The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1901, Page 6

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Pt NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: CARLTON..... <+...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS ETANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 3l Union Square; Wil Hotel e o AMUSEMENTS. @ Overa-house—*"Mr. Barnes of New York. Caltfornia—"A Bachelor's Romance.” heum—Vaudeville. Sag Harbor,” Monday next. he Conquerors.” Alcazar— Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chut, evening her' s—Vaudeviile. ryville Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. , Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every sfternoon and By S Watkins—This day, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 220 Valencia street Auction sale of Horses at 1140 Folsom street, at 11 o'clock. of en a 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change eof resideace during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by -xl to their mew ®ddresses by motifying The Call Business O This paper will also be on sale at all summ: wesorts aud is represented by a local agent im all towns on the coast. CASTRO OF VENEZUELA. RESIDENT CASTRO of Venczuela has acted P so badly toward our Government that it has been found advisable to recall the American Minister, Mr. Loomis, from the country. Conse- quently it may be assumed that Castro is a bold, bad mizn from Bitter Creek, and that future negotiations with him should be carried on through the medium fircarms. When all that has been conceded there remains enough of other troubles upon the bad man t tle him to something of the sympathy that goes out.to the man who fights against heavy odds. We learn by dispatches from Washington that in- formation has been received at the State Department that in addition to the United States four other pow- ers are making trouble for Castro and are making it in a very vexatious way. These powers are Great Britain, Germany, Spain and Holland. The four constitute a formidable combination in themselves, lded the United States the ag- stible. The only way for Cas- and when to them is gregation becomes irre tro to hold his own is to adopt the tactics of the S and “sp r time.” he powers e rot acting in concert. - Each is supporting a claim of certain of its citi- st the Venezuelan Government some- to the claims made by Amer- the asphalt concession, but each itself, Tt appears that for the pur- ling these claims President Castro some ued three decrees. The first provided for n of a commission to pass upen claims, the al decision of which will rest with the Supreme Venezuela; - the second limited the time ms may be brought to ninety days, d the third provided for the payment of claims from a fund to be known as a revolutionary fund. The powers are not satisfied with any one of the zrrangements. They object to the Venezuelan Su- preme Court, to the nincty-day clause and to the fund h the claims are to be paid. The United vain ‘and Germany have already served no- on Castro that his decrees are of no effect, and that they will not consider the decisions of the Su- preme Court as binding upon their citizens. Great Pritain and Holland are expected to serve a similar votice in a short time the cre cut of C S ates, of defending himseli Castro recently ¢ an interview to a representative of the Cin- i Enquirer in which he said: “Present to the people of the United States my hearty respects and riendship of myself and the Goy- By way gran: cin ure them of the ernment of Venezuela, We promise to guarantee pro- tection to American and all foreign capital whenever invested- in accordahc: with the laws of the country. Republics naturally have interests in common, and statements of uniriendly sentiments against foreigners are felse and entirely disproved by leniency toward Min‘ster Loomis and ow attitude toward other for- cign representatives,. We have ne proof that Min- ister Loomis accepted favors from the Bermudez Company, but his actions lead us 0 to belleve, We have proofs that he influenced statements to the press, The Bermudezr Company yesterday formally denied the jurisdiction of the Venezuelan courts, 1, as Presi- dent, can recognize no other authority in the matter.” Upon the face of it that is a fair statement. Cer- tuinly it is hardly fair 10 ask the President of a re- public to ignore the decicione of the Supreme Court of the country. It happens, however, that in this in- ctance the Supreme Court is hardly anything more than the creature of the President. Castro ‘s said to be supreme in Venezueia and as firmly established as a ruler ever gets to be in South America. The na- tions.are