The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDA ¥, NUVEMBEK ‘9, 1596. VEMBER 8, 1896 | CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily end Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 y CALL, One month, by mall. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail WXEKLY CALL, One year, by ma BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Szmetz, San Francisco, California. Telephone. .Maln—1868 ROOMS: EDITORIAL 517 Clay Street. Telephone........ Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. - 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open nntll 9 o'clock. 116 Niuth street; open until 9 o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Reoms 31 snd 32, 34 Park Row w York Citys DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Now for business. Make the week lively. Keep up with the procession. Look out for California industries. Make San Francisco a home market for home goods. Now is the time to advertise for the holi- day trade, and don’t you forget it. Fatten your birds, Mr. Turkeyman; we all wish a rich feast this time. Four more months of Cleveland clover and then we get ready to make hay. You promote your own welfare when yon promote that of your neighbor. Sy tcs aat Speculate on the composition of McKin- ley’s Cabinet all you please, but don’t bet. Read the news of the day and delight yourself with the reports of reviving busi- ness. In the revival of trade the home market shounld give the preference to the home worker. All that California asks for now is a wet winter. Everything else seems propitious to prosperit; Don’t forget that California novelties are about the best things you can send home for holiday gifts. There is going to be a gold mining boom in California before long and mining counties will be way up Many a Bryanite will be a McKinley man before the next election. Prosperity is a pretty good persuader. The next McKinley tariff won't be thrown down in a hurry, and the coming prosperity will last a long time, Thanksgiving football games wiil soon be looming up as a town topic and politics will be talked only on the side. is should open up this week and show whether there is in it any- thing more than in a chestnut burg. Cleveland found the Democratic party divided and demoralized and will return it to its old leaders in the same condition. Olney has about four months left in which to put his vigorous foreign policy into play and let the people see it work once. With money circulating and work in- creacing there will be good reason for everybody to rejoice in the holidays this season. It would be money in the pockets of the veople to revive the crusade against the sale of lottery tickets and those who ad- vertise them. Foin s Bryan Democrats and Palmer Demo- | crats have a big crow to pick with one an- other before they are ready for Thanks- - giving turkey. Eastern people wiil please take notice that if they start West at once they can have strawberries for Thanksgiving with- out extra charge. California should look toward the Pa- cific for her trade and every Californian in Coungress should do his best to encour- age the upbuilding of our merchant ma- | rine. MeKinley has an abundance of able sup- porters from among whom to select his Cabinet, and it goes without saying he will form one of the best known to our history. That spirit of local patriotism which de- lights in promoting home industry should assert itself now 1n all parts of California. We nave been importing too many goods that could be manufactured at home and the time has come to make a change. With a strong and vigorous man in the office of Secretary of State the McKinley administration ought to be able to clean up all our outstandingdiplomaticdisputes and bring about an international agree- ment for the free coinage of silver without much delay. The Bryanites are deceiving themselyes if they expect to make another campaign on the silver question. Long before the end of McKinley’s term the Republican party will have settled the finances of the Nation on a basis so solid that the whole country will be satisfied. The war in Cuba has come to be a con- test of endurance rather than of fighting ability, and hard as it has been un the Cubans it seems 1o have been almost as disastrous to the Spaniards. The army and navy and the treasury of Spamn are nearly worn away, and that once strong and still proud country is to-day but little better off than Turkey. Speaking of the infaraous methods pur- sued by the New York Jowrnal and the Ezaminer the 8an Francisco Argonaut says: “From the very beginning of the cam- paign the metbods of these two papers have been indefensible. There was no party slander too mean, no campaign calumny too vile for them to publish. There was no caricature too coarse, no cartoon too indecent for them to print.” Every good man and every good woman in California will indorse these brave, true words, NOW FOR BUSINESS. Last week we closed up politics. This week we begin business. The holiday trade will soon engage the attention of everybody. The windows of the stores along the streets | are already brignt with the novelties in- tended for the coming Christmas. The people feel more cheerful than they have for years, and a new activity as well as a new hope is visible in all the channels of business, The hotiday trade, however, will be but an episode in the great revival that has begun. It willserve only as & preliminary to the far mightier activity that will begin to move the industries, the energies and the enterprises of the American people. In every form of human undertaking, from the construction of far-reaching rail- roads to the planting of small orchards, there will be an onward movement this winter. Reports from all parts of the Union show that the people of every State are be- ginning