The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1901, Page 6

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1901. TUESDAY .OCTOBER 15, 1901 Atdress All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Nsoager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . . Market and Third, 8. F. Teleph. Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Singie Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage JAILY CALL Oncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL @ncluding Surday), § month: DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 :.onths. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEEELY CALL, One Year. A1l postmasters are anthorized to recetve subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarGed when requested. Mafll subscribers In ordering change of address should be articular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order © tnsure s prompt and correct compliance with their request. “AKLAND OFFICE. +.2.1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago. 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Tiveli—"Ernani.” Grand Opera-house—*"The Little Minister.” Grand Opera-house—Benefit of Charity Fund of the Asso- clated Theatrical Menagers, Thursday afternoon, October 17. Columbia—"Florodora.” Orpheum—Vaudeville California—"Rudolph and Adolph.”” / Chutes, Zoo and Theater— ville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. Alhambra—Royal ltalian Band. Sutro Baths—Open nights. DECAY OF BRITISH INDUSTRY. HE special industries of which Great Britain T enjoyed a practical monopoly have so far declined and in many cases have so completely disappeared that English observers are driven to a search for the causc. Benjamin Taylor, of the Glasgow Herald, has re- cently published his conclusions to the cause, which he finds in the policy of trade unions. Mr. “In theory the trade union is an or- ganization for the protection of labor against. the tyranny and oppression of capital. In practice the British trade union is an organization for the straint of labor and the manacling of capital. o i The modern trade union is a combination for the as Taylor says: re- sole purpese of furthering the supposed interests of the workmen, without regard to the interests of the trade or craft as a whole. In the old system there was the element of solidarity in the relations between | In the new system there is the | capital and labor element ol In the old system the crafts- man prospered according to his skill and industry. In the new system skill and industry are reduced to one common denominztor, called the trade union rate of wage. If American manufacturers are enabled to undersell their British rivals in some of their pet in- antagonism dustries, it is not because the American workman is a better craftsman than the British—he is, indeed, oiten imported from Britain—but because he is an unfettered proc That is to say, American labo~ is more productive than British.” He declures that the trade union theory that if the work of the world is spread out thin there will be j enough to go round is a fallacy, and says that if England finally fails utterly in the industrial race it will not be because her workmen cannot create as well as others, but because they will not. A Ger- man or American workman will give equal and sim- 1cer ultaneous attenticn to three, four or six machines or compels the British workman to confine himseli-to one, in order that employment may be given to half a dozen men who cught to be busy elsewhere tools, whiic his trade union Citing specific instances, he s: “It was, for ex- ample, the exactions and limitations demanded by the union ship builders of the Thames that drove the great shipbuilding industry from London to the northern rivers, where it has flourished, while the Thames has leit only cne shipyard of any importance. The like exactions and limitations of the trade unions drove lace making from Nottingham, and the flint giass and bottle manufacture to Germany and Bel- gium. Flint glass used to be a very large and lucra- tive business in Great Britain, affording highly paid employment to thousands of workers who had their trade union. That union waxed fat and kicked on the subject of apprentices. It succeeded in enforcing strict limitations on the number of boys who might be apprenticed in any one year in any one factory. Then they put the screw on wages, until they raised the pay of an ordinary journeyman to three pounds ten shillings and four pounds per week. Their mo- nopoly of labor was complete. The Germans stepped in and took the trade bodily from under the mose of the glass trade union, which does not now in the whole United Kingdom contain as many members as there are workers in a single German factory. The industry is gone, except two or three high class con- cerns making costly tableware for the wealthy.” Tt will be seen that it is not.so much 2 question of wages as the limiting of production that has ban- ished many industries from Great Britain and sent them to take root profitably on the Continent or in the United States. If Mr. Taylor is right in his con- clusions they carry 2 lesson for producers every- where. Free labor and free capital seem to be the best