The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1902, Page 6

:rL'E_SDAY. ....JANUARY 28, 1902 *JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A Address All Communiostions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE .Telephone Press 204 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 Copies, 5 Cent: Terms by Mail, I uding Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one Yyear: DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (incluiing Sunday), 3 months, DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, Oae Ye All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with thelr reques:. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ++...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Bullding. Chieage. (Long Distance Telephone *Central 2619."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.... .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK WS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. MORTON E. CRANE, .1408 G St., N. W. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until E o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2%l Market, cormer Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- lencia, open until 9 o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. ———————— AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*‘The Princess Chic.” Orpheum—Vaudeville, Grand Opera-house—*Zorah." California—*"Ole Olsor Tivoli—"The Ameer.” Central: Man of Mystery.” Alcazar—*Coralie & Co.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. oyle—Wednesday, January 29, By Wm. G. Layng—Thursday, January 30, at 11 o'clock, Palo Alto Brood Mares, at 721 Howard street. By W H Hord—Tuesday, February 4, at 10 o'clock, Thor- oughbred and Trotting Stock, at 1732 Market street. at 11 o'clock, HEN the estimates are made up for muni- cipal expenditures for the coming fiscal year OUR POLICE FORCE. V'V arrangements should be made for providing San Francisco with a police force adequate to its needs. The present force is insufficient. The men are now serving in many parts of the city updn long beats, and in every part of it they are serving long hours. Their watchfulness and courage have been amply attested, and yet crime is frequent ant the nal clement of the popujation defies the law as if it had little fear of arrest and punishment. Like every other community -in the world San Francisco has to bear the evils that attend her ad- vantages. Being a cosmopolitan city she attracts the vicious 2s well as the good from all parts of the globe. Having the finest winter climate in the world she becomes the winter resort of criminals as well as of men and women of culture. Hoiding the po- sition of the most important garrison townjon the Pacific Coast, she has to receive not only the heroic soldier but those unworthy ones who when dis- charged sink readily first to idleness and then to crime. From all these sources the criminal classes of the community are recruited, and we have among us a much larger and more dangerous population of that sort than could be developed from among our own people. We must meet the conditions caused by this influx of thieves, footpads and burglars. We must recog- nize that among them are many who would as soon commit murder as not. We must confront the evils that arise from the cosmopolitan nature of our popu- lation and the attractiveness of the climate and so augment the forces of the law that the city will no longer be attractive to lawbreakers of any kind. To wccomplish that a larger police force must be pro- vided, and provision should be made for it so that it can be attained in the coming year. Under the charter the city is authorized to main- tain a force equivalent to one policeman for every 500 inhabitants. At the present time the force is far below that proportion. The result is that in the ef- fort to deal with the influx of criminals the qfficers have been to a large extent overworked. In a recent statement to The Call Chief Wittman in discussing- the situation said: “The patrolmen are on duty for an excessive length of time each day. Only yester- day I was compelled to add another hour to their daily service. The men are now on duty ten hours per day instead of eight.” Such service is excessive and should not be re- quired of the force. It is apparent, however, that with each succeeding year the same influences which have drawn criminals to the city in the past will con- tinue to do so to an increasing degree unless it be made known to the criminals that their arrest here will be speedy and their punishment prompt and se- vere. To what extent the force should be increased can be determined