The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1895. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 Datly snd Sunday CALL one year, by mail... 6.00 and Sunda six montbs, by mail 3.00 Nally and § ., three months, by mail 1.50 Daily and 2e month, by mail .50 mail, Funday CALL, one year, by 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mal BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Yelephone, ..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone....... BRANCH OFFICI 30 o'clock. reet: open until 7 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 ¢'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertlsing Bureau, Rhinelander tuflding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If £0, it I8 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive Pprompt attention. FRIDAY. ST 9, 1895 THE CAL}_ SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———————————————————— Some New Yorkers have begun to call the enforcement of the Sunday saloon- closing law Rooseveltism. The Democracy in Mississippi and Mis- souri stands for free silver, but in Towa it continues to straddle the barbed wire fence. It is now proposed to settle the difficulty with the Bannocks by irrigating their reservation for them and teaching them how to farm. The next step in the campaign for free silver will be taken by the convention which meets in this City, and it promises to be a big one. e The President ought not to feel utterly despondent in view of the fact that he still has a chance to go down to history as Mrs. Cleveland’s husband. 01ld Glory should not be permitted to go into trade. The noble things which it symbolizes have not been put up for sale by the American people. Pictures of our noble mountain scenery like those which Keith has made at Castle Crags constitute the high art that will make the fame of California. The Californian hereafter who votes for a Democrat on the strength of a campaign piedge will not forget the sore which the Railroad Commission represents. The Boston man who claims to have in- vented a process of distilling whisky so that it won’t have a jag in a gallon of it needn’t take the trouble to obtaina patent. It is imperative that the statute of 1893 regulating the sale of municipal franchises shall be given a judicial test to determine whether it means somcthing or means nothing. The fact that Sacramento Valley hop- growers are applying to the Free Labor Bureau for hop-pickers seems to indicate that Japan’s conquest of China has not crossed the Pacific. The time seems to have come whena eitizen who proves acceptable as a juror in the Durrant case enjoys a higher order of intelligence, fairness and patriotism than the average citize) Many are the fights now being waged against the monopolizing railway corpora- tion for the benefit of the people, and that of the Miners’ Association is one of the best, bravest and most promising of them all. One of the advantages of having com- peting universities in the State is revealed in the report that since the opening of Stanford four years ago the number of col- lege students in California has increased 400 per cent. The decision of Judge Slack that the case of the people against the Solid Eight for malfeasance in office should be brought by an indictment by the Grand Jury offers to that boay an opportunity and imposes upon it a duty. The thunder of the tramping hordes of Hawaiian “filibusters,” who are alleged to be topbooting, swashbuckling and swear- ing from one end of the Pacific Coast to the other, drowns the roar of the sea and the squeaks of the Unprovisioned Govern- ment. It will be a lively day in California when those counties which think they have properly assessed their property and see their assessments raised by the State Board of Equalization demand an explan- ation of the tender consideration with which the Southern Pacific is treated. The disclosure made by the Trades Coun- cil at Sacramento to the effect that Japa- nese and Chinese coolies are given prefer- ence in the fruit canneries there because the cannery companies pay only 8or 10 cents an hour for labor uncovers a sore that all the remedial treatment available to California should be employed to heal. The latest street delicacy in New York is a ‘“summer snowball,”’ made of crushed ice with a little flavoring syrup on top, and issold for a penny. It has been served only a short time, but complaint is already made that the small boys suck the syrup off the mixture and then throw the ball at the most dignified citizen in sight. Vice-Chancellor Pitney of New York has stirred up the newspaper men of that sec- tion by enjoining a reporter from publish- ing the details of a suit involving the right of way of a railway company. The re- porter had taken notes of the trial, but the Vice-Chancellor threatened him with punishment for contempt of court if he published a line of them, and now the newspaper folks wish to know what kind of law that is. S e There are some brilliant authors who have conscientious scruples against having their productions published in Sunday newspapers. Rev.J. H. Wythe Jr. is one of them. He haswritten a charming story entitled “From the Lowest Level, a Story of Mining Life in California,” the right to publish which has been secured by Tue Carn. It is customary to present such lit- erary features in the Sunday edition, but in deference to the reverend gentleman’s wishes the story will be printed only in the Baturday edition, beginning to-morrow, ] THE LAW WILL PREVAIL. If in the minds of the Solid Eight the contest of the people to compel them to obey the law is regarded as a *‘game,” they may congratulate themselves on having won the first trick before the courts. If they are wise enough, however, to take a serious view of the question, they will not rejoice much over their success. They have escaped trial on a technicality, but the escape is only temporary. Sooner or later they must confront the people in court and answer directly to the charge of malfeasance in office. Judge Slack suggested that the proper method of proceeding against offenses of this kind is by indictment of the Grand Jury, and the suggestion opens an oppor- tunity to that body which it will do well not to overlook. In the meantime the people will not rely wholly upon the secret methods of the Grand Jury. Law-abiding, law-respecting