The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1897, Page 6

: f \ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1897. FRIDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietos SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Freo and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 ily and Sunday CLL, one year,by mall.... 6.00 a0 Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 snd Su CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily spd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 1.50 WALKLY CALL, oz year, by mail. 1.80 alifornia. Telephone......... £ .Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephoe... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: Montgomery sireet, coraer Clar; open uatll 30 o'clock. 539 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until SW. corner Sixteenth und Mission sireets, open until 9 o'clock. 518 Misst t. open until 9 o'clock. 167 N . open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Pol open un:tl 9:80 o'clock. sccond and Kenmtucky NW. corner Twe streets; open till 60 OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and Park Row. New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLT: THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. All that we can say for littie Greece is that we glory in h v will be shocked at the suc- They wear bloomers. Mrs. Gru cess of the Turks. Unless more dough is put up for the Balbos-avenue fund we won't have the yment of the cake. It is now clear that the Turk 1s not | resdy to leave Earcpe, and there is no- body to h Europe will have to wait. en It looks as if Colonel Vassos will have to take a second ‘thought and decide to leave Crete for a while and attend to busi- ness at hom Los Angeles will be surprised to learn next week tnat a war has been going on. They believe down therc that the whole world is dancing. | The Mississippi floods will probably cost us as mucn as the war will cost Greece and Turkey, and we won't get any tofit either. feet nas moved to Malta the Russian fleet seeks permission to yass the Dardanelles. The big dogs are evidently intent on getting close to the bone. glory o B T The attempt of young Mason of Illinois 10 teach his Senatorial grandmother how | is the latest piece of Chicago | ce, but it was regarded as amus- | rather than irritating. 1f John Sullivan had any doubts of his present place among the hst fighters of t world he ought to have them tet- tl ow. Old Jem Mace has challenged him and ready to put up money on the outcome. The war veterans who were defrauded out of their positions in Government of- fices by the Cleveland administration are being restored by ‘‘Comrade” McKinley, nd some of the mugwumps and cuckoos are surie service is going to be ruined. Washington officials exvect to be ready tocall for bids for grading and excavat- ing at the postoffice site within three weeks, 50 it appears the agitation for the beginning of work on the building has been much more successful than some people expected. Senator Hoar's reference to the House as a body “‘which adjourns every three days in order to get time to attack the Senate for not attending to business’ shows that the old gentleman has a very neat humor of his own when he happens to be out of humo; The Cubans have scored another vic- tory and have now established their au- thority over all parts of the island. Spain seems to be continuing the war through sheer obstinacy and holds on to Havana simply because she hasn’t sense enough to know when to turn loose. The Democratic minority in the Hous of Representatives seems to be large enough to split, and there isa good pros- pect that it will be done in the near future. Boy Bailey doesn’t seem to have strength enough to hold the wild colts, nor skill enough to guide them. Salinas has given & true and genuine California welcome to the veterans of the Grand Army and her people deserve the thanks of the State for doing it. Every patriot is gratified when a rightful honor is worthily shown to the old soldiers who freed the slaves and kept the Union whole. The announcement of an invention by which 3000 words & minute can be trans- mitted over a single wire promises some- thing like a revolution in telegraphy, and what we will neea mext is something which will enable & man to read 3000 words a minute 5o that he can keep up with the new: s et The members of the Houss of Repre- sentatives are not to be aliogether idle during the remainder of the extra ses- sion. A committee of them is to engage inan international chess contest with a committee of the British Parliament, and next to attending to business this is per- haps the best thing they can do, provided they do it well enough to wax the Britisbers. The promoters of the Valley Forge Park have induced Pennsylvania to buy most of the land on which Washington en- camped and are now trying to get the re- mainder purchased and added to the park. The intention is to have each of the