The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1902. - ‘ —ee THE WRIT OF PROHIBITIQN. SATL'RD:\.\' .......... R ...JULY 12, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. "Address All Communications to W. §. 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 Stevenson St. | PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Centis Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. | Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sund .00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sund: 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months. 1.50 i DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65¢c { SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.50 | WEEKLY CALL, One Ye: 1.0 | All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 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NW. rner Twenty-second and Kentucky, until ® o'clock.” 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. _——— 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | 106 Eleventh, open until 9 | open | | | | Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail te their new | mddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. | This paper will also be on sale at all summer | resorts and is represented by a local agent in | all towns on the coast. ; | UDGED by the written report of the commit- investigaticn, Dr. Lawlor, superintendent has not The report declares the superintendent to be a generous, | d , but concludes by saying: “In in- | ystem of seclusion and bread inmateés who are defective men- ent made a grave error of judg- ITHE GLEN ELLEN J the Home for the Feeble-Minded, AFFAIR. = | been guilty of anything worse than a mistake. i probably on mistaken ideas of the class caring for. Bread and water diet, | orced seclusion in a darkened - ed children is absolutely g and is improper treatment.” o was made: there was com- | mitted ry grave error of judgment?; the sys- | sh tem of p has been propér treatmer written report of the committee. fying report, L nt or correction applied in the home “absolutely wrong” and constitutes “im- It It shows ut it will do. » against the management of | eveals the fact that there has | eatment of the helpless and hopeless suf- | tted to the institution, and confirms the Dr. a political ferers cor worst f Osborne tc place Upon ose who noted the removal of ke room and 2 job for 1owing there arises the issue of fixing jor what the committee calls “a grave regards as a gross out- t pitiful of human beings 1as been prompt to fix the responsibility on the , and it is announced that on his Dr. Lawlor, despite his “kind missed from office because he has s of the class of people he was caring th. Lawlor dismissed the scapegoat will have up and Gage will ask commendation public. Doubtless he will even pose as the of the feeble-minded and will ask to be excused from investigating San Quentin because he responsib was so promy in investigating Glen Ellen. While the sacrifice of prompt the scdpegoat has been public scrutiny will go behind it and ask has been justly made. Who is it that was grave error in the treatment of the victims at Glen Ellen> Who was it procured the dismissal of thoroughly competent superintendent? Who b to make the home a part of the cs? Who selected an incompetent place-hunter for that responsible position? Who de- ed the job by which the removal of the fit and the appointment of the unfit superintendent was car- ried out? Who packed the board of directors with men to whom the spoils of politics are more impor- tant than the welfare of the home or the treatment of the children? Whose political interests were served by the job? Who has been"the beneficiary? When Gage arranged with the political bosses to mzke a place for Lawlor at the Home for the Fecble-Minded he was well aware that Lawlor had no fitness for the position. He knew that Lawlor was ignorant of the proper method of treating such unfortunates. He knew all that well enough, but he did not care. He was indifferent what happened to the children. He had made the Normal Schools of the State a part of the spoils of politics and was resolved that the Feeble-Minded Home should also | g0 into the pot, and when he found that decent men | would not do the work for him he got mea who would, and who did. | Gage calls for the dismissal of Lawlor, but who will he put in the place he removed official? Is it to be another gang politician? - Is the sacrifice of one job-hunter to be made the means of providing a job for another? ; Public Osborne. b opinion demands the restoration of Dr. He is the one man in the State who is fitted by nature, by sympathy, by inclination, by training and by experience to give those poor un- fortunates proper treatment. If there be any de- cency in Gage’s make-up he will try to atone for his past wrong by the reappointment of the man whom he removed® By such a reappointment he could to some extent redress the evil committed in the first place. That will be the final judgment of the pyblic on the subject, for it is known to all that the person guilty of the improper treatment and absolute wrong committed at Glen Ellen is none other than Gage himself. ' (S N | Christian church feel the antagonism of creeds. O long as Gage seeks to evade a triaf in court of the issue which he himself made against the proprietor and the manager of The