The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1903, Page 6

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NTATIVE: Trihune STANDS: | Great Northern Hotel, | BRANCH OFFICES—827 Monigomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 638 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untf] $:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 c'olock. 1008 Va- | Jencin, cpen untli § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 N corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open w2200 Fillmore. open until ® p. m. ! o' clock entil § PROSPERITY AND CURRENCY. | R more Hill are encouraging to the hopes of those who | at it is to have an efficient meas- | the coming It appears that as yet the FEPORTS concerning the conference of the Republican members of the Senate Finance | Committee with President Roosevelt at Saga- | realize how import on enacted at ure of curre extra session gress e have not formulated a ns of the commit ¢ to be reported w Congress meets, gput | have agreed that a bill shall be reported and that it shall contain ample provisions e y to our currency while carefully | gers of an excessive issue of | on of some of the eaders of the House of which so much was heard | The reports add that the oppos in the summer has ‘been virtually abandoned, car the Republicans of the House will in the y co-operate with those of the Senate | the passage of the desired act. Thus s decidedly more promising than it was | a few weeks ago, and there is now ample rea for holding sanguine expectations of the out a « of the prolonged There is nothing surpr f opponents of the their oppos! n | in the fact that some | osed reform who were poken i t time ago have The events of the | cient to con- f the situation fect in our currency system; me ov past two or three weeks ince almost any intellig that there is a rad that i er adequate to the needs of a coun- try whose commerce and industry are expanding so | ly. It is true we have not had this year | which | of & is no lon market a stringency ke that occurred last yes Treasury to go and forced, the Secretary of the to the assistance of the banks, but | nevertheless there has been enough to show that we | are running big risks in trying to conduct our busi- ness on the present currency basis. The contrast between the abounding prosperity of the country and the uncertain state of affairs in the fficient to prove the need ‘of providing for elasticity in the currency, so that there may be no stringe in the financial centers at the | season when money thdrawn for use in harvest- | ing and marketing the crops of the great agricultural | States. Of course much of the trouble in Wall street | was caused by excessive speculation due to an over- confidence in the abi of the big trusts and mergers to hold their stocks and securities up to the high ‘ ievels they reached during the boom time; but even | when ample allowance is made for the effects of | speculation there remains enough of disturbance to | show that overspeculation has not been the cause of | all the trouble, or perhaps even the sole cause of any 3 of it. We have no lack of wealth, nor any lack of real capital. The one lack is a currency that automati- cally responds to the needs of business. Of our pros- p.rity Secretary Wilson recently “Industries are all prospering. Hardly are our manufacturers able to supply the demands made on them. The farmers are busy everywhere, getting fair prices for their products. Laborers are all employed every- where; no one is idle who wants work. Money is plentiful. Speaking for the Northwest, in which my‘i home is situated, I can say that the people do not } know what to do with their money. In agricultural districts of the Northwest to find investments they have gone into British Columbia and Western Can- nda and bought up the rich and cheap farming lands there. Taking things all in all, one finds a great pe- riod of prosperity for both capital and labor. They are certainly hundreds of millions of dollars richer than before the present period of prosperity began.” Yet with all that showing of industry and prosperity we have bankers in all parts of the country talking over the dangers of the situation and pointing out the need of caution until the harvests have been mar- keted and business returns to its normal level. great stock market s s Wi California’s building at the St. Louis Exposition will soon be under way, and the structure that is to house the concrete expression of our industries, it is to be hoped. will be an