The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1902 SATURDAY ......JUNE 7, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Fropti or. <dddress All ml-la;llnl te W. 8. LEAKE, Mansg'r. " TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You W ish. arket and Third, S. F. | to 221 Stevenson St. | PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Oarriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. ‘ Terms by Mail, luding Postage: DALY CALL tincluding Sunday), one year. 6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), G months. .00 | DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 3.5 DAILY CALL—BEy Single Month.. Blie | SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.50 | WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.00 All postmasters are suthorized to receive subseriptions. Bample coplés will be forwarded when requested. Matl subscribers in ordering cha:-e of address should be | particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order | to insure a prompt and correct compliance With their request. CAKLAND OFFICE..............1118 Broadway 1 C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chiesg> (Long Distance Telepnone “‘Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON. .. ..Herald Square c. C. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | STEPHEN B, SMITH........50 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astorie Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murrey Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: T | and crimes unspeakable gery by one of their number. | Fherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel t House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St.. N. W. | MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 633 ! McAllister, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open urt: MORE CHINESE TROUBLE. HE rebellion in China is becoming formidable and excites uneasiness in the legations at Pe- king. It is difficult to deal with the Chinese qQuestion patiently, ‘when it is approached from the standpoint of natural justice. Beginning with the forgery interpolated into the French treaty of 1860, every step in the history of that unfortunate coun- try is marked with injustice, for which the western nations are responsible. The French missionzry who forged the clause of the treaty which permitted missionaries of his coun- try to penetrate the middle kingdom and buy or lease lots for missionary purposes was perhaps the most awful criminal the world has produced, for his act has caused more suffering, murder, bloodshed and injustice than can be traced to one person in any cther transaction. The United States, Russia, Eng- land and Germany immediately became partners in aries from this country have penetrated China and claimed rights under that forgery, knowing it to be a forgery. That crime caused the Boxer outbreak, and the destruction of mission property, built by no other authority than forgery. The lives of mission- aries were teken, solely because they were claiming rights that did not belong to them, but were depen- dent on forgery only. Then the nations to which those missionaries be- longed fell upon China and there followed the most awful and inhuman scenes. Murder, robbery, arson were committed by the Christian armies, present in China to enforce the rights of Christian missionaries, based upon a for- The theft and destruc- tion of property by the Christian armies ran into the hundreds of millions, and, at the end of the riot of murder and theft, the same Christian nations com- | pelled China to pay the most enormous ransom -ever exacted from a helpless victim by a set of unscrupu- lous robbers. The wealth of China had been stolen or destroyed ¢ these nations. All North China had been laid 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 | A : ops destroyed, Market, corner Sixteenth, open untfl 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- | WASIC: The fields kit _"""ed‘ RHOP! ST lencla, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh. open until 9 | towns burned and industries suspended. Yet the o'clock. NW. until § o'clock. y-second and Kentucky, open | ore. open untfl § p. m. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new mddresses by notifying The Call Business Ofiice. | This paper will also be on sale at all sammer resorts and is represented by a local agent im all towns on the coast. = | AMERICAN SHIP-BUILDING. ENSUS BULLETIN No. 166, dealing with | American ship-building, shows that the | growth of the industry during the past ten ceds that of any preceding decade. The however, has been wholly in the construc- domestic trade. Comparatively growt tion of vessels for few ships for use in fcreign commerce are now con- structed in our shipyzrds, and the commands the attention of the country. The builetin says: “In 1826 American vessels car- ried 92.5 per cent of the foreign commerce of the United States, the value of