The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 19, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1896. OVEMBER 19, 1896 THURSDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall 6.00 Deily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dal snd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Eunday CALL, one year, by mail 1.50 W kLKLY CaLL, one year, by mall 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Lerkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; until § o'clock. 2518 Miission street; open until 9 0'clock. 116 “iuib sireet; open until 9 o'clock. 4 Market street, open uill 8 o'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE : B08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. TIHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. SRl e et A LTS Currency reform is the coming issue. There is a crisis now in every country but ours. Tue country turkey is beginning to be- lieve that life is full of fat jobs. People who have money to invest can find a profit in a trip to California this winter. < The election may have killed Bryan’s hopes, but his tongue still lives and his jaw withit. —_— The decision on the irrigation law de- lights as down here, but they care nothing about it in Oregon. The Wilmerding School wilt be located where it can do most good and certainly that is the rigt place. The funding bill and the war with Spain are two things which, though not proba- ble, will bear watching. 1f Maceo cannot play the lion he will play the fox, and Weyler will have a weary time hunting him. Cleveland may as well cut his message short and go duck-shooting. The country won’t complain this time. The streets are crowded, the stores are thronged with purchasers and the holiday trade has begun to show itself. The recent revelatiors in Germany show that the most solemn European treaty always has a string on it somewhere. Irrigation is a good thing on general principles, and if there is anything wrong with the Wright law it can be amended. The talk of a place in the McKinley Cabinet for a sound-money Democrat is subsiding. Thesilly season is about over. It has been the rule for the closing ses- sion of Congress to do little or nothing, but this Congress ought to make a new rule. PRI O The only way to bring about the ap- pointment of a Secretary of Mines is to organize for the fight and keep eternally at it. Kaiser William may yet live to learn that his officers cannot maintain respect ior their uniforms unless they respect their fellow-citizens. The issue between Santa Monica and San Pedro will soon be decided and now is the time for the people of Los Angeles to get in their w The report that the X ray enables the blind to see will encourage President Jor- dan in the hope that his critics may eventa- ally see the joke in his cat story. The Indiznapolis Board of Trade de- sires the assembling of a National con- vention to discuss monetary reform, but what is the matter with Congress? As it is announced that Bryan will pub- lish a book about himself and his cam- paign we may take it for granted that his retirement from politics 1s to be perma- nent. The Sacramento story of an airship seen flying over the city at nightis not wholly cradible, but it is the best explanation we have had of the complete disappearance of David Bennett Hill. The Board of Ordnance and Fortifica- tions believes a war is about due in the general run of things, and, while that is not a basis for alarm, itis'a good enough Teason for getting ready. The most pleasing feature of the revival of trade is that it shows nothing in the nature of an artificial boom. The coming prosperity will have a solid basis and take the form of legitimate industry, It goes without saying the Assessors’ convention will gladly receive suggestions on the subject of tax reform. Chambers of Commerce and Boards of I'rade should lend a helping hand in the matter. The frequent references in Chicago to the fact that the registration in that city was larger than that of New York are dis- missed with scorn in the latter place as “‘tiresome and mattoidal iteration.”” If there were any sure way of searching out the course of Providence we might discover that the Oregzon floods were in- tended for the swallowing up the imqui- tous generation that slandered San Fran- cisco. 5 _— As the Texas has had such bad luck at sea we may derive some satisfaction from the report that she stood the strain of the docking without injury. Perhaps the Naval Department may find some use for her as a dock ornament. o PR i The people will take note thatall Re- vublicans are eager to ensct a tanff bill this winter to provide an adequate revenue for the Government and that if such a bili is not passed it will be the fault of the Popocrat fusion 1n the Senate. During October the expenditures of the Government were more than $7,695,000 in excess of income, which raises the total deficit of the four months of this fiscal year to above $32,889,000. In the face of euch figures it would seem even Demo- cratic Senators would vote for the Dingley bill this win 50 as to provide a