The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1901, Page 6

..OCTOBER 23, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 8, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. ,.Market and Third, 8, F. Telephone Press 201. 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Press 20Z. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ngle Coples, & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postag DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one vear.. DAILY CALL (ncluding Eurday), ¢ months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 1.onths. DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL, Obe Year. WEEKLY CALL, One TYear. All postmasters are anthorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples Will be forwarGed when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & and eorrect compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE.........0....1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2613.) NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH... ..30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermss House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, apen until 5:30 o'clock. 200 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Eixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 109 Valencla, cpen until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 3 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, jopen until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 8 p. m. — AMUSEMENTS. Central—"“The Cotton King." Grand Opera-house—*The Man From Mexica.'" ““The Girl in the Barracks.” “The Henrietta." udeville. ‘A Female Drummer.” California—' Tivoli—**Norma."" Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sherman-Clay Hall—Song Recital to-morrow afternoon. Sutro Baths—Open nights. THE EXAMINER'S JUSTIFICATION. T would be amusin, it were not, after a sort, I pitiful to see the Examiner’s daily and painful plea of justification in its anarchical aesaults on President McKinley. The Hearst papers having been repudiated by the reputable press and people of the United States, the Examiner hails with delight any comiort that it can get from the most obscure press. So- it daily prints its own praises from the “Weekly Gizzard,” the “Lone Canyon Guzzle” and “Dry Creek Hee Haw.” These sheets generally hark " back to what Republican papers said about Mr. Bryan when he was a candidate to justify Hearst’s persistent in- sults of William McKinley after he was President and the campaign was over. In 1896 and in 1900" the campaign cartoons of the Republican and Democratic press were fair offsets. No one objects to exhibiting them side by s 1ples of party zeal and Amer- ican campaign enthusiasm, or even of partisan taste. { But Mr. Hearst cannot vicariously plead what hap- pened in a campaign as justification of what he did aiter the campaign was over. Nor will such plea, though cunningly n deceive the people who have determined that his style of journalism shall receive no further encouragement. There is no offset in the practice of the Republican press to the Examiner’s cartoons of the President as 2 'negro minstrel, as the weak tool of robbers, as a pupil of Fag and hater of the com- mon pedple. 2 aminer’s indorsement of the assassination of rulers and Presidents, and its almost daily suggestion that the murder of President McKinley would beneficially change history. Of course that paper relies on the brevity of mem- ory. but that its reliance is not very strong is shown by its ceasing to print the line of insulting pictures , as the enem or is there any such offset to the Ex- which 1ad prepared. If it were doing right in its own estimation and in that of its defenders, “The Gizzard,” “Guzzle” and “Hee Haw” organs of obscurity, why does it not continue the course out of which it was kicked by the country’s indignation? It attacked and insulted and suggested the murder of President McKinley because of the policy of his administration. Now that President Roosevelt is carrying out that exact policy to the letter, why, if it were right before in cartooning Vice President Roosevelt as a grinning effigy and utterer of non- sense, does it not continue to do so? The Examiner is very illogically justifying itself in doing what it dare not continue to do, and the intended praise it gets from “The Gizzard,” “Guzzle” and “Hee Haw” is of no value whatever as an indorsement of a course that it has been compeiled to abandon. Naturally it expects to resume its old ways at the old stand, when its scare is over, but at present it has seen a ghost just as it blagphemed, and it will not dare swear again for a long time. . One of the amusing things of the time is the effort now being made by the free traders to distort Mc- Kinley's last speech into a declaration against the pol- icy of protection to American industry. As an exhi- bition of gall it beats the attempts of the Bryanites to represent Lincoln as a supporter of Bryani;m. —— Despite the fact that the