The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1897, Page 6

e THE SAN - FRANCISCO CALL., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.18 ly y CALL, Oue year, Sunday CALL, six months, by mall. Sunday CALL, tiree months by mail 1.50 nday CaLy, one month, by mall. .85 | Cay, one year, by m; W XLELY CALL, One year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telophone.... Main—1868 EDITORI ROOMS : Street. Telephone. Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open nntll 9:50 o'clock. 839 antil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o' 9 0'cl i1 9:30 o'clock. 1305 Polk street OQAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, ari Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. TTHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. SATURDAY -FEBRUARY 13, 1897 THE FAKE AND THE FACT. —THE FAKH— The Ezaminer published for several days at the top of its t1tle puge the following fa THE EXAMINER PUELISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 1896, 5964 More Than were published by any other San Francisco newspaper. In the publication of this fake the Eraminer was probabiy not aware that & careful record was being kept of the actual amount in inches of its saverisiog and that in consequence it could be confronted with the following fact. —THB FACT— THE EXAMINER FUEBLISHED 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 1896, That is one fact and here is an« other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches Of Ads During 189%. 3,023 More Inches were published in THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896, It fs v Eramine be remembered that during 1896 the Dlished apyroximately 800 fnches of ry advertisements, of walch THE CALL and would not publish one. he mouarch of the fakers has doubtless suc- g thousands of Inches of adver 1 the past year by dupin - aud de ing advertisers through false aud Arrogant as tlons of the cnaracter of the foregoing fake. It would seem, however, from the facts that the merchants a3 a role have not been misled by iis freudulent p-etenses. The Examiner boasts that its books are open to Inspection, but we suggest that it inspect its own tooks befors it ventures upon the publication of another fake. ratulate the public on the fact that the exrosure of this fake led the Examiner 1o drop iL. In this the Eraminer was discreet, and if 1t Is wise i will make no more such bold aitempts to a he Wel done, Greece. This may yet be & war year. The Turk has struck word at last. What Greece does for Crete we surely can do for Cuba. Don’t forget to leave orders to-day for TrE Su Prince George “talks Greek,” but he makes the world understand. Diplomacy will have o move lively to get there before the Greek fleet. It looks as if all the crises of the world were going to culminate at once. To put an end to the Cuban war will be good business as well as humanity. We are surely to have a monument to Robert Burns. The Caledonian Club says so. Itisa very cold debate in the Senate when Cleveland doesn’t get a roast from somebody. Mrs, Stanford’s latest gift is not a sur- prise party, but all the same it is amaz- ingly good. It is now time for the war blast on h the concert. aiser to blow a s trumpet and keep in with The high altitude of Carson will at least elevate pugilism a ittle bit and that is something. Bayard will get so many dinners before he leaves England that he will be able to live on suppers the rest of his life. The collapse of the steel and iron pool will inevitably lead to a free use of irony and raiilery in the controversy that is to come, but there will be no steel used in the fight. i the prize-fight in Carson should in- spire the Nevada people with the fad of seitling their differences by fists instead of guns there be a good chance for an increase of the population, Carnegie and Rockeleller are strong, but they are not strong enough to hold up the prices of iron and steel rails all by themselves. Railroad builders are going 10 have the benefit of competitive rates on rails this year, and as 8 consequence we may expect more lines of road to be built. Among the industriel-fraternal maga- zines of the country the Railroad Tele- grapler of Peoria, 1l1., is recognized as a standard publication, and Editor Austin eclipsed bis own high standard in pro- ducing the January number. This ‘ssue contains portraits of many men promi- nent in the Order of Railroad Telegraph- ers of North America, and a mass of literature and good news items for mem- bers of the organization, FOR FREE CUBA. The movement toward making a grand public demonstration in this City in favor of the independence of Cuba will undsubtedly find popular approval and cordial sup- port. All the great cities in the Union havi gling patriots of the 1sland, and in most of have been formed to eive active aid as well The time is opportune for San Francisc: e declared their sympathy with the strug- them committees