The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Pmpf ior. —Postage Free: eck. by carrier.§0.15 BSCRIPTION RATE Pally and €unday CALL, ©) 1nday CALL, six nd Sunday CALL, th 1ly and Sunday CALL. o tupday CALL, one year, U by mail 150 .65 150 e montD > month, by mall W EEKLY CALL, o€ year, by wali. . L50 rket Street, co, California. - Main—3868 Selephons.. EBRANCH OFFICE: £70 Montgomery strect, coruer C §:50 o'clock. cpen uutil open until 5:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clos h und Mission streets; open Bt € o'clock. 2618 M ission stree 316N uth street; open v OAKLAND OFFICE: £U8 Broadway. ¥ OCTOBER 28, 1895 CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL he convention is the issue now. 1 altogether is alwa Victory is in sight, but it won't be ours unless we reach for it. Ll et | As iong as Dockery keeps at it the peo- ple will stay with him. Corbett and F mmons have enough | hope left to continue the talk. ut will it answer? ds another bond issue he | s coming. | If Grover inte must hurry up, oses the $100,000 for | should be in| week Convention fore the winter sets in the football record will be a close second to that of the trolley-car. - vho is never witty on any other makes fun of progress and | enterprise. Esstern world is in an agony of e to see how the blocmer will stand | owstorm. Th the next cam- dy propose a plan ke the last one much whether them or not. falls down quite €0 hard in | Democratic candidate who ional Conven- { peat the record made in rais- for the competing road. tion let us ing money The five parties in N a regular cake walk cs w York are having | 2paign with the in it. iss Consuelo Vanderbilt is three inches r than her little Duke, but he won'’t be so short after he has the oid man’s check to stand on. | crowd can bring David out here we wiil be glad to see for a change from local If the Buckle Bennett Hill him. Any Democracy. Barney Barnato having made an enor- mous fortune in South African mines is now going in for a royalty. He proposes to write a We could not all cross the continent to g0 to a National convention, but we can all help to bring the convention across the continent to u: The things that confront Cleveland in preparing his message are neither condi- tions nor theories but a dictionary and a book of quotations. Having put in a gooa deal of time in bicycle practice Mr. Reed would naturally take more interest in a race for the Presi- dency than in a walk-over for the Speaker- ship. The only reason why England wishes to take a part of Venezuela’s territory is be- cause it has gold mines in it. The invasion of the disputed territory is but another step in the golabug grab game, If it be true as reported that a new tele- graph system capable of transmitting 940 words a minute is about to be put into use, we may look out fora big revivalin the noble art of championship prize-fighting. Gorman has reached a point in the Maryland campaign where he deems it advisable to urge Democrats who are op- posed to his machine to vote the party ticket this time and settle with him later on. Among the colonial relics exhibited at the Atlanta Exposition is a silver cup bearing the inscription: ““A premium from the Agricultural Society of South Carolina to General Washington for raising the largest jackass.” In the Mississippi as weil as in the Ohio the water has reached the lowest mark on record and the stream is so shallow that even between St. Louis and Cairo the steamers have been laid up and traflic sus- pended. S 1f the National Convention should be awarded to this City the San Jose people will probably arrange to have their rose carnival follow immediately after, 50 as to give the visitors a chance to enjoy a Cali- fornia fiesta before they go home. Commenting on the opening of a bloomer resteurant in San Francisco the New York Ezpress says: “How a town so progressive can fail to capture a National convention is what puzzlesus.” The Ezpress should take notice we haven’t failed yet and don’t intend to, even if we have to put the whole town in bloomers. A New York woman after five months of married life sued for a divorce and proved that her husband had repeatedly slapped herin the face, but the Judge refused to grant the divorce on the ground that she badn’t been married long enough to give matrimony a fair trial. It would seem from this that in New York wedded bliss is regarded as an acquired taste. | route as from having them hold the con- | to test the temper of the United States. It FOR THE CONVENTION. | The task of securing the Republican National Convention for San Francisco is becoming simplified by some curious and unexpected developments. For instance, New York, which has a hearty detestation of Chizago, would rather see the conven- tion come to this City than go to the metropolis of the lakes. The Sun declares that either New York or San Francisco should bave the convention, and that un- doubtediy expresses the sentiment of the Empire State. This means to say that the stronger Chicago’s chances are for the con- vention the harder New York will work for San Francisco. Again, the Republican party has not for- gotten the disgraceful treatment which it received at the hands of the Chicago police, backed by the municipal authori- ties, in the interest of Gresham. Thisisa very sore spot, particularly as Gresham aiterward deserted the party. The ease with