The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1907, Page 8

THURSDAY The 'San Francisco JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ... CHARLES W. HORNICK General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON .Managing Editor Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary S6"—Ask for The Call, The Operator Will Commect You With the Department You Wish. Call Proprietor BUSINESS OFFICE .Market and Third Streets, San Francisco Open Until 11 O'clack Every Night in the Year. EDITORIAL ROOMS Market and Third Streets €51 Fillmere Street, Near Post Telephone Oakland 1083 Telephone Alameda 559 Telephone Berkeley 77 C. George Krogness, Representative MAIN CITY BRANCH OAKLAND OFFICE—1016 Broadway ALAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street BERKELEY OFFICE—216¢ Shattuck Avenue CHICAGO OFFICE—Marquette Bldg NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative Ira E. Bennett SHINGTON CORRESPONDENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Coples 5 Cents. 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Though Commissioner Umbsen has stated that his retirement from this department of public service is due ly to the pressure of his private affairs, it is not difficult to 1 a deeper and stronger reason—a reason written at length in the nutes of the board. It is that there is neither use nor usefulness | the Police Commission for citizens of Mr. Umbsen’s views and‘ prigciples. There is no profit in such a commissionership for an honest | nan, nor, ih the present conditions, any honor. Mr. Umbsen stayed | ong enough to prove to himself that he could not serve the public, | nd. being incapable of any other interest, he re-| i—wisely { It will"be remembered that when Mayor Schmitz invited Mr.| mbsen to a seat on the Police Commission he avas having one of | rtuous spells. He had evicted Poheim and O’Grady, nominally | nisuse of their positions; actually, it is understood, for “hog-| the illegitimate perquisites thereof. The appointment of} Umbsen and Mr. H. T. Creswell looked like a belated effort he Mayor to redeem his enthusiastic promise of “the best admin- on this city ever saw.” But pretty soon came Heney and| honest Grand Jury, and the Mayor was too busy trying to dodge | for grafting to make any more efforts in that line. Upon Chief | oi Police Dinan also fell the shadow of San Quentin. The Police Department was needed—and jused—to protect Schmitz and Ruef and Dinan from aroused public sentiment manifesting itself through | Heney and the Grand Jury. This need and use make the commis- sion no fit place for a citizen like Mr. Umbsen. It wonld be pleasant to say these same things in commendation | f Commissioner Creswell, who ought to be in the same class with | Mr. Umbsen, but they would not be true. There is something the atter with Commissioner Creswell’s spine or his public conscience. | At any rate, he is not standing up for public decency and he is not| resigning. It is reported that Commissioner Creswell has developed | -al tendencies—that he dreams dreams of the Democratic nomi- nation for Mayor this vear and is trimming sail to catch that breeze: Now, Umbsen gnd Creswell together could have made a sturdy fight for the regeneration of the Police Department, They might even have succeeded in deposing a Chief of Police who has neither| the respect no? the confidence of policemen or public; a Chief of Police indicted and on tgjal for perjury; a Chief of Police who| brazenly associates on terms of intimacy with a notorious pick-| Umbsen alone could do nothing—and it appears that he was alone. To remain longer in such a place in such circumstances was to lend an honorable name as a cloak of respectability for the crooked work of a crooked administration. Mr. Umbsen did well o resign. Obviously, reform of the Police Department must come from the outside. It must be reform with an ax. THE RACE FOR BOODLE serving | trial pocket. HAT was a suggestive remark made by a member of the local Board of Public Works to the Grand Jury: » “Levy beat us to it.” The subject matter of this ingenuous explanation was the issue of a permit for a firetrap playhouse. There are many such houses in San Francisco today and their presence constantly invites catastrophe of the kind that makes the whole world shudder. The official who issues a permit for such a house commits a fearful crime against humanity. He takes chances on becoming accessory to the murder of hundreds under the most cruel conditions. “Levy beat us to it.” There appears to have been some kind of race among muni- cipal officials to seize opportunities of selling permits to break the law. That is the simple theory of the Schmitz administration in all its branches—a law is something to convert into merchandise. Everything