The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1895, Page 18

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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALY_. ————————————————————————— “As you like it?”"—why, of course you fiked it. % It is about time for society to come home and rest. | Remonetize silver and the export of gold would bother nobody. 1f Maryland goes Democratic this year then Gorman is a boss indeed. The new baseball league will entertain the State very well between fiestas. The players were for charity, but there 'was no need of charity for the players. Wherever there is & way visible in the Btate there seems to be a will to build a railroad. ‘What we really need in this country is a ‘holiday in October to keep us quiet until Thanksgiving day. The carnival towns are all getting ready ard next spring is going to be rosy enough to make everything flush. With Chicago paragraphers Dunraven bas lost not only his credit but his title and they call him Pat Quin. The man who is proud of San Francisco should help fight the monopoly, so that the City can be proud of him. Tf Cleveland does not get out of office very scon, paying off the public debt will become a lost art in this country. and will hold the next loan down er the fall elections, if he has to make Cariisle sit on the safety valve. When some people say nothing about the wood they saw you may be certain they stole the wood and borrowed the saw. Now that Dunraven is gone in a huff, le ourselves that Henry is always willing to play in our If it works no better in the future than it works now Olney needn’t trouble him- self to get a copyright on his foreign policy. 1f all the railroads now projected in the State are carried through, the monopoly will socn be only an empty name and a harmless track. The United States found friends to help in her war for independence and she should show her gratitude now that she is strong by helping Cuba. In bringing about road improvement the bicycle is literally paving the way for the horseless vehicle, and wherever there are good roads it may be expected any day. It is now admitted Mrs. Carlisle did not write the letter declaring the Secretary to be a candidate for President, but it is as- serted she rides a bike and might have written it. Smesd doote 1f it be true, as reported, that the Prince of Wales said Dunraven had made an ass of himself, there will be general agreement that Wales missed his vocation when he did not set up as an umpire. Reviving the opposition to high build- ings in 8an Francisco after it has been set- tled in’ the East is one of the worst in- stances on record of threshing straw over again merely for the sake of argument. The fact that an address by a practical farmer at a Massachusetts fair drew only a very small crowd led the orator to say toa reporter after his speech that as a rule farmers go to fairs to be amused and not instructed. In saying ‘“machine politics are the only politics that win” Boss Croker showed a happy forgetfulness of the snag his machine struck last year and the reason why he has had a chance to spend such a long time in England. It is said some of the big corporations in Pennsylvania have been so hurt by the failure to overthrow Quay that they have discharged a number: of their employes who voted for Quay delegates to the State convention, and it will need only a little more of that kind of work to put an end to corporation influence in the politics of this country. Complaint is made by some of the sport- 1ng editors in the East that the direction of the League of American Wheelmen is largely under the control of the manu- facturers of wheels and that big bicycle racing events are often very little more than fakes for advertising purposes. If this is true, the wheel had better make a revolution on itself. During the first half of the present year English imports from this country de- creased by nearly $6,000,000 as compared with the corresponding period of last year, while their exports to this country in- creased by about $41,000,000; and, of course, if Mr. Wilson returns to England they will give him a bigger banquet than they gave him the first time. ‘The current issue of the California Fruit- Grower, under the able editorship of Colonel W. C. Fitzsimmons, is an exceed- ingly handsome and able edition of sixty- four pages, being the annuai review and harvest edition. The publication is filled with the most valuable statistics and other information appertaining to the volume of the fruit crop here and in other parts of the world, the ruling prices and a vast amount of other information presented in compact form and easily understood. NEGLECTED WATERWAYS. It is encouraging to learn that the Sena- tors and Representatives of California have determined to make, in connection with Government engineers and leading men interested in the development of California, a careful inspection of Califor- nia’s waterways, with a view to ask for an appropriation at the hands of Congress for their improvement. This matter has been treated with shameful neglect too long. On the face of things itis an abnormal state of affairs that permits a railway mo- uovoly of transportation in rich sections of the State penetrated by rivers that might be made navigable toa far more efficient extent than at present. The