The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1903, Page 6

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(long Distance Teiephone “Centra! 261 NEW YORK RLPRESENTATIVE ATEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Trituse Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON.... eei...Herald Square NEW YORK NEWE STANDS: Waildor?-Astoria Hot A. Brentano, 51 Unicn Square: Murray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hote! and Hoffman House. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co; Great Nerthern Hotel: “remont House: Acditorium Hotel; Palme: House. HRANCH OFFICES—I27 Montgomery. ~crmer of Clay, open uptf’ 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. €33 McAllister, open untsl 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untll $:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open uatil 10 c'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1008 Va- lencla, open until ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh, cpen usntil 9 cclock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen untsl ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open uzfl 9 p. m. 3 BRITISH MUNICIPAL WORK. ITENTION has been directed by The Call to the growing antagonism in Great Britain Lnown in that country as “muntcipal trading.” The term is used to signify the undertaking of business A to the extraordinary development of whit is cnterprises by municipal governments. The practice of late has been carried on quite extensively, and the | i effects have now become so apparent that a deter- | mined effort is being made to put a stop to it. The discussion begun before the people has been carried into Parliament, and upon an order of the House mmons the Government has published a | list of municipal corporations outside of London that | carry on what are called “reproductive undertakings.” | It appears from the list that 299 boroughs are en- gaged in such trading, and that the total capital in- | vested in the plants exceeds $605,000,000, of which | sum upward of $585,000,000 was borrowed money. | The debts, however, have been diminished by pay- | wents to such an extent that the total indebtedness | on March 31, 1902, was $103,000.000. | A summary of the details of the report says: “Of the undertakings tabrlated water works cost the most, the sum debited to them being nearly $zfl5,-i 00,000; mnext come gasworks, upon which $120, 000,000 has been experded: the expenditure on elec- tricity supply was, in round numbers, $62,500,000, and cn tramways $48750.000. Markets account for al- most $31,000,000 of the grand total; harbors, piers, docks and quays for more than $27,000,000; burial | grounds for nearly $12,000,000; baths and wash- houses for about $10,000,000; working-class dwellings | for $6,250,000; and other reproductive undertakings | for $3,500,000.” 4 The total incomes from these various undertakings average znnually about $65,000,000, but deductions for | operating expenses, interest, depreciation of plant and i other necessary accounts reduce the magnificent total to something less than $2,000,000 of net profit. So small 2 net income from so large an investment is one of the salient evils of the system of municipal operation. It is certain that had the boroughs left the enterprises to private capital and a strictly busi- ness control they would have obtained for a much smaller expenditure fully as good a service and a much larger net income. The productiveness of the municipal trading schemes is, however, one of the minor points in the arraignment made against them by some of the ablest | men in the kingdom. One of the chief evils is the | enormous burden of local taxation imposed by the| undertaking of such enterprises. The 299 boroughs | included in the report have a total population of | about 13000000, and accordingly the investment in | trading enterprises of $605.000,000 means a burden of | about $47 per capita for such purposes only. When that sum is ddded to the rates of taxation for other jocs] purposes gs well as to the imperial taxes the total burden is made very heavy for the average tax- payer. It has been noted that the heavy local debts have had a tendency to diminish the value of lands in the boroughs that are subject to them, so that; the property of ratepayers has been actually decreased while the burden of taxation has augmented. A critic of the governmental reports asserts that the list of municipal trading given in the document is by no means complete, as it does not include sev- cral kinds of work that have been begun on a small ~cale, it is true, but which will be augmented unless prevented by statute or by 2 resolute public opinion. {here appears, indeed, to be something of a rivalry among certain boroughs to see which can go furthest| American advocates of the system. In his report of | | not to be used for musical purposes, but is strictly a in the way of taking over business undertakings into the hands of municipalities. Some of them are even running brickyards, while others engage in the manu- facture of electric fittings and various kinds of build- crs’ goods. The boom goes merrily on because it is easy