The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1896. Pafly and Sund: .oneweek, by carrie Datly and Sunday one year, by mal Peily and Sunday C4LL, 5'x months, by mafl.. 8.00 Dasly and S Cali, three months by matl 1.50 Dally end cne month, by mail.. .85 dany CaL Sonday CaLy, one ¥ WERKLY CALL, 050 ) BUSI 710 Marke: Street, fan Francisco, Californin. Felephone........ Maln—-1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES: 650 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; epen untll :30 o'clock treet; open until 8:30 o'clock. o'clock. antil § o'clock. 2618 Mission st 118 Minth street; open v QAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: Boems 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. : open until 9 0'clock. 411 9 o'clock. To-day the new bonnet has another show. Our spring weather changes often, but in the East it changes much. In our advertising columns this morn- ing you will find “‘the very thing."” Among the birds that sing in the spring this year there is no sign of the cuckoo. There are even some people who wish to see Jerry Simpson nominated for Presi- dent. The independence of Cuba should not be regarded as a policy foreign to this country About this time the winter resort puts on new frills and calls itself a summer paradise. All Republicans are ready for the rose festi , but the Democrats would rather have somebody give a dog show. If the new woman had her way she would turn polities into a festival, run for Queen and let men do the voting. If it rains to-day we shall have to con- clude the clerk of the weather has mis- taken the Easter bonnet for a flower garden. There are many enterprising persons who are always taking big chances under the belief thatthey are seizing great oppor- tur When California goes to the St. Louis convention she must take her interests with her and see that they have a good showing. A Kansas prophet has predicted three ones for the Mississippl Valley this summer, but it is even betting there will be a dozen. It becomes more evident every aay that if Cleveland wishes some one to lead his party this year he will have to hire a sub- stitute. There are no volunteers. The band has not yet begun to play, nor has the curtain been raised, but all the same the drama of the Presiaential cam- paign is nearly half way through the first act. A Chicago judge has accused a Chicago lawyer of trying to amend the ten com- mandments, and it goes without saying that all Chicago people wish he had suc- ceeded. The announcement that the British forces will act on the offensive in the Soudan raises the question whether there is any part of Africa where they are not acting that way ¥ The only interest the people will take in the Chicago convention will be to see whether the gold men and the silver men can succeed in breaking away from one another without mussing up the floor. According to accounts given by Eastern papers the bloomer girls who have come out with the spring in that section are not last year's bloomer girls by any means, but brand-new ones and much more stunning. In his Georgia debate Hoke Smith has the double task of answering his opponent, Mr. Crisp, and refuting his own speeches of four years ago, and while the first part of the job may be the harder it is the lat- ter part that worries. The monopoly has always many tricks to divide the people in order to carry its scheme through, but the game it is now playing between Ranta Monica and San Pedro is less like a trick than an attempt at bulldozing. The shopkeeper who does not keep staple articles that are widely advertised, but offers you something that is “just as good,” isa most excellent tradesman for you to pass by and let him find a customer that is just as good. The seventy cadets who will graduate from West Point this year and find only a dozen vacarcies awaiting them will be bet- ter off than the thousands of young men who will graduate from the law and medical scbools and find no vacancies at all. The resumption of mining will benefit the farmers of the State as much as the miners, by making a Letter market for their crops and putting more money into circulation. The farmers in fact need the mines almost as much as miners need the A club of Morton’s supporters in New York will go to St. Louis on bicycles, thus introducing the wheel into politics, work- ing something like a revolution in cam- paign methods and increasing the heat of the contest by substituting the scorcher for the spell-binder. e bill of Senater Perkins granting a it of way through the Mariposa reser- vation for the Yosemite and Merced Rail- road ought to receive the full support of the California delegation in Congress and be passed at this session. It is full time Yosemite Valley were made accessible to the people. The bill of Watson of Onio providing for an appropriation of $250,000 for the erec- tion in Washington of a monument to the private soldiers and the sailors of the navy in the war for the Union deserves the sup- port of men of all parties in Congress. The capital of the Nation hasbeen adorned with the statues of many generals and ad- | St. Louis. OALIFORNIA INTERESTS. While under ordinary conditions ~ & Presidential campaign does not really begin until after the nominations have been made by the two great parties, it is evident that the contest of this year