The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1897. MAY 9, 1867 LfiARLES M: SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: v and Sunday CALL snd Sunday CALL, OB Jl":)l;' :::d ree months by mail 1.50 { Daily and S onth, by mail, .65 | Eunday CaLL, . lfi \WALKLY CALL, One year, . BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Sarket Street, ncisco, California. o —ron-Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B Clay Street ...MxIn—1874 BRANCiH OFFICE: ‘reet, coraer Clay ; open uutll | en until 9:30 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open un 1505 Poli street: open W streets; open till 90 0 0'clock. and , Kentucky OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and DAVID M. FOL . New York Otty. Z, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- THE SUMMER MONTHS. o the cc vacation * e for us THE CALI your address. Do not let it for you w Orders given or lett at Oflic Il receive attention, N0 EXTRA CHA b3 miss ¥a £0, It ix no trou prom; rain may not be wholly better than swearing at fo Praying effective, b the ar p flew far enough ad off The Nashville airsh and fast en many a j The day of lei port < teciding wk can do to help it alon Cali dozen flyi now for one tus, If we can ation of Russia in of Bering Sea Salisbu e a secona thought and take it prompily. The reason the Greeks failed to make the trip was that t 1d not hold on to the p: 3 sent some of their legislators along with their armies. Perhaps if we had arranged for a large number of carniw: grand scale 1 d have had more spring rain and better crop pros- pect re the war and ceases to be interesting some n ultimatum which was eround Constantinople some time ago, and see what became of it. To the Spanish Government the war in Caba is rapidly becoming s money ques- tion of prime importance, and Weyler may be called upon some fine day to show what he can do in the way of pacify- ing the creditors of his country. Any satisfaction which may be felt in this country with Bayard’s farewell speech in London will be due solely to the fact that it .was a farewell. His ministry in England has not been a blessing, but all the same it brightens as it takes its fight. It is not surorising to learn that a com- paratively newcomer into the arena of politics like Mark Manna should have been sickened in the first round. He should have gone through a course of training before he got into the ring against the office-holder. One of the notable features of the Mis- sissippi flood this year is the length of time it has continued. The water has been up to the danger point for fully a month. It is beiieved tbis is caused by the levee system, and accordingly it is used as one more argument by those who object to that mode of dealing with the problem and wish to try some other. The movem: e organization of a zoological society has been well started, and as it is headed toward the eventual establishment of a zoclogical garden pub- lic interest in it is naturally great. The leaders of the enterprise ere men who generaliv succeed in what they under- take, and we have reason, the-efore, for the hopes that are in us of success in this instance. Public confidence in the k Ccmmis- rion was not shaken by the ciuarges made against it by irresponsible parties, but all the same it is gratifying to have the Grand Jury report after a full investigation that *'the Commissiouers have been and are carrying out their daties and the trust reposed in them in the best possible man- ner, and deserve the heartiest commenda- tion of their fellow-citizens.” The Princess of Wales has written a let- ter to the Lord Mayor of London request- ing that arrangements be msde so that the very poor people of the slums of the city shall have a substantial dinner on the day of the grand parade at the Queen’s jubilee. The suggestion is a kind one, and shows that the Princess understands that loyalty is not half 8o enthusiastic on an empty stomach as after a good square meal. The Philadelphia Enquirer asserts that in “a neighboring State’’ a clergyman, in- stead of addressing his congregation, one Sunday started a phonogreph, which played a violin solo, read & psalm, prayed an eloquent prayer, led the singing of the bymn, snd, after the sermon had been preached, pronounced the benedietion. This seems to be a case of making church service mechanical beyond the regulation himit, but perhaps we shail have to come to it everywhere, It is reported that the Agricultural De- partment at Washington is being impor- tuned from all parts of the country for sugar-beet seed, and the Segretary can bardiy keep up with the demand. While the cultivation of sugar beets in this country has been hitherto mainly con- fined to California, Nebraska and Kansas, the farmers of tuirty States and Territories will experiment with it during the coming eeason. The new industry, in fact, shows signs of becoming a fad, or & boom, and, like. all such things, is likely to be over- done in localities where there are not | cellor down for the sake of peace. It is good markets for the beets assured. alboa avenue and | should have | festivals and other | the Levant fades into ondent should hunt up that Bul-} gporators an advantage over small, scat- | raging | i ence itself. THE PARK COMMISSION. The charges which have been made against the Park Commission for some time past came from sources too unreliable and were supported by parties too irresponsible to give any uneasiness to the public or even occasion much popular interest. It was of the subject would disprove them. | everywhere