only by experts and after careful con- sideration. * Any intelligent - citizen, however, can readily perceive that 2 considerable increase is neces- sary. The people are desirous of economy in the es- timates for municipal expenditure, but not of that kind which would leave the streets dangerous to wayfarers and the homes of the city exposed to bur- glary. An increased police force is, then, a necessity of the situation and should be provided for when the estimates are made up so that it can be attained with the opening of the next fiscal year. cring According to an Iowa story a citizen of that great State had a defective eye removed and the eye'of a Belgian hare put in its place, and there the story stops. We are not told whether the new eye enabled the Towan to sec any improvement in himself, g T It is announced that Carnegic is going to provide himself with 2 $250,000 library for' his castle in Scot- land, so it seems he doesn’t look upon the things as being good for nothing except to give away. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1902, _ A JU.NTA ORGAN. THE New York Tribune hasftaken command of the newspaper propaganda of free trade in behalf of the Cuban junta. Its arguments are enough to make the disembodied spirit of Horace Greeley wake the celestial echoes with that pictur- esque profanity which used to melt the type metal in the Tribune composing rooms when an unlucky printer mutilated his editorial by a typographical error. Greeley founded the Tribune as an organ of pro- tection, and was the author of the policy of giving agriculture an interest in that economic system. Greeley was also a man of strong common sense, who never wrote rot. Fancy, then, how he would take this choice bit of special pleading from the Tribune: “Cuba, prostrated by war, is just getting upon her feet again. The first good crop of sugar cane in seven years has been produced and is ready for milling; if it is milled and the sugar is sold a large measure of prosperity will be restored to the islands; if not, prostration and distress will continue and in many cases be intensified. But the cane cannot be ground unless a market is found for the sugar, and the only market poséible is in this country. This market must be opened by reciprocity, and this must be done within the next month or two, otherwise the relief will come too late. A year's delay will mean the spending of $20,000,000 or $30,000,000 of Cuban money in Europe, all of which under reciprocity would come to the United States. There are other dangers even more serious. Another year of indus- trial and commercial stagnation will gravely imperil the peace of the island. Industrial and commercial grievances were the cause of the Cuban revolts against Spain. There is the peril of a change of Cu- ban sentiment toward this country. If we condemn the Cubans to the same evils as those they suffered under Spanish rule it will be only natural for them to regard us with distrust and animosity. In order that our wae with Spain shall not have been fought in vain reciprocity with Cuba ought to be established and ought to bé established now.” The reader will observe that the logician of the Tribune informs us that unless Cuba gets free trade with us in the next two months “prostration and distress in the island will continue and be so inten- sified” that the Cubans will be able to spend $30,000,- 000 in Europe next year! This alarming condition of poverty; which will enable a larger per capita expen- diture for foreign goods than the people of the United 'States indulge in, “will also gravely imperil the peace of the island and change Cuban sentiment toward this country. If we condemn the Cubans to the same evils as those they suffered under Spanish rule it will be only natural for them to regard us with distrust and animosity.” Spain was the sovereign of Cuba; we are not. If Spain visited industrial distress upon the Cubans she misused and abused her sovereign power, as we will abuse ours if we visit distress upon American agriculture to make the Cuban planters rich in one season. We have no right nor power to do anything for Cuba except keep our promise of her indepen- dence, withdraw our troops, bring home the various generals who oscillate between Havana and Wash- ington ip the interest of speculators Who have paid from $2 to $10 per acre for plantations which they wish made worth $260 per acre at the expense of the American people, and let the pampered paupers of Cuba spend their $30,000,000 a year where they please. We fear that the editor of the Tribune is too ‘in- terested in the gewgawry of his attire to be worn at the coronation of Edward VII to look