The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1901, Page 6

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Sutro Baths—Swimming. < 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The Call Business Ofiice. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agenmt im ~Il towss en the coast. PUBLIC SENTIMENT AROUSED. C ALIFORNIANS are as a rule so indifferent to the aggressions of political bosses and so careless of most of the jobbery that goes on around them that there is a striking significance in the earnestness with which public opinion has ex- pressed itself in condemnation of the removal of Dr. Osborne from the management of the Home for Feeble-minded Children in order to make a place for tent office-secker. Here at least is an offense concerning which the people are not indifferent, and the pol 1 jobbers have doubtless learned already ake when they counted the home ldren into a part of the spoils of a persi Gage as a candidate for re-election no removal pi Dr. Osborne and the Lawlor would strengthen his hold nd thereby increase his chances of Consequently, the pliant trustees of he work for him. The man who has cd the affairs of the school for fifteen years uccess and credit to himself and to the State, and whose loving care of the afflicted children under his charge has been manifest throughout all the years of his service, was set aside to make a place for a man who, to say the least of it, has never shown any fitness for that office nor achieved honor in any other office. Since the scheme was carried out for political effect, it will not be surprising if it should have very im- portant effects in that way, but not of the kind the scheming trustees intended: From the number, the frequency and the force of the protests that have been made against the outrage done to the children by putting them under the control of a political job- hunter it is evident that Gage's ambitions have been more hurt than helped. The bosses whose favor was obtained by the concession to their demands for a place for Lawlor will not be strong enough to offset the indignation of the people of all parties and of all sections of the State. In fact, the more the affair is studied the more gross the outrage appears and the less excuse can there be found for the men who per- petrated it. The issue is one that rightly stirs the hearts of the people. No charity can be conceived more de- pendent upon genuine sympathy than that which is carried out in the Home for the Feeble-minded. To the care of those poor little children Dr. Osborne has devoted his life and the best of his faculties. He has made the home 2 model of its kind and a blessing to the inmates. Every one who has any knowledge of the subject knows how faithfully he has served every need of the children and how he has studied to make the utmost possible out of every ray of intelli- gence that brightens their darkened lives. Conse- quently, the removal of such a man for no other pur- pose than that of providing a job for an habitual tax- eater naturally arouses sentiments of disgust and in- dignation. So strongly has public opinion now declared itself, it is not unlikely the trustees will be unwilling any longer to bear the odium of it and will replace Dr. Osborne. That is about the only means they can take to right the wrong, and the sooner they do it the better. M. Bertillon, the famous French anthropologist, has compiled the census reports of the nations for the last fifty years of the nineteenth century, and reports that during that time Russia gained in round millions 62, Germany 21. Austria 14, Great Britain 14, Italy 8 and France 3. In the same period the United States gained 52 millions, but while we have now a popu- lation of but 75,000,000 Russia has 120,000,000. One of the leading papers in St. Petersburg is re- ported to have stated recently in a leading editorial: “When a union of the South American republics has been definitely realized, with the United States at their head, they will form so powerful a combination that they will be able to dictate to Europe even on ques- tions outside their continent.” Surely it is even so. These Russians are great prophets. | e s THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1901. COLLEGE MEN AS LABORERS. HERE has been some criticism of the appear- I ance of several students of the State Univer- sity, as laborers, doing stevedore work, dufingr the present strike. / The right of a university man to do common labor has been assailed with some bitterness and has been affirmed by President Wheeler of the university, who makes the interesting statement that a large percent- age of the students in the State University are work- ing their way to an education, being compelled to support themselves. The young men