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Emgperor William’s Doclor. Epectal Correspo | BERLIN, April 27.—Since Emperor | s alar throat trouble be- to the public the eyes of nan people have been cen- » a remarkable degree upon Pr i M Schmidt of Frankfort-on-the-Main, the venerable lar n whose experienced h r has placed the treat- m ever ailment has taken ¥ his vocal organs. It was Pro- —3 : who performed the licate o} S removal of polyps fror s Maje: aroat, and upon him are pinned the nation’s e of Iy relieving the popu- all traces of led both of mor ny and dread dise parents, Xiis imperial Professor | Schmidt, in whom the whole medical | profession of the fa and has full | confidence, happily gives the assur- | we that the Kaiser is not suffering ! from cancer, even in incipient form, { and people are disposed to view the | distinguished surgeon's reputation as | guarantee that he has told the fuil und unbiased truth | Professor Schmidt gained his first | nation ence in 1887, when he | was calle onsultation upon the | case of the fated Emperor Frederick, | the 1 s father. Emperor, | then Crown Prin W m was on | his way from Be to San Remo to | visit the bedside of his suffering | parent when he stopped off at Frank- fort-on-the-Main, and, unbeknown to all-except his immediate suite, invited Professor Sch t to board the spe- clal train conv ng the Crown Prince from it nd to make at n Remo an ex! ve report upon Emperor Frederick's condition, about which Sir Morell Mackenzie, as events proved, had so bitterly misled the Schmidt, with Pro- was the first doctor diagnose Frederick's mal- dy as cancer. Ever since those dread ays he has remained the intimate friend and adviser of Emperor Wil- liam II, and when his Majesty was 1aken i1l last year Schmidt was natur- ally the man to whom he first turned for expert advice and attention. It re- cently came to light that Professor Schmidt treated the Kaiser's throat for two months before finally deciding 1o operate on November 9. Born in Frankfort-on-the Main in 1838, Schmidt has continued to live the beautiful South German metropolis ever since. He completed his early medical studies in Goettin- gen, Vienna, Utrecht, Berlin, London and Paris—a unique international rec- ord—and became a specialist in dis- eases of the nose, throat and lungs. He was given his title of professor in 1892 and was made a privy medical councillor in 1899. He has written extensively on medical subjects, a treatise on “Comsumption of the Throat” being a standard text book in many languages. He has not prac- ticed in jater years, having transferred his lucrative clientele to a younger Frankfort assistant. Professor Schmidt occasionally consults in extraordinar- ily important cases. He is known in Frankfort as an extremely hard man to get to. Since the Kaiser's late ill- ness he has become more of a recluse than ever, being especially careful to guard against anything capable of be- ing twisted into an expression of opin- ion upon the status and progress of the delicate national issue intrusted 1o his care. German people. fessor Bergmann, frankly to in } ' How the Caar Governs, The Czar uses his autocratic power, theoretically and practically, in two ways—as a legislator and as the su- preme head of the executive. No leg- ive measure can be initiated with- | his majesty has to use his autocratic |in the ordinary Course of administra- | ing laws and regulations, | gesting the line of action to be adopt- {ed, and this document is sybmitted to | miral Alexieff, on whom this important | out”his dpproval, and when a bill has been prepared in the departments con-| cerned, and discussed in the council of | the empire, it is submitted to him for his assent. 1If he gives his agsent the bill becomes law, though the majority in the council of the empire may have voted against it, and from that moment he has to respect the law until it ls“ annulled hy legislative procedure. If! the bill it not fortunate enough to| obtain the imperial zssent, it goes back | to the departments and the council, to be modified in accordance with the im- perial wishes, or it is quietly put away in the archives and is no more heard of. As supreme head of the executive power much more frequently, because | tion, whenever it is considered desir- | able to make an exception to the exist- | the matter | has to be submitted for supreme per- | mission by the minister concerned. As there is nothing which corresponds to a cabinet, the ministers have no joint | responsibility, and the only- center in | which the activity of all the different | departments converges is the Emperor | himself. He may, of course, order that | a matter is to be submitted to the] committee of ministers, or he may summon a number of personages in | whom he has confidence to discuss a| question in hig pregence, but this forms | no part of the ordinary method of con- ! ducting business. ] Thus the Czar who attends to his | duties and has a great capacity for| work can control thoroughly the great, legislative and executive machine by} which he governs his empire; and, as he possesses many unofficial means of | obtaining information, any minister | who should systematically attempt to| deceive him would very soon be found | out. With regard to foreign affairs he is sure to be exceptionally well in- formed, because