The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1902, Page 4

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NW. cgrner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. ~2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. —— > THE (REST NOT YET PASSED. i f States HE settlenvent of the coal strike has leit a feeling of ease 2ll over the country and is rapidly restor- ing normal conditions to trade in the Atlantic There are now no lzbor troubles except the 1 jocal controversies. The result is an easier money market, with a firnier feeling in 'Wall street, und a better demand for goods all along the Atlantic caboard. The retail irade of the Northwest is re- rted slower on account of warm weather, but this a condition likely to vanish at any moment at this Wholesalers of fall and winter zoods are also reporting some decrease in the de- tand here and there, but the complaint, ii such it i be called, is not general, while most sections report demand for the different descriptions of scason of ‘the year. clothing much in excess of 1901 and preceding years. i ber is strong in the producing regions, and the d for building is brisk almost everywhere. The Southern lumber trade is particularly active. _The textiles show no changes worthy of note, the mills being fully employed, as a rule, while provisions on: maintain brisk demand in spite of the steep prices. A shortage in the beet sugar crop of the world advanced the l_ondon market for the raw product several days ago, hereby rendering the situation in th everywhere. street quieted down considerably during the t week, and was most of the time tame enough, s product very ron, y with money down to 4 to 6 per cent and in ample sup- | ply he tendency in stocks was rather upward than oth se, though quotations did nat-vary much during the week. The bank clearings of the count aggregated $2,566,800,000, which above the average, and is considerably cent over the corresponding week last year. failures were 194, against 223 last vear, while the rail- roads reported demands for transportation <o heavy that in spite of their increased equipment they could not handle 2li the business tendered them with de- sired promptness. All the above conditions show a business all over the country. The increase in raiiroad earnings thus far in October 'S 4.5 per cent compared with October, 1go1, and 12 per cent compared with October. 1900. Export figures for September are highly gratif:ring, Leing the largest ever known for that month, except in 3900, and zre only slightly under those, the amounts for the past three years being $115.522,000 for 1902, $106.900.c00 for 1901 and $115.000,000 for 1900. In fac: very active state the returns of the Bureau of Statistics for the past | three months tend to show that the balance of foreign trade, w this co favor. : The conditions in California at present are bril- t. We are having the liveliest wheat market in the ‘world, with quotations higher than anywhere clse. The cause of this advance is the unexpected shortage in the yield, which is variously estimated at from 25 to 40 per cent, accompanied by an unusual demand for foreign cotmtries, such as Australia and South Africa, together with a Jow freight market. These three conditions cannot but produce an excited and high market. There are so many disengaged ships competing for charters that freight rates have dropped to 16: 3d asked for Europe, the lowest point v, shows a tendency to again turn in our liz for years, which, of course; with a practically station- ¥ foreign market, means just so much more added te the price of wheat. The exporters are heavily short and are scouring the State for cargoes for their alrezfly chartered vessels, and as the millers are also buyers the resuit may easily be imagined. It would be better, perhaps, if the farmers were partici- pating more freely ia this sensational advance, for only 2 small percentage of the crop is-left in the growers’ hands. but the State as a whole is reaping the benefit. for which we ought to be thankful. Bar- Jey has gone.up under the same conditions v‘-hich have governed the advance in wheat, and oats and corn are also high in sympathy, so the grower of cereals is enjoying a great vear. The State feels the benefi- cent effects of these high prices for grain, and mer- chandise of 21l sorts is moving freely everywhere, with coliections good and money plentiful and readily ob- tainable at reasonable rates. All signs at present point to another prosperous year. —————— > in the Symphony Hall in Boston they have erectéd a statue of Anacreon, and now il they do not introduce drinking songs and a little free wine into the sym- phonies the expectant disciple of Anacreon will have & right to kick.