The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1896, Page 20

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1896 NDAY ....ooveunnnnnnns .NOVEMBER 15, 1896 —=3 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one yesr, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Bunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sundsy CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WxEELY CaLy, one year, by mall 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, : San Francisco, California. Telephone. ....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. vevese Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untl :30 o'clock. 539 Hayes street; open nntil 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:80 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; otil 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon atreet; open until 9 o'clock. 114 Ninth street; open untll 8 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. opes THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. = Good prospects all round. The week has been a lively one. Chrysanthemum shows are coming in. Read the papers of the Chit Chat Club. The shooting stars shoot some other eve. We wani pusiness, but no booms this time. There must be a Secretary of Mines and Mining. Make your home a market for home goods this week. The miner, as well as the farmer, should have a place in the Cabinet. Qur west is beyond the seas, and it is by ships we must seek our golden markets. Perhaps the meteors decided it would not be proper to fall when everything else is rising. . There is just one fine art in the country that never fails to pay, and thatis the art of advertising. The Monroe doctrine does not reach the Cuban case yet, but if it ever expands it will be in that direction. The maritime control of the Pacific will be in our hands, provided our hands are not idle during the next few years. There 1s a prospect for an early comple- tion of the coast road, and then the tourists will see sights to brag about. One of the humors of the situation is the clamor of the free-trade pressthat a reform of the defizit mrifl would disturb business. While we are preparing for protection to the industries of the State let us not forget to prepare also for the expansion of commerce. If the Greater West firmly resolyes that the mining industry shall be represented in the Cabinet the rest of the country will agree to it. Opportunities for making good invest- ments in California were never better than now. This is a young State yet and growing fast. Mrs. Bryan is said to have found conso- Jation in the fact that every State where women are allowed to vote gavea majority for her husband. There is one thing we may count on from Altgeld. If he ever makes up his mind fully that his defeat was a crime he wiil be sure to pardon it. A perfect system of taxation we can hardly hope for, but the Assessors’ con- vention ought easily to devise some im- provement on the present one. Senator Quay predicts “we shall have a new tariff within eight months after Me- Kinley’s inauguration” and the prediction will be received as glad tidings. Conservative Democratic journals in the East are complaining that while their party was very sick from free silver it isin still more danger from the doctors who are trying to cure it. 1f you feel like writing a letter to Mc- Kinley go takea walk in the park and wear the feeling off. it is reported from Canton that he is receiving more than a thousand letters a day. —_— Voices of discontent are either becom- ing silent or else are lost in the increasing bum of business. Certain it is we no longer hear them as Joudly as we did at this season during the last three years. These fellows who are guessing that McKinley will give a Cabinet position to some sound-money Democrat in recogni- ' tion of their support during the campaign had better hasten to guessagain before the fool-killer comes around. Eastern fashion journals describe the latest feminine adornment as “‘pneumatic hair.” It consists of a rubber air cushion covered with bair, which, when placea on the head, gives the wearer the appearance of possessing a mass of tresses, and thus may lovely woman be said to be pnen- matically tired. Massachusetts is enjoying a young man who on being sent to prison for embezzle- ment studied with such diligence as to make himself master of the French, Ger- man, Spanish and Italian languages and read law with so much success that on his recent release from prison he at once ap- plied for admission to the Boston bar. An enterprising man has recently estab- lished in New York a winter garden fash- ioned after the Parisian style and adorned with casts of statues of beauty, but fearing the police would object to too much art in a popular resort he ciothed the statues on the opening night with corsets, skirts and