of prominent citizens as words of cheer. o to make its weight and influence felt toward the accomplishment cf the much-desired object of establishing the independ- ence of the island nnd freeing one more American country from European control. The Cleveland administration, which has so long obstructed the popular will in segard to Cuba, will soon go out of office, & and more American, will take iis place. I nd a new sdministration, more vigorous t will be timely, therefore, for us to unite our voice with that of our sister cities in urging the incoming President and his Sec- retary of State to take speedy and effective measures to put an end to the wasteful War in the island and establish the freedom of its people. The Cuban committees in other cities are composed of some of their most prominent and irfluential citizens, appointed in this City by Mavor Phelan wil the intelligence, the patriotism and the resolution of the people. They include names which are well known throughout the length and breadth of the Republic. the worth of the movement and give it dignity and prestige. Their personal characters attest The committee to be 1 be of a similar nature, It will represent It will form a center around which public sentiment can gather and through which the aid which San Francisco is willing to give to the Cuban patriots can be effectively rendered. It is not necessary to recall the situation of the island. more than a year past have told day sfter plantations and butchered people. been already told. forges in Cuba are incapable of establishin are no more than raiders, marauders and Telegraphic reports for day the story of burning homes, wasted Too much of that story of cruelty and blood has Enough is known to assure the public mind that the Spanish 2 @ government or maintaining peace and buccaneers, pillagine, plundering, wasting, destroying and slaughtering where they can. America has shown lo Spain as much toleration as humanity can afford. Our Government has been more than eareful not to give help or encouragement to the Cuban people. checked by the strong hand of law the atte patriots. We are therefore in a position cause of the restraint which we have put upon ourselves in the past. Spain a full opportunity to reconquer the island, and she has failed to do so. 1t has thrown its weight on the side of Spanish authority and has mpts of the people to give active aid to the to act now with a force alt the stronger be- We have given It isnow time for us to assert the principles of hun:anity and put an end to the useless destruc- tion of property and criminal effusion of bl The movement to be made in this City lood. ill not be isolated action. Itis intended to co-operate with Cuban committees in other cities of the Union and to add to their strength, which 1s already so great and been so repeatedly manifest. therefore will not be ineffective. It will already accomplished much, and will be on! What we do be co-operation with forces which have ly another evidence of the fact that the whole American people have reached the poict where they are no longer content with simply expressing sympathy with Cuba, but are desirous of giving gen: ineaid. It wili help to determine Congress and the incoming administration to act promptly in putting an end to the war, and to that extent will be an important service to Cuba, to America and to humanity. GREECE AND ORETE. The announcemen: made yesterday that the Greek Government has formally noti- fied the powers that Greece will not re- main a passive spectator of the events which are taking place in Crete, but will intervene to protect Cretans from Turkish massacres, will be received with approval | even by those people who are most averse 1o war. The decision of Greece is in full sccord with the dictates of humanity as well as with the promptings of courage and gen- erosity. The Cretans are of the same race and religion as the Greeks, and 10 go to their assistance will be on the part of the Grecian Government no more than would | be the action of a brother helping a | brother. The determination of the Greeks | is, moreover, fully justified by the circum- | stances. They have waited along time | for the great powers to compel the Turk- | ish Government to give just protection to its citizens of the Christian faitn, and as | the powers have not taken any resolute | step in that direction, Greece has a right | to interfere on behalf of the Greeks in | Crete and save them at least from robbery | and death. | A curious personal complication is 1n- | volved in the departure of Prince Geoige | of Greece with a flcet to the Cretan coast. It is well known that Prince George saved the life of the present Czar of Russia from | an assassin in Japan while the two, as | young men, were making & voyage round | the worid. The Czar can baraly fail to | recognize the claims which Prince George | bas upon him as a friend, and since the | Czar has more power over Turkey