opposition is too weak to put up 2 fight the Republicans of Iowa are making a lively canvass, It is evidently their intention that® the walkover shall not Be anything less dignified than 2 triumphal procession with the flags flying and the bands playing. Some Chicago enthusiasts have decided to provide homes for the stray and tramp cats and dogs of the city. There appears to be absolutely nothing to ‘de- termine the limit of nonsense to which residents of the Windy City will go. A determined effort is being made in a New York court to break the will of Millionaire Cruger on the ground that he was insane. The most conclusive evi- dence of his insanity yet produced is that he drank absinthe. bad | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, »OCT(;)BER 25, 1901 comes more and more evident that if the gen- eral vote of the city be divided between the Mayoralty candidates of the two regular parties there ! S the municipal campaign progresses it be- candidate ‘who was ncminated to represent a single alement of the people and the peculiar class spirit by which that element is for a time at least dominated. It will be rememberéd that the men who' nomi- nated Mr. Schmitz did so during the excitement at- tending the labor strikes, and that the movement was an outcome of a discontent with the use of the police to preserve the peace. If that candidate be elected the agitators, the demagogues and all the disturbing clements of the community will undoubtedly look upon the result as a victory for themselves and will be encouraged to enter upon new disturbances. It matters not that Mr. Schmitz himself is a conserva- tive and excellent man. The position he holds as the nominee of the class party makes him a representative of that spirit, and it will be sure to break out with renewed turbulence if he be elected. Such being the case it behooves the people of San Francisco to unite upon one or the other of the two regular candidates. ~ Ordinarily it would be difficult to effect such a union, for Republicans do not will- ingly support Democrats nor Democrats Republi- cans, but in this instance the choice has been simpli- fied to such a degree that intelligent men will have no difficulty in making it. The candidate who holds the Mayoralty nomination on the Republican ticket is in no sense the choice of the Republican party. His nomination was dictated by the two Democratic bosses of the Southern Pacific Railroad, Jere Burke and W. F. Herrin. Of that there is no dispute. In fact, Mr. Wells himself has frankly admitted seeing Herrin about nominations for Supervisor, and in several interviews has spoken of Herrin’s control of the situation quite as a matter of course. The statements made by Wells and other facts brought out since the opening of the campaign have disgusted not only the independent voters of the city but thousands of stanch Republicans as well. It | would therefore be useless to attempt to rally them | to support him against the class candidate. The ut- most that he can do is to hold the vote which is sub- \ject to the corporations and their allies among the political bosses. With all fairness to Mr. Wells it may be said that whatever personal strength he had before he was nominated has been lost largely through his own words and actions since the nomina- tion. He now stands before the people as nothing more than the nominee of Burke and Herrin. It is therefore to the Democratic candidate, Mr. Tobin, that the better elements of the city must look for-leadership in this fight. Fortunately there is no party principle nor even a partisan policy involved in the issue. The most stalwart of Republicans can sup- port Mr. Tobin without in any way giving even an implied support to political doctrines opposed to Re- publicanism. The contest is purely local; there is nothing at stake except the welfare of the city. The question is the plain and simple one: Shall the peo- ple of San Francisco admit class politics, class an- tagonisms and class prejudices into the municipal ad- ministration? Mr. Tobin obtained his nomination without making pledges. He did not seek it. He accepted it only because he recognized that it was a part of his civic | duty to serve San Francisco if the voters desire him to do so. He will enter office under obligations to no set of bosses or corporations. He will represent no | class nor clique, but the whole community. Those facts are well understood, and after a careful canvass of the situation we are assured that the only man to whom the independent vote can be drawn is Mr. Tobin. Such being the case, we advise Republicans |to support him. It is the only way of making sure of defeating the class candidate. e e e e Since there has been so much talk of Roosevelt as | “our young President” one of those men who gelight | in snubbing public opinion has published the records | to show that Roosevelt is a year older than the Em- | peror of Germany, twelve years older than the Czar | of Russia, ten years older than the King of Italy, | twenty-two