The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1896. .DEC! 7. 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, One week, by carrier..$0.18 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, one vear, by mall.... Dally and Sunday six months, by mall. Dajly end Sund: three montis by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. \\ ¥RXLY CaLL, One year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, san Francisco, Californis. TelephoDe........... .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 97 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open until 0 o'clock. Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until o'clock. &W . corper Sixteenth and Mission streets; ntil 9 o'clock. 018 Mission street; open until 9 0'cloci. 167 Minth sireet; open until 9 0'clock. « Market street, open till 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE €08 Broadway. open EASTERN OFFICE: Fooms 31 and 32, 84 Park ew York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Now for Congress. Grover, cut your message short. .Get a club ready for the funding bill. This week holiday trading will begin in earnest. 1t is to be a short sessicn and let us hope it will be sweet. The Dingley bill suits the wool men, but | there are others. Cleveland may be willing to approve a compromise tariff biii, but the country | isn't. | 1t is probable the Cubans expect about as much from Cleveland’s message as we do. The coming horse show may not be the best in the Union, but it will be the best We ever saw. The movement for the apnomtment of a | Secretary of Mines and Mining should | show itself in Congress at once. It is better to make war on the cobble- | stones of our streets than to continue in- definitely to do business on them. There is a chance that the Kansas Legis- | lature will turn Peffer down for some other | Populist, and any change will suit the country. David Bennett Hill will crawl out of his hole long enough to go to the Senate, but the hole will not be closed up before he re- | turns to it azain. If McKinley does not hurry up and an- nounce his Cabinet very soon there are lots of people who are going to guess them- selves bald-headed. The twenty-five improvement clubs of the City will never fully complete their work until they have infused their public spirit into the people generally. | Those who are demanding an “emer- | geficy”” tariff bill should remember the | | | | emergency calls for protection to industry 4s well as a revenue for the Government. In testing the new electric machine at the Ohio penitentiary for execution pur- poses the officials tried it first on a dog, then on s muple and are now ready proba- bly to try it on a Sa The Boston Board of Health has issuned a regulation forbiading spitting in street- cars under a penalty not exceeding $100, | and the tobacco-chewers of the city will have to cultivate the bicycle. | The Dingley bill is not so bad but that there are peoole who think they can amend it, nor so dead but that they de- clare they can revive it. so there is a fight- ing chance for the measure after all. It was noted at the Fruit-growers’ Con- vention that Democrats as well as Repub- licans joined in the memorial asking Con- gress for & protective duty on fruit. It is always so. Free trade is something we wish the other fellow to practice. A conference of silver leaders at Wash- ington is said to have resuited in an ad- mitted failure to combine the various fac: tions into one organization and this seems toimply a collapse of the fusion move ment and a return of all silverites of the | last campaign to their former parties, | | | Republican Congressmen-eleet in In- diana are said to have agreed to leave the selection of Postmasters 1o be appointed by the incoming administration to the election of Republican voters of the vari- ous towns, and the agreement is receiving a good deal of approval in other States, The revival of prosperity will probably bring a large number of tourists to Cali- fornia this winter, and among them we - ‘may reasonably expect a considerable number of investors and home-seckers, for whom our reviving industries and our genial ciimate will have irresistible attrac- tions. According to Dr. Grace Kimball, who has recently returned from Armenia, the | missionaries in the interior of that coun- try look 1o the British and not to the American flag for protection, and if this | is so it is high time we had a little more | vigor in the State Department at Wash- | ington. | In a recent speech Bourke Cockran said: “I am tired of masquerading as a tariff re- former. 