The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1904, Page 8

THE S 1SCOCALL, .. TUE DAY, MAY 17, 1904. — e Maori Concert Singer. Hi!ADQUARTERS OF THE C_AL1~ § HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, May 6.—Here is o rather striking photograph of Lon- - don's latest fad in the artistic way— . self, has been the simon pure Maori chieftain, who, ‘“1ad in the picturesque costume shown in the picture, is singing native songs of his own composition in fash- %onable drawing-rooms here and who tells me that he is planning a descent the United States later on. Rangiula, as the Maori calls him- commanded” to enter- the Prince and Princess of Wales ay 19 and renew an acquaintance different circum- he led a war dance for of their royal High- s good fortune in 1 to court has resulted sardment of applications for open time and the singer already has osed enough engagements to keep him busy through most of the com- ing season. Then he wants to visit the United Sta The chieftain came to England about @ year ago in the humble ca- pacity of soloist in a New Zealand band. He had studied the piano and recefved all his vocal training in his own country, had never been »m the islande and fully in tended to return to them when the band finished its tour of the Kingdom. But some clever indivi saw soclal possibilities in the young fmusician and persuaded him to ar- range a tour on his own account. Then the noble savage's friends be- gan arranging for a more ambitious display of his talents. Several well- known hostesses were interested, se eral engagements to sing at homes” were made, at and heginning h the first of these Rangiuia ceased to be a singer of the public concert stage and became strictly a social af- fair. Now eve: one who hears him Europe at present, and probably the only one of his race who ever has occu- pied the concert stage. He is surprised to discover how little the English peo- ple know of his race, and is confident that he will be enough of a novelty in the United States to be a great suc- cess. Pay for the Solons. It says much for the unselfish pa- triotism of the Briton that he is the only man in the world who is willing to put his hand into his pocket and pay on an average something like £500 & year, counting his election expenses, for the privilege of giving his time and labor to the making of his coun- try's laws; and one cannot wonder that now and then a member of Par- llament, when he sees how, differently things are arranged in other countries, is anxious to have matters put on a different footing. The American lawmaker, so far from allowing his patriotism to deplete his purse, thinks that he has well earned him for his legislative services; by manv convenient perquisites, such ery and a dollar for every five miles French Deputy does not fare quite so well; but at any rate he can always rely on drawing his 625 francs a month for his Parliamentary services, and he never thinks of paying his own travel- ing expenses to and from Paris. The colonies are so far from follow- ing the maternal example of making their legislators pay for the privilege of working, that in Victoria and New South Wales each member of the Leg- islature receives an income of £300 a yvear. South Australia pays her M. P.'s a hundred a year less, and Queensland an annual £150, to which is added a right to travel anywhere in the whole continent of Australia free of cost. The Canadian Senate and House of Com- mons alike pay their members a sal- ary of £200 a vear, and 5d for every mile they travel to and from Ottawa. The members of the Legislative As- sembly of Quebec reccive £200 a year each, of Ontario £120, Nova Scotia | esn, £60. It cannot be said that such pay- ments err on the side of extravagance, but thev are at any rate some recog- nition of good services ungrudgingly rendered. In the Legislative Assembly served, the average remuneration of members being about a guinea for each day of attendance, with an extra al- lowance for traveling to members who live some distance from Cape Town. Norway looks after her legislators with almost maternal solicitude. If | they fall ill she provides a doctor to attend to them; she keeps them in health by providing baths and a gymna- | sium for their use, and even retains a dentist to stop or extract a troublesome molar. In addition to all these small attentions she pays them a little more than the equivalent of 11_shillings a day for every day they devote to her service, and not only pays their railway fares, but allows them a daily 11 shill- ings for traveling and subsistence. It is little wonder that legislation is pop- | ular in the Jand of the Norsemen. Swe- | den, however, is not nearly as consid- | erate a mother, for she does not insult | her “House of Lords” by offering any | payment for its services, and she thinks | the equivalent of 6 shillings a day am- |ple for each member of the lower | chamber: and if he is inconsiderate | enough to absent himself she fines him nearly double the amount of his day's wages. Denmark, not content with pay- ing her legislators a lawyer's fee of | six and eightpence a day, together with | actual out-of-nocket expenses when ;(rfl\'fillnfi. provides them with a free seat at the Theater Royal whenever | they seek relaxation from work—an ex- | ample which other countries might per- haps do well to follow. Germany does not