The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 6

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SATURDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ‘Where you see a coming election you see signs of Republican success. People who have nothing else to do in these aays watch the gold reserve. s A veto cannot reach the tax levy, but perhaps an injunction may head it off. ‘We must have the next Republican con- vention and to get it we must work for it. Any State the Republicans cannot carry this year must be badly stuck in the mud. It is beginning to be noted in the East that saloons alorg bicycle routes don‘t pay. Ths Solid Eight regard everything that comes before them as swill for their trough. In the proper place the shark has no scales, but when sold for sturgeon the thing is scaly. The only breakings reported in these days are the summer engagements and the | bicycle records. When we get rid of Cleveland there is hope we shall also get rid of the whole race of mugwumps. If the proposed Lexow proceedings in Pittsburg do not end in smoke they will surprisethe city. It seems we must rely on the courts to check the Solid Eight as well as punish or- dinary offenders, Chattanooga has a magnificent National Park at Chickamauga, but she had to put up a big fight to get it. It looks as if the municipal ownership of ‘water works would soon be a question of practical politics in this City. As neither the Mayor nor the police of Spokane can arrest one another each can aisturb the peace with impunity and both are doing it. General denunciations of corruption in office do no good, but when specific wrongs are committed all citizens should unite in opposing them. B The only difference between the train- robber and the anarchist is that one tries to stop the car of progress and the other the progress of the car. If the leaders of the American Bimetal- lic Union are wise they will let that third party movement go off and flock together with the third-term scheme. The Atlanta Exposition will show the | South many reasons why her people should | unite with the North and West in sup- porting the protective tariff. . In bringing about dress-reform and promising reform in country roads and city streets, the bicycle may be truly called the wheel of many revolutions. If the fiesta in San Bernardino had any influence in prompting her people to offer $60,000 for the Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight, it is a very zood kind of festival for her to quit on and forget. Since train-robbers have begun to throw dynamite bombs at express-cars the best way to deal with them would be to have them brought up by Judge Lynch and sus- pended from further activity. Mayor Sutro was rieht in saying “this is a time for prompt action and not a time | for the taxpayer to tamely submit until it is too late and then grumblingly pay his rate and lay the blame on other people.” Flower festivals, fruit festivals, corn fes- tivals, cotton festivals, and even water- melon festivals, are becoming common; but just wait until old Kcntucky celebrates her famous product with a whisky festival. The TIrrigation Congress scored a good point for the cause by calling attention to the fact that in Massachusetts about 80 per cent of the people are landless tenants, while in irrigated Utah 90 per cent of the families are landed proprietors. There should be no apathy anywhere concerning the project of bringing the next Republican National Convention to this City. There are many men of influence in the East who will help us if we only show sufficient energy in helping ourselyes. The stories from Denver of the crowds ot afflicted people thronging around a man who professes o be able to. cure them by the laying on of hands shows how hittle for the general mass of men the age of sci- ence and public education differs from the superstitions and barbarisms of the middle ages. Complaint is made that under the Michi- gan game laws a resident of the State can get a license to shoot deer for 50 cents, but citizens of other States must pay $25. Per- haps if all surrounding States would com- bine to give the Michiganders a dose of their own medicine they wouldn’t be quite 80 gamy as they are. Brice and Gorman were in the same boat when Cleveland denounced them for “‘per- fidy and dishonor,” but now the Cleveland me» while continuing to oppose Gormgn in Meryland are helping Brice in Okio. Has the third term idea anything todo with this complication, or is it an outcome of the gold syndicate deal? HIGH BUILDINGS. There are evidences that we are soon to have in this City a renewal of that contro- versy over high buildings which began years ago in Chicago, was continued in New York and other cities of the East, and has been practically concluded in that section of the country by a victory every- where for the advocates of the new form of architecture. The objection to high buildings, or “sky- scrapers,” as it is the fashion to call them, grows out of the natural conservatism of man. Some people dislike any change simply because it is a change. Others see that a change in any one thing will break the existing relation with other things around it and fear the new condition will entail danger or loss somewhere. One of these objections is about as futile as the other. Changes for the better there have been since the world began and must be so long as man is capable of learning new things. Nor does any one change long disturb the harmony of the complex rela- tions of life. Itsimply brings about other changes in other things until a new ad- justment is reached and thereby proves not only a benefit itself but the cause of further benefits in many ways. Tall buildings are a development of the age, and, like all such developments, have resulted from needs engendered by exist- ing conditions. No one planned them as an inspiration. They grew by slow de- grees in response to the demands of mod- ern life. If they introduced new problems thev brought also the answers with them. They have been opposed