The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1895. @ali Tanctico, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietol SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Tafly.and Sunday CALL. one week, by carrier.$0.15 Taily and €unday CALI, One year, by I 6.00 : CaLL, six months, 3.00 .y CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL. one month, by mall .63 £unday.CaL1, ove vear, by mall 1.50 WXEKLY -CALL, one year, by mai 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone............ EDITORIAL ROOMS: D17 Clay Street. .Main—1868 Selephone .Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE: F¥0Montgomery street, corber £:50 o'clock 58 Haves street: 717-Larkin stree SW : corner Bixteenth and Mission streets; open ©ntll 8 o'chock. 45618 Mission street; open untl 9 o'clock. 126 N1ath sireet; open untll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: £08 Broadway. " EASTERN OFFICE: Pecific States Advertising Bures piidipg, Rose and Duane ay: open until n until 9:30 o'clock. THURSDAY..... in the East is never mo. notonous. Wherever there is fruit in this State, there is sunshine to dry it. 9 ninine opposition to g to stand on. Asa general rule bloomers hads not a rtainties of the coming ses- is a big debate on free One of the ¢ sion of Oon Cuba. The free silver play has failed on the stage, but it will have better luck on the stump. Omaha proposes to own her water sup- ply, and shall San Francisco be less than Omaha? Fenders— for trolley-cars have been adopted in ofher cities, and must ba adopted he: The belief is growing in this country that we owe as much to Cuba as Europe owes to Armenia. Local Democrats are very well versed in poker, but few of ‘them have the nerve . fo straddle the blind. The Texag Legislature there is n las entertai session, but sure thing it will stop the Dal- ment. 3 We need not only mote gold in the treasury, but more brains and patriotism in the administration. z to the Health Convention at ization has turned the noble ¥ sewer. As long as the law’ de! to pumish ynchers we can easily conceive that lynch- ing is caused by the law’s delays. A sure way to keep the American heiress at home would be to establish titles in this country, but it is not worth while. “1 have absolutely nothing to say,” is what Chauncey Depew told a reporter the other day when he had a Incid interval, The East shall exult ovéer usno more; ‘we are to rave an institutional church of our own, and one of the best in the coun- try. The treas: statement for September shows nothing to brag about, but it is the best we have had fromthis- administra- tion. The Nebraska Republicans are late in getting into the field for the campaign, but as it looks like & walk over, there was no need to hurry. According to report the State Capitol at Sacramento is not only a noble monument itself, but is rapidiy increasing the num- ber ¢f monument. the graveyards. The question of m al ewnership of water and streetdighting works may be only a speculation now, but it promises to be practical politics in this City before e Eastern people who cannot:see any rea- son why the next Republican: convention shonld be held in San Franciseo should be compellea to come herein order to have their eyes opened. The Chicago drainage canal is between. two fires—the lake cities are fighting it for emptying the lakes, and the Misssisippi River cities are fighting it for making a sewer of the river, The St. Louis Republic is right in saying “the Archangel Gabriel could not be elected for a third term in this country,"” - and 1t might have added he would stand & slim chance for a first one, “Some bad Inc some bad white men, too much' bad wine, and then lots of trouble,” is the way Princess Mary Buck describes the situation at Healdsburg, and she probably described it right. * As it is noted among the tokens of busi- ness revival that a New Haven firm has re- ceived an order from Chicago for 100,000 alarm-ciocks, it would seem’ that after all it takes New England enterprise to wake Chicago up. A non-partisan reformer in New York says that each of the old parties in that State is ‘‘a.concentric conspiracy of con- scious craving for office,”” and if he can prove his words he is justified in making a kick, provided he does not crave office for himsel. Itis now said the elevation of Li Hung Chang to the position of Prime Minister of China -was ‘not intended to increase his ‘power, but to promote him out of an office where he was strong to one where he will have lots of dignity and no chance to do anything. ~ _Susan B. Anthony says the reason why Massachusetts women have not exercised the franchise given to them is because ‘they would have to pay a polltax of 50 cents for the privilege, and,she adds that Massachusetts is only “‘a penny and a half State” anyway. U s The rapid growth of the dairy industry in the Province of Quebec is attracting much attention, and rightly so, for the in- crease is extraordinary. In 1890 the out- put of cheese in the province was 23,600,000 _ pounds, valued at $2,300,000, and in 1894 it ~ amounted to 55,000,000 pounds, valued at "+ $5,500,000. - It is evident from this that the _French Canadians are waking up and get- ting to be enterprising, MR. HUNTINGTON'S OPPORTUNITY Mr. Collis P. Huntington is again-among the people of California and amid the scenes where thirty years or more ago he laid the foundations of his fame and for- tune as a railroad builder and financier. His coming has been heralded by several unreserved interviews with himself as ‘o the purpose of his present visit, while pul- sations of interest, rising almost to fever in some quarters, have signalized his approach. It is evident that the advent of Mr. Huntington will be productive of im- portant results and that the places and policies of his great corporation will during his visit be adjusted upon a basis which shall be