The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1904, Page 32

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1904. s SRR Su——— | SeE: | able conditions could an English speak- ! inz publi 1 pleasure’in it. Care- fully moun: admirably cast, and ‘-}.”'n‘1\ acted in a fashlonable and | | popular playhouse, there was every- | thing in its favor, providing it was a { good play. Yet it has been withdrawn after 2 run of four nights—one of the worst disasters on record at the St James Theater. It toldethe story of a | neurotic. w -willed lieutenant in the | | German army who, prevented by army 1 ! etiquette frox marrying the humble | ! i 2d by pride from leav- | | my for her sake, took her life own, after many a dreary scene with explanations of the ob- { It has been explained that the | { ) play failed because the public doesn't { care for such serious, thoughtful mat- | ter; or else because it was German; o but perhaps the fact is that it failed iE CALL, TREET, COVENT DON, April 12—That proper is in nearly parlous a state as Arche i Barrie as- de but for some time musi- Honey longest run be hav b f en orig- t was whip- ped Hamilton, | he s Leslie by The ¥ the is a great who the star anything ent k Exchange typewrite thr at song her painful inounced a Gene story, table, . laration b tto which had been writ- Henry Hamilton for ryll was the s dec best cese both played a caught the hors of the esque most of whose char- | v d in America by Powers. When ce followed “A « utry Gi at Da , and w uh“as 10 be calied “Beautiful Ceylon,” has had & nu catchy songs dropped into it, will be one of the most attractive musical comedies ever produced. The us. perhaps the most in London, and the Inglish tea planter’'s love story of the for the little Cingalee is more coherent | than §s usual in this sort of plece. Huntley Wr too, has pienty of chances for r-making in the part of a Ba er, who assassin- ates the 1glish and talks about Kin h hat iays the fatted t he has no song ular as “Yo ho! Barrington an- Hicks and Iy which 11 at the Adplpm several American jies to which Mr. f, is evidently in , and the same may rry Girl” Hicks" the Vaudeville. nce the Christmas warles Frohman is production, probably the United States later C. Carton has fin- holidays and, as ¢ rested in the e given in The news that R ished anot comedy is welcome, for | good, fresh, suitable copy and do mot iz hiere have been afraid that | reject proffered contributions through his recent lack of success had 4 carelessness or for the fun of rejecting cour: » suthor of “Lord and Lady | them.—The Academy. Aey. ping with ““Liberty Hall,” i Carton had a long st of success An Angler’s Paradise. including Tree of Knowledge,” ry.* “Wheels With- - Huntworth's Ex- Undercurrent,” s ago, was not fa- and “A Clean Slate,” light last season, alsp failed to y e. The new piece has not yet been named, but in it Miss Comp- ton. the original Lady Algy and Lady Juntv who in private life is Mre. Cargon, will appear. Mysterious, indeed, is the light that audience sheds om a play! The wd and observant George Alexan- der must bhave supposed he had a strong drama in “Love’s-Carnival” tranelated from the German of the successful “Rosenmontag,” otherwise he would_not have spent much money sand infinite care in producing the piece. Presumably the long series .of rehearsals revealed to the astute actor- manager no dangerous weakness in his undertaking: vet the first time a Lon- @on av “ience gathers to see the play, it becomes epparent at onee to even the casuai playgoer that under no conceiv- which = an € probably | to | who | Musket- | Band-written copy to look through, and | | because, as translated and transplant- ed, it was dreary in subject, heavy in | dialogue, and loose in construction. It has been succeeded by a revival of “Old Heidelberg,” which is quite as German ! and with an even deeper ugkiercurrent of thought, but which counts for hu-| man interest in every line. PRI R There will be more talk about “Amer- | jcanization” of the stage here, for “Lit- tle Mary,” which has just been with- drawn after a run of 250 nights, is to| be followed “The Sword of the) King.” which comes from “the other | side.” The part which Henrietta Cros- | y played at home will be in the| s of Ida Molesworth, an actress now best known in the provinces, whnr») made a § ss in “The J\d\‘en(urel of Lady Ursula.” Jacobs, authos of “Many Car- I the latest literary man to turn | yw nnm In collaboration with | \. Parker, co-author of “Rose- | Jacops is working on a long| ¥ which Cyril Maude has commis- ed for the Haymarket. rs are looking forward to Fthel Barrymore again. Charles | man having announced that she| ar at the Duke of York's in| w W “Cynthia Hubert Henry David’s play, | %, fewhich, though produced in w York | two years ago, has never been seen | here | Once more have the censor and his| blue pencil been busy and as the re-| the French company which is to Avenue shortly will have | interyled repertoire. Mr. Maurice Donnay’s | vette,” by Pierre | za” and “Les other of Donnay's pieces, too naughty for Londoners to see! the lz'wm‘mr of Fiction. s difficult to estimate the influence of fiction to-d but there can be no | doubt that very great. The | amount of time spent by hundreds of | thousands of readers in the reading of | novels pas computation, and there | are very n whose whole