The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 189Y6. e = CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: raily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall..... 6.00 Dasly and Sunday CALL, six months, by m-n“ ;4.00 mall 1. 65 BUSINESS OFFICI 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Lelephobe.........ooouiunen Main—1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS: Stree: Telephone... ... Maln~1874 BRANCH OFFICES 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; 718 Larkin street: open until EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ontil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 116 Niuthstreet; open nntil 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Roems S1 and 82, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. FRIDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. nce tariff bill The only cloud in the Senate that has any electrici n it is the one with the ver linin, A confer isnow in order. The Grand Jury is beginning to show its hand and so far it seems to be.a very fuil hand indeed. The more Democracy seeks for a Presi- ential candidate the more fellows it finds ing the other way. The railr advoeates have ‘a thousand estions about funding the debt; but not one about paying it. Now that the emergency tariff is out of the way there is room for one that will put an end to the emergency. A little while sgo the Eastern people were bragging of 4. mild -winter, but now they are swearing it is the worst on record. We shall yet bave to put Senator Sher- man’s definition of bimetailism under a cathode ray-to find out, what there is in it, The men who undertook to read Senator Carter out of the Republican party are now wishing they had stayed at home that day. In the mouths of some of the goldbugs the talk of bimetallism is hardly more honest than the talk of- a gold-brick swin- dler. The poolroom £ have now found ont that the law is & buzzsaw and that the po- lice are going to keep it in perpetual motion. Itis reported that tion has broken out in report means prevail formidable revolfi- \icaragua, but the only that normal conditions Itis worth noting that ever since the discovery of the Roentgen ray XKaiser William has been keeping in the back- ground. It seems that when Boies decided not to make the Presidential race-on the Demo- cratic donkey he had bis eye on the Popu- list cart. A notable feature of the crisis in the af- fairs of the & Army-is that t members t nd keep on ing wood. he On -the Cuban question as wéll as on that of the tariff the Senate would sho: more dignity if it had more action .and less oratory. thing except find itional reputatior in a- Presidential Advertising wall d 2 Demoe a who is willing to risk it race this year. The movement toward transforming Su- tvo Hei Coney Isiand should go slow or it too far. 1t Bias come to the point when we must her recognize the right of the Cubans to war or the right of the Svaniards to a4 massacre. 3 The thing that disturbs. the Democrats most is not that so'many leaders decline to be Presidential -candidates, but that Cleveland doesn’t. Tie Government promise of an improve- ment in the Mint is good, but we would prefer to see some improvements om the sice for the new Postoflice building. | —— | From the sale of the celebrated stallion | Direct for so small a sum as $8250 it | would seem the bicycle is running down | the racer as well as the buggy horse. | The robbers who shot the cashier of the bank at Wichita ralls weredrawn on by a | Texas mob, and scarcely necessary to | 2dd that they passed in their check: | The photographic effect of the Roentgen | ray issaid to have been duplicated by a common horseshoe magnet, and before | long the kodak will be doing the job. | Senator Carter’s plea for a Republican | tariff bill in place of the emergency bill | comes at the right- time, was made in the | right place and goes to the right spot. | Every now and then a howl from the dealers in impure milk gives the people notice that Inspector Dockery is going on | with his good work as vigorously as ever. | Americans who are willing to fight for | Cuban independence are called filibusters, but that is not the name we gave to La Fayette and the men who helped us in 1776. The attempt of Senator Morrill and others to read theadvocates of bimetallism out of the Republican party was the kind of reading that is more exciting than edifying. Attorney Hubbard says there is only one man living who can tell the earnings of the Pacific roads, but Huntington said the only man who could tell was Mark Hop- kins, and he is dea Now that the strike of the garment- makers has spread from Chicago to other Eastern cities there will be demand for a popular treatise on ‘“‘plain sewing made easy, or every man his own pantsmaker.” | “Republicans of the East believe in a double standard of value in accordance with the constitution and the doctrine of Alexander Hamilton,” says Senator Hoar, and on that platform the West stands witn them. 00 | San Joaquin Railroad. G| moters of the San Joaquin zhts and the beach into something | THE PIRATE RAVES. ! Mr. Huntington’s mnd machine, which performs its work under the name of a “literary bureau,”’ has been set to a new employment. The task of defiling leading J men of the State by quoting them as sup- | porters of the funding scheme and at- | tributing