The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1896. FRIDAY.... DECEMBER 4, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .90.18 and Sunday CALI, one year, by mall.... 6.00 nd Sundsy CALL, six months, by mafl. 8.00 y and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. Bunday CALL, 0ne year, by mail.. WXEKLY CALL, 0ne year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.. .. Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone......... +ereeen MBIN—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £27 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll £:F0 o'clock. £89 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. * £W .corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; Tntil § o'clock. 4518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clook. 167 DMinth street; open until 9 o'clock. « Market street, open il 9 o'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE: 605 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, 1 w York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. All talks about the fight agree there was a foul somewhere. Even ‘the most enterprising merchant cannot do a bright business on a dark street. The tariff may not have been an is_lue in the campaign, butitis tke biggest thing above the horizon just now. Cuba is a natural market for the United States, but as long as Spain has control nature will never have a showing. It is now almost certain that the fund- ing bill will be pushed forward by the Huntington lobby this winter. Get your club ready. The better the streets are lighted the more clearly we can see that other im- provements are needed and, perhaps, also bow to make th The tide of tourist travel has turned our way, and it is time for the carnival cities of the State to begin making ready for their coming frolics. Almost anything counts as a novelty during the Christmas season, but many a California product would be a real novelty for your Eastern friends. There are some people who are still talk- ing of a gold Democrat for McKinley’s Cabinet, but they are men who have no reputation for horse sense. The New York Times says the country needs revenue and rest, but it overlooks the fast that it also needs protection and industry before taking a rest. It will be noticed that the fruit-growers falsed of protection and not of tree silver. They know what the vital money ques- tion is to the industries of California. The discussion on the make-up of the next Cabinet has revealed the fact that in the minds of statesmen a senatorship is | bétter than a Cabinet position any day. The report that the man who first nom- inated Bryan for Congress bas just gone crezy will raise a suspicion that he must have been a little bit insane at the start. Why put a higher tax on beer or on any other American product when we can raise all the additional revenue we need by increasing the tax on foreign imports? The Canadians are asking of their Gov- ernment more protection for their indus- tries and will probably getit. A low tariff suits them no better than the fiasco tariff suits us. Cleveland’s message will probably be long énough to reach almost every subject of public interest, but the chances are it will not teuch a single one of them in the right spot. Weyler’s decision not to strike a crush- ing biaw at the Cubans will give him an opportunity to reconsider the matter at New Year’s and syear off from the scheme altogether. e Ll While our Beard of Health is still wrest- ling with impure milk that in New York has got along far enough to begin a fight against adulterated beer, and it is making the froth fly. Cleveland might at least recognize the belligerency of Cuba and compel the Spaniards to conduct the war against them in accordance with the principles of humanity and civilization. According to the Hartford Courant Yale has never won in any athletic contest when President Dwight was out of the country, and it points sadly to the fact that he was away over in Europe when Yale met Princeton this year. Before the war broke out in Cuba our exports 10 the island amounted to more than $17,000,000, but during the current year it is estimated they will notexceed $6,000,000. So it appears the war is costing us something as well as ths combatants. It is reported that an effort is now being made to induce Cleveland to place the small postotfices of the entire country under the classified service rules, so as to enable the incumbents to hold on, but it is. doubtful 1f even Grover has gall enough for that. Congress will be called on to discuss again the old subject of the tax on alcohol used in the arts. It is a perennial chest- nut and every session & dozen or more orators have a whack at it without suc- ceeding in opening it or even getting the burr off. There is once more a good deal of talk in Washington about enlarging the White House, and really something ought to be done in the matter, if for no other reason than that of giving the people of the Na- tional capital & chance to talk of some- thing else. On all issues involving protection to our industries, the expansion of our com- merce, the appointment of a Secretary of Mines and the defeat of the funding bill all Californians can work together. Let us keep them to the front, therefore, agd work to win. 7 The unwonted severity with which the winter has opened in the East has already brought about a great deal of suffering in widespread districts and the coming Christ- maswill find many a home desolate which a few weeks ago was bright with prospects of prosperity, | THE FONDING BILL. - e g According to the Washington corre- spondent of the New York Tribune a strong effort will be made to pass the Pacific