The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..20.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year,by matl.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CAxL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday Cari, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLz, one year, by madl.... . 150 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall . 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation? If #0, 1t 18 o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attentiod. KO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Pelephone.......... ...Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. « Felephone......... BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; wntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent ...Maln-1874 open TUESDAY ..... MAY 12, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. JES———— e = 7 It is our turn to have a frolic. ‘We ought to have a fiesta just to cap the climax. The latest breeze from Cuba may yet be . a storm before it blows over. About as soon as the Democrats find a Presidential candidate they find that he is a quitter. The Populists have the undivided atten- * tion of the State, and let us hope they will “+ use it well. This country stood the \‘irginius‘cu(- rage once, but it will never do for Spain to try it again. A San Francisco fiesta has a sweet al- literative sound that would go trippingly on every tongue. To get all the news of the campaign you must get THE CALL and read the United Press dispatches. Even Bourbon Democrats have their sensibilities and refuse to hurrah for a de- ficitadministration. Let us invite the queens of all the festi- vals of the State to come to town and show their pretty gowns. Getting the people used to the transfer nuisance is about the same as getting eels used to being sxinned alive. Perbaps General Weyler would like a war with the United States in order to get Uncle Sam to help him out of Cuba. The best possible fusion for intelligent Populists is to fuse with the party of “patriefisma, protection and prosperity. 1f the Chicago convention cannot find a Democratic candidate it might take a mugwump. There are few of them stiil living. ‘The hot hostiiity of Germany against British aggression in South Africa is called by diploma ‘an attitude of cold neu- e In his adventures with his brother-in- law the versatile Mr. Kipling seems to " have found another story and something of the jungle kind. There is a good prospect that the Oregon will break the warship record to-day, and California will have another feather in her cap to be proud of. When Nansen gets home from the north pole there will be a job for him in search- 1ng for the British expedition that disap- peared up the The delegate who walked to the Populist ~ Convention' from Sonoma evidently be- lieves that victory over the railroad can be gained in a walk-over. —_— The only proper fusion for free silver men of any party is with the Republicans, for only they are in a position to win the battle for bimetallism this year. There is reason to believe that some of the Eastern prediction bureaus are not only counting chickens before they are hatched, but eggs before they are lai It may be true that by a vigorous Cuban | _policy Cleveland could make sure of a re- W nomination, but it is doubtful if the old :I man has that much vigor in him. n According to all the prospects of the ¢ time it seems the Republican Convention i at St. Louis will be the most deliberative . body of the kind that ever assembled. . AsDelaware has declared for Quay, the report that he had decided to witharaw from the Presidential race was evidently intended solely for Western consumption. ’ . To have a festival that would sum up all the glories of Santa Barbara, Los An- ~ geles, Ban Jose, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz - and Healdsburg would make a frolic just about our size. Even those citizens who are most eager to increase the population of San Fran- cisco will admit we have people enough now to support a well-paid Fire Depart- ment, and ought to do it. In threatening to shoot the Americans ' captured on board the Competitor General ‘Weyler is pitching such an easy ball to the administration that if Olney doesn’t make a home strike he ought to be put out. Democrats who have been hoping the . Populists would help them out will | find little pleasure in the Sacramento con- vention. The delegates to that body are not willing to be dumped into political de- ficit this year. The plan for a park in the Mission is a good one and should be cordially sup- ported. The people in that district of the City eare entitled to a public pleasure- ground near their homes, and the sooner the City provides it the cheaper and better it will be. * Every young man should strive to get into harmony with the prevailing senti- ment of his countrymen and cast his first Presidential vote for the choice of the 4 plg, and the way to do that this year is Fvtm 50£ the Republican party and vote for . the man who stands for National pro: peritye : ' [ 4 2 5 THE POPULIST CONVENTION. The Populist convention at Sacramento will have during its sessions the undi- vided attention of the State. It has not been a very strong party in the past, and its chances of carrying California have been remote, but in the present demoral- 1zed condition of the Democratic party there is sométhing more than a possibility that it will show a largely increased vote in this campaign and may rank on election day as the second party in the State. In estimating the elements of its strength