The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1895, Page 6

Z THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1595. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CALI—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ FRANCISCO ), Pacific States Adver- Rhinelander building, Rose and cts, New York, 1t is easier to ridicule society than enter it. The cold snap was no frost for fruit prices. 1t is sometimes fatal to mistake a masked robber for a joker. The rain dropped in at the right time to find a good welcome. With a terminus assured in this city the people’s railroad is on velvet. The fair bicyclist who is not necessarily a milkmaid. Governor Budd should see to it that his veto mill is in gdod working order. The Harbor Commissioners are all right, and the competing road won’t get left. Even the stilled heart of the Monterey and Fresno Railroad has begun to beat again. When the railroad gets out of politics it will leave a good opening for statesmen to get in. The silurian considers he has the State in pawn and is waiting for progressive men to redeem it. The fashion of ridiculing San Francisco society has got to be 2 chestnut and ought to be roasted. Every argument is on the side of street improvement, and the only thing against 1t is stupidity. San Francisco seems really to be glad over therecent discovery that she has been here all the tim Everybody will listen to the manufac- turers this week in the expectation of words of good cheer. The best thing Spain can do with Cuba is to put it on the bargain counter the first day that Uncle Sam goes shopping. The first cargo of rails for the competing road will soon be on the way,and in a short time after that they will be on the road. The only defect in the Mark Twain and Max O'Rell circus is the difficulty of de- ciding which is the clown and which is the trick mule. Since the Merchants’ Association has shown how the streets can be kept clean, it is about time for the City officials to profit by the lesson. The Manufacturers’ Convention has an important subject before it, and unless it puts the best foot foremost it may have the bad luck to put its foot in it. St. Louis felt so desperate over the clos- ing of her saloons last Sunday that her people all went out into the parks and fields and drank in the pure, fresh air. t is a sad thing for Fresno that just as she is blooming out as a live town she should be afflicted with a trial that calls the attention of the world to her fossil in- dustry. The glowing reports from Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa of prepara- tions for the floral festivals, shoulg stimu- late other sections of the State to equal enterprises. Cobblestones would be excellent material with which to build headstones for those silurians who are aching to die and yet who neglect the only remedy that will Te- lieve their pain. ‘With a Cuban revolt, a controversy with the United States, a riot in Madrid and a Cabinet crisis all on her hands at once, Spain evidently feels that the world is a buli-ring and everything is coming her way. The rashnessof Spanish officers in firing on American ships leads to the conclusion that the Cuban revolt is more serious than the Government will admit, for the officials would not be so brash if they were not un- easy. On one day we are told Rosebery is sick because he is weary of Parliament, and on the next that he is weary of Parliament because he is sick, but in spite of all he keeps right along as if he were neither sick nor weary. Henry M. Loud, a millionaire Detroiter, is planting 600 acres in deciduous fruits near Pomona, and thereby setting an ex- ample of good business sense that should make every silurian in S8an Francisco fall and crack his occiput on a cobblestone. The work of obtaining subscriptions to the conmipeting road in the different coun- ties to be traversed ought to show definite results by the close of this week and assure the construction not only of the main route, but of one or more prefitable branch ines. A Sheriff in British Columbia, who had seized a newspaper for debt, took advantage of the occasion to issue an extra denouncing the editor, and it would seem that the only recourse left the edit.r isto sue the Sheriff for criminal libel and make him arrest himself. The Philadelphia Times notes the prog- ress of the eontest of the Fair will and comments to the effect that the San Francisco lawyers seem to know what they are here for. The Qua- ker City is slow as usual. The rest of the country acknowledged that fact a long time ago. A lively discussion is going on in the East over the question whether a gentle- man must precede the lady he is escorting when they go upstairs, and follow her coming down, or reverse the process. It would seem from the debate that the stair- casesin the East are too narrow for the two to walk abredst or else the question might be solved by that expedient. It seems never to have occurred to scientists that the simplest way of solving the problem of aerial navigation is ad- equately to increase the size of buzzards by long and patient breeding. One might have supposed that the hint given by that hardy explorer, Sindbad, in his story of the roc and the valley of diamonds, ought to have been sufficient to indicate the possi- bilities lurking in bird transportation. ms the plain | | THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE. | Such an’ awakening as has never oc- | curred in California before is at last com- | ing upon our people. It is in no sense a { boom, that most pernicious 1orm_of self- | deception, but the stirring of a life that has peen hibernating these many seasons. | Tt may not be consoling to the Southern { Pacific Company that it should justly share the blame for the long slumber that has bound our activities, or that a realiza- | tion of its broken strength may account in | 1arge part for the vigorous reaction that has