The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, i904. —— | | -Siruck Girls. DAVIS wies.) ave called k my ad- stage. What do them fifteen as Aftcen g » > in one ng on th T m? I give and t whether I have the rock is on earth can s true with the even in a smail What she & 3 girl measure p her needs then she must have energy. A theatrical The girls with talent and the de- will do so in managers old —good the minati “push. er man- ager termination to. succeed spite of all the theatrical and stage managers in the country. To another homely expression, ¥ t start her and you can’t stop her. But 1 have no patience with the girl who thinks that all she needs is good se ou = looks. far on the stage—and only so far for a short time. Stage work is not flippflrrl’ To begin with, it must be taken serf- ously. If a girl has a voice she will find that she has to deny herself many things or isse that precious gift. She will have to study ceaselessly. There never comes a time in her life when she can say, “I have finished my stud- Every day she must study, work, think of her voice. It is not necessary to study acting before a ginger expects to go on the stage. As a matter of fact you can't study acting. Not long ago a fond mother brought her daughter to my house to get ad- vige. The daughter, it seems, had been studying elocution and acting. o 1 said to her, “let's see you do something. Suppose you sing a song and accompany it with gestures.” She did, and such gestures! 1 simply had to laugh. She had tried to make some one give her what she didn't possess— brains. Brains is what a singer needs most of all. Give her that and the rest is easy. It is very important that a girl start young. She should be studying music seriously at 12. She ought not to sing much until she is 14. But after that it must be a continuous round of study. She must learn to read music as readily ax she can peruse a newspaper. Every- thing she can learn about music will be of assistance to her in her stage career. There will come a time when this knowledge will be of great benefit. £he will find lote of people around the stage who think they know about mu- | sic, but don’t. She must be in a posi- ticn to tell those people why they are wrong and she is right when she does a certain thing in a certain manner. Then these ignorant people will have respect for her. As I said before, it iz & case of brains. Every voung girl who can sing and wants to g0 on e stage should study dapcing and fencing. Nothing is more charming in a woman on the stage than gryce, easy ca ge, suppleness. And nothing | a girl these priceless eceomplishme so much as fencing znd dencing. Not that she will have to dange or fence on the stage, but the moveme=ts she will be obliged to go thrcugh with before the fencing and dapcing masters wili give her.body that supplepess which nothing eise can bring about. A singer will that she can- pot dance much upon the stage. Danc- ing affects her breathing. €he may have to go through a few If she wants to sing she will have to give vp everything clse. Another matter of importance. A singer should learn to enunciate dis- tingtly. 1 can Lmagine nothing more wearisome than 2 singer who mumbles her words so that only one-tenth of thom are understood. It would be far better for her to sing in a foreign tongue. Once given the opportunity on the stagp, it remains for the girl herseif io force an advance. Then is the time vhen she must use her brains more than ever. Then comes the chance for her to rhow.her energy, her grit, her push. Oaly thi= spring a girl came to seek my adv told me her whele | ctory. how elalives in Memphis were poor. and how she was forced to realize carly in life that whatever she accomplished must be through her own efforts. She was sure she had a en don't kuow | Beauty will carry a girl only so | | | i 1#"omen on Railroads. i [Former Railroad Editor New York Times and New sen.] | (Copyright, 1901, by Joseph B. Bowles.) ! Women have been coming into the ! | raiiroad business in steadily increasing numbers in recent years until now | they constitute an important factor in { o of the general offices. From the | |r of stenographers and typewrit- | ers theré have been numerous promo- tions of women to places of trust and respensibility, and.there are conspic- |uous instances of the development of | exceptioral ability in a female private secretary, or female head of a cler- | ical department. The presidents of | zome of the largest railroad systems | have as their confidential secretaries ,young vwomen, .and newspaper men i wio have had dealings with this class | of, workers have found them fully as capable and alert, and much more ts nd obliging, than the average | retary. i A calculation based on the number | of female eniployes in five large rail- road offices in New York City indi- cates that about 