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It seems an idle waste of time to censure the fre
quent jawbone assaults of William Jennings Bryan
upon ex-President Cleveland. These attacks serve
to keep Bryan busy enough to prevent him from the
perpetration of other mischief; they probably af
ford him some amusement, and under no possible
construction do they work harm to any one.
IT appears certain that France and Great Britain
are about to enter into a general arbitration
treaty for the settlement of all questions that may
arise, between them or between their respective na
tionals. This takes both nations out of The Hague
court, as far as* issues between them are concerned,
and perhaps it is the beginning of the dissolution of
that court before it has been fairly put in operation.
Something of this kind was feared when the court
was created at the Peace Conference and members of
the tribunal were permitted to practice before it.
Sir Julian Pauncefote proposed to forbid this, but was
outvoted.
Inasmuch as all judicial officers are forbidden to
practice before their own or other courts, it will be
seen at once that permission to appear as attorneys
before this highest court of its own members is de
structive of its character. Since the nations selected
their* members of The Hague tribunal the conduct
of certain of them has scandalized it. Notable
among such acts is that of Von Bar, one of the Ger
man membcra, who has rented himself out for a fee
to write an opinion in review of an international de
cision of which a petty shyster would be ashamed
His conduct is likely to lead to a diplomatic request
that Germany withdraw" him as a: member of The
Hague court, and certainly any party to an issue
therein will reject him, not only on the ground that
being a member of the court he should not sell his
opinions, but that the opinions for which he takes a
price are full of falsehood and misrepresentation.
If France and Great Britain make the proposed
agreement The Hague court can be • saved only by
forbidding practice to its members and by insisting
that such disreputable members as Von Bar be
taken off the panel. ¦ v . t ' » '*.•%"¦
DISCREDITING THE HAGUE.
A few weeks more and we will.be in the midst
of the hubbub, confusion and turmoil of local poli
tics. The orator will be abroad in the land, our be
loved English will be murdered, a new set of officers
will be chosen to take the places of the old, and we
will all settle down again to the even tenor of old
friendships. Friction is life.
Cassius M Clay owed his long life mainly to his
skill as a fighter at critical junctures. Partly, too,
he owed it to accident. In describing one of his
many fights Clay tells how an opponent once fired
at him within srm's length, but Clay escaped un
"mr*. After the fight was over an examination was
ma'te. and Clay says, "It was found that the ball, as
T pulled up the scabbard of my bowie knife in
dra— ing the blade, had entered the leather near the
point, which was lined with silver, and there lodged."
Perhaps, then, one way to have a long life is to
car ..' a bo-*ie knife with a scabbard lined with silver.
W^en Leo was sick he had the best physicians in
<*?ome to attend him and he did whatever they said,
but when Clay was sick he barricaded his house and
threatened to kill any doctor that dared to enter it
Thus their attitudes toward death were as different
as their attitudes toward life. There are some who
s«y the doctors killed the Pope by overtreatment.
There are others who say that doctors could have
saved Clay had they been permitted to take care of
him. Such statements are worth nothing. All that
can be truly said is that Leo's life serves "to point
a moral and adorn a tale," while Clay left a story
"at which the world turns pale." There is much to
be learned from the two to help a man to live rightly,
but nothing that will assure him the certainty of liv
ing tang.
-f his favorite doctrines. It is therefore to be re
gretted that just as Leo was showing the world how
to live long by being good and serene Cassius M.
Clay was showing how one could live a little longer
than Leo by being what is called a "hell of a man,"
One of the moralists in commenting upon Leo's
life says: "A sound mind in a sound body, a healthy
:i^.d sympathetic interest in humanity, a sane and
natural love of life, a spiritual sweetness that assured
unfailing soul-poise, go far to account for the vital
for-e of the frail old priest of 93, who has now put
oJ his mortality. The perfectly balanced man. phy
i-icaliy and psychologically, lives a long and useful
rid happy life, closed by a tranquil death."
That doctrine sounds beautifully, and doubtless it
is «.ne proper thing to teach the masses, but unfor
tunately it dees n*.t fit the facts. A good many men
of -y. -client balance, mental and physical, have caught
cold or slipped on a banana-peel and died young. A
good many unbalanced people, with brains awry and
bod,.s frail and feeble, have lived a long time. In
deed Leo himself was not physically well balanced,
for he was more or less of an invalid all his life, and
there has been recently published a poem written by
him in his twentieth yeaf in which he speaks of his
frail body 2nd the imminence of death even at that
early period.
