The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1896. _ DECEMBER 11, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Ppally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..£0.18 PDaily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally end Sunday CALL, six months, by niail. 8.00 Delly and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 Dafly and Sunday CALL, One month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, 0ne year, by mall. 1.50 W XEKLY CALL, Oue year, by mail. 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, gan Francisco, California. TelepboDe. ... v-uevn .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. 4 Telephone.... ...Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: o7 Montgomery street, corner Cl open untll €50 o'clock. £ 3ayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 715 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W _corner Sixteenti and Mission streeis; open Lntil § o'clock, 2015 Mission street: open nntil 9 o'clock. 167 Stk street; open untll 9 0'clock + Marke: street, open wll § 0'CIOCK. OAKLAND OFFICE: $U8 Broadway. RN OFFICE: Park Row, New York City. Eastern Manager. Fooms 21 and DAVID M. FOLI THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ill claims you. The bor: oW Look for your friends and you will find them at the Paviiion, What will it profit Willie Hearst to throw down his referee to save his Long Green? Since there is so much talk about Cuba, somebody shounld put in a good word for the Philippines. There is a prospect that the Sultan may find out this Christmas that Christianity means somethin McKinley says nothing of his Cabinet meking, but he is sawing wood for the job with great diligence. The Pavilion has given the horse a good show, but improved street-paving would give him a better Itis said that Cleveland will leave office a millionaire, and perhaps that is the reason the deficit doesn’t trouble him. THE INDECENCIES OF THE “EXAMINER.” Although *Satan rebuking sin” has long been the moc king proverb of man- kind, he occasionally does so even in these days. It was done yesterday in the editorial columns of the Eraminer with a degree of effrontery which could not have been surpassed by the father of lies himself. Frightened by the growth of public sentiment against the indecencies and vileness which have been perpetrated in the Ezaminer, its manager, “Long Green” Lawrence, sought to hide its mis- deeds by posing as the champion of morality and decency. Naturally enough he set about rebuking his own offenses. The incident which furnished the occasion for this extraordinary posing was the appearance of a number of women at the contest between Fitzsimmons and Sharkey. The Eraminer declared: *‘To us the spectacle appears to have been not only improper but indecent. It was the oue thing needed to complete the dis- repute of the ring. It is an experiment whose repetition should never be per- mitted in San Francisco. There is no place for either good women or bad ones at a prize-fight.” The hypocrisy of this denunciation will be apparent when it 1s remembered that the Ezaminer deliberately enticed women to attend the match and wit- ness the contest. It detailed a woman to report a prize-fight, and under the direction of the management of the paper she wrote it up in a way to induce other women to believe that they might without disgrace attend similar exhibitions. It was doubtless by this report that the women who attended the Fitzsimmons and Sharkey match were induced to doso. They were unaware of the character of the Examiner and its editor. after having sent a woman to report a prize-fight it would be vile enough to then denounce and insuit them by declaring that such exhibitions were improper, not only for good women, but even for bad ones. Ta send a woman to report such an exhibition was thought at the time to be a low depth of journalistic depravity. It was not believed that a newspaper could go much furtherin degrading its staff or polluting the public. It was felt everywhere to be an offense to womanhood, a wrong to those women who are en- gaged 1n the profession of journalism and a deliberate attempt to lower the stand- ard of morality and decency among the people who read that paper. No one dreamed that a lower depth of depravity was yet to be reached. ‘Long Green” Lawrence, therefore, may justly boast to his employer that he has eclipsed all heretofore done by decadent journalism in his latest sensation of denouncing his own foulness and asserting his own enterprise to have been not only improper but indecent. The public indignation aroused in New York by Mr. Hearst’s journal has not been a surprise to the people of San Francisco, Itisnot regarded here as strange that the leading newspapers of that city, with the great weeklies and not a few magazines, have united with the pulpit in denouncing the foul and pernicious emanation from Mr. Hearst’s press. We have had in the Ezammer of this City proofs enovgh of the depravity of which Mr, Hearst and those to whom he intrusts the management of his paper are capable. In this last instance, how- ever, we have had more than we dreamed of. Satan rebuking sin is