permanent and which may perchance outlast the term of his natural life. If, early in his stay in San Francisco, Mr. Huntington, upon some bright, warm | Sunday afternoon, should take a drive, or, better, a walk, around thie lake in Golden® Gate Park which ripples at the rugged foot of Strawberry Hill, and there should hear the music of the waterfall echoed back t6 it from the lips of laughing children, andl should see the smile of the little lake re- flected on the faces of men and women éh- joying on its bordering lawns a needed respite from their round of to1l, and if the magnate should wander nearer to the waterfall and, glancing along the rocks which line its lower edge, should read there the inscription, in gilded letters, which records that lake and cataract are his own gift to the people of San Fran- cisco, he might be smitten with Jthe thought that he stands in the presende of ne of the opportunities ‘of his life, and such a one as comes to few men, and but once, What is this opportunity which Straw- berry Hill with its lakeand waterfall might suggest to Mr. Huntington? It is' this. The gift which some years ago he added to Golden Gate Park was a pittance out of his enormous fortune, but it has done more than any other single act of his lifetime to redeem his famé and soften public criticism of his policy, Itdijd this because it repre- sented Mr, Huntington in the wnusual role of a benefactor of the people of Cali- fornia. Tt is the present opportunity of Mr. Huntineton’s career to become and henceforth be in general what heretofore he has been in the particular instance re- corded at Strawberry Hill, viz.: the bene- factor of California in a large and spl endid way. How? By considering well the attitude which the corporation he controls has held toward California and its’ people in the past and the attitude whick, in all jus- tice, 1t should eccupy in the present and future; by bending his ear to the outery of the entire State against schedules which are exorbitant and unequal; against poli- cies which are narrow and selfish and dt structive of industrial growth ; against rail- road politics in every election, village, township, city, connty, State and National, held in Californi agaiust the railroad !lobby at the Legislature and railroad in- fluenceover the officials, Commissionersand courts of the State; against the strangling grasp with which his unscrupulous agents and servants hold the City of San Fran- | cisco while they stunt her growth and rob her of ner wealth in utter defiance of right and law and reason. The universal protest {against these things Mr. Huntington | should hear and heed. If heshall do so, and do it now, Mr. Hunt- ington will have grasped by its very fore- lock the crowning opportunity of his career. By so doing he may easily outdo each and all of his three colleagues in | benefactions to'the people of California; for far surpassing colleges and art gal- leries and charities in the magnitude of its blessing would be industrial and politi- 1 freedom from the dominion of the Southern Pacific Company. Will Mr. Huntington lay hold upon his oppor- tunity ? THE REFORMING WHEEL. The able address by Mrs. Sturtevant- Peet, president of the California Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, on the oc- casion of the annual convention of that body in this City, contained a passage which takes strong ground on the benefits of the bicycle. In speaking of physical culture and the relation of clothes to the subject, she said: “*All know the value of a strong un- hindered body. For this reason the ban- ishment of the corset and restricting bands is a foregone conclusion. * * #* Dress reform has pressed its claims for forty years, with little progress, till the bicycie, that gracefu], silent steed of motion, dashes through and bursts open the door of prejudice. This mystic wheel that we meet on every road and street is the mute but telling advocate of dress re- form. * * * It bas its virtues as well as its charms. It invites, yea, demands, sim- plicity in dress. It encourages phyvsical exercise and utteriy refuses to carry a drunken rider. Unlike the horse, it balks when touched by the hand of inebriety. It inconveniences and discourages the use of cigars and cigarettes to the number of 65,000,000 a year. In short, the wheel is a' reformer, and, though it came not through the virtue of moral conception, we should welconie its presence as we do the advent of every new invention and corporate edict bearing the balm of sobriety, with the vromise of stronger and better men and women.” Thisis a straightforward expression from an able woman who leads the California forces of one of the greatest National or- ganizations ever instituted for the uplift- ing of therace. The dignity and earnest- ness which characterize her opinion cast into the shade the shallow objections which some physicians have made to the bicycle,’ Mrs. Peet gives us-to understand that in the sole aspect of requiring women to-dress sensibly this simple instrument of locomo- | tion has scecomplished moré ata dash than the preachers on sensible dress for women have been able’ to bring about in neafly hal? a century. With' so eminent an’in- dorsement as this even the most timid woman who' is ‘not held in what amounts to physical restraint by father, husbhand or brother from obeying an instinctive im- pulse to dress rationally and enjoy life and health on-a bicycle, may at least console herself with the reflection that her mm- pulse was right and lament that she was born a few years too soon. THE SEPTEMBER SURPLUS. The ,treasury statement for the month § of. September gives the receipts from all sources in round numbers at- $27,500,000 and the expenditures .at $24,500,000, leav- ing a surplus of about $3,000,000. This is | the second time the Wilson tariff has shown a surplus in & month's revenues over expenditures, the first having occured in June, and as & consequence we may ex- | pect now an outbreak like we had then of .