The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1902, Page 6

6 : : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1902. A e W 1 TUESDAY vesseses--.MARCH 18, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A Aédress All Communicstions to W. 5, LEAKE, Xanager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. ‘Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. riket and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 20L. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. Telepho Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weel% Single Copfes. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postages 217 to 221 Stevemsom St. Press 202. DAILY CALL (necluding Sunday), one year... $6.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 8 month 8.00 DAILY CALL Gndluding Sunday), 8 momths. 1.80 DAILY CALL—By Single Month .. 8¢ FUNDAY CALL. Ope Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Y 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl rubscribers in ordering change of address should te particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. GAKLAND OFFICE. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mansger Foreign Advertising, Marguette Buildinz, Chieags. ong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2019.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.. ++s.Herald Squ NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE- FTEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Trib. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of February, 1902. 60,560 +e..1118 Broadway 1 February February | February February ; February ry February February | Febraary February | Februar: Febr Y February February February February February | February Febraary February Total .. STATE OF CALI ) N FRANCISCO. { * of March, 1902, Hees, a Notary Public in and for the sald, W. J. Martin, who, lares that he is the business manager of wcisco Call, a daily mewspaper published in the and County of San Francisco, State of California, and b ted and distributed during the month of 1902, one milifon six hundred and ninety-five thou- e h'glred and eighty (1,605,380) copies of the said h number divided by twenty-eight (the number of s an average dally circulation of 60,540 coples. CITY AND GOl W. J. MARTIN. Subscribed _and sworn to before me this 15th day of 1902, W. T. HESS, Columbis—""La Madeleine. auder: Grand Opere-house— Fischer's Theater— Catifcrnia—*"Nathan he Serenade. leopatra.”” x Bunt” tle Christopher." Hale.” After Dark.” Mechanics' Pavilion—Norris & Rowe's Big Shows. Y. M A. Auditorium—Coneert. Oailand Racetrack—Reces to-day. AUCTION SALES. Auction sale of Horses this day, at 11 o'clock, at 1140 Folsom street. By Wm. Layng—Thursday. March 20, head of Horses, at 721 Howard street. By McGlyan & Menton—Friday, March 21, at 12:15 o'cloek, stock of the Fleres Hale & Company, at room 22, Chronicle building. TRADE WITH SPAIN, : OW completely trade is. separated from sen- timent is shown by the recent publication of treasury statistics relating to our trade with Since the war in which we stripped the Span- almost the wholc of their colonial empire their feeling toward us can hardly be one of great friend- liness, and yet we have been able to offer them such good terms for both imports and exports that their commerce with us has actually increased. The dip- lomatic officials of other nations have of late vied with one another in declaring the friendliness of their Governments fo- the United States during the at 11 o'clock, 150 H Spain. ish of Spanmish war, and yet, if we may judge by trade statistics, our real friend is Spain herself. The figures of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics show that both the imports into the United States from Spain and exports from the United States to Spain were, with a single exception, greater in the calendar year 1901 than in any preceding year. . Our imports irom Spain during the year ending with De- cember, 1901, amounted to $7,040,758, and our ex- ports to Spain were $16,785711. Comparing 1901 with 1891, it is shown that our imports from Spain have grown from $4,006,475 to $7,040,758, and that exports to, Spain from the United States have in- creased from $12887,477 to $16,785,711. Comparing present conditions with those of 1898, it appears that our imports from Spain have increased from $3,608,- 308 in 1898 to the above mentioned figure, $7,040,758, and our exports to Spain from $8,050,475 in 1898 to $16,785,711. It is noted by the treasury officials that the growth of our trade with Spain is the more interesting .be- cause our exports to many othet European countries show 2 decline. Thus it appears that in the calendar year 1901 our exports to Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom show a decrease as compared with 1900; while to Spain they show an ircrease from $15,200017 to $16,785,711. On the import side our imports from Austria-Hungary, Germany, - Russia, Sweden and Norway and Switzerland show a decrease, while those from Spain have increased from $5,382,662 in 1900 to $7,040,758 in 1901. Our exports to the Spanish consist mainly of ar- ticles used in manufacturing, such as cotton, lum-, ber and crude mineral oil. We also export to them a good deal of