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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1901 Che Calee Call. 1 | 1-’RIBA\' ......APRIL 12, Y901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communiestions to W.S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 | i e A | VUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. | Telephone Press 201, 1 | EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. | Single Copies, 5 Cents. | Terms by Mafl, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (inclufing Sugday), one year. SAILY CALL (including All postmasters are authorized to receive subscrirtions. Gampile coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscrfbers In ordering chanze of address should ba rerticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order | % insure = prompt end correct compliance with their request. CAKLAND OFFICE... +es+.1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS, o Mazager Foreign Aédvertising, Marguetts Building, Chlesge. (Long Distance Telephone ‘“‘Central 2613.") . | NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON..........c..000..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. §! e 30 “ribune Building > NEW YORK NF ~S STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, %1 Unfon Square: Yurray Eml Hotel. 2 CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., . W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. | BRANCH OFFICES—E Montgomery, corner of Clay, open umtil 92 o'clock.. 30 Hayes, open untll 9:30 o'clock. € McAllister, open until $:3 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:20 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Markst, corner Eixteenth, open untfl § o'clock. 1096 Valencla, open untfl § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 8 o’'clock. NW. cor- ner Twenty-second #nd_Kentuekv. open until § o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. Tivoli—“The Tdol's Bye.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Alcazar—*“Tennessee's Pardner.” Grand Opera-house—*‘Cinderella.” Columbia—More Than Queen.” Californja—*"The County Fair,” Sunday night. Central—*Ingomar.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. "‘hutea, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudevilie. Mechanics' Pavilion—Art Exhibition. Recreation Park—Baseball. Metropolitan Temple—Lecture Sunday afternoon. Tanforan Park—Races. AUCTION SALES. By Occidental Horse Exchange—Monday, April 15, Horses, at 721 Howard street. By G. H. Umbsen—Thursday, April 18, at 12 o'clock, Busi- ness Property, at 14 Montgomery street. & — TO SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating = change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew | addresses by notifying The Call Business Ofiice. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agemt im | =il towns on the coast. | HELP THE EPWORTH LEAGUE. NE of the largest gatherings of young’ men and women that ever assembled in the United : States will be seen in San Francisco when the Epworth League opens its. international convention | next July. The gathering'so far as can be foreseen | at this time will be one of the most notable events of the year on the Pacific Coast. It will not only attract to California the atteation of the entire reading public | oi the United States while the convention lasts, but it will bring here thousands of observant visitors who will carry back to their friends reports of what they have seen here and of what the inducements are for hcmeseekers and for tourists. » . Such being the case the whole community of San Francisco should unite i preparing a hospitable and cordial welcome for thé members of the league and for their friepds. It is to be an occasion of interest to ull citizens, and each in proportion to his means should gladly share i1 whatever expense the recep- tior will entail In all affairs of this kind there is of course a great deal of volunteer work done with zeal for “the good of the cause” and not for pay. The resident members | of the league, with their friends, can be counted on to do a large amount of such work for the convention. ¥ Volunteers, however, cannot do everything. Money 25 well as willing hearts and hands will be required in making preparations. To the general public the lezguers have a right to look for assistance in raising the money. It goes without saying the expectation will not be disappointed, for however Californians may differ and divide on other issues they have never yet failed to stand together where hospitality is at stake, It may then be accounted as certain that whatever meney is needed will be forthcoming. The only question is that of obtaining it promptly, that definite arrangements may be speedily’ made and the work of carrying them out be entered upon early so there will be no confusion just heforé the convention meets. It can hardly be necessary to remind San Fran- cisco that the Epworth League is one of the many crganizations of the American people whose. work tends directly to the public good. Its power is one of 'hglpfulness toward afl good ends. It has merited by srduous service of deeds already done the aid which it now asks from the community. It has thus the merit of its work as well as the duty of hospitality