construction of a competing railroad into the San Joaquin Valley will make Stockton the entrepot of the San Joaguin as Sacramento is of the Sacramento Val- lev. While the Sacramento is nominally navigable as far as Marysville, the natural facilities are so inadeguate and uninviting as to make it an easy problem for the Southern Pacific to enter into arrange- ments with such steamer lines as exist, thus destroying the competitive advan- tage which the river ought to offer. There isno good reason why the Sacramento should not be made navigable as far north as Redding, where the stream issues from the mountains. This would give the bene- fits of competitive transportation to the whole length of this fertile valley. The new road into the San Joaquin will make the development of that valley pro- ceed with tremendous energy, for it will take the place of river competition. It would be much more expensive to make the San Joaquin navigable than the Sacra- mento, but that should be ro reason for neglecting that valuable stream. This aside, Stockton stands in urgent need of relief. Within a few years the productions of the valley will have in- creased enormously under the stimulus which the Valley road will create, and as tidewater is found at Stockton that city will be the point at which large transfers from rail to water will be made under any circumstances, no matter how many rail- roads may run thence to San Francisco. At present river navigation to Stockton is very poor, but it is so much better than that of the Sacramento to Marysville that competition which the Southern Pacific cannot reach is thriving, in spite of the adverse conditions presented by the water- course, If the natural facilities should de im- proved a still greater benefit would result. The river is extremely crooked and at low tide is shallow, so that navigation is a very slow process. The steamers are constantly running aground or into the banks. is needed most of all ‘s a straight canal cut through the marshes from Stockton to the head of San Pablo Bay, where deep water is encountered. This has been already broached by Government and other capable engineers, and it must come in time. The ground all the way is a marsh, barely above high water, and the cutting of such a canal would therefore be com- paratively an Inexpensive operation. The movement for the improvement of the waterways should be urged to its fur- thest extent. Although it is manifestly the duty of the General Government to perform the work at its own expense, it may be found that Eastern ignorance of the National benefits to be secured from the improvements may deter Eastern members of Congress from voting as lib- eral appropriations as are required. If so, the State should take a hand in the cost. That, however, is a matter for future con- sideration. The great task now is to as- certain what should be done, and then make a hard fight in Congress for the nec- essary anpropriation. A JUST COMPLAINT. It has not been so long ago but that all of usremember the strong opposition of the Kearny-street merchants to the intro- duction of the trolley on that thoroughfare. Their objections were finally overcome, but a part of the agreement between them and the Market-street Railway Company was that transfers should be exchanged between Kearny street and the Market- street system. This part of the agree- ment has never been kept by the railway company, and now the merchants affected have appealed to the Merchants’ Associa- tion for relief. The readiness with which the railway company has promised to com- ply with the request from the association for a diagram showing the whole scheme of transfers in the City as a preliminary step toward acting upon the petition of the Kearny-street merchants, seems to in- dicate the readiness of the company to keep on good terms with the merchants. If this be so, however, it is difficult to see why the company does not inaugurate the transfer system on its own account, without waiting for an earnest plea from the Merchants' Association. Is it delay- ing merely in order to place itself in the role of a magnanimous sovereign willing to listen to the prayers of his subjects? The most important view of the subject is its demonstration of the power which a street railway corporation controlling the greater part of the street railway facilities of the City can exercise for or against the welfare of a considerable part of the popu- lation. For many years Kearny street has been one of the leading retail streetsof town. Some of the finest and most exten- sive establishments of the City are on this street between Market and California. These merchants have built up their busi- ness in a legitimate way, and in that pur- suit have not sought or desired to injure others. 