The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1902. PR APRIL 23, 1902 WEDNESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Mansger. Atéress A1l Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, UBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With tie Department You Wish. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year.. ..$6.00 DAILY CALL (incluling Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sund: 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65c SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Yea .. 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their requ OAKLAND OFFICE.... ve...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") ¢ YORK CORRESPONDENT He T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new a4 Sa sddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the coast. -a-hot Theater—*Fiddle Dee Dee.” —*'Captain Lettarblair.” The Fortune Teller.” Child of : Alcazar—*"The Two Es Columbia—""Tom Pinch.” Oakiand Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—This dey, at 11 o'clock, Race Horses, st Oakiand Racetrack. turdav. April 2¢, at 11 o'clock. Horses ondey, April 25, at 11 o'clock, Driv- ., &t 240 Taird street. FARCE OR TRAGEDY. RESIDENT-ELECT ESTRADA PALMA has sailed to Cuba to take his office and put P the dependent republic on its feet. He five and during all that time has not been in Cuba at a He goes, therefore, to a country that he has not seen since 1877, in whose struggle for in- | dependence he took po part that exposed him: to danger or interfered in any way with his fortunes | but he Supplies Chinese with work and wages. or his comiorts He goes saying that he wants only cne term in the Presidency and then will return to bis home in Central Valley, New York, to end his days! It is a political situation abnormal enough to be amusing. President Estrada Palma is not personally known to a hundred people in Cuba. The voters had other views than his election, but they seem to have had the idea that General Wood, military Gov- ernor of Cuba and political economist in extraor- jinary for the United States, had decrced the elec- tion of Palma, and resistance was useless. Out of the nebulous mass of information and lack of it about General Palma it seems safe to conclude that he is a native of Honduras, went to Cuba for awhile when a young man, and a quarter of a cen- tury ago came to the United States, where he estab- lished a school for the teaching of languages. His interest in Cuba is purely academic, and it is pos- sible that he is a citizen of the United States, where he claims his home. He not only has not been in Cuba for twenty-five years, but announces in ad- vance that he will not stay there when he ceases to hold office, but will return to his home in Central Valley to end his days! 5 His election has no more relation to Cuban as- pirations, no flore connection with the agony and martyrdom of ‘the revolutionists, than the election of Dr. O'Donnell to the Cuban Presidency. In- deed, General Wood might just as well have secured the clection of Richard Croker, or any other hyphenated American politician out of a job, and willing to take a four years’ billet in Cuba, then to come back home. Suppose that after the close of our Revolution, when we came to elect a President, in 1789 we had elected a man born in England who had come here during the war of 1762 but had gone to France to teach languages in 1764 and had not been here after that date, and who declared that after his term he would return to his home in France! Does any one believe that our institutions would have survived such trifling with their organ- ization? The essence of our situation was that the men who made and won the Revolution were selected to crystallize its results into a government under which they intended to live. They did not so scorn the country as to endure it only while in of- fice. They made its'flag their standard, its laws their shelter, its soil their sepuicher. The immediate future of Cuba is going to be most interesting to students of civics. Is this fantastic election of a man practically an alien to be a farce or a tragedy? It is impossible for him, so long absent, so Jong in a different environment, to be en rapport with the genius of the Cuban people. 