after all a dignified figure when compared with Willie Hearst snd ‘‘Long Gresn" Law- rence sending a woman dependent upon her position for her livelihood to report a prize-fight, compelling her to make a report which would entice other women to attend such exhibitions, and then denouncing them for indecency because they were misled into doing so. Men who are capable of this degree of vileness and degradation are capable of still lower degrees when it comes to their final fight for a living. They have now appealed from sensation mongers to virtue for support, and there is no telling in what direction thev will turn next. This decadent journal, which has pandered to depravity in every form and elevated men to high positions on its staff for ex~ tortion and blackmail, has not yet reached the full limit of its reckless and vicious course. Before it perishes of its own corruption it may yet be suppressed asa public nuisance and its managers sent to prison, as was one of its Chicago rivals last year. They did not foresee that . A SAMPLE LIE. The Fzaminer of yesterday, under the management of Long Green Lawrence, who in the absence of the boss faker Hearst acts as managing liar for his dis- | reputable paper in this City, asserted that The Ezaminer can hardly hope to win in | 7yg Carnis not a business success, and the fight against public indignation by"“.e“lm,v to elaborate the lie by the state fixing the referee. Tnat game is played | meny thut it has been reduced in size and | its news reports curtailed. The falseness | of these agsertions was made evident by | the appearance of THE CALL the same day | surpassing the Ezaminer 1n every respect. | Consider the contrast. Tme CaLr of yesterday contained sixteen pages as did Long Green Lawrence speaks of people | the Examiner, but the pages of THE Cavrr, who go to San Jose with all the bitterness | by reason of their larger size und the oi a fellow who regards San Quentin as | greater compactness of its news, was equal more congenial. | to eighteen pages of the Ezaminer. It | was, therefore, the larger as well as the The Cuban resolutions in the Senate | yetter paper. The amount of business may possibly mean war, but the chances | done by THE CALL was shown by the fact nt journalism is dying of its own it should not be allowed to lie around the homes of decent people while doing it. are they are intended more to scare Spaint | yha¢ it contained thirty-six columns of ad- than to hurt her. Just enough is foresesn of the probable action of this session of Congress to make it certain that an extra session will be necessary early in the spring. Having compelled a woman on its staft to report a prize-ficht, the Ezaminer now denounces other women for going to such exhibitions. How is that for decency ? In the prevalent taik about the ‘'great foul” a few pecple mean Fitzsimmons’ blow, many peop.e mean Earp's decision, but the vast majority mean the Ezaminer. About the only real satisfaction the country has received from Cleveland’s long-irawn-out address to Congress is the fact that it is the last one he is likely to send in. It is asserted that three new magazines are to be started in New York with the beginning of the year; so it seems that either literature or advertising must be looking up. If Europe really sets to work to stop the outrazes in Armenia we ought to stop those in Cuba and make a clean victory in both hemispheres for humanity and civilization. Unless something unforeseen happens the Secretary of the Treasury will be a bizger man than the Secretary of State in | this country for the next four years. Money is the issue now. As Bryan has arranged to make two speechies on Jackson’s day conservative Democrats may as well prepare to take Watterson’s advice and make it an occa- sion for fasting and prayer. Senator Peffer claims to have delivered 437 speeches during his term in the Senate, and there are exactly that many reasons why he should now be turned down and some one else allowed to talk. If the French scientist who is reported to have asserted that laughing is a dis- ease had really believed it he woula never have said it, for his words have a tendency to cause 1t in every household. T1he reported agreement of France, Rus- sia and England to settle the Turkish question is the more credible because it has been less than a month since the states- men of all three powers declared they were opposed to alliances and intended to maintain an independent isolation. There will be a great demand for ap- propriations for public improvements on the next Congress. Every section of the Union has some large plan under way, and it will behoove the Pacific Coast dele- gates to work togetherif theyexpect to uphold our interests when the struggle for precedence comes. According to the reportof the New York Buperintendent of Buildings there are in that city over 3000 structures absolutely unsafe, and some of them are among the largest buildings in the city. It appears, therefore, that in all her many strictures on the flimsy architecture of Chicago, Yew York spoke as an expert having large experience. Pl A b Long Green Lawrence has been unfortu- nate of late in doin- the lying for Willie