The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: nd Sunday CaLL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 and Sundey CALL, one year, by m 6.00 Duily and Sunday Cary, #ix months, . Dally snd Sunday Cati, three months by maii 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall.. 66 Bunday CaLy, one year, by mafl.. S i ) " REKLY CaLi, one year, by mail... . 160 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. ....Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. Coi...Main-1874 Teleph BRANCH OFFICES: fontromery sireer, corner Clay: ‘open until 0 o'clock. 29 Hayes street; opeg until 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin siree:: opeh un:il 9:30 o'clock. SW.corner Six hand Mission streets; open watil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open nntil 9 c'elock. 167 Ninth strect: open nniil 9 o'clock. 5 Pois street. open until 9:30.0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Kooms 31 and 14 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manacer. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Down the blackmailers. The faker is ravenous for-boodle. Hongst, heh musi stand fogether: Fenaiins (s T loacing stcing Long Green ‘has been cinch where he can. turned loose to Hun has set to follow, gton 1e example forother corporations e Sult It is now said t =0 we needn’t wonder heis's of diplomacy. 700 wives, uch a master exposure of the Eraminer | | ered felonies. | commit blackmai | guilty of something or other. pre: | present innocence. regular payment of various sums. | and, therefore, ought not to be protected and in common pradence the blackmailer has selected for his prey. be an innocent person whose fear of notori | ‘mail in order to prevent the publication of a repetition of its offense. from his father's estate to spend. | folly which might for the moment attract articles or the consequences of its acts. staff has been cut off and that, true to THE PICKPOCKET’S TRICK. Like the pickpocket in Oliver Twist, the Ezaminer is lustily shouting “Stop thief,” in order {0 divert public attention from itself and from its discovered and undiseoy- | | Its Long Green manager evidently overlooks the fact that when a crook who has already to his account a prior conviction is again accused 9f an attempt to it is not a sufficient defense to allege that the District Attorney is Tte quostion in which the public is interested does not refer to zl}- accuser, but ga the accused. and whenéver ‘a felon who has served his term for 4 crime comes again before the' bar, his past offense is rightly weighed against the presumption of his | This is peculizrly true in a legal as well as in a moral sense of the course of extor- | tion and of its most notable modern and local adept, the San Francisco Ezaminer. | It has once been convicted upon undoubted proof, and upon its own confession, of blackmailing the Soutnern Pacific Company out of $22,000 under that pledge of silence | which lurks witbin the blackmailer’s promi : matter of current rumor for months that other large corporations in and out of Cali- fornia have secured immunity from assault by a similar arrangement and by the ot “fair treatment.” It has been a it micht well be supposed that these levies would be sufficient to maintain a newspaper conducting its internal affairs with a business honesty not extended to its outside relations, but it seems that this has not been the case with the Eraminer. In fact it could hardly be expected that it would be in view of the theories of life and of business which its owner and its “Long Green’” manager are known to prefer. Mr. Hearst never earned an honest dollar, while Long Green Lawrence never be- | lieved that an honest dollar was worth earning, or that the Erxaminer ought to (‘lfitdi?‘ credit upon the princ:ples of its owner by atiempting to earn it. The public mind is | | quite well saturated with the idea thsat the Eraminer never do s 2 | honest and uncelfish intent, and that whether it promotes a cliarity or assails an in- | dustry. a sordia if not criminal motive is t:e mainspring of its action. This being the case, it will not avail the Ezaminer in the present instance lovcry stop thief” at honest men nor to assert that the gasand water companies are guilty anything with an against blackmail. In the eve of the law regarded as guilty of a dastardly erime even tnough he may be threatening to make public the truth regarding the victim he The experience of society has proven that the wretch who makes commerce of an i nsecure concealment of another’s secret offending is the more dangerous criminal of the two for the reason that if successful to-dey his selected victim of to-morrow may ety will impel him to the payment of biack- alie. ‘, It is of the utmost importance to those who hava property interests in California | or who have reputations to protect, that they give present heed to these things. The Ezaminer has once been convicted of extortion, and has frequently been suspected of It is a matter of rumor, which reaches across the continent, that the wasteful and reckless career in journalism of its owner is about to end for lack ot further funds | l!UFe Prospects of that section “are brighter It is a well-known fact that for the past year the Ezaminer has run an unreined course in the publication of every fraud and fake and | the public eye, regardless of the truth of its It is more than a matter of rumor that the Fastern supnly of .funds to. the local the instincts of their Long