The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. tago Fre , by carrier..80.16 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—P Daily and Sunday CALL, one w Daily and Sunday CALL, oue year, by small Datlly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail Dally and Sunday CALL, one mo; Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail WXKxLY CALL, One year, by mall. 3.00 1.50 65 BUSINESS OFFICE: | 710 Market Street, £an Franclsco, California. Telepbone. : £ .Main—1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Maln—1874 BRANCH OF 527 Mon ry street, coru 9:80 o'clock. | 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. | 618 Larkin street: 0 n:i] 9:30 o'clock. ‘ SW. corner Sixteenth sion streets; open ICES : n antil § o'clock. | 2518 Mission street: open until 8 o'clock, 1 18 h strect; open until 9 o'clock. 1305 Poik open until §:30 o'clock. OAKLAND 03 Eroadway. | EASTERN OFFICI Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Menager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE FAKE AND THE FACT. | who live by their wits that they | unclouded successes. THE END Tt must be evident to discerning minds that the end of Willie Hearst's wild and The wasteful extravagance with which be | as thrown about the millions which his father left has brought him finally to the FEBRUARY 8, 1897 | bottom of the chest, or else has caused his surviving parent and her advisers torealize | that bis lavishness must cease, the Examiner bas been making a desperate effort to keep up appearances and to de- ceive the public into believing that it was other than a shadow of its former self. | During the past year its local managers have frequently exposed its shaky condition | by the desyeration with which they bave exhausted expedients io get for it money 6.00 | which the estate of its owner’s father was either unable or unwilling to supply. reckless career in journezlism is at band. For the pa It is plain that the end is near and that ing weak moral natures and being overtzken with adverse fortune, it has been driven to It is run for a Trading upon that tr: the trade of 1be outlaw at last. ! being deceived or is slow to believe t is so, the faker temporarily succeeds, the impostor | Blourishes, the quack grows sleek upon his earnings from the credulous, and the black. So it has been with the Eraminer. mailer waxes fat upon ill-gotten gains. the ownership of Willie Hearst, and its fakers, impostors, quac ¥ acc and blackmai % Clay: open untdl | display of tbeir literary and journalistic arts, and if now and then they have been or & t00 transparent imposition, they have been swift to caughtina cl fake turn to some new trick and thus divert t offending. The fak msy fraud and imrostor alwa | and the blackmailer’s course of extortion is speedily run. | quently declsred that “‘the people may be blinded for a season, but when their eyes OFFICE : | are once opened they can be no longer deceived.” the people of Celifornia have been fally o; | folly and falsebood which the Eraminer was running in their midst. They saw it convicted of willful lying with reference to — | puolic an object lesson of its fraud in this respect which will not soon be forgotten. | Within the past few days THE CALL has proven it guilty of an equally gross and willful | Iie with respect to the amount in inches of its advertising duri | has shown that instead of publishing 5964 inches more advertising than any other San Francisco newspaper during that year, according to its boest, it in fact published 3023 | inches less than did TrE Cari. The silen —THE FAKE— days at the a for seve owing fase The Eraminer pn t0p of its title page the THE EXAMINER PUELISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 1396, 5964 More| Than were published by any| other San Francisco newspaper. ord was hes of could be was probab: being kept of the a in consequ: —THD FACT— THE EXAMINER FUBLISHED 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 189. That is one fact and here is an- other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches Of Ads During 1896. 3,023 More Inches were published in ! THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896, It is to be remembered that during 1896 the | iner published approximaely 800 inches of liegal lottery adverusements, of which THE CALL did not and would not publish one. The monarch of the fakers h ceeded in securing thousands of inches of adver- | tistog durlug the past vear by dupinz aud decel ing advertisers through false and arrogant asser- tions of the character of the oregoing fake. would seem. however, from the facis that the merchants as & rule have not been misled by its | frandulent pretenses. | The Eromfner boasts that its books are open to | Wisponiion fbut wesigadst it fciiee o its o] books before it ventures upon the publication of another fake. { We congratulate the public on the fact that the | exrosure of this fake led the Ezaminer 10 drop it. In this the Eraminer was discreet, and it 1t 1s wise It will make no more such bold atiempts to | decelve the public. doubtless suc- The proposed tariff seems to be as full o good things as a plum pudding. There are too many people wWho are treating the Bradley-Martin ball as if it were a football. He is known as Wasteful Willie now, but before long he will be known as the | tarred boodler. There were more than ten thousand prophets who predicted McKinley's Cabi- net, and not one of them guessed right. In less than & month Cleveland will, for once in his life, gladden the hearts of the whole people. He will