The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN KFRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1895. 21 A, £ Tpx CarL to-day makes special mention in its book review of a volume by Dr. J. C. | Iucke{, recently issued from William | Do_xey s publishing house of this City. Thls»ls. distinctly & California producticn and itis on this account that THE CALL | gives it a prominent position. If all Cali- fornia papers would pursue a similar course in regard to the industries of Cali- ‘ fornia the result would be beneficial to the 1 | commonwealth. Elizabeth W. Bellamy is publishing a | called P SIn story in the Ladies’ Home Journal “The Luck of the Pendennin choosing her title, the lady evidently felt her obligation to Bret Harte and Thack- eray. | | HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. Lovers of Oriental literature will wel- come this new edition which the Mac- | millans have just issued of James Morier’s famous classic. It has been o long out of | general circulation that in all probability it will be an entirely new book to the | present generation. It is over seventy | years since it first appeared, and took both England aud the Orient by storm. The author, James Justinian Morier, was born | in an Oriental atmosphere, although he was educated at Harrow, and through ars of residence and intimate association | ith the Persians, he was eminently well | fitted to be the chronicler of the adven- tures of Hajji Baba. He wrote of the Pe ns as he knew them during his diplomatic residence among them, in the beginning of this century, but the Persians are an unchanging peoble, and Hajji | | | | I | Baba is as accurate a type to-day as he was ninety years ago of the light-hearted, credulous, mendacious, clever race to which he belonged. The present edition is fortunate in having a peculiarly happy and sympathetic intro- | tory sketch by Hon. George Curzon, M. P. The present generation of readers will require such an introduction. Hajji Baba is a Persian Gil Blas, one part good | fellow and three parts knave, always the | plaything of fortune—whether barber, | water-carrier, physician, scribe, Turkish | merchant, or secretary to an Embassador. | Heis as often the victim of roguery asa | rogue himself, but always a faithful type of | the Persian. The foibles of the national | character are admirably brought out in him. He is a member of a country and society where men subsist largely | by their wits, where the scullion of one day may be the grand vizier of an- | other, and where a despotic, unreasonable | autocratic sovereign is supreme lord of a | hali-civilized race of jealonsand struggling slav There is much good-humored fla- | gellation of Persian peccadillos in -the book, along with a deal of delicious satire upon the manners of more civilized com- maunities. Certain European notables do not always escape. A certain French Erg- bassador who is represented as Tetiring in ce from Teheran was Napoleon's ry, General Gardanne. Sir Harford 2d Sir John Malcolm also figure 1n | ative, and there occurs this deli- i unt, from the mouth of 4 Per- sian, of the English Hcuse of Commons: Then they have a certain house full of mad- | men, who meet half the year round for the rpose of quarreling. If one set says white er cries black: and they throw more away in seitling a common question 1ld suffice our muftis during a whole 1n short, nothing can be settled in the state, be it only whether a rebellious aga is to have his head cut off and his property confie- cated, or some such trifie, until these people heave wrangled. The adventures of Hajji Baba must rank ‘with the immortal books. It belongs with “Don_ Quixote’’ and the *‘Adventures of i Teign. | and-go style usual pompous and stilted English of such | experienced a great deal in those fascinat- | el 1Pl s of civic administration. information of this general character that the book was designed. It is a small volume of 210 pages, but covers the sub- ject effectually, and is written in a clear, Sim‘i‘]'e style without technical terms. [William Wood & Co., New York. For sale at Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street; price $L. TO TEE GOLDEN GOAL. From a San Francisco publishing-house | comes a very creditable sample of artistic bookmaking in the little volume of sketches from the pen of the late Dr. J. C. Tucker. Dr. Tucker was a well-known figure in San Francisco and Oakland from the time of his arrival on the coast in the days of '49 until his death in Oakland some three | years ago. The present volume of personal | reminiscences and sketches are now pub- | lished by his widow, who in the preface expresses & modest hope that they may prove of interest to his friends. That hope | will probably be realized in a larger sense | than is thus implied. Dr. Tucker had a | very charming literary style. His story | | regarded ds a most important contribution to our historical literature. The high opinion then formed of the author’s abil- ity to deal with the story of the Nation | will be increased by a study of the third volume, which has just appeared, and which covers a period from the Presiden- linlve]ecfion in 