The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1897. ANUARY 18, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, One week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALx, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally snd Sunday CALL, six months, by mall. 3.00 Dally snd Bunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally snd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Saaday CALL, oDe year, by mail.. WEEKLY CALL, ORe year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Telephone.. t Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Telephene......... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Cla, 9:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes strect 615 Larkin stree SW. corner Sixtee antil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock, 167 Ninth strect; open until 9 o’clock. 1305 Polk street: open until 9:30 o'clock. ...Main—1874 open untt) open until 9:30 o'clock. pen until 9:50 o'clock. h and Mission streets; open OQAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Brondway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 83, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOI Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e e g Bubscribe to the carnival fund. Let us make our frolic a world-beater. It is going to be a real Cabinet and not merely a Presidential bureau. Money voted fora monument to Senator Baker would not be an extravagance. This will be a good week to get bargains if you study our advertising columns. The Legislature has silenced the first scandal by taking it by the throat in the right way. It was civilization that ruined the glory of Sacramento River and clvilization should restore it. The report from Washington that Olney manages Cleveland settles that much, but now there isa desire to know who man- ages Olney. A proposal in the Iilinois Legislature to fix the pay of Chicago Aldermen at $8000 a year is what may be called a boodle bill with frills on it. Weyler's estimate that there sre less than 1000 revolutionists left in Pinar del Rio seems to have been abbut correct. The others are marching on Havana. No less than four State Legislatures are now wrestling with the theater hat ques- tion, and all the time the girl who wears the hat is not saying a single word. ‘Whether the country will have any kind of tneory left when Cleveland gaes out of office may be doubtful, but it will cer. | tainly be altogether out of condition. Now that Mr. Madden has retired from the Senatorial contest in Illinois it 1s an- nounced that he is not “a boodle Alder- man” but a good citizen thoroughly de- voted to civic interests. Four years ago the Democrats had organ- jzed the Legislatures in the biz States of the Union and were busy electing Senators, but now they are hardly able to organize a crowd and elect what they wish to drink. The Georgia Legislature has refused to pass a law making a close season for the protection of possums, but as long as the Georgians raise chickens and leave the persimmon trees growing the possum can look out for himself. There is not likely to be any disappoint- ment with John Sherman as Secretary of State. While he has never shown his hand much in foreign affairs he has am- ply demonstrated in Qhio politics that he is at home in diplomacy. The effect of Eastern weather upon the human intellect may be estimated from the fact thau the papers over there are now elaborately disputing with one an- other whether women ever make good resolutions on New Year's day. It is said the indemnity to be demanded by the Boers for the Jameson raid into the Transvaal will amount to something more than $10,000,000, and 1t goes without saying that when England sees tie bill she will immediately demand arbitration. The latest development in civil service legislation at Washington isa bill provid- ing a pension for every member of the service who has served for thirty-five years. A few more reforms, and a Government job will be a eoft snap sure enough. During the past year there were con- structed in this country 1175 locomotives of an average value of $10,000, and of these 309 were exported, thus showing that foreign countries are learning where to come when they want toe best ma- chinery. The recent official report showing that Savannah has 11,063 trees along ber side- walks has led nobody to declare that the city is in the shade. On ths contrary, it is everywhere regarded as-a proof that her people live in the sunlight and know how to enjoy it. Governor Black of New York startled the State in Lis inaugural by declaring: *In my judgment civil service reform will work better with less starch.” The state- ment ix the more surprising becanse it shows that the Governor himself has lots of starch in him Boies Penrose, who at the age of 86 has been honored by election to the United States Senate from Penasylvania, is sald to be a man of marked personal character- istics, so eccentric in many respects that atone time there was much fun made of him. Bat the fun-making fellows are for- gotten now. Omaha, like so many other cities, is straining herself at charter-making, and is trylng to devise some method to prevent Councilmen who are going out of office from putting up jobs between the time of election and the time when the new Coun- cilmen take their seats. It would seem from this that the average Omaha Council- man is a tough cuss. According to President Fallon of the Obhio Fish and Game Commission the fish in Lake Erle wiil be exhausted in two or three years unless some protection is given them. There can be no greater evi- dence of the rapacity of the Ohio man. Let us be thankiul that State is not lo- cated on the Pacific, for if 1t were the big ocean would be exhausted of everything, from islands to shrimps, in less than a de- cade, | are engagad. THE ORY OF EXTRAVAGANCE. It is already evident that within a comparatively short time the present Legislature will have to face a cry of extravagence as clamorous as apy whictl has been raised sgainst its predecessors. There are already rumors of scandals and suggestions of fraud aad corruption spread throughout the State. These rumors have a certain foundation, and it is to the vredit of the Legislature that it has begun the work of investigating every ground on which such charges are based. 