The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1903, Page 6

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Sk ...Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unicn Square; ¥ Hill Hotel; Fift avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. CHICAGO NEW o STANDS News Co.: Great im Hotel: Palme WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St., N. W, MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. : » Au Northern Hotel; House, BRANCH OFFICES—527 M ntgomery corner of Clay. open untt? 8:30 o'clock. 300 Haves, open until 9:30 o a33 MeAllis 1 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin. open until 9-30 10 c'clock. 2261 o'clock. 1088 Va- enth, open untll 9 Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen Filn re. open urtl § p. m, THE ANTI-INJUNCTION BILL. O PPOSITION to ssembly bill Anti-Injunc iciently strong to continue t} as “The on > fight not- the overwhelming g fiered in e Senate. Having resorted in | ument and every trick known to| 1 the Legislature the opponents of lhcl d lawyers to prosecute the nghxl No better tribute could be | a e bill, and tt lic will note sat tion the dism: nto Hn.-f ks « g of tax-| | so much | which states 1- on a public , by the pe: power, the exercise o n | g appointed public officer or official | the al by appoint any nto the possession of or from per- the common sense of the recognizes that the meaning is right and good. San Francisco any rate has had ample ex- rience to teach her the importance of the act. So officials of 8 & d me means of promptly re- | e and making way for better the unworthy ones have been utterly | egligent, some have passed their time at the race instead of in their offices, some have been ab- | solutely incompetent, some have been unscrupulous | d so have been guilty of a close approach to ownright fraud. Some of | We have seen appointees to important offices so: reckless in the exercise of authority that they did not | hesitate to proclaim a pestilence in the city. Others| have fastened a large number of salaried clerks and | deputies upon the city, while leaving public work nperformed, or else permitting it to be performed in | n unsatisfactory manner. Such evils have existed in | the city for a long time, and are still in existence. I'he people are seeking 2 means of redress. | One of the arguments for the new charter which _was most pogent in winning popular support was that under its provisions the Mayor would have power to | remove incompetent or untrustworthy officials and replace them by better men, Lessons taught by | ong and bitter experience prompted the people to ote for the new charter on that ground. They de- sired to clothe the Mayor with authority to provide 2 good administration of municipal affairs and at the | same time to fasten upon him all responsibility for | bad government. It was with that intention they! oted for the charter, and it was with that expectation v elected the man of their choice to the May-| oralty. The people have been disappointed. No sooner did 2 Mayor undertake to remove untrustworthy ap- pointees than the courts were appealed to and in- junctions granted. The injunctions are called tem- porary, but easy means are found for continuing them from month to month until they become virtually | permznent. Thus the Mayor is stripped of the au-| ihority vested in him by the charter and the people. | s who are incompetent, officials who are negli- ofiicials who are unscrupulous and officials <heer taxeaters hold on to office and to dzepite all that can be done in the interest of people to remove them. In fact, the injunction s become a veritable legal charity that covers the hole multitude of official sins. The extent of the popular recognition of the need { the anti-injunction bill was shown by tie over-| whelming vote given it in both branches of the Leg-| isiature. Governor Pardee can hardly ignore the significance of that vote. A widespread public sen- timent shared by men of all classes, and manifest through chosen representatives in a formal and offi- cial vote is never without a solid foundation in the truth of things. The anti-injunction bill is in fact a ueed of the time, and since the Assembly and the Senate have so emphatically affirmed it the Governor owes it as a duty to the people to sign it. R —— It is announced that a clever man has written a ook about a commercial traveler who became a preacher for the money there is in it, and now drum- mers and clergymen alike are expected to get up and advertise the thing as the greatest fake of the | to produce a Democratic candidate | sentury > ‘ | the boulevard for a dollar a day. | main true to ourselves. PROSPERITY OR SOUPHOUSES®? ALIFORNIA workingmen need not have long memories fo recall the conditions which prevailed even in this golden State during the dreary days of depression following the panic of 1893. It will be easy for them to remember how the streets ywere thronged by unemployed men, how the