silk-stockings, thereby achieving a ten- strike that knocked the town silly. The vprospect of an early completion of the coast road emphasizes the need of an immediate improvement of Third street. A large proportion of visitors to the City from the East will come by that road, and we ought to arrange for their entrance into the City from the depot by a grand avenue and not bring them in over a dilapidated cobblestone highway of torture, A SEORETARY OF MINES. RESOLVED, That the California Miners’ Association strongly and ur- gently desires the appointment of a Cebinet officer to be known as the Sec- retary of Mines and Mining. The desire expressed in this resolution cannot be attained without hard work. There js needed a resolution to succeed, as well as one of desire. That, in turn, must be a resolution of will as well as of form. It should be the resolve not merely of the Miners’ Association, but of all the Greatck West. It should be, more- over, a firm, fixed and determined re- solve. Let us make it so. At the present time the affairs of the mining industry of the United States are scattered about among various bureaus of the Department of the Interior. No offi- cial, not even a subordinate onhe, is re- sponsible for their advancement, or even their right management. The Commis- sioner of Public Lands supervises some part of the work, the Burean of Miner- alogy another and the Geological Survey a third. Thus tbe industry is nowhere treated as a whole, and the inevitable re- sult is confusion and, in many cases, in- justice. The necessity for a better supervision of the industry is made evident by the re- peated memorials to Congress from the miners stating specifically the evils from which they suffer under existing condi- tions, and aiso by the difficulty they ex- perience in obtaining even the most ele- mentary and necessary legislation to secure their rights and advance their in- terests. The magnitude of the industry is in itself sufficient to justify the establish- ment of a separate department in the Na- tional Government for its management. Mining-not less than agriculture should have its representative in the Cabinet. It is an industry carried on in all sections of the Union from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Coast. In the fullest sense itisa great National industry and should have National recognition. There is, however, something more than the extent of the industry to be consid- ered. It isone whose successful operation involves great expense. It is conducted under an infinile variety of conditions and in many instances in keen competi- tion with the rest of the world. It is, moreover, a thoroughly scientific industry, and the American miner must be kept posted on all newly discovered processes if he is to accomplish the best resuits in his work. The subject is not one that calls for argument at this time. The campaign of education in regard to it will come in due season later on. The people of the great mining States understand already the im- portance of the object aimed at. The first thing to be done is to rouse in them a deter- mination to attain it. Itis to that end we direct our efforts this morning. THE CALL promises to the miners in this contest all the assistance which 1ts presses, its circulation and its influence can give. ‘Whatever can be done by calling public at- tention totheissueand concentrating popu- lar sentiment into a resolute determination we willdo. The mining industry has too long been neglected by the Government. It has grown too great to be left to subor- dinate officials in different bureaus. The work of the Interior Department has be- come too large and too diverse for a single Becretary to give proper attention to all the needs of its various sections. It will benefit the whole country to take mines and mining out of that overloaded depart- ment and make it a department of itsell. That is the reform to work for. Let us rally all the Greater West to unite with us in the task and go forward and win. A NEW (HARTER. The ascertainment of the fact that it would be impossible to provide for, pre- pare, vote upon and submit a new charter to the next Legislature for its approval will probably allay a somewhat too feverish anxiety on the part of some over the holdin} of anotlher charter election in the immediate future. In fact, apart from the legal obstacles in the way, it would be somewhat unwise on the part of those who believe that San Francisco should have a new orzanic law to resubmit the issue so soon after its de- feat. > J There is a wiser course to pursue and one for which there is ample time vrior to the Legislative session of two years hence. That course is the careful preparation by a board of freeholders, the eminence of whose members shall place it above re- proach, of a charter which shall omit not only the objectionable features which caused the defeat of its immediate prede- cessor, but also those obje€tions which have deleated the several former charters for the past sixteen years. 