The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editer and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and S8unday CALX, one week, by carrier. .§0.16 Daily and Sunday CALL, One year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. .00 Daily and Sunday CaL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisce, Callifornia. Telephone.... “ Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Sireet. Telephone.. Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICBS: 527 Montromery sireet, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street 618 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock.. open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixtee: entil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth strect; open until 9 o’clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. OQAKLAND OFFICE : 208 Broadway. th and Mission streets; open EASTERN OFFICE: Hooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE FAKE ND THE FACT —TELH I AFCH— The Eraminer published for several days at the top of its title page the following fake: THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 1896. 5964 More Than were published by any other San Francisco newspapes. In the publication of this fake the Eraminer was probabiy not aware that & careful record was Being kept of the actval amount in inches of its advertising and that in consequence it could be contronted with the following fact. —THE FACT— THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 18%. 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 10 be remembered tha! FEraminer published approxim: lilegal lottery advertisements, o did not and would not publ The mobarch of the fakers has donbtless suc- ceeded in securing thousands of inches of adver tisng during the vast year by duping and dec ing advertisers through falseand arrogant asser- 1ions of the character of the foregoing fake. It would seem, however, from the facts that the during 1896 the merchants as a rule have not been misled by its | dulent pretenses. he Ezaminer boasts that fts books are open to inspection, but we suggest that it inspect its own tooks before it veniures uvon the publication of another fake. We congratulate the public on the fact that the exrosure of this fake led the Examiner 10 drop it Tn this the Ezaminer was discreet, and 1f 1t is wise will make no more such bold attempls to ecetve the public. The United States should adopt a vigor- ous Pan-American policy ana enforce it. Over in the East they are saying *as the days grow longer the cold grows stronger.” It is differens here. In place of bank suspensions we now hear of bank resumptions and the pendu- lum is swinging back to prosperity. The election of Perry Belmont to the Tammany council looks as if an attempt is to be made t0 reform the tiger by giving him the gold cure. Some tobacco raised in Wisconsin from Cuban seed developed such an excellent leaf that the Wisconsin people in talking of it can bardly avoid speaking Sparish. If Butler is the criminal of the century, what are we to call the highly educated young man in Pennsylvania who tried to kill his stepmother by use of diphtheria germs. It is stated that the number of persons killed in the United States last year by overhead wires was greater than the num- ber killed by railways. They are called live wires, but they mean death. 1t is said there are 8000 families in want ofbread in Chicago, and yet the bins of the farmers of Illinois are full of corn they cannot sell. It looks as if the links of our civilization had lost connection some- where. 1t 18 reported that the demand for skilled mechanics in Ergiand has become so great that young men are turning away from office work to enter factories, where they make twice the pay they could get as clerks. Senator Hiil says the trouble with the Democratic party in the last campaign was a combination of “passion, prejudice, selfishness, sectionalism and emotional- ism,”” and it will be admitted the diagnosis is correct. . President Eliot has informed the mil- lionaires of Boston thatit they will give $10,000,000 to Harvard he will see to it that good use is made of it. There are others who are ready to make the same guarantee. All right-minded men approve the re- solve of the Greeks not to be passive spec- tators of the massacres in Crete, and they would approve us if we refuse to watch any longer with indifference {he mas- - sacres in Cuba. The dramatic critic of the Boston Herald asserts the people in that city have adopted a fad of applauding everything in & theater without regard to its merits. Ap- plausiveness is regarded as the proper thing, and so all the nice people clap their hands vigorously as often as possible dur- | nians are ready to congratuls ing a performance just to show their style. J s A THOROUGH Supervisors again this evening, and will regulation of water rates. INVESTIGATION. The investigation of the question of water rates will be taken up by the Board of be