Railroad funding bill at the coming session of Congress. The intormation probably is well founded, since the Tribune, as a staunch advocate of the bill, isina position to enable its correspondents to get sccurate information concerning every move which the promoters of the scheme desire to make public. It seems clear from this the people of California will huve to fight again this winter the battle they fonzht last year. 1t is time, therefore, that they should make preparations for the contest. What was done last winter was sufficient to check the passage of the bill at that time and this winter we ought to be able to kill the scheme altogether. It certainly needs no argumert to con- vince the people of California that the funding bill is of greater importance to them than any other measure likely to come before this session of Congress. If the Pacific roads aebt is funded the mo- nopoly will be continued in power for fifty years at least and the industries of Califcrnia will be eompelled to pay in transportation rates nearly the whole of the interest charged upon the funding debt. It is for the welfare of the State thatwe fight the funding bill and not for any an- tagonism to the railroad company. This faot should be impressed upon Congress so forcibly that the attitude of Californians cannot be mistaken. We must not let the idea get abroad that the opponents of the measure are sandlot agitaters, actuated more by a hatred of corporations than by any far-seeing regard for the interests of the commonwealth. We must make clear the fact that it is the business element of the State which opposes the bill, and that the opposition is founded in good reason and in law. The California delegation in Congress as a whole can be counted on ‘to guard the interests of the State by every means in its power, but our Congressmen should not be ieft to fight the battle alone, From every county and from every city of note there should go to Congress a protest against the passage of the iniquitous meas- ure. It should be made clear even to the dullest comprehension that on this sub- ject the people of California are united by the very fact that the passage of the bill will beinjurious to the interests of all, Congress will assemble next week., Itis possible the promoters of the funding bill will bring it forward as soon as the session begins, and endeavor to rush it through at once. It is time therefore for the people of California to take action on the matter. Let us not be ceught napping at this junc- ture. The final battle in the long struggle may take place at any day, and we must be prepared to defend our rignts, our in- terests and our welfare. A FRUIT TARIFE The memorial to Congress adopted by the Fruit-growers’ Association is com- prehensive, terse and masterly. It states clearly what the fruit-growers ask of Congress, the reasons which justify the request and the facts on which they are based. In short, it contains everv ele- ment which gives value to such a docu- ment, and will undoubtedly receive care- ful consideration when Congress enters upon the work of re-establishing a thor- ough protective tariff. The memorial calls for specific duties instead of those levied upon the ad valorem principle, on the ground that the latter tend to undervaluations and frauds which are directly beneficial to foreign producers, and goes on to point out that even where cheap and inferior merchan- dise is honestly valued the resultis to en- courage the unloading of inferior goods upon the American market, thus dis- placing better classes of merchandise pro- duced at kome. After stating the exact amount of duty which would be necessary to protect the home grower of fruit, nats, olives and raisins, the memorial goes on to say: We do not seek high duties to enable us to charge high prices for our fruit. The fact s, our success depends wholly on our abiiity to market our large and rapidly increasing prod- uet, and we know we cannot do this unless we keep prices down 50 as to stimulate and in- crease consumption; 0 that the consumer is assured of Jow prices whatever may be the duty if we remain in the field; and the only question is, Shall we have the market or shall it be yielded up to the foreign producer? The question thus stated expresses the whole sum and substance of the issue in- volved in protection for our home indus- try. Itis the simple one of whether we shall build up our own country or the in- dustries of foreign lands. As is clearly pointed out in the memorial, the amount of protection asked for is barely sufficient to cover the differences in the rate of wages and the cost of transportation which have to be paid by the California prodacer as compared with the Earopean. The protection, therefore, is in the inter- est of American labor as much asin the interest of the fruit-grower. The memorial invites the attention of Congress to the fact that there is no ob- jection, genmeral or otherwise, and there never has been, to any adequate pro- tective duties except possibly from im- porters, and the fruit-growers very justly assert that surely no legislation should be framed to belp the importer to the injury of the home producer. One of the interesting. features of the memorial is found in the statements of the opening paragraph, that whereas in the recent election it was persistent!y asserted by the defeated party that the single issue vefore the people was that of free silver, yet the victors in the contest declared that the paramount issue was that of protec- tion to American industry. This isanex- act efafement of the truth of the case. The Republican victory was due to the fact that it was pledged to restore the pro- tective tariff, and