1t is equally impossible for them to be at ome with the mental polarization he has acquired in a quarter century’s residence in this country. It is testified by recent American travelers in Cuba that everywhere Amer- jcans are unpopular. This aversion to us increases as the regions are penetrated where the revo- Jution flourished. Given anywhere a center of Cuban patriotism and the testimony is that there is now a center of hatred of Americans. They seem to have detected in us the airs of 2 new master. Now the extreme danger is that Palma goes there to ooze the Americanism he has been absorbing for twenty-five years, and therefore to seem the puppet of the new master rather than a whole-hearted Cu- ban patriot. In that view the incident is a tragedy. If, however, the stage be filled by neither farce nor tragedy, if events flow smoothly and patiently to the end of his term and he depart in peace to his home in Central Valley, New York, the Cuban people will have written themscives down worthy of their freedom and capable of supporting the institutions mecessary for its protection. g has | isved in New York, in Central Valley, for twenty- | | | | | sire for the success of the bill. HEARST'S COOLIE LABOR. ILLIAM R. HEARST has for a long time past been doing all he can through his yellow newspapers to defeat the Chinese exclusion bill by pretending to advocate it. He has pushed himself forward as the leader in the exclusion ‘movement, has sent “commissioners” to Washington, has been impudent, in- solent and offensive, and, in short, has done about everything his ingenuity can devise to disgust the public with the measure by reason of their disgust for him. In carrying out those tactics he has spared no taunt nor insult in any quarter. De- spite the fact that early in the session a large majority of the members of both houses of Congress explicitly and emphatically declared themselves in favor of enacting an exclu- sion law before May 1, Hearst's organs have incessantly boasted that they would “force” Congress to pass the bill, they would “lash’ organs as a Hearst victory. ’ Congressmen into voting for exclusion. They have depicted Congress as an “enemy of American labor” with whom Hearst is doing battle, and every step taken toward exclusion has been trumpeted by the Hearst Not content with such efforts to discredit the bill by so offensive an advocacy of it, Hearst has gone further; he has assailed with ceaséless vituperation every one who has objected to the details of the particular bill Hearst has chosen to support. He has thus not only ignored what the Congressmen of the Pacific Coast and elsewhere have done to advance the passage of the exclusion act, but he has lampooned and maligned by word, and by picture all whose gpinions differ from those which his papers are clamoring for. The public has not been able to understand why a man who professes to be so eager to bring about the passage of an exclusion bill should be so offencive in his method of advocating it. Hearst, however, has been quite consistent in his course. He has no de- He has no objection to Chinese labor in California. On the contrary, he is himself an employer of Chinese, and has excluded white labor in or- der to make way for it. The story of Hearst’s employ:ment of coolie labor on his Butte County, was told in full in The Call of yesterday. estate near Palermo, in It is a story that . affords complete explanhtion of why Hearst is making the exclusion fight as infamous and dis- graceful as he can. For the past two years Hearst has employed Chinese to do every. kind of work on his vast estate, an i he has done so despite the fact that there is an ample supply of white labor in the vicinity. It is to be noted, moreover, that when the Hearst orchards were let to others the picking and the packing of the fruit were done by white labor. It was not until Hearst resumed his direct control and management of them that white men had to go and Chinamen found a patron. Hearst’s fondness for Chinese is accompanied, according to all reports, by an equal fondness for their filth and foulness. They are housed in what is described as “an old shack,” and from thirty to fifty of them, according to the demand for labor at the time, are crowded together without regard for cleanliness or decency. vicinity says “they live like pigs.” One resident of the The people of the county have no hesitation in declaring their dislike of the “China- town” which Hearst has established on his estate. One of the pastors .of “Palermo says: “It is a crime when so many of our own people are able and willing to work that they are nevertheless superseded by