The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1895 20 g0 o g e s SEE BANGRERAIIRSOMUAT DDA R e 0 . e CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, Datly and Sunday C. . Paily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Taily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .85 sunday CALL, One yes 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, 0D 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone......... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £30 Montgomery street, corner Clay; cpen until £:20 o'cloc! 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. _arkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open lon street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open unttl § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. FOLTZ, Special Age MBER 22, 1895 The coming man—Santa Claus. Even in the new era we need the old toys. To-day you can rest from your holiday exertions. Even the cuckoo calamity howler. The texts m: ary to-day, but every sermon will be charity. ngs better than the There is just enough of & war feeling to count as a Christmas novelty. Many things m mas will be the fi 1 might as well put his Venezu- im on the bargain counter. It is evident this is gong to be a panicky administration all the way through. Once more we learn the difference be- tween Wall street and the United States. “Good will to men” should imply charity for the Armenians and correction for the Turks. There are some dogs that bark “panie,” “panic,” even when they see Santa Claus coming. The more Cleveland attends to business the more the country approves of his fish- ing trips. The administration is apparently trying to give us merry hades instead of merry Christmas. Grover may feel alarmed, but the people know a Republican Congr ess will do the proper thir Should the war cloud come nearer it would show a silver lining from some points of view. There would be more peace on earth if there were not so much of the earth that is down on pes e. Things look a little dark at present, but the sun of Republican prosperity is rising higher every da; Commercial travelers are drummers in time of peace, but they have volunteered to figkt as cav: When Europe is selling our securities in a panic is the time when wise Americans will get in and buy. Ashworth is getting his Christmas stock- ing chuck full of cockle burrs in the shape of charges that stick. It is doubtful if Congress could relieve the President of the message habit even if it gave him the gold cure. Some people predicted it would be a quiet Congress, but none ever opened since the war with more fight in it. Many were the speeches of the Senators on the Venezuelan question, but none so eloquent as Milburn’s prayer. As the Democratic Senators wished time to consider the message it is needless to say they consider it a nuisance. British bears are raiding the stock mar- ket, but wait and see what will happen when Uncle Sam turns his bulls loose. If the Grand Jury has used up the new broom and can no longer sweep clean it can at least get in some telling licks with the stick. If we must have more bonds to tide over the Democratic deficit they should be issued in small denominations and madea popular loan. The political cards are being shuffled very rapidly now and we must keep a close watch on the funding Bill or Huntington willslip in a joker. Cleveland was willing to let public busi- ness wait while he went duck shooting, but he finds it too pressing for Congress to have a Christmas holiday. There was a time when Democratic Senators were ready to indorse Cleveland promptly, but now when they get a mes- sage from him they ask for time 1o con- sider it. It looks as if Cleveland’s Venezuelan message was only a part of a scheme to bulldoze the money market into helping him to force Congress to support his gold- bug financial policy If the New York Stock Exchange finds any of its American members joining with the British financiers in tiying to break down the market and create a panic it ought to suspend them and give it to them in the neck. If Uncle Sam accepts the services of commercial travelers as cavalry he can counton it that the enemies’ territory will be speedily overrun and our generals kept posted on every cut or advance that is maae anywhere. The Christmas number of the Chicago Horseman is one of the best and most at- tractive periodical publications of the holidays. The illustrations are of excep- tional merit and interest and no doubt by many horsemen will be stored away for permanent keeping. In addition to these entertaining features there isalsoin the number a great deal of valuable informa- tion which no one interested in horses can afford to overlook. POOLROOMS DOOMED. Prosecuting Attorney John T. Dare seems to have discovered a legal way bf suppress- ing the poolroom evil, despite the Wallace decision and the majority of the Boara of Supervisors. His conviction of one gam- bler, who was presumed to bs operating safely under that combined sanction, pre- sents grounds for hope that the whole in- famy will be crushed. The prosecution was secured under the Ellert ordinance, which prohibits pool- selling outside the inclosure of a racetrack. The so-called ‘‘commission’” pool-sellers downtown have sought to evade that