The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1897, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY MAY 23, 189T. | MAY 23, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.18 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 ond Sunday CALL and Sunday CALL, three and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, can Francisco, California. Telephone.......... JE— vt S L EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone . Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open until ©:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Slxteenta and Mission streets, Open ot 9 o'clock. 2018 Mission street, open until 9 0'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o’clock 1505 Polk street; open until 9:80 o'clock. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky : open tiil 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: d 32, 34 Park Row, New York Cltys > M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. Rooms 31 DAV THE ‘EALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going to the country on s vacs 0, 1t 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE r address. s it. Orders given fon * 1 CALL to Do not let it miss you for you will 10 the carrier or left &t e prompt attention. The Greeks live to fight another day. The Turks won, but they can’t gobble. Cuba bas seen stars for a long time, but now the sun is rising Going to the dogs isnot so bad when they are well-bred dogs and have style apout them. To-day we take it easy, but to-morrow the tariff debate begins and we may have to take it hard. Those who subscribed to tha Balboa- avenue fund have an interest in it that will be permanent. McKinley is not o eager to recognize the belligerency of Cuba as to see her ng in peace and independence. As the dog show is over the attention of society is called to the fact that there is an art exhibition in town that is worth seeing. The Greeks are not far wrong in laying the blame of their overthrow on their commanders; it seems to have been a gen- eral thing, 1f you a progressive cit'zen and do 10t co-operate with the Merchants' Asso- you are not progressing in the tern interests in the le by the whole West and the West ropean war sensation | ut played itself out, public atten- on will turn 10 local affairs and we can go at m | improvements with a vim. The best sione in the world for the new Federal building in this City is that of California quarries, There is nothing like home products for making home beau- ti If the Senators stick to that proposed tax on tea they will find something more than a tempest in a teapot to confront when they return home to meet their con- stituents. The past week brougnt the war in Greece 10 a close, and furnished evidences | that the struggle in Cuba is approaching | the end, so we may account it a good | week for the world. | The entire California de! ation should act energetically to bring about speedy work on San Pedro harbor. Continuous | agitation will be required to get 1t started | and keep it moving It is asserted the Bri Government intends to be quiet in the European con cert until it has brought off the Queen’s jubilee in peace, and will then rise up and talk out in meeting 1n a way that will aston fol. | — ~ | The decision of the University of Cam- bridge not to allow women to take degrees shows bow hard it is for a3 medieval insti- tution to catch on to 2 modern idea and keep up with the vrocession. In the | meantime, the woman’s movement goes along advancing, and before a great while Cambridge will be almost lost from sight by the vanguard of progress. An expert declares there are known to the barbers of this country seven styles of utting hair: square, elite, s enator, pom- vpadour, Saratoga, Mont Bianc and New- port. The average barber, however, ex- ercises no discretion in cutting the hair *o suit tle man, and not infrequently puts | = senator where there should be a pom- padour, and shapes a Saratoga curl on a Mont Blanc cranium. A Massachusetts Judge has decided that a building devoted to the use of a theo- sophical society doesn’t come within the scope of the State law exempting from taxation property used for religions pur- poses. It fodows from this thar in Massachusetts theosophy is not a reli- gion, and we would now like to have a decizion from a court as to what is re- quired to constitute a religion in that mmonwealth. Tre CauL can justly congratulate its readers this morniug on the excellence of the 1eports which its news service enabled it to give of the events in the Levant ever since the outbreak in Crete. Our reports were not made up of fakes published one dav and coantradicted on the next, nor were they comnosed of week-old stories printed as telegrams from the seat of war and marked “delayed in transmission.” We gave every day the right news, the fuil news; and it was always up to date. The chief of the Consular Bureau of the State De partment, who has just returned from a tour of inspeciion around the world, says no consular system is better than ours and that European officlals ads mit the superiority of our service. He adds, however, there are a few barnacles in office that ought 10 be removed, so the chances are that some enterprising gentle- men now out of a job may get a place in this excellent service and have the satis- faction of knowing that their piesence imnroves it. TWO KINDS OF NEWS. Our able New York cotlaborator, the Sun, two weeks ago devoted three columns of its space to an expose of the ‘“padding cell” in the cflice of the Chicago Asso- ciated Press, It assertea and proved that tle alleged cablegrams which that insti- tution had been furnishing to its patrons asnews fresh from the seats of war in Europe had not been the work of special correspondehts in Macedonia, at Milouna Pass, in Larissa, Athens or Constantino- ple, but had been evolved by an extremely versatile and phenomenally ubiquitous individual in London, and by one other genius of equal parts in New York. The London agent had been sending a “skeleton” of news daily to the New York agent, by whom it had-been diligently vadded and made fat and thus trans- mitted to the Associated Press ‘news” papers under various heads and dates. Many papers thus mongrelly stocked | have reared (in their imagination) a choice litter of war correspondents about them, and have conferred upon them the dis- tinction of having their ‘‘dispatches” copyrighted by the managing editor. As the war between Turkey and Greece nears its end, THE CALL feels that the time is at hand when a brief review of its news treatment of the situation, as compared | with the queer handling thereof by the patrons of the Associated Press, may be interesting. 