6 per cent of the cler- ical staff of a railroad is made up of | women. Of the 1,150,000 persons now | by the railroads of this t less than 150,060 are in clerical service, and apply- | ing the proportion of 6-per cent to! 150,000 it is shown that about 9000 women are on the railroad payrolls. There is, furthermore, palpable evi- dence that this proportion is rapidly increasing. The pay of these female clerks ranges from $20 to $60 per month, and in cases where there is un- usual responsibility the competent |young woman wiill draw the same wage that a man would receive in a similar position. The Vanderbilt rail- roads employ about 150 girls and! women in the New York City offices, | mostly in the accounting departments. Mrs. Hetty Green, the shrewd eon- | server of many millions, is perhaps the best known railroad woman in the United ‘States. For several years she ' owned the Texas Midland Railroad and | directed its financial affalrs, while her | son managed the property as president and general manager. Mrs. Green be- | lieves In railroad securities as invest- | ments, and she is an expert analyzer of a railroad report. Within the last two years the experiment of employ- | ing women conductors has been tried | on some of the local passenger trains | on Western railroads. While Mrs. Green mav not have originated this | { idea, she advocated it for a while and | was instrumental in securing positions | as conductors for several women. This ' experiment, however, never met with much success. The physical exactions of a railroad conductor’s life are more {than the average woman can stand. There are a few female conductors who still cling to their jobs, but the ma- “]ur‘l()' of those who have ‘tried such work are ready to admit that the life | is a little too strenuous. As ticket sellers in suburban stations | women have succeeded fairly well, and they are numerously employed in this capacity throughout the country. Where the work is light a woman gives |as complete satisfaction as a man and | she gets jess pay. President A. J. Cas- | satt of the Pennsylvania system is a | stickler for discipline and good service, and he has invariably favored the em- ployment of women for such work as | they are capable of handling. Travel- | ers in the eastern section of this coun- ' | try frequently come upon raflroad sta- tions which are attractively homelike because they are tended exclusively by | women. The presence of growing | plants, trailing vines, neat engravings on the walls. cushioned settees and | rocking chairs is not uncommon in New England railroad stations, and these comforts indicate the dominating care of a female agent. : In the Far West, where a rugged life | and exposure to inclement weather for both sexes are more common than in the East, women station agents are by no means a rarity. Many of th are to be found along the No.thern fic, I the CGreat Northern and the Chicago, | Burlington and Quincy lines. In some | instances these female station agents are the wives of men employed in; other departments of railroading, but ' a majority of them are women, young and middle-aged, who are obliged to support themselves. Each one, of course, must demonstrate her ability | and responsibjlity in some way beforel the full measure of authority is vested in her. All station agents handle more | or less money received for express and | freight charges, as well as from the | sale of tickets. When Charles S. Mel- f BY EARL D. BERRY. | cific he took especial pains to collect in- ‘I ttormmlofl regarding the work of the | | female station agents, and he found ! | that their average of efficiency was as high as that of the men. The official reports and money accounts sent in pe- | jodically by the women employes werg { s prompt, clear and accurate as sim- | ilar reports from the male agents, | While neglect of duty is very uncom- | mon among railroad employcs gener- ‘ally, the statement is frequently heard | in railroad offices that women are more | ‘wnchtul of little things than the men. | A female station agent, as a rule, will | take better care of the compan¥’s prop- | erty than the average ‘man would, for {the reason that women wage-earners |are naturally less wasteful than men. | The pay of an agent in charge of al | small station is usually about $50 a ! month. A man in receipt of that sti- “’ pend will perform his daily duties as a | matter of course, but he does not feel it incumbent upon him to give much tions to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager THE SAN FERANGCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor . « o o o o o o o . Address All Communi .Third and Market Streets, S. F. THURSDAY ....... «seee.JANUARY, 21, 1904 NO CLOUDS IN BUSINESS. HE plantation value of the present cotton crop is a T half billion dollars. The South has never before pocketed