1860 down to the spring of 1862. Before entering upon the story of the civil war, Mr. Rhodes devotes a chapter to an elaborate review of the industrial and soclal conditions of the people at the close of the ante-war period. This will be found one of the most entertaining in the volume. While the war affords a sharp dividingline between two widely distinct phases in the social life of the people of the United States, Mr. Rhodes does not believe it was the main cause of the trapsformation. A study, he says, of contemporary Europe, a close examination of social forces, will show us causes more potent than the civil commotion in bringing about the altera- tion that is so striking a fact in the last half century. These far-reaching forces are the railroad and its adjunct, the tele- graph, which by their direct effects upon | the industries of the country have mate- rially mfluenced the entire social organism. Effects not infrequently attributed to the war and the legislation which grew out of it had begun to show themselves before 1860. The legislative and executive de- partments of the National Government were as much tainted with corruption in the decade preceding 1560 as they have ever been since, although in that decade there was little or no bribery of State Legislatures except in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and it was very rare that there was everany suspicion that a candidate for the United States Senate had obtained his election by buying votes in a eaucus or in a_Legislature. '.lshe use of money in carrying electicns moreover was substantially unknown, but, on the DESIGN BY BRUCE PORTER FOR COVER OF DR. J. C. TUCKER'S BOOK, JUST PUBLISHED BY DOXEY. s told in a half-humorous, touch-, very different from the | reminiscences. He saw and thought am\] ing “days of gold,” and he knew both how to select and how to reject from the treas- | ures stored in his mental cache. Asa re-| sult his volume of reminiscences and | sketches make interesting reading. His | were the experiences of an educated man, whose professional training brought him | into rather different relations with the pio- | neer world than others could know. Not | the least interesting chapters in the book | are those entitled “With Walker’’ and | Gil Blas of Santillane,” among the great| ‘“Glimpses of Guatemala.” He gives a| satires of the world. It is full of rare| graphic picture of the fiting upon the | humor, of delicate interpretation, and well | steamer San Carlos by Fort Carlos. The | justifies the comment of the Hon. Mr. Curzon. Even were the Persians to be blotted out as a nation it would yet remain as a portrait of un: led humorand accu- racy of a people who. though now in their decadence, have played an immense and still play a not wholly insignificant part in the complex drama of Asiatic politics. It is the picture of a people, light-hearted, nimble-witted and volatile, but subtle, hypo- critical and insincere; metaphysicians and casuists, courtiers and rogues, gentlemen and , hommes d’esprit and yet incur- able cowards. Hajji Baba is the lightest- hearted scalawag who ever took the road, and he relates his adventures, interesting, questionable, ridiculous and startling, by turns, in a naive fashion that makes one love the scamp and accord a smile while withholding approval. He is satirical and cynical, without being either ill natured or harsh. He bubbles over with wit, and it never occurs to him that his own flagrant rascality requires any explanation or apology. With a new edition of “Gil Blas” a couple of years since, with Burton’s and Lane’s admirable translations of the ““Ara- bian Nights,” the recent publication of “Don Quixote” in two bandsome volumes and the presentrevival of interest in “Hajji Baba,” it is apparent that old favorites are not to be cast aside in the battle of the books for public attention. [New York and London: Macmillan & Co. For sale by William Doxey.] OLD MAN BAVARIN. The author of this book calls his sketches 1“Off-hand Stories.”” They are entirely too good to be so designated. They bear all the earmarks of careful construction, and yet, with one or two exceptions, they stop just short of actual excellence. These ex- ceptions are the opening stories in the book, which deal with diverse aspects of Canadian life. The author, Edward Wil- liam Thomson, is himself a Canadian, and writes whereof he knows when he tells the simple, pathetic and humorous stories of “Little fiaptiste," “Qld Man Savarin” and “The Shining Cross of Rigaud.” “The Red-headed Windego” is a cagim tale, and “Great Godfrey’s Lament” is both powerful and artistic, but most of the others are rather commonplace. The au- thor has wisely given us not too much of the French-Canadian patois, while enough is indicated: to complete the mental picture nec rv_to the understanding of the stories. [New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. For sale by Doxey, 8an Francisco.] HEALTH NOTES FOR YOUNG WIVES. Under the title of “Health Notes for Young Wives,” Aimee Raymond Schroe- der, M.D., has written a small volume calculated to be of important service to those for whom it was intended. This volume