to feel the new impulse and are making preparation for an expansion of industry in the near future. In many lines of work this expansion will begin at once. In others it may have to wait until the passage of a protective tariff bill, which is to be confidently counted on when McKinley and a Republican Con- gress enter upon office next March. Even in those industries that are waiting there is, however, a sense of confidence that leads men to make preparations for the expansion that is to come, and this work of preparation will give employment to many who have been without wages or regular employment during the long years of the Democratic depression. While this stir of activity is making itself manifest in all parts of the Union, the people of California will not be idle. No State in the Union has such vast un- developed resources as ours, and no pro- gressive State falls so far short of manu- facturing her raw material. We have, therefore, better prospects and better in- ducements for entering with confidence upon a revival of business than the people of any other section of the country. It will be our own fault if we do not profit by the advantages given to us by nature and the opvortunities to be afforded by wise legislation. It is that thought which should be uppermost in our minds as we begin the work of this first week in a new era of prosperity. Let each man resolve to do his share in the work of upbuilding the State, and let him remember that many great enterprises can be carried out only by co-operation with his neighbors of progressive spirit. ‘We must work together, as well as work for ourselves. We must join unity of action with our activity. We must lend a helping hana wherever help is needed, and follow the standard of industry with a clear understanding that what benefits one will benefit all. THE CHANGING SOUTH. Probably the last great political battle in the United States in which a South any- where near solid 1s to figure has heen fought and won. The great questions to be discussed and decided by the American | veople in the coming elections will be economic ones in which patriotic South- erners will differ too widely to vote all one way, and the dread of negro domi- nation will cease to be so overwhelming as to prevent consideration of other issues. The late election showed the shadow of coming events. Many ‘good Democrats and true lovers of the South voted for Mc- Kinley because they thought a settlement of the financial agitation was the supreme issue. Many others, whose dislike to the Republican party was too ingrained to allow them to vote for McKinley, simply threw their votes away by casting them for Palmer and Buckner. Differing views about the expediency or honesty of the unlimited coinage of silver at an arbitrary ratio have already caused great iractures to occur in the old time-honored solidity. These fractares will wiaen into & complete breakup when other questions come to the iront for study and settlement. Protection will become, as it were, a new question for the South because of the rapid increase of manufacturing interests within her borders. The Government ownership or complete control of railroads will be one of the problems up for practi- cal soiution in the near future, and about this men will disagree without regard to the section in which they live. Questions as to what is the best banking system for us and aboat the retirement of the green- backs, will also soon be live political issues, and about these Southeners will be unable to think and vote alike. As an illustration of the break in the old Southern unanimity may be cited the remark of a distinguished Georgian Judge, made shortly before the election. He had been a lifelong Democrat, but he consid- ered the financial plank in the last plat- form of that party so wild and such a menace to the prosperity of the country that he emphatically declared, “the good God surely thought too much of this land of ours 10 permit the election of Bryan.'’ So strong an expression from such a man is a good indication of the temper of many Southerners. The South is traditionally conservative, and though temporarily carried into the ranks of extreme radicals, will soon re- turn to her natural bent. When ques- tions are settled without the prejudices of sectionalism, discussion will be more com- plete and fair. Men will sooner arrive at the feeling they are arguing with iriends and not with enemies, and this will make truth and ideal government sooner at- tained. HOME INDUSTRY, This is the time to remember home in- dustries. This is the time to bear in mind that California should be the best market for California goods. This is the time for every citizen to consider how he can best promote the general welfare by promoting the industry of his neighbor as well as that of himself. The coming decade should be one of more than ordinary prosperity in Cali- fornia. It should see great progress made 1 all lines of work. It should see citizens combining and co-operating to establish in various localities those large enter- vrises which cannot be carried out by a single individual. We ought during the next ten years follow the plan of the richer Eastern States and build a factory by the farm. We should bring about a diversified industry. We should not only produce raw material, but should manu- facture it to its final and most finished form so that we can get for it the highest vrice in the markets of the world. Good prospects await the State. There is everywhere evidence that we have men of enterprise and capital among us capable of being leaders of industry who will accomplish success in their undertak- ings. Men of this stamp exist in aimost every community in the State, and if their fellow-citizens will only give them loyal support and active co-operation the industrial