the fruit-growers of Cali- fornia have a right to expect that protec- tion will be given them by the coming Congress. VILLAGE POSTMASTERS. It is asserted by the Washington corre- spondent of the Philadelphia Ledger that another attempt will be made this winter to persuade President Cleveland to put all fourth-class postmasters of the entire country under the ciassified service so as to prevent the removal of the incumbents by the next administration. It will be’ remembered tnat Mr. Cleve- land was urged to make this change last year, and had the matter at that time under serions consideration. It was then decided that the change was not practic- able. If there isany good reason for be- lieving that the President will give the matter more favorable consideration now than he did then it has not been made known. - Nevertheless, itis worth while to direct public attention to the scheme, for it shows the eagerness with which the mugwumps and the friends of the present office-holders are resorting to every means of retaining those officials in office when Mr. Cleveland goes out. There has been an enormous change in the condition of the civil service since the Lincoming of the present administration. President Cleveland, having filled the of- fices of the country with Democrats, has done everything he could to give them a life tenure of their positions. It isas- serted that when President McKinley takes office he will have less than 700 good appoinfments at his disposal instead of the 80,000 which have usually been left to the appointment of the 1ncoming execu- tive. The diminution of patronage will be of course an advantage to Mr. McKinley, inasmuch as it will reheve him of the trouble of distributing it. Nevertheless it is doubtful whether it will be altcgether beneficial to the country. Certainly if Mr. Cleveldnd should at this late day go further in the direction of putting his ap- pointees to office under the classified ser- vice he would lay himself open to the charge of intentionally depriving his stic- cessor of patronage which Cleveland had himself enjoyed and profited by to ad- vance the measures of his administration. The people of the United States are generally favorable to the extension of civil service rules and ridding our politics of much of that spoils system which has been its bane in former years., Neverthe- less they are not prepared to indorse this scheme by which Mr. Cleveland can give to his appointees life positions in the Government service. The advancement of the new system ought 1o be conducted fairly, and not in the interests of a dis- credited administration. The attempt therefore to get the President to put fourth-class postmasters under the classi- fied service will be closely watched, and if he undertakes to do it, the result will probably be some action of Congress which will reopen the whole subject. A TOUL AFFAIR. The patrons and advocates of pugilism base their admiration for it upon a belief that it is essentially a manly sport. They argue that it encourages and promotes those virtues which are founded upon strength, courage, endurance and the spirit of faff play. They will have great difficulty, however, in maintaining that admiration or advancing those arguments in the face of the referee’s decision in the contest between Fitzeimmonsand Sharkey on Wednesday evening. The decision awarding the victory to Sharkey was so evidently foul it wasre- ceived with hoots and hisses as soon as announced. Among the thousands of per- sons who witnessed the contest and watched it closely there isa general agree- ment that the decision was a deliberate outrage. There is, moreover, abundant evidence that the referee was chosen as part of a prearranged plan to give the vic- tory to Sharkey, no matter what hap- pened. Inother words, it seems to have been a scheme to rob honest bettors of their money and make a sure thing for those who were on the inside. To carry out such a scheme in the vres- ence of thousands of keenly interested wit- nesses required a referee of more than ordinary nerve and gall. The contest was wholly in the hands of Fitzsimmons from the beginning. At the end Sharkey was whipped to a standstill and there was no spirit left in him. Then it was that the referee stepved in with an announcement of a foul and gave the victory and the money to the defeated man. Ths evidence of foul play in the case is too strong to be set aside. It behoovesthe members of the ciub under whose patron- age the contest was held to investigate the matter thoroughly and clear themselves from suspicion of any part in the ugly business. As affairs stand at present pugilism has been reduced to the lowest kind of disgrace in this City, and even sports will refuse to sanction it further. PERSONAL C. M. Henderson of Fresno s in town. R. A. Greer of Palo Alto is at the Russ, J. B. Fuller of Marysville is at the California. Dennis Leahy of Vancouver, B. C., is in the Citp Dr. A. W. Noisholf of Stockton is here for a brief stay. T. Novojiloft of Russia isone of the recent arrivals here. A. W. Garrett, 8 hardware-dealer of Healds- burg, is in town. Charles Gurnee, & business man of Ashland, Or., is in the City. William Harper of Volta, Merced County, is at the Cosmopolitan, A. L. Levinsky, the attorney of Stockton, arrived here yesterday. W. P. Gould, & prosperous citizen of Santa Barbara, is at the Palace. C. Mansfield and L. Caay, merchants of the Garden City, are in town, James Fillmore, a mining superintendent of Grass Valley, is among the arrivals here. John Cussick, a lumber-manufacturer of Chico, is among the recent arrivals here. W. F. Forsey, a business man of Fresno, ison a visit here, accompanied by Mrs. Forsey. P. F. McGee, a business man of Albany, Or., arrived here yesterday, and is at the Russ. A. L. Bartlett, & business man of Th molito, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Lick. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the Home of Feeble-minded at Eldridge, is at the Grand. ¥ P, Sneed, the general merchant of Petaluma, is here on a business trip, and will remain a day or two. C. N. Wallace, one of the leading cattle- growers of Nevads, is jn town. His home is at Winnemucea. E. C. Heckman of Washington, D, C., was among yesterday's arrivals here. He is quar- tered at the Grand. Superior Judge E. D. Ham of Napa arrived here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Ham. They are at the Russ. John T. Doyle, the attorney, whose home is at San Mateo, came up yesterday, and is regis- tered at the Occidental. 1. M. Miller and wife, who were among the first settlers in Sanger, are in town and are registered at the Cosmopolitan. Senator Alex McCone of Virginia City, who owns a large 1700 foundry and machine works in the leading Nevada mining town, arrived here yesterday. Miss Ridis Buckey of Chicago and Miss Sadie Tompkins of Colorado Springs, missionaries to China, are at the Occidental. They will sail on the next steamer. ‘Thomas M. Brown of Eureks, the old-time Bheriff of Humboldt County, is among the arrivals at the Russ. He has been taking a prisoner to S8an Quentin. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. She—Do you think that Mr. Warringten stil loves his wife 7 He—Loves her? I should say he did. Why, ifsne should use his best razor for a can- opener Warrington would mot complain.— New York Tribune. “Did you know,” said the man who was reading an article about the contraction of metals, “that a clock ticks faster in winter than summer?” » “No, Inever noticed that about a clock; but Iknow a gas meter does.”—Washington Star. Chairman Church-music Committee—The tenor told me yesterday that unless he could get an increase of $100 on his salary next year he wouldn’t sing. What shall I tell him ? Deacon Jones—Tell him he can whistle for it.—Somerville Journal.- - It is really & wise man who so manages mat- ters that it is his father who does the work of accumulating a fortune, and leaves himsell free, as to time and effort, to disseminate the -Boston Transcript. ' A GOOD DOG STORY. A delightful dog story from Balliol College, Oxford, is told in & letter to the London Epec- tator. A little fox-terrier belonging to the writer is kept at & house some distance from the college, dogs not being allowed to remain at night within the precincts. ‘‘Every morn- ing,” says the correspondent, “the dog comes of its own accord to my rooms and {s accom- K'"M on its morning walk by a cochin-china en and & kitten, belonging to the man with whom the dog is left du the night. The hen and kitien always leave the dog at the :x:l'l:’s,e_ gates, as they are not permitted to Letters From the Peaple. Wonderfsl Glasgow. Why the Most Advanced City in the World Levies No Taxes. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In naming Glasgow, Scotland, as the most ad- vanced city in the world there is not the re- motest possibility that any one will challenge the statement who has studiea the subject of municipal government long enough to become familiar with the facts relating to it; and as to the matter of running the government of the City without an Assessor or Tax Collector, the official announcement that tne income from the public utilities owned by the city is Never gleam of light; Yet, with one to love me, Sorrow sighs, “Good pight ! Fortune has not found me— Fame was swift 10 fly : Yet, love's arms are round me, Sorrow says, #Good-by I" Heed no sky above you— Fear no fall of night; These sweet words, “1 love you!™ Fill the world with light! FRANK L. BTANTON. GIRL’'S EMPRESS JACKET.. The picturesqueness of this garment makes it peculiariy appropriate for little giris, and it has at once bounded into favor. Plain cloths now suficient to pay all expenses of the ¢it¥] are most often employed, with & little braid- government and to provide for important pub- lic improvements after January 1, 1897, will be sufficient to satisfy the most incredulous person in San Francisco. And yet the city of Glasgow does so many things for the general welfare of the people, such as have never been dreamed of in S8an Francisco, that few readers of THE CALL can be prepared to beiieve it all actually true, and they are therefore invited to investigate for themselves. Hoping to encourage such investigation, especially by the owners of large properties in San Francisco, I name my sources of informa- tion, and witl edd that it is impossible to con- dense & titbe of what they will find soas to putitinto a brief communication for news- gnpel’ publication. In an octavo yolume of 85 papes by Albert Shaw on “Municipal Gov- ernment in Great Britain,” published by the Century Company, New York, 1895, the fourth chapter, containing seventy-five page is entitled “A_Study of Glasgow,” whic based on the official reports of that cnr. cov- ering a period of thirty years in particular, and 1n general including the entire history of the eity, and from this volume and also from the November number of “Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science” I present the reader with the infor- mation which follows, and once more invite him to resd up on Glasgow,also on Man- chester, Birmingham and London. On June 11,six months since, the city of Glasgow celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the passage by the British Parlinment of the “Glasgow Improvement Trust Act,"” which opened s new epoch in the history of