The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1903, Page 6

RSDAY. sesssssJULY 30, 1903 THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Fcdress All Communicctions to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Orden): DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), One year... .$8.00 | DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL. One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year { Daily... $5.80 Per Year Extra .{ Sunday. 4.15 Per Year Extra | FOREIGN POSTAGE.. { Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra | sters are aut subscripti Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. All Post: Mail subscribers in ordering change of acdress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt epd correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 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BEANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open unti] 8:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 c'clock. 638 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1008 Va- lencia, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open ock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. LESSONS IN LIFE. I the long life of Pope Leo moralists are | ng lessons for the edification of those | sh to live in good health to extreme old y attain their hundredth year. As was a beautiful one, so the lesson beautiful. The moralist could theme upon which to preach his or a better illustration to cite in proof doctrines. It is therefore to be re- | as Leo was showing the world how | being good and serene Cassius M. Le is ( was showing how one could live a little longer | Le being what is called a “hell of 2 man.” | moralists in commenting upon Leo’s | mind in a sound body, a healthy | c interest in humanity, a sane and | life, a spiritual sweetness that assured | soul-poise, go far to account for the vital | 1 old priest of 93, who has now put | lity. The perfectly balanced man. phy- | 1d psychologically, lives a long and useful | life, closed by a tranquil death.” | trine sounds beautifully, and doubtless it | hing to teach the masses, but unfor- nci fit the facts. A good many men | balance, mental and physical, have caught on a banana-peel and died young. A balinced people, with brains awry and fecble, have lived a long time. In- eli was not physically well balanced, ore or less of an invalid all his life, and recently published a poem written by th yveas in which he speaks of his | he imminence of death even at that | was 1 has bee: s Sis Sw { Clay owed his long life mainly to his | er at critical junctures. Partly, too, | to aggident. In describing one of his‘j s tells how an opponent once fired | rm’s length, but Clay escaped un- the fight was over an examination was Ae, and Clay says, “It was found that the ball, as the scabbard of my bowie knife in , had entered the leather near the | , which was lined with silver, and there lodged.” Perhaps, then, one way to have a long life is to 2 a bowie kuife with a scabbard lined with silver. When Leo was sick he had the best physicians in Rome to attend him and he did whatever they said, but when Clay was sick he barricaded his house and threatened to kill any doctor that dared to enter it. Thus their attitudes toward death were as different as their attitudes toward life. There are some who killed the Pope by overtreatment. There are others who say that doctors could have saved Clay had they been permitted to take care of him. Such statements are worth nothing. All that can be truly said is that Leo’s life serves “to point a moral and adorn a tale,” while Clay left a story “at which the world turns pale” There is much to be learned from the two to help a man to live rightly, but nothing that will assure him the certainty of liv- ing long skill as a fight he owed D g the blad the doctors Russian newspapers have had the unspeakable au- dacity of censuring the traditional and widely ac- cepted American habit of lynching, even going so far as to cartoon Uncle Sam as presiding officer of Judge Lynch’s court. This unwarranted and impu- dent reflection upon our institutions is almost be- yond toleration. It is almost as bad as our inten- tion, subsequently revised, to interfere in Russian domestic affairs. The Supervisors of Santa Clara County have ren- dered a distinct service to humanity and have placed the beautiful country under their direction favorably to the consideration of the rest of the people of the State. The Supervisors have ordered severe re- strictions upon the operation of automobiles and have provided precautions for those who must meet these wachines on the roads. An Indiana youth, backward, bashful and awk- ward, secured a hunter’s license the other day and believed that it endowed him with' the privilege to marry the girl of his choice. Perhaps even in his haste he felt that his wooing would have to begin after the wedding ceremony. | braries as there was in his time. {a thing of trash. | be obtained