turn his office over to McKinley. A society has been organized in New York 10 prevent premature burials, and it is needless to say that lots of Democratic politicians are interested in it. Eminent electricians are discussing the feasibility of telegraphing without wires, but in the Ezaminer office that sort of thing is done every day just like any old fake. Itis reported that at the present time | there is not a town of note in the United States that is not fignring on some kind of trolley enterprise. Even Philadelphia feels the electric thrill. The New York man who claims to be making a scientific analysis of love is in | that city allowed to call himseli a “psyelic scientist,”’ but anywhere further west he would be sized up as a masher. “I never lie,”” says Ambrose Bierce. Long Green looked up and almost gave a start. *“That is,” says Bierce, “I never lie unless I think it witty; and I call taat art.” The Democrats who are predicting that Platt of New York wiil oppose the McKin- ley administration will find themselves mistaken. When the roll of the loyal is called Mr. Platt will respond, **Me tco.”” The bellboy who set fire to a Boston hotel becanse he was tired of the work probably never thought that by resigning he could get out of the job without taking the hotel with him. The Boston intellect is peculiar. As a swindler under arrest in New York for obtaining money under false pretenses turns out to be the author of a poem be- ginning “Ahb, I remember the first fair touch,” it is evident he began his swind- ling by striking a woman. The estimate that by annexing the whole of Cook County, Chicago will be able to add 300,000 to her population may be cor- rect, but all the same that is small figur- ing for Chicago. She ought to calculate on the annexation of all of 1ilinois. | 1887, the last time tue Legislature made | fact is as eloquent as any denial of its truth would be false. In addition to these two convictions th array of confessed iniquities on the part of deny that it blackmailed the Southern Pa aared to dispute the charge that it has often attempted and sometimes succeeded in | making similar levies of blackmail upon corporations baving large interests and men | possessed of means in various perts of C: in the entire State whose industries or another paid tribute to its predatory habi extortions has been devoted 1o lessening it does not appear, but the recent incresse in indicate that hereater they are expected to be its principal source of supply. The Eraminer has taken to the road. X business interest in or about San Francisco which it will not waylay. its columns to the advocacy of every c lature. discriminately whenever nec bas also by premium fakes, by lottery ads, pups” been drawing their scanty doilars from the pockets of the poor. What do the people of California think | papers, this convicted fraud and faker in th mailer of business interests, this admitted of the right to possess it? What do t inancial interests in California think of the: highwayman? How much longer will they pollution in their homes? We think not I held out men might well hope that the fel Teckless owner back to decency and might well hesitate to organize against a common The Hearst estate has been drained. s youth having exhausted his patrimony has either himself taken to enemy, but that time is past. The rec 1e road or has let loose bis local gang to ion. The Ezaminer must hereafter live by and present duty of men who have propert preserve to unite in seeing to it that its cared “The earth hath bubbles as the water b burst. 1t gives notice to the State generally that it is out for coin. course to be a Clande Duval among highwaymen and tofintend only the robbery of the rich, but the truth is that the Ezaminer has always robbed the rich and poor in- ary to satisfy its need of money or its greed of gain. While it bas been levying blackmail upon rich corporations and timid individuals it IS NEAR. st several months it has been evident that , following in the footsteps oi others hav- a part of the history of fakersand ‘ellows seeson through a course of apparently ait of buman nature which is either fond of Under ess to his apparently unlimited exchequer, ers have been enabled to make a brilliant he public mind from the point of their finds an end 1o his carcer of public deceit It was Kossuth who elo- During the past year the eyes of pened to the career of fraud and filth and its clrculation when the Chronicle gave the g the year 1896, and ce of the Eraminer in the presence of this e public bas been prescnted with & long the Ezaminer. It has long since ceased to cific Company out of §22.000. It has not alifornia. In fact, there is haraly a section whose individuals have not in ore form or Whether the revenue derived from these s constant drain upon the Hearst estate its desperate attempts at blackmail clearly t openly irtimates that there is not a large It is devoti inch bill now pending before the Legis- It claims of by pretenses of charity and by *yards of of the career of this outlaw among news. e field of journalism ? this confessed blac supporter of every assailant of proper he men who have large commercial and ir chances of safety from the artack of this endure its presence in their midst and irs ong. While the funds of the Hearst estate lowship of wealth would finally bring its ollow their own natural bent in that direc- blackmail if it lives at all. It is the plain y interests to protect and reputations to or as a highwayman shall be short. ath.” The Ezaminer bubble is about to THE UNIVERBITY. ' I