which was $130,331,636, while in 1900 they carried 9.3, the value of which was $195,083,155, an increase in value of only 29.5 per cent in seventy-four years. In 1826 foreign vessels | carried 7.5 per cent of our foreign commerce, valued | 2t $12,238,163, while i 1900 they carried 90.7 per cent, | valued at $1,804,445,461, an increase of 15,379.8 per cent during the seventy-four years.” Alexander R. Smith, expert special agent of the Census Bureau, estimates that fully 3,000,000 tons of shipping are now required for the carriage of our entire foreign commerce. He says: “Toward sup- plying that need home shipyards, as we have seen, contributed only 29,059 tons during the census year of | 1900, and only 206,771 tons during the entire ten years ending with 1900. At the rate of construction in 1900 172 years would elapse before enough ton- nage would be built for the present needs of our for- | eign trade. The average life of a ship is commonly computed at ten years, taking into account losses, ac- cidents and deterioration. But allowing twenty years as the average hife of a modern steel steamship. | at the present rate of construction for foreign trade, over eight years would elapse before enough ships would be constructed to provide for the average losses of one year.” fact is one that We have here a showing of an industry expanding rapidly in the construction of vessels for the home trade and almost stagnant with respect to the con- struction of vessels for the foreign trade, notwith- standing the large need of ships for that trade and the facts that we have cheaper iron and coal and bet- ter machinery and labor than our rivals. In explanation of the paradox the bulletin says the very infrequency and uncertainty of orders upon | American shipyards for the construction of ships for | the ocean going trade “largely account for the fact | that the cost of construction per ton is higher in the United States than in other countries, notably Great Britain, which probably builds four-fifths of the world’s ocean-going tonnage, although less than three-fifths of it is under the flag of that nation. | This anomalous condition of American shipyards, in respect of equipment for and output of ocean-going shipping, has attracted widespread attention and pro- voked world-wide comment. Precisely what should | be done to increase United States shipping in foreign trade is the much discussed and still unsolved Ameri- can maritime problem Mr. Smith is right referring to the matter as “an unsolved American maritime problem,” and yet it is strange that it should be so. It is a serious re- flection upon Congress that the solution has not been provided long ago. At the present time a mer- chant marine bill awaits the action of the House, which, if enacted, would promptly set our shipyards to work in the construction of a merchant fleet that would frec us from the burden of paying tribute to foreigners upon our ocean commerce and put an end to the paradox. B P — The British Parliament and the French Assembly by their proceedings on Thursday seem to have adopted the Tillman-McLaurin system of Parlia- mentary practice. General Miles cannot complain of lack of activity. He has a chronic call for the plumber whenever the | War Department leaks “secrets that it ought not to have . ——— 4 - It is more than suspected that Scattle has designs on.our navy-yard, and that the Senatér from Maine is 2 sort of Hale fellow well met on Puget Sound. | | people, finding the burden { any | concerned. | clude Chinese and fail to protect authors of all this misery and destruction compelled the Chinese Government to pay a ransom which made it necessary ior that ‘Government to imme- diately begin squeezing taxes from her famine- stricken people. As @ result mothers have sold their children und children have starved to death in order that the Christian nations might get their pound of flesh out of China. That Government has no choice. It must pay for being robbed or submit to another invasion; end to more murder and famine. But the intolerable, have risen again and are fighting in revolt against the cruel taxation put upon them by Christendom as a punish- | ment for resenting a forgery. The fate of the missionary forger is unknown, but suffering that may have come to him would fot expiate the misery he has caused. The fact of his crime is known to every nation They all know that it caused the Boxer They all know that in its essence that revolution was just what would have happened in any nation of Christendom under the same provocation, «nd yet not one of them has offered to purge the revolution. | French treaty of the forgery and agree to forsake all rights that have been founded on that crime. Our own Government has made the most creditable rec- ord of any. We are not in a consistent position be- | cause we permit our missionaries to enter China pro- tected by what we know to be a forgery, while we ex- against outrage those who are here by authority of a treaty