The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per vear by mall; by earrler, 15¢ T week. SUNDAY CALL~$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL-—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York, _APRIL 23, 1895 Bond the City and pay its debts. Crime comes and goes, but virtue stays With us. Impeach the traitors in the Board of Su- pervisors. Treachery to party means dishonesty to the people. Time will improve you if you improve | your time. The dignity of train robbery is degraded Dy the robbing of streetcars. The best way to help everybody’s busi- ness is to attend to your own. Local development that waits for out- side capital will wait a long time. People who brood over horrible murders wre courting suicide or the asylum. d The healthy mi %o force its thought nto healthy channels. It is right to take an interest in the | wmurder case, but don’t get morbid over it. s that which is ahlei | | | | A city that cannot pay its debts ought : to close up and go out of the city business. | Corruption is generally at the bottom of a coalition among Supervisors of opposite political faiths. Fine art is an infant industry in Cahfor- nia that ought to have praise, patronage and protection. A “solid eight” composed of Republican and Democratic Supervisors is a proclama- tion of rascality. There were no silurians among the pioneers and there shouldn’t be among their descendants. Now that the fiestas of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara are out of the way that of Santa Rosa has the whole road. From the crop of Half-million Clubs that are sprouting all over the State we are bound to reap a big harvest of settlers. Men who claim to represent the Repub- { lican party in the City Government are in | honor bound to keep the pledges of the | party. | I | As soon as Mendocino shows an ability | to play a lone hand on railway building, there will be plenty of partners willing to | assist. | | The dignity and prestige of the Republi- | can party have been dragged in the dust | by the traitors who represent it in the Board of Supervisors. ‘What party is to be held responsible for the men whom the hybrid ‘solid eight” | are putting into office after turning out | men of tried competency? The Republican party must defend itself and its responsibilities to the public by punishing the traitors who represent it | in the Board of Supervisors. No combination of Supervisors of oppos- ing political faiths, for the evident purpose | of carrying through concerted schemes, can be defended by honest men. The inconv.nience of surname has been experienced by a cousin of Jim Stokes, who gets a great deal of attention because his servant-girl’s brother got drunk. If Denver is dissatisfied with the hard transportation conditions to which its un- fortunate geographical position has given rise it can pick up and move to California. In asserting that the Monroe doctrine has no validity in international law, Sena- tor Hill evidently intended to prepare the public mind for his retirement from politics. The squabble in the Democratic party | over the silver question is the worst wast- ing of breath on record, for the party will have no power to deal with the question either way. Curio hunters are advised that the cob- blestones in the streets of San Francisco might betaken up by them and treasured along with the flints used by the men of the stone age. Unless the Republican party punishes the traitors who represent it in the Board of Supervisors it must bear the disgrace and contumely which their acts have brought upon it. The “eruption” of an island off the shore of Mendocino County has no more startling significance than the furnishing of further evidence of abundant natural gas in California. S, Perhaps the main reason why the ad- vanced woman offends so many people is that she is progressing so rapidly she has to move by leaps and bounds and hasn’t. time to notice whom she jumps on. The Democratic party may do as it pleases with its renegades in the Board of Supervisors, but the Republican party can- not afford the disgrace which its own ren- egades in that body have brought upon it. 1f ever the Republican and Democratic parties had a reason for temporary com- bination, to punish political crookedness, the conduct of the renegades who represent them both in the Board of Superyisors has furnished it. The organization of bodies all over the State which shall co-operate with the Half-million Club is a step in the direction of achieving an ambition similar to that of Archimedes, who said that if he had a lever long enough he could move the world. The money problem in this country is not a circumstance to that which confronts the rulers of India and the impression grows that unless there is a speedy increase in the price of Indian products the attempt to force the gold standard there will result in a collapse, a catastrophe and perhaps a cataclysm. = In marrying Mr. Curzon, Miss Leiter's friends have anxiously explained that he isnota Lord and therefore that by mar- rying him she is not becoming a Lady, but we cannot forget that if he lives long enough he will become a Lord, and that he SHAME (OAST TO0 THE WINDS, The “solid eight” of the Board of Super- visors proclaimed themselves aloud yes- terday when, without any explanation, excuse or charges, they passed an order dismissing seven City officers and appoint- ing others in their stead. It was in vain that a member of the minority pro- tested against the outrage and demanded that charges be made against the holders of the offices. He was contemptuously ignored, and the shame- less act has gone on the records of the City. Not even party spoils or civil service reform can be urged to excuse this action by the “solid eight.” .The Board of Bupervisors is compoeed of eight Republicans and four Democrats. The Republicans are: King, Benjamin, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern, Taylor, Spreckels and Hobbs; and the Demo- crats are: Scally, Hirsch, Wagner and Dimond. The “solid eight” are: Scully, King, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern and Wagner—five Republi- cans and three Democrats—and the mi- nority is composed of Dimond, Taylor, Spreckels and Hobbs—three Republicans and one Democrat. In electing eight out of the twelve Su- pervisors the Republican party came into control of the Board of Supervisors, and is therefore responsible for the acts of the | majority of the Board. The very fact of a combination of five Republicans with | three Democrats to form a “solid eight”” who shall vote together constantly makes it impossible to imagine an honest purpose on their part and makes it impossible for the minority of the Board to act with them. In all the political scandals that have afflicted the City this is the most conspic- uous and disgraceful. We all remember the earnest protest from the public against the election of dishonest men, and we have fresh in mind the stren- uous efforts of many good citizens to defeat the two old parties by forming non- political organizations for the purpose of electing clean men tooffice. The Demo- cratic party had betrayed the people, and it was feared that the Republican could not be trusted. But the Republican party pledged itself solemnly to elect worthy men, and it was faith in that pledge and in the stern integrity and clean history of the Republican party that broke the strength of the non-political movement and caused the election of a Republican majority in the Board. A feeling of se- curity arose. Now a majority of the Republican members have proved ren- egades from the party and traitors to public duty, and have dragged their party in the mire and dashed the hopes of the people to the ground. It is the most disgraceful combination of scandalous elements ever found together in our municipal affairs, and it comes at a time when the proud and energetic men of the City were pressing forward with high hopes and an earnest purpose to make San Francisco one of the greatest cities in the world. Disgraceful as this is, it would be vastly more disgraceful and absolutely ruinous to permit this scandalous state of affairs to continue and flourish unchecked. While it is every citizen’s duty, what- ever his political belief may be, to take a hand in purging his tair City of this shame that has fallen upon it, it is more directly the duty and responsibility of the Republican party to take the lead. By whatever means these renegades can be reached, let the work proceed. Now, if ever, is the time to hold up such men to public scorn, as a punishment to them, as a check upon their foture exercise of an evil power, and as a warning to others who may be tempted to betray so sacred a thing as a public trust. Supervisor Scully, who hitherto bas voted consistently with the ‘‘solid eight,” declined to vote on this motion to dismiss tried and competent officers, but in the absence of his history in the Board and of his protest and opposing vote, he has failed to keep his name out of the mire. It cannot be expected that men who would act with so open shamelessness could be induced by a popular protest either to resign or reform. The proceed- ings to cripple their power for harm must come from without, and it is the clear duty of the Republican party, both for the sake of its own fair name and for its responsibility to the public, to take prompt and determined action in the premises. Nearly every resident of the City seems to have been transformed into a theoreti- cal detective by the recent awful and mys- terious murders, for the officers and news- papers have been overwhelmed with theo- ries. Itis natural for the people to have opinions, but. when it comes to serious elaborations of theories they have com- paratively little value, except in a purely literary way, are rarely of any assistance in the actual work of running down the crime, and when undertaken by persons |* not specially trained in this difficultline of literary work are invariably foolish, annoy- ing and superfluous. All this voluntary detective work pro- ceeds from two causes. One is that species of vanity which finds expression otherwise in shrewd guesses at the involved plots of stories and dramas. Another is a popu- lar misunderstanding concerning the act- ual work of ferreting out a crime. That word ‘“ferreting” explains the whole case of the real detective. A naturalist, if asked to give the best method of bringing arat cut of its hole, will apply his scien- tific knowledge to the case, and by an elaborate course of reasoning devise some ingenious scheme wholly theoretical and more than likely impracticable. But a ferret turned loose upon the same business will pursue the rat bodily and bring it forth. It is well, therefore, to leave the hunting of rats to ferrets and the discovery of criminals to men qualified both by in- stinct and special training to do the work best. The popular tendency to interfere in this dreadful case shows that the average mind is given over to its contemplation. This is a vice, and as such is deplorable; and its encouragement by the newspaper publica- tion of private theories is vicious. The law bas a machinery of its own for such cases; and when it is evident, as in this case, that the most careful and intelligent work is being done by the machinery of the law, there is no excuse whatever for interfering with its operation. To what extent the press in decency may go in such a case in organizing its re- is very poor and Miss Leiter very rich— and an American. porters into a detective corps is a matter to be measured by the publisher’s sense of his responsibility to the public. If his in- dependent detective work hampers that of the police and inflames the public mind, then clearly his course is not taken either with a view fo assist the law or to con- tribute a healthy element to the moral tone of the community. It will notdo to say that a newspaper should give the news without regard to all other considerations. That would mean to say merely that the publisher is willing to cripple the law and degrade the moral sense of his readers if by so doing he can sell a few more copies of his paper. 