the Na- tional Women’s Temperange, bnlon, the National Council of Jewish Women and the National League of Women Workers. ‘Work of the Consumers’ League. The Consumers’ League has aroused mothers to the dangers of purchasing clothing made in sweatshops and tene- ment hévels, thus bringing germs of in- fectious diseases into the homes. It has pointed out that through,the ignorance of carelessness or indifference of the con- sumers manufacturers and merchants have been nermitted to shirk all respon- sibility in the matter. It has shown that before there is a supply of anything there must be a demand for it, and that if mothers desire wholesome garmen:s.| and foods for their children they must create the demand for them. The Con- sumers’ League has awakened the pub- lic to a sense of {ts responsibilities. It has pointed out the degrading conditions in several lines of industry, notably the garment-making industry, and has shown that consumers are partially responsible for these conditions and ‘can remedy them if they combine and make an ea nest effort to do & The Consume League movement, which was started ten vears.ago in New York by a small band of women, has grown to such an extent that at present there are twanty- seven lea cleven States of tge nion. ese es strive to ralse the standard of all conditions of industry. ';hethcr in factories, workshops or stores. In Bchalf of Public Health. The Woman's Health Protective Asso- clation, of which there are now twelve in different cities, began life in New York under dificulties. Its first effort was di- rected against the old abominable slaugh- ter houeo—mu:{ wooden structures, where the slaughtering was carried on with open doo; the rs in e presence of spec- tators, who were usually the children of the neighborhood. There were no decent uarters for the cattle before th:z were slaughtered; fllex were carrl into stifiing_and fetld cellars, where they could be seen clambering over one an- other in vain attempts to get a whiff of fresh air. The resuit of the women's cfforts was the substitution eventually of sp'endid modern has st prote L s muour{“ -:‘?::;y filled with offensive matter, o4 un ulati coi posal o f streets at nst t] accumulation of heaps of mu'mtm“ém’ ti on. an Mfiwm best known started By 4 i e eSS s niy ‘as shelters. and ngatnst ' fitical Edacation, aithough organisca ord OF WOMEN'S CLUBS. tne unsanitary and disgusting habit of expectorating in cars and on the floors of public buildings. For Better City Government. Taking the New York organizations more especlally, though onl{ as examples of the many similar ones throughout ‘he country, a brief sketch of their origin may be given. The Woman's Municipal League of New York, Mrs. L Phelps Stokes president, was organized on the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Charles Il Parkhurst. Its object was to assist in bringing into power a reform administra- tion at the time of the mayoralty cam- paign of 1865. The league raised money among the women of the city, held parlor meetings and meetings in small halls i the downtown districts, where the benefits of good city governmeni were e:gla!ned. After the election the league disbanded. but was reorganized in 157. During thel mayoralty campaign'of that year it raisel $9000 entirely from women to aid the Citi- zens’ Unlon movemen:. It arranged two large and successful mass-meetings that | were held in Cooper Union for men and women and held many smaller meetings for the purpose of keeping before the peo- ple the great {ssues at stake. After the campalgn was over the executive commit; tee decided to continue the work for good municipal government and during the last three years it has kept iwo lecturers reg- ularly employed in lecturing upon the eity ts, civil service reform and the The object of the league is “‘secure active support for such move- ments and candidates as may give prom- ise of the best government for the city, without regard to party lines.” Study of Municipal Needs. Among other societies that have co- operated with the Woman's Municipal League and that may be considered under the category of civic, political or patriotic leagues, I may mention the woman's aux- | fllary of the Civil Service Reform Asso- clation, Mrs. W. H. Schieffelin, president, which has collected from women about $1200 a vear during the five vears that it has been organized. It offers this year tc members of women's clubs two prizes of $100 and $50 respectively for the best essays on the subject of civil service re- form. The League for Political Educa- tion. Mrs. Henry M. Sanders. president, strives “to facilitate the study of social and political science” by forming classes | in economies, civies and parliamentary law and by providing lectures by eminent authoritles upon political and social sub- jects. It has a reference library for the benefit of its members, and it conducts in- vestigations in the various Assembly dis- tricts with the view of studying the moral and social forces of the city. It pleads for the study of the city charter, the tene- ment-house laws, the school system, tax- ation and raising of revenue, and the | methods of the municipal courts. It ad- vises a closer knowledge of the work of the public departments, of the police, charities, education, fire and street