The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1902, Page 6

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HE late John W. Mackay conducted and was concerned in many vast business enterprises, but so quietly that he was but little in the news- pa compared w whose capjtal and horizon were much less than his. He was a cautious man, and perhaps much of his success was due to that quality, which caused him to a\'oid".he spectacular for the substantial. He was a man of heart, and his benefactions were large and numerous, but their bestowment was quiet and in accord with the reserve which he maintained throughout his long carcer. The only public utter- ance upon the subject of his charities that he was h many other financiers ever knbwn to make was the remark that the most | difficult thing in all his experience ‘was helping a man withott hurting him. The man who wants help is apt to learn dependence upon others instead of upon himself. Such a man i§ often hurt by helping him, since it puts him further away from . indepen- <aence. Mr. Mackay's remark was a disclosure of his very profound philosophy. It is a philosophy that goes with interrogation to the whole policy of pensions and bencf; upon something besides their own present exertions, which they are physically and mentally capable of making, they are apt to fall into chronic dependence, which mezns permanent indigence. Therefore Mr. Mackay beliéved, and wisely, that the best way to help such men is by helping them to help themselves. Li they can help themselves and will not, benefactions are iil bestowed upon them and tend to create a per- manent pzuper class. No one knows, or will ever know, the experiences cut of which Mr. Mackay evolved his philosophy. No doubt he helped many to help themselves to in- dependence, and many took his bounty only to sink deeper into dependence and unthrift. But now that he has passed away the one expression into which his experiences were concreted may well be pondered by those who need help and by those who can give it. He contributed to the activities of his time more than most men, even those of equal means. The influence of his business enterprises was far-reaching, and his quiet ways made him exceptional. But it may well be that his best legacy to the world is his philosophy of benefaction. The story of 2 movement started by President Roosevelt to procure the election of Congressman Littlefield to the Speakership of the next House doubtless unfounded, but none the less Littlefield is rising rapidly and is another illustration of the re- markable capacity of the Maine people to select gen- uine leaders to represent them in Congress. Both in the Senate and in the House the voice of Maine is always eloquent in argument and potent in controll- ing patronage. The New York leaf tobacco board of trade has adopted resolutions-in favor of placing “all corpora- tions whose securities are offered to the public” under Government supervision, “similar to that now ‘:xer~ cised in the case of national banks.”, Perhaps in the end we may have to come to that. In the meantime the suggestion is good enough for any man to put in his pipe and smoke, even if it did come from the tobacco trade. University news in and around Chicago is always livelier than anywhere else, and consequently it is not surprising to learn from that source that the co-eds of Northwestern University have signed a pledge to refrainfrom kissing. The report would not be im- portant, cven if true, but it would be fntcrestidg to know why the pledge was deemed necessary. Santos-Dumont has made once too often his plea for somebody to join him in promoting aerial Tacing. A challenger has come forward, and now the Brazilian will have to put up and make the match or else shut up; and as he was just working up a superb.adver- tisement for himself, the challenge is almost like a catastrophe. There is not so much talk of the shirt waist in the East as there was last summer, but we note that a Chicago Judge is receiving commendation for per- mitting the lawyers and the jury to lay aside their coats in court, so the old yearning evidently re- mains A man in"Utica is reported to_have engraved the entire alphabet on the head of a fin, but we must not accept these New York storics too literaliy; it may have been the head of a coupling-pin, g8fes2 When men learn that they can depend | is | THE SAN- FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1902. THE TREATY POWER. : AHE CALL has discussed the contention be- | ’] tween the House and Senate over the power of | the latter to amend or repeal an act of Congress Eb)’ a treaty. The. constitution declares that “this constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties | made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.” : Had