words to them which they never uttered has been abandoned for a time, and the machine set at work to do what it can to bring into ill repute the grgnt ana | successtul enterprise of constructing the The attack on the competing road was made, of course, through the medium of | the Evening Post, the organ in this City of the Southern Pacific of Kenwucky, and | was made yesterday with as much force as | the Literary Bureau could pack into -an | editorial something more than a column ! in length. The article is notable because it is the | first open assault the monopoly has ven- tured to make upon the San Joaquin road. Hitherto the antagonism has been of the covert kind whose attacks are made slyly, | secretly and by indirection. Now the antagonism is avowed. The monopoly | | assails the enterprise of the people with | almost every form of vehemence known | | to literature. There are evidences in the article of futile attempts at satire, sar- casm and irony, and some successful ones | at indiscriminate abuse, misrepresentation | and plain Jying. | The public is told that some of the pro- road are anxious to have it appear as ‘‘an elec- | mosynary institution, built for the good | | of the public, constructed with benevolent | | purpose and devoted wholly to sgving the | souls of men.” specimen of the satire. The publ: is further told, “The only indication that the San Joaquin Valley Railroad is a . rail- road is in the rapacity and greed it ;lms manifested for gifts in the way of terminal facilities at its termini and in through which it is to be buiit.”” That isa specimen of the plain lying. From these specimens a public | too busy to attend to all the futilities of | the Literary Bureau may judge the rest. |, Through a!l the forms of the long-drawn- | out attack there runs the one purpose of | beating down the cowapeting road if pos- | sible by maliening its prometors, assailing its methods and depressing its credit. It sabold attempt to desiroy the prestige of the road and weakeu public confidence in it to such an extent that the monopoly | may be saved from the competition that | | threatens. This new form of antagonism, however, though more offensive, is not more dan- | gerous than that which the monopoly has shown to the San Joaquin road ever since its conception. Past attacks have failed | and this one will fail. All the rage of | words in the whole column will only con- vince the pubiic that the competing road | must be doing good work for the State, since the monopo'y is so eager to malign it. | the towns SILVER AND THE TARIFF. The debate in the Senate on the com- bined silver and tariff issues has cleared | up the controversy sufficientily to show the ground on which all Republicans can | stand. Senator Carter on the one hand explained that his opposition to the tariff bill was not due to any desire to force silver legislation on the Senate at this to the fact that the bill, being a pu emergency mieasure, was hastily drawn and full of defects. On the other hand Senator Hoar disclaimed any inten- tion to support gold monometallism or the Cleveland mopetary policy, and de-| | clared “the Republicans of tke East be- lieve in a double standard of value, in accordance with the constitution and the | doctrine promulgated by Alexander Hamil- ton.” 3 On the showing made by these state- ments it ought to be easy for all Republi- cans in Congress 1o find a basis of agree- | ment. Silver legislation at this session | wouid be useless, for Cleveland would veto | it, and, moreover, it is not imperative. On the other hand tariff legislation is im- | erative. Every month shows a deficiency | ! in the revenue, and every day shows large withdrawals from the gold reserve. Until | we have some change in the tariif these | deficiencies will continue, the drain on the eserve will go on, and before the next ses- sion of Congress Cleveland may find { another opportumty to please his Wall- | street friends by making a fugther increase | in the bonded debt of the country. Senator Carter's statement that before Morrill called up the tariff bill in the Sen- ate efforts were being made to bring about | a conference between the Republicans of | both houses, so that a satisfactory adjust- ment. of differences might be made, cer- | tainly affords a sufficient explanation for | voting against Morrill’s motion. Why shonld he vote to take action on one bill | when arrangements were already under | way to provide another? ‘whe fact that | such a conference was being prepared was | in itself a justification for the course pur- | sued by Carter and other Western Sen- ators, and disposes of the charge that they madea deadlock on the tariff for the pur- pose of compelling the passage of a silver bill. : It is well known that the emergency tariff bill is- not a Republican measure, and was passed by the House only because | it was believed that Democratic support would be given in the Senate, so that 1t could be enacted and put into operation-at orice for the relief of the treasury. Asthe Democrats, however, have refused to vote for it, and the Democratic President has declared he does not need it, there is cer- tainly no reason why Republicans should make it a test of party allegiance. It should be thrown aside as Carter suggests and a conference bill agreed upon by the Republicans of both houses should be re- ported in its place. It is