1t, therefore, seems hard ana un- just that after all these yearsthe rewards of their efforts should suffer impairment through the arbitrary and apparently un- reasonable exercise of a monopolisticstreet railway vpower, before which they find themselves utterly helpless. Such happeningsas this wiil hasten the day when a municipality will understand its corporate obligations to its citizens and its duty to protect them against wrong. This would meen an acceptance of the vrinciple that street railway companies must sooner or later be brought under some sort of municipal authority and dis- cipline, if not ownership. Fortunately the companies themselves, vielding to the spirit of greed which blinds them, are pur- suing the very course which will bring about that happy result. Now that the merchants of San Francisco have learned the power which they can exercise when organized, other citizens might take profit from their example and experience. SHOULD BE GRANTED, The Board of Supervisors will likely show no hesitancy in granting the peti- tion of property-owners south of the park to appropriate $3500 for the purpose of establishing the grade of J street, from Stanyan street to the ocean, especially in view of the fact that the property is pay- ing an annual tax of §100,000 without re- ceiving any public improvements, and in view of the further fact that the property- owners propose to bear ail the expense of constructing the street after the grade is established. The proposition is one of the most generous the City ever received, The idea of the Southside property- owners is to have a fine boulevard along the south side of the park. There is no thoroughfare at present, and as the Affiliated Colleges are to be erected there, and as property on that side of the park is coming into great demand, the advisa- bility of making such a boulevard is mani- fest. 1t will be the necessary beginning of a complete system of finished streets, without which the region south of the park cannot make headway. THE DRIFT INTO CITIES. Massachusetts is dismayed to learn from her recently completed decennial census that, whereas the population of the State has increased 28 per cent during the last ten years, the gain is confined entirely to the manufacturing cities, and that there has been a great falling off of the rural vopulation. This means that the farms are being abandoned, and that farmers’ sons and daughters have gone into the factories of the cities. The press of the State aiscusses the prob- lem from numerous points of view. One is the old cry that rural life is hard and uninviting under present conditions, and that it could be made more attractive by instituting a higher and better form of social pleasures. This is undoubtedly a leading cause for deserting the farms, but one equally as potent is the hard and wearing life of farming in the Eastern States. There the farms must be large, and hence a compact rural population is impossible. Again, the nature of Eastern farmwork virtually prohibits summer in- dulgence in social pleasures, and the winters are so cold as to make them a task. It is a proper aim in life to live in com- fort, and to invest the environment with as many wholesome pleasures as possible. No young man or woman who finds farm life burdensome and city life pleasant can be blamed for exercising a vreference for the city, even though the income may be smaller. For there are pleasures in life apart from money- making; and, considering even this phase of the matter, there is rarely a chance to make more money on an Eastern farm than an some humble capacity in the city, The Massachusetts case would not be de- serving of so much attention did it not represent a general condition throughout the Eastern States, In California the situation is radically different. In spite of the fact that for the last few years until recently the profits of farming have been small, there is no ten- dency to drift cityw one of the favorite agricultural communi- ies will explain the matter at once. Here farms are smali; the people, living together, can mingle on terms of inti- ble in Eastern rural distri here is no time of the year, summer or winter, when the conditions of rural work or of climate place restrictions on social intercourse; and all the conditions com- bine to make ferming intrinsically so at- tractive that there is no inducement to abandon the farms for the city. A striking illustration of this—practi- cally unheard of in the East—is the aban- donment of the city for the farm by wealthy families, who establish themselves on large orchards or vineyards, preferring the delights of rural life to those offered by the city. Thisis so common and so re- markable that it deserves the considera- tion of those Eastern young men and women to whom farm life is distasteful. One might think that wealthy persons would be insane to leave the city, with ail its allurements, to seek greater pleasure in the courtry, and so they would be re- garded in the East. Nouso here; and ifa census of wealthy business men should be taken it would likely develop the fect that a very large portion of them would gladly exchange city life in California for the pleasures of the country if they could do so without sacrificing their business too heavily. RANDOM NOTES. By JonN McNAUGHT. “Man does not yield himself to death, nor unto the angels utterly, save through the weakness of his feeble will.” These words are used by Poe as the motto and fourdation of one of the most impressive of his romances. There may be some dis- sent to the truth thus expressed in its highest and most poetic form, but in a lower degree and with less exalted phrase it has been known in all lands and in all ages, and everywhere admitted as a part of the common wisdom of the world. Among English-speaking people it has become so familiar that it has long since passed into a proverb: ‘“Where there