The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1896, Page 20

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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e ———— e The street-sprinkling problem is begin- ning to look dusty. Civilization in this country can do al- most everything except clean a street. Huntington forgot much during the week, but he will remember the rest to-day. It would be a good idea for Mrs. Grundy to- abstain from the Brown trial during Lent. The only things that are goingalong steadily in Congress are talk, time and sal- aries. The celebrations of yesterday were good, but we should make them more general next time. Some scientist had better turn Roent- gen's ray on itself and find out all there is in it at once. There is a growing suspicion that the rain is waiting for the festivals to begin before it drops Huntington, Fitzsimmons and Kaiser Willlam will have to fight it out to decide which owns the earth. In the glory of the celebrations let us hope that no one overlooked the memory of George Washington. ¢ hath charms to soothe the savage t, but the gentle sex rages over it en Paderewski is around. Politics are lively and war is threaten- ing, but somehow science manages to fur- nish all the sensational news. Now as for those kinetoscope fellows who went to 250 to get the Fitzsimmons and Maher fight—what do they think? M “The bicycle clubs are making & good fight for better streets, but who is going to make the fight to have them kept clean ? Throngh the general bo. i‘nz over our delightful weather there can be heard the Jow murmur of the farmers praying for rain. We are going to have a strictly protec- tive tariff campaign this year and free trade won't be in it at any time from start to fin: Sa long as our thoroughfares remain in the present condition no one in San Fran- cisco can be accused of trampling on im- provements. It is easier for the average American to seize two opportunities in spite of fate than to take one holiday even when it is offered to him, When Paderewski was in the East we made furr of the enthusiasm over his play- ng, but now that he is with us we have learned something. The British have at last made up their ninds that they would rather take the Monroe doctrine as a pill than to get it in the form of powder. 1f Nansen expects to be as big a man as Roentgen when he gets back he must not only find the mnorth pole, but the ymmes hole” as well. Between the Board of Health and Board of Education there is a prospect of a war that will be neither healthy for the one nor instructive for the other. It is now charged that the Buckleyites intend not only to ruin the City but to &poil the Iroquois banquet, and thus does iniquity increase at a fearful rate. Washington's farewell address warning the people against party spirit comes ap- propriately at the beginning of Lent, and of course society will give up parties. Last week brouzht us many good things, but none better than the decision of Judge Wallace sustaining the poolroom ordi- nance. The City is becoming purified. The French Senate has decided to leave the dispute with the Chamber of Deputies to the arbitration of the people, and our Senate might profitably follow the ex- ample. —_— It scems to have been with the Roentgen s with so many other great discover- Lots of people saw it before the man ies. who got the credit of it, but they didn’t know it. The Merchants' Association certairly cannot be expected to pay the cost of street - sprinkling forever. They have shown how it should be done, and now the City should do it. From the way the street railways are working it would seem that when Mana- ger Vining is not enforcing some old way of annoying the people he is planning some new way to do it. The feature of the season most surpris- ing to the reformers of last season is the at reform movements are progress- lily without baving any mass- meetings to whoop them up. If Ballington Booth, commander of the Salvation Army 1n America, declares his independence of British control he will have not only geod models to follow but plenty of good men to follow him. In asserting that Mr. Huntington has been accused of everything under the sun the railrozd organs are in error. He has been charged only with robbing Peter and was never accused of paying Paul. .2 higher idea of what the American ought WASHINGTON'S INFLUENCE. Nearly the whole of what the life nnf! influence of Washington mean to this country is summed up in his farewell address. Thatnoble and memorable docu- mentcontainsan epitome of all the lessons which his patriotic virtue and political sagacity deemed it important to impress upon his fellow-citizens. Those lessons were many, butall of them tended to three things: the incuication of National patriotism to the exclusion of sectional divisions, the faithful observance of ?be public welfare in opposition to excessive party spirit, and the maintenance of an absolute independence by this country free and untrammeled by any alliance or en- tangling treaties with the nations of Europe. These things, which in his farewell ad- dress Washington taught by precept, he had during the whole of his public life iliustrated by example. He