after the logic of his writers or the principles of his paper. the given in the Schley hearing at Washington has been so great that the Government will have to issue a It is said the demand for printed testimony second edition; so it secems that a great many peo- ple in this country are still in doubt which side to shout for. S cerning the shortcomings “of the American consular system that it is gratifying to find in the current number of the North American Review a statement of the other side of the question. Under the title, “A Neglected Factor in Our Commercial Expansion,” Albert Halstead presents a summary of the work done by American Consuls and maintains that to them is due a large measure of credit for the recent extraordinary expansion of our foreign trade. The plea is strongly sustained and justifies the con- clusion that however defective the system of con- sular appointments may be, it has nevertheless brought into the servic. an energetic corps of work- ers who merit much more commendation than they receive. Mr. Halstead says: “Foreign officials and *business interests already understand how great an aid to the marvelous commercial expansion of'the United States the American Consuls have been. The facility with which the average Consul adapts himself to his work is there remarked, and surprise is expressed at the unreasonable fault-finding of critics in the United States. * * * The system is not perfect, but it is far superior to any similar service in the world.” Among the services rendered by Consuls to com- merce a high rank is given to their reports upon the conditions of the markets where they are stationed and of the best means of promoting trade therein. The information thus given is explicit and compre- hensive and enables our manufacturers and export- ers to fully understand the peculiarities and require- ments of the different markets. The value of the re- ports is shown by the fact that they are now more sought after by trade interests, not of the United States only but of other nations, than any other similar publications in the world. A second important feature of consular work is the warning given from time to time of the appearance in cay market of foreign imitations or frauds upon Amtican articles. These warnings have shown, for example, “that Russians, in order to procure a mar- ket for their own oil, have placed it in American tin cans and sold it as a native product. It has also shown on several occasions how . our styles were copied in Germany and how the imitations have been foisted upon the public-as genuine American manu- factures.” Furthermore, Consuls have promoted our trade interests by giving advice as to how goods should be packed for particular markets, how they should be advertised and how commercial travelers can be best employed in extending trade. Had the information thus given been more fully complied with our trade would have been even larger tham it is. Mr. Hal- stead says: “American manufacturers have been averse to making their goods especially for the foreign markets they sought, evidently thinking that if their styles suited Americans foreigners should be' satisfied with them. Fortunately all this is changing, AMERICAN CONSULS. O much has been said and written of late con- e T thanks to the constant teaching of our Consuls, and our manufacturers are learning to take pains to cul- tivate foreign trade by conforming to foreign tastes.” While conceding the justness of this plea for the consular service as it is, the commercial interests of the country will none the less remain firm in the con- viction that reform is necessary in the system under which it operates. All that is proven by Mr. Hal- stead’s argument is that we obtain in the service many able and energetic men, despite its subservience to the spoils of ‘politics. There has never been any dispute upon that proposition, though the fact has often been overlooked by zealous reformers. The adoption of the consular bill before Congress would not in any way interfere with the good men now in office. It would have no other effect than that of making their tenure more secure and provid- ing for them a better system of promotion. In short; the service, while excellent in many ways, is defective in some things, and the aim of the reform- ers is to eliminate the defects. Senator Allison, who has just been elected for the sixth time to the United States Senate, has a good chance of holding the record for length of service in that body. Benton was there for thirty years, and Morrill of Vermont for thirty-one, but Allison has a chance to put in thirty-six years and will doubtless accomplish it. E United