place a very high value on the labors of her men of Par- liament, but if she pays them salaries at which an average city clerk might turn up his nose, she does not ask them to pay a pfennig for their traveling, | whether on pleasure or duty bent. The German legislative salaries range from 7 shillings a day in Saxe-Coburg to a daily 12 shillings in Baden; but to this small emolument must be added free traveling in Baden, and second-class fares and three ghillings a day for “sundries” in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Bavarian M. P. who does not live in Munich receives 10 shillings a day possible, tenpence a mile for his travel- « s present by invitation and the young | ing. Hungary looks after her legislators Maori nobleman has revised his prices to correspond with his increased im- portance. The chiéftain speaks almost perfect English, is extremely well educated and were it not for his thick lips would be decidedly good-looking. Excepting the i his features differ from the negro's; Lis color is & bronzed yellow rather than black, and his hair, while having the coarseness of the African’s, is wavy instead of closely curled. He says he is under the usual height of his people, most of whom are over six feet, and in English clothes he looks even smaller <than when wearing his professional costume. The dress Rangiuia wears in the pho- tograph is finely spun flax decorated of the lower house, who number 453, to the extent of paying them £200 a year and allowing them to travel at cheap rates, while, as a crowning considera- tion, she allows each member nearly glass. A Champion Liar. Breaking engagements does not wor- ry the Sultan of Sulu. He kept Major General Bates waiting for him at Sulu for nearly two months, breaking en- gagement after engagement. At the | time first appointed, instead of the Sul- tan, his brother and Hadji Butu, his Prime Minister, arrived in Sulu and explained to General Bates that *‘his Highness” deeply regretted his in- with feathers of the sacred Huiua bird, | ability to be present, as his religious end the lower part of it is a family | festivities were just beginning and heirloom more than 200 years old. The | would keep him at Maibun, the Moro design across the top is not beadwork, | capital, several days; as the picture suggests, but vari-col- cred flax woven into this odd pattern. “The Maoris havé the finest natural | upon. but he would surely come as soon as the festivities were gver. Another meeting was agreed Again the Sultan failed to ap- voices of any people in the world,” said | pear, and his Prime Minister, with pro- Rangiuia to the writer yesterday at his | fuse apologies, assured the general that apartment in Kensington, “Why, the | his master was suffering so with boils European girls cannot compare with|on his neck and arms that he could Jours, many of whom do not know a|not put on his coat, and without it note, afid never in my life have I heard | he could not even think of appearing anything to equal the native girl’s trill. | before a great American general. Thus It’s just like a bird.” . “Do most of the Maoris sing?"” two months were frittered away, and then the American soldier decided that “Well, yes. One of the things a vis- |as he was in a Mohammedan land, he jtor to New Zealand never forgets is|would do as Mohammed did when the the hearing of a large body of*our peo- | mountain failed to call. ple, perhaps a thousand, singing to-| He is the best single-handed liar in gether one of the traditional songs.|the Philippines, says Everybody's Perfect time and tune they keep, and, | Magazine. And as there are few Fili- what s stranger still, they sing in a|pinos who will not lie frequently, de- kind of harmony.” liberately and persistently, that is say- The young mexn i the only Magri lnling a good deal, the £1000 a year which Congress pays | and when this little income is supplemented | as an allowance of £2 odd for station- | of traveling, he pockets his pride and | accepts them as only his fair due. The | £100, Manitoba £110, British Columbia | and New Brunswick as little as | 1 ! overlook that large and growing population. of Cape Colony a sliding scale is ob- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. -SPRECKELS, ?rcp;ietor_..........AddussAllCommfliuflnnstoJOHN McNAUGHT, Manager PublCRIIon (OMEe’ <. ..k srvserbarioissneniiase x@ teeeececessesesce..Third and Market Streets, S . THESPAY . st ihe MAY 17, 1904 SANTA FE DAY. AKLAND, Berkeley and Alameda have enthusi- O astically and appropriately celebrated the arrival of a train at the Oakland terminus of the Santa Fe line. Remotely the event now celebrated took form when the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- road was organized, began work on its line between Stockton and Bakersfield, and put in what far-seeing men understood would be one day a link in a transcon- tinental system. That road, in its original ownership, was projected from Stockton to San Francisco Bay, finding a termina on deep water at Point Richmond, where ship and car come together and where already an important and per- manent population has been planted, thriving upon the activities that have been brought into being by trans- portation facilities. But in Berkeley, Oakland and Ala- meda is a population of 125,000, to be served by an Oak- land terminal, especially for passenger business. It