The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1897. JUNE 6, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, itor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: d Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .$0.18 CALL, one year,by mall.... 6.00 Carz, six months, by mall. 8.00 CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunda; Dally and Sunday CaLL, one monih, by mall. 65 Eunday CALL, one year, by mall..... 1.50 W ARKLY CaLL, one year, by mal. 180 | BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, Fan ¥rancisco, California. Telephone = Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: D17 Cluy Streew Telephone Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: ontgomery sireet, coraer Clay: opan antll ©:80 o'clock. 489 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenta and Mission sireets, open until § c'clock. 4515 Mission street, open until 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth streez, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street: open until 9:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Keatucky streets; open Ll § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. FEASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 24 Park Row, New York Cltys DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou poing to the country ona_vacation * i ard THE CALL to ¥0, 1 18 no trouble for us your address. Do no: let ft iiss you for you will miss o 10 the currier or left at Business Offic receive prompi attention. NO EXTKA CHAKGE. Fifiy cents per mouth for summer months, season to sing, “Cheer up Thisis the ripe.” cherries are The Weather Bureau is furnishing the | right kind of hotstuff for the haymaker and the picaicke Woman bares her head to the high hat crdinance with the air of a queen giving eanction to a law. Lynch law is but a barbarous way of remedying the defects in statute law, but it is sometimes very effective. Though the tar ff bill develops slowly, it is ripening weil, and the prospects are 1 yield good fruits for all our in- The Arkansas girl prodigy who kneads bread with her gioves on has been eclipsed | by the Arkansas editor who says that he nee.s it with his boots on. 1t is safe to say the man who undertook to horsewhip Lubouchere has seen the be- rinning of a trouble which will be very bitter for him before he sees the end of it. The Merced Sun chronicles the appoint. ment of Miles Wallace as guardian of the Yosemite Valley. By adding Miles to the valley the directors may reasonably hope to extend its attractiveness. Cyclones have begun dance of death in various sections of the East, reaching from Texas to New York, and apparently there is no safety any- where on the other side of the Rock walizing the As the Parliamentary inquiry into the Transvaal raid has ended about as the Senatorial inquiry into the sugar scandal we have another proof that some things are very much the same on both sides of the ocean. Noting the recent agitation in Califor- nia upon the question, Will hogs pay this year? an ex:hangs glooomily remarks: *'A great many of them will not. They will take one paper s:veral years and never think of paying. The announcement that the Queen Re- pent of Spain has reached the conclusion that the Cuban pol of Canovas is a failure is another evidence that women have often more common-sense than the | men who undertake to advise them. Tie report that General Weyler has re- ed totake hissalary in paper money ich he forces upon others and insists on payment in gold is & proof he has not wholly lost bis head and doesn’t intend to lose his coin, even if he does lose his job. Redwood and sweet peas make a combi- nation of towering strength and graceful loveliness hard 1o surpass anywhere, ana according to reports from ihe sweet Dea carnival Redwood doesn’t believe it wiil ever be equaled until she tries it herself on another occasion. A Kansas farmer is reported to have recently traded two cows, two pigs, eighteen hens, a greyhound pup and a bull for a cabinet organ; and yet there are calamity howlers who assert the Kansas farmer is 50 overworked he has no time to indulge in luxuries. An interior paper states that a local resident’s horse ran away with his milk- wagon one day last week and dashed it against a tree, completely wrecking it, and adds, incidentally, that the local resi. dent, who chanced to be in his milk- wagon, was considerably bruised by inter- vening himseli