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SATURDAY OCTOBER 21, 1809
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THE SIGNATURE LAW.
TI IT ling in the courts br<
the law passed by the last Legislature
iture to every personal state-
I < r, whether it concerns the li
that law the evidence? have
I that it i re traint of the freedom
i.i is not abused until its privi
are violated, and for such violation the law
i an ample remedy.
ntion of wireless telegraphy has
ony against the law. Mar-
York Bay acting as a
: ill and the Herald. His relation is
c two p; pers. He dr.es not act for
ss nor for any news association.
■ ter of two newspapers, using a
sion which makes his signature, in
uired by this law. impossible.
that on the racing yachts or the fleet
its an incident should occur be
re parties in which the part taken
Marconi, doing his
• it to The Call. It would come from
him to us in two minutes, would be bulletined and
I, but it would violate the law and lay us,
iture law, liable to a heavy cash penalty
ny informer who might choose to
V. citing us into court on his com
■l. it may be confidently affirmed that this
re law, if upheld in the courts, would so
Marconi's discovery as to make
as a means of prompt trans
:" news. In this way a discovery of the
mankind, calculated to revo
tric transmission, to increase human
■ and to cheapen the means of its transmis
pendent of the accidents and
ittend transmission by wire, would, in
it- i ect, be practically outlawed in
irnia. No one objects to a strict law of libel
train mere malice in a newspaper or to induce
luct Such a law does not hamper
in the exercise of any legitimate function.
ure law does not add to protection
: lakes no reputation any safer, nor the
kless newspaper any less keen; but
er the whole press, white, black and
i .'. alike, without discrimination, in its legitimate
tting and printing news.
, we admit that laws may not be objectionable
rotect the field of proper usc
they obviously re
nd diminish such usefulness they are
Such appears to be this signature law,
and t upon the use of such an invention
Marconi's it is in the spirit of the middle ages
and is on a par with a law that might forbid the
i modern perfecting press machinery and com
pel a return to the old Franklin hand press, on
which, by continuous "'pulling the devil's tail" for
a month, a pressman might produce as many papers
as ! machinery dors in twenty minutes.
md detectives have satisfied themselves that
sperate burglars who almost murdered an
< >aklander the other night took no chances. The
detectives might also reach the conclusion that the
re unable to take anything else simply lie
of tile timely intervention of a Winchester ritle.
Mr Dodge is perhaps the first local pleader
public place who ever introduced the "lightning
ulator" burlesque into political campaigning.
He seems to have overlooked a trick of the trade,
ever, in not having prepared for gratuitous cir
tion a pamphlet on the Dodge virtues, by Dodge.
The Queen of England wants the House of Com
provide the ways and means necessary to
ecute a British policy in South Africa. It is
perhaps fair to assume, therefore, that the next
budget will contain specific directions for dodging
Boer bullets.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1599.
BARRETT DISPLEASED.
IT seems by reports from the East that the Hon.
Barrett was displeased with our people
during his tour on this coast as an Asiatic com
mercial expert.
He has taken our commercial classes severely to
task is them up as victims to obtuseness of
mind and lethargy of enterprise.
This is a mood of mind common to gentlemen who
fall into the habit of considering themselves "the whole
thing." They are apt to conclude that indifference
to their treatment of a subject is indifference to the
subject itself. If an expert apostle of trade should
come, telling us that expansion of our commerce
depends on a study of the moon, or that the profits
of deep water trade are dominated by the <- : rrn of
the Zodiac in which we go down to the sea in ships,
it could not well be charged that we don't want
trade because we failed to be enthusiastic over its
lunar or zodiacal aspect.
The New York Journal of Commerce voices Mr.
Barrett's displeasure with the coast in a long edi
torial which swings into the great cycles of com
mercial development and sees mystery in the natural
process of producing a surplus and finding a mar
ket lor it. The trade of this coast has risen with the
increase in the surplus products of its labor. As far
rnia is concerned the swell has been more
: than in the case of other States because of the
great variety of our products and resources. New
York had been under exploitation two centuries
nearly before it had a volume of external trade equal
to that enjoyed by California as the result of fifty
years of development. Yet the Journal of Com
merce, voicing Mr. Barrett, says that until the Pacific
States wake up "there will be a poor prospect for
those States to enter into the magnificent heritage
which nature has prepared for them." The nature
of that heritage is then stated as having been
pointed out by an English writer. This Englishman
says: "At present the greater part of the trade be
tween the United States and China is conducted by
way of New York and the Suez canal, but we shall
find a ready market for our surplus of iron and
steel manufactures in the development of railways
and general industry in China, and it will be found
not by way of Suez, but by our own vessels sailing
. out of our own ports on the Pacific."