ordi- nance by receiving bets on the odds posted at the racetrack immediately before the race. In other words, they pretend to be bookmakers instead of pool-sellers. The clear intent of the ordinance was to pro- hibit outside of inclosures all forms of bet- ting on horseraces that are employed with- in the inclosure. To receive bets down- town without issuing a ticket is evidently as bad as to receive them and issue a ticket, as a ticket is merely a record of the wager. If a ticket is not issued the record has to be made in a book or otherwise. | Hence, the two cases are exactly alike in principle, so far as the intent of the ordi- nance is concerned. It is not a sufficient defense to say that in bookmaking, where the bookmaker bets against the bettor, the principle is different from tbat of a pool, in which the winning bettor takes the money which other bettors have placed in the pool, tess the commission retained by the pool-seller, as this difference 1n nowise affects the intent of the ordinance and is employed merely as an evasion. The use of the odds posted at the race- tra cuts no figure in the operation of the law. of the downtown gamblers pursue this course while others make odds to suit the values, and because it has been assumed that placing bets on genuinely establiched odds makes downtown bookmaking legiti- This point is made because some | sufficiently hardy to bear the winters of Florida. We are confining ourselves now to winter products; in the summer nearly everything is possible. In some parts of the State the banana, the tenderest of fruits, does fairly well. It is under the magic spell of the god- dess Flora that the most splendid winter products of California leap into riotous vigor. Those who may be inclined to growl at the climate. even of San Fran- cisco, are compelled to hold their peace when they see such sensitive exotics as heliotropes and callas blooming with im- pudent openness and unsparing prodi- gal As one follows the coast south- ward the wealth of winter bloom increases, until one finds at Santa Barbara, Los An- geles and San Diego a more gorgeous show of winter-blowing flowers than is possible in the whole stretch of the Riviera. In the earliest days of the year our roses, mistaking the bland conditions for the opening of an Eastern spring, begin to send out vigorous shoots that will become twenty or thirty feet long beiore the grow- ing season is over, and at the same time they exert their awakened energies in the production of flowers. Roses here never quit blooming because of cold weather, but merely because they need a rest and follow their inherited habit of taking it in the late autumn, Besides roses to crown the new year we have strawberries in wearying abundance, and as in many localities there are no frosts to kill those tender geraniums which yield delicious perfumes there is nothing to want. And tiiis is only the beginning of the story. Thus the ice carnival at Truckee may be made a wonderful exhibition if the people of the State have the intelligence to ap- preciate the remarkable opportunity which it offers. Within a beautiful ice palace made possible by great cold one may revel in oranges and strawberries | grown but a few miles away at the very mate and brings it within the category of | a commission business. This isa small and immaterial point in the matter, but it is the very foundation of the distinction which has been made to declare one set of the gambling-houses lawful and another unlawful. These matters are now having an intel- ligent overbauling in the Police Court, where common-sense juries are promptly bringing 1n verdicts of guilty against the | mblers. The conviction of every one of em can be thus secured. OHRISTMAS OELEBRATIONS. An elaborate history of the celebration | of the Christmas season could be made one of the greatest booksinourlangnage. The theme would certainly lack nothing of dignity, magnitude or variety. The fes- tival has come down to us from times so | moment when the ice of the palace was forming, and sit meanwhile at a table decorated with the tenderest, most gor- geous and most fragrant blossoms plucked from gardens near at hand. A SWEET-WINE POOL. Tt will be gratifying news to the whole State to learn that the sweet-wine makers have formed a pool for the marketing of their product, and that it embraces 90 per cent of the California output. This con- solidation has been long desired and was no doubt hastened by the great success at- tending the efforts of the California Wine Association. Up to the time of getting the work of this association under way there was no profit in the industry, but co-operation has insured not only a heavy advance in prices but has greatly extended the market. The sweet-wine pool will bring similar results. The surplus of 1894 and the vin- remote they antedate not only all his-|{age of 1395 represent 3,000,000 gallons of tory, but all tradition and all mythology. | port, 300,000 of angelica, 750,000 of mus- Before the birth of Christ was the Sat- urnalia, and before the Saturnalia was an | old Etruscan holiday. Nordid the festival have its onigin in the rites of that long van- | ished people, for traces of the observance of a yuletide celebration are found in lands where the Etruscans never were. It was, in fact, the