Green chief, the lack flag of piracy has been hoisted to the Eraminer masthead. The support - which it is ‘openly givinz to - every ' cinch biil before {the Legisiature; the outcry which it is making agiinst the Park Commission; the assauls which it is directing against every local corporation which it A colony of Nebraskans has gene to | suspects may have reason to buy its silence; the daily repeated misrepresentation of Marvland to grow peaches. What is the | the actions and motives of men of character and meaas in various portions of the matter w rnia? State—allindicate that it is out for boodle, and that by a bold and extensive system of o blackmail it hopes for & time at least to prolong its wretched and pernicious existence From extorting money from a cornora- tion to bunkoing a pr t. anything goes with a faker who is hard up for coin. | A newspaver which resoris to Li Yung Yuening for fakesand to highb nder tac tics for money suits China better than” Catifornia. A New. York chemist asserts the beer-in that city contains glycerine, resin, aloes glucose and tannin, put with us it is mostly froth. The plague in India is conferring some- thing of a benefit on Europe by ‘scarinz the people into cleaning their cities more carefuliy than us Boston has been compelied to abandon | the idea of becoming great by annexing her suburbs, and is now them into what she calls federation: Just a= soon as the crusade against the theater hat n, there will be a move- ment to exclude the big sleeve from the streetcar so that a man can bave a chance for a seat. In forty-two years Senator Sherman has been ou: of office hours, and even in his old age he has be still spry enot the Cabinet pu We are taking -no part in the Cuban war, but nevertheless we are losing money by it. As a matter of fact, it would be economy oa our part to get into the fight at once and force it to a finish. There is a company in London which insures a bank account against a failure of the bank, and by and by we shall have a company to insure against losses at poker and to guarantee tips on the races. As most or the Southern celebrations of Lee’s birihday were conducted with ban- quets and balls, it is evident the period of war mourning and battle oratory is over. Everything goes now for peace and a irol The next chromo given away by the Examiner to attract advertisements shouid be. a coll 1 of portraits of Hearst, Lawrence, Bierce ond others oi the tribe. | hat would be a pretty puppies” itself. good “yard o That the people of India are rapidly acquiring a-cony civilization is made evident from the fact that a recent convention of natives at. Calcutta was attended by over 1000 dalegates from all parts of the country, and seems to haye been a big thing in every respect. A Connecticut manufacturer announces that be has sent to Canton the cioth for the suit McKinley will wear on inaugura- tion day, ana now they are worrying themselves back East to find out whether he made the snnouncement from pa- iriotic pride or for advertising purposes. According to the Savannah News the acti-trust law recently enacted by -the Georgia Legislature will not do a penny’s worth of hurt to any trost, but menaces mnany of the merchants of. the State; and thus does reiorm in ‘the hands of the unwise partake of the nature of the roor- back. The success of thie newly elected Sena- tor Mason. from Illinois is said by his iriends to have been due solely to his per- sistent determination. When he first an- nounced himself a candidate for the Sen- ate years ago he was langhed at. He stuck to it, however, and now the laugh is on tbe other fellow. New York proposes to give her Mayor authority to arbitrarily revoke the license and close any- place of amusement where the performers do not act according to his idea of what is proper and edifying, and now Boston trembles in fear of losing her reputation of being the only place in the Union where the moralsare as high as the art. The Washington correspondent of the Galveston News expresses some indignation because at the recent hearingsof the Ways and Means Commitiee, “‘even the Demo- cratic party of Texas put up a scit yawn for protection,”” but it is not clear whether he was indignant that Texas should ask for protection or at the soft yawn with which it was done. The proposition before the Nebraska Le:. isiature to impose a poll tax on all who are entitled to the ballot and remit it to all Who vote is only another example of the many foolish schemes to comvel men to perform their public duties against their will. No man can be made & good eitizen by appealing to his pocket instead of his patriotism, trying to-coax | to get the firstslice of | bis athi purse. even though **Wasteful Willie” nas drained the deep but not exhaustless fountain of At the meeting of the California Press Association, held at Vallejo, a resolution #as unanimously adopted favoring an ap- propriation by the Legislature of $10,000 to make an exhibit of the products of Cali- fornia at the Nashville Exposition. A bill providing for -the apvropriation has been vassed by the State Senate and is now before the Assembly. Itshouid bs promptly adopted there and approved by the Governor. 