than | anybody else, 1t is possible that this reso- lute action on the part of Prince George | may lead him to be equally resolute in | forcing the Turk to submission to the | terms which were agreed upon by the | great powers. However the crisis may terminate, there can be no question that the sympathies of | the civilized worla will be with the Greeks. The diplomacy of Europe nas | been so futile of results as to be almost farcical. For years the world has waited | to see what the Christian nations would do to put a stop to Mosiem atrocities on the Christian subjects of the Ottoman empire, and the waiting has been in vain. Absolutely nothing has been done. The dispatch of the Grecian warships to the isiand of Crete is the first step which ha been taken to give cheer and encourage- | the university.” ment to those wWho hope for a speedy set- STANPORP'Sr CITY HOME. The announcement yesterday that Mrs. Stanford had by deed of gift conveyed her mansion on California-street hill to Stanford University was in no measure a surorise. 1t has longz been hnown that the building was cestined for that purpose before the death of Senator Stanford. The Jeed of gift therefore 13 notable only as marking the date of the transfer. As Mrs, Stanford herself said, I am merely carry- ing out tue intentions of my beloved hus- band, and doing what be would have done had I been first calied hence to the hife eternai.” As the gift itself was not unexpected the chief interest in tha occasion lies in the sddress with which the gracious donor «ccompanied it. Being the first gift direct from her handsto the studentsof Stan- ford University it was natural that she should speak with some fuliness of the work of the university and the aims she and Senator Stanford had in founding it. What she said formsa document which willnot oniy be a precious record for ‘he university at Palo Alto, but may be read ith advantage and edification by all who are interested in the training and de- velopment of the human mind. Passing by those portions of the address which deal with the conduct and manage- ment of the university and are thereiore matters of business rather than of edu- cation, the salient points are the earnes: words spoken for instruction In matters of religion and economy. These subjects are the fundamentals of every life and there can be no iull development of the soul or the intellect uniess due attention is paid to them. Referring to an impression which “ex- ists in the minds of many that the stu- dents of the university are not directly taught to reverence God and his wonder- ful works,”” Mrs. Stanfora said it is her desire that this vital principle be not lost sight of, and declared an intention as soon as financial conditions warrant to estab- lish a professcrship of Bible histary *'to be filled by some cne who will teach it without pr judice.” Not less earnest were the words spoken of the value of trainingin the yrinciples and practices of economy. *‘During the past three and a half years,” said Mrs. Stanford, *‘the importance of economy has impressea 1tself forcibly upon me, and I wish it to be taught to a'l the students of In this connection she naturally noted the desire of Senator Stan- tlement of the intolerabls evils of Turk. | {ord to make the university a place for ish rule. that the cause of humanity will find a champion able as well as willing to meet wrong, despotism and cruelty and over- throw them THE BURNS MONUMENT. It raises once more the hope | {raining the hand as well as the mind in order that all students might be better fitted for the work of the world, and spoke earnestly in favor of promoting the mechanical department of the insti- tution and developing it to the fuilest ex- tent possible. | The richness of the gift and the noble It is fairly ceriain we are to have a (and earnest words which accompanied it monument in this City to Robert Burns. | muke this formal transfer of the stately The meeting of the committee of the Caledonian Club on Thursday evening re- sulted in showing subscriptions for the monument already amounting to more than $1800. to push the measure, which has already receivea public approval, there can hardly be any doubt of a speedy accomplishment of the desired result. | mansion a notable event in the history of | the City. Leland Stanford Jr. Unmiver- | sity bas now & home in San Francisco. It bas its affiliated college as well asthe With this much for a start | State University. It will have an abiding and Scottish enthusiasm and persistence | place in the metropolis from which to send forth its influences directly upon our civic life. To this extent the people of the City are sharers in the gift which has | been made, and we have abundant rea- At the meeting of the committee Chief | sons to congratulate ourselves upon it. McNeill explained that the Caledonian | Club bad agreed to defray the current ex- penzes of the committee until the annual gathering and