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T eat of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty would bring alternative canal proposition which would put it in the power of _he administration to force a canal through in defiance of opposing inter- ests. It could easily have two strings to its canal bow, and take to it the imperishable credit of crowning its career and enriching its record by assur- THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. HE CALL said some months ago that the de- into focus an ing the completion of and perhaps completing the | great work and leaving it free of European inter- national complications. This, we said, could be done by taking up the Panama route. It is now more than intimated that Admiral Walker's commission of ex- perts will report both routes practicable, with cheap- ness on the side of the Panama canal. Humboldt, who critically examined and exhaust- ively treated of five canal routes in his “Political Es- say on the Kingdom of New Spain,” favored the Panama route. The distance across the isthmus by that route is less thau' thirty miles by a straight line. He said: “The third route is across the isthmus of Panama, by the Rio Chagres, which empties into the | Caribbean Sea. This, being the narrowest part of the isthmus, is the route te which the attention most nat- urally first directs itself. The course of the Chagres from its mouth to the town of Cruces, where it ceases to be navigable, is forty-three miles. tance across to the Bay of Panama on the Pacific is only fifteen miles.” It is known that De Lesseps in selecting the Pan- ama route was influenced by the judgment of Hum- boldt and the investigations of the American en- gineer, Lieutenant Strain, and no engineers have questioned the practicability of De Lesseps’ plans. The relative economy of the two routes will depend. of course, upon the price for which our Government can secure the work already performed by the French company. It is known that the Colombian Govern- ment will impose no obstacles. The policy of President. McKinley brings the reali- zation of the canal nearer than it has been before in the century and ten years since the project was first agitated. The proposition began in the eighteenth century, was a subject of discussion during all the nineteenth, and seems about to be achieved early in the twentieth. It will be interesting to note the tactics which the opponents of an isthmian canal will bring to bear a&'ainsl this enlarged policy. —_——— The Canadian claim jumpers who have been so eager to “discover” American mines by that familiar process known as “jumping” are likely also to dis- cover that looking into the muzzle of a six-shooter is not soothing to the nerves. A correspondent of the New York Post now travel- ing in Palestine says that in Jerusalem there are tele- graphs, telephones, electric lights, phonographs and American beer. What more could any traveler from this country ask to make him feel at home? Despite the prosperity of business and the peaceful- ness of politics there are still some unsatisfied people in Kansas who, being disgusted with Democracy, Populism and fusion, are now clamoring for a new reform party. The Sultan of Morocco has presented King Ed- ward with twenty mules. Recent events indicate very clearly, however, that this is no sign that the Sultan ' is stubborn when he is ordered to pay his debts, Thence the dis- | IDOLS WITH CLAY FEET. ters of the Gospel, ‘have done a great deal in the last few years to unsettle institutions and give aid to the artificial classification of our people. One of these is the Rev. George Herron. He gave to the spiritual and metaphorical text of the Scriptures a literal interpretation and professed to have thereby raised a new standard, or the real standard of Chris- tiankty. A wealthy woman became a partisan of his theories and mode of interpretation and greatly de- lighted a struggling denominational college at Grinnell, Towa, by endowing therein a chair of “Applied Christianity,” upon condition that Rev. Mr. Herron should be selected to fill it. He is a2 man of ready expression and sumptuous vocabulary, and for a time his lecture-room was crowded and his admirers believed that he had founded a permanent cult, and all who delight in what is vaguely called “a movement” became his disciples. He was privileged to stand among the preachers of his church and rate them soundly, scolding and scorn- ing to his heart’s content, because many of them also are in the habit of applying literally the figurative por- tions of the Bible. It occurred to none to put him to the whole test of his method, which would require submission to physical ordeals fatal to the empiric | who would venture to try them. Finally his classes began to wane and his influence to fall away. The more rugged intellects which studied his doctrine were soon