The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1895, Page 16

r————— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1895 a6 0 eiaes s e e s N TSN ERINOINED SO ISUNDANeIENRGHIO AR e e e e e o r CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- thinclander building, Rose and MARCH 10, 1885 Shake your troubles. Get your work off your mind. Read the Carr and know it all. The man who does least makes the most fuss. Enjoy your Sunday, but don’t make it a whole loaf. We have too many laws and too few en- forcements. People who borrow trouble are always willing to give it. o rest is good except that which con- to good work. An empty stomach is nearly al of food thougl full If womar should not ten 1 who keeps out of the frying- e fire. has to jumg an who takes breakfast in bed is 1 is fin de siecle. The m not up to date The most approy dead Congres: monument to the the Cleveland bust. Some people waste so much time in re- penting, they never have time to atone. cap a joke may be, we t the expense of another. | No matter how ¢! always prefer it ad mind can slways find more n the crowded world than a narrow There are some birds which it is much | erto have in the bush than in the nd. i g to stand close to a | they wish to make a be lake a look at the city and see how | 00,000 well expended could 1m-( | | | | iness advantages of San Fran- cisco are not greater than her holiday at- e t or is hard ' 1se he paves the way with cob- | simply becat Lenten penance, but they make a high bluff at it. | girls are not precipitate about | | You make stepping-stones for yourself | when you take the stones from your neigh- | bor’s path. complain of his generally too stuck | The office-holder — { se who have the most pride in San t is are the most eager to ery community should make idleness harder than work for every man in it who is capable of work. Some people are so stingy and so blind that they see no beauty in moonlight ex- cept that it saves gas. | beas good a fisherman as | 1 never catch suckers with l SR | * neighbor if he can remember | bout the Oriental war exceptthe | ather of Li Hung Chang. | Grover ma; ever, but he w anything peacock No matter how windy the speech of an | orator may be, the average man always | considers it eloquent if it blows his way. One cause of unhappy marriages is that | S0 many bands and wives are more wedded to themselves than to one another. Society belles often fail in the matrimon- ial market because they flirt with ten men ten per cent each instead of loving one man | at par. | It was rather hard on Li Hung Chang | that he lost his yellow jacket before winter | began and gets it back again just as spring | is coming in. 1 i It is a foolish heiress who regards a for- eign nobleman as an attractive novelty since there are so many of them on the bargain-counter, Since there was so much fuss and folly over the Gould-Castellane wedding, just | think what would happen if there should | be a divorce suit. The politician is known from the states- man by the fact that he regards local ap- propristions as the only appropriate thingsin politics. Patriotism may be eager to patronize home industry, butif the industry doesn’t | advertise its existence the patriotism will never know where to catch on. As a result of the immigration of Swedes and Norwegians, it is said that there are more men trained as sailors living in Min- nesota than in all New England. If the anarchists would quit trying to abolish law and set about trying to get rid of the law-makers, they mught strike busi- ness men as a good crowd to join. Some New York women are talking of organizing a school of lectures for hus- bands with the idea probably of giving a superior instruction to the home course. Manufacturers who are seeking to build up a home market for home products should not overlook the fact that the best way to do it is to advertise in home papers. It is astounding to learn that the ad- mirers of James G. Blaine in Maine have not yet succeeded in raising more than $50 to erect a monument to him, and that they have now applied to the Legislature for assistance. Of course, the Legislature might well appropriate money for a monu- ment to the greatest statesman the commonwealth has known, but it ought not to give either assistance or recognition to such a body of pretended admirers as | dorsed. | the machinery of politics, but none of its | | cities into close relations with retailers | | trade of this city | cag | the towns of the Sacramento Valley will the one now making a mockery of the work. THE PROPER COURSE. A Republican nominee for Councilman in Oakland, having withdrawn in favor of a non-partisan candidate in his ward, the Republican Central Committee has promptly solved the problem of the sitna- tion by nominating a Republican who had received the indorsement of the Democratic party. This wasproper. The Republicans of the city generally should support the action of the committee, and those of that particular ward should contirm it by vot- ing solidly for the gentleman thus in- Parties exist because there is reason for their existence. They are not haphazard aggregations of men, but vital organisms embodying profound political principles and charged with the duty of supporting and carrying out great political measures. Men ally themselves with a great party because they believe in the principles the party represents and are advocates of the measures which it supports. In this way party politics has the dignity of a philos- ophy of government and a system of state- craft. It is not a mere matter of spoils and office seeking, but an