The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1895, Page 18

» THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SCRIPTION RATES d funday CaLL, one v Sunday CaLI, Ove year, by m nd ALL, #ix monils, ALL n sily and Sunday Cax £unday CaLy, one year. by W EEKLY CALL, one ) e rafly Taily an Taily and maill .65 San Francisco, Telephore. ... Main—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay St Selephoe.......... BRANCH OFFICES: ¥ Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until $:80 o'clock. .Matn—1874 open untf o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. and Mission streets; open Tl € o'cloc 4518 N 1s treet: open until 9 o'clock 316 N1nth street; open until 9 0'¢ick OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Brondway. N OFFICE: ew York City. al Agent. Rooms 51 i DAVID M .OCTOBER THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ] Town talk is strictly conventional. We go for the convention nowand it will come to us later on. Inspector Dockery’s milk shake is getting to be a regular treat. The chrysanthemum show was alto- gether the proper thi This is the time for the big West to show the East what a pull she has. Weoffer a tran cake and the ental trip asa plum ke it. A Presidential Convention would fit in well with the fiestas next summer. This ar lucky year, but whatever we have worked for we have won. few men who can wear a without being overly con- f2Once more the silurian hasa chance to declare that a subscription on the dead level is a bluff. or Sherm ys his book is not to be what the advance reports have ither a revenue pro- nor a protection to industry is not , what is it? Little by little the discussion of the short campaign proposition is growing to be a campaign itself. There i New York and eleven one municipal issue in but it takes five parties ns to fight it out. It is n: | that lecture on “old lanc since the tidal wave enator Hill shoudd narks,” as nothing interesting to him. The Boston Herald asserts that *‘Cleve- land is every inch a sailor,” and the country will admit that he is pretty well tarred. As Maine is bragging over the posses- slon of strawberries in October, it is evi- dent our 1mfluence is beginning to be felt in the far East. Atlanta is content that another’s lips should pr: but she insists on keep- ing up an incessant explanation of how it ehould be do Ii the contest for the Republican National Convention does nothing else, it will give us some good exerciss in the fine art of pulling together. S Making the Marlborough and Vanderbilt marriage ceremony a ‘‘white wedding,” is one way of tcning down the loudness of the old man’s checks. e The rapidity with which we are raising money to obtain the Republican National Convention will be regarded by our rivals as decidedly unconventional. Why should there be any more talk about overproduction or underconsump- tion, when the Boston vapers announce that the price of cod liver oil is going up? At this juncture it is permissible for us to remind Boston again that we expect her tostand by her argument that the best summer resort city is the best convention city. The last session of the Massachusetts Legislature appropriated $40,000 for road improvements, and now both parties in the present campaign are promising the peo- ple to continue the good work. New York newspapers of all parties are 80 vociferous in asserting ‘‘the city isIn deadly peril” that to the observant out- sider it seems as if the big town had got politics into its vermiform appendix. The burden of Spanish taxation upon Cuba has long been hea but if Spain conguers the island this time and imposes the cost upon the Cubans, it will be less like a tax than a general confiscation. The slow degrees by which civilization progresses is made evident by the fact that it is only at this late day arrangements have been made to supply Belleyvue Hospital in New York City with baths, It is said that one reason why the Euro- pean powers hesitate to deal roughly with the Oriental question is because they know that while the Turkish Government is weak, the Turks themselves are fighters and are perfectly willing to begin. St. Louis after working for three years on a new city hall and expending $2,000,- 000, has just discovered that the structure is unsafe because the iron columns used in it are full of blow holes, and as a resalt she is as badly broken up as if she had a city election on hand. The general annual report of, the army just issued by the British War Office shows on the first day of this year there were present for duty in the “Imperial Regular Forces” 222,151 men. Of these 107,810 were at home, 5066 in Egypt, 81,783 in the Colonies and 77,492 in India. The recent celebration of the fiftieth an- niversary of the incorporation of Mil- waukee led to the republication of 2 news- paper published in that city in 1845, and therein was found the statement, ‘‘Chi- cago giris believe two feet make a yard,” ihus proving that our ancestors were as witty as ourselves, and that when a truth has once been published by the American press it becomes immortal. i THE REAL CONSIDERATIONS. It seems unfortunate that