politics, of course, for Democrats to make as much of seeming divisions among Republicans as possible. In this case, however, they will have their trouble for their pains. The division which seemed s0 manifest in the vote on the bill has been explained awdy by the debate. There | has been by the Senators of the East and of the West a clear declaration in favor of the principles of protection and bimetal- lism, and on that platform the united party will in the future as in the past con- tinue to legislate for the welfare of the people. EVADING PAYMENT. General Hubbard, speaking before the House Committee on Pacific Roads, has made many extraordinary declarations, but the hardiest of all 1s that it is never the policy of railroad companies to pay the principal of their debts, but that the Sole aim is to keep the interest paid. If this is really the policy of the railroads of this country, Congress has a new and origi- nal evil to handle, and General Hubbara deserves the thanks of the country for calling attention to it. One of the fundamental objections to a refunding of the railroad debts is the very one that General Hubbard has advanced in favor of the proposition. Refunding would be a recognition and indorsement of that evil by the Government, and that would be the setting apart of railroads asa class iexempt from the operation of ordinary business principles, even in relations with the Government. This would be giving them an enormous sdvantage over other creditors. A worse feature of refunding would be the establishing of a precedent for exempting stockholders in a corpora- tion from individual liability as such. The laws of California and of other States im- pose such a liability on stockholders. Refunding would destroy that liability and reduce the resources for recovery on a deficiency judgment to the physical prop- erty mortgaged for the security of the debts. To destroy that security is a sim- plé task for railroad managers. It would be an extraordinary thing for the Congress of the United States to take a course in subvention of laws which a number of the States have evolved from painful ex- perience. General Hubbard’s proposition.is daring in the extreme. Applied to the refunding bills which he advocates it means that even at the expiration of the fiity or a hundred years to which it is proposed to extend the time for paying the debt it will not be expected by the successors of the parties in interest that the debt will be paid. On the contrary, one extension of a debt fallen due will commit the Gov- ernment to further extensions. Worse than that, the funding bills provose to lend to men who have proved themselyes utterly untrustworthy a vast sum of money at half the rate of interest which it exacts from ordinary honest citizens. The proposition is monstrous from every point of view. The loan—for an extension of the debt is nothing but the making of a new loan—is provosed to be made to per- sons who have already defaulted on the interest of the original loan and who have cripolea the Government's power of re- covery by deliberately impoverishing its security. If there is an intelligent citizen of the United States, apart from the schemers whoare urging this extraordi- nary policy, who is anxious to see it adopted he may rest assured that his name will have an unhappy perpetuation in the history of the countr: A remarkable epidemic of grave-robbing is afflicting the country. *One of the most sensational cases was recently furnished by the medical department of Worces- ter University, Ohio. Only a few days ago the grave in which a woman had been in- terred in this City was found open and the body exposed, but the reason for the act has never been ascertained. The most { remarkable story of ail, and the least credible, comes from Seattle and is to the effect that a regular traffic in stolen human bodies is carried on between per- sons in Seattle and certain medical col- leges of San Francisco, and that the bodies are shipped to this City by steamer. While all this is going on the news comes from Paris that the medical schools have made a rule not to admit foreign udents who have not obtained thedegree of bachelor of arts or of bachelor of sciences from some approved cellege, the reason being that the Jaboratories are overcrowded and that it is impossible to secure a suflicient number of subjects for dissection. If these cannot be found in Paris where may they be sought? One of the horrors which charity hospi- tals hold tor the unfortunate poor is the reasonably sure prospect of fetching up on a dissecting table at lasi, and yet these are the principal source. of suppiy for the medical college. That failing, the tempta- tion to employ any one who undertakes to deliver bodies to the colleges is very strong. If the eyes of the college authorities are closed there can be no sufficient safeguard in such cases against a dangerous hand- ling of infectious diseases. While there is probably a great deal less of this sort of crookedness than is popularly supposed, the fact that the Ohio institution undoubt- edly secured its subject by such means cannot be overlooked. It is notat all unlikely that such dis- coveries as this will create a popular senti- ment which will require the cremation of all pauper subjects. This wounld work a very serious injury to the medical profes- sion] as dissection is an essential pari