The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1901, Page 6

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CARLTON .Herald Sonare AMUSEMENTS. Tivoli—*“The 1dol's Eve.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*'Sag_Harbor.” Alcazer— “The Conguepors.” | Grand Opera-house—""Son of Napoleon.” Olymipia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudevilie. Sutro Baths—Swimming. Fmeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. | By Sullivan & Doyle—This day, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at | 227 Sixth street. i By Wm G. Layne—Tuesday, May 14. at 10 o'clock, Ger- | man Government Artillery Horses, a! Howard street. ol s | 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | Call subseribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new @ddresses by notifying The Call Basiness Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local ageat in ®ll towns on the coast. T organization, maintained for the purpose of se- curing the rights which belong to the tribes and fragments of tribes which were once owners of the soil on which they live now by sufferance. One of the most grievous wrongs to which the In- dians were found to be subjected was the encroach- ment upon the grazing lands of their reservations by white stock-owners. First crowding out the Indians the whites crowded each other in a scramble for use of the forage that grew on the range. Then the i sheep came along, crowded out cattle and horses, and | proceeded to destroy the range entirely, repeating within the Indian reservations the harm they had al- | ready done on the public domain outside. When attention was called to this state of things the Interior Department adopted the policy of leasing the Indian land to stock men, making them pay for “situation changed, the lands INDIAN RANGE LANDS. HE Indian Rights Society is a self-sacrificing its use. Immediately th forage protected, and now they are restored to their primitive condition of fer- ility. The large revenue derived is placed to the credit of the tribes owning the land, and between the reservation pastures and the fed-out ranges on the public domain appears the contrast between the desert and the sown. The reservations are like oases in the | blear waste that common use of the public range has | created around them. This object lesson makes one wish that there might be organized a “white man’s rights societ; to protect the property of all the people in the stock ranges on the public domain. A revenue of $10,000,000 s being lost by the use of those ranges as commons, and their potential wealth is being permanently destroyed by the extir- pation of their grasses. When President McKinley made his first address in New Mexico, on Monday, he found statehood de- manded on every banner that fluttered in front and overhead. Speaking pleasantly to the people, he said that statehood would come when favored by the will | of Congress, and meantime, said he, “You need more | people and more rain.” A wvoice from the crowd answered, “We want to be connected with you so as to get more rain.”, This meant that as 2 State, with two Senators and a voting member of the House, New Mexico would add her Congressional strength to the movement to force ir- | rigation appropriations into the river and harbor bill and compel the Federal treasury to take up the bur- den of storing storm waters to make the arid West fertile. Yet New Mexico has within her borders as public domain a public asset and property which, leased as are the Indian lands, would give her more money for irrigation than she can hope ever to get out of the Federal treasury. Her increasing aridity is due to the destruction of her stock ranges by their use as free commons: An area in that territory which once supported 150,000 head of cattle does not now | feed ‘1500. It is fed-out and gone back to desert. Yet had it been under leasehold control its grasses would be as good as ever and its stock carrying ca- pacity as great. The Federal treasury is now carrying about as many enterprises as the majority of the taxpayers feel like paying for. . We are certain that the East is not averse to Western development, but ' when New Mex- ico tells the President she “wants in” the Union in order to fertilize her lands at the expense of the treasury, the taxpaying millions of farmers east of the Mississippi will no doubt reflect that they are in the Union, and it is not fertilizing, fencing, plowing nor seeding their lands for them. They are joint owners of the public domain, just as the Indians are joint owners of the reservations which the Govern- ment is so beneficially leasing. Their property in that domain has been used for years without rent or any compensation, and now, in addition to this free use and waste of their property, they are asked to pay | taxes to water and fertilize the farms of others lying in the same region. Will it not be perfectly reasonable for them to re- fuse this double