continued at tri-weekly meetings as long as may be necessary for a full and official ascertainment of the facts essential to a just The right of the people of any community to inquire into the equity and fairness | of the rates which corporations bolding public franchises for the supply of such neces- | saries of civilized life as water, light and the like are entitled to charge the in- dividual user has been conceded by economists and established by law. "The statutes of the State of California provide for such annual statements on the part of water companies of their properties, business and income as may enable Boards of Super- It will be seen at a glance that in this 1.0 | Visors to determine whether their water schednles are fair and just. matter each municipzality stands alone in | the midst of its own conditions and that the rates rightly chargeable in one section | are little guide to those which the water receive. | rates by our Board of Supervisors shoula | that the schedule which they finally agree to fix shall satisfy the public mind as | i | | | | should be virtually completed. We should being fair and just. company of another may be entitled to This being so, there is all the more reason why the investigation of Water be so complete, detailed and exhaustive It is to be expected that the Mayor and Board of Supervisors will enter upon and will conduet the present investigation in the spirit above suggested, and that during its progress they shall keep themselves above the suspicion of either dishonesty or demagoguery. To & man of large and diverse interests and of wide culture like Mayor Phelan, the first of these vices is not supposable, and the second of them otght to and doubtless is detestable. The members of the board have thus far escaped the imputatior. of either offense against their oath of office, and it is to be hoped that the present investigation shall give no ground The dishonesty of the demagogue is hard for public belief in the existence of either. ly less in degree than that of the bribe- taker and 1s much more dangerous to the health of the body politic. In the matter of the pending inquiry into the equity of existing water rates there is no necessity for bysterics and no place for a display of the soap-chewing tactics of the demagogue. detailed statement which they would rece It is the duty of the Mayor and of each and every member of the | Board of Supervisors to bring to the subject that sober and practical sense which they 1897 | employ in their personal aftsirs; to require from the water company the same sort of ive from their agents, and to apply to the whole matter those practical rules of every-day business which govern the subject of ca] ital in its investment and in its rightful, reasonable and just returns. AN AMERICAN OAUSE. 1 Before the present week closes the work of organizing a movement in this City for the promotion of the cause of free Cuba put ourselves into line with the other cities of the Union aud give evidence not | only of our sympathy with the Cuban | people, but of our determination to aid them by every lawful means. | The cause of Cuba is the cause of Ameri- ca. The struggle of the Cuban patriots is the same as that which our forefaihers waged agaiust England in 1776. It is another effort on the part of an American people to emancipate themselves from European control and establish their right to seli-government. The time has come when all America | should be free from the domination of the Old World. We may concede as much as can be justly claimed by the older nations of what is due to them for colonizing this hemisphere, but such claims cannot go to | the extent of & right to perpetual govern- | popuar. SECRETARY MORTON. Or all the members of the Cleveland Cabinet the one who has been the subject of most adverse criticism is the Secretary of Agriculture. This fact is Gue mainly to the personal defects of the Secretary. The business of his office has little or no re- lation to the great issues which divide | political parties, and therefore if he had acted with an ordinary degree of prudence and sagacity he could have gone through his term with no partisan denunciation and little or no condemnation from any class of the people. The first Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Rusk, made the office one of the most im- portant in the Cabinet and won for him- self in the conduct of its affairs such a reputation among the people as made him a prominent candidate for the Presidency. His successor, Mr. Morton, has been the opposite of all that made Secretary Rusk He has attended more to poli- tics than to agricuiture, has engaged in more forms of “‘pernicious activity’ than ment over any part of our continent or their adjacent islands. America is of | right entitled to self-government, and no 1ropean power can seek to dominate an American country any more justly than | | the United States might seek to conquer | and annex the territory of some of the | weaker nations of Europe. The United States is not an aggressive Nation. We do not make war for the an- nexation of territory or for the power of domination. We have never sought to | take from any European country any of its possessions in our hemisphere. We do not seek to do so now. When, however, an American peopie revolts against Eu- ropean control and shows through years of war itsability to maintain itself against all the power of its former musters, then it is not only our right but our duty to intervene and give to the struggling pa- triots the aid necessary to re-establish peace within their borders. 