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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1902. TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, IS Aééress All Cemmunications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect | You With the Department You Wish. .Market and Third, S. F. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday). one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (¢ g Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL ( :£ { 1.50 | WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive { subscriptions. | be forwarded when requested. | Semple coples | Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be CLAIMS OF THE PARTIES. AVE Republicans or Democrats the advantage H in the Congressional campaign that has now opened? That is the question that engages the thoughts of political forecasters and sets them to making calculations on the probable result of the con- test. It is conceded that the prevailing prosperity counts as a potent factor on the Republican side, but against that is set the tendency of the country to go over to the opposition in the elecfion following a Presidential year. Of course party bias has a good deal to do with the calculations on each side, and therefore vitiates the conclusions to some extent, but none the less as we are now on the eve of the active work of the canvass it will be interesting to note what each party expects or pretends to expect in the way of success. A Republican expert estimates the results of the elections will show that .Congressmen have been elected from the various States thus: Rep.Dem. Rep.Dem. perticular tc give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to iosurc & prompt and correct compliance with their request. | UAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway | C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mezeger Fereign Aévertising, Marguette Building, Chicago. | (long Telephone “Central 2618.”) i NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: H STEPHEN B. SMITH .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON ....Herald Square c. c. NEW YORK | | EWS STANDS: | Hotel; A. Brentano, | 31 Union Square; | NEWS STANDS: Fhermen House ; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF MORTON E. CRAN. | BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | until 9:30 c'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 | McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until | 9:30 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 1¢ o'clock. 2261 arket, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 | c'clock. 108 Eveventh, open until | er Twenty-second and Kentucky, | 2200 Fillmore, open until ® p. m. neia, ope | the most significant incidents of the { prosperity is the use made s perio sical betterment. The result- en to labor has added greatly to money as wages and has given ac- trade. t this general movement for the , increasing parallel trackage, sub- gents for curves and renewing structures long established lines and systems as modern constructions. It began on the s between the Missouri and the Pacific ion that had not a rail laid forty years rst it was supposed that roads in this Cis- country had to be reformed and "recon- 1se in their original creation there were ent in the trans-Missouri systems. > be 2 mistake. Even the Pennsylvania, f the oldest and best engineered systems in the is doing as much for physical betterment as ental roads, which are the latest and great systems. of significance appear in the this work. In the East railroads are showing great caution about iron bridges and in a great number of cases are using stone instead of iron. A i go iron piers and supports for railway ges were so much in style that a road that used other material was under suspicion of insolvency was apt to be harried by public authority. Now, it is not necessary to use iron or steel for bridges in order to be fashionable. Of course nothing can sub- stitute those metals in building suspension bridges, but otherwise stone is being used wherever possible. This e partly to experience afid partly to a better knowledge of the effect of vibration on the molecular structure of iron and steel. An iron bridge not only suffers from changes in molecular angles, but must be kept painted to preserve it from rust. Stone endures vibration and defies the effects of atmospheric mois- ture, and when cemented and built 2 stone bridge is maintained cheaper than one built of metal. This general betterment of railways, going on all over the country, will leave upon the most important American interest the permanent impress of a pros- perity that is greater than has before occurred in the history of the world. The vastness of the work .is in the fact that it calls for an expenditure that y equals the cost of the original construction of the lines and systems to which it is applied. When it is finished one day will have been canceled in the running time