The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1901, Page 6

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Call swbseribers comtemplating = change of | residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mnew addresses by motifyimg The Call Busin ofice. This paper will alse be on ssle at all summer resorts and is represented by a loeal agent im all towns the coast. SAVE SAN FRANOISCO POLITICS. E do not believe it possible for the Repub- W Iican party o carry San Francisco upon any other than the principles laid down by Post- inaster General Smith in his letter to the Philadelphia mass-meeting. To turn the party over to & pair of bosses, with the result of giving them the city to loot as they please, is to be disloyal to the party, and secure its defeat. San Francisco needs a more enlightened adminis- tration than it is getting, but those are mistaken who think it possible that the people will be willing to exchange a bad administration for a worse one. We are not aware of any existing condition, how- ever bad, which the pcople are apt to run away from in such a panic as to fetch up in the arms of Kelly and Crimmins. The Repub can party is mot responsible for what is now in this city. It may be bad, in some respects very bad, but the party cannot be charged with it. If local control be given to bosses whose administsa- tion of affairs would be so bad that it already is a stench before it pips the shell, Republicans who value the good name of their party will apply the remedy by snubbing the polls, or by plumping ballots against party disgrace. The Call does not care a bean for any personal con- sideration involved. We are not asking that any men have place on tickets because we like them person- afly, or that any be excluded because we dislike them personally. We are simply asking that the Republican party, a wast majority of whose members are clean and decent people, shall take counsel of its cleanness and decency, and not of the filth and political dust which may be found in all parties. T Animals in Oakland is studying a problem that so far has ftubbomly resisted solution. It is alleged that the horses used by the contractor for carrying mails between the trains and the postoffice are afflicted with raw shoulders and backs, and are otherwise in a condition unfit for service, their use constituting a legal offense. The contractor, how- ever, defies any attempt to interfere with his use of these horses, because he carries the mail, and Federal law forbids interference with the United States mail. Suppose that this contractor while driving mail on the streets of Oakland should proceed to murder some one in the mail wagon, would the police stand off and see the crime finished because to stop it would' interfere with the mails? The idea that 2 mail driver may safely violate and defy local law, hedged about by the divinity that doth belong to mail in trarsit, has no foundation in law. Interference with the mail, to be punishable by the Federal statute, must be for a purpose lawless per se. The immunity of the mail is not intended to cover and protect the violation of law. If the animals which pull the mzil wagons 2re in such condition that to use them is a violation of the laws of California, those laws may be enforced, and the contractor under his bond cannot plead that enforcement of law as 2 rea- son for failure to deliver the mail. He can get out 2nd pull the wagon himself, or take the mail on his back. 4 There is no Federal statute of cruelty to animals, but that is no reason why he should be cruel to his beasts. The postmaster states that the mail con- tractor took his contract at so low a figure that he LAWLESS MAIL DRIVERS. HE Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to cannot afford to use wlocle horses, as that would ab- | sorb all of his profits. “Surely it is an abnormal situ- ation that a Federal contractor is justified in making Liis profite out of the raw withers, $houldets and backs of suffering horses. ‘l July 29, at 0] al THE HAWAII COUNTY, CAL. 5 HILE neither the press nor the people of W this State may be regarded as in any way committed to the proposition to make Hawaii a county of California, both resent such dis- cussion of that proposition as Harper's Weekly in- dulges in. That paper talks about the danger of incorporating the islands into California, and intimates that to do so will in some way endanger the Union and our insti- tutions. It also contends that such incorporation will disappoint the just expectations of the people of Ha- waii that they are to be a sovereign and independent State. We are not aware of the passing of any prom- ise that justifies any such expectation, nor of any obligation on the part of the United States to satisfy such aspiration, if it exist. We do not believe tirat the people of this country will .ever consent to the exist- ence of non-continental States, non-contiguous and isolated. Such States can never be homogeneous with the rest of the country. THeir wide sep- aration, their difference in physical conditions, production, social life and in everything which makes