The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1901, Page 6

6 } T THE SAN FRANCISCO CA\.LL. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1901 The Sk~ Call. weeess..AUGUST 6, 1901 TUESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Menager. MANAGER’S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 A R W SR O % PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cenis Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), cne year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday). 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month.. FUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. Al postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Bample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers In orderi: change of address should be particular to give both N“:‘AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Atvertising, Marqustte Building, Chicags. Quong Distance Tekph:‘u" “Central 2613.”) NEW YORK' CORRESPONDENT: €. ©. CARLTON. <+...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unioz Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES—5?27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. €33 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o’clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 8 o'clock. 108§ Valencia, open unt!l 9 o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 3 o'clock. 200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. e ————e e AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—*‘Toll Gate Inn." Central—‘Monte Cristo.” Tivoll—*‘Lucia.” California—*“The Amazons.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—'‘Mrs, Dane’s Defence.” Alcazar—*‘Camille.” Olympia, corncr Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer’s—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Swimming. State Fair and Exposition, Sacramento—September 2 to 14. AUCTION SALES. By Fred H. Chase—This day, Horses, at 1722 Market street. ¥, August 12, at 12 o'clock, 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the = er months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew mddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will alse be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local afent im ~Il towss on the coast. THE FRENCH VINE-GROWERS. INCE the renewal of the French vineyards by S stocks from California that are resistant of phylloxera, the crop has so enormously creased that prices have fallen below any possible profit. The vineyardists complain, however, that the increased yield is accompanied by a decreased mar- ket, and that California, taking advantage of the shortage in past years caused by the destruction of the French vineyards, has occupied their market. We have not at hand statistics to prove or disprove this contention, but we assume that the Frenchmen know what they are talking about. It must mean that California has taken possession of the wine and brandy market in this country and Great Britain, and, perhaps, to an extent, that in Central and South America and Russia. We are aware that California vintners have recently complained of the bad state of their market, but they attribute it to the “brickyard vineyards” of the Lake Erie region, Missouri and in- Central New York. But this complaint, if justifiable, | only shows -that American wine-drinkers are using the American product in preference to the foreign, and are trick into patronizing the blended and re- wines of the East for lack of ivhat wine really is. inforced artifi knfl\(‘;("‘i( ot The only genuine wine grapes grown in this coun- try are grown in California. A wine grape must have in the fruit all of the elements required in a finished wine, the sugar, the acid and, if red wine, the color and grape tanr Nothing need be added to give the qualities required by the nser. The Eastern grapes have neither the sugar nor the color -required. They are treated with syrup and get their e dyes. As they lack sugar they fall e ptic percentage of alcohol, which is supplied by corn high wines. If short in tannin they are filled with oak tannin. The grapes supply some id 2nd the juice necessary to fermentation, and that fs about 2ll.. The California vintners can help their domestic trade by publishing widely a plain statement of facts about wine, what it is, how made, and the necessary elements for its excellence, which must exist in the grape and cannot be supplied from other sources without irjuring the wholesomeness of the product. The Hammondsport (N. Y.) wines, grown on Keuka Lake, and the Ohio wines from KeMy's Island, had quite a hold in the Eastern market before Cali- fornia began exporting. The great headway made by our wines was against their competition, at the out- set, and it would seem that there is nothing in their competition now that should seriously bar the progress of our vintage. Having secured a market by the superior quality of our vintage, it can be held only by rightly observ- ing the principles of commercial honor, and sending out only sound, aged