everywhere and everywhere they have been accepted. A hard fight was made against them by the Fire Department in Chicago, but it ended not by checking the buildings but by im- proving the fire service; and so great was the improvement that only a short time ago the Chicago Times-Herald predicted a complete revolution in the methods of fighting fire in that city before the close of the year. ¢ The high building, as we have said, did not come by inspiration of genius. It is a need of the time. A law prohibiting such buildings would lower the price of every foot of land anywhere near the center of the City, No one would purchase a lot at a high price if he were not to be permitted to erect upon it a building high enough to obtain in rents a fair return upon his investment. If the land-owners of San Francisco are to enjoy as full use of their property as land-owners in other American cities they must be as free here ase else- where to make every use of modern archi- tecture and engineering in improving their property by the construction of such, buildings as the requirements of the time demand. It is hardly likely that the controversy here will be waged either so long or so warmly as it was waged elsewhere. Itisin fact a virtually exhausted issue. It has been argued over and over in the East, and every possible problem involved in it has been discussed and solved. It is no longer a question between New York and Chicago as to whether they shall have high build- ings, but as to which shall have most and highest. UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS. Two Chicago banks are simultaneously dismayed to discover that they have been | heavily robbed by trusted employes. Itis the same old story—drinking, gambling and women. These three evils have caused at least 90 per ccnt of all the cases in which trusted employes have committed theft. The worst feature of it is that the very men most apt to fall before these tempta- tions are those who are most valuable to their employers. This is explainable on the ground that they have a certain large- ness of character and vigor of body, a cer- tain dash and swing and freedom of tem- perament, a certain boldness, courage and |love of adventure and excitement, and invariably a grace of manner that are all as valuable in business as they may be weak in the presence of temptation. A mean, cold, narrow. selfish, timid man may be generally depended on to remain faithful to his trust. Of course this does not mean to say that all warm-blooded employes should be watched or that all cold-blooded men are faithful. The tremendous growth in the size of single business enterprises and the in- creased necessity for reposing trust in em- ployes have led to an increase in the num- ber of defaulters, and this in turn has de- | veloped weans for checking their ten- dency to err. The two vrincipal checks are the requirement of a bend and the en- forcement of rules prohibiting drinking. | Foritis an accepted fact that liquor is generally the inspiration to other lapses of conduct. Another most beneficent check is the encouragement of benevolent, social and religious organizations among em- ployes. Thus,in San Framcisco the em- ployes of the Market-street Railway Com- pany are not only required to refrain from drinking, but are encouraged, though of course not compelled, to become members of Young Men's Christian Associations organized among themselves. The result is that wrongdoing by these men is un- heard of and that they are wholesome, clean-looking and gentlemanly. Of the scores of bank defalcations which have occurred throughout the country in | recent years we do not remember that a single one of the defaulters were under any of the restrictions which are men- tioned herein. The public always feels a greater secur- ity in dealing with institutions which keep their employes under strict and whole- some discipline, and which invests them with all reasonable safeguards against temptation. PARKHURST ON BOSSES. The great reformer, Dr. Parkhurst, has just returned to New York from his visit to Europe, and his first utterance was this: “Platt and the spirit of Plattism are worse than Croker and the spirit of Crokerism, and the manhood and intelligence of the city must and will crusb it -out from the very root.” After expressing regret that the excise question had arisen to obscure the main issue of destroying boss rule and the corruption which clings to it, he said: *“While we are fighting Tammany we must not forget that the enemy who is an essen- tial ally of Tammany is the spirit of des- potism—familiarly known as Plattism. The entire system of boss rule must be torn up root and branch.” By all this the famous reformer means to say that corruption in maunicipal poli- tics is the reason for the existence of boss- iSm. That thisis eminently true as weil as universal is a fact of which the history of San Francisco gives ample proof. The boss is the broker who operates between private rascality and the law and who charges a generous commission for his service. Thecomplacency of the people has permitted him to usurp the functions of the political leader and largely to supplant him in the useful task of organizing the forces of & party and conducting them to success. The wearisome aphorism concerning the “ingratitude of republics” is referable to the boss system of conducting politics in the United States. Itisa part of human nature to admire the strong, the brave and the generous; and human nature is as A, — grateful under republicanism as under any other idea of government. Grant was made President as a reward for his noble services as a soldier. There is never any republican ingratitude that has not been caused by suspicion of motive, and the great incentive to the creation of such sus- picion has been such conduct as would necessarily suggest a motive which was both selfish and corrupt. There are hopeful indications ethat the boss is doomed. As there must or, at least, ought to be a guiding agency to organize and concentrate the