The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1897. TUESDAY 7. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGQE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Postage Free: Iy and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.18 an CaLL, one year,by matl.... €.00 y and Su CaLL, 8ix months, by mail.. 8.00 | and Bunday CALL, three months by mail 1.0 Daily and Sunday CALL, 0ne month, by mall.. - 4 Sunday CALL, one year, by mai! W AKLY CaLl, one year, by BUSINESS. OFFICE 710 Marke San Francisco, California. Telephone.. Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOM 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—1874 | BRANCH . OFFICES 527 Sfontsomery wirser, coruer Clay: open untll £:50 o'clock. es streét: open-un 618 1 arkin sireet: of SW. corner Six ock. 19:30 o'clock. 30 0'clock. Mission streets; open OAKLAND OFFICE: | 08 Broadway. | EASTERN OFFICE 1 and §2, 54 Park Row, New York Clty: DAVID M. TOLTZ, Fas.ern Maaager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ** areall barking. Why did the Erawiiner turn all its dogs loose on Senator White ? The *'yard of pups time for San Francisco {0 rid itself | rofulous journalism. There is room in California for black- mailers—at San Quentin. The ‘day of the bleckmailer has turned 1o night and the time is'stormy. Takea stick to the blackmailing snake and you will see it crawl into its hole. What does Wiliie H, interests of the people The corporations have found out the “yard of pups”, and before long the people will find them out. ¢ care for the | San Franciseo? the blackguard has | begun to squall and in a few days he will i be ready to confess. | journal isabout as news. as in its dis- It is noted that The Li Yung Yu reliable in its home patches from China. Never were the journatistic highbinders =0 ravenous for boodle and never were | they so near starvation. i Cose ot i Vile cartoons are no answer fo facts. A | criminal is never acquitted by making caricatures of The coyote of journalism howls and howls and howls, out the trap Lias sprang and the scalp-taker is coming It is hard to tell whether the odor of Long Green Lawrence exhales from a whitewashed soul or v ashed feet. Tug CAnt never more truly spoke for all than it does now in denouncing cinch-bill lezislation and blackmail journalism. When honest men are united rascality 1get its due, and Wasteful Willie and | his Long Green toady had better beware. The battle of decent people against vile journaiism will never cease untii the cor- rupt thing has been carried cutand buried. We shall never have a good municipal government until we have crushed out the horseleeches in office and journatism. When Long Green Lawsence talks ot honesty the breath exhaled with his words | fills the whole town with a smell of cor- | ruption. Beiore the exposures of the Examiner are complete Boss Buckley will have to speak from Livermore and “Little Pete” from his grave, We cannot hope to stop all the black- mailing schemes of the Ezaminer, but we can expose some of them and put the public on guard. the Southern Pacific Company, but it may have been Long Green who put it where it would do the most good. It was Hearst who took the $22,000 from Long Green has flown to the support of cinch-bill lezislators with a promptness which shows a fellow feeling for & share of the prospective boodls. The waster of inherited millions would gladly see every fortune depleted. He lives for nothing now but to gratify malice, envy and profligacy. Why did the delegates to the Democratic State Convention st San Jose boot and hiss a speaker who said ti:e Ezaniner was an honest Democratic paper? The Ezaminer should exvlain whether Willie Hearst got any of the money ex- torted from Huntington or whether it was divided by the subordinate gang. Itis the duty of the Supervisors to fix water and gas rates fairly and honestly, and they should not be deterred from per- forming it, even though the blackmailer raves and threatens to throw buckets of mud all over town. The Chicago Record says Princess Chimay bas afforded an object lesson to American girls who are tempted to. marry a nobleman, but to the ordinary moralist it seems more like a warning against fail- ing 1n love with a gyps: The aelegation to a State Democratic convention at San Jose repudiated with hissesand hoots the claim of the Ezaminer to represent that party, and now the people are ready to repudiate its pretense to represent San Francisco. The exposure made by Tue CALL of the villainy of the Eraminer haslorced the managers of that paper to drop their im-. pudence and resort once more to hypoe- riey, but even that won’t save them; we Propose to strip the masks off. Every dollar whick the blackmailers of the Ezaminer can extort from corporations serves as a fund to strengthen the gang in levying backmail upon others. A common interest requires that honest men should combine to fight the villainy and crush it out. Honest efforts to procure a reduction of ‘water and gus rates should not be dimin- ished because a notorious zang of boodlers are trying to take advantage of them for their own nefarious profit. The Super- visors should go forward and do what is right for the public benefit. The people will deal with the blackmailers until the { ble task to fight criminal courts get hold of them, THE DISCREDITED - BLACKMAILER. The Ezaminer has ‘long been in discredit with the people of California. The ras- cality of its managers hus been repeatedly exposed. its conduct that no one has confidence in it, though some are tempted to use it to This condition of affairs has rendered Mr. Hearst desperate. He has wasted the fortune left him by his father and is now trying to recoup himself by such blackmailing schemes as the rascals