The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1901, Page 6

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1901. ..MAY 14, 1901 TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications MANAGER'S OFFICE PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Thixd, S. F. | Telephone Press 201. i © V. 5. LEAKE, Masager. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. { Telephone Precs 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. i Single Coples, 5 Cents Terms by Mail, Including P WATLY CALL (including Sunday), one woar. DATLY CALL (including funday). 6§ months. DAILY CALL Oncluding Sunday), $ months.... DAILY CALL—By Single Month. WEEKLT CALL. One Year.. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Semple coples will be forwarded when requested. tage: P 83233 | Ma!l subscribers in ordering chanze of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 1 imsure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE . «..1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Yansger Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Ohicago. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”") NEW TYORK REPRESENTATIVE: C. C. CARLTON..0ccvevesrsssssss.Herald Square NXEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ........30 Tribune Bulflding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murrsy Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF MORTOX E. CRANE, BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open unti] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 015 Larkin. open until $80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 c'ciock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 10% Yalencia, open vrtil § o’clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 8 o'clock. NW. cor- ner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. e e £....14068 G St., N. W. Correspondent. AMUSEMENTS. n and Eddy streets—Specialties. utes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and n | scher's—Vaudeville. Columbia Minstrels. afiding—Grand Flower Show, May 16, 17 and 18. Sutro Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—This day, at 10 o'clock, German Gov- ernment Artillery Horses, at 721 Howard street. = 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | ©ml! subscribers comtemplating s change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new ®ddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at ail sammer Fesorts and is represented by a local agent in | all towss en the coast. | A Spreck the President starts from Third and Townsend streets. ay rockets sent up and the JOIN IN THE WELCOME. | S was announced yesterday by Grand Marshal | Warfield, it is arranged that signal be given | by The Call from the dome of the Claus i building the instant the column escorting Bombs will be explode ym the flagstaff. flag unfurled f At that m 1e President of the United States becomes the guest San Francisco. It is desirable that the whole city join in the welcome. Therefore the owners ills, factories and steamships should | immediatel e up the signal and repeat it by whistles ar the whole peninsula may be made to rever the glad welcome. Every whistle and cver + chould be made to unite in sig- naling the moment of the reception. Let everybody be prepared. Let the people give voice to their delight to honor the chief magistrate Let every whistle sound forth the summons to patriotic throngs to wait along the streets to greer the President with acclamations. Let not one be silent. The universal joy should find expres- sion by the universal voice. A corder. The negro in Indianapolis who was caught by steam carelessly let into a boiler where he and a companion were working was of real heroic fiber. As the de- stroying scald poured upon them they ran for the lad- der to the manhole in their chamber of torture and death. Phelps reached it first, but drew back and cried to his mate, “You first, Jim; you are married,” and Jim went first and was saved, while the deadly team cooked Phelps’ flesh as he followed, and he was drawn out of the hole to die. With his last of the republic | THIS WAS A HERO. LL the heroes are not in uniform, their action quickened by war drums and influenced by all nd as an audience, and history as a re- man breath h ly, “It was Jim’s right to go first; he is married. he man who in such peril could re- member the wife of his mate and her mourning, and | gly rather than bring widowhood and sor- row into a humble home, was a greater hero than all the commanders that have led armies. Greater love than this hath man, to die for his friend. here was no glory in sighf, no renown; none of that rew in history which enter into the motives of some. There was nothing but awful death that an- other might live. Let "all men remember this lowly laborer. His place is in the great company of martyrs who have pa- tiently tasted death that men might live or principles be promoted. He was of that race we call inferior, but his black skin covered a heroic soul. In the center of the city of his sacrifice rises a stately monument to the soldier dead of Indiana. It perpetuates the memory of George Rogers Clark and the high action at old Vincennes, and reminds the beholder of the defenders