games in May. The re- ceipts from these games this year and for each year until the.amount needed for | the monument is obtained will be de- voted to that object. that St. Andrew’s Society will give in the near fnture an entertainment on a large scale for the purpose of raising money for ! the fund, and later on there will be held a grand Burns festival for the same pur- pose. These and other plans which were dis- cussed give promise that the money f r the monument will be speedily forthcom- ing. We need hardly say that the people of San Francisco will not leave it alto- gether to the Scotch to raise the funds needed. Robert Burns is as truly loved and appreciated in the homes of Ameri- cans as in the homes of his own country- men, and the monument which is to stand for him in this City will represent not merely the love of Scotchmen for their great poet but the admiration in which his genius and his worth are held by all our people, gathered as they are from the four quarters of the world. At Hopkins Hall and Stanford House our two universities will be so close to- eether in this City that it will be impos- sible for any but a friendly rivairy to get between them. In fact, there will be 200d reason why they should co-operate n many things and work together as one team, < PERSONAL GOVERNMENT, The debate in the Senate on the diplo- matic and consular appropriation bill on Thursday brought out the extraordinary fact that Cleveland has not yet given to It was announced | the Senate official information of the ex- 1stence of the Greater Republic of Central America and the presence in Washington of a Minister representing the Govern- ment of that country. This fact calls for more comment than it received in the Senate, since it shows to what extent Mr. Cleveland and his Secretary of State have carried their theory that the Executive Department of the Government has exclu- sive control in dealing with foreign affairs. By reason of Mr. Cleveland’s neglect to inform the Senate of the organization of the new Government the Commiitee on Foreign Affairs found itself confronted by a serious difficulty in devising the diplo- matic appropriation bill. It has been the custom for such bills to carry an item of $10,000 for a Minister Plenivotentiary to the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador. Two of these states, however, have now combined with Honduras to form the Gireater Republic and have sent a Minister to Washington representing the united republic and have recalled their own. Having no official informa- tion as to this change, the Senators were in doubt how to provide appropriations for our foreign service in those countries. The neglect of the President to furnish the required information was not made the subject of much debate, Senator Morgan and Senator Hale were the only speakers who referred to and t: ey contented themselves with a simple statement of the case. It is probable that the Senate felt that nothing in the situation called for any new condemnation of Mr. Cleveland’s course. His repeated attempts to usurp the powers of the Senate have been so fre- quently condemned and denounced that this latest effort on his part hardly far- nished them with either new arguments or new inveclives. As a matter o1 fact, Mr. Cleveland seems to have fatigued indigna- tion. He has goneso farin conducting his administration as if it were a purely personel government that the Senators have grown weary of criticism and are now waiting with patience for the end of his term., The difficulty involved in the appropria- tion bill was avoided by inctuding in the bill the former appropriation for a Minis- ter to the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador, and it was left to the State Department to arrange the difficulty in any way it chose. The whole incident shows clearly the abnormal egotism of Clevelund and the degree to which he evades his responsibilities to Congre: Certainly noother President in our history would ever have attempted such a course, and it1s to be hoped we will never have another to imitate the example. PERSUNAL C. M. Wheeler of Eureka is in town. €. D. Stocum of Boston is in the City* F. B. Kington of Palermo is in the City. J. D. Sproul of Chico arrived here last night. W. S Davis of Auburn, N. Y., has arrived here. F. C. Lusk, the attorney of Chico, is at the Palace. J. 0. Carlisle, an attorney of Oroville, is at the Lick. Judson Bent, a capitalist of Sen Diego, s in the City. W. J. Burnesof Portland is here on a busi- ness trip. Oswald Becker of Oroville is here on a busi- ness trip. Senator §. Summerfield of Reno, Nev., is at | the Grand. | S.T. Ames of New York is at the Cosmopoll- | tan Hotel, W. B. Humbet of Ashland, Or., arrived here yesterday. W. J. Taylor of Los Angeles is a late arrival in the City. A. B. Jackson, the banker of Salinas, is at | the Grand. i R. S. Stebbins of Eureks s a recent arrival | at the Russ. A.T. Wnitney and Mrs. Whitney of Boston are in town. R. P. Lathrop of Hollister is a recent arrival | &t the Grand. 