The Journal of Commerce adds: "Yet to all this
the business men of the Pacific States seem to be
singularly obtuse. In his recent tour down the
i coast, in the course of which he addressed most of
I the commercial bodies, the Hon. John Barrett found
ready and appreciative listener?, but failed to evoke
the ( nthusiastic response which was readily forth
coming to his appeals in the East."
In hi to the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce Mr. Barrett told us of two things that
must be done to increase our oriental trade. First,
we must elect another United States Senator, and,
! second, we inu-i dig the .Nicaragua canal. He
this with the information that New York
■ rade now, though San Fran
the nearer seaport.
From New York to Calcutta by the Capo
of Good Hope the distance is 12,180 miles; to
Hon| tis ip.590 miles. By the Suez canal it
is 10,4 itta and 12, n0 to Hongkong.
From San Francisco to Hongkong it is 638] miles,
so that we now enjoy an advantage of 7209 miles
over New York by Good Hope to Hongkong and
by Suez. This advantage will be reduced by
more than 3000 miles by the construction of the
mal. It will put New York tha* much
nearer the Orient, but will leave San Francisco right
where she is. Now it may be obtuse in our mer
chants not to see how oriental trade is to be taken
from New York by decreasing her mileage to reach
'• r - ! ' c Journal of Commerce can explain it,
but Mr. Barrett certainly did not.
There are reasons why California wants the canal,
but increase in her oriental trade is not among them.
We understand that the profit of commerce lies in
producing a greater surplus of what the Orient wants
taking mure of the surplus the Orient has to
spare. New York, in spite of greater distance, has
that trade now. We may get it by finding out what
the Orient takes from New York and producing it
here. Then we get the advantage of our shorter
■ transportation by sea.
But the origin of commerce being of the earth,
earthy, does not seem to concern experts like Mr.
ett.
Death seems now to be the great overshadowing
ality of the Philippines. The time was when
ith and not the mode of death was the impor
tant element in the record of destroyed American
soldiers. Now in the official reports the names of
the dead are hidden under a hideous category of fatal
diseasj
It is announced that a millionaire English so.ip
manufacturer will try next year to win the America
challenge cup. He will probably find that it will
take more than a greasing of the. ways to turn out
a yacht that is worth the racing.
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS.
rOR a long time past tiiere has been an agita
tion in this country directed against the evils
resulting from the laxity of the divorce laws in
several of the States and the conclusion which has
followed the contradictory decisions of the courts
on the effect of a divorce in one State upon the re
lations of the parties in another. The subject was
taken under consideration at the conference of
the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws last
August and a report has now been issued setting
forth the plan by which the Commissioners hope to
bring about uniformity in the statutes on the sub
ject.
The Commissioners recommend a law providing
that no divorce shall be granted in any State for a
cause arising out of the State which is not ground
for divorce in the State where it occurred; that
no person shall be entitled to divorce in any State
who has not had an actual residence in that State
for at least a year; that no person shall be entitled
to divorce unless the defendant shall have been per
sonally served with process if within the State or
with personal notice duly authenticated if out of the
State; that no divorce shall be granted except upon
trial before the court in open session; that after di
vorce either party may marry again; that divorces
shall he granted only for adultery, extreme cruelty,
habitual drunkenness or the confirmed habit of in
toxication arising from alcoholic drinks, or from
drugs, conviction of felony or continuous desertion
for a term of years.
It is stated in the report that the bill is the
carefully studied result of the three days' conference,
after going ovei the draft reported by the committee
on divorce. It goes over for final action another
year, as is usual with all the recommendations of the
conference, that it may be submitted to the Commis
sioners who were not present at the meeting. Of
course it is subject to change at the next conference
if found unadapted in expression to the jurisdictions
not represented at Buffalo. Otherwise it is put out
as a finished bill, embodying the decision of the con
ference on that branch of the subject.