joy of the childhood of the race, as it is now the joyous season of the children. The forms of conducting the celebration of the great festival have naturally under- | gone many changes in being transmitted from generation to generation and from race to race. the early men who lived before the gods of Greece and Rome received their names we know not. How it was celebrated under the title of the Saturnalia in old Rome we know fairly well, and since that time his- tory affords us an accurate record of the changes that have been brought about in the forms of celebration by the develop- ment of new ideas and new manners among men. Within the comparatively brief period covered by English literature we can note marked changes of public sentiment and popular thought concerning the season. In the writings of Dickens, the supreme Christmas story teller of our time, have the celebration of the day closely as- sociated with charity and pathos. It isto Dickens a day when the rich should re- member the poor and joy should go forth to relieve sorrow. In the essays of Addi- son we have a different Christmas picture altogether. His yuletide is all drinking and feasting, jollity and revelry. The squire sends nothing to the poor, but his hospitable hall is open to all comers. There is no suggestion of pathos. Every- thing is full of frolic and good-feeling. | When we get back to Shakespeare we find the Christmas season associated with a thousand solemn mysteries. The cattle are reputed to kneel at midnight with their faces to the east and both rich and poor bow in a worship that is half a super- stition before they begin their mummeries and antics. In all of these changes whatever has been best in the celebration of one genera- tion has been transmitted to the next. | Even from old pagan days has come down to us the fair custom of mingling the myr- tle, the holly and the mistletoe with the gift-giving that survives from the Satur- nalia and the religious ceremonies that celebrate the birth of Christ. We cherish still in Santa Claus one of the mysteries of Shakespeare’s time and keep the home | merry like Addison’s men while we help the poor after the fashion of our own age. Truly it isa great and solemn celebration that has come down to us from so remote an antiquity, and he will enjoy it most whose heart and brain are most capable of seeing the good in its paganisms and superstitions, as well as in what our civili- zation and knowledge have added to it. OLIMATE IN DIVERSITY, According to the Ontario Record the en- terprising people of that delightful spot in the beart of the orange region of Southern California are going to make an exhibit of their semi-tropical fruits in the ice palace at Truckee. Thus the two extremes of ciimate in California will be brought into striking contrast side by side. The pecu- liarity of the idea is that both oranges and ice are winter croos in this State. While in some sections orange orchards are laden with ripe fruitand the air is burdened with the perfume of orange blossoms, in other sections the cold is so great that ice palaces may be built. Ontario 1s some 700 or more miles from Truckee, but even that considerable dis- tance does not lessen the marvel of the fact that these two diametrically opposed con- ditions exist within one State. The won- der is immeasurably increased by knowl- edge of the fact that Auburn, which is in the same range of mountains with Truckee and only a few miles distant from it, is also an orange region and can make a dis- play in the ice palace at Truckee similar to that proposed by Ontario. The end of the marvel is by no means reached 1n this inspired idea of making ex- hibitions of diverse climatic products a feature of the ice carnival at Truckee. As a matter of fact the orange does not repre- sent the extreme of semi-tropical con- ditions abounding in California. Com- pared with other things which the State produces it is a hardy affair, though not How it was celebrated by | { | [ | | | | i | | | | i catel, 250,000 of sherry and 1,000,000 of sherry material. As the price of port is to be advanced at once from 16 centsto 25 cents to dealers the addition to the wealth of the State from this one article will be $270,000. As the other sweet wines are to be raised proportionately the total addi- tion will be in the neighborhood of a half- million dollars. This is additional to the increase represented by the saving of ex- pense in handling and marketing. At these prices there will be s handsome profit in the business. There need be no fear that raising the price will put a stop to sales. On the contrary the -superior marketing facilities of the pool wili more than offset such an effect. Better than that, an assurance of protitable returns will stimulate this important industry and undoubtedly lead in time not only to a monopoly of the American market, but its extension to foreign countries. The grand central idea is that these great results are made possible only by intelli- gent co-operation. Wherever this idea has been put in operation in this State it has been successful. The sweet wines of California are the best in the world. Their highest recom- mendation is that they are the pure we | product of the vine. ‘Fhey are made from grapes which wiil not grow in any other part of the United