1t has been noted a!l over the country that THE CarL's daily dispatches and pictures bearing upon the war have been straightforward, bona-fide news on the one hand, and accurate portrayals of scenes and topography on the other. Particular attention in the Kast, from vapers of the Harper's Weekly class, has been paid to Tue Carv's faitbful accom- paniment of the telegraphic news with pictures illustrating the features thereof as the scenes have shifted from day to day These pictures have been not merely chance cuts or copies or old plates dragged from dusty shelves, but authen- tic reproductions of the actual places and incidents on the day following from cer- tain exclusive resources not enjoyed by other San Francisco papers, and assisted by & familiarity with the southern part of Europe which our contemporaries evi- dently do not share. - For example, THE CALL published the first picture of the battle in Milouna Pass, the first picture of Pharsala and its cita- ael, the first picture of Volo and its har- bor, and other exclusive views, together with a series of maps minutely detailing the locations, marches, maneuvers and battle preperations of the respective armies as they pursued their ways. No service in the United States excelled THE CALLs for reliability and promptness, and very few, if any, equaled it. Mark the contrast between this service from a real newspaper and the service furnished by the Ezaminer with its *‘copy- righted” cablegrams from the Assoc ated Press’ padding cell in New York and its news agent in London—that amazing en- gine of ubiquity, who had his headquar- ters in Pharsala and his hindquarters in London. Many of the pecial”’ dis- patches from Pharsala or Athens, which the Ezaminer published one day, were re- hashed and redated and published the next day under the head of *‘Delayed in Transmission,” from another part of Ea- rope altogether! In some cases whole sentences were copied bodily from one day’s ““dispatches” into those of the next day. On May 7 the mismanaging editor forgot to change the tenses of the article which he rehashed from May 6, with the result that the battie fought on the 5th inst. was referred to as having occurred on the 4th! This is how the Ezaminer has been fak- ing news and deluding its readers while Tur CALL has been doing its plain duty as anewspaper. All the people of San Fran- cisco are not gowng to be fooled all the time by such dishonorable and contempti- ble subterfuges as this monarch of fakers has been practicing upon ther under cover of the tin pan which it has been brazenly beating the whiie in its own praise. INSTITUTIONAL OHURCHES, The New York Toice contains a long and very interesting account of the insti- tutional churches of the metropolis, and be story of their activities and their suc- | cess is one well worth examination by all who are interested in organized efforts to improve the conditions of life among those who have not the privileges and op- portunities of wealth, The methods of the institutional churches have met and disarmed the charge of clerical neglect of popular needs, and their bettering influences and help in distress are welcomed by a large class of people who are either hos- tile or indifferent to chufches gener- ally. They are meeting indeed with so much favor from the masses that Dr. Scudder of the People’s Palace Instita- tional Church says he would no more change to the old style than go back to traveling on canal-boats. In giving a definition of an institutional church Dr. Scudder says, “This type of chorch is sociclogieal rather than theo- logical.” The description, however, is not to be construed as implying thatall the effort is devoted to supplying means for the improvement of this present lite, for in addition to its practical help the new church keeps up a constant work to impress the spiritual influences of re- ligion upon the multitude. One of the largest of these churches in New York is the Judson Memorial, which does a great amount of work among the people at an annual expense of about $30,000. It devotes itself to the neglected classes—to those who will not enter the fold of the regular churches, and who, but for these institutions, would not have the benefits of religious gathering and asso- ciation at all. The beginning of the attractions of this church is & clear fountain of cool water in the porch, constantly flowing and free to all. The doors of the building are always open and visitors are always welcome. One portion of the church is a big apart- ment-house and family hotel, and the in- come derived from this is a partial feeder for the phulanthropic work of the main enterprise. Besides the large auditory there is a hall, a gymnasium and apart- ments and offices for carrying on the widely varied work. The church cost 550,000. It was founded by the efforts of ason of the famous missionary, Adoni- ram Judson. Another one of the prominent institu- tignal churches is the “People’s Palacs,” which last year fed, cared for and taught 1641 poor children and furnished 12,227 baths iree to the needy. The field of usefulness of these churches covers enough to make a long story. Part of the work of