between 1t and the tree as he was thrown out. Sea-serpent stories have been hitherto regarded as the exclusive property of sea- board States, but now that Oklahoms comes to the front with the reported dis- covery of a fossil sea-serpent 300 feet long all sections of the Union have an equal chance at the game, and we may expect Nevada to put forth a yarn of the kind that will make the Oklahoma monster appear like a Nevada sbrimp. The action of a Boston police magistrate in noldirg for examination a number of women who were charged with having been caught smoking has raised anew the discussion over the rights of women. There is no law in Boston agzainst smok- ing, and women it would seem have as much right to enjoy the weed as men. Issues of this kind always excite the bean- eaters to the highest degree, and the pres- ent discussion is raising a hubbub in the Hub. The Oroville Recorder denies the truth of a Sunday story in an esteemed local contemporary to the effect that a certain Mexican woman with a score ol lovers was hanged in Downieville on a scaffoid in tbe month of June with a black cap | over her head by saying that the woman was not Mexican, but Chilean; that she had no lovers, but one respected hus- band; that the month of her death was not June, but Jjuly; that she was not hanged on a scaffold, but over the limb of a tree. and that she did not wear a black cap, buta white handkerchief Is tnere eny incontrovertible assurance that the woman wasnota man or that anybody at sll was ever hanged in Downieville? | TARIFF ON WINES. The vineyardists and wine- makers of Califcrnia bave entered an emphatic pro- | test against any reauction of the Dingle | tar ff schedule on wines, and have de- | manded of our representatives in Congre: | that our wine iuterests shall not be sacri- | ficed t0 those of the foreign product. The | Senate amenaments to the Dingiey bill de | not improve tie existing conditions. The rates on wines in the original Dingley bl would bring substantia: relief, and by | reason of the ample protection providea | in that measure, if enacted into law, one | of our leading industries would be assared | of'an era of great activity and prosperity. | California has vast interests at stake 1n | the premises. The amount invested in | vineyards in this Stats now exceeds ’(:O0,0'JO. Tuis is divided boiween | ra1sin, the wine and the brandy ina the stry. | Daring the last four years there has been | a great devression in the graps cul- | ture, caused largely by the Wilson | tariff, which placed the duty on dry | wines at 30 cents por gallon. This was | raised in the Dinzley bill to G cants, bat | th- Senate Finance Committee has cut it down to the old fignre of 30 cents, and, | not only that, but it haschange ! the duty | on imporied wines in g'ass to $1 a case of a dozen bottles. This is an actual dis- { crimination in fivor of the foreign prod- uct because the $1 duty does noc meet the difference in the price of wages in France | and America. | To illustrate this latter proposition, Hon. M. M. Estee, in aletter to Senator White, shows that “in the wine districts | of Fra |is from 134 to 3 francs a duy, the laborer | boarding nimself, except his lunch. In | California the prics of Jabor for the same | work is from 75 cents to $Laday and | board. It will thus be seen that if it was | a mere matter of the value of labor in cul- tivating the vine America could not on ieven terms vompete with Francein the making of wine. The interest on money in California isfrom 7 to 10 per cent per | annum; in France, Germany and Italy it is from 3 to 4 per cent per annum. And it shouid aiso be mnoted that Germany | charges an import duty on wines brougit into that country in glass of $195 a case, | Ttaly $1 44 a case, and France on all wines | above 10.9 of alcoholic strength the same | roportionate auty on wine ihat she im- | poses on spirits.”’ | It has been contended, in support of the | Senate amendments, that a lower rate of | duty on imported wines would stimulate { the importation and thus increase tha revenue. The facts demonstrate this to be anerror. For instance, the importation | of wines in the United States in 1893 was | 8,354,078 gallons. Theduty on thes at 50 cents per gallon amounted to $1,727, | 039 14, while the amount of w'ne imported | in 1896, when the duty was 30 ana cents a gallon, was 2.763,485 gallons, and the duty collec’el amounted to $1.420,- 251 The revenue from the importation lof wines was greater under the higher | tarift. | What the California vineyardists ask | and expect is that, as the culture of the | grape in this country is in truth an Infant ndustry, it shall be protected against un- fair foreizn competiti SEORET SOCIETIES IN EUROPE. One of the most frequently reprinted | items now going the rounds of the press is | to the effect that Europe is honeycombed | with secre: political societies, including among their members nearly every man of influence in statecraft or finance. These | crganizations, we are tol{, can within a day hang & war cloud over all Europe, | and have also the power to dispal it al- | most as quickly. They control, it is said, | the stock exchanges of the great capitals, | are potent in the counciis of nations and furnish the motive force which directs the | course of diplomac, | Itis likely that this story owesits origin to the exaggerated accounts given of the greal secret organizition of the Greeks known as the “E hnike Hetairie,” of which we heard so much at the outbreak of the war in Crete. This organization is supposed to have for its object the union of all Greeks into one nation, tue revival of the Byzantine empire under Greek con- trol and the establishment of the Greek | capital at Constantinople. Itwasbelieved to be sutticiently powerful to rouse ali the Greek races in the Ottoman empire as | soon as war was declared, and so widely | was its mysterious influence proclaimed | that men expected to see the people of | Macedonia, Epirus, Illyria and sli of the | Greek islands arise at the note as soon as | the war drums began to beat at Athens. ‘I'he results of the short war show what the E:hnike Hetairie is worth asa fight- ing force. It was strong enough to get Greece involved in war, but not strong enough to help ker when tae call for as- sistance came. The great cause of Pan Hellenism was shown to be & sentiment merely, and not a cause for which men are willing to take uparms or to advance money. The society was strong for the purpose of agitation and imposing by ren- son of its mysteries, but when the day of agitation gave way to the day of war, and mystery had to come forth and show itself in the fierce light of battle; benold it was but a vain thing and power was not init, | It is not likely that any other secret | soctety of Europe is much stronger than | the exploded Ethnike Hetairie. All such | organtzations are much more powerful | before the baitle than after it begins. The | element of mystery is still potent over | the minds of men, but it 1s not so potent ias is sometimes imagined. The spirit of the secret society is powerless when con- fronted by the spirit of nationality and is not even a match for the spirit which dominates trade and finance. We attrib- ute to secrecy much more than it accom- Dlishes, for after all the abiding and dom- inating sentiments of men are those which are openly avowed and make up the com- on life of a community or a nation. The greater part of the growth of history ®oes onin the sunlight of aay and not in the darkness of night. THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES, The present flood in the Mississippi has been much the worst ever known, and the | fact that it has been successfully resisted by the Louisiana levees bLas fortified con- fidence in the system, and makes it probable that the alluvial States will re- quest the Federal Government to take charge of their levees. Tne disastrous breaks in former high-water seasons were due to weak cons:ruction. As s00n as the present high water goes down a levee convention will be heid to settle on a line of policy in fighting future floods. The convention will deciare for levees in emphatic terms, and will present a great many facts to prove the efficiency of the levee system. It will be shown that only 1 per cent of the levee line broke dur- ing the present flood, and that 1n all cuses the embankments that gave way were weak, and were constructed improperly yearsago. In regard to the rise in the 1iver, 8o much greater than ever before, an effort will be made to show that it was not due to any rise of the river bed, but to the greater volume of the river. resulting irom the desiruction of the forests and ce the average wages paid to labor | wines | the better drainage of the upper Missis- sippi, Missouri and Obio. The umount of the river's discharge has been estimated carefully, and will be shown to bave nearly doublea