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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,” MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. Daily and Sunday CALL, one weel Daily and Sunday CALE, Oue vear, by and Sunduy CALL, six months, by mal. and Sunday Ca: three months by mail 1.50 65 , one month, by mail. y CaLy, one year, by mail. W ¥axLy CALL, OB year, by mal BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone........ ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ... Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 627 Montromery street, corner Clay; open until 0:30 o'clock. 839 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 616 Larkin strect: open until 9:50 o'clock. SW. cormer Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock, 167 Ninth strect; open until 8 o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE3 908 Broadway. ZASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Oltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. " THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. TARCH 1, 1897 During the week ending Sa urday last THE CALL published 4429 of advertisements, which is 83 1 8 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time, Yesterday THE CALL pub- lished 1 24 inches more of advertisements than either of its morning contemporaries. inches Yorward March. Hail, gentle spring! Now for carnivals and things. Keep up the movement for the Federai building. Only three more days of woes, and on the fourth old Grover goes. Over in the East they won’t dare to say “Hail, gentle spring !’ for fear of catching a blizzard, The Cuban mas-meeting will soon claim attention, sympathy and enthu- siasm. Republicans are glad McKinley is com- g in, Democrats are glad Cleveland is oing out, and everybody is satisfied. The Sultan is the one man in the world | | imperceptible, the day will hardly be who cau see no beauty in the latest Greek | curve, < week will be no bigger than other , but it will see more big things than most of them. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? It is now several years aix;oe. the City of San Francisco awoke to the urgent neces. sity of having built for the use of its increasing business 8 new Government building mainly devoted to the uses of a Postoffice. By a spasm of energy on the part of the then members of the Senate and Congress a small appropriation was voted for the acquisition of a site for the structure. The sharpest kind of competition speedily arose among the owners and agents of available sites over the selection of the most suitable one. After awhile the spot upon which tradition tells us that the future Postoffice may possibly be erectea was.chosen by the Commissioners in cliarge of that | preliminary step. That was years ago. Since then our people have held several Congressional elec- tions and have chosen more than one Senator. What have they done to further this most needed public work? What in particular has been the activily of our Demo- cratic Senator and the Democratic members of the House of Representatives from California, who are presumed to have some degree of influence with the Democratic administration at Washington? What have you been doing, | during the past year to keep the supervising architect awake to his duty | in this respect? What energy have you shown, Judge Maguire, in prodding the Post- Senator White, master-General and his deputies up to a proper activity in the furtherance of this needed work ? tricts, represent the whole State of Californ; What have the other Democrats, who, while elected from outside dis- ia, done to supplement the-lageing zeal of those whose especial care it should have been to push along this pubiic necessity ? The people of San Francisco are entitled to have these questions answered by their servants at Washington, and are also entitled to be justly indignant if the forth- coming answer is not satisfactory. During the present week a change in occur. A Republican President, Secretary will be in power. the administration at. ‘Washington will of the Treasury and Postmaster-General 1n view of the long and apparently inexcusable delay in this matter, 1t will not do for Senator White or Congressman Maguire to lie back and justify inertis upon the plea that they are impotent with the new administration- Neither will this plea longer avail Senator Perkins or Congressman _Loud. ‘I'he people ot San Francisco demand their Postoffice building, and are aroused to a full knowledge of the fact that they have the grossest official neglect somewhere. responsible for this neglect and to put a present end to delay. been delayed inexcusably in getting. it by They intend now fo ascertain who is Itisto beseen whether our own official servants at Washington intend to act in the matter in accord with their duty and with our City’s needs. If they do not San Francisco will apply, to the Senators and Congressmen representing other and more fortunate :States and cities, who have had their Postoffice buildings of equal or greater size and cost co! their