The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895. a Editor and Proprietor. six mouths, by mail 8.00 . three months, by mail 1.50 L. One moxth, Sunday CaL1, one year, by mail W=EKLY CALL, one yesr, by mail. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, BUSINESS OFFICE: Telephone... EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. » Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. treet; open until ixteenth and Mission streets; open on street; open until 9 o'clock. h street; open until 9:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertls au, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. ing to the country on & vacation ? If . trouble for us to forward THE CALL to vouraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will Jniss it. Onders given to the carrier, or left at Fusiness Office, 710 Merket street, will recelve prompt attention. SATURDAY JULY 6, 1895 THE CALL SP' great carnival will be held at This is the day to leave orders for THE SuxpaY CALL. B T 18 Japan ought to add a wide bar of blood- Ted to its flag. We had the coolest Fourth and Boston had the hottest. Temmany invited Grover, but Grover would rather go fishing. In making your Saturdey purchases do not forget to ask for home goods. British polities is getting so giddy that every politician has a party of his own. The revival of archery requires all its girl followers to provide themselves with a beau. The Sequoia carnival at Eureka will come in good time after we have rested from the National celebration. A little more experience in arranging fiestas will teach us a better method of celebrating Independence day. The proposed railroad from Ogden to San Diego will be a happy deliverance for the extreme southern end of the State. The fight for home rule may have to be done all over again in Ireland, but the Lib- erals have won the vantage ground and will keep it. Chicago has taken a conspicuously high place among American cities by putting all of her city officers under civil service requirements. The police of San Francisco and Sacra- mento have done an exceptionally brilliant piece of work in rurning down the mur- derers of the Webers. Ii the rubbish of the Midwinter Fairis not soon removed from the Park, the Civic Federation will have good cause to organ- ize an anti-debri: ociation. In his Fourth of July letter, David Ben- nett Hill shows signs of becoming a typical calamity howler, who because his party is out of luck despairs of his country. While the Park Commissioners are work- ing to clear away the ruins of the Mid- winter Fair we have not forgotten the ex- hibitors’ obligations to.discharge that duty. From the Denver dissensions that have caused a postponement of the proposed mining exposition, we can learn the value of maintaining harmony in 8an Francisco. As the leading orator of the Tammany celebration took the Monroe doctrine for his theme it is evident that organization is still bucking against the administration. Ii J. T. Rogers is correct in saying the Populists will not nominate a party ticket in this State next year, some of the leaders must have been profited by their experi- ence. The Colorado Democrats, in declaring that the National party must either adopt free coinage or be disrupted, has issued a challenge under which Cleveland must run or fight. The Southern Pacific Company’s tenacity in holding on to the park privilege means less that its fangs are long and strong than that the Supervisors feel no pain from the laceration. The investment by New York and Chi- cago capitalists in San Joaquin Valley irri- gation bonds is eloguent evidence of the confidence which Eastern people have in the future of California. If the streets northr of Market between Montgomery and the bay were cleaned up, so that passers did not have to hold their noses, property-owners would be bettor able to hold their tenants. McKinley wisely said at Chicago that the granaeur of the Republic rests upon its workingmen, and he might have added that the Republic owes it to them to pro- tect them in their industries. The unusual attentions which the forti- fied defenses of San Francisco are receiv- ing at the hands of distingnished members of the War Department should be produc- tive of extensive improvements. James G. Maguire hits pretty hard in de- claring that while in the East the contract labor law is rigidly enforced against white immigrants, Japanese contract laborers are unhindered in their invasion of California. California should never lose sight of the fact that although hydraulic mining may be conducted on the streams opening into the interior of the State only under severe restrictions, there is a vast undeveloped mining region in the northern part of the State along streams which empty into the Pasific. 2 In 4870 there were in the United States 252,148 manufacturing establishments, and in 1890 there were 355,415, being an in- crease under twenty years of protection of more than 100,000 factories. In Great Britain, however, the number of factories were less by over 500 in 1890 as compare. 1874. Here is the difference between protection and free trade in & nutshell, WKINLEY AT OHICAGO. | _The adaress delivered by Governor Me- | Kinley at the great assembly of working- men at Chicago in celebration of the Fourth of July was worthy of the aud ence, of the occasion and of the ma There was in it no word.of forebodir doubt, hesitation or fear. A true Repub- lican in his sanguine confidence of the people and patriotic trust in the destinies of the Nation, he spoke only such words as patriots delight to hear; and out of bis own ardent loyalty found the eloquence to express the sentiments, the hopes and the faith of the American people. The occasion of his address was an Inde- pendence-day festival held by the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and the Chicago Trade and Labor Assembly. Naturally, therefore, labor as the cornerstone of the Republic was the theme of his speech. He reminded his hearers of the recent state- ment of the great statistician Mulhall, that