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THE SAN FRANCISCO LALL THURSDAY, l\OVEMBER 14, 1901. JUVENILE CRIME. N searching for the origin of the criminal' ten- THURSDAY.... NOVEMBER 14, 1901 l_ dency the penologists are going back to the in- _fluenices of juvenile life. The theories of Lom- _|OHN D. SPRECKELS, ProPnetov Aééress Al Commesieations to W, 8. LEAKE, Masager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. . PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, . F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months. DAILY CALL (including Sunda; . 150 DAILY CALL—By Single Mont e SUNDAY CALL, One Year. . 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. . 1.00 All postmasters are subscriptio Semple coples will be forwarded when requested. 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BRANCH OFFICES—T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 MoAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1841 Misefon, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 103 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until $ p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Central—*"Lights o' London.” Grard Opera-house—“Tannhauser.” Alcazar—"For Fair Virginia.” Columbia—""The First Duchess of Marlborou Vaudeville. California—"‘Shore Acres.” Tivoli—*The Belle of New York.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Fischer's—Vaudeville, Recreation Park—Baseball. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By §. Watkine—This at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 1106 Golden Gate avenue. day, e _p— FILIPINO ASPIRATIONS. E get but little idea of the Philippine situa- tion from official reports. These deal truth- fully with official conditions, the state of the the cost of civil and military administra- tior, but they give no glimpse of the condition of the tvelve m'llions of people on the islands, of their so- cial and industrial state and their civic aspirations. It is beginning to be apparent that too much has becn expected, immediately, from the presence of several hundred American teachers among that peo- ple. The work they may do will appear in two or three generations from now, but for the present will but siigktly change the spirit of the people. In the fisst place, they are a conquered people. As for lcarning and letters, they had both when Magellan ited them, and they were independent. They had partaken of the East Indian civilization. They had felt the Vedantic missionary touch before Buddhism was. . So they have a past that is a history of law and social order among them, preceding the settlement of this continent by their conquerors. They are now moving along on the line of an aspiration for au- tcnomy d for a limited seli-government. We may as well realize that our rule, being that of a con- queror, is no more acceptable than that of Spain. They have adopted ome American practice, for they have held a convention and passed resolutions. This body sat in Manila, and, as we learn by direct advices, it represented a constituency of 300,000 mem- bers of the Federal party, from all the islands and including all the tribes. Senors Tavera and Legarda of the United States Philippine Commission were delegates, as were three members of the Supreme Court. This convention debated the suppression of the religious communities, the demand for general amnesty, the return of Filipinos whom we have ex- iled and the erection of a territorial government. finally adopted a petition to Congress asking that the islands be made a Territory of the United States, with a2 Governor appointed by the President, with a Legislature of two houses, the upper one to consist of thirty members, sixteen of whom shall be elected by the people and the other fourteen to be appointed by the Governor. of the islands to the United States Senate. This is a novelty. Our Territories heretofore have had dele- gates to the House, but we have no doubt that Hawaii, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona will join these bright Filipino politicians in demanding admission by delegate to the Senate also. Indeed, there is considerable merit in the plan. Striet jus- tice to those people will require that they have in some form direct representation in our Congress. Humanity and political expediency require this. The late Consul General Wildman early warned our Government that the