to back its appeal for funds with which to provide a genuing Californian welecme for the convention. Let us hope there will be no delay in subscribing the amount asked for. This is one of the instances where San Franeisco should show herself at her best. — Ever since 2 Democratic gold bug was elected Mayor in St. Louis the old-timers who left the party when Bryan took contyol have been chattering abou: reorganizing the party; but just wait until the Demo- cratic mule gets a charce to make a good kick, and then the chatterers will wish they had not fooled with the animal. Editor Harmsworth, after spending about - three months in the Eastern States, has returned to his home in London, but not until he had told a reporter that in his judgment “Americans are too slow.” - Mr. Hzarmsworth, it will be remembered, aspires to be original. —_— By the time that Pheian gets through monkeying with the Senatorial buzz saw he may have reason tc coi clude that after ali city politics was not his worst failure. % ALTBRYANGELDISM. HERE are evidenices that the compound dis- ease Altbryangeldism has run its course in this country. It was an epidemic of political immor- { ality. The symptoms were a quickened pulse, upward relling eye, a vocal tremolo, a loud voice and itching palm. The disease appeared in 1896, and many prominent public men caught it. So threatening was it that the people ordered a quarantine that year, which confined | it to part of the Southern States and a few Northern States west of the Misscuri River. In other parts of the Union it was prevalent in sporadic form, aud scemed to have become endemic in Nebraska and Mis- souri. As the sufferers from hay fever have a national organization and convention, so these victims of Alt- bryangeldism had theirs. It was a peculiarity of the | disease that its victims were spitefully inimical to all i who did not catch it. The Gold Democracy in 1896 were immune and passed through the epidemic of that year untouched. On the other hand, a large num- ber of Republicans were infected, and had the misery in an acute and exaggerated form. A careful isolation of the microbe which caused it proved that it was first introduced into the country by | the Populists. It incapacitated the patients for dis- tinguishing between a §20 gold piece and a leather medal. They chewed a rag and then offered it in pay- ment of debts. They denied the existence of the law of gravity, and insisted that if it were not for a’ class they called “gold bugs” things would fall up instead of down. The disease derived its name from its two niost prominent victims, Mr. Altgeld and Mr. Bryan. Tt was very acute in each. It affected Altgeld’s sight, so that when he looked at the constitution of the “United States it seemed like a blank piece of paper. When there was a conflict between the law and its violator he had a strabismatic trouble which to_his vision made the law. criminal and the criminal inno- cent. Unfortunately, in the height of the attack he was Governor of Illinois, and when visiting the peni- tentiary would marvel that certain desperate charac- ters, murderers and anarchists, were there, and would pardon them. When scveral of these victims of his diseased clemency immediately committed other mur- ders and lesser crimes he believed that these crimes were actually committed by a great criminal seen in his imagination and called by him "socicty." There- upon he sought to destroy society. The disease caused him to believe that crime existed only because the law defined and punished it, and therefore crime could be abolished by the simple process of striking down the law. % ' He roused the fear of his neighbors and the appre- hension of the whole country, and the people of his State were compelled twice to isolate him. But in him the diseasc seems to have run its course, and the first sign of his convalescence was his active support of the Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago. In Mr. Bryan the disease was equally acute, with the same symptoms as Altgeld’s, reinforced by others that were probably due to his environment. His head swelled terribly. He vras abnormally loquacious, and tolked incessantly. Among his hallucinations he thought that he was Thomas Jefferson, and again that he was Abraham Lincoln. He was very restless and traveled all over the country, spreading the disease by shaking hands, as the ifch used to be propagated in that far-off period when it was called “the prairie digs.” Another peculiarity ¢f the disease in Mr. Bryan was that it made him avaricious. He raved without | ceasing, and the infection made other victims of the travble believe that he spoke as a prophet, seer and revelator, and he made them pay for listening, and |-then they went away znd pawed dust on themselves and bellowed, like cattle. Believing that he was like | primitive man in the fable of Plato, combining both genders in himself, he would be seized with an active fit in what he believed to be his female side, and would insist upon talking to audiences composed of women only. This spread the disease to some extent among | their sex, in“which it was attended by violent hysteria and an,effort to wear trousers and short hair. » It is feared that the trouble has permanently af- fected Mr. Bryan, having