* Phn . g FI S active heir high quotations in all sections, with a | showed a gain of 28.1 per | The | ch for a vear past has been running agains: | THE SAN GOVERNOR AND SENATOR. HE country press is repeating the question that i Twns put in issue by Mr. Furuseth, “Who wiil be H appointed Senator if Lane be Governor and have {an appointment?” The campaign’ was proceeding 'along the formal lines set by the candidates, and peo- ple were placing their prospective votes for-Governor as Governor, when Mr. Furuseth declared himself for Lane, because Lane, if clected, would possibly have | the appointment of a United States Senator. Of " course that is a possibility, but Mr. Furuseth chose to i make it plain that a'vote for Lane is a vote for one | or may be two Senators. 3 Things in political councils do not happen by ac- cident. Mr. Andrew Furuseth, !raingd and expe- rienced manager of men, leader and sometimes dic- tator of numbers, is rot a random talker. His decla- ration expressed a purpose and a policy. It betrayed every feature of design and deliberation. It put into | the campaign a new element. No one else had talked about appointing Serators. Even® Mr. Lane in his campaign of youth ‘and ‘exuberance, of effervescent and well aerated promises, and in all his prespectus of great things to be, had not asked votes because’he might be able to change the complexion of the United States Senate. 'y In his preface to the great book of deeds he prom- ises to write as Governor he had offered only a free market in this city for country produce, and a pledge to reform the reform schools and insane asylums. He had rowed his dingy close to shore and looked with apparent aversion upon the foaming ocean of national { politics, where the yeasty breakers threatened his little pieasure boat with instant destruction if he ventured near. He had administered a sleeping potion to his | hearers on all national questions by calling their at- tention to the fact that the election of Democratic Governors in Washington and Oregon had not been followed by any convulsions of nature, nor by reopen- | ing the craters of Tacoma and Mount Hood. His | policy was a sort of small change affair, and his hear- ers were merely invited to put a Democratic ballot in the slot and get a better market for turnips and fruit, and an additional mop and scrubbing brush in a lu- | natic asylum. | Upon this picayune programme' Mr. Furuseth | { emerged like Jove upon the minor gods playing mar- 1b]c5 or picking huckleberries on the slopes of Olym- pus. No turnip and mop politics for him. He looks | beyond and above all such trifles, and -his designs | !'aim at a reversal of the national policy of the Gov- | ernment. He thinks in Senators and Congresses, and | so thinking he proceeded to transfer Mr. Lane from [(he turnip field and mop bucket to the great and ac- | tive theater of national politics by declaring that as a | candidate for Governor he has possibly two Senators {up his sleeve. | This has put the friends of Phelan in- the fight. | Hon. James V. Coleman, ex-City Attorney Creswell, ! ex-City Auditor Broderick and all other members of | Mr. Phelan’s official family and volunteer cabinet, at | once began showing activity for Lane which they had i before omitted. They pricked up their political ears and | burnished their campaign vocabulary and took to the highways where voters pass in procession, and put in | motion an old-fashioned Democratic campaign with long silence and, remembering Phelan's loyal but un- {availing support of him in 1898, responded to the ljected his strong personality into Lane’s campaign, because Mr. Furuseth had said that as Governor he ‘We called on Mr. Furuseth for a statement of | Lane’s choice. He has not yet responded, but the battle. Circumstances have answered. The" signs which fresco the political sky have” answered that [T S Speaking of President Roosevelt's earnestness in | speech at New Haven the other day quoted the Pres- !idem as saying: “The doctors tell me I must keep any kind of inconvenience. and I.will go through with this thing if it buries me.” The Secretary added: | thing in-the world for you. He has a heart as big as | an apple tree.” The simile is peculiar, but an apple- | PROPER1Y VALUAIIONS, ; COMPREHENSIVE table compiled by Con- ; 1 & the value of property assessed for taxation {in the various counties of the State, together with | | county and State taxation. The figures, when com- | pared with those of = similar table issued last year, property, and therefore to some cxtent indicate the { | improvement brough: about by the prevailing pros- | In 1901 the assessed value of real estate was $680,- 270,651, while this year 1t is $690,974,783. or a gain of | from $276.849,326 to $284,226,533, a gain of $7,377,207. | i Personal property advanced from $189,506.344 to’ solvent credits increased from $45,057,097 to $50,572,- , 275, a gain of $4,614,278. The assessments of railroads | | of $15,601,118. The grand total shows for 1901 an as- | sessment of all property at $1,241,705,803, while this While the assessed valuations of all kinds of tax- i able property have thus increased there has been a ness. ' The original assessed value of mortgages in ! 