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TR T L S g v ersus Fishermen. ndence OF THE Spectal C ADQUART May reaches ¥ noer, v b © (o cy and William w iy which con- | t ) vearly with 3 w the aim of providing rec- T atic yumber of persons who choose t 1d their S ays and b lhidays as pful disciples of Isaak Waiton. mer Mr. Astor, ears rmen from cast- prohibiting fish : part of the at 3 ch adjoins the Cliveden estate, graciously allowed them to fish from boats in the river itseif. This | « ss & but scant satisfaction | to the innocent sportsmen and this B conservancy has been ;4 z 1 A deputation | the lord of Cliveden a few he river—stream and but his personal s aw stands he is per- within his right in doing so, fectly the Thames conservancy, in sdite of the | faoct that it is an absolutely fossilized and conservative body, get its beck up at times. and it is believed rodded it into do- that Mr. Astor has ing so. If all other me: Mr. Astor the conservancy to Parliament to make new the government of the river Thames. It is newhat sigrificant that Queen Alexandra and Princess Vie- tor who used to be frequent v ors to that part of the river, have not been seen there since it became known that Mr. Astor had excluded ordinary fishing folk. will apply laws for An Audience With Edward HEADQUARTERS C 2 CALL, | 5 HENRIETTA STRE COVENT | GARDEN, LONDON, May 30.—As pri- vate audiences with King Edward are generally granted only to distinguished suen either in the dipiomatic or consular the recent reception of Jacob | services, H. Schiff of the New York banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. caused much discussion in society circles. Mr. Schiff, on getting home, seems to have | regarding his | had but little to say audience with his Majesty, but I learn | privately that it was se(ured through the influence of Sir Ernest Cassel, the Jewish Baronet, who is on terms of personal intimacy with the King. and that the whole the last Newmarket where Mr. Schiff came race meeting, into personal contact with King Edward for the urst | time. Mr. Schiff is also said to have contributed a good round sum to char- fties in which the Jewish community here is interested. The alien emigra- tion act is causing the Jews much eanxiety and they are doing all they can to save their coreligionists from repatriation. Mr, Schiff went alone into the Whitechapel slums and there fnvestigated for himself the conditions under which the poor Jews live. He was the guest of the Rothschilds dur- ing a portion of the time he spent in London and with Lord Rothschild he went closely into the methods that gov- ern and regulate the Jewish Board of Guardians. He also visited the Alex- endra Trust, which was founded by Sir Thomas Lipton and in which her Maj- esty the Queed is so personally in- terested. He saw the work people of the district enjoy their midday meal there and he expressed astonishment &t the cheapness and good quality of the food supplied. He wondered why = similar institution could not be es- tablished in Whitechapel for the bene- fit of working Jews. It is understood that Sir Ernest Cassel is considering & scheme of the kind. Origin of the Whitecaps. The term “whitecaps” has come to be synonymous with bands of men united by secret ties for the purpose of‘ committing unlawful acts or for the purpose of taking the law into their own hands and administering justice to | offenders against public morals who cannot be reached in the regular way. Bout New Engiand’s earliest “white- caps” and the first bearers of the name | were organized for a different purpose, Their origin dated back to the days of Rainsford Rogers, an impostor and vagabond, whose villainies outdid all the efforts of Henry Tufts. Rogers was a sharper of the keenest penetration, and his plan was to take advantage of the eredulity of the unso- phisticated New Englanders by the most daring and original of bunko games. Though illiterate, he was once a schoolteacher. He pretended a deep knowledge of chemistry, and claimed that he possesscs the power to raise or to lay spirits, good and evil, at his pieasure. He began his career of operating on the superstititious belief of people at Morristown, N. J.. in 1788, where he suc. ceeded in defrauding a large number of followers out of a Jarge swn of money y to find out that he had| but | ns fail to move | affair was arranged at | - | always carried a heavy bag. by the pretense that through the agen- cy of spirits he could secure for them & | concealed treasure. -rmen he disap- peared. He was soon depleting the pockets of the people in several of the Southern States by similar means. Under the name of Willlam Rice, with two con- | federates, he reaped a rich harvest by operating various schemes in Adams County, Pennsylvania, making off with | a conside! um yielded by his (‘Oh-: fiding dupe ! It was soon after