sacrifice, and will it not be wise for the West to consent to the leasing of the ranges and devotion of the proceeds to irrigation? If this is not done the issue will soon be acute in Congress, and every new arid State admitted increases the power to overload the river and harbor hill and block all legis- were eagerly leased, th: year | mer. lation until it is forced through THE SA THE PRESIDENT'S DISCRETION. T El Paso and in New Mexico President Mc- A Kinley took pains to let his hearers know his opinion of the nature and structure of our Government. Wherever there was an indication of a supplicatory condition, addressing the President as the Government, with dispensing power, he promptly cor- rected the tendency and let them know that while he represents the Government he is not the Govern- ment. The Government is with the people, and its three branches are their agents, and as executive he is at the head of their triune agency. It is remembered that President Johnson offended the people by his daily reiteration of the phrase, “My policy.” The President can have no policy that thwarts the people within the constitutional limita- tions, which are for him and them alike. The President’s great discretion and common sense are noticeable in the natural and proper man- ner in which he refains from taking to himself the enthusiastic ascriptions which are inspired by the stimulus of his presence among the people. Going back to the first President we find the progress of Washington from his home to the capital and from the capital through the country was marked by this same disposition to treat him as the Gov- ernment, and it was met by him in the same sensible way ‘that President McKinley pursues. In their en- thusiasm, and perhaps in their feeling of dependence, the people desired to coin some form of titular address for Washington, and actually discussed such titles as “His High Mightiness,” “Supreme Defender of the | Commonwealth,” and others equally fantastic. We have the survival of that in the common prac- | tice of addressing the President as “His Excellency,” a title used also in addressing Governors of States. It does not belong to the President, and its use in addressing him is highly improper. His title is just as plain as the people he represents It is “The President,” and nothing more. The constitution of Massachusetts gives the title “His Excéllency” to the Governor of that State. No cther Governor in the United States is entitled to It. When Governor Gage meets the Presidential party | | at the State line the Governor of California will meet ! and greet the President of the United States, and | neither one is “His Excellency.” Governor Gage very properly goes to meet the President as an expression of the hospitality of the people, and in offer of their greeting, and stands upon | no official punctilio about it. In Washington’s first administration Governor Hancock of Massachusetts raised a great discussion by refusing to meet the President and insisting that Washington should come to him in the- capital. When President Harrison visited this coast this same issue was raised, very unpleasantly, by Governor Pennoyer of Oregon. But there is nothing in it The Governor is Governor of California, and his official functions are all vital in him everywhere within the State, and do not cease when he leaves the capital. The Sultan of Turkey seems to think that because | he has bought a warship from an American firm he need not pay for the Armenian outrages. He may find o his cost that it is not the ship but the men on it who make Uncle Sam dangerous when he goes a-gunning. SPECULATION IN NEW YORK. EPORTS from New York .are to the effect R that never before has the city been so crowded with strangers for any considerable length of time. The crowds are not like the swarms that came in to attend the Dewey reception, or that have thronged in the city on other festal occasions, for those re- mzined hardly more than a day, while the present | crowd has been about the hotels and the streets for weeks and promises to remain until well into the sum- It has gathered not to make a holiday, but to get rich. It has been drawn from all parts of the country by reports of speculative activity in Wall street, and is made up almost wholly of speculators, One report says: “The extravagance of the time has never been equaled. * * * The idea seems to be that everything will rise in value and keep on rising; that there is no top notch, and no chance of falling. It is said that the old hands at the game have begun to be afraid and are standing aside, but they are not missed. Everybody who can raise a margin is buying, and ds so many are gathering in profits there is no dearth of spenders. The hotels, the restaurants, the theaters, the shops, are crowded with throngs who demand the best and pay for it. No holiday' season has equaled the lavishness of spending on the part | of those who have grown able so suddenly and easily. There