The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1897 _APRIL 25, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: carrier..$0.18 Daily snd Sunday CALL, si .+ three mol one month, by, ESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, ¥rancisco, Californla. San ¥ra: Maln-1868 Telephont EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streen Telephone ... -Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 7 aireet, coraer Clay; open untll Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Stxteenth and Mission streets, Open vntil 8 o'clock. 8 Mission street, open until 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. cormer Twe: streets: open Lill 8 0% OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 4 Park Row, New York City. DAVID LTZ, Eastern Manager. " THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. A fine day for recreation. Good weather is here and good times oming has aa ill rowers, wind, but it blows The batile of Pharsalia is to be fought r again and fought differently. See Balboa avenue in-day and then see The best thing for the Sultan to do now s 10 go off with his fleet and setup a junk- shop somewhere. The wa body's fight may be eve: the Levant seems to be any- t present, but before long 1t body’s. The Turk is evidently as good a fighting man as ever, but there seems to be some- z wrong with his constitution this ime. Itisnot getcertain whether the Kaiser | isto show himself at this juncture as a war lord, a marplotor & bull in a china- | shop. Los Angeles did it beautifully and there will be no complaint if her head is found this morning jast a little bit too big for her hat. W Rusia hos changed her policy in regard 10 Constantinople, but not her inteutions. She still keeps an eye on it with the hope ving a hand on it eventually. The Mississippi continues to spread it- self over as many Congressional districts as possible and evidently intends to wet a big appropriation or swamp the country. Those German officers who were to teach the Turks how to overrun the Greeks in short order have received a les- son instead of giving one, and will go home wiser than they started out. The one disappointment of the war so far bas been the withdrawal of the Turkish fleet from the scene of action. The world has been waiting a long time for a good sea fight and will never be sasisfied until it has one. The constitution of Australian federation provides for an army and navy to be controlled by the Federal Pariiament, and if that isn’t ex- the proposed actly a declaration of independence it is | very much like it. Lanahan of Texas hasintroduced into Congress a bill “to decrease Federal salaries and discourage the office-seeking industry in the United States.” Mr. Lan- ahan at pres ged in thatin- dustry. Heh The Dingley tariff is good in the main, but it needs revision in some places, and he Senate, therefore, is to be commended in going over it with careful deliberation. California as well as other States expects better things than the bill gives. Minnesota aid to zive university edu- cation at State expente to a greater num- ber of students thun any other Statein the Union. Michigan comes next and then California. This is a good record for our young commonwealth, but there is a chunce to improve it by heading the list, and we may do it some day. When times were hard fashion decreed that women should have cloth enough in their sleevesto make a whole skirt, but vow that better times are at hand the sieeves are reduced to the smallest dimen- sions possible. The financiers and the dressmakers ought to get together and de- vise more appropriate combinations here- after. The check eiven to the Turks by the ap- pearance of the Greek fieet in the Gulf of Salonica is a siriking illustration of Cap- tain Mahan’s theory of the importance of the sea power in war. The Turks were ‘well started on the road to Athens after | carrging Milouna Pass, but the first at- tack upon their communications by the Greek ships caused them to halt and threw their whole plan of campaign into confusion. A correspondent of the American Econo- mist, who bas made a careful study of the wool industry in Australis, reports asa result of his investigations that the cost of producing a pound of wool is 12 cents more in the United States than in that country, owing to higher taxesand land values, and to that extent our wool- growers deserve protection. As they pay 1axes 10 mzintain our Government, they certainly should have some advantage rom 1t. One of the most curious contempt of court cases on record is reported from ‘Wisconsin. One of the Judges of that State being a candidate for re-election was assailed by an opoosition newspaper, and it s0 nappened that one of its attacks ap- peared on a day when the Judge was hoiding court in the town where the paper is published. The Judge not liking the criticism summoned the editor into court and sentenced him to thirty days in jail for contempt. The case is now before the Supreme Court on appeal and it is also before the people with the prospect that tne Judge will be taught that citizens of this country cannot be sent to jail sum- marily for the exeraise oi the right to criticize a candidate for office, at you can do to help the fund for com- | When the Turks declared war agains clusion of European stal short, sharp and decisive campaign. Thi: country south of the Balkans. There has been a week of war, and the | long esired reforms from the Sultan, and | low her example. One of the disturbing i alliances. The Emperor of Germany has opinion that the Kaiser has been the mov of