own communities during the years that San Francisco -has not su getting beyond the purchase of a site. léted in eded in SPRING IS HERE. ! = | According to the almanac and the con- } ventional divisions of our vear spring be-‘ gins to-day. Over in the East, where the | seasons sharply divided by differ- | ences of weather, the day will be univer- | sally-noted and a thousand poems will | wing their way from poets’ ‘hearts to ed- | itors’ wastebaskets. With us, where the | seasons blend into one another by such | slow and slight changes as to be almosl! noted at ali. Nevertheless to California as much as to any part of the counsry does | the coming of spring give reason to re- joice. It promises prosperity and brings | |a thousand evidences that the promise | will be fulfilled. | In our gladness at the coming of spring we shall not lay so much stress as they do | in the East upon the blooming of flowers. These, though they are not poor, we have | always with us. Our sense of satisfaction | comes from other things. It is a pleasure | | of course to see the fields radiant again in | | the golden glow of poppies, the orchards | | almost luminons with blooms and the gar- dens taking on a richer luxuriance than | they have known under the clouds of | winter, but these are not for us so greata | change from wintry scenes as they are in | the East, and of course do not affect us g0 | acutely. In order to fully enjoy them we | have to add to them music, reveiry and mirth. Our spring is the season of carni- | vals. ot, however, even from the gorgeous fes- | tivals which are being prepared in all sec- tions of the State does the fullest satisfac- | | tion come with the consciousness that we | The present session of Congress has| been very ordinary, but the next will be | something extra. During this week Washington City will be so full of life she can hardly feed it or give it room to sleep. The retirement of Cleveland will give sadness to the comic papers, but it will be fun for serious people. The powers will find that the light of Greece is not that of a tallow candle and cannot be put out by blowing. In a few days the Legislature will be showing 1ts patriotism by serving without Ppay, and then the work will be hurried up. Now that springtime has come it will be necessary to read our advertisements in order to keep posted on the novelties and know where to get bargains. It is said that Silver Dick Bland will lead the minority in the next House of Representatives, but all the same it will never be known as a bland crowd. The only feature of the design for the Federal building which seems to be over- looked by the officials at Washington:is the fact that it was designed to be erected. As soon s the new Secretary of the Treasury gets into office and looks around he ought to see the necessity of hastening the work on the Government building in this City. If there ever wasa man in office who had & good excuse for doing nothing it is Grover Cleveland. He has blundered ‘so often there is no use for him to try now to do anything. It is announced that as soon as his term of office is over Oleveland will start at once for a yachting trip, so that those who wished him to get off the earth will be partially satistied, The Spanish Government need not aban- don the proposed reforms simply because the Cubans won’t have them. It is quite possible that someof them would fit Spain herself and be agreeable. The coming of spring-this year signifies not only the departure of winter, but the | ending of the long depression. It isto be a spring of prosperity which will revive vusiness as well as flowers, There is a demand in Boston that the Massachusetts Le ‘1slature appoint a4 com- mittee on grammar and syntax; and thus does culturs, when carried to extremes, find fault with its own style. At the recent whist: tournament in Bos- ton, which is said to have been the largest on record, the two leading prizes were taken by women, and yet thereare people who say that at whist women never know how to lead. . A Chicago millionaire chartered _a spe- cial train to carry him from that city to the bedside of hisdying son in Denver. The distance of 1020 miles was nfade in a little less than eighteen hours. This was speedy traveling, but death got there first. The work of civilizing, or at least of over- running, Africa is going forward so rap- idly fears are expressed that the ele phant will soon be exterminated. It is estimated tnat over 45,000 0f them were killed last year. It isa bad outlook for the circus business, | to the summer of prosperity after the long | winter of depression. have reached the beginning of spring. This year the season is 10 ‘bring us first of all reliof from Cleveland. After that by swift degrees will come relief from Cleve- | landism, depression and hard times. The spring is to be a new uprising of a thou- sand sctivities which have long lain dor- mant, or dying, under the administration | wiil of the testator that nationality shall | Viceroy of Chi-li, towhom he will alone be re- of debt, deficit and disaster. Far better