The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANUISCU CALL, SUNDAY, OUCI OBER 6, 1895 3 gy e e e e S e U SO SN et CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. pafy snd Sunday C Tefiy and Sunday CALIL, OTie year, b Taily and Sunday CALL, six montbs, Dally and Eunday CALL, three months, by m: Daily and Sunday CALi. one month, Sunday CaLz, one W EEKLY CALL, one sear, BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Stree: Telephone. ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 3} treet. ........... Main—1874 OFFIC t, corner Clay: open until Selephone. Hayes street: oren until #:50 o'clock. Larkin street SW. corner Sixteent wntll § o'clock. sion strect; open until § o'clock. 16 Ninth street; of c OQAKLAND OFFICE: £08 Broadway. o rean, Rhinclande New York City. OCTOBER CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. It is now said that the bicycle will next make the corset go. Very few people are willing to make fun for the home market, The questions of life are rarely so per- plexing as the answers. Tue Caiu is for the home and every home should he for THE CALL. A fake is often mistaken for a scoop, but no one mistakes a scoop for a fake. It costs a city more to keep one boss in iniquity than to improve the streets. One of the reasons why women are look- ing up is that the new bonnets come so high. 1f you consider your business at all to- day, just consider it a nuisance and let it go. To speak well of our neighbors is a good rule, but it puts an awful strain on ve- racity. Don’t fail to read this morning: “What I Would Do for 8an Francisco WereI a Millionaire.” So far as the matrimonial market is con- cerned, the gold ring 18 not manipulated by a syndicate. When society gets back to town it will find lots of people who didn’t know it had ever been away. Corbett taiked and Fitzsimmons talked while Culberson said nothing, but he knocked them out. S0 long as & man is headed in the right direction he can never go too far, but he is liable to go too fast. It is of no advantage to a man to have a mind so broad it can never be settled on one thing at a time. The politics that troubles society is how to bring the summer flirters together and get them to harmonize. The thing that confronts Democratic leaders now is not so much a condition as a party out of condition. A Texas jndge has decided that a man who can sing 2nd will sing cannot be made to shut up by injunction The Government says it is to be called Habana, and if a friend asks you to have an Havana, don’t let it pass. Some Eastern cities are marching for- ward with vigor, and others are sitting down on their baseball teams. An arry title may please the foolish heiress, but the average American girl prefers a man with a land title. Being wholly ont of the race this year Democracy is wisely profiting by the op- portunity to do the family washing. The proposed retirement of the green- back puts another color on the contest be- tween the yellow metal and the white. There is a possibility that the newspaper of the next century may consist of noth- ing but a telephone and a set of living pictures. In the general interest of a clean world, all decent people would like to see reform Democracy wipe Buckley off the face of the earth. American politics is a game in which the winner calls out, ““All slaughtered” and the other feilows shout, ‘‘Never touched me.” If you wish your Eastern friends to make their homes in California send them TuEe WEEKLY CALL for a year and let them learn all about the State. It is noted that in the State elections this year the nominations of both parties have put young men to the front in most cases, and that isa good sign for the new era. The Jatest thing in the way of street im- provement proposed by bicyclers is a de- mand in New York that the city shali con- struct an elevated road exclusively for wheelmen. It appears that in paying the Mora claim demanded by this country Spain paid the gold into a London bank and it will stay there in settlement of some of the debts that Grover made. Hall Caine says one literary man should not talk about another, but he probably does not consider newspaper people suf- ficiently literary to make it improper for them to talk about him. Cleveland is expected to attend the At- lanta Exposition during the latter part of this month, and it is said he will take the occasion to make a speech that will stop the wheels of the third term movement. The Manchester canal, which by many people was set down as a failure because it paid no profit the first year,1s doing well now, and the revenues for the first eight months of this year were 50 per cent greater than for the corresponding period of 1884, There is a re] in London that the Conservative Ministry is considering a plan to reform the House of Lords by re- quiring the peers who sit in it to be elected by the people, and if the plan carries Marlborough will probably unite with the Irish in calling on America for a cam- paign fond. A TIMELY APPEAL. San Francisco has been so singularly favored by nature that it would be an in- credible pity and an incurable reproach should the citizens fail in the performance of the plain duties which lie before them. The situation contains no element of the commonplace, but is extraordinary in all its features. The position of the City with reference to the commerce of the world; its opportunity as a factor in the develop- ment of American greatness: its respon- sibility, as the necessary metropolis of California, to the needs of the State and the desires of her people; its central occu- pation and control of strange and rare blessings which might be employed to the incalculable good of the race, all combine to the creation of a unique burden of duty, all demand the direction of men possess- ing the highest conscience and