The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1901, Page 6

: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901 R P T e PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FraNcIsco CALL. Che 200 _GalL FRIDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A AT A A AT AT Address All Communiostions to W. 5, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Preas 204 . PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. Telephone Press 201. 221 Stevemson St. 202. .217 ‘to EDITORIAL ROOMS Tele; e "Delivered hv Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Centn. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: VATLY CALIL (including Sunday), one year. PAJLY CALL (Including Sunday), § months. PAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month.. WEEELY CALL, One Year.. o All postmasters are authorized t, receive subscriptions. 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BRANCH OFFICES—S21 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open | until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock.. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until $80 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market. corner Sixteenth. open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia. open urtfl § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. eor- ner Twenty-second and Kentucky. oven until 8 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Californie—"A Bachelor's Romance.” | Central—*Ten Nights in a Barroom.” | Tivoli—*“The Idol's Eye.” | vaudeville. | ‘Sag_Harbor,"” | Grand Opera-house—'"Mr. Barnes ®f New York.” tympia, corner Mason and Eddy streefs—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and eventng. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Fmeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. = 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The Call B ess Office. This paper will alse be sale at all summer Fesorts and is represemted by a local agent im &all towns on the coast. DUTY TO THE PRESIDENT. A HE people of Vallejo, through their officials T and most representative citizens, have made a petition which should receive the earnest con- sideration and hearty indorsement of the committee of San Francisco which is planning to welcome Presi= dent McKinley. the stay of the chief executive in this city some gement be made by which he can visit Vallejo 2nd inspect the magnificent governmental station at Mazre Island, the largest on the Pacific Coast and one of the greatest in the United States. Vallejo agrees te bear the entire burden of expense and to submit. itself to the discretion of our committee in every detail of arrangement. This plea is eminently just. We are asking Presi- dent McKinley to be among us not simply to feel our good will and to accept of our‘good cheer but to see what we are, what part we are playing in the great scheme of national life and what we need that we may - play our part well. It ic good-that he be the honored guest at our feasts and festivals, but it is better’ that he should carry away with him- a.permanent impres~ n of our vast natura! and acquired resources. Among our triumphs is the naval establishment % Mare Island, which shculd be encouraged, preserved and improved. A visit of a few hours, a pleasant journey and a brief inspection will suffice to impx;ess upon the Presi- dent, his Cabinet and guests from the national Legis- lature the importance of the establishment at- Mare Island. In the whirl of receptions,.speeches, dinners, | parades and entertainment which for six days will rule San Francisco, sureiy a few hours of festivity can well be sacrificed to a cause in which the entire State is vitally interested and in which the nation is con- cerned. The petition of Vallejo should be granted. A city election in Frederick a few days ago gave it was found the illiterates managed to vote aboit as regularly as ever. A report says illiterate Demo- crats were told by their party leaders to look for a word with an o in it, and Republican illiterates were told to look for a“word with the letter p. The in- structions were followed and it is believed every illit- erate voted a straight ticket. The San Jose Sheriff undoubtedly had a pleasant journey in bringing back another Dunham “suspect” from the East, but the public should be spared ths | task of paying the bills. Perhapsit would be cheaper in the end for San Jose to establish Dunham museums | with elaborate exhibits in all the large cities of the country. This scheme might make identification re- Lable. — » Arkansas has imposed 2 tax upon men who patron- saloons as well as upon the saloons; and now a en of that State cannot get a drink unless he can show a certificate to the effect that he has paid $5 for the privilege. Strang>rs in the State are treated like heme folks, and an impression prevails that Arkansas is trying to absorb all the money in'the country. The Sultan is said to have sent a “‘sharp note” to Rulgaria demanding the immediate dissolution of the Macedonian Committee in that country; but as it is well known the powers will not let the Sultan g0 to war, the tone of the note, despite its sharpness, will sound too flat to be regarded as an ultimatum, President McKinley will soofi,kuow in delightful - experience what it means to call 'California the land of fruits and flowers. The State will present to him | cre continuous festival of nature’swbest gifts. The young gentlemen of the University of Califor- ria who see much fun 1 lampooning and caricaturing their professors may find at examination time that _ there are two sides to the laugh. The people of Vallejo ask that dur- | - first test to the new election law of Maryland, and.