The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1901, Page 5

P MONDAY..................DECEMBER 30, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communieations to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 L s SRS AT PR U ST T PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Su:day), § 1-onths. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 13 pr 28 thorized to receive Sample coples will be iorwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in orderirg change of address should be particular to give NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to ipsure a prompt correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE .1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON...c.c0vss22000...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: - Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermen House; P. O. News Cc.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 8:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia, open untfl 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 8 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. - AMUSEMENTS. Columbla—"*Janice Meredith.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—""A Lady of Quality.” California—*"Black Patti Troubadours.” Tivoli—"Little Red Riding Hood.” Central—"The Two Sisters.” Alcazar—*Charley’s Aunt. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Fischer' s—Vaudeville. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. —— <> CLOSE OF THE BUSINE>S YEAR. HE close of the year is bringing out the usual annual reviews oi trade, and they are tremely flattering. Prosperous as the preced- ing four or five years were, they have been exceeded in many important points by 1901. First, the bank clearings of the country, which are accepted as the best and, in fact, about the only reasonably accurate index to the condition of business, were $118,000,- ©0,000, 2 gain of 38 per cent over last year and 26 per cent over the record year of 1899. The greatest increase, and thereforc the greatest activity, was in the Middle States, The failures, however, were 10885 (with liabilities of $130,000,000 and assets of $60,000,000), an increase of 8.6 per cent over 1900, and almost 12 per cent over those in 1899. But then a largely increased volume of business would natur- ally result in some increase in the number of fail- ex- | mres, to say nothing of the growth of population in e | country has been gradually the country. Some of the details of this expansion in domestic trade are an increase of 14 per cent in the production of pigiron over the highest previous record, larger shoe and leather production, 10 per cent increase in the coal output, and a wide and almost general ad- vance in the price of food products, the latter result- ing in, or rather from, higher-priced farm products. This latter advance, however, has been partially off- set by decreased yield in some crops. way earnings during the year are 16 per cent larger than the best previous record, and had not cars been so scarce this percentage of increase would have shown 2 still higher gain. The scarcity of cars was due to the remarkable trade activity, and extended all over the country. Nor has this blockade yet been relieved, though the various works are turning out cars as fast as they can make their machinery go. These are only a few points of gain. Were anything like a detailed list attempted a large amount of space would be necessary. There were some unfavorable conditions, however. The South has not done as well with its cotton as in some previous years, and the foreign trade of the decreasing for several months. The exports during the year thus far amount 5 $1,435,000,000, or 1 per cent less than last year, while the imports amount to at least $875,000,- 000, an increase of 5.5 per cent. Thus it will be seen that our exports to foreign countries are slowly de- creasing, while our imports from those countries are slowly increasing. The balance of foreign trade is no longer overwhelmingly in our favor. A significant feature at the moment is the complete reversal of conditions as compared with a year ago. Then manufactures boomed and farm products were more or less quiet, and in some lines actually dull. Now farm products are relatively more active than manufactures, and at higher prices. These two divi- sions of industry seem to take turns in precedence, and when one is lively the other is apt to be the re- verse. But the favorable largely outbalances the unfav- orable, as far as this year’s trade is concerned. If some halt is observable at the close of the year, what can we expect? We cannot go on forever breaking all records, and there must be periods when the pub- Jic, both here amd ir Europe, become overbought and curtail their demands upon the factory and the farm. Such lulls have been witnessed several times