The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 27, 1903, Page 6

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IEN it was liev sia ould : . ; HEN it was believed that }T“S e | sion from the places of their former residence of imediately and Ptrma‘:vm b over a million of Jews, planted them in the over-| lanchuria, and against that prospect S€c-|.rowded Ghettos of cities and towns where they v protested, the federated Irish societies of | demanded New York \"'{\“d the Secretary, " ! living was so restricted that they were plunged into | dicmissa 1 the Cabinet and took up Russia’s| nicery and increased the hardships of their co- | side « apparently indorsing €zar- | rejigionists who were already in the Ghettos, so that don n of human government. | throughout the pale thousands of families live on mple of dictation to a Gov- | tators are naturalized citi- nd appalling massacre 3 h\\( in Bessarabia. No appeal | ove Jew and Gentile in this country | exccration of the awful crime. The Jews | not need to be reminded Russian brethren, who, are hiding or cov- tes did their and hungry. their persecutors bbed 2 from joined in giving aid to :hc? properly characterizing those who | 'g. Influential American Jews ! yuested that the relief movement be attack the general e in Russian Govern- , and is a plain departure The Hearst papers saw an oppor- | r advertising and have improved it T]‘n(c- righly approved the indorsement of Ru: t ded an abusive attack on Secretary Then Hearst employs Davitt to proceed to abia and report on the outrages against the , and has his papers turn upon Secretary Hay busively for not ordering Russia to change her we took occasion to commend from that com- mon sense advy papers most policy toward her Jewish subjects. It was a quick turn and for the moment fools the people. The Hearst papers have succeeded so far as to impress a few ignorant and cowardly rascals and induce them to flood Secretary Hay with threatening lctters, demanding that he interfere in| Russia or take the personal consequences. This is| exactly what Hearst wanted, and he has succeeded. But this situation brings it up to the intelligdnt Jews of this country. What is their opinion of tactics in American politics and affairs? American Jews are here the equal of any and all of our people. Under the constitution, institutions and policy of this government they have an asylum and an equality of opportunity which have made of them the largest body of free men of their race in the world. Do they think that their duty is done or their inierests advanced by attacking this Gov- ernment and its administration? Of course they do not. They are a practical people. They know that any protest to Russia would be vain, would pro- duce nothi unless we are willing to back it by war, and t know that such a war would be a folly so immeasurable that no sane nation would think of it. Knowing these things, they must measure prop- erly the frothings of a sensational swashbuckler, who has incited the assassination of one President, and by the menacing letters sent to Mr. Hay is bringing in sight another murder. Intelligent American Jews know that when Rus-| cian treatment of their countrymen produces effects that arc international, and not until then, will the United States or any other external power have the right to protest. Then a protest will be entitled to respectful attention. Before that point is reached the issue is as much internal to Russia as our labor troubles are to this country. One of the Eastern plumbers who attended the recent convention in this city is the custodian of the fund raised for John L. Sullivan. It is not infre- quently that such examples of modest heroism and desperate-responsibility are revealed to the American public. What imagination can picture what would happen if John L. demanded more money than the custodian was willing to give him? An earnest effort is being made by the Commis- cioners for California to thz St. Louis Exposition to Mtkemefloftheswemt great part they are to play in representing fittingly their State at the mammoth fair. No plea should receive a readier response and no cause should be given heartier support. ; GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign ver- | suchi THE JEWS IN RUSSIA. and regulations concerning the Jews leads to the inevitable conclusion that while the mas- sacre of these people is in all respects brutal and appalling, it is, after all, only a speedier method adopted by the mob for accomplishing what is in- tended by the slower processes of law. We may not always judge the policy and purpose of a gov- ernment by the acts of a mob, but we are com- pelled to judge the intentions of a nation by its laws and the methods of their administration. An examination of the official policy of Russia toward the Jews compels the conclusion that the will of that Government is properly expressed and represented by the thieves