of passenger trains between San Francisco and New York, and an equal economy of time will be instituted on most of the important sys- tems. W ncreased speed there will be added safety. Taking out grades and curves, and double tracking and blocking, will associate the maximum of speed with the maximum of safety. So, in the improvement of half of the world’s rail- ileage, these times build to themselves a monu- that will not be excelled in its own kind until in the century, for it will be long before prosperity and discovery of improved methods will so co-ordinate as to obsolete what is now being done on American railwa; p d bec: great ars aj way n n Recently John Wanamaker borrowed $1,000,000 on his big stores and immediately all Philadelphia engaged in 2 guessing contest. Ope said he borrowed the money to extend his business, another that he will use it in politics to get a seat in the Senate, a third that he required it to run his newspapers, a fourth that he intends to found an institution of charity, while a fifth suggests that he intends to in- crease the wages of his employes. Meantime it is probable Mr. Wanamaker wished the money merely for pocket change during his vacation at a seaside re- sort. Saratoga is said to be the wickedest and wildest gambling place in the world. The games seem to be run wide open and are by no means confined to the smart set. One result of the attraction has been the gathering in the city of a lot of footpads, who hold up belated gamblers. Within two weeks no less than three persons have been sandbagged and robbed on the streets within a short distance of the big hotels. The Shah of Persia recently gave a dinner in Lon- don that cost $15,000, and the bluff appears to have staggered the town: but if he had made such a play in New York he would have been called to meet a $25,000 dinner that very evening, | ncreased profits and credit of Ameri- | k | | licans do not concede them. Alabama . E Ny . 1 Arkansas . e g 7 California & 8 518 | Colorado 5 22 15 Connectic 5 . 10 Delaware . 1 North Dakota 2 .s Florida . = Ohio . A U ) Georgia . Oregon . B . Idaho . i | Pennsylvania B Tilinols . 15 Rhode Island R Indiana . (] South Carolina . s 1 1 South Dakota 20V [ Tennessee 3 508 v 2 Texas .e 16 Louistana £ Utah . L Maine i .| Vermo AT Maryland . 4 | Virginia . o es 10 Méssachusetts ..... 11 ‘Washington Lk e Michigan 10 West Virginta ..... 5 .. | Minnesota 9 Wisconsin 11780, Mississipp! . ‘Wyoming 1 Missouri 2 — Montana = R 210 Nebraska 4 Republican majority .34 That estimate does not appear to be oversanguine, though of course it is based on the superb victory won by the Republicans in the last Presidential elec- tion. The Democrats are not conceded a single Con- gressman from this State, but if that seem like claim- ing too much it is to be noted, on the other hand, that they are given the three Congressmen from Colorads. It is much more pfobable that Republi- cans will gain in Colorado than that Democrats will gain here, so that, tzken as a whole, the estimate may be accepted as a conservative one from a Re- publican point of view. A Democratic estimate puts the results thus: Rep.Dem, Rep.Dem. Alabama . ee vs 9| Nevada B o 1 Arkausas . 7| New Hampshire . .. California 1| New Jersey 4 Colorado 3| New York . 18 Connectic 1| North Carolina ..... 10 Delaware 1| North Dakota 52 Florida . 3| Ohio . 8 Georgia . 11| Oregon g Idaho . 1| Pennsy 10 Tilinois . i3 12| Rhode Island % Indiana . . 4 6| South Carolina o st 7 lTowa 10 1| South Dakota . 2 .e Kansas 4 4| Tennessee . U Kentucky 2 9| Texas 5. oy I8 Louisiana, = 7| Utah O Maine 4 ..| Vermont 3 Maryland 2 ‘4| Virginia . s Massachuse 10 4| Washington 3 Michigan 8 4| West Virgin{ 5 Minnesota. 9 .| Wisconsin . 10 Mississippl . 8| Wyoming 1 Missouri . 1 15 Montana . . 1 Totals .......... Nebraska 2 4| Democratic majority It will be seen the Democrats expect to get each California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Delaware, Jowa, Wisconsin and Missouri; two each in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Maryland, Michigan and New Jersey; three each in New York and Ohio, and five in Pennsylvania, that the Repub- It is said that some Democratic campaigners aré themselves doubtful of the ability of the party to carry all the seats claimed in the estimate, and some among them suggest that fully eleven of them may be carried by Republicans, thus giving the Democrats a majority of but ten in- stead of thirty-two, as claimed by the table. It will be noted that either way the margin of ma- jority is small. California is expected by the party to send up a solid Republican delegation, and her voters should rally to the demand. It is now prob- able that the chief issue before the next Congress is to be that of tariff revision, for the fight made in the East on that subject is rapidly dominating every- thing else in the political field. - California, therefore, will need stalwart protectionists in the House to guard her interests. We