The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1895. BSCRIPTION RATI v CALL, one week, by arket Street, 0, California. Main—-1868 Telephone... EDITORIAL ROOMS: E treet. .. Maln—1874 et, corner Clay; open until ; open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. enth and Mission streets; open open until 9 o'clock. en until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and E k Row, New York City. DAVID M. FO. Remember Christmas charities. The ultimatum fluttered all Europe. Armenia as well as Venezuela deserves attention. The House acted promptly, but the Sen- ate will weigh and consider. There is no deficit in the funds for sup- porting the Monroe doctrine. Every child in San Francisco should have something ot the Christmas joy. Before Salishury gets his wind again he will have had time to get a second thought. Ii you cannot attend to the wapts of the poor yourself you can help those who do. Senator Pugh’s platform, * war and free coinage,” sounds short, but it reaches a long way. There is a straight road to war in view now, but before long it will turn to a squir- rel tra drun up a tree. 1t seems to be the fashion this vear for t to give its foreign re- imatum for a Christmas g ne )t become necessary itement is over to appoint a e to hold Cleveland’s head for Europe may be dubious over dent’s message, but to Russia it ill seem like a Thanksgiving proclama- tior There is something ratherstriking in the fact that at this juncture the chairman of House Committee on Foreign Relations named Hitt. As M apublican aspirant the friends of all the suits them to a dot. Do your Christmas shopping before the rush comes next week, or you may get rattled in the crowd and fail to malke the most of your money Chief Crowley’s declaration of a deter- mination to suppress illicit pool-selling and gambling is a local ultimatum that merits popular suppo: There is little profit in denouncing a man out of power like Buckley and re- maining silent concerning the deeds of rascals who are in pow Judging from rhe results of all experi- ments with horseless vehicles in this ccuntry, the vehicles are all right, but the roadways are complete failures, Early in January Governor McKinley will be a private citizen but with a boom on his hands aitogether too big for him to carry into anything like retirement. On the wave of public sentiment created by the war flurry the whole navy will be borne upward and onward and there will be that much profit out of it anyhow. Venezuela and Turkey are a long way apart, but it is possible the coraplications of the one may have much effect in straightening out the affairs of the other. Furopean diplomatists continue to as- sert the Monroe dectrine is nota part of international law, but none of them have vet tackled the proposition that it is a fact. Cleveland’s message was good, but if he expects to draw attention from the indus- trial depression and deficit at home by raising a war scare abroad, he will find himself badly mistaken. 1t is reasonably certain that if the Cleve- land administration had shown more firn- ness in dealing with the Venezunelan ‘matter at the outset it would never have been necessary to talk of war now. Governor Budd in commending Cleve- land’s course, expressed ‘“‘a determination to vigorously support his grand stand,” but the Ezaminer made it ‘“grand-stand play.” The mistake was natural enough in getting a message through a telephone. The California Biue Book, or State Roster, for 1895, which has just been is- sued, is a handsome specimen of typog- raphy and book-binding, reflecting con- siderable credit on the State Printing Office. It forms an octavo volume of 416 pages, is well illustrated, and, in addi- tion to the official roster, contains a com- prenensive summary of the political his- tory of the State. The Christmas number of the News Letter has just been issued. With its handsomely illuminated covers, its 112 pages of choice reading matter and illustrations and the superb paper and mechanical work, which contribute to its excellence, it represents the highest achievement in its line. Among the special features are sturies by Suella Green Green Harton, Charles P. Neuleton, Howard V. Sutherland, Arthur McEwen, David Nesfield, Henry Bigelow and W. A. Lawson, poems by Louis A. Robertson, Ella M. Sexton, De Mass Bowers and Daniel O'€onnell, and a charming song (with music) by Ashton P. Stevens. Artists of local fame furrish the pictures and leading business men and capitalists discuss matters of weight. This is an excellent publication to send East. 7 { AN TUNAVOIDABLE CONFLIOT. Sir Charles Dilke, one of the shrewdest and most outspoken of English states- men, has laid his finger on the sore which has been produced by constant friction be- tween England and the United States. While he does not think that the pending | coutroversy will lead to war, for the rea- son that both countries, in order to avert such a catastrophe, will mutually make such concessions as will preserve peace for the present, the radical differences of their fiscal policies will serve to widen the gulf which separates them. Theinference from the guarded remarks to which be has given utterance is that war must come sooner or later. He has furnished the key to the whole controversy. Whatever importance the fact may bhave that Americans and Eng- lishmen sprang from