passed into thg tertiary stage. In that stage he is now “found denying that there is anybody in the world but himself. When his attention is called sharply to any public man in the country he immediately challenges him to cogme for- ward and submit proofs of his existence. His neighbors maintained such a rigid quarantine | against hini in 1806 and 1900 that the disease has dis- appeared from Nebraska. It is believed—and indced hoped—in Lincoln that Mr. Bryan may remain to be- ccme a permanent asset of the town, that he may at- tract political pathologists who desire to make a study of morbid morality. By adding a few pickle jars of morbid anatomy, double-headed rats and five-legged calves, tumors and another jawbone of an ass to Mr. Bryan it is believed that the capital of Nebraska may have a2 museum of abaormal products that will draw: visitors. Two interesting local gentlemen have gone to law and demand that, under an antique, discredited title, they be given property involving one-third of San Trancisco. They have probably forgotten the fact that the first day of April has passed and the Commis- sioners of Insanity are still in session. A TOO SERIOUS KAISER, AISER WILLIAM is unquestionably the moast Kforcdul monarch of thetime. He is, indeed, in personality as well as by his office, one of the foremost men of Europe., Yet there are times when he talks more like a spoiled child or a sulky barbarian than like an enlightened statesman or a stalwart leader of men. He had a fine chance to make a display of personal courage and kingly confidence in his people aiter the assault made upen him by the crazy fool who tarew a piece of gas pipe at him, wounding him in the Lead, but instead of making good use of the occasion he has made the worst possible use of it. We learn from Berlin that for a time after the assault was committed the Kaiser shut himself in his pelace and talked about his reliance upon his brave guards and upon the duty of the army to protect the imperial house should a2 mutinous and ungrateful pop- vlace rise in rebellion and insurrection, as it did in 1848. That was bad enough surely, but he went on to make matters worse. Berlin dispatches report that after the healing of his wound, which, after all, was not very serious, the Kaiser went to the barracks of the Potsdam garrison, where he sumpmned the First Reg- iment of Foot Guards and, after taking extraordinary precautions to prevent any representative of the press or other civilian obtaining knowledge of his remarks, he delivered a speech, which, leaking out from one source or another, has had the effect of irritating even the most loyal of his civilian subjects. He is reported to have said: “A hand from out of the people was recently raised against me, to my in- tense sorrow. Evidently serious times are coming, { which will try our mettle. I know that the army is true to its traditions and to the solemn oath it has taken. Iknow it will'remain steadfast and faithful to me. My conviction is especially strong regarding the Guards and reghrding this regiment mow present, which is tied to the Hchenzollerns by indissoluble times abroad and even during revolutionary times at hcme. The authority of the crown must be main- tained at all hazards. Woe to the soldier who listens to the voice of the tempter!” Speeches of that kind must be highly incensing to a self-respecting people. The Kaiser has no justifica- tion whatever for throwing upon the people of Berlin the blame_ for the attack made upon him by a lunatic. It will be remembered that when the late King Hum- bert of Italy was once fired at by a would-be assassin, the King laughed and said: “Such things are the accidents of my trade.” Kaiser William should, of course, take every precaution against assault, for a man must guard against the accidents of his trade; but he should not sulk over an attack and take it as an evidence that “serious times are coming,” and that the people are about to rise against him. The Kaiser, in fact, is too serious. - If he could cultivate a little more genial humor he would not have to go off to the bar- rackgand make secret speeches to the guards instead of meeting all his people and talking to them like a true leader. There is talk in the East of\putting Judge Taft forward as a candidate for the succession to McKin- ley, and while nothing of note is said about his quali- fications, the country is reminded that the Judge is an Ohio man. e THE TEXAS WAY. HE bloody county of Bowie, Texas, has been Trepresemed in the Legislature by Judge Dillard, probably related tg “Cousin Sally Dillard” of the story. The Judge strove for a legislative record of the latest anti-monopoly pattern. His voice was raised in behalf of the ancient cowpath as against the modern railway, and in all ways, in season and out, he let him- | self be known as the husky enemy of any business | enterprise wherein two or three were gathered to- gether in the name of pregress and profit. Talking of Bowie County, he deciared himself a plain man, a commoner, averse to the enervating luxuries, such as baths, which are sapping the strength of the young mznhood of Texas. z Suddenly the Tribune of the people resigned. He f=Il out of the House like a star out of the firmament. The place that knew hin: one day