as much money for that staple. It has been forwarded to market and paid for, without the dis- arrangement of currency and money stringency that has heretofore been caused by the annual movement of the crops. The staple crops North and South have been moved without disturbance, and the January dividends, paid in New York, on industrial stocks, amounting to $115,000,000, have been paid, showing that currency is sufficiently abundant to serve all the purposes of pro- duction and movement and business, in all parts of the country, without disarrangement or stringency. These facts are worth considering, for it is the first time such a thing has been possible in all our business history. Not only have these things been done, but the Government is able Yo pay the first installment for the acquisition of the Panama canal by the mere shifting of bank balances and change of accounts, without sending | a doilar out of the country, and will do so as soon as the Panama treaty is ratified. The balance of trade is so heavily in our favor that we merely apply the canal pay- ment to its reduction and the money that changes hands and location is paid by Europe and not by us. While we do not pretend that business depends upon keeping one party in power, which would be a pretense antagonistic to free government, yet it is true that con- ditions exist which make it wise sometimes to let well enough alone. As the minority party appeals for power !always upon its pramise to better the materidl condition | of the people, the voters have a right to use their judg- ment in the matter. Therefore we ask what improve- ment on present conditions can be expected by a change of administration? The opposition, by basing its claim to confidence upon its promise to make better conditipns, is responsible for declaring a relation, a direct connection, between politics and business. It is responsible then for the admission | that present conditions originate in the kind of adminis- tration we have. A recital of those conditions, therefore, is a statement of the substance we have. Will we ex- | change it for the shadow offered by the opposition? Wherever a Demacratic conventicle is held and wherever a Democratic dinner is eaten, whether it be a , dollar or a ten dollar meal, the harping is about the in- dustrial and financial cofdition of the country. Repub- licans do not have to ¢laim credit for what exists. It is forced on them by the opposition. They must accept it whether they wish to or not. So they accept it. They show «capacity to make the first canal payment by not sending a dollar out of the country. They show a treas- ury surplus large enough to begin the work on the.canal and push it far toward a finish, without issuing a bond. They even show a prospect that the annual surplus will be equal to the whole work, that we will pay as we go, and that every dollar will be paid as we pay the first dol- lar, by an exchange of balances, the money coming from Europe to pay for our products. They show such a con- dition of the currency as is equal to paying for and mov- ing the season’s crops, and paying the January divj- . dends without stringency. All this is charged to them by the opposition when it impleads the business situation in politics. What better can the opposition promise? They say they will prose- cute trusts. They are being prosecuted to disintegration. They will reform the tariff. The people gave them a chance in 1802, and they produced a law denounced by Mr. Cleveland as “a record of perfidy and dishonor.” Mr. Gorman made that record, and he is the party leader in Congress now. Will Mr. Gorman do any better than he did then? The people will have all the facts before them. there any doubt about their decision? Is In order to test most effectively the fire ordinances of Chicago the authorities of the Windy City have con- ceived the weird plan of setting the Iroquois Theater on fire again and watching t2e conditions under which hu- man beings may escape. Whatever merits the scheme may suggest, and they are difficult to understand, it seems that even a’ mimic repetition of the horrors would be too shocking to attempt. THE JEWS AND 'SENSATIONALISM. MR. SIMON W&F, who since Judah P. Benja- min is recognized as the greatest Jewish lawyer in this country, and who besides is a skilled di- plomat and a leading authority in international law, be- ing a member of the B'nai B’rith Executive Council, is anxious to allay excitement among his people. He says that the recept reports of a renewal of the Russian massacres were entirely sensational, started by newspapers in New York, Chica’g{o and San Francisco, t that they had no foundation in fact¥or in reasonable fear, and that the Jews of the United States will do wisely by eps, but thet is|len wis president of the Northern Pa- | ceasing to hold mass meetings or take