set in. It may, if that will make its understanding broader, ascribe this awak- | ening to its own decline, and then procged ely to utilize its great forces in securing co-operation where it has hitherto encoun- tered antagonism, snd in helping where heretofore it has hindered. It is pleasant to know that sectional jealousies in the State are disappearing, | and more cheering still to observe that the | capitalists of San Francisco at last haye | faced the problem that the prosperity of | the interior of the State is essential to the | growth of San Francisco. The determina- | tion of our best, ablest and most public- spirited capitalists to build a railroad | through the San Joaquin Valley is suffi- | cient evidence of the fact. But splendid | as this achievement will be, it has a bear- ing far beyond. It means that the im- | portance of the whole subject of Califor- | nia’s development is understood. For many years the interior has com plained bitterly, and with considerable justice, because San Francisco refused to | lend her money for the development of the State’s resources. It would have been a happy thing for the people if our capital- ists long ago had consented to lend money on wines, which thus might have been kept till they were fit for marketing and able to make a great reputation for the State. In many other ways the money of San Francisco could have been wisely and safely emploved ift the interior. The rail- road companies deserve far more credit for efforts to develop the State and increase its population than our people can claim. They have spent outright thousands of dollars in this cause where we have tim- idly lent one. The determination to build the valley road means undoubtedly a willingness to open the purse strings for other purposes equally commendable and useful. The country banks all along have shown a faith in their local enterprises that reflects generously on their intelligence and pub- lic spirit, and that should have served as an example and an inspiration to San Francisco. They have carried heavy bur- dens that enterprise on the part of San Francisco might¢ have rendered unneces- sary. The grit of the leading spirits in the valley road enterprise is not a new and sudden gift. It has been manifested be- fore in the establishment of great enter- prises which have given occupation to thousands of operatives and farmers in the interior, and which have added substan- tially to the prosperity and population of the State. They know by experience how great are the benefits which acerue from such a course, and no man can err in fol- lowing the example which they have set. THE OONFIRMED. “OALL” The decision of the Supreme Court in the Oakland water front case, handed down by Chief Justice Fuller yesterday, is in exact accordance with what was tele- graphed by our Washington correspondent some weeks ago. When we announced at that time that the case would be dismissed on the ground of the lack of jurisdiction several of our contemporaries referred to the report as a “fake.” This was rather a bardy instance of presumption on their part, for the CALL never indulges. in fakes nor seeks scoops at the expense of ac- curacy. ‘We knew the truth of the story before we published it. The sources of our information were trustworthy. If we did not receive the news from the literal “highest authority” it came from so near the highest that we were assured of its accuracy. We acquired the informa- tion ahead of our contemporaries simply because our Washington correspondent is engaged in seeking out the truth of im- portant matters concerning the Pacific Coast, and not in running around after sensations and such bitg of gossip and rumor as may be circulating in the clubs or the corridors of the hotels. Of course, it is not possible for ns to divulge the source of our information on so important a matter, even though our correspondent should be cited before the august tribunal of the Supreme Court itself to answer. It is sufficient to say that what we published more than a month ago has been confirmed by the decision which we publish to-day. The ecritics of the CaLr are confounded and the accuracy of our report isl affirmed to the letter. THE OONLAN CLAIM. Among the bills which have been sent to the Governor is one providing for the pay- ment of the Conlan claim. This claim has been before the public so long that it needs no explanation, and the Governor should require no urging to veto it. It is a claim that cannot be enforced either in law or equity against the City. This has been decided by the Supreme Court, and it is just because the courts have so decided that the claim has been carried before the Legislature. - As a matter of right the Legislature should never have undertaken to compel the Supervisors of San Franciseo to pay a claim of any kind. The Supervisors are the proper judges of what claims against the City are just, and if they reject a claim the party who supposes himself to be injured should seek his remedy in the courts. This is the only way in which essential justice can be done to all parties. Certainly the members of the Legisla- ture cannot assume to know more of our local affairs than the Supervisors, nor can they assume to know more of the law than the Supreme Court. It would have been more proper, therefore, for them to have paid no attention to this claim at all. It is distinctly a matter which concerns the City and not the State, and had it been a legal or equitable claim the law would have afforded in the courts an ample re- dress from any unjust action of the Super- visors. The claim itself is not large, but its pay- ment will open the way for similar claims, amounting to millions of dollars, for not one cent of which is the City justly liable. It will be seen, therefore, that the matter is ane of graveimportance to San Francisco taxpayers, and the Governor will be gravely derelict in his duty if he does