will be an exception to the rule. The struggie will be virtually settled by the convention at St. Louis. Whoever is nominated there will be almost certainly the next President of the United States. The real campaign of the year therefore is that which is now being waged for suc- cess in the Republican convention. A clear understanding of all that is involved in this conaition of affairs is of vital im- portance to the people of California, for the State has great interests at stake in the campaign, and if they are to be pro- vided for at all the work must be done at How we can best obtain all that the in- terests of California and the Pacific Coast require cannot be answered in general terms. The policy to be pursued will ne- cessarily depend upon developments at the St. Louis convention. Senator Perkins, who surveys the field from the vantage ground of his high position at Washington, said in an interview published in THE CALL yesterday that with a proper unpledged delegation at the convention he was con- fident it wou!d be possible for California to “‘dictate the selection of a Cabinet offi- cer.” This would giveus a representative and champion of the State and the Coast in the highest branch of the Government and would go far to advance and promote every interest we may have that requires the fosterinz care of the Nation. Certainly it is time for Californians to begin to look out for California. The poli- cies of the Republican party are always National in their scope, but very naturally the leaders of the party at Washington cannot know what is required by the vari- ous sections of the Union unless the men of each section make their wishes known. This is what we must do now. Un- less Californians stand for California, who wili? It is useless for us to expect of others that which we will not do | for ourselves. The duty of California Re- ublicans at this juncture is, therefore, in. They must send to St. Louis a delegation not merely to nominate a can- ate for President, but to see that the interests of California have a rightful re- cognition amone all those other interests whose combination makes up the welfare of the great Republic. A OARNIVAL PREPARATION. San Jose has put info successful opera- tion a novel and ingenious plan to assure | a bountiful supply of flowers for its great rose carnival in May. It has been the | general custom heretofore to depend on | private gardens, which in all the cities of | California except San Franciscoare able to vield all the flowers required for carnival uses. It is evident, however, that the | glow of the gardens is thus reduced at the | very time when it should be greatest. On| these occasions thousands of strangers | make their appearance, and it is advisable | that the beauty of the private grounds |\ should remain unimpaireé. San Jose adopted the plan of making | special provision for the enormous quan- | tities of flowers needed for the approach- ing festival. Thisit did by selecting land outside the city and planting it to flowers. | The work was placed under the charge of | a competent and public-spirited citizen, who was supplied with funds. He planted just the varieties of flowers most needed, such as sweet peas, marigolds and roses, and in the case of the annuals made plant- ings of a few days apart so as to secure a constant supply of fresh flowers through- out the carnival. Doubtless the selection of roses and | herbaceous plants made was made with a view to the time and period of bloom of different varieties. Of course all this costs money, but it is evident that the results must be far more satisfactory than those depending on contributions from private gardens. Under this arrangement we may expect the San Jose carnival to make a display of flowers richer, more abundant and more gorgeous than has ever been seen. Good effects of the carnival spirit are ap- pearing at San .Jose. As it would be ill advised for visitors to tind any streetsin a neglected condition the thoroughfares are being put in perfectorder. Such improve- ments, of course, have a permanent value. The activity of the people is manifesting itself in many other ways. Private gar- dens are being placed in the best order, houses are receiving new paint and the *Garden City” is generally receiving a complete renovation. This is likewise the result in the other cities in which carni- vals are to be held. Every citizen be- comes inspired with a desire to make his city as atiractive as possible, and realizes that concentration of effort on a public spectacle to the neglect of the details which make a city attractive in the ab- sence of such a show would negative the benefits to be expected from a large incur- sion of sightseers. LOVERS 'OF PLEASURE. One cannot visit the improvements which Mr. Sutro is rapidly completing in the vicinity of the Cliff House without marveling that an investment of millions of dollars in one spot merely for the en- joyment of pleasure-lovers can be expected to prove profitable in a comparatively small city. Among these improvements are a splendid structure taking the place of the old Cliff House, the largest and costliest baths in the world, a sumptuous garden of generous extent and a curions “Midway Plaisance,” with its fantastic shows. Mr. Sutro, not satisfied with all this, has built a fine electric road for better convenience