war. Mr. Gladstone was not far wrong portunity to lead his mighty army into t! inferior to that of the war lords who have Opposed to these warlike forces ihere spirit of Europe, which desires peace, and to maintain it as long as possible. The war as imminent. ougnt to know whether there is an immedi ot the world in the Ievant. has arranged a definite policy by which Germany, Russia and Austria i together n any emergency that may arise. Sultan to begin the war, and strangely enough he is also supposed to have encour- aged the Bulgarians in making their demands for reform. | cile these seemingly conflicting courses of action, but the evidence t0 sustain the THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. t Greece it was reported as the general con- men that the peace of the rest of Europe depended upon the ability of the Turks to march immediately upon Athens and close the war by a s conclusion was based upon the generally Tecognized condition of the Turkish empire in Europe. The subject peoples of the Balkan peninsula are known to be eager to throw off the Turkish rale, and it is an easy inference that if the Greeks gained any marked snccess the spirit of insurrection would be. encouraged and a general .uprising would.take place throughout all the Turis, so far from gaining & success which justifies the belief that they can speedily overthrow the Greeks, have been cheeked in their advance in Thessaly, and bave suffered many disasters in other localities. Their fleet has utterly collapsed, and the Turkish coast is at the mercy of the Greek warships. The result has been what was expected. Bulgaria has alre: v demanded Montenegro and Albania are eager to fol- Under these . circumstances, uniess all the opinions formed at the outbreak of hostilities wero radically wrong, then a general war in Earope is tmmi- nent, and may begin before this week comes to a close. tures of the situation has been the skifting of European been extremely active, and it 1s believed te act He is supposed to have incited the It is not easy to recon- ing spirit insthe councils both of the Turks and of the Bulgarians is too strong to be easiiy set aside. This activity on the part of the Emperor of Germany adds to the probability when be described the Kaiser as a young man of whom Europe had but little experience, and thatof a aisturbing kind. He has 80 repeatedly spoken of himself as a “war lord,” and 8o contemptuously ignored the memory of his peace-loving father Frederick in order to give an honor which amounts almost to adoration, to his warrior grandfather, that there can be little doubt his ambitions ars to be a warrior king; and that he will gladly hail any op- he field and win for himself a fame not e made his house famous. is almost nothing except the commercial the power of England, which will be used continuance of Lord Salisbury and the Queen away from England affords a reason for believing that they do not regard On this fact thie advocates of peace build their hopes. | to be seen whether they are trusting wisely or foolishl It remains Certainly Lord Salisbury ate danger of war, but it is equally certain | that if he has any assurances of the continuance of peace they have not been made | public and are not known to any of the able correspondents who represent the press A NATIONAL Ui_IIVEBSITY. the renewed agitation now going on for the establishment of & Nationa! univers- ity at Washington. The list of wise men who have pointed out the vast advantages of such an institution is a long one, but it subject to mention that among them were | Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, | Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams | and Grant. Among the reasons given by Washing- | ton why it would be greatly beneficial was that the assimilation of principles, | opinions and manners of our countrymen, | by the common education of a portion of our youth, from every guarter, would by | tending to make the people homogeneous | increase the prospects of permanent union, and he held that the primarv object of | such an institution shouid be the educa- | tion of our youth in the science of govern. ment. Among Jefferson’s thoughts of the | good to be derived from the university | was that it would more adequately train | the statesmen, legislators and judges, *“on'| { whom public prosperity and individual happiness so much depend.” The neglect of this scheme, so cher ished by the great men of the Republic, probably has its compensation in the building up of State universities, which ward with so much energy if there had existed a National university to satisfy the more imperative demands for the Lighest forms of education. The high excellence of the State systems now estab- listied will make the National university more perfect when it does come, and how- ever munificently endowed ana equipped and thoroughly eftective these great Stace institutions are they should be regarded as mere complements to a Federal estab- lishment which would complete our edu- | cational system cven as the Federal Gov- ernment at Washington is the crown of our political organization. | gathering at one center of representatives of the finest scholarship in all branches, Dot only from their teaching others, but for their mutuai assistance in search of knowledge, could scarcely be estimated. ‘The advantages that Washingtoa already offers in many ways to the prosecution of scholarly research make the capital a most suitable site for the crowning glory {ofa complete educational plan, and its existence side by side with Congress would exert a beneficent influence on our