the United States possesses practically much energy or working power as Great Britain, France and Germany combined; that no other civilized country has ever been able to boast of 41,000,000 of instructed citizens, and that no other country has so large a percentage of producers among its educated population. Having in this way outlined the great- ness of that cornerstone of labor on which the prosperity of the Republic rests in ab- solute security, the orator went on to remind his hearers that whatever may be the difficultics of the present or the prob- lems of the future, the working people of this country can solve them all by remain- ing true to the laws of our free govern- ment. To use his own langunage: ‘‘Peace, order and goodwill among the people, with patriotism in their hearts; truth, honesty and justice in all the branches of the Gov- ernment—all equal before the law and alike amenable to it—such a condition will make our Government too strong ever to be broken by internal dissensions and too powerful to be overturned by any enemy from without.” HOW TO HOLD THEM. The growth of the City westward and southward along the great thoroughfare of Market street and the streets radiating from it threatens to draw away from the district lying north of Market and stretch- ing from Montgomery eastward to the bay-the business that once made property in that section of the City so valuable. This tendency, already so manifest, will in- crease in the future if something is not done to check it, and it is eyident the prop- erty-owners in the threatened district must make an earnest and united effort if they would retain the better paying class of their tenants. To achieve this it is not necessary to work a miracle. The growth of the City along Market street is natural, and, of course, will continue under any circum- stances. The removal of old estahlished business houses and offices to the new por- tions of the City, however, is not due to the same causes that produce the growth there. The removals are occasioned largely by the fact that the streets are beiter con- structed and better cleaned in the newer than the older part of the City, and that the buildings are furnished with more of those conveniences which modern art and architecture have made available to busi- ness men. It is simply to seek cleaner streets and better buildings that many tenants leave the old section for the new, and in this fact lies the chance for the property -owners between Montgomery street and the bay to retain their tenants. To clean the streets in the threatened district ought not to be a task beyond the energies of the property-owners. At pres- ent many portions of these streets are so ill kept they exhale something like the thousand stenches for which Cologne was once famous. The refuse of the markets and garbage of many kinds fill the air with odors that drive tenants away from offices that overlook the streets where such of- fensiveness is found. The first thing then to be done is to make the sireets clean and the air pure and fresh. If this cannot be done while the cobbles are on the streets, the cobbles should be taken out. This is an easily understood proposition. Good tenants will not stay where the streets are bad. After the streets are put into better con- dition the old buildings must be improved up to the standard of recent structures. That, however, is a matter which concerns only an individual owner. Those who make improvements will reap a benefit, while others will go without. The clean- g of the streets, on the other hand, is a matter of general concern, and all prop- erty-owners should unite in bringing it about. When once the downtown streets are made as clean as the best in the City, property-owners then need not regret the growth of the City westward. They will be able to hold good tenants for all time to come. SAN JOAQUIN IRRIGATION. The people of the State had hardly found time to become used to the feeling of sur- prised gratification which the organization of the Valley road inspired when informa- tion is now given that New York and Chi- cago capital has taken the unsold bonds of the Poso and Turlock irrigation distticts, and that the canals will be immediately constructed. The companies thus backing the enterprise are said to be Coler & Co., New York bankers, and the North Amer- ican Trust and Loan Company of Chicago. These two enterprises—the Valley road and the irrigation schemes—are happy complements of each other, and each will contribute to the other’s prosperity. This investment of Eastern capital is particularly significant, in view of the fact that the validity of the bond issue is under contest in the courts, but the investment was made under the advice of leading lawyers, who have given the matter close attention, and who believe that the in- validity of the bonds cannot be established. It appears that the negotiations were pending some time before the Valley road was projected, and that they were sus- pended by the suits. Apparently, there- fore, it was an understanding of the immense benefits which the road would bring to the valley that induced the East- ernmen to take all risks and have the system in full operation by or before the time the two districts are penetrated by the road. The assurance of these great irrigation schemes adds a large percentage to the value of the Valley road property. The contests over the issuance of bonds arose from the unwillingness of some of the land-owners to burden their property with the debt which the bonds impose. In the Poso district, for instance, this debt is $12 50 an acre, and it is to be extinguished by a plan of gradual redemption. During this period they of course draw irterest, which is an additional charge upon the land. The amount of the lien upon the land thus created is the last thing a prop- erty-owner ought to consider. The ques- tion with him is simply one of making an investment with a reasonable prospect of sufficient return. In the case of land which has been used hitherto for pasturage the income is comparatively so small that the land has little value, and hence a debt of $1250 an acre, taken by itself, seems beavy. When we reflect, bowerver, that ng, irrigation will more than double, and in some cases quadruple, the value of the land by increasing its earning capacity in that vestment in irrigation facilities will pay an enormous percentage in profit. great part of this increase of value is added by the Valley road, which will re- | lieve the land-owners of the burdens and exactions which a monopoly of transpor- tation in the past haslevied on their pos- sessions and industry. TAMMANY'S OELEBRATION. The Tammany celebration of the Fourth of July is notable for the letters from Cleveland and from Hill and for the tone of the address of the day made by ex-Gov- ernor Campbell of Ohio. These were the most important utterances made in any partof the Union on that day, put they derive their importance more from the po- litical rank and station of the men who made them than from, any intrinsic merit in the words themselves. The Cleveland letter is an excellent specimen of the art of writing nothing witn great pomposity. Of course we could not expect him to be very enthusiastic in writ- ing to Tammany, but still as the President of the Unmited States writing of the anni- versary whose celebration recalls the foun- dation of the Republic, its noble history and its present grandeur, the people might justly have- indulged the hope that he would be moved to write something wor- thy of the reading, and from his high of- fice, address the people in words that would rouse their patriotism by manifest- ing his own. Instead of the sentiments we might have expected from the Presi- dent of the United States, we get only the dull moralizings we are accustomed to from the man Grover Cleveland. His let- ter, therefore, is notable only as another evidence of his lack of leadership and an- other proof of that hopeless incapacity which is now becoming so well understood. Senator Hill's letter was evidently in- tended as a warning, but sounds more like a wail of woe. He declares the country is endangered by the spirit of socialism which threatens to subvert the constitu- tion, impose odious schemes of taxation, maintain an immense standing army and navy, not for the purposes of defense, but in readiness for conquest, or to intimidate the plain people in the interests of plu- tocracy. If all this had been uttered by Peffer or Jerry Simpson it would have passed without comment. It is, however, a new role for Senator Hill to play the part of the calamity howler, and his ap- pearance in it is the more strange as it was his own party that endeavored to im- pose the odious scheme of taxation upon the people; and moreover, as he knows very well, the scheme has failed and the constitution has been amply vindicated by the integrity and wisdom of the Supreme Court. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio is not near so eminent at this time in politics as Cleveland and Hill, but he is one of the leading Democratic candidates for the Pres- idency, and has possibilities of the coming man. His speech, therefore, will attract the attention always accorded to rising leaders, and the country will not fail to note that he put aside home politics alto- gether and spoke with no little force and spirit of the Monroe doctrine and the im- portance to the United States of maintain- ing a vigorous foreign policy. This speech, taken in connection with the recent utter- ances of Whitney and Don Dickinson, would seem to imply that Democracy was willing to throw Cleveland overboard in the next campaign and try to save the party from the task of explainingitsshort- comings &t bome by drawing public atten- tion to affairs in Venezuela. Taken altogether, the proceedings of the celebration afford another proof that every Democratic leader isup Salt Creek, each in his own boat, paddling his own canoe, and no two of them headed the same way. Cleveland is sullen, Hill ais- heartened and Campbell eager to ride on the rising wave of National patriotism. So long as these divisions last the party can do nothing, but patriotic Democrats may at least in reading Campbell’s speech rejoice to know that some of their leaders are capable of understanding popular sen- timent and moving in harmony with it. THE SUNDAY “OALL" To-morrow’s issue of THE Cavrr will con- tain an exceptionally pleasing and in- structive array of special features. Alice Rix with her clever pen and Frank A. Nankivell with his delicate and amusing caricatures will present articles on social events and the theaters in which out-of- town seekers after pleasure are handled artistically, and the salient features of the drama critically considered. The woman's page goes carefully over the range of sum- mer fashions and matters of other kinds in which women are taking an interest. The children’s page also amply covers its own ground. The sympathetic author of “Idyls of the Fields”’ will have another atfractive article for lovers of nature. This is the closing article of the series. “A Holiday on Olympus’’ is a special feature which will commend itself to the literary class of readers. It 1sa verbatim report of one of those bright and instruc- tive talks for which the members of upper Bohemia are famous the world over. This is the first of a series which will show these accomplished workersinalight in which it is extremely difficult for strangers to find them—the lifting of a curtain which is usuaily kept closely drawn against public scrutiny. The participants in to-morrow’s dialogue are well known by name to the general community, and they will be found to say many instructive things on the question of realism and ideality. Dan O’'Connell will present ‘A Startling Transformation in a San Mateo Garden,” another of those artistically written and quaintly conceived productions for which he is noted. Adeline Knapp will discuss the important subject of “The Higher Education,” and there will be something interesting about Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor and her work as an historian, “Astride a Frozen Anchor in a Gale” is an account by Denis Kearney of a thrilling personal experience. In addition to these features there will be a large number of special articles and all the news and regular departments. AN ALLURING SUGGESTION. The Denver Republican, in admitting the general truth of E. V. Smalley’s article in the June Arena that the proportion of the arid lands of the West which might be brouglit under cultivation by irrigation may be represented by a single furrow across a twenty-acre field, suggests that the question of cultivating arid lands might be solved by means other than irrigation. All breeders of animals and growers of plants know that by artificial selection very marked variations from the parent stock may be produced, and this is carried to so greatalength as to make the new product congenial to a natural environ- ment which would be fatal to the original stock. The Republican therefore suggests that by - intelligent and persistent selection grains might be brought forth which could be cultivated with profitin the arid regions without irrigation. The idea is exceed- ingly interesting. Manifestly the work of carrying it out would be the duty of the Agricultural Department at Washington. It would probably be discovered that ex- treme difficulty wouwld be met in finding among grains cultivated in watered regions a variation which could be recognized as having a tendency toward suitability to arid conditions, and that the proper method of procedure would be either to produce such variations by successive cul- tivations with a steadily diminishing sup- ply of water, or to search for hitherto un- discovered food plants which have a naturally arid environment. A radical modification of the idea might be made practical in California in various ways. For instance, by reason of the mild- ness of our winters and the practically uni- versal habit of plants to bloom and fruit in the summer, plants which we have in- troduced from sub-tropical regions, includ- ing the calla (a very tender plant), bring with them their babit of blooming in what happens to be our non-blooming season, the winter. Giving this idea a more prac- tical application, it is conceivable that we might bring hither from sub-equatorial regions fowls suitable for domestic pur- poses, which will bring their habit of lay- ing eggs at a time when eggs are very scarce and expensive with us. This could possibly be extended to many kinds of vegetables and fruits, our somewhat limited experience in this direction hav- ing shown us that it is perfectly feasible. This is a work in which the State might be able to accomplish much good, as Califor- nia is the only section of the country in which this can be done and would have a monopoly of the benefits which would re- sult from it. PERSONAL. L. M. Lasell, & merchant of Martinez, is & guest at the Grand. Bernard Isaacs, & leading merchant of Ione, isstaying at the Grand. Dr. J. Nichols of Sutter Creek was one of yes- terday’s arrivals at the Grand. Colonel Park Henshaw, a prominent attor- ney of Chico, is at the Occidental. John F. Weare, & big paint manufacturer of Chicago, registered yesterday af the Occi- dental. Alfred Dixon, a merchant of Michigan Bluff, Placer County, registered yesterday at the Grand. Dr. Philip Leach of the navy is at the Palace and will visit Yosemite and other points of in- terest before his return Eas John B.Henderson of Washington, D. C., who has been to the Orient as private secretary to ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, who negotiated the treaty of peace on behalf of the Chinese, arrived yesterday, and is stopping at the Palace. He left his chief at Vancouver and came on down here on pleasure. Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church and president of the Armour Institute of Chicago, came up yester- day from Pacific Grove, where he has been lec- turing before the Chautanquan Assembly, and is staying at the Palace. He is to lecture this evening at Plymouth Congregational Church in this city. Master Julius Haig, & native of San Fran- cisco, who is only 12 years of age, and who en- tered the Vienna Conservatory two years ago, was declared the best pupil in his class (violin) at the closing examination of 1895. In his class, the third grade, are nineteen pupils, of whom Master Haug is the youngest one and the only American. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. Americans of both the North and South con- tinents want no European domination of their mainland or their islands. Recruitsto this American ides are being found every day among the very emigrants from European lands. So that immigration to the several countries of South and North America simply strengthens the grand idea of Amerlca for Americans. Whether Presidents favor or slight it, the Monroe doetrine is bound to live, and on a larger basis than at first conceived. Long live the Monroe doctrine, and it is no in- fringement of international law to wish Cuba success, which we most heartily do.—Portland Sun. So this road which aSouthern Pacific organ designated as “‘opera bouffe” is demonstrating that opera bouffe may be & lively kind of per- formance. The conduet of the enterprise from the beginning has been characterized by energy. No grass has at any time been allowed to grow in its path. Tt is hard to get outof the habit of hopelessness bred by hard times, but all the same it is time to get out of it, for the years of our dependence upon & single ratlroad are neering an end. Almost before we know, the Valley railroad and competition will be with us.—Fresno Republican. Now that the Whittier Reform School, one of the best institutions of the kind in the world, is so full that no more boys can be taken in for some time, parents may, perhaps, be persuaded 10 adopt some of the methods in vogue there and reform their own children. It is a sur- prising fact that a large proportion of the boys of Whittier are sons of parents who are in the middle walks of life and are amply able to support their own children but have not the moral stamina to keep them in order.—Stock- ton Record. No one who has lived in California long, and who has thoughtat all on the subject, would admit for a moment that the peopie of this State, taking them for all in all, are not as re- fined, as well educated and as 2apable of per- forming the highest duties of citizenship as those of any other State in the Union. Itis therefore a silly affectation of inferiority to pretend that we must go outside af the State for the managers of our institutions of learn- ing.—San Jose Herald. From all over the country reports are coming 1in of increased wages paid to working people and of reviving prosperity everywhere. No stories like this were told when the Democratic party was in full control of the Government. Now that the hands of that party are shackled men know that there will be no dangerous in- terference with business affairs, and that con- tracts may safely be made.—Albuquerque (N. M.) Citizen. The cultivation of patriotism as a vital force that binds men together in the accomplish- ment of high and worthy eims and ambitions should be-encouraged, not in & narrow and in- tolerant spirit, however, but in & broad sympa- thy which will tend toward the preservation of that which was accomplished by our fore- fathers after the seven long years of the Ameri- can Revolution.—Los Angeles Record. ‘We had it from the highest Democratic au- thority that the new tariff would stimulate the trade of this country abroad, and yet the ex- ports the first nine months of its operation fell more than $66,000,000 below those of the corresponding months last year under the Mc- Kinley 1aw. But this is about as near as De- mocracy comes to meeting its pledges.—As- torian (Oregon). St Keep up an everlasting racket over the Presi- dential conventions meeting in San Irancisco next y ear, and never let up until we get one or both. This coast deserves the conventions, and there is not anotber as nearly an ideal convention city in the country as San Fran- cisco. Everybody pull, pull hard, pull all to- gether and we can win.—Redlands Citrograph. How this State would grow 1f it could only be filled up by people able to own smell farms of & few acres and all under a high degree of culti- vation. There would not be a State so rich in promise as our own, for there is scarcely a limit to our possibilities.—Los Angeles Times. Faith indeed can remove mountains. Just now the faith of the people in the promise of readjustmnent of afteirs by a new administra- tion is removing the great mountain of mis- trust and depression.—Salida (Colo.) Mail. ‘Work, however hard, has its compensation in the satisfied mind of the worker. It is better to wear out with the consciousness of doing our part than to rust out with the lack of that consciousness.—Albuquerque Citizen. Filibusters after all are only 1n-Cuba-tors— they are trying to natch out a revolution.—Salt Lake Herald, 4 Herr Anton Seidl is to direct the Wagner concerts in London next season. = AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘“Well,” exciaimed Franklyn K. Lane, the at- torney, as he dropped into the bay-window of the Occidental Hotel yesterday, “I have landed on the other side of the Fourth of July without getting killed. There has hardly been an Independence day celebration since my childhood that I have not been injured in some way. My faith in the justice of revering George Washington has been trembling in the balance for the last few days, but now that I have come out of the hurrah and patriotic joy unscathed and unstained I have been in & mood to receive him once more as the Father of his country.” “So you were a regular victim on the Fourth, Lane, Is that what I understand?”’ asked & friend. \ “That’s about the size of it. My star of ill luck appeared when I was 7 years of age. ITe- member its arrival very well. Igot up on the morning of the Fourth long before daybreak, and by sunrise all my firecrackers were gone. Iborrowed all the available ammunition from the neighbors’ boys, but by 8 o'clock there wasn’t even a parlor match in the block. Well,” and Mr. Lane scratched his head a mo- ment, “of course, I had to do something to fit- tingly usher in such an occasion as the one which was engaging my attention, so I con- cluded to spend the rest of the day, assisted by several other youngsters, stealing apples. “We went over a series of fences to one or- chard owned by an old man named Gillett. He wasa tall, lean, rakish-looking craft, with a stride like the man of seven-league-boot fame. I was a short, modest youth, only able to move along under great pressure, and then not too rapidly. You will please observe the risk I ran. My clothing consisted of & pair of loose knickerbockers buttoned on a gingham shirt, the whole affair worth probably 60 cents. I was barefooted. When we struck the orchard where the apples grew I was appointed by & most overwhelming vote to go in and tackle it first. Ibad smelled powder that day and was ready for anything,so I tied the knees of my trousers tightly and crawled under the fence. When I reached the tree containing the best apples I unbuttoned the front of my gingham shirt and began to stow away fruit. Ina few moments, greatly to the admiration of my several witnesses, I had filled my trouser legs end was bulging out with plunder on all sides. Finally I was loaded to myown satisfaction and started back, but moved with great effort. Justas I got through the fence some of the boys yelled, ‘Cheese for Gillett,’ and in a few seconds I was alone with my booty. Horrified and motionless, I stood waiting to receive the shock of the invincible Gillett, who was very prompt in arriving. “I will never forget the scene. He grabbed me by the back of a large apple which bulged out in the region of my neck and proceeded to move me along with violent kicks, each one of which brought out an apple or two. He boosted me along nearly & half a mile, kicking apples out of me at each step. and occasionally commenting on my cleverness as & daylight robber. After he had cleaned me out and left me for almost dead I got myself together and arrived at my father's house just in time to get mixed up in the evening display of powder and became the central figure fn & premature explosion of Roman candles and skyrockets, which accidentally became ignited and spent themselves against my bare legs and feet. In my haste to escape I fell off the porch and broke my collar-bone, besides tearing the skin off my forehead. See, the scar is there yet. “Ever since that eventful year I have met with some misfortune on the Fourth of July. This is the one oceasion wherein I escaped, and 1 feel thankful to providence for this my first year of peace.” BITS OF BIOGRAPHY. George Meredith, the writer, is now almost completely deaf. The Empress of Japen, it is stated, is in regu- Jar correspondence with the Empress Frederick of Germany. Sir Walter Besant’s favorite books are Zola’s 1) Assommotr,” and Rider Haggard's “She,” and “The Light That Failed.” Hugh H. Sherwood of Philadelphia has brought suit against a street railway company to recover 500 for the death of & setter. The Prince of Wales and his family consider Sandringham their real home, and here their principal family treasures sre o be found. It is claimed that Lieutenant Bersier of the French navy has invented a compass which does away with & steersman, as the compass steers the vessel itself. One of the Shahzada’s staff, mistaking the intention of his hosts in providing soap in his bedroom at Dorchester House, felt bound to eat it, and after a gallant effort succeeded in disposing of an entire cake. It is said that the estate of George W. Van- derbilt in the mountains near Asheville, N. C., has already cost its owner $4,000,000, and it is believed it will require $2,000,000 more to bring it to the desired perfection. Friedrich Spielhagen, the novelist, delivered the oration at the recent meeting of the Goethe Soclety at Weimar. He asserted that Werther and Hermann and Dorothea would survive, whatever became of Goethe’s other works. The King of Greece has an odd way of spend- ing some of the summer months. He turns farmer, and works as hard as though he was a land laborer. He can plow a field, cut and vind wheat, in short, keep & farm going from start to finish, as though it were his livelihood. PLEASANTRIES OF THE HOUR. At the seaside resort: bored. She—I feel that way. The mosquitoes both- ered me all night.—Philadelphia Record. He—You look terribly “Good morning,” chirped the summer girl, nodding familiarly to the hammock. - ¢I'll take & fall out of you presently.—Chicago Tri- bune. Mrs. Hushmore—You'll have to settle up or leave. Summer Boarder—Thanks, awfully. The last place I was at they made me do both.— Life. Smith—It {s understood that the breweries have engaged & carload of froge. Brown—For what purpose? Smith—Because they're so full of hops.—At- lanta Constitution. “I'm not troublin’ meself about the new woman,” hiccoughed O'Murther, making his way deviously homeward at3 A. M. “It's th’ ould woman, that's worryin’ Tribune. Talk of women being timid! Nonsense! Why, little meek-faced, thin slip of & girl will wear ‘balloon sleeves right in the middle of the cy- clone belt, and that without flinching.—Boston Transeript. Wheeler (who has just bought a bike)—Do you think the bicycle has come to stay? Sprocket—Well, & good deal depends on whether you paid outright for it or got it on the installment plan.—Yonkers Statesman. He—Wasn’t Brown’s wife named Stone before she was married? She—Yes, and it was a very suitable name. He—What do you mean? She—Oh, nothing; only she threw herself at his head.—World’s Comic. “There’s nothing worse in the world than os- tentation,” said Garraway. “0h, yes, there is,” said Gorse. “Bostontation 18 much worse.” “What is Bostontation?” “Qsteatation plus Boston,” said Garraway.— Harper’s Bazar. “I’'m going now ; yes, I'm going, going,” mur- mured Steigher. “What an excellent auctioneer you'd make,” gaid the heartless but tired Miss Nycegerl.— Boston Courier. Playwright (author of Captain Anson’s play)— Do you think Anse will be able to throw enough feeling into his denunciation of the villain in act 2? Stage Manager—Sure. I've engaged an old baseball umpire to impersonate the villain.— Chicago Record. RovAL Bakixe Powper is well known to be absolutely free from alum, ammonia and all impurity. Do you feel quite sure about any other brand? Alum powders isonous. Better use Royal and take 1o chances. TWO SOCIALIST PASTORS, They Will Publish a Weekly in Support of Their Doctrine. REV. J. E. SCOTT THE EDITOR. He and Rev. E. J. Dupuy Will Teach the Presbytery Marx Economics. Revs. J. E. Scott and E. J. Dupuy, hogh Presbyterian ministers and members in good standing of the local presbytery, will edit and publish a socialistic weekly in this City, to be called, in no uncertain words, The Socialist. This will be news to the presbytery. The paper will make its first appearancea week from to-day. Rev. J. B. Scott will edit and Rev. E.J. Dupuy will manage the enterprise. That such a paper, advocating the doctrines of Carl Marx and recognizing the legitimacy of the socialistic move- ments of Europe, should be published by a Presbyterian minister may surprise many. Dr. Scott himseli realizes the novelty t?l his position, for he freely discussed it when seen last evening. He was hard at work on his salutatory editorial. I believe,” said Dr. Scott, “I am the only minister in the world wpo has aught to do with a paper of this kind. Iappre- ciate the novelty, while I realize the entire reason of my position. There is nothing in the creed of Presbyterianism which for- bids my being a socialist, for there is no socialistic belief that is not Christian in its spirit. My brothers of the presbytery thus far know nothing of my un ertaking. They will all learn_ it in good time. Ian- ticipate no opposition from them. I have reason to know that some of the younger members of the presbytery are sincerely studying the great problems of socialism. But assuming that the presbytery should oppose my views and my venture I should stand by my convictions, for I think they are true. % < “‘We shall meet the issue squarely. We shall call our paper The Socialist, and not sugar-coat_its purpose by any misleading title. Under the caption will appear our motto, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” To my mind, all_the real terrors of socialism are wrapped u% in that sen- tence. We shall expect to be supported by the socialists of this State. There are 2000 of them. We shall not trouble our- selves editorially or otherwise with Mr. Rockefeller, or ~any other gentleman capitalist. The socialists have about de- cided not to do more battle with the mo- nopolists, but will let them fightit out among themselves. We have something else to do.” Rev. E. J. Dupuy came from a hotbed of socialism—France. He was born in this City, but received his education in France, and was_ordained a Presbyterian minister there. He took a leading part in the French socialistic movement. He is now pastor of the French Presbyterian Church in this City. Rev. Joseph E. Scott was for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Menlo Park, and more recently was pastor of the Woodbridge Presbyterian Churchon Twentieth and Capp streets. The church property was lately sold to the Unitarians, and the congregation is about to build a new edifice out near the panhandle. Mean- while, Dr. Scott is without a pulpit, He stated last evening that he became a con- vert to socialism ten years ago, through reading Beliamy’s Utopian fiction, “Look- ing Backward.” Since then he has occasion ally preached on socialism, and recently read a paper before the presbytery, in which he dealt with the church side of the question. The Socialist will be an eight-page paper. The first number will contain arti- cles by such prominent socialists as Job Harriman and James G. Clark of Pasa- dena: Just how Dr. Scott’s radical departure will affect his brothers in the presbytery remains to be seen. As for Dr. gcott. he is prepared for any development, and in any event declares be will be a socialist and— subject to the ordinary vicissitudes of such ventures—will grapple weekly with the questions arising from the never-ending conflict between ?abor and capital. ETIQUETTE OF COURTS. That It Calls for Some Queer Proceed- ings Is Here Shown. In the Austrian court it is contrary to custom for perishable articles to appear twice on the imperial table. The result is large perquisites for the attendants. To one man fall all the uncorked bottles, to another the joints, and to another still the game or the sweets. Every morning a sort of market is held in the basement of the palace, where the Viennese come reaaily to purchase the remains. And there is no other means of procuring Imperial Tokay than this. Long ago in England even the greatest men in the land were pleased to receive such perquisites. In the reign of Henry 11, for instance, the Lord Chancellor was entitled to the candle ends of one great and forty small candles per day. And the aquarius, who must be a Baron in rank, received 1 penny for drying towels on every ordinary occasion of the King’s bathing. The ceremonial that the Revofix— tion swept away the first Emperor Napo- leon was careful to revive in a less extreme form, and it is characteristic of the man that he made a special study of it, and went 80 far as to prescribe the special forms to be used on great occasions. Before his coronation, M. Isabey, the miniature painter, gave seven rchearsals with wooden dolls, appropriately dressed, of the seven ceremonials that were to be enacted. And one ceremony being es- Eecinllg intricate, the functionaries re- earsed it in person in the Gallery of Diana at the Tuileries, a plan having been carefully traced with chalk on the tloor. This was the sort of thing in which Napoleon especially rejoiced, and he himself arranged = beforehand all the details of the entry of Maria Louisa into France, and of his subse- quent marriage with her. Among other gurhculnrs on reaching what was then rench territory the Archduchess was con- ducted into the eastward room of a three- roomed house near Braunau; the French Commissioner entered westward; while the third room in the middle was oceupied by the rest of the party. And M. de Baus- set, who gives an account of the proceed- ings, having bored holes with a gimlet in the door of the middle room, had a splen- did view of the unconscious Princess. But, he quaintly adds, it was the ladies who took advantage of his forethought. The ceremonial of the Chinese court is somewhat exacting. It used to include, if it does not now, complete prostration be- fore the throne. Last century a Persian envoy refused to go through the degrading ordeal. Directions were given to the officials to compel him by stratagem to do s0. On arriving one day at the entrance to the hall of audience, the envoy found no means of going in except by a wicket, which_would compel him to stoop very low. With great presence of mind and considerable ~ audacity, the Bmbassador 2:;?;: a{g\mg and enitered backward, thus e honor «of hi —Ni York Evening Post. i Al e The Wheelman and the Bear. Attorney Arthur Kelly, a young lawyer of Atlantic City, brought to wwE & bear story which is just now a topic among local sportsmen. . Kelly started from here to ride to Port Republic, a distance of fii- teen miles. The country in that section is densely wooded, ana for a goodly distance the roadway is lined on either side by He was bowling thickly growing tree: 1S along merrily on s mncb_ms'whe}?. about five miles from his destmx_xtxonf, e was startled by a ]f;\\' growl coming from the side of the road. > On looking in the direction from which the sound came he was_horror-stricken (g find himself confronted by a Jarge an hungry bear. The emotions of the lawyer at that moment are indescribable. To argue the right of way with such an opponent was not to his liking, neither was the prospect of returning by the way he came. In a second he had decided upon his course of action, and, tightly grasping the handie bars of the bicycle he pushed by his bearship like a gale of 'wind, and was well on his way to Port Republic before bruin realized that his prize had escaped him.—Philadelphia Times. e PHILOSOPHY FOR SMOKERS. A Man Enown by His Cigars and the Way He Smokes Them. As a test of character tobacco is useful. A man may be known by the cigars he keeps, as well as by the way he smokes them. No man of refined taste will smoke a bad cigar. The philosophic smoker takes his comfort in a leisurely way amid proper surroundings, and is able to shut himself out from the world and all its petty an- noyances as he follows the curling wreath info the dreamland of reverie. The man who allows his cigar to go oub a great many times and relights it in suc- cessive spasms of fidgetiness may usually be set down as an incoherent character, quite prone to get off his trolley, so to, speak, and certainly lacking in tenacity of purpose. The man who fumbles his cigar a good deal and manages to get the wrap- per unraveled and the fire all on one side, may be dismissed as a neryous person, with a proclivity for uncomfortableness, says the Baltimore Sun. Men who chew their cigars, leaving their teeth prints on them, and do this fora long time before lighting them, are quite likely to be stern, determined men, full of grit and resolu- tion. General Grant used to handle a cigap in that way and Bismarck is said todo likewise. . As an index of generosity or meanness of soul, the cigar is quite trustworthy. The generous man, if he smokes at all, is sure to indulge himself and his friends, when they call on him, with a good cigar, The man who, with abundant means to smoke the best, deliberately buys the worst cigars, and pretends to enjoy them, is ca- able of almost any conceivable meanness, er contra, the man who can find solace and refreshment from a cigar of good qual~ ity, or a pipe filled with choice tobacco, and who is always ready to open his hea wide and let his w"i“e wag the most merrily when he takes his friend into the hospitalities of a mutual smoke talk, iz retty sure to be one whose instincts and, impulses are in the main honest,genial and right. — e -———— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ———————— CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend’s.* ——————— A Home of Rest “where tired actors may recuperate,” to be supported entirely by the dramatic profession, has just been started in England with Beerbohm Tree for its first president. ————————————— TRY our ‘‘Atlas Bourbon” and you will wsnx none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.’ e —— Ocean Excursions. Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 P. M., due back Mon- days, 5 A. M. Ticket office, 4 New Montgome‘ry street. ————————— Steam engine cylinders are now bored when heated up by steam at full pressure by one English firm of makers, as it is as. serted that if bored while cold they are not perfectly true wben under steam. Do not neglect that tired feeling; it is a signal o? danger. It is nature’s warning. It is a cry for pure, rich and nourishing blood. Hood's Sarsapa~ rilla meets these demands. e IF your complaint. is want of appetite try half g wine glass 0f Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters be- fore meals. ——————— A Toveka newspaper alleges that prepar. ations are making in that town for a wed« ding at which the bride will wear blooms ers. She is said to be an exceedingly emancipated type of the new woman. LA BELLE CREOLE CIGARS MANUFACTURED BY S. HERNSHEIM BROS. & CO., NEW ORLEANS, LA. RINALDO BROS. & CO,, PACIFIC COAST AGENTS, 800-302 BATTERY ST., S. F. Branch Store—29-31-33 South First St., San Jose, Cal. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, ‘ REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNIOY TRUST BUILDIYG, CORYER MARKET, INVESTMENTS, Sutter-st. Investment—N. side, near Taylor; 22: feet front and very fine dwelling; would rent fo $100; 818.000. Fine investment on Ge"fi‘; st.; 50 feet front and t St -story house, 3 new bullding: blocks from Market Eda; ; rents $140; light and sunny; $18,+ lowntown: new e leod.'z near Taylor; zi?:ass:’ to rear street: olg ufldings: 2 stores: ren ; should be Improv Wil pay well: $10,500. Giabnd dthist. bosiness 'lot, bet. Bryant and Brannang 25x8¢ 3 Cnagnel and Befry sts., bet. 5th and 6th; 45:9x% 240, ffom street to street; $14,000; a barzain. Clay-street investment. near Drumm; 25x119: to _Commercial st.; double front; rents MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY. Fine resldence and lot 30x137:6; north side of Vallejo, bet. Gough and Octavia: fine view, anobs structed, from 2 upper stories: 11 rooms and mods ern convenlences; house cost $8500; leased at $73 amonth; only $10,250. ‘Washington-street residence, near Central ave.; 32x106; norih side; fine residence, 12 rooms, fine ished basemant, attic: all modern conveniences; excellent interior finish: owner selling to leave town: $12,500. Reduced' to $9000; new residence: fine marine view; SW. cor. Green and Buchanan sts.; 9rooms, saloon pariors, electric belis, attic and basement s very sunny and cozy; very ¢asy terms. ‘acific ave., north'side: best situation: not far Laguna; 60, 70 or 120 feet frout; pang view which cannot be shut off. e Pacific ave.: nortn side; any size, 25,50 or 75 feet front; price reduced to $200 & foot; marine view. $3000—Rents $30: two flats and lot 2 Pacific st:, bet. Hyde and Larkin. o Cheap; $5000: two flats and lot 41:4x187:6; flats have 5 rooms each: N. side Post st., bet. o Broderick and Bager; street bitumini: ce] ted'“l:z‘l 840. by loward-st. cottage and lot 30x122:6; and 23d; one of the best residence pomombe:‘f %gg street: cable-cars pass: $5500. z nA“b':: sl ; onl. 1%700?1 for 205 feet front; 87 feet ngton, 118 on Jackson; ru bet. Cherry and 1st ave. e Hizohas ‘1!71‘)%!" st., bet. Sacramento and Clay; 25x137:6; Devisadero, near Washington: 25x110 10 83700; stxvet. paved: eleciric-cars pass: Sum lnél nfllhhorl:.o'od. e St., 1 . . 262508 Cook, W. of Central ave.; 8 lots} redlwgd t0 $1400; cable-cars pass.