The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1902, Page 6

BUEBDAY . ivecioiiesit god FEBRUARY 11, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE... .Telephone Press 204 S S Visssoecisudesteyy PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS..... 7 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 203. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, § Cents. Terms by Mail. Including P DATLY CALL (‘ncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. All postmasters are suthorized to recelive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr reques:. VAKLAND OFFICE.. .1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building. Chioagoe. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.........vv000000.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribure Bullding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 21 Union Square; Murrey Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS Eherman House; P. O. News Co. Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. STANDS: Great Northern Hotel; WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—LU27 Montgomery, corffer of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. €33 Mcallister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until $:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 1 1096 open until o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 . corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open 2200 Fillmore. cpen until 9 p. m. Merket, corne Sixteenth, open trtil 9 o'clock. lencia, AMUSEMENTS. California—*“The Sign of the Cross.” oli—*""The Ameer.” t A Young Wife.” The Rogue’s Comedy. Palace of the Kin lle. rand Opera-house—"Raglan’s Wa Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every aftercoon and Pavilion—Juvenile Fairyiand Carnival. politan Hall—Piano Recital February 12 Metropolitan Hall ong Recital Monday eveaing, Feb. 17. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Auction—This day, 1140 Folsom street. CALIFORNIA AT THE FAIR. at 11 o'clock, Horses, Wagens, etc., at 2 LL reports from the East tend to'the conclu- A sion that the State exhibits at the St. Louis any that have ever been made, not even excepting those at the Chicago exposition. In all the States that have been erected from the original Louisiana territory, whose acquisition by the United States the exposition is to commemorate, interest in the fair is very great, and it is assured that their displays wiil be exceptionally excellent. While none of these States can be ac- counted a rival to California in climate or in produc- tiveness, they are nevertheless rivals of our efforts to obtaip homeseekers and settlers, and accordingly it behoBves us to make our State display thoroughly i ur resources and our industries. from the interior are to the effect that the counties as a rule are acting energetically in the mat- ter. Their efforts, however, will of necessity be con- fined to making an exhibit of the local products. What is needed is a leadership that will bring all these separate a tion. exposition will be far superior to That work has been undertaken by the State Board of Trade and has been well planned. It is now the duty and will be to the interest of San Fran- cisco to give cordial and effective help to the enter- prise. - The upbuilding of the State is essential to the growth of the city. Our merchants, manufacturers, capitalists and property-owners can well afford to be liberal in contributing to this undertaking, for every dollar they expend in advertising the State and at- tracting settlers will be like bread cast upon the wa- ters, which will surely be returned with abundant profit later on. Despite all the rumors of a possible postponement the St. Louis managers have seemingly determined to hold their exposition next year, consequently there is now very little time tc make ready a comprehensive exhibit. There is certainly no time to lose. What- ever is to be done at all should be done promptly. California’s exhibit should be made ready at once, and San Francisco should act the part of a progres- sive metropolis in helping to provide it. o o e s A French newspaper published in the French col- ony of Pondicherry is reported to have recently an- nounced to its readers that General Buller had been captured by the Boers, and went on to add: “Generafl Buller stood in a humble and suppliant attitude be- fore General Dewet. Greatly moved by this heart- rending scene, General Dewet, who looked like God himself, asked Buller if he had anything to Generzal Buller replied in these words: “Sir, I am a poor man. I entangled myself in this war owing to my inability to bear the worry of the British Govern- ment. Grant me my life and I will go.’” fI‘h;,t is fully as good as anything American yellow journal- ism ever did in the way of interviewing the Pope or the Emperor of China. say. The people of New York are clamoring for a cop- per coin of the value of 2% cents. The argument is that two railroad fares across Brooklyn bridge are sold for 5 cents, but a single fare, for the want of a 2% cent piece, is sold for 3 cents. Thus there is a loss on each trip of a half cent, and as the numbBer of passengers in a year exceeds 50,000,000, the New Yorkers argue that the need of the new coin is a matter of urgency. President Eliot of Harvard has -compilcd a series of statistical tables showing that victories or defeats of colleges in athletic