during the past two years, but have hitherto been succeeded by renewed activity, and the present may prove like the former conditions. Business has cer- tainly been falling off slightly of late, but the dimi- mution has been so narrow and gradual that it is not perceptible to the general run of business men. It has none of the aspects of collapse, and seems to be an easy and healthy adjustment to normal conditions during a period of remarkable commercial activity. e ———— Jamestown, Va., was incorporated in 1507 and is the oldest incorporated town in the United States. It is going to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary in 1907 and has begun making arrangements for an exposition. It is the belief of the promoters of the enterprise that they can give the town a new start and enable it hereafter to grow a little bit in spite of its age. ) ! g The net rail- | THE CUBAN DEMAND. HE Cuban junta does not relax its efforts for T free trade in sugar and tobacco with this coun- try. It has accurate knowledge of our politics and knows exactly how to produce results by indirec- tion. It keenly takes advantage of every circum- stance that may increase its footing. The appoint- ment of a Secretary of the Treasury from Iowa opened the way to get rid of Secretary Wilson, from the same State. Of course the organs of the junta did not say that Wilson should go because as Secre- tary of Agriculture he¢ is an outspoken advocate of the interests of the American farmer and believes in using protection to domesticate here profitably every possible addition to our farm crops. Since he went into office under President McKinley he has sup- ported the beet sugar industry with the greatest force, and the gratifying increase therein is greatly due to his interest. But the junta says nothing of all this. Its organs discover a political reason in not having two Cabinet cfficers from a sure Republican State like Iowa. For the time being, at least, their cunning fails to be effective, but it may be expected that they will not cease to nag every member of the Cabinet who is opposed to their scheme for crippling or extirpating two important agricultural interests in this country in order to enrich the Cuban planters whom they represent. The farmers’ interests in this subject should lead them to be alert. The junta is sleepless and will lose no tricks. The farmers of the country should make known their sentiment in support of Secretary Wil- son, and the members of Congress should not be left in doubt as to rural sentiment. What beet sugar means to the land-owner is re- vealed in such form as the news dispatch from Santa Mariz California, published Saturday. The beet sugar mill there has just closed a successful season and is to be enlarged to work up a greater acreage of beets. The farmers report a net profit of $55 per acre on their beets, and in addition to this the com- pany distributes prize money among them as a pre- mium on their crop. In Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, New York and every State where beet sugar mills are operated the iexperience is the same. The farmer gets a larger profit on his beets than on any other crop, and the return is immediate and in cash. Capital is hesitating about building more mills in every State where production of the beet is demon- strated to be successful. This hesitation is caused by the aggressiveness of the junta and the uncertainty of the final attitude of certain politicians. The junta has proclaimed Iowa as a sure Repub- lican State. There is a tone of warning in the rural districts that may well be listened to, lest sure Repub- lican States become few. e —— The Pan-American Congress agreed that there should be reciprocity of trade among American coun- tries, that the Pan-Amierican railway project should be carried out and that a Pan-American bank should be established, but as for arbitration on interna- tional disputes the congress leaves that to The Hague court. Under the circumstances it might as well have referred the other things to the same AMERICAN ADVERTISING. tribunal. MERICAN invasions of the markets of Eu- A rope are not always provocative of animosity. In Great Britain at least they sometimes take our competition as well as our goods with a genial humor. There are times when they are even moved to smile at the ingenuity of our methods. Just at present, for illustration, the London papers are pub- lishing as a pleasant bit of fun the circular recently sent out by an American firm soliciting British trade for what are known in commercial circles as “hog products.” 