The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1897, Page 4

o e AR et THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 19 . APRIL 19, 1897 MONDAY... CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Bunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.15 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall 8.00 | Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally snd Sunday Cart, one month, by mal 65 | Sunday CaLL, ene year, by mall, WAEALY Cota oae sear, by NESS OFFICE: 710 Street ancisco, Californta. S . Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Cluy Street. Telephone Telephone . Matn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clay; open until 9:38 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Larkia street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W, corner Stxteenth and Mission streets, open wntil 8 o'clook. 2518 Misslon street, open nntil 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky streets; open till § o'ciock. OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 84 Park Row. DAVID M. FOLTZ, East w Yore Cltys Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The Easter bonnets were lovely. Begln the week by subscribing to the Balboa avenue fund. The big thing of the week Is the Los Angeles fiesta. Take it in if you can. The Queen’s diamond jubilee year is to be a blood and thunder season after all. Now is the time for the Kaiser to prance forth as the arbiter of Europe ana put on another umform. The Senate does not expect to finish with the tariff before the middle of June, and the House has a picnic. While the Greeks and Turks are fight- ing the powers will get together and ar- range for a division of the spoils. Itis now ciear that the intentions of the pacitic blockade did no more than pave the way for both Greece and Turkey to raise Cain. McKinley is said to have boughtin Ken- | a saddle-horse *'with all the gaits,” | \d possibly he may bave something of style also. A man of the age of Mr. Gladstone may call the Czar and the Kaiser “youthful despots,” but they are not so very youth- 1ul after all. It will not be safe to beton the fight between Greece and Turkey until the sec- onds on each side bave shown themselves in the ring. If the financial editor of the New York Times is right in saying **Wal! street tries to be hopeful, wants to be confident, but 15 nervous,” then Wall street should come West and invigorate itself. All partsof California should send large delegations and excursions to take part in the fiesta at Los Angeles. As tne festival bas now acquired a National reputation 1t cortainly deserves a State wide support. The ground on which was fought the battie of Marathon is now the property of the Greex Minister of War, and in delfy- ing the powers he is simpiy standing his own ground and drawing inspiration from his own fields. Some British papers are quite vociferous in dec! ¢ a willingness to fight Presi dent Kruger and Kaiser William com- bined, but this show of bravery may e only a dodge to hide an unwillingness to fight the Turk and he!p Greece out. On July 4, 1811, the Pennsylvania Soci- ety of the Cincinnati resolved to build in Pniladelphia a monument to Washington, and straightway began to raise money for the enterpr:! The monument is to be unveiled May 15. Pennsylvania is slow, but she gets there. If the Macedonians, Bulgarians and Bervians decide to take a part in the fight against 'Turkey, the existence of that em- vire in Europe will be virtualiy at an end, and then would come a scram for the spoils that wouid probadly continue the war to the end of the century. The fight between Greece and Turkey will be interesting, but all the same pub- lic attention will be directed less to itthan to the big powers that are watching it. A siigt slip in diplomacy somewhere may start another war that would overshadow this one and make it seem like a sideshow. While some people in New York mourn the disbanding of the Patriarchs, an ir- reverent critic declares the only public function the organization ever performed | was to define New York society, and be adds: “It is doubtful whether New York society was in the least better off for be- ing defined Senator Mason’s joint resolution proyid- ing for an American exhibit at the Paris exposition doesn't carry the appropria- tion we might have expected from a Chicago man. What would Mr. Mason have thought if France had considered 20,000 would be enough for her dis- cago? If all reports are true of the amounts of money Americans are paying for the lease of windows overlooking the route of the Queen’s jubilee procession, it would seem that her Majesty’s parade will just make an American holiday, but whether it is worth while to pay so much to see so little is a question for a debating society. There is a belief prevalent that the peo- ple of New England talk of notbing but science, art and philosophy, but now comes & man and writes 10 the New Haven Register to ask 1f there is a board- ing-house in that city where the boaraers can talk of something besides bicycles, so it 1s evidentthatin Connecticutat any rate the people are as human as the rest of us. By way of refuting the fiippancy with which the papers of New York and Chi- cago refer to Philadelphia es an over- grown village the Inguirer of that city calls attention to the fact that Philadel- phia has more asphalted streets than New York, more houses for homes than New York and Brooklyn combined, more elec- tric lights than New York and Chicago put together, and, moreover, is the only city In the Union which maintains a bourse and a commercial museum. If these attainments do not lift Philadelphia | recognized this above the rank of a village, what do New York and Chicago call themselves? CONSTANTINOPLE. The war between Greece and