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

G » THE SAN FRANCISCO- CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1902. a’* !fl% > a“ TR 'OUR ORIENTAL TRADE. UNDESIRABLE MuIGeaNTS. |NEARLY THIRTEEN HUNDRED MILES A}Efii‘;{'j"f’;de armarbosgeindlpd o W e iaakips wnbe i OF THE PACIFIC CABLE IS PAID OUT MONDAY. ve....DECEMBER 22, 1902 that American goods are making headway sage of an amended immigration bill the JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. #ddress All Communicotions to W. S LEAKE. Manager TELEPHONE. Ask t8r THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Departmert You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Steve: m St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Cbpies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), cne year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (mcluding Sunday), § months.. .00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 1@ DAILY CALL—By Single Month. . 8B SUNDAY CALL, Obe Year. 18 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 10 - re muthorized to recelve riptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure s prompt end correft compliance with their request. QAKLAND OFFICE.... STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CdLL,/| Month of November, 1902. All Postmasters ++.1118 Broadway 1o ShdtoRevember 17.10 avaae| November 17... 3 61,600 November 15 1,250 4 | 31: 61,030 November 2 1 7 61,110 November 22. .. 0 | s 61,250 November 23... 70,250 | 9 70)500 November 24... 61,050 10 61,180 November 23... 81,560 11 61,220 November 26... 61.040 12 61,280 November 27... 60850 | 13 | 13 | 15 TOtal .ovevrvssssassnssnssseneesss 1,881,780 ETATE OF CALIFORNIA, CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO—ss. Personally appeared before me, Willlam T. Hess, a Notary Public in and for the city and county aforesald, W. J. MAR- TIN, who being sworn according to law declares that he is the Busigess Manager of the San Francisco Call, a dally news- paper published iv the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, and that there were printed and distribyted dur. | ing the month of November, . one million eight hundred | and eighty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty (1,881,780) | coples of the said newspaper, which number divided by thirty (the number of days of issue) gives an average daily circula- tion of 62,726 coples. i W. J. MARTIN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of Decem- | ber, 1902. W. T. HESS, Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- | cisco, State of Cailfornia, room 1015, Claus Spreckels building. | —_— e e e = | | CHEERFUL -CLOSING DAYS. HE business year is closing brilliantly and much T better than the conservative element of the country thought it would earlier in the year. The | demand for the varied national products continues un- diminished, and the ruling high prices are main- tained, apparently without difficulty, showing that the public purse is still filled 0 the point of luxury, to say nothing of comfort. The holiday demand is re- | ported without precedent by retailers all over the| country, and its feature is the call for expensivée and | the comparative neglect of cheap goods. Colder weather in many sections has largely stimu- lated the inquiry for clothing, boots and shoes and other winter goods; but building is less active, as natural during the winter months. At the same time lumber continues firm throughout the East, and the | movement in hardware, especially builders’; is active | for December, while the production of, glass this year | exceeds that of 1901 by 10 per cent. The iron and steel trades, while apparently quieter on the surface, | are still provided with orders far ahead, the largest | producer having unfilled orders for 5,280,000 tons on | its books, and is rushing them along as fast as the | fupply of fuel and material will permit. The scarcity | of fuel is werking a great hardship, not only on the | family but on the manufactory, and as a check to the | volume of business is rivaled only by the scarcity of | railroad cars. Railroad earnings thus far in-Decem- | ber are 4.2 per cent larger than in December, 1901, | ‘and 10.4 per cent larger than in 1900. -But it must be | borne in mind that this increase in the earnings is | considerably offset by the increased cost of opera- | tion through advanced wages and higher cost of re- | pair and constructive material, so the increase is not | as large as appears on the surface of the returns. The | railroads and iron and steel trades seem to be ham- pered by ffic same advefse conditions. The railroads | are offering large contracts to the iron works for bridge, track and car work, but the iron works ac- cept them only on condition that the exact date of de- livery shall not be specified in the contract. This speaks volumes for the current activity in the iron trade, which has for years been accepted as one of | the two or three best barometers of the condition of trade in this country. In fact, the demand for nails is s0 heavy that the nail mills are actually ordered up to