5 The circular says: “To our friends across the sea we send greeting. As the years roil by we are drawn nearer and nearer together by Christian Blood and Money Ties, and may this ever be. We are located in a section that grows a pig that, for leanness and qual- ity, comes nearer to your home-grown and Canadian pigs than any that can be raised in any part of the States. We are now putting up a class of light fancy English and Irish meats that, for delicacy of cure and extreme mildness, cannot be furnished by any other packing company in the Great West. Your wants can always be supplied by our friends and sole agents.” The object of advertising is to catch the attention, the fancy and the custom of the public, and conse- quently since that hog firm’s circular has caught the British it may be accounted excellent. It appears, however, from reports that we are not always so suc- cessful when we undertake to please the foreigner by our methods of making known our goods. Some time ago an American manufacturer of agri- cultural machinery sent to Germany for distribution a large number of bright lithographs displaying his goods. One of these represented a young woman in the costume of a Greek goddess driving a mower drawn by two tigers. Short- ly after the distribution several Germans stated to an American Consul that such machinery would be of no value and have no sale in Germany because in that country the farmers are not used to employing tigers in drawing their machines. Thus it will be seen the American advertiser who seeks foreign custom must rely more upon words than upon pictures. Had the hog product man sent to England a picture of one of his lean pigs instead of his Chicagoesque description he probably would not have sold a side of bacon. Advertising is an art that must be practiced in accord with national char- acteristics. O the events of the South African war an op- portunity to assert themselves the support- crs of freedom and the foes of tyranny. They made the most of it. Great mass-meetings were held to express German sympathy with the brave Boers fighting for liberty and to denounce the aggressive British as the murderers of a brave and Christian people. Now, however, the whirligig of time has brought about its revenge. The disturbances in Prussian Poland have caught the attention of the world and the British are now enjoying the satisfac- tion of declaring sympathy with the oppressed Poles and denouncing the tyranny of the Germans. g When the Polish question was recently brought up A GERMAN IRELAND. NLY a short time ago the Germans found in | for discussion in the Reichstag the Chancellor de- clared it to be a Prussian and not a German ques- tion, and it seems he is right, for the laws of which the Poles complain are Prussian and not German laws. Kaiser Wilhelm, it appears, has been im- pressed by the act of the Czar in Russianizing Fin- land and has sought to imitate his example. The Poles under the dominion of the Prussian crown |have retained the Polish language and the Catholic Ireligion. The Kaiser has sought to transform them |strictly as personal or domestic servants. into Prussians by compelling them to speak German and become Lutherans. The ‘result has been a clamor that has been heard over Europe, and all Germany is being held responsible for it. A short time ago a number of Polish Catholic children at Wreschen were said to have been so se- verely flogged by their Prussian school teachers for refusing to learn German prayers and hymns that several of them were crippled for life. The‘ parents took up the cause of their children, and many of them were subjected tc severe punishment in the way of fines and imprisonment. Then the Polish nobles espoused the cause of the people, and, finding no way for redress in Prussia, have appealed to the Reichstag and to the Catholics of South Germany. The action of the Prussian Government in striving to stamp out Polish nationality is in itself nothing new, but for a long time no severe measures were taken to that end, so that the present drastic policy of the Government is not easy to understand. The objection to Catholicism is particularly difficult to explain, since Catholic nobles of other parts of Ger- many are high in favor at Berlin, and it is only in Prussian Poland that any fight is being made against the church. The only explanation thus far given is that the Kaiser has been persuaded that the racial and national sentiments of the Poles are being fos- tered by their priests and that it is necessary to make the people Lutherans before he can make them Prussians. How far Russian experience in Finland and in Russian Poland may furnish encouragement for the Kaiser's policy cannot be accurately estimated, for Russian affairs are kept under cover of so much dark- ness that very little is known of them except their: capacity to generate anarchy, but the Kaiser can find a potent warning against his policy in the record of what Great Britain has achieved in her efforts to stamp out the spirit of nationality in Ireland. If the Kaiser be wise he can study that story with profit. Mining experts are said to have estimated that the Kimberley mines can continue to yield dia- monds at the present rate for 144 years to come, and accordingly people who have not yet laid inv their stock of diamonds need not fret. They can get them later. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. re- EPORTS from Washington are to the effect R that not only is Congress certain of enacting the Chinese restriction law, but the chances are good for the passage of a general immi- gration bill which will remedy the defects in the pres- ent law and prevent much of the objectionable immi- gration that now pours into the country from other nations than China. A bill representing the views of Commissioner General Powderly and other experts in the matter of immigration has been introduced into Congress and has found strong support. The aim of the framers of the measure is to embody in' one act all necessary provisions relating to immigration, to eliminate from existing statutes whatever experience has shown to be objectionable, to amend the sections which have not stood the test of the courts, and to add to the present law whatever is required to meet the needs of the time with respect to aliens seeking admission to the country. One of the notable features of the new measure is a provision for the inspection abroad of persons de- siring to come to the United States, and, secondly, for the supervision lere of all immigrants admitted, so that they may be deported if within a period of five years they are found to be criminals or paupers. For the purpose of providing partly at least for the inspection and supervision it is provided that the head tax cn aliens coming into the country shall be raised from $1 to $3 and is to be imposed upon those entering by land as well as upon those entering by sea, but exceptions are made in favor of citizens of Canada and of Mexico. The bill prescribes that there shall be excluded from the United States all idiots, insane persons, paupers, persons likely to become a public charge; persons aiflicted with a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious disease; persons who have been convicted of crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, anarchists or persons who advocate the overthrow of government, or the assassination of public officials: persons whose migration to the United States has been induced by offers, solicita- tions, promises or agreements, express or implied, of labor or work or service; any person whose pas- sage is paid for with money of another, or who is as- sisted by others to come, unless it is satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the excluded classes, but this is not to be held to pre- vent persons living in the United States from send- ing for a relative or friend who s not of the ex cluded classes. . The bill does not exclude persons who in othet countries have been convicted of offenses purely po- | litical and not involving moral turpitude, nor the im- portation of skilled labor when such labor is not to be found unemployed in the United States. Further- more, the clause forbidding the importation of “con- tract labor” does not include under that head profes-. sional actors, artists, lecturers or musicians, ministers of any religious dencmination, professors for col- leges or seminaries, persons belonging to any rec- ognized learned profession, or persons employed The bill has been carefully prepared by men who have long been earnest students of immigration problems and is much better than the laws that now prevail. It will of course undergo a close scrutiny in the House and a long debaterupon it can be counted on when it comes before the Senate. There will be, therefore, ample opportunity to rid it of any defects that may exist and still bring about its passage at this session. There has been an urgent demand for legislation in this direction, and it is full time the de- mand was satisfied. Kaiser Wilhelm declares he can force Venezuela to terms by merely seizing the customs duties at the principal Venezuelan ports, but President Castro says that should the seizure be made foreign mer- chants would suffer more than Venezuelans, so it would seem Castro is willing to let the Kaiser go ahead and take what he can get so long as he does not invade the country. ! The country is now waiting to see whether the famous New York arbitration committee is going to do business or imitate the international high court of arbitration appointed at The Hague Peace ference. Con- S Within the last three months we have had three new scientific cures for cancer, dnd by and by we may hear a call for volunteers to get themselves af- flicted with cancer for the purpose of testing the cure. RATING ASA P RUSSIA PLANNING TO IN CREASE ITS OWER ON THE SEAS USSIAN naval construction promises to be brisk during the coming year. Five battleships of 12,000 tons and 20 knots are proposed, besides