FROM the long life of Pope Leo moralists are
now drawing lessons for the edification of those
who wish to live in good health to extreme old
sg« and possibly attain their hundredth year. As
the life of Leo was a beautiful one, so the lesson
¦drawn from it is beautiful. The moralist could
hardly have a better theme upon which to preach his
finest s'.'raon, or a better illustration to cite in proof
LESSONS IN LIFE.
AT a national contention of State Dairy and
Food Commissioners held at St. Paul Pro
fessor Wiley of the Bureau of Chemistry of
the Department of Agriculture made a partial re
port of resultS'-obtained from his experiments with
various kinds of preserved foods and announced that
a full report would be made in October. The experi
ments have attracted a great deal of attention
throughout the country, and many exaggerated
reports and misrepresentations concerning • them
have been circulated, so it is gratifying to know
that the exact truth will soon be made public.
A full report of the proceedings of the convention
has not reached us, but a summary of the statements
of Professor Wiley says: "The result so far as the
experiment has gone in relation to prepared foods
is that those chemically preserved are not desirable;
that foods can be preserved better by simple steriliza
tion, and that only 'in occasions of emergency or
exigency' is the use of chemical preservatives neces
saiy. Professor Wiley says that it may be well not
to make absolute prohibition of all preservatives, but
that most certainly every food in which a preserva
tive is used should be clearly, labeled on the package,
so that the purchaser and the consumer should
know what he is using. Chemical preservatives \n the
ultimate, if long used, are harmful. Professor Wiley
says that national and State legislation should be
made uniform, based on sound hygienic principles,
'free of any tendency to prosecute or annoy, and
supported by an enlightened public opinion both on
the part of the producers and consumers of food.' "
There is nothing in that statement to which any
honest manufacturer of foodstuffs can justly take ex
ception. The tests made by Professor Wiley of the
effects of eating chemically/ prepared foods appear
to have been sufficiently elaborate to render it safe
to draw positive conclusions from them. None of
the young men who volunteered to make the tests
suffered^ any great injury, but it seems there was
ample evidence to show that chemical preservatives,
while not immediately injurious to strong and healthy
persons, are, as Professor Wiley puts it, "undesir
able." That being so, there is no reason why food
stuffs preserved in that way should not be clearly
branded as "chemically preserved," so that con
sumers may know what they are getting. That would
be a simple way of doing justice all round and would
not in any way interfere with legitimate industry or
annoy manufacturers whose preservatives are harm
less.
PURE FOOD PROBLEMS.
A New York woman bought ah incubator that
looked very much like a refrigerator and placed it in
her cellar. Then she put two dozen fancy eggs in
the incubator and went down town. When the ice
man arrived the husband deposited the ice in the in
cubator instead of the refrigerator. On her return
the woman found the eggs frozen and the butter
melted. There was first a row and then a fight. Now
there is a suit for divorce on the ground of extreme
cruelty. All of which shows that men who manu
facture incubators like refrigerators should be in
dicted for inciting riots and interfering with domes
tic peace.
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ever, there is not so very much on which to con
gratulate ourselves. Authorities who are in a posi
tion to know the facts assert that our democracy of
insatiable readers demands trash and compels the
libraries to furnish it. That is said to be especially
true 01 public libraries supported by taxation. One
critic says: "The librarian must stock his shelves
with current fiction and display every popular maga
zine, or the taxpayer has a grievance: He is not get
ting his pennyworth, and he will criticize and aim to
undo the work that the librarian carries on at public
cost if this agency for popular instruction should
give its care exclusively to serious literature."
Doubtless the critics are taking a pessimistic view
of the situation. They generally do. Still it is grati
fying to have the issue brought up for study and
review. If the readers are demanding the wrong
kind of books it may be found necessary for the .Car
negies of the future to endow libraries not with
funds to buy more books or erect new buildings, but
to employ instructors to tell people what to read
and how to read it.
WHEN Andrew Carnegie was growing to
manhood and bravely working his way to
wealth the thing he longed for most acutely
and found most difficult to get Was a good library.
Out of that unsatisfied desire of youth grew a reso
lution that if ever he became rich enough to do any
thing for poor boys he would found a free library.