1 The appropriation called for will be in | no'sense an extravagance. The Nashville Ixposition will be the greatest of its kind in the United States this year and one of the bestever held in the Union. Every Btate will be represented at it and the leading commonwealths will have build- {ings of their own, in which displays of the best productions of their industry and their resources will be made. it is | altogether rightand fitting thatCalifornia should be represented at such an exposi- ption. We cannot afford to be counteda out at any gathering where our sister States | are assembled. In addition to the State pride which impels us to make as good display as any other State at an exposition of this kind, there are further reasons for the ex- hibit to be arawn from questions of profits and. advantage. The Southern States are at the present time offering big in- ducements to settlers from the North. Large numbers of home-seekers from the colder and more crowded States will un- doubtealy visit Nashville in order to see where they caa find homes for themseives where the climate is milder and the soil | more fruitful. California, also, desires to reach these people. In this respect she is a rival of the Sonth. She should make a good showing for herself at an exnosition where all the Southern States will be conspicuously represented, ana give ample evidence of her superior oppor tunities and advantages for all who are seeking homes or investments for capi- tal. | The Press Association gave the subject full consideration before indorsing the | proposition for the provosed exhibit. It is well known that the editors of the State are not inclinea to look with favor | on anything which involves a useless ex- penditure of public money. Their decla- | ration in favor of the aporopriation is | the best commendation it couid possibly receive. regarded favorably in every section of the State, and there can be little question thatif a good exnibit is wade we shall draw to California thousands of immi. grants who otherwise would make homes in the South. Governor Leedy of Kausas has the satis. | faction of kunowing that bis inaugural ad- | aress Las given rise 1o a wider discussion than that of any other Govérnor in the Union. This was not due toitslength, al- though it was one of the longest on¥ecord, | but to the manner in which he defended Kansas against ihe attacks of Kastern qities. It will be remembered that of late years it has been the fashion in the East to de- nounce Kansas as a land of ignorance, ec- centricity ang dishonesty. In reply to these reiterated criticisms, the Governor said that while in ihe great cities of the East: 4 “Children linger in the streets untaught, except in the Jore of the pavement; un- fed, except at the hand of charity; un- housed, except in the kennels they dispute with creatures scarcely less miserable—the commonwealth of Kansas, rejoicing in 8 public school system, which 1s the most grateful heritage we received Irom our fathers and the best legacy we can leave to | our children, finds ample houseroom and for such straggling waifs as come to us for aid in Kansas, except those birds of pas- sage which flit by us, grim reminders of old communities. The truth of this assertion has goaded the Eastern critics into making various kinds of reply. Some are flippant, some are spiteful, and some, we are glad to say, are wise. The flippant ones seek to evade the charges made by the Governor by | mocking at the wealth of Kansas and de- | elaring that her schools have not enabled her people to pay their debts.. The spite- fal ones retort that the Governor's mes- sage is only another evidence that Kansas farmers hate the i The wise. ones however, admii that Governor Leedy is right and call upon the large cities of the The passage of the bill will be | schoolroom for every Kansas child and | THE NASHVILLE EXPOSITI(;N. VIconmry to extend their schaolhouses so that in New York and Chicago, as well as | in Kansas, no child need be compelled to | go without an education because of the Iack of attention on the part of the Government. There can be no question that Governor Leedy has the best of the controversy. The people of Kansas may be poor, ac- cording to the ideas of wealth that obtain in the great cities of the East, but they are not ignorant nor dishonest. The | pinch of hard times has made money | scarce in some parts of-the State, and many a farm has been sold to pay the mortgage, but, nevertheless, Kansas has maintained a public school system equai to the needs of her people, and that is certainly a better accomplishment than the cities show where, within a few years, there have been erected several private | residences at a cost of more than a million dollars eack, but where there are neitter | schools enough for the children nor | houses enough to give proper lodgment | for those who havs to work for a living. | AID TO AGRIOULTURE. Some interesting statements “of the amount of Government aid to agriculture | | are made in a preface which J. Sterling | Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, has re- cently written for a book for farmers which is soon to be published by James C. Ambrose of Evanston, Ill.