The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1895. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: nd Sundsy CALL, 0ne week. by carrler.$0.15 ¥ vear, by mail... 6.00 by mall 3 oy mail by mail e month, Telephone. Welephone.... BRAI £r0Montgomery 2618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 126 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: £08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Advertising Buresu, Rhinelander s, New York Ci Don’t make your leisure a hard job. Nothing is truly a man’s own as his losses. There are dark horses in society as well Bs in politics. People who cannot see good bprospects shead are short sighted. Make yourself cheerful in reading “‘the toming season will be gay.” Pretty nearly everything we meet in this world is an opposition. The trolley-car is not the only passing show that often ends in a tragedy. There is just enough heatin the elections this fall to make the Democrats boil. The average reformer takes just enough interest in politics to be dissatisfied with it. It is because sour grapes come high that some people think they must have them. When a8 man has thoroughly identified himself with a town he never fails to praise it. There are some silurians who are too stingy even to give a compliment to prog- res i The missionary goes to China to prepare the way of peace and then calls for a war- e who are in the swim think those who are out of it have a ary time, but it is not always so. see few things from the best point w when you look at them from your If Corbett and Fitzsimmons really wish a place to fight in they should not overlook the hospitality of Cuba. . Cleveland has left Gray Gables and will himself for a week or two or another rest. The Ohio campaign has got far enough along to make it certain that Brice’s money talks through Campbell’s hat. Prepa ns for the coming carnivals will turn the vacant lots of many a town into flower gardens this season. Since peace is in sight in Madagascar perhaps France will listen to Olney’s long- delayed vigor and let Waller go. It is one of parodoxes of life that we always consider a man to be coming our way when he is going our way. Don’t complain of the fools in the world, for if there were none, clever people would have to work harder to make a living. We shall probably never have a perfect republic until there is en office for every candidate and & majority to elect him. We will believe that Eastern sympathy with Cuba has become fighting mad when we see some of the fighters going to the front. Tt is natural for Dr. Parkhurst to be dis- pleased with the fusion ticket in New York, as he is one of the kind who prefer con- fusion. The time for deciding where the next Republican conyention will be held 1s near enough at hand now to make the situation thrilling. Other towns have to rely on garden flowers for their festivals, but San Fran- ciscd could aecorate a civic carnival with parlor rosebuds. City politics in New York this year is not so much a matter of parties, or even of factions, as of cliques, coteries, clubs, classes and gangs. The Hawaiian officials wilb now have a chance to learn that the truth cannot be hidden by covering the man who tells it with tar and feathers, No one will deny the usefulness of a Grand Jury that stirs up the street con- tractors and makes them do better fora little while at any rate. The fact that some of the milk-dealers are protesting against the work of Milk In- spector Dockery is perhaps the best proof we have that he is doing his work well. The Farmers’ National Congress at At- lanta debated finance instead of farming and were wise in doing so, for what most farmers need now is to raise money as well as crops. e TN Ii the University of Chicago is to be run as an annex to the Millionaires’ Club it will hardly add any more to the credit of the city than another pork-packing estab- lishment. . The result of the recent Congressional election in the Fifth Georgia District seems to show that the Democrats down there have stolen the ism from Populism and silenced the pop. As Alaska is to have delegates to the next Republican Convention San Fran- cisco can claim it as the city nearest the geographical center of the country from which the delegates are to come. The one defect in the revival of trade is “that so large a portion of the goods now being sold ecme from foreign countries through the gap made in the protective system by the Democratic tariff-tinkers, A 'REPUBLICAN ANNIVERSARY. It has been proposed in the East to as- semble on the 17th of next June a conven- tion of the surviving delegates to the Re- publican convention held in Philadelphia in that month of 1856. The proposal has much to commend it, and has met with such warm approval that it may be fairly counted among the political probabilities of the coming year. The only objection to the proposition_ as it has been stated is that a convention thus constituted would be too small for the occasion. Such a meeting would be practically a celebration of the fortieth an- niversary of the National Republican party in the city where its foundations were so widely and patriotically laid, and in such a celebration every cld Republi- can who has survived from that time should have a representative. The sur- vivors of the