Amone the bills before the present Leg- lature is one which provides a levy of a tax of 1 cent on each $100 of value of the | taxable property of the State for the | and suppoert of the University of Califor- | nia, This bill merits the approval of the | people, and should have cordial support in both houses of the Legislature, The | measure is directly in the interests of the | State, and the proposed tax is one which | will be cheerfully borne by ail who have any regard for the true welfare of the com- monwealth and the prosperity of its peo- ple. The demand for university education in California has outgrown the preparations ; made for supplying it by the State. In | provision for the support of the university, | the colleges at Berkeley had 306 students. There are now 1554 students at Berkeley | nlone, besides the 720 students in the pro- fessional colleges in San Francisco. The | number of students, in fact, has increased | more than four times as fast as thei come, and the uriversity now lacks suffi clent instructors, classrooms and appara- tus to supply the demand of the youth of the State for the eaucation it was in- | tended to provide. | At the present time there is not a hall l on the university campus which will hold all the students at once. For the large gatherings which are from time to time | necessary tents have been set up. The | classrooms are overcrowded. Moreover, the present force of instructors canmot properly attend to the work. Some of the classes contain from two to three hundred students, and it is impossible to efficiently instruct and examine this number in the hours available for recitation. It must be borne iz mind that, while the university bears the titie of the Btata, it has been a creation of private generosity rather than of State munificence. Ofall ibe contributions to the university that made by the State has been only about one-fourth of the total amount. It is right and fitting, therefore, that the State | should do more for the institution which | it has founded, and toward which it has attracted the aitention of generous and public-spirited citizens as well as of studen It 18 fair to assume that if the State does more for the university the contributions from private fortunes wili be larger. In- dividual generosity will be stimulated ana encouraged by State munificence. Let us once raise the university to the position it ought rightly to occupy in California and we can confidently count upon generous aid to be given by men of weaith and cul- ture from all sections of the common- wealth. As a matter of expediency, there- fore, as well as of justice, the proposed bill should be adopted. Tue tax will be only 10 cents to the man who is taxed $1000, or less than 1 cent @ month. This sum is so small that all can afford to pay it, and we repeat that all who take an intelligent interest in the progress of the State will willingly do so. The New York Herald has turned its tention from wolitics long enough to a; range a calendar for courtship and mar- riage. It allows the young man three months of attention before he proposes; the girl 18 to have three months of reflec. tion before she accepts; three months of adoration are to follow the engagement and then the day 1s to be set. Three months of preparation come nextand then the weading. The whole affair 15 begun and finished inside of ayear. Itisa daisy calendar, | of the University of Cali‘ornia. FARMERS' INSTITUTE. One cf the nots ble events of the week vill be the bolding in this City of a rmers’ Institute under the dire It is to be held at the Academy of Sciences hall and will continue during the evenings of Wednesday and Thursd. Later on | toere is to be another session on February 24and 25, and it seems probabio that | these will be the beginning of a series | which will be 8 permanent feature of our ivic life for the future. The session to be held this week will be opencd on the evening of Wednesday by an address by Professor E. W. Hilgard on “The Work of the College of Agricul- ture.”” There will also be an address con “Highways,” illustrated with stereopticon views by Marsdon Manson, State High- way Commissioner. The programme for Thursday evening will be opened by an address by Mrs, Harriet M. Conness on “The Profitable Uses of Small Pieces of Laad. This will be followed by an ad- dress by Mr. Alfrea Holmann on *City Farmers’ Clubs.” ‘The programme, it will be seen, is one calcnlated to be of interest notonly to thoseresidents of the City who are owners of farms, orchards or other rural holdings in the interior of the State, but to citizens generally. There is every reason, there- fore, for believing that the institute wiil prove successful ia point of numbers who attend, as well as profitzbie to those who arein a position to avply the lessons they learn from it. It is estimated that the number of owners of cultivated farms is greater in San Francisco than in any other county in California. Many of our people own country homes of greater or less extent | and will derive practical advantages from | the instruction which will be given at the various meetings of the institute. There will be a particular interest in the paper by Mrs. Conness, since a large number of City residents either own small pieces of land or desire to do so, and will be inter- ested 1n learning how such tracts may bs made profitable. The institute will, we trust, be largely attended. It is desizned for the public benefitand it depends upon the people themselves to make good use of it. The State University has done ail in its