and murderers of the Bessarabian towns. We have exposed the sinister nature of the statements of Count Cassini. Follow- ing that linc somewhat further, before showing that the Upited States instituted an official investigation oi Russjan Jewry, with interesting results, we traverse a little further the statements of the Rus- sian 'Embassador. Cassini said that in the arts and professions thc Russian Jew was much respected, and en]oycd equality without disability. We have shown vain that statement is by exposing the means used | to prevent Jews from becoming artisans or enter- ing the professions. But, notwithstanding such The law for- they are forbid- | thereaiter the freedom of the empire. bids a Jew to be an army doctor; not practice law without a special permit from the Minister of Justice, which is not required from non- | Jewish lawyers. The law is supposed to permit free- dom of the empire to Jewish merchants of ‘“the | first guild,” but before they enjoy this a tax of 1000 rubles a year for five years within pale must | be paid, and then they must pay the same tax out- Then they are permitted to take only one Jew- ish clerk with them, and until recently were for- | bidden to employ a Christian clerk or servant. A Jewish merchant may have his children with him un- til they reach their ma\jomy_ may not be his business nor succeed to it, must return {to the pale and the Ghetto, | right to have his aged parents with him. The evident purpose of Russian law side. when they but | to be to-fnake it impossible for any Jew to live in | Russia outside the pale, and to force him into the Ghetto in towns inside the pale. This proc of driving the Jew from pillar to post caused the expul- were strangers, and where their right to make one poor meal a day. Yet Cassini represents these | wretched people as the rich and proud oppressors of the Russian peasants! Since the race was interned by the May have rapidly deteriorated physically. laws they We are all fa- miliar with the high physical average of the Ameri- English and French Jews. In vital statistics they appear as a race that holds the physical pre- potency of its ancient ancestry. But the sodden and sordid oppression of Russian law has changed this in the Jews of the pale. They are inferior stature, and are preyed upon by consumption other diseases from which the race | where it enjoy Russian laws i can, . in human rights. the extermination of the Jews by need was to reach the point|giceace and starvation. The murderous mobs re men and women are in extremity and help merely accelerate this by a little, and effect the and the use of epithet and abuse| ;5006 of the Government by quicker means. ther than help. ! AIl that a2 man hath will he give for Is it | to be expected that the Russian Jews, as a result of Government policy, preved upon by starvation and | di honest or dishonest, | they are detected that are pra When life, to within reach? cke in es to out ishment is as’merciless as the poli a resort to dishonor to support life They Government, These offenses the hands of the deliberately, and with are not theirs. Russian are upon which the task of dehumani The eccentric Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston is hav- from the cunning and audacious assaults of envious vandals. She should ‘have adopted the scheme of J. S— A SILVER APOSTATE. T HE free silver movement was momentarily for- names in scholarship. In the United States the chief of these was Professor Andrews of Brown Uni- tions of 1896 by declaring, with'an air of authority, that the limitations of the gold supply had been the metal meant that if it continued to be the standard all prices must fall. ing all sorts of trouble in preserving her art treasures Pierpont Morgan and purchased only bogus things. tunate in having the indorsement of respected versity, Rhode Island. He supplied one of the sensa- reached, and that the rapidly increasing scarcity of He urged this view with great energy and it made of that time were easily ascribed to the cause which he claimed to have discovered. When his connec- tion with Brown University ceased it was ascribed to persecution on account of his financial views. He served for,a time as superintendent of the Chicago schools, but did not-get along well in the polities of that city. The Bryan sentiment being in control in Nebraska, he became prcndfint of the State Univer- sity there, a position which he still holds. Now he proceeds to recant his silver views, declar- ing that they were based upon the opinion of an emi- nent European geologist, who concluded that the gold supply was exhausted. This statement is no doubt made in good faith and must be accepted. But the incident reveals the care with which scientific men should reach their conclusions. We do not recall the name of any practical miner, metallurgist or miping enginecer who cver agreed with this FEuropean geologist. His opinion was of no more