political destinies. ' It would be an admir- able check on igaorant legislation and an invaluable aid to the statesmanship which wished to be guidea in its acts by the priuciples of enlightened political economy as understood by life- long students of the science of govern- ment and the experiences of history. NUMEROUS BOARDS OF TRADE. It is a maiter for remark that in spite business that have been | throughout the country during the past two or three years, the result in this State as broueht to light early in ’97 is highly encouraging. For it has not been an ulti- mately injurious. one, if we may take present industrial signs as a critericn, The various periods of depression seem to have produced only temporary disconr- agement on the part oi the people, from which they have emerged with a reactive enthusiasm. The evidences of renewed activity have in one siwiking particular taken a form of | orzanized associations, designed for the promotion of indusiry and enterprise. Most of these associations are Boards of Trade, any number of which are spring- ing ap all over the State. past few months the newspapers of Sania Cruz, Los Gatos, Napa, Chico, Merced, and | numerous other towns bave been ringing with accounts of long and stirring meet- ings of citizens imbued with a desire for local progress. As fast as these various boards are or- ganized and their constitutions and by- laws are drawn up, anda officers elected, they enter upon a series of monthly meet- ings at each of which there are presented propositions which the authors of them have doubtless had in mind for a number of years. The association of the representative minds of esch community presents a definite outlet of expression througn whieh the various plans that have hitherto lain dormant may be brought to a focus before the public, in whose interest they are proposed. Consequently, muny of these plans, being thus intelligently con- sidered, will receive direct and effective promotion. In Los Gatos, for instance, no sooner had the lccal Board of Trade been estab- lished than three excellent proposals came forth and were shortly put into tangible shape for the electors of the town to sct, upon. These were projecied resolutions There is much cause for gratification in | is suflicient to show the importance of the : | { would probably not bave been urged for- | The resulis that would come from the | of the many evidences of depression in | manifested | Within the | and Jaid effectively and comprehensively | to build & new Town Hall and jail, fire alarm system and municipal water works. Asa direct result of the Board of Trade, | these long needed innovations will proba- bly be realized, The Chico Board of Trade has thus far presented no very concise outline of its intentions, but proposes to work for the general interest of the community. The Chronicle-Record of that town places at the head of these interests the desirability of interesting Eastern visitors in Butte | County resources. | Santa Cruz Board of Trade was organ- | ized last fail with the improvement and embellishment of the Cliff House drive as the main point at which to direct its en- ergies. The drive in question skirts the promontory from the bathers' beach around to what is called Veu de I'Ean, and is one of the scenic driveways of the Stete. It beinga coaspicuous feature of Santa Cruz as a pleasure resort, its beauti- fication was no insignificant undertaking, | | and in successfully carrying out their 1o lention in that direction the citizens of | Banta Cruz performed a work upon which they have reason to congratulate them- selves. The procuring of additional street lamps and various other desirable features are among the subs quent achievements of the board. These are simply examples of what all the interior boards of trade are doing. There has been a veritable wave of enter- prise in these substantial forms sweeping over the State within the past six months. As an offset to the numerons com- plaints of dull times which ran murmur- % and muttering over the land less than a year ago this uprising of boards of trade is somewhat remarka It speaks well for the people of California that in the midst of adversity they are courageously | inspired to plan upon their own account for | the improvement of those conditions over | which they have control, leaving the more | extensive affairs which are responsible for | their trouble to the care of their official | representatives 1n Washington. DANGEROUS OROSSINGS. { The resolution offered at the last meet- ing of the Board of Supervisors requiring the railroad company to erect gates at certain dangerous street crossings, so as to guard against accidents and afford pro- tection to the lives of passers along the streets, was referred to the Street Com- mittee, and it is to be hoped that this committee will not delay long in making | a report favorable to the resolution. The matter is one of considerable urgency. These crossings have been t0o long left open and it is full time that the proposed protection to the public should be pro- videa. There is nothing in the suggested meas- ure in the nature of an untried experi- ment. The erection of gates on railway crossings of public streets nhas been prac- ticed in every country where railways cross such highways on ihe level with the atreet. To establish them here will be simply to adopt precautions which in many other places have long been em- vloyed and have been found of great sery- ice to the community. No argument is needed to show the im- portance of such protection for the public at our -dangerous railway crossings and no urging