store of the savings banks dimin- ished, and how thousands of industrious workers stood in line to get a charice to work on Tt will be well for them to recall those times and reflect | upon the sharp contrast of the conditions of to-day, for a set of foreign leaders are try- ing to induce them to so disturb the industrial system as to destroy prosperity and: com- pel workingmen to resort once more to the souphouse. To-day California is rejoicing in a prosperity more abundant than ever -before, vorable reports that come from every line of 00 2 o % » | enterprises that would be undertaken were it {and it would be still more abundant were it not for one drawback. Along with the fa- industry there come also reports of further not for fear of labor disturbances.* In this city we have had the experience of losing the work of constructing a great battleship be- cause of the uncertainty of the labor situation. That single item meant a loss of millions to the workingmen of the iron and ship building trades. It meant, moreover, an indirect loss of large amount, nce the official announcement that the Government feared labor | troubles here caused Eastern capitalists to distrust the State as a place for investment. Despite the lack of confidence thus manifest the State as-a whole has prospered, be- cause, as a rule, the workers have been faithful to their engagements, and work has gone steadily on. Business is now brisk. Work and wages await every industrious snan. We are evidently at the beginning of an era of new progress, and should all go well the fu- ture will be even more prosperous than to-day. Just at this juncture, however, there comes a menace to all. A set of irresponsible foreign adventurers, without a particle of interest in the city, have undertaken to foment discord among the people and to suspend traffic. These men did not come to America to adopt the duties and the honors of American citizenship. They came to earn a living as agitators. They came into the country with travel up and down it with a gripsack. They with San Francisco, with California, nor with punity, for they have nothing to lose. Should a bundle tied "in a handkerchief, and they have no stake, nor interest, nor sympathy America. They can urge on strikes with im- trouble come they can go out of town as eas- ily as they came in. It would be nothing to them if ail work ceased and Californians were again resorting to souphouses. none of their funeral. In their contempt for the laws and the spirit of America these adventurers do not‘ Let destitution come as severely as it might, it would be hesitate to deny to an American boy the right to earn a living in his own country. Young | men of California are shut out of the avenues of employment in California at the dicta- tion of a set of agitators who should never have been permitted to come to America ex- cept under bonds. Not content with barring out of employment young men who seek admission to the ranks of native workers, the agitators have gone further and formulated a demand that they be given control of the street railroads, so that they can dismiss at will any man; | they choose, when they choose and for what reason they choose. Carrying their impudence to the extent ? . | they parade men in front of the shops of those who do not yield to their demands, and call upon persons in the street to refuse patronage of direct and flagrant violation of our law, to the shops. Thus American people, in de- IGOSSIP FROM i 4 | fiance of American law, are insulted by demands that they boycott American merchants | at the dictation of irresponsible agitators because of some quarrel which the agitators do | not even deem it necessary to state. American workingmen owe it to their country aswell as to themselves to resist that sort of foreign dictation. The leaders of the adventurers aim at nothing less than the crea- tion of endless disturbances, so that they can get notoriety out of the strife. What does it matter to them that a San Francisco shipyard loses a chance to construct a battleship? What does it matter to them if our mechanics ment? What would it matter to them if our whole prosperity would not have to resort-to the souphouses. “What fools these Yankees be.” ' Prosperity iS with us, will stay with SO. progressive people. None but the agitator of sire to have him find us at strife and stagnant. or our laborers .are thrown out of employ- were overthrown? They They would return to Europe and boast, us ‘and grow from more to more if we re- We have every inducement of self-interest and of patriotism to do We are shortly to have a visit from the President of the United States. can in heart, whether native born or adopted, wishes the President to find us a united and B i R g foreign birth and irresponsible habits can de- Let our workingmen assert their American- ity and the county have been iSM and their common-sense. Let them refuse to put themselves under the domination of every citizen has perceived the | gripsack