The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1902, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO' CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1902. - WEDNBESDAY.................AUGUST 13, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor. | Jécrees 31 Cormuniestic TELEPHONE. #Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect ¥ou With the Department You Wish. to W, 6. LEZKE, Mazager. Market and Third, S. F. .217 to 221 Stevemmon St PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS, Delivered by Carriers. 13 C Sinzle Coples. 5 Cemtn. Terms by Mail. Includins Postaget LAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL ncluding Sunday), 8 months. DAILY CALL Gncluding Sumday). 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. FUKDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are nuthorized to recelve snbreriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mell subseribers in ordering change of afdress shomid be perticuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 0 ‘nsure & prompt end correct compliasce with their request. “AKLAND OFFICE. ...1115 Broadway —_— | €. GEORGE XKROGNESS. ! | Henager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Ohissp>. (Long Distatce Telephone “Central 2619."") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: { STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON...covsruns Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 21 Unfon Square! Murrey Eill Botel. CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Eberman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: | Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. [ | ERANCH OFFICES—£27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | uotl] 9:30 o'clockl 800 Hayes, open intil 0:80 o'clock. 63 | BcAllister, cpen until 9:80 o'clock. ('3 Larkin, open untfl | #:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open untfl 10 o'clock. 2201 | BMerket, corner Sixteepth, cpen untii § c'clock. 1098 Va- THE FREE RANGE. HE RANCHE NEWS, the National Livestock Association, published at Denver, in a recent issue says: “The question of free range will no doubt come up for discussion T | at the next meeting of the association at Kansas City. This question (the leasing of the range) without doubt is the most important one now confronting the stockmen west of the 100th meridian, and, as.a matter of fact, it should be discussed in a friendly way when stockmen assemble, for the purpose of seeing if it is not possible fo arrive at some amicable solution of the difficulty which now confronts them. Unless this is done conditions will grow worse and worse until the Eastern half of the nation will take it up and settle-it after their own ideas, wit*ut Te- gard whatever to the wishes of Western men.” It is obvious that the failure to agree upon and sup- port a proper measure for the leasehold control of lands, that have no value except for grazing, has caused Congress to neglect a change in the land policy which will preserve the potency of such lands for the only use to which they can be subjected. While our own range is being destroyed, our | stockmen are migrating to the pastoral portions of British Columbia, where the Dominion, following the example of the Australian colonies, has adopted a very | liberal lease policy which will soon transfer the beef- producing and export industry to Canada. Last year over three thousand Americans became range lease- holders in British Columbia, and the stream of migration there from this country is increasing. The free range in Texas underwent the same de- terioration which is rapidly progressing in this coun- try outside’of that State, Fortunately, Texas owns her own public domain, and her Legislature took up the question and settled it by a lease law. Last year she had nearly fifteen million acres under lease. Part of this was school land and the revenue from it for the school fund was nearly five hundred thousand dollars. lencis, open until § c'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 | c'clock. NW. corper Twenty-second and Kentucky, opa | wotil ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, cpen untfl p. m. STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION OF | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,| Month of July, 1902. ] 59,510 ,830 60,620 70,340 e e R e e e sEdgpappEEs 70,010 | 60,490 60,070 60,720 60,910 Total. COUNTY OF AN FRANCISCO—ss. day of August, 1902, personally appeared beforeme, | a Notary Public in and for the City and J. MARTIN, who being sworn according | is the Business Manager of the San published In the City and California, and that thers ed during the month of July, 1902 d fourteen thousand five hundred s of the said newspaper, which and fo pumber divi t one (the number of days of issue) gives an average daily circulation of 61,759 coples. W. J. MARTIN. bed and sworn to before me this 12th day of W. T. HESS, y Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- | State of California, room 1018, Claus Spreckels bldg. \ DISTINGUISHED VISITORS, | MONG the thousands