The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1903, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISFCO (}ALL,‘ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1903. . e e nager eodress @Il Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Me TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALLT The Ope;'ntor ‘Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS arket and Third, S. F. to 221 Stcvenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Fer Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 mont] DAILY CALL (inclu; Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month SUNDAY CALL. One Yea WERKLY CALL, One Yea: All Postmasters are authorized to receive mbscriptions. will forwarded when requested. Sample coples subscribers In ordering change of address should be r to give both XEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order re & prompt and correct compliance With their request. OAKLAND OFFICE... vv...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, azeger Toreign Acve Marguetts Buildicg, Chicags Long Di: one *‘Central 2619."") NEW YORK STEPHEN B. SMITH. REPREEENTATIVE: Tribune Building NEW YORK RESPONDENT: C. C. CARLYON. ..., . ... Herald Square NEW YOR orf-Astoria Hc y Bl H wa Mur A. Brentano, enue Hotel 0 NEWS STANDS: s Co.; Great Northern Hotel; ; Palmer House. Hoffman House. CHI Eherman House Tremont Ho Asgitor WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFF-CE...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. AC BRANCH OF Montgomery, corner of Clay, open sntsl D29 o'clos » Hayes, open until 9:30-0'clock. 633 MeAllister 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, cornor Sixteenth, open untll § o'clock. 1098 Va- - 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untfl 9 Twenty-second and Kentucky, open open until § p. m. 2200 Fillmore, re has been addressed to Congress a morial urging an increase of our 1 legislatidn to promote the exten- it marine. The issues thus pre- f hi st importance to the coun- w occurring go far to demonstrate y are also matters of immediate and impera- ency ( g the need of an increased ‘mercantile s hardly necessary to say much, for every e wh heed to the subject or interest in it is well aware condition of things is by no means our welfare Our foreign commerce is creasing yearly ries are dependent to a considerable extent To reach arkets for their produce. Many of our lar- | | however, we are now relying upon | hips. We pay a heavy tribute to foreign ip-owners both upon our exports and our imports, e no guarantee that their service will con- A war rope between two nations of first 1 c »wer would seriously interfere with the trans 5 on which Europe furnishes us, and heavy losses would be inflicted upon manufacturers and 1 on our merchants. way to make sure of our com- it with an adequate nt marine and protect that marine rce sufficient to mect any enemy likely to It is t fore the duty of Congress to that end without further delay. ments of the Maritime Association nemorial is pertinent to the Venezu- The memorial says: that in some large sections of South Amer- e witnessed the essential and mercial occupation by foreign pow- h the practical assumption of of us to the point notsdi ant in time, where foreign powers may be impelled by the arbitrament of arms or the abandon- 3 of a traditional policy. When this time mes, as come it will, the country should be pre- | nterests of the entire world, to enforce ively that policy or to abandon it freely and not pulsion of force. No demonstration is re- 1 the f this dignity an adequate navy is indispensable.” The opinions thus expressed in the memorial are ret confined to the Maritime Assqciation of New They are virtually the opinions of the Ameri- n people, and as additional evidences are forth- coming that our increasing prestige as a world power is exciting envy and antagonism among certain greztl ope. it behooves Congress to prepare | American mcrcham! powers of F An marine and an American navy of invincible strength 2l to the requirements of the new respon- for whateveg miay come. are ess sibilities which our growth as a nation has imposed | upon us with respect to the rest of the world. ———— A story comes from Utah that a stateswoman platform, clect Smoot to the Senate. In seli-defense she is re- ported as saying that she is a Republican as well as 7 anti-Mormon, and that in the Legislature she be- | lieves herself calied on to vote as a politician and | .not as a woman. It is a good enough defense as far | her political record goes, but the club women will | ubtless try a hatchet on her the next time she runs < as a candidate for office. In the official evidence submitted in reference extremely regrettable incident gpade itself prominent. Tt was unfortunate that the mate, who ‘was asleep at | _his post when the vessel met disaster, was present to ¢ll about the affair. ————— lio and is therefore of especial interest at | “It should not be | in the world’s history has generally pre-| us beyond the control of statesmanship to re- | American people that to the assump- | to the wreck of the Crescent City a few days ago one | | protect