all crowned heads con- | sider that the relations of their countr with foreign powers require their per sonal supervision, and to this rule the | | Russian autocrats form no exceptionm. | | As soon as a political incident happens | in which Russia is interested, a mem- orandum is carefully prepared in“the foreign department, describing what | has occurred, explaining in what way Russian interests are affected, and sug- the Emperor. His Majesty may discuss | the question with the minister if he thinks fit, or he may read the paper alone and send it back with his re- marks and orders written on the mar- gin. In either case the minister gets | | his instructions and acts accordingly. Of late an unusual departure has been made from this procedure. Finding it necessary to concentrate locally the di- rection of affairs in the Far East, the | Emperor created a vice-royalty, with | special powers, and placed under the | orders of the viceroy not only the civil, | | military and naval authorities, but| also the Russian diplomatic representa- | tives in China, Korea and Japan. Ad- post was conferred, corresponds direct- ly with the Emperor outside of the for- | cign department, so that if the Russian Embassador in London, Paris or Berlin | declareg that he does not know what is going on in the Far East, it must not | be hastily assumed that he is using| merely diplomatic language. How, then, has it come about that an autocrat, who is a sincere lover of | peace and who has the control of af- | fairs in his own hands, has brought his | country to the verge of war? In the| first place it must be remembered that | autocrats, like ordinary statesmen in | other forms of government, do not al- | ways foresee the ultimate consequences { of their decisions, and are liable to find themselves unexpectedly in a sit- tion from which war is the only means of exit eonsistent with the na- | tional interests and the national honor. Even the pacific Mr. Gladstone let | himself be drawn into the Egyptian campaign, and afterward drifted dan- gerously near to a great war with Russia. It must be remembered, fur- ther, that the autocratic form of gov- ernment has its drawbacks as well as its advantages in matters of foreign policy. It does not require to watch and be guided by the ever changing currents of public opinion, and it can therefore adopt a politique de longue haleine; but it is not nearly so inde- pendent of popular sentiment as is commonly supposed, for its strength lies in its being the representative of national conceptions and national aspi- rations; and if it fails to be true to these it weakens itself. He would be a very bold Czar who would sacrifice a great national interest to love of peace or any other personal feeling. If ever a Czar was justified in disregarding the views of the ultra-patriotic section of his subjects it was Alexander II. when he accepted the decisions of the Con- gress of Berlin in order to avoid a great BEuropean struggle; but there is no doubt that that wise, courageous act diminished his popularity and prestige. Whether Nicholas II. has inherited all the civic courage of his grandfather remains to be seen. If he desires peace in the sense of being ready to sacrifice to it certain material and political in- terests, he should lose no time in trans- ferring the conduct of the diplomatic negotiations from his viceroy to his foreign office. The gallant admiral may be as wise, prudent and concili- atory as his friends represent him to be, but he h:r - not the experience and traditional dexterity of the Foreign Of- fice officials, and he seems to have con- ducted the negotiations hitherto in such a waysthat a diplomatic retreat can now hardly be effected without some loss of prestige. Under the di- rection of the Foreign Office the stra- tegic operation would be carefully veiled and the loss of prestige, if un- avoidable, would be reduced to a min- imum.—The London Times. Dearborn—Do you know the seven wonders of the world? ‘Wabash—Well, T know five of them. “Only five?” T've only been married five you know."—Yonkers States- Less than 3,000,000 of Russia's 131,- 000,000 inhabitants are employed in manufactures and the _reater part of their work is on Government orders. THE SAN ‘FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Publication Office P T T - ..Third and Market Streets, S. F. TUESDAY.... .....MAY 10, 1904 IT COMES HIGH. INCE this republic went into business and estab- S lished relations with the family of nations a large number of writers on civics and a still larger num- ber of persons who are experts in guessing at the value of power and glory have held that the office of President of | the United States is the best thing in sight. American patriotism has eagerly accepted this judg- ment, and we rejoice in boasting that our President out- classes any other executive in the world, whether he get his job by election or has it probated to him as a dynas- tic heir. It is the biggest of big things, and the President | sits at the head of the table in this world of governments, good, bad and indifferént. Our President, at the same time that he can give kings and emperors cards and spades and beat them at any game of government, is a plain citizen, destined when his term ends to be an ex- emplary citizen only. Some ex-Presidents have