does not cover the whole subject of health under ordinary conditions, but deals with it solely in reference to child- bearing. In a brief preface, the author says that in such critical periods of a woman's life a good physician should be the chief source of information, inasmuch as each case differs from another in many particulars so that it is difficult to lay down general rules. On the other hand busy practitioners do not always remember to give information upon minor points un- less specially consulted upon them, and as women are sometimes too modest or too ignorant to ask about their symptoms, they suffer quite needlessly for a lack of a little simple instruction. It is to'supply steamer La Virgen, on which he was, met | the San Carlos on the lake an hour afier | the outrage and the unlucky Eastern pas- | sengers were transferred to La Virgen. | Owing to hostilities they were unable to effect a landing and sailed about over the | tropic waters for days with an_insufficient | supply of food and water. What their | suifering was is terribly told in the doctor’s | description. **‘We who strove to aid these afflicted J. C. Tucker. ones had no longer even words of consola- tion to offer. We were speechless from fatigue and weak from fasting. Twice every night—just after dark and just before daylight—the captain, the purser, myself and two of the crew, or passenger volun- teers, would go the rounds of the ship and from staterooms, pantries, cabin settees, forecastle and deck, gather and throw overboard the cold, loathesome and dis- torted bodies. It was for me to decide if they were dead. If so attempts at recog- nition, with memoranda of names snd descriguons of persons and effects, were made by the captain and purser.” All the doctor’s reminiscences are not so gruesome as this, but all are interesting. Architecturally the book is worthy of more than passing notice. Coming from Murdock's press, it passes without saying that this part of the work is handsomely done. The cover bears an artistic and ap- propriate design by Bruce Porter, and the illustrations_are in_keeping with the text. San Francisco: Willlam Doxey, pub- isher. For sale at the bookstores. RHODES' SISTORY OF UNITED STATES. ‘When, about two years ago, there ap- peared two volumes of a history of the TUnited States by James Ford Rhodes, the public recognized that a new historian had arisen endowed with more than ordinary vigor of style and impartiality of judg- ment. His work showed a wide study of all phases of our National life, a mastery of the important details, as well as the general trend of the development of the country. And the work was everywhere other hand, municipal rottenness existed in all the larger cities of the Union, and some of the gravest evils of this kind from which the country now suffers had already made their apperance in the management One of the most notable contrasts be- tween the people of this generation and of that before the war is in the matter of health and personal agpearance. Every writer on stch subjects before the war de- scribed the American as pale, lean and careworn, appearing very inferior to the European in vigor and freshness. This seeming weakness was attributed at the time to the climate, but the wonderful change for the better in later years shows that cannot_have been the cause. Mr. Rhodes considers it to have been due to bad cooking, fast eating and insufficient exercise in the open air. Along with the improvement in health there has come also since the war a higher standard of commercial integrity and a_better system of morals in private life, which, taken in connection with the lowered standard of official honesty, leads Mr. Rhodes to say that in no Teutonic nation of our day is the difference so marked between public and private standards of morality as in the United States. The one is lower than it was in 1860; the other, inconsistent as it may seem, is higher. Coming to the political events following the election of Lincoln, Mr. Rhodes re- views the action of Buchanan during the fall of 1860, while the Southern States were making ready to defy the authorit; of the Government, and declares the Presi- dent deserves historical censure for not adopting the Jacksonian policy 1n dealing with the leaders of the movement. It is not believed by those who are best in- formed that such action at that time would have prevented the war by arrestin, its leaders, but it is claimed that it woul have roused Northern patriotism earlier and precipitated the war upon the South before the leaders there were prepared for it and thus brought it to a quicker and less costly conclusion. Mr. Rhodes considers that the Southern people were more eager for secession than their leaders, and quotes expressions of gub]lc sentiment to show that in the cotton States even Toombs and Davis were regard- ed as being too moderate in their demands upon the North. The sketches given of the leading men on both sides of the struggle show no traces of partiality for those of the North over those of the South. Lee, Jackson and Johnson are as highly praised almost as any of the !ending men on the Union side. McCOlellan is