not veto it. * THE RAISIN COMBINE. After many unsuccessful attempts dur- ing the last few years the raisin-growers of the State seem at last to have devised an effective plan for combining. It has been already set forth fully in the Carx, but a short statement of it here may not be amiss. It is that the growers shall confine their work to growing; that pack- ing shall be done in central packing-houses established by districts; that none but first-class raisins shall be packed, all oth- ers, including the second crop, to be used i otherwise than as raisins; and that the‘ marketing shall be done by a central body. It was a plan similar to this that brought order and profit out of the orange industry and another that made the Eastern mar- keting of fresh fruits safe. The recent combination of wine-makers was on similar lines. The points secured in all these com- binations are the marketing of the best products and the consequent upholding of the State’s reputation, the'packing done scientifically by experts and the market studied and treated systematically. All of these combinations have done wondérful good in every way. ;[‘he basis of their success is the good faith of the members. Hitherto, in the raisin industry particularly, the combina- tions have not been sufficiently strong to force unfaithful members into honest ways, and discipline is an essential factor of such organizations. It has been many years since the sugar-planters of Louisiana abol- ished their individual boiling works and ran pipe lines to central establishments, where the cane juice was reduced to crude sugar. It has been less than a year since the dairymen of the region contiguous to San Francisco formed themselves into district organizations, established central stations and equipped them with the best machinery. The results of all such organi- zations are a better product, a larger profit and a surer market. THE CONVENTION. The people of all. sections of California will watch with more than ordinary inter- est the proceedings of the Manufacturers’ Convention which assembles to-day. The source of this interest is to be sought for in the timeliness of the convention as well as in the importance of the subjects it will be called upon to discuss, for a feeling prevails that we are entering upon a new order of things, and that with other ex- pected changes will come a development of industry which will give us manufacturing enterprises worthy of our resources and our opportunitie: In every section of the Pacific Coast there is felt a growing need of an industry. sufficiently diversified to work up the raw material of the Coast in quantities sufficient at any rate to supply the needs of the great ‘West. This feeling is not the result of an unreasoning sentiment. It is infused, to be sure, with local patriotism, but has its origin in business conditions too pressing to be ignored and too plain to be mistaken. There was a time when it would not pay to invest largely in manufacturing establish- ments on this Coast, because there was not a sufficient consumption of goods to sup- port them. That condition, however, has passed away for many articles of staple use, and is rapidly passing for all of them. ‘We have now a population large enough to constitute a profitable market and to furnish abundant labor for manufacturing. Under these conditions, therefore, the de- sire for a diversified industry increases every day, and the expectancy with which the results of ‘the convention are awaited, is natural. Whatever may be the actual outcome of the discussions which begin to-day the influence that will be exerted by them is certain to be large. The debates in the convention will formulate public senti- ment on the subject of manufacturing enterprises and go far in determining whether they are to be fostered or dis- couraged. If the voices of sanguine, pro- gressive, self-confident men predominate, public opinion will take that tone and a helpful, resolute spirit will grow up among the people that in itself will go far toward making success certain. If, on the other hand, timid men with doubtsand fearsand hesitations come to the front, the public will be discouraged and capital will grow too cautious to venture much. It isim- portant, therefore, that the convention should put the right men to the front. All that Cnlifomin’andn:,he Coast need is the leadership of men of energy and business ability in order to achieve as great successes in manufacturing as in anything else, and that leadership, we trust, will show itself in the convention and make itself felt throughout the State. THE REAL VULGARITY. There is a certain order of mind that en- joys the ridicule and abuse of prosperous persons without any regard to the matter of desert, and yet that is the vital test of right. We may condone the caricaturing of politicians and applaud the lashing of offensive or dangerous persons; but such attacks upon inoffensive men and women, who choose their own harmless customs, forms and pleasures, who are in nobody’s way and who bring harm to none, are antagonistic to every conception of dignity and manliness. ‘What is known as “society”’—that aggre- gation of persons who follow what they term the ‘‘fashions,” and who have “‘social functions,” including cotillons, receptions and the like—are regarded by many assilly, idle, vacuous and possibly vulgar; as devo- tees of frivolity, gossip and dress; as being fond of parading their wealth, their names, their money and their jewels; as being par- venues and upstarts, lacking sympathy for those not their kind, scorning the lowly and lofiily patronizing the poor and aspir- ing geniuses who are willing to crouch at their feet; as being deficient in the true re- finement which carries kindness, and in the wisdom which knowledge and under- standing impart; as being insolent, of- fensive, altogether ridiculous, and_ fit sub- jects for satire, raillery and