object of attention and of admiration. The people of the State must see that observers will not look only upon a shell. | cause of liberty and Christianity. | be accepted for what it is worth, but so long as the W BALKAN DISPATCHES. ARLY in the year, while the blasts of winter E were blowing round the Balkan mountains, the spokesmen of the Macedonian Committee in- formed the world that with the coming of spring there would be war. The words were bold and the menace seemed imminent, so that a good many folks watched the months pass in high expectations that when gentle spring with her ethereal mildness came the Macedonians would rise with the blossoming of the roses and make the land blood red. The date of the rising was fixed for April 1, but it was not an All Fools' day in that country, so the peo- ple stayed at home to eat their rye bread and garlic in peace instead of rising up to fight for annexation to Bulgaria. The European concert looked over the situation and, sceing no war in sight, promptly claimed credit for maintaining peace and set all its diplomatists to work assuring mankind that it would continue to maintain it. Now the spring has gone and summer is nearing its end, and lo! the promise of the concert of powers is seen to have been about as futile as the menace of the revolutionists. The up- rising which did not take place on April 1 iy fixed for August 31, and the “peace” maintained in the spring has been nothing more than a prolonged pe- riod of disturbance. Between the manifestos of the committee and the whispered assurances of the diplomatists of the con- cert there are such wide divergences that the most careful student of the progress of events in the Bal- kans finds it impossible to form a fixed opinion on a single phase of the situation. There is an old Span- ish legend that the water, of the Hassayampa, a stream in Arizona, has such a magic quality that those who drink of it never tell the truth again. | Evidently the leaders of the committee and the diplo- matists of the concert are Hassayampers, and we shall never know the truth about the Balkans until we search it out for ourselves. The whole situation is involved in confusion, and the dispatches are a string of inconsistencies. For example, those of yesterday from Sofia stated, among other things, that the Mohammedans are slaughtering the Christians of Macedonia, that young men of Bulgaria are hastening to the mountains to join the Macedonian bands, that the Bashi Bazouks are com- mitting terrible outrages, and then g on to add: “The most astonishing feature of the situation here is the remarkable quietude with which the people have received the news of the fresh rioting in Macedonia. | The whole outbreak came as a great surprise, even fion to the local revolutionary committees, which were not prepared for so early a rising. In spite of the stir- | ring appeals of the committee, little or no popular enthusiasm is apparent, not even among the 20‘,000 Macedonian residents of Sofia.” So the Macedonians of Sofia are not aroused by the terrible stories of slaughter and massacre told so luridly by the patriots of the committee, and their apathy is deemed something astonishing. Perhaps, however, they do not believe the stories. They are less many means of learning what is going on. It may be they regard the whole agitation as a spectacu- lar performance. In that case it would be astonish- ing if they were anything other than indifferent. One of the significant features of the situation is is popularly supposed to have been the instigator of the abduction of our American missionary, Miss Stone, who was held for a high ransom, which we had to pay. The followers of Boris assert that when he carried off Miss Stone he had no other object than that of raising a fund for the maintenance of the The defense will Macedonian cause has a leader who practices such tactics it will not be surprising if the Macedonians | of Sofia continue to be indifferent to the war and remain at home, where they are not liable to be ab- ducted and held for ransom. Moreover, if the patriotic Boris wishes sympathy among the Ameri- can people who paid the ransom for Miss Stone he must publish a signed statement with vouchers show- ing that he spent the money for liberty and Chris- tianity and not for some kind of a Bulgarian blow- out. In the meantime dispatches from Sofia, Bel- grade and Constantinople will be accepted among | reports ¢lassified as “interesting if true.” e e In a divorce proceeding in London recently the learned English jurist gave the