States, just issued by the Treasury Bu- reau of Statistics, indicate that the output will exceed in almost every particular that of last year, and in nearly every case those of any other country. They will show that we are the foremost mining na- tion in the world and that the industry is advaricing S — OUR MINING INDUSTRIES.. STIMATES of the mineral products of the as rapidly as that of any other carried on by our | people. The estimates of the Mint Bureau put the gold production of 1901 at $80,218,800, against $70,171,000 in,1900. They put the silver production of 1901 at 50,653,788 ounces, against 57,647,000 ounces in 1900. The pig iron production is estimated at 13,800,000 long tons, against 13,789,242 long tons in 1900. The coal production is estimated at 267,850,000 long tons, against 240,965,017 long tons in 1900. Of petroleum the production is estimated at 66,000,000 barrels, or 2,772,000,000 gallons, against 2,661,233,568 gallons in 1900. - Of copper the production is estimated at 595,- 000,000 pounds, 265,625 long tons, or about 5000 tons below the figures of 1906, copper thus being the only item in the entire list which shows for 1901 a Smaller figure of production than that of last year. The figures show a mineral output in excess of that of any other nation, and estimates made by Brit- ish authorities confirm them. Thus the London Daily Mail Year Book puts the pig iron output of 1900 at: United States, 13,789,242 tons; United Kingdom, 8,008,570 tons; Germany, 8,494,852 tons; Russia, 2,821,000 tons; France, 2,600,494 tons. In 1900 the United States’ total output of coal was 243,422,000 (metric) tons; that of the United Kingdom, 225,161,- 000 tons; Germany, 109,225,000 tons; Frarce, 32,577.- 000 tons, and Belgium, 23,352,000 tons. As to petro- | leum, while the Russian figures of last year slightly exceeded those of the United States, it is probable that the enormous total of 66,000,000 barrels, estimate for theé year 1001, places the United States in the lead in the production of that article, these figures show- ing an increase of 110,000,000 gallons as compared with 1900. . That is the showing American miners are making for their industryf and it is upon that they ask for the establishment of a Department of Mines and Mining with a Cabinet officer at its head. It cannot be denied that the interests involved are large enough to justify such recognition on the part of the Govern- ment. There is nothing sectional about the indus- try. It is well nigh as universal as agriculture itself, as there is hardly any considerable part of the Union that has not an extensive mineral interest of one kind or another. Sooner or later a Department of Mines will be created, for the genuine needs of the country demand it, and the sooner it is provided the better. In Korea cighty officials, cach of whom embezzled | more than $1000 of public funds, have been sentenced by the Emperor to be beheaded. This is one of the merciful civilization might be justified. LIVING ON THYE NATION. A the growth of abuses of governmental favor when once granted is afforded by a bill re- asking an appropriation for 'the maintenance of two public schools, one for white and one for colored The presentation of the bill and its reference to the Secretary of the Navy for his opinion were suffi- torial appropriations to attract the attention of the newspaper men in Washington, and one of them on ing that however difficult it may be to get an advan- tage of Uncle Sam, it 'is comparatively easy to keep It appears from the records that at the close of the Civil War a large number of persons were employed cases where a regret for the refinements of a more CURIOUS illustration of the persistence and cently introduced by Scna‘o)r Mallory of Florida children, in the town of Warrington. ciently strange departures from the routine of Sena- investigating it dug up a very interesting story show- it and develop it when once obtained. 8 at the Government navy-yard at Pensacola, and as the yard is at some distance from the town many of | the persons working for the Government squatted on the reservation and established homes there. After a time they obtained permission to®build substan- tial houses, and then their number increased until the settlement became quite a town. Having reached that dignity the settlement took to itself the name of Warrington, and the Postmaster General gave it a postoffice of its own. Like the little peach of Eugepe Ficld’s song, “it grew, it grew.” At the pres- ent time it has something like 13500 inhabitants. It has lights, sewers, police and municipal government furnished by the Navy Department. It has no trouble with