clean- ing service in one’s own election district. Teaching the City's History. ‘While this league is occupled in endeav- oring to instruct adults and interest them | in political reform the City History Club, Mrs. Robert Abbe, president, is co-operat- | ing by Inculcating in the breasts of the little ones a love for their city, a knowl- edge of its past, an appreciation of its Kresent needs and an earnest desire to elp it to maintain lofty ideals in the fu- ture. The club aims “‘to awaken civic patriotism by the study of city histo: and tradition.” It aspires to make good, noble citizens, who will take an interest in civie affairs, who will consider it their privilege to assume some of the burdens and responsibilities of civic life. The club | started its work with seven classes under the charge of one experienced teacher, and it has developed so rnpldl{ that at present there are 108 classes, in which nearly 2000 children have been enrolled. Traveling libraries have helred the club | with its work; about forty of these libra- | ries of books upon the history and govern- ment of the city, volumes of blography and historical fiction, have been loaned to clasdes. Excursions to places of interest are made by the club in order to visit the scenes where important events have oc- curred. ‘Women in Politics. One of the best known of the civie clubs organized by women is the Philadelphia | Civic Club. Its aim is outlined by its pledge to promote “by education and ac- tive co-operation a higher public spirit and a better social order.” ‘The club has four standing committees—munictpal gov- ernment, education, social science and art. As women the members have felt pecu- liarly fitted to do municipal house-clean- ing. Through the social selence depart- ment they looked Into conditions of | schoolhouses, the proper disposal of household refuse and the care of cellars; | they sought the co-operation of public of- ficlals and private householders, and en- deavored to raise a higher standard in the community. Through the art depart- ment the club instituted a system of Joan collections and of pictures for schools. It decorated the schoolrooms with appro- priate photographs and casts. The club was invited to co-operate with the Anti- Spolls League, but the women declined, because as citizens they bad no political | status. The National Civil Service Re- form Association invited the club to send | delegates to its convention, but the club | maintained that as its members were dis- | franchised citizens it could not do so with dl’nlly. he women of the West End Woman's Republican Association of New York have taken an entirely different attitude; al- though given no recognition by the Re- publican party, they have united for the ¥urpou of maintaining and strengthening he principles of that party. The first year thet the club was organized it devoted it- self to the study of Fiske's “Civil Gov- ernment,” Bryce's “American Common- wealth,” Gunton’s “Wealth and Progress" and other standard works. The club con- ducted an active campalgn in favor of the. gold standard and protection in 1896. The members visited the tenement houses in the Tammany districts, discussed the questions at issue with about 15,000 and 2000 men, and distributed over 200,000 pamphlets p\lbllfled in many languages. The National ngue of Women Work- ers is composed of five assoclations, with a membership of about 100 clubs. Thes» clubs have as their object “fo secure, by co-operation, means of self-support, of sonunmn for social intercourse, and the evelopment of her, nobler aims.” Practically, they offer a desirable meet- Ang place with a home atmosphere, organ- | ze classes for ée:rn"led-l gn;?n. and men- 5 ovide bt 4 e members with : 'l'hen Oln? Movement at Its Best. s it not clear that th - stmilar Organizations have been & rars of leading the women out of the narrow paths that lay between high walls of pr?éudlce and_ ignorance into the open g: 8 :?hel_'lc_hthey can have an extendel originating has become an-effectual medium for the propagation of ideas and principles that ‘-nfl:’ct th:o“:el‘('lon of l;.nm?nfly. There men_who, “Unleavened Bread,” u-:‘n'x‘:c 5‘{;‘:‘ t?: selfish purposes of advancement, but, Herbert Spencer well says, ‘“Societies, ?: thelr actions and structures, are deter~ mined by the mental character of their The club that is made up of weak characters cannot develop strengih as a club, and it is unfortunately true that many weak and foolish women's clubs exist. B‘t the wfinuut has been dene by oth s glves ample proof that there s a living strengih somewhere behind the movement. The club which will be developed by the twentieth century in Its full strength will be , 1ot us hove, of both men no two for wome and the i have, with broader m‘onmrned b'h "?’"