sought-for decree to duct had been provoked by the actions of the wife. This increased heavy burden to the already grave responsibilities of English wives suggests that the emancipation of the uniortunate creatures might be legitimately a subject of concern to a charitably in- clined world. CHAMBERLAIN'S PROGRAMME. HILE no announcement has been made by Mr. Chamberlain himself of the plan of tax- ation by which he would establish a system of protection for British and colonial industries, the discussion of the subject in the press has reached a point where a well defined budget begins to emerge from the mass of glittering generalities. It is now seemingly accepted by the public that when the scheme is formulated it will consist of a shifting of taxation from one set of imports to another. Goods now admitted free will be compelled to pay duties, that in the end the cost of the food of the people will not be increased. The Birmingham Post has presented a detailed statement showing how the plan can be worked out. It proposes that “free trade food taxes,” which now yield a revenue of £13,000,000, be repealed, and also that the tobacco duty be reduced to the extent of £2,000,000, making an annual reduction of customs revenue of £15000,000. To compensate the treasury for that reduction it suggests that protective or “preferential” duties be levied according to the fol- lowing table: Tariff on foreign manufactures (10 per cent on £75,000000 paid by foreign competitors). 3s per quarter, or 91 a cwt., on foreign wheat (last year 80,000,000 cwt., reckoning flour in equivalent welght of grain) ............ceeean Lower rates upon other foreign grains and farming produce *. 4s per cwt., or 6d a stone, on foreign meats £ 7,500,000 8,000,000 2,000,000 2,700,000 TOtal oovirrnniin coniniriiaiien caes cereenean. . £15,200,000 It will be seen that the statement figures out a revenue from the proposed duties which will exceed the reductions by £200,000 a year. It is expected that the reduction of the tax on tea, coffee and other so- called “free trade food taxes” will balance in the FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, foreign meatstuffs. Furthermore, Chamberlain holds out to workingmen a promise of steadier work and better wages. The free-traders are now trying to deny the value of the Birmihgham argument, for it seems to be regarded as a safe forecast of what the issue will be when officially made up for submission to Parliament and the people. To an American the most interesting feature of | the proposal is that the tax is much higher on im- ports of manufactures than on imports of foodstuffs. It looks more like a measure for the protection of the British manufacturer than for that of the colonial and the home farmer. This goes far to confirm the statement made quite frequently of late that the new policy of protection is to be supported by a large campaign fund subscribed by manufacturers of Bir- mingham and elsewhere, and that the fight against free trade is going to be led and waged by the very class of men who some fifty years ago overthrew the old system of protection. The process 6! removing dishonest attorneys from the practice of their trade in Honolulu is progressing | merrily, and undoubtedly with very excellent resuits | to the community. [t is always safe to say that such a proceeding in any community is never unnecessary. The craft as a rule generally stand together for com- | mon protection. S ——— | AUSTRALIAN PROSPECTS. | USTRALIA has selected the site for her fed- | A eral capital and has thus taken another step tually make her a nation | Furthermore, she has at last seen a break in instead of a federation. that | prolonged period of drought or scant rains that has so materially injured her people and blighted her | high hopes. Late reports tell of a rainfall which ex- 'tended over well nigh the whole continent, and which in most places was sufficiently abundant to as- | sure good pasturage for sheep and cattle and rich | harvests of grain for the farmers. i With the coming of the rains the long depression {in industry will cease, and as a consequence her peo- ple will have less of social and political pessimism. | It is a familiar fact that in free countries where some- | thing like universal suffrage prevails the popular vote is largely affected by the condition of crops and | the markets for produce. When prosperity prevails | the people vote with the Government, but when hard | times come the tendency is to vote for the opposi- | Furthermore, in times of adversity a