The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1895 17 Far and sway from its commerce, enter- prise and wealth, the most just pride and crown of its glory, is a city’s schools, mu- seums of art and its libraries. Francisco has not passed beyond the retting epoch. The blood of the -hunters and gold-seekers of '49 hes strong through her veins. n great values cease to be created in a v, when the unrest and fever of youth crystallized into stable formsand life takes on the more settled habits, then the intellectual growth will begin in earnest and mental development take up the march of progress. Old cathedral windows sur- pass in beauty and harmony of color the new, but time will bring out the rich am- bers. an Francisco is, and so are all new cities, blinded with the vanity and igno- rance of youth. Far removed from other cities and so lacking the possibility of the training and pruning close intercourse and comparison give, she grows a distinct genius. This is well, but possibly the type Is not perfect. Yet to herseli she seemsa plant resplendent in its peculiar foliage, tlower and fruit—a fruit which the stranger vs is lacking in flavor or a bit crude; and commendation. aweis comes within her golden gates and says she has no BY KATHERINE lous, she resents comment that is not | OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOg ® SoME OF THE BOOK-BUYERS OF SAN FRANCISCO. DURHAM. inside covers are decorated with foliage, flowers and birds in mosaic, with different designs for each of the four surfaces. It is | of an edition limited to fifty_copies. It is done on Japanese paper, and for illustra- tion contains an original water color by Leloir on the bastard title, proof’s etchings in quadruplicate, separate impressions of the woodcuts of the text, and the series of Lalanzi’s and Hecloen’s etchings, artists’ proofs. This last named edition rises to the highest art in bookmaking of the present day. Public libraries may be the result of the earnest endeavors of a few, and be the ex- | pression of some leading minds. Not so | the private libraries. If one not acquaint- ed with the facts might have a look at the bookmen'’s ledgers li;ev might be surprised | to see the hundreds of monthly accounts | kept as regularly as the household ex- penses, and in many cases exceeding them, | and they would need conclude that the | intellectual man is as well cared for as the physical. And there might be greater sur- prise in finding that women are in a large | majority among the book-buyers: and ‘some young women, scarce out of their | teens, possess some of the largest and most | carefully and critically selected libraries. | Have we not already the new woman with us? | Individuals display different tastes and | interest in the selecting and general plan > W. BR. HEARST, ONE OF THE CRITICAL BOOEK-BUYERS OF BAN FRANOISCO, [Frors a photograph by Taber.] Lo music. Immediately a hundred voices are raised in protest, aithough the proofs to gubstantiate their arguments are few. A Baxter turns away from our gallery of art in disdain, for he remembers the great storehouses of collected works of genius in Europe. His words fall on an impervious armgr of self-satisfaction, and it is set dowk to his English conceit and perversity. San Francisco public schools are not'up to Eastesn standard, and Kansas can show better rank and file. Could she benold herself as others see her; could she look with true and honest eyes, her illusions of the efficacy of her educational methods, her art development and musical status, leaving apart some notable exceptions, must dim. 4 But there is one thing on which no finger of scorn can be laid: San.Francisco's fub— lic and private libraries and book venders. Libraries make. and mark the mental de- velopment of a people, and are the bar- ometer of the intellectual atmosphere, and her mercury stands high. : An intelligent people demand "good bookstores, and good bookstores develop an intelligent people. Therearea number of good and large bookstores in San Fran- cisco, and it is a significant fact that while | there are in the United Statesbookstores surpassing in size there is not one which, in greatness of variety and choicéness of selection can equal Doxey’s, and thisin the judgment of Easterners.” In the volumes of many rare and beautiful editions on the shelves of wealthy and cultured New York- ers could be found the little pink label bearing this name, and their mates repose unpretentiously on the back cover books which grace the shelves of such as Mme. Modjeska, John Drew and John Fiske, and some have crossed the waters and found their way to the libraries of Irving and Ellen Terry, and have invaded Mexico, Japan-and the South Sea isles. And so the well-sustained bookstores of San Francisco bespeak a reading Eublic, end it is interesting to know that the best works of the best authors meet the readiest sale. Recently a “‘Handy Volume Series” of c¢hoice and standard literature was brought out at a very moderate price. They were shipped in Iarge quantities to