1 am a free-trader, and I have donned political disguises for the last time.” Now then if other Democrats will be equally honest the people will know ex- actly the issue before them and the tariff question will soon be out of politics. | The Boston Herald gives notice that the | culture of that ity does nct care how baa morality may pronounce the Bacchante so long as it is pronounced in two syl- lables. In the cla:sic courts of Boston's library it is permitted to say “Ba-kant” or “*Bak-kent,” but whoever calls it any- thing else is spotted as a Chicago man. At the recent Anthropological congress in Geneva a professor of criminology quoted statistics showing that the greater proportionate number of criminals 1s found among those who toil with their brains instead of with their hands, but he attributes this to the fact that brain- workers are more trusted and bave more opportunities for crime, thus indorsing the old saying, “‘the occasion makes the rogue.” | have been altogether too favorable. IRy | in the matter. WORK FOR CONGRESS. Itis not probable the session of Con- gress which begins to-day will undertake much, if any, legislation of a partisan character. The condition of the Senate is such that no measure of such a nature would have much prospect of success, and consequently if anything is attempted in the way of tariff or monetary legislation it will be at best no more than a com- promise. The short sessions of Congress rarely achieve much beyond the passage of rou- tine appropriation bills. The present session, however, has an opportunity of improving upon its predecessors in this respect, for there will be much work be- fora it of a non-partisan character, and some of these measures are of such im- portance they are not less in public inter- est than even the great issues on which parties are divided. Of these the three most important will be the settlement of the Pacific roads debt, the Nicaragna canal and a measure to promote the expansion of our commerce by the upbuilding of an American mer- chant marine. In all of these California will be interested, and particularly in the funding bill. The session therefore, for us at any rate, will be as interesting as any that has been held for a long time, and our delegation at Washington will be kept busy in looking after the interests of the State. In addition to these measures of general interest there will be many others of con- siderable importance under consideration during the winter, Among them may be noted a biil already before the Senate to provide for the establishment of a Depart- ment of Commerce and one which will | probably be introduced to establish a De- partment of Mines and Mining. The question of immigration restriction will re- ceive attention, and probably some im- portant amendments will be made to the existing law. Another bill which will be brought up for decision at this session will be that of Congressman Loud to cure the abuses of the luw relating to second- | class mail matter; and finally there will be the Wadsworth bill for the creation of a Bureau of Animal Industry for the in- spection of meat intended for use as food either at home or abroad. ‘When it is remembered that the total number of bills now before the House and in the hands of its committees is in excess of 1400, it will be seen that it will have enough to do even if it makes no attempt at tariff legislation. This fact will prob- ably have much influence in determining the decision of the Republican caucus in regard to the policy to be pursued on the subject of tariff reform. If any atiempt is made at devising a tariff, that will be of course the chief fight of the session, but otherwise we may expect the main inter- est to center in the struggle over the funaing bill. BALLOT MACHINES. The first reports which came of the re- sults of voting by ballot mac:ines seem to Ad- verse criticism is now being pronounced on the subject and there is abundant evi- dence compiled by Public Opinion to show that neither of the machines tried at the last election is at all satisfactory. It is stated the Myers Compary have been obliged to set about devising changes in the doors and outside casing of their machine, while the Mc¢Tammany Com- pany recognize that theirs does not codnt well and are arranging to improve the de- fect. Both machines seem to have occa- sioned the loss of a considerable number of votes during the election, and it ison that ground the main objections to them are based. The Providence Journal in giving an ac- count of the cperation of the machine used in Massachusetts says: *“A former Judge of Worcester entered and issued forth from the McTammany cage without vot- | ing. On taking the oath provided for such emergencies he was permitted to try again.”’ If a citizen of such intelligence as a Judge may be presumed to be could not operate the machine it is fair to as- sume that a considerable number of oth- ers have tried it and failea also. The Utica Herald refers to the fact that upward of 200 voiers in a single precinct in Rochester where the Myers machine was tried lost their votes, and very justly says: “It would have been hardly possi- ble to cast 200 defective blanket ballots. Even if it were, the fault would have been that of the voters. In the case, however, of a man who touches a knob that fails to record his vote the fault rests wholly with the machine.” The general conclusion of.the press in the East upon the subject,where all the ex- periments were watched with close atten- tion, is fairly well expressed in the state- ment of the New York 7Tribune that the voting machine is not yet a practical suc- cess. Of the various leading machines ex- perimented with it says: “Not one appar~ ently stood the required test. All proved more or less uasatisfactory, and the im- rfections in most instances were of a serious character.”’ That each of the machines tried has some mrerit is beyond question, but a balloting machine ought not to be adopted unless it is so perfect that it will unfail- ingly record every vote that is given. It will not do to trust the franchise of citi- zens to machines that are not certain to register the votes. Itis asserted with the Myers machine thatin one precinet six- teen ballots had been cast before the ma- chine registered at all. These men were clearly disfranchised through no fault of their own, and the machine to that extent was actually a fraud upon the voters. It is fairly certain some effort will be made during the session of the Legisla- ture this winter to provide for machine balloting in this State. It will, therefore, be well for the peovle to be on their guard The election of officials is too important to be left to the hazard of mere experiment, and if we are to have any such thing as a voting machine adopted for use in this State great care should be taken to see to it that it is something more than an experiment and wiil unfailingly register accurately the vote of every citizen THE HAMBURG EXHIBIT. At the International Horticultural Ex- bibition which is to be held in Hamburg, Germany, beginning on the 1st of next May, the State of California should be sure to attend to the business maxim, “Make yourself known and favorably known.” The State Board of Trade is already be- stirring itself in the matter, but it desires and needs the enthusiastic co-operation of all the counties to make our representa- tion there a complete success. Four thou- sand feet of space has been apvlied for; the steamship associations have offered free transportation for the exhibits and half rates for those who are in charge of them; and the railroads have been ap- plied to for the same concessions, and they now have the matter under advisement. It is fully expected that the same line of reasoning which induced the action of the steamship companies will prevail with | the railways, viz., that the exhibit will certainly result in the extension of the shipments of dried and canned fruits from California to Europe. The amount necessary to pay the ex- penses of the enterprise is $3000, of which the Board of Trade now has for that use $1000. The balance should be promptly raised by the counties most interested. This duty being attended to success will be assured, for there is no doubtabout the excellence of the exhibits which can be sent. Several splendid packs have al- ready been promised. The benefits to be derived are obvious to any one who will consider the facts in the case. Califcrnia dried and canned fruits can be sold in Europe at a profit, and they are of better quality than those now on the market there. Secretary Filcher of the State Board of Trade says that he has recently nad a number of applications from Europe asking about California fruits and where to purchase them, Last year only ten carloads were shipped to Europe, and this year there were 150. Mr. H. 0. Trowbridge of Oakland, who is a frequent visitor to Germany and is well acquainted with the market condi- tions there, says that with proper efforts on the part of our fruit-growers the people within the German empire would buy at a profit to the producers half the dried fruits put up in California. Hamburg, it must be remembered, is the greatest com- mercial city of the continent of Europe. Last year the tonnage of that port was 6,256,000, and exceeded Liverpool by about 300,000 tons. In the last ten years the tonnage of Liverpool has increased 40 per cent while that of Hamburg grew 70 per cent. To have a fine display of our horticul- tural products on such an occasion in such a world’s mart as Hamburg would surely lead to the much-talked-of market exten- sion for dried and canned fruits. Itisa golden opportunity, which should be grasped with eager hands. THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. The annual report of Secretary Francis ot the Interior Department furnishes an indirect but strong argument for the es- tablishment of a Department of Mines and Mining. This is done by making it clear that the work of the Interior is too vast and various for any single branch of the Government and cannot be well car- ried on under present conditions. The Secretary asks for additional build- ings for the department and in urging their prompt construction says: The ares of our country, the variety of its products, the diversity of its interests, the trade and soclal relations between localities and classes of people make its internal com- merce of enormous magnitude and must from time to time necessitate enlargement of its existing Government bureaus and the estab- lishment of additional ones. Provisions for the accommodation thereof should no longer be delayed. A cursory reading of even the digest of the report sent out by telegraph will show how overloaded the Interior office is. The report