The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1904, Page 8

AL THE SAN FRANCISCO C FRIDAY, NUARY. 22, 1904. Canal Digging Machinery. OLM BY MALS (Author “‘Shop the Wonders of the =5 s Joseph B. not men, will dig the isth- mian canal. There will be some skilled cigineers and mechanics, and eral thousand muckers, hoboes and la- borers, but they will simply be the at- tendants upon the huge excavating and handling mechanisms, which will fairly eat their way through rock, clay, muck, sand o whatever material makes up the isthmus whith connects the two Americas There probably variety of solid _ Copyright Bowles Machinery, sev- never a er tackled by canal builders than confronted the con- | tractors who built combination ship ‘t he engineers bunche: of materials into two general classes— solid rock and glacial drift But if there was any kind of mean, obdurate, elusive, hard-to-manage, money-losing, disappointing, betinate, machinery- breaking, impassable material which failed to get into the glacial drift be- tween Chicago and the Lockport end of the canal the contractors couldn’t find it. But there were awake, pushing contractors on the work. They were mnot afraid to “plunge” on expense if there was any likelihood that the money spent for special machinery to handle the hetero- geneous aggregation of solid material would give them a device which would handle the material at a profit-making cost. The result was a number of ex- . cavating and material handling equip- ments of such novel construction that engineers came from all parts of the world to study the modern methods of excavation developed by the contrac- tors on the Chicago drainage canal. Those methods and devices will cut the channel which will make islands of the American continents, for the 2 is no material in Panama or Nicaragua, solid or fluid, between the’'two oceans which cannot be handled for the mini- mum of coet with the maximum of at- tainment by the steam shove! dry excavators, conveyors, huge plows, air drills, channelers, cable ways, canti- Jever conveyors, high power and re- volving derricks, inclined ways, gran- ulators, pneumatic dumps, hydraulic dredges and other forms of rock-cut- ting, earth-digging, sand-sucking ma- chinery which cut through the divide that kept Lake Michigan from running @ry into the Mississippi Valley. American engineers who viewed the Panama cut when the French com- pany was excavating it commented on the inadequate machinery employed. One of them remarked “They sim- ply skinned the face of the work.” What he meant was that the machin- ery did not handle large masses in a large way. In the last ten years American in- genuity brought into play on the Chi- Chicago’'s great d drainage canal. theseveral kinds a number of wide- cago drainage canal has so developed | the excavating machinery which was modern in every sense of the word a decade ago that it is probable the Panama or Nicaragua canal will be built well within the present esti- mates of cost. The first machines used on the Chi- cago canal were the plows, slushers and wheel scrapers which railroad contractors use on earth work. Then came a grader, which was a com- bination of an immense breaking plow attached to a wheeled running gear. A revolving apron, driven by the run- ning gear, carried the plowed up earth upward and dumped it into a wagon. which followed the machine. When this wagon was full an empty wagon was driven under the apron and filled. Sixteen horses hauled this grader. and some of the machines excavated and lifted 100 cubic yards of earth an hour. Then came the steam shovels—huge dippers that bit out two and one-half cubic vards of dirt every time the ponderous beam crowded the gigan- tic dipper into the earth. There was nothing particularly novel about these shovels, except their size, and some of them were the largest and most pow- erful on the face of the earth. These shovels dipped up sand, earth, the great bowiders which the glacier left behind, blasted rock, cemented gravel and bowlder clay. Anything and everything that happened to be in the way was gouged out and lifted into the dump cars or spilled out on the side of the cut. Some of the steam shovels weighed seventy-two tons each. Over fifty of these ponderous machines were at work at one time ' the channel. An original device which attracted much attention was a conveyor, which worked in connection with one of the largest plows ever made. It was made in the form of a bridge, which span- ned the channel and which carried an endless steel belt 1300 feet long. This Lelt was made up of four-foot panlike sections, which traveled in a metal .rough that lay across the bottom of (he cut. A hoisting engine dragged «ne great double end plow, back and forth. :nd the plowed up material rell into the steel pans, which car- ried it across and up the steep in- line, dumping it