system of California will be virtually revolutionized within {he de- cade. We send our raw fruit to the East and buy back jams and jellies. We send abroad or destroy at home some of the | mining. | of the boa finest wood in the weorld and buy back cabinet ware and even household furni- ture. Weleave our quarries of fine stones undeveloped and bring finished stonework from abroad. We export leather and wool and import shoes and clothing. We even import meat, eggs and butter in a State where the climate is perfiups better fitted for the waintenance of dairies, poultry farms and the raising of cattle than any other in the Union if not in the world. In these and in a hundred other ways we waste our snbstance while leaving our resources undeveloped and our energies unemployed. It is time to change this condition of affairs. We must hear in mind that the principle underlying the great cause of protection is that of pro- moting home industry, and while we give preference in our markets to American goods over foreign goods by law we ought to give preference in California to the prod- ucts of California industry by the exer- cise of popular sentiment and individual will, THE STATE CAPITOL. The biennial report of the Secretary of State of California, which has just been issued for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1896, recalls attention once more to the bad condition of the State Capitol and recommends several improvements which he urges will not only better tne building in many ways, but tend to econ- omy in its management and maintenance. The Secretary says: “The building, for the health of its inmates, should be ven- tilated, because when it was erected venti- lation was entirely ignored. The base- ment is never free from the foulest air and many parts therein are as far from light as Egyptian darkness.” There isno fire protection in the upper stories, and it is said in the report: “If a fire should start above the thira floor of the building and gain ordinary headway, the entire building would be destroyed.” In addition to recommendations for im- proved ventilation, fire protection and plumbing, the Secretary points ont several means for maintaining the building with greater economy than under the present system. By the expenditure of a few hundred dollars for two electric motors, with attachments and pumps, it is claimed that the elevator and pumps could be run by - electricity and a saving made to the State of at least $2000 annually. The State now pays $500 for water used in tne building and $12,000 for water for irrigating purposes. The Secretary thinks that for $500 a well could be sunk which would furnish all the water needed for the building and grounds, The quantity of fuel now used to heat the offices and rooms by grates entails a large cost, and it is believed the expense could be largely reduced by substituting heaters. The Secretary asserts: *With eleetric motors in place, 1 will be able to save the State in light and fuel within the building more than $4000 a year. The sum is cer- tainly worth the saving and the plans sug- gested for the economy are all the more worthy of consideration, since they promise not only less expense, but greater degree of sccurity for the building and comfort for its inmates.” Members-elect of the Legislature shounld read the report with care and go to Sacra- mento with some knowledge of the prob- lem of the State Capitol, which will con- front them there. The building has long been asubject of complaint, and something should be done to make it a fit Capitol of such a commonwealth as California. TRE MINING INDUSTRY. The convention of the California Miners’ Association, which assembles in this City to-morrow, will be the first great indus- trial assembly in the State under the new conditions produced by the election of McKinley. The proceedings of the con- vention will therefore be followed by the public with more than ordinary interest, and it is safe to predict the attention given will not go unrewarded. The outlook for no industry in the Union is brighter than that for California Every feature of the situation is encouraging. The demand for gold, al- ready great, will be increased by the ex- pansion of all forms of trade in the new era of prosperity; improvea scientific pro- cesses and new mechanismsenable miners to work with profit ores that were unprofit- able before; men of capital and enter- prise in the great centers of wealth are turning their thoughts to California as the land where gold mining under the new conditions promises the best results, and as a consequence, the gold-yielding coun- ties of the State have the prospect of a cowming prosperity borne forward by the triple force of increased demand, im- proved methods and enlarged capital. The impulse of improvement has been already felt, and every mining county in the State will have good reports to make of work accomplished or undertaken. The convention will include many notable men and in its entirety will traly repre- sent the energy and confidence of the State in the coming of better times. San Francisco will extend to them a most cor- dial welcome and will heartily co-operata with them in all they devise for the ad- vancement of their golden indusiry and the welfare of California. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The improved naval ordnance of Great Britain 1s exemplified in the 12-inch wire- wound breechloading rifles, which weigh only forty-six tons and yet have the same penetrat- ing power as the 17-inch guns, weighing 110 tons, on the Sanspareil and Benbow. The new guns are being placed on the ships of the'Ma- jestic and Cmsar class. o Messrs. Yarrow & Co., the well-known tor- pedo-bort busiders on the Thames, are about to establish & branch yard in Germany, and it is their intention to gradually transfer their business in England to the proposed new works, chiefly on account of the cheaper labor in Germany. The French naval programme for the next fiscal year has been proposed;by the Govern- ment and aprroved by the budget Ministry. It provides for one armored battle-ship of 11,270 tons, 28500-horsepower, iriple screws and a speed of 23 knots; one protected cruiser; two coast-defense cruisers of 5500 ton: 17100-horsepower and 23 knots speed. Ore third-class cruiser of avout 2100 tons, one gunboat, one torpedo-boat destroyer and two first-class torpedo-boats are likewise provided for, and while the number of yesseis to be built is but small it is to be noted that in the pro- Boued tripie-screw battle-ship of knots rance will have by all odds the most superior fighting ship existing in any o The Diadem, sheathed cruiser of 11,000 tons displacement, was launched from the stocks of the Fairfield yard on October 21, which was %:4 days after her keel was laid. This is the t record of ship-building for the British navy. The French Superior School, instituted a few months ago on three cruisers in the Med- iterranean, has been abandoned, and a school will be opened in Paris for lieutenants of the navy desirous of becoming proficient in spe- cial branches connected with naval war! The school will be presided over by an ad- miral and wiil have a large corps of specialists s teachers. The Talbot on her trip across the Atlantic from England to Halifax had a narrow escape from going down on October 3 during a hurri- cane. Her spars came down and the captain narrowly escaped being killed. The sheet anchor was lifted bodily from its place and shifted over on the turtie-back deck. Several ts were smashed in the davits and serious leaks developed under the gun plat- forms. The Powerful, British cruiser of 14,000 tons and 25,000 horsepower, has not yet concludea her trials. The eight hours’ full power trial on October 21 had to come to & close after two hours’ trial owing to an eccentric n;;y break- ing and a gauge pipe purstin e mean horsepower dev%loged during the two hours was 24,700. During the prior thirty hours coal consumption trgll atsea the horsepower developed was 18,433, with 103 revolutions, and the coal cxpended, as taken from actua weight, was at the rate of 1838 pounds per horsepower per hour. The Swordfish, torpedo-boat destroyer re- cently completed for the British nayy, made a speed on her lrhls”ql 21141‘2“ knots, :Lth‘ 203 pounds of steam, Tevol horsepower. The contractcalled for 27 knots on 44 horsepower. A PERSONAL. E. H. Becker of Selma is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H. W. Crabb, a winemaker of Oakville, is at the Grand. C. E. Metzger, & hat man of New York, is at the Baldwin, L. N. Breed, & banker of Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. S 8. Alexander, a merchant of Arroyo Grande, 1s at the Grand. George. B. Graham, a Fresno Judge, is visit- ing at the Grand. A. D.Smith, a rancher of Fresno, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. ¥ . F. M. Adams 15 down from Angels Camp an is staying at the Russ. M. Goldwater, & merchsnt of San Lucas, is registered at the Baldwin. M. P. Stein, a Stockton grain merchant, isat the Baldwin with his wife. Ben Reynolds, a business man of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Della Fox and party will arrive at the Bald- win this morning from the East. Paul R, Ruben, a Fresno merchant, is among the latest arrivals at the Baidwin. E. F. Bouton, a business man of Noyo, is among those registered at the Russ. €. F. Robertson, a lumberman of Eureka, i3 one of the late arrivals at the Grand. Rev. Thomas F. Delaney, a Catholic priest of New Orleans, is a guest at the Baldwin. William G. Blatt, a shoe manufacturer of De- troit, Mich., is registered at the Palace. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite House, Stockton, is a guest at the Palace. R. H. Dragstreno, a Catholic priest from Illinois, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday. A. Showers, 8 Visalia farmer interested in mercantile business, is a guest at the Rus: J. A. Northway, who keeps a hotel at Vir- ginia City, registered at the Grand yesterday. Ernest Graves, a San Luis Obispo attorney, is at the Baldwin, having come up to argue a case in court to-day. C. C. Crow, a land-owner and cattle-rancher of Crows Landing, Stanislaus County, is one of the latest arrivals at the California. F. Temple Lynch, a mining man of Central America, returned to the Occidental yesterday from Eureka, accompanied by his bride. L. P. Lowe of Pasadens, who owns a hotel there and is largely interested in the Echo Mountain Scenic Railway near that place, is a guest at the California. Thomas Lloyd of London, editor of the Lon- don Statist, & financial paper, returned from Del Monte yesterday with his wife and daugh- ter, and is registered at the Palace, Corinne and eighteen of her company ar- rived at the Baldwin yesterday from Denver, Colo., preparatory to beginuing the engage- ment to-night at the Columbia Theater. D. J. McFall and H. Pengeily of Nevada City, R. C. Boggs of Newcastle, W, N. Husband ot Kelsey and Thomas Clark of Placervilie, delegates to the miners’ conventiou, are at the Grand. H. E. Picket, J. F. Lang, Edward Bind and “EXAMINER” METHODS. “No Caricature Tvo Coarse, No Castoon Too Indecent.” San Francisco Argonant, Nov. 9. Among the many gratifying things in this election, not the least is the utter dis- comfiture of the kind of journalism prac- ticed by the New York Journal and San Francisco Ezaminer. From the very be- ginning of the campaign, the methods of those two papers have been inde ensible. There was no party slander too mean, no campaign calumny too vile for them to publish. There was no caricature too coarse, no cartoon too indecent for them to print. Their