the rights of their subjects. | sovereignty. | fidently expect to avoid either a surrender of the Mon- er, foreign activity will increase and develop | of | the Legislature made her canvass on an anti-Mormon | She was even president of a federation of women's clubs that is death on Mormonism; and yet when she found herseli’ in office ‘she duly voted to | D | Mr. Bowen and Secretary Hay have been urging lhei | reports of hostility both Germany and Great Britain | { and French. | to lead to the establishment of European sovereignty AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. ESPITE the many difficulties in the way of bringing about an agrecment among the pow- ers interested in the settlgment of the debts of Venezuela, it is clear that American diplomacy is; steadily winning its way toward an amicable solution | of every problem involved. Reports concerning the | proceedings irom day to day have not infrequently intimated the probability of a rupture, but as time | passes it is seen that cach new tangle in the con- troversy is somehow straightened out, and step ‘by step the desired end is reached. Only a short time ago there were reports of a dan- gerous disagreement between Minister Bowen and the British Embassador, but that story Iias now been dis- proved by the announcement that Britain's protocol has been found acceptable by Mr. B&wen acting as the representative of Venezuela, and so far as that country is concerned the issue is virtually settled. Fur- thermore, it is stated that Gerfhany and Italy will | doubtless follow the British example, and that in a short time the preliminary arrangements for terminat- ing the whole dispute will have been fixed and settled. While the negotiations have.seemed slow at times, | yetasa matter of fact they have been carried forward | with a dispatch unusual in diplomatic proceedings. It is to be borne in mind that the representatives of the | powers at Washington have been required to act at | every step under the supervision of their home Gov-{ ernments, and the communtications from one capital to i the other have necessarily required considerable time. | negotiations forward as rapidly as possible for the purpose of reaching an agreement and putting an end to the blockade. It is but fair to add that despite !hci seem also to have been eager to put an end to the present situation and have cordially co-operated in advancing the business. While the outlook iz at present bright, it is by no means wholly clear of clouds. In negotiations of this kind nothing can be accounted ‘done so long as any- thing remains undone. It may yet be that Italy or Germany will make demands that other powers hav- ing claims against Venezuela will not agree to. Even that, however, would not do anything more than pro- long the negotiations for a time. A point has been | reached where an ultimate agreement is as certain as anything can be where human passions and interesfs are involved, and as all the negotiators are well awage of the fact, none of them is likely to make a dispute cver a point which must be eventually con- ceded. ; The settlement of this case is.the more important because it is indisputable that there will be many others like it in the near future. South America is now the most inviting field in the world for men of far-reaching enterprise. The country is vast and is but sparsely populated. Its resources are rich and varied and have been but superficially exploited. | The expansive energies of civilization are carrying to'| almost every part of the conginent the industrial and commercial activities of Americans, British, Germans When men of those 'races come into | contact with the easy living, indolent and unambitious natives conflicts will be inevitable. The conflicts will not necessarily result from greed | and aggression on the one side, nor from fraud and lawlessness on the other. They will arise simply be- cause the civilization of the eglerprising invaders is not like that of the natives, and the two are inher- ently antagonistic. Out of them will come a host of | grievances on both sides. The natives will feel that | they have been.defrauded and will seek to retaliate | by violence. Then will come appeals for redress and new movements on the part of European powers to ¢ In short, the industrial and commercial conquest of South America has begun and will go forward despite all obstacles. American diplomacy will have to see to it that this | conquest- is carried out in such a way as to do in- justice to none. Above all it must not be permitted in any part of America, nor must it be so misman- aged as to bring about a war between ourselves and | nations with whom we ought to be friends. The task will be a difficult one, but we have every reason to believe American diplomacy will be equal to all the responsibilities it imposes. A good precedent has | been established in the present crisis in Venezuela, and by firmly upholding it in the future we may con- roe doctrine or a war to maintain it —_— The proposal to admit Indian Territory to state- hood under the name of Jefferson has the merit of providing a memorial for that statesman without put- ting