this, about 1800, that he went to Exeter, bearing his true name of Rainsford Rogers, which had | ot acquired so bad an odor in Eastern | New England as in some other quapl‘ ! ters. ! | In a short time he formed the ac- quaintance of a number of men of sub- | Is in the town, who were found | ! sufficiently eredulous to put entire faith | in him. To a dozen or more he con-| fided his belief that a subterranean | treasure of great value existed in the| neivhborhood which by his skill he! could discover and appropriate to their | common benefit. Me repeatedly conducted them on dark nights to out of the way places to dig in the swamps with spades and other implements, and frequently kept work for hours delving for the hidden prize. On these expeditions he insisted that all must wear white caps, 2 circumstance that afterward gave the name to the company. On one of these night excirsions there ared before the eyes of the awe- ken diggers a figure all in white, representing a spirit, which uttered some words that none could under- stand. One “whitecap,” anxious to lose nothing, said: “A little louder, Mr. Ghost; I'm rather hard of hearing. But the diligent diggers found no treasure, and soon Rogers disclosed the reason for'their want of success. The golden deposit was there, beyond a | doubt, but they needed one thing more to enable them to find it. That was a | particular kind of divining rod. It must be made of costly materials, but it would be infallible. It could not be obtained this side of Philadelphia, and would cost several hundred dollars. So infatuated were the deluded com- pany that they quickly raised the nec- | essary amount and delivered it to Rog- | ers, who mounted his horse, and, with | a saddle and bridle borrowed from one | of his dupes, rode off to parts unknown, | never to return. The “whitecaps” in xheir clandestine meetings, however, and soon they were the laughing stock ' of the town, and the deaf man who asked the ghost to “speak a little loud- er” pever heard the last of his speech. The whole company fell under the de- | Or sea! dividing lives that loved in | which was the first heard of the name. —Boston Herald had been watched, | { Japanese Army Rations. General Weston, chief of suMsistence | of the American army, has solved | | what he believes to be the great secret | | of the wonderful mobility of the Jap- | | anese army. It lies in the field ration, w a sample of which he has recehed from Major W. B. Barker at Naga- | saki, one of the American officers who are watching the war. The ration| | shows that the Japanese soldier can | live and fight for a month on a food | upply that weighs less than the daily jon of the American soldier in the field. The fish received by General Weston | | is about seven inches long and an inch and a half thick in the middle, and ls | dried until it resembles petrified wood. It weighs only twelve ounces, but Ma- | Jor Parker says it will sustain a Jap- | anese soldier for seven days. When soldiers are on the march they eat the fish just as it is, biting off small pleces, which are thoroughly masticated, but when they are in camp ' the fish is shaved off in small slices and cooked with rice. The fish re- | sembles a mackerel, but its Japanese name is “mamibushi.” The fish is about two feet long and thick and solid before preparation for the army ration. In preparing it for army use it is cut in two and steamed | and dried alternately until it is re- | duced to about one-eighth of its orig- inal size, with a corresponding reduc- tion in weight. | Each Japanese soldier can carry ienough fish and rice to last him three | or four weeks and a whole army can | be made absolutely independent of the | commissary trains that are indispen- | sable in other armies. If the Russian soldiers could live on as little as the Japanese require the Siberian Rail- road would have little to do but haul | troops, for one trainload of dried fish | and rice would sustain General Kuro- ( patkin’s army for weeks. Dried fish is used only as a field | ration. The regular daily ration in! the Japanese army consists of one and | a half pounds of rice and half a pound | of canned meats. The daily ration in| the United States army weighs about four pounds and the emergency ra- tion is not a great deal lighter. Berlin’s Marine Bride. “The Marine Bsze. one of the best- known characters in the streets of Eerlin, is dead. She was usually to be | seen on Unter den Linden, between Friedrichstrasee and the Brandenbur- |ger Thor. She was a worn looking| woman, about fifty-five, shabbily | dressed, although of good family, and | Every Berliner knew her, and no one molest- ed the poor, demented creature. Her | story is tragic. Many years age she was betrothéd to a pavy surgeon, and shortly after her engagement she re- ceived news that he was drowned at sea. Her mind became unhinged, and since the day of the fatal news she has wandered aiong Unter den Linden, be- lieving that her betrothed would return te Berlin, driving through the Bran- denburger Thor. In the heavy bag she carried what she belived was a suit of cicthes, for which her lover would ex- change his sea-stained garments.