felt that the charges were false, and that the first complete investigation That this feeling was well founded is now made evident by the reportof the Grand Jury published in foli in THE CALn of yesterday. The report covers every branch of the park administration and gives details of management and expenditures of all important work of the year. In this way it deals exhaust ely with every subject which was made a basis of criticism, or fault- findinz, on the part of those who have been trying to weaken public confidence in the commission. It was not made carelessly nor by incompetent persons. Two experts employed by the committee of the Grand Jury checked every item of expenditure and receipt from July 1, 1896, to April 1, 1897. Every improvement made in the park from the erection of the Park Lodge to the construction of bridges was investigated, and in all cuses the results were a complete justification of the Commissioners. In closing the report thé committee declares: “Every facility was given your committee to procure the facts and figures as given in this report, and the conclusion arrived at 1s that the Commissioners have been and are carrying out their duties and mendation of their feliow-citizens.” | the trust reposed in them in the best possible manner, and deserve the heartiest com- This thorough and satisfactory refutation of the idle charges which have been made against the park management will be gratifying to every good citizen. The in a scandal nor suspected of jobbery. | administration of Golden Gate Park has always been one of the features of our muni- cipal government in which the people take a just pride. Citizens of the highest standing have account- It has never been involvea ea it an honor to serve on the commission by reason of iis high character and good repute. It would be a great damage to the community if such men were to be made the victims of irresponsible sbuse and invective, men as we bave had in the past to serve in the fature. for it would then be diffienlt to get such Honest officials merit the protection of public sentiment against the assaults of slanderers, and right thinking men will cordially agree with the committee of the Grand Jury that the Park Com- missioners deserve the “heartiest commendation of their fellow-citizens.” CUONGESTED CAPITAL. | The fact that there is no scarcity of cap- italin this country has been strikingly illustrated by the recent refunding of tbe bonded debts of some of the great railway lines of the East. The new bonds bear but 314 per cent interest and the ones they replaced called for 7. Ina single oneof these deals it is said the sum refunded was $112,000,000, and was the biggest transaction of the kind ever accomplished in the United States. | The syndicates that undertook the ex- tensive deal were well posted as to the | amount of idle capital pressing upon the | market. They calculated that the exist- ence of unemployed money would force the holaers of the old bonds to accept the | new ones with only half the interest they | d been getting. 1f any were stubborn | it was ea: to call in the outside capital eagerly waiting for a chance to make 3} per cent. ! The proof furnished by this big finan- | cial transaction that abundant idle capital | has been Iying in the vauits of the money | centers during all the long stagnation of | businessand Consequent distress will be | suggestive to Congress when it undertakes | the revision of the banking laws. That | so much money should be bezging for em- | ployment at a very low interest in tie financial centers, while the outlying | towns and provinces were forced to indns- trial inactivity because they could rot get | e use of funds for twice or threefold the 314 per cent, is an evil not perhaps beyond | the reach of remedy by improved bank- | ing methods. | Of course the big blocks of capital placed at one deal, the long time of he loan, and the certainty of the investment being safe, will always give large financial tered ones. There is no good reason, BoW- ever, why the difference should be so dis- | proportionate. It is tais ability of cor- | porations to secure capital at low rates | which enables them to crush out indi vidual enterprises. - When the Nation | provides a prcper banking law which will | enable the small trader and manufacturer to get moueyin true proportion to the | | safety of the transaction then the reign of | the overgrown trusts will cease to be so autocratic. SPANISH FINANCES. e i The announcement of yesterday that | the Spanish Government has been unable to raise money abroad and has been forced to borrow $60,000,000 from the Bank of Spain to continue the payment of the | troops in Cuba was in nowise surprising to any who have given consideration to | the financial side of the contests in which Spain is now engaged. War is not alto- gethera matter of valor, and the main- | tenance of her dominion in Cuba and in | the Philippines has been as harassing to | the financiers and taxpayers of Spain as to ber soldiers. It is not the custom of ths Spaniards to make the financial affairs of their Govern- | ment known to the outside world as fally as are those Gf other European nations. Tt is well understood, however, that| Spain can hardly hope to meet her obliga- tions, even if the war in Cuba should end now, without entailing further expense. We can readily believe, therefore, that the agents of the Madrid Government in tha | financial centers of the world have writ- ten that it is useless to depend on credis | sbroad any longer, as foreign markets | will be closed to Spain until the war in | Cuba is over, and that no kind of Spanish securities would satisfy money-lenders, 1: is difficult to see from what sources Spanish statesmen hope to be able to de- rive an income sufficient to keep up the | war and justify them in borrowing money from the Bank of Spain or from anybody else. The taxpayers of the kingdom can bear no greater burdens than are at present imposed on them, and certainty nothing in the way of a revenue can be looked for from devastated Cuba even if her people were conquered and compelled once more to contribute to the rcyal revenues. The cost of the Spanish Gov- ernment in Cuba in times of peace was about $23,000,000 a year and this has been increased during the war about $10,000,000 a month. The debt piled up for Cuba is, therefore, very large, and could not be paid without a-virtual confiscation of all the property not yet destroyed in the isiand. This being the financial situation which confronts the Spanish Government we can well understand why those in authority should be so willing now to offer Cuba ail the reforms her people originelly asked for. Iican bardly be much longer before they are willing to concede the independ- Castilian pride may. scorn to sheath the sword though beaten in every battle, but even that pride cannot go far when there is no money in the treasury to pay for the going. A recent visitor to the tea plantation of Dr. Shepherd of South Carolina reports that about 300 acres are employed in the cultivation of the plant, and that by im- proved processes of curing the product is much superior tothe Chinese article. Ac- cording to the doctor the only thiag which preve: the profitable growing of the plant in the Southern States is the lack of protection against the cheap labor of China. Kaiser William is reported to bave stated that Bismarck wished him to be always fighting and be turned the Chan- now Bismarck’s time to talk a little. A SUMMER OAVALIER. San Francisco has always been accus- tomed to view the approach of summer with a gloomy eye. For some questionable reason, the wisdom of which has found the appreciation of San Francisco stonily inaccessible to its tender feet, every sum- mer witnesses a deflation of popuiation hereabouts that resembles the escape of gas from an overturned balloon. San Francisco as a general community stands stockstill and marks this wholesale ex- odus in lofty silence. Firm in the convic- tion that it does not deserve such deser- tion, it scorns to lift a hand to stay it or to give voice to the impatience whica stirs its soul as the outwara-bourd procession of summer-vacaters goes heedlessly by. Like the proverbisl Spanish cavalier who has been done oat of his sweetheart by the proverbial rival, this St Francisco with a swarihy brow stands arms folded in a side aisle moodily staring at the bridal cavalcade as it passes out into the country sunshine. But underneath the brooding cavalier city’s stolid exterior may not that self- conviction of superiority to the country rival be a true one? May not the city of San Fruncisco indeed be undeserving of the slight which it sustains through the open preference of its sweetheart, Society, for the country in summer-time? Let Society pause for a moment to consider San Francisco's advantages as a summer lover and then reply to that question. What country pastime equals a drive through Golden Gate Park Lehind a team that is vigorously indisposed to slumber by the wayside? What rural road com- pares with the cliff boulevard asa path for the wheel that loveth not the rock and the steep.incline? What rustic scene eclipses the winding way around Ingle- side, with its blessed insurances agains: death by hunger or thirstand its thonght- ful provision of the mounted policeman as a protector of the elusive pockethook and the slippery jewel? What unsettled distriét, in short, compensates for its lack of the conveniences which the city and county of 8an Francisco effords to seekers after pleasure? A change of airisa desirable tgnic, to be sure. It can be derived by a two hours’ drive from the heart of San Francisco. Hunting and fishing are joys supreme beyond doubt. The bigzest hunting and fishing clubs of the State have their head- | quarters in this City, from which they make brief excursions into fishing grounds only a short journey away, re. ! turning within a couple or three days to g0 to the theater or the Cliff or the Chutes or some other comfortable and civilized diversion. Society can do a half dozen thingsin the country, to wit: Liein the shade and watch the mercury climb out of the ther- mometer, eat fruit with the footprints of earwigs fresh upon it, roam through the woods and list to the tuneful !ay of the joyous rattiesnake, don a bathing suit by the sad sea waves and become a victual at a piscatorial picnic, drag a fishing-pole through fifteen miles of bramble and | brake under a 120 degree temperature, and g0 gunning with a boy and a dog neither of which may serve as game in lieu of the rabbit that roameth not in the path of the sportive visitor from the city. Bat in 8an Francisco society can lie in the shade with comfort, eat fruit with safety, perambulate woody glades that are as snakeiess as the haunts of St. Pat- rick, bathe with modern conventence, fish ditto, and bunt in season where the ad- vantage of finding what i1s hunted may be enjoyed. Besides these, it can do a hundred other pleasurable things in the City thatit can- not do in the country. Society, sweetheart of this aggrieved Jord, St. Francisco, been so lightly