any question of the convenience of delegates and can- didates should have been raised in the discussions over the proper place for hold- ing the next Republican National Conven- tion. It is a pleasant theory that great political parties have charged their con- sciences with the heaviest responsibilities affecting the welfure of the country, and that their leading representatives have accepted this responsibility in its highest and purest form. These representatives are the delegates who nominate candi- dates for National offices and the candi- dates themselves, and they are the con- trolling forces whose ¢onduet is set in mo- tion by the National committees. Until the convention is assembled the National committees bear all the responsibility. In view of these considerations it is amazing to hear that the objections to San Francisze as the place for the meeting of the Republican National Convention completely ignore the possible National benefits which might result from the se- lection and have reference solely to the personal and private convenience of cer- tain party leaders. If there is in the great Republican party a single leader who gives preference to his personal concerns over those which affect the party and the Na- tion he is sadly out of place and is lower- ing the dignity of the party, and should make room for a man blessed with a higher sense of patriotism. ‘We are told that the distance from the Eastern States to San Francisco is too great; that too much time will be required to make the trip; that the cost to the in- dividual delegates will be too heavy; that candidates will be put to inconvenience, and that similar trivial and selfish consid- erations are permitted to outweigh the grander concerns of the Nation. It is probable that there are delegates who are not financially able to besr the expense, but if so they should step out of the way. It 1s conceivable that many are unwilling to sacrifice time and money in the interest of a great cause, but if so the Republican party and the country have no use for their services. Leading men in any party should be ashamed to urge such objections as these. As for the plaint of certain newspapers that they might be put to a trifling inconvenience on the score of tele- graphic reports, no patriotic leader can afford for a moment to heed them. It is the duty of every true Republican to laugh all these mean and trifling objections to scorn. That great results involving the welfare of the Nation might easily flow from hold- ing the convention in San Francisco is a proposition that is manifestly true and that needs no argument to support it. The irrigation of the splendid areas of the ‘West, the interests of mining, the serious matter of the Government’s relation to the aided overland railroad lines, and a dozen other matters equally important could be studied and understood. The bearing of the development of the resources of the West on the welfare of the American people is so grave a matter that the politi- cal party which heedlessly ignores it and is moved instead by selfish motives of the most trivial kind is taking serious chances with its reputation for comprehensive patriotism. THE HIDDEN HAND. Joseph Nimmo Jr. has dragged forth his famous report of 1830 adverse to the Nica- ragua canal, revamped it and submitted it to the Nicaragua Canal Board. Curiously enough it has been printed and distributed throughout the country. Were it not for undoubted internal evidence that this mis- sionary work is being done and was in- spired ¥n the first place by certain trans- continental railroad interests, the identity of the printers and distributors of this precious document would likely remain forever a mystery, as the name of the pub- lisher is modestly omitted. In these con- jectures we are assisted by a memory of Mr. Nimmo’s fulsome praise of the rail- road service to the country when the Reilly funding bill was under discussion. The author has indicated the inspiration of his pen in this sneer: “* * * the promoters of a wild and impracticable in- teroceanic canal scheme, who are unable to go into the money markets of the world and raise a dollar in aid of their project.” In reporting the railroad tonnage of the United States he omits, among other trans- continental roads, the Central Pacific, the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific, and every one of the great railroads centering at the Columbia River and Puget Sound, evidently with the intention of making the amount of freight hauled out of the West eppear as small as possible. He at- tempts to show that even the Panama Rail- road route will in time be abandoned in favor of the transcontinental roads, and he extends warm thanks to the late A. N. Towne, general manager of the Southern Pacific Company, “‘for highly appreciated courtesies shown him in the preparation of his document.” There are many other indications of this character, and they place this special plea in behalf of the railroads outside the field of serious discussion. Still, a short review of his mest important arguments might have a slight interest. He estimates that the tonnage likely to vass