and happiest partners in industrial production. o e e Down in Queensland the Health Commissioner ing articles of food and drink of- fered for sale in the colony and has found some extraordinary adulterations. Thus stuff sold for tea was found to have been made by mixing magnetic oxide of iron with tea dust and sapd rolled by means of starch into little pellets of various sizes in imita- tion of genuine tea / JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A A A AP is Jost and will not soon occur again. fate of the nominees. acceleration by a which it refuses to be responsible. » LOST OPFPORTUNITY. T is pitiful that the Republican organization in this city did not see and improve its opportunity, when its ticket was nominated. The time had come for the actual Repu.b— lican majority of San Francisco to assert itself and take its rightful control of the city government. The lack of executive energy in the administration we have been hLav- ing, and the mighty distance between the people and the controfling influence that it put in charge of the administrative boards created by the charter, had quite alienated from it the sympathy of the people and they were ripe for a change, but it must be for the better and not for the worse. Every condition was ready for a Republican victory, but it must be the-triumph of the party as a political force, original and in the first person. It must be a victory won to demonstrate that the Republican party has in it the material for effect- ing good government, protecting the taxpayers, keeping faith with public creditors, and wisely administering the trust committed to it. Republicans hang their heads when it is assumed that their party cannot do this, and they hoped that the time had come when the aspersive implication could be wiped out. f This could have been done had not the party organization fallen into a control that forbade its appearance as a body of self-respecting partisans, proud of their party and of its free hand and independent capacity. This contrc] treated the party as a tool in the hands of a limited few who had axes to grind or grindstares to let for the grinding of axes, and the Republican party was treated as worthy of no more dignified place than to serve in turning the grindstone, not even being permitted to hold the ax. The ticket nominated is pitifully weak, and in some places worse than weak. There are but few strong, re- | deeming personalties on it, to lift it above the dead level of a hopeless mediocrity and hold out a hope that it will redeem any high expectation that may be invested in it. The inter- ests of the party, its good name, its reputation and the claim it makes of representing the best order of citizenship were no more considered by the persons who had usurped the organization than a cannibal considers the knowledge of the catechism possessed by the missionary whose kidneys he is eating, brochette. | An opportunity has been lost, no matter if the ticket win. It is not a Republican | ticket, for it represents private interests and not a public purpose, but it assumes the Re- publican name, and its maladministration, its weakness, and perhaps wickedness, will be charged to the party, thus putting still further away an opportunity to prove that it can faultlessly administer the government of this city. s Only such men were nominated as will wait for orders from a boss before doing anything. They will stand, twiddling their official thumbs, while the boss sees his custom- ers and haggles for a price at which he is willing to sell them, and then he will pocket it, leaving them the “honor” of office holding for their share. The discredit of it will fall upon the party and will give it a long exile from power. It is a hard condition when the shortest way to power for the Republican party lies in beating a ticket called Republican, but that is the condition that has been created here by the combination of greed and ignorance that usurped control of affairs. An opportunity The few names on the ticket that may command respect make too light a float for | the heavy sinker, and the result is shown in the languid interest felt by the people in the San Francisco is now believed to be standing at a crisis in the commercial history of her people. The uppermost thought is, will she stand still, or go forward, or retreat? | That the city will go forward is likely, but the pace at which she advances was capable of strong and upright city government which the Republican party was capable of giving her. In the government of this city there should be neither rascals nor | dreamers. Neither robbery nor reverie should appear in our public administration. Fa- | naticism and the raw aspirations of a single and self-constituted class should 1ot be per- | mitted in our local government. We need business men, with a high sense of public duty anid a stake in the public welfare, to manage municipal affairs, maintain order and give impulse to the progress which it is possible for San Francisco to make. The Call had no persons to advance and none to pull down. We wrought for a | Republican result that would honor the party and benefit the city. But that result was not attained. The party is not honored by the ticket that