in the past thirty vears, requiring the raising of the levees so as to increase the capacity of the channel. Facts will be presented to show, further- more, that the river is rapidly adapting, itseif to its new conditions; that it has greatly deepened its channel during the present flood by scouring out its bottom particularly in Louisiana, where the levees held, and that itisnow in a condi- tion to hold the water pouring down it better than ever, so that even if there be another flood next year the river will not rire as high as it did this season. The ri¥er did not rise as high at New Orleans as theengineers predicted, and that isnow explained by the fact that the channel was miuch deeper than it had been, and better able to hold the water. United States and State engineers have collected dita which practically demon- strate: 1. Thatlevees, if properly constructed, never break. That they increase the discharging capa- cliy of the river, and a levee twelve feet high will render the river able to carry off twice as much water as it otherwise could, or as it is by nature designed to carry off, this increased volume beingdus to the settiement and batter drainage of tke country above. 3. Tnat they lessen the duration and conse- quently the danger from the flood, the high- 2 time to pass New Orleans, woere the levees | held, that it aid to pass Vicksburg, where they | brok | 4. That they deepen the river, reducs its | flood level, swaep away bars, and thus improve the navigabulity of the stream. The levees constructed by the United States under the supervision of United Statesengineers are the best ofall that have been builtana have held most firmly. The seatiment in Arkansas and Mississippi is largely in favor of turning ail the levees over (o the United States, but there is somo opnosition in Louistana, where a fear exists that Congress migzht fail at some session to pass the river and levee appropriation, leaving the lowlands at the | mercy of the flood. Then, again, Con- | kress might take » notion to change its voliey in rezard to levees, and try outlets. The planters are fairly satistied with the present situation and prospects. The States of Louisiana, Arkansas and | Mississippi will, nevertneless, join issues to make the ques:ion of river improve- ments a leading issue before Congress, and will be unanimous and emphaticin favor of acontinuance, extension and fu ther development of the present levee sys- tem. Itisestimated that for the General Government to take charge of the levees would mean an original expenditure of | $25,000,000 or more on levees, and a per manent annual exp nse of from $5,000,000 10 $10,000,000, THAT THIRD RAIL AGAIN, The subject of electric traction as ap- plied to steam railroads dev:lops new in- terest continually. A brief reference to the technical success of the third-rail sys- | ago, but the question of economy was not touched upon. Now it has been shown | that the adoption of the electric system would be a great boon to the public. Under electric propulsion it costs no more to send out huliadozen separate cars than it aoes to send out the same cars in a ingle train. Understeam traction the ex- pense increases much more rapialy in pro- portion to the number of trains and engines employed than to the number of cars carried. Ii the great commuter roads should adopt electricity for suburban service no man would have to carry a time-table. Trains of one. two or three cars could be run out all day long almost as closely together as theelevated railroad trains, and at speeds exceeding those of | the fastest express trains, Nothing is | more remarka about electric traction | than the facility and economy with which | | high speeds can be attained and kept up. The electric motor is a true rotary en- gine, perfectly balanced and slways ex- erting its fuil power in turning the wheels, bour as at ten. At the eleciric power-house of the Hart- ford (Conn.) third-rail system Colonel N. experiment which promises to work won- ders. Itisthe use for fuel of a substance which is a waste product on almost every steam railroad in the country. This is known as “sparks.”” The sparks are fine bits of unburned coal or coke which are carried out of the locomotive furnace by the fierce draught, and wonld be showered upou the surrounding land but for the spark arresters in the locomotive stacks. They fall back into the box at the head of the boiler and are blown out at the end of every