The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1897, Page 4

| ) THE S FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1897 MAY 10, 1887 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: d Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 ¢ and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 ¢ CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 three months by mail 1.50 oue monih, by mail. .65 . 150 . 150 W RAKLY CALL, one OOMMERCIAL PROSPEOTS. Trade throughout the country is pro- gressing on conservative lines. The tariff continues a disturbing factor and com- mercial interests everywhere are anxious to have the bill passed, so that they may know what to do. othing siagnates business like uncertainty. Speculation ceases, merchants buy only from hand to mouth und values are all at sea. This was shown last week by the sugar stocks, which fluctuated sharply on news of tariff modifications. The whole cofintry will breathe more freely when the bill is passed and business men learn whers they stana. But, as has already been remarked, business is better than it appearson the INESS OFFICE: 10 Marke: Street, f£an Francisco, Californis. Telephone ... reeeveeen Maln—1868 | BU: EDITORIAL ROOMS: Clay Street. Telephone........- Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Montgowery s:reet, coraer Clay ; open antl o'clock Hayes street; open until 9:80 ocl ireet, open until 9:80 o'cloc! ixteenth and Mission sirees, open X 18 Mission street, open unttl 9 0°clock. 7 Ninth street, open until 8 o'clock. en until 9:30 o'clock. second and Keatucky 19 o’ciock. OAKLAND OFFICE 998 Broadway. FASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 Park Row. New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fasiern Manager. 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Le country on a vacation * It irculle for us to forward THE CALL to | tress ss you for you will e carrier or left o prompt attention. Arey ¥0, 1t 18 ne e will recel A CHARGE The (ireeks and the Turks deserve credit fo- one thi: The, fought short order instead of 1 has determined to go star- round tte country, it would have bett lecture platform is getting The A Michigan artist has had a picture ac. cepted by the Paris Salon, and we may now expect Detroit to become indifferent 1o her potato-patch fame and set up as an art center. The sodawater men of the East are said to have introduced a new drink called “a p,” but it is not stated whether it is a good substantisl schooner or mainly a | matter of gas. The chie! characteristic of Deboe, the y elec Senator from Kentucky, is be reticence, and we cun now un- nd how complete has been the revo- tion that turned down Blackburn. In a recent article in y's Magazine the editor of the Boston Herald says there are only eight th ¢ newspapers in America, and it i ear from such a state- ment by its editor that the Herald cannot be among the number. Pennsylvania has declared May 15 a holiday, and will celebrate it by unveiling the grand monument to Washington at Philadelphia. She is not eelfish in the matter, and invites all the rest of the coun- try to come in and take part. The report of the discovery of a cave in o which is likely to prove to be larger than the Mammoth cave in Kentucky may be well founded, but it sounds like an attempt to cive a metaphorical de- scription of the Ohio Democracy. After the first disaster to the Greek arms the King declared it was not his war; a little later the Cabinet announced the war did not belong to them, and now the peo- pleassert it wasnot theirs. We might just as well recoguize it as strictly a Turkish affair. Henry Watterson has risen up to reite- rate his assertion “Mr. Cleveland can never again be President of the United States,” and without expressing an opin- ion as to whether it was worth while to make the prophecy we can cordially ap- prove the accuracy of it. The importers who are bringing in such large quantities of foreign goods in a Lurry to escape the higher dutiey of the new tariff may find in the end they bave been playing a losing game. There is such a thing as overstocking the market even in a country as big as this, General Joseph Wheeler of Alabamea has declared it to be his opinion that the campaign of 1900 will be fought on the tariff and that the Democrats will win, and now the country would like to know whether the general is in his dotage or has always been talki lation for the youth of Michigan has been vetoed by the Governor on the ground that it would interfere with domestic con- cerns. The paternalism of the home he thinks is sufficisnt to control matters of that kind if assisted occasionally by the maternal slipper. Among the steerage passengers on a steamer that recently arrived at Philadel- phia was a Chinaman who gave his name as Go Hang, but knowing that Chinese are not permitted to enter the country he | gave his nationality as “Ilish.” It was recognized by the Philadelphians as a | good biuff for an Oriental, but it dida’t go, According to a student of criminal sta tistics in the East 33 per cent of those sen- tenced for life in Wisconsin are pardoned after a few years, 40 per cent in Ohio, 50 | in Massachusetts and 63 per cent in New York. The average term which a life con- vict serves is less than seven years. Asa general rule in this country it is safer to kill a man than to steal a hog. M. Brunetiere, the eminent French critic, who has been lecturing in New York, says there is not a person living in France who is less cultured in French lit erature and more ignorant of French na- ture than Zola. The novels of the famous realist he declares to be made up of ‘*‘ca- ricatures, gloomy, pessimistic and calum- nious—a portrait of his own character.” It would only be fair now to invite Zola over to give his impressions of Brune- tiere. It will be remembered that when Swami Vivekanenda, the gifted Hindoo, was in this country he was very popular with the ladies. He bas now gone home, and in describing American women to his coun- trymen said, according to report: “When & woman tries her best to find a husband she goes to all the bathing places imagina- ble and tries all sorts of fricks to catch a man. When she fails In her attempts she becomes what they call in America an ‘old maid,’ and joins the church.” That is what comes of patronizing the heathen. | says that the actual sales in April by lead- | | than in April, 1892, the year of the largest |is surely o in the present case, as the quoted dispatch shows. | per cent more business than in 1896, and t into the ring and | to have taken to the | surface. Thus a dispatch from New York | ing houses i each line of business in the principal cities east of the Rocky Moun- tains average only about 10 per cent less business hitherto, ana were 6.1 per cent more than in the same month last vear. Yot this is the summary of 657 reports, each covering actual sales of leading mer- chants ina Jine of business in fourteen cities, This exhibit is particularly en- couraging, for it shows that the cry of hard times is frequently a false note, It We are doing 6 only 10 per cent less than in 1892, which was the banner year. This shows beyond dispute that trade is improving. As to the great staples, iron is quieter, as the recent increase in the demand | pushed production to a point exceeding | the inquiry. Wool has quieted down from a similar cause, but continues steaay nevertheless, The sales last week were 000 pounds,against 23,527,000 pounds n 1892, when all mills were running. This does not look very dull. Then there is the exhibit of failures. Those last week showed a general de- crease iu number, amount and average ;u: liability in almost every branch of trade and manufacture, excep: cotton. The week’s failures we:e 228, against 267 | | during the corresponding week in 1896. | This is another good showing. The feature of trade in California at the moment is the hardening of prices caused | by the iry weather. Wheat hae gone up | ranidly under heavy speculative trans- ctions, and December touched $128 on | Saturday. The outlook for this great staple is steadily improving. The condi- tion of the crop is poor the world over, | though no alarming deficiency is feared | anywhere. Still, it can now be said with | confidence that the California wheat- | raiser will get more for his grain this year | than for several years back. Thisis grati- | | tying, for when wheat is profitable the whole range of farm products is apt to bring good prices. When the farmer is | prostrate the whole community lan- | guishes. | The outlook for a good fruit year con- lat rapid rate. tinues brilliant. Except possibly peaches, no deciduous fruit will be abundant, and | the destruction of the Eastern crop means | better than average returns to the fruit- | grower this year. With a fine outlook for { | | | | wheat, weol and fruit, with mining active | and prosperous, it will be strange if Cali- | fornia does not do well durin 897. The dependence of the trade of the | world on facilities of transportation makes | the calculations of experts in such mat. tersas to what may be accomplished in | the near futura in the reduction of cost of | long-distance carrying a very encouraging | study. Particularly isthis the case in regard | | to what may b:expected in our own coun- | try in the way of connecting the Middle | West with the seaboard and cheapening | | the baul across the Nevada Mountains. | | The present rapid development of trans- | | portation in other lands, whose resources | | bave long lain dormant, makes it of su- | preme importance that the products of | | our zreat Central West be enabled to reach markets with low freights in order that | we 10ay not be completely shut out in the | | coming