for comparatively small sums, and con- | zmes and $10,306,407 61. | zine, or the taxpayer has a grievance: 'LIBRARIES AND READERS. ! HEN Andrew Carnegie was growing to Wmanhood and bravely working his way to wealth the thing he longed for most acutely and found most difficult to get was a good library. Out of that unsatisfied desire of youth grew a reso- Jution that if ever he became rich enough to do any- thing for poor boys he would found a free library. He has become far richer than he ever dreamed of in his most ardent hours of youthful expectation, and now he is founding or promoting libraries by the score. Having himself felt such a longing for a library, he has of course believed that every one else shared the feeling, and is doubtless surprised to find how coldly his benefactions in that way have been received in many quarters, and how indifferent a very large percentage of the people are to what he deems to be the best thing a community can have. Mr. Carnegie does not perceive that conditions have changed materially in this country since the days when he was a struggling youngster, and that there is now no such pressing need for more li- Books of all grades are cheaper and more plentiful. The book now sold for a dollar or even a dime is no longer necessarily Most of tHe great classics and some of the masterpieces of scientific exposition can sequently men are no longer so dependent on li- braries as of old. Moreover, libraries are themselves more numerous and more abundantly stocked than they were. In our American life, “therefore, a lack of books is by no means regarded as a long-felt want by any considerable number of people. g So rapidly have libraries and books multiplied that some critics complain we are reading too much. The complaint is made not only of us, but of our British cousins, who also have had the free library habit very strong of late years. One of these critics says free libraries “encourage habits of reading for the mere purpose of killing time; they form and confirm the practice of intellectual dissipation; they introduce boys and girls and half-educated young men and women to poems and fictions which, though not ac- tually immoral and warranting inclusion in the Index Expurgatorius, inflame their passions and imagina- tions and have a most disturbing and unwholesome effect; and they place in their way, often with the most disastrous results, works on religious and moral subjects for the perusal of which they are not ripe.” Whether it be true or not that we read too much, it is certain that the increase of libraries in this country is going on at a great rate. At a recent meeting of the American Library Association at Niagara Falls a report was read showing the num- ber of notable gifts to American libraries during the past year. The reports included no giit of less than | $500 in money or less than 2350 volumes. A sum- mary of the report says: “Five hundred and eleven gifts are recorded, representing in all 96,247 vol- Of this amount $715,800 was given for general endowment funds, $86,700 for building sites, $6,679,000 for buildings, from Andrew Carnegie, $1,250,008 55 for buildings from various donors, $108,060 for the establishment of book funds, $101,577 46 for the purchase of books, and $1,363,- 371 60 for purposes which were not stated. This amount is made up for the most part of bequests and | presumably will be used largely for general endow- ment funds.” That is a big showing for a single year, but in all probability it will be exceeded during the year to come. Outside of the mere bigness of the sum, how- ever, there is not so very much on which to con- gratulate ourselves. Authorities who are in a posi- i tion to know the facts assert that our democracy of | insatiable readers demands trash and compels the libraries to furnish it. That is said to be especially | true of public libraries supported by taxation. One | critic says: “The librarian must stock his shelves | with current fiction and display every popular maga- He is not get- ting his pennyworth, and he will criticize and aim to undo the work that the librarian carries on at public | cost if this agency for popular instruction should give its care exclusively to serious literature.” Doubtless the critics are taking a pessimistic view of the situation. They generally do. Still it is grati- | fying to have the issue brought up for study and review. If the readers are demanding the wrong kind of books it may be found necessary for the Car- negies of the future to endow libraries not with | funds to buy mgre books or erect new buildings, but to employ instructors to tell people what to read and how to read it. — It seems an idle waste of time to censure the fre- quent jawbone assaults of William Jennings Bryan upon ex-President Cleveland. These attacks serve | to keep Bryan busy enough to prevent him from the perpetration of other mischief; they probably af- ford him some amusement, and under no possible construction do they work harm to any one. THE