through the canal would not exceed 1,625,000 tons, and ridicules De Lesseps’ estimate of 6,000,000 tons. Placing then the cost of the canal at $252,000,000, he puts the annual interest charge at $10,080,000, which would require a charge of $10 a ton through the canal in addition to that re- quired for current expenses, which would be $150, whereas the average charge on the Panama Railway is $436 a ton, and through the Suez canal $1 82 a ton. In support of his assumption that 1,000, 006 tons annually will be the traflic of the Nicaragua canal, he declares that sailing- vessels can round the Horn in shorter time and at far less cost than would be necessary should they pass throngh the canal; that steamships plying between the Orient and Europe will always, as hereto- fore, take the Suez canal; that no silks and teas from the Orient are brought to the Pacific Coast of the United States for transcontinental rail forwarding; that the development of railway systems in the countries south of the United States tends, as in the United States, to the depletion of west-coast traffic by water and the rail hauling of products to Eastern ports; that the receipts of the Panama Railway have steadily fallen along with its rates, and that instead of transisthmian lines having the effect of regulating transcontinential rail charges, the opposite has. been the fact; that there has been ‘“a wonderful growth of transcontinental railroad tref- fic,” and that ‘“wonderful reduction has been made in freight charges on all the transcontinental lines”; that transconti- nental railroads, instead of affecting gen- eral commercial conditions, are strictly subservient to them. There are many other statements of like character. Those which are not manifestly 'untrue are utterly illogical. It is unfortunate for his general argu- ment that he made this slip: “As the American railroad system was extended and developed an irresistible demand arose for the establishment of direct shipments over connecting lines on a single bill of lading from the point of shipment to the voint of delivery.” This happens to be just what the Nicaragua canal would afford; its absence, added to the necessity for rehandling, renders transhipment over the Penama Railway so troublesome and expensi Hence the Nicaragua canal would offer a great advantage now enjoyed solely by the railroads, and for that rea- son alone would be a powerful competitor. A sneerat what the author terms “the so-called Monroe doctrine” betrays the animus of his work. He deliberately obscures both the military and political aspects of the case. It is not worth while to give the docu- ment further notice. It is clearly a special plea for the railroads. Itignores the pos- sibilities of development and readjustment which the presence of the ‘canal would create, and that is the greatest of all con- siderations involved in the proposition, unless the matter of the better security of our country be deemed a greater. OLIMATE AND HEALTH. The Popular Science Monthly has printed an able lecture delivered before thé New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor on “Climate and Health.” It calls the attention of the medical fra- ternity not only to the benefits which may be secured from a study of climate in re- lation to health, but also to the prevalent neglect with which physicians treat this important subject. The paper stfts with the broad proposi- tion that a change from one climate to a different one involves certain functional moditications which we term acclimatiza- tion, and that as there is in this process an expenditure of vital forces it becomes nec- essary to ascertain whether this may likely prove beneficial or injurious. Thus, it be- ing admitted that in a particular case a change of climate is desirable, it becomes the highest duty of the physician to ascer- tain what climate is required and exactly where it may be found. Of course, as the lecturer points out, the mere change from one set of meteorologi- cal conditions to another set having ex- actly the qualities sought is not the only change experienced. In addition to it we have a change of scene, diet, occupation, pleasures and local sanitary conditions, and they ail deserve attention. He devotes considerable space to the re- markable conditions prevalent in Califor- nia, where, according to Dr. Remondino, there are seven distinct kinds of climate, all different from one another and from any climate wo be found in the East- ern States; and yet it is common for doc- tors in the East to advise simply thav their patients go to California for the bensfit of the climate. **Without some specific in- formation,” says the lecturer, “such a patient is likely to drop into a place better calculated to shorten than to prolong his days. To be sure, all the climates of Cali- fornia are characterized by a dryness ex- ceeding what is known in the East, and this fact gives some relative advantages. But unquestionably the air may be too dry in certain localities for certain cases.” Attention is then called to the worthless- ness of mean temperature reports and of thermometrical readings in general. The thermometer, indeed, is