which there is the com- pletion of three cruisers, Oleg, Jemkchug and Izumred, and a number of torpedo-boat destrovers. There are on hand in home and foreign yards no less than sixty-six ves- sglls of 298,575 tons, of which eleven, of 138,070 tons, are armored ships, The Russian cruiser Diana, of 6730 tons, built at St. Peters- burg, had her steam trial November 13. The vessel drew 2) feet 10 inches on an even keel—two inches less than the in- tended draught—and was seventy tons short in her displace- ment. The three engines developed 12,120 horsepower, exceed- ing the contract by 519, but no information is given as to Whether the intended speéed of 20 knots was obtained. The keel of the Diana was lald down in July, 189, and the vessel was launched October 12, 1899. The Diana has therefore been five and a half years under construction, while the Variag of the same type and tonnage was built for Russia at Cramp’s vard in about three years, the keel being laid October 13, 1838, the vessel being launched October 31, 1899, and the last official trial taking place October 1, 1900. 2 The Russian cruiser Djigit and the Kniaz Pojarski, armored coast defense ships, are being thoroughly overhauled at St. Petersburg. The copper sheathing is being removed and zinc sheathing substituted. Kniaz Pojarski in 1867, and their wood-sheathed and coppered bottoms do not appear to have caused the hulls to deteriorate to any alarming degree. The substitution of zinc for copper is in the line of economy, as the -vessels have naturally be- come obsolete and are not likely to last many more years. B . . The Amazone, a German protected cruiser of 2800 tons, went into commission November 15 last. She was built at the Germania Yard, Kiel, being laid down September, 1899. Simi- lar vessels, named the Ariadne, Medusa and Thetis, begun at the same time, are practically completed and two more not yet named are in course of construction. Germany will have in these vessels seven useful cruisers—fast, economical in steam- irig and with good batteries, consisting of ten 4-inch, ten 1- pounders, eight machine guns and two torpedo tubes. Their engines of 8000 horsepower will give a speed of 21 to 22 Kknots, and their coal capacity is 58 tons. Two of these cruisers, the Gazelle and Niobe, are wood-sheathed and coppered. . . . The British Admiralty has ordered four more 160-foot tor- pedo-boats of 2 knots speed from Thornycroft. A detective employed by the Admiralty in the Devonport dockyard had a narrow escape recently while endeavoring to spot the workmen who were loafing. He was passing under The Djigit was built in 1876 and the he Bureau of Yards and Docks made pub‘i‘lgrg:nrglagx‘;gg:}?t; ?itlslt)atch from New Orleans wmcr:\ ;[a(n, he trouble with the $600,000 steel floating dock at Algiers, ;}::1; tNew Orleans, is over and that the dock _would be used December 3. At a recent preliminary trial the on Monday, 0ccor o ascertain that everything was in working s wa;u;:w and valves worked satisfactorily and the dock s k (op: depth of about sixteen feet, when it came to a :”ds:t:p A diver was sent down to find out what was the = -2 he reported that an oid coal barge on the bottom e 24 further descent of the dock. Later it was reported p"vetl;leelocatlon of this floating dock is defective in that there :mt::o much water under it, and that the hole In which !t = tes is so much deeper than the river bottom around it as ff’xf?come a veritable trap, into which sunken craft and other debris of the Mississfp:l flntc:l :tl;iii;gw;::cg;mi? ii:\‘:e :me 0 how E been published as t . b S s ! fects are sald to exist in the French navy. It is L}:orl;sdalgydihc Libertie that seven out of the ;Duneen ships composing the Mediterranean squadron were ur:uergnllng repairs when the recent dispute with Turkey m‘ece:. ated a naval demonstration, and that four battleships of the reserve squadron were unfit to g0 to sea. Of the chan:ell] fleet {1 battleships are in docks and a third is soon to Sllew; ;.-. three out of four cruisers are under repairs af Syt The ships on the China station are the only ones In the for- eign and colonial service said to be effective. The French armored cruiser Leon Gambetta, y ber 2 last, is 12,400 tons and will carry 3278 umsh oParm?;-. equal to over one-fourth of the displacement. InUl e Pumnayi- vania class of battleships now building for mei :' e ates navy the displacement is 15,000 tons and the weigl 3 ol (;m T 3412 tons, or 22.7 per cent of the displacement. The et;ln am- betta carries more armor proportionately than any other sea- going armored ship in any navy, and In consequence armament and coal-carrying is correspondingly curtailed. . . . croft water tube boiler is used in 250 war ves- sels’,rh:a::?;n:'wemy—m'e battleships, twenty-six cruisers and the rest gunboats, destroyers and torpedo-boats. Twslem: bah{; tleships in the