The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1904 iy In London’s Social Whirl. | Special Correspondence of The Call. ADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, | ‘RIETTA STREET, COVENT) GARDEN, LONDON, July 10,;May-]‘ fair mammas with eligible daughters | rones with fair aspirants for al honors on their hands | evance, for which they de- | HE. 5 HE clare the young American mslrnns! who e so conspicuously in fash- jonable society are largely responsible. | Their specific complaint s that debutantes are no longer invited to dances as of yore and that in conse-| quence their chances of contracting desirable marriages are greatly dimin- And they ert it is chiefly | bewitching young 1 the London social | who set the example of closing | the ballroom doors against young un- ed English girls. Having once taken the field they hold it against all newcomers. It is they who dance and give the dances for which invitations | are most eagerly sought. As notable | among these are mentioned Lady | Essex, Lady Grey-Egerton and several | in whose trains, as attendant | es, are many young English | s. At their smart terpsichorean | young unmarried girls form | cuous minority, while their | matre functio 2n incons brothers, who often regard dancing as & “beastly bore,” receive more invita- tions than they can find time to ac- cept. Under such circumstances what chance, asks the indignant British ma- tron, has the demure little English girl | just « of school against the bril- liancy and dash of the all-conquering | American woman in society? The Duchess of Roxburghe is still house hunting. She is now personally | known to nearly every fashionable real estate agent in London and has | earned the reputation of being the | stiffest bargainer among all the Amer- | jcan ladies who have found their way | into the English peerage. “She also | is fastidious to the point of being al- | most ridiculous,” said a leading agent | who has some of the finest man!lons; in Mayfair and Belgravia on his| books. “Why.” he added. “if I offered her Buckingham Palace or Marlbor- ough House she would find fault with them. She wants all London con- structed on the American principle.” It is thought likely the Duchess will | settle on a house in Cavendish Square, as the owners of mansions in the American colony in Mayfair are op- posed to any radical changes In the | internal construction of their prop- | erties, es ially when they are unlyl required for short terms. That expensive and brilliant weddings | do not always insure prosperity of the young couples is a truism that holds good from the high- | est to the lowest. Certainly few mar- | riages have been more dazzling than | that of Lady Peggy Primrose, the daughter of the Earl of Rosebery, to the Earl of Crewe, yet within a few years even these, lacking the where- withal to keep up a home of their own, hdve returned to live with the bri father. Not In a generation would there be such upiversal interest in the marriage of any one girl as that manifested in Lady Peggy Primrose’s nuptials. Her trousseau Was an enormous one and the order for her lingerie the largest with one exception ever executed in Eng- land, or rather given in England, for it was executed in the convents of Ire- land. The exception was the trousseau of Lady Peggy's mother, Miss Roths- child, in which every article of wearing apparel was muitiplied by eight dozen. The wedding was, of course, the func- tion of the season, presents from the whole of the upper ten thousand, in- e'uding Queen Victoria, being showered upon the happy pair. The ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey in the presence of hundreds of eager guests and onlookers. The Barl of Crewe at the time of his marriage had daughters of the same age as his youthful bride, but he was acknowledged by all the feminine crit- jes as being very handsome, besides very young in spirit and by no means old in years, and there was not the slightest fear but that happiness for both of them was well assured. Financial difficulties were not expect- ed, but a great deal of money was spent in the doing up of the Earl of Crewe’s house on Hill street, since when things have gone wrong gener- ally. There is talk of unlucky specula- tion om the Stock Exchange. To straighten things out the Earl has sold « two estates in Yorkshire, given notifi- cation that he is willing to dispose of ‘Wharnecliffe House, on Curzon street (which exactly faces the new house of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough), and now, homeless, has taken his young wife back to her father's, where there is mo fear but that they will be able to dwell in peace and plenty. Although her mother was 80 extremely wealthy, the Countess of Crewe has but $7500 a year of her own. The greatest event of the soclal sea- son im London, so far as the smart American colony is concerned, will be Mrs. Frank Mackey's first dinner