He has become far richer than he ever dreamed of
in his most ardent hours of youthful expectation,
and now he is founding or promoting libraries by
the score. Having himself felt such a longing for a
library, he has of course believed that every one else
shared the feeling, and is doubtless surprised to find
how coldly .his. benefactions in that way have been
received in many quarters, and how indifferent a
very large percentage of the people are to what he
deems to be the best thing a community can have.
Mr. Carnegie does not perceive that, conditions
have changed materially in this country since the
days when he was a struggling youngster, and that
there is now no such pressing' need for more li
braries as there was in his time. Books of all grades
are cheaper and more plentiful. The book now sold
for a dollar or even a dime is no longer necessarily
a thing of trash. Most of th'e great classics and
some of the masterpieces of scientific exposition can
be obtained for comparatively small sums, and con
sequently men are no longer so dependent on li
braries as of old. Moreover, libraries are themselves
more numerous and more abundantly stocked than
they were. In bur American life, 'therefore, ,a lack
of books is by no means regarded as a long-felt want
by any considerable number of people.
So rapidly have libraries and books multiplied that
some critics complain we are reading too much. The
complaint is made not only of us, but of our British
cousins, who also have had the free library habit very
strong of late years. One of these critics says free
libraries "encourage habits of reading for the mere
purpose of killing time; they form and confirm the
practice of intellectual dissipation; they introduce
boys and girls and half-educated young men and
women to poems and fictions which, though not ac
tually immoral and warranting inclusion in the Index
Expurgatorius, inflame their passions and imagina
tions and have a most disturbing and unwholesome
effect; and they place in their way, often with the
most disastrous results, works on religious and
moral subjects for the perusal of which they are not
ripe."
Whether it be true or not that we read too much,
it is certain that the increase of libraries in this
country is going on at a great rate. At a recent
meeting of the American Library Association at
Niagara Falls a report was read showing the num
ber of notable gifts to American libraries during the
past year. The reports included no gift of less than
$500 in money or less than 250 volumes. A sum
mary of the report says: "Five hundred and eleven
gifts are recorded, representing in all 96,247 vol
umes and $10,306407 61. Of this amount $715,800
was given for general endowment funds, $86,700 for
building sites, $5,679,000 for buildings, from Andrew
Carnegie, $1,250,998 55 for buildings from various
donors, $108,060 for the establishment of book funds,
$101,577 46 for the purchase of books, and $1,363,
371 6b for purposes which were not stated. This
amount is made up for the most part of bequests and
presumably will be used largely for general endow
ment funds."
' LIBRARIES AND READERS.
j bushels more than the crop of 1961/ while as recently
as 1890 the wheat yielded but little more, than 20,000,
000 bushels, or about one-fourth of what the . State
expects to '"harvest this /summer. " These three States^
and one Territory now promise 240,000,000 bushels of
wheat, or more, -against less than 120,000,000 bushels
last year."
On the Pacific Coast the crops of all kinds prom
ise equally well. Our wheat crop may not come up
to early expectations, but other crops will be good.
We shall do more than our share in swelling Uncle
Sam's revenue from rural industries. In fact, there
is not likely to be any complaint from the railroads
of a lack of freight in any part of the West. We are
more likely to hear a repetition of the complaints of
the past two or three years of a lack of cars and
locomotives to handle the freight offered. The
West, indeed, is ready for big business. Her broad
acres have nojt felt the tremors of Wall street.
MOSAICS ADORN
CHURCH FACADE
AT STANFORD
SOME ANSWERS
TO QUERIES BY
CALL READERS
DAKOTA DIVORCE
IS NOT VALID IN
GREAT BRITAIN
KANSAS— Reader, City. Kansas is In
dian, and means smoky water.
DYING WORDS— Subscriber^ City. Tae
dying words of Thomas Jefferson were:
••I- resign iny soul to God: my daughter
to my country." j . •¦'."
INFALLIBILITY-Subscrlber City. In
fallibility of the Pope In regard to faith
and moral? was decreed by the \*" can
Council and promulgated July IS, 1S70.
ELECTION OF THE POPE-Subscrl
ber City. The manner of electing a Pope
has been fully described in the columns
of The Call since the death of Pope Leo.
CONQUAIN— Subscriber. Lake Tahoe.