a common source and speak the same language, differences have arisen which overweigh that in- fluence and give it a fictitious value. England is a monarchy, the United States arepublic. The very establishment of our independence was a renunciation of the principle upon which England flourishes. The mutual antagonism lies at the root of all that distinguishes the two nations one from the other. Were it not for the acci- dent of a common ancestry and language we would have accepted as a challenge to war various acts of England since the Revolution, notably the covert aid and sympathy which it extended to the losing element in our civil war. To this day that 1s construed by Americans as an attempt | to disintegrate or destroy the government which we bad to fight England to estab- lish. It is an irreconcilabie conflict. Every element of England’s policy is antagon- istic to the American spirit. England seeks always to extend its empire by op- pression of the weak; America is the pro- tector of the helpless and oppressed. Eng- land promotes a free-trade policy which deprives her poorer subjects of hope; America believes in extending to its ob- scurest citizen an opportunity to take rank with the strongest and richest in the land. Englishmen who settle in America and thrive on this opportunity generally hold themselves aloof from our institutions, re- fuse to become American citizens and are proud to retain allegiance to their Queen. In this respect they are different from all other foreigners who come to take advan- tage of the opportunities which our Gov- ernment offers. To what extent a very considerable part of our people have con- tributed to making England believe that we regard its customs and institutions as being superior to ours is not a subject for discussion here, as in the onward-reaching flood of American patriotism 1t will be ut- terly overwhelmed. The patriotism which the English, wherever they are, display for their own country is an example by which Americans bave the intelligence to profit. When Americans become as loyal to their own as the English are to theirs we shall have raised our standard of National pride. There is nothing so useful as war to rouse patriotism, suppress mean ten- dencies in politics, obliterate sectional jealousies and antsgonisms, compel a reli- ance on native resources and create a grand cementing of all the forces which givea people individuality and open theireves to the resources whaich lie within them. Sir Charles Dilke is not alone in realizing that a conflict between the United States and England, which would produce these results, is inevitable. COLONEL TRUMBO ON SILVER. It is not easy to compress within a brief pamphlet a comprehensive statement of the chief arguments for the remonetization of silver, but Colonel Trumbo of Salt Lake City has succeeded in doing it. In fact, his pamphlet, which was written in reply to an article in the July number of the North American Review by E. O. Leech, late a director of the United States Mint, contains a refutation of the special pleas made for the single gold standard, as well as a maintenance of the cause of free sil- ver, and is therefore virtually a summary of the whole question made terse enough for the reading of busy men and clear enough for the understanding of all. One of the advantages resulting from the brief space which Colonel Trumbo allotted to his argument is that it compelled him to eliminate from the discussion all phases of it not essential to the understanding of its relation to the practical politics of to- da; He points out that the whole con- troversy practically hinges upon the one question whether the legislation by which silver was debarred from use as a money of ultimate redemption did not act as the main cause of the fall in the value of silver and the consequent demoralization of the long-established monetary equilibrium of the civilized world. To this point the main portions of the argument are directed and the facts bear- ing upon it are concisely stated. These facts are well-established matters of his- tory and have never been refuted by any advocate of the gold standard. In the course of the long agitation of the subject they have been made in the main familiar to all who have taken any interest in our monetary policy, but have rarely been ar- rayed with the force of reasoning or terse- ness of style with which they are here marshaled to demonstrate the weakness of the positions taken by Mr. Leech in support of the gold standard. Colone! Trumbo is not among those faint-hearted silver men who would post- pone remonetization until other nations consent. He would have America act for Americans. In commenting upon the heavy increase in the Natibnal debt caused by the demcnetization of siiver he says: “We need a distinctive financial policy— one that will permit the richest nation on earth, some time in the future, to be rid of paying tribute to those nations which we guard against by legislative tariff, but which, by reason of our indebt- edness to them, still fix the price at which our farmers and other producers are to be paid for their products. And this is the glory of a gold standard in the United States! That we may have the approvirg smile of the human leeches of other na- tions, we have debased one-half our money, discriminated against a great industry, doubled the