1t is only fair tothe Legislature that the people should give due consideration to | the cause of so-called legislative extrava- gance. Excessive expenditures by the State have not been due wholly to indif- ference to public opinion on the part of the legislators. Nearly all such ex pendi- tures have been supported by men outside the Legislature and by a seeming public opinion in various counties. The repre- sentatives of those counties, in fact, have been often forced against their own better judgment to support extravagant schemes. The true cause and origin of legislative extravaganceis to be found in the desire of each county to obtain more than its share of rightful appropriations. When Buncombe County, for example, desires a million and seventeen dollars for some in- stitution, or proposed institution in the county, all the good citizens of Buncomba support the measure and insist tbat the representatives of that county shall advo- cate it and promote it by every means in their power. These representatives soon learn that they cannot secure the appro- priation for Buncombe unless they agree 10 stand in with those who desire appro- vriations for other counties. In this way one extravagance leads to another, and as the advocates of the various schemes gen- erally constitute a majority of all the members of the Lezislature, they carry out their plans by a system of log-rolling. Thus, while each one individuaily clamors for economy, in the aggregate they support extravagance, and the result is a mass of expenditures which constitutes a true scandal against the State. Itis evident that the only way to attain economy is for those who advocate it to begin in their own counties. The repre- sentative in the Legidlgture from any par- ticular section should not be left to stand alone and combat all his fellow-citizens clamoring for big appropriations. Those citizens in each county who really desire economy and a better management of State affairs should organize and give a strong, earnest, resolute and publicly ex- pressed sapport to their delegates in re- fusing to vote for excessive appropriations not only for other counties, but also for his own. : It is estimated that at the present Legis- lature various Btate institutions will ask appropriations for upward of a million and a half of dollars. The representative of every county in which these institu- tions are located wiil be expected to vote for the appropriation asked by his own county, and will be urged to combine with the advocates of equally large appropria- tions 1n other counties in order to obtain it. This being so, it is unfair to hold members of the Leczislature solely re- sponsible for such exiravagance as may be committed. We do not mean to say the legislator is not in some sense personally responsible for his action. Elected by the taxpayers at large, he ought to represent all of them, and not the set which is most insistent, clamorous and aggressive. In the nature of things, howeyer, a representativeis very apt to mistake the loudest voice for the voice of all. Moreover, he is reasonabiy right in assuming that the men who work are more effective in politics than the men who do not work, and thereiore if he votes with the workers and stands in for big appropriations he not only does good politics, but has some show of reason for claiming that he hgs served with fidel- ity his constituents. The moral of the whole is that if we are to have economy we must begin at home. Each county must enter upon the work of combating its own greed and limiting its own demands upon the Btate treasury. In no other way can we obtain economy under our present form of government. SACRAMENTO RIVER. It isreported that a strong appeal will be made from theland-owners of Sacra- mento Valley for an appropriation to deepen the channel of the Bacramento River. This appeal should be indorsed and strengthened by San Francisco and the State generally. An appropriation for such a purpose would be a benefit to all and moreover the proposed work is one of more than ordinary urgency. There wasa time when the Sacramento River was navigable for deep sea vessels a3 far as the city of Sacramento. It was at tbat time not merely a mud sewer for the interior ot the State, but a great stream furnishing facilities for transporta- tion and adding immensely to our com- mercial wealth, The work of civilization hes almost destroyed the nsefulness of the stream for navigation, and it is only right that civilization should repair the injury it bas done. The channel should be dredged and the great river made as clear as it was in the days of ’49. It is estimated by J. R. Price, chief en- gineer of the Board of Public Works, that by the expenditure of $200,000 a dredger could be constructed in California which would have ample power to transfer to the shore of the stream 8000 cubic yards of soft mud an hour. This would enable the work of clearing the channel to be speedily and economicaily done, and an appropria- tion for such a dredger and for the work of operating it would not be in any sense of the word an