The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1901, Page 6

Che * S5 - @alll EHURSDAY .....ccrspevss-topns ;UEE 27, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE.......Telephone Preas 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. '3 Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 203. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL ¢ncluding Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Bample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE............».1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazager Fo Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicags. Lon Distance Telchone Central 48,7 NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.... «..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune Building NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Worray Hill Hotel AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera House—'Fedora.” ncle Tom's Cabin.” ‘The Toy Maker."” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—""Under Two Flags.” Olympia. corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Alcazar—"Sapho.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater~Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sixteenth and Folsom streets—Scientific Boxing, Thursday, July 4 Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By W. M. Layng—This day, Horses, at 721 Howard st. By F. H. Chase & Co.—This day, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 1732 Market street. Dy £ Watkins—Friday, June 25, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at corner Tenth and Bryant streets. = 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER, ©Oall subscribers contemplating & change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to thetir addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local agent im Gil towss en the coast. G ARBITRATION FOR THE WEAK. A tem under which the weak stood no chance against the strong. This’ method of settling indi- vidual issues descended to historic times and found its best expression in the judicial combat of the middle ages, and the code duello of a later period. In these successive phases of the method of settling personal differences we may trace the rise of jurisprudence, a system which equalizes the weak and the strong, issues between them being decided upon their merits and not by the accident of physical inequality between the suitors. In the beginning trial by combat was a lawless, un- regulated struggle, hand to hand. Later it was sub- jected to regulations looking to the preservation of fair play. These regulations were carried with added stringency into the code duello, and finally the whole institution of ordeal and combat was superseded by the judicial system, providing an impartial tribunal for weak and strong alike. Briefly, this was a change from a system under which she weak had no rights, for he who could not defend his rights could not have any, to one of adjudication according to the principles of justice and equality. All this has come gradually, with the slow rise of civilization, and has been partly a cause and partly an effect of that civili- zation of which it is the most potent and prominent institution. This age is proud of its superiority over the past in this respect. Its courts of justice apply the rules of law, and before them rich and poor, weak and strong, stand upon a level. While this is so with the individual and every man can have his day in court, the nations are farther back than the dark ages in their methods of settling differences They still rely on the wager of battle, d burden their people with the support of standing armies to be used in war. The weak and the strong tions and peoples hold the same relation to each other that the weak and strong individuals did in the primitive past. It is true that there are agreements as to what shall be fair acts of war, but the strong do not ob- serve them. We violaked them when we used Hono- ary station in the Spanish war, though Hawaii was an independent republic and, like us, was bound by neutral obligations. England seized many cargoes of flour in transit to the Boers via the neutral port of Lorenzo Marquez, but has bought and shipped irom our ports millions of dollars’ worth of flour, hay, horses and mules for the use of her army operating against the Boers. The rules of war are to restrain the weak. The strong violate them So it has come to pass that the weak nations ice or because of the mutual jealousies MONG primitive men might made right and disputes were settled by brute force, a sys- at will exist by of the strong. A great step forward will have been taken when the weak nations are admitted to a court of arbitration. Arbitration between nations is the analogue of judi- cial trial between individuals. It will have to pass through the same stages of evolution. The: Hague conference refused to admit the weak powers, and in its scheme of arbitration also excluded them. But it is a great step forward for the great powers which are nearly equal to agree to arbitrate disputes between themselves. 