debt burdens of the producers, and we are now having the galling chains of industrial servitude riveted on our wrists, while these chains will be left as a legacy to be worn by our children and our children’s children for countless vears.” As Colonel Trumbo will in ali probabil- ity be one of the men whom Utah will send to the United States Senate as soon as the act of admission is complete, his bold and determined stand in favor of free coinage is of National importance. It will make clear to the country that when the voice of Utah is heard in the great council of the Nation it will speak no uncertain sound, nor fail to upkold a stal- wart Americanism with all the force and vigor inherent in the growing West. AN INSOLENT THREAT. Dispatches from Tacoma announce that the Chinese Six Companies have threat- ened to boyeott the Northern Pacific steam- ships plying between Tacoma and China and operated in connection with tie North ern Pacific Railway. The reason assigned is that the merchants of Tacoma and the Northern Pacific officers are about to break their promise made to Chinese merchants to permit them to do business in Tacoma. The new trouble has grown out of the re- fusal of a citizen of that city to discha‘rge some Chinese domestics in his service. There is an unwritten law in Tacoma that Chinese shall not be so employed. The citizen has appealed to the Chamber of Commerce, and 1t is supposed that this body will support the popular demand that all Chinese be excluded, including some merchants who have been permitted to re- main under certain restrictions. i Hence the threat of the Six Companies. They announce that the Northern Pacific must move its terminus to Seattle, and that if it fail to do so, all the carrying be- tween Americe and China, now crmduczgd by the Northern Pacific’s steamships, will be handed over to the Canadian Pacific. The insolence of this demand surpasses credulity. I1f the Chinese have a real grievance en the score of a violation by ‘Tacoma of the treaty existing between the United States and China they have their remedy in our courts. Doubtless the action of Tacowa’s citizens in forcibly expelling the Chinese from the city some years ago bas been a constant. sore in China’s side, and the present situation looks something like collusion to give an excuse for the threatened boycott. The Six Companies declare that they will have the backing of their Government in this move. If so, the action is of the nature of reprisal and may result in trouble between the United States and China. It is a fact that the Chinese of the Pa- cific Coast have been lately growing ex- ceedingly insolent under the relaxation of the antagonism for them which grew out of the Kearney movement in California, They bave been carrying on in San Francisco and elsewhere in the State one of the most vicious and persistent boycotts among themselves ever known in this country. In every possible way they have been exhibit- ing contempt for our lawsand customs, and have been proving that the restraint im- posed by popular dislike of them has had a good effect. The threatened boycott of Tacomaisa menace to American shipping and to the interests of California. In the whirt of more exciting events the Chinese may be expected to increase their hold on our prosperity and industries. Until we receive the full text of the rul- ing made by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the case of the Colorado Fuel and lron Company against the Southern Pacific it will be impossible to say whether or not it is far reaching. As 2 rule this commission does not follow the vractice of the courts in confining a de- cision to the specific matter submitted, but in deciding a specific issue it has often gone further and covered the whole ques- tion raised by inference or implication. Even though it may not have done so in the present case, a precedent of very great value has been established, seemingly go- ing further than the famous South Caro- lina ruling. to go to the whole priciple that transporta- tion companies have not the right, by the arbitrary laying of tariff charges, to re- strict trade, hamper industry ana discrim- inate in favor of one section as against another. The Colorado case showed that the ratl- way companies were charging §1 60 a hundred pounds for steel rails and other iron and steel articles from Pueblo to San Francisco, while the rate from the East to San Francisco was much less. Clearly this exorbitant charge and open discrimina- tion prevented California from enjoying the benefits of the greater nearness of Colo- rado’s resources and prevented Colorado from fully developing one of its most im- portant industries. The commission or- dered that the rate be reduced to 45 cents a hundred pounds on rails and 37){ cents on other articles of iron, and that in no event shall the roads hereafter charge more than 75 per cent of the rate from Chi- cago to San Francisco. This is certainly very generous to the railroads, as Pueblo is about half way between Chicago and San Francisco. The ruling appears to solve the whole difficulty attending the efforts of the Traffic Association of San Francisco to compete with Chicago for the trade of Utah. The roads east of Ogden have here- tofore refused to co-operate with the Southern Pacific in establishing these rates equitably so as to give San Francisco an even