1901 was $149.341,064, but in 1902 the assessments are County debts in*1go1-were $3,333,233. This year they are $3,175,942, a decrease of $157,201. ble variations in the manner.of assessments. Thus, while every county shows something in the way of is considerable variation in the way in which the in- crease iz made. In San Francizco, for example, the : 0 . 447,170 iv 1901 is $191,804,510 this year. The decrease, however, was more than counterbalanced by in- that the total asscssment of the county was raised from $413,388,420 to $420,355,541. In the figures stated the State Board of Equalization are included. The increased assessments do not, of course, accu- kind of property in the State. They serve to show, however, that the pecple are prosperous and that the State is in fact good from one end of it to the other. The/industries of the people, being amply pro- {all the trimmings. Even Judge Maguire broke his | | promptings of gratitude and of party zeal and iproée might appoint a Senator. Phelan phalanx has answered by getting into the Lane’s fight is Phelan’s. his fight against the trysts, Secretary Shaw in his quiet because of my leg, but I am ready to undergo That is the kind of a friend you have.. He'll do any- | tree heart s sure to have good iruit and lots of it. troller Colgan has just been issued showing | the indebtedness of each county and the rate of | show 2 handsome increase in the assessed value of perity under the protecfive tariff. | $10,704,132.. Improvements on real estate increased | $200.164.271, an increzse of $10,657,027. Money and | advanced from $49,121,485 to $64,812,603, an increase year it is $1,200,730,463, an increase of $49,044,662. considerable falling off in public and private indebted- !bm 8145,521,044, showing a reduction of $3,820,020. A dttailed study of the two tables shows considera- un increase over the assessments gf last year, there assessment of real estate which was fixed at $192,- creased assessments on othér forms of property, so for the totals the assessments of railroads made by rately measure the full increase in the value of any values of all kinds are advancing. The condition of “ | forest protection. IRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, : tected and guaranteed the home market, are flourish- ing and profitable. It is comparatively easy to ob- tain all revenues needed for the State or the counties | without making high assessments. With such a-con- dition the taxpayers ought to be satisfied, and none but the foolish will vote for a change. e ———— ’ In an address at the recent meeting of the New York State Banker${ Association President Bissell is reported to have advocated a reduction of interest paid on deposits and to have said: “If interest on deposits were cut'off the borrowers as well as the banks would be gainers, as they would get more fa- vorable rates, and doubtiul loans would be curtailed.” That sounds well, but if no interest were paid the de- posits would fall off -and perhaps be stopped alto- gether, and then what would banks and borrow- ers do? Waway the season of forest fires. We shall cease to read almost daily in the papers the story of the blazing cbject lessons on the need for the prompt adoption of a comprehensive system of Are we to have along with the Qelcomc rain a recuirence of thg annual forgetiul- ness of the fires and a new indifference on the subject of protective legislation?” There is no question that men in the presence of a great problem are prone to postpone any attempt at solution. In the first place they do not see clearly o —— THE FOREST ISSUE. ITH the coming of the rains there will pass { kow to solve it; in the second place they dread the cexpense of cxperiment, and in the third place they trust that time wili bring an easy solution of its own and thus spare them further trouble. Each of those motives will prompt to delay in dealing with the fcrest questions, and yet not one of them is valid. Modern forestry is not wholly eXperimental. It ap- proaches something in the nature of a science, for | the experiments of the past have amply demonstrated | | a great body of truths