The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1895, Page 7

the City are enrolled this week. Bear 1ind there is no politics and no . spitework iu the indictment of the Solid Eight. The step was taken solely for the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1895 M M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week. by carrier.$0.15 Teily snd Cary, one year, by mai 6.00 | Laily an 00 | T 50 | 1 50 | fur 1.50 | 150 S OFFICE: ferket Stree Telephone i ....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: Clay BRANCH OFFIC y street, corner | | i | | | | i open until o'cloek. { nuntil § o'cl 116 Ninth stree ck. | OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 B: EASTERN OFFICE: s Advertising Buresu, Rhinelander | Dusne streets, New York Clty. ’ | Pacific Stat building, Roge THE SUMN ation 2 T¢ S CALL to you will your eddr Tofes it Eus promy TUESDAY another bond issue in sight, and | movement has bolted the | ariness of insanity came ose to the day set for his nternational e seems to be mething o strike in: America. Tt is 8¢ n improvement to tead of a revolution in of of population are Statist less va le evidences of a desire 10 in The i in the suburbs open new w nsion and new ave- nues for comfortable homes. It will not profit Speaker Crisp anything he also comes e are turned to ng a dispro- portionate shar The kind of applicants at the State Free Labor Bureau is the best recommendation of the usefulness of that institution. Liberal leaders in E: d are so silent it is evident they regard the Conservative majority astoo numerous to mention. » not been I :d that ny deleg to a convention heid in San Francisco wa ever prostrated by heat or nipped by frost. The victorious marksmen who have re- tur i from the National Schuetzenfest at | New York should be honored by all patri- otic Californians. The Stockton ladies who are advancing the prosperity of their city are not calling themselves new, but their methods are botk new and admirable: The opening of the public schools sug- gests a large variety of ways in which the opportunity for inculeating a patriotic spirit might be exercised. Every good citizen and dutiful parent is interested in se g that the 68,000 chil- dren entitled to enter the publie schools of purpose of maintaining the law. With ove: 000,000 of railroad construc- tion work in sight and $10,000,000 in pros- pect, Southe California keeps well up cific Coast enterprise. sponsibility as citizens are assisting in paving the road which murder travels. The constitutional provision that all citiz are entitled to bear arms cannot be construed asan indorsement of balloon sleeves that require two seats in a street- car, The report of the Weather Bureau, show- ing San Francisco to be the sunniest large city in the Union, ought to go iar toward dissipating the foggy ideas some people have of our weather. a dull day for news that does not It bring to Californians, who indulge in un- interrupted sur ne and peace, several thrilling accounts of Eastern storms that Cain. The New York papers that represent Po- lice Commissioner Gunst as humbly taking lessons from ‘Roosevelt are eyidently nou aware of the fact there are some things Moses could teach Theodore. Fresno as a pork-packing center might not sound so attractive ‘as Fresno, the center of vineyards and the home of the raisin, but. perhaps there would be money enough in the business to gild the change a little. There are two kinds of people concerned in the progress of the Valley road, ana it will be amatter either of pride or shame that detertines on which side of the progress account a man wiil want his name to appear. The coolness with which the *business men’’ of Dallas, Texas, are preparing for the great prize-fight gives us hope that, as we have conquered that evil inclination, we may yet prove equal to Solid Eight emergencies, It is amusing to read that a horse- trainer who killed a vicious stallion while trying to conquer him wil! bring a suit for damages against a benevolent society which tried unsuccessfully to prevent the accomplishment of bis feats | severest of all possible criti PROTEGTION TO LABOR. Tue CALL’s reports of the work and dis- coveries of the State’s free Employment Bureau make wonderfully pathetic and in- structive reading. The most pitifal of all the disclosures which have been made thus far are those concerning the unfortunates who have seen better days and who are now making their first application for work. That they hitherto have held aloof from the private intelligence offices is the ms of the manner in which those institutions have been generally conducted. For a long time there has been an impression that one of the greatest local needs was an in- telligence office conducted on the highest principles. In this need there has existed an opportunity for helpful work which none of the great charitable orgamzations | seem to have understood, however useful have been. All this might have been on a seli-supporting basis. The interference of the State is not only an adoption of the socialistic idea in one of its most beneficent forms, but its discov- eries stand as a reproach to every benevo- lent organization whose scope is not re- stricted by class regulations, If the Btate Bureau has taught the lesson that the exercise of a kindly interest in needy bumanity must be governed by considera- tions other than those of extending a helpful hand to all who may feel its need, it has served.to advance the cause of socialism above that of benevolence. It well to ponder these matters, for beneath them lie the very essences which govern the political conduct of communi- i There is raised the whole question of e between social and governmental treatment of the necessities of the poor. It it is found that private intelligence offices | and all manner of benevolent