trip. A balf ton of them may be taken out each time, ford Railroad system trom 700 to 800 car- smalil price, but most of the sparks are thrown away. Colonel Heft found thatina furnace provided with special appliances for burning them every ton of sparks was equal to a half ton of the best steam coal. He begaa by using them un- der the bollers of the power-house at Stamford, Conn., where tne railroad owns and operates the streetcar trolley lines, He burns them by introducing into the boiler furnace a blast of air and steam combined. In the Hartford system power- house all his boilers are fiited to burn either coal or sparks, and it is Colonel HelUs intention to use sparksexciusively. He bas made an improvement in his fur- nace arrangements which he betieves will add still farther to the economy of using sparks for fuel. This consists of sending the blast of steam and air down tarough the walls of the furnsce, so that it will euter the furnace at a temperature almost high enough to start combustion at once. The immediate extension of elec- tric traction over steam raiiroad tracks, it is said, is cleariy in the direction of hand- ling suburban traffic. President Clark of the Hartford system declares that “with afuel at hand which costs nothing the steam roads should be able to offer formid- able competition to independent lines; and running as they do over tracks in- tended for railroad travel alone, they can maintain a speed which no trolley line dare attempt.” 4 TLORIDIAN FUNGUS. According to the New York Tribune the so-cailed *“‘San Jose scale,’” whicn, after having been brought from Chile to Cal fornia, made its way to the East, working damage everywhere, is reported to have at last found in Florida a foe which com- pletely exterminates it. It is not definitely known when the first scale appeared among the orchards of Florida, but the climate was so well suited to the pest that it rapidly multi- plied, and was widely spread when the Government entomologist began to inves. Ugateit. In examining the specimens of the scale sent to the experiment station, it was noted that many of them were dead, without apparent cause, but cioser inves- water wave having teken only one-third the tem was made in thess columns a week | and it runs as smoothly at 100 miles an | H. Heit, the electrician, 18 conducting an | On the New York, New Haven ana Hart- | loads of sparks are produced every month, | | A small part of tLis product issold fora | tigation Jed to the conclusion that they | were the viciims of a contagious disease which had broken out among them. i Itis now asserted that the cause of the | disease 15 a fungus native to Florida, and Professor Rolfs is reported as saving it can be propagated in great nnmbers arti- | ficially with ease, and that any orchardist can apply the spores with a spraying- machine, just as any other inseciicide is applied. In commenting on the report the | Tribune adds: *ff this is verified it will gladden the hearts of many fruit-growers in all sections of the country, for this scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus) is one of | the most troublesome to deal with of all the enemies of vegeration.” Itis to be inferred frem the comment that the report, despite its definite state- ment and its citation of Professor Rolfs as an authority, needs further confirmation before it can be accepted as an established fact. It is to be hoped the verification will be speedily made. A contagious dis- ease which will carry off the pest will be very healthy for the orchardists, provided it does not affect anything else than the pest. That, however, is an important point which will also have to be inquired into. The Floridian fungus promises great things, but let us not be too hasty in importing it DUELING IN ;HEi GERMAN ARMY. While dueling ha: well known that the practice is still permitted under certain circumstances in the German army. The Emperor is reported to have said some eater in my service, but honor if it is called in question.” Personal difficulties and serious quarrels in & German regiment come before a *‘council of honor,” composed usually of an officer of each TADK in the regiment. evidence they decide that only an apolozy is necessary the matter is settied then and there before the council. If they decide tha. an apology does not meet the requirements the | parties must fight before morning or be brought before the “court of honor,’’ consist- ing of all the