of visitors now in the | A city, there are more men than usually come with organized bodies who are distinguished | by their positions and what they have done. The | Governor of rida is here, representing California’s | only companion in the Union in the production off tropical and semi-tropical fruits, and also in the enter- | tainment of winter tourists who flee from the climatic rigors of the North and East. He will not fail to note that California in the latter respect, as a tourist re- | sort, has the advantage of Florida in being a place of | refuge from the exhausting heat of summer as well as from the wintry blasts. In the production of fruits and vegetables he will | find much to study for the benefit of his own people. | Horticulture here ranks with the learned professions. We have not the sameness of climate that makes all parts of Florida alike. Qur variety of physical condi- | tions is responsible for the unrivaled variety of our | products. The adaptation of our conditions to the production of fruit, also causes nature to sport in the | production of new varieties, and befriends the wizard | hybridizer Burbank, in his evolution of old things and their combination into new. We have learned much in past times from Florida, and can now pay her back in the horticultural lore built upon our natural capagities. Her Governor would be welcome in an extended sojourn, that would enable him to visit all of our centers of characteristic production. He represents a section of the country | whose people have 2lways delighted in tilling the | soil, and whose public men partake of the common taste. So strong was the reliance upon the fruits of the earth that when the Southern Confederacy | edopted its great seal, it went outside the legends of | hergldry and wreathed the seal of corn, wheat, cotton, | tobacco, rice and sugar cane, the great Southern staples. It was an inspired idea, and though the seal and state whose authority it stamped are both gone, | the sentiment that formed it to glorify rural industry | is @s strong in the South as ever. ! Ariother Southern State, Missouri, is expected to | send a representative citizen in Mr. David R. Francis, | who has served its metropolis as Mayor, its people as | Governor and the nation as a member of Mr. Cleve- land’s Cabinet. He is one of the originators of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and its president, and one of the foremost Americans. While here he will #ee what can be done to secure a full representation of California at the exposition in 1904. The Louisiana purchase from France was the first great extension of the national domain, and thci @cquisition of California and the territory that came | with her from Mexico was the second. It is fitting ghat this State, which is the cream of that second extension, should be at St. Louis in her fullest and $inest jeather. What that will mean Governor Fran- i cis will have the opportunity of judging while he is here, and, as his encrgy never flags, he will see to it that we have every opportunity to demonstrate | that the territory acquired in 1848 is not second in | importance to that taken over in 1803. These gentlemen are exceedingly welcome to Cali- fornia, as are all their company and brotherhood, and as we are sure Californians wousld be in the com- munities in which they stand for all that is best in development, civilization and enterorise. A | stockmen to consider, there is no doubt. | people unless you do something for them. | three more headquarters, and, if I'm Judge Kleberg, member of Congress from Texas, states that before the range was leased there was a | state of open war befween stockmen for the free grass. The destruction of life and property became so great that a special session of the Legislature had to be called to end it by a leasing law. As to its effect upon settlers and homesteaders, Judge Kleberg said that, “Whenever you have lawful conditions there will be no trouble for the small settler to get his ights, but when you have revolution and rebellion, of course he has no show.” The Land Commissioner of Texas says: “Under been enclosed; by so doing the ranges have been protected from overstocking and have been much improved. It has necarly abolished cattle theft as compared to'its extent prior to enclosure of the ranges. It has also caused the rearing of better cat- tle, and at present the cattle industry of Texas is a great institution.” The Texas leaseholds range in area from 320 to 300,000 acres. There is no sorcery in what Australia and Texas have done and Canada is doing, to replace lawlessness by law on the range, preserve the forage and get public revenue from the use of public prop- erty. That it is the one great question for Western If they could agree, and get the members of Congress to- gether as they were got together on the irrigation bill, the next session of Congress might act upon the matter in accord with the wishes of Western men. The secret of success in legislation which the East secures is that the interests which require it combine in a common purpose, and then