1f Spain had any possible chance of re- asserting her supremacy and her laws in Cuba there might be reasons why we should hesitate to interfere in the war and | put anend toit. It iscertain, however, | that Spain cannotconquer Cuba. All that she can do is to desiroy property and shed blood. We have therefore the com- mon rnghtof humanity es well as the po- litical right of an American people to in- tervene and compel Spain to retire from this continent and leave the Cubans free | to govern themselves. San Francisco if she stood alone could not do much to promote the cause of Cu- ban independence. She does not stand alone. Nearly every city of note in the United States has organized a committee to promote the cause, and we will be but a co-operative force with others when we begin the work here. Itisrightana fitting that we should manifest our willingness 10 co-operate in the work, and before the week closes we should have made it evi- dent that we intend to do so. A TARMERS' OLUB. Asa result of the Farmers’ Institute, held in this City, it has been decided to organize a Farmers’ Club to be made up of residents of San Xrancisco. The de- cislon s in no way surprising. Itisknown there are more farmers, vineyardists and orchardists living in the county of San Francisco than in any other 1n the State. It is natural, therefore, that these should unite and organize, as have done the farm- ers in other cities, in order to advance their welfare by discussions and by organ- iged action where such is necessary. Since such a club is to be organized, it should be the aim of the promoters to make it of more than ordinary strength, vigor and importance. A club of farmers, resident in the metropolis, can be of great service, not only to its own members, but to farmers throughout the State. As was stated by Alfred Hoiman at the session of the institute on Thursday evening, a San Francisco Farmers’ Club could aid in the establishment of a vatisfactory market for rural products, and could aiso facilitate the exchange and dissemination of current news, which would be of great value to the farming inaustry. Mr. Holman pointed out an instance of recent occurrence where such a oclub wouid have been of great benefit to the farmers. The wheat-growers of California, be said, failed to profit by the recent rise in wheat because, though the circum- stances which led up to it were known to a few persons here and to the department at Washington, there was no way in which that knowledge could beconveyed to those most vitaily interested. 1f there had been a strong Farmers’ Club here, with special sources of information, the farmers would have been bepefited to theextent of a sum so large as to be difficult to estimate. The provosed club begins undet propi- tious circumstances. The men and women who have staried the movement and given in their pames as members are persons of influence and energy. We can reason- ably look forward o good results from their work, and may, therefore, in all cer- tainty count on a Farmers' Club as one of the established institutions of the City. It is altogether right and fitting that the banquet 1o be given Judge McKenna should be a non-partisan gathering. The guest of the evening will represent all California in the Cabinet and *all Califor- him on his selection, any other Cabinet officer on record, and has either injured or irritated every farm- ing industry in the country. Some illustrations of Morton’s lack of official propriety as well as of political sagacity were given in the aebate in the Senate on Wednesday on the agricultural appropriation bill. Senstor Vest pointed out that among the agricultural bulletins sent out by the Secretary were a ntumber which from so far relating to matters of agriculture were not only strictly political, | but were of the worst kind of partisan poli- tics at that. Ha noted one in particular in which the Secretary had arraigned the people of the States which were carried by Bryan as ignorant ana illiterate. The statements made by the Secretary in this bulletin were accurate enougn, but cer- tainly they were not matters of agricui- ture and were not calculated to give in- struction to farmers or toadvance farming interests, Another foolish bulletin contained a picture of Secretary Morton’s country residence in Nebraska, and was made up of an address which the Secretary had de- livered at a