covers such important matters as public lande, Indian tribes, irrigation, pen- sions, railroads and the Nicaragua canal. Each of these divisions includes impor- tant subdivisions, such as homesteads, for- estry, mineral lands and Pacific roads debts. So large and so varied, indeed, were the subjects with which he had to deal that from the summary of his report which has been given out the Secretary seems to have found no space in which to make any notice whatever of the mining industry. With so many kinds of Governmental work to,attend to it is not to be wondered at that the Secretary wishes more bureaus for taking charge of special branches of the work and more office room for the workers. It would seem, however, that the best solution of the problem would be the creation of other departments to take control of some of the more important branches of the work now intrusted to the Interior. « Two additional departments have, 1n fact. been ¢noken of—one of com- merce and the otber of mines. Eack of these is sufficient to justify the supervi- sion of a Cabinet official and there would still be work enough left in the Interior office to tax the energies of even the great- est statesmen. The growth of the United States in population, wealth and industry nezessi- tates perioaical enlargements of the de- partments of the Government. The su- pervision which was sufficient a few years ago is inadequate now and will be wholly incompetent in a short time. The work of the Interior must be subdivided in or- der that justice may be done to the great industries affected by its management, and among them none better merits a de- partment of its own than that of mines and mining. COAST EXOHANGES, The Emeryville Journal is the latest addi- tion to the list of weekly newspavers of Ala- meda Couniy. The editor and manager, C. C. Emslie, declares that it is no ephemeral publi- cation, and that the Journal is established in response to & henlihy demand in the growing village that has just been incorporated. The paver1s sprightly and interesting and makes a clean and neat appearance. It has strongly opposed the idea of annexa- tion to Oakland, of which city it1sasuburb. Here is & sample of the Journal’s onslaughts on the Athens of the Pacific: “He would Le a foolish driver who would harness up a race horse with a plow horse, yet that would be the effect of snnexation. Emeryville will make a lively and enterprising town, while Oekland—" ~ Here the editorial ends. The Bakersfield Californian displays the very best evidence of prosperity by enlarging from a four-page to an eight-pagze daily, the increase in size having been necessitated by the heavy demands upon the advertising space. Verily the good times have dawned upon Kern County’s capital. The Californian is a good paper and rickly merits the success 1t 18 achieving. The Los Angeles Fzpress is devoting much attention to the new miuing imterests in the Mojave country. Itspeaks as followson the subject: 5 “The gold discoveries in the Randsburg dis- trict have created a sensation among the min- ing experts who have examined the deposits and studied the formation in which they are found. No such devclopments have been made in this country in recent years, accom- penied gs they are by such peculiar end un- usual features. Here are vast deposits of gold- bearing rock appearing above the natural sur- face of the mountains and going down to un- known depth. So far a8 development work ex- tends these ledges show strength and richness wherever exposed. Considering the amount of prospecting done the leading properties may be considered wonderful.” Thomas H. Dawson bas sold the Corning Observer to Frank W. Stoddard, who will this week take possession of the editorial throne- room of Corning’s creditable weekly. Los Angeles has a new weekly journal, elegantly printed on heavy paper, and edited and managed by those veteran Western news- paper men, J. D. Lynch and Ben C. Truéman. ‘I'he name of the paper is Greater Los Angeles, and its object apparently is to boom the pro- ject of spreading the municipality of the Angelenos all over Southern California. The publication has many merits, and ought to win success. The Post-Intelligencer of Seattle, Washington, has set an admirable example to newspapers everywhere outside of California. It gives its readers an opportunity to vote for a favorite school teacher, and the educator receiving the highest vote will be awarded the prize of a ten days’ pleasure trip to San Francisco at the expense of the enterprising Post-Intelligencer. The Seattle daily may well expatiate on the good fortune that will have fallen to the lot of the teacher whose luck it will be to enjoy & California Christmas and New Year. Butte County seems to have struck a profit- able lead in the growth of hemp alongits river bottoms. The Chico Chronicle-Record has this to say of the subject: An Eastern capitalist leased a tract of about 200 acres of bottom land along Feather River and last win- ter planted this land to hemp. Theeropis now being gut, and the growth of the product 1s something remarkable when compared with that produced in the Eastern States. That planted near Gridley hes sttained an enor- mous height, a great deal of it being about six- teen feet tall. This is a great success when one considers that the first three feet of the hemp stock will pay the expenses of 80wing, cutting, crushing and preparing the fiber for the market. The hemp, aiter it has reached the proper stage for cutting, is mowed down with an ordinary mower. 