one of the least val- uable indications of climate. “In the in- terior valleys of California,”” explains the lecturer, “‘I have seen the thermometer in- dicate 100 to 110 degrees F. for days and weeks together and no one complained of the heat as excessive, while all labor of man and beast went on as usual and pros- trations are unknown. In New York, when summer heat approaches 90 degrees we expect many prostrations and some deaths.” The question of breezes and hu- midity explains the difference. He then mentions a striking peculiarity of California. *“The Sacramento Valley,” he says, “is very hot in the summer, butit is also dry, so that friends of mine would kill a beef and elevate the carcass by means of rope and pulley to the top of a tall pole, let it down from time to time to cut from it, and it would keep perfectly sweet until it was all eaten up.” This is because of the great dryness of the air. “There is no doubt,” he explains, “that considerable moisture in the air favors the growth of minute organisms and decomposition of matter takes place rapidly under the in- fluence of heat and moisture.”” The conclusion of the lecturer’s investi- gations is that the main desideratum in seeking a change of climate is to secure comfort, and he adds a climate which, apart from the elements contributing to give greater efficiency to the simple matter of change, is found to be best for an in- valid is best for a person in sound health. PERSONAL. P. A. Buell of Stockton is at the Grand. George Capelle of New York is at the Palace, S. Sweed of Petaluma is registered at the Grand. §. Blight of Grass Valley, a mining man, is in the City. G. M. Francis of Napa is registered at the Occidental. A. J. Pillsbury, & Tulare attornev, is staying at the Grand. Thomas Maitland is registered at the Palace from London. Scipio Craigand wife of the Redlands Citro- graph are in the City. Dr. H. W. Wood of the United States navy is a guest at the California. Jonn Thomean, a St. Helena wineman, is among yesterday's arrivals. Walter Camp, the football coach of the Stan- ford eleven, registered at the Palace last night. Professor David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, is 8 guest at the Occl- dental. William T. Jeter, prospective Lieutenant- Governor, is & guest at the California. He leaves to-day for Willows. Dr. Emily McB. Yeargain of 8an Jose 1s in the City. Dr. Yeargain is a sister of United States Senator George W, McBride of Oregon, Colonel H. C. Woodrow, & prominent mining man from Salt Lake City, who has had an ex- tensive experience in the mining districts of Utabh, Colorado and Oregon, is at the Occi- dental. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON, D. , Oct. 26.—Among re- cent arrivals are: B. R. Banning, Oakland, Hotel Normandie; Mrs. George S. Lucas, San Francisco, Hotel Raleigh. OUT OF SIGHT ADVERTISING. Los Angeles Times. The following comparative statement, show- ing the quantities of advertising matter printed in three San Francieco daily papers and one Los Angeles paper last Sunday, October 20, tells a significant story: _Total No. Los Angeles Times. 11 San Frauctsco CAL 85 San Francisco Examine: . B9 San Franclsco Chrouicle. “LINERS"—5%3 PAGES, Los Angeles Times. San Francisco Exal San Francisco CALL. Ban Francisco Chronicle. ... The above are the only papers in the State which are in the competition. - l RANDOM NOTES. By Jouxy McNAUGHT. Of the twenty-five votes needed in ghe Republican National Committee to bnn_g the next convention of the party to this City it is aid we have already seyenteen. 1f the opposition to us were united there would be but little promise in this show- ing. Fortunately for us the opposition is not united. The reports state that bv:n two cities, Chicago and Pittsburg, are in the field against us, but in that respect the reports are not wholly accurate. The local papers of Boston and Buffalo are urging the claims of their respective cities, and we may be sure they are not making their efforts without aid. Four at least of the Eastern cities may be put down as com- petitors in the contest. We have, there- fore, only eight men to gain from an op- position dividea into four factions. To move that many ought not to be difficult, even if they formed a solid eight as heavy as our own. It could be proven to them, indeed, that they would add to their weizht and lose all their heaviness if they would consolidate with the other seventeen. The idea of holding a National Conven- tion in San Francisco appeals to one of the grandest sentiments of our patriotism. We have no nobier source of National pride than that which lies in the wide area of territory over which our people h?ve spread without losing the power of acting together in harmonious law. To name on the shore of the Pacific a chief magistrate who 1s to reside on the shore of the At- lantic would strikingly manifest the mag- nitude of our ocean-girt Republic. We are fond of spreading the eagle. This would spread it to the limit. One of the incidental advantages likely to result from the assembling of a National Convention in 8an Francisco would be the education of the East