The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 35, 1896. SEMBER 5, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Pally «nd Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. 6.00 ° Dally snd Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1,60 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WAEKLY CALL, One year, by m 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San ¥rancisco, California. Telephone. +veees. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £27 Montgomery streel, corner Clay; open mntll £:50 o'clock. 9 Hayes street: open until 9:80 o'clock. Larkin Ktreet: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; 211l 8 ¢'clock. 4518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 167 Diuth sireet; open untll 8 o'clock. arket street, open till 9 o'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE: $05 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. FO! astern Manager. See the winter exhibition. Home art makes a good show for all. ‘Watch Sixth street celebrate to-night. This is the day to leave orders for THE SuNDAY CALL. Street-paving should come in with street-lighting. ‘While everything else is moving the cobblestones should be made to go. There are twenty-five improvement clubs in San Francisco and room for more. In recent pugilism it is not so much the fighter as the referee who takes the cake. . Pugilism in San Francisco will now retire to a back seat and stay there a long time. Merchants and bicycle men are taking the lead in municipal development and doing it well. The airship mystery has thrown & ight in a good many places but rever in exactly the right place. Cleveland has evidently starched up his foreign policy to show a good shirt front when Congress meets. Once more the critical moment appears in Cuba and once more the chances are it will postpone itself to some other day. Instead of exerting himself in punching & bag the boxer of the future will simply push a button and the referee will do the rest. e The only proper settlement of the debts of the Pacific roads is to make the defanlt- ing companies fulfill their contracts and pay up. Improvement clubs are good things in themselves, but all the same they are gigns of something wrong in the City gov- ernment. The siiver leaders declare they want newspapers, but the impression prevails that what they need most is ability to run those they have. In making your Saturday purchases keep a lookout for home products. Money éxpended for them is money which will come back to you. If there is to be any fight for the fund- ing bill made this winter it will probably begin early, and we may have it to warm our blood right after Christmas, Up to Wednesday there were nine Cali- fornians named for a place in McKinley’s Cabinet. Now there are ten. The mnew- comer is Elwood Cooper, and he is a good ma3, too. Santa Rosa is rejoicing in the near pros- pect of an electric raillway to tidewater, and the prospect, moreover, has a move- ment that promises to bring it to a speedy realization. The argument for abolishing the duty on alcohol imported for use in arts and man- ufactures is fairly good, but why not use American alcohol and help the manufac- ture of that? The Chicago robber who shot four men in that city for the sake of getting away with a dollar must be regarded by the Two-million Club as the most reckless desperado on earth. The amendments suggested to the Wright irrigation act are numerous enough to furnish stuff for a new one, and perhaps that would be the best way to satisfy everybody. The route of nearly every Congressman on his way to Washington seems to lead through Canton this year. The place is rapidly becoming the greatest railroad center in the country. The Spanish Government evidently has no intentipn to surrender Cuba, for it has just appropriated over $500,000 to build a dock at Havana,and it would hardly do that if it had any thought of getting out in a hurry. As the Rev. Anna Shaw declares the de- feat of woman suffrage in this State was not a Waterloo but a Bunker Hill, it is clear she considers herself on rising ground and thinks the lost battle worthy of a monument. The prociamation of retaliation on the part of our Goverument against German charges on American shipping in their ports has the possibility of developing se- rious results. The Kaiser may regard it as an insult to his uniform. In reply toa question as to what place he was to have in the coming administra- tion Mr. Hanna is reported to have said: “Never mind what it will be. You news- paper fellows are pretty smart, but I will fool you all yet.” Here is a chance to ex- ercise your guessing ability. What did Hanoa mean ? American retalistion ‘against Germany might justly be carried mucH further than the President hasdone in his procia- mation. Our fruits and meats have been excluded from German markets on the pretense that they are unhealthy and this has more or less injured the sale of them in other countries. It is about time the whole of this long discussed subject were dealt with thoroughly and the present op- portunity for doing so shoula not be al- lowed to pass without profiting by it, TBE DISPUTE WITH GERMANY. The President’s proclamation of retalia- tion against the Germans for charges levied on American vessels trading at the ports of that country ought to have the effect of bringing to a crisis the whole of our long dispute with that country. Itis full time that this should be done. For years past the German Government has endeavored to check the import of Amert- can goods into that country by means which are so unfair as to furnish us with a just cause for complaint and retaliation. The abuse with which the President deals in his proclamation is small com- pared with others which have been in- flicted upon our commerce with Germany. The President confines his complaint to the fact that German officials exact from American vessels trading in their ports certain tonnage dues, which are in excess of what was agreed upon by treaty. He therefore limits the extent of his retalia- tion to the levying of similar taxes upon German vessels in American ports. This is good enough as far as it goes, but there are other issues which should be taken up in connection with it. Germany has sought to exclude from her markets American products of all kinds, If this exclusion had been pro- vided for by a system of protective duties for the benefit of German industries we would have no right to complain. This, however, is not the way in which the ex- clusion has been made. While nominally leaving our exports free to enter Ger- many, subject to certain tariff duties, the officials of that Government have persit ently excluded them for the alleged reason that they are improperly prepared and pernicious to the health of consumers. On charges of this kind, American’ food products of all sorts have been excluded from German markets. American cattle have been shut out on the pretext that they were tainted with Texas fever. American pork and bacon have been ex- cluded on the ground that they contain trichinze. Even American fruits have been refused admission to the country upon the foolish allegation that they are impure, unhealthful and dangerous. It will be seen that the exclusion of our products from Germany on such pretexts as these is an injury to us in more wayvs than one. The assertions of the German officials that American food vroducts are unhealthy naturally tend to diminish the demand for them in other countries. By reason of these allegations, we suffer, therefore, not in the markets of Germany only, but in the markets of the whole world. Complaints on the subject have been repeatedly made, and it is full time that our Government should take some de- cided action concerning them. If the Germans wish to exclude American products from their country, they have | the right to do so, but they have no right to base that exclusion upon false pre- | tenses. The country, therefore, while sup- | porting Mr. Cleveland in his proclamation | of retaliation, would have done so more i cordially if he had made it more sweep- ing and more vigorous. THE BRITISH LEAGUE. The proceedings of the British Empire League at the meeting on Thursday were of anature widely different from those which have usually been taken in such assemblies. - The talk on Thursday was of war and colonial defense, instead of the well-worn theme of commerce and the federation of the empire. The Duke of Devonshire, who made the principal address, devoted his attention almost wholly to the progress which has been made in recent years for colonial de- fense. This progress he attributed mainly to the work of the league, and spoke of it as an essential element in the bond which holds together the widespread empire of Great Britain. 