adventurers who have come to this city to make mischief and gain notoriety. A WELLESLEY WOMAN. OWN in Pawtucket the Rhode Islanders have a young woman who is the pride of some, the D trouble of others and a problem to all. She has put a new aspect upon the old question of whip- ping in the public schools, and incidentally put a new face on two of her largest and most husky pupils. The young woman is a graduate of Wellesley Col- lege, and has recently been appointed a teacher i.n the High School of Pawtucket. The schaol boasts of a baseball team, a football team and several lusty devotees to track athletics. The stalwarts did not like the idea of a “girl teacher”; they spoke to one an- other mockingly of Wellesley’s record on the grid- iron, and resolved that on her first appearance they would “make a monkey of her.” That was where the trouble came in, and it came suddenly and unexpect- edly. We are told that the ringleaders in the monkey business were the captain of the football team and an aspirant for honors as an amateur boxer. The cap- tain is described as standing six feet in his stockings and weighing 180 pounds, while his friend and pitcher, the boxing aspirant, is five feet seven inches in height and weighs 140 pounds. They went up to have some fun with the girl teacher, but they didn’t have it. The report says: “She punched the six-foot captain of the football tcam in the nose so hard that the blood came, and thumped the other youth with such vigor that he went home to his parents with his right eye blackened.” The thumping of young men in the High School of Pawtucket is against the law, or at least it is pro- vided that such things may not be done by women teachers. All matters of discipline must be referred to the principal of the school. Hence there is a row over the action of the new teacher. In her defense she is reported as saying: “It was my first day as teacher at the High School, and it soon occurred to me that things were at loose ends so far as re- spect toward me was concerned. It may be that the measures taken to demonstrate that I would maintain discipline were somewhat drastic, but what I did was entirely justifiable. I regret that the matter must be- come public, but as long as it must the facts should be stated, and I believe that it will have a good ei- fect.” What decision the School Trustees of . Pawtucket will pronounce on the case is a question too uncer- tain to be even so much as guessed at by people at this distance from the scene of action. That the in- cident will have a good effect upon whatever school the young lady is called upon hereafter to teach is, however, subject to no doubt whatever. In fact, the event gives Wellesley a distinct standing in the ath- letic world and will doubtless largely Jncrease the number of applicants for admission. 4 o e The efiort of the Agricultural Department to breed a chicken without feathers is good in its way, but after all it is nothing in comparison to the effort for the Presidency without a political recor | EXTRA SESSION ARGUMENTS. EPORTS from Washington concerning the R probability -of a call for an extra session of Congress show that the subject is being con- sidered in a new light. It is not now a question of some special measure of urgency that should be taken up, but the general question of Congressional work. In brief, the argument for an extra session is placed mainly upon the fact that it would give the new Con- gress an opportunity to organize and appoint com- mittees and get down to work before the Christmas holidays, and thus prepare the way for an adjourn- ment early in the following summer. The argument has much to commend it. The pres- ent dates for the assembling and the adjournment of Congress may have been the best for the convenience of Congressmen in the days when they were adopted, | but they are'no longer so. When Congress assembles in December it rarely gets itself into shape before the middle of January. The result is a long session extending far into the summer, and sometimes even to the fall of the year. On the other hand, the short | session of Congress beginning in December termi- nates early in March, thus leaving little time for the transaction of public business. Were Congress to meet early in November there would be a full month added to the session, and as the short session would thus be lengthened the long session might be correspondingly shortened. The sum- mers in Washington are never agreeable and are often unhealthful. It would therefore be beneficial to Con- gress if the suggested change were made in the time of assembling and of adjournment. Of course the issue cannot be dealt with effectively without a change in the date of the inauguration of Presidents and the beginning of the life of a new Congress. Should the bill fixing the date of inaugu- ration some time in May ever become law the ques- tion would be solved. In the meantime there appears no better way of providi’, relief than by calling