to| horrow money. The local debts of the country are thus rapiély augmenting, while individual initiative is ag denied 2ny room for its exercise. Far-sighted en foresee the coming of a time when the boroughs vill have so much money invested in various plants that they will not venture to adopt new methods and new mechenism as science and inventive skill pro- duce them. The consequence will be stagnation while the rest of the world goes forward. The issue has not yet become one of partisan politics, but it is cvident that the opponents of the craze for municipal trading have organized for a fight and intend to furce it at the first opportunity. CR——— It is reported that some clever financiers are or- ganizing 2 tea trust, and if the report be true we may expect that proverbial tempest in the pot to b2k out at once. ! THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. HE believers in signs and tokens, portents, T precedents and coincidence, who have insisted that a financial and business panic is a necessity | every ten years, have iooked for it this year, just ten '_\enrs from 1803. But as far as one can judge now panics arisc in conditions and not in chronology, and there is no sign on the business horizon that can dis- quiet the observer oi the financial weather. It is evident that panics do not come by decades, and that in the futvre their appearance and duration and se- verity arc to be moditied by certain conditions, which since 1893. The first of these i of the world’s feeder. our occupancy of the position England has to import 75 per the entire ration of her people. Other parts of Eu- | rope have also outrun their domestic food supply, and must resort to importation to feed their people. Even Russia has famines as the result of failure of supply, and the United States is the only first-class power that feeds its cwn people, out of its own re- sources, and produces a surplus of all food products {larger than that of any éther nation or group of | nations. { This is a peculiar position and one of peculiar power. [: is more powerful to control the food sup- ply of the world than to control its finances and be the clearing-house of its commerce. We control the food supply and are rapidly achieving financial con- trol, which will make us the creditor nation. two have never been associated in one nation before in modern history. England has long been the cred- jtor nation, but has been at the same time dependent for the food of her people. Publicists and students may now begin to study the effect upon a nation’s commercial and industrial stability of the control | of the food and the credits of the rest of the world. May it no* be confidently predicted that a panic here | under such circumstances would be brief in its du- | ration and not destructive in its results? The outlook now is that no panic may be looked for in the next four years. We have reduced our foreign debt to the lowest figure that has been | marked fcr a quarter century. Two years . more | of good trade will wipe it out altogether. Then no securities can be sent home for liquidation, as was done in 1893. The terrors and perils and persistence | of the panic that began that year were increased by the great volume of our foreign debt and the flow | hither of the securities which represented it. This | is what called the gold out of the Federal treasury, threatened the public credit and destroyed private credit. We have on hand now a stock of money sufficient to liquidate our foreign-owned securities without crippling public or private credit, and that is one guaranty sgainst a panic. Of course the calling in of all the foreign debt by a continuance of our fa- | vorable trade balance will permanently remove that risk. The liquidation of domestic debt goes on faster than the reduction of the foreign debt. The farm mort- gages that were placed not for improvements but ex- penses are paid off, and the per capita of private debts has steadily decreased since 1897, and in that respect the people are in a better condition than ever before. It is said that panics fall out of a clear financial <ky, but it must be admitted, even by pessimists, that the country which is able to feed the world and to} carry its credits at the same time is the least likely | to be hit and burt by a panic when it falls out of any kind of sky. ! The President’s speeches have a direct tendency to increase the confidence that is felt in our financial se- curity. He advises peace and good will among men, as far as the country can influence that desir- able condition, and he proposes that every industrial force shall be used for good and not for evil, and as the country is with him in a sane and sensible busi- ness policy there seems no reason why we should not go on buying and selling, planting, harvesti: and gathering into barns e ] A writer on “The Economic Importance of For- estry,” in the February number of the Popular Science Monthly, estimates that forest fires destroy in this country about $50,000,000 worth of timber an- nually, and yet there are some people who balk at protecting forests because they are afraid of the cost. THE METRIC SYSTEM LTHOUGH no serious effort was