flies its name, and the city is not to be benefited by the success of that ticket, notwithstanding the few good names upon it for positions that.can in no way control the policies that are vital to the interests of the | people. The self-elected dictators who.made the ticke_t .must be held responsible, and the great body of the party washes its'hands of the sifiation, which it did not create and for A . DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. . g ASSACHUSETTS Democracy rarely has an M opportunity to be heard by the nation at large. Just now, however, it appears to have the floor. It is true there are campaigns going along in other States, but they do not make much noise. In the person of Josiah Quincy, however, the Democrats of Massacuhsetts have a candidate of whom they are proud enough to brag, and ever since his nomination they have been blowing trumpets loud enough to fill the land with his fame. One enthusiastic admirer of the candidate says: “All that can be said of Josiah Quincy is that he is a capital Democrat. He is the kind of Democrat that I like. He is progressive and he believes in some phases of socialism.” The description fairly fits the man. Mr. Quincy has himself characterized his polit- | ical philosophy as “opportunism.” He believes in tak- /ing up any issue upon which he thinks he can get He is making his present race for Governor votes. strictly upon State issues, and in his platform are ceveral planks that show tendencies to socialism. Neither he nor his friends expect him to be clected this year, but they l:ope lie will receive a vote so large that his renomination at the next election will be assured, and then they look for victory. It is therefore quite within the limits of probability that the Massachusetts Democrats are grooming a candidate for the Presidential race. It will be re- membered that in discussing the sort of candidate the Democratic party should nominate in 1904, the gifted Mr. Dooley said there is wanted: “A good, active, inergetic, Dimmycrat, sthrong iv lung an’ limb; must be in favor iv sound money, but not too sound, an anti-impeeryalist, but f'r holdin’ onto what we've got, an’ inimy iv thrusts, but a frind iv organized capital, a sympathizer with th' crushed an’ downthrodden people, but not be anny means hostile to vested in- therests; must advocate sthrikes, gover'mint by .in- junction, free silver, sound money, greenbacks, a sin- gle tax, a tariff f'r rivinoo, th’ constitootion to follow th’ flag as far as it can go, an’' no farther, civil ser- vice rayform iv th' la'ads in office an’ all th’ gr-reat an’ gloryous principles in our gr-reat an’ gloryous party or anny gr-reat an’ gloryous parts thereof.” Josiah Quincy does not exactly fill all the specifi- cations of Mr. Dooley, but he comes very near it. He is a gold Democrat who voted for Bryan, and a conservative who is willing to move in the direction of socialism. He appears to be sound of lung and limb. He has a historic name, but has not lived up to it enough to make enemies. It is a far cry from Nebraska to Massachusetts, but Democracy may have to go that far in search of a candidate, for there seems to be none at any intermediate point. —— It is announced from Washington that while Presi- dent Roosevelt goes to the Dutch Reformed church, Mrs. Roosevelt goes to the Episcopal church, so church-going sightseers who wish to see the whole family have to stay over a week and go to church twice, and thereat Washington is gratified. European dispatches announce that in a recent shooting trip Kaiser William killed twenty-one stags in one day, and curiously enough the thing is spoken of as “sport,” instead of a day’s work at slaughtering. A GREATER GERMANY. ITHIN a time comparatively short there W have come two announcements from Ber- lin which have been taken by the world as evidence ‘of the existence of a plan on the part of the Germans to build up a colonial empire of great ex- tent. One of these was the statement that a consid- erable portion of the German troops now in China will not be withdrawn but will be kept in that part of the world. The second was the large appropriation made by the State Department for maintaining 125 German schools in Argentina, Southern Brazil, Tur— key, China and South Africa. In each of these programmes there is plainly a means of advancing a policy of colonial expansion, whether deliberately designed for that purpose or not. A detachment of German troops permanently established in China would easily lead to the need of German territory on which to maintain them. The school programme is more subtle. A large number of Germans have settled in Argentina and Brazil. In the natural order of things‘their descendants would acquire the prevailing language of the country and become essentially South Americans. By furnishing them, however, with German schools, the Kaiser provides a means of retaining their descendants as Germans, and consequently should the Brazilian Gov- ernment go to pieces at any time or even become involved in sectional wars, there would be a strong German clement ready to set itself up as an inde- pendent state. It is asserted by some authorities that the German Government is working for just such an object in