chance with Chicago. The Pueblo ruling certainly seems to open the door for an appeal to the commission in this matter, even though the decision may not already cover the ground. This action may nullify some of the ad- vantages which Mr. Huntington hoped to secure from a strengthening of his‘monop- oly by his recent compact with the Pana- ma Railway. Inanyevent the way has been opened for a thorough overhauling of the matter of overland freight charges, and it is the pressing duty of California to make the mgst of the situation. A TUNCTION OF EDUCATION. It bas been only within recent years that the idea of the university has come to be regarded as available for instruction in matters directly affecting the policy of Government. The University of Chicago, endowed by a miilionaire, has just emerged from a scandal whose exploiting leaves the impression that teaching in that institu- tion antagonistic to the exercise of great powers and privileges by monopolies may not be expected there. Now comes Dr. Montague R. Leverson with a proposition to found a univergity having for its principal object the teach- ing of the single-tax doctrine. This is go- ing a step further than Chicago. We as- sume that the idea 1s to teach any who ap- ply without regard to age, sex or previous education. Thus the university, so called, is to be made to usurp the functions of the political speaker and the political newspaper. The idea in its general character is en- tirely" logical, but upon reflection one is forced to wonder where it will end. Itis merely changing the forms of instruction in politico-economical modes of instruc- tion that have always been in existence. The new idea does not recommend itself as being an improvement, as it narrows the extent of the influence exerted. A SOCIETY FUNCTION. The policeman had a three-card-monte man in his care and was waiting for the patrol- WaZon to arrive. “What are you doing?” asked a friend of the officer, who happened to come along just then. “I am holding a card party,” wes the re- ply.—Judge. An Editor’s Phenomenal Working Ca- pacity. Portland Oregonian. The most northerly newspuper in the world is published at Godthaab, Greenland. It appears twice a month, and is probably the only newspaper conducted on the lines on which the great mass of people seem to think every newspaper is run. e editor-in-chief personally receives and sots advertisements, writes ghe leading editorials and the briefiets, inks the type and then in actuality “gets his skates on” and peddles his product, The Colorado decision seems | AROUND THE €ORRIDORS. Colonel A. W. Jones, president of the Fresno and Monterey Railroad,is at the Lick. The colonel is one of the old residents of Kansas City, and has long been & notable chacacter in Western Missouri. He has been promingntin volitics,and, ardent partisan as he is, has ixade his power felt in thet part of the State. Two or three years ago he came to California and immediately set to work to counect the metropolis of the San Joaquin Valley with the harbor et Monterey. *“It will be & good road,” he said, “and will pay well, besides being of great assistance to the many seitlers along the route. Besides Colonel A. W. Jones, President of the Fresno and Montercy Railroad. this it will open a new region, where land is yet very cheap, and where large quantities of oats, wheat, barley and other grain, besides wool & 1d fruit, may be growi. “It will also greatly benefit the grain-grow- ers of the San Joaquin Valley by giving them a near-by place to load their products for foreign markets. Ilook for the old and pretty town of Monterey to have a very rapid growth when this road is completed. The place is & natural paradise, and will eventually fulfill the most sanguine expectations of those who from the earliest times revosed confidence in it.” Colonel Jones has many acquaintances here, who used to know him when he was so con- spicuous in the affairs of Kansas City. Un- fortunately, the colonel a few years ago met with an a1lment of the eyes, which came near robbing him of his sight. He is so active, though, that few of the many who know him only by sight are aware that he has had any misfortune of this kind. He left for home yesterday. TO A STREET SYCAMORE. Here In the narrow street you stand, Built round about on every hand: Only your topmost boughs can spy The blue waves breaking on the land, Yet all the changes of the year Above you in the skies appear— The daily marvel of the dawn, Storm-cloud and staclight shining clear, Yours are the sunset and the dew, And many a wendering win1 that blew. By wind and mountain ov Whispers his secrets sweet to you. To you with each returning spring Theé crows their clumsy courtship bring, And the blithe starlings come and go Among your Loughs on restiess wing. In the gray, narrow street your bear Glad summer’s banner, green and fair; ‘The music of the woods and hiils Dreams all about you down the air. And you, green hermit of the street, Make ali our daily duty sweet, Preaching life's beautv and her joy To us whio sit about your feet. —Chamber’s Journal. PERSONAL. Hewling Strauss of West Australia is here, Sheriff George G. Mackenzie ot Napa is at the Grand. Dr. George Fee of Reno, Nev., has arrived in the City. John D. Pope of Los Angeles reached here yesterday. W. H. Cheevers, a business man of Ogden, is at the