The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1897, Page 6

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Car) one week, by carrier. . §0 one year, ¥ CALL, Six mont d Sunday CAL, three month: nd Sunday CaLr, one month, b Sunday CaLx, one W xrKLY CALL, | BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, £an Francisco, California. Selepbone ... i Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streec. 7 Telephone. .. ..Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 767 MontgOMmEry ETeel, COMer Clay; open untli 1350 o'clock. £p Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. %18 Larkin street: open until o'clock. | £\ corner Sixieents uud Misslou sireets; open #11 € o'clock. SL1% diission street: open nntil §0'CIoCK oen until 9 0'clock. open ull § v'clock. S aukIkee aireer, OAKLAND OFFICE U5 Broadway. . ASTERN OFFICE: 34 Park Row, New York City. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. Xooms =1 and DAV THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. w for politics. iverybody has an eye on Sacramento. A seat in the Cabinet for California is in sight and almost in reach, ow its last opportunity Cleveland and do nate has with The to lock horns him up. There are abundant signs that we are to have a new era in politics as well as in busines It is said that over 18,000 deer have been killed in the woods of Maine sthis vear, but it took more than 50,000 hunters 1o doit. “At last we get the welcome uews that Tom Watson has decided to retire from politics. The new era is evidently dawn- ing everywhere. Some of the Senators may have been recreating themselves during the holidays, but most of them were undoubteuly writ- speeches on Cuba. Yhe coercion of the Sultan will con- tinue to be the biggest drama on the Eu- ropean stage this winter, but whether it will e a farce or a tragedy remains to be se If the Cubans and Spaniards are left alone much longer there waa’t bea man on the island and the women will be ad- vertising to swap sugar plantations for husbands. ;. If California gains a representative in the Cabinet and sends to the Senate a stanch, stalwart, brainy Republican she will have a prestize at Washington sec- | ond to none of her sister States. | There is a great deal of work awaiting the law-makers at Sacramento, and for- tunately amosg the legislators there are many men who can be counted on to at- tend to it faithfully and do it rightly. In Cambridge, Mass., there are no sa- Joons licensed and yet the police during | the past ed over 1500 persons for drunkenness. It will takea Harvard graduate to explain the logic of the situ- ation. The call for a mothers’ congress, to be | held av Washington, has been met by a counter cail for a fathers’ congress. The next step in this development will be a boy®’ congress after the old folks have ad- journed. From the work achieved last year the Merchants’ Association can draw abund- ant confidence for prosecution of the work which is to come. It has now proven its usefalness and will have plenty of people to help it. A St Louis Judge recently declared from the bench that there has not been in that city in ten vears a policeman who had ever seen anything, and now the force has resolved to see him the next time he runs for office. A wild goose recentiy joined the flock kept by the city on a lake in Garfield Park in Chicago, and now the city authorities are in doubt whether to run him off as a vagrant or put him 1n the census as another settler from St. Louis. According to the New York Sun Con- gress sbould recognize the independence of Cuba at once and then discuss after- ward whether it has a constitutional right to do so, and it must be admitted that the plan has the merit of enterprise. The Supreme Court of Missouri has just decided that a clause in the charter of Kansas City imposing a penalty upon every qualified voter who fails to vote at a general election is uncoustitutional—so another reform scheme goes a-glimmering. Among the bills presented to this Con- gress )s one appropriating $5000 tu be ex- pended by the ‘Library Committee to “extend aid to the stage and assist the usefulness of the theater as an educator,” so.at last there is hope of a reward for the heavy villain, The McKinley Cabinet according to re- ports is far more mysterious than any cabinet ever seen at a spiritualistic seance. The facility with which it isat one time sbown to be full of dignitaries and the next moment empty beats anything Herr- mann ever did. Henry Watterson says that after retir- ,ing from the Presidency Cieveland should sit quietly “like a statue of Buddha with folded hands contemplating the pit of his stomach,” but in this Mr. Watterson has clearly overlooked the fact that Grover has a much bigger pit than that to con- template, 1t is said that the basis of all our rela- tions with Spain is an oid treaty ratified m 17 It has been addel to from time to time by protocols, conventions, etc., but the origthal remains as the main treaty, and it is said to be so antiquated that the State Department of neither country understands The fact that this' country, after an existence of more than a century, has not yet cecided whether the President or Congress has the decisive voice in recog- nizing the independence of a foreign State shows how easy it is for millions of intelligent people to live under a written constitution without knowing what it eans, l THE STATE LEGISLATURE The State Legisiature will be called to order to-day for the work of its thirty~ second session by the selection of its offi- cers, the appointment of its committees and the introduction of its first batch of bills. That the present session of the Legisla- ture will be one of the most importaut in the recent history of California no one who has examined a list of its members or considered its already outlined duties can possess a deubt. From every section of the State have been gathered its best qualified and most popular jcitizens to form the present Legislature. They have been