Turkey, and the extreme caution of the opposing statesmen of the nations of Europs on the subject, atiract attention to the magni- tude of the prize that is tofall to new hands in case the concert of Europeis broken and the policy of the integrity of the Turkish empire is abandoned. Con- stantinople, the gateway between Enrope and Asia, in the possession of either Eng- land or Russia, mizht, if used ambitiously and aggressively, make 1he country that seized it practically mistress of the worid. eat kings and couquerors and philos- ophical historians have for long ages the best site on earth for a great dominating world’s capital. Its position as offering dual control of two great continents, both as a yantage point of war and commerce, makes it the most tempting spot on the surface of the globe over which to wield dominion. Russia once established there could say to Eng- Jand in the assured language of the chess- player with the game practically won, “Check to your queen.” Englishmen themselves admit that with Russia in Constantinople English fiests could thereafter only visit the Mediter- ranean by courtesy of the bear, and they say further it would be absurd to suppose that from suck a vantage ground the bear would deny himself the easy domination of Asiatic lands that lay southward in reach of his paws. It is the inestimable value of the ground on which the Sultan stands that enables him so long to feebly play at sovereignty, while permitted massacres make his gov- ernment a mockery and shock the sensi- bilities of civilized peoples. The great nations, jealous of each other, prefer that a sick man should occupy the dominant situation, no matter what wickedness his weakness does or allows, rather than risk the passing of such an advantage to a rival. Some of the speskers and writers, even of the Liberal party, in England have freely confessed this in recent utterances. There is a certain sense, in which even the Liberals believe, in the preservation of the Turk’s empire. They seem actu- ated by mixed motives, and half condemn and balf commend the Premier; and by their flat refusal to accept the challenge thrown down to them to carry s vote of censure against the policy of those en- trusted with the Government they prove a vacillation between desire and dread, which would most likely make them hesi- tate if the great responsibililles were sud- denly thrust upon them. The wish to prevent Russia from be- striding the narrow world like a colossus evidently outweighs their repugnance to the Moslem’s tyrant rule over Christians in Crete and Armenia. The great prob- lem of Constantipople’s tuture makes an interesting subject of speculation, and it has thus engaged the attention of the world for generations. The time for speculating on the prob- lem is, however, rapidly passing away, even if it be not already past. The pres- ent war brings a!l the factors of that prob- lem into the arena of the urgent issues of the day. Itscemsas if the solution can- not be much long standing the fact that as Constantinople and the dominivn over a large part of the world are mighty stakes to play for, it is not to be wondered that the powers Lesi- tate to enter uvon the division of such spoils. A FRENOH EXPERIMENT. In an article reviewing the development of the use of wator power in generating electricity for transmission to distant points the Boston Herald gives Calilornia credit for having led the way in demon- strating the possibility of achieving prac- tical resultsin such enterprises. We have not, however, kept pace with other parts of the world 1n work of this kind and we must now look elsewhere for the most im- portant and impressive resuits. The great works established at Niagara have eclipsed all that has been done in California, and have been the real stimu- lus to similar enterprises elsewhere. Tnat plant is built on such an immense scale that it excites the imagination and prompts men of capital and engineers of skill to imitate the feat, and therefore has had a wide influence not only in America but throughout the civilized world. One of the most notable results of the study of the Niagara experiment is re- ported from France, where the military and civil authorities at Briancon have combined to get light, heat and motive power out of a small waterfall at some distance from the town. Briancon is the center of a mountain- ous country and is extremely difficuit of access. Fuel costs a great deal bacause of the difficalty of transportation, and even oil for lighting purposes costs so much that it imposes a heavy tax upon the authorities and the inhabitants. It was therefore of prime importance to the com- munity to devise some means of obtain- ing cheaper power for lights, heating and energy, and the Niagara experiment turned their attention to the waterfails in the mountains as a possible source of supply for these requirements. Under the direction of the War Depart- ment of Krance an electric plant was es- tablished at a point where it could be fed by power derived from a waterfall, and from this plant there has been derived an energy not only sufficient to furnish the city with lights, but also to run ecars for the transportation of freight. Aerial ca- bles have been erected betweesn the cen- tral storehouses and deiached forts perched at considerable aititudes among the surrounding mountains, and these posts are now supplied with munitions and all other requirements at a cost com- paratively slight whien contrasted with the expenditures which were formerly neces- sary. The experiment, according to reports, has been successful in every way. It has furnished the community with lizht, fuel, cheap transportation, energy sufficient for considerable manufactures and has sap- plied the War Department with a prompt means of maintaining its garrisons in