years older than the Queen of the Nether- lands and twenty-eight years older than the King | of Spain. In fact, about the only way we can make a youthful showing for our President is to compare him with the Pope. T ———— THE LIVESTOCK MEN. its convention in Denver last March and at- tended to many important things which concern the cattle-growers of the country. Among these was ! provision for the drafting of a bill to protect the pub- lic range from further destruction by leasing it, under proper restrictions, to the stock men who are now destroying it by using it in common. The National Livestock Association was already committed to this policy by its action at Fort Worth, which its conven- tion at Salt Lake last January refused to change or disturb. This leasehold protection of the range is the most important question now before the livestock men of the country, and its importance to meat con- sumers and the public is hardly less. { Apparently the Livestock Association regards this policy as practically assured, and in its next meeting, which will be held in Chicago on December 3, will address itself to other interesting subjects. ~ Among these is a Federal inspection and tagging of woolen goods so as to identify pure wool from shoddy and admixtures. The grazing of forest reservations will be discussed, and we hope decided adversely to such injurious use of the water sources of the arid region. The existence and eradication_ of poisonous plants on the ranges will be discussed. The convention might well consider also non-poisonous plants which threaten to occupy the range, to the exclusion of forage plants of greater value. The Russian thistle has already invaded the Colorado range. Some oats were brought from Dakota to feed mules working on an irrigation ditch in Eastern Colorado. The oats were mixed with thistle seed, and that plant is now traveling rapidly to Southern Colorado, and when it reaches the line of the Santa Fe Railway its transmis- sion to- California will be rapid. Stock men disagree as to its economic value on the range. Cattle eat it readily, but we believe its food value has not been carefully compared with that of the plants it dis- places, There is no difference of opinion about its injury to agriculture, and its invasion of the rich bot- tom lands of the Arkansas River at Rocky Ford and La Junta is rousing the most painful anxiety among the farmers. The convention will also ask for an annual Federal census of livestock, the result to be compiled and published within ninety days by the Department of Agriculture. This is intended to do for the livestock linduury what the department crop report does for the THE American Cattle-Growers' Association held THE DANGER TO SAN FRANCISCO. is danger the next Mayor of San Francisco will be the. retary of Agriculture will be asked for, to have special charge of the animal industry of the country. A demand will be made upon Congress for such amendment of the interstate commerce law as will give the commission power to enforce its orders and decrees. This matter greatly affects the livestock in- terest, since it is interstate commerce, and regula- tions for shipment are very vital to it. The yarding and feeding, watering facilities supplied by the trans- portation companies, demurrage charges and many other matters within the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission require the attention of that body and the power to enforce needful rules and regu- lations. The livestock industry was the last of the great in- dustries of the country to organize. Manufactures and agriculture long preceded it in organization, But what it lacked in timeliness it has made up in ac- tivity. It has now the National Wool-Growers’ and the American Cattle-Growers’ associations. The first includes the sheep industry and the second the cattle interest only. As these interests are largely non- mergeable, each acts separately for itself in all mat- ters that are not common to both, and the two act through the National Livestock Association in all matters that are common. L The meeting of December 3 will be concurrent with the national livestock show it Chicago, which is one of the greatest expositions of domestic animals in the world. It attracts exhibitors and buyers from all the stock-raising nations, We used to go to England for breeding stock in neat cattle, swine, sheep and horses. Now the tide is turned. The American herd books show, all over the United States, the best pure-bred livestock to be found anywhere, and our flocks and herds are now re- sorted to by European breeders for strains to recruit their herds. This annual exposition of livestock at Chicago is an occasion of the greatest interest to American and foreign breeders and will be the means of attracting a large attendance to the livestock convention. The report that the Sultan of Turkey arranged for the capture of Miss Stone for the purpose of extort- ing a ransom to repay the money he had to give to the United States in payment for injuries