esteemed in summertime, attend with thine ear to these rich dis- closuares. PROBLEM OQHE;_M@SIBBIPPL ters from the Mis- ipoi floods have set the country to re- newed thinking whether there is not some practical solution of the probiem, and in many quarters there is advocated the policy of turning the maaagement of the mighty stream entirely over to Federai control. An imperative need existsthat some solution be reached, and it is be- lieved that no power Jess than that of the Nation can furnish it, The greatness of the damage is a matter of importance to the whole country. The losses are variously estimated, some cal culations placing the agzrezate as high as $125,000,000. The area actually submerged isaslar:e as the Btate of South Carolina, and the number of acres injured is nearly equal to the extent of Lndia: About §75,000,000 worth of cotton could be grown on this land in an averaze year besides other crons, and to all this has to be added the loss and damage of roads, bridgs buildings, etc., and the expense of relieving the destitute. To the extra- ordinary losses of the big flood-years must be joined the Jesser damage that takes place more or less every year, and which in an aggregate of ten years would foot up a sum that would go a long way to- ward restraining the destructive over- flows. Itis true the Miesissippi is a force so mighty as to almost make men despair of er being able to control 1t, but it is also troe that money jn sums of hundreds of millions is a mighity force. It will not do to supinely say ai the threshold of the twentieth century that science cannot reach out her arm in mastery of this evil. whose worth has | For a hundred millions the Russians ex- pect to cut a canal across a continent and | join the Baitic and the Black seas. In the valley of the Euphrates the ancient ctvili- zations succ:ssfully studied out problems as vast to them as that of the Mississippi to us, and executed great eLgineering feats which changed tie forces of destruction into powers of production. In the vexed question of whether the Nation or the individual States concerned should undertake the work of managing the river it is contended that Federal con- trol would be contrary to principles of our Government, and appropriations to build and mamtain the works would be unconstitutional. Some think the ex- pense should be borne by those most im- mediately concerned. In the early his- tory of our Government the same ob- jections were opposed to appropriations for river and harbor improvements, but they have been compleiely overborne by advancing thonght. In favor of Federal control, it cun be said that only by this means can a vast and comprehensive plan be successiully carried out, and that the regulation of a system o immense and affesting so many different States as the Father of Waters and its great tributaries is as naturally in the province of Federal management as is interstate commerce and the carrying of the mails. Jtit can be shown that a broad ‘policy of protection to the fertile valiey of the Mississippi would not redound’,in profit to the whole Nation, jhen surely some ar- rangement could be made for raising the 1unds feom those most benefited; and stil’ let the undertaking -be a National enter- prisé, so as to be carried on with an ef- acting separat THE MODERN KOL: OF CAVALRY. The cavelry arm has been aptly termed the “leyes and ears”, of an army and the expres- sion indieates its principal modern employ- ment. THe distinctive character of cavalry is its mobility. The horse is the trooper’s principal weapon. The great function of the cavalry is to fur- nish information of the enemy’s numbers, positions, plans and movements. Ip doing this it screens the army and thus prevents s knowledge of our own movements from reach- ing the ememy. At the outbreak of warit advances boldly into the hostile territory and hinders, if possibie, the mobilization and con- centratfon of the enemy’s forees. S0 important have these duties become that the fate ¢f war may easily depend on. how well and faithiully they are periormed. The first examiple of such use of cavalry on a large scale wus by the Germans in the war of 1870, and the easy confidence with which their armies. advanced through French territory was due to their cavalry service. Nosooner was war declared than the German cavalry pushed across the frontier in squads of five and six, cutting telegraph lines, gaining in- telligence and terrorizing the innabitants. This incursion is thus graphically described by a Well-known French writer: “Every’day the same thing—like an irritating fly, that is driven away only to return the next moment, the enemy’s cavalry could not be lsid hold of. In sucn a reconnaisance of three men i two are killed, no matter as long as one -escaped to tell the tale.” Howeyer, the success of the German cavalry was due very largely to the improper use of the French cavalry and a lack of knowledge of its true function: In a future war thissuc- cess will not be repeated. With the increased range and intensity of fire irom infantry it wes easily seen that a cavalry charge, having a much greater dis- tance to traverse and depending almiost en- tirely on shock action, would have' Mitle chanca of success against unshaken infantr or even artillery in position. For a time many predicted that the day of the employment of cavalry masses was over and & reduction of its strength wes looked for. These predictions have not been fulfilied. Relatively to in- fantry, the cavairy and feld artitlery have vastly incregsed in value of lae