sports have no effect in in- creasing or diminishing the number of students; and thus another American joke is knocked out of the ring. In the Eastern States they no longer speak of cor- porate combination as “reorganization,” but as “remorganization,” and it is probable the new phrase is more accurate as well as more expressive. The cost of King Edward’s coronation will be large, but the taxpayers will get a much better show for their money than they are getting for the ex- penditures in South Africa. ities into harmony and combina- | lhc said, “lies in effective nursing.” : THE CUBAN CRY. THE discussion of free trade with Cuba, in the cally, of the tariff abatement which beet sugar and tobacco can stand, is one thing. About that the re- finers and beet farmers may be in accord or in dis- cord. It is a ponderable problem, capable of solu- tion, if in no other way, by a brief experience. The method chosen by the junta for presenting Cuba’s side is quite another thing. It is put forward as a charitable duty, which we are under moral and political obligations to perform. Over and over again the American people are told that by the Spanish war of liberation we agreed to insure the stable prosperity of the island. It would seem that one refutation of this should suffice, but it does hot. The plea is renewed, reinforced and prolonged. We are told that it is cruelty to refuse; that this country will behave to Cuba worse than Spain; that we will betray the islanders, condemn them to, starvation, do worse than Weyler in his concentrado decree, if we do not give them all they ask. Patience with this sort of thing is becoming more difficult with every repetition. ~With her indepen- dence about to be assumed 7 under a government be worse cff than under the heel of Spain unless she is incorporated into our commercial system, with all the rights and privileges of our own people! Under Spain the isiznd thrived. Her 'tariffs were made for Ler by that kingdom. Her burden of taxa- tion wrung her withers. She had neither civil nor religious liberty. Her judicial administration was a travesty upon justice. Her sanitation was neg- lected. Yet her people prospered. Witness the mul- titude of Cuban millionaires, who flashed across New York society like chameleons that had borrowed their iridescence from the colors of the rainbow and the sheen of gems; who intermarried with American social lprds and ladies, and thence with the British | aristocracy and nobility. We have delivered them from the incubus of which they complained. The soil and climate that bore a crop of diamonds and pearls for them are there “still. Their tobacco is incense, their sugar fit to sweeten the gods’ nectar. The exactions of Spanish taxation are no more. The robberies of the Spanish Captains General have ceased. Their- cities are sanitary ard wholesome. Their judicial courts administer justice freely. Upon their produc- tions are the same tariffs that rested there when they skimmed cream from their plantations under Spanish rule. Their commercial opportunity to the world’s markets is exactly what it was then. From their pro- duction the heavy hand of Spanish need and greed has been thed, and yet they tell us they will starve and die unless we give them free trade! They did not have free trade with us under Spain, and they wore diamonds. Now, independent, dis- burdened, enfranchised, they declare that they can- not wear shirts unless we give them what they never had before—iree entry to our -markets! We own Porto Rico. It is bone of our bone and fiesh of our flesh. The Porto Ricans have the right, which the Cubans have not, to look to us for such commercial incorporation into our system as will make them sharers of our prosperity and our adver- sity. They come protesting against Cuba’s demand. They have a right to protest. The question Americans ask is: Did we assume an obligation to permanently prosper Cuba and beggar Porto Rico? Did we agree to butcher those who live under our flag and feed their carcasses to those who don’t? Do we irtend to say to the Porto Ricans thét they would have been better off if we had made them in- dependent and thereby assumed the moral obligation to make them our cossets and feed them with a spoon? must e Although William C. Whitney has announced his retirement from politics as well as from business it will be just as well for New York politicians to keep an eye on him. Sometimes the most retired back rooms have a good many push buttons that set live wires a-moving. WHERE DOCTORS DIFFER. INCE the dissemination of the “germ theory of S disease” the old doctrine that disease is the product of filth has been largely abandoned. Investigators have discovered that disease germs are not always found where filth abounds, nor are they always absent where cleanliness prevails. Conse- quently while sanitaticn in the way of cleanliness is still upheld as a valuable thing in itself, it is no longer regarded as a sure preventive against most of the diseases that flesh is heir to. The change of medical opinion on the subject was recently manifested by a discussion at the Imperial Institute in London on “Indian Sanitation.” A paper on that subject was read before the National Indian Association by Dr. Dhingra, a Hindu, who had taken his degree of M. D. at the University of Edinburgh. The doctor, we are told by the London Chronicle in an account of the proceedings, “is an enthusiastic sanitarian, and urged