aware of the imprac- ticability of his standard of life. Then his connection with the college ceased and he was patronized on the platform as a lecturer only by those whose radical- ism leads them to believe that the ideals of anarchy | and Christianity are the same. Next he was heard of | on a tour to Europe with his rich patroness and her | daughter, and after an interval came a second tour abroad in the same agreeable company, on each occa- sion his wife and children abiding at home. After | that second absence came a suit for divorce brought | by his wife on the ground of desertion and failure to provide. The divorce was granted, and the statement 5 is uncontradicted that his patroness paid the deserted | wife the sum of $60,000 and the philosopher was free. | His union with the daughter of his patroness soon | followed. g | While the ceremonial part of this union was per- formed by a clergyman, apparently to satisfy the | statutes of New York, the contract had certain pe- | culiarities. The parties omitted the pledge that is in- | tended to make the marriage tie permanent, and sub- 1stituted therefor a contract to live together as long |as the relation is mutually agreeable. We are per- ! fectly aware that marriage as a civil contract amounts to that. But it is also true that in a vast majority { of marriages the present intention of the marriage is that the tie shall be permanent. The law directs what conduct by either party shall be a violation of the | contract and work its dissolution. But to the normal |3 and wholesome mind the only element that makes the relation tolerable at 21l is the hope, expectation and |2 desire that it shall endure. That desire causes pa- | tience, fosters unselfishness, maintains the adoles- cence of mutual affection, and is the sole final cause of happiness and mutuality of purpose, and these ele- ments are in the foundation of the home which every | marriage is intended to establish. To accept the op- posite idea is as if the builder of a ship would say: | “The waters it must ride are wild and stormy, the {night and tempest are there; therefore why build | stanch and strong that which will be wrecked? Let the ribs of the ship be weak, its hull easy to breach; |its spars brittle, and its sides rotten. It will be | wrecked anyway.” Mr. Herron and his go-as-you-please companion have gone to New Jersey to live out their ideas, | which he hotly insists conform to the Christian ideal and standard. Probably the sequel will prove that he is not worth the $60,600 paid for him by the mother of his consort. The other popular idol whose clay feet have been exposed recently is the Rev. Mr. Sheldon of To- | peka, who widely advertised himself as a leader of advanced thought. In his book, “Born to Serve,” he | took the ground that the good people hired to help 1in the house should have all the privileges of the | family. Mrs. Sheldon recently hired a “help,” who put a plate and napkin for herself at the family table and sat down, only to be ordered up to wait on the table. The sincere maid said she had read Mr. Sheldon’s book and proposed to carry out its teach- ings as to her rights if she remained in the Sheldon | family. She did not remain TWO men in this country, both ordained minis- 1 Now that Australia has become a great federated | commonwealth she has developed a desire for more |1and and is urging the British Government to nego- | tiate with France for the acquisition of Kerguelan | Island. Up to 1893 no one wished the island, but in | that year the French took possession of it, and now it seems that if they wish to sell they can get a big ad- vance on cost price. P his address to the graduating class chose as his stheme “Acadeniic Freedom,” and, while making | directly a strong plea for freedom of instruction, dis- | closed indirectly how difficult it is to define in what | such freedom rightly consists. The issue, as he pointed out, has become one of | practical importance because universities no longer confine their instruction to Greek, Latin and mathe- | matics and other subjects over which there is nothing | in the way of political controversy. The prominence | given in later years to courses in social and economic | questions on which people are divided, and on some of which questions political campaigns are carried on, has naturally led to attempts at least to interfere with the freedom of teaching. In consequence of that state of affairs President Hyde rightly says: “To de- | fine accurately the rights and duties of the parties to such university education, securing reasonable liberty | for all and absolutely free course for the truth, is the most pressing educational -problem which the nine- teenth century has handed over to the twentieth.” According to Mr. Hyde a university is a species of | partnership in which six parties are interested—r, | founders and benefactors; 2, the