orig- inal thirteen States erect separate monu- ments to their troops who served during the Eevolution, and thus make the park a National memorial hardly inferior to the great field at Gettysburg. The reception given to Embassador Hay on his arrival in England has been cor- dial to the extent of effusiveness. The Mayor of Southampton welcomea him by quoting one of Hay’s own poems, ‘““‘Once More Hail England,” and every effort was made to convince him that he is at home and among his friends. The meaning of all this is that the Britisu have a clear understanding of the importance of culti- Vvating the friendship of the United States, and if they can induce our Embassador 10 take a poetical view of the relations of RECIPROCITY WITH FRANCE. In an address at a banquet in New York given to bim on his appointment as Em- | bassador to France General Horace Porter stated that one of the chief objects of his concern in his new office would be that of arranging for reciprocal trade relations be- tween France and America for the mutual benefit of both countries, and for the pur- pose of confirming the friendly relations between the United States and the great | the ““Hoo Hoo: republic of Europe. Emba tions those expressed by General Porter m which are brandies, champagne and all o waters, sugar and molagses. arranged on terms which would permit California would be materially injured. countries in such a way as to promote Ame: very careful of those industries which, wi important to the National welfare. sympathize with General Porters desire arranging a commercisl treaty, but nevert The speech was an excellent one and the ambition expressed was worthy of the dor of one great country to another. are well directed. A reciprocity treaty with France will have to be very carefelly con- sidered, or else some of the important industries of this country may be exposed to a ruinous competition with the cheaper labor of the French. California has a particular interest in this subject, inasmuch as the section of the Dingley bill which provides for reciprocity treaties with foreign countries author- izes the President to concede to countries with which such treaties are made freedom of trade or very, low rates of duty with respect to a number of specified articles, among The aim and intent of reciprocity treaties is to provide for trade with foreign home market to an extent that would injure home industry. necessary that our Embassadors abroad and the State Dspartment at home should be It would be wellif we could have wines, sugars and mineral waters taken ont of the list of articles which are 1o be made subjects of reciprocity treaties. will come from leaving them there provided due care is taken not to make concessions on these articles to countries which produce them to any large extent. endanger the interests of any section of the Union in doing so. Nevertneless, like all other good iaten- ay go astray and lead to injury unless they facta movement is on 100t smong them to have him Initiated into their fraternal order, PERSONAL William 3. Noyes ot Livermore 1s fn town. Dr. Granvilie MacGowan of Los Angeles is in town. J. W. Boyd, a merchant of Sacramento, is in town. T. B. Hubbard, a business man of San Jose, is at the Russ. W. H. H. Green, a leading resident of Seattle, is at the Lick. H. Barber, a business man of New Hope, is & lato arrival her E. B. Ewing, a wealthy business man of St. Louls, is at the Palace. J. M. Pollard and Mrs. Pollard of St. Johns, Mich., are at the Russ. John W. Mitchell, the attorney, ot Los Angeles, 1s on a visit here. ther sparkling wines, still wines, mineral These articles are of California production, and are also produced in large quan- tities in France. It will bs seen that if reciprocity with that country should bs the free entry of French wines, mineral waters and sugar to the United States somes of the most important industries of rican commerce without surrendering the To effact this it will be hile local in their nature, are nevertheless Still no harm We can all to distinguish Lis service in France by heless we must be careful that he does not WILLIAM 8. HOLMAN. By the death of William Steele Holman the country loses another of those states- men whose public services began before the outbreak of our Civil War. It isa fast-vanishing generation. There remain in Congress but three men—Senator Mor- rill, Senator Harris and the venerable Galusha Grow in the House—who took time when Holman began his career. Secretary Sherman adds a fourth to the list of such veterans now in office, and these are all that survive in official life of the men who directed our politics in the days when slavery was the dominant issue before the country and ecomomic topics were regarded as matters of minor moment. Holman entered public life as soon as | he attained manhood, having been elected Probate Judge when but 21 years old. After having served his State in various capacities he was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1856. Since