Hearst, His declaration that the airship story is a lake came out in the Ezamaner on the same morning that THE CALL re- vroduced from Hearst’s New York Journal a picture of the ship and the statement that it was trde. Yesterday Long Green asserted THE CALL to be losing ground, and behold on that very morning THE CALL bad more space, more news and more ad- vertising than the Ezaminer. There would be money in it for Hearst to kick Long Green out and hire Tom Sharkey as man- sging liar. vertising, while the Ezaminer contained | but twenty-six. THE CALL, moreover, | was well filled with good, live news, while | the Ezaminer, as usual, was stuffed with trash, spread out thinly so as to makea | flashy showing. Thus, on every point, the | Ezaminer was proved to be a liar by the | sacts made evident in the appearance of the two papers. | This is not the first lime that Long | Green Lawrence has shown himself un- | fortunate in | Only a few days ago be announced in the Eraminer that the airship story was a drunk or imbeciles incapable of distin- guishing the difference between an electric light and the lantern of a toy balloon. On the very morning when the Ezaminer pub- lished this assertion THE CALL reproduced from the New York Journal a picture of | the airship and extracts from a dispatch sent to the Journal from this City stating | the story to be true, and declaring that the men who saw the lights werereputable and reliable citizens. Thus was it made evident that Long Green Lawrence had swindled his employer, Mr. Hearst, by | sending to bis Journal a faked story from the Ezaminer and then denouncing him in the Ezaminer for publishing it. These two self-exposed lies, so quickly following one another, show to what des- perate straits Long Green Lawrence has been reduced in his efforts to please his employer in New York, and at the same time withstand the growing indignation in San Francisco against the foul tactics of the decadent journalism which the two worthies are engaged in exploiting. That THE CALL 18 not decaying is made evident by every feature in it, from news to advertisements. That the Ezaminer is decadent 13 made evident by every feature in it from the foul slush of its news to the fu tile lying of its editorials. | THE FUNDING BILL, According to ali reports from Washing- ton we have reached the crisis in the fight against the scheme for funding the Pacific railroads debt and confirming the cinch of the Southern Pacific monopoly upon Cali- fornia for fifty years to come. It is cer- tain an effort will be made to rush the iniquitous bill through this session of Con- gress, and it will require most strenuous efforts on our part to defeat it. From the tone of Cleveland’s message to Congress it appears he will approve the funding bill if it should be passed. He warns Congress that the Government can- not delay action after the 1st of January unless Congress provides some measure of settling the indebtedness of the road. This on its face is a recommendation for the speedy adoption of a funding bill of some kind. We are therelore deprived of any ®eliance upon the President to defeat the measure. If we are to save California from the monopoly it must be done by our own exertions. It is to be regretted that at this crisis one of the Senators from this State, Mr. White, is not in Washington fighting the battle of the people. Xor reasons which appear sufficient to himself he has pre- ferred to remain at home and leave the contest to others. This defection instead of discouraging the California delegation in Congress should nerve them to new efforts. The triumph for them will be al! the greater 1f they achieve success without the aid of their Democratic colleague. 1f the plans of the advocates of the bill are carried through the measure will be brought up early in January, and but a limited time will be allowed in the House for discussing it. That means of course that the battle for and against it must be conducted between now and the holidays. 1f before January we have not organized the cccasion of his lying. | fake; that the citizens who claimed to| have seen the strangs lights were either | rush and then the monopolists and their friends will have a leng time in which to carry it through the Senate. This will give them advantage over a resort to dila- tory tactics, and the chances of its final success will be in their favor. It shonid not be necessary to advance further argument to the people of Califor- nia. They have had the subject under consideration for several years. They are familiar with every phase of the question ou both siges. They know exactly what the success of the bill would mean to all the industries of the State. They are aware that such a surrender on the part of the Gevernment to a powerful corpora- tion would produce widespread dissatis. faction throughout the Union and that the evil effects of it would be feit for years to come. They should thersfore be earn- est, vigorous and a :gressive in making the fight against the bill at this time. Delay in the expression of public opinion will be disastrous. Let the people speak out. CURRENCY PROBLEMS. The Republican Senatorial caucus has unanimously adopted