Filipinos could not safely be treated as we have treated our Indians. As we have made Commissioners and Supreme ‘Court Justices of them, they have the right to inquire why they may not have delegate representanon in our Congress, and why should we say “n0”? This drama has un- folded and the scroll cannot be rolled up now, but must be unrolled to the end. The convention by resolution stated the ravage and impoverishment caused by our war of conquest and asked the American Congress to authorize the issue of $100,000,000 of fifty-year 3 per cent bonds to put the people on their industrial feet again. = In fact, looking over the character and proceedmgs of this representative body an American is compelied to admit that it compared favorably with any con- vention held during the year anywhere in our -do- minions, and in some respects was quite superior to the constitutional convention of Cuba. It is a beginning, and further manifestations of ideas on civil government by those people will be awaited with interest W revenues, Memphis is to give Admiral Schley a silver service, 50 he will get something out of the court of inquiry after =1l that will be worth Jooking at. ..Telephone Press 204 It | They also demand two delegates | broso and the other beliévers that there is abnormal- ity in man which is incorrigible are not altogether ac- cepted, since in scores of cases criminals are found free of the stigmata of degeneracy. When the assas- sin Czolgosz was photographed the tyros in the school of Lombrose thought they saw in his face the stamp of degeneracy. But 'the scientific report upon him expressly declares that he bore none of the ab- normal stigmata. Going back to the crigin of crime in the early im- pressions of life made in childhood, there is a grow- ing school which believes that a child started on the lap of a good mother and well and wisely trained, and protected against evil impressions and contacts during the years that precede maturity of judgment, may be considered safe from criminal action, except in the case of those crimes of passion which are no proof of criminal instinct. During the late session of the Congress of Mothers in Princeton, IIL, an address was delivered by Judge C. J. Neely of the Juvenile Court of Chicago. That court is organized as a branch of the judicial estab- lishment, which has charge of all matters relating to juvenile crime and incorrigibility. The fact that in a great American city a special tribunal is required for that. purpose emphasizes the importance of it and gives one an unpleasant realization of the extent to which crime is rooted in juvenile life in this country. Judge Neely said that the prevention of crime is of more importance than its cure. He condemned the severity of penalties for. minor offenses and their lightness for offenses of greater gravity, and advised a reformation of the juvenile penal code in that respect. He found the origin of much crime in juvenile idle- ness and the want of early training. He regards the kindergarten as a part of the public school system as a great safeguard, beecause it introduces those ideas of form, color and spatial relations which are the foundation of knowledge of the trades and han- dicrafts. Given this foundation, and all juveniles who have a bent toward the handicrafts begin early the mental habit which aids them in the direction of their natural impulse. A frightful condition is disclosed by the penal | statistics of the United States. A heavy percentage of the native American criminals are found to be | under 30, and theif criminal career to have begun in thei: teens. Of these a very small percentage are {4ound to have aay trade or handicraft by which to earn bread. They are by no means illiterate, but are found to have a fair common school education. This last fact is made use of by the opponents of our pub- lic school system, who charge that the germs of crime are acquired in school. This is not true. The fault seems to be that when the school training is acquired there is some foreclosure of opportunity that blocks the way of American youth into the han- dicrafts and vocations for which their public school education is a preparation. Idleness at that precise point in juvenile life is a canker that soon eats away all the uprightness and virtue inculcated at home and in school, and its awful consequences appear in the army of young criminals found in our