the mountains. It therefors embodies a good object lesson for us, Since California led the way in matters of this kind it would seem that we might profitably follow the procession which we started and once more take a position in the front rank. AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION. It is altogether likely that the most notable event of the sixtieth year that Victoria has reigned over the. British em- pire will be the accomplishment of the federation of the Australian colonies. The creation of s united Australia, whica has been under consideration for s long time, is now in & fair way to be attatned, and there are prospects thal it will be re. alized during the coming summer. The convention to which was com- mitted the task of formulating a plan of union and drawing up a constitation for the new federation has completed its work in a manner that seems to be falrly satisfactory to the people of all the colo- nies. The work performed by them has been submitted to the Parliaments of the ‘vmom colonies, not for amendment or r postvoned, notwith- | ratification, but simply for discussion and criticism. When this is over the conven- tion will meet again and revise the work in the light of the criticlsm pronounced upon it in the various Parliaments and the constitution will then be submitted to the people. It was the desire of the promoters of Australian federation to include Tas- mania and New Zealand as well as the colonies of Ausiral itself. It isdoubt- ful, however, whether Noew Zealand will consent to join the union. She is 1200 miles distant from Australia and her people naturally feel that there would be a disadvantage to them in having a seat of government so far removed. With the exception of New Zealand, however, all the other colonies are inclined to the plan. The constitution as proposed bears a close resemblance to the form of govern- ment adopted for the federation of the Canadian provinces, and is not widely different from that of the United States. Tie various colonies now existing aré to remain entirely autonomous in local al fairs. Customs and excise and army and navy are to be under Federal control. There is to be 8 Federal Parliament, con- sisting of a Senate and a House of Repro- sentatives, logether with a Governor-Gen- eral appointed by the crown and a Fed- eral Supreme Court. The new constitution will go into effect 1f adopted by three of the seven colonies. It will e binding, however, only upon those that adopt it, leaving the others free to continue their separute government un- til such time as they see the advantage of entering the union. There can be no question that federa- tion will strengthen the prestige of the Australian people by binding them to- gether as one nation, but what effect it will have upon tue relation of Australia tothe British empire cannot be foreseen. It may awaken a national spirit which will prompt them to establish complete independence, or it may serve to confirm their loyalty to the crown and strengthea their pride in being a part of the world- wide empire over which the Queen rules. In any case, the successful accomplish- ment of the union of tbe colonies will be & political event of the first importance in the world’s history and the starting pomnt for a new era of development in that part of the globe. COASY EXCHANGES. The Morgan Hiil Sun recently celebrated its third birthday anniversary. A special flesta edition of the Los Angel Heraid, consisting of forty-four pages, will be issued on Bunday next. The Hollister Bec buzzed around the Easter flowers in an enlarged edition of sixteen pages with e bright new cover, The newspapers of Piacerville are discussing & proposition (o erect & cannery in that town. The citizens are calied upon to co-operate. It seems probable that Los Gatos will shortly 1ssue bonds 10 the value of $15,000 to be ex- pended, according to the Mail, in perfecting the sewer sysiem, procuring a fire alarm sys- tem and buliding a town Lall and jail. Senta Rosa recently obtained a large woolen mill, and is DOW 10 & fair way to have a shoe factory added to her eaterprises. It will prob- sbly be & brazch of the Beicher factory in this City, according to the Santa Rosa Press. Lake View is to have a carnivel. The Clear Leke Preas says that the reports from the com- mittee organized to conduct the same are very encouraging. Bicycle and water sports will be among the main features of the festive occa- slon, The Chronicls-Record remarks that a practical step toward a system of permanent road im- provement has been taken by the municipality of Chico in its purchase of a fourth fnterest in & rock-crusher. The other three-fourths in. terest is owned by Butte County. The Winters Independent calis upon the peo- ple of that section 10 Lold a fruit carnival as a means of advertising the county. It tainks fruit carnival will be & novel improvement over the rose fairs and waier carnivals which its sister cities have been holding. The Adtocate, published monthly in this City, has taken & new departure. Hereafter it will be largely devoted to miuing, irngation, sgriculture, gooa roads and other kindred pursuits. Georgo H. Maxweil is the editor, and he is assisted by George F. Weeks, & well- known newspaper man, The creamery industry, which Is becoming 50 prevalent (hroughout the State, seems 1o bave reached its highest perfection in Col County. The Coluss Sun remarks that looks like business to see thirty or forty way ons, buggies, etc., walting at the cresmery for a chance to unload their milk.” W. H. Melick, ealtor and proprietor of the Antelope Gazette, and 8 member of the Leglsia- ture, has purchased the controlling interest in the Pasadena News. The Siar of that town, in weicoming him to the local fleld, hopes that “in the rose leaves which bestrew his path there may be but few thorns.” The Republic of Placerville reports that the Lincoln Fruit Cannery is & success in every way. Its labor expenses per month while run- ning have been $2000 and the outlay for fruit $7000. The smount of sugar used was 100,- 000 pounds, costing about $4000. The man- #gement expects to take on fiity more hands during the coming season, The Sonoma County Farmer hns its eye upon the neighboring towns. 