openly made. Otherwise our Government has the excellent record of relinquishing part of the indemnity awarded to us, and our troops have the credit of abstaining | from the grosser outrages which marked the march of the Christian armies. The new trouble in China, | having for its cause the oppression of a people to pay | the unjust exactions of Christendom, should make levery Christian blush for shame and hasten to dis- ow his share of the responsibility. e . We may expect Mr. Bryan to begin commenting on the forgettery department of the Indiana Democ- | racy. RACE AND CIlTIZENSHIP. ONGRESSMAN GOLDFOGLE is making strenuous efforts to force an issue with Rus- C sia upon the manner in which American Jews are treated by that Government. He has not only raised the question in-Congress, but is taking an ac- | tive part in an agitation on the subject now going on in the Eastern States. He has already accomplished a good dcal, for he has compelled the public to give' attention to the wrong, and in that way has gone far toward arousing a public sentiment that will in turn compel the Government to act. It appears that Goldfogle and his assistants in the agitation have special grievances to complain of. A distinguished American has been denied admission to Russia because he is z Jew, and an American Jewess has .been excluded notwithstanding the fact that she desired"to visit the country solely to see her father, who was then lying on his deathbed. It is not as- serted by the Russian Government that either of the two applicants is an anarchist, a criminal or other- wise personally objectionable. They are deprived of the privilege of visiting Russia or traveling through Russia sonlely because they are Jews. The issue raises a question as to whether the Rus- sian Government can make a distinction among American citizens by reason of race or creed. If a foreign Government by treaty agrees to confer cer- tain privileges upon “American citizens,” can that Government thereafter deny them to any American by reason of his religion or his descent without vio- lating the treaty? That is the issue Congressman Goldfogle is pressing upon the country. In a treaty between the United States and Russia made in 1832 it is declared: “There shall be between the territories of the high contracting parties a re- ciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation. The inhabitants of their respective states shall mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places and rivers of the territories of each party wherever foreign com- merce is permitted. They shall be at liberty to so- journ and reside in all parts whatsoever'im said terri- tories, in order to attend to their. affairs.” We on our part have faithfully kept the treaty. We have denied no Russian access to the country unless known to be a criminal, a pauper or the sufferer from some infectious or contagious disease. All Russian citizens or subjects, irrespective of race or creed, are permitted to enter our ports. By what right, then, does Russia exclude 2 certain class of American citi- zens? It is.gratifying to find that a considerable and in- )2 valid objection can be urged, but we have a right | his crime, and it is 2mazing that Christian mission- fluential support has been given to Mr. Goldfogle in | his fight. We have no right nor do we desire to force upon Russia any class of persons against whom | per cent lighter and one-third less costly than the | cally, Professor Birkeland’s | be forced upon the nations. The report that the im- to insist that all American citizens shall be treated equally and that none shall be debarred of the enjoy- ment of privileges which by special treaty have be‘en conferred upon all. X TWO NEW INVENTIONS. HILE the great nations are busily engaged W in comstructing warships upon models which have been found most effective with | the existing forms of armor and weapons, reports come from Europe of two inventions which are. likely to compel an entirely ne naval armament throughout the world. One of these relates ‘to the construction of steel armor and | ‘? other to the con- struction of heavy guns. If botHiof them prove as effective as is expected from th g?;ts made of them, the nation possessing them is going to have a great advantage in war over any pawer.gfl'mt does not pos- sess them. b The first is described in the report of United States Constd Ozmun at Stuttgart, who,'in noting the im- provements made in the Krupp gun industry, says: “The latest is the discovery by a Getman chemist by the name of Giebler of a process of harderting steel which makes it, so it is said, 14 per cent stronger, 50 Krupp, Harvey or Boehler steel,” ’He goes on to say: “The inventor will not sell the secret of the process to any foreign manufacturer, but will retain it for the benefit of Germany, If trug this will give this country an enormous advantage in‘naval matters, for with lighter hull, lighter machinefy and lighter guns a very much higher rate of speed can’ be pro- duced for a given consumption of fuel,'which means an enlarged steaming distance.” 