The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1902, Page 6

( &—;c — é'q,,iactgi 2 (Ea«ll- JULY 15, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, T ittres A1 Ccxmeaicatices ts W. 5. LEAKE, Fasager. Proprietor. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect ¥ou With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, 8. ¥, EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. gle Coples, 5 Ce Terms Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one yea DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months DAILY /(CALL—By Single Month, SUNDAY CALL, One Year JEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. P gefags 8.1 wubscribers in ordering change of address shouid be particulag to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order % dneure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. tesseeesss1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, ¥coeger Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. {Long Distaace Telephone “‘Central 2619."") YORK REPRESENTATIVE: .+..30 Tribune Building NEW SYEPHEN D. SMITH... XEW YORK CORBESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON vesssesHerald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: T Jdorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Sguare; Murrey Eili Hotel. CHICAGO EWS STANDS: €herman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of June. 1902. .o 71,020 ' June 16... 60,470 6GO,580 June 59,820 June June June 20 June June June June June June June June June June OF CALIFORNIA, AXD COUNTY O 34 day of July, 18 AN FRANCISCO—ss mally appeared before me, T. Hess, a Notary c in and for the City and aforesaid, W. J. MARTIN, who being sworn according declares that he is the Business Manager of the San CALL, a dally newspaper published in the City and f San Francisco, State of California, and that there rinted and distributed during the month of June, 1902, oo eight hundred and seventy thousand one hundred (1.870,160) copies of the said newspaper, which num- 4o average £ally circulation of 62,335 coples, W. J. MARTIN Subiacihed ‘and sworn to before me this 3d day of July, 1902. W. T. HESS, Notars #ublic in and for the City and County of San Fran- cisco, State of California, room 1018, Claus Spreckels bldg. UBECRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subseribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have fheir paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer ‘esoris mnd is represented by = local agent im i1 towns on the coast. = BRITAIN’S NEW RULER. reakadministrator of the British Empire is the Prime Minister. He is the chairman of the committee of Parliament called the Minis- The sovercign mames him as chairman, but a g sovereign must it be who interferes success- wath the policy of the ruling committee after it appointed. That is the privilege of Parliament and the people only. The political complexion is changed by the cople through the ballot box, and then the ruling gcommittce, the Ministry, must change with it. The sovercign of England must be stubborn and adven- turous indeed to refuse to call to the formation of a Ministry any other than the leader of the party that has won at the polls. The two most picturesque English party leaders of moderntimes were Gladstone and Beaconsfield. Queen Victoria personally disliked them both. Beaconsfield said in Parliament that the Queen was mentally, morally and physically incapable of ruling. But when bis party prevailed she made him Prime Minister and & peer and he bestowed upon her the title of Empress of India. She called Gladstone, her other aversi to the head of the Ministry when the Lib- erals won at the polls, though she liked him even less than Beaconsfield. Those things were done in deference to the popu- lar will, for as a matter of fact there is no modern government in which the will of the people is more powerful or more respected than-in Great Britain. Aside ffom the dynastic feature and the permanence of the executive the system is very democratic. But even as to the dynasty the convention of 1688, which displactd the Stuarts and brought in the house of % range, settled the principle of the right of the peo- ple to change the dynasty. The permanence of the rx,ec},'j\'g wzs tiot affected by that principle, but the “ight ot the people through Parliament to say what jamily should furnish the executive was settled and has never been disturbed. The snew Prime Minister, Mr. Balfour, has the nec- essary training and experience for administration. The whole world is relieved that the King did not call Chamberfain. That gentleman represents thoroughly the spirit of commercialism in politics and has mea- ger iden Afic.atmn with the intellectual patriotism of and literary ability. Glad:\crs g lnfellectua] found wotk in philosophy and peree > ¢, O PFO- + Phy and polemics, and the fic- fion with which his great rival diverted himself was mare than respectable. Mr: Balfour is 2 man of ma and has made worthy contributi of philosophy. His devotion t him 2 elaim on the sympathy me of the marked character; He