The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 6

N ¥RANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1903. nd the middle of the continent will take part in the | strife, and we shall see which section of the Union & dofadl {is the better able to uphold the dignity of American “BRUARY 14, 1903 | E the citizens' committee on water supply made I pulletdom in foreign lands. o e their famous report on the water problems of“ It is gratifying that the struggle will not begin j Oakland the Contra Costa Water Company has recog- | until next April and probably not until next May. By —~ -~~~ | nized that the lines ofi the fight between the com-|that time we may expect to have the Venezuelan diecs (M Communicatiors to W. 5. LEAKE, Manoger { pany and the people of Oakland were at last clearly | question settled, Congress will have adjourned, A ROORBACK CAMPAIGN. VER since Warren Olney and his colleagues of ' ia | SATURDAY SCHN D. *FRECKELS, Proprietor. ng clection. Had there been TELEPHONE. & ; v : T | the approaching sp: on his usual spring yachting trip, the various mu- Ask for THE CALL.D;I'hO o”“‘;' "S}lfu‘m“t fany doubts on the subject in the minds of the man- ‘ nicipal elections will be over am; the world will be You With the Department You Wish. | agers of the company they would have been dis-| prepared to give its undivided attention to the prog- Market and Third, S. sipated by the action of the people when it came |ress of the struggle. 17 to 231 Stevemsem St | time to nominate candidates. Perceiving the i:.\‘ut‘] Prior to the opening of the tournament or match 1 or function or fight or whatever may be the technical "L BLICATION OFFICE L. DITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. | clearly, men of both the great partics determined to Single Copies, & Cents. | nominate for Mayor a candidate who in office could | term employed to express the approaching competi- Terms by Mail. Including Postage: . ; Rl S SR Y CALL ¢nclog e g 5 be relied upon to meet it wisely and firmly. Accord- | tion, it is to be hoped the managers of the affair will CALL «neluding Suncey), 6 monthy . .00 | ingly not oniy the Republicans but the Democrats and | announce definitely whether they intend the decision o £ILY CALL (including Sundsy), 3 months. AILY CALL—By Single Morth - ’)AY CALL. Ons Year ECKLY CALL, One Year All Postmasters are anthorized to receive the Municipal Leaguers nominated Mr. Olney. His | to be given finally by selected judges or whether in services on the citizens' committee and the report | case of dispute the international questions involved made by the committee constitute his platiorm on | are to be submitted to The Hague Court or to some is his guar- | other tribunal of arbitration. Recent events demon- the subject and his personal characte { drawn and that the issue would have to be met at| Kaiser William will have got off the earth and gone | 'FOR CUSH SCORES THE REVENUE OFFICERS ING'S LIGHT SENTENCE enue cutter service, now under suspension for black- guardly conduct, has reason to be thankful that he was tried by a -court composed of his peers and not by the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom blackguards lock alike and for whom the dignity of the service has a decided meaning. In a scathing review of APTAIN W. H. CUSHING of the United States rev- | Was sent to Cushing, who received it upon the dav ' all * the testimony and of the court’s findings, the Secretary . of the Treasury administers to the board a reprimand little less severe than the punishment it deemed fitting for the offense of the members' brother officer. Cushing was accused of blackguardly conduct. which would have disgraced a bucko mate of the old school mer- chant marine., According to the Secretary of the ury the evidence submitted to the court more tha firmed. the ac tions, and in their effort to shieid their foul-mouthed associate, the members of the court in a are his guilt and have in consequence received remarkably warm in the way of punishment. Surveyor of the Pori Spear some time ago compiained to Washington of Cushing's insulting attitude toward the | mony, given light heed by Cv ar ence Mackay received his friends on board the cable ship Silvertown. In the Silvertown's cabin and in the pms- ence of Mrs. Spear and other ladies, Cushing struck {he Surveyor with his shoulder and addressed him In e language which forms the basis of the most serious charge preferred against him. The witnesses to this and other of Cushing’s black- guardly manifestations included civilians of high official position and officers of the army and navy. Their testh g's brother officers, was accepted at its true worth by the Secretary of the Treasr ury. The officers composing the court-martial tain F. M. Munger, president; Captain W. ¢ were: Cap- Coulson and Captain C. H. MecLellan. Lieutepant F. M. Dunwoody acted as recorder. Lieut Charles E. Johnston was official prosecutor and did his b on record th »'s condemnation of service however, according to the Secretary too much for Johnston. subscript Sample copies will be forw: when requested. Mail subecribers in ordering change of address should be | rarticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in crder | *> iosure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. | i | OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Lareger T #ewertisizg, Marcrette Brilding. Chica: (Lovg Distence “Telephone “'Central 26i9."") NEW TYOR: STEPHEN B. SMITH. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: ATIVE Tribune Building C. €. CARLTON.... Herald NEW YORK NEWS STAN Taldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 U=zlon Squa turray Hill Hotel: Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: | Sberman House; P. Co.; Great Northern Hotel; | | | Tremont House: Auditor : Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFF-CE...1406 G St., MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. W BRANCH OFFICES—S: untll $:30 o'clock. 300 Haj MeAllister, open unti] 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until ©:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Eixteenth, open uatfi ® o'clock. 1008 Va- lencie, cpen until 8 o'ciock. 106 Eleventh, open until ® o'clock. 3W. corner Twenty-seccnd and Kentucky, open unttl ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl 9 p. m. A REVIVED SCHEME. ENATE b provide that Montgomery. corner of Clay. open 11 9:30 o'clock. 633 | | | i | | | | | | | | No. 161 and Assembly bill No. the school authorities of every | school district in the State containing five or | | S ore deaf children between the ages of three 4:\&[ enty-one years imust establish and maintain sep- | rate ses in the primary and grammar grades of | schools wherein such pupils shall be taught v the pure oral system for teaching the deai. The scheme embodied In a slightly di the Legislature in i899. ould be defeated now | is not a| in these two biils W one. erent form it w esented | It was defeated then and | g i There | is not easy to sce how there | is not the sl ification for it and i be even a pretense of argument in its favor. We do not know whose interest the scheme is designed to serve, but certainly it is not that of | deaf. The State mow maintains an institution of | fi 1 educational importance for the care and! g of the deaf, and no sane man w int; struction in the public schools would ever be equal to that given at S If then the bill should pass, a con iderable number of the deaf who are now entitled to the best education that modern skill can give them | id have to be content with what the public schools provide under the new law. The lo riortunates would be great and, moreover, it w r such pup he State asylum d ost the schocl boards a considerable s ct the joss n the absence of statistics it is not possible to | just how many new teachers would be required out the proposed plan of public school in- | As the bill applies, however, to “deaf hildren or children who from deafness are unable hear common conversation,” it is certain that a| very large proportion of the school districts of the | State would have to provide for the additional classes and instruction. In almost every thickly settled dis- trict there are “five or more” such children. More- | over, 2 good many who under the present arrange- ments are sent to the State institution would be kept at home and sent to the public schools.” Thus we would have a pretty good class of deaf pupils in nearly every school district All experience shows that deaf or dumb or blind children ought not to be educated in the same schools with the more fortunate. Fach class needs a special training fitted to its misfortune and it would be a heartless policy that would deprive them of it. In hardly any department of governmental work has California deserved more credit than in what has been done for the care and training of the defective. Our schools for the blind, the deaf, the dumb and those of feeble minds have been and are among the foremost institutions of the kind in the world. Why should we now turn away from a system that has proven its efficiency for the purpose of venturing upon a new policy that promises nothing except the creation of additieaal positions as teachers in the public schools truction The fact that the scheme, 'after having been once defeated, is revived and finds advocates in both the | Assembly and the Senate is in itseif an evidence that | some powerful interest is to be served by it. That | interest, however, has kept silent and has not taken | the public into confidence. We have heard no open | argument in favor of the measure, no statement to| the people of the object aimed at. It appears to be | one of the bills whose success depends upon the | secrecy with which they can be carried through the | committee rooms and hurried through the Senate | and the House. Resort to such tacti : is a confession | of demerit. The bills should be defeated. We have | already an ample provision for the instruction of the | deaf, and if we have not, nothing of good could be | zzined by providing for their instruction in the man- | ner proposed. In fact, so far as the deaf children | are concerned, the policy is a heartless one, for iti would sacrifice their interests for the sake of making ositions for p.rsons who are doubtless quite able to carn a living without becoming a charge upon