up the character and motive of a peo- ple, will continually increase the interests that are not common to them and the rest of the Union. In the National Government, as States, they would be the cause of constant discord. The inequalities of law demanded by their position and condition would insidiously sap our system, which is intended to make of the Federal Government the dispenser of exact equality. In close contests we don’t want the balance of power in our politics to be held by such States, as it easily would be. There is no point of view from which such States are desirable, not even from that of their own interests. We are aware that the ques- tion will be asked, What difference between admitting them as States, or making them parts of already exist- ing States? We admit that both are evil. Each is part of the problem we took upon us with the other consequences of the Spanish war. As parts of ex- isting States, such possessions as Hawaii and Porto Rico can do less harm to themselves and to us than as States,. though no one need anticipate the perfec- tion of civic and social felicity from that policy. We have no doubt that Harper's Weekly would see policy and propriety in Porto Rico County, New York, while it sees neither in Hawaii County, Cali- fornia. Yet the interest of California in Hawaii is much greater than that of New York in Porto Rico. We are concerned in having a rival State lying out- side of us in the Pacific, with two probably antago- nistic Senators and a Representative. Our interests are to be first considered rather than those of a peo- ple who from selfish and"discreditable motives made such frantic efforts to break into the United States. s far as they are concerned California prefers them citizens of one of her counties rather than as her masters in the National Government. The white population of Hawaii is about that of a ward in San Francisco, and the whole motley mass of her people is exceeded in number by several countie§ of California. There is every prospect that the white population of the islands will decrease, rather than increase. White childrgn cannot be safely reared there, and population never. flourishes greatly where it is composed of sojourning adults and is not built up from the cradle. Where people have to be expatriated in their in- fancy, to be reared abroad to adult age, there are not the proper conditions for a desirable population. Adult whites will resort to Hawaii for acquisitive or inquisitive purposes, and when financially able to do so will oscillate between the islands and the conti- | ent, but such people do not make a State. They are not the propagators of institutions and the con- scientious keepers of that faith which must be the cementing principle of stable government. As a county of California Hawaii would be toler- able. As a State it would be intolerable. < As for Harper’s Weekly, we may safely challenge it to give reasons for intimating that to be a county of Cali- fornia is to be in intolerable bondage. The late Fer- nando Wood, not iong after having been Mayor of New York City, advised that it secede from the Union, becoming a free city after the fashion of the Hanse towns. The cities of California may have had Mayors whose secession and absence would have been agreeable to the people, but so far no California Mayor has professed to find the relation to the State | so undesirable as to suggest secession as a remedy. There have been many good stories told of the hot spell in New York, but one of the best is to the effect that two children fell from a third story window of a tenement house and in falling struck a woman who was leaning out of a second story window and knocked her off her perch, and all three landed safely and unhurt on the ground. Possibly their bones were rendered so limp by the heat they couldn’t break. M Parliament will be asked to confer a new title upon the sovereign of the British em- pire. As he did not intimate what the new title would be, theBritish people are busily engaged in speculat- ing upon it. It is recognized that it will not be an easy task to find a title that will suit the whole of an empire so widely scattered, and consequenj{ly a good deal of ingenuity is being exercised to frame an ap- propriate one. At present the King is officially known as “Ed- ward, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of.India.” That title is a comparatively new one for British sovereigns, so that in changing it, or in add- ing to it, no great historic continuity will be broken. In commenting upon the subject the London Chron- icle says: “The style of the British sovereign has un- dergone a good many changes since a ‘Rex An- glorum’ was crowned at Westminster in 1066. The first Edward was called ‘Rex Angliae, Dominus Hi- berniag et Dux Aqqitaniae,‘ leaving out ‘Dux Nor- maniae, which had been added by Henry II. The third Edward made a further change to ‘Dei Gratia, Rex Angliae et Franciae et Dominus Hiberniae. Queen Elizabeth was the first monarch to adopt an English description, ‘Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,” and James I of course edded