value than that of that other pious scientist, who informed Mr. Bryan that God had placed silver and gold in the earth in the exact proportion of 16 to 1, and that was therefore the Divine ratio. Both opinions issued from the dim domain of the mystic, the conjurer and the theorist, and were not of the substantial stuff upon which financial or other governmental policies may be safely founded. President Andrews now admits that the limitations of the gold supply are unknown and that the supply .is apparently inexhaustible, and therefore he formally N examination of the Russian laws, rescripts ! how | means, some do succeed and are supposed to have | den to be veterinaries; they are denied the right | to practice engineering; they are exciuded from | the civil service and all public offices. They can- and he is refused the | will be seen | and | peculiarly free | The great purpose of | e, will fail to grasp for existence by any means, | which r-pprc«:on compels them to resort, their pun- | which compels | malignity that does not belong to this age, has | brought all the ingenuity of its immense power to ng the Jews. | a wide impression, because the prevalent low prices | No matter how much one may deprecate the msufficlency of data upon which he recklessly based his former opinion, he must be admired as a man honest in the confession of his error upon discover- ing it. Cuba has celebrated the first anniversary of her freedom. She is to be congratulated on the fact that she is a demure, self-respecting, dignified young lady in the great family of nations. For one so young she behaves herself well. AN AMERICAN JOKE. | MONG a considerable number of the American | A people a belief prevails that humor exists only [ among Americans; that none but Americans ! can either produce it or understand it. The belief is 1“‘" without something in the way of a foundation. | There are’ certain forms of jokes prevalent among us which none but Americans would ever think of, and which are not to be appreciated except by those who have been careiully educated to smile at the right place. The successful operation of one of these stnctly American feats of humor is reported from Ohio. In| | the good town of Amesville, in that State, the voters have just gone through the political duty of electing | a new set of municipal officers. For some reason the preliminary campaign was a quiet one. Candidates were scarce and Republicans and . Democrats had to | unite on a single candidate for Mayor. So tame an affair was displeasing to the stalwarts, and it occurred to the humorists of the town that it would be a good move to get up a rival candidate just for the fun of | the thing. While they .\\'e_re preparing the joke there drifted into the town.a wandering hobo -of genial manners, possessed: of sufficient gall and nerve to stand for anything. The humorists proposed to nomi- nate him for Mayor and he at once accepted. The joke having been launched found immediate very voter who had any aspirations to be known as a humorist felt bound to support the hobo just to prove his ability to enjoy a merry jest. There must be a good many humorists in Amesville, for when the polls were closed and the votes counted it was found the hobo had been elected. It was at that point that Amesville should have laughed, but alas | for the humorists, there was no laugh in them. It is for the outsiders to laugh. Amesville is mad. Steps have been taken to set the election aside. It will cost Amesville something to do so, for the hobo is proud of his office and looks upon it as the great- | est snap in the course of his career. It is not often | that a tramp, asking for a handout, gets a Mayor’s office served up on a silver plate without having to w wood in return, and very naturally the weary roamer in a cold world desires to remain in Ames- ville and wax fat while the voters do the kicking. { | | | | favor. The practice of fool-voting is quite common in every American constituency. Time and again considerable numbers of Antericans have voted for worthless can- didates just for a joke. It does not often happen that | the joke is successful as in the Amesville case, but many a time American cities have narrowly escaped the election to some office of a man but little superior i to the Ohio hobo. Evidently that kind of joke is the offspring of a poor sense of humor. morist is one who never makes a joke unless he is sure he can laugh if he wins. It is only a fool who | laughs at the thought of his jest and then has to tkick himseli for playing it. So the moral is plain— Be politic in your gayety, and don't get gay in politics. An octogenarian resident of Oakland says, in the cxperience of great age, that no gentleman ever works., He is seriously mistaken. Some gentlemen do labor, but their work is of that common variety | known among the vulgar as coarse. | | GIRLS AND COOK STOVES. A S was reported in The Call yesterday, a