no observant man can overlook the earnest zeal which inspires so large a portion of its members. There are in it, of course, many of those erratic men who shift and change lightly from one party to another by lack of any fixed principles of action. There are also, of course, many of the disappointed office-seekers of other parties, who have joined it in the hope of personal advancement. These, however, are comparatively few in number, and though being in the main given to much verbosity and able to occupy a large part of the discussions at Populist meetings, are by no means so influentiai as they appear from their speeches. This conven- tion we may be sure wilt be dominated by earnest men, and whatever they under- take to do will be done with the zeal of re- formers who will not compromise prin- ciples for the sake of electing an office- seeker or two to some minor positions. The line between the earnest supporters of Populist principles and the mere office- seeking element can be easily drawn. The earnest men stand for a straight-out con- test for the principles to which they are devoted. The seekers after spoils, on the other hand, are willing to compromise, combine, fuse, and even confuse, with any other party or set of men that promises to give them a vote and help obtain the spoils. This dividing line will be seen at Sacramento, as it is seen at every Populist convention, but there seems every pros- pect that the earnest men will win, and the party lines remain intact. It cannot be denied that in the demoral- ization of Democracy Populism has a great opportunity. From the disorganized and discouraged ranks of the old foe it can draw many recruits if it acts boldly and refuses compromise. If, however, it makes any alliance with the party of Grover Cleveland, it is lost. This the convention at Sacramento will probably see, and act accordingly. Even if it fails to seeit, how- ever, no great harm can be done. The platform of the Republican party is good enough for every intelligent Populist to stand on, and if his own party should blunder in convention he can easily rem- edy the evil so far as he is concerned by voting for the men who represent patriot- 1sm, protection ana prosperity. A NEEDED PARK. It is encouraging to observe that Park Commissioner Austin, president of the board, is strongly in favor of establishing a park for the people of the Mission. He makes a suggestion that is eminently de- serving of attention. It is that part of the thirty-six acres comprised in Buena Vista Park be sold under the authorization of the Legislature, and that the proceeds be de- voted to the purchase and improvement of apark forthe Mission residents. As he properly says, Buena Vista Park is so near Golden Gate Park that the improvement of the whole tract woula not be a distinct advantage to the City, its only special value being the great elevation of its highest part. This is 510 feet, and the reservation and improvement of a tract including it would serve all the useful purposes which the entire tract is capable of developing. The absence of water at that great elevation must for some time remain a barrier to its improvement. This opens a way for the Supervisors to furnish the Mission with a recreation place, of which it stands greatly in need. 1t will be necessary only to ask the Legis- lature to pass the act authorizing the sale. The superior attractions of the lower reaches of Buena Vista Park for residence purposes are bound to produce ready pur- chasers for the property, as water can be furnished and the view is one of the finest in the City. The reservation of the high- est part and the erectlon of an observatory upon it would serve as an additional at- traction to buyers. ‘Whatever may be the method adopted for introducing & park to the Mission, such a resort must be furnished. Mr. Austin’s suggestion is particularly ac- ceptable in view of the fact that it con- templates no addition to tne tax levy and will likely not meet with objection from any source. It is true that in years gone by great public injury has been inflicted by legislative acts authorizing the sale of public lands in this City, but with so many existing agencies for the prevention of fraud there is a reasonable assurance that nothing wrong will be attempted. The present distribution of parks in the City is about as unfair as it could possibly be. The section north of Market street has no more parks than it needs, but that is no reason for their virtual absence on the south side of the City. It is to the interest of all the people to unite in some action to secure this desirable result. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. The article on the beet-sugar industry of California which appeared in the last issue of Thomas Magee & Sons’ Real Estate Circular deserves the attention of all sections of the State where it may be possible to cultivate the sugar beet. It is a fact familiar to all that Claus Spreckels has a standing offer to the whole State to furnish beet seeds and full instructions for cultivation to all who will make experi- ments to ascertain whether their land is suited to the crop. In case a sufficient body of lana in any section is found to be adapted to the beet Mr. Spreckels will erect a factory, buy the crop at a profit- able figure and manufacture it into sugar. As only a small part of each farmer’s land would be required for the experiment, and the crop is an annual and the resuit of the experiment is ascertainable in a single year, it would seem that the offer shonld prove tempting to the more pro- gressive farmers of the