in his employ can devise and carry out. So long as Senator Hearst was alive the Ezaminer was conducted as a representa- further their own ends. tive of the Democratic. party of California. role for a Jittle while. be office in the Democratic party. to deal with. When the Democratic State Convention assembled in San Jose the antagonism of the Eraminer to Senator White was at its bitterest degree, and the conduct of the managers of the paper was fully made known to the delegates. when one of the tools of that paper had the impudence to speak of it as a representa- tive of California Democracy he was hooted and bissed by the delegates on the floor | and forced to leave the platform. This act showed clearly that the Democratic party, or at least the leaders of the party, had become aware of the true character of the men who were managing Willie Hearst and his paper, and had determined then and there to repudiate him, them Since that time the Eraminer has had no standing as a representative of the D mocratic party in the State, and it is now time to deprive it of the pretense of represeniing any portion of the veople of California. Tnrough all the loud clamors of the Eraminer for what it calls “‘popular interests and the public welfare,” there runs a tone of insincerity, which 1s evident in every What shall we think of a paper claiming to oppose the Southern subsidy uf $1000 a month from the Southern Pacific What shall we think of a paper pretending at this time to favor a reduc- | tion in water and gas rates, when for years it has been silent on the subject? ion to the railroad was due tothe fact that the rail- | | road subsidy was cut off, and it is an inevitable inference that the present opposition to other corporations is due to the fact that subsidies hitherto drawn from them have and it. word it utters. Pacific monopoly, when it drew a Company ? Itis known that the oppos been aiso cut off. ‘With the factics of a profes: believe they can be to silence an opponent or extort money. a contest. ute to it in order to escape its attacks. The time bas come, however, when these scruples should be put aside. Capital shou'd no longer be afraid of the blackmailer who attemptsto plunder it. People should no longer give support to the pretended friendship of an exposed hypocrite. A combined effort should be made on the part of honest and decent people to rid the City | of this infamy once and for all. There are reasons to believe the strnggle will not be a long one. Willie Hearst exhausted his father’s fortune. It was not long, however, before his wasteful and incompetent | son was made the dupe of the vicious men around him and the paper taen began to ed as an_iustrument to extort favors, subsidies and money from candidates for In this way the Ezaminer was led into antagonism to | Senator White, and it opposed his candidacy for the United States Senate with tactics which soon showed fo the leaders of the Democratic party what sort of men they had fonal rascal, the Framiner attempts to evade public indignation by charging others with offenses similar-to its own. its blackmailing schemes by aspersing the honor of those who have exposed them. Convicted of serving the monopoly, while pretending to be a friend of the peopie, it now turns round and declares that the people of San Francisco have no friend among the newspapers of the City, and that all are as wicked as the Eraminer itself. We have too much confidence in the intellizence of the people of San Francisco to ped aeain by this often exposed lier, boodler and blackmailer. In posing as the orzan of the Democratic party after.the death of Senator Hearst, it had no other object than that of enriching its managers by the money it could extort from Democratic politicians, and now in posing a San Francisco it seeks only to compel rich corporations to'put money either 1nto the depleted purse of Willie Hearst, or into the stuffed pockets of Long Green Lawrence, ‘We are wall aware there are many reasons why honest men should hesitate to op- pose this infamous combination which controls the Eraminer. th an enemy which resorts to There is little honor to be gained from such To kill a reptile does not make & man a hero. enter a contest with the foul journal of the blackmailer and not infrequently pay trib- He nas been compeiled to sell his interest in the Ana- conaa mineé. He isat the end of the purse which enabied him to support a disrepu. table life; and a more disreputable newspaper. in California are but the last despairing schemes of rascals who see before them pen- ury and the penitentiary. 1If the people act now with promptness and courage the victory will be won, and this disreputable and disgraceful organ will soon be closed out and the blackmailers scattered as tramps on the highways. So well known is the villainy of After his death it continued to play that : The result was that It has tried to cover a representative of the people of It is never an agreea- 9, slanders,and vilifications, in order Men therefore are averse to has The attempts now to levy blackmail TARIFF LEGISLATION. The Chamber of Commerce has pub- lished in a well-printed pamphlet the pro- ceedings of the recent tariff conference | heid in ibis City with the object of sup- plying information to Congress on the needs of California in the coming tariff | | legislation. | can be easily read and will be of great The work is well condensed, value to the representatives of California in Congress in showing what the indus- tries of the State require in the way of protective duties. The report adopted by the conference calls attention to the fact that no State in the Union 1s more vitally concerned in a protective tariff than is California. In {all the fourteen schedules of