The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 27, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1904 Var g 7 - 3 , be done— | » prevent what | antry b ted States. | > folk here treasures are ell them. the where- coun- t but E > in re- | t s of the painter's | sold out of | broken out | announcement | f the quarto | ond of “Henry d down | r day, is | st people feel that secured the n that document Atlantic, too. T! nly interesting sale, ¥s by the minor Eliza- ists, Ben Jonson, Chap- d Dekker being sold at nd times their cost price, as| opy of John Wesley's hymn | 173 during the | sev- | in mission to Georgia; one of | her's own Bibles published | tenberg in 1541 (it sold for $170), | the original agreement between | Dryden z vlisher for the of Virgi eived $1000. Shakespeare, for | ago this sum would have been | red extravagant for a first folio. The edition thus secured for America leaves, and it has and cyt. The printers Andrew Wise and 1600. Another im- took place at Sotheb; feature of it b ee g | lines of the original | the Walter Scott’s sold for $245. | - | Herbert Spencer thought of Carlyle we learn from the Brighton | philosopher’s recently published “Au- tobiograph and a correspondent of | that of 1 ondon reviews points out | according to Carlyle’s friend, Dr. teie the opinion which the | held of Spencer was | re flattering Beatt! off into a peal of derisive as he thought of him (i e, ar after a pause, and in perhaps to the extent of ngs, he ex med cc An immeasurable z have been meddling w cer, have ye? Me was brought to clsea temptuous And Spe ame Lewes, and a- more conceited young. man 1 thought I had mever | seen. He seemed to think himself a perfect Owl of Minerva for knowl- edge!” ‘And then looking fiercely at me, “Ye'll get little good out of him, young man!’ Private advices from Hall Caine, { who s now putting the finishing touches 1o his new novel, “The Prod- | igal Son,” \are to the effect that this romance will be much shorter than most of its author's other works, run- ning to about 120,000 words in all. The scenes are laid in Iceland, Paris and London The unveiling, by Eden Philpotts, of the tablet and window which have just been placed in Exeter Cathedral 1o the memory of R. D. Blackmore, au- . thor of “Lorna Doone,” attracted no end of literary folk to the quiet pro- Vincial city the other day. The tablet, 1o which many Americans subscribed, bears 2 medzallion portrait of Black- more by the sculptor, Hems, with this Guotation from the novelist’s book, “Cradock Nowell”: “He added Chris- tian courtesy amd the humility of all thoughtful minds to a certain grand and glorious gift of radiating human- ity.” Frank Frankfort Moore has been es- i pegially industrious of late. Besides | his movel, “The One Woman,” which fms just been published, he has fin- ished another, to which he has given the title, “The White Causeway.” It will be published serially on this side of the water, in “Lady’s Realm.” . om.® Not only are more American novels being published in this country now than was the not long ago, but their quality ”gem be rather better, which is gratifying to our patriotic pride which has to read the reviews. “Pa Gladden” has been praised warm- Iy, a fact which supports the cpinion cxpressed so often in these letters that e unfamiliarity of its *“local color” seldom, if ever, keeps a really good American story from being successful Lere. “The Mills of Man” also has been recefved here with much favor; “Rulers of Kings,” however, with less, perhaps | th T 1 \ve have an appreciation of G. | McMurdo Bay one kind, Weddell's, are | gions shows an entraordinary number | out like sails. {“If overtaken a second time it will {iar infuriates him. | | | when the newspapers announced that the Saracen’s Head in Snow Hill had } been offered for sale. This is the pablic | house and inn which Dickens made lhflj London headquarters of the celebrated | Mr. Squeers and from which he started | the schoolmaster and Nicholas Nickleby ‘ coach. on says that the Sara-| cen’s Head, which stands in a district| t of late years has been taken pos- session of almost wholly by the repre- sentatives of American firms, is a mod- | ern replica of an ancient building which | cowed its name to the Crusades. B e e It was not so long ago that one who ! ! kad been impressed with the amount of ! matter which appeared in print under name expressed the Andrew Lang's conviction that Mr. Lang was a dicate,” and 1f G. K. Chesterton dol‘sn'ti cion. You can’t get away from him. Hardly had his “Life of Browning” ap- peared than his novel “A Napoleon of Notting Hill” was announced, and now F. Watts | from Mr. Chesterton's nimble pen, and the promise of a work by him on Charles Kingsley. Meanwhile the writer