is a will there is away.”” Such being the case, it is a more than passing wonder in these days, when education strives at everything and chil- dren are expected to acquire a knowledge of all the fads and half the sciences of the age before they leave school, that no ear- nest attempt has been made in any system of school work to train the will and de- velop in the young that power which alone will enable them to overcome the force of circumstance and make their lives some- thing more than a feckless existence. The training of the will would at first thought seem to be a difficult and almost impossible task, inasmuch as no one can exercise hig will without first willing to exerciseit. He must have the will before he can start to will. To create a will with- out having a will to create it seems as hopeless as an attempt of a man to lift himself over a fence by the bootstraps when he has no bootstraps. This seeming difficulty, however, is only a metaphysical paradox. While the will certainly directs everything it is itself affected by all things, and there is a way to get at it and compel it to go to work. A comprehensive system of will training is therefore among the possibilities of education. It might not be within the reach of training to graduate such resolute wills as those of Pallisy, the potter, and Peter the Great in every class, but a good deal might be done to make a race of men more resolute, more efficient and more masterful than any which has vet been seen. Of what avail is it that we teach our youth so much if we do not teach them also to will the thing they wish? Of what avail is it to say to a man, ““Be sure you are right and then go ahead,” if his will istoo weak to decide which is right? It would be better to train np in him a will strong enough to go ahead and make it rignt, Some years ago Kossuth recalled to the attention of the world a curious passage in a volume written by Roussean and pub- lished in Paris about two years before the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rousseau had made a long visit to Corsica and his book was a description of what he saw there. The passage to which Kossuth re- ferred began by contrasting the indiffer- ence and skepticism of the people of Con- tinental Europe at that time with the vigor and fervor of the Corsicans, and closed with the declaration: “In the next gen- eration there will come out of Corsica a man who will dominate all Europe.” Everybody is aware how fully the declara- tion was proven true by the history of that next generation, for, as Kossuth said, it was so literally fulfilled it sounds like a divinely inspired prophecy of the coming of Napoleon, and as such ranks among the most interesting predictions in the annals of literature. Rousseau’s declaration concerning the Corsican to come wasnot intended by him as a prophecy in the ordinary sense of that word. He laid no.claim to any miraculous power of foreseeing the future. What he wrote was a conclusion reasoned out from the conditions then existing. The people of Continental Europe had lost faith in all their institutions. Toward the church, the state and the society they beld an_attitude of mockery more or less disgnised by the practice of the forms of a conventional respect. They doubted everything. They willed nothing very strongly. Meantime the drift of things was forcing Corsica into closer relations with the Continent, and it was easy to foresee that in another genera- tion many Corsicans would go to Paris in search of fortune. Then the vigor of the primitive race would assert itself over the weak indifference of the age, and as soon as one of the strong-willed fellows came with brains in his head asewell as force in his character he would dominate Europe as a matter of course. The reasoning by which the prediction was reached is about as interesting as the prediction itself, and us that it shows how a seemingly absurd prediction having no basis other than the assumption of the superiority of the will over every other faculty in men was fulfilled in a manner that seems to dem- onstrate the correctness of that assumption with the precision of geometry. The need of some system of training the will as a part of our public instruction is the more urgent because tihe general course of education tends to fill the mind with doubts and hesitations and make it wavering and uncertain. When a youth has learned there are so many religions, so many forms of government, so many ideas of morality, so many standards of conduct, so many.aims in life, so many things de- sirable and so many different wuys of get- ting them, it is by no means easy for him on leaving school to make up his mind with absolute certainty what iy best for him to do. As a consequence a large pro- portion of our brightest young men simply | drift out into the world and let time and chance determine the course they take. About seven out of every ten failures in life are due to defects of will. The thing has become so common that men of in- firm purpose are getting to be a public nuisance. It is really time, therefore, for | educatdrs to put their minds to the sub- ject of will-training asa part of mental dis- cipline. There may be no widespread de- sire that a man should come out of Amer- ica to govern Europe, but he might at leas | be taught to govern himself. Ages ago