is a daily carnival of self-indulgence.” On a single day last week over 3,300,000 shares of stock were bought and recorded. It is but a short time ago when that would have been deemed a good business for a whole week. Great as the record is, however, it does not tell the whole story. It is esti- mated by experts that in addition to the transactions recorded there were on that same day sold upward of 500,000 shares that were not reported. Nor does even that complete the tale, for over and above all stock transactions among men theré was considerable ac- tivity among the brokers who deal with women specu- lators. % The lady patrons of the exchange are by no means few, nor are their purchases on slight value. A rep- resentative of the New York Sun who visited a “pri- vate office” where women assemble to speculate found seventy-five of them there at one time. The visit was made on the invitation of a member of the firm occupying the office, who had said: “You go down to the Stock Exchange and you think that there is a good deal of activity. A stranger might be par- doned for thinking that hell had broken loose. If you'll come up into my office for a short time and take in what is going on you may be pardoned for concluding that a considerable number of the Furies have gone on a picnic.” While the reporter was looking around and noting the eagerness of the women the broker said: “Most of these women are putting on more airs in the way of dress now than they did four months ago. | As you see, most of them are regular peacocks. Four months ago mcst of them were of the wren variety. The milliners and the dressmakers and the shoemakers and the glove shops must- be doing a rushing business on Wall street profits. And, I would have you to know, most of our customers are now al- together above such a trivial thing as carfare. They hire hansoms and broughams and automobiles now. That woman over there (the particular woman was designated) didn’t seem to be particularly affluent when she was introduced here shortly after the first of January. Maybe she had money to burn, but she didn’t look like it. Now she has a brougham and a pair of horses and two men on the box, and she runs to rubies and pearls that would give a lapidary fits and starts.” It is not American dressmakers and jewelers only | who are profiting by the outbreak of extravagance. 'FRANCISCO CALL.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1901. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRrANCISCO CALL. Those of Europe also will reap a rich harve.st. On ! a single day last week over 1400 persons sailed from New York for various European ports.. large number of them, of course, are rich people who have | a custom of spending the summer in Europe, but f | many of them were persons who have been fortunate in their speculations. They have money to burn, and Paris, London and Berlin will see the bonfires. Another account of the crowding of the city says: “The way-downtown hotels are crowded nights to their utmost capacity, Not only are there many peo- ple attracted to town by the speculative excitement, ! but the overworked brokers’ clerks and bookkeepers | camp out downtown nights. In one of the largest | of the downtown hotels every room has been occu- | pied for several nights back—some of tlie rooms hav- | ing as many as three beds—while cots have been put up and the parlors turned into dormitories.” So the story goes. It is a hot time in New York, | and there is money iy it for a while; but how long will it last? # s Ny e S Washington City has just laid the cornerstone of | 2 public library building, the gift of Andrew Carnegie. | As there were no ceremonies of any kind it is fair to “assume that if the people of Washington have not ; enough public spirit to erect a library at their own expense, they are at least conscious that in accepting ‘one as a gift they ought not to brag about it. HAYWARDS AND THE PRESIDENT. 1 WHILE there is so much scrambling in the eagerness of all classes of people to obtain 1 something of a visit from the President | during his tour of the State it is gratifying to find | | one locality that asks nothing more than what mod- | esty itself could approve. That locality is Haywards. | The Presidential train is to pass through the town on | the way to Stocktort and Sacramento, and the people | have contented themselves with asking no more than | that in passing the train shall move slowly, so that they, | ;—and particularly the school-children of the city— | | may have a chance to see the President. | Sucha request should be promptly granted. Hay- | wards has not asked anything than can interfere with the general arrangement of the tour, or delay the arrival of the President at Stockton or Sacramento. They have not undertaken to have the train stopped | at their town in order that they might introduce their prominent citizens and have a speech. They have not sought in any way to impose a new burden upon the ! President, or