The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1902, Page 6

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SMITH INTATIVE® D Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Drentano, 31 Unlon Sguare; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.: Great Fremont House; Auditorium Jotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICY MORTON E. CRANE, NRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, correr of Clay, open until 9:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 631 McAllister, open until 0:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1008 Va- lencia, open until ® 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. Vorthern Hotel: AMUSEMENTS. *“The Last Stroke.'" Alcazar—*At the White Horse Tavern." Central umbia—Arizona.”" Vaudeville A Contented ¥ ater—"The French Maid Zoo and Theater—\Vaudeviile every afterncon and evening Sherman-Clay Hall Metropolitan Hall—Miss Leonora Jackson, Friday night. Metropolitan Hall—Emma Nevada, Saturday afternoon Woodward's Pavilion—Winter Circus. Onkland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Concert Auctien this day, , Horses, Wagons, ete., at 1140 Folsom street By 4. J. Doyle—Thursday, March 6, at 11 ¢'clock, contents of Stables, at 816 Mission street MASSACHUSE TATISTICS relating to farms and farming in S Massachusetts show in a striking way the changes which have been effected by Western competition in grain-growing and the efforts of the New Englanders to develop other forms of rural in- dustry. In 1850 Massachusetts had 34.060 farms, con- taining in the aggregate 3,356,012 dcres, of which 2,133,430 acres were under cultivation: In 1890 the number of farms had increased to 37,715, but the aggregate acrcage had decreased to 3,147,064 acres, while the cultivated area had fallen to 1,202,132. Small farms have taken the place of large farms, and on farms of nearly all sizes an increased acreage has been allowed to go to pasturage. When the total improved acreage of farm lands in a State decreases at that rate the natural impression would be that the total value of farms had also di- | ninished. In this case, however, it is not so. While only 41 per cent of the acreage given to farms in Massachusetts is now cultivated, as against 63.4 per cent twenty years ago, and while the absolute diminution in improved acreage amounts to nearly 1,000,000 acres,‘the aggregate value of farms in the State in 1900 was $182,646,704, as against $121,033,641 in 1Rso Grain-growing appears to have been well nigh abandoned. In 1899 the entire area in Massachu- setty devoted to wheat was only ninety-five acres, Other grain crops were not quite so small, but none the less there hay been a heavy decline in all of them, Dairying and market-gardening have advanced as well as other forms of intensive farming. There has been a notable development in fruit-growing. The figures of that industry for 1890 and 1900 are thus given 1000, 1890, pples, trees . 001,862,006 1,007,561 t 07 14,486 Peaches . 57,004 Pears .. s 136,348 Plums and prunes 17,206 The explanation of the grow indus- try is that it is not so subject to Western competi- tion as grain-growing. How long that will remain true is a question. of frefight rates, for the Pacific Coast is quite able to supply New England with bet- ter and cheaper fruit than her orchards can produce. It may be, therefore, that this promising industry will have to give place later on to something else. That has been the experience in old England, where extensive orchards were set out some years ago be- causé of the unprofitableness of grain fields, but which in turn have become unprofitable by reason of the cheap and abundant fruit now carried to British markets from the United States and the south of Europe. The figures strikingly illustrate the thriftiness and energy of the New England farmer. Faced by the overwhelming competition of the rich grain fields of the West, he has not despaired of his own State nor his farm. Abandoning to grass the less valuable por- tions of his acreage, he has made the rest more val- uable than the whole was before competition de- scended upon him, A race that can do that can take care of itself no matter what happens, and when in the fullness of time California fruit saves the New Englanders from the necessity of eating frostbitten peaches and the starveling prunes that grow in that climate, they may be relied on to scek other forms of industry and still make their land valuable and profit- able, = e ree——— Kipling’s latest contribution to British politics is a statement that party government in Great Britain has made statesmen as scarce as the dodo and ended in failure. As this idllows so soon upon his recent attack on athletes, it seems there is nothing in the empire that suits him, and we may yet hear of him coming to this country to find rest from his troubles, 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1902. . PRISON