PROSPEROUS WEST. P when asked his opinion of the recent flurry among the stockbrokers of New York, an- swered: “We are not worried out here. Our broad acres do not feel the tremors of Wall street.” That statement sums up the subject in a nutshell. Doubt- less there are many persons in the West who have had such close relations with Wall street that they have suffered more or less from the fluctuations in the stock market, but the West generally, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, has not felt even so much as a tremor from the Wall-street shake-up. The wheat States as a rule have remarkable crops despite a shortage here and there. An estimate made up in St. Paul from reports from 300 cor- respondents in various parts of the Northwest is to the effect that the average yield per acre will not be large, but that nevertheless taken as a whole the crop will be a good one. The calculations are that Mignesota will have 90,000,000 bushels, North Da- kota 46,000,000, and South Dakota 36,000,000. From Kansas come glowing reports of a crop so big that there are hardly men, women and children enough to harvest it. One report says: “The sec- retary of the State Board of Agriculture and officers of the San Francisco Railroad estimate this sum- mer’s yield at 100,000,000 bushels, and the officers of the Atchison road make the estimate only five million bushels less. The officers of both roads es- timate the wheat yield in Texas at 25,000,000 bughels, against one-third of that last year, and the yield in Oklahoma at 40,000,000, against less than a third of that last year. * * * In Nebraska the area of wheat is 15 per cent greater than a year ago. and estimates from all parts of the State put the wheat harvest at 80,000,000 bushels. This has never been approached in the State. The crop last year was RESIDENT HILL of the Great Northern, | tics. bushels more than the crop of 1901, while as recently as 1899 the wheat yielded but little more than 20,000,- 000 bushels, or about one-fourth of what the State expects to harvest this summer. These three States and one Territory now promise 240,000,000 bushels of wheat, or more, against less than 120,000,000 bushels last year.” On the Pacific Coast the crops of all kinds prom- ise equally well. Our wheat crop may not come up to early expectations, but other crops will be good. We shall do more than our share in swelling Uncle Sam’s revenue from rural industries. In fact, there is not likely to be any complaint from the railroads of a lack of freight in any part of the West. We are more likely to hear a repetition of the complaints of the past two or three years of a lack of cars and locomotives to handle the freight offered. The West, indeed, is ready for big business. acres have not felt the tremors of Wall street. A New York woman bought an incubator that looked very much like a refrigerator and placed it in her cellar. Then she put two dozen fancy eggs in the incubator and went down town. When the ice- man arrived the husband deposited the ice in the in- cubator instead of the refrigerator. On her return the woman found the eggs frozen and the butter melted. There was first a row and then a fight. Now there is a suit for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. All of which shows that men who manu- facture incubators like refrigerators should be in- dicted for inciting riots and interfering with domes- tic peace. PURE FOOD PROBLEMS. A Food Commissioners held at St. Paul Pro- fessor Wiley of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture made a partial re- port of results-obtained from his experiments with various kinds of preserved foods and announced that a full report would be made in October. The experi- ments have attracted a great deal of attention throughout the country, and many exaggerated reports and misrepresentations concerning - them have been circulated, so it is gratifying to know that the exact truth will soon be made public. A full report of the proceedings of the convention has not reached us, but a summary of the statements of Professor Wiley says: “The result so far as the experiment has gone in relation to prepared foods is that those chemically preserved are not desirable; that foods can be preserved better by simple steriliza- tion, and that only ‘in occasions of emergency or exigency’ is the use of chemical preservatives neces- safly. Professor Wiley says that it may be well not to make absolute prohibition of all preservatives, but that most certainly every food in which a preserva- tive is used should be clearly labeled on the package, so that the purchaser and the consumer should know what he is using. Chemical preservatives in the ultimate, if long used, are harmful. Professor Wiley says that national and State legislation should be made uniform, based on sound hygienic principles, ‘free of any tendency to prosecute or annoy, and supported by an enlightened public opinion both on the part of the producers and consumers of food.” ” There is nothing in that