The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER' 8, 1896, ...DECEMBER 8, 1898 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily snd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..90.18 Deily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 CaLL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 “AL, three months by mail 1.50 .65 and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail... W ¥XKLY CaLL, one year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, ancisco, California. Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. NMain—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £27 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until o'clock. L] Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W .corner Sixteenth and Mission s@eets; open zutil 8 o’clock. 618 Mission street; open untl 9 0'clocks 167 Minth sireet; open until 9 0'clock. = Marke: streer, open tll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 snd 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e Grover was long-winded. Take a day off and read the message. Congress will probabiy decide this week what to do with itself. The horse will have a show this week and the bicycle won’t be in it. San Francisco may begin to call herself the City of progressive merchants. Decadent journalism has become a by- word, and the thing will soon be a by- gone. Congress may talk as much politics as it pleases, but the people are stuck on the holiday trade. Cleveland recognizes the condition of Cuba, but not Cuba herself, and that is called aiplomacy. stmas shopping as an ay be crushed as a The way to show your artistic culture just now is to show yourself a liberal | patron of the winter exhibit. Bayard will not accept the proposed tes- tim from the British public. The taffy be has received is enough for him. Street improvement has become a popu- lar fancy and it ought not to be long before it becomes & municipal realization. In deciding to call his book “The First Battle” Brvan has disappointed ns. We were in hopes he would call it “The Last Word.” The kind of currency reform most needed just now is that which wiil make currency 2 little more current in trade and indust As it seems certain there will be an n of Congress this one may as 1 take it easy and adjourn early for the holidays. Russia is certainly putting on all the | frills of civilization, for she has begun a | ssion of the liquor question as a mat- ter of politics. i Every Californian novelty sent to an Eastern friend will serve not only asa | Chrfstmas gift but as an object lesson in home industry, If Cleveland's example Is followed by future Presidents it will not be long before Presidential messages will have to be 1ssued as serial storie; The effort to reorganize the Democratic party seems to have been given over alto- gether and it will probasly have to remain twins for some time to come. If one of Willie Hearst’s legs is not longer than the other it is only because Andy Lawrence has been cunning enough to pull both at the same time. If any two men are going to have an easy time this winter they will be Hill and Gorman. They won’t have a thing to do except to do nothing to nobody. If nothing can be done for tariff reform this winter all that is needed can be done by an extra session next spring. Protec- tion is a sure winner and the country is safe, The arrangements for the horse show. vpromise great improvements over those of last year and we are to have not only a better display of horses but better facili- ties for seeing them. Public curiosity as to why the Ezaminer admires itself so much has been gratified at last. The Eraminer announces it is because of the enemies it has made—not because of its friends. There isa good deal of consolation in knowing that whatever tariff legislation the Republican party enacts either this winter or next spring will add to the revenue of the country instead of to its debts. The Philadelphia Record declares the statue of Peter Cooper. recently erected in New York, is worth more to American art than the dancing bacchante, and now Boston culture has less respect for Quaker ideas than ever before. The treaty for arbitrating the Venezu- elan boundary seems satisfactory to all parties, but it remains to be seen whether the arbitrators will give satisfaction. The result may be as big a muddle as that which followed the Bering Sea arbitra- tion. Almost every town in theinterior of the State is taiking of starting factories of some kind, and if half the enterprises talked of are fuifilled we shall be the most thoroughly manufacturing people in the Union before the next census is taken. Don’tlet the holiday trade lead you to forget the charity that is required of every well-to-do citizen at this season of the year. The coming prosperity has not come yet and there is many a home in the City where there is needed all the help that love and kindliness can give, A writer in an Enghsh magazine as- serfed that the people of New England remove the silver name plates from the coffins of relatives and use them to deco- rate parlor mantels as choice specimens of bric-a-brac, and now there is one Eng- lishman wbom the people of that section of this counury very much desire to meet. | It will, therefore, not receive the wide- | spread reading | dom, ja THE LOWEST DEEP OF SHAME. Dean Swift once declarea that he heard » woman of the London slums assert in a quarrel with another: “f admit that I am a bawd, a liar, a blackmailer, a thief, a drunkard and a Jirty wench; but otherwise I am as good a lady as anybody.”’ This story sounds incredible, but it has just received in this City a striking example ‘of its probability. The San Hrancisco Examiner, under the ownership of “‘Willie’ Hearst, the editorial management of ‘‘Long Green” Lawrence, and the pistol protection of Wyatt Earp, has made a declara- tion similar in every respect to,that which Dean Swift claimed to have heard irom the depraved denizen of the London slums, On Sunday and yesterday the Ezaminer published in a conspicuous g!ace on ils editorial page denunciations of its course and character by honest journals in this City and in the interior of the State. It put before the public the con- tempt with which it is regarded by decent and reputable newspapers, and withol'xt shame confessed its degradation, paraded its vileness, and impudently exulted in the public knowledge of its disgrace. if the Ezaminer has concluded to parade all of its shame and the tull measure of its denunciation by the decent papers of the coast it wili have to give more space than was accorded to the disgraceful recital on Sunday and yesterday. If it wishes to show that it is truly abandoned in its shamelessness it should select with more care the indictments of itself to which it gives space. What It has printed thus far upon its own unworth is but mild in comparison with what has been said of it. To give anything like a full and true record of public judzment concerning itself the Eraminer will have to omit 1ts fakes, its indecencies and its falsehoods ana devote all of its space to extracts from the editorial columns of its contemporaries, The Praminer bas not gained its disgraceful reputation by doing nothing. Neitner has its proprietor, “Willie"” Hearst, nor its editor, Long Green,” ac- quired the ill repute which they seem to enjoy among honest men without engag- ing in transactions the publication of which would make exactly that kind of news in which the Ezaminer delights, If therefore it intends to parade its reputa- tion before the public as the latest sensation in the way of filth and deprav- ity it does not lack for means wherewith to do it. Let it reprint its recent indecencies with the record and practices of the men who own and edit it, and the exposition of its depravity as well as the reason for it will be complete. For a long time past the Ezaminer, its proprietor and its editor have been engaged in indecent publications and practices which deserve the clutch of crim- inal law. They may with shameless exultation reproduce and mock at the indignation of nonesty, but they will hardly be so exultant when an outraged penal statute reaches out its hand for them. This recourse is left therefore for decency against the shameless emanations of decadent journalism, and it may not be long betore resort is made to it. The press of the interior, which has joined with so many of the higher class weeklies of this City to denounce the iniquity of the Eraminer and to warn the public against the debasing influences which emanate from it, may well be grati- fied with the result of their work. They bave fought a good fight for clean jour- nalism, for decency, honesty and morality, and have achieved no slight suecess in compelling the Ezaminer and its managers to recognize the force of their efforts by an open admission of guilt. ‘We account the publication of these words of condemnation in the Ezaminer of Sunday and yesterday as evidence that the good work of honest journalism in denouncing this journalistic fraud and faker has had no little effect. It is a no- table victory for decency that the Ezaminer has been at last compelled to virtaally reiterate the words of the drab of the London slums and admit that, while claim- ing to be as good a lady as anybody, it is in fact engaged in absolute and open depravities, and that having abandoned decency and honor it has finally bidden farewell to its own sense of self-respect. The public parade of degradatiou is the lowest deep of shame. CLEVELANL'S MESSAGE. The last messsge to Congress of Presi- | dent Clevefand is as was expected a long and elasorate review of all political issues | before the coun 1t is in many pfl!