of the instruction of students. ‘‘Body- snatching” will have a similar tendency with those who otherwise would prefer to inter their dead, but might be driven to cremation by fear of ghouls. The estab- lishment of an adequate patrol of ceme- teries is certainiy called for and might well be required by legislation A POEM BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. Itis not generally known that Mr. Charles Dudley Warner sometimes drops into poetry for the delectation of his friends, writes a cor- respondent of the Boston Herald. He hasdone this to celebrate special occasions among them, but has seldom allowed his effusions to appear inprint. We are strongly inclined, from in- ternal evidence, to suspect that the following verses, which have just appeared in the Hart- ford Courant, are from his graccful pen: THE DANCE OF THE BONNETS. All up and down the brilliant house, Through Circle, Box, Parquet, Sat rows and rows of waiting folk, Men, damis. and damsels gay; All with their bright, expectant looks, Care-free as if in story books, Impatient for the Play. At last the lights turned, suddeu, low, The curtain upward went, Esch voice was hushed and carment’s stir; With eyes and ears intent Upon the sparkling, lovely scene With elfs and fays the brooks between, Each eager face was bent. But one, aghast, could nothing see Except & MODSLrous plume: ‘While three red roses high awave— From Paris skill abloom— Beiore another’s straining eyes, With saucy tiit and savage size, Did 1oom, and loom, aud 100m. And hard by this another sat, Meek soul but now a-rage, Tor two wide-spreading, fan-like wings Concealed just hai? the stage. Sometimes a player’s head or hand Or tragment of & dancing band ‘ould fall within his gauge. One dame, behind a ribbon tower, Felt bonest, true amaze That thoughtful she of tiniest toque ., Must thus be spoiled of gaze. She knew not that her light aigreite To eyes behind would only let ‘Things pass &s uhrotgh a haze. And so the danee began—to right, Tolefi—to right again— The flower, the feather, silken bow, ; The wing of bright bird slain. O weirl chasse! row after row, The hounets come, the bonnets go, Till curtain drops and-from the show Wend weary eyes and brain. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. Langtry has made a success as a reciter in London. She prefers her new Line of work 1o the annoyance and worry of a stage life. Miss Eliza Turner of Clifton Springs, N. Y. has been invited to become pastor of the Uni- versalist Church of Zanesville, Ohio. She is 22 years old, cultured and eloguent. BThe Governor of Kentucky has appointed Dr. Catharine Houser a physician in the State Insane Asylum at Hopkinsville in answer toa petition signed by a great number of women and men. Adam Turner, an undertaker, recently stood as & Parliamentary candidate for North Bel- fast, Ireland. He offered to ‘bury free” every man who would vote for him. He was defeated. * “It would begin to appear as though there ‘was some truth in the statement,’” says a Lon- don correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, “which 1 have heard from more than one quarter, to the effect that Lord Dunraven has been for the past six months barely responsible {or his own gctions.” -viticultarists in this §tate who will contribute AROUND THE CORRIDORS. The notorious Count de Toulouse Lautrec, otherwise Nicholas de Savin, who was here re- cently, and went to St. Louis at the solicita- ton of & big railroad supply menafacturing firm, seems to have been dropped like a hot Potato on the benks of the Mississippi. _Reed Northup, Jay Gould’s nephew, who lives in St. Louis, and who has followed the career of the alleged Count more or less closely, has been a guest at the Palace for some days. He says the St. Louisians took up the man for a time who played for the Bul- garian throne and wound up as a Siberian convict, but when they found ivhat they had on their hands they let Lim go. The nobleman has therefore passed on to pestures which may possibly prove greener. the genus homo Britannica, and withal an ad- | mirer of this press-ruled country, may I be | allowed to express through the medium. of your columns my gratitude for your generous fone in commenting on the probable outeome of the trial of Captain Jameson and his fellows? It comes all the more gratefully, too, that it foliows, tardily, on a period when every action of my countrymen — imaginary or otherwise—has met with . angry commert and whblesale denunciation. I think nore of my countrymen can have any possible objection to legitimate criticism, but to thatkina of criticism which condemns first and tries afterward we offer a mild protest. As discretion is the better part of valor, let it g0 at that. We do lay claim, despite all assertions to the contrary, {o an equal appreciation of justice with yourselves. That we are a successiul col- onizing power, in fact, the only one, is suscepti- ble of proof. That wherever the British flag floats there also is good government and free- The Alleged Count de Toulouse Lautree, Othery [Sketched from 1) se Nicholas de Savin. : by a “Call” artist.] He is in Chicago, and a newspaper there hasa | long story in reference to the Count. 1t shows the curious wav the Count talks, with other thigs, that will shed sidelights on his carcer. 