people are inclined to listen credulously to the appeals of | calamity howlers and to follow the leadership. of | demagogues, so that the natural evil of the situation | is often made worse by imposing political evils upon lit. We have had experiences of that kind ourselves, | but of late the Australians have had a far worse ex- | perience than any recorded in our annals. | So serious were the labor, industrial and political !complexi(ies arising out of the drought in the Aus- | tralian provinces that for a time it looked as if the | near to the scene of the disturbance and have doubt- | federation would go to pieces. Report after report came of popular discontents against the new govern- ment and its new taxes. Cattle and sheep were per- | ishing by thousands, farmers were being ruined, mer- | chants were failing, factories shutting down, and the 3 > | cities swarmed with unemployed men demanding | |the appearance of Boris Saraffof as chief of the | \york and wages. The new federation found itself | patriot Christians. The said Boris is the man who | 13unched on a stormy sea. sIt was difficult to get clear | way for any kind of progress, and it is highly credit- | able to the Australian people and Australian states- | men that the difficulties were overcome and dangers | evaded and the ship of state guided safely through | the storm. Now everything appears promising. The controversy over the location of the capital is ended. | The drought is broken. Good times are coming. The Australian federation is permanently established be- | yond all doubting, and we shall hear no more inti- | mations of the probability of its breaking up. | e e s The Paris horror in which more than one hundre: persons met death as animals caged in a horrid pi is another fearful illustration of what penalties we pay for our boasted progress. And the fact that the name of not one of the victims was worth the while of being sent out to the world tells also how much the individual counts in the advance of the nations. AMERICAN DIVORCES. HE English Judge who has criticized and an- nulled an American divorce is breeding trouble for somebody. An English lady, attracted to | the husband on the ground that the latter's miscon- | Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by the blandishments of | the climate and the sogial advantages of that water | power, took up her residence there and in due time became a naturalized citizen of the United States. | She carried her expatriation so far as to desire a | legal separation from her lord and master, as well as a political separation from her sovereign and king. Therefore she looked over the stock of divorces kept on tap in Sidux Falls and purchased one. Thereafter she married again. against her second for $125,000 damages, and has just got judgment for that amount. ‘We make no criticism of that judgment. be gratifying to the new husband that he had secured a wife who, although second-hand goods, is judicially appraised at such a high figure. But we do object to the remarks with which the English Judge, Sir Fran- cis Jeune, and the first husband’s counsel garnished the proceedings. The first husband, who besides other disabilities is ngmed Constandinidi, ‘obtained a judicial separation from his wife in England in 1890, | while other goods now taxed will be made free, so | which the lady finished by her Dakota divorce. The court and counsel concurred in this offensive expres- sion: “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, fraudulently obtained a so-called divorce and married the co-respondent. This was a fraud on civ- ilized jurisprudence.” That Judge would better tread softly. The civiliza- tion of South Dakota is superior to that of Belgravia, and many of the best divorces now in use in this country and Europe have been furnished there. Judge Jeune is president of the English divorce court, and no divorce ever manufactured by him has worn bet- ter than the Sioux Falls product. “Civilized juris- prudence,” indeed! Just let an American court, and especially a South Dakota court, catch one of Sir Francis Jeune’s divorces running around in this coun- try and it will be shown up as a fake, a counterfeit and a fraud. ——————— A Missouri flyer was wrecked a few days ago and only twenty-one persons were desperately injured. The railroad officials took the wreck as a matter of course and point with pride to the fact that only twenty-one men and women will be maimed for life fot daring to hazard themselyes on a railroad train. ‘hfiu;&ylofthenmmdm:mordhwm- average