jails, peniten- tiaries and State schools for the incorrigible. These serious problems appeared concurrently with the de- cay of the apprenticeship system, and have increased in gravity as we get further away from it. As Judge Neely sees benefit in the kindergarten we incline to the opinion that the start made there should not be lost, but that with the kindergarten preceding the primary classes in the public schools the grammar grade should be supplemented by the mechanical school. In a completely equipped me- | chanical school any trade or handicraft may be | thoroughly learned. The great need of this country and is to be, for skilled workmen. Why is it that in every branch of American industry men are found in charge who were born and trained abroad? In | all our metal and smelting works that is the rule. Going further, the same state of affairs is found | among the workmen. It is fortunate for our indus- tries that we are able to command the services of these trained men, but it is unfortunate for our insti- tutions that Americans who should fill their due per- centage of these places are morally rotting in prisons ! and reform schools. It is time that the promoters of our public school system everywhere should appreciate the importance of this practical form of education. Against it will arise complaints about the cost. But we affirm that | it costs the taxpayers less to make a self-supporting, led mechanic out of a boy than it does to police |'h1m. stand his depredations upon property, catch him and either hang him or support him in prison. It | will soon be seen that what we add to the expense of ; our schools js#faken out of the cost of administering our criminal law. It is announced that the French Minister of Com- merce, M. Millerand, proposes to establish in this country a French school in which young Frenchmen | can be instructed in American industrial methods. It would seem, however, to be cheaper and better if the { Minister would send his students to enter at some American school already established. What is the use of a French school to teach Americanism? F to the perverse custom of docking the tails of horses it is evident the existing laws enacted to prevent the practice are inadequate for the purpose.‘ { It is said they are ineffective in this State by reason of the difficulty of proving who docked the tail of any | particular horse, or even that the offense had been committed in the State. Whatever be the nature of the defect, it is certainly sufficiently serious to pre- vent the enforcement of the statute, and dock-tailed horses are as common as they were before the statute was enacted. In considering the best means of providing an cffective law it would be well to profit by what has been accomplished in the way of protecting game by DOCKING HORSES’ TAILS. ROM the persistency with which fashion holds " of this but of other States have been drawn up so judiciously that however objectionable they may be in certain details they are about as effective as statutes can be. In nearly every important State in the Union they are enforced so strictly and have so well stood the test of the COI‘!S that game is fairly well protected. It would seem, then, that if our laws against the docking of horses’ tails were drawn with the precision of the game laws it would be-about as easy to erforce the cne as the other, and mutilated horses would be about as rare on our streets as game in our markets out of season. i One of the most effective provisions of the game laws is that which forbids any person to have above a certain amount of game in his possession at ’ any time, or any of it at all out of season. The restric- : tion applics whether the game be obtained in' the statute. It is coriceded that the game laws not only. State or imported from the ‘outside. A similar pro- vision with respect to dock-tailed horses would doubtless have an equally good effect. It would be unfair and inexpedient to forbid any one in Cah(orma to keep a horse' whose tail is now docked, but a statute might be enacted which would forbid any one to. own a dock-tailed horse under two years of age, or at least subject such owner to a heavy fine. Such a law would have the effect of preventing the docking of young horses in this State or the inpor- tation of young dock-tailed horses from other States. As the old horses died off there would be a decrease in the number of dock-tailed