than the return of flowers will be the re- turn of industry. More cordial will be the welcome given to enterprise, work and | wages than any which will be accorded to | carnivals however gorgeous or festivals however gay. In the good things of the spring Califor- nia will share. We shall have our return ‘We shall profit with the rest of the country in all the benefits of the coming McKinley days. Springis here. Three more days of Grover. Truly it is time to rejoice, whether it rain or shine. GREEK NATIONALITY. It is safe to assert that whatever course | may be taken by the great powers in deal- | ing with the Cretan crisis and fo what- | ever terms Greece may be compelled to | submit for the time, the contest now begun will not end .until the desire of all the | Greeks to be united into one nation is | realized and satisfied. | This is not the first time modern Greeks have had to struggle against great odds | for a national existence. Early in the century, when Europe, worn out by the long Napoleonic wars, sought repose by every means diplomacy could devise, the | Greeks of the mainland rose to assert their independence of Turkish rule. Then as now the Governments of the great nations saw danger to themselves in the struggle and endeavored to suppress the patriots. Then as now, however, the sympathies of the people of ail countries were with the Greeks, and it was in vain the diplomats attempted to silence the voice of humar- ity and to baffle the popular desire to see Greece resume her place among the nations of the earth. | As Gladstone speaks for Greece to-day | so Byron more elcquent than Gladstone | himself spoke for her' then. In America Fitz-Greene Halleck added the influence of his genius to that of Byron and roused | American sympathy with Greece to a genuine fervor by that noble ode to Marco | Bozzaris, which is still treasured among the best possessions of our poesy. For | more than ten years the Greeks fought for | national independence in much the same way the Cubens are fighting now. Jn the | end the apathy of the Governments of the nations was overcome. Diplomacy was | forced to give way to public sentiment. | The great nations st last interfered on behalf of the heroic patriots, and Greece was free, It would have been well for Europe had the statesmen of that time been wise enough to deal with the subject thor- oughly and unite ail the Greeks in one nation. They chose, however, tne other course and gave to freedom as little as they could. They left the Greek 1slands | and Macedonia in possession of the Turk, end to-day Europe reaps the sad conse- quences of that fault of the statesmen of a bygone age. It remainsto be seen whether the rulers of Europe at this time will be wise enough to profit by the warning of that mistake, or whether they will com- mit thesame blunder and for the sake of temporary peace attempt once more to compromise an issue which can never be settled until it is settled right. ‘We have seen in the later years of this century the Italians and the Germans fight their way to national unity. The Greeks now struggling in the same cause are destined to win. Under. no circum- stances will Crete be given back to Tarkish rule,’and sooner or later Macedonia will join the Greek nation and swell its strength. That accomplished there wili then remain the Poles ‘and the Irish to wait for the hour of destiny to-strike for them. In the end ‘that hour will .come, for the cause of liberty moves forward steadily and will not cease to move unul in the fullness of time every people among civilized men will have erected itself into a free nation to play its part in the history of an enlightened world. : A NOBLE GIFT, Much of the complaint against vast ac- cumulations of wealth in individual hands would ceas? if millionaires should follow the example set by the Scanainavian, Alfred Nobel, who recently died and be- queathed a fortune of $10,000,000 to the benefit of humanity. The interest from this immense sum he directs shall an- nually be distributed in five great prizes to the five men who have been among the foremost benefactors of their race. There is a prize each for the most im- | portant discovery in physics, in chemistry and in medicine, one for the greatest liter- ary work in an ideal sense and the fifth goes to him who shall have exerted the greatest or best action for the fraternity of the people, for the suppression or the diminution of armies and for the promo- | tion of peace congresses. These five prizes will amouft to $60,000 each, and every year there will be a fresh chance for discoverers, autlors and philan- | thropists to win these fortunes, _It is the most munificent system of rewards that hasever been established. Four of these prizes are to be awarded by various Swel- ish academies and institutes and the fifth by a committee appointed Ly t:ie Nor- wegian Storthing, but it is the expres not be taken into account in the awards. Alfred Nobel was a distinguished chem- ist and the inventor of dynamite. It seems odd that he who placed in man’s hands the most terribly destruetive