politicians and no faxes, and now it wishes the Government to provide it with two pub- lic schools. Doubtless Warrington will get what it asks for. It seems to have acquired a habit of getting all it wishes. The only strange thing is that the early inhabitants when they asked for the use of the land did not ask the Government to build their houses and fence their gardens. It goes without saying, we suppose, that the people of Warrington never plant anything unless the seed is furnished by the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Uncle Sam, we believe, has but one town of the kind, but that is enough. | — Boss Nixon says that only 2 per cent of the Tam- many organization is bad, and now the wonder will be how that particdlar percentage always shows up on top. ¥ 3 NEW STAMP DOES N i g FLATTER KING EDWARD S | | ! | | — from January 10, 1840. PERSONAL MENT.ON. The Rev. Hugh McNamee of Santa Cruz |is a guest at the Lick. J. O. Hestwood, a mining man of €an Jose, is at the Grand. D. C. Demarest, a mining man of An- gels Camp, is registered at the Lick. Sydney Clementson, a wealthy resident of Boston, is at the Palace with his wife. H. Brooks, an owner of several oil wells near Bakersfield, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. B. A, Plant, a prominent physician i of Santa Cruz, is spending a few days at the Grand. H. F. Small, master mechanic of the Southern Pacific shops at Sacramento, is a guest at the Palace. ‘W. H. Devlin, an attorney of Sacramen- to, is down here on a short business trip | and is staying at the Lick. 1 James H. O'Briens a well-known con- tractor of this city, leaves to-day for an extended tour of Southern California. E. C. Macfarlane, a stockholder of the Royal Hawailan Hotel Company and a grain merchant of Honolulu, is a guest at the California. Count and Countess de la ‘Taille of Tours, France, are at the Palace. The | Countess is a native of Chicago and was here about three years ago oh a short visit. R e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—G. W. Armsby, at the Holland; P. A. Crump and wife and S. Gerson, at the Broadway Central; A. J. Dewing and wife, at the Bartholdl; W. A. Dundes and J. Hanagan, at the Cadil- lac; J. Flanagan and G. London, at the Herald Square; R. J. Jose and wife, at the Gilsey; A. Mack and wife and N. Sil- berberg, at the Savoy; Dr. T. Masson, at | the Manhattan; C. B. McCroskey, at the | Grand; W. N. Ringross, at the New Am- sterdam, and E. T. Smith and wife, at the Delevan. From Sacramento—F. J. Wolff, at the Normandie. From San Diego—W. O. Bowen, at the | Broadway Central. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The following Californians were registered at the ho- | tels: At the New Willard—W. W. Mor- row and wife of San Francisco, A. P. | Maginnis of Los Angeles; at the Raleigh | —J. H. Budd ot Stockton, J. A. McDonald and wife, John Robertson and wife of San Francisco; at the Metropolitan—W. | H. Bough and M. L. Woodham of Los Angeles; at the National—George L. Sey- both and J. V. Youns of San Francisco. —_—————— Japan Has No Millionaires. Japan presents the curious anomaly for the twentieth century of a country with- out a millionaire. The modern Western problem of what to do with the rich growing richer and the poor growing poorer isn't troubling the Mikado's empire. There isn't an in- habitant there, not even a nobleman, who would be considered a rich man from an American standpoint. The Tiji Shimpo, one of the leading newspapers of the empire, has been mak- ing an investigation of the country's wealth. According to its tabulated sta- tistics the greatest fortunes only reach { the quarter-million mark. There are re- ported to be 441 persons whose possessions aggregate 500,000 yen, which is in Amer- ican money $2€,,000. That means that there is only one quar- ter millionaire to every 100,000 population. Compared with the United States’ 3328 millionaires, or one for every 20,000 popula- tion, these figures make Japan look pov- erty stricken. That, however, is the very farthest pos- sible removed from the facts, for Japan has no paupers. While there are no fabu- lously rich men, there are no notoriously poor ones. Wealth is very generally dis- tributed and misery and suffering are so .ittle known that the Japanese are noted for being one of the happiest, light- est hearted peoples of the earth. Of the quarter millionaires found in Japan, Tokio, the capital, possesses one- third, but eight neighboring provinces have scarcely any. The other farge cities ranked in proportion to their capitalists are Osaka, Kobe, Najaga, Kioto and Yokohama. With this condition of affairs it is sig- nificant to note that