a practical nature is as fol- lows: A medical dispensary with both men and women physicians, working for a nominal charge, or none, according to the needs of the sick; a free kindergarten for poor children, giving instraction both mental and moral; organized charity to give intelligent relief to the needy; a home for children; a gymnasium and bath for both sexes; a manual training-school for girls; a cottage at Green Mountain for summer outings for children, sick persons and overworked shop girls; a people’s la- bor bureau; kealthful and innocent amuse: ments, and lectures and literary enter- tainments. Some of them even furnish theatrical entertainmenis under church auspices, to be sure that no evil influence creeps into them. It is scarcely necessary to add that this programme attracts multitudes who other- wise would not enter a church, and thus becomes a means of conversion from evil ways and associations. The plan.has ad- vantages of a purely religious as well as of a philanthropic nature, and as & sup- plement to the methods of the more -con- servative congregations the institutional churches liave proven themselves benefi- cial to the moral as well as the material welfare of the community. OHANGING OHINA. The news that a number of new railways are about to be constructed in China, and among them one connécting Woosung with Shanghai, recalls tue amusing but woeful fate of the Woosung railway built ascore of years ago asan experiment in China. Its life was only six weeks long. Chinese conservatism at that time could not stand the innovation, and the alien thing invented by ‘“foreign devils'’ was torn up and all the material of it carried out of the country. The change that has been wrought in Chinese thought in the score of years between the first railway venture at Woosung and the one mow planned to be buiit there is very suggest- ive of what a few more yearsof contact with Western civilization may do for China now that the way is fairly to be opened up. The new railway connecting Shanghai with Woosung and Soochow aud Chin- kiangis to bs 200 miles long, and at the same time there is to bes constructed another line extending from Peking 900 miles to Shankaikwan. The enterprising capitalist who is going to construct these rouds is Sheng Ta Jen, a man of so much wealth and power in China that in some ways he is said to be a successful rival of the great Li Hung Chang. Besides the ventures of this Chinese Vanderbilt, there are several branch lines of railway being constructed in Southern China. These with the great transconti- nental road that the Russians are to make through Manchuria will inaugurate a new era for the Chinese and may materially affect the commerce of the world. It is just nine years since Li Hung Chang took his first ride on a Chinese rail- way, a little road at Tientsin, eighty-one miles long and with a gauge of 3 feet 6 inches, and already these great undertak- ings are in progress. The contrast which the coming network of railways will make in commerce and govercment between old and new China will be a wide one. It is not long since Chinese armies, when on the way to attack frontier enemies, would halt half way in order to plant and har- vest & crop to supply their commissary on the way. and Chinese officials sent to sta- tions 800 miles from the capital would spend three months on the route. There is lLittle doubt that these improve- ments will be a great awak:ning to the Chinase, but it is not so certain that the opening up to commerce and industry of such a numerous and economical popula- tion will have a good effect on Western industries. Added to her exceedingly cheap labor China has immense beds of fine coal thai will be easily available as soon as railways are built, and these ad- vantages may make Chinese aangerous rivals in many branches of manufacture. JINGO SENTIMENT. The speech of Senator Mason on the Cuban question will take rank with the most eloquent which have been delivered in the Senate on that subject since the present crisis began, and in no portion was it more effectual than in the reply made to the charge of Senator Wellington that those who advocated the independ- ence of Cuba are mere jingoes. On t 1ssue Senator Mason said: When you get at the deeo undertone of the conscience of the Christian people of this country they say let us have freedom in Cuba. They say let the Spaniard go back 1o his own land and let us have no slaves upon our con- tinent. You can call that jingo as long as you like. You may define jingo as long as you please. Patrick Henry was a jingoist accord- ing to the definition of tne gentlemen who are trying to keep down the insurgents in Cuba.” Every man who had rather fight thaz 10 buy peace at the dishonor of his wife or his child has been called & jingo from the days of early republics until now. There can be no question that the elo- quent young Senator from Iliinois ex- pressed the yprevailing sentiment of the people of tbis country in regard to the situation in Cuba. Our people under- stand that there are many reasons of busi- ness and commercial interests for our interference to put an end to the war, but it is not for these they most- strongly de- sire to see tke conflict closed. Americans wish the independence of Cuba because they sympathize with every peovle striving for liberty and fighting for it against desperate odds. They love liberty and earnestly speak for it, and it iu because of this they are denounced as jingoes. 