The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1896, Page 6

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DAVID AL FOLTZ, Special Agent. street; open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9 Rooms THE CALL SPE The Kaiser does the talki Czar who has the sayso. Other issues come and go, but the fund- ht stays with us eps the pi Huntington who has not rece 0. any talk of war, but n't believe them. The Transvaal, Venezuela and Cuba de- serve sympathy, but Armenia requires help and protection. and keeps the peace, of peace and goes on Europe tal but the Turk talks with his slaughterin, The next big war will rearrange not tt map of Europe only, but that of all ihe world, outside of America. third-term movement is by no a good thing, but Grover has lots of men to push The me! bonds It might be worth while for the Demo- ts to renominate Cleveland just to give le a whack at him. c the peo; From the way Congress is worki promises to be the shortest long s we have had in many a year. this From the iculty the British have understanding the Monr doctrine one would think it was & good joke. The bond is: loan, but it will be swill-barrel of the called a popular oured out ndicate hog. In the Cleveland shadow all other Demo- cratic candidates for the Presidential nomination appear as dark hors The Kaiser would willingly make a toss- up of peace or war if he only knew whether his end of it would be heads or tails, Spain will not accept the resignation of Campos, and if he is ever to get out of his position he must s ender it to Cuba. The clean-up on the wate prove the entrance to the C front will im- , and by and by we may get the City itself cleaned up. Big as are the Cleveland bond issues they are not big enough to cover the deficit and hide the weakness of the Wilson tariff. i Cleveland denies that he made any bond arrangement with Morgan, but all the same Morgan knew Cleveland, and ar- ranged for bonds. If the Democratic leaders do not wish the third-term movement to carry their next National Convention, they had better begin to get there Eli and head it off. The wiilingness of the orators in Con- gress to talk about the Monroe doctrine, instead of our financial condition, is al- most plea enough to be called hu- morous. If the Weather Bureau is right in at- tributing the lack of rain to a Nevada *high” it is about time for us to bring Ne- vada over to Truckee and put her on the toboggan slide. Cleveland may be right in claiming the administration was always in favor of a popular loan, but he can never claim that the people were ever in favor of an ad- ministration loan. In his latest verses the new poetlaureate, Austin, refers to the ocean as “England’s territorial seas,” but as a matter of fact it is on the land that England has been making her territorial seize of late. THE COMING CONVENTION. The fact thal only one of the three Mayors of California cities respunded‘ in person to Mayor Sutro’s call for a prelim- inary meeting to arrange for holding a convention of delegates appointed by the Mayors of the State is no indication of a lack of interest in the ramlroad funding bill, as the two who did not appear sent notice that they would abide by the deci- sion of those in attendance and that their sympathies were with the movement. As time is pressing the notice for the conven- tion is short—Wednesday of next week has been selected as the date for the con- The basis of representation is n additi delegates are to be nal delegate for each 5000. These appointed by the es. The character of the memorial which this convention is to address to Congress is a foregone conclusion, as there is a una- imity of opinion in California against the passing of a funding bill, except it might be prudent to say in those indi- vidual cases where railroad influence has been able to determine private and oflicial opinion. If such a pro-railroad sentiment exists to any considerable extent there is no present evidence of the fact. The pop- ular avalanche of opposition to any fund- ing scheme has completely overwhelmed the railroad influence in California. The holding of the convention will be for the purpose of giving formal exvression, by representatives of the people, of the practically unanimous belief thata fund- ing bill would mean the ruin of California. The strongest words in our language would be none too forcible for use in urg- ing the importance of making the conven- tion thoroughly ‘representative of the State. It should express all that Califor- nia thinks, feels and means on this sub- ject. It should make clear the will of the people, manifest their resolute determina- tion and show forth the energy with which they intend to make their fight against the monopoly from now on until it ends in victory. Tt should be a strong convention. From every county, from every city and town there should come to it the men whose words mean business, whose influence is potent, whose action has force and whose leadership is recognized by the com- munity. Such an assembly would gain the attention and compel the respect of Eastern Congressmen who remain as vet gnorant of the effect the funding bill would have on the industry, the commerce and the development of this section of the Union. 