Democrats to the trouble of raising money for it. | THE MACEDONIAN MUDDLE. HEN the Macedonian Committee from its headquarters in ‘Bulgaria announced that it U N would call for an uprising of Macedonian patriots in the spring the American public gave little heed to it. The quarrel was too far off to interest us much, and besides we have heard so frequently and for so long a time of Macedonian uprisings that were to tee seemed of no significance to us or any one else. As the spring draws nearer, however, there ar€ increasing evidences of uneasiness in Europe over the situation. We have reports of mobilization of armies in Turkey and preparations for war in Aus- tria and in Russia. It is true the reports have been | contradicted, but the contradictions are said to be “official,” and the public has been informed that the Governments are issuing them solely because they are not ready yet to have their preparations known or to declare their intentions. Thus while dispatches’ from Paris and from Vienna say that there has been no mobilization of Austrian armies, yet neither the French nor the Austrian Government has confidence in the pacific utterances of the Turks. It appears therefore that nothing really reliable is known of the situation, and all that can be said of it is that there is certainly a great deal of smoke and probably some fire. | been composed of twenty-six Senators | tion in the lower house, but to keep the Senate per- | happen, but didn’t, that the manifesto of the commit-g. persecuted by the Turks and have no friendly relations with their neighbors in the Turkish empife. As long ago as 1878 Russia sought at the treaty of Berlin to unite the two states and thus raise Bulgaria to the rank of a considerable power, but Austria objected, and Britain supported Austria, so the Russian plan failed. The result has been an unceasing turmoil both in Bulgaria and in Macedonia. It has been asserted from time to time that the Russians are instrumental in stitring up the strife, and even now it is said the | Czar has ordered his officers to be ready for war. | Suéh rumors, however, are not entitled to much credit. A sufficient explanation for all the agitations and disturbances in the country is to be found in the desire of the Macedonians to get rid of the Turkish rule and upite themselves with their kinsmen of Bul- garia. | For those who love their fellow men and wish them none of the disasters of life Judge A. B. Parker of New York deserves the deepest sympathy. He seems to be the most favored of the Democrats for the nomindtion of President of the United States. | THE EAST AND THE WEST. UR contemporary, the Springfield Republican, O frankly states the real issue in the fight| 1gainst the admission of Arizona, New Mexico | and Oklahoma to statehood in saying: “It is not un- | fair nor untruthiul to say that a good part of it is due ! to the dislike of the older and more populous States of the East and Middle West to weakening their'| power still more in the upper branch of Congress.” | The Call has repeatedly directed attention to that phase of the subject. The opposition of the East to the growing power of the West has been manifest in many ways. During the struggle for the irrigation Jaw there were many evidences of a feeling that the upbuilding of the West would in some way injure the people of the older States. It was said that farmers in Pennsylvania and New Yark would suffer from the competition of farmers yet to be on.the irrigated lands of Arizona and New Mexico. Now the same feeling appears in a political guise and Senators of the Eastern States are opposing the admission of three new Western States because their admission would give the West six more Senators and thus di- minish the proportional strength of the East in that branch of Congress. Qur contemporary goes on to say: “As far back as the convention of 1787, which framed the Federal | ¥ | | | constitution, this feeling on the part, of the old States | toward new ones has existed with more or less| strength. It is a curious fact that in the convention | a serious effort was made to restrict by constitutional | provision the representation of new States in Con- | gress. Mr. Geary offered a motion ‘that in order to | secure the liberties of the States already confedérated | the number of representatives in the first branch of | the States which shall hercafter be established shall never exceed in number the representatives from such | States as shall accede to this confederation.” Had the | motion prevailed the Senate would ultimately have | rom the | original thirteen States, and twenty-six more divided among all the other States which in future might have entered the Union. The idea was not to prevent the creation of new States, or to deny them representa- petually under the control of what were then the ‘old | States.”” This feeling in the East against Western advance- | ment is not unnatural. The long strife between the | slave States and the free States implanted in the minds | of the people of both a sort of sectional feeling that | has been handed down by tradition. It is not felt in | the West because our people come from all parts