Brazil and Argentina. One of these says: “Germany calmly sets herself to take over all places where the life tenancies of the dying nations are running out. She thinks she ‘sees such places in South America, in Asia Minor and in the Far East, and there she plants her schools. There she hopes in future to direct her surplus population, for which purpose other legisla- tion has been enacted. There by every sort of public and private effort she strives to develop her com- merce, and there, when dissolution comes of the sick men of Europe, of Asia or of America, she hopes to have her sons ready to ‘take possession.” It is hardly credible by sane minds that the kind of notoriety given to anarchy by the assassination of the President would iricline any one to organize an- archistic societies, and yet ‘that is just what has oc- curred. One of these new associations has been or- ganized in New York under the name “Freeland.” Tt begins its career with a printing office and a book store, so that it has bright prospects; but as it is the intention of the managers to buy a farm, the finish is in sight. \ The loss of ‘the corn crop by thé hot spell was not severe enough to cause anything like a famine, but it is said it will reduce the output of corn whisky so there may be a great thirst in some States even if there be no hunger. If the report be true that Lipton has thus far ex- pended upward of $1,300,000 in his efforts to win the America’s cupy he has the consolation of knowing that if he hasn't lifted the cup he ‘has at least raised the price. 3 V CHINESE BECOME EXPERT IN USE ~ OF STILTSIN WALKING AND JUMPING T CELEBRATIONS. STILT JUMPING, ONE OF THE PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF CHINESE AT WALKING ON STILTS IS MUCH PRACTICED IN CHINA, ESPECIALLY BY THE FISHERMEN. L PERSONAL MENTION. W. H. Clary, a mining man of Stockton, is at the Lick. M. Biggs, an Oroville ¢apitalist, is stay- ing at the Grand. Sheriff E. C. Ivins of San Luis Obispo County is at the Grand. W. S. Hammaks of West Virginia is in this city on a short visit. Thomas J. *Geary of Santa Rosa spending a few davs at the Lick. C. Jesse Titus, a banker of Mountain View, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. Louis T. Wright, superintendent of the Iron Mountain copper mine in Shasta County, is among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. Baron Wrangella, captain of the Czar of Russia's Imperial Guards, arrived here yesterday from the Orient, en route to St. Petersburg. Mrs. Maud E. Bowers, worthy grand president of the Order of the Eastern Star, arrived here yesterday from Santa Ana and is staying at the Palace. Dr, John J. Gallagher, formerly autopsy surgeon at the Morgue, who has been studying in Eurobe for two years, af- rived in this city Sunday evening. Sands W. Forman, who has been quite ill for several days at the Occidental Ho- tel, is slowly recovering. Last evening he was a little better and was thought to be out of danger. LEor SR Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—The following is | Caltfornians are in New York: ¥im San Francisco-C. N. Fettin Jr., L. McCreedy and A. L. Scott at the Hol- land? H. Henry at the Grand; W. H. Mar- tin: JI. A. Cline and C. . Cline at the Gil- sey; Mrs. C. Ross at the Hoffman: L. Bermengham at the Plaza; Dr. W. Boer- Ick, H. Cohen, C. F. Faber, B. Hayden and Dr. J. W. Ward at the Manhattan: B. Bonhey at the Navarre: W. A. Hild- reth at the St. George; (. B. Jennings at the Imperial; H. D. Keil at the Murray Hill: M. 8. Kohlberger and M. P. Mendel- sohn at the Cadillac: H. C. Spencer at the St. Denis; J. B. Stone at the Grand | Unfon; D. A. Turner and L. A. Turner at | the Vendome: G. H. Wright at the Astor, and J. 8. Young at the Ashland. From Los Angeles—D. J. Bronstein, W. L. Stewart and wife at the Herald Square; D. Gverten at the Park Avenue; Miss Carpenter at the Albemarle, and R. B. Dickinson at the Broadway Central. From Sacramento—C. F. Prentiss at the Park Avenue. From San Jose—W. S.' Shelby Broadway Central. From Santa Barbara—Dr. at the Murray Hill. at the Sidebotham Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—The following Californians arrived to-day and registered at the hotels: At the Shoreham—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eadie of San Diego. At the Fairfax—L. D. Copeland of Los Angeles. At the Ebbitt—R. Finking of San Fran- | cisco. At the Cochran—Z. L. Lachance of San Francisco. o g AL Restaurants ot Many Towns. “In all my experiences as a traveling man,” said Fred J. Squires of Detroit, “I have never seen so many dairy lunch- rooms In one town as in Washington. I suppose the immense force of Government clerks accounts for them. They are not, the best of them, as fine in appointment as those in Boston, Philadelphia and New York, but I must say they equal in the material served the best in any city. To fellows who have to criss-cross the United States two or three times a year cooking is an important matter. We all devoutly pray to be saved from investigation for commercial purposes of the territory which lies in Southern Indiana and North- ern Kentucky. So far as I have been able to observe, the people in that section simply keep a pan of cottonseed oil on the fire and use that for all culinary treat- ment. They fry fish, meat, vegetables, and even bread, and if there is a perfect digestive apparatus left in that section among the residents it is clearly in de- fiance of Providence. “Cooking is good in Washington. much above the average. New Orleans is far and away the finest place in the world for the best things to eat, cooked in the most appetizing way, and San Francisco is next. In New York and Chicago you can get imported French culinary service by paying a stiff price for it, but the na- tive talent is very bad, indeed.”"