Lick. Dr. G. Tucker Smith of the United States navy is in town. Carl E. Lindsay, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. George A.Smith, an extensive fruit-grower of Courtland, is in the City. Ex-Railwey Commissioner William Beckman of Sacramento is in the City. John Poundstcne, a general-goods dealer of Grimes, is here on & business trip. Benjamin C. Chapin, a wealthy resident of Boston, is among recent arrivels here, J. A. Ssyward, a wealthy lumberman and owner of sealing schooners, Victoria, B. C., is in town, A. B. Glascock, the well-known hotel man of Yosemite, is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Glascock. Lieutenant Hardwell of the Royal navy, Scotland, and Captain F. V. Whittall of London are at the Oceidental. S. Humphreys of Christ Church, New Zea- land, and A. H. J. Nixon of Sydney, were among the arrivals by yesterday's steamer. Heary E. Huntington and General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific returned yesterday from a visit to Southern California. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK,N. Y., Dec. 19.—Among recent arrivels are: K. Maddox, Mrs. C. K. Maddox, Holland; H. C. Dwight, Plaza; J. S, Eels, West- minster; W. §. Wallace, Grand. PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT. Speaker Reed now has & smooth face, but retains his stiff upper lip. Colonel Arthur B. Rilton, head of the firm of ilton, Hughes & Co., the big New York dry- ods concern, is having placed upon his life an insurance of over $1,000,000. Professor Dewar has exhibited at the Royal Institution, London, an apparatus that liquefies airin large quantities and at small expense. Dewar will be known to posterity as the man who gave to airy nothings a local habitation and a name. King Oscar of Norway and Sweden recently appeared in a new role at the performance given by Stuart Cumberland in Stockholm. Mr. Cumberland does not know Swedish, and his interpreter failed to appear; so the King, who is an excellent linguist, offered his services, and explained things to the crowdea audience with surprising ease and fluency. The Pope’s only recreation is an oceasional game of chess. He is a remarkably good chess- player; in fact, it is only on rare occasions \ that heis beaten atthe game. There is one priest in Rome who is usually the Pope’s ad- versary. This priest— Father Giella—has vlayed chess with his Holines for thirty-two years, When the drametized version of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel was put on the stage, forty-five years ago, the first imperson- ator of Uncle Tom was Samuel S. Sanford. He i3 veteran minstrel man, now a resident of Par\delphia, and it is his ambition to cele- brate she semi-centennial of that event, five years hexce, by appearing as the leading actor in the play before a Philadelphia audience. Frank R. Stockton is one of the most modest men in the realm of literature. His great suc- cess in fiction has not given him the slightest touch of what is vulgarly called *the big head.” Heis a short, slender man, with bril- liant eyes and an engaging smile. He has learned recently that the canal-boat that in- spired the ‘‘Rudder Grange’ stories is still in existence and occupies its former moorings in the Harlem. e FRIENDLY RETURN CALLS. Ukiah Herald. The San Francisco CALL surely has the inter- ests of California at heart. While the embers of the late Republican National convention controversy are still smoldering it pledges support to any efforts which the Democrats may meake to bring their National Convention to that city. Dunsmuir News. Charles M. Shortridge is really making & great paper out of THE CALL. Itis becoming very popularsince it fell into his hands, and its matter is always considered reliable. Mr. Shortridge is taking quitean interest in pol- itics, too, since he located in San Francisco. Bishop Regster. THE CALL goes on the even tenor of its way publishing the best daily on the Pacific Coast. A reason why THE CALL deserves the support of every workingman is that it employs several scores of compositors and has all its type set by hand instead of by the cheaper machine. Marysville Appeal. At last after considerable work on the part of THE CALL, the San Francisco authorities are going to put & stop to the poolrooms through- out the City. There is evidently some hope for San Francisco yet. THE CALL deserves no small amount of credit for the fight it has made. Oakland Printer. The San Francisco CALL will not get machines for another two years. The 130 printers em- ployed on that workingman's paper rejoice accordingly. THE COMING CONVENTION. Evening Wisconsin. The selection of St. Louis as the place for the assembling of the next Republican National Convention is peculiarly judicious. Missouri is on the verge of becoming a Republican State. Her seventeen electoral votes may be of essential service in the good cause in 1896. New York Evening Sun. New York hears St. Louis’ cheers with an indulgent smile. She does not begrudge those fellow-citizens so much pleasure over so_small a matter as a National convention. At the came time, if the Democratic National Com- mittee is wise, it will appoint New York as the place for its oWn convention. Globe-Democrat. Two unsuccessful attempts have been made by the Democrats to nominate a winning can- cidate for Presfdent at St. Louis, and now the