get what they want. If Western men agree that there is to be no control of the range, the East will let the question alone and let them fight it out with guns, as they are doing now, until lawlessness becomes a -national scandal, and then it may be stopped by some measure that wjll abruptly end the whole Western grazing interest. A list of books desired by a public lib;ary in Osawatomie, Kansas, was recently sent to Miss Helen Gould with the request that she donate them. It is said that she did so, but not until she had stricken from the list the works of Victor Hugo; and now the Eastern folks are wondering what’s the matter with Hugo or what's the matter with Miss Gould. It never seems to occur to any one that she may have struck out that ‘many of the books just to make the total a little cheaper, or perhaps there was nothing of Hugo on the bargain counter at the time she made the purchase. S enlivened in New York by the gay and erratic campaign of William S. Devery to make him- self leader of the Ninth District and so secute him- self a place of, prestige in Tammany Hall. The methods of Devery are at once political, philan- thropic, social and spectacular, and he is doing more to keep New York moving during the heated spell than any other ten men in town. Devery was once Chief of Police, but was turned out of office by the 1eform administration. Instead of following Croker to England or seeking retire- A NEW YORK POLITICIAN. UMMER time and city politics are alike being ment and the peace of an obscure life where he might ! :njoy his money and write his memoirs, Devery turned instantly to politics. He has two opponents: Goodwin, the Tammany leader in the district, and John C. Shechan, the leader of the so-called “Greater Déemocracy,” who supported the reformers in the fight against Croker. Devery declares himself a Tammany man, but is against Goodwin and the Croker crowd. He is making a red-hot campaign. “I break- ing in to do something,” he said in one of his first speeches. “I am going to show them political sports that I am a live one. You can do nothing with the I am going to give the people free ice while the hot weather lasts.” On another occasion he said: “I 2m a live one and I'll beat Goodwin out of his boots and then I'll chase the buffalo.” The allusion was to Shechan, who hails from Buffalo. Devery’s argument from first to last is that his op- ponents have been in power a long time, but have never done anything for the people of the district. Speaking of his own programme he said: “I’ll show them what plain Bill Devery can do. I’ll establish free ice depots at different points. I'll open at least lected leader, the people of this district will have a Lublic bath, a recreation pier, and 2 park, and I'll get ’em. Now look at that Goodwin gang. They gather down there near Twenty-fourth street and play whist, poker, hearts and other games. They're grafters and care nothing for nobody but themselves. I want to see meeting places where the boys can drop in, stand up, sit down, kick over chairs, or any old thing, and there won't be no kick coming. I'm not going to sit | damaged. organ of .the | ', down and play cards while the people of this district need looking after.” Of course Mr. Devery is not making his campaign wholly out of ice and promises. Even during the heated term the boys of the Ninth District demand something warmer than that. He has made the beer flow while the bands played on and he has organized picnics for the women and children. In short he has made the district a free circus and has won from his admirers such encomiums as this: “Now, if we had the right sort of leader in our midst, would there have been any need or necessity to give ice or any- thing? No. I tell you, friends, these fellows are in league with the corporations and trusts. They want to keep the poor man down. When any one of us got in trouble what did he get from them, hey? When our leader is the leader of this district there will be no more poverty. He won’t permit such conditions. There will be no need to give ice or groceries to any one. We're in this fight not only to make him leader of this grand old Ninth Democratic Assembly Dis- | triet, but to make him the leading leader of the lead- ers of the Democratic party of this great Empire State.”, Altogether, Devery is cutting a wide swath. He has money, he has courage, he has energy and he has a large capacity for dealing with the masses. The newspapers make fun of his grammar and his style, but it appears plain enough in their reports that he knows how to make his meaning clear. He is in politics to do something and he promises his fol- lowers t‘mt something shall be done for them. Th;t ‘has been the cry of the démagogue since ever the breed began, and it looks as if the ex-Chief of Police might develop into one of the strongest that New York has,vet known. It will be remembered that some time ago a whisky house named a brand of its liquor “Yale” and used a copy of the seal of the university as a label, and that a good deal of discussion followed as to the right of the firm to use the name