abuse, Some of these victims cannot claim com- plete exemption, but those among them who display bad taste are exceedingly rare. That all are made to suffer for the sins of the few, is a matter that reflects far more seriously upon their accusers and judges than upon themselves, and that heedless persons applaud the vulgar critics shows far less genuine manliness than what the reporters facetiously call the “haut ton’ are accustomed to display. Many newspa- pers are singularly perverse in their under- standing and treatment of this subije Any clown who pretends to have been “in society’” and then starts out to *‘expose” its shortcomings, may be sure of eager attention and columns of disgusting non- sense, which degrades not only those who publish it but those who read it. No mat- ter how vulgar, how clearly untrue or how cowardly these assaults may be, there is sure to be a newspaper near at hand that will eagerly publish his slanders. ““Society” in every city of America is complex, minutely subdivided, and em- braces men and women in all decent occu- pations and of all degrees of wealth. Its men are not idlers, but generally the bone and sinew of the country, embracing much of its wealth, energy and refinement. They stand for conservatism, for the mainte- nance of order gnd respect for the law. They are not liars nor blackmailers nor slanderers. They believe in decency of conduct and the value of gentlemanly dig- nity. Thay are busy, earnest men, with the marrow of world-builders in their bones. Ii they choose to make life bright and pleasant for their wives and daughters they have a right to do s0; and he who would deny that rigit, ridicule its whole- some exercise in the creation of an institu- tion which hnpa)ens to go under the name of “‘society,” and wantonly and maliciously lampoon its members, places himself on a lane of intelligence and self-respect far low that occupied by *‘society” itself. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Oscar T. Mackey, the racehorse man who recently purchased Scourine, the Kentucky three-year-old, is at the Palace Hotel, having come clear from New York to see the State of California and take in the races at the Bay Distriet track. While chatting with Orrin Hickok and a CALL reporter yesterday he said: “I believe Scourine is destined to do some re- markable trotting before the season is over, don’t you, Hickok?” “Best filly in the country, Mackey,” ans- ‘wered the trainer laconically, “and she ought tobe. Look at the pedigree. By Wilton, out of Mamie B by Star Almont. But you got a great chance there, anyhow. Think of buying a horse like that at auction.” “Of course she is a good filly, but I think ‘more of my two-year-old, Silicon."” “What was the most exciting race you ever witnessed?” inquired the reporter. “Why, the race in which Silicon won $15,000 and meade a mile in 2:153, a record which has never been beaten in a race,” replied Mr. Mackey in surprise, as though his companion should be posted on racing records. *Itoc- OSCAR MACKEY MNAKES A PREDICTION ABOUT RECORDS. [Sketched from life for the “Cull” by Nankivel.] curred in Kentucky, October 16, 1892, and Hickok sat beside me at the time. On the 17th ©of October, 1894, Impetuous made the same time on the same track and Hickok saw that race also. Remarkable, wasn'tit? Of course that record has been beaten under a watch, but never in a race for money, and that is the only’ way to do it properly. Before Silicon was two years older he had made $28,000, and I think he is good for some moye fat purses.”” ““What can we expect of the racehorse of the future?” Now, you are touching on my hobby. The time is near when two minutes for a mile will be the proper thing for & trotter. It will be the result of careful breeding and training. It sounds very fast, and by jove it is fast, but nevertheless it is possible, and I think I will live to 'see the record made by an American horse. Now, for instance, take the two best trotters we have, & dam and a sire, and the get, if physically perfect and properly trained, will come very close to the two-minute mark. Of course improved racing appliances will have something to do with the lowering of the record, but it will come sure as fate. Now, mark my words and watch for increased speed.” “The Chicago idea of a temperancesajoon has struck California at last, and Santa Rosa will probably be the first place to adopt it,” said C. P. Hunt, who owns & ranch in Sonoma County and who was at the Lick yesterday. “The good people of that town held a meeting last week to consider this proposition, and it is said that & sufficient amount of money was sub- seribed to place the business on a good founda- tion. T understand that the plan outlined at the meeting is to make coffee the msin drink disposed of, but that Bishop Fallow’s non-in- toxicating beer will be given a chance to demonstrate its good or bad qualities as a safe substitute for the seductive lager. I am in- formed by a friend of mine that the good Bishop’s experimental drink has developed an unexpected characteristic. Itissaidthat when it becomes a few days old it sours and under- goes a peculiar fermentation which makes it even more intoxicating than the regular old- fashioned beer, As a consequence an unex- pected trade has sprung up smong the lower classes, who buy the beer, take it home and keep it until it has acquired the necessary age and then fill themselves up with the Bishop’s idea. The plan is economical because the new brew costs about half what ordinary lager does. Thus a man can acquire a healthy ‘jag’ and all its customary after effects, while he at the same time possesses the knowledge that he is sustaining an institution established fora worthy purpose.” Hiram Walters, who for several years was the engineer on the little steamer Maid of the Mist, which is familiar to every person who has visited Niagara Falls, was at the New West- ern