of the Union, and we have not had either time or occa- | sion to develop sectional antagonisms. It is therc-} fore hard for'us to understand how the people of the | East can really feel that any injury will be done them ! by the upbuilding of the Greater West. Still it has ' been abundantly evident that it does exist, and that | back of many of the objections stated to the omni- | bus bill is the unstated but dominating objection of | the East to increasing Western power in the Senate. | London has discovered a genius of the first magni- tude. He has adopted something of Rudyard Kip- ling's for theatrical purposes and has made a suc- cess of it. This assertion borders on the marvelous. VERMONT'S VOTE. ONSIDERABLE attention has been given in ‘ the East to the vote of Vermont in favor of | local option as against State prohibition in | dealing with the liquor question. Vermont has been | a prohibition State for fifty years, as the original pro- { hibition law was carried in 1853 by a majority of about | 1500. The vote for local option this year is about the same, but it is to be noted that with the population | which Vermont had fif_ty years ago 1500 was a big; majority, while now it is but a slight one. In fact, the | vote shows that the prohibitionists are still strong, | and that if the local Jaws do not prove effective it will not be difficult to bring about a return to the old order. The change of sentiment-among the Vermonters is,said to be due mainly to a recognition of the fact that prohibition does not prohibit, and, moreover, has 1 | a tendency to breed a disrespect for law. In all parts | and Cass, G. A. R. and also by Spanish- | of the State clubs were organized for the purpose of procuring liguor, and in addition the number of places ! where it was illicitly sold were numerous. Finally it | was pointed ‘out by the physicians of the State that | there was an alarming increase in the use.of drugs of | a harmful nature, and it was believed that a moderate | use of wine or spirits would tend to check the evil. All of these things taken togéther formed a public | sentiment favorable to.a repeal of the prohibition law. The prevailing opinion of our New England con- temporaries is that the Vermont vote signifies the | virtual failure of the prohibition- policy “in that sec- tion of the Union. Of the New England States there | are now only two, New Hampshire and Maine, that remain in the prohibition column. The others have | tried it and abandoned it. Even in New Hampshire it is said it will not last long, for the same causes that The uncertainty of the situation is due to the fact that an explosion in Macedonia is bound to occur sooner or later and may come at any time. There is nb reason why it should not occur this spring instead of waiting for some other spring. It is the desire of the Macedonians to force their claims upon the atten- tion of Europe, and while they cannot hope to win against Turkey they may at-least expect to make such a struggle as will lead the great powers to undertake Addicks has now been out oi Delaware politics for ‘a cansiderable perigd®and still there is no report of anything tilting up or caving down in the little State, i There is a possibility that those startling telegrams “from Rockefeller to the Senators-were sent by wire- “less telegraphy and were wordless ! a readjustment of the Balkan states and unite Mace- } donia with Bulgaria, according to the wishes of the | people. A recent study of the subjectin the North Ameri- can- Review says that of the 3,000,000 inhabitants of lM;ccdonia fully five-sixths are Bulgarian in race, 2 brought about repeal in Vermont are acting .in that State, and there are already signs that the people are ready to follow the Vermont example. One of the curious features of the contest was the appearance of the liquor men on the side of the pro- hibitionists. It is said they had found they could make bigger profits selling liquor illicitly than they | could hope to do under high license. That in itself is a striking illustration of the folly of enacting laws the people will not stipport, and Vermont is to be ‘cong_ratuhted upon learning that lesson at least after her fiity years of experience. — After the earthquakes come the tidal waves, and ' €¢ | pretty soon the spring blizzards will make another at- language, religion and sympa!hy). They" have bqu]wmpt g.é blow Kansas over to the Atlantic coast, - | positiorn: Teller said that he considered the Alas- | ALASKA TREATY IS RATIFIED BY THE SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—In an exec- utive session, which lasted only an hour 2nd a half, to-day the Senate, in addition te confirming a large number of nomina- tions, . ratified the Alaskan boundary treaty’ and came near:taking similar ac- tion on the commercial treaty with Gréece, which was reported by Senator Cullom ,to-day from the Committee on Foreign Relations. e Greek treaty was read through by the clerk and then Senator Cullom asked that the resolution of ratification be acted upon. Hoar of Massachusetts objected. He said that he desired an opportunity to cxamine the provision in the treaty con- cerning consular