keeps on with his regular weekly de- liverance in the Daily News, not to| mention that in Black and White, and | one can see how all this is possible; only by conceiving that Mr. Chesterton leads a double life and works in both Lalves of it. HEYDEN CHURCH. !1ook out he will be under a similar sus- | | Antarctic Fauna. Fluller detals are now to hand of the iscoverfes made by those on board the iscovery during their long sojourn in the Antarctic. Dr. Soulter supplies interesting par- ticulars regarding animal life in that cold region. The chief denizens are seals, penguins, and varieties of petrels. Seals are now very abundant here, though widely scattered. They are very tame, and “can be clubbed by | any one, without showing more fight than opening their jaws and making a harsh noise.” They possess extraordin- ary vitality, and are not easy to kill. Antarctic seals are of four kinds, but in most common, and provide the best eating. In pack-ice the crab-eater seal common, but “has not such a good taste.” The coat of Weddell's seal, especially when young, possesses a beautiful sheen, and feels quite soft, but Antarctic seals are not provided with marketable fur. The skin of the | majority of seals in the Antarctic re- of cicatrices, some old and some recent, which have been for some time a puzzle to zoologists, the question being wheth- .| er they are the rasult of warfare among bull seals for possession of the females, or are caused by attacks of some mon- ster not yet known to science. Some | little light has been shed on this sub- ject by the discove! probably almost unique, of the remains of an ordinary seal in the stomach of a sea-leopard, which is provided with a very fierce set of teath, indicating a possible habit | of feeding on other seals. As soon as & seal has been Killed | skua gulls, the scavengers of the Ant- arctic, come up to the place in large | numbers. They are not at all timid, | for they “come close up and commence | eating straight away.” The skua is | of a faded chocolate color, and in flight | shows a white bar on each wing. It| possesses webbed feet, fitted with claws | like those of a hawk widely dis- | tributed. The giant petrel, which is | also a scavenger, scours the whole country and ocean in search of the | carcass of some unlucky beast. It will | | feed upon the carcass until so abso- | lutely gorged that it is unable to rise | off the ice in flight. It then runs along the ice if chased, spreading its wings | Before being captured, however, the petrel suddenly stops, and | disgorges a quantity of semi-digested ford, and then goes off at a run again. repeat the performance, and, having once got rid of its dinner, gets up and flies off.” ¢ numerous birds, and those e the Antarctic its one ad- vantage over the more popular Aretic, are its penguins. They are of two kinds, the more numerous small, blunt- billed Adelie, and the less, numerous but much Jarger Emperor penguin, which weighs about 60 or 70 pounds, and stands well over 3 feet high. It possesses extraordinary muscular pow- er in its flippers. When presented with the end of a ski stick the Emperor penguin “gives it such a smack that one’s hands tingle.” At the same time it utters an angry guttural exclama- tion.—London News, Desert Madness. “It is not generally understood that the silence of the desert has a madden- ing effect upon the human brain,” says a traveler in the Birmingham News, whose experiences are not often paral- leled. “Monotony is more severe than anything else deriving its entire pal from mental effect. The monotony of silence is worse than any other kind. “Take & man away from the hum of the work of men and send him out on the alkali deserts of Arizona, and the deep silene becomes awful and s sometimes unbearable. AIl at once, without any previous symptoms, some member of the party may stop sud- denly with a dazed look on his face and a wild expression in his eye. He is dangerous. His reason is torn in wild confusion. Anything or anybody famil- “He must be disarmed and bound at once or he will deal death to the whole party. He is possessed of ‘desert mad- ness,” brought on by the monotony of #ilence. He suffers excruciating mental anguish. He needs to be relieved by being brought back to his accustomed surroundings. “On this account men used to the desert refuse to go out with those with whom they are well acquainted. The because of Mrs, Atherton's tendency to “sprecd the eagle” in her last romance, > 7 ey Lovers of Dickens recalled Nicholas Nickieby™ their the other day miad man is not likely to attack al stranger. If there.is no friend in the party his madness is likely to assert itseif in running rather than in fight- irg. It a fearful disease not yet un- derstood.” ° E 3 | Publication omco ... ‘T NCISCO CALL THE SAN FRA JOHND.SPREcm,s,hopr_um..........mmmammmkzfioumjoml McNAUGHT, Manager Swrssrreeeeeseeessee ooe.. . Third and Market Streets, S. F. FRIDAY SAVAGERY IN CITIES. HE conditions on the sast side of New York City have recently attracted the attention of sociologists and settlement workers. It is said that in that part of the city there are tens of thousands of idle boys, from 15 to 20 years of age, who have had some school- ing, are strong, brawny and idle. Having nothing to do they infest the slums and add to their horrors. They present the greatest problem with which the police have to contend, and they seem irrevocably dedicated to vice, crime and transgression. Their idleness resists all moral teaching. While it would be easy to discipline and control them if they were working no impression can be made upon their moral sense while they are loafers. What to do with them is the despair of the legal authorities and of the social workers, who find them inflexibly obdurate to all control. It is one of the sad features in that tendency of our population to gravitate to cities. Unfortunately the vast majority of our foreign immigration remains in the large cities where it lands. Instead of being affected and | instructed by our American spirit and point of view the influence is the other way and that spirit and point of view are weakened and distorted. There is created in cities corrupt material for use in politics, and municipal administration is too often mas- tered by the rampant. vice which has access to the ballot. Churches establish missions in the infected districts, but the efforts made in them to stem the tide of immorality and lawlessness are made useless by the idleness of the class on which they are wrought. That idleness takes out of life all saneness of motive and rightness of pur-- pose, and religion, morality and ethics are things with- out meaning to a population in which vice and crime are the sole possible activities within reach. If the abhor- rent panorama were impressed upon the country bred population its tendency to seek the cities might be checked. But this is not done and the fresh life flows from the fields to the slums to be stained and lost. These conditions were brought sharply to the attention of the country by an occurrence last Sunday. A rail- road president and his wife, while passing through that east side district of New York in an automobile, going slowly and avoiding anything that would excite. the mob, were beset by an immense number of these vicious young men. Apparently attracted by the jewelry of the woman, they knocked her senseless with stones and crowded upon her to steal her ornaments. This was in the middle of Sunday afternoon in the chief city of the continent. We read of train robberies in lonely, stretches of rail- ways, at night/ and they impress us. But, after all, they are but trifles compared to this daylight savagery in a great city. A train robbery shows the criminal enter- prise of a few daring men, but this assault in a city is a sickening evidence of the demoralization and degen- eracy of a community made sordid by the idleness of its youth. A bandit in Morocco seized, in his own house, an American citizen and carried him into the mountains to secure a ransom. Our navy is ordered to that coast and the Sultan of Morocco is commanded by the American Consul to take immediate steps for the release of the prisoner, and will be compelled to pay whatever ran- som is exacted by his captors. But that crime is of less consequence than the assault and attempted robbery on Sunday afternoon in New York City. , In the East there is constant comment on the wild ways of the woolly West. But no event in the history of the | West is so fearful as a deadly symptom as this barbar- ism in the streets of New York. If the growth of our great cities carry with it the increase of such evils and the multiplication of such problems it should cease to be a matter of pride, and become a thing to be keenly feared. When a passage through the streets becomes as dangerous as through a wolf-infested Russian forest it is time to fill the highways with missionaries who will preach the gospel of work as a cure for evils, present and to come. If immigration is so large as to make its assimilation impossible, but to make it actually a force that assimi- lates us, it should be reduced again to a digestible quantity. If congestion of population in cities can be controlled and prevented in no other way it must be dis- tributed to the country, where the farms and fields call for the laborers who are too few for the work that must be done. Prince Pu Lun, the distinguished representative of Chinese royalty who is diverting us with his picturesque presence, has