The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1902. TUESDAY seisbpresibherdUNE 3, 8008 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copt 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, In ding Postage: THE PRISON DIRECTORS. HE affair San Quentin, in the expressive lan- guage of the street, is up to the Prison Direct- ors. A majority of them are Democrats. The intention to make the prison administration non- partisan has been carried out, as far as surface indi- cations go. The Warden of San Quentin is a Repub- lican, and the Warden of Folsom is a Democrat. Both are under fire. The Folsom officer is accused of subordinating the guards and the public employes and officers of the prison to the domination of fa- vored convicts, whose advite is taken in matters of prison policy. At San Quentin the indisputable evidence is dis- closed that convicts tun the business of the prison, and that, being under the absolute personal control of DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one year..... $5.00 : L DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 month: 's.00 | the Wardcn_, other gonv:c{s have by him been ‘ordcrcd DAILY CALL (including Sunday), S month; 1.5 | to engage in pursuits which are unlawful, using raw DAILY CALL—Byr Single Month... 65¢c . . 57 . SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.50 | material therein which is thc_ property of the SFate, WEEKLY CALL, One Year .- 1.00 | and that the Warden and his friends and relatives, All postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requestel. 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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McA ock. 615 Larkin, open urtil $:30 o'clo , open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Merket, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- lencia, open 1l 9 o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. Fillmore, open until § p. m. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING 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 addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resoris mnd is represented by a loeal agent in =il towns on the coast. KING'S ENGLISH. ART of the world was interested in the report P that Edward VII and his Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, have had a tiff. The tiffing between them was caused by the refusal of Salisbury to present for the peerage a i.ricnd of the King whom he desired to favor by that promotion. This is information to many who have supposed that the King was as independent as his predecessors, the Stuarts, Tudors and Plantagenets, in the matter of the promotion of favorites. It is a revelation of the TEE difference between the British system and® ours. | The President of the United States has the nominat- ing power, but cannot appoint without the consent of the Sen The Prime Minister, who is chairman of a parliamentary committee called the Ministry, has the nominating power, without which the King cannot appoint. Positions are reversed. Our Presi- dent is in the shoes of the Prime Minister, and the King lines up with our Senmate. We respect him highly. He is the head of a great and friendly power, and it is not our fault if he is the analogue of our peculiar and sometimes tempestuous Senate, where m cach other’s ears and fling de- fiance, 1 ise from a buzzsaw. All that change comes of the revolution of 1688 and the progress in amentary government since the days of Wal- e poie. Another respectible company of the children of men iterested in the tiff because of their re- spe: r the mother tongue. The King had spread 2 banguet, not a tiffin, but a full meal, to which Lord Salisbury was invited with an R. S. V. P. card. When the tiff occurred between the Minister the monarch the Minister said, “Then I had better Jeave my seat at the banquet vacant,” and the mon- arch answered, “Yes, you had better leave it vacant.” Shakespeare said of an ancestor of the Prime Min- ister, “Now lift up thy brow, wenowned Salisbury!” The current generation of readers of Shakespeare may well cry cut, “Now lift up thy grammar,” to his descendant. The English verb has rights which Ministers and monarchs must respect. 3 The verb transitive “to have” means possession; primary sense to fali on, to rush upon and “Had” is its past participial form, meaning “fallen on, rushed upon and seized” Now did his Lordskip mean to say, “I rushed upon, fe!! upon and seized better leave vacant my seat at the banquet?” Have, or had, cannot be used as an auxiliary verb in such entence, because they imply possession. Perhaps the King, though angry 1 his Prime Minister, desired to be royally polite by not calling attention to this misuse of his own tongue, and therefore replied in the same defective English. Bacon and Shakespeare, and certainly Tennyson, would have said, “Then I would better leave my seat vacant at the banquet,” and the King would have gladly answered, “Yes, you would better leave it vacant.” If the error is the fault