original delegates must be few in number. There were but 600 of them originally. - In the natural order of events most of these must be dead, for forty years is a long time in the life of an individual, and among the survivors many are too worn with years or with disease to make a long journey, even to attend so glorious a reunion as that would be. A better vlan would be to call upon all Republicans throughout the Union who indorsed the action and the platform of that historic convention and supported Fremont in the campaign that followed to organize in their various States and elect from among their number a full list of delegates to the convention designed to celebrate the anniversary of a date so im- portant in the history not of our country only, but of liberty and republican insti- tutions throughout the world. A convention of this kind could not fail to renew the ardor of the old pioneers of the party and would be an inspirstion to all the patriotic youth of the land. It would recall to public attention the early history of the great party organized for freedom and the Union, and remind men of the fidelity with which those early pledges have been kept and the arduous labors by which so much has been done to accomplish them, to maintain them and to render them the inviolable heritages of the American people. The platform adopted by the convention of ’56 pledged the party to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, de- clared it to be the dury of the people to oppose any attempt to introduce slavery into any Territory of the United States, denounced polygamy and slavery as twin relics of barbarism, condemned the Demo- cratic administration of the time for the crime against Kansas, called for the immediate admission of that Territory as a free State, proclaimed the foreign policy embodied in the “Ostend circular’ as a disgrace to American diplomacy, called for the construction of a railroad to the Pacific Ocean and indorsed a policy of public improvements of rivers and har- bors by the General Government. Such is the early platform of the party that ever since its foundation has repre- sented true Americanism at home and abroad. It is certainly worth while cele- brating the fortieth anniversay of such an event, and the old pioneers of the party will have the earnest support of the younger members if they undertake to carry it out. ASHWORTH'S EMBARRASSMENT. It can hardly pe expected that the methods which the Grand Jury is pursu- ing for ascertaining the causes of ineffi- cient contract work under the Street De- partment will accomplish the desired result of ascertaining if there have been corrupt bargains between contractors and the department. That there have been gross, flagrant and injurious violations of specifications, and that the Superintendent of Streets has approved work done under these conditions and worked strenuously to secure payment for it on behalf of the contractors, even after his attention had been called to the shameful manner in which the contracts had been abused, are matters of common knowledge. Bit to ascertain the existence of a corrupt un- derstanding between the Street Depart- ment and the contractors is quite anothar matter. Thisis one of the most difficult of all crimes to discover, and that very fact operates as a strong temptation to its per- petration. There are much better ways of curing the evil. Oneof them is the selection of the right kind of man for Superintendent. However intelligent, capable and honest such a man may be believed to be, his po- litical affiliations often determine the con- duct of his office. Under the prevalent political system an office-holder who is not of the very highest character and wid- est independence is expected to surrender the appointment of many of his subor- dinates to a corrupt political machine which may have made the fight, and to fill the remaining places with ward heelers whose services be individually secured in his campaign. It is impossible for him to copduct his office either intelligently or honestly under those circumstances, and the people bhave no right to expect that he should. Still another way is that which the Civic Federation has recently employed with so excellent results—keep a sharp oversight as private cilizens on the conduct of pub- lic officers. Still another is the selection of able and trustworthy supervisory offi- cers. The present system of making public improvements inevitably drives honest and competent contractors out of the field, and fastens rogues and incompetents upon the City., There are contractors in San Francisco, well known to the better part of the public, who would not take a con- tract for a less price than one representing a living profit for honest work, and who would refuse to enter into a corrupt bar- gain with any public officer. But what chance have they to become factors in the building up of the City? And yet it is such men as these who should receive the highest consideration and the most sub- stantial encouragement. THEATER NUISANCES. Good results can be hardly expected from the agitation against late-comers and early-leavers at the local theaters, It isa hardship for well-mannered folk to be compelled to suffer from the rudeness of others, but this is one of the penalties of cultivating