and law-enforcing citizens have entered into this fight for the law with the intention of winning it. The issue is much greater than the particular case now involved in it. Itis nota matter of antagonism to the Solid Eight, nor even of antagonism to the giant monopoly that seeks by trickery to obtain a valuable fran- chise for next to nothing. It is the great issue of law against municipal corruption, and its decision will determine whether the statutes of California form a code of laws binding equally upon all classes of people, or whether they are a mere bundle of false pretenses at which every rascal in office or with money can laugh. The dismissal of the case on a technical- ity is of course a disappointment to the people, but in the disappointment there will be no discouragement. The prosecu- tion of the Solid Eight will continue. The charges against them will be pushed until they have been heard on their merits. The time has gone by when official malfeas- ance can be perpetrated in this City with impunity and when public indignation went no further than an angry protest. A new spirit has arisen among the people and they see affairs in & new light. It is evident we can have no important muni- cipal improvements until we have a muni- cipal administration that works honestly and keeps the law. All the progressive and intelligent elements of the peopie are therefore arrayed against the violators of law and they will not fail to find means of vindicating the dignity of our statutes, preserving the honesty of the City govern- ment and punishing every official detected in defrauding the taxpayers by any means whatever. “OLD GLORY'S” DIGNITY. The movement so vigorously pushed by the Society of Colonial Wars in Illinois against the use of the National flag for ad- vertising purposes is inspired by a wise philosophy and is receiving the cordial support of the regular army and the Na- tional Guard throughout the country. The fight is led by Captain Philip Reade of the United Statesarmy, Charles Kingsbury Miller, chairman of the press committee of the Illinois Society Sons of the American Revolution, 544 North State street, Chi- cago, and Colonel Henry L. Turner of the Illinois National Guard, 90 Dearborn street, Chicago. The investigations by these gentlemen have disclosed the fact that the American flag is being put to all sorts of absurd ad- vertising uses, some of which are directly opposed to a proper conception of patriot- ism. They are extending their energies to cover the whole country and are desirous of receiving information. Any readers of TrE CarL who have observed instances of this misuse of the flag might perform a useful service by communicating with these gentlemen. The philosophy behind the movement has a twofold aspect. One is the sentie mental, the other the practical. The sen- timental aspect is simply the sublimated form of the practical. For that matter no sentiment is wholesome which lacks a practical, which means to say a useful, foundation. We may, therefore, attack the subject more directly by considering it in an aspect unplumed and wingless, This is simple enough. The flag stands for an idea which is very intimately associated with all that lies be- hind American independence and nation- ality. It means not only the birth of the idea in this country that men are able to govern themselves and that human beings need not be born subjects or servitors, but it is the pledge and symbol of individual manhood, self-restraint, intelligence and love of freedom. It is a protest against kings and against the confession of indi- vidual weakness which the recognition of a necessity for kings or other masters con- veys. These are eminently practical con- siderations, for in them is involved the whole question of individual responsi- bility. The flag, therefore, should be used for the idea which it represents. Those who regard its employment otherwise will call such use a *‘desecration”; those governed by the basic conception will term ita ‘‘deg- radation.” Both words have been used lately with considerable warmth, and it is well to understand that the difference be- tween them is merely one of degree. Clearly the flag was never intended for ad- vertising purposes. Its use in that way is unmistakably a perversion, and the per- version of any idea which represents a thing vital to the welfare, pride and happi- ness of a peopie is unwise. It would be just as wise for adherents of any religious belief to advertise their business with the emblems and symbols of their religion. ‘We are constrained to believe that gen- erally the improper uses to which the flag has been put indicare inadvertence and heedlessness, rather than any intention to misuse or degrade Old Glory. Itisahand- some flag, and however it is portrayed it makes a beautiful picture. Any artist will admit that. It has just such a primitive and showy beauty as would naturally attract those whose lack or culture pre- cludes their devising a prettier thing. It is conceivable, further, that some adver- tisers, in emploving it, may be moved by a purely patriotic sentiment, believing that a flag which means so much cannot be degraded by an individual, but only by some great National shame, and that a good deed is done by keeping it as much,| as possible before the public eye. That these are suffering under a misconception does not reduce their claims upon an in- telligent generosity. But it is best in all ways that the flag should not be permitted to stand for any- thing but the idea which it represents. The only other concrete expressions of this idea are history and the conduct of our people. When the latter of these fails in its exercise there will be time enough to make a mean show of the flag. AN ORIGINAL IDEA. That was an uncommonly interesting.| piece of news which Assemblyman R. I. Thomas gave in an interview with him, published in yesterday’s CArr. 1ltisthat be has organized a strong company for the purpose of utilizing the overflow waters of the Deguirie dam, which is to be con- structed on the Yuba River, six miles from Marysville, these waters to be used for generating electricity for industrial pur- poses, Thedam is to be used for impound- ing debris from hydraulic wines if Con- gress makes the desired appropriation un- der the Caminetti act; and as the Govern- ment engineers composing the California Debris Commission have reported favor- ably on the matter, it is believed that Con- gress will make the appropriation, which, in conjunction with the State appropria- tion, will amount to about half a million dollars. 