which more than half the necessary $100,000 has been raised in San Francisco alone, with all the rest of the West yet to hear irom, indicates that many times that amount would be forthcoming if it should be needed. Would it not be well to widen the scope of the endeavor and consider other legitimate uses to which mouey could be put to secure the convention? It is humiliating to be in- formed that there are Republicans in this country who, bearing upon theirshoulders the immense responsibility which the posi- | tion of delegate or candidate imposes, are governed by purely seltish motives in | opposing San Francisco. We are told that | some delegates canuot afford the cost of the trip across the continent. Would it | not be well to take them at their estimate of themselves and bear their traveling e penses? There is growing up a belief that the transcontinental roads will offer a uniform rate of a cent a mile for the round trip. This would apparently bring the cost of a | ticket within the reach even of the poor- est. If it should not there is abundant | money in the West that could be applied | to the purpose where needed. It ought not to be difficult to induce | Denver to withdraw from the competition with San Francisco. That city is on the highway formost of the delegates and it | could receive as great benefit from the proper entertainment of the deiegates en vention there. There is no likelihood of Denver securing the convention, but its competition, instead of its hearty co- operation, weakens San Francisco’s fight. This is a matter that should receive prompt attention. New York does not really want the con- vention. There would be no reason, upart from the personal convenience of some delegates, why it should go to Pittsbur; Minneapolis or any other Eastern cit; No such community would receive any nefit except that from the money svent. | None has the incentive for making the | fight that should animate those who are working for 8an Francisco. And the dele- gates might well take into consideration the fact that no other place would bring them so much pleasure on the score of the beauty and novelty which they would see and the comfort which a bland climate | and a hospitable people would secure to | them. THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE. The situation oi the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela is simply this: By invading Venezuela armed force, and by crossing Bra ritory on that mission, Great Britain has inferentially defied the Monroe doctrine and cballenged this Government to enforce it. The Cleveland administration has pro- claimed 1ts determination to eniorce the doctrine, and there is considerable activity in preparing the armed vessels of the Na- tion for hard and immediate service. Meanwhile the administration has sub- mitted a proposition to the British Gov- ernment, which has not yet taken action on it. Some action cannot be delayed much longer, as fighting between the Brit- ish and Venezuelan forces is likely to be- gin very soon. This does not by any means indicate that there will be 2 serious contlict be- tween this country and Great Britain. Nor is it right to assume that England’s attitude in the south is meant deliberately is doing only what it has done many a time before, and what it will continue al- ways to do unless it is checked. The check must come from this country, if atall, It need not be war, and more than likely wiil not be; for in such an event all the coun- tries of the American Continent would unite against England, and so render it powerless to enforce its demands. Its one policy would be to avoid war, and this it could do only by accepting the United States as an arbiter. In theexercise of that function the United States might evade raising the question of the Monroe doc- trine altogether. For that matter the question has not been really raised as yet, and England can avoid its raising by ac- cepting a proposition from the United States to act as arbiter. That such a course will likely be pursued by Great Britain in order purposely to avoid the raising of that question and em- bodying it in a treaty is what may be ex- pected and what has been already indi- cated by the pacific and temporizing tone of the English press. While professedly acknowledging the right of the Monroe doctrine they are suggesting plans which, if adopted, would hold it in abeyance. They are announcing, for instance, that the Nicaragua canal should be constructed by a combination of the great powers with the United States and managed by an in- ternational commission which shall pro- tect equally the maritime interests of all the nations interested. This is an exceed- ingly shrewd suggestion, as it neither raises the question of the Monroe doctrine nor comes in conflict with its spirit. Some such evasive policy as this, with an acceptance of the United States as an arbiter in the Venezuelan dispute, may be expected from Lord Salisbury. It will be interesting to observe how the Cleveland administration will regard it. THE INSPEOTOR'S SALARY. 