which it will be easy for com- petent experts to apply to California without danger of bad results. - The cost of protection will be far less than the annual cost of waste and fires; and finally, time is not going to bring a solution of the problem, for every year that protection is postponed will bring us nearer to the year when we shail have virtually no forests to protect. The time is propitious for State action. There has been an elaborate campaign of education on the stb- ject extending over the whole Union, and public sentiment is strongly in favor of undertaking not only the preservation of existing forests but of re- planting waste places with profitable trees. The National Government has taken action in the matter and is willing and even eager to give help to States in undertaking such enterprises. The movement for | the irrigation of the arid lands tends to advance the forestry movement, fo1 it is well known that we must | conserve the forests at the headwaters of the irrigat- ing streams or they will become torrengial ‘in the rainy season and dry in summer. Thus the irriga- tionists will be strong allies of every well directed | effort made ‘toward preserving the forests. The extent to which our forests have been wasted by fires and by careless methods of lambering is itself a serious fact, but far more serious is the fact that the waste is going on with a greater rapidity than ever. ‘On'tl!e Pacific Coast alone during the past dry sea- son we have seen mary millions of doflar: orth of noble forests swept away. The des(nlwmha _ranged frors Washington southward through’ Otegon and the whole length of California. From every section of ‘the coast have come reports of more or less ‘dis- astrous fires, and it is a foregone conclusion that similar disasters will occur season aiter season until human sagacity and energy do something to counter- act the effects of human recklessness in dealing with the woods. The moral is an old one, but it must be preached again and again until its teaching has been heeded and reform begun. Year after year the people of California have resolved while the fires were blazing that they would do something to put a check to them, but as soon as the rainy. season began and the firgs were extinguished the lesson has been forgotten and the 1esolve has dicd away into nothingness. It is now time to do better. While the National Gov- ernment is moving toward forest protection Califor- nia should co-operata. It is announced that the number of new books to be published this year will break the record; but it seems there is no hope they will bredk some of the pub- lishers and send a good many of the writers to earn- ing a useful living. P measurements of various kinds that have come down to us from the Middle Ages, or even irom the old Roman empire, are becoming numerous. The most noted of them, that of applying the “metric system” to all sorts of weights and measurements of material objects, has so far advanced that its ultimate adoption throughout the civilized world seems to be assured. In fact, America and Great Britain are about the only nations of importance whert it is not already in general use. Less success has been attained in the movenient toward ridding our time méasurements of old difficulties by numbering the hours consecutively from one to twenty-four. Even in that dicection, however, something has been achieved and perhaps the time is not distant when that also will be well nigh ‘the universal custom with respect to marking the hours of the day. . In none of these projects for improvement has there been less favor obtained than in those advanced for a reformation of the calendar. Our system of dividing the year into months is truly venerable. It comes down to us from the ancient empire of Rome and is a remnant of the dictatorial sway of imperial Caesar. It has also the sanction of the ‘Roman pontiffs, and, furthermoh\ is deeply rooted in the eustoms and the minds of every great people on the earth. Thus every effort to change it has been abortive. The phil- osophers of the French Revolution formed a new cal- endar system for their new-born republic and it was used for a time, but Napoleon swept it away and restored that of Caesar. Now comes a new effort. Twenty members of the A REFORMED CALENDAR ROJECTS for reforming the old systems of Chamber of Deputies in France have united to urge the adoption of a law making what is called “a ra- tional calendar” ‘compulsory in France. The author of the system is Camille Flammarion. He would start the year with the ver equinox and have a year ‘of 364 days. The odd day he would make a fete day in- | dependent of the year. He would name the month after the