— London Daily Telegraph. mmiw a man the huuu evenings. - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL oiis 5 s oo MRS Y SR R JOEND ‘mw..........mMWMmeAUflT Manager Publ u:llon Olllee seaae Third and Market Streets, S. F. MONDAY ...JUNE 13, 1904 A MORE ANIMATED ASPECT. USINESS conditions showed some change last B week. While quotations as a rule exhibited littie flucuation, the feeling throughout the country appearcd firmer on the whole, with more optimism and incliraticn to do business. In these respects the aspect better than for some weeks. In no t of the country was this improved feeling more manifest than in Wall street. While trading con- anued light, there was no selling pressure nor even any conounced tendency to liquidate, and, in fact, the pro- fescicnals were not inclined to sell anything bearing a standard brand. A better demand for good bonds was apparent, and as a demand for bonds is almost invariably followed by a better demand for the higher class of dividend-paying stocks, the street became more buoyant. Some well posted operators even went so far as to ex- press the opinion that a moderate rally in the market might be expected after the two political conventions were out of the way, though the wish might have been father to the thought. The fact is, everybody seems to want a rise in stocks. There are few bears, while the bulls are numerous. But nothing can be done in the way of a bull campaign with- out the active participation of the public, which stili hold aloof and cannot be induced to buy on a large scale. They watch the quotations day after day and are apparently deeply interested, but they take it out in watching, the watched the grapes. Astute ob- servers in close touch with the stock market said a year ago that the public had sunk more money in Wall street than anybody was aware of and that it would be several years ere their pockets would be replenished to the speculative capacity, and it looks as if their predictions were coming out true. At any rate, while good stocks are unquestionably low and money is wonderfully plentiful and cheap and readily accessible to solvent borrowers, and the leading financiers are employing all their blan- dishments to induce the investing class to take hold of the market, they are turning a deaf ear to the siren song and staying out of the arena. The leading factor at present is the condition of the crops. In fact, it is freely said that they will dominate all trade conditions this year, as the effect of the “Presi- dential has been largely discounted. Prospects for a bounteous yield of everything are excellent, and it is probably this condition which imparts increased con- fidence to the commercial situation. Wheat, cotton and corn bid fair to be very large crops, and the minor prod- ucts of the farm are not behind them, though thé season weeks backward. have apparently ceased for tire of trade v as fox year” is several Gold exports time | being, at least, and as receipts of Japanese gold at San | Francisco are again offsefting the shipments of gold from New York to Europe, and, indeed, exceeding them at the moment, no more talk of the unfavorable effects of a gold efflux is heard. The New York banks say that | with the regular production of the country, the receipts from Japan and the Klondike, reinforced later on by cotton and grain bills on Europe, combined with the stock’' now on hand, which in itself is abundant, there need be no apprehension concerning gold exports from now on. Another favorable showing which is attracting con- siderable attention is the¢ increase in exports of manu- factures from the United States, our shipments of manu- factured iron alone during the past ten months amouvnt- ing to $89,000.000, or almost $10,000,000 more than dusing | the corresponding period last year. And this in spite of ! the great falling off in the domestic demand for iron and steel, which has done so much to depress stocks and general trade and make the country bilious. It is quite possible that if the vast steel combine had been managed by conservative business men instead of a set of madcaps and reckless plungers, who apparently labored under the delusion that gold double eagles grew on bushes like blackberries and that the crop was inexhaustible, the current recession in trade might have been much less marked and perhaps avoided altogether. Ten years from now, when perspective gives us a broader and more com- ! prehensive view of this era, it will probably be found that the iron and steel trust was the great rank weed, the upas tree, that grew