was in the broadest sense a National patriot. No local favoritism or sectional prejudice marred the perfect splendor of that devo- tion which he gave to the whole of the great Republic whose independence he had gained and whose government he founded. Equally free was he from any trace of an excessive zeal for party. Be- tween Federalists and Anti-Federalists he stood impartial and made use of the leaders of both to serve the interests of the country. Nor was he less partial in deal- ing with European nations, and showed | toward England, who had assailed us, & | justice as fair as that extended to France, who had been our ally. Nationalism, Patriotism, Independence. These three words when extended to their fullest meaning express the substance of all which the founder of the Republic stood for. Perhaps all of them might be concentered in the single word American- | ism, and he himself might be fairly called | the first and greatest of Americans. When we honor him these are the things to which we consecrate ourselves. We derive through the influence of his example and the inspiration of his words a fuller sense of theduties involved in citizenship, and to be in his relations to his country, to his cover the expense of maintaining the | pound. The subject is very comprehensive. As | a rule the debris contains valuable ele- ments of fertility, for it is largely alluvial. ‘When first exposed it is infertile, but after | afew years, when the sunshine and air have had time to produce their chemical changes, the ground becomes - fertile. Hence it is conceivable that ground need not in all cases be bought for bagin pur- poses, but that it may be leased for a term of years, covered with debris to an agreed depth and then returned to the owner better land than it was before. Thus the impounding basin could be moved steadily down the valley and finally be made to reclaim the vast tule swamps heading at Ban Pablo Bay. ‘Wherever the ground is raised by this process the danger of overflows from con- tignous streams would disappear. Inother words, if the great amount of money that has been expended in constructing river levees had been used in erecting dams for impounding debris-carrying water, hy- draulic mining need never have been sus- pended, the rivers would not have over- flowed, and the incredible loss that has been sustained by pursuing the present method would never have been incurred. THE DEAD HUMORIST. Edgar Wilson Nye, his body racked these many years with pains, died yester- day. The wonder is less that he had borne his ills'so long than that almost to the very last he performed Iaborsthat would have appalled an ordinary man in health. When the whole story of his lifeis told it will likely be found that the clear head ana cheery voice of a woman not only led him forth into the world from his obscurity as an idle, good-natured village humorist, but sustained bim in the habit of industry that transformed him into an untiring laborer with his pen, and one of the most famous men of the century. Without sueh a wife as the one who blessed his life Bill Nye might never have lived to see his fame leap the boundaries of Wyoming. His humor was distinctlvely Western, and, untike that ot Mark Twain, another party and to the world. Itis most fitting that we shoula show | the highest veneration for this man, who, | in his historical character, is the greatest, | purest and noblest the world has known. | There may have been defects in his private | life, and doubtless were, but these concern | us not. It suffices that in his public career | there is not a stain or even a suspicion to | mar the vestal purity ofgis patriotism. | He stands alone among the great ones of | pistory, a warrior and statesman com- | bined, and both made perfect as earth’s noblest man. We honor ourselves more- over in honoring him, for surely none but a great people could have produced so great a man, and none buta worthy people could maintain the Republic which he founded in virtue. LAYING THE DUST. It is unfortunate that a controversy has arisen over the street-sprinkling problem between the downtown merchants on one | hand and the Board of Supervisors and | merchants in outlying sections on the | other. These facts are evident: During | thie summer months sprinklifg is greatly needed, as the dust is not only disagree- able to everybody but works serious dam- | age to merchants’ stocks of all kinds, Of | the $75,000 representing the half-year ap- | propriation for cleaning and sprinkling streets there remains $17,000, which the | Merchants’ Association claims should be | expended for sprinkling. As the mer- | chants are tired of bearing unevenly A! burden for which provision was made in | the general levy (for many merchants who | receive tne benefit refuse to share the ex- | pense), the association is demanding that | the Board of Supervisors take action. | There isno principle better established | than that of local improvements made by general taxation. The idea is sa primary | and its practice so essential that to discuss | it would offend the intelligence of well- informed persons. Its basis is the promo- tion of the common welfare. The busi- | ness centers of all