The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1903, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—2T Montgomers, unti! 980 o clock.. $00 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McADister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615, Larkin, open until €30 o'clock. 1841 Mission, . open uatil 10 c’clock. 2261 ; darket, cofper Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1005 Va- Jencia -oper until 8 o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 o Sock W. ‘cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until- 8 o'clock. “2200 “Fillmors, open urttl 8 p. m. ppointed that nout, attempting a so- The Presi- to examine se grazing lénd problem ed upon favor- of the which nth of the the Sen- < ‘were. hepeless two ob- d by the House and Senate, on-during-the last m ers:in reaties. 1e campaign of education terest had made a great Congress »n the report of such a advised. During :I traverse much of the his id w ditions . that have resulted, <o tha action some be history of the !‘u‘ coming season and property already armed to re- nge by a half million 1 the fight. Yet r of s reddened lack yse who i and ng’ ton reservation in Wyoming threm estroy there for. intensified the strug- | ere h) auddenl\ ('ndmg Ihc for- on which fivestock exist. hese condittions is ‘extending the desert over our. own'gr razing lands the’ cattle in- grating -Canada -and :Mexico. The ng. driven fromi Idaho and Montana, 1d Oregam, into the fine grazing coun- | 3ritish Columbia léasing large ‘tricts on most liberal terms | to_stock men, and not -evemw requiring that they be- come Citizens as a cundwon precedent. This means the final extirpation of our vast meat trade and its | mestication under the liberal laws of Mexico and | .«mda 1i its-expulsion left anything' behind oh 1-to build anothér-industry the matter would | sot be so bad. -But it leaves only a desert where once was a meadow. e plai the ‘stres<_of. 1l to N no other matter- of such vast importance has Congress ever seemed as indifferent or been as slow But-that is sot the fault of the President or the Sccretary of Agriculture, who have amply in- formed Congress and_ the country of the intolerable conditions under which a valuable domestic industry is being destroyed. Thic rise in the price of meat, largely due to the destruction of "the means of producing it most ccenomically. is bringing the consumers of the whele try into line, and the strength recruited from that source may effect beneficent results before it is too- late. 10 act. co e A clever feat of a drunken man is reported from Connecticut:” He drove in the darkness of the night ovt on a trestle which in addition to the railway track was traversed by a ‘plank path only two feet . wide. In the middle of the trestle he unhitched his horse, tied the animal to a pole supporting an electric wire, and then went back to his wagon and went to sleep. Just how he performed the %cat at night and while drunk is not known, ‘but next morning it took six: sober men in broad-diylight an hour to get hlm and | his team off the trestle in safety. Dr. Frederic Burk, president of the San Fran- cisco State Normal School, is authority for the as- sertion that many of the textbooks now in use in the schools of the State .are hopelessly unintelligible. This surely suggests the desirability of securing the services of -somebody willing and able to make the changes necessary tc, the arduous work of our worthy educators. It was reported a few days ago that a San Fran- ciscan proved shrewd enough to win from an Eastern sharp in a gambling game. This scems so unlike the reality as to be almost incredible. The only element of probability in the story is that while the victor was 2 San Franciscan he was not in San Francisco. ccrner of Clay, open | meritorious | Il be in contact | materizl and reason for re- | fdrage on that | where the Dominion Gov- | THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR. HE President has started upon a tour that in- volves 14,000 miles of travel and the traverse of many States, and that will take him from the | tidewater of one ocean to that of the other. | This great journey, with its vast mileage and the many States visited, serves as an object lesson in the | growth of the country.” Washington, while he was made tours through what was then the | United States. He should have been inaugurated ! President March 4, 1780, but the Congress did not | meet to canvass, the electoral vote and organize the | Government until the middle of April. New York | was then the nationai capital, and the roads were so | bad, and travél by’ the rivers was so impeded by the [ ice, that the members of Congress who started on the trip to the seat of government in time to have ar- ;n\cd on March 4 