DISCIPLINE. HE action brought by a negro ex-convict T Convict King, will not get public sympathy nor support. King was supported in the movement he began while still in prison to aid ex-convicts in getting employment and to encourage them in living a better life. It was widely accepted as the fact that his reform is genuifie and his desire to aid those who had wrought their own downfall by crime was genu- ine. ‘As wide as was this sympathy. with his move- ment so wide will be the disappointment that he turns it into what all men know is a dangerous attack upon that salutary prison discipline which is the be- ginning of all criminal reform. The negro convict, while in prison, disobeyed discipline by a desperate combat with a fellow prisoner. For this both were straitjacketed, and the negro alleges serious phy- sical injuries as the result of wearing that correc- tional costume. King gives out that this will be fol- lowed by many similar charges against Warden Aguirre made by convicts who are still in the prison, The most serious misfortune that befalls conviets is the feeling of license to make such an attack upon | prison officers. When assured of public sympathy in such a course there is no end to the lengths to which | they will go. Men are not in prison for their virtues, [ but for their vices. They are there because they have broken and defied moral and statute law. They were guilty of that breach because of absent or blunted moral sense. By a majority of them their conviction and confinement are regarded as imterference with | their personal rights, The prison officers are looked | upon as enemies against whom they may do any act of revenge for which there may be opportunity. If such a movement as King has started begin on the outside and progress in the safe keeping of pub- lic sympathy, there is offered the best opportunity for discrediting the prison authorities and satisfying a desire for revenge. There is no end to the capa- city of some convicts for invention in such a case. The tale devised by the most ingenious is strongly and readily supported by others, until, in the view of people unaccustomed to study of the criminal migd, there appears to be a preponderance of testimony | against the accused officer that outweighs his denial. | Meantime the prison is in a ferment. Discipline is at an end. Every moral influence is suspended. What- | ever reform has begun in individuals is set back and | great injury follows. As for King, his alleged declaration of purpose in the prosecution of the Warden will not only alienate sympathy and support from his effort to secure amelioration of the condition of the ex-convicts, but will disincline the public to give support to a similar movement from a like source in the future. If he were sincere he would see this and refrain, Prince Henry of Prussia has given New York many pleasant compliments, but President Eliot of Har» vard has just said that the impression made on him by his recent three days' visit was one of “absolute ugliness and squalor.” Thus does Boston keep watch and see that the New Yorkers do not become intoxi- cated with exuberance of delight over the commenda- tion from Berlin, WOMAN AND WORK. ARROLL D. WRIGHT of the United States Labor Bureau recently delivered to the stu- dents of Smith College an address on “The Emancipation of Woman,” in the course of which he gave his conclusions upon many of the problems arising from the tendency of women in our times to enter into industrial competition with men. Mr, Wright is a statistician. His theories are based upon statistics carefully compiled and his conclysions rep- resent earnest study of the facts and of their meaning. What he has to say, therefore, upon woman'’s labor is worthy of consideration from all who take any in- terest whatever in that phase of our social develop- ment, Woman became an important factor in the wage- | ecarning world immediately after the introduction of the factory system, Mr, Wright says her appearance |'in that field soon proved of benefit to her, for it was noted that her efforts were inefficient because of her ignorance, and steps were at once taken to educate her, He attributes the existence of the 228 colleges of liberal arts and 108 institutions of higher education now open to woman in this country to the progress she has made in the industrial field, or, as he puts it, to “the industrial prosperity and the Ml"‘l‘\fll!inll which comes from active remunerative employment,” The advance in education and in industrial freedom on the part of women has not been accompanied by any loss of morals. Mr. Wright, after referring to a belief that exists in some quarters that “so far ag purely wage-workers are concerned the morals of women are not up to the standard of women under the domestic system,” said: “I believe this view to I'be absolutely false and that the morals of the work- ingwomen of this or any other civilized country are