the word “accordance” been used instead of “pursuance” much discussion would have been saved. | Finally, however, publicists and expounders of the constitution have settled. upon “pursuance” as a synonym for “‘conformity,” and the clause is inter- | preted to mean that treaties must be in conformity to the constitution. This is obviously the correct and | intended meaning, else we would have an everlasting conflict between one supreme law in the form of treaties non-conforming to the constitution, and an- { other in the acts of Congress conforming to the fun- ‘damental law. In other words, it would be possible { to have unconstitutional supreme laws and supreme laws that are constitutional, each of equal authority, znd probably contradictory. Mr. Charles Henry Butler has published a volume on the “Treaty-making Power of the United States,” in which he endeavors to'demonstrate that the Presi- dent and two-thirds of the Senate can make treaties | entirely- cutside the constitution, and adverse to its | purpose and provisions. He says that “this privilege extends to every subject which can be the basis of negotiation and contract between any of the sover- eign powers of the world.” This position gives ultra support to the contention | of the Senate that it can amend or repeal a tariff or other revenue legislation by treaty, in defiance of the power of the House. But it goes further than that. The subject of sovereignty itself is one of the things frequently negotiated by treaty. It may be by treaty | transferred and changed. Therefore Mr. Butigr's contention amounts to-this, that the President and two-thirds of the Senate have the power, by treaty, to destroy popular sovereignty and transfer the alle- giance of the people to any other country and any | other Government! He declares, specifically, that the privilege of using the treaty power adversely to the | provisions of the constitution extends to every sub- ject that may be considered in international negotia- | tion. Therefore the ccnstitution extends to the Pres- ident and Senate the power to destroy it and the form of government which it establishes. It is quite sure that the makers of the constitution nd framers of the government never intended any uch thing. In the Federalist the treaty-making ower provided in the constitution was discussed by “Publius,” the pseudonym over which Alexander Hamilton wrote. Hamilton is regarded as the founder of the school of latitudinarians, who give | loose construction to the constitution in order to cor- | rect the rigidity of a written instrument. Therefore !:my construction put upon the treaty-making power by Hamilton must be accepted as going to the verge of looseness and liberality. Butler's excessive reach of construction would have startled Hamilton, who in his paper on the subject said: “Scome are displeased with the treaty-making rors or defects in it, byt because as the treaf made, are to have the force of laws, they should be made only by men invested with legislative authority. | These gentlemen seem not to consider that the judg- ments of our courts and the commissions constitu- tionally given by our Governors are as valid and as binding on all persons whom they concern as the laws passed by our Legislature. All constitutional acts of pewer, whether in the executive or judicial department, have as much legal validity and obliga- tion as if they proceeded from the Legislature, and therefore whatever name be given to the power of making treaties, or however obligatory they may be | when made, it is certain that the people may, with much propriety, commit the power to a body distinct from the legislative, executive or judicial.” It will be observed that Hamilton limits the treaty- making authority to “all constitutional acts of rower.” Such acts, outside the constitution and in conflict with its provisions, are not constitutional, and therefore in his view would be void. If Butler’s constitutional theories be accepted, then | indeed is the constitution a rope of sand. | THE CONGRESSIONAL ELEOTIONS. | ESPITE ‘the near approach of the time .for | D _opening the campaign for the election of { members to the next Congress there is no definite understanding on either side as to the issues { that are to be made subjects of the contest. The Re- publican party holds the Government and will of | course defend the administration and the great poli- cies it represents, while the Democrats’ will assail both the men and the measures, but in what direction, | the attack is to be made is not apparent. From one end of the country to the other the opposition is in confusion, and it is more than likely that the attack in one district may be directly opposite to that in an- other. ! Three issues are available