working efficiency of a political party, and as reward for meri- torious service is fundamental in any con- ception of seli-government, it must inev- itably ensue, not only that clean, patriotic and high-minded leaders will present themselves on the least sign of the deca- dence of bossism, but that just and honor- able political rewards will be offered to worthy leaders. As regards the situation in New York it is of no greater concern to us than to the extent to which it affects the principle of party leadership. The Republican party, wherever it may find itself in an organized form, must have a leadership. By this we mgan the principle of direction. The party everywheré, as in every other party, is forced to choose the form and character of its directing agency. Shall this be a boss, with necessarily a shady history, or shall it bea clean man who may possess the organizing and executive ability nec- essary tolead the party to victory on an infinitely higher plane than that which the boss can occupy? It has come to the position that party organization shail re- pose in the hands either of bosses or lead- ers. The voters and consequently the peo- ple and their welfare will deserve the re- sults of their choice, whatever it may be. THE SUNDAY CALL. To-morrow’s 1ssue of THE CALL will pre- sent an interesting array of special fea- tures secured for this edition. Joaquin Miller will have a spirited poem entitled “Hawaii.” The final paper of Robert Stev- enson, C.E., on “Kinetic Stability,” which was unavoidably crowded out last Sunday, will appear to-morrow. The last discovery of a comet by Pro- fessor Swift has inspired Miss Rose O’Halloran to write an entertaining essay on the general subject of comets, with par- ticular reference to their peculiarties. Miss Adeline Knapp’s story, “How the Net Was Spread,” will be found both touching and dramatic. John McNaught's special department, “Random Notes,” has proved so acceptable that it is to be continued indefinitely, The quaint humor and genuine philosophy of this accom- plished writer, together with the gentle but shrewd satire and broad wisdom in which he indulges, have found instant and hearty appreciation. The great local news event of to-day, the production of “As You Like It” at Sutro Heights, will be treated by an ac- complished specialist and will be hand- somely illustrated. Charles A. Keeler will have another paper on “The Birds of California.” The great battle of Chickamauga, whose mem- ories bave been revived by the ceremonies attending the dedication of the famous battle-ground as a National park, will be described by Frank Elliott Myers, and the story of the equally historical battles of | Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge will be told by Hugh M. Burke. The regular features of THE Sunxpay CaLy, in- cluding book reviews, the children’s realm, the drama, local and foreign fashions for women and men, art and many other in- teresting things, will be presented. THE BE_X(‘EHT OF BUILDINGS. Tt is a familiar doctrine of the common law that one who ows a piece of land owns from the center of the earth to the very sky itself. His feesimple title is not to be questioned, save where he infringes upon or interferes with the rignts of his neighbors, There is a tendency in recent years to modify the rule of the common law, but such ten- dency should never be extended beyond rea- sonable limits. For example, the restrictions sought to be put upon the height of buildings in this City should be tested by the canons of expediency and common-sense, and there should be no limitatlon fixed upon the con- struction of a building unless some good and sufficient reason can be given for it. In many of the European cities, where the streets are <0 narrow as to be only lanes or al- leys, it is obvious that high buildings must be a serious detriment to those who inhabit the sunless side of the street, but in & City like this, where the streets are slxldv, eighty and even more than 100 feet in width, that argu- ment possesses no force or validity. A solid block of fifteen-story buildings on Market street could not exclude air or sunlight from those on the opposite side of the street. odern buildings in the business portion of a city are uniformly built as nearly fireproof as possible, and hence the Fire Department argu- ment cuts little or no figure. If those mem- bers of the Board of Supervisors who seem to be so strongly opposed to high buildings would take action 1n behalf of an extension of the fire limits they would do much more to guard against the risk of a general conflagration than Dby objecting to tall buildings, The height of buildings is purely compara- tive and it would be just as reasonable for the owner of a one-story cottage to object to his neighbor building a two-story house as for the owner of a six-story business block to object to his neighbor erecting a #welve-story building, As to sanitation and all that the term involves there is no modern building in this City which is not thoroughly supplied and equipped with the best of sanitary appliances. It would be interesting to know the source of this newly developed zeal against high build- ings in this City, when it is perfectly well known that all the high buildings, beginning with the Chronicle building, which was the pioneer, are modeis of fire-proof, well-ventilated and thoroughiy sanitated structures. There is something more in this recent movement, than appears on the surface.