attacks on McKinley, Hanna, Reed and other leading Republi- cans have been so vicious and so vile that they have made even Democrats ashamed. That they have been a power in the recent campaign cannot be denied—but it was a power that worked the reverse way. They made thousands of votes for the Republi- cans by their ruffianly methods. San Francisco generally goes. Democratic, but uader the influence of the Eraminer she went for McKinley. Mr. Hearst came out of the West to regenerate New York and instill into her pure Democracy and free silverism. New York always goes sweep- ingly Democratic, but under the influence of Mr. Hearst’s Democratic teachings anda new journalistic methods, she went sweepingly Republican. If Mr. Hearst wants to be a power in journalism, we ad- vise him to change his methods. BACKING UP ADVERTISE- MENTS. Why Three-Tenths of the Advertising Fails. Business men as & rule expect too much of their advertising. Advertising by itself does not sell goods. It is simply the connecting link between buyer and seller. When it has brought the customer to the door its work is done. If the prospective buyer is not well looked after when he reaches the store the ad- vertising will show loss. There is no factor more important in trade than the salesman. A careless, ten-dollar-a- week salesman can kill the effect of thousands of dollars’ worth of the very best advertising. Iknow of half a dozen stores in this City who are continually advertising “tremendous bargains,” “genuine value etc. When a customer inquires for any of the articles ad- ed the clerk will first make a determined effort to sell something higher-priced. If per- sistently urged he will finally show the arti- cles, but with a remark that the goods are of & very poor quality, would not suit the pur- chaser, etc. Should the customer insist upon purchasing the cheap article, the disgust of the clerk is spparent, and the buyer is made to feel that it was something to be ashamed of to desire to purchase any thing cheap. * Notlong since I was in a store watching the Pprogress of a speciai sale. Piled upon a coun- ter near the door were & number of articles of wearing apperel, slighdy damaged, which had been that day advertised. A prospective buyer Who had been attracted by the advertising came in and stood looking over the articles for some moments, then stepping over to the floor- walker, he asked if they had any similar arti cles not damaged at about the same price. The question, & perfectly civil and reasonable one, was received as though it conveyed a deadly insult, and the flippant answer, “Of course not; do you want the earth?” was hardly sat- isfactory to the would-be customer, and of course he turned away never to return. Iknow a man who went into a shoestore in this city last week, where three clerks were “busy” (?) telliug junny stories in the rear. After waiting for five minutes, one of the clerks came forward and asked if anything was wanted. While the “trying on” process wes in progress, 4 friend of the clerk’s came in and the customer was left to his own reflec- tions for another five minutes, while social topics were discussed by the “iriends.” This man told me that no amount of advertising would ever induce him to trade in that store ag These are not isolated instances; dozens of similar cases could be named. D. W. C. Morgan, mining men of Placerville, arrived at the Lick last night to be in reas ness for the miners’ annual convention that opens to-morrow iorencon at Odd Fellows' Hall. W.T. Reid, principal of Belmont School and ex-president of the University of California, returned yesterdsy from the University of Nevada, where he accompanied the Belmont School football team that met and defeated the Nevada University team last Saturday by a score of 70t00. He is at the Occidental with the football player: One player re- turned with his arm in a sling and a dis- located shoulder, but he was on tbe victorious side and didn’t complain. n. We read many advertisements which invite us in beautiful language to *‘come in and look around without thought .of buying.” Weil, BOw, you try that in San Francisco, and I wiil guarantee that in the majority of eases if you say you are “just looking 'round,” you will be treated like an interloper and made to feel like one: and should your examination of goods cause you to ask for information or as- sistance you will be made to feel “welcome ana at home” by attention so grudgingly be- stowed that it borders on insult, to state it mildiy. And this is not an exaggerated state- ment, but a cold, bare fact, Another point which militates greatly against successful advertising is the, gener- ally, absolute indifference of clerks to the sub- stance of the firm’s advertisements. Suppose an advertisement brings a reader to the store; he asks a pertinent question about the articie advertised. Should the salesman not be quick and decisive with his answer, but hesitate or possinly go to another salesman for heip, he immediately creates & suspicion in the mind of the would-be buyer that the promises of the advertisement are not to be carried out. Salesmen should be constantly in touch with the advertising of the firm they represent. Nor are these drawbacks the only features that adveriising is looked to to overcome. 