college before he had entered the public service. Senator Chandier called attention tostill another of these egricuitural bulletins, in which the Secre- tary had turned aside from farming and proceeded to discuss the finuncial ques- tion. Senator Stewart declared the Secre- tary to be *‘the most picturesque specimen he had ever known.” Thus one after another Eenators of all parties united in giving a severe roasting to the extraordi- nary egotist who for four years has been posing and drawing pay as Secretary of Agriculture, but who has done nothing in the office except to 1rritate the country by repeated demonstrations of his disregard for public welfare and his seeming con- tempt for everybody who disagrees with him on any subject whatever. THE SONOMA FAIR. The county of Sonoma has long since demonstrated that the northern citrus belt has advantages peculiar to itself which are in no wise inferior to any pos- sessed by the southern counties. This proof is to be confirmed and made amply manifest in the citrus fair which is soon toopen. All reports show that the dis- play will be one of tne best ever made in the State and fully equal in many respects to any which bas been exhibited at River- side, San Diego or Los Angeles. The cultivation of oranges in Sonoma was at first treated as a joke, and when the orchardists of the county showed that they intended it seriously, many people regarded it as a hazardous experiment. Both the jokers and the doubters, how- ever, have now been silenced. Sonoms has shown that it can produce oranges of the finest quality and in large quantities, It has entered the market as an orange producer, has drawn therefrom large profits and has_every prospect of larger profits in the years to come. The display to be made at the coming fair will serve to demonstrate something more than the ability of Sonoma and the districts around it to produce oranges. It will make evident the fact that the foothills of California are far richer than bas been generally supposed. They pos sess a soil equal to the best and have a climate which can hardly be surpassed, It would be hard to set limits to the va- riety of productions which m be ob- tained from all the foothill region, when thorough and comprehensive experiments have tested and made known the utmost which can be produced there. There are other counties in Northern California which can profitably imitate the example set by Sonoma. It needs nothing more than well-conducted ex- periments to show that they also may make themselvesrich in orchard products of all kinds known to the temperate zone. The display to be shown at the coming fair will tend to encourage the making of these experiments in fruit-growing in other sections, and it is safe to predict that ere long the northern citrus belt wiil be as prosperous and as renowned as that of the south. Such fairs are benefits to the whole State, and should be liberally patronized not only by the people of the section where they are held, but by the State at large. Certainly the people of Ban Francisco should do much to promote and advance them, and every one who can affora it ought tovisit the Sonoma fair and extend to it the fullest patronage pos- sible, COASL EXCHANGES. The Hollister Bec has changed hands, Harry Johnson retiriug from its editorial manage- ment, and being succeeded by Edward Serles. The policy of the paper remains the same. Angels Camp is being agitated on the sub- ject of incorporation and the Mountain Echo is earnestly pleadiag with the people of that Prosperous mining town to move in_the ma ter without delay, to the end that many needed public improvements may. be the more speedily secured. The Fresno Expositor has begun war on the Chinese lottery games of the Raisin City. It remarks that conservative estimates of the smount drained from that city annually into the coffers of the shrewd heathen sharps, place the sum &t no less than $400,000. The Ezpositor should be commended for its stand in behalf of law. The Merced Star having recorded the fact that one of the citizens of that city owned a hog which weighed 350 pounds at two and a half years of age, the Los Banos Enterprise in- dulges in a swage laugh and speaks thus: iam Bireh, our lumber-dealer, has a Berkshire only fourteen months old which weighed one week ago 506 pounds. Size up to that with your Merced River porker.”’ The Santa Cruz Sentinel is jubilant over the prospect of the establishment of a woolen mill inthateity. Itsays: “Colonel Humbert, who desire to establish a woolen mill in this city, wants a donation of land besides buildings suflicient to accommodate machinery for the manufacture of 100 pairs of blankets daily. An cffort is now being made to comply with the terms upon which Santa Cruz can secure the mill. Already thd F. A. Hihn Company has offered to donats two acres of land on River street and 75,000 feet of lumber. W. H. Lamb, who has the matter in charge, says that offers of land, money, material and labor will be accepted.” Los Gatos wants a new drainage system, a new Town Hall and an electric-light system of her own. In order to get those things the Mail favors the issuance of bonds. It declares that “the people of Los Gatos to-day wiil favor auything in the bounds of reason that wiil tend to better the condition of the place; any legitimate enterprise that will have a tend- ency to give employment to the unemployed, to enhance the value of our properly, to bring, capital to the place and to put Los Gatos where she has been and where she belongs—in the foremost rank of the livéinterior towns of California.’” The Santa Monica Outlook, in its 1897 special edition, has outdone all its previous eftdris and has issued a number that will compare in general excellence with the best product of any paper outside the big cities. Its illustra- tions are superb, and the printing and paper first-class. The history of Santa Mouica 1s told in 8 manner fult of interest, and many an Essterner will open his eyes 1n wonderment s he reads of the transtormation of & sheep range into one of the Eden spots of California. Editor D. G. Hoit has earned distinguished praise by that edition, and his work will be of great benefit to Santa Monica in attracting at- tention to her numerous advantages. Auburn wants s cannery. The Argus of that place observes thatall indications pointto s splenald fruit crop in the coming season. The paper continues: *It is early to talk of this, but not too early. Theeun will very soon begin to ‘ride high,” and his mellowing influence will bring the blossoming and the fruiting before very long, and every element of economy calls for a can- nery asa nmecessary adjunct to the fruit in- terests of our county. “Another thing—Auburn should develop s ‘pay day’ of good dimensions. Every month brings to Lincoln through her pottery and cannery (in the season) & very well padded pay roll. The same true of Rocklin, through her roundhouse and her quarrles. Auburn must try to deveiop something to correspond with her sister cities. A few thousand dollars to well-paid laborers every month in & city like oursis a consummation de- voutly to be wished. In what better way can this be attained at present than by opening a cannery?’ " The Watsonville Pajarondan, in its interest- ing “Sugar Beet” items, informs us that “the last beet of the campaign went into the mill elevator last Saturday aiternoon, and the big whistle proclaimed the end of the cutting sea- son. Alarge partof the mill crew was laid off at the close of the wesk, only enough be- ing retained to handle the closing syrup. It 15 expected that the last of the sugar will be run out to-morrow. It has been & long and successful campaign. The mill handled s greater tonnage of beets than ever before, and the production of sugar was over 50 per cent greater thun the big run two years sgo. In mill and on fields the run and season were about as perfect as they could be, and the re- cord made {5 apt to be a star one for years. Tne crop of 1894-95 was surpassed by the 1806-97 crop, the latter being about 10,000 tons greater. In sugar showing the difference was more striking, the crop just milled showing 7000 tons of sugar in excess of the Crop two years ago.” NEWS COF rOR:IGN NAVIES British dockyards launched 71,870 tons of war vessels during 1896. Argentine is negotiating for the ourchase ot a battle-ship in England. Japan has made a contract with Yarrows, Eng., for the construction of two torpedo-boat desiroyers of 31 knots guaranteed speed. The first rolled armor-plates were made by I. W. Parkgate. Rotherbam, Yorkshire, England. The first lot was shipped to the Palmer yard February 9, 1856, and 200 tons, ranging in thickness from 3 to 414 inches, were delivered in seven weeks. The piates went on the floating ironcled battery called the Terror. Japan intends to spend & vast amoéunt of money in establishing or extending dock- yardsat Hyogo, Moji, Uraga, Hakodate and Yokohama. The latter is well advanced toward completion. Twenty million dollars have alresdy been expended on the harbor at Osaka, which 15 of great military importance. The shipyard and marine-engine works of the Forges et Chantier at La Seyne are of & capacity and importance equal 10 auy of the French dockyards. Besides several vessels building for the French navy the establish- ment has five ships on the stocks or complet- ing for foreign navies, and in addition are re- fitting the Pelago, Vitoria and Nomnancia for Spain, and the Psara and Spetzia for Greece. The Monarch, rated ass thitd-class turret- ship in the British navy,built in1869,bas been thoroughly refitted and re-engined at a costof $500,000, end was commissioned last month s & guardship in Simon's Bay, Cepe of Good Hope. The hull, built of fron at the Chatham dockyard twenty-seven years ago, s still in ex- cellent condition, and so are the Wazrior, built in 1861; the Northumberland, 1868; Devasta- tion, 1873; Sultan, 1871, and Thunderer of 1877, ali of which have either been