Scotland. The title of King of France was dis- continued by George III, just a hundred years ago, and no further alteration was made in the royal title until Queen Victoria added ‘Empress of India,” in 1876.” One of the chief objects of curiosity concerning the new title is about the part that Canada and Aus- tralia will play in it. Ts Edward to be crowned “Em- peror of Canada and of Australia” as well as of India, while remaining King of Great Britain, or is he to be given some general title covering the whole wide- spread empire? There seems to be no doubt that Edward desires to be known as*Emperor rather than las King. At the present time all the rulers of great EDWARD'S NEW TITLE. R. CHAMBERLAIN has announced that FRAN first-class powers in Europe are known as Emperors. Kings are confined to small states. There will prob- ably be something of opposition made to the change in Parliament, but it will not amount to much, and it is possible that with the coronation the old title of King of Great Britain and Ireland may pass out of history. There is now talk about the organization of a trust among the makers of letter-boxes used by farmers on the free delivery routes, and it seems that if the Gov- ernment do not interfere the free delivery will be a cinch for the trust and the farmer will have to pay, all the traffic will bear. THE LAW’S LONG DELAY, ORE than a year ago—or, to be exact, March 26, 1900—the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance closing the cemeteries within the city limits. The ordinance was to go into effect on August I of this year, but it has been suspended by an injunction granted by Judge Hebbard which will hold good until a suit attacking the validity of the ordinance shall have been tried and determined. The suit in question was brought by one of the ceme- teries over a year ago. It remains to this day untried and stands as a bar tc the enforcement of the ordi- nance, whose operation will be beneficial to the whole community. Here, then, is ancther illustration of that long delay in court proceedings that so seriously interferes with progress and justice. A suit brought more than a year ago, involving a matter of public concern and importance, ought certainly to have been heard be- fore this. As it stands now the untried suit has all the effect of a victory for the antagonists of the or- dinance. The injunction stops the effect of the law and nothing will be gained until the case has been heard and adjudicated. Of the beneficial nature of the ordinance there can be no doubt. The question of the effect of the ceme- teries upon the city was discussed among the people, in the press and before the Supervisors for a long time before action was taken. There is nothing in the ordinance in the nature of hasty legislation. - After the fullest investigation of every phase of the subject it was passed unanimously, and as it was provided that it should not go into effect for much more than a year after its passage, ample time was given for con- testing its validity, or for preparing for its operation. Still the ordinance is to be held up. The cemeteries are able even after all this time to come into court and postpone the enforcement of the ordinance by getting out injunctions. The importance of the issue is sufficient to justify the courts in advancing the suit upon the calendar and thus bringing it to prompt settlement. The welfare of the community requires the closing of burying- grounds within the city limits. The cemeteries oc- cupy some of the most picturesque parts of the pen- insula, and one of them, Laurel Hill, holds such acom- manding site that it ovetlooks the city, the bay and the Golden Gate. Having such positions and covering large areas, thgy retard the growth of the city in some of its most important sections. Furthermore, they constitute a menace to public health, for there is always danger that diseases may arise from decaying bodies deposited in sites from which the drainage passes through thickly settled localities. It is not worth while to go over again all the argu- ments which led up to the unanimous passage of the ordinance closing the cemeteries more than a year ago. The one thing now is to direct the attention of the court to the importance of the issue. While the suit attacking the validity of the ordinance re- mains unsettled the injunction will stand and the or- dinance be of no effect. Surely it is time to bring it to a trial and make way for the enforcement of a law which is designed to rid the community of a grave evil and materially benefit all classes of people. M. Santos-Dumont, whose flying machine recently made what is reported to have been a successful trip around Paris, is not a Frenchman, but a Brazilian, so if hie make the thing go the triumph will belong to America after all. THE REVIVAL OF LAMONT. INCE the Democrats of Ohio boldly made a S new departure in politics by throwing Bryan overkoard there has been -renewed activity among Democrats all over the country. Nat- urally the new movement has been most vigorous and most notable in New York, and in the course of its moving it has