officers of the regiment. The powers of this court ara ample and it may | give & “warniag,” simpie dismissal or cashier- ing. ’ After a duel every ons having anything to { | | | dowith it is court-martialed. As one writer says. quarrels about trifies are not liable to occur uader such conditions. General Wilie, & German officer and an au- thority who holds advaoced views on all mat- ters pertainiag to armament, bslieves that the coming rifle will be of the automatie type, such as the Maxim and Mannlicher. The pres- ; ent rifle has quite sufficient rapidity of fire and oa any further improvement in that dir | would do more narm than good by endang ing the smmunition supoly. | Intae automatiz rifle the force of recoil is | utilize1 ‘or charging and closing the breach, 50 that the simpleact of firing loads the rifle for the next shot. The eftect of firing the tota contents of the magazine is the same as for one sho | Up 1o the present automatic rifles are of four | distinct stems or types: First, the barr:l | siipping backward; second, the fixed barrel; | third, the fixed barrel with parallel tube; | fourth, the barrel moving forward. The mechanism of the automatic rifle Is sim- | plicity itself and the only part showing any | strain is the springs. In some cases these be- | come worn out att:r 10,000 discharges, but in others they have stood as many as 40,000. | P-RSONAL F. C. Lusk of Chico Is s late arrival here. B. C. Brown of Palo Altotsat the Cosmopol- itan. A. C. Eisin, the vineyardist of Fresno, is in town. Adjutant-General Barrett is hero from Saora mento. J. B. Hull of Eldridge, Cal., is at the Cosmo- | politan. | Ex-Judge J. W. Davis of Tulare County is at | the Grand. | 3.C Burke, a hotel man of Eureka, is at the Cesmopol Among the arrivals Duscan of Alask T. W. Boalt of Reno, Nev., came down to the Bay City yesterday. Fire Commissioner Frank Sabichi of Los | Ange.es is on a visit here, | Charies H. Smith of the Los Angeles Hotel | Gazette is among recent arrivals. . | John Markler, secrotary of the State Board | of Examiners, arrived here sesterday. | /R Cleiand Gourlsy and Elwin 8. Cowlson of | Glasgow, £cotland, are at the Occidental, J. W. Short, editor of the Fresno Morning Republican, and Mrs. Short, are at the Palace. C. J. Allen, & prominent mine-owner of S nora, Tuolumnue County, is at the Cosmopol- | itan. | '8 7. Duckworth of Monterey, who was a | member of the recent Legislature, 18 in the City. Arthur Sewall of Maine, recently candidate for Vice-President, entertained & number of | friends yesterday by an outing on the bay. A lunch was spread for the guests. Assemblymen T. W. H. Shanahan, the tall | sycamore of Snasta County, came down from | the north yesterday and is at the Palace. Ho | is row one of the Code Commiss: €T, Some wag wrote on the register at the Palace yesierday the name P. J. I, Farrell Jr.. indi- cating the adveat of a son and heir to Dr, and Mrs. Farrell, who reside there. The youngster | is stated to be a robust youth. Professor W. J. Standley, principal of the Ateller and Scnool workshop of Portiand, Or., is spending a few dass in this City visiting the various technical s*hools for manual training. He is the guest of Rev. J. 8. David. CALIFORNIANS IN NeW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 5.—At the St. Cloud | A. Langer; New Amsterdam, Dr. and Mrs. J. | Morse, D. H. Morse, Miss E. E. Wall; St Denls, | Mrs. H. Berger, Miss Berger, Mr. and Mrs. J. Scoble; Continental, J. Boyer; Gerlach, L. Kal- nean; Park Avenue, Mr.and Mr: Alex Hill left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Lucania for Liverpool. NEw COULLEG= YELLS. OUACHITA ARK- f lacka, at the Lick is Robert how, chow, chos Boom-a lacka, ching- Who are w- Who's from Ouachitat Ve, we, we. ., Whoo-roo, Dipia. dipioo, 1 slkl 6Ly 1107, cold. Wet or dry, Get there, Kif. Ouachii.a f1y bigh. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOTS. Rah. hoo, rali! Zip, boom, ah! Hip-zoo, rah-z00, Jimmy biow your bazoo, 1p, slat ik U.'and 1 Champaign. INDIAN UNIVERSITY. Gloriang, Frangipans, Indtana, azov, Kazah ! Kezo, Kozihi * L U.buirah! L G, burrah! 