Cal. The game asked about Is not con
con nor koon-can. but conquain. As to
the particular rule asked for, it is: "A
player need not use any card drawn, but
if he has upon the table any combination
In which it can be used his adversary
may force him with it. even after it has
been declined. For Instance, a player has
eight cards down, two sequences of four
small cards each, and in his hands a pair
of kings. Another king- will make him
game, but if he has to depend on hia se
quences to put him out he will have to
get three more cards. Suppose he draws
a card that will fit one of his sequences.
it is to his advantage to pass It; but upon
laying it on the table his adversary may
take it up and force him with It by plac
ing it at the end of his sequence, at the
same time saying 'discard.* In the same
manner one of the players holding 1 one of
the cards of his adversary's sKow-down.
sequence or triplet, may force after using
a card by placing his discard on his ad
versary's sequence Instead of laying It on
the table. If it Is laid on the table the
adversary may pass It once by turning it
down, and It Is then too late to compel
him to use it. Suppose you think your
adversary holds two cards of an un
played sequence and has a triplet on the
table: if you can use one of those se
quence cards in his hand to advantage
and can force him by givinjr him the
fourth card of his triplet, which is of no
use to you, you should do so. But you
must remember that you cannot forca
except after using a card yourspi.f, be
cause you are not allowed to discard un
der any other circumstances."
THE SEASONS— C. C. Red Bluff. Cal.
Generally speaking, we say that winter
commences with December 1. spring with
March 1. summer with June 1 and au
tumn with September L Astronomically
that is not correct. The winter solistlc©
is the meridian passing through the point
where it touches the Tropic of Caplcorn
December 21: the summer sollstice. the
other sollstial point, is the one which
touches that tropic June 21. Both the
spring and autumnal seasons' are marked
by the sun crossing the equator on March
20 and September 22. respectively.
DEATH AND TAXES— Reader. Oak
land Cal. "Death and taxes" are cer
tain'* is not cuite correct. The words
were first used by Benjamin Franklin in
a letter to M. Pomeroy, a distinguished
Frenchman. In the letter Franklin wrote:
"Our constitution Is in actual operation:
everything appears to promise that it will
last, but In the world nothing is certain
but death and taxes."
AIRSHIP— A Subscriber, City. This de
partment has for Its purpose the giving to
people of Information upon all topics that
are of general Interest wh«n an answer to
the question can be obtained, but it does
not advise people as to what to do with
stock they may hold In airship companies
or other concerns. Questions relative to
investments, reliability of Individuals or
firms are not answered In this depart
ment.
SACRAMENTO SHERIFF-Subscriber.
Colusa, Cal. The first Sheriff of Sacra
mento County was Joseph McKlnney.
who was elected April 1. 1S50, to serve two
years. He was killed In the performance
of duty near Brighton August 15, 1350. In
September of the same year Ben McCul
lough was elected to fill the vacancy.
FROGS— Subscriber, Santa Cruz, Cal.
Any bookseller can procure books on frog
culture. • Frogs sell in the San Francisco
market at from 25 cents to $2 per dozen,
according to the size and demand for
frogs' legs.
RECREATION GROUNDS-S.. City.
The recreation grounds in San Francisco
were closed down as a ball ground in the
fall of 1SS3. Andy Piercy was the lessee
of the grounds at the time.
TOPAZ-A. C City. It is said that
the tonaz took its name from a Greek
word .meaning guess, since the ancients
could only guess at the locality from
which, the stone came.
LONDON, July 29.— The validity of Da
kota divorces in England was again raised
to-day before the President of the Divorce
Court, Sir Francis Jeune, in the suit for
divorce brought by D. S. Constandlni
against his wife, who, is -a daughter of
Stephen Ralll, a member of the firm of
Ralli Brothers, well known in New York
as well, as ' In London. The husband
cfharged his wife with bigamously marry
ing Dr. Lance, the family physician. Con
standini obtained a judicial separation
from his wife in 1899.
John Lawson Walton, counsel for the
petitioner, explained the subsequent pro
ceedings as follows:
This delicately nurtured lady of Belgrravi*
went to a wild district of the earth, emigrated
to the half-settled State of Dakota, became an
American citizen, stayed six months there,
fraudulently obtained a go-called divorce and
married the co-respondent there, thus using the
lax Dakota laws for her own purpose. This
was fraud on civilized jurisprudence.