—San Francisco Chronicle. In comparison with the maneuvers of the German army those of the French have attracted comparatively little atten- tion, though they seem to have been on nearly as large a scale. This seems to im- ply that the attention of Europe is directed mamly to Kaiser William. Wherever he is is the center of the stage. From the harmony that prevailed at the Trenton convention, it seems New Jersey is another old Democratic State that is go- ing to be redeemed this year. SUCCESS OF FRUIT-GROWERS. Our esteemed contemporary, THE MoRNING CALL, has published an admirable discussion of the conditions upon which the real suceess of the fruit-growers depends. Among other interesting things, in reference to the part played in trade by the commercial traveler, it says: “When the fruit-grower realizes that this is a wholly distinctive function, and that it is entirely separate from a knowledge of the Dprocessés by which an article is produced, he will understand the traveling salesmen’s value. The opportunity which thefruit unions now have before them is that ot securing the services of these bright and hard-workin; men.” Even euperficial inquiry into tmumuq conditions of trade in especially the great markets of the East will convince the inquirer of the truth ot such statements. ‘hile it is true that the consumption of the United States s only ineagerly supplied with California fruits, and deserves the close attention indicated, the fact that San Fran- ¢isco is one of the really great seaports of the world suggests the idea that greater scope should be given the efforts of the fruit-growers —a& scope that is Iuclluhle now only b organized effort, and that is to have tru agents in all the lssdlngkeommnlng ‘points. Only in this wnx can they keep in close touch with their trade and avoid the exorbitant profits of middlemen. Profitable experience can only be gained by experiment. Try the “bright ‘and hard-working men” which TuE CALL refers to, and then await for the results wrl:)ich ex rit;nee n n&i:rgn of trade has proven, after long-continu ort, to be sne- cessful.—San Francisco Commercial Traveler. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Ex-Governor Markham is making his first visit to this City since the end of his term at Sacramento last January. He was talking yes- terday in his rooms at the Palace of how it felt to be out of harness again. “Many people imagine that a Governor is continually ennoyed and harassed. I did not find that so. Of course everybody is asking me if T am glad to be out of it, and I generally say thatITam. Yet I am thankful that I have been Governor, but I don’t want to be again. There was plenty of work in it and work that was interesting. You will say that a great many people were constantly coming to me with them, however tall they mn{ . Twelve and fifteen story buildings are fio ng up in all the great cities of the world, and with elevators and other modern improvements they are prov- ing a great convenience. They are concentrat- ing business within a_small area, and thus in- suring a vast saving in time. A few years ago peopie who had to meat daily for theé transac- tion of business traveled miles in the course of the day, and they had todeduct from the hours devoted to their calling a considerable pxqpflb tion which was engrossed by locomotion. This involved & material curtailment of their po- tential activity. Now men of business occupy offices in tall buildings within a short distance of each other, and in a quarter of an hour or lesseverybody can reach everybody else. The spirit of the proposed ordinance is wrong. What we want in this City is not to EX-GOVERNOR MARKHAM. [Sketched from life for the * Call” by Nankivell.] with some request. That is true, but they came on matters of such interest to themselves that it reglly was a satisfaction to give them the little attention they asked. I think I had less annoyance than most Governors. Stilla great deal of hard work was required all the time, and it naturally geve me a feeling of in- dependence to be out of it. “Down at Pasadena at a dinner given to me after I left Sacramento I was asked to respond to the toast, ‘How I liked my return to private life.’ T toid them about a man who fought all through the war in the Twelfth Wisconsin. Some of the men were talking about how it would feel to be free irom the discipline, and especially the reveille beat at 4 o'clock every morning. ‘I tell you what I'm going to do,’ said my friend. ‘When I get back home I'm going to hire Billy, the drummer, to come down to my house and beat his drum every morning at 4 o’clock, so I ¢an fire a bootjack at him and tell him to go to the dickens, and then turn over and sleep all I want to.”” Leigh H. Irvine has turned in more “space” this week than he ever did before during his career as a knight of the pencil, seissors and pastepot. The presentation of “As You Like It” for the benefit of charity at Sutro Heights this afternoon got the ladies of the Chenning Society into such deep water that they had to call on a precticel newspaper man to rescue them from their overwhelming responsibilities. Mrs. Lovell White, Mrs. Horace Wilson and others, active members of the society, visited the city editors of every daily paper in San Francisco, in the capacity of press agents. They were received with. courtesy and prom- ised everything they desired ip the way of free advertising, the city editors résolving to escape from the vigilance of the business managers, who measure everything by “per square,” hy covering themselves with the ample folds of the traditional mantle of charity, in whose name many strange deeds are perpetrated in editorial sanctums, “Oh, we owa the papers! The editors are all perfectly lovely!” exclaimed the ladies when they reported the result.of their visit to Mana- ger Friedlander of the Columbia. But when they sat down in the various officesto write the notices a rare and puzzling array of intricate head-schedules confronted them; for, fond ns they were of their knowledge of the dreamy caprices of “As You Like It,” they soon discovered that they did not know a two-em dash from a mile heat, or a pyramid-head from a circus-poster, and when their carefully pre- pared articles on the Bard of Avon appeared the next morning they hardly knew them, so they got Irvine to do the press-work for all the papers, and he says he wouldrather do the 1ate watch on Meiggs wharf or camp all night at the Morgue than indulge in such jugglery again. “It may be &l right for a man like Fred Law- Tence to act as press agent for Sells’ circus,” said Mr. Irvine