other action pre- dicated on those reports. One does not need further in- dication of the newspapers that originated the sensa- tional fake. When people are moved to profound sympathy for the sufferings of their distant kindred or kind, nothing is easier than for a purely heartless and selfish journalist to arouse their fears by falsehood, in order to appear as their champion and get expréssions of their gratitude. When people, like the Jews, have seen their co-religion- ists oppressed and repressed, and have been appalled by their murder under shocking circumstances, they are in a continual state of tension, anticipating that like suffer- ing and misfortune may come again. They look to the press of the country for their information of events pass- ing and to come. They fear every rumor, and when the statement is positively made that heartless cruelty, in- spired by religious fanaticism, is about to arm itself again with torch and bludgeon, with lust and dagger, to mur- der and rob the defenseless, it is only natural that those ‘in this country of an up-to-date parcels post system, such ®zoed veice. 2nd this she determined to cuitivate and ke the most of. p{itpe iteption. to tho SAIRAL B aths She | 4ion itsel: fixtures furni- took 2 position in a store. saved every I ture. A t‘-.fmfn.m:n the ot::r‘ hand, cent ghe couid, and after scveral years | i put herself out to keep the station | had erouch abeed to fake her to Chi- | 1o good condition as possible, for in | | cage. There she studied music for two | . cange it 18 her domicile, and she vegrs. And you may be sure that she | .. urroundin studicd hard. She madc rapid prog- waity f hevp Bt 5 i rese. Finally she felt that she was ready to begin work on the siage. Her teacher, o rriaus‘ of m:.rg. sent her 1o me to seck adwice. - A nm as she girl so thoroughly?” A hiad told me her and sung for | “wel, it's because her hair is curly.” me 1 said to : “My dear, you are| =g is yours.” S simply made 16 succted. [ cap’tstart! «But her's curls naturally.”—Cleve- wou and T ean’t step ¥ou.” In another | 1ana Plaindealer. ; mnonth she had secured 2 splendid po- sition with the Grace Van Stu rd | “T'm sure I tiy to treat everybody like Opera Company, and she wrote to/l a star boarder!" thank me for what I had told her[ “I think that's the right way, Mrs. “That girl bes brains; she hwhimflm‘ly. A boarding house should be g 8 } and agreeable as the conditions will al- iow. “Why do you dislike that Bickerford who watch from afar should believe and act accordingly. But what is to be said for the man who will invent such things when they have no existence, and who will affirm them and make them appeal to his dupes by pic- tures of slaughter, of graves and tombst--es, all in order that he may feed his tapeworm nppetgt\«fot flattery and print in his own columns the ascriptions of praise to him- self, called out by his pretense that he prevented some- ! thing that did not happen, nor was likely to happen, and had no existence outside of his lying invention? The Call did not believe that there was any prospect of a renewal of the Kishinev massacres. In the first place, the Russian Government, contemptible as it is, had in- flicted punishment upon a large number of the wretches who were concerned in last year’s murders. Then this is no time in the affairs of Russia to offend the financial di of There are in Austria, Germany and France influential Jews, who have every means and the best means of knowing what goes on in Russia. More than that, there are Jews in close contact with the St. Petersburg Gov- ernment, with about as good facilities for knowing what goes on as Esther had in the court of Ahasuerus. With these facilities it was very unlikely that their American | brethren would be left'to depend for information on the prince and primate of American newspaper fakers. But people whose minds are distressed do not.stop to analyze, nor to examine all considerations involved in such a matter. They have been harmed, their sentiments and impulses exhausted in useless action,. their rest and calmness have been banished, their capacity for attention | to their daily affairs has been impaired and they have been | injured in nerve and packet, yet the adroit liar who did it coldly calculated from the beginning upon his capacity to secure their praise and flattery, though he had done thenr only harm and knew from the beginning that they would be harmed. They are not to blame because they believed the sensation monger when he cried out that their distant people were in danger, but his conduct was on a par with that of the man who rushes to a family to tell them that one of their number has been seriously | hurt on the next street, and then takes advantage of | their immediate rush for the scéne of a tragedy that has not happened by going in and robbing the vacant