manufacturing in which so many great American fortunes have been made, is still in its infancy. Among the 4441 of Japan’s moderately rich men there are more farmers and mer- chants than manufacturers and sixty-six are noblemen. Of this class only about one in ten has amassed wealth in one generation. . A fortune usually repre- sents the inherited accumulation of sev- eral generations. This is quite contrary to conditions in America, where a fortune grows up almost in a night? —_—— “What,” said the visitor to the village of his childhood, “what's become of the one boy I hated—Willie Hawker, the sneak? Tn prison, no doubt—he bore that fate on his face.” . “Hush!” said the villager. “He ‘is now Mr Hawker, the famous millionaire.” “What?" cried the visitor. “My dear school fellow a millionaire! I must call upon him and revive the old friendship."— Tit-Bits. —_—— At the storming of Magdeburg by Till: in 1631 this noted authority on th:'lrl o’; war laid down the general maxim that ‘| after a successful assault the ought to have three‘hours of pm-:g, KING’S PROFILE ON NEW POSTAGE STAMP AND A RECENT PHOTO- GRAPH. THE STAMPS JUST ISSUED SHOW THE FIRST CHANGE IN SOVEREIGN'S EFFIGY IN SIXTY-TWO YEARS. reign. The penny (two cent), which will become the most familiar, is a bright red, the authorities having gone back to the old color. ward VII's head takes the place of Victoria’s, whose portrait figured on the national stamp for more than sixty years, penny postage dating For the greater part of her reign the Queen was répresent- ed by the single portrait taken in her youth. Opinions differ as to the design for | the face of King Edward, and some find difficulty in recognizing the likeness. The present issue of stamps includes the half-penny (green), the 2% pence (blue), used especially for foreign countries, and the sixpenny (purple), all having the same design, except that the 2%-pence stamp bears its denomination in figures. L B e S S S ] ] WIT.H the new year in Britain begins the issue of the stamps of the new | King Ed- A CHANCE 10 SMiLE He—Ah! those days of our young love! ! You remember that afterncon you prom- ised to meet me and didn’t come? How I raved! She—Just like a man! And there was 1 suffering agonies trying on that dress you liked so much.—Life. Mr. Pepprey — For goodness sake! What's to prevent us going on a vaca- tion? | Mrs. Pepprey—Well, there’s the parrot. | We can't take it along—. Mr. Pepprey—But Mrs. Nexdore says | she'll be glad to keep it for us. | Mrs. Pepprey—I suppose so. She thinks it will tell her some of our family secrets. | —Philadelphia Press. Fweddy (slightly near-sighted)—Who— | aw—is that vewy stylish and fine-looking man at the otheh end of the room, Mrs. | Greeable? Hostess—You are looking at your ewn | reflection in the mirror, Mr. Lightpayte. | Fweddy—Aw—you flattah me, Mrs. Gree- | able! ] Hostess—No; the mirror does that.— ‘Washington Post. “Doctor,” said he, “I'm a victim of in- somnia. I can't sieep if there's the least noise, such as a cat on the back fence, for instance."” “This powder will be effective,” replied the physiclan after compounding a pre- scription. “When do I take it, doctor?"” “You don’t take it. You give it to the cat in a little milk.”—Tit-Bits. “Did you see the advice that David B. Hill gave his party?” “Yes. It was ‘Skate slow,’ wasn't it?” “Yes. What did he mean by it?"” “I suppose he meant that they must look out for hot air holes.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “When we come to the big deepo,” nar- rated Uncle Zeph, after his return home, ‘“the conductor hollered ‘Chicago! All out!” I dunno how it was with the other | passengers, but he was right as fur as I was concerned. I was out $3750 'fore I'd ben thar two hours.” “How’d that happen?” “Feller tuk me to see the smashup in | the tunnel.”—Chicago Tribune. “Coward!” said Mrs. Blithers contempt- | uously to her husband, who cowered un- | der the bedclothes because he thought he heard burglars downstairs. ““You are ths most chicken-hearted man I ever saw:” “Please,” chattered Henry as he peeped | cautiously out, “please don't call me ‘Hennery.’ "—Ohio State Journal. Gotham'’s Great C earings 3$1,425,294,504,212.