brought to light once more Daniel S. Lamont, who was once private secretary to Cleve- land and afterward Secretary of War. Ever since the. close of the Cleveland regime at Washington Lamont has been busy making money, and is now reported to be a very rich man. So long as Bryan was in the saddle he had little care to show himself in politics, but now that Bryan has passed like a pirate ship in the night Lamont emerges. He comes forth this time as a possible candidate for the Presidency, and as a consequence something of na- tional interest attaches to his reappearance. Public attention was first directed to him by the fact that David Bennett Hill has of late been making frequent visits to Lamont's country home, and the visits have been long as well as frequent. To the acute eyes of New York politicidns it is evident that “something is doing.” It will be remembered that Hill was the most able and one of the most bitter opponents of Cleveland in New York politics, while Lamont was always Cleveland’s personal as well as political friend. The consultations now going on be- tween the two are therefore regarded as evidence that all the old crowd are going to drop past quarrels and unite for the purpose of getting rid of Bryan and also of Croker. It is believed in New York that Hill knows he cannot make a winning fight as a candidate, and is therefore quite willing to combine with the Cleveland crowd and support Lamont. 3 Such is the latest development of midsummer poli- tics in the far East. Dan Lamont would indeed be a very good dark horse. He has been lucky in politics and in business, and is young enough to undertake a ‘campaign. In the past, however, he has been always regarded as a mere subordinate to Cleveland. It re- mains to be seen how big a man he will look when he stands alone® We believe that America leads the world in energy, but the New Yorkers are now lamenting that since they began their talk of an underground railway Paris has constructed one and is talking of another, while the finish of the New York project is not yet in sight. Thete is a story that during the hot wave in Bos- ton the mercury exploded, and that the sound of bursting thermometers along the principal thorough- fares was like firecrackers on the Fourth of July. Republicans will take notice that if they surrender their party to the bosses they might as well give up I all hope cf carrying the city. 4 CO "CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUTOMOBILE STREET JULY 24, 1901 CARS FOR CHICAGO vard and Lincoln forty or more people. first passenger reaches his destination. will be unable to hear them. more than four r Z¥e miles. PERSONAL MENTION. Harry E. Corbett left yesterday for Bartlett Springs. T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, Is a guest at the Palace. i A. P. Fraser, a prominent attorney of ‘Stockton, is at the Occidental. Mrs. C. A. Spreckels returned from Paris yesterday and iIs at the Palace. W. F. Knox, the well-known attorney of Sacramento, s a guest at the Grand. J. C. Campbell, a mining man of Ne- vada City, is spending a few days at the Grand. F. H. Call, a merchant of Los Angeles, is here on business. He is at the Ocei- dental. Dr. Brown, a prominent physician of Martinez, is staying at the Grand with his wife. Special Treasury Agent Linck of Seat- tle is visiting the Custom-house on offictal business. William Johnson, an extensive fruit grower of Courtland, is spending a few days at the Lick. Julius C. Lang, a member of the firm of Lang & Co., wholesale grocers of Port- land, Or., is staying at the Palace. 0. O. Webber, District Attorney of Santa Rosa, returned from an extended tour of the East yesterday. He is stay- ing at the Lick. Samuel F. Nixonm, a prominent theatri- cal manager of Philadelphia, arrived here yesterday with his wife. They are stay- ing at the Palace. Clarence D. Sprigg, Chief Deputy Col- lector of Customs at San Diego, Who has been on an official visit to the local Cus- tom-house and Appralser’s store, returns to San Diego to-day. —_———————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 23.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—A. Himmelman, W. A. Ristenpart, at the Imperial; Miss Mc- Gowan, at the Bartholdl. Los Angeles—Mrs. P. Morton, at the Im- pertal; L. B. White, at the Astor. . — ———— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 22.