is not an .old man, and by Teason of his physieal future will give to his party a continuity and con. sistency of policy which all great parties need, One result of his promotion may be t}, ment of Lord Rosebery to the Liberal leadership, and in 8¢ rivaley of the two may be restoreq "'AE’ beg a’e_ntures of the competition between Gladstone and 3 Ve rked literary ability, ons to the literature 0 hardy sports gives jaf‘lhe people through istics of English life, e advance- #ded by thirty (the number of days of issue) gives an | A THE SAN FRANCIS PUSH AND PARASITES. HE Governor of California, among his other T afflictions, is troubled with vermin. The polit- ical push is parasitic in its character, but it preys more directly on the public, which tries to pro- tect itself sometimes by scratching tickets. Should the push succeed in overturning the party purposes in the coming primary there will be a deal of scratching on election day. The vermin that infests the Governor is more directly personal than the push, and unfor- tunately he is incapable of applying the mercurial ointment which would relieve him. The Evening Post is the leader of these predatory insects, and has the art of persuading the Governor that it is puncturing the skin of others while it preys upon him. That paper has persuaded its victim that hiding his head makes his body invisible, and that the sting which it inflicts is a trouble which it is trying to cure. For a long time it preyed openly upon the | railroad company until that corporation got tired of being reminded that it had vermin, and so it publicly purged its garments of the pest while it privately picked the thing off and put in the Governor's hair. Since then he has charged up and down the State wildly scratching and accusing others of the trouble which is caused by his personal parasite. The 1ailroad still owns the insect but farms it out. The Governor is really deserving of sympathy un- | der the circumstances. But his case has an analogy in nature. When a calf gets poor and obviously will not winter through it is immediately colonized by vermin. The Governor’s political decline has put him in that position. His political hair is turned | the wrong way, his back is humped and his ribs can be counted. He strays off the good grass and eats dirt, a sure sign of fatal disorders. The Post hastens the dissolution of his prospects by draining the blood of his reputation, and by the time the people get ready for him he will have hollow horn, grubs and all the evidences of decay which mark a politician for the boneyard. The parasite will then leave him and hunt for an- other victim. All this is not new in politics. The man who goes into cffice by the popular will but with a private string on every one of his fingers, bur- dened by sccret obligations and personal promises that must be paid and can only be paid by bestowing what belongs to the public, is sure to fall and fall so hard that the thud of his impact upon obscurity jars the ground. | The Governor’s hired and official vermin, the Post, ‘makes him think that his own reputation can be re- deemed and regarnished by atfacking the character of others. As well might a man expect to cure his own physical distemper by having it charged that another has a worse disorder. Measles cannot be | successfully treated by alleging that some one else has the smallpox, but that is the Post idea of poli- {tics. Tt has run in and out of all political camps, faithful to one purpose only, and that is to be vermin always. It has established one thing in the minds of | wise men, who have learned that it is the safe and ;mora] thing to oppose whatever it advocates and | promote whatever it opposes. It is a bad hitching | Post, and those wiser than the Governor long since | learned never to tie to it. The Governor is not wise, | and therefore is willing to stand. hitched while the | thing makes him an objéct of derision mixed with % pity. | It is a fate that wili befall any man who, elected by the people, considers himself only Governor of the push. The people have had a surfeit of him and his vermin and will have a housecleaning soon that will rid them of both. | Ii the course of the campaign this year is to be anything like the course of the two parties in Con- gress during the late session we may look out for a ‘contest involving no issues and owing its interest solely to the amount of heat and bitterness put into it. Moreover there should be a good deal of pugil- ism in it, for the late session had more fisticuffs than any other since the war. W gress to terminate the controversy over the toute of the isthmian canal by referring the issue to the President it was warmly approved by the country because of a universal feeling that the President would act promptly. It is gratifying to learn from Washington that the expectations of the public in that respect are in a fair way to be speedily fulfilled. The State Department is at work on the subject and it is announced that such satisfactory progress has been made in negotiations with the Government of Colombia that it is confidently