tobacco. From them we import mainly . fruits, wines, nuts, oil, chemicals, cork and a certain* grade of iron ore not readily produced in the United | States, Californians will note with interest that our imports of oranges, lemons and raisins are not nearly so large as they were some years ago, as California producers are now supplying a large part of the home demand. Another statement of the report, however, is not so gratifying. It appears that our imports of preserved fruits from Spain have increased. This shows that while we are content to get such profits | section have nothing like the educational advantages’ personally appeared | being sworn | ALTGELD’S DOCTRINE. HE late Governor Altgeld made one of his T most notable addresses in Buffalo only ten control af public utilities. He said: “The inventions, the discoveries and the progress of the sciences during the last century tended to shorten distances, to bring the different parts of the earth together, and made it possible for man to not only go quickly from -one point to an- other, but they made it possible for him to execute his will simuitaneously in various places. Out of this condition has come an era of consolidation and concentration-—little things are giving way to great things. The result of this consolidation in itself should be beneficial; it cheapens the cost of pro- duction, and in governments it should cheapen the cost of operation, while in the railway world it greatly increases the convenience of the public.” From this he proceeded to argue that now gov- ernmént should own and operate all of these -re- sults of man’s progress made while left free to fol- low his individual interests, and to benefit by his in- dividual enterprise. During that century of progress government invented nothing, it discoveréd nothing, it improved nothing, it constructed nothing. All that Altgeld so truly pictured is the result of that in- dividual cffort which he proceeded to denounce as an evil and a scourge which must be suppressed by driving it out of the field in which it has produced results so great that the Altgeld school thinks them worthy only of goverament ownership. It needs but little thought to demonstrate that if the last century had begun with that government ownership with which the Altgeld school desires that should begin the list of inventions and discoveries and their beneficent results would ~have been iabridged. Where during that century did govern- | ment invent or discover in the lines.of activity over which it had control? In the appearance of all those things to which man owes his advancement, the economies of life, the ease and cheapness of his intercourse and traffic, the increase in his wages and profits, his debt is due to man, not to government. Altgeld’s school persists in treating government as a physical and psychical entity, with emotions, im- pulses, manners and morals. The fact is that govern- ment has no brains, no morals, no honer, no man- | ners, no gthics, no invention, no discovery. Itisa civic mechanism, an actomaton, as unconscious of its {own action as was the automaton of Maelzell of the | moves it made at chess. This sightless, hearless and unfeeling entity, without moral emotion or purpose, | a mechanism to enforce order among men, as uncon- scious of its function as the jail in which: thejr ex- cesses are restrained, is presented by the Altgeld school as a thing of blood and marrow, fleshed and featured, capable of doing business and a universal parent for the human race. Viewed in its right as- pect government is to govern, because it is a blank, unfeeling to pity, insensible to honor, knowing no friend, no enemy, and it is this government that is now to take over a century's harvest sown by the brains of man! In the line of discovery and invention the ultima thule is still below the horizon. It is far away. The curvature of time, the perspective of the age to come, hide it from our vision. It loses parallax. We can- not triangulate its distance. But if all that man has done in approximating that ultimate is now to go into the hands of government, his approach to the finality of progress will cease. Government has never even invented the weapons with which it makes men slay each other. It is a Juggernaut, demanding that victims be crushed, but it cannot make the chariot whose wheels grind their bodies into pulp and mix them with the dust. This government is made to control, to punish, to restrain, to police, but not to go among men and take from them the operation of business and the field which their discovery and invention have enriched with all that makes the modern world greater than all the ages that presceded it. P —— During his recent t to Washington Mr. Bryan had a long consultation with the Nebraska men in Congress, and it is now reported that the fusionists in that State will nominate him for Governor and let him make the fight of his life to see if he is still worthy of a place in the ring. It is a big tumble from running for the Presidency to running for the Gov- ernorship of Nebraska, but Billy may have to take it and land as best he can. FOR SOUTHERN EDUCATION, OME time ago The Call directed attention to S the beginning of a movement in New York to organize an association to promote education