255 The spectacle of a peaceful and honorable solution of a dispute between two great mations, while both with gun in hand are pursuing and oppressing the weak, will soon impress the conscience of ‘the world and all will be admitted, upon terms of perfect equality. to the court of arbitration. The United States can well afford to be the first in asking that the small and weak nations shall have their day in court. It is probable that before the Chi- nese trouble is adjusted there will be an opportunity to make this appeal in behalf of that sorely wronged people, and it is probable that we would have the support of Russia and Great Britain, a concert of powers strong enough to achieve this great glory of the modern world. AMERICAN INTELLECT. RESIDENT SCHURMAN of Cornell has in P some quarters roused the ire and in others the thought of his countrymen by calling atteh- tion to the engrossment of the American intellect in material invention, and its abstention from'the use’ of the imagination in artistic invention. Dr. Schurman has the facts on his side, but his critics should not begin their work by abusing him for stat- ing facts. After all there is nothing humiliating in what he calls our intellectual dependence upon Europe. In the present day Europe is dependent upon the intellect of a day that has gone by. No one has ever equaled the inventive genius of Ho+ :i. The strictly modern world has not produced another like him, and Shakespeare has been dead long enough for England to have presented his peer, but she has not. In science modern Europe has no Copernicus, Bruno, nor Galilei, no Newton, Laplace nor Lavoisier. But in America we have applied science to eco- nomics to an extent never dreamed of by the scient- ists whose discoveries we are adapting to the,uses of man. Franklin would have doubted had he been told that he brought dewn with that spark on his kite- string the electric railroad, telegraph, telephone, cook stove, street and house lights, and the power that lights mines, and crushes their ore, and that moves horseless vehicles. He established the identity of the lightning with frictional electricity and robbed.the Prince of the Powers of the Air of one of the most valuable attributes with which superstition invested him. But Franklin did not live to invent the means that now make his discovery of economic value. Let it be admitted that in a past age and in Eu- rope invention ran to art and literature to a degree now unknown, and with results that we may despair of excelling, yet in the age of these marvels no atten- tion was paid to the inventions needed to,raise the material condition of man. All the ancient scientists and men of letters wrought and wrote, while ‘the masses of men were in squalor and ignorance, and lived and died not knowing of their work. Economic invention, in which Dr. Schurman admits the excel- lénce of America, addressed itself to making it all serve thé material interests of man. The result is that his condition ‘has so improved that the materially inef- fective writers and discoverers have now the modern world for an audiedfce. We may have no Shake- speares for five hundred years to come, and no Homers for a thousand, but we all read and appre- ciate both, where neither was read, appreciated nor heard of by one man t a million of his own genera- tion. Who shall say that these material inventions are not as creditable as the writing of the siege of Troy, or “Othello,” or “Faust,” or the *‘Principia,” or the nebular hypothesis, or the discovery of the earth’s rotundity and the origin of species, or the mural decoration of the Sistine Chapel? Jethro Wood invented the iron moldboard plow and doubled the crops on every acre tilled. The spin- ning jenny, the power loom and cotton gin cheapened clothing and made it better, while the inventions of Woed, and McCormick and Johnson’s application of chemistry to the analysis of soils, were increasing and cheapening food. Morse, Field and Marconi, Bell and Edison, have quickened and cheapened the com- munication which makes the most distant the nearest neighbors in point of time. All of these ameliorating inventions have enlarged the physical comfort of the world until it is equal to the intellectual pleasure given by the imaginative words of the masters of letters and art. Let us not decry an age that has fed, clothed and housed man better than any knew before, and in ad- dition has so intellectually enlightened the masses that the countrymen of Raphael, Copernicus, Newton, Goethe, Laplace and Shakespeare know them, though they were unknown by their contemporaries. ABOUT EDUCATION, HE acceptance of Mr. Carnegie’s gift of ten Tmillions to the Scotch universities has started the old discussion of the respective merits of professional and practical education. The successful men, according to the standard of the age, are not, as