done during the Armenian troubles is ingenious, but there are very few people who will accept it as a really good histori- cal romance. DISMISSAL OF BULLER. PERHAPS the world will never learn the secret causes that led up to the dismissal of Sir Red- vers Buller from the British army. The expla- nation thus far furnished is hardly .sufficient to sat- isfy the public mind. It is but a short time since the general was appointed to command one of the corps of the reorganized army. The appointment gave rise to a great deal of discontent, but it was taken as a proof that Buller’s conduct during the time of his command in South Africa was approved by the War Office. Then the gengral made a speech in which he admitted having advised the surrender of Ladysmith. Straightway there arose a clamor, and out of the up- roar has come the announcement that Buller is dis- missed. He was given a chance to resign, but refused to do so. He preferred to die fighting, as it were, and goes out under the condemnation of the very men who but a short time ago honored him with high command. The British War Office must have known that Bul- ler had advised the surrender of Ladysmith. It is hardly credible that so important a message from the commander of the relieving army to the commander of the besieged force could have been kept secret from the military authorities. Consequently the only thing in his speech that could have startled the War Office was the publicity given to. the truth. He is dismissed, therefore, not for what he did or left un- done, but for what he said. It was a case of talking too much. It is just at this point that curiosity arises.. Why should a general who is deemed worthy to command one of the corps of the army be dismissed for a mere discretion of speech? With such a question to an- swer it is not strange that rumor should be busy with conjecture. One story already telegraphed from London is to the effect that Buller falls a victim to “petticoat politics.” It is said that Lady Roberts has been for a long time camped on his trail, and that she at last has been able to make Lord Roberts demand his dismissal. That story does not appeal very strongly to reasonable people, but until a better theory is advanced it will doubtless be made to serve with the gossips as an explanation of the collapse of Buller, Two years ago at about this time of the year Sir Redvers Buller was for a while the pride and boast of the British people. He was proudly pointed to as the typical British officer. The stories of his martial youth were told, and the prediction was made that he would return from South Africa with victory and get a peerage. In his leave-taking of the Queen he told her the war would be troublesome but it would not be long. He announced a little later that he would take his Christmas dirner in Pretoria. All that was only two years ago. Now another Christmas is ap- proaching. The good Queen is dead. The war goes on and Buller disappears beneath the waters of oblivion, shipwrecked by a squall so petty that no one knows what caused it. — It is worth noting that while some people in this country are advocating free trade as a remedy for trusts, there are just about as many in Great Britain who assert that the only way to put a check upon the giant trusts of that country will be to set up a pro- tective tariff for the preservation of home industries. Stanch and stalwart Republicans are not going to v.te the yellow dog ticket for Supervisors that was nominated at the dictation of the Democratic railroad bosses. Burke and Herrin had better return to doing politics in their own party or else stick to corporation work. A New York swain has applied for a divorce on the ground that he married his sweetheart's mother by mistake. It certainly will be a horrifying case of mother-in-law if the young man secures his divorce and weds the true object of his affections. ARG A Chicago student who has been caught stealing says that theft has a wonderful fascination for him. It is very evident that he intends to take his post- graduate course in a penitentiary. A Philadelphia swain shook hands with his sweet- heart the other day and broke every bone in her hand. He must be a candidate for some office and was prac- ticing a campaign shake. Yale is having.a great deal of glory and jubilation in the celebration of her two hundredth anniversary, but not until the football season is aver will we know agriculture of the country. A second Assistant Sec- | what rank she holds as an American university. \ EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY IS AN ENTHUSIASTIC YACHTSMAN o firing Krupp guns. She is a double-screw — although by a clever arrangement of por- ft, with eight boilers, and is faster tleres it can be reduced in size. The fa- :}‘;:n al:mst ;:y other vessel in the Ger- mous blue saloon is upholstered in b:uz 5 | g2 — WILLIAM II IN YACHTING COSTUME AND THE IMPERIAL YACHT HOHENZOLLERN. THIS VESSEL, A VERY FORMIDABLE LOOKING PLEASURE CRAFT, IS REALLY A GOOD SIZED MAN-OF-WAR