Chinese, an element that is a m;enace to the people of our own blood.” = One cf the leading orchardists of the county says: the girls he would need to pack his fruit crops. to the exclusion of white labor. “Hearst could get all Chinamen get the work at his grove, I have known whole families to come in wagons and wait and wait and wait in the hope of employment, but their waiting has been in vain.” That is the record of William R. Hearst as an employer of labar in California. It is difficult to decide whether he is the more “yellow” as a newspaper proprietor or as an or- chardist. It is evident, however, that he gives to white labor nothing more than words, A PERPLEXED COMMISSIONER. published in a the statement: ESTERDAY the Examiner Y dispatch from Washington “The more we study the Platt Chinese bill, said Commissioner Livernash, and the more we inquire into the circumstances surrounding the last few hours of the fight in the Senate, the more rea- son there is for believing that the anti-exclusionists deliberately resorted to trickery and that the bill they put through the Senate is shamefully inadequate and is intended to kill the exclusion system of this country.” It may be that the statement is not- strictly ac- curate. The commissioner may have been mis- quoted, or it may even be that he is not quoted at all, for the yellow journal does not hesitate to fake interviews with commissioners any more than with the Pope or the Emperor of China. Taking it as it stdnds, however, it puts the commissioner in a queer position and raises a question as to his possession of sense enough to take care of himself when away from home. ‘When the Senate passed the exclusion bill the commissioner telegraphed to the Examiner and the Examiner displayed in screaming type these ulula- tions of triumph: WASHINGTON, April 16—We came here asking that the presert laws be continued. Our enemies tried to prevent a realization of this by an amendment carry- ing forward only a part of the present law. Yesterday we forced them to ‘concede our point and carry forwara the whole Scott act. That was victory No. 1. Our next proposition was that the exclusion policy should be extended to the Philippines, so that the China- men should be kept there. We were fought bitterly on that. We have woa that point. Our third proposition was that the Philippine Chinese should be kept out of Hawail and the malnland. We ‘were fought on that up to the last moment, but we won. Our fourth proposition was that the Philippine Chi- nese should be carefully registered. We were opposed on that and this afternoon we won. Our fifth propositicn was that the new law should give the Treasury Department clear cut power to frame all kinds of regulations free of pending legislation. We were fought on that, but we won. The new law will not expire in two years, but will continue until a new treaty has been negotiated and ratified. We forced the modification of the original proposition, for originally the bill terminated with the present treaty instead of running until a new treaty has been given us. On the same day and on the same page of the Examiner was published a letter from the commis- sioner in which he said: Before the Platt substitute was put upon its passage it had been amended out of all semblance to its orig- inal, and the amendments covered the principal propo- gitions for which the exclusionists have been battling bere against tremendous odds. * * * When the crafty schemers were exposed in their trickery they conceded a line or two of addition to their bill, making it a little less disgraceful. Under ceaseless fire and the threat that hung in the honesty of the Democratic Senators and a handful of Republican colleagues the plotters against our exclusion policy conceded a little more and’| vet a little more and yet a little more. Every conces- sion was accompanied by gnashing of teeth and was followed by frantic conspiracy to foil the good inten- tions of the friends of the American wage earner. Aifter all that exultatiori of how “we forced” the enemy and how “we won,” and how the enemy “gnashed his teeth,” is it not strange that the com- missioner should be inquiring doubtfully into what happened during “the last few hours of the fight”? | e e Frequent reports have been made of late that the Democrats in Congress are exercising every effort to harass the administration in its efforts to procure legislation. This seems to be on a par with the at- tack of a gnat upon an