num- grade of the Pacific Heights School are to | petition the Board of Education to permit them to take cooking lessons for six months longer than is | | now provided for in the school goes If it be necessary to limit the studies of the girls it course. It | without saying the petition should be granted. part of the school instruction that could be elimi- nated with much more advantage to all concerned than the cooking lessons. The career of most women is to be that of house- keepers, and, whether they be rich or poor, they will need in that career a good understanding of kitchen work. It is an old saying that whatsoever we would have in the nation we should put in the schools, and certainly we would have good cooking in the nation if we can get it, for upon that depends health and a very large part of domestic happiness. That the system of instruction given in the art of cooking by the schools is excellent is attested by the very. fact that the girls petition for its continu- ance. If the course were not made interesting and instructive to them they would not trouble them- rsehes to ask for more of it. On the contrary they would be enly too glad to be rid of it. ~Their pe- tition is then a proof that they are sufficiently inter- ested in it to profit by it, and accordingly it is for them one of the most valuable courses the school provides. The instruction is of the more importance because of the increasing difficulty of obtaining a good do- mestic service. Even to-day the housewife has to rely mainly upon herself for the administration of her kitchen, and the prospects are that in the future she will have to do so even more than now. The Board oi Education, therefore, can hardly render a more important service to girls than by giving them as full instruction as possible in all branches of housework. Cooking is by no means a simple task. No small amount of skill and of knowledge is re- quired for the proper performance of it. That knowl- edge and skill the schools ought to furnish as far as they ‘can. The public will cordially indorse the petition of the Pacifi¢ Hclghts School and it should be promptly graged R o The mysterious, Los Angeles woman who threat- ened the other day to use vitriol on the wife and children of Mayor Snydor, because her hushand was derated in public position, suggests the uncomforta- ble fact that California is hiding some fiend whose death may be counted among the things devoutly to be wished. The promoters of thc Parker boom for the Demo- cratic nomination for the ‘Presidency “are flush . of reasons why he is available for a leader next year, but not one of them has any explanatlon why ‘he has never been a leader before. . The Massachusetts Demotrats are now insisting that what Democracy ueedl not Cleveland, but a Clevehnd mn, andthey uum Mr O}neyi izt WEDNESDAY, MAY a| The joke is not without its moral to the public. | Your true hu- | ber of bright and sensible girls in the eighth | will not be difficult for the board to find some other | 27, 1903 SUPERVISORS FIGURE ON NEXT YEAR’S BUDGET The Board of Supervisors met yesterday to consider the report of the Finance | Committee respecting the municipal tax budget for the next fiscal year. At the outset of he meeing Brandenstein ex- | plained that the report had been signed by only two members of the committee —himself and Loughery—as Wilson had objected to certain items in it. One of Wilsor's objections made at the com- mittee’s meeting in the morning was to the splitting of the appropriation of $33000 for the purchase of the Harbor Police Station, so that 000 would be made available in the budget of 1904-1%95. Wilson also urged an allowance of $15,000 to repair streets in the north central district. His col- | leagues were willing to recommend $10,000 | for the purpose, but Wilson would agree to nothing but the higher sum. “The revenues of the city are not suffi- clent to supply the wants of the munici- pal departments,” said Brandenstein in ‘presenting the majority report. “The revenues from licenses do not adequately compensate the city for the protection | it afferds.to those paying the licenses. It is to be regretted that we cannot give the | Police Department its full complement. The charter limitation of $1 for taxes is another reason for the insufficiency of the | revenue.” REPORT TO BE PRINTED. At Curtis' suggestion the report was considered read and coples were ordered printed, so the Supervisors might have |- the figures before them when they re- | sumed consideration of the budget this | evening to give taxpayers an opportunity ! "to be heard. The Finance Committee, in addition to the items that have been published, rec- | ommended that $10,000 be set aside for the | final payment on the purchase of South { Park. The Almshouse was given an ad- | ditional $2000. The sum of $300 was al- lowed for a Morgue keeper and the salary | of the assistant head janitor was raised | from $1020 to $1200. The sum of $68,592 re- mains- unapportioned and the committee recommends that the money be given the | Board of Works for the building of new streets and sewers. The. board decided to hear from city officials and citizens generally regarding their desires and requirements. William McCabe and William Riordan of the Iron Trades Council appealed to the board to | | establish an emergeicy hospital in the | Potrero near the iron works, which they said was sadly needed. The committee recommends that the ! Police Department be allowed $868.364 for | maintenance against $859,444 for last year, an increase of $8920. { NEED OF MORE POLICE. | “You have allowed the Police Depart- | ment an increase of 5% men,” said Chief | Wittman. “The Presidio district west of | Central avenue is without police protec- tion and South San Francisco has one patrolman on duty at a time, and the same condition prevails in Richmond and Sunset districts. We are constantly re- celving -requests for more police protec- tion from the outlying districts and we | cannot comply. 1 hope the Police Depart- | ment will not be blamed for not being able to cope with the invasion of the criminal element next winter. We could have got along nicely with 100 men ad- ditionai.” Fire Commissioner Parry urged that the Department of Electricity be allowed a greater sum than 38,000, which is a de- crease of $10000 from that allowed last vear. Chief Hewitt said the amount was insufficient to place the city's wires un- | derground and under an ordinance he was i | | i { liable to arrest if the wires were per- | mitted to remain on poles. The Finance Committee's report says in part: | Lighting streets and public buildings in- creased from 000 1o $300,00. The under- standing with the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company that it will be awarded the contract on condition that it light the. streets every night during the year and will put | place sixty-four more arc lights and five | gas lamps is subject to confirmation by | | honorable board. As no municipal report was | | issued last year, your committee recommend | an appropriation of $8000 to print the reports | for two vears. TAX COLLECTOR IS SAVING. Tax Collector Edward J. Smith appeared betore your committee ahd asked that the charter ‘allowance of $36,000 for extra clerks in his office be reduced to $i0,000, effecting a saving of $6000 to the ci has been complied with We recommend that the allowed the City Attorney of the Spring Valley Water clity. Last year the budget expenditures were $5.- 759,000 and next year the sum of $5,7¢0,000 will be available. This means that an in- crease in the allowance to one department must be at the expense of another. Last year the Board of Works was allowed n!rmnnrnl improvements and we for the same purpose n The committee's report shows that the | total amount of increases in the various | items of the new budget compared with | | those of 1902-03 is $284,850, and the decreases | | $283,550. So that exactly $1000 more has been appropriated this year. INCREASES AND DECREASES. 1ne important increases recommended | are: Lighting streets and public build- ings, $25,000; Justices' clerks, $3600; Health Department, salaries, $3610; Fire Depart- ment, salaries, $38,950; relief of exempt | firemen, $3000; Department of Architec- ture, salaries, $44%; Bureau of Streets, of- | fice salaries. $15,600; Board of Public Works, general maintenance, $32,640. | The important decreases are: construc- tion of streets and sewers, $215,060; Tax Collector’'s, extra clerks, 36000; telephone rents, $10,000; Fire Department, expenses and apparatus, $9500; Department of El&c- tions, $12,500; repairs of buildings, $1230; v, and his request | [ i sum of $25.000 be to defend the suit orks against the | No action was taken on the petitions of street from Market to Howard and Six- teenth street from Valencia to Folsom be bituminized. ————— 3 Prepare for Celebration. The prominent French citizens of this city held a big meeting last night and took the first steps toward the celebra- tion of the Fall of the Bastile to be held on July 14 elected: vice president, V. Gardet; president, O. Bozio; secretary, Richet; treasurer, J. Godeau. second vice i A. B. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A PESTIFEROUS GERM. Burrows Up the Setlp Into Dandruff and Saps the Hair’s Vitality. People who complain of falling hair as a rule do not know that it is the result of dandruff, which is caused by a pestif- erous parasite burrowing up the scalp as it digs down to the sheath in which the hair is fed in the scalp. Before long the hair root is shriveled up and the hair drops out. If the work of the germ is not dutrayed hair keeps thinning till bald- ness_coms The only way to cure dan- druff is to ‘kill the germ, and until now there has been no hair preparatior® that ‘would do it: but to-day dandruff is easily ' eradicated by Newbro's Herplclde. wmcn makes halr slusl and soft as silk.. by leadi sts. Send 1flc fo{ fl:m» e Herpicide C retoth CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought | out of the appropriation to be set aside j.is at the Grand. | is registered at the Grand. | Columbia River packing combine, | the city. | S. R. Mason of Baltimore, head of the | | National Biscuit Company, Is registered i Australian Parliament, ! eandies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched subsistence of prisoners, $2500. i property. owners that New Montgomery | | The following officers were | || President, P. A. Bergerot; first| | TO VALUE LANDS TO BE ACQUIRED BY MUNICIPALITY In response to the recommendation of City Engineer Grunsky the Board of Pub- | lic Works decided yesterday to appoint John H. Grady real estate expert to ap- priNge the lands proposed tq be acquired under the bond issue for various public improvements. The appointment will be | formally made at to-day’s meeting of the | board. One of the new appointee’s first duties will be the appraisement of neces- sary land upon which the proposed new County Jail is to be built, and also of the ground necessary for the extension of the Hall of Justice, both of which proposi- tions have been incorporated in those to be voted on by the people in September. In his recommendation the City En- gineer called attention to the fact that the services of an appraiser are indispen- sable in order that proper valuations may be placed on sites to be purchased for the erection of new schoolhouses and other public buildings. The positien to which Grady was appointed will carry with it a salary of $300 per month. He will be paid by the Board of Supervisors for the in- estigation of public utilities. The Fin- ance Committee has reported in favor of an allowance of $7500 for the latter pur- pose. Grady was formerly a Fire Commission- er, * having been appointed in 1900 by Mayor Phelan, his term expiring last January. In his capacity as rea! estate expert he will be called upon to set a valuation on sites for a number of new | | schdol buildings, includipg one for the Lowell High School. HéE will also value | the lands for the proposed parking of | Twin Peaks, the land for the new park in the Mission district, land for the con- nection of the Presidid with Golden Gate Park and lands for children’s playgrounds south of Market street and in the North Beach district. PERSONAL MENTION. H. Radin, a merchant of Fresno, is at the Grand. ! Rev. F. B. Cossitt of Coronado the Palace. Dr. A. D. Williams, U. Occidental. .-0. Green, a grocer of Denver, is at the Palace. J. Goldberg, a merchant of Seattle, at the Grand. E. R. Reed, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is at the Grand. U. G. Wynkoop, a druggist of Tacoma, is at 8. A, is at the is 0. G. Nagle, a manufacturer of Seattle, | is 2t the Grand. Robert Stewart, a merchant of Denver, | | is at the Palace. | [ | W. Wah!rich, a hardware man of Sa- linas, is at the Grand. B. J. Turner, proprietor of a hotel at Hanford, is at the Lick. J. Goldfinch, a merchant of Hollister, F. Ewing, an ice manufaeturer of Yuma, is at the Occidental. | Rev. George L. Parker of Palo Alto 1s | registered at the California. F. G. Noyes, proprietor of a lumber yvard at Napa, is at the Palace. C. J. Shepard, a fruit shipper of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Grand. Samuel Elmore, vice president of the | is in at the Palace. A. F. Palmer of New Jersey, who is cne of the directors of the lead and zinc | trust, and his family are at the Palace. Colonel J. J. O'Connell, U. 8. A., and family arrived from the East yesterday and registered at the California. Colonel O’Connell is en route to the Philippines. E. A. Wiltse, formerly of this city, who | recently succeeded John Hays Hammond | as American representative of the London | Venture Company, which developed the | Camp Bird property, now ranking as the foremost gold producer in this country and owner of the Stratton mine, arrived from Mexico vesterday and is registe at the Palzce. The company of which | Wiltse is the head in this country is in-| cesting heavily in the southern republic. | Richard Monk, former member of the | is stopping at the Palace. This is his first visit to San Fran- cisco since 1849, when he was engaged in shooting game on the marshes across the bay for the local markets. Yesterday he renewed an old acouaintance with Cap- tain H. N. Morse, the detective, who was a boatman in early days, and with the latter made a tour of the city looking for old landmarks, of which but a few now remain. B e — Townsend's Cal. glace fruits. 715 Mkt.* B informaticn suppliéd daily Special © houses and public men by the ping_Bureau (Allen’s). 230 Cali- . L‘nla street. Telephone Main 1042, —— e Townsend's California glace fruits and bLexes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Moved from Palace Hotel building to 715 Market st., two doors above Call building.