could not find him with a search warrant the next. The people were without a friend, orphaned and forlorn. He left on record as a reason for his resignation, that the Texas Legislature is controlled by corpora- tions, and therefore he gathered his toga close about his shanks and carried it off undefiled. Back from Bowie County came a chorus of approval. Dillard was mentioned for Congress, the' Senate, any- thing in sight, for nothing could be too good for 2 patriot who refused to I+t evil communications corrupt | his good manners. . Just when he was buoyantly floating on the tide that l bears men on to glory there arose in the Legislature | the Hon. F. F. Hill of Denton County, with proofs | and papers in his hand and rebuke in his voice, and | proceeded to show that Judge Dillard had resigned and left the Legislature and the capital because the { local Grand Jury had indicted him for gambling, and further, that he had looked upon the wine when it was $4 a bottle, and had parted with a diamond pin in a resort that is not in the society blue book of Austin, It was a hard day for Dillard of Bowie County, but he was not without a champion. In his behalf rose Me. Smith of Collins County, not to disprove or deny anything Mr. Hillhad caid, but to “remind the gentle-* man fron? Denton that Judge Dillard is a dead shot, and has already, suh, kilied two men.” He thought that Hill would not have made such statements had he known this, and he desired now to inform the House of Judge Dillard’s record, in order that the carnage, when it begins, may be as limited as possible, and not interfere with a quorum, nor delay the public business. Mz. Hill inquired what Judge Dillard’s handiness with a gun had to do with his indictment for gambling and the loss of his diamond. But he got no answer exceot | a repetition of the casualty list which was already credited to the recent member from Bowie. Further news is awaited by the Legislature with breath variously bated. — Carnegie’s prompt denial of the report that he is to endow an internaticnal theater for the production of legitimate drama may be taken as proof that while he has millions to give away he has no money to burn. P THE LESSON OF THE ELECTIONS. HEN the reports came of the successes of the W Democrats in 'the recent city elections in Chi- cago and St. Louis The Call pointed out that the results were due not so much to S.ny increased strength in the Democ-atic party as to dissessions among Republicans. That view of the case has been confirmed by a statement of Mr. Wells, the gold bug Democrat, who has been elected Mayor in St. Louis, that his success was due mainly to “Repub- lican defection in North and South St. Louis, hitherto Republicarr strongholds.” ; 1t is gratifying to note that in Eastern cities where niunicipal elections are to be held this fall the Repub- licans have been studying the lessons taught by tie defeat of Republican candidates in the cities named and are drawing profitable lessons from them. Now there can be no doubt as'to what the lessons teach. Republican success is dependent upon the practice of Honest politics ‘within the party. If there be any sus-' picion of boss rule or corporation rule in a Repub- lican convention it is a foregone conclusion that a large number of the most earnest men in the local party will refuse to support the ticket. Democracy may win under such domination, but Republicanism cannot. z = That plain ‘moral applies to San Francisco as well as'to other cities. There is now every prospect of a sweeping Republican victory in this city at the com- ing municipal election, and the promise of the time can be blighted only by the appearance in Republican councils and conventions of that class of bosses who disgusted Republicans ir St. Louis and Chicago. The clection is not too far off to make it worth while to begin studying the situation now. Anything in the way of dissension amomg Republican voters at the municipal election will be in the nature of a public calamity, so all membeis of the party who are ear- nestly desirous of providing the city and county with a good and effective administration should resolve that when the campaign opens they will be found ready ta enter upon all political duties imposed by civic patriotism, so as to assure San Francisco Re- ‘publicanism a clean convention, a clean ticket and a clean sweép at the polls. S " bonds, as the past has shown during the troublous | | four years, | fright. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR .THE SAN Francisco CALL. \ How Americans of Early Déys Learned to Put Out Their Fires With Machines of Marveélous Make. T e By Alice Morse Earls, AUTHOR OF “COLONIAL DAYS IN OL D NEW YORK,” “STAGE COACH AND TAVERN DAYS,” ETC. o e L (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) VIIL—FIRE! FIRE! As we walk quietly along the darkening streets in the winter twilight of the year 1801, what is that sudden clamor which rises?; The sound comes closer. In every house a window or door opens and then the ery of “Fire! Fire!” issues forth with distinctness in a score of different voices. The clangor of every church bell in town soon is added, ring violently, but with no attemptsat signaling by strokes or guid- ing to the burning'spot. The good man of each Iousehold