The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1902, Page 6

. = THE SAN FRANIC CO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1902. Thesgihune gall] THE CALL'S POSITION. HE CALL desires to make its position in the proceedings begun by Governor Gage perfectly plain. 4 ; On the 24th day of May we published that in the State’s business at San Quentin, there had been forgery and substitution of bills; that bills had been made out not in the handwriting of creditors of the.State; that there had been substi- tution of items; that there had been unlawful manufactures carried on in the prison; that personal supplies had been charged to the State and paid for, on bills vised by the prison officers, and that of some of these unlawful and irregular acts Governor Gage had been a beneficiary. Two days later, on May 26, Governor Gage published a statement in his official organ that these charges did not affect him at all, but were against Warden Aguirre, in whose integrity he expressed the utmost confidence. When we published these revelations we called for an investigation of the prison management by the proper authority, the Directors. Without action by that body Gov- ernor Gage professed to make a private investigation and immediately thereafter re- paired to a Justice’s court, in the township of Wilmington, 500 miles away from the prison, and filed a complaint against the proprietor and the manager of The Call, for criminal libel, the same consisting of the matter published May 24 which he said on May 26 did not at all reflect upon or affect him. On this complaint a warrant was issued, duly served and bail given. The defend- ants in this case realize the difficulties of an adequate defense at such a distance from the scene of the acts charged against the prison management, and so.far from the testi- mony by which they can establish every fact stated in the alleged libel. Everything that they have done since the service of that warrant has been in the interest of a speedy and judicial investigation. P The Justic®of the Peace in Wilmington to whom the Governor resorted could not take the testimony between now znd the next election. To present our case before him in its entirety, in proof of the revelations we have published; within. any reasonable time is a physical impossibility. Governor Gage knew this when he wefit to an obscure forum in a place so remote from the scene. ; . While he shirks responsibility at the place where the censtitution gives his resi- dence for all purposes except voting, Gage commands the whole power of his office and WEDNESDAY..............q.......JULY 2,8002 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A A A A Address All Communieations to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. - Market and Third, S. F. 217 to 221 Stevemson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. 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ONE of the various propositions for solution of the stock range problem has been acted on by Congress. The President referred to the destruction of the range forage on the public domain in his message, and the Secretary of Agriculture treated the subject frankly and intelligently in his re- port, but the Secretary of the Interior and the Com- missioner of the General Land Office seem to have decided that the existing situation is rosy and noth- ing need be done. Competent testimony proves that the range is being destroyed at the rate of 5,000,000 acres a year by overstocking, and that the desert gains that much on the meadow annually. The only parts of the pub- lic domain where the forage is not disappearing are either protected unlawfully by fences or by rifles. Since early spring the range war has been in prog- ress. Rival stock men have met in battle in New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, and murder has been done and property has been destroyed. Commissioner Hermann in his testimony before the Land Committee of the House said: “The great mischief now on the public domain is that it is over- stocked. The grazing is not as good to-day as it was ten years ago, and it was not as good ten years ago as it was twenty years ago, simply because every one anywhere near hav- ing stock drives it to the range, %nd the result is the elimination of the natural herbage. The natural grasses no longer support the stock they once did, and it requires ten acres now to do what two acres would have done twenty-five years ago upon the public domain of this country.” That statement is true. Yet the Commissioner de- clared against all propositions to apply a remedy. In his own State of Oregon the consequences are now apparent. The small cattle men of Grant County are now up in arms against the sheep that are being driven on the public domain. Masked and mounted men armed with Winchesters have met and slaughtered two bands of sheep and shot the herders and the dogs. A dispatch from Pendleton says: “The situation in Central Eastern Oregon is very strained on account of overcrowding the range, and shooting affrays take place every day or two. News of a gen- esal battle between the settlers, who are principally eattle men, and the forces of the sheep men is ex- pected here.” Can it be true that there is to be no remedy pro- vided for this situation? It is the same as that which disgraced the ranges of Australia and Texas until it was ended there by leasing the range and making every stock man stay on his own leasehold. In Ore- gon, where battle and murder rage on the range, both political parties in their platforms resolved against leasing the range or changing the land laws at all, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office declares for that do-nothing policy! 