throughout the Union wherever private liberality is needed to help out the work of the States. The aim of the promoters of the enterprise is primarily that of helping the Southern States, whose universities and colleges have received no share in that large flow of contributicns from the rich men and women of the country that has done so much to advance the great colleges of the North. It is gratifying to announce that so cordially have philanthropic men united in the movement that an association for the purpose has been already organized, above $1000 subscribed and steps taken to effect incorporation. The association is to be known as “The General Educational Board.” ident of the Long Island Railroad, is chairman. Dr. Wallace Buttrick of Albany has been chosen secre- tary of the board and will receive a salary ample enough to justify him in giving all his time and ener- gies to the work of the board. Among the direct- ors are President. Gilman of ‘the Carnegie Institute at Washington; Dr. J. L. M. Curry, who for many years was agent of the Peabody educational fund, and Morris K. Jessup, president of the Slater educa- tional fund, 3 It is announced that while the board seeks incor- poration with large and liberal powers it will work through existing channels, and on business princi- ples, aiding institutions already established instead of seeking to found new ones. It will do its work without discrimination of race, sex or creed. The directors_have had large experience in educational matters, and some of them have also had experience in the distribution of the Peabody and Slater funds, so that the work begins under the supervision of men having a wide and accurate knowledge of the problems with which they will have to deal. There can hardly be a doubt that the movement will be highly beneficial not only to the South but to the nation as a whole. In fact, the aavancement.o( Southern education’is just now something like a na- tional necessity. The young men and women of that as result from prodm':il'\g green fruit or dried fruit, | of those of the North, and of course the great ma- the Sp-mlrds are deriving in our markets the larger | jority of them cannot afford to leave their homes and profits which flow from the manufacture of finer pre- |go North to attend colleges or technical institutions. serves. The time ought not to be far distant when | A little generous help will be an encouragement to California will supply the East with that kind of |self-help. The manufacturing enterprises in the goods also, : South are flourishing, and it is only a question of" days before his death in favor of communistic. William H. Baldwin Jr., pres- | !time‘when there will be an abundance of wealth there to support higher education. The pressing issue is to provide for the generation now growing .up. When once the South has beeh fairly started in the work of higher education and has approached some- thing like an equality with the North, the work of the board will cease to be sectional and will then be di- rected to the advancement of education over the whole Union. The association, therefore, prothises to be one of great importance. It has certainly un- dertaken a notable work, and has the fotency of be- coming one of the greatest of ‘the institutions of American generosity and munificence. e —— An Ohio man has resigned -an office, which may account for the recent cold spell in the Mississippi Valley. He had been elected as a reformer pledged to moral government in Columbus, and after trying the office for a year has resigned because his position was too lonely. P -been invitcij‘l to attend a conference with rep- resentatives of the imperial Government at London, and the approaching meeting is now re- ceiving a good deal of attention throughout the em- pire/ The aim of the British Ministry is of course to bring about a closer relation between the colonies and the mother country, gnd if possible to induce the colonial Governments to bear a share of the burden of imperial defense. In his letter inviting the colonial Premiers to the conference Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the colonies, is, reported to have stated that his Maj- esty’s Government is prepared to consider questions of the political relations of the various parts of the empire, commercial 2rrangements, imperial defense and other matters of common interest. The colonial Governments were further invited to suggest any other subjects which they might deem it advisable to consider during the conference, and they were es- pecially requested to submit definite proposals or resolutions upon any point they deemed it advisable the conference should deal with. Under ordinary conditions the political and com- mercial relations of the colonies to one another and to the empire would engage a great deal of attention, for they involve difficult problems and matters of vast importance, but at the present time they are overshadowed by the question of imperial defense. The war in South Africa has put a severer strain upon the military strength of the British Islands than was ever dreamed of. It has also brought to light the fact that Great Britain has few friends among the na- tions and that commercial rivals in Germany are cager to profit by