3 In its treatment of the great double tragedy in this City the CaLr has aimed simply to give such news as it could give without doing harm. In thisit has used such discoveries made by the police as they were willing to give out to the press, and has supplemented it with such inde- pendent work of its own #s was necessary to make a complete, reliable and intelli- gent story of the affair. It has had no prejudice foror against any person sus- pected of the crimes. If the circumstances point more strongly to one person than another, it is that person’s misfortune and not.the Carv's fault. There has been no attempt on the part of this paper to make out a case against any one, or to “*dig up” evidence in support of any theory. Least of all has the CALL gone at any length into or to any extent gloated over and paraded those pitifully unprintable features with which the case is burdened. Let every sensible person, therefore, drop the case from his mind. The law now has it in hand, and that is sufficient. All the real and reliable news of the case will appearin the CaLL hereaiter as for- merly, and there it will stop. This is a great City, a noble State and a great coun- try, in which important things are hap- pening every day. Let usturn now to this wholesome record and thereby drag our minds out of the noxious depths into which they have fallen, and turn our faces to the great throbbing world which is pass- ingin the full light of heaven before us. REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY. In American politics the party defeated at the polls may, if it choose, retire from political work and wait until the next campaign opens; with the party in power, however, the reverse is true; that party must be vigilant and active to have its pledges carried out by its representatives in office. To it applies the wisdom of the proverb, “make hay while the sun shines.” It cannot ignore a single political issue. 1t is responsible to the people for good government and cannot shift or evade that responsibility without paying the penalty at the nextelection, The truth of its responsibility to the peo- ple in this way cannot be too strongly en- forced upon the Republican party of San Francisco. The demand of the progressive element of the community for public im- provements, makes it imperative that the City Government should show itself worthy to be intrusted with such work and capable of carrying it forward with energy and economy. It isknown that the City Gov- ernment is under Republican control, and if there is any failure in the Government to fulfill the efpectations of good citizensand public spirited men, the whole party will be sure to suffer the effects of that disap- pointment and will enter the next cam- paign with a loss of prestige that will greatly endanger its chances of success. Those officials who represent the Repub- lican party onthe Board of Supervisors and in other City ana County offices, are varticularly charged with the duty of keep- ing the party vledges. They should bear in mind they were not elected on their individual popularity. They were elected because they were nominated by the Re- publican party and recommended to the people as men who could be relied upon to {fulfill every pledge made in the Republican platform. It was the strength of the party organization, the influence and arguments of the party press and the cordial support of all loyal Republicans, that gave them office; and therefore if they have either manly honor or ordinary political wisdom they will respond to the demands of the party, be true to their campaign promises and keep faith with the people. The responsibility of power, however, is not confined solely to those who hold office. The leaders of the Republican party, the great Republican clubs and-the stalwart Republican newspapers that urged the peeple and the taxpayers to elect these men to office also owe some- thing to the community. They should give every Republican official fair warn- ing that he will not find any party sup- port if he breaks his pledges, and on the other hand they should give him every commendation and assurance of support if he will keep them. These truths must not be lightly set aside as commonplaces. They are perti- nent to the issues before us. They con- cern the practical affairs of the City. They refer to matters of present interest. It is by applying them that the Republican party can give to the people of San Fran- ciscoa good government and set forth upon the work of municipal improvement with the confidence and support of the tax- payers. The CaLL speaks for the whole community when it demands that the rep- resentatives of the Republican party, in office or out of office, shall bear in mind the great responsibilities imposed upon it by the confidence of the voters at the last election, and shall be diligent so long as it has the power, to use it for the public wel- fare, for progress, for economy and for improvement. WITHOUT A RIVAL The people of San Francisco can find abundant cause for satisfaction in the thousand evidences of awakening enter- prise throughout all the broad region known as the Pacific Coast. Rivalries there may be between other cities and other localities, but for San Francisco there is no rival. Holding the command- ing position on the coast, with an easy supremacy over the whole trade of the Pacific Ocean, she has no temptation to oppose or belittle the enterprises of other places, but has, on the contrary, a thousand inducements to encourage them, foster them and promote them by every means in her power. It was the extraordinary advantage of her position with reference both to the continent of North America and to the Pacific Ocean that led Bret Harte to refer to San Francisco as sitting “indifferent to fate.” The aptness of the phrase has been everywhere recognized. No caprice of fortune, no process of fate can take from this city the lordship of the Pacific Coast. Only by the folly, the ignorance or the laziness of her own people could she lose it, and even then she could easily regain it as soon as a wise, resolute and energetic generation of men rose up to take control of her commerce and her industries and shape the course of her history. 