‘ | among the other s usua pergu‘t;lnmefin to join the member- The Social Reform Club, the Nine- teenth Century Club, the Barnard Club. the National arts Club, all of New York, and the Twentieth Century Club o1 Boston are among those that include both sexes among their membe: This, to my mind, is the club that will give the best opportunity for growth. cul- ture and progress, the club that will be roductive of results that can only be ob- ained by the co-operation and intelligent sympathy of both men and wemen. It is the club of the future, and its motfo might well be: “In great things unity small things licerty, in all things char PERSONAL MENTION. W. R. Ramsdale of San Diego is at the Palace. Don Ray, a merchant of Galt, Is a guest at the Lick. D. F. Kelly of Los Angeles is staying at the Palace. Robert Scott of Honolulu is a guest at the Occidental. Milton McWerter, an oil man of Bakers- fleld, is at the Grand. John Sparks, the cattle man of Reno, Nev., Is at the Palace. C. H. Clarke of Seattle s a guest at the Palace for a few days. The Rev. W. L. Clark of Benicla guest at the California. Ira Brown, an attorney of Seattle, Is registered at the Grand. E. F. Stratton, an ofl man of Bakers- fleld, is at the California. Joseph McCormick, a cattle man Sonora, is staying at the Lick. Speaker C. W. Pendleton of Los Ange- les is registered at the Grand. A. P. Fraser is down from Stockton for a few days and is a guest at the Qcciden- tal. Frank Hazen, a merchant of Healds burg, registered at the California yester- day. George R. Stewart, a cattle man of Crows Landing, is registered at the Grand. S The Rev. the Presbyterian church, left Jose last night. W. H. Davenport, general agent of the Colorado Midland Railway. has gone to Los Angeles on a short business trip. W. H. Dobson, a mining man of Grass Valley, is spending a few days in the city on business. He is registered at the Occl- dental. Elisha Morgan, president of the Morgan Envelope Company of Springfield, Ohio, s at the Palace on a tour of the Pacific Coast and is accompanied by his wife and famMy. Mrs. J. D. Spreckels left last evening for Coronado. She will remain at the popular seaside resort until the return of John D n s a of Charles Dickey, moderator o* for San | Spreckels from Australia, the early part of next month. R. C. E. Eaton of Boston arrived here yesterday with his family and is staying at the Palace. Mr. Eaton came from the Fast with the Dr. Webb party, but stopped off at Monterey for two weeks. —_————— mni)nms IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, March 26.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Franecisco—C. C. Newman, W. A Remensberger, at Imoerial. From Los Angeles—G. R. Whitcomb, at Herald Square. ————————— AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season is now on at full tide. American and European . Best of everything, including the char- ¢ entertainment. Appiy 4 New Montgom- city, for special ticket. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TEN CENTS—Gir! Reader, City. A 10- cent piece of 1829 does not command a premivm. FLORENCE CATHEDRAL—E. City. The height of the cathedral at Florence, Italy, 18 3% feet. CAPTAIN SIGBEE—B. and W., City. Captain Sigbee of the Maine was on board of that vessel at the time she was blown up. NO PREMIUM—J. J. R., Virginla City, Nev. A half dollar of 1831 is not a prem- (u:n coin from dealers’ buying point of view. THE POEM—C. M. J., City. The poem about “two men, one fair the other dark.” 1 titled, so write several friends of this dle;:nmen(, “At Fredericksburg.” RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE-E. Au- burn, Cal. For information and blanks for civil service in the railway mail de- partment send a communication, with self-addressed and stamped envelope for reply, to the Rallway Mail Service De- partment, San Francisco, Cal. PREMIUM HALF DOLLARS-F. B, Alameda, Cal. The half dollars of the United States for which dealers in old coins offer premiums are those coined in 1794, 1796, 1797, 1801, 1802, 1815, 1836, if with- cut B Pluribus Unum; 1838 if with the O over the date, 1852, 1853, if without arrow- heads at date or rays around the eagle, and Columbian balf dollars of 1898, ULSTER COUNTY GAZETTE-F. M. C., Vallejo, Cal. An Ulster County Ga- zette of January 4, 1800, containing a full account of George Washington's death would be a valuable paper if its genuine- ness could be established, but as in 1861 more than a_million fac similes of a pa- | per of that date were published and sold all over the United States, it is likely that it is one of such copies that you have, and as such it has no historic value. —_—————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel * e Tal glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® Faster cards now on sale In art depart- ment. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. - Special information supplied dally business houses and public men o Press Clipping Burcau (Allen's), 510 gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. to the ont- . Indian widows in Sitka go into mourning b ?.\ntln‘ the upper part of their faces Dladk down to thelr mouths. Age tends to kil the hair and turn it gray. Parker's Hair Balsam remews color and life. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. —_—— A favorite Chinese weapon is a native made rifle of one-inch caliber, requiring two men to handle it. ADVERTISEMENTS, A DELICATE CHILD Let a delicate child take a Iittle Scott’s emulsion of cod- after breakfast or dinner—not too much—too liver oil much will upset the stomach. Better too little than too much. The effect will be slow; it ought to be slow. In a week, you will see it began the first day. Don't be in a hurry. We'll send you a little to try if you like, SCOTT & BOWNE, o9 Pearl street, New York