any disaster ‘that may befall her. It seems evident that some system of conscription will have to be adopted to keep the army up to the needs of the empire, and that, of course, will entail 4 permanently heavy burden upon the taxpayers. Hence the eagerness, not of the Government only, but of the whole kingdom, to get the colonies to bear a share of the cost. The feeling of the average British taxpayer upon the situation in South Africa was well expressed by the chairman of the meeting of the stockholders of Lioyd’s Bank in London a short time ago, in saying: “Who would, have thought when they met in 1900, when the country was just emerging from the critical stages of the war, and fancied they saw the end approaching, that two years thence it would still be dragging on? Who would have thouglht that vonsols, which stood at 98%4, a drop of 13 from what they stood at exactly, twelve months ? previously— they had even been higher than that—could possibly fall to 91, the point at which they stood in November last? Or who would have thought the cost of the war would amount, as it assuredly would, to ome- third as much again as the whole sum of £153,000,000, which was paid off the national debt during the sixty-three years of her late Majesty's reign?” Questions of that kind carry their answers with them. Moreover, they are highly significant. If no one foresaw two years ago what the war would cost, nor how long it wauld continue, so also no one can now foresee how much longer it will go on nor how much more it will cost. Clearly then it is the part of wise statesmen to interest the colonies in the empire if they can and to bring them to the relief of the mother country and its heavily burdened taxpayers. While there can be no question of the general loy- alty of the colonies to the crown and the existence of afeeling of pride in being part of so great and widespread an empire, it is by no means probable that even the most imperialistic of the colonies will undertake much in the way of contributing to im- perial defense. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, speaking for the Canadian Government, has already declared a doubt as to the possibility of devising a plan for joint imperial defense. In reply to the call for the conference he says that he and his colleagues “do not anticipate that in the varying conditions of the colonies there can be any scheme of defense applic- able to all.” That seems to settle the question so far as Canadian contributions to imperial taxation is con- cerned. Canada prefers to look out for herself. The mother country must do the same, | IMPERIAL FEDERATION. REMIERS of the various British colonies have By diligently looking around for a Moses the Dem- ocrats of New York think they have found one in Judge Alton B. Parker of the Court of Appeals. They are not sure of him, however, and will try him out by running him for Governor this fall should he be found willing to take chances. Should he win he will have a big boom for the Presidential nomination in ‘1904, but should ke fail he will be lost in the shuffle and will never be a trump card again so long "as the present players are at the political table. His friends say he is a very able man, but his only notable attractiveness for campaign purposes is that he is a gold man, but took no part against Bryan either in 1806 or 1900. Whether the Bryanites will regard that as an atonement for his objection to free silver re- mains to be seen. In the meantime the Judge looms above the political horizon and casts a shadow that Jooks portentous. Perhaps he is going to be “It." The apparent failure of the blockhouse system in South Africa hn. led experts to look up the subject, and it is now asserted that the plan has never proved efficacious in dealing with any resolute race of people. The Russians tried it for about twenty years when subjugating the tribes of the Caucasus and had to give it up at last as useless and costly. In fact, the scheme hardly commends itself to common sense. Men who have.any amount of vital energy can easily get around a blockhouse, and if they have any fight- ing energy they can put up a good battle within sight of it. . The Iowa Assembly passed a woman suffrage bill ‘|and sent it to the Senate, where it was defeated. Thereupon the women smiled on the Assemblymen, but frowned on the Senators. The Senate then framed a bill of its own on somewhat different lines and sent it to the Assembly, where it was defeated; and now tfie women of Iowa smile no more. - PEERS INTO FUTURE WITH “ELECTRIC EYE” - f— ABOUT LOVE, AGRICULTURE R MISS UVINZA C. COLES OF KINGSTON, REPUTATION AS A PROPHETESS, SUCCESSFULLY GIVING ADVICE AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS. x PA.,, WHO 1S GAINING A + M Signs,” which conthins much are governed by its directions. hitherto hidden are revealed. " a powerful effect upon all conditions tions. Here are a few of the latest: wrongs in it. the other. 