The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1897, Page 22

THE -SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1897 ”CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. Postage Free: .$0.15 SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Daily and Sunday CALT, One 5es Daily and Sunday CAL®, one yesr, by mail.... 6.00 mail.. 3.00 and Sunday CALy, six months, nths by mail 1.50 " one month, by mall.. 65 W kKLY CALL, One year, by mail, 150 | BUSINESS OFFICE: | 710 Marke: Street, £an Francisco, California. 2 <o eeeenn Maln—1868 Telephon EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streer. Telephope... BRANCH OFFICE Montgomery 0 o'clock. Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. reet, open until 9:30 o'clock. | teenth and Mission sireets, open 8 street, open nntil § 0'clook. 7 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. cornér sireetd: open till 8 0’clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 ana 2, 54 Park Row, New York Cltys DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE PROMISE OF MAY. Mayday came to the people of California this year with fair skies and gentle breezes, bringing promise of rich cropsand harvests of all kinds; revealing itself under every aspect worthy of the title of bountiful and beautiful May. | a day propitious to outdoor enjoyment and almost every field and orchard in the It was State save reasons to the people why they should be full of rejoicing that their homes are in a land where May is as charming in reality as it has’'been made in poetry end song. Reports from many séctions of the State published yesterday show that the out- look for all kinds of crops,is aistinctly favorable to sanguine expectations of kets give prospect of better prices' than zelebration of coming good. The war in Eurone and the disaster to | abundant harvests, while reports from the Kast concerning the conditions of the mar- bave been known for a very long time. | Unless some abnormal ‘change in thé& wéather comes, this wiil surely be a boun- 1.60 | tiful year for California, and our Mayday festivities may be rightly accounted a grain crops in many parts of the world, | and over 4 considerable area of country in the United States, have caused an advance in the prices of all grains. The returns frem California wheat-growing districts show that the condition of the crops here is most excellent, and the grain farmers | therefore bave & good basis on which to rest their hopes for a year of fuller pros- Main—187¢ | perity than they have known for a long period. Dispatches from the East concerning the fruit crop show that there have bsen the industry of the vineyardisis. The reports of the fruit outlook are to xset, coraer Clay; open untll | grave disasters to the orchards throughout that section of the country from New | York to Georgia. On the other hand, our loeal returns are distinctly encouraging to expectations of fair crops of all kinds of fruit in California. | have been more or less injured are now reported to be in a much better condition | than was at one time thought possible. The fears of the destruction of the vines in | Fresno by the thrip seem to have been exaggerated, and the present qutlook is that Tweuty-second and Keatuoky | the damage done will not exceed 5 per cent, leaving a fairly abundant crop to repay Even those crops that the effect that while some kinds of fruit | in some localities have suffered from the frost or from other climatic disturbances | the orchards as a whole in every part of the State are promising. Apricots have | been injured more or less in many localities, and in some places it is reported that = | prunes and plums are dropping, but even in these cases the amount of fruit set on THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. MONTHS. | try on & cation * 1f | o 10 forward TH Do not it miss you for you will N er or left at EXTRA CHARGE | ¢ was a glad Mayday. | Te-day We can help the farmers pray for | Crop prospects are brightening beauti- 1 e | for frolickers, the woods are full | Sk | Park ‘exfension is becoming popular, | &nd new plans are coming out fast. | Ine Turks are finding that Greece | doesn’t melt under fire 20 easily as they | expected. | The change of the Cabinet in Greece | doesn't signify that they are tired of the | war. It is only.a habit they have. | Now that the wheelmen are giving help | to the Balboa-avenue fund we may expect | o ‘see t nd attained with a scorching | The project for girdiing the City with a | meries of parks is worth consideration. | If weever carry it out we can give Chi- cago the na | i policeman distinguished | ¥ by ‘erresting eighteen evening, and we may now er bicy! broken. e as reported that Russell has bought himself a spring suit for 76, he must be in the habit of dressing according to his soul ratber than to his P A New ¥ himseif scorcher: rece in or t it ‘be It would hardiy be proper to say that the colors of the dress goods in fashion | this -spring. are loud, but all the same | their_harmonies are strikingly suggestive | of a Wagnerian opera. I damage to crops of various h were so prevalent at tue be- | April,. have now nearly all The farmers feel like picnick- ing and have good reason for it. One-of the war correspondents at Ath- €ns asserts that the Greek women are not 80 _'beautiful as the poetry about them; but: perhaps he hasn‘t read any of the | voetry that has been written since Byron. | The fears of s W ning - of red, The Massachusetts Bar Association | made” Richard Olney 1ts guest of honor at | its recent nquet, and it appears that | while these Cleveland Cabinet fellows are | out of pie for the present they are getting enough cake.and Wine to make up for ii. It will'be good if we can prevent the im- | yortation of adultetated foods into Cali- | fornis; and 1t would also be good if we | coula devise a means of preventing Eastern | | manufacturers from putting Caiifornia lsbels on the aduiterations they make | there. . The German officers in the Turkish | army are getting a great deal of credit for | the skiil with which that army isdoing its work, but the tish officers in the Greek | army are having a hard time, and if they | do not look outthey may get the reputa- tion of hoodoos. In replying to an address of welcome on his return to Cape Town Cecil Rhodes re- ferred to his contest with President | Kruger as a game of cards, which had | been fairly played. As Kruger took ail | the tricks and has the stakes, this may be | considered an honest donfession. | P A | The Democratic delegation in the House | of Representativesis now divided not only | into gold men and slver men, but into | Baileyites and anti-Baileyites, and it is | no longer accurate to speax of the varions | sctions as “wings of the party,” for there | are so many of tnem thiat each counts for | nardly-more than a good 1 tail feather, | 1t is annaunced ¢hat'the women of Bos- | ton have in Jafge numbers been attending | lectiices on the virtues of the onion, and | the saying is now current in thecity, ‘*Eat | onians in May, and all the’ year after the doctors: may : play.” The next thing we may ook for, therefore, is an onion fad, | and those who have tears to shed may shed:them then. It i§ ssserted.that a syndicate of Eng- lish capitalists has arranged with the Kingof Belgium for the establishment in that country of a gambling-place in- tended- to outshine Monte Carlo. 1t is against the Belgian law 10 maintain gam- bling-places, but the King has a pull with the police, and has lost so much money in"his Gongo enterprises he can hardly be blamed for entering upon a sure-thing game o recoup his losses. Victoria’s chariot in the royal proces- sion, for. which England is preparing, is to be-drawd by sight horses, bat all the same the Queen is taking no chances of a funaway. The coachman is to be one of | the best drivers in the kingdom, a groom in royal livery is to march beside eacn ‘horse and lead bim, and finaily the horses themselves have been in training for montbs to walk at a steaay pace amjd the waving of flags and the beating of drums, 0.that nothing which happens is iikely to aisturb their -serenity. Itis going to | materially be a royal circus, but a tame one. 1 | the trees is so large it is believed the falling off will be no more than an eif:ctive thinning of the crop, which will prove a benefit rather than an injary ia the long run. Reviewing the situation as a whole, California has ample reason to be satisfied us bountiful gifts. to orchards and vineyards the needed son in the right quentity the summer will CALLto | with the promise of May. The month has come to us in beauty and will bring All that is needed now to render the fair assurances of prosperity attention. | doubly sure are showers, which will speed the work of spring cultivation and furnish mnourishment. If these come in due sea- fulfill the promise ot the month and we | shall have a year whose prosperity will justily our Maytime festivities. THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS. The proceedings of the Woman’s Con- gress jurcish an evidence of the wide range of problems in which the progress- ive women of our country now fscl them- selves not merely intellectually interested | but morally concerned. Almost every phase of social, political and individual advancement has been reviewed by the papers read and the discussions which fol- lowed during the convention, and these in almost every case evinced not merely ear- nestness of disposition, bat a genuine thoughtfulness and serious stu Such gatherings of earnest leaders can | bardly fail to be of great intellectual valus to the community. They serve to call the attention of people away from their own personal fortunes for a time and lead them to give consideration to those pro- founder questions and wider issues which affect the larger destinies of mankind. It is of advantage to every earnest-minded man and woman to hear or to read what other earnest and thoughtfu! people have to say on such subjects, and even those who do not agree with the conclusions of the speakers at the congress will have at least derived from it the benefit of having their own thoughts awakened into greater activity and their own conclusions put into more definite shape. In all gatherings of this kind there are of course peovle of whom it may be said, as was said of the ten virgins in the Bible, “‘Some are wise and some are foolish.” Noteverything that was said merits un- questioning acceptance by the commun- ity, but most of it, if not all of it, merits this much of approval—that it was the ut- terance of a sincere mind and exhibited a genuine regard for the welfare of indi- viduals and the upbuilddg of