elected as the result of a campaign in the close contests cf which only men of merit could win. The present Legislature, therefore, not only represents in a peculiar sense the peovle of California, but is also to &n un- usual degree the possessor of their confi- dence. The quality of its constituent membership is an assurance that this con- fidence will be neither disappointed nor abused and that the present Legislature will, during the next sixty days, distin- guish itself by faithful, honest work well and intelligently performed. The first and one of the most important functions of this Legislature will be the election of a United States’ Senator who shall serve the people of California and of the Nation at Washington during the next six years. The political complexion of the Legislature is an assurance that the selected Senator will be a Republican. The quality of the Republican memters of the Legislature is a further assurance that the choice of a Senator will be made with care and tnat the gentleman upon whom that high honor may fall will, in the eminence of his character and abilities, in his unselfish devotion to the cause of Republicanism, in his high aspirations to serve California and all her people, be a Senator of whom our Commonwealth, with- cut regard to party, shall have increasing reason 1o be proud. While the work of choosing a Senator is progressing the other important duties of the Legislature will get under way. The reference of the work of the Code Commis- sion to the proper committees, the intro- duction of bills aimed at such an amend- ment of the irrication laws as shall cause them {o give general satisfac- tion, the consideration of measures affect- ing the Railroad Commission and maae necessary in view of the recent decision of the Federal court, the passage of laws in the interests of the mining industry, the formulation of a statute placing the insane asylums of the State under the control of a commission, ard the probable reorganization of the judicial sysiem of Californis, in order that the wheels of justice may be accelerated, are among the many matters whica will occupy the attention of the Legislature. With ali of these measures and with the many others which will arise during the session, the Senate and Assembly has each men | of ample power and character to honestly and ably deal. The people of California may therefore rest assured that the pres- ent legislative session will be acredit to the Statein the extent of its service and in the honesty and ability with which its important and grave duties will be dis- charged. We feel confident that each and all of the members of both Houses will be ai- tached to the sublime iruth, expressed by the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, that this is “‘a governmeat of the people, by the people and for the people.” THE MERCHANTS' ASSOOIATION. The Merchants’ Association Review for January gives an altogether too brief re- view of the important work accomplished bv the association during the past year. We can well understand that the members of the organization prefer to let others ex- alt the good deeds it has achieved, but at the same time the Review would have ren- dered aservice to the Gity if it had set forth an elaborate statement of the work of the year as an illustration of what can be done for the general good by the united efforts of public-spirited men. The counsel embodied in the woras *‘Let your light shine before men” has its vaiue in civic affairs as well as in those of the church. THE CALL and other papers of the City have given daily an account of the progressive improvements made by the as- sociation and fostered by itsinfluence, but that does not fulfiil ail that could be done to make the work known by a complete summary of it. Sucha summary it would not be brageing too much for the Review to make, and certainly the record would be one of which all citizens could be proud. A bare intimation of the more import- ant work accomplished by the association can be gained from the brief paragraph in which it is summed up. Three years ago the Merchants’ Association fnaugurated & plan of keeping the streets ciean; now, that system Las come to stay. Eighteen months ago the association deciaed upon better lighting for our thoroughiares; now, each artery vies with the other in the number of brilliant arc lights. A year ego the Merchants’ Association secured bituminous pavement on Kearny street and started the agitation for repaving many cob- bled blocks; now, both the City and property- owners have determined upon smooth modern pavements and the cobble will soon be & muse- um curiosity. * * * Since the birth of the Merchants’ Association in 1894, twenty-five district improvement clubs and fifteen street improvement associations have been created. 1t is yratitying to learn that an im- proved sewer system is regarded by the association as the next problem to soive. We thoroughly agree with the Review that ““with its solution will come untold biess- ings to this metropolis.” The work is in- deed one of pressing urzency and no time should be Jost in setting about the task of accomplishing it. From the past succasses of the association we can draw good auga- ries of success in this enterprise also and will look for its beginning with hope and confidence. With such proofs before them of the usefulness of the association, no progress. ive citjzen should require urging to join the organization and assist in ‘its further labors. It should be regarded asa privie lege to be a member of so importantd civic body. Let all who have the Interests of the City at heart co-operate with the association and it will have- sufficient strength toachieve so much in the way of municipal improvement that all hitherto done will be accounted as but a begin- ning. THE BRUSSELS EXPOSITION. Among the more important enterprises which will engage the attention of our pro- gressive men during the present year will’ be thatof proyiding for an adequate rep- The Review says:{ resentation of the industries of California at the Brussels Bxposition, which opens tkis spring. Preparations for making the display are of course alréady Well ad- vanced by the State Board of Trade, and hearty co-operation should be given by all who have the means to do so. The trade of Belgium is well worth bid- ding for, even if the entrance of our goods into her markets ended there and did not lead to an acquaintance with them and a demand for them elsewhere. A statement recently made by the United States Com- missioners for the exposition makes that much plain. According to that statement the exports and imports of Belgium for 1895 are shown by statistics to have been of a value exceeding $1,064,000,000. This includes merchandise in transitand proves the important place held by Belfium asa commercial entrance to Europe. The value of foreign goods consumed by Belgium during the year amounted to $324,317,200. Of the total trade of the country the United States has less than 8 ver cent, and this notwithstanding the fact that Belgium’s leading imports— graias, raw textiles, building woods, etc.— are products that the United States is es- pecially well able to supply. The importance of making a good ex- hibit is strengthened by the fact that our trade with Belgium has actually dimin- ished of late. There has been a heavy falling off in Belgium purchases from this country of flour, cotton and living ani- mals. The exposition offers us an oppor- tunity to recover the trade which has been lost, and also to extend that of canned goods of all kinds, dried fruits and wines, The Commissioners point out that the conservativism of European p-oples is such that we can obtain their trade only by carrying our goods to their country and showing them under favorable conditions. International expositions offer the best of opportunities for doing that, and the one which is to be held at Brussels is there- fore a chance which no part of the United States, and particulary California, can afford to lose. THE VIOTORIAN ERA. Among the features of the celebrations to be held in Great Britain this year in honor of the longest reign in British annals, that which will haveé most interest to the worid at large is the proposea “Vic- torian age exhibition,” which ie designed to make u display of the world’s pro ress during the period of the reign of the present Queen. To make the exhibition more impress- ive. it is the intention to establish inevery industry a series of contrasts between the products of that industry at the time of Victoria’s accession and thé products of the present day. In every portion of the exposition, therefore. there will be shown the old way and the new. The visitor will see how the world lived in 1837, as well as how it lives in 1897. Such an exhibition will be 1nstructive as well as interesting, and will unquestionably be the most im- portant feature of the celebrations for the year. The exhibition is to be divided into eight sections—fine arts, historical and commemorative, drama, music, economic, scientific, commercial and industrial, and woman’s work. The last department of the exhibit will bein itself an evidence of how much the world has changed since Victoria came to the throne. It would herdly bave entered the heads of the directors of any kind of an exhibition in 1837 to give recognition to women to any- thing like the extent of providing a special department for the display of their accomplishments. Tt wili be interesiing to see in which of these various sections the contrast exhib- ited between the old and the new will be most striking. It is not likely that in art, drama and music much advance will be shown, but in the depar'ments of science, indusiry, economcs and commerce there wiil be displaved an advance which will | amount to a veritable revolution. Unless the connecting links between the old and the new are displayed in the exposition, it will seem to the observer as if a new race of men instead of anew generation had come into the world within the last sixty years. . The developments of recent progress are such that it is time for our historians to make a new division of the world’s his- tory. The old distinctions into ancient times, the middle ages and modern times no longer suffices. The change between the condition of the world to-day and that of sixty years ago is greater than the change which occurred in the sixteenth century and separated what is called modern from medieval times., The world has been completely revolutionized men- tally, morally, politically and inaustrially. The Napoleonic era marks a red dividing line between our time and those which preceded it and the accomplishments of the Victorian era have carried usinto an environment so widely different that we live in what is almost altogether a new world. COAST EXCHANGES. €. W. Haman has disposed of his interest in the Santa Clara Journal to his partner, N. H. Downing. The Journal is & well-managed, conservative newspaper and is an index to the prosperous condition of one of the most beau tiful towns of the Btate. A year ago Editor Montgomery of the Au- tioch Ledger reduced the price of his paper from $2 50 to $1 50 per annum. He has now shoved the price bavk to the former figure, and this leads the Martinez News to remark that “any well-conducted country mewspaper is well worth $250 and cannot be published for less.” Editor Fairweather of the Reedley Exponent is an example of the desirable kind of a citi- zen in any community that values progress. He has started a subscription list for the pur- pose of heloing to pay for the rights of way for the Vailey road. He has the genuine push, cnergy and enterprise that augur success in his undertakings. The Monterey Cypress is now in its ninth year. Itisa newspaper that reflects credit on its proprietors and editors and on the.com- munity, which finds excellent reasons for ac- cording it a nearty support. & The Colton News has suspended publication, leaving the field to the Colton Chronicle, which