was evident that after acc‘uiring the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley line the Santa Fe could not long Therefore only the expected has happened in the opening of the new terminal. By it Point Richmond becomes a suburb of Oakland, tributary to its commerce and the adopted child of its enterprise. : Seen from the bay there is a continuous city from Berkeley to Alameda. Looking upon it one feels tl the aspiration of Mayor Olney for embracing it all in one city and county organization is soon to be reaiized. Such a population under one government and governed wisely will soon show on that side of the bay a great city, not the rival but the companion of San Francisco, with a combined energy and enterprise capable of the greatest achievements. More than that, it needs no clairvoyance to see Point Richmond extending southward until there is a contact population from the point-clear to Alameda. These dJdesirable steps forward come as the legitimate result of new transportation facilities, under which use and benefit expand. It is capable of proof that the com- ing of the Santa Fe from Bakersfield north has abridged the business of tlie Southern Pacific. It simply created new business, so that both lines are taxed to their capacity. This development is due entirely to the new line, and should teach the people the stimulating effect of new facilities. The old are not crippled nor in- jured, but the community is thrilled by a mighty im- pulse under which actually new additions are made to its producing and consuming power. Probably Oakland was the most obdurate of all com- munities to the reception of this great commercial truth It had the habit of opposition to railroads, arising in his- toric antagonism to the Central Pacific. Whatever ground that opposition had was fancifully expanded by politicians until the people settled down to the convic- tion that the Central Pacific had them shut in, that an- other line was impossible, and all they could do was fight like spiders in a bottle. validity in this view. Any line could condemn a right of way across the Central Pacific track as readily as across any other property, and the plain duty of the city for protective purposes was to withdraw its energies from fighting the road it had into securing another. But the habit of opposition was so fixed that when Senator Fair sought an outlet from his Fourteenth-street terminus, in order to do with his narrow gauge line just what is now accomplished through the San Francisco and San Joa- quin Valley line, Oakland hammered him to a standstill and compelled him in despair to sell out to the Southern Pacific. All this is changed now. We refer to it at all only by comparison to mark the high change that has come over the east side of the bay. The railroad the people fought so long is now at peace with them—a real peace, not an armed truce. The new one that has come to them in spite of the old and evil traditions which so long in- fluenced them against their own progress, is in touch with every interest of the three cities concerned, and they not Of course there was no have made a holiday to give it jocu)u] welcome and a glad greeting. It is a new start from a new base line entirely. In no part ,of the United States is an event as significant scored for the opening year. Around this bay is destined to be planted the most dense and enterprising and prosperous population to be found on the planet. All that is needed is to feilowship the factors that make it possible to real- ize all that is in the physical conditions and the commer- cial geography of the location. Enterprise will ceaselessly act and react upon and be- tween the east and west sides of the bay. Their devel- opment will call for more facilities, more ferries, more railroads, until in a fufure that is even now carmining the horizon it will seem like one vast assemblage of busy people. The ferries will be merely the extension of busi- ness streets, and there will be a panorama of homes and manufactories and business buildings the most alluring [ for his attendance with, as nearly as| tO b€ seen on the carth. In Oakland is the spirit of it all. Her Santa Fe dayis the overture to an industrial concert whose glad cliords will stir a future more glorious than man has seen. When a highwayman received a sentence of twenty o | years’ imprisonment the other day in just penalty for his £70 a year for house rent.—The Hour- | coward crimes upon pedestrians on their night way in the streets he wept bitterly and copiously at the Judge's severity. The rascal sheuld make amends for!the cur that is in him by advertising himself as an awful example to his fellows that are still at large. T into the line of California promoters in admirable style with the publication of a comprehensive pamphlet upon the resources and industries of Sacra- mento County and the whole df the great northern valley that bears that name. When this booklet is circulated through the East it will add its quota to the work al- ready done for the exploitation of every part of the State by enterprising municipal and trade bodies in every center of activity. P To the original and very characteristic praise of Sac- ramento that Mark Twain incorporated in his “Roughing 1t” the Chamber of Commerce has added data upon all attractions that have come with the years to the capital city. The pamphlet