the revenues of the public schools. There are some forms of impudence which as- sume almost the dignity of the sublime. It is char- itable to presume that John D."Rockefeller was suf- fering from mental indigestion when he caused the United States Senate to be informed that he is op- posed to trust legislation. in his suit for divorce a Hawaiian official alleged | that his better half called him a brute, a beast, a dog, | rty dog and a cur. [If this be true the lady cor- ly should have informed herseli on the literature ©i dogs, thoroughbred and otherwise, to avoid repe- | B. Candec of Fayetteville, New York, who will send | blunder that the American tition in epithet, to | is really in sec | serted by the E | other argument, plea or apology | read them with amazement and amusement. | letige bar out of antee of fidelity. American corporations engaged in exploiting the arned by long experience that the best continuance of their people have | way to make a fight for the privileges is to create dissensions among the people by the dissemination of lies. It is casy for them to induce some rough and ready inventor of roorbacks that the champion of the people 1 2lly of the corporations. Such successful, but they have fre- i start a tactics are not alway quently served the purpose of the corporations. | they have not absolutely deicated the people’s can- didate, they have at least raised discontents in the to that extent have minds of the ious, and weakened the force of public sentiment and lessened the power of those who sought to remedy old wrongs. The Contra Costa Water Company has adopted that familiar plan of Despite the clear record of Mr. Olney on the question of the Oakland water supply, despite his eminence at the bar and his indisputable integrity and courage, it is now as- aminer that he is conspiring in secret with the water company and intriguing to defeat the wishes of the peopls, deny justice and stultify the lonor of his whole life. It is not expected cven in the office of the water company or in that of the aminer that any con- siderable number of intelligent people in Oakland ill be deceived by such a charge made against such it their only recourse. No for the opposition to Mr. Olney is to beJound. It is the roorback or nothing. Lincoln's famous saying, “You can fool a part of the people all the time and all the people part of the time. but you cannot fool all the people all the time,” is quiic_irue, but for the purposes of grasping cor- porations and their ready tools it is not necessary to fool all the peofle all the time.* It will always be icient for them if they can manage to fool a con- siderable portion of the people at every election. It is for the purpose of achieving that much of fool- ing that the Examiner and the Contra Costa Water Company are working now. The elements back of They cannot be faced directly. susy action. w a is man. However, Olney are strong. he one and only chance for the corporation to win out or even to delay the final accomplishment of the rights and the demands of the people is to set up this cry that Olney is the tool of the water company. So absurd are the charges of the Examiner that when they were first made the people of Oakland That any sane man would deliberately. write himself down an ass by saying that the water company had cap- tured and controlled the Republican party and the Municipal League appeared to them incredible, so they sought an explanation on the theory that the ¥ | task of doing Oakland politics had been turned over to the “funny man” of the yellow sheet and that he was doing his stunt as best he could. The repeated iteration of the charges has, however, doubtless con- vinced Oakland by this time that they are up against a roorback campaign in earnest and must meet it with such patience as they can. Fortunately the personal character of the leader of the people in the fight is above all danger of dam- age from such opponents. It will not be easy to convince honest men that Warren Olney is in politics as the tool of the Contra Costa Water Company and that he is practicing it by secret hypocrisy and open Iying. A good deal of circulation was given recently to a report that Rudyard Kipling had written a letter to a friend in New York severely roasting his wife’s relatives and that the latter had been read in public zt a Tufts College banquet. It now turns out that Kipling not write ‘the letter. It was concocted as a joke by one of the wits of the college and read as an after-dinner entertainment. He charges that the reporters did not have sense enough to under- stand a joke, and they retort that he did not have brains enough to make one. S issued to the poultry men of the United States a challenge, addressed to Commercial Poultry, in this form: *“We are willing and very anxious to learn from our American confreres, especially in the way of egg production. I am therefore instructed A POULTRY CHALLENGE. OME time ago the poultry men of Australia by my committee to issuc through you a challenge | to American breeders to send over three pens of your best laying strains of any breed except Brahmas strate that there should always be some clear agree- ment on that point