good manners. The selfish boor is never disturbed by anything and he enjoysIife to the full. It is so in every large city and in every way in which the well-mannered and ill- mannered elements come in contact; the theater boor exerts his pernicious activity everywhere, Curiously enough, the worst sinners at the theaters are the fashionables, for the necessary reason that they dine late and are not ready to start for the theater until the curtain has risen. It is impos- sible to reach them either with censure or laws, for they care for no censure that does not come from them, and laws are out of the question. Indisputably the managers of theaters could control the evil if they would com- bine to refuse admittance except between acts, but as that might cause some loss of business it need not be expected that they will adopt the rule. They are reasonably sure not to lose any business by leaving the matter alone. Apparently the only hope is in the edu- cation of the heedless to the ethics of the situation. It required a tremendous fight on the part of the newspapers to accomplish. the virtual abolition of the big hat, but they would have a harder task in stirring the conscience of the late-comer. That must be one of the gradual achievements of ciyilization. INSPECTION OF MILK. It is not greatly to the credit of San Francisco that so many years have been permitted to pass without the establish- m ent of & rigorous inspection of the milk supply. The last Legislature passed an act authorizing boards of health to appoint a milk inspector, and to the credit of our Board of Health 1t has availed itself of the benefits of the law. The inspector whom it appointed October 1 has displayed an amazing energy for a public officer and appears to be as zealous as though he were attending to his private interests. He has destroyed quantities of mili which he claimed to have found below the stand- ard and has procured the arrest of num- bers of dairymen who, he alleges, have violated the law. As a consequence the dairymen are greatly excited and have taken steps to have the inspector’s conduct reviewed by the Board of Health and to procure his removal from office for in- competency. The milkmen redeem what would other- wise be an unfortunate attitude by protest- ing that they are desirous of aiding any intelligent plan for the protection of the public on the score of milk. Clearly, if all were required to furnish wholesome and unadulterated milk the more honest among them would be benefited. It is to be observed, however, that among those most vigorously protesting . against the actions of the inspector are some of the highest reputation. This gives their conduct a dignity that commands atten- tion. It appears singular that at their indigna- tion meeting held Fricay, although they charged the inspector with drunkenness and incompetency, they would not permit him to explain the methods which he employed in the inspection of milk. They asserted that he had never had any train- ing for the work, but this does not preciude the presumption that he may have secured the assistance of competent experts or that he was right in his conclusions. This seems to have been a mistaken policy on their part. On the other hand, there isa chance that the inspector was overzealous and too anxious to make a record. A public officer with a broad comprehension of his duties and responsibilities is not too ready to prosecute those who, in his judgment, may have committed infractions of the law. It is conceivable that inadvertencies may occur, and that instructions and warning are sometimes better than a fierce resort to the law. Too often a new officer makes a mistake in this regard and works serious harm when a milder policy would accom- plish the desired result without inflicting injury. The Board of Health, as well as its milk inspector, is now on trial by the milkmen. It is composed of men who can- not afford to make the mistakes which are charged to him. It is unmistakably their duty to give the matter a very full and im- partial hearing and to act upon the evi- dence with the wisdom and discretion imposed by the dignity of their office. THIS WILL BE OHANGED. The San Jose Mercury truthfully says: “lt is a singular anomaly that, although California is an agricultural State, devot- ing but little attention to manufactures, nearly three-quarters of its population re- side in cities and towns.” But this omits consideration of the fact that where agri- culture in California is pursued in its highest form, it gives rise tocompact com- munities which inevitably become towns. This is true particularly of the finest towns of Southern California, including River- side, Redlands, Pasadena and some others. That is to say, while these are really small cities, all their interests are the direct product of agriculture. The true test of the quesiion is the ex- tent to which agriculture contributes to the general business of the State. I will be found, upon analysis, that if we should withdraw from the estimate all the inter- ests allied to or depending on agriculture our State would be poor indeed. The Mercury is perfectly right, however, in its statement of the general fact and in this conclusion which it draws: “The State can never expect to make the best of its re- sources and support a large rural popula- tion until the ranches are subdivided into small farms.” 