1 A The second invention was briefly described in the dispatches a few days ago giving an actount ‘of tests made with a new gun invented by Professor K. Birkeland, a Norwegian scientist. It was stated at | the time that the tests were so successful that a firm | of artillery manufacturers had offered to buy the in- | vention for immediate exploitation. The first an- nouncement of the invention came to this country in a report from the United States Consul . at Chris- tiania, but contained no further information than the statement: “Professor Birkeland (who two years | ago was sent by the Government to Northern Nor- i way to study magnetism, the aurora borealis and | cloud formations) is engaged in the construction of a cannon with electro-magnetism as the motive power i‘n place of explosives. A small model of the inven- tion throws projectiles weighing a pound with great | force.” - A later report of the invention says: - “Theoreti- un can throw a. pro- jectile weighing two tons a gistancc of ninety.miles, or even farther, by sufficiently prolonging the tube. The principle upon which the gun acts has not been made public, but it is known that the projectile is expelled from dn ordinary cast-iron tube thickly wrapped with copper wire. This tube can of course be made more cheaply than the cannon now in use. UNCANNY “AUTO” SPREADS DEATH - AMONG SPECTATORS A H EREWITH is shown the uncanny freak racing automobile whose op- erator lost control of it last Satur- day-on the Southfield boulevard, mnear Grant City, Staten Island. Before the machine finally came to a standstill it had killed one man and in- Jured scores of others. The accident occurred during speed test trials of the Automobile Club of America. Just before the accident the speed in- dicator in the machine showed forty-seven seconds for the mile, or the appalling rate of seventy-six miles per hour. e machine was operated by W. C. Baker, its builder, and an assistant, nefther of whom sustained any injuries. They entered the machine through a trap door and seated themselves one behind the other, tandem fashion, over a net- work of wires and batteries and Baker did the steering while his assistant watched the speed indicator and cogtrolled the ANSWERS TO QUERIES. DOCTOR'S BILL—G. H. B, City. doctor's bill is a debt, collectable same as any other debt. A the PESTH—B. D., Napa, Cal. The most populous and largest commereial city in Hungary is Pes... not Pest. FIVE DOLLAR PIECES—G. C., Ala-| meda, Cal. A five dollar plece of 1847 from a numismatic standpoint is worth just five dollars. THE BALTIMORE—J. H. R, City. The Baltimore was a part of Dewey's fleet during the action in Manila Bay May 1, 1898. HEIGHT OF MAN—E. M. J., City. | Some individual who had a great deal of time and a faculty for calculating once declared that the average height of man was five feet eight. DIMES—L. M., Angels Camp, Cal. There is no premium offered for dimes coined No explosive gases result from the discharge of the | new gun. Professor Birkeland’s invention has cre- | ated intense interest among technical observers, | some of whom are of the opinion that the new gun | signifies a greater revolution *in fighting material i than that brought about by the discovery of gun- powder.” The two inventions counterbalance one another. The one increases the protettive strength of steel ar- mor, while the other augments the force of the projectiles which the armor will have to resist. Tt ap- pears then that new arms and new armor are about to proved method of constructing armor is to be kept:a secret by Germany may not disturb anybody. Each | between the years 1590-1899 except for the twenty-four coined in the San Francisco | Mint in 18%4. ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION—F. ¢. G, Del Monte, Cal. For a pgsition at the St. Louis Exposition, send application to the secretary at that place and it will be de- livered to the proper parties. SEPARATE PROPERTY—G., East Oak- land, Cal. If a man had $10,000 prior to marriage, and after marriage invested it, that does not make the money of the re- sult of the {hvestment Community prop- erty. FIFTY-DOLLAR SLUG—A. 8., City: Fifty-dollar slugs of 1851-1852, ectagona}. command a premium of from $- to $15 Round slugs of 1852-56 command a pre- mium of from $10 to $30, according to state of preservation. of the great nations has had some valuable secret of the kind which it has tried to preserve for itself, but | in every instance a really valuable improvement in | the arms of one country has been soon acquired by | others. If the Giebler steel be so light, tough and | theap as is reported, it will not be long before the ‘ American steel trust will be making just as good 4 | quality of it as is manufactured by Krupp. THE VEGETARIAN EAST. UR Eastern friends have not yet become ab- O solute vegetarians, but it looks as 'if they' were being driven