trials. He explained that he had no objection to the general purport: of the treaty, but said. that is the provision was read it seemed to him to be loosely drawn, and he wanted an oppor- tunity to read it carefully before giving Lis assent to it. The principal purpose of the Greek trea- ty is the regulation of commerce between Greece and the United States. It contains full provision for the control of the con- sular service along, the lines laid down In the recently negotiated Spanish treaty. - Therc was no delay in obtaining action on the Alaskan treaty, and. very little op- to it was manifested. Senator kan boundary so well determined as to make it not a matter of dispute. There- fore, while he would not delay it, he would not vote for it. Senator Mason made similar remarks, adding that he considered the procedure proposed by the treaty non-American. The ayes and noes were not called, but there were several voices heard in the negative when an in- formal expression was called for. The ayes were so much more numerous, how- ever, that the decision of the chair to the effect that raitification had prevailed was not challenged. All the provisions of the Alaskan boun- Gary treaty except one paragraph, from |the French portion of the treaty, have been published heretofore. An official translation of this paragraph, which was an extrgct from the Russian-English treaty of 1825, incorporated into the new Alaskan treaty, has béen made and is as follows: It is morcover agreed that no establishment | shall be formed by either of the two parties within the limits which the two preceding ar- ticles assign to the possessions of the other. Consequently, British subjects shall not form any establishments either upon the coast or upon the malnland strip, comprised within the limits of the Russian possessions, as they ai designated in the two preceding articles, and, in likewise no establishments shall be formed by the Russian subjects beyond the sald limits, Senator Cullom asked the Senate to give up the day to-morrow, after the conclu- sion of the morning business, to executive business and no objection was made. Sen- ator Quay, who has charge of the state- hood bill, gave his assent with others. It is Senator Cullom's intention to first take up the Panama canal treaty and to follow that with the Cuban reciprocity treaty. The understanding still is that Senator Morgan will discuss the canal treaty at some length. PERSONAL MENTION. L A V D. D. Allison, a banker of Fresno, is at | the Lick. Senator E:@C. Voorheis is registered at the Palace. Dr. Nat Green of Watsonville is a guest at the Grand. F. E. Manuel, an oll man of McKittrick, is at the Lick. D. L. Beard, a merchant of Napa, is at he California. 0. Y. Woodward of Woodwards Island is at the Grand. ‘W. H. Holabird, a capitalist of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. W. D. Tupper, a well-known attorney of Fresno, is a guest at the California. Frank Hazen, a prominent merchant of Healdsburg, is among the arrivals at the California. - James Toughey, the well-known horse man of Sacramento, registered at the Lick yesterday. T. W. Heintzelman, in charge of the shops of the Southern Pacific at Sacra- mento, is a guest a! the Grand. Thomas R. Minton, an extensive land- owner of the San Joaquin Valley, is among the arrivals at the Palace. e Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1l.—Hotel ar- rivals: Arlington—C. L. Cochat, D. G. Davis, ‘San_Francisco. New Willard— Charles. P. Braslaw and wife, San Jo: Miss Reynolds, San Ffrancisco. St. James . T. Sadler, San Francisco. ————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 1L—Californians in New York: San Francisco—C. G. Tollls, at the Holland; J. F. Valentine, at the Broadway Central; E. H. Adams and T. H. Sloan, at the Everett; A. M. Johnson, G. M. Landner and H. G. Plummer, at the Astor; R. Oxnard and wife, at the Albemarle. Los Angeles—W. B. Noble, at the Bar- tholdi; C. Canfield, at the Netherland; N. Cole Jr., at the Victorla; Mrs. ‘J. D. Hooker and Miss Hooker, at the West- minster. LINCOLN DAY” OCCASION FOR PATRIOTIC SPEECHES Representatives of Veteran Military ‘Organizations to Address Pupils - of Public Schools. Lincoln day will be observed to-day by Posts Lincoln, Thomas, Meade, Garfield t “« American War Veterans. Each military organization will visit the public schools, | where patriotic #ddresses will be deliv- To-night there ° ered before the pupils. will be a speclal programme to fittingly observe the national occasion at Union Square Hall, Post street. Agddresses will be delivered by Comrade E. S. Salomon of James A. Garfield Post; Comrade A. D. Cutler, George H. Thomas Post; Comrade H. C. Dibble, Lincoln Post; Comrade James F. Sheehan, George G. Meade Post; Comrade Thomas £. Barry, repre- senting Veterans of the Spanish-American War; A, 8. Ormsby of Sons of Veterans and Comrade G. W. Arbuckle. There will also be soloists present who will render patriotic songs and choruses, and elocu- | tionists who are to recite patriotic poems. There .will be no charge for admission, the exercises being free to the public. 