1s never told. reading. She says: bread as dough. phagocytes detest. enough for disease. may be long on earth. : PERSONAL MENTION. General W. Forsyth of Fresno is at the Occidental. Thomas Flint Jr., of San Juan, is a guest at the Palace. . Peter Johnson, a jeweler of Angels Camp, is at the Grand. H. H. McIntyre, a mining man of Den- ver, 15 registered at the Lick. T. J. Donovan, a mining man of Ven- tura, is a guest at the Grand. Ex-Governor James H. Budd has re- turned from a visit to Washington, D. Charles A. Royce, a banker of Win- ters, s spending a few days at the Grand. Henry Isaacs, who is connected with the Santa Fe in Los Angeles, is at the Grand. E. R. Graham, the well-known oil man who owns wells at Bakersfield, is at the Falace. Abe Marks, a merchant of Uklah, is spending a few days In the city. He has made his_headquarters at the Lick. E. Chambers, freight manager of the Santa Fe, with headquarters in Los An- geles, is among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. —_—e————— Mak ng of Pap:r Money. If there is any secret which Uncle Sam Jealously guards, says the Ladles’ Home Journal, it is the process of manufactur- ing the fiber paper upon which his money notes are printed. He pays a Massachu- setts firm 43 cents a pound for it, and this firm does its work under the surveillance of a Government agent. The paper is manufactured of the finest rags, cleaned, botled and mashed into pulp. As it is roll- ed into thin sheets silk threads are in- troduced into it by a secret process. These are the distinguishing marks mak- ing imitation of the paper well-nigh im- possible. The sheets of paper, already counted twice and placed in uniform pack- ages at the paper mill, are stored in a Treasury vault and issued to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as wanted. Be- fore leaving the Treasury they are count- ed three times more, and the recelving | officlal at the bureau must receipt for them. Then the bundles are unwrapped and the sheets are counted twenty-eight times by a corps of women. This is to insure that each printer gets the recorded number—no more, no less. If one sheet of this precious paper be lost the entire force of men and women having access to- the room where the misplacement has oc- curred are kept in, like so many school children, to find it. Each sheet is issued from the vault for the printing of a defi- nite amount of money upon it. If the lost sheet were intended to ultimately represent four thousand dollars’ worth of notes the group of employes to whom the responsibility of its misplacement has /been traced must make good that amount if they cannot locate it within a reasona- ble time. The most expensive loss which has thus occurred was of a blank sheet issued for the printing of $30 upon its face.—John Elfreth Watkins Jr., in the January Ladies’ Home Journal. - ————— From Life’s Contest of Wit. The celebrated Zimmerman went from Hanover to attend Frederick the Great in his last illness. One day the King sald to bim, “You have, I presume, helped many a man into another world?" This was rather a bitter pill for the doctor; but the dose he gave the King In return was a judicious mixture of truth and flattery: '*Not so many as your Majesty, nor with so- much honor to myself.” ‘“Salad for the Social.” De Witt and Davenport, New York, 1856, —————— The prodigal son ate husks, but he left a few for city people who spend sum- mer in the country to sleep on. Thou shalt feed thy phagocytes only the food that they like. upon thy phagocytes any food they do not like, or the dyspepsia Will be visited upon the children of those who do it to the third and fourth generation. Remember thy.bread.to bake it well, for he will not be kept sound that eateth his 1SS UVINZA C. COLES of Kingston, Pa., is making a goed living and rapidly acquiring wealth as a prophetess, Miss Coles makes luck charts, draws and transplant, when to_fish, when to make business speculations, and, in short, when to do most things successfully, even including picking a sirl or man best suited to one's inclinations and getting married. Besides this, she issues each month a little magazire called information, and, to those who have faith in it— and they are not few—it is very Interesting. A number of farmers take it and North Ameriean. tells when to plant says the horoscopes, “Storms and Miss Coles claims no great gifts of second sight or anything of that sort, but she knows astronomy thoroughly, and she says she bases most of her pre- dictions on the planetary influence upon human and vegetable life. that her father invented an instrument called the electric eve, by which things It is supposed and telescope that by its aid ome is en?!fil‘ed to make discoveries which have of life. She writes all the matter for her magazine herself, and in a little column under the head of “What Our Thoughts Say” she makes some happy observa- She says to be so powerful a microscope The world would be far better If there were more of ‘‘women's rights”” and less of men's Good sense 18 a diamond; modesty Is the setting, and neither would be perfect without Many a man has lost a great deal of money through a hole in the top of his pocket. ‘Whenever we make a mistake you will see an account of it in the paper—the other half Miss Coles has formulated a series of health commandments which are worth Thou shalt not force ~hou shalt not drown thy food in sorrow, nor cover it with anger germs which thy Six days shalt thou wash and keep thyself clean, and the seventh thou shalt take a good scrub bath, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy maid servant and the stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days man gathers dead and decaying parasites and bacteria Remember thy sitting-room and thy bed chamber, to keep them ventilated, that thy nights T e e s ACHANCE TO SMILE. Fair Arrival-May I have a crown of the latest style? St. Peter—Fashions never change here. Fair Arrival—Dear me! I have made a mistake and come to the wrong place. I thought this was heaven.