held responsible for the long delay of the Union armies in making an advance upon Richmond, while Grant is given full praise for the vigor with which he forced the fighting in the west and won that splendid series of victories, beginnin, with the capture of Donaldson, which di so much to encourage the country during the dark days that followed the disastrous battle of Bull Run. A considerable space is given to an account of the attitude of England during the first year of the war. This part of the work is enriched by man: quotations from the private correspond- ence of Sumner, Lowell, Holmes, Emer- son and a number of other Americans of eminence with leading Englishmen. ‘The volume closes with the story of the capture of New Orleans, the great historic sea fizht between the Merrimac and the Monitor, and leaves the people of the North rejoicing in the belief that McClel- lan would be successful in his march on Richmond and that the war would be ended b{ the close of summer. It is ex- pected that another volume will close the war period, but it is the intention of the author to bring the history down to 1885. The volume is supplied with maps of battle- fields and a copious index. [Harper & Bros., New York. | THE MISTRESS OF QUEST. A readable novel of the conventional type, but with something more than ordi- nary excellence, will be found in “The Mistress of Quest,” by Adeline Sergeant. It is a story of English life with well-con- trasted “characters and considerable va- riety of incident. That some of the events are improbable does not detract from the merit of the story, which makes no pre- tense at realism and was evidently in- tended mainlyas a study of character; the incidents serving merely to bring out dif= ferent phases in the natures of two sisters, one of whom is strong and brave, and the other delicate, sensitive and timid. The suthor’s style is equal to the story, and if it is not marked by any impressive beauty or vigor, it never fails to do justice to the scenes described and carry the mind of the reader along well entertained to the end. Appleton & Co., New York. For sale by illiam Doxey; price, paper covers, 50 cents.] THE STORY OF FORT FRAYNE. F. Tennyson Neely has just published in handsome volume the “Story of Fort Frayne,” to which THE CALL has already treated its readers. Captain King is in his own field when he describes killings, and his accounts of gal- lant fights with rebellious redskins stir the blood. Stevenson would have left out the love- making, and he found it easy to lead all masculine minds in thrall with tales of meaner battles than those of our frontier, as Captain King describes them. One cannot doubt the gallant captain has himself ridden forth in the teeth of the blizzard after the fashion of his heroes. | May their patriotism and devotion be re- membered among our boys. The book needs the pencil of a Rem- ington, whose work only seems fit to use in connection with that of this fellow- artist of the plains. Captain King shows no real hatred of the harassing red men, for he pays a grace- ful tribute to “the days when the Sioux followed the settlers for long, long marches, not to murder and pillage, but to restore to them items lost along the trail or ani- mals strayed from their herds.” All this was changed when to our shame and cost these people were fired upon for resisting an unjust demand. *‘From the day of the Grattan massacre | beyond old Laramie,” writes Captain | King, *there has been no real peace with | the Jords of the Northwest. |They are quiet only when subdued by force. They have broken the crust of their environ- ment again and again and burst forth in the seething flame of a volcano thatis ever boiling and bubbling beneath the feet of the frontiersmen to this day.” |F. Tennyson Neely, publisher. For sale by the Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street.] MOTION IS LIFE. Oh, ever restless sea, This question answer me: What mean thy ebb and flow in ceaseless motion; Thy tides and currents swept from bay to ocean; Thy billowy breakers sobbing sleeplessly— What may their purpose be? Child of humanity, Why comest thou to me? Hath earth Its wisdom all to thee revealed, ‘And science naught from thy keen eye concealed, That thou dost seek to Know a mystery In questioning the sea? Motion to me Is life: ‘Without its storm and strife— With 1o soft wavelets singing to the shore, No swelling tides, o billows overpour— T shonld lose purity and soon should be A vast, dead sea. O, heir of earth and time, This mystery 13 thine: Thy soul is like the ever-heaving sea; Tts life is in its motion ever more, And every surge which frets its mortal shore Must the condition and essential be —J.E.R. To thy spirit’s pu: i PILATE'S QUERY. ‘ Medical students of long ago used to en- | joy joking about the spleen and used to bandy about this little skit: | Professor— What is the office of the spleen, sir? Student—I—T did know, but I've for-| gotten. | Professor—What a pity! The only man | who ever knew has forgotten! | All that is cbanged, evidently, and doubtless the medical world is quivering with excitement over the revelations made | in 8. C. Clarke’s remarkable bock. | “The spleen receiyes this invisible force | from the atmosvhere,” we read, this | nameless something, which is more than fresh air, this breath of mountain pine and briny wave, the elixir of the interstellar ether (the akasa of the ancients) and passes on this indefinable magnetic or spiritual | quality to the system. Now a sponge | whose cells are filled with sand cannot | absorb the water in which it is immersed, | neither can the spleen absorb vitality from the universe to transmit to the organism if its pores are likewise closed. Itisone | of the mostimportant gnteways between | the ‘-hysical and spiritual man.” | Pilate's query, **What is truth?’ seems | scarcely answered in this curious treatise | upon theosophy, Christian science, spirit- | ualism and the occult generally. Introducing the arguments in the mask of alove story seems slightly disingenu- ous, but the author earns forgiveness from the fact that the book is exceedingly funny in spite of occasional indications that it | was intended to be quite otheryise. [Arena Publishing CompsngA For “sale by the Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street.] TERMINATIONS. A new volume by Henry James, pub- lished under the title of “Terminations,” contains four short stories, all of whichare psychological studies of the terminations of life. None of the tales contain much in the way of incident. Mr. James finds his characters involved in some problematical position, and leaving them there proceeds to analyze their thoughts, feelings and | emotions at his leisure. If a story of this kind is not in itself important, it can, at least, be made amusing by cleverness of style, and Mr. James being a past master in that art has given these studies a liter- ary grace that charms the reader and holds attention even when the problem of life un- der discussion is by no means interesting. There is in the moral of the stories a cer- tain air of pessimism that, while unobtrus- ive, breathes through all the phases of the problems presented and sounds over each termination with something like a wail of desvondency. This mournfulness suits well the utter futility of the characters whose careers are here studied in the clos- ing scenes, and in its subtle suggestiveness may be accounted one of the charms of the work. While the book will not increase the fame of the author, it will retain for him the wide circle of readers he has al- ready won and assure his admirers that he has lost none of that delicacy of sentiment and felicity of phrase which have made him, in his own domain, without a rival among the living writers of the English language. [Harper & Brothers, New York.] HOW TOMMY SAVED THE BARN. Little folk who reveled in the adven- tures of “Toby Tyler” and the “Country Boy at a Country Fair” will be rejoiced to know that Mr. James Otis has written an- other children’s book. Mr. Otis is an ideal writer of stories for children, and ‘“How Tommy Saved the Barn” is one of his best. Californian children will, perhaps, not en- ter as fully into realization of the local color in the tale as will those in the East, where the scorching dog days make long vacations a necessity, and fhe “fresh-air fund” philanthropy is the greatest god- send the children of the poor ever knew. But if they hayen’t such warm weather Californian children have warm hearts, and these will be touched as well as de- lighted by the character and adventures of | h one little “fresh-air boy.” T. Y. Crowell & Co. San Francisco.] MAUREEN'S FAIRING, Readers of “Irish Idyls” will welcome another collection of Irish tales by Jane Barlow. These in the present collection really antedate the “Idyls,” but they are full of the same subtle sympathy that characterizes all Miss Barlow’s verse. This quality is, perhaps, the greater part of the charm of all the sketches—they can by no means be called stories—that this writer has given us. Her field is new—we have had little of Irish fiction or of Insh folk- lore, and Miss Barlow shows us an exceed- ingly lovable folk, but the vein she has struck seems after all rather a thin one, and New York: or sale by Doxey, | C the lover of rare types mayhaye cause to tremble should there be an onslaught of the literary pick-wielders into the compar- atively unexplored field. + This for the future, however. ‘“‘Irish Idyls” and “Maureen’s Fairing’ are still unspoiled, and long may they remain so. ew York and London: Macmillan & Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.] DISHONESTY AND CASTE. A collection of sensible essays on home- making, house decoration, entertaining and kindred topics. The author, Ethel Davis, enters a vigorous protest against the many shams of our modern social exist- enceand advocates 4 return to simplicity, honesty and directness in our home- making. The book gives many useful hints on the subjects treated. [Boston: Home Science Publishing Company.] LIFE AND TIMES OF GENERAL JOHN A. SUTTER. A neat little volume, printed for the author, T. J. Schoonover, at Sacramento. Mr. Schoonover is evidently a great ad- mirer of the famous Swiss pioneer, whom he considers to have been greatly wronged by those who