2 The statistics in the Department of Agriculture show that the potency of the range declined 61 per cent between 1895 and 1901, leaving only 39-per cent of its stock-producing capacity. Suppose that the. country’s potency in the production ‘of iron, wheat,: corn or cther staple had declined in a like ratio, would there not be widespread alarm and a general search for a remedy? Yet that decline in the cheap- est method of producing beef has sent the price on the hoof up 30 per cent and threatens to cut off our export trade entirely. The dying industry struggles in its extremity. Murder reddens the range, and gentlemen who admit it all weakly say that there is uo remedy! It is hardly creditable to American com- mon sense. It is stated that King Edward designs his newly created “Order of Merit” to be the most dentocratic order in the world, but at the same time it is to"be more strictly guarded than the Legion of Honor. It will be seen Edward has set himself a hard task, and he will have to discriminate very neatly to make his order democratic and at the same time keep it ex- clusive. The people of Oakland seem determined to be unique or nothing even in the administration of their municipal affairs. They have offered the as- tounding proposition of increasing the salaries of the teachers in their public schools. the secretary of the Board of Examiners, now a Yosemite Commissioner. ment in selection of an attorney and as an But what is the aim and purpose of pense? It is to get into a court where the Our struggle is t& get before a court |the most. complete judicial - investigation libel him. The suit of a Governor for libel of ceeding. ‘We propose to exhaust every legal and not till then, will we yield to a remote his own benefit, in preparing and presenting his case. Paid by the people for his time as G_overfior; he is wrangling in his own behalf as his own attorney in his own case. He has with him his seeretary, also-paid by the State. He has assisting him the Warden of San Quentin, paid by the State, and he has as an outside skirmisher and an inside guide, philosopher and friend, also paid by the Statee In addition to this his attorney Denis, Code Commissioner, is paid by the State; his attorney Freeman, Code Commissioner;, is paid by the State; his attorney Lerman, secretary of the Yosemite Commission, is paid by the State, and his attorney W. W. Foote, who was his commissioner to the Paris Expo- sition and made then, as a sole exhibit, the nastiest scandal known in late years, is Were all other surroundings of his case decent and in order, the spectacle of a Governor appearing as his own attorney in a Justice’s court, is a conspicuous indecency. True, it is only another evidence of his small diameter. As a client he shows poor judg- attorney proves that no case is too mean for him. It is an old saw in the profession that a man who appears as his own lawyer. has a| fool for a client and his client has a fool for a lawyer. all this indecency indu'ged at the public ex- case canhot be tried fairly because the juris- diction is half a thousand miles distant from the evidence. of competent jurisdiction, that is not under the thumb of any man or official, convenient to the documentary and oral evidence, where the testimony can be promptly and properly taken. We court the fullest publicity and of the facts which the Governor alleges his official character is surely a dignified pro- It should not be degraded to the level of a proceeding for sheep-stealing, nor be had in a small and obscure court in a remote quarter of the State. Yet he chooses to have it so, and excuses the extraordinary proceeding, during an argument as his own attorney, by making an attack on zll the courts of the State outside his own county. resource in the effort to bring the case to trial before a competent tribunal where it can be fully presented. We have faith in the rem- edies provided by law for those who wish tc establish facts, and we have faith in the in- | tegrity of the courts of the grade and dignity that should have the required jurisd}ction. If we fail to find a jurisdiction located where the fullest investigation can be had, then, jurisdiction chosen by Governor Gage not to facilitate but to prevent such investigation. HE history of the hysterics of this session of T Congress had another chapter added to it in the attempt of