competition. | { Pariicularly dangerous is going to be | | the rivalry of Russia, who is now perfect- | ing immense schemes in the way of im- proved facilities for traffic. Her great Trans-Siberian Railway, conneciing Eu- rope with the Pacific Ocean, the projected | canal to join the Baltic to the Black Sea, | and the developments of tho trans-Cau- | icuun communications, are enterprises | that are sure to affect our trade to a con- | siderable extent, inasmuch as they will { bring Central Asia into competition with | us. | . With the impending rivalry before us it | | | | | is graiifying to note that we shall make progress not less than other natioms. It is estimated that with improved methods of building, equipment and management, our railroads could transport freight for less than haif the present cost and far be- |low what canal converance would be. | The cost on some of the New York roads now is as low as the tolls on the great Gej | man Baltic canal, viz., 8.27 milis per toy | It has been shown that by lessening th: grades and decreasing the rapidity of the curves on the road freizht could be carried | from Chicago to New York for about $16 | per car—one engine hauling fifty-three | cars of fifteer tons each—making the cost | only 1} mills per ton per mile, .which | | would be about 3 cents per bushel for | wheat. Had such improvements in grade | been made five yeats ago it is computed that $500,000,000 would have been saved from the wreck of receut ruined or de- pressed railroad values. A route from the | Middle West to New York harbor, it is calculated, could now be constructed with such required grades and curves for | $25,000,000. Oil special interest to Californians is the calculation that the grade of the Central | Pacific across the Nevaaas, which is nom- inally 116, but in many places really 125, could be reduced to a maximum of sev- enty-five feet per mile for the sum of | $8,000,000, and the cost of hauling thereby lessened 33 per cent. Considering the vast expenditures now made in the trans- | portation service of the road, it will be seen the amount esumated for the im- provement is very small in proportion to | the results to be attained. COOUNTY FAIRS. Since Governor Budd went to the pains of denying the proposad uppropriation for county fairs in 1897, which was to be paid out of the State treasury according | to & long established annual custom, there | bas arisen 1n certain counties a conviction | deep and abiding that an omission of the district fairs this particular year would be in the nature of a national calamity. It may never before have occurred to them how absolutely indispensable those insti- i are, but the gubernatorial edict sgainst them immediately made prom- inent the fact that district fairs are as necessary as the very air we breathe. Nothinz can deter these certain coun- ties from holding fairs this season. They will boid them even though they have to defray the expenses out of their own pockets or by county appropriations. Movements are afoot in several districts throughout the BSiate to this end, and already®they can walk alone. They are likely to be better fairs than have been held in the same places for many yea: in view of the accentuated value which an attempted abolition of them has caused them to assume. Local pride, reaching clear to the pockets of the patriots pro- fessing it, will hava an added effect. Peoe ple take more interestin the quality of things which they buy themselves. The county fairs heid in California in 1897 will undoubtedly be splendid suc- cesses, and the circumstance that the cus- tom 18 to be carried on, despite the loss of State appropriations, argues that the country people bave all the time been sin- cere in their enjoyment of its advantages, and that they have the right kind of ap- preciation of it when they are willing to pursue it on their own hook and at their own expense. OUR MEROHANT MARINE It is not easy tosay just what should be done for the revival of the American ship- ping, as there are grave impedimentsin the way of the one-time simple remedy of dise criminating duties; but the urgent neces- sity that some:hing thouid be attempted is made manifest by the history of the re- markable decline of our merchant marine. Very few figures are necessary to show how disoroportionate is the amount of merchandise we carry across the ocean when compared with our commercial greatness, hen we first became a Nation tbe ton- nage carried by American ships was 123,- 893, and under the stimulus of discrimi- nating duties in the first quarier of a cen- tury it had increased 1o 854,205. Then be- gan a gradual abolition of the discrimina- tione, the dates of the successive acts being 1815, 1817, 1824, 1828. In the forty years before the abolition of the duties the per- centage of imports carried by our ships had increased a little over five-fold