this'coast, yet the demand could scarcely |- be supplied, and the piles of Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe and the like decreased most rapidly. There is ever a hue and cry against the perversity of taste and lack of appreciation of what'is good by the masses, ans the select few draw their robes of righteousness about them and disclaim the feeble mentality of the world. But what say they to the fact that “Marcella,” *“The Manxman,” “Ebb Tide” and *“Trilby’’ could scarce be turned out from the press fast enough to meet the great demand, and vanished from the venders’ tables, taken up by the thirsty public as rapidly as the sands drink up the waters of a river, and the sensational and third-rate novels stagnated upon the dust-gathering shelves. And San Francisco’s reading public is not all for novels and books of oems: essays and histories are not neg- ected. No less is the appreciation of the majority for the illustrating of the best pen draughtemen, as Pennell, Thompson, Abbey and Gibson. D Art in boook-making as well as weighty contents find response in this people. The Ex:h!xs!{c-~ of the tasty, unique and artistic 00ks in the East count San Francisco merchants among their best buyers, and editions de luxe and limited numbered editions come to this coast in proportion- ately large numbers. That beautiful new Edinburgh edition of “Steyenson” is sub- scribed for by several San Franciscans. [t is a good library size, but light of weight; printed on hand-made paper in_type after the style of the first edition of the **Waver- ley Novels.”” The illustrations are choice end the binding plain, suitable cloth, and the whole presents as beautiful a set of books as has been published of late. No more handsome books are made than two sets lately received by a S8an Francisco bibliophile. One, the scarce and beautiful edition of Burton’s Arabian Nights, for which binding was specially designed and done in London, in full levant, dark blue like the Arabian skies at midnight, and inlaid with starsin gold; and the more magnificent set of books, owned by the same, is Mennier’s Paul et Virginie, %nl! 1887, illustrated by Leloir, large 8vo, full blue levant, and the inside covers lined with sky blue morocco. The outside and of- of their libraries. Miss Kate Dillon’s, even yet in its infancy, is a type of the young ' woman’s library. The general plan_ is to embrace all the standard works of history, &petgy and fiction in good and substantial nding, and to_also add rare, beautiful, limited and original editions of some of the choicest works. Her special pride is an edition of Oliver Twist, illustrated by Cruikshank in his inimitable style. William H. Mills’ taste is for essays and history, and so these volumes are in excess in his library, although the poets and novelists are not without good representa- tion. 8. G. Kellogg’s library is the type of the man’s who 1s abreast of the times. While its backbone is the standard works, every new book' on finance, political economy, socialistic and religious questions are wel- comed to its daily increasing ranks. Dr. E. R. Taylor is among the most critical book-buyers. He has fine -editions of nearly all classical literature, and pos- sesses a copy of every edition of Homer in translation ‘and many of the important originals. V. R. Hearst is not satisfied with books as he finds them, and their covers ara stripped off and extra illustrations are added, and the bookbinder’s art is taxed in devising new encasings. The illustra- tions of several may be united with the best printed text to form a new copy. His extensive, cosclf' and beautiful coflection of books is rarely equaled. 3 _And these are the types of the large libraries, and there are few homes among the upper classes that do not have their collection of books, even though it is small in aumber. Al this argués well for San Francisco and her people, and to | her remarkable growth in other lines will be adced her more important intellectual growth, A Errective ELEo- Tric LicHTING. — In | the early days of electric lighting people were apt to think a great deal more of the mere fact of using an electric lamp than of the actual efficiency of the light given by it. Nowadays, however, the consumer is probably perfectly able to tell whether he is getting full value in light for the money he is paying the central station, and be- tween the strict exaction of the consumer and the competition of rival, lighting sys- tems, the electric light company can only hope to succeed by the best service. Much attention has been drawn of late to ob- taining the most desirable results from different methods of lighting, and the sub- ject has been brought down to two main considerations, namely—reflection and dif- fusion. In factories and large shops it is likely that the old practice of allowin, the hfi:“ of the arc lamp to fall downwar will be discarded. It is found that by in- verting the lamp and throwing the tht 1o the roof (preferably of white) by a -powerful reflector, the rays are so diffused throughout