| Democratic jubilation and boasting. There is nothing in the situation, how- ever, to justify any boasting whatever. To have a tariff yield a surplus of revenues over expenditures two months out of twelve is nothing to be proud of. Itis just about a’year ‘since the Wilson fariff went into effect and the deficits since that time amount in the aggregate to about $65,000,- 000. The small surplus of September amounts to little in cutting down tbat large sum and it is clear that the close of the fiscal year next June will show little or no reduction in the debt already piled up. The general statement of the condition of thé treasury shows how little cause there is for satisfaction in the apparent surplus for September. On October 1, 1892, when Harrison was President and the McKinley tariff was in force, the public debt amounted to $966,518,164, with $131,- 895,918 net cash 1n the treasury. The present treasury statement shows that on the 1st of this month the public debt has increased during the three vears to $1,126,- 495,000, and the net cash in the treasury is $185,405,363.. The net increase in the debt, therefore, has been about $106,000,000, while the interest-bearing debt has been in- creased by $162, Since June 30, 1892, the net expenditures of the Government have exceeded the re- ceipts -by $120,151,467. The Democrats promised the country a tariff for revenue only, and yet, with the exceptions of June and September, the Wilson tariff hasnever in any month yielded a revenue equal to the needs of the Government. Until the accession of the free-traders to power pro- duced the panic of 1893 and paralyzed the industries of the country the Republican tariff always yielded a revenue ample to oarry on the Government, defray the cost of public improvements and provide for a reduction of the interest-bearing debt. The contrast between the two tariff sys- tems is evident in everything from the affairs of the Nation to private business, and it will take something more than the little surplus of September to blind the voters of the country to the glaring de- fects of the tariff of perfidy and dishonor. MAHONE'S EXTREMITY. Had it not been inevitable that William Mahone, being alive, must sooner or later die, and that his death or the approach to it would serve to remind the country that he bad lived, he might have slipped out of view as silently as did the policy of repudi-. ation for which he stood. Because his State, Virginia, found itself at the close of the war burdened with a debt which would delay progress and probably induce emi- gration, Mahone organized and led a movement of readjustment which . con- tained a large element of repundiation. The idea was repugnant to the proud. eld Virginian © conscience,’ to American spirit of honesty and to the republican sentiment of accountability. Yet so des- perate was the condition of the State that the movement carried and in 1851 sent Mabhone to the Federal Senate. His career in that august body con- stitutes a story aparf from the idea which._ brought him into prominence. Still it was dramatic enough. Added to his State history it served to muke him one of the most conspicuous figures in the American history. When all these temporary ex- igencies which made him famous had served their short day he dropped quietly frem public view,a virtual outcast from his native State and the wornout whip of transient political needs. And yet he had been one of the most brilliant soldiers produced by the Confed- eracy. As a major-general his defense of Petersburg on July 30,1864, was one of the most.remarkable achievements in the an- nals of modern warfare. Until he essayed to_introduce partial! repudiation into the policy of the South He was one of the, mili- tary idols of that section. ‘But the old Southern blood of Virginia bitterly . re- sented - his: policy,» and though- on . the strength of its advocacy he was lifted to the United States Senate, the South asa whole repudiated Lim and his doctrine, and his great scheme perished in the State of its birth. As a tactician Mahone had a certain knack, but no foresight. His picturesque personality contributed, with his fire-eat- ing qualitigs, to make him conspicuous. Had his patriotism been as high as his courage he might have risen to an emi- nence as firm as it was picturesque. As it is, he lies dying at Washington, where he hes lived forgotten these many years, dead in all the higher ways that men of lofty character prefer to bend their steps. PERSONAL, 8.G. Little, banker of Dixon, is stopping at the Russ House. 0. A. Low, a rancher of Woodland, is a guest &t the Grand Hotel. H. H, Meyer, & merchant of Hesldsburg, is stopping at ghe Grand Hotel. Dr. A. E. Osborne of Eldridge, Cal., registered ut the Grand Hotel yesterday. C.A. Lubts,a Sacramento merchant, is reg- istered at the California Hotel, George F. Buck of Stockton was among the arrivals at the Lick House yesterday. Judge Erskine M. Ross and wife of Los Ange- les are registered at the Palace Hotel. Henry L, Davis, business man of Salinas, reg- istered at the Rusé House last evening. A.F. Gartner of Portland, Or., was among the arrivals at the California Hotel vesterday. Chaples Cunningham, a lawyer of Ukiah, was among the arrivalsat the Grand Hotel yester- day.; Rarlroad Commissioner H. M. La Rue of Sac- ymento registered at the Occidental Hotel yeésterday. David 8. Jordan of Palo Alto, president of the Eeland Stanford Jr. University, is & guest at {lte Occidental Hotel. George L. Fischer, manager for Whittier, Fnller & Co. at Stockton, registered at the | Grand Hotel yesterday. Captain J. B. Overtom, superintendent of the Virginia City and Gold Hiil Water Works, reg- istered at the Russ House yesterday. United States Circuit Judge Irskine 3. Ross came tip from Los Angeles