1in former meetings the discussion of the league has been directed mainly to the extension of British commerce and the endeavor to formulate some means by which Great Britain could retain almost all the trade of her colonies. These dis- cussions have always proved futile. The more important colonies of the empire have long since set up for themselves in their commercial affairs, and imposed tariff duties to protect their home indus- tries against British competition. It has been in vain that efforts were made to bring about a general agreement for abso- lute free trade between all the colonies of the motter country. The difficulties in the way seem to be insuperable, and it appears now that attempts in that direc- tion have been at least tem porarily aban: doned. The new policy of the league as outlined by the meeting is to develop a military unit throughout the empire, instead of a commercial one. The league proposes to confirm the loyalty of the colonists by demonstrating to them what England is prepared to do 1n their defense in case of any vpossible war. Devonshire declared that the British Government attaches the greatest importance to the renewal of some form of naval arrangements with Aus- tralia, and expressed the belief that the opportunity would soon be taken to re- open the whole question of colonial de- fense. The Lord Mayor, who presided at the meeting, seems to regard the new policy as much better than the old. He spoke of it at any rate as ‘‘a great scheme for the absolute and perfect unity of the British empire.” Like the Duke of Devonshire, he appears to esteem the plan of promot- ing loyalty by an appeal to the military spirit as even more effective than the for- mer attempts to devise commercial trea- ties. All the speakers at the meeting ex- pressed a sanguine belief that the British Government would carry out thé plans devised by the league, and it seems proba- ble therefore that Great Britain’s expen- diture for war purposes will be much larger in the future than was expected by the taxpayers of the country when Parlia- ment made its last appropriation for the increase of the navy. STREET IMIROVEMENT. The celebration which the merchants and property-owners.of Sixth street have devised for this evening will serve to some extent as a general celebration by the whole City of the beginning ef a new era in the work of street improvement. What has been accomplished on Sixth street is very little in comparison with what should be dome thronghout the City, but at any rate it is a distinct step in advance and to tnat extent is well worthy of com- memoration. The work which merchants and im- provement clubs are doing for San Fran- cisco is much greater than is generally supposed. It appears small only in com- parison with the vast amount of work which ought to be done. Our streets need improvements of all kinds, They shouid be better lighted, better pavea, better swept, better sprinkled, better constructed and better sewered. Where so much'1s required even an important improvement hard!y makes a showing sufficient to its merits; but it belps at any rate to hasten | the coming of the time when a complete 1 improvement will be made and our streets | rendered worthy of a City of the impor- tance of San Francisco. One of the first things needed in our streets is the removal of the cobblestones which now constitute such a nuisance to the comfort of the people and entail such a heavy cost upon those who are engaged in traffic. The current number of the Merchants® Association Review has a terse editorial on this subject, which is worth quoting in full. The Review says: Who would think of using the antiquated mailcoach in these days of steam and elec- tricity ? It is equally absurd and astonishing for a modern eity to tolerate cobbles upon its principal streets. The cobbled blocks on Post, Geary and Stockton streets in the very heart of San Francisco are not only disgraceful to this metropotis but also detrimental to the trade end welfare of the City. By all means let the property-owners along those blocks join heartily in the movement of tbe Merchants’ Assoclation for the absolute extermination of this relic of a bygone era. Adopta modern, sanitary, noiseless pavement, and your prop- erty will enhance in value and your City be saved such a silurian spectacle. ; The argnment thus stated requires no elaboration. The peorle of San Francisco are well aware of the defects of the City in this respect. They have a full sympatky with all who are now working to bring about the needed improvements. They should, however, have something more than sympathy. They should have the energy and public spirit to give a hearty co-operation in the work. The existence of so many improvement ciubs among us is & good thing in itself; but all the same itis a sign of something lacking in our municipal government. We should nod leave to private individuals a work which ‘ought rightly to' be done by the com- manity as a whole, “THE SUNDAY CALL" In to-morrow’s issue of Tme CALL will appear a wealth of timely features. The story of “Six Little Heroes in the Battle of Life” is one that will appeal to all hearts. The tale that is told is not one wherein fiction claims the major part, nor in which