The jury found the respondent and co
respondent guilty of adultery, awarding
$125,000 damages against Dr. Lance, and
also found the petitioner guilty of the
counter-charge of adultery. His petition,
therefore, was dismissed and argument
on the points of law involved was post
poned until to-morrow.-
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION
COMPELS RETRENCHMENT
It Is Believed That Insular Expenses
. Will Show a Reduction of
10 Per Cent.
MANILA, July 29.— The United States
Philippine Commission has been conduct
ing a detailed examination of the heads
of the various departments of the Gov
ernment, forcing on them a general policy
of retrenchment. The Commissioners
have investigated the estimates, cut down
items, substituted Filipinos in subordi
nate positions formerly assigned to Amer
icans and have impressed on the chiefs
that they must follow the McKinley pol
icy of the elevation of the Filipinos. As a
result of the commission's action it is
estimated that the budget for the half
year will be reduced from $5,209,408 to
$4,216,165 for the Insular Department, and
for the city of Manila from 11,407,034 to
$969,015, exclusive of permanent improve
ments, which will be made a separate
charge. C V ;r 1
The budget bill has not yet been passed.
The commission has adopted a new ar
rangement for the appropriations because
previous statements contained over
estimates to the amount of about 51,000,000,
which is being returned to the treasury,
and it is expected that the insular ex
penses will show a general reduction of
8 to 10 per cent.
Lieutenant Rucker of St. Louis has been
found guilty of embezzlement and sen
tenced to dismissal. . .
SISTER MARY CECELIA
DIES AT REDWOOD CITY
Pupils of Convent of Which She Was
the. Head Mourn Loss of Be
-" loved Woman.
REDWOOD CITY, July 29.-Sister
Mary Cecelia, the. Sister Superior of the
convent of Notre Dame for six years past,
died at, the convent here this morning
from heart failure.
The funeral will take place from the
Catholio church to-morrow and the body
will be sent to San Jose for burial. A re
quiem mass will be celebrated by the Rev.
Father Conlan of this place, assisted by
the Rev. Fathers Lyons and Braley of
Menlo Park.
Sister Mary Cecelia at the time of her
death was 40 years of age. She was a
native of Missouri. Entering the order
of which she has ever since been a mem
ber, she prepared herself for a teacher
while still very young. Fifteen years ago
she came, to San Jose, where she remained
until coming to take charge of the con
vent here six years ago. She was an ex
cellent scholar and a talented musician.
By her sweet disposition she had endeared
herself to all with whom she came in con
tact and -especially to the pupils of the
convent. Her loss is deeply mourned by
her many friends here.
Special Dispatch to The Call
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 29.—
. The elaborate new mosaic work on the
front of the Stanford Memorial Church
was completed to-day and the facade of
the church stands as it will for many
years to come, a glorious picture amid
and above the palms and arches and tiled
roofs of the quadrangle. The Interior of
the great structure is. however, by no
means completed. .Work was begun soon
after the close of the last term smoothing
the stone walls of the nave and the
artists started to-day with the mosaic
work there after finishing the outside.
The first of the inlaid pictures on the
face of • the church represents with fig
ures of heroic size and exquisite bits of
natural scenery "The Sermon on the
Mount," and was completed a year ago.
The later work has been above the arches
of the entrance.' It is a beautifully colored
floral decoration in mosaic, surrounding
four figures representing Love, Faith,
Hope and Charity. The inscription has
likewise been sent in a background of
gold mosaic and the smaller spaces filled
with conventional floral designs. One of
the most beautiful additions to the church
since its dedication is the carving on the
arches of the entrance. It has all been
most delicately executed In the stone by
hand and in like manner fhe columns
have been fluted.
Owing to the immense amount of work
to be done on the interior, it is rumored
that the church will not be used for ser
vices during the coming year. High scaf
foldings have been erected and the seats
of a large part of the church, as well as
the large organ, have to be covered up.
The Italian artists will be engaged for
probably a whole year on the work al
ready designed. In the basement of the
church they have opportunity to spread
out the designs in glass and. give all the
finishing touches. Already four of the
great Old Testament scenes which will
line the walls of the nave are ready to be
put up. The walls of the nave will hold
eight of these pictures, each about 12x7
feet in dimensions. The clestory walls
will be covered with floral designs and
very elaborate mosaics, whose designs
have not yet been chosen, are to be placed
last of all in the organ gallery around the
rose window. ' .