party in her new home on Upper Grosvenor sireet. Although the house always has been regarded as one of the most hand- somely decorated mansions in London, it does mnot suit Mrs. Mackey. In-re- decorating it for her initial function #he is going back to the Louis XV pe- riod, and in other ways the company invited will witness a new departure in | | soclety entertaining. The ladies are to be dressed after the style of the period, but there is nothing yet to show that the men will be put to any inconve- nience beyond the modern dinmer at-| tire. The decoration of the rooms is in the hands of a big West End firm, and | it is estimated that the cost will not be | much short of $10,000. Special men have | been imported from Paris and other | places on the Continent, as few English | workmen are acquainted with the style | required. The peculiar feature of Mrs. Mackey’s enterprise is that after the opening dinner the rooms are to be re-! stored to their normal state, and that | on every successive occasion when l\ new departure is contemplated the| apartments are to be again decorated | according to the style required. As| Mrs. Mackey’s parties are to be lavish | and frequent the decorators are looking | forward to a harvest such as has sel-| don. Later on English society belles; ments. It is to America that the eyes of the French religious communities probably will be turning as their next land of refuge. At the present moment these refugees are about the one hope of English tates. It is now almost impossible to sell estates or evcu to let them in Eng- land. Times are not such as to en- courage English smart folk to take an extra country seat for a year or so, much less buy one, and the wealthy Americans who come over to England are seldom attracted to those estates that the owners are most anxious to sell. Americans buying places in Eng- land want the old castles and such'like historic dwelling places which are mostly entirely out of the power of their owners to sell. It i1s out of the way estates and mansions that can be | while not ap- | purchased, and these, pealing to the American millionaires, are especially suited to the different re- ligious communities—most of them are enormously wealthy—which are be- ing expelled from France. Belgium was, of course, the first | thought of these refugees on account | of the same language being spoken, but | the Free Thinkers, who are so strong there, make trouble for the religious parties and turn their feast day pro- cessions into free fights, so that others | leaving France are seeking more peace- ful quarters. The Earl of Ashburnham, who is the second Roman Catholic in England, the Duke of Norfolk being the first, has lent Pembrey, his splendid estate ‘in Carmarthenshire, Wales, to these communities who are noted for their cheese making. Another body of these French refugees are negotiating | for an estate in Devonshire. Japanese Paper Shrubs. The cultivation of paper plants in Japan is a very important industry. IAS is well known, Japanese paper of | various kinds is in demand throughout | the world. Recently American and European manufacturers have been giving some attention to the possibility of producing from Japanese paper-pulp some of the numberless useful articles and toys similar to those in vogue in the island empire. To that end, Japan- ese paper shrubs are to be planted In America and in the countries of South- ern Europe. The United States De- the continued | partment of Agriculture, which recent- | ly sent experts to secure seeds of the mitsumata plants, is to make exten- sive experiments in growing this par- ticular valuable variety. It is believed | that this shrub will thrive in Flarida, Louisiana, in irrigated parts of Texas and the Colorado Desert and in some | sections of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys in California. Should this introduction of the Japanese mitu- | mata plant into America prove suc- | cessful it will bring fortune to many ' farmers. Rice-planters, particularly in | Texas—the climate of which, it is be- lieved, will prove suitable to the valu- able exotic—could.set shrubs out along the unoccupled dikes and on‘all the narrow strips of land d|v1ding>noodeg[ fields and secure profitable returns from the enterprise. The American ex- perts who have been investigating the subject In Japan are inclined to be- lieve that when the mitsumata plants | are grown successfully in Am and | American machinery is Invented for the | conversion of the pulp into paper, that product will be put to many uses not thought of in Japan. The yield of the mitsumata paper plant in Japan frequently amounts to two thousand pounds of raw bark to the acre. The crude pulp is readily sold at thirty-two sen (sixteen cents) the pound. The seeds alone are some- times quoted at three yen ($1 50) the gallon. As many as twenty-four thou- | sand shrubs are grown on an atre. The harvesting is done by cutting the plants off at the roots. The next spring | the shrub grows up again. In fact, mitsumata roots a century old and still sending up new shoots are often shown. The plant is highly decorative and is grown as an ornament in some of the gardens of Japan.