Call, so long is it a matter of public interest that the facts in the case be kept clearly before the people. For that reason we once more review the proceedings that have led up to the applica- tion of Gage for a writ of prohibition ta prevent the hearing of the case now before Judge Fritz. The petition for the writ reveals at once the willingness of the defendants'to go on with the hearing, and the unwillingness of Gage to have the -hearing take place. The Call does not undertake any deep scrutiny fifto the motives-which have ani- mated Gage in charging that a criminal libel has been published concerning him, nor into the secret processes of his mind which led him to bring the suit in the far-off court at San Pedro. It suffices to say that every step he has taken in the case shows a desire to get the credit of seeking a trial while at the same time avoiding one.. Upon ne other hypothesis can there be any clear understanding of his avowed eagerness for a trial accompanied by his active efforts to prevent atrial when an opportunity is offered to have one without delay.” It will be remembered that when the proprietor and the manager of The Call were styled “friends of the court” and undertook | summoned into court by Judge Fritz to answer to a charge of publishing'a criminal libel { against Governor Gage, Mr. Moore and Mr. Foote, attorneys for Gage; appeared as self- to direct the Judge as to how he should act. When he declined their counsel and refused to submit to dictation or bulldezing 'they marched out of court with a swagger and announced they would have ' nothing more to do with the case. Then suddenly, they have changed their minds and their tactics. Hav- ing found it impossible to domineer over the Judge. they sought a writ of prohibition restraining him from proceeding with the to them. trial. Evidently it had become interesting The move was not a surprising one. When Gage announced with a flourish that he would sue the proprietor and the manager of The Call for criminal libel, the owner of the Los Angeles Times for damages in a civil actior, and would deal with the proprietor of the Chronicle-in‘some unnamable - way on his return to California, it was the general belief that the declaration was a bluff intended to make a showiing of virtue until after the meeting_of the Republican State Convention. Later on when Gage brought-suit against | the proprietor and the manager of The Call, not at Sacramento where his official resi- [ dence is fixed by law, nor in San Francisco, nor in any county wiiere the witnesses could be promptly produced, but in far-off ‘San Pedro, it became evident to all that he did not wish-a prompt trial; that he wished to bluster and to dodge; that he was eager for any- thing rather than to give The Call a chance to produce in court the evidence of the truth of its charges. In opposition to the evasive tactics of the Governor the defendants in the case have been eager for a speedy trial and for a hearing in any court where the evidence can opportunity to bring the issue to a prompt no objection to that suit. They announced themselves ready tc proceed at once. | prospect of a speedy hearing was good. Governor Gage had an ample opportunity to come into court-and meet the issue. Instead of doing so he sought a writ of prohibition. While the words of his boasting desire to The Call as criminals are still fresh in the minds of the people, he shirks and dodges| | the issue,-seeks to evade a trial and flies from the very charges he declared himself so eager to refute. | be promptly and fully presented. The suit brought in the court of Judge Fritz affords an settlement. The defendants therefore made convict the proprietor and the manager of Contrast the-message to Dr. Hat¢h directing him to enter at once upon an inves- | tigation of the charges made against the management of the Home for the Feeble-| Minded at Glen Ellen with the application for a writ of prohibition to prevent a judicial investigation of the charges against the administration at San Quentin. It is a striking situation. Gage was willing to have the Glen Ellen investigation go on, for he knew he could make a scapegoat of the superintendent, Dr. Lawlor, but he is not willing to have an examination of San Quentin, for he knows the testimony in that case will disclose that he himself is a beneficiary of some of the frauds and violations of law committed there. That is the meaning of the application for a writ of prohibition. It is in vain, how- | ever, that Gage resorts to-every trick and device known to the law to escape coming into a court where the trial will proceed at once. If the defendants cannot succeed in bring- ing him' to meet the issue in court, the evidence will none the less be produced. The Call | will see to it that both the facts and the proof of all allegations it has made concerning San Quentin are made public before the date of the primary elections. NATIONAT, GUIDANCE. O speaker is more welcome-in any American assemblage than Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul. In the Civil War he was a sokdier of the republic, is a member of the G. A. R, and no American patriot stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens. He has done much to extinguish the rancor of religious friction and to restore the old- time cordiality that prevailed before dogmatic dis- cussion made the different