last night, “for he can write fables about animals and move on to the next town without danger of exposure and without being held accountable for deviating from the truth, but when it comes to writing the cold truth for every paperin town every day and every night for a week, and then stretching the limbs of the jheads of departments until they print the aforesaid Washingtonian utter- ances, it is more than I can stand. “Another thing is that I bave become a nuisance in my own office. Icame in with a genuine sensation the other night and my city editor did not want to give me an audience, fearing that I came te him as press agent of the Channing Society. Then again, I have for- gotten how to write Chronicle heads. I have caused the copy readers to doubt my sanity by handing in CaALL, Examiner, Bulletin, Report and Post headlines over my copy, and by refer- ring incoherently to Orlando and Rosalind in the midst of my reports of Judge McKisick’s speech on the Stanford case. I'suppose I will get over it, or thatif I do not recover the la- dies of the Channing Soctety will use part of the fund in properly caring for me.” SKYSCRAPERS OF WOOD AND BRICK. The proposed ordinance of the Supervisors limiting the height of new buildings to 80 and 100 feet, like almost every interference of gov- ernment with natural liberty, is ill-advised and may be mischievous. Builders have a natural 1ight to build as far up into the sky as they can hoist building material. That right can only be abridged when'it is shown that beyond a certain height buildings are danger- ous or injurious to thick neighborhoods. There are just two ways in which a tall building may be injurious: In a city where' the streets are narrow long rows of tall buildings may shut out the sunlight from their more lowly neigh- bors, and in case of fire the upper stories of tall buildings may be beyond the reach of fire- engines, and conflagrations may thus spread. As to the former inconvenience, the streets of San Francisco are generally broad, and the pavements and small houses set along the sidewalks are not exposed to be thrown into the shade by_tall buildings except for a brief period of each day. When the Mills building was in course of erection the householders on Montgomur)’ and Bush streets feared that it would shut them out from the sunlight and impair the value of their property. That has not happened, though neither Montgomery nor Bush can be described as broad streets, Market street might be bounded on both sides with fifteen-story buildings without throwing any houses of consequence into the shade. As to the question of fire it isclearly the duty of the municipal government to prevent the erection of structures which cannot be reachea gynm—um' o;l wme]x(-l fim“:‘ho l‘xiun of the epartment. It woul right and proper to regnin the bullder of such an edifice u‘;u pro- vide means of extinguishing fires, either by establishing water reservoirs on the roof, or by providing a store of fire extlnxulshln“n. 0 man has a right to endmrer his neighbors’ Rroperty by setting up a building in which a re could not be controlied. But the Super- visors will find that the owner of a tall buiid- ing will be just as anxious as they can be to guard against fire. Until he does so, he can effect no insurance and secure no tenants. Self-interest will prompt him to anticipate the City government in taking precautions against & conflagration in his upper stories. = 1f this objection to tall buildings is removed, it does not seem that the City should find fault restrict our Ffllflbflllle!. but to enlarge them. Laws curtailing progress and hampering en- mx&pr(se are not for the Yublic interest. Sound judgment dictates the fullest play of the pro- gressive instinet. 1f capitalists see their way to build fifteen or twenty-story buildings, they should be encouraged to do so, so long as they inflict no injury on their neighbors; ii any one wants to build & tower of Babel in the parks, he ought to be patted on the back. No one can set a limit to the possible growth of San Fran- cisco in the future, and no wise Board of Super- visors will say to the Spirit of Progress, “Thus far shalt thou go and no farther.” —San Fran- cisco Bulletin. PERSONAL. Bishop Warren has returned to the Palace. Dr.R. M. Hunt of Nevada City is at the Lick. Rey. H. White of Stockton is at the Ocei- dental. R. W. C. Cressy,a bankerof San Jose, isat the Lick. P. A. Buell, a lumberman of Stockton, is at the Grand. Yates Stirling of the navy is a guest at the Occidental. J.F. Coope, & vineyardist of Santa Cruz,is at the Grand. Commander D. W. Mullan of the navyis at the California. Charles E. Swezy,a merchant of Marysville, is a guest at the Lick. J. M. Mannion, secretary of the Ukiah Insane Asylum, is at the Grand. Ex-Judge George Pearce of Santa Rosa reg- istered yesterday at the Lick. James P, McCarthy, the real estate man, has gone to Los Angeles on business. Theodore Paschka, a big coffee-planter of Guatemala, is at the Occidental. John L. Hudner, an attorney of Hollister, registered at the Lick yesterday. Congressman W. J. Bryan of Nebraska regis- tered at the Occidental yesterday. H. F. Emeric came in from San Pablo yester- day and put up at the Occidental. W. G. Detert, superintendent of the Leila mine in Amador County, is at the Lick. . Judge P. S. Grosscup of Chicago and his fam- ily leave this morning for a trip to Yosemite. C. L. Hammond, superintendent of the Hotel Waldorff, New York, registered at the Palace yesterday. : Thomas Hender of Sonora returned from the triennial conclave in Boston yesterday and is staying at the Lick. Bishop William Ford Nichols will leave to- day to attend the convention to be held in Minneapolis October 2. William M. Lent, & well-known mining man, and his wife, arrived here from New York yes- terday, and are at the Palace. Hakuro Isono, a prominent merchant of Yokohame, was one of yesterday’s arrivals by the Gaelic, and is staying at the Occidental, ‘Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan, president pro tem. of the State Senate, returned yesterday from his trip East with the Knights Templar to Boston, and is staying at the Grand. Mrs. John R. Coekerill, wife of Colonel Cock- erill, the correspondent of the New York World, who is now in Japan, arrived here on the Gaelic yesterday and left for the Eastin the evening. F. R. Graves, Bishop of the Ptotestant Epis- copal Church at Shanghai, and J. M. Francis of the Divinity School at Tokio came in yesterday on the Gaelic and registered at the Occidental. They have come over to attend the convention at Minneapolis October 2, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 20.