an extra session and thus getting the work of Congress started a month earlier than usual. In this instance there are special argdments for the proposition owing to the fact that it ‘is desirable to get a currency re- form bill as early as possible, and to the further fact that there is to be a Presidential election next year, and it would be well to get Congress adjourned early in the summer before the campaign begins. Bishop Potter says New York is “achieving a civ- ilization of indifference and .fostering a spirit of caste.” Had a foreign critic said that the New. Yorkers would have jumped like a bunch of wildcats, but as the Bishop is a native they are contenting | (3B, Irrit: themselves with asking what - he is going to do about it. \ Washington Mr. Morgan was careful to call on Democratic as well as Republican Senators, and now people are marking him down as a great diplomat as well as a pretty goy'd v_fimnciu and lqazthil‘:sl ail politician. - & Every Ameri-| { i { | Britain’s soldiers, sailors and marines, | abundance of novels, i | much importance, with the exception of | | novel from the same notebook of colors. | | It will be called LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS The subscription list for the memorial to the late Sir Walter Besant does not seem to be making great progress. At the end of December last it was about $1600, and since then little has been added. However, Mr. Frampton, R. A., continues to work on the model, which is almost completed. This will ultimately be placed in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, but | the Memorial Committee have suggested that a replica should be placed in some’ prominent position in London. Sir Walter Besant loved London, and would have desired nothing better than that his| memorial should stand in the midst of his fellow citizens. « There has been no little grumbling of late years at the flimsy bindings which are now put on books, except for the most expensive productions. Some six shilling novels, for instance—without mentioning the names of any publisher—come out with covers that cannot possibly be meant to hold. Comparing bookbinding in Amer- fca with that of England, this week’s | Academy says: “In certain forms of book production America seems at present ahead of ps. We recently received from a Chicago publishing firm three slim vol- umes, excellently printed and turned out. Leigh Hunt's ‘Paolo and ‘Twelve Songs,’ by Mater- William Morris’ ‘Art of the Pecople.” The volumes are really good examples of book making, Leigh Hunt's and Morris’, In particular, showing a beautifully arranged page. Such work seems, in America, almost a common- place of production.” Captain Blair Oliphant, whose book en- titled “The Little Red Fish,” has just ap- | peared, is the head of the branch of the Oliphants of Perthshire and a kinsman of the late Laurence Oliphant. He is a grandnephew of Lady Nalrn, who, a gen- eration ago, made a reputation as a poetess of no mean order. Captain Oli- | phant is in the Rifle Brigade, but pro- | poses to retire shortly from the service, | in which he has been some fifteen years in order to have more time for the care | of his estates and literary work. It is now more than two years since a novel was published from the pen of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Her new work, entitled “Lady Rose's Daughter,” will not ap- pear in the English language long before it will be published in French, German and Norwegian. Arrangements for its translation are already ‘made. In this new novel Mrs. Ward returns to London for the setting. The heroine is a girl who bursts brilliantly upon society. Early last year was seen the successful presentation of the old “morality play,” “Everyman,” and only a month ago the public wag witnessing Laurence Hous- ‘Natlvity.” It will be some time, , before people forget Stephen Phillips’ attempt to achieve the impossible, in “Ulysses.” Another work of the same | order, and likely to be as interesting, has been written by Arnold F. Graves, which will shortly be published by Longmans, Green & Co. The critics have now had | full opportunity of airing their opinions | about Phillips’ play. Most of them are agreed that an epic cannoy be condensed into tragedy, and that the old religious conception of a compelling fate cannot well be woven into a modern love ro- mance, at least. One critic suggested that modern realism is incompatible with faith in the divinity of biekering gods. From what Messrs. Longmans say, it| looks as if Graves has been warned by | the example of “Ulysses.” He has se- | lected the Greek story of “Orestes,” be- | cause he thinks it can be treated from | the standpoint of the modern dramatist. The publications of the week have not been very important. There have been more books about Shakespeare, some more of these endless biographies and &n | none of them of | Mrs. Humphry Ward’'s new book, “Lady Rese’s Daughter,” already well known in Short stories may