the act of 1890 are to be found articies of California vroduction more or less affected by any duty placed upon like articles of foreign origin. These, as the report points out, are our mines, our coal fields, our petro- leum and bitumen deposits, our forests our agriculture, our flocks and herds of domestic animals, our dairies, our fisher- ies and our factories. The conference urges as an essential to an intelligent and - honest administration of tarill legislation thatthe principle of specific as against ad valorem duties be adopted and applied in all cases wherever practicable, The reasons for preferrinz specific duties are many. In the first place, such duties enable the citizen to learn at all times the exact competition he has to meet, which he cannot do in the case of ad valorem duties. It puts an end to the evil of false valuations on imported goods. Moreover, an apparently high ad valorem duly is often found to be wholly inadequate for protection, inasmuch as the percentage of auty is computed upon the low valuation of foreign goods. The need of protection to our industries is manifest from the fact that California is exposed to competition coming from British Columbia, China, Japan and Mexico. As Chinese labor is largely, used in British Columbia, all of these countries have very low rates of wages, and the comipetition is- destructive to the welfare of American workingmen. The attention of Congress is called by the conference to the necessity for some legisiation to promote the interests of American shipping. As a means of doing this, the conference adopted a resolution urging Congress that in arranging a new tariff provision should be made for the free” entry of all materials actually used for the constructisn, repairs, equipment or subsistence of American-buiit sbips employed in the foreign trade. The greater portion of the pamphlet is occupied by & ‘review.of schedules giving statements of the amount of protection requested by renresentativesof the various industries in the State. These statements will engble our uelegation in Congress to work with a d finite purpose. before .the Ways and Means Committee. They make. clear exactly what California expects of Congress in order that ber industries may be protected and the welfare of hér work- ingmen -and her men of business. be preserved. A curiosity 1n the way of postal routina is reported by the Philadeiphia Record. The towns of -Langhorné ‘and Eden, in Pénnsylvania, are- 50 near together that | their postoffices are only about 500 yards apart. A letter from oneof them to the other, however, has to go by way of Phila- delphia, making & circuit of nearly forty miles, and takes a day to do it. — e Bo far a: we can gatber from our ex- changes the only thing any part of the country asks of Congress is to pass its particular sppropriation. bill and then quit. What will Kansas do next? Her Legis- lature is actually talking of & law to sup- press the corset. E GENERAL ALGER. No appointment to the McKinley Cabi- net is likely to give more general satisiac- tion to the people of the United Siates than that of General Aleer to the office of Secretary of War. No man in the country is better fitted for the position by his talents or past services, and we can ex- pect from the next administration a management of the War Department which will be in every respect gratifying to the country. General Alger is one of the most em1- nent citizens of the Republic. He has been for some time conspicuous as a can- didate for the Presidency and in several Republican National conventions has been the candidate from his State for that bigh office. It was cverywhere recog- nized that he would make a strong Pre dent, and more than once he was sup- ported in National conventlons by a fol- lowing so strong as to make his nomina- tion probable. It has been rare in later years that a man of his eminence accents a Cabinet position, and his entry into the McKinley administration will add 1o its strength in every respect. To the old soldiers of the Republic the appointment will be especially pleasing. General Alger was one of those volunteers who went to the front with the Union army, and rendersd such distinguished services on the fieid as to merit and re- ceive rapid and high promotion. Few volunteers in the army became more eminent than he, ana he is therefore a fit representative of the soldier element of the community and will be in his rightful place av the head of the War Department of the Government, Since the close of the war General Alger has devoted himself to business with marked success. He has shown himself to be as eminent in the conduct of civil affairsasin thoseof war. Heisa thoroush business man, honest, energetic and effi- cient. The success with which he has conducted his private enterprises attests bis skill as an administrator of Ilarge affairs and gives assurance to the public that the War Depsrtment of the next administration will be conducted with a zeal and ability wnich will raise it to a higher degree of efficiency than has ever been knowa before. From the selections already made it is evident that the McKinley Cabinet will be one of the strongest we have ever known. The men thus far selected have each a marked and distinguished personality whieh has made him well known to the veople. Each, moreover, has been chosen for an office for which he is peculiarly fitted by his training and experience in life. There 18 every reason for believing that the other members of the Cabinet will beequally eminent. Insuch a galaxy of distinguished men General Alger wiil occupy a prominent position. He will not be overloosed in the asgregation. His parsonal force will keep him to the front, and in the next administration the average citizen