is for sale, and it is a race among the officials, subordi- nates and chiefs, to see who can get there first. There is no dis- cipline and the devil takes the hindmost. As they are all graiting, becomes a scramble for the spoil, and when the long reach gets it the others have no kick coming. That is part of the game. There cannot be any doubt that every firetrap theater in town is paying for permissiog to run. Every last one of them should be shut up before disaster unspeakable arrives to horrify. the world. A LOOSE-JOINTED EMPIRE NE very curious result of the absurd Swettenham incident and the rude behavior of that mad Governor of Jamaica is that Canada and the Canadians are hugely disgusted with the mother country for neglecting her depéndencies to the degree thagin the hour of need the people were dependent for relief on foreign agencies. Now it is the British programme to ask Canada for a round.contribution to help build ships of war for England, and a conference to that end is shortly to be held. But the Canadians are asking, Where is the British navy in the hour of need? In the House of Parliament at Ottawa, W. F. Maclean, member of that body, discussing the incident, hinted at secession, and said: : 1 take the opportunity of this motion to say for myself, perhaps for many of my fellow-Canadians, that I regard certain incidents of the Jamaica earth- quake as a distinct loss, . to imperial prestige or this continent—a thing all Canadians took pri ips i85 . The Bnus%“ 3 on the Atlantic coast are no more. There is 2 lesspn in it fo A S R Intimations ‘time ago we may have failed to apprehend, though as . i : L__ P A G E FEBRUARY 21, 1 %7 7 | distinct as the sun rising in the east. That was to have a care for ourselves. | 4— If we are to be continental in our own aspirations we must have the | means of expressing it ourselves, eveén as our neighbors have. | We may yet find need of a Canadian flag on Canadian ships in seas that | are as much ours as others’. There has been for some time a strong national party in| 7’ Canada that desires complete independence.' It may be regarded | |as certain that Great Britain would not resist by force a move- ment of that kind, and if Canada desires to work out her own des- |tiny as a new-born nation the mother country would probably |say, “Go in peace and good will.” At the same’ time, every effort lin | colonial disgruntlements ‘and. maintain the nominal, integrity of the way of concession and diplomacy will.be made to reconcile ! a | Woodworths Island in the Sacramento | the unwieldy and loose-jointed ,empire. | probably fall to. pieces of its own weight if it were subjected to| any real test, but it has become keep up the make-believe. * Of course, Canada and Australia are| nwmerely connected with the empir timental bond. i That organization would a fad with British statesmen to e by a nominal and purely sen- E2 o the wedding of Miss Charlotte Wil-| son and George Cadwallader, which is | to take place at noon on Saturday, March 2, at the home of the bride's| mother, Mrs. Russell Wilson, 2027 Call- fornia street. A large number of guests will be present, as both the| Wilson and Cadwallader families are| among the oldest and best known here | and they have a large circle of friends who are eager to wish Mr. Cadwallader | and his charming bride all happiness. Miss Emily Wilson will be the maid of | honor and the bridesmalds will be Miss Linda Cadwallader, the grpom's sister; Miss Lucie King, the bride's cousin: Miss Jennie CrocWer and Miss Mary | Keeney. Bert Cadwallader will be his brother's best man and the ushers will | be Percy King, the bride’s cousin; Knox Maddox, Willard Drown and Oscar| Cooper. e o b keittiny | Mrs. Malcolm Henry entertained | very charmingly last night at an in- formal bridge party, glven as a fare- well ocecasion for Dr. C. E. Riggs, U. 8. N., who salls today on the Siberia for| Peking. The handsome rooms were | prettily decorated with quantities of exquisite jonquils. Those present were | Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Voorhies, Dr. and| Mrs. Reginald Knight Smith, Mrs. W. M. S. Beede, Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, | Mrs. LeRoy Nickel, Mrs. Charles Bu!-; ters, Miss Ives, Dr. Riggs, Philip Pas-| chel, Dy Pressley, Major Stephenson, Paul Kosakevitch and Lieutenant Com- ‘mander Barpes. . . . Mrs. A. P. Niblack entertained half a dozen guests quite informally at tea vesterday afternoon, who were asked to meet her sister-in-faw, Mrs. W. C. Niblack of Chicago, who is here for a few days en route to Southern €alifor- nia. < . . Mr. and Mrs. James Carolan and Miss | Emily Carolan have gone to Santa Barbara for a stay of several weeks and are at present guests at the Ar- lington, although they expéct to take a cottage there later. . . . . Mrs. George H. Howard went down a few days since from San Mateo to Del Monte to visit her mother, Mrs, | Henry Schmiedell. . . . Mrs. Philip Lansdale has returned to " The Smart Set .. : NVITATIONS have been received to|her home ‘tn San Mateo after a visit| o of several days in town with ther parents, Bishop and Mrs. Willlam Ford Nichols. Mrs. C. O. Alexander and Miss Marie Berger, who went abroad early in the year, were, when last heard from, in Naples. . . . Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Brownell, who have been in Berkeley since last June, are anxious to returh to town, and as soon as they can find a suitable house will move across. . Mrs, Jack Johnson, who has "been spending a week in Oakland visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willilam J. Landers, returned to her home in Los Angeles last Saturday. During her stay Mrs. Landers entertained at an elabor- ate luncheon at the Claremont Country Club in her honor. . Miss Frances Reed of Sausalito has been spending several days in Oakland as the guest of friends. " . - . Alden Ames, who has been appointed private secretary to Cénsul Ragsdale at Tientsin, will sail today on the Siberia for his new post. Mr. Ames, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pelham Ames, has many friends both here and at Stanford University, where he was a leading member of the '06 class, who are.loth to see him depart for China, although there is great rejoicing at the honor -hov:’n him and at the apprecia- tion of his/ cleverness and ability. A . . Mrs. Charles Schoonmaker has re- turned to her home in Sausalito after a visit to friends at Menlo Park. . . . Miss Genevieve Harvey has returned to her home in Galt, after a week in town as the guest of Miss Minnie Rod- gers. . Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Ames went down last week from their home at Fairoaks for a sojourn at Monterey. Sk Mrs. M. P. Huntington has returned from a visit of a few days to her moth- er, Mrs. Prentice, in Sacramento. R . Miss Laura Hamilton is spending some days at Del Monte as the guest of Miss Louisa Breeze. "Personal Mention - : Hoyt Judge Henry M. of Nome at the 8t. Francis. Cecil H. Bacon and wife of Seattle are at the Baltimore, 3 | Rev.' Edward Morgan of New York | is registered at the Hamlin.. Fred B. Glass and his bride of Red Bluff are at the Hotel Sayoy. ‘W. G. Saunders, capitalist of Fresno, is reglstered at the Baltimore. J. H. Lockwood and wife of Minne- apolis are guests at the Hamlin. Dr. W. G. Downing of Sulsun and wife are at the Majestic Annex. A. A. Stanton and wife of Manhattan are registered at the St. Francis. C. M. Hobbs, a mining: man of Tono- pah, is a guest at the St. Francis. 3 ‘W. E. Bush, a Los Angeles business man, is a late arrival at the Hamlin. Frank H. Johnson and wife of San Rafael are registered at the Dor- chester. o) ‘W. H. Parkison, manager of several Goldfiald mining interests, is at the St. Francis. T - “« : ~ A. J. McKay, a prominent business man of Hollister, is registered at the Hotel Congress. N i W. G. Rice, a prominent business man of Detroit, is among the T‘Sent arrivals at the Hamlin. - ¥ L. . Nares of Los Angeles, who came up to attend the automobile show, is staying at the Baltimore. ‘ Colonel O. Y. Woodwonb.. owner of River, is at the Imperial. : E. W. Hale, a merchant of Sacra- mento, Accompanied by his wife, is registered at lm Majestic. 2 W. H. Quimby and party of Cleve- land, Ohio, who are on th’elrv way to o | In the Joke World e o Patience—Did you encounter any rough swells while crossing to Europe? Patrice—Two. One nearly bit a hole in my cheek, and the other nearly broke one of my ribs!—Yonkers Statesman. . s e Ragson Tatters—W'ts’ dat yer swiped outer dat drug store? Weary Willile—A bottle o' nerve ton- fe! Aln't dat great? Ragson Tatters—G'on! W't rood is dat to yer? . Weary Willie—Why, mebbe after, we've took a few doses we'll be able ter brace people fur ¢hampaghe instead o bfier-—-PI_lllldelpuIl, Record. » . - . Mrs. Losing . (after his confession)— So you 1 five pounds, then? w often h rned yodu against fast horses? = . Ben ;&‘flng That's the trouble. Mrs. Losing—What's the trouble? Ben Losing—I took your advice. I bet on the ones.—Scraps. * i 'S got a great scheme to get out o' vhpd%n these nice days.” “How does he work it?" “He goes out an’ washes his face, an’ the teacher thinks he's ill an’ sends hjm home!"