fiction has any part at all. It is a story of real conditions, and every word of it is true. The heroes are, generally, poor aud friendless, From San Francisco’s man- sions of luxury and ease will certainly come a response that will render the pa- thetic longings of these brave children not in vain. Of heroes on fields of war, of noble deeds on sea and shore, the books are full; but fame knows not the names of the heroes of whom Jean Morris tellsin THE SuxpaY CALL. They have borne up, like soldiers, under dreadful sufferings, and their agonies fell to them through no fault of their own. The gracious Christmas time is near- ing, and there is no telling how much pain and eloom may be driven out of young lives by even such trifling remembrances as tiny dolls, or toy drums, or wooaen soldiers, or picture-books, or candy. It will make fortune-favored ehil- dren happier at Yuletide to know that their offerings on the altar of pitying kindness will bring smiles to faces that were almost born to sadness and joy to souls that can hardly bear their over- weight of woe. In addition there are some odd and pecu- liar sketches apropos of the season of Ad- vent, and Culver has illustrated them in his characteristically clever way. Few occupations in life offer more thrill- ing experiences than that of the railroad engineer, and the “Stories of the Engine- cab’’ will be eagerly read, the more so be- cause they are written by ola engineers themselves. An exciting account of a bicyclist’s wild ride, whirling along through space in the teeth of a gale and making the fastest mile on record, will interest everybody and especially the devotees of the bike. The page devoted to *Childhood’s Realm" is more than usually entertainin, this week. Ours is the only children’s page published on the Pacific Coast which is almost entirely edited by the children of California themselves. The female Jack Tar of the Barbary Coast is the subject of a very readable sketch, and there is a large amount of other capital Sunday matter, ably written and well illustrated. The different departments are fully up to their usual standard of excellence, and as far as news and dispatches are con- cerned THE CaLy, as in the other in- stances, is far in the lead of its contem- poraries. Nobody should fail to get Trr Suxpay Caurn. It is a veritable library of literature and news of the day, and all it costs is 5 cents. THE HORSELESS CAB. A SYSTEM OF SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLE FOR Loxpox. There is no doubt, says the Graphic, that we shall soon see a great change come over the traffic in the streets of London. Horses for public vehicles will be the exception, and the terrible spectacle of these poor creatures strug- gling and falling down in the slippery streets will be a rere one when once the auto-motor vehicles are fairly tried. A service of auto- motor tarriages is about to be established by the London Electrical Cab Company. Auto- motor cars are now to be allowéd to travel at A London Electric Cab. the rate of twetve miles an hour, provided they;are not above a certain weight, and there is no doubt that when they come into general use, as undoubtedly they will in a short time, the pressure of the trafic will be considerably Jightened. Notonly will each vehicle take up less room, but there will not be the frequent deluy caused by a fallen horse blocking the *stream of traffic, so that the maximum pace of twelve miles an hour will not be g0 impossible as might at first be thought. The company proposes to begin business with 350 cabs.” These cabs will be most hand- somely appointed. They will be fitteq with soring cushions, green d gold curtains, glass fronts and electric lamps, They will be well lighted inside, besides carrying the lamps at the sides which are common to all cabs. The driver of these electric cabs will, like the drivers of the ordinary handsome cabs, have a mn{ seat from which he will be able to get & full view of the traffic on all sides. Only in the case of the new vehicies the drivers will be in front of their engers, but so seated as not wholly to obscure the view of their fares. The driver will control his cab by two handles, by one of which he will regulate the pace, and by the other he will steer. The cal fitted with reversing gear that is perfect. But in order to make the vehicles absolutely safe each is supplied with a foot-brake which will enable the driver to op it instantly. The wheeis of the electric cab are tired with indiarubber. NIAGARAa FALLS. Baltimore American. How has the mighty fallen! Niagara has now taken the place of the meek and despised carhorse, and is hauling streetcars in cb'l%t submission_to human control., prac tendency of this age is very useful, but it death and destruciion to romance, e _ PERSONAL. . B. Colt of Seattle is in the City. M. Girard of Paris arrived here last night. John W. Hepburn of Chicago isat the Palace. Dr. C. A, Devlin of Vallcjo is at the Baldwin. cll:r. Hache of the Chino ranch is visiting the ty. J.G. Jacobs, & merchant of Hanford, is at the Russ. J. W. Snowden of Willows is paying this City & visit. George Spalding of Stockton isat the Occi- dental. J. Jerome Smith of San Joaquin County is at the Grana. J. A. Whiting of Mount Pleasant, Iows, is at the Palace. 