1t is gratifying to observe, from inter- views published in TuE Carr, that the leading and responsible dairymen who fur- nish the local supply of milk are fully in sympathy with the work of Milk In- spector Dockery, and that they see a great benefit to themselves in the establishment of a rigid inspection of milk. That is the best possible evidence of their own honesty and of their desire for the enforcement of such regulations as will eliminate the dis- honest competition with which they have to deal, and which is so injurious to their business. The astounding discoveries made by Mr. Dockery, while alarming and dismaying the whole City, have clearly demonstrated the value of the service which he is per- forming, and the eminent advisability of providing for the payment of his salary. At present this is in a very uncertain con- dition. He doubtless expects to get a salary in some way, else he would likely not be willing to perform so arduous ser- vice. It would not do for the honest milk- men to combine and pay his snlaAry. Probably the best way would be toim- pose a graduated license on milk dealers, adjusted at stated times to the volume of their business, and employ the fund so raised to the payment of his salary. The honest dealers could not be expected to object to such a plan, as it would assure their protection against competition with dishonest dealers, and would enable all honest dealers to charge a living price for their milk, including the slight increase necessary to pay the license tax. Asone of them has said in a Cary interview, con- sumers are exceedingly unwise to buy the cheapest milk they can find. It is clearly better and more economical to buy the best milk and pay a good price for it. 1t is the height of municipal unwisdom to place any officer in a position where temptation in the absence of an adequate salary may wait upon him. Itis earnestly hoped that Congress will pass the law which will be submitted at the next session by the California delegation relative to the bostling of American bran- dies and their exportation. The proposed measure provides that American brandy in bonded warehouses shall be relieved of the internal revenue tax of $110 a gallon when it is either bottled for export or ex- ported in bulk. It hasbeen found that the French and Canadian laws to this effect have made it impossible for Americans to export brandy in competition with these foreign products. Under our laws as they exist all spirits must pay the internal reve- nue tax whenever bottled in bonded ware- houses, whether intended for logal or for- ign consumption, and whenever sent out of the country in bulk. This makes it im- possible to introduce cur brandies into the foreign markets that are eager to secure them. The law would have other good effects. The bottling would be done under the su- pervision of the Government and a stamp would be affixed to each bottle guarantee- ing its purity and stating the article from which it is produced. The brandies made in California are the best in the world, be- cause they are made irom grapes. The Government stamp would be an assurance both to home and foreign consumers that the California article is vastly superior to the potato spirits flavored to imitate brandy and sent out from foreign countries. Here in the United States we consume enormous quantities of these injurious manufactured brandies and have no protection against the frauds which they represent. Still another good result would be the permitting of each holder of brandy in & bonded warehouse to blend and reblend his brandies in order to secure a uniform | standard npon which he could base his | reputation for producing the best or a spe- cial guality of goods as a basis of his suc- cess in pushing his trade at home and abroad. It is the ability todo this enjoyed by foreign makers which has made certain brands ot brandy famous and largely con- sumed the world over. The adoption of such a law wonld mean the addition of millions of dollars to the wealth of California and the building up of a brandy indus:ry onan enormousscale; for if our brandies are given an equal chance with others in the markets of the world they will necessarily lead by reason of their excellence and purity. As the party in power has not shown a disposition to adopt a policy for the en- couragement of home industries it may be that the measure will be defeated, par- ticularly as the administration is casting about for means to increase the internal revenue tax rather than reduce it. FINDING DISFASED MEAT. Chiet Market Inspector Davis is evi- dently not to be outdone in zeal by Milk Inspector Dockery. He is making raids on the butcher-shops of Chinatown, and, as might have been expected, has discov- ered quantities of meat, the offering for sale of which should send a dealer to the penitentiary. The most astonishing part of the matter is the ease with which Chinese and, of course, other dealers as well, may secure the carcasses of animals which have died in transit or from disease. The places where cattle, sheep and hogs are intro- duced into the City are very few and easily guarded. Thnere seems to be no adequate attempt to check this infamous traffic ia its incipiency. It appears that shippers who bring animals for meat into the City alive make a regular business of selling diseased carcasses to whomsoever may apply. One extensive shipper, who not long ago was a candidate for the most im- portant office in the City, recently teatified before the Board of Supervisors that such carcasses have a definite value, and the in- ference is that they are a regular article of trafiic. He explained, however, that these car- casses are sold for the value of their hides, etc. Why they are