1 F. G. Henry, & business man of Cleveland, is at the Paince. J. C. Rowers and wife of Benicia are atthe | Cosmopolitan Hotel. Rod D, Leggets and Mrs. Leggett of Butte, | Mont., are at the Palace. | M. Romeo, a busiaess man of Seattle, Wash., ! is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. Moncure came down from Palermo yes- | terday and is at the Occidental. Hugh D. Bowker of Holyoke, M among yesterday’s arrivals here. R.T. Reynolds, a prominent citizen of Chi- | cago, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. | Colonel H. I Kowalsky is recovering irom his recent severe attack of sickness. George T. Mills, the railrond man of Carson, is a visitor. He is st the Occidental. H. Grimm and wife of Secramento have taken apartments at the Cosmoroiitan. | J.A. Merz, a prominent business man of Autioch, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Chajrman A. T. Whiting of the Police Commission of Boston is among the arrivals at the Occidental. A Campbell of Fortuna, who !s interested in mining and other things in Alssks, is one of (he arrivals here. Mrs. E. J. Chamberlain of Eureks, who is | known in convection with advancec work of different kinds for women, is in town. Willism N. Russ, a ploneer of Humboldt County and owner of a large area of grazing lands and a great many cattle, is at the Lick. George R. Steuart, a business man of Crow’s Landing, who has been away for several months, returned here yesterdsy, and is a the Grand. P. D. Manley, & capitalist of Dunmore, Pa., 18 on & visit to the City for his health and is accompanied by his wife. They are registered at the Cosmopolitan. L. A. Moseaustern, manager of the Baldwin and Caliiornia theaters, who has been ill with pncumonia for ten days, is again able to ap- pear at his post of duty. R. A. Eddy, the general store, timber, mill and railroad owner of Montana and ¢ regon, is at the Palace, aiter an absence of many months. Helsone of the ownersof the Ore- gon Pacific road, and is now building a iive irom Portiand to Astoria. John P. Wilson, dramatic author, song writer and librettist, left for Los Angeles last evening to accept an engagement with the Fanny Rice Company. Mr. Wilson's work is well known in this City, and he will probably prove a veluable addition 10 Miss Rice’s com- pany. was HIS ON LRAWGLACK. He bas money by the bushel, He bas servants b the score; He bins a splendid coat 0f arms Upon his carriage door His wife wears costly jewels, His daughters are the rage, And his son will have a milifon On the day he comes of age. He abines at social functions, Heleads in everything, And he's known o common parlance As a modern money king. A bushel box would hardly 1lold this magnate's monthly rents, But, on entering the office, He says; “Good morning, gents."” (leveland Leader. NEWSPAPER PLoASANTRY. ““I brought this bill back without presenting it,” sa1d the collector for the gas company. ““What's the matter?” asked the president, *Why, it's no larger than last month’s, and vet Iind that they have put up s scatlet fever s1zn on the door.” ‘‘Wise man,” commented the president. “That's pretty good evidence that they're burning gas all night. Increase the bill 50 per cent.’—Chicago New: Ehe—The Misses Brown usually sing duets, do they not ? He—Yes, they divide the respousibility.— Puck. She—And did your friend take the doctor’s advice ? He—Certainly, She—And did he pay for it ? He—Weli, I should rather say he did 1 He's dead.—Yonkers Statesman. “He seems to take after his father, wvisitor, “I dow’t when they is apple dumplin volunteered the little boy. e don't leave none to take. "—Indianapolis Journal, said the Lia C. Doyle—T hear that Spacer has lost his job on the Daily Tattier? Wheaton Righ—Yes, he wrote up a scandal and forgot to say that it implicated some peo- ple high ia society.—Omahs World. “Young man,” said the minister solemnly, “why do you postpone your reformation?” “Oh, 1t's never too late to mend,” replied the youth.—New York World. He—There is one thing that I particularly 1ike about our minister. She—What is that? He—His practice of frequently exchanging pulpits. —Puck. Freddy—What is an egotist, papa? | for Governor there some time ago,” said Dr. | pitted against his brother as a political nomi- | Papa—An egotist, my son, is a man who reads s aialect story out loud.