-‘ sages wordy to the extentof being tedious. | which would otherwise be given it, and this is to some extent to be regretted, since it deserves the careful study of the people. On our foreign relations Mr. Cleveland is as usual anything rather than vigorous. | He writes as one whose mind wanders | and who is incapable of aecided action. All that he can say is that the time will probably come ere long when some action concernin: them will be necessary. Inregard to the Armenian troubles he says: “I do not believe that the present somber prospect of Turkey will be long permitted 1o offend the sight of Okristen- " Nevertheless, he adds that any n at this time on our part would be unadvisable, because it woula be resented by the Ottoman Government and be re- gardea as an interruption of their plans b; the great nations who assert their exclu- | sive right to intervene in their own time and method for the securityioi life and | n that country. ; | Of Cuban affairs he writes ‘at great length, but after all reaches the conclu- sion that the time has not come for| American intervention. He suggests that Spain should offer to Cuba a measure of | genuine home rule, and proposes that the | United States should act as a mediator to | that end. He finally concludes that 1t will | not be amiss to remind Congress that cir- | cumstances may arise when a correct policy and care for our interests will con- strain our Government to svch action as will subserve the interests thus involved and secure to the people of Cuba an | opportunity to enjoy the blessings of | peace, The President then enters upon a re- view of the consular service, the sealing question, condition of the treasury, na- | tional banks, immigration, life-saving ser- vice, military affairs, coast defenses, post- office, public lands, pensions, and arrives at last to what may be regarded as the | more important passages of the message. The first of these passages in point of interest to the Pacific Coast is that relat- Jng to the debts of the Pacitic railroads. The President points out that these roads are already-in default to the Government, and are likely to be more so when the pay- ments come due on the 1st of January, 1897. He thereupon suggests foreclosure by the Government. The next passage in the message of note is that making tbe expected defense of the Wilson tanff law. This is perhaps the weakest portion of the messagé. His only argument for the law is that during the last fiscal year it has yieided nearly $8,000,000 more revenue than was received from the tarif! duties of the preceding year. He admits there has been a deficit of about $25,000,000, but nevertheless deciares a be- lief that if the present law be allowed a fair opportunity it will in the near future yield a revenue which with reasonable economical expenditures will overcome all | deficiencies. Passing from ttis subject to a consider- ation of the goid reserve, the President declares that no deficit which has oc- curred or may occur need excite ordisturb us. He maintains that the only evil in our monetary policy is the greenbacks, and says: “I am more convinced than ever that we can bave no assured financial peace and safety until the Government currency obligations' upon . which gold may be demanded from the treasury are withdrawn from circulation and can- celed.” The closing passage of the message deals with the subject of trusts and monopolies, and on this issue the President deals with a directness and force which is in striking contrast with the weakness he shows in dealing with foreign affairs. He deciares that the failure of the administration to enforce the anti-trust laws enacted by Congress has been due not to any lack of disposition, “but simply because the laws themselves as interpreted by the courts ao not reach the difficulty,” He adds that if the insufficiencies of existing laws can be remedied by further legisiation it should be done, and moreover he suggests that the several States should act in conjunc- tion with the Federal authorities to sup- press such organizations. With a final plea for economy, Mr. Cleveland closes his last messaze to Con- gress. It will be, as a whole,a disappoint- ment, not only to his friends, but to the people at large, who expected from him something more degided than he has writ- ten. Almost anything goes as a novelty st this season, but the public will draw the line at the Presidential message. MARKE‘I‘INE} FRUIT. We have reached the point in the devel- opment of the fruit industry in California where more attention is being paid to the marketing of the crop than to a considera- tion of the means of increasing it. It seems indeed very clear that the industry will increase of itseif promptly enough as fast as we can extend the markets in which the crop can be profitably sold. To provide for the better marketing of the fruit many suggestions have been made. One of theseis to enact a protec- tive tariff which will exclude foreign im- ports and secure the American market to the home producer. This will be good in itself, but will not be sufficient. When we have excluded the foreign importations there will still remain to us tbe task of distributing our fruit throughout the United States, by carrying it to the con- sumer in an attractive form, and at prices which will place it within the.reach of the great majority of the American people. During the nine months of this year it is said that there were imported from | abroad fruits and nuts to the value of more than §12,682,000. It