1t would impress the minds of the careless, win over the indifferent, and materially aid our Corgressmen in the contest before them. It is useless to multiply words on a sub- ject so well understood. Instruction is needed by Eastern people, but among Californians nothing is needed save a de- termination to do that which every one knows should be done. The long fight against monopoly has reached a crisis at last. Failure at this juncture would en- tail on the Pacific Coast evils greater than can be now estimated. The convention b: meet therefore determined to make the fight resolutely. It must be vigorous, bold, independent. aggressive. It must speak and act for California in such a way that Congress will know that all Califor. nians stand with it. OBSTACLES TO COMMERCE. Professor George Davidson, whose abil- ity cannot be questioned, has made an as- tonishing report to the central body of citi- zeus organized to advance the interests of His special task was to ascer- tain and report upon the menaces to navi- gation which exist in and about the harbor of San Francisco. He has done his work thoroughly and presented a mass of facts which even Congress cannot ignore. He has made a list of twenty-four dan- gerous rocks which threaten our ocean commerce and which have already caused a list of casulties of astonishing length. He shows that the losses which have been thus entailed are immeasurably out of pro- portion to the cost necessary to remove the rocks, and that in some cases a small frac- tion of the loss from a single one of the many wrecks which the rocks have caused would have been sufficient for the removal of the obstacles causing it. In his delving into the records he has learned that 348 wrecks have occurred be- tween Bodega Head and Santa Cruz, 317 between Point Reyes and Halfmoon Bay, and 224 within the harbor of San Francisco and within five miles north and south of the heads. Notwithstanding the millions that have been thus lost the Government, according to Professor Davidson, has ex- pended only $100,000 in the removal of dangerous rocks from this vicinity and has not devoted acent to that purpose since 1874. Worse than that, the Government has lately announced that there is no necessity for appropriations for removing these menaces to navigation. It seems almost incredible that the Government is thinking of abandoning the telegraph line from Point Reyesto San Francisco, when Professor Davidson shows that the losses from wrecks a¢ that point foot up nearly $1,000,000 and that San Francisco is the only place from which aid in the shape of tugboats or otherwise can be summoned in case of a wreck. Every neglect of the harbor of San Fran- isco means the strengthening of the rail- road monopoly which now holds the State It would be folly in the Senate to attach a silver rider to the tariff bill, for the tariff bill is intended only for an emergency, whereas if we are to have any silver legis- lation we want it enacted as the perma- nent policy of the countr; Norman's bubbling delight over his dis- covery that American statesmen favor submitting the Venezuelan dispute to ar- bitration is one of the humors of the sea- son. Arbitration is what America has been demanding all the time. The only man who Las come out of the South African muddle with credit is President Krueger of the Transvaal, and he has deserved honor, for he has shown himself to be not only a brave leader in battle, but wise and magnanimous in victory. Although the anti-funding bill conven- tion has been called to meet as early as next Wednesday there can be no doubt it will be sufficiently well attended to be thoroughly representative of the State. The time to prepare for it is short, but the emergency is pressing, and delay would have been dangerous. It is an occasion that calls for prompt action and the people of California will show energy and resolu- tion encugh to meet it and master it. The credit given to THE CALL by the Bulletin yesterday for the story of Mrs, Tunnell reflects a credit on itself, as it not only exhibited the true courtesies of jour- nalism, but attested that the Bulletin has too high a reputation for gathering news toneed any resort to taking information from its contemporaries without acknowl- edgment. The action of the Bulletin is the more notable as many papers fail in this respect, and for that reason it deserves the fullest recognition and appreciation, in its grasp and which is seeking diligently to defeat the Nicaragua canal project, pass 2 funding bill, prevent an appropriation for the improvement of the interior water- ways of the State, monopolize isthmian transportation and impose extraordinary charges on the overland shipment of Cali- fornia products. The possibilities of the Cape Horn route will never be fully de- veloped until the harbor of San Francisco and its approaches are made perfectly safe, and it is now the duty of our people to see that this is done. SILVER AND THE TARIFF. In the debate in the Republican caucus on the emergency tariff bill, Senator Tel- ler is reported to have said that for one he proposed to assist in placing a free-coinage amendment on every tariff bill until such a measure became a lJaw. He “would not only vote to put one in this bill, but he de- clared it to be his intention to endeavor to assist in having such an amendment placed on a tariff bill in the next Congress if the Republicans controlled both branches of the Legislature and the execu- tive. 1f the Senator from Colorado was cor- rectly revorted it is not probable that he will have the support of any considerable number of silver Republicans in the policy he proposes to adopt. It is undoubtedly true that vublic prosperity depends upon a return to the bimetaliic system of money as well as to the protective system of tar- iffs, but none the less the two issuesare distinct in every respect and should not be confounded in legislation. They occupy, moreover, very different positions in the domain of practical politics. A reform in the preseut tariff is attainable now. A thoroughly protective tariff is assured as soon as the people