revenue until a protective tariff can be enacted. OURRENCY REFORM. The speeches made at the banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce and the action of the Indianapolis Board of Trade calling for a National convention of commercial bodies to consider our mone- tary vroblems make it evident that one of the issues which will be forced upon the attention of the next Congress will be that of reforming our system of currency. The new issne will differ from that which was appealed to the people in the last campaign, inasmuch as it will affect paper money rather than coin. The peo- vle decided at the late election in favor of bimetallism, and expressed a resolution to maintain the gold standard until an inter- national agreement could be made for the free coinage of silver. We have now to go forward to the further guestion of what shall be done concerning the paper money of the country. ~ There will be many plans suggested for solving the problem which this issue pre- sents. All of these, however, may be broadly divided into two ciasses. On the one side will be those who favor some means of main:aining greenbacks, and on the other will be those who desire to retire all forms of treasury notes and deliver our paper money over to the managemert of banks under National control. Itis too early to speculate at this time concerning the forms which either of these parties will propose for the =olution of the problem. On t e one side it will be con- ‘tended that asa certain amount of cur- rency is necessary for the transaction of business it is the duty of the Government to provide it, On the other side it will be claimed that as money represents business it should have an elasticity equal to that of trade, and consequently the paper money of the country should be issued solely by banks; since, as the Government is not engaged in business, it could not issue a money which woul!d automatically expand or contract uas the necessity of business required. While it is not possible at this time to forecast the future, it seems certain that the Republican party will maintain the greenback system, aygmented by some form of National bank notes. The pre- vailing system of paper money was estab- lished by the Kepublicans, and there isno reason now apparent why the party of to- day should depart from the precedents established in the past. It has been evident for some time, how- ever, that our Navional bank system of issuing paper money does not give us the elasticity required. All notes issued have been based upon bonds of the National Government, and as these bonds have diminished in amount and in the rate of interest paid they have ceased to furnish a sufficient basis for our paper currency. Some reform in the system therefore is imperative. It is to that problem the attention of the veople will now be called, and the chances are it will form the dominant issue in our politics’ for some time to come. It is cer- tainly advisable that the problem should be solved during the new era of pros- perity and of Republican supremacy. It would be an unfortunate thing for the country if, for any reason, it were post- poned until it should be entangled with other questions likely to arise and com- plicated by a disturbed condition of trade and industr, THE WILMERDING SOHOOL. The decision of the Board of University Regents to locate the Wilmerding School in this City will be received with general satisfaction here, and after due considera- tion will be approved by the State at large. The reasons for establishing the school in this City are two. First, the founderof the school was a citizen of San Francisco, identified with its interests for upward of forty years and clearly intended that the scuool should be for the benefit of the youth of this City. That much was made evident by the testimony of the men who knew him, who conversed with him con- cerning his proposed bequest and who, therefore, knew clearly what was his full intention in regard to it. The second reason, hardly less impor- tant than the first, is that San Francisco is decidedly the proper place for such an institution. Itis in this City that it will be within reach of the largest number of young men who desire mechanical train- ing, and therefore it is clear that here it will be able to do the most good. The number of persons who can profit by the advantages of such a school in San Francisco will be far in excess of the num- ber who could possibly make use of those advantages if it were located elsewhere. On the bread grounds of efficiency, there- fore, it was altogether right and prover for the Regents of the University to select San Francisco as the place of location. Now thatit has been decided to estab- lish the school in this Jity, it is to be hoved that the work of construction will be pushed rapidly forward. Boys whoare now of an age to reap the benefits of the school are rapidly growing older, and if the completion of the institution is long delayed they will be deprived of them altogether. There is no apparent reason why there shoulid be any delay, and we trust that no disagreement as