States. It is not re- quired of sweet wines that they receive the intinite care necessary to produce the finest qualities of light wines, and hence purity and wholesomeness are their most vaiuable qualities. Not being liable to fermentation, and being unaffected by any climate, they may be sent in safety to all par’s of the world and forwarded in packages comparatively inexpensive and admitting of low charges for transpor- tation. The forming of this pool is a very im- portant event and points to the high de- velopment of a valuable natural resource. INSUBORDINATE STUDENTS. Following the recent threatened out- break of serious insubordination on the part of the students attending the State University has come similar trouble in the dental college appurtenant to that institu- tion. What might have been disgraceful consequences have been averted by the tact of the dean; but although he has re- stored harmony and pledged the students hereafter to respect the laws of the college he failed to punish the students of a class for insubordination. His action was vir- tually a surrender of authority and an abrogation of discipline. In the ena this may bring the college greater harm than an expulsion of the entire class. The rebellion was produced by two causes—one a personal dislike on the part of students for one of the professors and the other his changing the hour for deliv- ering his lecture. The act of insubordina- tion consisted in remaining absent from his lectures, and contempt for him was shown by boisterous conduct. It would be impossible to imagine such conduct tolerated either at West Point or Annapolis, or at any other great institution main- tained by a stern Government and intend- ed to accomplish the highest results. If the conduct of these California students be excused on account of their immature judgment and their lack of ability, by reason of their youth, to ap- preciate all that such an institution means, a similar lenity cannot be felt for their parents ana guardians, These are charged in the premises with a respon- sibility equal to that of the students. If they fail to the slightest extent in assisting the State to uphold its authority they are conniving with the students to impair the value of the institution and create a popular disgust which may lead to its destruction. On the other band, the wishes and am- bitions of students are entitled to con- sideration, not because it is a matter of right, but because dissatisfaction will pro- hibit their acquiring the proficiency desired. If they do not like a professor or deem him incompetent, there are gentle- manly and orderly ways, wholly within the bounds of discipline, to make their wishes known and secure reasonable changes. But open rebellion, particularly if it be accompanied with ruffianly con- duct, cannot be tolerated by the authorities if they propose to maintain a high order of efficiency for the institutions whose con- duct has been entrusted to their care. BACTERIOLOGY. THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE AND THE ANUMAFC- TURE OF ANTITOXINE. The recent death of Louis Pasteur, founder of the institute at Paris which bears his name, renders especially timely .8 letter regarding. the French institute contributed to the Polytechnic of October 26 by Professor William P. Mason of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Profes- sor Mason first described the Pasteur In- stitute and then its work in the study of bacteriology, and notably the bacteriology of disease. Aside from the extensive chemical and bacterial lab- oratories housed in an H-shaped puilding, there is a veritable zoologi- cal garden, where rabbits, monkeys, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chickens and dogs are kept in abundance for exverimental purposes. This is all in the city. The horses from which antitoxine is produced are outside the city, as described below. A hydrophobia chinic is held at 11 A. . each day, at which from fifty to sixty pa. tients appear for treatment. During May, June and part of July a regular course in }mcteri.ologty is given. ' This is free to all, including foreigners, when there is room, on presentation of a letter from their proper Embassadors. ‘The antitoxir.eis manufactured at Garch, about eighteen miles from Paris, where some eighty fine horses are kept in a Gov- ernment park. The process is described by Professor Mason as follows: A horse is inoculated with a small dose of the poison of diphtheria, insufficient in quan- tity to kill, and in bulk about a hali-thimble- ful. This dose is gradually increased every other dli during the three months. When the dose has reached 200 cu. cm., which may be repeated for three or fonr days in suc- cession without hurting the horse, the animal is in condition for the manufacture of the antitoxine. During this process the horse has had at times & slight fever as a result of the in- oculations, but so carefully is the dose of poison increased that there have been only two deaths out of 110 horses. In order to pre- are the antitoxine, blooa is taken rom the jugular vein of the immunized horse and received into sterile glass jars, in which, after standing twenty-four hours, the blood separates from™ the serum. This serum is drawn off into sterile packing bottles, and is ready for