extensive reforms in the direc- tion of pure water and a better drainage system for India.” His plea was that by cleanliness alone could the people of India be saved from the innumerable diseases and frequent plagues that afflict them. It is not many years ago since a plea of that kind would have received unanimous sanction frofn such a body of learned British doctors as that which com- posed Dr. Dhingra’s audience. In this instance, how- ever, it appears that not a single one of the speakers who discussed the paper agreed with the writer. Some of the statements made by the speakers are decidedly interesting. Dr. Forbs Ross denounced the doctrine’ of personal cleanliness as an assurance of health and immunity from diseasg, and told how, many years ago, in a Yorkshire mining -village, he, having been vaccinated, undertook to keep dirty for three months while attending his smallpox patients. He touched no water, except to drink it, did not change his clothes even at night;the miners setting a watch upon him. He spent thus the most horrible three months he had ever experienced; but he proved his peint. Another speaker, Surgeon-Major Ince, declared that modern sanitation and sanitary inspection is one of the greatest p}agues of the age. “Look,” he said, “at all the persecution the people have inflicted upon them in regard to water, and yet there is not a drop of pure water on the earth; not even rain water is pure.” The most interesting statement of all, how- ever, was that of Sir George Birdwood, K. C. I. E., who served many years in India, and who declared that in India the man attacked by disease is endan- gered not so much by the virulence of his complaint or by the lack of cleanliness as by the climate, *which gave no fair chance for rallying. “India’s chief hope,” He went on to light of its economic effects upon the United " States, the weighing and measuring, mathemati- which she has elected, Cuba declares that she will| pean methods. As illustrations drawn from his own experience in the country he told how one patient of his on the point of death, who had exhausted every modern civilized prescription bearing on his com- plaint, and another whose leg he was about to ampu- tate but for the protests of the patient, were both cured by native priests. There has never been an answer to the old ques- tion: “Who shall decide .when doctors disagree?” We shall have to leave the issue to the medical fra- ternity, venturing ourselves to say no more than that it is always well to keep clean and that in every case of sickness it is advisable to have a good nurse. tcure, which, for them, were often better than Euro- New York is discussing the advisability of holding an exposition in 1909 to celebrate. the three hun- dredth anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson, but whether it will be a local affair or international has not yet been decided. e —— A NATIONAL: GALLERY. York would be the best place for it.* S a part of the general plan of those improve- A ments which are expected to make Washing- ton the most magnificent city in the world, so far as parks and buildings go, there has been intro- duced .into the Senate a,bill providing for. the' con- struction of a national gallery of art, the building to be maintained through' appyopriations “‘as a ‘perma- nent gallery for the exhibition of such works pf American artists as may be obtained through pur- chase, gift, bequest or in any other manner.” The passage of the bill at the present session of Congress is doubtful, but sooner or later it, or a similar measure, will be enacted. The superb struct- ure erected at Washington for a national Hbrary will serve’ at once as an incentive to erect a national art i gallery and as a precedent for doing so. The people are becoming rich and artistic. They are also becom- ing more and more interested in the national capital and more eager to see it take rank above any other capital in the world. Moreover, American art has now reached a degree of excellence -where -it awakens patriotic pride and where the people are quite willing to grant it a fair share of governmental patronage and support. The one danger of such a gallery is that it might pass into the hands of a clique and thus be used to sustain a small group of artists rather than to repre- sent American art as a whole. That danger, how- ever, seems to be guarded against by a provision in the bill that the selection of works for the gallery shall be placed in the hands “of a commission of twenty connoisseurs to he named by the President, and each to hold office for five years without remuneration.” Such a committee, it would seem, would be sufficient to assure the selection of work representative of our best art and the rejection of that which is unworthy. The demand for a national gallery is perhaps not great, but none the less such a storehouse of Ameri- can art should be provided. ‘We have already ac- complished much’ in every branch of artistic work, and it is but fitting ‘that the nation should at its capi- tal have an exhibition of what has been accomplished. The great galleries of Europe are among the most precious possessions of the nations. A’ similar gal- lery at Washington would be equally valuable to us. In fact; if we begin now we can make a completer collection of American art, showing all phases of its development, than is possessed by any other‘country of its art work. For many reasons, t fi, the national gallery