for Democratic use. They may make a campaign against the tariff, against trusts or against the Republican Philippine policy. Neither of those issues, however, holds out anything in the way of promise. The country has a clear recollection of what happened the last time the Democrats were intrusted with authority to revise the tariff, and com- paratively few, except hide-bound Democrats, would be willing to try the experiment again. The clamor against the trusts is,noisy, but it .lacks definiteness. No Democratic leader has suggested a rational method of dealing with such. evils as have attended the rise of great industrial combinations, while, on the other hand, the policy proposed by President Roosevelt in that regard has the support of a large number of those who Rave given the subject most thought and study. Finally, the Philippine issue, cut of which it was the intention to make much at one time, has been climinated from politics for the present by the passage of the civil government bill. It is not likely the voters of the country will be will- ing to change the policy just adopted unless after years of trial experience proves it to be inexpedient. Having thus no particular measure on which to make an attack, the opposition leaders will have to do the best they can by assailing the administration generally. In doing so they will find, however, that the administration occupies a well nigh impregnable position. The country has been prosperous, the finances have been well administered, the welfare of industry has been carefully safeguarded, the prestige of the country abroad was never higher, nor was the domestic government more progressive or more.en- terprising in the right directions. The keenest scru- tiny into the affairs of the various departments of ad- ministration has brought to light no scandals fur- dther than the one revealed in the testimony taken | !conccrning the methods employed in promoting the Cuban reciprocity scheme by General Wood. That scandal, however, does not affect the Republican party, since it was exposed by the party, and stalwart Republicans in Congress defeated the scheme itself. The present Congress, under Republican control, has during the late session provided for the abolition of war taxes, the irrigation of the arid lands of the West, the civil government of the Philippines, the construction of an isthmian canal, and the continued restriction of Chinese immigration. Surely no fault can be found with a record like that. There remain to be enacted a comprehensive banking and curreney bill, a merchant marine bill and an efficiént interstate | commerce act. Neither of those much needed meas- ures could be obtained in the next Congress were it under Democratic control, and as there is little pros- pect of the passage of all of them during the short’ session that remains of the present Congress) the | hopes of the country must rest in the success of Re- publican candidates for the House in the coming elections. Under such conditions it is difficult to see upon what grounds the Democrats base their assertions that they have a prospect of controlling the next House. They have no policy to offer upon any issue, they have no valid objection®o urge against Repub- lican policies, they can charge no scandals against the administration, they can furnish no instance of disaster resulting from Republican legislation. Suc- cess may be attained here and there by some candi- date of exceptional personal popularity, but even where such candidates are in the field the common sense of the voters will prompt them to turn-away from a representative of mere_opposition and vote for one who will support the policies that have brought prosperity to the country and uphold the administra- | tion that means progress both at home and abroad, accompanied by conservatism that respects at once liberty and law. CHICAGO AND THE DRAMA, INCE a court of “competent jurisdiction” de- S cided that the great play “Cyrano de Bergerac” is but a plagiarism from the masterpiece of a Chicago pork packer the people of Chicago have set themselves up as “stage elevators”, for the nation. | Incidentally they have gone outside the drama and passed judgment on poetry generally, but the stage is their chief field of action and reform is their object. Some weeks ago'a Chicago audience surprised a theatrical company by objecting to the appearance of a conventional Irish comedian. They would have none of him. Notice was given that in Chicago hereafter there are to be no stage representations or misrepresentations of the old kind that made Pafa comic character. The unfortunate “McGinty” is fo give way to “Muldoon, the Solid Man,” and if Chi- cago wishes to laugh she must learn to laugh at something else than the humors and the gayeties