yesterday, ana will Hold court in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Monday next. . B. Jerome, for many years past Chief Deputy Collector of Customs, has gone with his family on a vacation, to Lake Tehoe. The trip istaken to celebraté the twenty-fiith anni- versary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome, SHALL WE HAVE A BEW;HONOUN 2 The English langudge lacks a pronoun for the third person, singular number, common gender. Professor genry Gs Williams, in the new edition.of his YOutlines of Psychology,” Lius introduced e new prououn for this place in the language. It is,theword thon. The open- ing sentence of his, book, speaking of the im- portance of &n abifity on,the. part of the stu- dent to outline knpwledge acquired, says: “Every student should acquaint thon self with some method by wzich thon can positively correlate the facts ofithons knowledge.” Here we have the three forms of the word all used in the same sentence. Declined: ~Nomina- tive, thon; possessive, thons; objective, thon; compound nominative and objeciive, thonself. Without the word thon we would have to say: “Every fit\\dfist should acquaint himself or herself with some methed by which he or he cen positively cotrelate the facts of his or er knowledge.” ~ . $ The new prono&n here lulg\el!ed makes it ssible to avoid much circumliocution, and it 8 quite true that such a word is needed, anda the possibility of inventing one that should serve has been maich discussed. £ Whether Professor Williams has solved the riddle satisfactorily. remains to be seen. We edmit that the proposed word is not euphoni- nt“! to our '"x'n u:ll‘h:f may be because of if strangeness. miliarity may make it better liked.—The Editor. 2 b — “THE CALL'S" POINT. The San Frahcisco CALL has won a big point in its fi‘h,t to euppress the'lottery evil. The Judiciary ; Committee of ' the Ban Francisco Board of, Bapervisors has recommended an order making it a misdemeanor to publish notices of" lottery “drdwings.— Santa Cruz Sentinel. 4 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Stuyvesant Fish of New York, president of the Illinois Central Railroad, arrived in San Francisco yesterday with his family and regis- tered at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Fish is quite a young man for so high a position, being only 45 years of age. He entered the railroad ser- vice after graduating from Columbia College, New York, in 1871, as secretary of the presi- dent of theIllinois Central. For a time he was identified with the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co., New York, and Morton, Rose & Co. of Lon- don. In 1876 he was elected a director of thé Iliinois Central and in 1887 was promoted to the presidency of tne company. He was the treasurer and agent of the purchasing commit- tee of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern and the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans railroads, properties which the Illi- nois Central acquired. Mr. Fish is also a mem- ber of the New York Stock Exchange. The Illinois Central is surely one of the great corporations of the United States, and Bome years ago exerted a vast influence in the settlement and development of the Mississippi Valley region. - Its system of roads now radiate from Chicago west to the Missouri River, north to Sioux Falls, N. D., south to New Or- leans and east to Cincinnati. At the Palace lest evening Mr. Fish said: *T left Newport early in September to give my family an outing trip, and since then I have been journeying through the country, keeping out of the way of the mails and telegraph. I went over bretty much the same ground this afternoon that I did when I visited San Fran- cisco twenty-five -years ago. We went to the CUff House at that time and saw the seals. There was not much . then on the road to see, but the park now is beautiful indeed.” Speaking of the Illinois Central Railroad in Teply to questions Mr. Fish said: “¥es, it has done a vast deal to_develop the country {t traverses. It was one of the first of the land-grant roads. The Government gave the land to ths State of Illinois, and the State gavelt to the road: We do not contemplate the extension of our system to the Pacific Coast. The country is all righton thisside, but there s vast space of unproductive coun- try to cross in getting here. Our Southern lines are doing well, and helped us materially st year in meeting our obligations. The South will have another good crop this year, but not a5 good for us as last year's crop. Kan- 8as has plenty of corn this season, but no whest to speak of. When Kansas hasa good wheat crop we can handle 1t for shipment to Liver- pool via New Orleans. “We got very little from Iowa and Dakote last season, and therefore the good business of the Sonth was of great benefit to the company. The Illinois Central system of roads is in fine condition. Yes, we did remarkably well in handling passengers at the World's Fair. We carried ten millions of people and did not lose 8 single life.” Mr. Fish' called at Southern Pacific head- quarters yesterday and had the unexpected pleasgre of meeting C. P, Huntington. ——————— NEW YORK POLITICS. One clear-cut, definite fact, one decisive and unmistakable result stands out cold and distinet among the evasions, the clap-trap, the fol-de-rol and the follies of the Syracusecon- vention, and that is that sodden and reeking Tammany Hall has secured contrpl of the Democratic party of the Empire State body, soul and pantaloons. It dominated the con- vention, carried its every point, and not only secured its recognition s the only true and lawful Democratic organization in this eity, but “took a bond of fate,” and declared itseli to be “The" Democracy of New York City for all time to come.