be- lieved a treaty will soon be signed. One of the reasons for pressing the matter even during the holiday season of the summer is the se- rious. disturbance in Colombia and the danger that any delay now might necessitate further delay later on. The State Department has had sufficient expe- rience with Central American governments to know that it will be better to push the treaty with the ex- isting Government than to take chances with what- ever new government would come into power should the insurrection now under way prove successful. With the present Government the State Department has already conducted negotiations with reference to the canal and each side is well aware of the desires of the other, so that virtually the basis of the treaty has been already agreed upon. All that is now nec- essary is to put the treaty into shape for formal rati- fication when Congress meets. It is not expected there will be any difficulty with the Colombian Government, and as the treaty is be- ing negotiated along the lines of the “engagement” entered into between the two governments and sub- mitted to Congress at the time the canal appropria- tion was under consideration it is not likely there will be any formidable opposition in the Senate. The treaty will not require the sanction of the House ex- cept with respect to the grant of the sum of $7, ooo which Colombia demands for the concession. It was feared in some quarters that there would be danger of complications with France over the Pan- ama route, but the fears appear to have been ill founded. Through the American embassy at Paris negotiations have been opened with the French Gov- ernment on the subject, and assurances have been given that there will be no antagonism there to the American enterprise. It is even stated that the French Ministry will undertake to clear away any embarrassments that might be started by French shareholders in the Panama Canal Company for the purpose of deterring the work or forcing a compro- mise out of which they would obtain personal profit. The prospect is therefore promising. The begin- ning of the great waterway is almost in sight. Presi- dent Roosevelt has evidently set his hand to the work and will prosecute it with that vigor and energy for THE CANAL TREATY. HEN first the proposal was made in Con- J H «__ | which he is noted. Fortunately he has in the State ] 3 | publican programme. There is nowhere to be found Department to assist him one of the most successful diplomatists of the age. Secretary Hay has long ago proven his fitness for the high office he fills,-and the country can safely rely upon him to clear away all diplomatic difficulties as- rapidly as they may arise. Virtually then we may account the undertaking of the isthmian canal as one of the achievements of this Congress. The subject is no longer one of academic discussion. It has become an enterprise of practical politics and is making good progress. Reports from New York say that since the an- rouncement of his gift of $4,000,000 for charitable purposes John M. Burke of that city has been so vig- orously assailed by beggars he has had to apply to the police for protection. It is believed he may yet have to leave town and live somewhere under an as- sumed name to avoid annoyance and even danger from cranks who wish to tell him what to do with his money. Upon that showing it is easy to understand why the average millionaire does Ris best to avoid a reputation for philanthropy. SEEKING TEHE MAN. B have virtually abandoned the effort to agree upon a platform. The leaders of the party in Congress tried to formulate a programme, but their resolutions fell flat and as yet have found no indorse- ment from a single Democratic State convention. In Pennsylvania, where by reason of division among Re- publicans the Democrats hope to elect a Governor, the convention ignored national politics altogether. In Georgia, where the party has no opposition, the convention followed the Pennsylvania plan for the sake of escaping the danger of making some utter- ance that might perplex the party elsewhere. Even in those platforms that deal with national issues the utterances are confined to denunciations of the Re- Y common consent Democrats of all factions + any autharita’tive expression of a Democratic policy on the great issues of the day unless we accept as such an expression the neglected fesolutions of the Congressional caucus. For the present the efforts of the harmonizers are directed toward finding a leader—a man who will | have some chance of winning in 1904. Should such a man be found he would be hailed with gladness. He need not define his policy nor state his programme. It will be sufficient if he says he stands for the prin- ciples of Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden and is careful to say nothing of Cleveland or Bryan. The names of the great leaders will be enough. He need not trou- ble himself to define or even to intimate what their principles were or how they apply to the issues of the time. Where is.the man to be found?