extravagance or a waste of money. THE O0ST OF STRIKES. The “Tenth Report of the United States Commissioner of labor,” the second vol- ume of which has just been given to the public, contains statistics of strikes cover- ing a period of thirteen and a half years, up to June 30, 1894. Included in these are reports of the enormous sums to which the losses incurred in these industrial wars amount, and the sum is enough to set capitalists and workmen seriously thinking of the problem of arbitration. The total loss to employes during the period investigated by the Commissioner is estimated at $163,807,000, which more than doubled the loss in the same time to employers, The losses of both parties aaded together give a total in rough num- bers of $250,000,000, and it is more than probable that there were large losses which could not bediscovered by the Com- missioner. The cost of lockouts to em- ployers was §12,000,000, and to employes $26,685,000, showing about the same pro- portion as in strikes, bu much less in the aggregate, The success and failure of strikes varied in an astonishing way in different years, but an avergge of a long term of yeara shows that in a majority of cases strikes have succeeded. One of the interesting facis revealed by the statistics is that large strikes are much more likely to fail than those where a moderate number of people The successful strikers foot up 1,188,000, and those that entered into strikes that failed number 2,065,000. Sym- pathy strikes have generally been failures, and thisshonld make clear to labor lead- ers the poor policy of calling upon men who héive no grievance to strike in sym- pathy with those who have. ‘I'he statistics prove, however, ihat the percentage of sympathetic strikes is lareely increasing. Another point shown is that while strikes up to about 1886 were almost always for the direct purpose of increasing wages or shortening hours those of receat years have been largely in resistance to the employment of non-union men. The lesson to be learned from the re- port generally is that although strikes are in a swall majority of cases successful they entail too great a cost for victory. The vast loss of production istoo much to be thrown away, and the differences be- tween labor and capital should always be settlea by arbitration. The cost of a fight is certain to exceed in an average of cases what would be relinquished by concilia- tion. Bothin lockouts and strikes there is a terrible and needless waste. It seems absurd to doubt that men could be found both clear-headed and honorable enough to settle disputes with a neager approach to absolute justice than could be arrived at by either of the self-interested parties to the quarrel. There is, moreover, another way of looking at the matter. A strike is not merelya private affair between employers and employes. The public has vital in- terests which are affected injuriously by these industrial wars, and sooner or later this will be so clearly realized that the people in their soverign capacity will for- bid strikes and lockouts. The whole machinery of progress and prosperity in our times is so closely interrelated tbat no disarrangements and. interruptions of any large part of it, while selfish interests fight for mastery, can be permitted by the coming civilization. THE DANISE WEST INDIES. Among the features of foreign policy likely to engage much of the attention of the incoming administration will be the proposed purchase of the Danish pos- sessions 1n the West Indies. Senator Lodge has already introduced a resolution of inquiry concerning the advisability of the purchase and it is assured the measure will have 2 strong support in the Senate. The possessions of Denmark in the West Indies consist.of a group of three small islands, St. Thomas, St. John and Santa Cruz. They are of little value to Den- mark and to us they are important only because our ownership of them would give us a coaling station for our fleet at a point where we greatly need one. At the town of Charlotte Amalie, on 8t. Thomas Island, there is a good deep water harbor and as it gguld be readily fortified it would furnisfi us astrong base of supplies in case of any war which should involve the activity of our navy among the West Indies. Denmark having no wuse for the islands and finding them a burden npon her treasury, is willing to sell them. When Beward was Secretary of State he began negotiations for their purchase and offered $7,500,000 for two of the group, St. Thomas and St. John. The Danish Government at that time took a voteof the inhabitants as to their willingness to transfer their alle- giance to the United States and the vote was stronely in the affirmative. The Danes and the islanders are therefore known to be ready to arrange for the sale, and it is for our Government to decide whefher or no a coaling station is worth as much as the price the Danes will be willing to take. It is well known our QUvsrnment has long sought for a good Baval station in those waters. It will be remembered that General Grant favored obtaming such a port in Santo Domingo, while some of our statesmen have advocated the purchass and anpexation of Cuba. These islands, of course, would be much more valuable than the comparatively barren rocks in the sea which Denmark has to sell, but their possession would entail difficulties we would not have to encounter in the Danish group. The situation of affairs in Cuba gives a degree of importance to the proposed pur- chase which it hasnot had before, and this wiil lead to a serious consideration of the subject. The resolution of Senator Lodge serves to bring it before the Senate asa matter of practical politics and it may yet prove to be one