before any international con- troversy is begun. We see in the Venezuelan case how much time¢ and money is being wasted in dis- putes over that preliminary question, and it is evi- dent that were a-hen fight subjected to such long disputations the hen would die beiore decision was reached and could never have the satisfaction of wearing the blue ribbon of victory on a grand | triumphal tour of country fairs. The only information given on that point thus far is the announcement that “the competition is strictly under Government supervision” and that “full and complete reports will be issued and published in the papers.” That statement while not completely satis- factory is encouraging. At any rate we have accepted the challenge and it is now too late to withdraw. We foresee, however, that in case of defeat Petaluma will be sorry that her rooster was not there, and in case of victory she will be more sorry still, for she would | have liked to have him lead the victorious cackling with a world-rousing crow. Life among the smart set of New York must. be very dull and tedious, for we learn that a young woman of note among its members recently found amusement by making a bet that she would go to a public bootblack stand and polish the boots of the first comer. She won it, but it was poor fun. WHAT WAS TREASON? T against the United States or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. This was read alongside of opposing theories of the constitution and was so read in the South as to make a man’s paramount allegiance run to the State of which he was a citizen. At the close of the Civil War the Federal courts did not pass upon the issue, but chose, with the whole country, to regard it settled, for the future, by the arbitrament of arms. The result of the war was ac- cepted as destructive of the doctrine of State before national allegiance, and now there are none to dispute that settlement. Still, in the minds of many men are very hazy and uncertain notions as to what con- stituted treason under both the Union and the Con- federate construction of the constitution and definition of the term. An interesting evidence of this uncertainty or loose reasoning is furnished by a recent interview of Judge Mackey, a Confederate soldier, but since the war a consistent Republican. He was a lieutenant of engineers in the State forces of South Carolina and was one of the officers in charge of the battery which opened the il War by firing the first shot at Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor. He makes the point that the order to fire on Sumter and the flag was issued by General Ripley, a native of Ohio, who was a brigadier general in the Confederate army. He was educated at West Point, served in the Mexican War, resigned his commission in 1853 and took up his residence in Charleston. Many of the Confederate generals were men of Northern birth. Kirby Smith was born in Con- necticut: General Pemberton, who defended Vicks- burg, in Maine; General Gustavus Smithin New York; General Cowper, who had been adjutant general in the United States army and held the same place in the Confederacy, was a native of New York; General Gorgas was born in Connecticut; General Lovell, who fought Butler at New Orleans, was a Massachusetts Yankee. Now Judge Mackey holds that the only traitors in the war were these men of Northern birth who fought for the Confederacy, and that they were traitors under both the Union and the Confederate construction of the constitution. Therein the Judge conspicuously errs. The doctrine that a man’s al- legiance, before the issue was settled by war, ran to his birthplace had no place in the Confederate theory and surely none in the Union position. With the single exception of General Gustavus Smith, who resigned as Street Commissioner of New | York City and went South to join the Confederate army, all the men named of Northern birth were, like General Ripley, citizens of Southern States when the | war came on, and, believing the Confederate theory that paramount allegiance ran to the State, they joined the Confederacy. Their act put them exactly in the same position as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, whom the Federal Government refused to put on trial for treason. Going back to the two theories of allegiance, the only men who were traitors under both were the Southern men citizens of Northern States and the HE constitution defines treason as levying war (which could not be sold here) to take part in the‘ Northern men also citizens of such States who went next competition, which will commence April or May next, the pens each to consist of six pullets, but in case of death we will ask for eight birds to-be sent. To show that we are in earnest we are prepared to pay all expenses. It will be perceived that the terms of the chal- competition the famous laying rooster, whose egg-producing feats are at once the mystery and the pride of Petaluma. Still the Aus- tralians are not to be blamed for the bar. At the time of the challenge they had not heard of Such a rooster, and of course could not be expected to have provided for him by a gift of prophetic foresight. That the Australians meant well