should be needed to induce the Street Committee to promptly report the resolution. It would be gratifying to have the subject brought up for definite action t the next meeting of the board and there seems to be no reason why there should be any delay in the matter. —_— PrRSUNAL J. B. Stanton of Colusa 15 at the Russ. J.T. Anderson of Fresno is in the City. William G. Biutt of Detroit is at the Palace. John Orr, a mining man of Sonora, is at the Rus: Ex-Judge G. Solon Hall of Sacramento is in the City. C. L. Steiner of Austin, Nev., arrived here yesterd P. K. Bradford, a business man ot Elk Grove, is in town. J. H. Corewan, 8 mining man of Mariposa, is at the Lick. John Syme, a mining man of French Guich, is at the Russ. P. B. McComb of Stockton is visiting friends in San Francisco. E. Hockmeyer, 8 wealthy business man of Guatemala, is in the City. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University is at the Palace, F. L. Coombs of Napa, ex-Minister to Japan, was at the Grand yesterdny. Ex-Congressman Grove L. Johnson of Sacra- mento is here on a brief visit., A. B. Jackson, the banker, of Salinas is among the arrivals at the Grand. Professor Earl Barnes of Stanford University and Mrs. Barnes are at the Grand. District Attorney Charles E. Lindsay of Banta Cruz is here for a short visit. Mejor Lionel Henson of Killarney, Ireland, is one of the arrivals at the Palace. Charles Piper, owner of the Albany Hotel, | Portland, is among the arrivals here. | John H. Coleman, editor of the Virgiuia | | | | | City Evening Chronicle, is here for s few days’ stay and is at the Lick. C. P. Stone, a business man of Seattle, is smong ihe srrivals at the Occidentsl. C. E. Chipman of Fergus Falls, Minn., is among the Jate arrivals at the Palace. D. R. Oliver, a business man of Sonora, Tu- olumne County, arrived here yesterday, General C. N. Sterry, attorney of the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, with head- quarters at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. The Rev. Phillip A, Hubert, D..,of Living- stone College, Salisbury, N.-C:, will speak Young Men's Christian Assotiation Hail at 3 o’cloek this afternoon on *‘The Light Turned On. C. F. Waters, baggsgemaster of the Oregon Ruilway and Navigation Company’s dock, and Miss Maud Stuhr, stenographer of the com- pany, were married quietly on the 19th inst., disappointing a number of their friends, who hoped to be invited. Colonel Henry G. Shaw, representative of the Stockton Pottery Company, is amoug the arrivals at the Russ. He was some yenrs ago secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce, and he made a number of speeches for MeKinley during the last campatgn. Jefferson Doolittle, one of the owners of the Gou!d and Doolittle mine, and of considerable other property in the Sierras, has returned Bere after & visit to the mountains. He says that much development is going on in the mines, and that everything is on & solid and legitimate basia, Hon. Grove L. Johnson, for so many years the leader of the S8acramento bar, has removed to this City, where he will nereafter be located. The firm of Johnson, Linford & Whitaker, of which Mr. Johnson is the head, engaged for offices & floor in the new CALL building, where they expect to be located by the Fourth of July. CALIFORN1AN> IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Apri At the Plaza— J.J. Pringle, John H. Morrill; Imperiai—M. I i K. Field, J. Dolbenr, Miss B. Dolbear, M. Werren; Stuart—H. W. Braun, Storten; Metropolitan—Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Dexter; Murray Hill—W. E O'Brien; Park Avenue—E. B. Rawbo; Netherland—H. F. Manu; Hoffman—C. Grannan. Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Cusack and family left the Plaza and sailed on the Fulda for Genoa; Mrs. C. D. Far- quharson sailed on the Campania for Liver- pool. THE FIN DE siE(LE SMITHY Under a spreading chestnut tree ‘Llre bike-repuir shop siands: The owner, a wealthy ma Who hires forty hands. His shop Is worth a hundred farms Of the choicest kinds of lands. is he, Week in, week out, from morn till night, His people wok away. A score of wrecks are brought along Tobe mended every day, And ne'll soon be rich enough to it 1n the Senate, 50 Lhey say. e goes, on Sunday, to the church, The costliest pew is hi While others hear the pi He only Lhinks of “biz The orzan’s tones 1o him are just The careless scorcher’s whiz her preach Laughing—rejolcing—happy, Onward through Iife he goes, For every wheel < hat is repatred ‘T'wo more will break, he Kucis— His homely danghter is in the swim, And hes & dozen beaux. d Leader. WITH YOUR COFFEE Mrs. Cawker—If I am not mistaken, Mrs. Snodgrass was a Duff before she was married. Mr. Cawker—Perhaps she was. 1 know that she married a duffer.—Louisville Courier- Journal. Youshould make an allowance for your son at college, Grimly. Most young men have to sow their wild oats.” “Make an allowance! I've doubled it since he sterted in.”—Free Press. MMiss Frostique—I would never get married | in.leap year, becsuse everybody would say that 1 had done the proposing. Miss Caustique—Don’t let that deter you. They will say that amyway.— Philadelphia Press. “Iam going to do something in the literary line which will take better than Bcotch, dis- lect,” said Trenchant Penn. What s it 2 “L am going to write a story in baby talk. Harper's Bazar. Mr. Hiland—Wasn't it singulsr that Can- ton, Ohio, should go Democratic 8t the mu- nicipal election? otat all. The Canton Repub- licans were all at Washington trying to get .