1t cannot be doubted that there is a well- defined conviction in tke minds of many of the most honest and intelligent peopie of San Francisco that a new charteris a The cumbersome ard involved condition of ite present organic law has largely pro- duced this conviction. It cannot be ques- tioned that a city can be more easily and economically governed under a law which is compact, clear and complete in a single document than under one as much scat- tered and as little systemized asisour present organic law. A deference to this sentiment will certainly lead to the adop- tion of a new charter for 8an Francisco at no distant day, and it is more than proba- ble that if the next proposed charter is carefully prepared with an especial view to the avoidance of objections which have proven fatal to past ones, it will be adopted by our people. Its preparation, however, should not be entrusted to mere theorists or idealists upon the subject of city government. Neither should the work of its formation be hastily entered upon or prosecuted while a fever of par- tisan politics is abroad in the land. In short, the work of charter-making should not be undertaken with any view of party advantage nor with the idea of either keeping in or turning out of office any particular man or set of men. it would furthermore be wiser to wait unti! the Legisiature has adjournea before actually entering upon the work, in order that its provisions may in nowise conflict with prospective laws. These considerations in favor of a wise delay of the actual task of {framing a new charter in nowise militate against the advisability of present and continued dis- cussion as to what it should contain. The suggested meetings for the purposs of charter discussion shounld be encouraged, and when such meetings are beld they A should be largely atiended by those of our citizens to whom we are accustomed and entitled to look for wise and practical sug- gestions along the line of good govern- ment. From such preliminary considera- tion of the subject a double benefit is bound to come, in that those who shall finally be selected to prepare the charter will be fully advised as to what it should contain in order to be assured of adoption ; while those who are to pass upon it will be educated in advance concerning the merits of the measure, for the adoption of which they wiil be expected to vote. THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. The events of the past week have fally justified the hopes of those who expected an immediate revival of business to result from the election of McKinley and Ho- bart. Every day has brought news of ad- ditional mills opening their doors to labor, of new enterprises undertaken and of an expansion of trade in every line of industry. The renewal of activity has been greater than even the most sanguine expected. It was believed by many that the recovery from the Cleveland depression would be slow, and that, while public contidence would be restored by the election of Mc- Kinley, the restoration of business activity would be a gradual process ef recupera- tion rather than a sudden awakening into a new life. The splendid showing of the first week following the election is most gratifying to all who know how great is the need of vroviding work for American labor dur- ing the coming winter. It gives reason for believing, as well as hoping, that we will need this year fewer free-soup kitchens than we have bad for several years, because there will be more open mills to provide good wages for the indus- trious. Business is better than charity; work is superior to dependence. How different is the outlook which fol- lows the Republican victory from that which resulted from the election of Cleve- lana! At this season four years ago the fear of the impending crisis was felt in every trade in every section of the Union. To-day a cheerful, hopeful feeling ani- mates every mind, and the realization of better times seems within reach of all. Capital comes forth from its hiding- place, every employer looks with hope to the future, labor sees before it increasing opportunities for work, every home has a promise of new comfort, every com- munity tha prospect of a fuller industrial development, and the whole Nation the assurance of a prosperity even greater than that which rejoiced its people under the administration of Harrison. For California the promise of the week has been more glowing even than for her sister States, The miners’ convention was a manifestation of such hopefulness and energy on the part of the managers of our great mining industry that it infused a new courage into all classes of citizens. We may now look for the beginuing of all forms of public and private enterprises and improvements. Mines