of war’s munitions should have offered thes: great annual prizes for those who put forth the best efforts for war’s suppression. It is probable, however, the invention itself may yet have a strong influence in putting an end to the battles the inventor detested, and which he planned that his wealth should continie striving to over- come long after his degth. Learning how to use dynamite effectively may make war 0 mutually and suddenly extermina- tive that no nation wiil have the Wolly to engage in it. Tvwill be interesting .td watch what et- fect the stimuius of these large prizes will have on genius. It is to be devoutly | hoped that mankind witl greatly benefit | | from the magnificent gift of this lover of | | humanity. Perhaps the aggregate effect | both in stimulaiing genius and befrlend- ing’ maukind might have been made greater by dividing tte sum into smaller prizes 80 as tc reach humbler toilers and deservers. Many more hearts would thus have been encouraged and made happy. The five among-the world’s most success- fal men who will succeed in capturing these great prizes would, in almost every case, have reaped an immente reward without the addition’ of Nobel’s gift, and the stimulus of it could add little toward rousing a capacity which was great enough to reach out for the first five achievements of each year. However, since the manner ot distributing the gilt has passed forever beyond reconsidera- tion, let us hope that Providence will direct the awards to some of those modest | scholars who seek no wealth from patent rights, and who have no commercial capacity to compel the world to pay them what they deserve. - COASI EXCHANGES Charles H. Coffey of San Jose has become associated with H. R. Farley in the publica tion of the Gonzales Tribune. The Visalia Daily Delta celebrated its fifth birthday last Monday. A bright, breezy paper it1s, and its prosperity aprears 10 have been commensurate with its merits. Woodland is happily profiting by its recent spurt of enterprise. The Mol states that the Woo1land creamery has proven a success be- yond all expectations, and that s big chease factory is now to be establishea there. The X Ray is the name of a paper which has just entered the field in Cordelis, Solano Couaty. D. H. White is the editorial operator, and the X Roy is supposed to get the news if it bas to pierce through walls a foot thick to reach it. D. B. Hannah, founder of the Tacoms Sun, & Populist newspaper, has ceased his connection with that journal, but his successor, A. P. Tug- well, promises that the hattle shall continue to be waged =ith equal Cetermination against everything and everybody that doesn't con- form with Populistic doctrine. According to the Tulare Register, a vigilance committee has been formed in that seotion of country, including in its membership a large number of “solid” citizeus. “The soclety is ng 118 by-laws broadcast,” says the ut the first fellow found riding off a horso which does not belong to hun will learn the objects of the organization with the lesst possibie delsy. The methods of pro- cedurp will vary to suit surroundings—that s, there will be one plan of initiation within the onkbelt and another on the plains. Attention will not all be devoted to persons with a weak- ness for horses. Any one found with plunder of any description, the title of whiob is vested in somebody else, will have no occasion to put the county to expens The Bhasta Courier, profiting by the wisdom born of experience, makes the following re- flection on the cold-day clamor of some of its exchanges for “wood on subscription”: *“When they get older they wili savey more. The Couréer has been running for Rearly half.a century and has had 1000 men . promise to bring wood on subscription, and. finally been forced to come 1o the conclusion that in that time, to its certain knowledge, there have been 999 derned liars in Shasta County.” The Bodie Miner-Indez, which, by the way, is one of the most interesting exchanges since J. W. E. Townsend assumed charge 0f 1t, says that “if Comstockers are as smart as they used to be they will get up a dear little boom during the pug invasion and give the sports & chance to become stock speculators. How would itdo to uncover the bonanze that is currently re- ported 10 exist in Belcher? It might set the ball rolling and starta wake-up deal. Much has been said during the past ten years about that hidden ore body. It itis there, now is tHe time to show it up and make a market for the boys." Here is another origingl suggestion from the Bodle Miner-Indez: “It might be & good Plan lor the Secretary of the Navy to have all the rocks and reefs along tho coast lines of this country legibly . labeled. for profection of the United States cruisers, The commanders seem to be unable otherivise to assure themselves of theexistence of such things save by the erude ana disastrous test of actual contact."” ‘The Salinas Indez informs us that the new Spreckels svgar factory soon to be built there, together with the reservotr, pulp sheds, pump- ing plants, beet sheds, machine-shops, offices, etc., will cover a floor space of 522 acres. The rock for the foundation of the big building alone will amount t0 12,000 tons. There will be two steel smokestacks 200 feet in height, besides several smulier ones.’ The main build- ing wili be 586 feet long by 106 feet in width, and it will be two storfes in height. The boil- ers alone will cost in the neighborhood of $140,000. These figures will give some idea of the magnitude of the new industry. NEWS OF FORE.GN NAVIES. The British battle-ship Canopus, building at the Pembroke dockyard, is to be tompleted in twenty months. During the first four weeks after the keel was laid 602 tons of material Was put up in the huil: Schichau, at Elbing, Prussia, is building six 152-feet torpedo-boats, with 2300 horse- power, for the German navy snd four torpedo- boat destroyers for China, which are 193 feet 6 inches in length, have a horsepower of 6500 and are to have a speed of 32 knots. The Corrientes, torpedo-boat destroyer built in England for the Argentine Republic, left London February 1 for her voyvageé to Buenos | AvYes, but returned to Portsmouth -three days later, having met with severe weather 1n the Bay of Biscay. The craft leaked considerably | and the machinery got out of order. Her repairs will be considerable. Yu Lu, Tartar general of Foochow and Im- perial High Commissioner of the Foochow ar- senal, has reported to Peking that he has ar- ranged for the.purchase of centrifugal pumps, hydraulic 1ift for the patent slip, shears and | macninery for lifting heavy guns. etc., and states that with the addition of modern ma- chine tools the arsenal will soon'be able to. tyrn out modern warships of steel and also battle:ships of small size. Tne Centuriow, first-class barbette, armored ship of the British navy, late)y attached to the Chinaquadron, bad & four-hours’ sea trial re- cently, during which she averaged 18.2knots, nd for half an hour worked up to 19 knots, She is Tated in Brases's at “18.5 knots by 0g.” and her recent verformance is certainiy | very satisfactory, indicating as it does that the | engines and boilers have been well cared for | during the three years of commission, | The Cninese Govethmem has seeurea the | services of Commander F.G.Dundas of the | royal navy, with the permission of the British | Government. Tt was necessary, however, for | the Chinese first to apologize 1o the British | Foreign Oftice for the treatment to which the former English officer lent to China hed been | subjected, and the newly appointed officer will e solely under the immediate orders of the | sponsible. | Commander Dundas will leave for | | The ip for the Japanese navy, building at Armstrong's, Elswick, 1s nearly ready for her trial trip. She presents many novel improvements over ships ot simi- lar class and will be very formidable. Her dimensions are 372 feet length, 73 feet 6 inches beam ana 26 feet 8 inches muin draught, disp'acing 12,320 tons. The armor beit, of Harveyized steel, 1s 226 feet in lenigth, | 8 feet in deptn and ranges from 13 to 14 | inches in thickness. The barbettes and con- ning tower are 14 inches thick. The arma- ment consisis of four 12-inch rifled gups, ten 6-inch, fourteen 3-pounders apd ten 24 pounders, all, of course, rapid firers. Under natural draught the speed is expecied o Teach 163 knots and 181 knots under forced draught. The esal-bunker capacity is 1200 _tons in sea-going draught. The giannery trials of the Chilean cruiser Esmeralda took place yesterday off the mouth of the Tyne and proved satisfactory. The Es- meralda was built by Sir W. G. Armstrong & and she is the most heavily armored cruiser in oxistence and with the exceptional speed under natural draught of 23 knots. She i of 7500 tous displacement, has a Harveyized steel belt, and carries two S-inch, sixteen 6-inch, six 12-pounders of 40 caliber, two 12- pounders of 23 esliber, nine 6-pounders, two 3-pounders and fonr Maxim Nordeufeit guns, ail being quick firing. Electricity is used for training the heavier guns and for hoisting shells and ammunition. The severe test of firing an 8-inch aud four six-inch guns simul. taneously in the line of keel foré and ait w done without any damage whatever to the ship, not even the ornamental woodwork of the cabins below deck showing any signs of T R L % PERSONAL Dr. G. W. Shores of €alt Lake is at the Bald- win. - G. B. Vanderhurst of Salinas is at the Occi- dental, John O'Neill, a contractor of Eureks, is at the Grand. J. C. Mogk, a grain-dealer of Coluss, is guest at the Grand. William White of Cornwall, Eng., is & late arrival at the Palace. W. F. George, an attorney of S8acramento, {s Tegistered at the Grand. J. W. Dilworth, & business man of New York, is.at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Shelby Tuttle, a capitalist and ex-mining operator of Montans, is at the Palxce. C. D. Daly, a merchant of Eurcka, came down yesterday and registered at the Grand. W. P. Fuller reiurped last night from a trip through the East. Heig at the Palace. Charles M. Hammond, an insurance maa of Upper Lake, is visiting at