came after him. His brief story is told without any attempts at his- torical effect and the book is dedicated to the society of the Native Sons of the goclde]n ‘West. [Sacramento: D. Johnston 0. THE OLD MAIDS' CLUB. The increasing popularity of Israel Zang- will, who is, perhaps, the leading writer of the day in England, has called forth an American reprint of this one of his earlier books. Zangwill’s latest novel, ““The Mas- ter,” is by far the most powerful work he has yet done, but his reputation rests prin- cipally upon his Ghetto picturesand his equally great novel, ‘“The Prince of Schnorrers.” “The Old Maids’ Club” is, however, well worthy of his singular abil- ities. It is full of the clever cynicism, the good-natured whimsical satire and the de- licious inconsequence of which he is past- master. The illustrations, by F. H. Towns- end, are exceedingly happy. [New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.] MAN'S WRONGS AND WOMAN'S RIGHTS. A smattering of Voltaire and Tom Paine, a feeble rehash of Schopenhauer and Jules Michelet, and a great deal of nonsense of various sorts go to make up this ambi- tiously entitled pamphlet, which the aun- thor, Charles Marcotte, calls ‘‘a most earn- est endeavor to fairly present all views of politics and governments.” What he really presents is his own very narrow and very intense view. He attacks about all the known institutions under the sun, and in the hundred and thirty odd pages of the first part of his great work, which form the volume under consideration, says nothing that is of value or of interest to any well-informed reader. [Kansas City, Mo.: Charles Marcotte. SOME RECENT REPRINTS. TaE SEXUALITY OF NaTURE.—The Massa- chusetts New Church Union has issued a second American edition of Leopold Hartley Grindon’s essay on sex in nature. The author’s endeavor is to show that sex and the marriage union are universal principles, fundamental alike in physics, ohysiology and psychology. The "book had a certain vogue, a number of years ago, among thinkers of the speculative and sentimental schools, and its republica- tion would indicate a revival of interest along its particular lines of thought. Boston: The Massachusetts New Church Union.] s JOAQUIN MILLER'S CITY BEAUTIFUL. The Building of the City Beautiful, by far the best prose work Joaquin Miller has ever done, is now in its fifth edition. THE CaLn reproduces to-day a new portrait of the poet, taken at his home on the heights. DesPERATE REMEDIES.—A reprint from the press of Rand, McNally & Co. of an earlier work of Thomas Hardy'’s. FromoNt Jr. AND RisLEr Se.—By Al- phonse Daudet, issued in the Globe Library Series, by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. CrurrrroN's MARRIAGE—From different publishing-houses we have two issues of this pleasing little novelette, by Gyp (Com- tesse de Martel). The translator of the issue by Lovell, Coryell & Co., New York, modestly hides behind the initials M. L. J., while the volume sent out by Hurst & 0., New York, bears the name of Mrs. Edward Lees Coffey as translator. DANIEL. JOHNSTON DYIKE, He Makes an Ante-Mortem Statement at the Receiv- ing Hospital. Comerford, the Groceryman, and His Bartender Will Be Charged With Murder. Daniel Johnston, the butcher, who was | shot at Comerford’s saloon on Duncan and Dolores streets last Wednesday morning, | is dying at the Receiving Hospital. Dr. Somers said yesterday he could not live till morning. Yesterday morning he made the follow- ing ante-mortem statement at the hospital in the presence of Stenographer Heyne- man of the police department, and Police- man O'Dea: Imet a fellow named Jimmie McMullen. We were friends, and he was very drunk. A man who keeps a grocery on Duncan and Sanchez streets, where we were at that time, wanted me to take McMullen home because he wanted to close up. We started down Sanchez street to Army, and down Army to Dolores, then re- traced our way back Dolores till we came to Duncan street. McMullen knocked at a grocery-store diag- onally op&gsiu the th“ where I got shot on Dolores. McMullen knocked and got no an- swer, so I tried to take him home. McMullen wanted & tamale and a glass of beer, sol thought it better to let him go to the other Tocery, and he started in advance of me and fi-mmered on the door. When I saw he was getting no answer 1 said, “Come back.” He called out: “Johnnie, open the door. Alll want 1s & beer and tamale, and I will goright straight home.” When we got no answer Mullen knocked again. We were standing at the front door then, when somebody inside fired a pistol and McMullen stepped one wa: and went down Twenty-ninth street. T nefg a little back and crossed in the direction of the grocery diagonally opposite. ‘As soon as I got far enough out in the street 50 he could see me by looking out of the glass door he sent two more shots after me and one hit me, Instead of going up Twenty-ninth street 1 continued up Dolores. I intended going back to the grocery of Frank Hockle be- cause I was shot and he had :bu%xy there, but I walked out of my way two blocks be- cause I was fainting every step and found m mistake when I turned up Twenty-sevent