will be opened, mills established, railroads constructed, orchards planted, factories started, stores built and homes erected. Propitious omens for every industry and almost for every individual can thus be drawn from the occurrences of the week. It looks now as if the recovery would be like the suaden awakeming in the enchanted palace when Prince Charm- ing laid that kiss upon the lips of the sleeping beauty, which awoke to life, activity and joy all the energies which bad been rendered dormant by the spell of the evil curse. THE OUBAN QUES TION. The near approach of the accession to office of the new administration in this country eives renewed interest to the Cuban question. The people have almost ceased to expect any action concerning this issue from Mr. Cleveland, but as a more vizorous government will follow the inauguration of President McKinley there is reason to exvect something will then be done to put an end to the long protracted war 1n the island. The situation at present is well nigh un- bearable. The people of this country thoroughly symvpathize with the Cubans in their desire for independence, This feeling is fed from a double source. In the first place our people are naturally in- clined to side with those who are strug- gling for independence. A brave war for liberty appeals strongly to the instincts of the American heart, and the Cubans have certainly fought this war with a bravery and endurance which command- the ad- miration of all. The second cause for American sym- pathy with Cuba 1s not less potent than the first. The island of Cuba is a part of the American hemisphere. It ought to share in American independence. If the Spanish Government were conducted in that island only as a matter of form, asis the British Government in Canada, there would be little objection to it on the part of our people. Spain, however, governs Cuba not through the Cubans themselves, but from her own far-off cavital. At best her administration of the affars of the island is the complete domination of a part of the American hemisphere by a European government. At the present time, moreover, the domination amounts to an absolute military despotism, and is accompanied by a degree of cruelty against which the manhood and humanity of the civilized world revolts. An interference in the 4sland by the United States Government wouid hardly result in war. Our military strength so far outstrips that ot Spain as to render any resistance on her part useless. Even in naval strength we are too far her supe- rior for her to engage in a contest with us, A table recently published of the com- parative naval strength of the great na- tions of the earth credits the United States with the power equal to ten, while that of Spain is only about four. We would of course increase our naval strength with rapidity, while Spain could not increase hers at all. - Under these circumstances the country will await with some eagerness to see whether Mr. Cleveland suggests any move in regard to Cuba in his coming message. Not much is expected of him, but the force of the Veneznelan message shows that his SBecretary of Siate, Mr. Olney, is «capable of vigorous action on occasions. If Cleveland does nothing there will be all the more eagerness for the accession of President McKinley. The Cuban war has been protracted too long, and it is time the American Govern- ment should interfere far enough at least to put an end to hostilities and compel a settlement of the long controversy by peaceful means. THE WAYS OF THE AIR. The science of meteorology yields prece- dence only to that of electricity in the progress made in the last quarter of a cen- tury. It hasrapldly become a very useful science in making weather-forecasting a practical success, and is therefore of vast utility to commerce and general indus- tries. The weather prophet had his day in a more credulous age; he was later re- pudiated and langhed into silence; now he has come back to stay and has honor even in his own country. The completeness of our telegraph sys- tem, extending over so great a reach of the earth’s surface, has enabled students of meleorology 10 make such comprenensive observations of the airas to find the uni- form laws which control its movements. Altnough the United States was not the first country to establish a weather service system, our scientists have taken the lead in investigating the nature of storms and making it clear that weather predictions could be made so certain as to be of im- mense practical value. In a recentaddress delivered in Wash- ington, Professor W. L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau, tells some things about the weather and the ways of the airnot generally understood by the public. In fact, his information is in direct contra- diction to what we used ¢ be taught on the subject. The old idea of great currents of airflowing like