- From these it appears that whatever else the farmers may have to complain of, they certainly cannot deny the generosity of the Government in endeavoring to assist their industry During the last thirty years, the Secre- tary says, the United States has by enact- | ment eiven to farmers between 2,000,000 | and 3,000,000 farms averaging over eighty | acres each. It bas during the last ten | years founded and maintained agricultural colleges and experiment stations in cvery sState and Territory. Thke appropriation for experiment stations is $750,000 an- nually, and about $1,000,000 every year is taken from the treasury for colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts in which free tuition is provided and;courses of in- | struction in agriculture are given. Be- sides about $600,000 in interest is annually receiyed by the different-States and Terri- tories from Jand-gant funds held in trust | by them from . proceeds of the land act of 1862, . Attention iscalled to the fact that the Government, passing by commerce and manufacture in its favoritism of farming interests, has created an executive depart- | ment of agriculture which costs more than | two millions per annum. In addition to all this Uncle Sam sends out every year | several hundred tons of garden seeds for free distribution. This is certainly a showing of which | America may be proud and which farm- | ers should appreciate. = As a result of this munificent encouragement our farming is | the finest in the world. In addition to feeding and clothing our own people bet- | ter than the inhabitants of any other por- | tion of the globe are fed and clothed, the farmers of the United States ship abroad a surplus amounting to over §$500,000,000 | each yesr. | The record proves that while the Goy- ernment cannot be expected to make everybody prosperous by direct enact- ment, it can by wise laws and judicious expenditures open a wey for prosperity and extend 3 beiping hand to individual eifort, which will make success far more surely and widely attained. that since the Government has done so much for farmers they should gratefully remember it, and cheerfuily assist other inaustries in obtaining the favorable legisiation and aid they need from the Government. | COAST kX H&NGES. |- The Monterey New Era has cut its $ubscrip- | tion price in twain, and for a dollar a year is g0ing to furnish its readers with a paper as bright and newsy a5 ever it issued at the §2 rate. The Downievilie (Sierra County) Enterprise | has gntered its sccond year and joyfully | speaks of its excellent prospects for the future, | The paper looks very comely in & new dress of { tyve. The Lemoore Leader, next 1o the oldest paper in Kings County, is very nappy at the begin- ning of its ninth year, as it has just been recognized for the first time gs the county official paper. The Fresno Watchman has completed its first year &nd proudly announces that its Success 5 a weekly publication has induced its own- ers to make pians for the issuance of a daily in the near future. Published. weekly at Aleatrsz Island is a lively little paper called The Yap. It would 1t is alsoclear | appear from its columns that existence over at Alcatraz is not at all dutl. The prisoness have an orchestra and give frequent entertain- ments, and the dances in the prison mess hall seem 1o be highly picasurable affairs. The Petalumian has lost itsel, so far asname is concerned, in the Petalums Weekly Budget. The paper has been enlarged and the new editor, Frank H. Snow, proposes to give his readers just a plain budget of news, without political frills. He appears to understand his business, and that is saying quite a good denl. George F. Weeks has sold the Bakersfield Californian to Alirea Harrell, who will en- deavor to keep the paper up to itspresent high standard. In one respect, however, the new proprietor will inaugurate an important | change, in making the Californian Democratic in politics. The’ paper has hitherto made its political abode in the field of the elect. The Promoter is the name of A new paper in | Williams, Glenn County. The editor, H. D. de Gaa, declares that his aim will be to redeem the fair name of Glenn County from the odfum engendered by the faction fights of the past. He will know neither clique nor faction, neither ring nor anti-ring, but will work for the common good of all. The Promoter pre- sents a clean aud neat appearance. The proprietors of El Barbareno, the cleverly edited Santa Barbara weekly, have decided to issue once & month ¢ beanttiul illustrated magazine to be siyled Et Barbareno Illustrated Honthly.” The scope of the new work will be Natioual in its character, althouth the special object will be that of concentrating attention upon this glorious coast section, with its su- perb climate and remarkable resources. Says the Fresno Republican: A few days ago J. D. Culp of Gilroy, the well-known tobacco- grower, visited Fresno with the view of ascer- taining whether there was any soil in the county adapted to _tobacco-growing. He did not have far to look,for he found the best kind of soil not far from this city. Since Fresno County has soil adapted to the growing of Havana tobacco, it 1s to be_hoped that the crop will soon be given & trial here. It would be & great source of profit to our people if suc- cess were attained. The San Mateo Leader observes that the than those of any other section of the State. THE CALL has announced that the Valley road would make China Basin, on the Potrero, the terminus; that to reach that point the road { would approach this section through the Pa- checo Pass, below Gilroy, thence northward | along the westerly shore of the bay to San | Francisco. San Mateo will be benefited be- yond measure. This action, oncs begun by the Valley road people, will undoubtedly hasten the construction of the double-track bay-shore cutoff, and this point will then enjoy an hourly service, which, in addition to | the benefit of being on a main transconti- nental line, will give us a prestige that will prove a Godsend to this section Those who can look into the future and reason intelli- gently agree that