who took up the work of unloading and loading ships that had been abandoned by strikers seemed to show com- mendable industry and did not flinch at the hardest parts of the service, but fairly earned their wages. The general objection made to their appearance in that field of labor is applied to their appearance any- where in self-supporting manual work. They are non- union wotkers, and in effect the objection is to any but union labor anywhere. This raises a serious are ambitious for the highest intellectual training, but who can obtain it only by working their way through college. It is doubtful if they would be admitted to membership in any labor union, and, therefore, if the contention of their critics can be made good they must abandon the hope of getting the education which they desire. Behind it all, and deeper than the issue raised against them, is the philosophy of the situation. Are such youths good workmen? .They have prepared for a higher cducation and have received its initial im- pulse. Their minds are beginning to respond to exact and symmetrical training. What has been the effect upon their capacity for self-support by manual labor? Some very interesting information upon this point is furnished by the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Rapid Transit Company. A very large number of college students {in the East are compelled to earn wages during vaca- tion to support them through the next term in school. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has employed and electrical engineers. They have earned good wages and are well liked by the railroad officials and traveling public and are found to be scrupulously honest and thoroughly efficient. THhe assistant super- intendent of the road said that he would be glad to secure a hundred more during the vacation, and, in- deed, to keep them at work on the cars and in the shops all the time, for they make excellent employes, are courteous, painstaking and efficient and honest in their dealings. The president, Mr. Greatsinger, who rose from a common laborer, declared himself greatly gratified to be able to help so large a number of de- serving and industrious young men to secure a com- plete education by their own exertions. We hope | that this expression bearing on the value and fidelity of that kind of labor will be added to by its employers in other fields. It will not do for this country to depend entirely upon imported labor, skilled and unskilled, to be sup- plied by immigration, and then given the power, by organization, to deny to American boys the right to labor at all. Nearly half of the American born boys | who are going through the colleges and universities are sprung from the loins of the plain people and | have to support themselves while getting an educa- {tion. This is a normal and wholesome condition. They are to be better men for that experience, and better Americans, and no organization should have the power to deny to them that right. It will not do to permit our native youth to be outlawed and ex- cluded from the right to labor in the land they were born in. Every year, by increase in demand and by ‘death and superannuation, there are created about 750,000 vacancies in the ranks of American labor of all classes. It is not good for the nation to permit the filling of those vacancies entirely by imported labor, Chinese or other. The Berkeley boys who went willingly to stevedor- ing arc types of a class of American youth that we cannot afford to deny the right to labor nor to de- grade by permitting them to be called scabs. P Y Since it is'announced that arrangements are about completed for forming a telephone circuit from Bos- ton to this city, it is to be hoped the Boston people will begin to reform their grammar and quit talking through the nose. D acter have been made in the East concerning the extent to which fraudulent diplomas are sold among people whom no one would suspect of being guilty of purchasing a degree to which they were not entitled. It appears that in New Jersey, where the investigation has been carried out with some thoroughness, there have been found quite a number of respectable persons, including several clergymen, who actually bought and @aid for degrees which they must have known were fraudulent and de- ceptive. The diplomas, while fraudulent, inasmuch as they are not conferred by a' genuine university, are not illegal. There exists in Chicago an institution duly chartered as a university by the State of Illinois, which for some time past has earned a good living for those who conduct it by turning out degrees at cut rates. It gains advantage by the fact that when announcing itself as a university in Chicago the aver- age citizen supposes it to be the University of Chi- cago. The institution, it