> The Atlanta Con- stitution cannot say he is in sight, but is sanguine he will be on hand when needed. It says: “There will not be any great difficulty in finding the new man when the hour for his election arrives. * * * He lives and will be called in due time to take the standard and lead the true Democracy to a certain and long continued victory.” That sounds hopeful. The man who wrote it is a Democratic optimist, and doubtless had just finished a Georgia watermelon wheri he penned it. The coun- i try can hardly be expected to share the confidence | of the writer and would like at least an intimation of | the political record of the' coming man and a state- ment of the place where he is now doing politics. The leisure of the summer holiday, season tends to the promotion of idle curiosity, and a good deal of that feeling is now among the people concerning the coming Democratic leader. He is to be a “new man.” That puts Hill, Olney, Pattison and Whitney as much out of the race as Cleveland and Bryan. Tom Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, has announced that he will make during the summer. a tour of the West as far as Colorado, speaking on the issues of the day. Tom is new and also fresh. Perhaps he would suit the Constitution. Then there is Dan Lamont, who has been out of politics long enough to be counted new if he returns to it. A strong faction is trying to induce him to make the race for the Governorship of New York this year, and should he do so and win Tom John- son’s Western tour would seem like thirty cents be- side the glowing prestige of the New Yorker. It is worth noting in this connection that every now and then there is heard in the South a voice asking why a Southern man should not aspire to the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Perhaps the Constitution has some man of that section in training. There is in fact no reason why the South | should not put up the leader. Tt does most of the voting for the party and might as well do itself proud in 1904 by voting for one of its own men for a change. There is a rumor that Illinois is going to have a proliibition campaign this fall, and we may yet hear of an alliance between the Democrats and Prohibi- tionists on a platform denouncing everything in sight. ——— e ——— COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATIONS. C ONSIDERABLE attention is given in the East to a recent decision of the New York Court of Appeals concerning an issue of large importance in commercial circles, The decision appears to.be a novel application of an old principle, and as it is in the general interests of justice has been widely approved. The case arose upon this basis of facts: A certgin New York firm told a commercial agency that it had assets amounting to more than $150,000, and upon a report to that effect by the agency a merchant sold to the firm several bills of goods. The firm failed and the merchant brought suit against the members for fraud in making false representations. The de- fense was that the firm had never made a misleading representation of any kind to the plaintiff; it had merely made certain statements to the agency, and that if the agency misled the plaintiff the blame lay with it. The lower courts sustained the contention of the defendant, but the Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The court is quoted as saying: “Disre- garding mere forms and methods, it cannot be doubted that the defendant spoke false and deceitful words- to the plaintiff through the agency. just as effectually as if they 'had met face to face and the statements had been made directly and personally.” Whether such a decision would be sustained in other States or meet approval in commercial circles .generally may be questioned, but it seems to have found indorsement in the East. It may be hard to hold a firm responsible for every statement it may at Hotel Rafael this season. | of Heneyman & De Hart, w make to a commercial agency, but, as the Chicago ‘Tribune put it: “It seems excellent justice. One cannot help feeling that statements made to a com- mercial agency are made to thé public, and when the public i misled by them there ought to be some remedy.” . ] CO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1902. MARION HUNTINGTON WITHHO ARION HUNTINGTON has 1ot promised yet that she will make her debut next winter. In fact,! she threatens not to, and there | are fears of losing her complete- 1y if the family goes to Los Angeles. Miss Eiizabeth is the only one of the sisters who cares for society. Mrs. Gilbert | Brooké Perkins was always domestic and | never formally “came out.” Miss Marion has similar tastes. €08 e Mrs. Henry Sonntag is the leading spirit | She has becn responsible for a series of delightful card parties. She has just the happy quali- ties for a social feader, with her tact, kindness of heart, grace of manner, splen- did style and love of athletic sports. < b miea Another engagement, just announced, that will occasion more than a ripple of interest in society is that of Miss Haidee Grau of Sacramento and Frank V. Kees- ling of the law firm of Keesling & Mac- kenzie