the building as to give the maximum efficiency without straining the eyes of the workmen. The prevailing methods in outdoor lighting, too, are con- demned as crude and unscientific. The present street arc lamps dazzle the eye, throw sharp shadows and waste lig{n . The next improvement in street lighting will probably be to use lower candle- power lamps, placing them proportionally nearer together, at say the heiggt of an or- dinary gaslamp, using suitable reflecting hoods and making the bottom half of the lobe semi-opaque and possibly tinting ita leep orange color. There would be no lare, as at present, and the effect would suggestive of the soft and artistic light of the Chinese lantern. For incandescent lamps a luminous enamel is used which entirely hides the filament and at the sume time disperses the light thornugnl&. The u enamel is made in various colors, but the white is to be preferred for general pur- poses. domestic lighting dioptric shades having prismatic_corrugations on their surfaces are coming into vogue. They give a good diffusion of light with little absorption, and when made of either plain or tinted glass have a brilliant effect. In decorative lighting many new ideas have sprung up in the distribution of masses of light in interiors, but none have yet superseded in beauty and effectiveness the system introduced last year of putting the lamps out of sight and lighting the room entirely by diffused nng possibly colored lights. This will probably be the method of illuminating cgurches in the future. In churches wh ere it has already been adopted the effect is described as so infinitely restful and appropriate that in comparison the ordinary method of church lighting seems garish and barbarous. SENDING LETTERSs BY TELEGRAPH.—After laboring for fifteen years on the problem of rapid telegraphy by means of the type- writer, an inventor claims to have solved it. The system is said to print telegraphic messages at the rate of 200 wordss minuce. The message is dictated straight to the typewriting operator. By a device at- tached to the typewriter a paper ribbon about an inch wide is perforated by a series of holes, varying in position and number according to the character repre- sented. The actual perforation of the ta is not done directly by the operator; if the right letter is struck on the keyboard, the machine automatically does the rest. When the message is finished the ribbon is fed into another machine. In its passage over a roller, small metallic fingers press upon it, and as different holes come under the fingers electrical connection is made with the metal roller beneath, which produces the necessary letters. This machine is in synchronism with another machine at the other end of the line, and whatever letters are {:roalnced on one machine—say in New York—are instantly reproduced on the Sthorjmachine eay i Washington' The invention can be applied to any standard typewriter, In the case of large business firms newspaper correspondents or others using the telegraph extensively punchers and ribbon would ge attached to the type- writers in their offices and the messages would be delivered to the teleeraph office on spools ready for instant dispatch. By the new method all possibility of tapping or robbing the message is obviated. The system is ten times swifter than the Morse, and has the additional advantage of turn- ing out the message on page form ready for delivery. The cost of transmission is brought very low, and the possibilities of the system are suggested by the fact that business men, instead of sending their let- ters by mail, can have them sent by wire at the same cost as special delivery. ooN.—Both Edi- TELEPHONING TO THE have long maintained that it is possible to establish on the earth a récord of the elec- trical disturbances that take place on the sun. An electrician now holds that 1t is easily feasible to telephone to the moon. He bases his belief in the possibility of this communication on the well-known laws of ether vibration. The ocean of ether quivers to every touch. Itbindsthe planets together with an 1ron hand, flexible yet firm, solid yet infinitely elastic. Itisthe ideal medium for the transmission of signals. When it moves, even to an _extent inconce small, our sight is affected ; we see. ether wayes are eight minutes coming to us from the sun, traveling at the enormous i velocity of 192,000 miles a second. It is possible to produce waves moving at this terrific speed by electrical means, as, for instance, in the telephone, which is actu- ated by infinitely smell pulsations. When an iron mass is in the vicinity of these elec- trical vibrationsa buzz or hum is given out. This noise may be distinctly heard in some systems of street-lighting appara- tus where the current is transformed from a high to a low pressure. In accordance with this principle itis proposed to send electrical pulsations far out into the ether and have them actupon any metallic mass, like iron, with sufficient force to produce sound. If the moon contains iron, and there is reason to believe that it does, the striking upon it of these marvelous vibra- tions wonld give rise to a murmur of sound. It is suegested that this daring ex- periment could be carried out by means of a gigantic coil, mounted vertically, with its axis in line with the moon. WHAT BLACKENS THE GLOBES OF INCAN- DESCENT Lamps.