contends that one good paper is about all the business people of that town feel called upon 10 maintain, George 8. Nixon, editor ot the Winnemucea (Nev.)'Silver State, has anuounced himself as a candidate for United States Senator to suc- ceed Senator John P. Jones of Nevada. The Truckee Republican has changed hands, W. P. Calkias retiring fzom the editorial man- agement and being succeeded by F. M. Ruther- ford, principal of the Truckee public schools, and C. M. Ryan, & printer. The midwinter edition of the Suburban Quar- terly Journal, published by A. H. Shirk of San Leandro, mekes an exceedingly neat appear- ance. It is the official organ of the United Artisans, and Is devoted to current literature, sclence, natural bistory and general informa- tion. It is printed on book paper, hasa col- ored cover and is filled with instructive and entertaining reeding matter. The Parish Herald, of which Hugh Murphy is editor and Frank P. Scully manager, issued avery creditable holiday edition. It is pub- lished monthly in this City and began its second volume on Christmas day. The people of Newman haye somathing to bs proud of in the holiday number of the Tribune of that place. It is a veritable magazine, re- plete with fine features and containing a multitude of facts concerning Newman and vicinity that will be of great value in an advertising sense. It certainly should attract the attention of people in less favored countries to the desirability of Newman as & place of homes, good climate and varied resources. The Selma Irrigator hus ceased to issue & daily edition, and its réaders will haye to con- tent themselyes with a weekly visitation of the paper until such time as the daily can be profitably resumed. NEWS OF rOKE GN NAVIES. The British torpedo-boat destroyer Thrasher attained a mean speed of 30.36 knots during s three hours' trial on December 1. The armor for the three new battle-ships of the Canopseo class, to be begun early this yesr for the British navy, will cousist of nickel steel instend of Harveyized steel. The armor-beit will be 6 inches thick, 18 feet deep and 250 feet in leugth. The Proserpine, British cruiser of 2135 tous, the keel of which was laid March 2, 1896, was launched December 5 at the Sheer- ness dockyard. The Gladiator of 5800 tons, begun at the Portsmouth yard January 27, 1896, was launched December 8, and will be reudy for sea in fliteen months hence. Holland is about to reorganize and greatly increase its uavy. The sum of $33,750,000 is to be expended for the construction of the fol- lowing classes of vessels: Twelve protected cruisers of 23-knot speed, six armored vessels of 3400 tous, fifteen gunboats, six monitors, fifteen torvedo-boat destroyers and sixieen tor- pedo-boats, A floating dock for Havana is being built in England. It will be 450 feet in lengih, 82 feet wide and allow a draughtof 27 feet 6 inches and will be capable of lifting 10,000 tons dead weight in two and s half hours. The structure isof steel and is 10 be completed in eleven months at a cost of $575,000, when it will be towed 10 its destination. Lord Beresfora’s proposition to rearm some of the older armored ships in the navy, which still carry muzale-loading guns, is meeting with favor from the British Admiralty. There aresix turret ships and ten central battery ships carrging batteries of muzzie-loading guus, ranging from 16 inches down to8 inches, which, with modern ordnance, can be made very effective ships. The naval expenditures of France, Russia and England, in proportfon to their tonnage of shipping, are $45 per ton for France, $60 for Russia and only $7 50 for England. This comparatively insignificant outlay on the British navy forms the basis of demand for greater outlay on the navy by her statesmen, who believe that in a struggle England will be saved by her navy rather than by coalition with foreign powers. The estimated cost of the several classes of ships for the navy of Holland is as follows: Cruisers of 3900 tons and 23 knots speed, $1,288,500; ar:fored coast defense vessel, 3400 tons and 20-knot speed, $1,528,800 ; gun- boats of 475 tons, $147,000; monitors of 1500 (ons, $764,400; mouitors of 1400 tons, $337,- 600; torpedc-boat destroyers, 130 tons and 50- $193,000; torpedo-boats, 23 knots, $71,- 400; torpedo-boats of 16 knots, $25,200. The Amazones, & cruiser built for the Brazil- ian navy, was launched December 4 from the Elswick yard. She isof 3450 tons dispiace- ment, 7500 horsepower and is expected to make a speed of 204 knots. The dimensions are: 330 feet in length, 43 feet 9 inches beam and 16 feet 10 inches mean draught. The armament consists of six 6-inch, four 4.9- inch, ail quick-firing guns, and ten 6-pounders and four l-poundars. The coal-carrying ca- pacity s 700 tons, and, like the majority of vessels in the Brazilian navy, the Amazones' hull is sheathed with wood and coppered. PERSONAL. George G. Siebels, U. 8. N, isat the Palace. Paul E. Walker of Stanford isat the Palace. Edward 8. Bell, a Napa attorney, is at the fck. G. W. Tavener of Lovelocks, Nev., is at the Russ. T. H. Jenkins, mining expert, London, is at the Russ. Judge E.V.Spencer of Lassen County 1s at the Russ. J. D. Carr, the capitalist, of Salinas s at the Occidental. Peter lvancovitch, merchant, of Hanford. is at the Russ. Samuel M. Robins of British Columbia isa guest at the Palace. J. Gordon, & mine-owner from Zacatecas, Mexico, is at the Palace. W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is & late arrival at the Lick. G. G. Radcliff of Watsonville is at the Grand on his way to Sacramento. Judge 8. K. Dougherty of Santa Rosa regls- tered at the Grand last night. W. F. Prisk, a newspaper man of Grass Val- ley, 18 visiting at the Occidental. N. E. de Yoe, & merchant of Modesto, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. J. F. Clapp of Chicago, who 1s interested in mines in this State, is at the Grand. E. W. Runyon, a capitalist of Red Bluff, is ‘Tegistered at the Palace with his wife. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite Ho- tel at Btockton, is & guest at the Palace. Frank Schwels, 8 mining man of Gold Hill, 0§~ is making s short stay at the Russ. C. W. Clough came down from Chico yester- day and has taken rooms at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. Naglee Burk, the milllonaire horse-owner, came up from San Jose yesterday and is at the Prlace. ki Bishop W. F. Nichols ¢ame up from San Mateo yesterday, and is visiting at the Occi- dental. D. N. Carithers, & merchant of Santa Rosa, arrived in town last night and registered at the Lick. Mavor W. H. Carlson of San Diego ar- rived from the South yesterday., He is staying at the Grand. John Markley, secretary of the State Board of Examiners, is in town from Gevserville. He i8 at the Lick. Among tha latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel is E. Guiller of Merced, the iwell- known grain-dealer. [ S. Prewitt and wife of Los Angeles are in the City for a few days and are registered at the Cosmopoliten Hotel. Mrs. W. P. Harrington, accompanied by the Misses Harrington, returned to the Palace' yesterday aiter spending their holidays at their home in Colusa. E. W. Herrin, & mining man from Ashville, Or, s alate arrival et the Russ. He is here on business and a visit to his brother, W. F. Herrln, the Southern Pacific attorney. F. L Christie of Vancouver, B. C., accom- panied by his brother, Fred Christie. of Gua. lala, B. C., large cattle-dealers, are taking in the sights of the City while staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—Ira D. Orton and Louis Reim of Los Angeles areat the Raleigh. RESTORING, i{HE MERCHANT MA. RINE. ‘Washibgton Times. Every statesman in the country agrees with every other statesman that the shipping trade of the Utlited States ought to be bulit up again. They all concur that it is a shame that the Ameriean flag_has practically disappeared from the seas.~ Unless scen floating from the masthead of some American man-of-war it a rare spectacle in foreign ports. It was diffe; ce. Tne time was when the American merchant marine outnumbered even Great Britain's, when our clipper ships were seen everywhere, and when American exports and imporis were carried in American bottoms. It is the saddest kind of commentary upon our shippiug laws to think that the marvelons progress the world has made in ship-building, and with the constantly increasing evidence that the United States can beat the world in construetion of the fastest of vessels of mod- ern kind, this country should stand at the foot of the list in respect of the size of its mer- chant marine, 4 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. E. Bengas, a_well-known business man of Eureks, Cal., where he is stationed and repre- sents several large wholesale houses of this City, is on a business trip here. He predicts marked improvements in the near futurc for his town. “The largs lumber. manufacturers feel jubi- lantover an increased demand for redwood from foreign markets,” he said, “and with a similar improvement in the domestic markets all the mills will be in operation in the spring. The winter so {ar has been remarkably favor- able to dairymen. All the creamer.es in the county are turning out tons of golden butter, which brings the top prices in the San Fran- cisco market. Notwithstanding the great de- pression of business which has existed and is existing, we have had no faflures, and I must say the merchants are never dilatory on col- lection days. Our business men are ronserva- tive and cautious und the population 38 not & floating one as in other sections of the State. ““The recent storm in our harbor, where two Dbreak-waters are in course of comstruction, was very disastrous, However the contractors feel sure of success in the great undertaking and will renew their work with more activity in the spring. Take itall in all our county is in as heaithy a condition as any in the State, with brieht prospectsin the near, future. We have homes for a million of people and our population is only 30,000.” PARAGRAPHS ABOU! PEOPLE. Nowaday County, Missouri, has a horse- Qealer named Goodpastur The only liviag son of a revolutionary sol- dier in New Hampshire is Samuel S Green of Portsmouth, who was 84 years old last week. Henry Doel, who is now an inpkeeper in Piymouth, England, is said to be the oldest sctor in England. He is nearly 93 years old, and was on the stage continuously for sixty- five years, General Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, colonel of the British Life Guards, is about to be promoted to the rank of fleld marshal. The promotion is & court job and causes irritation in the army. Henry Barnard, the well-known educator of Hartford, Conn., who was the originator of the Conneeticut Reform School bill adopted by the Legislature in 1838, will be 86 years old on January 24. $ A Cuban in New York says of Maceo that he was & man of the strictest moral integrity; that he mnever drank wine, never played cards and never smoked, even in & land where nearly everybody, mau, woman and child, smoked. It is expected that the German Emperor will visit Jerusalem next spring, probably at Easter, to be present at the consecration of & Lutheran church there. The church is to be erected on ground given by the Sultan to Em- peror Frederick, the Kaiser’s father. Gustav Johnson of St. Marys', Pottawatomie County, Kans., left his wife by will the choice of accepting a half-interest in his estate and freedom to do as she chose as to her future state, or the whole of his property should she be wiliing to promise not to marry again. Thomas F. Bayard Jr.,son of the Embassador to Great Britain, has accepted a place in the office of the corporation counsel of New York and will femove to that city early next year. Mr. Bayard wili be connected with the depart- ment of street opening. He is a greduate of the Yale class of '90. THE COM:ORT OF THE STARS. When Iam overmatched by petty cares ‘And things of earch 10om |are, and 100k to be Uf moment, how it s0othes