sects and’ branches of the In all this work he has been associated with the lead- ers of politics and of thought and of enterprise. He was a close personal friend of McKinley, and in the great movement that ripened in the Civic Federation, | intended to procure an understanding between labor and capital that will prevent destructive strikes and lockouts, he and Bishop Potter have been closely as- sociated. His recent enthusiastic reception at the general convention of the National Educational Association at Minneapolis was a whole-hearted recognition of his American spirit. His address on that occasion was partly a criticism of that recent evil called “yel- low journalism.” He impeached it for seeking sen- sation and notoriety zt the expense of the truth, and especially reprehended it for the flaming falsehoods by which it inflamed public sentiment and brought on the Spanish war. The telegraphic report of the ad- dress is meager and appears to state only some con- clusions without the arguments whence they issue. He said: “I am one who sees in the sequence of the late Spanish war the guiding hand of a mighty | Providence, and the outburst of forces long gather- | ing in the bosom of the nation, sure at one moment or another to break cut in a resistless self-assertion. Nevertheless, I shall never deny that among the im- mediate causes of the war there are to be numbered the exaggerated statements, the lies, too, and the calumnies, the ceaseless appeals to wild and reckless passion, which disfigured. and disgraced the utter- ances of certain newspaper writers and' of . certain other manipulators of public opinion.” In this there appears the same apparent .inconsis- tency that has been manifest in the opinions of other clerical characters .in the same connection. lies and exaggerations of the yellow préss were neces- sary to procure the action intended by such super- natural policy. Of course the clerical view of it is supported by the Hebrew history in the Old Testa- ment, but the pious thought of the modern’ world runs to. the inquiry, Why is it necessary to permit men to do evil, to lie, exaggerate and inflame the passions of their fellows in order that the ‘pure and high purpose of Providence may have the way made clear for their progress? Reasoning out the argu- !ment, does it not appear to put yellow journalism, lying, exaggeration and sensationalism among the instrumentalities of Providence? There is coming a well defined feeling and a grow- ing fear that the selfish plans and passions of men, worked upon the weak and defenseless by cruelties at which the human heart revolts, are quite unjustly un- loaded upon divine Providence. One can see why an American patriot like Archbishop Ireland should If the, guidance were provicential it is not clear why the. can be left, to be forgotten, in order that the national memory may carry other things more to the credit of the republic. The Archbishop mentioned one of such sequences with aFImirabIe impartiality. Thig was the charge made in the newspapers of his own church that the American teachers sent to the Philippines were en- gaged in perverting the natives from the Catholic faith. This charge, he said, had upon investigation | been proved tode false. But the making of it, and it could not have been made except for the Spanish war and its sequences, may do much to increase re- unhappy controversy over the public schools. Arch- bishop Ireland and other eminent ecclesiastics of his and the Protestant churches must not blame a think- ing laity if it choose to imagine a Providence that matures and projects its majestic plans without caus- ing so much anguish, controversy and- uncharity among the children of men. - ——— It is stated that cheating at examinations is grow- ing to be alarmingly frequent at the New England colleges and the authorities are at a loss how to deal with it. Some declare the demands of athletic spf)rts are so excessive the student cannot keep up with his studies and is forced to crib to get through, while others declare the whole examination system to be wrong and insist that it tempts to fraud. Evi- dently there must be a diminutipn either of athletics or of examinations, or else New England colleges will have to turn most of their students out without graduating them. President Castro, it is said, is taking his last stand and will probably fight a losing battle. His enemies might do well to remember, however, that Mr. Cad- tro has never been such a chatterbox as when he was silent and never so energetic as when he was at rest. He may surprise his foes. —_— o 3 +The St. Louis exposition has been definitely, post- poned until 1904, and thus Santos Dumont has more time to get up his airship contest. It is quit‘e pos- sible, too, that the race throfigh the air may be the biggest thing of the.year outside the Presidential racket. o The glorious Northwest of these United States is receiving reams of notorietysfrom the hideous _c{imes of its malefactors and murderous- outlaws. - There may be, however, some question as to the value of advertisement based upon such a structiire, © ' The boy duelists of this cigy'vwho*"esl_éapevdlprose- cution the other day because .one would not testify against the other seem to be'in the category of young men who are being happily geared by chance. The public will probably hear from them again. After all our growling and criticism and complaint Congress treated us pretty well.. The liberality of the appropriations for California will at least insure many improvements, for which we have primarily to thank our representatives. The, desire to find a statute of repose somewhere in the | moral code where the sequences of the Spanish war | ligious rancor in this country and to add heat to the | HIS YEARS MOR _ CENTURY AND E THAN [ = o allowed to welcome that there should be weaker, and it ig the see another birthday. feeble. PERSONAL MENTION. | Edwin Swinford, an attorney of Colusa, is at the Grand. 