1 notes that Guerne- ville has organized an improvement club with a view to rendering the town and the adjacent country a more attractive summer resort. The Russian River, where it pei Meeker's Grove, will be dammed to form a bosting aud swimming pool four miles long, The city of San Diego fhas a proposition be- fore 1t to allow the free use of sixty acres of the city park for five years to s tobacco com- pany for the cuitivation of tobacco. The ob- ject 1s not an unadvantazeous one for San Diego inssmuch as it has in view the demon- stration in public of the possibilities of the county in that direction. The Riverside Press watches the orange sales with an eagle eye and has statistios always at the t1pof its pen. It observes that the sales of California oranges 1n the New York market week before last amounted to sixty-nine ca loads, oue car of navels bringing prices from B3 11 per box for 96's up to $4 16 tor 176's, the highest average for the seasons Two papers in the State, the Red Bluff Senti- nel and the Colusa Sun. are holding voting con- tests with s view to sending the most popular teacher of their respective counties on a vaca- tion trip. The Sentinel proposes to send its teacher to San Francisco for a week, while the Sun will send 1ts choice to Alaska. Teachers seem to be very popular with the interior press, The Salinas Index calls attention to the fact that on the 4th day of next month the electors of its town will vote upon & proposition to issue §75,000 worth of bonds, $40,000 for a system of sewerage and $35,000 for a public school building. The Indez cites this incident in the progress of Salinas as an example of the recent burst of enierprise which has arisen in the town. The Potaluma Argus draws attention to the importance of the new law requiring all the different grades of checse made in Californis 10 be branded. The State Dairy Bureau will issue, free of charge, to all persons or firm: consegutively numbered brands of the differ- ent grades of cheese as required, applications for which must be made in writing. This is another move toward Insuring the purity of food in this State, The Merced Ezpress causticaily remarks that those persons of Fresno County who are throw- 1ing every opposition possible in the way of se- curing the right of way for the Vailey Rail- road by holding out for unreasonable prices for thelr land are the kind of people who want low prices for everything they have to buy ndl high prices for everything thay want to sell. The Ezpress is evidently not ensmored of that particular variety of reform. The St. Helena Sentinel is the latest paper to be talking enthusiastically about a board of trade, such an institution having recently Dbeen established in Napa Countr. A cream- ery also i* among the new enterprises under discussion. A meeting of citizens for the pur- Pose ol furthering these various undertakings will be held this evening. The Willows Journal sdvises the Suparvisors of its county to keep a permanent exhibit of the county’s products in a room of the Cou house, £0 that visitors to the town, going first to the Courthouse on their inspection tour, mes find an “index of the county’s resources spread comprehensively before them.” Itisa somewhat original idea and might be profit- abiy followed by other counties. NEWS OF FOREBIGN NAVIES Great Britaln has ninety-elght first-cl torpedo-boats in commission. Chatham dockyard expended $2,400,000 in wages during the past fiscal year. For the en- suing year the wages account has been re- duced about $200,000. The German naval budget for 1897-98 pro- vided for $45,720,750 and comprised an addi- tion of forty-six vessels to the navy, namely five sea-going armor-clads, two monitors, two harbor-delerse batteries, ten cruisers, five dis- patch boats and twenty-two torpedo boats. The Reichstag, however, did not receive the Emperor’s plan favorably and the appropria- tions as finally passed exceeded the present year's allowance very slightly. The Blake, British crufser of 9000 tons, had afour hours' steam trial on March 25, auring which she averaged 14,500 Lorsepower and 10.2 knots® speed by log. - 1mmediately there- after the ship entered on her twenty hours' trial on three-fiftns of her natural draught power and gave an average of 8445 horse- power and 16.25 knots’ speed. The Blake was built in 1889, and on her trial trip in 1891 failed to make the intended speed of 22 xnots on 20,000 horsepower. The power reached only 14,450 under natural draught, the speed 19.12 knots, and has not been improved upon until now after her recent refit. The Japanese battle-ship Fuj, 12,230 tons, built at the Thames Iron Works, London, con cluded her trials March 23. On tne firstday the ship made four runs over s 10-knot course in the vicinity of the Downs, and on 150 pounds of steam developed 10,200 horse- power, with 108.5 revoiutions and a speed of 16.8 knots. On the following day the Fuji made ber full-power forced-draught trials, and On 8iX runs over the 10-knot course averaged 18.5 knots’ speed on 14,100 horsepower, 152 pounds of steam and 120 revolutions. The lowa, battle-ship, United Stetes navy, which bed her trial on April 7, is 11,410 tons, ran twice over a course of 33 miles and averaged 17 kuots, which {s one knot faster than her estimated speed. The Fuji made exactly her contract speed. Detuiled accounts of the gun accident on the Cissol