2 Frank A. Law of Washington, D. C., has ar- rived here. C. A. Campbell, s merehant of Red Bluff, is &t the Grand. Dr. M. Jaris Barlow of New York is registered +at the California. A. A. Cusby of London, Eng., is among yes- terday’s arrivals. Librarian N. C. Nash of Stanford University is at the Californis. E. 8. Churchill, the banker, of Napa County, has come to the City. F. H. Coyne of the rising gold camp of Angels hes arriyed here. Among the arrivals here yesterday was J. E. Herrington of Pitteburg. W. A. Cook, a business man of Monticello, Napa County, is in town, L. W. Coleman of the Iron Mountain mine, Shasta County, is in town. John A. Ritchie, a mining superintendent of Plumas County, is in town. George B. Katzenstein of Sacramento County is a late arrival in the City. James J. France of New Zealand is smong the arrivals at the California. Edwin Taylor, proprietor of a general store 8t Railroad Flat, is at the Russ, L. G. Nesmith, cashier of the Fimt National Benk, San Jose, is at the Palace. Mrs. L. M. Hicks of Emeryville, Cal,, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel for the winter. Dr. L. C. Leonhardt and Mrs. Leonharat of Juneau, Alaska, arrived here yesterday. Mrs. E. A, James of Lodi came down yester- day and is registerea at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. W. Read, an extensive land-owner of Delano, 15 in town and staying at the Cosmo- Ppolitan Hotel. G. W. Scott, the extensive wool-grower and farmer of Madison, Yolo County, is in the City on a business trip. C. B. Rustin and C. P. Treat, old and wealthy residents of Omaha, are among the recent ar- rivals in the City. Superior Judge R.J. Hudson of Lakeport, Lake County, came down from the north yes- terday. He is at the Grand. E. G. Leszynsky of Chicago, one of the own- ers of the Venns gold prospects in Calaveras County, is among the arrivals here. J. Wyclifte Wilson, William Wilson and Miss R. C. Wilson, of England, are among late visi- tors here. They are at the Occidental, William Sticthler, a real estate man of Greenwood. is in town on business and has taken rooms at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. M. Davis and C. H. Hays, wealthy business men of London, who are en route to Australia, are in town and quartered at the Palace. Samuel McMurtrie, the wealthy railroad contractor of Lompoe, who built considerable of the Southern Pacific toward Santa Barbara, arrived here yesterday. E. W. Devara of New York, who has been on a bicycle tour of the world and who recently crossed China and othercountries, has arrived here and wiil remain some days before going Esst. Frank A. Kimball, owner of the great Kim- ball ranch, lying between San Diego and the Lower California boundary, and founder of National City,isat the Grand. Mr. Kimball for some years has been in the banking busi- ness. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 4.—At New York hotels: Manhattan, W. Ralston; Gilsey, G. C. Baldwin, A WISH. “He told me the sun would cease to shine 11 T sent him sway from me; He sald his iife would be wasted unless His helpmate I would be. “He swore that the sitvery moon would fall From ner noble piace above Unless I renounced the world for him And gave him love 1or love. “Igave him my hand and I gave him my love— “The sun is a faded ball, And as for the moon—ob, how I wish That I had let er fail.” —Exchange. THE LARGEST MAJORITY. Philadeiphia Times. Galusha A. Grow, the veteran Congressman- at-large from Pennsylvania, maintains his po- sition as the man with the largest mngomy against all comers. He won the position in both the elections of 1893 and 1894, even ex. uedlng"l!uung-‘ large m-{oruy over Sin- ferly. cKinley’s majority in Pennsylvania 8 295,070, while Grow’s plurality over De Witt (D.), for Congressman-at-large, 1s 297, 446, Although Grow enterad the public service as & Congressman before any other member of the present House he is yet one of the most vigor- ous end efficient members of the body, and of course among the oldest in experience. STRONG hoarhound candy, 15¢. Townsend’s.