years, and the next large war will see them employed in greater numbers than ever before. Consequently much atteation is mow be- stowed by European powers on their cavalry, and Jarge masses of horsemen are kept con- stantiy on the irontiers ready to advauce at the first note of war. The mounted arm re- quires time for training, and as it is the first to take the field its strength must be kept up constantiy during peace. Cavalry maneuvers are now held annually, and Russia keeps 30,- 000 horsemen in constant readiness on the frontier of Poland. As inthe next campaign similar masses of cavalry will be advanced by both sides and pushed boldiy forward with the same object in view, cavairy engagemeuts on a large scale may be expected before the hostile armics can arrive upon the field of ection. The future of the campaign may easily depend upon the out- come of these engagements. During the advance of an ermy the cavalry will spread 11611 out like a screen, behind W h the commander-in-chief can maneuver his torces and make his dispositions for action athis leisure, The cavalry is pushed forward in small detachments, joltowed by larger bodies, until it comes in contact with the enemy. Once this contact {s made it is never lost. Everything of importance in front is re- ported to tne commander by a chain of mounted men. The screen is pushed many miles in advance. By this method most of tho uncertainties of war are avoided, and surprise is well nigh impossible. The successfui appli- catlon of this system, however, evidently de- pends on the intelligence and activity of the cavalry. The time is evidently past when a good seat and deshing sappesrance were the principal qualifications needed in a cavalry officer. In actual battle the role of the cavalry isless important, but it will be largely used in ex- tending front, in flanking movements or as a support to artillery in detached operations. Charges will take place only under excep- tional circumstances. Some notable charges were made in the Franco-German war, especi ally thatof Von Bredou at Mars-la-Tour, but the usual result wes almost total annihilation with no corresponding advantage. During the battle the cavalry has remained ton large extent out of action and umem- ployed, and now largs masses stand ready to be launched alfer the retreating cnemy. Owing to the exhausting fatigues of ‘an action and other causes vigorous and sustained pursuits after a battle have been extremely rare in the past. The importance of completing the victory and if possible producing a rout sud annihila- tign of the van quished enemy 8re, howgver, 50 great that in future we may expect pursuit to bo pushed to the extreme limit. In the past the absence of fresh troops has prevented this, but with Iarge masses of cavalry kept in hand for the purpose matters have changed. * Instafices have been' frequent ‘of forces beaten in battle, but which somehow were ready on the next occasion. War is thus pro- longed, and in the future true humanity de- mands not merely that the 0ppesing force be beaten but that it be annibilated. In this way wars and consequent suffering will’ be much curtafled. In tnis work the cavalry will be calied upon to perform as equally glorious a perias in the gallan deys of Ziethen snd eidlitz. E. H. Brack, punter, 120 Eddy straet. o TouRIsTs—Caiifornia glace fruit, 50c1b., in el- ggaut fire-siched bxs. Just what you want for rn friends. Townsend’s,Palace Hotel Bldg Sl G s The Carina of Russia 18 of a practical turn of mind, and uses the typewriter with facility. The frame of her machine is inlaid with mother-ol-pearl, and the bars are of gold. —————— FPECIAL information daily to msnufscturers. business houses and publicmen by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * jieise & i g 3 Witness—Your Honor, I can’t read or write, Judge—As the witness can’t sign bis name the clerk will fill out s blank setting forth that the undersigned professes to be unabie to sign his name, to read or write, and declares himself utterly illiterate.—Journsl Amusant. Mark Hopkins titute of Art. The spring exhibition is now open daily srom 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. and grand concert every Thursdey evening. Open Sundays. % fectiveness bevond the reach of States| NATIONAL SENSE OF PROPRIETY IN FRANCE. “So very French” is an expression which one hears constantly in this coun- try in order to indicate utterances, be- havior, literature and art that are indeli- | cate and calculated to offend the sense of propriety that prevails on this side of the Atlantic. People who employ this form of speech are probably ignorantof the fact that identically the same meaning is ap- plied in France to the words *‘Bien Ameri- cain,” which may be rendered as ‘'so very American,” and to those who may feel dis- posed to doubt the truth of this assertion it may be pointed out that within the past fortnight popular sentiment at Paris has forced the authorities there to quietly pre- vent the appearance in living pictures at the Theatre des Folies Bergeres of an American girl, who after deserting her princely husband and children, had been divorced under eircumstances sufficiently sensational to render her an attraction to ‘Tesorts of the music hall order. No barsh measures were employed by the Prefect of Police, but after having in vain appealed to the ex-Princess for the sake of her chil- dren to abandon her projected debut on the stage, he summoned the manager of the theater and informed him that if the appearance of the lady gave rise to even the smallest demonstration