3 Although the physical conditions of farm life in California are immeasurably more attractive than those appertaining to agriculture in any other part of the coun- try, and even to life in a city, there has been nothing like an apvroach to the achievements which might be accom- plished in that pursuit. Large land- holdings represent one of the deterrent forces, but there are numerous others. One is the difficulty of making a profit under existing overland and local trans- portation charges. That will be remedied in good time. Butthe most potent of all the hindrances is the ignorance of so many’ of our own people of the delights which a farm life offers them, Like all the rest of mankind, we are hampered with experience and precedent gathered under different conditions and cherished in spite of obvious reasons for their abandonment. The old, old story of the hardships of an Eastern farmer’s life haunts our dreams of California’s charms. Our women, familiar either from observa- tion or hearsay with the dull, grinding, dreary and hopeless life of an Eastern farmer’s wife, are tempted to regard the shining plains of California with dread. It is the women of the cities more than the men who are responsible for this neglect of a precious opportunity. A TREE-TRADE . POINTER. J. B. Gorman, United States Consul at Matamoras, Mex., reports our trade with Mexico increasing. Under our new tariff they are able to ship us more wool, cattle and hides, and expect a large increase in sales of oranges, all to the disadvantage of the American farmer. Compensation is made to the American manufacturer who supplies irrigating, agricultural and min- ing machinery to be used by laborers at about half the wages paid in the United States to produce more agricultural and mining products to beshipped to us. The American farmerin turn selis food to those employed in this country in making the machinery sent to Mexico. It is worth considering to whose advantage this series of trades results. It is revorted from London that Lord and Lady Beresford paid $4000 for the rent of a salmon stream in Norway and during the season caught only two fish. It would pay the noble sports to come West next time. Sporesiss T o It was easy for Japan to take Formosa from China, but not so easy to take it from the Formosans, RANDOM NOTES. By J (rl“w&n!. Altho ugh it is not likely the proposal to shut out people from entering the auditor- ium of a theater during the performance of an act will lead to any immediate improve- ment of public manners in that respect, the proposal is none the less worth think- in g about, talking about and writing about. In the absence of any power to give these disturbers of the peace a good shaking, which they deserve, we may at least agi- tate the sin they commit and thereby make them as conscious of guilt whenever they repeat the offense as if they were seen go- ing down the aisle in clothes that were out of style. Bocial sins, like everything else, can be talked to death, and this particulai sin is a very good one to execute in that way. An illustration of what ceaseless talking' can do in the way of reforming minor morals is seen in the decline and partial collapse of the big theate r hat. But a short time ago these hats rose up high enough to be noted as a monumental nuisance, and now they are so small they hardly amount to a petty irritation. In factof late there has been just about enough of the hat to at- tract attention and prevent the interest of the play from leading one woman to over- look another. If the big hat has thus been talked out of sight, it is not impossible the late-comer may also be tatked into staying in the background for a little while. The near approach of the time for mak- ing preparations for the next Presidential conventions has renewed interest in those ereat gatherings and awakened discussion as to the best method of removing some of the evils that have attended them of late years. One of the greatest of these evils is the immense crowds that attend the con- ventions and not infrequently interfere with them. The evil effects of such crowds is one of the strong arguments now urged against holding any future conventions in Chicago. That great city has not only a turbulent population of its own, but it is so centrally located that thousands of out- siders throng it whenever a convention is held there, and as a consequence the dele- gates have to deliberate in the midst of an immense mob. Other lamge cities in the East are, of course, just as objectionable as Chicago in this regard. One of two things must be done to save future con- ventions from these evils—either the cou- ventions must be held with closed doors and the public shut out, or they must be held in cities large enough to accommodate all the delegates and alter- nates but not so huge as to have vast mobs of people to disturb the proceedings by trying to stampede the convention toward some particular candidate. Concerning this alternative, a lively discussion is now going on in the East, some of the disput- ants favoring small halls in the large cities and others large halls in the smaller ones, There is certainly no reason why a Presidential convention should