societies | prove inferior to the State machinery in nst the most urgent neces- which we can suffer, we have ve subject to consider. Meanwhile, as the applicants for employ- ment through the agency of the BState Jureau appear to be of a superior and ex- ceptionally deserving kind, employers may accept that simple fact alone as a certain kind of guarantee that those secured are worthy. In this matter charity and be- nevolence are not the only considerations. It is not expected that private employers will sacrifice their interests for the good of the needy. The proximate assurance that those whom the State Bureau recommends | will earn their wages is as far as the aver- age employer need inguire. That is a vastly higher recommendation than has ever been offered hefore. One of the most surprising disclosures made the bureau is that women for do- mestic ser are unyilling to work for less than $25 or $30 a month. This should seem a princely salary to many a poor girl or woman, who, though she may not have been brought up to service, is willing to earn an honest living, and has that tact and experience which, being presumably the common possession of women who have been properly reared, will enable her acceptably to fill such a position. It is easy to understand that such less re- munerative positions as saleswomen or what not, other than domestic service, are more showy and “respectable,” butamong those whose wisdom is valuable a sensible girl in domestic service, wearing thereby an unquestionable badge of honesty, in- | dustry and all other kinds of womanly worth, commands a respect which many of her more showy sisters might envy with profit to their character and to the pros- pect of a home in which they may shine as wives and mothers. Poverty is a long and dreary road. The extent to which its evils are magnified and the internal forces which minimize its hardships constitute the measure of char- acter. Shame on its account is admirable only in the presence of the wisest efforts to overcome its drawbacks, Until every one whois in need realizes that his estimate of his own worth and respectability isim- measurably superior to that which depends upon the opinion of others, such institu- tions as the Btate free Labor Bureau will serve as an education to individuals and a rebuke to benevolence. POPULATION OF OITIES. In its issue of yesterday Tue CALL re- viewed the processes by which New York and Chicago are estimating the number of their residents, The subject is more amusing than instructive. Thus, Chicago’s new directory contains 507,300 names, and on that city’s assumption that each name represents three and a half residents the tlaim is made for a population of 1,775,550. New York’s directory contains 899,128 names, which on the same basis would make the population of that city 1,306,944, or 378,610 less than that of Chicago. New York, howevyer, chooses to estimate five for each directory name. This would make her povulation 1,995,640; but if this basis be adovted for Chicago also, that city would have 2,536,500, or 540,860 more than New York, Of course these figuresare wholly absurd, Even leaying out the account of the enor- mous area of Chicago, which has been extended to include every town and village in the region round about, they mean nothing of value. If the boundaries of New York should be similarly extended, so as to include Brooklyn, Jersey City and numerous other cities and towas, her population would make the boasts of Chicago appear miserably absurd. If San Francisco should base its estimate of population on the Chicago method, her population would be 455,000, and if she should extend her limits to equal those of Chicago, her population would be close to a million. And yet it has been largely with the help of such noise and brassbanding as this that Chicago has become so wonderful a city. It is an application of the oid prin- ciple that the werld takes us at our esti- mate of ourselves. Still, this is meant in no way to defract from the high credit which Chicago has earned for being the most wonderful city of modern times, Having all the shrewdness and the hard business sense which lie at the foundation of success, it knows that evidence of growth is an invitation to energy, enter- prise and capital, and tbat men with money to mvest keep away from cities vhich are standing still. The ways in which Chicago shows that it is prosperous and progressive are innu- merable and instructive. The beginning of all of them is the energy and civie pride of its people, and these are made effective by a remarkable co-operation. The Co- lumbian Exposition, inaugurated and con- ducted against the vindictive hostility of the National metropolis, and supvorted soiely by the brains, énergy and money of Chicago’s own production, was the most brilliant achievement of the kind that the world has seen, It was the apotheosis of the spirit which has moved in many less conspicuous ways. The magnificent houses, perfect pavements, handsome boulevards and beautiful parksare other evidences of its manifesting energy. And yet all of these, valuable though they are, count for little in comparison with the incredible enterprise with which its people have pushed their commerce in all pos- sible directions. The later advances which New York has made have been modeled on the Chicago plan and were induced by Chicago’s suc- cess. In other words, Chicago should be content not to discuss the subject of popu- lation in view of the fact that it now domi- nates the whole Nation in all those sub- stantial matters upon which thrift and material progress are bounded. New York has a geographical position the superior advantages of which could be nullified only by immeasurable stupidity. What New York is as the gateway through which Europe must enter America San Francisco is as the entrepot for the