power by bringing the lectures to us and it will be our own fault if we do not profit by them. "BEET SUGAR. The latest number of the Pacific Rural Press contains much interesting matter about the culture of sugar beets and their manufacture into sugar, and among other articles a long and elaborate one by Mr. Gerberding, president of the San Fran- cisco Produce Exchange, in which the profitableness ¢f this industry in Califor- nia is clearly demonstrated. Mr. Gerberding tells us that although the soil and climate of Talifornia are well adapted to the production of the sugar beet only about one-twentieth of 1 per cent of the State’s area is devoted to its culture, and we are peying $6,000,000 an- nualiy to foreigners for sugar we could just as well produce at home. In the his- tory of the development of the industry in Europe, he shows how carefully it has been fostered by the Governments of the countries where it flourishes, and this is the point to which attention should be in- sistently called. It is well known that we have a soil | after death. richly adapted to the root and & big de- mand for the product in the home mar- ket. These advantages will stay with us without any effort on our part. There iy, however, a third advantage needed in order to make the other two fully «ifeci- ive. This third desideratum is the estab- lishment of such Government protection as will leave our farmers unhandicapped in the competition with tie foreign pro- ducers, who have such bountiful Govern- mental aid. For the farmer to avail himself of his opportunities of soil and market he must have the co-operation of large capital, asa properlv equipped sugar factory is a very costly thing. In order that capital may be induced to take the risks of a vasti vestment in manulacturing plants it is necessary to put the profitableness of sugar-makiug on an equality with other great manufaciuring enterprises by a fuirly proportioned protective tariff. Otberwise tue capital, just as naturally as water runs down hill, will seek a use for itself in enterprises less direcily ad- vantageous to the farmers of California. Perhups the strongest argument in the armory of the opponents of a protective tarift s the claim that it singles out spe- cial interests for favoritism, and there can be no surer way to remove the opposition of some farmers to the Republican poiicy than to widen the ways in which the farmer is made a strict participant 1n the benefits given. Protection should be equally distributed so all American inter- estsand in no way can it be made more beneficial to a large number of farmers than by affording such protection to the production of sugar as witl open for them a new and profitable industry. Thanks to the industrial enterprise and public spirit of Claus Spreckels California is well assured of the skill, enerzy and capital needed to develop the industry within her limits, He 18 at present time constructing what will be the greatest sugar manufacturing plant in the world. The one thing required, therefore, is pro- tection, and for that we can rightly look with confidence to the coming Republican Congress. A PITIFUL SPECTACLE. Poor old Ambrose Bierce is really one of the most pitiful objects within the pub- lic view. By degrading to the ignoble uses of a disreputable newspeper talents which rightly employed might have earned him & permanent place In the esteem of the worthy, he has come at last to the mangy state of every snarleyow and lies in the dust snapping slobbering jaws ana fangless gums at every passer-oy. When a richly deserved kick brings him yelping to his feet he recognizes his impotency and flies to his un- sold edition of “Black Beetles in Amber” for venom to spew &t his assail- ant. The “Post Scriptum,” which the worn out snarler adds to his former for- gotten growl aptly illustrates how far he has fallen from his former estate. If there ever was a time when Ambrose Bierce needed a muzzle it is now, not to Yrovent his bite, but to conceal the evi- dences of his driv ling deca C0AST EXCHANGES. W. L. Thatcher has sold the Nordhoff Ojaf to Randolph R. Freeman. No better advertise- ment than this pretty and bright little paper could be conceived of for the beautiful and fruitful Ojai Velley. The Los Banos Enterprise wound up its sev- enth volume last wee It is a successfui paper, an | that is largely because it is sin- cerely devoted to the best interests of the com- munity in which it 1s putlished. The Fortuna Advance has enlarged from a four-page 1o an elght-page paper, and has add- ed to its features a number of special de- partments that go tomake it a most complete and thoroughly interesting publication. The California Review is the mew name adonted for the excellent magazine which has heretofore been known as the Samta Clara. Carrie Stevens Walter s still the leading spiritand the clever lady Is ably assisted by Mr. and Mrs. A, W. J. Gibbs. The Sausalito News is on the high road of success. It is a well-conducted paper and very influential in Marin County affairs. This week the construction of a new home for the News will be commenced, and when it is com- pleted a new power press will be introduced and the various departments will be lighted by electricity. The Santa Clara News devotes . special edi- tion to a deseription of that town, showing it to be quite a commercial, educational, rafiroad and geographical center, and picturing it steady and sure growth. The paper eannot fall to attract attention [abroad, and Santa Clara will doubtless reap material benefits from advertisement, That excellent