1t is then allowed 10 Jie on the ground and go through what is called rotting. After a required length of time has elapsed the hemp stalks are_shocked upin & manner similar to corn. Itis then hauled to the crushing-mill, where the stalks are rolled between two heavy cog cylinders. This breaks up the wood, which is aftersward easily separated from the fiber. Thisfiber, when properly prepared, commands a market price of between 7 and 8 cents per pound, and the cost of shipping is nominal compared with the selling value. If this experiment proyes successfui—~and all indications are flattering that it will—we will undoubtedly see in the course of the next few years hemp fields scat- fered all along our river bottoms. — NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The British cruiser Leander, built in 1882, is having her battery of 6-inch, breech-loading rifles replaced with ten 6-inch quick-firers. The cost, including refit, will amount to £150,- 000. 4 A Japanese volunteer fleet is under consid- eration among retired naval officers of that country. It is planned to counsist of nine steamers, ranging from 3000 to 6000 tons dis- placement, and fourteen steamers of 500 to 3000 tons displacement. In timesof peace the larger steamers will run between ports of Japan, Australia and America, and the smaller ciass will be employed on the routes to China, There is only one cruiser afloat faster than the Yoshino, which is credited with a speed of 23 knots—the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires, having a trial speed of 28.2 knots. In the @vent of complications with foreign countries the Yoshino and the two ships contracted for in the United States would prove troublesome commerce destroyers, as no European navy possesses any vessels that could overhaul the Japanese ships. The frequent dismal failures of French vessels-of-war is chiefly dueé to changes of naval administrations, each new one hay- ing its vparticular hobby to ride. The blame for over-weighted, unseaworthy ships is there- fore not to be laid to the constructors, but rather upon the superiors who, during their brief period of authority, make radical changes in vessels under construction, and as a rule no armored vessel which takes years to build in a dockyard is anywhere near the original design when finally completed. The Jeaureguiberry, begun at La Seyne in 1891 and launched in 1893, nas just had her gun trials, which were satisfactory. Electric power is used for the turret and ammunition gear, and there is no hydraulic machinery whatever on board. The turrets are so placed as to have an unvarying center of gravity and may be worked by hand in case of accident to the electric power. She is of an entirely dii- ferent type from the Hoche, Neptune and Ma- genta, having only moderate superstructnres, and is therefore likely to prove a good shipat sea, There are twenty-four 100 and 105 ton guns of 17-inch caliber In the Italian navy, carried on the Duilio, Doria, Lauria, Lepanto, Moro- sini, Italia and Dandolo. It is contemplated to replace these monster guns with more mod- erate-sized ordnance, sud the Dandolo has already been fitted with four 10-inch rifies and seven 6-inch, guick-firing guns. The fact that some of the 17-inch guns have been in service since 1878 and have therefore long ago fired their 100 rounds, which is said to constitute their lifetime, may account for this material reduction in armament. An Austrian naval officer has Invented s night signal system for use at sea. The appar- atus, constructed fifteen vears ago, was tried last month at Pola, the Austrian naval port, and gave good results. It consists of two lamps of 200 cancle-power each, containing five systems, namely: A fixed white 1light, & fixed red light, a white fiashlight, a red flash- light and a white and red flashlight. Thirty signals, therefore, can be given with two of these lamps, which are visible at a great dis- tance. The mechanism is independent of weighting-power and is in no way affected by the movements of the ship. THE CY(LODIAL CHARIOT. fomething new in the way of big wheels will be erected at the centennial celebration to be beld at Nashville, Tenn. It isa large wheel, as shown 1n the cut, having ten cars, and each ville street car lines, electric light works and gas works, is making a visit at the Lick. F. J. Jury and wife of Stockton came down yesterday and are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. T. Crandell of Omaha, connected with the Union Pacific Railroad, is at the Grand with his wife. F. W. Lovell, a commercial man of New York City, 15 in town and registered at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. E. D. McCabe of Sacramento, private