| MISTREATMENT OF TEACHERS. AN FRANCISCO and Oakland present a view S ‘of municipal administration that should teach and exhort. £ For years in each city an annual deficit has appeared at the end of each fiscal year. It is sometimes partly provided for by shutting off street lights, but usually it is made up, or partly made up, by compelling the school-teachiers to woric a month or two without pay, during which time the public schools are run not-at the expense of the ‘taxpayers or the patrons but at the cost of the teachers. We are not awate that it is ever proposed that any other city employes ghall give their services to the public. The pay.of the teachers is the least for service rendered in any. de- partment of city administration. It'is earned by the hardest toil performed by any public servants. It goes mostly to women, who have the slightest means of defense against imposition, and therefore are not formidable in the eyes of the practical-politicians who- run city governments. 3 ' The Oakland situation has features that are pa- thetic. In years past the teachers have often been compelled by their masters, the City Council, to work without compensation in order to keep the sthools open the ‘full schopl year. When the time came last year to estimate the needs of the city, that the Coun- cil might make a tax levy to meet them, the School ‘Board submitted its estimates of the money required to run the schools o the end of the school- year. Giving no credit to the judgment of. the School Board, the Council deliberately cut the estimate to a figure which was known to be inadequate for the purpose. When the school year was within two months of its, close the money was all gone, and the two High Schools must be shut or kept open at the expense of the teachers. . - But in the schools are the classes which were to graduate. They cannot do so if the ,schools’ close. Upon the completion of their tourse and regular wraduation depends their entry into the universities. Clesing' the 'school means waiting a' year beyond the | time _at dwhich they expected to finish. To a large number this has a most malign and unconq_umblc in- fluence, and is a misfortune which may spoil their whole career. .The people are passing around the hat and trying to collect $10,000 in a dime at a time to keep the schools open and avert the blow to the pupils and the city, and also t> spare the city the shame of | running the schools at the expense of overworked and: | underpaid teachers. All this because a City Council threw money at birds, in litigation and boring wells o find a brackish water supply to be put under mu- | nicipal ownership. In San Francisco it has been:the regular thing to | meet deficits by making teachers work for nothing | and refusing to pay contracting merchants for sup- ;’ plies furnished to the city departments. | There is a constantly accumulating debt to the mer- | chants dnd obligation to the teachers, which will prob- | ably never be paid. Tke situation is disgraceful to ‘, both cities and testifies the inefficiency, cowardice or idcngogy of:the members of their.government who | are responsible for it. » | Next time the Oakland School Board sends its es- timate to the City Council the citizens who are now !lm]ding distress meetings and passing the hat for | nickels to keep the scheols running should go to tha iCity Hall and read his politicgl death warrant to ievery Councilman who proposes_to cut it down, in the knawledge that dding so wilirepeat the same siti- ation that is now the odium of Oakland. San Fran- cisco may ‘be incorrigible in the same courses that make the city across the bay to express its sorrows | ia public. There seems to be no remedy. except by | the people compelling men to seek office by showing | knowledge and fitness for it. i s o { The latest scheme of the Board of: Education to | supplant merit by favoritism in the election of teach- ers suggests that his Highnes: the Mayor is thore deeply concerned in the manipvlation of political | “bugs” than in the education of the children of the | city. | POLITICS IN THE SOUTH. HILE throughout the North and West the \;\, currents of politics are moving slowly and ¥ without any sign of disturbance, in the Scuth they are whirling-in eddies, so that it is diffi- | cult to-determine exactly in what direction public | sentiment is tending. The movements in various States to disfranchise the negroes by one method or | another show that the Bourbons are still' dominant and active; but, on the other hand, the increasing fre- | quency