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Evening journal., 1903-03-11
Theatrical Managers Appealed To.

Washington, March 1.-THE secre-
tary Of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Association Of the United States has
sent a circular letter 10 the theatrical
managers Of America. asking them II
they will devote to the Jefferson me
mortal fund per cent Of the gross
receipts derived from the theatrical
performance on Monday. April IS. next.
the l60th birthday anniversary Of the
author OF the Declaration OF Independ.
cnce. A facsimile copy of a letter
from Joseph Jefferson is attached to
the circular, warmly approving the
suggestion.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
A, A, SEASON ALMOST BOOKED
Some Of the Best Teams in the coun-
try Will Be Seen Here This
Season.

The work of making daics FOR the COM
Ing season by thc management OF the VIII
m'ast0n a. A. baseball team goes mer-
r.iy on. Tho whole season IS almost book
ed, and the teams that viii be seen here
this season VIII be among the best IN the
country. The team has about been pick
ed. and will be as strong. II no. stronger.
than it was last season. For personal rea-
sons the lineup OF the entire team will
not be given out for several days but the
management wishes 10 assure the public
that the team viii be composed Of sem
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
SMUGGLING ON TRANSPORTS
Goods Seized and TWO officers OF
Seward Under Arrest.


Manila, March 11.-COliector Shus-
ter has seized a quantity OF silk, sill
yer and LIQUORS brought from Hong
Kong on the United States transport
Seward but not recorded on tho mani
fest and has ordered the arrest OF
Captain Harry Chamberlin and the
Quartermaster of the vessel on the
charge Of smuggling The goods wero
purchased in Hong Kong at the re-
quest of prominent army officers. who
say they had no knowledge of the plan
to conceal them, and who deny intent
to defraud the customs. The officials
say smuggling is frequent on trans
ports and regular naval vessels. and
that they are determined TO put a
stop to it.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
Police Protection In Kansas City.


Kansas City. No, March l1-Charges
Of official corruption in the police de-
partment, involving Chief John Hayes,
made by Jailer Robert Tod Hunter.
were filed yesterday with the board Of
police commissioners. An investiga-
ton will follow. Jailer Tod Hunter
alleged that Detective Sanderson had
accepted a weekly payment from a
gambler who was granted immunity
from arrest. and that q report Of this
fact was fled with Chief Hayes and
suppressed by that official. Charges
Of similar nature are made against
two other officers. Chief Hayes fatty
denies all charges made against him
self and his department
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
DIED.

I<NIGHT.-In this city. on March TO-
1903. Margaret Il. knight. aged "A years
Funeral Thursday. March y, 1903 from
the residence OF her son. NJ. +. Fisher
No. lio9 West street. Intcrmont at Perry
vile. Nd. Train leaves P., Is. and W. sta
luon at le1S a. m.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
MARRIED

BALSER. AT No. So Wash
ingion street. ON Tuesday evening. March
10, 1908, by the Rev. Dr. Richard B.
Cook, Charles Il. Sparks, Jr.. and
Emma X. Balscr.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
Mr. H0ifeoI.er is u wIth the erIp.

James II. IToaecxcr. Jr.. is confined
- his home with the grip. This is.ihe sec.
ond attack he has suffered this winter.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
$4,000

cry
heavy all brass bed
with l 1-2 in. posts, 6
It. high and full width.
1t has swell footboard
triple Ilacquered, and
the locking device of
the rails makes it alb
solutely rigid and
noiseless. Enameled
white and brass trim
med beds start at
$3.50 in all sizes.
Dozens Of patterns to
select from.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
HARTMAN.
ESTABLISHED IS43.
.
HARMAN.
Etching


30xl6 in. with neat
moulded gold frame.
We have succeeded in
securing a particularly
attractive line ofEtch-
ing. The subjects are
artistic and the execu-
ton of the best. They
start at $l.25, $500
so, &c. up.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
Il, IS and zoe yer yd.
Cut prices

'------------------- Y NU IVOD
on the best wearing
quality of stair and
table oil cloths. Staple
goods, smoothly fin
ished and in neat
small designs.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
rs, 50. rs, &c.
Window

shades, with p a t.
Spring roller complete,
mall colors. A shade
entirely satisfactory
in make and finish.
Evening journal., 1903-03-11
$4,000