—New York Commercial Advertiser. of many a well- ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MANLY SPORTS? Now that the athletic season has opened and all lovers of sport are on the qui vive, as it were, looking torward to the spring events on the wheel and in the gymnasium, and when many zn aspirant for honors is making proparation to enter the field to win enduring fame as | sprinter or cyclist or in some otber department of outdoor exercises; while the veteran “hero ughten field” looks calmly forward to the g laurels, information touching on the relative positions of professional and amateur snd the ring of still further bays and conditions which go to make up tne difference between them is extremely pertinent and timely. Goorge D. Baizd, whose exhaustive and in- structive articles on the subjectof athletics are familiar to s wide circle of readers, hes written a most interesting article on the sub- ject in question, which 1t wiil be your priv- ilege to eajoy in THE SUNDAY CALL. You will also have an opportuaity to learn all about the remerkable wrecking invention, which will probably revoiutionize the present system of raising sunken ships. Are you interested in the speculation as to the inhabitants of Mars and the most recently discovered inequalities on the surface of the moon? Then THE SUNDAY CALL will advise you as to how soon you may hope 1o acquire accurate knowledge of these things. Be sure and reaa therein about the ‘‘Great Eye of Science” and the new relations of pho- tography and astronomy. Have you a windmill and the desire to put it to a multitude of uses? TuE CALL will give you the necessary infor- mation to-morrow. It will also contain a most interesting article on the latest fad of socfety, which will be of pleasing interest to dames and demofselles alike. The newest fancies of fashions will be des- canted on by Marsella. The literary page will be as full of whole- some lore and sound literary guidance as usual. The Children’s Realm will be more delight- ful than ever, as it will contain features of & delightful, timely nature. The editorials will' be as able and trenchant as ever. There will be telegraph news complete and accurate from ail parts ot the globe. In fsct, THE SUNDAY CALL will bear the stamp superior excellence. refinement and worth. Its stories will be just the thing for whiling away a holiday leisure hour. An Indian sketch, and a life story, full of thrilling events, of a pioneer woman of the Golden West, will be read with eager Interest by all. You should not welt til: to-morrow, but send in your order to-day,and be sure that you will not be deprived of a rare treat that awaits you in THE NDAY CALL. AROUND THE CORRILORS “Few men in the United States understand | the wonderful talent of the two Taylor broth- | ers of Tennessee, who ran sgainst each other | Join S, Cottrell of the Tenuessee Medical Col- lege, Knoxville, at the Grana Hotel yesterday. “1 bhave known tie Taylor brothers for a number of years, and am an intimate friend of vernor George L. Taylor. He is now sery- ing his third term. He is known as the white | Tose man, for the reason that when Le was nee for Governor it was known s a mark of distinction. “He was & Democrat, and his brother. Al Taylor, was a Republican and wore a red rose. Robert Taylor was e ected the first time by | about 20,000 mejority. In the recent cam- | | paigu he got, 1f [ remember rigit, al out 8500 majority. The par.y was cut up. The gold- bue Demoerats voted straight with the Repub- licans. “Bob ana Al Taylor in thelr lectures and “I know this man,” said General Grant, “He was a splendid soldier, and is fit for anything. He led the charge that broke the enemy’s line | atChanceliorsville, and periormed many other and meritorious acts “But I understand,” eaid the friend, *that he didn’t pass the civil seryice examination.” * replied the rresident; “he nnswered only one question, but it is o that I have de- cided to give nim the appointment. The ex- aminers asked, ‘How meny Hessians did Great Britain employ and send over (0 help subdue the American colonists?” Answer—'A | — sight more than ever went back.’ THE EDITOR 5 OFFICE BOY. When John C. Reid was managing editor of the Times he had an office-boy whose nerve and cheek were colossal, says the New York Press. Greatness never embarrassed him, for he was no respecter of persons. One day he entertained in the reception-room a waliting visitor whose patronizing way nettled him. All kinds of questions concerning his life and occupation were fired at him and finally he was asked how much he earned e week. ~His DR. JOHN S. COTTRELL of Knoxville on the Marvelous Career of the Author of “The Fiddle and the Bow.” \Sketched from life by a “Cald” artist.] violin-playing trips over the South and East | wore the white and red roses, as they did in tne first campaign. both play the violin; Bob left-banded, and he is a porfect mimic. I never saw a man with 50 much personal mag- Detism as the Governor. Why, If he simply looks at you he makes a friend of you for life, he does it in such a kindly, open way. Alisa very smart man, t0o, but he has not got the personal magnetism of the Governor. “Bob has three lectures, one called ‘The | Fiddler and the Bow’,snother the ‘Paradise of Fool$' and another which he and his brother give together that is called ‘Yankee Doodle and Dixie.’ Al takes the part of ‘Yankee Doodle,’ and talks about fifty minutes. The audience by that time is a little tired. Then Bob comes on, and from that time on there is nothing but fun and frolic, laughter and tests. Nobody wents him to stop. ““When Bob ran for Governor the first time T | s0ld my horse, saddle and bridle, cverything I had in the world, and went and gave him half the money. He was poor and had no mouey. He is the kind of a man that never keeps any- thing. Anybody can get his money, he's so kind to everybody. “When he got out from his office he must have owed $15,000 more than he received. A Governor there only gets $4000 a year. He had started in lecturing and made this all up and $15,000 10 $20,000 besides. I advised him not 10 run agaiu, but he had been harshly criti- cized—yes, 8s bitterly as you eriticize your Governor here in California—and he thought that by taking the office again he could sort of Touna out his career and o s lot of good. He 1s & wonderiul man.” GRANT AND TdE (I1VIL SERVICE. Pittsburg Dispateh. It is related that Pres dent Grantonce ig- nored the recommendation of a civil service board and appointed an oid ermy colonel, who had been rejected because he could not snswer some of the questions asked him on examination. “I guess I might as well go home,” said the vld soldier. “They asked me a lot of questions about the internal calculus, the location of some rivers down in South America, the height of mountsin rangesin Asia, ete. In fact there wasonly one ques- tion asked that I attempied to answer.’ A friend said he would seo the President. Teply was, “Fifty dollars,”” which caused the interrogator to whistle. At that moment the visitor was summoned by Reid, to whom he related his experience with an_ office-bo, £aid he made §0 & week. e Reid rang bell; enter boy. “Did you tell this gentleman you made §50 a week here 2" 7 did not tell him any such thing.” “What?" exclaimed the gentlemsn. “You medn to say you didn’t tell me a moment or 1wo ago that you made $50 a week?"’ “Never said any such toing.” “Why, you littie liar! You—" ReYhat did you tell the gentleman 7 put in eid. “Itold him 1 earned $50 el §50 & week, but you The vicitor was so excited that he forgot his businoss with the menagine edifor. When he aken leave of the office Reid Eetiaken lntvac Reid raised tne —_— ee——— PARAGRAPHS As0UI PEOPLE Rudyard Kipling 15a nephew of Mr. Poyn- ter, the new president of the British Royal Academy. A Fiji Islander named Knaf Sevorg is em- ployed asa passenger brakeman by the Rio Grande Western Railroad. Robert Collyer, the octogenarian Unitarian preacher of New York, has practically retireq from active ministerial dutles. - An English farmer, who said he never read the newspapers, was fined in Lizcoln for fail. ing to report an infectious disease among his sheep. A French Canadian couple, Louis Darwin and his wife, now living in St. Paul, recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their marrisge. The husband is 107 years of age ana his wife is 101. Captain Jonathan B. Norton of East Lee, Mass., enjoys the distinction of being the oldest voterin the United States. When he voted for McKinley November 3, he was 100 years, 3 months and 8 days old. He has lived under every President. Whistler, the painter, was once a cadst at West Point. Hisold drawing instructor, now & well-known artist, was asked not long ago if he could recall the ability of his papils, the cadets, and particularly if he remembered Whistler. “Whistler,” said he, “at once ! new loan is offered. showed his prediiection for art. He had to bo a peinter. Mr. Grant—General Grant—why, sir, he was the very poorest draughtsman in the class.”” Rev. Miles Grant of Boston. thinks e has solved the problem of living. He is a stri vegetarian, and never uses meat, pies, cakel tea, coffee, sugar, salt or spices. Hs daily foo: is unleavened graham bread, vegetabled] cheese and milk, and he s that he lives well at a cost of 87 c s & week, the result Being that he is healthy and strong. In 1869 a Rev. Dr. Crane wrote a tract on popular dmusements, in which he said that “novel-reading has become the vice of th age,” and warned his readers and list againstso evil a habit, so soul-desiroying a recreation, as novel-reading. His son is Stephen Crane, who has lately been mak considerale reputation as & writer of novels. Letters From the People. MUNICIPI{L PAWNSHOPS, How Paris Protects Her Paor,From Ex. tortion. To the Editor of the San Francisco Caj Paris may be the “gay and wicked the newspapers and the novelists, the m of fashions and all that—may in & things openly and with a simplea which other cities do on the siy and v sham affectation of yirtues they sess—bus she leads the world in mu manity and civie virtue, as I have dicated in a former letter. In co of the subject I propose now to gi count of her municipel loan systew from an authority of unimpenchat and fullne: of detail, to quently reserred Aibert Shaw's review of ment in Continental Europe.” In order to acquaint the reader with the clear and