San Mateo is & place with a brilliant future.” | NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Twenty additional torpedo-boat destroyers, with a speed of 53 knots, are to be ordered for the British navy during the present year. It is reported that orders for 275,000 horse- power in Belleville boilers are in hand for the British navy, and all tne vessels ordered dur- ing 1896 will be fitted with this type. The Russian naval programme contemplates &n expenditure of 800,000,000 roubles, equal t0 $440,000,000, up to 1906. This implies & large number of new vessels and a strengthen- ing of its fleels in the Baltic, in the Black § and the Pacific. A fourth station is to be | established in the Arctic, as & port has been | discovered on the northern coast, which is to " be connected with Finland by rallway. | The Pomone, a 20-knot cruiser, is shortly | to be begun at Sheerness dockyard, and is to | be completed for commission in twelve months. The ship will havé a length of 300 feet, 36 feet 6 inches beam aud a displacement of 2135 tons. The machinery will develop 7000 hofsepdwer under forced draught ana 5000 under natural draught. Her armament will consistof eight 4-inch quick firers, eight 3-pound Hotehkiss guns, two .45-inch Maxim guns and two 14-inch torpedo tubes. Thirteen out of the nineteen steamers of the Rugsiax volunteer fleet were at Sebastopol on January 7. ready for any emergency that might arise, to Carry an army corps to any part of | the Bosphorus, Two sditional. ase building | on the Tyne and three more will be ordered | during the present year. The net earnings of the flect for the past year amounted to$1,- | 668,000, which wiil be expended on new ships. | The Government pays this flect a liberal sub- sidy for the transportation of convicts to Sag- halien, of which it carries about 1200 each season at the rat: $116 for each, and in ad- dition it is paid $340,000 suosidy yearly. It is the intention of the company to raise the fleet to thirty steamers, which in time of war may be converted into fast armed cruisers. | Thirty million dollars is to be expended in | improvements to the Devouport dockyard. At present Keyham and Devonport, on the banks | of the river Thames, cover an area of 143 acres, | and the scheme contemplates the utilization | of 100 acres in the vicinity for dockyard pur- | poses. There will be a tidal basin of 351 | acres of 1550 feet length, 1000 feet wide and | 55 deep below the coping stones. Leading into this basin there will be three docks of | larger dimensions than any yet built, which | will give Devonvort ten docks, second only to | Portsmoutn, which has fifteen docks. Already | $10,000.000 has been expended in dredging and $20,000,000 more will be expended during the next ten years in building docks and work shops, which will make Devonport the largest naval arsenal in the world. Spaid, in a feeble way, has endeavored to increase her navy. It has purchased from Ansaldo & Co., snip-builders near Genos, the armored cruiser Giuseppi Garibaldi, which was intended for Italy. She is of 6500 tons displacement, 325 feet length, 59 feev beam and 23 feet 7 inches draught. Her horse- | power 15 18,000, and she is expected to make 20 knots. The armament is two 8-inch | 1ifles, ten G-inch and four 5-inch rapid-fire | guns and twenty-four small caliber rapid-fire | and machine guns. The snip s to be deliy- | ered at Barcelona in February. Another | cruiser has been ordered from Ansnido, to be | dclivered in fifteen months. At the home dockyards two mnew versels have been iaunched recently, and there is much activity | 1n preparing ships for sea and collecting war material. PERSONAL. Dr. J. Rosal of Guatemala is staying at the Baldwin. | R.J.R.Aden, a Vallejo merchant, is at the Baldwin. 1. W. Blaisdell of Yuma, Ariz, is registered at the Lick. M. Herrick, a mining man from Portland, is at the Russ. W. J. Rainwater, 2 mining men of Helens, Mont., isstaying at the Kuss. Thomss K. Gay, a prominent man of Peta- luma, i8 at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Judge S. M. Buck of Eureks, Cal., s in town. He is staying at the Lick. Johu Quinn, a capitalist of Fresno, is a re- cent arrival at the Cosmopolitan. D. . Plerce, 8 mining men from Big Canyon, registered at the Grand yesterdar. R.J. Blankenbeckler of Unjted States steamer Petrel was at the Baldwin yesterday. T. Joyce and wife are here ffom New York ou business. They are at the Cosmopolitau. H. L. Ceve and tamily arrived from Colorado | yesierday and are stayingat the Cosmopolitan. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Clark, George H. Clark u;d Algie Clark, of Stockton, are at the Bald- win. Mrs. Dr. Cleveland and her daughter, Miss Mamie Cleveland, of Dundee, IlL, are staying at the Paiace. James M. Moore of the United States army is regisiered at the Occidental. He is accom- panied by his wife. Harry Rutledge, « mining engineer of Ama- dor County, arrived here yesterday. He 1s staying at the Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. ¥. H. Loring of Kobe, Japen, who recently arrived from the Orient and | have been visiting friends in Alameda, re- turned to town yesterday and registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. Johu M. Dean and Mr. and Mrs, Frank L. Budlong of Providence, R. I, are staying at tbe Baldwin. Colonel Mike Branagan of El Paso, Texas, well known in the sporting world, is among the arrivals at the Baldwin. V. Clyte, & wineman of St. Helena, and Thomas Clark of Placerville, a