house. % Mr. Wolf is wise and right in his advice to his people. There are real occasions enough for an appeal to the American people, in time of genuine need, without being led into making one that is unnecessary, in order that a yellow journalist may add to his list of indorsements gained by falsehood those secured by this peculiarly cruel and unjustifiable deception, William Jennings Bryan says that as a fruit of his jour- ney abroad he is the proud possessor of a new idea which he will discuss in the time and manner most congenial to himself. The tenacity with which Mr. Bryan clung to the only other idea he owned is violent evidence of trouble to come and a justification of a fear that our peace of mind is seriously threatened. THE PARCELS POST MEETING. HE meeting to be held at the Alhambra Theater T this evening under the direction of the California Postal Progress League will well repay all who at- tend it. Governor Pardee is expected to preside, and able speakers will present the merits of the proposed re- form. Were it, therefore, nothing more than an even- ing's entertainment, there would be ample reason why the meeting should be large. The entertainment of an audience is, however, the last thing in the minds of the Postal League, or of the gentlemen who will speak for it. The object is to direct attention to the urgent need | as is maintained in almost every other civilized country on the globe. . The excellence of the various express companies in this country has been the cause of our lagging behind the nations of Europe in establishing an efficient parcels carrying system in connection with the postoffice. It is one of the many illustrations of the proneness ‘of man- kind to postpone the adoption of great improvements so long as they can get along with makeshifts. In Great Britain, for example, where the telegraph service is ex- cellent and cheap, the people have been slow in making use of the telephones. So in the United States we have been content to put up with the old-fashioned corpora- tion express service instead of keeping abreast of civili- zation, and establishing a parcels post service of first- class efficiency, % While the public has been content to go on in the old way, the express companies have formed a close combi- nation or arrangement among themselves, and they now have a monopoly that is enormously profitable. They stand therefore as a formidable opposition to the desired reform. Against them are arrayed various organizations like the California Postal Progress League, making the contest for progress and the public good. In such a con- flict it should be a matter of pride for every progressive, public spirited citizen to show himself in the meetings held for reform and get himself counted on the right| side. If all men of the city whose business interests would be beneficially affected by the good parcels post system | were to attend this meeting, the Alhambra would not | hold a tenth part of them, and there would have to be | overflow meetings in the open air. As a matter of fact | the issue affects every citizen to a greater or less extent, and every man of influence and leading should do his share of the work required to bring about the establish- ment of the desired service. i The University of California has secured several men | of very high standing in the world of science, art and lit- erature to lecture togdhose that care to accept the advan- tages of the annual summer school. The reputations which those distinguished ' educators* have won are | pledges that tHey will introduce a novelty in these enter- | taining diversions. of Berkeley. They will strive to teach not to insult those that go to learn. —_— A determination has been reached to advertise ! throughout the East the daily winter temperature of the‘ different important cities of California. While this will be of material advantage to the State and to the cause ! we all wish to advance, it would be of the very essence of cruelty to send these reports out now when people in the East are dying of cold and we are basking in the warmth of glorious sunshine. The Mayor of Severance, a Kansas town hitherto blissfully unknown to fame, has issued a proclamation commanding all bachelors, under pain of a loss of citizen- ship, to accept any offer of marriage that may be made to them during 1904. The young men and women of the place are now hopelessly divided in controversy to de- -| detention wards. fown doctor. Fid The Intelligent Cop. In the printed form recently intro- duced in the Police Department for use in giving details of accidents there is one question that seems to i puzzle many of the blue-coated guar- dians of the peace. It is, “By whom or what injured?” Several of the an- swers are, to say the least, curious. A man was seized with an epileptic fit, and the answer to the form ques- tion