found that the operation of an automobile with safety to the operator and his immediate neighbor- hood is a tritmph not yet recorded in favor of an Ori- ental. Let the Prince have patience. Let him start the machine and then trust to chance. The rest of us have been educated by experience to get out of the way. I to survive in memory or popularity. During our Civil War both sections were vocal with stirring war songs. In the North “The Batth® Hymn of the Republic,” “Marching Through Georgia,” Tenting To-night,” and in the South “My Maryland,” “The Bonnie Blue Flag” and scores of inspiring lyrics were written, set to music and sung, and many of them survive among the lyrical classics of our literature. They had great influence in thrilling the martial spirit—Union and Confederate—and it is doubtful if in any other war such compositions ever played as great a part. Major and minor poets, mono-poets and professional song writers, all entered a field in which a catching and lilting song was sure of immediate and immense popularity. : But in our Spanish war the singers, great and small, were conspicuous only by their silence. The inspiration of that war and of its cause seems to stop at oratory and exhaust itself in that form of expression. In Congress some notable speeches were made by Proctor of Ver- mont, Thurston of Nebraska, Mason of Illinois and others. Still it.is doubtful if any of these will go into permanent literature or the school books. The absence of war lyrics in that recent period of our history is made all the more remarkable by the fact that. our poets and song writers seem to be finding inspira- tion in the Japanese-Russian war that is producing some excellent results, “The Cossacks of the Don” is a fine production, and Joaquin Miller's “Fishers of Nippon,” and the still later “Navy of Japan,” are excellent exam- ples of lyric poetry with war for its motive. It is note- worthy that in most of these lyrics which are inspired by the heroic spectacle of Japan going forth for her life against a huge enemy so ‘greatly her superior in re- Sk WAR LYRICS. T is remembered as an interesting with Spain and the subsequent mili not a single war lyric was written of sufficient dignity ture of our war actions that H silence during our own wa; sources, the poets and song writers adopt the native name Nippon for Japan. Its superior euphony seems to commend it to the poetic sense. If the struggle continue our lyrical literature seems destined to be very much en- riched and our poets will make up for their singular The Mothers’ Club of New York, variously active in the pursuit of sweetness and light, has decided that men may become members of the organization upon a strictly associative basis and without the privilege of a vote. No one of the male persuasion has yet indicated that he wishes to be enrolled officially in the interesting category of old women. But even the suggestion must be sweet revenge to the Mothers’ Club, T nia have recently been concerned in an investigation relative to the marketing of their oranges. The re- turns have been poor and the immediate outlook was unpromising. Considering that the annual value of the oranges grown in Southern California runs well into millions of dollars and that there is a demand for the fruit in the markets of the East and that orange growing is one of the principal industries of the counties south of the Tehachapi Pass, it was astonishing to the southern producers to find that their profits had vanished. The values of lands in orange orchards were menaced. A strong inducement to Eastern people to make their homes in Southern California was jeopardized. Nothing is done by halves in Southern California. When the people came to the conclusion that they would find out what was the matter with the orange market they went at the work in earnest. Every fact that could be brought to light was revealed. Many columns of newspaper space have bden devoted to a narration of facts and the discussion of remedies. No topic has at- tracted more earnest and prolonged attention in the south in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. A change has been provided for that will soon be ef- fective. The Los Angeles Times and other southern newspapers say that better times are now in view. Ac- THE MARKETING OF ORANGES. HE orange producing counties of Southern Califor- cording to the Los Angeles Times high freight rates, | the competition of Florida and other orange-producing countries and “freeze-out” methods on the part of the California Fruit Agency directed against independent shippers have been factors to cause depression in the market for Southérn California’s citrus fruits. For many years the business of handling and selling oranges in the United