The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1896 FRIDAY.... NOVEMBER 27, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. _— SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Dally and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 d Bunday CALL, eix months, by mail.. 3.00 d Bunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 d Sunday CALL, one month, by mall.. .65 1.50 '1.50 Dally Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. W kEXLY CaLL, One year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telepbone... +..Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone....... Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until $:30 o'clock. 859 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clook. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open Entil § O'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untll § o'clocks 167 Mini street; open until 9 o'clock, 4 Market street, open till 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———————————————— Rah! Rah! Stanford! It was a day to be thankful for, The town was cardinal last night. Christmas is the next thing to prepare for. —_— The weather certniizly did tHe proper thing. We can now resume bragging on our climate. Send California dainties and novelties to your Eastern friends. Prospects are so bright now that every cloud has a golden lining. A Christmas gift from California should be a product of California. It is claimed that the farmers are over- taxed and we are prepared to admit 1t for 50 are we all. May you find this morning that a good digestion waited on your appetite and served it well. There was no part of the Union that had a better Thanksgiving day than ours and we can bet on it. It is time to remind the Eastern folks that California is the place to look for winter sunshine. The assessors’ convention ably dis- cussed tax reform and now we shall see what is to come of it. We can renew our thankfulness to-day in the remembrance that some turkeys are left for Christmas. —_— If Bryan would only postpone further speech-making until after the holidays we would take it kindly. The fellows who are trying to find a new and appropriate name for the fusion party might as well call it mud. The Indianapolis currency convention will be the next gathering of volunteer Solons to amuse the country. Every dollar that goes for lottery tickets this month is just so much expended to dampen your Christmas cheer. A Republican tariff can be made to pro- tect the gold reserve as well as industry and thus cure two evils with one remedy. Arizona is not fretting over the defeat of free silver. She has copper mines enough to copper the result and intends to do it. The agitation for the appointment of a Secretary of Mines is being taken up all over the West and we may count on a good fight being made for it, ‘Weyler’s return to Havana has been fol- lowed by a report of a great Cuban victory, 80 he seems to have abandoned nis tele- graph wire when he left the field. In his report to Congress Carlisle will recommend the retirement of greenbacks, and therefore his will be another Cabinet message t0 go into the National waste- basket. Congratulations are due to the news- papers of Vallejo for their successful fignt against the gamblers. A victory ot that kind helps business and promotes in- dustry. The people care very little what Cleve- land may say about the currency or the tariff, but they wowld like to hear from him-on Cuba, the Nicaragua canal and the fanding bill. Cabinet making by the newspapers has got far enough to bring to light several distinguished citizens who declare they do not wish the office, ana that is something accomplished. The fact that a football game in Chicago had to be played inside a house shows the kind of weather they have there. A climate that is too rough for a football game is pretty savage. According to a recent report from Wash- ington Justice Fiela is looking healthy, bearty and happy, so Carlisle may as well abandon his hope of a seat on the Su- preme bench and get ready to practice law. It is said that while the majority of Benators do not know Mr. Pettus, who has been elected to succeed Pugh from Ala- bama, they know as much as they desire of Pugh and are pleased with the ex- change. If every Californian would send to his Eastern friends some novelty or dainty produced in California the result would be a big advertisement for our home in- dustries and help to meake a profitable market for them. General Bickles is one gold Democrat who is willing to:ccept an office under the McKinley administration, provided heis permitted to name the office. He wishes to be Governor of Cuba as a terri- tory of the United States. Those who are discu ing the currency problem should direct their attention to the fact that whatever reforms are unaer- taken will be made in accordance with the principles Jaid down in the Republican vlatform acopted at 8t. Louis and not in the direction of the Cleveland policy dn- dorsed at Indianapolis, OLEVELAND'S MESSAGE. As the time approaches for the assem- bling of Congress public interest increases in the forthcoming message of the Presi- dent. Not much is expected of it, but the people, with that sanguine hopefulness which marks the American, do not de- spair that Mr. Cieveland may profit by this occasion, and by taking bold and de- cided action on several topics of great interest go far to redeem the blunders of his administration in the past. The country will care