and of exports three-fold, the two together rep- resenting an enlargement of our tonnage from less than u quarter of the whole to nine-tenths of it. In the single year 1829, after the total doing away of the discrimination, there was a fall from 757,998 tons to 592,859 tons, and for a yearortwo the aecline continued Then began the im- mensely swift development of the coun- try, and the ageregate of tons swelled to big figures in spit- of the lack of protec- tion to our vessels; but while the total tonnage becanie very large the percentage of the whole trade whict we handled was still far short of what it should have been. The climax of our ocean carrying was in 1861, when the tonnage reached 2,494,894, but this was only 60 per cent of the whole, and was a great drop from the 90 per cent of the third of a century back. It sounds strange, but it is true that American ves- sels carried less tons absolutely last year than they did in 1815, We now bring to the country in American bottoms only about 15 per cent of the whole, and carry out but 84 per cent. So great and progressive a country as this can never let this matter rest until it has solved the problem of how to revive our carrying trade and make it commen- surate with our general prosperity. COa>1 EX HANGES The Los Augeles Herald's special fiesta edi- tion consisted of foriy-four pages, aud was metropolitan throughout. According to the Delta, Visalia is preparing for a Fourth of July ceiebration that is des- ined to make the Very starsin the heavens turn pale. The Woodiand Democrat has changed 1its aeily edition to a handier form and has dropped plate matter from its pages. The im- provement is noticenble at a glance. According to the Fresuo Republican, & flour- mill capable of turning out fitly barrels of its product in a day is soon to be started at Ma- dera. Plans of the building have already been prepared. The prospects of & shoe factory being started at Napa ure constently improving, according to the Journal of that place, The Board of Trade has indorsed the proposition, and the work of obtaining money for the enterprise, hes commenced. Talk on the subject now | gives forth a “metallic ring.” The Suisun Courier says that work on the new water system is prog essifg favorably. The springs from which the water will be ob- tained have been cemented up and & large part o: the pipeline has been laid. It is ex- pected that pure mountain water will bede- livered in Suisun within a few weeks. The Fresno Ezpositor is authority for the statement that the capital stock of the Forsyth Seeded Raisiu Compsny has been increased from 100,000 shares 10 250,000, the additional stock beung sold to Detroit moneyed men, Wio will immediately put additionai capital into the business to the extent of $100,000. “Oroville needs & foundry,” says the Regis- ter of tnat town. According to indications Oroville stends a good chance of getting it. Two experienced men visited the place n few days ago and were more than pleased with the prospect. There seemed to be a demand for that sortof work in the vicinity and the citi- zeus of Oroville were only 100 giad to lend a helping hand to 50 laudable aa enterprise. And now Sacramento 8iso has naturalgas, and plenty of 1, according 10 the Record. Union. That paper prints & story telling how tranger came to the capital city and com- menced work on an abandoued well, He bored for montns, and at last his labors have been rewarded. He has struck gas similarto that found at Stockton (noted in these columns | last week) and in sufiicient quantities to run n | smail eagine at & steam pressure of sixty pounds. If the well proves last.ng, numbers of others will soon be bored iu the vicinity. The Ansheim Gasete reports that a local planter put in a Crop 0i sugar-beets two months in advaace of the geuerally observed season for planting thal vegetable, and the | growth was us satisfactory as if the crop had been put in at the ususl time. The beets con- tained 15 per cent of saccharine. Thismay lead to further discoveries in regard to the various qualities of soil and their fitness for this finpurtant new industry. A soil cajable of producing suitable beets two months earlier than usual will, it would seem, add just thas much time 1o the period of sugsr manufactur- ing in that section. The Santa Rosa Republican says that some of the fruit in that section has been injured by frost and that there is no use denying the fact. Itstates that the prune has been hurt the most and that the yield will be light, Eerly peaches will be light, but the prospect for the late varieties is not bad. Other fruits will be light, but on the whole the prospect might be much worse. Waat will be lost o fruit, however, will be made up on grapes, as all the vineyards are in good condition, and at the present time prospects could not be bel- ter. The observatious of the Repubiican