secre- tary to Governor Budd, arrived last nightat the California. = - Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel is the well-known cattle king, H. L. Dowd of New Mexico. J. H. Hewins and wife of Mount Vernon, Ill. arrived on the overland yesterday and will winter at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Robert Duncan Jr., an agent of the Treasury Department at Washington, arrived atv the Occidental yesterday from Alsska. E. E. Ames lelt last evening on a business trip to Eastern factories. He wiil probably extend the trip to New York and Weshington. Thomas Hill, the artist, and Miss Willetta 8. Hill are visiting at the Palace, having ar- rived from their'’home in the Yosemite Valley. R. T. Thorburn of New South Wales, Aus- tralia, and James E. Hazzledine of London, on a tour of the world, arrived at the Baldwin last night from the East. Mr. Thorburn is ex- tensively engaged in the dairy business and in the culture of maze near Sydney. Mr. Haz- zledine is & London bauker on his way to Japan. They will sail from here on the 10th of this month on the Alameda. Richard Hunt, a young business man of Valparaiso, Chile, arrived at the Baldwin yes- terday after making the ocean trip from Val- paraiso in the bark Midas in forty-two days. The Midas passed by the Farallones Saturday morning, northward bound, and her single passenger was transferred to the pilot boat Lady Mine and brought into the harbor to be delayed another day by Customs examinations before finally landing for his first visit in San Francisco. Dr. J. E. Brouse of Vancouver, just from New Denver, on £locan Lake, the center of the new Slocan mining region in British Columbia, regisiered at the Occidental last night with his wife. Heis in charge of the miners’ hos- pital at New Denver, but is on his way to Los Angeles on a pleasure trip. He says that more attention is now being pa1d in the Slocan region to the development of sil- ver prospects than to those of gold, because they yield richer returns. He predicts a great inrush ofpeople next spring, with much exeite- ment. CALIFORNIANS IN W ASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. D., Dee. 6.—Senator Per- kins arrived to-day. Grove L. Johnson and wife and Miss Mabel A. Johnson are at the Hotel Regent, where they will reside this win- ter. Mrs, H. E. O'Neil of S8an Franciseo isat the Hotel Regent, Hon.James G. Maguire ar- rived to-night. LADY'S SHIRT WAIST FOR SILK OR WOOL FABRICS. The shirt waist has a new lease of life, ap- pearing in wool, silk, satin, velveteen and evenin velvet. Two toned taffetas are about the most popu- lar and seryiceable. They are made with cuffs and collar of the same, or the neck is simply bound, white collars being worn. Plain black satin is extremely smart, though the fancy velveteens are a little newer. This model is made with a sleeve specially designed for the purpose, and is a boon to the home dressmaker, as it saves the trouble of making buttonholes and the sleeve facing, while the effecct is that of a shirt sleeve. It white collars are to be worn the neck is sim- ply bound. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Signor Tosti, the composer of “Forever and Forever,” whose first manuseripts were “de- elined with thanks,” can now command $1250 for a song. Many English noblewomen are of literary habits. Three duchesses—those of Cleveland, i THE CYCLODIAL CHARIOT. car with a capacity of forty persons. This wheel will be monnted on elevated tracks and will move forward as it revolves, and will thus meake a tour of the entire ground. If the scheme is a success such & wheel will be erected at Atlantic City. The wheel is the in- vention of Wiliiam J. Cronin and is called the cyclodiel chariot. PERSONAL _Dr. J.J. Gaynor of Eureks isa guestatthe | Grand. G. C. Freeman, a Fresno attorney, is visiting at the Lick, A. W. Baker, a merchant of Red Bluff, is at the Baldwin. . Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is registered at the Grand. C. L. Sheafe, a banker of Seattle, is a guest at the Palace. < Dr. C. E. Fisher of Chicago is making & brief visit at the Palace. Judge A. Hewel of Modesto is registered at the Lick with his wife. M. Theodore Kearney, a capitalist from Fresno, is staying at the Palace. Sheriff H. L. BorgwardtJr. of Bakersfield is making a short stay at the Russ. G. 8. Gould, a storekeeper and stockraiser of Innsdale, is registered at.the Russ. Ernest Graves, the San Luis Obispo attorney, registered yesterday at the Baldwin: Josiah Gilbert, a mine-owner of Butte, Mont., is one of the late arrivals at the Lick. C. F. Montgomery, a rancher of Antioch, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. George A. Smith, an orchardist of Courtland, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. J. G. Day Jr., one of the contractors at Cas- cade Locks, Or., is registered at the Palace. Louis Hosmer, a mining man from Ana- conds, Mont, is a recent arrival at the Russ C. L. Arnheim and wife of this City have taken apartments at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. D. E. Knight, proprietor of the Marysville Woolen Mills and & large