AND ONE OF THE | SPEEDIEST SHIPS IN GERMANY'S NAVY. | L - . and tiller with experience and smartness. When on board he likes to be at the helm, nor does he allow any one else to steer even the gig when he is in it. As a matter of fact the 1mperial yacht is really no yaeht at all, but a cruiser, a good-sized man-of- war, and is larger than the gigantic iron- clad Koenig Wilhelm, the pride of the fatherland's fleet. She carries eight quick- AISER WILHELM II is a first- |< class yachtsman and handles sheet PERSONAL MENTION. T. Manchester of Dawson is at the Lick. C. D. Hazzard, a mining man of Quiney, Cal., is at the Oceidental. S. 8. Hawley, a wealthy planter of Guatemala, is at the Occidental. A. C. Bingham, the well known banker of Marysville, is a guest at the Palace. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Willlam Jeter is up from Santa Cruz and is staying at the Palace. ‘W. F. Prisk, a newspaper proprietor of Grass Valley, is spending a few days at the Qccidental. Colonel Willlam Forsyth, an extensive raisin grower of Fresno, is among the ar- rivals at the Occidental. H. R. McNoble, a well known attorney of Stockton and grand orator of the Na- tive Sons, is at the Grand. J. R. Foster, proprietor of the Western Hotel of Marysville, is in the city on busi- ness and is staying at the Lick. Robert Graham and George B. Robbins, both connected with the Armour Fruit Car Servige, are up from Los Angeles and are staying at the Palace. Jafel Lindeberg and A, W. Kittlestone, two of the first mine owners of Nome, arrived here yesterday from the north and are staying at the Palace. Ramon Carral, Governor of the Federal District of Mexico; General F. Canedo of the State of Sinaloa, and Luis Velasco, general manager of the largest lumber concern in Sonora, are visiting this city and expect to remair. here several days. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Metropolitan—K. L. Parrott of San Diego, H. W. Hill of Los Angeles, G. B. Morgan of Oakland. . A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. New Wed (in tears)—Oh, George, I'm'so glad you've come. You must go for the doctor at oncef I'm sure some- thing serious is the matter with baby. Mr. New Wed—Why, what makes you think so? Has he symptoms of ecroup, whooping cough, measles— Mrs. New Wed—Oh, no, no; something more serious, I'm sure. He hasn't cried to-day.—Town and Century. “Hot day,” said a stout man to a fel- low passenger in a crowded omnibus. “Eh?" said the other. “Hot day,"” said the first, somewhat louder. “Excuse me, I'm somewhat deaf and hardly caught ycur meaning. What did you say?"’ “I say it's a hot day!" shouted the fat man, getting red in the face as every one in the omnibus looked up. “Ah, yes; how much must you pay? Three pence is the fare.” ‘Whereupon the corpulent individual said some strong words under his breath and got out of the vehicle. “Yes,” sald the deaf man, gently, ad- dressing the other passengers, “‘that’s the tenth man within an hour that's told me it was a hot day.”—Tid-Bits. “It woud simplify matters a good deal,” sald Mr. Meekton, “if women were al- lowed to hold office.” “Do you think they have, as a rule, the temperament for dealing with abstruse legal questiens?” “I don’t kuow about that. But I will say that if Henrietta was on the bench ‘we wouldn’t be puzzled by these dissent- ing opinions.”—Washington Star. Casey—There’s th’ big power house yez moight have hear-rd av. Kelly—An' phwat's it for? Casey—Phwat's it for? Phy, yez great ignoramus, yes, that's phwere th’ power comes frum t' kape th’ falls supploid wid wather.—Puck. Mother (anxlously)—I am told that your husband plays poker every night at the club—plays for money, too, Married Daughter—That's all right. 1e gives me all his winnings—" “What? Do you—"" “And he always plays with Mr. Next- door."” “What difference can that make?” “Mrs. Nextdoor makes her hushand glve her his winnings, too, und then she gives the money to me, and I hand her what my husband won from hers, and so we both have about twice as much money as We could get out of them otherwise.: New York Weekly. e ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche, Townsend. ¢ —_——— Cholce candies. Tonwsend's, Palace Hotel* —_—— Cal, Glace Fruit i0c per 1b at Townsend's,* ——— Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willow Bark Sanitarium, 1539 Pelk. * — Townsend's California glace fruits, 50¢ & ound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap, bas- ets. 'A niee present for Eastern friends. 