be arranged for like a hippodrome, but there is good reason why it should be open and as free as possible to the public. Any convention held in a comparatively small hall with closed doors would be a serious handicap upon the candidate it nominated. To take the conventions, therefore, from the larger cities to those of the second size seems to be the best way of getting rid of mobs without excluding the public. This view of the case can hardly be overlooked by Eastern people, and fortunately it presents San Francisco as a convention city under a peculiarly attractive aspect. A Presidential convention held here would not be fretted by & mob any more than it would be sweated by hot weather. This City for such purposes is, in fact, ideal, and the best way to get our Presidents nominated far from the madding crowd is to hold the conventions in San Fran- cisco, where the crowds are gladdening. Charles A. Dana has recently fluttered the newspaper world of the East by an act which has been denounced as professional discourtesy and personal surliness, and which is certainly a departure from journalistic conventionalities. Having re- ceived from the Chattanooga Times some special editions of that paper issued in commemoration of the Chickamauga cele- bravion, with a letter asking his opinion of them, he replied in the Sun: “We don’t think anything of them at all. Any fool can get 200,000 papers printed if he can raise the money to pay for them, but to get good sense, simple truth, genuine wit, good feeling, steadiness of mind and honest, manly purpose into them, is another matter.” This may be surliness, butit is the truth. Mr. Dana was prob- ably speaking within his own experience in saying anybody can print 200,000 papers, but that good sense and simple truth is another matter. He may have tried it himself one time. At the recent meeting of the British Association the champions of science turned aside for a moment from their old contest with theology and boldly chal- lenged civilization itself to combat on the plains of truth. The challenge came mainly from the explorers of the world and took the form of a defense of the savageries and superstitions that our cul- ture holds in utter abhorrence. The leader in the defiance was a certain Captain Hinde, who, in describing the prevalence of cannibalism in the Congo region, said: “In the country of the Baletela one sees neither gray-haired persons, halt, maimed nor blind. Even parents are eaten by their children on the least sign of old age. Under such circumstances, the Baletela are a splendid race.” It was furthermore declared that the custora of eating the dead saves savage races from epidemics. Another traveler who had been in Guiana argued that ghe fierce vendeitas which prevail there have an undoubted influence for good by thinning out the weaker mem- bers of therace. In the discussion which followed the papers, there was shown a marked agreement among the scientists that savagery is net without its compensa- tions, and, in fact, to the outsider it would almost seem that science itself is savage. It is to be regretted that in giving “Trilby” a dramatic form Mr. Potter should have been so much under the spell of Du Maurier’s novel as to be led into the blunder of adding the last act after the dramatic interest had been closed by Sven- gali’s death. This last act is not an anti- climax merely. It is an impertinence. The anti-climax has a rightful place in all art. It often produces effects that could be accomplished by no other means. An impertinence, however, is always an of- fense, and this one is particularly so. Svengali being dead it matters nothing to the drama whether Trilby lived three weeks or thirty years. The only effect of this last act is to weaken the impression caused by the one which preceded it, and transform a sensation intensely tragic into one of mere pathos, The players should cut it out, and if theéy do not, the patrons should cut it by leaving the theater before it comes on. e It is worth noting thatin the revival of energy the people of this State have not overlooked the need of better education, and that additional high school buildings are conspicuous among the new enterprises now under discussion, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. While Henry E. Dixey was sitting in the office of the Columbia Theater yesterday read- ing over a new part he was suddenly brought back to earth by the clanging of the telephone bell, ‘“Hello there!” he answered. “What is it?” “Who are you?” “Who are you?” “This is Fodder & Hays’ grainyard.” *“That'’s good,” replied Dixey. “Send up two bales of hay and three sacks of oats. Be lively about it.” ‘“Hello there! What did you say ?” “Send up two bales of hay and three sacks of oats.” ¢‘Three sacks of what?” ““Sacks of oats. Do you understand ?'