of the chief issues of de- bate of the present session of Congress. COAST EXCHANGES, The Alameda Encinal, the oldest paper in that pretty city across the bay, has been sold by its veteran proprietor, F. K, Krauth, to George F. Weeks, who for the past four years has been publishing the Bakersfield California and making of it & successful newspaper in every respect. The new owner will give the Encinal & dress of new type and render it in every way an up-to-date journal. Alexander P. Murgotten’s montkly Pioneer, published at San Jose, has commenced its twellth year. The Pioneer is justly valued by oldtimers of California, and its biographical skelches of the brave men who laid the foun- dation of our Western gresatness and glory and 1ts reminiscences of early days have become its characteristic feature. Mr. Murgotten promises during the year to come to give to the public ““a large amount of the heretofore unwritten history of California and to furnish ample material from which the future his- torian of the Golden State may make up a full and truthful record of this the finest portion A the National homestead.” The San Luis Obispo Breeze is leading a movement among the citizens of that city to secure from the present Legislature an appro- priatior for a branch State Normal School at that piace. The people of San Luis Obispo are working earnestly to get the proposition prop- erly before the lawmakers at Sacramento. The Hanford pemocrat sees an era of unex- ampled prosperity approaching for the live town in which its interests are centered. Here is & part of the radiant picture it paints: “Her precincts will soon begin to reach out upon the plain, electric streetcars shall soon connect her suburbs and the electric power from the Sierra set thousands of factory wheels to turning. With rich, fertile and level lands, with a fairer climate than can be found in all Italy, with quick transportation at reason. able rates to deep water, Hanford will become the queen city of the Lucerne. The Valley Railroad will bear away the raw and manu- factured products of plain, field and orchard. ‘The Valley roed will bring to our doors the most energetic and enterprising of ail the American people. Here peace end plenty shall find a home, here enterprise and capital shall form a partnership. Our flowing wells and overflowing irrigation systems guarantee perpetuation of crops. Our sunny climate and natural fertility bend down every bough and vine with luscious fruit. Wealth is here 10 whoever seeks it with the wand of industry and good semse, Hanford is a rich mine to all who come with business habits and progres. sive commercial instincis.” The Mother Lode Magnet 18 the name of & new peper published by William Lundy at James- town, and this promising village, it is said, will soon have & second newspaper, as W. E. Booth, who'managed the Coulterville Miner, has decided to move his plant to Jamestown and issue & paper to bewcalled the ZTrue Fissure. The Vallejo Chronicle states that E. Peterson, one of the lessees of Island No. 2, northwest of that place, is arranging with the Vallejo Gas Company to secure pipes and fixtures for the utilization of the natural gas which seems to abound in grest quantilies nesr the island /Palace. residence. The gas was discovered some time 8g0, and with the aid of crude fixtures it has been utilized for heating and lighting pur- poses. The flow comes from an abandoned well ten feet from the house, and is caught in an inverted barrel, the bulk of it escaping but through this barrel there is sufficient for household purposes, It is the intention of the lessees to further develop it. The saving effected in fuel at the present time amounts to from $10 to $15 per month. The Merdocino Beacon remarks that prepara- tions on'an extensive scale for the Cloverdale Citrus Fair, which is to be held February 15 to 20 inclusive, indicate that it Will be a greater success this year than ever. The San Jose Mercury declares that the value of the robin as an orchard bird hasbeen clearly demonstrated by experiments upon ihe large fruit ranch of George W. Cozzens in the Wilyj lows, near San Jose, Mr, Cozzens has for some time past belleved the appearance of robins in an orchard was more beneficial than detrimental, on account of the habits of this insectivorous bird. Iis custom of locating in this seciion only in the winter months, when the trees are bareand at the time when the borer and other worms were begiuning their most deadly work upon the trees, was much in their favor, When the trees began to blos- som and when other insectivorous birds picked atgnd injured the blossoms the robin had dis- appeared 1o & more suitable climate in which to engage in its worm-gathering occupation. “Early this season Mr. Cozzeus gave sirict orders prohibiting any shooting upon his place. As a consequence the robins soon dis- covered this harbor of safety from spottsmen and gathered upon the plecs in large num- bers. They were not allowed to be mblested or frightened in any manner and soon became very domestic in their actions. Four or five weeks ago Mr. Cozzens began to dig about his fruit trees for the borer and canker worm The robins would gather in the immediate vi- cluity in large numbers, and as soon 8s the dirt was thrown back from the root of a tree and the workmen had advanced to one or two trees away they would settle in the excavated piace and hunt diligently for any worms in the vicinity. They would invariably find the hole in which the borer had entered the bark ot the tree and draw out the pestand con- sume it. ‘“Examination of the trees which the robins had visited found them entirely free from worms. This process of excavating to facili- tate the