nothing for any- thing Mr. Cleveland may say concerning the currency or.tariff. These issues bave been appealed to the people and the popu- lar vote has been overwhelmingly ngsi_nn bis policy on each of them. Anything which he could say concerning them would be therefore more idle than a twice- told tale and a matter fit only for prompt relegation to the wastebasket. There are issues, however, on which Mr. Cleveland can say much that would be not only of public interest, but if rightly dealt with would add some prestige to his term of office. These issues are the Nicaragua canal, the funding bill and the Cuban question. The President ought to speak out boldly concerning each and =zll of them, and if he does so ail he says will receive the attentive consideration not only of Congress but of the Nation at large. The report of Becretary Smith of the last Congress encourages the hope that the administration is opposed to the funding bill. If this should be so, Mr. Cleveland ought to emphatically declare his opinion on the subject at once and put an end to that question for the rest of his term cof office. It would be a great relief to Cali- fornia and indeed to the whole of the greater West tb know thatdanger of fund- ing was past and that the Government in- tended to enforce its right and protect the people against spoliation by the mo- nopoly. Equally beneficial would: be a decided declaration in favor of the Nicaragua canal and in favor of some measures to put an end to the prolonged war in Cuba. It is the general uncertainty regarding the attitude of the administration concerning these questions which gives the public an interest in the forthcoming message. It is everywhere felt that Mr. Cleveland has one more chance to redeem his adminis- tration and make it respectable in Ameri- can history, and, despite the disappoint- ments of the past, there is a widespread popular hope that he may have the sa- gacity and the courage to do so. THE HOLIDAY TRADE. ‘We have celebrated our National Tharksgiving, been duly grateful for ex- isting good and rejoiced in the promise of better things to come. We turn this morning to other thingsand begin to pre- pare for the great holiday of Curistendom, the celebration of Christmas. These preparations will oceupy us for nearly a month, and will involve earnest thought and the expenditure of considerable sums of money. It is an old and trite theme that of pro- moting home industries by our purchases. Nevertheless THE CALL returns to it this morning and urges a reconsideration of it. Culifornia occupies a distinguisned posi- tion in the United States im regard to its natural products and its manufactures. We are to this country what Italy is to Europe. This fact, however, is not fully understood, and it never will be until we make the Eastern people” comprehend what exquisite dainties and beautiful novelties are produced here. In that task every citizen should take part. It will cost no man much to send & small quantity of California fruits, wines or other delicacies to the East. If, how- ever, many should do so, the advantage to the State would be worth thoun- sands of dollars. The wide circulation of our exquisite productions would create a demand for them, and the result would be the development of a market which would yield large returns through ail years to come. ‘We have repeatedly called the attention of Californians to the number of articles produced in the State which are suitable for Christmas presents. These include almost everything from delicacies for the table to artistic novelties. Our home vroductions do not make a great show in the windows of our shops, but, neverthe- less, they are by no means inconsiderable. Any intending purchaser who asks for them can find them. We urge Christmas purchasers, therefore, to ask for them. It will be easy to make a selection from among them which will be far more pleas- ing to Easteru people than anything w hich could be sent them of Eastern or European production. In setting about your holiday trade make up your mind todo this much for the industries of California. It will en- tail upon you no extra cost. In most cases it will prove an absolute economy. Products of California suitable for Christ- mas gifts can be purchased more cheapiy than products of an equal quality from ‘ any other Jand. Help to make the prod- Qs e e e R RS e e AR el B St BTN S AR U e BRI bt A R ucts of your State known sbroad. Help your Eastern friends to understand that California is the Italy of America and rich in every dainty pleasing to the taste. THE OURBENCY QUESTION. One of the important issues of the day is the call made by the Indianapolis Board of Trade upon similar bodies throughout the country to assist in an agitation for currency reform. Itseems to be the in- tention of the promoters of thismovement to direct it toward the development of a vopular sentiment favoring the retire- ment of greenbacks, and the virtual adop- tion of Cleveland’s monetary policy. It will be well for the people to be on their guard against this movement. It must be remembered the victory in the last election was not gained by Palmer and Buckner and the gold-standard men. It was not a trinmph for Cleyeland’s finan- cial policy any more than for Cleveland’s tariff policy. 1t was a Republican victory, and signified the popular indorsement of Republican finance as well as of a Repub- Jican tariff. 