state; 3, trustees; | 4, professors and instructors; s, students; 6, the constituency of the college, or that portion of the community from which its students and its money comes. Of the rights of the founder the speaker said: “He has no right whatever to dictate the specific view | which the institution shall teach. The mament a donor has given his money he has entered into a partnership with the five other parties of the institution, and his rights must be limited by the rights which belong to | them. Neither may he legitimately draw up a creed or statement of opinion which the professors of the institution shall be bound to teach. To do that would be like sending a boat to sea with the tiller lashed in ACADEMIC FREEDOM. [ | | [ | ‘ RESIDENT HYDE of Boston University. in i 4 position and with instructions to the sailots on no account to touch it, even though the boat might be making straight for the icebergs or the rock: Up to that point all seems clear enough. Mr. Hyde, however, perccives that there must be some check upon a teaching force lest it run into all kind of extravagances. The power to apply the check he would put in the hands of the state. On that point he says: “It i§ the duty of the state to protect the public against misdirection of funds and the cheapen- ing of degrees. An institution founded fer the prop- agation of Christian Science, theosophy, palmistry, astrology or alchemy would have no claim to exemp- tion from taxation or the conferring of degrees, for someof these subjects have been proved to be without foundation, and others, to say the least, have yet to make good their claim of public confidence. * * * Furthermore, the State should refuse charters to institutions which attempt to duplicate means of instruction already adequate. The state should not support ten colleges when five are adequate to serve its educational needs. The state should refuse to grant charters for the promulgation of individual preju- dice. It should not allow an institution to bind itself to teach either free trade or protection, the gold stan- dard or the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. * * * One side of these questions has as much right to be impartially pre- sented as the other, consequently the state should not enter into partnership with either party.” Upon the question of the status of professors Presi- dent Hyde said: “Removal of professors for incom- petence is a duty of trustees and presidents which they have never half lived up to. To shift the duty to students or to the elective system, as is being done at present, is cowardly negligence. The incompetent man should be dismissed at the first opportunity. Academic freedom demands it.” It will be perceived that in this attempt to define the rights and duties of the various partners to a uni- versity there is after all a good deal left to the exer- cise of authority on the part of the state and the trus- tees. Of course it is not to be expected that an exact definition of academic freedom will ever be given, and yet it is well to have pyblic opinion sensitive on the subject, so that every instance of alleged interference with the rightful liberty of instruction shall be brought to the bar of public opinion. The popular verdict may not always be right, but it is better to appeal to it than to tolerate interference in such matters without taking an appeal at all. — North Carolina has a law requiring cvcr‘y policeman to make a weekly report that he has been diligent in | suppressing gambling in his beat; and if a gambling place be found in that beat by any citizen, the police- man is to be summarily discharged. It is said the law is working beautifully, and several Eastern States are wondering why they cannot have one flike it. S Vladfontein and of the capture of Jamestown, in Cape Colony, by the Boers come now the further announcements that a force of Boers has occupied a strong position near Dordrecht, while a considerable army under Dewet holds a position in the hills commanding the British lines of communi- cation. With such reports succeeding one another so rapidly it is hardly likely the statement that Gen- eral Botha is willing to enter into negotiations for surrender can be correct, If the Baer ral has en- tered into negotiations at all it has probably been solely for the purpose of gaining time for some strategic movement. g A recent official statement places the number of Boer prisoners in the hands of the British at 10,042. These men have been captured, but they have not surrendered the cause of their country. A British correspondent who talked with many of them at St. Helena reports that in his opinion they will never submit permanently to British rule. He says that when told that at the close of the war the two re- publics would be governed as crown colonies the Boers mocked at the suggestion and proclaimed an intention to take