well-known 1aine owner, are staying at the Grand. V. 8. McClateny, editor and proprietor of the Sacrsmento Bee, R. L. Valentine and J. C. An- derson of Chicago registered at the California last night. L.F. Breuner, a merchant of Sacremento, James Galtagher, a Fresno attorney, and Wils liam Maguire, & mining mwan from Dutch Flat, are at the Grand. Thomas G. Sullivau, W. F. Norton and Miss M. Norton, Mrs. M. S Struck and Louis S. Struck were among yesterday’s arrivals from New York at the Palace. Captain J. H. Egan of New Bedford, Mass & well-known whaler, Colonel J. F. Harring- ton, a Colusa lawyer, and A. Jones, a large rancher of San Luis Obispo, are staying at the Russ. N. E. Bieber, the agent of a wealthy English syndicate largely interested in mining proper- ties In Peru, will leave for that country ina few days, accompanied by a force of men, Mr. Bieber has been in the City for the last few weeks, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, —At the Wind- sor, T. H. Carey; Amsterdam, V. T. Collopy and F. T. 0. Molloy; Imperial, J. Leidan; Man- hattan, Miss S. G. Pierce; St. Denis, E. C. Seavy. NEWSPAPER FLEASANTRY. Maude—Miriam i8 trying to keep her engage- ment a secret. Martha—How do you know? “She told me so.”—Yonkers Statesman. “Often,” said the Cumminsville sage, * man gets credit for having sense enough to say nothing when the truth is that_he hasn’t sense enough to say anything.”’—Cincinnati Engquirer. Mrs. Love—My husband is so affectionate! He always kisses me when he leaves the house in the morning. Mrs. Sowerby—It's funny how good-natured men fee!l when they are getting away from home.—Boston Transcript. “I wonder if the world is really growing r?” said she in black. Oh, you needn’t be alarmed,” sald she in plaid. “It hasn’t grown so fast that you have lostall chance of marrying sgain.”—Indian- apouis Journ: =Mrs. Peck (during the breeze)—Our wedding was brought about by a wretched match- maker. Heury Peck—Yes; and there’s been nothing. but fire ana brimstone in this house ever since.—North American. Chumply—That hypnotist is & fraud. = He couldn’t control my mind at all Jast night. Pokely—Oi course he had some excu: Chumply—Yes; he said that there was no material 10 work on. You ought to have heard the audieace give him the laugh.—De- troit Free Press EXCELSIOR. The shadcs of night were not yet drawn, When in a mill where wood Is sawa, A lot of boys were told o haul Away the stuff that carvers call Excelsior. Soon ‘neath these curls made Into packs, They stagger forth with loaded backs. Across Lhe way there siands a sho, Where into bins they softly, drop Excelstor, Next day some skilled mechanics come; Sharp needles piy: swift shuttles hum: Huge sacks are made with carners square, ‘And scaeming hands deposic there Excelsior. Soon after this, a great big store Haugs out the sign:—~For sale- - Some more Of those hair mattresses, the kind You want.” But here again we find Excelsior. In po'itics as well aq trade, Ke.orms are often Ljkewise made, Not of the halrand wool they laud, But of that cheap and shoddy fraud, . Excelsior. And Destiny w 1l sometime puft A Propuet with such fulsome stuff, That in the place of hear: and braios, The inguest Shows in the remains Excelsior. New § ork Sun. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEQOPLE. George Ebers has written another long novel called “Barbara Blomberg.” The Philadelplia papers say that no other Mayor in the United States has offices so hand. some and luxurious as those of the Mayor of Philadelphia. President-elect McKinles's instructions in regard to his inauguration suits are that they be made loose about the arms, so that he may not become fatigued by handshaking. Mrs. Long, the wite of ex-Governor Long of Massachusetts, says that Mrs. McKinley must be a good woman to let her husbaud be Presi- dent when she needs his care so much herself on account of her invalidity. The children of Harriet Beecher Stowe do not look kindly upon the proposition to erect 8 public statue of their mother. Her son, the the Rev. Charles E. Stowe, says it belongs to him and his sisters to ercct whatever monu- ment may be placed over their mother's grave. Herbert Spencer is at present at Brighton enjoying the rest that he has. so well earned after the completion of his great system of philosophy, a life task from which only a genius (genius having been defined as the ca- pacity for taking pains) would not recoil in dismay. Charles Maron, who lately died in Paris, claimed descent from the poet Virgil. Regu- larly evers New Years day all persons in Mantua, the poet’s native town, who bore the name of Maro, the poet’s patronymic, sent greeting to Maron, whom they regarded as first and greatest of them all. Hugh H. Hanna, who has come into National prominence as the organizer of the Indianap- olis convention sound-money movement, isa cousin of Mark A. Hanna. IHe manufactures steam engines, and has never been in polities excent 0 take part in local movements for 200d municipal government. His age is about 50. THE INAUGURATION SUPPER. A Washington dispatch states that Carl Essner of Philadelphia will furnish the supper at President McKinley's inaugural ball. Mr. Essner expects to serve 10,000 persons at the coming ball. Fuily 50,000 pieces of chin 80,000 pieces of siiver and 10,000 nepkins will be needed for the service of the suj per. ‘The supper will cost $1, wine extra. Here is the menu: Raw oysters in ice. Consomme in caps. Broiled oysters. Ossters a Ia poule:te. Chicken