4 f The people of this country are not in favor of retiring greenbacks. At any rate they have never voted for such a radical change in our financial system. Mr. Cleve- land has done everything in his power to discredit our treasury notes, but he has not succeeded in inducing any large num- ber of people to believe that anything is radieally wrong with that monetary policy which has prevailed among us ever since the war, and which under Republican administrations never failed to satisfy ail the needs of the people. In considering the question it must be borne # mind that our financial system operated beneficially so long as there was no deficit in the treasury. Mr. Cleveland has attempted to prove that the green- backs were the sole cause of the recent bond issues inasmuch as they constituted a means for witharawing gold from the National treasury. He set before the public his famous endless chain theory and has sought to prove that we can never have a sound system of finance as long as we keep in circulation any paper money issned by the Government and which the Government must be prepared at all times to redeem in gold. This claim of the President is not justified by the well-known facts of the case. It has been clear to observing men that the bond issues were largely for the purpose of supplying the deficit in the revenues. With a tariff yielding an in- come sufficient for the expenditures of the Nation, there would be no such thing as an endless chain to withdraw gold from the reserve. Therefore itis by no means vroven that our system of National treasury notes is injaricus either to the nation or to the people. The currency reformers who are making most noise are clearly determined to en- force the Cieveland policy of finance upon the country if they cau possibly do so. We regret to observe that some stalwart Re- publican papers .in the East show signs of favoring the scheme. It is therefore im- portant to call attention at once to the proposed end of the Indianapolis move- ment. Some plan ofecurrency reform we must have, but the reform must be on Republican linesand in no sense an adop- tion of the policy of a discredited adminis- tration. : WINTER TOURISTS. ‘We are pleased to note the Philadelphia Record has called the. attention of the people of that section to the advantages which their own country has over Europe 2s a winter resort. As the Record says: Millions upon millions of dollars are yearly spent in finding warm nesting places along the shores of the Mediterranean, where the rigor of our Northern winters may be escaped. Now, if “climate” of suitable character be the thing which our birds of passage are seeking they need not o to Europe or Africa to find it. Our own blessed country furnishes every needed variety. The suggestion made by the Record is timely. A very large number of people in the colder States of the East are now pre- paring to seek a warmer climate as soon as the Christmas holidays are over. It is most opportune, therefore, to remind them | that far pleasanter resorts are to be found within the limits of the United States than any which Europe affords. To persons of limited means Florida and the Gulf coast constitute a formidable rival to California, because of the greater cost to reach thisState. To any one, how- ever, who can afford the time and expense California 1s so far superior to the South- ern States that they can scarcely be con- sidered in rivalry with its matchless attractions. While there are a few hotels in the South equal to any we have in Californi they are costly in the extreme. The dif- ference 1n our rates and those of the big fashionable resorts in Florida more than compensates for the difference in fare to reach them for any one who is able to spend the entire season from January to April in a pleasant climate. These facts ought to be more fullv made known in order that we may receive our due share of the winter travel from the colder States of the East. Whether the tourist contents himself with Florida or comes to Calitornia matters very little, however, to the main issue of the problem. The essential point is to make it clear to the people of the East that they donot have to cross the ocean in order to find a land of winter sunshine. As the Record very truly says: “Why | should a stormy and uncomfortable flight across the Atlantic be made year after vear in pursuit of delights Iving in wait for us at our very feet? Why go to Europe for any gooa thing which we may more easily and cheaply get at home?” FLAG FACTORIES. The Providence Journal has been inves- tigating the manufacture of our National flags and claims to have discovered that the greater number of them are the prod- ‘ucts of sweatshop labor in New . York: The Journal says: ‘It is surely one of the most curious anomalies that the sign and symbol of liberty and equality should be manufactured under conditions which as an enlightened country we have tried to forbid by law as a species of oppression.” The reporter of the Journaf who investi- gated the subject says the girls who make our flags are crowded a score or se into rooms in which there is only .just space enough for their sewing-machines and no more air than each girl can consume and live. The girls work from twelve to four- teen hours a day for §5a week, and the corditions of their toil are conducive to anything rather than thoughts of liberty and independence. This condition of affairs is one which apoeals to patriotic sentiment as well as to the instincts of humanity. It is a sad thought that the glorious banner which we hail with such