up arms again if they were ever sent back to their homes. Thus it appears that whilegthe Boers in the field are spirited and those in prison are sullen, both retain a seemingly indomitable deter- mination to fight so long as life lasts rather than yield up the independence of their republics. We have here an illustration of that unconquerable Dutch resolution that defied Phillip of Spain and resisted successfully the power of an empire which was then the mightiest in Europe. In a speech in the House of Commons last winter Mr. Wyndham, after stating that the British forces at that time in South ~Africi numbered 213,000, pointed out that it was the largest army Great Brit- ain ever put into the field. Since that time more than 100,000 additional troops have been sent to the seat of war. The whole region of hpstilities has been mapped out like a checker-board and a British force placed in each square to drive out the Boers. In many sections the whole country has been laid waste. By such means the strength of the defenders has been continuously weakened. In a late dispatch summing up_the results of his operations for the month of May Lord Kitchener stateY that the num- ber of Boers killed or captured during the month was 2040. Such a wearing away process must eventually result in the destruction of the Boer armies, for they have no means of recruiting their strength, but the process is evidently’ going to be a long ane. In the face of such odds and with but a forlorn hope of victory.to cheer them the prolonged and gal- lant struggle of the Boers forms one of the noblest illustrations of patriotic constancy and courage ever given in the history of the world. It has now become something of an oft-told story, and the mass of man- kind are losing interest in it to a considerable extent, but none the less the record of the war continues to deserve attention and to merit the admiration of man- kind. Not even in the first fierce rush of the Boers to drive the British from the country before the ar- rival of reinforcements have more valiant deeds been done or better generalship been exhibited than in these days when with but scattered handfuls of men the patriots are harassing their enemy at every point and forcing upon him a larger and larger sacrifice of men and money. ’ THE UNDAUNTED BOERS. WIFTLY following the reports of the battle of The New York Sun, after gravely and learnedly discussing whether the natives of the Philippines shall be called citizens or subjects, concludes that the latter is the correct term; but it is safe to say the great mass of the American people will continue to cal them Filipinos. ; 2 Since the campaign between Tillman and McLaurin has been called off, the Epworth Leaguers of South Carolina may be expected to come West and attend the convention. There is to be no counter attraction at home. 2 - L aegree, determined Various Ways in Which the Club Movement of American Women May Become an Evil and Not a Benefit. e By May Wright Sewall, y PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. In a former article I took pleasure in stating what seem to me the good ef- fects of what is popularly known as “the club movement.” Less pleasure may be found in stating its evil effects, but a higher duty will be performed in calling attention to them. Has woman, who has been so much im- proved by the club, received any serious injuries from it? [ believe that she has. The most difficult virtue for an American to practice is moderation. Membership in one club may be exhilarating; in two, may be stimulating; but membership in twenty clubs must be distracting and enervating. It is easy to say that it may not be at- tributed to the club as a defect that women_carry tneir devotion to it to ex- cess. True, as it may not be attributed to wine as a defect that men drink it to excess, I am not counseling the prohibi- tion of the club, but 1 am suggesting that the club habit may be induiged in—nay, is indulged in—to excess by many women. Less than a month ago I heard a woman, who has borne her share in the ciub movement, in speaking of her slow re- covery from a nervous breakdown, by ‘which she was prostrated some years ago, say: “At the time 1 gave up [ was an ofncer in thirty-four clubs and societies.” 1 am sure that among readers of this ar- ticle will be women who know other women who are officers or privates in a still larger number of clubs and societies. There may be women to whom the club has become the same monopolizer of time and interest that Harriet Martineau ac- cused the church of being when she first Visited our country. Women, a large por- tion of whose time is spent in meetings, have their minds dissipated. The best intellectual work can be done only in soli- tude. To the highest spiritual develop- ment and to the attainment of serenily, contemplation in solitude is indispensable. Evil Effect Upon the Home. ‘“'Tis home where'er the heart is,” says the poet. 