on the “spoil” bank. The pneumatic dumps, which were # distinct novelty less than nine years #go. promise to play an important part in the excavation of the isthmian canal. They were dump cars which dumped over the side. The cars, when filled, were made into a train and a small but powerful I~comotive pushed reater | INSTRUCTIVE .S TUDIEAS e |them over the corkscrew narrow | gauge track to the top of the “spoi bank. Each car was provided with a compressed air cylinder, whose pis- ton was connected with the body of |the car. AN the eylinders were con- | nected with compressed air pump and ‘reservmr on the locomotive. When the loaded train reached its destina- tion the engineer turned a valve and all the dump cars tipped over side- ways, dumping their contents. An- | other turn of the valve and the cars righted themselves and were empty |and ready fer the return trip. The channeling machine, which will take a hand in any rock work on the ishtmian canal, is a modification of the steam drill. - It consists of a | vertical boiler and engine, mounted on four wheels which run on a short plece of track. The engine operates a great steel chisel and at the same time actuates the mechanism which moves the whole affair back and forth on the track. While the machine is traveling its beat the big chisel chugs up and down, cutting a deep, smooth gash in the rock on a line with the edge of 'the channel. While it is at work a line of steam or air drills drill holes in the rock across the channel. Dyna- mite cartridges are put into the hole and exploded and the whole mass of rock is broken up, but the gash cut by | the channeling machine prevents the blast from breaking the rock in the! side of the canal, so that the sides cut |are perfectly smooth. Helps for Home Ills. BY MARY TAYLOR-ROSS. (Household Expert.) Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles. Among the several accomplishments, trades and professions which belong to the many - sided housekeeper is a knowledge of what is best to do in| cases of emergency, to save present suffering, or to prevent a serious out- | come in the small ills of life that come to every household. First in importance is a preparation | for accidents. They may not happen for a year—they may come within a day— | one cannot know, and the only safe| way is to be prepared. Supplies that will prove useful in such an emergency are rolls of band- | ages, of various widths, made from sections of old sheets, washed very clean, torn into strips and rolled very, | A jar of borated gauze,| very tight. for doing up small wounds as well as | large, will lessen the chances of con- | tamination and blood poisoning. Rolls of absorbent cotton can be purchased | in a pasteboard carton that opens like a box of biscuits, and which will last an ordinary family for some months. | Use a bit of this instead of a powder puff for baby, and throw it away, using a fresh piece every time. This can be bought from 25 cents up, according to | the width of the cotton. A supply of court plaster comes in a long tin box | in which it will keep perfectly until! used. Narrow strips of this, used to| draw together the edges to a long, or a | deep cut, after the wound has been well washed out in warm water would | |save many a child from an ugly scar. | Use a bit of the absorbent cotton for | washing out the wound, instead of a| sponge—always of doubtful cleanliness. | The few times that adhesive plaster | would be used in a lifetime hardly | makes it necessary to keep a supply on| hand, for a physician always carries scme about with him. Select the court ! | rlaster that is on silk, for this is finest | and best for dressing wounds. A bot- | tle of carbolic acid for use in the| water with which a wound is washed | completes the supplies for accldents,’ unless one includes a bottle of per- oxide of hydrogen, which, however, de- | teriorates, and is best bought in very | small quantities. . For burns (external) there are many good remedies, but one that is apt to | be at hand, and is mest efficacious, is alcohol—pure alcohol. Cider vinegar is | another remedy for burns, and every |one is familiar with soda moistened with water that is so often used to | alleviate the pain of a burn. A bottle | of sweet oil and lime is kept on hand in many homes, and a small bottle of collodion will be found of great ser- vice in relieving the sting of the small burns that are so irritating to tired nerves, whether of a child or a busy housewife. Burns that are serious— | those that affect the true or under skin (as well as the surface cuticle—should have the attention of a physician, for home treatment is not adequate, and { what seems like a very, small burn may | prove very troublesome. The writer {has known a burn less than an inch in diameter tc remain sore for months, and require frequent dressing to pre- | vent blood