State. Magee’s Circular quotes Mr. Spreckelsas saying that he hoves his life will be spared long enough to see the State making not only all of our beet sugar, but exporting $ 50,000,000 worth more of it to the Atian- tic States; then he would die content, “and,”’ said be with emphasis, “we can easily do that within & few years.” The East now imports between $75,000,000 and $100,000,000 worth of sugar, nearly all of which, Mr. Spreckels says, California can easily make. Mr. Spreckels also told his friends that he had repeatedly been of- fered $10,000,000 by New York capitalists, with whom he has had previous dealings, They want the money invested in Cali- fornia, in his full charge and unhampered direction. While Mr. Spreckels is in En- rope he will inspect the great sugar fac- tories of France and Germeany, and see if they have any improvement in machinery and methods which may be of use to him. An interesting feature of the matter is that the lands which have been used for grain are often be . found to be perfectly suited to sugar beets. Thus, not long ago Mr. Spreckels bought 6000 acres of land within reach of his Watsonville sugar fac- tory in addition to his formor holdings. This land bas long been used for wheat, barley and oats, and it is needless to in- form a California farmer that a compar- ison between the returns on sugar beets and grain is impossible. If all the grain lands in California should be converted into sugar-beet farms it would not be dif- ficuli to imagine the effect on the pros- perity of the State. The Circular publishes these important facts: “‘Beet culture has only begun, and its extension will withdraw from wheat- growing immense tracts in the San Joa- quin and Sacramento valleys, while, by reducing the wheat area, it will tend to better the price of that staple. Beetsgrown in France and Germany yield 8 to 10 per cent of sugar only; here our lands yield 14 to 18 per cent, and without special fer- tilization., There, but for Government bounties, the business could not be made successful. When California gets to manu- facturing $50,000,000 worth of beet sugar for annual export East the shipment of re- fined sugar to Atlantic ports from Ger- many and France, on which there is a heavy import duty, will greatly decline, if it does not entirely cease.” A MATTER OF NEWS. The summary of the news regarding the progress of the Presidential campaign which was sent out from the East on Sun- day nigat affords another of the many iliustrations of the superiority of the United Press dispatches over those of its rival, the Associated Press. Thissuperior- ity does mnot consist merely in amplitude of reports, but in that accuracy of state- ment which is necessary to give the reader a comprehensive knowledge of the condi- tion of affairs. In the particular instance to which at- tention is called our morning contempor- aries, both of which receive Associated Press dispatches, gave exactly the same news regarding the prospects of the vote at the St. Louis convention. Both gave the estimates made by Congressman Grosvenor and neither gave any more. TeE CALL, on the other hand, gave not only the statement of Grosvenor as fully as the other papers, but also equally full estimates and statements from ex-Senator Platt and Congressman Aldrich. How important it is for the reader to have all these statements before him in order to reach a true knowledge of the con- dition of affairs can be made evident by a simple recapitulation of the estimutes themselves. According to Grosvenor's bulletin, which constituted all the news on this subject given by the Associated Press, there are 483 uncontested and pledged votes for McKinley already elected, and, including the contested votes, 548. By this showing McKinley woula be nominated on the first ballot. According to Platt’s estimates, however, McKinley is at present 145 vote$ short of the 460 necessary to nominate, while Congress- man Aldrich allows him 361 votes uncon- tested, or 99 less than a majority and 127 less than Grosvenor claims. It will be seen that the additional facts given by the United Press and ignored by the Associated Press reveal the condition of the Presidential contest under a wholly different aspect. People who wish to know the truth must of course get reports from all siaes, as the United Press does. THE CaLy, being the only morning paver in San Francisco that receives the United Press dispatches, is the only one that gives the fullness of news essential to an accurate understanding of what is going on. It is therefore plain that whatever otber paper a man may take he must read Tue CavLL also if he wishes to get all the news and keep himself posted A MARE'S NEST. The biggest mare’s nest discovered thus far during the campaign is to be found in the rumor that the report of the committee of credentials at the Sacra- mento convention was never adopted by the convention itself. It mustbe aamitted that if this discovery can be established in trath it will be something worth clamor- ing about, for 1f the report of tbe commit- tee was not adopted then no credentials were approved, no delegate had a right to a seat, the convention was an unorgamzed mass-meeting and the whole thing will have to be done over again. Fortunately the alleged discovery can be easily proved to be false. The report of the committee on credentials was adopted in due form and order by the necessary vote. The work of the convention was all right from beginning to end. As a matter of fact the very issue was raised in the convention itself and was disposed of in short order by the state- ment of Chairman Arthur that the report had been adopted. The columns of all our newspapers containing reports of the con- vention show this to be the fact, the whole snbsequent proceedings of the conven- tion attest it, and the minates of secretary record it. If the seats of any of the California delegation are to be con- tested at St. Louis the contestants will have to get better grounds than that, The men who will form the National Con- vention will have too much work on hand to waste time investigating a mare’s nest. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. On the occasion of the coronation of the Czar at Moscow no fewer than forty-nine lady singers, each of whom ciaims the rank of prima donna, will sing in Moscow. Li Hung Chang, the Chinese Viceroy, will travel around Europe after attending the cor- onation in Moscow, and will visit Vienna ana Buda-Pesth. He will stop some time in the Hungarian capital to review the millennial exhibition. Russell Sage is very fond of driving and has scarcely missed a daily ride in Central Park in thirty-nine years, except when he is absent from the city. He generaily drivestwo horses, butis trying a team of four which will trot evenly together. Prince Albert of Flanders, who has just come of age, is presumably the next heir to the throne of Belgium, as his father, the Count of Flanders, who is the younger brother of Leo- pold I, has intimated his intention not to ac- cept the crown should it fall to him. The Lee family of Virginia has had no rep- resentative in the Federal army for more than thirty-four years. The succession in this ser- vice is now to be renewed in the person of George Mason Lee, the 19-year-old son of Gen- eral Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate cavalry commander, At Marlborough House recently the Princess of Wales and the Princesses Victoria and Maud by the electrophone listened to popu- lar selections at the leading London theaters, ete., including the opera at Drury Lane. The installation is fittea in the private boudoir of the Princess of Wales. Marion Crawford says that his experience in the East convinces him that the Armenians e the ‘“sharpest, shrewdest and trickiest of Eastern peoples.” It is proverbial there that “it takes ten Turks to equal one Arme- nian and five Armenians to equal one Persian in sharp business dealings.” There has just passed away, in the person of Mrs. Mitchell, Hawick, the last surviving daughterof & well-known border celebrity, who for many years kept the small inn at the head of 8t. Mary’s Loch. This inn was fre- quented by Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, Pro- {essor Wilson and others alluded to in the “Notes Ambrosianm,” PERSONAL. J. C. Cherry of Detroit is in town. J. 0. Carlisle of Forbestown is at the Lick. C. T. Bliss of Nevada, arrived here yesterday. W. D. Keyser, the stage owner of Pieta,is here. Judge John D. Bicknell of Los Angeles is in the City. J. P. Book, anelectrician of Los Angeles, the Russ. J. E. Powell of Washington, D.C., s at the Occidental. W. G. Tebbetts, a mining man of Denver, is at the Palace. Charles C. Milburn of Wasfington, D.C., is at the Palace. W. P. Townsend, & business man of Hollister, is at the Grand. E.T.Earl of Los Angeles was one of the ar- rivals yesterday. J. 8. Crutcher, a deputy constable of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan, R. O'Neal, & mining man of Bishop, Inyo County, is at the Russ. Colonel A. F. Jones of Oroville came down to the Bay City yesterday. Eugene Fechet, a mining engineer of Oro Blanco, Ariz., is at the Palace. Charles Erickson, the raflrosd contractor of San Luis Obispo, is at the Grand. Among the arrivalsat the Palace is Justice of the Peace C. D. Emery ot Seattle. R. E. Hyde, the wealthy banker and ex- tensive landowner of Visalis, is on a visit here. George F. Geiffe, who is connected with the rexnh mine, near Oroville, is & late arrival ere. James H. Flanagan, the wealthy merchant and mill-owner of Coos Bay, is hereona busi- ness trip. J. A. Hughes, an attorney of Seattle, 8 mem- ber of the firm of Struve, McMicken & Hughes, is at the Palace. Judge W. J. Dowley of Los Banos, Merced County, is at the Cosmopolitan, He intends to open a law office in this City. Mrs. L. Barrett of Cripple Creek was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Shels ac- companied by several friends. Charles F. McGlashen, the attorney of Truckee, for & long time owner and editor of ihe Truckee Republican, is in the City. Dr. J. C. Grasett, one of the old-time and wealthy physicians of Toronto, 1s at the Lick. He is here to see different parts of the State. The Rev. David Thompson and Mrs. Thomp- #on, who have for some years been engaged in mission work at and near Tokio, have arrived here on their way East. Fged Cooper, the Los Angeles theatrical manager, is here and expects to secure a lease of either the Bush-street Theater or the un- finished theater in the St. Nicholas Hotel. Supervisors A. W. Francisco and W. F. Wood- erdof Los Angeles and Supervisor E. S. Gray of Sonoma, who have been attending the good roads convention at San Jose, are at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 11.