owner in the | Sutherland and Bedford—have at one time or another contributed articles to magazines. The Connecticut Humane Society has awarded a medal to Eugene Walker of Hart- ford, a lad 17 years old, who at the risk of his own life saved e man from drowning last Sep- tember. Professor Brunner, rector of the University of Berlin, has refused the use of the university aula for a lecture by a woman. Fraulein | Helene Lange had been invited by a students’ society to speak o ‘Man and Woman” there. Lord Mayor Faudel-Phillips intends to sig- nalize his year of office, in which will fall the completion of the sixtieth year of Queen Vie- torin’s reign, by raising by subsecription the $5,000,000 needed to free the great public hospitals of London from debt. Sir C. M. Palmer, M. P., started when only 23 vears of age as a coke manufacturer. The business prospered at ouce. From this he went into coal mining, and, being obliged to ship’his coal 10 London, got interested in ship- building. The compeny with which his name 1s associated is now one of the largest ship- building firms in the world and employs 12,000 men. When Sir Edward Burne-Jones’ children ‘were naughty his wife used to send them to the corners of a room, where they had to face the wall and remain until they were “good.” To lessen their humiliation and incidentally to mitigate their punishment, Burne-Jones would draw pretty little sketches in pencil on the wallpaper. The decoiations have re- mained ever since and are now highly prized. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. She—Jack is paying her marked attentions, He hasn’t any money, has he? He—No; but he has expectations. She—From whom? He—From her fath ‘Boston Courier. ‘“‘Here,” said the teacher, “is an article ubout Sir George Dingwell, D.C. L. Now, Joanny, ‘what does D. C. L. mean?” “Dog Catcher of London,” responded the illustrious scholar.—New York Evening World. Father (reading newspaper)—I see another Rugby man has been sppointed Archbishop of Canterbury. That's the third Rugby man in succession. Son (a football enthusiast)—Well, I think it is time one of the Association had a turn.— Punch. “Did Sardonix encourage you to offer your picture?” asked the artist’s friend. “Yes. He intimated that it ought to be ex hibited.” “What did he say?” “He sald it was a sight.””—Washington Star. “I asked him for a new cloik to-day,” said the young wife, “‘but he tried to get out of it by paying me a compliment on my complex- ion.” “What did he say?” asked her mother. “IHe said: ‘Well, you've got a cheek thatisa peach.’ "—Cincinnati Enquirer. Beggar (piteously)—Ah, sir, I am very, hungry. Dyspeptic. (savagely)—Then have the de- cency to keep the good fortune to yourself. I ] haven’t had an appetite for years.—Judge. THE FIRST CLOUD. They stood at the altar one short vear ago: He vowel from the troub. esof life to defend her, To have her and hold her ‘or weal or for woe— She spoke the responses in accents most tender. very To-nieht, in the gloom, they are sitting apart— Oh, has all her wifely devotion been wasted She mopes there in siience, a pain in her heart; The lamps are unlighted, his supper untasted. Their sky, erst all cloudless, is now overcast: For joy there is sorrow, for zladness dejection; The sérpent has entered their Eden at 1ast, And left its dark tra:l on the flowers of affection. Ob, well may there be in her bosom a pain, A grief that she vaiuly end avors to smother: Te-night he bas toid her, in language quite plain, She can't cook his meals half as well as his mothe! Boston Courier. BELIEVE IN DECENT JOURNALISM. Morgan Hill Sun. The San Francisco CALL, an old established paper, was taken charge of twoyears ago by C. M. 8hortridge, who has made a record for it that the managers and people may well feel proud of. Itgives all the news, and when it speaks it does it boldly. THE CALL believes in decent journalism and will carry that princi- ple totheend. Under its present manage- ment and with its able corps of editors its readers can always feel assured of elevating reading. . CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.” ———————————— SpectAr information daily to manufacturare business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Moutgomery. —————— Schoolmaster—Ten cents one dime; now go on. What do ten dimes make? Boy—They make one very glad these times.— Boston Travelle: Low Rates to Phanix, A. T., and- Randsburg, Cal. The Atlantic and Pacific R. R., Santa Fe route, will sell on December 11,12 and 13 round-trip firs'-class tickets to Pheonix at the one-way rate. A golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy Arizona. Cheap rates are also made to the won- derful Randsburg mining camp, whicn is a second Cripple Creek, and to which pegple are now flock- ing by the thousands. Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle building. Telephone Maln 1531. See time-table In advertising columns. —————— Phillips’ Rock Isiand Kxcursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Railways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. 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