on the part of the audience he would instantly have the Folies Bergeres cleared and closed on grouuds of public morality. True, she had previously failed in her attempts to sécure engagements on this side of the Atlantic, the New York impresarios, who ‘have their forefingers on the puise of pub- lie taste and sentiment, being of the opin- ion that she would not prove a ‘‘draw.” Bus thetonly goesto prove what I intend to_convey, namely, that in spite of the very widespread impression to the con- trary, based upon misconception, the na- tional sense of propriety is much the same. in both the United States and France, and that it is immensely superior to that which prevails in most of the other civilized nations of the world. ‘With regard to the misconception that exists in France concerning the American standard of good taste and delicacy, it 18 attributable in the main to the infinitely superior amount of independence of Amerlcan women, and especiaily of Amer- ican young girls, to that enjoyed by their French sisters. The latter do not under- stana this or make allowance for it, and when they see married women from across the ocean arrayed in frocks that are con- sidered as daring, and young girls going about unescorted, flirting and attending theatrical performances at the Palais Roy- aland the Athenee Comique, they straight- way take 1t for granted taat the American sense of propriety must be immeasurably inferior to their own. They donot realize that the flirting is of the most innocent character, that the indspendence is nei- ther boldness nor “brass,” but merely the result of the different social conditions that prevail in this country, and that if American *‘misses” are seen at theaters to which no French mother, beshe grande dame or petite bourgeoise, would bring her unmarried daughter, 1t is because they are®utterly incapable of fathoming the true meaning of the indelicate but witty play upon words which constitutes the chief and only objectionable feature of these entertainments. Then, too, it cannot be denied that Americans, like their ‘Euglish cousins, allow themselves a considerably larger amount of latitude abroad than at home with regard to the conventionalities of Iife. They look upon the trip to Europe or the stay there in the light of a holiday and their exuberance of spirits sometimes gets the better of their discretion. Eng- lish people, for instance, will go to the races and even to the theater on SBunday when abroad, whereas they would hold uo their hands with pious horror at the no- tion of dome anything of the kind at home. 8o itis with many Americans on the Continent of the Old World, who cross the Atlantio with the feeling that among strangers, away from the observant gaze of their fellow-citizens, and above all free from the prying eye of the American press, which constitutes so healthy a re- straint upon their behavior, they can doff for the nonce their strait waistcoat of ultra-respectability and enjoy themselves like boys and girls out for a holiday and fora “'real good time.” This, too, is not understood by the stay-at-home French and all serves to warp their comprehension of the correct standard of American pro- priety. With regard to the misconception that prevails in the United States concerning Gallic morality and delicacy, it is the French themselves who are greatly to blame, although some responsibility douttless attaches itself (o scribes of the class of the brilliant young American author who, after six weeks’ residence at Parisspentaccording to his own admission in lounging on the boulevards and haunt- ing resorts such as the Folies Bergeres and the Moulin Rouge, wrote a book about the French metropolis in which he gravely asserted that even the most de- graded and abandoned women of the American colony on the banks of the Seine could never descend to the depths of moral infamy of the best and mos¢ re- spected ot the French wives ana mothers. But the people who are chiefly responsi- ble for the reputation with which the French are undeservedly saddled in this country are a band of more or less distin- guished Psrisian novelists, playwrights and journalists. If the French have one fault it is that they are wanting in hospi- tality in the American sense of the word. They do not throw apen their hous: to the stranger or admit him to the intimacy of their family circle, even when warmly commended by mutual friends. The consequence is taat the'real French society—and by that I mean notonly the great world, but also the bourgeoisie—re- mains & terra incogpita to the Amer- ican, whose only koowledge thereof s derived- from Parisian novels, plays and newspapers. < Now knavery is slways more interesting than houesty, while virtue and morality present less at- traction to literary palates accustomed to highly seasoned dishes than vice. As books are written to catch the taste of the reading public and plays are proauced to ‘win the applause and the good will of the theater-goers it naturally follows that the theme of both one and the other is in- wvariably intrigue and immorality; and to such an extent is $his the case that the foreigner ends by beiieving that French life must necessarily be as it is portrayed on the stage and in novels, that is to say corrupt and rotten to the very core. This impression is still further strengthened by a perusal of the Parisian newspapers. During the reign of King Louis Philippe and subsequently throughout the eighteen years of Napoleonic sway the press was kept under very strict control, and the ut- most reserve was displayed