cities that are properly governed receive special attention for various reasons, among them being these: business men are the receivers and dis- bursers of a community; their places of business and consequently the fronting | streets are public thoroughfares, enjoyed | incommon by all the people and neces- sary to their comfort and convenience. From every reasonable improvement made in these districts all the people derive a benefit. The extent to which the people of a city are united for the common good may be measured by their understanding of these simple facts. Unhappily for San Fran- cisco, it often seems to be composed of distinct communities baving separate and antagonistic aims. That accounts in a large measure for the political evils that afflict us. The resident who has not learned the necessity for making some sacrifice for the public good needs to mas- ter his first lesson in civic-responsibility. It is true that the necessity for sprinkling the main streets of the City would be greatly reduced or entirely abolished if proper pavements were laid, but until that is done San Francisco cannot afford to ex- hibit a less business-like sense than those cities which sprinkle the streetsof busi- ness centers. AN IMPOUNDING SOHEME, California’s representatives at Wash- ington, official and unofficial, are reported 28 having revived the old idea of leading the debris-carrying water from the hy- drautic mines into the American River basin and there impounding it in a great shallow reservoir, where it may deposit its detritus, and thus leave the river free. Tirey L. Ford, attorney for the California Miners’ Association, thinks the idea an excellent one, but believes that the whole matter of impounding debris should be left to the Government engineers. For the purpose of securing a sufficiently large body of land it is proposed to condemn it. Some 6f the leading members of the Anti- Debris Association are said to be in fayor of the scheme. The idea has advantages and disad- vantages, though the former greatly oyt- weign the latter. The water used for hydraulic mining and carried to the set- tling basin could be diverted temporarily from the river, into which it would go in the absence of any hydraulic mining, but, after settling, could be returned to the stream. That temporary diversion is about the'only drawback. Theadvantages would be manifold. As the water im- pounded in the basin would be undis- turbed, except at the point where it re- ceives its supply, the debris, even the lightest, would settle guickly, and the water would then be available for irriga- tion. The process of settlement would constantly raise the floor of the basin and require a corresponding increase in the height of the dam, but this would serve to widen the area over which the clarifieq product of the West, never lost its original character. It was as different from that of which the ** Bigelow Papers ” is typical asis the hard, shrewd, narrow life of the New Englander from the broad, full swing of the frontiersman’s existence. The question of literature cannot be consid- ered in connection with Nye’'s work. It professedly and intentionally lay upon the lower levels of English composition. Not having had its birth in a conception of literature it cannot live assuch; and as | fine art isessential to permanency Nye's name as a writer must die with him. This reflection, however, in no sense dims memories of the radiance which he disseminated while he lived. His humor, through broad and extravagant, was hearty, ebullient and wholesome. Indeed, it was much more than simple buffoonery—a strain of sharp satire ran through it all. A final analysisof his work will likely show that he was more a wit and satirist than a humorist. The gentle- ness and sweetness of his nature in nowise obscured the wisdom that lay in the high dome of his hairless skull, but they served to temper and veil his shrewd insight into the follies and foibles of men. In laugh- ing at the weakness of others he made them laugh with him and experience de- light to diseover that they were 8o ridic- ulous and amusing. He must have had rare gifts to remain interesting to the last. - If he was not so popular of late as formerly, it was less be- cause his store was becoming exhausted than that the narrowness of his field made his work too familiar. Like all other humorists he sighed for an opportunity to write seriously, just as great comedians long for the pomp and struttings of tragedy. But that opportunity never came, and doubtless he died with lofty hopesand ambi- tions unrealized. There 13 notanother liv- ing with an approach to the odd quality upon which his fame was founded. No country of Europe has conditions which could give the world so strange a product, and in this country those which made him possible are rapidly passing away.. TWO. STATES COMPARED. ‘W. 8. Melick, editor of the Lancaster (Cal.) Gazette, has published in his paper aiong and exhaustive Study of Florida, based on a thorough personal knowledge of his subject. Apart from his recitation of the familiar fact that most of the orange trees of that State were killed by frost eleven years ago, and that this leading in- dustry of the State