—Pitisburg Cnronicle-Telegraph. Mrs. Young—My great trouble is to get rid of stale food. Mrs. Stager—The easiest thiog imaginable. Jusi tell the children that they must not eat it, that it will disagree -with them, and vou will have no more trouble.—Boston Tra: seript. Art Dealer—If you do not like any of these landscapes, let mic show you one of our pic- tures of still life. Mr. Gaswell (becoming interested)—No, I don’t think 1 care 1o see any of 'em, but 1 you've got & rignt lively brewery scene you nay show it to me.—Chicago Tribune, Shank—I notice that some of the Canadian newspapers seem very anxious {0 have the United Stalesengage in almost any kind of war. Shaw—I don’t doubt it. Those fellows would put up with almost anything that would siimulate immigration into their coun- try—Puck. MEN ANy WOMEN There is considerable talk about's bust of Miss Frances E. Willard, In spite of the well- known fact that iss Willard is constitution- ally opposed to busts. The statue of Thomas Hughes, to be erected t Rugby, will be life size, of Siciian marble, on & granite pedestal, and will cost £1000, all of which has been subscribed, Luther R. Marsh of Middleton, Conn., who s 86 yearsold, bought a bicycle and is trying to learn to ride. He will be remembered for his faith in the Diss De Barr “spook” mysteries. King Leopold of Belgium is said to be very fond oi goingabout incognite. Whenever he finds it possible he goes to England unaccom panied, and strolls around the streete 1ike any humble tourist, Several small Gainsboroughs, which had never been out of the possession of the artist’s family, have been presented to the British N tional Gallery by the Misses Lane, the artist’s grent-grandnieces. M. Andree, who means 0 try for the morth pole again next summer, Las had the size of his palioon Increased by 300 cubic feet, which will enable him to také aiong 400 pounds more of dead weight. Garibaldi’s widow, who is still living ‘at Caprera, where the patriot was buried tn 1882 has been granted a pension by the ltalian Government, the Corte del Conti at Rome ha ing after much discussion fixed the amount at 300 lire (60) & year. At & recent meeting of the French Aeademie des Sciences Maurice Thierry reported the re- sults of his experiments in Switzerland, which showed that the amount of ozone .in the air increases with the altitude, being nearly four times as much on the summit of Mont Blanc a8 in Paris. According to the London Court Journa Lt Hung Cisng has & most arduous task before him. The story is that the Chinese Emperor, being anxious to learn French, ap- Ppointed the erstwhile possessor of the yellow jacketas his tutor. But when he discovered that his teacher had buta smattering of the tongue be ordained that Li be incarcerated un til he learns the language. Stlas Ireland, aged 80 years, lives at Presque Isle, Me. Althougk he never attended school aday inhis 1ife he learned to read and write by himself and is reckoned a capable business m He has been a selectman and filled other offices at Presque Isle. He has raised s family of twenty-three children, and declares that his health is as good to-day as it was when he was 20. He never drank s glass of liquor and never used tobacco in any form. IS SNOBBISHNESS AMERICAN? Is snobbishness an American yice in- digenous to the soil of the United States and peculiar to its people? Until now everybody who has had the advantage of reading Thackeray bas labored under the impression that it had both its origin and its home in Great Britain; but if one is to beiieve an article printed in the current number of Cassell's Magazine on “The American Girl fn London,” this 1s not the case. It has been imported into England from across the Atlantic, just in the same manner as the potato and the tobacco- pipe. ‘‘Snobbishness,' declares the articls question, “first sprang to life in a reput can country., Where princely pageantry and ducal estate are a matter of course they can never make anything like the same impression as where they are seen and their influence felt for the first time.”” It is the exisience of this snobbishness in the United States, so the writer goes on to inimate, that causes the daughters of Uncle Sam to crave for “some other pre- fix 1o their names than that of a mere ‘Mrs.’ even though it be followed by so well known a patronymic as that of Van- | derbiit or Astor,”” and which impels them to flock to Europe in search of titled hus- bands—English noblemen being preferred. The article in question has been so ex- tensively copied and quoted by the daily and weekly press of Great Britain that it shouid not be permitted to pass unno- ticed, and possibly the following remarks may derive additional weight from the fact that they are written by an English- man who as a boy used to sit on the knee of Thackeray, the unrivaled delineator of the snob and of the snobbishness of his; countrymen. To begin with, there has been a far greater eagerness manifested by the Old World aristocracy for alliances with American heiresses than any anxiety on the part of the latter to secure tiiled hus- bands. With a few isolated exceptions the matrimonial ‘‘stalking” has been done not by the daughter of Uncle S8am but by the European noblemaun, and ihe Iatter in the case of most of the so-called international matches has been compelled to come over to this country in order to proffer his suit, instead of being hunted down in his lair on yonder side of the ocean by the American Diana, as the au- thor of the article of Cassell’'s Magazine would have the reader believe. The two Dukes of Marlborough, the late Duke of Mancbester, the Comte de Oastellane and | many others t0o numerous to