bill deserves the support of Congress. . It has unquestionably the approval of all the people who care anything about art. The arrest of Senator Beveridge's valet for rob- bing his employer has somewhat startled the blue jeans people of Indiana, who never dreamed that their junior Senator had a valet, and a_good many of them are wondering what kind of an animal it is. FIRES IN THE EAST. LIZZARDS have not been so disastrous in the B East this year as fires. In that section of the country the record.looks as if this were to be a year of conflagrations. In addition to the many seriots cases of the destruction of notable buildings or groups of houses here and there we have had the wholesale destruction of the business portion 6f the town of Waterbury, i Connecticut, ‘a few days ago, and now there is added the destruction of a large sec- tion of Paterson, New Jersey. In each of these latter cases the fires were accom- panied by fierce winter gales, the wind blowing like a hurricane. The Fire Departments were unable to combat thé combined elements. The .flames spread with rapidity, and property to the value of many mil- lions of dollars was swept‘away in a night. The frequency of such fires has of course brought about a discussion as to the best means of preventing them. The first demand, of course, is for the con- struction of buildings better fitted to withstand firé. No one, however, has been able to suggest a means of providing for such structures. In many cases the buildings destroyed in Paterson were deemed to be fairly fireproof, but in the raging flames these were swept away along with the rest and the fire stopped only when it reached an open space where theré was no fuel for it to feed on. The New York Press argues that it will be diffi- cult to devise a fireproof method of home building that will suit the climate of the Atlantic States. It says: “If we have indestructibility in winter we have uninhabitability in summer, and vice versa. The only ‘houses and shops which would resist a fire started in a seventy-five-mile gale in a winter night, with the mercury below freezing and the air as dry as sand, are solid stone. And solid stone houses will not be built by a people who have tropical conditions to consider for part of their year. Indeed, they will be built nowhere sgve by people who intend to oc- cupy them from generation to generation.” The problem is one of difficulty. Climatic condi- conditions are formidable. American ingenuity can doubtless find a right solution for the problem, though it may take years to do so. While waiting for that solution our Eastern friends must bear up against winds and fires as best they can, or, what is better, come to ;California and live where no such climatic complexities threaten them with disaster. e —— The fact that the Senate voted to raise the salaries of Federal Judges but refused to raise those of its own members may be taken as an evidence that it can be good when it tries, notwithstanding it has had such infrequent practice in trying. — s g The latest novelty report from Paris is that fash- ionable women are weating hand-painted stockings, some of which cost $800 a pair, and it would seem it cannot be long now before short skirts will be im- say that the Indian people have their own methods of ‘perative THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1902 AERIA f Probably by that time the world will be ready for another big show, and New tions are not to be avoided, and in the East those TRACTIONS OF NEXT YEAR'S L TOWER WILL BE A UNIQUE FEATURE OF THE ST. LOUIS FAIR EXPOSITION. e features added. hundreds of people. from the ground and 80 feet in diametar. t] ree and one-half feet in height. PERSONAL MENTION. Judge Stanton L. Carter of Fresno is at the Lick. G. C. Freeman, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. B R. B. Butler, an oil promoter of Fresno, is at the Grand. General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluff is;{ at the Occidental. J. M. Fulton, a mining man of Reno, is at the California. Dr. Landon R. Ellis of Tonopah, Nev., is a guest at the Occidental. W. H. McKenzie, a banker of Fresno, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Judge Frank H. Short, the well-known attorney of Fresno, is at the Palace. George E. Goodwin, a banker of Napa, registered at the Palace yester- day. C. A. Downs, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is among the arrivals at the Oc- cldental. H. M. La Rye, who was a Commis- stoner to the Paris Expositiony is a guest at the Occidental. A. W. Maltby, a mining man of Butte, Mont., is here on a short business trip. He has made his headquarters at the Grand. Mme. Nordica left last evening in her private car for Portland, Ore., where she will give two concerts. She will re- turn later and appear in this city. R e i Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- day: At the St. James—Fred G. Borst and F. E. Brown and wife of Los Angeles. At the National—William Kidston of San Francisco. At the Raleigh—Miss Josle Saalburg, 8. W. Saalburg, H. L. Johnson and wife, S. T. Bernhard and wife, T. L. Form, J. H. Keith and wife and J. Bartle, all of San Francisco. At the Willard— Judge W. W. Morrow and wife of San Francisco. 