—At the West- minster, Miss Oknoed, Miss M. D. Veassel; Stewart, R. Irving; Imperial, Mrs. Aubrey, J.F. Evans, J. Malowasky, T. M. McFarliner; Gilsey, J.G. Mallory; Park Avenue, Colonel H. B. Bristol, Mrs. W.T. Carpenter, Barret J. Eldridge; Savoy, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rosen- bsum; Netherlands, Mr.and Mrs. F. §. John- son; Hoffman, T. Sloan. Sailed per steamship Lahn for Bremen via Southampton: Herman Grimm, Mr. and Mrs. Aaton Kellig, Albert Neimeyer, George Prinz. LADY'S CHEMISE. A graceful shape which hangs from a rquare yoke is a much liked style of chemise. The yoke may be of embroidery lace or the goods. A ruffie of lace gathered at the edge with baby ribbon is a novel mode of trimming the arm size. Dainty garments of batiste exquisitely made by hand have very fine embroidered insertion for a yoke, edged with fine Val. lace on both sides. Others have rows of inch-wide inser tion, with narrow lace insertion between s at These are sewn together in long strips and folded at the corners of Ioke. A yoke of lace insertion alone is not quite so serviceable, but is very pretty. This is often finished. at the edges with lace bnidln! through which baby ribbon is run. At the édge of this braiding 1s & frill of lace to match the insertion, the lace used vArqulg from half an inch to four inches in width, This trimming is especially liked on lawn chemises, Muslin is moré often trimmed with embroidery of torchon lace. Point de Paris is a desirable lace for lawn, cambric and muslin, as it wears well. CONSIDERABLY BRIGHTENED. ‘The Kern Standard. THE CALL and the Report, the most influen- tial morning and evening papers, respectively, in San Francisco, have come out flat-footed for woman suffrage and will use their best endeav- ors to compass the success of the eleventh amengment. The Republican State Conven- tion also passed & resolution favoring it, and tbl::gg'r::]e;s?l of its adoption is considerably RAPIDLY ADVANCED. Seattle Times. Pacific Coast journalism seems to have re- ceived anew impetus from the San Francisco CALL. A year ago THE CALL was but little known outside of the city in which it is pub- lished, butfrom the time C. M. Shortridge be- came its publisher it has rapidly advanced un- il it is & strong rival of the other Sun Fran- cisco dailies and excels them in many ts. THE CALL bears eloguent testimony of what journalistic ability, combined with unlimited capital, may do in a field already occupied b; uubluhedynevlptpcn. E 2 2 NO FUNDING BILL IN OURS. —— Fresno Republican. The Republicans of California in conyention assembled did many judicious and commena- able things, but among them all not one was wiser than the adoption of the anti-funding resolution. Without that plank the many merits of the platform would have seemed ob- scure to a great many of the voters of the sarla t:theix minds the other excellencies WO! ardly have compensated for such a ‘“one thing missing.” The fun bill is a 1iv0 Issuo In Caliloenis—one ol thg. livest of issues, in fact—and mission by an; glum can make it nnythm:aal:a. We fln;ly ‘a eve | o thata failure {0 have passed the resolution would have cost the party thousands of votes 1in this State jn the coming election. —_— THE BIDWELL AND FIELD OAKS. San Francisco Post. A contemporary tells a story of an oak treeat Monterey, which, it declares, outrivals the glories of the Sequoia gigantea. Itcallsthis oak the Justice Field Oak, because its unusual ‘lflrud of branches was first noticea by mothy J. Field, a nephew of the Justice of that name. The account puts the cap-sheaf of emphasis on the magnitude of the oak by saying that 1000 people could stand under its boughs. The Monterey oak may be & rouser, but it is & scrub compared to sn oak tree growing on the ranch of General Bidwell at Chico. "This oak was visited twenty tyears 880 by General William Tecumseh Sherman in company with Sir Joseph Hooker, the English botanist, Who declared the oak to be the largest {n the worid. and General Sherman, after due deliberation, said that 7000 men could stand on the area inclosea within a circle drawn around the extreme points of the ex- tended boughs of the tree. Whoever doubts this statement is at liberty to visit the oak, easure the spread of its branches and make his own computation. The Bidwell osk is un- doubtedly the largest tree of its species in the world. A KINDLY ACT. Los Angeles Labor World. The San Francisco CAry last Monday con- tained a three-column review of the growth of trades unions in Los Angeles. A metropolitan Paper that will devote this amount of space to organized labor in a sister city demonstrates its friendliness to the interests of labor. Ac- companying the sketch were the photographs of officers of the Council of Labor, President P. McNamara, Secretaries H. E. Martens and R. Holman, President Booth of the Clerks’ As- soclation and President J. H. McWilliams of the Lavor Congress. THE CALL, under the Tesent management, has at all times been riendly to organized labor, a position duly appreciated, both in San Francisco and Los Angeles. That was a kindly act on its part Wwhen itagreed to dispense with the type-set- flnimuhlnm for two years upon a concession f the San francisco ’l}gozuy icel Union of & reduction in scale. is last actin opening its columns for a review of the growth of the different trades unions in Los Angeles is still another evidence of THE CALL’S friendship for organized labor. MY LADY'S HAT. Mysterious Thing! Composed of iy and feathers, ribbons, lace. nd flowers, an , and vegetable things, ‘And imitation jewelry & beads, cotton bombazine, And buckles, wire and silk, And Lord knows what besid 1 wot not what they may be. Inordinate Thing! Stnpengunu,l thou, and vast beyond clear compre- ension. Thou soarest like some heaven-kissing hill, Thou spreadest like yan tree. Prodiglous, ample. large, indefinite in size, Enormous, huge, immense, colossal, big— ‘Thou measurest much too much to reckon up. ‘Umbrageous Thing! The shadows 'neath thy spreading brim Are Stygian In their darkness. ‘Thou wardest off the brightest rays Of noonday sun, electric light, or gas. Methiuks thou art proof against the Roentgen ray. £xacerbating Thing! 