to the particular site to be selected in the City will cause a post- ponement of the beginning of the work of construction. Since we are to have the school, let us have it as speedily as possi- ble. THE BRUSEWITZ AFFAIR. The debate in the Reichstag on Tuesday upon the Brusewitz affair thows in a strong light the excessive military despot~ ism which prevails in Germany and the extent to which not merely the rights but the lives of citizens are subject to the domination of the army. The occurrence which gave rise to the debate is one which could not have hap- pened in any other civilized country. There seems to have been no disputen regard to the facts. Lientenant Bruse- witz killed a German workman for no other reason than that the workman had accidentally brushed acainst him while the lieutenant was drinking beer in a cafe. : The defense of the lieutenant was that he considered that the King’s uniform had been tarnished by the touch of the workingman to such an extent that he was compelled to kill the offender, even though the touch was that of mere acci- dent. It hardly seems credible that the Ger- man Minister of War should in the Reich- stag bave defended such an action. Nevertheless that is exactly what he did. He is reported to have said, ‘‘The honor attached to wearing the King’s uniform and respect for the colors are military sentiments that we shall never abandon. The right of sell-defense must never be taken from officers.” Such sentiments coming from such a source on such an occasion in defense of such a crime naturally roused the indig- nation of the Liberais. Herr Bebel very naturally asked, *‘How can it be said that whoever attacks the King’s uniform thereby insults the King? Things will at last come to such a pass that a uniform of the cuirassiers of the guard wiil be sus- pended like Gessler's hat, and the people will be required to make obeisance to the Emperor’s horse.”” It can hardly be doubted that the Liberals express the real senliments of the German people in regard to the Brusewitz outrage. The offender in that case, although pronounced guilty by a court-martial and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and dismissal from the army, has not yet been punished, as the case wus referred by the Emperor to the Minister of War, and he may escape pun- ishment altogether. It would seem, there- fore, 1zat the Kaiser thinks more of his uniforms than he does of the lives of his citizens. Such tyranny cannot in the nature of things prevail long among a peaple so brave and so intelligent as the Germans, and the aitempt of the Kaiser to maintain it is ominous to the peace of Europe. He may yet find it necessary to engageina foreign war in order to awaken among his people a spirit sufficiently warlike to sus- tain him 1n the military domination which he seems determined to enforce, OUR COAST DEFENSES The annual report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortificatiors, which strongly urges the importance of in- creased appropriations for the work of placing our harbors in a proper state of delense in case of a sudden outbreak of war, will receive general approval. The report contains the curious state- ment that while there is no present pros- pect of a war between this country and any other nation, yet it is not altogether improbable that such a war may occur. The arguisent on which the statement 1s based 15 as curious as the statement it- self. The report says: The wars of nations occur in cycles of vary- ing length, but seldom does a generation pass without a conflict. Already more than thirty years have elapsed since our last great war, and another may occur soon if the past bea guide to the future, One of the longest inter- vais of peace we have ever enjoyed hasoc- curred. The argument that war is to be expected because a war is about due will hardly have much weight with the average citi- zen. Itiseutitled to consideration only by reason of the high rank of the men who urge it in an official state paper. It is not sufficient to occasion alarm, but it may perhaps be considered a good reason why the work of coast defense and fortifi- cation should be carried vigorously for- ward. As the board says: “A war if {t come at all will come without warning, and will give no time for preparation.” It is clear, therefore, that if such a war should arise between us and any power of sufficient strength to exert a great naval force at the outbreak of hostilities, many of our ports under present conditions would suffer se- verely before we could arrange for their adequate protection. With a properly devised tariff, which will yield a revenue adequate to the needs of the Nation, it will be comparatively easy for us to enter upon the work of pre- paring for war without imposing any se- rious burdens upon the people. Sucha tariff we may expect from the next Con- gress, and it is not unreasonable to as- sume that with the enactment of a better revenue law we shall also have the much needed appropriations for coast defenses and the upbuilding of the navy. Certainly we cannot begin this work too soon. It takes about