enthusiasm is the prod- uct of labor ander conditions that would be thought shameful even if found in countries where the labor is that of heredi- tary slaves. Great efforts have been made in many States to prevent the sweatshop system of work, and this newly announced fact should induce to new energy in that direction, NATIONAL MINING DEPARTMENT, Denver Times. The San Francisco CALL has & very apropos article upon the apoointment of a National Secretary of Mines. Itis suggested that there be a Cabinet officer or a head of the mining department, and they suggest the following resolution: *‘Resolved, That the California Miners’ As. sociation strongly and urgently desires the appointment of a Cabinet officer, to be known a8 the Secretary of Mines and Mining.” The mining indusiry as a whole hais hed no head in the United States Government. The Commissioner of Public Lands superintends some part of the work, the Bureau of Miner- lll:'g another and the Geological Survey a third. The industry is divided up and scattered in 50 many departments that the inevitable ;esullt i8 zonfusion, and in many cases in- ustice. There have been repeated memorials to Con- gress from miners stating specifically the evils from which they suffer, and it has been with great difficuity that miners have ob- tained even the most elementary and neces- sary legislation to secure their rights and ad- vance iheir interestd. The mmnufle of the mining industry is in itself suflicient to justify the establishment of a separate department in the National Goyernment. The great West is interested as much in min- ing as in agriculture. Bui mining is not con- fined 1o the West, It is an indusiry carried on in all sections of the Union from the Alle- ghanies to the Pacific Coast. It is, in brief, a great National industry, and should have Na- tional recognition. The mining industry has 100 long been neglected by the Government of the United States. It is 100 great an industry to be left to subordinate officials in different bureaus with the responsibility resting upon no particular department, The work of the Interior Department is too diverse for & single Secretary to give proper attention to all its various departments. Every miner w‘n rea- lize the benefit that would™ accrue if*mines and mining should be teken out of the In. ;?r(?‘r Department and made a department of self. Mining is peculiarly a business that involves great expense. It is conducted under infinite varieties and conditions, and is thoroughly a scientific tudustry. The American miner is in competition with all tne scientific methods of mining of other countriesof the worid. He must be kept posted on all newly discovered rocesses and appliances if be is to bring out £ best results from his work. The Times heartily indorses the proposition of the San Franciscc CALL fora mining dasnt- ment. By sufficlent sgitetion it could be brought about. Let the matter be discussed and arguments heard upon it. If the West and other mining sections of the Nation should determinedly ask for a Secretary of Mining, or fora bureau of mines or & mining department at the National u‘glul, it is very ldoflbuul if it would meet with strong oppo- sition. | Eday is PERSONAL. James Hesford of Bolton, England, is in town. Herbert Foiger ot Portland, Or., is at the Palace, F. B. Chendler, a lumber-dealer of Elmira, is in town. George H. Crafts of Bakersfield is at the Oc- cidental. G. W.and J. H. Cunard of Fort Steele, B. C., are at the Russ. W. W. Douglas, Assistant State Controller, of Brcramento, 1s in the City. Mrs. M. Parker and family of Portland, Or., are at the Cosmopolitan hotel. F. W. Linscott, Superintendent of Schools of Santa Cruz County, is at the Grand. S. E. Higgins and wife of Modesto came down yesterdey for Thanksgiving day and are registered at the Cosmopolitan hotel. W. Bendy of Virginia City, superintendent ©of one of the Comstock mines, is in the City. John P. Hennessy, owner of a valuable gold mine near Weaverville, is at the Russ. He brought down consideranle gold with him. C. W. Waldron, one of the editors acd pro- prietors of the Santa Cruz Daily Surf, is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Waldron. R. 8. Milburn of Edinburgh, Scotland, who for several months pest has been visiting In- dis, Australia, New Zealand and other coun- tries, 1s at the Russ, E. Hunter, 8 wealthy mining man of Colo- r2d0, Who has been examining California gold properties with a view to purchasing, is among the arrivals in the City. Sheriff H. L. Borgwardt of Kern County is at the Russ. He owns a large interest in an im- portant gold mine about fifty miles from Be- kersfield in the desert. The Sheriff is here on official busiaess. 