a resolution of Sen- ator Wolcott cailing for the appointment of a committee of five Benators to devise legislation for securing an ecarly call on the part of our Government for an inter- national monetary conference. This is the first step in the direction of fulfilling the Republican pled:e for a restoration of 1he free coin‘ge of silver by internatienal agreement, and the prompiness with which 1t has heen taken is an assurance to the people that the pledge wiil be car- ried out 1n good faith and to the letter. The calling of such a conference by the incoming Republiican administration will effectually put an end to the monetary agitation which Mr. Bryan seems deter- mined to carry on. It will assure the people that the contest is not between the single gold standard and bimetallism, as the Bryunites have asserted, but between international bimetallism and silver monometallism on the part of this country. When that fact is fully understood the appeals of the agitators will be in vain, and the people will turn from that issue long beiore the next Presidential election takes place. In this connection it will be noted as a good omen that the House Committee on Banking and Currency will make no at- tempt to secure legislation on those sub- jects this winter. They will report no measure to this Congress, but will await the assembling of the next, which will be under Republican control in both houses, and moreover, will have the co-operation of a Republican administration. This policy means of course that no attention is to be paid to Mr. Cleveland’s recommen- dation, but that the whole monetary ques- tion, including a reform in the banking system as well as the standard of valve, will be solved in accordance with Repub- lican principles. It is of course impossible to foresee what will be the result of the proposed inter- national conterence. With the growth of the public sentiment in favor of bimetal- lism in England, France and Germany, wheeh has been amply manifested since the election of McKinley, it seems fair, however, to assume that good results may be expected. Europe is now aware that the people of the United States do not in- tend to undertake the experiment of free silver coinagealone. The nations of that continent are as much in need of a return te bimetallism as we are, and they must bear their share of the work. ‘faken altogetnher, the outlook for a sat- isfactory solution of all our currency problems is encouraging. The manage- ment of them is at last in sale hands. We are rid of the bungiing Democratic Con- gress and will soon be rid of a dogmatic Democratic President. The right men are in charge of the work of legislation and the right results are therefore to be ex- pected. The House Committee on Banking and Currency has invited communications on the subject of finance, and no doubt the janitor has been notified to increase the number of wasiebaskets in the committee- Toom. Toe Canadians are making preparations for celebrating, on the 17th of this month, the anniversary of the birth of Judge Haliburton, the author of *‘Sam Slick,” and they will have plenty of New England sympathy in doing it. Although drawn by an alien Sam Slick is one of the types of character which we are pleased to rec- ognize as American. The Senatorial contest in Kentucky is peculiar. The Republicans have the Legislature on a joint ballot, but by a very a resolute opposition to the measure, the | narrow and insecure majority. They are chances are it will pass the House with a| vided bstween gold men, who support Bradiey. and silver men, Who support Hunter, while the Democrats are also divided between the supporters of Carlisle and those of Blackburn. It is impossible to predict which will win, but the chances are that the State will go without a Sen- ator for a long time to come. ———— PERSONAL Dr. C. L. McCracken of Pescadero in in the City. J. A. Webster of Vacaville is here on a busi- ness trip. James Dempster, a business man of Glasgow, is in town, 4 J. M. Lathrop, & business man of Newman, is atthe Lick. C. B.Lewis of the City of Mexico arrived here yesterday. C.T. Bliss, the capitalist, of Carson, Nev., is alate arrival here. and is at the Palace. James Hadden, & lumberman of Millwooa, is arecent arrival here. J.E. Earnest, a wealthy merchant of New York, is at the Palace. Miguel Lake of Magdalena, Lower California is a recent arrival here. M. Embree, a cattleman of Dayton, Wash., isat the Cosmopolitan. W. F. Jack, cashier of the Bank of Paso Robles, is here on & brief visit, Dr. Henry Gordon McGill has returned from the East, after an absence of six months. 1. W. Fraser, a storekeeper of Dinuba, accom- panied by his wife, 1s at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Congressman Louttit of Stockton came down to the City last night and is at the Lick. C. B. Powers and J. S. Goodwin ot You Bet are on & visit here from that picturesque camp. John McCarthy, a wealthy ranch-owner of ‘Washington, Nevada County, is at the Cosmo- politan. Attorney Henry Eickoft of San Rafael isat the Lick. J. F. Chiles, & wealthy rancher ot Davisville, 1s in town. George E. Goodman, & banker of Napa, ar- rived here last night. J. W. Kline, a piano manufacturer of Phila. delphis, is at the Palace. Among the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan is James Campbell, & large real estate owner of Woodside. P. Crossen hasreturned from Juneau, Alaska, after an absence of a year, and is at the Cos- mopolitan, Sheriff George S, McKenzie of Napa County came down to the City yesterdsy. He is at the Grand. W. M. Wallace, the noted horse-breeder of Lexing'on, Ky., arrived here last night and is at the Palace. 