permitted to be sold at all is a matler that will make sensible persons marvel, and why the City authori- ties neglect to take charge of and at once destroy all such carcasses is one of those inscrutable problems which an ordinary inteiligence is unable to solve. The car- cass of an animal that has died of tubercu- losis, even though it be bought merely for the hide, is a dangerous thing for a human being to handle. As for the traffic in im- mature calves, that is simply unthinkable, and yet we are assured that there is a regularly established traffic in them, that they have a definite value and that none are allowed to go to waste. The Board of Health has done so much excellent work of late that it will undoubt- edly take this matter in hand and establish proper safegnards over these wicked prac- tices, As for the Chinese, when we take into account the superior facilities which they possess for carrying on any sort of infamous and illegal trafiic, they need the very closest watching, and when caught in their nefarious business should be given the heaviest penalty of the law, U0AST EXCHANGES. Upon his return to Woodland after an absence of a few years, J. H. Dungan, the new editor of the Mail, finds that a won- derful advance has been made. As it illustrates a similar accomplishment in so many communities of the State and as it has a special value as showing the remark- able progress that Woodland has made in the recent past, and as serving as a pledge of still greater advancement, it is well 1o set forth the list here as Mr. Dungan has compiled it: The reincorporation of the city, a handsome City Hall, a sewerage system, public water works, street pave- ments, numbering of the streets and houses, 2 Hall of Records, numerous sub- stantial business blocks, a prosperous elec- tric Jight company, extension and beauti- fying of the residence part of town and the erection therein of many handsome houses, the prosperity of the woolen mills, the organization of a high school and the establishment of a creamery. In addition are a proposed new opera-house and ar- mory hall, 8 proposed new fruit cannery and the necessity for yielding to a popular demand for a sugar refinery to utiijze the beets for which the surrounding country is so admirably adapted. Mr. Dungan rightly adds: “The sbove is & most ex- cellent showing, and what adds more importance is the fact that local capital is back of it all. When a new enterprise springs up here or a new building is to be erected, there is an abundance of local capital to do it with. This speaks well of the solidity of our city and its people. Interest, dividends, rents, etc., are thus kept at home for reinvestment and a financial drain is thns prevented. A bright future awaits Woodland; while there has not been a boom during the past ten years, there has been a_healtby, steady growth.” | _ Our able Democratic contemporary, the Los Angeles Iferald, shows the true spirit in declaring that the holding of the Re- publican National Convention at San Francisco *'is a matter of vast importance to the whole West, and the entire region | to the westward of the Mississippishould work to that end.” It then adds that “‘an effort should also be commenced to secure the Democratic National Convention for the same city.” Its breadth of under- standing is clearly expressed in the follow- ing declaration: “The National gatherings of the two great political parties are usually repre- sentative affairs in many other that parti- san respects. They call together the vari- ous types of American life and invariably include some of the most influential and enterprising as well as many of the wealthiest men of the country. Including the multitudes that always attend the conventions out of motives of sympathy, interest or pleasure, hundreds of individu- als will go to both assemblies to whom the great West is as little known as some countries on the other siae of the Atlantic. In fact, it can be safely said that scores will go to these conventions who have a better personal acquaintance with Great Britain, France and Ger- many then with the western half of their own country. To such the advantages, resources and progress of the West would prove a veritable revela- tion. Many of these gentlemen are or will be members of Congress, and as such hold positions on committees having the disposition of subjects vitally affecting important Western intere To get to San Francisco they would have to traverse an area hitherto practically foreign to them, and to the natural needs and just demands of which they can bardly be expected to give that intelligent and equit- able consideration they bestow on parts of the country with which they are more familiar, ‘‘The various problems confronting the developing West that in one way or an- other require the application of Federal power or the expenditure of National funds present themselves more under- standingly in the light of personal obser- vation than when viewed exclusively through the plaints and petitions of others. After such an extended journey to the western limits of the republic the dele- gates and their friends would return East with the kind of knowledge regarding the ‘far West’ that in time would bear fruit in a more statesmanlike and a broader gauge treatment of our interests than we have been favored with heretofore.” W. M. Denig, inspired anew by mem- ories of the