1t is because of this easy supremacy that she is pre-eminently fitted to be the leader and the helper in Pacific Coast enterprises. ‘Whatever tends to build up any part of the Greater West from Washington to New Mexico, serves to advance the greatness of San Francisco. Step by step our popula- tion will increase with that of the whole coast. We cannot any more effectually promote the progress of our own City than by promoting that of every other city in this part of the Union. Our interests are identical with their interests, and as other flourishing cities to the mnorth and to the south of us approach a population of a quarter of a million we approach a popula- tion of a million. The full understanding of this identity of interest between the metropolis and the coast, will do a great deal in confirming into permanence the glow of harmony that is now animating the people of California and uniting them for enterprise and action. When once it is made clear that San Fran- cisco has 1o jealousy of any other com- munity and no interest to serve opposed to that of the State at large, there is cer- tain to be a cordial co-operation in all great undertakings. That time, according to all evidence, has now arrived, and the era of progress has already opened. e e THE QALL'S NEW PRESS. The splendid new press which the pres- ent proprietor of the CArL ordered as soon as he took charge of the paper is on the way across the conti- nent and will soon arrive. Until it does arrive and is started we beg that our subscribers will have a little patience if they receive the paper some- what late, The circulation of the CALL has 80 quickly outgrown the capacity of the machinery bought with the paper that the present embarrassment could not have been avoided. Our consolation is that the delays will not continue long. AROUND THE COBRIDORS. Ned Murray, who came down from his mine &t Oro Fino in Siskiyou the other day, was telling about the bad quality of the whisky they used to have over in Sawyers Bar before the wagon road was built over Salmon Moun- tain. “Over at the Black Bear mine wasan Arkansawyer named Billy Ford, who had been cutting timber for the Black Bear, and felt at home. Once, the day before Christmas, he went info the superintendent’s office and said: ‘Want to get some money; want thirty or forty dollars; like to go over to the bar and get good and full; I ain’t been good and full since last Christmas; of course, I've been on one or two little jamborees — Fourth of July and such times—but that ain’t what I want; whatIwant is to get good and full so I'll feel as if I done my duty and go back to work having some re- spect for myself” ‘How do you know when youw're good and full, Billy? asked the superin- tendent. ‘Oh, easy enough; soon’s that Saw- yers Bar whisky begins to teste good I know I must be blamed drunk.’” Louls Dean of Reno, one of the big cattle- men of Nevada, who is stopping at the Russ, was telling last evening about some of the ad- vantages of competing railroads to the cattle business. “The charges for a carload of cattle from Reno down to the Bay, a distance of 230 miles,” he said, “is $70. The charge from points 300 miles further East, or over twice as far, is only $15 a car more. It would probably be more than that if the traffic would bear it. Down south, from Capistrano, not far from 8an Diego, we were charged some time &go $128 for each car to San Francisco, but from there to Denver, which s over twice as far, we were charged no more for the cattle-cars, al- though they were thirty-six feet in length, while those over the Sotithern Pacifio here were only twenty-seven feet long. There was com- petition East. Now that the profits in cattle- raising in Nevada have come down very much competing roads and a reduction in ireights will make a great difference to us.” Road Commissioner Marsden Manson has been up to Tehama County with Mr. Irvine, at the request of the county authorities, to assist and advise them as to carrying out their work in building & road from Red Bluff to Manton. Yesterday speaking of the work of the com- mission he said: ‘‘The law is broad and well drawn, and contemplates work tending to be useful to every country home in California. It is of great importance to the State, and I was very glad to see the CALL start the proposition to build the boulevard down the peninsula. We are here now to get from the Southern Pa- cific authorities rates for the distribution of road-building material from Folsom to what- ever points it may be required. We expect to investigate the geology of every county td find the most sultable and accessible road-building material, and to look into the various water supplies for the purposes of sprinkling and watering the roads.” They were talking about the counties in Cali- fornia in which there are no railroads at the Lick yesterday, and some one said that Sierra was one of the benighted. “What, Sierra?” aid'M. H. Mead, who is an ex-Sheriff and ex- Senator of that county. ‘“Why, Sierra has two railroads, the Central Pacific main line and the Nevads, California and Oregon Reilway.” But when the matter was looked into, it was found that the Central Pacific overland line had one and three-quarter miles of track in Sierra passing across the southeastern corner, without any station in the county, while the California, Nevada and Oregon Railway had three-quarters of a mile over the northeastern corner, with one station in Sierra at Evans’ place for passengers for Long Valley. A FIESTA EDITION. The Los Angeles Herald issued a special Fiesta number last Wednesday which covered the subject very completely. The descriptive articles were well written, and the edition as a whole was very attractive. The fmprovements which have been introduced since the Herald passed into the hands of Mr. Bradbury are notable in every department. PERSONAL. Judge McGarvey ot Ukiah is at the Baldwin. P. Farjeon, editor of the Concord: Sun, is in’ the city. F. C. Caldwell, an attorney of Bakersfield, is registered at the Grand. C. R. Mason, manager of Byron Hot Springs, 15 & guest at the Palace. Colonel William Forsythe, the Fresno vine- yardist, is at the Occidental. H. M. La Ruse, president of the Railroad Com- mission, is stopping at the Occidental. 