—Rhiladelphia Inquirer. Sever themselvés from Fresno County and become part of Kings County. g L. Van Orden, formerly room.clerk at the St. ncis, has returned from Seattle on a short visit to this city. J. M. McGee, an attorney of Oroys'lla; 4 Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men “Talk about-material going astray remarked a railroad man. "I believe | this story beats anything I ever heard about lost goods: Some time last| October the Pacific Ceast Machinery Dealers’ Asociation placed an order for | ‘a carload of lathes in New York. Thei lathes did not show up and a tracer! +* (e | | fault of the railroads that it had not reached the coast. Naturally we began | an extended search for that car. We | learned that it had never been re ceived by any road, and the firm was equally confident that it had gone out | of its shop. We finally located the| carload of machinery in' Paris, France, | T ' The Insider Thinks Smithsonian Institution source j of “New York Sunday stories and Confesses in- terest in- Davis' defense of Stanford White. Source of Gotham's *Freak Sunday Tales H | highly illustrated articles get the matter for their “freak"‘ p | the articles on airships, marine monstrosities, Eggptian- discoveri€: natur ;hist‘or,\' monsters and freaks of nature. I am Wwilling to wager that m | the ideas for these stories were obtained from the reports of the Sm: | Institution. These reports are more interesting than a novel and ke lished volumes are hard to get hold of outside of the membership § | they contain a mifne of information. Out of two volumes of Smitys Mastitution reports T would guarantee-to furnish Sunday supplemengs: | for five papers for a twelvemonth. OW many readers of the sens pages of the New York Su.wi.‘_ plements know where the .au!:w-r‘ stories? | [ me 1 ‘- 3i%a & One of the Eastern weeklies recently wan Davis in Defense page article by Richard Harding Davs in ot S.taniord White Gejense of Stanford White, of which the | general argument is that, having known White intimately, he believec it { would have been impossible for him to have been such a monster witheut | revealing it. Now Davis, though it is the fashion for his rivals who have | met with less financial success to sneer at him and his heroes as cads cut | out of the same piece, did not come down from the clouds with this morn- ing’s sunrise, but he impressed most of us who met him here as being a clean, | whalesome chap. He couldn't be what he is, a war correspondent, always {as ready for an assignment as a soldier asleep om his arms, nor could he be fit to éndure what corresponding under fire means, if he were given to | undermining dissipations. It would not be possible for him to keep “straight” Hif his friends—not mere acquaintances, but chosen associates—were of the { other*type. Since Dicky Davis is not the style of writer who, like a popular i preacher, jumps into the type case at every excuse, when he writes a per- sonal article it ought to count for something. He would scarcely write the kind of stories he does if he were the other kind of man. Authors, more than any other class, live on their emotions. and there is nothing of the degenerate type in any of the Van Bibbers, Clays or Macklins of his stories. I once reada review in which the novelist's popularity was accounted for because his heroes were the kind df men that every girl would like to know, they were what evefy young man thought he would like to be in was sent after the car. The New York | the same circumstarices, and what every old codger imagined he was. . { . p firm aserted that' the car had been|where some’one remarked that they were all Davis playing a game, and sent to California, and that it was the | perhaps that is their true expianation. Brother of Henry James Known Here side of the academit set. signed friends He'is more E! Professor William James, who has just re- from the faculty of Harvard, has man out here in the universities and ou popular than his brother Henry, the |1t had paid duty to enter the Frenchinovelist. Somebody once said that William could write psychology like a { republic and it will have to pay duty to get out. As far as 1 know lathes are still in France. The firm that wanted them had grown tired of asking the same old question as to their whereabouts, and when I told its members that the shipment was in Paris they -were too tired even to laugh.” | i i f |, “That is nothing to a story I can tell | |about shipments,” put in another | freight man. “Last September a busi- | {ness man of this city ordered from | | Chicago a lot of machinery. | vived ‘and was delivered in the middle | of December, - About one week ago one | aTgument is against hypnotism as a legal measure. jromance, while Henr the ! . pwvas executed. is reader of them. His most recent special prominence h case in Chicago. and murdered. Professor James lect Ivens either confessed berg, both say that in their o strong-minded youth and they say tha the trial proved his guilt. povels were all psychology. aid to be the most ardent admirer of his brother's books and a voracious ion it was legal murder. William, by the way, ured at