the city, says the “Annals of the American Academ But in 1854, twelve years previous, 8 num of philanthropic eitizens formed an associa- tion for the purpose of effecting some changes in the unfortunate condition of the silum popu- lation, and this was in fact the beginning of the reform movement which after years of futile private endeavor resulted in the act of Parliament which empowered the city as a corporation to underiaxe the work which philanthropy and pri effort could not ac- complish. ‘It wes natural that Glasgow should take the lead,” says the Annals, *‘as the conditions there were probably worse than in any other of tke cities of Great Britain.” It was from this condition that Glasgow has risen to the highest rank among the foremost cities of the world. In the space which remains I must deal with results only. The slums districts are prac- tically eradicated. The city condemned the disease-breeding tenements, bought up the g:npquy of the slums districts, erected the st modern sanitary buildings several stories high in place of the former hovels, with one, two, three, four and five room apartments, which the ¢ity rents to tenants at about $3, $4, $7, $11 and $17 a month respectively, and right in the center of the city, while the water and vas rates which are paid to the city are merely nominal and reduce the cost of living to a minimum. The city now owns over 1000 of these “dwellings” or suites of rooms, and houses over 6000 ple, an average of six persons in each. The income derived by the city even at these low rates not only covers the interest on the investment, the care of the builaings and all needed repairs, but siso is gradually accumulating a sinking fund to ex- unguish the debt incurred in the purchase of the condemned property and in constructing the new buildings. The social, sanitary and financial success of this work of changing the slums into modern scientific habitations emboldened the city to extend its operations to benefit another class of unfortunate people, widows and widowers with small chlkYun. ‘who were obliged to go out to work and had no one to take care of ir children. For these people they erected alarge and commodious building containing 175 bedrooms, a number of general common rooms, nurseries, bathrooms, small kitchens in which to prepare food for infantsand re- creation rooms for the children. A number of nurses e charge of the children during the entire day and the children enjoy themselves in the open air insteed of being, as formerly, locked up in small rooms while their parents were at work, With ali this the charges very low and include light, heat, washing care of the children, namely, for a mother and one child 79 cents per week, or with two children, 95 cents; with three, $1, and 1214 cents for each additional child; for a father and one chiid, $1 04 per week; with two chil- dren, $1 21; with three, $1 374, and 16 cenis Tor each additional child. Board is provided for aduls at 5 cents for breakfast, 8 cents for dinner and 6 cents for supper, or 19 cents per day. Thus s widow with three children can live very comlorubll for $3 38 ger week and man with three children for $3 75. » But the end is not yet. At the meeting of the Town Counci), June 18 last, a motion was carried with but three dissenting voices out of seventy-two members to apply to Parlia- ment for power 1o expropriate property for the express purpose of providing sanitary modern dwellings for all the working classes. And it is said that the excellent creditof the city, which is able to borrow at 2}g per cent, will make the venture a financiul success, while the social and sanitary results will amply compensate the city for the outlay. Years ago the city established public washhouse: where for 2 pence an hour a woman is lowed the use of a stall containing an im- proved steam-boiling apparatus and fixed tubs with hot and cold water faucets, and her washed clothes are placed in machine driers for two minutes, then hung on sliding trames which enter a hot-air department, and are ready for alarge roller-mangle operated by steampower, and thus she may go home at the end of an hour with her clothes washed, dried St time and w.. will not permit me t ut time an 1 rmit me to tell the reader of the eity farm, city markets, dairies, public baths, the libraries, public scientific schools, the parksand many other things of like character, or of the immense advantage to the City iu the reduction of the cost of service to the public which comes from the public ownership of the lighting plants, the sireetcars. the water works, the markets and other public utilities, from which also the entire revenue of the city is derived, at the same time increasing the pay and shortening the hours of service of the public employes, and I must close with the story but haif told. 1f Mayor-elect Phelan will induce the tax- uvers of San Francisco to unite in a great league to rescue the City from the tax-absorb- ers and plund can inaugurate a movement which will transform our munici- pality in a few years into a second Glasgow. JoSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Dacember 3, 1896. By the death of Lord Congleton the House of Lords has Jost its oldest Baron. The late peer was 87. He was not, however, the oldest peer of the realm, that distinction being held by the Earl of Mansfield, who is 90. ing on the collar. Mixtures are used, gemerally relieved by trimmings of a plain color or with heavy braid. A brown and blue mixture had an inch and a half band of piain cloth all around the coMlar, finisned at the inner edge by & row of blue braid a quarter of an inch wide. Red cloth is much liked and will be exten- sively used this season. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Lady Henry Somerset and Mrs. Ormiston Chant are preparing to found a school in Eng- 1and for the instruction of women in puplic speaking. The great-great-grandchildren of Sir Walter Scott are seven in number, and four of them are boys. The eldest, Walter Joseph, is mow in his twenty-first year. Miss Ellen Terry always has g basketful of clothes for the poor in her home in South Kensington, and when callers come she pro- duces the basket and makes them knit, sew or crochet while they talk. President Paul Kruger has become so fond of Mark Twain’s humor that he has ordered a set of that author’s works for his library, which contains two other books, namely, the Bible and the “Pilgrim’s Progress.” Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has requested the French Government to detail a naval offi- cer to reorganize the Buigarian fleet. To this duty Lieutenant Moreau, an officer dis tinguised for his talent in tactics, has been appointed. \ Lord Grimthorpe is, perhaps, the most dis- tinguished amateur clockmaker in Great Britain. He has one of the most complete workshops in the world, regularly employing several accomplished journeymen to carry out the rougher part of the experiments. Baron Hirech'has secured at least one monu- ment “more lasting than one of bronze.” ‘With the avowed object of commemorating the great benefits which the late Baron con- ferred on the settlersin his Argentine colonies, the heads of families there have decided togive the name of Moses Hirsch to every male child until the first anniversary of his death. Wayman Crow McCreery, who has been ap- pointed Internal Revenue Collector for St. Louis, is probably the most accomplished office-holder in the service of the Government. He has held the college record for the long- distance baseball throw, has been champion amateur billiardist, is choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral, is a good singer, has com- posed an opera and is president of a sound- money club. BEST peanut taffy in the world. 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An ftem of news from Mauritius states that the sugar-plenters of that island have decided to join with those of the British West Indies in representations to the Government of Great Britain regarding the sugar bounties paid by foreign countries. The object in view is to secure some counter-astion to enable them to compete more fairly wilh their foreign rivals. The fact of it is that sugar raisiog 1sona radically different footing from any other branch of agriculture. It was just about as the present century was born zha; :ne v'::: 1 ucing beet sugar was disco: El‘zldwt:: l;reo:im o¥ Napoleon saw the inter- national importance of this rival“to cane sugar. He put a premibm, in the form ofa Government bounty,on raising beets lor sugar, and that was adopted by the other great nations of Continental Europe and is in vogue this day. wB‘or 8 lm.’:‘g time cane-raisers did not suffer from this competition, but at last it has be- come almost destructive. If beet-raisizg Europe hold to the bounzpolicy and cane- raising countries do not the same the in- evitabie result will be to very nearly destroy the raising of cane. The Mauritians are justi- fied in their demand and Great Britain must come to the rescue or see that branch of agri- culture wither away. The latest available estimate of sugar pro- duction gives the total per year as: Beet, 3,841,0005 metric tons, cane 2,960,000 metric tons. The metric ton is 2: ounds, Almost the same as our long ton of pounds. Of this yleld Mauritius is credited with 125,000 tons, the United States 265,000 to: he same a8 the Pnuippine Islands. There are no less than eighteen countries in the list of cane- producers. The four great nations of Conti- nental Kurope, Germauy, Auaull—Hun;;;y, France and Russia alone produced just about the amount of beet sugar as all the restof the world does of cane sugar, and they aie bounty countries. The United States has the distinction, so vast is our area, of being adapted to_the rais- ing of both sugar beet and cane. If itwere not for the competition of bounty-encouraged beet sugar we would soon raise all our own sugar. Or, if our country would steadily off- set the bounty advantage of European beet- raisers by a counter bounty on home produc- tion, the same result would soon be attained. Nearly all the cane sugar of commerce is pro- dueed in the New World, especially the tropi- cal islands, and if the Governments of those islands and mainlands would join the United States in a kind of zollyerein, ail pooling in to g!ol&cl their sugar iuterests, they could soon reak up the bounty system, for, in that case, the beet-raising couniries of Europe would find the object of their bounty policy defeated. It is probable that they would be willluf then to cry quits. Germany alone produces 1,350,- 000 metric tons, nearly one-fifth the totalan- nual sugar produet of the world. The United States has the soil and climate to compete, and under the McKinley act was be- ginning to be & formidable rival, but the Wil- son law took off the bounty without making P ion for any sort of offset. The nextCon- g should either restore the bounty or put a tariff on importation from bounty-paying countries high enough to be an offset to those bounties. The United States is the great sugar-eating couniry of the world. Our consumption of it has considerably more than doub.ed per cap- ite since the war. The average annualamount of sugar consumed by each person in this country Is nearer seventy than sixty pounds. 