family the increase in the cost of bread and | parafively zood. 1 in that process of unification which will even- | Her first husband brought suit | It must | AUGUST 14, 1903. CITIZENS ASK THAT STREETS BE CLEARED George H. Roundey appeared before the Supervisors’ Street Committee yesterday | and requested that obstructions be or- dered removed from Wayland and Felton streets between La Grande and San Bruno avenues. .oundey s d that the | fences prevent voters from reaching their polling places, except by following a cir- cuitous route alon Silver avenue. The | committee declded to investigate the com- plaint. M. J. Dunn asked that action be taken to construct a sewer in Liberty street, be- tween Church and Sanchez. Duna sald | that one Bell refused to sign a private | contract for the work and Assistant Sec- retary Keogh of the Board of Works said that contractors refuse to bid under pro- ceedings for public contract, owing to a | question of grades, Mr. Bell was cited to appear before the committee next} Thursday. The committee reported in favor of | grading Lake street between Twenty- | fourth and Twenty-sixth avenues to offi- | clal line and the full acceptance of Hyde | street, between Greenwich and Lombard. | The committee approved the designation by the Board of Works of a bituminous | pavement on New Monrgomery street from Market to Mission, already recom- | mended for full acceptance. i The petition of the American District | | Telegraph Company to establish a night | watch for fire alarm system was with- | | drawn. PECREEEE e FILES ANNUAL REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARY 1Boaxd of Trustees Strongly Urges the Establishment of An- other Branch. The report of the Board of Trustees of { the Public Library for the fiscal year 1802-03 was filed with Mayor Schmitz yes- | terday. The report shows that the re- ceipts were $74,223 13, including a balance of $8127 21 from 1%01-02, and the disburse- | ments $66,142 67, including the erection of | a new branch on Sacramento street at a cost of $2783 60, and a new elevator cost- ing $2160, leaving a surplus of $5080 46. There are now in the main library and | six branch libtaries 150,884 volumes and | | 88,630 borrowers’ cards in force. The re- port continues: During the year 792,207 volumes were drawn | for use at home and 250,000 volumes read in | the libraries, making a total of 1042,582 voi- umes. If the library s to keep abreast of the | times it should have $10,000 a year to purchase | 00KS, The sum of $11.333 15 was expended for new books and periodicals. Binding cost $3528 5s. A new branch library is urgently needed in some place yet to be selected by the board of | trustees. The sum of $2617 00 was collected from 31,507 fines. e L5 R Wants Alleged Nuisance Abated. R. W. Coffin of 426 Guerrero street, peti- tioned the Supervisors yesterday to re- scind the permits granted to the Standard Milk Company to maintain a steam en-| | gine and boiler on the premises adjoining. Coffin says the company makes life un-| bearable by reason of the great noise day | and night, and the nuisance should be | abated. ————— SENTIMENT RULES JURORS AND THEY DISOBEY COURT Four Men Refuse to Render Verdict in Accordance With Instruc- tions of Judge Kerrigan. The trial of the suit in ejectment brought by John D. Doherty against Ha- nora Courtney came to an abrupt ending in Judge Kerrigan's court yesterday. The | jury was discharged because four of its | members, despite the fact that they were | instructed to do so, refused to return a | verdict in favor of the plaintiff. The jurymen who refused to obey the in- | structions of the court were James Wil- | king of the CUff House, Adolph Green- | berg, Rollin C. Ames and W. R. Wrights. Their refusal was undoubtedly due to the influence of sentiment, as the law was plainly for the plaintiff. Doherty re- cently purchased from Rev. John Pious Murphy, O. P., a house on McAllister | treet, near Fillmore. The priest ac-| uired it from Mrs. Catherine Black, she | | having deeded it to him in trust for the | Dominican Order a few days before her | death. Mrs. Courtney is a sister of Mrs. | | Black, and she has occupied the house | since the date of her sister's death, re- fusing to move therefrom at the reque-'.l of the new owner. He brought suit to| eject her and considerable evidence prin- cipally for the plaintiff, was heard. It was therefore a great surprise when the four jurors refused to accept the instruc- tions of the court and oust Mrs. Court- | ney. —_—— SAYS HIS DAUGHTER HAS ELOPED WITH OLDER MAN | Deputy Sheriff Lambert of Salinas Notifies Clerk Danforth Not to Issue License. Marriage Clerk Danforth received a | telephone message yesterday from Depu- | | ty Sherift Lambert of Salinas that the | | latter's daughter, Annie Lambert, had | eloped with & man named George Burden. The runaways left Salinas on last Wednesday evening's train and are be- | lieved to have come to San Francisco. The couple desired to get married in Sa- | linas, but as Lambert's daughter is only ! 