Veliki, Russfan battle-ship, while at target practice noar Cauea on March 14, show the {rightful results attending sccidents to- modern guns. It was in the after iurret that the catestrophe occurred to one of the 12-inch Canet guns served with a charge of 200 pounds of powder. The breech screw had not been screwed up, and as a result the breech block, weighing about 3000 pounds, blew out end was driven four inches into the turret, while the covering of the turret was split in two,one haif 2oing up s high as the meintop, and in its fall crushing the forward bridge, killing seventeen men. OI the ten people in the tur- ret when the accident occurred four were killed outright and more have died since. Altogether thirty-three officers and men were kilied and wounded. The navy of Turkey, quite formidable .on paper, is to all appearances even worse than that of China, for in its preparations for war with Greece only & faw of the most antiquated snips have been placed in commission, and the ships recently built in England are with few exceptions evidently In no fghting condition. Turkey's navy list embraces eighteen ironclads ranging from, thircy-three 10 twolve years old and therefore antijusted, eignteen cruisers thirty-eight to five years old, twenty-seven dispatch vessels and yachts, eleven guubosts and tnirty-eight torpedo- boats. The fleet which left the Bosporus on March 25 for the ZEgean Sea consisted of four battle-ships of ancient build, one armored gun- boat of 400 tons, bulit {n 1875, two transports, one torpedo gunboat built in 1890, two other nondescript craft and four first-class torpedo- boats of 85 tons. The small fleet of Greece consists of serviceable vessels and makes up in quality for what they may lack in size and number. PERSONAL. Dr. Eastlake of Tokio, Japan, is at the Palace. 8. K. G. Emith of Yokohama 13 at the Bald- win. C. Fisher of Oakland is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. Gracey, banker, of Merced is registered at the Lick. W. F. Purnell, the Grand. James T. Peck, & lawyer of Merced, is at the Lick House. A.J. Shellhammer of Rocklin is at the Cos- mopolitan. G. H. Primrose of minstrel celebrity 1s at the Baldwin Hotel. P. M. Ader of Java registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. George Fritsch of Denver registered at the Palaca yesterday. Btate Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of 8an Juan t the Grand Hotel. Bertram W. Ellis of London registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. R. C. Terry, wine-grower of Clayton, Cal, is at the Lick House. William Jackson Littell, U. 8. N., s & guest at the Occldental Hotel. James H. Kinkead of Virginia City, Nev., aguest at the Palace Hotel. 8 Joseph D. Strong has just finished a portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. A. Nellson, merchant, of Sacramento was at the Grand Hotel last evening. J. Well, merchant, of Sanger, Cal., registered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. Professor Earl Barnes of Stanford University was at the Grand Hotel yesterday. C. H. Shivley, banker, of Oroville registerea atthe Grand Hotel last evening. L. U. Giant, a well-known contractor of Sali- nas, 18 stopping at the Grand Hotel. Hans von Schroeder, a capitalist of Berne, Switzerland, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan arrived in town yesterday and is stopplug at the Grand. N. J. Nisson, dealer in dairy products at San Diego, registered at the Grand Hetel yesterday. Guillermo Enrique Elisco of Mexico arrived n the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. Professor O. R. Gleason of Denver, the well. known horse-trainer,registered at the Baldwin Hotel yesterday, Mrs. H. Grimm and Miss M. A. Fahey are down from Maders on s Visit and are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Min Sang Ho of Korea was among the pas- sengers that arrived from the Orient yester- day on the steamer City of Peking, His uncle was the firet Minister from Korea to the United States, and, in fact, the first duly sccredited Embassador from Korea to any other country. Min 8ang Ho is himselt a distinguished Ko- rean. He registered at the Occidental Hotel on his arrival yesterday, and will leave San Francisco for Washington, D. C., to-morrow evening. First Lieutenant F. L Winn, Twelfth Infan- try, U.S. A., at present professor of military science and tactics, University of Caiifornia, Berkeley, will probably be succeeded by First Lieutenant Sydney A. Cloman, formerly of the First Infantry, but now serving with the Fif- teenth in the Bouthwest. Mr. Winn's four years’ tour ot duty will be finished in s few days. The leave of absence which is “coming to bim” by custom may be extended, 80 that his desire for travel in Europe may be grati- fled. CALIFORNIAN> IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.—8.D, Coles ot tationer, of Sacramento is at 1s Ean Francisco is registered at the Shoreham. Eenator White returned from California to- night. WITH YOUR COFFEE Ehe—Don’t yqu think it is alwsys difficult to tell & woman’ ? He—She always acts as if it was,—Richmond Dispatch, “Is that a good hen, Uncle Josh 1 “'A gooa hen ?" said Uncie Josh; “why that 'ar hen lays eggs as big as hailstuns.”—Detroit Free Pro Hobson—T notice that a stenographer has Just written over 400 words a minute. Dobson—Yes, but he's some distance behind the actor who writes a letter on the siage.— New York Commercial Advertiser. Nonie—Baron Bastyun, who married old Flint's daughter, has the royal lily quartered on his escutcheon. Laura—Yes, and he has himself quartered on his father-in-law.—Pittsburg News. he charge against you, prisoner,” said the maglsirate, “is that you were caught in the sctof purloining haberdashery.” “Itain’t so, y'r Honor,” sniveled the abject wretch, “an’ de cop knows it. 4111 wuz doin’ wus stealin’ neckiies.”