therefore justified in holding him responsible for everything. It is not easy to see, however, what they can do about it. Uncle Sam will not let any Furcpean power attack the bad man, nor will he act as a collector of their claims. Castro of Venezuela, in fact, appears to be zhout as safe as the Sultan. — After all our trouble to capture Aguinaldo the Fili- pinos have chosen a new leader, just as if Aguinaldo were not necessary to the situation. It looks now as if we would have to capture every Filipino in .the woods before we can call the thing settled. | cur God's acre. A TRIBUTE TO CHINA. N-examination of the statement of Minister A Conger discloses the highest tribute to the Chinese. that 1t is possible to render to the character of any people, present or past. He says that the unknown and unaccounted for sums paid by the towns and villages as indemnity to missionaries for loss of life and destruction of property were paid voluntarily. That implies a condition of the public conscience that should be the envy of the Western nations. It means an admission of responsibility and a desire to repair wrongs which, if generally copied(, would introduce the millennium. If a Chinese agent had gone about Wyoming ap- pealing to the conscience of the people for voluntary payment of indemnity for the scores of Chinese cruelly murdered there by a mob he would have been sent after the victims in whose behalf he pleaded. ‘Ike people of Louisiana would have jeered in the faces of any representatives of Italy who - would have asked voluntary indemnity for the lives of Ttalians taken by mobs in that State. In no place where Western civilization has fas- tened itself, and s living, as it believes, un- der the Decalogue and the Golden Rule, has such an appeal in such a cause ever been voluntarily heeded. It has been left to the followers of Confucius to teach the world a lesson which should startle the powers into an immediate manifestation of the high- est sense of justice in dealing with China. We have it on the unimpeached word of Minister Conger that there is in China the highest civilization to be found in the world, if civilization mean, as it should, the | highest sensibility of the conscience of man. Immediately. following this ascription to the Chi- nese character comes the news of shameful forays among those people by the troops of Germany and France. There is absclutely no evidence that the carnage at the Great Wall in Kuolu province last wcek had any excuse whstever. In a spirit of boast- ing and vainglory the commanders of France and Germany report stubborn resistance and an engage- ment lasting eleven hours, in which they lost two mea killed, two slightly wounded and sixteen others in- jured! Now who believes that there was stubborn resistance and eleven hours’ fighting with such mea- ger results in the ranks of the invading force? No doubt there was an irhuman massacre of Chinese, eleven hours of slaughter, that ceased only when the butchers grew weary in the shambles. This murdering expedition was let loose by France and Germany, of all nations! We have heretofore gladly Welcomed every one of the few Christian ex- pressions of Christian ministers on the subject of the treatment of China. This French and German butch- ery is illuminated by the statements of Rev. George B. Smyth of the Methodist church, a native of Ire- land, reared in New York, a graduate of Yale and | president of the Anglo-Chinese College at Foochow, himself a missionary. 1ie says that sixteen years ago there was perpetrated by France within ten miles of Foochow one of the crimes of the century. Because some Chinese soldiers had gone over and fought with the Tonguinese France demanded $16,- ooc,000 indemnity from China. When it is known that subjects of France fought in the Confederate army, and that American citizens are now fighting, as soldiers of fortune, in the forces of Dewet against Great Britain, and that the laws of war and of na- tions recognize no national responsibility in such cases, the robber demand of France may be seen in its true light. Of course China declined to pay, as the United States would if England should make such a | dsmand of us. Then France sent a fleet up the river Min and with- out notice, in a condition of profound peace between her and China, proceeded to massacre three thousand Chinese. For days the bodies of the dead floated down the river. For this murder France never made reparation or apology. Mr. Smyth says all foreign- ers in Foochow, except the French, - openly de-’ nounced this bloody infamy and posted notices on their gates that they were not French. The next infamy by France in China, he says, occurred at Shanghai