in the geography of the United States. The people beyond the Rockies are living in the ignorance of be- lieving that this City is on the western limit of our country. In such a belief there is no knowledge of Alaska. San Francisco is really the central city of the Republic, and when our National eagle perches here he must extend his wings West as well as East to reach the boun- daries of our possessions. It is possible to teach this truth even to the Eastern mind, for a man is not necessarily beyond the reach of education because he is beyond the Rockies; and to perform the task isa patriotic duty which our knowledge owes to their ignorance. Let us invite them therefore to hold the National Convention in the central city of the Union, and when they arrive show them that for the first time in their lives they are truly in the midst of things. We know that autumn has come because the chrysanthemums are here, and we know the chrysanthemums are here be- cause some of us have been to the Palace to see the show, and some have stood on the streets to see the procession go by. This flower is not very beneficent to woman, but manifold and marvelous are its blessings to man. He that has a chrysanthemum needs no new coat. With one of these in his buttonhole the man in the shabbiest of left-over garments passes muster as a dandy. Nor does he need an overcoat even when the wind biows, the fogs come in and the nights grow chilly. With the heart of him warmed by a sense of such a gorgeous possession how can the back of him be cold? Truly this is a beati- fic blossom. It flatters pride, consoles voverty, adorns what is brilliant, hides what is shabby, warms the bloed, satisties the mind, erects the head, enlivens the step, attracts attention and fulhlls almost every social need of man except the ad- miration of women, and iteven conduces to that, The dispute over the succession to the office of poet laureate in England is hardly less interesting to us than to the English themselves, for poetry belongs to alanguage and not to a nation. The vol- umes of Tennyson in every American library show how far he was ours, and the bust of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey attests the claim of the English on him. This being true of all poetry is most par- ticularly so of that kind of verse poet laureates have to write. It is their duty to furnish poems for great occasions of state, grand ceremonies and national celebrations. What they write under such circumstances becomes a part of the news of the day. Enterprising journals have to print it and intelligent readers have to read it. It is a matter of importance to us, therefore, that the poet laureste should be capable of writing verse fit to mingle with the news of the day, and not appear flat and stale by contrast with the rest of the paper. Having thus both a voetic and news interest in the succession to the office we cannot avoid a feeling of irrita- tion at the way the British are stupidly squabbling over it, and would like to see a committee of investigation appointed to find out why thére has been so much delay. There are people in England who advise the abamdon ment of the laureateship alto- gether, and there are others who recom- mend such mediocre poets for the place that 6ne is half persuaded to agree with the first set. There are strong reasons, however, for preserving the office. Itisof no little advantage to a nation to have some one who can fitly sing & great occa- sion in verse that will inspire for the mo- ment, even if it does not endure for ages. ‘We in America know verywell what hap- vens when a commitiee on programme is turned loose to select a poet of the day. We Lave some recollections still of what Wwas perpetrated at the World’s Columbian Exposition, and we do not wish England to send us enything like it as a part of the day’s news on some great occasion over there. We don't wish it at telegraphic rates, anyhow. Therefore, it is desirable for our own sakes that the British should stick to the poet-laureate system. It may bave defects and doubtless has many of them, but it can never produce so many kinds and quaiities of abominable results as a committee on programme. 1f there is to be a successor to Tennyson there is only one man in England who can fill the place without making both himself and the office ridiculous. Thst man is Swinburne. It is hard to believe that any considerable number of Englishmen of literary tastes would be willing to accept any other as a national poet. Indeed, the selection of any other would be simply the appointment of a court poet. It seems, however, the office is sufficiently lucrative to entice every rhyme-writer into a scram- ble for it, for while the salary is not mueh, the publishers pay handsomely for the ad- vantage of the title, and the magazines actually bid against ome another for the vrivilege of advertising among their con- tributors the poet laureate. As a conse- quence of this conditidn of affairs the post is no longer what the world calls “an empty honor,” that is an honor purely. It has now become an office with money in it, and as a result there is very likely a job