Nigh
quality China closet
in all quartered oak.
Finely carved, 4 #.
wide bent 6 a S S
French crystal ends
and adjustable shell
YES. A new feature
is the dust proof door,
keeps china, glass, &c.
clean.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
No "Highfahntin." "

All arrayed in their Sunday-go-to
meetin' clothes and wearing tall hats,
the Michigan delegation in the House
of Representative called on Speaker
Cannon to see about their committee
places. They found the Illinois man
clad in a rather scrubby looking suit,
with an enormous quid of tobacco in
his cheek William Alden Smith as
spokesman delivered quite an oration.
dwelling on the glOries of Michigan and
winding up with the fervently ex
pressed hope that the Wolverine State
would not be neglected. Mr.. Cannon
arose and said: Gentlemen, I appre-
ciate all that your eloquent spokesman
has said, and I deeply feel the honor
of this visit. 1 am sure you are all
aware of the perplexities of my present
position, and" Here he shifted his
quid and concluded: "Oh, what's the
use? Boys, I'll do the best 1 can for
you, but let's cut out the speechify-
ing.''-Omaha Bee.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
INSTRUCTIVE CTUDHng
BY LNOIEDAAlfENz AND
1[IEXS1F1EN

was Joined by only two of the others,
looking very groggy. They had been
up all night nursing their comrade, who
had become queer and wanted to swim
a race with crocodile. When 1 went
in to see him he wanted to know if 1
had seen the race. He knew US all by
name, but he would insist on racing
with the crocodile, and hour after hour
ne was at it, swearing at the imagin-
airy beast like a trooper
Somehow the African fevers are far
more malignant some years than otK
ers. At the pool that year nearly
everybody taken i'll died. The mortal
ity was terrible all up and down the
Congo. Every one was afraid. One
Sunday morning upon coming to
breakfast the acting commissary was
not there. He was an industrious man
and drank little, never said much and
took a back seat at everything. He was
sick. No one thought anything about
it. In two hours he was dead. 1t was
a shock TO see a big, hearty fellow go
like that, and for several days our
little circle was under a cloud. In the
meantime the sick engineer was sent
home, and I was left with only one.
He became despondent, and in a few
days would not say a word to any one
and tried to commit suicide several
times, but always failed. At last they
locked him UP and sent him home with
an escort.
After many difficulties the boat was
finally finished, and ran well. Long
before Commandant Morain told me it
was for the Marchand expedition, and
that they would make me any offer
I would accept to take it across the
country and put it up on the Nile. This
suited me exactly, as it would take me
into the country McClintock and
wanted to go to. 1 made the agree
ment that the Government was to
bring up our loads from Matadi, in
Guiding the guns taken from us, and
at last we were independent.
In the meantime McClintock had
gone TO the Quello River, a branch of
the Kassai. The trading company had
agreed to send him up there for trip
while I was at work on the boat. He
was to be gone a year, and then we
were to meet at BraZzaville, and from
there go into the interior to do the
work we had planned.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

ment to deal with the combine rather than
with its rivals But it that Lord Colerdge and
the Court of Appeals which affirmed his decision left
of the certain elements which American courts
properly include in the issue There others who
have rights besides the shipper and the transporter of
merchandise.
The shipper buys in the market that is open to ALL
and he sells in the market the price that OBJ
tanned by all sellers. If he have favorable rate
OF transportation that is open to all shippers he is
injurng both the producer and the consumer for he
shares with neither the profit of his low We have
in point in this State in the rebates fruit
transportation given by the of refrigerator
to the president of the Porter Bros Company. These
rebates gave him profit of nearly millions. But
he paid to the producers and sold the
cheaper. The profit of the secret went
into his pocket only If the of the fruit cars
could afford to ship at the less which he alone
joyed they could afford it to all and both producer and
consumer would share the advantage Under such cir
cumstances American courts properly look beyond
the shipper and the transportation company and con-
slider the interests of the public of the great
lied community of producers and consumers.
The statutes covering restraint of trade capable
of much enlargement The readers of the history Of
the Standard Oil Company that has been running in one
of the popular agaznes have been made familiar with
the methods of Mr. Rockefeller in monopozng the oil
trade. Where other than his oil is sold he destroys
competition by putting down the price in that locality
that his competitor his price and has to
go of business. AS competition is destroyed
the price of Rockefeer's oil in that place is put at
the market level again. Now it is within the power of
Congress in controlling interstate commerce to COM
pei Rockefeller reduce his price everywhere to the
level of the place in which he reduces destroy
petition This would disarm him by compelling him to
do business everywhere at a loss.
The legal analogy between his method and transpor-
tation rebates is complete 1t is equally in restraint Of
trade subversive of competition. Such law would
Immediately destroy the Standard Oil monopoly, for
there is capital enough in the country to install compe
tton many points that Rockefelers colossal
capital would stand the strain of doing business
everywhere and selling every consumer at loss.
The principles upon which the Supreme Court affirmed
the constituonality of the interstate act
apply to such statute suggest which would make
it less possible for great monopoze trade and
would thereby remove the inducement to combine.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
american Check.