German navy and the Missouri and Ohio in the United States navy are fitted with this type of boiler. . . . nese torpedo-boat destroyer Akatsuki, built by Yn:r‘::v':,nggd a three hours’ trial November 21 and made a mean speed of 31121 knots, carrying a load of forty toms. The principal data of the trial are: Steam in bollers, fiO‘pcunds, air pressure in stokehold, 1.3 inches; revolutions, 404; horse- powers, 6450; coal consumption, 1.97 pounds per unit of horse- launched Octo- | the battleship Queen, in course of construction, when a piece of steel weighing nine pounds was dropped from above and The yard officials have made strenuous efforts to find out who was responsible for this “carelessness,” but had not succeeded at last accounts, and fell right in front of the detective. the detective has thrown up a job which lieve is extra hazardous. lowest speed, pounder, he has reason to be- lowing. was signed November 5, 13 last and the preliminary power; highest speed during half an hour, 32.876 knots, and 29.508 knots. i length, 20 feet 6 inches beam and displaces 325 tons on a mean of 5 feet 4 Inches. d o, five 6.pounders and two torpedo tubes. The boat is 220 feet 3 inches in The armament consists of one 12- The_contract 1900, the launch took place November trial was made on the day fol- @ ettt il e ® ANSWERS TO QUERIES. JANUARY DATE—S. D. G., Oat Hill, Cal. The first Friday in November, 1882, fell on the 10th of the month. FIFTY CENT PIECE-E. & B, AO. V., City. A fifty cent piece of 182 is not classed as a premium coin. NEW YORK ADDRESS—A. G., Hilg, H. I. The New York address of Andrew Carnegle is No. 5 West Fifty-first street. TREATIES—F. F. C, CITY—You can find the Monroe doctrine and all of the United States treatles at the Free Public Library in this city. THE ERIE CANAL—A. 0. D. F., City. The Erie Canal which connects the Hud- son River at Troy with Lake Erie at Buffalo was commenced in 1817 and was finished in 1825. HIS NAME—A. L. 8., Suisun, Cal. There is no combination of letters in the Eng- lish language that will give a correct pro- nunciation of Czolgosz, the name of the assassin of President McKinley. WATCHMAN—J. F. M., City. If you wish to know the result of the examina- tion for a watchman's position for the girls’ high school, call at the Civil Service office. . STREET RAILROADS-R. H. G., City. The most comprehensive work on street railroads in the United States is the American Street Railway Guide. There is considerable information on such in Poor’s Railroad Manual. AREA—R. H. G., City. The following is given as the area in square miles of the places named: Greater New York, 308; Manhattan Borough, 19.65; New Orleans, 156; Los Angeles, 36; Seattle, 30; Portland, Or., 39%; San Francisco, 41%. VARIOUS COINS, J. F. L., San Jose, Cal.—From $3 to $ is offered for pine tree shillings; a half dollar of 1806 does not command a premium; the other coins de- | scribed in letter of inquiry are not men- tioned in the catalogues. POKER DICE—W. F. 8., City. In poker ice Florence lays down the rule that: If a player has a pair of aces, a three, four or five, and the other has also a pair of aces, a two, three and six, the six makes his hand the best and he takes the pot.” HIGH, LOW, JACK, GAME-S, City. A’s contention in a game of high, low, jack and game, that if a certaln suit is led and he holds trumps and suit card in his hand, he can play either and save a pedro or sancho at any time, is correct; he is not bound to follow suit. VALUE OF DIAMONDS—W. T., Sacra- mento, Cal. The price of diamonds is regulated by the supply and the demand | and by purity of the stone and the size, also if it is absolutely free from flaw or blemish. The value of a gem increases in the geometrical ratio of its weight. RAILROAD SPEED—A. 8, City. The fastest time by a railroad in the United States was by the Empire State Express one mile in 22 seconds, equal to 112.5 miles per hour. The fastest regular trains in the United States are said to be those on the Philadelphia and Reading route in summer, the average being 71.2 miles per hour. SANCHO PEDRO—N. N, City. In the game of sancho pedro the count is high, low, jack, game, sancho and pedro, if so agreed. If in a game of sancho A holds jack and pedro and has three to go and B holds high, low, game and sancho and has nine to go B, by reason of his cards, goes out first. In double pedro in the case of trumps the pedro of trumps counts first. BEDBUGS—C. M., City. Bedbugs may be destroyed by putting in the joints of the bed and in the cracks of the sur- base in which the pests locate equal parts of turpentine and kerosene. Filling up the cracks with hard soap is also ;2 ‘excellent remedy. Bedsteads should b2 examined in March and April to destroy the eggs lald by the bugs. THE MARY FLINT-N. C . G., Hono- lulu, H. I. The collier Mary Flint collided with the United States steamiship