an.i comforts me To step into the night and feel ihe airs 01 heaven fan my cheek: and, best of all, Guze up into those ali-uncharted seas Where swim ihe stately p anets; such as these Make mortal fret seem slight and temporal. I muse on what of life may stir among “Those spaces knowing naught of metes and bars; Undreamed-of dramas played {n outmost stars, And Iyrics by archangeis granaly sung. 1 grow familiar with the solar runes And comorebend of worlds the mystic birth: Ringed Saiurn, Mars, whose fashion apes ' the earth, ‘And Jupiter, the giant, with his moons. Then, dizzy with the anspeakable sights anove, Rebuked by Vas: on Vast, my puny heart 15 kreatened for its transitory part, My trouble merged in wonder and in love. RICHARD BURTON. Letters From the People. GERMAN CITIES. American Ignorance of ZTheir Growth and Progres: To the Editor of the San Francisco Call-SiRr: “Municipal Housekeeping,” as a science and an art, evolved out of the conditions of life prevailing in the last haif of the nineteenth century, can for various reasons be observed to better advantage in Germany than in any other country. German cities, having fairly entered upon the task of providing themselves with modern conveniences and improvements, are accomplishing 1t in & more systematic, thorough and business-like manner than any other cities, whether in Europe, America or Australia. To this work of modern improve- ments the Germans seem to have brought more of the scientific spirit and method than any other people. Their habits of thorough- ness in research and of patient, exhanstive treatment of any subject in hand have fully characterized their new progress in the arts of civilized life. The words of the foregoing paragraph are taken as they stand from the opening chapter, page 289, of Albert Shaw’s masteriy survey of municipsl government in Germany, occups- ing the second half of his invaluable book on “Municipal Government in Europe,'’ and I most earnestly commend this book: to our public-spirited citizens who are studying the subject of municipal government with a view to the adoption of & new and progressive char- ter for Sen Francisco. In the limitea space alloted me here it is my present purpose to try 10 open the eyes of American ignorance to the fact that we are in our most advanced cities Ingging far behind the progress made in German munielpal goverament, for 1 still Lope that we shall lay aside our’conceit and try to learn the lessons taught by the work done in European cities. Jr. Shaw assigns a_plausible reason for our singular ignorance of the progress made in European municipal government: “The guide-books are all made on the supposition that American tourisis are painfully eager to see everything of antiquarian or historical in- terest and that they care nothing whatever for Europe as the present-day home of progressive peoples, and we fail to appreciate the force and significance of the immense modern fm- petus that 1s transiorming the European cities. Most of them have an ancient or me- dieval nucleus, but otherwise they are as new s our American cities, and in many respects they are more modern and enterprising. In- deed, there seems to be an almost unconquer- able delusion in the popular mind that our American cities are the only ones which show ihe phenomenon of rapid growth,and that their newness excuses their failure to provide well for the common necessities ot urban life.” In order to try to dispel this almost univer- sal delusion Mr. Shaw devotes nearly four ‘pages to an exceedingly interesting compari- 50R between iorty-two German and American cities of nearly equa ulation. from which Iselect & few. 1u 1870 New York had & popu- lation of nearly 950,000, whiie Berlin had bareiy 800,000. " 1n 1880 Berlin had outgrown New York and was still ahead in 1890, having 1,578,794 to New York’s 1,515,301: and Berlin in the past twenty-five years has added as many actual new residents as has Chica, henomenal as the growth of Chicago has L!n. Mr. Shaw next compares Hamburg and Bostou. In 1875 Hamburg had 348.000 popu- lation and Boston had 342,000. 1n 1890 Ham- burg had 569,260 and Bosion 448,000, a gain in fifteen years of 200,000 for Hamburg and 100,000 for Boston. Bultimore is sometimes Iikeued for wealth and prosperity to Hamburg. In the early soventies they were of equal size, In 1890 Hamburg had 569,260 and Baltimore 434 439, Leinsic had 127,000 population in 1875 and in 1890 it had 855,000. *It has now well distanced 8an Francisco, which was con- siderably the larger in the seventies,” Mr. Shaw remarks. At the close of his forty-two counparisons he says: *“If the figures were re- vised to extend ‘the comparison to the year 1895 the exhibition of swift growth in the ‘German cities would appear still more remark- able. 1 feel constrained to give the concluding paragraph eatire on this subject, for Mr. Shaw shows 80 much candor and clearness in it that he is entitled (0 be heard: *“When one ven- tures to suggest that the American cities are meagerly provided with the best modern fi cilities and make but & sorry snow in com- parison with Eupopean cities there comes the unfailing reply that ours are in their infancy, while those of Europe are yenerable with age and rich in the accumulations of a lon; realized maturity. The cxistence of ol churches and casties and of various monu- ments and collections illustrating the history of art has given the impression that European cities ars old. But for the purposes of our discussion they are younger than their Ameri- can counterparts. Their cit.zens are mot nearly as rich as those in our cities. They sufferunder the disadvantages of loss i the productive energy_and wealth through emi- gration of hundreds of thousands of thelr best young men siter they have reared and edu- cated them. “They stager under such heavy burdens of taxation and compuisory service io maintain the military arm of ihe general government that the tax increment which can b spared for municipal purpoges comes Wwith pain