cutlets. Sweetbread putties. Terrapin. Lobster salad. ' Crab salad, ‘Tongue. rmithfield ham. Game patile. Boned turkey. Pate de fole gras. Assorted sandwiches. Lemon lces. Roman punch. ‘Vanllia and chocolate ice cream. Fruit Assorted cakes. Coftee This menu was considered the best of Lwenty- one that were submitied by competing caterers from New York, Baltimore, Philadelpnia, Washington, Cincinnati and Chicago. DEFECT IN 1HE NEW ARXY R.FLE Phlladelphia Ledger. Since it is conceded that the battles of the future are likely to be fought at extremely long range, because the deadly effect of mod- ern artillery will not permis combatants to get very near each otner, the unreliability of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle at distances of 800 yards and over seems 1o be a fatal defect in it. Ever since this rifle was adopted for use in the army there have been aaverse criticisms of it in both official reports and unofficial remarks, but the finding of General Ruger's inspector, that it is, in some respects, inferior to even the old Springfield rifle, shouid command seri- ous attention. It would be very costly to fully provide the United States army. with a weapon which wou.d fail in the event ofaction. Chicken safad. game who wear the blue. A similar or- MARY CHANGES N THE ARMY A Presidio Captain Goes to| the Adjutant-General's | Office. Ball-Playing Will No Longer Be Permitted on Sunday at ; the Presidio. ‘ Waiting for the Inspector-General | Who Did Not Put in an Appear- ance—A Battalion Drill. Colonel Thomas C. Sullivan, who since | December, 1892, has been principal as-| sistant commissary-general of subsistence at Washington, D. C., has been made commissary-general, vice Brigadier-Gen- eral Michael R. Morgan, retired January 18 of the Dresent year. The new commis- sary was born in Ohio on the 14:h of No- | ters of an officer der was in force auring the time Genergl Howard was in command of the depari- ment. i During the past week the officers and men at the Presidio post expected 8 visit from Colonel G. H. Burtom, inspector- general for the Pacific® District, but he came not. 89 In consequence of the disagreeablo weather there are but few drilis at the Presidio now, but last Tuesday being a reasonably good day, there was a battalion drill of four troops of cavalry under coin- mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Young. The drili was a splendid one, the movements emng executed with a promptness and exactness that speaks well for the train- ing of the men and horees. One of the finest and most_exciting movements Was when the troop formed in battalion front and the order came to charge. Sabers flashed from their scabbards, the men leaned forward to urge their horses on, and on they rushed st maddening speed, and when near tue end of the parade ground each man gave a yell, and then the recall was sounded. An elderly man who had been watching this movement with the intentness of a_critic remarked to one who was standing near him: *“Thad’s fine; it reminds me of old times. He was untountedly a yeteran of the war. Pending the assignment to headauar- of the Adjutant-Gener- al's Department, Major Steplien W. Groes- beck, jadze-advocate, wiil act as adjutant- general of the Department of Caliiornia THE CHILDREN’'S FRIEND. Kane Tells of Word Done Little Innocents ¥From Ruin. Frank J. Kane has presented his third annual report to the Pacific Society for Frank J. to Sav COLONEL THOMAS C. SULLIVAN, the New Commissary= General of the Army. vember, 1833, and was appointed a cadat | to the ‘military acadeémy in July, 1852. | He was breveted major and lieutenant- | colonel March 13, 1865, for faithiul and meritorious service during the war. He is on the list for retirement in Novem ber of this year. The {ollowing promotions and changes | in the army have been announced: ; Lieutenant-Colonel 8. T. Cushing, assisiant | commissary, to be colonel and assistant com- | missary-general of subsistence; Major C. P. | Eagan, commissary of subsistence, tv be lieu- | tenant-colonel and assistaut commissary-ge eral of ‘subsistence; Captain H. B. Osgood, commissary of subsistence, to be major and | ommissary of subsistence; Capiain W. H. | Carter of the Sixth Cavalry to be major and | assistant adjutaut- general; Captain T. I Barry of the First Infantry to be major and assistant adjutant - g neral; . Captain J. L. Bullis of the Twenty-fourth Infantry to be major and vaymaster: First Lieutenant orge B. Davis of: the Fourth Infantry to be | captain and commissary of subsistence: S. H. Bell of Pennsylvenia to be post chaplain. Captain Thomas H. Barry who was in | command of Company A, First Infaniry, stationed at the Presidio and who has | been promoted misjor and assistant | adjutant-general, has been absent from | the post on special duty in Washington | since December 19, 1893." In 1802 he was | | | | | assigned to special duty to inspect the National Guard of California and the re- port that he presented was one of the most thorough and comprehensive ever returned to the adjutant-general of the State. He was appointed a cadet in th military academy from New York, July 1, | 1873; he was commissiond second lieuten: | ant of cavalry, June 15, 1877; was trans- | ferred to the First Infantry August3l, | 1880, promoted first lieutenant Msrea 11, | 1882, and captain February 25, 1891 | Lieutenant-Colonel John. B. Babcock of | the Adjutant-General’s office Lias been as- | signed to the Departmert of California to | fil’f the vacancy caused