suffered a permanent check, he furnishes some’ valuable data upon which we may make a comparison between Florida and Culifornia. He shows that during two months in winter the ciimate of Florida is as pleas- ant as that of Southern California, and that because of this and of the easy access- ibility of the State to the people of the Northern States it has become and will continue to be a favorite winter resort for persons of means. But he firmly declares that as a State for home-makers and bread-winners it cannot compare with California. That assertion will go un- questioned. The winter climate is Flo- rida's great attraction. In California climaté is only one of the many attrac- tions. Mr. Melick ably contrasts the topo- graphical differences between the two States and points out briefly the superi- ority of California on the score of the splendid mountains. He further speaks of the luxuriant semi- tropical vegetation of Florida. That in- deed is an exceedingly benutiful feature of the State, and as it hds proved so delusive it is well for THE CALL to analyze it. Nothing could be more inviting than groves of palms ana cocoanut trees, the rich autumnal coloring of abundant foli- age or the cool summer shade of level forests. The broad plains of Califoruia, verdureless and brown, cannot compare in beauty with these arboreal glories of Florida. Asthe winter’s temperature of the two Btates is very much alike (Flo- rida being somewhat colder, as is wit- nessed by the freezing of its orange trees fifty years old and a foot in diameter) we must look for an explanation of this re- markable difference in natural vegetation, for within that question iies the wkole story of California’s supériority. It is largely a matter of rainfall. Where we have inches.of rain in California klo- rida has feet. As the face of Florida is low, level and sandy, most of the heavy precipitation is retained. It is this that supports the luxuriant vegetation. But with an excess of vegetation and with ill- drained land ‘under hot summers and bland winters there must inevitably be a great deal of malaria, to say nothing of annoying insect pests. The most wonderful thing about Cali- fornia is the fact that although it has a semi-tropical temperature it has not a semi-tropical rainfall. As a con- sequence there is hardly any natural tree-growth in the great valleys, and hence no swamps, insects or malaria. It is a water micht be spread for irrigation pur- voses. Other uses, including the genera- tion of electrical power, would offer them- selves, and by all these means a revenue could be derived which would more than curious fact that although it has extensive marshes they are swept by tidewater, and hence cannot be breeders of disease. Still more wonderful than all this is the fact not only that by means of artificial irriga- tion any vegetable product which. flour- ishes in Florida will grow equally well in California but that an inexhaustible sup- ply of water for that purpose is stored by nature in lofty mountains standing im- mediately contiguous to every arable sec- tion oi the State. Thus we can enjoy all the benefits of water withott any of its disadvantages, and can produce semi- tropical verdure where it is wanted and of the exact kind desired. The only drawback that California has for winter dwellers is its distance from the crowded centers of the country’s popula- tion, but it is an instructive fact that many of those who come for health or comfort remain to make their homes. NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION. ‘While newspaper illustrationin America kas been subjected toa good deal of caustic criticism the success achieved has been sufficiently notable to induce the British to imitate the example. It 1snotmerely thai new papers have been started in London to supply the popular demand for pictorial news, but some of the oldest and most con- servative journals of the city have begun to make illustrations a conspicuous feature of their work. The Times, it is true, has shown no signs of adopting the new aid to reporting, but the News and the Chronicle have frankiy accepted 1t, and there can be little doubt that within a few years pictures will be almost as common in the journals of England as in those of this country. Itis not without gocd reason that the London papers have befiun to imitate our example in this respect. ' Newspaper illus- tration bas become a part of modern re- porting because it does much more effec- tively than the pen a considerable part of the work of making known the newsof the day. It conveysto the mind at a glance what could not be made so clear to the average person by a half column of woras. This is a great saving in the time of busy people and does much to make the big newspapers of to-day acceptable to men and women whose occupations compel them to hurry through the news as rapidly as possible and without any unnecessary loss of time. Moreover, this form of illustration, which began as a mere accessory to re- vorting and consisted of a few hastily sketched lines without shading or per- spective, has rapidly developed to a point where it may be fairly called a fine art. The cheaper qudlity of the paper