Republicans are going to show that the thing can be done at a single trial. Chicago Record. The battle of the hotel-rooms at St. Louis promises to be an interesting affair. Mr. Mec- Kinley may enjoy a temporacy strategic ad- vantage, but‘unless Mr. Reed has wholly lost his usual sagacity he will soon have placed himself in command of the situation with plenty of rooms and an innumerable number of ll:‘ots, bellboys, porters, chambermaids and cooks. Post-Dispatch. ¢ Already the convention isbeginning to bring visitors to St. Louis. Delegations from various States are securing quarters, and all are pleased. Philadelphia Times. Candidates at St. Lonis may be numerous, but Harrison’s engaging & big section of hotel shows he thinks there’s also room foz him. ‘WORDS OF THE FPROPHET. In the Trent effair of 1861 England not only enforced the demand for the surrender of Ma- son and Slidel, but stipulated the most humil- iating conditions. The British press and pop- ulace demanded an instant declaration of war, and the devastation of American cities, if hum- ble apologies and instant reparation were not at once made by the United States. Our coun- try was impelled by the gravity of affairs at home to submit to England’s insulting and ar- rogant ultimatum. The editor of Harper’s Weekly wrote as a prophet on January 4, 1862, and here is the language of that editorial, which at that time produced & profound impression in the Unitea States: Of the conduct of Great Britain in this affair it requires unusual self-control to speak in measured language. It is as well known in England as here that the United States is en- gaged in a life struggle; that every man and every dollar are enlisted in a contest for the maintenance of our nationality; that there never has been a time since the conquestof our independence when the country was less fitted to embark in a foreign war. It requires some self-command to remark ubon the conduct of a nation which chooses this moment to offer us the option of war or humiliation, History, we think, may be vainly searched for & parallel. ‘Half a dozen times since 1814 occasions of war have arisen between this couniry and England and have ‘always been adjusted by diplomacy. It is only now, when our whole energies are engaged in a dofnestic strurgle, that England ventures to threaien us with war. But a just Providence rules, and to him the issue may be safely entrusted. ) No wrong in national affeirs ever goes un- punished. No such baseness as England has exhibited in the past nine months can escape retribution. A t‘;gxc will come—and in our day too—when weé shull call England to ac- count for the unnatural enmity she has dis- played toward the United States and for the unspeskable cowardice she now exhibits in trying 1o drive us to the wall in the hour of ourmost trying extremity. She should be the last Kower in the world to make us her foe, for she hes not a friend in the world. There is not a nation in Europe that would not exult over the ruin of England, for there is not one she has not insulted, outraged or injured at some moment when they could not strike back. Twice in our history we have fought with England, each time for causes which England now admits to have been just. We have one more fight in prospect, but it will be the last. THE TURKISH QUESTION. New York Mall and Express. Senator Hoar’s declaration that the murder- ous Turks should be treated as ‘‘pirates and common enemies of mankind” expresses the | Yoke an true American sentiment concerning the Ar- menian atrocities. It is unfortunate for the cause of Christian civilization that America lacks an administration with the moral spirit to zive that utterance the warning effect of official sanction. Chicago Times-Herald. While the powers are thus playing their | $ign and coloring. T conscienceless gawme of mutual jealousy and counter-ambition, Mussulman ferocity proceeds apace in Asia and with only less violence within the Europeaa confines of the empire. All hope that the “sick man” is either to be lef die or to be reformed may as well be aban- doned. His life is reassured by inability of his ('l:ctou to agree as to the distribution of'the assets. New York Mail and Express. The Tarkish Sultan snaps his fingers at the great Christian nations of the earth and goes on with his slaughter of helpless Armenians. It is a spectacle to make mankind blush for the decelt and cowardice of modern Governments. Denver Post. Armenia is holy ground to Christians. Ac- cording to general beiief, the Garden of Eden was there and the ark settled on Mount Ararat after the flood. It flowed with water once. It has flowed with blood since. Pittsburg Dispatch. It would be easy toslice up Turkey., but the one thing that deters the powers is their doubt as to who would get the white meat and the lurking fear of each that it might find itself ellotted the neck. Chicago Record. And the combined powers of Europe con- tinue to wait ot the behest of the Sultan of the unspeakable Turks. . —— Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds—all they have haq, all they have now and all they ex- pect to have, l ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CoLORED ScHOOLs—J, B., City. There was & time in the history of San Frencisco when there was a school exclusively for colored chnildren. James Denman in his history of the public schools of