and finished wines. Tf our vintners attempt to meet the competition of sophis- ticated wines by sophisticating, they will make a mis- take that means their final rui ] n. color fc below the antis A movement has been started in the East to, present a loving cup to Admiral Cervera in recognition of his kindness to Licutenant Hobson when that dashing young officer was taken prisoner at Santiago, and it is to be hoped thg scheme will go through. Amid the rivalries and bitternesses of commerce it is pleasant to find the fighters doing the fraternal act. The people of Europe never realized the largeness of the United States until recent events directed their attention to the fact that it is big enough to hold Rockefeller and Morgan at the same time. 3 THOSE EASTERN WISE MEN. Pedagogics, Professor James Earl Russell. N U Since his public declaration, to a class of teachers in the Berkeley summer school, that their profession is narrow and bigoted, he appears in an interview in which he adheres manfully to his state- ment and adds to it by saying: “I mean to say that the teachers of the United States, as a class, are nar- row, bigoted and incompetent. The solution of the problem lies in the teachers themselves, and the first step is to shake them up and tell them frankly their faults.” We submit that his method of shaking them up has in it no leading to reform, if reform be necessary. The indictment of teachers, as a class, as incompetent does no good. The professor’s statement, if it have any merit, must be hqsed upon observed facts. In our judgment a statement of those facts, without other characterization, would be useful to teachers as a class. Such a statement of facts would be his pre- mise and could be examined and validated or inval- idated, and his conclusion could be justified or over- thrown. The inquiry should be,"What do teachers do, and how, that exhibits their narrowness, bigotry and incompetency? Professor Russell states only a conclusion, and that in language that is offensive. He is unknown to the general public of this State, the West and the Union. A man must have established reputation for wisdom, for good judgment, in order to secure acceptance of his conclusions without premise or argument. What he has said and classically calls “a shake up” does no good at all. On the contrary, it does harm. It plants the seeds of distrust and suspicion in the minds of the millions of parents whose children are in the schools. It makes every teacher's task harder and more difficult. It makes the taxpayers less pa- tient in supporting the public schools. It hardens the hoof of tyranny on the part of shallow school boards, entrusted with brief authority, and is the cause of evil, and evil only. The qualities of narrowness, bigotry and incom- petency must be shown in methods, practices and habits, in deed and in action. What acts of teachers, as a class, betray these qualities? Professor Russell says that his damnifying conclu- sion is “the product of long thought and experience.” But Horace Mann had long thought and experience and reached no such conclusion. Other educators, whose eminence made them known to the public, reached the opposite conclusion. In such a situation the teachers and the public have a right to know what painful experiences in his career led Professor Russell to his conclusion. The trouble with Professors Russell and Wendell seems to be 2 fondness for calling names and making snoots at those who in good faith have sought their classes to be instructed. All men know that it is an infirmity of narrow and bigoted men to think others to be as they are. | A vast majority of the millions of Americans have | come to manhood and womanhood through the pub- | lic schools. If their training have been by teachers | narrow, bigoted and incompetent, then the national character has been narrowed and bigotized. Instead of a broad and strong people, as the world believes us to be, we are a narrow and weak people. Our jrivals in the industrial world, who have critically ex- | amined us, in a search for the cause of our strength and industrial supremacy, have frankly declared that it is in the public school training of our people, lead- |ing to their high leve! of intelligence, their faultless | initiative, their individual independence. E again hail Columbia and its Doctor of It is con- ceded that we make mistakes, but they are the mis- | takes of the strong and broad, not of the narrow and weak. Lord Rosebery has said that the salvation of | industrial England must be sought in the introduc- tion there of our American public school system. Other English thinkers have taken the same posi- | tion, and their attitude is so significant that it is be- lieved it foreshadows the next issue in English poli- {tics. Can it be possible that all other observers, at | home and abroad, are wrong and this Columbian | pundit is right? The French Embassador, Jules Cambon, in a re- rcent speech at Chicago said: “America’s magnificent | public school system and its host of well