can afford to take no chances. in Roosevelt’s theory of the strenuous life does not exclude talking. He is no believer in the silent man of action. It is his doctrine that a2 man can saw wood and say much at the same time, and he has been doing the double job this summer in great shape. A MERE MATTER OF COIN. ISPATCHES from the East recently brought D us a glowing story of a grand Vanderbilt ball given to the Duchess of Marlborough at: New- port. For telegraphic purposes the account of the affair was condensed until the terse sentences sparkled like so many gems worth mints of money. It was estimated that the evening's hospitality, in- cluding an opera given in a theatre de luxe, cost the hostess $100,000. Our Eastern exchanges have now arrived bring- ing full accounts of the affair. So far from being condensed like the dispatches, these accounts at first hand are elaborated, extended and expanded with a diffuseness of gorgeous verbiage until in their ex- uberance they seem bloated almost to the verge of bursting. In these elaborate accounts the impression produced is not so charming as that made by the dispatches. The details do not dazzle so successfully as the generalities glittered. When set forth. in its fullness the grand affair appears to have been nothing more than what an ordinary citizen can get in San Francisco on any evening for about $1 40. It appears the guests on arriving at Beaulieu stopped at the gate and dismounted there instead of driving to the door of the “cottage.” They were received in a pavilion constructed for the purpose. It was twenty-five feet wide, forty feet long, eighteen feet high. On each side were dressing-rooms where the revelers laid aside their wraps. Thence they entered a “Midway,” about 300 feet long, leading from the pavilion to'the door of the cottage. Along the Midway, which was hung with red draperies and lighted by double rows of electric lights, were various shows, including Punch and Judy, shooting gallery, wheel of fortune, gypsy fortune teller, a doll baby game and a place where knives were displayed to be won by any person who could pitch a ring over one of them. The theatrical entertainment bégan at mid- night and was given by a professional troupe from New York. After it was over there was supper. Then there was a cotillon and then another supper. At daybreak the affair vanished with the stars of the night. It will be seen that the function was a combination of the Chutes, a comic opera and two suppers. The opera part of the programme can be had in San Francisco for 50 cents. The “Midway” games in an cven larger variety can be seen here for 10 cents. Two people, then, could see the whole show for $1 20, and, allowing 20 cents more for street car fares for two, going and coming, makes the whole l Ico;t just $1 40 for a man and his wife or his best girl, and she is just as good as any belle at the Van- derbilt ball. If it be said that there remain the two suppers which we have not figured on, we have to answer that we set them aside purposely, as midnight sup- pers are not healthy. Furthermore, they are not suf- ficient to make up the cost of the grand function. Does any sane man believe that he could in one night, though he had two trials at it, eat as much as $100,000 worth of shrimp salad? . After all the only difference between the pleasures of the rich and those of the poor is a matter of money. Take an opera in an opera-house and a side show in a side-show park, and there are fun for the millions at the cost of a few cents; but put the cpera and the side shows on a lawn, label them $100,- 000, and behold -they are entertainments for a Duchess. ' A Chicago traveling man is reported as saying that the custom of passing round boxes of candy on elec- tion day is becoming more and more prevalent in the woman suffrage States, and Chicago confection- ers are now packing special boxes for campaign pur- poses. As it is added that the campaign bonbons are a little cheaper than the campaign cigars, it is evident the ladies are getting cheated by the candi- dates. OBJECT TO CREMATION, WING to the crowded condition of the O swarming population in many parts of India and the wretched circumstances amid which so many millions of them live, it has been found dif- ficult for the British officials to check the progress of plagues and pestilences by the exercise of the most stringent sanitary regulaticns. In spite of all that has been done to improve the health of the country disease germs lurk and propagate almost everywhere. Muich of the evil is attributed to the methods em- ployed by the various races and sects in dealing with the bodies of their dead, and some time ago the Gov- ernment undertook to induce the people to practice cremation. It is the belief of the Government that if all the diseased bodies were duly burned the deadly germs would be gradually destroyed and danger of pestilence largely diminished. ‘When the proposal was submitted to the India Council it