iz 1898, Just outside the French settlement was a house of rest, what we would call 2 receiving vault, belonging to the people of Ningpo, where their dead rested until they could be sent back for ‘burial with their fathers in their native city. The building was held as sacred by the Chinese as we hold The French Consul wanted to buy it to enlarge the grounds of the consulate, but the trustees of the property did not wish to Thereupon the Consul proceeded to tear down the wall. The owners defended it and drove his work- men away. Whereupon he landed a force ‘from a French man-of-war and shot dead twenty people in the street who were defending the property, tore it down and took forcible possession and retains it to this day. A more flagrant murder and robbery was never committed by the Boxers, But it was not the work of a-mob. It was done by an official represen- tative of France, and no reparation or apology has ever been made to China or the owners of the prop- erty! Two years ago two German missionaries were killed by a mob, and for this Germany seized Kiao- chau and the whole province of Shantung. Shortly after this outrage two Germans traveling in the in- terior were driven back to theé coast; for this the German troops burned several villages and slaught- ered hundreds of men, women and children, . Mr, Sinyth says truly that for the last few years Chim lias been subjected to insults and outrages that would have driven any Western nation to war, he advises that “righteousness and consideration will do more to secure our safety in the future than heavy indemnities, the razing of forts, prohibition of the im- port of arms, or any cther measures that would re- mind the Chinese people perpetually of the injustice of forelgners and thelr ewn intolerable humiliation.” That misslonary talks !lle a Christlan, There should be more like him. S—— THE EABTERN SPRING. O in its editorial columns this paragraph: “The brightly shining thing seen in the sky yester- day was the sun. At one time it was frequently vis- ible in this city, but of late its appearance has been so rare the oldest inhabitant hardly recognized it.” About the same time the paragraplier of a New York paper asked, “Has somebody kidnaped spring?” Mary a trie thing is said in jest. The people of the Eastérn States have not seen much of the sun since the new century began, and the winter has lingered so long and made itse!f so stormy in every respect that many Easterners, like Tennyson, have “dreamed there would be spring no more; that nature's ancient power is lost.” ; & A specimen weather report of the season appeared in the Boston Transeript thus: “This morning NE day last week a Chicago paper published 4awned murky and misty, with Atlantic fog and steam | drifting in on a light northeast wind. The sunrise | temperature was 43 degrees, and at noon it had A worked up to only 45 degrees. Heavy clouds con- sell it. | Concluding, FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY cealed the sky and a coustant suggestion ob moisture filled the air during the forenoon. gI‘he local forecast is for cloudy but generally fair weather to-night and te-morrow, with northeast winds.” . The Philadelphia Record. presents the situation in that section in this way: “Spring, beautiful spring, must have entered this year under the sign of Aquarius—rain all night, rain and wind all day. As a result angry streams at flood tide are careering ram- pant over the adjacent lands, sweeping away the stout- est works of man like so many fragile houses of cards. So much for wholesale deforestation—an evil against which this generation scorns to make due provision, lect.” 3 Now, when President McKinley comes from that is going to have something like the experience of a man who finds a new world. There has been no kid- with its rains and its flowers and the whole State is cool, fragrant and beautiful. By the time the Presi- sweltering in the torrid heat of'an Eastern summer. Then he will wish he had stayed in California untii ELECTRICAL INVENTIONS. fi T a recent meeting of the American Institute of given an exhibition of various electrical ap- pliances recently invented or improved. It was in no of such new things as interested the engineers. The total number of exhibits was but thirty-two, and yet liave been marvelous. The invention which attracted most attention is said by Peter Céoper Hewitt. In the production of the light a gas is used as the illuminating medium instead Hewitt's gas is mercury vapor. A The lights are long and cylindrical in shape. At the bottom of each is tricity has been run through it, there issues the vapor rcierred to. The current is transmitted to the mer- which reason less