paper, the Potaluma Argue, has just celebrated its forty-third birthday. In opening the new volume the editor makes these observations: It has not been much of & mouey-making concern, though its pres- ent proprietors have had enough to eat and thing to wear ever since they took hold of it thirty-six years ago. The vroprietors are still older than the paper and they would like to turn it over tosome younger bloods. Tom Thompson and brother Weston—the founders of the Argus— had the sense to get out in time to make some money for their old age, aud we are glad to know that they are both now in clover.” In an editorial about “California Homes” the Willows Promoter makes these very perti- nent suggestions: ““He who buys land in California secures a home from which he will be rewsrded with & perpetual income for the maintenance of him- selland family, & sure dependence in case of sickness, an unfailing annuity to his heirs Itis better than a savings bank, more profitable than life insurance, and 100 10 160 acres of good productive soil will se- cure the home, the annuity. The rude win- ters of the East are wearing people out; they love-the sunshine and flowers that are only fouad fn this grand old State of California. In fact, there are more hours of sunshine in California than fn any place else except heaven.” The Merced Star, under the caption of ‘A New Industry,” states that P. Dupont of Mer- ced proposes to furnish & market for & great quantity of fruit heretoiore wasted. “He points out that fruitraisers experience consid- erable 10ss even in good business years be- cause much of their product becomes oo ripe for shipment. Being a practical chemist and skilled in the distilling of liquors from fruit in his netive country, Mr. Dupont is now or- ganizing & company to utilize this waste in the manufacture of excellent wines, bra dies and other liquors, which can be made from every variety of fruit. Mr. Dupont has entered a field hitherto uncuitivated in this section. A plan which provides & market for what has hitherto been considered as waste product is one deserving of investigation and promotion. Such an fndustey, it would seem, should be s paying investmeat, asit1s s known fact that good fruit liquors are & profitable and salable article always in demand, a classof products that gains by age, instead of being valueless if not speedily consumed. The Eurcka Standard, after quoting an edi- torial utterance of THE CALL to the effect that “what the voters of the State most desire in the Stale Legislatare 1s, first, 1etrenchment; second, good rocds, and third, more retrench- ment,” remarks: “This is puttingitin few words. The Legislature, if it shall do the will of the people, will cut down Stale expendi- tures and remodel the county government act s0 that the expendiiures may be lessened in every county in the State. Taxpayers have a just cause of complaint when the taxes on their property, assessed at its full valuation range irom ¥170 to $275 on each $100 of vaiuation. The most expensive thing in the world to the farmers ana general public is POOF foads. The transportation of farm pr od ucts in this State over wagon roads alone costs the peopie three to five times what it would . cost on thoroughly good roads. The ssviug to the people which good roads would .make would in ten years build macadamized rosds or paved streets wherever dirt roads are now used. Letthe Legislature cut off needless ex- penses, get down (o0 true economy in all pub- lic business and then give us good roads, or s law that will eventually create them.” NEWS UF FUREIGN NAVIES The Terrible, under 2045 horsepower and 49 revolutionsof her twiu propellers, altains speed of 10.3 knots. Two torpedo-boat destroyers, the Quail and the Trasher, lately added to the British navs, maintained a speed during their three hours’ trial of 30.12 and 30.03 knots respectively. Accidents in foreign navies are as frequent s {n our navy, but not so widely advertised. The Aurors, belted cruiser, came near coliid- ing with another British war vessel at Port mouth, last month, owing to a breakdown of her steering gear. A couple of days iter he started on her steam trials, when the feed- pumps of her after boiiers broke down and the snip had 1o go to the dockyard for another week of repairs. A remarkably ingenious automatic machine gun has been adopied in the Chilean navy. The gus developed by the explosion of the powder is utilized for operating the breech action and feed mechanism of the arm and all the operations of loading, firing, extract- ing, ejecting and cocking are automatically periormed. It hes the further udvantage of beiag simple in constructicn, and the entire gun cousists of only thirty-one parts. Portugal has ordered two cruisers, wood- sheathed, of 1800 tons, with the moderate draught of 13 feet 9 inches. They are to have iriple expansion engines, water-tube boilers and a sea-speed under natural draught for six hours of 15 knots. The armament includes two 5.9-inch, four 4.7-inch, eight 47 miliime- ters, two machine guns and two torpedo- tubes. The guus areall rapid-firers and the ammunition will be 150 rounds for the lerger guns and 300 rounds for each of the 46 milli- meter guns. Creusot’s armor-plate works, France, has produced a plate of very excellent quality for the Danish Government. A turret plate 7.87 inches thick, intended for the Skjold wi tried at the works with the following results Five shots from a 591-inch Schneider gun with chrome-steel projectiles weighing 112 pounds were fired, with & velocity ranging irom 2030 to 