States was divided among many people, some of whom, qr their predecessors, had been so engaged for half a’ century. The California Fruit Agency undertook to put these people out of business. As a means of warfare they urged on the market, as against California, the Florida, Mexico and Porto Rico oranges. The California Fruit Agency has given notice that it will retire from business. On September 1 the California Citrus Union will resume. The Times now advBcates open competition for the Southern California oranges. “Let growers who wish to combine do so,” says the Times, “and go after purchasers wherever they may be found. Let others invite buyers; let home fruit auc- tions be established and they will do business; let it be understood that the golden fruit is for Sale to the highest bidder; under such systems the buyers will be there— buyers for the fruit on the trees, buyers for the fruit p 5 o. bA" - Every citizen north of Tehachapi will wish that the anticipation of his southern neighbors may be amply realized. The Los Angeles Herald says it is believed that an auction system will be established whereby a great part of the yield of Southern California’s orange groves will be marketed in Southern California and at dealers’ rather than at the growers’ risk. It is refreshing to know that since San Francisco has the misfortune to house a few anarchists their most seri- ous offense which has been made public in years was their recent entertainment, harmless and rational, of one of their fellows from the Old World. As long as these pests of society have within them a feeling of friendli- ness and hospitality for men as little deserving of either as themselves then there is some hope for their re- generation. T City has issued a letter calling to mind the fact that June 14, 1904, will be the one hundred and twenty- seventh anniversary of the adoption by Congress of the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States, and urging that that day be suitably observed. The “American Flag Association” was organized on February 17, 1898, and is composed of individuals and members of flag committees from various patriotic so- cieties in this country, united to foster public sentiment toward honoring the national emblem. It asks in the letter that the flag be displayed upon municipal build- ings, churches and private dwellings, that schoolteachers arrange for patriotic exercises appropriate to the day, and that American patriotic societies throughout the country generally be urged to assist in awakening public enthusiasm in the observance of the anniversary. Although the flame of American patriotism is of the kind that glows perpetually and needs not much annual renewal it is well that the birthday of our beautiful flag should not pass unobserved. Reverence for it is not entirely an unmeaning sentiment. It is commingled with the respect and love we have for our country, of which the flag is the tangible, visible symbol, appealing more directly to the senses. That symbol suggests the enjoy- ment of liberty for which this Government was founded. It brings out our better thoughts, for in it there is nothing of greed or sclf, and it serves to bind us closer together as a people striving with high ideals for the common cause of humanity; therefore, no fitting ocasion should be neglected upon which to keep it before us. FLAG DAY. HE “American Flag Association” of New York The reception given to John Alexander Dowie by the various thriving communities of Australia may in com- plete conservatism and due regard to the facts be char- acterized as healthy if not strenuous. John Alexander | was assaulted, insulted, ridiculed and lampooned. He will lose no time in leaving the land as lost to persuasion and return to the fruitful soil of Chicago. —_— Capitola made California history the other day when two teams of young ladies, dainty, demure, feminine in aspirations and conduct, strove for supremacy on the baseball field. If the new woman continues her en- croachments on the domain of man the sterner sex in desperation will have to turn to knitting for recreation, Spanked by Butler. The Hartford, Conn., Courant pub- lishes a new anecdote concerning the strenuousness of old Ben Butler while he was in occupation of New Orleans. “General Butler had given an order that arms should not be carried by civilians,” says the Courant informer, “and one day when I was conversing with the general an orderly addressed a young woman who happened to be passing, carrying a large revolver in her belt. The orderly® informed her of General Butler's order. The young woman became enraged instantly and spit in the orderly’s face. General Butler saw the incident. He stepped up to the young woman, placed his foot against the building, took