2 In other words, this is a plan to put to economic use water held i restraint for another purpose entirely after it has served its original purpose, thus giving it a double use of the very greatest value in both in- stances—the working of hydraulic mines and the generation of electricity for manu- facturing and other uses in the towns and cities of the Sacramento Valley. On its face the scheme appears to be a stroke of genius and to present possibilities of an extraordinary kind. The right to the overflow water is entirely separate from that of the impounded water, and can be located under an act passed by the last Legislature. Should the Deguirie scheme secure the approval of Congress in the shape of an appropriation for a dam, the electrical power company will be saved the expense of building a dam of its own. The reawakening of the mining industry in California and the inevitable restoration of hydraulic mining under some plen which shall not injure the waterways will receive & new impetus from this inviting prospect. The expense of constructing dams in the mountains to secure a head of water for the generation of electricity is the deterrent cause of the delay in developing this great resource. The use for this purpose of dams constructed to impound the debris from hydraulic mines will do away with that difficulty for the entire central part of the State, where is found the bulk of popula- tion and industrial activity, for it is in this region that the placer mines abound. In this connection attention cannot be too often called to the fact that the climate of California does not permit the obstacles which constitute so serious a drawback in the East. The worst of these isice in the streams in winter, which often prohibits the utilization of water-power altogether. The absence of ice in the streams of Cali- fornia eliminates this almost fatal objec- tion and reduces the enterprise to a cer- tainty. THE SILVER OONVENTION, The controversy over the money ques- tion continues in the East with unabated vigor on both sides. Fresh from his nine days’ debate with Harvey, Mr, Horr has engaged in another on the same question with General A. J. Warner at Lakeside, Ohio. Nor will this complete the list of big debates. Arrangementsare in prog- ress for a discussion between Bland of Missouri and Harter of Ohio, and this, if it takes place, will eclipse the others, for the debaters will be much abler represen- tatives of their creeds and parties. In comparison with the zeal of the East on the subject the Pacific Coast has been quiet and apparently indifferent. We have been too much engaged in the revival of industry and the formation of new enter- prises, to devote much time to political questions. It must not be assumed, how- ever, that because little in the way of agi- tation of the subject has been undertaken here, that our people are really indifferent to the issue or without interest in the con- troversy. Our silence has been due mainly to the fact that there has been nothing to bringout an expression of public opinion. This condition of affairs will soon be changed. Beginning August 19 we are to have a bimetallic convention in tnis city, and there is every reason to believe it will prove one of the most important assemblies of the year. Interest is already widely taken in the convention. The committee in charge are assured of the attendance of men of emi- nence from all sections of the Pacific Coast. Bimetallic leagues are being organized throughout the State in order that dele- gates fitly representative of the people may pe elected to the convention and the nu- cleus formed of a permanent organization. Every prospect, therefore, promises some- thing of important accomplishment by the meeting and the achievement of results that will have a wide influence on the pol- itics not only of the coast, but of the Na- tion. With the meeting of the convention we may expect the beginning of a more active camvaign of education in the interests of general bimetallism than we have hereto- fore had on this coast. In some respects such a campaign is hardly needed, for it seems certain that the great majority of our people arein favor of a return to the money of the constitution. Nevertheless, it is not advisable to rely too much upon that assurance. The fact that the Demo- cratic Convention of Iowa has thought it worth while to go into the campaign this fall with a platform adopting the old dodge of bimetallism with every dollar equal to gold shows that there is still a good deal of misconception in the public mind as to what bimetallism really means. There may be some misconceptions of the kind on this coast, and for that reason a cam- vaign of education in addition to that al- ready carried on by the press may prove of great value to the cause of honest, justand constitutional money. THE AID SOCIETY. The twenty-first annual report of the Boys’ and Girls’ Aid Society shows an amount of good work done during the year on which the society may well congratu- late itself. In fact the whole City may re- gard with gratification what has been ac- complished, and find in the work done an assurance of even greater accomplishments when the society is more liberally sup- ported and its work is carried on upon greater scale and under better circum- stances, Despite the business depression and bad industrial conditions which during the year imposed such heavy burdens upon the charitable people of the City the president is able to report that with but one excep- tion never have the results of a year's work been so satisfactory. There have been housed, fed, clothed, schooled and instructed in mechanical work at the home an average for the year of ninety-one boys and girls, necessitating the employment of eighteen officers, teachers and employes. Much practical work has been done by the inmates. The tailor and his boys have made all the overalls needed and done much repairing; the shoemaker and his squad have mended the shoes, and the car- penter with a number of boys working un- der him have erected a shed, planked the yard and made other improvements of the