of a careless reporter, or a trick of cable transmission, then we withdraw our remarks; otherwise we stand for loyalty to the King's English and in defense of that good old verb of such respectable Anglo-Saxon pedigree that it to this day expresses the Anglo-Saxon genius for fall- ing upon and seizing everything in sight. ze. a A Chicago traveler who has been to Boston says. the architecture of the city shows specimens of Co- lonial, Elizabethan, Georgian and Venetian styles, and he asks why tliere are no specimens™of carbon- iferous or tertiary architecture, but the coarse, crude question has left Beston speechless and unable to reply. —_— American feeling over the great calamity at Mar- tinique has expressed itself in contributions of cash rather than in poetry, but the poetry will come along later, and in the meantime it is consoling to know the cash fills the want that is most felt. European correspondents have evidently ceased trving to kill the Pope in dispatches. They are hatching plots of assassination now, and the process will probably continue until something new turns up. and | official and otherwise, are the beneficiaries of this unlawful manufacture. This would be illegal even if the State were reimbursed for the material used. Whatever opinion one may have of the economics | involved in the statute which forbids all industries in that prison except the manufacture of jute web and sacks, it is the law of California, which all' con- cerned must obey. Therefore the surreptitious manufacture of furniture and harness by prison labos. is unlawful, and, being done by the order and with | the knowledge of the Warden, is in violation of his official oath and obligation. If the State is not compensated for the use of its property, the act con- stitutes embezzlement of the property of the State. If that property is billed as something else than what it really is, and is paid for by the State, the crim- | inality is increased by the presentation of a false and forged voucher, which is also a criminal offense denounced as a felony. These occurrences have passed under the noses of the Prison Directors. What are they going to do about it? They may plead limitation of their in- quisitorial powers. They may take shelter under their lack of j@idicial function to issue writs and com- pel attendance of witnesses. They may appreciate | how closely these acts graze their official personal- | ity and flinch from the scars that they would bear if the truth were demonstrated. They may be among the beneficiaries of these unlawful proceedings and | therefore be not only legally disqualified from acting {as investigators of themselves, but they may feel that, no matter how liberal their use of whitewash, the effect on public opinion will not be exculpatory. As far as the offenses at San Quentin are concerned they are in such variety, so complex, and involve so many, and yet are so interwoven, that they constitute a whole and complete structure of violation of law. The people are as well able to judge of the force of | the testimony as are the Directors. Therefore the | difficulties which besct those officers are many. | What are they going to do about it? They cannot | remain idle and indifferent. That will be official sui- fcidc, and suicide is confession. Their delay creates | a widespread suspicion that time is being given to en- | able the guilty to sophisticate a case. | The president of the directory has not resented the | refusal of the prison authorities to respect his offi- Ecial order for an exhibition of the prison books, { which are public records, open to inspection at all | times. That refusal is an act—~of insubordination which should have been promptly dealt with. It should have been reported to the Governor, and he, | the executive of the State, charged with the faith- | ful enforcement of the law, should have at once com- | pelled obedience to that order and have rebuked or | punished its refusal. The best guaranty of fidelity | in the discharge of official duty is publicity and unre- stricted access to the public records. In its parti- san aspect there is a division of responsibility. That is gpe of the dangers in all bi-partisan control of public affairs. It was the favorite method of Tweed, when he led Tammany, and succeeded always in get- ting Republican partnership in his schemes of spoliation. Experience has proved that bi-partisan partnership always necds watching. The people of California are doing the watching. What are the watched doing? . The Call has done its duty. It has secured the testimony and has put its most important parts out of the reach of concealment or destruction. It is not our fault if this evidence hit the Warden, the | Governor or the Prison Directors. It is their fault ii they have taken the risk and incurred the liability. That evidence shows that when the administration of Warden Aguirre was in the green stick it began to violate the law concerning prison industries, and in the dry it has become responsible for false