power is needed to produce the same amount of light than is required in the old incan- from the tubes. It is half purple, half green. This, according to the cxplanation of the. exhibitor, is a counteracting colored shades. Other notable things exhibited were a fac-simile although destruction and ruin be the penalty of neg- sort of thing to the glow and beauty of California he naping of spring in this State. The season has come dent gets back to the East he will find the country fall. A Electrical Engineers at New York there was respect a general exhibit of electrical work, but only the result of the exhibition as a whole is reported to to have been a high power electric light, invented of a film, as in the ordinzry incandescent light. Mr. some mercury, from which, when the current of elec- cury direct, and not by means of the usual coil, for descents, A most pecnliar colored light is emitted disadvantage, but it can be obviated by the use of telegraph instrument invented by H. R, Palmer for carrier” for transporting freight in small bulk, va- rious appliances for improving the telephone, and a new system for accomplishing long distance ocean telephony. Two inventicns of use in the education of the deaf and blind were also notable. These were | R. Hutchison. They are microtelephonic instruments, and still preserve their quality. portable, looks something like a pair of opera-glasses with a telephone receiver attached, and may be taken to the theater or other public place by a deaf person. The akoulalion, used for similar purpéses, is not por- table, but is used in the classroom for the teaching of the deaf to talk. In the tests made during the evening of the exhibit it is said the fac-simile telegraph instrument did not work well in an attempt to reproduce in New York a picture made in Chicago, but it was explained the failute was due to the fact that “the wires had been rendered useless by too much induction” at the New York end. Tests made with other inventions were more successful. Some deaf mutes were brolight from an asylum for the purpose of showing the effi- cacy of the -akouphone, and the reports of the occa- sicn say: “One of them, Oris Benson, was both deaf and blind. He cannot hear a gun shot off within a yard of his head, only perceiving the vibration of air caused thereby. It was his performance with the help of the akouphone that interested the spectators. Alto- gether "he has had but five hours of instruction in talking. His vocabulary is limited to little more than.a dozen words. When Mr. Van Tassell spoke to lim over the instrument it was wonderful to see the | expression of delight that spread over his previously sad face, the smile that came seeming almost to reach o the very edges of his sightless, dull eyes. In a hollow, mechanical voice he repeated the things he heard in the receiver of the akouphone. He said “bad boy,” “papa,” and several short words. Then a gramophone was attached to the instrument and he listened to a gay march, smiling and beating time on the table with his fngers.” Here, then, are instruments that promise to open to the deaf all the wonderful world of sound. Such things are genuine blessings. There are great pos- sibilities in the other exhibits, and their usefulness will be large, but nothing that can be done for those who have the full possession of all the physical senses will be so truly marvelous as those which are going to help the unfortunate and reveal to them the things that have been hidden from them, S ——— General Rafael Portuondo, one of the Cuban con- stitutional committee appointed to confer with Presi- dent McKinley, says 09 per cent of the native Cubans wigh absolute independence, while the Spaniards in the island desive annexation to the United States, In the natural order of things the Cubans should hav been for us and the Spaniards against, but In polities sentiment fs subject te sell-interest, and the Spanish merchants in Havana would rather have their prop- erty guarded by an American army than by a Cuban CONEress, —————e The proposed establishmant of an “Atlantlc Unlon' for the purpose of bringing about eloser soclal reln- tlong between the British and ourselves will hardly do more than promote dinner glving for as long a time as it lasts, and that may not be very long, As Waltér Hesant is at the head of the movement it may turn out to be no more than a scheme to furnish him with : basis for a new topical novel and create a demand ot it ® General Roberts is reported to have said recently that the American buck wagon is more fitted for use in South Africa than any other vehicle known to man, and as the American mule has amply proven his su-. petiority in the same geld, it would seem that if the British could get American men to handle the mules . and buck wagons they might manage to catch up with Dewet some day and bring him in. . 