to add a new complication to the pro- gramme of the day. Their request is moderate, rea- sonable and considerate to all concerned. The plan proposed is simple. It is the design to have the _school-childrcn drawn up in order near the railroad track, where all can have a good view of the train, and it is desired that the President take his stand upon the rear platform, where, as the train slowly moves on its way, the children may have the chance to see the President of the republic. The railroad officials are said to have the request under consideration. It should not take them long | " to determine upon a favorable response. To pass ! Haywards at a slow rate would not long delay the | train, and it could easily make up the Jost time. It is ! to be hoped the request can be granted and that the school-children of Haywards may carry with them | among the recollections of their schooldays a memory | of the time they saw President McKinley. | T o - | e | An llinois association opposed fo woman suffrage has issued a manifesto roundly denouncing the efforts of the fair sex to vote. It is evident that Mrs. Na- tiou would receive somewhat too warm a welcome in that community to suggest the propriety of her | going there to do something more than vote. ] i A JURY UNDER FIRE. | ONSIDERABLE discussion has been occa- | ‘ sioned in the East by what appears to have | been a serious miscarriage of justice in the | case of James Callahan, charged with complicity in the kidnaping of young Cudahy. The accused man was | promptly acquitted by the jury, whereupon the presid- | ing Judge is reported to have said to the jurors: “It | is impossible for me to conceive how twelve men of ordinary intelligence could have reached such a con- | clusion after hearing the absolutely convincing argu- ments in this case. If Cailahan had selected his own | representatives he could not have chosen more wisely | in his own behali, and if the State, on the other hand, had chosen, it could not have pointed out twelve men | | who would have been more blind to its interest. I do | not know what motives actuated you in reaching this | decision, but I hope none of you will ever again appear |in this jury-box. You are discharged without the compliments of the court. The defendant is likewise discharged, I presume to continue in his criminal course, as you have failed to check him.” As the evidence upon which the jury acted has not been fully reported we have no way of determining how far the severity of the Judge was justified. Our Eastern contemporaries, however, almost with one accord unite with the Judge in condemning the ac- quittal. It is said there is no evidence that the jury was bribed or in any other way tampered with, but the counsel for Callahan made a direct appeal to prejudice against the rich, and succeeded in winning the verdict of the jury in that way. One report says the jurors “regarded it as a fight between wealth and | poverty, and do not seem to have considered either the extremely criminal character of the offense nor the boy’s deprivation of liberty and the possibility” of his being murdered had not his father paid down the ransom.” The case is a peculiar one and should be investi- gated. It is hard to believe an American jury would deliberately acquit a criminal solely. because his of- fense had been committed against a rich man; and yet it is equally hard to believe a Judge would from the bench make so severe an accusation against a jury without some foundation. The issue is one of high im- portance. It would be an ominous sign indeed if in our courts there should grow up distrust and antag- onism between Judges and juries. Class prejudices in the jury-box would be as.dangerous to public welfare as would corruption on the bench, and anything that tends fo raise a grave suspicion of a miscarriage of justice brought about by such prejudices ought to have the earnest attention of the public, to the end that the evil may be checked at the start. o —— s It is now asserted that Kitchener never approved of Roberts’ strategy in South Africa. He claims that while Roberts covered a great deal of ground and cap- tured all the important places he scattered the Boers instead of rounding them up and ending the war. The criticism seems just; but it must be remembered the Boers were as wary of Roberts as.they are of Kitch- ener, and perhaps the rounding up couldn’t be ac- complished. There is 'said to be a great deal of uneasiness over the extraordinary speculation in Wall street, but it wili be noted that those who have stuck to legitimate t?usiness are not worrying, ! 1 had heard of him and even seen him. | polite_and not forcing that superiority | weak plea when we are obiiged to explain [ to our children, ‘I had not your advan- ! we cannot admire the righteous slave of | circumstance as much as we admire the | affects the race as powerfuily as the reli- | sian they “Ba | back | fear poverty, and they fear the responsi- | new ventuge: | will, {1 Club Life of American Women Is Revo- lutionizing the St range Ways and Customs of the Last Century. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood, AUTHOR OF “THE STORY OF TONTY,” “THE BELLS OF. STE. ANNE,” “THE ROMANCE OF DOLLARD,” ETC. (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) XIL—THE ILLINOIS HABITANT AND THE WOMAN’S CLUB. When you want historical facts it is best to go after them yourself and get them first hand: for there are so many liars that darken knowledge with faise traditions. In like manner, when contem- porary matters interest you, such as the influence and tendencies of clubs, it is Wise to take direct testimony from un- biased witnesses. And the man who can have the least bias toward federations of women is the Illinois habitant. His fathers came years ago from Que- bec province, out of which tliey brought no nonsense. The progress of his adopted State makes his head swim, but does not move him any faster on that account. He is the most conservative of her citizens. As we encountered on the 'street of—let us say—Ste. Adelaide, I knew I was going to get unadulterated masculine opinion of a prevailing modern tendency. His name was Basil Monseau. He looked as if he enjoyed life. And why shouldn’t he?—living always well within his means, | baving few wants, and a good farm of his own. The priest looked after his soul, and his’ wife looked after his house and family. Our conversation began with some surprise on his part, though he warmed to the subject; feeling the superi- ority of the male creature, but being truly into prominence. It was not polite to say, “I am seeking unbiased ovinions of women’s clubs and their bearing on the intellectual life of women.” Basil Monceau would have shied politely and escaped down a Ste. Adelaide allcy, with all his unbiased opin- ions. He is a much mere reticent individ- ual than one of the aristocrats of a small town. Nowhere eisc on earth are there such aristocrats as the soclal leaders of small towns. This one had successfully founded a woman's club, and her testi- mony in the shape of a le(ter I held in my hand at the moment of encountering the Illinpis habitant, Need of a Women’s Club. She wrote: “I realized that there were so many g06d women around me, Erowing discouraged in lives of constant self-de- nial. They never expected to know much of art and literature; they never expected to travel; they were beginning to feel that cruelest shame of falling behind their children in mental attainments, It is a tages when I was young.’ It betrays the slave of circumstance. To save our lives pr him, “The past of these women was a vista of hardship. They had not enjoyed that best of early nurtlre, the liberty of browsing through old .libraries. The club opened opportunities. “Now, the basis of any club is frater- nity. Indeed, the fraternity of churches valling rebel who carries all before teach. d women together in a club, and social differences, money differances, cul- ture differences, vanish. Each woman is valued at her true worth and spurred to increase it.* She learns her dignity as an individual. She learns to differ, and even to argue, without starting a neighborhood foud. ‘She learns tolerance: and, If the club is what it should be, rises eyen above biting. When e began tha school-girlish oc- cupation of writing papers terrifled us. We took to encyclopedias as refugees from Noah's flood took to the mountains, until we got courane to broaden research and venture on independent thinking. Why Women Feer Everything. “The hardest lesson for any human be- ing to learn is not to fear. A motier ought to teach her child daily, ‘Fear noth- ing.’ Women are bundles of fear. They bilities of wealth. They are afraid to_get married, and afraid to be old maids. Bur- glars, lightning, mice, the ballot, scandal, old age, other women—they fear everything! Their commonest ex- pression ls: ‘I am afraid.’ 1 know all about it. I am a woman myself. “Fear is really a savage instinct, born of Isolation. Draw a woman out of ner isolation and she is not afraid. T do not believe women's clubs are bringing us to intenser life. The discouraged ones are getting hold of the fact that all which is called success began with ‘T can’ and ‘I As to the club movement dving out, that's nonsense. It ts widening and throw- ing off restrictions; it is {ndividualizing; s bringing to a knowledge of the world's work those who never before dreamed of getting out of deadening routine. ““All ‘Americans read something. Our members had chaotic {mpressions of books, but few of them knew Goldsmith from Mark Twaln. The thought of study was formidable. 