made to A press at the last session of Congress the pas- sage of the bill providing for the establish- ment of the metric system of weights and measure- ments in this country, the promoters of the plan have not abandoned it. The reason for failure to act last winter was the shortness of the session and the amount of work Congress had on hand. With the assembling of the next Congress the measure will be promptly urged and it is said assurances have been given of a vote sufficient to pass it. The. chief objection to the measure has been the | belief that it would render useless all the existing ap- ! pliances for weighing and measuring and thus entail | an immense loss upon the community, as well as in- volving the public in 2 good deal of confusion. The ! promoters of the reform have denied that any great loss would follow, or that any confusion would re- sult. The denial is founded upon the results of the adoption of the system in Germany. The change was made there without producing any of the evils that are dreaded here, and the argument is that our experience would be similar to that of the Germans. Dean B. Mason, United States Deputy Consul General at Berlin, has made a long report to the | State Department on the metric system in Germany, and his statements bear out the arguments of the | the German movement he says: “On August 17, | 1868, the jaw was published which made the use of the | metric system permissible after January 1, 1870, and obligatory after January 1, 1872. * * * Accord- ing to the testimony obtained at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and through other reliable sources of | information the general use of the metric system in ! wholesale business was introduced promptly without serious inconvenience or opposition and with very satisfactory results. In the retail trade some of the old weights and measures are still in use, after hav- ing been modified to correspond with the metric sys- tem, the old names being retained. The German pound, for instance, is exactly one half a kilogram, and many ‘articles are sold at retail by the pound.” Of the effects of the introduction of the system | he says: “While German experience as to the diffi- culties incident to the introduction of the decimal system may be of limited value, there can be no question as to the great advantages derived from the change. On this point public opinion is practi- cally unanimous; whether it be experts of the Bereau of Weights and Measures, business men or manufacturers, only one opinion has been found, and have either originated or have become more fixcd{ H cent of her bread supply, and a large percentage of | The | | when the radical advantages of the system over the weights and measures formerly in use are considered this opinion is almost a matter of course.” The United States 2nd Great Britain are now the only civilized countries on the globe where the sys- 'tem does not prevail. A strong effort is making to | hasten jits adoption in Britain. It seems conceded that sooner or later both countries will.be forced to adopt it as the general standard of the civilized world. P e — ANOTHER CANDIDATE. ON. CHAMP CLARK, the versatile Congress- man from Missouri, has served notice on the Democracy that Senator Cockrell of his State is a candidate for the Presidency. It may well be that the South will put the Senator forward, if for nothing more, in order to take the taste of Hearst's candidacy out of its mouth. Under normal conditions in the party the Senator would not be thought of for the place, but Hearst’s activity has made a dentifrice and rinsing fluid necessary, and the venerable gen- tleman is likely to serve as the required disinfectant. Of course Mr. Clark does not pretend that his sug- gestion shall be taken as practical. Senator Cockrell is the second member of that body in seniority, being ranked only by Allison of Iowa, who entered the Sen- ate two years earlier, in 1873. old in 1904. His active life began with his four attained sufficient distinction to make him the suc- cessor of Carl Schurz in the Senate. He is an excel- lent man and a hard-working Senator, who seldom makes a speech, but is relied on for information that is always correct. He is chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, a responsible place, since it involves an exact examination of the text of all bills that pass before they are signed or vetoed by the President. He is a member of the committees on Appropriations, Geo- logical Survey, Military Affairs, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Rules and Industrial Expositions, and is recognized as the reliable member on each. As a member of the Military Committee he has frequently gone counter to his party, and on the whole is a safe, conservative man of high character, but is not Presi- dential timber. He knows this so well that he would be the first to run away from the toil and trouble of a campaign if there were a chance for his nomina- tion. ‘The mention of his name is only another symptom of the lack of concentration and common purpose that confuses the Democratic councils., This very condition favors such an outcome as Hearst’s nomi- nation, to which