yesterday. “There are now two boats on the river below the falls,” said he, “but if present plans are carried out I fear that their future career will be brief. A proposition is now on 0ot to erect towers on hoth the Amer- ican and Canadian sides of the river, between which a double set of cables will be stretched, and on which cages like cars will be suspended by trolleys and operated by electricity, It is proposed to perforate the floors of the cars, so trayelers can look below. The line as proposed will follow along the brink of the American Falls to Goat Island, on which & supporting tower will be built, and thence proceed to the Canadian side, forming a cord to the.bow of the Horseshoe Falls. The cables will be hung atan elevation of only about thirty feet above the water, and the projectors claim that this means of transportation will be fully as safe as that of the suspension bridge.” “In spite of the stringent laws and severe pesalties on conviction,” said Horatio Preston, & mining man of South Butte, Mont., yester- day at the Lick House, “polygamy is open and notorious in the agricultural and mountain districts of Utah, and iscarried on covertly even in such cities as Ogden and Salt Lake City. “‘At Skull Valley, made famous by the exter- mination of the Koshet Indians in retaliation for the killing of the Williams family, Louis Orr and his three wives and five sons live and carry on a thriving trade with the prospectors who pass that way. Their ranch is the last human habitation one sees before he enters the Great Salt Lake Desert from the east. “‘Orr himself doesn’t do a lick of work. Oh, no. He allows his wives to do that. By the way, the sons, who are alt big hulking follows, don’t work, either. ““This disinclination of tne male Mormon to work is characteristic of every man and boy in their settlements. Their lassitude mekes the occasional visitor sick with disgust.’” “‘If we get the valley road down through our part of the country there will be more shoots ing done from the grade than any other place in the State,” said Walter Welch of Redwood City at the Lick House yesterday. “Do you know why? Well, Il tell you. You see, the road will come down from China Basin right through the marsh, won’t it? Don’t you sup- pose the boys will avail themselves of the chance of walking on the ties and doing their shooting at snipe and ducks from there rather than wade around in the mud? You bet they will. The railroad is a good thing. We can shoot both ways from an elevation there, and I'll bet anything our part of the country will just be overrun with hunters. We can stend it all right enough, for there isall the shooting everybody can do. Let the railroad come our way by all means. The crowd will come with it and go back with well-filled gamebags.” PERSONAL. D. Lubin of Sacramento is at the Grand. Colonel H. Weinstock of Sacramento is in the city. 2 Senator Frank McGowan of Eureka is at the Russ. B. L. Bear, a Los Angeles druggist, is at the Grand. W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. Judge N. W. Battle of Seattle is registered at the Russ. Adolphe Roos arrived from New York last Saturday. Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville is & guest at the Russ, Colonel 8. W. Andrews, the Pomona banker, is in the city. L. W. Jones, a merchant of Colusa, was at the Grand last night. Thornton Fell, an attorney of Victoria, isa guest at the Lick. A. Markham, a lumberman of Santa Rosa, was at the Lick last night. J. D. Culp, a tobacco-grower of San Felipe, is registered at the Lick. William McDonald, a well-known citizen of Merced, is at the Lick. P. P. Krough, a prominent merchant of Sa- linas, is at the Grand. William E. Lankeston of San Diego is regi-- tered at the California. C. C. Wallace, a mining man of Eureka, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. G. D. Plato, & merchant from Modesto, was at the Grand last night. R. C. McCreary, a miller of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. John W. Vandevost, Postmaster at Pasadena, isregistered at the Palace. H.S. Meyer, an attorney of Santa Monica, was at the Lick last night. W. A. Anderson, & prominent citizen of Sac- ramento, is a guest at the Lick. C. P. Berry, a large ranch-owner of Mountain View, was at the Russ last night. H. C. Hopkinson, manager Stockton Pottery Company, is registered at the Grand. E. T. Jeter, Governor Budd’s running mate in the last election, is at the California. Robert A. Pinkerton, the noted detective, of New York, is registered at the Palace. €olonel H. Trevelyn, manager of the Barton estate, limited, of Fresno, is at the Palace. G. McM. Ross, & prominent mining man of Copueropolis, is a guest at the Occidental. Mark L. McDonald, owner of the Santa Rosa Water Works, was at the Occidental last night. C. E. Tinkham, superintendent of the Sierra Mill and Lumber Company at Chico, is at the Grand. James Dunsmuir, one of the owners of the large coal fields in British Columbia, is at the Occidental. J. P. Howe, manager of the Alcazar Theater, is lying dangerously ill at his home with typhoid-pneumonia, F. W. Roebling, a member of a noted firm of wire manufacturers of Trenton, N, J., has re- turned to the Palace. \ Hon. E. C. Voorheis, Judge John F. Davis, David Lubin and J. A. Sheehan of Sacramento were in the city yesterday. C,J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., who is the owner of some of the finest horses in the United States, is again at the Palace. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The sentiment against the restrictions in the conditions of the Oakland subscriptions to the stock in the new valley railroad as to the loca- tion of the terminal here is growing apace. ‘The managers of the new railroad have not yet officially objected to those restrictions, but if they do it isnot likely that there will be any disposition on the part of the Oskland sub- scribers to insist upon them. Publicsentiment is strong here in favor of giving the new com- pany sny and all facilities it may require to insure its coming here.