1t will be noticed that he has a scl “A king's job is the best in the world, and I wanted to get into it,” laughed Count A. C. savine de Toulouse Lautrec as he sat in his | gorgeously furnished office on Michigan | avenue. [ “I had everything arranged to be a king, but | the Russian Government objected. The Czar sent his men and I was seized and thrust into adungeon in the prison of Peter and Paul in in Petersburg. For a while 1 languished in | the dungeon. Then I wrote to his Majesty | Alexander three—ah, third, you say. Said I | i | to Alexander: ‘Why are you so harsh with me? You have a great, big throne—I wanted only a | little one. You have the softest snap—is that | what yoweall it?—in the world—100,000,000 | people to rule and everything just as you de- | sire. 1only want to rule 3,000,000 or 4,000,- | 000 and have things ebout half as I desire. Cen’t we flx it up some way?’ Then the Czar laughed and sent me to Siberia.” | The Chicago paper adds: “Thé Count 1s | in Chicago as a contractor for the great | Siberian railway, -and hopes to form a syndicate to improve the grand resources.of the dreaded wilderness of Asia. He is, accord- ing to all storfes told of his career, one of the most remarkable adventures of the age, and, withal, 8 most pleasant and genial gentleman. He it was who, years ago, plotted with the fa- | mous Stambuloff for the crown of Bulgaria, and, had not his plans been betrayed, would haye been seated on that stormy throne. His boldness in daring to presume o royal honors was punished by imprisonment and exile, but the Russian Government forgave him long ago and he is now considered one of the most prominent of Siberian business men. | “The room where the Count sits, writes and | plans is intensely cold. The breath of the visitor freezes asit passes his 1ips and his tecth chat- ter like castanets. Yet the Count sits there, in his dressing-gown end slippers, as comfortable es could be imagined. The landlady, ushering in the casual visitor, whisperingly explained: “Excuse the cold room. The Count will have itso—say’s that's the way he has been used to things at home.’ “Is it 100 cold” the Count remarked, as he ran his finger over a map of Siberia, ‘Well, | we can_have it warmer, but this room now is | uncomfortably hot to & man who has lived in Siberia. “I have lots to do in Chicago, the Count wenton. ‘I want to form a erand syndicate and interest millions in the great Siberial rail- way, and I want to publish my history, not for any pecuniary reasons, but because it would make good reading. Think of all I have seen and suffered. Think of tic men 1 have met and the nations I have been among. 1tought to be quite entertaining. No, Iam not going into the king business any more. I have had enough and will stick where I am. What, going? Come and see me again and look over these maps of Siberia with me? “And the man who wouid be a king bowed the way to the door like & chevalier of old.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE VITICULTURAL LIBRARY. THE SECRETARY OF THE LATE COMMISSION TELLS WHAT Was Doxe Wit IT. To the Editor of tlie San Francisco Call—Sir: Inotice in THE CALL of the 26th inst. a state- ment to the effect that after turning over the proverty of the Viticultural Commissioners to the regents of the university, “‘the members of the commission stiil retained the library,” ete. 1 wish you would correct this. When the old Viticultural Commission expired by law, I, as its secretary, turned over all of the property to Sécretary J. H. C. Bonte of the regents, and 1 hold the receipt of the regents for the same. 1t is the intention of the new College of Prac- tical Viticulture to proceed at once with:the creation of & new library. I know of many to this collection now that they know that politicians will have no hand in directing the affairs of the college, and that the necessity for & biennial scramble at Sacramento i Measures will be taken to make this new library the equal of the old one, as far as thisis possible. There are some rare volumes that arenextto impossible to duplicate, but some of these are valuable only as curiosities and can as well be dispensed with. The object will be to collect every work of standard merit at first, and steadily add to the library s occa- sion offers. 3 3 On account of the error above mentioned I have received an insulting message from A. P. Hayne of Berkéley, who, I uuderstand, is Pro- fessor Hilgard’s mouthpiece, but who other- Wwise would be unworthy of notice. As I have Becretary Bonte’s receipt for the library of the old commission, and as but five books wi cost the State anything were lost during my five years’ custodianship of the books, in spite of the fact that the library was lem.br\lhllc, it is in decided bad judgment for insinuations to emanate from Berkeley. WINFIELD SCOTT. San Francisco, February 27. praitmte=e et THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, A SUBJECT WHO FEELS TnamUGiL! SATISFIED Wrrs IT. - | ey To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: |Asabhumble and unpretentious specimen of | dom in the fullest meaning of the term. Thay there is not.a British port the wide worid over in which your merchantmen are not as free to trade ble. and that we safeguard the life and liberty of the stranger within our zates is no mere play upon words. Further- more, we do not seek 10 acquire at the expense of other responsible nations or communities one single foot of