the moral strength of the Republie. The discussions turned in almost every case upon matters 1 which women can play a Jarge part in determining results, and the whole effect of the congress, therefore, has been cal- | culated to be beneficial and advantageous | both to the home snd to the communit; As our intellectual life unfolds and de- velops itseli it is becominz every year more evident that every large city or con- siderable town in America is to become something like a great popular university, in which lecturers will appear at stated inteivals to discuss every subject in which the public feels any concern, thereby aiding the advancement of popular studies on such subjects. These lectures come 1in different forms, but they all tend to the one end of increasing the intellectual activity of the people. To that extent they are beneficial, even if the causes to advance which many of them | are called are not directly benefited. We well be gratified, therefore, by the ing of a woman’s congress in this City every year and give the delegzates a | warm welcome when they come and cor- dial thanks for they go. their services before PURE FO0DS. In connection with the arguments for pure food put forth by the Pure Food Congress there is one worth noticing which comes in the form of a sta- tistical table from England. It gives the quantities of cheese imported into the United Kingdom in 1896 and the countries whence it came. There was a total of about two and a quarter million hundred-weight, and of this Canada fur- nished 55 per cent, while the United States supplied 25 per cent. The big lead that little Canada gives us is worth inves- tigation, for our showing of one-quarter of the whole of the British imports would seem good did we not have to compare it with the double as great output that our smali neigbbor sends. The report states that Britich consumers have become prejudiced against the American products becanse unprincipied manufacturers have shipped the adultera- tion known to commerce as ‘‘filled cheese.” 11 this be the cause of the difference to our disadvantage, then the loss resulting from the attempts to palm off the com- pounded article as genuine might easily run into the millions of doilars to our makers of pure cheese. Something of the enormity of the adul- terated-food business is brought home to us by the statement made iu the Pure Food Congress that the Government micro- scopist in the Agriculiural Department in Washington had in his library 115 samples of counterfeit olive oil made in the East which contained not a drop of the pure articte, and all of which was 1abeled California olive oil. This unchecked fraud makes it well nigh impossible to produce the pure oil profitably. The injury to honest industry is alone sufficient to arouse the people to its condemnation, but when we add to that the injury to health, and the demor- alization it causes in the business and manufacturing world, surely indignation should reach such a pitch as will strongly and sternly put down the evil. The resolution adopted by the congress that a society in this metropolis with branches in all smaller towns shoula be organized to protect the people against the connterfeited foods shipped into the State and prevent the imnjury to our repu- tation by shipping such stuff out of it ought to be rigorously carried out, as it no doubt will be, since public attention bas | been directed to the evil and popular sen- | timent roused to suppress it. | e [ THE FICKLE GREEKS. The sudden change of the Greek Minis- | try recalls some cnrious historical facts | showing the fickleness of the Hellenes in | their choice of leaders. They are verita- ble weathercocks for shifting, and the re- | cent change might well be considered as | baving no significance beyond proving the force of habit and the permanency ot Greek political characteristics. Recent history shows that they average a change of Ministers about every ten months. In the fifty-one years from the foundation of their constitutional govern- ment to 1895 they had tried fifty-eight Cabinets. They reached the excess of fickleness in 1865, when there were six ad- ministrations, and in the following year their energy for change was so little abated by the performance of 1865 that four different Cabinets were called to ex- peffment with power. Without passing eny judgment upon the wisdom of their latest change it might safely be predicted that no country could accomplish any great things so long | as it lacked either statesmen capable of outlining a wise permanent policy, or sta- bility and persistence among the people to sustaiu their leaders for a period suffi- iciem to give effect to a comprehensive | plan of action. Whether the lack has been chiefly with | the leaders or with the people may be questionable, but it is certain that they | fail to get the combination of talent in | the statesmen and confidence in the peo- ple. Historians say that in their heroic struggle against ihe Turks in the early part of the century the masses of the people deservé far more praise than the leaders, who had better material than they were qualified to work with. But even if the people had a master-mind to direct them, it 1s doubtful if they wonld collectively obey him. From the days of old the Greeks have been jealous of the power of truly great men, and for any man to