intrepid service of Denig’s Pony Express, which in the early days *delivered letters and papers from loved ones at home to the miners in the gulches and on the mountain tops in old Cala- veras,”” has started at Stockton the publi- cation of a bright weekly paper which he has named Denig’s Pony Ezpress. The New Whatcom Blade, expressing pity for “the man in the choking East, whose wifeand babies are crowded into a dove-cote tenement rods above a littered alley ina smoky city,” declares that he is accessible to reason and is anxious to better his con- dition. How he may be enabled to do this the Blade intelligently shows in this varagraph: “The Puget Sound region is heavily laden with crude wealth, pregnant with native treasures—animal, vegetable and mineral. We, living in the midst ot these conditions, are more or less aware of that fact, but there are millions of people far away who are ignorant of these peer- less inducements. Therefore it is the duty of every newspaper on Puget Sound to impress the fact upon the great army of Eastern readers that Puget Sound invites development and offers prosperity and plenty, invites the sturdy hand of indus- try to a land glutted with the weslth that gives birth and life to contentment and happiness.” The Paso Robles Independent resents the attack which has been made on John T. Doyle for his aaverse opinion concerning the bonds which the Southern Pacific Company has been trying to float in order that it may be enabled to extend 1ts coast line to Santa Barbara. It quotes this from the attack on Mr. Doyle: *“The Southern Pacific Company has religiously observed every duty owed by it, either to the public or 1ts creditors, and stands before the pub- lic to-day as a modsl of economic manage- ment and sound financial policy,’”” and de- clares that when the town of Paso Robles was started “the railroad tried its level best to injure, and did boycott the place, and by looking over some of the old maps the name of Paso Robles does not appear, whether intentionally or not we do not know, but it is claimed by some people that it was done with malice aforethought. Be that as it may, the railroad shows but little sympathy for the farmer, and only lowered the grain schedule in this county whben it was compelled to, because the farmers talked of hauling to tidewater and shipping to the City by that route.”” It cites other matters, and adds: “We hope the company can sell its bonds and finish its coast line, for it will never amount to much until that is an accomplished fact, and as to the statement that we ‘might have to wait till doomsday’ it it did not float the bond is all rubbish, for it loses every day the road remains unfinished.” Irrigation in Kings County is baing pushed, as the following from the Hanford Sentinel indicates: *‘Surveyors areatwork on the West Side surveying for a big ditch leading from the mouth of Kings River southwesterly to the bluff, near the old original adobe, whera thev will put in two great pumping plants. E. D. Jones met the crew at McKenna's well. Charles Crocker is at the head of the enterprise, which is being worked under the auspices of the West Side Canal and Land Com- pany.” The defeat in Kings County at a popular election of the proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000 for the erection of needed county buildings leads the Hanford Sentinel to explain that bad the amount been fixed at §35,000 the bonds would have probably carried, and for that reason it suggests that the Supervisors call another election for bonds to that amount. Kings is a new county and is greatly in need of public buildings. We are not apprised of all the facts in the case, but the chances are that it is paying more in rentals than the interest on $50,000 in bonds would amount to. That, however, is compara- tively a small consideration. Adequate public buiidings are rightly regarded as a manifestation both of the prosperity and the enterprise of a community. Kings County embraces one of the most fertile sections of the State. Mussel Slough stands ewivent in all records of wonderful soil products and profits in California. We | are not familiar with the reasons which induced a majority of its voters to defeat the bonds, but with our knowledge of the value of public improvements, of the splendid resources of Kings County and of the great benefits which would accrue irom the exhibition of a wise spirit of prog- ress, and were we a large property-owner in the county, we would look to the future as well as consider the present, insist on the issuance of bonds to an amount suffi- cient for the erection of public buildings commensurate in elegance with the wealth and brilliant prospects of the county, work and vote for their adoption and gladly pay our share of the tax which they would create. Itisonly thus that California can be made what it should be. The Angels Voice is the inspiring name of one of our most valued exchanges. Althongh F. G. Vivian, its present editor, has been in charge only two months, he has made great improvements in the paper, and still he announces that he is not satisfied. Electricity is about to invade Arizona on asplendid scale. The Pheenix Republican announces that the Consolidated Canal Compeany of Mesa s now preparing to erect a power-house to utilize the gieat water power at its drop from the mesa rim into the Tempe Canal. There are yet legal