—New York Mail and Express. The Democrats of the Empire State enter upon this year’s campaign with a record of two successive and crushing defeats, In 1893 and 1894 they were routed in the State and local elections. It was thought that the party would profit by these experiences, but the pro- ceedings of the State convention show that it has not done so. It lx&)lain that the organiza- tion is still_controlled by the same machine which was in slnrqe wmeusure responsible for the disasters of the last two years, and conse- quently the old methods will continue to pre- vail.—Omeha Bee. The Republicans of this county are wnited upon_ the oné issue in‘our local campaign. They are determined upon municipel reform and home rulg in excise matters. TheTam., many tiger has not been killed: it has only been'scotched. Thejwork of annihilation must 0 ou. Profestions being made in Syracnse to- ay give little hope of honest performanoes. The people of New York do not look to the Democracy for honest government nor for re- form in excise or other matters.—New York Commercial Advertiser. The Democracy 18 undergoing transfusion with success. The young blood of reform is entering the venerable veins of the ancient and honorable body of Jeffersonian prineiples with neatness and dispatch. The uses of ad- versity have been sweetened by the tonic in- fiuences of timé. The party is getting together and the joy of being & Democrat is so great that the Republican people rage and the other anti- Democratio heathen imagine a vain thing.—Brooklyn Eagle. Since the first week in July The Press insist- ently and repeatedly, directly and indirectly, by formal invitation and by affectionate ap- peal, by every means which man as a combat- ive animal has emplo{‘ed to induce an enemy tostand up snd fight, has challenged the Democratic party to do battle on the moral isaues of this campeign. The time in which it could answer that challenge expired yester- day, and it has not only not answered it; it has fled'—New York Prees. It looks as if the New York Republicans were going to be able to rely on the pulpits of that State for enthusiastic_support in the coming campaign. Warner Miller's plank as to the maintenance of the Sunday laws wag the, text of a good mavy sermons last Sunday, and it promises to furnish the theme of & good many more. The pulpit and the stump will come very close to ench other there between now and November.—Boston Herald. It is somewhat strange that the so-called in- dependent journals thet daily or weekly wail and lamernt over what they are pleased to term Plattism in New York never inform their read- ers that the outcome of the gendlng election must be either a victory for Crokerism, which is Tammanyism, or for Plattism, which is Re- publcanism.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A New York correspondent says Senator Hill regards the coming election in New York as the crisis in his political career. He has cer- tainly reached the climax of peanut olities in advocating “personal liberty,” and the people ofihe Empire State ought to rebuke him in such & way that he will never dare to show his head again.—Cleveland Leader. The epirit of Democrats in New York State this year can be summed up in a word—Retro- gression, or Reaction. Professing dingpnmt- ment in the results of the changes which some of them assisted to order, they are girding themselves to restore tne old fashion of things. —Syracuse Stan SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. IN THE JURY BOX. If you should see amid the twelve Just one good man and true, For the reason you've not 1ong to delve— e lied, sir, to get through! —Truth. Grimshaw—There is one good thing to be said of the Brooklyn trolley-cars. Crawford—I'd like to know what it is. . Grimshaw—They are beginning to extena their lines to the cemeteries,—Life. Two young men, both desperately in love with a girl who would have nothing to do with’ them, formed the joint resolve to throw them- selves into the river. Standing on the bank oneof them, ready to take the fatal plunge, called out: *Now for it!” ““After you, please,” was the other's polite rejoinder—Buntes Allerlei, ABTUMN THOUGHTS. Take the carpets out and bang them - On the line once more; Hire a man to lie supinely In their shade and snore. Rustle/round snd fetch the stovepipe 1Into view again, We must all get ready for the Fal cam- | paign. Hall the haughty scrubbing lady, Patient 'neath her frown: Let ber sweep the house in triafph— ‘We can move down town. $ From complaint or criticism Carefully retrain. Just be glad if we survive the Fall cam- ~Washington Star, ! IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California. The statement by veterinarians that many of the cattle et the State Fair were afflictad with tuberculosis should serve to spur up the Super- visors of the several counties to prompt action. It is too serious a subject to be ignored. Itis asserted that there are diseasea cattle in this county and that infected milk is being sold in | this city. What do the authorities propose to do about it? The heaith and the lives of many people are at stake. Compared to this menace to human life an epidemic of smallpox would be a trifling matter. Few people dié of small- x; - for consumption there is no cure.—San ose Mercury. When industries cease to be profitable men put forth the more strength to meet the new exigency. New methods of saving are devised and new inventions made. It was not until the boom burst that Southern California seri- ously began the work of development. There has been more g!ogresn in elect; science since the panic than in the previous decade. Progress does not stop because of & panic. It makes us knuckle down a little closer and do a little better work. Our feelings are o good deal hurt, bnt we are not as much hurt as fright- ened.—Tulare Register. Times have 1mproved so much in Riverside that they no longer allow the hymn “There Is a Better Land” sung in the churches there. They consider it a reflection on Riverside.