the close of 1903, are refusing to consider new busi- mess, and many buyers are compelled to go abroad | for supplies. The New England shoe factories, too, | are not looking for new business, taking what they can handle and letting the rest go. But owing to the incre.ased supplies of cattle in the Western markets there is some depression in hides, though there is no particular change in leather, which is meeting with 2 steady demand from the smaller shops. The woolen trade continues on a satisfactory basis. Raw wool is firm, and several descriptions are higher, while the call for woolens is fully up to the average | of good years, heavy-weight goods for next year be- ing ordered freely. Increased business in some lines of cottons is reported, largely as the result of recent recessions in quotations, 2 Wheat exports are falling off, those of last week, including flour, amounting to 3,256,000 bushels, against 4,432,000 for the same week in 1901, and 4,123,000 in 1900. Corn exports aggregated 1,526,000 bushels, against 330,040 in 1901 (the year of the short crop) and 5,465,000 in 1900. : The failures last week were 267, against 265 last year. The bank clearings made a better showing again Jast week, gaining 2.9 per cent over the cor- responding week in 1901, with almost all the leading cities exhibiting an increase, and the aggregate clear- ings scoring up to $2,451,000,000. This general condition of trade, as shown by the above points, leads the business men all over the country to view the current situation with satisfac- tion and gives them continued confidence in the fu- ture. The only pessimistic sentiments expressed are by the bankers, who justly feel the need of 2 more elastic currency when money gets tight, chiefly in the fall, when immense sums are needed in the West to move the crops. If this matter were ~adjusted by Congress financial conditions would be made much | turing rival is Great Britain. { prosperous Ireland as a customer. upon their merits and are slowly supplanting English manufactures, especially in machinery. We control also the canned goods trade of the world, because we produce everything, mieats, fruits and vegetables, that can be preserved for the markets in that form. -~ He speaks highly of the fidelity of the Chinese in per- formance of their contracts and their- scrupulous payment of bills. They drive a sharp bargain, after the Oriental fashion, but once made they keep it, whether it turn out to their.advantage or not. Others note interesting signs of the awakening of China. The reforms reported to the Empress Dow- ager, Tsi An, have for their beginning the technical education of the Chinese in the manual and mechanic arts, as practiced in the Occidental nations. The empire proposes the technical education of Chinese youth in Europe and America with the purpose . of using them, in large numbers, to teach the same knowledge in technical schools to be founded by the Government. China proposes also to participate in the carrying trade of the Pacific and is to put on steamer lines between the two shores of the Pacific. There be those who see in this Chinese awakening danger to the manufactyres and commerce of the Western nations. But we do not share that appre- hension. It is a mistake to suppose that the most profitable trade is with a people that can do nothing for themselves and among whom labor is poorly paid. This error is exposed at once by a study of our European trade. »Our commercial and manufac- Her labor ranks next to ours in its wage scale and standard of living. Yet our sales to Great Britain are.larger in bulk and larger per capita than to any other country in the | world. What this coast wants is another industrial Eu- rope created in China, Japan and Korea. We want the people of those countries to practice a greater variety of industrics and to earn better wages. They are human, and with capacity to supply them their wants will increase, as wants do among men every- where. The mistake made by England in India has been neglecting the diversification of industries, The products of India to-day are just what they were be- fore the “John Company” took its chartet and began to prepare by a commercial conquest for the political subversion of the Hindostan peninsula. India has a precarious agriculturé, and her manufactures are still in the archaic stage of development. So it happens that the average annual income of her people is less than eight dollars per capita. That means the limi- tation of wants to the barest necessities of existence. With all their industrial backwardness and the faults in their system of government the Chinese are better off materially than the average East Indian, or even the average Russian. Therefore it is that China offers the best industrial foundation upon which to build that can be found in | the Orient, and conditions will increase in the advan- tages offered there with the increase of occupations and the greater manual skill of the people. One thing may be counted on as sure. Li Hung Chang saw it and frankly avowed it. The food supply of { China is limited by the producing capacity of the | land, and that limit has been reached and passed. The United States produces the greatest food sur- plus in the world, at the same time that our people, as yet, waste the most food of -any people in the world. It is estimated by economists that we waste every day in fuel and food an amount equal to our consumption. Putting our population ‘at eighty mil- lions, that means that we produce enough fuel and food for home consumption and waste to serve one hundred and sixty millions of people. ‘When a daily waste equal to the wants of eighty millions is added to the surplus over and above combined consumption and waste, which enters into our export commerce, the enormous cap'?city of this country is brought into view. It is evident that our surplus food supply will continue to be the dependence of the world for many generations, and that when the industrial system of China is so reorganized as to increase her demand for food we will be the only nation in the world pre- pared to meet it. y Therefore this country should resist any attempt of | the other commercial nations to put limitations upon the industrial progress of China. Such a policy lim- its the consuming capacity of a people and therefore injures their value in the world’s trade. An example of this was seen when England put limits upon the manufactures and other industries of Ireland, believ- ing that such policy would increase the profits of English industry by preventing Irish competition. This*'was a mistake. What English trade needed was That is what the whole world needs. Any prosperous people feels the nressure of new wants. This is true regardless of race distinctions. Double the average wage in China and the wants of the people will be doubled, their foreign exchanges will be douhled, and Chinese prosperity will become also the prosperity of the commercial na- tions which do her foreign trade. -All American observers in the Orient report one fact in the spread of German trade. It is that the Germans take pains to acquire a facile use of the Oriental languages, a matter that is neglected by both English and Americans. Germans not only speak the language but are at home in the dress of the Oriental peoples with whom they trade. Unfortunately the political aspect of the Chinese question in this country has generated a contempt for things and ways Chinese, which deters our people from ac- quiring the Chinese dialects and making a proper study of those people for the purposes of commerce. Unless every appareatly well grounded expectation of Chinese trade shall fail, and our position on the Pacific shall prove as useless as if that ocean were a bleak desert without trail or oasis, the best prepara- tion a young man in California can make for a com- mercial career is the acquisition of Chinese, at least of the Cantonese and mandarin dialects, which admit to the ccmmercial circles on one side and to the Government language on the other. In the mext twenty-five years there should be not only lucrative employment but partnerships in vast commercial en- terprises for young men who have no other capital than a perfect knowledge of Chinese: Let us rise above the domestic political aspect of the Chinese question, remember that not all Chinese are coolies, and that in awakened 'China lies the commercial op- portunity of this coast and prepare ourselves for the future. e A Berlin critic was recently fined for referring . to an actress as a lady as graceful as a hippopotamus, Perhaps the critic was recovering from the delirium. tremens and meant a compliment, hot a slur. Japan has givgn another indication that it is in the forefront of civilization and in the enjoyment of modern ideas. A few days ago somebody tried to tasier all around, blow up the Mikado. friends of the measure are not sleeping. The Ameri- can Immigration Restriction League has been active in procuring evidence of the undesirable nature of a large part of the immigration now pouring into the country, and it would seem that Congress can, hardly fail to pass the desired act. It will be remembered that in a recent report the Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York said: “While I believe that the coming here of all desirable immigrants should be facilitated, yet I am very emphatic in the belief that rigid means should Be adopted to keep away those who are unde- sirable. Many of the latter are unquestionably com- ing, or attempting to come, particularly from por- tiops of Russia, Syria and Italy. . Last year over 2000 cases of aliens who had arrived within the past twelve months and in the meantime become destitute were reported to the out-of-door poor department of the city of New York. People of this class are being returned to Europe almost daily, either at the expense of the line which brought them or at that of the Goverpent.” % Further evidence on the subject was obtained from Mr. Goodwin Brown of the New York State Com- mission of Lunacy. He stated that in the insane hospitals of New York there are 24,000 inmates, and they are increasing at the rate of about 700 a year. One-half of the large number, he declared, are