the philosophers of Tndia did reverence to the power of the will and they | gave it a part in their theosophy scarcely less spiendid than that assigned to the gods. In the mighty volumes which con- tain the records of their lore are many strange and wonderful tales of its awful force and almost infinite influence. We regard these tales as of no more worth than Poe's romance of a will which, raised to its bighest power by the inspiration of a great love, was strong enough to overcome death and angels; but even in our own records there is evidence enough to show that whatever else we teach in our schools we should teach some good method of de- veloping the will. Discipline should mean the forceful assertion of the highest self, and not subordination to some law en- forced from the outside. If the wili force | of the individuals of this Nation could be | increased ever so little the effect would be shown in an 1mmense betterment of pub- lic affairs. It may not be true that we yield ourselves unto death and to the an- gels utterly only through the weakness of our feeble wills, but it is certain that only through such weakness do we yield our- selves unto bosses and corporations. I do not know what form of exercise could be used to strengthen the will, but I am sure that such exercise is possible. Some years ago one of our leading states- men told me of a plan Le employed. JHe said he considered bis success in life to be due mainly to his will power, and when- ever he had an undertaking before him his first care was to rouse in himself a resolute determination to succeed. If the work was of a nature that dia not sufficiently interest him to excite this resolution he would study it in all its bearings and all its relations to other things until it became in his mind the center of a great complex problem, and therefore interesting enough to rouse the energies of his will. “When once I have got my will worked up,” he said,” “I regard my success as virtually sure, for as the rest of the world is more or less indifferent and careless on any par- ticular subject, it readily permits the reso- lute man to have his _rather than make a fussabout what it regards as a little thing.” Kossuth recalled this long - forgotten passage from one of the minor writings of Rousseau in order to use the reasoning and the marvelous verification of it as a basis on which to rest a little' prediction of bis own. He said a similar course of argu- ment from conditions prevailing now wonld lead to the conclusion that in the next generation a man of the Slav race would dominate in Europe. It is quite possible, however, that Kossuth took too narrow a view of the probabilities. Grant- ing that the Slavs have a great deal of primitive force and fervor, it must be re- membered that in America, also, there is a large amount of pristine vigor. Perhaps theman who is to rule Europe in the next generation may be a native son of this golden clime. Over in the East society requires a man to drop his summer hat on the 1st of Sep- tember, but in this happy land the rule of the best circles is never to throw away the old tile until it is quite seasonable to get another without straining your creait. ONLY ONE BOAT. There was only one boat in the race that day, Only one boat that had the sails to stay; Degender Is very pretty: and she just ran away Trom the uew Britisk cup-nunter Valkyria. —New York Sun. RV SAN) A HARLEQUIN COSTUME AT THE ENGLISH NA- TIONAL CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING. [Reproduced from a sketch in the London Graphic.] | the story has this much of instruction for [ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Who is that reverend-looking gentleman over there?” asked THE CALL man of & by- stander at the Palace Hotel yesterday. “Do you mean the major? Why, that is Major John Reeves, the bookmaker, one of the smart- est men on the turf in the United States to-day. “Oh, the major is not so sedate as he may MAJOR JOHN REEVES, WHO IS NOT A CLERGYMAN, DESPITE HI3 LOOKS. : [Sketched from life for *“The Call” by Nankivell look. Iremember when he was worth a deal of money. He lost it and s now working for a living.” “Hg must be a plunger, then 2" “Well, es, he is. He and Sam Emery were n Dry Monopole when he was beaten Sam had backed Dry Monopole of $10,000 and the major differed n of the horses. He placed a cool £10,000 on Blue Wing. This caused the split of the partuership. Blue Wing lost. “Never heard of Pinkerton employing him as a detective, bave you? “When the major was in partnership with Tom Shannon in the East, after clearing up $80,000, a boy named Clay picked up the satchel containing the money and walkedZto Canada. Of course they could not extradite him, so Pinkerton employed Reeves to entice him back to the States. He went over the bor- der, chummed in with the boy, and under the pretense of reaching & boat bound tor Europe led the boy into Maine, where he was pounced upon and nearly all the money was recovered. ““The boys are all very fond of playing jokes on the major, and one day, while he was hav- ing a Hammam bath in Washington, they cut up his clothes, and he was forced to go to his hotel in 2 woman's wrapper. The first police- man’that he met arrested him for parading in female attire, but he was released when his pariner explained the clrcumstances