intelli- gence, and all operate to make conspicu- ous and damning the smallest neglect which they receive. These wonderful things cannot be ap- preciated, and, not being appreciated, can- not be done if conscience and intellect are Tacking; and if they are not done our only conclusion is that our people are inade- quate to the conception and performance of the duties which rest upon them. There is vroof, however, that such an ap- preciation is in the process of birth. Evi- dence that men of character and brains do exist among us has been found in the or- ganization of bodies for curing most of the evils that beset ns. The Civic Federation and the Union for Practical Progress are looking after the political evils that hinder us, and the Merchants’ Association, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion and the Half-million Club are taking care of the more material concerns of the community. At the very beginning of this dawning a black danger arises, ominous and threat- ening. It comes with the familiar old sneer with which rascality always greets honesty and dignity, Being afllicted with moral idiocy it has no conception of the igh responsibility which the peculiar con- ditions and position of San Francisco im- pose upon its residents, and being invested with moral idiocy it cannot comprehend the existence or weigh the value of manly pride and integrity. Considerations of citizenship and patriotism are in its esti- mation merely the maundering of fools. The presence of Christopher Buckley is the body and soul of this menace. The political methods of which he is an expo- nent debauch the weak, encourage the de- praved and consolidate and lend force to all that makes against the efficiency of high citizenship and the moral and ma- terial advancement of the community. The extent to which he will be permitted to exercise his power will ke the true meas- ure of the intelligence, moralty, citizen- ship and patriotism of our people. AN EXCELLENT FENDER. Recently a practical trolley operator of long experience testified before a special committee that the best fender for trolley cars was a good brake and a level-headed motorman. This seems to be getting at the meat of the subject. It is evident thata motorman should be a man of superior alertness of perception and quickness ot movement, but all this will go for noth- ing if he is inadequately furnished with means for making these qualities effective. Itis a fact that brakes have been invented which enable the motorman by a touch of the hand to stop the car instantly, but as they are expensive they have not been employed by electric railway companies. Evidently such a brake is as important as a fender. At the same time a brake which stops the car instantly is likely to injure the passengers unless special means are de- vised for their safety. A yielding seat-end for sitting passengers would- save their bones, and passengers who cannot find seats might be prohibited from entering the car. All this would be expensive to the companies, but it would be better not to have trolley-cars at all if they are to be operated at the prodigal sacrifice of life ‘With a motorman of inferior capabilities a fnder which may be conceived to be per- fectly safe will naturally tend to induce carelessness. The subject is seen there- fore to be more complex than would ap- pear at a glance. No humane considera- tions affect the conduct of these transpor- tation companies. It isa desire to increase business which induces ihe creation of a periect service, and the dread of financial loss which causes the exercise of great care not to inflict injury or death. An es- sential part of the precautions against the latter danger is the selection of the most competent operatives. It is an extraordinary fact that in pro- portion to the mileage electric cars are vastly more deadly than steam cars. This adds another complexity. It is equally strange that, although electric cars have been in operation sufficiently long for the motorman to become as efficient as possi- ble, they continue to kill. Leaving their personal qualifications out of considera- tion we can enumerate the reasons for the killing, thus: First, because the cars have inadequate fenders; second, because they cannot be stopped quickly; third, because they run at too high speed. Every one of these difficulties is controllable by legisla- tion. OAKLAND'S FUTURE, Judge Ogden’s decision in the famous water-front case of Oakland was in favor of the city, but a bitter fight on appeal is ROW to be made, and it will be some time yet before a final decision is reached. This must be the case in spite of the fact that the decision follows the Chicago water- front case, which has been taken to settle the principles involved in all controversies of this character. In the meantime it is pleasant to speculate on the wonderful op- vortunities which Oakland will enjoy in case the ultimate decision is in its favor, The opening of the Santa Margarita line of the Southern Pacific will have an effect on Oakland, as that city will no longer be on the route of the travel from the southern part of California and from New Orleans. San Francisco will gain what Oskland must lose in this instance. At the same time we must reflect that, as Oakland bas never taken a step to make the most of its opportunity as the Western land terminus of the three great arms of the Southern Pacific, its loss from the opening of the Santa Margarita line will be trifling. With the exception of the ben- efits accruing from a high development of a limited agricultural region lying to the south, Oakland enjoys no especial pros- perity separate from its close contact with San Francisco. It has never even devel- oped the enterprise to construct a fine ‘wagon road to the fertile valleys of Contra Costa. There have