—Booklovers’ Magazine. Physicians for Panama. It i expected that twenty-five of the 300 physicians the Government is pre- paring to send to the Isthmus of Pan- ama will be chosen from civil life in Philadelphia. This statement was made by an officer at the League Island Navy Yard recently. He said that the bulk of the physicians would be selected from Washington, New York and Philadelphia. As there will be fully 50,000 men engaged on the isth- mus, it is believed that 300 physicians will be none too many to look after their health. The higher positions will be allotted to the Government sur- geons. Young and active physicians are needed, tough, wiry, hardy fel- lows, who are not afraid to rough fit. There will be a preference shown to those just graduated from the hospitals. Colonel Gorgas, the chief sanitary offi- cer of the isthmus, will send out the call for the physicians,—American will figure largely at these entertaln-‘ i | landed proprietors who are | anxious to sell their houses and es- | one of | 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor - - . - . . . . . Address All Commenications to JOEN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . .Third and Market Streets, S. F. SATURDAY ... 295 i I LY .20 1904 © DISSATISFIED DEMOCRATS. R. DAVID B. HILL did not succeed in satisfy- M ing anybody except himself, Belmont and Hill, when he nominated Parker and made a paren- thesis platform. Mr. Bryan supports Parker, but the chairmen of the State committees in Michigan and Iowa refuse to do so and have resigned and bolted. They are free silver men, but the discontent is not confined that faction of the party. The Gold Democrats proper, the men who in 1896 made the gold standard possible, are no more content than are the free silver men. They wanted an outspoken platform. the gold standard recognized and accepted once for all by the party. They wanted a plain and common-sense statement of their position. They are not only for the gold standard, but they want the Government to end ite responsibility for any form of paper currency, except the gold qgrtificates. They want to kill, not scotch, to | dom been experienced even in Mayfalr.| the fiat money idea by redeeming, canceling and kill- | The first party will be the most select | jno yni oo v o N acks.. They want the stifi- | il et it skt oF e A S ] 1UE LOSAOHISIAIGING (6 y Mackey’'s American friends now in Lon- | ness taken out of the national bank currency and sub- stituted by a flexibility that will serve this country in emergencies without putting public and private credit in peril. They wanted and expected that the platform would plainly utter these things. But at Mr. Hill's | dictation it is as voiceless as a coffin lid. Therefore, | the Gold Democrats are discontented, for the victory | is a barren one. | Hill and Belmont carried out the pretense that the | two factions could meet on common ground in oppo- sition to the trusts, and proceeded to make an anti- trust platform and put on it a trust ticket, taking one | candidate from the Standard Oil trust and the other from the bench. The Democratic Chicago Chronicle sees through the trick from the gold side and refuses to support Parker. The Sacramento Bee sees through it from the free silver side and also refuses to indorse the nominee. It is true that we read in the Democratic press about the intense satisfaction felt by the Gold Democrats in Judge Parker's nomination. But when the names are published, it is observed that the satisfied Gold Demo- crats are men who twice supported Bryan and free silver. Of such are ex-Mayor Phelan, Mr. McNab and | Franklin K. Lane, Californians who let others stand on the fir;ng line while the battle of the standards was on. | It is natural that they support Parker, who was voting against the gold standard when the fight was on and now professes to love it so well that he had to kiss it publicly—after his nomination. : The fact is that the Democracy is not yet in the hands of men of principle. The timeservers and oppor- tunists have taken it away from the radicals, but its new masters are ready to be radical, conservative or anything else to get votes and win. The men who sup- ported Bryan on principle understand this perfectly. They see in the class represented by D. B. Hill and Gorman the men who shouted for Bryan in two cam- ! paigns, but did it with hollow hearts. Between the real silver and the real gold men there may be relations based upon mutual respect, but neither class can feel respect for the men who have captured the party and made the nomination. . It is no wonder that J. J. Hill and John D. Rocke- feller support Parker. There will be vacancies