outlook on | based upon fiction. It is not | able, scarcely believable, that such an influence can be wholesome. It might become so, of course, were our t day works of fiction true to life 'uman nature, but as matters it is a deplorable fact that the majority of readers in this coun- try devote themselves to fiction and newspapers, neither very safe guides to a knowledge of truth. Publishers are often censured for not masterpieces instead of second | nird class literature. I wonder how | many people outside the inner circle realize what terrible rubbish is being | continually offered to publishing houses | |in the hope apparently that it may see the light print. What weary | work is that of a publisher’s reader, | miles and miles of type-written and | | [he it is {how few grains of wheat amid the mass | | of chaff! Most often a glance at a ma: | uscript is enough to determine its fate | sometimes, however, many pages have | to be read before the reluctantly un- | favorable opinion is formed. Then not | infrequently the reader is vexed to see how a ‘prentice hand has frittered | away a good idea or how a fine writer is wasting his force in beating the air. Only at very rare intervals is the dis- covery made of & manuseript which is | worth careful consideration, still more | rarely does there come from an un-| known writer a work worth publishing. Very unbusinesslike are the proceed- ings of many who desire to see their books published or their articles and stories accepted by the magazines. Take an example. The majorit:" of the maga- zines have @ more or less decided line of policy with regard to stories and ar- ticles, vet editors are pestered with manuscripts utterly unsuited to their | pages. They are also worried and wearied with articles on subjects which | have already been recently dealt with, ‘and, 2 very common occurrence, are offered tales and essays ludicrously late, e. g, Christmas matter sent in long after all the Christmas numbers have gone to press. A littie business forethought and common sense would save many a disappointment to would- be contributors and worry to editors and publishers’ readers. Editors want Southern Wyoming will shortly be- come the paradise of the trout fisher- men. It abounds in splendid streams, streams that have not yet been whip- ped, that fairly swarm with trout. The North Platte River, where it rages and tumbles across the line between Colo- rado and Wyoming, is full of big fel- lows that call forth all the muscle and skill and patience of the most skillful angier. The Big Laramie, the Little Laramie, and the streams that as yet have no name—all are well stocked. It is strange that this wonderful trout country is not swarming with sportsmen every season. To the south, in Colorado, the country is full of ho- tels and cottages and cabins and. camps. In the Black Hiils of South Da- kota and the Big Horn Mountains of ‘Wyoming, the fishermen flock in large numbers, undertaking longer journeys and undergoing greater fatigues than re required to reach the nshln: grounds below Laramie City. — Fiel and Stredm | in voguc a system of soliciting bribes. '"THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS Proprietor « « « « . .. . . . Address All Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office .... = <etess...Third and Market Streets, 8. F. SUNDAY THE GOVERNMENT LAND CASES. HE Government land cases, on hearing here, re- T veal some features that are of interest beyond the immediate issues. With persons accused of grabbing lands illegally, by forgery and subornation of perjury, there can be no sympathy. If guilty they commit a doubie offense: against the Government as trustee of the public domain, and against the honest citizen whose right of acquisition of part of that domain under the law is abridged by its illegal absorption. Under all administrations there has existed in the Interior Department a system of hold-up by clerks and subordinates, which has deterred and delayed the honest acquisition of patents {o mineral, agricultural and other classes of lands. This system is well understood by every one who has attempted to do business there. Technical delays, time-wasting objections and frauds perpetrated in the department in denial of private rights are found comspicuous in the history of the department. One instance in this State is remembered, because it resulted in the final eviction of honest "citizens from their holdings legally acquired. One of the Mexican grants was judicially examined and a proper delimiting decree entered. When the Interior Department issued the patent it was made to cover lands far beyond the decree. Some of these had long been patentéd to pri- vate owners by the Government; others were held under the tide land patents of the State, and one im- portant property belonged to the Federal Government itself. All were alienated by an official patent which Congress declared to be an official fraud. Yet the parties despoiled have never been permitted access to judicial or other mecans for rectifying the wrong and have been made victims of the underlying system by which citizens are barred from their rights or despoiled of their property. It is inevitable that when people are denied their rights, or vexatiously delayed in obtaining what belongs to them under the law, others will by corruption secure more than their legal rights. This is