Orient. These two cities must inevitably and always be great, but their greatness could be in- creased beyond all present conception if they had such people as those who have made Chicago the marvel of the century. AN OBJECT LESSON. In the experience of the great conven- tion of the Young People’s Baptist Union at Baltimore the people of the East have had an object lesson teaching clearly the unfitness of Atlantic Coast cities for such gatherings in midsummer. ‘It was an ex- perience which none of the celegates would like to undergo again and furnishes a potent argument why the conventions of the great National parties should be held on this coast. According to the telegraphic reports the heat of the city was well nigh insufferable during the day, and even during the even- ing in the big tent where the main ser- vices of the convention were held the ther- mometer touched the 100 mark. During the day no attempt was made to gather all the delegates at one place. Bervices were held in different churches in order to avoid as much as possible the heat engen- dered by large crowds. Nevertheless in a single church five persons were prostrated by the heat and had to be carried out. Had the whole convention been held in a single hall or tent during the day the number of prosirations would have been very large and perhavs not a few fatalities would have resulted. The heat in Baltimore, it must be re- membered, was not exceptional. While in Ran Francisco we were enjoying a cool, breezy, delightful Sunday, the entire At- lantic Coast was sweltering in a breezeless, stifling, torrid heat, that sapped the vital~ ity and threatened the prostration of all who were compelled to make the least ex- ertion. Certainly a climate in which such weather occurs is not suitable for conven- tion work of any kind, and least of all for a political convention where excitement runs highsnd men’s blood is at a fever heat. It is a familiar fact that at every great political convention held in the East, whether in the villey of the Mississippi or on the .Atlantic Coast, the delegates have invariably suffered from the heat, not a few have been seriously exhausted, and the work of all has been largely interfered with. Borely,iv is time to profit by the experience of the past. Improvements in transportation bave made San Francisco as easy to reach from 4il sections of the Union as Chicago was before the war. ‘We ought, as a people, to begin to enjoy the benefits of that improvementand profit by it in making San Francisco the great midsummer convention city of the Nation. PORK PACKING AT FRESNO, The report that a number of leading business men at Fresno have formed a plan for organizing a pork-packing com- pany may be taken as another evidence that the new era now dawning upon Cali- fornia is to be one of diversified industry, Further developments of the project, there- fore, will be watched with interest, and there is cood reason to believe they will not be long 1n forthcoming. The conditions prevailing in Fresno County seem to be in every way favorable to the success of the enterprise. A con- siderable number of hogs are raised there. It has been the custom to ship these several hundred miles to a market and the cured meat has been shipped back again. The local packing-house will form in the first instance a connecting link between the hog-raiser and the home consumer, but in the end it will be much more than that. By affording a good local market for hogs it will induce the raising of those animals in larger numbers than at present, and thus build up an industry which will soon yield a supply of pork more than the home consumers can use, and taus give the State another important and profitable article of export. Every step made in this way toward a diversified industry is a benefit not only to the section in which it takes place, but to the whole SBtate. Success in any one direction will lead to enterprises in others. There are many articles of staple consump- tion now imported 4rom Europe or from the Eastern States that might be profitably produced athome, Every step in the direc- tion of producing them deserves the heart- iest encouragement. We ehall not have achieved a full measure of the prosperity due to us in the resources afforded by nature so long as any of them are unde- veloped or so long as anything is imported from abroad that can better be grown in our fields or made in our factories. A WALL STREET PROPHET. James B. Colgate, a man of note and a leader in the affairs of Wall street, is re- ported to have recently startled the sound money committee of the New York Cham- ber of Commerce by certain statements concerning the financial situation of the world, vhich were about as radical as any that have been uttered by those whom the New Yorkers delight in describing as “Western silver cranks.” Mr. Colgate maintained that the value of our money is not determined by the bullion value of gold, but on the contrary that the present value of gold is mainly determined by its use as money. The law of commercial supply and demand, said the financieg, cuts no figure in the price of bullion because the knockdown price is fixed by the mint laws of Great Britain, and that price is legalized in the United States and other countries. Gold bullion at the present time has no market quota- tion, and the speaker asserted that if it were demonetized no man could guess what it would command in the market as a metal. After pointing out that the amount of gold locked up in the vaults of European nations increased during the fiscal year ending with last June by abont $147,000,000, and that these nations have now hoarded in their banksand warchests more than $1,300,000,000, he wenton to say itis no longer profitable for the United States to maintain the gold reserve ana gold cur- rency at present prices; that silver