poisoning. For neuralgia, cramps and such ills as seem to call for the application of heat the hot water bottle may be used | or a pair of hop pillows or sacks of salt, | heated one after the other and applied | to the seat of pain. Better than any of these and holding its heat better | than even a hot water bottle is a bag | of sand. When one visits, the beach a | sack of sand should be gathered and |taken home, then filled into the soft | bag of flannel (outing flannel), which | may be placed on a pan and set in the “smnll hot oven of the kitchen range |to bake. For ccld beds at night dur- |ing the winter these sand bags will | be found most comfortable. When one {is in a great hurry to apply heat the | stove lid from one of the back stove holes can be slipped into the leg of ! an old stocking, wrapped a little more !and applied to the seat of the pain. | This is quick and effectual. If the | time is summer and artificial heat not THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL1l. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Propriefor « o « o « « + « « » Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office ves:es....Third and Market Streets, S. F. 0550080 sanie menponban s Ry Ies s WSS D o« 4 h0id g S0 2P 2l o ibhE i o s JANUARY 22, 1004 BRYAN’S RELAPSE. FRIDAY HEN Mr. Bryan returned from Europe he held W a reception in New York. That was right. Fresh from the contrast between his own coun- try and those he had visited, he made a speech in which he lauded the United States as the land of best opportu- nity, greatest freedom, and in all ways the most desir- {able. He had been abroad and returned a good Ameri- can, uttering frankly the results of his observations and comparisons. The speech was so different from his usual pessimism that it would make a good Republican:campaign docu- ment. ing her acknowledgments to Mr. Bryan for at last saying | a good word for her. The speech was so marked in its | indorsement of existing conditions that Mr. Bryan's ;Eastcrn friends took it as a sort of formal withdrawal from politics, since it presented the country as doing so well that no party can make headway by advocating a | change. But those who lotted on Mr. Bryan long re- | maining in the attitude of approval of his country are { disappointed. A few days after his New York speech, he was invited to 2 Democratic banquet at New Haven, where he made a speech that is in startling contrast to the one in New York. In New Haven he found the common people under the heel of wealth. He viewed with alarm, rang the tocsin, | raised his voice for his oppressed countrymen and against | the oppressors, and issued such a despairing prospectus as would turn back the immigrants that are pouring into New York, if they could read it. He declared that the century long struggle of our people for liberty has not | yet been crowned with success. He held that struggle up and looked at it, and striking an attitude of the most energetic oratory, asked: “Will it win? As the martyrs, who eighteen hundred years ago, kneeling in prayer while hungry beasts devoured them, invoked a power | mightier than the legions of Rome, to-day the same, it is not only possible but necessary to appeal to that moral sentiment which when aroused will prove more potent than the purse.” Now, what does all that mean? What happened in a | few days between New York and New Haven to change this fvom the best country in the world to one in which we must sit down and look at people at prayer being eaten raw by wild beasts, and admit that we are like unto them? | There was not much change in the weather, nor in stocks nor in prices. What then changed us, in the twinkling of an eye, from a prosperous and appy people into martyrs served a la carte to lions and tigers and other members oi the cat family? On Friday night, seen from New York, we were the happiest people on earth, enjoying equality of opportunity, cheerfully pay- ing for the Christmas presents our wives had put in our stockings; but on the following Monday, without a rag to our backs, we were asked to think about the legions of Rome, and compared to those who used the prayer cure in vain when it came time to feed the menagerie. Some suspect that in that brief space Mr. Bryan con- cluded to become a Presidential candidate again, and found it necessary to talk of graves and worms and epi- taphs once more. Be that as it may, it is sure that in his New York speech he uttered the ripe and cheerful con- clusions of a majority of his countrymen. He also stated the reason why even the most bcsotted people of the European countries he visited know that this is the land of man’s best opportunity, and that is why there is now the greatest movement hither that was ever known to any country in the world. Men expatriate themselves to better their condition, not to make it worse. These