* “Yes., But who is it for?” “‘Look here, young man, don't get goy., It's for the horse.” Whir-r-r-r-1! Bang! Zip! Click! Mr. Dixey smiled and went back to his siudy. e STATEN ISLAND. Ilove islands—they are such complete, au- dacious little worlds—Jersey, Guernsey, Alder- ney and Sark are all old play-grounds of mine. The Isle of Man haunts my memory with an enduring joy. Place Guernseyin the center of the Isle of Man, and you have Staten Island. "Tis a small place; & good pedestrian can walk round it in a day without fatigue. But in its possession of points of interestit is a whole continent. It is all dips, spurs and angles. From a hundred baby peaks you can look down on terraced lawns and silver pools, the wooded copse and meandering stream. Dells -and glens and bosky banks are eyery- where. Beautiful homes, modest, yet dignified, give an air of peace and culture everywhere, Vast New York looms up nightly with & mil- lion star-shaped eyes to‘{ook over upon the happy isle where the Castleton guards its shores, and_ the happy people who throng its porches and balconies of the great hostelr: look over upon the nightly _aggregation of vil- lages which make up New York with a feelin; of thankfulness that they are not lost in its vol- canic whirl, Everywhere in Staten Island there is some- thing 1o gladden the heartand to please the e. eye. The beautiful grounds of the Cricket and Baseball Club, with its ladies’ club annex, are B dm? pleasure. I saw & game of cricket played there between eleven gentlemen and eleven of the daintiest maids; charming, de- lightful girls, highly educated, bright and sparkling, yet not averse to physical culture. hey played with & vim and piquancy that was most alluring. They were costumed in Wwhite duck aud straw hats, and each maid, tinctively attractive and splendidly groom was a type of the swift-winged Defender, The: Elayeda splendid game, showing & thoroug nowledge of all'its ¥olnts. Their dresses were of the usual out-of-door len{th, and, being duck, had & certain firmness of service to_ the players, for the unhappy umpire was unable to “‘leg before wicket,” the graceful limbs being modestly out of sight. At the Couniry Club,where hunting and golf attract a large membership, 1 was happy to meet the most attractive and delightful of men—all-round men of the world—who found time to cultivate both mind and muscle. The yiew from the clubhouse is perfect, and the baying of the hounds and the sharp shout of the huntsman carried one back to the days of long ago. Golf has a wonderful innings just now, and I hope it may become popular in this State, for it is a £plendia game. Staten Island charms, because of its natural beauty. It is delightful, because I found there innumerable lovers of nature—men and women whose intellectual qualities would make a desert a habitation of pleasure. Raconteurs, wits, artists, musicians, are those Imetin the little isle, and I do not think I ever saw so much thoroughbred hospitality crowded into such small compass, nor am ever likely to forget the Macdonalds, Byrnes, Hopkins', Bustows, Morris', Parrs, Hallets, Curans and many others whom it was my gos fortune to meet there. I had the Ple&sure of seeing nearly all the Young people of Staten Island at a ball, and was delighted with all of them. One young married lady—indeed, onl{ & few months a bride—attracted my special attention by her grace of movement and beauty of person, and I was charmed to find that she was a San Francisco girl. 1 had an opportunity of seeing-in Staten Island not the patriclans of the East—possibly not the so-called aristocracy, for whom I have no special liking—but the gentlefolks—the real ladies and gentlemen who make up the republic of letters and true life, who are buman, who are gentle, and who seek some- thing more than mere society distinction. I am in love with the island and the islanders. All Californians visiting the East should visit the little republic, wher8 peace and good-will reign supreme. But they had better not lose time, for, alas, cruel, Leartless New York is about to destroy one of its chiefest charms—its frecdom from the rapacious builder, its seclu- sion from the boomer and its semi-rural s tude—for that ugly python, the belt road, i already doingits deadiiest and worst to strangle the isle, or at least vu]Earize and commercial- ize a spot which should be made sacred as the temple of thought. WM. GREER HARRISON, Two Views of Mr. A. J. Balfour. From St. Paul’'s. Mazx Beerbohm. From Pick-Ae-Tp. EDITORS AT HOME. TO CURE THE INSANITY DODGE. San Francisco Star. Whenever a murderer pleads insanity he should, if the plea be allowed, be confined for life in some secure place. Power should not be vested in any one to grant his release, The protection of society—not the punishment of criminals—is the only legitimate object of criminal law, and society needs the same pro- tection from the viciously insane. If the law we suggest were adopted there would be fewer murders, and no one not reallp insane would resort to the ‘“‘insanity dodge.” BUFFALO BILL'S SUCCESSOR. Santa Cruz Sentinel. The horse is being supplanted by electrie- cars, horseless carriages and bicycles. The horse will soon be as great a curiosity as the buffalo now is. We shall see some man, calling himself Horse Harry, foing over the country giving exhibitions and claiming to be the man Who once rode a horse. Horse H: the successor to Buffalo Bill. BERAry willhe NEW CRITIC IN THE WEST. Sacramento Bee. Henry Irving declares that “an actor should know how to speak his own language.” This is respectfully dedicated to Irving himself. When e Plays Shylock, the sudiense eatmos understand one-half he says. PROSPERITY’S DIET. Pendleton East Oregonian. It is “good will to men” that prosperity