upon as high a plane of purity as those of any class of women in the community. I make the statement 1 have, however, upon positive investigation which I have carried as far #s it has been possible. Tn what- ever direction I have turned my studies relative to the moral character of women engaged in indiistry the 1result has been the same, whether those studies have been conducted in this country, in Great Britain or upon the continent of Europe.” The fact that women work along with men in fac- tories does not entail a failure of respect any more than the fact that they are educated together in col- leges. The Commissioner asserts positively that his studies lead him to the conclusion that “the mingling of the sexes either in industry or in education does not work harm to society, but on the contrary brings great good and secures that respect which is essential to honorable social and family life.” Concerning the question whether industrial eman- cipation on the part of women tends to decrease the number of marriages, Mr. Wright declares a convie- tion that it has that tendency at present, but he be- lieves it will be temporary; and that in the fullness of time when the problem is fully worked out there will be as many marriages as there ought to be. He says: “As woman has the power given her to sup- port herself she will be less inclined to seek marriage relations simply for the purpose of securing a hom and protection.” He adds: “I am free to say this does not frighten me in the least.” The fact that women do not receive in the labor market equal wages with men is attributed by Mr, Wright not to an injustice, but to economic causes, and he declares it to be the logical sequence of condi- tions of inefficiency which cannot be obviated until, through « long process of dndustrial development, women become veritably the equals of men in the struggle for existence, Political emancipation, Mr, Wright believes, will come eventually as a result of industrial emancipation. As soon as the mass of women become self-supporting and free their right against Warden Aguirre, at the instance of ex- | ito take part in the affairs of government can be no longer disputed. « Such are the views one of the foremost and most impartial statisticians of our time draws from the facts obtained by official investigations. They give a dis- i tinctly encouraging outlook for the future and afford no ground whatever for the pessimists. A bill is before the Massachusetts Legislature to license cats and it is said to have caused more talk and more public interest than any other measure of the session. It goes without saying the women de- mand to be heard and, what is more, they express a determination to make thempselves influential the next time the man who introduced the bill runs for office. —— FOPULATION ESTIMATES, ENSUS BULLETIN No. 135 contains a ‘ careful study by Chief Statistician Wilcox of | the comparative accuracy of the various | methods c¢mployed in estimating the population of cities, There are four methods in vogue for “such estimates, The first assumes that the rate of growth in_any city between any two successive censuses is maintained during the following decade; the second assumes a constant ratio between the total population {and the vote cast; the third assumes a constant ratio between the total population and the number of chil- dren of school age; while the fourth assumes a con- stant ratio between the total population and the num- ber of names in the city directory. For the purpose of testing the accuracy of these methods the statistician compiled the figures of sev- enty-eight cities, each having more than 50,000 popu- lation, chgsen from every section of the Union. The growth of the population of cach since 1800 was cal- culated by the various methods stated and the results compared with those obtained by the count of the census in 1900. In no instance did the results ‘ob- tained by any method of estimating approach the re- sults of the count with sufficient accuracy to justify confidence in it as a nieans of calculating population. The report shows that in fully half of the cities un- der examination the per cent of growth between 180 and 1900 differed by as much as 18 from the per cent of growth between 1880 and 1800, consequently all estimates based upon the assumption that the rate of growth would be constant were valueless. Equally fnaccurate were the estimates based upon the ratio of votes cast at elections, since there are some cities where the population in 1900 had but four inhabitants for each vote cast, while in others there wege twelve inhabitants for each vote, The number of children of school age was found to afford a safer basis for calculating population than cither of the two preceding assumptions, but even that is unreliable. Where the school census is taken with a high degree of accuracy, calculations based upon it come within 6 per cent of the truth, but the | report says: ‘“The number of children of school age in a city is so seldom given with close accuracy by a school census that this method is found of little prac- tical value.” The common method of estimating pop- ulation from the number of names in a city directory, the report says, “vesults uniformly in too large a figure and usually in very serious inaccuracy.” Summing up the results obtained from the whole study, the report concludes that Dr. Samuel Johnson was right when he said: “To count is a modern practice; the ancient method was to guess and where numbers are guessed they are always magnified.” It I adds: “A combination of counting and guessing is better than a guess not founded on a count, but when it differs from the results of a thorough and complete enumeration it is entitled to no standing.” Recognizing that there is needed some method of estimating the growth of population between census | years, the statistician carefully calculated the figures of the seventy-eight cities under investigation anu | came to the conclusion that a method more accurate than either of those in vogue is: “To add to each vear after 1900 one-tenth of the city's increase from 1800 to 1900 This, it is admitted, “is a mere rule | of thumb without rational justification,” but the stat- istician says the average increase in the cities between 1800 and 1900 was in that proportion, and that “if this method had been applied to the cities for 1900 the results in half the cases would have been within 6 per cent of the truth,” E————— Philadelphia is wrestling with a neat little problem, She has a compulsory school law and a truant act, but she has not room enough in her schools for those | who wish to attend. So now she is in a quandary to know what to do with the truants the school officers arrest and bring up to the overcrowded rooms, pr o kg The riots in Barcelona turn out to have been not so much a lubor strike as a revolutionaty movement, and consequently the use of the army in suppressing them can hardly be deemed an act of despotism, The Spanish Government may not be very good, but it certainly has a right to protect itself. Prinki Akl S In a recent speech David Bennett Hill said Roose- velt will be renominated in 1904 and that New York will be the battlefield, all of which is probably true, but New York will not be the decisive point of the battle, for Roosevelt can get enough votes to elect him without New York. We have not yet acquired the Danish West Indian islands and it may be some time before we do, but just the same Washington reports announce lots of candidates for the Governorship hanging round the city, all the way from the White House to the Cap- itol, L —_—— The report that the four great express companies of the country are to be consolidated has been de- nied, but all the same the chances are that they are close enough to one anothel ‘to cinch any portion of the public that gets in the way. On a single day, after a recent storm, New York City had to cart off nearly 100,000 loads of snow to make her thoroughfares passable; and now we can form some sort of an estimate what a winter climate like that is worth to taxpayers. A A The question of complete union between Demo- crats and Populists in Kansas has been complicated by an old middle-of-the-road stalwart who wishes to be informed how 25,000 Democrats can absorb 120,000 Populists without choking. A St. Louis Judge bms declared from the bench that bribery is anarchy, but it hardly seems worth while to 7 L INFANT THAT HAS B®EN ADOPTED BY THE CHOCTAW, OKLA- HOMA AND GULI® RAILWAY COMPANY, AND IS BEING ROYALLY CARED FOR AT THE.COMPANY'S EXPENSE. RAILROAD IS PARENT OF THIS BABY GIRL ¥ of being the only baby that ever wants her baby back, money can buy. PERSONAL MENTION. J. W. R. Parker, a merchant of Salinas, is a guest at the Lick. I. B. Dockweller of Los Angeles s reg- {stered at the Grand, L. W. Blinn, a lumber dealer of Tos Angeles, is at the Palace. E. C. Peart, a merchant of Colusa, is among the arrivals at the Russ. C. Kirby, a ploneer of Elk Grove and an extensive landowner, is at the Russ. J. E. Stubbs, president of the Nevada University, 1s a guest at the Occidental. F. A. Hartfnan, a leading merchant of Los Angeles, is a guest at the California. J. O. Hestwood, a mining man, whose residence is at San Jose, Is a guest at the Grand. Amos Hill, who owns mining claims In Trinity County, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Walter L. Vail, a prominent resident of Los Angeles, is among the arrivals at the Palace. J. H. Brenner, a member of the Califor- ala Plano Company of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace, J. A. Matson, a merchant of Marshfield, Or,, I8 down hers on a short business trip, He has made his headquarters at the Lick, Earl Rogers and Luther G, Brown, two prominent attorneys of Los Angeles, are in the elty in reference to cases now bhe- ing tried in the Federal courts, They