—An Italian scientist has been trying to add to the comparatively small available store of information as to how the blackering of incandescent bulbs is caused. He found that under the micro- scope the surface of a used filament has little humps, resembling in miniature those on the carbon of an arclamp. They seem to have been produced by some melted ma- terial. In places the filament is furrowed by transverse-cavities out of which rise ramifications of lampblack. The film col- lected on the inside of the lamp shows under the microscope s a very thin coat- ing of lampblack in which are distin- guished larger grains irregularly distrib- uted, and also yellowish- crystals. His explanation of the blackening is that cer- tain mineral substances contained in the carbon filament become fused by the high temperature and evaporate. This causes a gradual disintegration of the carbon, some very minute particles of which are pro- jected on to theglass. When the explosions of the little humps on the filament are at all violent, entire fragments are detached, and at those places where detachments occur most frequently the filament breaks. Ticer SnootiNé BY Errctric LicHT.— Night fishing is evidently not to be the only sport in which the electric light plays an important part. A scientific journal gives a graphic illustration of the shooting of a royal tiger in an Indian jungle by the light of a 16 candle-power incandescent lamp. The sportsman is supposed to be sitting in a machan or F!atfcrm a little distance from an animai which has been left on the ground as bait. Near him are six cells of battery, which sug\plv current for the lamp suspended from the branch of a tree over the spot where the dead animal has been placed. The wires are brought up to a convenient place on the rifle, and when the terror of the jungle is. unmis- takably engaged in discussing his quarry, the sportsman, with a slight pressure of the thumb, makes the electric connection, and the light opens right over the tiger. The subsequent developments are thus described: “As the tiger is not in the habit of looking up, it is a second or two before he can make out where the sudden light has come from, and by that time he has a shell well in his ribs and further proceedings have no interest for him.” 1Tt is stated that the principal diffi- culty in tbis method of besting the man- eater is the weight and size of the battery needed, and the use of a small battery which can be carried in the belt like a cartridge is proposed. It is estimated that thirty of such batteries would supply enough current to light a 16 candle- power lamp long enough for the purposes of shooting. Dogs Erecrricrry Kiun?—Just when the killing power of electricity is supposed to have been proved, officially and conclu- sively, the whole question has been re- opened in a startling manner. A reputable physician, who was recently engaged by the authorities of New York State to in- vestigate into the effects of electrocution, showed by facts, figures and photographs that the shock as given to criminals from the prison dynamo was invariably fatal. In the face of this, an electrician stated positively that s person exposed to the severest shock can be recovered by proper treatment. Now, a lineman has been ap- Egrent!y killed by the passage through im of the frightful charge of 3000 volts, and yet resuscitated after two hours. — On Good Friday, ata Socialist banquet in Paris, a scene of blasphemy was enacted in the presence of two Deputies, Ernest Roche and Clovis Hugues. A pig was placed in a coffin, revolutionary songs were sung over it, parodying a requiem, and it was then carried around the room in procession, preceded by a red cross and a red flag, hen Chaumerte tried to per- form similar acts in 1794 Robespierre stopped him. son in America and Preece in England ! JOINING UNCLE SAM'S NAVAL SERVICE. BY TOM GREGORY. Passing the doctor is the crucial test of fitness when the recruit seeks to enter the naval service. He may take in the enlist- ment officer on the question of age, nativ- ity, and also morals, unless he is so con- scientious that his tongue cleaves to the roof of his mouth—a possibility somewhat remote—but weathering the doctor is a much more difficult bit of sailing, for the medicine-man of the navy is especially fitted—in fact he has taken a post-graduate course—in finding a man sick just when he would be well, and well when he would be sick ever afterward. Doctors may some- times agree with one another, but they always disagree with sailors. There is endless war between the two professions. Generally the extent of an army or navy surgeon’s practice in the piping times of peace is bromo-seltzer for officers and sul- phate of