of Erin. After that first step had been taken the next was easy. Nevertheless it came with a shock. An enter- prising company undertook to revive for the edifica- tion of Chicago the good old drama, “The Lady of Lyons.” It was supposed that would be admitted on its reputation and no objection would be made. power of the constitution, not on account qi,,ang.,,‘gg i;ghicago, however, refused to permit the judgment of the past to go unquestioned. It subjected the play to a new criticism, rejudged the former judgments and revised the reviews. The play was greeted with' a storm of hisses and the performance interrupted in the name of reform. The objection to “The Lady of Lyons” is that one of the characters speaks of a “constant woman” as 2 miracle. When that sentiment was uttered many persons in the audience rose and shouted “Shame!” while others cried ouf “It is not true.” The uproar spread, and Chicago made it known that no company could put upon the stage in that town a man who speaks skeptically of the constancy of the ladies. Chicago, in fact, intends to bring the drama up to the lake level. There shall be no jokes or sneers at men or women. The stage satirist and the stage comedian must go. Hereafter the drama is for heroes and lovers only. Chicago has said it. B gate the complaints made of the lack of harbor and docking facilities at London a report has been submitted recommending the appointmgnt of a commission to control the whole water front of the city and the immediate expenditure of the sum of $22,500,000 for improvements. From the large sum recommended for expenditure at once scme estimatz may be formed of the extent to which the increased size of shipping and the in- creased competition for commerce has compelled changes in the old order of things at the great sea- ports of the world. London’s harbor has become too small for her commerce, and her docks are not ade- quate to the demands made upon them. She has no monopoly upon commerce. Her trade will go else- where unless she makes provisions for handling it equal to those that can be found at compéting ports. At the present time the London docks are under the control of upward of forty different bodies. The disagreements among these have prevented anything like a systematic and comprehensive improvement of docking facilities as the development of trade re- quired. The result has been that London has fallen behind the more progressive seaports of the wosld, and of late has been endangered by the rivalry of cit- ies like, Hamburg that a comparatively few years ago were not thought to be in the same class with the great metropolis. Now London is to prepare herself for the struggle for supremacy, which she will retain if British money and skill can do it. The old boards are to be swept away. A single commission is to have authority over everything along the river except the warehouses, and big improvements are to be under- taken all along the line. The amount of money stated appears from the re- ports to have been recommended almost wholly for dock improvements, and does not. include sums re- quired for deepening the channel. Those expendi- tures are to be provided for as separate items. It is stated to be a part of the general plan to widen and to so deepen the river as to make a thirty-foot chan- nel at low water from the ocean to the docks. When that is done London will be prepared to hold her own as a seaport unless there should be a still further en- largement of ocean steamers, when she would have to get to work again with her dredgers and makcz:r river wider and deeper still. THE LONDON DOCKS. Y the royal commission appointed to investi- The New Jersey Judge who-recently cut the salary of the president of an industrial corporation from $10,000 a year to $15 a week Qpenrs to have made the unkindest cut on record, but doubtless there are stockholders in other companies who would like to have the salary list revised with the same kind of an ax. ¢ POPE RECEIVES GOVERNOR TAFT AND HIS PARTY ROME, July 21.—The Pope received Gov- ernor Taft and the members of his party in a farewell audience at noon to-day. Judge Taft and Judge Smith were in even- ing .dress, as prescribed by etiquette; Major Porter was in full uniform and Bishop O'Gorman wore ecclesiastical robes. They were received at the great door of the Vatican by the Swiss Guards, who rendered military honors. At the foot of the state staircase the Americans ‘were met by Mgr. Bisleti, master of cere- monies, accompanied by several other dig- nitaries of the papal court. At the door of the pontifical apartmeits the noble guards and gendarmes rendered the cus- tomary honors, after which Governor Taft and his companions were introduced into the presence of the Pope, who wel- comed them with marked