of the flag in many wars. It is right that it is there. But let us trust Indianapolis to rear another less lofty shait over the dust of this dusky hero, and carve upon its ba “It was right for Jim to go first; he is marrie R ST A 9.7 The Duke of Cornwall’s reception at Melbourne on the opening of the Australian Parliament appears no to have been a pretty good sideshow to the reception McKinley will get when he arrives at San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO SALUTES. O-DAY San Francisco salutes the President and tabinet, and gives tge the city to the Government of the United States. In a certain very de this city will become, for several days, the capital of the United States, for the| President and his constitutional advisers will here consider and dispose of such Fed- | eral husiness as presses for attention. During that time the executive mansion is planted | ot one of our sightliest hills, overlooking bay and ocean and the enclosing mountains. The tour of the President has been wisely planned. After traversing the picturesque American Sahara, where the misty distance and inviting mirage pictured the actual scenes that were ahead, he entered the American Riviera in Southern California, where the re~ I | sources of nature are ample for the production of all that exhibits the floral charms of cli- mate, and where the sunshine tempts to outdoor adornment and the enjoyment of life’s leisure. It is a scene that cannot be duplicated on the planet. Emerging from it, to-day the President enters San Francisco, the busy, noisy, push- ing, progressive, industrial, commercial and financial center of the State’s productive zone, and the New York of the Pacific Coast, destined to remain always ,the metropolis of this side of the continent, and the greatest city and center of Western civilization on the Pa- cific Ocean. Its development is due, primarily, to the productive part of the State, which is wholly tributary to it. That production at first was gold. The placers_were generous yielders, and the dust came here to pay for everything, from pleasure to provisions. Then the ledges were unlocked and their treasure flowed to San Francisco. Here came the tens of millions dug from the depths of the Comstock, and the deep mines of the mother lode send their monthly yield to us. As the nobler uses of the soil were discovered, and field, orchard and | | vineyard took the place of the flocks and herds that had grazed our valleys, the real gold mine of the State was discovered. The productive soi! of Northern California is a ledge that never pinches, a placer that is never washed out, a source of wealth permanently po- | tential, that will be in action after the gold-bearing rock has been followed so far into the earth that the miner can go no deeper and live. Then the grapes will still purple on the vine, and the fruit will blush in the orchard, and the grain will billow like a golden ocean in the breeze. The extension of irrigation will render the producer more and more indepen- dent of one season’s drought, and the wide distribution of electric power, generated by our mountain streams, will harness a new force to the processes that will continue to take wealth from this exhaustless store. These causes make us a busy, preoccupied, commercial people. We are working, and may lend ourselves shyly to holiday uses. But what we lack in grace and form we make up in heartiness and sincerity. Our posi can pay for them. on, the great things that are with us daily as the | factors of a vast production, our study of markets, of competitors, of consumers and cus- | tomers, make us a very practical people, and our garlands may not be on straight, but we As becomes the metropolis of the greatest ocean and of the edges of two continents, our population is cosmopolitan. The President can here see every order | of mankind, every kindred and tribe and tongue, from 2 Parsee to a State of Maine Yankee. All are here from the torrid, temperate and frozen zones and the islands of the sea. Men are here who were born under every flag that flies, and some who were born under no flag ex- cept the milky baldric of the skies and the stars that twinkle. Yet all are living in obedi- ence to our laws and in loyalty to our standard. If the President find the sidewalks more given up to packages of merchandise than to decoration, it is because the great steamers that come and go between our docks and the ports of Asia, Australasia, the three Americas and the far islands must get. their freight, and our producers must get their exchange. Time, tide and trade wait not even for the President, who, most of all who have held the great office, has given his attention to the economic conditions which generate trade and has done so much to make us too busy to tarry long, even in saluting him. He gets here the sincerest flattery we can offer, in the energy and enterprise, the time and talents given up to the operation of the prosperous conditions he has promoted. His praises are not merely sounded by the trumpeters, but are uttered in the packing sheds and the rattle of trade on the crowded docks. They are written in the passbooks of thg savings banks. where labor has accumulated millions since he became President, and in the