in reaching them, maintains at the baths a band and museum and expert swimmers and divers for the edifica- tion of visitors, and now proposes to erect on the rocks overhanging the surf one of the finest hotels in the West. No other city in the country except New York, with its Coney Island adjunct, has anything like such a pleasure resort. There is a vital difference of tone between the two places, and it is altogether in favor of San Francisco. But the resorts for wholesome pleasure by no means cease at the Cliff House. Golden Gate Park probably hasten timesas many visitors. The free concerts attract many thousands and are listened to witih & perfectly subdued, orderly and intelli- gent appreciation. Drivers, riders, bicy- clists and pedestrians throng the many miles of roads and walks threading the reservation and enjoy the wonderful flowers, the zoological collections and the aviary. The park is the essence of re- finement and wholesome pleasure. Everywhere about the City are pleasure resorts. The military reservations, the shooting rangesand picnic gardens at Har- bor View, the salt water swimming baths in the heartof the City, the two admirably conducted trotting parks, the numeroua handsome theaters whose constant pros- perity has given S8an Francisco the reputa- tion of being a ‘“‘great show town,” the cable and electric roads penetrating pic- sorts—all these have their crowds, and the wonder is when the people find time for conducting the serious affairs of life. The interesting part of it all is that these vleasures are all clean and helpful. In no sense are they the expression of an idle and frivolous disposition oran inclination to indulge in demoralizing dissipations. Norcan they be explained on the sole ground that a pleasant climate lures the people on occasion from their homes. The most rational view of the matter is that complex agenéies produce a result so un- common in humdrum American life. In the first place we have a large foreign population gathered from all the corners of the earth, bringing with them as an example and inspiration the customs in- bred in their lives. Again,a people must be measurably light-hearted in order to | enjoy healthy pleasure, and this it can- | not be if it is bound close to the earti by harsh necessities in the earning of a liveli- hood; from this we may infer that our | people are prosperous. Further, the climate is so invigorating and so perfectiy conserves instead of draining those vital | forces without which healthy existence is ! impossible, that it seems necessary we should expend the surplus energy in the pursuit of rational pleasures. 1tisahappy circumstance that climatic conditions which create such a desire present perfect conditions for its gratification. Itis not surprising that with so fortunate & co-operation of agencies producing a desire for pleasure there should come vast expenditures of capital and energy in the creation of pleasure resorts. In this re- spect as in many others, San Francisco is | unique, enjoying on that account a dis- | tinction which is becoming a special fame, and which undera judicious direction of public spirit can be made one of the surest | foundations upon which to rest the coming I greatness of the City. UNFAIR SUBSTITUTION. Considerable complaint is being made at the present time that with the growth in | public favor of an article of more than | usual merit has come a practice which, if not actually dishonest, is certainly dis- honorable and uniair. We refer to the practice of substituting —not the outright act of replacing the original article by an inferior or cheaper product under the cover or wrapper or in the bottle of the more esteemed com- | modity, but to a substitution not less culpable, when the matter is fairly viewed. | In expending time, intellizence and money in bringing his goods' into demand and giving them a prestige, the concocter of a patent medicine, the man who pro- duces a certain brand of flour or the man who puts on the market a soap of peculiar qualities is not furthering his own interests alone by achieving distinction for this | product, but is directly benefiting e\'eryl person who handles his goods, by having created & ready market tor them. A great injustice is, therefcre, imposed on the originator and manufacturer of such goods when the retail merchant indaces a cus- | tomer to purchase something *‘just as | good” as the article which, by reason of | the prestige it has gained by virtue of its actual merit, the customer has asked for. The manufacturer of the remedy, flour or soap called for is just as much entitled to all the benefits of the market he has created by his energy and ability as he is to the money for which he sells his gooris, and the retailer who induces a customer to purchase something else than the stan- dard article requested is clearly depriving the manufacturer of justly due profit fiom the sale. The storekeeper is also in nine cases out of ten foisting upon the pnr- chaser something inferior in order that he may make a few cents additional profit. Both dealer and purchaser owe it to the manufacturer to see that the latter is treated fairlv, and the purchaser also owes it to himself that this is done. The dealer | should strictly eschew the practice of sub- stituting described, and the consumer should invariably insist on