earnest endeavor on the part of a large proportion of the people to achieve by discipline and organi- zation a power which they can use for the advancement of the welfare and an in- crease of the grandeur of the republic. The non-partisan represents no principle and stands for no measure. He has no animating sentiment with which his fellow-man can sympathize. He is either a mere negative factor in the community, opposed to everything that any one else undertakes, or else he is one whose political instinets begin with a desire for office and whose political thoughts end in devising means to obtain it. In either case heis only a marplot, without a conception of the true objects of politics and incapable of understanding the methods by which alone representative governments can be carried on. If the non-partisan is true to his narrow creed, he never combines with his neigh- bor, for such a combination would be the nucleus of a party. Few of them, how- ever, are sufficiently logical to compre- hend their creed or sufficiently faithful to be true, even if they comprehend it. Most of them are willing and eager to make combinations of any kind and on any terms, and as a result they soon form for themselves a senseless aggregation known by the sel: san ultifying title of a non-parti- party. These combinations bhave hing that constitutes a party except ical principles. They have candidates for office, ward strikers, hangers-on and all They represent, therefore, | the d the desire for | spoils and the eagerness for otfice without an ambition for anything higher. The | Republican committee in Oakland done well in cutting loose from any nd among intelligent people we ay sanguinely expect an indorsement of their course at the polls. WHAT OUR DRUMMERS CAN DO. The commercial travelers are now mak ing preparations for their spring cam: paign. These indispensable auxiliaries of mercantile business have an association extending throughout the Pacific Coast from San Diego to Puget Sound. All through that territory they push the in- terests of their respective houses and | bring the wholesalers and jobbers of the throughout the country. The hold of San | Francisco upon the trade of the interior is largely due to the energy and enterprise of her drummers, For a number of years these active ad. vertisers of San Francisco business have | worked under difficulties. They have found their field invaded by competitors from Chicago and other Eastern cities, by virtue of a transportation system which discriminates against the distributing Even since the efforts | of the Traffic Association revived traffic by the ocean route and cheapened isthmus | transportation high local freights have | robbed our merchants and their traveling representatives of half their opportunities. | Now there is about to bea change. It will not become operative to any great | extent this season, but next year it will be | an important factor in business. Then | the San Francisco drummer who starts up | the San Joaquin Valley will be able to make figures based on lower freight bills | than have ever before prevailed. His Chicago competitor will no longer have a pull on him in that respect. The ocean route and the cheap tolls of the valley road for one, two or three hundred miles will constitute a formidable competition against 2000 wiles of railroading from Chi- | Undoubtedly our commercial travelers will appreciate the benefit to their business of this change. They are bright and go- ahead men, who know a good thing when they see it in present or prospect. Every one of them will become a missionary in | behalf of the new enterprise throughout the San Joaquin Valley—nor there alone. The drummer who strikes northward for say to his customers, “How long are you going to let the San Joaquin people have such an advantage over you?’ And the northern merchant will echo to himself, “How long?"’ and the more he asks him- self that question the more eager he will be to co-operate with San Francisco in doing for his own section what has been done for the San Joaquin. It will also be the good fortune of our commercial travelers that when they thus put in a word for our new railroad develop- ment they are speaking for themselves, their principals, their customers and the general public. If they will be as eloguent and energetic in talking up improved and cheapened transportation as in pushing their own proper business, they will exert a great influence throughout the State in behalf of our commercial progress. BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT. In determining to free the CaLr from fakes of all kinds and to publish no lottery- lists nor lottery advertising we have had no expectation of profiting anything by the public approval that might come to us because of the adoption of that course. In fact we knew by past experience there would be no profit in it. We adopted the course simply because i is right and honest and because it is the only course compatible with the honor and the dignity of legitimate journalism. In the management of the San Jose Mercury we had ample experience with the public; both in publishing lottery-lists and in refusing to do so. We learned from that experience that while the public com- mends a paper having nothing to do with Iotteries it does not support it any more liberally than it would otherwise do. Our determination therefore in adopting the present course was in no-wise affected by any expectation of gain. We have always desired to be able to publish a paper suffi- ciently strong to hold the straight course of legitimate journalism without swerving and