being the only money metal of 850,000,000 people is the best for universal currency, and it would be good business for the United States to adopt it. Thus far there was nothing in the speech that has not been said before., Mr. Colgate, however, warming to his theme, went on to declare the conviction that in the event of a general European war, the debts of the nations would be so swollen they could not be paid in goid, and as a result all na- tional debts would be wiped out through the destruction of the evidences of such debts, as has occurred several times in the world’s history. This is a fair summary of the speech as reported. Coming as it does from the very stronghold of ‘gold monometallism, it shows that even in Wall street some far- sighted men are locking to the future and are considering the financial problem in a broader light than that of individual gain. If the existing demand for money has made the price of gold bullion so high that it is of doubtful profit to the United States to maintain a gold reserve and a gold standard of money, what will be the price in case of a general European war when the expenses of the nations are increased & hundredfold? Certainly there will have to be a break somewhere, and it would seem to be an act of financial wisdom on our part to have returned to bimetallism before the break comes. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Attorney Vogelsang has returned from & three weeks’ vacation at Webber Lake. *“The fishing was fine from the day I struck the place to the day I left. Yes, I'll tell you the exact weight of the biggest fish I caught— three and an eighth pounds. Don’tsmile. I am telling the truth,” said Mr. Vogelsang to some friends in the Occidental Hotel. “But, sey, you should have seen Judge Hunt. He thinks he can tell the exact weightof a trout at & glance. In order to prove it he took up & peir of pocket scales, and one day he hauled up a pretty fair-sized fish, ‘How much does it weigh, Judge? I called out irom my boat. ‘Two and a quarter pounds,’ he an- swered, With that he pulled out his scales, and lo, the index recorded one and = quarter pounds! With that his Honor arose and in s mighty wrath heaved the_scales some fifty feet to starboard, remarking: ‘Those scales don’t know as much ebout the weight of a fish as Idos” PERSONAL. C. D. Stearns of the navy is at the Palace. Judge C, C. Busn of Redding is a guest at the Grand. Dr. Henry H, Nagle of Mokelumne Hill is at the Russ. G. Bustelll, & vineyardist of Livermore, is at the Grand. J. B, Brooks, a mining man of Placerville, is at the Lick, F. G. Ostrander, District Attorney of Merced, 1s at the Lick. Rev. C. 8, Fackenthal of Pacific Grove is at the Occidental. W. D. Campbell, 2 merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand, Harry Posthelwait, a fruit-grower from Ban Jose, is at the Lick. John E.Goodman, a banker of Napa, regis- tered at the Palace yesterday. John Finnell, a big rancher eof Tehama County, is a guest at the Palace. . R.J. Bentley, an attorney of Sacramento, and Mrs. Bentley are guests at the Lick. CommanderJ. J. Brice of the navy was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. A. L. Levinsky, a leading attorney of Stock- ton, registered at the Grand yesterday. A.J. Boogar of Red Bluff, Sheriff of Tehama County, registered yesterday at the Russ, Theodore Allen, & mining man of Angels Camp, was one ef yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. Mrs. Irwin C, Stump arrived here from New York yesterday and took apartments at the Palace. 7. B. Caldwell, passenger agent of the Rio Grande Wesiern Railway at Salt Lake, is stay- ing at the Grand. H. B. Wall, one of the proprietors of the Ho- tel Continental of Philadelphis, registered yes- terday at the Palace. James W. Bartlett of Weaverville, District Attorney ot Trinity County, came dewn yester- day ana registered at the Lick. 8. F. Black, State Superintendent of Public Insiruction, came down from Sacramento yes- terday and registered at the Lick. Harold Power, 4 mining man of the Forest Hill Divide, came down yesterday to attend the meeting of the executive committee of the State Miners’ Associstion and put up at the Grand. William Gillette, the playwright, arrived here yesterday ih advance of his company, which is to appear at the'Baldwin in one of his plays, “Too Much Johnson,” August 5, and registered at the Palace. Among the success- ful plays he has written are ‘‘The Professor,” “The Private Secretary,” “All the Comforts of Home,” “Wilkinson’s Widows,” “Held by the Enemy.” With Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett he wrote “Esmeralda.” OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. New York, N. Y., July 22.—Californians reg- istered at hotels to-day were: San Francisco— G. Aribes, 8. Howard, A. R.Russell, at the Brunswick; A, E. Bull at the Park Avenue F. Gilmartin, Mrs, 8. Waterman, Mr. and M E. Salz dt the Imperial; Mr. and Mrs. C. Trip) at the Park Avenue; J. Flamant atthe Bar- tholdi, Los Angeles—T, Billington at the St. Dennis; D, A. Creighton at the Grand Union. Oakland—W, A, Marshall at the Grand. San Diego—G. Kuhn at the Sturtevant. California —B. Howard at the Broadway Central. e OPINIONS OF EDITORS. A lack of thoroughness too often characters izes our courts, in which a spirit of compromise sometimes takes the place of justice and an honest {nterpretation of the law. Our legis- latures are anything else but thorough. They are glovenly to an extreme degree in the mat- ter of phraseology. A common errer in this respect is to use words which are usually re- garded as synonyms in order to avoid a repeti- tion of the seme expression. This is & grave error. One of the rules of interpretation of statutes is that when the Legislature uses different words it means different things Whenever the same thing is intended in a statute the same words ought to be used. Laws are passed in this State very often with the grossest verbal errors in them. Bome day a courageous court will declare that such laws heve no meaning, and perhaps after that we will have more thoroughness in this respect.