in that direction by forces sufficiently powerful to land them there before long. ! These forces are various and not all of them are operating in the same locality, but they mutually, strengthen one angther and make a mighty turmoil for meat-eaters. . “In the first place there is the beef trust, whose cperations have disturbed a good many people. Next | is the rise in the price of beef, which, whether caused by the trust or not, Las forced a considerable num- | bér of people to, prefer to dine without eating flesh. Then in Chicago there is a strike among the team- stérs who have been doing the hauling for the stock- yards and the packers, and there is danger that no the price and are willing to pay it. | Itkis in the tenement districts of the larger cities on | the Atlantic seaboard that the trouble is most per- glexing. A powerful element of the tenement’ popu- lation has declared war against the “meat trust,” as it is called, and has undertaken to suppress the sale of fresh meat by the butchers. Eastern papers are full of accounts of riots along the ‘whole line from Massachusetts to New Jersey. Recently in' the Williamsburg district of New York 8o men and women marched through the streets for the purpose of attacking the shops of butchers who tefused to stop selling meat. Similar riots have oc- curred in Boston, Brooklyn and Newark. The lead- crs of the riots are’ Hebrews, but men and women of other races join them when the rioting gets lively. Some of the effects of the lack of meat are unex- pected. A prisoner before a Newark police court on a charge of beating his wife sought to justify the offense by saying he was rendered savage by want of a good steak or a juicy chop. The wife seems to have agreed with the husband, for she is reported to have told the court that all went well until it became impossible for them to.have meat on the table regu- larly, and they had to become vegetarians. This didn’t suit her husband, and she affirmed that he be- gan to complain of other things around the house of which he had not before found fault, and that, finally, last week, he beat her. She said she was injured so badly she had to take to her bed. How many other domestic troubles as well as riots meat will be hauled for the hungry even if they have ‘\ CUSTOM-HOUSE—A. B. C, City. For a position in the Custom-house or the In- ternal Revenue office in San Francisco the applicant must take a civil service exam- ination. Apply at either office for the ex- amination blanks. RUSSIAN HILL—Subscriber, City. In the early '350's in San Francisco the name | Russian Hill was applied to that western eminence between Green and Union | streets, and not to that between Wash- ington and Clay. EXECUTION—Subscriber, City. The first legal execution in San Francisco was on the 10th of December, 1852, when Jose Forni, a Spaniard, was hanged on Rus- sian Hill in public for the murder of Jose Rodriguez, a Mexican. NAVAL STATION—C. E. E., Turlock, Cal. The naval stations north of San Francisco are located at Mare Island and at Puget Sound. The former is designated in the navy blue book as a naval station and the later as a navy vard. NOTICE—G. H. B, City. The general | rule is that a landlord gives a tenant a month’s notice of intention to raise rent. A month-to-month tenancy may be termi- nated at any time by either party. A no- ! tice to quit may be fifteen to thirty days. DRUG STORE—S. M., Vallejo, Cal. If S. Mi will .send’ a ‘self-addressed and stamped envelove the department of An- swers to Correspondents will send him the desired address of a certain drug store. This department does not adver- tise any business house. TENANT—Subgcriber, City. If a person Frents apartments from month to month and moves in on the first day of the jmonth, in the absence of any agreement he is indebted to the landlord for one month’'s rent if he is in the premises on the first day of the month following the one for which he paid rent. A DEBT-P. 8, City. The fact that a man who has incurred a debt in one State removes to another State does not oblit- erate the debt. If in the State into which he moved he becomes possessed of prop- erty, the parties in the State in which the debt. was created will find means to col- lect the amount of the indebtedness. THE PRESIDIO—Subscriber, City. In the early '50's of San Francisco the Pre- sidio- was reached by a road running along Kearny street to Pacific, out that street to a point near the present line of Franklin street, then north along that line to the present line of Lombard street, and out that street to the Presidio gate. ‘ASPARAGUS—S. E. A, Bay Farm Isl- and, Cal. There is no record of “who was the first man to cultivate asparagus in the State of California.” The writer recollects of such vegetable being raised in,8an Francisco in a French garden at the corner of Harrison and Third streets in 1853. THE HENRIETTE—C. M. T., City. The French bark Henrlette foundered on the 29th of December, 1901. Captain Duris was not