was well understood that it would meet with violent opposition and that it would be impos- sible to enforce it by arbitrary act. A campaign of education on the subject was therefore begun with the hope that it would eventually result in obtaining the assent of the leaders of the natives to the reform. It was deemed a foregone conclusion that the oppo- sition would be based upon religious grounds, and accordingly the campaign of education was carefully outlined to avoid”that issue and bring the whole proposition within the domain of science. To the astonishment of the British some of the leading Brahmins have declared against cremation on the grounds of the very science to which the Gov- ernment appealed. The Westminster Gazette quotes a Brahmin member of the staff of the Indian Gov- ernment Educational Institution as saying: “There is no substance in the world which is so rich in plant- food as the carcass of an animal. When it is burned and converted into ashes all the work accomplished by nature in her laboratory is wasted. The nitrogen' is dispersed in the air. At 8d a pound the nitrogen in flesh and bones in each human carcass is worth about 2 rupees. It is worth while storing it away at the roots of plants instead of allowing it to disperse in the air. * * * Cremation can do little harm so long as it is practiced by few, but universally adopted it will only mean a few million tons of food less per annum, and a gradually diminishing supply of food for the existing races of animals. * * * I would rather imagine my body slowly passing into the sub- stances of mangoes and ‘gold mohurs’ planted in cemeteries than that it should be resolved into its native elements by sudden process in the course of an hour.” While that argument is more remarkable for its ingenuity than its. validity, it is an interesting illus- tration of the extent to which Great Britain has man- aged to inculcate Western scientific ideas among the leaders of one of the most conservative castes in the world. It also shows how difficult it is going to be to get that conservatism to change its ancient ways. The very lessons taught by science are employed to forge weapons against the innovations of science. Evidently it will be a long time before cremation pre- vails in India. * AN AGE OF OPTIMISM. F old there were times that tried men’s souls, O periods when it took a clear brain, a strong heart and a good deal of unquestioning faith to be an optimist, but in our times it seems almost impossible to avoid beingtone. We find optimism bursting out in places where it is, to say the least, wholly unexpected. The under dog seems to breathe it just about as freely as the dog that won the fight, or the dog that looked on and enjoyed the proceed- ings from a safe distance. That the British should be able to extract some- thing of good cheer and hopefulness out of ‘the strain required to overcome in South Africa a foe they began by despising is not strange. It is true they were beaten in most of the fights, but then they managed to wear the other fellow out and get away with the spoils, and so even though the cost was about twice what the spoils are worth a feeling of optimism over the result is quite natural. The odd thing is that the Boers are about as optimistic as the British. Botha, Dewet and Delarey seem to be hav- ing about as good a time as Kitchener and Roberts, are receiving as enthusiastic welcomes and speaking about as cheerfully. That we should be optimistic over our island pos- sessions captured from Spain is easy to understand. They came to us, as the phrase goes, by dispensation of Providence and the strength of our arms, so we have double reason to be proud and glad. It hap- pens, however, that the Spaniards are as optimistic as we are. Senor Don Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish Minister to this country, has been telling newspaper men of the increased prosperity of Spain and has said: “The possibility of this prosperity came with the abandonment of the colonial system. The Phil- ippines paid very little profit, and Cuba cost us $25,000,000 a year. We are fortunate to be rid' of them.” Note the Spaniard’s diplomatic phrase, “the aban- donment of the colonial system.” Spain was not de- prived of her colonies by war; she did not surrender them; they were not torn from her; she merely abandoned the system. That’s optimism. The spirit 1uns through the world like the touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. Winners or losers we are all optimists just now. It is either an inspiration or an epidemic., i GIVES PRAISE TO AMERICANS FOR HUMANITY BERLIN, Sept. 1.