It is the opinion of the Commissioners that the bill
presented by them is adapted to prevent to a large
extent the migratory divorces by which the laws of
one State are practically nullified by a temporary
residence in another State, to render less easy frauds
on courts and to give the respondent fuller opportun
ity for defense, and especially to make the final ef
fect of divorce the same all over the Union.
Every effort so far to bring about something of
order out of the confusion of the divorce laws of the
country has been so futile that the public will not
have much confidence in the success of the new ven
ture. The Commissioners, however, direct attention
to the fact that the uniform law on negotiable in
struments perfected by their conference in 1896 has
now been adopted by fifteen States and by Congress
for the District of Columbia. From that they draw
good auguries of the eventual success in the move
ment for uniform divorces. It is certain that a
strong backing will be given to their efforts, and
therefore the outlook for reform is by no means so
hopeless as it appears at first view.
From the very negative sort of young man he
seemed to be in San Francisco, Consul Wildman at
Hongkong appears to have become a bloodthirsty
personage. Letters from him just published by
Aguinaldo indicate that he advised the Filipino chief
tain to shed enough blood to force the Spaniards to
a taste of real war.
The announcement comes from Washington that
the retirement of General Shaffer has paved the way
for the promotion of five brigadier generals. In
spite of adverse criticism the commander of the De
partment of California seems to be a pretty big man.
REPLANTING BURNED FORESTS.
T \EPORTS from Pasadena concerning a move
k-/ ment there to undertake an extensive experi
ment in replanting forest land which has been
burned over are both interesting and encouraging.
By reason of the many fires which have occurred in
the woods of that section the people have been im
pressed with the need of forest protection and
preservation, and some of the more enterprising
among them, acting in concert with the officials of
the Government, have devised a plan of immediate
action from which much good may be expecte4
It appears that by reason of the fires the water
sheds in the vicinity of the city have been denuded,
and it is known that unless the trees can be made
to grow in the mountains the city's water supply
will go. Water has been very scarce all summer, so
scarce, indeed, that street sprinkling had to be
stopped for a time in half the city, and some of the
higher situated residents could not get water in their
bathtubs.
The plan proposed for remedying the evil is to
cut fire tracks through the woods along all the ridges
to the main ridge of the mountains. These tracks
are to be paths six feet wide and are to be kept clear
of brush, so that they will serve to check the spread
of fires. To render them more effective, and at the
same time to provide for a new' growth of timber,
the hickory pine, a native of San Bernardino, is to
be planted along the paths. The tree is said to be
virtually fireproof and does not burn even when at
tacked by a strong flame. It is, moreover, a valu
able tree for timber purposes, for it is not only a
rapid grower but in some instances has been known
to attain a height of ioo feet.
It is of course desired that the Government co
operate in the work, and efforts will be made to
obtain an appropriation for that purpose, but the
people of Pasadena do not intend to wait for action
on the part of the national authorities before begin
ning the work themselves. They know the value of
self help and intend to resort to it.
It is stated that ex-Mayor Lukens and Mr. \V. G.
Kerkoff have arranged to provide Forest Rangers
Newcomb and Hart -.veil with seed of the hickory
pine so that the plantations may be started as soon
as possible. The first area to be planted is that
which has been burned over, as the growth of the
hickory pine there it is believed will protect the for
ests now standing. The canyons will also be planted
with the trees, because it is in them the fires usually
start.
The experiment promise? to be of great value »o
the State in many ways. In. the first place it will
encourage other localities to rely upon their own
energies instead of waiting for the slow-moving Gov
ernment to act, and, in the second place, if the plan
tations of hickory pine do well and prove as effi
cacious as is expected, an important lesson will have
been taught in California forestry. To the people
of Pasadena, therefore, a great deal of credit, is due,
and throughout the State the results of their energy
and their experiment will be watched with more than
ordinary interest.
The papers that have been suppressing all reports
of the wonderful work clone by wireless telegraphy
will have a hard time explaining to their readers
why the Government thinks of adopting it in the
navy and why a movement has been started to make
use of it for communication among the islands of the
West Indies.
An Oakland physician has had several Filipinos
who were performing in this city arrested for rob
bing him. The little brown men had evidently come
to the conclusion, from the treatment they received
from Americans, that tit for tat is. a commendable
American privilege.