that time he has been renominated by the Democrats of his district for each succeeding Congress. Four times he was defeated, but after his life by dying in office. The position in Congressional life held by Mr. Holman was one in wiich he bhad no rival. He made it his duty to care- fully investigate every bill presented, and paid particular attention to appropriation bilis. He watched every move made on the floor of the House, and whenever he thought wrong was being done or undue haste exercised he would promptly inter- pose the objection that would prevent the passage of the bill by unanimous con- sent. It wasfrom thbis haoit, not always well cr discreetly exercised, he gained his well-known title of “the great ob- jector,”” and also the repute of being the watchdog of the treasury.” While Holman was not in any sense a great statesman, nor even an inspiring party leader, his firm and long-continued hold upon the esteem of his constituents proves him to have been no ordinary man. No one not possessed of steriing qualities of a high order could have held bis posi tion so long in such & political storm center as Indiana, nor could a person of common merit have so repeatedly recov- ered from defeat and achieved victories after disaster. We have, therefore, lost from our politics a strong as well as an honest and notable man, and it will proo- ably be long before Indiana can fill his place in Congress with an equally capable successo REPORTING PROGRESS. Our special correspondent at Washing- ton reported yesterday another step made in progress toward the beginning of work on the new Federal building in this City He announces that C. L. Spalding, Assist- Mr. Loud that he would immediately take steps to prepare the specifications upon which bids for the building are to be based, and that bids would be advertised for as s00n as possible. He added that in his opinion within three weeks advertise- work of grading and excavating. attainment of the much-desired work on the building isgoing steadily ahead and Mr. Loud, taking advantage of the fact that the House of Representatives is not actively engaged in public business, is de- voting a considerable portion of his time pressing the work, and has been suffi- ciently successful to obtain a prompt con- sideration of the subject on the part of the treasury officials. He can be relied upon to continue urging the subject at Wash- ington, and the outlook is therefore dis- tinctly encouraging. The agitation started in this City by TaE CALL and 80 cordially and vigorously supported by our various commercial and industrial bodies has begun to bear good fruit. The success attained shou'd ba re- garded, however, as an argument for con- tinued work here, and not as a reason for abandoning it. “There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip” in politics as well as in other affairs of life, and it will not do for us at this time, under a false sense of security, to relax either our vigil- ance or our energ! Congressmar. Loud should be cordially supported from this City, and other mem- bers of the California delegation in Con- gress should be urged to unite their efforts with his in hastening the work. The con- struction of the Federal building should be begun early this summer, and we mnst not show any weakemng in our demand to that effect. —_— —_— Reports from nearly halt tue counties in Illinois, including almost all where winter wheat is grown, are to the effect fall was winter killed or ruined by the spring floods ana the remaining third will hardly yield wheat enough for seed, so that the tate will have to buy wheat for food, It will be seen that everything conspires to give the bull in the wheat market a plenic this year. ot Ll General Porter’s ambition to distingnish his services as Embassador to France by 'arranging a reciprocity treaty with that country is a good one, provided it is well curbed and not permitted to run over the 423 tWO countries they will do g, A vineyards of California. part in the struggles of politics at the | each defeat was re-elected, and now closes | ant Secretary of the Treasury, has assured | ments would be published for bids for the | It will be seen that progress toward the | that already much has been accomplished. | that two-thirds of the wheat sown last | I PATRIOTIO SALINAS. | It has fallen this year to Salinas to thow | | to the veterans of the Grand Army in their annual encamoment the continuea interest which the people take in all that | concerns that organization, and the loyal | love with which the younger generation regard the veterans to whom we owe the preservation of the Union and the pres- ent grandeur and prosperity of the Re- public. This duty the yeople of Salinas, sccording to all reports, have well per- | formea. They have made their city ra. diant with banners, and their homes have | been opened with cordial hospitality to | the veterans and to all their friends. | It is altogether right and fitting that