recently refitied or are now at the dockyards being put in condition to meet present requirements of that class of ships. The Russian Naval Reserve Is, 50 for as the personnel goes, in & very unsatisfactory con- dition, judging from a recent incldent. The Minister of Marine had heard about the Reserve and wanted to ses what it was like, so he fssued summons for eighty-slx men to report at the Admiralty. Only thirty-eight reported, and of this only eleven were able to speak their own language fluently; fiiteen koew Englisn; sixieen Germau, and two Swedish. A & resuit of the examination, only eleven men were accepted by the Minister of Marine a8 fit for service in the navy. The sinking of the ¥reuch torpedo-boat No, 86, in consequence of a collision, is the fourth boatof that class which has had bad Juck. Sixty-three of these boats, ranging from 54 to 56 tons displacement, were built between 1885 and 1892. Their contract speed wi tiweuty knots, with 520 horsepower, but th first lot of thirty-five boats were found too slow, and heavier botlers were put in. This Teduced their stability and led to accidents. In 1889 No. 102 capsized in a moderate sea #0d drowned six men. Three weeks later No. 110 wenidown in a yquall off Cape Barfleur drowning all hands. ?n 1894 No. 120 burst a boiler and killed two mes, and now No. 83 bas gone 10 the botiom. AROUND THE CORRIDORS For aday or two past it has been rumored that the distingulshed Japanese uavel officials Wwho arrived here recently to supervise and partly superintend the conmstruction of the new Japanese cruiser at the Union Iron Works had had a row with the Scotts and the contract was off. It was said that the gentlemen from the land of the chrysanthemum were very hostile indeed. No interview could be gained with the naval officials, and for a little while it looked s if it might be true. But Lieutenant Kyo Aoki of the commission came to the iront yesterday end denied it utterly. He is at the Occidental. “The Union Iron Works,”” he said, “is build- ing us a cruiser of the same class the fam- ous Yoshino, used in the Chinese-Japanese up reading matter of any kind the letters be- come inverted. some one asked Max Nordau to define the aifference between genius and insanity. “Well,” said the suthor of ‘Degeneration,” *“the lunatic is, at least, sure of his board and clothes.” General Schofield and his wife are passing the winter in one of the Ponce de Leon cot- tages at St. Augustine. Tho general hasa book of army experiences and recollections on the stocks. In deference to orders received from the Colonial Department in London, ex-King Prempeh of Ashentee and his family have been removed from Elmina Castle, where they had been confined since thelr arrival from Coomassie, to Sierra Leome. It is expected LIEUTENANT KYO AOKI of the Japanese Naval Commission, Who Is Watching the Work on the New Cruiser at the Union Iron Works. | (Sketched from life by a “Call™ artist.] war, and like ber she will be very fast. We ex- pect not less than twenty knots an hour. She will be about 400 feet long. “I haven’t had a misunderstanding or quar- rel with the Scotts about the ship, nor have the others of the commission. Work has oaly just begun and it is going along very well It will take about two years fb complete her. It is expected when she is finished she will be one of the finest ships afloat. ““There are four of us who have been seut to | note the progress of the work on this ship and the one the Cramps are making in Philadel- phia. Myself and T.Tukakura are to attend to the latter vessel, which is also to be a cruiser, and S. Sakura and Y. Wadogaki are to specially follow the work here. “We are now having three cruisers built in England, one cruiser and four or more orpedo voats in Germany and two craisers in France. “The work on the cruiser here is progressing steadily. We are getiing nothing but the fin- estof war vessels. After we have been here & while and visiled the East we will probably g0 to Europe. ] have no idea yet what we shall call the cruiser that is being made here. It is too early.” FER>ONAL, Dr. Thomas Ross of Sacramento is at the Grand. Rey. Samuel Herst of Vallejo is a guest at the Grand. Dr. T. A. Keahles of Sacramento is staylog at the Grand. Mrs. 8. E. Clossen of Sacramento Is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. E. Starkweather, a rancher from Hanford, 1s & guest at the Lick. W. E. Reavis, a fruit-raiser of Los Angeles, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Superior Judge A. Hewel of Modesto 15 in town. He is staying at the Lick. Otto W. Noack, a large jeweler of Sacra- mento, 15 at the Lick with his wife. Joseph Goss, one of the Los Angeles Super- | visors, is a late arrival at the Lick. L. G. Kaufman, & merchant of Juneau, Al- aska, arrived yesterday at the Graud. C. F. Fearing, & society man of New York City, arrived yesterday at the Paiace. | A. H. Wadswortn, & cattleman of Yreks, is | in town, with headquarters at the Lick. A. N. Butts, a