would be of great advantage to Californians to secure this lazge revenue for themselves and it is certainly worth their while to give serious thought to every meaps which may be devised to obtain it. It 13 claimed by some dealers that the low tariff is not the sole reason why so much foreign fruit is used in this country. They assert that the | imported goods are packed so much more attractively than the American that they can be sold readily even at prices saf- ficiently higher than the home goods to pay the extra cost which the customs duty imposes upon thém. The facts contained in these statements should be carefully investigated. If we lose the home market for our fruit simply because we do not’ pack it sufficiently well to please the consumer, then we are our- selves to blame for the loss. The work of packing and preparing frait for the mai- ket in California is in the handsof a much higher class of labor than that which is employed in Europe for the same purpose. Our labor is intelligent, well educated and neat. It is largely made up ¢f young women from our public schools, who are quite capabie of really artistic packing if they are taught how to Go it and given the time sufficient for careful work. Tt is certain that the time has gone by in the United States when the consuming public would rake almost anything so long as it was good, no matter in what form it came. Our artistic cultivation has been rapid in recent years, and asa people we have attained a high degree of esthetic culture. The popular taste at this time demands that the eye ghall be pleased in everything that is used about the home. We must conform to that taste in prevar- ing our fruit for the market. 1t will be in vain that we seek to exclude foreign goods from the United States 'so long as we per- mit the foreigner to make his goods more atiractive to our people than our own. THE BAYARD TESTIMONIAL. Embassador Bayard has shown such lingering elements of common-sense as remain to him by declining to be the re- cipient of the testimonial of British esteem which the London Telegraph .proposed to raise. He hagdone many thinegs during his carecer in England which show. the weakness of an increasing old age, but had he been foolish enough to permit this movement for a testimonial to go on, he would have been excused for all that he has done upon the ground that he has sunk into a complete and imbecile dotage. The London Telegraph makes a fake feature by getting up some sort of sub- scription every silly season. These sub- scriptions are taken for whatever subject happens at the time to be the prevailing fad in London. Sometimes they tend to a really benevolent object, but at other times they are absolutely idiotic. The fake of the Telegraph for this year was to raise a subscription for the purpose of buying an elaborate, beautiful and cost- ly edition of the works of Shakespeare for Mr. Bayard, as an expression of Britisn esteem for the manner in which he has conducted himself in the high office of Embassador. The reason for taking up this subscription is to be found in the extremely subservient way in which Bay- ard has acted toward the British Queen, London saciety and the aristocracy gen- erally during the whole of his residence in that country. While, therefore, it might have been a sincere tribute on the part of the British, it certainly reflected no credit on Mr. Bayard. It is to be somewhat regretted that Mr. Bayard considered the conventional rules of courtesy bound him to decline the tes- timonial with an expression of thanks instead of indignation. When rightly con- | sidered 3 movement for such an object coming from such a source was & diregt reflection upon the Embassador, if not in the nature of an insult. There are few men of dignity who would care to accept testimonials faked up by mewspaper sub- scriptions under any circumstances what- ever, and we can hardly conceive of an official of the American Government con- descending to accept one presented to b‘lm in that way by the newspaper of a foreign: country to whose court he was sent for the. express purpose of guarding theinterests of the American people. ; Mr. Bayard’s reiusal to accept the tes- timonial fortunately puts an end to what threatened to be another disgraceful epi- sode in the carser of the Cleveland admin- istration. The incident may now be con- sidered closed, but there will still-be some irritation in the remembrance that an American Minister did so' conduct himself at the court of St. James' that a London! newspaper had reason for believing that be would accept a testimonial from it as an expression of the grateful feelings of the British people. PERSONAL E. G. Vaughn of Lemoore is a visitor here. Dr.J.J. Gaynor of Humboldt County is in the City. F. M. Graham, an attorney of San Jose, isat the Russ. Willls Cochran of Fresuo is at the Cosmo- politan. Under-Sheriff P. McGaraghan of Humboldt is at the Russ. M. Theodore Kearney of Fresno is a late arri- val in town. John Weil, a prominent merchant of Sacra- mento, is in town. ! . B. C. Brusay, an orchardist