difficulties in the way of the full accomplishment of the projects of the company, but it is anticipated by the be- ginning of the next year there will have been established four miles to the east of Tempe a power-house with all facilities for the transmission of electric energy to Tempe, Mesa and Pheenix. It is calenlated that seven hundred horse-power will be the minimum developed, three great tur- bine wheels being utilized to whirl the dynamoes. The propelling force is to be anywhere from six to twelye thousana miners’ inches of water, with a head of thirty-five feet. In commenting on the sad death of Lieutenant-Governor Millard the Hanford Sentinel charges it and Governor Budd’s recent serious illness to overwork required in the campaign by the State committees, and hence charges them with intent to murder. It is true that Mr. Millard’s death is ascribable to overwork during the campaign, but it is true also that any man who pursues a course which might be reasonably expected to impair his health is himself responsible. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. RAIN AND RAILROADS. To the Editor of the San Franciseo Call—8IR: Inclement weather and railroad construction are not exectly compatible, and the light showers that fell Saturday evening and Sunday have given the builders of the Valley Road a slight taste of what is to come later on when the real storms begin. From the material yards in the western part He slept sweetly untfl— of Stockton to the place where the track-laying has ceesed there are camps and camps of men who are employed on the different new roads. They came in from different parts of the coun- try when the work first began, and they came with no shelter, most of them, except very old or very thin tents. The weather was good, the nights warm, and there was no reason why they should house themseives up. So they seitled down, like gypsies, under the trees or out in_ the open as it suited their fancy. Under the trees, close by St. Mary’s Academy, on Mormon Chanuel, there is a large campof the railroad men. They have made a sort of altruist affair out of it. There is & pub- lic stove, and other things are for the general use, They havo several tents, small and large, but the most of the men sleep, or did before the rain, out in the open air. But last Satur- —the gentle rain came. day night there was a change of programme. During the night the rain thought it would surprise the slumboring rallroaders, and it did. Bwiftly, coldly, suddenly it came down. Itstruck the camps like & shower of icicles, and there wes a general uprising. The wind arose 100, and the thin tents went down. Then there was fun. But the men who are making railroads (and these men are the real builders, however much you may look to the officials of the road) ere not the sort of fellows that would sllow a little rain to get the best of They lit lenterns and put up the tents, and then erawled into the covered wagons and went to sleep agal ELWYN IRVING HOFFMAN, Btockton, Cal., October 25, 1895. PERSONAL, F. H. Lang of Salinas is at the Lick. P. B. Fraser of Stockton is in town. F. L. Erickson of Guadaloupe is a guest at the Grand. D. §. Rosenbaum of Stockton is registered at the Palace. H.Brunner of San Luis Obisbo was among yesterday’s arrivals in the City. F. G. L. Wadsworth of the United States rev- enue service is at the California. C. E. Lindsay, District Attorney of Santa Cruz County, arrived in this City yesterday. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDEMTS. ISSUE OF BoNps—J. H. V. G., City. The con- stitution of this State declares that the Legis- lature shall not create any debt or lapility in excess of $300,000, except in case of war, un- less the same be authorized by law, for some single object or work to be diul?nctly specified therein, which law shall provide for ways and means 10 meet the interest nd principal ;ikthhh‘tw"enly'xlelni:''bn:t utixch & law shall not ¢ effect until submitted to the carried by a majority vote. Eorand RIVER OBSTRUCTIONs—J. H. V. G., City. itis the duty of the Federal Government to Temove obstructions from the navigable waters of a State, and the State does not underteke to do that which it is not called upon 1o do. There might arise certain contingencies when the State would undertake the rémoval of an ob- struction from a river without asking the Fed- eral authorities for permission to do so. MORTGAGE—P. City. A piece of real estate With residence thereon can be declared a home- stead by the head of & family, provided it fs worth the amount allowed by law in excess of any mortgage there may be on the premises, but in case of a depreciation of value after the declaration of homestead the propertv is liable for the satisfaction of the mortgage. Fix pe EiecLe—H. D., Tulare, Cal. The French phrase “fin de siecle” means ‘“end of the century.” The pronunciation of these | three words can only be acquired by besrin 501 009 Igpeal thewm, = AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Frank Priest told a story in the dining-room of the Palace Hotel yesterday that was so full of pathos and real life that his listeners almost wept. Itappeers that Mr. Priest, before he got to be & successful merchant.was inclined to the run-away-from-home habit. His first ex- perience is pest told in his own words: «“It will never be forgotten by me just how T happened to run away from