— Seattle (Wash.) Times. The prospect of Republican yictory in the next Presidential campaign is awakening a spirit of hopefulness throughout the country. The fecling of uncertainty and doubt which has so largely obtained since the country has ‘been so pronouncedly under Democratic domi- nation is giving place to that sense of security which will be fully established by the return of the Republican party to power, and the out- look is becoming altogether more satistying and hopeful. English papers last year de- clared that republican government was a fail- ure, but they have already learned that such declaration was premature, and that there is sturdy life and undying patriotism in the American Republic yet. The experience through which we have passed but emphasizes the fact that the American Republic was not born to die.—Los Angeles Times, . ‘When it comes to ““pulling” to get the Repub- licen National Committee to choose a city in which to hold their National convention all California will be in one party. It would be a great thing for this State to have the repre- sentatives of either of the great plrzlel as- semble in San Francisco, together with leaders of the party who are not delegates, and the foremost newspaper men along to report on what they see. It scems to be &n agreement tor the Demogerats to help the Republicans in this matter, and vice versa when the Demo- cratic committee gets together. The suggestion now before the Republican committee to settle this question at a meeting to be held in Sep- tember or October should prompt Californis to get her “pull” hitched on right away.—Fresno Expositor. San Franeisco secems to have a majority of its Bupervisors working in the interest of the Bouthern Pacific. The people elected them to office with their eyes open, and yet they are kicking. In a city like San Francisco it is hard to down corruption.—Porterville Enterprise. The Solid Eight are not feeling comfortable. Impeachment proceedings have been com- menced against them, and an outraged public sentiment will see that the case is vigorously prosecuted.—San Jose Mercury. Alyiso keeps to the front as an important shipping point. The influence of the entire county must be exerted to secure an appropri- ation from the next Congress to improve the harbor, Its yalue to the county cannotbe over- timated, The trouble has been'heretofore that the possibilities of Alviso have nutflefi appreciated. Once improve the harbor, and &n electric-road system will soon be in opera- tion, reaching to every town in the county.— Ban Jose Mercury. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. [NoTE.—There are a number of questions so often asked that it is deemed advisable to keep the re- plies before the public for & tlme in the hope that the information may be impressed upon the popu- lar mind.] CoPYRIGHT.—Books and music can be copy- righted. A copyright lasts for twenty-elght years, but may be renewed six months before expiration for an additional fourieen years. Trademarks can- not be copyrighted. An author who copyTights his books has reserved to him the right to translate or dramatize. Crrizexsurp.—~The fact that s forelgner be- comes a citizen of the United States during the mi- nority of his children. that act makes his children citizéns of his adopted country. THE FENCE LAw.—In San Francisco no division fence can exceed ten feet in height; exception, however, is made in the case of fences that inclose places of public amusement. O1vV1L SERVICE~—The secretary of the Civil Ser vice Commission In this City gives notice through the public press ihe time Wwhen examinations are eld, boy who wishes to enter the navy s lication to the executive officer of the receiving ship Independence st Mare Island. WxsT PorxT.—The Congressman of the district ha# the appointment of a cadet to West Point when there is & vacancy in his district. CONTRACT MARRIAGES NOT LEGAL—The law which permitted contract marriages in this State was Tepealed by the last Legislature. PorL TAX.—An employer has the right 10 psy poll tax for an employe and withhold the Amount from wages due the employe. Hicuesr PorNT—R. Q., Iverson, Mendocino County, Cal. There are three high points in Ban Francisco from which partsof the City and surrounding country ean be seen. There is no one point from which the entire City can be seen, because hills intervene, There is the top of Twin Peaks, 915 feet; the top of Clay-strest Hill, between Jonesand Leavenworth, 348 feet, and Telegraph Hill, 251 feet. THIRD TeRM—Inquirer, Modesto, Cal. By reason of the omission of a few words an an- swer given last Sunday was not complete. Grover Cleveland is the only man ever nom- inated three times in succession for the office of President of the United States. WATER ORDINANCE—J. C., City, The Query Column hes not the space to publish the water ordinance of this City. By calling at the office of the Superyisors in'the City Hall you can ex- amine the ordinance there. DANIEL O'CoNNELL—S,, City. Daniel 0'Con- nell was born August 6, 1775, near Cahirei- veen, a small town in County Kerry, Ire- land. He died May 15,1847, at_Geneva. The emancipation bill was passed In 1829, Bemaxzin—J. G. R., City, Behanzin' was King of Dahomey at the time he was pursued to the north by General Dodds in the latter part of 1893. Bhortly thereafter he surren- dered to the French troops. HurpLE RACE—J. W. C., Stockton, Cal. Ina 120-yard hurdle race, 3 feet 6 inch hurdles, the last hurdle is placed 15 yards from the finish, In a 220-yard race, hurdles 2 feet 6 inches are used. MODERN MEN OF MAREK. Rudyard Kipling, it is understood, proposes to write a book on American backwoods life. It will contain “The Walking Delegate,” among other stories. In the autumn he and Mrs. Kipling will sail for India. R, D. Blackmore made up his mind origi- nally to storm fate as a poetand not as a novel- ist. His first five books were all poems. His novel “Clara Vaughan” did not come out till he hed been publishing for ten years. Among the verse-writers whom Canada has given to the world during the past few years may be mentioned Bliss Carman, Archibald Lempman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott, J. H. Brown, W. W. Campbell, Frederick George Scott and the late George Frederick Campbell. 