horses in use in fashionable circles, and a consequent diminu- tion of the force of the fashion. Eventually the cus- tom would die out almgethcr, and the State wouLd be rid of the pernicious practice. Fashion is responsible for many forms of folly, but hardly any is more cruel or more perverse than this. The tail cf a horse is not only necessary to the com- fort of the animal but is one of his chiei beauties. The docking process not only deprives the horse of his only means of protecting himself against flies and other insects, but it also diminishes his attractive- ness in the/ eyes of any one who is genuinely appre- ciative of what a horse should be. It is time to break up the senseless custom, and to that end the statutes against it should be made as stringent as those which protect game. After all the glowing reports of the electric trains in Germany that were to run 100 miles an hour, it appears that all attempts to attain that rate of speed for any considerable distance have been unsuccessful. It is not likely that there has been any great loss to the world by the failure, for very few people would care to travel at that rate even if they could. E econeniic questions have begun to give atten- tion to the rapidity with which the forests of the world are being destroyed. Thus the Westminster Gazette recently noted thgt increasing demands’ for timber in Great Britain and Germany are faced by decreasing supplies from Norway, Russia and Hun- gary. At present Great Britain is importing wood of an annual value of £22,000,000, while Germany im- ports wood annually to the value of £14,000,000. Eurepe is unable to meet that demand, and accord- ingly wood is imported from this country, from Canada, from Australia and elsewhere. It is not Germany and Great Britain alone that im- port timber. Some of the British colonies are them- selves importers, and the value of their imports reaches annually the sum of £18,000,000. The de- crease in the timber supply is not, however, the ' whole question. There is the further evil of cli- | matic changes brought about by denuding the hills of | their forests. The change for the worse is noted in many parts of Europe, and countries once fertile and blessed with a climate suitable for man and his works are now becomting well nigh uninhabit- | itable. As ‘illustrations of these changes the Westminster Gazette says: “Bosnia is a country enjoying the possession of vast forests, and is separated from the | sea by great mountain ranges rising in the Dinaric | Alps to some Gooo feet. Herzegovina, to the south of Bosnia, has hardly any forests at all. To the west of Herzegovina, toward the middle of the Adriatic, is the island of Lissa, a name of ill-omen in the rec- ords of tiie Italian navy. The summer temperature | of Bosnia is from 4 degrees to 8 degrees Fahrenheit THE WASTE OF FORESTS. UROPYAN as well as American students of cooler thar in the more southerly Herzegovina, and | nearly 2 degrees below that of the sea-girt Lissa. Or, | again, fake the shores of the Caspian. On the west- ern coast we have a great forest region. cast extend countless acres of desert, sand and stone. The result is a summer cool and dry at Lenkoran, but intolerable on the opposite coast of the great i land sea. Thus resuits of the most unexpected and | far-reaching nature may be the outcome of the ill- considersd deforestation of a country.” At the present time the British Government making extensive plantations of forest trees in India for the double purpose of forming a timber supply and improving the climate so as to check the pe- riodical droughts that bring famine in their train So successful have these plantations been it is be- lieved that in the near future they will constitute one of the most valuable assets of the Indian Govern- ment. The Australians and the Canadians have profited by the experience of Europe and they have adopted measures to afford something at least of pro- tection to their forest areas. In this country the waste goes on more rapidly | In no direction 'E. than anywhere else in the world. does the resistless encrgy of the American people show itself more potently than in the destruction of forests. Morcover, in this respect we are nearly as wasteful as energetic, and the amount of timber de- stroyed by fire is almost equal to that cut for com- ! mercial purposes. In California we have had many a disastrous warning