are based on coaversations with vineyardistsand orchardists and therefore should be valuable. NEWS OF FORziGN NAVIES. A cruiger for the German navy named the Victoria Louiss has just been launched at Bremen. Sue is of 5650 tons displacementand is fitted with triple screws caloulated 10givea speed of 22 knots. At the Woolwich arsenal the force con- sists of nearly 17,000 men during the day, relieved at 5:30 c¢’ciock in the afternoon by large uicht shifts. All the large and small ordnance for the army and navy is manufsc- tured at Wooiwich. Three protected cruisers for the Chinese navy are approachicg completion at the Vul- can works, near Steiiln, Germany. They are of 2050 tons disp!acement calouisted to make a speed of 19}¢ knois with 8000 nhorse- power. Their battery is light and consists of three 6-inch and eight 4-inch Krupp's quick- firing guus, besides machine guns. Premiums for designs of submarine boats have been offared by the French admiralty and twenty firms and individusls have offered to compete. The accepted plan Wiil be en- titled 1 a premium of $2500 and the five nex best will divide proportionally $2500. The Army and Navy Gazette ot London has taken up the subject of United States lLattle- ships Alabama and class, and comes to the conclusion of the Engineer that they are both topheavy ana otherwise undesirable ships. Itlays great stress on the absence of shear forward, ciaiming that the tendency of arm- ored shipsis to bury themselves forward. It sums up by saylug: “The more information We receive of the new Alabama class of battie- ships 1n the United States navy the more ex- traordinary do they appear.” Russia’s Baltic harbor at Libau is worrying Germany. In August, 1895, the foundation- stone of the new naval harbor works was laid and since then operations have goue on steadily. Libau is the only barbor in the Baitic which does not freeze in winter, and it 18 proposed to extend its capacity so tnat on an emergency it may contain the entire Rus- sian Buitic flect. As Libau is only sixty mliles from the German frontier at Memel, the sig- nificance of the Russian design is apparent. The work is estimated to cost $16,250,000. Carrier-pigeons for naval use are now pretty geuerally adopted by all nations, England be- ing the lust to adopt the ides. Frauce has had it in use for several yoars and there are we.l- established lines of communication between the French naval yorts Toulon, Corsica and Tunis. In Germany, Italy, Kussis, Denmark, Spain and Pertugal tnere are carelully orzan- 1z2d pigeon services to aid in coast defense d pigeons are regularly employed in the Lalian naval maneuvers. In this country the system, u.though introduced three years ago, 1s notyetin general use atall naval stations. The torpedo-boat destroyer Star, built at Palmer’s yard, had u successful irial April 22, reaching en average speed of 30.103 knots per hour. Tae requirements were 6000 horse- power, Speed 30 knots and a coal consump- tion of 215 pounds per horsepower per hour. For every oue-teath of & pouud in excess of 234 pounds the boat was (0 CATLY 8 teu-ton exira load and sull attain & speed of 30 knots. The trial gave data within the requiiements and the buliders were not put 10 the fulfill- meut of default alternatives. An accident to the battieship Ocean, build- ing at the Devonport dockyard, vccurred last month which will check her rapid construc- tion. A large number of beams suddenly gave away and the fore partof the ship collapsed, several hundred tons of material falling to iLe bottom of the ship. It is stated that the withdrawal of a bolt from one of the stays, which was in the way, caused the accident. Oaly one man was serious.y injured and ouly & few were ,ess sever ly hurt. A iarge number of workmen had just been temporariiy with- drawn 10 dock & vessel, otherwiso the casual- ties would probably have been greater. rbroun .. L Louls David of Paris is in the City. Reoginald White of London is in San Fran- clsco. . C. M. Coglan of Sacramento is at the Lick House. Joseph Brown of San Bernardino is at the Palace. Louis Freund of Paterson, N. J., is at the Palace. M. J. Stein, a merchant of Stockion, is at the dwin. C. Cook, & merchant of Watsonville, is at the Russ House. F. M. Miller of Fresno is registered at the Lick House. Sidney Newell of Stockion 1s registered at the Baldwin. Fred searls of Nevada City is stopping at the Paiace Hotel. C. A. Jones of Reno, Nev. Baldwin Hotel. R. A. Graham of Marshfield, Or., is & guest at the Palace Hotel. Commodore W. H. Whiting, U. 8. N, is at the Oceidental Hotel. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is regis- tered at the Russ House. W. E. Whittle, 8 mercbant of t. Helens, isa guest at the Russ House. T. Teito and wife of Tokio, Japan, are stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. J. Zimmermann of Burlington, Iows, is stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. C. R.Scott of Portiand, Or., registered at the Occidental Hotel yenterday. William Snaw, s constable of Fresno, is reg- istered at the Cosmopolitan. William Dyson of Missoula, Mont., Tegistered at the Baldwin Hotel yesterday. J. E. Chilberg of Guatemala arrived yester- day and registered at the Grani. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Suesdorfi of Canton, IIL, are registered at the Palace Hotel. F. W. Bullock of Chicago arrived yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. H. W. Cook, shoe manufacturer of Boston, registered at the Palace yesterday. John Rosenbaum. a merchant of Ventura, registered at the Lick last evening. Robert Henderson and H. B. Henderson, of New York, are guests at the Occidental. Alvin Fay, Bakersfield, District Attorney of Kern County, is a guest at the Russ House. Paul E. Jenks of New York, a contributor to magazines, s & guest at the Occidental Hotel. G. Pabst, & prominent business man of Fresno, is in the City. He 13 at the Cosmopol- itan. Willism B. Wightman, United States Bank Commissioner, is a guest at the California Hotel. A. B. Lemmon, who {s slated for the office of Postmaster of Santa Rosa, s at the Occidental Hotel. John A. Gil, Sacramento freight agent of the Vanderbilt lines, isa guest at the Occl- dental. Samuel McMurtrie of Lompoe, railroad builder, arrived in the City last night and registered at the Palace. Baron du Teil, a prominent planter of Gua- temala, arrived in the City yesterday and reg- istered at the Occidental. Robert Graham of Sacramento, manager of the Armour Refrigerator line, came to town 1ast night and put up at the Palace. General W. W. Muller, Third Brigade Na- tional Guard of Califormia, arrived in- the city vesterday and registered st the California Hotel. George H. French, a well-known correspond- ent of the New York Herald, is at the Baldwin Hotel. Mr. French is traveling for pleasure this trip. Dr. Jorquin Yela, Consul-General of Guate- mala in New York, arrived yesterday on the steamship City of Sydney. He is stopping at the Occidental Hotel. E. J. Emmons, who represented Kern County in the Assembly at the last session of the Legislature, srrived yesterday and is stopping at the Russ House. General J. W. B. Montgomery, who formerly commanded a brigade of the National Guard of Caliiornia, ¢ ime down from Chico yester- day and selected quarters at the Grand Hotel. Baron W.von Bergen, German Minister to Central America, arrived from Guatemals yesterday per City of Sydney. Heis registered at the Occidental Hotel. Tne Baron ison his way to Germany. Mrs. Kia Nahaslelus, who w ‘companion of the detbroned Queen of Hawati during the latter's journey from Honolulu to Washing- ton, arrived from the East last night and reg- istered at the Californis Hotel. She is en route to Hawali. Julius A. Palmer, & well-known Boston newspaper man, arrived in the City last even- ing and registered at the Californis. Mr. Palmer contributed readable letters from Hon- olulu during the Hawatian turmoil.;He is now the secretary ot Queen Liliuokslsnl. Captain T. P. Colcord and his wife, formerly Miss Lilly Huff of this City, arrived last even- ing from the East and are stopping at the Oc- cidentai Hotel. Captain Colcord has visited this port many times as master of the A. J. Failer and John McDonald, two of the largest American vessels afloat. W. M. Fortescue, ex-Mayor of Leavenworth, isa guest at the Kans,, is in the City, During the summer Mr. l The repr Fortescue reposes in his cottage on Black Island, near Newport, K. L, and his aiding in winter is Los Angeles. Between seasons he sojourns in Kansas long enough to pay taxes and maintain a residence. J. F. Warren, ex-Chiel of Police of Spokane nd superintendent of the Warren Detective Agency of that city, and John E. Hooson, pro= vinclal constable of Rossland, B. C., arrived in San Francisco yesterday evening and regis- tered at the Brooklyn Hotel. The purpose of their visit here s to secure tbe extradition of Block and Johnson, who were arrested in this City April24. It iScharged that the menar- rested committed burglary at Rossland last February and obtained jewe!ry and diamonds valued at $4000. The officers from the north have with them as witnesses F. Wiison, A. H. Mitchell and Panline Williams. WIlH YUUR (OFFEE Watts—I saw you down town this morning with your better half. . N. Peck—If you please, she is not my better half. She is the whole thing.—Indianapoils Journal. Reporter—That fellow who wanted his name kept out of the paper called in to-day. Oh, he Editor—What about? Reporter—Itscems we kept it out.—Tit-Bits. “Quibble is 8 mean landlord.” “Why do you think so?” “He puts down iron pumps so his tenants can’t pull them up and use them for fuel.”