neces- sarily used by widely circulated journals does not permit illustrations to be brought out as clearly as on the finer paper used in magazines of the first rank, but in other’ respects the pictures of the daily press are hardly inferior to those of tne most re- nowned monthlies. In Tue Cawry, for ex- ample, we have repeatedly published illustrations of the pictures-of the leading artists of California, and on some of these we might safely challenge comparison with the pictures of any periodical that is not distinetly an art publication. The most notable development in news- vaper illustration of Iate has been in the direction of cartoon work. Some of this has been in the form of caricaturé, but mostof it has been designed simply to tell a story clearly, without any attempu at distortion of either the face or the figure of the persons portrayed. So successiul has been this work in the daily papers that the weeklies published especially for cartoon- ing have almost lost their prestige. There are no better eartoons published anvwhere at this time than those which appear in the newspapers of San Francisco. In con- ceptior, in composition, in excellence of drawing and in ‘the force and distinctness of their meaning they rank even with similar productions of the artists in the greatest cities of the world. The success achieved in this direction encourages the most sangnine hopes for the art work of the city generally. What the popular taste has demanded our artists have given, and when the popular demand is for the higher, finer and more enduring forms of art that also will be given with an equal excellence. " BILL NYE. That humor—flowing from a pative fount, A censeless spring 50 10ng as beat the brain In that bald skuli—to him who sipped thereot ‘Was tonic to his being, fnasmuch As it provoked a bealthiul mirth that drove Away the darksome clouds of carking care, And they who sipped that rare intoxieant— The wine-of wit and humor—they shall mourn One mirthiul revel's close. Ave, Shall flow that spirit—wine. The cask i dry. The skall of large dimensions !s no more; The royal house of wit that bore no il 1s vacant ana we mourn—the king is dead. The king is dead and hath not left an hefr To wield the scepter of his modest sway. CraRLEs D. BOUTH, San Francisco, Feb, 22, 1896. THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL. The conventional {dea of the Archangel Ga- briel on the morning of the Resurrection has been abandoned by the Hartford sculptor, Carl ‘Conrad, in designing the figure for the monu- ment that is to be erected at Troy, N. Y., in memory of George H. Thacher of that city. The design of Mr. Conrad which has been ac- New Figure of Archangel Gabriel. cepted and the model sent to Rome to be cut inItalian marble, represents the Archangel in 8 sitting posture, with face upturned awaiting the Divine behest to sumihon the dead from their last sleep. The expression of the face is one of intense expectancy, befitting the event in which the celestial being is to becomea par- ticipant. The conception is new and has been worked out in detail with great care. Mr. Conrad is the sculptor who designed the sarcophagus that has reoemli' been completed in memory of Samuel J. Tilden. His work is Widely known throughout the country. Mr. Conrad is a native of Germany, but served in a New York regiment during the Civil War. At the conclusion of hostilities he completed his education as a sculptor abroad. e Don’t Forget to Saw Wood, . Albugquerque Citizen. The way the voters of the country haye been rushing from one extreme to the otner during the last four or five years makes it gmdent for evoaolx man in politics to keep right on sawin, wood. A great big majority one yeardoesn't mean any sure thing the next yeer. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Among the picturesque figures at the Grand Hotel s Sheriff 8. D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo County. Mr Ballou came here in the early fall of 1865 from New York just after the close of the war, in which he had served. It was the time of the bonanza excitement on the Comstock, and Mr. Ballou concluded to 80 up to Virginia City. He wentand remained a year, mining on the Comstock lode. He made some money, but no great stake, Tiring atlength of delving in the mines, he returned to California and went to San Luis Obispo County. He engaged in farming and stockraising there, and was quite contented till the boom at Tombstone, Tueson and various other places in Arizona and Mexico broke out. This wes in 1879. He speedily got & prospecting ougfitand went south. He visited most of the big min- ing districts and made several locations. In 1881 he returned to San Luis Obispo County and engsged in farming and the live- stock business. Mr. Ballou had shown pluck during some trying experiences in his variea career. He thatstood on the lawn, “does dogs like that ever bite?” - “No,” sald the father, “but that one barked once.” “Really?” cried Bobble. *Yes,” sald his father, *I stumbled over him one night and he barked my shins.”—Harper's Bazar. Yo Reuben Jay— That there’s a funny signm, Maundy: “Boots blacked inside.” Mandy—What do you see about it that’s funny? Reuben Jay—Ef they black 'em {nside, wouldn’t you think the blackin’ would rub off on their socks?