—New York Weekly. “If you want to improve your mind,” said the sage, “assoclate only with per- sons who know more than you do.” “But if they follow the same rule” sald one of those who were learning wis- dom aut his feet, “what are we to do?'— Chicago Tribune. Caller~The minister's son is following in the footsteps of that spendthrift, young Jinks. X Miss Prim—Isn’t that scandalous? Caller—Hardly as bad as that. You see he's a tailor and is just trying to collect his bill.—Chelsea Gazette. e ‘“‘Say, Weary, dis paper says dat King Eddard smakes seegars dat cost $230 a plece.” “Hully ‘smoke, but I'd like to have de stub of one of dem!" “Wot's de matter with you! Dey ain't no stubs to dat kind o’ seegars.”’—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. ‘Willle—Those gold fish you sent home are fakes. Slimson—How ‘do you know? “Why. I took them out of the water and they turned brown in fifteen min- utes.”—Life. peoa el SN Biind Spot of the Eye. If I wrote an article about the eye said nothing about the' blind spot.ywh.l:: is where the. optic nerve comes through into the retina, about one-tenth of an Inch nearer the nose than the center, I suppose my readers would g0 to the box office and demand their money back, says a contributor to Ainslie’s. Just-to be dif- ferent from other people, though, I will not print a cross-mark here and dot over there and tell you how to look at it so that the dot will disappes”. I could make a big round spot more than three quarters of an inch in diameter realize that It was only mortal min@ and no real entity, but I won’t. I know a better scheme. Close your fists with your thumbs outside and held against each other. Extend your arms. Shut your. left eye and look fixedly with your right eye at your left thumb. Separate your hands, and when they are about six inches apart the right thumb will go out of business temporarily, for its picture will fall upon the blind spot. Now, here’s the curious part of it. Though men have tried all sorts of experiments on themselves for unknown thousands of years, this phenomenon was not discov- ered until the time of Charles II of Eng- land. The blind spot leaves no hole in the plcture of the outside world, but, there being no stimulation on that spot, there i3 not consciousness of a lack, but a, lack of consclousness. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.+ plmh - e iy Cal. glace fruit §0c per Ib at Townsend's.s ————e Townsend's California glace frult, e 5 und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas r:n. A nice present for Eastern 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding, R Special information supplled daily business houses and public men by the Eress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery stree Telephone Main 1042, « Catherine the Great of Russia, h later years, became ceed floshy, with o red face deformed ko 8L buncles from her excessive use of cants. i Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, Best LiverMedicine, Vegetable Cure forLiverTils, Indigestion, Constipation, Malaria.* Biliousness, > 7 |SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS —_—— ‘al. BUT ONE TRIAL—W. H. R., Napa, C: There was but one trial of Theodore Dur- rant for murder. — o City. AN OLD HALF DOLLAR—J. F.¢ From a numismatie. point a halt doilar of 1814 is worth 50 cents. J . City. THE SAN RAFAEL—C. and G., C The San Rafael, which sank in the bay of San Francisco, has not been raised. RAIN RECORD—T. A. G., Honeut, Cal. For the record of rain in California ‘com- municate with the United States Weather Bureau, Mills building, San Francisco. BUDD .AS GOVERNOR—W. H. R. Napa, Cal. James H. Budd was elected | Governor of California November 6, 134, was inaugurated January II, 1895, and served one term. POSTAGE—J. F. G, Calistoga, Cal Postage on letters in the United States was established at a uniform rate of 3 cents per ounce in 1863. It was reduced to 2 cents March 2, 1883. | . TRANSPORTS—N. Y., Alma, Cal.. For information about United States trans- ports address a communication %o the | “Transport Service of the United States, Folsom-street wh{f, San Franeisco, Cal.” STATISTICAL ATLAS — This depart- ment has no information as to the prob- able date when the statistical atlas asked about shall be issued. The United States, Government issues an abstract of sta- | tisties. LAST PERFORMANCE—W. H., Cits. Fhe last performance at the Metropolitan Theater on Montgomery street, between Washington and Jackson, in San Fran- cisco, was on the night of the 28th of Aypril, 1872 DEER SKINS—D. V., Boonville, Cal In your letter of inquiry you do not state if you desire a method for preparing der skins without or with the hair on. This department will answer upon learning what method is desired. NATIONAL DEBT—A. O. 8., City. The national debt of