Champ Clark indirectly contributes by filing Cockrell's caveat. A Texas “greenhorn” enlisted in the navy on the battleship Texas was tested the other day as a gunner, and while the ship wad going at ten knots an hour he fired a six-pounder ten times at a target 1000 feet distant and hit it every time. Kaiser Wilhelm will please take notice. SUNSHINE SEEKERS. ECENTLY our Eastern exchanges were R noting the return of persons who had spent the winter in Florida. With the coming of spring there had come a warm wave over the Florid- ian resorts, and to escape its effects the holiday crowds were seeking the North again. The fugitives from the heat, however, found no pleasant springtime awaiting them in their homes, for they were met by one of the severest blizzards of the year and doubt- less wished they had remained where they were. The contrast thus presented between the exhausting and sudden heat of Florida at this season and the ex- cessive cold of the Northern States serves once more to emphasize the supreme value of California as a place of residence or as a pleasure resort at all sea- sons. Those who came here for the winter find the spring as pleasantly cool as they can desire. Nowhere in the State are the people perspiring and complaining of feeling languid and unable to enjoy any kind of out of door sport that offers. On the contrary there is everywhere a climate that is a delight to every sensibility of man. While the pleasure-seeker in Florida is hurrying heme before the blizzard season ceases in the North the pleasure-seeker in California is searching for excuses for staying longer in a land where every day'is enjoyable. At the present time our climate is regarded by many people in the East as something of a myth. It is difficult for them to believe that the same city can have a winter as mild as that of Florida and a sum- mer cooler than that of Maine. Little by little, how- ever, the truth of the story is making itself under- stood. We are now having an almost unprecedented rush of tourists and home-seekers in the State. Each of them will help to confirm the claim of California to have a better climate at any season than any other section of the Union, and if we can succeed in bring- ing one of the great Presidential conventions here next year, so that all the country will take notice of the refreshing vigor of our San Francisco summers, the contrast with what Presidential conventions are in the Eastern cities, with their sweltering heat, will convince even the most incredulous. e a—— France makes a government monopoly of the sale of tobacco and keeps a record of the sales. The sta- tistics of last year show that the consumption amounted to about two pounds per capita of popula- tion, costing the people about $2 20 each. In Paris the consumption equaled a value of $5 per capita, but then in that city there are many foreigners who have money to burn. e A report from London announces that it has be- come the fashion in that capital to have a harp as a feature of the music room. There is comfort, how- ever, in the further announcement that the harp is decoration. It is added that they are got up regard- less of expense, some of them costing as much as $5000. R A A bold and good man undertook to deliver a tem- perance lecture in one of the rural counties of Illinois, but the pecple bound him down and poured hard cider into him until he was drunk. From this time on the Wandering Willie who wishes a good hard drink in Tilinois will know how to get it whenever he strikes a rural community. Whitaker Wright says that if he had operated in this country instead of Great Britain he would have cleared $50.000,000 and had a reputation as philanthro- pist instead of being arrested on a charge of swin- dling; and now we do not know whether to take that as a compliment or an insult. A yoting .man in New York is laughing himself to death and the physicians cannot stop him. The cause of the irrepressible hilarity is not known, but we assume from the symptoms that he attended a Democratic harmony banquet. ISCO CALL, TUESDAY. APRIL He will be 70 years| years’ service in the Confederate army, where he | SAYS MORMONS ARE MALIGNED BYHYPOCRITES SALT LAKE, April 6.—Before a vast assemblage of conference visitors in the Tabernacle to-day President Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon church, vig- | orously expressed his contempt for those who made the fight against the Mormen | church and Reed Smoot in the recent Senatorial campaign in this State. Presi-! dent Smith spoke with much feeling, and while he did not mention Apostle Smoct | by name he made it plain that he directed his criticisms to those who were opposed to the seating of Smoot in the Unmited States Senate. “I want to tell you," said President Smith, “that there are no more loyal pco- ple on earth than the Latter Day Saints. | We have been maligned, mistreated and | misrepresented, but not by the nation. It | was by the lying, hypocritical, sneaking, | cowardly wolves in sheep’s clothing that | go through the world seeking to stir up | strife and trouble for the righteous.” President Smith characterized these men as contemptible hounds and latter