—Californians registered at hotels to-day: San Francisco—T. G. Lewis, St. Cloud; A. Scholer, Netherland; Mrs. J. C. Stubbs, Windsor; H. F. Terrill, Mur- ray Hill; W.S. Bornstein, Broadway Central W. Hendershott, Sturtevant; T. E. Martin, McDermott, Grand Union; H. Van Amon, Bartholdi. San Bernardino—T. Sment, Cosmo- politan. Los Angeles—H. M. Sutherland, Sin- clair. Sacramento—Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Van Voorheis, R. N, Van Voorheis, Brunswiek, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20.—San Fran- cisco—H. N. Stevens and wife, St. James Hotel; R. L. Norwood, Riggs House; C. Newmyer, Na- tional; J. Jensen and wife, Arlington. L] AMERICA'S DUTY IN RE CUBA. As for Cuba, it is the American doctrine that the European colonial system represents only a transitional stage. Cuba is an American country, and her political connection with Spain ought not to last any longer than Cuba herself desires. It is monstrous that war should be waged in Cuba, and the whole land devastated by Spaniards because Cuba prefers to estaplish her own independent government. It is no duty of ours to assist Spain in holding Cuba. On the contrary, it'is our duty at the earliest possible moment to recognize Cuba’s belligerent rights and to give her moral sym- pnh&’in her struggle. At the present moment our Government is incurring a large amount of expense in the attempt to keep Americans from going to Cuba. A reasonable amount of precaution on our own soil to prevent the fitting out of notorious filibustering expeditions must be exercised, under the terms of the existing treaties with Spain: but it certainly is a question whether our Government is not showing misdirected zeal in sending ships to patrol the Cuban coast, lest some aid may come to Cuba from Cuban riends and sympathizers in the United States. The question is & difficult one for our Govern- ment, and the Washington policy must nct be condemned without good cause. " But certainly the American people do not expect that the strength of tne United States will be used to aid the Spanish monarchy in keeping its brutal hand u]:;:u m} throat -%, mymenunflulu:: community.—From “The Progress t Worid,” Rev®w of Reviews. TO MAREK TWAIN. Tam awfully sorry you have lost all your money. Iam in thesame boat; but let’s not talk about it all the time.—The Philistine, East Aurora, N. Y. HOPE. We sailed and sailed upon the desert sea, ‘Where for whole days we alone seemed t0 be. At last we saw a dim, vague line arise Between the lonely billows and the skies, That grew and grew untii it wore the shape Of cove and inlet. promontory and cape; Then hills and valleys, rivers, fields and woods, Steeples and roofs and village neighborhoods. And then [ thought, ** Some time 1 shall embark Upon a sea more desert and more dark. ‘Than ever this was, and between the skies And lonely billows 1 shall see arise Another world out of that waste and lapse, Like yonder land. Perhaps—perhaps—perhaps! WiLiiax DEax HOWELLS in Harper's Magazine for September. OFINIONS OF EASTERN EDITORS. The Hawaiian Cable. The appropriation necessary to lay the cable should be promptly voted by the new Repub- lican Congress. If President Cleveland, in a spirit of vindictive partisanship, vetoes it, let him take the responsibility. is stupid, un- patriotic act will only another heavy mill- stone about the neck of an administration which is already sunk dee?ly into misfortune and shame.—Boston Journal. Bolting Democrats. Sereeds against indepéndence in polities are common nowadays in the Democratic organs in the Southern States, but they scem to be of little effect in Maryland and Kentucky, the States where the signs of such independence are the mos: in evidence. Almost every day sees some prominent Democrat bolting the ticket in one_or both of these States,and the prospect of Democratic defeat in both as_the election approaches.—Springfiel publican. New York Not the Place. New York Bay and the waters thereto adja- cent are not the places for an international contest. Every shoddy or petroleum rigged yacht, catboat, tug or excursion steamer can and does crowd what should be a scene of action. Such races as those between the Val- kyrie and the Defender should be sailed on waters that lie out of the main path of com- merce and out of the reach of the impertinent crowd.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ows Re- A Lost Opportunity. Young George Shiras, son of Justice Shiras of the Supreme Court, is said to be an expert photographer. Young Shiras lost a great op- portunity, though, in failing to take a snap- shot at the old man when be was undergoing the process of having his mind changed on the constitutionality of the income tax.—Memphis Appeal. A Party Emblem. As a mark of party designation under section 56 of the Raines bill, what more appropriate emblem could there be for the Cleveland Democracy of this town than three cuckoos, with & little space between the first and sec- ond, and no space between the second and third?—New York Sun. - THOUGHTS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The restoration of the McKinley tariff and the reciprocity treaties will knock the monthly Demoeratic deficiency higher than Gilroy’s kite. Nothing else will do it. And it will keep the gold reserve above the $100,000,000 point. Nothing else will do this. No bond syndicate can do it very long at a time. The only way yet discovered to conduct & success- ful business, public or private, is to take in more than you pay out.