* | an effective | case may not be of any value in | according to the condition of the individ- | ual. SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS POKER—C. P., City. A rule in pok is that a jac kpot once opened, even if wrongly, must be played for if any one comes in against the false openers TEMPERATURE—S., City. It is said that the hightest temperature of the hu- man bedy is 110, in lockjaw, and the low- est is 67, in chole; CORBETT-SHARKEY — A Subscriver, City. The fight between James J and Thomas Sharkey in San Francis was a draw in four rounds. The fight took piace June 28, 1896 TRAINING SHIP—W.. Oakland. Cal For information about placing a boy on a training ship address a letter to the mandant United States Naval Station, Goat Island. San Fran DICE—O. F., Colusa, Cal. In dice It depends on the agreement before the shake whether the aces or sixes shall be high. In the absence of any such agreement which is the highest is gov- erned by local rules. shaking COLLEGE CRIES—A. C., City. The college cry of Harvard University Is “rah,” repeated nine times and closing with Harvard. That of Yale University | is the same as to the number of “rahs, but closes with Yale. FLATIRON BUILDING—M. G., City. The Fuller or “Flatiron” building in New York City is 298 feet high from the side- | walk to the coping. It is 214 feet on Broadway, 197% feet on Fifth avenue and 85 2-3 feet on Twenty-second street. AUTOMOBILE- ©0. 8., City. The best record by an automobile was made November 16, 191, by Henry Fournier, on straightaway track, Ocean FParkway, Brooklyn, . Y. It was one mile, with forty horsepower gasoline machine, in 51 45 seconds. EGG AND RABBIT-C. C., City. The egg is the symbol of the re-creation, the rabbit that of fertility. They were both used by the Romans in connection with the spring festival, which has been adapt- ed to the Christian Easter, and have been taken over to the latter festival. ROBERT BURNS—R. M, -C., City. Some years ago a movement was started in this city for the purpose of erecting a monu- ment in Golden Gate Park to the memory of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, but it was not carried out, consequently there is no Burns monument in the park. MILITARY ACADEMY — Subseriber, City. At the United States Military Acad- emy, West Point, tuition is free. Cadets | are paid $40 a year by the Government, out of which they must pay their own expenses for board. clothing, ete. Living expenses amount to about $212 a vear. FRECKLES-L. R. remedy What may be for freckles in one another. and that probably acceunts for the fallure of the remedies you have tried. The only way to obtain a remedy is to consult some reliable physician, who will presecribe ¢ TWO RUNS—N. Y. 8, Oakland, Cal. If in the game of cribbage, two-handed, the play is: A plays a tre B an ace, A a deuce, B a trey and A a deuce, there are two runs, one for each player, for the play is 3-1-2-3-2, so that A on the third play has a run of three, made up of 3-1-2 which makes a sequence of 1-2-2, and B ‘with the fourth card makes a run which also.counlj 1-2-3. LAND-A. J. B, Stagg, Cal. An unmar- ried woman over the age of 21 has the right to make a homestead entry under the United States law. If two unmarried | women wish land each may make a sepa- rate entry. A single woman does not for- feit her homestead entry by marriage if thereafter she continues to comply with the residence, improvement and cultiva- tion requiremen DICTIO.\ARY WORDS—Enq., ity. This department has not counted the words in the several dictionaries pub- lished. Funk, the publisher of The Stand- ard, is authority for the statement that there are nearly 300,000 words in that pub- lication, 250,000 in the New Century, 125,000 in Webster's International, 105,000 in Wor- cester and 50,000 in Stormonth. From this you can gather an idea of the number of words in the English language. DANCING AND WALKING—AL O. S, City. There are many persons who ob- flect to wulking a distance of three orf four blocks on the ground that it “tires them so,” yet many of these persons do not get tired dancing all night. By tha use of a pedometer it has been discovered that in dancing an ordinary waltz the flancers travel a half a mile of space; polka, three-quarters of a mile; schot- tische, one and one-half miles; lancers, & quarter of a/mile. In dancing out a pro= gramme of twenty numbers with twa extras-it has been calculated that & couple go over a distance of about thire teen and ome-half miles. Emerson Hough’s Great Made the Vast Have You Been Visited by Read a THE HUMAN HYENA By Edgar Saltus Watch for this Intrigues of English Beaus and Belles That America What It . The Dashing Mermaids Latest of o ol o of Romantic Story of the B 00000B00L00000000000 Middle West of the New Souvenir Pilferers nd See LA DOMPTEUSE By Chas. T. Murray and also for the 500000 0000000000006000