been elected to the office of road supervisor, and one, the younger Adams, was sent to Congress and stayed there until he died. Though the duration of the power of a President is limited by law and custom no one has refused the job when offered to him and not one has resigned it after he got it. Its attainment is not without difficulty. The am- bition of rivals has to be reckoned with and that fickle jade, public opinion by name and changeable as the wind, has to be watched and courted. Up to this time there has been no cut across lots to the office. A man who wanted it has had to choose his path and travel it afoot, dispensing wisdom and light and sweetness as he went on. But we live in a period of flux and change. Clergy- men are inclined to flout at Adam as a myth; William Tell and the league of Rutli and the apple and Gesler's cap have gone glimmering; we all believe that Washing- ton did not lie about that cherry tree, but that Dr. Weems did when he invented the story, and lots of things that our fathers took for granted are now in dispute and many of them disproved. It is no wonder that, moved by the spirit of the age, our esteemed contemporary Mr. Hearst should side step all of the traditions about achieving the Presidency and make a cash offer. Money talks and its conversation is agree- able to several kinds of politicians. Money also makes the mare go, and why not use it to impress the primaries with the excellences of character enjoyed by Mr. Hearst? The readers of his papers know already that he is the foremost American, for he says so himself, and what bet- | ter evidence can be had? If a man is not himself aware that he is the head of a class, who should be? Unfortunately there are peogle who do not read Mr. Hearst’s papers and are without light as to his merits. A Presidential campaign is too short to get them in the habit of reading what he says about himself. So he has wisely adopted a short cut. It is said that many mis- sionary stations among the heathen pay a monthly salary to all heathens who accept Christianity, and also that when one of them becomes a Christian for wages he sticketh closer than a brother who is not on the pay roll. Why should not Mr, Hearst put a majority of the Demo- cratic party on the pay roll and clinch their devotion to the rights of man by stipendiary means? Getting the Presidency in that way comes high, but he has the ambition and the money. It is just reported that in Indiana he made a lump offer in two installments of a half million for the delegation and threw in the Gover- norship of the State as a make weight. Mr. Sims, to whom the option was first offered, declined it. But the Hearst campaign in that State against the reprehensible trusts which are corrupting our politics goes on, which ‘is evidence that the job refused by Sims has not gone begging. Mr. Henderson seems to be in a position to furnish in- formation on the subject. He has had a long training in bearding in their several dens the various lions of cor- ruption. His experience began in breaking mules in the Tilden campaign and no doubt his skill and virtue have grown as the years have gone by. Whether he is the one selected by Mr. Hearst to rebuke corrupt politics, for a consideration, or not it is certain that the rebuke is going up and down Indiana and working day and night. From Terre Haute to The Shoals, and Plymouth to Posy County, political corruption is on the run like horse thieves when the Grand Jury meets: 3 Mr. Hearst is the first candidate for the Presidency willing to spend a half million to induce people to abhor the opposition. If he hold his lick the party in many States will be in a state of eruptive abhorrence that will amount to a regular political smallpox. It is with sin- cere interest in our fellow citizen that we notify him that abhorrence requires inducements in some parts of his native State. The California Democrats do not go around abhorring as much as they ought to. The abhor- rence fund is needed right here and right now. These be times of storm and stress and even insult and indignity, politically inspired, for the President of the United States. The limit was reached though the other day when a Democrat went insane and labored under tife delysion that he is President Roosevelt. This is ask- ‘ing the President to bear too much, and let us hope for his sake that no more Democrats go crazy. i e e Tvorcc enters the field with an energetic appeal against divorce, There is no doubt that divorces have multiplied as the .legal causes for such dissolution have been increased in the statutes. When the lawmak- ers discovefed “incompatibility of temper” as a cause for divorce they supplied a facility which is responsible for the rapid increase in legal separations. The churches look upon marriage as a religious tie entirely, but the law treats it as a civil contract. Inheritance, titles, prop- erty rights and all of the material foundation of a home by marriage, are cognized by the law as affected by the marriage contract. 