— Chicago Record. What is the difference between an alias and an incognito?” asked the exuminer. “About the same as the difference between kieptomania and thett,” said the student. — Iypographical Journa “I1ike to go to parks occasionally,” he said nd I learned to ride the bicycle merely as a matter of precaution.” “Precaution?”’ “Certainly. It was the only way to keep from being run down.”—Chicago Post. “They always talk about the seven ages of man,” said the Curious One. “Why not the seven ages of woman? ‘“‘Because, my boy,” replied the Knowing One, “one is enough for them.”—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. “See here,” sald the old subscriber, “how is it that on Tuesday you took one side of this important question and the vers next ‘day as- sumed an exactly opposite side?"’ “My dear sir,” explained the editor-in-chief, “‘you forget that this paper alway- accurately Teflects the views of the people.”—Philadel- phia North American. ON .uE ROAD T's boun’ to see my gal to-night— Oh ione de wav, my dearie! De moon ain’: out, dé s ars ain’t bright— Oh, 0 e de way, my deare! Dis hoss 0’ mine is pow'ful slow, But when I does git to yo' do” Yo' kis'li pay me back, a0’ mo’, Dough lone de way, my dearie. De nighe is skeery-lak an’ still— Oh, ;oue de way, wy dearie! *Cept fu’ dat mou’n ul whippo'will— On, lone de way, my dearle! De way no lonz wit dis slow pace, '1'0'd seem to me lak savin’ grace Ef ycu was on a neater place, FU' lone de way, my dearie. T hveah de hootin’ of de owl Ob, lone de way. my desri: I wish dat waichdog wouldu’s howl— Oh, tone de way, my dea: Aw’ évabUing, bote right an’ lef, Beems p'inC'ly 1ak bi. put ltse’s 1a shape to skeer me ha'f 10 aef— ¥u’ lone de way, my dv I whistles s0'a T won’t be ¢ ared— OB, lone de way. my dearie! But anyhow ’s ki’ of 5. eered— Oh, lone de way, my dea De s’y been lookin’ migaty glum, But you ken mek hit iixhten son:e -1 you'll jes say you's glud I come, way iy dearfe. BAR In the Century. MEN AN . OMEN, Consul-General Patrick Collfns will return to Boston trom London in June, and will re sume the pracsice of his profession. The Duchess of York was married July 6, 1893. June 23, 1894, December 14, 1895. and April 25, 1897, are the dates of the pirth of her three cufldren. Mr. Brendish, the survivor of the two teleg- raphers who sent the historic message from Delhi announcing the outbreak of the Indian mutiny, has just retired from the Indian tele- graph service. The contract for rebuilding the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal, £0 8s to permit double trackiug, bas been awarded to William Gibson of Welland, the builder of the St. Clair tunnel. Governor Groutof Vermont, who 1s one of the bast farmers of that State, was recently found by a visitor to his home in Derby making maple sugar. He has tapped 45,000 trees this seasou and made 12,000 pounds of sugar and syrup. The head of Lieutenaut Camers. who was decapitated by the aborigines of the 1sland of Timor, has been received at Lisbon and buried in the cemetery there. The Mimisters of War and Marine and numerous officials of all branches of the service were present at the ceremony. Profeseor Douglass Archibald, who is con- stdered one of the most eminent meteorolo- gists, forecasts another hot summer for the Northern Hemisphere, great masses of ice in the Atlantic indicating an early polar spring. The abnormalheat is attributed to solar con- ditions, which have been unsettled since the maximum period of sun spots in 1893. Miss Jennle A. Estes had the honor of being the only woman who took an active part in the fourth annual exhibition of the New York Academy of Sciences, which was held recently. Miss Estes came to the exhibition to assist Professor Dwight in the exhibition of a machine invented by himself, called the pit- sonome. Itis used for cutting very thin rock sections for examination under the micro- scope. They can be cut as thin asthe ome- hundredth partof an inch, and are mounted between two plates of glass. JIPIESE GALWAY HEY, Vice-President J. Y. Mori of the N ppon Company at the Palace. A Journey of Rest and Observation Will Be Extended to New Yo:k and London. A party of distinguished railway men of Japan registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. Tuey arrived at Vancouver on the steamship Empress of China some time ago, but were detained severa! days in quarantine. The leading representa- tive of the party is J. Y. Mori of Tokio, vice-president of the Nippon Railroad Company, a line running eight hun- dred miles northeast of Tokio and passing through many large and prosperous towns of Japan. Mr. Mori reports that considerable work in 1he way of railroad extension pro- gressing in that country. The railway managers still cling to the English style of compartment passenge bui American locomotives are in ¢ Mr. Mori was in Ban Fran ears ago, returning from the Polytechnic’ fnsuum in Troy, N. Y., where he was a student for three