for- { eign born and should not have been permitted to land. He offered a proposed amendment to the bill | extending the time tostwo years for deporting an alien who has become a public charge, and with the addi- tional provision that “‘any alien who becomes a pub- lic charge by- reason of lunacy, idiocy or epilepsy within tivo years after arrival will be presumed to have become such from causes existing pri\or to | landing, unless the contrary be affirmatively shown.” In response to questions from the Sepate commit- tee Mr. Brown said that in the course of ten years the foreign-born insatie in this country will cost the| United States $50,000,000. He declared that the State | of New York would be willing to pay the entire ex- pense of deporting all who came to the State and | who became insane within the two years provided in | his amendment, should it be adopted, as it now costs | the State more than $5,000,000 a year to take care of | insane persons. The foreign insane, Mr. Brown said, answering Senator Lodge, were largely the pauper class. Against such statements of facts the opponents of restriction have no arguments except that some parts | of the country need settlers and that the United | States ought to offer refuge for the oppressed of | every land. = Neither of those arguments affects the | case. The districts that need.immigration certainly | are not going to be benefited by an immigration of | aliens incapable of taking care of themselves and | likely to become charges upon the State asylums. Neither does it follow that because this country is a| refuge for the opffressed it should be made a dump- ing ground for Etropean criminals and incapables? The fight for immigration restriction has been going on for upward of ten years. Public sentiment on the subject is well nigh unanimous. We have a welcome for every honest, industrious, self-supporting | immigrant, but none for those who come hére only to fill our jails, our poorhouises and our lunatic ésylums. | from The cleverness with which the Democratic nfan- agers apportioned the Congressional districts in Mis- souri is shown by the fact that while the Republi- cans cast a total of 315,000 voteg.against a Democratic i total of 350,000, yet the Democrats elected fourteen Congressmen and the Republicans but two. AT THE VALUES |OF NOVELS. Y the appraisers of the estate of the late Paul B Leicester Ford the values of his copyrights appear to have been estimated mainly upon the assumption that a new story has a greater com- mercial value than an old one, no matter what may be the comparative literary merits of the two. It ap- pears that in their inventory “Wanted—a Chaperon,” a short story, is set down at $12,000. “Janice Mere- dith,” which was such a phenomenal “seller” a few years ago, is listed at $1000, and “The Story of an Un- told Love” at $300, while “The Great K. and A. Train Robbery” is rated at $30. “The Honorable | Peter Stirling” is put down at $1500. Such valuations are interesting, and perhaps to the in- itiated they may be instructive. From a literary stand- | point “The Honorable Peter Stirling” is worth more | than all the rest put together. It would seem that the | high valuation given to “Wanted—a Chaperon” is due | solely to the fact that it is one of the books of the season. Perhaps something, too, was due to the expec- tation that the tragic ending of the life of the author would boom _the book. That so good a story as “The Great K. and A. Train Robbery” should be valued at no more than $30 thus early after its first success is significant ef the worthlessness of the fieeting fame that falls to a popular book, and the same significance attaches to the valuation of “Janice Meredith” at only $1000. Evidently the appraisers did not look upon Ford as one of the.immortals. The credit given him by critics and by the obituary writers who lamgnted his death as a loss to’American letters was not accepted by the business men who made out the inventory of his es- tate. Perhaps in the end it may be found that the literary estimates were even from a financial stand- point better than the market estimates. At any rate any one who can get the copyright of “Peter Stirling” for $1500 had better take it. There's a bargain in it at that figure. While our European friends are profuse in their polite assurances that they mean no encroachment upon the principles involved in the Monroe doctrine there’ was no particular disadvantage in having the Dewey fleet in the neighborhood of the Venezuelan row. A fellow is always more likely to be good when he knows he has to be. “Eoe In the concluding report recently rendered by the local Grand Jury a suggestion was made that some provision be made for the adequate care of teachers or children who may be taken ill during school hours. The suggestion is so manifestly opportune that it will probably receive no attention. La Soufriere is again showing ominous signs of activity. Perhaps in slumbering it feels out of tune with the discord which is raging in the devil’s kitchen of the South American republics. A millionaire banker of New York went to jail the other day