Senator Bailey of Texas to assault Senator Beveridge of Indiana. The cause of the affray is not largely nor lumin- ously stated in the dispatches. It seems from the in- formation at hand that Judge Penfield, solicitor of the State Department, was under discussion, but why, or in what connection, is not stated. Now, Judge Pen- field is a very able lawyer and a very wholesome man, He holds one of the most important professional po- sitions under the Government. He deals with ques- tions that arise in both municipal and international law. He is learned in the common and civil law, znd is a linguist of such ability that he is familiar with the codes of all the leading commercial nations in the language in which they are drawn and pub- lished. Indeed, it is doubtful if a more fit man for his responsible place could be found in the country. Just why he should be singled out by the Texas Senator for an attack which the Indiana Senator temperately characterized as “unwarranted” does not appear on the face of the record. He is a man in mature professional and physical prime, while the Texas Senator is only just safely out of the way of the juvenile diseases, just beyond the line on the hither side of which lurks mumps, measles and chicken- pox. Why this young person should fly at his elder is greatly dark, unless upon the theory that as a representative of his’ party he finds. it necessary to attack something or somebody, and prudently se- lected a gentleman who cannot be present in the Senate to defend himself, and who is even restrained by the diplomatic reserve of the State Department from making any reply to personal abuse uttered against him in his official capacity. Having selected a shining mark for his purely par- tisan malevolence, the,Texan shot off his ever-loaded mouth at the solicitor. Judge Penfield is from In- diana, and Senator-Beyeridge is one of its represen- tatives in the Senate. What more natural, or more proper, than that he should defend his blameless and able fellow citizen and constituent? He declared the attack unwarranted. Under the circumstances it was the soft answer which should turn away wrath. But Senator Bailey declared it was an insult to him and demanded that it be withdrawn. This means that Judge Penfield should not be defended by his Sena- tor, or that Beveridge should admit that Bailey’s at- tack was warranted. What does the Texas Senator expect? Does he propose to abuse whom he pleases, to attack will- fully and at will any officer of the Government, and by physical force forbid reply or defense? That is the right he demanded when he required Senator Beve- ) ridge to withdraw the mild term “unwarranted.” It BAILEY RAMPANT. was a proper term, and far within the limits of Sen- atorial courtesy. It meant only that the facts stated by Bailey, whatever they were, did not warrant his conclusions, whatever they were. But Senator Bailey, like too many on his side of the chamber and from his-section of the country, has never learned self-control and looks out for some- thing to offend him in order to let his common sense take a vacation and permit his malicious tem- per to caper like a kicking mule. Upon the polite declination of Seénator Beveridge to withdraw his language the Texan declined to the barbaric level, which is supposed by some people in his part of the country to be the plane of extreme gentility, and struck out for the Indiana Senator. All _accounts concur in describing the extent of the havoc wrought. It ‘went only as far as the Indiana Senator’s necktie, which it untied. Then the Texas Senator was seized by the legs and hauled off, bringing a desk and a few chairs with him. g The Senate was not in session and so its official dignity was not damaged, but the incident is none the less disgraceful to the Texas Senator and damaging and degrading to the State and section he represents. In private life a gentleman is expected to control his temper. The occasions are rare which excuse a resort to physical force. In the Senate a member wha is also a gentleman is expected to be humorous without being ribald, severe without the use of vulgar epithet, and to have reason for what he says and to say it reasonably. The South needs to instruct her Senators in respect for the rights of others, and in that self-espect that is the ingredient in all the de- cencies of life. Tillman has made a prize-ring of the Senate during this session. Money has been in the Washington police court for stabbing a street car conductor for the high crime of asking him for a transfer ticket, and now Bailey has chewed his tongue and rampaged like a drunken sailor. Not much of the session remains, but perhaps enough to afford in some other form to that side a chance to show unbridled temper and a vicious misconception of what constitutes a gentleman, e —— The story that King Alfonso would try to get the Spanish people to amuse themselves with horse- racing instead of bull-fighting appears to have been ill-founded, as he is reported to have attended sev- eral bull fights since