Stanford University last year. as been in connection with the Ivens Briefly, a woman, a respectable housewife, was outraged or was first arrested and sweated. He Professor James and his colleague, Professor Hugo Munster- Tvens was not a t nothing in the evidence produced at There was rather, so they say, much reason to It ar-|believe that the,lad was hypnotized BY police methods. The professors’ I believe it was James |of the agents of the dellvering l’ncJWhn cited a case, as an instance of self-delusion, of a girl who made circum- | asked me for the address of that mer- | | chant.” I told him. )t appears the way !had recelved his machinery and had Inot paid for its transportafion, as no | demand had been made upon him by |the railroad. That is one (time when | the merchant had no kick coming.” | 3 . . . H | “Well, how about this?" remarked a third. “A hop dealer of Santa Rosa | wanted to ship a carlo#d of hops to | New York. He had 176 bales, but the | jcar would hold only 160 bales, so he | consented to let sixteen bales go in| | with. miscellaneous freight and get| | there when they could. The hops were | | shipped on November 10. The sixteen| | bales arived in New York on Novem-| | ber 25 and the carload, was last heard of on January 16 as having reached | Chicago. Since that time that car has disappeared from the face of the globe.” L . “Who is that important looking little \man who just left your office?” ‘was asked of a freight man. 1 “Oh, that chap?’ he answered care- lessly. “He is the trafic manager for Bilkem & Sellem.” “What do those fellows do?” “Traffic managers for private firms,” was the answer, “are men who are a| little more skillful in raising trouble| and can ask more tomfool questions than the average merchant, and that's | about all they are useful for. They are employed by the merchants to worry us, who have enough trouble without it being piled on by a traffic manager. | They are generally men who have been | agents in some small place and are just aching all over to make us jump as we made them jump in the sweet old summer time.” > . s . ‘ ‘W.© J. Shotwell, general agent of| the Denver and Rio Grande and also | a ‘director of the Western Pacific, said | Yyesterday: F | “The Western Pacific is beginning to receive the steel for the bridges it will build in various canyons in Call- fornia, and we shall be enabled to com- | mence work at once. We shall begin also to lay tracks near Marysville and Oroville and orders have been given to lay track in the Niies Canyon.” . . . Achilles Ottinger is back from New York. He has brought with him a wardrobe of strange colors and new styles and also a ticket to Southamp- ton, for whichiport he and his family are fo sail about the middle of next month. "I have cast business cares to the! Wind,” he explained. “I have closed | up all mYy offices except the oné in this city and that In Los Angeles and I intend, to pass the summer in Europe. may hire a palace on- the Riviera, which will remind me of California, or | I may sojourn in Paris. I hear that the society in Vienna is delightful, and I may go there. I shall be for the next six months a bird of passage, | spreading my wings and\ taking long | or short flights as fancy dictates.” As Ottinger Is worth considerably more than $1,000,000 can indulge any whim he may entertain. . . i PR John A, GIIl, in cha’e gt frei; for the New York Central lines,’ back from the southern part of the State and says that as far as his ob- servation goes there is no shorta; in refrigerator cars at the different poini from which oranges are shipped. Citr: l i i fruit was going East' at the rate 100 cars a day, and from what he eoukfl gather the growers were expecting to do well with their crop. 3 ol Peter Harvey of the Baltimore and 'Ohio left last night for the south to look after orange shipments % . . - " Johri Y. Calahan, general the passengér department ¢ B o stantial confession of having killed a person of whom she was jeadous. bill had been lost and the merchant only was her alleged victim not dgad at all, but she had not been molested Not and there had not been a death in the family. Women Pick Horses in Haphazard Way “Women pick their winners a good deal by intuition,” said a bookie at the Oakland race- track on Saturday when Voladay walked off with the honors of the Family Club handicap. “Ask the pool boys, they'll tell you.” Men look up the-horse's record, notice his points and reckon up the chances on solid facts, but half the as the woman who picks a horse be the jockey's colors are favogites of her own. way of playing the races, but in most haphazard way to pick a whner don’t lose by it.” time they are not such good guessers cause she likes his name or because It's a sogt of a happy-go-lucky b7 | cases 1 find the women who go 