of the university |in that way. The case was never brought into court | because the Yale faculty was doubtful of winning and did not wish to advertise the brand. Now a big brewery near New Haven has taken the title “Yale Brewery” and there will be a Yale beer as well as a Yale \\fhisky. | O ment of the determination of one of the larg- | est cotton mill companies in Connecticut to | close its plant in that State, there comes a good deal of light upon the relation which child labor in the South bears to industries in other sections of the country. It makes clear the fact that the competition of children in the mills south of the Ohio affects the welfare of workingmen north of the river as well as those in the immediate locality where the children are employed, and it will therefore increase the earnestness with which Northern sentiment will sup- port every effort now being made by Southern men | and women to put an end to the child labor system. One of the officials of the company said in explana- tion of the action: “The company can manufacture more cheaply in the South.” Commenting upon that statement the Springfield Republican says: “Child labor—the physical, intellectual and moral dwarfing of the children of the South for the larger profit of capital—is the chief element in this comparative cheapness of Southern cotton manufacture, so far as it exists at all.” 5 It will be remembered that some time igo an Ala- bama association organized for the purpose of pro- curing legislation restricting child labor in that State appealed to the North for assistance on the ground that a large proportion of the owners of Southern mills live in the North and cannot be influenced by Southern sentiment. The Northern owners of the mills, it is said, have been among the most strenuous opponents of reform legislation. They moved their mills South to get cheap labor and threaten to aban- don the mills if the use of child labor be denied them. When that appeal was first published, it met with some derision, but it now appears to have been fully justified by the facts. Commenting upon the attitude of the Northern owners of Southern mills as revealed by the action of the big mill company in Connecticut, the New York Tribune says: “It shows that all the fine talk of the philanthropic manufacturers who employ a few chil- dren for their own good and furnish schools for them, so that they are really better off than if they were left free, amounts to nothing. Doubtless some of these manufacturers are perfectly sincere, and if left to themselves would reduce the evils of child labor to a minimum or even employ a few children imder con- ditions distinctly beneficial. But it is_clear that laws must be made for those who would abuse their liberty, not those who would use it properly; and if North- ern mills are to be moved for the sake of child labor, clearly the abuse of liberty has reached a dangerous stage.” The issue is of course one that Southernflegislatofs will have to deal with. Still the earnest meén and women of the South who for a long time past have been” making a fight for child labor laws should not be left without support from the North. The members of the mill company who are going to remove their plant from Connecticut to the South to get cheaper labor will continue to live in the North. Southern sentiment will not affect them. If they are to.be in- duced to withdraw their antagonism to child labor the influence to that effect must come from public opinion in the States where they reside. The issue in fact is national and must be dealt with 3s such. A NATIONAL PROBLEM, UT of the discussion following the announce- A Parisian artist announces that he has discovered a means of solidifying oil colors into crayons, and maintains that the invention will revolutionize the art of paifting by reason o&;he fact that the crayons produce more brilliant éffects than a brush and prevent the “sinking in” of colors. . We may there- fore look for a twentieth century school of painting that will make the past look dingy and give the daub of ten years ago something of the venerable appear- ance of a picture of the fifteenth century. S L The latest thing in the way of strikes developed at Chicago the other day when the gravediggers em- ployed at one of the largest cemeteries struck and refused either to dig graves themselves or to permit any one else to do so. The only thing needed to complete that situation was a sympathetic strike on the part of doctors and a refusal to supply any dead folks to be buried in the cemetery of the obnoxious company. —_— The United States Circuit Court has decided that mental anguish is not sufficient justification for a suit for damages. Perhaps the court has reason to suspect that the brains of some men ¢annot be | s REGENTS TAKE ACTION ON THE APPOINTMENTS At a meeting of the Regents of the University of California at the Hopkins Art Institute yesterday President Benja- min Ide Wheeler announced that Mrs. Hearst had presented the university with $2500 to be expended by Director W. W. Campbell in the interest of the Lick