and force of protests against Bryanism that | come from all sections of the Southern States give | promise of the beginnings of a movement which in | the end will divide the Southern people upon natural political liies and put an end to the old domination which has been so injurious to.the South and so per- nicious to the nation. e Among the men who have been outspoken in pro- testing against Bryanism and Bourbonism Senator McLaurin stands easily first. Notwithstanding the fact that his office is at stake he has boldly broken- }away from the Bourbons and has put himself at the | head of a liberal_ movement. It is characteristic of the man and of the State in which he lives that in | opposing Bourbonism he declares he is advocating no rew creed, but is really upholding the best traditions of the statesmanship of South Carolina against men. ‘whe are seeking to introduce radicalism and innova- fion. o £ In a recent speech at Charlotte: before the Manu- | facturers’ Club of North Carolina - McLaurin | commenting -upon the-follies of the dominant ele- ments-in the Democratic party as exhibited in the last campaign, said: “Furdamental principles were lost sight of, and in an insane effort to secure party suc- cess at any cost the attempt was made to combine socialism, Populism and sectionalism, with nothing | brrt ‘the sentiment and traditions of Democracy.. The | rea! Democratic leaders in the Senate for the past | three years have been Allen, Teller and Pettigrew, all | of them able men, but one a Fopulist, one a high tariff | Republican, and the other I know not what. * * + T'o sow discontent with industrial conditions and dis- 15t of the governing pawer; to array class against class, in the hope of securing fancied social and | dustrial equality, is to n.y mind the first step in revo- lution. The South is the American end of America. In no section is there so small a foreign element, so ! much conservatism, and so pure a patriotism. What | a political paradox, then, it is for our people to be the allies of professed revolutionists elsewhere.” - . Passing from the review of the follies of leaders that have made the conservative South an ally and _supporter of the agitations of reckless demagogues | of all shades of opinion to a consideration of what | the South needs he emphasized the importance of | breaking away from the “new Democracy” and Te- ' turning to public policies that tend to prométe jn- dustry and to assure harmony among all classes of |citizens. “We are,” he said, “no longer a purely agricultural section, but mining, naa_-ljmhcturinl and kindred interests have sprung into ‘prominerice and demand governmental policies to protect and develop them. A statesmanship so partisan in its character as to adhere to old political doctrines, either settled by the arbitrament of the sword or firmly fixed as governmental policies, ¢annot solve the political and economic problems now confronting the -Southern people. Such a statesmanship cannot properly inter- pret present economic movements nor provide by ag- gressive and progressive thought for the radi- cally changed conditions now confronting us.” ‘No sooner had the address been published than Sen- ator Tillmén publicly denounced McLaurin, and the Bourbon niachine in South Carolina was set to work to crush the man who had so boldly defied it. Mc- Laurin, however, is not without supporters. There may. not be many who will have the courage to fol- low:him in breaking away from new Democracy, but there is a very large number who, lacking that cour- age, nevertheless agrze with his views, sympathize with his aspirations and ‘wish him well. The Louis- s'fllo Courier Journal “With the negro ques- tion outof the way it would remain for the Demo- cratic party to decide whether it would retain the sup- port of the South or imperil it by refusing to rec- ognize the living conditions which app# to the South 1o less than to other parts of the country.” The Louisville Post declares: “Senator McLaurin says just what thousands of people are thinking and sav- ing all over the South.” The Richmond Times says: “Senator McLaurin has sounded the bugle note and the clans will rally”; and the Greenville (S. C.) News with exultation cries out: “McLaurin’s doctrine that tells us to trample down the barriers of old hates and moth-eaten doctrines is the doctrine that will make the young men of this State honor him and the fathers with the interests of their sons at heart to support him.” Such is politics in the South during the off year. We shall see what it means when the next election takes place. i ) ——— The highly excitable Mayor of Zanesville has raised a hubbub of angry comment by cursing the court of the little Ohio town and thereby greatly ruffling its dignity. Mayor Phelan ought once more to spill ink and write an ‘essay on the ethics of the other fellow’s conduct. 