2076 feet per second, against the sample plate of face-hardened nickel steel. None of the shots penetrated the target, asin every case the proj:ctiles were stopped and smashed, and the backing of the plate, when stripped, showed no indentation. The German naval estimates for 1897-98 call for §3 25, or $10,779,625 more than for the preceding fiscal year. Of this amount §9,- 893,885 i3 denominated as “‘extraordinary ex- penditures,” embracing new ships, gans, torpe- dces, etc. alty proposes to proceed with the construction of an armor-ciad of 11,000 tons to repiace the Koenig Wilhelm. The vessel will be on the type of the Frederick the Great and will be built by coutract at Kiel, at an estimated cost of $3,400.000, exclusive of her armament. This cost is neariy equal to that of the United Oregon, contracted for in 1890 Out of this sum the German Admir- | tes battleships Indiana, Massachusetts and | In addition | to the armored ships the Admiralty proposes | 10 build two second-class cruisers, simiar to five now in course of construction, and alsoa fourth-class cruiser, two gunboats and several torpedo-boa Pr» RSONAL John V. Seitz. U. S. A, is at the Cosmopoli- tan. Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodi is visiting at the Grand. 8. Levl, s merchant of Ean Diego, is at the Grand. Charles B. Younger of Santa Cruz is at the Palace. M. T. Stafford of Portland isat the Cosmo- politan. Raieigh Barcar, a lawyer of Vacaville, is at the Lick. Dr. J. L Stephens of Petaluma is registered at the Grand. T. Goldnsh, a merchant of Hollister, is a guestat the Grand. R. C. Walrath, a mining man of Nevada City, s registered at the Lick. H. A Jastro, a bavker of Bakersfield, isa late arrival at the Geand. Dr.T. H. McNeel of San Diego is at the Russ with his wife and family. J. D. Lantry arrived last evening from Niles and is at the Cosmopolitan. J. D. Biddell, the Hanford banker, is in town. He is staying at the Grand. Charles Ross, a wealthy merchant of Tacoma, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. State Senator C. C. Royce of Chico is in town. He is stayingat the California. Frank R. Wehe, a mining man from Downie- ville, is & late arrival at the Lick. Professor E. H. Griggs, head of the depart- mentof ethics at Stanford University, 1s at the Grand. James H. Taylor, a mining man from E! Paso, Texas, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. F.J. Southerland, a mining expert with in- terests near Oroville, arrived yesterday at the Palace. Dr. James D. Hill of Walnut Creek isat the Lick, accompanied by his wife aud his mother, Mrs. X. R. Hill Willlam S. Biddle, United States army, ar- rived at_the Occidental last night from Van- couver, Wash. Dr. C. F. Hibbett, U. 8. returned yester- dey with his child from a visit to the south. He is registered at the Palace. A. M. Kridel of New York City, sn importer of laces and dress goods, arrived at the Pelace 1ast night, accompanied by his wife. Lincoln A. Wagenthals, Miss Kruger and Guy Lindsley, members of the Louis James Theatri- cal Company, are guests at the Oceidental. E. R. Hutchins of Chicago. president of the California Fruit Transportation Company, ar- rived here yesterday and registered at the Pglace. Thomas Crouch, a mining man from Mon- tana, Who owns some mining property in Muriposa County, arrived Lere last night and is registered at the Palace. George B. Robbins, manager of the Armour car lines of Chicazo, isat the Palace in com- pany with A. R. Urion of Chicago, attorney for the Armour Packing Company. Louis James, the actor, arrived from the East yesterday with his wite preparatory to appearing this week at the Baldwin. Mr, and Mrs. James are staying at the Occidental, H. B. Laidlaw, a New York capitalist and banker, who is agent at New York for the Bank of California, and whose offices in New York are a common headquarters for visiting Californians, is a recent arrival at the Palace. He 13 accompanied by Mrs. Laidlaw, and dur- ing his stay here is receiving social attentions from prominent churchmen and business men of the City- NEWSPAPER PLEASANIRY. “We're getting up a club at our school.’” “What for 2’ “To hit the janitor with!”—Harper's Round Table. +I smoke nothing but a pipe now.” “Practicing economy ¥ No; but the fellows who used to treat me to cigars apoarently are.”—North American. “I wish to inform you,” said her lawyer, “that your wife has filed a bill for divorce.” O, of course,” responded the busy banker; ‘it’s vothing but bills, bills, bills. How much is this one ?"—Detrolt Free Press. Mrs. Brown—I met Mrs. White just now. 8be has lost her father, and she wus looking dreadfully. Mrs. Gray—H’m-m-m! Whatdid she have on ?—Boston Transcrijt. Msnager—Everything set for that farmyard sceue ? Property Man—Everything but the hen. Once more the eternal feminine and the ex- igencies of realism were in dire conflict—Cin- cianati Enquirer. Mr. Dakota—It actuslly gets 20 cold up in our country that the flxmes freeze 1o the back | Jerkey combined. of the grate and have to be chopped off with an ax. Mr. Mexico—That's nothing; Why, we have to teea our hens chopped ice 10 keep them from laying boiled eggs.—Up to Date. «Now, Violet, can you give me any reason why I Bhould not punish you for being naughty Vilet—Yes, ma. The doctor sald you weren’t to take any v'lent ex’cise.—Boston Guardian. «Your wife has such a liquid voice,” said Mr. Fosdick to Mr. Tiff. ¥ “Yes, that's a preity goo1 name for it;” re- A Mr. Tiff. ; Mr. Fosdick locked up inquiringly and Mr. Tiff adde 2 > “It never dries up, you know.’