How to induce the Democrats to vote straight
while coaxing Republicans to vote crooked is the
problem that rattles Mayor Phelan and explains the
frequency with which he puts his foot in it when he
opens his mouth to talk politics.
The Oakland woman who, having been stabbed by
her husband, fired a load of buckshot into him,
now refuses to testify against her spouse. She evi
dently believes that she is quite as able as the law
to take care of herself.
If Sir Thomas Lipton stick to his expressed deter
mination to return to the contest for the America's
cup until he wins it he will probably spend a good
part of the remainder of his life with us.
As the Boers have no direct communication with
the outer world reports from the war in South Africa
will come almost wholly from British sources, but
the end will tell which sides win the battles.
The report that the Filipino chieftain, Pio del Pilar,
is tired of war should have been that he is tired of
the foot-racing required to keep out of reach of it
when the Americans are moving.
In choosing a doctor to lead their ticket in the
municipal campaign the Populist leaders show they
know what their party needs, but perhaps an under
taker would have been better
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JNOU/5 I Jan francisco Call,
Very recently The San Francisco Call completed arrangements with the New York Herald
and the London Daily TelegTaph whereby the three papers should dispatch special war corre-
spondents to the field of operations between the British and the Boers in South Africa. The Daily
Telegraph, one of England's very greatest newspapers, commands an influential position for obtain-
ing inside information regarding movements of British troops and ships. Its record in gathering
war news in the Franco-Prussian war, in the Chino-Japanese war and in the Soudan campaigns,
was unsurpassed. The New York Herald's supremacy in obtaining foreign war news and transmit-
ting it to this country is clearly unassailable.
Through this powerful combination in the newspaper world The Call will continue to fur-
nish its readers with the earliest and most reliable information of the war in South Africa.
WHEN BRYAN STUMPS KENTUCKY.
The Colonel—That motto's wrong. It should be t'other way.
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS
A. M. McDonald, a mine owner of Sono
ra, is a guest at the Lick.
Dr. P. A. Levering, U. S. N., is at the
Occidental with his wife.
A. H. Davis, a lucky miner from Alaska,
is registered at the Grand.
Dr. C. G. Lamberson, an attorney of
Visalia, Is a guest at the Lick.
C. L. Wilson, one of the leading citizens
of Antioch, is a guest at the Palace.
R. S. Bradstreet, a prominent business
man of Boston, is a guest at the Palace.
B. W. Churchill, the Napa banker, is at
the Palace. His wife accompanies him.
Major George M. Downey, U. S. A., is
registered at the Palace with his family.
General T. W. Sheehan of the Sacra
mento Record-Union Is at the Occidental.
Jasper Harrell, a prominent rancher of
Vlsalia, is among the late arrivals at the
Lick.
H. Barnhart, the well known Santa Cruz
business man, is at the Lick for a few
days.
James F. Peck, an Influential attorney
of Merced, is registered for a short stay
at the Lick.
B. W, Purvis, a wealthy resident of
Honolulu, is at the Occidental, accompa
nied by his family.
Thomas C. Ellis, a traveler from Lon
don, is at the Palace, where he arrived
yesterday morning.
Granville Bevan and R. G. Elphiston,
two young Englishmen traveling for pleas
ure, are registered at the Palace.
C. B. Shaver, superintendent of the
Fresno Flume and Lumber Company, is
among the recent arrivals at the Grand.
Judge J. E. Prewett has come down
from his home in Auburn to spend a few
days in the city. He is registered at the
Lick.
W. A. Mclntosh, a wealthy mining man
of Vancouver, B. C, is staying at the
Grand while on a short business trip to
this city.
R. W. Chapman, a wealthy and prom
inent business man of South Australia, is
at the California, where he arrived yes
terday on the Moana.
Colonel F. S. Chadbourne. H. J. Barling
and F. O. Rippidan left last night to in
spect some oil properties of Fresno Coun
ty in which they are heavily interested.
Captain O. F. Bolles, United States In
spector of Steam Vessels, left for 3an
Diego yesterday on official business. He
will return early next week.
R. Gilman Brown, who is largely inter
ested in mining properties in this State. Is
at the Palace accompanied by his wife.
They have been spending some time at
San Rafael.
Julius Ausbach, a prominent business
man o£ Cape Town, is at the Occidental,
where he arrived yesterday on the Moana.
accompanied by his wife. He is on his
way home to London and registers from
that place.