mining man with interests near Sonors, is registered at the Occidental. A. 8. Cooper, the asphaltum expert of Santa Barbara, is maxing s brief visit at the Grand. P. B. Ellis, s prominent business man of Cerson, Nev., arrived at the Occidental yester- day. Robert Repsold and Orazio Nutting of Guatemals, arrived yesterday at the Cali- fornia. R. P. La Blanc and G. Pabst of Fresno sre among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Colonel J. B. Mitten is in town from the Randsburg gold district and is visiting at the Grand. H. C. Waldburg of Portland, & big wool and hops dealer, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. A. Abrahams, a merchant of Reno, Nev., came down yesterday and took apartments at the Palace. Among the arrivals yesterday at the Occl- dental was C. 0. Johnson, superintendent at San Luls Obispo of the I'acific Coast Railroad. A.W. and L. J. Kimball, mining men of Vol- cano, Amador County, the inventors of & ma- chine for finding gold mines, are guests at the Grand. R. H. Martin, msnager of the International Bank in Guaiemals, arrived at the Occidental yesterday with his wife and two children en route o Eogland. E.J. Gillen, & prominent business man of New York, 18 on a visit to the City, accome panied by his wife, and is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel THAT'S WHO! Who hypuotizea me with berways Uniil my heart was all ablaze With love, aud every nerve appeared To be, Iike ligtning. double geared? Lucinda. Who Iistenel to my earnest pleas, Aund warmed toward me by degrees Until she calied me Sam, and said 1'd sort 0’ tarned her littie head? My sweetheart. Who let me kiss her one sweet night Beneath the moon’s wnite metal light, And said e s clings the bark unto the tree? My betrothed. Who left the altar at my side, Dressed in the trappings of a bride, And said again and yet again Twas Lbe king of all the men? My wite. And now who often calls me down, Upon ber face a vicious frown, ADa if to answer her 1 dare Entwines her finsers in my bair? Same girl. —The Denver Post. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE Two members of & British chess club played & tournament to see which shouid be left iree to woo e certain lady. Before the contest was decided she married a third maq. A female highwayman, described as “of her- culean proportions and of extraordinary bravado,” is holding the roads between Brus- seis and Antwerp and attacking solitary houses. Acase that has baffled physicians in New Jersey is that of Miss Anna Carison of Lower Alloway, a small settlement in S8alem County, N.J. Her affiiction 1s with her eyes. While she sees all objects readily and clearly, in taking | Heine, Jules Simon, Arsens Houssaye, V that the dusky potentate will eventually be transferred to the island of St. Helena. Paris streets are constantly being renamed aiter persons recently dead. Among the names given this year are those of Mme. Furtado- ictor Durny and Ambrose Thomas. A prisoner of the Stillwater (Minn.) peni- tentiary who ran away while on parole in 1895 has written the Warden a letter, asking if he may return. Transportation has been sent him and he is returning alone to serve the remaining seven years of his term. | Ibsen and Tolstoi having begun to pell on the Parisian public, translators have brought forward & more northern and even more real- istic literature from Lapland and Finland, the chief exponents of which are two nevelists named Paivarinta and Runcherg. The late Henry O. Houghton, the publisher, | said that when in England he was asked where he lived. “Near Boston,” he replied. *“Ah! you probably know some friends of mine who live near Boston.” “Where do they live?” “In Atlanta,” was the reply. NEWSPAPER PLEASANIRY “Won’t you take this seat?” said the gentle man in the car, rising and lifting his hat. “No, thank you,’ said the girl with the skates over her arm; “I've been skating, and I'm tired sitting down.”—Yonkers Statesman. | Hicks—Tnat young fellow says he is a col- | lege graduate, but I don’t believe it. Dicks—Why not? Hicks—Oh, I tried him last night, and he | didn’t know the first thing about poker. Somerville Journal. Clara—Yes, there isn’t any doubt in my mind that George Fowler is blindly in love with you. Winnie (blushing)—Why? Clara—He told me yesterday that he didn’t think you looked & bit over 30.—Cleveland Leader. Neighbor's Pretty Daughter—How much is this & yard? Draper’s Son (desperate “spoons’ on her)— Only one kiss. Neighbor’s Fretty Daughter—If it's so cheap I wili take tnree yards, and grandma will pay you.—Dublin World. “I see in & recent book where the 1dea is put forth that mankind sang before it talked. What do you think of {t?” “Don’t know, but there is a fellow on our block who is going to sing just before he dies, some time, unless he quits howling popular songs."