appears, has been in the custom of sending out circulars announcing degrees of nearly all kinds at fixed figures just as if they were so much pork. It has been exposed by Chicago papers; but it still flourishes and will doubtless continue ‘to do so as long as the State of Illinois permits it to operate under a charter. The genuine universities of Illinois are naturally much annoyed by the ill repute which the fake degree institution has brought upon the State. President Rogers of Northwestern University is quoted as hav- ing said of the fraud: grace upon this commonwealth, but has discredited American degrees in Europe and Asia and been pub- licly denounced in the British Parliament. It exists on paper only and has no standing in any educational institution in the world. And yet, as the London press has stated, it has had ‘the insolence to nominate agents to carry on its scandalous traffic in foreign countries, and has scattered its degrees over England, Germany and India for a money compensation!” A paper published in Germany has discussed the matter under the head, ‘American Diploma Swindlers’ The board-of Oxford University has called public atten- tion to the misdemeanors of which the so-called ‘Chancellor’ of this so-called national univessity is guilty in filling out doctors’ diplomas for money.” A considerable number of persons who purchase 1 these fake degrees may do so out of a_comparatively FRAUDULENT DIPLOMAS. ISCLOSURES of an extraordinary char- question applicable to the case of all young men who. scores of them as conductors, motormen, machinists _ “It has not only brought dis- | el e 20 S harmless vanity just as some society people buy a coat of arms, but it is safe to say that many of them intend to use the degree as a means of obtaining the confidence of the public/for the purpose of taking ad- vantage of it by methods more or less dishonest. The great Chicago enterprise of flooding America and Europe with cheap degrees is therefore one that should be promptly suppressed. News from China arnounces that Li Hung Chang has retired from politics for about the forty-fifth time, but it is also stated that China is to make extensive purchases of civilized arms and ammunition, so it would seem that in retirement the old man is sawing wood. e —— . STRIKERS AND FARMERS. E publish to-day a letter from a well-known Wcitizen, a country producer, who, with thou- sands of others, is facing great loss by reason of the clutch of the strikers on the throat of the com- munity. We have no doubt that if hours and wages were involved in the strike the farmers would take their share of the ruin with more patience. But there is no such question. By paralyzing the commercial movement of San Francisco, Oakland and Port Costa the strikers have carried ruin throughout the State. The season’s product of perishable property is much of it destroyed now and the rest §s exposed to de- struction, with no prospect of rescue. It is difficult for a farmer who is the helpless victim of the desire of leaders to show their authority to be at all patient or take his losses with philosophy. The strikers who left that part of the work which affects country pro- duce and commerce had no grievance against their employers. They were getting union hours and wages, but blindly obeyed the autocratic order of their leaders to strike. Another feature in the situation is the invasion of the country field by hundreds of these men who struck with no grievance and now drive out the country labor by taking a lower wage. Naturally, the dis- placed country labor comes to the city to take the places deserted by the strikers who have displaced it. There is plenty of work at good wages here. But when a country boy who has been displaced by a striker comes here to take that striker’s place he is met by “pickets,” knocked down, beaten inhumanly into insensibility and too often robbed of his money by “Sympathizers.” Lawlessness, and that alone, pre- vents the industries and commerce of the State from moving profitably in their normal channel. It is use- less for the press or “the orators of the day” to keep repeating strained compliments upon the “good or- der,” “the law-abiding disposition” that has been shown during the strike, for it is not true, and the farmers and business men of the country are begin- ning to understand that their distress and ruin are being wrought by mob and riot and murderous as- sault upon honest American laborers in this city.» The Labor day procession was not a sample of the strik- ing element, for seven-tenths of its members were peaceable non-strikers. The disorderly element is better organized than the police, and has a complete system of signals and a system of intimidation. In this they have been daily encouraged by the