The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
LABoRERs-G. W. L., Red Bluff Cal. The con.
dition of the Iaborers in the United States is
financially and otherwise infinitely, better
| than that of the laborers of England, while
| those or England are in great many ways
better OF than those of Mexico.
CITY CASA. NJ, City. Since 1883 the gas
of this City has been shut off once for per-
ceptible length of time by order OF the supeS-
visors, and that was this year. 1t has on
number of occasions, by order of the board,
been shut off for one or two nights before or
after the night before after full moon.
That is called extending the corporation
moonlight"
A RIGHT TO VOTER. E. H., stockton, Cal. If
''in the early days a -teamster who went
through the country could vote Tor Presl-
Dental Electors wherever he happened to be
on election day by presenting ceruncate'
showing that he was registered in some place
in the State" no teamster can 40 SO now: a
voter can vote only in the precinct IN Whlcn
he is legally registered.
A GUARDIAN-Miss Benlcia K, City. The
matter of appointing guardian for person
who is said to be incompetent is one that rests
in the discretion of the court before whom the
application is made, after hearing OF the
facts OF the case. In the case OF wlie salo 70
be incompetent the husband, there being no
valid objection presented, is undoubtedly the
proper person to appoint.
FROM LoNGFELLow-H. w. R., Oakland, Cal.
The quotation asked about is from Long fellow,
so two friends of this department have informed
it. The lines are TO be found in 1.-THE Masque OF
Pandora, and the exact words are:
Never by lapse Of time,
A soul defaced by crime,
Into its former self returns again;
For every guilty deed
Holds in itself the seed
OF retrlbution and undying pain.
NJ Errifv Cal
There is no power earth to prevent you
from buying as many Mexican dollars as you
wish at "a cents apiece. except it should be
rise in the price of silver, which would send
the price of Mexican dollars up above that
figure, and going to Mexico and there purchaS-
ing 81 worth of commodities for every coin
which you purchased for 81 cents. The price
of Mexican dollars in this market is regulated
by the price of silver and ranges at this time
from 81 to 81 cents.
PROMINENT HoUsEs-M. B., City. At the
Mission the old mission church and the adobe
building at the northwest corner of Church
and Sixteenth streets are prominent monu-
ments of the very early days and the two oldest
buildings in that section. At the presidio, If
you mean the Preside proper there are still
one two buildings that were standing at
the time of the American occupation, while at
North Beach there is old crab house on Bay
street and the Haskell home at Black Point
the house in which David C. Broderick died.
GOLD IN GERMANY-A. s. NJ, City. On the
23d of November. 1871, law was passed in
Germany concerning the coming of imperial
gold coin. 1T was passed to gradually take
the place Of the coins of the particular States
One section of the law provides that call pay
ments which by existing law are made in sill
yer money of the thaler currency, OF Southern
German currency, of Lubbock or Hamburg cur
rency or in thaler of the Bremen gold reckon
ing, may be effected in the imperial gold
COIN" Then follows the value of the various
coins or currency as compared with imperial
gold.
ENTITLED TO DRAwBACK-G. W. L., Red Bluff,
Cal All articles made wholly from imported
materials and many articles made partly from
such materials are entitled. on expectation, 10
drawback of the duties paid on the material
used in their manufacture, less i per centum
of such duties. If any imported materials are
used in the manufacture of an article made in
part from domestic materials and the i'm
ported materials or the parts made from such
materials shall so appear in the completed
article that the quantity or measure thereof
may be ascertained, such article is entitled on
expor tation, to a drawback of the duties paid
on the imported materials used, less per
centum OF such duties. Such drawback is
allowed under general and special regulations
prescribed by the Secretary OF the Treasury.