4 e ——— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A PESTIFEROUS GERM. Burrows Up the Scalp Into Dandruff and Saps the Hair’s Vitality. Pecple who complain of falling hair as a rule do not know that it is the resuit of dandruff, which is caused by a pestif- erous parasite burrowing up the scalp as it digs down to the sheath in which the hair is fed in the sc: Before long the FLair root is shrivels up and the hair drops out. 1If the work of the germ is not destroyed hair keeps thinning till baldness comes. The way to cure dandruff is to kill the germ, and until now there has been no hair ration that would do it; but to-day dandruff is easily t- | by Newbro's Herpicide, which makes and soft as silk. Sold by lead- ts. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., | | “and to FRANCES ROCK, A NEW PIANIST, MAKES DEBUT A new pianist to local audience, in the person of Miss Frances Rock, made her- self known yesterday afternoon n a re- cital at Steinway Hall. Miss Roci is of the Leschetizky school, having had the advantage of the famous teacher's in- struction for a period of three and a half vears. has been quietly at work in local musical cireles for some two years now. Yester- day was her first public appearance here, though Miss Rock's work is well known to a few among the music-lovers. 1 imagine, though I do not know, as T have not heard the planist before, that she did not do herself full justice yes- terday. An occasional disturbance of poise seemed to indicate nervousness, more particularly as Miss Rock has full intellectual grip on her subjects. In- telligence, humor, sincerity and robust technical capacity are the dominating characteristics of her work. The tem- peramental element is, however, not strong, the interpretations being curi- ously unpoetic at times—quite possibly, again, the result of nervousness. Miss Rock was perhapg happlest in some of the Schumann numbers, where her robust style found its most congenial expression. The allegro of “The Fasch- ingsschwank” was most cleverly played. Another number very adequately handled was the humorous and original “Pre- ambule” of Schutt, given in crisp and brilliant fashion. The Paderewski “Fan- talsie” came pleasantly. also the Rubin- stein *Barcarolle.”” I missed the Chopin nocturne, but hear it went very well; though the A-flat waltz that followed was to me a rather commonplace Chopin. But Miss Rock is distinctly a pianist to be counted in, as a teacher, 1 should imagine, most adequate. The audience, not large, was very friendly. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CRIBBAGE—J. S. Q. Hayden HIl, Cal. Three sixes, one seven and one eight in cribbage counts seventeen. RUSSIAN EMPIRE— City. Accord- ing to the Statesmen's Year Book the population of the Russian empire for the year 1900 was 129,004,514, TEETH PLATE—H. Samoa. Cal Plates for artificlal teeth are made of either gold or vulcanized rubber. Many dentists have their own method of man- ufacturing plates. LOFTY AND LOW-M. L. S, City. This correspondent wants to know the name of the author of “Lofty and Low"” | ‘and in what publication the same can be | found. | NAMES§—Anxiety, City. When persons are married the individuals and not the names -are married. If people desire to- assume not their own when they desire to marry and they . answer to those names that would not invalidate the mar- riage, but in time it will cause a lot of trouble in a legal way, and it may entail upon the one who applies for a license, should anybody desire to prosecute, the necessity for an explanation in court why the party under oath made a false statement as to name. To be married under an assumed name smacks of fraud. SUBMARINE CABLE—J. R. W,, City. A girect line between New Zealand and London was completed February 19, 1876. Telegraph between Adelaide and Port Darwin, Australia, completed August 22, 1572. The overland telegraph cable enters the sea at Port Darwin, connecting with Java, Singapore and India. Message from Mayor of Adelaide to Mayor of London received and replied to October 21, 1872 There is a cable from Sydney to New Zealand.. Other information can be ob- tained by writing to the home office of the first named submarifie cable com- pany. % SAN FRANCISCO STREETS—Sub- scriber, City. The streets of San Fran- cisco are not of uniform width. The fol- lowing is the width of the principal thoroughfares from house line to house lire: City Hall avenue, 200 feet; Van Ness and Point Lobos avenues, 1% feet each; Market street, 120 feet; Potrero av- enue and Railroad avenue, 100 feet each; California street, 85 feet; streets soutn- east of and parallel to Market street are 215 feet wide; Montgomery avenue is 8) feet wide; Kearny, between Market and Broadway, 7 feet; Golden Gate and Pa- cific avenues, 68% feet; numbered streets, from Tenth to Twenty-sixth, are €4 feet wide. CABLE—Subscriber, Grass Valley, Cal. In 1884 James Gordon Bennett and John W. Mackay lald two cables across the Atlantic from the United States, one to England and the other to France. The She comes here from Boston and | MRS. EDDY MAKES REPLY. TO MARK TWAIN In answer to criticisms by Mark Twain, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy recently mad