and is small compared with the revenues we can raise for local outlay in America, where taxes for National and State purposes are compar- ativeiy light. And yet, in the face of disad: vantages far greater than we can preseut as excuses, the German cities have grappled with the new municipal problems of the last quar- ter of & century and have solved them far more prompily and completeiy than the Amer- ican cities have done.” At another time I propose to give some iv- formation as to the way in which theso Ger- man cities have soived the municipal prob- lems which most concern our own people, as presented in this sterling work on “*Municipal Government in Europe,” by Albert Shaw. OSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Jan. 1, 189 NEWSPAPER rLEASANTRY. “Talk about elevatin’ de stage!” Yalt” “Wot's de matter wid lowerin’ de gallery?” Chicago Record. Dolly Swift—You may talk of the romance of a bicycle built for two, but— Sally Gay—What can be nicer ? Dolly Swift—A buggy built apparently for one.—Puck. Young Tentative—Which is the correct form, tosay a man when he dies leaves a wife or leaves a widow? 01d Reliable—Young man, s widow is never left.—Boston Transcript. Della Ware—Do y2a believe in the Biblical admonition of giving a kiss fora blow, Mr. Westside? Westside—Well-er—that depends, Miss Ware, How hard are you going to strike me?—Buf- falo Times. May—1I wonder why it is that people always put the record of births in the Bible. Marie—Well, I don’t know wheze it is safer from human curiosity, unless in a safety de- posit vault, do you?—New York Evening Journal. Customer—Your sign says you are & ton- sorial artis Barber—Yes, sir. Customer (contemplating gashes in his face) —Don’t you think you ought also to specify you are an impressionist ?—Puck. Bobby—Pop, what does hereditary nean? Fond parent—It means, Bobby, something that goes from parent to ehild. Now see if you can.give me an example of something that is hereditary. Bobby—Mensles. Igot’em from motief,— Brooklyn Life. LADYS APRON This useful garment speaks for itself. An apron large enough to be of use and trimmed as this 15, need ot have its ‘raison d'etre” » pointed out. For every rough work enameled cloth or rubber are used. Denim or blue jeaus make aheayy apron that will last indefiniteiy. Ginghams, heavy cambric or cotton duck are serviceable materiais. Made of yhite 1awn, cambric or batiste it forms & gerinent much appreciated by ladies whose only household cares consist pf light dusting. THE MISSING SURPLUS Now York Mail and Express. You may go through Secretary Carlisle’s re- port with a search warrant without finding any trage of the “comfortable surplus” which be expected to derive from the operation of the Wiison-Gorman bill. It must have been mislaid. IHE WAR UPON HE LOTTERIES. Los Angeles Times. The San Francisco Grand Jury has begun war upon the lotteries in that City, which do so much to impoverish the working classes. The good seed sown by THE CALL will yet bear fruit. A NEW YEAR SERMON. The Advice Given by Rev. Dr. Spalding to His Congregation. Yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Spald- ing of St. John’s Episcopal Cburch preached a sermon on “The Beginning of the New Year.,” He said that at sucha time there always comes the thought of responsibility, of giving an account of ourseives to God. Any good business man would not think of letting the new vear come without finding how he stood financially, and just so we should find how we stand with God. The speaker likened us to weavers and said that asa weaver stands behind the loom and cannot see the pattern he is making so in our lives cannot see what kind of a pattern we are weaving, but God sees, and we, too, shall see by and by. The selfish man is weaving a pattern he will not wish to see, but he who is living his life for God and for others is weaving a beautiful pattern, though he may be utterly unconscious of it himself, “Think if a diary were kept of our sins,” said he, ‘‘how the pages wonld be filled with accounts of passion and wrath, of fickieness, of unkind things said of others, of impure thoughts and acts. Then think of the good acts of our lives. Would there be a balance? Let us in the coming year live our lives to God, doing our daily dury, and ‘forgetting those things which are be- hind, reach forth unto those things which are before.” "’ — e Praise Service. There was & praise service tn St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on California street, near Steiner, last night, when the foliowing music was rendered under the direction of F. Katzen- bach: Organ prelude (Flagler); processional hymn 519 (David); “Gloria Patri,” cantate domino (Chandler); “Magnificat’ (Tours); “Nune Dimittis” (Tours); anthem, “Sweet I oiby aolerey” - (Barmbs); hyin 408 (Urbs ata): organ solo (Salome); duet, tenor and sito, “The Vesper Hour’ (H. R Shelley); anthem. a Tiore Were Shep- herds" (Arthur Foote); alto solo, “The Unseen Kingdom”. }Gorsld Lane); “Gloria in Ex- celsis,” Twelfth Mass (Mozart); offertory, su. prano solo, ‘“Come to the Land of Rest" (Greely); doxology, ‘‘Praise the Lord”; re. cessional hymn 491: postlude (Batiste); ‘solo quartet and chorus—Miss Mubel Love, so. rano; Mrs. Maud cnnvgn- Henley, alto; « A, Katzenbach, tenor; .