'Tis home where'er the woman is in whose hand and heart are gathered up all the threads of the lives that are be- ing lived under her roof. She who is such a center, by virtue of nature’s appoint- ment and endowments, must sometimes be found at the center. The house is not a home when the woman who guides it 1s not under its roof. Meetings, classes, so- cial functions limited exclusively to wo- men do, I verily believe, consume an amount 'of time in personal preparation and in personali participation which leaves the woman too little time for sitting se- renely at the center. All serlous people agree that the rest- lessness characteristic of childhood every- where is much emphasized in our country. The accentuation of this natural restless- ness of all childhood in American child- hood is not all to be attributed to climate. Let any impartial observer, with nothing to do but observe, walk through the streets of an American city, large or small, after 4 o'clock of an afternoon, or at any hour on Saturday. If he is really observing, if his eves are not closed by custom to what is before him, if his senses are not dulled by habit, he will wonder at the streams of young girls, girls from 12 to 18, who, alone or in groups, are going in and out of shops and theaters, sitting complacently in stores and_ restaurants, ordering their ice cream or their soda; or, if a littie more vulgar, their chewing gum or their popcorn; walking about apparent= ly idle and unoccupled; simply finding their pleasure in the unrestrained strell. In many instances the only reason why the girls are not at home is because the. mothers are not at home: consequentiy there is no home for the girls to be in. Home and the Children at Home. Formerly women were too much in the home; the home was rendered homeless by the constancy and dullness of their presence. Woinen have been much im- proved by going out of the home, and the home much improved by their going out; but it is injured by their staying out too long. Mothers have no time to follow with daily care the progress and the in- terests of their own children because they are members of committees that are look- ing after the interests and the progress of all children. Do not, gentle reader—if by this time I have one reader left, gentle or otherwise— imagine that I do not know that much good has come to women, and to every one related to them, through their enter- ing upon public service on committees and boards. Through this women have learned to recognize thc common interests of all children and the sense of solidarity of in- terests among all classes has been strengthened. Through this they have learned that their own children cannot be properly reared so long as the children of any class in the community are neglected. It 'is, however, a pity that in learning this lesson women have become 8o ab- sorbed as to practice it to excess. Bring- ing up a child is an individual business. It cagpot be done by a committee; neith- er caff children be brought up as soldiers are trained, in a squad or a battalion. The individual wa‘chfulness, the individual tuition, the daily conference with every member of the family—this is the highest privilege of the woman who sits at the center of any home. But, as I have said before, she must sometimes be found sit- ting at the ceater if she will enjoy this privilege, or if her children or her neigh- bor’s children wre to reap the fruits of it. It is well that in a woman’s club wom- en should consider the literature appro- priate for children; but it is iil to carry that consideration to such an exhaustive degree that the women -who write the papers and who lead the discussion on the best books for children shall be obliged to say that it has taken so much time to read np the current criticism on the subject, to read the books and pre- sent thelr views, that, so far as their own children are concerned, they *haven’t read a single book with them for a year.” Evil Effect Upon Society. It is a curious reflection that the club, having for one of its unconfessed objects the training of women into a sense of equality with men, has resulted in pro- ducing a wider and deeper cleavage be- tween mén and women. It is a matter of comment among all travelers that there is less general soclety—that it, less society in which men and women meet for social interchange—in our country than in any other. As a matter of fact men are ai- most eliminated from society in the great middle class. While many other circum- stances and conditions conduce to this separation of the sexes In society, the satisfaction which women have found in one another's company is a large element in the situation which may well be studied by socioligists. I believe it is necessary for the higher development of women that they should develop a capa- city for