of Sen Jose, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. A. Evans, a capitalist of Portlang, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan. Frank Hazen, a dry-goods dealer of Healds- burg, is registered at the Russ. George Blackstone, & wealty business man of Colorado Springs, is in the City. C. W. Waldron, one of the owners of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, is visiting the City. Ex-District Attorney John M. Gearin of Port- land is visiting this City and is at the Palace. H. P. Winslow, connected prominenily with the Iron Mountain mine at Keswick, Shasta County, is at the Palace. M. G. Burmaster of Los Angeles and F. W. Burmaster of London arrived here yesterday. They are at the Occidental. Mrs. Joseph Murphy of Chicago, wife of Joe Murphy, the talented actor, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Occidental. Tom Woodward, the noted horseman of New York, who is the owner of several thorough- breds, arrived here last night and is at the Palace. S. H. Babcock, general traffic manager of the Rio Grande Western Railroad at Salt Lake, arrived here yesterday. C. B. Henry and J. D. Applegate of the Klamath Indian agency, near Klamath Falls, Or., are in the City. Mr. Applegate is one of the oldest residents of Orezon. C. F. Montgomery, long editor and proprie- tor of the Antioch Ledger, and prominent as an official ot the California Press Association, has beén visiting the City for the last day or two. A. A. Abbott of Sacramento, the ex-State Railway Commissioner, and wealthy banker, returned here yesterday from Mexico, where he has mining interests, and will probably go 10 Sacramento to-day. H. I. Isaacs of Walla Walla, owner of a short- line railroad from that eity, interested n other | enterprises there, xnd & pioneer of the Walla Walla country for many years, arrived here lust evening. He is at the Grand. James E. Bell of the James E. Bell Lumber Company at Everett, Puget Sound, is among the arrivals atthe Grand. He is a shipper of lumber to various ports of the coast; and was formerly a lumb=rman in Maine, of which State he is a native. J. G. Day, one of the contractors for the heavy Government work at the Dailes, on the Columbia River, is down from the north.” The work consisis in & large degree of blowing out the rocks in the river and in building a canal, 80 as to get steamers up the river. Mr. Day’s home is in San Francisco. Colonel H. Trevellyan, manager of a large vineyard and winery. near Fresno, is in the | City. The colonel says the outlook for Fresno and vieinity is very good for the next two or three years. There was only about half a crop of raisins this year, but there was a good price for what was produced. The wine erop is not so large as it was last year. Rear-Admiral John G, Walker, president of the commission recently appointed by Presi- dent Cleveland to decide on the respective merits of Santa Monica and Sen Pedro, as to which is the better harbor, is expected to ar- rive here next Sunday. Shortly afterward he mission and begin to take exhaustive evi- dence. James Gillis, a famous miner of Jackass Hill, near Table Mountdin, Tuolumne County, hes deserted his cabin at the mines for a few weeks’ vacation is this City. Itwas Gillis who used to mine with S8am Clemens, and Clemens | has told many stories founded on their united experiences, which have won him great re- nown. Gillis makes a pilgrimage here every year about this time. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Y., Dee. 7.—The Trave will teke out: Mrs. C. Bluett, Oakland; Heinrich rial, H. H. Bancroft, F. A. Brand; Westmin- ster, G. W. Buffington; Normandie, F. A. Cor- nell; Metropolitan, Mrs. Gilbert; Manhattan, C. F. Wright; Grand Union, Mrs. Renard; Vendome, F. Toplitz. Mrs. Dolores W. de Josul and Miss Lola de Josul left the Windsor to sail for Europe. Mrs. Dr. Susan J. Fen- ton arrived in on the Trave from Bremen. LADY'S WAIST WITH DRAPED SLEEVE" A graceful sleeve of the latest style is shown here. The deep wrinkled belt is another stylish feature of this charming bodice. A blue and whits velveteen had the full vest and revers of white lace over cream satin. A collar of white satin ribbon finished the neck. The belt was of biack satin. A satin of black and wnite had a belt ot ':'pple-men satin, the collar being of white satin. A dress of gray lady’s cloth had a vest of gray chiffon cver white satin, w ¢h & belt of e ress of mixed waol of ressish ton e dress of mixed wool of greenis e had vest of green and white foulard. The belt and revers were of green satin, the latter being edged with band lace in white. Chorus—Oh ! “w. all we play? Robert—Let’s play horse show. Chorus—But we haven’t any horses. Robert—You don’t need any. All you girls sit around and talk about each other’s clothes 2nd Tom and- I will walk around and look at 1 You.