stars. Flammarion points out that the advantage of his plan Kcs in the fact that the same dates recur on the same days of the week, so that there would be no need € year. OCTOBER 27, 1902. ENVY PROMPTS CRITICISM OF TWO NAVAL OFFICERS WHO GAINED FAME of changing the calendars every | OME one is trying to belittle Admiral Dewey’s memorable battle in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, by asserting that only one of eleven vessels were sunk hy American guns and that the others were scutfled by the Spaniards. A wrecking company 'Is engaged in raising the sunken hulks and the divers report that the damage done to the ships was in the maih confined to the upper works, and that only about twenty hits have been found on the vessels. The report may be true, in' part, but the undeniable fact remains that the ships were sunk, and it matters but littie whether they were destroyed by Dewey's squadron or scuttled by the demorai- 1zed Spanish officers and crews. That the American force was superfor to that of the enemy has never been deniet but_there were circumstances connected with the plan of attack and its success which make the battle in Manila Bay as creditable to the American navy as the destruction of Cervera's squadron off Santiago on July 3, 1868, Ea Captain . Scott of the British cruiser Powerful returns to England, after three vears’ excellent service rendered in the Boer war and in China, to be the victim of jealousy from some of his brother officcrs. KEven some of the Admiralty officlaly are wroth at his gurinery work, because it is expensive and wearing to the ordnance, besides being in ‘“bad form.” It is apparent from this state of feeling against Captain Scott that the British navy, like that of the United States anil France, has its troubles among the personnel, chiefly attribui- able to envy. The British battleship Duncan, of 14,000 tons, 15,000 horse- power and a calculated speed of 19 knots, Is going through her steam trials. There are six of this class, two of which are compieting at dockyards. They were laid down between July and November, 189, and all the contract-built ships have been delivered within the time stipulated. . _The Lords of the Admiralty have concluded that their old vacht Enckantress is no longer fit for rvice and will authorize the purchase of a new steamer with a speed of at least 18 knots. Phe Enchantress was formerly the Helicon, purchased in 1865 at a cost of $288,200, and has cost in repair and maintenance $19,719 up to March 1, 1901. Three British batilsships of 13,500 tons are shortly to be laid down. One of them, to be named New Zealand, is to be built at Portsmouth dockyard, and another, to be called Maori, to be built by contract. No name has as yet been selected for the third ship. | = The armor plate factory of Armstrong, Whitworth & C located at Openshaw aad run in comnection with the Elswick shipyard, is turning out 100 tons forged and rolled plates in a day of ten hours.. The works have only been quite re- cently established, but are doing quite well in having an output equal to 20,000 tons a yeay, which is sufficient for not less than ten battleships. . Experiments are being conducted at Kronstadt with a new kind of armored vessel. It is called ‘‘vodobronny” or “‘water- armored,” and consists of two steel plates separated by a water buffer. The Vulcan shipyard at Stettin has declared a dividend ber 18 for Guam, carried the wives of four officers and three children of Commodore Sewell as passengers. This 151901: direct vielation of article 258 of the navy regulations of %0, which prescribe: “‘Officers commanding squadrons or ships shall not permit women to reside on board of, or take p .y in, any ship of the navy in commission for sea ser e Prior to 1881 families of officers were not allowed to reside ‘on board national ships nor to become passengers unless by rmission of the Secretary of the Navy, but the td:;a:l“!::;’: ’v)h;ens overwhelmed with applications and demon- strations to such an extent as to cause Secretary fli_unzmtln issue navy regulation circular No. 27, dated Jume 15, 81, which read as follows: Womgn shall not be al_lowem; to re: side on board vescels of the United States navy in mm?s sion for seg service; nor shall they be t?'ken as passenfil{s on such vessels under any circumstances.” One ol‘the |.:z effects of this ‘order was to cause Rear Admiral F.Alr:lax . decline the command of the European squadron, 2s he Apx\ en:‘ to go on the retired list rather ‘than go to sea without lx‘w family. This order also was a means of putting a sltlp‘ > the abuses and hardships on other stations, notably in China waters, where the continuous presence of flmce,{f familles on