having what he originally intended to buy. DANGEROUS GROUND. Psychical research has become very much of a fashionable cult since London and Boaton formed societies for the study of the philosophy of psychology, which is all well enough no doubt as to objact and purpose, but the way some amateurs play with oceult forces is enough to make one shudder. Investigators should know that psychic phenomena are as dangerous as they are fascinating, and that one should not blindly try to fathom their secrets any more than he would plunge alone and un- armed into the depths of a forest where wild beasts and poisonous snakes make their home. It is no secret that the psychic realm begins in the borderland between spirit and matter; where these two great mani- festations of cause overlap and mingle, and that the line which actually separates them is obscure and uncertain, Upon this side lie things which we senseand analyze by touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing. Upon the other side lies the boundless world of spirit entities—a world in whose astral light and darknessare occult forces mighty for good and evil, and with which we can have to do only upon a plan of ex- istence w! ere our five physical senses are entirely foreign and of no more avail than if they were not at all. Itis afact that the product of the em- ployment of occult forces in conjunction with the soul of man, when his soul is en- vironed by a physical body, is either white or black magic, and that the influence they exert upon the soul as well as upon the body for weal or for woe is almost be- yond estimate. These forces work alto- gether in currents that are in harmony with their own purpose. They are cur- rents of love, of hatred or of indifference, and the agencies they employ are thought transference, clairvoyance, mesmerism, hypnotism and mental agitation. The difference between white and black magicisin consequence only; and since con- sequence may not follow until after a long time has elapsed, the importance of know- ing which current of this mighty force is being stirred is apparent. There is a vast deal more danger to the soul in penetrat- ing the astral world withovt a cl.art of its paths than there would be to the physical body in wandering through the slums of San Francisco at midnight with no pro- tection. The hypnotic power of a spirit out of the body is infinitely greater than that of one in the body; besides, there is the added advantage of being unscen, which the disembodied spirit possesses. ‘When an unseen intelligence gets con- trol of a person the subject is said to be in a “trance.’”” When the same result is secured by one in the body we say the sub- ject is hypnotized, but the process is pre- cisely the same, as is also the mental con- dition of the subject. Thought transfer- ence between two minds in physical bodies is by exactly the same law of mental ac- tion that would enable two disembodied spirits to converse one with the other, or permit an embodied spirit and one freed from physical environment to hola con- versation. It follows, therefore. that the individual who fully surrenders his mind to occult forces and influences, whether mirals, and it is time the boys in the ranks | turesque sections of the City, the numer- were remembered. ous suburban residence and pleasure re- they emanate wholly from the astral world, wholly from the physical world or from an intermingling of the two, is the seryant i for the Harper publications, is at the Lick. He | lature, is in the City. of those forces, and that his conduct and thoughts while under such control will be in harmony with the purpose, the wish, the will and the desire of those forces, whether they be for good or evil. Herein lies the danger, in part at least, of the ‘‘seance,”’ “sitting for development,” ‘‘ex- perimenting for fun’ and kindred spiritual phenomena that are obtained haphazard. The true philosophy of psychology is, however, a healthy study and highly in- structive phenomena may be had in con- nection with it, but not with entire safety except upon cold and exacting lines of in- vestigation where the rules of analysis are severely correct and where the student is more or less skeptical. Unless phenomena can withstand the severest tests a danger- ous mistake is made in accepting them as of good report. But when a psychical phenomenon is run down to as near its last | analysis as possible the acquaintance one | then has with it deprives it of practically all danger. The young student of occult science should not be long in discovering that his imagination goes flying around three men- tal centers, viz.: the inventive, the ideal- istic and the sympathetic, all of which are dangerous ground unless he allows the full play of his better judgment, when he will be strong and comparatively sure of his footing, Then he may cut loose from his moorings and go deep into the cause andeffect of psychical mysteries. Perhaps the greatest danger that confronts thestu- dent is in inclination to spend too many continuous hours in exploration, because unless he withdraws from the field before he is entirely overcome by the fascination | of “things revealed ’” he is almost cextain to degenerate in physical strength, in moral tone and in mental discernment. | The trouble with many students of occult phenomena is that they