of this city. The happy bride to | be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her- man H. Grau of Sacramento. Mr. Grau | is one of the capital city’s best known | citizens and is now retired from active business. Mr. Keesling is a graduate of | Stanford University, a member of the | Sigma Nu fraternity and a prominent | Mason. He is also first lieutenant of Ba:- tery D, First Artillery, N, G. C. w Al If everybody enjoyed life as much as | the Wetherbee party enjoyed their trip | to the Yosemite things would be more | than worth while: The party comprised | Mrs. H. R. Wetherbee, her sister, Mrs. | Farnham; Mrs. Martin, Miss Bessie Mar- | tin, Mrs. E. B. Sanborn, Miss Grace San- | born, agecent debutante in Washington; Miss Laura Sanborn, who will be a bud neXt season here; Mrs. L. R. Meade, Dr. | Lewis Meade and Joe Rosborough. They | were rovally entertained, especially by those who remembered Mrs. Wetherbee's | first party early in the seventies, includ- ing Vice President Colfax, the Secretary | of State, the Governor of Illinois and other celebritles. Galen Clark, father | of the Yosemite,” was then and is now as faithful to the valley as when he dis- covered the Mariposa big trees in 1 On their way back these happy tourists were entertained over the Fourth at Mrs. L. R. Meade's at Byron Springs. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pringle are delighted Lover thefr trip to the Yosemite. % e One of the most expert chauffeurs is Mrs. C. C. Moore at Hotel Mateo. She! is to be seen daily giving her friends su- perb rides in her automobile. Mrs. Mooro | Is a striking beauty and as she always dresses in good taste her gowns add to her charms. . . Another engagement. son is to weéd Frederick Innis. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Robinson gave their consent some time ago and it has already been whispéred to a number of friends. The bride-elect certainly deserves to be one of the happiest and her popularity will bring her hosts of good wishes, . Miss Ida Robin- PERSONAL MENTION. J. Craig, the banker the Grand. Senator E. C. Voorhels of Sutter Creek is at the Palace, Dr. F. J. Eaton of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand, N. Leete, a mining man of guest at the Grand. Harrison Dingman of Washington, D. C., is at the California. J. 8. Goodlin, a mining man of You Bet, is régistered at the Lick. W. M. Kapers, connected with the Port- land Gas Company, Is at the Grand. A. Caminetti, ex-Congressman and weli-known ‘attorney of Jackson, is at the Lick. J. A. Brent, a young mining man who taakes his residence in New York, is at the Palace. Murray M. Harris, the organ builder of Los Angeles, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. L. A. Thurston, the well-known politi- cian of Honolulu, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. T. D. Honeyman, a memby of Woodland, s at Reno, is a er of the firm holesale hard- ware merchants of Portland, Ore., is at the Palace. D. 8. Fero, accountant for Brown Bros. of New York, is here inspecting the books of the United Railroads of San Francisco.'| He is at the, Palace. A. H. Palmer, chief elerk and assistant manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel of New York, is at the Palace, accompantea by his wife. They are touring the coast. Colonel ‘J. W, Thomas, attached to the staff of Governor Savage of Nebraska, arrived in this city yesterday en route to his home in Omaha. He is at the Grand. —_———— Fright Kills Big Buffalo. “‘Although I was on the plains when buffaloes were there by the hundreds of thousands,” sald ‘an old-time locomotive engineer, “I never killed but one, and I didn’t mean to do that. “It was the first year the Santa Fe Rallroad was opened up through Kansas. I was an engineer of that road, and one day my train was held up not far from Dodge City by a great herd of buffaloes that were traveling South. “I ran as near to the herd as I could get and then stopped to wait until it passed, for I might as well have dashed my engine against a stone wall as try to force a way through that living mass. “Of the buffaloes that could see us, which were only those on the edge of the herd, only one seemed to be disturbed by our intrusion on that vast prairie. This was the enormous bull I referred to. “He actually towered head and shoul- ders above his fellows. He was near the head of the column and left the ranks when he stepped upon the railread. “Advancing toward the locomotive, he came to within a few yards of it, where, with nose to the ground, he pawed the dirt and bellowed and snorted defiance, showing every disposition to foreibly re- sent our coming into his domain. “As he stood there in the middle of the track, becoming flercer and fiercer, I pulled my whistle valve wide open. Such a wild, piercing, hair-raising shriek as that locomotive let go had never split the air in that far Western country be- fore. “It struck the great bull with such ter- ror that he rose on his hind feet as if he had been shot up by a blast, his immense head ‘and shaggy mane and ponderous shoulders towering straight up in the air. An instant the bull stood that way, his eyes big and staring with terror, and then he toppled over like a falling tree and came down in a heap across the track, making everything tremble. “He was dead before he struck the ground for there was riot even the quiver of a muscle as he lay. I had scared him to death with that awful shriek from my locomotive.” ——— “I suppose,” said the man who is al- ways looking for trouble, “that you real- ize that this earth may one day collide with some other body in space and be consumed.” “Well,” answered the friend, who can Le as pessimistic as anybody if he tries, “1t'll be a heap of satisfaction when all that heat is being distributed free to think of how we have done up the coal barons.”