by the retirement of Colonel 0. D. Greene. He has been | granted two months’ leave of absence be- | fore reporting for duty. Colonel Babcock was sergeant of Company E, New York | State militia, May 29, 1862; he was comi- | missioned second lieutenant of the One | Hundred and Seventy-Fourth New Yors | Infantry, November i3, -1862; ‘promoted | | [ | first lieutenant, December 1, 1867%; trans- ferred 1o the One Hundred” and’ Sixty- second New York Infantry, Februar 1864; was made firstlieutenantand id tant, June 26; catain, December9; major, January 1, 1%65. He Was ereated brevet lieutenant-colonel February 27, 18%. In the permanent establishment his record is: second lieutenant of the Fiith Cavalry, January 22, 1867; first lieutenant, February 14, 1868; captain, May 9, 1877, and major and assistant adjutant-general, February 2, 1803, He was breveted first lieutenant, cap- tain_and major in 187 for gallant and | meritorious services in the battles of Sa- | bine Crossroads, Pleasant Hill and Cane | ! River crossing, Louisiana, and breveted | lieutenant-colonel for services in actions against Indians at Tonto Creek, Arizona, June 16, 1873, and at Four Peaks, Arizona, January 16, 1874. Colonel James M. Moore arrived yester- day from the East to fill the vacancy at headquarters occasioned by the transfer of Licutenant-Colonel Amos 8, Kimball, deputy quartermaster-general, recen: Y transferred. Colonel Moore served during the War of the Rebellion and was bre- veted major and lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious service during the war, The following.named officers are now before the board of examiners at the Pre- sidio for examination for promotion: J, A. Maney, first lieutenant Fifteenth In- fantry; R B. Turner, firs: lieutenant First Infentry; Milton F. Davis, second lieu- tenant Fourth Cavairy,and J. A. Ryan, second lieutenant Tenth Cavairy. Henry O. Benson, First Lieutenant Fourth™ Cavalry, has 'been ordered to re- port to Colonel Shafter for examination for promotion. There are several others on the list, but their names have not yet been made publie. There is a vacancy in the office of regimental adjutant at the | Presidio, which will shortly be filled by Colone! Shaft On Wednesday there wiil be a test of some of -the big guns set ‘up for coast de- | fense on the eminence in the vicinity of Fort Winfield Scott. Z Orders have been issucd prohibiting ballplaying on the Presidio reservation on Sunday hereafter. The order is not pleasmng (o the lovers of the National | want of funds to enable | ship mad p the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animalsand the Suppression of Vice. ‘He ets forth that the monthly average of cases was seventy, and that ali bus 123 were investigated by him. The work of the society has increased and. although the subscriptions have also increased he finds himsef bandicapped in his work for him to conduct it on a broader basis and in a more vigor- ous manner. On the subject .of children he says: There should be at least 23000 & year given to this society. There are weaithy peopie in this City wao could afford that amount out of their pinm 'y every year for the saving of the helpless little ones whomj I receive from the cnstody of their unnatural parents, whom [ find steeped in vice through their ex- cesses in drink and immoralit their? so- called ho fiithy and thei hildren naked and hungry. Itake out letters of guardian- tect thems and infevdience of this T have throughout this City and vicinity scores of boys and girls under my jurisdiction, and I can safely state that many of ihese little ine nocents would have become lost to church and society, but for the interest I have taken in their cases and the protection 1 have given them. D UL o it TRY Townsend’s Molasses Crisp Popcorn. ® e SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. SANBORN. VAIL & Co, have improved their Framing -Department very much.. Since the | holidays new mouidings in Old Dittch, English and Green Oaks, Mat Gilts, Green Bronzes have come in during January. In sddition to this the retail Picture Department has been brought downstairs and fitted up next to the framercom, making ‘it much more convenient for both departments. 2 e Cawker—I've had enother addition to my family.since I saw you last. say! Boy or girl? “Son-in-law.” —Spare Moments. —_— “Mre. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" Fas been vsed over fifty years by -milliony at mothiers for thelr children whiie Teething with par. fect success. 1t cooihes the child, softens thegumy, allays Paln. cures Wind Collc, regniates the Bow. and s ihie best remedy for Diarrheas, whether ae Ing i7om tee:hing or other causes. £oF sale by draz- €I818 10 every pari of the world. Bo sure and asc Soothing Syrup 20¢ » boitla — e e el Coraxaro.—Atmosphers is perfactis ary, v iree from the misis com: Eound-trip t:ckets, by stea. r porth ehip, 1 fifteer days’ board at the Hotal 451 Coronado, $65: longer siay $2 60 per duy. Apas 4DNew Monigomery st. Francisco. e S — MIrLD, but slways effective, Ayer's Pills are in- dispens able as & tamily mediciue, both for children and aduls, =t Mother—You don’t know how you worry me, dear: why, my hair is turning gray. Florrie how you must have worried her hairis all white—London House- You hear it in nine out of ten drug stores. It iséh:d%t tes- timon X that gcott’s Emulsiggisg the standard of the world. And isa’t the kind all others try to range up'to, the kind for you to buy? “T'wo sizes, 50 cts, and $1.00, —~