cordiality. The Americans were ushered into a pri- vate library and so soon as the door was opened the Pope went half way to meet them and greeted Governor Taft with the greatest cordiality. The Pontiff com- menced the interview by saying he was most satisfied and happy at the results obtained and was confident that the nego- tiatlons would be the starting point of a complete and satisfactory solution of the question under discussion: He added that the apostolic delegate soon to be appoint- ed would be instructed most strictly and precisely regarding carrying out the ideas determined upon between the United States and the Vatican, saying: “I will see that orders be given him as to his work, over which I will watch per- sonally.” ESTEEM FOR AMERICANS. Turning the conversation, the Pope ex- pressed the highest esteem for American methods of treating church matters. In fact, he had more than once pointed toward the United States as setting an example well worth copying. Governor Taft thanked the Pope for the promptpess and courtesy shown him dur- ing his visit and promised co-operation with the apostolic delegate in executing the business on the lines agreed upon at Rome. He expressed regret at the fact that the negotiations had been made the occasion of the circulation of false and even calumnious reports in various papers and by some telegraphic agencies which had given rise to unfavorable comments upon the Vatican. The Pope also protested against such false reports, but he also de- clared that by this time he was accus- tomed to that kind of misrepresentation. The Pontiff then rose with unusual ac- tivity, Walked with the Americans to the opposite side of the room and showed them the mosaic which he is sending to President Roosevelt in return for the pres. ent of a box containing his (Mr. Roose- velt’s) literary works. The mosaic is a copy of Corridi's well-known picture of Pope Leo sitting on the terrace of the Vatican gardens surveying Rome. It was made in the Vatican workshops. The Pope then gave Bishop O'Gorman an autograph letter to President Roose- velt. BLESSES THE ENTOS. Members of Governor Taft's party ask- ed the Pope to bless several boxes of rosaries and other religious mementos, which his Holiness did most willingly, adding that his benediction was extended to all their relations and friends. After an audience of forty minutes, in which the conversation was carried on entirely in French, Bishop O'Gorman and Major Porter translating, the Pope saw the Americans to the door of the library. Governor Taft and his companions then called on the Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Rampolla, with whom they ex- | changed somewhat similar courtesies. Ldter Governor Taft, accompanied by Judge Smith and Captain Strother, left Rome for Naples. Bishop O’Gorman will sail for the United States next week. He will take with him a letter from Cardinal Rampolla to Secretary Hay. To mark his satisfaction at the success of the negotiations, the Pope presented each member of Governor Taft's party with a personal gift, inclosed in a magni- ficent morocco case, adorned with the papal coat of arms. Governor Taft got a gold goose quill of exquisite workman- ship, with Pope Leo's coat of arms on the feather. To Bishop O'Gorman was pre- sented a pretoria] cross set with rubies and amethysts anfl having a cameo cen- ter bearing the figure of the Virgin, sur- rounded with pearls. Judge Smith and Major Porter both received a gold jubilee medal. The Pope gave Mrs. Taft an enamel reproduction of the ancient paint- ing of St. Ursula surrounded by virgins. PERSONAL MENTION. Judge Frank H. Short of Fresno is at the Palace. T. C. White, a banker of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. The Rev. Father W.'J. Madden of Mo- desto is at the Occidental. J. A. McClurg, a real estate man of | Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. D. D. Allison, a real estate man of Fresno, is registered at the Lick. J. S. Spitzer, a prominent merchant of Honolulu, has returned from an extended tour of the East and is at the Occifiental. C. J. McFarlan, a resident of San DI- ego, is spending a few days in the city and has made his headquarters at the Occidental. Jokn W. Brock, president of the Tono- pah Mining Company, arrived yesterday trom Alberquerque, N. M., with a party of friends, and is at the Palace. General Passenger Traffic Manager E. 0. McCormick of the Southern Pacific Company has wired friends in this eity that he will not return immediately from Colorado Springs, but will first make a skort sojourn in Chicago. He went East to attend the quarterly meeting of the Transcontinental Passenger Association. Firemen Outnumber Troops. There are more firemen in the United States than there are soldiers in Uncle