—The follow- ing San Franciscans have arrived at the hotels: Shoreham, Edward G. Sweeney; Raleigh, G. W. Dickie; National, R. O. Lincoln. DEFEAT THE AMENDMENT Blue Lake Advocate. THe Call in several recent articles has directed the attention of the people to the proposed constitutional amendment to be submitted to a vote at the next election. The amendment provides for a commis- sion of five persens clothed with authority to regulate telegraph, telephone, light, power, transportation, sleeping cars, ex- press companies and other corporations. The State is to be divided into five dis- tricts, each of which shall choose a mem- ber of the commission, except that the Governor shall appoint the first lot of commissioners. These are to be appointed one to hold office for two years, one for four years, one for six years, ome for elght years and one for ten years. After that each one will be elected for the full term of ten years, with a salary of $6000 per year. The Call is strongly opposed to the scheme and justly so for many rea- sons which we will not urge now. It is a | long time to the election when the people will be required to vote on the measure. Whatever might be said now will prob- ably be forgotten, so the arguments pro and con will be deferred until later. It is well, however, to let the people know that such a proposition is pending. —————— DESKS’ HIDING PLACES. A desk manufacturer says that in the last vear he has recefved more orders for desks with hidden springs and secret com- partments than in the ten preceding years put together. Some of them have intri- cate mechanism, and by pushing secret buttons the walls are made to fly open and narrow crevices are revealed. As to the cause for this new demand for hidden nooks and crannies in desks he is able to give no satisfactory explanation. It would seem, however, that the man of affairs finds himself the possessor of se- crets so grave that not even the stenogta- pher is allowed to share them and that the common roll-top desk is forced to give way to the intricate, many-paneled con- trivance which alone is able to hide im- portant papers from the prying eyes of clerks and office boys. “Accepting the theory as plausible,” sald the manufacturer, “it would logically follow that women are burdened with more than their share of secrets, for fully two-thirds of these combination desks are intended for female customers. Why they -are going to take the pains of locking up incriminating documents while their tongues are still at liberty is another puz- zle, but then the fad savors of the myste- rious all the way through, and the femi- nine phase of the situation is In keeping 1 with tha rest of the circumstances.” | | + TREET cars without tracks, cable, trolley or horses and, most of all, without franchises, soon will be running regularly on the streets of Chicago, says the Tribune of that city. The first oneof the omnibus automobiles has arrived in the city and next week will start on its regular route, between Jackson boule- ark. It will be the first automobile in Chicago to carry e fare wiil be 5 cents. The passenger on the “Imperial” may take his choice between two decks. ‘matter where he goes, the promoters of the omnibus line declare, he will be pro- vided with a seat. The sample omnibus is thirty feet long. four driving wheels with motor hubs, the tires being of solid rubber. From a beginning with one vehicle and one route the company promises to ex- tend its service to carry passengers on a number of routes into the heart of the city. From the moment every seat in an omnibus is taken the vehicle will become an “express car,” say the promoters, and will make no stop on the route until the Ne It is equipped With Fares will be placed in slots frem either deck. The guard will stand on the stairway leading to the upper deck, where he can make change for passengers on either level. Passengers will be allowed to talk to the motorman if they choose, inasmuch as the motorman in his glass-inclosed space at the front of tne vehicle The cabs are to be lighted and heated by electricity, and electric push-buttons are provided at every seat. The strength of the driving wheels is expected to en- able each omnibus to carry a trailer. Each wheel is a driving unit, the two front wheels being steering wheels as well. The storage battery system will be used and the wehicles will be charged at the end of each run, which will not average A CHANCE TO SMILE. ““Oh, where is my new. collarette?” Said Mary Ann Mahone; “I'\'e! searched the house both high and ow— Wherever has it gone?” Her father said: “Go find the goat, And do no longer fret; I saw him chewing, and I think He has your collarette.” —Yonkers Statesman. A circus paid a flying visit to a small northern town not long ago and the price of admission was sixpence, children under 10 years of age half price. It was Editi’s tenth birthday and her brother Tom, aged 13, took her in the afternoon to see the show. Arrived at the door he put down nine- pence and asked for two front seats. “How 01d is the little girl?” asked the money-taker doubtfully. “ Well,” replied Master Tofn, “this is her tenth birthday, but she was not born until rather late in the afternoon.™ The money-taker accepted the statement and handed him the tickets, but it was a close shave.—Tid Bits. At a certain function presided over by a very short-sighted Bishop a young”man arrived very late and explained that he had been detained in attendance on his mother. “‘Quite right,” said the Bishop, “no need | to apologize. A man’s first duty Is to his parents. I hope the dear old lady is very well? Remember me very kindly to her and tell her I shall drop in to tea next | Sunday if I can manage it.” ‘When the young man had passed on the Bishop turned to a bystander and sald: -'T::‘t was young Jack Seymour, was it not? "]:'lo. my Lord, was the reply. “That gentleman was the Duke of Con; = —Tid-Bits. iy Mrs. Styles—Are you going out on your wheel to-day, Bridget? it Bridget—Indade, I'm not, mum; I'd break the Sabbath day, mum. = “I'm glad there’s something you're not golng to break, Bridget.”