seizes his fire buckets and re pag and issues forth with anxious fi ‘haste, joining the crowd of men and boys hurrying, running, all bawling “Fire! Fire!” along the streets toward the as- cending smoke which is the only guide as to the locality of the fire. If the house- holder cannot go for a few moments him- self of if he cannot run, he throws his buckets and fire bag to some younger and more active soul who, is hurrying past, but, then, he does not ‘delay an unneces- sary moment. The good wife sets a candle at her window pane to help illum- | ine the streets; all are eager to help, with that eagerness that comes from a need of self-preservation. For there was intense dread of fire et i ~\~4" @ The First Fire Engine every fire as if that wege his only busi- ness. He owned a fire of canvas or duck, or osnaburgs, and which must have a strong drawing string. This could be packed with household goods to be re- moved from the burning house; often he had a firehook to help Kull\ down bulld- ings. In Philadelphia he had a willow basket with two handles and a great clumsy fire syringe. In the schoolhouse and meeting house and other public bufld- ings were fire hdderi. and the citizens had two, or in some Rowns four, strong leather buckets. All these when in disuse were kept hanging in the front hall of his house or behind his shop door. These buckets had been the only regular nieans for conveyance of water since the earliest colonial days. They were made of the best sole leather, and were a mat- ter of considerable pride, being inted with the name of the owner and often some decorative design, such as a pious or moral motto, or even a coat of arms. They were deemed a very dignified mark and emblem of house-owning and respon- sibility. Many are preserved to our day, an old age of honored desuetude. Fighting Fires; in the Fire Line. When the citizen renched the fire he Used in Brooklyn. everywhere in 1801; it had grown and been nourished by rumor and suggestion for ever since the Presidential election of 1796. While the excited peo- ple were impatiently awaiting at that time the tediously slow returns of the votes from different States, there came to them instead in quick succession word of great fires in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Savannah. The fire in Savan- nah destroyed 350 houses. Every one was horror-stricken. The newspapers began to circulate the charge of ‘‘pyrotechny’ against the Democrats. It was declared that the Jacobins. the shouters of Ca ira, the admirers of French ways—in short, | the followers of Jefferson—had applied the torch in all these stricken towns, and many foretold gloomily that, French modes of public murder, the gulllotine, would sgt‘)ln foliow French flames. arding Against Fires. Timidity and excitoment added to the Men declared they found plain traces of incendlarism—oiled rags in cel- lars, scorched side walls. Strange conver- sations were overheard: young men weie arrested on suspicion. Rewards were of- fered for the detection of incendiaries; | night watches were ordered by fright- ened town and city officers. Young mex volunteered to serve on the companies of watches; but they soon turned the whole thing into a gay and riotous lark. The newspapers were full of advice and warn- ing. Citizens were enjoined to keep their servants within doors: to have their chimneys_cleaned; to_ look after their pumps.. By the side of each man’s house might be seen standing a silent, dumpy, portly sentinel with extended arm—ihe pump—muffled in old quilts and carpets to prevent it from freezing. Many threw salt down the necks of the pumps on bit- ter nights. One duty of the nightwatch was_to give a few turns to each pump handle as he passed in order that it might not “‘run flDV%‘A"; if he did, as every one knows, a tedious duty had to be gone through with of pouring in water, fetched from some one else’s well, pumping vig- orously the while till “the pump caught and suction was established. In case of sudden fire. such a delay might prove a factor in destruction. Outfit of the Volunteer Firemen. Qur citizen was a fireman—as was every householder of that day. Perhaps he might belong to an ori‘nnlzed band of fire- men. But whether he did or not, he Worked assiduously and unvaryingly at found two lines of faithful workers formed reaching to the nearest water supply, usually the river side: sometimes it was only the town pump. There were strong men in one line passing to the fire from hand to hand buckets filled with water, while a line of boys and even of women passed back the empty buckets. Over all stood in charge a dienified fire ward=n with his long painted staff of office. No one could refuse to work on these fire lines. The slightest hesitancy in beginning to help would bring a deluge of water from many buckets over the offender and he was lucky if he was not thrown into the river. Often ihe towa had in the town house forty or fifty buckets. These wera carried to the fire by two men, Who strung the buckets on poles. There was rarely a fire engine. When there was one it was simply a great clumsy tank, surmounted by a pump. It was dragged to the firc by a single ropa and many willing hands, but made slow progress on its cumbersome wheels of solid wood. The tank was usually eight