were so delayed by irozen waters and muddy roads that a quorum did not report until more than a month after the date fixed in the con- stitution | Washington traveled partly horseback and partly by coach to the inauguration, and after Con- | gress adjourned made a journey into New England, which was the longest tour during his administra- | tion. With only the same means of travel now that existed then President Rovsevelt could not compiete his trip’ in time for the meeting of the next Congress in December. He will pass through more States than | composed the Union of which Washington was | President, and, except Maryland and Pennsylvania, | | all of them were in wilderness in'1789. He will stand H!pou soil that was under the flag of Spain and of { France when the first President was: wheeling m 1hruug.‘1 the mud to organize his administration. He | will pass such points as Fort Wayne, where are still | marked the forts of France, England and the Umtedl States, for the soil passed from France to England m} the war of 1762, and was taken possession of for the republic by Anthony Wayne after the revolution. | He will go over some of the battle-fields like Tlppe-| canoe and Bad Ax, that were crimsoned in the last desperate struggles of the Indians to hold their hunting-grounds, and will visit a domain larger than | Continental Europe. Whether Presidents trave] or stay in Washington they are criticized. But no harm has ever come to any for following the example of Washington and siting the different parts of the Union. President | Roosevelt shows his fondness for the West by taking[ this trip. His early career was in the West, and he .found that health and rugged physique which now | serve him so well in bearing the great burden of the | Presidency on the plains and mountains of Dakota and Wyoming. It will be his first visit to the Pacific Coast, and he has anticipated it with all the zest boy iree at last to realize a desire long cherished. The people will be glad to see him. They have h in his courage and honesty as man and Presi- dent, and they enjoy thoroughly his abounding sense | of the goodness of life and are fond of his frankness and sincerity. What he likes fie likes with a whole | <oul, and what he dislikes is put away openly. He is entirely unconventional, not in the sense of doing | things not sanctioned by the canon of good manners, but because he is original and creates his own form and ritual. In Washington official life he is an unfail- |ing fountain of good humor and cheer. His very presence inspires hope and adds -to the day’s happi- ness. Those who see him often, even in stormy days, | on horseback in the company of his wife and children, President, on I | | | who all enjoy that fine exercise, get a pleasant inspi- | ration that makes the day smoother. This effect of his presence will be apparent among | the people who see*him on this tour, and he will| study them and the places they inhabit agnd will re- | turn to his post with a store of facts in hand that | will finally work out in the government for the ma- | terial benefit of the places he visits and of the people | who welcome him. e o o s Somebody started a story that the clever men ci(1 the Department of Agriculture at \\'a‘hing‘ton had | propagated a grain known as “corn wheat,” which is as big as corn and as good as wheat, and now the department, being overwhelmed with requests for | seed, is busily explaining that there is no such thing as corn wheat and that it is not at all likely that such ; INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE. } XPERTS of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics 1 E estimate that the total annual. international ‘ trade of the world aggregates in value about $21,000,000,000. The cxparts are declared at $10,000,- 000,000, and the imports at Su.ooo‘ooo,ooo. In them- selves the values of exports and imports would ex- | actly balance, but the cost of shipping has to be added to the value of products when they are | ceived as imports, and hence the larger valuation assigned to the latter. It thus appears that the cost of the trensportation of the world’'s commerce amounts every year to about $1,000,000,000. A series of tables published by the bureau in an ab- stract, of the international commerce of the world shows that the United States was in 1902 the largest exporter of domestic merchandise, while in 1870 her exports were exceeded by three countries—France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In “favorable | balance of trade,” or excess of exports over imports, the United States also holds first rank among the na- tions, her excess of exports over imports being not only greater than that of any other country, but ac- tually more, in 1901, than the total excess of exports over imports of all other countries whose ex- ports exceeded imports. The imports and exports of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany for a series of years from 1870 to 1901 are thus given: re- IMPORTS. (Millions of dollars.) Countries. 