will not-have to turn to an almanac, as he does now when he wishes to find out the name of the man who fills the office of Secretary of War. SHAM OIVIL SERVIOE. A speech recently delivered in Congress by Hon. Henry M. Baker makes clearly evident the hypocrisy of the Cleveland administration in attempting to pose as the advocates of civil service reform. The speech is pertinent to the occasion as some effort will undoubtedly be made to induce President McKinley to right the wrongs committed by Cleveland’s Cabinet and restore our ctvil service to something like a gocd condation before the *reform” is fixed and established. According to statements made by Mr. Baker, the report of the Secretary of the Iuterior for the first fourteen months ana fifteen days ‘aiter Hoke Smith took the office shows that be made 817 appoint- ments, 171 reinstatements, 893 promo- tions, 422 reductions, §76 dismissals, and 88 ‘resignations by request.” The dis- missals, resiznations by request, and re- ductions were almost invariably of vei- erans and Republicans, The report of the Secretary of the Treasury covering the first fourtesn months and twelve days after Secretary Carlisle took office showed there were 837 appoint- ments, 538 promoticns, 637 dismissals, and 160 reductions. Of the 460 men dismissed, 129 were veterans, and two of the women were old hospital nurses. Of the 140 men reduced, 54 were veterans, and 13 of the women were hospital nurses. Mr. Baker went on to point out that at the beginning of Clevelana’s administra- tion the-Secret Service Division was made up about equally of Republicans and Dem- . Now there is but one Republican left in the division. In the Pension Bureau 60 per cent of the employes are Democrats; in the Fish Commission over 90 per cent; in the Government Printing Office 66 per cent. A similar condition prevails in every department of the civil service. Itis as bad in San Francisco as elsewhere. The most casual study of it shows how great bas been the sham of Mr. Cleveland's so- called civil service reform, and how com- pletely he has subordinated the service to the interests of his friends. The people of this country are in favor of what they understand as civil service reform, but they are not in favorof the sham reform of Cleveland. They may consent to leave the service in the condi tion to which he has brouzht it, but if they do so it will simply be an act of seli- d on their part. They will not intend thereby eitber to indorse his pretense as a civil service reformer or to condone the methods by which he has sought to give life positions to the cuckous and mug- wumps who supported his administra- tion. PERSUNAL . Brown of Denver is at the Palace. A. D. Perkins of Santa Barbara is in the City. Superior Judge G. M. Buck of Eureka is at the Lick. Thomas Clark, 8 mining man of Placerville, is in the City. H. Vance, the railroad owner at Eureks, is at the Graud. P. Herschfield, & business man of Los An- geles, is in town. J. T. Gates and Mrs. Gates of Guatemala are at the Occidental. C.F. Smith of San Dlego is awong the visi- tors from the South. G.N. Farnum and A. M. Gildo of Rockford, T1L, are at the Russ, Major Darling of the United States army is down from Rutherford. Wiiliam B. Humbert, a business man of Ash- land, Or., is in the City. D. Alexander, a business man of Watson- ville, 1 at the Occidental. Lieutenant C. W. Burnett of the United States navy is at the Grand. H. 8. Hayes, & business man of Aberdeen, Wash., is & iate arrival here. Tom C. Gorrie, a mining man of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is in the City. Wallace Killbatrick, formerly of this City, now of Boston, is at the Occidental. L. E. Mahan, & prominent business man of Eureka, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. W. R. Clark of Stockton, the State Railroas Commissioner, is one of the arrivals here. Edwara McGettigan, the well-known con- wractor of Vallejo, is registered at the Russ. Mrs. Dr. Clevelsnd and daughter, Miss Mamie Cieveland, of Dundee, Ill., are at the Palace. D. Vanderwilt arrived here to-day from Orange City, Pa., and is staying at the Cosmo- politsa, General P. W. Murphy of Santa Margarita, who owns an enormous ranch of some 60,000 acres near that place, s at thé Baldwin. W. Burns, who has been in charge of one of the wrecking steamers for & good while past, will leave for his former home in Liverpool to-day. G. H. Logan, Mrs. Logan and Miss Logan, all of Kingfisher, the prominent young city of Indien Territory, are among the arrivals at the Grand. Ppil Turner ana wife, Nat Wills and wife, Georgze O. Nichols and Miss Mellville of the Prodige: Father Company sre registered at the Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Annie Besant, the noted lecturer on theosophy, is expected to speak here in July or August next. She expects to make a tour of the United States. David Evans, the millionaire lumberman of Humboldt Bay, who owns large areas of red- wood aud extensive mills at and near Eurek is among the arrivals here. L. Carteri, the owner of a big Spanish grant near Sants Barbara and who is largely inter- ested in the raising of cattle and sheep, is at the Grand, accompanied by his family. Captain Carey of the steamer Monowai, now about due to sail for Australia, has been quite ill for some days at the Occidental with a serious cold, which threatens to develop into pneumont; J. F. Sanders, the principal owner of the Bachelor mine, at Ouray, who is &t the Bald- win Hotel, is the owner of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Delta, Colo., and quotes his individual liabilities at half a million doliars. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 1.