* s CREAX mizxed candies 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s, * ——————————— The Philadelphia papers give appreciative sketches of the life of Robert Adger, colored, who recently died in that city. He was born in slavery in Charleston, 8. C. He came to Philadelphia early in life and went inte the furniture business, in which he remained until his death. ——————— SEND your friends Townsend’s California fruits, 50¢ & pound; in handsome baskets, * paddvizecves s on EPECTAL Information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——————— Holiday Goods. Christmas cards, calendars, leather goods, pictures, frames, albums, toilet cases, wave crestware, bohemian glassware, decorated china, banquet l:mg:, onyx tables, gold and fountain pens, clocks, perfumery, traveling sets, valises, stationery in fancy boxes, Bibles, guyer-booh and silver novelties for the holi: 8 now invitingly displayed at Sanborn 741 Market street. Everybody wel- 3 S ey Mamma-Johnny, I fear you were not at school yesterday. Johnny—H'm! I’ll bet the teacher told you. A woman can never keep a secret.—Boston Transcript, Phillips’ Rock Island Exoursicns Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Hallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chigago and Boston. Mao- ager and poriers accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car acoommodations and further information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kock Island Raliway, 80 Mopt- BOmery street, San Franciseo. Through Car to St. Paul and Minneapolis An elegantly uphotstered tourist-car leaves Oak- 1and every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for all polnts in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Nochange of cars. Dining-carson all trains. Come and get our rates |t you expect o make a‘trip to any Eastern point. T. K. Sisteler, General Agent Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 688 Market street, 5. F. e ———— MR. STATELER, General Agent North Pacific Railway, has recelved a message from Portland stating his line Is open and in good condition from Portland 10 St. Paul and all trains are running on time. ' e D. BIXERT'S Angostura Bitters, the most effi- cacious stimulant to excite the appetite, keeps the digestive organs In order. ——————————— “BROWN'S BRONCHTAL TROCHES"” are asimple and convenient remedy for Bronchial Affections and Coughs. Carry them in your pocket. e EVEN the hair suffers from modern ways by growing thin and faded. PARKER'S HAIR Bai- BAX brings new hair with the old color and life. DON'T let your chid strangle with whooping cough, when a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral can be had for & dollar, NOGUCHI AND HIS CRITIC. A Japanese View of the Alleged Plagiar- 4sms of the Poet. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: I ‘request the courtesy of THE CALL for the use of your columnsto expose our opinion about the articles in which Rev. Jay William Hudson attacked M. Yone Noguchi, Dear sir, Ineed not necessurily ask your courtesy for the defense of our young Japanese poeton a charge of plagiarism but for areason which ‘shows eo often the difference of standards for the plagiarism. Our oriental j[and seems ap- proaching at present to the conclusion of the question of plagiarism, being so old a country thatso many poets suffered with that charge and so tired now with that gossip; but at least this question is always worthy enough to illus- trate the genins of the so-called plagiarist and the possibility to produce the same thought in exactly the same words—the mat- ter of interesting coincidence. The anclent Chinese poet, *Kayu,” has some lines quoted thus: On the watery fleld, the white stork hops. Among the summer trees the yellow bird chutters. And the certain famous poet at the same age, “0-i,” who sang his poetry of the same thought in almost the same words with “Kayu” was ever proud to show to the public bis lines, which quoted thus: On the watery field, dim and dim, the stork hops. - Among the summer trees, gloomy and gloomy, the yellow bird chutiers. And after them the ambitious Chinese whose name is written with the spell *“ oku,” wrote his poetry with a few changes, thus: 1 see just on the watery field the white stork hops. 1 hear now among sthe summer trees the yellow bird chatters. Some one among these poets ought to be the plagiarist. Ii the old person could claim its originality on the foundation that any other poet did ot sing before such thought with the same words the other poets, “O-i” and *Choyoku,” must be charged as the shameful plagiarists; but, being not o in our oriental country,.the people compare ever who can be praised as