—A correspondent of the Frankfort Zeitung, writing from Manila, replies to the charges of cruel- ty on the part of the American army ap- pearing in European newspapers. He says: “Perhaps no other nation except the United States would have the patience 4o meet the stubborn resistance of the Filipinos in Samar for two long years With such humanity as, on the whole, has been the case. It is not to be won- dered at that the American leaders final- 1y let their gall run over at the treach- €rous tricks played upon them and adopt~ ed harsh measures. “Of course excesses occurred, but it is highly inadvisable to select these few cases and serve them to the world as the acts of American war-making.” The correspondent also emphasizes the injustice of expecting Americans to ob- serve in every case the rules of civilized warfare while fighting such a foe. The writer praises the political shrewdness combined with moderation in making surrendered insurgent officers Govern- ors of provinces. RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH SUBLIME PORTE Turkey Has Not Entirely Neglected to Seek Out Miss Stone’s Captors. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sunday, Aug. 3L —The report circulated in the United States by a news agency that the Turk- ish Government has addressed a note to United States Minister Leishman say- ing that it absolutely refused to further discuss the responsibility for the cavture by brigands of Miss Eilen M. Stone, the American missionary, and a campanion in September, 1901, as the outrage was not committed on Turkish territory, is not true. As a matter of fact the question of the Porte's responsibilty is indisputable, since the capture, payment of the ran- som and liberation of the captives all cceurred on Turkish territory. The cor- respondence on the subject of the meas>| ures taken for the discovery and: arrest of the brigands continues, and the in- sufficlency of the efforts displayed by the Turkish authorites has been the subject of complaint by the United States lega- tion. ROBBERY THE OBJECT OF THIS MAN’S CRIME British Soldier Who Confessed to Missouri Murder Explains More to Police. COLCHESTER, England, Sept. 1.—At the Police Court here to-day Lance Cor- poral Loyd of the Bedfordshire Regiment, who had surrendered to the authorities, charging himself with the murder of an unknown man in Kansas City, Mo., in January last, was remanded for a war- rant, after formal evidence had been given. Lloyd, who claims to be an American citizen, in his confession to the police sald his real name was Willilam G. B. C. Toll of Kansas City; that he was mar- ried, and that he had formerly served in the United States army, from which he had deserted. The prisoner further as- serted that he did not know the name of the man he had killed. His object was robbery, and he knocked the man on the head with a coupling pin. Sl St ARBITRATOR IS SOUGHT TO COMPLETE TRIBUNAL Fifth Member of The Hague for Pious Fund Case Is Needed. THE HAGUE, Sept. 1.—Dr. F. de Maar- tens, professor of international law at the University of St. Petersburg, and Sir Edward Fry, the former Justice of Ap- peal of the British Courts of Justice, rep- resenting the United States, and Profes- sor T. M. C. Aszer, the Mexican jurist, and A. F. Devore-Lohman, representing Mexico, met at the headquarters of the International Arbitration Tribunal to-day for the purpose of choosing a fifth arbi- trator to try the pious fund claim, the first case to come before the court. The name of the fifth arbitrator will not be published until his acceptance is received, which is expected to be to-mor- Tow. — ] NEW STATIONS NAMED FOR FRENCH DIPLOMATS Jusserand, Now at Copenhagen, Offi- cially Instructed to Relieve Cambon at Washington. PARIS, Sept. 1.—The Journal Officiel to-morrow will publish a, decree making the diplomatic appointments referred to in these dispatches of August 29, as fol- lows: M. Jusserand, the French Minister at Copenhagen, to be French Embassador at ‘Washington; M. Jules Cambon, French Embassador to the United States, to be' French Embassador at Madrid; M. Bom- pard, chief of the Consular Bureau of the Foreign Office, to be French Embas- sador at St. Petersburg, in succession to the Marquis de Montebello. L N SIX MEN WOUNDED IN POLITICAL QUARREL Combat Between Federals and Re- publicans in Porto Rico Keeps Hospital Busy. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 1.—At Caye yesterday evening there was a con- filct between persons attending meetings of Federals and Republicans, in which six men, including a police captain, were wounded. The fighting was caused by a political’ dispute. Acting Governor Hartzell has instruct- ed Andreas Crosas, a lawyer and mem- ber of the executive council, to make a thorough Investigation of the recent riot- ing at Humacao, where three persons were killed and three were injured. 