are Euests at tho Californla, Denmark’s New Woman. New women in Denmark are the mots extreme of thelr type and push the limits of emancipation farther than has been dured by thelr sex In any other country, “Fremakridtkvinde,” {8 what they call themselves, In other words, “women of progress,”” and they make a thorough job of thelr progressiveness. Thelr progress, however, depends entirely upon the point of view. The homely soclable arts of her grandmother have been left several laps behind tobacco and polities in the race for progress, and the rearing of a family s regarded as a rather irksome and ungrateful task imposed wrongfully upon an unfortunate sex. “The Danish ‘new woman,'" vere critic of her order, ‘ls ever man’'s seeming freedom and independence in professional pursuits. -She possesses fdeals'as to her own future like those of an immature boy, and her methods of realizing them are frequently theatrical and adventurous. She does not comp®- mise with soclety, because she fancles it does not understand her, so therefore she blazes for herself new paths, which she follows in startling imitation of masculine privilege in manner, dress and conversa- l""‘i‘ioltnunml in Denmark are club-like in thelr soclability. Papers, chesshoards and cards are supplled to the guests, who sit around and discuss politics and af fairs with their meals, read or pl The new woman takes full tem.” games. vantage of the This Country’s Diamonds. The world has never seen, and in no other part of the world is there now to be seen, anything like America's jewel- madness as shown by the conditions of to-day, when more than 300 New York es- tablishments are engaged solely in the importation of precious stones, wheh agents of American dealers are searching Europe for the white gem and hopelessly endeavoring to supply American appea's for rubles and emeralds, and when 6000 men in South Africa are tolling to obtain dtamonds, more than half of which are to add to the beauty and happiness of the American wom-n& ‘sn th! nheb that has he United States to become tl “::::n' dlamond market in the world. r her we have imported in a single year fi.mm worth of preclous stones; for er at one period we smuggled them in at the rato of §7,000,000 a year; for her we annually buy something like $12,000,000 worth ‘of diamonds, and thus, for her sake, heartless] leave of the world's to- tal output of diamonds only some $8,000,- add a new name of condemnation to the offense. It is bad enough even when referred to by the polite word “persuasion.” * —— | a wel Charhp Clark is generally about as wild a loon as ;‘,’; |l ever honks over the Missouri mud flats, but his re- | of cent statement that Democracy cannot win in 1904 and will have to wait shows there are #imeés when he | has a lucid interval, ~ 000 worth to satisfy the vanity of all the rest of the women on earth. ¥or her adornment we annually cause to be brought to this country diamonds weigh. ing In the aggregate 1000 to pound ght thre that of the to of the famous Kimberly fleld, and cally the equal of that of the whole Houth Africa, the world's greatest dia- mond mine. —— Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Best LiverMedicine, Vegetable Cure forLiverTlls, Blllousness, Indligestion, Constipation, Malaria,* Paris, 111, clalms that the child was given him by its mother. has appeared at the Children's Home in Wichita and says she is its mother and But the rallway officlals hold on tenaciously foundling and say they will ralse it even better than any mother could. One of the finest wards in the Wichita Children’s Home fs set apart for Miss Okla Choctaw-Gulf, as the G-months-old foundling has been named. She has a speclal nurse, fine lace dresses, hoods and shoes, and, In fact, everything that The Children’s Home officers have been Instructed to send the bill to the general office of the Choctaw route, where the same will be honored and paid as one of the items in their expenses. L R R MR HE Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gylf Rallway Company has adopted a §-months- old baby girl left on one'of thelr passenger trains and refuses to give it up to any one laylng claim to it, and the child now has the proud distinction A man in A woman had a rallroad for a parent. to thelr A CHANCE TO SMILE. A young couple had been married by a Qualker, and after the ceremony he re- marked to the husband: “Friend, thou art at the end of thy troubles.” A few weeks after the man came to the good minister boillng over with rage, hav- ing found his wife to be a regular vixen, and sald: “I thought you told me I was at the end | of my troubles?" “‘So I did, friend, but I did not say i “I see that your town has been con- sldering the idea of imposing a tax on bachelors." “Yes," answered the young woman. “But we thcught it over, and we con- cluded that the men might be mean enough to take the money to pay it out of what they spend for caramels and theater tickets."