use as anti- toxine. Bleeding takes place on Mondays and Wednesdays, in the morning, the same horses being bled on the two days. Six quartsof blood are taken from each horse Monday morn- ing and four quarts on the following Wednes- day. The animals are then given twenty days’ rest, when the bleeding is repeated, as above, indefinitely. One horse, at the time of my visit, hed already furnished 409 quarts of blood. In order to maintain the immunity of the horse 200 cubic centimeters of the dipthe- ria poison ere introduced into each horse on the Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday following the Wednesday bleeding, in all 800 cubic centimeters, which is more than one and & half pints per animal. To prepare the toxine, or diphtheria poison, with which the horses are inoculated, bouillon or clear beef {s made slightiy alkaline, and 2 T cent of beef peptone is added. This liguid s sown with diphtheria germs taken from the throat of a diphtheria patient. A gentle cur- rentof air passing over the liquid, which is kept in a conical flask, causes a luxuriant crop of diphtheria germs to grow on the surface. During the process of growth the germs pro- duce the highly poisonous diphtheria toxine, which goes into selution in the liquid. This bouillon is then filtered through a Pas- teur filter, which permits the passage of the liquid toxine, but filters out the germs. This sotution of toxine may be kept for any length of time. In order to determine fits strength experiment is made upon rabbits, the weights of which are known, by which means it is de. termined what volume of the toxine it will take to kill one pound of animal. Knowing the weight of the horse and the poisoning power of the toxine, it is easy to calculate, and conuu‘uenlly to avoid, the fatal dose for the horse in question, the horse being given s dose less than that which wil produce death. The presence of this toxine in the horse's blood ‘stimulates nature to produce an anti- toxine to counteract. As the doses of toxine gradually increase the quantities of antitoxine in the blood are increased likewise, until the time comes when the blood contains €o much antitoxine that the animal is immune from further doses of the toxine. The intre- dnction of the serum of the blood of an im- munized animal into 8 human being suppiies immediately nature’s remedy for counteract- ing diphtheria poison. PERSONAL. 8. A. Cloman of the army is at the Calitornia. E. O. Smith, an attorney of Auburn, is at the Lick. Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodi is staying at the Grand. B. H. Upham, a wine man of Martinez, and wife are at the Lick. E. A. Crouch, a real-estate man of Sacra- mento, is at the Occidental. James J. Thornton, & cattleman of San Sim- eon, is staying at the Occidental. Thomas Couch, & mining man of Butte, Montana, is & guest at the Palace. D. D. Oliphant, a railroad man of Portland, and Mrs. Oliphant, are at the Palace. Lientenant George W. Kirkman of the army and Mrs. Kirkman are at the California. J. J. Schwartz, a wealthy merchant of Chi- cago, and his wife registered at the Baldwin yesterday. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock- ton and Mrs. Louttit registered at the Lick yesterday. George H. Warfield, cashier of the Farmers, and Mechanics’ Bank of Healdsburg, is at the California. P. Kerwin, & mining superintendent, came @own from the Comstock yesterday and regis- tered at the Palace. G. W. Fenwick, superintendent of the Iron Mountain Mine in Shasta County, reg:stered at the Palace yesterday. R. H. Hunt, ex-Mayor of Kansas City and a capitelist of that place, is & guest at the Bald- win. Mr. Hunt ownsa big orange grove in Southern California. William Lynch of Butte County, who is serving his second term as Assessor of that county, is in the City. Admiral Beardslee came ashore from the Philadelphia yesterday on her arrival from the north and registered at the Occidental. W. J. Cartan, general manager of the Santa Rosa mine of Riverside County, 1s in the City buying machinery and looking after bullion shipments. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 21.—Charles Jose Jr. of the California Distilling Company is at the Bartholdi. He is here representing the leading wine manufacturers of California to see about reducing the freight on wines from the West. Among other arrivals are: J. Pil- lard, J. Sylvester, Morton; 1. B. Austin, L. M. Taylor and wife, Grand Unfon; J. Bupley, Unlon-square; A. C. Fraser, Devonshire; B, Holes, New York; A. Rothschild, St. Denis; J. Spelman, Westminster. THE PASSING OF THE HORSE. “Ho! ho!" he cries and mounts his bike, ‘“The passing of the horse!” ‘Within my breast it seems to strike A pang that beats remorse. No splder frame of bended ateel With handle-har and rubber tires Can stand beside the strong appeal Of throbbing life and keen desires. I smooth my horse's shapely neck; His nostrils sniff the piny air; No pearl from far Tehauntepec Can match his beauty standing there, "Tis joy to stroke nis kindly head: Aud thus a fellow learns to feel A noble breathing quadruped 1Is more than tube or sprocket wheel. Let others praise the “silent steed”” That sitdes along the well-rolled grounds; My heart sl yearns with loving greed r sounding hoots and raythmic bounds. ~—New York Sun. —_— THE NAME OF MONTEREY. Gaspar de Zuniga, Count of Monterey, does not deserve the glorious perpetuation that his name has been given any more than Americus Vespucius. This hemisphere should have been mamed after its discoverer, as the bay of Mon- terey and the historic old town on its shore should nave been made to serve as memorials of the daring and nardihood of Don Sebastian Vizeaino. fven those strange, weird trees, that hug the rocky walls of the sea, like dis- torwb eformed giants, bear the name of the once Viceroy of Mexico. g Father Junipero Serra’s life work and name are known to the few, while Monterey, the title of this forgotten’ Spanish nobleman, is honored by the world. Such is the irony of history.