treet. O his ocourred last Wednesday morning’ at 12:80. Iknocked at Frank's window. He was closed up and I told him I was shot. He got up and hitched the buggy and brought me ere. John J. Comerford, the proprietor of the saloon, and William Wellman, his bar- tender, who were arrested on the charge of assault to murder, will have a more serious charge to answer for. FOR LOSS OF HIS LEGS. Switchman Brigance Sues the Southern Pacific Company for $50,000. J. H. Brigance, a switchman who was injured in a collision of engines at the 1 railroad yards last month, has filed a complaint against the Southern Pacific Company, demanding $50,000 damages. Delmas & Shortridge are his attorneys. Bri, :noe’: ht leg was cut off three incg s below the knee, and the left leg was 50 y broken and crushed that it may yet have to be amputated. | | 10 FINISH THE HALL, City and County Attorney Cres- well Says That a Tax Must Be in the Levy. THE DOME IS A NECESSITY. Disaster of a Possible Fire In the Roof—Supervisors May Be Mandamused. City and County Attorney Creswell has addressed a communication to the Board of Supervisors giving it as his opinion that | a 10-cent tax should be included in the levy this year for the completion of the new City Hall. He has been requested by the New City Hall Commission to communi- cate with the Supervisors on the subject and the following was the gist of his letter: All will agree that the new City Hall should be completed at as early a date as possible con- sistent with good workmanship and the pres- ent needs and reasonable future requirements | of the City government. The plan originally adopied calls for & mansard roor, 1f & mansard root should be built it should be made habita- ble as well as ornamental. | The cost of a mansard roof would not be | much less than $1,500,000. The present Commissioners think the man- sard roof unnecessary and that it is adyisable to construct a permeanent fireproof root at a cost (added to the cost of the completion of the | dome) of $320,000. It a tax levy is made this year the commission will exercise the discretion given them by the law of 1895 and place such a 100f on the building, declare the building com- pleted and turn the same over to the Super- visors as provided by law. This will end the collection of taxes for the construction of the uew City Hall. If this commission should not be given the money by the board for this purpose, then the Board of New City Hall Commissioners suc- ceeding the present board might not think it advisable to omit the mansard roof. Then the situation would stand thus: The present com- mission can and will complete the building under the law for the tax levy of 10 cents on each $100, provided by the act of the Legisla- ture of 1895, amounting to something over $300,000, while a:future commission might, under the discretion given by the acts of the Legislature, complete it atacostapproximating 1500,000. 1f the levy is not made this year no levy can be made for the construction of the new City Hall until authorized by a new act of the Leg- islature, passed at some future session. Mr. Creswell also calls attention to the possibility of the attic taking fire in the unfinished condition of the roof, and pre- dicts that if a fire ever does start, the en- tire wooden structure supporting the roof will go. After Mr. Creswell suggests the action which should be taken by the board, he quotes the law which says that it is cumpulsory on them to act. “It has been decided many times,” says he, “‘by the highest courts of the land, that where the power is given by an act of the Legislature | to a subordinate board to levy taxes to prosecute a matter in which the public is interested, it is their duty to exercise that power, and it does not rest in their discre- tion, and if such board fail to exercise the | power, it may be compelled to do so by mandamus.” GOETHE-SCHILLER SOCIETY. A Yestival to Be Given in This City Next November. The committees of the Goethe-Schiller | Monument Bociety held a meeting last evening, and were informed that it would be advantageous to the society to havea central organization. ‘ Resolutions were passed placing thedate of the festival, which is to be given for the | purpose of procuring funds for the erection of the monument, from November 6 to November 9. The finance committee was ordered to advance necessary funds to the press and printing committee for the purpose of a pealing to the German residents of Cali: fornia, asking their assistance and partici- pation in the festival, in the endeavor of making it a grand success. | Mr. Greenblatt mentioned that there | remained a surplus of $500 from the last German festival, which was held in this | City some years ago, and it was provosed that Drs. Kern and Maguus, who were members of the finance committee of that festival, should endeavor to procure the surplus for the use of the monumen$ society. HEALTHY SAN QUENTIN, The State Board of Health Investigates Its Sanitation and Repute for Fostering Consumption. Five members of the State Board of Health, including President J. H. Davis- son of Los Angeles and Vice-President Winslow Anderson of this City, inspected