immigrants do not come here to be metaphorical martyrs and be figuratively eaten by wild beasts while the Sheriff looks on. They come to seek the conditions ceen in the New York vision, and not in the subsequent revelation of New Haven, and they are not deceived. There are some carping critics, of course, who say that Mr. Bryan's vision was jaundiced when his foot touched the soil of Connecticut, by the reflection that he is not to touch that $30,000 of Mr. Bennett's money. Tough mutton, half chewed by Bonaparte, lost the battle of Leipsic, and that piece of sheep, therefore, was the cause of the prospective war between Russia and Japan. Drop- ping an adjective out of an order sent the Light Brigade to slaughter before Balaklava. Light causes produce heavy effects, and it may be that the decision of a pro- bate judge in Connecticut changed our own our native land from a scene of peace and plenty into one of de- spair and disaster. Several continental nations have indicated an emphatic desire to have the export duty removed on hemp from the Philippine Islands. While there is very little ques- tion that great quantities of this commodity are still needed in our South Sea possessions we should certainly remove the duty and permit our European friends to have all they want as cheaply as possible. We will possibly be saved the use of much of it by giving them the first chance. RULES FOR WHITE AND BLACK. HE persistent teachings of Booker Washington, his T remarkable capacity for statement and the practi- cal results of his philosophy among the negroes are beginning to influence members of his race who are are not under his immediate care at Tuskegee. In Georgia there is the Schofield Normal and Industrial School for negroes. From its name we conclude that it is a private endowment, and not a public or State insti- tution. This school issues a periodical bulletin, by which one may keep in touch with its work and purposes. The last issue gives notice of a coming farmers’ conference of the negro farmers of the region, and publishes a platform in the form of a pledge and working plan for the mem- bers of that race, as a means of materiai and mora] progress. : Those who have heard Booker Washington will appre. at hand. an ordinary lamp chimney | after the lamp has been lighted for ten or fifteen minutes will be found as hot as can be borne, even when wrapped in an old stocking. This is especially good for a baby, being light in weight. | Japan’s Postal Service. The cheapest postal service in the world is that of Japan, where letters nny. ::nslderln‘ the difficulties of trans- port over a mountainous and irregular country, which has less than 100 miles of railway, while wagons can pass over only a few of the chief roads and the | steamers connect but a small number of coast stations. ciate in this pledge the hold that his views have taken upon his people. It declares: “Realizing that our man- ner of living acounts for our present condition, we pledge ourselves from this time forth: “1. To do away with the mortgaging of our crops or stock, living on credit system, buying unnecessary arti- cles of wear, and the expenditure of money for intoxica- ting liquors, etc. “2. To raise our food supplies at home, such as corn, potatoes, peas, hogs, syrup, 'chickens; etc, and to put more dignity and labor into the soil, whether owners, renters, share-croppers, or wage hands. 3} “3. To extend the two and three months’ school term to five or six months, thus affording our children better opportunities to prepare themselves for a living. We shall use every effort to unite the several schools in our district to a central point, secure the services of ( . The Goddess of Liberty must have felt like bow- fearing and competent teachers and to provide for the transportation of children who live too far to walk to a newly located schoolhouse. v “4. To assist in establishing character for our race by staying away from town on Saturday, where we loiter about the streets, drink and disgrace ourselves in other ways. i “s. To use our influence against the excursion, hot supper and camp meeting, a® to endeavor earnestly to secure comfortable churches and moral preachers. “6. To urge upon our people the actual mecessity of our owning the land we till, the homes in which we live, and to beautify our yards and to make the home attrac- tive.” That is a good platform for anybody. But the en- couraging feature in it is that the people who adopt and propose to live up to it realize their shortcomings and their need of reform. Every line of it breathes a moral purpose and a desire to cease to do evil and learn to do well. There are many white communities, and in the North, too, that would be better off if more stayed away from town Saturdays, and so did not loaf about saloons or gamble and drink. Given in every Southern State a few cenfers where