a rule, college graduates, nor trained in either of the three lettered professions—law, physics and divinity. . Yet the schools which train to those professions are thronged, and every year they graduate fresh recruits to ranks that seem already overcrowded. Perhaps a reason may be found in the comparative independence of the professional life. = In the industrial and is not easily attainable. Not every bank can hope to be a J. Pierpont Morgan, every apprentice mechanic a Schwab. industrial and financial combinations which | are the surprising feature of the age seem to the aspiring man to offer no opportunity for ad- vancement in the lines which they occupy. The in- dependent mechanic, owner of his own shop and tools of trade and competing on equal terms with others like him, is a less frequent figure than a few years ago. The small merchant is disappearing, ex- cept in country towns, where he is a distributer of the wares produced, not by a large number of com- petitors, but by one combination. So it has seemed to come to pass that tilling the soil and practicing in a profession are the only competitive lines left which men may follow in the hope to achieve independence as the fruit of individual genius and thrift. Unfortunately for the health and morality of man- clerk nor The for country life and tilling the soil as a life occupa- tion. Those born in the country are crowding into the professions in the city, and the city-born ‘are not going into the country to fill their places. The youths who laughed derisively at the one graduate of the Agricultural School of our State University were themselves mostly country bred and reared, but their vision was blurred to the nobility of that calling, whose profits were paying for their education at the university. A fusther evidence of the @ecay of the moral spirit was apparent in the fact that the one graduate was a young lady. Her embarrassment, when laughed at, was observed by the members of President McKinley’s Cabinet, who were present, and with a spirit of true manhood and greatness that will not soon be forgotten they greeted her and the Sec- retary of Agriculture immediately offered her lucra- tive employment in his department, and she found herself differing from a large majority of the graduat- ing class in being equipped for the immediate com- mencement of a self-supporting career. We are of the opinion that collegiate training may direct the young toward many paths of independence besides the three learned professions, and that trained minds will not lie fallow and useless in the future. The stress upon the world c;used by its increasing human population mzakes every year more necessary the scientific training of men to conserve and ‘extend the resources upon which life depends. No industria] I business lives there is an impression that independence | kind, there seems in this country a growing aversion | combination can control the physical. forces, which are the object of scientific study and direction. The invincible combination of to-day may be shattered and destroyed by a laboratory discovery made to- morrow. ’ B Again, the value of a professional or practical education depends somewhat upon’ the standard of success. It is not the rich who make wealth the standard. That is dong¢ by those who envy them. Omar Khayyam had one standard of life and Robert Louis Stevenson another. The two differed from each other, and both differed from the standard of Russell Sage and J. Pierpont Morgan. / One thing is quite evident, that not all the ricl regard the gaining of wealth as the end and therefore the standard of life. If they all did there would be no Vanderbilt University in Tennessge, no Chicago Uni- versity in Illinois and no Stanford University in Cali- fornia. Nor would so many cities have Carnegie libraries and Great Britain be discussing his gift to the Scotch universities. If the mere getting of wealth had been the sole object of those who win it there would be no Astor Library nor Cooper Union in New York and Girard College in Philadelphia, nor would Sir Jamesetjee Jeebehoy, the Bombay Parsee millionaire, have endowed a hospital in London. In so many instances have great wealth been used for such .ends that one is warranted in believing that the end was the standard and not ¢he means to that end, . ’ The end was usefulness to humanity, and that is within the reach of all men, e —— TWO SIDES OF PARIS. ECENTLY the Paris Herald contained a list R of subscriptions of the previous day for Baronne d'Herpent’s home for cats and dogs. The institution is described as a humane and charit- able work. The list of contributors to it was a long one, and for that single day the contributions amounted to 8831 francs. The names under which the contributions are made are interesting. Most of the donors made their gifts in the name of some pet dog or cat. Thus contribu- tions appear from Frourou, Toffy, Veron, Pussy Bowwow, Onineey, Raffy, Chic, V’lan, Doltie Mi- nette, Gentleman