feet long and two or three feet deep and three or four feet Wi d to be sup- plied by a special “fife line” of buckets. The pipe through which the water was thrown was of what was known as the ‘““goose-neck’” shape, and it was claimed that when worked with a will water could be thrown sixty feet, which gave very 200d service in the days of two and three story dwellings. Some Early Fire Engines. The first fire engine seen in Brooklyn was built in 1755 and was used for ffty vears by Washington Company No, 1. The Columbian Centinel ofgApril 26, 1799, glves this item: In a late new York paper we notice the fol- lowing article: One of Brahm's roval patent engines received here on the ship Sarah from a Liverpool was yesterday shipped on board vessel for Boston. We are informed it is rresent to the Boston Fire Insurance Com. peny. John Hancock gave a hand engine to the town of Boston and in accepting the gift with gratitude it was announced that the donor’s property would always be given preference in using the engine in case of a general conflagration. In 1794 a suction hose engine was made in Philadelphia, the wonder of its day. This pipe was cf canvas soaked in brine to prevent its rotting and it was var- nished. It was many years before rub- ber hose was used. PERSONAL MENTI\ON. George N. Seifert of San Jose is at the Palace. . J. F. Condon, a merchant of Verdl, is at the Grand. P. O. Flanigan, a mining man of Reno, is at the Grand. L. W. Parks of Folsom has registered at the Occidental. Dr. R. Gross of Eureka registered at the Lick yesterday. Peter Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Grand. C. M. Wheeler of Eureka registered at the Palace yesterday. Charles G, Bonner, a vineyardist of Fresno, is at the Grand. J. L. Chadock, a merchant of Fresno, is a guest_at the California. . B. F. Brooks, an oflman of Bakersfield, is a guest at the Palace. William G. Gosslin, a capitalist of Port- land, Or., is at the Palace. Thomas Costello of Sacramento regis- tered at the Lick yesterday. Hervey Lindley, a lumber merchant of Klamathon, is at the Palace. Edward C. Finch, an oilman of Port- land, Or., is at the Occidental. J. M. Willlams, a mining man of New- man, is a guest at the Occidental. Phil Cahn, a grain merchant of Stock- ton, is spending a few days at the Cali- fornia. : H. A. Hesse, special examiner of the Pnited States Civil Service Commission, is in the city. General Fitzhugh Lee, acdompanied by his daughter, Miss Anne Lee, left last evening for Los Angeles, where he will meet his wife, who arrived there yester- day from Richmond, Va. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, April 11.—The following Californians are in Washington: National —C. P. Downing of San Francisco; Metro- politan—W. J. Holleday, Los Angeles; Raleigh—Miss Bauch, Los Angeles. Rl Gt O Coronado Beach, California, will open the 1901 _summer season June 1. Write for a descriptive samohlet. E. S. Babcock Coranada. Cal ANSWERS TO QUERIES, A NICKEL—Subscriber, City. A United States nickel of 1882 does not command a premium. DRAWS THE WAGON—K. O. S, City. When a horse is in the shafts of a wagon and moves forward he draws or pulls tne wagon after him. He does not push it. COLD—Pansy, City. If every time you have a cold in the head there is produced the trouble described in the letter of in- quiry, you should consult a reputable physician, and not a newspaper. POPULAR PLURALITY — Subscriber, Berkeley, Cal. The largest plurality ever received by a Presidential candidate in the United States was by Willi Kinley in 1900. It was S&,Yb!l Inall;fing pluraiity was 601,854 The highest pop: lar plurality previous to "McKinleg's was that received by U. 8. Grant in 1s It was 762,91 CUSTOM-HOUSE—Subscriber, City. The position of inspector for the custom- house, and all positions above the grade of unclassified laborer, comes under United States civil service ; 5 ticulars. a5 to. examinations & Rk o should be made in Writing to the secre. t:ry of the hlocal board of examiners in the custom-house in which a posi; sought. S HOMESTEAD—A. F. R., Jenny Lind Cal. If a person wants to take up a home.. stead under tha United States law is required is that the settler sh.uld xl-et-!::: upon the land for the preseribed time and cultivate it. There is nothin, ln‘?:e law that requires any particular style of build- ing. A log cabm, if it answers the pur- pose of the settler, is as good as a palace So far as its being the residence of ihe settler. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. ANEW YORK, April 11.