4 LORD KIT L scientific war against the Boers is said to_have divided the territory of the seat of war into a series of . squares like a chessboard and to have placed a troop in each square with orders to clear it of the enemy or devastate it. A recent review of the operations says: “The country is ruled out into chessboard squares. To and fro over each a mounted force equipped with fight transport is projected and withdrawn, like a gardener’s rake. It is nota process conducive to the clash cof arms, but as the movement. is repeated again and zgain it draws into the central posts a vast accumulation of living beings—white families and black families, horses and cattle, food, forage and weapons of war. It leaves the squares as bare as unsown fields.” The description sounds well, and it would seem that such tactics carried cut by an energetic foe would soon bring the Boers to terms. Asa matter of fact, however, the squares are so large and the foe so nim- ble that “the rake” rarcly brings'in any considerable number of them. Kitchener is capturing a large num- ber of non-combatants, but the warriors of the Trans- vaal are still free and have their arms. 4 For an understanding of the situation it is to be borne in.mind that acccrding to a statement of Lord Roberts the area of the disturbed country comprises about 250,000 square miles. . If, therefore, Kitchener's chessboard squares contained an average of 250 square miles each there would be a thousand of them, and as he has olnly about 200,000 men at his disposal there would be only 200 mea to each square. As a consid- erable number are required to guard the railways and the supplies, the force available for raking cannot be sufficient to bring the war to a speedy conclusion. The British, indéed, appear to have abandoned ail expectations of an early close of the war. A cor- respondent of the London Standard, writing from Pretoria and describing a conversation with a num- her of Boers who entered the British lines with a flag: of-truce to obtain the tody of an officer who had been killed, says: “They acknowledged that the outlook. is bad enough, but maintained the& are not without hope of wearing us. out, adding that in any case they mean to fight to the end or until terms were offered which would leave themn with a modified indepen- dence. If that be true of the mass of the Boers still in arms—some 20,000 o~ more—and there is every reason for believing that it is, the sooner the rein- forcements™are here the better. The task that faces S —— CHENER'S HARD TASK. ORD . KITCHENER ‘in the prosecution of Lord Kitchgncr is as heavy as it is possible to con-" ceive.” The war in South Africa has already cost Great Britain something like $750,000,000, and the war ex- penditure is going on at the rate of $1,000,000 a day. When all is over the cost of the conquest will hardly be less than $1,000,000,000, a sufn one-third as large as that of the debt piled up by the British in their long fight for life against Napoleon, and for it all’ they will have nothing to show except a lordship over a desolated country and a sullen and hostile people. Surely of all the follies that can be committed by nations none is greater than that-of embarking upon a policy of expansion by the sword. THE SCIENCE OF WEATHER. I I tablished a new Russian scientific journal, published in four languages—Russian, French, English and German—devoted to the collec- tion and dissemination of information concerning weather and climate. Application has been made. by the editors to the central weather offices of all coun- tries for their daily synoptic charts, so that ample catz can be obtained for all calculations. The con- tributors include many of the most eminent scientists in Europe and America, and the venture promises to be one of great benefit 1o all students of meteorology. In the first number of the paper, which has just been received, the editor, after announcing that a large number of men of science will assist him in the work, adds: ‘It would be premature to hazard a conjecture as to what department of science will furnish the dis- coverer of the law of the atmosphere. We trust, how- ever, that the interest in positive science, common to us all, will assure us the zealous co-operation which ve desire.” The periodical is to appear twice a month and is an exeellent example of Ruseian periodical literature. Tt is amply illustrated witl. charts and gives a fairly comprehensive review of weather and climatic cou- ditiofs and phenomena ir: all the principal parts of the giobe. The editor is Nicholas Demchinsky, and the place of publication is St. Pqersbmg. NDER the title “Climat” there has been es- i Strafige Amusements, Garb and Diversions of the Children Who Lived on the Old American Frontier. S R et WY By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. AUTHOR OF “THE ROMANCE OF XEOLLARD," “THE STORY, OF TONTY,” (COPYRIGHT, 1%01.) XI—-OHILD LIFE ON THE FRONTIER. Among summer diversions of a pianeer village the children highly esteemed a& funeral. It overlapped on the mystery which young creatures love. There was a pause in every day. The other world ap- proached. The Freemasons, powerful craft, re- spected yet deprecated by the wives of its members, its poor locked lodgeroom con- sidered a ehamber of horrors, owned a bler on which its dead were borne in state. But less illustrious people had their coffins shoved into a wagon; for hearses were rever seen or heard of in a ploneer village. The bereaved family sat around their dead on splint-bottomed chairs, or they followed with friends and nelghbors in other wagons. A dark, smooth-cut oblong waited under the graveyard trees. There was neither parson nor service many a time. The mourners looked down at the lowered box, plainly varnished, shaped somewhat like a diamond with blunt ends, and their wail- ing was joined by the low note of the wood dove. 3 Children at a Burial. 