639 Market strect, Palace Hotel building. * —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont - gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * man ravy. Though primarily intended as a pleasure boat, her warllke attributes are due to the fact that the Relchstag, on being asked to pay for her, only agreed to the outlay on the understanding that she should be capable in time of war of flying the imperial eagle in the line of battle- ships. The crew of the vessel consists of 330 of- ficers and men. The imperial apartments are furnished ‘with lavish magnificence. The dining-room will seat eighty guests, and silver brocade, the walls- being cov- ered with tapestry in the same colors. The furniture is of maple wood and the beau- tiful fireplace is composed of marble and nickel. The Emperor’s bedroom Is re- markable for its magnificent aldminum bedstead, hung with dove-colored satin. The Empress’ bedroom is also a fine apartment and contains a nickel bedstead, with hangings of gray .eatin. On the up- per deck is one of the Emrmr'l ‘work- yooms, which is supplied with a telescope, nautieal books and the ship’s log. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. IS MARRIED-C. C. P., City. Richard Jose, the singer, is married. HOMESTEAD RIGHT—W., City, Under the laws of the United States the home- stead right cannot be devised away from the widow or minor children. THE CALL—F. L., City. For the In- formation desired about The Call this de- partment respectfully refers you to the business manager of the paper. + TO MAKE ENTRY- City. An un- married woman over the age of 21 years has the right under the United States laws to make a homestead entry. OPEN PLUMBING—C. C. P, City. There is no law of the State or ordinance of the city that calls for open plumbing in a house nor that prohibits the encasing of a bathtub with wood. SUPERSCRIPTION—Reader, City. The superscription on an envelope should al- ways be punetuated. As for instance: Mr. Charles E. Smith, Chie: 300 Grand Ave. o THE SUCCESSION—TI., Cazadero, Cal The question as to succession in case of the death of the President and the Viee President of the United States was an- swered at length In this department on the 17th of September, 1901 MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS—G., Lodi, Cal There have been published in a number of periodicals during the past five years many articles on municipal ownership of utilities. These may be traced by con- sulting the cumulative index of Period- ical Literature. ANSWERS—F. L., City. This depart- ment does not undertake to answer on a particular day questions sent to it. An- swers are obtained as soon as possible and are printed in regular order as soon as space will permit. Those who desire an immediate answer should Inclose a self-addressed and stamped envelope, SABBATH AND SUNDAY--Constant Reader, Vallejo. Sabbath is Hebrew and means rest. Dr. Scharff says that with the Hebrews it commenced on Friday evening and continued until the following Saturday evening. The great majority of Christians celebrate the first day of the week instead of Sabbath, the seventh. The word Sunday does not occur in the Bible’ and there is no record of the time when Sunday or the first day of the week began to be generally used by Christians as a stated weekly time for religious meetings. SUPERNACULUM—Subscriber, City. Supernaculum is Latin for “upen the nail” and means that the wine is so good that the drinker leaves only enough in his glass to make a bead on his nail. The French say of first-class wine “Fait rubis sur l'ongle” (It is fit to make a ruby on the nail), referring to the residue which is only sufficlent to make a drop on the paill. Tom Nash says: ‘“After a man has drunk his glass it'is usual in the North to turn the glass upside down and let a drop fall on the thumb nail. If the drop rolls off the drinker is obliged to flll up and drink again.” TOMATO—Subscriber, City. A decision of the Supreme Court of the United States has fixed the status of the tomato, “Veg- etables are such things,” is stated In the decision, “‘as are eaten after the soup and fish, along with the meats, while. fruits are eaten after the meats as dessert. Therefore because tomatoes -are eaten after the soup and fish, along with the meats, they are vegetables,” This was In a case reported In the Supreme Court Re- porter, volume XIII, in a case where a collector of customs demanded duty for tomatoes on the ground that such were vegetables, while the Iimporter claimed that they were fruit. LANGUAGE—E. M. G., Lower Lake, Cal. An American who desires to travel through Europe will not find much dif- eulty in making himself understood if he speaks only English, but if He can mas- ter the French tongue he will never be at a loss to find these who will understand him. In view of the recent events which have brought the Americans in closer touch with the Spanish-speaking people, it is possible that an American who de- sires to study a foreign language to help him in business would do well to study Spanish. Statistics show the following in regard to European languages spoken: English 111,000,000, French 51,200,000, Ger- man 75,200,000, Italian 33,400,000, Spanish 42,800,000, Portuguese 13,000,000, Russian 75,- 160,000, —_————— . SUMMER RATES in effect at Hotel del Coro- nade until December 1. Ticket to Corenado and return, including 15 days’ board and room, $60. Inquire at 4 New Montgomery st. — McKINLEY’S LAST VISIT TO HIS FARM. DOMESTIC PETS BEFORE THE CAMERA. STORY OF THE COCOS ISLAND