—Harper's Bazar. “Mrs. Faddy has changed her styleof pen mauship again.” “Yes. The other day she came across one of her old letters and made an awful row. She thought some strange w m»n was writing to her husband.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “WIHEY SAY.” “They say"’—ah! well, suppose they do; But can they prove the story true; £ uspicion may arise for nanght £ut malice, envy, v ant of tncught. Why count yourself among the “the; Who whisper what they dare ot say Dl “They sav.” Eut why the tale rehears And heip to make the matier worse? No good can possib y From teiling what m And is it not a noble piun To speak of all the best you can? “They say.” Well, if it should be so, Why need you tell the tale of woe? Will it the bitter wrong redress. Or make one pang of sorrow less? Will it the erring one restore, Henceforth to #30 and sin no more’ “They say”—On! pause and 100k within; See how your heart inciines to sin, Waich! iest in dark (emptatious Bour You, to0, should sink ben: ath its power. Py the frall, wieb o' their fall, eak of g0od, “Or 1ot at all.” L B9 “Néw Haven Register. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. George Frederick Watts has sent in his resig- nation as Royal Academician. Oneof the Duke of Wellington's postboys has just died at the age of 89 years. In Brown County, Kans., & family named Bryan have had & new baby christened Mc- Kinley. Wilifam Lyman of Middlefield, Conn., who dieda few days ago, was the inventor and manufacturer of the Lyman gunsight, in use all over the world. At a public meeting of citizens, held under the presidency of the Lord Mayor at Belfast, it was decided to erect a statue of the Queen in commemoration of her Majesty’s reign. The cost of the statue will be $25,000. A writer in the Contemporary Review con- firms the old story that the Sultan’s cook seals all the dishes prepared for his royal master. The seals are broken when the dishes reach the table, and the food is tasted by an official to guard against poison before the Suitan touches it. The district represented in Congress by John Bell, one of Colorado’s two Congressmen, 15 said to be equal in area to the States of New York, Massachusetis, Connmecticut and New Mr. Bell isa nephew of the John Bell who was the *“Union” Presideniia: candidate in 1860. Gerald du Maurier is quoted as saying that his father invariably pronounced the name Svengall “with the acceut on the first syila- ble.” The learned editor of the New York Sun. fresh from his summer in Russis, says that this is in accordance with the usual method of pronouncing Slavic names. Silas A. Hudson, first cousin of General U. §. Grant, died last week in Burlington, Iowa, aged 81 years. He was n co-worker with Horace Greeley on the New York Tribune, and with George D. Prentice on the Louisville Journal, and was appointed by President Grant 12 1869 Minister to Central America. Loochop, Chins, is excited over the recent appearance on her streets of a dwarf, Who ap- pears to be about 50 years of age, but is only twenty inches in height. He has a long gray beard, which almost reaches the ground, and talks several Chinese dialects quite fluently. He says that he is from “the kingdom of the dwarfs by the western ocean,” but further than that no one knows anything about him. “SLANDERING WORDS.” None Would Mar the Page of Life Speech Were in the Name of Jesus. Rev. Dr. Spalding’s text at the morning service in St. John’s Episcopal Church yesterday was: “Whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Curist, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” He suid that every word and act of the Christian should be spoken and done to God’s glory; that the Christian’s life is just as much consecrated to God asany church is. He told of how the material on which writin s were made in olden times was so valuable that by some chemical process the same was used over and over again, and that foul slandering words have been erased and the words of Christ’ssermon on the mount found underneath. He also spoke of a painter who was so dissatisfied with the painting of a sin- scarred face that he erased it from the canvass, and when he had done so found the face of the child Jesus underneat These instances he likened to our live: and said that when a child is baptized its life is pure and spotless, but that when temptation and sin comes purily and spotlessness is covered up. He aiso said that we should watch our words as well as our acts, and that if they were spoken in the name of Jesus no ?l[andering words would mar the pages of ife. it ——— DR. RADER'S SERMON. He Tells of the Spiritual Interpretation of the Oid Testament. Rev. Wiliam Raderchose for the text of his sermon last evening in the Third Con- gregational Church “Inspiration and Or- thodoxy.” He reviewed the sermons of the OId Testament previously delivered, then dwelt on the books of the Bible and said: We must always remember that the Bibie is for spiritual use. lis books are not to be used as buliets, but as bread loaves. It is to com- fort. If it fails here 1t fails everywhere. The psalms have been a spiritual consolation 1o all classes of peopi. When the so.diers were 1m- prisoned at Lucknow they awaited in patience for the Highlanders and took comfort in these immorial pralms. When Cromwell addressed bis army he quoted one of the Psalms of David. When Savonaroia was preach.ng in Florence and Lincoln was bearig the burden of war; When priests were minisieringon fields of bat- Ue and saints were contending with foes; when men Lave laid away their dead and cathedrals