1880. 1800 1901 United Kingdom 1259.2 1692.9 1732.3 2210.1 Germany ....., 5.1 610.9 986.6 1200.2 France .. 553.4 971.4 856.3 843.2 United Bla!t’ . 435.9 667.9 789.3 822.1 EXPORTS. (Millions ot dollars.) Countries. 1880. 1890. 1901. United States.... i m 6 - 8239 8532 1460.4 United Kingdom 9712 - 1985.5 12824 1362.8 Germany 551.6 6885 7917 1054.6 France .. . 540.8 669.3 4.4 4.4 In these statements, made up from careful compila- tions by the Bureau of Statistics, the point of most interest to Americans is that the cost of carrying in- ternationa’ commerce is about one-twentieth of the total value of imports and exports combined. The carrying trade is almost wholly in the hands of for- ecigners, and Great Britain has the largest share. Thus of a total of $1,000,000,000 estimated to be expended annually in carrying on international trade she re- ceives an enormous tribute from nations that have no ships. We are the greatest of those tributary na- tions, and we will contfi;ue to hold that position until we build up a merchant marine of our own. The | That is the old Democratic doctrine.” issue is becoming of more and more importance jevery year, and it is time that Congress enacted the | FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY législation needed to rid us from that heavy drain upon the revenues we deme from our exports to foreign markets. An cntcrpris?flg economist in France is trying to start a movement to organize an international league of taxpayers in France, Germany and Great Britain to prevent any further taxation for war purposes by either country, but it looks like too wise a project ever to reach success in a world of fools. H Panama canal, Senator Morgan of Alabama on his return home has turned his aged but tireless brain to a consnderauon of the problems that confront the Democratic party. Moreover, with his usual energy he has at once converted his thoughts into words and-uttered. them for the enlightenment of mankind. The Senator is a harmonizer. He declares quite frankly that he is willing to receive back the bolters of 1896 without apology or explanation, and will welcome any man who will come in and promise to vote for the ticket next year. As a means of reaching harmony he advocates the abandonment of the dominant issues of 1896 and 1900 and the adoption of a new platform confined to old principles. On that point he says:* “There are cer- tain cardinal tenets of Democracy which form creed, and what Democrats should do in building a platform is to bear these tenets in mind, restate them and treat the temporary issues of the day in con- formity with that creed. We are not men who fol- low leaders. Like members of a church, we do not | follow the pastor in all things, but the doctrines. If I were drawing the next Democratic platform I would put in it the provisions of the Democratic platforms drawn before the Civil War and leave out | those which have been put in the p]atform since.” The plea for a return to the platform of the period before the war will stagger most Americans, but of course it would be nothing for Morgan. He was a statesman in those far-off times and a fighter during the war. Consequently his programme would mean MORGAN’S DEMOCRACY. AVING made his fight ‘to a finish against the for him nothing more than a return to the days of | ‘“Take these boys to the galley,” he said youthful vigor and might even afford him an oppor- | However, the Senator | tunity to start all over again. is not altogether oblivious of existing problems and asks no more than that their solution shall be sought according to the old-time principles. He says: ing the national debt and the redemption of all con- tracts, public and private, should be on a specie basis. Of our insular possessions he says: “The taxes of the United States, whether internal or external, should apply to all parts of the United States alike, whether they be continenial or insular. The tariff laws should apply equally to Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, and trade with them should be as free as trade among the States.” He believes the tariff is all wrong and says: “I am for a tariff that is designed to raise a -evenue for the Government and has no other pur- pose.” For the regulation of trusts he would have a law providing punishment for all persons who un- dertook by combination to raise the price of any, ar- ticle purchased by the Government, and says that as the Government is a consumer of nearly every kind of article in the market the enforcement of such a | law would break