to fill in the Supreme Court before 1908. In that court’s re- view of the railroad merger case, the Democratic Jus- tices, Fuller, Peckham and White, held with Hill and his trust. If changes on the bench make their minority opinion the majority decision on a rehearing or a new case, not only will all the seven cases against the trusts, won by President Roosevelt, be reversed, but the court | will put constitutional limits upon Congress that will weaken future legislation. Gold Democrats vindicate the wisdom that was upon them in 1896 by refusing to play in such a game. | | Whatever the incredulous may think or say the age of miracles has not passed even in this twentieth century of agnosticism. Official inquiry following a recent rail- road wreck in New Jersey has resulted in fixing direct responsibility upon the trainmen, who have been charged with manslaughter. While it is absurd to suggest or to hope that the guilty men be punished we may take much gratification in the marvelous victory won in their being accused of guilt. A WOMAN’S VICTORY. W that a bond election has insured to the Capital City a first-class high school building it is approvingly observed that all classes of citizens give the credit for the victory to the women. They could not vote, but they could and energetically did work for the good of the rising generation. More votes were cast than at any preceding special election in the his- tory of Sacramento. It was necessary that two-thirds of the entire number of ballots polled should be in favor. In fact the affirmative vote exceeded the prescribed two- thirds by more than 200. Victory was achieved under circumstances that at the outset appeared to be de- cidedly adverse. This consideration helps to place the achievement of the women on a high plane. The purchase of certain school lots at prices that were generally considered to be excessive had dampened the ardor of the public. After the preliminaries for a bond election had been arranged it was discovered that a technical defect had vitiated all the proceedings. A warm discussion took place goncerning high school fraternities which tended to divide the public mind. A high school proposition had been defeated in the Clark administration. Nevertheless, the women were deter- mined to have a high school building that shoufd be fit for Sacramento. The politicians advised that they would meet with failure. When was a woman ever con- vinced against her will when the interests of children were at stake? The Sacramento Bee says that the women “went ahead with a campaign that for vigor and intelligence is unmatched in Sacramento politics.” To the women Mayor Hassett wrote that the result could not have been accomplished without their “wel] organized work and strong personal appeals to the vot- ers.” These coinciding and voluntary words of testi- mony are convincing. The first step taken in the campaign was to have the Board of Education provide that the high school fra- ternities should go out of business after a certain date. Every fraternal society in Sacramento had high school HILE the people of Sacramento are rejoicing dinned into ears, morning, noon and night and co-opera- tion was secured in great degree. All clergymen were requested to ask their congregations to assist. The streetcar companies were persuaded ‘to permit the olacarding of their cars with high school election ad- They wanted vertisements. Every politician who was either opposed to or was lukewarm in the high school cause was per- sonally visited by members of the Women's Council, the body that had the matter in charge in behalf of the wounen. Warring politicians were induced to sink all perswnal differences in this particular instance. Pic- tures were thrown daily on screens in every theater in Sacramento that attendants at performances might see what the proposed new high school would look like. Shade troes, electric light poles, in short all points of vantage were decorated with election announcements. Arguments were written by the women for the news- papers. Mheetings called by the women were held in all the city wards. An arrangement was made through which the Southern Pacific employes were given time out of the shops to vote. Voters throughouf the length and breadth of Sacramento were appealed to personally, through the mails and by word of mouth, to do their duty. Finally, wlen election day arrived, the women had private carriages to go after stay-at-home voters and take them to the polls that they might have no excuse for not voting. Seemingly the men sought no excuse. They came out in great strength and the women had their way, as they generally have. The schoolhouse will be built. The architects’ designs show that it will be handsome and c¢ven imposing. If on the cornerstone shall be inseribed some tribute to the efficient agency of the women in causing it to exist there ought to be no one to ecomplain. = Joseph