elephant. i AP An Oakland scoundrel who beat his wife pleaded in extenuation that he was drunk when he com- mitted his offense. This appears to be the first case where the use of the water cure would be justifiable. GETTING AT THE TRUTH HATEVER differenges’ of opinion may chist as to the manner in which/our mili- tary operations in the Philippines have been or should be carried on, there can be but one sentiment with respect to the charges of cruelty that have been made against the army. It is therefore gratifying that the acquittal of Major Waller has been promptly followed by an order for the court- martial of General Smith, under whose orders Wal- ler claims to have acted in committing the offenses for which he was tried. The desire on the part of the public for a full and fair investigation is the more insistent because there is every appearance that an effort has been made at the War Department to conceal the ugly facts and keep thg country in ignorance of what has been going on in the islands. Fortunately there is no longer any occasion for suspicion that the whole truth will not be made known. In his recent order directing an investiga- tion of the charges Secretary Root said: “The President desires to know in the fullest and most circumstantial manner all the facts, nothing being concealed, and no man being for any reason favored or shielded. For the very reason that the President intends to back up the army in the heartiest fashion in every lawful and legitimate method ‘of doing its work, he also intends to see that the most rigorous care is exercised to detect and prevent any cruelty or brutality, and that men who are guilty thereof are punished. Great as the provocation has been in dealing with foes who habitually resort to treachery, murder and torture against our men, nothing can justify, or will be held to justify, the use of tor- ture or inhuman conduct of any kind on the part of the American army.” With full approval of that expression of the sen- timents of the President, the people will expect the trial of General Smith to be free from any sort of cgncealment or secrecy. It has been suggested that since Waller excused himself by shifting the blame upon his superior officer, so Smith may plead in his defense the orders of a still higher authority. If that should be so, the public ought to know it. In a matter of this kind there would be a deep dissatis- faction if it were even so much as suspected with good cause that one officer had been sacrificed as a scapegoat for his superior: ——— The United States Senate in the infinitude of its wisdom has undertaken to abolish slavery in the Philippine Islands. Independent of the manifest in- justice which our island fellow citizens will -see in this effort, it would be interesting to know how the Senate intends to accomplish its object. izt The Qttzwa Government has seen fit to reform the error of its ways ‘and open to entry the vast claims which had been reserved for a few favored miners. This ought to' increase the death rate in the fr’o&en‘ north and give the rest of us some harrowing stories of the dread search for gold. & 7 The proposition to establish a general staff to pre- vent friction between the War Department and the commanding general of the army is ingenious, but what is’to prevent friction between' the staff and the department on the one 'a‘idc'aged't e general on the other? s AT In the trial of Walter N. Dimr‘nick it appears that cverybody in authority was expected to watch every- body else. That interesting fact may have something to do with the disappearance of the cash for which Uncle Sam is so earnestly seeking. . i a REMARKABLE IS THE GROWTH OF " THE SHIPPING OF THIS PORT Many New Lines and Vessels of Large Tonnage Added During Past Three Years. HAT San Francisco is destined at no distant day to become one of the largest shipping ports in the evidenced by the remarkable increase of shipping facilities and tonnage within the past three years. world is The fig- ures are so large as to provoke incredulity, but they cannot be controverted. Ten years ago San Francisco l‘ud but three regular foreign-going steamship lines, namely, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, operating fifteen steamers, ranging from 2000 to 5000 tons, plying between San Francisco, China, Japan and Central A{neflcafl ports; the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, operating three 5000-ton steamships between China and Japan, and- the