th young person across his knee and gave her an example of Puritanical corporal punishment such as she would gever forget as long as she lived. “During this interesting proceeding the young woman yelled vigorously, but finding that unavailing to secure release, bit her teeth into the calf of General Butler's leg. Whensthe gen- eral had administered what he con- sidered sufficient punishment for her rude conduct he lifted her to her feet and said, ‘Young woman, you can now g0 home and tell your mother that you have had a bite of good Yankee flesh.” Artificial Snails. As escargots, or snails, are not much eaten in this country, the dis- covery that artificial snails are made will not worry American epieures. In Paris it is different. Public knewl- edge of this enterprise came about through the suit of a Paris workman against his employer for injuries re- ceived in manipulating a machine for fabricating snails. It was explained that the employer bought empty snail shells from the dustmen and rag- pickers. Having cleaned out the shells, the defendant and his people filled them with “mou,” that is to say, lights, or cat's meat. This soft, spongy stuff, before being crammed into the shells, was cut into cork- {screw shape by very improved ma- {chines. When the shell was filled some liquid fat or grease was poured into it and the trick was done. The fabricated snails were sold usually at 20 centimes the dozen. Sometimes, when there is a great run on snails, the manufacturers get a good deal of their “raw material” from Germany. It is affirmed that there are actually some epicures in Paris who prefer the sham snail to the genuine article, even when the latter has been among the vine leaves in Burgundy. The ar- tificial escargot is said to have a spe- cial flavor, which is highly appre- ciated. Saved by Falsehood. x A news dispatch from Louisville, Ky., to the New York Times says that carefully wrapped in bandages and laboring under the delusion that she has undergone a dangerous operation for a tumor in the stomach, a New Albany, Ind., woman lies at the Ken- tucky University on Broadway, while her physicians are carefully watching her in the hope that their unique de- ception may permanently cure the hysteria with which she has been af- flicted for several months. The experiment is a rare one. The patient was operated upon several years ago. Since that time her phy- sicians say she has been constantly harassed with the hallucination that there would be an ultimate recurrence of the tumorous growth. About three months ago she sus- tained a fright which upset her nerves. A few days afterward she fancied she detected symptoms of a jrecurrence of the tumor. Her phy- sicians made a careful examination, but could find no traces of the growth. She insisted on an operation, how- ever, and the physicians arranged the deception. Just enough opiates were admin- istered to reduce her to a state of semi-consciousness. She could hear and feel vaguely, but could see noth- ing. The physicians, speaking grave- ly, spent considerable time in definite- 1y locating the supposed tumor. When all was in readiness one of the doctors produced a pitcher of ice water, which he held above the part supposed to be affected and allowed a drop to fall at intervals of about fifteen seconds. With each drop of water the patient winced and groaned as if in great agony. Once or twice she could be heard to whisper that | the doctors be Tareful and not cut her too deep. Finally, when it was thought the hoax had been success- fully carried to cbmpletion, the doc- tors swathed the patient in bandages and had her removed to a room. On being awakened she found her- self in the presence of two trained | nurses, whe are keeping up the de- | ception by not allowing her to move a muscle. Although she has the ap- | petite and strength of a normal woman, she lies perfectly passive and submits cheerfully to the diet of clear broth. The physicians say they will allow her to leave the infirmary in about three weeks. "4 Japanese Columbus. The history of Japan, like that of many other nations, shows that Amer- ica was known to the ancients in all parts of the world, says the Kansas | City Journal. - As soon as the art of ! marine navigation was revived among the Japanese, they crossed the Pacific in order to test the truth of old tradi- tions and landed in Mexico not long Columbus made his discoveries. These old traditions have been from time immemorial kept alive by a ser- Fvlce of ceremonies unto this day, and |it is unnecessary to say that no evi- dence of ancient events is so strong as festivals and ceremonies instituted The traditional history of Japan in this matter is a counterpart of that of & %, 5= f | —— | Greece_and other Mediterranean