8. Apar of London is at the Palace, accom- panied by Mrs. Apar. They arrived on the China yesterday. W. W. Booher, editor and owner of the Inde- pendent, ol Elko, Nev., is among the arrivals at the California. Ernesto Theodore, a coffze-grower, business man and mining-claim owner of Quezalte- nango, is in the City. E.S Babcock, proprietor of the Hotel del | Coronado, at Corousdo Beach, is visiting the Buay City, and is at the Palace. H. Shurges and S. Yaruba of Japan were | among the arrivals on the steamer China yes- | terday, and are at the Occidental. | E. A. Fitzgerald, who owns large mining in- | terests at Jamestown, is in town, closing & large mining deal. He Is at the Cosmopolitan. P. A. Buell, the manuiactnrer, of Stockton, who is interested in a railway from Stockton to Jackson, in Amador County, is at the Grand. 8. Ishida and J. Robori, wealthy business men of Yokchams, who have for some time been dealing in tea and other products, are in the City. | H. W. Child, the wealthy Montana mine- owner, whose home is at Helenas, is in the City, eccompanied by Mrs. Child. They are at the Pa.ace. John M. Vance, principal owner of the Eel River Railrosd, the Vance Hoteél in Eureka, and of large lumbering and milling interests, is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Vance. Senator Thomas Flint and his bride arrived here yesterday from Woodstock, Vt., the for- mer home of the bride, and are at the Grand, After seeing this City they will go to San Juan. | W.W. Parker and wife and C. H. Edwards | and wife of Alta, Jowa, arrived on the over- | 1and yesterday, snd will remain on the Paeific Coast during the winter. They are at the Cos- mopolitan. Bamuel G. Wilder, the wealthy steamship and raitway owner of Hawail, was among the ar- rivals from the East yesterd. where he has been for some months. Mrs. Wilder accompa- nies him. They are at the Occidental. J. C. Bull of Arcata, one of the contractors who has been at work for some years on the Government breakwater at the entrance to the harbor of Eurekas, is on a visit here. He is one of the best known residents of Humboldt Bay. Colonel H. C. Shaw, the newspaper man, of Stockton, who stumped California for McKin- ley in the last campaign, making the canvass in remote mountain districts by wagon, is at the Lick. Colonel Shaw is an applicant for a prominent appointive p ace in the next Legis- lature. He has been engaged for many years in California journalism, and was formerly an attache of the New York Sun. CALIFORN.i.NS :N NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y. Dec.10.—At the Plaza, Mrs. J. Gray; Amsterdam, F. H.Ames; Hol- 1and, C. F. ana R. B. Hoffman. PHOTOGR+PuiNG inE EYE. A mer can Journal of Photography. Atameeting of the Paris Academy of Medi- cine M. Guinkoff stated that he had success- fuliy photographed the interior of the eye. The advantages of this method are important, since 1t enables actual pictures of the disease of the retina to be secured and compared from time to time to determine whether disease processes of the eye progress or not. The picture is made iptwo seconds. The apparatus can thus serve as an ophthalmo- scope, and any number of persons can thus observe the results. THE NEW MAN MUST Baltimore American. The colleges for women are said to be be- sieged with applicants for the higher educa- tion, with the number constantly inereasing. This suggests two facts—the possibilities of the race jor iutelleciual development when the women are so eager for knowledge, and the absolute necessity for the new man to be up and doing to keep pace with the feminine procession, —m NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Teacher—How old are you, Willie? Willie—I'm five at home, Bix at school and four in the cars.—Washington Times. HUSTLE. He—I meen to give you an elegant engage- ment ring, and we'll call it your Christmes present. She—I'm not to be outdone in generosity. T'll give it right back again.—Detroit Free Press. Teacher (severely)—Tommy BSmith, scome here. Why haven’t you learnd your geography lesson? Tommy—'Cause the papers say there's going to be a change in the map of Europe.—Chicago Dispatch. “This prosperity yawp in all the newspapers is making all kinds of trouble for me.” “How s0?” Ny “‘Well, I'd like to know what kind ot a song and dance I can give my landlady this month.”—Detroit News. Mrs. Wighald—No, my husband hasn’t done much for twenty-five years. Mrs. Oldbrain—Has he been an invalid all that time? Mrs. Wigbald—No, he’s been & Government employe.—Pearson’s Weekly. “I've quit selling bicycleson the installment Plan,” said the dealer to an applicant. “Why's that?” “Our machine is of such a superior quality that we are never able to catch the fellows that owe us."