Examiner, which has become a sinister and dangerous agent in the ruin of the State by lawlessness and disorder. ‘We by no means say that a majority of the strikers are of the cowardly and inhuman class who dodge the police and cruelly beat undefended men whom they usually outnumber ten to one. Let it be recorded as a fact that San Francisco is losing prestige and posttion as the business capital of California. When the prosperity of a whole State de- pends so much upon one city and that city is unable to protect the rights of person ahd property, and the State suffers as acutely as in this case, men will turn to some other channel, if there be one, through which to send their commerce to a waiting market. By the experience of past seasons it is certain that rain is less than three weeks off, and that will permanently fix the gloom and ruin upon the country by destroy- ing the crop that is exposed and devoted to ruin by a useless strike and cowardly lawlessness, counseled, encouraged: and advised by the Examiner and the labor leaders. The final consequences will fall upon the strikers themselves and their helpless families. Destruction of a year’s production means a largely decreased demand for what labor does and produces in the city, and that means less labor to do and more idle men. The destructive consequences of war have been visited upon California by strikers who had no complaint about wages or hours, and who will, in the finale, suffer the consequences of their blind obedience to bad advice. A none is exgiting more interest just now than a movement started to put an end to dueling. It appears that of late there have been several ex- treme cases of evil results from the practice among the officers of the army, and the common-sense as well as the humanity of the more enlightened Ger- mans has revolted and begun to protest against it in a way calculated to make the protest effectual even B E— DUELING IN GERMANY. MONG the minor issues of German politics in the official circles where dueling is held to be necessary to the maintenance of the honor of a soldier. Some of the instances which have excited the in- dignation of the public afford curious illustrations of the extent to which medieval barbarism survives in modern Germany. A young lieutenant who, in the course of a wrangle growing out of a drinking bout where everybody was more or less intoxicated, had struck a fellow officer, next day sent him'an apology, which was accepted in good friendship, and the inci- dent was seemingly closed. The higher officers of the regiment, however, hearing of the affair, sum- moned the officer who accepted the apology to ap- pear before a court of honor composed of the officers of another regiment, by which body he was convicted of conduct unworthy of an officer and a gentleman and dismissed from the army. It thus appears that the higher officers intend to make dueling compulsory upon their subordinates. It is reported that in making the announcement of the court of honor the colonel of the regiment in which the case occurred said to his officers: “I can only advise youy gentlemen, in all cases to challenge, at any rate, to a duel with swords.” So marked was the outburst of public sentiment produced by the case that a petition against further toleration of dueling has been drawn up and an earnest agitation against the practice begun. The London Chronicle reports that the petition was head- ed by Prince Lowenstein and 104 leading members of the best houses in Germany. It is said to present a strong array of instances of recent occurrence show- ing the unreason and folly of the custom, and is be- ing supported in all parts of the empire. VIRGINIA BEAUTY NOW- INTERESTING NEW YORK GOTHAM'S FOUR HUNDRED I8 OCCUPIED JUST NOW IN PAYING MOST UNUSUAL HOMAGE TO MISE FRANCES COLEMAN, A BEAU- TIFUL AND BRILULIANT DAUGHTER OF THE SUNNY SOUTH. M Castleman of Kentucky on a celebrated partments of the daily papers. NCONSISTENCY OF DITOR San Francisco Call: In the name of what should be fair and square, permit me to draw your attention to the following: In your issue of August 20 ap- pears an “Address to the Farmers” by the “San Francisco Labor Council, which appeals to them to help support this strike—i. e., to men who will lose very heavily by the wrong acts of the strikers. If the strikers will go to tge try they will there learn that the {armera are not to be fooled by the false assertions emanating from their officials. In another igsue there is also an “Appeal to Country Press,” which will not appeal | to them. They know that their friends, { the farmers, are thinking of their crops that are being ruined, ripe fruit rotting, ! hay and grain lying in the flelds waiting | for the rains to destroy them, solely be- i cause the strikers will