kind, ‘While the results of the work of reforma- tion and instruction in the home are good, the managers are confronted with a diffi- cult problem in finding what to do with the boys when the time' has arrived for them to leave. President Perkins says that ranch work is not always open for them, partly because all the boys are not fitted for that work and partly because Japanese are offering their services for $15 a month, and many people find it cheaper to keep a Jap than to keep a boy. It is not easy to get them into mechanical employments as the trade unions permit only a limited number of apprentices and the chances of a boy in the city, therefore, are very much restricted. To meet these difficulties President Per- kins recommends the establishment of a training ship for the training of boys for -the navy. He introduced a bill to that effect at the last session of Congréss. “I feel confident,” he says, “that the senti- ment, ‘American sailors for American war vessels,” will find an echo in every loyal American heart.” The plan is certainly a good one, and will doubtless receive the support of every Pacific Coast member of Congress. Inthe meantime the people of the State should not shirk the duty of as- sisting the society to obtain employment for the boys. Outside of the morality of the question it is a business proposition that boys at work help to support the State, but those who -are idle become a public charge that is often very expensive. PERSONAL. J. F. Condon, & mining man of Verdi, Nev., is &t the Grand. J. F. Mannon, an attorney of Ukiah, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Yerington of Carson are stop- ping at the Palace. Lieutenant W. S. Hughes of the navy is a guest at the Palace. A. B. Glasscock, & hotel man from Yosemite, is at the Occidental. James H. Wadsworth, a cattleman of Yreka, is staying at the Lick. J. F. Moore, a capitalist of Santa Barbara, is stopping at the Palace. G. G. Brooks, a merchant of Colusa, registered at the Grand yesterday. J. R. O’Keeffe, a prominent yeung attorney of San Jose, is at the Baldwin. Dr. D. F. McGraw of San Jose was one of yes- terday’s arrivals at the Palace. George A. Goodman, a banker of Napa, and Mrs. Goodman, are at the Palace. L. C. Trent, a mining engineer of Salt Lake, registered at the Palace yesterday. Major J. C. Post of the army arrived from Portland yesterday and is staying at the Pal- ace. John W. Mackay, who has been in Alaska, is on his way here and will probably arrive to- morrow. Charles 8. Grubbs, an attorney of Louisville, Ky.,and his son, arrived at the Palace Hotel yesterday. Rey. Anna H. Shaw will return to California next month, to begin an active woman’s suf- frage campaign. 8. A. Knapp, a leading business man of Haw- thorne, Nev., was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Occidental. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University came to town yesterday and regis- tered at the Occidental. D. H. Mercer, member of Congress from Ne- braska, who has been here several days, left on yesterday’s steamer for Alaska. Dr. George B.Somers, until recently chief physician at the City Receiving Hospital, will leave for Japan in a few days to be absent two months. A. J. Morrell, & pioneer and retired real estate dealer, recently returned to this City after a three weeks’ visit to S8an Jose and vicinity. . Rose Coghlan arrived here yesterday to filla six months’ engagement at the Columbia, be- ginning Monday evening, as Viola in “Twelith Night.” She is stopping at the Baldwin. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK., NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 8.—The arrivals to- day were: £an Francisco—W. B. Bourn, Im- perial; J, E. Craig, Union Square; B. Dun- combe and C. Jobling, Grand Union; J. W. Reid, Gilsey; E.R. Adams, Grand; T. G. Lew1s and C. S. Bradley, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Meredith, Broadway Central. California— J. C. Whitford, Cosmopolitan. Los Angeles— H. F. Griffiths, Warwick; Oakland—A. Jara, Belvidere. THE DURRANT CASE. The San Francisco CALL has announeed that its reports of the trial of the Durrant murder case shall be confined to the legal develop- ments in the case, and not the sensational, blood-curdling storles in which the other papers have indulged to such an extent. Now the people of the State ought to show their ap- preciation of THE CALL'S policy by supporting it and patronizing it. It is nota whit behind the other papers in enterprise, either.—Chino Valley Champion. 2 LOSS OF POSTOFFICE REVENUE. To the Editor of The Call-Si: In reference to the dispatch published in this morning’s CALL regarding the falling off in the receipts of the San Francisco Postoffice, I desire to say the deficit is easily explained by the fact that many of the larger San Franciseo firms purchase their stamps outside of this city. Now these same firms wish their mail dispatched and delivered uickly, which can only be accomplished b the aid of extra clerks. This 18 of course denie: by the action of these firms. It was only a few g0 that the Postmaster of Oakland issued an appeal to the residents of Oakland to come to his office for stamps, though all their busi- ness correspondence goes through the San Francisco Postoffice. MAILING OLERK, San Francisco, Aug. 8, 1895. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The person who was asked to point fout the most popular book of last year based on the circulation of copies would hardly be likely to hit upon the right answer. It is not to “Trilby,” the graceful, nor the brave “Gentle- man of France,” nor the “Prisoner of Zenda,” nor “Coin’s Financial School,” nor “Merrie England,” nor any of the books of the day that hold the record. All these, with their 25,000 and 50,000 and 100,000 of cir- culation, are far in the rear. The leader in books last year, as for all the years, was the Bible. The report of the American Bible So- ciety for 1894 shows that this single organiza. u%ggrinbed and procured in the twelve months 1! 674 copies of the book, and of these 845.900 were circulated in America and the rest in foreign lands. This is not supposed to be & day of much Bible reading or of willing faith; but & work that sells at the rate of over 800,000 a year in the United States after some centuries of cir- culation is wot exactly to be considered as laid on the shelf.