Chamberlain has presented for the digestion of his countrymen another elaborate series of tariff tinker- ing and suggestion designed to bolster British trade and to enter the empire in the competitive race of the world for commerce upon a fairly equal footing with the rest of us. The distingjuished British statesman seems to have left out of the equation of profit the important fact of our superiority ir. manufactures and in the prepara- tion of foods for the world’s consumption. SUMDAY CALL. 6L R. DOOLEY on the Political Situation” is M the title of the leading feature of The Call Magazine towmorrow, and is the first in a series of Dooley stories which will be run in The Sun- day Call. Each article wrill be close to the news of the d'ay. “Dooley” will disguss live topics in his own inimitable way. When F. P. Dunne begun to write the Dooley articles some years ago, he called himself the reporter of Dooley monologues. Somewhere down on Archey road. in Chicago, there lived the original of the old philosopher and here Mr. Dunne visited frequently. It was not long before Martin Dooley was the most famous char- acter in the whole country. His keen, Irish wit and his curious manner of expressing: what he thought of public men and affairs brought him a remarkable popularity. Finley Peter Dunne is now without doubt the highest paid writer in the world, and it was only after keen competition and an unusual contract price for a daily paper that The Call secured the exclusive rights on the coast north of Los Angeles for the publication of the forthcoming series of the Dwoley articles. The frontispiece will consist of the second picture in the series by Herman W. Hansen portraying scenes and incidents in early California life and will be entitled “The Prospectors.” The first picture in this series, entitled “A Vaquero Bear Hunt,” appeared upon June 26. “On the Beach” is a full page drawing in black and white by John F. Woolrich, whose work is well known to Call readers. “In the Bishop's Carriage,” by Miriam Michelson, runs through its third installment and finds the heroine in a situation so critical that it scems for once even her ingenuity and coolness must falil to extricate her. Other fiction features embrace a full page story by Clin- ton Ross, a well-known magazine writer, called “A Comedy of Rebellion.,” in which ther love affairs of a wealthy and patrician daughter of the United States unexpectedly involve themselves with a South American revolution; a storiette, “Bess, Queen of Strategists,” by Ruth Santelle, which holds the place: of honor upon the storiette page, and stories by Kate M. Cleary and Lillian G. Paschal. Among the special articles is “The Fisherman’s Vaca- tion,” written by an expert fisherman and giving a few hints to prospective vacation seekers, wito are in doubt as to the field they shall select; “To St. Louis With a Suit Case,” in which women contemplating a trip to the exposition will find helpful hints; “By the Tilt of Her Chin,” by Helen Rowland, a page of sagre advice on diagnosing women intended for prospective benedicts, and the usual up-to-date discussion of fashion frills and fads by Augusta Prescott in “The Girl in the Three- Quarter Coat,” and Madge Morris in “Marking House- hold Linen” “Polly, My Dolly,” is the title of the music page and the puzzle page announces lucky winners and publishes material for a new contest. — Russian strategists have decided, it is said, to prey upon the Pacific Ocean commerce of the Japauese, pay- jng particular attention to a search for contraband shipped in vessels which ply between Western American ports and the empire of the Mikado. This sounds very well as an ambitious plan of predatory campaign, but we may remind our Russian heroes that thus far they have been kept reasonably busy in strenuous endeavors to dodge Japanese warships. For them to look for trouble under such conditions would be insanity. Complaint has been made to Washington that the Sul- tan of Turkey prefers to talk gently about the weather and other commonplaces whenever pressed to investigate undesirable conditions affecting the interests of Amieri- cans in Turkish dominions. If the Sick Man of the liast is not extremely careful he will raise a storm about his ears that will make the weather a subject of discussion as congenial as a tin can to a cat’s tail. A young woman of New York who heroically saved six human lives in the General Slocum disaster has since received more than one thousand offers of marriage. Notwithstanding the palpable fact that the young lady possesses qualities calling for the admiration and well wishes of us all there are indisputably more than one thousand chances against her enjoyment of a happy and contented future. Chic;go has compiled another census for herself and boasts that she has 2,200,000 people subject to her civil jurisdiction. If the Windy City keeps on growing at this rate she won’t he able to hold