2 David Bennett Hill's recent speech before the Jei- a Prenirdentifi vii(fitnifig-ro:a than anything else, and" the pofitical weather prophets i York 14 ginning ‘tb‘#‘dfimf’w‘a‘&&#‘fifv%d%{m”)?’ L transmitting pictures and handwriting, a"‘t:lephcram: | the akouphone and akoulalion, invented lately by M. | so constructed as to reproduce and intensify sounds | The akouphone is | o (i ferson Club at Buffalo is ‘said to have been more like oteh , APRIL 30, 190 . In estimating the position which Mauri- tius holds in the British colonial empire we must remember that it is a heritage of conquest of great historical and polit- ical interest. It offers to the student of blology a remarkable proof of the value of the intermingling of races. Portu- guese, Dutch, Malagasies, Africans, French, English and Indlans have here combined to produce a vigorous and pros- perous community. The island was dis- covered by the Portuguese in 1505. They gave it the name of ‘“Cerne;,”” but they did not form any permanent settlement. The Dutch visited the lsland in 1598, when the admiral renamed it Mauritius, after his flagship. The first Dutch settlers were persons of doubtful character—convicts from Batavia, pirates and buccaneers of the Indian main. The latter.were the real founders of much of the wealth of the inhabitants. By them slaves were ingroGuced from Madagascar. French Rule of Mauritius, Jn_16% and 1691 French Huguenot refu- geoes sent to Bourbon and Rodrigues found thelr way to Mauritius and gradually ousted the Dutch, who abandoned the isl- and finally in 172, saying: “Alas, there are ‘too many rats.” The French ‘took pessession of “the island in 1715 and again altered its name {o “L'Isle de France.” The island then flourished exceedingly un- til the outbreak of the French revolution in 1789. From that date it enjoyed a guasi-independence for several years. However, during the war between Kng- loud and France the island was used as PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FrRaNCISCO CALL. - - How the Island of Mauritius, Now a Part of the British Colonial Empire, Has Worked Out Its Destiny. By Edgcumbe Staley, M. A. AUTHOR OF “THE ARMS AND BADGES OF THE BRITISH COLONIES.” (COPYRIGHT, 1901) XI.-MAURITIUS—A HERITAGE OF CONQUEST. sory. State ald is granted to all schools, whether creole or Indian. Governnient of the Colony. The government of the colony during the earller period of British possession was vested in the Governor. The French Coun cil of leading colonists was suppressed and for some years the inhabitants had no voicc whatever in the administration. This system was ually relaxed. e elective principle in the Legisiative Coun- cil was introduced in 1884 by the promulga- tion of a new constitution, which, while leaving the colony strictly a crown col- ony—that is to say, under the superior control of the Secretary of State for the Colonies—gave the island and its depend- encies a much more representative form of government than that ordinarily en- joyed by crown colonies. The Legislative Council was enlarged to twenty-seven members, of whom eight were ex-officio, nine nominated by the Governor and ten elected by the votes of those colonists who were ‘duly qualified. Two members were assigned to Port Louis and one each to the eight country districts. An Execu- tive Council of five members was also ap- pointed. The members of the Legislative Council were all unpaid. This is _the present government of Mauritius and its dependencies. he number of voters in 1888 was 6074. This franchise is enjoyed by every male who has attained the age of 21 on the fol- Jowing conditions: First, that he is in full possession of his civil rights and is not subject to any legal penalty; second, that he is a British subject by birth or by turalization; third, that he has resided ntYeast for the last three vears continu- ously in the colony. fications are as follows: e property quali- First, the posses- Capitol Building, Port Louis. i a base for prlvmeerlmi expeditions which inflicted very serious losses upon British commerce. In consequence of those dis- asters a British flect was sent from Indla by Eord Minto, the Governor General. in 1510, which, after some heavy fighting, took possession of Port Louis. The sub- mission of the whole of the inhabitants quickly followed, the conetliatory marifes- {o of the British admiral alding greatly in the pacification process. By the peace of Paris in 1814 L'Isle de France, with its dependencies in the Indian Ocean, wus as- sigrned to Great