—Examiner. The sentiment in favor of home industry is growing. Californians as & rule are loyal to their State, and they have learned the full force and meaning of home industry. They would like to see local factories flourish and local products used. But they haven’t time to hunt up menufacturers for the purpose of learning what they are making. And if the manufacturers refuse or neglect to place the information before the public the public will continue to call for the old, familiar Eastern brands. Would it not be wise for the Cali- fornian manufacturers to come out in the open and frankly inform the people of this State what they are making?—San Jose Mercury, Many swindlers with brass jewelry and un- marketable merchandise of various kinds, usually gather in the vicinity of reservations when the Indians are about to be paid large sums by the Government; but it is proper to say that the Nez Perce Indians are unusually intelligent, and will not purchase hearses under the impression that they are the latest styleof the luxurious white man’s pleasure vehicle. They do not yearn for brass jewelry, and will inspect every purchase they make with a genuine Yankee shrewdness.—Spokane (Wash.) Outburst. 1f the American River bed is a bonanza we shall have reason to be doubly grateful for the good luck that located Sacramento along its bank. If itshall turn the machinery in our factories, light our streets and houses and run our streetcars, and on top of all heap gold into our laps, that erratic stream will atone for a good deal of the freakiness that it displays in its mad winter moods.—Sacramento News, The Utah Republicans will enter the cam- paign this fall in splendid condition. They are all zealous for the success of Republican- ism. We believe that after the convention on the 28th inst. there will be one grand united pull for the success of the party of prosperity.— Provo (Utah) Enquirer, And now a Chicago paper wants us to call this State “Whitman.” There is & species of mental St. Vitus’ dance that catches people sometimes and makes them nuisances. That's what's the matter with these Chicago people ‘who are worrying over the name of this State.— Beattie (Wash.) Times, e e S B e T St gL T AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘William J. Coombs, Government director of the Union Pacific, takes a cheerful view of the effects of the interference with the silver in- dustry in the Pacific States and Territories. Speaking at the Palace of his trip up through the Northwest on his tour of inspection of the railroads feeding the Union Pacific, he said: “1 found Idaho, Utah and Wyoming in a very cheerful condition. I expected from what was said in Congress during the silver debates that I should find a nest of paupers, butI found communities bustling with excitement and everybody contented and happy. “Inrelation to the silver States and Terri- tories I believe that the interference with the silver industry will in the end prove to be a blessing for this reason: All industries and enterprises seem to have centered around sil- ver, and no community can be lastingly pros- perous where all depend on one class of enter- prise. The decline in the prosperity of the silver interests has caused the people to look in other directions. Ido not believe that three years will pass before those States and Terri- tories will be richer and more permanently prosperous in all the true element of prosper- ity. “Another feature in relation to this is that when all industries are concentrated in one article most of the enterprises get into few hands, and an ordinary man has no chance, but when the industries are varied new fields are opened up for a greater number of people to go in, not as employes, but as principals.” George T. Root, who died last Wednesday, lit- erally sang himself into the hearts of his coun- trymen. He was the author of more popular songs than almost any other American. Here is a list of his most important productions: ““The Battle Cry of Freedom,” “Just Before the Battle, Mother,” “Just After the Battle,” “The Vacant Chair,” “On, Boys, On,” “My Father’s Bible,” “May Moore,” “Music Far Away,” “Voices of the Lake,” ‘‘She Has Told It to the Winds,” “The Quiet Days When We Are 01d,” “Within the Sound of the Enemy’s Guns,” “Will You Come to Meet Me, Darling,” “Co- lumbia’s Call,” “The Old Folks Are Gone,” “Brother, Tell Me of the Battle,” “Lay Me Down and Save the Flag,” “Can the Soldie} Forget,” “Farewell, Father, Friend and Guar- dian,” “How it Marches, the Flag of Our Union,” “Comrade, All Around Is Brighte ness,” “Only Waiting,” “Lilly Brook,” “Music of the Pine,” “If He Can,” “Home's Sweet Harm¢ " “Grieve Not the Heart That Loves Thee,” “Oh, Haste on the Battle,” *The Forest Requeim,” “The First Gun IsFired,” “Don’t You See Me Coming,” “The Cottage in the Vale,” “Rosalie, the Prairie Flower,” “Dream On, Lillie,” “Oh, Come You From the Battle- field,” “Comrades, Hasten to the Battle,” *‘Kiss Me Mother, Kiss Your Darling,’ “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching,” “On, On, On the Boys Come Marching,” “They Have Broken Up Their Camps,” ‘‘The Vacant Chair,” “We’ll Fight it Quton This Line,” “Old Po- tomac Shore.” JOHN P. IRISH. The accompanying portrait is not the John P, Irish of to-day, not the man whose un- doubted ability is a thing conceded, but the young knight of the Democracy of & generation 2go, who entered the lists, and unknown and without journalistic experience struck the shields of the very foremost champions of Re- publicanism in such a way as to win unwilling admiration from enemies and undging Temem- brance from friends, who have him ever in their fondest recollection, 8s one who was a Roland worthy of the proudest Oliver of them all. This is the young champion of the dark days of 1864, when he wore & necktie.—Iowa State Press. ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. CRIBBAGE—J. H. G. and others, City, A half dozen or more questions relating to sequence in cribbage have been received by the Query Column. The following is the law of sequence as laid down by Hoyle and the correspondents can apply it to each of the propositions: ‘The sequence of the cards is king, queen, knave, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, four, three, Lwo, ace, The ace is not in sequence with the kingand queen. The king, queen, knave and ten though they count ten toward thirty-one in play, reckon in sequence in the above order; thus knave, ten, nine.are in order of sequence. If any three cards are played insucha way that they can be reckoned in a se- quence order, either from above downward or be- low upward, without the intervention of another played card out of sequence order. the player of the third card is entitled to mark three, which is called & run of three. 