up all combinations. As to candidates the Senator has an open mind, saying he does not care whether the nominee next year be a regular or a bolter. In fact, he holds to: the doctrine that it matters very little what kind of man is in the PresidentiaPchair so long as the people are | all right. In discussing the point he said: “We have had one very great President lately, a man of | great ability as a President, as an administrator of the nation, thoroughly fitted for the position—William McKinley. He has passed away. We don’t hear his name:mentioned any more. That ought to convince us that the Presidency of a very great and wise man is perhaps not ‘absolutely necessary for the existence | and continued prosperity of the Government. If the | people are right they will keep the President straight, no matter how strenuous or slack he is.” Such is the programme of action the Senator rec- ommends to his party and especially to that part of it that holds the South solid and forms a nucleus around which the discontented and discordant fac- tions of the North continue to rally for support. It is a very good programme in its way, but if the ven- erable Senator deem it a harmony platform he will | be surprised when he hears from Bryan. In setting aside a verdict for heavy damages given to a woman in a suit against a railway company, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts said: “The female plaintiff is a good-looking young woman who stood alone against almost all the witnesses, against all the | evidence, direct or circumstantial, and the jury must have been carried off its feet by sympathy.” Thus the young woman loses her big money, but she has the satisfaction of knowing that she has the only beauty that has ever been judicially affirmed by a Supreme Court, and perhaps that satisfies her. . The Commoner “chronicles with regret” the selec- tion of Gormg® as Democratic leader in the Senate, and says it “may be fairly considered the most impor- tant victory thus far scored by the reactionary ele- ment of the Democratic party.” When it is recalled that the Cleveland wing of the party has also ex- pressed discontent with the new leader it will be seen that Gorman’s task of harmonizing the party is going to be about as difficult as the old game of pigs in the clover. . The men of brawn in Oxford and Cambridge, stimulated probably by Sir Thomas Lipton’s belief that he has a fast yacht, want to compete with our American college athletes. Let them come over or we will go to them as they suggest. One or two vic- tories more will not spoil us by pride. The French have just named a cruiser “Ernest Renan,” and now if there be any virtue in names that cruiser will take great delight in knocking to pieces any ship in which any other nation has faith, and fur- thermore will go a )ong way just to get a chance to do it. More than two hundred bankers and men of money from the Eastern States are coming soon to visit us. They have ghosen wisely. There is no other place on carth which invites more advantageously to wise. in- vestment than California. San Francisco is the scene of an unusual contest in which a full-grown, able-bodied son is suing his mother for support. The fellow is probably too strong to work, and possibly needs an injection = of seli-respect. o BEFARIRL Oriental nations have appropriated something like $2,000,000 to make a show -at St. Louis, and we may tiow. expect the greatest muscle dance exhibition on record. a| “The payment of all obligations, includ- | APRIL 3, 190 HUNGER CRUSHES LURID HOPES OF BOYSTOWAWAYS Four juvenile stowaways were discov- ered on Wednesday night hidden away in the forepeak of the cod-fishing brig Har- riet G, which yesterday sailed on a fish- ing cruise. The little fellows, ranging in | age from 7 to 10 years, were located | through the - whimpering of one of lh9| voungest. They had been on board, they | sald, for fifteen hours. Around the body of each of the boys was strapped his spare wardrobe, which consisted in each case of a tiny suit of overalls and a red flannel shirt. They boarded the brig before she pulled | cut in the stream and when they went into hiding were prepared to fill any bil- let from powder monkey to admiral lndl ready to engage in anything from plain, | ordinary cod-fishing to treasure hunungy [ and piracy. The forepeak they found a dark, chilly | ©nd somewhat smelly hiding place. The food they took on board with them was | socn eaten and in spite of the spare ward- robe coiled snugly around each body the little chaps soon became cold and uncom- fortable. Hunger also troubled them and | as the night breeze rippled the waters of the bay and rocked the brig there came a spell of squeamishness which wiped away the last dim speck of romance. One of them whimpered. A