on this subject. Our annual bill of losses by forest fires is enormous. The damage done is far in excess of the cost of adequate protection. Sooner or later we will learn the lesson which Europe has learned at such a stupendous cost, and if we are wise we will learn it beiore\we have had to pay an equal price. ————— The adoption by Australia of a flag of her own has brought about a good deal of a flurry in London, and particularly among military and naval men. Ad- miral de Horsey, for example, says: “The ancient British flag is good enough for the whole empire. Why should Australia adopt a flag, which, however artistic, must rank second to that of the empire and which no foreign warships visiting Australia could ever properly salute?” Such are the questions that are troubling the British, but up to this time we have not heard of their troubling the Australians. AR I Richard Croker, in commenting upon the recent New York election, seems to have made a curious blunder. He said that it rained and defeat came to him, as he is not a mud horse. Everybody else in | America believed that Mr. Croker’s natural element was mud—social, political and moral. Thus far this year John D. Rockefeller has drawn $19,200,000 in dividends from the Standard Oil Com- pany. Itis to be hoped, for the general belief which is entertained of the goodness of human nature, that Mr. Rockefeller thinks he eatned his salary. ~ As a result of the elections it appears the Demo- crats will gain a Senator in Maryland and another in Kentucky, but that will make no difference to the country. The majority in the Senate is all right. Sir Thomas Lipton intends to name his next chal- lenger Shamrock Third. Is it possible that he has forgotten that there can be only two yachts in the race and that his boat will be ridiculously misnamed? i I already ! | | CARTHUSIAN MONKS ARE BANISHED FROM THEIR 1000-YEAR-OLD HOME IU TTTEER i £ R L Gt | | | l 7 I MONASTERY IN FRANCE IN WHICH FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THE CARTHUSIAN MONK{::&VJE:;VED!;: | AND WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN FORCED TO ABANDON BECAUSE OF THE RECENT ENX 3 WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE “ASSOCIATIONS LAW.” — - £ 2 HE monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, in the Isere Department of France, after nearly 1000 years of benefi- cent activity, has just-been deserted by the Carthusian monks, and the world's supply of the rich liqueur which bears their name has been stopped at its source. The new “associations law” of France has driven the friars out of the ears old and in them was manufactured the ;:fi;‘f”;lfefi.o an white chartreuse, so loved as an after dinner cordial by good epicures. e process of, manufacture is a secret and has been safely guarded for centuries. It is not definitely known what country the exiled monks. will select for the site of their mother monastery. England and the country and the republic incidentally loses one of her largest | sources of revenue. The Order of the Carthusians was founded { by the holy St. Bruno in 1051 and the first monastery was bullt | on the site occupled by the present one. [ FORUM CLUB’S RECEPTION IS A GREAT SUCCESS The ladies of the Forum Club held their | fifth annual reception yesterday in their eleganl clubrooms on Sutter street. It was a very elaborate &ffair, splendidly ! planned, excellently managed and quite | worthy of the many ladies who are active | members of the club. The hall was most beautifully decorated for the occasion with great palms and splendid vellow chrysanthemums, thus carrying out the colors of the club—gresn and gold. Mrs. J. H. Gilmore, one of the | club members assumed entire charge of the decorations, and the artistic results | achieved were all owing to that lady's ! efforts. | H | On the i | halrman; Mrs. George W. Caswell, Mrs. H. L Jones, Mrs_ Jobn W. Eugsles, Mrs. A. 1o | Rafsch, Mrs. M. F. Gabbs, Mrs. A, W. Jack- | is The hours of the reception were from 2 ill 5. There was a splendid musical pro- | gramme during the afterncon. A string orchestra was in attendance. Mrs. Paut Freidhofer and Mrs. Grace Morel Dick- man sang. Miss Mollie Pratt was the ac companist. Mrs. E. G. Denniston received the guestn, assisted by the following named | officers and members of the club: First vice president, Mrs. J. Homer Fritch; John P. Young; Board second vice president, Mrs. third