rather than testify in a gambling case. It wouldn’t be difficult to guess who won in that little i game. l | provead. | authority and, taking advantage of the | State by a vote of 156 to 53. | the consideration of the question by the 'is oxidized by dipping the clean silver ABOARD THE CABLESHIP SIVERTOWN, NOON, Dec. 28 44 north, longtitude 143 2 west. Total cable laid 1269 knots. Weather fine. HE foregoing message was received at 2:30 o’clock yester- day afternoon by H. F. Harrington, cable superintendent of the Pacific Commercial Cable Company, it having been transmitted by the superintendent of cable laying on the steam- er Silvertown. t Vice President George G. Ward was of the oplnion when the cable was started that the steamer miles daily, but she has exceeded that figure by -twenty-five There is still about 1000 miles of the cable in the hold of RITISH NAVY PRE miles. B IL fuel requirements are to bal made by the newly completed British armored cruiser Bedford, 9800 tons and 22,000 horsepower. Eight forward boilers will be fitied tem- porarily for that purpose in such a way that they may be reconverted into coal burners without any considerable expense in the event of failure in oil burning. The armored cruiser Euryalus, the last of the six 12,000-ton armored cruisers built for the British navy, is at last ready for delivery by the contractors. -Her keel was laid July 18, 1899, at Vickers' yard, Barrow-in-Furness, but the long delayed completion is due to two very costly ac- cidents. She was launched in May, 1901, and.while lying at a pler caught fire from a burning wharf. It became necessary to dock the ship to repair the damage to | wood-sheathing and topsides, and while in dock the keelblocks canted, dropping the ship and seriously damaging her bot- tom. These two accldemts have more than wiped cut the contractor’s profit. In 1885-86 a British Parliamentary com- mittee inquired intg the affairs of the dockyard administration, building and re- pairs of ships, inspection of contract work and storekeeping. A general shaking-up of all the departments resulted from this inquiry and the efficiency was much im- One important récommendation by the committee adopted by the admir- alty has_however, never been carried into effect, namely, the appointment of a chief | civil_assistant to the admiral superin- tendent of the dockyards. The admirals have been averse to-any curtailment of 1 ambiguity of the admiralty order, have failed to select civil assistants, but the admiralty has at last realized that the admiral superintendents are not always able to settle questions relating to the construction of ships and machinery and a peremptory order has been issued for the appointment of chief technical assist- ants. They are to be selected from such 2s may be found in the dockyards or from civil life who have a thorough knowledge of the many technical details connected with ships of war. This official will have a residence in the yard and must- be in constant attendance during working hours. It is an innovation not relished by the naval officers, but which will mate- rially benefit the service. The British battleship Bulwark, durlflgl ‘the Silvertown and would pay out 160 its recent annual prize firing in the Medi- terranean, fired twenty-nine rounds from its 12-inch’ gung, making rifteen hits, and 155 rounds fromj the 6-inch guns, of which 100 were hits. The serious degline in British seamen in the mercantile marine is locked upon by the English press as nothing sbort of a national danger. During the past decade the number of British seamen has de- creased by 7000, while foreign seamen have increased by 800 and Lascars by 12,000. As there is no rising generation of young British sailors the indications are that the decline will continue. and more docile Lascars have taken the place of Britishers, eing employed through the selfishness of the great com- panies on the excuse that they are better suited to the hot climates found on cer- tain lines. The Lascars, however, would make but poor material on board war- ships, except perhaps as stokers, and the navy is confronted with a very serious problem of obtaining an ever increasing number of men from a steadily declining source of supply of trustworthy material. A An article written by M. Fontin, chief of the French admirglty, published in the Revue Maritime, clearly indicates the confidence which the naval authorities have in the submarine boats. The writer maintains that the days of large war- ships are numbered. In a war with Eng- land, France could at once put into line the necessary number of submersibles and submarines, and the most formidable fleets would, ipso facto, be removed far from her shores. Théy would not be able even- to reman in the narrow English channel or in the western Mediterranean, where the French possess the shores on both sides with the connecting link in the shape of the island of Corsica. The entire crews of four torpedo-boats at Bizerta, Corsica, have deserted, owing to harsh treatment and insufficlent food. It is claimed by the men that they were in dafiger of their lives and had been threatened with death by their officers. .0y The Reina Mercedes, sunk July 5, 1898, in the channel of Santiago harbor, and afterward raised by the Americans, is to be converted into a receiving ship, for which purpose the estimated expense is $200,000. This vessel is the only one of any considerable size of the Spanish squadron in Cuban waters during the late war that is afloat, and her retention in the service of the United States navy is prompted by sentiment rather than for economical rea- The eheaper | 21.