na- jtions ‘and makes reference to a lost or sunken island. In Kaempfer's great work on Japan this story is given: “Maurigasima was an insland in the Pacific Ocean famous for porcelain vessels, “The inhabitants were rich and luxurious and had a contempt for re- ligion. The King was named Peiroun. He himself was religious. He had a dream of a coming flood. It was to happen when the two faces of the idols in the temple turn red. The two idols were called Infoniwoo and Awun —gods of generation and destruc- tion. Some one, to play a trick, one night painted the faces of these idols red. The King, hearing of the change of color, lost no time in getting aboard a ship. Then the island sunk and all were drowned except Peiroun. He got safe to China.” But the enumeration of traditions found among the Japanese which point to an early knowledge if not colonization of America, does not rest upon this incident alome. In one of the pagodas is a remarkable monu- ment where the bull of agriculture is portrayed in the act of ripping up an egg. Now, among mythelogists, North America is called the egg of the world, and so the Japanese savants explain this monument as the emblem of the ancient discovery and colonization of the continent by Japan. The Japanese Columbus and hero of the first trip across the Pacific was Jebis. He has since been deified, made the brother of god Ténzio and called the Neptune of Japan. Cloaked With Sancity. An interesting discovery has just been made at Quezac (Lozere), France, by some customs officials. As the re- sult of anonymous information they climbed into the spire of the church, and after a careful search found a still which, although dating from the séventeenth century, was yet in a per- fect state of preservation and capable of being worked. Naturally the re- quirements of the law with regard to apparatus of this description had not been complied with in this case, but who was the offender? The vicar in charge of the building? The sacristan who visited weekly? Interrogated, the former declared that he had only re- cently come into the parish and had never set foot in the spire. He was therefore totally ignorant of the ex- istence of the incriminating vessel The sacristan, however, could not allege so valid an excuse, and his ex- planation not being satisfactory, he will be proceeded against.—The Paris Temps. ! Answers to Queries. THE FUTURE—Mel Mar, City: It is net proper to say “To-morrow is ‘Wednesday,” but it is proper to say “To-morrow will be Wednesday.” “Is™ refers to the present, “will be’” to the future. To speak of a day of the week that is to come you have to speak of the future. A CITIZEN—L. M. G, City: A woman born in the United States is & citizen of the Union and of the par- ticular State in which she claims her residence. The fact that in some States she cannot vote does not cut any fig- ure. If she is an alien and her hus- band becomes a citizen of the United States his act in that direction makes her a citizen. MODOC INDIANS—C. 8., Oakland, Cal. The Modoc Indians originally oc- cupied lands on the Klamath Lake, Cal. They were hostile against the whites as early as 1847 and cohtinued such hostilities until 1364, when they ceded their lands and agreed to go on a reservation, which, however, was not set apart for them until 1871. In the meantime they went on the Klamath reservation, and later on the Yainax reservation. A band of the Modocs under Captain Jack deserted the res- ervation in 1872 and settled on the Lost River. Then followed the hostilities when they refused to leave that settle- ment, and their pilgrimage to the Lava Beds. Captain Jack was captured in June, 1873. ELECTORS—C. R. W. The next election for Presidential electors will be held Tuesday, November 8, this year. The manner in which the chosen electors meet and ballot for President and Vice President of the United States is provided for in articie XII of the Constitution as follows: “The electors shall meet in their re- spective Sta’es and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabi- tant of the same State with them- selves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct bailots the person voted for as Vice President: and they shall make dist” t lists 1 persons voted for as President, -7d of all p~::ong voted for -~ Vice President, and of the num- ber of voi:: ‘or each. which lists they shall sizs~ and certify »-~ transmit. sealed, to the seat of Government of the United States, directed to the Pres- ident of the oW —_—— ‘Townsend's California Glace fruits In artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_————— Spegial information supplied dally to business houses and public men by’un Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cai- ifornia street, Telephone s,