sharp- ‘enred sailor heard the baby cry and in five minutes the crestfallen four were standing before Captain Pederson await- ing the skipper’s judgment. He would not hang them to the yard- arm, he sald, because they had commit- ted no act of piracy. Walking the Dlsnk' might meet the case, but they should be at least 12 years of age and weigh not less than fifty pounds apiece before they couldstip any available plank aboard the | dashing brig. He might masthead them, but the Harriet G had only two masts and there were four stowaways. “I know what I'll do,” said the skip- {per finally. He sent for the mate. and while awaiting his arrival paced up and down and between perambulations glared | savagely at the trembling stowaways and | in a deep bass voice threatened to “‘shiv- | er his timbers.” to the mate in his sea-doggiest voice. | “Let the cook sharpen his meat ax, let Lim make a hot fire in the stove and | When everything is ready let him give | [them @ square feed. Then send , them | | ashore.” “Land us near Telegraph Hill,” said the oldest stowaway to one of Crowley's aunchmen. The last seen of the quartet | | was very early yvesterday morning, when | they jumped ashore from a launch and | started with a run up Vallejo street. | INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL EDUCATION TO RESUME Young Men’s Christian Association Schools Will Open a New Term. At the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion its Institute of Practical Education is about to open a new term. The growth of the classes of this educational depart- | ment with its day and night schools em- bracing studies all along the line from the commercial through the industrial, | technical and language courses has been | | something remarkable. | It is an apparent solution of the prob- |lem of furnishing such instruction to | small bodies of men who wish to take | | up studies not embraced in the curricu- lum of any of our regular institutions of | learning. It also plays a large part of supplying the deficiencies of men whose early education was not all that it should | have been. Particularly prosperous are the recently established classes in steam and electrical engineering. Provision is also made for working boys, | boys from the White' House. The sec- ! ond vear of the law school is nearing its completion with an enrollment of twenty- | nine for the year. The full law course | covers four years. To-night Dr. Frederick Burk, presi- dent of the State Normal School of this city, will address a mass meeting of | young, men interested inthe educational [ad\antugps offered by the institute, The total enrollment of the institute is at pres- | ent 452. All men are welcome to this meeting, which will begin at 8 o'clock in the evening. —_———— NEW SQUAD ASSIGNED TO DUTY IN CHINATOWN Change Comes as Result of Mayor Schmitz’s Communication to Police Commissioners. Acting under instructions of the Police Commissioneis, who received a communi- cation at thelr meeting Wednesday night from Mayor Schmidt to the effect ihat | lottery playing was wide open in China- | town, Chief Wittman yesterday removed | Sergeant Coogan and squad and assigned‘ Sergeant C. F. Blank and a new squad | for-duty there. The new squad conststs | of James Cullinane, F. de Grandcourt, J. H. Helms, W. J. Mahomey, George Duffy and F. M. Black. Judge Cabaniss took occasion yesterday morning to deny that the fault of the non-suppression of gambling and lottery playing lay with the Police Judges in not imposing heavier sentences. He said that | in a great many Chinese cases the evi- dence was not legally sufficient and the arresting officers would inform him that | the defendants would plead guilty if a small fine was Imposed. That would be done so as to put money in the city treas- ury. i —_——— APPRAISERS FIX VALUE | _OF MRS. FAIR'S PROPERTY Their Report Shm That Victim of Automobile Accident Was Worth $271,372 50. The report of the appraisers appointed to value the separate property of the late Mrs. Charles Fair was filed yester- day. It shows that the deceased was worth in her own right $271,372 50, Mrs, Fair's estate according to the re- port, consists of 106 first mortgage bonds of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Arizona, worth $116,600; 108 first mort- gage bonds of the Northern Railway Com- pany of California, worth $116,640; jewelry worth 817,500, wearing apparel valued at $2000, silverware worth $750, $382 50 in cash and improvéd property at the corner of Devisadero and Sutter streets worth $17,- 500. —_————— Another Train to Reno., Beginning with to-morrow, the South- ern Pacific Company will place a mnew train on the central route between San Francisco and Reno, Nev. It will leave here at 7 o'clock in the evening and ar- rive at Reno at 7:5 the