years. His present trip was designed for 1est and observation. He will remain in 8an Francisco a few days and then proceed by rail to Wasnington d N-wglom He will exterd his jour- ney to London and will probably be there during the Queen’s jabilee. He will not, he says, attend the jubilee in a representa- tive capacily, but will simply happen to be there during the season of ceremonial festivity. He is not sure that Japan will be officially represented. sentative of Japan in functions 5 — G0DS. NEW TO-DAY—DRY S A At IT IS SAID That Price Will Sell Anything! But YouMUST Make the Price Low Enough to Foree the Sale. The cut at the head of this ad. illustrates the taking down of the sign. Why? Because | zm going out of BUSINESS. After thirty ix years of successful merchandising I am going o retire from the field, pleased with the remembrance of the fact that during my loag business career I have always dealt honorably with a generous publi , to whom'l owe my success. TEIIS WEEIK FIFTY GENT 3 WLL DO DUTY FOR ONE DOLLAR. IN THE DRESS DEPARTMENT Prices have been cut so low that the stock MUST BE UTTERLY WIPED OUT In a FEW WEEKS, if price will do it. Novelty Plaid in every conceivable shade, worth 2oc, will be sold at 10 cents a yard. All-Wool Cheviots, spring styles and colorings, worth 2s¢, cut to 15 cents a yard. go-inch Jacquards, beautiful in design and colorings, extra good value at soc a yard, will be given away for the small price of 25 cents a yard. The new College Checks, so chic for skirts, th half-dollar quality for 25 cents a yard. All the new spring colorings in Plain and Changeable Pebble Cloths, imported to sell for 75¢, cut down to 37 46-inch Waffle or Bi a yard. uit Cloths, all wool, exquisite in shade, never sold for less than one dollar, will be sold for the small price of 50 cents a yard. s2-inch All-wool Diagonal Cheviot, in navy and black, at 37}4 cents a yard. 6o-inch Jubilee Cloths, just the thing for bloomers or bicycle suits, extra value for $1, at 50 cents a yard. LACE CURTAIN DEPARTMENT. NOTTINGEIAM CURTAINS. $2 Quality, reduced to. $2.50 Quality, reduced to £3.50 Quaiity, redu.ed to. $5 Qua.ity, reduced to. $6.50 Quality, reduced to. $1.25 2 pair $1.50 a pait $2.50 a pair $3.50 a pair $4.co a pair Irish Point Curtains all reduced below cost of importation. 75 CANVAS TRUNKS for campers, worth $2, will be sold at 75 cents ea C.CURTIN, 911 and 913 Market Street. of this character must belong to the royal family, and as royalty of the realm is now in mourning for the Empry Dowager it is possible Japan may not be represented. However that qu-stion may 1n a measure be adjusted by the Japanese Minister in London. . Kunisana, engineer of maintenance and attached to the same company that Mr. Mori represents as vice-president, is one of the party. Twn locomotive engin eersare alsoin the suite. M. Sakuria is the secretary of the delegation. Th- younger men, or tne practical work- ers, will doubtless take ample notes of railway improvements and inventions in the United States and Europe. ——————— CaL glace fruit 50c per Ib., at Townsend's. * e — FrECTAL Information daily to manufacturers. Dbusiness houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_———— Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The spring exhiblilon is now opea daily from 9 A. M. to 5 %, M. and grand concert every Thursday evening. Open Sundays. * g Little Man (golf enthusiast)—Why don’t you play goli? Big Man (blase)—Why, because I object to chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. —Sketch, ————— The Swiftest Train in the West— 33 Days to Chicago or St. Louis— 41§ Days to New York. The Santa Fe Limited has dining-car, buffer smoking-car and Pullman palace drawing-room sleeping-cars. Leaving San Francisco at 6 p. & Mondays and Thursdays, connection is mads at Berstow with this handsome train. Through cara to Chicago, both Pullman paiace drawing-room and modera upholstered tourist sleepers, run dally. Tickets also sold via Portiand, Ogden, Los Angeles, Deming or El Paso to all polnts In the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. See time table in advertising column. San Francisco ticket office 644 Market streei, Chronicle bulid- ing. Telephone Man 1581 Oakland, 1118 Brosdway. — e e Ballroad Tickets to the t via Rlo Grande Western and Denver and Rio Grande Rallways, At lowest possible rates, with throngh Pullmas bufferand tourist sleeping car service evers day. Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permitiay stop-over at Salt Lake Clty on ail classes of tickais Detailed information and tickets furnished e 14 Montgomery street, or 314 Callfornia stresx e Miss Hungerford—I think he {s & man of good horse sense. Miss Wallingford—T'll go farther than you. I'd say he was & man of good bicycle sense.— Detroit Free Press. *Brs. 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