3 S Mach is sti i ion- Libiarics Searched . .'e\:lmh;\? lac Fanus, .VAVhOA" still being lon M - » Book ized by our Irish-Californians, was a Donegal for McManus’ Books oolmaster. He married Ethna Carberry, neighbors thought her too good for hi wedded life, and then they all sorrowed with the young widower. la poetess, not of the Brummdgem Garrison type, but the real thing. His m, he says, but she died, after a short MacManus was not, especially well known dut here until he paid us this visit, but now the libraries are being rushed for copies of his books. He has written a number of stories of peasant life of his native country and probably took many of them from the “Schaunachy, " the local narrator who keeps alive tradition by telling ‘tales where books are few and people more or less illiterate. words that we have derived from the gives as the genuine Irish version, and “termagant” as sassy is over saucy. — MdcManaus is an authority on the proper pronunciation of common Irish. “Tarmajent” is one which he that is as much an improvement ovet ‘Answers to Queries EDUCATIONAL AMENDMENT—H. A. H., City. Section 1 of the constitution of the State of California says: “BEvery native male citizen of the United States, every male person who shall have ac- quired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every male naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any' election, of the age,of 21 years, who shall have been a resident of the State one year next pre- ceding the election, and in the county of which he claims his vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty day; shall Le entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be au- thorized by law; provided, no native of China, no idiot, no insane rson, no person convicted of any infamé¥is erime, no person’ hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public monef, and no person who skall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and wrjte his name, shall ever exereise the privileges of an elector in this State; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person pre- vented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has tl right to vote, nor to any -person who shall be 60 vears of age and upward at the time that this amendment shall take effect. (Amendment adopted November &, 1894.) ) S Thid amendment relative to an edu- cational qualification is still in force. WEST POINT—A. €. 8, St. Helena, Cal. Each Senator, Congressional Dis- trict and Territory—alse the District of Columbia and Perto Rico—ijs entitled to have one cadet at the United States. llmu‘r.}; A(cademy at West Point. There are also.forty appointments at large, specially conferred by the President of ;n'lt‘n;n ml'i.'l ‘The number of stu- lents is thus limited to 522. = Appoint- mernits ‘are n:na.fly’d-ndo one year advance of date of m, by Secretary of War, upon the nomination xS of the Senator or Representative. Thesa nominations may either be made after competitive examination or given di rect, at the option of the Represen tive. The Representative may nomi- nate two legally qualified second can- didates, to be designated alternates. The| alternates will recelve from, the War Department a létter of appoint- “ment, and will be examined with the regular appeirtee and the best quali- fled will be admitted to the academy in the event of the failure of the principal to pass the prescribed preliminary ex- aminations. Appointees to the Military Academy must be between 17 and 22 ‘years of age, free from any infirmity> which may render them unfit for mili- tary service, and able to pass a careful examination in reading, writing, spell- ing, English grammar, English com- position, English literature, arithmetie, algebra through quadratic equations, plane geometry, descriptive geography and the elementssof physical geog- raphy, especially the geography of the United States, United States history, the outlines of general history and the general prizciples of physiology and hygiene: or in liew thereof to submit a certificate of graduation from a pub- lc high school or State normal school, or a certificate that the candidate is a régular student of an incorporated col- lege or untversity. ENLISTMENT- K.. Ofeta, Cal Minors under the age of 15 may be en- lisfed at any naval rendezvous of the United States with the consent of par- ents oy guardian. There is such a rendezvous at Mare Island. A boy of proper age may enlist at the Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay. For information as to detalls, address a communication the naval recruiting officer, Mare - and, and anothet to the comma B Yerba Buena OLD LADIES HOME-'A. 8. Oak- land. Cal. There is a home for eiderly in ‘lm;' It b'unfl St. Matthew's Home Aged Women sad is located in Dallas. : - ; 1