enjoying one another apart from the soclety of mep; but one can witness only with regret the increasing desire of men to hand over to their wives the duty of discharging all social obligations and the increasing complacency with which women accept the situation. That men and women are both gt their best in each other’s presence is, I believe, an incontest- able fact. Women, having been accus- tomed to meeting in their clubs apasg from men, have grown more indifferent to the presence of men in other social re- lations. Breakfasts, luncheons and after- noon teas are among most sections of society necessarily limited to women b; the fact that the hours given over to sucl functions are devoted by men to business. Dinners and evening parties grow less frequent in ll:ronortlon to the increasing frequency of luncheons and afternoon teas; so.the social functions which for- merly brought men and women together socially are less frequently enjoyed than formerly. 1 have no doubt the effect of excusing men from their soclal obligations and per- mitting them to maintain their social place llrgel{ through the vicarious efforts of their wives has as deterlorating an effect upon them as it has upon women;: but it is only to the effect upon the latfer that I shall refer. ' Eliminating Men From Society. The subjécts of conversation are, to a (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) XVIIL.—THE CLUB HABIT—ITS DISADVANTAGES. by the character of ! ground of incompetency. the company. A company exclusively of women is more likely to fall into person- ality and to tolerate a conversation hard- ly above gossip than a company composed of both men and women. The women who have grown out of the narrowness of excluding from their club programmes subjects of vital importance and of cur- rent world-interest have generally grown into the habit of discussing such subjects only at their clubs. ;The more actual con- tact of men with large affairs, their clos- er relation to political life, or to the men who lead and direct political life, gives to their conversation upon such subjects an accent of reality, a ring of first-hand knowledge, or of Immediate, first-hand impressions, which it is very helpful for women to get. To the degree to which the club has tended to separate women from men So- cially, to that degree is its effect i rious. Temporarily it may be that t deplorable condition is a necessity. I be- lieve that a separate social world has been as necessary, as affording an opsor- tunity for women to develop independent opinions and unrestrained expression of them, as the separate club life or the sep- arate college life has been; that all three -—the separate club, the separate college and the exclusively feminine social func- tion—mark a temporary condition and are S0 many departments of one large train- ing school in which women are being fit- ted to take their places as equals beside men, but btdeprecate the continuance of this separ®tion beyond the dccomplish- ment of its full aims. Neither men nor women can ever be sufficient to themiselves. 1t is the order of nature that each shall seek comple- tion through the other. This is no more a fact on the physical plane than on the intellectual and sccial planes. All influ- ences that tend toward giving a sense of seif-sufficiency, socially, to either sex is deteriorating to society. It is a matter of frequent remark that manners are de- teriorating. And it is certainly matter of observation, to any one who observes, that easy tamiliarity has to a great de- gree repiaced the deference and dignity which formerly characterized the highest standards. Camaraderie—the capacity to 1meet men without consciousness of sex— is a factor in any ideal society; but it is quite impossible that this capacity shall be developed in a society where women meet so seldom w th men, excepting with those who belong’to their own families or their most intimate circle. Socialistic Tendency of the Club. 1 believe that the doctrine of socialism, ‘which it seems to me clear is of the es- sence of Christianity, is destined to grow and to find its ampie ‘and legitimate appli- cation. Through their work in clubs the women who theoretically deny and reject socialism have done mueh to hasten its arrival and prepare its welcome. This, to my mind, is good; but a consciousness of what they are doing would enable them to escape some of its attendant injurious effects. Perhaps such a consciousness re- quires for its awakening the influence of independent study and solitary thought. One often hears this question, What will be the outcome of the club movement? The field of prophecy is beset by difficul- ties. 1 do not care to enter it. What has been the outcome up to date, both good uand bad, I have tried to show. This, like all other movements, will probably pass into the next phase, leaving no definite, measurable