vouchers and sophisticated bills. We are not to be accused of insisting that the Warden shall be higgardly in entertaining the Gov- ernor of the State, or the Prison Directors. The people do not want that. But the people do not expect that the means of such entertainment shall | be falsified by forged bills and be charged off as prison clothing or jutemill supplies. The people would not wince at open and true bills for luxuries | used in such entertainment, in the line of victuals and drink, for the people are hearty and do not de- mand asceticism in their officers. But they want !honesty and frankness. The people, again, do not criticize their officers for refinement of surroundings. They are entirely willing that the Governor should sleep on a bedstead de luxe and that Prison Direct- ors shall feed from 2 fine table, but they don’t want them to be illegally manufactured by prison labor, | of material charged and paid for by the State as jute- mill supplics or cement sidewalk. The Prison Directors have an opportunity to prove that they are free from other responsibility than careless discharge of their duty, and the State will not deal with them harshly for frank admission of that fact. But what are they going to do, and when and how? REGISTER AT ONCE. i EGISTRATION is going on but slowly, and R yet every citizen who fails to register will for- feit his franchise. It is comparatively easy to register now, for the office is not crowded, but in a short time the rush of the belated ones will begin and then the late comers will have to stand in line and take their turn, so that what can now be done in a few minutes may take an hour. It is the custom of the American people to post- pone their political duties. Men will attend to busi- ness or to pleasure, or even spend much time in mere idleness, neglectful of their duties as citizens until the excitements of the actual campaign begin. Then they go in a flock to register. Some even delay until it is altogether too late and then com- plain of the election ldws. The mep who do that sort of thing are fond of calling themseives “good citizens.” They pride themselves upon the fact that they are opposed to boss rule. As a matter of fact their opposition amounts to little. On election day it is the votes and not the talk that counts, and citizens however good who have not registered cannot vote. The bosses never fail to get their men registered. Their votes can be counted on. It is for that reason they are powerful. If only public spirit and patriotism could induce men to attend to their political duties as promptly and as efficiently as the boss can'induce his following to register and vote there would be no such thing as boss rule in the United States. The issue is an old one and is well understood. We refer to it only to remind the public that there is to be this year a complete new registration. For- mer registers do not count. The best time to attend to the duty is now. There can hardly be any more important business confronting the citizenvt\:his week than that of getting his name on the register, so that he will be sure of his right to vote when the time comes. e — A report from Portugal is to the effect that a rich woman bequeathed her entire fortune, which was large, to be held in trust for a pet rooster. Her rel- atives killed the rooster, ate him and are now apply- ing for the estate as next of kin. The courts are having trouble to know how to act, but it is safe to say the lawyers are not fretting. = THE NEXT W ing out estimates of the probable results of the Congressional elections. It is conceded by all that the Democrats will have a good chance to win by reason of the tendency of the administration party to break away at elections in off years. Since Grant's second inauguration the House elected at the middle of a Presidential term has been opposed to the administration in every case except in the first terms of Cleveland and McKinley. Basing their hopes upon an expectation of a repetition of the | course of politics in the past, the Democratic lead- ers assert that as their party is now free from the blight of Bryanism it will gain accessions from all who are discontented with the administration and control the next House by a good majority. While admitting that the Democrats have a good fighting chance by reason of the usual ebb and flow in the strength of parties, Republican leaders main- tain that the party will continue its control of the House. Their argument is that there is nothing in the present situation to render the supporters of the party in 1900 discontented either with the Govern- ment or with Congress, and consequently there will be no such gain to the Democratic ranks as san- guine Democrats expect. Setting aside these assertions of the different par- ties as equally unreliable, some experts have begun close figuring on the prospects of the campaign. There will be 386 Representatives elected, and of course 194 memyers wéll be required to have a bare majority.. At the present time