1f they would dismiss from the discussion these nobler issues and talk only of the benefits to trade to be derived from a restoration of peace, Senator Wel- lington and those who think like him would bs mcre willing to listen to them and readier to vote with them. PEACE IN SIGHT. The news of the past week concerning the affairs of both Cuba and Greece has been reassuring. The outlook to-day for the people of these much-stricken lands is decidedly better than it was a week ago. The words spoken in Congress by those who may be fairly assumed to represent the sdministration confirm the hope of the people that our Government will see its way clear to advance peace and inde- pendence in Cuba, while all reports from Europe show that the powers will inter- vene, by force if necessary. to save Greece from the wrath of her victorious foe. The close of the long struggle in Cuba and the cessation of hostilities in the Le- vant would under any circumstances be of great advantage to the slowly reviving industries and commerce of the world. ‘We may expect therefore benefits of no inconsiderable nature to flow from the assurance given of peace under terms that will enable Greece to recover her normal prosperity in a short time and relieve Cuba forever from the foreign yoke which has stified her enterprise and prevented the expansion of the energies of her people. The intervention which seems probable in Europe and which we may make in the case of Cuba is a new development in the international relations of the world. In each case the intervention is proposed for the sake of peace and for the purpose of preventing the subjugation of a compara- tively weak people by a stronger one. This is sounprecedented that many con- servatives declare it to be a violation of the fundamental vrinciples of interna- tional law, It is clearly an outcome of recent conditions among civilized nations and is to be justified not by an appeal to history, but by reasons drawn from the demands of the present and what the future will need. ‘The aid given by France to the Ameri- can colonies in their war against England was very different in intention from that which is to be offered now both by the concert in Europe and by Congress in the case of Cuba. The design of the Govern- ment of King Louis was not to promote peace, but to make the war disastrous to Great Britain. In the present casa we de- sire no disaster to Spain, and Kurope has given ample proof tnat the concert aims at no disaster to Turkey. We have reached a higher: international law than was known to our ancestors, and if the good prospects of peace with which the week begins are realized we shali Lave ac- complished in both the Old World and the New something of which this generation of statesmen may well be proud. PERSONAL. Dr. D. Smith of Napa is at the California. Frank H. Smith of Stockton is in the City. Dr. W. M, Baldwin of Sacramento is in the City. George F. Glaser, a business man of Denver, is fn town. Edward C. Atkinson of Sacramento is here for a few days. Herman de Laguna, an attorney of Stockton, 18 registered here, Ex-Judge S. Solon Hall of Sacramento ar- rived here yesterday. L. Gold, a business man of Vancouver, B. C., 18 & guest of the Grand. R. N. Hyde of St. Helena wasone of the visitors here yesterday. Ex-District Judge Milton Elliott of Astoria, Or., is at the California. Raleigh Barcar, the editor and attorney, ot Vacaville, is at the Lick. L. G. Nesmith, the banker of San Jose, is spending Sunday in the City. James K. O'Brien of Marysville is a late ar- rival here. He isac the Lick. S. N. Laughlin, owner of a general storo at Moss Landing, is at the Grand. N. R. Bates, a wealthy business man of De- troit, Mich., is a late visitor here. L Stidinger of Washington, D. C., s among those registered at the Occidental. G. A Day of the United States army, New York harbor, is at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs.J. 8. Watson of Chicago are in the City and they are staying at the Palace. W. W. Douglas,a merchant of Sacramento, came dowar on a brief business trip vesterday. F. H. Gould of Stockton, ex-chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, 18 in town. Jay W. Adams, traveling passenger agent of the Chicago and Alton Reitroad, isat the Oe- ciden tal. C. M. Weber, a wealthy resident of Stockton andson of the founder of that city, arrived here yesterday. Dr. J. W. Robertson is up from Livermore. He is accompanied by Mrs. Robertson, and they ere at the Lick. F. R. Lingham, a wealthy mining man of Johannesburg, South Alrica, Was among yes- terday’s arrivals here. Leonaid S. Calkins, proprietor of the Nevada City Daily Transeript, is a visitor here and is registered at the Grand. Charles M. Ralker of New York, who is in- terested in California mining property, is in the City and is staying at the Palace. George A. Nourse, the extensive grocer of Fre:no, who is one of the leading meu in that partof the San Joaquin, is here for a short stay. W. D. Pennyecook, secretary of the California Press Association and one of the owners of the Vailejo Daily Evening Chronicle, is ut the Occidental. Commander G. W. Sumner of the United States ship Monsdnock will preside at the trial board meeting to-morrow, when the new gunboat Marrietta’s offi~ial trfal will take place. John Layton, an Alderman of London, Eng- lund, and one of the largest tea dealers in that great city, is among the arrivals here. He has been on a visit to Indis, China and other coun- tries of the Orient. 8. C. Lillis has returned here aftera visit to the Calico silver mines and different parts of the San Joaquin Valley. He says it is pretty quiet in Calico, ana as for the San Joaquin, the grain there is coming along in such a way as to make a pretty fair yieia. This applies to wheat, oats and barley. The hay crop is goou. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, .Y May 22.—At the Marl- borough—Mrs. E. Younger, Miss A. Russell Plaza—W. 8. Clarkson; Vendome—A. Morris sey; Broadway Central—W. Bradford; Man- hattan—J. A. Hoges; New Amsterdam—D. Mines. A. B. Brown and Miss Brown left the Plaza and sailed on the Campani for Liver- pool. E.R. Bond, Mr. Tobin and Miss Tobin also sailed for Europe. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Penrice of Redlands, Cal., sailed on the Werra for Genoa. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Brown, H. Grieme, A. Neimeyer, Mrs. H. M. Bailey of Oak- 1and and E. Wacitel of Los Angeles arrived from Bremen. J. B. Crowley is here buying. THE RIFLE OF THE FUTURE What will be the rifle that will eventually displace the weapons now 1in the hands of the armies of the world? General Wille, a Ger- man officer, and an authority holding ad- vanced views on all questions reiating to armaments, believes that the future rifie will be of the automatic type, such as the present- Maxim and Mannlicher. Although this type ofarm gives a greater rapidity of fire than the present magazine rifle, this is not its chief value, which lies rather in relieving thesol- dier of physical and mental exertion. The present rifie gives a sufficient rapidity of fire, and any tmprovenfent in that direction would be rather a disadvantage than otherwise, as inthe hands of any but the most highly dis- ciplined troops great waste of ammaunition would be sure to result and the supply might be endangered. In the automatic rifls part of the gas pres- sure of each shot is stored up and the piece opens the chamber, ejects the fired shell and closes the chamber. It thus automatically performs all of the operations except filling the magazine and aiming, even keeping on working after the ammunication is exhausted. Up to the present automatic rifles are of four distinet types or systems. First, the barrel moves backward; second, fixed barrel; third, fixed barrel with parallel tube for storing gas connected near the muzzie; fourth, the barrel moving forward. Needless to say, such weapons are friumphs of mechanical skill. Borchardt's repeating pistol of the automatic type is now being thor- oughly tested in the Austrian army and by the Vienna Rifle Cinb. The stock 18 at right an- gles to the barrel. Each shot is fired sepa- rately, the other operations being performed automatically. The magazine is in the stock and holas eight cartridges. These pistols have many advantages over the ordinary revolver, giving less recoil and therefore greater accuracy in aiming. Re- charging is performed by simply adding a packet of cartridges. The objections are Iliability to accidental discharge, as simple pressure on the trigger is all that is requirea; waste of ammunition and complication with cousequent liability to get out of order. The immense efforts put forth by the French since the war of 1870 have resulted in the creation of a superb army, with an organiza- tion and equipment well nigh perfect. The result: Army lists give the number of officers in actual service in the French army as 28,965; in the reserve and territorial army as 36,065, or a grand total of 63,030 officers available in case of mobilization. Of this total some are designed for command in the field, while others will take care of the vari- ous auxiliary services in France, such as rail- roads, depots, ete. The Baroness Burdet:-Coutts, who has just celebrated her eighty-third birthday, enjoys the distinction of being the only woman whom the Queen has raised to the peerage on her own merits. Other peeresses have been made, but only in compliment for their hus- bands, as, for instance, the wives of the late W, H. Smith and Lord Beagonsfleld, BASEBALL IN MINIATURE Basevall enthusiasis are very much inter- ested in & new invention for reproducing in miniature a ball game piaved at any distance away. Of course electricity is the agent that accomplishes this. The miniature diamond is erected on & stage in a pub:ic hall, and as the spectators enter they behold a platform slop- ing to the stage at a good angle, so that every player can be seen at any portion of the house. The platform s painted greenm, to represent the grass, and the base plates are marked out. The grounds are inclosed by fences, and in the center field is a large score board on which appear the scores of the games in other cities, which are posted by innings. So well has the system been ‘developed that a scorer sitting in Boston can note every play of & game in Cleveland and reproduce the story of the game so that it will compare ex- and 1s egging on Portugal to make concessions 1 Mozas bique 1o the Boer Government. He is almost as tormidable an enemy as Napoleon, and we do not feel sure that he will not ulti- mately succeed in organizing a Coalition ot some kind, the motto of which will be ““Delenda. ext Carthago.” Let ns hope that we may find a more fortu- nate Hannibal, and meanwhile sec ihat every ship and battery and regiment is not only ex- isting but efficient. We shall not havea long warning if & crisis comes. MEN AND WOMEN The largest gold-mine owners in the world are the Rothschilds. A Wilmington (Vt.) man, 92 years old, waiked a distance of fifteen miles to the home of his son the other day “just for exercise.” Gerome, the painter, has sent a remarkable equestrian statuette, one-fiftn natural size, of 4. ELECTRIC T AUTOMATIC BASEBALL. Ml actly with a story written by one who has actualiy seen the game. In miniature base- ball every ball, every strike, cvery foul, every hit, and every fielding play is given, and given by signals in such & manner that the spectator can understand without a word of explanation from the operator, Ground balls are indicated by white electric lichts in front of each player. 