—Position, Latitude BENEST. at the rate she is progressing the entire cable will have been paid out by next Thursday evening, or Friday at the latest. The message received from Superintendent of Cable Laying Benest was transmitted immediately to President Clarence i, Mackay and Vice President George G. Ward of the Pacific Commercial Cable Comipany at New York. " The steamer is so far away that the weather bureau of- ficials are not Interesting themselves in the weather bulleting concerning the locality in which she is sailing. o I R S e e e e e L PARES TO MAKE EXPERIMENTS WITH OIL FUEL sons. The Reina Mercedes was built at Carthagena in 1887, and was rated as a cruiser of seventeen and a half knots speed. She is of 3% tons displacement, and with her machinery removed will make a roomy receiving ship. N The Texas in a partially crippled condi- tion has at last joined Dewey's fleet. Ongy accident after another has delayed her departure from the Norfolk navy yard, where the ship had been under repalrs for two years: The Navy Department hur- riéd her commission, and painters were | working on Sunday to get the ship off. The first accident since Nivember 2, when first placed in commission, was the bursting of a reccil cylinder of one of the turret guns, followed by the discov- ery that the engine-room telegraph was out of order, and later an anchor stock broke when the “mudhook” was hoisted. The damaged gun carriage cylinder had not been repaired when the ship was per- | emptorily ordered to sea, and additional accidents may be heard ot any day. The Texas is unquestionably the ‘‘hoodoo” ship of the American navy. \ The President has approved the findings and sentence in the case of A. T. Owen, a lieutenant of the junior grade, who was court-martialed for absence without leave, scandalous conduct, etc.,, and the officer has been dismissed fgom the navy. Owen got on a spree, contracted debts for which he gave worthless checks, and absented himself for several weeks from his ship. At the conclusion of his “good time" he had to face a court-martial, and as there were no mitigating circumstances dis- missal followed. The case of Owen re- calls that of his father, a surgeon in the | navy, who was also court-martialed. FHe + was stationed at the Pensacola navy yard, when Captain Alfred Hopkins was com- mandant, in 1882. Yellow fever threatened to make its periodical visit to that place, and Surgeon Owen urged and induced the captain, whose health was not good, to leave the yard and go to a mere health- ful place. As the Navy Department had not been advised of the commandant's | movements, Secretary Chandler had Cap- tain Hopkins court-martialed and dis- missed from the service in November, 1832, after which Surgeon Owen had to | answer to charges of unprofessional con- duct, breach of discipline, ete. The court found him not guilty, and Surgeon Owen remained at the yard attending to the | sick at the reservation and at the Pensa- cola town until August, 1833, when he con- tracted yellow fever and died. @ ettt e ool e el e @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SPOTTED FAWN—Hunter, Oakland, Cal. In the State of Oregon it is unlaw- ful at any time to take or kill spotted fawn. WOMAN SUFFRAGE—A. W. F., City. The bill presented to the Legislature of €alifornia to allow women to vote upon the issuande of school bonds or the levy of school tax was defeated in the House, March 9, 1201, by a vote of 21 to 14. The same year, March 15, the House of the Legislature of Massachusetts defeated a proposition for woman suffrage in that A MOTION—Lodze Man, City. ~ Before a motion has been stated by the presiding officer the same may be withdrawn by the mover with the consent of the one who seconded the same, but if the motion has been stated by the presiding officer it cannot be withdrawn except by the con- sent of the lodge. If there is objection to the withdrawal of a motion it forces lodge. After a motion has once been stated by the presiding officer it cannot be withdrawn excent by the unanimous consent of the lodge. PUNCTUATION—A. W, City. Drew in “Pens and Type” says on the subject punctuation where abbreviation is used: “Abbreviated words, besides the period denoting their abbreviation, require the same pointing as if they were spelled in full. Thus, ‘Jno, Smith, Esq., of Worces- ter; Abel Sloane, M. D., and James Doe, LL.D., were appointed a comm. to take care of the books, doc., etc., etc.,” has the same pointing as ‘John Smith, Esquire, of Worcester; Abel Sloane, Doctor of Medicine, and James Doe, Doctor of Laws ,were appointed a committee to take charge of books, documents, and so forth, and so forth.”” ) KICK—Subscriber, City. This depart- ment has made a close search for ‘the origin of kick, in the sense of opposing, ‘without being able to find other than in that in the Bible there is in Deuteronomy, xxii:15, “But Jeshurum waxed fat and kicked.” Again in Samuel 1, chapter 1i:29, there is: “Wherefore kick yeat my sacrifice and at mine offering?’ “To kick the bucket” is derived from ' an ancient custom when criminals who were con- demned to be hanged were required to stand on a bucket while the noose was being fixed, which bucket was kicked away when all was ready, and death fol- lowed by strangulation. Hence, to kick the bucket has been construed to mean died for want of support. OXIDIZING SILVER—E., City. Silver article in a solution of sulphide of potas- sium silver of sulphur in the proportion of two drachms to a pint of water. This solution is heated to a temperature of 175 degrees Fahrenheit. The article is im- mersed for a few seconds only and it be- comes a blue black. To produce a velvet black the article is dipped previous to oxidizing in a solution of mercurious ni- trate and water and rinsed, after which it is dipped in the solution as already de- scribed. To produce a brown shade it is oxidized in the potassium sulphaté and then dipped in a liquid composed of ten parts of blue vitriol and five parts sal am- moniac to 100 parts of vinegar. After ox- idation it is brushed with a scratch brush very lightly to brighten and varigate the surface. —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® ————— Dr. Frank of Berlin has discovered a new fungus which destroys the roots of wheat. FHe has named it “Killer of the Wheat Stalk.” % Townsend’s California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched® boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * Special - information supplied daily to B Clivpine Bareas atienay o L s Clipping Bureau en’s) fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 * Useful presents (look out for 81 Fourth, front of barber and_grocery) best eye- glasses, specs, 20 to 50 cents. . e A souvenir of Mr. Gladstone’s hobby as lg amateur woodsman, consisting of a abacn 1y 80- was, o for v s ) sold for in a London auction room the olher. dumf- PERSONAL MENTION. F. C. Lusk, a capitalist of Chico, is at the Palace. A. J. Layman, a capitalist of Helena, Mont., is a guest at the Russ. P. B. Fraser, a Stockton banker, is reg- istered at the Palace with his wife. S. Summerfield, District Attorney of Reno, is at the Grand with his wife. S. L. Cheney, a silk merchant- of South Manchester, Conn., who recently married Miss Bell of Santa Barbara, is at the Oc- cidéntal. —_———— Object to Municipal Ownership. The Golden Gate Valley Improvement Club at a meeting Friday night passed a resolution requesting the United Railroads | Company, California-street Railroad Com- pany and the Presidio and Ferries Rail- road Company to renew their petitions for franchises which they withdrew some | months ago. The club decided to press this matter now that municipal ownership of railroads had been defeated and be- cause the northern portion of the city was badly in need of better railroad accom- modations. —_——— Funeral of General Swayne. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Funeral services over the body of General Wager Swayne were held to-day in St. Bartholomew's Church, Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, rector of the church, reading the burial service. At their conclusion the body was taken to the Pennsylvania depot in Jersey City and placed In a special car attached to the Washington express. Services will be held in Washington to-morrow, in St. John'’s . Episcopal Church, and the body will be interred at Arlington. A CHANCE TO SMILE. The Young Woman—O, I don’t believe ever could learn to swim at all! Her Brother—Maybe not; but with those feet of yours you could mighty soon learn to tread water.—Chicago Tribune. |1 Sandy—Yer say dat lady was consider- ate dat threw de boilin’ water on yer? Cinders—Cert! In dese days of germs and microbes she was considerate to boil glt before she threw it.—Philadelphia Rec- crd. “How is it,” demanded the angry stock- holder, “that our gold mine has stopped work?” “I believe it isn't in the veln for it,” replied the promoter, coolly.—Philadel- phia Press. News to Him.. o you know,” sald the woman who takes an interest in geneal- ogy, “that you had sixteen great-great- grandparents?”’ “‘Gosh!” exclaimed the self-made man, “is that so? This is the first time I ever kl’:;' I had any."—Chicago Times Her- VX TR -St.nPeter~W'hat was your business on earth? ‘The Stranger—I was a baseball umpire. St. Peter—Indeed. And what Is your opinion of your own fitness for admission here? The Umpire—Me? Why, I'm as straight a shoestring as you ever let in, St. Peter—I'm afrald I'll have to_dis pute that. The Umpire—What? Dispute it. That's just enough from you. If you ain't back on the bench in twenty seconds I'll fine you $56!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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