—Washington Star. LDS PROMISE 4 B3 SACRAMENTO BELLE WHOSE ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN i ANNOUNCED. - B3 Miss Edna Robinson, the clever maga- zine writer, another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Robinson, has returned from Alabama, accompanied by her cousins, Miss Maud Robinson and Miss Emma Kendall. SALLY SHARP. ° A CHANCE TO SMILE. Chollie—Did you notice the loud clocks on Willie's socks? Mollie—T should say T did! “What kind of clocks would vou call them?” “Cuckoos.”—Yonkers Statesman. ““What's that, 'Rastus? You say you can boast an anclent and illustrious an- cestry?” “Yes, suh. Ise d'scended f'm de iust black child bawn in Afriky, suh."—Wash- ington Star. “Did she say ‘This is so sudden? " “No. Her mother was listening at the keyhole and she didn’t dare to throw on any frills.” “How do you know her mother was there?” “‘Because stooping over shuts off her wind and you could hear her sasping all over the room.” “Well, what did Minnie say?" “She whispered, ‘Cut it short, Jack. Ma is apoplectic.’ "—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Jane wouldn't stay in Chicago any longer. She says they insulted her.” “Indeed! What did they do or say?” “They urged her to go with them to see the place where they can the beef.” “But I don’t understand.” “Don’'t you? Jane's a vegetarian.”"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Did my uncle dle a natural death?” irquired the man from the East, who had come to look after the property. “Not exactly,” replied-the billous look- ing man, steadying himself as another fit of the ague took him. “He died a most onnatural death, sir, for this locality. He died of old age.”—Evening ‘Wisconsin. Bacon—A man can't ta with him when he dies. Egbert—Oh, I don’t know. I had a friend who owed me $10 die last week. 1 guess he's taken it with him all right.— Yonkers Statesman. —_————— . Lawton’s Fast Growth. The biggest boom town on earth has Sprung into existence at Lawton, on the Kansas frontier. It is Ppositively the-only town on earth in which it is neccessary to issu¢ a new directory every month in order to keep pace with the growth of the populace. Some months ago Lawton was not to be found on any map of the State. Its present site was a rolling prairie, which no one valued at more than the current price for unimproved and uncoveted waste land. To-day prices for lots with. in the town limits are so high that no one but a man of means can think of purchas.ng property there. The last monthly city directory of this phenomenal place gave the population as { 7000, which is certainly a remarkable growth for a town that had not been Leard of half a year ago. There are 342 stores of varlous kinds, 17 lumber yards, 416 real estate men, 188 lawyers, 93 doc- tors, 15 hotels, 45 saloons, 27 gambling- houses, 9 churches, 4 schoolhouses, ¢ dance halls and 1 theater. This showing would do credit to some of the long-estab- lished towns of the East. Nearly every lot of the townsite of 820 acres contains 2 building, and there is talk of petition- ing the Government to throw in part of the military reservation at the north of the town to relieve the great pressure for land. Only one thing worries the Lawtonites. They have no site for a graveyard. So far they have not needed one, but have managed to accommodate the few people who have died with graves In a temporary burial ground. ————— A Too Literal Translation. A missionary lately returned from India complains of the slow progress made out there in converting the natives on ac- count of the difficulty in explaining the ke any money norant people will fully understand them. Some of the most beautiful passages i the Bible are destroyed by translation, He attempted once to have the hymn, Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee, the natives might appreciate its beauty. The work was done Bis tranairion to. e issionary s translation to mi 01 T proval, and his rendering, as tnnu;la::i back in English, read like this: Very old stone, split for my benenit, Let'me absent myself under ome’ of your en teachings of Christianity so that the ig- | translated into the native dialect so that | SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS JEFFRIES-BAKER—Subscriber, City. The match between James J. Jeffries and Henry Baker in San Francisco on the 1Sth