vigorous style of Mr. Shaw and at the seme time {0 state the facts of case perspicuously aud historically, I shall the words of the author so far &smy spe will permit, Tbegin with page 112: “No de- partment of the municipal administration has hich I thelife of the common people of Paris the the MoAt de Piete, or public pawnshop. Itis & venerable institution, for it was first estab- lished in 17 But' it has g0 adapted its methods to changiug conditions thatno one would think of considering it obsolescent or antiquated. On the contrary, it was never so strong or vital as in these last years of the nineteenth century. The services ii rende: the great Parisian community are exceedin; ly creditabie to the humane instincts and sound Lusiness sense that have made m ¥rench administration superior in 1ts cone servation of the popular wealth.” I cannot forbear & word or two on the “sound business sense” of this unique method of saving ths little properties of tne less suc- cessful people from the clutches of those who prey upon the misfortunes of the unfortunat and whom we in San Francisco unheed leave lo the vulture mercy of our pawn- brokers without a thought that it is one of the worst forms of eivil unthrift in modern society. But Mr. Shaw continues: “The public pawnshop or loan department was established 10 protect the people from the usurers. Private pawnbroking was obviously a public evil, an ageravation of poverty, and too often an ally of all sorts of crime against property. At the outsel the new venture was placed under the auspices and contral of the hospital and charity administration, but is now a munici al Institution. Its plan from the first has een to receive interest-bearing time-deposits, much like & savings bank, and to use the money thus obtained to loan upon chattels. Its object has not been 10 earn net revenue although it has always allowed a safe m n of profit and has thus accumulated ample reserve funds, besides providing itself with suitable buildings and appliances. “Besides a great centra. establishment and three large auxiliar: the Mont de Piete possesses twenty branches in different parts of Paris for the convenienceof the people of ihe various quarte The number of articles upon which ioans were made for the year 1892 was 2.276 and the smount loaned was 60,765,917 irancs, or $12,153,188, an average ©0: 25 trancs or §5 to Ty man, woman and cnild of Paris. Borrowers have 10 pay 6 per cent per annum interest, with a fixed charge of 1 per cent o cover jusurance upon the articles pledged and certaln other expense: All the money reqnired is secured at3'g per cent paid upon yearly deposits, and 2} and and even 2 per cent upon deposits for siorter periods. “Loans are made of 50 small & sum as § {rancs, or 60 cents, but on all sums less than francs loans are made at a loss to the city, Loans of 85 irancs are profitable even if mais for one month. The averaze of ali ioans is from 25 to 30 francs. hence the great majority being much beiow 26 francs are made at a loss to the wmunicipality snd therefore are a boon to the poor. Formerly there was a limit to the amount loaned toone individual, but it is now removed, experience showing that the institu- tion is able to meet all demands for loans, and the irerease of large loans mukes it easy to favor small borrowers. This removal of the limit has greatly increaed the usefulness of the institution to merchants and business men.” Public loans in France, unlike our public lonns, are issued in bonds 0 small denomina- tions, and the savings of employes, artisans, smali dealers and thrifty servants are usuaily invested in thete Government or municipal b nds, many owning one bond each for 400 or 500 francs. ~ This city pawnshop or loan insti- tution willloan morey on these bonds, “‘Let us suppose,” says Mr. Shaw, “that Jacques owns one ‘share of Paris municipal stock, worth 100 francs, and has 300 francs in the Mun cipal Savings Bank when a desirable He deposits his share of stock with the municipal pawn or loan bu- Teau, gets 100 francs on it, withdraws his 300 francs irom the savings bank and then buys a new 400-franc bond. Assoon as he can save 100 irancs he redeems his pledged share of stock, and it has cost him only half a franc a month.” In this way also any one can obtain money in an emergency on any property he may pos sexs from the public loan bureau and pay ftat his own convenience. Reference has been made incidentally to the Municipal Savings Bank, which should be con- sidered in this connection, es well as the Na- tional Postal Sayings Bank, bul my letter has reached its limit and I must leave that topic for another time, and such comments as seem needful on the Parisian system of aiding, pro- tecting ana elevating the thrifty and deserv. ing poor of the City. JOSEPI ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, February 11, 1897. VALENTINES. Something new. 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