three years to con- struct and equip a war vessel, and it takes as much time also to provide the appli- ances for coast and harvor defense. The earlier we begin the sooner will our ports be secure, and for that reason the people will give a cordial approval to the report of the board urging more liberal appropri- ations for these purposes. MISLEADING It ain't the rooster's crowin’ thet'll make him win th fights When it comes ter downright conflict o'er the barnyard an’ its rights. An’ the ong triumphant cackle of the chicken on parade Don't add no size nor flavor ter the ezg thet she hez iad. It aln’t the man ez plays the drum an’ makes the bigzes’ sound Thet gits the largest recompense when payday comes around An’ the dazzlin’ demonstrations an’ the crowd’s excited culls Don't cut the siightest figger when the nt lot falls. —Washingion Star, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Uncle Theophilus, what is & grass widow?” “Well, she’s a widow whose husband didn’t have to dieto getrid of her.”—Detroit Free Press. Sunday-school teacher—Who was Noah 7 Pupil—He was & weatner prophet. When he said it was going to rain nobody believed him.—Puck. 3 “Madge, how did you and that French lady get along 7 “Well, she understood what she said, and I understood what I said.”—Port Jervis Gazette. Binks—Married yet, Jinks? Jinks—Still single. Binks (three years later)—Still single, Jinks? Jinks (sadly) —No; married yet.— North American. Lady—Thank you, #ir; but I don’tlike to de- prive you of your comfortaple seat. Hibernian—Be th’ powers, leddy, it was com- fortable no longer when O! saw you standin’.— Harlem Life. “Uncle Simon, why does all the world love a lover?” “Because they know he willbe spending money as long as he can raise a cent.”—Chi- cago Record. Tommy—Paw, wi the days of the Bible ? Mr. Figg—No—unless you count David. He Wwas & pretty good giant crackes at one time.—- Indianapolis Journal. there any fireworks in “It always makes me glad to see a woman acting silly over a poodle.” “Why 9 “Because it shows what & bad bringing up some lucky baby has escaped.”—Chicago Record. “They have such queer notions in school now. The children are not taught to spell at al ‘Graclous me! What & lot of typewriters there will\be a few years hence.”—Indian- apolis Journal, Maiden—What can & woman do when a man that has won her affections refuses to marry her? Lewyer—Is he rich? “No, hasn't a cent.” ‘*S8he can appoint a day of genera! thanks- giving and invite both families to partici- pata.”—New York Weekly. “Oh, Henry,” exclaimed his little wife as she threw her arms rapturously around his neck, “I do love you so! Don’t forget to leave me $20 when you go in town this morning, will you, dear 2 “And tais,”” muttered Henry, softly, disen- gaging himse!f from her fond embrace, “this is what you might call being hard pressed for money.”—Somerville Journal. Teacher—Have you finished your composi- tion on what litde boys should not do in school? = Littie Johnny—Yes'm. Teacher—Read it. Little Johnny (reading)—Little boys,when at school, should not make faces at the teacher and shouid not study too hard, ’cause it makes them nearsighted, and should not sit 100 long in one position, ’cause it makes their backs crooked, and should not do long examples ir: arithmetic, 'cause it uses up their pencils too fast.—Nuggets. MUSIC AND Ellen Beach Yaw, the altitudinous soprano, has been unnounced so often that people in this City are growing skeptical about ever be- holding her. However, the announcement is now authoritatively made that she will appear for one song recital only, at the Baldwin the interest centering ronnd Miss Yaw is that of curiosity. No one denies thatshe is capa- ble of producing notes higher than those of any other singer known to history, but Whether she s really an accomplisged vocal- ist is quite another matter. The Musical Courler persistently landed her efforts while she was singing in such far-away places as San Antonio and El Paso, but when Miss Yaw went to New York it entirely changed its tone as to her vocal ability, though it granted that she possessed high notes which were hors de nature. Most of the critics sgree witn —_— MISS ELLEN Thester ou December 14. At present most of | MUSICIANS, Theodore Dubois, only accepted sixteen of the men and thirteen of the women. News comes from Stockholm that Edward reig, who for the last fifteen or twenty years has never set foo. in Sweden, is now in Stock- holm, whither he went to direct a couple of concerts. The desire to hear the Norwegiam master was so great that the box-oftice was apsolutely taken by assault by the crowd as soon as it opened. The order has just been published for the Wagnerian representations at Bayreuth in | July and August, 1897. From July 19 to August 19 there will be three series of the “Ring of the Nibeiwung,” and eight repre- sentations of “Parsifal.” Paderewski is hard at work on his opera at Aix-les-Bains. So far he is only booked for BEACH YAW. (From a re ent photograph.] Miss Yaw's press egent in saying that her appearance is interesting and poetical. The fact