1t is not well to take a too despairing view of divorce from the standpoint of public morality. Continence is by no means a virtue confined to those -ountries where only sacramental marriage is recognized. Nor is immorality a blemish peculiar only to those countries where mar- riage is a civil contract capable of judicial dissolution, We very much doubt whether a crusade on the subject will very much improve things. Herbert Spencer said the force procucing social prog- ress “is the aggregate of men’s instincts and sentiments, and these are not to be changed by a theory,” and, re- ferring to social conditions in the United States: “The disregard of all save personal interests is the underlying cause of your present state and of impending disasters.” Perhaps it is this impatience of the interests oj others ANTI-DIVORCE CRUSADE. HE interchurch conference on marriage and di- — that finds cause for divorce. The relation of marriage, like every other human relation of whatever degree, requires a persistent spirit of regard for other interests than those of self. Every incident of incompatibility in business relations, in social contacts, originates in refusal to-consider the interests of others. A training for per- manence in the marriage contract therefore is not special. It is the same as all training for covenant keeping, and must be in the sentiments and character. We question whether inculcation of the mysteries that attach to the idea of the sacramental marriage will produce much im- mediate impression, while we recognize the devoted pur- pose of those who propose it. It may be said broadly that the good citizen has in him the elements of a good husband and father, and citizenship must be built up as a part of the system of divorce reform. At a recent meeting of hotel men in Denver oppor- tunity was accepted to denounce most vigorously that increasingly common instrument of death, the fire-trap hotel. Nothing was said of a remedy, and perhaps wisely. As long as the pubh’c persists in patronizing fire- trap hotels it assumes the hazard of death and must ac- cept the penalty. Withdrawal of patronage will destroy every fire-trap hotel in the country. T sources has not been completed. Nome brought first to the front its wealth in tundra gold. The great plant at Douglass Island, with its vast array of stamps, has shown its richness in auriferous material otherwise bestowed by nature. Its future as a producer of copper on a large scale would seem to be assured. Deposits of coal and of tin ore have been found. The an- nual output of fisheries is very valuable. Alaska has fer- tile soil and its agricultural possibilities are, at least, re- spectable. Many minerals undoubtedly abide in its sands, ledges and rivers that have not yet been found in paying quantities. But since the time when the United States supposed that Alaska was principally valuable for its seal fisheries discovery has been quite steady. 2 Another stage in the advancement of knowledge of Alaska has just been reached by the United States Geo- logical Survey, which has undertaken to give to the world some definite understanding about-the petroleum deposits in our most northern territory. Scientists have maintained for some years that the oil sands of the Pa- cific Coast extend, practically unbroken, from Mexico to Alaska. There are large gaps in this great distance be- tween points that have not yet developed oil. The breaks may be filled in at some future time by intelligent pros- pectors. What the United States Geological Survey finds to say about petroleum in Alaska, through the medium of a pub- lication just issued from the press in the “Economic Geology” series, possesses public interest. I In the Controller Bay region, an indentation of the coast about 100 miles west of Mount St. Elias, petrul’eum seepages are very numerous. Those that are best known are situated about four miles east of Katalla. Another group of seepages. is at the headwaters of Burls Creek, where the petroleum may be seen oozing from the joints and bedding planes of the carbonaceous and glauconitic shales that are exposed in the deep ravines. There are seepages also on a small stream between Burls Creek and Bering River; seepages are also found in the peninsula | between Bering l.ake and Controller Bay and in the | region west of Katalla; also in the Nitchawak region,l and there are a number along the banks of the small | creeks that enter the Little Nitchawak River from the north. Several wells have been drilled in the Controller Bay region and oil was discovered at depths of 250 and 350 feet. At the last mentioned depth the petroleum broke through the soil and spouted above the top of the | derrick. Several other wells have been drilled concern- ing which no very definite information is supplied by the Geological Survey. Petroleum from a well near Katalla has been analyzed and it is reported by the Geological Survey “to be clearly THE DISCOVERY OF ALASKA. < HE discovery of Alaska as a land of great re- a refining oil of the same general nature as Pennsylvania petroleum.” At Cape Yaktag, about twenty-five miles east of Controller Bay, the oil field extends for about twenty-five miles eastward from the mouth of the Yak- tag River, which is the eastermost of the longer streams reaching the ocean near Cape Yaktag. In the Cook Inlet region there are gas springs and seepages of oil. Where the seepages are the oil may be seen oozing from the cracks in the rocks or coming from the soil. On the east shore of Enochkin Bay a good seepage was seen at a spot that is below the water at high tide. The flow of petroleum is so strong that the oil