persist in trying to accomplish ina few months or a year as much as they should hope to secure in a quarter of a century of cautious and painstaking investigation. And, again, the student makesa graveif nota fatal mistake if he thinks tte physical man can- not be torn and wrenched while his mind is reaching out into (to him) the unknown. PERSONAL, Charles Cosgrove, 8 mining man of Angels, is in town. C. Jackson, a business man of Santa Ans, is at the Grand. Commander W. T. Skerrett of Mare Islana is at the Lick. Deputy Sheriff J. F. Erbanks of San Luis Obispo isin the City. F. P. McClosky, & merchant of Guatemala, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. J. Mitchell, a business man of Merced, is at the Cosmopolitan. Nat Wilson and wife of Colorado Springs are at the Cosmopolitan. @. Garner and H. B. Eldridge of New York City are at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. E. A, Lewis of Brooklyn, N. Y., arrived here yesterdey. George Mainhart, & mining men of Grass Valley, is at the Grand. Alfredo Dumoro,a business man of Guate- mala, is at the Occidental. Alf E. Edgcumber and wife of Vallejo are guestsat the Cosmopolitan. | William H. Devlin, an attorney of Sacra- I mento, is here for a few days. L. D. Bell, & business man of Spokane, Wash., | is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. Alfred Meyer, a business man of Bordeaux, France, arrived here last nightand is at the Palace. George D. Allman of Cazadero, the widely | known stage-line owner of the Pacific Coast, is | in the City. | Dr. J. D. Espinosa of Guatemala arrived here | yesterday, accompanied by his family and several friends. | Thirty-two Raymond & Whitcomb excursion- ists from various parts of the East arrived here yesterday. They are all at the Palace. . D. Nichols of New York, one of the artists is accompanied by G. K. Felix of New York. C. W. Pendleton, assistant manager of the | Santa Fe Railroad, Los Angeles. and brother of | Attorney Pendleton, member of the last Legis- | Mrs. M. Judge and daughter, Miss Frances | Judge, of Salt Lake City are among the guests at the Baldwin. The ladies will leave on Wednesday for San Diego. James H. Wilkins, editor and owner of the San Rafsel Tocsin, one of the State Prison Commussioners eppointed by Governor Budd, was in the City vesterday. William Beckman of Sacramento, ex-State Railroad Commissioner and for some years past director in the People’s Bank at the capital city, is here for a few days’ stay. Francisco Ojeda, who some time since shipped a lot of horses to Guatemala, has re- turned here via Mexico, where he obtained several concessions for the forthcoming ex- position. Colonel Lucas of San Jose de Guatemala, president of the Guatemala Central Railroad, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. He is here on business relative to trans- portation. Mrs, Lopez of Guatemals, her four children; Miss Lopez, her sister-in-law; Miss de 1a Pena and Alexander de Mores, Mrs. Lopez's brother, arrived here on the Acapulco yesterday. They are here for pleasure. Harvey W. Scott, editor of the able paper, the Portland Oregonian, and K.G. Cooper of the Denver Republican, another notea news- paper property of the West, are in the City. They are in attendance at the meeting of the advisory board of the Western Division of the Associated Press. James D. Hoge Jr., one of the owners of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is at the California. He has come here to attend the meeting of the advisory board ot the Western Division of the Associated Press. The Post-Intelligencer is the most valuable newspaper property in Washing- ton. Mr. Hoge says business is improving there. The salmon fisheries are doing more than usual and considerable attention is being given to mining, as well as lumbering. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 11.—Among the re- cent arrivals are: Devonshire, Mrs, Burbank; Belvedere, €. Gundlach; Warwick, J. W. Mc- Cauley; Plaza, Mr. and Mrs. W. Haas. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “My family,” said Miss Antique, “‘came over with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower.” “Did they really,” exclaimed Hicks. “How very interesting! And were you seasick?’— Harper’s Bazar. “Who,” asked Medusa?” “Medusa.” said the young woman who was feeling about the under side of the bench for her gum, “Medusa was the lady who gave every ene who looked at her an attack of the marble heart.”—Indianapolis Jour: the professoress, ‘‘was “That poem of yours,” remarked the flippant ‘“reminds me of ‘Spenser's Faery But,” said the aspiring writer, “you told me yesterday that you had never read the ‘Faery Queen.’ " “Yes. That’s why your poem reminds me of it.”’—Washington Star. Rollingstone Nomoss—I had a nawful dream 1as’ nignt. Tatteredon Torn—Workin', Rollingstone Nomose—Yes; I t'ought I was turned into a cake o' yeast.—Philadelphia Record. In the spring the falr gir’s fancy Lightly turns to biklng suits, And bedecked in cunning bloomers, On her wheel she gaily scoots. —Towa Topics. “Did your new play have a long run ?” asked the manager’s friend. “No,” he replied, as a far-away, anxious look crept into nis eyes, “the play didn’t have a | coln kind of a man | long run, but the company did.”