have a chance to install in office a Republican President. Mone- tary reform occupies by no means so good a position either at present or in prospect. To fasten the two movements together vancing bimetallism, and no good states- ing such a policy. The error of Senator Teller’s position is the more serious because of the pressing necessity of tariff reform at once and the restoration of a completely protective tariff at the earliest moment possible. The greater portion of the difliculties in which cur finances are now involved are due to the defects of the present tariff. Under its operation we have the double evil of deficient revenues and an adverse balance of trade. By reason of the one we have to run the Nation into debt to pay current expenses and by reason of the other we are forced to export gold to settle excess of imports. To redress the defects of the tariff and get rid of these evils the emergency bill now before the Senate was passed by the House. It should be passed for the relief of the country with an equal promptness by the Senate, and on Cleve- land should be thrown the responsibility of rejecting it if he dares. The need of returning to a comprehen- sive protective system as soon as possible is not less urgent than that establishing an adequate tariff at once. The emer- gency bill would benefit the National treasury as soon as it was put into force, but 1t would only by indirection serve the industries of the people. To restore to ity it enjoyed under Republican tariffs another such tariff adapted to thechanged conditions of the time must be enacted. Our manufacturers and workingmen are home and industry that any we have known before. Absolute and thorough protection is therefore the imperative neea of the time. I¢should be sacriticed to no other interest whatever, not even to so great and beneficent a measure as that of a return to bimetallism. On that platiorm all Republicans can stand and must stand if they wonld stand unitedly and securel: Let us hearno more talk of “*bimetailism or nothing.” The Republican party is the champion of “protection and bimetallism” and he ouly is loyal to the party who serves both of the h an equal fidelity. “THE SUNDAY CALL." e causes v For the Sunday issue of a great news- paper such as THE CALL there is an extra. ordinary expenditure of energy to secure and vpresent special features that shall prove as entertaining and instructive in themselves as they are co mplementary to the general character of the paper. nothing trivial or flimsy is given admis- sion to the weekday columnsof THE CaLr, and as everything which the paper pub- lishes is intended to be instructive and helpful, and in its purely artistic charac- ter, whether literary or pictorial, must be a wholesome value. the qualification that THE CarLisa Cali- fornia newspaper and is therefore the most convenient means for informing the Eastern friends of its local readers con- cerning the attractions of the State. ber of pictures furnished by San Francisco artists as their ideals of the peculiar fea- which are worthy of the attention of painters. The contributors were all men. To-morrow will appear a series of illus- trations of a similar character by women Itis common knowledge that the women painters of the State are numerous and powerful, and that they have ideas of the own. The story ot tne old Comanche, famous monitor which arrived here sections in the hold of the Aquilla in 18¢ will be told in to-morrow’s issue. The subject of fires has been made to serve for a symposium in the form of in- terviews with representative citizens, be- ginning with Chiet Sullivan of the Fire Department. It is a curious fact, as de- veloped in these interviews, that very few citizens, including Chief Sullivan himself, have decided what they would do in case of fire in their own homes. Miss Russell”” givés some bits of advice which will prove of great interest to Jovers of horses. “A Robbery on the Middletown Grade” is the title of a highly dramatic story by ‘W. C. Morrow, in which the ordinary fea- tures of a stage robbery are complicatea by the introduction of an idiot on the scene. A feature of THE Suxpay Cany which has proved exceptionally welcome is the page entitled “Novelties in the Realm of Science, Literature and Art.” It will ap- pear to-morrow. Besides all these will be the literary de- partment, devoted to book reviews and current literary gossip; fashions for both sexes; a full account of social happenings; Bab's letter, which bas a special interest for women; the week’s review of the the- aters, and special telegraphic letters from the centers of political disturbance Europe. the | in | in FROM WESTERN SA;CTUMS. Of Universal Application. Alameda Telegram. A great international sermon might be preached on the text, “Thou shalt not steal.” Lively John Sherman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. John Sherman may be t00 old to run for President, but his activity in Congress does not indicate that he has suffered any great loss of either mental or physical power. The Shore Line at Sea. Stockton Tndependent. There is 1o likelihood of trouble with Britain over the Alaskan boundary unless that Goy- ernment tries to measure tén marine leagues inland from the islands instead of the shore, which it probably will not do. Feeding the Son-in-Law. Bodie Mining Index. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is gobbling mineral land by the thousands of acres at & grab. But poor old Collis must have something to stuff into the ever-gaping sack of that imported son-in-law of his'n. i Those Latent English Rights. Alameda Encinal, It has been admitted by the English diplo- mats that they did not “strenuously” claim a new boundary in Alaska until gold deposits were discovered there. The latent rights of England are becoming so numerous that a i‘lcfinilion of them should not be delayed much onger. STREETCAR TRANSFERS. Another Effort for a Reform Is Soon to Be Made. At the last meeting of the Merchants’ Association the committee on street rail- way transfers, consisting of A. 8. Baldwin, W. G. Doane, Hugo D. Keil, W. 8. Kohl- berg, I'. A. Swain, A. S. Hallidie, . B. Driscoll, 8. W. Dixon and Frank Maskey, was increased by adding a number of ger:- tle men outside of the association. This committee will meet Mr. Vining, superintendent of the Market-street sys- tem of railways, and conter with him con- cerning the reduction of the transfer traffic ?nn the extension of the limits of trans- ers. Engineer McCullough of the association has prepared a directory and guide of the | City Hall, % o would be to retard protection without ad- | the debts due to foreign nations for the | the country that full measure of prosper- | threatened now with a competition from | Japan far more menacing to the welfare of | tures which distinguish the State and | elevating, its special Sunday features have ! To this may be added | In last Sunday’s issue appeared a num- | | farthest corner. PERSONAL. George S. Mills of Olympia is here. L. Lowengast, a banker of Portland, is at the Occidental, B. K. Block, & wine merchant of Sacramento, | is at the Lick. manlike reason can be found for support- | State Controller E. P. Colgan has arrived here for a short stay. William B. Fisher, a wealthy business man of Denver, is at the Palace. R.B. Butler, the vineyerdist of Fresno, princi- pal owner of the Fresno Expositor, is in the City. John McMurray, & wealthy miner of Weaver- ville, who has been on u visit to the East, is at the Grand. L. P. Sage, the weelthy California pioneer, Wwho is owner of the Congress Mineral Springs, is at the Lick. Bishop Morris of the Episcopal Church of Oregon arrived here from Portland yesterday nd is at the Palace. Dr. David Stari-Jordan, president of the Stan- ford University and of the Acadamy of Sci- ences, is at the Occidental. A. N. Gilbert of Salem, formerly a member of the Oregon Legislature and now superintendent of the Oregon penitentiary, is in the City. J. H. Porter, a wealthy mining man of Red- ding, is at the Russ. He brought down a large and handsome piece of rock from one of his mines, which shows the quicksilver fairly boil- ing out of it. Admiral Beardslee of the United States flag- ship Philadelphia sailed for San Diego on the steamer Mexico yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Beardslee and Mrs, Edmundson, wife of Captain Edmundson. The Philadelphia will start for San Diego in a day or two. Sir Audley Coot of Australia, who has been in this country for some time in reference to the trans-Pacific cable, left for Washington again yesterday. Hesaysthe Hawaiian cable is the one he isnow bending all his energies upon, but thatere long there is no doubt there will be acomplete cable system between Japan, Aus- tralia, Samoa, Tahiti, Hawail and San Fran- cisco. Thomas Hill, the noted artist of Yosemite, who some weeks ago went North with the in- tention of painting Mount Baker, returned here vesterday and is at the Palace. It rained 80 much that Mr. Hill could not seg the sun, and he had to give up his project for the time. He remained in Portland, where he has many friends, and enjoyed a vacation there. He thinks now he will do next to mo work till spring. CALIFORN}AN;’IN 7NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 10.—Among recent arrivals are: Miss Johnson, Brunswick; H. C. Tibbits, Grand Union; W. H. Wiester and wife, Marlborough; J. 8. Curtis, St. Cloud; A. Stern and wife, Holland; E. B. Westcott and wife, Grand Union. S EDUCATING FROGS. There is one queer fact which Dr. Ernest Lederle of the Health Board scems to have-es- | tablished by his recent experiments with three Staten lsland frogs, and that is that the little animal, while capable of receiving instruetion in a limited degree, has a very snort memory says the New York Evening Sun. When h first got pessession of the frogs, several months were so wild that if he went near the jarin which they were confined they would at once dive to the bottom and crawl to the They gradually beceme ac- quainted, and one of the trio became so tame that the doctor could hold him in the palm of Lis fhand, while the creature croaked vigor- ously &s & token of the plessure he experi- enced. The little fellow wonld sit on the brick island and snap live water bugs out of his mas- ter’s hand. It required sbout two months to educate the most intelligent of the three to this point, and a second had just begun to croak while he was held in the hand, when Dr. Lederle was ealled out of the city in connection with his duties as a chemist in the Health Department. He was absent four days in the western part of the State. . When he returned the first thing he inquired about was how the frogs were getting on. He found that they had been well cared for and fed regularly on water bugs, but when he tried to take them up in his hands and make them croak as they once did he discovered that they were as wild as on the day when he got them from the boy who captured them in the Staten Island pond. It was evident that even the most intelligent one had quite forgotten all that his owner had done for him. The course of education had to be gone all over agein, even from the primary department. The second course, which was ovened at once upon Dr. Lederle's return, was suecessul, and this time it took ten day$ to tame the green little pets. In that timé they were brought back into pretty good form,and would make that peculiar guttural sound which the word “kerchunk” is falsely suppos ed to represent. Dr. Lederle at first had intended to use the frogs for experiments with certain poisons; but when he discovered that even this ap- parently brainless member of the animal king- dom had intelligence enough to learn to know its friends he made up his mind to continue the experiment up to the limits of the crea- ture's capacity. It struck him as a scientific man that tne discovery that the frogcould forget was conversely a proof that he also had the faculty of memory to a certain degree, and that this was by no means the least interesting of his discoverfes. 