up in the financial and com- mercial garden and blighted all the cultivated plants in the plat. For the rest, business is quiet and devoid of especial | feature. R. G. Dun & Co. report that the cost of living has continued to decrease without interruption since March 1. Stocks of food products and manufactured goods have Jargely increased and are’ still increasing. The markets of the West are full of provisions, and it has been found, after many years’ observation, that com- mercial inactivity is almost always preceded by a heavily supplied and declining provision market, and vice versa. The demand for cash wheat at Chicago and other West- ern points is extremely slow. The Minneapolis flour mills found it necessary to close down several days last week owing to the poor demand for flour. The textile mills of Pennsylvania and New Jersey have lately been obliged to do the same, and ior the same reason. The New England footwear factories alone reported a fair demand | for their product. No further reductions in the staffs of ! the great railways wers reported, but all the railroads are retrenching, and their earnings continue to show a small decrease, say 2 or 3 per cent, from the preceding year. A significant commercial sign is the readmess with which employers of labor find men to fill the places of strikers. This has not been the case until quite recently, and it goes to show the decreased activity in general business. As such it is a2 most significant barometer to current conditions. 2 Turning from the country at large to the Pacific Coast, we find conditions fully as cheerful as they have been at any time. There is the same steady influx of home- seekers, the same cutting up of large land holdings to accommodate these immigrants, the same plethora of money, the same fine crop prospects, the same large export and interior trade, the same broad and sanguine commercial smile. True, business is quieter than last year at this time, but then this is the case all over the United States, and we cannot expect to completely ig- nore nor to be immune from influences that govern the rest of the country. Besides, this is summer, when trade is always more or less quiet. The bank clearings of the country last week were 14,’ per cent below those for the corresponding week last year, but the clearings themselves were larger than for the preceding week by $200,000,000, being in round num- bers $1,779,420,000. The failures for the week were 227, against 215 last year, and included none of note. Two children in this city ate pills recently that had been thrown as samples on doorsteps, and death in ter- rible agony soon followed. Nothing has been done to ..._..._.—-.,—___._____..‘_._.____,_.— -pregnable. prevent a repetition of the crime, and yet the law secks to protect even pet dogs that may be sought as victims by designing and malicious persons. Legisla- tion framed to give children at least equal protection would be welcomed as encouraging. GUARDING ST. PETERSBURG. HFE latest war news of significance is to the effect T that, with tive imminent fall of Port Arthur to spur them to feverish activity, Russian military coun- ciis have directed their attention to the defense of their own capital. News dispatches from St. Petersburg state that the fortifications ‘guarding the waterway to the Czar’s imperial city on the Gulf of Riga and at the en- | trance of the Gulf of Finland are being strengthened by the addition of some new and high power guns, that the approaches to Cronstadt are being mined and that the fortress of that name has been made the center for a chain of water batteries stretching along either shore of | the Gulf of Finland. St. Petersburg is being made im- This news carries with it a weight of vital significance ; disproportionate to the mere record of the armament | of the protecting fortresses. Nobody believes that the ! capital of Russia is in immediate danger of being be- leaguered, nor, indeed, that a direct attack upon it by | Japanese forces is even a probability. A Japanese fleet | in European waters would be met with as great a storm of protest from non-combating powers as our own fly- ing squadron in the Spanish war bad it carried into execution the threat of a direct attack upon Spanish sea- ports. The meat in this situation for the diplomats and | strategists to digest is this: that Russia has awakened | to the fact that she is being whipped unmercifully in this struggle with little Japan, and the fear that comes to the | wounded has made her show her teeth tg the rest of the European pack which stands in eager anticipation! about her borders. These few months of fighting in the Far East has brought a great surprise to the world, a greater surprise to Russia. Even those who gave of their sympathies to the brown men from the first dared hope only for an | even break in the shares of victory between