territory. That we have met with rough treat- :nt sud injustice inflicted upon the indi- al pe: of our fellow-conntrymen by savege gentlemen like Ketchwayo, and have found it necessary to asseri and emphasize the value of civilization, we ought surely not to itici: he people who have herded the aborigines of this great country imo res- ervations for their own and the general good of the community. Finally may I be par- donea if T ask you, Mr. Editor, and all those of vour readers who are fairminded, to_consider that in all essentizl poiats the British Govern- ment interferes as little in the affairs of its subjects as does the Government of these United States, with the additional safeguard thatan unpopular party eannot retain con- trol of the machinery of legislation for one single hour after the voice of the people has n declared against it in the House of Com- mons, ing that the generous spirit which -ady referred to mey animate not ¥y pen. but surge through and over your brethren of the press, I remain, i A'SCOT ABROAD. San Francisco, Feb. 26, 1896. A SONG OF TIME. not for the hereafter— burden of the years; me stays Dot for laughter, Time Stays not f0r tears. Fo And On swistest pinions flying Jie speeds o'er land and sea; Shall rose Revi Care not for sharp thorns epringing; To thee life complete uy bird is singi: any rose is sweet. f an; And ‘What ills may come hereafter Wilt come despite thy fears: Time lingers not for laughter, And Time stays not for tears. FRANK STANTON. CURRENT HUMOR. Maria—TI tell you, Joshua, this is the kind of man that I like to see elected. Joshua—How’s that? Maria—Well, instead of cavortin’ ’raound tellin’ w'at he'd deu, the paper said he just steyed to home and “mended his fences.”— Puck. Young Mrs. Yearsbride—Can you suggest any way at all il which I can make home more attractive to my husbend? 01d Mrs. Mulberry (tartly)—You might invite one of your husband’s old sweethearts to stay two or three months with you.—Somerville Journal, ““What is that queer splotch on the face of the earth?” asked Apollo. “That?” replied Pegasus, looking down over his shoulder at the remains of the would-be poet. “That is & little thing I tossed off short time agoin & moment of inspiration,”— Indianspolis Journal. "Tis now the salesman gazes With an inquiring eye, And wonders if she’s “shopping,” Or if she wants to buy. ~—Buffalo Times. Mr. Porkchopsy;-I hear, mamma, that them Brown-Joneses have been sayin’ very com- plimentary things about us, They said we Were parvenoos. i Mrs. Porkchops—Parvenoos? Do you think that is complimentary? Mr. Porkchops—Why, yes. I've been looking into the matter, and T take it that parvenoos is people who has managed to git thar.—Puck., “Excuse me, sir,” said Barker to a boorish traveler, “but,what is your business?” “I'am a gentléman, sir; that’smy business.” “Ah,” said Barker, *T see; you are taking a vacation.”—Harper's Bazar. «How old is your deughter, Mr. Dinkelspiel?” +Forty, Mr. Harkins; but to you I'll quote her at 30, net.”—Harper's Bazar. “My life!” cried the impassioned lover, “1 iay my heart—I mean my stomach—at your eet.” . He had'reflected suddenly that she was the graduate of a cooking school, ana he was fain to make his plea as moving and attractive as possible.~Detroit Tribune, drawer than it is for her to put the drawer in ’ order again aiter he has found it.—Somerville | Journal. | Student—Now, that's queer! My father says | my studying cost him a fortune, and I am sure 1study very little.—Fleigende Blaetter. PERSONAL. i | > 1 N. H. Pabst of Philadelphia is in the City. 1 0, C. Perkins of Yuma, Ariz., is at the Pulace..‘ E. E. Parmelee of New York is among recent | arrivals here. . Thomas McGovern, a business man of Reno, | is at the Russ. ! R. F. Burton of Apifi, N. Z,, was among yes- | terday’s arrivals, Among the arrivals at the Occidental is H. Fleischmann of Quezaltenango. Jefferson Chandler, the well-known attorney and politician of Washington, D. C,1s at the Baldwin. . Mrs. M, J. Durand of Peoria, Ill., immigra- | tion agent for the Rock Island route, is & guest | at the Cormopolitan. | L. W. Moultry, City Attorney of Fresno, is in | the City. He hascome to argue some cases in | reference to the Valley road. ; J. C. Nealon, manager of the San Jose Brick | Company, is hunting snipe and other birds with several friends near Sacramento. . H. Palmer, a retired capitalist of London, England, accompanied by his wife, is visiting his friend, Major William Fahey of the Cos- mopolitan, Manager Hatch of the steamer Monticello hes gone to his former home on Puget Sound. Itis said he mayreturn to the Sacramento River with another steamer. J. H. Marsh of New York, traveling agent of the American News Company, who has been here for several days, left for the East yester- | day. He has been on a tour of the coast for the | news company. Ex-Senator McPherson of New Jersey, who ar- rived here about three weeks ago accompanied | by his family, has gone to Southern California | for & while. His health is not the best. He hopes to be benefited by the California cli- | mate. . Baron Hengenmuller, the Minister from Aus- tria to the United States, who arrived here in.a special car from Washington Wednesday even- ing, accompanied by the Baroness Hengen: muller, is greatly pleased with San Francisco. He is at the Palace. The Austrian Censuland | several friends ealled