Sam’'s army. In New York City, for fire purposes, the two boroughs of Manhattan and the '’ Bronx with 1400 firemen are joined The two boroughs of Brooklyn and -Queens, ‘with 1000 paid and 200 volunteer firemen, are joined, and Richmond, with 1700 fire- men, is separately organized. There are, therefore, in New York 6100 firemen, paid and unpaid. ¢ In the whole country there are 65,000 pald firdamen and the, number of volun- teer firemen numbers from 100,000 to 150,- 000, " There is a saying among firemen that | three volunteers are equivalent only to one regular, so great is the value of train- ing and discipline. Thus a city Hke Wil- | mington, Del., with a population of 76, 000, has more volunteer firemen than Philadelphia, with a population of 1,300,000, has paid firemen. ———————— Battle 'With ‘“Hoop” Snakes. The annual snake story was a long time | getting around this year, but what it lacks in speed it makes up in startling de- tails. Blairstown, N. J., by universal con- sent, is awarded the prize. Charles and Cyrus Vail were out driving, when they encountered a ‘“‘drove” of rattlesnakes. . They descended from their carriage, and | armed with a revolver and several stones, started in to exterminate the reptiles. ‘While so engaged they heard a peculiar whirring noise and saw coming down the side of the mountain a dozen hoop snakes with their tails in their mouths, rolling to ' the rescue of the rattlers. The lads ran to | a farm house and procured scythes, with which they returned to the scene tle. The boys mowed down the “hoopers,” | :mmslkwtohha dozen. Thaoum-nx‘ pational life. EX-SECRETARY VILAS PLEADS FOR HIS PARTY MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 21.—The Hon. William F. Vilas, who was Secretary of the Interior in President Cleveland’'s Cab- inet, was recently asked by Chairman ‘Warde of the Democratic State Central Committee to give his opinion respecting political codes, the possibilities of Demo- cratic harmony “and the assurances of the party’s restoration to power and tre relief of the people from Republican mal- administration.” Vilas replied to-day in part as follows: Nothing can be more evident to ome who takes a broad view of the nature of public af- falrs or of our political history than that achievement of good is only to be won by leav- ing to the past the burlal of its own dead and pushing on undisturbed to the great ends open in the future. ‘Whatever the alignments on past issues, the Democratic party remains to-day the hove of the people of this land. - Any one can see, who will see the truth, that all the combinations of greed, all the plotters who work upon our Gov- ernment to win special gain at the cost of the people at large, are to be found supporting the party now in power; for the Democratic party they have, as always, only hostility. The overruling need is of concentration of opinion and co-operation in political action by the people. Under the false and deceitful name of pro- tection to industry there has arisen such a sys- tem of combining devices -of legislation with the vices of business management to obtatn mastery of the people as was never before seen in this or any other land; the iniquity of which 1t would be hard to find any parallel for, unless in Oriental countries. At the pace the movement has attained it can be but a few years, If it go unchecked, be- fore substantially the entire range of manu- facture, mining, trade and transportation will stand composed of a few masters and millions of employes, the latter constrained to trade only at what may be called practically *‘company’s stores,” and all agriculture will be helplessly ensnared, as it already is to no small extent. Liberty in the pursuit of livelthood has well- nigh disappeared, for with the devices of our modern invention it is unnecessary longer to manacle the condemned with ball and chain. The victory to be won, which alone is worth winning, 1s the overthrow of the grand central governing conspiracy cf protection. When that *‘crowning mercy”” shall be vouchsafed the very purification of the nation’s soul by the fires of the strife will easily enable it to subdue the lesser forms in which Satan is embodied in our It is a painful record we have written on the pages of three years past for Americans who look to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, the Adamses and their compeers of the Declaration and the constitution, for the rule of national conduct that should enlighten the world with the love and truth of liberty, and that shame must yet be wiped off by future treatment of the unhappy Filipinos according to the prin- clples we have inherited, or so surely as justice rules the world America will bitterly atone for it in resulting suffering of her own. But not at once can all national wrongs be redressed and those borne by our countrymen must challenge first relief. I fear distraction. Protection is quick to profit by it. Its shrewd counsels have fomented war, have set the nation In quest of military glory, and find its account in the controversy over imperialism. We may justly hold protection itself responsible for these con- ditlons; it will craftily keep agitation of such and we may be sure, also, as Tver cannot but see the fact now to be, that it will prevent array of parties on any issue arising from them that may im- peril its own party strength. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. REDWOOD CITY—L., City. The census of 1900 gives the population of Redweod City as 374. ALL SAINTS' DAY—A. A, City. All Saints’ day s a legal holiday in the COURT DECIDES MORMON RITES TO BE BINDING - SALT LAKE, Utah, July 2l.—In the case of Annie F. A. Hilton, appellate, ver- sus Rcsa P. Roylance, respondent, and the other two cases which are relative thereto, the Supreme Court to-day, in a unanimous opinion, reversed the deci- sion of Judge Hall, who tried the cases, and ordered a finding and decree entered according to suen reversal. The case is of vast importance to the people of this cemmunity and determines the legal sta- tus of persons who are “sealed for eter- nity” under the ceremony of the Mormon church. In December, 1872, the plaintiff, who was then Miss Annie Armitage, was sup- posed to be on her deathbed and the ceremony known as “sealing” was per- fcrmed, whereby Dr. John R. Park and Miss Armitage were to be husband and wife after death. Miss Armitage recov- ered from her illness and on March 17, 1873, she and Park signed a document known as a ‘‘church divorce,” whereby they agreed to dissolve all relations which had existed between them as husband and wife. After this she married Wil- liem Hilton, now a Salt Lake policeman, by whom she has ten or twelve living children. Dr. Park during his lifetime deeded cer- tain property to Rosa P. Roylance, and this action was brought to recover title to one-third of said property, to which Mrs. Hilton claims she is entitled as the legal widow of John R. Park, deceased, and also for a family allowance pend- “Ing the determination of the suit. She alleged in her complaint that she never relinquished her rights in said real estate and is still the owner of the same. Judge Hall decided that John R. Park and plain- tiff never became husband and wife, and hence she was not entitled to any part of the premises in controversy. Justice Bartch delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court to-day and Chief Jus- tice Miner and Justice Baskin concurred in the same. The church divorce is admitted by coun- sel for respondent to be null and void, hence there is nothing to determine en that peint. e opinion, therefore, holds that Mrs. n was lawfully married to John R. Park and upon his death became his legal widow, and as such is entitled to her share of his estate, which amounts to $40,000. It is ordered that the decision of the lower court be reversed and find- ings and decree to be drawn up in ac- cordance with the opinion of the Supreme Court. The decision of the lower court is affirmed, however, in the matter of not making Mrs. Hilton a family allowance from the estate pending litigation. —_— A CHANCE TO SMILE. This is the way a Missourian confessed at a revival meeting, says John McGon- igle in the Ventura Democrat: He was pressed hard to repent and at last got up. “Dear friends,” said Bill, “I feel the spirit moving me to talk and tell what a bad man I have been, but I can't do it while the Grand Juby is in session. “The Lord will forgive you,” shouted the preacher. “I guess that's all right,” said Bill, “but he ain’t on the Grand Jury."— Exchange. J. Pierpont Morgan has equipped St. Paul's in London with electric lights, and all at his own expense. It would have been much more tuneful if he had given the cathedral a new organ—J. P: Morgan gave the organ. Doesn’'t that sound Dbetter?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. State of Louistana:_ NEW YORK MAYOR—Subscriber, City. The salary of the Mayor of New York City is $15,000 a year. - SEASON'S RAINFALL-J. Q. Ala- meda, Cal. The rainfall for the season up to July 1 was 18.98, FLAX HACKLER—C. S, City. Any first-class firm in agricultural goods ecan furnish you with a flax hackler. CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION—The population of California in 130 was 1,208, 170, in 1900 the census was 1,455,063. ST. LOUIS FAIR—V. A. O., City. The date of the opening of the World’s Fair Bad for Tom.—“It Is reported that “Tom’ Reed has taken to smoking cigarettes.” “Gracious! And just the other day a Scuthern Judge said he wouldn’t believe a cigarette smoker under ocath.