God- | the negroes see so clearly their needs, and resolve so strongly to seek them by self-amendment, and the whole black population will finally be leavened by the same | high purpose, and the race problem will afflict the coun- try no more forever, — Some of our public-spifited citizens have begun a campaign to secure a world’s fair for San Francisco in 1913. Our splendid experience with such an exposition is absolute guarantee of our ability to conduct a larger and better one, and the many thousands of Americans who have been our guests in recent years can give ample testimony that no city deserves more than ours the dis- tinction of being a world’s emporium. I in making a treaty with China by which the ports of Mukden and Antung in Manchuria are to be opened to our commerce has stirred the wrath of Russia. Press reports credit Admiral Alexieff with the statement that Russia looks upon this action of the United States as an unfriendly move, and he admits that it upsets all of his calculations. He further goes on to state, through his secretary, that the United States committed a grave in- discretion in not first asking the permission of the Rus- sian Government to make the commercial treaty with China. The cause for Russia’s interest in the matter he naively puts thus: “Orders were given six months ago,” says the admiral through his mouthpiece, “to evacuate Newchwang and Manchuria, provided the Chinese would agree to simple terms; but owing to the intrigues of the Japanese Minister with the Wai Wu Pu (Chinese Foreign Board), these orders were countermanded.” % It looks very much as if the keen diplomacy of Secre- tary Hay had at last forced Russia to show her hand. After these many months of devicus diplomatic squirm- ings, postponements, statements and counter-statements meaning nothing and leading nowhere, the Government of the Czar announces that it looks upon insistence by this country upon open ports in Manchuria with grave concern. This in fine is the statement on the part of RUSSIA IS DISPLEASED. T seems that the prompt action of the United States Russia that China has lost all right to any jurisdiction in | . . | The action of this Government has led Rus- Manchuria. sia to make the tardy statement that the policy of “hands off” now obtains in this part of the empire of China. Rus- sia is at last officially disclosed as the arbiter of affairs in Manchuria, if not the actual master. But the test of Russia’s assumption is yet to come. Acting upon the seemingly manifest fact that China still exercises sovereignty over Manchuria, the administration at Washington has seen fit to conclude with the Emperor of China a treaty of commerce which affects the trade status of two of China’s ports. China certainly entered into the treaty under the conception that she had the right to make agreements affecting these two ports. Wherein then lies the assumption.on the part of Russia of the authority to consider this agreement between two sov- ereign powers in the light of an unfriendly act? No treaty for the cession of Manchuria to Russia has been signed by China; neither has Russia announced that Man- churia is hers by right of conquest. It now remains to be seen whether or not Russia will care to make objec- tion to our acquisition of trade rights. is likely to become quite interesting. If so the situation Armed with the awful example of the secretary of the Regents of the University of California, Wheeler counseled the Berkeley students a few days ago not to gamble on the races under penalty of dire conse- quences to themselves. Dr. Wheeler might have added in modest truth that the wagering of money on the race- track is not gambling at all, but robbery, to which the victim submits in blind willingness. —_——— The skeleton of a man who, according to the opinion of consulting physicians, must have been at least eleven feet tall during his interesting earthly career, has been found in Nevada. Tt must be refreshing to the worthy people of the Silver State to know that at some time, even prehistoric, there was at least one big man within the borders of the State before Sam Davis. ! e The alacrity with which the Dominion Government has pressed its searching inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Clallam should be an object lesson to American authorities. If a few of our train wrecks and ship dis- asters were made the basis for criminal prosecution of train men and ship officers we would have fewer acci- dents on sea or land. Auditor Harry Baehr has announced with every demon- stration of conviction that a majority of our Civil Service Commission are crooks and schemers. The Auditor seems to be in a position to know what the public, because of inadequate information, is able only to suspect. It is better late than never, however, to strengthen a suspicion into a certainty. v The guardians of