8. G. Little, the Dixon banker, who lost sev- eral thousand dollars recently at the hands of “‘Sleepy Dave,” the gold-brick swindler, is in town. The case, as will be remembered, was tried in Oakland. D. G.Shirk, the Nevada and Oregon cattle king, whose livestock operations are very ex- tepsive over the Paclfic Coast, is at the Russ. He owns tens of thousands of head of cattle and thousands of horses. He is a veteran in the livestock business, and besides his cattle owns vast areas of grazing land. Anumber of County Assessors who have been attending the meeting of the State Board of Equalization are at the Grand Hotel Among them are the following: A.S. Ken- dall, San Bernardino; Winfleld scott, Kern; J.T. Jarvis, Orange; J. A. Donlan, Ventur L. A. Bpitzer, Santa Clara; Frank Madison, Santa Cruz; C.D. Hayward, San Mateo; and C. 8. Dalby, Woodside. Frank 8mith, chief clerk of the Occidental Hotel, has returned here after a week’s vaca- tion at Los Angeles, San Diego and other viaces. In the days of the San Diego boom Mr. Smith was manager of the Horton House, San Diego, Hesays 1t is pretty quiet there now, the winter travel having not yet set in. Los Angeles has a spry look owing to the real estate snd building activity which began & YeAr or two ago. Among the arrivals at the Patace Hotel is R. A. Eddy, the railroad, lumber, mill and land owner of Montana and Oregon, Who 1s of the firm of Eaay, Hammond & Co. Mr. Eddy is several times a millionaire. Some time since | his irm purchased the Oregon Pacific Rail. road, which cost mnearly $3,000,000, for about $100,000. It was bought at forcea sale. Mr. ompanied by his wife and by Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Mills of Montana. W. D. 8t. Clair, who many years ago was connected with the press of this City and who long since went to Chicago, where he made & great deal of money by taking the en- tire advertising space of the Times and other papers at reduced rates and selling it to the advertisers, is in the City. Mr. 8t. Clair owns valuable real estate In San Francisco and a ranch at San Ramon. Hecame out to look after his interests and will return by way of New Orleans. LADY'S WAIST WITH DRAPED FRONT AND FANCY SLEEVES. Several striking new features are seen in the ‘walst pictured here. The draped frent is ex- tremely graceful. The sleeves are novel and generally becoming. The design allows of charming combinations. A gown seen was of Dresden silk, with front of white mousseline de sofe. A Irill of the same finishea the folded collar. Another weist of woolen in black with a figure in dull green had sieeve ruffies lined with plain green siik to match. The draped {ront was of green silk covered with black naz the fitted sleeves also being of green overlais 'kn:]:fx;fin hair had vest and fitted a mohair sleeves of green and white foulard, the ed, of ruffies on sleeves and the waist-front be! ng u-lmm::- with a fancy galloon in green, white and go] — FOOTPRINTS OF TIME. But yesterday, it seems to him, He walted underneath the dim Light of the parior chandelier ¥or herto come. And then her dear, Sweet voice called to him from the stalr, And sald, “Sweetheart, 1'll soon be there!” But yesierday—years after, b He stumbled home in vague ::&wunn ed to the very scul. n ber volce a greeting sent That filled him with embarrassment. Itsald: “Briug up a pail of coal!” But yesterday—how fast time flles— It seems, he looked Into her eves, And, dumb with love, reached for her hand To try to ranke her understand. They lingered by the large front door, As they had ofien done before But yesterday—can he forget?— e olimbed get e steps, fatigued and wet, And glad toleave the mus sireet, ‘And she st0od ou the frontdoor sill shrill: eL? 4And screamed in accents sharp and ““Why don’t you wipe your dirty fe —Chlcago Record. NOW COMES THE “TROLLRY HEART " Chicago Times Herald. Just as the *‘bicycle face” gives promise of going outof style we are informed by those ‘who keep posted on the anatomical eccentri- cities of the race that the “trolley heart” is to be the correct vogue for the winter. For awhile it Jooked as though the ‘‘carbolizea kiss” would crowd every other fad off the boards, but the advent of the “trolley heart’” will be a welcome relief to sookety from the threatened emberrassments of medicated osculation. As soon as the “trolley heart” hashad its ran it will doubtless be superseded by the < ter liver” and the ‘‘duplieate whist hump, f which are nxlguud to seriously occupy the attention of the medical profes- sion, which has been kindly relieved of a good portion of its dry and uninteresting famil Ppragctice by Mr, Kerr's efficient health foundry, ms‘::’:x:‘l”ch" nnl:mnn. mfl?fll‘nm ?Mmh.:" s been called upon to treat the peculiar ’vnn:.l electrified cardiac known as the ‘‘trolley heart.” It is not the kind of heart which the troiley corporation usually gives the property- ‘ owners along the right of way. It is also lack- ing in the colu frigidity which characterizes the heart that is now being offered to the meek and innocent trolley by many of the residents of lndiana avenue. 1t is a heart made warm and active by the increased palpitations caused by the jolting and rocking motion of an electric car. Th trolley is apparently the uncompromising foe of care mpt_lx. As an accellator of heart motion it is said that the trolley has no equal. . If this is true why not more “trolley parties’” in the churches? As Christmas lgm‘olohe! wouldn’t it be a good thing if all humanity got addicted to the trolley habit? Rere's an idea for the good women who are trying to wipe out the debt on the Woman’s Temple. Many & man with a plethoric purte and & shrinkage in the cardiac region wiil hereafter avold the trolley ear as he would a pestilence. The eautious man will want totake nochances of a disturbance behind the visceral arches that mignt induce him to give liberally to some worthy cause. It is just possible that the great need of so- | ciety to-day is more “trolley hearts” and fewer grauite formations in the central organ of the vascular system. A SCAFFOLDING OF STRAW. The Japanese have imported a great number of advanced methods they have seen among Eu- ropean people,chiefly in military and naval art, says La Nature. They are seeking also more and more to imitate