—Oakland Tribune, The police bill, which would have allowed Governor Budd to give San Franciscoan honest Board of Police Commissioners, has met the fate of other reform measures. It has been killed. There are not many legislators at Sac- ramento worthy of the name, and the CALL, a strong Republican paper, is showing up their record in a way that is refreshing.—Eureka Standard. When insurance companies fall out the in- sured get their innings. Just now there is a big row among the concerns that don’t trust each other, and sharp competition has caused the rates to tumble about 50 per cent.—Mar-. tinez Gazette. Political reform can be secured, but must be begun with the primary. So long as the springs are impure the great river will be in the same condition —Redding Democrat. When the insurance-compact rogues fall out there is a chance for honest property-owners to get insurance at living rates.—Fresno Repub- lican. Ii the competing road intends to stand on both feet it will have toput one atStockton and one at San Jose.—Colusa Gazette. The trouble with horses in this city is that there is too much climage and too little hay.— Los Angeles Express. A millionaire doesn’t know how many chil- dren he has until after he’s dead.—Los Angeles Record. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. M. Paul Meurice becomes by the death of the late M. Vacquerie the literary executor of Vic- tor Hugo. He will bring out the posthumous works, still unpublished, of the great poet. There are still four or five volumes of Hugo's Writings to be published. One volume a year will be brought out. “The Ocean” in two vol- umes, in prose and verse, will &ppear next fall. One of the humors of last year's political landslide was the election of Milford W. How- ard of Alabama as a Populist Congressman, He first appeared in Washington as an office- seeker, but, disappointed, collected all the scandals afloat there and published them asa novel, making some money and settling several old scores. Mrs. R. L. Stevenson asks all persons having letters from her husband to send them or copies of them to the British Museum, that she may select such as should be published, and gives notice that the publication of any letters without the consent of the executors is illegal. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Wakefield of West New- ton, Pa., is said to be the oldest living Mason now. He is 96 years old,and has been seventy- four years a member of the order. He is well preserved, and comes of a family of Nor- wegians, Lord Chief Justice Russell of England has decided that gambling in the rise and fall of stocks is not gambling within the meaning of the gaming acts. Oscar Wilde has come to the sad conviction that another man’s epithets may have a more far-reaching effect than his own epigrams.— New York World. 2 SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Even in the case of strawberries those that come early are able to avoid the jam.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Husband (bitterly)—I wish T had known as much before I was married as I do now. The Wife—So do1. You might really have amounted to something by this time.—Life. Statesmen who tried to sit down on big hats must have struck the hat pins.—New Orleans Picayune. “You call this a fair, do you?” said the visi- tor from Skedunk, looking about him in dis- gust. “Certainly,” replied a young and pretty maid at one of the booths. “It's a fair—a church fair. Is there anything about it that displeases you?” “Is there?” snorted the other. ‘your Midway ?”’—Chicago Tribune. “Where's Willis—I'm glad I haven’t as large a family as Hawkins has. Wallace—Why, he only has a wife!” “Yes, I know; but she weighs 200 pounds.— Puck. She—Some one said that architecture is {frozen musiec. He—Well, I guess the Government must have used a hand organ.—New York Sun. THREE MEN IN A BOAT. Carried to Sea on the Ebb Tide—Saved by Fishermen. A boat from the British ship Springburn, which is moored at Sausalito, drifted out to sea yesterday, and would hav# been lost with her three occupants but for the timely intervention of two fishermen. The mate and two apprentices started from the ves- sel at an early hour yesterday morning to make San Francisco. A strong tide was running out, and the boat was caught by the gurrent and carried rapidly down- stream. ; The three men bent to the oars, but their united strength availed nothing against the swiftly ebbing tide. The afternoon found them beyond the heads drifting to sea. Their signals of dis- tress were made out by a fisherman’s boat, which immediately put for them, and tak- ing the boat in_tow the smack sailed into port, landing the men at Mei ggs wharf, ASSESSMENTS NOT DOUBLED. STATEMENT BY THE LOCAL MAN- AGER OF THE COVENANT ASSOCIATION. THOUSANDS oF PoLicy HOLDERS INTERESTED IN THIS STATE. Considerable interest was manifested in this city over the published telegram from Bloomington, Ill, yesterday, stating that an organization had been formed there, witlr ex-Congressman Rowell as chairman, to immediately make an investigation of the Covenant Mutual Benefit Association of Galesburg, Ill. It was further stated this action was taken at a meeting at which $200,000 insurance was represented and that this course was decided upon be- cause the report of the association explain- ing why assessments were doubled was considered unsatisfactory. ““There are moreé than 3700 policy-holders in this association, representing about $8.000,000, in California,’” said 8. N, Wyck- off, manager for California of the associa- tion, “‘but there has been no demonstra- tion of the kind experienced East among the California members, although the same conditiors prevail here as there. ‘““There is really no-cause for any dis- satisfaction, and it