without having to tack to one side or the other in order to make headway. We have now for the first time achieved such a position and are able to carry out long- | that the rivers of California drain a valley cherished ideals. Tt is solely for the sake of loyalty to genuine journalism we have turned our back on fakes and lotteries, and in our devotion to that principle we count it as nothing whether there is any pecuni- ary profit in it or not. FOR RIVER IMPROVEMENT. The Senate proposes to co-operate with the Governor in urging action by the War Department to improve our rivers. Iis resolution recently adopted was timely and forcible. It full of -reasons for the prompt initiation of the work. The Government has pursued a most niggardly policy toward California in this respect, For years it has done little more than to pull up a few snags in the Sacra- mento River. Congress has made in- adequate appropriations, and even of those a large part remains unex- pended. Government engineers have repeatedly reported in favor of ex- tensive works, and have set forth their plans. They have even gone somewhat be- yond their professional functions to show the commercial value of the proposed work. Memorials and representations without number have been addressed to Congress and the War Department without any ap- preciable effect. ‘With what is now available in the hands of the department a good beginning can be made. The excuse can no longer be made that improvement is wasting money while hydraulic debris is being run into the rivers. That has been settled by the courts and the Government. Immediate action is needed. In afew months the grain movement will begin. It will start on low water and every sand bank in the Sacra- mento and Feather rivers will be money out of the pockets of our farmers and into the treasury of the Southern Pacific. The Senate resolution is aimed merely at immediate expenditure of the amounts re- maining in the hands of the Secretary of ‘War, but that is only alittle of the amount needed. What is required is a general comprehensive scheme involving the clear- ing of the channels of the #ivers, the regu- lation of their flow, and the handling of surplus flood water. The problem is large and difficult on account of the short | and sharp descent of the mountain tribu- taries of the main rivers, but engineering science has prepared plans for its solution, and only money is needed to carry them out. ‘When there was talk of the visitof a Congressional committee to examine the merits of San Pedro and Santa Monica as deep-water harbors, it was intended to| have the coramittee go up our rivers and | see for themselves what we needed. The | latest intimation from Washington is that the committee will not visit the coast as a body, but that several members will come nd look around for themselves. In that | event arrangements should be made to take them in hand and give! them all possible information on this | subject. No doubt our own delegation in Con- | gress will do what they can to secure ! what is required in this matter, but they are only a few among many. Congress has been worked so much for minor and ften unworthy schemes of river improve- | ment that something of suspicion attaches to the efforts of members to secure appro- priations in the interest of their constitu- ents. The personal knowledge and in- fluence of a few Eastern Senators and Representatives would go far to set our| case right. When a member from .\'ew{ York or Louisiana gets up to tell Congress | capable of supporting ten million inhab- itants, and that they only need improve- ment to transport the bulk of its products, the statement will command consideration. MAKING A HOME MARKET. When the manufacturers of California come to consider in detail the problem of fihding at home a market for their goods they must not overlook the fundamental truth that there can never be a market for goods that are not known to the consumer. Local patriotism and enlightened public | sentiment can do much to foster, encour- age and support California industries, but | the people must first know that the indus- tries exist. The Californian most loyal to California products can hardly be expected | to order California goods if he does not know that there are any such goods. The trade journals of California show a rich array of Eastern advertising, but a very scant amount of advertising by Cali- fornia producers. The merchant must of necessity purchase those things that are advertised, for he does not know of the others, nor do his customers. In this way the Eastern dealers get the Pacific Coast market, not because Pacific Coast people prefer Eastern goods, but because they have no choice. The proposition is too plain to require extended argument. The | simplest statement of the case is sufficient. | No possible patriotism, no possible publie sentiment, can get people to buy goods they never heard of. Our manufacturers must support their trade journals. They must advertise. A BUSINESS REVIEW. The San Francisco Commercial Herald and Market Review has published its sum- mary of the business of San Francisco for 1894. It has been prepared with the care and fullness that the community has learned to expect of that journal. Comparatively speaking, itis a favorable statement. The year opened under the in- flnence of the panicof 1893 and closed with a long spell of bad weather, which had an unfavorable effect upon business. Still during the year there was an improvement in nearly all lines of trade. The agitation regarding the tariff and silver caused merchants to restrict their purchases, yet