us in methods of construe- tion and fabrication, Nevertheless they some- times utilize processes that would seem re- markable to us, or from our point of view; we may cite as an example & lighthouse now be- ing erected at Kagoshima which is to have, when completed, & height of 100 fest. The lighthouse in question will consist of an iron tower, which will carry at its summit an The Scaffolding. illuminating apparatus of the first order. The reader will notice in the accompanying iilus- tration the scaffolding, which is made entirely of ropes cf braided straw. All these ropes are interiaced with one another, crossing in all directions to form a structure of great firm- ness. At the left, on the ground, is seen the beginning of an inclined plane that rises spirally around the outside of the scaffolding. his inclined plane is used for the transport of materials. It is held firmly by ropes of braided straw. Itis certain, write our corre- spondent, that this construction, thus made, El‘ele!l!! a very odd appearance, but we can ut admire the ingenious art that can make such a structure out of straw rope. CHICAGO SOCIETY PUZZLED. ‘Whether Dr. John Watson —“Ian Mac- laren”—thicks well of the erudition of Chi- cago society or not may never be known. That the members of the Twentieth Century Club treated him well and that he was charmed by their generous hospitality goes without say- ing. But it is perfectly safe to assert that never before has the good doctor heard his nom de guerre pronounced in more Qifferent ways than he did that night at the reception which followed his lecture to the Twentieth Century Club. «iJaron’ Maclaren’s fame long preceded your visit here, doctor,” said a Prairie-avenue matron, = “Let me introduce you to ‘Yan’ Maclaren,” said William Morton Paype. -n’ Maclaren is nof a stranger to Chi- go,”’ is the way Franklin H. Head put it. “What’s his writing name?” asked a society bud of a friend. *‘‘Eon’ Maclaren,” he said. “I've heard it pronounced ‘Jan,’” corrected a matured acquaintance. Yes, that's ‘John’ Maclaren,” said a Michi- gan-avenue beau ideal. “Permit me,” said young Mr. Higinbotham, “he pronounces that name ‘Yan,’ I believe.” And thus it went. Yon, Yaron, Jan. John, Eron, Ion, ete. And as the doctor never once spoke the word, polite society is wondering what in the Sam Hill is the right way of pro- nouncing the name. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Prince Mestchersky’s newspaper, the Grazh- denin, has been suspended for a month by the Russian authorities. Harber, the great authority on fish, says that every square mile of the sea is inhabited by 120,000,000 finny creatures. A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Prescott during the ringingof the curfew st Topeka, Kans., the other evening, has been named Charles Curfew Prescott. Pillsbury, the brillian. young American chess-plaver, will not challenge Showalter, though he would accept Showalter’s chal- lenge for money to any amount over $1000, The Prince of Savoy has been asked to name one of the dolls for the bazaar to be held in the parlors of the London Catholic Club for the benefit of the Perpetual Adoration Society and Work for Poor Churches. Herbert Spencer’s new work—volume 2 of “The Principles of Sociology”—is nearly through the press, and will be published in this country assoon as the American edition 1s ready for simultaneous publication. The famous Kelmscott Press, at Hammer- smith, on which the late William Morris ex- pended such constant care snd personal atten- tion, is about to be closed, no one having been found to carry on his work. When the few books now on hand arc worked off no more will be executed. Fifty-six of the seventy-two British army surgeouns of Balaklava were entertajned re- cently at the old Royal Hotel, Birmingham. A prominent feature of the gathering was the head, in aglass case, of Ronald, the iamous charger upon which Lord Cardigan was mounted in the daring charge. Justice Hawkins has now completed twenty years of service on the English bench, he having been appointed a Judge on Novem- ber 2, 1876, in successlon to Justice Black- burn, who was made s_Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Sir Henry Hawkins is over 73 vears of age. He was admitted tudent of the Middle Temple as far back as April, 1839, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c ib. Townsend's.* ———————— EPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * e HUSBAND'S Caleined Magnesia—Four firat- pfemium medals awarded; more sgreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magne- sia. Forsale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. 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Jones’ Unpopularity. That all the sport-loving public did not attend the intercollegiate football-game yesterday afternoon was evidenced by the Iarge crowd that was at the bicycle races at the new Velodrome track. The stands were all filled to overflowing and the crowds yelled themselves hoarse over the exciting racing and fast finishes. It was a good day’s sport, contested by all the crack riders now here, and was well worth seeing. The appearance of Foster, Wells, Jones and the Terrill brothers, when they came out for the events in which they were en- tered, was the signal for a liberal amount of applause from the spectators, showing their popularity with the audiences, and the same kindly reception was accorded and Birdsall. The meet was handled by the same effi- cient corps of officials