14 On the graveyard rail fence the village children would sit, both holding them- selves delicately aloof from a grief not their own and witnessing as a spectacle the.storm and stress of human embtion. With _delicious shivers down their spines they heard the rattle of clods on a hollow lid. Not until the grave is ridged and patted do they turn back to their play. Comes now panting to meet them a be- lated mate, his trousers hung by one sus- pender, a hunk of dinner in his hand. He hits his bare toe on a stone, grabs the toe and waltzes about in agony, but never for an Instant loses sight of the main is- sue. “‘Been to the buryin'?” "~ “‘Yes,” ‘they “answer, triumphantly, in that superlor state of mind which results from accomplishing. #’Tain’t all cver, is it?” Yes, it's all. over.” ‘How did they take it?” ‘They took it hard.” “I wisht I'd a-been there!" The Instinct of the Wanderer. Even then the roving spirit which makes us a nation of {ramps had begun its subtle workings in the ploneer village. Of eourse, a preacher’'s wifé had this desire for change gratified to the fullest extent. ‘While her unsettled state was . by -no means envied, a few like fister Day want- ed to see beyond the horizon. Sister Day was always intending to go to Greenup to visit Cousin Priscilla. She would have to travel ‘n a carriage of her own, which she possessed, for there was neither railroad nor mail hack that would carry her to Greenup. The spring was too wet; the summer was toc warm; in winter it was impossible to travel; the children had the measles, the times were too hard or she had guests. Finally she took that other journey from which there is no return, and probably smiles, good woman, wherever she may be, when she remem- bers the deferred trip to Greenup to visit | Cousin Priscilla. On the other hand, there was a drifting population in white-topped moving wag- ons always coming and golng. Their aguish children saw life on wheels, and lived—and sometimes died—along the road. They were not gypsies; they were rather wanderers confirmed in poverty, trying each ploneer village a week. or perhaps half a year. Their scant furnishing was ut into some empty house, forsaken by nhabitants of the better class, and their sway-backed horses turned out to graze. These people were movers, indeed. And though the name of mover was by no means dishonorable—all the States fer- menting with white vans moving west- ward—a ploneer village was usually glad when they fared on. Citizens could not be made out of such material. Queer characters were always to be found in this village. and people were not so hypnotized by change that only the doings of the passing instant fascinated them. They had time to study and enjoy a plcturesque figure,’and they had know!- edge of a fact we sometimes forget—that all human life, however mean and cir- cumscribed, is interesting. The Majah and Little Laura. The majah was a Kentuckian, with a wooden leg. a brilliant, ill-balanced head and one beautiful little child named Lau- ra. He dropped upon the village for its elevation, and hecame a star debater, the walking town library and substitute for ‘Webster's unabridged dictionary. \ The doctor had such a dictionary, but it was too big and awe-inspiring to carry to the drug store every time a word came under dispute. The majah became a power, though he had neither house nor land— and land then was only an acre— neither profession nor visible means of support, and his bills ran on indefinitely at the tavern, The landlord sometimes grumbled, and would bave asked the majah to remove his hair trunk and hat box—for who could have the heart to seize the majah’s hair trunk and hdt box ‘for board? But the landlady. in' common with other women of the village, adored Laura, perhaps be- cause she was so different from their own aguish, blue-skinned children. Laura was sure of nourishing and mothering in the ploneer village until she reached an age to nourish and mother the next genera- tion. She was like a luscious wild plum. all pink and gold, and sweet tempered beyond belief: for all possibilities of hap- piness met in the child. e had three Wweaknesses—the majah, her little rock- ing chair and heg love of bacan. Wher- ever the majah nged in the village Laura trotted after him, carrying her rocking chair. She put.it on the earthen sldewalk, rested and rocked and sang at intervals. And knowing that ple loved ber smile and her singing of the one song she knew the witch usually posed before the threshold of some hospitable woman, z;lho was ravished to hear the bird-piping ere: b “Sing and ‘soat, Sing and soaf In my Mttle