been some very good reasons for this apparent laxity. Principal among them was the inability of the city to build up a sea fraffic. It had a splendid water front, stretching for miles along the shores of ‘one of the tinest harbors in the world. But this was held by a private corporation. As a consequence the ocean traftic that Oakland might have secured had it been in possession of its water front became es- tablished at S8an Francisco. Should the final decision be in Oakland’s favor the birth of the city will have but just occurred. It will then be in a position to take advantage of the splendid natural facilities of many kinds that lie awaiting seizure and development. A THREATENED CUT. Conceding the sincerity of the Southern Pacific employes who signed the petition to the Railrcad Commission against a re- duction of freight rates when they declare that they were not prompted thereto by any officer, member, agent or employe of the company, directly or indireetly, but that they acted of their own motion and without the knowledge of the company, we must, still remember that while the commission was holding its investigation of freight charges, certain officers of the company declared that it might be neces- sary to reduce the wages of its employes in order to counteract the effect of the freight reduction. That aside, the signing employes might have considered the fol- lowing matters: . 1. The Southern Pacific Company within the past year has reduced wages, and these reductions were made before there wasany bint ofja reduction of freight charges by the Rai{road Commission. 2. It should be regarded as a possibility that the company intended to make further reductions, and that the action of the commission is merely used as an excuse to that end. 3. As the Southern .Pacific is ignoring the freight reductions ordered by the com- mission and declares its intention to resist them, and expresses confidence in its ability to defeat them in the courts, the employes cannot assume either that the reductions will be made effective or that the company can consistently use them as an excuse to reduce wages. 4. The reduction of freight charges does not mean either that the company will have to save money in any direction to off- set it or that a reduction of wages is the only way of offsetting it. 5. If the reductions should become effective the industries of the State would be so greatly stimulated as to effect an in- crease in the company’s revenues more than sufficient to overcome the loss suf- fered through the freight reductions. 6. Such stimulation willincrease present operations and create new enterprises, with the general effect of increasing op- portunities for the employment of men, and, in a sense, of making the employes of the railroad independent of their pres- ent positions. 7. Taking a broad, humanitarian view of the subject the reduction of freight charges and the resulting increase of development and industries will give employment to thousands of men who are now out of work. These suggestions are submitted to the consideration of the wise and broad- minded men whom we take the employes of the Southern Pacific to be. A SINGULAR SUIT. The Southern Pacific Company is begin- ning to hear unexpecied and troublesome | echoes of the famous strike of last year. The latest move on the part of the strikers is to demand an accounting of the hospital fund, which has been accumulating for thirty years. Theamountof the fund may be roughly guessed when it is known that about 30,000 employes of the Southern Pacific and its allied concerns are required to pay 50 cents each a month into the fund. Of course the expense of conducting the | hospital department has to be deducted, and it is here that the ingenuity of the men who defended the famous Colton suit will be again brought to the test. The strikers have engaged an attorney. He expresses the opinion that they have a cause of action. According to his view the hospital fund is a trust held by the railroad company for its employes, and that they are entitled to the recovery of so much of it as has not been expended for hospital service. The most astonishing part of his contention is that the money, amounting to millions of dollars, has been used by the company for the construction of the Market-street cable system, and that the suing employes are entitled to all the profits which have accrued from this or any other use to which the money of the fund bas been put. That is to say, the employes of the Southern Pacific in reality own the Market-street system. This is probably only one of the many forms in which the money has been in- vested and is earning a profit. It would be idle to discuss the legal phases of the case; that is the function of the courts. The sermon in the situation is that whereas in the years gone by the employes of the Southern Pacific were famous for their loyalty and devotion to the company’s interests, that feeling now is dead. It was to have been expected that the discharged and blacklisted strikers would cherish a feeling of enmity, but the sentiment does not stop there. Throughout the whole system the men now realize that they occupy a position of servitude, not sympathy and friendship, toward the company. This sometimes counts for a great deal in im- portant interests when it comes to & pinch, AN EXTRAORDINARY REPORT. ‘When the California Congressional dele- gation were inspecting the Alviso Channel the other day Senator White made the declaration that Congress would hardly make an appropriation at the coming ses- sion against the recommendation of the engineers, who had reported that the chan- nel was in good enough condition for the amount of commerce at the time the sur- vey was made. This is tantamount to saying that by reason of the absence of a telegraph line to the moon we