1le made up his mind that he would not sacrifice the frogs to the interests of science. “Itis evident, t00,” said the doctor yester- day, as he fondled one of the educated frogs, ‘“‘that they have the sense of identity, They will allow no one but myself to pet them, nor have 1 ever seen them crosk for any one else.” A MAD MONARCH. It would make the European chessboard a much less interesting object 1f the game of politics were played without Emperor William, who is & species of electrical eel with & crown on its nead. This mechanical passage at arms of the diplomats, togetfer with the alarming side moves of the powers, keeps the world of finance on the qui vive, when it would other- wise lapse into a lethargic state. But for Em- peror William’s idiosynerasies how dull would be the routine of state watching state, and the long, slow checkmating which has gone on ever since there were countries to be jealous of one another. Thanks to this erratic Hohen- zollern, with the blood of the Georges in his veins, there is sorething beside the monotony of kingly reigns in this history for the future. The Kaiser is tainted with the family malady, but not to such a degree that he is considere irresponsible for his actions. His mind is not without intelligence, and his clief mental fail- ings are the somewhat negative ones of exces- sive conceit and a superiative restlessness, which he does not seek to control. Both traits throw him into a whirl of extravagances. The opserver, with much less temptation, not to sy POWET 10 gTatily it, wonders at this want of balance in & man of such marked ability, and perfunctorily classes him among those lunatics who are constantly met with in the sanest relations” of” life. A mere spider web line separates these two conditions Which William 1T represents. He is as mad as the March Hare in “Alice in Wonderland,” and he is as sane as a New England professor of physics, and between whiles he is most amusing to everybody save his own household and the majority of the German people. Those who suffer {rom' these vagaries can find no en- tertainment in such a strange ruler. They would prefer less of surprise and more of the conservatism which dignified their monarchs of old, while at the same time they clamor for those radical changes made necessary by this wild young man’s jdeas of divine right. The German Emperor, as he appears at this distance, is an archaic tyrant garbed in modern dress—a sort of materialized thumb- 4 serew placed on & nation struggling to think | and act independently of traditions. One of the evidences of his mental unbalance is his excessive extravagance, which, a writer re- cently said, for the deluge of debt and lia- bilities is only paralleled by the reign of bis ancestor, King George 1V of England. 1t ap- pears that this extraordinary recklessness is the more noticeable from ~ the fact that until now the ~Hohenzollerns have been noted for their thrift, which went to the other extreme, and obtained for them a reputotion for' penuriousness. With a salary of 5,000,000 for filling the dutiesof emperorship, William is vet over head and ears in debt, which his creditors cannot collect by any process of law, the trademan’s_claim against loyalty being referred to the minister and grand master of the household, from whose decision there is no appeal. It is true that an expensive family has to be maintained, and six bo ung as’they are, constitute a tax on the civil list, but the father does not let the children make a very deep hole in his pocket as vet. He burns his money in other ways. But where it all goes is a puzzle to the nation, which has provided the Emperor with palaces, three yachts and a couple of rail- road trains, one of which is said to be a palace on wheels. " Besides these bagatelles there are several hundred uniforms, and as_his Majesty isseli-appointed colonel to some fifty different regiments he probably needs them all, as well as the pay, which he does not disdain drawing, 10 say nothing of the forage allowance for some 200 horses, Whom the gods wish todestroy they first make mad. Some one, and it was not Poult- ney Bigelow, of course, has irreverently likened “miperor William to a circus. But he s more. He 1s most amusing, he shocks old-time prejus dices and paves the highway to the new order of belief in republics—Boston Herald. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MARRYING AGE—R. B.1L., City. The average marrying age of men in the United States is 27 years and 4 months, of women 21:3; in Ger- many, men 29:7, women 27:1; in Frarce, men 30:2, women 24:9. POINTS IN CasiNo—R. J. X., City. If when four men play casino A buildsa 9, B playsa 4, Cplaysa b and D & jack A has the right, with & 9 spot, to take up his build and the 4 and 5, s those two make a combination of 9. THE QUEEN'S Power—S. J., Oakland, Cal. The sovereign of England cannot herself make any alteration in the existing laws, but she may refuse to sanction alterations sug- gested by the two houses of Parliament. TURQUOISE—W., Alameda, Cal. Itissaid that the reason so many Russians wear tur- quoise as an ornament is their belicf that the gemisa talisman against a cruel fate. The Hindoos consider it & preserver against violent death. WEIGHT oF GUNs—J. H., San Bruno Road, City. With an exception or two, the heaviest guns on battle-ships are as foliows: United States, 61 tons; England and Italy, 68 tons; Russia, 56 tons; France, 46 tons, and Germany, 36 tous. DIVIDENDS—T. The question asked I8 not one of general interest, and being purely a personal one cannot be answered in this department. The information you desire you can obtain by calling at the office of the company. ‘“VIRGINIUS”—T. M., City. The tragedy of “Virginius” was written by James Sheridan Knowles in 1820, and the first to appear in the title role was John Cooper, Glasgow, the year the tragedy was written: The part was after- ward made famous by Macready. MAST AND MONEY—A. . R., City. The reason for placing one or more pieces of money under the bottom of & mast on a ship at the time it is scepgea 18 that there are many who believe that when this is done the vessel will never be wrecked, Spirits awi and further that it will drive evil Sailors are very superstitious. A PHYSICIAN'S ADDREsS—Constant Reader, City. If there is a physician in San Francisco “who makes a business of straightening noses, moving n outstanding ears and otherwise perfecting the features,” his address cannot be given in Answers to Correspondents for the reason that this department does not advertise any one. BATTLE AT ALDIE—S. 8. C., Georgetown, E Dorado County, Cal. The following from the “‘Record of the War of the Rebellion,” pub- lished by order of the United States Secretary of War, shows the exact date of the action at Aldie, West Virginia: HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, | ALDIE, June 17, 1868—5 P. . | 1 arrived at 4:30 and found a brigade of Fitzhugh Lee just into Aldle. I attacked at once, and by a charge have taken fifty prisoners, whom I am sending 1p. There is no infantry this side of Blue Ridge; that is certain. A. PLEASANTON, ‘Brigadier-General. NERAL WILLTAMS, Acting Adjutant-General. P. S.—The fight I3 still going on. In another dispatch, dated the 18th of June, the brigadier-general calls attention to the fact “‘the action of yesterday” resulted in the capture of nine Confederate officers and fifty- four enlisted men, besides a number killed. The Feaerals had six officers and forty-six men killed, nine officers and 122 men wounded, and officers and 113 men captured or missing. ¢ fight was by Kilpatrick’s brigade. THE PRESIDENCY—R. O. G., City. The answer to the question, “If an American and wife dur- ing a three years' trip abroad have a son born to them, is ihat son eligible for the Presidency of the United States?'is to be found in the constitution, which says: *“No person except a natural born citizen or & citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this con- stitution shall be eligible to the office of Presi- dent.” It has been asserted that “natural” in that section means “native,” and that as chil- dren of parents wno are now or have been citizens of the United States are, though_born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, considered citizens thereof, a son born to citizens of the United States while travel- ing abroad would be eligible. If such a citizen were ever elected his Tight to the office would no doubt be contested, and the Supreme Court would have to construe the meaning of the term “natural born.” PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Lord Lonsdale’s hobby is to collect whips. Some in his possession are worth over $500 eack. e Dr. George MacDonald, whose health ot late has been fairly good, is now at work on another story. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to be partial to a queer mixture of kirschwasser and American ¥ l.\“‘:éi‘ly one-half of the National House mem- bers are college graduates, and the same is true of the Senate. Some 63 per cent of the Repre- sentatives and 68 per cent of the Senators are lawyers. By The Turkish Government has made over- tures to M. Turpin, the inventor of the explo- sive known as melinite, to go to Constantino- ple and make experiments with his new engine of destruction. A French Canadian couple, Louis Darwin and his wife, now living in St. Paul, recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their marriage. The husband is 107 years of age and the wife is101. Knackfuss, the painter, explains Kaiser Wilhelm’s extraordinary picture of “Civiliza- tion in Peril.” He says that the Buddhs and thedragon donot represent an impending inva- sion of Mongolians, but indifference for Chris- tianity and anarchy Andrew Carnegie has announced that he will give $50,000 a year for the embellishment of the museums and the art gallery in Pitts- burg bearing his name. The only proviso that he attaches to the gift is that two or more pictures by American artists be purchased each year. Dr. Mary Walker is now living on a farm about three miles west of Oswego, N. Y. She is & familiar figure on the streets of the town, to which she drives nearly every day. She always wears a full*suit of black broadcloth, witn Prince Albert coat ana silk hat, and walks with a cane. et The summer house of Emanuel Swedenborg was sold recently to Dr. Arthur Hazelius, the founder of the Northern Museum at Stock- holm, and will be removed from its present lo- cation to Skansen, a branch of the museum. There were many American and English bid- ders for thislittle house. La Tarrasse, where the Czarowitz is to stay during his sojourn in the Riviera,is on the shoulder of the mountain between Nice and Villefranca, To go there one passes by the l small farmhouse and garden of Michael Gari- baldi’s uncle, which was inhabited for some years by Gambetta’s father. . Mr. Ka'bfleisch of Rochester is a vestryman ot Christ Church in that city and the ticket agent of the New York Central Railroad. ‘While he was in his office the other day a man came to the window and said he wanted a ticket to Christ Church. Mr. Kalbfleisch thought he was being made the victim of & joke until the man added, “Christ Church, New Zealand.” He could not be accommodated with a ticket to that place, and he bought one to Timaru, New Zealand, which is about 14,000 miles from Rochester. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “How do you manage to make yourself so popular with all the oid bachelors?”” ‘Widow—I ask them for their advice. He—And do you manage it the same way with the young ones? Widow—Oh, no; with them I ridicule the advice the older ones give.—Woonsocket Re- porter. “Please look here a moment, Miss Grogan,” said the gentleman whose mission in life was to hourly entertain the admiring public by dislocating his nec ‘Phat is ut, Mr. Smith?” returned the beauti- ful Circassian Princess, pleasantly. *“Is ma head on straight?”’—Harper’s Bazar. Miriam—Don’t you think my new hat a poem, Ned? Ned (critically)—From its height, dear, I should, instead, compare it to & short story.— Judge. ““We have no use for bear stories,” said the editor. “Our readers demand somethwg spic; “Well,”” said the man with the manuseript, “this story isabout a cinnamon bear.”’—Sport Afield, The Thin One—Dear me! your outlines. The Fat One—And you are getting to be nothing else.—Cincinnati Enquirer. You are losing all “‘Plenty of presents at your hovse, I suppose. What ones did your boy like best? “Those that our neighbor’s boy received.”— New York Recorder. Thus departed Hiawatha To the land of the Dakotas To the land of handsome women; And in ninety days returning. A divorcelet he brought with him. 'To his wife he gave the ha-ha— Sent her back unto her ma-ma, In the outskirts of Chicago. —Nebraska State Journal. LADY'S BELTED WAIST. A charming model for three fabrics is here shown. It may be made without the lining. The pattern is cut with the back in one piece. The front is laid in a box-pleat on either side. Itopens at the top to show a plastron, from which revers of the latest shape turn back. The sleeves are particularly effective, made of striped materials to show the fdlds at the top. A white lawn with pink stripes would be exquisite, trimmed with white plastron, and revers trimmed with vellow valenciennes lace, Another charming way of making up striped materials is to use the material crosswise for the plastron, the stripes in the body being used up and down. A waist of blue-colored heavy linen after this model might Luve revers and plastzon of white awn. Blue duck could be made very effective with the revers and plastron in biue and white striped or plain white duck. For crepon or light wools the moststylish and summer-like trimming 1s flax-colored grass linen or batiste, which could be used for the revers and plastron. These might be trimmed with narrow valenciennes lace or insertion. AIDED THE LIERARY. Trustees Acknowledge the Generosity of Mrs. Hearst and Mr. Flood. At a meeting of the trustees of the Mer- cantile Library, held January 7, the follow- ing resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of the trustees of the Mercantile Library Association be and are hereby tendered to Mrs. Pheebe Hearst and J. - is as L. Flood for their generous donations to this library, and thet they be declared elected honorary members of this association. At the last meeting of the trustees of the Mercantile Library Association it was an- nounced that Mrs. Hearst had donated $5000 and Mr. Flood $1000 to the funds of the library. e — STATE FLORAL SOCIETY. Officers Who Will Oversee Its Manage- ment for the Ensuing Year. The California State Floral Society held its regular monthlv meeting at the Y. M, NEW TO-DAY. — Be Sure— —Your— —Light— is right, then go ahead. Don't expect your cigar to smoke well if you don't light it evenly and thoroughls and keep it lit. The best tobacco, the /zt;g}x{ est skill, the utmost care and 4 years of experience makes the —New— Estrella— the perfection of cigars, but all this counts Jor little when mr/::.dy lighted—one :i;ar vod as another then. The New Estrella is in new sizes and new light colors, from new crop leaf. 7 2 for 25c——1I0oc——3 for 25c. ESBERG, BACHMAN & CO., WHOLESALERS Beuederfocdiocfecuriuadeddideodeds If limbs, use an tions is as good as the genuine. you want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita~ Porous Plaster . A. building yesterday afternoon and Slecled the following officers for the en- suing year: President, Professor E. J, Wickson; vice-nresident, L. 0. Hodgkins; corresponding secretary, Mrs, W. - H. Smyth; recording secretary, Professon Emory Smith; treasurer, John Henderson g accountant, F. A. Bruns; directors, John Hinkle and Mrs. Austin Sperry. Exhibi- tion committee—Professor Emory Smith, manager; Mrs. 0. D. Baldwin, secretary; Mrs. Amos Mecartney, Mrs. W. S. Chand- ler and Mis. B. Harr eTha society will hereaiter make the Palace Hotel its regular meeting place, where an exhibition of wild flowers will be held some time in the month of April. PUPILS OF EVERETT SCHOOL. Interesting Exercises to Mark the Open= ing of Eureka Valley. ‘Wednesday the pupils of Everett Gram- mar School held exercises in commemora- tion of the nineteenth anniversary of the opening of the first school in Eureka Vale ley. Interesting papers were read by mems bers of the eighth grade class showing the change in this locality; also by Al- bert Elliott, Almia Thompson, Ethel Hame mond, Ninita Bruce, Robert Belser, Alli ter McKenzie and Molly Irwin of the ninth grade, and by the principal. e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.