1f gathered by an infield a white light, repre- senting the ball, immediately aiterwsrd ap- pears in the hands of the infield, and toen if the ball appears in the hands of a baseman ahead of the runner, the man is-out. If the ball if fumbled, a red light appears at the feet of the fielder, and incase of the calcher this | means a paksed ball. If the light flickers in the hands of toe fielaer, a fumble is indicated, and the red and white light together indicate a wild throw. Fly balls, fair or foul, ars shown by white or green lights suspended in the air, {ollowed by a white light in the hands of eithér in or outfielder, es the case may be. The whole scheme is controlled by an ope- rator who works on a switchboard controlling 147 wires. There are thirty-two signals for the base-runners, The puppets move their legs by a system of cog-wheeis while in mo- tion. The coaches are put in astate of vio- lent sgitation by mesns of cords. A great deal of fun for the spectators is caused by the way the base-runuers teke a lead from the base in response to the urging of the coacnes, As each man goes to the bat he takes a right- handed or a lefi-handed position, as the case may be. Inminiature ball each man carries his own bat with a departure from what is scen in the regular game. It works all rightin the theater, how- ever. In tront of the platform on which the dia- mond is seen 1s a bOX with four compartments, One shows the strikes. anotner the balls and the other two the runs scored, provision being made for the scoring of nine runs in any inniog. All this is controlied by electricity. The batung order appears on two large blackboards on tue right and left of proscenium, aud by means of an electric light Dextto the name oi the bitsmun one can al- ways teil who 1s at bat, In fact, a spectator eniering the theater at any time of the afterncon can tell the score, the innings layed, the number of men outand the man BLtiDg. A LEAF FROM HISTORY. New'York Sun. Seventy years ago Greece had a far more ter- rible baptism of fire than she is experiencing now, and her independence was piucked from amost desperate situation. It was, in fact, the result of the arrogance of the Turks after they had overrun all Greece and captured Athens. The Greek war for ireedom broke out in 1821, and in the Peloponnesus the in- surgents were so successiul thatindepend- ence was declared in the following year. In strong contrast with the strategy of the pres- entstruggle, the Greek fleets of that day, com- | manded by Canaris and Miaulis, destroyed many Turkish ¢hips In vengeance for disas- ters sustained at sea the Turks massacred the | inhabitants of the Islands of Chios, Kasos and Psara. A fear that the Turks wouid destroy the towns captured during the last month and bombard their inhabitants has doubtless re- strained the Greek fleet during.this war. in 1824 the Sultan ecalied the Egyptians 10 his aid, and the Greeks were oon reduced to ex- tremities.: Far more thrilling and terrible were the events of that period, when Georgakas, penned in & monastery, blew up the building, killing himself and followers, but a_thousand Turks as well. There was no pretense then of Turk- ish forbearance, The Greek patriarch at Con- stantinop'e was hanged at the gate of his palace, with an Easter lily in his hand, and Christian families were slaughiered in every quarter of the city. On tne island of Psara occurred the blowing up of the monasiery of St. Nikaloas, The gates were opened by the thousand starving men and women, and when 4000 Moslems had swarmed in besiegers and besiezed alike were killed by the explosion of the mine that had been laid. At Missolonghi women dréssed as men, with children stranped on their Wicks, joined a Dband of 1800 and cut their way through the Turkish army investing the place, leaving 5000 desd behind. But the most devoted herosm failed to turn the tide of defeat, and Athens, with the Acropolis, which was the last to fall, passed into the possession of the Turk- ish arin; It wasat thispoint that the Sultan’s haughty pride in his complete conquest yielded to Greece indirectly what she had failed tosecure by every conceivable self-sacrifice. The powers of Eurore had not been entirely indifferent to the sufferings of Greece, and the English people espectally were stirfed by indignation. In July, 1827, a protocol wss signed at Lon- don by Russin and France, in which it was agreed that if the Turkish Government, within a month, did not consent 1 a truce, the three wers would recognize the indepéadence of cece. Turkey wasin no humor to concede at it was not invincible, and the Turkish fleet ventured to fire on the ships of the pow- In the ensuing general baitle in the bay avarino the allied fiects completely wiped out the Turks, who lost in that memorable sea fight not less than 6000 men. Modern Greece dates from that October day in 1827, THE CiGARELIs EVIL New York Post. Various measures have been tried in differ- ent States to stop the use of cigarettes by the young, but withont much success. The most common plan has been the passage of a law forbidding the sale 1o boys under a certain age, 516 or 18 years, It has been found impos- sible, however, 10 enforce such statutes with y vigor and in most cases small bovs scem to Smoke as much six months after the passage of such a law as before. A new policy is now to be tried 1 some States, by which a license fee or tax 1s to be required of a dealer, larze emough, it is thought, to drive many out of the business. A city ordinance has just gone into effect in Chicago by which an anuual fee of $100 must be paid in advance. and not a few candy stores near tne pubiic school buildings will abandon the sale of cigarcites rather than take out a license. In Towa the Legislature roposes & tax oi $300 on every person who eals in cigarettes, which will be Drohibitory in most cases. GLOOXY OU.LOOK FuR ENGLAND London Spectator The outlook of foreign sffairs is gioomy. The tendency to attribute the outbreak of war to0 England rapidly increases, some publicists even declaring we supplied Athens with money. The German Emperor is ecredited with a project for uniting the whole Conti- nent in & war with England, which, says one scribe supposed to be inspired, “could afford 10 each power engaged a magnificent compen- sation.” The league that is is to be one avow- edly for plunder. There is better reason for believing that William II sull baukers sfter Souih Alrics, | N him all the time, this being | the | “Bonaparte in Egypt” to the salon. Napoleon is represented dressed in early Egyptian cos- tume. The grandson of Oom Paul Kruger has been | acquitted at Pretoria of the chargs of