init. This throws some light on the long squabble over the succession. Swinburne, it seems, is not altogether equal to the job. In our little contest with New York the subject of culture, we have been cheered by the arrival of an unexpected but potent ally. Modjeska declares she will never again attempt Shakespearean roles in that city, as the people have no appreciation of the classic drama, and she recalls that Booth, after making a for- tune by presenting Shakespeare in other parts of the country, failed to draw pay- ing audiences in New York, and that in trying to maintain a theater there he be- came bankrupt. It will be remembered that when Mr. Greer Harrison made his criticism on the big city, certain smooth- talking but rudely iliogical gentlemen among us suggested that perhaps Mr. Harrison could not write a play. I now indulge enough of an idle curiosity to wonder what these same people will say of Modjeska’s criticism. Will they tell us that Booth couldn’t act, or will they assert that Shakespeare couldn’t write ? The California Guild of Letters has done something more than increase its own prestige in the community by the publica- tion of the poems of Ina D. Coolbrith. It has added to the prestice of California in the domain of pure literature. It is an ex- cellent thing to have such a poet awong us and it is excellent also to have men and women who know the value of that poet’s work, and knowing it are willing to assist in making it out to others. No slight ser- vice has been rendered to the State by the publication of a volume of such fine work as this. Wherever the grace of poesy has & votary this book will find a welcome; nor will there ever fail to be words of praise for the Guild which by publishing the book has put the poesy 1n the reach of all and added another to those volumes by which the genius of California is made known to the world and her glory in- credsed wherever beauty is loved and art is honored. LETTERS FROM THE PROPLE. THOSE DREADFUL DUMPS. THE REV. W. S. Urmy RAmEs H1S VOICE IN PROTEST AND PETITION, Editor Call—DEAR S1R: The residents of the Potrero are a long-suffering, patient and law- abiding people, else long before this violent means had been resorted to for the purpose of relieving themselves from the terrible nuisance right at their doors, Day after day and night after night during the late warm spell, up from the “dumps” on Mission Flat has arisen a most offensive, nauseating and deleterious effluvium, which pervades all the atmosphere and renders necessary the closing of the doors and windows of the houses, if one would be free from the revolting odor, though this pro- cedure is not always effective and also subjects our citizens to the unhesithful rebreathing of the same air. What a city government is this which allows one part of the municipality to dump its garb- age and offal right under thie noses of another part] Whetablot on the reputation of this great metropolis that it has no better means of isposing of its debris! A walk through this southern partof the City shows long lines of garbage carts and wagons hastening along Seventh street to deposit their contents within the City lmits, under the express consent of the Supervisors, and with the fearful probabil- ity of creating a devastating epidemic. Be- sides this, there are parts of these flats where the garbuge is piled high above what will be the line of the official grade. Again, when the rains come, the drain of much of this muck ion Creek, & watercourse “the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril,” and rivals in corruption and offensiveness that Stygian pool which courses through the great city of Chicago. Great gratification exists among us here at the action of the Board of Health, but the hope is entertained that these men of intelligence will not allow this matter to drop with a mere assertion of what should be done, but will use the utmost of their influence and authority to obtain from the Board of Supervisors a grant of money to build atonce a crematory. Certain land could be st once obtained gratuitously on which to build such an absolutely necessary structure and & canvass of this partof the town mizht secure a nucleus for the amount necesary to erect it. To hasten the matter would it not be well for the almost hopeless sufferers to rise en masse, bind the Superyisors and stake them out in the “flats’’ for a night that they might, by inhalation, become partakers of the hun- dred_several stenches that frequently salute the olfactories of Potrero mxényerl? Ong thousand people would probably become residents of this part of the City within the next six months could this and kindred nui- sances be suppressed, and the lots which the land-owners and real estate agents are vainly endeavoring to sell would go off like hot even at the risk of having to Yny the new claim. ant & good bonus to settle title. W.S. UrxY. THE GUN NOT SPIKED. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The amusing account in to-day's CALL of the “taking of the Oregon” reminds me of the sur- prise occasionea a friend and myself one moon- light evening about two months ago. We had walked from the Presidio to the fort, and I jokingly suggested that we should inspect the big gun ou the bluffs above the fort, feeling certain, however, of being challenged and warned off. Much to our astonishment we found no_sentry on guard and walked up to the gun, inspected it closely and went away, wonderiiig at what seemed to our untutored civilisp minds inexcusable negligence on the part of some one high in authority. We didn’t £pike the gun, because we didn’t want to. Youre, E. E. San i‘mncisco, October 25, 1895, MODERN MAID OF ATHENS. Maid of Athens, ere we fly, Thy pneumatic tire I'll try. Allls well! We mount—we start Gosh! Thou hast a dandy heart! All my brain is in a whirl, Chasing thee, my bloomer girl1 Daid of Athens, not 5o fast 1 At this gait 1 cannot last. What! She spurted when T spoke? Deemed she Willle’s words a joke? Epeeds she while, bereft of foy, Fainting, halts her Willie Boy? Diaid of Athens, thou hast fled! val’s sl Gently, wheel by wheel, you glide! Ob, it makes poor Willie sigh. Fickie maid, for aye good-by | Mald of Atbens, 1f your tire Punctured gets, Uil ne'er inquire. Yet, you've hit poor Willie hard; All i wits are sadly jsrred Can I cease to love thee? Yes! Other bloomers bloom, I guess! FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The Single Aim in Life. Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review. Having chosen a profession, the young man or young woman will do well to put aside am- bition in the popular acceptation of the word. 1i they are made of the right material, enough of it will creep into their lives without the biaaing. The single noble aim should be effi- clency and excellence. The daily endeavor should be to do one’s best out of pure love for excellence. Soen this will deepen into a fixed habit, and when tnis habitis attained it will be found that success will follow with little ex- traordinary exertion. Things Are Not What They Seem. Oskland Tribune. The iconoclasts of late have been smashing historic legends. Pocahontas was not s prin- cess and did not save £mith. William Tell wasonly a myth. Shakespeare did not write the plays commonly ettributed to him. These were written by rd Bacon. Paul Revers never made any such ride as Longfellow ro- lates. Barbara® Frieichie was only a poetic ideal, and s0 on to end of the chapter. When the truth of histery is challenged it is well that there are his orflm to meet the issue. No Objection When Benefits Are Ade- quate. Dixon Tribune. Vallejo has a very high tax rate this year, but not & murmur is heard from the taxpayers, a8 they realize that their municipal govern- ment s well administered and they are receive ing the full worth of their money. Corbett Draws the Color Line. Fresno Republican. A relationship between Corbett and Fitz. simmons is & cted. The former says that the latter isa low dog. Busby Will Kick at One Only, Los Angeles Times. Busby, the negro who, by means of a bottle of poisoned wine, killed two men at the Dow- ney-avenue passenger station, isto be tried on two charges of murder, If he is found guilty on both counts and given the full penalty in each case, how can the Lwo sentences he car- ried out? The Governor may then intercede and commute the sentence so that Busby shall be hanged only one time instead of twice. No Bonus for Oregon Products. Eureka Times. The Board of Supervisors of Del Norte County for self-protection repealed the gopher bounty ordinance. They discovered that large pack- ages of gopher scalps were being shipped from Oregon. Not When Properly Played. San Jose Mercury. Is thegreat National game really played out? SHASTA TO THE FRONT. Redding Free Press. ‘We have it on good suthority that R. G. Hart has refused the neat sum of $800,000 for his mine at Old Diggings, and that, furthermore, on being pressed to name his figure, he declared that the mine was not for sale at any price. This ehows two things; first, that there is an abundance of capital at hand to purchase de- veloped mines, and second, that our county bas made most rapld progress in mining dur- ing thelast eight or ten years. We well re- member when this mine was considered of no value. About eight years ago, when 8. P. Fill- man of this City owned the mine, we were told in confidence, by a man who thought he knew all about it, that the mine was of no vaiue. What is now known as the Texas Consolidated mine was discovered by & Methodist preacher named G. W. Fleming. He finally disposed of the same to Hart and Day. Upon the death of Day; Mr. Fillman got control, and expended $7000, after which Fleming and Hart again se- cured the property. We cannot state from memory the various changes of ownership, but know that Mr. Hart was a poor man when he secured individual control, and it was only by hard work and good management that he suc- cedeed in keeping hfs head above the water. Whether Mr. Hart is wise in refusing what seems to be a very large sum of money for the property remains to be seen. Time will tell. Aubrey Plantagenet — Ah! my dear Miss Vere de Vere, I hear a rumor that you may lose the good name you have hitherto so worthily borne. Miss Vere de Vere—Sir! how dare