record here were all' obliged to traverse the ocean in order to see their American brides, and far from their being ‘‘run after,’” as al- | leged, their offers of marriage were only | accepted after some hesitation, alliances of thiskind being subjected to much criti- cism not only by the bride's relatives and | {riends but iikewise by the American peo- ple at large and by tbe press. With regard to the alleged snobbishness of the American girl, it is just because she is not a snob that she is so much sought after by t.e impoverished noble- | man. The daughters of Uncle Sam are by no means the ouly heiresses in the matrimonial market. There is many a merchant prince in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, efc., who can give his girl quite as nandsome a dower as any American father, and who would be glad to pay heavily in order to secure the admission ot his child into an illustrions family. But the trouble is that she does not fitinto the latter. She cannot adapt hecself readily to her surroundings, and the snobbery which 1s innate in the up- | per and lower middle classes of England exudes, 30 to speak, from her every pore, | jarring terribly upon the nerves and re. finement of her blue-blooded husband, of his relatives and acquintances. Her head is turned by her social elevation and her one aim is to conceal the fact that she is not to the manner born. Her behavior is invariably affected, unnatural and ex- treme. She is either abnormally stiff, and even arrogant, or eise subservientand familiar. Above ail she is lamentably lacking in that self-respect which imparts | dignity even tothe Scotch and Spanish | peasant, and in one word repels by her in- nateand ineradicable valgarity. That is why an English nobleman who, by reason of the charges upon his heavily incumbered ancestral estates, cannot afford to marry any but a very rich woman, such as is not to be found among the members of his own casts in Great Britain, prefers to come to this country for & bride. The American girl, no mat- ter to what class of ihe social system in the United States her parents may have belonged, somehow or other adapts her- self at once and without any effort to ‘whatevercircle she may be introduced into by her busband. Thoroughly imbued with that supreme respect of self which in a woman is a jewel almost as priceless as chastity, she does not err on the side either of undue assertion or of too great subserviency. Her innate refinement somehow or other inspires her just what to do and what to say, and sweeping though the statement may appear I have never in all my cquaintance with “the Ameri- can girl in London,” in Paris and in other great cities of the universe known her to be guilty of any selecism of speech or be- navior that could be described as either vulgar or snobbish. Take a girl from the English middie classes, a maiden from among the French bourgeoise or a young fraulien from the Burgerschaft of Ger- many and transfer them suddenly to some more exalted sphere of society—bring them, for instance, into social contact with royalty—in nine cases out of ten they will render themselves supremely ridica- lous and will taikand behave in a manner caiculated to embarrass not only them- selves, but also those around ther. But with the American girl it is quite different. She has the faculty of at once assimilating herself to bher sur- roundings, no matter how new or strange, to such an extent that no one would dream that she had not been born and bred thereto were it not for the fact that she rarely makes any secret about her parent- age or seeks to depict it as better than it really is. When it is taken into consid- eration that, in addition to this adapta- bility, this absence of snobbishness, of vulgarity and of afTectation, she possesses an eduocation infinitely superior to the European girl of the middle classes, be- sides beauty, piquancy, readiness of speech and repartee, and an elegance of carriage and attire that is distincily Gallic, it is not surprising that the titled foreign nobles should infinitely prefer the daugh- ter of the self-made American to the womankind of the British, German or French parvenu. It is provable that these remarks will not meet with universal approval on yonder side of the Atlantic, although they are undeniable. When, a short time 8go, in these columns, I ventured to in- stitute a comparison between the English girl and her American sister, with regard to the general knowledge which they pos- sessed, pointing out that whereas thne average American girl could without a moment’s hesitation rattle off the names of the various rulers of Europe it would be aifficult to find one gentlewoman in a | hundred”in Englahd who i8 acquainted with the fdentity of the President of the United States, Vanity Faif, which - is edited by the Earl of Dysart, assisted by a staff comprising members of Parliament and peers and peeresses of the realm, and is perhaps the most extensively recognized organ of English society, found nothing better to respond thereto than the follow- ing extraordinary exordinm: “Surely you could not compare igno- rance as to the occupants of the throne of Russia, for example, with a non-knowi- edge as to whether the estimable middle- class gentleman—who has, by means of gigantic bribery in dollars and promises, or frantic tweakings at the lion’s tail, been elected a tawdry kind of gloritied boss, to be shaken hands with atwill in the White Houee .for four years — happens to be cailed Elihn B. Moggs or Washington Lafayette Snooker.” This it will be admitted cannot be con- sidered in any way as a proof