—Yonkers Statesman. —————— WHAT TIRES ENGLAND. We have got to this, says the London Mail: The average man rises in the morning from his New England folding bed, shaves with “Willlams” soap and a Yankee safety razor, pulls on his Boston boots over his socks from North Carolina, fastens his Connecticut braces, slips his Waltham or Waterbury watch in his pocket and sits down to breakfast. There he congratulates his wife on the way her Illinois straight front corset sets off her Massachusetts blouse, and he tackles His breakfast, where he eats bread from prairie flour (possibly doctored at the spe- cial establishments on the lakes), tinned oysters from the Pacific Coast, and a slice of Kansas City bacon, while his wife plays with a slice of Chicago ox tongue. The children are given “Puritan™ oats. At the same time he reads his morning paper printed by American ma- chines and possibly on American paper. He rushes out, catches the electric tram (New York) to Shepherd's Bush, where he gets in a Yankee elevator to take him on to the American-fitted elec- tric raflway to the city. In his office everything, of course, iS American. At lunch time he hastily swallows some cold roast beef that comes from a cqw in Towa, and flavors it/ with the latest New England pickles, follows with a few Florida tinned peaches and then soothes his mind with a couple of Virginia cigar- ettes. To follow his course all day would be wearisome. But when evening comes he seeks relaxation at the latest American musical comedy and finishées up with a couple of “little liver pills” “made in America.” HER LAST NOBLEMAN. Norway, it appears, has just lost the only nobleman in her possession. Baron Wedel-Jarlsberg is dead, and with him passes away the last vestige of hereditary institutions in that democratic country. There is always the King, of ¢ourse; but he must be beginning to feel a bit lonely. Baron Wedel-Jarisberg was born in the year of Waterloo, and served with the Norwegian navy for sixty-nine years. In 1849, Quring the first Schleswig war. ;h; Baron h:;d - exciting experience. He ad 3 commission on the great stian VIII. At the cro'ln!n:.lt;ol::l\t of the good battleship’s fate young Wedel- Jarlsberg, like the Maclean at the flood, happened to be in a boat of his own. He was not killed, therefore, when the Chris- tian VIII was blown sky high by the Prussians, though he lost his boat and had to swim ashore and be captured, That incident must have lit for him many dull years, for the history of the Norwegian navy has not been a very exciting one. But what a-queer people the Norwegtans are. As democrats th thornneh, ey are certainly 1 jof the right to vote. . |IN ANSWER TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS —— RAFFLE—A Subscriber, Salinas, Cal. A person in the State of California cannot dispose of a piece of real estate by raffle without infringing om the State law against lotteries, etc. POLISH LIBRARY—G. A. C. Hay- wards, Cal. Ignatz Kolasa is the secre- tary of the Polish Society of San Fran- olsco. The library of that soclety is at 3 Polk street, San Francisco. CHILBLAINS—C., City. Whether the inflammation following chilblains can be reduced may depend upon conditions and that is a matter that can be decided only by a competent physician. POPULATION OF CITIES—G. K., Sac- ramento, Cal. The census of 1900 sets forth that the population of Greater New York is 3,437.202; Philadelphia, 1,293,57; Chicago, 1,698,575; Boston, 30,592, and St. Louis, 575,233, PATENTED LAND—C. H. J., Fresno, Cal. After a patent to a piece of land has been obtained from the United States Government whatever mineral may be discovered in the land vests in the owner. No one would have a rjght to locate a mineral claim on such l4nd. PLAYING PARTNERS-M. F. L, City. If four men engage in a game of cards, forming two sets of partners, and “play several games as such partners and no account is kept of individual tricks tak- en,” none of the players can say that he won any game individually. PATENT LAWS—Old Reader, City. Any dealer in law books will procure for you books that treat on patent laws. If you simply want to learn the mode of pro- cedure in the matter of applying for and obtaining a patent, you can find such books in the Free Public Library. ~ CITIZENSHIP—Subseriber, City. The fact that a man who was born In the Tnited States was the son of a man who was an alien and never became a citizen of the United States does not deprive him He is a citizen by birth and entitled to all the privileges of a eftizen of the United States. LANDLORD AND TENANT-J. R, City. You can seé the codes of Califor- nia at the Free Public Library, referenca room, in which you will find all the law that there is as to the rights of landlord and tenant: also what course is to be taken when a notlce to quit is to be served on a tenant. SOCTALISTIC PARTY—CG. L. H.,, Oak- land. What the