vice president, Mrs. L. R. Ellert. of directors—Mrs. Wi H. Mann, Mrs. S. J. Hendy, Henry Payot, s Frank Frederic Swett, Mrs. John H. Dllmor . George | Leviston, Miss May Shannon, Miss Mabel A. Ayer. Recording secretary, Mrs. S. E. Knowles; corresponding secretary, Miss Ivy M. Bauer; treasurer, Miss Louise Elliott. Reception committee—Mrs. Frank Fredericks, F. A, son, Mrs. William Chamberlin, Mrs. S. Marcus | and Mrs. Waliter Lovegrove. Invitations were issued to the officers of all the other woman's ciubs and to each member of the Forum Club was ex- tended the privilege of entertaining one guest. ‘the following named ladi:s, all mem- hext's of the club, were among tho:e pres- ent: Mrs. John C. Adams, Mrs. F. H. Abbott, Mrs. Winslow Anderson, Mrs. William H. Avery, Miss Mabel Adams Ayer, Mrs. Willis E. * | Bacheller, Mrs. William T. Baggett, Mrs. Will- fam G. Barrett, Mrs. George Bailey, Mrs. B. J. ! Battams, Mrs. E. Bauer, Miss Ivy M. Bauer, | Mrs. Beamish, Mrs. H. B. Berryma | Mrs. T. Bickel, Mrs. Alfred L. Black, | Charles E. Blake, Mrs. W. H. Brown, Mrs. H.J | Burkhart, Mrs, Willlam Burd, Mrs. Wellmgton | C. Burnett, Mrs. D. A. Camblein, Mrs. J. C. | Campbell, Mrs. Harris Cérbert Capwell, Mrs. K chorgc W, Caswell, Mrs. William Chamberhin, | Mrs. William Cluff, I Mrs. B. F. Clark, Mrs. J. B. H. Cooper, Mrs Alvah R. Conkiin, Miss Garrie L. Coolt, Mra. E. A. Cox Mrs. George H. Crosby, Mrs. Edward .Bowie Cutter, Mrs. Edward Gere Dwye: Miss Louise EMiott, Mirs. H. Evans, D. L. Farnsworth, Mrs. J. P. H. Farrell, Miss Ja!!phlne Feusler, Mrs. Louis G. Feusier, Mrs. lcod Mrs, Tirey L. Ford, Mrs. M. K. redericks, Miss Mabel J. Homer Fritch, Mrs. M. Gabbs, Mrs. G. Galpin, Mrs. M. Mrs, John H. Gilmoré, Mrs. Charles Dr. Alice. Goss, B. Mrs. R. Ha s Mrs. Thates 7 Hartison, Hagzelliurst, Hodgden, l(ra Ralph B, Hooper, Mrs. Le Roy Hough, H. B. Hunt, Mrs. A. . Jackson, Mrs. mnk Jaynes, Hn H. 1 Jones, Mrs. L. A. Kelley, Mrs, Fred S. Kellogg, Mrs. F. S. | Kelly, Mrs. J. King, Mrs. Charles Mason Kinne, Thek]ly Kleinclaus, Mrs, S. E. Knowles, Mrs. Law, Mrs. J. Mrs. George Levllton, Mrs. G. man, Mrs. Walter R. Lovegrove, A, W. Lundborg, Mrs. Charles H. Mann, Mrs. H. 4 Slegtried Marcus, Mrs. Theodore H. MacDon- ald, Mrs. J. L. )nrul, Mls:v.len?nle McFarland, Miss K. M. Mih: Mills, Mrs. Thomas Morflew, X harles C. Moore, = Louis Moore, Mrs. J. H. Morton, Mrs. J. S. Morgan. Mrs, G, E. Mayhew, Mrs. C. C. New- hall, Mrs. G. S Noble, Mrs. C. P. Osgood, Mrs, Redmond W. Payne, Mrs. Henry Payot, Mrs. J. W. Pew, Mrs. T. G. Phelps, Mrs. M. E. Pendleton, Mrs, A. J. Raisch, Mrs. Edward Allen Reddy, Mrs, Pl!rlck Reddy, Mrs. Martln Regensburger, Mrs. F, Robbins, Mrs. B. Rowley, Mrs. John W. Rulgles Mrs. John l Sabin, Miss Agnes Sadler, Mrs. A. V. Shannon, G. W. Spencer, Mis William T. Smith, Mrs. Jonathan Swelgert, Mrs. W. Swett, rs. James Mrs. 'E. B. Stonehill, Mrs. E. R, Taylor, l(rl Willlam P. Thomas, lm Loufs Thors, Mrs. George D. Toy, Mrs. J. L. Trusiow, Mrs. P. Van Duzer, Miss Eliza- beth Wainwright, Mrs. Alonzo A. Watkins, Chbolon 8 wats, _Med Bolle V. Watt, Oscar T. Weber. 'Mrs. Henry S. Welch, Mrs. C. J. Wetmore, Mrs. Robert White, Mrs. F. L. Whitney, Mrs, William Willis, Mrs. Alex ‘Wilson, Mrs. Joseph Winterburn, Mrs. John P. Young, Mme. Belloni Zifferer,” Mrs. Phebe ———e e NEW ADVERTIS mm VACCINATION AND DANDRUFF. There Is as Sure Prevention of Bald- ness as There Is of Smallpox. It is now accepted that vaccination ren- ders the vaccinated person exempt from smalipex; or at worst, he never bas any- thing tut the lightest kind of a case. Now as sure a preventive and cure for dandruft, which causes falling hair and Baldness, has been discovered- Newbro's Herpicide. It kills the dandruff zerm. C. H. Reed, Victor, Idaho, says: ‘My- self and wife have been troubled with dandruff and falling hair for several years. We tried remedies without effect until we used Newbro's Herpicide, two bottles of which cured us.” Hundreds of similar testimenials. rs. rs. The Iauer buildings A He‘rst, Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, Mrs. C. Mills, Miss Jane Klink, Mrs. George L. Serie- maier and Miss Mabel Craft. . s e -Mrs. James Robinson gave a delightful luncheon at the University Club yester- day in honor of Mrs. G. . Eldridge. The table, a large round one, was exquis— itely decorated with madrone berries and autumn leaves. Red candles in silver candelabra and