—Rounsevelle Wildman in December Overland. AN ADMIRAL'S PREDICTION. A week ago Rear-Admiral Richard W.Meade in ‘conversation with the Washington corre- spondent of the Boston Journal over the report that we might have trouble with Japan said: “Japan will never go to war with the United States. The only war in which we are at all likely to engage is with Great Britain, and I believe that the firstshot fired in anger between | England and this country will prove the death knell of the British empire. The reason why we haven't had fair play from England hither- 10 is that we do not play the National game of poker as well as she does. She has bluffed us rl%ht along. The late General Schenck, when Minister to the Court of St. James, taught the British aristocracy and the governing class | how to play poker, and they have been playing it better than ourselves ever since. We have lacked the nerve to call England’s bluffs. “The American people have not degenerated. That was demonstrated by the Civil War. We have the South with us now, and the pluck and courage of the fighting men of the South has never been doubted by anybody. They would fight side by side with us in the event of a war. General Longstreet, speaking the other day on the Venezucian question, remarked that if we | had trouble with Great Britain, the fighting would be in the British Channel. What did he mean by that? He meant that to-day the South is with'the North heartand soul. I imagine that General Longstreet is as good an expo- }xemdol the feeling of the South as can be ound. “‘We have now built and finished nearly fifty modern fighting ships, large and small. I private establishments were set to work it is Embublc that we could put afloat 300 torpedo- 0ats within six months, getting ready mean- while to launch more formidable vessels. It is true that it takes three years to float a battle- ship, but the Government oi the United States could buy a few battle-ships ready made in case they were sorely needed. And even if | these purchased battle-ships were not so good a5 American battle-ships, such as the Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon, the men Wwho manned them could hold their own with the natives of any other country under the heavens.” PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT. Archibald Forbes, the well-known war cor- | respondent, is seriously ill at his home in London. | Prince Bismarck has informed Emperor Wil- liam that if his health permits he will attend the state banquet 2t the Schloss on January 18. Emile Zola will visit England again in the | spring. He wishes to study the industrial and | social life in such cities as Manchester and Sheflield. In one day recently Emperor William of Ger | many wrote a song, painted a picture, designed a fort and lost his temper. It wasadull day with him, too. Mark Twain told the Australians that our railroad service was so perfect in this country | that we had special cars reserved for people | traveling incognito. Professor Archibald Geikie, Director-General | of the Geological Surveys of the United King- | dom, and author of many important works on | geology and kindred subjects, is coming to | America very shortly on a lecturing tour. | James M. Hall, aged 101 years, gave a cen- | tenary birthday party at his home in Harrison County, near Cynthians, Ky., Saturday. The combined ages of himself and four brothers and sisters was 463 years. Mr. Hall is a pioneer of Scott County and has outlived four wives. Queen Victoria is greatly interested in the Ashantee expedition and also in Barney Bar- nato’s Kaflir booms. She has ordered the Colonial Office to keep her informed of the latest developments in these matters, and Eng- lish Radicals are now wondering if the old lady is speculating in African securities. Lord Aberdeen has disapproved of the charity ball, to be held New Year's eve at Ottawa, to raise funds for the Children’s Hos- pital, and will not attend. This action of the Governor - General and Lady Aberdeen has caunsed much commotion in certain Canadian society circles, but the ball will be held just the same. The Empress of Austria intends giving up much of the violent exercises which she has persisted in for 50 many years. Her Majesty at one time boasted of a waist of only twenty inches in circumference — the smallest in Europe — and claimed that it was not the | product of a corset, but of swinging by her | hands from a trapeze bar, | According to gossip in St. Petersburg the Emperor and Empress of Russia are delighted that their first child isagirl. It is said that | upon