home the first time, and incidentally I recall how glad I was to get back. My father once gave me & lesson in spelling and locked me up in my room so that I could learn it without being disturbed by the noisy nefghbors. We had awful noisy neighbors where I used to livein Vermont. | Well, I studied & few moments and concluded | that confinement was not the right thing fora boy of my importance,so I quietly slid out of the window and got over the Lack fence. It was about sunset and I took itinto my head that the soft glow of the summer evening was very much like the whole world would seem to me if I got up and left the parental roof al- together. I was barefooted and my clothing consisted | of a little waist upon which was buttoned my | trousers. Indien summer weather you know. | All the boys went barefooted and lived—yes, lived. I thought the whole matter over care- fully while concealed behind a woodpile, and | decided that a herd-hearted parent, who wanted his son to study in summer, was 00 much for me. I came to & conclusion end, without further parley with myeelf, struck out for the woods by & foot path. Where was I go- ing? No where in particular. Only running away. Any place but the old homestead. “Itrudged on, and in an hour the night be- gan to fall, The shadowsof the maple trees lengthened out and lost themselves in the dark corners of the forest. Overhead through the swaying branches the stars begen te ap- pear, and a light breeze soughed through the treetops, dying awsy in the distance with a melancholy moan. Far away to my right a hoot owl called to its mate on the left, and I s00n began to feel &3 though the whols place was alive with birds and beasts calling & con- vention for the purpose of disposing of me. “The night grew darker and darker and the forest scemed deeper and deeper. Only occa- sionally theu was I able to catch the twinkle of a star, and the wind moaned on like some human voice telling me to beware of the dark- ness. Every twig Istepped on enapped like a pistol shos, and my bare legs were scratched by coming in contact with the thistles and low vines. Before I had gone s mile further I found myself plunged in the most eternal darkness «nd nothing but the beating of my own heart came to my ears. I thought of the well-lighted sitting-room at home, mother, father, sister. Horrors! I became paralyzed with fear. My wide-opened and teer-stained eyes sought the darkness for some familiar sign, some evidence of life, but the whole world seemed to be shut out, and I was alone. Presently in the distance [ saw the faint flash of light that comes from an open window. It took shape and I distinctly saw the figure of a little girl pass before it. Thers it was. A human habitation, and the lights were begin- ning to snine as the lamps were lit one by one. “I was near a farmhouse and there was some one alive in the world beside mygelf. With great caution, but with much joy, I picked my way through the trees and crawled up to the window like a professional burglar. Slowly I raised myself to the #ill and peeked in. There was 2 scene that would make your eyes water. Alittle girl was seated on a earpet-stool eating a plece of bread and molasses, which I took in greedily with my eyes. After she had finished itshe wiped her hands on the stool and walked over te a little cottege melodeon that stood in the corner and played, ‘There Is No Place Like Home,’ with one finger. “Gentlemen, that was the straw on the camel’s back and I broke down and cried as only & homesick child can. My sobs brought the people'of the house out and 1 was taken in and put to bed. About 3 o’clock my father came along with some searchers and gently, but firmly, carried me back to the scene of my childhood. In the morning, after he had re- covered from the shock of almost losing his baby boy, oh, say, gentlemen, he didn’t do a thing to me.” SHERMAN AND HIS BOOK. Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Sherman’s book will refresh the memo- ries of the Ohio Republicans as to the methods by which Ohio Republican factions can neu- tralize each other and disappoint the hopes of all. Ifanybody doubts that the fron went into the soul of John Sherman when James A. Gar- field took the nomination from under him, let him get a list of the men he turned out of office shortly afier the convention and gave their volitical treachery to him as a reason for their decapitation. General Grant said to a friend at that time: “There is ona thing I like about John Sherman, and that s that when he cuts & man's head oft for having betrayed him polit- ically, be squarely telishim the reason, instead of professing, as President Hayes does, to be very sorry he has to make the change.” Chicago Tribune. Unless Senator Sherman is the victim of a fixed delusion he ought to be able to see that under no conceivable circamstances could he have been nominated for President in 1880. A perusal of the proceedings of the convention of that year will satisfy any reasonable person that such was the case. For that reason, if for no other, the Senator should have refrained from insinustions that Garfield played him stin them.” And yet Grant wrote one of irrl;sxe;fmuges( State papers on the finance ques- tion ever penned by an occupant of the White House. This was Lis veto on April 22, 1874, of the currency infiation bill. Tndianapolis News. Senator Sherman might issue an appendix to his new book, and give his opinion gf Foraker. 