Oceanic Steamship Company, operating five 300o-ton steamships between San Francisco, The coasting lines were the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, operating sixteen steamers, and Australia. Honolulu ranging from 350 to. 3300 tons; the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, with two steamers of 2300 and 2800 tons, re- spectively; the. Alaska Commercial Company, with four steamers, from 350 to 1000 tons, and various other owners, operating about forty steamers on the coast ranging from 300 to 600 tons. They, together with fifteen cannery tenders and ten whalers, completed the ocean fleet. In 1872 the total tonnage of ocean-going steamers at this port was 58,769 tons. The greatest progress has been noted within the last three years, within which short period there have been added many new lines and vessels of large tonnage, together with important additions to the regular lines in the shape of modern steamships. The total added tonnage for the past three years is 368,000 tons. Several of the /new- vessels hereafter mentioned are not yet in commission, but all will be before the close of the present year. The following list of additions made within the past three years shows also a marked improvement in size, power, pas- senger and freight capacity and speed. The following is the list of added vessels with dimensions and tonnage, ,and it will be found invaluable for reference. It makesa showing unparalleled in the shipping history of the world: OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. INTERNATIONAL LINE. / Length. |Breadth| Depth. Length. | Breadth| Depth. NAME. st [PRat®] TR |rornage NAME. Tect. | Feet. | Feet. |Tonnage Slerra, American 400 50 28 6,000 | Ohlo, American . 343 3 240 | S.488 Sonoma, American 400 50 28 6000 | Indiana, American 343 43 249 | 3384 Ventura, American 400 50 26 6,000 Ponnrylu:u.A Anrl‘erlcln - 30‘3 g o ?2 gm ~— | Conemaugh, American . , E . ?Aémc MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Length. |Breadth| Depth. ke NAME. Fest. | Feet. | Feet. |Tomnage Tength. |Brendtn Depth. | —- NAM Feet. | Feet. | Feet. |Tonnage Korea, American .. 63 40 | 11500 o : e Siberia, American .- 63 40 11,000 | Senator, American 280 88.1 19.6 | 2,409 Spokane, American 284 88 18 2,088 AMERICAN HAWAIIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. | Ramona, American . 210 32 11 1,500 Length. |Breadth| Depth. UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT SERVICE. NAME. Feat. ect. | Feet. |Tonnage Alaskan, American 488 5T | 85 8,700 NAME. e [P o | ronnase Texan, American ... i i 8 8100 - Arizonlan, American . 4 k 3 - American, American . 435 51 s5:0. | oloow . | gt Amasioais .- = % ol B e Californign, American i35 51 as.a | elooo; ' [ ShnEmE: Amenietn - 1= o Oregonian, American 135 51 838 | 6000 vy -~ -l - e Hawalian, American 35 o1 ;.o | glooor | Eoean, Aberiesn. - 02|l 8s| 05 Nebraskan, American a1t 18 i 5.300 | Butord, American . 370.8 | 4.2 | 288 | 3733 Nevadan, American .. i om 8 34 6,800 -| Butopdy Sumericen s | 43| Bs | m Crook, American 420 ; BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Meade, American 488.8 44.2 34.9 5,841 Warren, American 3707 | 443 | 2835 | 4248 Length. |Breadth| Depth. | g:nmk.A:‘r:ercI‘c;n g.z 3-4 ;:; &% NAME. Feat. | Feet. | Feet. | Tonnage | Esbert. et i 8 2 & % hi t, 505 58 40 11.200 merican remont, Amesican 505 58 10 | 11,200 |Lawton, American 336 82 | = | s Lyra, Amerlcan .. 381 415 | 2 4417 | Dix, American .. 445 k = s Plelades, American 340 4 28 2758 | Slocum, American 1484 | 298 | Hyades, American .. | 340 a7 28 3,758 COLLIERS. TOYO KISEN KAISHA. T Lensth. | Breadth| Depth. Length. |Breadth| Depth. NAME. 'eat. Feet. Feet. |Tonnage NAME. Feet. Feet. Feet. | Tonnage é - o Y 265 = Enterprise, American . 318, E v R America Maru, Japanese 423 51 205 | 5000 | Arevit American 0. s | 29 Hougkong. Maru, Japane 423 51 205 | 5000 | Mecsor, American 22 | 22 | 230 Tokio Maru, Japanese 23 51 205 | 5,000 | Taith American i 274 | 230 Asuncion, Ameri 265 | 2196 PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Length. [Breadth| Denth. | NAME. . Feet. Feet. Feet. | Tonnage 0 i NAME. Feet. Feet. | Feet. | Tonnage Guatemala, British . 350.3 | 43.3 | 10.1 et | | Palena, British .. 350 42.1 | 19.6 Acme, American ... 175 | 1.2 | 18.2 294 Colcmbla, British . 350.5 | 43.2 | 1935 Acfa. Assiten = = 4 = Tucapel, 'Brmnlh o o Aberdeen, American 10 #2 | 118 il Arcquipa,_Britis e 3 Chileat, American . 