15 and Burden is 38 parental consent could | not be obtained. They therefore conclud- ed to elope with the intention of wedding somewhere else. Lambert asks Danforth in his telegram not to issue a marviage license to the couple should they ask for one. Up to 5 o'clock last evening ne such rcquest had. been made. ——— CALIFORNIA PIONEERS PROVE JOVIAL HOSTS Hold Reception at Their Headquar- ters and Pleasantly Receive Several Hundred Guests. The members of the Soclety of Cali- fornia Ploneers gave a reception last evening at their headquarters to dedi- cate their new assembly hall. Many in- vitations were sent out and during the evening several hundred guests pald a vieit to the hall and admired the beau- tiful decorations and the pretty arrange- ments of the electric lights. Refresh- ments were served and an orchestra fur- nished music for those who cared to dance. » Roberts Vandercook was floor manager, while Judge J. J. de Haven, president of the society, and many other meémbers stood at the door and acted as a very cordial reception committee. e Nautical Expert Wanted. A United States Civil Service Examina- tion is announced for September 16 in this city for the position of nautical expert in the Hydrographic Office, Navy Depart- ment, at $1000 per annum. Age limit, 2 ears or over. Apply to the United States | vil Service mission, Washington, | D. C., or to the secretary of the Consoli- dated Board of Civil Service Examiners, | ! next door. { than the other the board concluded that MORE TEACHERS AND MORE NEW SCHOOLHOUSES The Board of Education held an execu- tive sesslon yesterday for the purpose of deciding on the establishment of several new classes In schools where the attend- ance has become greatly congested. The | question ofassignments was also discussed and it was practically decided to elect at least five teachers for the present day eligible list as substitutes in the school department. Superintendent of Schools Langdon was present at the conference and his observations of existing condi- tions in the schools largely governed the board in arriving at its decision. The eligibles who will be elected into the department are in all likelthood C. J. Telfer, Mabel O. Benjamin, Josephine M. Hopkins, Marfe d'Erlach and Joan Mul- lin, it being the policy of the board to select those standing the next highest on the eligible list. One of the schools at which it has been decided to establish a new class is the Garfleld on Telegraph HIill, where the | number of puplls s largely on the in- crease. An outside room has been rent- ed for the purpose and the assignment thereto will be made at next Wednesday's meeting of the board. Another school where the need of a new class is impera- tive Is the Monroe. A portable school will be utilized for this class and an ex- periment will be made with a portable schoolhouse now In use in the Oakland school department. The Sunnyside School will in all proba- biiity have a portable schoolhouse to take care of the overflow. Director Mark ex- pressed himself in favor of sending to that school the portable schoolhouse now | serving as an addition to the Jackson or Park School. TiHfe owner of the lot on which the school stands has notified the board that he will raise the rent of the lot from $10 to $35, but the board will de- cline to pay the increase. It will pref- erably remove the portable schoolhouse to the Sunnyside School. No definite con- clusion was arrived at in regard to the other two classes proposed to be estab- lished. The question of the overflow at the Chi- nese public school on Clay street was also discussed. Some time ago the schqol was moved from the old building to the one As the old building is larger it would be advisable to move back again instead of renting another outside room and this will probably be done. Superintendent Langdon issued a circu- lar yesterday showing that he had dis- tricted the schools for convenience of su- pervision. The schools north of Market are in District 1 under Deputy Superin- tendent Heaton and those south of Mar- ket are under Deputy Suzzalo. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Ralph Hogan of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. is at the Palace, ‘Willilam R. Thorsen, a prominent lum- berman of Milwaukee, Is registered at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. G. F. Shiels are up from their home in San Mateo and are stop- ping at the Palace. General A. G. Whissert, an attorney of Milwaukee, who is a delegate to the G. A. R. Encampment, arrived from the East yesterday ard is registered at the Call- fornia. of San Juan i Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—The following Caiifornians are in New York; From San Francisco—Dr. 1. R. Fenner, at the As- tor; H. A. Cohen, at the Victoria; E. H. Cole, at the Sinclair; F. Coole, W. A. Fry and C. H. Rohwer, at the Grand Union; Miss H. P. Deman, at the Gilsey; Miss M. Kearner and B. Hecht, at the Manhattan; R. Hanford, at the Herald Square; Miss N. O'Nefl and J. McK. Rankin, at the Marlborough; R. Peech, at the Morton; P. 8. Teller and wife, at the Imperial. From Los Angeles—H. M. Boscher, at the Grand Union. From San Diego—D. C. Collier, at the Herald Square. — et Petitions in Insolvency. Petitions in insolvency were filed yes- terday In the United States District Court as follows: George E. Wootten, saloon- keeper, Corning, Tehama County, liabili- ties $3565. assets $1599; M. S. Blount, a widow, San Francisco, labilities as pro- prietor of the Capital grocery, Salt Lake City, $2637, as keeper of a boarding-house in Topeka, Kans., $1252, total liabilities SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS HANDSHAKING—Etiquette.City. When a lady is introduced to a gentleman, it is | tor the lady to decide whether she will offer her hand. FIRE COMM ramento, Cal Francisco Board o is Rolla V. Watt. ISSIONER—A. J. J., Sac- The president of the San f Fire Commissioners k- OCEAN STEAMERS—Subscriber, Oa land, Cal. The cost of bullding and fur- ‘nishing a modern ocean steamer Is trom $600,000 to $1,400.000. - F. M CALIFORNIA'S QUOTA-J. A o City. Callfo‘rnln is credited 'lvi!h having turnished 15,72 men to the Union army during the Civil War. V. does, TORNADO—W. H. B, City ‘Torna observation proves, always travel toward the east or northeast. There is no record of any taking a different direction. STAMPS—R., Fruitvale, Cal. The post- master in your district can procure for you a complete set of the new postage stamps of the United States at face value. CIVIL SERVICE—A Subscriber, City. Whenever there is to be an examination for eligibles in the Police Department «if San Francisco the fact is announced sev- eral days before in The Call and other dallies. POKER—Player, City. A writer on the game of poker answers your question in these words: “It is contrary to the whole spirit of the game to make a player an- nounce what he is drawing to or what he discards.” PRACTICE OF MEDICINE-E., Mari- posa, Cal. To ascertain what the law is in regard to the practice of medicine in Mexico and South America address a let- ter of Inquiry to the United Stat Consul in the City of Mexico and to such officials in the principal cities of South America, as Buenos Ayres, Rio de Janeiro, Valpa- raiso, Panama, Guayaquil and San Jose (Costa Rica). SERVICE—O. 8., City. i t his native coun:;y'. :: e was bound under the ;;;cc.:mh military service, without having performed such service, and should come to the United States, become a natural- ized citizen and serve In the army, that would not exempt him from military ser- vice in his own country should he return there. The United States protects its naturalized citizens from the time they become such, but does not interfere in obligations they owe their native coun- try before naturalization. MILITARY a foreigner lef! NATIONAL HOLIDAY — Thirty-year Subscriber. There is no national holiday in the United States, not even the Fourth of July. Congress has at various times appointed special holidays. In the second session of the Fifty-third Congress an act was passed making Labor day a public holiday in the Distriet of Columbia, and it has recognized the existence of certain days as holidays for commercial purposes, but with the exception named there is no general statute on the subject. The proc- lamation of the President designating a day of thanksgiving only makes it a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and in those States which provide by law for it. TATTOO MARKS-T. C. H., Livermore, Cal. There are many so-called methods for the removal of tattoo marks. The Jatest is that