what is alleged to have happened in the cases now at bar here. As divulged in their hearing it appears that there has been An honest man, seeking his rights, could get them if he would pay sums not authorized by law. If he flinched at the risk dis- honest men would take it and get thereby what they had no right to. So we have revealed a system of solici- tation of bribes, the use of clerks as stool pigeons, because they were well known to land dealers as bribe | takers, and a complete and foul system of shutting off | the acquisition of the public domain by honest men and leaving it open only to those who would pay for greasing the progress of patents through its various stages. The men now charged with such work were pro- fessional land manipulators, but others were as liable to be caught by detective ingenuity using official solici- tation of bribes as its instrument, and perhaps many an honest man, finding his choice limited to abandoning his purpose to get land legally, or obtaining what was his right by bribery, has yielded and paid the exaction levied upon him. In the State courts criminal cases have no standing when the cause of action against the accused began with the soliciting of a bribe by the official used as a prosecuting witness. There are sound reasons in equity for this. An’' examination of all the noted cases of Congressional and other official corrup- tion reveals the fact that in nearly évery case the system began by official denial to men of their rights. When they were compelled to secure rights that belonged to them by bribery they would go further and recoup themselves by securing through bribery what did not belong to them. Something ‘more than prosecution of the cases now at bar is needed. The scheme of business in the Interior Department needs a thorough reform. No administra- tion has attempted it. It has been necessary under all. 1t is true that the task presents colossal difficulties. But it is rendered all the more necessary by the expanding functions of that department of the Government. Mil- lions are now in its possession to build irrigation works, and it has the power of withdrawal of desert lands in anticipation of covering them with water. Costly works are under way. Contractors. have to be dealt with. The people who will finally take the irrigated lands expecting to return to the Government the cost of putting them under water are vitally concerned in the methods pursued and the expense incurred. These operations of the Government suspend private enterprise. We have already seen the effect of this on the Colorado River. The Interior Department has filed on all of its water, destroying a large amount of private capital encouraged to irrigate the Colorado desert from that river by the assent of the War Department, which has jurisdiction of meandered streams. If the Colo- rado is meandered as navigable, the Government has no right to file on all its water for irrigation. If it is non-navigable, the Government has no right to file on it at all, for the non-navigable waters are under State and local control entirely. So, in the prosecution of Government irrigation, the people find an added reason why the manners of officialdom should be mended, and its ways be made to conform to the private rights of honest men. —eee The second instance within a few days is reported of women automobilists knocking down and injuring peo- ple on Market street. Automebiles have many uses, but one of them is not in attempting to break speed records on a congested thoroughfare like Market street. F of Commerce there has just been issued a mono- graph on “Imports of the grand divisions and principal coumnes of the world, and the share thereof supplied by the United States.” The figures are those of official reports of the various countries, and represent their own statement of imports from the United States, and are not from our records of exports. The origin of the figures is to be noted because our record of exports to many countries does not exactly correspond to that country’s record of imports from us; the difference be- ing due to the fact that goods intended for one country are frequently delivered primarily at a port of another; as, for example, goods for Austria being shipped to Ham- burg perhaps, or to a French or an Italian port, instead of Trieste. Taking the statement as given, the record shows that of the $8,141,054,000 worth of merchandise imported by Europe in 1902 the United States supplied $1,211,356,000, TRADE DISTRIBUTION. ROM the Bureau of Statistics of the Department or 1488 per cent of the total. North America, other | than the United States, imported merchandise to the value of §410,773,000, of which the United States su, $215,866,000, or 52.55 per cent. South America imported $349,601,000, of which $43,878,000, or 12.55 per cent, was from the United States. Asia’s imports were $963,550,- 000, of which $50,167,000, or 5.2 per cent, was from the United States. Africa’s imports were $436,256,000, of which $24,333,000, or 5.58 per cent, was from the United States. The imports of Oceania were $292,107,000, of which $34,855,000, or 11,03 per cent, was drawn from the i United States. This figure for Oceania does not include the Hawaiian Islands, which are considered as a part of the United States, or. the Dutch or French East Indies, which are included in Asia. Turning from