in touching upon any scandals of society, the Em- peror in particular bolding that the pub- lication of unsavory news concerning the great world was calculated to impair the moral tone of the masses by showing them that those whom they had been taught to look wupon as their betters, sud as a pattern of good behavior, were unworthy of their con¢ideration and re- spect. - That, according to Napoleon, served to sap the very foundation and bulwarks of the social system as now constituted. But since the wer of 1870, the newspapers have been practieally free trom ang sort of eensorship, and scandals toat thirty years ago would have been merely hinted atin the most vague man- ner, if indeed referred to at all, are now shouted in stentorian tones from the very housetops with a revolting abundence of detail. A large portion of the newspaper reading public likes to fearn evil about its neighbors, its friends and its acquainances, and things have come to such a pass that the worse the scandal, the more valuable it is looked upon as & piece of news for the press. Politics and the ordinary intelligence, domestic as well s foreign, are restricted, save ia the case of the Temps and the Debats. to the smallest and most unobtrusive corners of the paper, while items calculated to show up this or that par- ticular grade of society in an especially bad light occopy the mein portion of the sheet. | Finally, one becomes so accustomed to 100k for scandals in the French press, and to find them, that the impression unconsciously grows upon one that they constitute the only news in & Parisiau paper, and that there is nothing z0od that can ever be recorded of French so- clety. but only evil. Yet if oue were to take the files of a Parisian newspaper tor & period of twelve months and count up the financial scandals related of men, the indiscretions and dramas in which the fair sex have played the leading role, aceording to | press accounts, one would find that the people thus held up to popular re probation do mot comprise more than 100, or let us say at the very most 200, persons occupying @ place in the aristocracy, in the officisl worid, in finance, or among the well-to-do bourgeoisie, the names occurringover and over again, nearly 50 per cent of them belonging to foreigners. For it is only necessary to recall the fact that Baron Refnach and Dr. Cornelius Herz, the two prin- cival culprits in the Panama scandal, were of German birth, while the Princess whose divorce and subsequent attempts to appear at the Folies Berzeres Theater in living pictures have heen attracting so much attention .is .an American. Yetitis on the strength of the misconduct of this relatively infinitesimal | number of individuals, some French, snd the other foreign, who are thus held up to public obloquy in the press, that the entire French nation with a population of 40,000,000, is branded as so corrupt, and so lscking on the score of morality, that the word *French” here in America has come to be regarded as synonymous with “ingelicate.” Yolice experts and those who devote their time to the study of crime and of sociul prob- lems relating thereto do not hesitate 0 ex- | press the very decided opinion that there is immeasurably more social corruption at Ber- lin, at Vienna, St. Petersburg, and even in Stockholm, than at Paris, while Brussels has achieved for herself an undesirable promi- nence over all the other cities of the world as the principal source of all the volume of liter- ary filth which Beelzebub inspires degenerate scribes to write for the contamination of inno- cence and purity. But every one of those capitals just mentioned make & point of ob- serving the maxim of De La Rochefoncauld, and keep as far as possible a veil of mystery over their misdoings, the scandals which they print in their newspavers relaung exclusively 1o occugrences abroad and to foreigners, a dis- creei silence being observed in connection with those happening nearer home. One may search the Berlin journals and those of Vienna in vain for any unsavory gossip concerning the German aristocracy or about the Austrian great world. Butyou will find in their col- umns the fullest details concerning the scan- dals of the hour in Madrid, Vienna, Paris or St. Petersburg. Parisian newspapers, on the other hand, are apparently never 50 happy as when fouling their own nest,and as when holding up the moral shortcomings of their own countrymen in an exaggerated form, ana in'a far too highly colored Iight, to the gaze of the entire world. 1t will doubtless astonish many people in America to learn that nowhere in Europe does respectability count for so much s among the French middle snd lower classes, while the great world of France attaches equal importence to what it describes as “correct- ness” of conduct, speech and manner. If Felix Faure, and before him Casimir Porier and Sadi-Carnot were elected by the suffrages of their countrymen to the Chief Magistracy of the republic, it was mainly because, of all the rival candidates for that high office, they were held to come nearest to the national ideal of respectability and ‘‘correctness.” These sre two qualities which are invariably preferred by the French to brillianey, to wit and to smartness of inteliect, and nowhere are ir- regularities of conduct visited with more serious consequences to & public man, or viewed with greater severity by the people_at large, than in France. That was indeed the causo of the lamentable failure and fall of President Grevy. The fact that his domestic relations prior to the fall of the