the two | antagonists; others who were bound by fear or favor to the giant of the north could see in the hostilities ahead nothing but a series of heavy skirmishes in which | Russian force would annihilate the upstarts from the Mikado’s land. Followed disaster after disaster to the | Russian navy, the occupation of Korea without a strug- gle, the landing of Japanese troops upon the shores of Manchuria. Still the pro-Russians urged that the world should just wait until the Russian soldier got into action. He has done so, has been terribly beaten on the Yalu and on the Liaotung peninsula, and the Russian strong- hold in the East is about to fall from his hands. All this has struck home to the Czar and his people. | All vaunted might and terrible strength conjured up by fear about the grim shadow of the great Slav empire is being shredded away by the bayonet strokes of the Jap- | anese. Russia turns her eyes to her ally, France; France | leans nearer to the Dover cliffs than to the Neva’s banks. To Germany Russia looks; Kaiser Wilhelm" never raises his eyes from his knitting now. A great fear | strikes home to the Russian heart. The road to St. Petersburg, like the road to Moscow nearly a hundred; years ago, is hedged with defenses. Evidence has been submitted under oath to the proper Federal authorities that when the great ship Colon was drifting on the reefs and to destruction eight of the officers on board were drunk. It is difficult to con- <eive of an offense more atrocious than where human lives arc placed at the mercy of irresponsible, drink- crazed men, and punishment should follow swift and | sure. A PERPLEXED HERDER. S the chairman of the Democratic Congress com- | A mittee is named Cowherd, it is fair to assume that one of his ancestors was quite successful as a herder. The distinguished gentleman from Missour:, however, is having a much harder time as a herder than { ever his ancestor had. Evidently it is much more diffi- | cult to herd political asses than to herd cows, for in his | efforts to herd his party into some kind of orderly group- ing and making them keep to the road the Missourian is having no success at all. A recent report from Washington announces that Mr. Cowherd has opened the campaign headquarters of his | committee, but is in great perplexity as to what to do | next. According to the report Mr. Cowherd says ‘the | committee is' receiving a great number of applicationsf for speeches on this and that subject of current political interest, but especialiy on the tariff. He thinks this is | going to be another campaign of education like that of 1896; but is not sure whether free silver will be a plank in the platform, whether advanced tariff doctrines will be expounded by the party’s declaration of principles, or | what attitude will be taken in regard to the trusts and i other matters. Under the circumstances the perplexed campaign man- ager does not know what kind of literature to send out. At present he is going slow. Perhaps in the end he may decide to abandon politics and take to herding cows. | Such a course would not only enable him to be true | to the traditions of his name, but would lead him into: paths both pleasanter and more profitable. l With an unconcern that is appalling the Board of Health has decided to dip into literature, and “Health Hints for the Household” will soon issue from the City Hall as a contribution to our store of warning knowl- edge. Perhaps the decision of the health authorities is in the nature of retaliation. So many hints of uncom- plimentary character have been thrown at them that they probably think it may be something of an ex- change to unload a few on the public. The voice of Russell Sage has been heard again in the land this time in characteristic antagonism to the custom of granting short ual vacations to men and women who labor. Sage says he never took a vacation in his whole career. He should not say so in boast, for in the very nature of events he will soon close his career with a vacation that will have no end. e A St. Louis clergyman, rising in the dignity of pro- fessional privilege, has denounced the five-room flat with its oppressive and enervating compactness as a menace to the progress, prosperity and expansion of society. Is it possible that somebody in St. Louis has copied the plan of ane of our apartment houses and renamed it a structure of flats? | attention on the continent of Eurdpe ! of the new code, which is destined to | inclined to rate his pension upon the | After the years! * | Read me her dreams, beneath the ailen | | out of thousands of pounds on the pre- | was, in fact, a Wrilliant elaboration of !in communication with a German of- | but not so much as the “Baron” TALK OF THE TOWN Suing a Prince. Prince Frederick Leopcld of Prussia has just had a judgment issued against him by the Berlin courts in a suit brought