1 am frequently asked by businesy men why re- tail advertising in San Francisco is not pro- ductive of as quick returns as in other cities. I believe we have not far to go to find the rea- son. We are simply suffering from an over- dose of “faking.” Time was, and not very long ago, when the exiravagant expressions ‘‘cost,” “below cos: “half price,”” etc., were the key to crowded houses. Then the advertising was strictly carried oat in the store. But unscrupulous people took advantage of their neighbors’ suc- cess and as soou as business was dull made haste to put a “sale” ad in the paper and a “sale” sign over the door, then satdown in their offices to watch the “suckers” come in. The prices in the store were not changed, ana in many instances even the window prices were left the same. Prices are published to-day with values at- tachea that would have astonished us several years ago. Now they create scarcely any com- ment. People have learned from Bitter experi- ence that something cannot be given, and is not given, for nothing. The consequence is that faith in all advertising has been shaken. The-legitimate merchants are suffering with the “fakers.” If people do not believe adver- tisements they will not answer them. The remedy, I think, is t6 cut loose from tremendous adjectives, come down to ordinary every-day language and to teil absolutely nothing but the truth. That famous Abe Lin- coln-ism is as true to-day &s the day it was uttered—*‘No success can be lasting that is not established on a solid basis.” AN AUiIUMN NIGHT. Some things are good on autumn nights, When with the storm the forest fights, And in the room the heaped hearth lights Old-fashioned press and rafter; Plump chesinuts hiss ng in the heat, A mug of cider, sharp and sweet, And at your side a fa etite With lips of laughter. Upon the roof the rolling rain, And tapping at the window pane, The wind, that seems a witch’s cane That summons spells tozether; A hand within your own & while, A mouth refleciing back your smile, ‘And eyes, two s ars, whose beams exile All thoughts of weather. And while the wind lulls. still to sit And watch her fire-iic needles flit A-knitting, and to feel her Kuit Your very neartstrings in it: ‘Then, when the old clock ticks "tis 1'0 rise, and at the coor to walt ‘Three words, or at the garden gate A kissing minue. MAapisoN CAWEIN. in the Century. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Your hair is getting rather gray, sir.” “Ishould think it would; aren’t you nearly finished?"’—New York Truth. Appreciated—“Wasn't that dinner we just had great?” “Elegant! Idon't know when I have felt so uncomfortable.”—Brooklyn Life. ““What a flatterer you are to tell her she s French without the least accent.” hy, of course, dear—without the least French accent.”—New York Trjtth. Drummer—Is there any place where I can hang up here? Wild-Eyed Willie — Whadger want? Pawn- broker or th' wigilint committee ?—Town Top- ics. Sageman—That waiter's hand always re. minds me of a racehorse shortly after the be- ginning or a race. Seeker—And for what reascn, pray? Sageman—Because it's on the quarterstretch. Boston Courier. An Expert Cyclist—Sriter has been learning to ride a bicycle; he bought on the installment plan. ‘How is he getting on?"” First-rate. The company hasn’t been able to catch him.”—Spare Moments. “Where are you working, Mary " ‘Ain’t workin’ nowheres. I am in business for myself. Igot a couple dozen ladies that pays me & quarter a week to come around and ask’em for a place, and it makes the hired girl they got mad and she won’t leave.”—Cin- cinnati Enquairer. Music Teacher (to pupil with a somewhat un- educated mother)—Pause here. Mrs. Suddenwealth (the mother)—Mary, get your hat immejitly. Iain’t payin’to have no CLEMENT WILDER, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Itis said that during the last thirty-three years the Prince of Wales has spent $5,000,- 000,000. And yet they say he is restless and unsatistied, Lieutenant Dan Godirey, the bandmaster of the British Grenadier Guards, though he will soon reach the age of retirement, 65 years, is o be retained in his place. The Scribners are to bring out a complete edition of Kiplineg’s stories and poems, illus- trated by the author’s father. There will be eleven volumes in tbe authorized edition. woman learn my darter who hain’t got no ‘better bringin’-up than to call hands pawsl— Texas Siftings. 3 “Why did I try to steal the sacred fire?” repeated Prometheus, sadly. “If you'd ever lived in a flathouse with s janitor and steam heat. ¢ Y Once again did the hoary hand of the past grasp the hand of the preseut across the abyss of eons.—New York Press. The tall man with the literary stoop in his shoulders broke the silence. ‘The average native of Porto Rico,” he be- gan, “Is so large that he will fill a good-sized hogshead.” + A loud protest went up from the loungers in front of the postoffice. The tail man cleared his throat again, 3 ““I ought to add,” he said, in a softened tone, “that he will fill the hogshead with dark brown molasses.” 5 Whereupon, the hour for dinner having ar- rived, the house adjourned until ‘2 M. with- out ceremony.—New York World, The Prince of Monaco recently announced to the Paris Academy of Science that last month he discovered a bank fifiy-five kilometers long, and situated ninety kilometers south of the Azores Archipelago. He named the bank after Princess Alice. \ Senator George Gray of Delaware resigns {rom the Democratic ticket as a candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention to be held in that Siate, partly because the Sen- ate Will probably be in session while the con. vention is being held, and partly because of the condition of his health. Sir Edmund Monson, the new British Em- bassador to France, and Sir Horace Rumbold, who takes his place at Vienna, both served an prenticeship at Washington. The latter was attache to the embassy from 1849 to 1852, while the former weas private secretary to Lord Lyons from 1858 to 1863. Not long ago the Pope received the Marquis de Stacpoole at a private audience. On hear- ing that the late Marquis de Stacpoole was only 67 at the time of his death Leo ex- claimed: “Only 67! How young! I am 86, you know, and Idon’t think there is any reason why Ishould not live to be 96.” Before Du Maurier’s fatal iliness the Harpers sent to him a copy of Astronomer Percival Lowell’s series of papers on the physical as- pects of Mars. Du Maurier wrote 1in reply that he had used his own romantic notions con- cerning that planet in “The Martian,” and that the physical features of Mars were dis- creetly left to the reader’s imagination. A plunge of eighty feet eight and one-half inches was made in one minute thirty-eight Seconds in the contest for the English plung- ing championship by Mr. W. Allason. This beats the record by over five feet. There is a time limit of one minute, however, in the championship competition, which Mr. Allason won, his plunge of seventy-three feet four inches in that time being also a record. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS TENNYSON—A. 8., City. Lord Tennyson, poet laureate, died on the 6th of October, 1892. EvucHRE—D. O'D'S., Oskland, Cal. The rule for scoring in euchre is that if alone hand wins all five tricks he scores four. If he wins three tricks he scores one, but if he fatls to wip three tricks the adversary scores two. GoLD 1N 1895—C. J. P., City. The amount of gold produced in the United States during 1895 was valued at $46,610,000. The amount of gold coined in the United States for the fis- 29‘5"'" ending June 30, 1895, was $49,933,. CHINESE IN THE NAvy—Curiosity, City, Cal. Chinese cooks and servants have been em- ployed on many vessels of the United States navy. Those who have charge of the matter of emvloying such ought to have sufficient Fatriollum 10 give such employment to Amer- can citizen's. BREWERS’ MARKs—W. W., City. The mark X on barrels of beer is the method of imitating the original Latin names for the varying de- grees of strength: Simplex—Which is single X or X.. Duplex—Which is double X or XX. Triplex—Which is triple X or XXX. A BILL OF SALE—A. F., City. If a person pur- chases a place of business he is not required to have the bill of sale recorded at the Recorder’s office, but he can do so for his own security in case of loss of the original. The fact that such a bill is not recorded does not bina the pur- Chaser to pay the debts contracted by the former owner of the business. AMOUNT OF LEGAL TENDER—H. D., City. A merchant canuot refuse to accept standard dollars to any amount in payment of a bill of 80ods sold, unless at the time ot the sale he stipulated ‘that -the payment should be made in gold. In this country a merchant is not re- quired to receive coppers in payment of a bill when the amount ‘tendered exceeds 25 cents. LITHOGRAPHY—S. P. 5., Winters, Yolo County, Cal. There are several lithographic establish- ments in the City of Sen Francisco, but this department wiil not advertise them. Had this correspondent signed his name, instead of only his initials, he would have received an swer by mail, but he, like others who are airaid to sign their names to letters of inquiry, must not feel disappointed if the information asked for is not furnished. Docks—H. P. W., Seattle, Wash. The dry- dock at Hunters Point, fan Francisco; will admit vessels of 22}¢ feet draught. The Mer- chants’ drydock (floating) will receive vessels that have a draught of sixteen feet; the dock at the Union Iron Works will receive vessels of seventeen feet draught. There is no dry- dock at the Fulton lIron Works. The omly other floating dock in the bay bf San Fran- cisco besides the Merchants’ is the oneat the Union Iron Works. CasINO—O. 8. H., Nevada City, Cal. The Tule in casing is that a player cannot puild from the table. For instance: If & seven and two are upon the table and & player puts an ace upon them calling it eight, his opponent cannot employ another two upon the table 10 build it up to ten. If A and C are partners and A plays a card and makes & build oi four- teen, b his 0poonent plays a six, C, whois A’s partner, cannot take that six and place it on an eight on the table and call 1t fourteen. EL DOrRADO—Questioner, Ignacio, Marin County, Cal. El Dorado (Spanish) has been ap- plied to man and place. It has been inter- preted to mean “the golden city.” Milton in aradise Lost” says: Guiana, whose great city Greyson's sons Call “E1 Dorado.” The Muysca Indians of Bogota called each new chief an “Ei Dorado.” It was customary among those people atthe time of the explora- tious in the sixteenth century for each new chief, with his naked body anointed with res- inous gums and covered with gold dust, to head a solemn proeession to the Lake of Go- vita and to wash himself therein after much impressive ceremony. At the same time the assembled savages cast into the lake gold trinkets and precious stones, as offerings to the goddess of the lake, the drowned wife of & former chieftain. The Spaniards applied the name to any place that wes supposed to be fabulously rich in gold, and they searched at various times for an El Dorado in South Amer- ica, Mexico and Florida in the United Siates. MoONEY—E. G. 8, Livermore, Cal. A check is & written order for money drawn on & bank or private banker or bank cashier, payableto a person named or to his order or to bearer. In legal effect it is a bill of exchange. A certified check is one that has been recognized by a competent officer of & bank as a valid appro- priation of the amount of mouey specified therein to the payee and bearing the evidence of such recognition, Notes issued by a Gov- ernment are recognized as money. Walker, in his work on ‘Political Economy,” says: “Money is the medium of .ex- change. ~Whatever performs this func- tion or does this work, is money, no matter ‘what it is made of, and no matter how it came to be a medium at first, or why it continued to be such.” In another work, “Money, Trade and Industry,” Walker says thal mouney “is that which passes freely from hand to hand throughout the community in final discharge of debts and full payment for commodities, being accepted