the annual gathering of the veterans of | the Grand Army should be made an occa- sion for a public festival in the commu- | pity where the encampment is held. | Such displays have an effect in the pat- | riotic education of the young, and serve, moreover, to afford oppertunities to the | general public for giving renewed evidence | | of their appreciation of the services of the | soldiers of the Union. These testimonials of esteem cannot be rendered too often, and it 15 always gratifying when they can | | be shown not only to the memory of the | Grand Army as a mass, but to the 1ndivid- uals who compose it, 5o that each of the old veterans may feel some personal share in the honor so loyally given. | Wherever in California these encamp- ments have been held, they have been | worthily prepared for and celebrated by | the people. Salinas is now showing | through her hospitality and through her festal arrangements the sentiment which all the Californians feel. She is giving | evidence that the old soldiers are more | than welcome in every part of California. | | Their coming is hailed, not merely as that | of friendly visitors, but as an honor of | which a community may be justly proud. | In its way the Salinas celebration is not | less deserving of praise and credit than | | that brilhant fiesta which now illumines | Los Angeles, and the people who have pre- | d this hospitable and patriotic recep- | | tion for the old veterans deserve to reap | from it no tittle reward | AROUNU THE.CORRIDORS. Humboldt County, whose Caucasian inhabi- | tants ten years ago expelled its Chinese popu- lation and \have ever since prohibited the settiement ore ndingofany of the Mongo- lan race, will soon be visited by one of the pro- | scribed people, who will doubtlessly be recefved with open arms. This will be a wealthy Chi- | nese, at present registered at the Grand Hotel, in the person of Lu Chu, president of the Oshu Lumber Company at Honolulu. He has come to purchase several cargoes of lumber, principally redwood, with which to stock his | island yards, and with that object in view will | Laave for Eureka to-morrow to contract for the | direct shipment of the redwood from Hum- boldt Bay, and, incidentally, to inspect the | | | man, J. B. Underwoo | Haynes, James Innes. N J. 8. Wallace, & well-to-do business man of Baker City, Or,, is In the City. E. A. Wadhams, 2 business man of Blaine, Wash., arrived here yesterday. R. H. Brown, owner of a general store at Petalums, is registered at the Russ. E. V. Spencer, a leading ranch-owner of Susanville, is amoug recent arrivals. A. L. Grow, a mining and business man of Tombstone, Ariz., is at the Occidental. A.N. Butis, a mining man of Angels, for- merly of Spokane, is s pending a few days here. J. H. Flickinger, the widely known fruit grower and packer of San Jose, 1s at the Palace. H. H. Pitcher, a banker and large land- owner of Livermore, is here ona brief busiue: trip. A. C. Rosendale, a general merchant of Pa- cific Grove, is among those registered at thé Grand. Mrs. Frank McLaughlid and Miss Agnes Mc- Leughlin have arrived from Santa Cruz and are at the Palace. Superior Judge C. E. McLaughlin of Quincy, Plumas County, is in the City, accompanied by Lis wife. They are at the Russ. Henry J. Miller, owner of an extensive gen- eralstore at Quincy and interested in mines, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Miller. W. H. Goucher of Los Angeles, who is inter- ested in real estate and business there and who years ago was a special agent of the United States Treasury Department, ig among the arrivals at the Palace. Stewart Rapalje, who recently dfed in New York, wes atone time s member of the San Francisco bar, though for several years he had resided in the East. Mr. Rapalje earned great fame as a digester of law, his works being ac- cepted as the highest authority. General E. D. Kenna of Chicago, general solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo Rallroad, is at the Palace, accompanied by his family. He came here fn his special car, and will see several places in the State before re- turning Eas:. s trip s said to be largely for pleasure. W.T. Tuhey, & well-to-do business man of Santa Ross, is at the Russ sccompanied by his bride, the daughter of Con Shay, the million- aire cattie-raiser whose ranches are in Oregon and Idaho, but who resides with his family in Santa Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Tuhey were married atnoon Wednesday. CALIFORNIAN> IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., April 22.—At the Plaza —A. H. Snow; New Amsterdam—S. W. Cowle! Murray Hill—Mrs. C, Ferquahassen, J. P. New- Grand Unfon—H. H. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. §. P. Starr; Marlborough H.{Matthews; Astor—A. C. Taylor; Albert —P. A. Allen; St. Denis—Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Fry; Morton—J. H. Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Adoifo Ehrborn and child left the Plaza and safledon the Friedrich der Grosse for | Bremen. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dahlstrom, Mr. and Mrs. C. 1. Hink and child. Theodore Kirchoff, Cersten Luchers, Miss Anna Matzen Mrs. D. Puckhaber, Master Georee V. and arles Worst als iled tor Eurepe. Jeannette J. Wilcox left the 8. Cioud and sailed on the New York for Southampton. MEN AND WOMEN. The crown worn on state occasions by the German Emperor weighs exactly three pounds. The largest lawser’s fee ever paid was proba- bly one of £24,000 paid to Mr. Paterson, & bar- rister practicing in Calcutts, for the defense of an Indisn contractor. Colonel Elijah Sells, an old ploneer of Utah, who died the other day at the age of 83 ye Wwas a member of the Constitutionsl Conven- tlon that framed a constitution for Iows fifty- seven years ago. W. H. Darncll, a 15-year-old boy residing in Hardin, Marshall County, Ky., proudly writes to & newspaper: “I am 15 years of age, and | weigh 180 pounds, ana I am 6 feet 6 inches high with my shoes oft.” Lowell’s birthday was observed in Beriin, Februsry 19, with memorial exercizes under the auspices of the American embassy, and Professor George Churchill of Worcester pre- sided. A Longfellow memorial in Goettingen several years ago is said to have been the only similar recognition of American genfus in the country of the Kaiser. The Pope has received, through the Countess Maria Festetics, maid of honor to the Empress LU CHU, President of the Oahu nd methods of manufacturing lumber. With the exception of retaining his queue e 18 thoroughly Caucasianized in manne: nd dress, and this with nis mission to Humboldt Will no doubt sccure him u favorable recep- tion in that anti-Chinese community. By the lumbermen of this Ciiy Mr. Chu is believed to | sively in that business, snd in view of that hemir be the only one of his race engaged exten 11,."",, Lumber Company at Honolulu. of Austria, a somewhat remarkable portrait of the Emperor Francis Joseph. Itis wrought in silk and cotton snd its production involved an enormous emount_of labor and expen: the effect of light and shade being produs by ouly two colors. The faciory from which it comes is the fumous oue in Wernstadt, in Bo- The portrait, which Leo X111 hay- ced in his Iibrary, received a gold medal st the Chicago World's Falr, THE SUNDAY CALL. THE CALL will present to its readers on Sunday a feast of more than usual excellence. One of the features will be & sketch, by Joaquin Miller, of James Whitcomb Ri.ey. Miller says that the Hoosler Poet is great, and who should know better than the Bard of the Sierras, who s himself great? His report of & recent interview with Riley is & breezy bit of writing. A bright San Francisco lady writer, whose stories over the nom-de-plume of “Funegal McVahon” have already attracted attention, gives her adventures with a few of the thirty-four {ortune-tellers who haye been licensed by the City and County to ply their vocstion here. Her adventures in their dens were very humorous. FveryLody Is interested in Constantinople, thé home of the man who has just precipitated & devastating war, and some of its most interesting features, as well as its history, are treated of iu a bright article telling of its twenty-five centuries as a city. The possibility of the Greek fleet penetrating to the Golden Horn makes it doubly interesting at the present time. It will be illustrated. Another writer tells a remarkable story of an anchor, now used as s hitching-post in his- toric old Monterey, that was once carried at the bows of the ship that brought Napoleon Bona- parte to Franee from his first exile on the island of Eiba, Adeline Knapp's field notes, that have grown so famfliar to the lovers of natare, treat this week of the troubles and trials of birds in taeir nest-building, and are more than usaally read* able. Some new discoveries in the operation and application of the now famous X ray have been made, and writers well posted on the subject will describe them. The queer tales told by some old manuscripts, written in Shagiat, that were discovered in Oudb recently, are treated of in a bright story that contains many pleasant touches of humor- Besides these features there is the children’s page, always weicome to the little ones; the fashion page and many other matters to furnish amusement and instruction. Read the California family Sunday paper. THE PLANET- MERCURY. Since the recent discoveries as to the topography of Mercury, this elusive planet hasnot been in such a favorable position for observation as it will occupy during the remainder of thismonth. Atdusk it may now be seen as a star of the first magnitude near the Pleiades in the northwestern sky, and when at greatest E. elongation, 20 degrees 43 minutes from the sua on Avril 28, it will be about a degree south of the group in a horizontal lire. It sparkles with e rather yellowish luster in contrast to the white light of Venus, which is considerably larger, and was only half its dlstance when recently so