search of the robin for insects dama; ing to fruit trees has been progressing upon Mr. Cozzens’ ranch for ebout five weeks and has convinced this orchardist that the robin is ayaluable bird to the fruit-grower and one which should be protected by law.” NEWS OF FORE.GN NAVIES. The naval expenditures of Japan during her late war with China were 39,655,669 ven. Adding to this the expenses of the army, 1 320,027 yen,and s total of 210,773,696 yen 15 the cost to Japan for her army and navy in the brief war which ended Wwith the oblitera- tion of China’s navy. Torpedo nets are getting out of use in the several navies. They are cumbersome on hoard ship, & great hindrance to the speed of the vessel when hpng out during evolution, and are of doubtful utility when at anchor, as attacking torpedo-boats were fitted with at. tachments that would cut through the netting. They have never been adopted in the United States navy. A French maval officer has been commis- sioned to {nstruct the officers of the Bulgarian flotilla, another French officer has been lent 1o the Portuguese Government and is charged with reorganizing the arsenal at Lisbou. China, t00, has obtained the services of French organizers, and two naval engineers, a draughtsman and several others are about to go to Foo Chow to undertake & reconstruction of the dockyard there. The dockyards 1n the Black Sea are under orders to construct two armor-clads of 12,430 tons, one to be completed in 1898 and the other in 1900. At St Petersburg tne follow- ing armored ships are under constructio Poltava, Sebastopol, Petropaulowsk, Ad- miral Apraxin, Oslabya-Peresvet and Minin, all of which areto bs completed this year. In addition one first-class cruiser of the Rossia type, three other firsi-class cruisers and two torpedo-boats destroyer are to be built. The battle-ships built between 1886 and 1896 in England, France and Russia num- bered 62 of 723,910 tons, of which England built 29 of 391,590 tons, France 17 of 172,410 tons and Russia 16 of 160,110 tons. It wiil be noted that the English tonnage was greater than that of France and Russia combined. The total caliber in inches of heavy guns was 1418 for England, 709 for France and 792 for Russia, and the secondary armamens of guns throwing a shot of thirty pounds and upwara were 1794, 1044 and 1758 inches for the re- spective navies. Laird Bros., Birkennead, England, completed Quring the past year eight torpedo-boat de- stroyers, of which four were for the British and four for the Argentine navy. The names and speeds of the boats were as foliowi British—Quatl, 30.039 knots; Sparrowhawk, 30.056: ‘Irasher, 30.015; Virago, 30.049. Ar- gentine boats—Captain Orella, 30.23; Captain Munoz Ganuro, 30.08; Teniente Serrano, 30.25, end Guardia Marine Riqueime,30.121 knots. The latter boat is 213 feet in length by 21 feet 6 inches beam and developed 6000 horsepower. The bunker capacity s 95 tons, sufficient to carry the vessel 3750 knots at her most economical speed. Oue interesting fea- ture of her last trial, December 18, was full speed astern, gt which she made 2034 knots. Her armament consists of one #2-pounder quick-firing guns and two 18-inch torpedo tubes. The complement is sixty-five officers and men. Six more boats of this type are being built by the Lairds for the British navy. PERSONAL. F. D. Cobb of 8tockton is at the Baldwin. ¥. C. Lusk, a Chico lawyer, is at the Palace. Dr. Moore and wife of Benicia are at the Grand. A. D. Duffey of Santa Cruz fs at the Cosmo- politan. R. J. Widney of Los Angeles is at the Baldwin. George Russell, a Nevada cattleman, is at the Lick. 2 Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand with his wife. George E. Walker, a merchant of Juneau, is at the Palace. ‘Walter T. Blake of the Stockton Independent is at the Grand. Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento registered at the Lick yesterday. John Manly and wife of Grand Forks, B. C., are at the Occidental. J. D. McDougall, a contractor.of Btockton, is registered at the Lick. J. J. Kimball, & merchant and banker of Red Bluff, is at the Palace. W. M. Nuner, a mining man of Calaveras County, is at the Grand. Dr. Grant B 'Hicks of Tacoma, Wash., 1s registered at the Palaca. J.P. Kay of Texas arrived here yesterday and is at the Cosmopolitan. Walter C. Lewis, a mining man of Butte, Mont., is staying at the Occidental. J. B. Lankershim, a Los Angeles capitallst and banker, is a guest at the Palace. John Henderson, a business man of Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, is at the Rus: John A. Prinsen, an insurance man of Chi- cago, s a recent arrival at the Occidental. Henry Varley, the Loudon evaugelist, and his wife are guests at the Brooklyn Holel. J. McHenry and son ot San Luis Obispo are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. J. Woodward, president of the Fresno Bank, and T. C. White, the vice-president, are at the Lick, 8. Lyons, a diamond and precious stone merchant of New York, is a late arriyal at the Grand. Mrs. Annie B. Andrews, the popular lady orator of Los Angeles, is reglstered at the Grand. R. L. Crovat, representative of the Stanford vineyard products in New York, is at the Palace. Count Wachtmefster, a leading theosophist, paying San Francisco a visit. He isatthe G 4, Perkins, a merchant from Little River, Mendocino County, was one of the arrivals at the Russ yesterday. Lieutenant Letavor, U. S. N., and wife were in town yesterday from Mare Island. They registered at the California Colonel John Bradbury of Los Angeles is at the Palace with his wife. They are accom- panied by Dr. Moore of Los Angeies. E. W. Hale of Sacramento and his brother, 0. A. Hale of San Jose, the well-known ary- goods merchants, are registered at the Bald- win Hotel. Thomas Potts, head steward of the insane asylum at Salem, Or., returned last evening with his bride from Monterey, en route for Salem, Mr. Potis and wife are at the Cosmo- politan, L N. Van Nuys, the capitalist who has just built s new hotel in Los Angeles, named safter himself, is here frofh the Southern part of the State with his wife. They are at the Palace. His hotel has been leased to Captain Potter, late of the Westminster Hotel of Los Angeles. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. She—Once you vowed that I was the sunshine of your life. Now you stay out after dark. Dublin Freeman. Sixteen young ladies in Brighton have formed & whist club and meet weekly for prac- tice. It is said that the neighborscan hear them play whist three streets away.—T1d-Bits. Judge—I think I have seen you before. Prisoner—I have had that honor,your Honor; Ishaved your Honor last week. Judge—Twenty years.—Hartford Times. Mrs. Borders—Do not feel so badly, Tonimy. Your little sister has passed the critical point in herillness and will now get well. Tommy Borders (tearfully)—I know it. And now she will want to eat all the good things the nefghbors send in to her every day, her- selfl—Puck. The girl in blue leaned over and asked ina stage whisper, as if it were something too ter- rible to be openly dfscussed : “Do you know Miss Dash?"* The girl in gray was on her guard in an in- stant. “That depends,” she said. “What has she been doing?’—Chicago Post. " “You,” said_the new cashier, #will find me like & watch. Yon can judge me by my works.” *“All right,” responded the banker, arising to the merry occasion; “I will bear your case in mind and see that you do not accumulate y superfluous dust in your movements.” Indianapolis Journal. . THE SKY FOR YOU. 0, the future 'With neve; a But the sky to-day is the truest sky, and thai s the sky lor you. For he work you huve to do, ¥or the lives that lean on you, Orthe goid or gt ¥, "Ts the sky to-day, And that is the sky £0r you. There's a bird that sings to the fut Where the biossoms drip with dew; But the bird to-day makes the song of May, And ihat i the song for you, T the WOrk y0.: have to do, the hear:s that cling to you, "Tis the swretest song, ;. As it trilis along, At ihat Is the soug For you. —FRANK L STANTON. PARAGRAHS ABOUL PEOPLE. At the recent cat show in Paris Francols Coppee, Andre Theuriet, Emile Zola and Catulle Mendes were on the list of judges. Two names that recently appeared in.the records of transfers of real estate in Rochester, N. Y., were those of Educated M. Learned and Christ Amborn, 8ir R. Menzies, Bart., of Menzies, the heredi- tary chief of the cian Menzies, is the oldest Highland chief now living. He is 80 years old and wears the kilt summer and winter. Stanley will visit the Belgian possessions on the Congo next spring. in company with King Leopold. They will supervise the opening of the railroad between Matavol and Leopoldville. The command of the Ohio Naval Reserve, which is being organized for coast protection in Cleveland, Toledo and other lake citics of Ohio, has been offered to John H. Brice, brother of Senator Brice. Julins Barthman has secured 18,000 acres of land in South Carolina, upon which he pur poses to establish the industry of making sugar irom beeis. The property Is to be divided into farms of 25, 50 and 100 acres, to be tenanted by 500 tamilies from Saxony. Judge Stephen Neal, who wrote the Four- teenth amendment to the Constitution, resides in Lebanon, Ind., and is in his 80th year. The amendment was written in his office at Lebanon and was submitted to the Congress- fonal committee by Congressman Godlove S. Orth. A French writer, Edouard Toulouse, has examined Zola’s mental peculiarities, and discovered a peculiar weakness of memory. He could not recognize well-known passages irom Moliere, Balzac, Hugo and George Sand, aud in some cases even failed to remember his own early writings when extracts from them were reed to him. Mrs, Hobbs, an intimate friend of the first Duke of Wellington, has just died in Ireland at the age of 103 years. Her husband was badly wounded at Quatre Bras. ‘Five of her fourteen children and six of her forty-four grandehildren are serving in the British army, and she had besides thirty-two great- grandchildren and two great-great-grand- children. On her 100th birthday the Duke of Cambridge congratulated her in behalf of the army. TEE ARMY OF OF:I ESEEKERS Philadelphia Press. The President-elect is busy with the question of his Cabinet. He bas his inaugural address to prepare, but the office-seeker 1s upon him. To whom does the President-elect belong? For whom does he exist? If we should seek an an- swer in the pages of the constitution and in the written iaw we should say he belongs to the country, but if we turn from, theory to facts we should be compelied to reply, to judge from all outward appearances, the President-elect and bis time, waking and sleeping, and all his powers, belong to the office-seekers. His frienas witn difficulty divert the office-seexing army for a day or two that the President-elect may be sble o give some time to the public duties immediately before him. THE BRIGH! SIDE OF THINGS. St. Louls Globe-Democrat, One of the secrets of Chauncey M. Depew’s popularity as an orator lies in the fact that he always looks npon the bright side of things, which is usually the side bestworth consid- ering. “It is the resuit of my study, experi- ence and observation,” he says in his latest orajon, “that the beést day is to-day and to- morrow will be a better.”” This is the true philosophy of Iife and pr.ferable in every way 1o the pessimistic stuff that is so plentiful in