1t was to M. Auguste Vacquerie, who re- cently died in Paris. that Victor Hugo handed not long before his death the following memo- randum: “I give 50,000 francs to the poor. I wish to be carried to the cemetery in their hearse. I refuse the prayers of all churches; 1 ask for a prayer from all souls. I believe in God." The Pope has granted the French author. Boyer d’Agen, permission to write his biog raphy, and for this purpose has given him ac- cess to the family archives of the Counts Pecci in Cerpineto. M. d’Agen has found, among other things, & number of interesting letters, which the Pope wrote to one of his brothers while a student of the Collegium Romsanum. He was then 19 years old. Thomas Hardy sadly gives us to under- stand, in his préface to the new edition of “Far From the Madding Crowd,” that the delightiul Wessex rustics, the inimitable char- acters of “Under the Greenwood Tree,” have disappeared foréver, The change, he thinks, is due to the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers by & popuiation of migra. tory laborers, JOKES WITHOUT DIAGRAMS, He—Trench enables one to express such deli- cate shades of meaning, you know. She—Yes, I know, Aundsuch indelicate ones, too.~Life. The Teacher—Now, who can tell me which travels the faster, heat orcold? Johnny Bright (promptly)—Heat, of course. Anybody can catch cold.—Tit-Bits. Holding his elegant open-faced gold watch in one hand the high-priced society physician grasped his patient’s wrist gently with the other, “She has a severe case of low fever, but—" He nodded his head encouragingly. “The chances are that she willrecaver,” The sufferer stirred. «“A low fever. Well, guess—" The memories of her struggles for social rec- ognition came back with vivid force. “I wint” Setting her face into an imitation of that proud repose that marks the castof Vere de Vere that could hardly be detected from the genuine, Mrs. Stryver-Newriche proceeded to convalesce in & manner that astonished all present.—New York World. Smith—That was a horrible crime committed by that fireman. Jones—You mean the one that smothered a woman? “‘Yes; but it was to be expected that he would smother her. One of the papers says that she was an old flame of his.” “He might have put her out instead.’— Texas Siftings. Young Lady (out yachting)—What is the matter, Captain Quarterdeck? Captain—The fact is, my dear young lady, ‘we've broken our rudder. Young Lady—I wouldn’t worry about that, The rudder is almost under water, you know, and it isn't likely people will notice it.—Tit~ Bits, Delia—Mr, Flitter is such pleasant company. But then he says such hateful things. Heactu- ally had the audacity to tell me last evening that he didn’t think you were stylish. Della—You call that hateful? You should hear a few of the things he says about you.— Boston Transeript. ¢ Clerk—That gentleman you sold a bottle of hair dye to three weeks ago was here again to- day. Druggist—Was he after another bottle? Clerk—No, sir; he wanted to know if we kept wigs,—Life. A PEDESTRIAN SONG. (Dedicated to the Cross-Country Club,) ©Oh! men may talk of the charm of the chase, The joys of a stilly stream ‘Where all day long, In a shady place, The fishermen sit and dream. ‘hey may lure us with tales of the boundless sea, And the wild, glad life of camning. But there's never a pleasure so pure and free As the rapture that comes with tramping.] Oh! poets m -(nfnmuch er 3w! "ATicet an the winds ne followa: P And balloonists discourse of the airy “1ifl" ‘Which sails the cloud hills and hollows. And wheelmen may tell of the “tireless steed™ ‘With iis sinews and thews of steel, But better for pleasure or health or need Is the spring in & vigorous heel, Oh! the sun beams t a8 we march And the wind blows fresh and purely, carries ahead our blithesome song, never were mortals, surely. in laughter and ngd talking SONE A 8 As'the wise apes who iravel on natare’s wings And cover the ground by walking. Ethel Maude Cclson in the Bulletin NOBODY WILL RESIGH, The New Board of Health Has a Fight on Its Hands for a Start. LOOKING FOR SOFT PLACES. A Sweeping Change to Be ‘Made in the Department— Hungry Office-Seekers, The new Board of Health will hold its first meeting for business to-morrow morning, at which several changes will be announced. If the board feels then as it did last night, there will be a number of disappointments for office-seekers. The doctors appointed by Budd have been besieged with applications and applicants, but they have decided to name only a few changes for the present. There are in all 110 positions in the gift of the board from Health Officer down. The quartet of physicians have secured copies of the list, and every manin a posi tion under the old board has been requested to resign, and every man, as far as can be learned, has refused to tender his resigna- tion. Some of the positions only command a salary of §5 a month, but nothing has been overlooked by the hungry horde of place-seekers. = Quarantine Officer Lawler was in no amiable frame of mind yesterday when he was seen at the Health Office. ~His resig- nation had been asked for, and he had re- fused to give it. He said that he received a telephone communication on Sunday while at dinner. One of the new Board of Health was at the other end of the wire, and he broke the news softly to the Quar- antine Officer that there had been a change in the board, and that he was expected to resign. “What's that?” roared Dr, Lawler through the telephone. 