Iowa in the bay of San Francisco and sank on the night of the Sth of September, 1900, on | the occasion of the naval parade by the ; Native Sons of the Golden West in cele- bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of the State of California into the Union. AN OVATE—Subscriber, City. Those who receive the first degree in the United Ancient Order of Druids are called ovates. An ovate is a man of letters or science, a philosopher. An ovate is com- monly understood to be an Risteddfodic graduate who is neither a bard nor a Druid. In anclent times an ovate was a man of letters or science, or more prop- erly, a teacher of the same. — A STRAIGHT FLUSH—W. F. 8., City. 4 straight or royal flush in poker is the 'PERSONAL MENTION. L. W. Fulkerth, an attorney of Modesto, is @t the Lick. J. B. Forker, a business man of Oil City, is at the Occidental. J. M. Day, a mining man of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. Dr. €. L. Guild of Palo Alto is at the Oc- cidental for a brief stay. H. W. Robinson, a business man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. John A. Bunting, a mining man of Cen- tervjlle, is at the Occidental. % M A. Martin, a mine owner of Tucson, AriZ0na, is staying at the Lick. Railroad Commissioner Edson is regis- tered at the Occidental from Gazelle. Superior Judge A. G. Brice of New Or- leans, La., is registered at the Grand. of Honoluly, is at the Occidental with his family, having just returned from a Euro- pean trip. Colonel R. M. O'Reilly, U. S. A, who chief surgeon of the Department of Cali- fornia, is registered at the Occidental. Colonel James Fornly, United States Marines, is -a guest at the Palace. He sails on the Sheridan for Cavite, where he will asume command of a battalion of marines. @ il @ highest of all the hands; it must consist i of a sequence of five cards of the same suit. The yalue, of course, is determined after the manner the straight is, the high- er or highest card or cards winning. When straights are not played the straight flush ranks no higher than the common flush. Sometimes two straight flushes will be equal, in which event the pot must be divided. CALIFORNIA MISSIONS—C. M., Oak- land, Cal. The article in The Call rela- tive to the great Spanish highway of Cali- fornia, showing the location of the mis- slons, was published on the 15th of Sep- tember, 1901. You may obtain a copy of the same at the business office. The cost of back number is, if one month old, 5 cents; two months, 10 cents; three months, 15 cents: four months, 20 cents, and for months more than four, 10 cents addition- al per month. TO RENEW FRIENDSHIP—Sunburst, Oakland, Cal. What is suitable as a gift to renew friendship that has been severed between two persons, depends upon the best judgment of the one who desires to offer the olive branch of peace. It is not the value of a gift that cuts any figure in such a case, but the spirit in which it is given. Anything that would be useful to the prospective recipient or that could be .| used daily would serve as a constant re- minder of a friendship lost and renewed. P NOT A DETECTIVE AGENCY—C., Oak- land, Cal. The department of Answers to Correspondents was established to furnish information of a general character, and does not undertake to set “one of its men with nothing to do on the trail to find out the name and occupation of the facher, the maiden name and residence of the mother and, if possible, the present resi- dence of the mother and child” in the case of a child that was born in 1899. This is purely a personal and private matter, and if you wish that information you had better secure the services of a private de tective agency. TAPIOCA—J. A., Porterville, Cal. Tapi- oca is produced from the root of the manioc, a large, shrubby plant, native of South America, but also extensively culti- vated in South Africa and other tropical countries. Manioc, or mandioca, is the Brazillan name for this plant. In 2he ‘West Indies it is called cassava, and in Peru its name is yucca. The plant grows in a bushy form from six to eight feet high, sometimes higher. The stems are large and pithy, the branches crooked, the leaves growing in a cluster at the end of the branches. The roots are very large, turnip-like, sometimes welghing thirty pounds, from three to eight grow- ing in a cluster, usually from a foot to two feet in length. They contain a very poisonous milk juice, but as the poison- ous quality results from the presence of hydrocyanic acid this can be easily and entirely removed by boiling. When the poison {s driven out the juice is made into a sauce, quite peppery. in flavor, which is very wholesome as a condiment and much liked by the South Americans. It is also sweetened. with molasses, fermented and converted into an intoxicating drink. After the juice is pressed out the root is grated, dried on hot metal plates