being congratulated by one of the court chamberlains the Czar said: *The Czarina and | 1 are rejoiced to have a daughter. The child | is oursand ours only; had we had ason he | would have belonged to all Russia.” LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS. This charming little gown is made with a round yoke (as shown in the little design on the right-hand side) from which the skirt por- tion hangs in graceful folds. Or the dress may be sewn to a band at the top, over which the collar is sewed, making a pretty evening dress, or a day dress to be worn with guimpes. It is pretty with the yoke and starcollar. If the other collar is preferred square pieces of the material may be used with dainty effect. A dress of bluet crepon, with collar of ecru linen, is exquisite and extremely stylish. A singhnm gown could be daintily trimmed by edging the pointed collar with wide Valen- cofennes lace. Or make the collar of white linen or lawn and edge it with narrow Valen- ciennes lace of the yellow tint. A guimpe of the same white goods, tucked and trimmed with the same lace, the latest fad, and would be dainty with a best dressof silk, which should also have a white collar. OPINIONS OF OCCIDENTAL EDITORS. Americans Needn’t Use Flintlocks Now. St. Helena Sentinel. A patriot with a flintlock is better than a hireling with a Springfield rifle, Suggests an All-Round Settlement. Haywards Mail. 1 down to the line of the Pre: i deficit of about By the way, while we're about it, why not put the sealing business, the Atlantic fishery uestion and the Alaska boundary matter into the pot with the Venezuela affair and scrap for the whole works at once? Durrant Has Dropped Out of Sight. Dixon Tribune. The San Franciseo papers have interviewed every one of note on the prospectsof war, ex- cept Durrant. It is doubtless a bitter disap- pointment to that youth to know that he has not been consulted at this juncture, indicatin, that he is lollv;g the place in the public mnfi he has occupied 5o long. ‘Time Our Financial Chains Were Broken. San Jose Mercury. Many of the large corporations in the United States would be discommoded somewhat should English capitalists call in their American credits, and for a time the inconvenience would be ffin gennnlly, butin the endit would be one of the best things that ever happened to the country. The tariff and fiscal policy of the present administration is fast making us the subjects of Great Britain, in_a commercial and financial sense, and it is time that we break the shackles. This Is True Americanism. Santa Cruz Surf, Witnin the forty-eight hours just passed the words Northerner and Southerner, Democrat and Republican have lost a certain shade of meaning, and the word American has been magnified in the minds and hearts of men. We are one ple to-day in a sense in which we have not been for sixty years. Will Encourage Sericulture. * San Diego Unfon. Considerable attention is being paid to silk culture in this country. A New Jersey firm is | advertising that it will buy all the cocoons produced in the United States, and there is no reason why an important industry should not be built up. San Diego County offers admir- able opportunities for sericulture. Fruit- growers would do well to add & few mulberry- trees to their orchards. » ‘Want Farmers in Place of Ranchers. Fresno Expositor. What is needed to make Fresno County prosperous is more farmers in place of ranchers. Ranchers are men who stake their whole pile on some one product, wool, wheat, hogs, raisins, fruit or something else, and buy everything they need to live on. When Fresno's ranchers become farmers Fresno County will be the richest county in_the State, orasrich as any other county that does the same thing, ard much more prosperous than those who do not. MR. CARLISLE'S REPORT. Colorado Springs Gazette. Throughout the report there is evident a dis- position to theorize and prophesy instead of giving facts and figures. Utica Observer. It is a document well worth careful reading. It deals with important questions and is the product of a master of the art of lucid presenta- tion of tacts. Cleveland Leader. Mr. Carlisle resorts to the same false reason- ing which characterizea the message of the President, although he is a little less positive in his statements than Mr. Cleveland was. Topeka Journal. Secretary Carlisle’s annual report indicates that that buoyant hopefulness which has never | left him since he entered upon his duties as manager of the Nation’s finances still en- velops and hedges him about. He still thinks there will be no deficit next year. Chicago Inter Ocean. All the ordinary subjects are slid over rapidly and lightly and the bulk of the report devoted to the elaboration of the Cleveland plan of retiring the greenbacks and trusting that the National banks will issue the currency necessary to carry on business. Mr. Carlisle does not recommend the revivalof the State benk system, as he did last year, but he keeps dent’s message. Ransas City Journal. If there had been no loan there would not be a dollar in the treasury to-day. Mr. Carlisle “calculated” one year ago that by this time there would_be a surplus of receipts over ex- of the year of at least $22,000,000. 