of the groundlessness of my arguments, but on the contrary as an ill-natured and rather vulgar confession that they are true, and that the American gentlewoman goes out into the world equipped with a fur more extensive stock of useful general knowl- edge than that possessea by the average English woman. That in iself very nat- urally has been sufficient to render her conversation and her society infinitely more interesting and agreeable than that of their British sisters to men of the world such as the Prince of Wales and others equally blase, who look upon ennui as the one enemy who has it in his power to impair the enjoyment of their exist- ence and to embitter the pleasures of life. Itis difficult to fiud any subject of con- versation in which the American woman is not more or less at home and concern- ing which she is not able to talk brightly, freshly and intelligently. But the Eng- lish women who can do so are few and far between, and even these are looked upon either a= blue stockings, as for instance the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Bedford and Lady Henry Somerset, or S T Co=uwoush; A and Tpemilvmsly f e Tty thith Gt e flighty, such as the Countess of Warwick, save for ber beauty the British counter- part of Princess Pauline M. Metternich, but whose brilliancy has led to her being assailed with sach animosity in society, and even at court, as to render her posi- tion in the London great world exceed- ingly difficult—that, 0o, despite her rank and wealth. This absence of snobbishness in the American woman is likewise conspicuous in the American man, no matter what the position which he occupies in the sacial orgamzation in the United States, He starts out with the conviction, not that he is better than everybody else, but that he is just as good, that he is every other man’sequal. That imparts to his bearing a certain unconscious dignity which pre- | cludes the notion of obsequiousuess and enables him to meet princes, kings and emperors as man to man insuch a manner as to compel regard and respect. An Englishman of the upper or lower midale- class ushered for the first time into the presence of royalty will commence by erring on the side of excessive subser- viency, which will be transformed into offensive familiarity if he is treatea by the illustrious personage with a sufficient amount of geniality and condescension. But in the case of an American, the prince, as a general rule; does mot have to fear this. Nor does he feel disposed to display any degree of condescension, which would mark the difference in rank, and therefore might be resentea. On the contrary, he | talks to the American on the level, and the consequence is that the conversation is to the prince vastly more entertaining and interesting than that of nine-tenths of his own countrymen. When in addition to this absence of snobbishness, this self- respect” and sentiment of independence, the American man bappens to possess refinement and breeding—qualities with which he manages to endow Limselfin an astonishingly short time—he becomes a | most delightful and much-sought-after friend and associate of the great people in the Old World. Nobody dreams of in- quiring about his parentage. The fact that he acts, speaks and behaves like a gentleman is amply sufficient, and doors are epened wide to him which are kept rigorously barred to Europeans of inf- niteiy higher social standing than_that to which he belonged before leaving the United States. An American gentleman is welcome everywhere, even in the most exclusive society, and no questions are ever asked concerning his birth, his origin or even his own antecedents, All that is neces- sary is that he should bear himself as a gentleman. Providing he does this, ne enjoys an altogether exceptional position in Europe, and it is a peculiar fact that almost every monarch of the Old World bas ome or more intimate American friends with whom he is able occasionaily to talk as from one man to another, in- stead of having the feeling that he 1s speaking from the top of a lofty altitude to the peopls down below. Only those who have lived for any leagth of time at the courts of royalty, and who have noted the m.anner in which the anointed of the Lord are addressed, the servility to which they are accus- toraed and the atmosphere of obsequious- ness by which they are environed, will be able to understand how warmly the au- gust personages appreciate being occa- sionally treated, not as princes of the blood, but as mere gentlemen, as men of the world. Americans thus distin. guished by the friendship and regard of Old World royalty as a rule show that they are worthy thereof by abstaining from boasting about it. And thus it is not generally known that it was an Amoeri- can who acted as best man to the Grani duke Michael of Russia when Le married Countess Sophie Mehrenberg, in defiance of the late Czar's orders. 