on the visitors yesterday. Colonel John §. Mosby, the neted Confeder- | ate leader, who was interviewed in THE CALL on December 22 and opposed the position of the sdministration on the Venezuelan ques- tion, has received a copy of tne London Times, in which the whole of the interview was pub- | lished, and he was commended editorially at lenth by the Times. Robert S. Myers, who was in the Bethlehem Steel Works for several years as an all-around mechanic and, pattern-maker, has returned here after several months’ absence in Evrope. His object in going abroad was to inspect ship armor and Krupp and other guns. He was ac- companied on his trip by a Government en- gineer. Mrs. Z. F. Moody of Salem, Or., wite of ex- Governor Moody of that State, is in the City. Mrs. Moody and her husband were among the early Oregon pioneers. They came all the way from Wisconsin overland in a heavy wagon drawn by oxen. For some years prior to be- coming Governor, as well as since, Mr. Moody has been engaged in wool-buying and banking at The Dalles, Or. One of the sons has, for some time, been District Attorney at Port Townsend, Wash. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb, 27.—Among recent arrivals are: J.J. Brooks, B.B.Thayer, Hoff- | man; R. Adams, Plaza; J. 8. Russell, St. Cloud; | B. Spler, Belvidere, | | i | This will be found & very becoming waist, the fullness below the flat yoke makingita good shape, both for slender and stout figures, Made of a colored chambray, say plain pink or pink and white stripe, with cuffs and collar of white, is the latest fancy. The collar and cuffs may be made separate, simply binding neck and sleeves and making the necessary buttonholes in bands and the cuffs and collar. Make a set to match and another of white linen and twice the amount of service can be gotten out of one waist. Plain natural-colored linen is much used this season, and some show & piping of white around cufls, collar and yoke. A MONUMENT TO PARNELL. A monument is to be erected to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell on the summit of the GreatSugarloaf Mountain, CountyWicklow, | Ireland. The design adopted is certainly a novel onme. Itis that of a lighthouse tower, crowned The Parnell Monument. with sixteen large and powerful mirrors, eight o1 which are vertical and eig'ht inclined at an angle so as to reflect the sun’s beams into Dub- lin and Wicklow. The effect, says the Dublin World, will be that of a glittering jewel, illum- nating the country end the coast, as “the | flash of Parnell's genius” shed a luster on | Irish contemporary history. The mirrors will | be hermetically mounted in bronze frames, | and the tower will be constructed of granite from County Wicklow. Operations will be begun as soon as the weather and the state of {he funds permit. -Care will be taken not to injyre the exquisite outline of the mountain as & feature in the landscape. “'Come here, I want to see you,” said the seal- hunter. . “What fur?"” asked the seal. “On & matter of business,” said the man. “I don’t want any business relations with you,” remarked the seal, with a fiipper at his nose, “I'm afraid you'd skin me.”—Pnilagel- phia Record. = Hortense—Did you say Mr. Spooner swore all sorts of things;on his bended knees last night? Henrietta—Yes; there was an upturned tack on thecarpet just where he kneeled.-—Yonkers Sta jl: is generally easier for & wife to go upstairs and find gomething forher husband in a bureau ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. No LooriNg—C. M. D., Mountain View, Cal. ‘When the Engiish took possession of Rangoon, on Irriwaddy River, many yearsago, the place was not looted. . BooTBLACKS—A. C,, Kelseyville, Lake County, Cal. Answer as to bootblacks in San Francisco was published in TiE CALL Sunday, February 16, in “Answers to Correspondents.” History oF CoMMERCE—E. H. Y., City. Some of the best works relating to the history of commerce and works on_commercial geogra- phy are to be seen at the Free Public L‘bnry. | through that City. | it “Answers to Correspondents’ fs‘na; in' the'. k line it saunot infotm you where you. L v?irsnpkoie of ‘2 £5000 life insurance policy for $2000. i 78 : j Fuypivg Brute—R. H, C., Ogkland, Gal. Thers are two refunding bills before-Congress &t this. time—one introduced by Reiily and the mh;r by Smith. You can- cbiain- eoniesof theséby writing to the Representative {rom your dis- trict at Washington. £ Lyt or AGE—Seribbler, City:- To join: the 0dd Fellows the applicant must be 21 vears of age. There ig no limit as 1o age above that. To join the Improved Order of Red Men jhe applicant. must be 21 years .of age. The ex- treme limit at which one may be received iy left with the different tribes, but. the ‘aversage. is 50 years. To join _the Aneient Order of United Workmen the limit: of age is notless than 21 nor more than CRTS. MAN AND WIFE-M. P., City. 1t a married woman out of her separate property sets apart a piece of Jand for a homestead she can in due | fortn of law ata subseqitent time file a declara- tion of abandonmerit. An abandonment of v husband and homestead must be signed wife. If a wife should take $3000 of her sep- arate money, which she had before marrisge, and her husband should sdd $1000 of his sep- arete money and the two buy & piece of real estate it would be considered 85 an investment in which each would derive profits in