LONDON BANKER OPPOSES
CHAMBERLAIN PROGRAMME
Governor F. O. Schuster Says Amer
ica's Industrial Position Is
Not Attractive.
LONDON. July 29.— Governor F. O.
Schuster at a meeting of the Union Bank
of London. Limited, to-day made a
lengthy reference to the British fiscal con
troversy. While he welcomed an inquiry
into the fiscal policy of the Government,
the whole tenor of Schuster's remarks
was opposed to tampering with free trade.
He expressed the belief that the United
States was within measurable distance of
adopting free trade and in support of this
said he had a private interview with the
late President McKinley two years ago.
In which the latter said:
My tariff bill has done its work. We have
been able to build up many great Industries
In a short time, and now gradually but inevi
tably our tariff must be reduced.
Schuster contended that America's in
dustrial position under protection was
"not entirely attractive, nor are its work
ingmen contented." /
CUBAN MALCONTENTS
¦p-TT.T.T-.n OR CAPTURED
Four Men Who Incite to Treason in
Santiago Province Come
to Grief.
HAVANA, July 29.— The efforts of four
men to cause an uprising in the vicinity
of Bayamo, province of Santiago, have
ended in the capture of their leader and
the killing of the other three. The four
men for -weeks endeavored to excite the
people to treason and violence on the
ground that the revolutionary forces had
not been paid and were not likely to be
paid. Secretary of the Interior Yero In
formed the correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press that this effectually ends the
only semblance of an uprising in Cuba.
YOSEMITE VALLEY.
In One Way and Out Another OveT
the Double Loop of the
Merced-Santa Fe.
The Merced-Santa Fe Route passes
Bowers Cave, New Inspiration and Oh
My Points and through the Merced and
Tuolumne Big Tree Groves. The stage
passes through a tunnel cut In the
"Dead Giant" of the Tuolumne Grove.
It's the scenic way. Special low rate
tickets, including all expenses for a
five, seven or ten days' trip. All about
It at the Santa Fe, 641 Market st. •
Cruiser Sinks a Steamship.
PLYMOUTH. July 29. — The British
third-class cruiser Melampus collided with
and sank the British steamer Ruperra off
the Lizard .last night. The crew was
saved. The damage sustained by the Me
lampus will necessitate docking her for
repairs.
MEASURING CHINESE
BY BERTILLON SYSTEM
New Means of Identification Is Put
in Operation at San
Diego.
SAN DIEGO, July 29.— The Bertillon
system of identification of Chinese is now
in operation here, the first port in the
United States where it has been adopted.
Measurements, instead of photographs,
are now being taken of Chinese laborers
who leave here for foreign countries with
the Intention of returning to the United
States. The system is expected to do
away with the fraudulent use of certi
ficates that has caused so much annoy
ance to immigration inspectors.
Dr. -M. F. Gallagher of Washington,
who has Just established the system here,
left to-day for San Francisco to*' put it in
operation there. It will be installed at
Portland, Port Townsend and along the
Canadian border.
BTJLES GOVERNING ENTRY
OF CHINESE ARE CHANGED
WASHINGTON, July 29.— Taking note
of the criticisms that have passed at
home and abroad on the application of
the Chinese exclusion laws to the incom
ing Chinese who are to set up the Chinese
exhibit at the St. Louis exposition, the
President has . directed a considerable
change in the existing rules. The amend
ed rules are now in press, and, it, is said,
will make the entry of Chinese who are
not attempting to evade the exclusion
laws easy. The Chinese Minister here has
expressed his satisfaction with tha
changes. i;i;
Traveling Men Elect Officers.
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich.. July 29.—
The fourth annual convention of the Inter
national Federation of Commercial Trav
elers closed to-day with the election of
the following officers: President, Louis
Lebaume, St. Louis; vice president, C.
D. Daniel, Columbus, O. ; ; secretary, Ar
thur L. Sheetz, Omaha, Neb. The rail
road committee stated in its report that
the Western Passenger Association has
adopted an interchangeable mileage book
good on trains In their territory. This is
regarded as a great victory for the trav
eling men.
Dewey Must ; Tear Down His Fence.
TOPEKA, ; Kans., July 29.— On orders
from, the Department of Justice at Wash
ington United States District. Attorney J.