Boat! “Now, lady, will you-please give me a Dplece of fat meat?"” 4 When the Majah Died. At the end of the summer the majah. stretched out his woeden leg, turned u his toes and died fike a gentleman, wit all his bills unpaid. But the Freemasons, of whose great guild he was a past some: thing of worship and renown, scraped con- tritutions together from their own hard- earned dollars, straightened “his affairs and gave him a rousing funeral, wéaring aprons over their store clothes and cast- ing sprigs of evergreen into his grave. Laura was lifted to the bier to kiss him and cried because he was cold, but for no other reason that she could under- stand, and then was coveted for half a dozen homes. with’ her rocking chair. But after she had had her supper in the house claiming her the first night, and while the setting sun still yellowed the graveyard at the side of tke village, she carried her rocking chair back to the ridge which she had seen built over the majah. There her pursuers found her, singing persuasively the song which had never failed to bring her what she wanted: “Sing and soat, Sing and soat In my little boat! “Majah, will you please wake up and | glve me a plece of fat meat?” Peggy and Dutch John. Another person—and that person a weman—excited less benevolence than hilarity. Indeed, where the struggle for in the world's goods, and had no occasion for the help of her neighbors. You have noticed that when the public selects an individual to represent some- thing that individual can never be any- thing elsé, He might as well yleld.to his fate as far as his fellow men. ars con- cerned. Peggy was the typical old mald in the pioneer village, and if she did not like the character she was too shrewd to played it well. angular, though her black hair never | changed its color, nor did her activity in was an honorable one, and bote her part | in the life of the village. She lived alone in a house exquisitely kept, a woman means, bestowing kindnesses right and left, amusing herself with wooings like that of simple Dutch John. His humble handicraft was ditching, and he hung his shirts all along a fence, peeling layer after layer as the sun's heat increased. My mother was born on the ocean at midnight.” said John. “And she could speak both Dutch and English as good as | any preacher. If you will marry me. | Pegzy, I will keep you like a lady. for T | have $29 saved and put by in a stocking.” | : The Winter Sleighing. The greatest festivity of the ploneer vil- lage was the winter sleighing: and God was good to it in the bestowal of snow. Tradition says that snow rose over the rail fences, and the roads were often Wwhite marble canals. It was the easiest | thing in the world to make a jumper, with | saplings for runners and a box for a bed. | The bells rung everywhere. It was merry | as a fair. The young people in long sleds flew across the silent. star-keen winter ! night to dance at some tavern or farm- | house. Their- laughter and their sleigh bells, the crunching of the snow and flicks fiying from the horses’ feet and the giid- ing motion like no other gliding, were experiences not to be forgotten. The pioneer village is gone and noth- ing like unto it is left under the sun. SCR*I;(.‘QL“J a skeleton of thta old street re- mains in an overgrown town, glittert: with electric lights and netted with wiens | The man abreast of this century hears contemptuously of such little days and dwarfed people. But the vastness of the | space which they had for their develop- ment was sublime. Gone with them Is the winter prairie. bound by the edges of the world, a white eircle of eternity. The stars hung over it like tassels, almost swinging in the keen air. Far off the cry of a wolf could be heard. All life except his was submerged in the silent land- ocean. If there was a moon it could al- most be taken in the hands: vet lowered itself from a sky of infinite height. Cold and awful, unbounded and mighty, the winter prairie none the less put into men’s minds thoughts of conquest, of great things to come. There was in' that gen- eration’s hopefulness and looking forward a joy which their children and children:s children are not able to understand. ® Hi'H'H-!—H—H?PH-H‘PH*H-!‘FH-H-I—Hfl;HWFH—H%H-E ° FERSONAL MENTION. The Rev. Father Joseph O'Reilly of Los Angeles is a guest at the Lick. P. C. Drescher, a dry goods merchant of Sacramento, is at the California. L. F. Moulton, an extensive land-owner of Celusa, is a guest at the Grand. Peter Musto, a leading merchant of Stockton; is registered at the Grand. J. H. Lyon, an extensive vineyardist and rancher of Lakeport, is at the California. James M. Leonard, a prominent mining man of Virginia City, is at the Palace for a few days. F. S. Morris of the firm of Evans. & Morris, dry goods merchants of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. John L. Clinton, a mining man of Ana- conda, Mont., is here on business for his company. He is a guest at the Lick. — e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 2—San Francisco— 8. J. Ackerman is at the Hoffman; Mrs. C. Holloran is at the Grand Union; J. B. Luther and W. J. Sideman are at the Hoff- man; Miss Wilson is at the Holland; Miss Martin is at the Gerard; J. F. Murray is at the Herald Square; R. H. Perry is at the St. Cloud. e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 2—Arlington— Willlam Loewy, Mrs. Loewy, Miss Loewy, San Francisco: —e———— ‘Rebuked by the King. King of Italy, himself a very early r'i;re!:'? wsl{ed into the office of the ad- ministration of the royal household the other morning at 8 o’clock and found only a scrubwoman at work. He asked the first clerk, who arrived at 9:3), when the other clerks were due. “We are all due at 8. your Majesty.” ~“Ah, and it is now 9:30,” remarked the King quietly.i Since then there has not been a case of tardi- ness.