magnesia for the men. The physical organizations of the two are, of course, different, necessitating widely separate modes of treatment. In the realms ot therapeutics there has been found only one drug that will have the same effect upon ofl%cer and private, and that is alcohol. Alcohol, as a leveler of distine- tions, knocks out death, which erroneously has been thought to be pre-eminent in that work. The citizen and citizeness—bless the French revolutionist for those noble terms —have very extravagant ideas about the military. The artist, the musician and the poet have done much to raise war out BEFORE AND [Sketched by a that he is not subject to fits, headache, heartache (that comes afterward), and in fact not subject to anything but an in- curable (will” probably be cured) desire to serve his country. Itis not amiss to ex- hibit this patriotic_characteristic, not that the medical inquisitor will take any stock in the recruit’s professions, but the in- tended deception shows sincerity of pur- ose and that covers the other sin. The octor is not a casuist—none are. In the dissecting-room he never found a soul nor any pathological evidences that one ever existed. A few well rounded off lies may be only due from an unusual muscular movement among the vocal organs. The man will be turned over to the chap- lain after enlistment. When the surgeon takes the tapeline in hand to measure the chest expansion, which must be u certain number of inches, the recruit must carefully empty his lungs until his breastbone falls against the spine. After that measurement is recorded he is told to “expand,” and then he must take in over a million cubic feet of atmosphere if possible. Many promising Decaturs, Hulls and Farraguts have missed stays on the expansion test, and have gone down unwept, unstoried and unsung, as farmers, merchants or professional men. They mighkt have expanded their chests the necessary three inches and have trod- den the path of fame. Tt is notquite plain why chest expansion is a necessity ina sailor unless, during his dramatic posings on the snowy deck for the uses of litera- ture ‘“his breast should heave, and his eye——," etc., as sung in ‘“Pinafore,” and AFTER ‘“PASSING THE DOCTOR.” “ Call” artist.] of the blood and dust and sweat and reek- ing slaughter-pen odors of battle, but the tailor has done more. Homer could hurl boulders ana javelins through the air and tumble the Grecian heroes down to Plutus in lordly hexameter, and we long to war ourselves around the Trojan walls, but let the man with the needle of steel sew a few inches of bullion on a coat and we are mad for butchery. 5 dler and the rhymer, led by the tailor, have rushed nations away to deatk. A minority, doubtless, have benefited the earth by dying, but a great majority would have been of more use above the ground than under it. The man who could best give expert tes- timony on the broad question of war is the man who never came back from theé battle. All the other evidence is incompetent. But the scribe who notes the parade and the review from the bandstand writes rot, which, in the eternal fitness of the thing, is in perfect kes ing with the burlesque he sees moving before him. 5 The green and bloom of vegetation springing from the red-reeking soil of battle may cover the graves and trenches, but not the wide gulf that lies between the civil and the military. The civilian, with the fire of a noble activity pushing the world on from change to change, cannot understand why the bebuttoned and be- gunned soldier should stalk around his quarters like a manikin pulled by a string, arody on war in time of peace; and the soldier, only an order-obeying machine as he is, cannot understand that he is an out- of-place figure in the landscape. The civilian, among his peers upon a_social equity, cannot understand why in the military the officer is a lordly aristocrat wearing the beltand spur of knight won more frequently off the field of valor than on it. Neither can the citizen understand why the man in the rank and file must forever wear the livery of an inferior social and mental grade, and salute and “sir” with proper humility should somebody a little above his low level deign to notice or approach his localitv. ; Xfl these caste mannerisms of the mili- tary are undemocratic and un-American and belong to the monarchic and titled class. They came down the ages from the feudal day, where the robber-baron had his retainers quartered in hovels around him. When he meditated a raid upon some neighbor whose female slaves and fat cattle excited his cupidity he called his captains and_lieutenants into the castle courtyard and after a council of war the blooming gang all marched out together with flags and drums—and guns after the villainous saltpeter had been dug from the bowels of the earth. War is only a horrid emergency, and so is the warrior. It is a period of destruc- tion, dnd he is the destroyer, Both are to be put away and hidden like the graves they dig. The soldier in peace isa non- producer.and adds nothing to the