receive no news from the inhabitants of our satellite. It Senator White was perfectly correct in reporting this recommendation of the engineers he has given cause for vheir dis- missal from the service for incompetency. Had they been sufficiently intelligent they would have reported that the smallamount of traffic passing through the channel was due to the inadequacy of the channel for | traffic, and that the putting of it in proper condition would develop a large traffic and multiply the population, industries and prosperity of the Santa Clara Valley. Asitis, we shall have to wait until an approvriation is made for a new survey and an intelligent report. It is hoped that competent engineers will be given the task next time and that they will have the wisdom to undérstand the far-reaching problems involved. If so they will report favorably on an appropriation for the widening and deepening of the channel. The letting in of coastwise steamers would create such a revolution in the Santa Clara Valley as hasnever been seen in California. Tortuous and shallow as the channel is at present it has carried such weight with the Southern Pacific Company as to have forced grain rates from $1 60 to $1 20 a ton, and is now saving San Jose alone $100,000 a year in freights. The California members of Congress will no doubt use all their influence to secure the preliminary appropriation, but in view of the very important interests at stake they will be expected to use extraordinary exertions. It appears the cuckeos are trying to build their nests in the Republican reyival. RANDOM NOTES. By Joux McNAvGHT. Now that Trilby is with us and Pade- rewski is coming, we may rightly put on wmetropolitan airs and assume a well-bred surprise that & paper of such social emi- nence as the Chicago News should have said, “Since a Ualifornia girl has captured a count the West will be received on call- ing terms by the Fast.” Capturing a count is nothing. Our girls have aiready two princes up their sleeves and several more dangling at their apron-strings. It is, in fact, for us to fix the visiting list, but we are not proud. We will admit. the East, including Chicago, to conventional calls, provided, of course, they make it a National convention. There have been so many pictures and so many descriptions of the Duke of Marlborough sent over the country of l1ate to satisfy the ardent demands of a yearn- ing public that by this time his form and face, his style and manners would have been familiar to the American mind had it not been that artists and writers have presented him under such many-sided aspects that confusion has resulted, and not afew of our best-informed vpeople be- lieve he has as many casts of countenance as he has titles. Under the circumstances it may be as well to remiud the curious that we have one realistic picture of the Duke that can be counted on as accurate, since it is affected neither by social aspira- tions nor by national prejudices. It comes to us from a messenger-boy, but it is not slow. “It made me tired,” said the boy, ‘“when 1 sees him writin’ a message at the Waldorf. He wore white kid shoes and was togged out of sight, and everybody guyed him on the quiet. He is not much bigger than me, even if he is a Duke, and I can't see why Miss Vanderbilt is stuck on him.,” Of all the judgments recently pronounced upon the bloomer eostume, I know of none better or wiser than that of the Arkansas Judge who was called upon to decide whether a woman wearing bloomers in that State had violated the law. The woman appeared before him in a neatly fitting suit of the latest fashion and the Judge dismissed her with a compliment, but added: “If you nad come before me in the original bloomer suit, I would have given you the heaviest penalty the law al- lows.” There isin that decision the full wisdom of Solomon. Whatsoever suits is 2 good suit, and any dress that fitsa woman well is well fitted for her, but woe be unto her whose bloomers don’t fit. It is as sure as shooting that the bloomer will not long be confined to the bicycle habit. Its sphere is wider than the wheel, however widely the wheel may circulate. Already thus early in the season a coterie of Chicago girls have informed Mrs. Grundy they intend to wear bloomers this winter at the skating parties. In winter as in summer, therefore, it will circle with the gayeties and the youth who opposes it will cut no ice with the girls. It is not in thisland only that women | are rising and advancing. In imperial | Stamboul and throughout the sunlit Orient, the original home of the bloomer, | the rise is said to be phenomenal and the | advance aimost unprecedented. The up- | ward movement there is due to the dis- | turbances in Armenia and among the | | Asiatic provinces generally. These have had the effect of lessening the number of | girls on the market, and consequentlv | there has been this extraordinary rise aad | advance in the price of the new woman. | It is true the advance there 1s not exactly the same as an advance here, but so far as men are concerned the effect is the same. Women have gone up and wife-getting is difficult. There is reason to believe that as soon as the movement toward rational dress | for women has advanced far enough to be { out of the way the grand thoroughfare of | life will be taken up by a procession de- manding artistic dress for men. The pro- cession has begun slready to organize it- | self, the rallying point being the newly | unveiled monument to Carnot. As the | monument isofa historic as well as an artistic nature, the sculptor felt bound to reproduce the murdsred President in the | costume he wore at the time the assassina- tion took place. Everythingart could do to cloak the deformity of the modern dress suit was done. Back of the falling Carnot was placed a mighty statue of