the exhibit of the State Board of Trade in the ferry building are much perturbed over the persistent theft of good wines appropriately displayed to the longing eyes of visitors. Perhaps the thieves have taken too literally the injunction not to look upon the wine when it was red and have put as much as possible of it out of sight. A Colorado tramp was sentenced a few days ago to im- prisonment for life for wrecking a passenger train. It is to be hoped that the wretch will suffer a worthless, re- morseful existence far longer than that allotted to ordi- nary men. His punishment should be made worse than death. - : President | His One Fault. His rare executive ability has won {him a position of high authority in the administration of the lccal affairs of one of America's largest transpor- tation companies. He knows his busi- ness, and his knowledge saves his em- ployers many dollars. He directs the efforts of an army of stevedores and with a shake or ncd 6f the head, an elevation of the hand, can convey val- uable pointers to the man on the bridge of a docking liner. He has one fault. Upon occasions of great provocation he swears. In justice, however, be it recorded | that the provocation must be great and the swearing is in a class all by itself. | A student of the Scriptures and a class- ical scholar, he decorates his profanity | with biblical allusions and apt extracts |from ancient writers, skillfully min- | gling word pictures from the old world and similes from the sea with the com- mon or water front argot of ordinary vexed mortals. His us=fulness to his employers cloaks even this fault, if its very picturesque- | ness is not its own apology. A few days | g0, however, one of the high chiefs |in authority over him suggested the advisability of moderation in this re- ! gard. “If you must swear, captain,” said he, “have it out quietly at the end of the wharf. Then the friends of pas- | sengers will hear nothing to jar their | nerves and the seagulls won't mind.” A few days later the big provocation came. The wharf was crowded with | ladies and their escorts. The captain | was in the midst of the throng. Some- | thing happened. His face blanched. | He wanted to turn locse, but remem- | bered the request for moderation. He !gasped and sputtered. An idea came | to his relief. In a voice grown lusty from long usage he yelled: “Ladies, please stand back! | quick! Get out of the way!"” Thinking his quick eye had detected |a parting line or some other threat- ening danger, customs officers joined | with police in moving back the crowd. | When there was a margin of some | twenty feet of unoccupied wharf be- tween him and the people he turned | to the man on the liner who had blun- dered: | “Now, vou blanked idiot | the captain, “why in — — — — Back, | Crriosity. | A well-known newspaper man is | imbued " with the belief that he can ! make a fortune in hen culture. He has a ranch in the country within easy access of the city, where his family | resides. His son, a boy about 5 years | of age, whose bump of inquisitiveness |is very fully developed for one so | young, sought to learn something |about hen culture from his grand- | father recently while at the ranch. | While the old gentleman was en- | joying a smoke on the porch the lit- tle” fellow climbed on his knee and | began: “Say, grandpa, do hens make | their eggs?” “Why, certainly,” | gentleman. | “Just the same as a boy makes a ball when his papa won't buy him | one?” | *“Oh, no; not exactly that way."” | “Do they put the yellow in first and then cover it with white?” “Don’'t bother me with such ques- | tions,” testily replied the old gentle- {man. “You will know all about it | when you srow up.” He rose from his seat and walked away, but the in- ‘quism\‘e youngster ran after him and | put the finishing touches on by ask- replied the old |ing: “Say, who sews the covers on 'en?” Then he fled to a place of safety. McKenna's Reply. Here is a yarn that Melvin Chap- | man, the well-known lawyer and ex- | Mayor of Oakland, tells of the late At- ‘?torney George W. Tyler and Joseph { McKenna, the latter now one of the Justices of the United States Su- preme Court. { Tyler once went to Fairfield, Cal., to argue a demurrer to a complaint. Me- Kenna was attorney for the plaintiff. After Tyler had talked to the court | for two weary hours McKenna, in that | gentle manner for which he has al- ways been famous, suggested that he thought “‘Counsel had failed utterly to discuss the essential features of the matter.” Tyler retorted in his gruff- est tones: “Mr. McKenna, what you don’t know about law—and what I don’t know—would flll a very large volume.” Suavely but instantly the little gentleman restorted: “Yes, Judge Tyler, and that is the work from which you have been quoting all morning.” A Lassie’'s Lament. Are the long green billows still beating the shore? Does the wild heather bloom as of yore? Does the sea still moan in its ruric rune? Ah! laddie, let me come home to you soun! I'm tired of the fuss and the fashion of Dublin town— gown. I long for the Galway heath and the Galway moon. An! laddie, let me come home to you soon! For rather by far in 2 cot by the sea 1 spend out my life with a lad like ye— To roam wih my lover o'er lowland and une. Ah! laddie, let me come home to you soon. Paul Du Shay. The Jubilee Monitor. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the archdiocese of California the Monitor, the local Catholic organ, has issued a jubilee edition which nearly approaches mag- azine proportions both as to size, the excellence of its reading matter and typographical make-up. It is designed as a complete resume of the work * — risen from obscurity to the thriving situations which they hold to-day. There is a historical review of the old Missions which includes some little known facts concerning the Mission Dolores and Mission San Rafael Unique cuts of ancient doccuments, the writings of priests long since dead, add to the interest of the text. An article which will be of general interest to all, without reference to re- ligious convictions, is that upon the ! plous fund, a decis upon which was | recertly handed down by The Hague tribunal. A Word From W.C.T.U. The following bit of irony comes from the National American Woman Suffrage Association: The women of Denver may explain and protest as long as they please, but the more the matter is discussed the more evident does it become that the climax of political corruption has been discovered in Colorado, and to Miss Elizabeth McCracken and the Outlook belongs the credit of discovering it. Colorado, as we all know, is one of those God-forsaken States where wo- men are not classed with “idiots, luna- tics, minors and criminals,” but have all the rights of citizens. Naturally we should expect such a State to furnish some crowning instance of political corruption and Colorado has not dis- appointéd us. A certain woman candidate, name not given, has been found ilty of winning vetes by being kind. She was a kind woman by nature and when she became a candidate for office she act- ually kept on being kind and her kind- ness won votes for her. The case calls for comment, but where in the English language ean words be’ found that will accurately describe and fittingly condemn such a degree of political depravity? ‘We are familiar with the spectacle of the man candidate who buys votes with whisky and boodle, so familiar with it, indeed, that it makes little im- pression on us and nobody seems to eare whether the offender is punished or not. But when it comes to a woman candidate getting votes by being kind the offense is one that stirs the blood of the most apathetic citizen and rouses him to indignant protest. Two years ago the National Ameri- can Woman Suffrage Association asked that a Congressional committee be ap- pointed to investigate the workings of woman suffrage. Let us have that com- mittee at once and let Colorado be the first State investigated. Meanwhile, is there not in our present Congress some patriotic man who will immeor- talize himself by introducing “A Bill to Prevent Women Candidates in Colo- rado from Being Kind?” LIDA CALVERT OBENCHAIN. Wi & nswers to Queries. IMMIGRATION—Enq., City. The immigration to the .United States in 1903 was 857,946, being 207,303 in excess of the previous year. THE ALMSHOUSE — Subscriber, City. The Almshouse in San Francisco is dista. * i~ an air line one and a quar- ter ralles from the main ¢ ive in Golden Tate Park. TRANSPORTS — Subscriber, Del Monte, Cal. For such informatiom as you desire relative to the transport ser- vice address a communication to Trans- port Depot, U. S. A, San Francisco. Cal. FROM HORATIUS—A. S, Oakland. Cal. “Quod satis est, qui contingit, nihit amplius optet” is Latin, from Horatius, Ep. 1, 2, 46, and means, “Let him who is blessed with a competence wish for nothing more.” NEWSPAPERS—Subscriber, City. According to Rowell's Newspaper Di- rectory the number of newspapers pub- lished in the United States and Canada is 21,451. Of this number 98 are Cana- dian publications. REPORTERS—Subseriber, City. There is no record of the number of reporters in San Francisco. The Call and other large papers employ from twenty to twenty-five. The register of voters shows 145 journalists, but not a report- er. Twenty-three are registered as ed- My lord's green coat and my lady's | \tOrS- A NAME—C. H, City. If a man is kncwn by a name that is not his own. has been going by that name for years #nd he desires to be known by his right mame he id consult an at- torney in order to present the matter in the Superior Court so that he may in the future be known by the name he desires. g NORMAL SCHOOL—A. O. 8. Stu- dents are admitted to the Normal