Britain, the Dutch name of Mauritius being restored. Slave Labor and Coolie Labor. Among the earliest acts of the British Governor established at Port Louls was the abolition of slavery in 1813 and the appointment of an_officer for the protec- tion of slaves. In 1832 a scheme of eman- ('l]m(lm\ was drawn up by the colonists, which in the main was accepted by the | British Government. In 1835 all slaves were declared free, ‘the only restrictions being the articles of apprenticeship. These were removed ih 1839 and the plant- ers recelved the sum of £2,000,00 by way of compensation. With “the abolition of slavery there arose, however, a labor question. = The Malagasy and African slaves had almost died out, while of those that remained considerable numbers * returned to their native countries. Consequently in 1830 coolle laborers from Tndla were procured. Emigration offices being opened in Cal- cutta and Madras, these immigrants were placed under the protection of a member of the Mm:{ll!uu Government specially appointed. They were engaged to serve a five-year Indenture. At the end of that perlnd’ph’y were to be free to hire them- selves {o thelr former masters or to seek others., They might also, if; they wished, be genflemen at large, or return to their native cauntry. From the announcement quite three-fourths have renewed their service contracts at fixed rates of pay, and by degrees they have become landed proprietors. Very happily for the peace- ableness and well-being of the colony the majority of employers of labor have been men of good feellng, who have treated thelr servants with consideration. As a consequence the relations between mas- ter nr‘fl man are friendly and mutually helpful, ., Prosperity of the Inhabitants. These Indians are allowed to practice all the rites of their various religlons and, 80 far as they do not annoy other inhabl- tants, to observe thelr distinctive race customs, At the present moment Indians constitute quite per cent of the whole population, On many estates are to be seen three generations of Mauritins-horn Indians, They are generally well built, ntelligent, hard working and thrifty, ome af them have as much as 20,000 ru- E&BI deposited in the Government savings ank, lmportant UhunFa- are i progress affeoting the tenire of land, The sugar Plnulm e Aare rapidly changing hands, n 1NN ‘lnmnnn hought from the Wrenol creole planters estates of 4 total valie of 406 K rupees, Worl {8 Abundant, wages are good and, while the selling price of on ardens (he Indian huts, called "pala u‘#" which A‘lnv‘ unganltary, are disappents nd In thelr places are being erected odiays two=stotled houses with ves 00d garden {:Ia(n, Altogether Matritius at the present day 18 really a gort of gnrn e for fndian fmmigranis “Pd 1abo: :a n :q}efl;l. Bugar is the sti- ity. he average crop dur- years has reached mu f 118,000 tons per annum, EElORRE T it mroved to be the L a ved to be the - est on record—namely, 183,762 tons, Population and Social Conditions. The population, which in 1700 was barely is now very di amounting in December, 1899, to 379,519, or about to the sauare mife. Of this number 117,016 aro general colonists; the remalnder, 262,- 503. are Indians, including 4000 Chinese. A large pi on of the: general popula- tlon consists of French creoles, the de- scendants of the original French settlers. The term creole means simply a person born of white or mixed parentage in the island. The natives are proud of this designation. Intermarriage between cre- oles and Indians is greatly on the in- . The creole langu: > X “om) tandas an b M B — sion of movable property of the value, at least, of 2000 rupees; or, second, immov- able property of the value of at least 300 rupees; third, the payment of a monthly | rental ‘of at least 25 rupees; fourth, the ayment of an annual license duty of at east 200 rupees; fifth, the receipt of a monthly salary of at least 50 rupees. The higher ~officials are sent out by Great Britain, but creoles are eligible for | all’ minor offices under the government. Justice is administered by a Supreme Court and by district courts. There are a Chief Justice and three subordinate judges. Both the penal and the civil codes are based upon the French code Napoleon. Offenses against law and or- der are neither serious nor numerous. The colonfal revenue, originally assisted by grants from Great Britain, of late has required no aid from the mother country. The imports of 1598 £65,664 rupees. The exports totaled 30,- 940,540 rupees. The trade of the colony is gréatest with India and next with Great Britain, There is also considerable trade with France and Australia. The currency of Mauritius and its dependencies