'My school days are over,’ they sighed one after another; be- ginning to percelve that our school days are never over, I suppose you would be astonished to hear that we were at first ashamed of studying. Nobody Is so un- willing to confess ignorance as the vcry ignorant. It turned us dizzy to survey courses of reading. The study of an author seemed a tremendous undertaking. Growth of Courage in the Club. “But we are growing bold enough to ex- press criticlsm of our own. m our own point of view we argue with or against an author. He has to appeal to each of us personally. There is no unanimous audi- ence in our club. “Now, the queerest thing of all is that the women who come out most brilliantly are the women who once seemed to have | nothing in them! They are a serles of surprises. You find them executive, dig- nified, ready, eager for expression, apt as students, whereas before the fraternity spirit set them free they appeared dull and cold. 5 “Perhaps ron'd better consult an out- sider if you want an unbiased ovinion on clubs. You see, I am enthusiastic.” It was for the purpose of consulting an outsider that I approached theesentle. conservative habitant, as deseribed, and we tried to come to an understanding; he to learn what I was driving at and I to surprise his views. The Views of the Habitant. A shrewd looking little girl stood be- side bim, sliding her hand in and out of his pocket. He fondled her head against his side, showing that they were on good terms as father and child. We met on the sidewalk of the Ste. Adelaide, and I sald: “You have a pretty town.” It is always a safe thing to say, and is often true. “Oh, yes, good Ville,” he answered in gxe patois of the Illinols habitant. “‘Far- zire got plenty h'oats, rlemy cohn.” “This is your little qlrl 3 «“Ma fille, ma Lebes,” he declared with a whi:‘ fimfl:, “is de mos’ smartes’ bebes in de e “Have you a Jarge family ?"’ I asked, like an industrious census taker. “H'only fifteen. I git me plenty." “They must keep your wife very busy.” A queer smile crept around Basil Mon- ceau's mouth corners. “I not gonme took devoce from ma wo- man. Ma woman, he work good.” “And you're not idle yourself?'’ «I give him ma money what I make it de plenty. He not go on top de drug sto’ hl:v‘?yy , for talk, be noiza, fi: de clul N Now we were coming to the point. “Is there a woman's club in Ste. Ade- taide?’ “Oh, yes. “A Targ “I t'ink - e one?” s0. Oh, dat’s great tam for club in dis town!” of it?” “What do you i “Me? 1 not know anyt'ing about it.” “But you have your opinion.” * “I ot know anyring about 1t,” he re- peated. 4 Doubtful Regarding Women’s Clubs. “I have been told that club work is ex- cellent for women. It broadens them— sgts t):em to studying and improving t g n‘%]‘}frz‘ae;: weemen plenty club,” grinned asil. B “You really don't like women's clubs?’ The habitant sunk his hands into his pockets and looked around with a wary eye “Some man, she don’t like it.” “T can’t understand why a man should ?npc!rlse what improves the women of his amily." “Ma woman not need improve,< said Basil, “He aw rike. He good enough wo- man." “You don’t want her to be a member of the club?” “Marry mans is not de same as no 1:1 mans,” he explained. “Marry mans, she want de woman and de bebes in de house. Do I hax him for to git marry and not hole mald, for run to club on top de drug sto' 7 “Do you never talk with other men in the bottom of the drug store?”” Basil shrugged. “Dat not egspensible.” “Is the club a great expense?"’ h“Dey pay lsumohrem, some books, dey eat some t'ings hevery week.” “You would object to your wife's join- ing a club?” i “It don’t go be no fun; ma woman find dat h'out. He have some troub’ if he do dat!” s The little girl slipped her arm around Basil, under his coat, and laughed. - said: “I'm disappointed. 1 have been told the little expenses of women's clubs are greatly overbalanced by their benefit.” “Aw rike,” the Illinols habitant as- gonted, politely making way for my opin- on. “And that women were never so closely in touch with the world’s work as at pres- ent.” The Babies in the House. “Aw rike,” he grunted. But put forth as his own view: “Me, I tink fifteen bebes in de’ ouse is plenty club.” “Ma.doesn’t think so,” the little girl at his side piped up in the American tongue. “Oh, you bebe, what do you know about 1t7"* said Basil, pulling her ear. It really seemed that a woman who maintained such an organization at home might sometimes llke a change of clubs. “Don't you, think the fact that our mothers and grandmothers were not club members influences us more than any other objections we can bring?” I sug- gested. “But what goed is to for talk, talk, talk, be noiza!" “Women are studying and discussing authors,” I quoted from my friend's let- ter. “They are seeking expression them- selves. If your wife had joined the club you would no doubt notice changes in her manner of talking.” ~The litle girl laughed again and Basil shrugged. ‘‘Ma woman, he talk plenty,” said Basil. My imagination began to picture his mate an overburdened drudge, whom he probably worked in the field as well as in the house. However, if she held to the traditions of her grandmothers she would enjoy life and make her cares light and to this the bright-eyed little girl seemed to testify. Men_are sometimes