shows that above thirteen other large cities in the East and the South Sacramento enjoys a climate the most equable and free from distressing ‘extremes of heat and cold. For the country tributary to the capital city Sacramento’s promoters claim advantages of agriculture and horticulture that may well hold the THE SACRAMENTO PROMOTERS. HE Sacramento Chamber of Commerce has got profits that were realized from three acres only of orange bearing trees on a first year crop in the citrus belt of the county. To the broad stretch of valley that sweeps up from Sacramento to the foothills about Red Bluff the record published by the Chamber of Commerce devotes full meed of careful statistics and restrained analysis both of existing conditions and of the outlook for the future. The great wealth of the wheat and the vine, the burden borne by countless fruit trees, the opportunities offered | by grazing lands and the possibilities that lie in the de- velopment of electric power; all these topics find place in the exploitation of the Sacramento Valley. Not the least valuable part of the booklet and the fea- ture that must mark it as unique is the chapter entitled “The Land of Opportunities” from the pen of George C. Pardee. When a State’s Governor is willing to help in the work promotion must be successful. D. H. Burnham, the distinguished architect, who has been giving us visions of sweetness and light in town | beauty, has accepted the task of submitting a compre- hensive plan for the adornment of San Francisco. Let us hope that charity and good will will possess him and that in necessity he may not suggest that we move out, tear down and begin all over again under the inspiration of reason and common sense in civic architecture. } VIOLENCE MUST STOP. HE ctablemen’s strike in thid city has proceeded T on the usual lines of picket and boycott, of which : the community is tolerant while they are peaceably P But the peace has been repeatedly broken and the breach has been condoned by the officers of the law until the expeected has happened. Gathering courage from immunity the violent men, who deny to others the rights claimed for themselves, have resorted to violent assaults, carried out in the most cowardly way. On Sunmday four men under the leadership of one who has enjoyed official leniency until he seems to have as- sumed that he carries a license to violence, set upon a peaceable citizen working inoffensively at his vocation under the protection of the laws of his country, and dragging him from his wagon proceeded to attempt al- most his murder. The four ruffians jumped on him while prostrate, beat and kicked him in his face and body, and the leader, with a pitchiork for a weapon, struck the tines in his face and beat him with it, fracturing his skull. This is not the first deadly assault led or committed by this fellow. He was arrested a few days ago while lead- | ing an attack on a defenseless and unoffending citizen. ued. It was proved that he carried as a deadly weapon a piece of gas pipe. When brought to trial he was ac- quitted. As a result of that acquittal we have the assault of Sunday and probably the death of its victim. Police magistrates and the law officers of this city may as well understand now as later on that tlie people San nand that this lawlessness and murder cease. The day has gone by when personal as- saults and mob murder are to be overlooked because they r in a Jabor dispute and are punished when they occur in some other kind of dispute. Men have the right to work and the right to quit work. No man has the right to compel another to quit work by murdering him if he refuse. Business men have the right to peacefully transact their business with their peace undisturbed by insults addressed either to them or their patrons. These rights are primordial. Much excitement has been caused here by the propo- sition to prohibit public mectings on the streets on the ground that they impair the use of the public thorough- fare. Those who demand the right to use the streets for meeting put their demand on the ground of free speech. of Francisco de s ocey in a peaceable industry is just as sacred as the right of free speech and is more important. Those who want to speak can resort to a hall. An American laboring man cannot hire a hall in which to earn his living or in which to travel to and from his work. The unobstructed use of the streets for such purposes is his imprescriptible right, and a Government that will not protect him in it is unworthy his allegiance. All that the people of San Francisco ask is the en- forcement of the law against all who violate it and that those who have sworn to enforce it be impeached if they continue to encourage violence and mob murder. The interesting person who established in the United States the Bertillon system of measuring criminals was | arrested a few days ago on a charge of embezzlement. He will be in a position shortly to bear eloquent testi- mony to the fact that a fellow is not necessarily either confident or justified in his course because he is able to . take his own medicine. W year covered the coffee fincas, it was believed that the industry was ruined and that Guatemala had received a blow from which recovery would be slow, as coffee is her leading product for export. When the volcanic ash fell last year’s crop had been already se- cured, amounting