equipped and érichly endowed colleges and seminaries are the best | guarantees the nation possesses, or can possess, of its future peace and stability. More than its inexhaust- | ible mines of gold and iron, more than its vast and ever-increasing number of manufactories and railway systems, its agricultural resources and other wealth- producing agencies, do these public schools and other ;instimtions of learning stand for the things that prom- | ise strength, perpetuity and tranquillity to the Ameri- can republic. . The teacher is, after all, the greatest | of peacemakers. Breadth of view, refined sensibili- | ties, enlarged sympathy, lofty and ennobling senti- ment, a higher range of thought and feeling—all these and other things developed by a true educational process count against a resort to the cruelties and barbarities of war.” We agree with Rosebery and Cambon, and defend |the American teacher against Professor Russell’s harmful ascription and the brutal phraseology in which it is expressed. s s In ordering Mr. Kennan out of Russia the Czar was probably unaware that he had given that distin- guished lecturer a big-free advertisement for his next {course of lectures on the barbarity of the Russian Government. A LONG-LIVED FALSEHOOD. ~\ NE of the curiosities of the silly season in the O East is the persistency with which certain persons who ought to know better are repeat- |ing the assertion that bubonic plague exists in San Francisco, and that there is danger it may spread throughout the country. These cranks, for they de- serve no better title, have lately taken to declaring that the authorities in this city have combined in a sort of conspiracy to suppress the truth, and upon that declaration they build up much lofty and seem- ingly earnest moralizing over the evils that result when facts concerning a plague or pestilence are sup- pressed. Some of the Eastern papers give a ready cfedence to these reports, but fortunately most of them do not. Knowing how thoroughly the United States is cov- ered by various agencies for gathering news, the more intelligent papers point out that if there were any- thing like a serious pestilence in this city the fact of its existence could not be suppressed. Thus the Bos- ton Herald in commerting upon the statements of the alarmists says: “These doctors say that it is prevalent in San Fran- cisco; that many deaths (how many?) have occurred there, and that it is in New York and at other points. That it has been lurking in San Francisco for several months, and that city, State and national authorities have conspired together to conceal the truth has been asserted before. It may be true. But if it be true, it is also plain that its spread has been slow. If it ex- isted there to the extent and with the degree of malignity observed in the cities of India or at Cape Town it would seem to be impossible to conceal the facts.” It would seem that to any intelligent man that ar- gument would be conclusive, A pestilence is popu- larly supposed to be something of which a good many people die, and consequently one of the proofs that may be !.‘equired of a crank who asserts that a pesti- lence exists in a given community is a showing that some one has died of it in that locality. It.is probable this bubonic plague story will go floating around inj the East for a long time. Fortu- nately for us it has become comparatively harmless. Travelers are not shunning the city, and but for an occasional reference to the subject in the Eastern press we would not know that doctors were still talk- ing about it. When truth sets out to overtake false- hood it has a hard task. In the end truth lives and falsehood dies, but the end is often a very long time | coming. D It is said to have been decided that Edward’s new title will be that of “King of Great Britain and Ire- !and and of British possessions beyond the sea,” so it would seem all the reports that he intends to have himself crowned emperor were just a little bit unre- - liable. \ BILL-POSTING NUISANCES. HEN the French were preparing for the \ ;\ / Paris Exposition of 1900 they sought to add to the attractiveness not only of their capi- tal 'but of their whole country by strictly forbidding anything in the way of bill-posting nuisances either around the exposition grounds or about the stations of the railways by which visitors reached the city. In that way they furnished the civilized world with an example of reform that was widely commented upon and did much to encourage the fight against such nuisances elsewhere. In Buffalo something like an opposite course appears to have bfen pursued, and as a result the poster advertising around Niagara Falls is said to have been carried to such an extent as to seriously detract from the enjoyment of the visitors., * ¥ The effect of unlimited bill-posting and fence adver- tising has been a renewal of the agitation in the East for the enactment of laws to prevent any further per- petration of the nuisance. The New York Sun in commenting upon the evil in and