of her having been brought up in Los An- geles naturaily adds to the interest felt in her in California. Georges Street recently signed an agreement with Grau in Paris to go to New York in Jan- uary to conduct the first American perform- ance of his Requiem. Plancon and Felia Lit- vinne will be the soloists. American prima donnas never seem to fare €0 well as the foreigners in the Metropolitan Opera-house troupe. Lust year it was Emma Eames Story who was left out, and this year Nordica has been snubbed into refusing to sing by the preference which is to be shown for Melba in the distribution of roles. Emma Eames’ apparent defeat turned to her own profitin the end, for while most of the singers with a big name were in New York she took advantage of the dearth of famous prima donnas on the other side to add hugely to her reputation. Her work at Monte Carlo last winter caused her to be the taik of Europe, and when the Metropolitan opera troupe came 1o be organized for the coming seasom the directors found that they would be damaging their own interests to leave out so famousa woman as Emma Eames. In all probability Nordica, t0o, will turn her apparent defeat to her uitimate profit. It is almost settied that she will spend part of the season in concertiz- ing through this country, and that her engage- ments will include & visit to San Francisco. Saint-Saens says he bas renounced the thea- ter forever. “I do not want to compose any more operas,” he writes, “because the work is too laborious, too long-—ina word, too fatigu- ing for me. I can no longer pass long months in writing music for eight hours a day; neither my eyes nor my health can stand it. Idesire to consecrate myself exclusively to works which, if they do not demand less tension of the mind, at least exact less physical labor.” Baint-Saens goes on to enumerate sadly the operas which he has written and which ere awaiting an impresario. The com- poser of “Henry VIII” and “Samson and De- lilah” hasseveral other lyric dramas which no one seems toappreciate, and he does not see any use in adding to their numoer. On the other hand, he says he is tormented for chamber musie, particularly quartets and violin solos. This leads him to declare: ““As for the theater, I have had enough of it, and the ballet ‘Javotte’ will be the postscript of my operatic career.” There is a great deal of talk in the East about Mascagni coming to this country to give symphony concerts and conduct his own operas. Meanwhile Mascagni is tranquilly carrying on his work at home and shows no signs of packing up to cross the Atiantic. The Iatest news is that he is engaged in the com- position of & symphonic poem 1o celebrate the centenary of the illustrious poet Giacomo Leopardi, and that he will conduct the first performance of the work himself. News comes from Pernambuco that Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian composer who recently died & painful and lingering death, has lefta manuscript opera which has never yet been performed. The work is called ‘Noite do Cestello,” and is at present deposied iu the library of the Santa Isabelia Theater in Per- nambuco. No doubt the last work of the com- poser of “Il Guarany,” “Salvator Rosa,” etc., will soon be given & hearing. The Royal Opera of Dresden is about to play an unpublished opera, **The Woman of the Valley of Roses” (Die Rosenthalerin), the music of which has been written by Antoine Ruckaut, the Viennese composer. The book describes an episude in the iife of the great painter, Aibert Durer, snd “the Valley of Roses”” seems to indicate a suburb of Leipsic which is known by that nsme. The theater rarely leads to the cloister, but in Italy it has just done so, for the papers are full of the announcements that an opera- singer, Signorina Emilia Ricca, has just re- nounced her profession at the beginning of what promised to ve a successful carcer, and has retired to the convent of Sant’ Antonio at Pausilippe, where she is scon to take tne vows. The season wbich has already begun at the Lyric Theater of Milan is announced in the European musical papers as an especially briliant one. Miss Sibyl Sanderson, who made her Milanese debut in ‘“*Manon,” is spoken of as one of the features of the season. The Italian papers award the highest praise both to her singing and acting. Eugene Ysaye, the Belgian violin{st who met with such success here, has now quite conquered London. Five or six years ago he played there and falled to create any impres- sion, but in conjunction with Leon Delafosse, & French pianist, he has been giving a series of concerts at St. James Hull which have tracted audiences limited only by the capacity of the buiiding. Admission to the Paris Conservatory is not 50 easily obtained as aspiring vocalists some- times fondly imagine. At the examinations for entry this fail 190 aspirants presented themselves, 105 of them being women and lolnty-un men. The jury, presided over by one concert engagement, and that for Feb- ruary 11 at the Leipsic Gewandhaus. William L. Tomiins says that the Apollo condition s now. Thisis the jubllee year of the