—Chicago Tribune, ur husband dled while you were sald the hostess, replied the young widow of old Skinflynt, with an appropriately mournful sigh, “poor John has gone to hisg final reward." “No," wnld the girl with the Gibson- glrl neck, " I ate so much candy on Christmas day that I shan't want any more for twenty years. [t made me wick, and 1 didn’t ent a quarter of what was brought to me, either," “'What did you do with the three-quar- tors you couldn't eat?” Inquired the girl with the Julla Marlowe dimple. U1 went it to a dear old invalld aunt.'— Chicago Tribune, ‘I understand that clowe political friend the opposition,’’ sald the alert politietan. “‘Yen,' anewered Henator Sorghum; “he and I talked the matter over. All he had to do was to make a few prom- iees, and we concluded that the more of the opposition's money we could get the worse it would be for the opposition.'— ‘Washington Star. —_————— New Yorkers' Fine Jewels. The three familles of enormous wealth that with the addition of the Rockefel- lers, constitute the most widely known of American multimilionaires, do not, however, monopolize the splendid jewelry owned in the metropolis; but it would be wearisome' to name, plece by plece, the gems of ‘even a few of the remaining hundreds of well known women in New York's most exclusive soclety. Glancing hastily around the circle, one is forced to recall, nevertheless, such quaint or costly and beautiful bits of bijouterie as Mrs. T, Suffern Tailer's dlamond chrys- anthemum, sometimes fetchingly worn at her shoulder; Mrs, Belmont Tiffany's point lace fans, one studded with various Jewels, the stick of the other bearing her initials set in diamonds; Mrs. George W. Vanderbiit's necklace of 170 diamonds; Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbiit's dlamond bodled and ruby-eyed serpent that half encircles its owner; Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay's sapphire, the most perfect and beautiful known in the world, and Mrs, O. H. P, Belmont's chief treasures, her string of pearls, once worn by Marfe An- chain of diamonds, seven and a half feet in length, formerly owned by the Km- press Catherine of Russia. The pear) Jewelry of Mrs. Perry Belmont, formerly Mrs. Henry Sloane, Is the most costly and beautiful in America, and the fewels of her niece, Mrs. Jamed Abercrombie Burden, are noted for their splendoy and bizarrerie. ————e l:!,. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's,» —_——— Cal, glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's,* Notice—Best eyeglasses, specs, Look out 81 4th (front barber 15¢ to 60e. & grocer), | | which end,” replied the Quaker.—Tit-Bits, | of yours has been taking money from | toinette, and an overwhelming gorgeous SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS PAUNCEFOTE~Subscriber, City. The name Pauncefote is pronounced as it written Pawn-see-foat. | THREE DATES—W. R., City. The 24ita | Of April, 1883, fell on Tuesday, In 1554 it i fell on Thursday and in 188 it fell | Friday. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE-A. S, City. | The full name of Mrs. Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, is Mary Baker G ver Eddy. on LAYING HENS—E. G., City. It you desire to raise hens for the purpose | obtaining eggs only there is no occasion “ for any poultry but hens. WATCHMAKING—A. G. M., Minnear lis, Minp. There is no Industrial Schoot | in California in which watchmaking | carried on, or where puplls are taught | how to make watches. AN ABBREVIATION—A. E. M., City ¥ 1s probable that the abbreviation that y have seen on lotters Iy S ! | G. The former stand | riflefum, sacrum.” (Priest, sacrifice Holy.) UNCLAIMED MONEY —C., Bist Ariz. For information in regard to | clatmed money in England or Wales ¢ | municate with B. W. Allen, London, pu Hsher of “Unclaimed Mo: % | H. Prestom. WHEDDING ANNIVER | O., City. The fifth annive | ding is called wooden; tenth, tin; fif= | teenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twentys« | fitth, « silver; thirtleth, pearl; fortieth, iruby. and fiftieth, golden. MELTON CLOTH—L. F. C., City. There is a cloth known as Melton. It is made for men's wear. The surface is without nop and is neither pressed nor finished. It derives its name from Melton, England, where it is manufactured. 