1t would increase the sales. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. Gladstone is & very fine organist and still plays occasionally at chapel worship. ISalvador de Mendonca, the Brazilian Min- ister at Washington, is a man of immense wealth and an ardent student of natural science. The Empress of Austria, who has been stay- ing at Aix-les-Bains, insists upon taking her mineral bath at 4 o’clock every morning. By this arrangement she enjoys the most absolute privacy. Ry Von Suppe, the Vinnese composer, was both industrious and thriity. His will shows that his estate included real estate worth $90,000, together with $100,000 in cesh and other per- sonal property. Joseph Jefferson never talks politics. What his perty bias may be is not generally known. He is very diplomatic in dodging all guestions that tend to entrap him into an expression of opinion regarding national issues. Count Leo Tolstoi is a vigorous hater of England. He says the English and the Zulus should be herded together #s the two most brutal nations of the earth. His chief regret, he declares, {s that he cannot spare the time to * write a book about the English people. BAcoN Printing Company,508 Clay street.® o P ol o ROBERTS, 220 Sutter—*‘Cards by the million."* - BROKEN, mixed candies 10¢ 1b. 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Be sureana ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Boothing Syrzp. 250 4 bottle. e For seventy-three years Edward Johnson, of Middletown, Conn., has been a voter,and he prides himself on the fact that he has never- voted enything but the Democratic ticket. Come to= day ! The earlier in the week the less crowding— the better your chance to get suited as to goods and prices. Remember the chance is brief! Better not waste 1t! Better prepare for the Holidays NOW, rather than pay double the price just before. DIATIONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SiL- VERWARE—vwithout reserve to the highest bid—no matter how ridicalously low. to the Hammersmith & Field AUCTION 118 Sutter St. Daily at 2 P. M. false. It i ‘}um natural thet the Senator should haye felt sore when the eonvention Eund him by and nominated another Ohioan, ut after fifteen years have elapsed, during which time he ought to have cooled down, he ought not to slander the memory of the dead. Philadelphia Ledger. General Sherman’s autobiography stirred up many controversies by the extreme frankness with which he discussed men and things, and Senator Sherman’s book of reminiscences seems likely to attain a similar distinction. The Senator's book 1s published inopportunely for the Republican party. It is to be said, how- ever, in mitigation of his criticisms of public men, that the author, though himself = distin. ?flilhed and useful man, has never been noted or appreciation of coworkers, and at the timo of writing was s disappointed aspirant for the Presidency. What he says, therefore, of other men is to be taken with many allowances due 10 the “personal equation.” Milwaukee Wisconsin, To-day Senstor Sherman is out with the statement that the passages in his book regard. ing Gerfield's nomination will not bear the construction derogatory to Garfield which hes been put upon them by the newspapers, It i. gratifying to learn thal the distinguished Sons ator makes this denial. Had he been goilty of putting forth unsupported the scandalous charge against the integrity of the dead Prests dent which was attributed to him he would have betrayed s want of megnanimity that would have humiliated those i 0se who have been Portland Oregontan. The discussion started by Sherman’s frank- ness is dealing very plainly with Garfield’s character, and is bringing out the truth of history, smothered for & tfme by sympathy on account of his untimely taking o#f. A Garfield legend has grown up out of that assassination farther from the truth than most of the legends that becloud history. Garfield was no hero, and the p&;ullr conception of him that has been enaured so far is lus icrously difterent from that of his contemporaries and that to which pesterity must come, Topeka State Journal. John Eherman is not onlya back number, but the pecple of the country have grown awey from him and his ideas on finanes; the only thing for which he was ever distinguished. He has been in office continuously for forty years, and should be satisfiea. Mang greater men than he have died without reaching the Presi- dency, although desirous of doing so. They didn’t write books abusing their successful rivals, either. Notable mmoug these were Henry Clay and James G. Blaine. New York Commerctal. Of himself, Mr. Sherman spesks with becom- ing modesty, while firmly enunciating his own opinions on matters of finance ana public volicy and innllyfflvlng his personal estimate Of the eminent leaders of Republicanism. However mon may differ as to his interpreta- tion of events and his portrayal of character in certain inetances, there can be no doubt that his autobiography will prove an invalu- abie contribution to ‘the political history of the United States. Fort Worth Gazette. John Sherman’s book does not attempt to conceal the fact thathehas long wanted the Presidency, nor that he has been greatly dis- eppointed in failing to get { ey &t Louis Globe Democrat. 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