—Philadelphia Item. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Rev. J. A. Bull of Beloit, Ka preached 800 sermons last year, and a local paper says they were all good ones, too. Lord Rosebery is reported to have said that it took him fifteen hours a day to get through his work as Foreign Secretary. John Burns, the English labor leader and so- cislist, recently coined this epigram anent the Sheriff S, D. Ballou of San Luls Obispo County, Who Is Fighting Cattle-Thieves. [Sketched by a “Call artist.”] was deemed a good man for Sheriff, and & little over a year ago was elected. Since then he has been making it very hot for & big gang of cattle-thieves in San Luis. There are fogs along the coast, and these, with the rains, cause the grass to grow lux- uriantly. It isa desirable place for cattlemen. In the mounteins also there are large bands of cattle. It is there that the thieves took up their position & dozen or more years ago, and since then they have stolen thousands on thou- sands of dollars’ worth of cattie. Mr. Ballou concluded to clean them out. He has arrested eight or ten of them, and conviction has re- sulted in almost every case. Other thieves in the mouutains, alarmea at the fate of confea- erates, have fled. It is probable the thieves will trouble the farmers bat little hereafter. ““There are now nearly 20,000 people in San Luis Obispo County,"” said Sheriff Ballou, *‘of ‘whom about 4000 are in the town of San Luis Obispo. 1 think business is brightening there. The banks are lending money cheaper than formerly, and things are opening out again. There are four banks and several large whole- saling houses. The latter do quite & business with interior towns. **The coast line of the Bouthern Pacific will, I think, be finished to San Luis Obispé by spring. There are about fifty miles of it yet to build. Meantime & line of stages has been put on.” The Sheriff has been at Folsom. leave for home probably to-day. PERSONAL. E. E. Briggs, the banker of Stockton, is inthe City. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento is in town. Judge 8. Solon Hall of Sacramento s at the Grand. ; D. L. Morrison of St. Louis is at the Cosmo- politan. Joseph D. Radford, a wealthy resident of Montana, is in town. B. R. Kittredge, a wealthy business man of New York, is at the Palace. W. J. Dowley, the hotel man of Los Banos, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. D. M. Griffith, a commercial traveler from Boston, is at the Cosmopolitan. A.N. Fitch, an attorney of Tacoms, {samong the recent arrivals at the Palace. E. W. Waldron, one of the owners of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, is at the Grand. E. C. Keppler and J. C. Utter of San Dlego arrived here yesterday. They are at the Grand, Robert P. Penneil, Superintendent of the State Normal School at Chico, is at the Grand. A. B. Jones, the general goods dealer and banker of Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, is in town. A party consisting of James Davidson and wife, J. Ophshet and wife and Miss Fisher, all of Michigar, are at the Occidental. H. C. Geisler of Reading, Pa., one pf Pennsyl. vania's wealthier foundrymen, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan, accompanied by his wife and family. G. W. Carson of Fureks, Humboldt County, who is extensively interested inthe redwood lumber industry, owning large acres of timber- 1and and mills, is in the city. Mayor Elmore of Green Bay, Wis., the town in the northern part of the Badger State with about 15,000 inhabitants, is at the Occidental. He is accompanied by his family. Joseph H. Coates of Philadelphia, the millfon- aire who & few years ago was a very extensive manufacturer of thread and who yet is en- gaged 1n it to a considerable extent, as well as in the exportation of cotton, has arrived here. He will probly stay in the State several weeks. THE CALL is to berepresented in New York as well as its competitors, and Bob Davis, ae- companied by F. A. Nankivell, goes to the me- tropolis in its cause. He is to interview the National celebrities, while F. A. N. will make pictures of them, and tagether they should get up some atiractive matter. Davis’ best work has been done under the head of “Corridor Stories” for THE CALL. These yarns have be- come quite a feature of the mother of the dailies and have been copied all over the Fast, The supply is by no means exhausted, and it may be said that Bob isan interviewer of such resource and imagination that neither fact nor fiction holds terror for his pen.—The Wit. He will | ness in yesterday’s Wave. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Willie—I know sister would be glad to g0 skating with you. Ringway—What makes you think so? *She says she has been dying all winter to have you break the ice.”—Life. “‘That man,” said the cannibal warrior, “had the :“:“ argumentative nature I ever encoun- tered.” “Do you mean the one that you justate?” “Yes. We had a dispute on certain points of ethics, and the result was thatIhad him for dinner.”” x “Well, that gave you the best of the contro- versy.” 5 “Yes. But he never gives in. He doesn’t agree with me yet.”