statement to which any honest manufacturer of foodstuffs can justly take ex- ception. The tests made by Professor Wiley of the effects of eating chemically: prepared foods appear to have been sufficiently elaborate to render it safe to draw positive conclusions from them. None of the young men who volunteered to make the tests suffered any great injury, but it seems there was ample evidence to show that chemical preservatives, while not immediately injurious to strong and healthy persons, are, as Professor Wiley puts it, “undesir- able.” That being so, there is no reason why food- stuffs preserved in that way should not be clearly branded as “chemically preserved,” so that con- sumers may know what they are getting. That would be a simple way of doing justice all round and would not in any way interfere with legitimate industry or annoy manufacturers whose preservatives are harm- T a national comvention of State Dairy and | less. — A few weeks more and we will be in the midst of the hubbub, confusion and turmoil of local poli- The orator will be abroad in the land, our be- loved English will be murdered, a new set of officers will be chosen to take the places of the old, and we will all settle down again to the even tenor of old friendships. Friction is life. ’ e ——————— DISCREDITING THE HAGUE. T appears certain that France and Great Britain I are about to enter into a general arbitration treaty for the settlement of all questions that may arise between them or between their respective na- tionals. This takes both nations out of The Hague court, as far as issues between them are concerned, and perhaps it is the beginning of the dissolution of that court before it has been fairly put in operation. Something of this kind was feared when the court was created at the Peace Conference and members of the tribunal were permitted to practice before it. Sir Julian Pauncefote proposed to forbid this, but was ontvoted. Inasmuch as all judicial officers are forbidden to | practice before their own or other courts, it ‘will be seen at once that permission to appear as attorneys before this highest court of its own members is de- structive of its character. Since the nations selected their members of The Hague tribunal the conduct of certain of them has scandalized it. Notable among such acts is that of Von Bar, one of the Ger- man members, who has rented himself out for a fee to write an opinion in reviéw of an international de- cision of which a petty shyster would be ashamed. His conduct is likely to lead to a diplomatic request that Germany withdraw him as a member of The Hague court, and certainly any party to an issue therein will reject him, not only on the ground that being a member of the court he should not sell his opinions, but that the opinions for which he takes a price are full of falsehood and misrepresentation. If France and Great Britain make the propesed agreement The Hague court can be saved only by forbidding practice to its members and by insisting that such disreputable members as Von Bar be taken off the panel. — A man was arrested in Oakland the other day for stealing bread. It is seldom that a single act so ex- poses our boasted humanities and Christian civiliza- tion in their shameful poverty. It is indeed a wretched state in which one must steal to eat and in which we cannot feed ovr poor. An Alameda man went insane the other day dreaming over a fortune which had been bequeathed to him. His condition is almost as sad as the fel- low who dreams that he won the first prize in a lot- <under 53000000 bushels. and that was 10.000.000 ! terv and wakes up before he has a chance to spend it. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1903. Her broad DAKOTA DIVORCE IS NOT VALID IN GREAT BRITAIN LONDON, July 20.—The validity of Da- kota divorces in England was again raised to-day before the President of the Divorce Court, Sir Francis Jeune, In the suit for divorce brought by D. 8. Constandini against his wife, who is -a daughter of Stephen Ralli, a member of the firm of Ralli Brothers, well known in New York as well as in London. The husband charged his wife with bigamously marry- ing Dr. Lance, the family physician. Con- standini obtained a judicial separation from his wife in 1899, John Lawson Walton, counsel for the petitioner, explained the subsequent pro- ceedings as follows: This delicately nurtured lady of Belgravia went to a wild district of the earth, emigrated to the half-settled State of Dakota, became an American citizen, stayed six months there, fraudulently obtained a so-called divorce and married the co-respondent there, thus using the lax a laws for her own purpose. This was fraud on clvilized jurisprudence. The jury found the respondent and co- respondent guilty of adultery, awarding $125,000 damages against Dr. Lance, and also found the petitioner guilty of the counter-charge of adultery. His petition, therefore, was dismissed and argument on the points of law involved was post- poned until to-morrow. —————— PHILIPPINE COMMISSION COMPELS RETRENCHMENT It Is Believed 'l'h:huulu‘ Expenses Will Show a Reduction of 10 Per Cent. MANILA, July 29.