rise far above his fellows in capacity was considered ample reason for turning agamnst him. Probably if a man really capable of doing much jor Greek nationality were alive in that country now the fickleness of the people as to politics would prevent him irom achieving anvthing of importance. Even during their brave fight for freedom in the twenties, when so much was at stake, they came very near losing all they 80 long battiea for because of dissensions among themselves. They stand indebted | for their liberty to foreign intervention, though their own prowess might have | won it but for their lack in those qualities | which enable men to work together and prevent courage and perseverance from | being baifled. What is called ‘‘the great Greek idea’’— | that is, the hope of some day having the | unitea Hellenic people refound the East- | ern empire, wita the seat of power in the holy city of Constantinople—is a grand ambition, 4nd because of the boundless debt we owe the race for our intellectual possessions, perhaps the majority of civil- ized men would gladly see them there, | but till the Greeks put away from them the fauit o fickleness it may be safely said their dream will never be realized. | THE WESTERN GROWTH. According to the local censuses taken in | the various cities throughout the United States there are only two with a population | of over 40,000 that have doubled the num- | ber of their inhabitants since the National | census of 18%0. Remarkably enough botn [ of these favored communities a-o on the Pacific Coast; one to the north of San Francisco and one to the south. In 1890 the population of Los Angeles was set down as 50,000 According to the local cénsus of the present year it exceeds 100,000. The Herald avers that there is no padded girectory estimate about this cen- sus, it having been “carefully taken in tire regular manner.” In 1890 the number of people in Port- land, Oregon, reached 40,000. In 1897 the census figures approach 81,000, Situated almost midway between these two cities Ban Francisco contains 350,000 inhabitants in 1897, an increase of 51,000 over the population of 1890, which was given at that time as 269.000. As arule the Eastern cities show noth- ing like such gains as those of Portland and Los Angeles, although some of them have increased in about the same pro- vortion as San Francisco. Plainlr the tide of population is moving westward as rapidly, if not more rapidly, than it ever did. The West being a newer devel- opment there naturally has been a grad- ual exodus from East to West ever since the said new development began. This gradual shifting of population is about measurably represented by &an Fran- cisco’s gradual increase. In other words, San Francisco’s growth just about repre- sents the average acquisition of the West from the Eastyear by year. ‘Iwenty years 8go it represented much more than that, for then people were flocking to San Fran- cisco for its individual attractiveness or in answer to that magnetism which every freshiy-growing city exerts and diffuses. 1t is under these conditions that Portland and- Los'Angéles are atttacting population atan abuormalrate. Their increase rep- resents more ‘than the average Western acquisition from the East as did the in- crease of 8an Francisco during its, ab- normal period of growth of twenty years ago and longer. Ofcourseitis the same Western spirit, the same fres enterprise and untamed energy which make Portland and Los Angeles 50 attractive to the quiet East- erner that made San Francisco likewise attractive in itsearly days of growth. The | Western spirit bas by no means given out vet. San Francisco has gradually as- sumed the metropolitanism and steadi- ness of the large Kastern cities, those at- trioutes coming naturatly with growth | and age and maturity. Her increase will no longer be in bounds and leaps, but will be steady and gradual, as a man broadens and developes even after maturity. But Los Angeles, Portland, and the newer and smaller cities are still of the West, West- ern,'and will still grow in the old Western stvle. ‘We are glad indeed 10 witness the perpetuation of this spirit and the growth of it even.in these days, so many years after the haleyon days of '49. Portland and Los Angeles will develop into great, steady metropolises, and will be followed by other: cities with that breezy, enter- prising spirit o attract, to the Pagific Coast the: thousands and thousands of that class of immigrants who have been flocking here during the past fifty years. PERSON ¢ L. J. W. Mitchell of Lathrop isin town. B. F. Walton of Sutter County is in the City. F. W. Flint Jr. of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Samuel Potter of Martinez arrived here yes- terday. A. L. Jackson of San Jose is at the Cosmo- politan. 