2 E. R. Abadle, a Nevada City mining masn, iIs a guest at the Palace. | Fragk H. Kiesel, a wine merchant of Sacramento, is at the Palace. 3 Sanger Pullman returned from the East Festerday, accompanied by his wife. P. C. Drescher, ‘a well known merchant of Sacramento, is at the California. Judge James H. Beatty of Boise City, Idaho, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Walter S, Vail, a cattle dealer of Texas and owner of the island of Santa Rosa, is at the Palace. Edward Chambers, freight manager of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. | _Enrique Romero, Obregon, a relative of President Diaz of Mexico, is visiting the city and is a guest of Consul A. K. Coney. Victor H. Woods, County Surveyor of San Luis Obispo County and candidate for the office of State Surveyor General, is at the Grand. General 'Passenger Traffic Manager E. 0. McCormick left last evening for Colo- rado Springs to attend the quarterly meeting of the Transcontinental Passen- ger Association. : J. Ress Clark, brother of Senator Clark | of Montana, passed through the city yes- terday, en route to Los Angeles from New York. He is vice president of the Salt | Lake road. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 11.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—C. N. Hall, at the Metropolitan; C. J. Stovel, at the Hoff- man; Mrs. Buford, at the Albemarle; 8. 8. Curtis and G. H. Plummer, at the St. Denis; G. F. Detrick, at the New Amster- dam; A. B. Keating, at the Grand Union, and C, M. Morton, at the Sturtevant. From Los Angeles—G. A. Steay, at the llmx‘)ierlal. and H. T. Hazard, at the Ash- and. Tat b Latest of Religious Sects. In “freak” religious developments the United States is. for the time being, out- done by Germany. 2 The kingdom of Wurtemberg has al- ways been a hotbed for the growth of curfous sects, generally of a Pietist char- acter. . The latest of these bodies has its head quarters in Stuttgart, and sceks to estal lish branch communities in the other towns and villages of the country.” The chief tenets of the new body, which calls itself “Brethren of (the Sword of the Spirit,” are the following: The Bible contains God's word, but it is not for every reader. Only the Breth- ren of the Sword of the. Spirit can un- derstand it and Impart its lessons to oth- ers. . From their Bibles they expurgate all passages alluding to the immoralities practiced by the. ancient world. The song of Solomon is absent from their canon. The “brethren” bind themselves to cell- bacy; they are vegetarians and opposed to the use of tobacco and: alcohol in all its forms., No community can number more than twenty-five brethren, who are called “families.”” These families have each a “father’” ‘and “‘mother,” who are in special communion with the “spirit.” Every Saturday they meet for worship, and the father or mother then ‘reveals” the message of the week, which he or she hhs received direct from the spirit. This message regulates their entire life, not merely the religious part of it, Prayer they have abolished. as unneccessary. The sect of Brethren of the Sword of the Spirit meet at night in the house of one of their number. On the table in front of the “revealer” is a naked sword sym- bolizing the ‘‘spirit.”” — e ' “You know I swore off lying last New Year's?” sald Newliwed. “Yes,” said Brown “Well, I nearly broke over to-day.” “How 507" “A chorus girl spoke to me while I was with my wife and, of course, my wife wanted to know who she was.’” “Whew! And didn’t you have to lie to get out of it?” ““No, sir! 1 simply said that she was an old acquaintance of mine—an old friend F that I had known ever since she wore short dresses.”—Indianapolis Sun. NOAH RABEY, AN INMATE OF THE POORHOUSE OF PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP, NEW. JERSEY, WHO HAS JUST CELEBRATED HIS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY. e N the poorhouse of Piscataway Township, New Jersey, Noah Rabey the other day celebrated his one hundred and twenty-ninth birthday. This very old man has been an inmate of the pluce for more than thirty years, and his Lirthday has been celebrated every year since he entered it. callers, as the manager of the institution thought it better no excitement for the old men. Rabey 1s gradually growing belief of the poorhouse.authorities that he will not live to This year Rabey was not Up to within a comparatively short period his vigor had been the wonder of the people in charge of the institution. but recently he scemed to suddenly grow He has been forced to reduce his daily walks in the grounds of the poor- house, and now sits in a chair most of the time. LR e e e b S ] ) ANSWERS TO QUERIES. BOURNE,, City. Bodyrn or bourne, meaning a bound, limit, confine and goal, is correctly spelled with