not be popular, but | authors continue to produce them. Two | novels by well known writers are now | promised by Messrs. Chapman for early publication. Volumes of short stories, finding their inspiration in the Iife of y come from the pen of Major | He has now written a long | “The Shadow on the | Quarterdeck.” | The other novel is by Thomas Cobb, s - i L e | PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY | and is all about a man who falls in love with a beautiful lady of a painting. Some | light on his pursuit of this well beloved | is to be gathered from the title of the | beok, “The Composite Lady.” Cobb, who | is reckoned one of the best society novul- | ists, occasionally wanders afield from | studies of aduit life and writes tales for | children. One of these is called “Ths | Lost Bull,” which he published last Sep. tember. Then, in addition to “The Com posite Lady,” Cobb has just completad | than his usual work. Change of Foil.” Cobb always begins work at a quarter | past eight o'clock in the morning and | leaves off about noon. In all he never | writes more than four hours a day, and frequently writes the bulk of a novel three or four and even five times. Cer- | tainly he always writes it twice. This, of | course, sounds like hard work, but as te | works_systematically he gets thfougii a | great deal. As a rule he uses a typewrit- er, only employing the pen for correc- tions. Some reviewers have described Cobb’'s work as superficial, a criticism to which he takes exception. His theory is that as in actual life we are necessarily compelled to judge persons by speech and appearance, so, in & novel, if the author reports the one and describes the other he gives a sufficient clue to that within which, of course, is the character. It is now acknowledged that the author of “An Hnglish Girl in Paris,”” which sold =0 well last year, is Miss Constance Eliz- abeth Maud, ‘who also issued, through John Lane, “Heroines of Poetry.” | John Chesterton, well known as a eritic, has written a novel, but as the best crit. ics seldom prove themselves good crea- tors, cither in the shape of plays or beoks, it will be interesting to see how | Chesterton’s novel, which Lane is to pub-l lish and which is called “Napoleon Dfl | { a4 novel which is rather more serious[ | It is entitled “A Netting Hill,” will turn out. Count de Franqueville, whose marriage | to the daughter of the late Earl of Sel- | berne, has just been celebrated, is the ! avthor of what the Law Times calls one | of the most thorough examinations of the | English judicial system ever undertaken. | Just as many Americans have recourse to the monumental work of Bryce for the exhaustive treatment of thelr government and its working, so many English stu- dents, unable to find what they have been searching for in native works, can usually reckon having their inquiries an- swered by turning to the two volumes en- titled “‘Le Systeme Judiciale de la Granis Bretagne,” publighed about ten years ago — e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. l | MISCALLED “HAIR TONICS.” Most Hair Preparations Are M Sealp Irritants, of No Value. Most hair preparations are merely tants, miscalled hair tonics. is brittle, lusterless and be- gins to fall out, the dandruff is lnmng in its deadiy work at root, sapp! the vitality. Since sclence dis- cove that dandruff is a germ disease Sarket that Wil SCtaaliy Gentbos mar] wi actus ff t is ‘«whro’: instantly, de- | 100,000 copies, and the demand still SOCIETY WILL BID WELCOME TO OFFICERS (3.2 N Mrs. Eleanor Martin was hostess at a delightful tea yesterday afternoon in hon- or of Mrs. C. B. Alexander and the IMisses McCook of New York. The hand- some drawing-rooms of the spacious Martin residence on Broadway was pret- tily decorated with daffodils, violets and fruit blossoms. The guests began to ar- 1 rive at 4:30 and were cordially received | by Mrs. Martin. The affair was quite in- | formal, only sixty cards being sent out, | but it gave Mrs. Alexander an oppor-| tunity to greet her old acquaintances | again. i} P The wedding of Miss Gertrude Church | and Charles F. Jackson will occur this | evening at the Unitarian, Church, Rev. | Dr. Smith cfficiating. | . e . The cruiser New York is expected to arrive to-morrow with a number of pop- | utar officers on board, who will be cor-| dially welcomed and In their turn will | entertain extensivel . « . Miss Flood will leave this morning for the East, accompanied by Miss Sallie Maynard. They will remain away !0\'1 some time. Miss Maynard expected to| accompany Mr. and Mrs. James Flood | abroad, but Mr. Flood's Hl health| changed their plans. | 2o e Lieutenant John Mei of the revenue cut- ter service has been detached from the McCulloch and ordered to duty on the revenue cutter Galveston at Galveston, Tex. Lieutenant Mel joined the MeCul- loch at Philadelphia in November, 1897, | and made the trip on that ship when she canfe to the Pacific Coast via the Suez| Canal and was on board