3 Judge Carroll Cook has returned from Fresno, Tap Carter, a mining man of Angels, is a the Lick. : F. F. Warnock of Chicago arrived here again yesterday. . H. Johnston of San Diego is visiting San Francisco. C. Durbens of Spokane, Wash., is at the Cos- mopolitan. J. H. Rutherford of Stanford is at the Cos- mopolitan. P.E. Zabala, a business man of Salinas, is at the Grand. Edgar M. Smith of New York is registered at the Palace. C. E. Horton, & business man of Reno, Nev., is at the Russ. Thomas F. Peralta of Stockton is spending a few days here. T. 8. McCormick, 'a business man of Omaha, Nebr., is visiting this City. Gates Sterling of the United States steamer Albatross is at the Occideatal J. W. Hume,” s merchant of San Jose, is at the Lick. He arrived yesterday. J. N. Teal of Portland, Or., was one of yester- day's arrivals at the Occidental. E. W. Vest, a stove and range mauuiactarer of Si. Louis, Mo., is at the Grand. | J. I Allenbach, a business man of Ogden, | Utah, is among recent arrivals here. A.S. Baldwin of Baldwin & Howeil lefton a | business trip last night for tue East. Lieutenant-Commander C. P. Perkins of the United States navy Is at the California. Judge Webb of Fresno bas returned to his home after two week’s sojourn in the City. Ex-Jndge John F. Davis of Jackson, Amador County, is in the City on important business. William Garland, ex-president of the Los Angeles Board of Education, isat the Palace. Among the arrivals in the City yesterday were J. F. Van Name, wife and child, of San Bernardino, Colonel W. R. Parnell yesterday became the secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chiidren. George H. Fox, a fine stock-grower and min- ing property-owner and manager of Clements, is here on a business trip. A. Henderson, a wealthy resident of Council Bluffs, Tows, is at the California, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Henderson. A prominent party of Cleveland (Ohio) people, consisting of Mr.and Mrs, I Lever. Miss Nina and Miss Elsa Lever, Mrs, H. M. Lasheim and Miss Helene Thoum, are st the California. Among the arrivals from Fort Jones is A. H. Bayless, u business man at that point, who has come down on a short visit, Fort Jones is the center of one of the best game districts in the State, some of the game being antelope, deer | | Gregors feel themseives under a certain and bear. Birds are quite plentiful. Colonel J. W. Hardin, the eattle-king, who foranumber of vears has been making his home at Sunta Rosa, accompanied by Mrs, Har- din, is in the City. His ranges are in Ne- vada, Californis, fdsho and Oregon, in the vicinity, generally speaking, of the nefghbor- ing borders and corners of the State. Fora long time, also, Colonel Hardin raised many horses, the range for some of these being on the Bruneau Riyer United States Marshal Covarubias of the Southern District of California, Telfair Creigh- ton, one of the owners of the Los Angelos Her- 1d, and John W. Mitchell, the Democratic orator and atiorney, leit last night for Los Angeles. Marshal Covarubias said at the Pal- ace before going that things were so mixed up he had no definite idea who might succeed him in his office. Atfirst it looked like H. Z. Osborne had a walkover; butnow Tom Lewis, expert of the State Board of Examiners, was in the fleld hot and heavy. Besides thesc Sheriif Cline of Los Angeles was taking a fly Marshal forgot which, of Fresno, was out for it. However, Mr. Covarubias sai¢ he expected to serve out his term, which will not end till June,1898. s commission from Cleveland was for four years, and his predecessor had served out his full time. It was customary for Mr. Cleveland to aliow this, unless there was ground for removal, and he thought Mr. McKinley would do the same. —_— L CALIFORN:ANS IN Ncw YORK NEW YORK, N. Y. May 1.—At the Plaza— F. Batels, M. Hill; Holland—H. H. Scott,W. H. Scott; Gilsey, J.J. Humphrey; Belvidere, M; Johnson; Hoffman, . Martin; Broadway F. E. sharon; Union Equare, F. C. etherl L. Schoenberg. WITH YOUR COFFEB, “How did they Maud. “By a detestable piece of trickery,” replied Mamie. ‘‘Her father put his head outof the window and shouted that her hat was on crook ed, and when she grabbed Jor it she up- set the tandem. shington Star. Mrs. Commonstalk (soberly)—Are you sure your fiancee will make a good home body, Eli? Do you think she knows snything about mending, for instance? Cholly Commonstalk — About mending, mother? Why, that is her very strongest point. Ieaw her mend a busted tireonce in just fourteen minutes by the watch.—Harper’s Bazar. Wife (looking up from her brok)—You know a great many things, Jolin; now, what do you “think should be done in & case of drowning? Husband—Have a funeral, of course.—Bos- ton Courter. 11 that ails you,” man, “is laziness. op the clopement?” asked id the plain-spoken ‘Go to the ant, thou slug- gard. Consider her ways and be wise.” I guess I'll have to,” sighed young Ardup. “I’ve gone lo my uncle 80 often there’ noth- -Chicago | connected ~ with their | baccarat trial, asa card che atit, and aman named Willls, or Miller, the | 2theT than of Gaeiic, origin, and that | they are descended from the same stock Lindsay is not an uncommon name in the United States, a country many of the most eminent and successful of which are the descendants of Scottish forbears. In- deed, there are Lindsays by the hundreds and the thousands in most of the large cities of North America, and to them an appeal has gone forth from the chiefs of the illustrious Highland house of Lindsay to signalize the present year—the sixtieth of the reign of Queen Victoria of Scot- land—by the reconstitution of the once iamous clan of-Lindsay. The appeal is in the shape of a circalar bearing the signa- tures of the Earl of Crawford and Bal- carzes, of his son, the Master of Lindsay, commonly known as Lord Balcarres, of the Earl of Lindsay, of Sir Coutts Lindsay and of the gallant Lord Wantage, and has