against him by his former chief of the household, Baron von Luck, and has been condemned to pay the latter a pension of $3000 a year for the remainder of his life. This is the first occasion, I believe, of a Prince of the reigning House of Prussia being brought - into court, and of having a judgment rendered against him, and the affair has attracted a good deal of just on that account. It would not | have been possible under the old laws, but has been rendered so by the terms | prove one of the principal memorials of the present Emperor’s reign. It is a pity, however, that the case was ever allowed to come into court, for the Prince is colossally rich and the sum at stake was a relatively small one. | Moreover, Baron Luck had been for; many years an old and devoted servant of the Prince and claimed, when forced to sever his relations with the Prince, a pension based on the whole time that he had spent in the Prince's service, whereas Frederick Leopold was only relatively brief period that he had acted as grapd master of his house- hold. Emperor William declined to in- terfere, it being, however, generally understood that he sympathized with the Baron, and thus it is that the courts have been called upon to deter- mine the issue, settling it, as I have stated above, against the Prince and in favor of the Baron.—La Marquise de Fontenoy. The Rose of Memory. Once, in a garden of supreme delight, I saw it, rimmed with dew; Sweet-singing to the scented night: “It is a dream of you! summer “A dream of you, dear—bringing sweet unrest, From which I would not part. * * * How could it bloom to wither on my breast, & Sweetheart! Sweetheart! Sweetheart! After the years comes love, by memory led. Where stars forget to gleam: The garden ruined, and the dear rose dead— The phantga of a dream! There, with the ghosts of stars that | made heaven bright, Prophetic of love's pain, Alone love kneels, and prays the holy nigl To bnng the dream again. * * Life is a lit- tle space— The frailest flower’s breath, And life's one joy to dream of your dear face Down to the gates of death. O, sea! dividing lives that loved in | vain— O coral isles afar! Darkness and distance, where the storms complain From troubled star to star— skles— Over the wild sea-foam. * * * Love is not love that is not sacrifice— And love will lead love home. Atlanta Constitution. A Prince of Swindlers. It is noteworthy that for years past the police in various Euro- pean capitals have been seeking a man who has swindled various people several text that he was possessed of the plans of German fortresses, for which the French Government were prepared to pay him huge sums of money. This mysterious individual was de- scribed as the “Prince of Swindlers.” He has lived in the most expensive hotels upon the money obtained from his victims and his society was much sought after owing to his.charming manners. “Morgan,” “Ferguson” and “Baron von Schelia” are a few of the names under which he is alleged to have made the acquaintance of many peo- ple in fashionable hotels and to have swindled them out of sums of money varying in amount from a few hun- dred pounds to thousands. His system of obtaining money was ingenious and bold, but it varied in details according to circumstantes. It the confidence trick. Posing under one of his aliases, he would confide in per- sons who believed in him that he was ncer, who was prepared to sell him ! the plans of the fortifications of Metz or Strasburg, or both. Also that for these docuwems a Marquis, acting for | the French Minister of War, was pre- pared to pay a very large sum of money—aomeumes as much as £320,- 000." He would induce his victim to scretly meet the “Marquis” who would offer large sums for the pla:s, o sired and negotiations would hang fire. ¢ precautions were not taken without need, for “Ferguson” did succeed in escaping in a cab, and was not cap- tured until he had reached the Sercot rallroad station—four miles away. He was about to go away by train when the police motor car dashed up to the station. He had 23,000 francs in his possession, but the “Marquis,” who was to pay £320,000 for the bogus plans in Mr. Harris' possession, had no more than 17 franes in his pocket. On learn- ing of the arrest Mr. Harris crossed to Paris to join Mr. Birkbeck n assist- ing the police in bringing “Ferguson™ to justice. Between two and three years ago “Baron von Schelia” ruined a London doctor by inducing him to part with £1500—the whole of his fortune. Sche- lia, who then lived at a private hotel in Bayswater, where the doctor with his wife also resided, produced to him the “secret plans” of Metz, Strasburg and Breslau, and the drawings of a new German gun. These, of course, were fictitious, but he persuaded the doctor that he was to receive 2,000,000 francs for them from the French Government, and promised him £6000 as his share. Another gentleman living in the same hotel was also victimized. The doctor was taken to Holland and introduced te “Count de Beville,” who agreed on behalf of the French Government to pay 2,000,000 francs for the plans. A final mecting was arranged to take place at the L Lord Warden Hotel, Dover, but the doctor, having parted with all his money, waited in vain for the Count and Baron.