5 “Qf course you will hand in your resig- nation,” came back the soft answer. “What for?yelled the doctor. “What have I done that I should resign?” “Oh, nothing at all, doctor; only you know 1t is the custom.” £ “‘Custom be blowed! Think I'll resign, do you, and let_you_or somebody else say that I had to, eh? Well, I guess not.” “Well, now, doctor,’’ came over the wire in entreating terms, “if you don’t resign you know what we'll do,’ 3 . “Fire me, I presume,” said the irate of- ficial. “Well, go ahead. I'm not the first man who had his hea cut off for political reasons. You go right ahead and do your worst.” 2 ““You're all right, doctor,” came back in faint tones, and the conyersation ended. “No, sir; I will not resign,” said Dr, Lawlor yesterday. ‘“Let them give thewr political reasons for my removal. “Nor will I resign,” said Secretary Lawlor. 3 “Nor I, echoed Assistant Secretary Kennedy. “Nor 1,” went the echo along the cor- ridor down to the Receiving Hospital, along the road to the Almshouse and over to the City and County Hosgitnl, stopping short of the pesthouse and finding its way down to Dunbar alley. The Board of Health lunched at Sutro Heights on Sunday, Mayor Sutro presid- ing, and at the table it was decided what ofgcial heads were to be lopped off in the morning, The Mayor said yesterday that he knew nothing about the changes to come, the doctors having that matter en- tirely in charge. It was understood in the Mayor’s office that a caueus was to be held last night, but one of the membersof the new board denied this last evening.* ““We expect to have a little meeting on Wednesday morning,” said this gentle- man, “‘just before the regular meeting, and then we will select the new appointees. There will not be many changes, but of course the first men to be considered will be the doctors.” 3 4 = The Health Office is_filled du.x‘l{y with as- pirants for new positions, and the list showing the number of employes needed is called for hourly. Numbers are looking for “soft snaps,” and the book containing the list is now a well-thumbed volume. Yesterday morning one gentleman called for the book, and, after looking it over, asked the advice of Assistant Secretary Kennedy on *‘something nice and soft.” “Well,”’ said Mr. Kennedy, ‘‘there is the position of assistant secretary.” i “What does he do?” asked the anxious inquirer. “Very little. He comes down at 90’clock 1n the morning and lguas away at 4, looks over the books a little, takes an hour for lunch, and that is all,” “Gee] is that all?” . “TLat’s all, except he may be called up sometimes at midnight to digup the death certificate of some one who has died under suspicious circumstances.” “Oh, say,” said the anxious inquirer with ranture; “that’s the position I want. Isn’t it a pudding? Who's got it now?” “Ttiaz;'n my position,’’ said Mr. Kenne- yfiut the anxious inquirer waited to hear no more. He looked at Kennedy like a man dazed. The muscles of his face twitched nervously, his eyeballs rolled and instinctively his left hand stretched out to the knob of the door and by sheer force he dragged his feet nwaf from the soft spot and &inwd in'the hallway. —e A SAN JOSE VIEW, San Francisco for years past has been used to two kinds of law—one for the com- mon, every-day citizen and onefor wealthy individuals and corporations. That is not a heaithy state of affairs, and THE CALL is making an earnest effort to remedy it. There is a law that provides for the sale of railroad and other franchises in munici- palities. Its purpose must be obvious to any person of moderate inoellifienoe. Itis to lessen the danger of monopoly by large corporations and to compel them to give some adequate return to the city in case they receive valuable franchises. But in San Francisco this wise and just law is a dead letter. The Solid Eight of the Board of Bupervisors of that city recently gave away a magnificent franchise to the Market- street Railway Company, after refusing to consider a petition from otlLer responsible parties for the same franchise. The law was deliberately violated, and the action of the board wus so barefaced and high- handed that the citizens of Ban Francisco are seriously considering a proposition to begin proceedings of impeachment against the guilty members of that body. Of course, so notorious a job as thatisa blow not only at S8an Frantisco but at the Btate at large. As THE CAnn says: ‘‘We are exulting at this time with more than ordinary gratification in the revival of trade and industry under conditions that promise a new era in California develo, ment. Every material prospect is goog: Our agriculiure flourishes, mining has been undertsken ‘with renewed vigor, manufacturing feels the impulse of better times and our commerce looks to an early completion of the Nicaragua canal for an opportunity to expand beyond even the most sanguine dreams of our merchants. So far, therefore, as that prosperity which can bemusqreé by money is concerned, we have a bright outlook before us and a reasonable expectation of realizing our hopes. On this score there is little to com- glam of and much to rejoice over; but ow is it with the prosperity that depends on morality, law, politics and good gov- ernment ?”