S. 3 Dean has ; directed : C. 1 H. ; Dewey, r the
ranchman ; of Cheyenne County war fame,
to tear down eleven miles of fence' which ¦
partially, encloses thirteen ; sections of
Government land. :, Dewey. is one of fifteen v
or; more ; ranchmen who ; are said to have
Government land enclosed. . {
Oil Cars Are Burned.
REDDING, July 29.— Two oil cars and
caboose of a southbound freight train
Jumped the track this morning three
miles . north of .' Copley and caught fire.
Theoll cars, although presumably empty,
contained enough. oil to generate gas and
cause an explosion.' The men fighting the
flames- wonderfully enough 'escaped in-
Jury from the explosion. The California
express was delayed four hours by tho
wreck.* ?
THE SAN rBA^CISCO.CALLi THURSDAY, JULY 30,- 1903.
* An Alameda man went insane .the other, day
dreaming over a fortune which; had been bequeathed
to him. His condition is almost as sad as the fel
low who dreams that he won the first prize in a lot
tery and wakes uo before he has a chance to soend it.
An Indiana youth, backward, bashful and awk
ward, fecured a hunter's license the other day and
believed that it endowed him with' the privilege to
marry the girl of his choice. Perhaps even in his
haste he felt that his wooing would have to begin
*fter the wedding ceremony.
A man was arrested in Oakland the other day for
stealing bread. It is seldom that a single act, so ex
poses our boasted humanities and Christian civiliza
tion in their shameful poverty. 'It "•'•is indeed a
wretched state in Which' one must steal to eat arid in
which we cannot feed o<»r poor.
The Supervisors of Santa Clara County have ren
dered a distinct service to humanity and have placed
the beautiful country under their direction favorably
to the consideration of the rest of the people of
the State. The Supervisors have ordered severe re
strictions upon the operation of automobiles and
have provided precautions for those who must meet
these machines on the roads.
Russian newspapers have had the unspeakable au
dacity of censuring the traditional and widely ac
cepted American habit of lynching, even going so
far as to cartoon Uncle Sam as presiding officer of
Judge Lynch's court. This unwarranted and impu
dent reflection upon our institutions is almost be
yond toleration. It is almost as bad as our inten
tion, subsequently revised, to interfere in Russian
domestic affairs.
PRESIDENT HILL of the Great Northern,
when asked his opinion of the recent flurry
among the stockbrokers of New York, an
swered: "We are not worried out here. Our broad
acres do not feel the tremors of Wall street." That
statement sums up the subject in a nutshell. Doubt
less there are many persons in the West who have
had such close relations with Wall street that
they have suffered more or less from the fluctuations
in the stock market, but the West generally, from
the Mississippi to the Pacific, has not felt even so
much as a tremor from the Wall-street shake-up.
The wheat States as a rule have remarkable crops
despite a shortage here and there. An estimate
made up in St. Paul from reports from 300 cor
respondents in various parts of the Northwest is to
the effect that the average yield per acre will not
be large, but that nevertheless taken as a whole the
crop will be a good one. The calculations are that
Minnesota will have 90,000,000 bushels, North Da
kota 46,000,000, and South Dakota 36,000,000.
- From Kansas come glowing reports of a crop so
big that there are hardly men, women and children
enough to harvest it. One report says: "The sec
retary of the State Board of Agriculture and officers
of the San Francisco Railroad estimate this sum
mer's yield at 100,000,000 bushels, and the officers
of the Atchison road make the estimate only five
million bushels less. The officers of both roads es
timate the wheat yield in Texas at 25,000,000 bushels,
against one-third of that last year, and the yield in,
Oklahoma at 40,000,000, against less than a third of
that last year. * * * In Nebraska the area of
wheat is IS per cent greater than a year ago, and
estimates from all parts of the State put the wheat
harvest at 80,000,000 bushels. This has never been
approached in the State. The crop last year was
under 53,000.000 bushels, and that was 10.000.000
THE PROSPEROUS WEST.
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A Philadelphia teamster has been ar-
rested for driving his team over a sol*
course.
Special Information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by th*
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali-
fornia street. Telephone Main 1043. *
Townsend's California place fruits and
candles, 50c a pound. In artlstla fin»-
etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern
friends. 713 Market st, above Call bl&g. *
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