the highest genius among them. Mr. O, elected as the foremost persom, leaves his high honor to our future age. Why, this is the question of poetry ! Mr. Noguchi’s poem, entitled “Lines,” being fortunately eompared with “The Sleeper,” a poem of the late Allan Poe, who has so many devoted admirers in this world, and was ac- knowledged as the first poet ever the Ameri- can could produce perhaps, suffers as the plagarist at present. [ wonder why the people Compares not which poetry has more founda- tion as the originality and eXpresses.more poetical high thought—in one expression, which person has more genius of the poetry. We never claim the poem of the Founk Japan- ese poet more superior than the Poe’s produc- tion; but, for instance, Mr. Noguchi stealing the lines irom the exoteric American genius— Iawelt alone In a wor.d of moan, ‘And my soul was a stagnant tide. If the young Japanese poet made out his “Lines,” which singing thus: I dwell alone. Like one-e- ed star, In trightened, darksome, willow threads, In wor.d of moan, My soul is stagnant down— Finally rushes down with the strength of thundery groan, asking what he may has— 76 8w Gog~ Demon—light— Darkness—Oh ! We must feel for him why he cannot be so satisfied with the plagiarist. Oh, poor littie boy poet, you be contented with the thief of anotner poet, but you might believe that there are many persons who estimate your genius more original and more higher than the dead poet. About the critic wnich denies to him the right to such adj.ctives or verbs as *mvs- lewy, dim,” “steals drowsily,” “wan- losed and prized,” we have fortun- ately none of the words to answer. Mr. No- guchi made out bravely with such words, “mystic” and ‘opiate vapor, dewy, dim,” hiring from Poe his first three lines o1 ““Lines."” 1am compelled to admire ana iove his talent, [ For tne second article of Rev.Jay William Hudson the Examiner shared Jer editorial column, defending the young poet. There's no necessity 10 expose again the certain preacher’s foolishness. . T. WATARL Jackson street, Sau Francisco. LADY’S LONG CLOAK A graceful shape of extreme simplicity and elegance is shown above. Cloth, silk or velvet are employed in making these garments. One in gray lady’s cloth, with trimmings of mouffloon fur and braiaing in gray and gold, was very handsome. One of brawn and black matelasse, with col- lar of Persian lamb, was fastened down the {front with frogs of biack braid. A black velvet, with the yoke covered with ince.'-md lace set on to simulate a yoxe in ron! PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Earl of Warwick agreed to accept the mayoralty of Warwick for the third time. D. L. Mbvody, the evangelist, -is to begina series of revival meetings in Boston on Janu- ary 1. It is said that Archbishop Temple is the first teetotaler who has occupied the see of Canter- bury. Mulhall, the noted statistician, spent over forty years in accumulating the material for his one volume of statistics. General Crespo of Venezuela has given in- structions to have his racehorses trained ac- cording to American methods. The King of Sweden has subseribed the sum of 500 kroner for the Salvation Army seli- denial week fund in Sweden, which took place October 25-31. By using electrie light during the daytime Professor Bailey has produced lilies fully two weeks belore the plants grown under the natural conditions flowered. The Countess of Derby recently lald the foundation stone of a new hospital for Liver- 2:0]. toward the building of which the David Wis trust has given £300,000. Representative Boatner of Louisiana says that “there are very few men in Congress from the South who honestly believe in the theory of free coinage of silver, and the majority of their constituents do not believe in that theory.” Miss Juliet Corson, the “Mother of Cookery,” isincurably ill. She is able to endure life only through the daily use of opiates, admin- istered under her physycian’s directions. Her mind is clear, and she understands her phy- sical condition exactly. Her trouble is from a wound received by being struck in the side b; & ball thrown by a careless boy. y A SIGNIFICANT NUMEER. Hartford Post, Tne number 23 is identified with Major Mc- Kinley's progress. He will succeed the twenty-third man who has held the office o1 President of the United States. Major McKin- ley will come to the office with the electoral vote of twenty-three States, In the war Major McKinley served in the Twenty-third Obio Regiment, a regiment which nas the honor of having given to the country two of the chief magistrates—Hayes and McKinley, THE BARBERS' CONVENTION. New York Sm!.