diapason of steam whistles on land and water, which summon men to labor, release them to refreshment and utter “au revoir” as the Pacific liners steam through the Golden Gate to the Orient. A NEW POSTAL RULING. ONSIDERABLE attention has been given in ‘ the East to a new ruling of the Postoffice Department concerning writing contained in any package or parcel intended for fourth class mails. As samples of merchandise are included in that class of mail, the ruling affects the business of a large num- ber of merchants and manufacturers, it having been the custom for the past ten or twelve years for the shipper to mark the samples sent through the mails with the price and a few words of description. In 1894 a notice was sent out from the Postoffice Depart- ment to the effect that written or printed marks indi- cating the price were admissible on samples of mer- chandise sent as fourth class matter, but the new ruling puts an end to the practice. A report from Washington says: “The assistant at- torney general for the Postoffice Department has ad- vised the postal authorities of his construction upon the old law of 1888, and it is to the effect that such marks must not be made upon the matter itself, or upon anything inside the wrapper. He says that the sender may write upon the wrapper or cover of fourth class matter, or upon a tag or label accompanying it, the marks of description and the price. His interpre- tation has been adopted by the department as law, and any fourth class matter prepared for mailing in conflict with this ruling will be subject to first class postage. Though it is nowhere specified, the word ‘from’ and possibly other words which may be neces- sary to indicate precisely the origin and nature of the merchandise will be admissible when they are in the proper place.” Commenting upon the new rule the Boston Tran- script says: “A fine distinction is made, it appears, in the postal laws between samples of merchandise and fourth class mail matter, but in the application of the law it is difficult to observe this distinction, as samplés are included in the list of fourth class matter. At the Boston postoffice the letter from the Third Assistant Postmaster General in 1894’ authorizing the price to be written or printed upon the sample itself will be looked upon as no longer in fofce, and all marks must be written on the outside of the wrap- per or upon the accompanying tag.” s The cause for the change in the ruling-is not ap- parent, but it is probable the privilege of putting printed or written words on samples of merchandise has been abused by unscrupulous parties, -and the Government has found it necessary to deny the privi- lege hereafter. The change is not of any great im- portance, but all concerned will do well to take note of it in order to avoid having to pay higher postage than is necessary in sending samples properly pre- pared for mailing. e s e i Tt is said the chewing gum trust intends to cumi)ine all of its manufacturing under one roof; and then the chewer will no longer be able to choose what make he prefers when he chews. No song will be more pop;xlar to-day in San Fran- cisco than the good old nursery rhyme, “Rain, rain, go away, and come again another day.” THE BRITISH CENSUS. HILE full returns from the British census \;\/ have not yet been made public, enough has been given out to add a new source of anxicty to the country. It is known the census will show that while the large cities have increased in popu- lation, there has been a more than corresponding decrease in the rural districts. Agriculture is no longer a profitable occupation in the kingdom, and as a con- sequence the fathilies who have tilled the farms are either moving to the cities or are emigrating to the colonies or to the United States. That such a movement has taken place was not un- expected, for it has been noted in every civilized country. Even in the United States, where there is an abundance of cheap land and where almost all kinds of rural industries are prospering, the growth. of cities has of late been very much larger than the growth of rural population. In no other country, however, has the shifting been carried to such an ex- tent as in Great Britain, and nowhere else is there any evidence of such a diminution of the farming population as to seriously threaten the general wel- fare. Another evil revealed by the census is the decrease in the birth rate. It is reported that the returns show that despite the increase of population as a whole, the birth rate has so fallen off that there are now 500 less births daily than there were twenty years ago. It is added that in England and Wales the loss in what is called the “birth force” since 1874 has been 17 per cent, while in France, whose declining birth rate has been the subject of so much speculation, the loss during the same period has been only 14 per cent. The emigration of men has seriously affected the social conditions of the country by leaving within it a large excess of women, who, having no opportunity to marry, are crowding the avenues of labor. For the purpose of remedying the evil a society has been formed to promote the emigration of women to the colonies, and the Government is expected to assist in the work. Another