board ship was demoralizing to the service. The Supply i3 intended for the station at Guam, taking the place of th2 Yosemite, wrecked in November, 190. and will be the fl%\gvshtu of Commander Sewell as Governor of Guam. The A\f:l\_)' Department probably places the Supply in the same class as the Independence and other receiving ships permanently located - and do net consider the ship as in commission for sea service. The women who will go te Guam on the vessel are the wives of Lieutenants Schofield and Brotherton, Sur- geon Cook and Paymaster Ryan. Boatswain Dunn resigned rather than to take the trip. The Supply, formerly known -as the Illinois, was purchased from the International Naviga- tion Company during the late war with Spain at a ‘cost of $325,000. She was built ir 1873 apd the speed does not exceed nine knots. The cabin accommedations, however, are all that can be desired. d There is trouble ahead for the dilatory builders of United States warships, as the slow progress made. during the past year is Very unsatisfactory and indicates either indifference or inability on the part of the builders to complete their contracts. Under construction at the present time are eight battleships, six armored cruisers, nine protected eruisers, three monitors, sixteen torpedo crafts and seven submarine boats, making a total of foriy-nine vessels. Thirty-five of these were contracted for between July, 1597, and August, 1990, and are from seven months to forty months overdue on delivery, while the battleships and armored cruisers contrated for in January, 1901, to be delivered in three years, will not be completed until one year after expiration of contract time. The causes assigned for these delays are failire on the part of the Government to furnish armor, and strikes at several yards, but the main reason is this, that the builders have had so many contracts for mercantile stcamers as to over- tax the capacities of their establishments and Government work has been neglected. The following table of official fig- ures shows the status of contracts entered into prior to 1901: I o E | = g i gs | | o3 | 23 g5 25 S NAME OF sHIP, | Class. Builders. i Contract | €7 I Probable iz g3 | Signed. 1@} Completion. F 3 | i | g8 $ | jes” i} 2 | i | ‘ Lewis Nixon. . |October 11, 1898. B | Feveiary, 1900 P ‘October 19, 1898 { | January, 1903, 22 {October 3, 1508 = .|October 1, | s | Newport News. |October 11, | =z ++. Union Tron Wor {October 5, . 28 Protected Cruiser. . Lewis Nixon. December 14, 1899. | 10 . Protected Cruiser. . Bath Iron Works December 13, E | 18 ' Protected Cruiser. Neafle & Lev: December 14, 1899. -l 7 Protected Cruiser . Fore River. « | December 14, X S Protected Cruiser . s {December 14, 1599 1t Protected Cruizer. i T | December 1%, 1809. 3 October. 1893 = Z | . Submarine Lewis Nixon. | 20 - [Submarine Boat «/Union Iren W | =z of 14 per cent on its profits of the financial year just ciosed. and the Vulcan works at Bremen will pay a dividend of 12 per cent. 'The two vards have done considerable navy work, and-the average number of men employed were 3350 and 2600 in the order named. The Vulcan Company at Stettin is about | to establish a branch yard on the North Sea, where deeper | water 'is obtainable, and a farge tract of land has been of- fered free of cost at Cuxbafen to have the new yard located ‘there. . Japan is sending fifty students to England to get a the- wew practical knowledge of naval engineering. They wil stributed ‘among the yards on the Clyde and promi- .fent ship and engine building establishments in other* locali- - ties. ol ¢, . . / The EbilgAJS!alcs ship Supply, which left Xew York Octo- R R R R MR MR RER) ANSWERS 10O QUERIES FERSONAL [, BACK EASTER* DATE-M. M., Ala- meda, Cal. ‘Easter Sunday, 1871, fell on | the California. | April 9. SRR is at the Grand. TWO-HANDED CRIBBAGE—Enquirer, City. In a two-handcd game of cribbage the dealer is bound to count one for last card. ing at the Palace. COIN VALUES—A. B., Healdsburg, Cal. This department does not print the ad- dresses of firms that sell catalogues of coin valves. James® H. Sullivan Py IR | WHIST—M. L., City. In whist if a player has 8, 6, 5, 3, clubs (trumps); jack, 10, 6, 4, dlamonds; jack and 9, spades, and | Of Wawona, Cal,, i City. Trajectory in gunnery is the carve described by a projectile in its flight through the air. /It is proper to use cali- bers, for that is the plural of caliber. you describe are so them. SALT—G. B. R., Oakland, Cal. The commercial columns of The Call will give you the current quotations for salt. There are no figures showing the aggregate con- suinption of salt in California and the Pacific Coast annually. BUTTER--R. F. K. The greatest