organization, the twenty-fifth season of its history. Carl Goldmark has just bought a beautiful estate on the shores of Lake Baleton. He in- tends to remain in retirement and devote him- self entirely to composition, Frau Materna has bought a fine castle near Gras, and says that she intends to live there in peace and retirement for the rest of her life. MISSE»' EiPIRE JACKET. A favorite shape for young girls’ jackets is shown here. The full seamless back, having a box-pleat down the center, is generally be- coming and has the charm of picturesqueness. Plain colors are most pleasing. Cadet and old blue are extremely pretty, and if the right shade is selected can be counted%n for wear. Rather light browns of the Havana tint are extremely serviceable, combining well with any colored skirt. Tans are very stylish, espe- clnlLy the very light snades in smooth-face cloth. Wide-wale diagonals in browns are sensible and pretty. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Bir William Harcourt, M. P., was 69 years o! age on October 14. It is reported that the Shah of Persia is suf- fering from an incurable disease. Sarah Bernhardt 1s executing & bust of Victorien Sardou for the salon of 1897. George Meredith, it is said, presents a copy of his novels to every servant in his employ. Archbishop Machray, the Primate of Canada, who has just returned to the Dominion, is the tullest Bishop 1n the world. It fs reported from Paris that Jean Charcot, son of the fam us physician, is engaged to be married to Jeanne Hugo, granddaughter ot Victor Hugo, and divorced wife of Leon Daudet. Thomas Edison receives many amusing let. ters. Not long 8go he was startled by an epistle from a youug lady asking if he could notinventan electrical contrivance that would enable her to see the face of her future hus- band. Alderman Phillips, London’s new Mayor, is a Hebrew and a man of 1mnienge wealth. By trade he is a woolen draper in a very large way of business. He1s married to a sister of Sir Edward Lawson of the London Daily Tele- graph, Swithin Fleming, a close friend of Daniel 0’Connell, and the oldest solicitor in Ireland, died recently at Midicton, eged 100 years. A day or two before, W. Browning, who had been a Wesleyan local preacher for seventy-two years, died at Lancaster at the age of 99 years, A very beautiful work of art.a Christ in ivory, now on view in Paris, is to be presented to the Czar by the clergy of France. It weighs seventy-five pounds, is composed of a single plece of ivory, is exquisite in design and per- tect in workmanship. It is valued at $40,000, nnd was once the property of the uniortunate Queen Marie Antoinette. \ Reuben E. Moss, who has just died athis home in Elmira, N. Y., was a lineal de- scendant in the sixth generation from John Moss, who settled in New Haven, Conn., in 1639, and who was & signer of the “original compact” and a Representative in the Colonial Legislature. On his mother's side he was de- scended from John Howland, who came over in the Mayflower. Bishop William Teylor says that Oom Paul is about the busfest men in Africa. At 8:30 Club of Chicago was never in so flourisning a. o'clock A. M., when most Presidents and Kings | are presumably eating their breakfast, Oom Paul has left his house and sppeared in the executive chumber to attend to his numerous duties there. Sundey, t0o, is sometimes a busy day with him, for, whenever the pastor of s church is absent, Mr. Krueger goes into the pulpit himself, und Bisiop Taylor says he preaches with ability and power. +ERs.NaL. Jackson Hatch of San Jjose Is in town. D. A. Bender of Carson is at the Palace. 0. R. Runyan of Courtland is at the Lick. F. A. Boole of Red Bluff is here for a few aays. The Rev. E. F. Gof of Riverside has arrived here. W. W. Middlecuff, an attorney of Visalis, is here. W. L. Otis of Cleveland, Ohlo, is at the Grand. E. C. Kilbourne, a business man of Seattle, is in town. Dr. Coombs of Grass Valley is among the ar- rivals here. Railroad Commissioner Clark of Stockton is in the City. J. M. Lathrop, an attorney of Newman, is on 8 visit here. Clement Bainoridge of Elmira, N. Y., is at the Baldwin. J. H. Brewster of Hartford, Conn., is among the arrivals here. R. C. Terry, the vineyardist and wine-grower of Clayton, is in town. Senator Hart of Sacramento came down to the Bay City yesterday. Dr. W. P. Mathews of Sacramento, State LI- brarian, is at the Grand. C.B. A. Naire, a wealthy resident of New Mexico, is at the Palace. Z. S. Spalding of New York arrived here last night end is at the Palace. W. H. Lord, a business man of Paso Robles, is among the arrivals here. J. L. Delano, owner of the large quarries at Rocklin, is a guest of the Lick. Lieutenant A, M. Beecher of the United States navy Is at the Occidental, John C. Lamplier, a prominent resident ot Springfield, Ill.. is a late arrival here. Robert Wilson of Santa Barbara is among those who are here from that part of the State. | District Attorney Frank D. Ryan of Sacra- mento 1§ among the arrivals at the Grand Hotel. G. W. Stewart, a mining and business man of Missoula, who is here on a business trip, is