withont reference to the character or credit of the person who offers it and without the intention of the !)e!.lon who receives it to consume it or enjoy it or apply it to any other use than ir turn to tender it to othersin dis- charge of debts or payment for commodities.” The check of a private individual is an order for money. When it is thatof an individual known to have a credit or balatice at a solvent bank and is used in payment of debts or the purchase of commodities it is money. A check not honored by payment is not money. LADY'S SEVEN-GORED SKIRT. The slight change in skirts consists of a nar- rowing of the front gore, and a decided mass- ing of the fullness iu back folds, the sides beine very smeoth at top, but flaring well, as they have for some time past. The one shown here has a front gore, one side gore and four back gores,which are laid I il T ) N (il S ) ,r«\t_\(v (0 making in all seven gores. § Plain skirts still predominate, though trim. ming is undoubtediy used. Braiding at the sides of front breadth, or set crosswise at the foot of the front breadth, ex- tending up the seams, 1= more used than any other style, but bands of braid around entire are used, as well as ing in pointed designs taping toward the top, at every seam. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Rev. 8. F. Moore, a Presbyterian missionary in Korea during the last four years, is at the Occidental Hotel with his wife and two sfaall cnildren, en route for his old home in Chicag0;’ having arrived here Saturday nighton the Ri from the Orient. “The work of the Christian missionaries In Korea is very encouraging,” said he yesterday. “The Chino-Japan war has proved a help rather than & hindrance to the spread of Christianity. The Korean Govern- ment has passed some laws doing away with the worship of idols, and has caused the de- struction ot certaiu wayside places of wor- ship—piles of stones and other monuments— where the natives were wont to observe their heathen rites, and where sorcerers prayed. Fe- male sorcerers have been forbidden to con- tinue business. The King isa progressiveman, and missionaries are permitted to preach all over the country. Little congregations are springing up here and there right along, but there is still a great deal of heathenism left. More advarce has been made in the last two years than in all the time preceding, for Protestant missionaries have been in that country but twelye years. The Roman Catno- lics have been established there 100 years, and they claim 80,000 converts. The Koreans are perhaps more intelligent and receptive than the Chinese, but aucestral worship is supreme with them, and that is why it 1s difficult to wean them from idolatry. They believe that the man who will not sacrifice for an ancestor has lost his reason, and they assert that the Korean who embraces Christianity has done 50 because of some drug administered by the missionaries, causing him to become insane.” Rev. Mr. Moore will return to Korea in a few months to resume his work. ONE WEEK OF PRAYER. Every Y. M. C. A. in the World Observ- ing These Seven Days. All over the world wherever there is a Y. M. C. A. this week is known and ob- served as a week of prayer in accordance with a custom established justthirty years ago and followed every year since then. Yesterday afternoon the local association began the seven days of prayerfulness by assembling in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium to listen to a% address by the Rev. Dr, Marshal of Chicago, field secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Preshy- terian Church, and to music by the Moody quartet. Every night this week the young men will meetin the Association hall, corner of Ellis and Mason streets, at 8 o’clock and devote the evening to prayer. To-night and to-morrow night the Moody quartet will be with them to furnish additional music. All the churches in the City will also unite with the Christian young men in this week of prayer. During a long discourse, made up of reminiscences of noted foreign mission- aries and their work, Dr. Marshal held the interest of a large audience. He was for- merly a well-to-do clergyman and made a tour of the world, inspecting foreign mis- sions at his own expense. He returned to this country greatly impressed by what he had seen and determined to devote his en- tire attention to that particular field of Christian work. Since then he has trav- eled extensively in his official capacity and is now here, lecturing in the different Presbyterian churches to raise funds. He said yesterday that the first Chris- tian missionary went to China in 1807, and after twenty-seven years of constant labor, aided by other missionaries, it was estimated that there were then six Chris- tians in_China, so slow was the work of converting a people steeped in idolatry and the traditions of their ancestors. There are now 70,000 baptized Chineso Christians, several hundred ordained Chi- nese ministers of the gospel of Christ and an ever increasing corps of Christian teachers, an ever expanding system of Christian schoois where young Chinese are being educated. e TOWNSEND's famous broken candy, 21bs25c.” —— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. POl Mrs. Farmer Jones—Does th’ new hand know all about milkin’, Silas ? Farmer Jones—Pretty much; he used ter work in a pump factory.—Judge. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicaga. The Atlantic and Pacific Rallroad, Santa @y route, will continue to run aally through from Oskland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also vpholstered tourlst sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates o all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico o Europe. Excursions through Boston leava every week. 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