the State prison at San Quentin the other day and found it a fine place for prisoners to keep well. i The State Board must inspect all State institutions annually, and the members are in the habit of swooping down on those places unexpectedly. At San Quentin they nosed into everything about the place, tried the food, smelt the air in corners, inspected every sanitary feature and. hunted for places where microbes might possibly camp. **We were much pleased with Warden Hale’s care for the healthfulness of the institution,” said'Dr. Anderson yesterday. “The condition was much better than last year, ' I had myself locked in some of the cells and found them sweet, clean and well ventilated. The only improvement we could recommend is a new kitchen, which is much needed.” There has been considerable talk about San Quentin being an’unhealthy place, and one where a great many prisoners con- tracted consumption. Over 50 per cent of the deaths last year were from this dis- ease, That was one thing the board in- vestigated. ‘“We found no evidence of consumptive contagion,” said Dr. Anderson, ‘‘and found that the moss victims of consump- tion there bring the disease with them. ‘Warden Hale told of a young prisoner who was brought there not long ago so far gone with consumption that he had to be carried into the prison. He died a few Jdays before our visit. There shonll some other way of taking care of prisoners in the later stages of consumption.” USE HOME PRODUOTS, The Manufacturers’ Association Keeps Up an Aggressive Fight. Secretary Mead of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association has written a long letter to Adolph Eberhardt, secretary of the Hall Association of the Native Sons of the Golden West, in which he urged the Native Sons to patronize home industries and products in the construcuon of their new building. There are also several furniture-making firms in this State which, Mr. Mea thinks, should have preference over East~ ern makers, quality and price being equal. The association has sent the following Ietter to all its membersand to many firms not members: The Eastern ‘“calendar man” is now in Cali- fornia trying to seciire his usual number of large orders. We appeal to you to keep the money at home. Putronize home industry, and this year, at least, give your order to a Cale ifornia printer. If yoi: will have the same con- sideration for the Califgrnia printer that you have for the Eastern man—ihat is, give him your order for the same large quantity and give him the same time in which to get out the work—we are positive he can compete in price, quality and artistic merit. Let every calendar in the State be made in California this year. g FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE. The State’s Free Labor Bureau Has Filled Many Orders. Since the State’s Free Labor Burean was opened, about ten days ago, nearly 3300 people have applied for work and em- ployment has been found for about 260, exclusive of twelve men who will be sent to Yolo County to chop wood to-morrow. Yesterday places were found for mnine ‘women and ten men. The decision of Judge ! will prevent Mr. Fitzgerald from sendin: ont between 200 and 400 laborers. An order w slaced with him for this number of men 1o wor on a big irrigation ditch near Tu Fresno County, and the men had all be selected and would have gone to work in about ten days. Now the irrigation ditch company’s bonds cannot be floated, and from what Mr. Fitzgerald can learn the work of construction has been in- definitely abandoned. ARE YU NEW TO-DAY. ON THIS RO SO SRCROSE | R Lol & cb o Bl ! It is good sound sense to come off the fence at all times. all tired out. Beefand Iron. Order a case know that you are no longer mind and get right down to business this minute. want sound sleep, you want a good appetite, you want strong nerves and bright spirits. thing that will give it to you—that is HENLEY’S Celery, You know that you have been thinking seriously of doing something for that Liver of yours, haven’t you ? You have a bad taste in your mouth in the morning and a dull, heavy headache ; you are nervousand worried and If you are sensible you will make up your You But there is only ome to-day and you will not only sitting where it is dangerous to be, but you will know too that when you came off that fence you got off on the right side. CYCLING POETRY AWARDS: The poems on cycling were submitted to the best lyric writer on this Coast without question. That gentleman has an international as well as a national reputation and it is his opinion that ‘‘the best poem amougst those sub- mitted in an artistic and poetical sense is that by Annie McGure of 208 Grove street, this City.” He furthersays that Mabel Sutton of Seattle, Washington, has told her story ‘‘effectively and cleverly.” And again that that submitted by Alice Kenny of this City is ‘‘light, easy and graceful, and evidently written by a practiced writer.” Miss Mary E. Speakman’s contribution is praised for being ‘‘smooth, harmonious and of considerable merit.” For personal reasons the name of the Judge is mot published here, but will be sent to any contestant om application.