—At the St. Cloud: W. T. Lewis, J. C. Fenton, D, Hand, R. G. Ev- erett, M. A. and Miss G. Crocker; Mannattan: J. W. Raphael, E. M. Ledden, J. A. Ledden, J. 8. Webber; Astor: J, E. Snyder; Vendome: A. L.Storie; Hoffman: W. S. Edward and wif Gilsey » A. Rix; Holland: F. W. and W. Fuller; Imperial: C. S. Giblin, F. M. Lebaud; Contimental: A. McBeen. CALIFORNIANS IN W ASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 1.—J. W. Stanford of San Francisco is at the® Raleigh, G. Vro- hefers of San Francisco is at the Norman, J. C, Garrison of Los Angeles is at the Shoreham. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Office,”” exclaimed the new arrival in Okla- homa, “office! I am from Ohio. I do mot want office.” And they had him in the local insane asylum inside of an_hour and a quar- ter.—Minneapolis Journal. Judge—What is the charge against this man, Mr. Officer 7 Officer—Crenting a disturbance, your Honor. Judge—Was it much of a disturbance? S Officer—Indeed, it was, sir. It woke me up.—Richmond Dispatch. Rose—Amy is a very dear friend ot yours, is she not? Blanche—Yes; you know she has &0 many faults that I can point out to her.—Philadel- phia North American, —_— EXTRA fine Brazil Nut Taffy. Townsend's.” ———————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mohtgomery. ————— HUSBAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesin. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label. b3 s AR Postmaster Carr of Philadelphia has given gold medals to three managers of postal sta- tions in that city for special efficiency and dis- Ppatch in conducting postal business. — “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” are asimple et most effectunl remedy for Coughs, 1 oarseness and Bronchial i roubles. Avold irhitations. . MILD, but slways eftective, Aver's Pills are In. dispen: able ax a family medicine, both for children and adults, ———— BURNETY'S Corn Cure, 327 Mobtgomery. 25¢. Letters From the People. MUNICIPAL HOUSING. What Has Been Dons in. Some Large German Citigs, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sie: Perhaps I should state in & prelimivary Dote that my failure for a fortnight past to offer further suggestions on munic:pal government is due to my absence in the mines and not o a oss of interest in the subject. Indeed, ihe more familiar one becomes wilh what has been done by the older progressive cities of the world for the-generai welfare, noting the happy results which always follow even the most startling innovations, the greater and deeper the interest one feels in this vital prob- lem of the present hour, the ratioaal manage- ment of municipal affairs in large cities. Municipal housing claims our attention in this letter. On page 3 of Albert Shaw’s ad- mirable book on “Municipal Government in Europe,” we are t0id that “all thorough stud- ents of the problem of lifein modern ciies are now agreed that the housing of the people is the questfon that requires from this time forth the deepest considera ion and the boidest and most serious (reatment,” and only super- ficial minds witl dissent from this conclusion. A few facts will help us here. “Iu 1885 it was found that 73,000 versons in the city of Berlitt were liviug in_the families occupying a single room in tenement houses; 382,000 were living in two-room tenem 432,000 in three-room apsrtments and 395,000 occupied four-room habitations.” Now, “although the one-room dwellers were only about one-sixth as many as the three-room diwellers, their rate of mortality was twenty-three times as high, and thirty-three times greater than that of the four-room.occupants.” Mr. Shaw makes this further comparison: The fotal population of Berlin in 1585 was 1,315,000, and “the 73,000 people who lived in the one-room quariers suffered nearly helf the entire number of deaths of the Wwhole population. Their death-rate was 1635 per 1000, nearly one-sixth of their entire number, whilé the two-room d welterssustsined u deat a ¥ 225, the three-room dwellers on . and the lour-room peopte lost only 5.4 per 1000 o the population.” He adds that “half tne mortality of the Berlin one-room dweilers occurred in households where five or more Ppersons occupied the one enclosed space.” Importunt results immediately followed this minute statistical investigation in 188: Drastic rules were at once adopted by tue muulcipality for the construction of ten ment-houses—one requiring that at least # third part of the lot -hould be leit unbuilt upon as a court space for air and light; an- other forbidding the construction of apart- ments containing less than a prescribed num- ber of cubic fcet of svace aud requiring proper provision for daylight, ventilation and heating, while the tenemeni-houses already occupied were brought under strict municipal authority, and in verious ways the evils o overcrowding were lessened and the average character of the housing of the poorer clusses greatly improved. Buta more important result of the statisti- cal inquiry of 1885, causing immediate action of the municipality to protect the- poor from the avarice o landiords and the city irom the devastation ot epidemics, was the im- mense impulse given to a movement to create Greater Berlin. To tnis end the municipal au- thority proceeded to lay off the adjacent ter ritory and prescribe exactly the character of the houses that_property-owiers might On this point Mr. Shaw remarks that regulations may seem irksome, yet all must come to the conclusion that the rights of the ‘masses in crowded communities are superior to the whims of individuals; that the pretense thiat private owuership of land carries with it any absoiute right 1o disregard the general welfare is a baneful heresy which 18 Dot {o be tolerated when it asserts its impu- dent ciainss.” On page 361 we are told that “sil the oth leadiug German cities buye made similar sta- tistical investigations, and most of them are endeavoring 10 reform the evils which they now fully comprehend.” However, bright s the future of these German cities now. sec to be in the sanitary housing of peopie who can never look forward to the day when the shall have homes of their own,but must a ways live in hired tenements, still it must be couceded that these cities have much yet to do before they are the eauals of Glaszow and Paris in the humaue and practical relicia forded the more abject poor, and more csp cially do they seem to lack the divine benevo- lences incarnated in the municipal life of Glasgow and Paris, which protects, educate clothes and feeds the little children of the hapless and heipless poor. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 1. 30, 1897. 11 Essex street, Ja A LIT:LE LOST BIRD. STORY OF A SI0UX ParocsE FOUND 0N A BATTL FIELD. The adopted daughter of Mrs. Clark Bewick Colby, the eminent suffragist who yesterday addressed the New Citizens' Club in this ci in the Assembl oom of the Young Women's Christian Association, is & fuli-blooded Bioux Indian, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. ‘The babe was rescued from its dead moth- er's arms four days aiter the noted battle at Wounded Knee Creek, in South Dakota, six yeats ago this month. Colonel Colby was in the charge made by the United States troops against the Indians at that time. Aiter the battle was over “nothing that wore Littie Lost Bird. a blanket was alive.” The slaughter of the Indians was terrific. The nextday a terribie blizzard set in, and for four days the dead were left alone in the ravine where the battle had waged. On the fourth day the babe was discovered. A bullet had killed the squaw, but as she fell she had gathered ner bianket closely about the child. This, with the heavy covering of snow, had kept tne baby warm. It was almost perished from hunger, but soon ralliea when placed in the care of some Indian women. As the women crooued over it_and slowly nursed it _back 1o life they consiantiy wailed, +Zintka Laununi,” meaning “poor lost bird. Colonel Colby and wife, who have no family, were touched by -the incident, and as the arents of the babe, both full-biooded Sioux, Bad Both perished th the battle, negotiations were made for the purchase of the little one. This was sccomplished, and for six years little Zintka has been cared for with devotion by her foster parents. Zinika attends kindergarten now, and the differences between her and other littie ones have not_yet been marked enough for comment. Indisposition at home and fn the kindergarten she is “extremely affectionate willful, but_amenable to reason. She is model 'Sunday-school baby, and asks ques- tions on her spiritual being aiter the simili- tude of other bright children. She is fond of music, and in her baby fashion makes harmony on the piano. One peculiarity, how- ever, is her ability to read the thoughts of those about her. She has of several occasions interpreted looks from strangers and impetu- ously answered theiz unspoken inquiry in her own baby fashion. She isas obeiient, Mrs. Colby says, as any little lassie in a fayored home. Her 'skin is brunette and her hair, long and silky, reaaily yields to the civilizing carl papers, COMPETEN.Y OF W .LL-MAKERS Philade)phia Ledger. A device for preveuting unseemly will con. tests has appeared in Connecticut and is being very favorably commentod on. It provides that the testator, on making his will; may de- posit it with a legal officer end give public no- tice of the fact in order thut any person who may doubt his competence to make a will may come forward and test the question within a certain time. If no abjeciion is made witnin the time specified the wil’ cannot be attacked on that ground when offered for pro- btate. Nobody is tosee the willer know ils contents; -the inquiry is to_be confined to_ the single question of the maker's competence, perhaps 1ncluding the question of undue in: ence; butif these two points can be settied during his life there_is hittle danger of ‘a suc- cessful attempf to break the will after his death. Itseemsasif ngreat deal of scandal and much unseemly litigation might be pre- vented by this simple dey SN ARES “The man who wins in lie’s hard race Ts he that wil not brook defeat: Who I60ks misf rtune in the face Without despairing, when they meet— Who, thou :h the way In front Is ciear And the sky above s fair, Keeps up good cheer, Proceeds with care, And when he comes 10 the hidden snare Alights upon his teet. Don't let the morrow come as it mav— Whate'rr it b-ings prepere to m: Gird up your lcins and square And move head up. if you muat rétreat; For thouzh to-day the way 100ks clear And the sxy above is fair, You may be near Some hidden snare, 0100k about you and prepare PARAGRAPH> BOUT PEOPLE Ruskin has squandered in good deedsa for- tune of more than $750,000 aud his prosent income depends almost wholly on the royal- ties of a recent popular edition of his work: Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte's great philo logical library has been sold to a London book- seller, as the efforts toraise money enough to buy it for the Guildhall Library were unsuc- cessiul. Helsingfors University in Sweden has this year 2161 students, of which 261 are women; 79 of these are under the mathematical, 117 under the philosophical and 57 under the medical faculties. Acting under the authority granted by the South Carolina Legislature, General Hugh L. Farley is collecting and will publish in per mauent form the rolls of all the companies raised in that State for ervice in the Confed- erate army. Countess Constance Wachtmeister, one of the most prominent of 1iving theosophists, is