How we do blush for the brazenness
of our American curiosity hunters.
Some of them are without shame. For
example, the Government of Servia will
not let the American who wanted to
buy the furniture of King AleXander's S
and Queen Draga's bed and wardrobe
rooms at the Belgrade Konak have
them. He offered successfully 300, 900
francs, 100000 francs and went up to
500, 900 francs. King Peter and his Min
listers think it would never do to let
them be taken over the States, and
then possibly over Europe, as a show.
This is the first time they have evinced
a sense of the shame attached to the
midnight enterprise which raised Peter
to the throne and Maschin and the
Ministers to their present grand situa-
tions. But as Queen Natalie inherits
all her sons fortune those who slaugh-
tered him and Draga cannot prevent
her bringing AleXander's personal goods
and chattels to the hammer. Should the
American persevere in his bid of 100000
francs he will place the Government at
Belgrade in an awkward position. They
are, as every one knows, desperately
hard up. AS Natalie is on the best of
terms with the court of Russia, Peter
will hardly treat her lawyer cavalierly,
and if the furniture be bought in by the
Government the Queen Dowager will
come down on it for payment. Peter
doubtless wants it to be destroyed This
is Of a piece with "a little water clears
us of the deed Of Lady Macbeth.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
EgyPtS Sacred Dances.

M. Gazet, a learned French Egyptol-
ogist, has hit upon an idea which might
well make even archaeology popular
for a week or two. AS the result Of
long excavations and researches in
Egypt, he has succeeded in thoroughly
recovering from oblivion the ritual
customs of ancient Egypt, and recently
in a lecture brought one phase of
Egyptian religion-its sacred dances,
and its magical incantations-vivi
before his public. Not relying alto
gether upon the spoken word, he had
trained Mile. Cerutti, a noted mimic
dancer of La Scala Theater, Milan. and
three other ladies, and these ladies.
clothed as priestesses of the Pharaohs.
reproduced in stately rhythmic tread
all the magic and mystery, the incan-
tations and emotions of these dances.
forgotten for almost 5000 years.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
In the OIden Time.

A retired police officer grew reminis-
cent the other night in the police re-
porters' room and told of some start
ling adventures he had in his years Of
active service Those were great
days. he said, when, if an officer ar
rested a man near the Five-mile House
he would have to drag him, fighting
every inch of the way, to Seventeenth
street. And the officer. while trying to
keep his prisoner from gouging his eyes
out or biting off an ear, would have TO
fight gang of hoodlums. friends of the
prisoner, intent on taking him away
from the hated cop.
II will never forget a mix-up 1 had
with the old Bernal Heights gang. 1
arrested one of the gang one Saturday
night, after a fight that started at
Twenty-fourth street and ended at the
station house. 1t cost me my gun, club
and handouts and lots of skin and
blood, but the man was landed. The
gang swore to get even and came near
doing it.
"a few nights after the arrest 1 saw
the members of the gang mistreating
a poor COW that was staked out on
hill. 1 started after them and they ran,
turning occasionally to hoot at me.
They ran into big barn. 1 followed
and, as 1 entered the door, 1 saw the
last one of the scoundrels disappearing
into the loft. Up I went after them,
and though the place was dark I could
see them standing in a corner ready for
me. Drawing my club and pistol,
made rush, but never reached them.
When recovered consciousness in the
hospital they told me they had found
me along toward morning on the lower
floor of the barn. 1 had fallen through
a hole the devils had carefully covered
with a piece of canvas and hay and
then made the stand just to coax me
to run right into it,"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
BIT We Must Smile.