on the vessel at the time of the acci- dent. He brought her to this coast, but -hattan; M. Chumplin and C. F. Magur, | retired from command shortly after he brought her here. She was in command have beea caused by the unaccustomed eating of vegetables it would be impossible to say. Enough is known, however, to make it certain that vege- tarianism seems to generate a kind of Pelee disturb- ance in the East, and there-is no telling what dan- gerous eruptions "may occur unless relief - be promptly found. / of Captain Vaughn. The officers and the men were all taken ashore in safety. aflmcmn AND SETTLER-A. 8., lan, Or. Where the superior right of a railroad company is ascertained and it is found that the clalm of a settler is such ‘that #t would be admitted were the rail- road -claim extingulshed, the General Land ‘Office will, in all practicable cases, direct the attention of the officers of the power and the brakes. Both operators were concealed from the view of spectators by a black leather shield. A two-inch opening, covered with mica, was the only provision made for the sSteersman to see the course he had to negotiate. Mr. Baker sald after tne accident that the roughness of the road caused the ma- chine to leap through the air like a flying machine, thus getting beyond his con- trol. Twenty thousand spectators saw the accident and marveled that the terri- ble engine of destruction did not crush out more lives. A writer describing the accident says: “‘Washington street reached, the ‘green devil,’ palpitating, its batteries pounding, began to edge to the right of the road. Suddenly it swept well to the right, then, recovering, dashed in a broad half moon curve to the left and then to the center of the road again. Those who stood at PERSONAL MENTION. C. B. Greenwell of Santa Barbara is at | the Grand. D. C. Clark, Mayor of Santa Cruz, the Grand. George G. Locke of Sacramento Is at | the Grand. E. A. Meserve, an attorney of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. Ex-Lieutenant Governor W. T. Jeter of Santa Cruz is at the Palace. M. M. Gragg, a warehouse man of Monterey, is at the Occidental. T. H. Wallace, a well known politician | of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Dr. J. D. Young of Stockton is at the Lick; accompanied by his family. Ben I. Salomon left last evening for a | three weeks’ visit to Cleveland, Ohilo. John T. @affey, a well known Demo- | cratic politiclan of Los Angeles, is at the | Palace. W. B. Jansen, assistant to the president | of the Santa Fe, is here from Chicago. He is accompanied by his wife, and Is stopping at the Palace. C. D. Dunann, general passenger agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, | leaves to-day for Seattle, where he will | superintend the first summer excursion of | the company to Alaska. | —_——— | | 1s at | Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 6.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francis- co—S. 8. Curtis, at the St. Denis; A. W. | Huggins, at the Holland; W. R. Lan-i dram, at the Marlborough; C. C. Morse, at the Hoffman; Dr. Stone, at the Man- at the Bartholdl; G. Flann, at the Herald Square; K. M. Haynes and G. Martin and wife, at the Astor; C. Hirschfeld and wife, at the Savoy; S. Levy, at the Grand Union; D. Marx and J. L. Rosenthal, at the Imperial; H. M. McGreer, at the Mat- Topolitan; . Robins, at the Vendome. Sacramento—M. Diepenbrook, at the Ca- dillae. San Jose—Miss Bowman, at the Man- hattan. Santa Barbara—T. P. Izard, at the Na- varre. © iviriiirimieiieie el @ company to the fact and request an ex- plicit answer whether or not the land will | be relinquished. At the same time it would be well for the party interested to seek for himself the relief indicated by direct application to the railroad authori- ties and thereby aid in securing a speedy and satisfactory adjustment. MARRIAGE—A. C. K., Haywards, Cal. If you went out to sea and married a di- vorced man who cbtained his divorce in this State, before a year had elapsed, there is some doubt about your legal standing as a wife. If you desire to set yourself right you will have to secure the services of a lawyer to have the so-called marriage declared null and void. TITLE—H. 8., Wheatland, Cal. An ab- stract of title that is furnished by ‘“a prominent building and loan. association to a piece of property on which it had | foreclosed a mortgage,” is generally con- | sidered sufficient, but an extra cautious buyer would have the title searched on his own.account. The expenditure of a few dollars will give him peace of mind. VARIOUS COINS—Subscriber, City. No premium is offered by coin collectors for five doliar pieces of 1336 and 1844 and ten dollar pieces of 1847. No premium is offer- ed for dimes of 1824, 1835 and 1837, nor for half dimes of 1853, 1858, 1860, 1863, 1568, 850 and 1571 Columbiah half dollars of 1ss2 ccmmand a premfum of 10 to 15 cents. There is no premium on Columbia halves of 1893, BOHEMIAN—Subscriber, City. “Bohe- mians” was