herself within the limits of an ordinary State. She ought to annex Illinois and convert it into a suburban resort. ____: 2 Justifiable Battery. Virgil Moore, a downtown mining and real estate man, lives out in the far Richmond district. Because of the distance from the busy marts of trade and wishing Mrs. Moore to keep up with the times, he entertains her with all the local news he may happen to hear and also relates his own per- sonal experiences (she often finds the narration edifying) during the day down In the city. Mrs. Moore enjoys these evening stories and considers them a liberal education. Here is a sample: “I stopped at Perkins’ house as T came home from the office this even- ing.” g‘You could not have had much time for a call. Did you enjoy it?” “Very. Perkins was beating his wife.” “WHAT?" “I say Perkins was beating his wife, but of course he stopped when I came in” “Well, I should hope he would, the brute. And what did you do?” “I begged him to go on, but he said some other time would do as well.” “You BEGGED HIM TO GO ON, and—he—said—some other—time would—" (Mrs. Moore became speech- less.) “Why, yes. I did not want to spoil the fun.” #0h, you wretch—you—did—not— want—to—spoil—the—FUN. You mis- erable, heartless man!” “Eh!” 7 “Do you mean to sit calmly there before me and before your little chil- dren and say you could have looked on and let that brute of a Perkins beat his wife? Just answer me, sir.” “Certainly.” “Well, I thought you had a spark of manhood {n you when I married you. From seeing and enjoying Perkins’ disgraceful performance I suppose now you could beat me.” “I could if you didn't play your cribbage hands any better than Mrs. Perkins was doing when I called this you—" (Mrs. Moore couldn’t say it, but she looked it.) Beauty. Beauty is the child of Love— ‘What he looks upon is fair, Though it be an empty glove Or a lock of faded hair. ‘Where he lights, the sunshine plays; Round about him flowers bloom: Spring, for him, lengthens her days, Scattering all her rich perfume. ‘Work, if sweetened by his smile, Is as light as heart of boy ‘When he, roving mile on mile, Takes the world but for his toy. Love may do whate’er he will, Play his tricks or sullen grow, Beauty is his shadow still, Following him where he doth go. Let the fickle god depart— All that's fair in darkness dles, For of all he is a part, And alone all beautifies. —Rt. Rev. John Lancaster Spalding éBéshop of Peoria), in August Smart e ‘A Japanese Hero. SAN FRANCISCO, July 21th. Editor of The Call—Dear Sir:—I have honor of reporting that one of my friends who is fighting in the fleld of Manchuria, China, has done ex- ceedingly heroic conduct. This de- scription was sent by one another in Manchuria who has observed it. I will be much delighted if you add this description to the war news on your paper. Respectifully yours OSA (a Japanese). The heroic conduct of a Japanese soldier, Ohashi, was heard by Mi- kado. Just before the attack of Ku- lien-chang most dangerous reconnois- sance was done by the Japanese scouts, one of which was named Kuki- chi Ohashi who belonged to the. third regiment of the army guard, was the most marvelous one. The brave Ohashi, while the ene- my’s fire was very heavy and innum- erable bullets were falling like show- ers of rain, made his body entirely naked by taking off his uniform and Jumped in a river, over which he had to swim, and crossed it easily just as he wanted. After that he creeped up to the other side of the river where enemy was occupying and took off the enemy’'s sword by force with which he killed number of Russians and rushing further to the enemy’s posi- tion, which was situated in the top of a hill, pursued enemy who were agitating about and put two artillery men out of action and captured one more. After that he, crying loudly “Banzal,” hoisted the Japanese flag of Rising Sun. This brave conduct of Ohashi was heard by the Emperor who has ear- nestly required his antecedent. To Mark the Boundary. One hundred of the aluminum bronze monuments which will be implanted on the snowclad peaks of the Rocky Mountain chain to mark the interna- tional boundary between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Can- ada will be manufactured in Pittsburg. Those to be furnished by the Canadian Government will be made in the Prov- ince of New Brunswick. Dr. William 8. King of Ottawa, Canada, and Pro- fessor F. O. Tittman, chief of the ""nit- ed States Coast and Geological Sur- vey, who have been appointed by their respectivé Governments to direct the survey according to the decision of the Alaska Boundary Commission, were in Pittsburg recently as the guests of Dr. John A. Brashear. Dr. King is chief astronomer of the Canadian Govern- ment and stopped here to examine some new instruments which are being manufactured for the Ottawa Univer- sity by Dr. Brashear. It was stated that three years would be required to complete the survey of