France is $5,806,691,814 and that of the commonwealth of Australia, which Includes Australia, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, West Aus- tralia and Tasmania, Is $763,003,490. ARCTIC - EXPLORATION—E., City. Fridtjof Nansen in his Arctic exploration reached $6.14 N, % east, and a party led by Captain Cagni of the exploring expedition by Prince Luigi, Duke of Abruzazi, reached $.33 N., nineteen geographical miles nearer the pole than Nansen's record. STEEL—R. D. C.. City. This depart- ment has not the space to print the vari- ous processes by which steel is prepared. In Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia, to be | found In the reference room of the Free Library, there i1s a lengthy article on the manufacture cf steel that will probably furnish the information you desire. TWO BANKS—F. E. M., Millwood, Cal. All savings banks In San Francisco pay interest on term and on ordinary deposits. There are two of the banks that are called respectively Hibernia and German, the first named at Jones and McAllister streets and the other on California street, near Kearny. BROKEN ENGAGEMENT-J. B, City. This department cannot ascertain that there is a rule in the church you name, or any other church, that reguizes that a man who has broken off an ‘engagement shall, before he can marry any other woman, obtain the consent of the woman to whom he was first engaged. ON THE PENSACOLA—S. P, City. A | boy 14 years of age cannot be enlisted as an apprentice on board of the United States ship Pensacola nor on board of any other ship of the United States navy. it is only a boy between the ages of 15 and 17 who will be received and such may enlist with the consent of his parents; parent or guardian. The term of enlist« ment is until the apprentice is twenty-one years of age. . ORGANTZING CLUB-S. V. G, City. If a number of ladies desire to organize a socfety and Mterary elub, all they have to do is to meet in some convenieng glace, have some one explain the purposd of the meeting, then ofganize. by the election of permanent officers, namely, president, vice president. recording secretary, finan- clal secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer and three or five directors, then proceed to business. NICKEL AND COPPER—W. 8. M., San Jose, Cal. There are a number of metal polishes that will polish nickel or copper that has become tarnished, or the same may be cleaned and made bright by the use of a mixture of rotten stone, soft soap and ofl of turpentine mixed to the consistency of stiff putty, then mixed with a little water when about to be used. If must be rubbed well on the metal, them rubbed off quickly with a dry, clean rag or leather. STANFORD ENDOWMENT-W. A. V., City. The landed endowment of the Stan- ford University in addition to the Palo Alto estate consists of the Vina estate in Tehama County of 59,000 acres, the Grid- ley estate in Butte County of 22,000 acres and various. tracts of minor importance. The Stanford residence In San Frnacisco has also been deeded to the university by Mrs. Stanford. The main part of the uni- versity endowment included in regent gifts of Mrs. Stanford consists of interest- bearing securities. The value of the en- dowment has been variously estimated at $16,000,000 to $30,000,000. MARRIED WOMAN-—Doubtful, San Lo- renzo, Cal. A married woman can make a will if it is her separate property that she desires to dispose of by testament, She cannot will away any part of the community property, as under the law of California the surviving husband, upon the death of the wife, takes all the prop- erty without administration. In this State the husband has the absolute power to dispose of the community property the same as if it was his separate property, and that being the case, can mortgage the same without the consent of the wife. ANTS—B. C. R., Oakland, Cal. Black ants may be dispersed from a house in- fested with them by the use of green wormwood leaves scattered where these troublesome insects are. Powdered borax sprinkled around the infested plaeces, it is said, will exterminate both red and black ants.. Red ants will crowd on a tin plate greased with pure lard, and when there is a plate full of them turn the plate over the fire and the ants will fall into the flames with the melting lard. Then reset the trap, continuing this praec- tice until all the pests have been taken. Place a few small sticks around the plate for the ants to climb on. MEADOW LARKS—Billle D., City. The law of California relative to meadow larks 1s: Every person who, in the State of Call~ fornia, shall at any time hunt, , shoot, shoot at, pursue, take, kill or destroy, buy, sell, give away, or have in his pos- session except upon a written permit from the Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of Califgrnia, for the purpose of propagation or for education or selentific purposes, any meadow lark, or any part of the skin, skins, or plumage thereo’, or who shall rob the nest or take or destroy the eggs of any meadow lark, shall be gullty of a misdemeanor; provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the killing of a meadow lark by the owner or tenant of any premises where such bird 1s found destroying berries, fruits or crops growing on such premises.-