8. L. Blake, & merchant of Weaverville, came to town yesterday and put up at the Grand. Assemblyman H. A. Laugenour of Woodland and Mrs. Laugenour are registered at the Cali- fornia. Mrs. Nettie R. Gunloex of Chieago, national president of the Ladies of the G. A. R., 1s regis- tered at the Baldwin. P. B. Armstrong o New York, who has come out to look after his great. almond orchard, is stopping at the Palace. Henry F. Gullixson, formerly of this city, but now an insurance broker of Portland, Or., is here on a short business trip. Py Baron E. de La Grange of Paris, who is inter- ested in the big hydraulic mines of Trinity County, and his friend,Count de Polignac, regis- tered at the Palace yesterday. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Count von Bismarck of Berlin, who is now in St. Augustine, Fla., is & distant relative of the “Iron Chancellor.’ Bishop Balsley, the oldest theologian in Den- mark, died last month, aged 90. Of his text- book ‘on_theology very many editions have been sold. Mrs. Helen Choate Prince of Boston, whose novel, “The Story of Christine Rochefort,” has just appeared,is a granddaughter of Rufus Choate. Mme, Dessin, who died in Calais, France, re- cently, was famous &s the landlady of the Hotel Dessin, where Laurence Sterne wrote nis ‘‘Sen- timental Journey.” The University of Aberdeen has conferred the degree of LL.D. on Miss Jane Harrison. Twenty years ago she entered Newnham College, then in its infancy, and she has since distinguished herseli by her researches into the origin of Greek vases. George V. Massey, who may be the Repub- lican United States Senator from Delaware, is & tall and somewhat gaunt man,with flowing side whiskers and a great sombrero-like black felt hat. He isone of the most successful law- yers in the State, and, although a life-long Re- Ppublican, he hasmany friends among Demo- crats. He was useful and active as & commis- sioner from Delaware {o the Chicago fair. Rear-Admiral Daniel Ammen, now residing in Ammendale, Md., has been elected & member of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in recognition of services he rendered to Califor- nia while he was stationed on the Pacific Coast. Rev. Dr. William H. Furness, who eighty- three years ago witnessed the launching of the United States frigate Constitution, one of the first war vessels built for the United States navy for the war of 1812, wasan interesting figure at the launching of the St. Paul at Phila- delphia recently. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “Do you havegnuch trouble with your help, Mrs. Penguin?” asked Mrs. Waglum. “Not a bit,”” said Mrs. Penguin. “Why, how do you avoid 1t?” sald Mrs. Wag- lum in astonishment. “I don’t keep any,” sald Mrs. Penguin.—New York Sun. Watts—Did you try that hot-water cure for your cold? Potts—Yes, It's simply great, too. You see, 1 mixed it with a little whisky and lemon, and Inever had anything slip down so easy.—In- Qianapolis Journal. “Did you ever surrender yourself to the po- lice?” asked Plodding Fete. “No, sir,” replied Meandering Mike. “I'ma believer in the principle that the officer should seek the man, not the man the officer.”—Wash- ington Star. “Waiter," said the guest, “I wish you'd ask the proprietors to turn on a little more light. It’s so dark in here I can’tsee whether I'm eat- ing planked shad or & paper of pins.”—~Chicago Tribune. If the sun had nothing else to do but to shine on the righteous it would be hardly worth while for him to rise as early as he does. —Texas Siftings, “And now,” sald the barber, who had in- herited a fortune, “and now I can eat onfons in the morning whenever I darn want to!”~In- dianapolis Journal, Expert evidence has at last been given that the gas meter under certain atmospheric con- ditions cannot tell the truth. How is it that it always lies on the side of the companies—New York Recorder. “My task in life,” sald the pastor of one of our churches, complacently, “‘consists insaving young men.” Whereupon one of our fair maidens, with a soulful longing, replied: “Save a good one for me.”—Troy Chief. Pheebe Couzins asserts that the late Senator Fair came all the way from San Francisco to Chicago to “claim one thousand kisses,’”” but leaves an anxious public in the dark as to whether he got them or not.—New York Press. “Things are gittin’ into a bad_bunch,” re- marked the man from the interior of Wayback Township. “The politicioneers are all tryin’ to teech the grangers how to grange, en the grangers are all tryin’ to pint the politicion- eers how to politish.”—Philadelphia Inquirer. ‘When the bellows gave out and the organist in & Rockland church was unable to get any- thing buta few groans from the instrument, the pastor remarked: “The organ has failed us at a vital moment; let us rise and sing, ‘Praise God from whom ail blessings flow.’ "—Lewiston Journal. WEIHS TWD - POUNDS A One-Month-Old Baby Boy ‘Who Can Make a Bed of a Cigar-Box. The Child Is Doing Well and Will, No Doubt, Llve and Grow Fat. In a'little cottage on Bright-street hill, Ocean View, there is a diminutive speci- men of humanity in the shape of a baby boy, the son of Mrs. M. E. Boonell. The child is just 1 month old and tips the beam at two pounds. The child, although it appears to be quite vigorous, has not gained in weight perceptibly since its birth. It is lessthan seven inches in length, has a waist meas- urement like that of a boy’s wrist, and its head seems no larger than a china teacup. Its arms are veritable pipestems and its hands marvelously small and delicate. It can be hidden from view in an ordinary cigar-box, and on one or two occasions, for the benefit of visitors, a bed has been made for the boy in such a receptacle, wherein he has slept for hours with 3 smiling face and untroubled conscience. Mrs. Bonnell isa yonn% well-developed woman, and has three children. She is convinced that her month-old boy will live to be a comfort to her in her old age, and at present there is nothing apparenfl*to wreck her hope in that direction. The child is doing nicely, and the indications are that it will continue to prosper. Mrs. Bonnell is a poor woman, and for several months she has been dependent upon relatives for support. This was due to the desertion of her husband, who, Mrs, Bonnell says, is living th another woman on Tebama street. She has looked for him repeatedly in vain. “I would like to find him,” said she to Secretary McComb of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children yester- day. “He has not provided for me for over a year, but so long as he was with me I did not complain. Some years ago he met a woman whose name I do not wish to give just now, and a few months ago he went to live at her house, He is there yet and refuses to see me. If Iam forced to take the step I will have him arrested on the charge of failure to provide.” The officers of the soclety have been fur- nished with Bonnell's address and an effort will be made to-day to have him re- turn to his family. If he refuses he will be arrested and prosecuted.. FOUGHT OVER A SIGNBOARD. A Milkman’s Advertisement Annoys a Theater Watchman. As befits the watchman of a temple of, Thespis, J. B. Fleming, who sees that all goes well about the East End Theater, has an artistic soul. Fond of beautiful things, Mr. Fleming's sense of art revolted when he saw the signboard put up by William E. Duncan over a new milk depot now in course of construction just across the street from the theater. He remonstrated with Mr. Duncan, and so strongly that the latter swore out a warrant yesterday before Alderman Negley, chnrfilg nim ‘with ag- ravated assault and battery, says the ittsburg Dispatch, According o Mr. Dun- can, Fleming, unlike the iconoclasts of old, wreaked his vengeance not on the of- fensive picture but on the author and owner thereof. This is Mr. Duncan’s stor; narrating Mr. Fleming’s efforts on behn{f of the esthetic, “Fleming objected to a new signboard- just put up by me. He said it was a dis- grace to Collins ayenue. I told him it was none of his business what the sign looked like, and asked him to go away. He re , and when I threatened, to call a liceman he struck me in the face with is fist, knocked me on the head with a !kr;ifz,x,md attempted to cut me with a Mr. Fleming gave bail for a hearing next Tuesday. Though his violent efforts on behalf of the beautiful do not nieet with the sanction of the residents of Collins ave- nue it must be said that most of them think his action was very excusable. They argue that the East End should not be de- faced with inartistic signboards, and they w‘ul gut in a good word for the champion of arf Tre Royal Baking Powder is the great- est of the modern time helps to perfect cooking, and eve recei uiring raising in;redientafiould erbofi.;it. e [ every fifty votes polled at the last election. SILVER MER ARE ACTIE, The First Committeeman This City Has Been Appointed. in LAWYER CHILSTROM CHOSEN. Belng a Populist, He Must Now Find a Republican and a Democrat. The bimetallists do not propose to lose any time in their work of organization. Already Enoch Pepper, chairman of the executive committee of the State Silver League, has appointed a worker for free coinage in the person of P.O. Chi}strom, an attorney, who has been prominently connected with the People’s party. Mr. | Chilstrom has been selected as the first committeeman from San Francisco, and he is now engaged, according to the instruc- tions sent to him by Chairman Pepper, in looking about for the men whom he is to associate with him on the committee. Previous to the return of Emissary Alva Udell to Los Angeles that gentleman was informed by wire of the withdrawal of | John R. Berry, L. M. Holt, Charles L. Eager and M. Dromgold from the com- | mittee to make room for San Francisco men. He had a talk with Attorney Adrian C. Ellis before he left, but whether Mr. Ellis will be committeeman No. 2 is not | scttled. The fact that Mr. Ellis has been an ac- | tive Democrat—an old. Southern Demo- crat—in the past will not militate against his selection as a Silver League committee- man in the least, because the free-coinage men are not drawing party lines tight. They hope to make up the silver party | from all the others, and are therefore | taking a Republican here and & Democrat | there, as well as the more easily reached | ]‘opulistn, in making up the State Central | Committee of seventy-five. The com- | mittee of which Mr. Chilstrom has been | made a member is better known as the | Committee of Fifteen, and is the executive | committee of the new movement. | The plan of the bimetallists is to !tnrt‘ out in each county with a ‘‘general county | committee of three,”” and such a committee ! they hope to form by associating a Popu- | list, Republican and Democrat together. It might be said of Mr. Ellis that he could hardly now be selected as a Democrat, at least if the very letter of Chairman Pep- | r's type-written instructions is to be fol- | owed, because Mr. Ellis, since President | Cleveland’s connection with the gold | wer seemed to be indicated in the last | ig bond contract, has kicked clean over | the traces of his party and avers that he | has cut loose. | In this connection a recent visit may be | mentioned of Mr. Chilstrom