—Th, Californians are in New !orl:! Pmm'o“n';:: Francisco—J. W. Farrington, at the West- minister; J. F. Harcourt and wife, at the Herald Square; J. Hyman and wife, at the Savoy; J. V. Kimball, at the Astor: Mrs, P. H. Porter, at the Kensington; L. Van Rosenberg, at the Manhattan: the Misses English and Mrs. S. B. Englisn, at the St. Denis: J. S. Martini, at the Holland; F. C.lem and wife, at the . Al ., ke From Pasadena, Hare, at the GOSSIP FROM LONDON'S WORLD OF LETTERS A few years ago the sales of Lenten de- votional literature were very extensive and formed an item to be reckoned with at this time of the year, but during the present season the demand has been quite insignificant. Several memoirs of the late Queen Victoria, which publishers fondly anticipated would bring goed returns, are having rather 2 limited sale, but that ca not be said for the Harmsworth publica- tion, in parts, which is written by the Duke of Argyll and which is selling by the thousands. Miss Julia M. Crottie's recently pub- lshed story, “The Lost Land, an Irish Tale,” seems one of those which are taking well with readers. The story of the publication, as told by Justin Me- Carthy, Is one of the most remarkable stories of perseverance under most de- pressing and discouraging circumstances ever heard. Mr. McCarthy says this novel has a curious history of its own. When it was written it was shown to a lady friend of Miss Crottie, who took it away with her, read it, and without consent of the au- thoress' sent it for inspection to a London publisher. The manuscript was lost and no trace of it could be discovered, so Miss Crottie went to work again and rewrote the whole book. The new manuscript was then sent to the editor of a-London magazine. The sec- ond manuscript was also lost and has never been recovered. Miss Crottle on this second failure felt for a time some- thing very like despair. She bore up. however, went to work again and wrote out the book a third time, her persever- ance now being rewarded by success and the appreciation of more than the average number of readers of a story. Curious, too, how another successful novel of the present season came very near to never seeing the light of the world. That Is Mrs. A Slade’s first novel, “A Wayside Weed.” As a matter of fact the novel was written as far back as seven years ago, but she thought it would be hopeless to attempt to find a publisher for such a purely domestic story in these days of feverish litera~ ture. Then a friend came to the rescue of Mrs. Slade’s story, but she was not so un- fortunate as Miss Crottie, for the friend took it to Messrs. Hutchinson. who, not to lose it, immediately accepted it for pub- Hcation. Of courge, when a new writer makes anything Jof a success everybody wants to know something about him or her. Being asked for something interesting concern- ing herself, Mrs. Slade replied to the bookman: “I'm simply a busy mother of a family, an ordinary all round sort of person, a3 genuinely Interested In serving up a good dinner as in trying a bit o new music, singing a new song or - ing any one of the new books which ap- Feal to my old fashioned taste. I am pain- 'ully shy, and my dread of a stranger is something you never expect any one out- side a prison to understand.” ‘Who is Charles Marriott, the author of that other successful new novel, “The Column,” which is being widely read now? Well, it urns out that he holds the position of dispenser and photographer to an asylum near Liverpool. He was born at Bristol in 1869, but his earliest recol- lections are of Moor End, where his father, who was a brewer, removed from Bristol when he was about two years old. Frederick Macmillan, while congratu~ lating the Publishers’ Association the other day on the success of its scheme for the net purchase of books, showed an in- teresting memento of the abortive at- tempt made about half a century ago to put a similar agreement in force. The memento is a bqok of autograph letters, all condemning the plan for keep- ing up prices. The letters were in reply to a circular sent out by a well, known Strand edifor of his time asking certain eminent authors if he considered the in- tention to sell at a low rate of profit a good and sufficlent reason why the pub- lisher should refuse to sell books which the ggtailer was ready to purchase and keep in stock at his own risk. Dickens’ reply was brief and emphatic: “No; certainly not.” Carlyle wrote: ‘‘My answer is—for my own interests and those of the world as far as I can see them, de- cidedly no; it !s not a sufficlent reason.” Darwin’s opinifon was: “I beg strongly to express my opinion that both for the advantage of the authors and publishers booksellers, like other dealers, oughf to settle each for himself the retail price.” Charles Kingsley, in the course of a letter of great length, wrote: “No intention of the bookseller to sell at a low price ought to be any reason why the publisher should not supply him, but rather the very best reason why he should soon do so.” Such men at Leigh Hunt, John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer were all of the same opinion. Booksellers in all parts of the country now report that there has been no diffi- culty in obtaining the net prices of books and that satisfactory results of the net book system have already made them- selves evident in the balance sheets of most retail booksellers. The Russian colony about which thers was a rumor some time ago for printing Count Tolstol’'s work in England has now taken shape. It has been established at Tuckton House, near Bournemouth. Vla- dimir Tchertkoff is the founder of the little colony, which at present numbers about twelve persons, consisting of Douk- hobors of the Caucasus, large numbers of whom three yeurs ago had to undergo something very like persecution. Tchertkoff is one of the three signers and was given the choice of banishme: to a Baltic town or complete exile from Russia. He chose the latter. 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