Jock, Tirelire, Miss' Lutin, Volt, Mutzi, Toozie, Trot, Mouna, Peeny Penoot, Bebolo, Douschka'and Cartouche. It is a pretty display of human kindness to petted animals and reveals much of a genuine goodness of heart, for it appears that the home is designed for the rescue of stray dogs and cats who by some chance have been lost upon the streets. Another item from Paris tells us that among American visitors in that city this summer the fash- 1onable amusement is slumming, and it goes on to narrate an incident in the evening of one particular party in this way: “Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. Og- den, Miss IyIay Goelet and Mrs. Armous, with several gentlemen and two detectives, visited the sordid Rue Mouffetard and found Jean Grave, the famous an- archist, writing in his bare garret. He promptly or- dered the party out, threatening to shoot even the de- tectives if they lingered. Young Bradley tried to soothe the old writer, saying loftily, ‘Here, my man, take $10 and talk to us about your ideas and your schemes.” ‘I don’t want your money!" cried Jean; ‘and don’t you call me “my man.” If you weren’t a fool you'd understand that your patronizing an aged worker who has raised a family of ten children by manual labor and written twenty volumes to enlighten his brethren is unbecoming in a young cub like you, who have never given a thought to anything serious in life.” ” It is hardly worth while to comment upon the stories. The contrast between the loving care be- stowed upon pugs and cats and the idle curiosity” shown regarding the lives of the poor carries its own moral. The two sides of Paris are there presented. The one side has so much of wealth and gentleness that it weeps for a lost dog and contributes liberally | to save others that may be lost: The other side is so indifferent to every generous instinct that it not only declines to help the poor, but does not even sympathize with them. The odd part of it all is that ! the two sides are made up of exactly the same people. . DREDGE MINING. ‘ HE CALL has reproduced various opinions as T to the utility of the profitable dredge mining in the Feather River bottoms, considered in the light of its local benefit. The present generation may not be vitally inter- ested in the final effect of this novel mining. It is carried on on fine bottom lands that are covered with vineyards and orchards, for which the owners were paid high prices. The soil is' mixed with bowlders and coarse and fine gravel, which was carried there by the waters of the river and came finally to be filled in with soil. The dredging process washes the soil out and takes from it the gold. But the soil does not run away. It does not go into the river, but is car- | ried back among the stones. The dredged area is sub- ject to overflow, and by that process the soil came to be among and over the rocks. It is probable that by the time the last acre of Feather River placer is | being dredged out the first one that was washed will | have been long in orchard again and bearing fruit. Some of the mining companies which are at work there have ground enough to keep them going sev- enty-five and a hundred years. The value of the business is its permanency.. The fine gold begins at the grass roots and goes on down thirty feet or more to bedrock. The yield does not vary much over the whole district. It is about seventy-five cents a cubic yard, so that there is no speculation nor gambling in that form of mining, and there seems but little jus- tification for any gloomy foreboding of the future of Oroville as the result of its activity. The new houses it has built will require paint many times before the last yard of pay dirt has been washed. e — - It is noted that while most of the factories in Rus- sia have been reducing the number of their employes and the rate of wages, the breweries have been doing a thriving business, and one of the largest in Moscow is said to have just declared a dividend %of 240 per cent. The Cubans who are opposed to the Platt amend- ment have been lampooning and cartooning Platt of | New York under the impression that he is the author of it, while the real cffender, Senator Platt of Con- necticut, goes scot free. Marcel Prevost says that while the United States,‘ Great Britain and Germany are wrangling as to which shall finance the other, France goes right along financing Spain, Italy, Servia and Russia and makes no fuss about it. Bryan's suggestion of Justice Harlan as Democratic nominee in 1904 may have been intended merely to put a dummy in the king row to keep a real candidate !from coming to the front. ~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1901. 