grand divisions of the globe to the chief commercial nations, the statistics are to the effect that the United Kingdom took 24.03 per cent of her imports from the United States; Germany, 1586 per cent; France, 9.67 per cent; Netherlands, 10.79 per cent, Belgium, 11.59 per cent; Spain, 12.62 per cent; China, 9.26 per cent; Japan, 17.9 per cent; Common- wealth of Australia, 11.92 per cent; New Zealand, 11.65 per cent; Philippine Islands, 12.46 per cent; Cape of Goqd Hope, 9.52 per cent; Argentina, 12.91 per cent; Colombia, 26.37 per cent; Venczuela, 31.97 per cent; ‘British Guiana, 31.35 per cent; Mexico, 58.01 per cent; Canada, 57.29 per cent; Cuba, 43.71 per cent; British West Indies, 33.97 per cent, and the Central American States, as a whole, 43.32 per cent. As was to be expected our largest percentage of trade is with countries nearest to us, such as Canada and Mex- ico; and next with countries with which we have the most ample and frequent steamship connections, such as Great Britain and Germany. Good as is the showing made in the monograph, it would have been much better had Congress long ago given to American shipping on the deep seas anything like the aid given to American industries on land. When once we have an ocean mer- chant marine adequate to our needs, it is a foregone con- clusion that our exports to all the markets of the world will be largely increased. The Deputy Marshal of Berkeley arrested a man last Tuesday for robbery and placed him in the prehistoric calaboose at West Berkeley. Wednesday’s sun came and {issed the dew off the beautiful over-the-bay wild flowers, ut, alas! not off the man. He had become annoyed at his poor quarters and left. Berkeley should provide her guests with better accommodations if she wishes them to remain, THE BOSTON PEACE CONGRESS. N October 3 of this year the thirteenth Interna- O tional Peace Congress will meet in Boston. Itis intended that in connection therewith and imme- diately following it meetings will be held in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis and per- haps other cities, to be addressed by leading foreign del- egates and strong local speakers. The meeting at Boston will be notable in being the second gathering of the international body held in Amer- ica, the first having been convened in Chicago in 1893. 1t is fitting that Boston has been selected, for to that city belongs the honor of having started the first influ- ential peace society in the world, that founded by Wil- liam Ellery Channing in 1815. To that society much of the credit is due for the dissemination of the seed which ultimately bore fruit in the great International Peace Congresses held in Europe in the middle of the last century. One of these, the London Congress of 1843, was the precursor of a memorable series of meet- ings held a few years afterward, probably the most not- able being that at Paris under the presidency of Victor Hugo in 1849. While it would seem a high honor that a city in this country should be selected, so remote in point of loca- tion from the countries to which the great majority of the delegates belong, it is not to be forgotten that the position of the United States on the question of inter- national arbitration is an honored one. No delegation was more influential at the Hague Conference than our own, and Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, who will come to Boston as the leader of the French delegation, a member of the Hague court and head of the arbitration movement in France, recently declared that the action of our Government in promptly sending to The Hague the pious fund case, and by an insistence upon reference thereto of the Venezuela cases, has done more to hasten the regular use of the tribunal and to advance its pres- tige than anything else. In fact, the idea finally realized at The Hague of a permanent international tribunal was generally spoken of in Europe at the peace gatherings as the “American plan,” and credited to American thinkers rather than to the Czar of Russia. The object of the International Peace Congresses is to promote popular education regarding the duty of sup- planting the war system by rational and legal methods, a speedy reduction of the armaments of the world and the application of the vast sums spent upon them to con- structive ends, and the better general organization of the nations in their mutual relations. All civilized powers have come gradually to recognize the necessity for the establishment of an international tribunal, and although governments, it is true, are slow to call upon such a court when the question involved is one that intimately concerns themselves, public opinion seems little by little to be favoring the idea that it should be mandatory rather than optional, that international questions should be submitted to such a court, instead of to a contest at arms. The sophomore and freshman classes in the Walla Walla, Wash., college got into a class mix-up in which the co-eds took a hand. Most everything went under the rules, from biting to clawing and hair-pulling. Judging by the agony a girl seems to suffer when her hat is not “on straight” or her hair looks “just terrible,” one cannot understand how even class loyalty would justify her in appearing in public looking like the ex- hibits in a mayhem case. Suit has been filed in the Justices’ Court against “John Doe for hair bleaching, hair dyeing and hair work done at his special request.” 