France, gracefully draped, and over the shoulders of the President was thrown an overcoat to break the formal lines of the swallow- tail; but all was in vain. The monu- ment has almost demoralized the men of France. ‘‘Bince we are born to be im, | mortalized in statues,” they cry, “let us dress so that the monuments to our glory will not be a disgrace to ourart.” | The criticisms of the Carnot statue range from grave to gay, from lively to severe. One critic, with profound seriousness, ex- presses despair of a race of men who would represent in enduring marble a great statesman, with a death agony upon his face, clothed in the bandiwork of a fash- ionable tailor. Another says the group sugyests & waiter who has fainled through disappointment over a tip and is caught | by a passing laundress; while a third as- | serts it looks as if the statue were con. scious of the clothes and bad fallen back overwhelmed by a crushing sense of being conspicaously ridicuious. What form artistic dress for men may take when dreams come true it is impossi- ble to say, but there is a suggestion of what may come in the fact that the Judges of Pennsylvania haye decided to wear gowns. Weare told that when they ap- peared for the first time on the bench in their gowns the twelve Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia tried bard to look unconcerned, and the lawyers who gazed quizzically at them were met by austere frowns from the bench, but all the same the reporters be- lieyed the dignitaries were conscious of a new joy and moved about now and then for no other purpose than to hear the gowns rustle and see the long folds gleam, It appears, therefore, that even if dress re- form for women basnothing in it but tedious debating and vexation of spirit, dress re- form for men promises a new pleasure. In the black gowns of the Pennsylvania Judges we may see the shadow of the com- ing garment which will endow all men with new movements and enable them to hear the rustle and see the gleam that will rob 1ame of its terrors and render us | able to face even a Cogswell multiplicity of monuments to ourseives with a living delight and a statuesque grace. The spluttering contest between the rival factions in the local Democratic party during the past week resulted, ac- cording to the testimony of both sides, in a complete victory for one faction and a virtual victory for the other. The result ‘was not unexpected tome. 1 could have predicted it a year ago, and I can now pre- dict a similar result a year ahead. It is always so. American politics is made up of universal manslaughter and immediate resurrection. One side is certain it madea clean sweep and the other isl sure it has never been touched. A political battle in this country is like the battle of the angels described in “Paradise Lost.” No sooner is one squadron swept from the field by archangelic power than it reappears ready for more devilment. Even when some tremendous combination of tidal wave, landslide and earthquake hurls the entire leadership, rank, file, baggage-train and commissary outfit of one party down to the nethermost pit in the abysses of outer darkness, they all jump up again and swear it is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Never was there such an arena of incessant disasters and invincible optimism. If the man of all this world most deeply, darkly dyed in pessimism were put into American politics he would be chirping cheerfully in less than thirty days and perhaps even lustily crowing. However simple the relations of men and women to one another may have been originally, the folly of lawmakers and the wisdom of Judges have long since made them complex, and now a Boston Judge bas tangled the skein once more and mussed the complexity up in a confusion worse confounded. Two women came be- fore the Judge, each claiming to be the wife of a leading citizen who had just de- parted from this world leaving a consider- able estate behind him, which he had duly willed to his wife. The Judge declared that the woman who was first married to the deceased is undoubtedly his lawful widow, but he declined to decide which of the two was the wife to whom the property was left, and referred that difficult ques- tion to a higher court. The logical infer- ence from this decision is that a woman may be the lawful widow of a man with- out having been his wife, and another woman may have been the wife of a de- ceased man without being his widow. All of which shows that to be able to see to the full depth of the law one must be very penetrating or else live in Boston. The honor shown to Hall Caine since his arrival in this country has led some critics who delight in carping to try to disturb his pleasure a little bit and weaken public applause by saying that his success in lit- erature is due not so much to the merits of his work as to the adventitious aid of a boom from Mr. Gladstone. The story goes that, when Caine was an unknown man, Gladstone sat up until morning on one oceasion to finish one of the Caine novels, and thereupon with his usual exuberance of utterance wrote to the publishers to tell them so and to order all tbe other Caine books. The publishers of course adver- tised the letter far and wide and as every- body wished to know what sort of a book could keep a man like Gladstone awake all night Caine’s fortune was made. The story is interesting enough in itself, but it is hard to see how any one can suppose it detracts from the merit of the writer. It is evident, if the book had not been good, a good critic would not have praised it, and if Gladstone had not been a good critic his praise would not have helped the author. The publication of the story entitles Mr. Caine to more congratulations. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE GEORGIA DEMOCRACY. WILL THE SOUTH PROVE TO BE SOLID IN 18967 To the Editor of the San Francisco Call — Sir: The New York Sun’s Atlents correspondent frankly admits that Georgia may desert De- mocracy and turn Populist, and a recent dis- patch indicates a like apprehension, the im- medinte occasion of the dispatch being the %pechl election for Congressman in the famous ‘enth District. The Sun’sinformant thus states the situation: #The result 0f the contest in the Tenth Congres- sional District will exercise a decided influence over the future movements upon the political chessboard in this State.” He then explains that the Democratic party is serlonsly divided over the silver question, and declares that “political affairs are now badly complicated and Inharmonious in Georgla.” As another cause for apprehension he adds: “The obvious frauds that have been and still ure being perpetrated in the Tenth bistrict will recoil with great force upon the Democratic pariy.” The gravity of this allegation appears in Lis explanation, which is this: “Every reputable newspaper in the Stete, irrespective of parcy ten- ets, pleaded earnestly with the last Democratic Legislature to pass an election law that would prac- tically render frauds impossible; but it did not heed the appeais of the press,” ‘though “the law was considered 0f paramount {mportance both as a matter of good conscience and to protect the fair name of agreat State.’” He concludes by saying: “In the cities and lnge towns the Populistic idea does not meet with much encouragement, but in the rural districts the contagion is spreading,” and he declares thet “if the breach in the Democratic household is not healed before another general election is held it is rational to sssume that the Poll'\uhsts will dictate the choice of the next United States Senator.” He closes his corre- spondence with this sentence: “The election returns for 1894, as formulated and counted, demonstrate that the gain of a few thousand votes would put the State in the hands of the Populists.” This information, it will be re- membered, is from reliable Democratic sources and is not colored to suit any party. Republicans will read this brief summary of the situation in Georgia with satisfaction, and it is equally certain that Texas Democracy is practicallyin & similar fix, while Alabama and the two Carolinas are decidedly dubious as Democratic States. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, October 5, 1895. ABOUT THE NEW PRONOUN. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sm: Referring to the question in a recent issue of TuE CALL, “Shall we have a new pronoun?”’ I suggest that there seems to be a mistake somewhere. The Standerd Dictionary says #hat “Thou” was proposed, in 1855 by Charles Crozal Converse of Erle, Pa. THE CALL'S cor- respondent appears to have overlooked this point. Respectiully, H. C. CRELTON. Willows, Cal., Oct. 4, 1895. PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. Mr. Spurgeon was never ordained. He began and ended his remarkable career as a lay preacher. John G. Woolley is prominently mentioned as the probable candidate of the Prohibition party for President in 1896. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, our Embassador at London, hes just received one of the highest literary distinctions in being asked to deliver the annual address before the Edinburgh Philo- sophical Society next November. Among those who have made the address in previous years are the Right Hon. John Morley, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Right Hon, A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury. Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist singer, is at work writing & history of the Gospel Hymns. The Gospel Hymns have made an epoch in the religious history of the age, and no one more competent than Mr. Sankey could be found to tell the story of their origin and growth. If he and Mr. Moody had retained for themselves the royalties on these hymns, they would be rich men to-dry. But they have devoted their income from these hymus to further evangelis- tic work. The gun of Daniel Boone has been taken to Charleston, W. Va., and it is said to be still capable of good execution. Its stock and barrel are five feet long, and it carries an ounce ball. It is flinilock, of course. This gun has been in the family of Nathan Boone Van Bibber, back in the wilds of Nicholas County. Matthias Tice Van Bibber received the gun from his friend Boone, and he carried it at the battie of Point Pleasantin 1774 and throughout the war of 1812. The original powder horn and ballet molds are with the gun. Matthias Van Bibber left these relics to Captain C.R. Van Bibber, who left them to his son, Nathan Boone Van Bibber, the present owner. Bishop John H. Vincent desires to raise $25,000 with which to erect a building at Chautauqua, which may be known as the Hall of Christ. He proposes to have its architecture, its decorations and its uses worthy “of Him ‘who is the center of our elvilization, the source of the truth which, as Christian people, we hold, and the ground of our hope for all that is best in time and eternity.” Init he hopes to have an audience-room which will seat 500 ppersons, where the life of Christ can be studied ; a library, containing naught but lives of Christ; and a gallery for paintingsand engrav- ings of scenes In the life of Christ. He has $10,000 already pledged. HOMELESS PAN. THE SYLVAN GOD EXILED AND THE WOODSMAN REIGNS BUPREME IN CALIFORNIA. Not far from my rustic studio, located in one of California’s redwood belts, I see from time to time a team of horses who seem to have been kept for some months in & clothespress with- out food or drink and wholly unprovided with camphor or red pe?ger to save them from be- coming wofully moth-eaten. What has par- ticularly called my attention to these