—Washington Star. “Paps,” sald Bobbie, pointing to the iron dog Venezuelan dispute: “If England is wrong, fighting won’t make it any better; if England is right, arbitration will not make it any worse.” Portugal will celebrate mext year the four hundredth snniversary of Vasco ds Gama's setiing out on his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India. There has been only one roysal clockmaker, Louis XVI. The Rothschild family have in their possession & clock made by him, for which $165,000 was paid. A statistician computes that Queen Victoria is now sovereign over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promontories, 1000 lakes, 2000 rivers and 10,000 islands. At a forthcoming wedding in Portland, Me.. the groom will promise to love, honor and obey his wife, who is & woman suffragist and made her aflianced agree to this. Speaker Reed of the Ilouse; Senator Frye, chairman pro tem. of the Senate, and Chief Justice Fuller are all graduates of Bowdoin, Thus Bowdoin holds the gavel over three bodies at the National capital. i It was about 1776, in Massachusetis, that the first woman, Mrs. Abigail Adams, asked for the right of suffrage. Miss Mabel E. Adams of Quiney in that State, who has just been elected to the school board, and who is one of the leading orators in the political equality cause, is said to be one of he: The Duchess of N umberland 1s the pos- ssor of a shawl which was presented by King Charles X of France, and which cost 500,000 francs. It is manufectured from the furof a species of Persian cat. The hair of thiscat is so extremely fine and elastic that a single hair is scarcely perceptible to the naked eye. London society loses a well-known and popu- lar figure by the death of Sir Henry Caicraft, who was the leading spirit of the Board of Trade. He began life in the department as a boy, and acquired a mastery of the intricaeies and technicallties.of its work which made his service s permanent secretary of #reat value. A PRINCESS SHAPE FOR GOWN OR WRAPPER. The Princess dress 1s always popular, and with the flaring skirt, the full sleeves and the large collars of the present mode, have an edded charm, Fabrics of wool are used with a finish of machine stitching. Others are elaborately braided. One of brown cloth had darts cov- K (-ugmfi’\ B 4. ered by a fancy design, which tapered at the waist. and then spread gradually to th the skirt, where it was eight inches wlaef“’}“h?: was done in black braid with & gilt edge, the braid being sewed on endwise so-the gilt edge was uppermost. The collar was braided to m; l:‘(ch. . any women prefer.to have such dsom. materials as llnl:l o > ana silk brocades mad, in this shape. The collar may be of black chiffon with a design fn. white applique Iace, A dull green warp-printed silk, with lines of black and flounces -in matched colors, had such a coll ety ar, with a folded collar of the silk FASHIONS IN CHURCHES. If the Puritans who came over to Plymouth in order to worship God after their own copy- righted fashion could look to-day into the plainest church in San Francisco they would, undoubtedly, with their old-time .startling candor, proceed to accuse its members of the worldiy sin of vanity and forthwith despair of ever meeting them in heaven. Their fashion was to rise before the lark—if indeed there were larks in those serious dgys« fortify the stomach with cold bean porridge, clothe the body in clean and decorous bome- spun, attune the mind to thoughts of severest plety, and, walking soberly to their log church, seat themselves on rough benches patferned after the stocks, where, with their primitive arms and ammunition adjacent, they pro- ceeded to worship God, one ear thrilling to the sound of a psalm and the drum of the other stretched toits widest tension, in order to catch the first whirr of the war-whoop which an- nounced the arrival of the ever belligerent Indian, who seemed to especially enjoy at- tacking them at this auspicious and holy hour. Gloomy and fond of sactifice was this God the Puritans made after their own image and worshiped in singleness of heart, compelling thefr neighbors to do like- wise on pain of torture. For what so potent in convincing sinners of the pains ot the hereafter as a taste of torment in the hitherto? Great was the zeal and faith of the Pilgrim fathers, and it is reported and belleved-that the faith of the Pilgrim mothers wes still greater. How happy their lot! For of all sinners they who lack faith ere ever the most miserable. The fashions in churches, in ministers of the gospel, and especially in the congregations themselves have marvelously changed since that day. There may still be instances where the mother of & hmil{ rouses her less pious Dbetter-half and her unwilling offspring, berigs them in their Sunday-best, and armed witn a sprig of “laylock” or & bunch of green caraway seed, according to the seasom, for awakeners during the service should her charges prove drowsily inclined, she marshals them into the church to hear the parson picture the torments of the damned, and invite sinners to flee from the wrath to come. Happily these churches now chiefly exist far in the backwoods. Such a village