following morn- ing. The same train will leave there at 8 p. m. arriving in this city at 7:55 the next morning. The purpose of the new service is to meet the requirements of the traffic between here and Tonopah and to anticipate the traffic to Lake Tahoe, which, it is expected, will be very heavy this year. e Dealers Object to Ordinance. The Municipal Non-Paritisan League, an organization composed of dealers in sec- ond-hand goods,-filed a suit yesterday for an injunction restraining the city authori- ties from enforcing ordinance 834, which provides that proprietors of second-hand stores shall render a dally report of their transactions to the Police Department. They base their claim on the ground that the ordinance is a direct violation of their ‘e:utnuuol-l rights and is special legis- ‘ several days, left for home last evening. | one class being made up entirely of eash |- CAKE AND LOVE DIET LEADS TO DIVORCE COURT Oakland Office San Franeisco Call, 1118 Broadway, April 2. On the ground that his bride of two weeks insisted on feeding him on cakes and pastry instead of ccrnbeef and cab- bage, as he demanded, A. J. Wells, a blacksmith of Allendale, brought suit to- day for divorce against his wife, Annie N. Wells, on the ground of extreme cruelty. The couple were married on March 14 last, but ever since, the husband alleges | In his complaint, he has had to subsist on a diet of pastry and love. The cause of the domestic trouble seems to be that the wife is a believer in Spirftualism and is opposed to cooking meats and other solid foods, whereas the husband’s occupation is such as to require the most substantial of foods. The refusal of the wife to cook what the husband deemed proper food culmi- nated in a quarrel on March 28 last and since then the young couple have been living apart. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. R. Gross of Eureka is at the Lick. H. Booksin, a banker of San Jose, is at the Grand. Dr. A. M. Atherton of Honolulu is at the Occidental. Former Prison Director Don Ray of Galt is at the Lick. Fred Salisbury, a capitalist of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. State Printer W. W. Shannon and wife are at the California. Editor Sam Davis of the Carson City Appeal is at the Occidental. Former Governor N. O. Murphy of* Ari- | zona, who has been visiting the city for Winslow B. Ayer of Portland, Or., pres- ident of the Eastern and Northern Lum- ber Company and vice president of the’ Portland National Bank, is at the Palace. George McGregor, manager of Lyon & Healy’s musical publishing house of Chi- cago, is at the Palace. Solomon Lincoln of Boston, one of- the | foremost Republican lawyers and leaders of Massachusetts, who figured prominent- ly In that State’s opposition to the United States acquiring the Philippines] is at the Palace. S ik Californians in New York. NEW YORK, April 2.—The following Call~ fornfans are in New York: San Francisco—C. B. Trescott, at the Grand; M. L Calm, at.the Imperial, and B. Turner, at the Murray Hill A CHANCE TO n(n.x. Harold—Pa! Father—Oh, be quiet! Harold—Pa! Father—Well, what is- it? S Harold—What did the Dead Sea dle of? —Boston Herald. The honeymoon was waning. “I can’t help thinking,” she remarked, “‘that the clergyman looked very solemn when he was marrying us.” “Well,” he answered, “he's man himself.” —Chicago Post. a maried “Mercy! where did you get all the books?” “Why, I'm trying to read up a few of them so as to know what to take away to read when I leaye for my summer vaca- tion.”—Cleveland *Plain Dealer. “You bear it like a little man,” said the | dentist, atter he had pulled the tooth. “Huh!"” exclaimed Tommy, “I'm a heap grittler than that. I bear it like a little woman.”™ For Tonimy was an observant boy.—Chi- ciga Tribune. -~ “Didn’t I see you several times with the same young man at Cove Harbor?” “Perhaps you did." 'Anything serious?” 2 “It seemed so at the time. He was the only young man at the hotel."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Do you think there fa anything serlom |. {to be apprehended from seventeen-year locusts?" . “No, indeed,” answered “the. miliner- made girl; “they stay quietly In their trees. They.are not nearly.so bad as caterpillars.”—Washington Star. “Harold,” xrmured the mald, “T don t belleve you love. ms half as much as you: |-, pretend you d 3 “My angel! “I am sure of it, Harold. N6 young man that truly loves a girl would step on- her- dress half a dozen_times in one evenmg g —Baltimore American. “Ethel.". he sajd, in that soft, cooing tone which sounds so foolish to the.dis- interested bystander, ““i th..k that there is no lreasure to equal B. true womans affection.” “And 1,” she answered, ‘“belleve chat no riches can compare to the Jove of an honest man." ‘With all his sentiment he was a man of business, joined: “Miss Smithers, does it not occur to you' that we have enough capital at our dis- posal to organize a lru:t“"—Wuhlngton Star. “f'and under. 