Socialistic Labor party wants Is expressed in its last issued plat. form. You can find the same in the World’s Almanac for the current year. The aggregate vote for the candidate of the Socialistic Labor party at the Presi- dential election in 1900 was 39,759. TO DRAMATIZE A BOOK—W. H. E, City. If a book is copyrighted and bears the imprint “All rights reserved” no one would have the right to dramatize such book without the author’'s consent. To obtain the consent of the author Is gen- erally a matter of dollars and cents, to be agreed upon by the author and the would-be dramatist. HOMESTEAD ENTRY—A. 8., Colum- bia, Cal. The taking up of Government land in California is governed.by the fol- lowing sectiofis of the Revised Statutes of the Urited States: Section 2289—Every person who Is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of 21 years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who has filed his declaration of Intention ta become such, as required by the naturaliza- tion laws, shall be entitled to enter one quar- ter section, or a less quantity, of umappro- priated public lands, to be located in a body | in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands: but no person who is the pro- ptietor of more than 160 acres of land in State or Territory shall acquire any right - der the homestead law. And every person owning and residing on land may, under the provisions of this section, enter other land Iying contiguous to his land, which shall not, with the land so aiready owned and occupled, exceed in the aggregate 160 acres. Section 2290—That any person applying to en- ter land under the preceding section shall first make and subscribe before the proper officer and file In the proper land office an atfidavit | that he or she is the head of a family or is over 21 vears of age, and that such applica- tion 15 honestly and in good faith made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and neot for the benefit of any other person, persons or cerporations, and that he or she will faithfully and honestly endeavor to com- ply with all the requirements of law as to settlement, residence and cultivation neces- sary to acquire title to the land applied for; that he or she is not acting as agent of any pereon, corporation or syndicate §n making such entry, mor in collusion with any person, cotporation or syndicate to give them the benefit of the land entered, or any part there- of, or the timber thereon: that he or she does not apply to enter the same for the purpose of speculation, but in good faith to obtain a home for himself or herself, and that he or she has not directly or indirectly made, and will not make, any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons, cor- poration or syndicate whatsoever, by which the title which he or she might acquire from ths Government of the United States should inure, in whole or In part, to the benefit of any per- son, except himself or herself; and wpon fling such affidavit with the Register or Re- celver,son payment of $ when the entry is of not more than eighty acres and on payment of $10 when the"Entry is for more than eighty aeres, he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the amount of land specified. A man may cut and sell timber when clearing the land for cultivation, provid- ing he does cultivate the land after clear- ing. Land taken up as a homestead under the United States laws is itself exempt from State or county taxation until it is finally entered, but the improvements are subject to taxation. —_——— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —_—— Cal. glace fruit 30c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— Special information supplied dally t business houses and public men by lh: Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1043. +« The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decides that neither a professor in a State university aor a teacher in the public schools is a public officer. Each is an employe. : —_———— Are You “Of the 0ld World”? Everything pertaining to the New Worid may be easily and cheaply seen at the Pan- American Exposition, and the best way to get to Buffalo is by the comfortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road, carrylng Nickel Plate Dining Cars, in which are served Ames- fean Club meals from 3¢ to §I each. Book free, showing pictures of exposition duildings. Hotel accommodations reserved. JAY W. ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 37 Crocker building, San Francisco, Cal. —————— Best Way to the Yosemite. The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thenes via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at 5 tha next afternoon. This Is the most popular routa and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder, —————— CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Cal., wfl;‘h. the popular summer resort this season. It became famous last year for com- fort, entertainment and health, Its splendid cafe was a wonder, the fisKing unexecelled, Aflm—mmlhorfimlfl'l’m to the hair by Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cta