that managed the previous meet, those officiating being: Referee, R. M. Welch; judges—H. H. White, E. B. Jerome, F. H. Kerrigan; timers—G. . Wetmore, G. H. Stratton, A. P. Swain; sc ers—Sol Peiser, George Breuillet, H. D. Haden- feldt; umpires—Douglas White, J. 8. Egan, C. E. Griffiths, R. S. Duncan; clerk of cour-e, R. P. Aylward; assisiants—Charles D. Petre, David Marshall, A. W. Wehe; starter, R. Lennie; announcer, George E. Dixon; mai shal, R. L. Long; handicapper, E. A. Smythe. A couple of coast records were lowered in speed trials, and the riders came dan- gerously near werid’s records. It is the in- tention of the Velodrome management to roof the entire block at once, and then with the wind shut off the world’s records will begin to fall and besides the comfort of the audiences will be greater. The next meet at the Velodrome will be on Satur- day aiternoon, December 5. The day’'s racing began with a two- thirds of a mile professional event, run in three heats and a final, first two to qualify. Arthur Boyden of the Reliance Club won the first neat in clever style, beating Mec- Crea of Los Angeles, Dow of Seattle and Edwards of the Olympic. Time, 1:48 1-5. Downing of San Jose beat Wells and Harry Terrill, Bay Cities, in the second in 1:3735. Welis qualified by running sec- ond. Terrill, not entirely recovered from his injuries of last Saturday, could do no better than get third. Jones, Olympic, Whitman of Los An- geles and “Bob’ Terrili, Bay City, con- tested the third heat and finished in thas order in 1:43 2-5. Terrill disappointed his admirers by not getting a place. This brought six of the speediest *‘pros.” into the final, The pace was none too fast | until the last lap, when Boyden jumped | 10 the front and secured a good lead, but the others were soon after and overtook him. Downing led at the tape, Wells second, McCrea third; time, 1:41. Paced by a tandem manned bv Dow of San Jose and Byrne, Imperial, Walter F. Foster, the professional champion, rode a half-mile against time. They made the first lap in 18 3-5 seconds, two laps in 37 seconds, and the half-mile in 56 2-5 sec- onds, a coast record. He could have beaten this time several seconds had the pacing been faster. A match tandem race was then run, the first of its kind ever held here, though that style of racing prevails considerably East. The contesting teams were S. B. Vincent and C. A. Kraft, of the Bay City Wheelmen, and Julius 8mith and Gail Hardenbrook, Garden City Cyclers. The first-named team appeared dressed in striped suits of old gold and crimson, zebra-like but for the shadcs, and An- nounce George Dixon wittily remarked they were worn because of the cold weather. They did look ‘‘warm.” The other team was attired in somber black. The race was run in two heats and a final. The teams started at opposite ends of the track. Before two laps had been rid- den in the first heat the chain on the San Jose team’s wheel broke, so a new stars had to be made. ‘A new chain was secured and another start made, but it again broke. Laterin the day a third trial was made, when the chain on the Vincent- Kraft wheel snapped, all of which amused the people hugely. They got a new wheel and on the fourth start all went well. The teams went flying around the track, first one in the lead then the other, but the Bay City boys gradually gained, winning the heat by three seconds, their time be- ing 2:08 3-5. Vincent and Kraft also wan the second heat, =0 no final was necessary, and they | were crowned the tandem kings of the | coast. The time of the second heat was 2:10. This is fast gomng for a standing start unpaced. > The handicapper put Kenna, the ama- teur champion, on secratch, of course, in the first heat of the mile amateur handi- cap, but it didn’t take him a iap to over- take his field of four, and from then he led to the tape. Hamlin of the San Fran- cisco Road Club got second. Time, 2:28 2.5. The second heat went to the field, El- ford, Reliance, with 50 yards, winning in 2:29; Raynaud, Bay City, 60, second. C." J. Birdsall, the California Club’s favorite, won the third heat from 40 yards in 2:27 2-5; Norton, Bay City, second. Kenna had the final well in hand be- fore two laps were ridden. He overtook his_fleld, played for position, set pace, took the lead at the right time and won easily in 2:272.5. Birdsall was a good neicnd, Rn_vn-uél sh’ird. Never on a California racetrack hasa rider been hissed as roundly as was Allan Jones of the Olympic Club Wheelmen in the first heat of the two-mile handicap, professional, and he probably lost the bal- ance of his fast-disappearing popularit, by his unsportsmanlike conduct. *“Bob’ Terrill was on scratch, Jones had 25 yards, and there was a field of five ahead of them, the limit wan being Metcalf with 200 yards. Terrili soon caught Jones, and the latter then purposely set a slow pace, 50 as to ruin Terrill's chances of qualify- ing. When the latter realized this it was teo late'to overcome the lead, though he made a brave attempt to do so. Not satis- fied with this exhibition of meanness, Jones let the limit men gain a lap on him, and then paced them a way to beat the middle-mark men. The spectators were not slow to see through it all, and everg time Jones passed the stand he was hisse with 2 vehemence that left no doubt as to the feelings of the people toward him. Boyden, with 140 yards, won the heat in 4:524-5; Dow, 60, second; Metcalf, 200, third, The second heat was retty ride, though the people ex; u‘t{ some