the Democrats have 168 members, of whom 118 are from the Southern States and 50 from the North and West. To get control of the next House they must gain 26 mem- bers. The question as to where the nceded seats are to be gained is that which is now occupying the at- tention of campaign committees of both parties. At the present time Republicans haye two mem- ‘bers from Missouri, two from North Carolina, two from Tennessee, three from Kentucky and six from Maryland. It is not believed they can hold all of those seats in the next House, . Probably ofthe fi- teen the Democrats may capture as many as ten. There would remain sixteen additional members to be gained. Where will they come from? Hardly any gain can be expected in New England. New York promises little. In fact, some of the seats now held by Democrats in that State may be lost to Democracy. On the other hand, Pennsylvania poli- tics is in such a shape that there is a showing for one or two Democratic gains in that State, and it is be- lieved that ofte or more may be gained in Indiana. To offset those gains, however, the Republicans expect to win seats now occupied by Democrats in Illinois, Ohio and New York. Their chances of making, such gains are fully as good, to say the least of them, as are the Democratic chances of winning in Peunsylvania or Indiana. The gerrymandering of districts is not expected to cut much figure in the contest. One of the most careful calculators of the outlook says: “It is a no- table fact that not since the war had so many North- ern Legislatures beeu in Democratic hands as when the apportionments were made under the census of 1890, and yet in no decade since the war have the Re- publicans carried such a series of Congresses as in the present one. This looks as if gerrymanders re- acted on their makers, and, while this is not exactly true, it may be recalled that issues often come on so unexpectedly as to upset all calculations and to ren- der of no effect plapa“of this sort. The Republicans are mow in control of nearly every Northern Legis- lature and have in most instances cut up the States to suit themselves. It remains to be seen what the Democrats can do in these new lines of battle.” While each side will of course assert a sanguine ex- { pectation of a sweeping victory, it is clear the con- test is going to be a close one. It is to be a battle over new issues, and no one can foresee how the people will divide upon them. Republicans can af- ford to take no risks, and here in California every- thing should be done to return a solid Republican delegation. ¥ CONGRESS. ASHINGTON politicians have begun giv- Some years ago a New Jersey millionaire built two handsome churches and gave them to the con- gregations on condition that no musical instrument should ever be used in them. The condition was fatal. After a hard struggle to keep going both con- gregations have given up the structures and will build churches of their own. The two gift edifices it is said are to be torn down to make way for other buildings. The case is a’ warning to philanthropists not to put too many strings on their gifts. The price of beef is high, but let us not forget that the meat packers and the members of the beef trust Vare assuring us they are doing business at a loss. The distribution of beef at present seems to be a pure philanthropy, and we cannot expect it to be cheap. 1t is charged that Simon Sam, the ex-President of Hayti, stole more than $8,000,000 during his tenure of office. Mr. Sam is evidently not one of the Simple Simons of whom we have heard. 3 As President Palma is already complaining of office-seekers, jt@is evident that sugar-growing is not the only American industry that flourishes in that beautiful tropic isle. L Perhaps France and Graat Britain will now be will- ing to put their West Indian islands on bargain counte~ and give Uncle Sam a chance to get them ] cheap. HOOKER SPEAKS HAY’S ADDRESS e ‘WASHINGTON, June 2.—The House to- day by a vote of 129 to 46 suspended the rules and adopted the joint resolution ex- tending the thanks of Congress to Secre- tary of State John Hay for his address on the occasion of the McKinley memorial exercises last February. Unanimous con- sent for the consideration of this resolu- tion was objected to by De Armond of Missouri some time ago, and to-day Clark of Missouri made a_twenty-minute speech in opposition to its adoption on the ground that Hay abused the occasion by injecting a “Republican stump speech” in- to the address. General Hooker of Mis- sissippi, a one-armed Confederate Veteran, delivered an eloquent defense of Hay’s address, denying that it contained any- thing that. was objectionable from a political standpoint. Hooker spoke as follows: I had the honor to be appointed on the Joint memorial committee to present suitable Tesolutions in honor of our deceased President, Mr. McKinley, and to select an appropriate speaker to deliver the eulogy on that occasion. 