church I knew, having been one of the afore-mentioned offspring, and though I have forgot all but the fiery portions of the sermon, ever since then a strong whiff ot old-fashioned lilac brings back the sound of the mi: er's droning and Sister Smith’s voice shrilling some tortured hymn as if it were a veritable lost soul and she had been deputed to rack it to the utmost, stop- ping just short of absolute annihilation. But there were Comgcn!nllons even then, formuch of the jigging church music of to-ddy was un- known. It is hard to absolutely spoil some of the brave old hymns, and if there is anything caleulated to make & wretched sinner believe in God in heaven it is “Coronation,” sung by & congregation that knows it well. In the city of New York nearly all the women of the Four Hundred atiend regularly, when in town, some fashionable chureh. As elsewhere, the congregations are made up of two-thirds women and_one-third men, al- though the men of the Vanderbilt family are punctual church-goers. Mme. Vanderbilt, widow of the old commodore, gave much to Dr. Deems and his unfashionable Church of the Strangers in her day. For Dr. Deems “took no thought for the morrow” so far as he was concerned, but spent his salary upon his -orphans and other charities, Once he met a friend in the street and said, “Some one has paid up the mortgage on my house. It is Mrs. Vanderbilt, I am sure, though she has left me to guess at that.” It 1s_ahaost es difficult for a “camel to go through the eye of a needle” as for a stranger to enter a pew in some of the fashionable churches of New York. Every seat is paid for at & good round price, and it is like holding a box at the operu—if you do not care o go you send some friend instead. Should the Prince of Wales chance to visit, incognito, Grace Church, for instance, during service, he wounld beshown to & temporary seat in the aisle, there to remain until tife close of the first lesson. If the usher were to place him at once in a pew he would do it _at his peril, unless some mem- ber had signified his intention to be absent from church on that day. The first lesson ended, if any pew ve vacant, the strangers in the aisle are bidden to enter in. Once, as I sat upon one of these temporary seats, “mid the gorgeous strains of music and the mellow organ calms,” like Alexander Smith, ‘‘my heart was otherwise,” for I was thinking— There was a young lady of Y arrow, Who went up to church in a barrow; 8ald she with a smile, As she stuck in the aisle, They make these here churches too narrow. In comforting contrast was my reception at a church in San Francisco where the members act as ushers, Entering there I was greeted with a handshake and the question “Are you a stranger?” 1 was & stranger, indeed, and I said “You are very welcome,” the man said.‘Thope you will feel at home,” and ne conducted me to & seat rightin front of the ulpit where the gospel could strike me hard. felt as I used to feel when I visited Aunt Sarah and she had taken me to.my room atnight where light and air were softly tem- pered; there was a shaded lamp, a pen, some newspapers, & book or two, an eesy chair, a bed of down and the knowledge thatl could lieas late as I liked in the morning. And as if this were not enough with her good-night there came the dear smint's smiling benedic- tion, *Peace be_unto you.” I always felt like falling on wy knees and saying a prayer for more AuntSarahs, and though this mey not have been quite orthodox & prayer rarely closes as it begins; praving isin one sense much like falling in love—you never know how far you &re going until you arrive at the end. Well, whatever else I prayed for that Sunday I did not forget to ask for more churciies where strangers are received with out. stretched hand Yet here, right in hospitable San Francisco, where many, both saints and sinners, seem to welcome tramps right heartily, I know a re- ligious woman who has been a member of one church for ten years, attending regularly, and she is not personally acquainted with a single other member except the pastor. But she has never been poor andneedy; perhaps she has nhoi“n“md friendship or even acquaintence- ship. A short time ago I was asked: “Do you think the church-goers of San Francisco, who are largely women, as cere ‘in their piety as those of New York? I believe them to be even more so. Many New York women attend church because it a8 been their habit to do so from childhood. hey are not interested, it is even a bore, but it is respectable to go to chureh, it is still the fashion, and they care much for fashion and for appearances generally. The women of San Francisco are different, they are a law unto themselves. They care less for appearances, and besides, it 1< their happy lot to be obliged to_ao little that they actually dislike. They take more freedom than New York women do, and are induliged to a greater extent in minor things. Ido notthink they would go to churcn at all untess religiously inclined, and I believe the Christian women of S8an Francisco as thoroughly conscientious and devout as any women in the world, for they lead charitabla and beautiful lives. EEBE CROCKER. E. H. 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