35; of good char: ‘| secial event a gentleman who expects and without hesitation he re- ISOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READER DIME—A. D., Bodega, Cal. If you w send a self addreued and stamped enve!- ope this department will advise you of the value ot your dim H-\NGED FOR MURDER—Mrs. H. D, City. A. Golderison, convicted of the mur. der of a young girl in this eity, was hang- €d in this city September 14, 1558, NEW DIVORCE LAW—Subscriber City. The divorce law passed by the Le: islature late in the session, and approv by Goverror Pardee, became a law as soon as signed. \ No munic- CIGARETTES T. K., City. o fpal license is required in San Francisco to engage in the business of manufactur- ing cigarettes, but the manufacturer must obtain a Federal license. LODGING-HOUSE—. City. * Any one wishing to engage in the Lusiness keeping a lodging-house must pay a mun- icipal license. The license office, when shown the question asked, said: “There i3 no exemption.” RAILWAY STATIONS-J. P. M., Cityr The largesi railway station in the United States is that of the Boston and Alban Railroad in Boston. The station operates 634 trains a day. -The union station in Chi- cago is said to be the second largest. EXEMPT—B., Wadsworth, Nev. _In ths State of Nevada “the tools of a mechanio necessary to his trade” are exempt from execution and in the State of California “the tools of a mechani¢ or artisan ne essary to his lrnde are exempt from ex- ecution. A ENLISTMENT=Subscriber, City. plicants for first enlistient in the Un States army must" be-18.-years .and. ov: ster -and tem« péTate habits, able bodied, free ‘from di ®ase and must bé able ty speak: read an write the English language. s THE CRIME—) pa, Cak :'Tf tw he”proper offi n the month « when persons appesred before in a county in.this.Stdt October and- declared. und applying for a marriage neither was divorced within a v was a fact’ that each was divorced . preceding June each ‘is guilty of perjury. JAMESTOWN-“Subsicriber, ~City.” Thae three hundrédth anniversary of the se:- tlement of Jamestown. will . occur on. the 13th of May, 1907. . It will be com- memorated by an lnlernl!!onnl exposition in that city, which wiil be eonducted un- der the direction- 6f the Jamestown Ex- position €ompany, of which General Fitz- kugh Lee Is the president. THE AMERICAN FLAG—wu.scriber, 'Oakland, Cal.- The garrison flag of the United States army is thirty-six feet fiy, twenty feet hoist. Smaller flags are based on these proportions. The blue field is one-third the length of the flag and ex- tends from the top down to the lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top. MARRIED NAME—A. H., City. It an unwritten law that a woman on mar- rylng assumes the name of the man she marries, but there is no statuate law that requires her to do so. There are instances of women who after marriage have re- tained the family name and in many cases women are known by their family name as well as by the name of the husband. as, for instance, a woman named Mary Jones marries a man named Smith, site calls herself Mrs, Mary Jones-Smith. DRESS SUITS AT FUNCTIONS-W., Virginia, Nev. An “at home" s a fanciion that is recognized as a family gathering at which friends are Invited to spend a pleasant hour, and not regarded as a swell society event, where the convention- alitfes are to be observed. At an at homs it would be proper for a gentleman, who has been invited, to wear either a Prince Albert or a Tuxedo, or any other eoat that He'would wear in making a friendly call. There- are some who hold that at any o meet those of the other ‘sex should wear a full dress suit, but'these are not many. FACE BY:ACKI]\G—B A., St. Hel [€al: T is said that the following l:x‘x.' ‘fure “makes a face blacking that w come off easily”’ ‘by washing with vase- ‘Hiné: Best lampblack, 1 grain; cacao but- -ter, 6 grains, and oil of neroll, 5 drops. ‘Melt the butter, add the lumphllck maks an Intimate mixture and add the perfume toward thd last. ‘Another method is to beat . the * finest lampblack into a stiff paste with glycerine, and apply the mix- ture with a sponge, adding a little water if ‘necessary. -It is sald that this is far superior to the old fashioned burnt cork and ‘beer mixture, which requires a lot of mbbln& in and almost skins one's face to remove:it. This, it Is said, can be as easily r!moved as it is applied. BEx. nrcn’ houhonnd ‘candy. Townsend's.* . - Townsend's California ‘glace. frult and g:nfllen.AB:i‘ pound, Lu; nnEhuc fire-etched xes. present for- Eastern frienda. 9 Market st.. 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