6 2 fl : TEAM OF TRAINED ALLIGATORS TOWS, HIS BOAT TO MARKET * - AND DOWN THE ST. JOHNS RIVER. STRANGE TASK. LR Ry o B AN e B Putnam County, Fla., has the most extraordinary team in the country. It is a team of alligators that Mr. Lee uses to tow his boat up and down the river when he Mr. Lee has to go six miles down the river to his postof- fice, and it is a hard pull against the current coming back. H¢ noticed how swiftly aliigators swam, and it occurred to abound in the St. Johns River to some account. He captured a pair of young 'gators and raised them in his yard. He taught them to swimand drag a weight behind them, and pulling ropes fastened to their teeth on either side. When the alligators were big enough he put a harness that he had constructed on them and harnessed them to his at a good speed. By pulling on the reins that passed through the mouths of the 'gators Mr, Lee was able to turn his strange team in any directlon he pleased. JEF’FERBON LEE, who lives on the St. Johns River, in goes to’ market. him that it might be a good idea to turn the alligators that he also taught them to turn either to the right or left by boat. They swam well and pulled the boat through the water Mr. Lee made a point of never feeding his alligators until FLORIDAN HAS A VERY REMARKABLE TEAM THAT HE VUSES WITH MARKED SUCCESS IN TRAVELING UP THE REPTILES NEVER RUN AWAY AND SEEM TO ENJOY THEIR after they returned from a trip, when he would immediately reward each one with a fine meal. The allifators seem to be willing to perform their task of pulling his boat, and when he turns them out of the pen in which they are stabled and starts them for the water they shuffle down to the boat in the liveliest style, and after they are hitched they plunge into the water with grunts of delight. Mr. Lee says his strange team his never run away nor kicked out the dashboard of his river craft, but that they have one fault, for whigh, however, he does not blame them. They sometimes sweep their powerful tails in a curve through the water, and once smashed one of his boats into small bits and threw Mr. Lee and a party that he was taking boat rid- ing into the river. They would all have been drowned had not the alligators swum back to them and permitted the party to climb on their backs, after which the alligators swam swiftly to the shore and all of the party were saved. Mr. now hitches his team twenty feet .in front of the boart, so that the sweep of their tails will not endanger the craft. Mr. Iee’s success has created great interest among all his neighbors, and now many alligators are being trained for duty as sea horses. @triimielfedeinliirield deleinfeileieteiefefee i el el el e il @ CHICAGO “HELLO” GIRLS ARE SINGING THE PRAISES OF PRESIDENT SABIN, FORMERLY OF SAN FRANCISCO He Has Made Them All Happy by Opening a Cafe and Parlor, Where They “Are Furnished With All the Comforts of Home. HREE hundred ‘“hello” girls in the main office of the Chicago Telephone Company, 208 Washington street, now trill the gladsome ‘““Busy; please call again,” be- I tween sips of black coffee and mouthfuls of salad, says the Chicago Tribune. With a demi-tasse at elbow and a mind-reading attendant to keep the strawberry ice-cream within reach, work at the switchboard has become a dream. ‘When the girls arrived at the office the other morning in the full consclousness of owning figurés that must be preserved at any cost, they found verification of what they had read in the Tribune, that President Sabin never had intended them to ‘walk up nine flights of Stairs to the dissipation of their phys- iques. Learning that they were merely requested to walk down stairs, and that only in the rush hours of the day, the young women blessed President Sabin all the way up in the elevators, But before they had donned the helmets that hold the tele- phone receivers, the girls were invited to view the cafe and par- lor which the company has fitted up for their especial comfort. One-half of the seventh floor is set aside for the use and comfort of the girls. Mcst of the space is occupied by the restaurant tables, which can accommodate half the force at one time. A chef and three waitresses are in attendance, and meals are served at any time of the day or night. On the occasion of the formal dedication of the cafe, the girls were enthusiastic. They said a last good-by to lunch boxes and cold snacks, and attacked the hot meal with too evident satisfaction. This was the menu: it Bouillon. S. Celery. ‘Whitefish. £ Roast Beef. Mashed Potatoes. Cherry Ple. Ice Cream. Tea. Coffee. Milk. A tendency developed to linger over the coffes cups and praise President Sabin, who did not issue the edict against their sips, and the manager was compelled to resort to sharp command to get\ his feminine cohort back into actlon at the switchboard. Then it was announced that whenever any girl felt faint or sleepy or otherwise in need of refreshment an at- tendant would bring coffee and sandwiches or any other delicacy. One end of the cafe is fitted up as a reading and lounging apartment for the girls. Books and the latest maga- zines are at hand, and rocking chairs and a couch give a home- like air ta the place. When a girl is tired she may leave the switchboard for a half hour's nap on the sofa. Last night the girls walked down