—The United States Philippine Commission has been conduct- ing a detalled examination of the heads of the various departments of the Gov- ernment, forcing on them a general policy of retrenchment. The Commissioners have investigated the estimates, cut down items, substituted Filipinos in subordi- nate positions formerly assigned to Amer- icans and have impressed on the chiefs that they must follow the McKinley pol- icy of the elevation of the Filipinos. As a result of the commission’s action it is estimated that the budget for the half year will be reduced from $5,208,408 to $4,216,165 for the Insular Department, and for the city of Manila from $1,407,034 to $969,015, exclusive of permanent improve- ments, which will be made a separate charge. The budget bill has not yet been passed. The commission has adopted a new ar- rangement for the appropriations because previous statements contained over- estimates to the amount of about $1,000,000, which is being returned to the treasu and it is expected that the insular ex- penses will show a general reduction of 8 to 10 per cent. Lieutenant Rucker of St. Louis has been found guilty of embezzlement and sen- tenced to dismissal. —————— SISTER MARY CECELIA DIES AT REDWOOD CITY Pupils of Convent of Which She Was the Head Mourn Loss of Be- loved Woman. REDWOOD CITY, July 29.—Sister Mary Cecelia, the Sister Superior of the convent of Notre Dame for six years past, | died at the convent here this morning from heart failure. The funeral will take place from the Catholic church to-morrow and the body will be sent to San Jose for burial. A re- quiem mass will be celebrated by the Rev. Father Conlan of this place, assisted by the Rev. Fathers Lyons and Braley of Menlo Park. Sister Mary Cecelia at the time of her death was 40 years of age. She was a native of Missourl. Entering the order of which she has ever since been a mem- ber, she prepared herself for a teacher while still very young. Fifteen years ago she came, to San Jose, where she remained until coming to take charge of the con- vent here six years ago. She was an ex- cellent scholar and a talented musician. By her sweet disposition she had endeared herself to all with whom she came in con- tact and especially to the pupils of the convent. Her loss Is deeply mourned by her many friends here. — e MEASURING CHINESE BY BERTILLON SYSTEM New Means of Identification Is Put in Operation at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, July 2.—The Bertillon system of identification of Chinese is now in operation here, the first port in the TUnited States where it has been adopted. Measurements, instead of photographs, are now being taken of Chincse laborers who leave here for foreign countries with the intention of returning to the United States. The system is expected to do away with the fraudulent use af certi- ficates that has caused so much annoy- ance to immigration inspectors. Dr. M. F. Gallagher of Washington, who has just established the system here, left to-day for San Francisco to put it in operation there. It will be installed at Portland, Port Townsend and along the Canadian border. —_—————— RULES GOVERNING ENTRY OF CHINESE ARE CHANGED/ WASHINGTON, July 20.—Taking note of the criticisms that have passed at home and abroad on the application of the Chinese exclusion laws to the incom- ing Chinese who are to set up the Chinese exhibit at the St. Louls exposition, the President has directed a considerable change in the existing rules. The amend- ed rules are now in press, and, it is sald, | will make the entry of Chinese who are not attempting to evade il exclusi laws easy. The Chinese Minister here h: expressed his satisfaction with the changes. —_——————— Traveling Men Elect Officers. MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., July 29.— The fourth annual convention of the Inter- national Federation of Commercial Trav- elers closed to-day with the election of the following officers: President, Louis Lebaume, St. Louls; vice president, C. D. Danfel, Columbus, O.; secretary, Ar- thur L. Sheetz, Omaha, Neb. The rail- road committee stated in its report that the Western Passenger Association has adopted an interchangeable mileage book good on trains in their territory. This is regarded as a great victory for the trav- eling men. e 0il Cars Are Burned. REDDING, July 20.—Two oil cars and caboose of a southbound freight train jumped the track this morning three miles north of Copley and caught fire. The oil cars, although presumably empty, contained enough oil to generate gas and cause an explosion. The men fighting the flames wonderfully enough escaped in- jury from the explosion. The California express was delayed four hours by the wreck. | | | } e Dewey Must Tear Down His Fence. TOPEKA, Kans., July 29.