—Detroit Free Press A. C. Smith of Fresno arrived here yesterday, | AIMS TO MAKE IT A GILDED VICE What Mr, Hearst Is Attempting to Accomplish in Sensational Journalism. An Eastern Magazine Thinks That His Name May Possibly Be Changed From Hearst to “No.743.” [From the Nickell Magazine.] When William Waldorf Astor moved over to London and went into the news- paper business he was harshly criticized by many Americans, who regnrded his course as but little less heinous than that which brought the late Benedict Arnold into prominence. We think these critics ought to be thankful instead that Mr. Astor took the fever in & way that does o little real harm to this country. Sup- pose that instead of deciding to help Londor: along with his Pall Mall Gazette he had concluded to establish an up-to-date paperin New York. You can’t tell what these men with notaing but money may do; and think what a spicy, sensational, live, fin-de-siecle journal those Astor millions might bave produced! We are moved to these reflections by the example of Mr. Wilham R. Hearst of San Fran- cisco and New York. Mr. Hearst is very rich, as are all Calilornians, we believe. He is spending the millions his father amassed and he has unigue ideas about dissipation. The perils that beset the path of the rich man’s son have long been a theme favored of the moralist—wine, women, the gaming .table and the racetrack, ail thes+ have been preperly hung with the red light of danger so that the son_o! money might see the true character of that which was meant to lure him to ruin. But to this ancient catalogue of vices must be added another of awful potency for evil {o the victim. In a way it is more to be dreaded than any of the other vices, for by the others a man may ruin himself alone and quietly. In the case of the new vice his indulgence must include the debauching of many thousands besides himself. Young Mr. Hearst is a pioneer in the movement to make sensational journal- ism a gilded vice. Mr. Joseph Pulitzer pubiishes the nastiest paper he knows how in order to ‘‘maig der monish.” ButMr. Hearst has no such excuse. Heis credited with spending his father’s money royally in his efforts to out-Pulitzer Pulitzer. Experts say that bis San Francisco paper, the Ezaminer, is almost as nasty as the New York World. Thus, the murder of a degraded woman ihere, some weeks ago, incited the Ezaminer 1o print the street numbers and detailed descriptious of the lowest haunts of evil in the City. Butin New York Mr. Hearst bas not yet brought his paper up to what he would doubtless call the high pitch of foulness that the World easily maintains. But he is bending all his energies to the task, and is prodigal with his dollars where printable filth is tv be had. So there is good reason to helieve that he may eventually earn the disiinction he seems to crave, that of printing the nastiest paper in the world—uniess he is shunted off to a rock-walled building in a busy little town up the Hudson, where be will change his name from Hearst to ““No. 743, or something like that. There was an editor in Chicago not long ago who thought ke was a right smart man in the way of all newspaper uncleanliness, His name was Joseph R. Dunlop, and his paper was the Daily Dispatch. He nas been fined $2000 and sentenced to two yeas in the penitentiary for sending obscene matter through the mails. We imagine that when he has served his time he will take to printing tax lisis or city directories, or something equally blameless. His attorney protested that it was an outrage to singie out one publisher, when the other publishers of the city were equally guilty. TLe plea did not suffice, and we advise Mr. Hearst and Mr. Pulitzer and the other editors in the United States who are striving so earnestly for pre-eminence in obscenity to note the fact. ‘“‘These newspapers were indecent and obscene,” said the Judge; “they were ot simply insufferable to good taste and good morals, they were clearly and vilely criminal.” Before him the once ar- rogant sensational editor was a trembling, abject, weeping wretch. Take notice, all Hearsts and Pulitzers! PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOFLE. The German Emperor is fond of light and bright colors, and has a particular dislike to seeing the Empress in black. The Saturday Review of London speaks of “Dick Olney sitting at esse somewhere be- tween Washington and Monroe.” The Hungarian caricaturist Janko, who died a few weeks ago, made more than 80,000 draw- ings in the sixty-three years of his life. Queen Victoria is to have & large kitchen garden laid out at Osborne, and conserva- tories and forcing-houses are to be built. William R. Nelson, proprietor of the Kansas City Star, who has been spending two years in Paris, has just presented to Kansas City a large collection of works of art. Captsain John Marriott of the Norfolk Regi- ment of England, who was captured by brigands a few days ago while out shooting near Smyrna, has been released. The brigands demanded £10,000 ransom for his surrender, but it is not stated whether the money was paid or not. A German recently asked Judge Craig Bia- dle of Philadelphia to excuse