collects in large blotches and even covers the entire surface of a pool. At one point petroleum issues from a crevice in a rock that is in jurassic shale. There are a number of large oil springs at Oil Bay. From the bottom of one of these springs the petroleum is almost constantly flowing. It is frequently possible to skim several quarts of petroleum from the surface of a pool. About two miles west of the beach at Dry Bay is a gas spring. Oil and gas springs are on the north shore of Chinitua Bay. A well at Oil Bay is reported to have struck a flow of fifty barrels of petroleum at a depth of about 500 feet. A strong flow of water shut off the oil. i There is also a petroleum field at Cold Bay on the south shore of the Alaska Peninsula, at the southwest end of Shelikof Strait, where wells have been drilled. There is evidently Alaska petroleum. The quantity is not fully determined. Salvador and Guatemala appear to be itching for an- other fight, one of those Central American farces that furnish a day’s diversion to the gossips of the world. Nobody seems to know what the trouble is about and nobody’ seems to care. Let the quarrel progress. Few will be hurt, and both Governments, concerned in their own affairs, will be too busy to be thrusting foolish fingers into business not their own. — Seeking to avenge what she '-emed were grievous wrongs, a woman of this city threw carbolic acid the other day in the face of an unsuspecting and unprotected man, It seems that the lady has overstepped the bounds of that wide domain of privilege granted by sufferance to the gentler sex. The ccurts should impress upon her that the age of unnatural punishments has passed. An Ohio woman who searched with persistent industry ‘for twenty-four years to find her father, discovered him recently as a murderer condemned to the gallows’ alty This is one of the incidents of human life that teach its horror with far more cruel logic than does the eloquence of a thotisand sermons TALK OF THE T OWlE \"- * or Her Diagnosis. She was a brand new medico, just graduated from a local cellege of medicine. As she flounced into the Central Emergency Hospital in her twilled summer dress she was good to look upon and the doctors and stew- ards looked. “I would just like to look around the hospital for a bit and see how you run things here,” this with a win- ning smile, which fetched Dr. Millar instantly. “Certainly, madam,” responded the gallant physician, as he led the way into the operating-room. A case had just been brought in in the ambu- lance; it was a middle’ aged man, who had fallen down a staircase in front of a Chinatown store. “Now,” said Dr. Millar, “this is one of many cases that we have to deal with in an emergency hospital; cases that are rushed in here without any his- tory or with no nature of the trouble kpown beforehand. You, with your Knowledge of a physician, may well understand how difficult it is at times for us to treat them correctly. If you wish you may diagnose this case for us and see if you can help us to ar- rive at the cause of the trouble.” Depositing her gloves on the side- board, the lady physician assumed a smile of superior knowledge and turn- ed to the case in hand. She looked > -+ * CAUSED RIGHT E_ INJURIES HAVE PARALYSIS OF THE LIMB. -+ into the patient’s eyes, felt his pulse, smelt his breath and ran her dainty hand through his hair. She thought she felt a lump on the side of his head and examined the part careful- ly. Then, as if an inspiration had seized her, she drew out one of her hat pins and jabbed it several times into the case’s right leg. There was o answering shriek or response of any kind. “This is very simple,” said she, “the injuries which this man has received on the left side of the head have caused paralysis of the right limb. The case is very simple.” With that she bowed herself out with a gracious air. ‘When'she had gone Dr. Millar strip- ped the clothing from the patient and found that from the knee down his right leg was made of papier mache. Dr. Millar laughed. L’Enfant Terrible. One of the recent visitors in the train of the Methodist missionary conference was a guest with a family in the Mis- sion. Among the members of the host's entourage is a precocious youth of six yvears whose tongue wags as if on a pivot. “This visitor was a prominent divine and much attention was being shown to him at the dinner table. The small boy was there. As the dessert appeared the young hopeful blurted out: “I can’t have any cake to-night.” “Hush,” exclaimed mother and father. “No, I can't. Cook said there wasn't enough eggs for a big cake, so I would have to go without. “But I don’t care,” rambled on the irrepressible. *“Cook said she thought if eggs was so blamed scarce we was fools to invite high-toned preachers to dinner. “Cook’s goin' to bake me a cake all for myself after the minister's gone,” continued Johnny, confidentially. It is net of record what occurred after the minister had gone. Last Music. * [From the French of Mme. Neckar.] Kindy watcher by my bed, lift no voice in prayer, ‘Waste not ln{ hour is n’ o— Let a stream of melody but flow fro; some sweet player, ' And meekly will 1 lay my head and fold my hands to die. Sick "lch ‘I of idle words, past all recon- words on me when the n; Words that weary and perplex, and pander and conceal; ‘Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all B ml:a‘:r sweet beguil nf:h e age one n ith * but g:ly hear and feel. T 0" Let them roll and i ?