was, “By the will of God.” An- other was, “He looked like a man in a fit” A man had fallen on the side- walk and cut his scalp, and the an- swer filléd in the blank was, “He fell over himself.” Other answers were: “By horse while running away,” “Dead,” “Injured by none,” “By com- ing in contact with the ground.” The policemen will as a rule answer the previous question, “How injured ?” all right, but when it comes to “By whom or what injured?” they will often answer, “None,” or ‘“Don't know.” In one report the first ques- tion was answered. “Fell on sidewalk and cut his chin and broke his nose,” yet the second question was answered, “Unknown.” One member of the force in sub- mitting a report of an accident be- gan in a startling manner as there was no punctuation. He wrote: “As I left a car while returning from shooting myself and Officer Blank saw a man.” ‘A Faithful Steward. They hired a new steward in the detention department of the Receiving Hospital who gistinguished himself a few days ago much to the amusement of all who heard of his mistake. The new steward was busy lookiag after the patients and had his back turned to the entrance when he heard a noise as if a door was suddenly closed. He turned round to see what had been disturbed when he was confronted Ly Ed Keegan, the janitor, whose duty it is to keep the furnace provided with fuel in.the sub-basement under the Keegan had entered the apartment through a trap door, the presence of which had not been known to the new steward. Now Keegan is the reverse of being a handsome man and, garbed as he was in a dirty suit of blue flannel, the steward took him for an escaped luna- tic and without any ceremony grabbed hold of him and rushed him into a cell, banging the door behind him and turn- ing the key. Keegan protested in vig- orous language, but all the consolation he got'from the steward was that crazy men talk that way. It was not uatil Chief Steward Bucher came along on his rounds of investigation that Kee- gan’s predicament was made known. Every effort was made to keep the new steward’s blunder from reaching the ears of the reporters, but the joke leaked out much to the chagrin of all concerned. Wanted No Hospital. He was a sailorman, an officer of a trans-Pacific liner. He was sick and presented himself to a local physi- cian for a survey. “You are threat- ened with typhoid fever. Better go to a hospital and have yourself prop- erly cared for,” was the medico's ad- vice. In obedience to the doctor’s order the'mariner secured leave of ab- sence, set his affairs in order and e rolled himself a patient at one of the city’s sanitariums. “I don't care what it costs,” said he, “I want the best treatment you can give me. TI'll pay in advance if you like, but get me well and do it quickly.” Three days later the sick man ap- peared before the superintendent of his steamship company and requested assignment to duty. “Sure you're strong enough?” in- quired the superintendent. “You look pretty rocky and I'm afraid you might break down. By the way, thought you were in the hospital?” “Hospital! Never say hospital to me. I went there all right and or- dered the best in the place. They took my money and what do you think they fed me? Milk! Bread and milk! Hespital! No more for me. Give me my own medicine chest and three square meals and I'll be my But no more hospital!” Sorrow’s Message. Sorrow came to meet him, garbed in gray, And, heavy-eyed and sighing, bade him stay. She told him all the measure of his grief; 8he showed him the completeness of his loss, How wlhn: ‘was once a rose was withered ea That clung unto a thorn beside his Cross. Thus Sorrow, in a voice full soft and low, Told Iln‘lnm of everything he could but oW, Sorrow stayed, and told him further yet Of many things he never should forget; She told him of the laughter and the song That once were his to share with olden ends; | She whispered all the memories that throng— The blessnd thoughts that recollection sends out trom (he very Beart of lomesome nig} To touch the soul with glowing rays of light. Sorrow sat beside him, garbed in - And w-l;:n she rose to go he bade‘r;!r ¥, “You say that you are Sorrow, yet R4 you & Anew to me the music and the rose, The laughter and the song and every- termine at whom the insult of the Mayor was directed— the men or the women. Inquiry by local officers has resulted in the shameful discovery that the padrone system is in a disgracefully flourishing state—among us. We tolerate a notorious slave traffic, we wink at the gross immoralities of orientals, but at all hazards we should stop at once the evil machine that grinds ignorant children to depraved, criminal men. 2 e r———— The energetic, ambitious, entemia-. citizens of San Francisco that are seeking to beautify the city and to accept the advantages of natural conditions for. the thing I