—Salem (Or.) States- man. Claimants to the Antrim millions are becom- ing quite as numerous as the army of vision- ary heirs who fondly hoped to get something out of the Janeke Jans estate. Dead-sure heirs to shares of the Irish estate are bolbing up all over Southern California, and all they will get for their fond hopes will be the excitement of anticipation and the envy of acquaintances who have no expectations.—Los Angeles Times. With a road to introduce us to tne outer world the hermit life of the coast would be no longer possible. The medicinal springs alone would attract attention, and & time of healing would begin with some advantage to our peo- ple. Not that we would fleece the wealth sick, but health is always worth paying for an they could find it here.—Halimoon Bay Ad- vocate. Preach the doctrine of good roads on every occasion. Great bodies move slowly we are told. Those interested in better highways cer- tainly constitute & great body. Ultimately it will move, but it behooves those who take an interest in the matter to do a little vigorous pushing meanwhile and sandwich in an ocea- sional kick as well.—Merysville Appeal. When public opinion gets educated to the point that it shall arise and demand honesty in the public press it will getit, but that kind of honesty will not be brought aba#it by stop- ping the paper and eursing the editor every time something appears that doesn’t suit the individual reader.—Chelan (Wash.) Leader. If falling revenues have placed the country in such serious financial straits since the pas- sage of the Wilson-Gorman bill, think how we should have suffered if the original Wilson bill had become a law.—Seattle (Wash.) Post- Intelligencer. The English fellows better take their onme- horse boat and go home with it. They can’t sail nohow.—Olympia (Wash,) Olympian. The next great issue before the American ople will be another bond issue.—San Jose ercury. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. He, on the piazza—It's so dark I can’t see. Isn’t that another couple next to us?” She—Yes; and he is trying to kiss her. He—Can you see 0 well as that? She—Oh, no; but Iknow whom she is with.— Brooklyn Life. “Mrs. D. Vorcee is not at all musical,” sald one Chicago woman. “Not a bit. There’s only one tune that she knows by heart.” “What is that 7" “Mendelssohn’s Wedding March."’—Indian- apolis Journal. “Now, Willie,” said Mr. Bibbs, “yon mustn’t eat green apples. You don’t see me eating things all day and making myself sick.” “No,” said Willie, so thoughtfully that the impression of disrespect was lost, “nor you don’t see me staying out all night and having headaches in the morning.”—Washington Star, That was a remarkable instance of devotion to which an Italian journal reterred some time ago, wherein a husband, on hearing tnat his wife looked her best in mourning, committed suicide that she might have an opportunity to wear it.—Harper's Bazar. Zabzer—Say, waiter, this bill of fare is in French. ‘Waiter—Yes, sir; but the dinner is in Eng- lsh.—Roxbury Gazette. H She—They call this a play with a moral. I wonder what it 5? He, thinking of the price for seats—The fool and his money are soon parted, I guess.— Indianapolis Journal. The generous fellows of the olden times Despised the quarters and ignored the dimes; But as prosperity and wealth increase ‘We break our neeks to grab the 5-cent plece. SAM Davis. MENU FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 22, BREAKFAST. Frult. ‘Wheatlet, Milk. Smothered Beef. ‘Toast. Coffee. DINNER. Clear Soup, Meat Balls. Larded Filiet. Mushrooms. Potato Croquettes. Stuffed Okra. Mayonnaise of Tomatoes. ‘Wafers. Charlotte Russe, Coftee. SUPPER. Sardines on Toast Coftee. Russian Salad, French Dressing. ‘Stuffed A pples. Wafers. —Household News. PEOFLE TALEKED ABOUT. Dr. Max Nordau, the famous author of “De- generacy,” has a reputation for philanthropy in his medical practice in Paris. He gives his services free to the poor in his neighborhood. Lord Nelson once said; “I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.” “Every moment lost,” said Napoleon, ““gives an opportunity for mis- fortune.” Mr. Fletcher, who received a salary of $7000 as editor of the London Daily Chronicle, re- signed his position because the proprietor refused to prohibic the publication of “tips” on races. President Faure devotes two mornings each week to visiting the hospitals of Paris. He apoini of going from bed to bed, shak* :z:k;!ln s with patients, inguiring into their condition, and encouraging them Wil cheer- ing words. o p . Queen Olga of Greece devotes herself wholly to works of charity. Searcely a day passes that she does pot visit some hospital or other charitable institution. She seats herself by the beds of she sick, addressing them in words of kindest sympathy, and often bringing them flowers, whigh are afterward treasured up with the fondest temembrances. When recently & Russian sailor was wounded mortally by an accident at the Pireus, the Queen went daily to his bedside, and nursed him wiih all the tenderness of 8 mother. By such acts as these she has won all hearts, and she has set an ex- cellent example, which cannot fail to be followed by the womanhood of Greece. Jacob Fjeld, a Norwegian sculptor, is to design a statute of Ole Bull, to be placed in Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. VALKYRIE—F. B., City, and F. M. W., Oak- 1and, Cal. The name of Lord Dunrayen's yacht is pronounced as if written Val-ki-re, the sound of “i” being as in pine, fight, pile, and the sound of “e” as in mete, meet and meat. Its meaning is the same as Walkure, and is de- rived'from the old Norse, “val” slgmf,fl,lfz a heap of slaughtered men, and ‘“kjora’” to choose from. In Scandinavian mythology the Valkyrie is one of nine or more h?mnflul maidens, attendants on Odin, the chief god. These raaidens, who were also known as battle maidens, shield maidens and wish maidens, rode