—Puck, 4 will go south, meet the others of the com- | Boise. At the Windsor, G. T. Bowman; Impe- | | | | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George L. Fischer, agent of Coburn, Tevis & Co., who recently visited Cornto and other points along the Central American coast, has returned here from a trip to Stockton. Mr. Fischer says, in reference to the account pub- lished of the beating of the Chiletio, tne Colum- bian and the Salvadoran on November 7 last off Corinto, that no indignity or insuli was inflicted upon him. “The commandante was a friend of mine,” he said, ‘‘and though I was at first stopped and questioned by the soldiers, I moved on in the throng and was not {urther interrupted. The three men were taken off the American steamer 8an Juan, not the San Jose. The Salvadoran was returned to the ship and de- clared innocent. The Chileno and the Colum- bian were retained on shore. All were beaten very severely. As stated, it was because a i | Which the Men Taken Off the San Juan Were Beaten. [Sketched by a “Call” artist. drummer declared he had been robbed while aboard of $200 or £300 in American gold. | One of the men got 260 lashes and he stll declared his innocence. Anotner got 150 | lashes and the other 60 lashes. | ““That is a method of punishment they have | down there, and, in a sense, I suppose they | have to adopt it, for they have a good many tozgh natives to deal with, Few people know what hard characters they are. The only ques- tion is about the ship when the vessel was not in their waters or territory. “The sticks with which the blows were in- | flicted were some kind of tough wood which | grows there aud which is slit at the end to make a number of lashes. The sticks are each about four end a half feet long, and only one is used at @ time, with which ten blows are struck. Then it is cast aside and a new one faken up. The bugle blows while the strokes are falling. One soldier strikes awhile and then another, while the victim bends over a bench.” Mr. Fisher happened to have one of the sticks. Abouta foot and a half of it had been worn away while inflicting the ten blows. I KNOW NOL I know not what this year may bring Of destined 10ss or gain: Whether its days shall measure me Of glsdness more, o pain; Whether & great joy cometh in its time, Or sorrowing future days perchance be mie: I know not. Yet there 1s & spot W Lere I may go, Lier pain not pleasure come, Nor joy vor woe: Where reigneth peace, swéet peace, from passion free, | There wiere my grave low lieth, by the sea. . P. Babington, inthe Atinta Constitution. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. | An Towa man het $10 that he could ride the fiywheel on a sawmill. When his widow paid the bet she remarked, sympathetically: “Wil- liam wes & good, kind husband, but he didu’a know much about flywheels.”—Washington Times. *Did Miss Dubbmake her debut last night?” “No. Shedidn’t have the face to make her appearance before such & large assemblage.” “What was the matter?”’ “Her makeup-box was stolen.”—Norristown Herald. Before marriage the thoughtful mother-in- law impresses tite young man very much and after that she expresses herself even more,— Adams Freaman. “I met W yesterday— “Dressed to kill, as usual?” *Oh, no; merely dressed to maim. He had on his footballarmor.'—Indianapolis Journal, lie Bushtop going along the street “*And now, little children,” said the Sunday- school superintendent, “if you are good chil- dren somg day you may wear a golden crown.” | “Paw's goi one on his tooth now.” chirped | the smallest and newest boy.—Indianapolis Journal, PARAGRAPKS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Princess of Wales is called “granny” by her grendchildren. McKinley is another of the long list of | American Presidents who were not college graduates. Mr. Moody said at Cooper Union recently that the press of New York was materially aidingreligion and religious revivals, The late Mrs. Scott Siddons, the celebrated actress and elccutionist, hed lived in retire- ment for fifteen years previous to her death in Paris, November 19. The wife of William Black, the novelist, is taller than her husband, and in one of his books he makes laughing reference to the faet, calling her Queen Titania. The eminent Hebraist, Professor Meyer of the University of Bonn, {s quoted as authority for the assertion that the linguage spoken by Jesus Christ was not Hebrew, but Aramaic, a language now extinet. Nansen will receive a special gold medal from the Royal Geographical Society when ne goes to London, as he has already received the society's highest award, the gold medal, for his explorations in Greenland. Edward Scofield, the Governor-elect of Wis- consin, is the son of & Pennsylvania tarmer. At the age of 14 he became a printer’s “devil” in a country newspaper office, later becoming a typesetter. He served through the war with great gallantry, coming out as a major. The Rev. Charles M. Bowen of Chicago, who has just died at the age of 90 years, was one of the best-known Methodist preachers in the West. He never failed to attend camp meet- ings when he could do so, and his custom of in- dulging in fervent ejaculations at such gather- ingsgained for him ths sobriquet of *‘Amen” and “Hallelujah” Bowen, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PADEREWSKI — A. R. C., City. the pianist, is not dead. THE OLD CoNsTITUTION —F. A.' K., Grass Valley, Cal. You can see a copy of the old consiitution of the State of California in the Codes of California prior to 1879. THAT WHALE—W. A., City. There never was & whale 270 feet long on the shores of Marin County, near Sausalito. There wasa hump- back whale there recently that measured about fifty feet in length. 