and were honest in their challenge is made evident by their guarantee to pay 2ll expenses on the part of the American com- petitors. Recognizing that fact the Americans have made no cffort to have the terms of the challenge changed, but have promptly accepted it as it stands. So many champions came forward that it was found necessary to select by lot those whose pens of pullets are to uphold the egg-laying worth of the American hens in ihe great contest. The three persons who were fortunate in the lottery are W. K. Hays of Hen- lcyville, California, who will send over White Wyan- Mrs. A. H. Hansel of Loup City, Nebraska, ! send Singie Comb Brown Leghorns, and W. dottes who w White Wyandottes, Thus the East and the West South and joined the Confederacy. They not only levied war against the United States, but also against the States of which they were citizens and to which, according to the Confederate theory, they owed paramount allegiance. It is somewhat strange that this obvious conclu- sion should escape an astute lawyer like Judge Mackey and that in its place he should substitute birthplace allegiance, which necither theory recog- nized. It is possible that his position is the survival of a leaven of loyalty to the South which impels him to form a theory that will excuse the act of the many Southern born men who fought against the North- ern States of which they had long been citizens. His new theory is not exactly patriotic now, since our position in the world may make it necessary for us to fight some European country whose expatriated subjects form a considerable part of ‘our population. Allegiance to nativity should not be taught to these, as it might combine internecine trouble with foreign war. We now have it on the best of authority that Ger- many’s peculiar actions in connection with the Ven- ezuclan.afiair were due to a misunderstanding in Berlin. It is very probable that Germany misunder- !stood the American characier and made the fatal people are willing to sub- i mit silently to indignities, Ras failure to recommend a punishment for the accused in some degree commensurate | with the offenses charged, specified and fully proven by the testimony submitted. It is difficult to conceive of a more re- sponsible or | important duty than that which falls to officers composing a board | for the trfal of an officer charged and | specified as In this cise: it is still more difficult to understand why officers having in charge duties of such moment, affect- ing the weal of the service, should not sink every other consideration than the single one of the good of the service. You were individually sworn, among | other things, in submitting your ‘“con- clusions and recommendations’ to the de- partment, to “be governed wholly by the evidence adduced, and that you would not be influenced for or against the ac- cused by anything not clearly shown in the recorded evidence.” Testimbny that is as clear and convine- ing as that in this case required no argu- ment, nor much deliberation, to point out to your intelligence the gufit of the ac- cused upon all counts. The members of a trial beard become, by their detail as such, the conservators of the public interests in the case be- fore them, and falling short of the execu- tion of their sworn duties, shows clear] enough that their sympathies take pre- cedence over the actual facts in the case as developed by testimony and the re- sult is a miscarriage of justice. Among the singular findings and con- clusions of the majority of your board are the following. The board says: “It must be noted that owing to the | noise and music on deck, as testified to, also considering the agitated condition of Mr. and Mrs. Spear, as acknowledged by them. there was a chance for the mis- | understading of any conversation, par- ticularly the expression ‘You damned —— and places the exact expression fin doubt.” 1. The conclusion of the majority of the board in this instance is in line with the argument of counsel for defense, is strained, and to the last degree unres able. Such a conclusion was naturally to be expected from counsel for the d but upon the evidence the conclu at variance with the facts. The majority of the board say the expression as ‘“‘un- derstood” by and Mrs. Spear. On the contrary it was the expression charged by Mr. Spear and positively sworn to on the stand by both himself and Mrs. Spear. Here it will be noted that vour report gives to the accused the benefit of his | oath as to the expression he says he used. while to Mr. and Mrs. Spear you accord only an ‘‘understanding’” of what they actually swore to as a fact. The majority of the board conclude that the expression “It was a damned mean piece of busin sounds so much like “You —— — — —" that there was cre- ated a doubt which was used. This con- clusion is simply ridiculous. By no pos- sible stretch of imagination, in confusion, noise or perfect quiet, could the element of doubt as to which of the two expres- sions was used@ be entertained upon the alleged ground that “they sound so much | alike.” There is not a sound in a sing word in either expression In the alike, except in the word “damned,” a how it came about that the