develop- ment of a state. Ccoped up in his_post, where he prances for the glorification of his superiors, he is not a_fraction as useful and not nearly as-reliable as that often- abused and long-suffering official —the policeman. The professional trooperidling 1n his barrack has acompnracively no part or parcel in the gredt world going by. His only duty is to salute and “sir’’ and minis- ter to the tinsel splendor of his officers without being in the llifih test a portion of that tinsel splendor. He is not a bad fel- low; he is only a grain of wheat under the upper and nether millstone of that system called mititacy discipline, which forever -crushes and " grinds him, and he goes to dust. The deplorable cir- cumstances that environed his life escort him to his grave, and the meager honors he receives there are about what he got in life. Nothing can be so dead as a dead soldier. The peculiar conditions of his end, unnoticed in the mad contention around him, his departure in common with many others who melted out of the thin red line being about the usual thing. The monopoly by his superior of the larger slice of the glory, leaving so little to g0 around among the privates, makes him horridly and atrociously dead. His grand finale is so commonplace that few.note the passing of bim. So much for war. ‘Where did this le drift from? Oh, yes—the recruit and the doctor. The would-be tar if he succeeds in haul- ing off from the snares the man of science sets for him must steer amid dangerous q.l‘xestions skillfully. He must explain that there is no hereditary disease in l‘:iu family (the mr%eon always asks if there is, although he knows that no answer but a negative one was ever yet returned), and So the painter and ‘the fid- | by such warish attitudes strike terror into the heart of the bumboat-man alongside with a stale stock of pastry. pipes, hair- oil, jackknives and other ship chandlery, or of the grocer’s clerk coming on board with a bill for the caprain. The next instrunmient of torture which the doctor uses on the candidate is the | stethoscope. If there is anything that goes to the heart of man it is the stetho- scope. It getsright down to the source of motion and counts the beat and heave and swing of the engines of life. The hiss of a clogged vein, the gurgle of a defective valve, the discordant” murmur of the diastole within a ventricle may consign him to a long life ashore, in the very in- ception of his sea career. he candidate is then examined for color-blindness. visual defect may assist him in disasso- ciating the banner of his country from the flag prodigally displayed during the florid flow of political stump-oratory, or waving from the center pole of the circus tent. The prostitution of the National ensign for Frivale advertising purposes is one of the highly prized liberties of a free people. The Fnblic is given to know that a candi- date for constable is capable of serving a subpena, or that some freak show is the best - on - earth - or-money-refunded-at-the- door, by the exhibition of the sacred sym- bol of a state fluttering around the prem- ises. After the recruit has gassed the doctor he is figuratively chalked O. K., like a cus- tom-house rifled valise guiltless of contra- band, and enlisted. Then he is ready for other victories. He looks up the masts to the truck pointing into the clouds above him and wonders when he will be sent up there to nail a flag to the slender stick. That is one of the jobs of a sailor, he knows, because he has seen so often on tobacco packages and show cards the lofty tar with his legs twined around the royal pole with a shoemaker’s hammer driving nails through the colors into the timber. That means ‘“‘no surrender” to the blooming tar and to the quality of goods for sale. He begins to hear sounds around him. They are the explosions of greconceived notions of life on shipboard. ailormen don’t talk as the novelists have Furugmphed, nor act as the dramatists have cast them. Heisthe most written and worse written man within reach of a pen. He is either portrayed as a frolicsome colt flinging his voluminously trousered legs around like the ship’s pennant when the wind is unsteady, or as_a mindless old human hulk warpped and weather-beaten and ready to be pickled away in his deep- sea tomb. There is nothing in common between the man before the mast and the man abaft it. A shift from one locality to the other may be called an organic change. Put the fore- castle hand on the quarterdeck and, presto! he is an officer. Even the way he advanced is lost. He instantly feels that he is in a different place, and they as quickly forget that he was ever in any other. It's the way of the sea—the deep, inexplicable, spell-working, mysterious sea. Jack drinks grog, becomes drunken and sleeps. It is his only escape from the self- contemplation of the eternal hopelessness of his social condition. No sailor loves his calling, and most all hate it. Few escape that life which promises nothing but a shot and a winding sheet, my lads—a shot and a winding sheet! The