— Banta Ana Blade. Oregon. The restoration of Chinese activity will prob- ably result in giving work to many an Ameri- can laborer, and causing American shipyards to hum with activity. The strange sight may be observed of the samo shipyards and the same gux factories, and the same armor-plate factorles, making ships, guns and armor plate for both the Chinese and Japanese.—Astoria (Or.) Astorian. - Just as local building and loan associations are better and more profitable for our people than foreign ones, so would be home insurance companies of all kunds, managed economically and prudently by people in whom we all have confidence.—Salem (Or.) Statesman. A ehort Presidential campaign is the latest demand to be raised by the press and sane- tioned by the people. The sooner the people get over“doing time’” for the benefit of politicians better they will be bff and the more prosperous the country will be.—Fendleton East Orego- nian. ; oMy Washingtoen. If all the men who are so anxious to fight for the Caban insurgents wanta job, why don't they enlist in our navy? -We. need more men and offer permanent positions.—Seattle Post- Intelligencer. 3 The “United States of South Americe” may yet be a realization. A strong movement in that" direction is now in progress. Such an event might result in putting a stop to the senseless revolutions that are almost con- tinuous in those republics.—Tacoma (Wash.) Union. Mossbackism and selfish business policy force industrial establishments into decay; enterprise and common-sense energetically put in practice build them up again, invigorate themn and add new fields for the achievement of prosperity and human happiness. The thoughtful man will not patronize nor encour- age men of the former class; such a course would lcad to the gradual retrogression of him- self and nis fellows.—Whatcom (Wash.) Blade. The pace which the San Francisco CALL con- tinues to set its contemporaries must cause them to hump themselves. Time was when THE CALL was classed as & slow, plodding, cen- servative journal, but that time isa part of the dim and distant past, and at present it {s & strictly up-to-date newspaper—elean, bright and aggressive. The journal that expects: to keep abreast of THE CALL these days must possess an editor that sleeps with one eye open, ever alert to meet a surprise. — Centralia (Wash.) News. Arizona. Mohave County can support & population of 100,000 just as easily 8s she can the people now present within her borders. There are hundreds of miues now lying idle that will produce just as rich ore as those now bein; operated.” All that we need isa few BhDfl!lllg energetic men to pull us out of the slough of despond and float us on the silvery clouds of prosperity.—Kingman (Ariz.) Miner. 3 Utah. California ships this yeer 9,000,000 gallons of wine, yalued at $3,500,000, which is a listle inexcessof thatof last year. The process is slow, but California is every year becoming more and more the France of the New World. Every year her wine is growing better. Every ar her wine-growers arc learning new points In tne culiivation of tho grape and in the manufacture of wine, and the time will come when this country will no longer look to the chemistry of France, with the foundation of a few grapes to work upon, to supply it with fine wines.—Salt Lake Tribune. PLIH MAY'S IDEA OF SIR EDWIN ARNOLD. [From The Echo.] POINTS FOR ADVERTISING. INTERESTING ITEMS FOR A WIDEAWAKE CLASS OF GENTLEMEN, Art without heart in edvertising is seldom suceessful. The ad may be grave or gay—it it is sensible itis good. Concentration is the secret of success in ad- vertising. ‘A good ad serves two masters—the advertiser and the customer. Next after persistency variety is the cardinal advertising virtue. z Readers do not go along looking for the ad— it must come to them. 1f the ad is forgotten as soon as it has been read, it is not a good one. A good ad is one which seems all the better upon being read a second time. Every ad should have some particular point to make, and meake it plainly. 2 Unless the writer feels an interest in the ad, he cannot expect the reader to do so. After all, the best ads are those that evince the most.knowledge of human nsture, An ad, unlike a personal solicitor, never bores aman. It is generally read during leis- ure hours. B Smart expressions are not essential for the makiuz]of a good ad; you can build one out of the homeliest words. : Don’t give the public credit for knowing much about your business; the factis, they don’t know half as much as they think theydo. If your announcement can only excite curi- osity to know more about your goods, it has effected its purpose. Your salesman should do the rest. Good soldiers don't cease firing as soon as an advantage is gaincd. Good advertisers keep “‘gverlastingly at it” so long as there are cus- tomers to procure and new goods or special values to announce. What appears to the uninitiated lavish ex- nditure may be economical advertising. mall ads that cost little and produce nothing are certainly less economical than large, costly ads whien bring results in proportion to their size and cost.” The quality of the advertising done will usually be reflected in the kind of geopl. it draws. If a me nt harps on c! ofrly, hie will draw to his store the poorest por- tion of the population; if quality is his watch- word, he is apt to_get &n entirely different. class of customers.