when the Me-| Culicch was attached the Asiatic | to squadron under command of Admiral | Dewey, zo that he was a witness of the | famous battle of Manila. Lieutenant Mel expects to leave for Galveston about the | 1t of Aprll | sie. & Mrs. Tsador Burns will leave the firs of the coming month for a visit to At tralia. Mrs. Burns' health has been ve: pocr for some time and it is believed that | the voyage will benefit her. R | Mrs. Frances Carolan is in the city for | a brief stay. T Dr. and Mrs. Earle Brownell are so- Journing in Italy. i Mr. and Mrs, Horace Blanchard Chase will leave early next month for their country home, Stag’s Leap, near Napa. | IN INTERESTING SESSION Ao Addresses and Reports Read by Members and Officers Enter- tain Large Assemblage. | The annual meeting of the Presbyterian | Society was held at Calvary Presbyterian | Church yesterday. There was a large at- tendance and the meeting was in every sense interesting and instructive. The | devotlonal service which opened the meet- ing was conducted by Mrs. H. T. Ames, the president, and then the year's retro- spect was given by the officers. Mrs. H. | B. Pinney and Mrs. R. B. Goddard took a | part in the morning proceedings and the | afternoon session was devoted to dresses and music. Mrs. George Haight chose for the subject of her ad- dress “One Woman.” The address dealt with the great educational work achieved in India from a small beginning. Mrs. Richard Bain contributed a vocal solo and the Rev. Dr. Bdgar W. Work follow- ed with an address entitled “The Signs of the Times.” | —_———— | Expenses of Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Lackmann estimates that he will need $149,570 to conduct his office and maintain the three jails during the next fiscal year. He asks the Supervisors to appropriate $300 for a flag and pole for each jail and remarks: “I am really ashamed to admit that it has not oc- curred to me before, and it is surprising that no one else has ever thought of irt, as all three jails have been public build- ings for twenty-five years.” @ il @ by Count de Franqueville. Besides this work Count de Franqueville is also the author of a large number of volumes dealing with various aspects of English government. Misg Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, daugh- ter of Sir Henry Fowler, M. P,, and au- thoress of “The Farringdons,’ “Concern- ing Isabel Carnaby™” and other stories, is to be married on April 16, to Alfred Laur- ence Felkin. Neil Munro’s new novel, “Children of Tempest,” as it is called, breaks quite new ground, both'in scenery and charac- ter. \It is a tale of the Outer Hebrides, and its action lies among the Hebridcan Catholics, who, in the persistence of their ancient faith, an@ the preservation of be- liefs elsewhere long forgotten, and of cus- toms ancient and poetic, a distinctly remarkable people. Yet hitherto they have provided no large dignified theme for fmaginative literature. Charles: Dickens as a poet may sound rather curious, and one can only think of the scattered tags of verse which occur incidentally in his novels. However, a volume of verse by Dickens is to be at- tempted by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, and it is to be edited by F. G. Kitton. Extraordinary success has attended a little shilling storybook, entitled “Wea MacGregor,” published in Glasgow. The sales have already run away to nearly - creases. The chagrin of the Scotch pub- lisher who is belleved to have refused to glve fifty dollars for the purchase of the book outright may now be imagined. !of England is SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS AMERICAN CONSUL—S. ¥F. M., City. The Upited States Consul at Belize, Hon« duras, is W. L. Averey. SONG BIRDS—E.. Mountain View, Cal There is nothing in the game laws of California that protects robins or other song birds. A.. Sacramen- alist candidate on held in 1902, received %i3 SOCIALIST VO to, Cal. Brower, the for Governor at the el ifornfa in November, votes. s Angeles, Cal desired relative A PATENT-M., the information For to a | patented dredger and pontoon address a to letter of inquiry Patent Office, Washington, D. C. the KING OF Grass Valley, Cal LAND-—Subscriber, The name of the King Edward VIL Before he ascended the throne he was Albert Ed- ward, Prince of Wales. IN PRISONS—A. 8. C. R, City. If the United States Government had positive proof that some of its citizens were ing tortured In foreign prisons it would soon cz!l the offenders to account. ROWING—T. L. G., Fort Bragg, Cal E4 Hanlan was never defeated by Tricke ett in a rowing match in South Australia. He was beaten there twice by Heach, March 28, 15855, and November 27, 1888, NOTARY PUBLIC—Constant Reader, City. There is no school i S8an Francisco that makes a speciaity of teaching a pere son the duties of a notary public. To be- come a nmotary public an individual must obtain a commission from the Governor of the State. COST OF THE TROUBLE-R. P, Berkeley, Cal. As yet no