3 4 Attorney General Tirey L. Ford of Cali- fornia, who came here to file a motion to dismiss the writ of ®rror in the Botkin case in the Supreme Court, left for home to-day. The court not being in session, the motion will be made by the Attorney General of Delaware on behalf of Ford when the court next meets, February 24 e o Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—L. Marks and R. L. Knapp, at the Vendome; E. R. Abadin, at the Hoff- man; W. Baker and wife and J. W. Flynn and wife, at the Holland; Dr. E. J. Creeley and wife, at the Imperial; J. Fishel, at the Herald Square; I L. Gilbert, at the Cadil- lac; L. Greenbaum, at the Netherland; J. L. Johnson, at the Astor; H. R. Lip- man, at the Manhattan; Mrs. R. Prescott, at the Victoria; L. B. Fletcher, at the Sturtevant. From Los Angeles—C. Andrews, at the St. Denis; A. T. Crossley and wife, at the Park Avenue. From San Jose—C. Fountaln, at the St. Denis. ————— Appreciate Their Sympathy. Editor The €all: Will you allow me, through the columns of The Call, to re- turn the heartfelt thanks of my daughter, and myself for the very many expres- sions of sympathy in the past few days. 1 should not do this in this public man- ner were it not for the fact that the number of kindly messages received make | it utterly impossible to acknowledge. We appreciate these expressions of sympathy at their full value and hope that friends will accept this method of acknowleds- ment of their gratefully received sym- pathy and offers of assistance. Respect- fully, ‘W. W. STONE. San Francisco, Feb. 8. —_——— And so Prince Charming and Princess Brighteyes got married, and he hit her with a chair, and she would not give him any money to pay his debts and keep up his string of horses. And so HE aerial tower proposed for the St. Loufs Exposition is said to be a combination of the Eiffel Tower, the cap- tive balloon and the Ferris wheel all in one, with many The tower consists of two towers of steel. them will be 200 feet in height, at the top of which is a plat- form 100 feet in diameter, capable of accommodating many The second platform will be 150 feet will be 100 feet from the ground and 76 feet in diameter. Each landing, or platform, will be encircled by a safety railing A spiral stairway runs | from the bottom to the top of the main tower. at. the top will be covered with a waterproof canvas in the they got a divorce and lived ha; eve¥ after.—Baltimore American. Y prigs: c Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Best LiverMedicine, VegetableCure forLiverllls, Biliousness, Indigestion, Constipation, Malaria. One of The lower platform base of the tower. The landing ALUMINUM AS A SUBSTITUTE - FOR CANVAS A recent copy of the Chicago Times devotes a column and a half to the in- vention of J. E. Stuart, a Californian art- ist, whéreby the use.of aluminum as a substitute for canvas in oil painting has been perfected. The Chicago critic, Fen- ton 8. Fox, waxes very enthislastic over the possibilities of the discovery. He says in part: “An imperishable art; an art that Is destined to immortalize its creator; an art so wonderful in its conception, treat- ment and far-reaching possibilities that the critics are dumb with amazement and artists stand aghast with envy or inca- pability to comprehend, has recently come to light in Chicago. “J. Everett Stuart, a landscape painter of rare genius, whose work is known throughout the entire United States and many of the leading European cities, has uncovered an exhibition of marvelous paintings done on aluminum. “Aluminum is imperishable; it is non- corrosive, subject to none of the decay- ing characteristics of all other base met- als. It will endure until the ‘heavens are rolled in a scroll and the earth rocks on its axis’ at the day of doom. Canvas, at best, is fragile, easily destroyed and is highly susceptible to the atmospheric conditions—moisture, which expands, and heat, which contracts. By the never end- ing expansion and contraction operation, to which every canvas is subjected, the rarest works of art fall into decdy and must be restored or renovated from time to time.” The critic then explains the many vir- tues of aluminum as opposed to canvas, and tells how the inventor subjected com- pleted pictures to the severest tests that could be devised, placing one on a steam radiator until it was almost redhot, then throwing it into a snowdrift, where it was allowed to remain for days, without any apparent damage. Besides the ques- tion of permanence, Fox seems to think that the artist has forever settled the question ofyan artistic base for oil paint- ing. He says the artistic effect produced by the use of aluminum as a base shows “a result so far beyond the range of pos- sibilities on canvas that no comparisons can be drawn.” The clever inventor of the new method is a pative of Oakdale, and the son of the Rev. D. S. Stuart. His line of sub- ject ranges from landscape to frult paint- ing, where the method is equally well used, says the Chicago enthusiast. He has painted much in alaska and in the Yellowstone Park, and believes very thor- oughly in the surpassing beauty of Amer- ican scenery. A CHANCE 10 sSMILE. Casey—So poor Cassidy is dead? everybody will miss him. Flannigan—They will! He was thefonly mon in the war-rd thot everybody could lick.—Puck. ““Well, this is remarkable,” said Mrs. Peck. ‘“Here's an article In the paper about a Chicago couple who have been married for fifty years and never had a quarrel. The husband gives out a signed statement to that effect. What do you— Why, where is Henry?” But Henry had gone to his T write a note of sympathy. Sun. r Sure, to more Medium—I can telt you about a burisd treasure. Patron—Please don’t! My husbana is al- ‘ways tooting that in my ears. Medium—Does he know anythi a burled treasure? 