1If John has had all that primp- ing done on his own head he will very likely be willing to let the name stand as “Doe” until matters can be ad- justed. —_— Now that the United States has been given a deed to the Panama canal property, let the next'good news be that the hustling sound of the American shovel has been heard in that land. Forty tons of gold was changed into com at the Phil- to order a new spnn' suit if he continues nuhn( money tkat fast adelphia mint last week. Uncle Sam soon will be able | S TALK OI‘ Should Know Better. There was no need of putting a tag on the young fellow who late one after- noon last week jauntily walked through the corridors of the City Hall The expression on his face and the happy look in his eyes told as plairnly as could the largest placard that he was in search of the marriage license office. When he entered the room pre- sided over by Cupid Dariforth he lost no time, but marched straight up to the desk, “Well, young man,” sald Danforth, “what can I do for you?” “I want a license,” sald the young fellow, with a grin. “That's good,” #aid Danforth. “What’s your name and how old are you, and were you ever married be- fore?” The young man gave his name as Johnson, saild he was 26 years of age and that this was his first venture upon the sea of matrimony. “That will do for you,” sald Dan- forth, “now give me the name of the future Mrs. Johnson.” The young fellow meditated for a mo- ment. Hesitatingly he sald “Lizzle.” Then he stopped, blushed, scratched his head, looked confused, stood on one foot and then on the other, dug his hands into his pockets and bolted from the room. In about flve minutes he returned, looking happier than ever, and shame- | facedly walked over to where Danforth, puzzled by the behavior of the young man, still stood with the uncompleted license in his hand. “Lizzie Wilson,” almost shouted the would-be groom. “I'll be hanged if I did not forget it for a time.” Change About. An example of the importance at- tached to shoulder straps was recently brought to the notice of Colonel O'Neill, First California I..giment, National Guard. He was at the Presidio in civ- ilian garb the other day to seek an in- terview with Major Carrington, com- mander of the Filipino Scouts. When he approached the outer line of the camp he was halted abruptly by a lit- tle Fillpino sentry. Something about the face of the brown man caught the colonel’s attention. The features seem- ed famillar and on second glance the colonel recognized the Filipino as one of the men empioyed by him while he was doing duty with the First Califor- nia regiment In the islands. “Gangway, Pedro,” said the colonel, calling him by name and trying to brush past. The sentry blocked his way with bayonet fixed. ‘“Vamos,” he said. “You ne soldier now. Me soldier. You va- mos.” And Colonel O'Neill had to tramp for an hour about the post to get a pass from the officer of the day. The Humboldt Centenmary. In the year 1804 Alexander von Hum- boldt completed the epoch-making journey in Latin America which not | only gave him his commanding position among scientists, * but, by inspiring Charles Darwin with a passionate de- sire to study nature in the same re- gions, led to the discovery of the laws of evolution. Few events in the history of the ‘Western Hemisphere deserve to be more gratefully remembered by Amer- |icans on both sides of that line across the Isthmus of Panama which it is to divide, yet bring nearer, to- gether, the northern and southern con- tinents; and no event of the past sug- gests more clearly a method of rap- prochement which (if our government can take a hint from the great trav- eler) may prove as valuable in the fu- ture as the ship canal itself. Humboldt writes in the ‘“Personal Narrative”: “We succeeded in concillating {he friendship of the natives, and that of the Buropeans entrusted with the ad- ministration of these vast countries. During the five years that we traveled throughout the new continent, we did not perceive the slightest mark of mis- trust; and we remember with pleasure that, amid the most painful privations, and while we were struggling against the obstacles which arose from the sav- age state of those regions, we never had to complain of the injustice of men.” This splendid result was at- tained through simple means which are mentioned in the following terms: “During my abode in America, I pre- sented the governors of provinces with a duplicate of the materials which I had collected, and which might inter- est the mother country by throwing some light on the geography and the statistics of the colonies.” Both the Latin-Americans and their European associates were permitted to realize their full and equal participation in whatever gains were to be made. More- over, all were convinced that the pur- pose of the journey was not commer- clal or political; and it was found to be true, as Humboldt has written in another place, that “partial enmities disappear before the advancement of general knowledge, which is the gen- eral cause of all natiops. "—H-rper- Weekly. Sons of Cam;ridge. King Edward has conferred knight- lllte Duke of Cambrid‘e, who will henceforth be known as Sir Adolphus and Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge, the one being a retired rear admiral in the navy and