2 Ay Sy ot Trades Union Congress Opens. LONDON, Sept. 1—The thirty-fifth Trades Union Congress commenced a week's sesslon In London to-day. Up- ward of 500 delegates, representing a mil- lion and a quarter of workers, were pres- ent." including many women delegates. The United States was represented by Harry Blackmore and Patrick Dolan. One of the principal resolutions which will be submitted demands legislation creating a Supreme Court of Arbitration with com- pulsory power to settle disputes between employers d employes. PERSONAL MENTION. J. G. Roberts, the Madera banker, is registered at the Palace. Volney T. Hoggatt, one of the foremost members of Nome's bar, is at the Pal- ace. J. F. Moore, the well-known sheep rais- er of Santa Barbara County, Is at the Palace. J. Farker Whitney, the Boston capital- ist, ‘arrived yesterday from his ranch at Penryn and registered at the Palace. C. N. Sherry, the leading legal repr sentative of the Santa Fe Raliroad Com- pany at Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. T. E. Gibbons, third vice president of Scnator Clark's new railroad from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, arrived here yes- terday from Los Angeles and is at the Palace. He ls an bis way o MINERS FIGHT FATAL BATTLE ON A STREET ‘WINFIELD, Colo., Sept. 1.—A revolver and rifle duel to the death was fought here on Main street at 6 o'clock this evening, and as a result Sjonstron, aged 35 years, a Swedish miner, was instantly killed; Sim Amsdon, aged 35 years, also a miner, was. shot through the left breast two inches above the heart and mortally wounded, and Chauncey Ben- nell, a bartender, was shot in the groin | and perhaps fatally wounded. The shooting was the dire-t result of | the insanity of Amsdon over a pretty 15- year-old girl of whom he was desperately enamored. The girl did not reciprocate Amsdon’s feelings. Yesterday morning Amsdon learned that Andy Maloy had called at the young girl's home and was seen in the girl's company. Amsdon secured a rifle and went on a hunt for Maloy. He saw Ma- | loy on the street and fired two shots at | him, but neither reached its mark. Ma- | loy escaped, and during the remainder of | the day kept under cover, fearing that | Amsdon would kill him.if he appeared on the street. Last evening Sjonstron, who was a friend of both Maloy and Amsdon, met the latter on Main street and attempted to make peace between the two men. Amsdon became greatly excited and told Sjonstron to mind his own . business. Sjonstron, in turn, grew angry at Ams- | don’s manner. High words followed, and both men began to shoot, with the above result. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ST. LOUIS FAIR—M., KnoRville, - Cal. For information relative to concessions at the St. Louis World's Fair address thei secretary, Walter B. Stevens, St. Louis, Mo. CHICK—Subscriber, Palo Alto, Cal. In the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume III, page 605, ninth edition, you will find in the article on birds an article on the de- velopment of the chick. i COINS—A Reader, City, and others— Questions as to the value of coins or if there is any premium on such should be | accompanied by a self-addressed and | stamped envelope. The answer will be sent by mail. WAR OF 1812—Subscriber, City. The pension rolls show that on the last day of the fiscal year 1%01 there was but one | survivor of the war of 1812 on the pension | roll. It was Hiram Cronk, who was at| that time 101 years of age. THE CAPITOL—E. R., City. The Cap- itol at Washington is situated in latitude 28 degrees, 53 minutes and 20 seconds north longitude and 77 degrees, 00 minutes and 35 seconds west from Greenwich. It | fronts east and is on a plateau eighty- eight feet above the level of the Potomac. OLD BOOK—Bookworm. The book described in the letter of inquiry being only the second volume is worth just what any collector would be willing to glve for it as a curiosity. Any dealer in old books will, on examination of the same, give you an idea of what it is worth in the market. THEATERS—Subscriber, City. The fol- lowing is said to be the seating capacity of the places of amusements in San Fran- cisco: Chutes Theater, 4000; Orpheum, 2700; Grand Opera-house, 219; Alhambra, 1800; California Theater, 1698; Columbia Theater, 1624; Central, 1600; Alcazar Thea- ter, 1438, and Fischer's, 1200. 5 GAS CONSUMED—Miss, City. This de- partment cannot inform this correspond- ent as to the amount of the gas bill for the amount consumed, as the correspond- ent does not state whether 75-cent or 30- cent gas was consumed. If the corre- spondent knows the amount and the price | paid it is a mere matter of simple cal- culation. CALIFORNIA AND VOTERS—Sub- scriber, Alameda, Cal. The population of Callfornia according to the last taken | census was 1,485,053. Of this number the number of voting age was 493,257. As there are no questions asked of voters as to religion it is Impossible to give the | number of voters who are members of | this or that church. MOTHER LODE—Constant Reader, City. The so-called “suriferous ate | belt” of California, in which the mother | lode occurs, begins south of Mariposa County and extends northwesterly along | the western flank of the Sierra Nevada | to the north line of Plumas County, and | doubtless farther, but is thence covered ! with vast sheets of lava. As described, it is about 20 miles long and twenty to seventy miles wide, and forms