with silver shades shed a rich, warm glow over the table. Covers were laid for twenty-two. Mrs. Robinson wore a very elegant black crape gown, elaborately trimmed “llglh lace insertion and made over white o e Mrs. Lafontaine of 1732 Hyde street is the lucky winner of the wonderful doll- house that was given to_the Doctor’'s Daughters by the Misses Spreckels and which was one of the most marked fea- tures of the recent show. —_———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Miss Flighty (visiting the country)— What time do you harvest your corn, Mr. Plowem? Farmer Plowem—We gin'rally. begin shuckin’ it in November. Miss Flighty—Oh, I should think you would harvest it in September. Papa says September corn is worth money right now.—Bryan's Commoner. Perspiring Passenger—May I read that wgazine of yours a little while? The Other Perspiring Passenger—I am going to read it myself in a moment. P. P.—Yes, sir. May I look at your paper, then? The Other P. P.—Don't you see I'm reading it myself?—Richmond Times. Heir—Paw, kin I go swimmin’? Father—No, my son. Heir—I wisht I lived in Alagky, paw. Father—Why? Heir—Coz grandpap sez ’at in Alasky little boys’ paws let little boys ist go swimmin’ all they want to.—Cleveland Leader. Doctor—There’s neothing serious the matter with Michael, Mrs. Muldoon. I think a li{te soap and water would do him as much good as anything. Mrs. Muldoon—Yis, doctor, an’ will Of give it t' him beforr or afther his males?— Glasgow Times. Merely Buying.—Mrs. Jones—What's your hurry? You're not off for the sea- shore now? Mrs. Smith—No, not until T'n going downtown now. Mrs. Jones—Shopping®? Mrs. Smith—No; I haven't time for that —there’s S0 many things I simply have to bay.—Philadelphia Press. to-morrow. United States have been discussed, but the most recent in- formation seems to indicate that they will settle in the Isle of Wight, where the hills and valleys are highly favorable to the production of their famous liqueur. W%W. SOME ANSWERS ¥ TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS INVESTING MONEY=G. L., City. It is a rule of this department not to advise correspondents how to invest their money. NOT PREMIUM COINS-L. E. E., City. There is no premium offered by dealers on quarters of 1859 nor on two dollar and fifty cent pieces of 1853 BACK DATES—W. and 8. A. M., City. The 4th of November, 1897, fell on Thurs- day, and the 27th of August, 1398, fell Saturday. Christmas, 1871, fell un Mon~ day. THE NEVADA—P. J, City. During the month of February, 1868, the steamers Sierra Nevada and the Nevada arrived in the port of San Francisco, the former on the 7th from Mazatlan and the latter on the 15th frem Panama. THE DERBY—A. A. V. H., City. There is no record of the attendance at the Eng- lish Derby obtainable in this city, and for that reason this department eannot inform you as to “the greatest number of persons in attendance at any ome time at the English Derby.” BLOTCHES—S. A. M., City. The ques- tion asked as to the appearance of red blotches on the face and neck of the lady is one that would have to be submitted to a physician, who would have to ask a number of questions in order to answer yours. The question is one’ of that class that cannot be answered on the state- ment submitted in the letter of inquiry. UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE — E., Eureka, Cal. In general the difference be- tween a college and a university is that the former is a school for higher educa- tion which grants a limited number of de- grees and a university is a combination of colleges which grants all the degrees. Any first-class encyclopedia will give you a full explanation of the difference between the two. _—— Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * f Cholce candies. Tonwsend's, Palace Hotel* f Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's ¢ Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 t< gomery street. Telephone Main 1043 ) SAN FRANCISCANS Wii0 KNEW Li HUNG CHANG. THE MOST REMARKABLE FLASHLIGHT PHOTO EVER TAKEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. . See the Full-Pags Reproduction in Next Sunday's Cal’. STRANGEST OF ALL THE ¢“HELLO** CENTRALS. ARE WOMEN AS SUC- CESSFUL IN BUSINESS AS MEN? HOW TO HAVE A PRETTY NECK. ; ki NEXT SUNDAY CALL THE SUNDAY CALL, A WESIERN PAPER FOR WESTERN PEOPLE. IS SOCIETY DETERIO- RATING ? 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