the other a retired colonel in the army. But they have received the | distinction, along with the commander’s star of the Victorian Order, not as sons of the old Duke, but as his equerries— that is to say, as gentlemen-in-waiting to an old and valued prince of the blood. It was in this capacity, too, that they took so prominent a part in the obsequies of their father at Westmin- ster Abbey. Sir Adolphus is married, has a rich wife in the person of the daughter of Thomas Holden of Wine- stead Hall, near Hull, and has a grown-up daughter, who, born while he was stationed in the Mediterranean, has as godmother Queen Olga of Greece. She married about seven years Charles Hamilton, eldest son of Edward Hamilton of Trebinshun, @nd heir to the .latter's baronmetey, THE TOW]E which was conferred upon their ances- tor, Captain Hamilton of the Royal Navy, for gallantry displayed at the slege of Quebec In 1775. Young Mrs. Hamilton, who was portrayed some time back in a photograph entitled “Four Generations,” showing herself with her little boy, her father, Admiral Sir Adolphus Fitzgeorge, and her grand- father, the late Duke of Cambridge. is a pretty high-spirited woman, who has had some trouble with her hus- band, which culminated in her starting a professional beautifying establish- ment in New Bond street, much to the annoyance of her relatives. Dispensation for Lovers. A “lovers’ leap” is considered a good thing in Columbus Junction, Towa, where sweethearts wore the old i3 out and a new one is now being built to take its place. The “leap” in this Instance iz & bridge, and is one of oddest contrivance built in the Hawkeye State. The town of Columbus Junction and Columbus City are built on towering hills that overlook the valleys of the Iowa and the Cedar rivers, these two streams forming a junction near the towns. Columbus City is the older town and located back of the hills. When the Rock Island railway built its lines there were too many hills to get anywhere near the town, so a new town was started at the junction and called Junction City. The two places are separated by deep ravines, and it was found necessary to bridge one of them in order to get back and forward. It is asserted that most of the popu- lation of the old town was composed of pretty girls, while there was an army of young men in the new town. This occasioned much traveling back and forward and the boys had to.go around several miles or make a shod ¢ut down through the ravine. When the young men became old enough to vote they voted a bridge across the ravine. It was a picturesque affair and the new one will be as like it as one pea is like another. There are two great steel cables stretched across from bank to bank, and from these cables a narrow platform is suspended. Afger the first bridge was built the young folks of both towns used it. The bridge was the objective point for a walk, and it is asserted that Cupid was the bridgetender. It is stated that half of the matches of the two towns have been made there, and the boys boast that they “popped the question” in mid- air. No one about the place can tell how it came to be known as “lovers’ leap,” for certain it is that no couple has ever been known to start to cross or leave it save at a slow walk. No one has ever had occasion or thcught to pitch off the place where happy unions were planned. But the old name will be retained, there being a fear of changing the luck by bestow- ing a more appropriate one. ‘Answers to Queries. IRON ORE—Subscriber, City. The product of iron ore in Australia during the vear 1901 was 26,664 tons of 2240 pounds each. MARRIAGES—N., City. A Justice of 5| the Peace is authorized by law in Call- fornia to solemnize a marriage, there- fore a marriage by a Justice of the Peace is as legal as one by a minister of the gospel or the highest judicial officer in the land. ANNOUNCEMENT OF MARRIAGH —J. J. W., City. There is no law that requires that a marriage shall be pub- lished in the newspapers. There is a law that requires that the fact of mar- riage shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder. GERMAN EMPIRE — Subscriber, City. The statistical estimates of the population of the German Empire, July, 1903, was 58,549,000, as against 57,708,000 in 1902 and 56,862,000 in 1901. In the past ten years the pop- ulation has increased 7.800.000. BEDBUGS—OId Subsecriber, City. Bedbugs in a houge may be destroyed by the use of benzine or gasoline. By using a spring bottom oilcan the fluid may be foreed into cracks and crevices more thoroughly than by any other means. As these liquids are highly in- flammable contact with any artificial light or fire must be avoided. The room in which either of the fluids has been heod upon the two young sons of the | used should be well aired and venti- lated until the gas passes away. A FOUL HAN’D—Suhacflber. City. In poker a foul hand is one of more or less than five cards. The rule of the game is that if “the dealer gives to himseif or either of the other players more or less than five cards and the player re- ceiving such a number of cards raises his hand before he announces the faci, no misdeal occurs, and he must stand out of the game until the next hand.” A dealer who has a foul hand has no claim to the pool. This week good eyeglasses. specs, 25c- 50c. 79 4th (front Key's Cel. Oys. House).* —— Townsend’s California Glace n—nnl-nd