Really now. English journalism is one
of the seven days wonders of the world.
Upon the front page of a prominent
London newspaper, wedged IN between
an account of Chamberlain's latest do
ings and a story from Somaliiand, is
this gem of wit:
There seems to be some uncertainty
on the question, What did the door
handler Many readers are inclined
to say it was the jamo, others Of
subtler minds suggest the fingered
plate. One of our readers refers US for
an answer to Messrs. Ward. Lock &
Co.
'Apropos of our lines yesterday on
the new cure for insomnia we are asked
by one of our readers, What did the
shaving -brush?' This is a badgering
question which We prefer to leave to
the ingenuity of other readers"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
Unique Traffic.

The fact that there exists among
manufacturing chemists, or, at any
rate, a section Of them, a steady de-
mand for snake venom, has long been
known to tho scientific world, but the
purpose for which it is required has
not been made public. Hitherto the
supply has been obtained chiefly from
Asia, but 1t has always been more or
less uncertain in quantity and charac-
ter. Recently, however, Australia has
appeared as a competitor in the mark
ct, but to what extent cannot be readi-
~ ascertained, for snake venom, like
radium, is measured by grains, and
commands an almost fabulous price
somewhere between e550O and 10000
per pound. II is doubtful whether the
worlds annual production reaches that
quantity, but a value of from 20s to 25s
per grain viii amply repay the col
lector. Possibly. with further develop
ments in medical science, the demand
will increase and lead TO a correspond
ing rise in price, the supply necessarily
remaining limited.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
The JabaneSe Diet.

The Japanese Diet, the deliberations
spread attention. was formed in 1889,
the first meeting, a somewhat stormy
one, taking place in the winter Of 1890
81. japanese members Of Parliament
are paid about ESQ a year as salary in
addition to travelling allowances, which
they are not at liberty to refuse even
if disposed to do so. The number OF
qualified voters in japan amounts to
little over per cent Of the total popu-
lation. All electors must be 25 years OF
age and must pay Is yen in direct na-
tional taxation.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
The Teras Star Building.


People are beginning to talk about
the Texas five-pointed star State build
ing which cannot fail to attract much
attention at the universal exposition
More than at any exposition it has
been the endeavor of the States to erect
at st. Louis a type Of architecture pc
culiar to their several commonwealths.
The architects perspective drawing
of the Lone Star State building grows
with inspection and its daring depar-
ture from conventional lines is not
found amiss in an exposition Of daring
innovations in the designs of great ex-
hibit palaces.
A happy inspiration Of the man who
designed the Texas pavilion was his
use in that structure of what many
critics pronounce the finest effect on
any exhibit palace in st. Louis-the
imposing swinging colonnade on the
south facade of the Palace of Varied
Industries. This effect appears on the
Texas building at the ends of the star
points, giving an ideally rounded finish
in the form of porches and second-story
porticos behind the curving line Of col
umns. Iowa and several other States
were quick to use this happy effect,
but nowhere IN the exposition grounds,
except in the massive original on Va
ried Industries, does the swinging col
onnade appear in such a striking man
ner as it does on the star points on
the Texas mansion.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
Aco1' Sea Drying.

The Brooklyn Eagle gives a very in
teresting account of a geological change
caught in the making. 1t says:
The sea Of Azov. body of water a
hundred miles or so in diameter. that
opens from the Black Sea into the Cos
sack country, is reported to be disap-
pearing. like Salt Lake. Ships are
stranded at Taganrog. and the exposed
bottom. drying in the sun. converts the
dust which is whirled in suffocating
clouds ever wide reaches Of territory.
Although il the latitude of Middle
France, New Brunswick and Lake Su-
perior, the sea, which is nearly incIosed
is usually frozen over from this time
till March, and it may be that the
heaping of ice blocks on the bars has
damned the water away from some of
the ports. This would be no more re-
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

A MEXICAN courts are continually passing upon
IA actions brought to prevent restraint of trade
1t is question of necessity involved in the ap-
pication of the antitrust laws great commercial
combinations and in the enforcement of the interstate
commerce law which forbds rebates on transportation
charges. Heretofore the English decisions have been
taken as precedents but are going be-
yond them.
In the English of the Mogu Steamship Com
pany McGregor, which has been recently discussed
by the New York Journal of Commerce. Lord Cole
ridge decided that there distinction between e-
gal illegal restraint of trade English ship owners
i'll the China trade combined and gave tea shippers
rebate of per cent inducement confne their
shipments entirely to the combine. Lord Coeridge
decided that this legal, being merely an induce
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
The "OId Boys. !"