1 of o surplus there is & 53,000,000. That was just about as reliable as all the caleulations of the present administration have been. S Jones—Why do you always put “dictated” o your letters? Isee youdon’t keep a secretary. Smith—No, but to tell you the truth, my son, my spelling’s & bit rocky. A PUBLIC SERVICE. It is said Mr. Pullman pays his daughter $10,000 a year for naming the company’s cars.—Exchauge. Life consiaers this a wanton waste of a cor- poration’s wealth. We will perform this service for much léss money, and beg leave to submit few samples of the names we would suggest for Mr. Pullman’s sleeping and buffet ca Insomnis. Snoriena. Rockipillo. Cinderana. Overchargia, Cheekinigga. Odorifera. Coldfeetia, Bedbuggin. Bigtippia. Hotasheolia. ~Coldgrubbia. Stuffiana. Draughtiana, Thumbsoupia. Badeggia, —Life. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. He kicked the moment he was born, In a stalwars, lusty cry. He kicked and howled in babyhood, Till the neighbors thought they'd die. e kicked when first he weat to sckool, And he scratched the nursemald, too. He kicked on his college football team— Yes, he kicked his whole lite through. —Somerville Journal. Student (hurriedly accosting a mate of his)— Saperlot, there are a couple of creditors close onmy heels. Fellow student—Quck, run into the savings bank over the way; nobody will look for you there.—Buntes Allerlei. “I expect to be a sort of a Barney Barnato by this time next year,” said the man who is in the habit of expecting. “How are you going to work it?” asked the man who is put in to complete the dialogue. *‘Going to patent an accordion sleeve. Girl can draw it up small or expand it away out, according to the state of her feelings toward the young man."—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Do you think it will rain to-night?” asked a citizen of the policeman. “I don’t know, sir; I've only been on the force one week,” replied the policeman.—Lon- don Tit-Bits. Bobby—Papa, Jack Mason said his father gave him 50 cents, and — Papa—Well? i Bobby—I'd like to say the same of you.—Har- per’s Bazar. The Younger One—I wonder if T will lose my | looks, too, when I get to your age? The Elder One—You would be lucky if you did.—Washington Sta; gl There never was & sheep =0 old that some restaurant or hotel liar would not refer to it as a lamb.—Atchison Globe. Close observers have noticed that when a barber razors a youth’s first mustache he gen- erally shaves down. Mrs. Bingo—I don’t know what we will ever do with Bobbie. It seems impossible for him to learn how to spell. Bingo—We'll have to make a sign-painter out of him.—Detroit Free Press. “Waiter, I found an oyster in this oyster “It shall not happen again, sir.”—Detroit Free Press. If the conceit was taken out of some people there wouldn’t be enough of 'em left to hang clothes on.—Texas Siitings. First Mouse—How are you, and how is the family getting along? Second Mouse—Oh, very well, thanks, with the exception of Willie. He was reared in a nest made of old love-letters and can’t stand the cold at all.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Teacher—What does the reign of King Charles I teach us? 2 Tommie—Please, sir, not to 1ose our heads in moments of excitement, sir.—New York Truth. - E. H. BuAcx, painter, 120 Eddy street. e — PuRE mixed candies, 10¢ Ib. Townsend’s. * e TowxNsEND'S farzous broken candy 10¢ pound.* - TowxsEND's candies. Palaco Hotel building.” - PLENTY of help; o waiting at Townsend’s. * A NIcE present for Christmas—Our own (I'n - forniu glace fruits; 50¢8 pound. Townsend’s. * o CHOICE cream mixed candies in Japanese baskets; 25¢ pound. Tow nsend’s. e ——— Hoitt’s School for Boys. Burlingame. Term begins January 7. telescope and . S S SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pres3 Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon(gomery. —_—————————— POPCORN, 3 quarts, 10 cents; sugared corn, 20 cents pound; three yards strings of corn,.lo cents; and corn balls at Townsend's. e Sherman’s book is said to have brought him in $127,000 already, at a royalty of $1 a copy. It would have taken him more than two years to make as much as that by being President. —————————— UPON & fair trial Hood's Sarsaparilla fulfills a claims made for it. Tt is the one true blood purifier, hence 1ts success in alleviating pain and curing dis- ease after other remedies have failed. e CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new train throughout begins Octobet 29. Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclining- chair cars and dining-cars. 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R Cycle Cigarettes, 20 in a package, 6 pkgs for, 25 Pet Cigarettes, 4 pkgs for.... ghsesdss - 98 Duke’s, Bright's and Vanity Fair Cigarettes, 6 piags for... vigl Sugar-Cured Picnic Hams, per . T Choice French Mixed Candies, 8 Ib........... 30 Seal of North Carolina Tobacco, per 1. . 45 Monthly Catalogue Sent Free Everywhere. WMCLINE Wholesale and Retail Groeer, 949-95 | : MARKET STREET. Between Fifth and Sixth. THE HARMLESS RUBBER-TIPPED ARROW FAMILY GAME. Sport and Diseipline for All Ages. BUYS IT, ™~ WITH NEYW Target-Holder. ALL TOY DEALERS KEEP IT. ELASTIC TIP COMPANY 14 FREMONT ST., SAN FRANCISCO. 5 If you want a sure limbs, use an Allcock’s tions is as good as the genuine. relief for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita-