The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1904. . gl ¢ Fiendish Hereros. Spectn] Oorrespomfence. BE April 4—"Two armies of | demc = the wery a German mis siopery lmpa characterizes the black and white foroes now engaged demth struggle In Ger- ¢ Africa. The Nitle war rr is waging against the rebellicns ¥ been so oom- pletely overshadowed by the big war between Russiz and Japan that it has received scant attention from thepress, X for blood-curdling atrocities om hoth sifes %t would be hard to find a Il to 1t In the anmais of modern 15 even where Savages are con- erned. life s o e n private Jetters, many of them ssses of the scenes they which have the It s m eye from that here, ealed. tame by eomparison. ng their victims out- instanc ocious uld de- nclud n and were flayed a Some had their limbs chopped off, first their arms and then their legs, and those who ] survived had their eves poked out. arents were frequently bound hand and foot and in this help position compelled 1o chi slowly d their lifeless jected to horriblé n were hung upon ns appear Instead the savages right M children mutilation trees, head ard, and beaten to death. The negroes frequently nailed hands, feet, and other fragments of the bodies of those they had butchered | 1o the walls of their homes. One woman. Frau Schumann, the ages beheaded and they stuck the mn the roof of her hous With of humor they after- nez on her nose. ghastly touch d placed her p The colonist who rel his inci dent records with satisfaction that one man, after being woupded, had strength ugh to blow out his br: d thus escaped the h by which had been reserved for h s b me 1 His barbarous cap bullets into him and had killed him nd left his- terrible at until his relief ttlement your eves to the real mnature of our black brothers, writes one colonist ph Teuebener. 1o & re e here. are not me to fail me practic wild beasts but 1 n, on helpless women childre ers who fell int» hands in rict were tor- ir bodies were their Y being cut off h The women were treated 1 cruelly “n Lange saw her husband done to death and was then compelled t tch her four-year-old child butcher- The Hereros placed the child in 2 doorway and slammed the heavy door until the life was crushed out of the body. 1 could relate hundreds of cases equally horrible. In the immedi- ate neighborhood of Okahandja alone 112 persons were tortured to death. d grant that some of these black demons v fall into our hands. There will be grim revenge then.” According to authentic German re- porte that grim revenge is being ex- | acted whenever the opportunity oc- curs, “Vorwaerts” declares that the methods adopted by the German troops | are no better than those of the He- reros; that they shoot down men, women and children indiscriminately and after the engagements dispatch the wounded. That this statement is no exaggera- tion is shown by a letter from Dr. Baumgart, a volunteer with the Ger- man troops, who openly rejoices in the war of extermination they are waging and the part he has played in it, “No quarter is given,” he writes; “the enemy are ruthlessly shot down, for our feelings are very bitter against these savages. We found a number of Hereros installed 4t the Hoffnung farm, but when they saw our approach they abandoned all their belongings and fled. We, however, hotly pursued them and succeeded in cutting off four- teen fugitives, who were speedily shot or beaten to death. “Another fugitive. separated from the main group, received two bullets from my Browning pistol, which wounded him. He crawled into the bush, but I sprang off my horse and. finding the spot where he lay, beat him on the head with the butt end of mwy rifie until his skull was shattered. “I wounded another Herero with two pistol shots, and as he lay on the ground another of our men came up and smashed his skull with a rifle shot which he fired at close range.” German authorities in the colonies hotly resent the criticisms made by the missionaries and declare that their sympathy with the rebels has done much to foment the rising. To which the missionaries retort that the brutal treatment of the natives by the Ger- borrible | | all sorts of atrocities upon them. In | a letter by one of these evangelists it | is mentioned as a significant fact that the affected districts the savages carefully abstain from inflicting in- | juries on English settlers there. |” In a recent debate in the Reichstag, | Herr Bebel, the famous Socialist lead- | er, repeated his allegations that the | Germans had perpetrated all manner of brutalities on the Hereros. German Officers” Cruelty. | | | Special Correspondence. ! BERLIN, April 4—Cases have been |few of late In which the result of a military court-martial in this country has satisfied the public, but no de- cision has called for fiercer denuncia- tion than that by which Prince Prosper | von Arenberg, previously sentenced to | death for a fiendishly cruel murder, has heen acquitted on the ground of insan- | /ity and committed to the municipal (hospital at Hersberge. The :eneml; feeling is that this titled assassin has g0t off as the result of “influence” and | that the authorities once more have | played straight into the hands of the | Socialists by giving a further jolt to the confidence of the masses In those | who govern them. It may be remembered that the mur- | der for which German law now con- | siders the Prince irresppnsible was committed nearly four years ago in one | «of Germany's Southwest African colo- | nies, whither the officer had gone with | | his regiment, the victim being a half- | breed policeman named Kain. The murderer was sent back to Germany | for trial, and it was the court-martial | then appointed to try him which in September, 1900, sentenced the prisoner | to death. His aristocratic friends im- mediately set to work in his behalf, and the court-martial just closed was the result of three years' effort to bhave the original decision set aside. In any ordinary court, one would think, the testimony as to criminal in- clinations and general viciousness on | the part of Von Arenberg from his boyhood would have gone a long way toward overbalancing the insanity plea. | It was stated by witnesses that he used to attack his teachers; that he caught | cats and after cutting off their feet set | dogs upon them, and two of his favor- ite pastimes as a small boy were said | to consist of biting the tail of his dog d cutting the eyes from living fish. Nor did the brutality of his charac- ter lessen when the young noble was | graduated from a military training | school into a lieutenancy in the army. | He was known as the champion drink- | er of his regiment and, drunk or| sober, made a regular practice of beating and ill-treating his men. Like most bullies too, he was a coward. Among the witnesses at both trials was the surgeon attached to the ship which carried the to Africa and the doctor described how the Prince rushed on deck during a capful of wind, wearing only a life belt and begging to be saved in case the ship should be wrecked. At the military station he soon be- came known as “The Crazy Prince.” According to the testimony of eye wit- Prince Prosper was on excel- lent terms with Kain, the half-breed policeman, his subsequent victim, of- ten drinking with him and treating him with a familiarity which disgust- ed his other acquaintances at the fort. One day, however, the Prince, who had been away from the camp, return- ed, declaring that the half-breed had threatened his Iife and that he after- ward had made off intent on escaping into English territory. So Von Aren- berg, taking a detail of soldiers, start- ed out to round up Kain, the soldiers having strict orders to shoot should the half-breed resist arrest. The po- liceman gave himself up at once, how- ever, and after making prisoners of all Kain's family, Prince Prosper, as jury and judge, examined him. During ajl the accusations the po- liceman declared his intention of ap- pealing his case to the colonel of the regiment. To this the *“crazy Prince” agreed, promising to take him before the superior officer next day. Then, to all appearances, he became gracious again, allowing Kain to sit about the camp fire and drink with him. Pre- viously, however, the Prince had or- dered the soldiers to shoot Kain if he tried to escape and when the police- man made no attempt to get away the cowardly officer tried in various ways to make him leave the camp. Finally, according to an eye wit- ness, Kain arose and walked away af- ter the Prince had spoken to him in English. Then the Prince ordered a {sentry to shoot him because he was trying to escape. At the second com- mand to fire the soldier shot Kain in the leg, so enraging the Prince that he ran up with drawn revolver and shot | the native in the head. | nesses, Dust and the Auto. One of the objections“to the motor car is its tendency to raise thick clouds | of dust from the highways over which | it passes. FuMy recognizing this evil, | the London Automobile Club caused an | inquiry to be instituted, under the su- | pervision of Colonel Crompton, C. B. The cycle track at the Crystal Palace | was selected as the theater of opera- tions, and a portion of the track was |covered with the sweepings from a flour mill, which were raked over and | renewed between each test. It was | soon discovered, however, that the eye was not capable of estimating fairly | the great difference which existed in | the dust-raising proclivities of differ- |ent cars, and the camera was enlisted as recording officer with the most sat- isfactory results. Two cameras were employed, and the cars were photo- |graphed by them simultaneously as lthey traveled past at various speeis. These photographs show that while | certain cars are very dusty ones others | raise no more dust than a horse-drawn vehicle. From thcie experiments it would seem that the amount of dust does not so much depend upon the kind of tire employed as upon the amount of space below the car. If this is quite unimpeded by hanging gear or in any ;other wav the dust raised is not con- | sidr rable. ! 2 Prince's regiment | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOER D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . .. . .. Address Al Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office ... .Third and Market Streets, S. F. ...APRIL 19, 1904 PERSONAL ISSUES. TUESDAY. HE Democratic managers in New York have their T pockets stuffed with personal attacks on the Presi- dent. While the different factions are at war on- matters of party policy, they all agree that abuse of the President is party expediency. Among the preliminary reports one idea is said to be common to all subdivisions. The supporters of Hearst and of Parker and the clans of Tammany and the upstarters all.agree that the President is to be made odious, and painted black, if brush and pot can do it. Oddly enough they propose to do this by contrasting him with McKinley. They think of declaring that since the death of McKinley the Republican party has run riot, with Roosevelt at the head of the disturbance, and that it has failed to carry out the promise that McKinley's poli- cies should be continued. This is interesting. It is a pledge that if McKinley had lived the Democratic party would have died in his arms, passing to a glorious resur- rection in Republicanism. Or it implies that if his poli- cies had survived the Democracy would now be support- ing his successor. One is at a 10ss to characterize politics of that kind. No President since Lincoln has been so much abused for his policies in his lifetime as McKinley. Mr. Hearst is a leading candidate for the Presidential nomination. This candidate said in his paper, a' few months before McKin- Jey’s assassination : “The President of the United States is commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. The trusts control the present command- | er-inchief of the army and navy of the United States. It may be near, it may be far, but in a not remote winter the American peasant will walk by a window of the White House. It will have been some hard winter—a winter with the coal trust, a winter with the gas trust,a winter with the beef trust, a winter with the clothing trust. A white, fat hand will toss its answer out of the window, ‘A trust can do no wrong’ Then the commander-in- chief of the army and navy will issue proclamations, as | to the protection of property, and other proclamations; he will call out his army and his navy, and there will be an awful, bloody quarrel between the commander-in-chief and the peasants.” Continuing in the same editorial, Mr. Hearst drew a picture of the beginning of the French revolution, closing with this: “In a few years all the peasants in France | were eating, but the King was dead. So when we hint that this republic is in danger now, just remember what a'short time intervened between the King alive and drinking, and the King dead and the peasants all eating.” Now with an amazing effrontery the party in whose be- half that incendiary and murderous stuff was published proposes to make a personal issue against Roosevelt for not carrying out the policy of his predecessor, whose | assassination was invited by its leading newspaper or- gans, the property of a candidate for its nomination! The policy of McKinley was a protective tariff, with such reciprocity as would promote and not destroy our domestic industries; it was for an isthmian canal, pre- ferring the Panama route, if the complications could be | cleared away; it was for a navy adequate to the needs of a nation with the longest coast line in the world and | with the greatest amount of property exposed to con- quest in cities on that lige; it was for such influence as | this republic may legitimately have in the politics of the world, without entangling alliances. All of these have been projected and promoted faith- fully b President Roosevelt. ‘The greatest economic feature of them all is the canal. He has gone forward on the McKinley line, and has the canal ready for construc- tion, though opposed at every step by the Democratic leaders. He has instituted and won suits against every | trust that has been impeached for illegality. Con- | gress put into his hands a fund for that purpose amount- | ing to a half million. By the expenditure of only $25,000 of that sum he has broken the back of the trusts, and | through the courts has secured a line of decisions that | wall in the whole system of combination of capital, set bounds to it, and arrest it at the line where popular rights begin. ”. It will be a spectacle for gods_and men to see Hearst { and Hill crocodiling over McKinley, and weeping that | his policies have not been carried out, remembering that | Hill accused him of destroying the constitution, and Hearst said of him: “McKinley’s speech proves that at the head of this nation there is a dull brain. It is a milk and water brain. Within it there is no conception of the exalted station held by a man chosen to lead a great na- tion. The brain that plotted, planned and begged for the place, the brain that gladly accepted the advice, money and domination of a Hanna to creep into the White House, cannot conceive of .any mental operations supe- rior to the plotting, planning and submissive order.” Read that and then measure the size of these men who are blackwashing Roosevelt for not, as they say, follow- ing in McKinley's footsteps! | A $15000 plant has just been installed at Ketchikan, Alaska, for canning halibut for the first time for the markets of the world, and expeditions are fitting out in Dawson, justified by recent finds, to prospect the moun- tains for precious stones. Thus one by one are the wonderful possibilities of that great new land being made a benefit to man. T “The Navy Relief Society” is accompanied by the announcement: “It has for its purpose to afford re- lief to the widows and orphans of deceased officers, sail- ors and marines of the United States navy. It is an en- tirely new measure, no charitable organization ever hay- ing been incorporated in this country that includes in its benefits the enlisted force of the navy. It is also its pur~ pose to aid in obtaining pensions for those entitled to them; to obtain employment for those deserving it, and to solicit and create scholarships and supervise educationa] opportunities for orphan childten.” There will be something of surprise to the public in the statement that up to this time there has been no charitable organization incorporated in the United States that includes in its benefits the enlisted men of the navy. American incorporated charities are so numerous the impression prev:il§ that they cover every field where charity is needed and a good many where it is not needed. The lack of any proper care for the widows and | the orphans of the enlisted men of the navy is therefore a matter of more or less public discredit. The move- ment now being made toward supplying the need for such an incorporated charity will of course be received with general approval and ought to find cordial and lib- eral support on all sides. o For the purpose.of extending the efforts and the use- fulness of the charity it is the purpose of the promoters to organize auxiliary societies in every State and Terri- NAVY RELIEF SOCIETY. HE report of the organization at Washington of tory of the Union. The list of founders and promoters includes some of the foremost names in the country, among them being President Roosevelt, Secretary Moody and Senators Hale and Penrose. Judge Morrow represents the gociety on this coast. It can hardly be necessary to commend so worthy a cause, for the mere announcement of its purpose is commendation enough; neither is it necessary to point out the imperative need for such a society, since that has been deeply impressed at this time by the fearful disaster Yo the brave men of the Missouri only a few days ago. i The husbands of some of the members of the Pacific Coast Women’s Press Association are just now having a little quiet thought over the advantages attaching to women’s clubs. The association mentioned, for certain reasons, expelled one of its number, who promptly insti- tuted suit for $100,000 damages against the members and their husbands. ALAMEDA IN LINE. HE CALL is glad to enroll the beautiful town of T Alameda in the list of progressive communities. Its situation is excellent from every point. of view. Originally built on a peninsula, since the completion of the tidal canal it is on an island. This may have some- thing to do with its new spirit of local patriotism, for all insular people are patriotic. They have a keen sense of the advantages of climate and we are glad to observe that they first rallied around the palm ‘by planting that tree on the borders of their public grounds. As a palm island Alameda rfeed have no superior in the Union, for the climate is peculiarly clement and suited to tropical flora. planting more palms and other tropical trees. This year they very appropriately select April 22 for Arbor day. It is the anniversary of the birth of J.’Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor day. He is at rest on the far banks of the Missouri, am&bovc his tomb and around are groves planted by his hand to beautify the pr-iries of Nebraska. Nearly sixty years ago, when he pioneered the country west of the Missouri, Alameda was unknown. But now its place on the map is made beautiful by applying his motto, “Plant trees,” and his memory is to be kept and honored_ by his appreciative countrymen far from the immediate scene of his labors. Alameda has certain peculiar advantages in her shore line. It is divided between that which is demanded for commerce, on the west and north, and that which is dedi- cated to aquatic pleasures, bathing, rowing and sailing, on the south and east. The whole island can be so beautified as to make it unnecessary to sail south of the equator to find “the beautiful isles.” When the various associations that are now federated for advancement have been a little while in action, it will resemble the island that incited the mutineers of the ship Bounty to rise against the authority of their officers, and put her about for palm-covered Pitcairn. With San Jose., Oakland and San Francisco in line and in league to adopt all the gifts and graces possible in this climate of charms, on the bay and coast, and Sacramento, Marysville, Fresno and others in the valley of California doing the same, the State will rapidly become the show place nature intended when its soil was placed on the bed rock and its sun was hung in the heavens. Four or five million si'lkworms have just been hatched out at the agricultural station of the University of Cali- fornia to test in a thoroughly scientific way the possi- bility of successfully producing silk in California. We can produce plenty of mulberry leaves to feed the little workers, and the prettiest girls to adorn their work, if they will but accept our hospitality. T tained a right to construct a canal across the isth- mus of Panama. 1t is estimated that the total cost of construction will exceed $140,000,000. Of that sum a large amount will be expended for machinery, equipment and materials that will have to be taken from various parts of the United States to Panama. The question, therefore, arises whether the ships that carry the mate- rial shall be American or foreign. § Upon that issue the Cleveland Marine Review makes a good suggestion. It says: “An opportunity now presents itself for the canal to be of immediate benefit to American shipping. The canal’s zone is the property of the United States wholly and absolutely by right of purchase. It is under the ju- risdiction of the American Government and is part and parcel of the United States of America. Politically it is territory of the United States, and the navigation laws of the United States should be immediately extended to embrace it. American ship-owners have both a moral and legal right to demand that the canal zone be in- cluded in the coastwise service, which means that all commerce between one American port an d another should be carried by an American ship. The canal is to be built by American money and Amenican brain, through American territory, and the taxpayers of Amer- ita will be called upon to foot the bills, and the material which American money purchases should be carried to the canal zone in American ships.” It is difficult to see how any valid objection can be made to such a plea for American shipping. As the Marine Review says: “It doessnot require any compli- cated legislation, the adoption of any new principle or the expenditure of any great sum of money, but simply the extension of a well-known and universally approved pol- icy upon which all parties in our national Legislature have been agreed. No more favorable opportunity could arise to fulfill some of the many promises and pledges so frequently made for many years by the party in power than the one indicated.” i P N A GOOD SUGGESTION. HE United States, at a cost of $50,000,000, has ob- It is announced that sevemty picnics from San Fran- cisco are already arranged for this season to the various outside pleasure resorts. It is to be hoped that the de- portment prevalent at the.first one, held a week ago Sun- day, when the patrol wagon squad at Valencia street was overpowered and relieved of three of the picnickers, will not be regarded as a precedent. Rear Admiral Dewa was in command of the Japanese squadron which decoyed the, Russian ships over the field of mines to their undoing. That name sounds strangely familigr in connection with naval successes. Maybe the Japs believe in luck in the selection of a name. An iron-clad train is being built in St. Petershurg within which to transport the Czar to the Far East, if he decides to go. There are at least some luxuries pos- sessed by the great that the common does not They keep Arbor day and deyote it to | " His Beauty. “Speaking of cld-time gamblers,” said Frank Todd, growing reminiscent the other night, “poor old ‘Smoker Bill'’ was indeed a character. , “Bill was kind of heart and prided himself on his good looks, though at a showdown he could not win even a consolation prize at a beauty show. ‘Smoker’ had won a bunch of coin and after a week's revelry found himself late one night about on the verge. “The gang got together and stocd in to josh him on his homeliness. In des- peration Bill left the crowd and started away to walk off the tired feeling he had. “Reaching the old Market street cut, he came across a lone individual sit- ting there. Pulling an old navy re- volver from his pocket, ‘Smoker’ or- dered the stranger to say his prayers and to make them short. ‘For,’ said Bill, ‘I'm going to kill you.’ ““T'll give you what I have,’ the man pleaded, ‘but please don’t hurt me." “‘Your money is no gocd to me,’ re- plied ‘Smcker,” ‘but hurry up and pray.’ “‘Why do you want to kill me? I never harmed a man in my life." “‘Well, I'll tell you,' said ‘Smoker.’ ‘I made up my mind to-night that if I ever ran across a man as homely looking as I am that I would kill him. You're that man.” “‘Now, stranger,” came the answer, ‘turn loose your old cannon, and I hope that you are a good shot, because if I am as homely a looking brute as you 1 want to croak.’ “Bill put up his gun and walked wearily away.” Proof Positive. The wonderful resources in arriving at facts outside of evidence as is sub- mitted before courts of justice was one of the characteristics of the late bril- liant Hall McAllister, who stood at the head of his profession in California. It was during a case involving ghe supposed will of a very wealthy man who departed this life about ten years before the final will was presented in court for probate. The man’s estate was worth several millions of dollars and as a consequence there was a contest over its admission to probate. The will, or what was supposed to be his will, when introduced in the old Probate Court over which Judge Myrick presided, looked all right. The witnesses to the last document swore to the genuineness of the paper. This was apparently conclugive, and, fur- thermore, Hall McAllister, who ap- peared for the contestants, had no evi- dence to offer as to its crookedness. The other side was represented by the firm of Sharp & Sharp, who were also great lawyers. ‘When the case was presented Sol Sharp leaned back in his chair and with one of his winsome smiles Jooked Hall McAllister in the face and re- marked, “Hall, we got you this time.” McAllister returned the jeer in his usual way and, picking up the will, addressed the court as follows: “As to the genuineness of this docu- ment of course there can be but lit- tle doubt, as it is more than supported by sworn evidence. But, unfortunately for the claimants, the paper contain- ing this will was not made until five years after the date of the will in- scribed thereon.” Having delivered this shot, he picked up the paver and, holding it between himself and the light before a window, puinted out the water imprint woven therein with the date of the manufac- ture. This settled the claimants' spurious document. Spring in the Campagna. First April wav'd a milk-white hand And made new magic in the land. Now over all the rolling plain The sweet windflowers bloom.again, The blossom falls, the Judas-trees Unthread their coral rosaries; The tufted fennels thrust on high A golden broom to sweep the sky; And over broken archw: flows The saffron of the budding rose. Now all the green grass country sings, Now stirs the sap, and where it springs A memory-haunted fragrance fills The ilex hollows in the hills. Now misty seas of borage bloom En-isle the ruined roadside tomb, And now as when the world began The lamb's first cry goes out to Pan. Now where the winding stream divides The poplars on its willowed sides, The white-throat tells his happy tale And mocks the lingering nightingale. Now in the shadows of the glen Uncurls the timid cyclamen, And he may find who cares and knows Wet dips where white narcissus blows; ow all the warm, caressing air reathes violets, violets everywhere. And here, where still the tender touch Oof slow decay has left so much, Where centered memories linger round Each landmark set in storied ground, ‘When !spifln‘ makes all things fresh and air And felt more keenly, glimpses rare Of that unfathomed world arise ‘Which once I saw with childhood's eyes. —Rennell Rodd in The Critic. Spain’s Cave Duweller. The discovery of a troglodyte (cave dweéller) in the Basque Province, near Fuenterrabia, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, has aroused considerable cu- riosity here. As a customs guard, with his dogs, was searching in a wood recently an extraordinary being in the image of a man was seen to rush before him with wonderful rapidity and disappear into a hole in a mountain. The guard followed on, and found the wild man had blocked up the entrance to his cave with pieces of timber and stonmes, which, however, were easily removed and the man was captured. He was absolutely prehistoric in ap- pearance. His only garment was a skin tied around the hips. His long and matted beard fell over his chest like a cloak, while his hair trailed down his back in a thick mass. In his cave were found numerous bones of sheep, deer and other animals which he had eaten, a sling, a club and a stone ax. A bed of moss was his only furniture. The guard brought the troglodyte to Fuenterrabia, where his appearance created a sensation. Before the mag- istrate he explained that his name was Prudencio, he was 28 years old and had | been, when an infant, an nmate of a foundling hospital In San Sebastian. He had formerly acted as farm hand, ‘but two years ago, being unable to find TALK OF THE OWN work and being in great distress, he took to the forest. There he lived om acorns, hazel nuts and birds’ eggs. Lit- tle by little he learned to use a sling and the ax and was able to kill deer and sheep which had strayed. As he had no fire he ate the flesh of these animals raw.—London Express. Charitable Free Lunch. One of the oldest institutions in the city of Melbourne, Australia, known as the “8 o'clock rush,” is in danger of extinction. For half a century a phil- anthropic restaurant proprietor has given a free meal at 8 o'clock every morning to newly arrived immigrants or respectable persons who were tem- porarily “down on their luck.” No pro- fessional loafers or chronically unem- ployed were encouraged. The attend- ance averaged about a hundred, and every Melbourne journalist considered it his duty (o write a description of the scene at least once in his career. The proprietor of the restaurant is now re- tiring from business. He is said to have received legacies from ‘people whom he thus befriended and who af- terward prospered.—New York Tribune. Time Saved. The duration of the voyage between New York and San Francisco by way of Cape Horn amounts to 140 days out- ward and 130 days homeward. while the passage from New York to Colon may be made jn 20 days and the re- turn in 28 days. This gives for the total sailing time from New York to San Francisco via the canal 74 days, and for the. return 85 days, which means a saving of 66 days and 45 days respectively. The coastwise trade be- tween the Atlantic and the Pacific sea- board of the United States, so profit- able prior to the construction of the transcontinental railways, has almost vanished from the sea, the traffic in coal alone surviving. Whether it can be revived by throwing the canal open to sailing vessels of small tonnage, coasting schooners and the like, is a problem.—National Geographic Maga~ zine. Answers to Queries. MARRIAGE LICENSE—A Sube scriber, San Jose, Cal. A marriage license in California is recognized only in the county in which it is issued. The fee for such a license is San Francisco is $2. NEVADA CANAL—World, Healds- burg, Cal. For information relative to charges for water to be taken from the Nevada Canal for irrigation purposes, you Will have to communicate with N. L. Taylor, Geological Survey, Carson City, Nev. - GOVERNMENTRESERVOIRS — A Newcomer, City. To obtain advice about Government reservoirs under construction at the present time ad- dress a communication to the Unpited States General Land Office, Washing- ton, D. C. BLACK HEADS—C. F. K., City. “Black heads” on the face and neck arise from a condition of the system, and in different individuals the condi- tions are different. For that reason a general remedy will not always bring about a beneficial result. Consult a re- putable physician. TO THE COUNTY LINE.—The dis- tance from the City Hall in San Fran- cisco to the county line near the Six- Mile House fronting on the eastern shore. via Market, Tenth streets, Po- trero avenue, Twenty-fourth street and the San Bruno road, is 29,000 feet, or nearly five and three-quarter miles. CAMERAS AT THE FAIR—J. S, City. If you will address a letter of inquiry to Walter B. Stevens, secretary of the Exposition Commission, St. Louis, Mo., you will be advised as to the regulations of the management of the World's Fair in that city relative to the use of cameras on the fair grounds. HEKTOGRAPH—M. G. K., Fruitvale, Cal. The following is given as the method for making a hektograph that, if allowed to remain for two days after using, will not need washing, but will absorb all the ink and not interfere with the making of a new transfer: Soak an ounce of the Cooper gelatine over night in enough cold water to cover it well, taking care that all the gelatine is swelled. Prepare a salt water bath by dissolving two ounces of common salt in a pint of water. Heat seven or eight ounces of glycerine-over the salt water bath to a temperature of 200 Fahrenheit. Then pour off from the gelatine all the water remaining unabsorbed, add the gelatine to the hot glycerine, continuing the g for an*hour, carefully stirring the - ture occasionally, avoiding as much as