—Washington Star, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. What havoc historical research is making of our childhood’s idols! The dis- covery that there is not any ‘‘truly’’ Santa Claus is only the beginning of an image- breaking that strews the pathways of life with incessant wreckage. William Tell and the apple, Pocahontas and the saving of Captain John Smith have been laid away in their oblivious graves, to the deso- lation of miilions of hearts; but child- hood's latest and most poignant grief is because of Mr. William M. Sloane’s fatal demolition of Empress Josephine. To think that this lovely woman, deserted and left all forlorn while yet beautiful, and whose sweet mission it Was to soften the rigors of the marble-hearted man of des- | tiny, was no better than she ought to have | been! 1In fact, not nearly so good. It is | crushing. What a paragon of virtue, love- liness and constancy the old historians pictured her. That she was beautiful and | inteilectuaily bright is still true, but, alas! she was as bad as beautiful and altogether unworthy the admiration of any child. Those little, red-covered biographies of the great and good! What child has not reveled in them and blessed the name of | Abbott as he read? And yet all the he- | Toes of all the Abbotts were heroic with the same dead level of mugwumpish im- partiality, and made equally worthy of youthiul emulation, though at the cost of | entire disregard of historic verity. It were [ better so. Children can safely be initiated bestow neither praise nor blame, but the incident assures us that Mrs. Booth- Tucker is quite a remarkable woman. Ionce had for a friend a brave Scotch- man who hailed from some secluded Drumtochty ard he so recaled me with etories of his home and youth that I loved Scotland for his sake as well as for the sakes of Scott and Burns, and in remem- brance of him I have eaten some sort of ‘““porritch” ever since. He walked tweive miles from his work and home again to fetch me a dozen oranzes when I was con- valescing; but with all bis kindliness and general buovancy of spirit he had occa- sional relapses into melancholy. Inone of these he concluded to leave the world, and, what was worse, to take a much-loved companion with him. He made a muss of it blowing her brains over most every- thing else. His digestion bad become im- paired. If the reader will observe as he jogs through life he will discover that no man with a full stomach ever coramits suicide, and that no man who has a good appetite and anything like a reasonable certitude of having that appetite gratitied departs this life voluntarily. It is the man who cannot eat with satisfaction or digest his food with comfort who findsin the world nothing but blackmailing schemes, dis- honesty, monopoly, disaster, destitution, | disease and death by his own insane de- vices. Those old fogies who thought the spleen the seat of melancholy were mis- taken. It isthe stomach. To live to eat into a knowledge of the good and the beautifal, but not the true. Only those can bear that who have come to the years | of discretion, have suffered the smasbing | of their idols and have survived. The Ab- botts, in falsifying history for childhood’s | sake, did nobiy, and it is encouraging to | know that they made a great deal of money by their righteous sinning. If rood did not so often result from evil, would there be so very much good in the world? My boy—for 1 like to talk to the boys once in a while—read every scrap of relia- ble history or anecdote about Lincoln that comes in your way. Once interested in the story of his life you will never weary of it. He was not a demi-god like Ulvsses or Hector, Achitles or Agamemnon, but he was better than these, for he was a flesh and blcod American, the perfected product of the best thatis in American manhood. Homely, wise, kind, patient, brave, not toa good for a frolic, he was of allmen just the man to be a boy's hero. 1t seems al- most that God, in his providence, had kept the Lincoln family impoverished of manly qualities for more than a hundred years in order to save up those elements of great- ness which belonged by right to three suc- | cessive generations and make them avail- able at a time of supreme national need. Read all you can about Lincoln, for if yon do there will come to be within that Par- thenon of ideals which every man carries in his heart a rugged model of American manliness, a living image and daily helper in your work of character building which will tend to make you an Abraham Lin- Speaking of broken images reminds me of another hoax—the sleeping beauty. Beauty is beanty no longer when she sleeps. Artists bave painted and sculptors | have carved sleeping beauties that were beautiful, but they were not sleeping, but only posing. In sleep the chin drops, the evelids shut like cellar-doors and all light | and life goes out of the face, leaving it as | if cast in the ugly mold of death. Why, | the greatest beauty that ever was would | set the dogs to howling if they came upon | her while asleep. Only babies are pretty | when they sleep, and most babies are | preity only when they sleep. I have amused myself by making some private statistical observations 1n relation to the attendance of men and women at | houses of worship and places of recreation, and I find at houses of worship the ratioof attendance of women to men is about five to one; and that at places of