—London Mail. A Toast a la Greenland. If it is difference of opinion that makes horse races, as Mark Twain avers, it certainly is difference in tastes that makes the art of cuisine. The palate of the hardy Greenlander might be said to have an almost elemental - | power of distinction, for we read in an | English paper that Mr. Kor-Ko-Ya, a Greenlander, who has monopolized the commerce of East Baffinsland, has a fleet of fourteen vessels and is worth £2500. He recently celebrated the for- tieth anniversary of the foundation of his business, his employes drinking his health in ced liver oil. Answers to Queries. SANTA ROSA—S. A, Duncans Mill, Cal. Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Cal- ifornia, is at an elevation of 192 feet above the level of the sea. TO NAGASAKI—A. O. R., City. The distance from San Francisco to Naga- saki via Yokahama is 5538 miles and via Honolulu is 6184 miles. CASINO—Subscriber, City. In the game of Casino unless it has been agreed that on the last deal, points made shall count as made, the count is cards first. HOLIDAY—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. This department has on several occa- sions announced that in the United States there is no national holiday, not even the Fourth of July, as Congress has never declared a national holiday for the Union. CHEAT—J. F., Napa, Cal. “Cheat™ is a volunteer growth that sometimes appears in wheat and oats. It mani- fests itself in lowlands and is a result of ground that is too moist. For addi- tional information on this subject ad- dress communication to the experi- mental station, University of Call- fornia, Berkeley. RINCON HILL—Subscriber, City. “Rincon” is Spanish for “inside cor- ner.” That section of land on which now stands the Sailors’ Home, once the United States Marine Hospital, was in the early days of San Francisco called “Punta del rincon,” or point of the inside corner. The hill, which at one time was the fashionable resi- dence district of San Francisco, de- rived its name from the “punta del rincon.” PRINCE OF WALES—S, City. The Prince of Wales is the eldest son of the In the meantime the mythical Ger- ! man officer would insist on drawing some money, which the victim was | induced to hand over to the “Baron.” This would go qn——vntll the credulity or the funds of the * xob'tveen were exhausted, and then the “Baron” would fade into space and the French “Marquis” would disappear as myste- riously as he had appeared. Five years ago the English police held a warrant for the arrest of a man believed to be the swindler in question for practicing the same sort of fraud upon an Austrian. Nearly three years ago an English gentleman complained of having been robted in a precisely similar fashion by “Baron ! von Schelia.” Every effort was made to discover this man. Hotels were watched, but the “Baron” was living in affluence abroad and Scotland Yard could do nothing. As regards the arrest in the present case, Mr. Harris and his friend, Mr. Birkbeck, working in collusion with the Scotland Yard detectives, pretend- ed to carry on the negotiations for Mr. Birkbeck to meet “Ferguson” and the “Marquis de Manneville” at the Hotel Moderne, Orleans, to hand over a sum of money. All kept the ap- pointment, and so did the police. The hotel was surrounded and a mo- tor car was in reddiness to be used for purposes of pursuit If necessary. The reigning sovereign. After the present sovereign of England became King Ed- ward VII the title of Prince of Wales fell to his eldest son, George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of York, who was born June 3, 1865. The King had an elder son, Albert Victor, Duke of Clar- ence, who was born in 1864 and died in 1892, THE BALDWIN HOTEL—S., City. The Baldwin Hotel in San o that was destroyed by fire in 1898, was a six-story building that contained 495 rooms. It was what is known among builders as a frame building within a brick shell. The top of the dome was 168 feet above the line of the sidewalk. It had a frontage of 135 feet on Market street, 25 on Eddy, 275 on Powell and 185 on Ellis. These are the dimensions of the new Flood building, ground measurement. —— This week gen, eyeglasses. 13¢-30c. 79 4th st.. front Key's Cél. Oyster House. * —— Service for others is the solvent of our own sorrow. —_—— Townsend's California Glace fruits la artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ———— Spectal information mu.‘ daily to Presa Ciippin sun‘ e & Bureau (Aum lens). 0!3 -