held so dear in all the lon, " ‘Then Bg:lrrow. ‘with a mlu.nmh‘ m\uwor: es. For I was born s, twin fo Happiigen- 3 lbune. Not So Wild. +* sel differed from qther waves in any- thing except size. The old term is used at present exclusively for a distinct phenomenon—an actual propulsion of water by a seismic shock. These do produce waves comparable with tides, and the description is good enough, though of course there is nothing really tidal about it if “tidal” is to be re- served for the regular progression of aceanie elevation and depression around the world. The big waves met by steamers in almost every storm are big waves and nothing else—a mere accent- uation of the differences to be observed in every succession of ordinary waves— and though their consequences are often very serious they indicate no oper- ation of new or unusual forces. Some say that every seventh wave is larger than its six predecessors, and some that it is every ninth that exceeds the aver- age. These are favorite and therefore suspicious figures in matters of mys- tery and should be accepted with ex- treme caution. The chances are that the sequences are wholly irregular, and that only at distant intervals, not to be computed with any certainty, is a mon- ster wave produced by the combinaion of several of moderate size. Modern Robin Hood. Asia Minor just now boasts a brigand of the Robin Hood order, whose self- assumed mission is to extort from those who have grown wealthy by oppres- sidnsthe property which belongs to their victims. He also acts as the avenger of the weak wronged by the strong. Against the Albanian and Kurd free- booters he is relentless, but never mo- lests Europeans, or even law abiding Turks, whom, on the contrary, he pro- tects. The Governor of Smyrna has of late tried to negotiate his surrender, but Tchakidl, as the brigand is named. imposed terms so stringent for public protection against official oppression that hostilities were resumed. The lo- cal gendarmerie, however, refused to act against one whom they consider a public benefactor, with the result that the Governor had to employ Albanian of whom Tchakidi and his men have killed forty. Further severe fighting is expected between the irregulars and the outlaws.—London Globe. Facts About Colombia. Some facts about Colombia which come by way of Washington are in point just now. Colombia, not counting Panama, is as large as California and Texas combined, and has over ten times the population of Panama; an estimate made in 1881 puts the fig- ures at 3,600,000, exclusive of the people of Panama. Bogota, its capital, has been called “the Athens of South Amer- jca.” Its population is 125,000; the na- tional university is located there, and the city has an excellent library of 50,- 000 volumes, a picture gallery, an ob- servatory and a number of learned in- stitutions. Twelve days are required to get from the coast to the capital. One lands at Barranquilla, at the mouth of the Magdalena River, goes up the river by steamer to Honda—392% miles from the co: then by rail for twenty- two miles to La Dorado, by mule jour- ney for forty-five miles to Facatativa, and from there by rail again to Bo- gota, twenty-four miles.—Harper's Weekly. Answers to Queries. CALL BUILDING—J. L. E,, Colusa, Cal. The Call building has eighteen floors and it covers a ground space 75 feet square. The distance from the sidewalk to the upper cormice is 310 feet. RUNNING RECORD—E. N. Q. City. The record for running 100 yards by women is held by Miss Fan- nie James, Vassar College, Pough- keepsie, N. Y., May 17, 1903, in 13 1-5 seconds. The record by a man is held by A. F. Duffey, Berkeley Oval, N. Y., May 31, 1902, in 9 3-5 seconds. These are American records. STETSON—Subscriber, City. Char- lotte Perkins Stetson Gilman, the writ- er, generally known as Charlotte Per- Kkins Stetson, is the daughter of Fred- eric Beecher. The name of Frederic does not appear in the tamily history of the late Henry Ward Beecher. 1f Mrs. Gilman's father was in any way related to the eminent preacher he must have been a distant relative. STEAMERS—R. 8., Stocktom, Cal There are several steamers that are longer than was the Great Eastern. | Her length was 680 feet. The Kaiser Wilhelm of the North German Lioyd measures 707 feet, and the Oceanic of the White Star line 704 feet. Among the fastest passenger steamers may “e named the Lucania of the Cunard line, the Deutschiand of the FHamburg- American, Kaiser Wilbelm der Grosse of the North German Lloyd and the Paris of the American line. THEATERS—Theater, City. The place of amusement in New York hav- ing the largest seating capacity is Mad- ison Square Garden, 12,137. The next largest are Proctor’s Fifty-eighth Street Theater, 450, and the Drury Lane, 4800. —_—— Townsend's California fruits and 30c a_ pound, ‘A nice wE“’m;:fi Mmmn.:m‘nm o e — Emwm