unreasonably per- sistent. For instance, a man will per- sist in carrylngfl)g)ur umbrella. for you and he is sure to ble the rain on your hat while he protects the back of his own collar, or to lay the umbrella down and lose it. The Illinois habitant showed a stubborn prejudice against the club spirit of the age, though all the reasons he could marshal were the expense of organis zation and his own conviction that a woman _ought to abide in the house. & The Little Girl Gives Information. Evidently there was nothing more to say and I had Basil's views, I learned just what 1 expected to learn. The little girl, who kept her arm around her father and seemed amused by him, had something to impart before the conference ended. “Ma’s been invited to the Woman's Club all winter and she's gone every time and says she’s going to join.” ““Ba jeemany:’ exclaimed Basil, startled out of his politeness. He toed inward, like an Indian. “Now, you know you won't do any- thing,”. said the little girl. “If ma wants to go to the club you'll let her go to the club. You always let us have our own way in the family.” Basil grinned and though I bad told him I was disappointed by his position it real- ly hurt me to see him back down. For I am a_ conservative myself, and secretly agreed with him that the habits of cen- turies should not be disturbed, and marry mans are not the same as no gal mans. He had the grace of not being too seri- ous about anything, and observed: “Dis gone be fun. I find dat h'out!” “She said you didn’t care,” pursued the jittie girl. ‘“And you don’t care. You just pretend you do. “Go on you ‘'ouse, bebe,” said Basil “De mos' for what I been 'fraid is you git too noiza.” “Come with me, then,” begged the child. I see 1 gone change my mind,” he laughed. “If ma woman g0 on club h'evry week, dat’s be aw rike yestida.” When this Illinois habitant touched his cap and swung off along the street with his outspoken offspring I went my own way, forecasting what the woman's club .was going to do In his family. Clubs, Women and Literature. It women need outlets from their own homes—and I am told there is a great ery for such outlets—they will rush into clubs, and club life is revolutidnizing the ways of the last century. Perhaps it is seifish to love one’s own accustomed haunts and books, to the exclusion of the world. I feel wicked when certain library sheives attract me too strongly and clean-cut French becomes preferable to conversa- tion. Women who have not been brought up on books miss the calmest joy of life, Y%: there are many who cannot bear their own company and seek fervently to herd. Basil Monceau's wife, tralned at the side of my friend, the country aristocrat would come out at the end of a club sea- son a different and proi:-enlve habitante. On her part she could help an aristocrat with very solid qualities. The only danger in all this exchange is that we may merge ourselves into 1 general conglomerate, so that each woman will not be distin- guished as herself, but as a ‘“club wo- man. % ugh everybody is writing ephe: hooks, the study of literatura s gecv?nf{:: savingly common. Distinctions between Lliterature and non-literature are occupy- ing many who think they know. But if I were submitting a book to the ultimate test, that test would be such an unspoiled_reader as the Tilinois or his wife. Fine writing rolls off his fm- pervious hide as dew rolls off his pump- kins. Only the truth about humanity penetrates him. The Illinois habitant Would_know a fine action when he. caa one. He tells white lies himself, but h, Wil not tolerate pretense for real gotile His taste cannot always be commendey. Delicate turns of expression_are lost on him. You may do your work with whilewash brush—as a popular actor says 3 o pos nward struc- The books which endure from tion to generation, fllling. slowly Saerl ranks of actual literature. haveogied loved by the common people; books. whi {:‘ eame out of the lives of their writers wit) throes of labor and entered the lives ot their readers as strong influences, - aits Of the COMRY prace (oM various par e country prov , clubs aro studying Thorove that woman's y habitant authors -members Wite can be led 5D s maee e i living. No doubt the most take second thought ‘:mi onceau's ‘when clubs and club fitness Nabitant > aaty pagres humble, |- PERSONAL MENTION. P. F. Brown, a mining man of Hollister, is at the Lick. E..E. Bush, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is at the Grand. Millard Sanders of Pleasanton is regis- tered at the Palace. George E. Churd, a grain man of Fres- no, is at the Californta. Hon. W. B. Gilbert, United States Cir- cult Judge of Oregon, is at the Occidental. D. W. Crowder, who is connected with the Lee Mercantile Company of Kansas City, is at the Palace. E. R. Graham, a prominent Pittsburg ofi expert, who is largely interested in land at Bakersfleld, is at the Palace. E. H. Fitzhugh, a prominent railroad man from St. Louis, returned from Del Moxute