the world. A COMMERDA.LE INNOVATION. &t Louls Republlc, The new notes of the denomination of $10 contain, instead of the portraits of statesmen, those of C. H. McCormick, the inventor of the reaper, and of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the coiton gin. The departure is good. It is well to keep in mind that the country owes something to others besides the citizens who draw pay s statesmen. HE AND SHE Chicago Tribune. “Your bill is too high, sir, and I won’t pay 1t!” snapped the young woman, and she turned sharply on her heel and strode out of office. Tne lawyer who had procured a divorce for her turned again to his desk and merely re- marked under his breath: O, woman, In our hours of fees, Uncertain, coy and uard to please! “PARADISE REGA.NED” Washington Times, And yet & Washington jury in cold blood scquitted a fellow-being charged with the crime o%‘nnml’ when it had been clearly proved that the prisoner had taken the trouble to commit Milton’s ‘‘Paradise Lost” to mem- ory. MODERN THOUGHT AND 115 TREND Rev. Dr. Hemphill on the Bankruptcies of Skep- ticism. Christian Sentiment Never fo Strong as at the Present Time. The Press Gives Too Much Attention to the Statements of the Enemies of the Christian Rel'g;xon. Rev. Dr. Hemphill of Calvary Presby- terian Church preached last eveningtoa large audience on “The Trend of Modern Thought.” His subject was a good one, well handled by the eminent divine, and held the undivided attention of his hear- ers. He spoke, in part, as follows: Can ye not_aiscern the signs of the times?— Matthew xvi:3. God has given us many books and we should *read, mark, learn and inwardly digest'’ them all. With the book of current thought we have to do to-night, and if we read it fear- lessly, honestly and reverently we may humbly claim such a measure of the spirit of discernment as will enable us to in- terpret God’s bandwriting inscribed upon the page of this present time. Among the facts and sifuations which indicate the trend of current thought and its bear- ing upon the present position and the im- mediate future and ultimate destiny of the Christian faith note the following: Present-day skepticism has failed ut- terly as a substitute for Christianity. Skentics themselves admit this. One of them recently expressed his anxiety *‘Lest the successive bankrupicies of skepticism should lead society back once more to the Christian faith.”” Such a reaction is not at all unlikely. Indeed, itis natural and inevitable, and signs are not wanting that the reaction has already set in. The successive svsiems of skepticism have failed to fulfill their promises and have paid the paltriest dividends, and society in the closing years of our century is getting ready to go back to him who alone has discovered any real mastery of the buman heart. Skepticism is a self- confessed failure as a substitute for Chris- tianity. ” 2. Literary men as a rule are hostile to the Christian faith. They always have been. Mr. Leck£ says that during the space of three centuries they treated Christianity as simply contemptible. Hist6ry repeats itself. A hundred years ago they treated Methodism in England as simply contemptible. It is not con- temptible to-day. So we are not surprised if Christianity receives but scant courtesy from ths literary men of the nineteenth century. i Some weeks ago two distinzuished pro- fessors joined in debate on the deep things of philosophy and religion befors the Presbyterian Ministers’ Association. One of them stood squarely on the platform of Christian orthodoxy and was dismissed with one sentence of report in the news- paper I read. The otuer assquarely de- nied'the fundamental doctrines of Chris- tianity and was reported verbatim. Qne thousand years hence, 1if the world last so long, another Mr. Lecky will have to ex- press his astonishment at the unfairness of large sections of the literary men of the nineteenth century, who either do not un- derstand the Christian faith or will no give a fair hearing to it. “ The literary men are mistaken if they think that they are carrying the masses of the people with them. Karl Pearson, a leader of skeptical thought, admits this in a long and loud lament in the Fortnightly Review, and another leader of skeptical thought, Thomas Main, says: “The masses of the people were never so truly religious as_they are now.”’ The rapid progress of the Saivation Army is a convineing proof of this. Mr. Benja. min Kidd, in his Social Evolution, says “that Christianity is not to be gotten ria of in the jaunty way that_ literary men affect when they deal with it. They can- not laugh out of existence the most per- sistent force of civilization.”” And what is the result of all this unfair treatment of Christianity? Mr. Frederic Harrison sums itallup in these words: “The net result of the whole negative attack on the gospel has been to deepen its moral hoid on society.” , C Christianity has gained some signal triumphs in this, our century. The fier est battle has been waged around the question of a personal God. Once, and not very long ago, it was asserted very dogmatically that the living could come trom the not living, and hence the need of aliving God as a Creator wasdone away with. A scientist of note in his day said: “Both observation and experiment unmistakably testify that living matter is constantly being formed.” No scien- tist. believes in spontaneous generation to- day. The scientist goes back from man to monkey, from monkey to monad, and then 1s confounded with mystery, *an infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed.” As Herbert Spencer said, “The trend of present-day thought is toward the doctrine of & personal God.” | Our faith in the doctrine