evil has been noted. It appears that as the natives of the kingdom emigrate to find better lands and employment aliens come in from abroad and take their places. A recent report says: “The country is being filled up with impoverished peddlers, money lenders, and hordes from Western Russia, Germany and Austria.” It is added: “Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain and others have at different times spoken on the subject, but the movement goes on unchecked. Whitechapel is no longer an English settlement, and whole streets are now found in London and other large cities where not an Englishman resides.” Some of these reports may be exaggerations. We shall have to wait until complete statistics collected by the census officials have been published to deter- mine how far the evil tendencies have gone. It ap- pears a foregone conclusion, however, that the census will not be encouraging to British optimism. — Just at present the British public is not thinking about chasing Dewet so much as about getting out of l the way of Morgan, freedom of | finite sense ‘except perhaps interest upon loans, How Great Britain Watches Over the Vast Interests of Her Colonies,'Dependencies and Protectorates. By Edgcumbe Staley. AUTHOR OF “THE ARMS AND BAD ————— (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) XIII.—GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLONIES—A PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. The British empire comprises one-fifth of the known iand surface of the globe. The number of people who live under her flag is represented by the enormous total, in round figures, of 400,600,000. The possessions of Great Britaln across the seas are of three kinds—one, colonies; two, dependencies; three, protectorates. The colonies are of three classes—one, crown colonies; two, colonfes with repre- sentative Institutions; three, self-govern- ing colonies. Kinds of British Colonies. 1. Crown colonies—The crown has entire control of legislation and appoints the Governgr. The administration is carried on by public officers under the direction of the principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. Such are, in Asia, Straits Settlements, Hongkong and British New Guinea; in America, British Guiana, British Hondu- ras, Falkland Islands, Fiji, the Pacific isl/ ands and Trinidad and Tobago; in Africa, the Seychelles Islands, Sierra Leone, La- 80s, Gambia, Gold Coast and St. Helena. 2. Colonies with representative institu- tions—The crown appoints the Governor and has a veto on legislation. They have | representative institucions suited to their several characteristics and circumstances, but the Secretary of State for the Colo- nies has control over the public officers. Such are, in Asia, Ceylon and Borne in America, the West Indian Islands of Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, Leeward and Windward Islands; in Afri- ca, Mauritius; ‘n Europe, Malta. (The last two are also quasi-crown colonies.) 3. Self-governing colonies—The crown appoints the Governor and has a veto on legislation. They possess representative institutions and responsible government, The Secretary of State has no control over the administration nor the public of- ficers. Such are the dominion of Canada and its twelve component provinces, the com- monwealth of Australia and its six com- ponent provinces, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Dependencies. These are of two kinds—first, the empire of India; second, ‘‘sphere of influence.” 1. The empire of India is in no sense a colony; it is a splendid possession of the British crown ang an integral part of the British empire. It consists of thirteen provinces and a number of scattered naval and military <tations. These are Aden, with the Arabian and Somali coasts pro- tectorates, and Wei-Hai-Wei in China. The native states of India are more or less dependent upon the imperial Indiar Gov- ernment. These number 630. 2. “‘Spheres of influence,” so called, are Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Bhutan and Nepal in Asia, and Egypt with the Bri‘ish Souden in Africa. Protectorates. These are all situated in Africa and are s follows: Ashanti, Barotseland, Basu- fi)land, British East Africa, British South Africa, British Central Africa, Bechuana- land, Nigeria ‘North and South), Rhode- sia (North and South), Somaliland, Ugan- da, Witu and Zanzibar. Each of these forms a separate administration under British officers—some military, some com- mercial—but subject to the neighboring colony and under the control of the colo- nial or foreign officers—the latter when questions relating to the frontiers of the colonies and dependencics or protectorates of foreign sta:es are concerned. Other British Possessions. The status of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony is at the present moment unsettled. They will ultimately be gov- erned as are the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Gibraltar is a fortress rather than a colony. Ascension is ordered as a battle- ship of the British navy. Cyprus, though nominally a port of the Ottoman empire, and paying an annual tribute to the Sul- tan, is administered by British officers, and, for all intents and purposes, it is treated as a