yesterday and Is staying at the Palace. He is accompanied by his wife and daughter. M. A! Chapelle of New York, accom- panied by his wife, arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Palace. He is a prominent officer of the Bagles and Is out here to attend the Grand Aerie. Raphael Weill, on his home-coming from nine months’ sojourn in Parls, was met at Sacramento yesterday by a beau- tiful bouquet of California flowers. The blossoms excited the admiration of the ladies in the car. At Sixteenth street station, Oakland, Mr. Weill was met by a beautiful bunch of delegates from the Bohemian Club and carried away to dinner. —————— CALIFORNTANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7~W. H. Sherwood of San Francisco 1s at the Shoreham. 3 : ———————— | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May T7.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Franeisco—C. Bradley, at St. Denis: W. Hagenbotham, M. Haggenbotham, F. Lindsay, at Broadway Central; H. Rohlfs, T. E. Greene, at St. Cloud; A. MacMtllan, at Hoffman: G. W. Smyser, F. Taylor, at Herald Square; F. E. Ware, at Gilsey. From Los Angeles—L. H. Batchelor, at Herald Square; A. Fleishman, Miss Carrie Carey, Mrs. J. A. Hendy, at Murray Hill From San Jose—M. H. Crothers, at Grand Union. ANSWERS TO QUERIES THE CALL—L. O. D., Palo Alto. Th Call was established December 1, 1856. It was an original publication and was not the successor of the Town or an- other publication. TWO WORDS—A Subscriber, City. Cus- pidor, also written cuspidore, is from the Portuguese, and jaidinfere is from the French. The latter term is applicabls to a_ flower stand, a fancy pot in which to place flowers, to the wife of a gardener and to a family French soup. VISITORS—Reader, Berkeley, Cal. Vis- itors are admitted to the United States Branch Mint in San Fraficlsco every working day from 9 to 11 o’clock in_the forenoon. Visitors to the Union Iron Works are admitted only by s per- mlt,km be obtained from the office of the works. SAN FRANCISCO—G. M., City. The Presidio is a military reservation belong- ing to the United States. It is within the territorial limits of tne city and county of San Francisco. The boundary lines of the i city of San Francisco and of the county of San Francisco have been identical since the consolidation in 1858. Alcatraz Island and Goat or Yerba Buena islands are in the city and county of San Fran- cisco, so are the Farallones. SECOND HOMESTEAD ENTRY-J. B. M., Montague, Cal. The following circu- lar, issued by the General Land Office at Washington to the registrars and recelv- ers at United States land offices, is an answer to your question relative to sec- ond homestead entries: Your attention is called to the provisions of S 3 of the act of Congress en- act for the rellef of the Colorado Co-operative Colony; to permit second home- steads in certain cases. and for other pur- poses,” approved June 5, 1900 (Public No. 148), a copy of which sections is hereto attached. Section 2 provides that any person who has theretofore made homestead entry and com- muted the same under section 2301, Revised Statutes, and the amendments thereto, shail be entitied to the beneflts of the homestead law as though such former entry had not been made, but commutation under section 2301 Revised Statutes, shall not be allowed of an entry made under this section. Section 3 provides that any who, prior to the passage of this act, has made a homestead entry, but for any cause has lost or forfeited the same, shall be entitled to the benefits of the homestead law as though such former entry had not been made. Therefore. you will not hereafter refect a homestead ap- plication on the ground that «the applicant cannot take the prescribed oath that he has not previously made such an entry, or be- cause he has perfected title under section 2301 Revised Statutes, to land entered under the homestead law; but he will be tred to show by aftidavit designating the entry for- merly made by description of the land, num- ber and date of entry, or other sufficfent data. to enable me to identify the same on the rec- ords of this office, and that it was forfeited or commuted, as the case may be, prior to the passage of the aet. In any/ case where the former entry was made subsequent to the date of the act, the rule given on page 19, éircular of July 11 1899, remains unchanged. It will be observed that an entry made under section 2 cannot be per- fected by commutation under section 2301, Re- vised Statutes. The fact that applicants have purchased, un- der the provisions of the act of March 3, 1889 (25 Stat.. 1), lands patented to the Flathead Indians in Montana, shall not be held to have impaired or exhausted their homestead rights by or on account of any such purchase. e SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal, effective after April 15, 4§60 for round trip, Inciuding 15 days at hotel Pacific Coast S. 8. 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