1 Yurrah, burrabit Kab, rah. rah! ~Buifalo Courler, A HORSE'S sOMERSAULT INTO A STOKE HOLE. Lewiston Evening Jeurnal. There is one horse in Maine that is not skit- tish. He proved it the other day when he backed into the fire-room opening in the steamer Sedgwick at Bar Harbor. The horse turned & back scmersault, landing feet in the air nine feet beiow in the stoke hole in front of the jurnaces and the bewildired Sremen, Who fortunaicly stood from under when it be- gan 1o rain hiorses. The animal soon regained Bis feet with his blanket in flames and his tail badly singed by contact with the grates. The stokers managed to strip off the burning Dblanket before the horse was much scorch and then the beast, i thrashing, stood gazing about the most uncon. cerned being on the boat untli somebody threw down some bales of nay, by id ot which he was elevated by easy stages to the deck, long been prohibted in modern armies under heavy penalties it is time ago, “I will not tolerat: a bully or fire- 1 aiso do not care to keep & man who is not ready to defend his I after hearing the Spencer. | that from port to port in war veasels. The Hartford vo; was on the quarterdec presentand the fature. On the homeward voyage of the Hartford from the Asiatic station in 1868 occurred which, although probably not nated in the logbook, was of some importance, shows how even high-grade line officers may make serious blunders. Ei days when it was customary for the wives of commanding ofticers and other ladies to cr azed homeward by way of the Cape of Good Hope. near the cabe, the ship was jogging along under an easy pross of canvas, the sea Wwas running high, and overhead not a star was visib'e in the pitch-lark firmament. The captain’s \\|; and she probably_ felt depressed with tbe surroundings, aithoug she was pretty well inured to the sea {rom her two years’ cruising in Chinese and Japanese waters. The captain and other officers were also on the quarterdeck telking about the past, During a luil in the conversation Mrs. B. expressed a wish to see 8 few Tockels set off, and the captain.after & cursory glance around the horizon through the night.glasses, failed to discover any sail in the viciniiy and consented to have some THE LADY AND THE ROCKETS. an incident in It was in the One evening, wnen “The pyrotechnical display greatly pleased the captain’s wife.” | fireworks. remsined stumping the deck. About three hours after the fireworks the starboard bow and shortly aftera b “What ship is that?” cailed s gruff v the trouble?” trouble. distress, s0 we went The Hartford’s officer admitted hed been taken for aship in distres stranger ship under bell darkuese. changed her course to succo the Hartfora’s officers either ac a s<hip MEN AND WOMNEN. J. E. Daugherty of Alexandrin, Va., sneezed while he was leaning back in a chair and dislocated his spine. Two members of the Chinese embassy to and Lieng P Yuk, an unaer-secretary—went | to school in Hartfordsome years ago. The largest flagpole in the United States— over 176 feet long and 30 inches in diameter at the base—will soon be erecied at Doyles- town, Pa. Dr. Swazland hea it made at s cost of $1000, and will present it to the town. He is Hare, Speaker Reed is & great theater-goer. an admirer of the English actor, John whom he calls “Jack Rabbit.” *If ‘John Hare’ does not mean ‘Jack Rabbit’ I have | studied the English laugusge in vain,” says Mr. Reed. 5 M. Mannheim’s ciaim of 287,000 franes for cataloguing the Spitzer collection was cut down hait bya Paris court, which has just awarded him 150,000 francs, deciarng that the usual 3 per cent commission was manifestly | excossive. Miss Grace Briggs, dsughter of Professor Charles A. Briges, who recently took her diploma, is the first woman to graduate from | Union Theological Seminary and the first per- this country—Lieng Shieng, the first secretary, | The quartermaster was ordered to fire off several rockets, and the eff pyrotechnic display pleased Mrs. B. greatly, wuile some of the officers shook their heads in | silent disapproval of the show. Eventually the party broke up, and only the wat had been sent off the lookout reported a sail on ship loomed up. e through aspeaking trumpet, and “What is | The watch cfficer ou the Hartfo in distress only to find its labor lost. None oi mitiel or denied knowledge of the incident, I { son t0 reccive the mew degree of bachelor of | | divinity from the school. Mrs, D. H. R. Goodale and her daughter, | Miss Dora Reed Goodale, both of whom are constantly eugaged iu literary work, lost nearly ali their manuscripts and literary material, as well s their books and personal struciion by fire of their home at Amherst, Mass. The court of Queen’s Bench has just declded that £500 18 & fair price for procuring & peer s a director in a company. The Earl of Wes!