Old Times tyrant with our joys.
And mows EN- down at last. sir;
Well join the dancing with the boys,
But-please don't play so fast, sir
II.
Well swing the old girls once again
Zach one O. them-we know her)
But We shall join the dance in vain,
Unless the tune is slower!
III.
Old Time stands by:-We hear him
cough
To warn us of our folly;
He sees our gray wigs flying off
Meath mistletoe and holly!
"
Farewell the dance-the rosy girls
The world with music rife. sir;
Thank heaven that once we kissed their
curls,
And that's enough for life. sir!
Atlanta Constitution.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

markabIe than was the damming OF
Niagara by ice and wind last winter.
so that pedestrians crossed to Goat ISL
and from the American shore ON rocks
that were almost dry.
"It is more likely, however, to denote
a geologic change, due either to rise
in the earth's crust at that point-such
a rise as is going on also in Norway
and that corresponds to a sinking here
or the filing up Of the shallow Ia
COON with silt carried down by the
river DON"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

In inquiry instituted by interested heirs the start
ling fact has been learned that in the litigation in
which the of the late Millionaire Corbn>is in
voved more than three million dollars has gone the
lawyers. No wonder legal luminares look with
vous eyes upon the usurpng presence of wealthy
who in the of attorneys ought properly be dead
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

BY-LAWS-B. L.. Vallejo, Cal If the
bylaws Of a lodge require that a
change in the same shall be submitted
in writing and laid over for a week. it
means that the proposition to make the
change must be submitted in the form
of a written resolution setting forth
the section sought to be, changed and
the proposed change. Such must be
read the night of presentation and,
after lying over for one week, it
comes UP for action at that time. 1t
is subject to amendment at that tim.
and the amendment may be amended
at the same meeting.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

CUBA-S. o. c.. City. BY the act Of
transfer Of the authority of the United
States to the Government of the re-
public of Cuba, May 20. 1902. the United
s, ates transferred to the people of Cuba
the government and control of the ISL
and, to be held and exercised under the
p1ovisiOrs Of the constitution of tie
republic of Cuba. The United States
would interfere in behalf of Cuba IL
there was a violation of the Monroe
doctrine
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

CRIBBAGE-G. S, YountviTe. Cal
If in a game of cribbaEs the play is
3. ?, 4, 3, 3, 2, the one who played the 5
is entitled TO run of four and the one
who played ,. the last card. is entitled
10 a run of four also, as the one who
played the five spot can make a sc
quence Of four cards and the one who
played the last two can also count a
sequence of four.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

BOOKKEEPING - Subscriber. Oak
land. Cal In the classified portion of
the San Francisco directory you will
find the addresses Of business colleges
that teach bookkeeping and give grail
yates certificates, if competent. but this
department cannot advertise such
places.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Subscri-
Der. City. The idea of preventing cruel
ty to dumb animals by the passage 0f
laws on the subject is said to have first
originated with NJ. Martin. a member
of the British Parliament, in 1921.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

The Berlin Government has given expression to
general opinion that if Japan decides to go to war
England fight with her, and Russia must be pre-
pared to match her against both. 1t is also
quite evident that under these conditions England is in
the very interesting predicament of being afraid TO
fight and Russia dare not
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

STAFF OF LIFE-C. r., City.
Bread is the staff of life" is not Of
Biblical origin. The phrase is attrib-
uted to Dr. Jonathan Swift and is used
in his Tale of the Tub"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27

SHAKESPEARE - H. NJ,
City. As to which was the greater
writer Shakespeare or Dante, is Il
question that will be debated as long
as there are readers 1t is a matter OF
individual taste with those who ~ead
the writings of both for the purpose OF
comparison.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-27
AnS7CerS TO Queries.

THE COLIMA-w. F, City. TIE
steamer Colima was wrecked on the. Z
coast Of Mexico May p, 1895.