—Chicago Tribune. “The Mississippi River is receding,” ob- served the snake editor. 'be farmers along iis banks will have to do me,” reviied tie horse editor. oW 18 that 2" *“They will have to reseed, too,"—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. HEARTS NOI An English officer writing from Canes, Crete, “Our English firing was fairly | 200d,'but thie men’s hearts were mot in_the | Job.”" Henry Poole of Toronto writes these lines, taking the officer’s remark s his tex: n the jobl” Great Godl IN THE JOB. “ Theli hearts were no: What knglish hearts would be When Engiish sailors and English guns Are Lrought 10 fire on E-nglish nuns, And Salisbury $100ps t0 the thankless work U1 soillng England to save the Turk, By order of Germany? ** Theix hearts were not n the jobl” Thank God! Tnat English hearts to-day Are as keen for honor, as true and brave As when Nelsoa’s warship ruled the wave, And Nelson's signals, masthead high, Cheered on the sallors to victory. In red Trafalgars Bay. * Thelr hearts were not In the fob!” Good God! 11 we Lbad our Nalson now, With bis heart of fire, his e7e of flame, Would Kzngland si0op to such depth of shame That England's sallors indignaot spurn ‘The medals their blood was shed (o earn 1f Nelson were at the prow? ‘What talk of concert disturbs our rest? ‘What threats made lingland small? When, slugle-handed and strong In right, ‘We hurled ourse!ves against kurope's mighs Aud fought and conquered, as Greoce to-day Stands unalded sgainst the fray, Nor fears to fall or fall. | # Their hearts were not in tne job!" Pray God Our hearts that word repeat: God give our knglana a nobler work Than slaughtering Christians to please the Turk! Let England’s honor speak out and claim No volce, 10 part in this bloody game: No right but to cleanse our English name From the blood we shed in Creie —Ottawa Journal. MEN AND WOMEN Jane, one of the three dowager Duchesses of Mariborough, died in London the other da Ene was a daughter of Edward R. Stewart, and was the third wie of the sixth Duke of Marlborough, who died in 1857. Miss Frances Bray has the honor of being | the second woman in the United Kingdom en- titled to add the letters LL.D. to her name. The first, Dr. Letitia Walkington, is likewise an Irish woman, and a native of Belfast, Mother Gonzags Kennelly, who is said to have been the oldest nun in Ireland, died re- cently at the Ursuline convent, Blackrock, County Cork. The reverend mother had spent 68 years at the convent, and was 88 years old when she died. The late General William R. Terry of Rich- mond, Va.,, who dlea recently, lived for one day in hislife in the very heait of one of the world's greatest crises. He commanded a brigade under Pickett at Gettysburg and led it with great courage in the charge on Cemetery Ridge. Mrs. Lorana K. Hinkley of Pea Cove, Me., at the age of 94, is able to rend and wrize with- out glasscs. - She is American all the way | through. Her grandtather fought in the revo- | 1ution, her father and her husband in the war | o 1812, and tour sons, four sons-in-law snd | 8ix nephews 1n the war of the rebellion. | Count de Pena Ramiro, Governor of Madrid, | nas come into great disfavor with his fellow citizens. A couple of youtnful bull-fighters, Revertito and Buenvenida by name, were ad- vertised to appear in the capilal, but the Count prohibited the show on the ground that the latter of these two heroes is under 12 years of age. WILLIAM I 10 BISMBRCK. H1s TRIBUTE TO THE MAN WHO BROUGHT ABOUT THE GLORY OF GERMANY. After the recent speech of William IT at the banguetof the Diei of Brandenburg, giving his grandfather, Willlam I, all the glory in the re-establishment of the German empire, Bismarck’s reply was looked for with much interest. It has just now appeared inairectly 1n the fourth volume of the life of the ex-Chan- cellor, by Herr Horst Kohl, in which William 11s himself put upon the witness-stand. This volume coutaiusa series of letters from the old Emperor to bis Minister, and among them 1s the jollowing 1n his own handwriting: BrrLIy, April 1, 1883, As usual, [ send you mv cordial greetingson the anniversary which marks the dsy when the Al- | mighty, In bls wisdom and goodness, gave yon 1o the world and to me! May this vear pass by for you with less bodily pains than afilicted you aur ing the last months of the preceding one! I know what pour health is; I huve feit it seriously during | the iuat few weeks, when I was unabie to commu- nicate with you, except Indirectly, but wlways, thank God, In perfect accord. This is aiso the reason way 1 am com pelled 1o take up my pen to- day, instead of personally visitiug you. As Laster 18 ot now Very far from us, I send you, as s sou- venir of your blessed fesiival of to-day, the inevi- table ez which bears the eagle that you restored toife. May It fl ght be glorious in the future! Your falthfully devoted and grateful WiLriax On the 4th of October, 1883, immediately after the 1nauguration of the German!a statuo at Niederwald in honor of the German vie- tories, on which occasion Bismarck was ab- sent on account of illness, William I wrote to bim as follows: Your absence on the oocasion of the ceremontes of the Inauguration of the monument of Nieder wald caused me great pain. espec.ally afier tne happy s:ue of that festival. It was one of the most successtul (hat I ever witnessed iu its order, the manner .n which It was conduc: d, the impos: ing character of tie monument :tself. the une: pected sunshine, and. above all, the sentim s with which the combatants in those batties and victories 10 which the mouument is consecruted were lmbued. Now, you stand in the f oni rank among those men—you who brought about those mighty events and _conducted them to thelr ou- fect, & glorlous peace. 