in Chicago. The Countess is a dignified woman of middle age, and is by birth an Italtan. Her English, however, 1s faultiess aud her vocabu- lary varied. Her title is Swedish. Ladies of New Orleans having succeeded in raising enough money to place in good condi- tion the grounds about the Jackson monu- ment on the battle-field of Chalmette—his: toric ground of the war of 1812—have now made & public appeal fora sufficiens amount to complete the shaft of brick and marble and restore the broken base. Wearied with the turmoil of political life, General J. B. Gordon of Georgia intimates that be very gladly turns over his Senatorial toga to Mr.Clay in March next. The general, who has a vast fund of incident and personul experfence to draw upom, may, it is hinted, devote such of his time.es is not taken up in leeturing to writing at some length his per- sonal reminiscences of the Civil War. ANSWERS 10 CORREsPONDENTS CRIB—W. L. M., Cioverdale, Sonoma County, Cal. In agameof crib “4—5 and 2—3 and 3 turned up” counts 15—2, pair and double run oi 4 cqual to 12, E ZE OF THEATERS—H. T. F., City. If thiscor- respondent will send bis name and address to this department he will receive the informa- tion asked for. CHILDREN BoRN—H.F. B., City. There are o statistics showing the number of boys and giris bo in the United States in the years 1866, 1 . 1886 and 1896.” AGE BEFORE BEAUTY—This department.is AXXious to discover the origin of the phrase, ‘.Age before beauty,! Can any of the readers of “Answers to Correspondents” tell us? CAsINO—S,, City. The general rule for count ing in casino is cards, spades, big casino, jittle casino, aces and sweep. Apply the rule and that will tell you who went out first in the game. CusTox-HousE EXAMINATION—A. B., 1t you will apply at ihe. Custom-house the clerk there who attends to the civil-service exami- nations will give you all the informstion desired. MEX1C0'S PRESIDENT—J. M., Fairfleld, Solano County, Cal. General Porfirio Diaz is Presi- dent of the republic of M-xico. He was first elected to that ofice iu 1876, again in 1892 and again in 189 CHINESE QUARTER—M. F. T., City. There has beea no ceusus of the inhabitants of the Chinese quarter of San Francisco for several years, but 1t Is estimated that the population there’ at this time is between 15,000 and 20,000. , City. TRADEMARK—J. W 1f you wish to protect an article of commerce, avail yourself of the trademark law. The Government fee for securiog a trademark is $25. Then there is the fee oi an altorney who would have 10 se- cure it for you. LANDS IN SAN JOAQUIN—Reader, City. If you will write to the United States Land Office in Stockton, the officer in charge will, for $1,send you a plat of, ali the Government land in San Joequin County and all such information as you may desire. EECOND PAPERS—A.|B., City. When analien ap- plies for his secoud pavers his witnesses must e citizens of the United States, but the Jaw does not require that they shall be property- owners. Tney must have the knowledge that the applicant has resided in the United States the required length of time to entitle him to his papers. HIGHBINDER—X. ¥. Z., City. The latest dic- tionaries ray that “‘highbinder is a slang term of no special meaning.” It was probably used in the sense of high ss high in “high jinks” or “5igh old time,” and “binder” is probably'a transition from “bender,” which wss used to describe going on a spree. .In the general acceptation it is used to designate & boid, roy- stering rowdy, such as in California is desig- nated as & hoodlum. The Century Dictionary says: “Highbinders, so called, were known in New York, Baltimore and other cities be- fore 1849. In that year and subseqaently they became familiar in California, At present the name is used only as to members ofa Chinese secret society, band or gang, said to exist in California and other parts of the United States, associated for tne purpose of blackmailing ‘and even for assassination in the interest and pay of socleties or indi viduals.” The dictionary then quotes the following from the New York Semi.weekly Tribune of May 20, 1887, 10 show the first use of the word in the sense deseribed Sury Gum, the Chinese woman, was finally ro- eased from the embezzlement charge brought against her by the highbinders, The term highbinder may.have ‘been in use in New York, Baitimore und other Eastern. cities prior to 1849, but in the early days of California it was uuknown, aud in none of the Distories of any rowdyism ' in 1849 and a few years thereafter does the term s ppear. An extract from the testimony teken beforo the joint special committee that held its in- vestigation in the Palace Hotel in this City in 1876, in October, shows that the term was used us applied to'Chinese prior to the date of the Tribune extract quoted. On the 261h of October Thomas H. King, a merchant, testified aud used the wo'd highbinder, as appears irom the following, on page 94 of ‘the repert of the committee: What do rou mean by “highbinder?” asked Sena'or Sargent. | mean men who are emplosed by the Chinese companies Lereto hound nd spy tpou the ¢ hi- uese and pursue them. I have heard it ap- piied tobad men. Sometimes they sre empioyed 10 assassirate Chinese, 1f 4 Chin has broken & contract and attempis 10 leave san Francisco he wil be finally Stupped at the steamer on the day of sailing by the large fotce of the company’s high- binders who can always be seen guarding them. The usg of the word highbinder applicd to Cninese in San Froncisco_goes back further than that. In 1869 or’70 Delos Woodruff, then a special in Chinatown, in later years Couniy Juiga of Josephine County, Or., was a witness in tne Police Court in & case when he deciared that “a lot of highbinders came around,” snd