his“eoronation. Perhaps he has been inf8rmed what it costs to run a racetrack and has deemed it advisable to stick to the old game. More amendments are being proposed for the local charter. Wouldn't it be cheaper and better to throw the whole thing into the wastebasket and ask | lthe Supreme Court of the State to govern us? LOSES HIS ARMS, PAINTS WITH HIS TEETH AND WINS PRIZES N the history of contemporaneous art there are but four names of painters recorded to whom nature has denied the gift of hands and arms. These four persons have all won distinction, and the names of Francois de Mentholon, Aimee Rapin, Noel Masson and Amelia Biffin have riSen triumphant from that circle of “freak” examples of humanity | who have exhibited their deformities rather than their artistic skill. Not far from this quartet of celebrities, whose names will always be remembered in the history of art, must be placed that of Bartram Hiles, a man who, up to the | age of 8 years, was as free from either | misfortune of birth or accident as any | other hearty, healthy boy who plays cricket, fights fistic battles and flings va- grant stones into limpid pools. Born in| Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, young Hiles, from the time he began to walk | and talk, showed an immense anxiety to | become an artist, and for so young a child his drawings were instinct with tal- ent. When he was 8 years old young Hiles’ arms were cut off by a streetcar. e then learned to draw by holding a brush between his teeth. . A correspondent for the North Ameri- can cailed upon Hfes at his home in Beaufort street, Chelsea, a short time ag Like most Londoners he lives in a flat, petty, artistic little nest, presided o by a charming housewife, and showing evidences of artistic taste In every detail. He looks more like an American college- bred man who has played baseball and football than an artist who has had to struggle against such misfortune as few men have had to encounter. His manner is alert, cheerful and business-like. It is amazing to learn that two years after the time that he lost his arms, as a boy of 10 years, Hiles had by dint of | steady and ceaseless work succeeded in obtaining a “First Class Excellent’ prize | in the second grade of a Bristol school | for (the pathos of it!) *‘freehand” draw- | ing! After this, when he had scarcely entered the early months of his “teens,” he was sent to an art class at a technical college in Bristol, where he made rapid progress and successfully passed num- erous art examinations, in which the sub- Jjects, incredible as it may seem, included modeling! ‘When he was 16 Hiles exhibited his first study in water colors at the Academy of | Fine Arts in Bristol, where it found a purchaser, not because it was known to be the work of a hopeless cripple, but be- cause it was considered to be of real artistic merit. Hiles says that it took him practically from five to six years to obtain complete mastery over his mouth and the muscles of his neck. Now he can hold a brush or pencil between his teeth and guide it with such supreme delicacy of touch by movements of his tongue and head that his mastery of line drawing as well as his broad and firm freedom of brush touch is even among well known artists re- garded as amazing. Among other honors Hiles has succeeded in winning the art scholarship at the National Art Training School, valued at about $600. He has also been awarded one silver and two bronze medals in the national competition for painting. He has studled in the great studios of Paris, and he is a constant stu- dent of such storehouses of art treasures as the National Gallery and the South o+ BARTRAM HILES, WHOSE ARMS WERE CUT OFF WHEN HE WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD, AND WHO WONDERFULLY USES ‘BBUS}! - AND PENCIL WITH HIS TEETH. o+ Kensington Museum. In all these suc- cesses of artistic competition the fact must be taken into account that absolute- ly no favoritism was shown to him be- cause he was unable to employ the same members as other students in the accom- phshment of his work. “Always remember,” he said, as he ex- hibited an exquisite little bit of water color work called “Homewards,” ‘‘that my method of work is frequently entirely unknown to the judges who have com- mended it. It is my ability that is con- sidered, and not my misfortune.” — This indomitable spirit of pride that en- ables him to conceal his infirmity when he can is evidently the keynote to the young artist’s character. His great am- bition is to be able to give his entire at- tention to water color work, but in order to turn_that ‘“honest penny” that is a necessity in the lives of laborers in the vineyard of industry Hiles gives most of his attention to designing beautiful con- ventional patterns for dadoes and friezes. His book plates, his ‘“headings” and his “tajl pieces,” as decorative black and white work, are quite admirable in their beauty of design and freedom of execu- tion. PERSONAL MENTION. W. T. Smith, a merchant of Elko, is at the Palace. E. A. Forbes, an attorney