‘?my ho;cr:nu'l::ra to me ripple e waves upon som beac] where no craft ml:orle‘:':&l, S That Ic ::i’n ;t::s :;‘1 lfllll‘ therein, and nor Drift on throu yire and throug! : The Last Fair. The earliest of the world's fairs which the United States saw was that at Philadelphia in 1876, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Dee- laration of Independence. That at St. Louis is the greatest exposition which the country has had. It is also the latest of any considerable proportions which will be seen for many decades to come. Ten millions of dollars have been contributed by St. Louis alone to this fair. For one object and another the United States government has fur- nished a still larger sum than this. Many millions have been expended on it by the various States. A far larger amount has been contributed by the nations of North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the islands of the sea, In the aggregate. This vast outlay will, it is safe to pre=- dict, not be duplicated in any such en- terprise within the lifetime of many of those who visit St. Louis this year. Portland, Or., will have a Lewis and Clark fair in 1905. Virginia will have its Jamestown tri-centennial celebra~ tion in 1907. Neither of these is on the scale of even .the Pan-American fair at Buffalo three years ago. With the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Expo- sition the world’s capabilities and pos- sibilities in the direction of preparing world’s fairs for the entertainment and instruction of mankind will culminate. —Leslie’'s Weekly. Women at the Wheel. Lack of concentration is the most common failure of all among motor- women. If a woman cannot concen- trate in every day things, she cannot concentrate when she motors. The weakness that causes a woman to read the same page of a book twice to get its meaning, that makes her ask an eager question about the detail of a story which one has just carefully e: plained, that leads her mind a will- the-wisp trip around the hem of the conversation, is the same weakness which, in motoring, keeps her looking too long at an attractive bit of scenery, or turning her attention for a moment wholly to something that has been said, or for a single instant lifting her hand from the brake. Generally speaking, a woman who is not a good listemer will not be a good chauffeuse. She can- not cancentrate. And incidentally, that is why, if a woman has learned to do any one thing well, she is a better motor pupil. If she can play the piano, if she can play bridge, if she can paint, even if she can typewrite, she will, ten to one, be a good chauffeuse. It is the dilettante in motoring, as in most things, who is a failure.—Outing. Buried Herculaneum. The more complete excavation of Pompelii carried on in reeent years has been so rich in results and has so great. ly enlarged our knowledge of the life and art of the Roman Empire, that the attention of archaeologists is now turned to the other buried city, which has been hitherto neglected. Superfi- clally, the ruins of Herculaneum are much less important, but the place is known te have containéd some rich villas and some public buildings of consequence which may prove to have been as well preserved beneath the ashes of Vesuvius as were some of those in Pompeii. At all events, the proposed excavation is of interest, though the project of international co- operation does not appear very pra ticable. The Italian Government, how- ever, has accomplished so much in archaeological research of late that the means for this undertaking will prebably be found. Answers to Queries. LOSES HIS RIGHTS—W. B., Soe noma, Cal. A man who deserts from the army of the United States, whether he suffers punishment for the crime or not, forfeits his citizenship and the right forever to hold a public office in the United States. FITZSIMMONS — Constant Reader, Life Saving Station, City. Beb Fitz- simmons in 1903 fought with Con Coughlin in Philadelphia, September 30; fought Joe Grim in the same eity, October 14, and George Gardiner in San Francisco, November 25. RIFLE—Anxious, City. The military rifle now used by the United States army will carry, maximum range, 4068 yards, a carbine 4616 yards. The rifle will carry with aeccuracy at all dis- tances 100 feet apart from 100 to 1200 yards. CRIME—J. B. F., City. Neither a man nor a corporation can be pun- ished criminally unless an offense has been committed. Nor can either be punished simply because either was in a position to commit a crime. In order to maintain a criminal prosecu- tion there must have been a joint operation of intent and act, there must have been some overt act either in the attempt to commit a crime or the actual commission of one. Under cer- tain prohibitory statutes an individual may be convicted for having in his possession that with which he could commit a erime, as for instance a man may be punished for carrying burglar’s tools, skeleton keys, false beard or ;:kuh!obeundnafiqnhmd the .. ————————— Townsénd's California Glace i artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 u::é:’u"" mlh!or—uu su; daily o houses and wlrs:u.-‘- by the Press Clipping Burea: ' Hornia stret. Teleohons Mats Lok o