amusement of the better sort the ratio of men to women is about one and a half to one, the halt of a man having the best seat for pur- poses of cbservation and applauding most immoderately whenever remarkable agility is manifested on the stage. Humanity is easily amused and the simplest things are the most amusing. The best impersonations are sometimes but tamely appiauded, while a whistler is ap- plauded again and again. I have seen a good quartet retire behind the scenes with- out an encore, and ten minutes later a human jumping-jack turn himself into a daddy-longlegs and siraddle off the stage amid deafening applause. While the Keenest witticisms are provoking smiles, a man at the otherend of the stage who pos- sesses no element of attractiveness except a mouth like a catfish, and who does noth- ing at all but make faces, has his unnatural contortions rewarded with roars of laugh- ter. This is true, as every theater-goer knows, but it does not prove degeneracy of the human race, anthropoidal ances:ry or anything of that sort, It is justonly true and that is all there 1s of it. There was a visitor in the City a little while ago whose coming and going were | worthy of note, but were not noted. She | is over 80 years old, reared sons to die for | a country she had seen little of and daugh- ters to pick lint for thoss who had gone to war; but they were all dead—her husband | wasdead—and now she is going about to say good morning and good evening toa coun- try she has a thousand reasons for hold- ing dear. A stout young neighbor accom- panies her wherever she goes, and she has been going most of the time for a year or two—traveling by easy stages, spending a week here and there and a month else- where, that she may rest up before con- tinuing on her patriotic pilgrimages. Last | winter she spent 1n Southern California, the winter before in the South, the sum- mers where it is cool, and a few months now and again in her Ohio home for addi- tional resting. Sheis a tireless observer, net at all afraid of strangers or timid in asking about the things she wants to know | about, and she enjoys every new scene or object of interest with all the zest of a | bride upon her weading tour. “It has been the desire of my life,’”” she saia, “to know my own country, and if thereis time I mean to know it before I go to that other country where my friends have gone.”” While her loved ones lived there was always some one to do for and her | longed-for sight-seeing had to wait—wait | until she was 80; but as ‘“‘all things come to those who wait,” the opportunity to see her country came at last to her. Somehow when Iread of the death of the Booth-Tacker baby away in its Eng- lish home I was possessed -of “‘mingled feelings,” as gentlemen say when they rise to make acknowledgments. It was not six weeks old when its mother left it to cross the Atlantic and assume command of American forces embattled against sin. It was siling and died. Mrs. Booth-Tucker must be & Spartan mother, ora very philo- sophical one, or so profoundly in earnest in the Salvation cause as to be willing to make all sacrifices for it; or else she must be wanting in that quality of motherhood which gave to the world its first glimmer- ing sense of the passion of love. I shall may be ignoble, but to so live thatone may eat is the sum of worldly wisdom. Why will a man, otherwise sane, carry alarge amount of life insurance all his days with the view of providing money for his wife after he has gone and yet scarcely give hera cent she can call her own all the time he persists to live? ArTHUR J. PILLSBURY. INFORMATION WANTED. Suppose, in the aftairs of State, In flerce discussion and debate, When statesmen talk and rant'and blow And yank the tariff to and fro; Suppose the whole should flicker through, ‘What would the politicians do? Suppose that “silver” was a myth, The little folks to frighten with, Aund “parity with gold” we use To drive away attacks of blues— Suppose that tales are always true, What would the politicians do? Suppose. In latitude remote When dusky voters went to vote, Suppose they offer=d each, n state, A ballot on a periumed plate. Suppose they counted it as two, What would the politicians do? Suppose the men, who pensions draw, Refused to profit by the law; angase they all were millionalres With gilded nonds and rallway shares And houses on t..e avenue, What would the politicians do? Suppose, when platform-makers bent Their wits to form a document, They searched in valn for beding harm, In vain they “‘viewed” wi h vain ~alarm"; Suppose that skies were ever blue, What would the politicians do? —Philadelphia Times. ABOUT THE CANDIDATES. We huve yet to hear it claimed that Senator Cullom’s face ever split rails.—Detroit Tribune. It behooves Democrats to get together this year. They won’t get much else.—New York Press. William C. Whitney calmly denies that he will either get married or nominated for the Presidency.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Carlisle says that he doesn’t want {t, but he dares the Democratic Netional Convention to thrust it upon him.—Cineinnati Commercial Gazette. We admit that Mr. Reed can ride a bicycle, but Mr. McKinley can likewise learn if it be- comes really necessary for him to do so.— Cleveland Leader. The Democratic party is like Hamlet, It is troudbled by a third-term ghost, and the ques- tion of its insanity is still & subject of active debate.