—On orders from the Department of Justice at Wash- ington United States District Attorney 8. Dean has directed C. H. De: , ranchman of Cheyenne County war fame, to tear down eleven miles of fence which partially encloses thirteen sections of Government land. Dewey is orle of fifteen or more ranchmen who are said to have Government land enclosed. 1 MOSAICS ADORN CHURCH FACADE AT STANFORD Special Dispatch to The Call. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 29.— The elaborate new mosaic work on the front of the Stanford Memorial Church was completed to-day and the facade of the church stands as it will for many years to come, a glorious picture amid and above the palms and arches and tiled roofs of the quadrangle. The interior of the great structure is, however, by no means completed. Work was begun soon after the close of the last term smoothing the stone walls of the nave and the artists started to-day with the mosalc work there after finishing the outside. The first of the inlaid pictures on the face of the church represents with fig- ures of heroic size and exquisite bits of natural scenery “The Sermon on the Mount,” and was completed a year ago. The later work has been above the arches of the entrance. It is a beautifully colored floral decoration in mosaic, surrounding four figures representing Love, Faith, Hope and Charity. The inscription has likewise been sent in a background of gold mosaic and the smaller spaces filled with conventional floral designs. One of the most beautiful additions to the church since its dedication is the carving on the arches of the entrance. It has ‘all been most delicately executed in the stone by hand and in ljke manner the columns have been fluted. Owing to the immense amount of work to be done on the interior, it Is rumored that the church will not be used for ser- vices during the coming year. High scaf- foldings have been erected and the seats of a large part of the church, as well as the large organ, have to be covered up. The Italian artists will be engaged for probably a whole year on the work al- ready designed. In the basement of the church they have opportunity to spread out the designs in glass and give all the finishing touches. Already four of the great Old Testament scenes which will line the walls of the nave are ready to be put up. The walls of the nave will hold eight of these pictures, each about 12x7 feet in dimensions. The clestory walls will be covered with floral designs and very elaborate mosaics, whose designs have not yet been chosen, are to be placed last of all in the organ gallery around the rose window. —_—— LONDON BANKER OPPOSES CHAMBERLAIN PROGRAMME Governor F. O. Schuster Says Amer- ica’s Industrial Position Is Not Attractive. LONDON, July 20.—Governor F. O. Schuster at a meeting of the Union Bank of London, Limited, to-day made a lengthy reference to the British fiscal con- troversy. While he welcomed an inquiry into the fiscal policy of the Government, the whole tenor of Schuster's remarks was opposed to tampering with free trade. He expressed the belief that the United States was within measurable distance of adopting free trade and in support of this said he had a private interview with the late President McKinley two years ago, in which the latter said: My tariff bill has done its work. We have been able to build up many great industries in a short time, and now gradually but inevi- | tably our tariff must be reduced. Schuster contended that America’s in- dustrial position under protection was “not entirely attractive, nor are its work- ingmen contented.” —————— CUBAN MALCONTENTS KILLED OR CAPTURED Four Men Who Incite to Treason in Santiago Province Come to Grief. HAVANA, July 29.—The efforts of four men to cause an uprising in the vicinity of Bayamo, province of Santiago, have ended in the capture of their leader and the killing of the other three. The four men for weeks endeavored to exgite the people to treason and violence on the ground that the revolutionary forces had not been pald and were not likely to be paid. Secretary of the Interior Yero in- formed the correspondent of the Asso- clated Press that this effectually ends the only semblance of an uprising in Cuba. ——e————— YOSEMITE VALLEY. In One Way and Out Another Over the Double Loop of the Merced-Santa Fe. The Merced-Santa Fe Route passes Bowers Cave, New Inspiration and Oh My Points and through the Merced and Tuolumne Big Tree Groves. The stage passes through a tunnel cut in the “Dead ‘Glant” of the Tuolumne Grove. It's the scenic way. Special low rate tickets, including all expenses for a five, scven or ten days' trip. All about it at the Santa Fe, 641 Market st. . —————— Cruiser Sinks a Steamship. PLYMOUTH. July 29. — The British third-class cruiser Melampus collided with and sank the British steamer Ruperra off the Lizard last night. The crew was saved. The damage sustained by the Me- lampus will necessitate docking her for repairs. SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS KANSAS—Reader, City. Kansas is In- dian, and means smoky water. DYING WORDS—Subscriber, City. The dying words of Thomas Jefferson were: «T resign my soul to God; my daughter to my country.” - » INFALLIBILITY—Subscriber, City. In- fallibility of the Pope in regard to faith and morals was decreed by the Vatican Council and promulgated July 18, 1870. ELECTION OF THE POPE—Subscri- ber, City. The manner of electing a Pope | has been fully described in the columns i of The Call since the death of Pope Leo. TOPAZ—A. C., City. It theotona: took its name from a Greek word .meaning guess, since the ancients could only guess at the locality from which. the stone came. RECREATION GROUNDS-S., City The recreation grounds in San Francisco were closed down as a ball ground in the fall of 1883. Andy Piercy was the lessee of the grounds at the time. FROGS—Subscriber, Santa Crus, Cal. Any bookseller can procure books on frog culture. - Frogs sell in the San Francisco market at from 25 cents to §2 per dozen, according to the size and demand for frogs’ legs. SACRAMENTO SHERIFF—Subscriber, Colusa, Cal. The first Sheriff of Sacra- mento County was Joseph McKinney, who was elected April 1, 1350, to serve two years. He was killed In the performance of duty near Brighton August 15, 180. In September of the same year Ben MecCul- lough was elected to fill the vacancy. AIRSHIP—A Subscriber, City. This de- partment has for its purpose the giving to people of information upon all topics that are of general Interest when an answer to the question can be obtained, but it does not advise people as to what to do with stock they may hold in airship companies or other concerns. Questions relative to investments, reliability of individuals or firms are not answered in this depart- ment. is said that DEATH AND TAXES-—Reader, Oak- land, Cal. “Death and taxes” are cer- tain® is not quite correct. The words were first used by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to M. Pomeroy, a distinguished Frenchman. In the letter Franklin wrote: “Our constitution is in actual operation: everything appears to promise that it will last, but in the world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” THE SEASONS—C. C., Red Biluff, Cal Generally speaking, we say that winter commences with December 1, spring with March 1, summer with June 1 and au- tumn with September 1. Astronomically that is not correct. The winter solistice is the meridian passing through the point where it touches the Tropic of Capicorn December 21: the summer solistice, the other solistial point, is the one which touches that tropic June 21. Both the spring and autumnal seasons are marked by the sun crossing the equator on March 20 and September 22, respectively. CONQUAIN—Subscriber, Lake Tahoe, Cal. The game asked about is not con- con nor koon-can, but conquain. As to the particular rule asked for, it is: “A player need not use any card drawn, but if he has upon the table any combination in which it can be used his adversary may force him with it, even after it has been declined. For instance, a player has eight cards down, two sequences of four small cards each, and In his hands a palr of kings. Another king will make him game, but if he has to depend on his se- quences to put him out he will have to get three more cards. Suppose he draws a card that will fit one of his sequences, it is to his advantage to pass it; but upon laying it on the table his adversary may take it up and force him with it by plac- ing it at the end of his sequence, at the same time saying ‘discard.” In the same manner one of the players holding one of the cards of his adversary’'s sfow-down, sequence or triplet, may force after using a card by placing his discard on his ad- versary’s sequence instead of laying it on the table. If it is laid on the table the adversary may pass it once by turning it down, and it is then too late to compel him to use it. Suppose you think your adversary holds two cards of an un- played sequence and has a triplet on the table; if you can use one of those se- quence cards in his hand to advantage and can force him by giving him the fourth card of his triplet, which s of no use to you, you should do so. But you must remember that you cannot fores except after using a card yourself, be- cause you are not allowed to discurd un- der any other circumstances.” praniasieremmendEN Townsend's California glace frults and ey ooy e g B Eastern t XeS. ice nt for friends. Ti5 Market st., above Call bidg, o pusOsmssdbes Boncsctin o Special information dally business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 * ——— A Philadelphia teamster has been ar- rested for driving his team over a golf course. Outing Girl's| | New Picture Fad | You’ll Never Guess What It Is Until You See the Full Page of Dar- ingly “Strenuous” Photographs From Mountain and Seashore in the NEXT SUNDAY CALL THE PRICKLY PIG WHY YOUR PHOTOS ARE BAD. By Charles Taylor Jr. Also Two of the Best Short Stories of the Season, Which, of Course, Are Exclusive of the Clever Half-Hour Storiette Page. ——ALSO— TABLES FOR THE FOOLISH. NO. 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