at the Grand. Fred Beaudry, manager of the French syndi- cate operating placer mines at Weaverville, is at the Palace. George P. Snell, manager of the Hotel Ven- dome, San Jose, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Snell. D. E.Londan, an o0ld resident of Butte County, came down yesterday and put up at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel, Among the arrivals here is Clarence King, the mining expert of New York, who formerly lived in Californta. Louis Kuchen, largely interested in mines in Eldoiado County, is in the City and registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Ralph F. Farwell of Chicago, son of United States Senator Charles B. Farwell, is in the City, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. J. H. Whited, wife of the division super- ntendent of the California and Oregon Rails road at Dunsmuir, is at the Grand. L. D. Reeb, a prominent business man of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is in town and located at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Ex-State Senator Alexander McCone of Vir- ginia City, Nev., who owns & jarge iron foun- dry in the big camp on the Comstock, is at the Occidental. 1. B. Curtin, the rising young attorney, of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is in San Fran- cisco on a shurt vacation and domiciled at the Cosmopolitan Hozel. Jefferson Chandler, the noted attorney of Washington, D. C., who has been for some timo at Los Angeles and other places-in Southern California, is at the Baldwin. Lafayette Meyer of Brussels, Belgium, man- ager of ancient silver mines on the border of Spain, and Charles L. Meyer,a mining en- gineer, of New York, are in the City. They are | here on business relative to California gold | properties. CALIFORNiANS iN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 18.—At the Manhat- tan, R. 8. Fletcher; Hoffman, F. P, Jacobs, B. F. Meyer; St. Denis, Dr. W. Swett. SANITATION WO CENIURIES AGO To write of sanitary regulations and precau- tions two centuries or more ago would seem to some people like copying the famous chapter on snakes 1n Iceland—‘“there are no snakes in | Iceland.” It is instructive, therefore, to read in the new periodical, Janus (Amsterdam, October), devoted to the history of medical science, an article by Dr. Charles Fiessinger, | in which he details the extraordinary precau- tions taken in French cities at that period in time of epidemic, Some of these, to be sure, seem & little ridiculous in the light of modern | science, but 1n the main they were dictated by souna common-sense. Dr. Fiessinger covies | from an old print a_picture of a curious old | seuhauae dress, and he begius his articie by | escribing it as follows: “A carnival costume: A leather mask cover- ing the head and neck and simulating a bird's head with its round eye and long beak; the mask topped with a hat like an ecclesiastic’s, and continuing down to the level of the shoulders; a child’s dress falling to the ankles the hands lost to view in enormous gloves; in the right hand a long rod—in such & rig as | this our fathers were accustomed %o visit pest- houses. Anengraving of the period gives us a full description of this toilet. The eye isof crysial; the beak is a long nose filled with adoriferous substances; the mask, the robe and the gloves are of Levant morocco. This was an admirable method of guarding against con- tagion by the poison of the plague, which is communicated by the touch or the breath; the Levant morocco and the beak full of perfumes keep it out. “But in time of epldemic remedies are not all; the magistrates must also do their part; drugs are all right, but we must have severe police regulations along with them. ~In citles menaced with the plague, then, ‘was instituted a council of health. The first actof the council wes to elect & captain of the Seventeenth Century When Visiting an Infected Place. ARG T e S health, whose duty it was to carry out its edicts. He visited the dead with the physi- cians and surgeons ana superintended the quarantine lmlwnd on men captain of health, ol whom satis sctory bo: ds ‘were required, had a force of guards under his orders. x “No be:nn were allowed in the sireets, no dirt or fiith; there was a regular service of carts to carry off dirt, dead animal was used freely for disinfection. ‘‘Pure air was refnded as a necessity, hence the trades that beiouled it were banished irom the city; such were the candle-makers, who Were allowed to carry on their business only in secluded spots. “‘All these preceutions would be but a doubt- fulaid if e vigilant waich were not kepton , etc. ; lime | Troches.” thecity gates; no one was allowed to enter | unless he bore a cert.fica € of health. On sus- | pects was imposed n quarantine and their | Roods and cloihing were disinfected by pro- | longed exposure to sun #nd a'r. Fumigation | With rcgemary, juniper and incense purified | contaminated objects.” A TIME Fu. 1H NK.G.VING BRING FORTH THE TURKEY AND BRUSH THE GLOOMY CLOUDS AWAY. i Boston Advertiser. Now the President hes spoxen in the cus- tomary way and has named November 26 as our Thanksgiving day, everyvody’s feeling better, counting on abundantcheer, for there’s Teason for thanksgiving on the part of all this year. Everything is looking better; every- thing is on the mend. Soon the four tong Years of worry uve found a brighter end. Soon the busine ~ will brizhten with a radiant, g orions day and pro-perite’s bright sunshine drive the gloumy clouds away. All é?