the Alaskan boundary. A corps of engineers is in the field and assistants will be sent later on. Dr. King said the work would be extremely difficult. In some places the engineers will be obliged to make their way through almost impassable country, while contending against the rigors of the arctic climate. The bronze e s, monuments which will be used as markers will be three feet in height and will be imbedded In the earth, so as to be practically immovable. They will be placed about a mile apart and in their solitary positions will be con- spicuous in that desolate wilderness,— Pittsburg (Penn.) Gazette. - Not Louis Fourteenth. King Edward's reference in the speech delivered at the banquet given in his honor by the Syndic and Senate of Hamburg, to the “great empire of which God has appointed me the ruler,” has evoked no end of criticism in his dominions, where it is pointed out that he owes his crown not to divine ap- pointment, but to the will of the peo- ple as expressed by Parliament. Indeed, had it not been for the act of settle- ment of 1700, by means of which Par- liament the throne was vested In the Protestant house of Hanover, Edward VII would not be King of Enginand to- day. English people take no exception to the phraseology of the royal procla- mations, which invariably describe the sovereign as “Edward VII, by the grace of God King of Great Britain,” etc., re- garding this as one of those medieval figures of speech of which there are so many survivals in official and state documents: But they do take exception to Edward styling himself in an after- dinner speech as having been “appoint- ed by God” to be their ruler.—La Mar- | quise de Fontenoy. Music a Public Utility. Quietly and apparently with ease Chicago has raised by popular sub- scription three-quarters of a million dollars for the permanent endowment of a great orchestra. They have good reason to boast of it, the Chicagoans; the like has not been known or dreamed of elsewhere. Orchestras there are and have been for generations as permanent institu- tions in all the great Eurepean cities. but always subsidized, always main- tained by government, municipal or national. So far, in this country, al- though orchestral music has been steadily growing in recognmition as a means of grace, it has existed preca- riously by uncertain box office re- ceipts, by the temporary guarantees of the public spirited, or, as in the not- able instance of Boston, by the gener- osity of one philanthropist. That Chi- cago should be the first ecity in the world to establish it by voluntary con- tributions of the community is some- thing far more significant in the his- tory of human progress than battles or sieges.—Everybody's Magazine for August. Answers to Queries. TWO TUNNELS— Subscriber, City. The St. Gothard tunnel Is longer by one and a fifth miles than the Mount Cenis tunnel. It is nearly nine and a half miles long. DIGESTION—Subscriber, City. It is said that it takes two hours to digest fresh raw eggs and three hours if they are boiled soft, while such hard boiled requires half an hour more to digest. GARFIELD'S NOMINATION—Sub- scriber, City. At the National Repub- lican Convention in Chicago in 1830 thirty-six ballots were taken before James A. Garfleld was nominated for the Presidency. On the last ballot he received 399 votes, U. S. Grant 306, James G. Blaine 42 and John Sher- man 3. — ARK OF THE COVENANT—M. O. S, Alameda, Cal. It is not known what became of the ark of the cov- enant that contalned the precious ta- bles of stone written with the moral law by God himself, but researches in- dicate that it was taken away and de- stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar when he siezed the temple of Jerusalem. The ark was not in the new temple and there is no record that a second one was ever made. TO POLISH HORNS—H. Plulu;nL Cal. The following is a method for polishing horns: The horns are scraped perfectly smooth with a piece of glass or thin blade of steel, then rubbed with very fine sand paper or Dutch rushes. The rubbing is then repeated with a bit of felt dipped in finely powdered charcoal in water, then with rotten stone or putty pow- der, and is finished with a soft piece of wash leather dampened with a lit- tle sweet oil. A DEBT—P. J, City. A debt barred by limitation still exists as a moral obligation, “for.” says a law writer, “time is not regarded as extinguish- ing the debt, but only the right of legal enforcement. Such debt may, there- fore, be revived by a new promise, ex- pressed or implied. Such new promise may be implied from the fact of a par- tial payment by the party originally chargeable. But, in any event, the Dew promise must be unconditional The word promise ig not essential, but there must be lariguage used from which such a promise may be fairly implied..” —_———— ‘Townsend’'s California Glace fruits 'n artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* . —————