the California. A. H. Boles, a promineént young business man of Sacramento, is st the Cosmopolitan Hotel. £ . Jobn L. Egbert, a manufacturer, of Bpring. field, Mass,, arrived yesterday at the Occi- dental, Frank Aldridge, Assemblyman from Watson- ville, accompanied by Mrs. Aldridge, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. K Ormsby, a desler in California fruits in Chicago and Eastern markets, is a recent ar- rival at the Palace. Assemblyman J. G. Elliott of Merced, rce m- panied by his wife, 1s down from Sacramento st the Cosmopolitan. . Rev. N.. McNulty, a well:known Catholic priest of Paterson, N. J., now in this State on a. ‘our for his health, returned yesterday to the Lick. “G. Ripamonti of Italy and G. de Barros of Paris returned to the Beldwin yesterday after g ‘:n.:nm'- tour of the southern part of the Carlton H. Ciark, Californis Commissioner the | | captain of & steamer on Lake Sebago, 10 the Guatemalan Exposition, will leave to- day to take charge of this State’s interests at the exposition. Dr. A. E. Osborn, superintendent of the Home for the Feeble-minded at Eldridge, So noms County, is atthe Grand in compsny with Dr. Worrall of Santa Clara. Arthur Baure, cashier of the new bank at San Luis Obispo, just transferred to the Swiss- American Bank of this City, arrived at the Oc- cidental yesterday with his wife and will par- ticipate to-nignt in & banquet given by his fel- Tow bankers. Countess Espenoze and a small retinue of servants, consisting of a courier named J. M- Oakley, a valet and a mald, arrived here yes™ terday evening, took a suite of rooms at the Palace Hotel and immediately retired thereto decliniug to be visited by any one. The Countess came from the southern part of the State, but is propably originally from Spain. AIR CASTLES. 13it alone to-night, and dream 1n the fire fght's iitful flare, And grzing in the glowing grate I'see refi:cted ther- ‘Through tancy’s faicy vistas My casties In the air. In distant sta’ely splendor Stands fame’s fmperial fane: What would we not surrender Her treasured sio! to gain? From walis with jewels gleaming, From halls with beau:y beaming, Sound vol ces ever seeming. To call us to attain. The helghts of Castie Learning Are gained through many stars, Bt when with ardor burning 3 We Deat agsinst ber bars She grants to our ende: Laureis that fading never ‘Abide with us forever, Enduring as (he stars. 181t alone to-night, and dream In the firelight’s fittul flare Ye gracious fates, but grant, I pray, The will 10 do and dare; Thas I may put f.undations 'neath My castles lu the air. ERN¥ST NEAL LYON in New York Sun. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Jessie Langford of Duluth has & very clean record as a licensed pilot. She has served more than ten years on the great lakes. Miss Minnie F. Clay has been appointed Me.. She passed the examination for pilot and naviga- tor. i 5 Marie Corelli dressed a doll to represent Jessamine Dale, a character in one of her novels, and sent it to the London Truth doll show. W. A. Johnson, who is now Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, serving his third term, once was an amateur baseball pitcher, and a good one, too. Tolsto's manuscript is full of interlineations [ arid erasures, and the handwriting is smail, fine and hard toread. The Countess transcribes it for the printer, and one year, it is said, she made filteen copies of one of her husband’s books. 2 > John Nicholas Brown, son of the late John Carter Brown, the millionaire manufacturer of Rhode Isiand,'who has been in Europe for several years, has cabled the trustees of the public library of Providence a gift of $200,000 for the new library building. Without this gift there was little prospect of the building’s completion for several years. : It is not generally kuown that President- elect McKinley owns a farm of 163 acres located twenty miles from Centon, near the junction of Carroll, Stark and Columbiana Counties, Ohto. He was Prosecnting Attorney of Stark County when he secured possession of the property. A man named Adams manages the farm and divides the profits with the owner. S For twenty-five years George Huntsinger of Lumpkin County, Ga., has served as inspector of tue Yahoola Hydraulic Compauy. His duty has been to daily inspect the supply pipe from the Yahoola River to the gold fields, & distance of twenty-five miles. For twenty- five years, in ali sorts and conditions of weather, Huntsiuger has walked the length of this pipe one day. and back egain the next. When, recently, he gave up the job on account of failing health, he cniculaiad that he had | covered a distance of 35,550 miles on foot. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. | “Why do you suppose that soclety woman married an organ grinaer?” “Probably she wanted to get rid of him."— Chicago Record. “De man dat boasts. ob his cha’ty,” said Uncle Eben, ““makes somé folks crititize. But he ain’ ez bad as de man dat ain’t got no’scuse foh boastin’ even ef he wanted ter.””