figures have been published showing the cost to the United States Government or to the Gov- ernment of Venezuela of the recent difi- culty in connection with the Anglo-Ger- man blockade. TURK STREET-C. L. N, Yuma, Aris. The north side of Turk street between Taylor and Jones in San Francisco is in the Forty-third Assembly District, Twen-~ ty-fourth Senatorial District and Fourth Congregational District. MOUNT ST. HELENA—City. The best way to reach the apex of Mount St Helena in California is by way of Calis- toga. It is about seven and a half miles from that place by wagon road to the Summit House, and thence a mile and a quarter by trall to the top of the moun- cain. REPRESENTATIVES—F. J. ., Collins- ville, Cal. Those who were declared elect- ed Congressmen from California at tha November election, 1892, are: First Dis- trict, J. N. Glilette: Second, Theodore A. Bell; Third, V. H. Metealf; Fourth, E. J. | Livernash (Kahn may contest); Fifth, W. J. Wynn; Sixth, J. C. Needham; Seventh, J McLachlan; Eighth, M. J. Danlels. COIN DEALERS.—Subscriber, Gilroy, Cal. This department does not publish the business addresses of those who are engaged in any business. For that reason it does not comply with a request for the names of coin dealers in San Franecisco. Such a request should be accompanied by a stamped and self-addressed envelope. STUMPS.—Subscriber, _Silver, The following is given as 2 meth- r removing pine stumps: “In the fall bore a hole in the center of the stump about eighteen inches deep, one to one and a half inches in diameter. Put in about two ounces of saltpeter, fill the hole with water and plug it tight. In the spring take out the plug, pour in eight or ten ounces of petroleum in the hole, ignite, and the stump will smoulder,” but not blaze, to the extremities of the roots, leaving only ashes.” Dynamite is also | extensively used to remove stumps when | a quicker method than the one given is desired. CASINO—Pedno, Sacramento, Cal. In the game of casino a player may have two builds on the table at the same time. Law § of the game named, as laid down by Hoyle is: “Should a player build up a card to a certain denomination, and his opponent decline to build it up higher, he, the first player, may not alter his build, but must take it with a card of the same denomination: he is, however, at liberty to make another build, either of the same denomination or of any other denomina- tion, or he may pair or combine any other cards before taking up his first build, but he must comply with the above condi- tions before playing a card that will do either. (Thus if he plays a two on a five, making it seven, his adversary failing to take it or build upon it, the first player may not play a three and make it ten, but must take it with a seven. Prior to so doing he may, however, build any de- nomination, or he may pair a card or take several cards by combination, but fie must comply with one or the other of these conditions, or take up bhis first bulld.)™ Rule 2 says that “should a player make a false build, that is, build up one or more cards to a certain denomination, and it subsequently transpires that he has no card of similar denomination with which to redeem or take the cards built up, he forfeits the game. e —— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend’ ————— Notice—There s no sale for glasses in windy 0o 5 Teh e frone Larber med e —_——— Special information supplied dally o business houses and public men by the Presa Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, = —_——— ’l'o'mc-n:'- California glace fruit ::'1. can & pound, in artistic fire-ateh: boxes. A nice fi”‘r&unt for Eastern friencs. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * The Call's Art Svpplemenlfl “DERSIAN' By Anton Asti. “Persian Beauty” is the name of a famous a renowned Parisian artist. It is on art paper, with an attention to detail and fidelity of coloring known only to a camera. All the chaste yet glowing beauty of the original is faith- fully preserved. ‘Worthy of an elaborate frame, it would do honmor to the walls of any parlor. The printed gives the impression of canvas. Nothing is tint, shade and stroke is retained eye there is no difference between —pp BEAUTY” | painting oy Asti, unique use of the heavy art paper on which it is ted by the artist. To the luction and original. The background is a deep green, the cap vermilion red, the spangles golden, the eyes a soft brown, the hair dark auburn, the drapery bright yellow. The harmony of the whole is unusually pleasing. Anton Asti was born in a little village adjoining was a pupil of Bouguereau. Although Asti is but 40 years of he is classed among the best modern artists. Critics maintain he is a master in flesh colorings—a artists as Piot and his teacher, Florence. He age, that reputation only enjoyed by such u. The Paris salon has awarded Asti the medals of brenze and silver, which are significant of rare talent, and he has also received numerous medals for his