been addressed to ail the known Scottish- American associations, as well as to such bearers of the name of Lindsay bappen to have retained their associa- tions with Scotland. The circular in- vites all Lindsays to place themselves in communication with the chief- tains whose signatures appear at the foot of the document, at the same time imparting any information which they may possess concerning their lineage and ancestor’s ancestry, the idea being that most of them are either descendants of the medieval Lairds of Lindsay, or else of the retainers of the latter. For with the Highland clans in the Middie Ages the followers and dependants of a chief, especially thosé born on his lands, were wont toassume not only his tartan, his badge and his- war cry, but also his very name. Retaners no matter of what aegree, no matter whether they sat above or below the salt, were regarded as mem- bers of the family of the laird as his children. - Indeed the word “clan’’ is the Gaelic translation for ‘‘children” of a common parent. Andon the understand- ing that most of the Lindsays in various parts of the world derive their origin, if not from the noble family of Lindsay it- self, at any rate from some of its old-time retainers, it is proposed to organize them once more into a clan, banded together no fonger for warfare on the southron, but for niutual help and assistance—in one word into a sort of benefit society, each member of which would have a right to wear the Lindsay tartan and the Lindsay badge, and to feel tbatif in America he was not without kinsfolk in the grand old “land of cakes.” Perhaps it may be of assistance to those of the Lindsays in the United States who have no records of their ancestry, and who are consequently in doubt as to their relationship to the Leairds of Lindsay to know that the members of the noble house of that ilk have from the days of the Norman conquest been distin- guished for their sandy hair—some peo- ple call it carroty, just in thesame way that the Douglasses of Scotland, of Ger- many, of Scandinavia and of Austria are all noted for the swarthinessof their com- plexion and the raven hue of their capil- lary adornments, whence the name of | “Black Douglas.” And it may encour- | age the Lindsays on this side of the Atlantic, moreover, to learn that there are no unpleasant .sayings or proverbs | ancestral name. | Thus when poor Sir William Gordon Cumming was branded by means of the Cranby Croft scandal, followea by the —there are many who believe him to have baen in- nocently condemned—the old Gaelic say- ing was recalied according to wmuh! “while there's a leaf in the wood, there'll | be treachery in the Cummings.”” In the same way, every bearer of the name of McKenzie labors under the tradition to the effect that *no McKenzie is ever gra- cious until he is fed.” To the predatory | instincts of the MacFarland's tribute is borne by the proverb, ““while there is a forest in Kintale, MacFarland wiil never be without cattle in his fold.” Every true-blooded MacLeod should have deflected extremities in order to live up to the nickname of which their clan was | once so proud, namely, *‘the MazLeods of | the bandy legs.” In the same way the | Campbells are noted for their ‘‘crooked | mouths” and for their *black months, and it is added “there never was a Camp- bell without guile.” A few other classi- tications of clan character are the “dirty | Dalrymples,” the ‘‘winay Murrays,” the “idiot McQueens,” the ‘“slow Mackin- | toshes,” while the MacCullums are re- nowned north of Castle Stirling as the *‘de- scendants of the sixty fools.” The Mac- amount of obligation to live up to the tra- dition that *‘there was ne’er a boor of the MacGregors,”’ while if the McNabs are famed for the virtue of the women it is be- cause of the old proverb according to | which ‘*‘there was a ne'er a_hussy of the MacNabs.”” The only classification that I can find with regard to the name of Lind- say is the occasional reference made in Scottish records to the *light Lindsays.” But whether this has regard to the hue of their hair or to the flightiness of their conduct I am unabie to say. The Lindsays are one of the grandest houses in the history of Scotland, and there are few names that are to be found 80 frequently and figuring so prominently on every page of the glorious annais of Queen Victoria’s northern kingdom. It is claimed that they are of Scandinavian, as the Dukes of Normandy, who, after the battle of Hastings in 1066, became kings of Ecgland. They were for along time the feudal lords of the now so glorified Hamiltons, and frequently intermarried with the royal house of Stuart, while among the foreign sovereign houses who include Lairds of Lindsay and of Bruce among their ancestors, is the royal dy- | nasty of Bourbon and the imperial house | of Hapsburg. So great was the grandeur | of the Lords of Lindsay in the filteenth | century that when the chief, the fifth Earl | of Crawford, Lord High Admiral and | Lord High Justiciary of Scotland, was | created Duke of Montrose by King James, | he reirained from assuming the title, con- sidering it to be beneath his dignity, an example which was followed by his imme- diate successors, although hisdescendants of the present day claim the dukedom in question, which nearly 200 years later was conferred on the head of the house of Grah2m. Of course