2 TouoH AND Move—E. G.- 8., Livermore, Cal, Paderewski, According to the laws of draughis it is ‘‘touch and move.” If a player. whose turn it isto play, touches a piece, he must move it, unless prior to touching it he intimates his inten- tion of adjusting it. If a piece tha® cennot be moved is touched there is no penality. NORTHWEST Passage—W. F. M., City. Sir Robert McClure, who, in 1850, was captain of the Investigator, was the first to achieve the northwest passage. Although his ship was abandoned he completed the voyage partly on the ice and partly on a return vessel. The discovery is not of any practieal benefit, but is the solution of a scientific problem. THE CABINET—F. A. K., Grass Valley, Cal. The following named compose the President’s Cabinet at this time: R. Olney, Secretary of State; J. G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury; D. 8. Lamont, Secretery of War; J. Harmon, Attorney-Genera!; W. L. Wilson, Postmaster- General; H. A. Herbert, Secreiary of the Navy; D. R. francis, Secretary of the Interior, and J. S. Morton, Secretary of Agriculture. CREDIT MOBILIER—F. A. K., Grass Valley, Cal. The late James A. Garfield was not “con- victed in the Credit Mobilier scandal” In the Presidential campaign the Democratic leaders charged a number of prominent Re- | publicans with sccepting Credit Mobilier stock | 1u reiurn for political infllence. An investi- zation which followed resuited in the censure | of Representatives Osakes Ames and James Brooks." 3 DravGHTS—E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal. In the losing game of draughts the player who first gets rid of his men wins the game. The con- stant object, therefore, is to 10rce an adversary | to take as many piecesas possible and compel nim to make kings, which is sccomplished by opening the gume freeiy, especially the black squares. Under the rule of the game it does 10 seem possible that the game can be blocked. BPECIAL DELIVERY—E. T. N., O'Neal’s, Madera County, Cal. The law in regard to the delivery of mail matter bearing a special delivery stamp is as follows: Any article of mailable matter bearing a ten-cent speciul delivery stamp in addition to the lawful | postage Is entitled to immediate de.ivery. between the hours of 7 A. 3. and 11 P. M., if the office be ot the free delivery ciass, and beiween 7 A. M. and 7 P. . if the office be oLher than a free deilvery. THE RECENT BONDS—S. 8., City. There is no Teason to doubt the legality of the issue of the bonds during the Cleveland administration, What would be the effect on the bonds in case of & war with a foreizn nation end the United | States should be “whipped out of its boots” | this department ofnnot say, but if such a | thing should ever happen it would probably be bad for the bondhoiders. When the bonds are redeemed they will, according 1o the terms of ths coniract, be paid either ‘‘in coin” or “in lawful money,” just as the con- tract in each issue stipulaies. BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's.” ——————————— SpEcTAL information daily to manufacturery business houses and public men by ;:leel:;m" Clipping Burenu (Allen’s), 510-Montgos 3 ————————— Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. Thirty-sixth exhibition. Concert this (Tu:o- day)evening. -——— The Prince of Yfales celebrated bis 55th birthday at Sanaringham November 9. The Prince and Princess were surrounded at din- ner by the members of their family and a number of distinguished visitors, including the Duke of Saxe-Cobure Gotha. to Pheenix, A. T., 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 Pheenix at the one-way rate. A golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy Arizona. Cheap rates are also made to the won- derfal Randsburg mining camp, which is a second Cripple Creek, and to whici people are now flock- ing by the thousands. Ticket office, 844 Market street, Chronicle building. Telephone Main 1531 | See time-table in savertising columns. | prailye o/ e o ek ki Low Rates and Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rie Grande and Rock Island Kailways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and poriers accompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent kock lstand Rallway, 80 Mont gomery street, San Francisco. Through Car to St. Paul and Minneapolla | an elegantly uphoistered tourist-car leaves Osk- lana every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for alt points in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Nochange of cars. Dining-cars on all trains. Comie and get our rates if you expeci tomakea trip to any Esstern point. 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