—Cincinnati Tribune. When the silver plate is sent around at St. Louis will McKinley's friends encourage the collection so far as to drop cempaign buttons on {t?—Philadelphia Times. A difference between a Presidential and a baseball boom is that where the former re- quires help, In the latter the principals strike out for themselves.—Philadelphia Times. Ex-President Harrison evidently looks for- ward with a good deal of satisfaction to sitting in the grand stand and looking on while some of the other men do the running for bases.— Washington Star. Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio says the action of the New Hampshire Republican con. vention “was one of the ‘flowers which bloom aver the garden wall’ of party politics.” Mr. Grosvenor is suspected of being s McKinley man.—Indianapolis Journal. Beyond doubt Allison is a far stronger man than McKinley; he is stronger than Reed, against whom may be alleged that other super- stition, confirmed by experience, that the Re- publican party cannot elect a candidate taken from the Eastern States The report that Mrs. Cleveland wants her husband to run again for President involves the necessary inference that she must have some serious private grudge against him, not- withstanding the general impresston that they dwell together pleasantly.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. “Getting the glad band” is the latest phrase for veing jollied. The McKinley boom is get- ting this sort of hand from various expectant ministers plenipotentiary, but what it needs most is the fat and willing hand.—Philadel- phia Record. Allison is stronger with the people than any other man who can be nominated by any party. Thatis the strength that will finally prevail in the St. Louis convention and in the | November ballot-boxes by the greatest ma- jority that has ever been cast for a President of the United States.—Iowa Register, —_— e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. In seven months General Booth has travelea 38,000 miles. Mr. Gladstone thinks that & man who does nothing, or has nothing to do, s an object of Ppity. Rudyard Kipling has written to friends in England that he is growing tired of Vermont and contemplates a return to his native land, Lord Salisbury is 66 vears of age. He fifteen years in the House of Commom,p::; has been twenty-four years in the House of Lords. Paul au Challly, the African explorer, most of his time fn New York at prese is no longer & young man, vitality of youth. Dr. Alexander, the new Primate of All Ire- land, is over seventy, and of late he has lost something of the fire of his eloquence; but he Is, with the possible exception of Dr. Salmond, by far the greatest preacher i; G P 0 the Irish Professor J. W. Hoffman, the well-known negro scientific agriculturist of the Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, has been elected a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Bociety, in Tecognition of the work he is doing for the spends nt. He but retains the race along scientific lines, and for originating a new variety of strawberry a few years ago, now cultivated from New Jersey to Florida ana along the Pacific Coast. George H. Boughton, who has been made & British Academician, is an artist who has earned the honor by long and able work. He haa exhibited pictures at the academy for thirty consecutive years. Mr. Boughton isex- tremely popular in London society, and his election was widely commended. He has sev- eral new pictures ready for the academy. General 8ir Horatio Kitchener, Sirdar of the Egyptian army, is Irish by birth, having been born st Crotto House, near Tralee, County Kerry. He first went to the East tosurvey Pal- estine. Then he wes employed by Lord Satise bury on topographical work in Cyprus. After that he found himself in Egypt, and went up the Nile several months in advence of General Wolseley’s expedition of 1884. A WAIST FOR TWO FABRICS. The lady’s waist shown here is one of the newest moaels. To be made of two fabrics the skirt worn should be one of the fabrics. It is cut with a fitted lining, over which the ma- terial is placed. Over this again is the plas- tron piece, both back and frout. of a contrast- ing color or a different fabric. An imported gown after this model was of brown cloth. The sleevesand underwaist were of green silk with stripes of brown and dull blue, io.'minf a plaid. The cloth was used ;{n ihe waist only for the plastron portion. A handsome crepon of blue and green mix- ture had the sleeves and pyastrons of a crepon to match the skirt. The whderwaist was of a fancy silk in the same biue and green shades. One of the season’s fads is combining two fabrics in waists, and even in skirts. Most brilliant combinations result, and almost any color scheme is allowable. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. ———— FPECIAL information daily to manutactura:y, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. S e BTRANGERS, call and see our display of “Call- fornia Glace I'ruits,’’ 50 cents pound, in Ja anese baskets. Townsend's, 627 Market street.* ————— ®Lady (applying the test)—Ach, what & pity! The handsomest gentleman in the company has got & splash on his waistcoat. 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