1f the money spent for sugar could all be kept at home it would make a great difference with our balance of trade. At2 cents a pound this exceeds $100,000,000 & yaar. Surely the Wil- son law, viewed simply irom this one saccha- lm“l point of view, was a great National ca- amity. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MoTHER SHIPTON—K. B., Alvarado, Alameda County, Cal. Mother 8hiptonwas a prophetess who issaid to have lived from 1486 to 1561. She was known in South Wales and at one time her predictions, generally in rhyme, were in everybody's mouth in South Wales, espe- cislly in Glamorganshire. She predicted the death of Wolsey, Lord Percy and others, and during the reign of Henry VIIIshe gained lo- cal fame in Yorkshire for her prophecies. In 1862 there was published by Charles Hindley of Brighton, Eng., what purported to be an ex- act reprint of ‘A Chap Book Version of Mother shipton’s Prophecies, from the edition of 1448.” The most noteworthy prophecy was the following: Carriages without horses shall l& And accidents shall filf the world with woe, Around the world thoughts shall iy In thetwinkling of an eye. ' Waters shall yet more wonders do, Now strange, yet shall be true. ‘rhe world upside down shall be, And gold be found at roof's tree.. Through bills man shall ride And 1o norse nor ass be at his side. Under water man shall wi Shall ride, shall sleep, In the air man shall be seen, To white, In biack. in green. Iron in the water shall float A8 ensy as & wooden boat. Gold shall be found 'mid stone In & land that's now unknown, Fire and water shall wonders do. England shall a¢ last admit a Jew. ‘And this world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one. As the year announcing the end of the world drew nigh, this so-called prophecy attracted a great deal of attention, and the world was anxious to know something about Mother Shipton. In 1880 there appeared the follow- ing in & Chicago paper, contributed by & cor- respondent: 1 would like to give your readers an abstract of the researches of Willlam Killaway. In the library of the British Museum there are nineteen ort wenty prints or reprin:s, ranging in_sigze from duodecimo to quarto, giving an account of Ursula Seath iely, allss Mother Shipton, born, it is said, in Knoresborough, near the Dropping Well, and buried nesr Clifton. Uver her heaa was raised a which was engraved the following stone. epitaph Here lies one who never 1y'd, Whose skill 80 often has been try’d; ‘Whose prophecies shail still survive, And keep her nan.e alive. This is said by R. Head, who wrote her life in 1687, to bave been found in an old monas- tery. Mr. Head searched the old works, but failed to find the prophecy there. Another correspondent to the same paper ‘wrote as follows: Mother Shipton was a veritable character who lived more than three hundred years ago and ut- tered & number of so-called propheci They were for the most part & vague. unmeaning jum- ple, and were without point or meaning. In Hiod- ley's reprint “The Prophecy” appeared, and in it were many modern discoveries and inventions, such as Carriages without horses shall go,” which has been realized In raliroads, and the prophecy wound up with the lines “The world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.” The prophecy wascopied into s New York paper and dec ared (o be a forgery. An English paper dectarec that it was an exact reprint of the ola edition for nearly fiboyyunn on file in the British Museum. The New York paper sent its_English correspondent to 100k the matter the old prophecies to tions that might bat every decade since their data. None of the poinied and interesting predictions in the new issue were in the old book, and they were evidently written atier the occurrence of the events they are supposed to redict. In the spring of 1873 Hindley wrote a jetter confessing that he had fabricated the proph- ecy quoted and several others in order to make the book salable. One of Mother Shipton’s prophecies was “When the dragon of Bow (?hhurch lndtill:: grasshopper of the Royal Exchange should meot London streets would be deluged with blood.” 1In 1820 both these vanes were lying together in the yard of a stonemason in - street rold.j the prophecy was not fulfll%:. THE TECH! river Tu“fil Cal. There is no ut there is the Bayou Teche, one of the sm tidewater navigable channels which were once the main channels of large rivers. This bayou lies immediately west of Grand Lake in the southern part of the State of Louisiany, and the Atchafalaya Ri: fts huge banks formed by the oyerfions’ i turies ago when it was 4 main river outlet. The bayou is through one of the most fertile and productive vortions of the State. It is navigable to St. Martinsville, Martin County, about 100 miles above its mouth, where 1t emptiesinto the Lower Atchafalaya, near Mor- gan City, in St. Mary’s County. Above St. Mar- tinsyille the Teche is navigable for very small boats & portion of the year. What now termed Bayou Teche was once the lower por- tion of the ancient channel of Red River, ex- tending from the present bayou toa point of Opefuun in & Landry {:onnv.y Apl':llld..:: the west and south of what is now the great lake basin—then probably an inland bay into which the Mississippi discharged—ta, the xulf of Mexico. 