slander- | ing Queen Victoria. | Miss Alice Rothschild is a most enthusiastic horticulturist, her collection of roses alone being valued at several thousands of pounds. Harry Furniss has satled for Austraiia, after having stopped long enough in London to re- vise the proofs of his new book, ‘‘Pen and Pencil in Parliament.” The volume isan ac- count, in text and picture, of Parliament and | its characteristies in recent years. W. J. Ferns, colored, of New Haven, who | was graduated from Yale in the class of '95, | has just been appointed to the Hopkins fel- lowship in the Harvard Divinity Sehool, which ylelds $325 per vear. He has been working in philosophy in the Yale graduate department for two years, and is tuere at present. Melton Prior, the English war artist, has been through fourteen campaigns and has been wounded eight times Three times his name has appeared on the list of those killea in battle. His duties have taken bim all over the world, and he has attended almost every important royal wedding for the past twenty- five years. The King of the Belgians is an unassuming individual. Returning {rom a walk one morning during his recent visit to Paris and, noticing a crowd standing outside his hotel in the Rue de Rivoli, he asked & street-boy what the people were waiting for. “They want tosee the King of the Belgiens, sir,” answered the boy. ‘‘He is not very interesting, my lad,” said the King, and he walked unnoticed into the hotel. SEASONAELE ALVICE The summer days are coming, when the mercury will sizz, The breeze will scorch your whiskers and the ‘soda fountains fizz. But remember this injunction, however hot it is, Keep away from the thermometer ! Tt doesn’t do & bit of good to count up the degrees, You'll find it's niuety-six. perhaps, but ihat won't bring a breeze. Work if you must; loaf if you can: but this re- member, please. Ksep away from the thermometer! Oh, why did Mr. Fahrenbeit invent the cursed thing? The knowledge just how hot it is can never com- fort bring. So wnen the air grows sultry and the stinging | 1ocusts sing, | Keep away from the thermometer ! | It's well to get accustomed in this world to sizzling heat, It’s hard to tell sometimes, you know, what in the next you'll meet. But there or here, remember this advice with sense repiete. Keep away from the thermometer! Somerville Journal WI1H YOUR COFFEE. “Did ke marry for love, Siorker?” “Yes; for that love which is said to be the root of all evil.”—Detroit Free Press. Bicyclers point out that if all horses had to carry lamps over their left ears many distress- ing casualties could be avoided.—Chicago News. He—They say bicycles are a drug on the | market this year. She—That must be the reason all the doctors are prescribing them.—Yonkers Statesman. “Have you any clew to the assailant?”’ asked the court, “‘Well,” replied Sherlock Holmes, *I think he must have been a Greek. As I approached | he ran.’—Philadelphia North American. “How did the passengers behave after it was discovered that the vessel was on fire?”’ “Aamirably! They got the panic-stricken crew into the boats and then subdued the flames.”—Chicago Journal. Smith—1I tell you the man who is always ready to seize an opportunity is gres Brown—Yes: buthe is a greater mon who can distinguish an opportunity from a live wire.—Cleveland Leader. . Mr. Bedford—I wonder why the Governor of Tennessee has decided to resign. Mr. Webster—It is on account of his love for music. He is Mr. Taylor, the famous fiddling Governor, you know. Perhaps he has received an invitetion to join the European concert.— Pittsburg Chronicle-Tolegraph. 0w, when you ask papa for me, be sure to face him hike a man."” “You bet I will. He doesn’t get any chance at my back if I can heip it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. *‘Well, did the boss give you a raise?”” ot even when you told him you had grown gray in his service?” No. Gave me the name of & good hair dye."—Puck. ANSWERS TO (ORRESPONDENTS. A WELsH SENTENCE—Reader, Woodland, Cal. It is probable that what you saw over the cot- tage at Capitola, Sauta Cruz County, is “Pen y Bryn” and not ““Pen yen Byrn.” II the former it means “‘the top of the hill Brst FORTIFIED CITY—P. M., Sacramento, Cal. Itis very difficult to say which city in the world is the best fortified. In & military poin: of view there are a number of cities thai might be said to be the best fortified. Among the best fortified are Paris, Berlin, Stockholm and some of the cities in Turkey. RUNNING WITHOUT O1L—A correspondent to this department wanls to know if any reader of it can advise him of the name of the in- ‘ventor of *‘a new railroad wheel out West said to have been tested on a railroad train and run 170,000 miies without & drop of oil.” He aiso wants 1o know where the test was made. STENOGRAPHERS—C. M. 8., City, There is no demands for stenographers for the courts of law in this City. The supply exceeds the de- rapidity in taking notes and ability to read them *-when cold.” The pay of court report- ers is #10 per day and so much per folio for transcr.bing. Some reporters make at much as $600 per month. PERsPIRATION—D. T. J., Stocktom, Cal. If your hands perspire freely there must be some cause for it, and you ought to consult a physi- cian and not a newspaper. A physician will tell you the cause and advise a remedy. 