‘ Pyt There are 60,000 barbers in the Unites States and their representatives in this State are to hold a convention at Syracuse in Janu- ary for the purpose of preparing a bill for sub- mission to the Legislature to remedy their grievances. It appears that these grievances have grown to be many and various. The rudimentary education of some barbers is wofully neglect- ed. The pay of journeymen is insufficientin amount and irregular in collection. Much demoralization has followed the pernicious system of ‘‘tips,” and worse than all, the IC; curity of the trade and the emoluments :) dexterous and competent barbers ar J)ut “: peril by the intrusion of newcomers s ver ing “b-cent shaves.” The teaching of the bar: bers’ art in what are known as ‘‘(he barbers’ colleges” 13 described as imperfect. The con- vention accordingly is expected to decide upon a bill proyviding for the ellnblilh!flent of “State Examining Board for Barbers,” with the right to summon witnesses and call for books or papers, to impose fines, a,xnc_t fees, grant, amend and reyoke barbers’ licenses, and prosecute civilly and criminally, but more especially eriminaly, those who attempt 10 act as barbers without suitable credentials. A precedent for the barbers has been estab- lished in the law adopted for the horseshoer which requires that every man who shoes'a horse must have alicense from the Board of Examining Horseshoers. Who is there who will say that it the hcofs of the horse are to be saved by statutory en- actment from unskillful, unpracticed and improper hands, the head of & man, the seat of his infelligence and the abiding ‘place of his knowledge and philosophy, if he has any, should not likewise be protecied from un- sophisticated, incompetent, ignoble and de- vastating barbers? Why, ask the barbers, sho not the protession of the *‘tonsorial RIS s sedtotad 1o the position of honor and distinction which it occupied in the old days, where, in many P)uceu. surgeon barbers took rank with duiy licensed physiclans, and the hairdressers of some monarchical courts took precedence of cooks and maintained it with undeviating firmness against the cabals of statesmen and the conspiracies of . politictans! 1ithe State takesthe barber business “into its own hands,” as the journeymen barbers propose, may not an end be put to the vexatious competition of the *‘5-cent shave” establishments, and may not the unsuspect- ing patron who gives a diligent ana efficient barber & ‘tip’ soon find himself fice to face with the law and prosecuted, perhaps by no less a functionary than ‘“‘the sitorney for the State Examining Board of Barbers?’ These matters will come up for settlement when the barbers from all over the State assemble for sage deliberation at Syracuse next January. Let us hope that the more progressive and en- lightened barbers of the town will not with- hold their active support from the movement to raise the standard of he barbers’ business by & mote rigid a vronuce«hi; 1t is to be noped, too, that the temptations to loquacity which many journeymen barbess now find it nearly impossible to resist will not combins to nndn! delay the Kroe.odlngl of the January convention; and that the rule of “next,” the watchword of the barber-shop, will be rigorously -ppgiled to debaters under the five-minute rule. Moreover, no claims of tonies of hair dyes should detract the atten- tion of the delegates from the more important work of attempting to stamp out the 5-cent shave shops, conducted, some of them, there is reason to fear, by journeymen who have greater knowledge how to wield anax than to manipulate a razor. Harmony and union among the barbers are prerequisites to a suc- cessful convention in Junuary. Let there be no unseemly contention, no razors displayed and none concealed! WHAT ONE GIRL DOESN'T DO. She doesn’t claim to k now it all, ‘Though & Woman new is sne: She doesu't talk In modern slang, Nor manly try to bs: She doesn's ride a speedy bike, Nor wear the bloomers boid The reason why she doesn’t is She's only one year old. —New Yors Tribune, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. He—1 always keep my word. She—Won’t anybody take it?—Town Topics, She—You were well off before you were mar- {ed, were you not? 7 ;Ke——Yel, and I didn’t bave anything, either. Puck. Vietim—Say, you have filled my ear plumb full of lather. Barber—I was wondering what had become of all the lather.—Indianapolis Journal. «Itis said we shall all pass away as a talo that is told.” «That sounds all right, but tales that are told don’t pass awsy—they are forever being 1ol over again.”—Chicago Record. She—Charlie, the engagement ring you gave me has “E. C.” engraved on it. 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