feeds upon. While on the other hand, ill-will, envy and malice PMIDN and destroys its own cre- ations as well as the creations of others. NOT ON BUZZARDS BAY. Calistoga Independent. To say that there are as good fish in the sea 8s ever were caught sounds philosophic, but doesn’t it occur to you that one may get tired fishing? POLITICS APPARENTLY IMPROVING, Portland Telegram. It now looks as if there was as much politics 8s morality in Governor Culberson’s opposi- tion to the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize-fight. IT WHEELS ON I8 AXIS. San Jose Cycling. The world moves—on a wheel. THE PRICE OF A SMILE. Astorla (Or.) Astorian, At the present time if there is anything Cleveland wishes that Gorman has, he can get it in return-for a single smile. BILLS LONG ENOUGH NOW. ‘Whatcom (Wash.) Revellle. The Seattle man who has patented an attach- ment for meters ought to be indicted. Meter is now nearly synonymous with perpetual mo- tion, and the world is interested in not having the thing added to. BUT POETS COMB IT DOWN THE BACK, Salt Lake Herald. Captains of coljege baseball teams are wear- ing the hair so long that 1t is difficult to dis- tinguish them from poets. “THE STAGE SENATOR.” Eastern telegrams announce that Actor Crane has been offered big inducements to visit South Africa. The gold miners in that out-of-the-way part of the globe promise to pay all expenses Mr. Crane as the Senator. of the company there and back if ‘‘the stage Senator”” will only condeseend to visit them, and they give a guarantee of a successful sea- son while in the neighborhood of Johannes- burg. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS An Epitome of Sermons of the Week Beyond the Rockies. Following is a summary of the principal ser- mons recently delivered in the United States and Canada by the leading clergymen, priests, prelates, religious teachers and professors of the Christian faith. In every instance the full text has been carefully read and abbreviated. MONEY MAKING. Both the wise and the foolish seek money. It is sought for by many for what it brings. Some seek it slmply for itself. In Egypt there ‘was an aristocracy of priests, in China of liter- ature, in England of birth, but in America it is an aristocracy of wealth. There are some things that even money cannot buy, but stiil money enters into everything. Money is char- acter. The way & man saves or spends his money reveals his character. You may see his virtues 1n money, and you may also find his vices.—G. C. Jones, Methodist, Pittsburg, Pa. SOCIAL EQUALITY. Men never were and never will be on a uni- versal footing of equality in the social scale The reason is obvious. Men are not born with the same intellectual or physical qualities as all other men. Some come into the world pos- sessed of minds of great intellectnal capaci while others are born almost into insani some are created with bodies that will develop unusual physical strength; others again are weak and puny from birth. There must always pe classes among men. There must always be the rich and the poor.—Archbishop Jansens (Catholic) at Richmond, Va. AMERICA’S NEEDS. The time is at hand when America must pass out into the larger view of charity and justice; ‘when we must recognize our mission as a na- tion. Questions of wealth, of seli-aggrandize- ment have so filled our range of vision that the principle of giving to the world an example of a nation filled with the spirit of ministration has been too.poorly realized. Our literature needs new inspiration, our political and social economy needs & new saving force in it; our religious life needs something it does not pos- sess.—Rey. W. F. Slocum, Denver, Colo. CATHOLICISM. I was once in terror of Rome, but by study I am convinced that the danger is slightand rapidly diminishing. Protestantism in the world ‘is increasing in_membership twice as fast as Romanism, T will never utter & word, however, that will kindle hostility. Recoguiz- ing all thatis Christian in the Roman church, cultivating the most cordial relations, co- operating in every way possible with Roman- ists, I will strive to advance, not hinder, God’s eviden: design.—Rev. E. T. -Root, Congrega- tionalist, Baltimore, Md. KNOWLEDGE. A man may have all the knowledge that this world’s life can give him and yet not be a good man. Knowledge will lift & man higher in this world. Goodness will lift a man higher in any world. Knowledge will give a man power, oodness will %ive a man direction of power. nowledge will consecrate a man’s intellect to get for himself, goodness consecrates a man’s intellect to get in order to give for the uplift- ing_of otrers.—Rev. Dr. Egbert, Independent, St. Paul, Minn, PERSONALITY. Men rally not around some fundamental truth, but around some strong personality. It was not the abstract doctrine of State rights that fired the South, but the strong personality of John C. Calhoun and John Randolph. In the same way men array themselves under their chosen leaders, who represent their ideas in a living and powerful personality,—Rev. W. G. Partridge, Baptist, Scranton, Pa. HEROISM. The true hero may be brave; not afraid of enything that stands between him and duty. not given to counting the cost, but prompt in doing right. He must speak out, on occasion, against wrong, regardless of risk or result, even when_the wrongdoers are people in au- thority and the wrong one isa despised outeost of another nation or_enother sect.