about one- third of the precious mineral bearing area of the State. The mother lode is centrally located in this belt and extends over 100 miles in a northwesterly direction | through Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador and El Dorado counties. The lode was so called because it is the one from which springs the greater portion of the ore-bearing bodies of Ehe State. TELEGRAPH HILL—A Reader, City. The hill in the northern part of the city of San Francisco called Telegraph Hill | derives its name from the fact that in the very early days of the city there was on its apex a station to which was sent by meang, of signals from an outer sta- tion at Point Lobos the approach of ves- sels about to enter the Golden Gate. These signals were repeated on the inner station, and in that way the people of the city became aware of the fact that a steamer, ship, bark or schooner was bound in. Telegraph was given to the system, hence the name. That was be- | fere the days of the electric telemph., which was first operated Septémber 22, 1853, by Sweeney & Baugh, between Point Lobos and the Merchants’ Exchange, on Sacramento street, below Montgomery, | The line of wire was eight miles long and was the first electric line in the State, TEA DRINKING—Subscriber, City. ‘When a cup of tea is swallowed by an ordinary adult human being it produces a powerful stimulant influence, which is chiefly -exercised upon the nervous Sys- tem, especially the brain and spinal cord. If tea is taken in overdoses the condltlo'; of cerebral and spinal excitation may be so great as to be quite annoying, the chief symptom, If the tea be taken in the evening, being often excessive wake- fulness. H. A. Hare, who has made the use of tea a special study, says: ‘““While there is no doubt that tea is capable, by its stimulating influence, of remo;vln; temporary nervous depression, it should never be forgotten that its constant em- ployment for this purpose is always fol- lowed sooner or later by physical bank- ruptcy, a condition which is seen most commonly in nervous women,” The con- stant use of tea in the quantity described in letter of inquiry is no doubt the cau: of the wakefulness described. The o remedy would be to reduce, hymner stages, the amount taken daily. bem An English temperance agv, once arguing the case of nugfi‘c“h;l:.:: reform. Pressing the matter home, he thus addressed Salisbury: "'At least, my lord. you will admit that great increase in the number of drlnkln. places in a given locality is an admnna‘:’ temptation to over indulgence." “Not at ali,” retorted Salisbury. i e ury. It I visit a greater inclination to llm"—im‘oe::u:?o ————— Great Britain now Kmdm scarcely enough anthracite 1 . :u' home con- ICE BAFFLES THE FRITHJOF IN THE ARCTIC TROMSOE, Norway, Sept. .—The Bald- win-Zeigler supply ship Frithjof, which left here July 1 for Franz Josef Land, was spoken August 4. She reported all was well on board and said ice so far had prevented her from reaching Franz Josef Land. In a recent interview Zeigler explained that the Frithjof party would pass the winter at Franz Josof Land and would make their expedition independent of Baldwin. Continuing, Zeigler said: “If the Frithjof reports Zeigler all right and the expedition starts next spring, Baldwin will receive orders to proceed to Camp Zeigler as soon as he can next summer. He will remain there through the winter and will go north to relieve the other expedition or to find the poie in the spring of 18%4. If things turn out that way, Baldwin's expedition will, in a sense, be a relief expedition for the one carried on the Frithjof. Mr. ChamP“Wnl bring the Frithjof back to Tromsoe. A CHANCE TO SMILE. These men who use enormous words— 1 very frankly tell 'em I must respect the wisdom shown In knowing how to spell ‘em. —Washington Star. “Why is it that Americans are so brave and self-possessed?” asked one European soldier. “They are accustomed to danger from their earliest infancy,” answered the other. “Every year they have an ordeal of fire and explosions, which the youth of the country all attend, something af- ter the manner of certain remote Asiatic tribes. It is known as the Fourth of July.”—Washington Star. “By the way,” remarked the man from the East, “it seems to me I have heard that my old neighbor, Jake Billings, who came out here some years ago, disappear- ed completely and mysteriously not long after his arrival.” “He disappeared completely 'nough,™ replied Rattlesnake Bill, “but not mys- teriously, stranger. He was ridin’ on a dynamite wagon when the hind axle broke.”—Chicago Tribune. “So you gained a compléte victory over the foe?” “We did,” answered the gemeral in a somewhat dubious tone. “It was easy enough to conquer them in battle. The difficulty was in" getting the best of the bargain when it came to arranging terms of surrender.”—Washington Star. i e i i ; Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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