rivers, or ocean streams, and bringing coolness or cola from their far passage over ice and snow, he says, is incorrect. High and low pressure areas drift across the country from the west eastward at the rate of about 600 miles daily. The high pressures draw down by the peculiar vertical action of their centers the cold air from great altitudes, and this current from far above us spreads out in all directions from the center. The pro- fessor says that, though the air extends for fifty miles up, half its mass lies below the three-mile level. The air above six miles flows continuousty eastward with- out being interrupted by our most severe storms. A storm that reaches half way across the continent horizontally is only four or five miles high. Cyclones and tornadoes are often con- fused in general conception and popular speech, but’ Professor Moore gives their definitions and the distinctions between them. *“The whole disk of whirling air, four or five miles thick and 1500 miles in diameter, is called a cyclone. The tornado is a revolving mass of air of only 500 to 1000 yards in diameter, and is simply an incident of the cyclone. The cyclone may cause moderate or high winds through a vast extent of territory, while the tornado with a rotary motion almost immeas- urable always leaves a trail of death and destruction.” / Another way in which the professor’s learning contradicts a widely diffused no- tion is in the denial that the cutting away or planting of trees, the stretching of electric wires across the country, the lay- ing of great bands of steel rails, has any effect upon climate. He says we might as well try to dam the Mississippi with a vebble as to expect to change, by the feeble efforts of man, the vast forces which control our storms and climate. PERSONAL. P. B. Turnbull of Scotland isAn town. W. F. Wright of San Jose is in the City. M. J. Canning of Portland is in the City. Henry Wagner of Reading, Pa., is in town. C. B. Holmes, & grocer of Napa, is at the Grand. Howard W. Davis of Auburn ison & visit to the city. Martin Winch, a capitalist of Portland, reached here yesterday. J. R. Gilbert of Coulterville arrived here yesterday for a briefstay. James F. Mesgher and Mrs. Meagher of Chicago have arrived here. W. D. Smith, secretary of the Alaska Packing Company, is at the Palace. L. R. Vaace, a business man of Vallejo, was among yesterday's arrivals. J. W. Huartzell, a prominent mining man of Jackson, is on & visit here. Richard C. Lake of Chicago is a recent ar- rival here. Heisat the Palace. 3 P. R. Schmidt, owner of & large vineyard and winery at Calistoga, is in the City. F. de la Borderig of France is in the City. He is interested in California gold mines. T. C. Miller, a merchant of Los Angeles, isin town and located at the Cosmopolitan. W. M. 8mith, a business man of Blaine, Wash., is among the arrivals at the Occiden- tal. F. McMahan of Oakdale, Stanislaus County, accompanied by his family, is at the Cosmo- politan. James Monteith, long connected with the Intermountain of Butte, Mont., is at the Cosmopolitan. H. Seegrout, a large land-owner of Stockton, is in the City for & few days and staying at the Cosmopolitan. John 8. McMillan, who is interested in lum- bering and general merchandising at Ho- quiam, Wash., is in town. Messrs. Price & Sullivan, business men of Quartz Mountain, Tuolumue County, are stopping at the Cosmopolitan. 1 L. Braden, Wells, Fargo & Co.s agent at Portland, Or., is on a flying visit to the City and staying at the Cosmopolitan. James Wilson of Victoria, B, C., a guest at the Cosmopolitan, leaves for home to-morrow with some fine biooded stock purchased in the State. Among the arrivals at the Grand are some prominent mining men, consisting of Ernest Tee and Henry Smith of Arizona and Percival B. Waugh of London. Nat Goodwin, the comedian, and Maxine Elliott of his company, sbout whom there has been much gossip lately, are expected to ar- rive here from Anstralia on the steamer Ala- meda in two or three days. Dr. F. H, Payne of Berkeley, who was so serious injured, is slowly improving. Drs. J. R. Laine, McNutt, Winslow Anderson, Southard, Potter, Rowell, Taylor and East- man held a consultation and find the doctor improving. Aureliano L. Torres of Hua Guamichil Ria Taqui, State of Sonora, Mexico, is at the Bald- win. Mr. Torres isa son of General Torres, commanding the military division of Sonora, and a nephew of Governor Torres of the State of Sonors, formerly Governor of Lower Cali- fornia. He has been visiting Fresno, Sacra- mento and other places. At Fresno he visited many of the leading wineries and vineyards, being shown about by A. B. Butler, the widely known raisin-grower. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 14.—At the St. Cloud, C. V. Meyes; Belvedere, H. M. Whitely; Gilsey, G. H. Holt. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—Among re- centarrivals are: James E. Nevins, Los Ange- les, Shoreham Hotel; Louis Norman, Sacra- mento, Willard’s Hotel; C. H. Pomeroy, San | Francisco, Riggs House. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. W. J. B. to Wm. McK.—Just tell ’em that you samed me.—Springfield Journal. 'Tis better never to have betat all than to have bet ana lost. You bet. Detroit Journal. ‘‘Baggagemen are getting so that they handle trunks very carefully.” they say they have found more fun banging bicycles around.” —Chicago Record. Mts. Dusenberry—It's dreadful-to be disap- pointed in love?"” Mr. Dusenberry—There is something a great deal worse than that. “‘What, for instance?” m;:l‘o be disappointed in marriage.”—Texas er. ““The new boarder,” said the landlady, “isas bald as an egg.” ‘‘Just about the age of one, isn’t he?” asked Asbury Peppers; which was really unkind of him, as the lady made a practice of getting the fl‘ea:ut the storehouse had.—Cincinnati En- quirer, SURE AIM WITH BIG GUNS. EXTRAORDINARY INSTRUMENT INVENTED BY A FRENCR ARTILLERY OFFICER- An extraordinary instrument, called the phonotelemeter watch, has just been invented by Captain Thouvenin of the French artillery. This watch, says the Herald, measures dis- tance by the velocity of sound, and though it ‘was primarily conceived with the idea of se- curing accuracy of aim 1n pointing big guns, it will be invaluable to staff officers for the purpose of measuring distances on maps, very useful to topography, and may render great service to mere tourists, as will be seen from the following details. It1s not easy to judge of distance on land. At sea only the very experienced mariner can estimate with anything gpproaching accuracy, ifit be in any wey considerable, the distance separating his own ves sel from & passing ship or from a given point of land, and the chances are that even he nine times outof ten will be wrong in his cal cutations. By Captain Thouvenin’s invention, however, this element of unce riainty will be done away with in the future, both on land and ses, whether by night or day, and the artillery Phonotelemeter Watch, officer will be able to order the elevation or de- pression of his guns to the correct degree by the indications of the watch, which is so small that 1t can be carried in the waistcoat pocket like an ordinary timepiece. Holding the instrument in his left handjthe officer watches for the flash of the enemy’s rifie_or cannon. Immediately he perceives the light he presses'a screw, which resembles thatof a keyless watch. When he hears the report he presses the screw a second time. In the interval between the two pressures & needle or hand has moved over an arc on the face of the instrument. This face registers fifteen seconds, each second beingdividelinto ten parts. There is, moreover, a small dial on the back, which registers the number of times that the needle has gone round and marks in- stantaneously the minutes and quarter mine utes. Within the circle of seconds is a smaller one, which indicates the distance covered by the sound through the air. The approximate distance at which the weapon was fired is thusseen at a glance. The same thing hap- pens in the case of a flash of lightning which precedes a clap of thunder. The graduation is easily made. The velocity of light s 300,000 kilometers a second. This is the number most neariy concording from astronomical and direct physical methods. During thesame lapse of time sound travels 330 meters, & velocity ofabout a million times less than that of light. The propagation of light is practically instantaneous. With this knowledge, and knowing the time that elapses before the sound is heard, it is easy to calculate the distunce at which the re- port originated. This discovery was mede in 1822, when sev- eral French academicians measured at Ville- juif and Montlhery the time between the mo- ment they perceived the flash of & gun fired | from the opposite fort and the moment the sound of the report reached their ears. Know- ing the distance between the 1wo places— twenty-two kilometers—ihey merely had to de- duct the velocity of the sound. The value of Captain Thouvenin's invention to an army using it in time of war is obvious to any one. Very much must depena in these aays of appallingly destructive long-distance | weapons, a single discharge from which may | wipe a whole regiment out of existence, upon gelting the guns to do effective work quicker than the enemy is able to do. It is conceded that the great wars of the future will be mainly duels between artillery. The phono- telemeter watch will enable commanders of batteries 10 promptly concentrate their fire without having to experiment to find a range, 88 in times past. This enormous advantage might be sufficient 1o decide & battle. In the event of a night attack by infantry the new instrument will enable the defending machine-guns to yomit iheir