formerly used to designate some followers of John Huss in Bohemia in the fifteenth century. Subsequently it was applied to gypsies, Impostors and 1it- erary men and artists of irregular hab- its who had lost caste. In this country it is applied especially to artists and lit- erary people who lead an unconventional or somewhat irregular life. LAND IN ALASKA—J. D. S, Jr,, Nay- bert, Cal. The Commissioner of the Gen- eral Land Office expressly forbids the lo- cal officers to furnish blank entry papers to anybody except claimants in person. For further information in relation to the taking up of lands in Alaska address a communication to the United States Land Office at either Sitka, Rampart City or St. Michael, or the General Land Office at Washington, D. C. LIEU LAND—A. S, Hoaglan, Or. An act of Congress passed June 22, 1874, has the following words: “In the adjustment of all railroad land grants, whether made | which the T TIME TRIAL the Red Cross tent instinctively shrunk and retreated. Thev had scarce formed their intent to step back when the ma- chine bounded over the covered rails of he car line. % ““Then every one knew the car had gone wild. Without warning it leaped to the right, where five hundred men, women and children leaned against the ropes, standing in front of a double line of costly automobiles. But, instead of plunging into that mass and probably kill- ing outright a score, the machine turned, cutting a mark in the road like the head of an interrogation point. Traveling at a rate of one hundred feet to a second, it broke through the ranks of unwarned spectators on the other side. Stumps ripped off the rear right hand and the front left hand wheels, and made them into kindling wood. Deprived of wheels, the dread machine rested, facing the route it had traveled.” P e e e e ] ] A CHANCE TQ SMILE. “I have the honor to offer you tne hand of my daughter,” said the American mil~ Honaire to the foreign Count. “Do you think you can support me In | the manner to which I have been accus- tomed?” asked the Count languldly.—Bos- ton Post. Her Point of View.—Mrs. Hiram Offen— How long were you In your last place? Applicant—Of was there just a month, ma’am. Mrs. Hiram Offen—A month? What was the trouble? Applicant—The trouble was, ma'am, that I was took sick, and Of couldn’t get away anny. sooner.—Philadelphia Press. The time came at last when Mr. Oldboy | could no longer make a pretense of cover- ing the top of his head by combing a wisp of hair up over it from one side. “This is a case,” he said, looking at him- self in the glass and sorrowfully survey- ing the wide expanse of bald crowm, “in ‘part’ appears to be greater than the whole.”—Washington Star. The manager came before the curtain with his I-deeply-regret-to-state face on, and said to the waiting throng: “I shall have to ask the indulgence of the audience a few minutes while Mme. Primdon recovers the use of her vocal chords, which were severely strained just | now by yawning over some verses that were sent to her by an admirer.” —~Wash- ington Star. Mamma had watered the plants and leth the room. An oxalis had received too much water and began to drip. Soon my brother in kilts came running to mamma, calling: “Come quick! The doxology’s leaking!" This provoked laughter, and he could not understand why we should laugh at such a serious thing as water dripping upon the carpet.—Little Chronicle (Chi- cago). “What are you angry about?" asked the mother of her boy, who had just re- turned home from the Christmas enter- tainment. “Because I went to Sunday- school everr Sunday this year and gave a cent every time, and Willle Brown, he didn’t go half as much as I did and never put in a cent, but he got just as big a box of candy as I did.”—Brooklyn Life. “Evelyn,” her prudent mamma satd, *T met young Mr. Scales in the hall just now on his way out looking angry and mortified. You haven’t refused, have you, you foolish child.” “I don’t think he'll come hers any more,” evasively replied Miss “You're just like your father,” sighed the matron. “When he comes in here to smoke after dinner he’s almost sure to do some mischief throwing his matches away.""—Chicago Tribune. “You advertise ‘popular prices,’” grume bled the man In front of the box office, “‘and now you ask me $1 5 and $2 for a seat!" ““Yes, sir,”” responded the man inside the box office, genially. “Those prices are more popular with the stockholders of this theater than any we've éver had. If you don’t want any seats perhaps yowll Be good enough to pass on and make room for those gentlemen bekilnd you."”"—Chicag: Tribune. e . & f Cal. glacr fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* 4 Frunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* f Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10 to 40c. Note 81 4th, front barber, grocen® —————,— Townsend’s California glace fruit, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 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