is_very probable that the trouble in Bloomington was inspired bg’ interested parties, possibly agents of the old-line insurance companies. i “To properly understand the situation a brief reyiew of the history of the associa- tion is necessary. It was organized in 1877 for the purpose of providing insurance for 0dd Fellows, but in March, 1889, its scope was widened and insurance was placed on all who applied for it, providing, of course, they met the requisite physical qualifica tions. In 1890 a certain schedule of rates was adopted, based on the age of the mem- ber at the time he became insured. It slightly raised the former cost of insurance, but did not apply to new applicants. For the latter an entirely new schedule was adopted at the same time. The rate for old members was based on groups of ages, while for new members it was based on the exact age of the applicant, the latter being somewhat higher. ““This year it was decided to place the old members upon the same footing as the new and to adopt the individual age schedule for all, the rate of the old mem- bers being based on their age at the time that they were originally insured. The effect of this was to increase the cost to the old members and to make the difference greater for the more aged members. This course had to be pursued in order to maintain the financial stability of the com- pany. “We_have had occasional complaints from individuals upon their receiving notice of the increase in their rate, but there has been no general dissatisfaction and but very [ew lapses owing to the adop- tion of this new policy. “This association ~has $100,000,000 of insurance in force and has always met its claims promptly and fully. It has $100,000 on deposit with the Illinois insurance department and $50,000 with the insurance department of Canada. “I may add that in no instance has the amount of the assessment been doubled under the new order of things, and in most cases the increase has been slight. How much importance is to be placed on the action of the meeting at Bloomington can be determinad by comparing the amount of insurance represented there with the total amount in force.” ————— Le Conte’s Second Lecture. At the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association, corner Masoneand Ellis streets, this evening, Professor Joseph Le Conte will give the second lecture in his university extension course on “The Glacial Epoch 1in California.” The particular topic to be treated will be the extant and former glaciers of the Sierras. There is no charge for admission and the public are invited to be present. ALma E. KEiTH, Easter opening, 24° Kearny, AlmaE. Keith, enlarged store, fine millinery. Alma E. Keith, to-morrow is the day. Alma E. Keith, 24 Kearny. Promenade all.* St The Manley Sisters. Warrants were sworn out vesterday by Offi- cer Wells of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for the arrest of Gustav Walters and Mrs. 0’Malley of Sacramento for allowing the Manley sisters to perform at the Wigwam. The girls are 7 and 9 vears of age respectively, and Mrs. 0’Malley is their mother. ‘They came here alone from Sacramento a week ago, but their mother was expected to join them last night. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * i Al Pineapple and cherries, 50¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* ST ol ADCocK’s.—March 20 and following days will have opening of imported millinery. All in- vited. 10 Kearny. B Ve CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it H{iev‘t“;’pfln nntfnblte! inflammation. * e THE Famous Millinery, 708 Market street. Qpening of bmported millinery Tuesday, March the 19th, and following days. 5 e i JaMES E. WOLFE, ARCHITECT, Flood building.— Plans, specifications and superintendence for every conceivable character of brick and frame buildings. Unexceptional results guaranteed.» ————— HusBaxD's Calcined Magnesia. Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesin. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. > .. “Nicodemists’ is the latest name of a Christian sect, composed of Russians, who have passed from the “Orthodox” to the Stundist faith, but secretly for fear of the consequence: TMPURE blood is & foe to health. It causes many forms of suffering. Hence the importance of pure blood. Here, also, is the reason for the wonderful cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Get only Hood's. e —— SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SORE THROAT, etc., should be constantly supplied with “Brown's Bronchial Troches.”, e ———— Usk Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to stimulate the appetite and keep the digestive organs in order. . ‘WHEN ill with pains and exhaustion PARKER'S GINGER TONIC is your surest relief. PARKER'S HATR BALSAM aids the hair growth. DISCUSSED BY ALL SHADES OF COLOR. CONGREGATIONALISTS TALK OF LYNCHINGS—A Y. M. C. A MOB LEADER. FROM CHURCH TO THEATER. AN EVANGELIST WHO Hap HEARD STRANGE THINGS OF LocaL CONGREGATIONS. The Congregational Monday Club has not wavered in its support of the resolu- tions to condemn lynching in the South which werg unanimously adopted a couple of weeks ago, but yesterday Rev. T. H. Henderson took up the cudgels for the Southern people in a paper entitled “Lynchings in the South.” The speaker’s object was to show that the race problem is one of extreme diffi- culty and that the Northern people deal with it just as it is dealt with in the South. In fact, iv was arefort courteous of “‘you’re another’”” to the accusations of Northern people. Statistics were given to prove that in the ratio of the negro population there are more lynchings in the North than in the South. Mr. Henderson added: “Money, men and women to aid in the work of education would do more than any amount of blustering resoluiions.” Almost without exception the members of the club profited by the oceasion of the discussion which followed to