him from serv- ing on the jury. “Why?” asked the Judge. “Well, your Honor, I don’t understand good English.,” “Oh, you will do,” replied the Judge. “You won’t hear much good English here anyhow.” Amid a general laugh the juryman sat down. James R. Young, who has been elected to Congress in Philadelphia, was given a dinner by his associates in newspaper work in that eity. One hundred and fifty men con- nected with journalism sat at the dinner, and encih guest received a copy of the Congres- sional Record, containing a list of all his friends who expect to apply to him for jobs. The barroom on the northwest corner of Third avenue and Sixteenth street, New York, known as “Dr. Rainsford’s saloon,” has been sold at auction. When two men, three years ago, wanted a license for the place, Dr. Rains- ford, whose church mission house was within 200 feet of the saloon, agreed to make no pro- test if the owners would promise to close at midnight, 10 sell no liguor to women or minors, to rent no furnished rooms and to keep closed on Sundays. A $1000 bond was given by the saloon men in support of this promise. TARIFF AS A BUSINE-S QUESION. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. The favor which the proposition for a tariff commission is gaining among Republicans shows that the time when the tariff wili be “taken out of politics” may be much nearer than anybody & year or two ago supposed it to be. The necersity for framing a tariff bill acceptable enough to the country to havea reasonable chance to stand for a long time with only minor changes is. more obvisus and | urgent now than it was a dozen or & score of years ago, for the country has seen a good deal of the injurious effects of frequent tariff tinkering in recent years. The necessity will give the proposition fora board of tariff ex- perts considerable strength with the people. FRENCH nougat & fruit glace. 905 Larkin, * ——e———— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c ib. 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Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. Open ning! N el — Oxford University has conferred the degree of Doctor of Music on Rajah Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore of Calcutta in recognition of his talents as a musician and of his efforts to promote the cultivation of music in India. “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fif:y years by millions ot mothers for their children white Teething with per. fect success. Jt coothes the child, softens :hegams, allays Pain. cures Wind Colic, regulates he Bowely and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether aris- ing irom tee.iing or other causes. & or sale by drug Bisis in every part of the world. B sure and ask for Mre, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. . 26¢ & botule. —————a—— “CURED my cough like magic is the frequent expression of those who testity to the merits of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. LITTLE GIRLS DRESS GREICHEN WAIST. A gracetul little gown for girls of one to six years is shown here. It has a short waist of the Gretchen type and may be trimmed with flat bands on the shoulders or with epau- lettes, and may further be varied by being made low in the neck for evening wear or to be worn with guimpes. A dainty evening frock was of white taffetas with & thin stripe, Narrow thin ribbon joined by white beading trimmed the waist, WITH i being turned at the corners tosimulate a yoke. T?: sleeves were finished with a ruffle of the silk. The other gown shown was of white lawn, tucked material being used for the body of the waist. It had bands of embroidery on the fitted lawn sleeves, collar and on the shoulders. A dress of old blue novelty wool with a white fizure had white lace bauds on shoulder, sleeve and collar. A dress of mixed woolen goods of a greénish tone had flat bands of green silk with lawn laid over them. A DOUB .NG MEMBER. Dedo he rule de ‘possum tree, e he feed on froz; e , hie bip out de coon— De coon tear up de dog! Oh. believers, What you <wine ter say? How yer gwine ter rekoncile Dese things on Judgment day De big fish swaller up de small— Des ea: em head en tall: De whaie come long en gobble alle . De man, he kill de whale! Oh, bellevers, W hat you gwine ter say? How you gwine ter rekoncile Dese things on Judgment day? De preacher preach en pass de cup, En seek de hea-hen do’; De heat..en eat de preacher up, En he doan preach no mo’} Ob, bellevers, ‘What you gwine ter say? How you gwine ter rekoncile Dese things on Judgment day? Arlan! ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. A DIVIDED VOTE—A. W., San Diego, Cal. An American citizen who is entitled to vote has a right to vote for whomever he pleases, and in the case of Presidential electors in the State of California at the last held election he could have voted for Presidential electors of every party provided he did not vote for more thai nine in the lYgunte, and his vote would be perfectly legal. A voter can divide his vote in x-:u’nsxlx.t:: / x’:ol‘.