propor- tion to the amount invested. The joint in- vestment would. not affect the rights of the seperate ownership of money. COOPER COLLEGE—E. L. C., City. All appli- cants for admission to the Cooper Medical College must give satisfactory evidence of good moral character and possess the quslifications specified: A diploma or certificate of gradua- tion of some recognized (by the faculty of the college) litersry or scientific college, from some recognized medical, pharmaceutical or dental school, or from a recognized high or normal school, or a certificate of having passed examination for admission to any recognized literary college or university, or a first-grade diploma or certifieate from any recognized public school board, provided, that_these qualifications are shown to be equivalent to the requirements of this college for its matriculating examination. Those not pos- sessing any of the foregoing qualifications will be required to pass A matrie lating examination in the following subjects: 1. English, including grammar_and composi- tion. Universal history. - 3. Descriptive geography. 4. Arithmetic. including common and decimal fractions. 5. Fiementary physics. . Latin, including grammar and translations, ndents who fail in_this latter requirement accepted conditionelly upon qualifying them- selves by the beginning of the-ensuing term. ] 7. One of the following opti (@) Greek; first chapter (b) French; first chapter of Telemaque. German: Adler’s Reader, first part. (d) Logic. (¢) Botany, (/) Zoology. () Elementary chém- istry. Theeourse ' four years. The short course begins February 1, ends April 50; the long or reguler course commences June 1, ends November 30. The fees are first year $145, second and third years $130 each, and fourth vear $40. Further information may be had of Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr., the dean. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Millentum. Hueneme Herald. This year is starting out well: Cathode rays; aceteolin; north pole. Where will we be at by Christmas at thisrate? Protection Still the Watchword. Yreka Journal, The Republican party won its first National victory with a tariff plank in its platiorm, and that plank is still good. The Demoorats Know It. Angels Camp Echo. Even Democrats all over the country are be- ginning to see that this Nation eannot be run without & protective tariff. San Francisco Bids. Pasadena Star, San Francisco got $2,397,000 of the new bonds—that is, that amount was negotiated ugh t Only two cities exceeded New York and Bosto Uncie Sam Might Do Better. Tulare Register. Spain hae not made a success of governing Cuba and with 80 per cent of the people of that country black and illiterate there is small prospect of that country being able to_govern itself any better. Those State Schoalbooks. Redlands Citrograph. " The regular kick against ths State schoole ‘book fraud is again “on.” . We hope the next geography will mave Redlands out of River- side County, where it never was, and_place it in San Berhardino County, where it is, and always was, and is glad to bé. Without a Blush. Placerville Nugget. Yhe Republican party was forty years old on Saturday, and it can look back over the whols of its life without a blush. Of course, the Democracy can do the same thing. but thers is this great difference between thé Democracy ‘| and the Republican party—the Democracy can- not blush. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's* T e — FINE eyeglasses, 15¢ up. 81 Fourth, near Barber. Sundsy,738 Market (Kast'sshoestore.)* — EPECIAL information daily to mannfacturars, business houses and public men by the Prast Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monfgomery. . * EERESTES sy Spring and Summer, 1896. The undersigned members of the Exclusiva Retail Hatters' Association of San Francisco have agteed upon Saturday, February 29, as their opening day for the new spring styles: C. Herrmunn & Co., 328 Fisher & Co., 9 Monigy Kearny street C.Colemen, 130 Kearny Eugene Korn, 726 Mkt Cohl Bros., 226 Kearny . 5. Harloe,237Kearny J. Porceer, 1109 Market J. C. Meussdorffer & Groom & Hagan, 942 Son, 534 Third Market M. Meussdorffer, 135 K. Meussdorffer & Som, Montgomery 8 Kearny Kahn Bros., 1108 Mkt California Hat Works, K. A. Lundstrom, 605 111 Fourth Kearny. * Jansen &Thiele,104 6ta .. The children of the German Emperor 1nherit their father’s love of everythirg military and anything connected with military affairs. A few years ago the Emp~ess went to stay at Felixstowe with her children. They had hardly been in the place an hour when one of the | young Princes elipped into a shop to buy & toy. He was not long over his purchase, for he knew exactly what he wanted. The new toy was a .large box of soldiers 1 HaD several pimpleson my face and a largs boil on one hand. I began taking Hood's Sarsapa- illa and after using three bottles I was cared.” I, W. Johnson, 3 South Broderick st., San Franeiséa, ——— CoRONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, fucluding fifteen days’ board at the Hotel.dat Coronado, $60: longer stay §2 50 perday. Appiy 4 New Montgomery st., San Fracisco. NEW TO-DAY. SEE THAT TAG? 1Iv's on Every Mantell Cigar, “The good die young,” they say. Not so with the MAN- TELL cigar. Smoke one and you'll know why. SEE THAT TAG? It's on Every Mantell Cigar, INsURANCE PoLICY—Leslie, San Jose, Cal. As