British colony. There are also very many otier islands and stations which belong to the British empire and are scattered everywhere. These are laces of call for merchant vessels, coal- ng stations, telegraph stations, observa- tion stations and the like—useful in times of peace and invaluable in time of war. Such are Tristan da Gunha and Walfish Bay. These are administered, or visited regularly, by British officials. Tendency of British Rule. It will be noted that these many and very varied forms of government are all precise degrees in the graduated scale of political development and national evolu- tion. aim of the mother country is to make of her children nations self-gov- erned and able to take care of themselves. The greatest mistake Great Britain ever made was her famous misrule of her erst- while t American colonies. Her sig- nal defeat and discomfiture taught her the true method of dealing with her colonies. Cost of the Civil Service. What does it cost Great Britain to main- tain and to govern her colonies, depend- encies and protectorates? The British colonial estimates for the year ended March 31, 1901, contain the fol- lowing principal items: Grants in_ald of deficit revenue— Gold_coast Northern Territorles. Uganda protectorate . British Central Africa British East Africa prof pasisazs 28338383 dies ‘Passages of Governors, etc. Special Grants and Subsidies. grants— ng.:r:‘l; ©of High Commissicner of g T st e West Indlca Agricuitural and Botani- . cal Innllnfilové .ndllnftm‘ét;r'i ke -] ‘ommission A o ot frontler Gold Const and - raiiway “Allowances and pensions to persons in Transvaal and Orange River Col- onfes, incurred in 1881, when the Territories were given uj ‘West African frontier poll Subsidies to certain graph ‘companit The total amount paid by the mother country for the maintenance and adminis- tration! of the civil service in her colonies is somewhere about £1,060,000 ($5,000,000) per annum. Naval and Military Establishments. The cost of the naval and military es- tablishments of the empire is borne by the motker country; but certain of the col- onles and the empire of India contribute annval amounts. In 1900-1 the navy esti- mates reached £23,791,000 and the army es- timates £61,499,400. In the event of war Great Britain is bound to defend her pos- sessions across the seas precisely on the same terms as she does the mother eoun- try. ¢ ™What Does Great Britain Gain? What profit does Great Britain make out of her colonies, d:flendenchl and ‘i_‘n:- tectorates? Financially, not any. The mother country receives no money econ- tribution of any kind on behalf of the olvil administration of her po]--auwnr 8 regards the naval establishment, the Aus- tralian provinces pay a sum to the im- wvemment which In 1900-1 amounts her colony makes val In J.o military es b llhlm following L] its for 4 e o i, ST e e 'PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. GES OF THE BRITISH COLONIES.” Hongkong, £47,000; Mauritius, £21,500. There are also smaller contributions from a few other colonfes. Financial Position of the Colonies. In far the greater number of the Brit- ish colonies the revenue is in excess of the expenditure. The Dominion of Can- ada heads the list by a volume of above £5,000,000. In Western Australia the reve- nue and expenditure balance each other. In the other Australian provinces the rev- enue Is in excess of the expenditure. At the Cape of Good Hope and in Natal, owing to the Boer war, there are no exact figures to hand. Among colonies where the expenditure Is in excess of the reve- | nue are the Gold Coast, Jamaica and Newfoundland. In India there was in 1898-99 an excess of revenue over expendi- ture of about £2,000,000. All the colonies and dependencies are in the enjoyment of | public debts, small or great, and all have | had to resort to the mother, country for loans, also great or small. These, how- ever, In nearly every instance are under- going a course of reduction. The Gold Coast Colony. The CGold Coast Colony comprises the coast of the Gulf of Guinea to the west of the Niger. It has been in the undis- turbed possession of Great Britain for three centuries. Although the best gov- erned and, until recently, the most pros- perous of the West African colonies, it has been going through times of trouble which have retarded its development. To- gether with the northern territories and the two Nigerias, it sustained the last Ashanti war. This native state is at length subdued, but the civil service esti- mate bears witness to the depression caused by that enterprise. In a few years, doubtless, the Gold Coast Colony will cease to be a weak link | fin‘un?h.lly in the mighty chain of British colonies. Condition of Jamaica. The history of Jamaica is checkered and for the most part sad. It has been a Brit- ish possession since 1670. The population numbers nearly 1,000,000, the majority be- ing black or colored. The period of 1856- 1865 was one of anarchy. The blacks rose against their masters, who were hope- lessly beaten. The land, which rapidly went out of cultivation, changed hands, and the colored races ruled the island. During the period of 1865-1388 a fresh start was made. A new fiscal system came into overation; the adjustment of taxa- tion, amelioration