San Francisco says: The first colored school was opened May 22, 1854, in the basemen: of the church for colored people on the corner of Virginia place and Jack- son street. This school was transterred in 1864 to Broadway, near Powell street, and in April, 1869, it was again transferred, this time to the corner of Broadway and T street. A colored school of twelve pupils zanized on Howara street, near Fiith, on November 14, 1871, and sustained until abolished August 3, 1875. On that day the separa e schools for coiored children were abol- ished and the pupils transferred to other schools of ihe city. UNCLE AND NiECE—P. E. V. B., East Oakland, Cal. Marriage between uncle and niece is pro- hibited by the laws of the State of California. The law says: Marriage between parents and children, ancestors and descendants of every degree, and between brothers and sisters of the half, as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews, are incestuous and void from the beginning, whether the relationstip is legiti- mate or illegilimate. No one in this State has the right to grant a permit for an uncle to marry a niece. GREAT BRITAIN AND Russia—J. G., City. The area of the British empire is 9,144,734 square miles, divided as follows: Great Britain and Ireland 121,115, Indian possessions 1,600,000, other Eastern possessions 104,441, Austra- lasia 3,403,345, in North America 8,525,000, in South America 76,000, West Indles, etc., 13,750 and European ssessions 124. The aréa of the empire of Russia is 8,456,681 square miles, divided as follows: Russia roper 1,887,610, Poland 49,142, Finland 44,211, Ceucasus 182 9, Central Asia 1,364,124 and Siberia 4,823,112, SouTH AMERICAN Coin—F. E., Fresno, Cal. The coin of the Central American States is the peso and divisions, worth in United States coin 46.4 cents. This inciudes Costa Rica, Guate: mala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador. The Argentine Republic peso or dollar is worth 96.5; Bolivia has the boliviano, worth 46.4; Brazi), the milreis, worth 5.46; Chile, the peso, worth 91.2; Colombia, the 0, worth .45 Venezuels, the bolivar, worth 19.3. The dollar of Mexico is worth 50.4. Youxe MITCHELL—W. H. G., City. “Young’ Mitchell holds the title of champion of the Pacific Coast, not of the United States. Sev- eral years ago he had a match with a man named Ryan in the CHK of Oakland, and was 50 badly punished that he woula have lost the title he held if it had not been for the friendly action of the referee. who declared it a draw, against the judgment of those who witnesse the match. OvumpA—H. C. D., Stockton, Cal. Louise de la Rame (Ouida) is an English novelist of French extraction, born at Bury St. Edmunds, Eng- land, in 1840. Her first novel, “Strathmore,” appeared 1865, followed by “Chandos,” 1866 ““Idalia,” 1867: “Tricotrin,” 1868 ; ‘‘Pascarel," 873; "“Arindne” and “Moths,” 1880, and Napraxine,” 1884. Recently she was living in Italy. A letter addressed to her, “London, England,” will reach her CLEOPATRA—A. J., City. Cleopatra as a tragedy has been offered by a number of writers. E. Jodelle wrote the first in 1550 and was followed by S. Daniel, 1601; J. Mariet, 1630; Isanc de Bemerade, 1670; J. F. Mar- montlet, 1750; Albert, 1773, acted in 1775; Madame de Girardin, 1847, and the latest, that written by Victorien Sardou in collaboration with Moreau for Sara Bernhardt and presented by her, in 1890, WaGes—D. C. J., Orangevale, Sacramento County, Cal. The question you ask is one that should be decided by & court of law. Answers to Correspondents will answer what the law is, but will not undertake to arply the law to the facts. How much your employer owed you atthe time you quit his employment is a mat- ter that may depend upon the terms entered into at the time youentered into an agree- ment to work for him UR-MILE RACE—S. K., City. The four-mile rack in which Thad Stevens, True Blue and Joe Daniels were entered was run over the Ocean View racecourse November 15, 1873. The race was for a $20,000 purse. The first heat was won by Joe Daniels in 7:25, second heat by True Blue in 8:08, third heat by Thad Stevens in 7:54, and fourth heat also by Thad Stevens in 8:203{. A GREAT RAcE—W. H, B, City. The race in which Katie Pease ran for a purse of $25,000 was run at Golden Gate Park on the 14th of November, 1874, in_the presence of more than 20,000 people. The entries were Katie Pease, Thad Stevens, Henry, Joe Daniels, Alpha, Hock Hockings and Herdwood. Katie Pease won in two straight heats, Time, 7:43)5 and 7:3614. District CoUrTs—*‘Blackstone,” Agnews, Santa Clara County, Cal. The District courts of the United States have jurisdiction of ad- miralty and bankruptcy cases, of all criminal offenses against the United States, actions for penalties given by Federal statutes and other exceptional matters. A STYLISH COSTUME. The charming costume shown here has dis- tinctly new features in the form of the yoke with sleeve Incorporated and the wide belt. It admits of such charming combinations of goods and of colors. A beautifully artistic gown was of brown crepon with the yoke and belt of leaf green with a border of sable on the yoke and on botn sides of the belt and col- lar. A green and black mixture in wool had a belt entirely of Persian lamb fu charming gown for very dressy occasions had & yoke and bib of white satin covered with yel- lowish lace edged with sable. The fabricof the gown was mignonette-green lady's cloth of arather dark shade. A white satin stock col- lar with an immense bow in the back finished the neck. A the yoke an own of hunter's-green cloth had belt of velveteen in Persian de- rhis was edged with a tiny band of mink fur. The design isa good one for remodeling last season’s gowns, making voke and belt to match the skirt with the body of the waist and the sleeves of & con- trasting goods—as a black satin with a bright plaid body. A brown crepon with bodice of *printed velveteen is charming with edgings of sable or mink on yoke and belt. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS, Equal to a Small Farm for Everybody. New Whatcom (Wash.) Revelle. ‘There are a great many persons on this earth and, if all the land_were divided up equally, each would have 2214 acres. From Duck-Hunting to Lion-Hunting. ¥resno Republican. If Grover got the inspiration for his latest message while duck-hunting it would be a mighty good idea for him to put in all the rest of his term in that noble pursuit, May Prove a Test of Devotion. Los Angeles Times, The price of marriage licenses has gone up, all on account of the new fee bill. Thisis a cruel dig at confiding humanity, but it will have its uses in testing the devotion of impe- cunious lovers who slg‘h for wedded bliss, Latest Wenlth of Arizona, Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen. Arizona’s day is dawning. Capitel and im- migration are both turning in her direction. The development of her exhaustless resources on a corresponding scale will place her in the frontrank of ttatehood. Husband her flood waters, cultivate her plains, extract her gold, silver and copper from her ores end-Arizona will be one of the richest States in the Union, —_—— ALLEGED TO BE BUD!DROUS. “T hear Smith has quit sowing his wild oats.’ “Yes?" “Yes. Hisattention was called to the strong arguments in tavor of rotation of crops.”—De- troit Tribune. Waiter (to guest who isabsorbed in the menu) —What do you wish to eat, please? The Absent-minded Professor—I haven’ttime to talk now. Ask me after dinner.—Fliegende Blactter. Sunday-school - Teacher—Can any little boy tell me what man attained the greatest age in the world? Bobby (holding up his hand)—I can. Teacher—Well, who? Bobby—Santa Claus.—Harper's Round Table. “Oh,dear,” cizhed the young matron; “I'm dreadfully worried about the children. Idon't see why ‘directions for use’ don’t come with them as they do with everything else.”"-Chicago Post. “Does your wife know anythimg about finance?” “Doesn’t she?” “Is she sound on the silver question?” “Sound as a burglar. ' Sleeps with the spoons under her head every night.”— Detroit Free Press. WRITE Roberts, 220 Sutter st., about card plates for Christmas gifts. - e Hoitt's School for Boys. Burlingame. Term begins January7. ® - SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. - * ————————— He—Do you know, I always feel like a fool in a full-dress suit? She—What a pity you can’t hide your feel- ings a little.—Truth. REEUMATISM IS caused by lactic acid in the blood It appears as lameness in the back or stiffness in the arms and limbs. Netralize the lactic acid by purifying the blood by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, gy CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A pew train throughout begins October 29. Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclining- chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Ohl- cago, via Kansas Clty, without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been put in fine physical condition and is now the bess transcontinental railwi —— . 4 Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth. ers for their children whilé Teething with pertecs success. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums, al- Iays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and i3 the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. F Druggists in every partof the world. Pe sureand ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap. 253 4 bottle. ——————— CoRONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, ineluding fifteen days’' board at the Hotel del Coronado, §60; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. — NOTHING better for Christmas than good books. A whole store full to be closed out for what they will bring. Auction inevening. 747 Market street. NEW TO-DAY. Open evenings until Christmas. Meet your friends here and spend a pleasant hour or so ; get theiradvice about presents. Look at this rocking-chair; doesn’t it represent the acme of comfort? : One of the things which we think is a suitable Christ- mas gift for aman; first-rate for a smoking-chair. J Same style without rock- ers. Meals-in-bed-table for ins valids: Base goes under the bed, the table part above—right in front of the sick one; put the goodies on top and there you have it—real comfort at last, 3 Can you imagine a more generous and acceptable gift for the ‘‘shut-ins”? Oak or Birch, §8. Mabhogany, $9. Some people (notinvalids) like breakfast in bed—good for them too: It isn’t every daythat youn can buy a richly grainedand highly polished solid ma- hogany parlor-desk (like picture) for $16 so—oak at that price are common enough. Christmas is coming! Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street.