through the air, clad in brilliant armor and adorned with golden ornaments. They ordered battles and distributed the aeath lots according to Odin's commands. Fertilizin; dew fell on the ground from the manes ol their horses, light streamed from the polnl.! of their lances, and a strange brightness n‘n nounced their arrival in the battle. They "noy; lighted in glazing the eyes of meger;:lu t their charming glances and then le m to Walhalla, where they acted as his cnpbelre;x. Walhalla is the hall of the fallen heroes, m')l 3 lace of immortality in which those w!m “ allen in battle resided. This hall !,no;“ : Gladsheim (the house of joy), in front of whiel was the beautiful grove Glasur, whose trees bore golden leaves. Valkyries diflerer{l in origin; some sprang from elves, others an} superhuman beings; some were duu?hurs 2 Princes and were in life numbered Amorg the Valkyries, and when they died their & hh(s remained Valkyries. They generally rode by threes, or three times three or four times three, and had the gift of being able to chll&ga themselves into swans. Whoever deprived a Valkyrie of her swan robe got ber into his ower. In the Norse version of “The .\‘:lI - ungen Lied,” Brunhild, the daughter of O "vl, appears as & Valkyrie, as also in Wagner's music-drame, “Die Walkure.” EQUALLY GUILTY—S., City. Any one who administers any drug to & woman or performs a criminal operation on one, for the purpose of producing a certain result, is liable to imprison- ment in the State prison, unless the operation is performed for the purpose of saving her life. A woman who solicits drugs for such a purpose or who consents to have such a crim- inal operation performed Is also liable to im- prisonment, the penalty being fixed at not more than five years, but the law of this State declares that upon a trial for this offense the defendant cannot be convicted upon the un- corroborated evidence of the woman upon or with whom the offense was committed. CLEVELAND’S CABINET—N. N., City. President Cleveland’s Cabinet is now composed of Richard Olney of Massachusetts, Secretary of State (vice Gresham, deceased); John G. Car- lisle of Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury: Daniel 8. Lamont of New York, Secretary of War; J. Harmon of Ohio, Attorney-General (vice Olney, promoted); W. L. Wilson of West Virginia, Postmaster-General (vice Bissell, re- signed); H. A. Herbert of Alabama, Secretary of the Navy; Hoke Smith of Georgia, Secretary of the Interior; J.S. Morton of Nebraska, Secre- tary of Agriculture. COAL ON STEAMERS—S. and C., Bloomfleld, Cal, The large steamers that ply on the Atlanticand are known as ocean greyhounds, when under full headway and using steam alone, burn from 250 to 400 tons of coal in twenty-four hours. The quantity of coal depends upon the size of the machinery and the furnaces. It is impossible to tell how much is used on a trip without knowing what particular steamer is inquired about. ON 4 STEAMER—F. G.. City. If there is & va- cancy & boy, by applying to the officer or to the owners of & steamer, can obtain a position, and he will have an opportunity to rise to the position of master of & vessel, He can also ap- ply to the same parties and obtain a position that will lead to an encgineership. The appli- cation can be made to the officers or owners of any of the steamship lines. CorrAL HoLLow RoAD—P., City. The follow- ing are the names of the directors of the Ala- meds and San Joaquin Railroad Company, Ropullrl% called “The Corral Hollow Road” : . Dy Ty, J. D. Brown, H. A. Wil liams, John Treadwell and B. M. Bradford; Ym«&em, R. D. Fry; vice-president, H. A. Wil- iams; treasurer, J. D. Brown; secretary, B. M. Bradiord. CreAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townscnd’s. ——————— FrEsH Molasses Buttercups,25¢ 1b. Townsend’s PraIN mixed candies, 10c 1b. Townsend’s.* gt S R i bk SOFT baby cream, 15¢ pound. Townsend'’s.* —————— Twenty-five years ago James J. Hill, presi. dent of the Great Northern Railroad, was & freight clerk on the steamboat docks of St. Paul, Minn., at a salary of $40 per month. e ———— THE Roberts Printing Co.—pieture cards, S ————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * B O A NICE present. California glace fruits, 50c 1b. in Japanese baskets. Townsend’s. . g e The Empress of Austria, though no longer a young woman, spends a large pert of her time in study. Sne is devoting herself now to the Greek language and literature, ————— Scheming Rascals All the Time. ;{‘ho Sulld Eignt roasted in Barry’s Star, which bristles with live things. and the courts. 5 TR e e S Lord Rosebery aud Mr. Balfour, Lord Elgin and Mr. Rhodes—the four men who between them guide and govern the British Empire— are all under 50 years of age. Last Ocean Excursion of Season. Stmr Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Monterey, leaves Saturday, ept. 21, 4 P. M.; due back Monday, Sept. 23,5 A.¥. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery street. > Miss Fosdick—Blanche Trivvet plays the p1ano on the scriptural plan. Miss Gaskett—I never heard of the seriptural g vlan of piano-playing. What do you mean? Miss Fosdick—She never lets her left hand know whst her right is doing.—Judge. — - ‘When the blood is impure it is fertile soil for all kinds of disease germs and such troubles as scrof- nla and salt rheum. Hood's Sarsaparilla removes the danger by purifying the blood. —————— LADIES are greatly henefited by the use of Dr. SBiegert’s Angostura_Bitters, the renowned South American tdnic. e ———— ‘‘Charles Henderson was smart.” “How?” “Why, just before his rich uncle died he callea the young fellow to him and told him he had decided to leave him nothing but his auto. graph.” “Yes. “‘And Charley satd, ‘All right,’and then drew up a check for $100,000 and told the old man to put-his autograph on it. It pleased the old man so much that he made it $200,000."—] ton Traveler, ROYAN. Baking Powder Absolutely Pure REDUCTION IN BUTTER FORTHIS WEEK ONLY. 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