there is no great Scotch house the annals of which are not stained witn blood, and that of Lindsay is no exception to the rule. For Jobn, the sixth Earl of Qrawford, helped his sister-in-law to mur- der her husband, his only brother, while the oldest son of the eighth Earl, who is known ip Scottish bistory as “‘the Wicked Master” of Lindsay, assassinated his father, and was, in consequence thereof, and in accordance with the law of Scot- land, debarred from the succession 10 the estates and dignities. These passed to a distant cousin, the ninth Earl, a gentle- man in every sense of the word, for, with the consent of the crown, he reconveyed the earldom and the estates to the Wicked Master’s only son, whom he brought up and educated, and who suc- ceeded him as tenth Earl, his own son re- ( | who are now endeavoring to reconstitute the | ancient clan of “Light Lindsay'” are men who | be ashamed and to whom one can without i | ence or the citizen, or destroy his seli-respeet, | 400,000,000 human beings THE CLAN OF LINDSAY TO BE REORGANIZED. ceiving from the crown, as a reward for this piece of generosity, the title of Lord Edzell. The present Barl of Crawford and Laird of Lindsay, the principal chieftain of the clan now about to be reorganized, is the twenty-sixth Earl of Crawford and the thirty-fourth Lord of Lindsay. He is’ probably the most learned member of the House of Lords, and under the title of Lord Lindsay, whica he bore until the death of his equaily accomplished and celebrated father, he achieved great fame throughout the scientific world, especially as the foremost British astronomer of the century. Widely known as 1s his name in this respect, it received still more notoriety in connection with the mys- | terious robbery of his father’s corpse, the outrage being almost identicat with that perpetrated at the expense of the late 2. T. Stewart of New York. ‘Three months after the old p.er's death, the mausoleum which he had erected 1n the park of his country seat, Dun Echt, in Aberdeen- shire, was found broken open and the corpse removed. The services of every imaginable detective agency, both official and private, were brought into play in order to discover a clew to the ‘resurrec- tionists,” and the whereavouts of the body, and an enormous amount of mone¥, was spent in this manner without the slightest result being attained. Nearly a year later, however, the body of the dead Earl was discovered by the head gardener of Dun Echt buried in the shrubbery not more than 8 few hundred yards distant from the mausoleum. Under the circumstances it is not unnatural that the present Earl should have endeavored to get rid of & Llace associated with memories of so | grewsome & character, and quite recently he has disposed of the estate to a syndicate Who proposed to establish there a great school on the lines of Eton and Harrow. The superb as- tronomical instruments, which were a feature of Dun Echt and which earned for the ob- servatory a name throughout Europe and America, have been transierred to the new Royal Scotch Observatory near Edinburgh with which Lord Crawford has endowed his native kingdom. while his splendid astronom- ical library, second only to that of the Impe- rial observatory at St. Petersburg, has likewise been presented to the Seotch nation. While the Earl of Crawford wears on his breast orders conferrod by foreign govern- ments for his services to international science, the Prussian order of merit and the broad rib- bon of the Legion of Honor figuring among the number, his kinsman, Lord Wantage, has on the lapel of his evening dress coat a tiny | bit of gun metal, of no intrinsic value, and | yet which in the eyes of an Englishman is more highly prized than the British Order | of the Garter, or the diamond star of any foreign sovereign, for its possession s | equivalent to a recognition by the State and the Nation that its vearer 1s a_hero, since the | Victoria cross is only conferred for some alto- gether exceptional act of gallantry in ihe face of the enemy. Lord Wantage won this asa mere lad of 22at the battle of Inkerman, in the Crimean War. from which he returned | home & lieutenant-colonel at the age of 23. So | distinguished, indeed, were his services in the | war that the Prince Consort insisted on sp- pointing him as equerry to the Prince of Wales on the first formation of the household of the | heir apparent. Marrying the daughter and heiress of Lord Oversions, he became possessed thereby of one of the largest fortunes in Eng. land, left the army and established himself as | a territorial magnate in Berkshire and prom!