of the case. ““You bet the major is a great character, but I bave an engagement which prevents me from relating a few more incidents with which Iam acquainted. So, adios.” “The man who tries to be amusing is not often as successful as the serious man who never tries to make a joke is sometimes,” said 8. H. Friedlander last night at the Columbia. “Iwes out with Mrs. Dr. Gibbons, Mrs. White and & number of the other ladies of the Chsnning Auxiliary at Sutro Heights on Wednesday, arranging about the presentation of ‘As You Like It An Englishman, who is traveling around the world, was there, and became very enthusiastic over the place we had chosen for the play. ‘Ah!’ he said, ‘What could be more fitting and appropriate? Here you have & perfect paradise, the real forest of Arden. It's God's theater, a garden of Eden. But where are you going to hang the curt8in?’ » General Warfield of the California saw the first race between the Defender and Valkyrie in good style. “Quite a number of us Californians went out together on & tug secured by General Cutting. Colonelr Frank Sumnuer and Colonel Edwards were in the party, and I don’t think any one ever saw a race under better auspices. For my part I shall be satisfied if I never see another. It was the prettiest sight I ever saw or expect tosee. Our tug followed along the course, so that we had a view of practically the whole race. When in the early part of the race the Valkyrie made an effort to cross the Defender’s bow and failed, as her sails flapped there was such a yeiling and shouting and blowing of whistles as I have never heard, for it meant victory for our boat. Then again, later, when the Defender sailed across the Valkyrie’s bow, there was anotner outbreak. It would be use- less for me to try to describe the sight and the noise and enthusiasm. Itwas all beyond any of my expectations.” MENU FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 23. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cornmeal Mush, Milk. Broiled Salt Salmon. Steamed Eggs. Rolls. Coffee. LUNCH. Welsh Rarebit in Chafing Dish. Toast. Coftee, Fruit, DINNER. Green Vegetable Soup. Eroiled S eak, Sauce Bearnaise. Fotatoes « ' Anna. Corn. Sulad of Cress. Cheese. Vanllla Sauce. ' —Household Wafers. Vanllla Souflle. Cofte News. THOUGHTS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California is having a regular electric boom. Carson, by running a tunnel into Lake Tahoe, could have the finest electric plant in the country. All we need is enterprise.—Carson (Nev.) Appeal. An Oakland girl who ran away to ses and married the man she said she loved was sur- prised by her angry parent at her wedding breakfast. Parents should be careful sbout surprising their runaway daughters at their wedding breaifast, as nothing will engender the dyspepsia so quickly as this.—Los Angeles Express. The deflciency in number of bales of the Ore- gon hop crop, if any, will more than be made up in the increase of the prune erop. We be- lieve the same may be said of the potato crop, or the apple crop, or the pear erop, or the pork crop, or the butter and Cheese crops in the counties having new creameries. Oregon is all right. In fact, she is growing to be a diver- sified daisy,—Salem (Or.) Statesman. San Franeisco has not yet given up the fight to secure the National Republican Convention next year. A good, strong. united pull of all the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States in thatdirection might secure the convention for the Pacific metropolis. The prize is worth the effort. The holding of the convention on this coast would have a great influence in bringing to the front the demands of the West on various important questions, and tend to shape the party policy and platform in that line.~Escondido Times. Parily because of the talked of railroads, partly because of the Corral Hollow mines, and lastly, but not leastly, because more is coming to be known with reference to its unsurpassed climate and other, innumerable, natural ad- vantages, Livermore is ai the present time the best advertised town in the State—and, il we are not sadly mistaken, the result ere long willbe such as to astonish the ‘‘oldest in- habitant.” We move that .a 10, Club be Orgnnized immediately—the x&‘fle tobe attained within the coming five yeers.—Liver- more Echo. The editor of the Appeal attended & whist party on Thursday evening at the residence of Parson Davis. There were only twelve people altogether at the party, yet the famous “part- ner’s ace’’ was trumped 146 times during the evening. This we believe breaks all previous records.—Carson Appeal. The foothills of Yuba County, with and with- out water, offer inducements for the small-fruit farmer, for the dairyman, for the manufacture of anything requiring fine pine woods, for hanadling of anything that uses slate, and not least, but foremost, both large and small uartz-mining propositions. These industries gsva not been touched. They are of the infant variety and need nursing. In this case the nurse will get a good return for careful con- sideration. Marysville and the men who have made money here, or those who seek a certain investment, should assame that function. It will be the means of adding to their stores of wealth and give to posterity an assured source of revenue.