—New York Printers’ Ink, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. ‘The opera seasop at the Metropolitan will open with “Carmen” as the production and Mme. Calveas the star. It s said that this prima donna receives $2000 a performance, which, although a large sum, is by no means in excess of her deserts. The success won by Mme. Calve in New York the year before last was phenomenal, and there is every reason to belfeve it will be repeated this winter. It is not the fault of Abbey and Grau that they will not have more American prima donnas among their stars,. They have religiously tried to supply the home product, and the public has as religiously shown its indifference to what wes not imported. Sibyl Sanderson did not draw last winter, Zelie de Lussin was held up to ridicule by the critics, and when it came to a choice between Emma Eames Story and Emma Calve, the public demand was for the French woman. Eames and Calve made the season hot and uncomfortable for the manage- ment two years ago by their jealousies and bickerings. The French Emmsa was hot and [From a recent engraving.] impulsive, the Amerjcan Emma was cold and disdainful, and the two were continually clashing. Last year the management banished Calve and gave Eames to the public, but this year the subseribers clamored so pérsistently for Calve that she was engaged, and Eames was left to take & European engagement, which she will not have the least difficulty tn securing. Mme. Calve, it appears, is obliged to pay the management of the Paris Grand Opera en in- demnity of $1400 in order to accept the Ameri- can engagement. Mme. Marchesi hes been spending her holidays in traveling about the music eenters of Europe, and she sums up the result of her impressions in a chatty letter to a German newspaper. She is werm in her praise of the conservatory at Brussels, at whose annual ex- aminations she acted as & mewuber of the jury in the singing competitions, and she remarks with approval that the music of Gluck, Mozart, 'Haydn, Handel, Bach and the old French and Italian miasters is still the foundation of vocal study in that institution. Modern composers, she says, give-themselves but little concern about the voice, their rule being simply ‘break or bend.” “Why do not singers com- bine 1in & vigorous strike?” she asks. “It would be & blessing for singing humanity and compel composers to study the voice seriously.” Mme, Marchesi spent the second week of July in London as the guest of Melba, and attended the opera every night. She calls Melba “her dear pupil and friend,” Calve “my talented and famous former pupil,” but makes no claim on Eames, whose success 8s the countess in “Figaro” she says is chiefly due to her beauty. The lyric act, “At Sedan,” by Henry Zoellner of New York, has been produced, amid scenes of enthusiasm, at the Municipal Theater at Leipsic. The three tableaux of this work have been taken irom “La Débacle,” by Zola, who little gnessed that he was working to influence the patriotism of the Gerinans when he wrote his novel. The scenes are laid during the Franco-Prussian war, and they all tend to glorify the Prussians. A great symphonic pre- lude is placed beforo the first tableau, and the composer has taken most of his themes from popular German melodies, such as “The Watch on the Rhine,” the “Hohenfriedberg” (Fred- eric 1I) march, Martin Luther's “Ein Feste Burg,” etc. Popular enthusiasm reached-i height at Leipsic when “At Seaan” is fol- lowed by & ballet entitled “The Entry Into Paris.” Rivarde, the French violinist, who is coming to America this season at the suggestion of Ysaye, has already been fortunate enough to arouse public interest by & controversy. Some musiesl journals claimed the young man is an Americen. whereupon Rivarde wrote to sey that though he had visited thiscountry very early in life, he first saw the light of day on a French ship journeying from Havre 1o New York, and was, therefore, not an American in any sense of the term. The papers retorted by pitying him for not having the good taste to be born in this country, and now Rivarde is rejoicing that the question of his nationality has made him famous before he has played & “note. The young violinist, who will give flity concerts in America, is 26 vears of age and is sald to bear a strong resemblance to Sarasate when he was a young man, Miss Saville 1s a Boston girl, who has had considerable success during the last year at the Opera Comique in Paris. Her voice is remark. abiy high and light, and although thin, is very easy and flexible. The part of Virginia in “Paul and Virginia” has been one of her most successful roles. In apite of their comparative i1l luck with American prima donnas, Abbey and Graa have resolved to give this new star a trial, and she will come to New York at the end of October to sing at the Metropolitan. Although Miss Saville will naturally wish to please in her own country, she is independent of the verdict of New York, as Carvalho has al- ready re-engaged her for the Opera Comique immediately she returns from America. Mme. Gemma Bellincioni, the famous prima donna, has just given in her picturesque villa Bianca at Monterotondo a private hearing of an opera in three acts by Giacomo Setacceoli. The work is called “Mark’s Sister,” and is writ- ten on a libretto by the poet Galisciani, to whom Gemma Bellincioni furnished the plot, which is her own invention. A number of musiciens and critics were present at the prima donna’s yilla when the work was pre- sented, and it is said that the ‘whole opera created a profound impression. “Mark’s Sis- ter” will shortly be produced in one of the leading Italian theaters, and Bellincioni will sing the title role. ‘It is the irony of fate that the jubiles of the production of “Tannhauser” and *‘Maritana’ occurs within a month. The contest between the two works - is so striking that at the end of the century one can hardly believe them to be- long to the same epoch. Yet it isa fact that even now “Maritans,” in provincial towns at least, is & more profitable production than “Tannhauser.” One reason for this perhaps lies in the fact that Wagner demands a large and expensive cast, while almost anybody is now deemed good enough for Vincent Wallace. An interesting musical event will be the first concert of the Carr-Beel winter season, which takes place on Saturday next. The