and chuzcues have resounded with Ppraise these psalms were used to give spiriiua. interpretation to the ngs of the human soul, profoundest feeliog: ———— THE RESURREOTION. It 18 & Natural Process, Says Rev. J. S David The Rev.J.S. David. in a lecturs on “The iTeotion and the World Beyond,” given at Washington Hail, Red Men’s building, yester- day morning, claimed that the resurrection of AN Was NOLA return irom the grave, but the emerging of the spiritual bndy?rum the phy- sical at the aeatn of the iatter, and the awakening to consciousness und fctivity in the spiritual world. Man, he said, is & spir- itual being, temyorarily clothed with a physi- cal body by means of which he is brought into sensibie contact with physical nature. As we jouriiey through shis vale of shadows, he ea1d, 1t is always a help and a joy (0 realize thet what we call death is & galewsy to a broader and a deeper lite, and that the resur. Fection afler death 1s s natural A process as the birth of a chicken from the egg Or the un- 10iding of corn from the husk. California glace fruits, 50c & pound, in hand- some baskets. Townsend’s, Paiace buliding.” SPECIAL information dsily to manufactirers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * SONS OF ERIN WILL CELEBRATE St. Patrick’'s Day to Be Observed in an Appro- priate Manner. Patriotc Address by a Well Known Irish Priest. Rev. James McFadden Tells of Ire. land’s Hope of Relief From America St. Patrick’s day will be celebrated in regal style by the Irish residents of this City. J what form the celebration wily take has not yet been decided, but at g meeting of the St. Patrick’s Day conven. tion, held at Krights of the Red Branch Hali yesterday afternoon, a spirit was evinced which is bound to result in great things; and a committee of arrangemen: composed of men of intelligence, exper ence and energy was appointed. There was a large attendance of dele. gates at the convention. John Mulhern presided, and J. J. Moran acted ss secre. tary. A communication was received from thg Gaelic Literary Society stating that T, J, Malieut, J. P. Haggerty, J. M. McLaugn. Lin and W:lliam Desmond had been ape pointed delegates to the convention, A similar communication was received from the County Monaghan Social Club, nam- ing as deiegates Thomas Gainford, James J. Connolly, Arthur McQuaid, John Me. Quaid and Thomas Madden. The com. mittee on oredentials deciared those named entitled to seats in the convention, The chairman suggested the follow! committee of arrangements, which was indorsed by the convention: Jeremiah Deassy (chairman), David J. Costello, Frank Conkl P. H. klynn, John Dev- any, J. A. Foley, J. P. O'Conner, J. D. Roche, M. Morrissey, John P. Henry, 1. B. Hillard, R. F. Donanue, Michasl 0. Maboney, Eugens 0’Connof, J. Murphy, ‘f. Gainford, T.J. Mallat, J. J. Donovan, E. L. Sheeban, James E. Kenny, P. J. Mc- Cormick, Charles B. Fianigan, R. J. O'Reilly, M. J. Connolly, John Burns, . P. Hunt, James Devine, W. J. Hayes, William Mulvin, John Gainey, John P. Dignan, Jeremiah Kelleher, M. H. Mec- Cafferty, Captain M. J. Wren, Charles McCrystal and J. C. Ryan. Resolutions of sorrow and condolence respecting the death of Daniel Hanlon, a former president of the convention, were read and adopted. Owing to the resignation of T. R. Ban- nerman as trustee of the convention's funds, the election of & successor was in order, and Jobn Mulhern was unani- mously chosen. M. Cooney was then called upon for a He made a brief patriotic ad- n which he referred eulogistically to the Irish residents, many of whom are now deceased, who had labored earnestly to make former St. Patrick’s day celebra- tions a success, While he was speaking Rev. James McFadden, the patriotic priest who was for some time confined in Derry jail for expressing obnoxious sentiments to the Tory Government, entered the room. He Was greeted with hearty ap- lause, and at the conclusion of Mr. Jooney’s remarks he was asked to speak. “I certainly have a great desire,” he said, “to be an interested listener to the deliberations which will result in 2 grand celebration of the 17th of March, '97. I only hope that the celebration will be in keeping with the affairs bere in the past. I am interested in these celebrations as an humble Irish priest who has tried to do his duty to his people as occasion arose. My lot was cast in stormy times and I, of course, attained some notcriety from having be'n marked out for the per- secution of the Tory government. I have no doubt the Tory covernment is still keeping an eye on me, and is very ill pleased to find with what cordiality 1 am being received by the suns of Ireland in the city of St. Francis. “There is something of a lull now in Irish affairs owing to the large Tory ma- jority in the Government, but we are hop- ing something will happen to England that will resuit to our advantage. Our chief hope is in foreign complications, and one of the principal places to which we look hopefully is the land of the stars and stripes, but it begins to look as though it were getting tinctured with Toryism.” The reverend gentleman concluded by referring gratefully to the warm welcome he had received 1n San Francisco from the Irish ?aofiln. P. M. McGusbin followed with an in- tensely patriotic address, in which he re- ferred to Father McFadden as “the lion of the north, the patriotic priest of Derry arish.” He suggesied that Father Mc- adden should ge given a public recepe tion. The convention will meet again next Sunday afternoon. — “Brs. 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