around the city says illuminated signs have been placed along the Pali- sades, that the Brooklyn Bridge seems to exist only for the sake of serving as a framework on which to hang the names of all sorts of articles of commerce, and that electric light advertising has reached the limit on Broadway. It adds: “It is reasonable to resent anything which takes from the beauty of a piece of scenery, or anything which takes from the dignity of a city’s principal thoroughfare. If we have the right to protection from discomforting noise, why should we not have some protection from what jars us through the sense of sight?” From Philadelphia a simila- complaint comes. The Times says any American who returns home from a prolonged sojoyrn abroad will be struck by the great number of advertising sign8 that desecrate every available space, and by way of abating the nuisance it advocates the adoption in Pennsylvania of the French system of taxing such forms of advertising. “It-is a valuable privilege,” says the Times, “in the nature of a franchise like that which is given out to authorize the use of the streets by a railroad company and other permits that bring benefits to private indi- viduals. It is worth money to an advertiser to put up a notice of his wares in a public place where thou- sands of people may see it. Furthermore, it is in the interest of dignity, art and an undefiled landsecape that these pasters and painters should not go about over the face of the earth with a free hand.” It may be 2 long time before American landscapes and American cities are redeemed. from the bill- posting and fence advertising nuisance, but sooner or later the reform will be accomplished. Steps have been already taken to restrict the nuisance to some extent, and thus the movement toward reform has been actually started. Doubtless the adoption of a system of taxation similar to that in France would prove advantageous in limiting the evil as well as in bringing in a considerable revenue to the community. At any rate the persistency with which the Eastern press is urging.the reform gives assurance that a strong public sentiment will soon be developed in favor of it. When that sentiment is aroused a means will be found to rid the country and the cities of a nuisance which has been already too long tolerated. A Boston woman who was too sick to attend the fineral of her husband engaged a stenographer and a photographer to take notes and pictures of the event and make a report to her, and the incident is ominous of the coming of a time when every family will run its own newspaper. B ) RUDYARD KIPLING'S LATEST. IPLING'S latest poem, “The Lesson,” must be K very gratifying to Mr. Alfred Austin, for, if it does not confirm Austin’s right to the office of Poet Laureate, it at least shows that Kipling has no better right. In fact, it would seem that the Boers have knocked all the poetry out of British life, for even the imperialistic Kipling cannot sing in anything better than a very common kind of music-hall rhyme. Mr. Kipling says the war has taught Britain a lesson. She has had, as he says, “all her most holy illusions knocked higher' than Gilderoy’s kite.” In plain fanguage he tells his countrymen: “It was our fault, and our very great fault, and not the judgment of heaven; we made an army in our image on an island nine by seven, which faithfully mirrored its maker's ideals, equipment and mental attitude; and so we got our-esson and we ought to accept it with gratitude.” There is rhyme in that and probably reason also, but it is hardly poetry, nor does the percentage of poetry increase as ghe rhyme goes on to state in detail what the lesson is that has been taught. Kip- ling says: i We have spent some hundred million pounds to prove the fact once more That horses are quicker than men afoot since two and two make four. - And horses have four legs and men have two legs and two into four goes twice. And'nothing over except our lesson and very cheap at the price. Concerning the conclusiohs and the moral to be drawn from the affair it is said: “So the more we work and the less we talk, the better results we shall get; we have had an imperial lesson; it will make us an empire yet.” " All of which may be true, but it is a self-evident fact the lesson is not going to make poets, so if the British wish any more rhyme on this war they had better advertise for proposals. EMPEROR OF GERMANY NOW GROWS A BEAR — (LA (et KAISER WILHELM HAS SET THE FASHION FOR BEARDS IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE. HE RECENTLY BEGAN WEARING ONE, WHIQH " GIVES HIM A RESEMBLANCE TO HIS FATHER. L I upward twist of his mustache, which he About the same time he dismissed the imperial barber, Haby, who is said to have ‘become impudent and to have presumed tions with the Emperor. in an appearance. L e S 2 i — PERSONAL MENTION. Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace. Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento is a guest at the Grand. W. H. Cleary, a mining man of San Andreas, is at the Lick. J. W. Congdon, a mining man of Mani- posa, is a guest at the Lick. J. B. Crow, a rancher of Crows Land- ing, is registered at the Lick. C. B. Greenwaoll, the well-known politi- clan of Hneneme, is at the Grand. A. M. McDcnald, a mining man of Jamestown, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. Nat Green, a prominent physician of Watsonville, is spending a few days at the Grand. F. Elworthy is visiting the city after an absence of twelve years. He is staying at the Golden West. Carl G. Lindsey, an attorney of Santa Cruz and a member of the Governor's staff, is at the California. Among yesterday's arrivals in the city was K. Max, who has just returned from an extended trip through the East. C. B. Greenwell, State Senator, repre- senting the district which embraces Santa Barbara and Ventura, arrived in the city last evening and registered at the Palace. Thomas Flint Jr., State Senator, rep- resenting Monterey and San Benito, is at the Palace. —_—— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 5—The following Californfars are in New York: From San Francisco—Miss Boedefeld and P. M. Nip- pert at the Albemarle, J. J. Brown and A. C. Leslie at the Cosmopolitan, M H.C. Freeman at the Grand Union, W. C. Har- riman at the Murray Hill, Miss M. Kent at the Holland, M. Kolander at the Mor- ton, J. F. Major and wife at the Everett, W. Ringrose at the Herald Square, J. B. Steenbach at the Imperial, A. Wocker and wife at the Union Square. ° " From Los Angeles—G. A. Brown and T. N. Canfield at the Cadillac. From Santa Clara—H. T. Bond at the Manhattan. e Californians in Washington. WASHINGTCN, Aug. 5.—The following Californians are registered at the Raleigh: W. F. Dobbs, P. C. March, Miss Irene Stevens and W. H. Smith of San Fran- cisco. < . e WOMAN SEA CAPTAIN. According to the census reports Mrs. Blanche Douglas Leathers is the only licensed woman sea captain in the United States, says the New York World. Mrs. Leathers is now in command of one of the largest steamboats on the Mississippi—the Natchez, which makes regular trips between New Orleans and ‘Vicksburg. She is thoroughly acquainted with every detail of her profession, and ‘can give any one of her erew points on the proper way to bow-lash a line or place a “stage.” In her seafaring experience of nearly ten years Mrs. Leathers has had her share of wrecks and adventures. Several years ago, when the old Natchez sank near Vicksburg, Captain Leathers was on board as a passenger and saved her life by swimming to shore. One dark night a few weeks ago the plucky little captain’s nerve was severely tested. Her boat on its down trip sud- denly ran against a sandbar and broke off both of the large smokestacks. The noise and excitement stampeded the pas- sengers and the sparks from the dis- abled stacks. threatened the boat with destruction by fire. Mrs. Leathers at once sent the passen- gers into the cabin, took her place at the wheel and remained there for twenty- four ‘hours until the Crescent City was reached. The brave woman was literally covered with soot and cinders, but re- fused to leave her post until all her pas- sengers were safely landed. Captain Leathers was also one of the Louisiana State Commissioners to the World's Fair at Chicago. UNCORKING A BOTTLE. No doubt you have found yourself in the predicament of having forgotten the cork- screw, and you are out in the fields trying to get a draught from a cold bottle. Here is a new and simple way to over- come the difficulty, the invention of which is to be accredited to a convivial young scientist. Hold the neck of the bottle firm- ly in your right hand, and with your left hold a handkerchief against the trunk of a tree. Now, with a quick blow hit the side of the tree covered with the handker- chief. The cork will immediately fly out. Then turn the bottle upward, so the flutd will not flow out after the cork. - 5 ket aonar hacdsed A caterpillar' can eat 600 times ‘weight of food in a month. its T was announced in the Berlin cables several weeks ago that Emperor Will- jam has commenced to let his beard grow and that he now, more than ever, triking resemblance to his father. ?::: of the German ruler, showing how he looks with his latest hirsute adorn- ment. The Emperor, in May of last year, began to modify somewhat the fierce It was also said then that the Emperor was about to let his beard grow, and German barbers were in despair, for the fashion of wear- ing beards would become general and mean a loss of millions of marks to the knights of the razor throughout the Empire. determination, however, and now the barber fold of the Fatherland are kept busier than ever before devoting their attention to the beard crops that'have put The Call is able to present a pic- reduced to an angle of forty-five degrees. to trade on his supposed friendly rela- Emperor William earried out his A CHANCE TO SMILE. Some English ministers still value de- grees conferred by so-called American universities for a monetary consideration. Recently one of these favored men an- nounced to the principal of a theological seminary in England that he had received the degree of D.D. ‘““Was it honorary, or | given for special work you have done?” said the principal. ‘“Neither,” answered the' “Doctor.” “It was _postgraduate.” “What do you mean by that?’