—Chicago Journal. o o SRR & SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, oronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15, for round trip. including 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S. S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. H CHANCE TO SMILE. “I know she Ahacaliel the bresch b “‘She cal the breeches buoy th ers buoy.’ "—Chicago News. b “Do you believe in ‘push’ ments in success?” “Neither."” “What then?"” “Dig.”"—Richmond Times. rom Boston.” ‘trous- or ‘pull’ as ele- Mrs. Parkville—Why, ! f le R e—Why, Annette! You have Tetty teapot! come to'do ity - Y tcepot! How did you Little Annette—Oh, T was hired girl!—Brooklyn Engl:. . o'fln:: :Z}({:::“:nmn is from a vopular . Kansas is a State that's not; No other State can match 1t " The women organize a plot And then proceed to_hatch it. —New York Tribune, just playing Drug Clerk—This remed: Congressmen, doémat Hold e ‘ustomer—Hold on, young fello- S nflne of memlm.rnutthlayhthlet u‘-'l'dlg ":.';‘,é show me some! ng at common people.—Chicago Newe 0 2 feW De Tanque—Heard the news about olq Soaque? Lushforth—No; what is it? "gefl sleopblee’dfl;lklas." “Strange, as looking ov. column of . this nwmm"l ;:ptel:e::gt? dldn’t see his name.”— gllldelphla Rec- ord. v has c eight Senators, six writen The moment had come for the good mhg'e to l’hz" hir p&}ver. -~ uick!” she cried, and touched the ‘A'%'g:r me:senger, boy with her magic o the unutterable amazem person in the drama, the bo; e ered the distance of a block | four minutes, hercupon.—Detraft Joular | “It is claimed that the membe; ‘ London City Council have to yl:yoihle’:f- own expenses when they go on junketing clous! ‘T wonder what an American City Council would do under those conditions?"” “I know what they wouldn't do.” “What's that?” “Junket.”"—Cleveland Plaindealer. existence was continual, she was well off | increase the fun by remonstrating, but | She was wrinkled, tall and | | 1 actually cov. | Cholce candies, Townsend’s GOSSIP FROM LONDON’S WORLD OF LETTERS. —_— If news about any forthcoming pubM- cations of interest remains scarce and of little importance there is no dearth in the sales of old books. The prices realized continue going up in marvelous fashion. Any sale which in- cludes a fine copy of a Shakespeare follo is sure to attract attention. 4 In the four days’ sale at Prittick's, just concluded, the most important item was a particularly good copy of the third follo, wanting two leaves, and with somewhat broken stitches ifnthe margins, but other- wise in excellent condition. It fetched the high price of £385 (31925), a record for an imperfect copy. Among other notable old books were six dramas of Calderon, first edition, £11 158 @57 ) “Grimm’s Popular Storles,” illustrated by Cruickshank. first edition, £16 10s (382 50); “K‘:eor:; Meredith,” first edition. £16 ($80); “Sigur Volsung:” £2 (§110); Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers, a; one to eighteen, £15 109 (877 50) hexsys | Ve Fair. original parts: very No?eau'sp?‘aune Ad'Estampes,” both scries, 1774-1777.. with brilllant engravings by Mar- ($1975). m{'hfg:ax:l also tncluded two long auto- ph letters by Tennyson. o his visit to Ireland. dated 184, Tetched £21 10s - (3107 50). The _second, writ- ten n 1850, fetched £31 (§156). In this lat- ter, after making some references to “In “Memoriam.” Tennyson thus refers to his wife and his marriage: “I am not going to be but am married to a lady four years younger than myself, one who has loved me for fourteen years without variable- ness or shadow of turning. th not very voung. she is very beautiful. She has the most beautiful nature I have met with among women. It was done very quickly, at my particular request. so that my own mother did not know it till it was done."” . . There were some more startling prices. For a copy of Gray's “Odes” at Sotheby’s the other day.