results, and chiefly valuable as leading to the next step. What the next phase of sociological expression will be I am not bold enough to try to state; but, without professing to be a discerner of times;-it 1s easy to see all the signs point to an expansion of soclalism; one may not say to the introduction of soclalism, because soclalism already has large expression in many of our institu- tions. I believe that one element in the preparation of society for the wider ap- plication of socialistic principles is the club movement, ome evil effect of which is the expansion and the weakening of ties. I do not believe that the multiplica- tion of ties necessarily leads to the weak- ening of any of them; but it naturally does this uniess there IS an open recogni- tion of the tendency and a steady effort of will applied under the spur of con- science to withstand the tendency. Limitations to Be Rzcognized. Do I counsel abandoning the club? N 1 desire not its abandonment but its d velopment. The first condition of its wise development is its recognition of its lim- itations, of its proper place, of its relation to other social institutions. The club should offer in its discussions examples of accurate and elegant speech; it should be the promoter of refined manners, the cre- ator of an exacting standard of literary criticism. It should realize its functions as a means of relaxation, and, above all, it should re ize itself as asmeans, not as an end. It should cease to exaggerate its achievements; it should bear in mind that club women do not constitute a dis- tinet social or intellectual class; that club women comprise women of every class, of all degrees of literary taste, intellectual capacity and social refinement. The club should cease self-laudation. It is no longer so new that it needs to announce itself. Club women should remember that the expression of self-consclousness is as dan- gerous In an institution as in an individ- ual. The effect of exaggeration of one's own claims is to reduce public respect for them. , Were the club so set apart from all other social Institutions as many of its members affect te suppose it, it would indeed be of trifling value, for only in pro- portion as one institution is consciously related to other existing institutions, and only in the degree to which each recog- nizes relationship and the obligations im- posed by relationship is any institution of account in the entire community. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. BATTLESHIPS—A. S, Olinda, Cal. Up to the 27th of May, 191, the time for the launching of the battleships Maine and Missouri had not been fixed. - THE McKINLEY FAMILY-C. H., City. At one time the immediate family of President McKinley consisted of him- self, his wife and two daughters, Kate and Ida. One of the girls died in infancy and the other at the age of four years. RENTING A ROOM—W. C., City. It a party hires a room for two weeks, pays vent in advance, and is suddenly called away he is not privileged to allow a friend to occupy his room during his ab- sence without the consent of the land- lord, unless there was an agreement to that effect at the time oi the renting. - AMERICAN-HAWAITAN LINE-S. S. M., City. The prineipal owners of the Amerjcan-Hawallan Steamship Company are Flint, Dearborn & Co. of New York and Williams, Dimoénd & Co. of San F ciso. The officers are: George S. Dear- born, president; W. B. Flint, first vice president and treasurer; A. Cheseb: sccond vice president; W. D. manager, and H. E. D. Jackson, secre- tary. OBERAMMERGAU — Subscriber, City. In 1633 the villagers of Oberammergau, In the Bavarian Highlands, on the occasion of a plague which devastated the sur- rounding country vowed to &:er!orm every tenth year the Passion of Our Savior out of gratitude and as a means of religious instruction, a vow which has regulatly been observed ever since. The last t‘me the miradle play was produced was in STEAMSHIP CAPTAIN-S., City. If the captain of a steamboat, out at sea, hears two blasts of the whistle .f an- other steamer he cannot construe that into a signal of distress, as two blasts means, “I am directing my course to port.” ' If a duly licensed captain 11et with an accident that deprived him of the use of one eye and affected the sight of the other to such an extent as 1o ‘ncapeci- tate him. the inspector's office would g:vc the right to revoke hid license on the PERSONAL MENTION. E. E. Bush, an oil man of Hanford, 's at the Lick. N. E. de Yoe, a merchant of Modesto, is at the Lick. W. H. Hatton, a well-known attorney of Stockton, is at Tthe Lick. J. H. Glide, a prominent resident of Sacramento, is at the Grand. W. H. Bush, a member of the Chicago Beard of Trade, is at the Palace. ‘W. J. Burgess, an Omaha merchant, ac- companied by his wife, is staying at the Palace. g W. A. Morrissey, a Stockton attorney, is here on business and has made