lay devils, who were born into the world to! lie and were fulfilling their mission. | An incident of the day was the appear- ance in the Tabernacle of Carrie Nation, | who is en route East from the Pacific Coast. She made a personal appeal to | President Smith for permission to address the Mormon gathering, but her request | was refused. She remained throughout | the session, and at its conclusion ad- dressed the few-persons remaining in the | building. To these she said that she had | made up her mind to do no more saloon | smashing. She then attempted to seil | her little hatchets, but was requested leave the bullding. When she again start- | ed to dispose of her merchandise on the | Temple grounds she was escorted to the | gates. PERSONAL MENTION. J. S. Shaw, a merchant of Honolulu, is registered at the Grand. M. B. Steadman, a cattle man of Mon- terey County, Is at the Grand. J. Ross Clark, vice president of Senator | Clark's new railroad, is at the Palace. D. B. Gamble, a wealthy soap manufzc- turer of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the Palace. N. A. Rhodes, the head of one of the big manufacturing firms of Canada, is at the Palace. Judge A. J. Hull of Napa is at the Lick. E. K. Smart, a Grass Valley mining | man, is at the Grand. 1. B. Hammond of Portland, Or., who is heavily interested in mines in the Northwest, is at the Palace. George W. Collard of New York and wife are at the Palace. They are making a tour of the world, accompanied by | prefessional guide. O. H. P. Noyes of Yokohama, a tea merchant, who has begn _travelirg through the East, Is at the Palace en route to the Orient. Bernard Baker, the New York million- aire steamship president, and his daugh- ter, who have been making an extensive toug of California, left last night for the East. Barry Coleman, his wife and youngest daughter left the city for the East via the Santa Fe yesterday. They will visit St. Louis, Louisville, New York and ‘Washington. H. C. Frick, the steel magnate of Pitts- burg, and party arrived here from Santa Barbara yesterday and are registered at the Palace. In the Frick party are Mrs. Frick, Miss Helen C. Frick and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harding. Manager Agler of the Southern Pacific Company departed for the north yester- day on a tour of inspection over the Shas. ta route. He will stop over at Dunsmuir to determine the extent of the damage done there by the late fire. A number of Southern California phy- siclans registered at the Lick yesterday, among them being Dr. L. A. Perce of Long Branch, Dr. Charles 8. Harris of | San Bernardino, Dr. R. H. Benton cf Los Angeles, Dr. F. H. Moore of Red- lands, Dr. F. H. Pritchard of San Ber- nardino and Dr. J. T. Millier of Los An- geles. Orren Scottin of Detroit, who owns onz oi the largest tobacco works in Michigan, is at the Palace. Several years ago he gold his works to the tobacco trust, which soon closed them down and forced a large number of men and women into idlensss. | Fully sympathizing with the unfortunate working people, Scottin bought the works back from the trust and resumed opera- ticns with his former employes. Later he turned the business over to his sons, with the understanding that they would never sell out to the trust. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, April 6.—The following Californians are in New York: From Sen | Francisco—G. F. Reynolds and V. G | Hush, at the Manhattan; Mrs. J. Austin, at the Marlborough; B. Bonny and H. Edwards, at the Holland; G. L. Edwards, ac the Cadillac; Mrs. H. T. Gibbs, at the Grand; C. W. Hodgson, at the St. Dents; H. C. Hyles and F. Zack, at the Hoffman, and E. R. Manzy, at the Imperial. From San Diego—Mrs. de Forest, at the St Denis. CHANCE TO SMILE. Aunt Hannah—It's scandalous the way these theater women cut up. . Uncle George—Oh, well, they must have | gome change, you know. As for me, I'd | rather have them act badly off than on the stage.—Boston Transeript. “Say, are you the man who sodded my front yard last year?” “Yes, sir.” What'll you take to haul the sod y 7 aul it away, sir?"” ‘That's what I said. You didn’t tell me I'd have to mow that sod twice a week.” --Ohio State Journal. Naggus (literary editor)—How is your new society novel getting on, Borus? Borus (struggling author)—Splendidly. TI've got the French phrases I am going to use in the story all selected. There's nothing to do now but to fill in the Eng- lish and divide it into chapters.—Chicago Tribune. 1 0 you read a novel az most women do0?" asked Ardent Admirer; ‘read the last chapter and then the rest of the story?” “‘Oh,” sald the Loveliest Girl, “that sort of thing is out of date. We now read the last chapter and then go to see the dramatization.”"—Indianapolis Press. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SCOURING YOUR SCALP Will Remove the Loose Dandruff but It Won’t Cure Dandruff. If your hair is brittle and thinning, you have dandruff. The mere scouring of the scalp of the loose scales won't cure dan- druff; because dandruff is nothing but scales of scalp being thrown up by a pes- tiferous little germ in burrowing its way tc the root of the hair, where it saps the vitality, causing falling hair and, in time, baldness. Now you can't stop dandru: nor falling hair nor prevent baldness un- less you destroy that germ; and the o'ncl{ preparation that can do it is the new sci- entific discovery, Newbro’s Herpicide. In fact, no other hair preparation claims to kill the dandruff germ—all of them will clean the scalp; soap and water will do that, but tml{l Newbro's Herpicide gets at root of the trouble and kills the dan- erm. Sold by leading druggists. | Miss Grace Orr. SHIPPING MEN TO FIGHT FOR NOME’S TRADE Special Dispatch to The Call. RT TOWNSEND, Wash., April 6— Cape Nome is & fuil-fledged sub-pert of the District of Alaska, and has been such since January 31, although for some mys- térious and unaccountable reason the or- ders complying with Congressional aetion at the last session were not sent here to the closest-and most directly interested section of the country until te-day, sixty- five days after the original issuance of the order. It has been a subjectof comment amons the shipping fraternity, who read of the passage of the act several months ago. that official notice had mot been sent out, and there is no telling when the authori- ties here would have been advised had not a schooner master recently demand- ed a clearance at the sub-port of Sealtlc The deputy collector, having no offici: knowledge, denied that Nome was a sub- pert of entry and refused to grant the clearance, offering one to St. Mi 2 instead. The shipmaster was obdu and Deputy Mitten appealed to Collec Ide. The latter in turn referred the mat- ter to the Treasury Departmeént, and re- celved a reply to-day as stated. The passage of the Nome sub-port act sounds the death knell of the monop in the Nome transportation business s long enjoyed by the American steamship: making it possible for forelgn vessels clear direct for that place instead of. as heretofore, to St. Michael, from whera they could not proceed to Nome, as the | American shipping laws prohibited 'for- elgn bottoms from trading between ports | of the United States. A flerce rate war between American and British Nome- ! beund steamers is expected this summer. EFRIDE AN§ THE GROOM ONCE STANFORD STUDENTS Miss Elsie Lenise Deering and Percy McDowell Married in TIowa. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, April 6.— Percy McDowell, who graduated from Stanford with the class of 1902 last May, member of the clas of 194, were married this afternoon in Boone, lowa, home of the bride’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Deering. The bride, who spent two vears at Stan- ford, was one of the most popular mem- a member of the Stanford Chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority and was very prominent in college social circles. The groom is a well-known graduate of Stanford. Since the granting of his de- gree he has been engaged in busines® in Palo Alto and has recently been appointed assistant postmaster. McDowell was sec- retary of the Assaciated Students last year and was a prominent member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He is a brother of J. E. McDowell, '99, assistant registrar of the university e FARMERS FAVORABLE TO CANAL ENTERPRISE Promoters of an Irrigation System Near Biggs Interview the Land Owners. BIGGS, April 6.—Judge E. A. Bridge- ford and Willlard M. Sheldon of San Francisco, John P, Clark of Fresno and D. C. McCullum of Oroville, promotors canal from Feather River, a few miles south of Oroville, running southwesterly to Biggs, thence south to Gridley and Live Oak, covering 180,000 acres of land adapted to oranges, deciduous fruits, vegetables and alfalfa, arrived here to- day and are interviewing the land own- ers. The farmers are taking hold liberally, knowirg that irrigation will double the value of their lands, promote subdivision and many enterprises. The promoters are meeting with such encouragement that they expect to commence the work of cxcavation at an early date. yeRean Entertainment for Veterans. YOUNTVILLE, April 6.—The Veterans" Home at Yountville was the scene of an interesting entertainment Saturday even- ing. It was under the management of Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn. Two farces entitled “My Uncle’s Will” and “A Box of Monkeys” were very much enjoyed by the old soldiers. The participants were the Misses Katherine Gilman, Marie Ran- delph and Anna Jordan and Messrs. Lloyd Edwards and Joseph A. Carrol. The veterans were enthusiastic in their applause of the dancing and singing of The Veterans’ Home band contributed largely toward the pleasure of the evening. Mrs. Lee La Rue was the accompanist. PIRE S rr German Crown Prince Visits Sultan. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 6.—The Ger- man Crown Prince, Frederick Willlam, and his brother, Prince Eitel, arrived here to-day from Egypt and were received by the Su'tan, who subsequently returned the visit. The Princes will leave Constanti- nople April 8 OF Easter features. The Garden By EDWIN A Magnificent Easter Frontispiece By ARTIST CAHLLL OUT NEXT SUNDAY Send 10c in stamps for sample to The aini3a Gal Tatent AP F and Miss Elsie Louise Deering, a former | at the | bers of the present junior class. She was | and directors of a proposed irrigation FORTUNE LEFT BY THE JERSEY CITY SUICIDE 'tor of Baltimore arrived In Jersey < NEW YORK, April §.