of Marysville, |- is at the Palace. Rev. J. F. Cross of Winnipeg is regis- tered at the Grand with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Manning of Chicago are registered at a downtown hotel. W. P. Hammon, a prominent contractor of Oroville, is in the city on a business trip. J. C. Ruddock, Trustee of the Asylum for the Insane at Uklah, is at the Grand. J. D. Hooker of Los Angeles s at the Palace. Customs Collector Stratton left last evening for Portland, Or., and other points in the Northwest for a two weeks’ investigation into customs matters and Chinese immigration in that portion of the country. George Macmillan, a member of the publishing firm of Macmillan Bros., of London, is at the Palace with his family. The party has been touring the southern part of the State, and will leave for the north and thence home the latter part of this\ week. e Avoid the Chinese Dentist. If the Chinese can boast that nothing is new to them, and that all the arts and sclences are old stories in the Celestial Kingdom, it is still true that for opera- tions in dentistry an American or Euro- pean would hardly care to go to a China- man. In spite of their boasts, the Chi- nese have not been slow in recognizing the superiority of American dentistry, al- though there are some who adhere to an- clent methods, and the New York Even- ing Post avers that every year one or two Chinese dentists of the old school come to New York, and remain until their cus- tomers have had their teeth ‘“put in or- der.” : The work is ludicrously primitive. The operator extracts all teeth with his fin- gers, and it must be admitted that his success is astonishing. His dexterity is due to years of practice. From youth to manhood he is trained to pull pegs from a wooden boards This training changes the aspect of the hand, and gives the stu- dent a finger grip amazing in its strength, equivalent in fact to a lifting power of three or four hundred pounds. For toothache he employs opium, pep- permint oil, cinnamon’ oil and clove oil. Sometimes he 7lls teeth, but he does it so bunglingly that the fillings stay in only a few ‘months. An element of superstition runs through all the work. According to the system, all dental woes are brought on by tooth worms. The nerve pulp is such a worm, and is always shown to the patient. For humbugging purposes, also, the . dentist carries about in his pocket some white bs, and after he has extracted a tooth e shows a b to the sufferer as the cause of all the trouble. The position of the dentist of this class i8 not very lofty among his countrymen, and he is regarded as half-way in soclal importance between a barber and a la- borer, which is certainly’a great injustice to the honest laborer. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ————— Townsend’s California glace fruit, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present_for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building, - —_———— Speeial information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (. n’'s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone 1042, . It you can't tell twins apart wait w they are together and tell them. 4y Cheap Rates to Minneapolis, Minn. N. E. A. Convention, $84 90, San to Minneapolis and return, going direct lines, returning Northern Pacific Railway. On sale July 1 and 2, good sixty days. Only requires six days for entire trip through Yellowstone National Park. Just the season to visit “Na- ture’s Greatest Wonderland.” The Northern Pacific train "r:tnhrt.h c:: Limited,” is unex- lled by any T, g Stateler, general agent, 5’ Market st,, ; and cal brand. SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS EMERALD-S., City. The word emer- ald originally came from the Greek. A CENT-B. B, Stockton, Cal. No premium is offered for a cent of 1346. STILL LIVING—N. A. M., City. Gen- eral A. W. Greely was alive in the early part of May. PERIODICALS-D. 8. B, City. “Sue- cess” is published in New York. “Waves" is also published in that city. EXPORT DUTY—A. O. R., Fresno, Cal. There is no export duty on foodstuff sent frem the United States to foreign coun- tries. THE SAN PEDRO AND SALT LAKE— Constant Reader. Work is being pushed ahead on the San Pedro and Salt Lake Railroad. VOLUNTEERS—S., Ceres, Cal. All Urited States volunteers who served in a foreign country during the Spanish Amer- ican war were allowed two months’ extra pay. WEALTH OF NATIONS—R., Napa, Cal. It is estimated that the wealth of the United States is $81,650,000,000; England, $59,030,000,000; France, $48,450,000,000; Russia, CARDINAL GIBBONS—A. C. 8, City. Cardinal Gibbons was alive and well on June 15, 1902. The prominent prelate who died a short time before that was Arch- bishop Corrigan. ANTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS—Country Subscriber. The automobile accidents re- ferred to in your communication were due to lack of knowledge in handling the horseless carriages. A SWEDISH COIN—E. P., Fresno, Cal. The coin described in your letter of in- quiry is a 10 ore piece of Sweden, reign