of the law of property, in education and in internal communica- tions led to revived prosperity. But the present day finds the blight not yet quite removed. The revenue is geately affected by the low price of sugdr. In 1881 the price was 29 shillings a_hundred weight, and now it is only 10 shillings. Beet-root sugar, produced in Europe under govern- mental aid, floods the world’s markets and against this bounty-fed antagonist cane sugar has no chance. The year 1838 was marked by growing prosperity. There was a considerable rise in the price of cane sugar through thé imposition by the United States of coun- tervailing duties upon bounty-fed sugar, Jamaica is splendidly placed for the ex- pansion of trade in spite of hurricanes and other destructive visitants. The soil is fertile and the climate salubrious. Social condition and civic efficiency are alike ex- cellent. The people are sturdy workers and are becoming well educated. The time cannot be far distant when Jamaica will take her place among the prosperous colonies of the British empire. The Newfoundland Fisheries. Newfoundland is quite the oldest child of Great Britain's vast colonial family. Discovered in 1497 by John Cabot, it has ever since belonged to the British crown | and empire. In 1500 French fishermen | made a settlement on the northwest shore. By the peace of Utrecht in 1713 the sov- ereignty of Great Britain was recognized, but the French were allowed to retain the right to land and to dry fish on the | north and west shores. This right has | very greatly retarded the development of. the island, The expenditure of the colony exceeds the revenue by £150,00 a year and the public debt is considerable. Pros- perity_can only be secured by the Impe- rial Government coming to terms with France. CHANCE TO SMILE. De Tanque—My father is 80 years old and has never used glasses. O'Soaque—Always drinks from the bot- tle, eh?—Philadelphia Record. In the Near Future.—Old Friend—And so both of your children are studying pro- fessions? 2 Hostess—Yes, my daughter is in a poly- technic college, studying mechanical en- gineering, and my son is in Paris, learn- ing dressmaking.—New York Weekly. “I heard you had a cow for sale,” began am thinking of the amateur, “and as I buying one, I- ““Wall,” interrupted the professional farmer, “that’s thet Jarsey. ere’s one good p'int in her thet—" “Oh, gracious! That would never do. gd need a quart at least.”—Philadelphia Tess. “T understand,” sald a Western Judge to one of the statesman from which a panel of jurors was to be chosen to try a mur- der case, “that you have expressed your- self as_directly against capital punish- ment. Is this true ““Generally speaking, I'm ag'in capital unishment; but not in the case of this ere man, Judge. I know him and he de- gerves all ‘'we can give him.”—Bufalo mes. " Church—I see Andrew Carnegle began bueiness as a messenger boy. Gotham—Well, it's comforting to hear of one messenger boy Who “‘got there.”— Yonkers Statesman. Jack—Don’t you think that woman, as a ml}:%h%ux;srg ntm?in ggo is l}er master? —Not at all. She pre: R e e T one e An Towa newspaper publishes this: “A folded newspaper placed under the coat in_the small of the back is in excellent | substitute for an overcoat. Now is the | time to subscribe.”—Daily States. Quickly Adjusted.—Reporter—There's a newsboy on the street yelling out a olt of sensational stuff that iSn’t in the paper. Great Edito e Whittaker! en, put it in.—New York Weekly. :: A late judge, whose personal arance was as unprepossessin, as knowledge was to\lnfl‘lnd his (nt.‘fi::lt keen, interrupted a female witness. “Humbugged you, my ‘woman What do you mean by that?’ said he. 5 “I don't know how to explain it exactly; but if a girl called your lordship a hand- M'FI: fi'«f she would be humbugging you."” A young man took his tashionable Cheltnut‘tgx?e!&“.?mr; establishment yesterday to have the photograph of a young woman placed in the case. He just wanted it pasted “Why don't you have it phot! hed rectly on the inside case?’ asked salesman. e can have it done for you for $5 and it 1s so much more arti; " No; the young man didn’t want that, ‘tthnulht !}nwn be well enough to | . ou ), tell about these tbin:g.“' a burst of confldence, ' * ;eu !lnow ::n are '&olng to ow long they are going to last of mine had his “girl's a hed on his watch an t{:“.:‘, in. di- the g Shile ‘the whol ¢ a L e S 4 1t's Just past, it anything haj ens all ! § pasted m.'-'_ | season by using Dr.Slegert's PERSONAL MENTION. Governor T. T. Geer of Oregon and Mrs, lGeel' are at the Oceidental. Clarence W. de Knight, formerly secre- tary of the Senate committee on naval affairs, is at the Palace. Ross C. Cline, Pacific Coast passenger agent of the Wabash. with headquarters at Los Angeles, is in the city on business. Chief Justice Brannon of the Supreme Court of West Virginia is at the Palace. He is accompanied by his wife. They will remain here to see the launching of the Ohio. L. Grunewald, proprietor of the Hotel Grunewald of New Orleans, is at the Pal- ace with his wife and grandchildren. He is one of the most prominent citizens of the Crescent City. Ex-Senator John M. Thurston arrived from the East yesterday and s at the Palace. He was for several years the chief counsel for the Union Pacific Rail- road. He is at present practicing law in New York. He is out here to witness the launching of the battleship Ohlo. Congressman George B. Foss of Illinols is at the Palace. He Is chairman of the naval committee of the House of Repre- sentatives and is visiting the navy yards and training stations on the coast. He will remain here until the launching of the battleship Ohio, when he will pay an official visit to the Puget Sound stations. Congressman A. G. Dayton of West Vir- ginta, also on the House naval committee, is a guest at the Palace. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 13.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—C. L. Chase, at Gfisey; Miss Breckenridge, at Holland; C. D. Clarke, at Manhattan; B. Curtaz and wife, W. S Ferris, Mrs. W. P. Fuller Jr., at Holland; H. Hein, at St. Nicholas; F. 8. Kelby ‘and wife, at Navarre; W. G. Lowry and wife, T. W. Mulford, at Manhattan: T. 8 Peck, at Tmperial; E. J. Power, at Belve- dere; J. Richty, at Cosmopolitan; F. B Ware, at Gllsey; J. F. Wilson, at Dela- van; Mrs. A. B. Dyer, at Murray Hill; F. Frisbee, at Park Avenue; J. W. Minturn, at Murray Hill; T. Sexton, at St. Denis. From Los Angeles—B. C. Lusman, at Navarre; H. Wood, at Herald Square. —_—e—e—————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13—Ths following Californians arrived here to-day and registered as follows: At Shoreham—P. H. Reardon and wife; at Raleigh—S. F. Leonard; at Ebbitt—Ju- lius Platshek, M. J. Platshek, M. Erskine and wife and E. G. Erskine, of San Fran- clsco; at Metropolitan—R. C. Stome, of Oakland. ANSWERS TO QUERIES NAVAL CADET—A. 8., Forest HI, Cal. For.such information as one may desire about a naval cadet from the Sec- ond Congressional District of California address a letter of inquiry to the Con- gressman from that district. PEPPERMINT—Theresa, City. To make essence of peppermint take one ounce of oil of peppermint, haif an ounce of herb peppermint and one pint of spirits of wine. Digest for a week, or until suffi- clently colored. JUMPING—A. 8., Forest Hill. Cal. The record for standing long jump, with weights, in America, is 14 feet 5% inches; without weights, 11 feet 3 inches, and run- ning high jump, without weights, 6 feet 5% Inches. - Weights vary according to the whims of the jumpers. As high as twenty-two pounds is noted. OIL OF LAVENDER-~Theresa, City. The following is given as a recipe for lav- ender water: Two ounces of the finest oil of lavender, one ounce of the finest essence of musk, one-half ounce each of ambergris, finest; ofl of bergarot, fresh; half a gallon of scentless alcohol; mix by agitation. MARASCHINO—Theresa, City. Thers are a number of methods of making ma- raschino. The following is given as the simplest: Dissolve in one and a half gal- lons of 95 per cent alcohol one and a half ounces of essence of maraschino, one and a half drams of essence of rose, flve drops of essence of cloves, eight drops of es- sence of cinnamon and add a half gallon of orris root flavoring. Mix the above with twelve gallons of 9 per cent alcohol and twenty-six gallons of simple syrup. Stir thoroughly and fliter. Essence of maraschino is not used in the manufac- ture of cologne. DIVORCES AND MARRIAGES-C. W. F., Oakland, Cal. There are no late com- pilations that will give “the percentage of divorces to marriages In California and in every State in the Union at this time.” To obtain such statistics would take a g;eat deal of time and involve much la- r. Take California, for Instance; it ‘would necessary to communicate with each of the fifty-four County Clerks and Recorders to ascertain how many mar- riage licenses were recorded and how many divorces were granted, and the same process would have to ba followed in every State and Territory. Then to obtain “the rate of increase in divorces ver year” would necessitate a search of the records for a number of years, PATENT LEATHER—R. E. T., City. The first coats for the japan for patent leather are made with linseed ofl and Prussian blue, bofled together for some Bours; the last coat or varnish, with lig- seed ofl similarly boiled. *h coat Is s%:arstely dried at a temperature of from 170 jto 180 deg. Fahrenheit and rubbed in the leather by hand, the skint being nailed to the surface of a board. The Drocess is a very delicate one, requiring special knowledge in each part of the operation. To preserve the gloss and prevent crack. ing of such leather, melt wax with a lit- tle oil of turpentine, olive oil and lard mix thoroughly, and when cold it should be a thick paste. Vasellne fs excellent. Allow it to remain on for one-half hour, thfn rub dry with a plece of canton flan- nel. CITIZENSHIP—J. T. V., Sacramento, Cal. A child born to forelgn parents in the United States is a native of the United Ststes and at majority is entitled to all the rights of American ciizenship. A child born in a foreign country, brought to ihe TUnited States in infancy, may reside in the United States until majority, but that will pot give him American citizenship urless the parents during his minorty were naturalized. The individual would have to become naturalized in order to be an American citizen. 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