The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

SILK-E. s., Healdsburg. .Sonoma County, Cal.
For the information you desire about SILK you
might address Cheney Bros, manufacturers
South Manchester Hartford County, Conn.s
and the Hartford Silk Manufacturing company
OF Hartford, Conn.
DRAwINe-J. G. R., City. The CALL srtists in
drawing for the paper use only the best klnd
of card board. If you call at any hrst-class
store where artists materials are sofa. you
will be advised as to the quality OF ooard an
amateur should use, and you Will also Dc tolu
what books are useful for beginners.
No SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT-An Old Patron,
Alameda, Cal. There is sixteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United States
At different times during the past ten years
attempts have been made TO tack on amend
ments, but they never got any turtner tnan
the rooms of the committee to which they
were referred.
No VoTE THIS TIME W. NJ, City. Regis
tration closes in this City on Monday, August
10, and as you cannot become a citizen-that
ls,you cannotreceive your second papers-untu
the 18TH OF next month. you cannot be regis
tered In time to vote at the next election. No
one can nave his name placed on the register
unless ne is a citizen.
WOMAN NsUFFRAGE-Ignorance, City. In brief.
the movement in favor OF woman suffrage is
10 grant to woman the same right to vote that
is now granted TO male citizens so that in
tlme they may bring about the repeal of OBJ
noxlouS M laws and be equal before the law with
men. Ihe advocates of the movement eX-
press the opinion that such a result cannot be
ballot.
GOLD MINES AND PRoDUCTs-P. and D., City.
The richest gold mine is in Utica, in
Iuolumne County, Cal. There is no rule as to
what amount the richest ore will produce to
the ton. At Randsburg, Kern County, in this
State some ore is now being taken out that
will hiQh aS &O0AA To
richest gold mines for q time were the
Standard and Bodie mines the ore was so rich
! that 1T became necessary to hang up one half
OF the stamps as the ainalga clogged the bat
teries. No gold mine has ever produced $4,000
out of each ton of ore that was taken from It,
No ore taken from mine in Utah ever as
sayed $4,000 70 the ton.
AUTHORS WANTED-M. p City, and H. W. R.,
Oakland, Cal. These correspondents want to
know the names of authors of poems. One
wants to know who wrote "Died on the Battle
Field" in which are the lines;
The summers sun was setting
On the old Virginia plain.
And the other wants to know who wrote the
poem in which are the lines
Never by lapse of time,
The soul defaced by crime
Into its former self returns again,
For every guilty deed
Sows retribution's seed
And undylnG shame or pain.
information?
A WIFEs EARNINGs-H. H. L., City. If a
married woman, living with her husband,
earns money, except it is the proceeds of her
separate property, it is community property.
The law says: "Au other property acquired
after marriage by either husband or wife or
both is community property" That is the
language after describing what separate prop
erty is. Under our law ''the husband has the
management and control of the community
property, with like absolute power of disposi-
tion (other than testamentary) as he has of his
own separate property. Under these sections
of the law, the wife though she earned the
money, would not have the right to "hold ont
one-half of her earnings and give the other
half toward the support OF the family" unless
the husband saw fit to make her a present OF
that half. 1t is only in the case of wife liv-
ing apart from her husband that sheis entitled
to all her earnings. On this point the law says:
''The earnings and accumulations of the
wife and of her minor children living with her
or under her control while she is living sepa-
rate from her husband, are the separate prop
erty of the wife," As to wife loaning money
TO her husband, she may loan out her separate
property to her husband and in the matter OF
security she may demand the same that she
would of another person. The question as TO
whether the wife could under certain circum-
stances demand security is one of those ques-
tions that demand judicial Interpretation
and which are not answered in this depart
ment