1 . | LOS ANGELES COUNTY-A. C. 8, | City. You may obtain information rela- | tive to Los Angeles County at the State | Board of Trade in the ferry buflding in | this city or by writing to the secretary of the Board of Trade, Los Angeles. TRUE BLUE—M. R. and J.H., City. Th race between Joo Daniels, Thad Stevery and True Blue ocourred on the 15th of No | vember, 1873. True Blue did not step in a gopher hole In the first heat and break a leg, but turned a tendon In the third heat, VOTING—Subscriber, City. A citizen who wauld not attain his majority until eight days after date set for an election would not be entitled to register so as to vote at that election. He mist be twenty- one years of age before he s entitled to vote. | IN THE NAVY-8. MeN., City. If you | desire to mall a letter to a party on board of @ vessel of the United States navy, di- rect the same to the party, giving name of the ship, and send It to the Navy De partment, Washingtos D. C., with re- | auest to forward to destination. i MILDEW-J. B. H., City. Possibly the | best way to prevent mildew from forming | on clothing packed for a long journey by | sea is to wrap each article in a sheet of olled paper or place In antl-moth papes | bags. Either will prevent molsture from reaching the clothing and in that way prove a preventive against mildew. REMOVING STAMPS-M. M. Chy. There I8 a section of the United dtat | laws which says: “Any pepson who shal® willfully and unlawfully remove from any mail matter any postage stamps affixed thereto in navment of postage shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and be punished by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than a year, or by fine of not less than $110 nor more than $500." CONTINENTS-—Subscriber, City. Though no preeise distinction has ever been drawn hetween a continent and an island, each being a body of land entirely surrounded by water, the usage of language has gen- | erally recognized five great masses or Ai- visions of land as continents—Burope, | Asta, Africa, America and Anstralia. The | most eminent geographers of the present | day regard North and South Amerfea as y - P one continent, also Hurope, Asla and Heg pardon,” sald the host, suddenly, | Afrien as but one, . aritlog. & “that reminds me, I must go down and — l[n:k at the furnace fire,"—Philadelphia | CIGAR RINGS-P. B R Haywards, roas, ¢ Cul, Phis department does not know of ary firm that pays a promium for clgar bands, and If it did it would not urder the | rules publish the names of any firms, for the reason that it does not advertise any | ore In business. Clgnr rings or bands are used for decorntive purposes, the arrange- ment of wuch on vases, Jars. sewer pipes used for umbrella stands and the like de- pending on the Ingenuity of the lnmvldun‘ who arranges them, MINERAL DISCOVERY — Subseriber, Magnet, Cal. When the United States or State has sold a plece of land to an indl- vidual and has issued a patent or & deed In regular form therefor the Gavernment or the State has no further clalm on the property, and it becomes the absolute | property of the Individual to whom it was patented or deeded with all the right to prevent trespass. If years after the grant. ing of the patent or the delivery of a deed gome one should dlscover mineral on the land such person could not mine for the same wtihout the consent of the owner of the land. CORSETS—Metta, City. Corsets as an article of female dress have been worn by the sex for many centurles. Roman women wore wide bandages, which were valued as giving to the form an appear- ance of slightness. In Germany and sub- sequently in France women wore an arti- ele of dress that was very much like the corsets of the present day. It contained rods and plates of whalebone and steel and was designed “to conceal the defects and exaggerate the beautles of the figure, * Cersets can be traced back to the thir- teenth century, and they found thelr way into England in the latter half of lzl fourteenth century. SAN FRANCISCO—A Reader, Alameda, Cal. On the 19th of April, 1856, there was approved by the Governor of the State of California an act entitled “An act to re- peal the several charters of the ety of San Francisco, to establish the boun- darfes of the city and county of San Franelsco and to consolidate the govern- ment thereof.” »The boundaries cover the same ground that®were previously cov- ered by the boundaries of San Franctsco County. The status of the officers of the city and county of San Francisco is one that has occupled the attention of courts for years and probably will for years to come. This department cannot predict what courts may, in the future, determive as to that matter. HOMESTEAD-T. 8., El Verano, Cal Uader the laws of California the wife can make a selection of a homestead out of the community property If the h band does not do so, and it says, declaration of homestead when It is made by the wife must show that the husband had not made such declaation and that she makes it for thefr point benefit.”” On the v the death of the husband one-half of “Townsend's Californ the community property, Including the 1:;.a, in fire-etched ;olxh onl.“"::. homestead, goes to the surviving wife Kots, ‘A nice present for Hase endy, | The other half is subjoet to the tosta- élulcl » Palace Hotel h%., s | mentary disposition of the husband, and Special information ed dally to auppll and pu i iy Rime the in the absence of such It goes to the de- scendants equally If such descendants are in the same degree of kindred to the deceased, otherwise according te the it of representation.