to 500,000 quintals. Many planters abandoned their ash covered plantations and believed themselves ruined. But the activity of the volcanoes was followed by heavy and long continued rains, which washed ayvay a great deal of the ashes and incorporated more of them with the soil. The rain also seemed to leach the ashes and extract from it a liquid fertilizer which proved of great benefit to the coffee trees. The result is a great improvement in the fincas that were supposed to be ruined, and a large increase in the crop, so that this year the export will be 700,000 quintals. In some respects the much feared deposits of ashes proved of as great benefit as an overflow of the Nile to the land which it inundates. The fertility disttibuted by volcanic action is seen in Hawaii, where the volcanic sand makes the best sugar cane land, and in the valley of the Snake River in Idaho, where exactly the same kind of sand proves the most valuable soil for sugar beets. Much of the fertility of the white ash soils of the San Joaquin Valley, in this State, is due to its percentage of volcanic ash deposited when the valley was an inland sea. turn this ash is a constituent of the alluvium carried by the streams to the tule and delta lands of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which are believed to be the rich- est soils in the world. : Hereafter when the volcanoes of Guatemala erupt and spout ashes the only unfortunate cofice planters will be those . whose fincas are outside of the showers. The VOLCANIC COFFEE. HEN the volcanic eruptions in Guatemala last fancy of the prospective Eastern home builder. As a | users of the coffee will be interested in knowing whether clincher for their assertions the compilers of the pam- @hlet have incorporated a sample report of the generous the quality of the berry has been improved with the quan- tity. » The right to peaceably use the streets while engaged | In ! - A Morning Comedy. Those be'ated individuals who are on the streets in the wee sma’ hours of the morning have ears attuned to the milk wagon's rattle and the rumble of the vegetable wagons coming in from the wilds of Ocean View and Colma. Every dawning there comes down Market street a long line of these creaking vans of hardy cabbages, fes- tive radishes and delicate squashes for the delectation of sleeping San Francisco. At Montgomery street they turn and pass down to the mar- kets along Washington and Sansome streets. So accustomed have the | horses become to the way that the drivers have only to give them their heads and then they sleep all the way from the truck gardens over back of the hills down to the stalls where they unload. Not many mornings ago when the rumble of the presses told that the weary newspaper men were released for the night a little party of them were crossing Market street, when thelr way was blocked by the proces- |sion of vegetable wagons, one behind the¥other. The drivers were all nod- ding on their seats and the foremost team was leading the way for the caravan. One of the irresponsible newspaper scribes gravely stepped to the heads of the first team, seized their bridles, and, giving them a wide turn, set their faces back up Market 3 t | :sm»t in the direction whence they | had come. Without any protest the | 1eading team ambled back up the de- gerted street in the direction of home, lall the others following, and the drivers nodding on their seats all un- knowing. | “Back to the woods,” quoth the ir- | responsible one. | Not Trustworthy. A good story is going the rounds {about a well-known newspaper artist |and a prominent business man. It ap-| | pears that some two years ago the | artist was in financial straits and made |a borrow of his friend, who was the | head of a prosperous firm. The sum |loaned the artist was $2000 and he | agreed to repay it within two years. iThe business man happened to be | flush at the time, so the prospect of wait{ng two years for his money did | not bother him much. The two years passed by and the |artist had not made even a partial payment. He did not‘even call upon the busines man to explain his dere- liction, in fact though he met his | friend almost daily he did not even | mention the fact that he was duly | grateful or in any way make an | acknowledgment of the kindness. Six months after the debt became due the business man met with reverses and he found himself very much in need of the $2000. Accordingly he wrote to the artist and asked him to try to find him a little money. His letter brought back the answer: “Sorry, old man, but it is impossible.” A-month went by and the business man found himself more in need of the money than ever. He determined |to make a personal appeal to the artist and sent for him. When the latter appeared the business man lost no time and informed the artist that he must have the money. Its a case of ruin unless part of it is forthcoming almost immediately,” he said. “Just make an effort and see if you cannot raise $500. I'll tell you what I'll do. Get $500 'for me to-morrow and inside of two weeks I'll let you have it back.” “That's a very decent proposition,” said the artist, ruminatively, “and, old man, I'd take it, but I'm afraid I can- not trust you.” Russian Servants. The Russian servant is hired for one vear, and is told exactly what his par- ticular duty is to be. He then sticks | (to that one duty. As long