10 express to you once more publicly my thauks and my gratiiude wouid have been atask dear 1o my heart. But thal was not to be. Nevertheless, 1 thought of you more than once. Immediately after the appearance of tne volume 1n question, the Hamburger Nachricl ten published & brief articie, evidently com- municated, in regard to the vast number of aispaiches that were received by the ex-Chi celior on the centenary of William I, and most st the Same time Count Herbert Bis- marck, speaking in the Conservative Cougress of Dresdaen, uttered these bold and bitter ord " Bismarck s stlll to-day the object of many enmities on account of his national policy, but he regards the grossest insult with the calm, light heart of & philosopher. His per- soually is historloally cousecrated, aud, even ot hay though he msy n his monument in n.xu'::, h n{ty in its entirety stands as his monument.” ONE TITLE THE BISHOP MISSED. Bishop Doane of Albany, who closely fol. lows the ways of the Church of Eagland, often signs himself “William of Albany.” day, who is noted for his democratic ways, “do you know that I have often regretted that you were not resident in Buffalo?'” 7 d the Bishop. *“And why so?" ‘Because,” said the other, without a smile, “you could'then sign yourselt ‘Buffalo BAIL* ' orers Coming. Artistic paper-hanging, painting and interior decorations. Good paper in stock 4 cents, in- gralus 90 roll, MERIGAN, 1803 Webster st. & NOTES OF THE NATIONAL GUERD Major-General James Now Favors Regimental | Camps. i The Numerical Strength of the National Guard of the State of California. Inspections Have Been Ord red—Some- thing Some of the Retired Officers Do Not Know. The probabilities are that there will not be any opposition to regimental camps this year and that the request for such will be granted. Major-General James, who previous to the ap- propristion for camps had been made by the | Legisiature bad declared himself in favor ofa | division camp, has recently changed his views | on the subject and is now favorable to regi- | mental camps, yet siill holding that at some i | future time a division camp would prove of great benefit to the guard. The announcement in this department that Colonel H. P. Bush (retired) had been nam as judge-advocate on the division staff, vice James F. Smith, elected colonel of the First Regiment, Second Brigade, created quite an | excitement among the members of the staft. | There is antagonism to-the colonel by reason of matiers in the Firs. Regiment Infantry | under the oid organization, and it has been carried into the new to the extent thalshould the nomination of Colonel Bush be confirmed there will be & number of vacancies on the division staff, not that those who would re- sign Lave any objection to the nominee as a man, but they are opposed to him for military Teasons, | There is, however, a probability that the | colonel will not aceept the position for the | reason that if he did it would, while he held | the position, reduce him irom the rank of | colonel io licutenant-coionel. A section of the | code regulating the National Guard seys: “A retired cfficer when placed on duty will wear the unilorm of the organizition to which he is assigned iu accordance with the position and rank he may hold iherein. When not placed on duty he may on proper occesions wear the untiorm of the organization in which he was retired.” Another section says that when an officer on the retired list is deiailed for active | duty he shall be entitled to the rank which belongs to the ofiice the duties of which he is deteiled 10 periorm. Taere are soveral of the prominent officers in the guard appointed from the retired list who evidentiy are not aware of the existence of these sections of the code from the fact that they wear the insignia they were entitied to at the iime of retirement, but which they ure not entitled to wear under the appointments they now hold. A glance at the shoulder-straps by some ove high in authority might result in a change in tne 1nsignia noW worn by these offi- cers. Lieutenant-Colonel William Edwards (re tired) has been uamed ordnauce officer on the staff oi Major-General James with the rank of leutenant-colonel. The nominee hus- ac- cepted, and he will fill the vacaucy cansed by the death of Lieutenant-Colonei J. H. Mangels, which occurred on the 24th ot last January, The new appoiniee was captain and aid-de- camp to the commander of the Second Brigade | in 1888; in April, 1889, he was major and | quartermaster of the Second Brigade, and on August 20, the same year, he was commis- sioned lieutenant-colonel and assistant adju- tant-general Second Brigade, and he was re- tirea May 24, 1895. Lieutenant-Colonel George R. Burdick, quar- termaster on the division staff, has on account of press of business which prevents him from | devoting the necessary time to the dutiesof the office, asked 10 be relieved from duty. Lieutenant-Colonel Philip L. Bush, aid-de- camp on the Governor's stif, a son of Colonel H. P. Bush (retired), has been granted a cer- tificate of exemption, having served seven yeas continuously in the National Guaid. He 1s the youngest officer who has received such a ceriifica'e, being but 21 years of age. In February, 1590, e was & member of the Cadet Company, First Infantry, Second Bri- gade. In 1892 he was transferred to Com- any H, was promoted corporal-sergeant, and &y July, 159& was baitalion sergeant. He afterward became corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant and captain of University of Cali- fornia Cadets, and on the 22d of February of last year he was commissioned aid-de-camp on Governor Budd's staff with the rank of | Ieuteuant-colonel. | In general orders No. 8 the strength of the | National Guard on the lst of March is given | as foilows: Commander in chief and staff, 25; | division staff, 16; three brigedes and siaffs, 39; three signal corps, 96 96; four troops cavalry, | 265; naval battalion, 3415 First Infantry (ap- | proximately, Company H' not yet reported), | 864; Second Infantry (spproximately, Com: oy F not yet revorted), 560; & Fifth Infantry, 68; Sixtn Iniantry (approximately, Com: panies C, D and E not yet reported), 510; Sey- enth Iniantry, 803; total, 4088. Cadet ‘Com- pany, First Infantry, 58. Largest membership—-Signal _ Corp Brigede. 