is Brit- ish, with dollars and cents and rupee notes. The metric system for welghts and measures is in use. = Mauritius has excel- lent roads and upward of 100 miles of rafl- way. In 1893 the colony was connected with (h;lrcst of the British empire by ocean cable. Dependencies of Mauritius. The dependencies of Mauritius include: (1) The Seychelles Island—about thirty of them, 900 miles to the north; very health- ful and productive, with a population up- Ward ot 30,000 Thelr princlpal seaport 1a Port Victoria, a splendld harbor and eoal- ing station. (2) e {sland of Rodrigues, 300 miles due east, and other scattering islands in the Indian Ocean, including Diege Garefa, which a_good harbor and is on the direct rqute from Aden to Australia. These have resident magis- trates under the Governor of Mauritius. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Patience—Has Miss Fussanfeather any- thing toward her Easter bonnet? Patrice—Oh, yes; she's’ got the alrs which go with'it.—Yonkers Statesman, had a value of 19,- “They are going to try Crazy Snake for treason," e ) “‘Pooh! ey might as well t; store Indian for lese troy.",— Dealer, 1gar aln 1 natice that Mrs. Carrie Chapman C; says that woman is still undng (fi h:; of g\an. "Hay, I wonder what Mr, Carrle Catt can be?' “When T first met you," oried man who had been married for har‘g\.am Yyou umvuutu a low, menial mnmnvy but now, lhu'l‘]y e to mo, yulu,rhpnu"uo =" L3 one,’ er tel'unlud:{}hl‘mlulphh Pross, Tovnend t ind of a ain D-nla’:m lease the men or to e othe women‘? [SETUTNESS fl% A R L other women:=Phila -IS m'fi'&o%.“"' ""Yes," he eald as h toy &Jgofi::g «{fl-fil ’3?" (59 fll’(‘le“t'l‘\.?lbtr.. The lad “laoked ‘5t the of the hotse ool unp‘reflmt oug bird and coldly sni L W ed. itke bhe. 0 'tfa'n‘a‘i" u‘.‘rd‘:"s“x R gor sy to earve with a hatchet! -] ““:m!.“f' ‘T want you to tell er you want to m.rr';"nfy"'fl?.’.'nfi'fi‘; "eertainy not 3 al not,"” answered t| yuuflf gentleman. “I scorn the E\’-nl“ L:x.d As understand ttgle situation, . your Foas e one W e oing Rk e | ek Lou are the one we are looking for.— “Don't pass too much o' oh time whah dey sells gin," said Uncl “Wh & man gets to be a n?oon g'xtu". fl: illlll«ussflfi women dress to ) @ nnerly fceu to smash in a hurty,wifout Waitin' foh a lady ¢ it an ax.’'—Wasl Inn{m om:g.ma el “‘Now, Zekiel, there's another know o susceptible You be? - W, 1t you should o see a in one o’ them big Noo York hotels a-lookin® at PERSONAL MENTION. R. V. Ellis of Hanford is at the Palace. David Starr Jordan is at the Oceidental. Francis Carr of Redding is-at the Lick. The Rev. Father McNamee is a guest at the Lick. C. A. Mead of Los Angeles is a guest at the Occidental. William J. Rodes of Bakersfleld is & guest at the Palace. Jackson Hatch, an attorney of San Jose, is staying at the Palace. Paul C. Bates of Portland, Or., Is reg- istered at the Occidental. S F. H. Kennedy, an attorney of Stockton, is staying at the California. M. C. Hast, a mining man of Prescott, Ariz., is a guest at the Grand. Thomas H. Thom , & merchant of Tulare, is registered at the Lick. Senator H. V. Morehouse of San Jose is spending a few days at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Spreckels and Miss Agnes Spreckels have gote to Del Monte for a short stay. §. W. Courtenay, an official of the Southern - Pacific Company, with head- qudrters at Sacramento, is at the Cali- fornia. Governor Gage, accompanied by Mrs. Gage, arrived from Southern California last evening and Is at the Palace. He ex- pects to remain in the city several days. T. H. Stateler, who has been employed by the Northern Pacific Railway for sev- eral years, leaves on May 1 for Duluth, Minn., where he will fill the position of passenger agent for the company. Al g i CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 2.—The following Californizns. are in New York: From San Francisco—B. C. Baldwin, at Grard Union; A. H. Boomer at Gilsey; G. D. (ooper, at Manhattan; C. J. Davls. at ‘Ashland; William Field, at Manhattau; S. Hertzman, at Herald Square; R. Jackson. at Victoria; W. Mason, at Manhattan: C. | McLaughlin, at Hoffman; E. H. Merrill, at Imperial; F. S. Miner, at Amsterdam; Mrs. E. S. Nixcn, at Metropolitan; F. M. Phelps, at Astor: A. H. Rechberg, at Hoff- man; N. Schmitt and wife, at Savoy; H. W. Sewall, at Mar'borough; F. Zak, at Hoffman; D. Bachman, at St. Cloud; J. Tobin, at Holland. From Los Angeles—H. Eillman and wife, at Savoy. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | | TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Answers to queries | sent to this departnient are sent in as soon as obtained and they appear in print in the order that they are turned In, as space will permit. Questions are easily asked, but answers are not easily obtained in every Instance, so If correspondents do not see the answer two or three days after they send in the query they should not feel disappointed. A MAN'S HAT-A. 8, City. If a lady places a gentleman’s hat upon her head it is generally understood that she is willing to pay a forfeit for so doing. EXPLORATION-T. A. P, Richland, Cal. The book on explorations in Central America asked for is “Glimpses of Guate- | mala” by A. Percival and Anne Maudlay, published in 1809, TWO TRACKS—B. F. W., City. Ingle- side track was bullt by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club and Tanforan track was built by the Crocker estate for the San Francisco Jockey Club. | UNITED STATES MINT—H. A. W., Oakland, Cal. The time .when visitors | are admitted to the United States Branch | Mint in San Francisco.ls, on all working | days, from 9 to 11:30 o'ciock. | TAILOR'S GOOSE—O. 0., City. A tallor's goose is an f{ron for pressing clothes. This department cannot find any authority for calling two or more such “gooses,” The plural of goose is geese, no matter whether applied to birds or tailor’s irons. FOREIGN POSTAGE—R. H. R., Re- clamation, Cal. It is optional with the sender of a letter if he prepays the post- {age to European countries. If not pre- paid the party receiving the same has to pay double postage. POSTAGE STAMP LANGUAGE-L. C. M., Vallejo, and A. C., City. The so-called language of postage stamps is an agree- | ment that any number of correspondents may, enter into as to the meaning of stamps placed in certain positions on en- velopes. It cannot be said that the plac- ing of stamps in a pecullar _position means what some one has seen fit to call “the stamp 1anfiuue." For instance, in that language the stamp at right angles on the right-hand corner asks the ques- tion, *“Does the receiver love the sender?” Now, & young man may receive an en- velope with the superseription In a femin- ine- hand having a stamp at right angle on the upper right-hand corner, and when he opens the envelope he would think that there was considerable difference between the question implied by the stamp and the contents of the letter, which might be a notice from a tallor notifying him that if the last suit was not paid for and action would be com- menced to recover amount of balance due. The language as given is: The stamp placed diagonally on the upper left-hand corner of the envelope means ‘I desire your friendship’';: placed on the upper right-hand corner means “‘Want to maké your acquaintance’; on the line with the surname and to the right thereof signifias ‘‘Accept my love”; in & similar position. but the stam inverted,” gives notice that ngages ;. the stamp p! with the on- velope on the right-hand corner asks the ques- tion, “Does the receiver love the sender’" if placed on the left-hand corner it gives the unpleasant information ‘T hate the stamp placed at the hottom of the envelope in the corner means ‘‘Yes™; at the bottom in the center means “No''; an invert on the upper left-hand corner gives ind| of “‘Affection of the writer for the rece if the stamp is inverted on the rig notice to the receiver to and Write and right angle with the same, the writer by that tells the recel "I long to see you''; the stamp placed up ony the left-hand corner I8 “Good-by, sweetheart' | two stamps one above the other at right with the e ny ells the sad tale, fi; heart —that is, sad to the receiver velope othe you'' |s expressed by placing the ed on the upper left-hand ~corner; the p placed on the lower left carner, up, says to the veceiver “Cannot meet I ! and If it 8 face up on the lower right- and eorner It I8 & notiee from the writer that the '"Pavente object to letters,” Cholee eandles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* (& glage frult B0e per Ib at Townsend's,* Townsend's California glace fruits, i0e a und, in_fire-ete box Egu. l&’rhl. '??xm “M’o‘ "n‘“dl’l‘.fi ‘Wpecial supplied dati 7:3:-. oy and pubile’ the #von (Allen's), ao ‘elephone Main rous 3'14":' ping gome wite may be husband's whee!, Bt he ustially wants (o gl"'“g the brake. The Banta Fe to Yosemite, Heginning May 1 Btoddard & Son will run & aally stage line from Merced to Yosemite Pails, connecting with the California Nmited. Leav- ing San Francisco at 9 a. m. to-day you are at Yosemite Falls to-morrow afterncon at 5. The rate is §28 50 from San Franclsco for the found trip, carrying you by way of Merced big trees. e el . A Book on San Franeisco. The Santa Fe has just lssued a beautiful booklet descriptive of San and vieln- information Franeisco ity, lavishly illustrated with artistic half-tones