the following statement at Concord. N H., to a correspondent of the New York Herald: “It is a fact, well understood, that [ begged the students who first gave me | the endearing appellative ‘mother’ not to name me thus. But without my consent that word spread like wildfire. I still must think the name is not applicable to me: I stand in relation to'this century as a Christian discoverer, founder and leader. I regard seif-deification as blas- | phemous; I may be more loved, but I am less lauded, pampered, provided for and cheered than others before me—and wherefore? Because Christian selence is not yet popular, and 1 refuse adulation. “My first visit to the mother church after it was built and dedicated pleased me and the situation was satisfactory The dear mémbers wanted to greet me with escort and the ringing of bells, but | 1 declined and went alone in my car riage to the church, entered it and knelt | in thanks upon the steps of its aitar There the foresplendor of the beginmings of truth fell mysteriously upon my spirit I believe in one Christ, teach one Christ know but one Christ. I believe in but one incarpation, one Mother Mary and know I am not that one, and never claimed to be. It suffices mfe to learn the science of the Scriptures relative to this subject. “Christian Scientists have no quarrel with Protestants, Catholics or any other | sect. They need to be understood as fo lowing the divine principle—God, love— and not imagined to be unscientific wor- shipers of a human being. “In the aforesaid article, of which I have seen only extracts, Mark Twain's wit was not wasted in certain direetio Christian Science eschews divine right in human beings. If the .individual gov- erned human ceonsciousness, my statement of Christian Science would be disproved but to understand the spiritual idea is sential to demonstrate science and its pu monotheism—one God, one Christ, “no idolatry, no human propaganda. Jesus taught and proved that what feeds a few feeds all. His lifework subordinated the material to the spiritual and he left this legacy of truth to mankind. His meta- physics is not the sport of philosophy, re- ligion or science, rather is it the pith and finale of them all. ' “I have not the Inspiration or aspirar tion to be a first or second Virgin Mother —her duplicate, antecedent, or subse- quent. What I am remains to be proved by the good I do. We need much humil- ity, wisdom and love to perform the func- tions of foreshadowing and foretasting heaven within us. This glory is molten in the furnace of affliction.” CE TO SMILE. A CHA! “Waiter, what's all that noise like a pile-driving machine at work?” “That's the cook pounding your beef- steak. You ordered tenderloin, I believe, sir.”"—Leslie’'s Weekly. “Yes, it certainly is a warm family. The son smokes and the daughter scorches.’ “How about the father and mother?” “Well, the old man fumes and the old woman blazes out at all hours.”—Chicago News. 0 Customer—Didn’t you tell me this horse was afrald of nothing? : Dealer—That's just what I sald. “Why, he shies at his own shadow.” “Well, a shadow is about as near noth- ing as anything I know of.”"—New York Weekly. First Burglar—You was mighty lucky to get cleared; but that there lawyer charged ye about all ye stole, didn't he? Second Burglar—That don't matter. I'll watch my chance w'en he goes home %> night and get it back.—New York Weekly. ‘Wederly—My wife owes her dressmaker a lttle bill. I must stop in and pay it this morning. Singleton—Why don’t you give your wife the money and let her pay it? ‘Wederly—Not much! She would order another dress.—Chicago News. ‘When his friends secured for him a com- mission in the army they confldently ex- pected him to develop a military genius af the first order. Great was their chagrin, then, when, in the thick of his first battle, a courier hav- ing dashed up and asked him how long he could hold his position, he did not re- ply- “Till hell freezes over!" But merely: “As long as may be necessary!" Now, of course, there was noth: his friends to do, in simple justice original Atlantic cable was laid in 1857, completed in 1858 and the first message sent from Valentia, Ireland, to New- foundland was from the Queen of Eng- the President of the United States, on August 5 of that year. A plan to unite Europe and Amegica by tele- graph was entered at the Government registration office, Londoh, England, in June, 1845, by-J. Watkins Brett and Jacob Brett. They made proposals which, how- ever, were not accepted. Thelr plan was eventually carried out in 1858 with the concurrence of the American and British governments. themselves, but edvln him to resign and engage in trade.—Detroit Journal. —_— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend’s.* s ity <o Fire etched valentine boxes. Townsend.® ———— Townsend's California glace frui® and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * ————— e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call- Telephone Main 1042, fornia street. . s IRBAR . < By THOMAS DIXON JR. IN THE SUNDAY CALL — FFBRUARY 2>—— This sensational problem play complete n SUNDAY N three issues of the CALL February 224, March Ist and 8th.