1f a fourth card is similarly played the player of it is entitled to a run of four; if & fifth curd ls played simllarly a runot five accrues, and s00n. If there is a break in the sequence. and in the subsequent play the break is filled up with- out the intervention of acard outof sequence order. The player completing the sequence is enti- tled t0 a score of one for each card of it. For ex- ample: A plays a four; B plays a three: if A fol- 1ows with a deuce or five he is entitled to a run of three. Suppose A plays a deuce, if B plays an ace or five he gains a run of four, orif he plays a four he gains a run of three, and 50 on se long as either plays a card that will come in. It I8 not necessary that the cards forming a sequence should be played in order. Suppose the cards are played in this or- der: Four, two, three, one, five, two, four, one, as they might be ina Six-handed or four-handed game. ‘The third card s entitled to & run of three, the fourth to a run of four, the fifth toa run of five. The sixth card, the dence, has no run, as the sec- ond eard, another deuce, intervenes and the four is wanting to complete the sequence. The seventh card takes a run of five and the last card has no run, as the ace previously played blocks the three. If the play 1s_one, five, six, three, two, four, there 1310 run_until the four is played. The four com- pletes the sequence and entitles tho player (o a run of six. PERFECT MAN—G. E. H., City. The follow- ing measurements in inches and fractions are given by Professor Studer of Detroit, Mich., teacher of gymnastics, as those of the perfect man. Subject 20 years of age: weight 127 unds, height (standing) 66.9 inches; engths—shoulder to elbow 14.2, elbow to ti 18, foot 10.3; widths—hips 12.6, shoulders 16, chest 10.5, chest depth 7.4; girths—neck 13.6, chest expanded 85.8, chest contracted 32.9, waist 28.3, hips 34.3, wrist 6.5, forearm 10.1, thigh 19.6, cali 13.4, knee 13.9, ankle 8.4. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION—H. O. W., Laurel Deil, Lake County, Cal. The amendment to the constitution of this State providing for an educational qualification for yoters was carried at the last election held, and as it is self-ope- rating it did not need legislative enactment to ut it into effect. It ispartof the fundamental W to-day. Lizarps—C. P., Alameda, Cal. There are several species of the common lizard, and as the one you have in mind is not specified, it is impossible to tell if it is one of the species that drinks water or not. Some of the common liz- ards drink water and others do not drink, but obtain moisture from the insects they feed on. No SucH LAw—F. M., City. There is no law of California that will make an employer “liable for dischar, lnf an emp‘ose who is a member of the §l( onal Guard, with his knowledge, because the employe has been ordereg out with his regiment by the Gov- ernor. No Prex1uM—C. L., City. There is no opre- mium on a $5 piece of 1847. Dealers offer them at an advance of $1-50. This department does not publish advertisements, therefore can- noll give you the addresses of dealers in old coins, Back DaTtEs—J. 8. K., Santa Cruz, Cal. The 25th of May. 1876, fell on Thursday; July 23, Fuesday 71880, on Tobaings 3 4 1985 on. Friddy: N ay; Jan on 4y ; Novem- ber l}:,’mu. on Friday, anid October 48, 1686, on ul > HEIGHT OF THE RIDGE—E. A. R,, City. The elevation of the road that leads from Redwood City, 8an Mateo County, to La Honds, same county, is, at the point where it crosses the mountain ridge, 1800 feet above the sea level. HER WAYs—R. A. B, City. In using the phrase “Not one of ways,” and referring to one of them, “Of her wr:r" 1s the general - tional phrase, thereiore the singular should he used, 68 “Not one of her ways was agreeable. CHINA A VAST GRAVEYARD. The face of all nature is pimpled with araves. No farm is so small that it cannot afford at least one: 1o hill is so high (I speak of the Garden provinces of China) tnat it is not dotted with them to the top. No city lacks them, within and without its walis; only the com- ‘pactest parts of the compaet cities are without them. They vary in shape and form, as every- thing varies in China. The saying is that “in ten miles everything is different,” and it cer- tainly is so with the graves. Near Shanghai this eruption on the face of nature took the jorm of shapeless mounds of earth, perhaps six feet long by three feet wide and three or four feet high. There the co! hed been put on the ground and cove: over with dirt. Farther along, toward Soochow and the Grand canal, the graves were brick affairs, round-topped and square at the ends. In the other direction, at and near Cha-pu, on the coast, they were often vaults of earth faced withstone and surrounded by a horseshoe or broken circle of earthwork. Some of these had three doorways and looked like triple bake- ovens. But down Cha-pu way many of the graves were perfect little houses of brick, with tile roofs, and even with roots whose corners were bent up in grand style. There are grave- yards in_China,family or village mve{nds, that look like mere disturbances of the earth, where acres have been turned up into mounds or covered with brick ovens, and there are graveyards that lanted with rows of trees. But, armers bury their dead in their rice or cotton fields or among their mulberry trees, and the poor buy or lease a resting place for their de- arted upon the acres of some wealthier man. fdon’t know whether it be true or not, but I ‘was told that the graves are kept, or let alone, until & change of dynasty occurs, when they are razed, and China begins over again (o gn—empl a_great fraction of her surface for [ er dead, If so, it is time for a change of ynasty, because a vast portion of the soil is 10st to the farmers, who otherwise cultiva: almost every foot of it. And the graves are all stages of rack and ruin and disorder. At