Dr. P. J. H. Farrell. late surgeon of thel
"Fighting First," is at the Palace ae-l
companied by his wife and their daughter.!
Miss Farrell. They have closed up their
summer home at San Mateo and have
taken rooms at the hotel for the winter.
Chinese Inspector H. E. Tlppett. one of
the most industrious and reliable officers !
of the Chinese Bureau, started last night '
on a trip to his home at Point Pleasant, i
W. Va., to spend a month's vacation. Mr. !
Tippett left with the good wishes of all
hla associates.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30.— George C. Board
man and wife of San Francisco, Frederick
! E. Magee and wife of Oakland, are at the
; Fifth avenue. H. J. Scott, L. J. Scott. A.
Chesebrough, S. J. Ackerman, of San
| Francisco, and J. K. Batcher of Sacra
! mento are at the Hoffman. Matthew Gage
of Riverside is at the Manhattan; J. H.
Glide and wife and Miss Glide, of Sacra
mento, are at the Savoy.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
■FIVE CENTS— E. G. V., City. A five ;
cent nickel without the word cents is
worth live cents and no more.
AMERICAN FLAG— G. B. R., Oakland,
Cal. The union in an American flag i
; should be the depth of seven stripes and
a Httle less than one-half of the length of i
i the flag.
TO SAN BLAS— A. O. S., San Jose, Cal. !
The distance from San Francisco to Sari
Bias, Jalisco County, Mexico, is by steam- '
er 1476 miles. The fare is $50 cabin and $25 ,
steerage.
WELLS IN MONTEREY-H. S. C,
Monterey. Cal. An article on the sinking ;
of the well at the head of the Carmel
River, in Monterey County, appeared m
The Call of December 11, IS&S.
LOTTERY-S., City. The charter to tne I
Louisiana lottery was granted by the Leg- j
islature of Louisiana in 186 S. the charter '
to run for twenty-five years from the Ist !
of January, 1S6!). The bill became a law ;
without the signature nf the Governor
The first drawing was held in the first
part of the year last named.
VOTING IN WASHINGTON, D. C— G.
H., Oakland. Cal. A resident of the city'
of Washington, D. C. cannot vote for I
Presidential electors, and the fact that he i
cannot vote for such is not in contraven- !
tion of the constitution of the United j
States, for the reason that only residents
and voters of States of the Union .-ast
ballots for Presidential electors, and tne
District of Columbia is not a State. The
Inhabitants of Territories do not vote ftr
Presidential electors.
WOMEN IN SALOONS— L. W.. City.
There is no law In San Francisco that will
prevent a woman from entering a liquor
saloon to purchase a drink and drink it
there the same as a man if she should
feel so inclined. The constitution "f tin'
State declares that "'no person shall "ii
j account of sex be disqualified from
! ing upon or pursuing any lawful busim *.-.
| vocation or profession." Selling lirjunr
being licensed, is recognized as a lawful
business. A woman can carry on a liquor
raloon. and that being the case a v
i cannot be inhibited from entering a liquor
i saloon and buying liquor.
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, corner
Mason and California streets: open daily.*
Every traveler ought to see Town?eni!'<
display of California glace fruits. 50c Ib, in
fire-etched boxes. fi.'T Mrkt, Palace Hotel.*
Special information supplied dally to
I business bouses and public men by t..e
Press Clipping Bureau (A
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. •
Doctor— l will leave you this medicine
to take after each meal.
Mike— And will y. z be koind enough to
leave the menl. too, dochtor?
The Rock Island Wall Map of tha
United States
Is the best offered to the public. It Is rerv
large and specially adapted to school pur
poses. Every teacher of geography and every
business office should have one. ft will be sent
post paid to any nrMress on receipt of fifteen
cents In postage stamps or coins. Address John
Sebastian, G. P. A.. Chicago. 111.
When your appetite deserts you Just try 10
to 20 drops of Dr. Slpgerfs Angostura Bitters
in sherry or port win* before meals.
Scene in a " Menagerie.— Lion Tamer-
Halloa, here comes my wife! Let me get
into a place of safety. (Jumps into the
cage.)
FORTUNES
Will Be Made
By those who invest in the
stock of the
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Oil Company.
Stock is now selling at a price
that will net. the investor V>w%
when oil is struck.
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