the Lick his headquarters. J. P. McCoy, a merchant of Shanghal, arrived here on the Ventura yesterday and is a guest at the Palace. G. Kunst, who is constructing a rail- rcad in Honolulu, arrived here yesterday and is registered at the Palace. George L. Lindsey. a well-known min- ing man, arrived here from Denver yes- terday and is a guest at the Palace. Gus S. Holmes, who is erecting the An- gelus Hotel at Los Angeles, arrived here yesterday from Salt Lake and is at the Palace. A. M. Allen, the well-known real estate dealer of Monterey, is in the city for a few days and has made the Grand his headquarters. Guy Green, proprietor of a hotel at ‘Watsonville and an extensive land owner, registered at ths Grand yesterday. He is on his way East. On Monday evening President Hays, ac- companied by General Manager J. Krutt- schnitt, started out on a tour of inspec- tion. They will go as far east as Ogden and will be gone about a week. —_————————— CALIFORMIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 11.—From San Fran- cisco—A. H. Carlson, J. E. Locke and wife at the St. Denis; T. W. Scott, M. F. Truett, at the Astor; A. D. Short and wife, at the St. Denis; A. R. Chadwick, at the Everett; A. W. Huggins, at the New Amsterdam; W. Preston, at the Na- varre. From Los Angeles—E. R. Brain- erd, at the Manhattan; F. O. Hoffman, J. H. Hoffman and wife, at the Imperial; A. L. Brown, at the Hoffman; B. Kinge- baker, at the Imperial;: R. W. Miller, at the Rossmore; J. S. Upham, at the Mur- ray Hiil: T. W. Van Scrper and wife, at the Everett. From San Jose—D. Palmer, at the Gilsey. From San Mateo—A. L. Nichols, at the Murray Hill. From San Diego—J. H. May and wife, at the Hoff- man. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 1L.—At the Nor- mandie—F. B. Shutz, San Diego; J. R. Smith, G. W. Christman, R. W. Lewis, D. W. Carlton, Los Angeles. At the Shoreham—Mrs. F. 1. Kendall, Miss Isa- belle Kendall, Oakland —_——————— A. CHANCE TO SMILE. “Throat trouble, en? And you are a musician? Music is often very hard on the throat. What instrument do you Pl he bass drum, doctor.”—Philadelphia Times. The Wife—As if I didn’t know whers you were last night. Don’t you know you deceive me? because 1 know it gives you so much pieasure.”—Life. First Sheep—But the young folks are so giddy and lhothllel They don’t con- sider the future! P Second Sheep—Oh, well, my dear, you can't expect a young lamb to spend all its time thinking of roast mutton!—Puck. “Edgar and I quarrel all the time about automobiles; he says he won't have a herse and I say I won't have anyth'ng else.” “So you are going to get a conveyance of some kind?"’ “Oh, goodness, no; half the time we can't scrape up street car fare.”—Detroit Free Press. A Soclal Heretl Don’t you kinder hanker after rel;ecmbmty now an’ den? asked Plodding Pete, “Oh, 1 don’t know,” answered Meander- ing Mike. “Sometimes I t'ink dat re- spectability ain’'t much more dan permis- sion to work hard for what us people gits for nothin’.”—Washington Star. — ee— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend" —_——————————— Best eyeglasses, specs, 10 to ddc. Look out for §1 4th, front barber store and grocery.* ho s tiptsie s A vl Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * e The estimated population of New South Wales on June M was as follows: Males, 729,420; females, 631,700; total, 1,361,120. The increase for the half vear amounted to 4470, the smallest since 1860. —_— e Tahiti and Marquesas Islands. The steamship Australia, sailing June 2, for Tahitt, will call at Nouka Hiva, Marquesas Islands, both ways. The trip is only nine days from San Francisco. This special voyage o’- fers an unusual opportunity to visit these beautiful islands. About a week's stop will be made in Tahiti, where one of the most unique native festivities takes place July 1i, lzsting three days. Illustrated pamphlet and programme events free at 643 Market street. - ————————— “It Is Up to You.” We have made a very low round-trip rate to the Pan-American Exposition at Buffal», and the comfortable Nickel-Plate trains, with Nickel-Plate dining cars serving American Club meals ‘at ¢ to $1 each. insure you a pleasant trip. Book free showing Pan-Ameri- can views. Buffalo hotel accommodations re- served. JAY W. ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 3 Crocker bullding. San Franeiseo, Cal —_——————— CORONADV TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Cal., will be the porwlar summer resort this season. It became famous last year for com- lort, entertainment and health. Its splendid cate was a wonder, the fishing unexcelied. —_——— Excellent lamp wicks may be made out of men's soft felt hats, by cutting them into strips the width required, letting them soak a couple of hours in vinegar and drying them. of NEW PUBLICATIONS. The book ory- body is talking S b & Y ADAMY-SAWYER AND MASON'S CORNER FOLXS