1 sit behind the at the play, And holding myself togetier, not with ease, 8o monstrous is the rage tha rends my soul. Innocuous, all the dear, delightful naughtiness Displayed npon the stage—but not for me. Unseen, the beauties of the ballet fade, And 1, Who paid two prices for my sest, Sit, cursing, crying, wringing hands In anguish, all because of thee. Beloved Thing! My lady loves thee, and I needs must, too. Those errant whims that lead her fancy, far Beyond the limits of my feebler wit, Suilicient are t0 justify worse things than thou. So. though my heart 1 faint within me, when I ponder thy preposterous character, 1 still do love thee for that thou art hers. DAVID A. CURTIS in New York sun, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DAY 1¥ 1858—A. O. §., City. The 1st of January, 1858, fell on Friday. TULARE—A. O. §, City. The latest official figures give the Tulare County population as 15,249, Tulare City 2697. BROWN'S SALARY—H. F., City. The salary C. 0. Brown received as pastor of the First Con- gregational Church was $4000 a year. THE PArROTT BumLpiNe Brrixe—J. K., City. The demand of the strikers at the Parrott building was that the building should be un- ionized. Certain concessions were made and the building was unionized. A RUN oF Four—J. B, City. The answer to the following question in cribbage is that C cannot claim a run of four: “Aplays7,B6 (his last card), C 4; A follows with a 5 and claims a run of4; C then plays & 4 and claims & run of four. Can he do so?” PorAr EXPEDITIONS—Subscriber, City. At the Free Public Library you will find in “Haydn’'s Dictionary of Dates,” edition of 1895, or in “*Harper’s Encyclopedia of Facts,” a complete list of all the polar expeditions, and the date and departure of each; also the date of return of many of them. NUMBER THIRTEEN—N. N., City. There is a great deal of superstition in regard to the number thirteen, and many hold that it is unlucky because of the fact that there were that number at the table at the Last Supper. No one has yet been able to give any reason- able answer to the lfiue!uon ““Why is No. 13 unlucky 7'’ and prob 0 one ever will. THE PARK COMMISSIONERS—H. T., City. The Park Commissioners of this City and County are Alexander Austin, Irving M. Scott and John Rosenfeld. Mr. Austin resides at the Lick House, Irving M. Scott is at the Union Works and Mr. Rosenfeld has his office with John Rosenfeld’s Sons, Pine and Sansome streets. Mr- Rosenfeld has been absent in New York on leave of absence. NoOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS—It has been stated time and again that this department does not advertise private businesses, firms, or individuals who are engaged in professions or business, and correspondents will save time and disappointment if they direct their in. quiries in some other channel. For these TeASONS NO answer is given to communications about the agency for certain bicycles, the names of those who cast annealing” furnaces, or the names of those whe are the agents for a certain mower. HUSBAND AND WiFE—A Daily Reader, Downey, Cal. A husband, as the head of the family, is bound to furnish his wife with all the neces- sarles of life, to the limit of his ability of course, and he certainly ought to allow her to have socials and occasionally, if not yearly, outings in the country; and if he can aifora it he ought to allow her'what she wishes to con- tribute to her church. There is a section of the codes of this State which says: “The prop- erty of the community is not liable for the famruu of the wife made after marriage, un- less secured by & pledge or mortgage thereof executed.”” WaGEs—W. F. K., Soulbysville, Cal. There has not been any change in regard to wages being preferred clalms. The law reads: In all assignments of property made to trustees or assignees on account of the inability of the person at the time of the assignment to pay his ebts, or in proceedings in insolvency, the wages of miners, mechanies, salesmen, sery. ants, clerks or laborers employed by such per- son to the amount of $100 each, and for serv- ices rendered within sixty days previously, are prefe claims, and must be paid before any other credltor of the assignor. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Walter—Poor Dibbles? They say he got a pair of beautifal black eyeslately. I feel sorry for him. Tom—You needn’t. He gota very handsome girl with them,—Answers, “This is sudden,” said Eve. “Ido notwant you to think me mercenary, but what are your finarcial prospects?’ Adam drew himself up a little and said with- the gnietness of true greatness: ‘I own the earth.” The rest is history.—Cincinnati En- quirer. The Caller—Your husband is wedded to his club, is he not? Mrs. Brooks—Not much. He seems to be per- fectly devoted to it.—Puck. “Are you enjoying housecleaning this year, Mrs. Fudger?” “No; we have such a large yard that the dust from our carpets can’t fly on the neigh- ‘bor’s washing.”—Chicago Record. Clara—Mr. Niceféllow said my face was clas- sic. What is classic? Dora—Oh, most anything old—Good News, Alice—Why are you counting the spoons, is? Sister—Because P., who is coming to luncheon to-day, told me that the latest fad was souve- nir spoons from your friends’ houses.—Post. Dispatch. ' East—And what did you think of Mr. Sweul, the novelist? Mrs. West—Why, his stories are so very old- fashioned! And I understocd that he was cele- brated for his style.