we have to chronicle an im- port trade of $38.514,686 from foreign and $38,000,000 from domestic sources. Prices of produce have been low, and there was a partial failure of the wheat and barley crops, despite which we exported by rail and sea to the value of $70,072,358. In this connection it may be noted that the total shipments from the State by rail were in excess of 645,000 tons, the largest ever known, and 20 per cent greater than those of 1893. Fruit constituted about 42 per cent of the total. Freight rates have been raised somewhat during the year, but the increase in certain westbound rates will help our manufac- turers. The output of San Francisco man- ufactures, valued at $104,000,000, shows in most lines an improvement over 1893, and is a fair exhibit for a dull year. Building in the city has been the lowest in many years, aggregating only $4,767,074 in the value of contracts. Our savings banks show a decrease in re- sources of a million during the year, which is accounted for by the fact that two banks have gone out of existence. Loans on real estate have been reduced about two millions from the same cause, but the banks are in excellent condition, the commercial banks have increased their resources about four millions and their deposits about six mil- lions, with a slight decrease in loans and discounts. Intimately connected with the interests of the city is the state of our mining indus- try. The output of gold for the State in- creased about two millions over that of the previous year. Three leading mines show- ing the largest output are properties that were abandoned some years ago. The quartz-mining industry has improved and a number of hydraulic mines have be- gun producing under the new law. Altogether the prospects for the coming vear are favorable. The outlook for crops was never better at this time of the year; the building of the valley road will stimu- late business in many ways; confidence is reviving and there is a general disposition to put the best foot foremost, which is sure to tell in the record of the new year. —_— The Boston Herald exultingly claims that the Bostonians are growing warmer and more enthusiastic in their manners, and as a proof of it cites the fact that a few years ago audiences, however pleased, would content themselves with hand- clapping and stamping of feet, but now the noise has flown to their throats, and cries and shouts are common with the women as well as with the men. Being Bostonian this, of course, will be accounted as a de- velopment of culture, but if & San Fran- cisco audience should cheer at a theater it would be called wild and woolly and we should hear lectures on the manners of jay towns. The difference between seeing and look- ing is illustrated by the fact that a woman could see better at the theater if she would sit down on the high hat, but she looks better the other way. - SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. It undoubtedly is true that the Government was held up by the great foreign bankers in the late bond sale as a poor widow is held up by & pawnbroker when she is obliged to raise money on her furniture. But it is irrational to ail at the banker. It is the trade of the money- lender to bleed persons in need, whether he does business in a great international bank or & petty pawnshop. They who fall into hands of money-lenders should blame only their own imprudence.—Portland Oregonian. The libel bill now before the California Legis- lature provides that & newspaper may publish, without liability for libel, a report of a com- plaint sworn to before a proper official. The justice of such a law seems too obvious for serious opposition. When an action is begnn in the courts the allegations submitted under oath become public property, for the proceed- ings of courtsare open to the public and it is right that they should be so.—Albuguerque Citizen. The turning of the first sod of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad hes not yet been made, but an advertisement for bids for supplying 10,000 tons of steel rails, which has been directed by the board of directors to be published, sounds like business. It would indicate also that it is not intended to lose any time either in the matter of construction, once the route is selected, if such has not siready been chosen.—Oakland Tribune. The West Virginia House of Delegates Xas | passed & law forever disfranchising any man having been convicted of selling his vots or of asking money for it. California is experiencing & change of heart which may in time make it possible to secure such legislation here. There | are evidences enough of the need of it.—San Diego Union. Frequent discoveries of new and rich deposits of gold are reported from various parts of Cali- fornia. These, with other auspicious signs of the times, afford evidence that California is at the threshold of a new era of prosperity and de- velopment.—Los Angeles Times. San Jose is acting with sound discretion in advocating its own claims for the valley road or a branch thereof withoui attacking any other locality. Attacks naturally provoke retaliation, and thus much valuable energy is wasted.—Stockton Independent. No wonder the Goulds were anxious to marry acount. With old Gould it was count, count, count all his life, as it generally is with the | miserly rich, some of whom have to take plebe- ians for sons-in-law.—Santa Cruz Sentinel. Would it be impertinent to inquire how Count Castellane is to be paid for? On the in- stallment plan, or is one payment to suffice 7— Arizona Republican. The man who sells his vote has no right to object to the manner in which officials perform the duties of their various offices.