. The an- swer, given with simple sincerity, was, “It was sent to me by post.”—Congrega- tionalist. The Soubrette—I don’t see why our lead- ing juvenile doesn't try to get the old man’s part in this new play. It's the best role of them all, and he could do it without making up a bit. The Leading Lady—Why do you keep | bothering about -.the leading- juvenile? | ‘Why don’t you try to take an interest in the heavy man? He's wasted away to a mere shadow on your account.—Chicago i Times-Herald. “Young man,” said Colonel Stilwell, “T | want to offer an explanation to you. I alluded to that poetry of yours as ‘moon- shine.’ “Don’t mention the matter, colonel.” “But I insist on mentioning it. I have just been up in the mountains of Ken- tucky, and the stuff they call ‘moonshine’ up there has an amount of genuine get- | up-and-get to it which it is beyond the | power of poetry to imitate. I withdraw the remark, sir, as a matter of justice to the moonshine.”—Washington Star. “To-morrow,” mused she, gazing with her deep blue eyes into the glowing grate, where, as the coals crumbled at the touch of the flame, divers and sundry fantastic | forms seemgd to gather, enly to disperse again, ‘“‘to-morrow I shall be JI7. More- over, T have been reared in the strictest of New England homes. Why should I| not, then, write a novel dealing frankly with the sex problem?” Of course, there was no reason why not, except that she was an extremely indo- lent girl; and this we told her.—Detroit -Journal. Mrs Bill-Before we were married Will used to kiss me sometimes a hundred times in an evening! Mrs. Gill—And now? *Oh, sometimes he doesn’t kiss me for a week.” “What does he say to that?” “Oh, he says the average is all right yet.”—Yonkers Statesthan. “The first man to arrive at the Bod- Mins' reception wore evening clothes.” “What! Before 6 o'clock?” “Yes. The ladles who saw him enter took him for Hitemoff, the Russian Prince, and said, ‘How deliciously eccen- trie!” “Well?” ““Well, when the real Hitemoff arrived everybody wanted.to know who the fel- low was who had so shamefully violated all the most sacred laws of good form.” “Yes,"” “He proved to be one of the hired wait- ers.”—Plain Dealer. Church—Did you ever notice how happy a man looks after he has gotten outside of a good square meal? Gotham—Yes; and I have noticed how happy a man looks after he has gotten outside of some of these places which ad- vertise a good square meal.—Yonkers Statesman. —_———— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per lu at Townsend's.* ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 t- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * The man who elbows past w the purpose of ketting a seat lrtnm:;: ::tr never crowds a lady out of church. Y iR ? ————— Best Way to the Yosemite. The sr:r Fe to Merced und stage thence via Me Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, arriving 4t Sentinel Hotel at 5 the next afternoon. This is the most popular route and the rates are the lowest.© Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder. Camp Curry, Yosemite, introduced and maintains the mod- erate rates of $2 per day, $12 per week: less than $40 for an_ eleven-day trip to Yosemite via the Big Oak Flat route, 630 Market, or Santa Fe route, 641 Market st. ;. —_————————— Dr. Sanford’s Liver !nvi.goflto; BestLiv@ Medicine, VegetableCureforLiver Ills. Biliousress, Indigestion. Constipation, Malaria. —_——— Stops Diarrhoea and Stomach Cramps. Dr. Siegert’s Genuire Imported Angostura Bitters. IN ANSWER D! TO QUERIES BY * CALL READERS A FEBRUARY DATE-F., City. The 14th of February, 1863, fell on a Saturday. CARNEGIE IN SCOTLAND—L. W. Z., Milford, Lassen County, Cal. The home of Andrew Carnegle in Scotland is Skibo, Castle Ardgay, N. B. STREET GRADE—Subscriber, ' City. The grade at the intersection of Oak and Devisadero streets in San Francisco is 172 feet above high tide mark. CUSTER-L. W. Z, Milford, Lassen County, Cal. General George A. Custer was slain by Sioux Indians June 25, 1876, on Little Big Hern River. = crintesse THE MOON—J. A. 8., Merced, Cal. The mean synodical revolution of the moon or the period frqyn new moon to new moon 1s 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.57 seconds. STEAM RAMS—§., City. The steam ram to be used in naval warfare was invented by an Englishman named James Nasmyth in 183, and communicated to the British Admiralty in 134, CONCEALED WEAPON-J. B. R., City. No one has a right In the city and county of San Franeisco to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit, as required by law. CAMP MERRITT-D. L. D., City. Itis stated that the greatest number of sol- dlers at Camp Merritt at one time was in the latter part of Jume, 1898, when there were 14,062 in the city of tents. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES—Subscrib- er, City. Those who are well informed say that there is no place in Sap Fran- cisco “‘where one can obtain the total re- celpts of green fruit and vegetables in San Franelsco during each month of the SCIATIC STAY—S., City. Sciatie stay, a term used on board of merchant ves- sels, 1s a strong rope fastened between the main and foremast heads. When load- ng or unloading a traveling tackle is sus- perded to it, so as to bring it over the fore or main hatchway, as occasion de- mands. VEGETABLES—E. M. T., City. TNl"de- partment has not the space to give “the qualities of all vegetables and the effect they have on the human system.” Sus- gest that you go to the reference room of the free public library, where you will find treatise on food and dietetics. That will give you the information you desire. PEDRO—Subscriber, Newman, Cal. “A and B are playing pedro. Each wants one point to go out. A bids two, makes high, jack and game and B makes low; which wins?” asks this correspondent. A wins. He bid two, made all he bid and more, too, and, having high, counts first, for the count is high, low, jack, game and pedro. WEDDING RINGS—Em., Oakland, Cal. ‘Wedding rings were used by the anclents and were placed on the third finger of the left hand from a supposed connection with a vein there with the heart. Ac- cording to Pliny, A. D. 61-115, they were made of iron. The first gold wedding rings were used In the Tertulllan period, A. D. 220-240. LIGHT THAT FAILED—C. A. S, Stockton, Cal. “The Light That Fatled,” written by Rudyard Kipling, which closed with the marriage of the hero and the heroine, was the first version published. The. reason that the author ehanged the finale in the second version was that he did not like the first. LINEN—S,, City. This correspondent writes: “A young lady is to be married to a gentleman, fair-to-do, in Alameda, having a spacious house of his own, where he has been, with his father, living a bach- elor’'s life. Should the table and bed linen be furnished by the bride or groom to be?” A man who lives in a spacious house and is fair-to-do in Alameda County is the one who ought to furnish all that is requisite for the purpose of going to housekeeping. PORCUPINE—S. P. R.,, West Oakland, Cal. The porcupine, or hedgehog, is a genus of mammalia of ‘the order rodentia and family hystricidae. This family is re- markably characterized by an armature of spines, which as to structure are mere- ly thick and strong hairs. Its general as- pect is piglike and heavy. It has a grunt- ing voice, but has not, as you suppose, wings. The German for porcupine is sta- ckelschwein (thorn pig), in Italian it is porco spinoso (pig with spines), in Latia porcus spinosus (thorny pig). BUT FOR A DAY—M. B, Tomales, Cal. ‘The insect that lives but a day is called the ephemera. It Js the linnaean genus of neuropterous insects now forming the family or tribe ephemeride. They have recetved their name from the brief dura- tion of their existence In the perfect state. taking no food, merely propagat- ing their specles and dying. The ephe- mera, when it leaves its grub life in the water and assumes a higher form and aerfal existence, dies the very day It was born into its new life. MEDICINE—W. N, City. One who is not a physiclan may engage in selling patent medicine without having a license required of medical men to practice med- icine. In San Francisco if he sold such medicirfe at a fixed place of business he would not require a municipal license, but as to the whole United States this depart- ment cannot inform you. If, however, in San Francisco you should peddle the med- icine you would be liable to pay a ped- dler’s license, and ¥ you should attempt fo practice medicine without a license from the Board of Medical Examiners You-would be liable to prosecution. UNCLE SAM-A. . §,, City. The name “Uncle Sam” originated as follows: Dur- ing the war of 1812 a man named Samuel ‘Wilson was Government Inspector at Troy of pork and beef purchased by the Gov- ernment. The cases containing the pro. visions shipped to the Government by a contractor named Elbert Anderson were rked with his initials, E. A., and be- low U. 8., for United States. One of the Government employes, new at his task, asked the meaning of U. S. and was joeu- larly told that the letters stood for Uncle Sam Wilson. This pleasantry was re- peated in various forms Wilson was congratulated on the extent of his prop- erty, as many cases passing & through there were so marked. The story spread, took firm root and to-day the allusion is everywhere understood. NAVAL FORCES—R. K., City. The following shows the number of vessels, men and' guns in the German h sussian navies in December, M!:nd . Germany. Russia. Battle ships, first class... S5 2 Battle ships, second class 4 1 Coast detense shiy s 18 s 12 L) n 23 n n 9 2t L b o 1% 1 n 5t ™ School and training ships........ 14 ‘ 3 Subsidtzed and auxiliary ships. 2 34 Hulks and obsolete ships. s 0 . 9 % 2,381 .08 L P ¥