‘h Presidential electors, but he e aggregate vot ECORDS—“D. D. C.” and “An Old This depertmest has not the time to hunt up the records for correspondents who conceal their ldentlly behind “An Old Subseriber” and “D. C. C.” Inthis instance both communications are in the same hand- writing. Correspondents who expect answers should comply with the rules that require correct name and address. Neither is ever used in giving answers, but are desired as an evidence of 1 eviden good faith on the part of the MANCHESTER R1oT—J. E. B., City. “The Man chester Horror” is the somewhat extravagant phrase that has been used to express the in- juries that were received by the crowd at St. Peter’s Field, in Manchester August 16, 1819. This field, which is in front of St. Peter's Chureh,isalso known as “Peterloo.” Shortly be. fore tne date mentioned there was considerable agitation in Manchestér on account of certain proposed Pariiamentary retorms and a man known as “Orator Hunt” announced that he would address & meeting of the peopleon the fieid. The magistrate forbid the meeting, stitl 80,000 met there. Hardly had Hunt com- menced to speak when 400 special constables and the Cheshire and Hlncg:llar Yeoman apreared and charged on the crowd. The 0] diers uscd the fint of their sabers and the con- stab.es their maces, with the result that about ersons were jujur d, either by being knocked down in their ¢fforts to escape or by being acc:dentally cut. It was said thatsix died of injuries received. Nine persons were arrested, and Hunt, the leader, was sent prison for three years for treasonable conspir acy. The fleld was called Peterloo, from the words of Hunt, who said the magisirates de- slred nothing so much as an opportunity of letting loose the bloody butchers of Waterloo upon the assembled people. CLIFF DWELLERS—"Wildwood,” Cal. Cliff dwellers in American archmology are the race which built and inhabited certain remarkabie structures discovered in Southwest Colorado and ¥he neighboring portions of the adjoining Territories. These structures are situated in the v}lle)’a or canyons of the Mancos, McElmo and San Juan rivers, and were first di-covered by a smalil party ot explorers connected with the United States geological and geographical survey. under command- of W, H. Jackson. Tne cliffs along these rivers are of ‘sandstone, having elmost perpendicular walls marked by narrow Lorizontal c.efts and ledges at various elevations. Upon these ledges in almost inac- cessible situations, often at a height of several hundred feet above the base of the ¢ iff, small stone houses of superior workn 1 found, which had evidentiy been the homes and refuges of & somewhat adyanced rac vanished from the region. s tions haye brought to view a larze number of these nest-like dwellings, together with watch towers end ruins of other struc supposed that the cliff dwellers w cestors of the p~esent Moquis tribe of Indians in the northwest corner of Arizona. on the Little Colorado and San Jusn rivers, discoyered in 1540 by European explore BAGPIPES IN (HE FRENCH ARMY. Admitting imitation to be the sincerest king of flattery, says the London Gravhic, our Highland reziments should feel, perhaps, greatly complimented by the attempt wh is just now being made fo introduce the § tish national instrument into a French fantry battalion. The enterprising French- man who has inaugurated this remarkabl, departure in the military music of our neigh- bors is Commandant Dumas of the Nineteenth A Gallic Pibroch. Chasseurs-a-pied, who, through an agent in London, procured a chanter and a bagpipe “utor'”'from » well-known bagpipe-muker in Edinburgh. His bandsmen having made satisiectory progress in their novel study, he has now procured aset of pipes from the same source, with & view, as he says, of eventuaiiy estublishing a complete pipe band. Nor do his Scoitish aspirations stop even h re, sshe nas also made inquiries as to the price of ©good claymores.” The accompanying sketch is an attempt to portray the French ‘“piou- piou” of the immediate tuture, arrayed in all the glory of his new and unwonted military equipment. However, as the Highlard dress is not unfrequentiy described as the “garb of old Gaul,” perhaps it is not urfitting tha: the modern Gaul should, if he pleases, rig himself out in Highland paraphernalia, though he can never hope 0 buy, beg, borrow or tenl the thorough piper's “swagger.” .The Galic cock can crow and strutin his own way, and will possibly, in time, evoive a home-grow variet NEW TO-DA ' Wise. and prudent housekeepers will not be persuaded into pur- chasing the low-grade, unreliable baking pow- ders which some deal- ers wish to sell for the sake of the additional profit derived there- from. Crudely mixed from low-grade, im- pure ingredients, such powders cost to make but a fractional part of the cost of the highly refined, absolutely pure RovaL Baking Powper, although frequently re- tailed at the same price. They contain lime and alum and are unwhole- some and lacking in leavening strength. RovaL Bakine Powper gives the greatest value for its cost, and there is no other powder or preparation that will give such satisfaction, or make such pure, wholesome and deli- cious food, or which in practical use will be found so economical. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW-YORK, y