® ToWNSEND'S famous Broken Candy, 10¢ 1b. * MIXED Candies, 10c Ib. Townsend’s, Palace. # et B SPECIAL sale choice cream-mixed candies 150 pound, worth 35¢. nd’ ¥ e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomary. — - Barry’s Star, 5 Cents. A rousing protest against the funding billy Dr. Brown discussed; Civie Federation scored § zies-Gunst decision reversed; etc., ete. * ———— He—Do you ever have any hops out in your town? Country Cousin—Oh, yes. Pa raised ten acres of ’em this year.—New York Evening World. UroN atair trial Hood’s Sarsaparilla fulfills claims made for it. Itis the one true blood purifie hence 1ts success in alleviating pain and curing dis+ ease after other remedies have failed. e g et HICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new train throughou: begins October 2. Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclinings chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi- cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and Si. Louls. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been put in fine physical condition aud is now tue bess transcontinental railway. s To neglect the hair is to lose youth and comelts ness. e it with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC cures inward pain. -~ ‘WE recommend the use of Dr. Siegert's Angose ‘tura Bitters to our friends who suffer with dyspeps sia. —_——— “Browx's BRONCHIAT, TROCHES” are of greag service in subduing Hoarseness and Coughss Sold only in boxes. Avoid imitations. BELi = “1lefta letter on my table when I went out, Where is it?” Valet—I hope you won't mind sir. Ithoughf it would do nicely for my sweetheart, 5o & posted it to her. Your Christian name is the same as mine.—Tit Bits. NEW TO-DAY., REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Mages & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publisiers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNIOY TRUST BUILDIiG, CORNER NARKET. EW PROPERTY. Clay st., near Davis: brick building; rents $150; £00d frontage: only $38,000. near Mission; brick building; leased 122,500. cific ave., near rooms and modern: $11,500. Leavenworth st., near Post; 27:6 feet front and good building; $18,000. Shotweil st., W. side, near 22d; 56x96:6, and s 5'rooms and bath euch; rents $30; only $5000. Eighteerith st., bel. Sanchez and Noe; 25x114 00. SMALL fine residence 13 fi ass order; fine views IN TMENTS SOUTH MARKET STREET. Ninth st., near Mission: good business block: 3 flats and lot 25x70; store should be put theres ow $13.000. Reduced to $4100; 6th : t., bet. Bryant and Bran- nan: £5X85: re; 5; ground rent under leas Howard st e, bet. 6th and 7th; 28x80 story, double store, and flat of 10 rooms abo CH rents about $700 a year; $8750. ixth st., W. side, near Brysnt; 60x85 and stores below and 6 tenants upata low, $69: $9000; ball can remain on moriguge. Must be sold to close an ; ma-c offer; rents 874; price asked $8500: Hth' st., near Fol> 25 b and_ S-story bhuildin, stores below, Rents $100; $12,500; store 1 ty; Howard® st., near 10th. WESTEEN ADDITION HOUSES AND LOTS, $5000 TO %10,000, Post st., bet. Polk st. and Van Ness ave. ze 2761 0y only $5000: Bush st., near Fiilmores 37:0 and_2-story and basement house; 9 baths: in fine orde t., north side, bet. Fillmore and Steiner; 7 rooms and modernt 120 to rear street, and very good 2-story residen $10,000. Clay’ o 25x102 and good S-stor: conveniences; Broadway of & ro and Vis 1s: in very uminizedy $60U0—Very tine house and lo Allister st., near Baker: very easy $1500 cash required. $7000—3 lefi: new houses, just finished; 9 rooms and all modern conveniences; fine view of bayj only $500 cash and terms as rent if desired; Bu- chanan st., nr. Green: 3 short blocks from Ps ave., 1 block from Union-st. cars and 2 blocks from new’line on Fillmore st. Clay st., bet, Scott and Devisadero; flats wel Duilt and cost $4000; rents $57 50 and lot 25x125 $6500; fine neighborhood. tavia st. and Hickory ave.; corner and 2-story and basement house in good order; bet. Ouk and Fell; $5125. £ bet. Broderick and Baker: 27:6 fine 2-story, well finished in nate v papered and fre 8 rooms and modern conveniences; only $7175; street in order; cable-cars pass. 3 side. bet. Polk and Van Ness: 50x story house on part of the lot; balanc vacant; can be improved to pay 8 per cent net. CORNER AND INSIDE WESTERN AD. DITION LOTS, ALL PRICES, Pine and Buchanan, NW. corner: 65x81:3: both streets sewered and Pine bituminized; $10,000§ make offer. Corner; $5:6x100; $3100: corner Fillmore ana Filbert; Stone blocks on Fiilmore and Filbert st, sewered; a very desirable cheap corner. Reduced to $4100; Grove and Lyon corner; 37:6x100; for business or residence. Gough-st. lots; 25x112:6: $4500 each; between Grove and Fulton; street bituminized. Cheap; Waller st., north side, a few feet from Market st lots 25x137: nly $3500 each. Devisadero st., near Washington; 25x110; re. duced to 83750 street paved; electric cars pass; fine lot and neighborhood. Very cheap lot; 37:6x96:3; on Lagun, ‘Waller; one block from Market st. 5x100; M- terms; only near Only 83750. Saturday, Jan. 11th. To-day only. Sonoma Preserve Co. Strawberry or Raspberry Pure Fruit Jam, in useful serew-cap jar, 15 cts. Complete lists at Largest Department Srora 209" SMITHS’ CASH STORE, 414,416, 418 FRONT ST., 5, F,