* That is a question that canaot be ig- nored. Now, if ever, California shouid en- deavor to make itself morally clean. Ma- terial prosperity cannot long abide when the laws are not re: , where corporate influences control a body of so t au- thority ss the San Fran Board of T E: visors, where politi degraded to the level of lpeim mg' where the State, unty or cit; ernment is wealk, partial slfishyor wr{uf}.' While we are exerting ourselves in behalf of home ;ndnstrz, ler us not-foreet to urge theclaims of ho morality. Without the latter the forme will be of no avail. And if the Civic Fed eration of San Irancisco shall succeed it making an example of the Solid Eight the victory will be one to call for rejoicing by every ‘honest citizen of California.—Sar Jose Mercur; THE LABOR UNIONS. A Serious Charge Made Against a Local Foundryman. Iron Molders’ Union No. 164 met last evening at 1159 Mission street and rein stated several of the old members whe were suspended during the hard times fo) not being able to pay their dues. Tully seventy-five have returned and they are received without prejudice. The only rea son for their suspension was that theunior was not financially able to “ca‘;-ry" the inquents, being obliged to send 40 pe: ‘ci:x’n «‘)lf the dues, g’s shown by the books, te the International Uuinn.k Reports e the iron-workers’ business is ggkdien;r\;;tconsidembly, but still there are many men idle. In the East better wages are paid than here. In Chicago molders earn from $3 to $3 50 a day an here the wages run from §2 75 to $3 50 Tabor Cammissioner Fitzgerald has stated that he would like to learn why there are so many idle iron-workers in this City At the next meeting of the molders a com- mittee will be formed who will call upon him and explain some of the reasons. One reason that will be given is that a large iron manufacturer in this (/'ny has been in the habit of sending to Seotland for workmen and that he did so during the recent hard times and at the same time he was discharging iron-workers who were born in this country. If this is roved it will lay the firm in guestion iable to punishment for violating the TUnited States contract laws. At a meeting of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union No. 483 last evening at 38 Eddy_street, memorial resolutions were assed regretting the death. of the late harles C. Terrill, president of the Builders' Exchange. ~Twenty-six new members were initiated. The report wae made that while work in the buildings trades might be much better, times are brighter than_recently. In response to a letter from Labor Commissioner Fitz erald asking for the union’s co-operation in the matter of gathering statistics, a resolution was passed indorsing the Laboz Commissioner, and pledging him the sup- port of the union in every way possible. FOR IMPROVED STREETS, Grand Demonstration Planned by the Southside Clu b. HMlumination in the Street Parade and an of Russ Square Evening. The South Side Improvement Club has decided that the proper way to draw atten- tion to the needs of the south of Market street district in the matter of streetim- provements is to hold a mass-meeting and carry things with a hurrah. The plan was discussed at the meeting last evening, over which Captain Raabe of th} Mission presided. He told of the im- mense amount of enthusiasm aréused when the Mission got 20,000 people to- gether and explained to them the value of street improvement, and the project of having a similar demonstration to call attention to the south side, and particu- larly Folsom street, was at once taken up. It was snggested that Russ square, both on account of its location and availability as a ground for the mass-meeting, would be thetproper place for the demonstration, All united in a determination to make the meeting ohe which would convince the City that the south side is fully awake to its own needs, and determined to have them attended to. A street parade, followed by a grand illumination of the square by means of electric lights and bonfires, will be features, and a number of well-known publie speakers will be on hand to set forth the needs of the south side, and the determi- nation of the people of that locality to be recognized. W1t was decided to await the action of the Board of Supervisors on the ordinance now being considered declaring Folsom street a boulevard, and to make the meeting one of jollification in case of success and of grotest should the decision be adverse. he project of paving Folsom street, from First to Twenty-sixth, with bituminous rock was thorouEhly discussed and figures given to show the great advantage of the noiseless pavement over basalt blocks or cobbles from a financial point of view. It was shown that to take up the cobbles, some of which have been down for thirty years, and relay them would cost $50,000, while to pave the street with bitumen throughout would cost but $80,000. The committees appointed to see the Supervisors regarding the ordinance de- claring Folsom street a boulevard reported that they bad interviewed the individual members and had been assured that the Sroject was_favorably looked upon. The an Francisco Road Club, an organi- zation of bicycle riders, sent in a commu- nication indorsing the work of the club for befier arre]e:tiorfifl‘xje soultzh Eli(de' essrs. Erb, Medau, Beckerdorff, Root, Markowitz and Stone were appo’intedo a committee to see what can be done toward keeping the pavements on the streetin better condition. RoAsTED pinenut chocolate. Townsend's, e BcHOOLBOOKS exchanged. King’s, 15 Fourth® . BAcoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. ————— HUSBAND'S CALCINED MAGNESTA.—Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and gma.ller dose then other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. w —————— “I—I suppose,” said the fair customer hesi. tatingly, “you can warrant this hammock?” “Yes, ma’am,” briskly replied the salesman, #It’s built for two.”—Chicago Tribune. WARM weather weakens the whole system. It causes loss of sppetite and that tired feeling. 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