conspicuous in the western heavens, but Mercury shares' general interest at present on account of the discovery at the Lowell Observatory of strange markings on the surfaces of.both bodies. Though nearer to the sun than any known planet, Morcury s not a good reflector of the profuse effulgence it receives, and some of its tracts seem to be particularly dim, more so even than the dark lunar plains. To Mr. Lowell and his 24-inch lens the scientific world is indebted for » knowledge of the true form of these dark-tinted aress, and no.doubt, too, for the discovery of many of them, as his map is more complete than any delineation of the suriace betore altempted. These strange lines that streak the disk in various directions had long given impressions to telescopic observers that there were markings some distance from the brighter limb of the planet, but the intervening spaces were indistinguishable. A rotation period of about twenty-four hours had been inferred, though never fully ac- cepted. In 1889 Schiaparelli announced that the rotation period corresponded with the time of revolution around the sun, or very nearly 5o, and this important discovery was soon con- firmed by others, and again reeently by the distinct and accurate views obtained at the Lowell Observatory. A similar correspondence between the axial and orbital motions of Venus was 150 announced and fully confirmed afterward, and more recently by Mr. Lowell and his staff. As the same sides of these planeis are thus always presented to the sun, their evening phases present the samo sections of surface to our view, with only such variations as come MAP OF MERCURY, MADE BY PROFESSOR LOWELL. WHAT IS THE GRIP? This Mysterious and Terrible Disease Carefully Analyzed and Described. ‘What to Do When It Comes. Nearly every pbysician, every scientist [} and every sufferer has been lsking’tm! great question: What is the Grip? What- ever it may be it Is certain that it is some- thing within the body which is fighting with the body to undermine the life. What would common-sense dictate in such an emergency? Counteract the en- emy. Drive it from the system. Do not trifle with it. Act promptly and wisely at the first approach, which you can readily detect. Take something which can coun- teract their deadly influence. Spirits of some kind are the best thing to lnkg, and whisky is preferable to any other kind of spirit; but it should be borne very care- fully in mind that only pure whisky will have the effect. and it should also be re- membered that Duffy’s pure malt whisky stands at the head of all preparations, and is the only medicinal whisky upon the market. Scientists have asserted this, the doctors have verified it and millions of eople have proved it beyoud a doubt ll"hure are many unscrupuious dealers who will assure you that any whisky will answer the purpose, but they are wrong and are trying to deceive vou. In case of Grip you cannot afford to take any chances, therefore take that which is, beyond ques- tion, pure, medicinal and the “only valu- able whisky upon 'he mar! —_— plications are being submitted from that lodge to the grand medical examiner daily. A Snip-Snap Social. The matron and the past matrons of Har- mony Chapter No. 124 of the Order of the Eastern Star snnounce that they will gives. complimentary party to their friends on the evening of the 14th prox. Noadmission fee will be charged to this event that the com- mittee of arrangements has christened a “enip-snap” social. A splendid evenin's en- tertainment is promised, but when asked what it is to be the answer given 1s, “You had better come up and tee. You will find it In Laurel Hall, Shiels building.” Inter Nos Circle. Inter Nos Circle No. 215 of the Companions of the Forest, Foresters of America, has two of its members who are very sick and as they are in need the circle has decided toget up & bene- fitentertaiument for them to be given in So- cial Hall in the Alcazar building on Saturday evening, May 1. The members are interesting themsel in this matter to the end that there shall be a large attendance =0 as to raise = fund to gladden the hearts of the sick ones. For the Grand Circle. On Wednesday night there was given a so- cial in the Social Hall of tne Alcazar under the auspices of the several circles of the Com- panions of the Forest, F. 0. A.. the object be ug to create a fund for the entertainment of the delegates to the Grand Circle. There was a good aitendance, which was highly gratified with the entertainment given by the com- mittee consisting of T. F. Blake of Inter Nos Circle (chairman), Mrs. M. Connell, Ira Co- { burn, Mr. Johansen and Mex Licht. The Elks. On Friday evening, the 30th inst., San Fran- cisco Lodge No. § of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks will be installed in its new lodgeroom at the southeast corner of Sutter street und Grant avenue. The quarters have been fitted as no other in San Francisco has been, nearly $3000 having been expenaing in the