dis- pleasure because Harry Terrill did not set pace. He is excusable, however, when his serious injuries sustained last Saturday are considered. Terrill won from 40 yards in 5:08; Whitman, 75, second; Wells, scratch, third. Downingand Edwards did not qualify. Tl?. final was an exdeptionally interest- ing ride. Long distance handicaps always please the public, there 1s so much uncer- the amateur cracks, Kenna, Hamlin, Mott | tainty and excitement attaching to them. Wells and Harry Terriil, the virtual seratch men, exchanged pace and Whit man, Dow, Boyden and Metcalf, the limit men, did the same for theraseives. The scratch men gave up what seemed a hope- less chase aiter the first mile. In thesprint for home Wkitman won, Metcaif second, Boyden third. Time. 4:50. Walter F. Foster rode a mile against time, flying start, paced by Dow, Chap- man, Edwards and Byrne on the quad- ruplet machine, He made the mile in 1:50 flat, which 1s remarkably fast but does not touch the record. Dixon, Kraft, Vincent and Loos, ama- teurs, then took the quad to pace Kenna, the amatenr champion, for a half mile. The quad front tire exploded on the second lap, but Kenna went on alone, finishing in 572-5 seconds, which is a new coast record. The following is the summary: Two-thirds of a mile (scrat ional: Firsi heat—A. M. Boyden. Alnnbia caionals E. McCrea, Bay City, second. Time." Second heat—H. Downing, San Jos C. 8. Wells, Bay City, second. Time, 1 3 Third heat—Allen Jones, Olympic, first: D, E. Whitman, Los Angeles, second. Time, A Damuing Gaia inal —H. Downing, Garden - C. 8. Wells, Bay City, second; H. g“\yxn(’}rr:!s: Bay City, third, =Time, 1:41. Two-mile handicap, professional: First heat—A. M. Boyden, Alameda, first, 140 yards; C. E. Dow, Seattle, second, 60 yards; I, Met calf, Imperial, third, 200 yards. Time, 4-5. heat—H. F. Terrill, Bay City, first, E. Whitman, Los Angeles, second, . Wells, Bay City, third, scratch. Time, 5 . Final heat—D. E. Whitman, Los Angelos, first, 75 yards: P. Metcalf, Imperial, second, 200 yaras; A. M. Boyden, Alameds, third, 140 . Time, 4:50. One-mile handicap, amateur: First heat—J R. Kenna, Bay City, first, scraten; George M. Hamlin, San Francisco Road Club, second, 25 yards. Time, 2:28 5 Seeond heat—B. H. Elford, Reliance, first, 50 yards; B, C. Raynaud, Bay City, second, 60 yards. Time, 2:29. 5 Third heatr—C. J. Birdsall first, 40 yards; F. Lg\;oému, Bay City, second, 65 yards. Time, 2:27 2-5. Final heat—J. R. Kenna, Bay City, first, scratch: C. J. Birdsall, California, second, 40 yards; B. C. Raynaud, Bay City, third, 60 yards. Time, 2:27 2-5. Tandem match race, best two in three heats, between Ju.ius Smith and Geil Hardenbrook, Garden City Cyclers, and Charles Krait and 8. B. Vincent, Bay City Wheelmen—First heat won by Kraft and Vincent. Time, 2:08 2-5. Second heat won by Kraft and Vincent Time, 2:10. One mile, exhibition — Walter F. Foster, paced by the quad. Time. 1:59. Haélb mile, exhlb\’lllon-— :’ aced by the quad. Time, ) Pt mile, Tl ainst time—J. R. Kenns, paced by the quad. Time, :57 2-5. Half mile tandem, trial against the Ameri- an amateur record, by George E. Dixon and W. L. Loos, unpaced. Time, :57 2-5. NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED. Things never evenly befall, ’Mongse men, though we are brothers. ‘Thanksgiving was designed for all, But some have more than others. Washington Star, NO STAMP-STICKING. New York Telegram. A very good suggestion has been made anent the postoffice and its methods. This sticking stamps on letters is something simply dread- ful. If some one would devise a means of avoiding it without cheating Uncle Sam out of his 2 cents he would make an everlasting for- tune and have his graven image set up in Central Park as a token of gratitude. Women do not care 1o put their tongues to the stamps, so they moisten the envelope with their tongues instead. The whole pian is crude and disagreesble. But suppose & man has 200 letters to send. To put & stamp on each one requires time, and time is money. You may possibly losé the mail because you are compeiled to go through this “‘gum stick 'em” process. The suggestion is this: That we ought to have the same privileges in this country which prevail in England. We have a sort of divine right to the best of everything, and Congress ought not to deprive us of & single jot or tittle. Over yonder a man may do up & uudle of letters, send them to the office with the postage money, and the clerk simply al.lmps “Pajd” on them, and the thing is one. That is & good idea, and If at the next ses- sion of Congress this matter ot general comfort can taken up and considered, as Byron said, “all the world and his wife” will be grateful, ter F. Foster, The heavens are becoming clouded with the smoke of the mills that have started up now that McKinley is elected, the honesty of our money assured, and a protective tariff is about to be enacte: Arum ,is properly a dye stuff. Lime is properly used in tan- ning. Neither should be used in bread. Yet -it is positively true that most all the cheaply made baking powders contain these harmful ingredients used simply because they are cheap, and utterly regardless of their character. dangerous The cheap powders thereby be- the means whereby the un- come infamous suspecting are deluded and injured. In all English coun- tries and in some of out States it is unlawful to putaluminbread. The ROYAL BAKING POWDER is free from alum and lime—it is absolutely pure. ROYAL BAKING POWDER 0., NEW-YORK,