The San Francisco call., 1898-10-20
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

CAN VOTE ANYWFdERE-A,, Marsn- field. Coos County, Oregon. IT the 1atner of the young man named becaIne. a sori. o,si zen of the United States during LlS aTon Son 2 minority, by that act the son peGaine eos "a a citizen and if he is now Of age @ re stata ostla cast his vote In Oregon or any olneL o'AoS o9 without having, to take ous pW virtue of his fathers naturalization ciliAeN AuTHoR WANTED-B. M, Oakland, Cal. This correspondent wants to kno~ in what publication she can ma the Aoi- lowing lines:
 Ye are changed since I saw ye last, ..,,.a. There's something bright from your teature' There s' is that comes over your brow and eye; s. Which speaks of a world where no@7i9 '-' ye smiie-but --our smile hath dimness, yet O. what have ye looked on since last we A'''
 MIST RENOUNCE ALLEGIANCE F, C., City If an alien. subject or tue Queen of Great Britain, comes to lne United States and in due tune peCutifo p5,.,,i fo a citizen thereof in after years fet ,I2 W England with the intention oI naAt,s Ia nIs that his future home and desires lo eLa ho joy the rights of an English cltIzeh, ,,tf to must make application to } become re1onnee 1 n1e his allegiance to the United states, ;s aoa G af man can be a citizen of two countries sIe one and the same time
 RECORD OF THE CHINA-J. c. E.' City The highest speed attained Dy lhe steamship China of the Pacific Mali com. pany was 19.016 on a measured mile, anu 423 knots at sea in short day or z3 hours and 20 minutes. Her best record peLWeen San Francisco and Hongkong was IS oays and F hours, including stay or 70 70 h9urs lrS and 30 minutes at Yokohama; or If oayS and If hours running time. Her recoIo between San Francisco and Yokohama IS 12 days and 45 minutes; from fokenaHI1a 9e I5,I,aA to Honolulu. 8 days 6 hours and 10 min- utes; from Honolulu to San Francisco days hours and 40 minutes.
 MAIL TO SoLDIERS-A. o. s., City. The mail service at Manila is not as eff fective as 1t will be in time. The deliv- cry of letters to soldiers at that place has been very irregular, ana there are address letter to the Postmaster Gem eral at Washington, D. C., and state par ticularly when, how and in what LsL- mai ner you directed the letters sent, gVinS name. name of company ana all tnas H was on the envelopes that contained, the letters sent. An investigation will pc made and the letters will no doupt pe traced.
 ARTISAN WELLs-M. s. H., Trini- dad, Humboldt County, Cal. All water that is obtained from artesian wells has, at some time, been surface water<D F. Ii. Newell on the subject of such wells says:
 The principal condition upon which artesian wells flow depends on the existence of pervtous strata, such as sandstone. inclined at a gentle angle to the horizontal, and inclosed between less pervfous layers, as for example, shales and cays. Also the higher edge of a pervtous bed thus conditioned must receive an abundant supply of water either directly from rainfall or from the drainage of the adjacent country. and there must be little or no escape at lower levels. When this bed is full of water and the water is not in motion the pressure at the lowest part of the bed is equivalent to that exerted by column of water of the height to which complete saturation extends. If. how ever, there is small outlet and the water moves toward this the pressure at the lowest point of the saturated rock will be reduced and will be less and less, according as the place of escape is made larger or is made lower down. When water thus under pressure finds for itself a natural outlet spring Is formed but when the bed is tapped artificially by a drill hole and the water rises to the sur face an artesian we'll is the result. In all cases water has come from higher ground by working its way gradually down through the minute interstices or crevices in the inclined rock, and, pressed by other particles behind rises through the easiest outlet.