or without. the final e. S \ MARRIAGE—E. B. 0. N., Sutter Creek, Cal. There is no law in California that prevents a man from marrying the sister of his @eceased wife. TAXING VESSELS—C. B, City. Ves- sels of all kinds that are listed at the San Francisco Custom-house are assessed the same as other property subject to taxation. BOHEMIANS—A. B. C., City. What is meant by the question “How do the bo- | hemians live?" Do you mean the inhab- itants of Bohemia or those free and easy people called bohemians? THE PHILIPPINE BILL—H. City. This department has not the space to re- produce the provisions of the Philippine bill. It was published in The Call of June 4, second page, first column. FICTITIOUS NAMES—J. A. B., Kern | City.. People do marry under fictitious names in this State, but when they do they have in after time much trouble and expense to obtain a legal rectifica- | tion of the matter. TO THE PHILIPPINES—Anxious, City. Not knowing what particular line of buai- ness you want to engage in at the Philip- pines in order to earn a livelthood, gov- ernment or civil, this department cannot answer the question in its present form. CORPORATION—W., City. The legal definition of public corporation is one that is devoted exclusively to the instru- ment of the public interest and that of a private one is one which is created whol- ly or in part for the purppse of private emolument. HOMESTEAD—M. T., Oakland, Cal. If the occupants of a homestead go away for other than a fixed period it has been held to be an abandonment of the same. It has been held that leaving a tenant at will on a homestead is not abandon- ment thereof. HOUSE OF COMMONS—B. C. City. The House of Commons is composed of 465 members for England, ‘30 for Wales, 72 for Scotland and 103 for Ireland. Of the Irish representation eighty-five are from countles, sixteen from boroughs and two from. universities. . FALSETTO VOICE—J. B., Suisun, Cal. Falsetto in singing is a strain on the volce above its natural compass. The term is applied to the highest register of a man’s voice, which joins the natural jor chest volce, and which by practice m):y be blended with the chest voice so as to make no percéivable break. There is no special value to such a voice except to use by a vaudeville performer who de- sires to introduce a freak in singing. Not many practice falsetto. HER OWN PROPERTY—Reader, City. This correspondent writes: “A woman marries. After a time she and her hus- tand separate. During \separation the wife with her own money buys real es- tate, for which she obtains a clear title in her name. She then secures a divorce from her husband and marries again. Has the divorced husband any claim in the real estate she purchased?’ If the woman purchased the property with her own money, no- part of it being tHat of her husband, she is the absolute owner of that property, in which neither her former nor present husband has any say. RAISING RENT—A Subscriber, City. Section 827 of the Clvil Code of California says: “In all leases of land or tenements, or of any interests therein, from month to month the landlord may, upon giving notice In writing at least fifteen days be- fore the expiration of the month, change the terms of the lease to take effect at the expiration of the month. The notice when served upon the tenant shall of ‘itself operate and be effectual to create and establish as part of the lease the terms, rent and conditions specified in the notice, if the tenant shall continue to hola the premises after the expiration of the month.” The landlord in giving fifteen days’ notice that he would raise the rent was clearly within the law. QUARTER GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS It seems now as if the autumn pub- lishing season would this year begin ear- lHer than usual, -perhaps in about three months’ time. The publishers are there- fore hustling to get out books which haye been waiting for months past. One of Fisher Unwin's early autumn bocks will be Countess Evelyn Cesaresco’s | volume of Lombard studies. ~An Ameri- can By birth, she is an adopted daughter | of Italy and much devoted to that coun- try. She knows it as ane who. hfs made it her home and its people as her own people. The studies deal with Italy in the sense of jts natural characteristics its poetic associatiops, its musical mem- ories, its flocks, fields and heroes. The ! Jovely but still so unfamiliar Lake of Garda is described. There is an account of the famous Scala Opera-house, while the reader is taken to the Rimini® of Francesca. The-illustrations include one of the Palazzo of Martinengo, the Coun- tess’ historic residence, about which Lady Montagu went into raptures a century and a half ago. 4 Grant Richards is getting out immedi- ately three important issues. Among them is T. W. H. Crosland’s much discussed “The Unspeakable Scot,” which is ex- pected to cause some stir amid the Dorie dovecotes. Crosland will altogether belie his reputation if it does not. Richards’ intentioh is plain, from the fact that hg has already commissioned a writer froms the far-north of Forfarshire with an-uns mistakable Scottish name to writé & €om- panfon book, in which the mirror will be held up to Englishmen. Willam Le Queux, who is now busy rewriting his novel “The Unnamed,”™ which has been appearing serially in Cas- sell's Magazine, has been appointed Con- | sul of the republic. of