-a sum of £370 (31850) was paid. It was a very rare first edition anl bore on the margin explanatory notes by the poet and allusions to the sources of his inspiration. But even more—£400 ($2000) in fact—was pald for-@ray’s own copy of six poems, (n-. -cluding this extra stanza to the “Elegy”: There,” scatter’d oft the earliest of the year By hands unseen, are show’rs of vi'lets found: The redbreast loves to bill and warble there. And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Complete light will shortly be shed on one of the most mysterious transactions of the Commonwealth. The history of the negotlations between the Hebrews and Oliver Cromwell. which resulted in the foundation of the present Anglo-Jewish community, has hitherto been only im- perfectly known. Indeed, until some fif- teen yvears ago, when Lucien Wolf pub- lished the first results of his investiza- tions.' it was generally believed that the negotiations- were abortive and that the first permigsion for Hebrews to resettle In England was accorded by €harles Il. Mr. ‘Wolf has now ‘written the story at lenzth in a volume -entitled “Menasseh Ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell.™ which Messrs Macmilllan have undertaken to_publish. The volume contains a reprint In fae simile of three tracts published by Menas- seh. Mr. Wolf supplies the intrnductfon and seven chapters. tomether with elabo- rate notes and three portraits of the fam- ous Jew, two by Rembrandt and the third by Salome Italia, to accompany the let- ter press. Mr. Wolf shows that the Hebrew ques- tion in 1§55-1656 was of much. greater im- portance than is generally sunnosed and that it plaved a considerable part n Cromwell's schemes of imperial expansion Mr. Wolf has lons been known as tha chief authority {n"this country on Jewish history. It will be remembered that one of those whose names were connected with the au thorshin of the mysterinus “Love Lette: of an English Woman'. was Lauren Housman. Clement Shorter. in_ the dancing flag. Like a guidepost to the pass- | Sphere. now states that a work bv Laur- ing generations she held her place, which | ence Housman has been offered hy a literary agent to more than one publisher as by the author of the letters. Mean- | while love letter book= continue to trickla through the nress.. There are two more this week. ‘A T.over’s Replies to an Finz- lish Woman's Love TLetfers” is_anony- £ The other is by George Egerton and iz called “Ros: mbresa; the Love Letters of a Woma ANSWERS TO QUFRIES TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Answers to querfes sent to this department are sent in as soom 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. INTERLOCUTORY DECREE-R. M. M., City. Inlaw an, interlocutory decree is one that is not final or definits. but merely a step 'n a sult or action. DIVORCE LAW-—M. Z., Oakland, Cal. None of the several bills on the subject of divorce introduced at the last heid ses- sion of the Legislature became a law. SCHOOLS—E. M. T., Oakland. For po- sitifons in the schools in the Philippthes communicate with the Suverintendent of Public Instruction at Manila, P. I, 5 THOMAS F. GRAHAM—G. S, Citv. Thomas F. Graham was not a candidate for the office of Superior Judge at the election held in San Franeisco in 1 he ran for the office of Pnuce'ga;gé.bm VIOLIN MAKER—Subscriber, Gonzales, Cal. Jacob Stainer, the violin maker, was born July 21, 1621, in Absom, T X died there in 1383. ' He made vfnu;?Im at;‘: place of his birth, and in 1658 was ap- pointed violin maker to the imperial court. NONE AT REDDING—Subscriber, Corn- ing. Cal. There is no National Guard or- ganization in Redding at present. Com- pany H of the Second Brigade. formerly located at that ‘place, is now located in Placerville. THE OHIO SOCIETY—H. 8. C., Wi Hams, Cal. The Secretary of the Ohlo Soclety of California is L. P. McCarty. The association meets in the building of the Tmproved Order of Red Men, in San Francisco. DIVORCE—R. M. M., City. As the last held Legislature has not been productive of any law amending the present divorcs law a person divorced in March last can- not remarry in this State again after a lapse of six months. SAPSUCKER—M., Red Bluff, Cal. The best mothod of destroying the sapsuckers that attack fruit trees is a shotgun loaded with very fine hirdshot. Strychnine may be used, but it is not always effactive. Binding the trees with sacks is not suf- cient protection. for the birds will attack the branches, if they canmot get at the trunk. * TRINITY CHURCH PROPERTY-A. O, P., San Pedro, Cal. The index of The Call for twelve years past does not show that there has been any distribution of the Trinity Church property in New York City within that period. For the purpose of ascertaining if any distribution has. been made. and when, address a commu- nication to the Surrogate’s Court, New York City. THE PHILIPPINES—Encro, Crockett, Cal. There have been a number of arti- cles published In the periodicals in the - last two years concerning the Philippines as to climates. products. state of civilizn- tion, effect of climate on thg white, fu- ture prospects, etc., but this department has net the space to enumerate all such publications. You can find out by con- sulting the cumulative index of periodical literature. —————— . Palace Hotel® —————— Cal. glace fruit 30c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_—— Townsend's California glace fruits, 5)c a und, in_fire-etched boxes or Jap bas-. et 539 Market. Palace FHoter bullding.*. —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and publie men - the Press Clipping Burean ¢Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1043 *