1f you should use a preparation to check perspi- ration it might be detrimental, unless yon did 50 under the advice of & compétent physician. COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY—W. E. J., City. The answer in detall to the inquiry, “What were the questions asked at the entrance exemina- tion to the dental department of the Univer- sity of Californis, i e., the questions under the following heads: English, physics, Latin, chemistry, geometry ana algebra?” would not be one of general public interest. If you will call on the secretary of the college, at the northesst corner of Market and Taylor streets, | upper floor, he will advise you if the list can be furuished or not. To YoseMITE—A. D., Oakland, and others. This department cannot undertake to declare which is the Lesz route from Oakland or any other point .o the Yosemite Valley. Thereare four roads leading into the valley: Via Big Oak Flat from Stockton; via Coulterville from Stockton or Merced; via Mariposa from Mer- ced and via Raymond from the terminus of ibe railroad. Each road has particular advan- tages. The tolls on the various roads are as follows: Passencers, §1 each; fre two animals, $2 50; four animais, § horsemen, $1; pack animals cents each. animals, §4 and footmen, IRISH SONG AND STORY. A Unique Entertainment to Be by Two Clever Men. Daniel 0’Connell, the popular literatteur, and Dennis O'Sullivan, the successful actor, will give an ‘“‘Irish night” on Tues- day evening next at Sherman-Clay Hall, 223 Sutter street. The ballads and poetry of Ireland, patriotic, sentimental and humorous 'songs of the house will ba features of the entertainment, which is being looked forward to with much in- terest. Following is the programme: “Ine Exile’s Return” (Alicia Needham), *Drimin Dhu,” old Irish (urranged by Somer. vell), ““Chieftan of Tryconnell” (arranged by Stanfora), “The Conlin” (Moore), “Wnen in Death I Shall Calm Recline’ (Moore, arranged by Somerveli), “'Tis Sweet to Think' arranged by Molloy), “Savourneen (arranged by Molios). “Molly Bawn” (1 ““The Low-backed Car’ (Lover), “The Meeting of the Waters” (Moore), Irish fotk song (Foote), “‘Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms’ (Moore), *“The Donovans” (arranged by Needham), *The Wind That Shekes the Barley, itty of Coleraine” (arranged by Molloy), ‘‘Baruey Brallaghan” (arranged by Somervell), ““Cruiskeen Lawn” (arranged by Molioy), “The Ould Piaid Shawl” (Battison Haynes), “The Exile’s Musings,” “The Dyiog Girl”” “Tom Moore,” “Caoch, the Piper,” “Iontenoy,” “Pat Maloney’s Wife,” “The Iri Brigade,”” “Kitty O'Neil."” e Dr. F. P. Mann Laid to Rest. The funeral of Dr. F.P.Mann took place from his residence, 2417 Webster street, yes- terday at 2P. M. and the remains were in- terred in ine Odd Fellows’ Cemetery. The palibearers were: Dr. Levi C. Lane, Dr. Luke Robinson, Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr., T. H. Dowl- ing, W. LB, Milis and E. T. Allen. S E. H. BLACK, printer, 120 Eddy strast. e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.” Eeg e o £pECIAY, information dsily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— No Sunday excursion is really well enjoyed without winding up with & good dinner at Norman's Cafe, under Baldwin Hotel. - — Queen Victoria’s ponderous black velvet bonnet with its many snowy plumes does duty on all state occasions when her Majesty rides inacarriage. Theshape has not been changed for twenty-five years, and one lasts through several seasons. en Yvette Guilbert, the famous French singer, began lifo behind the counter. For four years she was in a millinery department of one of the great Paris emporiums, Now she saves over £12,000 & year and bids fair to become in time one of the richest French women. Excursion 1o the Eust and Yellowstone Park. A party is now being formed to make the tour of the Yellowstone Park, leaving here the 29th of May. Itwill be in charge of Dr.J.C. Branner of Stanford University. Rates will be very reasonable and accommodations first class. The Yellowstone Park can justiy lay claim to hav- 1ng more natural wonders and magulficent scen- ery within its bounds than any other spot in the world, and a trip there is oue that will never be forgotten. 1f you would like to join the party communicate at once with J. E. McDowell, Stan- ford University, or I. K. Stateler, general agent Northern Pacific Rallway, 638 Market st., 8. F. —————— The Swiftest Train in the West— 3} Days to Chicago or St. Louis— 4}{ Days to New York. The Santa Fo Limited has dining-car, buffer smoking-car and Pullman palace drawing-room sleeping-cars. Leaving San Francisco at 5 p. a. Mondays and Thursdays, connection is mads at Berstow with this bandsome train. Through cara to Chicago, both Pullman paiace drawing-room and modern upholstered tourist sieepers, run dally. Tickets also sold via Portiand, Ogden, Los Angeles, Deming or EI Paso to all polnts In the United States, Canada, Mexico or kurope. Sea time table In advertising column. San Francisco ticket office 644 Market streei, Chronicie bulid- ing. Telephone Man 1651 Oakiand, 1118 Broadway. ————— Railroad Tickets to the East via Rio Grande Western and Denver and Rio Grande Railways, At lowes: possible rates, with through Pallman buffer and_tourist sleeping car service every day. Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday. Wednesaay and Thursday. Only line permisting stop-over at Salt Lake City on all classes of tickais Detalled Information aud tickets furnished . is Montgomery street, or 314 California séroen S S R PAROXYSMS 0f whooping cough sometimes cause the rapture of a blood vessel Ayer's Cherry Pee- toral gives instant relief. = e flilcted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompe son’s Eye Water. Druggis:s sell it at 25 cents. e The late Lewls Crozer of Upland, Pa., be« queathea $250,000 for a publiclibrary in Ches- ter, Pa., and $500,000 additional for & homeo- pathic hospital, with & home for incurables attached. in the same town. NEW TO. o FREE Boys, Girls and Young Ladies —AT—— (ireat American [mporting Tea (o PURE FOOD STORES. _EVERY WATCH is a perfect time- Ppiece ; 15-year guaranteed case. REAL GEMS. DON'T MISS THIS. Opportunity to secure one I_-R[E . of these pretty watches CALL AND ASK ABOUT IT, STORES EVERYWHERE. 100 IN OPERATION. GROVE L. JOHNSON AS REMOVED HIS H LAW OFFICES FROM mand. The court reporters do not all write the same system. The test o qualification is nto to San Franciaco bartnership with Waller H. Linforeh aaq cosc s K. Whitaker, with oftices at 310 Pine gt