ana then powdered, this substance becoming a fa- vorite kind of farina. The starch of the Toot is obtained by allowing the juice to stand for some time after boiling, when the starch settles to the bottom. This 1 washed and dried on hot plates, and dur. ing the process of heating the starch i stirred with an iron rod, the graing burst, some of the starch is converted into dex: trine and the whole agglomerates into small, lnefiur masses. This is what is mmerce. known as the tapioca of co: e i HOTEL DEL CORONADO, chofcest Resort In the world, offers ba fishing | boating, ! ments. E. S. Babeock, ‘Winter ?fl most oo | H. M. von Holt, a wealthy sugar planter comes to succeed Colonel Greenleaf as | | ok A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Tattler—I'd have you know I weigh my words. Mr. Tattler—It must keep you awfully busy.—Yonkers Statesman. He—She has acquired some prominence as a novelist. She—Of the romantic school, T supposc? He—Oh, yes! Vassar.—Philadelphia Press. “It is admitted that Napoleon Bona- parte can get along without that statue that they propose to give to him in St Louts.” “Of Corsican!"—Cleveland Plain-Dealer. “He says he's writing for a living now.” “I believe he is.”” “Why, he can't write.” “Oh, yes. He can writs 'Dear Father— Please send me another fifty.” He does that about twice a month.”—Philadelphia kecord. Novelist (desperately)—Unless my book stcceeds at once I shall starve to death! Publisher (cordially)—My dear sir, I commend your resolution. Nothing you could do would better advertise your wark, 1 think.—Life. A Connecticut man who advertises for a wife stipulates that she must have a peg-leg. It cannot be conceived what the old fellow is after, unless it be a wife who can facilitate her household work by kneading bread and mashing potatoes at the same time.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “We don't seem to find things comin’ our way as fast as they used to,” said Meandering Mike. “Cheer up,” said Plodding Pete. “If you want to see somethin’ comin’ your way jes go back to dat house an’ say ‘Pretty Fido” to de brindle dog dat's Iyin’ on de porch."—Washington Star. ““Well,” said the first bicyclist, “we ought to be right in the middle of Bligsg- ville, according to the map; yet, as you may see for yourself, we are on a mud road some miles from anywhere." “I can’t understand it,” sald the second bicyclist, “unless the map was made by some of those naval experts.”—Baltimore American. “Have you ever made any effort to im- prove your mind?" asked one of Farmer Corntossel’'s feminine relatives. “Nope,” was the answer. “We've im- proved our boy Josh’s mind, an’ we want him to git the full benefit. Ef some of us didn’t eat with our knives an’ say ‘them there’ we wouldn't realize how refined Josh is.”"—Washington Star. Nature’s Ice Machine. Among the picturesque mountains of Auvergne, France, are the evidences of former violent volcanic action. In the craters of these old-time volcanoes ice now forms when the air temperature dur- ing the day has been above ninety. “How comes it that the rain c freezes during the warm mgm?"'al‘zhxts lfix’l: question that M. Glangeaud tried to an- swer before a recent meeting of the Paris Academy. The rocks of this voleanic region, he sald, are generally of a porous nature and absorb large quantities of ‘water, which is brought to the surface where the lava sheet is thin. Under the influence of solar heat an intense evaporation Is produced. which reduces the temperature to such g degree that ice is formed. This explanation is supported fact that it is just in the ‘)’x?)uut t?:utg; the year, when the shade temperat reaches ninety-three degrees, that the jee formation has been noticed, ————e Telling Time Near. Far up in the ice-bound north the Es- kimos, five centuries behind the rest of :‘::I::‘gl‘l }:ll.ve no ;loch. yet they man- me wi —_— th a fair degree of ac- The passage of days is what they call “‘sleeps.” Is very regular in his habits, He works and travels during the time apportioned to the day, but as soon as the hour for sleep comes he seeks repose and never arouses from his heavy slumber until nine hours have passed. One day is S‘herfiou one ‘“‘sleep,” a week seven ‘sleeps” and a month thirty “sleeps.” A keen observation of the sun and the stars enables the Eskimo to tell the time of day. During his expeditions Whenever Lieutenant Peary wished to tell a native that he wanted him at a certain hour he would do it by pointing to the sun or a particular star and showing just Where in the heavens it would be at the particular time. The Eskimo would com- prehend instantly and never fafled to keep the appointment at the time stipulated. ———— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —_— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's® —_——— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's, * —_——