1 accepted the position and united in the se- lection of the present Secretary of State to deliver the eulogy. I listened with great care and attention to the address delivered by Mr. Hay. I think I am as keenly alive to every- thing that affects the interests and the honor and the welfare of the Democratic party as my friend from Missourl, but from whom I en- tirely dissent on this occasion. I listened to that address with great care, with great cau- tion and even with a disposition to criticize it anything wrong had been sald. But I fafled 1o detect in the whole of that address anything that I thought was improper to be said or any- thing sald in a party spirit. And I feel sure that if the man selected for the great duty of speaking on that occaslon the sentiments of the American people had dared to jnject into his address anything that was an appeal to party spirit and party sentiment, the shade of our great President, breaking the cerements of the tomb, would have appeared before him and at once challenged his utterances. Any man who would have made here on such an occasion a speech political in its character would in doing so have dishonored the memory of McKinley's great absence of partisan feel- ing and partisan ideas. I say that the man selected to deliver the address in _commemoration of him and to ut- ter the sentiments ‘which all the people of this country entertalned for him, and proudly enter- tained, would not have dared to undertake to deliver a political address when he was speak- ing of a man of such high character, such no- ble nature, such pure life as our assassinated President. (Applause.) Grosvenor of Ohio, who was in charge of the resolution, argued that Mr. Hay, in eulogizing the martyred President, couid not divorce the man from his achieve- ments and his record as a manly partisan. Only forty-six Democrats voted against the resolution. Special orders were adopted for the consideration of the anti-anarchy bill ani those to transfer -certain forest reserves to the Agricultural Department. The Sen- ate bill'to retire Surgeon General Stern- berg and the House bill to encourage sal- mon culture in Alaska were defeated on motion to pass them on suspension of the rules. PERSONAL MENTION. Thomas Flint Jr. of,San Juan is at the Palace. J. K. Law, an attorney of Merced, is a guest at the Lick. C. A. Coffin of Reno is among the ar- rivals at the Grand. Sam_Tysck, a Sonora mining man, spen?hrg a few days at the Lick. J. C,' Fitzhenry, a shoe manufacturer of Worcester, Mass', is at the Lick. Robert R. Rosslee, a merchant of Scot- land, is among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. W. J. Nelson; a mining man. who re- sides at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Grand. F. W. Hatch, a member of the State Board' of Insanity Commissioners, is a guest at the Lick. E. W. Worthing, an attorney of Stock- ton, is here on business, and has made his headquarters at the Grand. Frederick Warde, the well-known tra- gedian, has returned from Honolulu, and is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 2-—The following Californians are in New York: Frem San Francisco—A. Bonner, L. W. Harpham and wife, Mrs. B. Coulter and I'. W. Pickering and wife, at the Manhat- tan; W. Bradford, M. W. Zuckerman and 1", A. Houseworth, at the Herald Square; E. S. Gullixson, at the Cadillac; L. Klau and Mrs. C. C. Morse, at the Hoffman; J D. Moffitt and wife, N. F. Dethlefsen, I T. C. Dunckel and S. Levy, at the Grand Union; 8. C. Hildreth, at the Ven- dome; R. H. Hugg, at the Park Avenue; Mrs. W. Jennings, at the Holland; M. S. Price .and M. Summer, at the Imperial; T. H. Stevenson, at the Ashland; T. Sul- livan, at the Broadway Central, and A. E. Wessley, at the Astor. From Los Angeles—S. J. Chappell, at the Grand Union, and P. Laughlin, at the Herald Square. is Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The following Californians arrived here to-day: At the Raleigh—W. C. Andrews of San Jose, S. J. Norton and D. C. Kurtz of Los An- geles and J. F. Hughes of San Francisco; at the Willard—H. B. Ellis and J. W. Richards of Los Angeles, J. W. Benson and H. W. Hardy of San Diego, C. Hersh- feld and wife, the Misses Hershfeld, Mrs. A. 8. House, H. Heynemann, the Misses Heypemann and Walter Heynemann of San Francisco and W. S. Palmer of Oak- land. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Did you enjoy the opera Tuesday night, Mrs. Twiddle?” “Oh, yes; Mrs. Twaddle came and sat in our box and we had a regular visit,” — Philadelphia Bulletin. “Bars were made before the steam cal- liope was Invented,” remarked the Ob- server of Events and Things, ‘‘or possibly they would have been constructed with a tight-fitting cover.””—Yonkers Statesman. Patience—Have you seen the new spring color? It is called Messenger Boy. Patrice—What a funny name! Patience—Not at all. It's warranted not to run.—Yonkers Statesman. One day when the mother of twelve children had worked very hard, she said to the youngest (who was called Frank): “Frank, I wish I had a girl to do my work."” Frank said: “Why don’t you trade,6ne of us boys off for a girl? But not-flie.”’ — Little Chronicle (Chicago). Deacon Ross—Speshal prayer am axed fo' Brudder Long, who am now in jail fo’ de tenth time, bein’ cotch fightin' his lobin’ nabor. ; Parson Simms—Den de congrashion will bow In prayer, axin de marcy ob de Lawd, so dat dis black sheep mought be bohn agin, an bohn a gal chile at date!— Life. i s —_—— P? Going to Thunder Mountain Ppp The Northern Pacific Rallway is- tho best, chegpest and quickest route. From Lewiston and tites, Idaho, there are zood wagon to etther Warrens or Dixle, from which points the trails inito this district are most accessible, For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER, G. A., 647 Market st., 8. F. . Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, e —— e ———————,,————————,—,e—,e— e, e e e e e e e e e e e e—e—e—e e ———/—/—/—/—/ STERNBERG NOT |QUESTIONS THE IN DEFENSE OF | TO RETIRE AS | RIGHT TO ADD MAJOR GENERAL| TO DOLLAR RATE e G CALL BUREAU, 1466 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 2—Surgeon General Sternberg of the army was de- nied the privilege of retirement with the rank of major general by the decisive ac- tion of the House to-day. Chairman Hull of the Military Committee asked for the consideration of the bill under the suspen- sion of the rules. A two-thirds vote was required for this action, which failed on roll call by 68 ayes to 103 noes, with ten present and not voting. This action by the House will make it necessary for the bill to lie over until it comes up under the regular call of the committees. By that time General Sternberg will have his retirement, as his time under the age limit expires June 8. The refusal of the House to retire Gen- eral Sternberg with an advancement to! the rank of major general, with an in- crease of $1500 per year in pay was due almost entirely to Representative Can- non’s sudden fit of economy. He is watci- ing every item of expenditure in the House these days, and nothing escapes his eagle eye. If anything goes through it is in spite of his strenous objection. In the regular order of retirement General Sternberg will receiv $3700 annually. Can- non thought this sufficient, and that set- tled it. Colonel Willlam H. Forwood, who has for several months acted as assistant to the surgeon general, will probably be ad- vanced, but even in the event of his ap- pointment Colonel Forwood will serve as the head of the medical department of the army only for a short time, inasmuch as he will reach the age limit of 64 years on September 4 next, He is now ranking of- ficer in the department next to Gemeral Sternberg. Colonel Forwood is a native of Delaware. He graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University. He entered the army at the outbreak of the Civil War as an assistant surgeon and served throughout the con- flict. In 1865 he was brevetted a captain and major for faithful and meritorious services during the war. He reached his present rank in 1897. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PHILADELPHIA COIN-L. A. H., City. A % piece coined in the United States Mint at Philadelphia in 1840 does not command a premium. THREE-CENT PIECES—C. H., Visalia, Cal. There is a firm in New York that offers from 25 to 50 cents for silver 3-cent pieces of 1865, according to state of preser- vation. FIELD DAY—E. R., City. It was the Oakland High School team that won the field day of the Academic Athletic League on the Berkeley campus in the spring of 1901. The date was April 13. PRINCE OF WALES—E. P., City. The eldest son of the reigning monarch of Great Britain is the Prince of Wales. Tha Prince at this time is George Frederick, Duke of Cornwall and York and Duke of Rothsay in Scotland and the heir ap- parent. He was born January 3, 1865. CIVIL SERVICE—A. 8., Placerville, Cal. For information relative te civil service examinations apply in persom or by letter to the parties in charge of the department in which you would like to take the examination} or communicate with the Civil Service Commission, Wash- ington, D. C. PATENTED ARTICLE-R. L. C, Val- lejo, Cal. If a man makes an article for his own use that has been patented he is likely to be proceeded against for in- fringement of patent, unless he has ob- tained permission from the.owner of the patent to manufactur: such article. HUSBAND’S SHARE—F. H., Freeport, Cal. If a married woman dles in the State of California, having separate prop- erty, the surviving husband is entitled to the whole of that property provided there are no children,children of children,father, mother, brother or sister living. If any such are living his share is regulated by the law of succession. BUTTERCUP AND POPPY—Subscriber, City. Some people call the eschscholtzia, or California poppy, a buttercup, but that is not correct, as that flower is entirely distinct from the genus that is designated as buttercup. Buttercup is the popular but indefinite name given to more than one thousand species of the ranunculus. The California poppy belongs to the nat- ural order papaveraceae, in which are in- cluded 130 known species of the peppy. THE LATE WAR—Philippines, City. “Can you give me the title of the strong- est article published in The Call on the Phillppine question?”’ is a very broad one. Before such could be answered it would require a reading of each article publish- ed since the breaking out of the war in 1898, and that this department has not the time to do. In “Documents and Mes- sages” published by the Government and to be found in the libraries you will find a great deal of information of an official character relative to the war in the Phil- ippines. TAMALPAIS—T., City. ‘Tamal-pals means country of the tamals. In the early days of California there was a tribe of Indians that were called Tamals by some and Tomales by others. They inhabited what is now Marin County and Tamalpais was a designating term for the country they occupied. A good many years ago an individual of poetic fancy evolved out of his own mind “an Indian legend” in re- gard to Mount Tamal-pais based upon an idea that viewed from a certain point the crest of the mountain of which the mount named is the extreme eastern end rep- resents the form of a woman at rest and he wrote a poem for onme of the news- papers in which he told a tale of love and that the heroine died and formed part of the mountain chain. That is about all there is to the legend of the *sleeping beauty” in connection with Tamalpais. LONGEST RIVERSR.,, City. est rivers in the world are: Africa—Nile, 38% miles; Niger, 2990; Con- go, 2700; Zambesi, 2800; Orange, 1152. ~ America (North)—Mississippi, 3716 miles, with Missouri added, 4194; St. Lawrence, 2120; Mackenzie, 2120; Saskatchewan, 191; Rio Grande, 180; Arkansas, 1514; Colum- Dbla, 1283; Ohio and Alleghany, 1265; Red River, 1200 America (South)—Amazon, 35% miles; Rio Madeira, 2300; Parana, 2211; Rio de la Plata, 1800; San Francisco, 1613; Rio Ne- gro, 1650: Orinoco, 1500. Asia—Yenisel, 3683 miles; Hoang Ho, 2812; Lena, 2766; Obi, 2674; Amoor, 2673; Eu.. phrates, 2005, Ganges, 1844; Indus, 1613. Australia—Murray, 2000 miles, Europe—Volga, 251 miles; Danube, 1992; Ural,|1099; Don, 1088; Dnelper, 1020; Rhinc, The long- MILDEW ON GRAPES—F. D, 8., Mt Bullion, Mariposa County, Cal. Mildew on grape vines is kept in check by dust- ing sulphur on them. Dry sulphur has, however, but little effect upon the dovrny' mildew. In France the remedy used is “the Bordeaux mixture. In the United States the remedy is the spraying of the preparation of the ammoniacal carbonate of copper. It is sald that either is a spe- cific for mildew if applied four, six or eight times, beginning just before the blossoms open and continuing, 1f neces- sary, until a short time before the grapes begin to color. The mixture used in the United States is made up of the follow- ing: Carbenate of copper, 5 ounces: am- monia (% desrees, 3 pints of wager) i be wet before it 15 dluo‘l’cmt e (The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but pre- sents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest.) Editor The Call: From present appear- ances the Board of Supervisors will on Monday unanimously vote an additional levy of 7% cents to provide.a fund Wwith which to commence the construction of a new City and County Hospital and a lika amount to commence the building of new schoolhousgs. There ade not many who. question the desirability of better schoolhouses and more of them, and the mafority of citi- zens accept as correct the oft-repeated statement that the City and County Hos- pital is g disgrace to the city. Like most of those who know nothing about the hos- pital, I am in favor of building a new one and I am quite sure that the present schools are inadequate and doubtless some of them are unsafe. And so I ad- mit there is at least some ground upoR which the Supervisors have based the proposed ordinance and under which they intend to increase taxes 15 per cent. 1s the ground sufficienit and are they complying with the charter? I don’t think so. Article 3, chapter 1, section 1, requires the Supervisors to fix the tax levy on or before the last Monday in June, the rate exclusive of sinking fund ard interest and the cost of maintaining parks and squares “shall not exceed the rate of one dollar on each one hundred dellars valuation of the property as- sessed.” Here is a direct prohibition against any rate of taxation in excess of the dollar limit. It was the safeguard which the charter surrounded taxpayers with, and the protection offered them un- der the new organic law. Only upon ex- traordinary or unusual occasions was this limitation to be disregarded. Section 13 of the same chapter quoted above says: “The limitation in section 11 of this chapter upon the rate of taxation shall not apply in case of any great necessity or emergency. In such cases the limita- tion may be temporarily suspended so as to enable the Supervisors to provide for such necessity or emergency.” It is fur- ther provided that the ordinance increas- ing the