—Wash- ington Pos —_———— Codes Are Valuable. The following communication is of gen- eral interest to attornevs: To the Editor of The Call: Referring to the recent decision of our Supreme Court against the constitutionality of the Code of Civil Procedure, one of the San Franclsco dailles (not The Call) says the lawyers can now throw their new codes out of the window. The lawyers are not likely to do that. They are by this time able to tell at a glance which sections are in force, and the fact that the new codes are properly annotated with notes of all the decisions of the Supreme Court and of the courts of other States having sim- ilar code provisions renders the new codes invaluable to lawyers and almost indispensable to State, city and county offictals. W. S. HARLOW, Oakland, Oct. 14, 1901 3 —_———— Further expulsions are reported from Kiev. Four hundred Jews, mostly arti- sans, who had not the right of domicile there, have been expelled. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. LOS ANGELES—S., City. The city in| California now called Los Angeles was | originally called Pueblo de la Reina de | Los Angeles. 1 WIDEST THOROUGHFARE-O. S.. City. The widest thoroughfare in San | Francisco is City Hall avenue, from Mar- ket street to Park avenue. It is 200 feet | wide. | FLORIDA—Subscriber, City. The State of Florida cannot be called a hilly coun- try. The highest point of land in the State Is called Highland, and is but 210 ! feet above sea level. WELCHING—A. O. §., City. The term | “welching” means that a bookmaker on | a race takes bets and finding himself un- | able to cash the winning tickets departs with the bettors’” money. CUSTOM HOUSE—Reader, Mare Island, Cal. Appointments to positions in the | Custom-house are from the eligible list | under civil service rules. The selections | are made by the Collector of the Port. | That official at San Francisco is F. £ Stratton. TULE GRASS—O. B. 8, City. Tule grass for life preservers has been ac- | cepted by the board of United States in- | spectors at Washington, D. C. It is claimed that life preservers made of this | grass are superior to those made of cork. i PRESIDENT JOHNSON—Engq., Oak- land, Cal. President Lincoln was assas- sinated on the 14th of April, 1865, in the evening, and dled the next morning. An- | drew Johnson did not take the oath of of- fice until the 17th of April, at 10 o'clock in | the forenoon. THE DREYFUS CASE—J. H. A., Oak- land, Cal. Of those who figured prom- inently in the Dreyfus case Colonel Henry committed suicide, Count Esterhazy was | sentenced to imprisonment for swindling | his cousin, Picquart was dismissed from the army and Zola was sentenced for libel. LOST PILOT-BOAT—E. J. C. About | forty years ago the pilot-boat Julia, in | charge of two men, went outside the | heads. Ome of these, a pilot, was taken | in a small boat to an incoming vessel and while this was being done the pilot-boat was without any one on board. When the | one who took the pilot to the ship started to return to the pilot-boat he discovered that she had disappeared. She was never found or heard of after that. THE TRANKLIN FOUNTAIN—Sub- scriber, City. The Benjamin Franklin | fountain at the junction of Kearny street and Montgomery avenue was donated to the city by the late Dr. H. D. Cogswell on condition that the city assume the care and preservation of the fountain and keep it supplied with water, failing to do which the fountain was to revert to the doror or his representative. The fountain and conditions were accepted by the Su- pervisors April 25 CHANGE OF RESIDENCE-S. and C., City.—Under the law of California in or- der to vote an elector must have been a resident of the county in which he claims the right to vote for a period of ninety | days next preceding the election. If he | should move out of his county fifteen days before election he would lose his resi- dence in the county out of which ke moved, and would not gain one in the county into which he moved, therefore he would lose his vote. OLOGRAPHIC WILL—A. S., Mill Val- ley, Cal. An olographic will is a will wholly in the handwriting of the person making it. Such a will is recognized as legal and valid. It is not subject to any particular form other than that it must express the wishes of the party making the same and be written on paper on which there is no printing or any writing | other than that of the maker. Such a will need not be witnessed, nor has it to be verified before any officer. CHOIR AND QUIRE—Anxious, City. Cholr is the term to designate a company of singers composed of four choruses— trebles, altos, tenors and basses—but of | i | I I i i % | *- : - A CHANCE TO SMILE. Amazed and Delighted Foreigner (his first view of Niagara' Falls)~Why ees zees so far from Buffeelo? Native—Great Scott, mister! How could we move it any closer to Buffalo? Foreigner—How? Ees eet not a part of ze Pan-American Expozeesheeon? “Excuse me, sir, but can you tell me | why all the inhabitants are rushing up on their and the fences?” “Why, young Willie Vanderbilt is com- ing down the road in his automobile. Wow! wow! Skip for your life. porches climbing ‘““He's quite a, prominent politician here, is he not?"” inquired the visiting Briton. “Oh, no; he's a statesman,” replied the (ive. , what’s the difference?” “A statesman, my dear sir, is one who is in politics because he has money. A poli- tician is one who has money because he is in politics.”"—Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Prospect Park—Where are the pins, please? Department Store Clerk (precisely)— Hatpins, safety-pins, scarfpins, clothes- pins, hairpins, diamond-pins, breastpins, black pins, shawlpins, rolling-pins, bowl- ing pins or just ordinary pins?—W. ton Star. “Ignorance,” “they say is bliss. “Oh, that prebably accounts for it,” re- joined Miss Cutting. ““Accounts for what?” querfed the youth. “The contented and happy look you usu- ally wear,” she replied.—Chicago News. remarked young Borem, The Mountain Lion (nervously)—Have vou seen any sign of Theodore Roosevelt hereabouts? The Wild Duck (timorously)—No! Say, you haven't seen ex-President Cleveland in this neighborhood, have you?—Pitts- burg Chronicle-Telegraph. “Well, Clarence, what is it?" asked the boy’s papa. “1 dldn't say anything, papa,” replied Clarence. “I know you didn’t, but it is fully five minutes since you asked a question, and I know from cxperfence that another is due about this time." “Well, papa, what are all those big United States flags made of?” asked the boy. “Some of them are made of silk, Clar- ence, but by far the greater number are made of bunting.” *“And, papa?” Well, Clarence?” “Are the little flags made of baby bunt- ing?"—Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. e e— Rival British Railreads. Three rival British railroad routes from London to Scotland are now striving for the record between the English and Scotch capitals, says Black and White. The distances average 400 miles, and it is hoped before the season ends to cover the trip in 420 minutes. The three routes are the East Coast, by way of the Great Northern, Northeastern and North British roads; the Midland, over the railroad of that name, and the West Coast, over the London and Northwestern and Caledonian lines. The best records yet made are: East Coast, 308% miles, eight hours six minutes, Midland, 408 miles, eight hours late years it is applied to any body of jfOrty-four minutes; West Coast. 400 miles, singers. The name choir is a corrupt spelling of quire which came in vogue in the sixteenth century, in imperfect imi- tation of the French word, “Choeur,” or the original Latin “choruse.” Purches, ‘who lived 1577-1626, in his “Pilgrimes” has: ““They rise at midnight to pray unto their idols, which they doe In Quires, as the Faries do.” Miiton, in “Paradise Re- gained,” has: ‘“‘Angelick quires sung heavenly anthems of victory.” Tennyson uses ‘“‘quire” instead of choir in “Love and Duty.” FOR THE PRESIDENCY—A. S., City. The question “Is a man who was born to American parents in a foreign coun- try while the father was either a United States Minister or Consul or while the parents, citizens of the United States, were traveling in a foreign country, eligi- ble to the Presidency of the United States?” is one that has been frequently asked, but it cannot be answered with certainty and will not be unless the Su- premg¢ Court shall pass on the matter. The constitution declares that “no person except a natural-born citizen” shall be eligible to the Presidency. Childrent born to American parents while traveling abroad or are in'the service of the United States in a forelgn country are recognized as citizens of the United States, but there never has been a decision to settle the question, “Are such children ‘natural- born? " Until the highest court in the seven hours fifty-eight minutes. In the races of 1838 the East Coast won after a spirited struggle. In 1395 the West Coast won. The time had been cut from ten hours to eight and a half hours. This year the Midland has entered the competition and before the summer is ended it is ex- pected that one of the three roads will have cut the time to the seven hour limit —400 miles in 420 minutes.—New Bedford Standard. —_—— Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * —_——— Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotal* ——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.« _— Townsend's California glace fruits, Soc o g:und. in fire-etched boxes or Ja, bas- ts. A nice present for Kastern &M 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding, * —_———— “Spectal information plied daily Mm-lon—mw’?‘h Lo men i‘ the Press Ciipping Bureau (Allen's), gomery ‘Telephone Main ?a. . —————— Drunkenness and all drug habits at Willew Bark Sanitarium, 1339 Pncl:"‘: —— Pleasure is_often but 3 ARSI SRR £ n to matism. 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