to Morris M. | Estee, the Republican candidate for Gov- | ernor in the last campaign. Mr. Estee has | published a pamphlet in which he has| taken an emphatic stand for silver. That | was right in line with the ideas of the bi- | metallists, but Mr. Chilstrom’s visit fur- nished Mr. Estee with an opportunity for | saying that he ‘‘did not want anything to | do with the Republican machine in this | State any more. | The end aimed at is the free and unlim- | ited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to1, and it does not matter what the itical !ne‘;lns used are so long as that end is real- | ized. The membership of these county general committees will be increased later on. The basis of representation in them which the executive committee has established in the country districts is one member for | The plans of the new party contemplate | tho organization of ward and township leagues, too, and the incidental co-opera- | tion of all the presidents of such sub- | leagues as a ‘“board of presidents,” with the general committees. Chairman Pepper.has written to Mr. Chilstrom with reference to the coming silver mass-meeting here, at which Presi- dent A.J. Warner of the executive com- mittee of the American Bimetallic party and Senator Stewart of Nevada are booked to speak. If General Sibley can get back from Pennsylvania in time he is certainly to be on the programme as a speaker. Committeeman Chilstrom will commence preparations at once for the event. The platform of principles of the Silver League is being circulated and canvassed for in the form of a pledge of membership. The position of the bimetallists is plainly defined, and the three closing paragraphs make interesting reading. ey are: ‘We believe that in the effort to secure public reforms it is the part of wisdom to consulg®he state of public opinion and to unite in taking up that question first upon which there seems to_be the greatest ?l‘abflbmty of securing the affirmative action of a majority of the voters. We believe that public opinion is now | for action upon the measures of reform | which it is the object of this league to accom- lish, and that success in effecting these re- forms will be easy if those who think alike can be induced to vote alike. We believe it to beWpresent duty, enjoined alike by patriotism and philanthropy, for all voters to ignore their present party atliliations, and, for the time being at least, to unite in electing to office those only who are unequivo- cally pfedged to—at the earliest practical mo- ment—give the people financial legislation of the kind herein outlined. A manifesto calling upon all Populists to concentrate their whole attention upon the finnncial&;uestion lias been issued b; the party leaders in Washington, D. C. It | bears the signatures of Lafe Pence, 0. M. Kem, T. J. Hudson, William Baker, W. A. McKeighan, Willlam V. Alien, John Davis, W. A. Harris, Jerry Simpson, John C. Bell, James H. Kyle, Haldor E. Boen H. E. Taubeneck, J. H. Turner and General James B. Weaver. These names are famil- iar to Pofiulists, bein%ol men either repre- senting the party in Congress or standing well at the top. CHRIST'S RELIGION. Its Power In Sustaining the Burden of | Life. The Rev. Dr. W. D. Williams, Plymouth Church, preached Sunday morning on “The Life of Christ in Our Life,” and said: Parents are'sorry for what their children | do; Christ is sorry for what we are. His life in our life adds love to prudence. The sustained burden of each day makes the burden of the next day easier to bear. The living Christian is a mediator between Christ and the uninstructed soul. The Son of God came from heaven to earth in order that the sons of men might go from earth to heaven. Alas for us if the ladder of science were the only “‘steps up to heaven.” That is true Christian Iifa which gives us sympathy with every form of human life and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Religion that carries us away from our fellow-men is not the best type of Christ’s religion. Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like onie thread in a_piece of cloth, And no man has a right, by an im- moral or un-Christian act, to draw out and thereby mar the well-woven fabric. Men hear only what they are capable of hearing. Some ears only Kear the lowest large number of valuable books haye re- cently been added to the shelves. Many of these will be of value to those who are interested in electricity. There is on this list the titles of 186 books on electrical en- ineering, electric bells, electric light, elec- ric railways, electro-metallurgy, telegraph, telephone and phonograph. The list also shows six additions on religion and phil- osophy, fourteen on social science, two on philology, twelve on science and useful arts, ten on general literature, three on geography un&]dcscription. fourteen on history, nine biography, fourteen fic- tion, thirty-nine for the young and fifty- eight for reading by the fifth, sixth and seventh grades pupilsof the public schools. The library has now upon its shelves 80,323 books. NOBILITY AND OOMMONERS. In the Days of the Tudors Sharp Caste Lines Were Not Drawn. A story in one of the magazines about a woman named Divver, who haunted genealogists and experts in heraldry until she satisfied herseif that her family name was De Vere and immediately adopted that aristocratic patronymic, affords no end of amusement to paragraphers as illus- trating the height of absurdity in the quest of ancestry, says the Boston Transcript. But may not the worthy Mrs. Divver have been justified in her action? It is very robable that Divver is a plebeian deform- ity of De Vere, which time, custom, care- lessness and an_indifference to descent brought about. Names suffer just such mutilations and attrition in the course of time and are ground down to an indistinet sound, losing adge snd accent in the pro. cesd, We once heard of a man who signed his name Simmer without the slightest suspicion that genealogy