—Campbell Re to-day. to take charge of the body of the Baroness Wolfbauest known here as M - Louise Ames Van Weik, who commiticd 4 suicide yesterday. Royston said that Mr Van Welk had inherited $75.000 and ihat | she still owned property worth about that Famount in Baltimore and Washington ‘\'ln Weik, her first husband, is a post- office Inspector in St. Louls. 5 | “Royston to-day discovered in Mrs. Van | Welk's box In a safe deposit vault ‘wo i | sealed packages addressed to her dau ter, Dorothy Van Wejk, whe is living with relatives in Washington. With thewa | were directions that one be delivered ta the daughter when she was 1. the other when she was 2) years old. She is now aged 11 years. Royston also found a lot | ter directed to him, in which Mrs. Van | Welk asked him to adopt her daughter. | 'The body of Mrs. Van Welk was seut | t> Baltimore this afternoon, Royston ac- | companying it. | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SAN ANTONIO—S., Alameda, Cal. Sav | Antonio, Tex., was founded In 1714 by the Spaniards. SHELLS—A Subscriber, Oakland, Cai. To clean abalone shells they should be placed in a lye made by boiling strong | ashes, and then botled six hours or long- !er, according to size. This will remove | the rough or external part. After they have been boiled they should he soaked in clear water and washed several times. | Such shells may be polished by rubbins “wilh finely powdered charcoal and walcr, after having first rubbed the shell smooth | with fine sandpaper or Dutch rushes: then rub with rotten stone or putty pow | Ger and finish with a plece of soft wash leather dipped in oil. TANNING—Subscriber, Monterey, Cal. In the process of tanning ox hides ik» | skin is carefully deprived of hair, fat and other impurities. It is then immersed in a dilute solution of tannic acid, when the animal matter gradually combines with the acid as it penetrates Inward, forming a perfectly insoluble compound, which resists putrefactidn completely. This Is tanned leather. In practice, lime | water is used for cleaning and preparing | the skin, water acidulated with oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) for raising or opening the pores and an infusion of oak bark or some other astringent matter for | the source of the tannic acid. The pgo- | cess is a slow ome, only dflute sofu- | tions can be safely used. Skins dressed | for uppers require about three weeks to | finish, and thick hides for sole leather | from a year to a year and a half. In order | to tan hides properly an individual must | be brought up to the mysteries of the art. FICTION—M. A., Reno, Nev. There are | no aggregate figures that will show the { number of books published by the differ ent firms in the United States, and to as- | certain how many coples of the various poets have been sold yearly, also he | number of copies of standard fiction. iwould require correspondence with every | publisher. That there is still a demard | for the works of Dickens, Thackeray ard | Scott is apparent from the fact that every | year a number of the publishers issuc new editions. The extension of free libra | ries is not due to the demand for fletion, |but to the demand of the people for | places where they may obtain such books as they desire and where they can go to consult books of reference. It is true that the majority of the books that are taken out of such libraries are fiction. NATIONAL FLOWER-N.,, City. There is no national flower of America nor of the United States, but a number of States have adopted a State flower, either by act of the Legislature or by voice of the school children. These are: Alabama, golden rod: Arkansas, apple blos- som; California, California poppy: Colorado, purpie columbine: Delaware, blossom : Florida, japonica: Idaho, sy 1linots, rose; Indiana, corn: lowa, wil : Lous iana, magnolia: Maine, pine cone: Michigan, apple biossom: Minnesota, moccasin: Missis sippi, magnolia; Montana, bitter root: Nebras- ka, golden rod: New Jersey, Stae tree, sugar maple: New York. rose; New Mexico, rose, crimson_rambler; North Carolina. mum; North Dakota, Territory, mistletoe: chrysanthe- golden rod: Oklahoma Oregon, Oregon graj Rhode Isfand, violet: Texas, blue bonnet: Utal sego lly: Vermont, red clover; Washington, rhododendron. In Kansas, the sunflower by common aec- cord, but not by the action of any organ- ized body or by the school children, is rec- ognized as the State flower. In Washing- ton the rhododendron was selected as the State flower by the women's clubs of the State. .The States that by legislative act have adopted a flower are Arkansas, Lou- isiana, Maine, Texas and Vermont. The Legislature of Oklahoma Territory adopt- ed a flower. —_——————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsead's.* ————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched OUT NEXT SUNDAY -~ THE... Great Easter Edition «.SUNDAY CALL.... Is a journalistic triumph of pictorial art and modern color press work. 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