the nine flights of stalrs, Heretofore the switchboard operators have been obliged to bring thelr lunches with them or leave the bullding at the President Sabin, however, came from San Fran- cisco, where the telephone company has fed its employes at its He immediately transplanted the idea to Chicago soil, and intimated at the same time that better service would be obtained from the employes as soon as the first meal had been tasted. General Superintendent S. J. Larned says already that President Sabin was right. noon hour. own expense for many years. and the only word spoken on hips was, “Hip, hip, hooray, In speaking of the move of the company the employes, Superintendent Larned said: “We have a superior class of girls, to make their work easy for them. A was an elevator accident not long ago 1 ing there, and President Sabin was n: the overcrowding here the girls to walk down. the misinterpreted topie of the and a tiger for President Sabin." in the interests of and we do all we can t San Francisco there n the telephone build- aturally nervous about ,At noon and 6 o'clock. So he wants @ Iedeleeleeiollnffefedrefdrfeielidtefboliufulelofefeofe dufefofefolefunts dofnfeofel et - 3 PERSONAL MENTION. J. T. McKay, an oll man of McKittrick, is at the Lick. Charles B. Younger Jr., a Santa Cruz attorney, is a guest at the Lick. George H. Roos has left for the Eastern States to attend to fall purchases. Sir Thomas Gooch of Albemark, Natal, South Africa, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. E. W. Biddle, the well known Shy- sician of Healdsburg, is at the Lick. Frank H. Buck, an extensive fruit grower of Vacaville, is a guest at the Palace. T. Spellacy, an oil man of Bakersfield, is in the city on business and is staying at the Lick. A. P. Halfhil, a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, is spending a few days at the Grand. G. E. Babeock, who is interested in ex- tensive land and hotel properties at Coro- nado, is at the Palace. John B. Farish, a mining man of Den- ver, arrived in the city yesterday and has made the Palace his headquarters. D. S. Rosenbaum, prestdent of the Farmers’ and Merchants’' Bank of Stock- ton, is spending a few days at the Palace. K. B. Burns, an engineer of the Santa Fe, with headquarters in Los Angeles, ar- rived in the city yesterday and-is staying at the Palace. C. L. Jager, a wealthy young clubman of New York, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. He is inspecting his many mining properties on the coast. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 26.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. E. Amann, at Astor; W. J. Barnett, at Imperial; C. A. Hitchcock, at Cosmopolitan; L. G. Kauffman and wife, at Savoy; W. Powell, at Holland; J. Marck, at Savoy; Mrs. W. P. Shaw, at Netherland; B. J. Waldheimer, at-Grand Union; J. J. Winter, at Herald Square; A. B. Field, at Bartholdi; R. J. Smith, at Normandie. From San Diego—H. A. Putnam, Plaza. . A CHANCE TO SMILE. Carrie—Charley thinks my new gown just beautiful. He said last evening it was a perfect dream. What are you grinning at? 3 Madge—Oh, nothing. I was only think- Ing that Charley told me only to-day that he had such horrid dreams.—Boston Transcript. at Too Much.—The young man—I suppose, sir, that when I become formally engaged to your daughter you will admit me as a member of the firm. The father—Well, I don’t know. I don’t feel as If I could afford the expense of both of these things just. now.—Detroft Free Press. s Placing the Blame—* My dear,” sald.the meek Mr. Newliwed, “I don’t like to com- plain, but this omelet you made—"" “What's the matter with it?” she in- quired. “Well—er—it’s rather hard to cut fit, VO delar -“Graclous, I was afraid that man would send me tough eggs. I'll stop dealing with him.”=Philadelphia Press, GOSSIP FROM LONDON’S WORLD OF LETTERS The dullest season of the year in the publishing world has arrived, yet looking down the announcements for the summer months the period will not be altogether void of interest, with Hall Caine's “Eter- nal City” coming from Heinemann; John Oliver Hobbes' “Serlous Wooing” from Messrs. Methuen; Sir Walter Besant's historical romance, “The Lady of Lynn,” frogn Messrs. Chatte & Windus, which is announced for publication on July 4. Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co. also announce one or two books for the slack season, including “My Lady's Diamonds,” by Miss Adeline Sergeant, and “The Coward,” by Robert L. Jefferson, author of several bocks of travel. Then there will be Crockett’s new story, “Cinderella,” which is almost ready to see the light in book form; a translation of Paul Bourget's novel, “The Disciple,” while “The Bourgeoise,” by H. de Vere Stackpoole, will follow a little later in Messrs. Unwin’s Green Cloth. Library. August is expected to bring Emile Zola to London, and he will be preceded by a new volume of stories under the title of | ““The Honor of the Army,” edited, with an introduction, by Ernest Vizetélly. Messrs. Chatto & Windus have publish- ed most of their books lately announced. However, for the autumn early season they will probably publish David Christie Murray’s “Despair's Last Journey.” Two other novels annoupced for the autumn are Gilbert Parker's “Right of Way” (Heinemann) and J. M. Barrie's new un- named book (Hodder & Stoughton), while Messrs. Methuen will make a feature of a new story by Lucas Cleeve, entitled “The History of Sir Richard Calmady,” which enjoys the distinction of being the longest novel a publisher ever sent to the press. It runs to over 700 pages. After a long widowhood" passed In ex- cellent health, death is menacing Mrs. Matthew Arnold in one of the mest pain- ful shapes. Mrs. Arnola will be remem- bered as the “Flu” df her husband’s pub- lished letters. Another item of news which will be es- peclally interesting to Americans is that the graceful poetess and brilliant prose writer, Mrs. Wilfrid Meynell, is shortly going over to California to visit friends. She will be absent from England for at least three months. The proprietor of Baedeker’s Guides has had his attention directed to the new facts from the contemporary official re- ports published for the first time in De- metrius Boulger’s “The Belgians at Wat- erloo,” with regard to the conduct of the Dutch and Belgians in the battle, and has agreed to elimig;:e the disparaging pas- sages about the) which have hitherto found & place in the description of the campalgn given in the English edition of the Guide to Holland and Belgium. The new editicn, about to appear for 1901, will give a more restrained deserip- tion of the battle than its predecessors. ——— “Your heart,” said the lecturer, “ beats seventy times a minute.” This - tion does not hold good for 1.3&”."?\'5'.- g‘l;;g away rr:gal: mad bulnu or for schocl- il icovert an a e tree ve- ly farmer.—Tit-Bits, i e e ANSWERS TO QUERIES. GOLD AND SILVER COIN—J. 8. N—J. 8. W. F., Austin, Nev. No premium fs oftered fo - Ofrme::xt'her a $10 plece of 1854 or a quarter GUERNEVILLE FIRE—C. P, The fire that destroyed the greater por- tion of the town of Guerneville, Sonoma County, occurred on the 20th , oc of February, 189, at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, " City. BJ(;?N B. MOSBY—M - Mosby was United States € Hongkong from 1872 to 1ss5. Onm::rullr‘.:gt from the consulship he came to San Fran- cisco, where he has resided ever since. iddleton, Cal. John A HAND IN CRIBBAGE-S. hand in cribbage consisting of (‘mgelyt're\’s and a pair of sixes, does not count four- teen as A claims, nor eighteen as B con- tends, but it counts twelve, cannot count a flush in his crib turned up card is of a different A A player when the sult. MENOCAL—Engincer, V Cal. Aniceto G. Menocal, at one time connected with the Nicaragua canal sur. vey, became a civil engineer in the Unit- ed States navy in 1872 and was placed on the retired list September 1, 1308. Tis present address is 54 Brdha N e L 'way, New York eterans’ Home, s STEE'L TRUST—A. J. C., Sebastopol, Cal. What is pald in the way of salary to the president of the new steel trust iy a matter that is within the knowledge of the trust and the president and is not glven to the general public. It has been yariously stated to be from $75,000 to 31,.- 000,000 & year, but all the statements are the result of guess work. It is Impossi- ble to tell who is paid the highest salary in the United States, as private corpora- tions do not take the public into t° fidence in such matters. T o ——— Cholce candles, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel® ————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_— Special Information sup; plied daily to business houses and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen s, 51;’{4 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —_——————— The finest playing cards ar this country, and but for m’n&‘}i”u’? get:l ylhem in l);suro%a. they would com- monopolize that mar! - ity and cheapness. B ont- . —_——— Official"Route Christian Endeavorers to Cincinnati, Ohio. The Burlington Route via Denver has been selected as the officfal route. Through Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars to Cincinnati will leave San Francisco July 1 at 6 p. m. Tlckets on sale June 30 to July 1; rate, $76 0 for round trip. July 1-2 we will sell round-trip tickets to Detroit ‘at $82 25; July 3-4 to Chicago 72 50, and to Buffalo §57. For sleeping car berths call on or address W. D. Sanborn, General Agent, 631 Market street. ————— Quickest Way to Yosemite, “The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thence via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced, Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Veil Falls to Sentinel Hotel. This gets you in at 5 in the afternoon, which s ahead of any other line and costs you less. Ask at 641 Mar- ket street for particulars.” ¥ g - s Gamebermn o ol F L8 StopDiarrhae and Stomach C; Dr. Slegert's Genuine Imported Angostura Bitters.s