41; cavalry, Troop C, 71; talion, Third Division, 78; F, Fiith Infantry, The Second Brigade. The long looked-for inspections are about to take place. The field and staff officers and Companies B and I will be inspected May 11. The field musicians witl be Inspected on the afternoon of the sume day, and the other com- panies will be inepected on foliowing days, the inspections keeping up until the 17th. The cadet company (Lowell High School Cadets) will be inspected May 12, Troop A May 19 and the Signal Corps May. The i nspections of the Fifth Regiment In- fantry will commence May 3. On that day there will be an inspection of Company B at | San Jose; May 4, Companies A and F and the band at Oakland; May 5. Company G at Ala- | meda; May 6, Company D at San Kafael; May 7, Company C at Petaluma; May 8, Company E at Santa Rosa, and May 10, Company H at Napa. The officers of the First Regiment Infantry will, through tho commander, ask for & regi- mental camp. 3 The officers of the Fifth Regiment Infantry, at the meeting last Tuesday, decided to hold & regimentai camp, and a request for such has been forwarded to headquarters. asking that | the time be fixed from July 17 to 25. No | place has yet been seiected ior the camp, but | a8 s00n a8 permission to hold the same is granted, Colonel Fairbanks, comianding the | regiment, will issue orders fo secure a suitable | site and make arrangements for transporta- tion, after which the commissary wiil provids the needful. The lightning rapidity with which business 18 transacted in the office of the adjutani-gen- eral is apparent from the foliowing taken from General Order No. 3. {ssued !ast Thursday “signal Corps—Charles L. Hewes 10 be first lieutenant. Stenal Corps, with rank from Fob- ruary 15, 1897, vice Perkins, promoted.” This will be news for the friends of the lfen- First al bat- | Company | NEW TO-DAY. . Go to your doctor for advice; he is the best man to tell you what medicine you need. Go to your drug- gist for your medicines; he knows more about drugs than a dry goods man. Stick to your doctor and to your druggist if you are a sick man, buz don’s go toyour druggist for advice. If your doctor tells you to get Scott’s Emulsion it is because he knows it to be the remedy in all conditions of wasting, the one reliable, permanent preparation. Get what you ask for, - | 4 New Monigomery t, who were under the impression that tovo manthe ago the National Guard had been appriced of Hewes' promotion, but they Were istaken, for a promotion 1s hot known until Gfficial!y prociaimed, and from the paragraph 1oted it seems that it takes two months to make such & fact known. The Third Brigade. SACRAMENTO, CAL, April 16.—Company G has decided that it will not go to San Fran- cisco in May, as has been proposed. Asa come v itis in favor of going into regimental camp, tnstead of brigade camp, as has been rumored, will be the case this year. Their asons for wishing a regimental camp are | various, one of the most important being that the movements are ponderous and require oo much uunecessary marching when drilling. The members of the company are great stickers for actual military duty in camp and ere anxious to encourage i general discussion of this matter witha v W‘ of arriving at the sentiment of the guard at Iarge. Irst Sergeant William Kellozg has decided to give up the wilitary and has made applica- tion for his discharge and exemption, having been a member for ten ycars. The company will feel his loss greatly and pressure is beiug brought to bear to persuade him to remuin another three years, as the company feels that it can ill afford to lose him. A teem shoot -was held last Sunday between two sections of the company composed of fifieen men each, under the lc nip of ants de Finnes and Guth, the of the latier being the winners by a small majority. A heavy wind was blowing and the scores were not what they would have been under different circumstances. The 10sing team was to have paid the enses of a “sinoker,” but 17 has bben decided o turn the cost of the “smoker” over to committee on entertain- and ic will go toward paving theex- of a ladies’ night, which will take place time fn May. It will be a social affair and strietly invitation, to consist of a literary programme, & series of whist games,dancing and an exhibition drill. The team scores were as follow: Sergeanc Do Finnes’ t ’s soores were: De Finnes 40, Brown 40, Corporal Milliken 40, Koeiz 42,'Stripling 42, Day 40, Wilson 39, Petitdidier 39, Schardin 38. Lieutenant Zit- tinger 34, Aine 26, Cook 38, Wray 33, Kies 38, Teugue 34 78, average 38 1-5. ergeant ‘Guth's team: Guth 43, Captafn , Corporal Blair 42, Sergeant Klien 5, Private Scholefield 33, McLane 34, Bates eant Kellogg Thomas 33, Wack- T. J. Milliken 23, Penry 36, Kellogg Klees 37 verage 85 11-15. Company s scores were: Captain Schoe- maker 40, Sergeant Bessey 38, Sergeant Gunter | 88, Corporal Meesure 37, Corporal Perkins 39, Privates O. E. Hughes 44, Love 43, Sydenham 42, Jones 37, Lucey 40, Torpey 35, Grosneveld 45, Neison 30, Moon '43, Thompson 37, Cook 40, VWest Pollerd 30, Hancock 36, Meyers 32, McCreary 83, Olea 37, Flecken- stein 41, Sabin 82, Cutting 43, Trammel 40. Work ‘has commenced on the 300 and 500- yerd ranges and it is expected they will be finished shortly. 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