—Rev. T. T. Lloyd, Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa. MISSION WORK. Missions are worth to America all they have " cost, leaving out every estimate of their value to_foreign lands. They have proved their value. To depreciate them isto condemn the life and work of Jesus Christ, to dishonor the heroes who in all the Christian ages have fol- lowed in his footsteps, and to lower humanity. —Rey. William T. Beale, Congregationalist, Brockton, Mass. RICHES AND POVERTY. Some people think it is a sin to be rich. There will be many rich men in heaven &s well asmany in hell. There will be many poor peo- ])le in heaven as well as in hell. The question s how did you get your riches, and how: did you get ?ow poverty, and what are you doing with it?—Rev. Dr.” Stuart, Evangelist, Win- ston, N. C. A NEW USE FOR THE TELEPHONE. There is & story in the newspapers, which seems to be intended to be taken seriously, about the telephone newspaper which has been working successfully for two years at Pesth, Hungary. Itis called the Telephone Herald, has 6000 subscribers, costs 2 cents and issues twenty-eight editions daily. A special wire JUST A FEW SMILES. First Yale student—Have you telegraphed to the old man for money? Second Yale student—Yes. “Got an answer?”’ «Yes, I telegraphed the old man, ‘Where is that money I wrote for?’ and his answer reads, “In my inside pocket.’ "—Texas Siftings. A—Is dyeing the hair as dangerous as the doctors would make it appear? 3 B.—Certainly, you may take my word for it. Only last spring an uncle of mine dyed his hair, and in three weeks he was married to a widow witn four children.—Fliegende Blaetter. “You know, George,” she was'exclaiming, “I'was brought up without any care.” “Marry me, my darling,” said George, “and you shall have nothing else but care.”—Detroit Free Press. Artist—There, sir, is my latest picture. Ingenious friend—Weil, you haven’t econo- mized paint on it, have you? What do you call it, anyway? Artist—What do I callit? Why, that, sir, is an autumn sunset! Ingenious friend—You dom’t say so! Well, I dow’t blame the sun at all for setting.—Rich- mond Dispatch. Manager (to boxkeeper)—Well, they call this piece & frost, but I call it a thaw. Boxkeepér—A thaw, s Manager—Yes; see how the audience have melted away.—Fun, . “Just listen to that parrot! Isn't it a shame?” “Oh, the bird does not know what it is say- ing.” “I know he dogsn’t. That is where the sor- row of it comes in. Just think of being able to swear like that without appreciating your giit.”’—Cincinnati Enquirer. The indignant father raged and stormed over the dinner table. , Little Mabel had cried out that she didn’t like the meat. “Why, you ought to give thanks,” cried the outraged pater. “When I was a boy I delighted in crusts and neyer used sugar.” The little one thought a moment. “How thankful you must be that you are now living with mamma and me!” she lisped.—Phil- adelphia Call. “And, ifI consented to marry you, would you keep all the promises you have made to me?” “Well, 'd promise to keep them or let you keep them. They would be sure to bein the family, you know.”—Brooklyn Life. Artist—My next picture at the academy will be entitled “Driven to Drink.” His friend—Ah! Some powerful portrayal of baffled passion, I suppose! Artist—Oh, no; it’s a cabapproaching a water trough,—Spare Moments A woman takes the stand that every men must love some woman, and when her husband shows signs of coolness she begins looking around for the other woman.—Atchison Globe. CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢ 1b, Townsend's.* E e Al BacoN Printing Compa: ,508 Clay street.* T LA E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * RS2 s “Why, Mr. Councilor, you are trying to open the front door with your cigar.” “Really, now. I wonder if I've been smoking the lateh key?'—Shoene Blaue Donau. . THERB I8 no remedy equa: to Hood's Sarsaparilla for scrofula, salt rheum and every form of blood disease. It is reasonably sure to benefit all who give it a fair trial. Be sure 10 get Hood's. 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Samples on applicati KOHLBERGC, 168 miles long connects it with its subscribers, in whose houses long flexible wires permit the receivers to be carried from room to room. At the office of the journal ten men with strong voices take turns in talking the news into the telephones. This modern journal makes all its deliverances to its subseribers accord- ing to a stated schedule, which lets them know what to expect at stated hours of the day. It gives them the tele- fnphm news duly and carefully edited, the locel news, articles on vlrigus auni:cu, and ‘whatever other newspapers hive. When there is nothing more important to communicate the subscribers are entertained by vocal and in- strumental musie, sometimes discoursed for their especial benefit, sometimes gathered from concert halls or churches where music is go- ing on. nfi allthis really happens at Pesth, and not in the moon, Pesth must the finest place for illiterate, blind, bed-ridden and incurably lazy eople in the world. 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