‘ise):‘:x:)n Wwill feel thankful. Smiles will Y&y each irown w..en ihe turkey’s i Ech Republican is thankiul, as of o ought 10 be, since the cam has been waged successinily every reason to be very 1 their party has been rescued from repudia tion’s crew. Illinois may feel quite thenkiul since bt voters did their best and put noisy Altgeld where he will enjoy jr .1 acted rest. Maryland may shout hosanus, Michigan may swell the song, Califo; and Wisconsin add their voices deep and strong. Al muy sing loud thanksgiving that the clouds a:b Swecr away, and the Nation’s fame sud honor are unsuliied still to-day. Letthe fiags flont: let the fifes sbriek ankee Dool come to town,” when the turkey’s in the oven and the pumpkin pie is brown. Put away the campaign rooster; give all quarrels of the Rfls! full forgetfulness and quiet. Let usall be friends at last. Lot the fat and toothsome turkey and the peaceful pumpkin pie erowd out every recollection of the turmoil that’s gone by. Let us ail be iriends and brothers, under one flag, dear to all. Let us settle down to business, which comes rather late this fall. Let us cease froy | campaign tactics. Let us stop all calling pames. Let all pummeling and fighting be contined to football games. Now that gold’s 1o longer hoarded, let us try to pay our debts. Let John Jones and Marcus Hanna arbitrate eleciion bets, Let sweet peace, the white- winged, o’er the country settle down, when the turkey’s in the oven and the pumpkin pie is brown. rse he of the party Lave ‘ANSWERS TO C(ORRESPONDENTS. THE PACIFIC Ba Cal. The Pacific Ban amounting to 30 pe K — Subscriber, Alameda, < has paid six dividends, cent, NICARAGUA — G. L., Mare Island, Cal. For information sbout Nicaragua and tne lands and inducements offered to intending settl you shouid address Captain William L. Merr: Consaul for Nicaragua, San Francisco, Cal. SLEEP—A. 0. 8., City. If an old man anda young man should do exactly the same smount of work daily, the older man wonld require more sleep than the younger one to recupe- rate, on account of the deficient energy of the nu ritive process noticeable in old sge. DAys oF THE MoNTH—W. B., City. The fol- }o\\'mg is probably the old rhyme that you re- erfo: Thirty aavs hath September, April, June snd Noveraber: Ail .he resy have thirty-one, Except February alone, W th but twenty-eight: in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. HAIR—J. C. C., City. It has been supposed thet halr grows aiter the death of the human body, but it is possible that in the few cases in which it is claimed such has occurred it was owlng o the lengthening of the hair the attraction of moisture from the body or surrounding atmosphere or to the more rapid drying and contraction of the adjacent tissues. TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 21bs2dc.* SESatE SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * S, e e Fuddy—Things sppear to be pretty duil in | your church society. No socials and no evens ing meetings, ana on Sundays there’s hardly a handful present. Duddy—I know it. The fact is, since we got our church debt paid off tnere has seemed nothing worch struggling for.—Boston Tran- script. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific’ Rallroad, Santa Fe route, will continue to run daly through from Oakiand to Chicage Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholsterad tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afierncon. Lowest through rates to all polnts in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe, Excursions through Boston leave every week. San Francisco ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicie building. Telephone main 1581 Oakland, 1118 Broadway. gy Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesdsy, via Rio Grande and Rock Islund Kallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and poriers accompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Ciinton Jones, General Agent Kock Island Reilway, 30 Mont gomery street, tan Fi o, i ———————— Through Car to St. Paul and Minneapolls An elegantly upiiolstered tourist-car leaves Oak- land every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for all points in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Nochange of cars. Dining-cars on all -trains. Come and ge our ratesif you expeci to makea trip to any Eastern point. 'T. K. S ateler, General Agent Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 638 Marker street, ¥, F. — e e NEGLECT Of the halr brings baldness. Use PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM anda your hair will always retain its youthful color and life. e R Dn. 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