—Gonzales Triburie. The Rothschilds and Morgans wonld warmly support Cleveland for enother term.—Pheenix Gazette. PEOPLE TALEKED ABOUT. Prince Duleep Tingh, whose American visit was not so 1ong ago as to be forgotten, is & con- spicuous figure in social circles in Paris this winter, especially at the fashionable gather- ings of the American colony. The Empress of Austria has not had a por- trait taken for thirty years. She wants to be remembered as the brilliant beauty who was almost six feet tall, whose hair came below her knees and whose waist measured seventeen inches. The late General A.J. Pleasanton of Phila- delphis left one of the largest private libraries in that city, numbering about 15,000 volumes. General Pleasanton was widely known as a | lover of books and had many rare editions. Among his books were fine collections relating to Napoleon and Shal Frank Constantine Victorato, who died at Salem, Mass,, the other day, was & genuine Greek patriot, and took part in the famous night attack upon a superior Turkish force made by Marco Bozzaris August 20, 1823. Vie- torato was about 98 years of age. Mr. Disraeli was the last novelist who re- ceived $50,000 for a single work, and that proved so disastrous to the publishers that the author offered to return part of the money. Jerry Simpsen is to take the lecture platform now that Congress has come to anend. He will expound the doctrines of populism in the West as far as San Francisco, and later on in this State, which he thinksis capable of con- version to silver and other things. Father Kneipp, the barefoot cure advocate, has been & visitor to Paris recently and the re- cipfent of many courtesies. He is Dow & mem- ber of the Pope's official household. PERSONAL. 8. 8. Little, the Dixon banker, is at the Russ, E. 8. Churchill, a banker of Napa, is at the Palace. Ex-Sherifft E. W. Kay of Visalia is at the Grand. G. W. Strohl, a rancher of the Russ. 'W. B. Rankin of Selby was at the Occidental last night. Dr. J. F. Lewis of Los Angeles is at the Palace with his wife. R. C. Sargent, a big ranch-owner of Stockton, is at the Russ. Judge J. M. Fulweiler of Auburn was at the Lick last night. Asa 8. Windle, the bicyelist, of Boston, is reg- istered at the Lick. R. C. McCreary, & miller of Sacramento, is & guest at the Grand. James A. Rigby, a rancher of Vacaville, is registered at the Russ. 8.7, Strauss, & merchant of Santa Cruz, is & guest at the California. Byron Waters of San Bernardino is at the Oc- cidental with his family. D. B. Hinckley, a foundryman of Fruitvale, is registered at the Palace. D. L. Stuart and wife of San Jose were regis- tered at the Occidental yesterday. Edwin A. Sutter, an extensive tobacco mana- facturer of Chicago, is registered at the Cali- fornia. Judge S. F. Cleary of New York, who recently sold the Iron Mountain mine, is & guest at the Palace. The will of the late Edward Solomon, the composer, has been probated. His Personal estate amounts to only $500. ps, is & guest at [ | | { ton in gold,” said Mr. Gibson, “and the gentle- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “It looks to me as though Iam to become the possessor of a fine printing press whether Iwant it or not,” said F. W. Fratt o# Sacra- mento at the Grand Hotel last evening. “I came down here to see my old friend Wells Drury to ask whether he wanted to claim some interest in a fine $9000 reversible back-action perfecting printing press that has oceupied space inone of my buildings on J street in Sacramento for fome time past. “Mr. Drury tells me that he sold his interest in the printing oftice to Harris & Sheehan and togo to them. I have been to them and they | referred me to General Thomas J. Clunie. I | talked with him, but he disclaimed all respon- | sibility, and said Gus Abbott was the proper person to see. Abbott sent me straight back to Clunie with theassurance that the latter knew all about the matter, and there you are. “Among all these men I cannot find one who wants to claim the press. I have written to the makersin New York telling them that I want the press taken away. “‘The press is bolted to the stone foundations of the building as though the fastenings were intended to last as long as the eternal hills, and | Isuggested to the makers that if they did not care to remove it I might begin to consider ita fixture of the property, and that if I have any more trouble I may decide not to relinguish possession to any one. Iam still awaiting the | answer from New York “Iknow of no city in the country where the people so uncomplainingly endure the exac- tions of gas, telephone and water monopdlies 8s in San Francisco,” said E. B. Haight, an ex- tensive gaspipe manufacturer of Boston, at the Palace yesterday. *‘The question of cheap gas is one which vitally interests every city, and where charges are exorbitant the only remedy possible is competition, and that lies in the people. Some time ago & numberof influential and determined citizens of Boston started a crusade for dollar ges, and that rate has been practically secured. The evidence that aollar gas is possible is supplied by, the companies themselves in several localities. On one street dividing two wards the peopleon one side pay $165 to one company, while just across the street the residents pay $1 to another. In Brighton, a suburb where the works of one company are located, that corporation charges $1 50 for gas, while it delivers it miles away at the dollar rate. Some day the people of San Franc: will awaken to a realization that cheap gas is & possibility and they will then se- cure E. C. Bald, the favorite of the Press Cycling Club of Buffalo, N. Y., and oneof the speediest riders that ever mounted a wheel, is at the Lick. “Eddie” is regarded somewhat in the light of a phenomenal in his native town. He first acquired national celebrity lastsummer in Springfield, Mass, when he was entered against some of the “crackerjacks,” as the speedy riders are termed in wheeling parlance, &nd rode awsy from them in a spirited man- ner. When the handsome young cyelist re- turned home the whole town turned outto meet him. The schools took & vacation, bands | plaved, the evening papers got out special editions commemorative of the wheelman’s achievement, and the Mayor delivered a eulo- gistic address of welcome, in which the free- dom of the city and all it contained were laid at the feet of the youthtul prodigy who had brought fame to his native town. Bald will remain in the city for several days, and then proceed south to go into active training. | E. B. Lupton, who own an orange and lemon | orchard in the vicinity of Los Angeles, was &t | the Lick yesterday. In a general conversation upon fruit topies Mr. Lupton mentioned a new process for curing lemons, which recently came under his observation and which he believes is destined to come into general use among lemon- growers. “Itwas in Riverside that my atten- tion was called to the metter,” said he, “and a gentleman named Devine is the first person to adopt the plan, although I believe it originated with his foreman. The lemons are carefully | graded, after which they are placed in large bins to the depth of about three feet, and over | the fruit s placed a thick layer of partially | green alfalfa. The alfalia is said to properly | sweat the lemons and give them a brilliant color, at the same time rendering the rind pli- aple. The method has been tested to the satis- faction of Mr. Devine, who thinks it is the most satisfactory in results produced.” Down in San Diego County is a new mining camp which, in the belief at least of B. M. Gib- son of that locality, who was in the city yester- day, isin a fair way to become famous. The locality is known as the Rice mining camp and was discovered about a year ago by two brothers of that name who went out there to locate a bee ranch. Some old workings at- tracted their attention, and their investiga- tions led them to forsake bee culture and prosecute a search for the yellow metal. They were successful in developing some very rich | ore, Mr. Gibson says, and this led to & number | of other prospectors quietly going to . the locality and taking up claims. “The assays of | the ore run all the way from $50 to $3000 a man from whom I received my information | said that the ledge isa very large and exten- sive one.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. I do not care for office,” They heard a fair one say; “The Legislature might keep in Upon a bargain day. Vashington Star. Sunday-school Teacher—When George Wash- ington’s father forgave him for cutting down the cherry tree what lesson did it teach? Little Johnnie —That he had buried the hatchet.—Judge. Uncle John—You boys fight a great deal, don’t you? The Twins—Yes, sir. “Who whips, generally 2" “Ma does,”--Philadelphia Record. Cholly—How would you advise me to dis- guise myself for the masquerade? “Why don’t you make up as a gentleman, and not be annoyed with a mask.” “Just think of whisky freezing, major ® “‘Makes no difference to me, s T'ma great lover of cracked 1ce.”—Atlanta Constitution. An agent for one of the large jewelry-stores in this city was canvassing a section of the over-the-Rhine Qistrict. He was endesvoring | to sell an eight-day elock, and had the good | qualities of it at his tongue’s end. My dear sir,” he said to & portly German, | “this is a remarkable clock. Not only is it | beautifully finished, but it is a perfect time- piece. Why, this clock runs for eight days | without winding.” The German opened his eyes at this and gazed with wonderment at the clock. ““You say it run eight day vithout vinding?” he inquired of the agent. “‘Vell, dat is ein gut clock; but if it run eight days vidout vinding, den how long vill it run ven you do vind it?"— Cincinnati Tribune, ““What, ho,” thundered the King, “and must the city fall?"” The warder bowed sadly in affirmation. 1 ’*Sire,” he answered, I don't see how it can be prevented. It was indeed unfortunate that one of our merchants should edvertise s run on ribbons just as the besieging force was re-en- | forced with four regiments of lady troops.” The outlook was indeed gloomy.—Detroit Tribune. E. H. BLACK, painter, 114 Eddy street. - ————————— CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50c 1b. 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[N THE POLAR REGIONS OF NARS RESULTS “ OF RECENT OBSERVA- TIONS AT THE LICK OBSERV- ATORY. WORK OF PROF. CAMPBELL. THE PLANET MaY HAVE AN ATMOS- PHERE THOUGH MUCH LIGHTER THaN OUR OWN. [The three concluding paragraphs of Pro- fessor Campbell’s interesting and valuable ar- ticle naturally recall a brief contribution on the same subject by Professor Edward 8. Holden to the March number of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. It will be noted on reading the following quotation from Professor Holden that his deductions from the Mount Hamilton | observations do mnot exactly agree with the conclusions reached by Professor Campbell, who did the work. Professor Holden wrote: “The present opposition of Mars has been a very favorable one, and fmportant observations have been made at Mount Hamilton. In the first place, Professor Campbell hes shown that the speetra of Mars and the moon are ‘identical in every respect.’ His spectroscopic observa- tions exhibit no evidence of aqueous vapor on Mars any more than on the moon, and prove that if Mars has an atmosphere at all itis very slight.”’] The white polar caps of Mars are by far the most significant features ever observed T | and disappear. and excessively Moreover, dark _regions bright regigns wxéhm u.I: | mmon facts of observation. I | S ain that the melting of the caps is | affected by the local conditions existing there, and it is_very important to know whether the conditions at any gl‘efltepo;;:; are such as to retard or to accelers e | g enomena just described are illue- | trated in figure 1. In the drawing made | July 19, 1892, an excessively bright spot (inclosed in a dotted line and marked fv\\}tl the letter X) is shown at the edge of ;,»r: white cap. The spot lies mostly. wx't 111" the cap, but projecting slightly belov\l:. e | edge. 1t was much more brilliant than the adjacent portions of the cap. W erjl the same portion of the cap was obscn"e' | in 1864, July 10, the southern summer \grf’s more advanced than it was when the 1892, July 19, drawing was made. [The le'ngth of ihe Martian year is 687 of our days, or forty-three days less than two of ;)u.' | years.] Consequently the cap was smal ler on 1864, July 10, than on the 1892 date, but as the cap decreased in size the bright spot X was left behind. The drawing of July 10 shows X just dc!uched from the main | body by a fine dark line. A month later, | on August 15, the main body of the cap | had receded still further; the white spot X still remained, but had devreafi;ed in size. | Two months later, on October 12, the spot X had disappeared, the main body had be- come exceec’{ingly] small, and a little later | disappeared also. th.itsidc frr‘Sm the caps, we may say the sur- face of Marsis made up of fairly bnght'l\n-l | fairly dark regions, the contrasts bemrgn | light and dark being about as strong as we ! see them _on our moon. Now, the theory held by Iost astronomers is that t'he ! brighter regions are land and the darker regions are water. There are some astron- omers who hold exactly the opposite opin- ion, viz.: that the brighter regions are | water and the darker regions land. rher? are strong arguments for both theories and | against both theories. The question of land and water is still open, though that is about the first question we would like to have definitely settled. ‘ Do the phenomena which accompany FIG. 1-DCRAWINGS OF THE SOUTH POLAR CAP OF KA?,S. [Showing the bright region X on which the melting of the cap was retarded.] on that planet. They have an important bearing upon the question of Martian tem- peratures, upon the question ofa M atmosphere; in fact, upon all the questions relating to the habitability of that interest ing planet. 3 The caps are likewise the easiest features to observe. They were discovered more than two centuries ago with the imperfect telescopes of that day. We have a drawing made at Paris in 1704, by Maraldi, which shows very plainly the white spots sur-| rounding the north and south poles of Mars. Maraldi further called attention to the fact that they had been observed many times in the fifty years preceding 1704. Their snowy-white color and their location in the arctic and antarctic regions soon led astronomers to suspect that they were anal- ogous to the snow and ice caps which con- stantly cover the polar regions of the earth. However, it was not until the years 1781-83 that the analogy was firmly established. At that time, more than a century ago, | the melting of the polar caps have a bear- | ing upon that question? They do, pro- | vided we can get satisfactory answers to the following questions i |~ First, do the excessively bright regions within the caps—the bright porti project out beyond the edges of the caps— and the isolated white spots just outside the edges, which are left beh 3 smaller—do these | caps grow | same places year after yt;?r ? | egions located d areas on the Second, are these bri | on the dark or light | planet? K | . We have carefully examined the most "impnrmm recent dra s of the south polar cap reference to those questions. At the 1892 op; Mars the Lick observers noted X | spictious bright areas at the edge of the | cap, at which the melting of the white | material was manifestly retarded. Atthe opposition of 1594, just passed, we ob- served three similar areas, which occupied identically the same positions as three of the four areas observed in 159 { fourth one was not observed in 1594, for the reason that when observations were be- Sir William Herschel observed that the | gun the cap had already rr!:egied much caps diminished in size as the Martian | Cl0Ser to the pole than the 1592 epot was. | sons is one of the very few facts we reall summer came on, and increased in size | with the advent of the Martian winter. In other words, he proved that they waxe and waned with the seasons, just as the earth’s polar snowsdo. He found in June, 1781, that the south polar cap covered all the region lying between the pole and 60 | deg. south latitude: whereas, in the follow- ing October the cap had melfed away until it extended only from the pole to latitude 85 deg. Herschel's important discovery of the waxing and waning of the caps was quickly verified by other astronomers; and such is the ease with which the caps may be seen that any person possessing a good 3-inch telescope can observe these impre sive phenomena taking place. This wa: | Fig. 2—Map of the South Polar Regions of Mars. [Showing the small white polar cap and four bright areas supposed by some astronomers to be land and by others to be water.] 