of Oscar II, coined in 1875. Dealers of- fer to sell such for 15 cents. DIMES—L. V., Angels Camp, Cal. Deal< ers in coins do not offer a premium for dimes issued in the nineties, except for these of San Francisco coinage of 1894. There are but twenty-four of these. ABOUT CALIFORNIA—J. €., Paterson, N. J. If you desire information about California and its products, address a communication to the State Board of Trade, Ferry Building, San Francisco, Cal. - AN ACCOUNT-F. P., City. Your ques- tion relative to an account against a par- ty to whom you furnished certain goods, cannot be answered without knowing what kind of an account you had with him. SHINPLASTERS — F. 8., Veterans’ Home, Cal. The small paper currency is- sued during the Civil War after 1861 was commonly called shinplasters. They were of the denomination of 3, 5, 10, 25 and # cents. GAS—A. B. C., Berkeley, Cal. For the manufacture of gases or experiments along that line consult works on chemis- try cr the manufacture of gases. This department has not the space to describe the various methods. DIFFERENCE IN TIME-M. A. W., City. “When it is 8 o’clock in San Fran- cisco, what time is it in Nevada and Missouri?” is very indefinite. If you name some locality in either State an 4n- swer will be furnished. TRUMPS—G., City. In euchre, if your partner adopts or makes the trump, and | you hold the right bower or the left bow- er alone, ruff with it as soon as you get the opportunity. Ruffing is trumping a suit other than trumps. . SIXTEEN-INCH GUN—H. A. V., Lodi, | lying down, tue Cal. For information as to the first 16- inch gun constructed for the United | but other animals States you will have to address a com- fl::'fl. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Saymold Storey—Did ye know ther’ wuz more’'n a billion gallons o' beer drunk in this country last year? That'd float the biggest ship "at ever wuz built. Goodman Gonrong—Begosh, it does float the ship of state! Look at the rev'noo frum it.—Baltimore American. Papa (severely)—Did you ask mamma if you could bave that apple? Five-year-old—Yes, papa. Papa—Be careful now. I'll ask mamma, and if she savs you didn't ask her I'll whip you for telling a story. Did you ask mamma?"” > Five-year-old—Papa, T asked her. (A pause.) She said I couldn’t have it.—Tit- Bits. Douttless She Was.—Mrs. Browne— And who is the president of your club now, Mrs. Malaprop? Mrs. Malaprop (proudly)—I am the pres- ent incumbrance, just now.—Philadelphia Press. “So Sellers is agent for a consumption cure now? Does he sell any™ “Yes; he tells me he sold a bottle yes- terday to a Chinaman.” “A Chinaman?” “Yes; he was attracted by the name on his laundry sign—"Wun Lung. -Phila~ delphia Bulletin. She—If people now were turned into pil= lars_of salt, like in Lot’s time, just be- caufe they.turned around to rubber, what would be the result? He—Why, there wouldn't be se many fresh people in. the world.—~Yonkers Statesman, i “Is there an engagsment ring?’ said one girl. “No,” answered the other. “You have heard the phrase ‘a circle of acquaine tances?” “Yes." “Well, this is one.”—~Washington Star. @ iniiniini e @ rounication to the Ordnance Bureau, War Department, Washington, D. C. AMERICAN—-N. A. M, City. In the restricted sense an American is one who is an inhabitant of the American conti- nert, and Marconi, being an inhabitant of the United States, can in that restricted sense be classed as an American. His ad- dress is New York City, but his home is Marzbotto, Italy. AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINES-A. { Santa Barbara, Cal. If you will send a self addressed and envelope this department will mail you the address of a newsdealer that can furnish you any of the magazines or other publications of Austraiia, but such cannot be adv in this department. THE PRESIDENCY—Subscriber; Mon- ticeilo, Cal. The constitution ‘the United States provides that a person to be eligible for the office of President of the United States must be a natural borm citizen, who shall have attained the age of 35 years and been fourteen years a resi- dent of the United States. THE COST OF CARS—A. R. G., City. The railroad company named in your let- ter of inquiry wishes to know your rea- son for the information asked about the two cars named. If there is'geod reason for such a request it may he given. Such information belongs to the stockholders and not to the genegal public. PRINCE HENRY—G., Auburn, Cal ‘This department has not any information as to the toasts and those who responded to them other than what appeared in the accounts published in The Call at the time of the several receptions and banquets that were tendered to Prince Henry on his recent visit to this country. 5 THE ELEPHANT-—S. A. F., City. The hind legs of ‘he elephant have the knee Jjoint in front the same as in man, so that when the knee is, bent the angle is to- ward the head, and not backward as in the horse ahd most other animals. In e dlephant stretches his legs backward as a man does in kneeling; bring thelr hind legs \ 0.8,