ship is the last resort. Old sailors go to it because their lives are ruined for things better, and the recruits because of a temporary failure on land, and because of ignorance of what awaits them when the mystic influence of the ocean has wrought in them a condition unfitted for the shore. The new navy-man gets into his togs, which are supposed to clothe the wearer ir a sort of wild freedom of action, and the hilariousnecs of the idea coming sud- denly upon him runs him quickly afoul of some rule or reEtdnion—:omeumen one, sometimes the other; frequently both. In every square foot of a man-of-waris woven deep in the fiber of wood or steel a rule or regulmon—wmetimen one, sometimes the other; frequently both. In every cubic fogt of air a bluejacket breathes is con- tained arule or regulation—sometimesone, sometimes the other; frequently both. This method of discipline-drill is perfect, and is not a very onerous practice upon the recruit, but the monotony of it wears upon his nervous system. The wisdom of it gradually unfolds as the patient sinks down in a sort of apathy. It destroys his nerves. These things are painful luxuri and out of place on the sea. The painful necessities occupy pretty much of one's The possession of this | time there. The negative pole of a war- vessel is forward among the crew. Every- thing{ in that locality s ‘“no” and ‘not.” One is kept so busy not doing things it'sa ! wonder anything ever is done. But it is the way there and is a part of the internal government of the ship. The powers that be on the quarterdeck of a man-of-war are in nowise personally re- sponsible for a system they had no part in bringing aboar(i, neither are they need- lessly harsh in executing commands that have come down to them from a source they dare not question. The remedy, if remedy there be, is beyond them, but the system is monotonous, vexatious, irksome and tiresome all the same. It makes the enlisted men discontented to see the acci- dent of rank carry away so many privi- leges while their few favors are doled out to them with reiuctant hand. The naval apprentice system, with its possibility of a small insignificant promotion to the hardly perceptible elevation of gunner, and which shoulder-strap writers in the Naval Insti- tute Journal considered enough reward for the ambitious boy who won his way from forward, aft, is a failure. The sensible youngsters see nothing in the life but an’inferior position all their days and an asylum to die in. They gen- erally take their final discharge at the | expiration of their term of enlistment, and | the service is not only drilling the boys to a calling they learn to hate, but is getting no return for the time and care expended | upon them. . When the real friends of the service arise | in their places in Congress and enact that the bright naval apprentice boy may work his way aft into an_officer’'s commission, then the flower of the American seafaring youth will be found wearing all the blue shirts in the white cruisers, That system may not make quite as good officers as the system at present in use, but it will make better crews. The Government should do more for the personnel of the navy and fit it for the native-born boy alone. There is nothing for him in the merchant vessels; that service has long gone begging for flags | and men in foreign seaports. BIMETALLISTS MEET. Sub-Committees Appointed Coming Convention. The executive committee appointed by a meeting of bimetallists, held recently at the Palace Hotel for the purpose of mak- ing arrangements for a bimetallic conven- tion, to convene in this City August 19, | met yesterday afternoon at the headquar- ters of the American Bimetallic League in the Mills building, George W. Baker pre- | siding. There were present: W. C. Price, | N. W. Spaulding, W. L. Dickinson, Her- | mann Zadig, Julian Sonntag, August Water- man and George P. Keeney. The secretary read a number of com- munications from bimetallists of the inte- rior relative to the proposed convention, expressing hearty indorsement of the proposition, and predicting a successful meeting. Many other letters asked for bimetallic literature, especially the consti- tution of the American Bimetallic League, and copies of the late call issued for a State convention. In order to supply this want | the committee decided to order printed | several thousand copies of the call in pam- phlet form for general information and | distribution. Upon motion Chairman Baker appointed | several sub-committees from the general | committee, and assigned each a certain | field of labor in making preparations for | the coming meeting. Subscriptions are coming in from many quarters, and the committee members feel | assured that the convention will be the | biggest silver meeting ever held on the | coast. Secretary Keeney has figured out that the newspapers of California stand ten to one in favor of free silver. ‘Party con- | ventions,” said he, yesterday, ‘‘on the | financial problem are of no use.” The con- vention called for August is not of one party. Itisabsolutely non-partisan. We | hope to get Republicans and Democrats | in about eaual parts. Each county is en- titled to five delegates at large, and one dele- gate for each 500 voters as registered at the Iast general election, The only test 1s that a delegate must be an elector in tke county | which he claims to represent, and be in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of | gold and silver.” PHILBROOK'S OLD OASE. It Is Decided in His Favor by the Su- | preme Court. | The case in the Supreme Court which | cost Horace W. Philbrook his position as an attorney has been decided by the court | in favor of the contention advanced by Philbrook and the lower court is to render | judgment in favor of the plaintiff for 662 40. The suit was brought by the executors and administrators of the” estate of John Levinson against William J. and Benjamin Newman, surviving partners of the firm of Newman & Levinson, for an accounting. In that case Philbrook made serious charges against Justice Harrison, who was an attorney in the case before he was | elected to the Supreme bench. For this | Philbrook was disbarred. Harrison does | not participate in the opinion, nor is that controversy mentioned in any way. ——— g Charlemagne made a law punishing with death a man who should insult or beat his mother, and with imprisonment and | stripes the son who should neglect to pro- | videulor her who brought him into the | world. for the NoneToo Good No shoes are too good for the boys and girls. While they’re young, their feet are made sound and healthy or ruined for life. Goodyear Welt Shoes are easy and comfortable, have no tacks where they will hurt, do not press the feet out of shape, bring no corns, —just the shoes for boys and girls, as well as grown- up men and women. ASK YOUR SHOE MAN. 23— Goodyear Welts are LEATHER SHOES —not rubber. NEW TO-DAY. THE RESONS WY The $5 Rate Can Be Maintained at the Copeland Institute. Not Only the Cheapest Rate, But the Very Best Treat- ment, Scientific, Painless and Efficacious. Whoever pays more than $5 a month pays too much. This is the charge of the Copeland treatment. By universal admission this treat- ment is the best. This low rate has been the means of making the practice of Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn the largest in the world. The | large practice makes it possible to furnish only the best treatment and the very best medicines at that low rate. The public in its cordial reception of the $3 rate, in its generally voiced conclusion that “whoever pays more paystoomuch,” has made the maintenance of the rate a possibility. As to the efficacy of the treatment thousands have testified to the fact that they have been cured; many more whose testimony has not been pub- | lished have been cured. Tiiey are your friends and neighbors, and what they say can be taken for the truth.” Why neglect a disease which not only endangers your life, but makes life not worth living when the best treatment can be had for so little money ? NASAL P These Tumors Are Pain or Loss of Blood. In no one thing have Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn gained 50 much fame as in the removal of polypus tumors from the nasal cavities. Formerly the operation was attended with much pain and loss of blood. By the operation of these specialists it is comparatively painless and bloodless and withal permanent. he case of Mr. F. A. Pust, whose place of ss is at 220 Bush and who lives at 1 became completely (polypi), causing severe pains over my left eyeand effectually stopping breathing through ¥. A. PUST, 220 BUSH STREET. that nostril. A friend of mine had been suc- cessfully treated at the Copeland Medical Insti- tute and I immediately placed myself under their care. After one s treatment they remoyed the polypus without causing the least bit of pain. I continued treatr for & few weeks longer and now feel ctly cured, breathing through my nose with greater ease | than ever before. They are very kind and cour- teous and it isa Teal pleasure to be treated by them. I feel very grateful to them for the cure they;have effected in my case.” HOME TREATMENT. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the home or mail treatment. E C. Peart, Colusa, Cal, writes: “I am pleased to say your treatment for throat and catarrhal troubles proved beneficial to me. You can refer any one to me.” If you cannot come to this office write for a symptom blank. $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than $5 a month asked for an disease. Our motto is: “A Low e, Qniu{ Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Tnstitnt, PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hotel, Over Beamish’s. W. H. COPELAND, M.D, NEAL, M.D. J. G. NE A.C.W SPECTALTIES—Catarrh and all diseases of the , Ear, Throat and Lungs. Nervous Dis- kin Diseases, Chronic Diseases. AM. to 1 P XM,2t05P M, 7t08:30 . M. Sunday—10 A. M. 10 2 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamps ‘ tion eitenlars. 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