7 ing and waning of the caps with the sea know about the planet. It was so well e: tablished by Herschel and succeeding as- tronomers that observers of Mars no longer | pay special attention to it. They devote themselves properly to the unsettied prob- lems. It is an interesting fact, however, that at the opposition of Mars just past the south polar cap melted away and disap- peared entirely. That fact, noted by a score of observers, was never known to | | have occurred before. 1f the eapsare com- posed of snow—which is probable but by no means certain—the Martian antareti explorer would have had an easy time get- | ting to the south pole and its environs. The purpose of this article is not to re- count the well-known facts concerning the caps, nor to discuss their bearing upon the problem of life on that planet, but to cail attention to a very significant truth which the south polar cap, as observed at Lick Observatory in 1892 and 1894, has revealed | o us. Sir William Herschel found that the north cap of the planet has its center ex- actly at the pole, whereas the south cap has'its center six degrees or eight degrees | from the pole. When the south cap is Yery small, as it always is during summer in that hemisphere of Mars, it does not cover the pole of the glanet, but lies en- tirely to one side of the pole. That fact has been fully verified and established by many astronomers. Evidently the melt- ing of the south cap is affected by local conditions, otherwise the cap would be situated exactly at the pole. Agzin, in . With the then ‘“‘great” flmcmnagl telescope, Mitchel detected an irregularity at the edge of the south cap, which he suigested might be due to a mountain at that point. Evyery observer of Mars is now well ac- quainted with the fact that the caps in Dw:gixlx:g dodnot prese:'\'efan exactly circular and are not o ual intensity in all parts. The edges of t(l;qe caps are some- times exceedingly irregular, owing both to dark indentations and to bright projec- tions. Portions of a cap even become en. tirely dem:hgd from the main body of the cap and remain as isolated white & several weeks, until they in turn me) The regions on which the melting was mostretarded in 1894 agree exact tion with those observed in 18¢ { have no doubt that the same regions will similarly retard the melting when the | planet is again observed in 1896. The &;)5" tions of the four regions observed in 1392— | the first, second and fourth of which were | observed in 18%4—are indicated by the fol- | lowing longitudes and latitudes: { 1—Longitude 4 2—Longitude 15 F | 3—Longitud, latitude 4—Longitnde 325° latitude 70° § | _ Do these four regions lie on bright or dark portions of the planet's surface? Let | us compare them with a map of Mars. In | Figure 2 we have reproduced Schiaparelli’s map of the regions about the south pole, which is incomparably the best map that we Fo ess. The pure white near the pole is the small remnant of the polar cap nes the close of the Martian summer. 1t w1 Dbe seen, by the way, that it does not cover the pole, but is about six degrees to one side of it. The four fairly bright regions, supposed by some to be land and by others to be water, are includedd between the following limits of longitude and latitnd 1-Longitudes 48°to 70°, latitudes 64° 10 72° 2—Longitudes 140° to 186°, latitudes 55° to 71° S 3—Longitudes 194° to 24 4—Longitudes 315° t0 332°, latitudes 68° to 75 A comparison of this table and the pre- ceding one shows that the bright spots and projections seen at the edge of the polar cap in 1892 and again in 13%4 were located on Schiaparelli’s four bright regions. The obvious conclusion is that on these bright | regions, or at least on parts of them, the | melting of the polar cap is most retarded. | On the earth we are accustomed to see the | snow linger longest on high land and in | mountainous regions. Whether the Mar- | tiun polar caps consist of snow or of some other chemical compounds which we know can be precipitated in the form of white flakes, the conclusion to be drawn is that Schiaparelli's four orifiht regions, at least in part, are elevated or mountainons, Thus, if we can reason from analogy to the earth, the brighter areas on Mars are land. The results of my spectroscopic observa- tions of Mars have often been misunder- stood and incorrectly stated. I have even seen the statement that they disprove the existence of an atmosphere on that planet. What my observations really proved is something very different from that; and I take this opportunity to correct the mis- | understanding. While the spectroscope | did not detect an atmosphere, 1 said in my {paper on the subject, “The' observations lo not prove that Mars has no atmosphere, | but they set a superior limit to the extent of such an atmosphere,” and my final re- sult was that the atmosphere could not be more than “‘one-fourth as extensive as our own. I further expressed the belief ““that the polar caps are conclusive evidence of an atmosphere and aqueous vapor.” If the paper were to be written again, the word “aqueons’’ would be omilte&t The vapor may be “aqueous,” but the observations do | not prove that it is. | If the Martian atmosphere is one-fourth } as extensive as our own. its dens ty at the Blangt s surface is only one-tenth the | density of our atmosphere at sea level. W. W. Caxese Mount Hamiiton, March 7. Spia latitude latitude i i | | | | H Music at the Park. 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