programme will include s new sextet by Brahms and a pisnoforte quartet by Dvorak. The personnel of the sextet will consist of S8igmund Beel, Hans Albert, Berpat Jaulus, Charles Heintzen, Louis Heine and Ered Gutterson. This will be the forty-second concertand it isexpected that before the end of the season the Carr-Beel or- genization will celebrate its jubilee concert. “ ‘Tbsen’ will be set to music.” Thisisthe lat- est news that comes from Berlin and one trem- Dbles to think what the music will be Iike, ' The composer, Hans Ffitzner, has decided to write & lyric drama on the text of Ibsen’s “The Fes- tival of Solhang,” and the work will shortly be presented at the Hoftheatre in Mayence. A cheerful evening is in preparation for the audi- ence. The people of Berlin, who are very nm;tia apness | as a class, have given the nickname of Saint- Zgir to the new chureh built in honor. of William I. It will be remembered that Em- peror Williem II consecrated tbe proceeds of is composition,, the “Hymn to Zgir,” which, :‘e‘nlcized more than $10,000, to.the building fund of this churchs % Mmé. Clementine de Vere Sapio, the” New York soprano, will come home for the coming season, For the last three years she hasbeen singing in Englend &nd Australia, where she has been acknowledged to be one of the world’s greatest concert singers. Mme. de Vere Eaplo is one of the few lyric singers who are paid as highly as prima donns. In China the higher classes scorn the study of music, which is entirely identified with the common people. No iashionable lady would deign to play an instrument; they leave that to the girls of the lower class, particularly to the dancers and the girls who ornament the “Flower Boats."” Ernest Gillet, composer of “Loin du Bal,” “Clair de Lune,” etc., who had established him- self in London, has gone back to Paris, where he has just been appointed solo violoncello to the Opera Comigue. Melba's arrival in New York is daily ex- pested. Her concert tour as at present mapped. out includes a visit to San Franeisco. Franz von Suppe’s posthumous operetta, “The Model,” is shortly to be produced at.the Carltheatre in Vienna. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. E Prurisus Usum—M. P,, Alameds, Cal, July 4, 1776, Congress appointed Henjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeiferson and John Adams a committee to prepare a device for the great seal of the United States. The committee re- ported several devices during years that fol- lowed their appointment. William Barton of Philadelphia was appeinted to submit-de~ signs. Sir John Prestwich, an Englith antiquarian, suggested a design to Johnm Adams in 1799. There is no certainty as !g who suggested the legend “E Pluribus Unnm. During the last century there was punlished in Great Britain a periodical which had that motto on its title-page, and it is believed:that Sir John Prestwich, taking his-cue from that, ‘siiggested it as being proper to signify a great nation made up of many One of the dre destgns offered was or swn up by Du Smitiere, a Frenchman, under direction of ‘the commitlee named. In 1782 a combina- tion of ideas was ented on two_seals submitted by Barton, snd out of ‘the and Prestwich e o "on i 201k of Jutte, of the seal was adopted on tk that year. The obverse was the device of. an eaglg: bearing. on its breast the National escutcheon, holding in his right talons an olive branch and in his left a bunch of thir- teen arrows. ~Above head were thir- teen stars surrounded by a halo’-of glory and_a _scroll hearing the- le- gend, “E- Pluribus Unum.” On the. T finished pyramid, abov s “Annuit Coeptis,”.and vus Ordo Seclorux. verse side was an u an eye and the word; beneath it “177 When Daniel W er took charge' of the State Department in 1841 he fonnd the old seal so worn that he had a new one made and in the new design the regular width of the stripes on the shield was: altered and the number of Arrows in the eagle’s talons was reduced from thirteen to six. The reverss of the seal has never been engraved for.the rpose of the Government, but the obverse has, from its adoption, done duty for the whole. LICK STATUARY—Monument,City. The corner stone for the Lick statuary on the City Hall grounds was Iaid on the 10th of September, 1894, and the unveiling of the statuary was on the 30th of November, 1894. The group of three figures fronting the hall represents-an Indian reclining; over him bends ajpriest en- deayoring to_conyey to him some religipus knowledge. 1ding, as one of the group, is vaquero throwing a lasso. This group repre- sents the first period of Celifornia. The second period is represented by the group of miners on the pedestal fronting Market street. -The third period is represented by the female figure on the west side, emblematic of sgriculture, and by the one on the east:side represenfing commerce. The meain column is surmounted by & female figure representing California. The woman holds a shield for protection anda spearin her hand ready to defend against attack. - By her side is tile California grizzly. The four panels underneath represent a fanril of emigrants crossing the pleins, traders bargaining with Indians, vaqueros at work, and California under rule, SEVEN Up—A. D., Lowell G.G. P., Marine Barrack Unless at the beginning of the game of sevén up tlie rule is laid down to play out the dedler Wwho turns up a j If the rule‘is to play out then high X goes out. DEATH OF THE CZAR— ander 11T, Czar of Russia, born February.26 (March 10, new_style), 1845, died at Livadia, in the Crimes, November 1, 1894. To SYDNEY—W. C. for & ietter to reach | Francisco is twenty .G. M., City. Alex- The average tinte N.S. W,, from San VALKYRIE—F. B, City. In the pronunciation of the word Valkyrie the accent is on the mid- dle syllable. THE CHAMPION PUGILIST OF THE TWEN- TIETH CENTURY. . 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