fitting up of them. On the opening night there will be an entertainment and banquet. CAL. glace fruit 50c per Ib,, at Townsend’s. * e FPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and publicmen by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— Christian Endeavorers Coming. Artistic paper-hanging, painting and interfor decorations. Good paper in stock 4 cents, in- grains 9c roll. MERTGAN, 1302 Webster st. * from increase and libration. Mercury, then, being now in crescent phase, is revealing the curious metwork of lines on the west side of the sccompanying map from adrawing by Mr. Lowell. The oval aspect is an allowable distortion by which is included the extent of surface seen by the libration, which, on account of its very eccentric orbit, is about five-eighths of the whole. The angular outlines are so unlike the lunar tracts, the belts of Jupiter, or the con- tinents and canals of Mars, that there is much vague conjecture as to the real natureof the little pianet’s topography. Analogy suggests rivers and mountains, but the vastness of the scsle annuls all resemblance to such terrestrial features. Neither the Amazen nor the Andes could be possibly discerned on the earth’s surface at a distance of from seventy to one hundred millions of miles. The borizontal horseshoe, as Mr. Lowell calls the northern, eastern and southern border markings, was found 10 be singuiarly effective in demonstrating the extent of the libration, the curve being sometimes a considerable distance from the terminator. As his Mercurian nomenclature, which is chiefly classic, will probably survive, a few terms may be used for explanation. The curve merked 29 in the map is named Argl Regio and is particularly conspicuous. The broken boraer lines, 16 and 4, are named respectively Lyra Reglo and Mercatorum Regio, while the continuous line, 15 and 5, is formed of Testudinis Regio and Petasi Regio. The latter line, land, water, or phantom, whichever it may be, is destined to endure, as in fifty drawings made independently by several observers at the Lowell Observatory, it holds its place without important deviation. Even in some of the older maps it is easily seen that it formed a vague but real basis for the unreal tracts from which false 1otation periods were derived. That the axis of rotation is perpendicular to the plane of revolution as announced by Schiaparelli 1s further confirmed by the observations at Flagstaff. The atmosphere in which theplanet has been enshrouded by many observers seems to have vanished in the clear air of Arizons. When Mercury crossed the sun’s disk {n 1894, the most propitious time for the detection of an atmospheric envelope, it wes looked for in vain, and the constant distinciness of the dark streaks is also advanced as evidence against its existence. That the planet is moonlike in other respects, 00, mountatnous, rugged, crater-aprinkled and arid is further suggested, but a mountainous surface has before been conjectured cause for its dull reflecting power, The crater features are & new idea that has little founda. tion as yet. It s no longer possible, however, to class the extraordinary streaks a hundred miles in width and many hundreds in length as mere imaginary objects as they have been seen distinctly on several occasions by Mr. Lowell and his experienced staff. Not, do they exist? but what are they? is the question to be solved by the telescopes of the future. ROSE O'HALLORAN. District Deputy Grand President Mrs. E. J. Wells of that place. Miss Lilly O. Reichling, the founder of the order, who is at presentat Denver, Colo., ex- pects to return to California in time to atfend the session of the Grand Parior. Fremont Parlor gave a very pleasant home” Jast Monday in the residen Barton, on Clay street. There were of visitors present, including Grand Vice- President Mra. Beile W. Conrad and Grand FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. California Council of the National Union Receives a Visit From the San Francisco Cabinet. Last Wednesday night Stanford Hall, in the Alzacar building, wes crowded to its limits by ‘members of California Council No. 530 and o i Ll E eo: visitors assembled from other councils, who | Secretary Mrs. Georgle e wero there to witness initintions in the most | JtWRY FrEHAeRt D Mary Fr Tillman winl amplified form and to be present when the | ung ‘at of Mrs. number members of the San Fraucisco Cabinat should enter, it having been announced that it would during the evening “drop in, fraternally.” President Hastings and the officers were in their respective stations on time, and when the routine work had been disposed of the ex- pected visitors entered in a_body and were most cordially weicomed. - During the even- ing there were four initiations, which were the most complete that have ever been given by & council, end s0 thoroughly was the work appreciated that a visitor, member of another council and well versed 1n fraternal matters, said: “It 15 a pity that more members