« Melvin, bess, ' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1897. — THE STORY OF THE FLODD Not a Myth Produc:d by the Imagipation, Says Rev. Dr. Rader. Investigation Into the Origin and Nature of the Deluge Is, Asserted the Sp:aker, Higher Criticism. | Rev. William Rader spoke last nizht on “The Deluge” in the Third Congrega- | tional Church. He said: a “The deluge was not a myth produce by the imagination, but a tradition W ich sprung out of an event. There is evi- dence of a local flood occurring in that part of the world peopled by our ancestors before they separated into races. “The tradition of a flood is held by all branches of the human family except Fhe blacks. The Hebrews did not, accor‘dfnfi to the best autbority, hold this tradition hrst. Neither did they, according to the Rabbinical theory of verbal inspirut!un, receive it by direct revelation from God, but by oral tradition and from existing documents. Genesis is a composite book, made up of more than one document. “The deluge was used to teach the unity and vengeance of God, the h?w'(,)f retrib- utive justice and the fact of sin.” 2 Speaking of “‘the higher criticism an the Bible,”” the speaker said: This investigation int6 the origin and nature of the deluge, is_higher criticism. You wi observe that it is perfectly harmless. Honest thought has never destroyed anything, Itis the wrong thinking that injures the Bible, no the right thinking. Some are sfraid of this term “nigher eriticism,” which means simply an ipteiligent study of the Bible, it sixty-six books, the literary nature of its con- tents, the evolution of its thought, the condi- tion of the text, and the contemporaneous history surrounding the men who prepared the biblical narration. It is destructive of falsehood and fear, of superstition and igno- rance. When Copernicus proved the old theory of the universe to be wrong, the stars did not drop, they shone with greater luster. Shakespeare’s plays have never been harmed by study. It isa pitiable reflection upon Protestantism to_hear religious teachers up- braid the men who search the Scriptures and ask the Bible to tell the secrot of its power. They dream of a time when some German critic will tumble ddwn the Bible structure and all the orthodox will be crushed. But it is only a harmless nightmare. The reeltest of the Bible is not found in_thought, but life. It s the siuner, not the saint, who briugs the teal test to the Word of God. Does it accom- plish for him what he is told it wili? That is the real 1ssue in the controversy about the Scriptures. Men take pride in finding fault with Bible students. It sounds pretty well in & ministers’ meeting orin the pulpit to arro- gate to oneself the infallibility of knowledge, a8 against the ripest thought of the world, but it is & very unwise treatment of some very good and wise men. When it was announced a few vears ago that no one man, not_even Moses, wrote the first five books of the Oid Testament, men who had never given the matter an hour’s critical study | made crosses of orthodoxy on_which to hang these bold crities. To-day there is but one scholar in the United States who believes in the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. Who are these dangerous men? 1 will name afew and you may judge for yourselves whether or not they are to be trusied. Look first at the British pulpit. Tnere is Canou Farrar, whose golden tongue has thrilled Westminster Abbey for so many years, Tivaied oniy by Canon Lid- don of St” Paul's. In Scotland is Profussor Drummond, und Bruce, aud Dods, and that group of devout men who huve chailenged the admiration of the world. I would add to these the name of Ian McLaren, whose words are Tead by the English-speaking world. On this side of the Atiantic it 1s difficult to select a few names from the long list ol preachers who rep- resent the school of the higher lenrning. Henry Ward Beecher and Philiips Brooks, whose elo- quence still molds the characters of tne Har- vard students and illustrates the immortality ofan honest man; Dr.Lyman Abbott, whose gentle life is as pure as his faith in the Christ of the gospals, and Dr. George Gordon, who stands like a pillar of lightin the old South Church in Boston; Professor llarper of the University of Chicago and Professor Briggs of New York, and scores of others whom I might name, Strelge enough, every name I have men- tloned—and they were not se.ccted with refer- ence to the remark I am about to make—every name has been challenged by the church in which he worked. Chalienged for what? For being inte.lectually honest, for using their | minds and lifting aloft the everlasting Gospel | of Jesus Christ free from superstition and tra- | dition and false interpretations, They have saved the Bibie from the hands of 11 {riends; they haye exaited the word of God. Genuinely in earnest they have recovered this literature in the light oi reason und given the contents a rational interpreration. These men have brought back my Lord, my faitn, my devout | reverence for the word of God, and I em proud { tostand not in their defensé, but in defense of their spirit and their infinence upon the world. For this work Ian McLaren has been called dangerous, Dr. Gordon unsound, Ly- man Abbott rationalistic, Bishob Brooks too broad, President Harper ‘s destructive critic and Canon Farrar & heretic. Think of it! —— o 4 1bs. famous broken candy, handsome bkts,, only 50c. Townsend’s, Paiace building. * ————————— SPECTAL information daily to manufscturers, business houses and public men by the Pres Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ———— Ally—That novel of Thomson's is perfect mush. Sally—Of course. delphia Times. It's a cereal story.—Phila Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Franclsco every Wednesday, via Rin Grande and Rock Island Raflways. 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WiTH a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (the unrivaled cough cure) and Ayer's Almanac (the best calendar), we wish you & happy New Year. B iy S Professor—Say, Anna, couldn’t we just as well postpone our silver wedding and cile- brate it at the same time as the golden wed- ding? Idon’t like to be futerrupted in my work so oftan.—Fliegende Blaetter. NEW 7TO-DAT. - Quackery is always discov- ering remedies which will act upon the germs of disease directly and kill them. But no discovery has ever yet {been approved by doctors {which will cure consump- {tion that way. Germs can only be killed by making the body strong enough to over- come them, and the early use of such a remedy as Scott’s Emulsion is one of the helps. Int the daily war- fare man keeps up, he wins best, who is provided with the needed strength, such ag Scott’s Emulsion supplies.