- | nently identified himself, not only with the | Ambulance Society, but also with the volun- | teer movement, serving for a time as colonel of the Honorable Artillery Company. Nine years ago the Queen transformed him from Colouel Lord Lindsay fnto Lord Wantage. Sir Coutts Lindsay, another of the signers of the circular above mentioned, has seen serv- ice not only as & colonel of the Grenadier Guards of the English army, but also as a Garibaldian soldier. Inlater life he has aban- doned the sword for the brush and achieved great distinction as a painter. He is the owner of the Grosvenor Gallery in London, the popu- larity of which as well as its prestige is but little inferfor to the Burlington House, in | which the Royal Academy has established its | headquarters. From this it will be seen that the heads of the house of Lindsay and those would be regarded as useful and notable members of society in uny part of the world— | men of whose kinsmanship there ¥ no need to ing one's self open to & charge of subserviendy accord that respect and sliegiance which are due by the cadets of an ancient and illusirious house to its head. 1t s not the creation of a new clan that is being proposed, but the reorganization of oue of the most ancient and important in Scot- land, s0 that those who respond to the circu- lars 'of Lords Crawlford, Lindsay, Wantage, Balcarres and of Sir Coutts Lindsay will be entirely sale from the ridicule which attaches nowadays to what are known as the “duffer clans.” " These are to the real old Highland tribal associations what the mushroom nobil- ity of plebeian extraction is to the old blue- biooded aristocracy. Nowadays as soon as ever a man makes his pile in the “city” by means of the manipulation of stock or by company-mongering, he immediately invests a portion of his gains in the purchase of “a place in Scotland,” usually the castie and do- main of some impoverished chieftain. And oblivious of the fact that {n buying the estate he has not purchased either tie ancestry of the former owner nor yet the allegiance which ople of the district accorded to tne “old rd” as his due, he immediately blossoms forth as the chief of clan, either adopts the tartan of his predecessor or ese gets his tailor t0 invent a now one for him, and_surrounds himself with a number of retainers who are willing to hail him as their chief §0 long as he provides them with lodging and board, es- pecially drink. Some of those “nouveaux riches” Iairds arc gentlemen of obviously | Hebrew extraction, others are Anglomaniac | Frenchmen aud Americans, while there nce even some German bankers among them. These are known as “auffer lairds,” and their | clans, which_are composed in the main of parasites and Iirelings, as mere ‘duffer clans,” and it is difficult to conceive the pro- found contempt with which they are one and all regarded by the real article. While it is natural that the creation of new clans in this manner sbould constitute s source of ridicule, yet it is impossible to do | otherwise than commend the efforts which are being made to retain intact as far as pos- sible the tribal feelings and system among the old historic clans. They constitute, not only a link with the past, but also a source of | strength, since each member feels that he has the whole of his clan behind him and that he is under a hereditary obligation to do noth- ing whatsoever that ¢an in any way bring dis- grace upon its name, or upon its turtan. That It does not in any way {mpair the independ is shown by the fact that Scotch Highlanders have earned a name throughout the world for toeir sturdy and rugged Irankne their absolute ircedom irom everything in the | nature of servility. Indeed, it is doubtiul | whether Queen Victoria, who has nearly subject to her rule, has ever heard so many home iruths, often of an unpleasant nature, as fell from thd lips of surly but honest old John Brown. Loyal High- landers are true as steel, but not subservient, and even the lowest of them has a lar keener sense of his own personal dignity than many a southern peer of the realm, In some respects the Highlands may be said to constitute s corner of the worid that is entirely apert from the remainder, since no- where in Europe have old principles, tradi- ons, customs and even fashions been more strictly obseryed than north of Castle Stirling. The Highland funerais to-day, for instance, are precisoly wnat they were hundreds of years ago, and when the dying clansman has gone «traveling” or has ‘‘gone away,” tne un- lertaker comes with his “’stretching-board” to give the bent frame once more the straighi- ness of youth, the plate of salt is put on the breast 10 propitate the evil spirits, ihe luoking- glass is turned face to the wull and the ciock is stopped. For ghosts do not like to see their own reflections, snd in the house of death time 15 of no account any more. Nor must the smort cloth” or pall ‘be forgotten, while a basket containing bread and whisky must in- variably be placed in the cart which serves As hearse, to refresh the mourners by the way. Every clinsman of the betier class considers 1t his duty when he leaves home to carry his shroud with him, and there are some even Who o 50 far as to go nowhere away from Scot- rrying their stretching-bourd | along with their “camans” or “shinty” clubs, For it would never do ‘to go traveling”’ with out getting straightenea out on Lhe stretching- board, a fact to which I would respectfully call the attention to the American members ot the grand oid clan ot Lindsay. EX-ATTACHE. | parents. ANSWERS TO C(CRRESPONDENTS. ALvsisux—C. E., City. There {s no known metal that is as light as alumipum that is stronger than it. QUEEN VICTORIA IRELANT—T. 8., City. Queen Vietoria first visited Ireiand in.1849 and held her court there Augusti. NeEpHAM-DAWSON — N. N, City. George Dawson defeated Dauny Needham in tweniy- nine rounds before the California Athletic Club. THE CHixese RATLWAY—J. §. and a Dozen Others, THE CALL does not know anything mare of the syndicate for the Chinese railway. 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