amount nished by nia. MORTGAGE—B., City. A mortgage is an obligation in writing for the payment of money. In Callfornia an instrument in { writing runs for four years if executed { within the State and two years if exe- | cuted outside of the State. Cal. the ferry building is from center to tip seven feet from the { CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—A Read- ler, “Oakland, Cal. If you desire any | copies of the Congressional Record or any }of the Government publications address {a communication to the Congressman of | the district in which you live. IMMIGRANTS—B. O, City. If you de- sire to know the number of immigrants that have landed in Boston from ships since the beginning of the year you will have-to communicate With the Custom- { house at that port. Such figures are not | obtainable in this city. e RN T MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE—A. F.. | City.s For information desired about ad- mission to the Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco address a communica- tion to the Recorder of the University of California at Berkeley and you will have seént to you a circular of information. There are collections English ballads that be obtained from be able to tell just w to it. and pungent sayings, | others. the ace is turned up, SALEM PAPER—C. N.; City: A copy of | A1 four fours, each the Salem Gazette of December 12, 1797, if not cne of a large number of facsimiles of | old papers of that time, printed about forty years ago, is worth just whatever jany one who would care fof such a | curio is willing to pay for it. o ——— MOTHER MARK—M. O., City. A re- cent medical authority says: “She may lcok with impunity upon a whole museum of deformities and malformations, upon hare lips, double thumbs, grinning mon- keys or/ witness accidents without the least danger of bringing a monstrosity inte the world as a consequence.” MADAME ROLAND-J. B, Alameda, Cal. The private memoirs of Mme. Roland of the time of the Girondins in France have been trauslated into Eng- lish by E. 8. Johnson. None of the the three. The ace help the players. may take a certain be used in reviews. of a book in the hope of ithe character of dins are the principal characters. that marriage is a ks Judge W. D. Tupper of Fresno is at H. Malloch, an attorney of Marysville, Dr. R. W. Hill of Los "Angeles is stay- ‘ E. Jacobson, a merchant of Colusa, is registered at the Grand. Martin Hardin, a fruitraiser of Napa, xs‘ registered at the Russ with his wife. Tonopah, Nev., is located at the Russ. ‘W. H. Postf a business man of Stock- ton, is at the California with his wife. E. N. Baxter, a Democratic politician refinishing the goods. Such articles as not worth the time and trouble to restore in the San Francisco market is not fur- the State of Nevada. greatest amount is produced in Califor- FERRY CLOCE—J. E. The diameter of the clock dial on ! feet. The minute hand measures ten feet UNTRAINED VOICE—A. S., Napa, Cal. persons with untrained voices. dealer, who upon hearing the voice will CONVERSATIONIST—W. A. S, City. To be a good conversationist the person should be wise, witty, humorous, able to indulge in sallies of fancy, to give pointed nd describe in a pleasant and entertain- g manner the sayings and dolugs of CRIBBAGE—A. C. R, City. If in a game of cribbage there are two players, ! three eights and B holds a seven, three equal value if B discards the seven and COPYRIGHT—W. E. C., City. no law which says that a book reviewer from a copyrighted book in giving a re- | view of that book, but by common consent uthors and publishers permit extracts to tracts are sent by the author or publisher tracts must be of reasonable length. . MARRIED NAME-M. 8. C,, City. Itis argued that a woman who marries may 1etain her maiden name and need not as- sume that of her huesband, because there is no law which says that she must as- | catalogues ‘show that .there is any ro-|sume the name of her husband. It is | mance in which Mme. Roland and Giron- | claimed by those who partnership that may Not a single dollar has been paid into the treasury by builders for failure in complying with their contracts, either by overweight of machinery, deficiency in horsepower and speed or delayed delivery. Money withheld by the Navy De- partment for suchdelinquencies has been refunded by special acts of relief passed by Congress, and the contractors evi- dently assume that they are exempt from all penalties and entitled to all privileges and premiums. Fortunately there has been no pressing need for .the ships, but it should be considered that war vessels desig}(-d three years ago are not up to date at the present time and that delays of one or two yvears in their construection blocks the way for additional ana more modern ships. The ships to be built are little if any superior to those already afleat in forelgn navies, and, broadly stated, it may be sald that our navy buflding lags three years behind that of England, Germany and Japan, and is chiefly due to the inability or indifference of the contractors. < A CHANCE TO SMILE. She—How beautifully Miss Heavy- weight dances! She doesn’t seem to touch the floor sometimes! He (whose feet are stiil suffering from the last polka with her)—She doesn't.