wretched creatures is the noise made by the driver when the wagon gets stuck in a rut, for he seems at times to urge them on to renewed activity by Tueans of & shovel applied with force to their furry sides. The only consolation to be de- rived from a spectacle of this kind is the thought that possibly the horses in the course of their spiritual evolution may once have been brutal drivers, apd are thus expi- atipg the sins committed in a previous form of existence, Be this as it may, the driver was persuaded to lel)’ the shovel to the earth beneath the wheels and re- move the obstructions, so that with super- equine exertions the poor beasts dragged their overload of redwood down the mountain side. Inquiring into the detsils of the industry, which in this case seens to be carried on under difficulties, I learned that large quantities of valuable timber are being hewn down, and to no particular purpose, for the men_are barely able to defray their expenses. I yesterda: visited the scene of destruction with e frien who is well-informed on the subject and who was asmuch pained s I to see large tracts laid waste and countless trees available for lumber and furnithre sawed into eordwood. Nor is this all, for some hundreds of tons of smaller wood,which would keep many poverty- stricken beings warm through thé coming winter, are s00n; to be burned in one vast bon- fi{e in order that the destruction may be com- plete. 3 How thoroughly American is all this, Aside from the absurd appearance of the devastated district, which looks like a man shaved bald, saving a lock or two about the ears, the ele- ment of waste is quite characteristic of our countrymen. In harvesting the irces neces- sary jor building purposes the Americans have, us fdras I know, made no provision for the needs of fature generations. Instead of se- lecting the choicest specimens, leaving the younger and undeveloped to mature and ripen, as is done in Europe, the method in yogue in this country has been to fell everything in sight, the young as well as the full grown, al- lowing great quantities of timber to rot on the Emund,owing to some fiaw, real or fancied. [hen, instead of saving for fuel or other pur- Eoses the smaller pines, immense machines ave been invented to grind them to powder and send them down stream in the form of sawdust. This has been, to my knowledge, the mode of rocedure in Wisconsin, and I doubt not that n other Eastern and Middle States affairs are much the same. Learning that, after the de- struction of a pine forest, the ground becomes covered with & second growth of scrub oak and giher trees unavailsble for building purposcs, I asked & Wisconsin man what the inhabitants of the State were going to do & hundred years hence without these products now being wasted. “That is their lookout,” was the an- swer, Such is the feeling, evidently, of the majority, who echo the sentiments of Artemus Ward, “What hes posterity done for us?"" WL e e A e e Fortunately, the Calitornia redwoods, ‘“‘tan oaks” and madronas are more difficult to ex- terminste than_the pines, so that no matter how naked the land may beleft it is soon again covered with verdure, but as for timber, that requires time. 10 get an idea of how long we must wait be- fore we see such forests again, and to satisfy my curiosity regarding the age of the fallen trées, I applied myself to counting the rings in the stump of a freshly executed redwood. Beginning a; the outer edge I noticed the minuteness of the annual accretions of fiber, the lateral growthin this instance since the battle of Lexington having been but iwo inches. From the line which marked this data to that which grew the year the Pilgrim Fath- ers landed at Plymouth Rock, thedistance was somewhat greater, for during the earlier period of a tree’s life the growth is of course Telatively more rapid than in its maturity. ‘When, therefore, I arrived at the ring which marked the circumierence of the tree when Columbus set sail for the New World, the lay- ers were possibly & quarter of an inch thick, and as it was about fifty years old at that time, must have slready attained a goodiy height. Another stump _contained a layer as old as the Magna Charta, buta third was of even greater historical intcrest for its emormous bark inclosed the ring deposited while William the Conqueror was doing what he could in be- half of nature by destroying the works of man plantinga new forest, Such was the size of this tree that in its very center were to be seen portions which, accord- ing to my calculations, must have been in ex- jstence during the reign of King Arthur, bat I Tegret to say that the core was so badly de- cayed that it was impossible to determine with any degree of accuracy the exact layer which marked the founding of the Orderof the Round Table. To think of the fourteén cénturies and more which were employed by nature in build- ing this tree, and how unlikely it is that man will permit those saplings that have sprouted this yoar to'grow to such an age aud size, is saddening to the lover of the beautiful. DRET R e e ‘To make an appeal for the protection of the forests from a sentimental siandpoint would be worse than useless, for those who are ad- dicted to the indiscriminate slaughter of the redwood are blessed with neither sentiment nor imagination. There are, however, mate- rial reasons why the woodsman should spare & certain number of trees, and surely that which can favorably affect the woodsman’s pocket is ‘worthy of consideration, even though the gen- eral public be also benefited thereby. e w g ARRES, » The Germans call a man who tills the soil & bauer, from bauen—to build or cultivate—liter- ally a builder of the soil, one who truly de- velops the land, one who adds to as well as takes from the ground that pourishes him. How many of our American