tax rate,must be passed by a unanimous vote of the Supervisors and approved by the Mayor. I repeat that It has been the almost universal opinion and understanding of taxpayers that tka Supervisors could not and would not ex- ceed tne dollar limit rate of taxatiom ex- cept in a case of emergency. NOT AN EMERGENCY CASE. Emergency, according to Webster, is “a corditipn of things appearing suddenly or unexpectedly; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.” Are the Supervisors meeting any such emergency with this proposed increase in taxes? I fall to see it. On the contrary, they are only creat- ing one for the coming year. The amount they ccntemplate raising this year will create an unfinished hospital and a num- ber of uncompleted school buildings. And then we will have a genuine emergency to meet and more taxes to pay. There+is one consoling thought which wili-probably bring some rellef to prop- erty owners, which is that the taxes pald under the l5-cent additional levy will be returned to them through the courts. I am convinced of this fact because I am not a lawyer, and hence it is difficult to persuade me that the freeholders who framed the charter meant to build school- houses and other public buildings by di- rect taxation in excess of the dollar limit, or dise why did they say (article XVI, section 29): “When the Supervisors shall determine that the public Interest requires the construction or acquisition fof any permanent municipal building or improvement the cost of which in addi- tion to the other expenses of the city and county will exceed the income and revenue for any one year they must by ordinance passed by the affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the | board submit a propesition to incur a { bonded indebtedness for such purpose to the electors of the city and county at a special election to be held for that pur- pose only,” ete. SHOULD BE A BOND ISSUE. If this is not a direct requirement to construct schools and a hospital only by jesuing bonds unless they can be built within the dollar limit I would like to know what it means. The papers have been full of ‘“public sentiment” articles lately, and “universal demand” editorials for school buildings and a new hospital, and I think the Su- pervisors are being misled by them. There are thousands of taxpayers in this city who would voice their protests against this increase of taxes if they thought it would avail them anything by doing so. They don’t, because it is trou- blesome and to many it is embarrassing to make complaints in public. The pres- ent administration has the confidence of the people, and I have no desire or in- tention of harshly criticizing the Super- visors. I think they are trying to earn and merit the approval of their constitu- ents and to deal justly with taxpayers. But I am satisfied they will regret this “emergency tax’ if they pass the or- dinance. There might be some justifica- tion for placing an elastic construction upon the tax provisions in the charter if the révenue of San Francisco could not be increased sufficiently to provide means for conducting the city government and also construct the hospitals and schools. But, as it can, there is no excuse for levy- ing any additional tax above the §l1 rate. The method is simple, and is the same employed by other citles, namely, to sup- port their public departments from the receipts of saloon . licenses instead of throwing the whole burden on the tax- payers, which is practically what is done here. The city of Buffalo collects $600, - 000 more every year from this source than we do. The license there is $500 per an- num. Here, in a city of about the same population, it is only 4. CITY’S LOW LIQUOR LICUF“I‘_ San Franeisco has the lowest liquor cense of any city in the United States. As a result, there are twice as many sa< loons as there would be with a $500 li- cense. Considering the fact that nearly 5 per cent of the arrests during the year are for drunks, the saloons should con- tribute toward the support of the Police Department the same proportion ‘which other progressive cities demand and col- Ject, If this were done fully $500,000 could be spared for schools and other lm‘?rov.,- ments, and within a few years the “emer- gency” which the Supervisors are now trying to meet would cease to exist, while { the rate of taxation would be left where it now is and should remain—§l on the 100. A. S. BALDWIN. San Francisco, June L. Cal. glacr fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —— e — Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.® e ——— Spectal ‘ll:fomnmthn supplied daily to business public men by the : Clipping Bureau . 230 Calle ——— Did You Ever Stop to Think ‘What a pleasure it is to look at pretty photographs? Get a camera and take the photos yourself. We have cameras from $0¢ up. rn, Vail & Co., 741 Market. * ————— A Pottstown, Pa.,, man who was ab- sent-minded tried to enter a house where he formerly had lived and was shot by the new tenant, who mistook him for a -