—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. ARBITRATION WITH ENGLAND OUR ACTUAL EXPERIENCE WITH EUROPEAN UnPIRES. | Army and Navy Journal. We observe that Ex-Senator Edmunds says: “The third and last objection to the abitra- tion treaty Ihave heard is the supposed dan ger of leaving it to any European power to name an umpire in certain contingenees. It 15 enough to say that, so far esour consider- able experience has gome in such matters, we have never had occasion to complain of the action of any sovereign in naming an umpire or in deciding a dispute.”” Mr. Edmunds’ recollections are certainly very much at fault in this case. We had the most righteous reasons for objecting in the case of the selection of the third Commissioner to determine the fisheries Cispute. By the twenty-third article of the treaty of Washing. ton it was agreed that the question as to the amount of money to be paid by the United States for the alleged excess in value of what they received over what they gave should be referred to Commissioners, one to be named by eacn party, and the third by the President and the Queen conjointly. 1i was further agreed that if the choice of the third Commissioner was not made in three months he should be named by the Austrian Minister in London. Earl Granville insisted that the cholce should be referred to the Min- ister of the United States and_the Minister of England at the Hague to see if they could not agree upon “some Dutch gentleman.” This was a clear departure from the treaty and would, as Mr. Fish sllowed, require the con- sion of & new treaty in constiivt onal fo-m NEW TO-DAY. Scott’s Emulsion is Cod- liver Oil prepared as a food. At the same time, it is a blood maker, a nerve tonic and an up-builder. But principally it is a food for tired and weak digestions; for those who are not getting ; the fat they should from their ordinary food; for chil- dren whom nothing seems to nourish; for all who are fat-starved and thin. It is pleasant to take; at least, it is not unpleasant. Children like it and ask for more. %Sm-?d:xn have a “‘Just as good” kind. Isn't 73 try to equal good enough for you to Defore the proposition could be assented to Dy the United States. He added that “it is deeply 10 be regretted that her Majesty’s Gov- ernment has made no effort to comply with that provision, of the twenty-third article of the treaty, whereby it was agreed that ihe third Commissioner shonld be named by the Bresidant of the Unlled Siates and her Britan. nic Majesty conjointly.” By this subteriuge, for it can be called noth. ing else, Great Britain threw over the selection of the Commissioner to the end of the three months, and then insisted that the Austrian Mipister should select him. He selected Mr. Delfosse, the Belginn Minisier at Washington, the representative of a kingdom owing its origin to the armed interposition of Great Britain, and its continuauce to her friendship and favor; a kingdom ruled over uniil within a few vears of that time by Leopold, the nncle of Queen Vicloria, the father of her husband, Prince Albert, tne son-in-law of the Prince Regent of England, and a marshal in the Briush army. King Leopold was in the yearly receipt of $250,000 from the British ex- chequer, and was natursily on the most aff-ciionate terms with the Queen of England and was ber confidential aaviser. This selection threw two of the three arbi. trators into the hands of England. Such was the *impartial” tibunal to which was re- ferred the fisheries question. As a result wa were obliged wrny in money or remitted du- ties $9,700,000 for fishery rights that belonged to us aiready, and whicn were not in any case worth over $1,500.000, estimating mackerol at the extravasant price of $10 a barrel. Asa matter of fact they were not worth half a mii. lion. Mr. Edmuuds must be familliar with these facts. How can be, In view of them, say: “We have never haa occasion to com: plain of the action of any sovereign in name ing an umpire or in deciding a dispute.” In view of past experience are we not quita right in objecting to the selection in advanca of & minor European sovereign as an arbi. trator between us and Great Britain conce ing we know not what? If we will put neads into the Jion’s mouth in this tas deserve to be bitten. Letters From the People. CUBA AND THE CUBANS, The Standard of Intellizence Higher on the Island Than in Spain. ditor of the C T the of rec esting The Cubans who are fighting are not “mosily half-breeds.” The population of Cubd is 1,600 R 65 per cent are white and 33 per cent colored and Chi Official de Habans, 1890) and is divided into sx provinces, viz.: labeva, Matanzas, Pinar del Rio, S8anta Clara, Puerto Principe ane tiago de Cuba. At the head of es ovince is a “Gobernador civil,” avpo by the Spanish crown and subordi Gove eror-General, who is the Viceroy. Each of | the provinces sends two Senators (o the Span- ish Cortes, who are elected under menipuls. ons of theroyal rulers, who take good ca. to return only desirable p: The Uniye sity of Habanaand the Royal Econumic Socis ety each elect an additional Senator. 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