—Wash- ington Star. Willie—It's always in damp places where mushrooms grow, sn’'t it, papa? Papa—Yes, my son. % 44 the reason they look like umbrellas, papa opkers Statesman. Emily (playing “house”)—Now, I'll be mamma, and you'll be papa, ana little Ben and Bessie will be our babies. Wiliie (after & moment, anxiously)—Ain’t it about time to whip the children ?—London Tit-Bits. o “What is the matter with Chappie? IIl,I hear.” X “Yes, has water on the brain. Wora his sof hat with the crown dented in a circleand went out in the rain one day.—Cincinnati Commer- ciai-Tribune. “The laboring man does not seem to know his place at all,” said the effefe person from across the sea. “He don't, eh?” sald the American farmer. «Jest you sitaround till dinner’s on the table.” Cineinnati Enquirer. “Some men will go to almost any length for the sake of being eccentri “Ye indeed, there’s Browning, for in. stance.’ “Whavs his freak ?” -Chicago Journal. “How long have you been on this route? asked the drummer of the conductoron a prim- ftive Southern railroad. “‘Ten yeahs, suh.” “Indeed? You must have gotten on several miles south of where 1 did.”—Free Press. Spinks—IV's very inconvenient to be poor. I hope Dame Fortune will soon knock =t my door. Mrs, Spink: she did knock. Spinks—What's the reason ? Mrs. Spinks—Because you are never at' home.—Ohio State Journal. JEFFERSON'S IN’ UGURATION. Ceitury Macazine. No insuguration myth has been more tena- cious of life than that which pictured Jeffer- son, attired as a plain citizen, riding on horse- back to the Capitol, hitching his horse to the palings, and walking unattended into the Senate chamber to take the oath as President. To have done this would have been in accord- ance with his previous utterances, for he had strongly condemned s savoring of monarchy all public ceremony at the swear- ing in of a President. When the time for his own inauguration arrived, however, the seems to have looked different to him. Whether it was because he wi first President inaugurated at the tol, or becanse of an vnwillingne: point tho large numbers of his frie partisans who had assembled to honor him, is nct clear; but the fact 1s that he did permit considerable display at the ceremonies. his boarding-house, s throw g company e "mu‘:l.by these, It wouldn’t do you any good if e went on oot to the Capil The horseback story, or -‘{ake,” a8 it would be denominated in modern journalism, was the {nvention of an Englishman named John Davie, who put it In a book of American travels whioh he published in London two years later. In order to give it an air of truthfulness, Davis declared that he was pres- ent at the insuguration, which was not true. A veracious account of the ceremonies was tent to" England by Edward Thornton, who was then in charge of the British legation at Washington, and in this Jefferson was de- scribed as having walked to the Capitol. These facts, together with a great mass of interest- 1ing matter about Jefferson's fnauguration, set_forth i ms in his in ““n‘f Henry “History of the Uni States,” and leavé no doabt that the Davis version was & pure fabri- cation DR. 'HEMPH. Z ILL, Who Yesterday Denounced the European Powers Which Are Tyrannizing Over Greece. ARRAGHED THE GRENT POWERS Dr. Hemphill on the Bom- bardment of the Greeks. Strong Words of the Pastor of Calvary Pre:tbyterian Church. So-Called Christian Nations Termed Pagan and Barbarian—Con- grezation E ectrified. Dr. Hemphill of Calvary Presbyterian Church poured hot shot into the Euro- pean powers for their efforts to prevent Greece from occupying Crete in his ser- mon yesterday morning. . The announced topic, “A Noteworthy Exampte’ of Chrisi’s Cleansing Power.'_' gave little intimation of what was to come, and the congregation was electrified when the pastor arraigned the nationsin no measured terms for interfering with the Greeks. He termed them ‘‘puny, pagan, barbarian powers of Europe,” and called upon the Lord to stay the slaughter of Christians by the “unspeakable Turk.” “They are having troublous times over there in Enropeat present,” he said, “and the trouble is not ended. It isonly be- gun. A trouble is never ended until it1s ended right. The great powers of Europe think they have ended it by turning their great guns on little Greece.” God bless lit- tle Greece! May she make for herself a new Thermopvie! The great powers have not ended the trouble. They have only begun it. The Christian sentiment of the world is greater than the greatest guns of the great powers, and the Chris- tian sentiment of the world is against the Turk. B “The Tark is unspeakable. The Turk is fanatical in bis hatred of all Christians of every name. The Turk is a lustful beast, The Turk is a bloody butcher. The Turk is a moral leper. g “The Christian powers? The civilized powers? The great powers? No; the puny, pagan, barbarian powers. Why do I call them so? Because for half a century and more they have aided and abetted, and are stiil aiding and abetiing,the atrocious Turk in his bloody butcheries. Within the memory of some here the Turk has butch- ered 50,000 Greek Christians, 10,000 Nesto- nan Christians, 11,000 