condemn lynching, and many of them combated Mr. Henderson’s statement that the laxity of the laws was one of the main causes of lynching. “It is the easiest thing in the world to et a juryto hang a negro,” said H. H. Wickoff. Chaplain Rowell thought that lynching was condoned in the South, and Rev. W. Rader said helooked upon it as one form of anarchy. Dr. Brown stig matized his brother Henderson’s reasoning and so- phistry and added : “‘Lynch law never stops to prove anything. Iaffirm that in all these lynchings there is not a particle of evi- ence that would ke recognized as such in a court of law.” Rev. J. Kimball sai *These resolu- tions ‘do_have effect; such protests have | caused the Governor of Louisiana, within the last few days, to call out the militia and say the colored man shall have equal protection.” Something of a, bombshell was thrown into the assembly when Rey. C. A. Ros- singer carried the war into the accuser’s camp by saying, “You are just as bad here as they are in the South. The day I arrived in San_ Francisco I saw three men strung up by lynch law. Your historian Bancroft justifies lynching.” The speaker also gave some personal recollections of having seen the Chinese driven out of Seattle by a mob headed by the secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The meet- ing closed with some eloquent speeches by J. C. Rivers, H. A. Rivers, G. Dennis and A. Henderson, members of the colored race Who were present. Next Monday Dr. Brown will criticize | Dr. Heron’s teachings. A Victorions Ministry. Dr. A. F. Coyle of Oakland read a paper on “A Victorious Ministry” before the | Presbyterian Ministerial Union, which was applanded and indorsed by all the minis- ters present. ‘“Nothing succeeds like suc. cess,” he said, “and even in the ministry we cannot help measuring by the secular yardstick—the minister who has the biggest congregation and gets the largest amoynt in pew rent is the most successful.” The speaker went on, however, to show that success in the ministry is not to be meas- ured by such standards, for the mission of the pulpit is not the worship of mammon, but to emphasize the practical great truths of religion. Dr. 7,‘0)'19 condemned seeking some cur- rent and sensational subject to predch upon as ephemeral and superficial, and ex- horted his hearers to preach the Gospel, and preach it as much in their lives as in their sermons. In the discussion which followed all these views were indorsed, and Rev. Henry Barley, a well-known evan- gelist, who had justarrived from Australia, made an address, in which he enlarged upon some of Dr. Coyle’s opinions. The evangelist will address the Presbyterian ministers next Monday. * Baptists Condemn Dancing, It appears that the evangelist, Rev. S. Hartwell Pratt, has heard shocking ac- counts of San Francisco church members. He addressed the Baptist Ministerial As- sociation yesterday on evangelical work, and afterward asked the ministers whether it was true that people were in the habit of going direct to the theater aiter leavi church. The reverend gentlemen assurefi him that the congregations of San Fran- cisco had been maligned by such asper- sions. They agreed with him in the state- ments made in his address thatchurch members should not dance or play cards, but every one was of opinion that the etrinr brethren who did these things should be dealt with rather in sorrow than in anger. Speaking from what he had seen of them himself Rev. S. Hartwell Pratt said he considered the spiritual ' tone. of the churches here better than that prevailing in the churches of Boston. He added that judging from the way things were going in that center of learning he expected to hear that Boston had erected unto itself a Buddhist Church. Work of the Churches, The Lenten meditations of the clericus Yesterday were held by Rev. J. R. Cowie of San Mateo. Rev. V. M. Law, M.D., late of Walla ‘Walla, has accepted an invitation from the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Oakland, for six months. The vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, San Rafael, has decided to en- largle their building. The church is en- tirely free from debt. Dr. Adams’ resignation from the West-* minster Presbyterian Church has been caused entirely by ill health. The letter of resignation, which was heard with great Tegret by the congregation on Sunday, will not be acted upon for two weeks. Dr. Adams has accepted the chaplaincy of the sanitarium dt Clifton Springs in the hope that his health may restored there. His loss, as well as that of his wife, are deep"l‘;' deplored by the congregation of the Westminster Church. Rey. W. Rader, the original editor of the Endeavor, the organ of the Christian Enaeavor circles, has resumed the editor- ship of that paper. H. M. McKee is or- ganizing a large Christian Endeavor dele- gation to attend the national convention in Boston next July. Miss Rose Karaha of Syria addressed the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church yesterday in St. Paul's Church, upon missionary work. The Nicaragua Canal. Ossian Guthrie, chief engineer of the recently opened canal from Lake Michigan to the Missis- sippi River, will address the Geographical So- ciety of the Pacific this evening at Y. M. C. A. Hall, showing by the experience obtuined in this work that present estimates for. the Nica- ragua canal may be safely reduced about 23 per cent by means of new method: d ma- chinery invented and put into use di the construction in the Northwest. The cuttiag of the new canal also brought to iight much that will interest the geologists, who gnve had little o{pormnlw to explore below the surface in the great West. Mr. Guthrie found numerous traces of the early glacial era, when Superior, Ontario and the other lake ns were ice down to the bottom, and mountains of ice fi}owed their way southward, making furrows 1 that touched the bedrock of the eontfnem. -