7 Limari, British 31 1 m Coronado, American 158 w2 | B3 318 Peru, British i b o B < DSsatss, Swariean 1425 | 28 12 et Sartiago, British . e 8% . 8o P imball, Amevican 223 38 241 | 1888 Panama, British i == e Kvichak, American 2002 | 35.5 | 18 1083 Mexicp, ' British 41 3 3.8 Luella, American .. 3 325 | 108 iz Victorla, British 41 5 36.9 D g e 36| 12 o California, British ... ot J08 X e Robert Dollar, America: 199 | 381 | 18 798 "KOSMOS LINE. oy Vi 22 | e | B3 | 13 4 Ana, American X . ¥ X o Sonte e S ] I B B Length. |Breadth| Depth. e r— NAME. T [PReet | Teet ADDITIONAL ELS. ; 382 a8 2.4 itlon are the Brooklyn, Olymplc, Prentiss, Santa Monica, gii".?fl;”’ ge:’:-'nn 378 43 264 W_";,,'?m;':,,flm, Guallala, Taqua, South Bay, G. C. Lindauer, Luxor, German “2"3 :g'i fig King Fisher, Deflance, Nahualate, Columbia, Sea Prince, George F. B e for 02 | 24 Haller, Shelikoff, Redwood City, Chehalls, ranging from 200 to 1100 Serepis, German . 3314 | 410 | B3 tons. Tore, German . 343 43.7 | 8.8 The following inland steamers have been added: Tamalpals, Sam Hathor, German . 260.5 “'% §: 4 Pablo, Elaine, Newtown, Valletta, General Frisbie, Onisbo, Richmond, % o3 | it Union, St. Helena, J. R. McDonald, Alitak, Chignik, Dorothy, Islam 340.3 | 44 253 and others, ranging from 50 to 1750 tons. PERSONAL MENTION. J. W. Knox of Merced is at the Palace. C. J. Culp of Pacific Grove is at the Grand. Frank Reese of Los Angeles is at the Occidental. T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, is at the Palace. Dan Clark, a mining man of Spokane, is at the Lick. Frank D. Nicol, an attorney of Stock- ton, is at the Lick. ) Frank H. Buck, one of the largest fruit growers in the State, 1s at the Palace. 1. N. Van Nuys, proprietor of the Hotel Van Nuys at Los Angeles, is at the Pal- ace, accompanied by his wife. E. W. Runyon, one of the Commission- ers from California to the Parls Exposi- tion, is at the Palace. Mrs. Frank O. Ferris of Coronado, wife of Captaln Ferris, U. S. A., is visiting Mrs. Charles E. Bancroft in this city. Archbishop Riordan and the Rev. Father E. P. Dempsey, who left for the East about two weeks ago, are at present in ‘Washington, D. C. W. N. Ebel, a bookkeeper for a whole- sale house in Sacramento, is at the Grand, accompanied by his, wife. They are spending their honeymoon in this city. E. H. Harriman, president of the South- ern Pacific, accompanied by his wife and daughters and a party of friends, arrived here yesterday afternoon and registered at the Palace. —-———— Mother-in-Law in China. A writer, who lived for more than twenty years in China, has completed a translation of the accepted authority on Chinese etiquette written by Lady Tsad of the Han Dynastry nearly eighteen cen- turles ago. It contains the following in- strustions as to the correct behavior of a wife toward her husband’s mother: When your mother-in-law sits you should re- spectfully stand. Obey quickly her commands, In the morning early rise And quickly ‘open the doors, Making no noise to awaken her; Her tollet articles hasten to prepare; Her washbowl and towel, Her toothbrush and powder, All bring_together. ¢ Let not the water be too cold or too hot When the mother-in-law awakens, ‘All these things respectfully present to her; Then immediately retire to one side Until her toilet is completed. . Then approach and present the morning salu- tations; Again retire and prepare her tea, After which the breakfast table arrange, Place the spoons and chopsticks straight, The rice cooked soft and Let the meat be thoroushly done. From ancient days until now 0ld people have had sick teeth; Therefore, let not the food be dry That your mother-in-law With labor vainly eats. Daily the three meals Thus carefully prepare.- When darkness comes And your great ome (mother-in-law) desires to sleep, Caretully for her spread the bed, ‘When she may peacefully rest, - Within- the last five in" Paris. an the tion of absinthe has doubled The amount now drunk in a year is 8,000,- 000 bottles. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. FINLAY—W. F., City. The word “Fin- lay” does not appear in the Gaelic dic- ticnary. i TWENTY CENTS—Subscriber, Hollls- ter, Cal. Twenty-cent pleces of 1873 and 1875 are not classed as premium coins. THE NATIONAL DEBT—Subscriber, Hollister, Cal. The debt of the United States in the aggregate was; on the 1st of November, 1901, $2,151,585,74389. At that time the cash in the Treasury aggregat- ed $1,213,048,325 48, exclusive of a cash bal- ance and exclusive of the reserve and trust funds of $175,655,697 01. COUSINS—H. R. A., City. Marriage between first cousins is permitted in all parts of the Union except in Arizona. Ar- kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisi- ana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla- homa, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Da- kota, Washington and Wyoming. COLUMBIAN STAMPS—A Subscriber, City. As you do not describe the Colum- bian stamps, it is impossible to inform you if those you have are of any value. You can submit them to some local phila- telist, whose address you can find in the classified part of the city directory, and he will advise you as to the value of such stamps, if they have any. CITY HALL LOTS—S., City. The sale of the city hall lots in SBan Francisco, at the time that Yerba Buena Park was dedicated as a site for the present City Hall, took place in Platt's Hall, which stood on the site now occupied by the Mills building, on the 28th day of August, 1871. There were ninety-nine lots, and these realized $853,900. MANILA—J. H. 8, City. For a long time the name of the capital city of the Philippine Islands was written Manilla, and the hemp that was grown on the isl- and of Luzon was named for the city to designate it from other hemp, and it was also written Manilla, but for some unex- plained reason one of the “I's” was dropped in the writing of the name of the city, but the spelling of the name of the hemp has been retained. FROM DOOR TO DOOR—G. H., City. If a person goes from door to door to sell small articles and sells where offered, that is peddling and requires a license. A person who goes from door to door to offer to sell goods for a firm, the same to be delivered in the future, is not peddling and does not require a license. Those who go from house to house and sell or offer to sell religious publications, newspapers, periodicals, water or matches, are deemed peddlers in this city under the ordinance. SOCIALISM—S. J. H., Ececles, Cal. So- clalism is any theory or system of soclal organization which would abolish en- tirely or in greater part the indiviaual effert and competition on which modern soclety rests, and substitute for it co- action, which would introduce a more perfect and ‘equal division or distribution: of the products of labor and vmfl': mnn:a land ard capltal, the instru- ments and means of production, the joint possession of the members of the cj:ln- munity. The name socialism is used to include a great of reforms which have mors or character described. f ACHANCE TO SMILE. “Henry, how is the plot of that sea novel running?” “Well, just at this chapter thers is a terrible storm, and the passengers are agraid the boat will go to the top.” ‘ou mean the bottom.” “No; this is a submarine boat.”—Phila- delphia Record. “Speaking of strained relations,” began Mr. Dinwiddie. “Well, go on,” sald Mr. Van Braam, ene couragingly. “It doesn’t clarify relations much te strain them.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele- graph. “What {s your reason for wanting % divorce?” asked the Judge, to whom the causes alleged in the application did not seem sufficient. ““Well, your Honor,” said the fair ap plicant, “T'll tell you the real reasom. ‘When I married him I didn’t stop to think how queer Mrs. Hurtrain was going to sound.”—Chicago Tribune. —_————— . Cal. glace fruit50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® R — Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® } Townsend's California glace fruit, 50c a und, in fire-etched boxes o bas- ts. A nice present for E..urrfih&hnfl; 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * 4 Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping (Allen's), P Cait- fornia street. Teleptune Main 1042 & —_————— Four showmen in _different rts Pennsylvania are exhibiting “tho. idente. cal horse and sleigh used by the Biddles™ in their famous escape. —_—— One bottle of Burnett's Vanilla Extract is better than three of doubtful kind. Though cost- ing & few cents more per bottle, its purity and great strength make it most economical brand. _“Prince Henry is goin to feed his Amer- ican callers from gold prates.” ‘ That's nothing. Papa eats off a gold plate at every meal.” “Your father!"" ‘“Yes—it's attached to his teeth."— Cleveland Plaindealer. PIAND BARGAINS. In a few days we begin decorating our new hall and warerooms and must have the room. 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