one time you see scores of tombs whose ends have been worn down by the elements or have fallen out so as to show the coffin ends or an outbreak of skulls and bones. There is nothing that is possible that you do not see, even to disclosures of great earthen jars full of bones, where the original graves and coffins have worn away. There the boues have been reinterred in pots. and these in turn have been exposed by the careless hand of time. You see bare coffins set out in the rice fields be- cause the mourners were too poor to brick them over, and you see tens of thousands of coffins merely covered over with thatched straw. You see the grand tombs of man- daring taking up hali & mile of the eartn. First there are the granite steps leading up to a splendid triple arch all beautifully carved. Then follows the stately approach to the tomb — a wide avenue bordered by trees and set with lions and warriors,” horses and sages, all hewn out of stone. Finally the tomb itself,on & hillside if possible, stares down the avenue at all these costly ornaments. But it must be that most of these monuments are to men long dead—perhaps to men of dis- tant ages. Therefore most of them are falling 10 pieces. Some are merely beginning to crum- ble, some are waste places, with broken sug- estions of what they were, and some have en invaded by farmersand by the populace, with the result that you see portionsof the once grand arch set in a near-by bridge, or used as steps to a waterside teahouse.—From “Everydday Scenes in China,” by Julian Ralph'in “Harper’s Magazine” for August. WATER AND LAND. Before the riot of eriticism now raging against the Ross decision on the water ques- tion becomes ancient history (a few days more will suffice), it is well to inquire if it is open to criticlsm, or rather if it is notentirely con- sistent with the land laws in vogue. _ 1t is said that the effect of the decision isto establish the doctrine that the people have no rights that water-grabbers are bound to re- ct. Why should they have? The pe(.)ipla have no rights that land-grabbers are bound to respect, and since Water 18 No more necessary to human existence than land, why permit land-grabbing to gounrestrained and yet make an awful fuss about water-grabbing. This needs ex; lulninf. uman existence is unthinkable without Iand, yet we carefull rovide by law that whoever will may grab all Ee can, and another may hire all the grabbers to go off and let him reduce all the litile grabs to one “large holding.” y last begins to Eexceiva that there is something wrong somewhere in this scheme, and so it is coming to be a bit populer to denounce “large holdings.” There is not much agreement as to what a large holding is, so I am entitled to say that the largest ‘‘holding’ is where the greatest economie value is. By this testa few hundred feet quare along Montgomery or Market street is a larger “holding” thana whole county in some parts of the State. But what is the difference to the landless whether one or a few thousand hold all the land from which all must live? The water ?ueltion, like the land question, is simple—it is the land question. And thisis the way it arises: Some people, having the land-grabbing fever in the acute stage,and finding none better to be had, grabbed a big lot of land that was valueless without water. Others grabbed the available water, and when the proper time came, demanded for its use the customary rate, that is—all the traflic would bear. Then the dry-land grabbers asked the Legislature to loan them the power of the State to compel the water-grabbers to ve up their water on_such terms as they, the ry-land owners, saw fit to give. And the Leg- islature did so by enacting the Wright law. Judge Ross decides, in effect, that that is nota 00d law among grabbers: that the water-grab- r may charge the dry-land grabber all he can be made to pay for its use, just as the owners of the land in California compel the nonowners to P-{ all that can be gotout of :]hem for the privilege of living within its bor- ers. Judge Ross’ decision is logically consistent with private ownership of land, and I therefore advise land-owners ahd bond-owners not to ress their objections to it too far—it is loaded. t also has & buzz-saw attachment; you don’t ‘want to fool with it. JAMES 8. REYNOLDS, PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mlle. Louise Imperiali, dsughter of the Marquis Imperiali, who was long Charge d’Affaires of Italy at Washington, was married at Brussels recently to Count de Liederkeke. The Carnot memorial fund, which now stands at 375,000 francs, has been presented by Mrs. Carnot, widow of the late President of France, to the French Academy of Moral Sciences. Miss Lillian Bell's “Love Affairs of an O1d Maid” has just reached England. The crities over there say Miss Bell is “quietly humorous and shows much sympathetic insight into girl nature.” The French Consul at Malta, M. Rocher, has ‘been appointed head of the mission which is to be sent out to China by the French Chambers of Commerce. He has lived for some years in Southern China. When Robert Louis Stevenson was buried, according to his wish, on an almost inaccessi- ble mountain peak, the natives, with infinite pains and labor, cut steps in the rock at differ- ent points in the ascent,so that Mrs. Stevenson could visit the grave. Tke Willis of Fayette County, Obio, has a horse he won'tsell. The other day his baby crawled into the pig pasture. Just as the pigs were about to make a meal of him the horse ran up, kicked the pigs to second base, and made a home run with the baby by grippingits frock in its teeth. Public stupidity at | FROM EASTERN EDITORS. Democratio Fruit. The prosperity of which the ‘workers hear so much has not yet reached a great many of them, and strikes are not unnatural. But all this disorganization of industries, with unfair and even cruel results to many, is p;rl Dfultlhe of Democratic legislation, and neither g::;'loyen nor men cen yet form the least idea how wages can be finally adjusted, or how many establishments can withstand the .new conditions, or how much strife and suffering will be involved before the workers and em- loyers in various industries can find out what I Siow possible or just. The harvest of Demo- cratic success is trial and suffering even now, as it was before recovery in business began.— New York Tribune. If Oleveland Was Sincere. It Mr. Cleveland was sincere when he de- clarea against a second term on his first en- trance to the White House then he is false to the people to-day. If he was not sincere in his utterance at that time there is no r;uo]l: nl:)w lieve him sincere in anytaing, for he has %30'{5.1‘ the people once. But the Cleveland logic and the Cleveland record are such that we will not be surprised if the President, when he again consents to consecrate himself, should take refuge behind the solemn statement that his repugnance was to a second term, nota third, and that his countrymen having over- come’ his unwillingness to accept a second there exists nothing in his published utter- ances to prove that he should not takea third.— New York Mail and Express. Reociprocity and Demooracy. When President Harrison and Secretary Blaine inspired the insertion of the reciprocity clause in the McKinley law the Democrats raised a how!l from one end of the country to the other that the Republicans were stealing Democratic thunder, and that reciprocity was only another form of free trade. The fallacy of L‘ls contention was manifest, and the insin- cerity of those who made it scon became equally clear. So soon as the Democrats ob- tained control of the National Goverament they made bitter war upon the very system which they had previously claimed to be Dem- cratic property.—New York Mail and Expre Too Much Sabbatarianism. A citizen of Morrisania, N, Y., who had been locked up for the offense of hoeing some weeds in his little garden pateh on Sunday last, was discharged by the magistrate, who advised tihe patrolman to use better judgment in thehuE ture—although there was nothing to show tha! he hadn’t used the best he possessed. The real weed in this case was the obnoxious weed of Sabbatarianism, which only needsa little leg- islative fanaticism and police imbecility to start a riotous growth. The next Legislature of New York will bave the job of hoeing it out, oot and branch.—Philadelphia Record. Unpaid Army Salaries. The United States troops along the Pacific have received only half of their June pay, be- cause the Democratic Congress did not appro- priste enough money for the army. “Army salaries are s0 small that they, above .uunmsE should be paid_on time, but these men mus wait until the Republican Congress votes them the requisite money. When these, and similar debts in the navy, are paid, we shall hear the Democrats talking of Republican extrava- gance. It is an old trick, butit will not de- ceive this time.—Boston Journal. Not Much to Dump. In answer to a question of the London cor- respondent of the Post-Dispatch and the New York World a member of the leading London firm of silver prokers said that in sixty days it would be extremely hard to get together for delivery £1,000,000, or about $5,000,000, worth of silver bullion, and London controls the silver market of the world. That “unlimited quantity” of silver to be dumped on the United States in the event of silver free coinage is a phantom.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Over-Crowded Tombs. There are twice as many people in the Tombs as the prison can decently hold. In cells 5 feet by 7 feet—too small for the health even of one person—two prisoners are crowded, with only one cot to sleep upon. Ina part of the prison the Grand Jury finds even worse crowding than this. It reports thatas many as 150 persons are sometimes packed into a room 12 feet by 30 feet in dimensions, while twenty-seven of the attendants are rewlirt‘d to livein a room 12x25 feet.—New York World. Utterly Immaterial, The announcement that the President is averse to a third term is to us & matter of no great importance. It isa question utterly im- material and irrelevant to American politics, and one that we refuse to regard with any de- gree of seriousness.—Philadelphia Recard. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Bachelor—I am told that a married man ean live on half the income that & single man re- quires. Married man—Yes. Weekly. Gorman Dizer—What do you do for a living when your summer boarders leave you? Berkshire farmer—Waal, about the same as I've been doin’—keep on fattening hogs.— Truth. “Curious how much more endurance women have than men,” said Jones, looking up from his paper. “Yes?” said Mrs. Jones. “Yes; here women can go on, day after day, sticking bhatpins right through their hea and npever feel it; but one of ’em stuck a hat- pin in a minister’s leg, and it killed him. I s’pose a woman’s head is her least vulnerable point.” “A man’s leg is very delicate,” retorted Mrs. Jones. ‘““Atleast he makes an awful fuss when it is pulled.”—New York Recorder. He has to.—New York FrESH Brazil nut taffy. Townsend’s. = «CARDS by the million.” Roberts, 220 Sutter.s BacoN Pflmu streat. * GENUINE smwrm st.,nor. barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kast's shoestore.)* D e — Laundried Shirt Waists........ 75c¢and $1 00 2 50 and $3 00 00 6 00 Silk Waists, elegant styles 5 Fine Cloth Capes, all colors. 50 and Black Cloth Capes, fine... .§3 00 and Kelly & Liebes’ Cloak-House, 120 Kearny st. * Teacher—What is a desert? Pnpil—An arid waste. Teacher—Illustrate. Pupil—Sunday in New York under Roosevelt regime. Teacher—What is an oasis? Pupil—The Club.—Boston Transcript. the ScroFULA In its severest forms yields to the potent powers of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Blood poi- soning and salt rheuam and many other diseases of the biood are permanently cured by . Try Hood's.” e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Dierrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 250 & bottle. “FRON THE LOWEST LEVEL.” A STORY OF MINING LIFE IN CALIFORNIA. By REV. J. H. WYTHE JR. Tug Calr has secured the right to publish this charming story in serial form, and the first chapter will appear to-morrow. It is customary to publish such contribu- tions in the Sunday edition of Tug CALL, but the author has conscientious scruples against having any of his productions published in the Sunday edition of any paper, and in deference to his convictions TuE Cary has agreed to print this story in the Saturday issues only, beginning to-morrow. Tue CaLs devotes a great deal of attention to excellent articles on Western Thomes by .” | Western men and Western women,