given in the Pharmadeutical Era. It is called the digestion of the subcutaneous pigment by papoid and is deseribed as follows: “The tattooed part is well washed with soap and water, & bunch of six or eight cambric needles bound together with silk thread is dipped | in glycerole of papold and driven with a sharp blow into the tattooed part. This {s repeated over the entire stain and must be thorough to be effective. A peculiar- ity of the method is said to be that it causes no inflammatory reaction. The digestive principles of the papold is dis- seminated about the deposit of pigment, thus liberating it, a portion is absorbed in a finely divided state by the lymphat- fcs, another part probably finds its way into the upper layers of the epidermis and close to the surface, and in this man- ner the pigment disappears. —————————— Townsend's California glace fruits and $3389, no assets. Special information supplied dally to business Bouses and public by the The dream of a great soclety woman's | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 330 Call faneral in the Wasp's goesip. + | fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 . e R = T =————— oy ey I sublime narratives ever penned. hands and lc-ing care. of the most dramatically thrillin Grand Army of the Republic that vivid reality, but to those of the writer and the painter alone. the best battle scenes ever painted War from beginning to end. torial panorama of notable pictures ever uc “Sherman’s March to the And in the line of fiction the offer. what sentiment, too, B R A N A A A A R BB .~ eeercesesscscsssss sesesss o And in a di sentiment crystalll i r’ul ized into carrier if you do not get next Sunday Call. Kot fhis er ON FAMOUS RATTLEFIELDS F the complete story could be told of the devotion and suffering. of the privations and heroic sacrifices of all the brave women who nursed the wounded and the dying on both sides in the bloody conflict be- tween the North and South it would be one of the grandest, Even when recorded in briei their ca- reers speak volumes for the dangers they braved to minister with gentle “Oh, what breaking hearts many mothers are still carryin i boys buried in graves marked ‘Unknown,’'” says 'l]‘ri. Mar:"]” 'Bh:: ton, one of these fifty-eight fair veterans of that bloody conflict who have written two full pages of personal anecdotes of their service in the hos- pital, the bivouac and the battlefield. She not only consecrated her life to nursing the wounded throughout the entire war, but gave two brothers to the cause at Fredericksburg and a brother-in-law at Gettys- burg, and the anecdote of which those few lines are the prelude is one ever pen: -ei saw the awful struggle with theif own ‘p;e’n_e‘d.n;rh;.:: &‘:r’::th;fl'omn that each and every one of them has written of from her own peculiar point of view. Those two pages alone will enthrall you. To the veterans whose names make up the roll of homor of the the youn; " spair of that fierce conflict must be s“zn!rlhieov::‘r;n&: :by;h:‘v:h:n:n“i;— Itisa remarkable fact that some of are those depicting our great Civil It is this fact that has enabled The S in i i G. A. R. Edition next Sunday to present m""rg.'lef .-l:-u:“th:sb;tm::l it e e efi::m hgl;‘e: of the war that can 3 nin: 5 it Donelson, these pictures carr: ‘;::u 'Erc:enl oo s Bty X tacular close with the surrender of General scene alone, replete as it is with historical characters, is one of t reprod “The Battle of Shiloh.” “Chattnnooga s ST Sy, Press- X1 Sea.” “The Gettysburg,” Career From West Point to Apm“m:e-“k s k" "Geaat's to tales of love and war. Tust think what m:fl’ next Snm‘h’y Call, for instance. It is battle at L with Then there is "A Giel of the Saatn " and “Trying Him Out,” which latter wi memories to any one who knows anything about war. different way, how B hes that created that h tmltt that will nln;ly. wuhm‘ !lflmlhh:ho'l' hr-d'" .:;“m paes of frvid And last but not least mn wm‘mfifim Supplement— Hiad the rebellion is showi éture with your G. A. R. Edition e the _most war— stupendous struggle must ever be a be offered by a ugh the entire war to its spec- Lee at Appomattox. which he most ) There he Siege of Vicksburz. ete. st has ever been given the Civil War had to There is “Forty Years After” in the a story of the wavering tide of thetic denouement in this city. “Fate's Pence.” “A War Vison™ il bring back the most stiring many know anything about the now. so many ¢ nder his t?nflzm 3 ; e - 0 his beautiful -voiced complaint with your teseccsscsescccssecece coee e T T T = = -