being asked by the Judeé w ex- plain that term, snid that it wasa neme that was given 10 Chinese rowdies, robbers and murderers—men who wore stiff flai-rimmea Dbiack hats and were known as “hatchet-mon” among the Chinese. The term had been .in use in the Chinese quarter by officers for some time before that. Highbinder has also been used in England to designate an athlete, such as a circus tum- bier and jumper. The term was also applied to horses that jump hurdles and ditches, or steeplechasers. PASTORS ARGUE O SOCIALISM Dr. Scott's ‘Remarks Are Greeted With Cries of “Shame.” Dr. Miaton Objects to Spending, a Quarter of a Million on a Ball German Pastors Meet to Organize. Rev. Haskell Smith Taiks to the Clericus. A warm discussion took place at the Presbyterian Ministerial Association yes- terday on’ the_ subject of ecomomic and social conditions. Rev. Dr. Scott, who was the quizmaster of the day, took a strongly socialistic stand, and deliversd limself in such séathing terms toward the climax of ‘the discussion, that there were cries of “Shame!” from several parts of the room. The subject was first started by Rev. E. . Clark, who read a paper on, *What Are the Economic and Social Conditions Causing the Growing Want and Poverty of the Masses?” A number of ‘causes were given for the want and poverty, among them bewng the oppression of the farmers and the treatment they bave rTe- ceived from the raiizoads. Monopolies and . trusts, particularly the Standard Oil Compuny, ‘were also assigned as reasons for poverty among the miasses. Mr. Clark condemned “the favoritism of wealth by lecisiation, most unexpectedly. seen in the decision of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the income 1ax law.” After the paper Rev. Dr. Scott, as quiz- master of the day, acked questions: bear- ing on the same subject. Rev. Mr. Perry spoke in favor ot the Standard Oil- Com- pany. Rev. Hdward Jenks said that la- bor-saving machines had had much t6 do with placing the many at the mercy of the few, and added that for his part he could propose no-universal panacea. Rev. Dr. Minton said: *‘There are: cer- tuin economic and industrial questions that imperatively call for a .change in many ways. I believe that tie rip:st wisdom of the church, guided by the spirit of God, is needed, but our system should be rather reguiated than revolu- tionized. 1 am in sympathy with that New York clercyman who is protesting against that $250,000 ball. It is_like flaunting a red flag in the face of those wno are starving. There ought to be-a moral sentiment created in these mat- ters.”” Rev. Dr. Scott.in concluding the discus- sion spoke in the 1ost severe terms.of the present use ot labor-saving muchines, After describing how numbers of men had: been recently thrown out of employment by theni he said: **What wisdom is the church showing in this question? The power which machinery has introduced is a power of oppression, and that oppres- sionisa power of unrighteousness. Thera are radical questions which iie below tii machine, but it would not do for youto recognize them; you would not dare to. recognize them in your pulpits.” AC this-point the ‘speaker was inter- rupted by cries of “‘Shame,’” and Dr. Seott concluded - by saying emphaticaily “Yes, itis a shame. At ths Methodist preachers’ Rev. L. W. Muahau, D.D., the evangelist from Philadelphia, Tead a printed pam- phlet on *The Viewsof Critics of the Pen- tateuch Compared.” Rev. Haskell Smith spoke in an in- formzl way at the Clericus on “The Inters nal Workings of the Established Church in England.” At the -Congregationalist ministers’ meeting a paper prepared by Rev. Mah- lon “Willett of Decorah, Towa, on **Tha: Ethicat Theory. of the Atonement'* was: read by Rev. Dr. J. Rowell -of this City.. Mr. Willeti in summing up the paper said: “We have now given four reasons for our preference for the expiatory conceps tion of the atonement asa moral power over the ethical; so called, *First; that there is more of truth in the one than the other, and that srror ig ethicatly powerless. “‘Second, that the righteousness of God is so revealed 1n its unswerving demands that the exceeding sinfulness of sin is made more vividly powerful, and. 80 ‘the moral life is quickened and intensified. “Third, that the provision .for- omr trust in Christ has made sin forus:so en- tirely unsatisfzciory, as eyidenced in the experiences of the ages, and a guilty con- science, that we cannot find heaven with- out the very first requisite of ethical power. “And finally, that the love is not the only fulfilling of-law, but the chief sorrow of ethical power, and that the expiatory view of the cross gives a rational ground and play to love when the ethical® view does not.”. There was some discussion about printed programmes for the coming six months, but the committee in charge reported that it could not get them up, and so the mat- ter was allowed to drop. A motion was then passed to levy a tax on the members of 25 cents apiece each month, An informal meeting of the German Protestant ministers of this City and Oak« land was Leld yesterdav morning in the German. branch at the Y. M. C. A. buiid- ing. They will meet the first Monday-in every month; and- it is just possible that they may form a ministers’ club in the near future, Rev. J, M. Bueliler-of St. Paul’'s Luth- eran Church. here’ lectured on the subject of “Christian Unity.” The -following pastors were present: Of the Lutheran church—Rev. Gehrke, Rev, Mr. Dietriehsen, Rev. Mr. Schroeder, Rev, Mr. Buehl-r, Rav. Mr. Theiss, Rev. Mr. Hazeroth, Rev. Mr. Branke; Banptist, Rev. Mr. Die(z; Methodist=-Rev. Mr. Guth, Rev. Mr. Shu!tz; Rev. Mr. Steinback, Rev. Mr.. Boran, Rev.. Mr. Vogel, Rev. 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