not handle them, nor, it they can hinder it, allow others to {do 'so. The farmers are now thinking. | Where will the money come from to pay | the interest on mortgages, store bills and farm hands? One farmer told me: “I in- tended to send my son and daughter to | the State University, but that is impos- sible.”” Another told me: “I am in a {hard fix. I have enough grain, etc., on hand to pay up all my yearly debts, but there it lies and the first rain will ruin it.”” Many and many a thousand dollars are being lost to the farmers and more will follow. Yet the strikers send their appeal to the farmers, “Don’t come here to take our places.” And now permit me to show you the consistency of these men who would rule or ruin, who say and act it, “What is yours is mine and what is mine is my own,” as follows: In Sonoma and Napa Valley the strik- | ers from the Teamsters' Union, the Union PERSONAL MENTION. T. W. Mather of Napa is at the Cali- fornia. Dr. and Mrs. Buell of Los Angeles are registered at the Grand. Dr. W. S. Taylor is registered at the Palace from Livermore. John A. Mclntire has come down from Sacramento and is at the Lick. State Senator Chester Rowell is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Ford Sutton, a well-known mining man of Sonora, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. W. L. Blodgett is registered at the Grand from his home at Oat Hill. Mr. and Mrs. John Dalziel are regis- tered at the Palace from Scotland. J. F. Scott, manager of the Agnews Pa- per Mills, is a guest at the California. Dr. E. A. Kusel, a prominent medical man of Oroville, is a guest at the Palace. G. A. Daugherty, an attorney of Salinas, is at the Grand. He is accompanied by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Simpson have re- turned frcm Stockton and are at the Oc- cidental. Dr. W. M. Lewis is at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday from his home in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Spear are ex- pected back from the Orient on the Doric September 12. W. H. Clary, a wealthy mine owner of Stockton, is among the arrivals of yes- terday at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hector of Sydney arrived vesterday on the Ventura and went to_the. Occidental. Roy H. Chajnberlin, Internal Revenue Collector at onolulu, is visiting San Francisco for a few days. George Hooper, assistant manager of the Occidental, has returned from an ex- tended visit to the East and Is once more at his post of duty. ¥ Among the passengers who arrived yes- terday on the Ventura and went to the Palace are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hughes of Sydney, Mr. Hughes intends purchas- ing mules to be used on the sugar planta- tions of Fiii. George P. Whitelaw, a capitalist of St. Louis, who has settled In Southern Cali- fornf is at the Occidental, accompanied by his daughter. George F. Kaing, an- otker prominent merchant jof St. Louls, is also of the party. ‘ Clarence Carrigan, a brother of Andrew Carrigan of the Dunham-Carrigan-Hay- den Company, has returned from Wash- ington, D. C., where he went to pass his examination for admission to the army. Lieutenant Carrigan was successful and is now attached to the artillery. He ex- pects to be assigned to duty on this coast. — 1SS FRANCES COLEMAN, daughter of an old Virginia house, has caused New York beauties to consult their malds and the complexion de- She has received more attention from the exclusives then any young woman since the Astor family certified- to the attractiveness of M'as horse show occasion. Miss Coleman adds a brilliant memtality to her charms. STRIKERS SHOWN BY A CORRESPONDENT Appeal to Farmers Not to Replace Them, Yet Go to Country and Take Away Work of Others. Iron Works and others are flooding the country and taking the places of the reg- ular harvesters who depend on this work for a little extra money. The regular wages of harvesters on the machines is | from $2 to $250 per day, and the strikers are offering to, work at $150 per day. At j this place thus far 184 men, all strikers from San Francisco, have agreed to work picking hops, taking the work from the women and children who flock here by the hundreds from their outlying ranches to gain a little money; also from the In- dians from the Round Valley reservation. | Thev come to the country by the hun- | dreds and take away the work of others and appeal to the farmers not to come to ! the city to take their work. I will add: At Covelo I met a striker from the Union Works who there got $350 per day, by | his_own statement, and is working for | $125 per day. On the railroad extension | here I learn they need laborers, but refuse | to ‘give work to the strikers. The writer is one of the sufferers by | this desire on the part of the