—Marysville Appeal. PERSONAL. W. C. Peyton of Santa Cruz is at the Palace. D. McDonald, & mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. W. C. Good, & merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Grand. A. Dinkelspie], & merchant of Fresno, is at the Occidental. D.J. Flannigan, a big lumberman of Eureka, is at the Grand. Rev. W. A. Finley of S8anta Rosa registered at the Russ yesterdsy. Captain William L. Meredith of the ship Do- minion is at the Russ. Lieutenant Commander A. W. Wadhams of the navy is a guest at the California. M. A. Delana, & prominent mining man of French Guleh, is registered at the Occidental. M. S. Gregory, Sheriff of Amador County, came in from Jackson yesterday and put up at the Grand. John M. Mitchell, the senior United States Senator from Oregon, registered at the Califor- nia yesterday. C. ». Fitch, proprietor of the City Hotel of Sonora and s mine-owner, registered at the Lick yesterday. e f CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 21.—In spite of the America cup contest flasco international sports are still very much in the ascendant here, and the meetings to-day between the London and New York Atbletic Club eracks, and the little hali-raters, Spruce IV and Ethel Wynn, ex- cited as much interest as though Dunraven had never come over. William Greer Harrison, one of the ex-presidents of the San Francisco Olympic Club, and Billy Curtis have been in tha city for several days waiting for the former event and were very much in evidence to-doy at Berkeley Oval during the games. Richard Ferrer, whose violin-playing has been so favor- ably commented on abroad, is also in the city. His sister, M Eugenia Ferrer, the pianist, has recently formed a concert company for drawing-room entertainments. Two other Caltfornians who have recently returned to the eity are Mrs. Bella Thomas-Nichols and Mrs. Charles Sonntag, and they have taken apartments at the Mystic for the winter. Wil- liam Keith, the well-known barytone, is visiting friends at Worcester, Mass. Miss Clara McChesney, the clever Cali- fornian disciple of the Dutch paint- ers, has left the country, where she has been sketching, and gone to Paris. She will return to this country in November. Mrs. Carl Jungen, wife of Lieutenant J. W. Jungen, who is now in Berlin, also expects to go to Paris soon to continue the cultivation of her voice. Miss Olive Oliver and Hugo Toland, the two San Franciscans whose wark at the Garrick has already been touched on,are cast for parts in the new play, “A Social Highwayman,” which will be brought out at that theater Tuesday night. Of still more interest to many, likely, is the announcementghat Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Miss Fair will visit the coast late this fall. Among the Californians registered at the hotels to-day were: From San Fran- cisco—Mr. and Mrs. J. Jerome, P. Miner, Im- perial; Miss A. Hilket, Cosmopolitan; Dr. Clin- ton, Miss F. Murphy, Brunswick; Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hopkins, Miss Hopkins, A. Stern, Hol- land; Mrs. J. Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Grin- baum, Mr. aud Mrs. Hyam, Mr. and Mrs. D. Mugdan, Savoy; Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Hellen, Netherland; A.W. Martin, Hoffman; M. Con- nolly, Sinclair; Mr. and Mrs, K. Meussdorffer, St. Denis; H. Plousky, Stewart, Los Angeles— H. Reich, Union Square. San Mateo—R. W. Spruce, Continental. California—J. G. Moserop, St. Stephens. AMERICANS IN BERLIN. BERLIN, GERMANY, Sept. 21.—Among the Americans sojourning here are Professor Brown, U. 8. N.; Rev. G. Nichols of Connecti- cut; the Misses Blank and Strauss of Newark, N.J.; J. H. Paton, I. H. “Halsey and Miles Standige and wife, of New York. United States Consul Dekay, is confined to his bed with bronchitis. In consequence of the illness of Dr. Dekay, Vice-Consul-General Zimmerman has had his leave of absence recalled and will not be able to visit San Francisco, as was his intention, until next spring. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. A thin, severe-looking man with a high fore- head and long, pointed chin whiskers went into a restaurant yesterday, says the Chicago Tribune, and stepped up in front of the framed sign hanging on the wall WE ARE N%EESYONBIBLE HATS OR UMBRELLAS. Heread this carefully and then hung directly below it a large card with this inscription: FHAT IS WHERE WE MAKE A MISTAKE, WE ARE. “What do you mean by that?” proprietor. “I am simply making an effort to establish & basis for an agreement asto a square meal,” replied the stranger, hanging his haton the hook nearest the framed inscription. “You’d better take itdown.” “Not on your life, That sign is there to stay while 'm eating my dinner here or Idon't eat it.” “If you don’t take it down I will.” “Reflect one moment, sir. Ihave come here prepared to spend 50 cents, or possibly 75, for a meal of victuals. 1am accustomed to eating with my hat off. You have placed a row of hooks on your walls for your customers to hang their hats on. You recognize the fact that it isn’t the proper thing for a man to eat his dinner with his hat on his head, and you don’t expect him to put it on his knees. Hav- ing provided the hook, and the customer hav- ing hung his hat upon that hook, it is your duty to watch while he eats. That principle hus got to be fully established if I do any busi- ness here. I say it is your dutyto see that your guest is not robbed of his hat. Absorbed in the work of satisfying his appetite, it is not possible for him to —"* “That'll do. Will you take away that card?” “Do you deny the justice of the proposition that a man who keeps & public house is bound to protect the property of his guests?”’ “Tain't denying anything, but I'm tired of hearing you talk, andif you don’t pull that card down I'll attend to it myseli. “Itwill not be necessary for you to touch it, sir,” responded the attenuated stranger, re- moving the card, taking his hat from the hook and turning to go. “I can do it myself. Furthermore,” he added slowly and severely, ‘‘you don’tget a centof the 75 centsor$11 was expecting to spend for my dQinner this aiternoon. Yours is not the only eating house in this town, sir. There are others!” —_— demanded the e PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. The Shah of Persia isa sinewy-built, serene- faced man, with close-cut, iron-gray hair and s drooping moustache, delicately curled, and has something of the appearance of a French officer on parade. He hes a pretty turn for dress, and usually affects a dark martial cloak lined with vermilion, long, white, kid gloves, and a huge emerald about the size of a hen’s egginhis belt. He has never tasted pork, duck, or lobster in his Jife, but he wi gold- rimmed spectacles, and is everywhere accom- panied by a consumptive-looking boy of ten, Wwhom he regards as his mascot. He is rising three score and ten, and has recently returned to Robert Browning’s son the set of the pagt,’s works which had been presented to him with the explanation that he is at present studying English, and cannot undertake to learn & new language. OPINIONS OF EASTERN EDITORS. Hoke Smith’s Swap. Hoke Smith’s paper, the Atlanta Journal, is one of the new converts to goldbuggery that loves to class all Democrats who favor free sil- ver as Populists. The Hon. Hocus Pocus him- self up to the very hour that he got an office under Cleveland was not only in favor of free silver. but indorsed the Populist scheme to make ‘‘non-perishable agricultural products & basis far money.” Hok .\\apfied off the sub- treasury for an office—Memphis Commercial Appeal, Ready for Accidents. Recent railroad accidents have called forth the suggestion that raiiroad trains should carry in addition to the axes and other tools for the purpose of clearing away wrecks, chests sup- piied with bandages and such applications as are used in the treatment of accidental inju- ries, Itmight perhaps be & good idea to carry supplies of gnnsuges securely covered against the dust of travel.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. Why We Ship Gold. That the United States is compelled to ship gold to Europe because the balance of trade makes it necessary is evidence that we are buying a good many things abroad under the new tariff, ana also that our command of the foreign markets, which was promised by the Democrats, has not begun yet.—New York Come mercial Advertiser, Gorman and Rasin. There have been bosses in other States than Maryland and in other cities than Baltimore, but we cannot recall any State or ;izy since the dismal days of the carpet-bag Governors of the reconstruction ?eriogewhlch has been brought under the heels of bosses with fewer redeeming qualities than those of Gorman and Rasin.—Baltimore Sun. Rides Too Far. The lone woman on a bicycle has ceased to be a novelty, and there is no doubt that long excursions are made by her. It gives woman a greater confidence in herself, and promotes the spirit of adventure in her, but there are doubts if thisis needed. She i8 prone to ene large her sphere enough without it.—Boston Herald. ‘What Would Suit? Nothing in the line of foreign policy would g0 surely strengthen the administration with the American people as a practical exvression of sympathy with the Cuban urigts struggling for freedom.—New York World. - A Proud Boast. So far as heard from all the pupils found ac- commodations in the public schools yesterday, Boston is one of the great cities of the country where the school accommodations approximate adequacy.—Boston Herald. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. . ———————————— RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.® ————————— The- possibility that the next Pope may ba an American is being discussed somewhat in Roman Catholic circles, and it has been sug- ested that Cardinal Gibbons may be elected. 'robably when the college of Cardinals meets after the death of Pope Leo the Italian influ- ence will continue todprevAiL Cardinal Gib- bons would make a goo POKO: but the future of Roman Catholicism might become very dif- ferent if any other than an Italian Pope were to be chosen.—Dayton (Ohio) Religious Tele- scope. CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢1b, Townsend's.* L Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* After Trying Them All Call on the Indian doctors. Herbs will cure. 941 Howard. - The significance of the Indian sign affected by tobacconists is understood to be that goods are sold at Lo prices.—Boston Transeript, WHEN the blood is in a depleted condition cool- ing breezes will not restore vitality and vigor. Only Hood’s Sarsaparilia will do this. 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