of creation has | not been shaken by nineteenth century thought, but established rather. The, highest, wisest, latest utterances of science are 1n wonderful harmony with the utter- ances of Moses. Science says that the world came intobeing so long ago that the mind cannot span the chasm. Moses says “In’ the beginning'’'—a word elastic enough to satisfy the demands of the most exacting scient the Mosaic and_scientific accounts so far as we can see. Where did Moses get his facts? Our belief in the Mosaic authorship of the Pentatench has not been shaken by nineteenth century thought, but estab- lished. Once, and not very long ago, it was asserted by the critics that there was no literary ability in the Mosaic age to write such literature as we find in the pages of the Pentateuch; but archaolo- 1sts have recently unearthed a vast civil- zation extending back 2000 years before Abraham wasborn. ‘'He laughs best who laughs last.” The assumptionof the ig- norance and literary inability of the Mo- saic age to write the Pentateuch cannot stand the light of recent discoveries. Criticism is coming round to a more certified faith in the old book which once it assaulted so fiercely. Skeptics not long ago danced with delight around the sup- posed fact that the critics had at length t. There is no conflict in | put an extinguisher upon the Bible. Many such extinguishers have been put upon it; the light of God’s word within has burned through every one of them. The Bible h; not been singed even by the fiercest fire of the nineteenth . cantury. The religion of Jesus Christ is the only living religion in the world to-day; by which we mean that 1tis the leading spirit 0. modern rogress. The religions of the Orient are ad. They have hundreds of millions of followers still, but they are dead to those functions of inspiration which minister stimulus to contemporary thought. *Is Mobammedanism dead 2’ As a military despotism, no; as a lmnf religion, yes. Its policy is impossible. Its record is one of intellectual nation and moral death, ‘The “‘unspeakable Turk’ is sick nigh unto death. y contrast at the ascending orb of Christian truth as it shines aboy, in tbe heavens of religions thought ‘lon-. for the meleors, which dazale a while and then die, do not belong to the same beaven at all. Christian sentiment is getting to be both an inspiration and an authority in all lands, A peace treaty is al! but ratified between Englund and tbe United Siates. Otber lands will follow and war will come to a full and speedy end. *“Jesusshall reign where'er the sun does his successive journeys run.’ He/is reigning now; reigning in the power of Christian senti- ment where He is not- yet reignins in name. No sign so clearly attests to one the near supremacy of Christ as this grow- ing power of Christian sentiment. I notice’ one trend more—the growing power of Christian work. 7he signs which the manifold activities of our age project upon human life are these: That Christi- anity, the only living religion in the world, is no temporary federation, but a ministry of universal iove, proving by its nine- teenth century achievements that it is hastening to make the kingdoms of this world the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ according to the sure word of prom- ise and prophecy. The execution of certain deeds to cer- tain pieces of real estate is creating quite a stir in our city. Oath was made that they were executed in 1894, but the oppos- ing lawyers say that tney are ready to prove by certain marks that the paper was not manufactured until two years later. I have held the writing of nine- teenth century thoughf up to the light, and have found ten marks upon it to prove which ought to confirm and estab- lish one faith in owe holy religion. It shows no sign of waning. ‘‘Higher yet higher thatstar ascends.”” Itis the only living religion—it is the religion for all the world. Is it yours? Get into the chariot of our all-conquering King as he drives toward victory. PRINTERS’ MUTUAL AID. An Organization That Is in a Flourish- ing Condition and Has a Bank Account, The nineteenth semi-annual meeting of the Union Printers’ Mutual Aid Society was held yesterday afternoon in Bhiels building, 8. H. Jenner in the chair. There was a full attendance and a great deal of interest was manifested in the reporis that were presented. These reports show that with a mem- bership of nearly ninety the society dur- ing the past six months raid $250 in sick benefits and has now $4500 in the treas- ury with which to relieve any of its mem- bers who may be stricken down by illness. Of late an unusual interest has been taken in the organization and every member is doing his utmost to make it the equal at least of any beneficiary association. The election held resulted in the choice of the following-named to serve for the ensuing term: 8. H. Jenner, president; J. 8. Phillips, first vice-president; J. Har- low, second vice-president; A. J. P. R:gaudiat, recording secretary; J. R. Winders, financial secretary; W. B. Benoist, treasurer; L. P. Ward, marshal; F. Mooney, guardian; W. J. White, S. Trimble, G. E. Mitchell, J. Bryant, G. H. Branch, board of directors; W. L. Berry, physician, and W. Kirk, druggist . —_—— Order of Scottish Clans. No deaths having been reported to the royal sec- Tetary for December there will not be any assess- ment for January. At the meeting of Clan Fraser held on Thursday ht, at which Chief Edward Kerr presided, the Téports showed the clan to be In a good financial coudition and that $400 had been paid ont in sick Dbenefits since the previous report. The clan will give ie sixth concert on Washington’s birthday. 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