strikers (o rule and ruin and, unfortunately, is not | alone in seeing the great and lasting in- jury it will be, and, though it must be | conceded that a laboring man must pro- tect himself, vet the same right extends to others. They are willing to reap all the benefits they can from the superior ! genius afd thrift of others, vet they harp on the rich man growing fat on their la- bor, while the laborer gets his full share of the profits accruing from capital. They begrudge the richer men their wealth, yet in many cases if they had it they would soon have to labor or starve. There are plenty here who know me, farmers and others, who indorse every word I have written and who at first were in sympathy with the strikers and now have none. Yours respectfully, HENDLEY, Ukiah, August 31. 1 22 o ) A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mother—Tommy, a little bird tells me that you helped yourself to cake while I was out. 3 Tommy (aside)—I'll wring that parrot's neck!—Chicago News. ““Oh, you cruel boy, to take those eggs out of the nest! Think of the poor mother bird when she comes—" ‘““The mother bird's dead, miss.” “How do you know that?" “I see it on your hat!”"—Punch. A man stepped into a barber’s shop the other day, and as he was being shaved the following dialogue took place between him and the operator: Barber—Have you ever been here for a shave before. sir? Customer—Yes, sir. Barber—<But I do not remember your face. Customer—No, T sugpose not; it" up.—Tit-Bits. - s * agled The following story is told in ‘“Highways and Byways of East Anglia": Mayor Wakefleld one day set out for the next town with a load of hay. On the way a truss fell from the load, and he applied to a passer by for assistance in replacing it. The man addressed, instead of ren- dering willing aid, drew himself up to n:her more than his normal height and sal Te you aware that you are address the Mayor of Lynn?” B "’L‘!an," ;:plled Wakefleld, make no odds. I'm the Mayo Rising. Now will you lend nyh:ngg"c R ““With pleasure,” replied Lynn.—New York Tribune. JF2 Moo ot ———— Californians in New York. “that don’t NEW YORK, Sept. 3.— Californians have arrived: TBTn 122::‘ . ‘W. P. Davidson, Mrs. M. E. Pemmns«: the Grand Union; J. A. McFarlang, at ¢ Bartholdi; J. B. Murphy, J. del Valle, n the Cadillac; L. O. Turner and wite: ot the. Vendome; Miss F. B. O'Nell, Mre, o Bird, at the St. Denis; the Misses Tyor H. C. Porter, at the Imperial; Mrs ';' H. Polacher, at the Ashland; P. K. Gy man, at the Park Avenue; C. M. Tiebeg, at the Broadway Central: W. W. Blac. mer, at the Sturtevant; T. Morton, F. W. Webster, at the Holland; B. L. Radie ll;:im wife, at the Gilsey. 5 Angeles—W. P. Jaf e Bt ffrer, J. W. Long, Marfon de Vries and' fornia, after several wul:l; S S ‘West, have returned to New Y. at the Waldorf-Astorfa. Mr. ‘(’l?\.':l:su;e much improved in health, e senson. 1t became amous ‘Tast e cafe was & wonder, the fishing m“. ed, IN ANSWER TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS FREE LIBRARY—R. A., City. For the information asked about certain books in the Free Public Library apply to the librarfan thereof. OSTRICH FARM J., Belleville, Ontarlo, CanaZa. There is an ostrich farm in California. It is located at South Pasadena, Los Angeles County. RAZOR STRAP-C. E. P, CIFY» As this department does not advertise any business it cannot tell you where you may obtain such a ragor strap as you desire. SHOE STORE—J. B.. Fruitvale, Cal This department cannot advertise any shoe house in San Francisco, and for that reason cannot in this column furnish the information asked for. A CONGRESSMAN—D. C., City. The address of Congressman Jullus Kahn may be found in the City Directory. If he is in Washington, D. C., direct it to “The Hamilton, Washington, D. €. SPANISH WAR VETERANS-V., City. There is an organization in this city of the Spanish war veterans. It is called Reinhold Richter Camp and has head- quarters in the Alcazar building. FOR THE PRESS—M. E. H, City. In preparing copy for the press the writer shouid always capitalize and punctuate the manuscript. Errors in punctuation are generally ccrrected by the proofread- er. EX-SENATOR PUGH—J. D., City. The full name of ex-Senator Pugh of Alabama is James Lawrence Pugn. He was born in Burke County, Georgia, December 12, 1820, and his present address is Eufaula, Ala. WAR VESSEL—C. E. L., City. No bat- tleship was launched at San Francisco during the visit of President Harrison, but durine such visit, on April 23, 1891, the coast defense vessel Monterey was launched. LOLA MONTEZ—A. 8., City. The proper name of Lola Montez was Maria Dolores Porris Gilbert. She was born in Limerick, Ireland, In 1520, and died in New York in 1861. Her remains were placed at rest in Greenwood Cemetery. LINEN AND