—Brooklyn Life, T0 SWE LIVES AT SEA, A Bill Now Before the Senate for a Station Near Point i Bonita. IT WILL COST OVER $10,000. Major Blakeney Gives Some Interest. ing Facts About the Stations on This Coast. Rodeo Lagoon, immediately north of Point Bonits, is to have a life-saving sta- tion fitted with all modern appliances for handling boats, including launching-ways. At least, a bill authorizing a station at that point has passed the lower house of Congress and is now before the Senate for consideration. The measure was intro- duced by Senator Perkins April 29, and there is little doubt of its ultimate passage. “The need of a station at this point 13 obvious,”” said Major 1. J. Blakeney of the United States Life-saving Service yester- day. “This side of the Golden Gate is well protected, but there is absolutely nothing in the way of a lifeboat on the other sidenearer than Point Reyes. Under the present condition, if a wreck occurs on the northern shore it is necessary for a boat to pull across the channel. Quite often it is impossible to do so, owing to the heavy winds. I recall the wreck of the Elizabeth, when the life-saving crew lost a man on this very shore, and later, in the wreck of the Simpson, only a merciful God prevented a whole boatload of brave fellows from going to the bottom. “It is not every one who knows just how the Jife-saving stations are_distributed on this immediate coast. At Fort Point, for instance, we can get outa boat_at any time. This station is inside the Presidio reservation. Just back of the lighthouse is a lookout, where a constant watch is kept. The station is fitted with signal fllfs and pyrotechnical signals to be used only when vessels are in distress. In the bight, near the mouth of Point Lobos Creek, there is a boathouse containing all hecessary gear. This is available when it 18 impossible to launch a boat south of the Cliff House. On Point Lobos there is an- other lookout where constant watch is kept. In a southerly direction, one and a half miles, is the Golden Gate life-saving station with a full crew. Three and a balf miles south of this is the Southside station, and three quarters of a mile fur- ther on is a lookout station. “These stations and lookouts are all con- nected by telephone with each other and with the district superintendent’s office. Any vessel requiring the services of a tug or otherwise in distress would receive prompt attention should they signal to that effect. “To the northward of this harbor, as stated betore, there is not & life-saving sta- tion nearer than Point Reyes. Some years ago the station at Bolinas Bay was burned down, but the location not being desir- able, it was not thought wise to rebuild it. “A station near Point Bonita is espe- cially desirable, because it is a lee shore in all southerly winds. The proposed station will be connected by telephone with the life-saving system on this side of the Golden Gate, thus perfecting the service wkich guards the entrance to the harbor of San Francisco.” The station at Rodeo Lagoon, near Point Bonita, will cost between $10,000 and $12,- 000. Congress appropriates every year $50,000 for new life-saving stations, and as soon as the present bill passes tbe Senate work will commence on the Point Bonita station. WILL LEAVE HIS PULPIT, The Pastor of the Welsh Presby- terian Church Going to Wales. His Wife’s Failing Health Compels Him to Abandon His Work in a Hopeful Era. The Rev. R. Vaughan Griffith, who for the last five years has served as pastor of the Welsh Presbyterian Church of this City, will give up his work and leave for ‘Wales next month. Yesterday, during an executive session of the Presbytery, he applied for letters of introduction to the church brethren in ‘Wales and received them, although his formal release from the church has not yet been effected. It is necesssry, as a matter of form, to have the congregation concur with the pastor in his request to the Presbytery to release him from his chureh. The congregation will act next Sunday night, and on Monday the Presbytery will meet and grant their request, for neither congregation nor Presbytery will offer any objection to the pastor’s leaving. The necessity for his departure is known to them all. Ever since the Rev. Mr. Griffith came here from South Dakota five years ago his wife has been steadily failing in strength and health until now ‘she is almost hel less from the effects of chrenic bronchitis. During their residence in Dakota Mrs. Griffith enjoyed the best of health of her life. It is probable that if the climate of the mother country does not benefit her the Rev. Mr. Griffith will take charge of two churches near Aberdeen, 8. D., as he received a standing offer nearly a month ago from their congregations immediately after he tendered bis resignation to his flock here. The church hus had no home of its own, but has held services in Cambrian Hall, Mission street. Last year, however, a lot was bol;}ht on Gridley street and paid for. It was Mr. Griffith’s fond hope to see a church building erected on the property before ke should go, but he dared not re- main here any longer. RATES TO CONVENTIONS. To Be Fixed Here by the Transconti- mental Association. The Transcontinental Passenger Asso- ciation will begin its coming meeting to- morrow at the Palace Hotel. Representa- tives of all the transcontinental lines will arrive to-day and to-night. The meeting is likely to last for several days. The association has no big fights or other matters of sensational interest on hand. Its business will include several matters of railroad importance and some of public importance. One