ceaseless hail of Pprojecti.es upon the exact spot {rom whica the enemy’s rifle-firing begins and to keep the rauge upon the &dvancing regiments, so that every turn of a crank will put many men hors de combat. At _sea, when battleships moving at full speed offer a difficult target to each other, & vessel steaming parallel with another in the same direction and having the distance be- tween them exactly indicated at the outset of the engagement may be able to concentrate her whole broadside with unerring aim and sink the hostile ship before the latter can find the range, or &t least inflict such damage u her as to place her in s position of hopeless inferiority. The phonotelemeter will also be of the ut- most value at the coastguard and lifeboat sta- tions in case of vessels iu distress firiug signal guns for help, and may be the means of saving innumerable lives. The men who work the rocket apparatus frequently fail to judge the distance between them and a ship in distress, and in consequence the line falls short. The inventor of the new instrument for judging distgnces claims that it can gauge distance so closely that the men engaged in saving the lives of wrecked mariners will know just how far to throw the lile line at the first cast. LADY’S C(OSTUME Skirts and waists of different fabrics but of one color are extremeiy stylish. The one shown u}ove ‘was of dark blue, the skirt being of lady’s kcloth, the waist corded of silk of the same color, trimmed with jet laid over white satin. The collar and belt were of black satin, A dress of wool in a mixture of several col- ors, in which tiny dashes of cherry appeared at intervals, had the Bolero effect in cherry colored velvet, bordered with braiding in black soutache braid. A collar and belt of :»l-ck satin were worn with this smart cos ume. The skirt is cut with a circular front and sides and two gores in the back. CURIOUs ELECIiRICAL FIRES, 7 Several fires of very queer origin are de- tailed below from the guarterly reportof the Electrical Bureau of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, all attributed to electricity: A plush curtain in a theater, on being hoisted, came in contact with a thirty-two candle-power incandescent lamp. The com- mon size is sixteen candle-power. The heat from the lamp ignited the curtain, but the fire ".l’l discovered, with no loss except the cur- n. A stage hand was ordered to turn out an in- fnnidmnt lamp, -nd;:ut knowing how to do t, instead of turning the switch he wrapped a damp towel around the lamp, s““p Pflm. l - afterward the towel was discovered smulder- i ng. A portable incandescent lamp wes allowed to remain lighted lying on a mattress. d'x‘ne heat from the lamp ignited the cloth and ex- celsior of the mnm-;ul and the fire spread through basement and store. An electric pressing iron was allowed lg stand with the current turned on. The heate: iron after a time set fire to the table and the flames communieated to the surrounding com- bustible material. . A wagon loaded with gasoline eollided with au electric-car. The wagon was aemolished and the oil flooded the sireet. The accident attracted the attention of a motorman of an- other car, who ran his car up to the scene. Seeing the oil running underhiscar he turned on the current to get away. A spark from the wheel immediately ignited the gasoline fumes and instantly the street was ablaze. Four people were injured, one seriousiy, and one horse was burned to death. Fire occurred in a basement owing to drip- ing water falling on an electrical measuring rnsxmmem, thereby short-circuiting it. No damage was done beyond the loss of thein- strument. Sparks from arc lamps in an apartment store ignited cloaks on a table underneatn. An elevator motor was burned out, having been left running when the employes left the store, the motor brushes being badly adjusted. A carpenter dropped a nut on the coils of & rheostat, short-circuiting them with iron frame resting against a gaspipe. An arc was formed between the frame and the pipe, the latter was melied and the escaping gas ig- nited. tutsmall loss. Rats gnawed the insulation from a wire which lay on & gaspipe, an arc was established between the wire aud the gaspipe, setting fire 10 the gas. THE GOOD TIMES COMING. The best thing to do now for all people is to g0 to work—*to play ball,” as the boys say— and stop playing politics.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Because there is every evidence of business revival it will not do to give the impression that every pocket wiil immediately bulge out with money.—Indianapolis Journal. The times are exceedingly promising for a good, long, healthy spurt of business activity. It will be unwise, however, to undertake to anticipate the future by crowding the actual sltuation.—Cincinnati Post. Every oneis looking upward and feeling more sure of the future now, and the wage- earners of Cleveland ought to be given the largest possible share in the general business improvement.