of May, 1897, took place In Wood- ward’s Pavilion. MARRIED ACTRESS-A. 8, City. The actress of the Neill company inquired about does not @nnounce that she is mar- ried or that she is not, and says that her { social condition is not any of the pub- lic’s business. STILL ,ON THE FORCE-T. M. T, City. The policeman who threw a club and struck a small boy at Woodward's Pavilion is named Kenville. He was ac- quitted of the charge preferred against him and he is still a member of the forcc. BROADWAY—B. 8., City. Broadway in San Francisco has a uniform width of 82% feet, while Broadway in New York City is 60 feet wide from the Battery to Fifty-ninth street. At that street Broad- way boulevard commences, is 150 feet wide and extends from the point of com- mencement almost to Harlem River. SUITABLE PRESENT—A. S., City. A suitable present to a letter carrler, aside from money, is anything that the party wishing to make such present thinks would e most useful to him. If the present Is td be sent a note with thf worde, “With Dbest wishes of would be sufficient. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE—R. S.. Modesto, Cal. The right of employer and employe some s depends on the na- ture of theg@®ntract, but the employer has the right to discharge an employe for cause without notice. The general rule is that when there is no cause and there is a desire to terminate an em- | ployment for either party to give a rea- sonable notice. ST. PETER'S—A. S. Vallejo, Cal. 8t Peter’s Cathedral at Rome stands on the | site of a much older basilica, founded by | Constantine in 306 over what Is said to be the grave of St. Peter. Pope Nicholas V in 1450 resolved to erect a new cathedral and a deslgn was prepared by Rosselini on a very grand scale and the tribune was begun when the Pope died. The new btuildirg remained neglected for half a century, when Julius I resolved to con- tinue the work and then employed Bra- mante, a celebrated architect, to make a new design, which still exists. The. foun- dauon stone was laid in 1506 and work was continued until the death of the Pope in 1513. The arehitect, who died the next year, was followed by Baldusarre Peruzzi. He continued the work until his death, when the superintendence devoived on San Gallo, whe died in 154, when it was taken up by Michael Angelo, then 2 years of age. He designed the dome and | had the satisfaction before his death in | 1564 of seeing the most arduous part of the task completed. He left such com- piete models of the remainder that it was | carried out exactly in conformity with | his designs by his successors, Vignola and ! Glacom del la Porta, and successfully | texgminated by the latter in 139, in the pontificate of Sixtus V. The nave was completed in 1612 and the facade in 16M, { and the structure was dedicated by Ur- | ban VIII in 1626, Greek Art for Boston. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has | recently been enriched by a remarkable coliection of statuettes. They were found in the early sevantles of the last century, |in the ruins of the ancient city of Ta- ragra, in Greece. They are known as Tanagra's figurines, | being small figures, only a few inches high. They represent a particular phase of the art of the ancient world, that | which was known as Greek polychrome sculpture. For these images made from i clay were beautifully colored. Traces of | the color are still to be seen on some of the specimens at the Boston Museum. | But even those that were fully colored | when found faded soon after exposure to the light. In the process of manufacture, befors | the colors were applied the statuette was given a bath of whitewash to fill up the pores of the clay. Then the colors were put on—blue, rose, violét, orange, yellow, red, brown, black and carmine. But the methods of modeling the figur- ines were specially interesting. The best of them were made from molds. Many of these molds have been found at Ta- nagra. And the extraordinary and pecu- ilar feature of this sort Is its versatility. The potter kept in stock a small variety of original pieces, heads, limbs and trunks, molded separately. His art ap- peared in that he took these separats parts and put them together to form an | almost infinite number of combinations, just as from a comparatively siight range of notes a musical composer works up his results in melody and harmeny. ————————— | “Why do we say, ‘Give us this day our daily bread'?” askeéd a Sunday scheol teacher after the lesson. “Because we want it fresh,” answered a little girl.—Yonkers Statesman. —————— Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's.* —_————— | Townsend’s California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched es. A nice present for Eastern friends. &‘s’uar:u st., Palace Hotsl butiding. - Special information supplied daily to iness houses and public men b"'u Clip] Bureau (Allen’s), t” C:n-“ Torata street. ‘Telephone Matn W % The bloom on fruit is sald to be na- | ture’s waterproofing. Where it 1s rubbe | off damp accumulates and decay soon fol- lows. 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