would have jus- tified him in writing it Seymour. This very beautiful and euphonious name is treated with barbarity by many who bear it, who pronounce it ‘‘Seemore,” utterly oblivious that it comes from St. Maur, in which form it is now written by the Duke of Somerset, whose heir is Lord Seymour. This family of Seymours, by writing the name in its sncient and au- thentic form and conserving its concentra- tion as Seymour in one of their titles, undoubtedly are moved by the purpose of letting the ‘world know how they would have it pronounced. They are a very old race, associated with Saint Maur in Nor- mandy before the Conqueror invaded Eng- land. " They are as proud as the proudest. When Sir Edward Seymour joined Wi liam of Orange at Exeter, the latter said: I think, Sir Edward, that you are of the family of the Duke of Somerset.” ‘Pardon me, sir,” responded the aristocrat of aris- tocrats, spenEing as the head of the elder branch, “the Duke of Somerset is of my family.” If a man or woman in America thinks it worth the time and trouble to trace de- scent in search of an ancestor, it is quite possible that he or she may make a dis- covery gratifying to family pride. Social lines have been much more closely drawn in Great Britain in the last two centuries than they were in the times of the Plan- tagenets'and the Tudors. It was no un- common thing, four hundred years ago, for the sons of nobles to go into tradein association with men who bad made their way from very humble beginnings. The | sons of country knights were often glad to be taken into the counting houses and households of rich London merchants. Marriages often followed that unitea the tradesman’s family with old, historic lines. Very kindly relations sprang up between the palaces and “‘tne city.” _ Even monarchs did not disdain to mate with ladies of no Migher rank than simple rentry. Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville, who, though the daughter of a Baron, was the widow of a_simpie knight when the King, who was always taken by retty face, met her. The mighty Queen Slizabeth had among her near kinfolks on her mother’s side some good-natured, everyday country people who bore the name of Brown, ana_who when she came to the throne visited London in the expec- tation of nepotism. The great Queen was more Tudor than Brown—by the way Owen Tudorhimself was but a_plain Welsh knight who made himself a lucky marriage—and she sent her country relatives back with an intimation that court life was not their sphere, and with no sinecure to console them. Dr, Doran conjectured that the slang phrase, “Astonishing the Browns,” long in vogue in England, may have had its origin in this incident. The Browns were types, for there was many a plain country gentleman who might with gene:\lo;;ical justification “call the king his cousin.”” All this has changed. Caste has hedged itself in within the last two centuries; classes do not mingle so much as they did in the time of the Tudors, which is the best period for Americans to study when in_search of an- cestors. If a lady or gentleman with a taste for ancestors wants to gratify it, it is only an embittered enemy of the Heraldry Office who will seek to thwart the en- deavor. ————— Last Duel on English Soil. The last duel—the last fatal one, at least—was fought in a field in Maiden lane, in a solitary part of Holloway, in 1843. The district acquired considerable notoriety from the event. It was the duel fought be- tween Colonel Fawcett and Lieutenant Munro. The former was killed. The duel- ists were not only, brother afficers, they were also brothers-in-law, having married two sisters. The Coroner’s jury, on the inquest, re- turned a verdict of willful murder, not only against Lieutenant Munro, but againsy the seconds, also. The latter, how- ever, were acquitted. Munro evaded the hands of justice by seeking refuge abroad. Four years later he surrendered to take his trial at the Old Bailey. He was found ! euilty and sentenced to death. He was, however, strongly recommended to merey, | and the sentence was eventually commuted to twelve months’ imprisonment. The neighborhood in which this duel was fought isno longer solitary; a wide thoroughfare, known as tue Brecknock road runs through it, and a rifle ground beside the Brecknock Arms appropriately indicates the place where the final shot was fired. —Chambers’ Journal. ————— Too Great an Honor. Upon his accession to the throne the Emperor of Russia was appointed colonel- in-chief of the Royal Scots Grays. While dressing for dinner an enthusiastic sub- altern communicated the information to his soldier servant. “Donald,” he said. ‘have you heard tnat the new Emperor of Russia has been ap- pointed colonel of the regiment?” : “Indeed, sir,” replied Donald. “It is a very proud thing.” % ? hen, after a pause, he _m(%mred: “Beg pardon, sir, but will he be able to keep both places?"—Tid-Bits. — —————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ———————— GEo. W. MoNTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* P s by, Pineapple and cherries, 50¢ Ib, Townsend's.* ———— WINE-DRINKING peoples are healthy. 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Recent Additions to the Shelves of the ¥ree Public Library. ‘The San Francisco Free Library Bulle- tin for April, just issued, shows that a genie. His house contained many valuable mmifi and curiosities from all parts of the world. Now is the time to see that your blood is pure,jin order that you may avold serious disease later on. Make sure of health by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier. ———————— THROAT DISEASES commence with a Cough, Cold or Sore Throat. “Brown's Bronchial Troches” give immediate and sure relies, — EssENCE of Ginger dont cure coughs and build you up like PARKER'S GINGER TONIC. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM cleanses the scalp. T m— AFTER a sleepless night use Dr. Siegert’s Angos- tura Bitters to tone up your system. All druggists. N