—Clevelana Leader. There is no mistaking the fact that a great sense of relief and a feeling of hope have as- serted themselves since the election. The pe- ried which marked the postponement of so many enterprises has passed, and there isan awakening spirit of confidence which is the sure precursor of prosperity.—Kansas City Star. As predicted generally, an immediate revival in business appears to be setiing in now that the campaign hasended. The first effects of this business revival have already been felt. The stagnation and depression in business circles which immediately preceded the elec- tion are happily at an end, and from now on business conditions promise “to look up.’— Kansas City World. Business is thriving everywhere; hoarded funds are pouring out of hiding places: bank deposits are strengthening; country mer chants are sending in long delayed orders to jobbers; wholesale houses are warming up to the old activity, and traveling men in large numbers have gone on the road again after being withdrawn for some time on account of the unsettied condition of business.—Min- neapolis Journ PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Daniel Campbell and his wife, of Walton County, Fla., are said to be respectively 117 and 112 years old. The granddaughter of the late Baron Hirsch is heir to $100,000.000, which yields about $10,000 a day of income. Sir Hope Grant tells of & statue of Queen Victory which was made in Indis, and has large rings in each nostril. Many musicians in Europe will observe the third anniversary ot the death of the Russian composer, Peter Ilitsh Tschaikowsky. M. Brunetiere, editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, is to lecture in America in French next December on French poetry in the nine- teenth cemtury. Jules Verne is threatened with a Itbel suit by a French gentleman who thinks he recog- nizes his own portrait in one of Verne’s schem- | ing, villainous characters. The mew Sultan of Zanzibar is a reformer. He has ordered that women convicted of crime shall be kept in prison, and not as heretofore forced to work in«chained gangs on the streets of his capital. A lineal descendant of the Sheikh-ul-Juhl, or Old Man of the Mountain, the chief of the famous sect of the Assassins, is now a well-to- do resident of Bombay. The sect numbers many thousand members in Central Asia. The Sultan of Turkey not only has a rigid censorship of the press, but he has ordered that no newspapers be published until the after- noon, so that the censors will not have to jore- go their morning nap in order to supervie them. The famous brigand, Tiburzi, of Italy, who ‘was recently killea by the police, had been a brigand for forty yesrs. Foralong time he was the real ruler of a large district. He im- posed taxes upon the population, and in re- turn guaranteed public order. A lot of people in whose veins is more or less of old Thomas Dudley's blood gathered at the Quincy House in Boston last week and atea dinner and read papers 1n honor of that colo- nial worthy. There was a lot of talk about Puritan virtues, but curiously hearty applause was awarded to one of the essayists who was bold enough to quote Hawthorne’s phrase: “God be praised for such ancestors, and God be thanked that every century removes us fur- ther from them.” THEY DESIRED PEACE Accordingly the State Association Tro- phy Was Sent to Los Angeles by the Olympic Gun Club. The board of directors of the Olympic Gun Club met Friday night at their rooms on Van Ness avenue and elected the fol- words of his own, in which he said that jurors are allowed ‘‘to exercise common- sense” in arriving at their decision as to thbe guilt or innocence of the prisoner. To this phrase the Supreme Court en- tered objection, holding that it was not necessary and saying that the appellate court of this State does not sanction a departure from the form that has been accepted so long by the courts of the country, Itis expected that Pauisell will offer his bonds to-morrow or next day. ——— E. H. 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DLrugeists sell it ag 25 oen NEW TO-DAY. - COLUMBIA KID GLOVES HAVE MADE A GREAT REPUTATION Every lady who has pur- chased is delighted with fit and wear. All shades now in stock— black and self colorings—em- broidered backs. We fit and guarantee EVERY PAIR. lowing committees for the ensuing year: Finance and suditing—H. H. Whit, mfin), A A, Bofi:nl F. W, Eldugz. hse jouse committee—] MAar . O - m;‘n), g Biflwhllney,' \ G Scovefl.'an' e embership committee—E. L. B - man), F. R. Webster, A. H. wmtney‘.q“l (i Social and entertainment committee—F. W, E;‘lo:;r(cll‘nifin-n), 8. 6. Scov‘c‘xltm A. Borlini. rap-shooting committee—M. E. Al - man), Leonard D, Owens, F. 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