you? Leave the house; there’s the door! (And all he meant was that he had heard she was going to marry & man named Smith.) POINTS FOR ADVERTISERS. New York Printers’ Ink. The best advertisement is the one that sells the largest number of goods to the largest number of people. A gooa ad first catches eattention, then awakens thought, and then hali the battle is over. People are unlike. One style, constantly per- sisted in, will attract the atiention of bul one I)ortion of the people. A judicious variation s neceseary if all classes are to be influenced. Originality should not be too great a consid- eration with ad writers. The ad that is not original but sells goods is & better ad than one that is intensely original and does not sell g00ds. Simply stating that your article is good, or better, or best, without giving any facts to sub- stantiate_your claims, {s not apt to convince people. Such advertising is not suited to a skeptical age. An advertisement is not solely a literary per- formance. It is not o be judged by literary standards. Its form and substance may be in exact violation of literary rules, but it may be an excellent advertisement withal, becanse it brings trade. That is the only test. The more trade it brings the better advertisement it is, however unliterary it may appear. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.® == e E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * Sndsg e S A NIce present, California glace fruit, 50c pound in Japenese baskets. Townsend's. * e ——————— BPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses znd public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * T N CALIFORNIA WINES in cases and barrels for Christmas delivery free to -ny‘}‘)arr of Germany or Switzerland. A. Repsold & Co., 517 Cali- fornia st. Order early. ' . Seven Pines’ Campfire Will be held in California Hall, 629 Bush street, Tuesday evening, October 29. General Barnes will give the address, and there will be dancing and & banguet. Admission, 25 cents, The decrease of imported cotton into India is now 34,000,000 yards. A BATTLE for blood is what Hood's Sarsaparilla vigorously fights. It expels scrofula taint in the Dblood and frees the vital fiuid of the acid which causes rheamatism. Take only Hood’s. e s MoTHERS glve Dr. Siegeet’s Angostura Bitters to thelr children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. ———— Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggistssell it at 25 cents. ———— More people poison themselves by acci- dent than by suicidal intention. NEW TO-DAY. EAGLESON'S Grand Stock OF NEW Fall and Winter Underwear. Hosiery, Gloves, Neckwear, Fancy Shirts, Bicycle Goods, Etc., Etc. The largest and best stock we have ever shown. HIGH GRADE GOODS. Prices Much Lower. 748 and 750 Market St. 242 Montgomery St. 12 S. Sprinz}t.. L. A. DEPARTHERT. FALL AND WINTER JACKETS Varying In prices from $12.50, $13.50, $18.00, $20.60, And Upwards. THE LATEST STYLES OF English Kersey Cloth Jackets AND BOUCLE EFFEGCTS. ALSO HANDSOME LINE OF Velors, Cloth and Plush Capes, Trimmed with Jat, Feathers and $10.00, $15.00, Angora Fur. WE HAVE A VERY FINE LINE OF FUR CAPES From 18 to 30 inches long and full circular cut. SE HABLA ESPANOL. G. VERDIER & .CO., SE. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. VILLE DE PARIS. BRANCH HOUS LOS ANGELE FURNITURE 4l§g§flfls Parlor—Siik Brocaiells, trimmed. Bedroom—7-piece ELEGANT SUIT, bed, bue vashstand. two chairs, rocker and table; , woven-wire an ss. Dining-Room—6-foot Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Tabls and two chairs, EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open evenings. . FRIEDMAN & 0., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Fres packing and delivery across the bay. AN OLD LIGHT MADE USEFUL A USIQUE DEVICE. A Candlestick, A B-Sun Lamp Chimney, Make the DAISY LANTERN! Will Withstand a Rurricane. Cannot Blow It Out With Hat or Fan. Spleca sult, plash For Sale by All Mer- chants, 25 cents. Sample by mail. EENNEDY'S C Beware of Worthless Imitations. A LADIES GRILL ROOK Has been established in the Palace Hotel (5, ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS made on the management. It takes tne place of the clty restaurant, with direct entrance from Market st. Ladies shiopping will find this & moss @esirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod- erate charges, such as have given the gentlemen’s Griliroom am international Teputation, will prevai 18 this new depariment. COAL! Wellington. Southfield .. Genuine Coos gency,Oakland, ‘al. COAL ! $10 00 50 5 00—falf ton § . 800—Halt ton 400 . 800—Half ton 400 Telephone—Black ENICKEREOCKER COAL CO., 522 Howard Street, Near First. RIGGS HOUSE, Washington, ID. C. The Hotel * Par Excelience’ Of the National Capital. First class in all appoints ments. G. DEWITT. T'reas. American plan, $3 per day and upward. NEW WESTERN HOTEL. FARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.— K i and renovated, KING, WARD & G, European plan. 80c 10 $1 50 per day, $2 10 88 per week, #8 Lo $30 per month; free baths: ot aud cold water every room; fire grates in evey Toom; elevalor runs ali night.