—These figures represent the total transactions of the New York | clearing-house during the forty-eight years of its existence, ending September | 30, 1901 It is difficult to grasp the real | meaning of such a sum of money—a mil- lion and a half millions—a thousand and a half billions! It is more than three | times the wealth of the whole world, and | would pay the world's debts forty times | over. This money, if in $1 bills and| placed lengthwise, would extend 10,689,- | 708,781,605 inches, or 56,237,941 miles, and ‘would girdle the earth 2278 times, or reach to the moon and back, even if it were 100 | times farther away than its real dlstancei of 235,850 miles. Or, if made into a quilt, | it would entirely cover the State of New Jersey or the State of Massachusetts. In silver dollars, placed one above an- | other, it would reach 950,000 miles, or four times as high as the moon. Placed side by side they would reach 11,400,000 miles, or 60 times around the earth. In gold it would make 68,954,741,37 fine ounces at the present price of $20 67 per fine ounce, or 7,653,694.50 ounces avoirdu- | pois, of 6,304,474,542 pounds, or 3,152,237 tons. It would measure one solid block of 3,328,021 cubic feet of gold. It is $890 per capita for the present in- habitants of the earth, $18510 per capita for the inhabitants of the United States, | Or $407,229 per capita for the inhabitants of New York City, where the transactions took place. Nearly two-thirds of these clearances and balances have been within the past | twenty years, and nearly one-third with- in the past ten years—the transactions ' for 1901 being fifteen times as large as forty-eight years ago. | The clearings of New York are about ! two-thirds of those of the whole United | States and twice those of London, and yet these enormous transactions are con- ducted without the handling of more than 2 per cent of actual money. By means of checks and credits daily balances are struck and settled, and to the absolute | correctness of a cent. What, engineering | feat, what electrical accomplishment, what invention of necessity or luxury can compare with it? —_————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's. * e sdinat o el Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend's California glace fruits, s0c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639, Market st., Palace Hotel building, + —_—— Special information supplied dai business houses and public men uly' tne Press Clipping Bureaa \Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery sireet. Telephone Main 1042 + ———— “Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Best LiverMedicine, VegetableCure f Billousness. Lndigestion. Constipation: Maturis: Many an innocent to serve on a jury. man {s condemned— | Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, Cal | the SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS “IL TROVATORE"—Musle, City. “ll Trovatore,” by Verdi, was written in 135, . A DIME—OIld Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. A dime of 1394 with the mint mark O is worth ten cents, no more. LIBRARY—J. J. R., Eureka, Humboldt Co., California. There is no record at this time of “Hart's Magical Library.” TWO-CENT PIECE—C. N. K, City. A | two-cent plece of 1871 is not classed by dealers as a premium commanding coin. AGE—J. G. M, City. The question as to how old you were on a certain day at a certain hour is one of simple arithme- tic, questions which this department does | not answer. BICYCLE ROAD—Cub., City. The main thoroughtare of Antioch is called a bicy- cle road. It leads to county roads in different directions, which are also called | bieycle roads. HARRISON—E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal. Carter Harrison, who was Mayor of Chi- cago, Ill., was born July 15, 1825, and was assassinated October 29, 1393, by Patrick Eugene John Prendegast. SCOUTS—J. G. M., City. The United States statutes do not contain any law authorizing the payment of pensions to civilians who were employed as secouts and guides during Indian wars. . PITCAIRN ISLAND-D. W., Oakland, Cal. The island in the Pacific Ocean known as Pitcairn was discovered by Pit- cairn in 1768, was seen by Cook in 1773 and was colonized by the mutineers from the Bounty in 1789, MINISTER'S WOOING—A. 0. 8., City. “The Minister's Wooing,” by Mrs. Har- riet Beecher Stowe, was not published be- fore “Uncle Tom’'s Cabin.” The last named was commenced as a serial story in the National Era in 1851, and the first named was published in 1859. OF CHINESE PARENTS—Subscriber, man who was born in California of Chi nese parents can, when of voting age, vote in this State. There are a number of such on the register of San Francisco who have exercised the right of suffrage for several years. BALLOON VARNISH—M. K., City. The following is the method of making a flexi- ble varnish for balloons that will make the sphere airtight or gastight. “Dig2st cold 1% ounces of indiarubber, cut small, in a pint of either chloroform, sulphuric ether (washed) or bisuiphuret of carbon. This dries almost as soon as laid on.” BLACKLEG IN CATTLE—B. B., Quail, Los Angeles