farmers are worthy of the title? Here we usually understand by the phrase “developing the country” choppin down the forests, burning over the land an sowing it from year to year with the same crop till the soil is exhaustéd. Then the spirit of progress seizes us and we go westand “de- velop” more land., If this system be persistently followed up the country will become enfeebied, impoverished and rendered undesirable as a place of resi- dence in less than a century. Strong indice- tions of danger ahead are already manifest. In_ Wisconsin, Michigan and other interior lumber States the irregularity of the rainfail, the terrible changes o1 temperature from blast- ing heat to blighting cold, are not the ouly re- sults of the robbery of nature and the un- balancing of her forces. Every vear shows an increase in the number and violence of those trightful storms which were formerly unknown excepting as rare phenomena. The cyclone cellar has become as much a necessity in certain districts as the water wells, and yet inepite of all precautions over one hundred people are annually killed by the avenging tornado. If men will persist in un- chaining the elements they must take the con- sequences, but the saddest part of it ell is that 0 many of the innocent suffer along with the guilty. S i 5 Sk e e The people of New York. realizing their de- pendence on the Adirondack region for their water supply, are do!nf their utmost to pre- vent those large forests from falling into the hands of the railroads. Ina region like Cali- jornia, where no water falls during such long erfodg, there is all the greater need of efforts fiemg mude to preserve the forest primeval. That it is not only possible, but quite feasible to maintain large tracts of wooded land, thus insuring & reguiar supply of lumber, and at the same time yielding a goodly revenue, is shown in the interesting statement made by the East Indian Inspector-General of Forests, B, Ribbentrop, recenrl‘y gnbhshcd in THE CALL. The suggestions of this gentleman as to what course to pursue in order to similar to those achieved in roduce results ndia would, it seems to me, be Of great benefit to the people of 7 EDGAR STILLMAN RELLEY. this State. d’d rather bave Lars thon a Nyse: And 4 for my Harr) I'm glad u's all there, &1 be awfully sad when u goes$ —The Lark. CORNELL COLLEGE. President Schurmen, in his annual address to the students of Corndll University, et noon Thursday, September 26, announced that, ai- though registration was not yet over, the num- ber of new students registered was greater by 100 than at the same point last year. This gratifying increase, it must be noted, occurs in ~ ire- e of a gradual rise in entrance Tequ! s hich, begun in 1504, i8 to end i 1897 In demanding a wholo veur O extra propars: jon on the part of three- Gents entering Cornell. The nomber of new students at Cornell this year will be irom 500 10 600. Martin Murphy is in the City. **J. W. Wood, a druggist of Pasadens, is at the Grand. R. B. Butler, a land-owner of Fresno, is at the Grand. Dr. E. G.Case of Ukiah registered yesterday at Baldwin. g C. L. Adams, a rancher of Viselia, is a guest at the Lick. Rev. W. M. Bowers of Stockton is & guest &t the Baldwin. Andrew Brown, a merchant of Kernville, is at the Grand. B. F. Markham and C. F. Giles of the navy are at the Baldwin. Mrs. Charles M. Shortridge returned frem San Jose yesterday. F.W. Williams, & mining man of Sonors, is staying at the Lick. 5 Arthur Wallace, a coffee-planter of Nicar- agus, is staying at the Russ. Dr. W. 8. Taylor of Livermore was one of yes- terday’s airivals at the Palace. Superior Judge J. A. Logan of Sania Cruz registered at the Grand yesterday. John E. Buad, a leading attorney at Stockton and brother of Governor Budd, is at the 'Gmnd. A. G. Boscawen, s member of Parliament from London, and his wife registered at the Palace yesterday. 3 Captain William E. Dougherty, the Inldum Agent at Hoopa Reservation, Humboldt Coun- ty, is at the Occidental. S. H. Babeock, traffic manager of the Rio Grande and Western Railroad Company at Salt Lake, is at the Palace. Superior Judge G. W County came in from Sonora yesterday and registered at the Occidental. George H. Appel, manager at Sacramento of the California Fruit Transportation Company of Chicago, registered yesterday at the Palace. Congressman D. D. Aitkin of Michigan, who, as deputy supreme chief ranger of the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, is visiting the courts of this State, returned to this City yes- terday and registered at the Ooccidental. H. A. Pollak, the well-known advertising agent, founder of the Cosmopolitan Advertis- ing Agency of this Clty, departs East Monday night, and if prospects East permit it, Mr. Pollak will establish branches of his popular institution in leading cities of the United States. Colonel Varigault, chief of the Fire Depart~ ment of Paris, and two of his assistants, Major Krebs and Captain Condier, arrived here yes- terday and registered at the Grand. They have been sent out by the city of Paris to make an examination of and report on the fire depart- ments of the principal cities of the United States and Canad MAXIMS FOR ADVERTISERS. An advertisement is to business what light is to the sun. When a man thinks he can run_his business without adyertising the people think he can do it without their custom. An advertisement in time saves nine. A drop of ink will make & million think, and several drops will make them buy. A merchant telephones direct to his custom- ers for their trade through an advertisement. A merchant who doesn’t know enough to ad- vertise doesn’t know enough to do justice to his customers, if he have any. Some merchants prefer _cobwebs in their stores to advertisements in the newspapers. 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