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. “But look here,” said the angry agri- culturist, with clenched fists and blazing eyes. “If your blamed railroad runs along on this line it'll go right plumb through my smokehouse!"” “Not at all,” replied the surveyor. “Why net, I'd like to know!" “Because,” saild the surveyor, calmly Hghting a cigar, “you'll move your smokehouse, you know."—Baltimore American. at St. Louls has been fixed for April 30, 1904, WHEAT HARVEST-F. A. E., City. In Australia, New Zealand, Chile and the Argentine Republic wheat is harvested in January. SALT LAKE-—Subscriber, City. The area in square miles of Salt Lake, Utah, was 1875 in 1856, In 1869 its area had In- creased to 2360 square miles, VOTE FOR GOVERNOR—G. C., City. The vote for Governor in California in 1898 was: Republican, 146,170; Democrat, 129,261; Soclal Labor, 5143; Prohibition, 4297, ASSEMBLY DISTRICT—S.,, City. The block in San Francisco bounded by Mar- ket, Post and Kearny streets is in the Third Precinct of the’ Forty-fourth As- sembly District. MORMON CHURCH-B. B. B., Selma, Cal. For such information as you desire about. the Mormon church of Salt Lake City address a letter of inquiry to Joseph F. Smith, president of that church, in the city named. SILVER BULLION-J. E., Lun'dy. Cal. The following was the average bullion value of a silver dollar each year from 1381 to 1900, both years inclusive: $0.881; 8785 3 3 .T68; (788; .727; .723; -800; .764; .674; . A91; .505; .523; .467: A456; .465; .479, HANGING OF SHEPPARD—Sub., City. W. B, Sheppard was hanged in San Fran- cisco for the murder of Henry C. Day on the 28th of July, 1854. It took place near “I notice that the French' authoritles offer a reward of $1000 for information re- garding the whereabouts of the swindling Humberts, who stole $12,000,000.” ““Well, ihere Isn’t a doubt that the man who discovers them will do a good deal better than that by seeing the fugitives themselves. Monsieur will have to bid higher.” “I guess that's right. I'd bid higher myself. I'll tell you what I'd be willing to do. I'd stand ready to give $11,000,000 in order to get back $12,000,000.” “T'll raise you $900,000.”" “You can have it. That would be mers than I'd be willing to count.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. —_———— ' Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's® —— . Townsend’s California Glace frult and candies, 50¢ a pound, in bex nice —_—— Special information supplied dally to Press Cupvln% Bumm u"('x-il:n' mh,mm fornia street. Telephone Main %fl. . ‘When nothing around town gives people a chanee to find fault with a widower, thgy drive out to the cemetery to see if there are any weeds on the grave of his ‘wife. —_———— Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Best Liver Medicine, Vegetable Cure forLiverlllg Billousnesd, Indigestion, Constipation, Malaris. ——— An Atchison man who wears white the Presidlo in the presence of ten | SOCks asks the Globe to say that he does last legal execution in public. | thousand people and was thé second and | POt d0 it to be fashionable, but because his ankles itch when he wears colored socks. FIREPROOFING—A. O. S, City. A | se——— ‘solution of three parts borax, two and a half parts sulphate of magnesia and twenty parts of water is recommended for fireproofing fabrics. A mixture of sul- phate of ammonia and sulphate of lime is also recommended. Soluble glass is used for rendering wood and theatrical decorations less inflammable. SWEET SMELLING FLOWERS— Emma, City. It is said that plants with sweet smelling flowers are more common in dry than in moist sofls. On the burned up and naked hills of Southern France thyme, lavender and sage per- fume the air with aromatic scents, while the moist plains of Normandy exhale no marked aroma from growing plants, PEACH BRANDY—J. H., Colfax, Cal The following is the proportion of peaches required in the making of peach brandy: “Mash 18 pounds of peaches with their stones; macerate them for twenty-four Lours with 4% gallons of % per cent alcohol and ¢ gallons of water, strain, press and filter; add 5 pints white plain syrup and color yellow with burned sugar coloring.” CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS —D., Max- well, Cal. The termination of the match between Fitzsimmons and Corbett at Carson City was that Corbett was count- ed out. “Knocked out,” as understood in ring parlanee, is when a man falls, be- comes unconscious and is unable to rise in ten seconds. “Counted out” is whem a e T unable on ten seconds, TSRS O A R e Solid Oak Dining Chair, with brace arms and cane seat, 90c. Entire houses, flats and hotels furnished. Credit and free de- livery within 100 m les. i 1 T. BRILLIANT f FURNITURE CO. 338-342 POST STREET.