Co., Californta. Cattle af- fected with blackleg should be bled and treated with physic as soon as it is dis- covered that the animal is affected. If delayed, it is said that there is no cure. The best thing to do Is to care for cat- tle in such a manner that they will not be affected with the disease. ANTIQUE BRONZE—Subscriber, City. Antique bronze is produced by the use of following solution: “Dissolve onz ounce of sal-ammoniae, three ounces of cream tartar and six ounces of common salt in a pint of hot water; then add two ounces of nitrate of copper, dissolved in a half-pint of water, and apply repeatedly to the article, placed in a damp situation, ! by means of a brush moistened with the solution. This produces a very aatique effect.” BIG TREES-J. A. K, City. In the Calaveras grove of big trees is “The Mother of the Forest,” 321 feet in heighs and 9 feet in ecircumference. ““The F-ther of the Forest” (fallen) measures 11) feet in circumference. There are a number of the trees that are from 50 to 60 feet in circumference. In the Mari- posa grove onme tree was found that measures 60 feet, and in the grove near Visalia one was measured by the Geolog- ical Survey party, yhich reported the measurement at 106 feet in circumfer- ence. POSTOFFICE EXAMINATION—Read- er, Tomales, Marin County, Cal. The qual- ifications for letter carriers are: Age, 2l to 40; ability to pass a successful exam- ination in spelling, arithmetic, letter-writ- ing, penmanship, copying from plain copy, geography of the United States and read- ing addresses. Those who desire to apply for a position in San Francisco have to file an application with the Civil Servee Commission of the Postoffice Department in that city. Due notice of the time and place of examination is sent to each ap- plicant. A SNARK-M. B, City. The word “snark” as used by Lewis Carroll in one of his works is a creation of his own, which is not recognized by any dictien- ary. His own definition is that a snark is a boojum, and a reading of his book shows that a boojum is nonsense. The only use of snark aside from that in Carroll's book is by an association of lumbermen and newspapermen, called the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, with headquarters in Chicago. The highest officer is called the “Snark of the Uni- verse,” and the head officer in each State is called a vice regent snark. The principle of the order is fun and nom- cense. CHINESE GOOD WORDS-M. A. D. F., Alameda, Cal. The twelve sentences of good words or commandments are: You should not disobey your parenmts. You should not quarrel with your brothers. You should not indulge In depraved and bad acts. You You You You should not utter injurious words. should mot drown female infants. should not wound the conscience. should not obtain money by faise pre- tenses. You should not beat down articles below the proper price. You should not destroy animal life. You should not be remiss in meritorious work. You should not throw down on the ground kernels of rice nor any lettered paper. MARRIAGE — Honesty, Sacramento, Cal. If you wish to marry a woman who has been divorced in California but seven months you may go to some other coun- try and marry her, but in California there have been two decisions in regard to that matter, one that a marriage that is valld in any other country or State is valld in California, and the other that a marriage in Nevada or other place to a party who has not been divorced a year in California is invalid. - As yet there has not been a decision of the Supreme Court as to whether persons divorced in this State who go to another State or country to marry within a year after the decree of divorce is valid or not. To be on the safe side it is best to wait until the year after the decree has lapsed. PUNCTUATION-W. R. T, City. The following, from “Pen and Type,~ by Drew, is an answer to the question, “Do compositors and proofreaders punctuate copy that is furnished by writers?": Printers and proofreaders are to take for granted that, in every work which falls under thelr supervision, the proper agreement be- tween thought and expression has been effected by the author. FHe alome has the right "o change the words and their collocation: and, ‘f fairly punctuated. the manuseript should ba closely followed, word for word, and point for point. Every person who writes for the press should punctuate his work presentably; but— since the majority of writers are inattentive to punctua and convenience, it not Decessity, have thrown upon the compositor Tuwwmlmm;. task of inserting in their ¢ points, and other points marks as shall assist o reader in obtaining a ready apprenension of the