'L'here are sev- eral Americans, members of the very smart Marlborough Club in London, who have been proposed and put through by the Prince of Wales, and still others for whom he has himself obtained the privi- lexes of the club during their stay in Lon- don. The most intimate friend and most trusied coufidant of the so secretive Em- veror Napoleon I1II was a Bostonian. Young Emperor William, as every one knows, delights in the companionship of his former American fellow student at the University of Bonn, who can boast of being the one man on earth with whom the Kaiser is unaffected, natural and free from pose. 3 Indeed, there is not a crowned head in Europe or a prince of the blood of ary importance who does not have one or more American cronies with whom he can unbend withourt dangerof encourag- ing undue familiarity. These do not deavor to take advantage of the royal friendship to serve selifish, personal inter- and above all do not offend nim either by excessive obsequiousness or by snobbishness. The soil of the United States is distinotly unfavorable to tue cuitiva- tioh of the latter, and during the course of a residence of several yearson and off in this country I have had the opportunity of observing that even those Englishmen in whom the complaint ba« been most acute at home have been cured of it be- fore they have been here very long—the remedy in each instance being tnat self- respect which is the birthright of the na- tive citizens of this great commonwealth, and which seems to inflate the lungs of en the lowliest immigrant from Euro the very moment that he sets foot on the soil of the United States. EX-ATTACHE. WHAT NEVADA NEEDS. Omaha World-Herald. What Nevada needs is the same thoughtful consideration that is accorded to other States. Her needs should roceive Sl Sonsidesa- 1 unstinted abuse from politic S::':fix‘x::mx? was Nevada that settled 8 griev- ous political question when the future of the Republic was dark, but 10w that this task has been performed the party she helped heaps upon herabuse and vilification. A COINCIDENCE CF WAR. THE LAST EUROPEAN WAR STARTED JUST TWENTY YEARS AGO. New York Worla. It is a singular coincidesce that the last European war weS begun twenty years ago next Saturday under simost exactly the same circumstances as the oue now declared to exist. It was thaiof Russia against Turkey. Russia had already massed large numbers of tr6ops on her frontier, and Turkey was also engaged in the work of mobilization. On April 24, 18’ the Emperor of Russia is- sued & manifesto to his subjects, in Wh.lch he recited the interests of the empire in the Clristian populstion of the Balkan peninsula, and the general desire that their condition should be ameliorated. He declared that ail efforts at peace had been exhausted. lie hud given the orders for the Russian army (o cross the rontfer, and the advance upon Turkey was begun without aelay. By the opening of 1875 the Turks were com- pletely prosirated. The road to Constanti- nople was clear. Before tlie English pubiic had time to recover their breath the victori- ous armies of Russis were almost within sight of the minarets of Stamboul. Soon Russia entered into & treaty with Tur- key, the famous treaty of San Stefano, by which it secured for the population of the Christian provinces almost complete inde- penaence of Turkey, and_also looking (G the creation of a great new Bulgarian state with A seaport on the Fgean Sea. England refused to recognize this treaty. After some delay, discossion and alteration, Prince Bismarck, assaming the new role of a peaceful mediafor, a congress of the powers was called and the' treaty of Berlin resulted. The object of some of the powers, notably of the English Government, was rather to maine tain the Ottoman Government than to care for the future of the Christian race. GEN. LANE'> ENGINEERING SKILL. Columbus (Kans.) Courier. General Jim Lune of Kansas may have been a good fighier, but he knew precious littie about military tactics or the necessity for strategy in military movements. Lane had established Fort Lincoln only & short distance north of Fort Scott in the early days of the war. It was situatea at the bottom of a little valley, which was surrounded on every side by bigh mounds. One day an inspecting officer of the engineer corps of the regular army ar- rived and was astonished to discover the of the post. “Who located this fort?” he inquired of Lane. wno was 1n command. “I dia, sir,” responded the general. Well, general, this location is exceedingly disadvantageous. The enemy could come up on any one of Jese mounds and shell you out and you would pe practically helpless.” *“I thought of that, sir; 1 thought of th said General Lane, with’ the utmost gravity; “but at the same time I thought if the fort Jrus captured how essy it would be to recapture sir’” THE SANDWICH UPSET INGERSOLL New York Press. Bob Ingersoll was once terribly upset by Justice Harlan. He was erguing an important case before the Supreme Court when Harlan with great dignity arose, and when a page had pulled back his chair walked behind the curtain that hangson the rightof the room. There he found a glass of milk and a huge sandwich of the railroad variety, which he proceeded to devour while listening to the colouel’s oration. Between bites and sips he would peer around the corner of the protect- ing sereen to keep track of the speaker. Just before reaching tue climax of his effort Inger- 50il happened to look in that direction, his eye caught Harlan in the act of introducing the last piece of sandwich in his capacious mouth and standing ready to wash it down with the last drink of milk and he stopped short. The sight was too much for bim. He forgot what he intended saying and broke ovt in a snicker. Justice Harlan wiped his lips and returned to his seat with dignified com- posure. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street 575 st CaL. glace fruit 50¢ per 1b., at Townsend's. — WHY cook at home, when you can have & feast at reasonable prices at Normann’s Cafe, under the Baldwin? . e PECIAL information daily to manufacturers Dbusiness houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e ArE you satisfied with your paper-hanger and painter? Why not try M. Mertgan, 1302 Webster street. 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