8t. Martinsville, Pattersonville, Centerville, Franklin and New Iberia are prominent townson the Teche. THE MOUND-BUILDERs—‘Wildwood,” Cal. It is generally believed that the Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic Coast were once in- habited by an agricultural and partially eivil- ized race quite different from the nomadic Indians, though possibly the progenitors of some of the Indian tribes, and that after cen- turies of occupation they disappeared, per- haps many thousand years before the advent of Europeans. The theory has been advanced that these people migrated from Asia, that they passed over Asia to Siberia, across Bering Straits, down the Pacific Coast of America trom Alaska and to the Mississippi Vllfl and duwn to Mexico, Central America a: Poru. ron-é!u of the mound-buflders, a5 this vanis] people are called, are scattered over mu of the States of the central and lower Mississippi Valley, along the banks of the Missourt and on the sources of the Alleghany. They are most numerous in Ohio, Indiana, Iilinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkanses, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippl, Alabama, Georgla, Florida and Taxuymu are found in the west- ern part of New York and in Michigan and Iowa. The mounds vary greatly iy size,in some instances being very extensive And very |mrlqa5e, notably those of the Licking Valley, near Newark, Ohio, whieh cover an aree of twosquare miles. in some other localitfes lfiwre are some wrich reach a height of ninety he.et. It is believed that these y;ecplo did not Ve & written language, as no inscriptions or tablets have been discovered to indicate this, any of ine mounds have béen found to con. tain skeletons, numerous implements and or. naments, usually composed of stone, some- times of copper in its native state, and occa- sionally sheil and bone; also coarse and rude pottery of curious design. In substantiation that these people came from Asis is the fact that in Siberia mounds similar to those in the Mississippi Valley have been discovered. To EAT CROW—W. F., City, The following is given as to the origin of the saying “To eat crow.” During the Civii War or shortly after its close, a United States soldier snot a tame crow, the owner of which came ubon him be- fore he haa time to reload his pisce, and eom. pelled him to eat & mouthful of the bird. This satistied the owner of the bird, who walked away, but before he had gone a great distance he was overbauled by the soldier, who had loaded up again, and compelled him'to return and eat a mouthful or two of the crow. The owner, the next day, complained at the post. The commander sent for the soldier com- piained of and asked him, “Do you know this gentleman?” The soldier drawled out, “Va.ng; we dined together yesterday.” In every-day conversation “to eat crow” is undersiood 1o mean that an individual takes back ail ho previously sald in regard to a certain matier, WOMEN AND PorLtax—S., Counts Precinct, Cal. If the amendment to &llow women io vote had carried at the late election it would not have carried with it the imposition of a politax on the women of the State of Califor- nia. The constitution of the State says: “Ths Legislature shall provide for the levy and col- lection of an annual politax of notless than $2 on every male inhabitant of this State, over 21 and under 60 vears of age, except paupers, idiots, insane persons and Indians not taxed.’’ That 1s section 12 of article XIII, and as it did not come up for amendment by striking out the word “male” the women would mot come within its provisions. \ Nor Evieisre—8., Counts Precinct, Cal. A mafl carrier or gauger in the employ of the Internal Revenue Départment would not be eligible to serve as an officer of election in any precinet in the State of California, undér the proyisions of the following, from the law of 1895: “No person shall be eligible to act as an officer of election at any precinct who has been employed in any official capaeity in the county, city and county in the State within ninety aays next preceding any election. A person cannot be a mail-carrier or United Btates gauger without being employed in an official capacity. ScHooLs—D. P. M. B, Fruitvale, Alameda County, Cal.. German is not taught at the Polythechnic High School, but bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting are, and sll the branches named are taught at the Ccgswell School. Applicants must have attained a cer- tain standing before being admitted. By ad- dressing the principal of each school you can obtain a circular that will give all tne infor- mation desired. Tre Crry Haur—J. W., City. The corner- stone of the City Hall was laid on the 22d of February, 1872. The City Hall Commissioners at that time were P. H. Cannavan, Joseph G. Eastland and Chbarles E. McLane, ail since de- ceased, and the Mayor of the City was Willlam ‘Alvord, at present president of the Bank of California. MINT EMProYEs—Subscriber, City. The em- ploves of the San Francisco branch mint have been placed within the civil service rules since the 6th of last May, but as yet none of t{nm have undergone civil service examina- tion. Gas BarnooN—C. H. 8, City. The balloons sent up from the chutes are not gas balloons, Dbut hot air ones. No license or permitis re- quired to send up such. NEW TO-DAY. Economy is promoted by the use of RovaL Bakine Powper to the exclusion of all other leavening agents. The official analysts report it to be 339 greater in leavening strength than the other powders. It has four times the leav- ening strength of many of the cheap alum powders. .Royal never fails to make good bread, bis- cuit and cake, so that there is no flour, eggs or butter spoiled and wasted in heavy, sour and uneatable food. It never makes food that is unwholesome. Its use is a guarantee from the danger of alum and lime which are present in the low-grade cheap powders. Do dealers attempt, because times are dull, to work off old stock, or low-grade brands of baking powder? De- cline to buy them. During these times all desire to be economi- cal, and Royal is the most economical as well as the most whole- some baking powder. ROYAL BAKING POWDER 05, NEW-YORKe 3