Maronite and Sy- rian Christians and 15000 Buligarian Christians. And within two years he has butchered 75,000 Armenian Christians, mostly men, leaving more than 300,000 women and children, mostly girls, to die of disease and starvation, or become the slaves of Turkish lust and rapacity. And the great Christian, civil zed powers of Europe? No; the puny, pagan, barba- rian_powers of Europe watch the bloody butcheries and do nothing. And they do nothing in the interests of peace, they say, “Tt is a great, dreadful 1ie. It is notin the interests of peace, but in the interests of their pockets. Turkey ia a bankrupt nation; ibe great powersare the credit- ors, and it Turkey were dism>mbered the creditor nations would suffer loss. Their present do-nothing policy is in the inter- esis of greed, and not in the interests of peace. ve the great powers of Burope veen 30 fond of peac: the past that they should now ecry ‘peace at any price? Peace! It a false peace. Itissaying peace, peace, when thers is no peuce’. Sometimes the best and only way to peace is through blood-red war. Warisa great evil, but there are worse things even than war. The present iniquitous peace in Europe is worse; and ti.ere never will bafenu in Europe until the leprous Turk isdriven out of it. Well, my comfort and faith and hope and prayer is that what the so-called Christian nations cannot or will not do, Jesus Christ, the king ot nations, will do. He can cure the lepro- ies that afflict the body politic jnst as a3ily as he cured the leprosy that afflicted the body of the man whose case we bave been considering this morning, just easily as he can cure the leprosy of sin that afflicts your soul and mine. “He has yet to reckon with the Turk for all the Christian blood he has shed. He has yet to reckon with the Christian nations of Europe for letting it be shed. How long, how long? Why tarry the wheels of thy chariot? Make :gea‘d to save thy slaughtered peovle, for heir salvation comes not from the na- tions ot Europe who call themselves by thy name.” RETURNS WITH RELICS. Children Have a Fine Time at the Chutes. Thers was an hour or two of pleasant weather yesterday, which made a visit to the park and ocean beach a pleasure to the few who went out. Curator Wilcomb of the park museum has returned from a trip to Southern Cali- fornia, where he has been collecting Indian relics. They wiil be put on exhi- | between Gedd | the obstacle race was won by F. Clough. bition next week. There have been a number of donations to the museum dur- ing the past week. A number of opals were given by S. Sonnenfeld of San Fran- cisco, some stuffed birds from Mrs. M. E. Chauche of Oakland and some relics of colonial days from Mrs. Ed E. Lee of Sa- lem, Mass. ; . The birds in the aviary were tuning up for the opening of spring, and Mcnarch, the grizzly bear, thought it warm enough to take a bath in the big tub. £ They had the usual sports out at the Sutro” baths. The boys’ race was won by F. Ciough. The 100-yard race was a tie , Redigan and Bell, and At the Chutes there was a crowd of de- lighted children watching the perform- ances of Bristol’s trained ponies. The star_performer was the little muie, “Den- ver,” who cleverly helps his master put on his coat, and he can pull off the boss’ rubbers and put them away in the closet, When his master was sick in the city of Denver the little mule used to go down to the hotel to see him every day and walk up the steps to his room. He can get in a swing and swing himself in a way that brings much applause. Corporations. The fourth lecture on commercial law in the special series given by Willlam Craig will take place at the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation Hall, Mason and Eliis streets, to-mor- row evening at 8 o'clock. His subject will be ‘Corporations.” The lecture will be {ree for all young men. e CALIFORNTA Glace Fruit 50¢ 1b. in fire-etched boxes at Townsend’s, Palace Hotel building. * —————— **Had & whole seat in the car to myself com- ing up to-night.” % “How was that?” “Carried a cake of limburger in my poeket and sat near the stove.”—Plain Dealer. SPECTAL information daily to manufactursry, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Lady of a Certain Age—I like this dress, but itdoesn’t match my complexion. Candid Friend—On, that's but a trifie. You can alter your complexion to sult.—Twinkles. Excursion Rates to Washington. For the benefit of those desiring to witness the inauguration of the next President of the United States the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will sell excursion tickets at one fare for the round trip from all points on its lines in Ohlo, Indiana and Illinois. Tickets will be sola March 1, 2 and 3, walld for return until March 8. Similar ticket via B. and O. B. R. will be sold by all the railroad, throughout the West. In addition to being t shortest and most direct line to Washington the B. and O. passes through a reglon of greater scenic ‘magnificence and bistoric interest than any in all America. 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