Ob- servatory. It was also announced by the president that Mrs. Jane Kron Sather had donated to the university $10,000 for the erection of a gateway and bridge at the Telegraph-avenue entrance. Joseph Bonnheim offered a prize of $250 for an annual debate, which was accepted. It was resolved to appoint a committee to draft resolutions in regard to the death of Dr. Horatio Stebbins. On the president’s recommendation, Dr. Goddard was appointed emeritus profes- sor of orthodontia. On the recommenda- tion of President Wheeler, the appoint- ments of Harry Manville Wright, A. B, lecturer on corporations, at a salary of $250 per annum; William Denman, A. B., LL. B., lecturer on agency and part- nership, at $350 for the academic year, were ratifled. The resignation of Dr. Thomas Walker Page as assistant professor of history was accepted. LPPOINTMENTS MADE. Jerome Barker Landfteld, A. B., was appointed to the vacancy caused by Dr. Page's resignation at $500 per annum. The following appointments were also made: Charles J. O'Connor, instructor in Latin at $1000 a yéar; Alfred Solomon, A.B., and Eman- uel Benjamin Lamare, assistants in French, at $50 per month, Solomon to succeed F. H. Bart- lett, resigned; Miss Alice Robertson, B.S., as- sistant in hyglene for women; Elmer Edgar Hall as instructor in physics at $1000 for the academic year; Miss Adelaide M. Hobe, B.S., aseistant in astronomy, without pay, and Rus- sell Tracy Crawford, B.S., instructor in prac- tical astronomy, at $50 per month; Harvey | Monroe Hall, B.S., assistant In the experiment statlon, his total compensation to be $1000 for the academic year; August Valentine Saph, B.S.. instructor in civil engineering at $1200 per ‘annum; J. J. Jessup, B.S., assistant in civil engineering, at $500 per annum; Bernard Alfred Etcheverry, B.S., Instructor in civil en- gineering, at $000 per annum, and it was | agreed that the salary of J. H. Dye, instructor in civil engineering, should be $1200 per annum. PROFESSORS’ SMALL PAY. Professor Wheeler alluded to the very small pay received by men of prominence as instructors, saying that many of them did not recelve as much as a bricklayer. The position of treasurer, rendered va- cant by the death of Louis Sloss, was given to Louis Gerstle. President Wheeler announced that the summer school had met with a success that surpassed all previous records. There had, he said, been an approximate attend ance of 830, and general satisfaction had been expressed. He also sald that the tone had been very high, as had -been the work. A. 8. Baldwin appeared before the Re- gents with regard to a proposition to di- vide 2500 acres of marsh land. It seemed that the university owns an individual half-interest in the lands situated in San | Mateo County donated by Miss Cora Jane | Flood. Baldwin for certain parties pur- | chased from the late John W. Mackay his interest in the property, and the pur- chasers now desire a division. An ani- mated discussion resulted, and it was sald that possibly a railroad was projected | across the property. The Regents went into executive session and decided to de cline the request. The following committees were appoint- ed: Finance—Foster, Hellman, Pardee; grounds | and building—Hearst, Reinsteln, Pardee; | Ubrary and museum—Taussig, Charles S | Wheeler, Kirk; Lick Observatory—Slack, Par- dee, Charles S. Wheeler; land—Reinstein, Way- mire. Ellinwood; agricultural experiment sta- | tlons—Houghton, Budd, Rowell; Wilmerding— Houghton, Taussig, Farl; Flood—Slack, Me- Enerney, Taussig, i President Wheeler made the announce- | ment that the university had outgrown itself and that new bulldings were needed. | PERSONAL MENTION. | 8. G. Marshutz of Los Angeles Is at the Grand. Dr. William Simpson of San Jose is | at the Lick. | M. E. Dailey, an attorney of San Jose, is | at the California. { L. A. Spitzer, County Assessor of Santa | Clara, is at the Grand. Emile Bourguignon, a retired florist of | San Jose, is at the Palace. B. W. Akiman, an olive oil manufac- turer of San Diego, is at the Grand. George B. Katzenstein, the Sacramento | representative of the Karl FruitCom- pany, is at the Palace. J. C. Kemp Van Ee, the well-known min- ing man of Hodson, Calaveras County, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. E. Carter of Nonfe, Alaska, is visiting friends in this city. She will re- turn to Nome on the last trip of the steamship St. Paul. 3 ———— ' Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 12—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—C. F. Bryant, at the Vendome; L. Du Pont Syle, E. E. Ames, C. C. Cook, at the Park Avenue: H. M. Hill, at the Holland; C. W. Tozer, at the Murray Hill; N. 8. Lowenthal and wife, W. B. Peck, at the Manhattan; A. Sutter, at the Ash- land; K. G. Swinten, at the Grand Union; J. P. White, at the Grenoble. From Los Angeles—S. S. Spyer, at the Normandie; A. Cauldwell, R. W. Burn- ham, at the Grand Union; O. Kaiser, at the Imperial. . ————— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The follow- ing Californians have arrived at the ho- tels: National—J. V, Young, San Francis- co. St. James—R. B Wood, Los An- geles; H. Rich, San Francisco. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “I suppose,” sald Uncle Jerry to his niece, “that you have expended much time and thought on your graduation effort, and that it will be something to be proud of.” “Oh, yes, uncle,” answered the fair young thing. “It has the new dip front effect and the skirt has a delicious.flare and the trimmings are simply gorgec\ua." “Tut, tut, child; I mean your essay.” “My essay? Why, uncle, when the au- dience sees that dress of mine they won't pay any attention to what I have to say.”" —Baltimore American. “Did you see that distinguished looking man who came down the aisle of the theater and whispered in Mrs. Giddypate's ear?” ‘Yes, I saw him.” ““He looked like a perfect stranger, too."” “Guess he was." “It's astonishing the way that woman goes on. Could you hear what the man sald?” “Yes, I heard it.” “What did he say?” “He said: ‘Madam] please remove your hat’ It was the chief usher.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘““The postman has just brought me Aunt Jane's present,” said the poet's wife. “What do you think it is?” “I don’t know,” replled the peoet, dis- turbed at work. “But can’t you think?” “Gee whiz! How do you éxpect me to think now? I'm writing something for the magazines.”—Philadelphia Press, SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY ‘CALL READERS SUPERVISOR—D. C. G., City. Adolph B. Spreckels was a Supervisor in San Francisco in the years 1895-18%6. SOLD TO THE STATE-D. E. D, Lower Lake, Cal. The law authorizing the sale of land to the State in California for non-payment of taxes was approved March 28, 1895. MAJOR GENERAL SHAFTER—W. B., City. Under the provisions of a special act of Congress, Willlam R. Shafter, U. 8. A, was retired from the regular army with the rank of major general. VOTING—H. H. B., City. There are eleven States in the Union in which allens who have declared intention to become citizens of the United States are per- mitted to vote for all candidates for of- fice. CAMERA—A. E. W., City. If you de- sire to know about the time exposure for a certain purpose it would be well for you to ask the firm that sold you the camera with which you propose to ex- periment. BILLIARD TOURNAMENT-W. J. 8., City. The question asked in regard to the number of games in a billiard tour- nament is a simple one of arithmetic, the kind of questions that are not answered in this department. ; COIN QUESTIONS—A Ledy, San Jos Cal.; Constant Reader, Subscriber and Al lie 453, City. Correspondents asking for the value of coins should inclose a self- addressed and stamped envelope and an answer will be sent by mail. BOHEMIAN PAPERS—B. A. O., Jack- sonville, Cal. There are a number of pa- pers published in the Bohemian language in the United States. The Narod is pub- lished in Chicago, the Hals Lidu in New York City, the Volnost in Cleveland, Ohio. PRESENT AND FUTURE—Reader, City. “Is” refers to the present, “will be” to the future, and as to-morrow is to be a future day it is not proper to say on Tuesday “to-morrow is Wednes- day”; but it is proper to say, ‘‘to-morrow will be Wednesday.” i CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION — A Subscriber, City. .There is no general of- fice of the United States Civil Service Commission in San Francisco. Informa- tion relative to such service may be had from the head of any department that a party seeks appointment in. THE AUTHOR~A., Stockton, Cal. lines, A dreamer lives forever, ‘While a toller dies in a day. Are to be found in “The Cry of the Dreamer,” in the works of the late James Boyle O'Reilly of the Boston Pilot. Sev- eral friends of this department furnished the desired information. BEDBUGS—J. T. C, The following Is given as a bedbug poison: Spirits of wine and of turpentine, half a pint each; crude sal ammonia and cam- phor, ead one ounce. Dissolve and shake well. This should be squirted with a syr- irge Into the places where the bugs as- semble and with a sponge attached to a stick the entire woodwork of the bed should be washed with it. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE—A Sub- scriber, City. Without a view of the contract signed by you when you entered the employment of the parties for whom you are working it Is impossible to give a positive answer to the questions asked, but if vou read the contract before you signgd it you are bound by its terms. If you think that you are entitled to any redress you had better consult a lawyer. BOWING ON THE STREET-E. C. W., City. Books on etiquette say: “If you meet a lady with whom you are not par- ticularly well acquainted, wait for her recognition before you venture to bow to her.” If a gentleman calls at the house The | of a friend and the head of the house should, in a formal way, introduce a lady who happened to be there to him, that does not give him the right, if he should meet that lady again, to continue the ac- Qquaintance. MARRIAGE—M. C. D., City. The law of California-in relation to marriages of divorced partles is as follows: ‘A subsequent marriage contracted