majority of | the board reached its absurd conclusion | can enly be accounted for if it that they desired to do so notwithstand- ing the evidence in the case. 2. The first charge was “ungentiemanly unofficerlike and disgracetul ; and the board finds the accused in less degree than charged, in this the said Captaih Cushing is guilty of un- gentlemanly conduc An officer can be guilty of “ungentleman- 1y conduct,”” and at the same time be offi- cerlike and not disgraceful. The verdict is said | Surveyor and his chief deputy. A copy of the complaint The Secretary’s review is given in full by —p CAREFUL examination of this re- | claims to have used, ‘it was damned small ; The accused is guilty of officerlike and A port, in connection with the tes- | Diece of business’ as they sound very | ungentiemanly conduct. S i 3 e. | Could any conclusion or finding from timony in the case upon which it ; much alike. . - is based, discloses a lie of spe-| PLIES LASH ON BOARD. Tt van “Redvanty. conliiel gaa cious argument and strained conclusions, | “The majority of the board therefore | «,ficeriike be dissocla " j Which is not creditable to the majority of | consider that there is cause for ar an officer is is he not alsc the board i whose name this report is,““"" fl"“"?‘fl‘ i e of "h:h_‘“ unofficerlike not by betng subi 1, 2 e -a. | thet as understood by 2 and Mrs. S ungentiemanly race his uniform and 51mmfllm bu(.;ble‘l;r{y.nlanllt IS an eva-, yng the language which Captain Cush- | his service? 1 of responsibility in the premises DY | jng swears he used at the time specified | 3. Again: As to the seeond charge, “the board finds the accused guilty in less de gree than charged. in this, that his co duct was nat uncfficeriike. as that word is defined in Winthrop’s Work on Mili- tary Law and Precedents, volume 2, but his conduet was to th dal of the service.” " RIDICULOUS ASSUMPTIONS. Here again the board adopted the lacious reasoning, and almost the | guage of counsel for the defense. which | as applied to the case under consideration is the reductio ad absurdum. | The term “unofficerlike” cannot be sep- arated from the context “scandal to the service.” From the concluston of the ma jority of the board, an officer may do or perfgrm anv act “to the scandal of the service,” and yet be perfectly officerlike The reference by the board to Winthrop on Military Law and Precedents, whila dealing with this charge, is singularly out of place because it has not the least bear- ing on charge 2, or the specification there- under, and because the board follows its | reference, by finding the accused guilty | of conduct to the scandal of the service, but not of unofficerlike conduct, so that | the verdict as written would b: | “Officeriike conduct to the scandal of the service,” which is nonsense. And yet that s the attitude in which the majority of the board has placed itself. 1. The charges and specifications prefer- red against Captain Cushing invelved only questions of fact, and no special le- gal acumen was required in the elucida- tion. | The testimony in the case amply sus- tains the charges and specifications, and therefore the facts in the case are plain To save the good name of the service, | and to make plain that its officers cannot | with impunity offend against decency, the | department has approved of the light sen- | tence imposec There is inclosed herewith, for your in- formation, a copy of the opinion of the lan- | | — — — as understood by Mr. and |of the majority of the board would then | solicitor of the treasury, upon the evi- Mrs. Spear, and the one Captain Cushing ' stand as written: depce in this case. @ il e et e e e @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ALPHABET—-G. G. W., Napa, Cal. The shortest sentence in which ail the letters of the alphabet except J can be found 1s in the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra in the Bible. COIN VALUES-S. J, San Jose, Cal. Questions relative to the value of coins will be answered if the correspondents forward to this department a self-ad- dressed and stampead envelope. LAWS OF CALIFORNIA—Subscriber, Comptche, Cal. You can obtain the laws of the State of California from the Secre- tary of State, Sacramento, Cal. Write to him for such laws as you desire and he will advise you of the cost. IN THE ARMY-—Subscriber, Alturas, Cal. If you wish to know if there was a man by the name of R. Neal iIn the Twenty-fifth Illinols Regiment during the civil war you will have to direct an in- quiry to the Secretary of War, Wash- ington, D. C. DIVORCE—Subscriber, Comptche, Cal. When a divorce is granted it remains witn the court to award the custody of the children. There is no rule for the award- ing of such, the judgment of the court teing arrived at upon the presentation of facts, and what in its opinion would be for the best interests of the children. HORSEMAN—J. P. H., Dixon, Cal This correspondent asks: “Who is the oldest horseman in the United States and in the world, that is one who trains and drives horses in races? What is the age of either or both? Do you know of any such horseman in active work who is over 80 years of age?’ Can any of the readers of this department enlighten the correspondent? MARRIAGE—Subscriber, City, If a marriage was performed by a person who is authorized by law in the State of California to perform the ceremony and it should appear that the wrong date was inserted on the certificate such might be looked upon as a clerical error. The other portion of your question Is one that should be submitted to an attorney for his opinion. WHO CAN MARRY—Enquirer, Sierra- viile, Cal. The law of California says that those who are empowered to per- form the marriage ceremony are “‘a Jus- tice of the Supreme Court, Judge of a Superior Court, Justice of the Peace, priest or minister of the gospel of any dencmination. And from this it would appear that ‘‘one who has been dropped from the roll of his denomination” is no lorger a minister. A nian ordained as a minister who has been dismissed by his congregation, but who has not been read out of his denomination, is still a minis- ter. SUTTER-STREET LINE—Subscriber, City. Your question, “Did at any time the Sutter-street Railroad Company run its cars when propelled by horses from Sutter and Sansome streets to Fillmore and California streets?”” was submitted to Secretary A. K. Stevens of the company, one of the oldest employes in service, and he has furnished the following reply; “The cars of the Sutter-street line drawn by horses ran from the ferry to Sutter sirect, along Sutter to Polk, Polk to Broadway. A line by horse ran from Polk and Bush to Fillmore, along Fillmore to California, along California to Centra! avenue and along the avenue to Post street. Passengers were transferred at Polk and Bush to and from the Polk- street c&rs. This continued till 1877, when cable cars ran from Sansome to Larkin along Sutter. Horse cars continued to run on Polk street until 1888, when the cable was constructed. Horse cars ran out Bush street as aforesaid until about 1850, when the cable was extended from Larkin to Central avenue. This was in about 1880, and horse cars from Sansome to Central avenue were then discontinued. The California-street road ran to Fill- more and California street in 1878 or 1879, The horse cars ran on Fillmore street and out California for about a year after the California-street road was built to Fillmore street, which was its first west- ern terminus.” PERSONAL MENTION. Senator Charles M. Shortridge is at the Lick. Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace. Ernest Sevier, an attorney of Eureka, is at the Lick. Charles E. Uren, a mining man of Chin- ese Camp, is at the Lick. Dr. €. Rowell of Fresno is among the arrivals at the Grand. A. W. Glesy, a merchant of Portland, Or., is at the California. W. S. Haskins, a mining man of Shasta, is at the Grand. E. T. Armes, a pump manufacturer of Galt, is registered at the Lick. J. B. Chinn, a well-known resident of Portervile, 15 at the California. John A. Bunting, a merchant of Cen- terville, is registered at the Occidental. Hon. €. J. Ham, a member of the Aus- tralian Parliament, is at the Occidental. i Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—L. D. Hicks at the Hoffman; J. F. Matthels, at the Normandie; C. Hoover, F. P. Findley, at the Manhat- tan; D. F. Sherman. J. W. Hughes, at the Vendome; Mrs. A. M. Nation, at the Holland; V. Sargent, at the Metropolitan. From San Jose—L. P. Hatcher, at the A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Her music teacher tells her there is money in her volce.” “T don’t doubt i He's getting it at the rate of 32 a lesson. —Philadelphia Bulletin. Patience—It was held recently in a Lon- don Police Court that no one has any | right to force his way into a rallway car- rviage already full. Patrice—Perfectly right; a man has no business in any public conveyance when he is in that condition.—Yonkers States- man. “What are you staring at, Nellie™" “Oh, please, ma’am, with your hair like that and your diamonds, you do look so like Lady Plantaganet Gingham, that I was own mald to! Are you any relation, m?" o—at least, no near relation. But you can have that pink silk shirtwaist of mine, Nellfe.”—Life. “You say he is the only minister in this section,” interrogated the new arrival in the boom town, “and that he married thirty couples in an hour?” “Yes, stranger,” responded the boomer, “‘and we call him the ‘torpedo-boat mims- ter” ™ “Why so?" ‘Because he made thirty knots an hour.”—Chicago News. —_—— Arlington. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The following Californians are at the hotels: At the Ralelgh—J. Wagner and John Rice Chand- ler and wife of San Francisco. At the New Willard—N. C. Ray of San Fran- cisco. —_——— Parker's Hair Balsam ls the favorite for @ressing the hair and renewing its life and color. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 13cts. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend’s.* —_—— T Fire etched valentine boxes. Townsend.® ————— . Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. + Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fcrnia street. Telephone Main 1042, he Leopard’s Spo By THOMAS DIXON JR. IN THE SUNDAY CALL ==—FEBRUARY 22— This sensational problem play complete in three issues of the SUNDAY CALL February 22d, March 1st and 3th.