of other councils do not come to California Coun- ©il.If they did they would learn sometning of the work which would be of great service 10 them.” Under the head of good of the order there were short instructive addresses by President Fields of the cabinet; C. F.Smurr, general freight agent of the Southsrn Pacific; Dr. A. H. Miliberry, vice-president of the cabinei Judze George H. Bahrs, Edward Dillon Jr.. Deputy J. N. Bunting, W. A. S. Nicholson, L. Vincent and others. ~Between speeches there were songs by C. L. Gage, C. H. Van Orden and W. E. Lutz. Max Selixman gave the members an opportunity to discover the kind of a whistler he is and Mr. Carter entertained with speciaities. The council's Willism Goat was trotted out and after some violent exercise showed signs of weakening. The council's hysician declazed that it was euffering from E\Iok fever, and on his advice it was sent to the hosp El Dorado Council met fast Friday night with ex-President T, F. Butler in the chair. Judge George H. Bahrs was elected a delegate to the cabinet. During the evening the coun- cil was addressed by Prerident Frank H. H ing: lC.H:;:rnh Council, T. F. Butler and B. hoff. on‘r.n“iu Couneil at its last held meeting initiated one candidate. Our Native Daughters, The new parlor of the Daughters of the Gold- en West recently organized at Fortuna, Hum- boldt County, was named Reichling Parlor for Miss Lily O, Reichling of Jackson, Amador County, the founder of the order. The parlor recently organized at Shasta by Grand Trustee Maud Auderson was :he result of the interest taken in the affairs of the order Dby the Native Sons of that place. Tuolumne County has the ““baby parlor” and it seems desirous of holding that distine- ton, for arrangements are being made for the organization of a mew parlor at Semora by und will visit Forest FParior at Piymouth ay 7. The membership of the order is proud of the fact that the coming grand president, Mrs. Belle W. Conrad of Sonora, has been elected to the highest office in the Grand Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and of the further fact that she is the first lady in California who has been elected to that high office, namely, the otfice of grand protector, n to that office is a rtecognition of reat ability and widespread popularity and influence. \ Anclent Order United Workmen. On Thursday evening, April 15, Fremont Lodge No. 297 held a public meeting and en- tertainment at Milton Hall, Thirty-eighth street and San Pablo avenue, Oakland, which was largely attended, and a fine musicsl and literary programme was presented. 5 dress was delivered by the grand recdcmg:r. a* On Fridsy evening, the 16th inst., the grand Teceiver and grand recorder visited Mount Diablo Lodge No. 91, at Walnut Creek, when the eightesnth anniversary of the lodge was ap) rmérl:t.l{ edebn:edA n Saturday evening, April 24, Crockett Lodge No. 286, located” at Crockett, Conii Costa County, will give a peblic entertal ment, and will be visited by the grand master ‘workman and srlflfl Tecorder. Deputy Grand Master Workman F. 8 Yoland ll““h"i‘:l‘:?? Lodge No.310 at Gonzales on the amuel Booth, grand receiver, and the fleputy grand master workman {nstituted Wil. lows e No. 115 at Willows, Glenn County, on Friday, April 9. The institution of this lodge is 'the resuit of the work of George Featherston, for Ilan.lH & resident of San now residing at Willows. On Wednesday evening next the Pacific drill team will visit 1vy Lodge No.4, Dagree of Honor, when steroopticon views will be “;‘:“ ific. drill e c team visitea Haywards 18 on Tuesday evening fedes X2 ¥ o e degrees confer: on cepaidgies % n Monday evening Oak Leaf Loage No. 35 of Oakiand paid a fraternal visit Iz.TemPlo Lodge No. 11 at North Temescal. An address was delivered by the grand recorder. On Tuesday evenin, last Keystone Lodge No. 64 of Oakiand had au open meeting sna “smoker,” on which occasion an enjoyable ‘evening was spent. An address was delivered by the grand 1ecorder. Central Lodge No. 251 of Oaklana will glve a "!Gllf’ entertainment on l(andq evening, April 26, at Montana Hall. nity Lodge No. 27 has recently submitted 1ts by-laws, Visalis Lodge No. 79 has beom 0n, snd -thd}' . - John P.Cuddy,s farmer of Baltimore County, Md., died on March 10, in his eighty-first year. | Mr. Cuddy made the first trip on Peter Coop- er's locomotive over the Baitimore and Ohio on August 28, 1830. He was also present when Professor Morsesent the first telegraphic message over the Baltimore and Ohio wires between Baltimore nnd Washington. on the Santa Fe Route. Three and One-half Diys to Chicago or St. Louis— | und One-half Days to New York. Leaving San Francisco Mondays and Thursdays, at 6 P. 5., connection is made at Barsiow with the famous Santa Fe limited traln. Dinlng-car, buffet smoking-car, vestibuled Pullman, palace drawing- room, sleepers. The handsomest train on earth— | equipment and appotntmenis fanltiess. 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