San Marino. Le Queux was secretary of the British dip- lomatic mission which visited the‘répub< lic last year to make an extradition trea- ty. He also for some time has beem.en- gaged in writing the history of this an- cient republic, which has existed as an independent state for more than 1570 years. The book, which will 'bé profusely fllustrated, is to be issued in the autumn. That most amazingly industrious writer, T. P. O’Connor; has turned the “Humbert affair” into a novel, which will be pull- lished under the title of “Phantom Mil- lions.” It may interest book collectors to know that the hand-made paper edition of the | coronation service which the Oxford Press published was limited to 350 coples, the prices ranging from half a guinea ' up- | ward, according to -the quality of. the | binding. The whole edition was sold af once. It is a question how the postpene- ment of the coronation will influence its value in the future. On the title pag2 it is stated, of course, that the contents form the order of service prescribed to be sald on June 26. Since there are so few coples of this fine Oxford edition the probability is that they may become val- uable. A CHANCE TO SMILE. * | . | Monahan—Poor Clancy! | | Donegan—Why, man alive! ‘tis Iuck he's in. “Phwat! D’ye call it luck to have wan o' yer iegs cut off?” “Av coorse. It'll only cost him half as much now for shoes and pants.”—Phila- delphia Record. great | “What!" exclaimed the woman wha had | just started a boarding house, “twenty- five for those string beans? | “Them ain’t string beans,” satd the Fuckster; “‘them’s butter beans, ay’ "~ “H'm—butter beans. Maybe you've got some oleomargarine” Beans that'd eome cheaper.”—Philadelphia Record. | “I hear,” said Mr. Kidder, *“that there's a fellow working on an invention which will make it utterly impossible to mix milk and water. What will happen to you fei- | lows if he succeeds?” “Nothing,” replied the candld milkman, “so long as he doesn’t prevent us from mixing chalk and ‘water.”"—Philadelphia Record. “Ah nevah could undahstan’.” eaid Charcoal Eph, as he helped himseilf to a plece of cornbread, ‘w’y er man blow on he soup ter git hit cool, blow on he han's ter keep dem wahm, an’ blow on hisse't ter beat de ban.'" Hab some oh de fowl, Mistah Jackson.”—Baltimore World. | “That shell from the Kearsarge that ] struck Newport’'s city hall did very littls | damage."” | “What a chance for an interesting ex- | periment was lost by the fact that no city Councilmen happened to-get in-its way."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ——————— Some Queer Things in Japan. | A Japanese auction is a most solemn at- | fair. The public do not call out thefr bids, | but write their names, together with the | amount they are willing to pay, on a slip | of paper, and put it in a box. These are | looked through and the article awarded to | the person who has made the biggest of- | fer, | Every workman in Japan wears on his | cap and on his back an inscription giving his business and his employer’'s name. Japanese cooks are the most cruel in the | world. They cut every atom of flesh off” | & living fish plecemeal, without first caus-' | ing its death. | It is considered that Japanese-raen' among the best needieworkers tn world, their only equals being the’ of Russia. The Japanese never sleep with the head to the north. This is because the dead in Japan are always burled with the head in that position. In the sleeping rooms of many of the private houses and of hotels a diagram of the points of the compass is posted upon the celling for the eonveni- ence of guests. s There are no undertakers-in Japan. When a person dies his nearest relativeg put him into a coffin and bury him. The mourning does not begin until . after. burial. A spectator in a Japanese theater, on yment of a small extra fee, s permit- ted to stand up; and the pérson behind him cannot object, although the latter’s, view of the performance is obstructed. . The lower classes of the Japanese em< ploy hardly any other material than paper for their clothing. When wages are ex- ceedingly low cloth is an impossible ex=. travagance. Public story-tellers still earn a good livelthood In Japan. In Tokio alone 400 of themrply their trade, provided with a emall table, a fan and a paper rapper fo fllustrate and emphasize the points. of | their tales. Out in Japan the -doctor never thinks of asking poor patients for a fee. A proverb among the medicdl fraternity af’ Japan runs: “When the twin enemies, poverty and disease, invade a home, ne who takes aught from that home, even though it be given to him, is a robber. # In Japan they have no milk to speak of. The natives do not care for it. Moreover, milk is an animal pyoduct, and, as such, is prohibited by the native religion. In Japan you buy a dress by the Welght. 22 bt et & . Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's. mduct};n, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 106 to 40c. Note §1 4th, front barber, grocer. = —_—— Townsend's California Glice fruit anq candles, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched bcxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, €39 Market st., Palace Hotel building, * —_—— Special information supplied dally ¢ business houses and public-men by '::-v Press Bureau (Allen’s), 230" Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1043,