— I'London Punch. MENTION. Buckner—A doctor’s life is a hard one; think you'd hate it awfully. Dr. Floyd—Oh, I don’t know. It has its compensations. A doctor being out at all hours, he doesn’t have to strain his brain | inventing fairy stories, you know.—Bos- | ton Transeript. | | | { 1 , a mining man of ‘“Do you believe the world is growing s registered at the | Wickeder2” S R “Well, I'm not sure. When one of my 7, 5, hearts, he should lead a small trump. | Palace. neighbors shot a hen that belonged in my GUNNERY—G. H. J. and A. H. J.,|@%iisisimiirintiuiaiiauiauuuiuieiniel @ | €00D I began to have my doubts. But when he tossed the defunct fowl over the fence I felt a good deal better.”—Cleve- cheap that they are land Plain Dealer. “Old Muchmunny endowed another chair in that girls’ seminary this week."” “‘But he already has endowed about as many chairs as any ordinary collega can have.” “Yes; but this is an absolutely new one. This is a fund to establish a department to teach women to understand railway time tables.”—Judge. ., Carson City, Nev. | of butter consumed The M., Oakland, She—They say that women never tell of any defects they may possess. He—But there are exceptions. Miss Eg- gleton’ very frankly told me to-day that her hair comes out dreadfully, and that it is a great nuisance to her. She—And you never guessed that Miss Eggleton’s head is as bald as a billiard ball! Oh, you goosie! You'll believe mé after this.—Boston Transecript. An Incident of Travel.—The woman and her chilaren, native Mexicans it was plain, were crying bitterly. “My husband is drunk!” sobbed the ‘woman. “But is this the adequate occasion for suc;L tumultous grief?” we asked. by senor!” sald the wor in § ish. “For a full Greaser means an m’:: larder, don’t you know?’ We handed her a fresh cigar; it was all the stately etiquette of the country per- mitted us to do.—Detroit Journal. nearly twenty-two and the hour hand | me points. of American and of are well suited for Such may y first-class music ‘hat songs are suited to make good jokes “So she’'s going to retire from the Yes; she says that all she ever desired Wwas sufficient success to assure her g fair income for the future, and that much she has secured.” “She must have been economical to z- e saved a competence in so short a ime."” “Oh, it’s not that. but you see she is drawing allmony from three ' ex-hus- bands.”—Chicago Post. A holds a seven and will have a hand of | turned up does not There is amount of matter The tramp in the green goggles b.t;r- the dooy. o “Yes,'"gaid the housewife, kindly; ¢an have a good meal if you -;m“t’h?z “Mzdam,” said the tramp, in a precise grammatical manner, “I was born and raised in Boston—but stop, shall | tell you the sad, sad story of my life?" e youth e a youth in Boston T X for splitting an :o since then (his voice broke) I have vowed uov‘:mth split anything, not even the stand for this idea | V020" ‘Sic 'im, Tige!"—Baltimore Ferald. e Oftentimes such ex- of securing a notice. | the work. The ex- i S B ibe diseolved by the courts for, good ard STEBL ORNAMENTS—Old Subscriber, | sufficient reuspns and that the woman no | TTU1€S Stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.s | Lodi, Cal. To remove rust from steel |mure need take the name of her husband Yoy Lottt :ornaments for hats, etec., if the rust is not | than one partner has to the name of | candies. 50c-a poung 1= Glace fruit and: decp seated, immerse the article in kero- | the senior head of a co; hip. They o £ @ pound, in artistic fire-stched ([ Zene oll for & tew days. The rust will be- |also claiin that in the day when the Biblo | Gy Siariscic® RCPent (or Eastern triends, come loosened and may be easily rubbed | was written the wife did mot take the ¥ + Palace Hotel building. * off. The polish may be restored with a|name of her husband, but that she was | nt . e e, Smery powder and olive | known by her own. name, as. for Instance | panuers noiorr (OR fupDlied datly to oll. If the rust is deep seated it can only mu&tm wife of Elimelech,” ““Judith, D pond public ‘men by the Temoved by getting below it and then ' the ot Esau,” and others. red ¥ R &N;mnmiaa’.