as each servant faithfully performs the special | duties of his vosition all is well, but the neglectful butler, or cock or coach- man, is sent by the employer with a { Written note to the police judge, who _after carefully investigating the com- | plaints has a right to order bodily | punishment or to write a bad mark In the book keot for this 3 In great Russian households often from twenty to fifty servants are kept, iand even the middle-class families | have two to four. The pay of these servants varies to the line of work. ‘While the “chiefs” in the kitchen of wealthy families often re- ,ceive £300 a year, a cock in an ordin- 'ary citizen’s employ gets no more than £ e, £12 a year, and a maid of all work gets never more than £5 a year. At Easter every servant gets & present, generally a suit or dress. Every other Sunday the servants in a Russian household are entirely free. Their works stops Saturday night after supper, when the servants leave the house not to return until the next Mon- day morning. The employers never ask where or how the free time is spent. Russians servants will pilfer. Since Russian ladies leave everything to the care of the servants, the latter do as they please. The men servants smoke cigars be- longing to their masters and pay fre- quent visits to the wine cellars of the house, but a gentleman would consider it “demeaning” himself to prosecute a servant for this. The Russian servants will talk about fellow-servants, but never about their employers. Even when they quit one place and take service in another fam- ily they never .mention anything about their former masters. This dis- cretion goes so far that even the law considers it. In Russia the law ex- cludes servants as witnesses against their former or present employers, so long, at least, as these servants are not suspected of having taken part in the crime.—London Mail. ‘A Memory of May. Heigh-ho!—it's an age ago, And vet, it was yesterday You stood here in the blossoms. And the world was singing, “Ma: And you laughed to see those blossoms with the frolic wind at play! Don’t you remember—the children Were playing in the street, And clapped their hands as the breezes tossed The violets at your feet? And came, and asked to kiss you—those lips so red and sweet! And you said. of a bird's glad singing. There—in the bloom and light; “He sings, ‘Love says, good morning. And pever knows good night!” ™ (O, the skies were blue as the eyes of you, and the clouds were fast in flight!) The seasons are brief dreamers River. and fleld, and plain Laugh in the light of morning; Dear, it is May again! And the bird that sang of the love yoa dreamed, sings of that love in vain! And I see the rosy children There—in the dear old street, And T wonder if they are dreaming Of a vanished face and sweet— If the lips they kissed are mourned—are missed—if they long those lips to meet? I would kiss their rosy faces— Fair as flowers i the dew; But the bird up there is singing, And my kisses went with you And tfie rain of the years—love's bitter tears—is over your eyes of blue! —Atlanta Constitution. La—a:1 Pr;'z;t. “Local pride,” said Lieutenant Com- mander Lucien Young of the United States navy, “is very well, but it can easily be averdone. Admiral Dewey recognized that fact during- the war with Spain. He heard that certain new ‘war vessels were to be named, respect- ively, ‘Yale’ and ‘Harvard’ ‘Good idea,” he declared, ‘let us have more of the same evidence of pride in our insti- tutions. Why not name the next one the “College of Physicians and Sur- geons,” and then give us the “Massa- ¢husetts Institute of Technology?" ™ "— Success. Answers to Queries. FISHING—Fisherman, City. Ther= is fishing for trout in seasom on the Russian River above Camp Taylor: also up on Paper Mill Creek. There is fishing for salt water fish off Tih- uron, Sausalito and in Carquinez Straits. DOGS—J. C. R., City. In San Fran- cisco there is no age limit when dogs are permitted to run at large without a license tag fastened to a collar around the neck. All dogs not properly tagged with a license tag for the cur- rent year are liable to be impounded. THE GRAND ARMY-—Subscriber, City. The Grand Army of the Republic was organized during the winter of 1865-66 at Springfield, Ill.. chiefly through the activity of Dr. B. F. Ste- phenson, who during the Civil War was surgeon of the Fourteenth Illineis In- fantry. The first post was established at Decatur, IIl., in 1866. CASKETS — Subscgiber, Boulevard Heilghts, Oakland, Cal. Patents may be obtalned on coffins and burial caskets if the invention not already been patented. In the San Francisco Free Public Library you will find a set of books that will advise you in the mat- ter of patents that have been issued on coffins and caskets in the United States. PATENTED ARTICLES—F. G., City. In view of the fact that a United States patent for a period of seventeen years guarantees to the patentee, heirs or assigns, the exclusive right to make, use and vend an invention throughout the United States and Territories, it follows that no one has the right to make, even for his own use, any pat- ented article without the consent of the patentee. ———— Townsend's California Glace fruits In artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.® e to houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's Cai ifornia street. Telephone g 0