28 Mut Patron—Yes; his first wife. “You know that measly 1ftle my wife made so much Py it “The dog that bit me in the leg?” “Yes. A motorman ran over killed him. Yes. And I had to go dna:g :g rgq‘enr:lolwnay ofll‘fi?i and report the mo- e CoO chared. T wento « Pe promptly dis- What was the result?” “The man was pi »”. Plain Dealer. promoted.”—Cleveland ILLUSTRATION REPRESENTS THE AémAL TOWER THAT HAS BEEN PLANNED AS ONE OF THE AT- IT IS A COMBINATION OF THE FERRIS WHEEL AND EIFFEL TOWER, WITH ADDITIONAL FEATURES. —_—— form of a circus tent. People on either of thess landings can see for miles in any direction and get a good view of the fair grounds and buildings. To one side of the main tower is a second structure of steel, on the top of which works a monster steel walking beam. To one end is attached a car, square in shape, with a capacity for fifty people, while just above the car is a representation of a captive balloon. tached a double cable, which connects with an engine at the As the engine winds up this cable it ele- vates the balloon car until it reaches the top landing of the main tower, when the gates are thrown open and unloaded. People may return by the car or they may descend by the stairway and get the view from each of the lower landings. D e e e e e e e e ] To the other end of the beam is at- ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS—C. M. R., Ala- meda, Cal. The Hawalian Islands were annexed to the United States by joint res-. olution of Congress July 6, 1398, STATEHOOD—A. C. F., Lodi, San Joa- quin County, Cal. There is nothing in the law that says that a Territory shall have a certain number of inhabitants before it can be admitted to statehood. SUBJECTS—A. K. M., City. If you will call at the Free Public Library reference- room and make inquiry there you will be furnished a book that will give you a large number of subjects for debaters. COWPEAS—C. H. C., Tancred, Yolo County, Cal. Cowpeas have been suceess- fully raised ia California. As to time for planting, soil, etc., write to the Experi- mental Agricultural Station, University of California, Berkeley. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT-R. H. G., City. The publications of the Munici- pal League, to be seen at the Free Public Library, will give you a great deal of in- formation on city governments, officers and ‘their duties. The city charter may assist you. MOURNING PAPER—G. G., City. Cus- tom sanctions the use of mourning paper and envelopes during the period of mourn- ing, but of late years there are many who discontinue the use of such after the first week of mourning, belleving that it is not proper to make an ostentatious show of grief. LICENSE—M., Philo, Mendocino Coun- ty, Cal. If you go from house to house offering goods to sell and deliver such you engage in the business of peddling, and are liable for a license; but if you sell goods by sample, the goods to be de.v- ered at a future time by the firm you rep- resent, you do ot need a license, LANGUAGE OF NEGROES-G. W. MCcK., San Jose, Cal. There is no positive information as to what was the original language of the negroes, but it has been asserted that it was the Bantu. That is the name given by ethnologists to a large group of languages spoken by a large number of the people of Africa. It is the language at this time of the Kaffirs, Zulus and of the people of the Galla mall country. hepat SAND BLAST-R. H. G, City. front of the house on Camornl: utrm asked about Is being cleaned by means of what is known as the sand blast. A large. quantity of well dried sand is forced through a pipe by means of a fan blower revolving at the rate of about 2000 times a minute. This sand striking the stone removes all the dirt and leaves the stone as clean as when it came from the stone cutter's hands. In thus cleaning stone care has to be taken that the force of the blast be distributed evenly, as if lert too long in one position it would burrow holes or make indentations in th. stone, MILEAGE—E. T., City. The first gress provided that each member .n?,?,'n'& receive, besides his pay, $6 for each twen- ty miles traveled going and returning. In 1818 this was raised to $. An act of 1556 Nmited this to two sessions. In 1366, the railroad having long since come in, the mileage was reduced to 20 cents a mile. On the 22d of December, 1848, Horace Greeley published in the Tribune a state- ment that the Government was being de- frauded on mileage in large sums, the amount in excess of legitimate charges for the thirtieth Congress being $73,492. While this expose caused considerable ill feeling against him, it led to a revision of the mileage matter and the abolition of constructive mileage. This class of mileage was an allowance for Journeys merely supposed to have been made, as when Congress adjourns and a new Prosi. dent takes office or an extra session s called. —— Ex. strong hoarhound candy.Townsend's.* ——— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ———————— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a pound, ia fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern triends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —————————— Special information supplied daily business houses and publl: men l;l: Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1043, *