empire hed not been of an altogether regular character—a fact of which no one was aware at the time of his election as Chief Magis- trate—was forever being brought to bear against him, and it was solely due to similar causes that the late M. Challemel-Lacour, the cleverest Frenchman who ever held office un- der the third republic, was on three separate occasions defeated by overwheiming mejori- ties in his efforts to secure the Presidency. This high price set upon respectability is to be found in every class of French society, and it is but a year azo thata retired revenue officer, who, like his father and grandfather before him, had been decorated with the Legion of Honor and pensioned off after nearly two score years of subaltern service to the State, was Indicted for having murdered his repro- bate son_ in consequence of the young man having brought disgrace upon tne honor of the name of a family which though humble had heen noted throughout three generations for its respectability. In concluzion let me state that strict obser- vance of the mar:iage ties is the rule n French families, and not the exception as people here seem to believe, Indeed, the family relations are perhaps even more close and more inti- mate in France than in America, owing to the fact that there is infinitely less independence on the part of the wife, the daughters and the sons. The latter even when grown upand gray cannot contract a marriage without the parental sanction, sna the fact thatno one | conld have ever thought of modifying the law upon the subject shows conclusively the ex- tent to which the filial sentiment prevails in France, New York is mot America, nor is Paris France. Both cities are infinitely too cosmo- politan to serve as a sampl - or standard of the character of their respective countries, And | if the Frencn were to know a little more of America than they do at present—of America that lies beyond the limits of New York, and ifon the other hand the Americans were to possess a more extensive acquaintance of | France than cen be derived from French | novels, plays, mewspapers and from brief visits to Paris, we should no longer find the words “bien Americain” used in France to designate things that are indelicate, n latier descrfbed in this country as ag vers French. EX-ATTACHE. —_— WIIH YOUR COFFEE How far is i+ 10 Paradise? In faith 1 cannot say; Last eve I saw a lad and lass Stroll siowly out that way. How far Is It to Paraaise? No chart the goal reveals Tt lies not far, for folks I know Have gone there on thelr wheels. —Chicago Record. We find in the course of a day that we have had all the outdoor exercise we need in dodging people who ride wheels.—Atchison Daily Globe. . One of the witnesses for the deiense in a recent lawsuit created a smile when asked to testify to the veracily and standing of a neighbor. He was asked if he would believe 1he man under oath. *'Well,” was the ingenious reply, *I would believe him if I knew what he was saying was true.”—Dublia Worid. Amanda (alignting from her ‘wheel at the roadside, where Mortimer awaits her)—Have I kept you waiting long, dear? Mortimer—Long? Many cycles have passed since the hour appointed for our meeting.— Judge. PERSONAL. ¥, W. Murphy of $an Luis Obispo is visiting the City. . M. P. Holland, s business man of Fresno, is in the City. E. A. Warren, a grain and fruit dealer of Chico, 18 in town. Y. Nahashina, a tea merchant of Japan, is &t he Cosmopolitan. B. . Bisel and wife of Bozeman, Mont., are at the Cosmopolitan. Robert Davidson of Glasgow, Scotland, ar. rived here yesterday. W. L. Barber of Redwood ison a visit here, and is at the Occidental. Dr. W. 8. Taylor is up from Livermore, and isstaying at the Palace. E. S. Ward, a commerclel traveler of Ban Jose, is at the Cosmopolitan. General J. H. Shineof Sounors, Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmopolitan. A. F. Schafer, a mining man of Randsburg, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Frank J. Brandon of San Jose, ex-secretary of the State Senate, is in the City. C. C. Mathews, s mining man snd ranch. owner of Tehachapi, is in the City. Oswala Becker, who is interested in orange- growing at Palermo, is at the Lick. E. J. Emmons of Bakersfield arrived here yesterday, and will remain several days. J. A. Owens, a mining and business man of Daggett, is among those registered at the Russ. Dr. W. A. Weldon and Thomas H. Fawcett oft San Pedro came up yesterdsy, and are st the Grand. E. E. Skinner, owner of 8 drugstore at Eu- reka, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Grand. S. G. Little, the rich banker and land-owner of Dixon, arrived here yesterday. He isat the Russ. Dr. F. F. Tibbetts of Sacramento, member of the State Board of Dental Examiners, arrived yesterday to remain a few days. J. 3. Seavey, secretary ot the Marine Engi- neers’ Association, yesterday teok charge of the engine-room of the Governor Irwin, the State tugboat. A. M. Chambry, who some years ago came from France and invested in mining property at Grass Valiey, which he has since been work- ing, is at the Graud. A number of wealthysociety people of Louis- ville, Ky., arrived here yesterday, and are at the Palace. They are Miss Ramsey, Miss Payne, Miss Florence Payne, Charlotte New- man and Charles A. Newman. Charles C. Derby, manager of the large quicksilver mines at New Alamaden, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Occidental. He is accompanied by E.W. Carson, Miss M. G. Carson and Miss Hattie Carson. Joseph D. 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