SILVER—M. M., City. A lady about to be married should mark her linen with the Initials of the name that she is to assume. Wedding presents of silverware should also have upon them the initials she will have when married. FLYING MACHINES-D. D. P., City. The articles on aerial navigation to which you no doubt refer are: One that appeared in Science, 1891, and the other in the Cen- tury, September of the same year. These may be found in the Free Public Library. THE SPANISH LANGUAGE—W. C. C., Honolulu, H. 1. Self instructors in the Spanish or any other language are good in their way to give a general idea of the language, but no one can acquire the accent except by hearing some one pro- nounce it. KING OF THE AIR—Subscriber, City. It was on the 5th of March, 1398, that a man calling himself “the kind of the air™ made an ascent in a balloon from the Clff House. He rose about 800 feet and came down in Sutro Heights by means of a parachute. WATERMELON JUICE—A. 8., City. It is said that watermelon juice is good for the skin. To preserve the same express it from the melon and keep in airtight bot- tle, corked with a glass stopper. This de- partment has not been able to find a “recipe for a good face cream made of watermelon.” TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT-—Sub- scriber, Calistoga, Cal. On the 15th of August the headquarters of Companies A B C D E, F, G and H were at the Presidio, San Francisco; I at Fort Win- gate, New Mexico; K at Fort A. D. Rus- sell, Wyoming: L at Fort Douglass, Utah, and M at Fort Logan, Colorado. FOREIGN PHRASES-A. S, City. “N’oublle pas” is French and means “for- get not.” “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mor!” is Latin and means “Sweet is it and glorious. honorable to die for one’s country.” ‘“Cherche la femme™ is French and means “seek the woman.” SWEAT BOX—C. E. L., City, and A. O. 8., Pinole, Cal. The definition of “sweat box,” as used by the police, was given in this department in the issue of August 20. Prisoners are not ‘“placed in a room where steam is turned om and other tortures are practiced to make a criminal confess his crime.” COPYRIGHT—-M. E. H., City. A ecopy- right taken out in the United States pro- tects only in that country. Foreign copy- right must be applied for in the country in which it is desired. Write to the libra- rian of Congress for a blank for a copy- right in the United States. That will give you all the information you desire. RED-BREASTED ROBIN—Subscriber, City. There is an explanation that the robin is red-breasted because it was pro- duced by the blood of Jesus. While the “man of sorrows” was on his way to Cal- vary a robin plucked a thorn from his temple and a drop of blood falling on the bird’s breast turned it red. DESERTING WIFE—H. T. R., Los An- geles, Cal. This correspondent asks: “If a wife deserts her husband, say eleven years, and during that period marries an- other man, who has since died, is the husband at liberty to remarry without seeking the notoriety of a divorce court?” The answer is that the fact that a wife deserted her husband and committed big- amy does not divorce the first husband. To obtain a legal separation and enable -him to marry again he must obtain a di- vorce. ALLIGATOR and CROCODILE—Sub- scriber, Oakland, Cal. The difference be- tween the alligator and the crocodile is that the former has a broader and shorter head and a blunter snout. The large canine teeth of the alligator fit Into pits in the upper jaw, while in the crocodile they fit into grooves or furrows on the outside of the jaw. The hind legs of the alligator have no fringe and its toes are webbed only about one-half “of their length. The alligator is found only in tropical and warm parts of North and South America, while the crocodile is found in similar climates in all other parts of the world. ’ Choice candles. Towneend's. Palace Hotel® —— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.” —_——— hsvechl r:I.'llol’mt!k:’l supplied dally to usiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Yot gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—— A Missouri girl was thunderstruck when she learned of her beau’s marriage to an- other girl, but recovered shortly after and eloped with a lightning rod peddler. | Are You “Of the Old World”? Everything pertaining to ‘the New World may be easily and cheaply seen at the Pan- American Exposition, and the best way to set to Buffalo is by the comfortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road, carrying Nickel Plate Dining Cars, In which are served Amer- fcan Club meals from 35¢ to $1 each. Book free, showing pictures of exposition bulldings. Hotel accommodations reserved. JAY W. ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 3 Crocker bullding. San Francisco, Cal.