by any person during the life of a former husband or wife, other than to suech for- mer husband or wife, is illegal and void from the. beginning unless the former marriage has been annulled or dissolved, provided that in case it be dissolved the decree of divorce must have been render- ed and made at least one year prior to such subsequent marriage."” Under that law a party divorced in Ari- zona or anywhere else a month ago, could not come to California and marry until a year after the divorce in Arizona or elsewhere had been granted. Next Sunday’s Call Completes the Novel, : “None But the M-Thehfl”dS-ndny.AqusllflmdAms(,fl,h five cenls cach, and yov have a dollar and a halt book lo read. OUR NEXT ROOK— MAY CONVENE THE SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION vASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Advices re- cexrilshere indicate that President Roose- velt will call the Senate in extraordinary session early in November. Ever since it became evident that notl:- ing would be accomplished as to recl- procity with Cuba at the recent sess‘mn of Congress rumors of a more or less definite nature have been in circulation that the President would call an extra session, either of the entire Congress u; enact Cuban reciprocity legislation or c the Serate to ratify if possl_ble a recip- rocal treaty with Cuba. During the past week it has been stated that it was the purpose of President Roosevelt .to cné\l a special session of the Senate early in Sep- tember. It can be stated on authority that he has no such intention. His time and that of many members of both politieal par- ties will be occupied during September and October. It is understocd to be th; belief of the President that a -z-lonfi the Senate held for the purpose of (;‘ha-. tying a reciprocity treaty with ‘t’tul would be much more likely to be frul o of results if held after the November elections 'than if held before. It is as- sured that the question of the relations of the United States with Cuba will enter largely into the approaching ump.lmll. and it s stated that the President feels the Democrats will be less likely to offer serious opposition to a reciprocity treaty fter_the election than they would be- :or:r'thnt time. A treaty practically has been prep: quires only }hg‘ &1:1-1‘2; signatures o re‘t:ry of State Hay to make it re tation to the Senate. No d It Bt e Tatood, has been - fxed upon for the meeting of the session ber, but that it_will gnoav:;:ctlunn is reasonably certain. 'l;llal. President, it is said, hopes to have the reciprocity question cleared uugo entire- ly before the regular session of Congress. — Ttalian Peasants Are Superstitious. Italy is subject to periodical fits of re- liglous fervor, and among the peasants, who take it so seriously and belleve so firmly that the authoritles are sdmewhat nonplussed as to what course to pursue, and sometimes WfVe to be passive, con- fining themaelves merely to keeping or- der. It is quite enough for some hysterical woman to have an attack of the nerves and to declare that she has had a vislon of the Madonna for the whole country- side to be In an uproar. Such was the case not long ago in a little place on the Roman-Tuscan frontier, it being asserted that the Virgin had appeared in a certain oak tree and had spoken to those praying there. She appears sometimes in the day, but her favorite hour, so it is said there, is about 9 in the evening. The mysterious oak has been adorned with thousands of lighted candles, producing a most pie- turesque effect, together with the kneeling multitudes below. Processions of men, women and children carrying burning cadles make pllgrimages to the divine oak and firmly believe that they see the Madonna. So excited are they, that it is not an uncommon occurrence for one or more to become pale and fall to the ground with all the symptoms of an epileptic fit. Aft- erward they are taken by a lethargie sleep, which usually lasts four or five hou On waking they cry “Viva Ma- ria!” and almost invariably declare that they have been in Paradise. It is calcu- lated that one day recently 10,000 people were gathered about the o An unbeliever went to the spot from curfosity, and, seeing an old man kneel- ing with candle in hand and with eyes fixed on the illuminated oak, addressed him, saying: “My good mah. can you tell ‘me where this blessed Madonna Is to_be seen?” “Look at that oak,” was the reply, “and where it is white is St. Joseph . on. one hand and St. Anthony on the other, wltg thf, Mador{kgia mbn:et cents;.l" “But I see nothinz but two white poin formed by the flogfrs of the tree.- - “Then you are inbeliever.” The unbelieved” moved forward, and with a knife managed to cut off some of the blossoms, which fell to the ground. Whereupon the old man cried out. hor- rified: "You are damned! You have cut off the head of St. Anthony!” and disap- peared weeping. ——————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_——— Townsend’s California Glace fruit and candles, 50c a pound, In artistic fire-etched boxes. 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