thing that will be done is to fix rates for the various Na- tional Polmcal conventions to be held within the next few weeks. It is not likely there will be any quarreling about the matter. The prospects are that the lines will agree on one fare for the round trip in the case of each convention. This rate will be approved by the Southern Pacific. The Southern Pacific freight department yesterday announced a special season rate for horses from common points in North- g;m and Central California to Helena, utte and Anaconda. The rates willapply to the close of the Montana racing season. By passenger train the rate each way be- tween California and Montana will be $440 per car containing twelve horses, the car- rier being released from liability in excess of $100 per head. The regularrate by pas- senger train is $585. Quite a number of horses are likely to go from this State to the Montana circuit. ¢ General Freight Agent C. F. ‘Smurr will represent the Southern Pacific Company at the meeting of the Trans-Missouri As- sociation about Utah rates in Denver on the 21st inst. -The Traffic Association will consider the Utah situation at its meeting to-moirow. CURTAILING EXPENSES. Election Commissioners Refuse to Have Precinet Maps Printed — Ten Clerks Appointed. The Election Commissioners wrangled over the question of expenses for an hour yesterday, Registrar Hinton demanding many things that he deemed absolutely necessary for the work of his office, and Messrs. Broderick and Cresswell urging that in view of the depleted condition of the treasury the expensesof the coming election, if one is held, should be Mept down to the lowest limit. The discussion started over the precinct maps, the Registrar requesting permission to have the maps printed at once. Mr. Cresswell objected, saying that until Judge Seawell decides the tenure of office case now before him it would be useless to have the work done. *‘1f there is to be no municipal election this year the outlay of $8000 or more will be lost,” he said, “for another year there may be no use of reprecincting the city.” Mr. Hinton lost this point, but he was authorized to have 2000 copies of the new election law printed and to emvploy ten extra clerks at $125 per month each to hurry the work of preparing for the elec- tion. The question of beginning precinet reg- istration ninety or 160 days before election was left to the discretion of the Registrar. ————————— Rare Birds for the Park. Manager Friedlander ot the Columbia The- ater received from a friend in Oregon two magnificent specimens of Mongolian pheasants. He presented them to the City park yesterday, where they will be among the objecis of inter- est, instead of relishing them himself. —————————— ANICE present for Eastern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c1b. 627 Marketst. * ———————— A Denver woman, Mrs. Mary M. Pickrell, has assumed the remarkable position of garbage contractor for that city. Her efficiency as a city official is shown by the reduction of ex- penses in that department from $900 a week to $280, and the thorough systematizing of the work, ———————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Praaz Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. e ——————— James H. Mulligan of Kentucky, formerly Consul-General of Samoa, who declined a con- sular office inSouth Africa, has been appointed to & position in the customs division n the Treasury Department. ~ —————————————— HUSBAND'S Calcinea Magnesia. Four first- premium medels awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with regls\er.ed trade-mark label. P “Woman!” he exclaimed, passionately, “you bave ruined my life. I shall never love again.” «“Oh, T dunno about that,” said she heartless one, flippantly, “but you won’tlove me again, anyhow. And that’s 1o josh, either.”—Indian- apolis Journal. Take the Northe: e to All Points It you are going East call at 638 Market street, San Francisco, and get our figures. Finest service in the Northwest. All trains vestibuled and equipped with dining-cars. upholstered tourist cars and elegant Pullman sleepers. Through sleepers once & week. T. K. Stateler, agent. —— LADIES are greatly benefited by the useof Dr. Stegert’s Angostura Bitters, the renowned South American tonic. FOR ALLAYING HOARSE OF THE THROAT, use “Br 25c abox. Avoid imitations. D —— 2SS AND IRRITATION ’s Bronchial Troches.” To neglect the hair is to lose youth and comeli- ness. Save it with PARKER’'S HAIR BALSAM. PARKER’S GINGER TONIC cures inward pain. e In the troussesu of the Duchess of Coburg’s daughter there is sufficient millinery to set up a West End shop. : NEW TO-DAY. :iii??ii?iiii??i)iiii‘: ‘ E Special Saving Sale E * & IMITATION CUT GLASS— & & Almost as bright and clear as % > the genuine—at these SPE- # CIAL prices until Wednesday : & night: Fruit or Salad Bowls, #®25¢ and 35¢c; Large Cake ¢ & Dishes, 30c; Water Pitchers, @ & 45¢c; Cream Pitchers, 15¢ ; Pre- @ # serve or Icecream Saucers, 50c ‘¥ :and 60c per dozen, etc. See ¥ them in the window. : » zTHAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreve’s. WANGENHEIM, STERNHEIM & (0., » Y 2 528 and 530 Market St. A - d #27-and 29 Sutter St., » BELOW MONTGOMERY. : LT LT P LT » AAAAEEAEAE ARG EEE SR i Bicycles. * Bicycles. Bicycles. We have on hand a large quantity of New and Second- hand Safeties For Sale at mar. velously low prices for spot cash. Also Sundries very cheap. Specially low prices to Coun- try Agents and others taking quantities. Come and see them or write for particulars. WM. NORMAN, ROVER CYCLE DEPOT 326 and 328 McAllister Street, SAN FRANCISCG,