- moreland was the peer in question. Justice | Day s1id in giving jndgment: *“IconfessI do { not understand this buying and selling of | peers or any one else. It appears, however, to | be a practice, and the piaintiff, baving com- pleted his partof the bargain, is entitled to judgmeat. WITH YOUR COFFEE when I begin them?’ author. “Oh, bless you, no! 1 dictate to a tyepewriter, you know."’—Detroit Journal. = ‘Later usage has amended that proverb,” he suid, in response to her quotation. And how does it read now?"’ ‘It's a long lane that has no sidepath. Cnicago Journal. repested the great “What a lovely baby ! IUs yours, of course?" No; that’s the next-door neighbor’s,” ‘And I suppose the squint-eyed little girl is ther, t00?” +'No; she’s mine. Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 had the inflammatory rheumatism so bad once,” said the elder:y boarder, ““that they had to eall In consultation of four physicians.” “Sort of joint commission, eh?” asked the Cheerful Idiot.—Indianapolis Journal. 1 you're 10oking for a pointer To enrich the one who buys, Invest your cash in n ercury And ho.d It for a ris ~—C. feago Times-Herald. The other day Manager Wardlow of a teie. graph office in Brazil took a telegram which read: “Mis: , will You be mine?” 1t was delivered to the proper party and soon she came tripping into the office to write ber reply, Iireed: “Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes Yes. Yes. Yes. Xes. Yes” Ten words, you see, and she paid her quar- ter and then tripped out of the room with the sweetest kind of a blush,—Indianavolis Sun, “But,” asked the man with the two chins, “what do you want to go bothering the Bappy and contente " “Bul,” asked in return the man with the | belongings of every kind, in the recent de- | “D> [ know how my stories are coming out | beathen for? Aren’t the heathen perfectly | | youth ct of the h-cfficer $25 Rate to Chicago via the ¢ Santa Fe Route. The low rates made for CBStAD Endeavorers will be op 1 to the public as well. An oppirig. niiy 0 Visit the Ea-t never before enjoved by (ap. tfornians. Puliman Palsce Drawing-roon ing-cars of the Iatest partera. Y odern u tourist sleeping-cars run dafly through Jand rler (0 Chicego. e timetable in fng column. San Francisco ticket street, Chronicte bui d ng. Telephoue Oakland 1118 Lro: dway. i T S reat Sieem Greatly Reduced Kates to Helena, Butte and St. ¥ Tickets both firat and second class g ; above-mentloned pOINts at a great o T hese rates may on.y be in effect for i, 0%, $0 buy YoUr ticke § a: ouce. \ time to %o to:he Kootenal mining Uhese Tow rates. Call on or sddress 1 goneral sgent Northern Pacific 1 Sfarket stieet, San Francisco, before ticket auywhere else. g is Constipation causes grict, Eut the {roubie need be briet, For Aver's Pilis sive j10 Ir afilicted with sore eyes use D-. Isanc Thon, son’s Eye Water. Druggis s sell it at e «Who s that lank party with the medalsp asked the drummer. «That s our town champion,” the r grocer exdlained. *‘He has got nis picture the papers more times for bein’ cure: 2 different diseases (han auy man in th States.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. NEW TO-DAY! A | —WiSE CHOICE - 45 SOME OVE DENTIFRICE. .~ ESSENTIAL Is all that is required for the proper care of the teeth, in that es a perfect wash with a perfect powder, and gives both in cne pack- age for ose price. d for three cents. A sample of the lign P. 0. Box Y. City. HALL & RUCKEL New York Proprietors London AUCTION ot e VON RHEIN ® CO., | THURSDAY,JUNE 17th, AT 12 M. SHARP. 513 CALIFORN!IA STREET. 1 enswered the hail and disclaimed any | | Again the voice came, “We saw rockets go ub some time ago and thought it was & ship in | out of our course and came down 1o see what was the matter, that they had sen As soon as this Is of full steam ahead moved off and the lights were soon lost in the | up some rockets and regretted that it | explanation had been made the | Two days after, when the Hartford got into Simons Bey, the story was brought on board | how Her Britannic Majesty’s troopship Tymar had reported having spoken “a blasted Yankee corvette” near the cape which had amused itself with sending np rockets. Tamar had seen the rockets and with some danger to herself The | in the heavy sea had lantern jaw, *‘doesn't that very fact show | there is something wrong with them?”-—Ct cinnati Enquirer. TEE LABOR PROBLEM. To the or of the San F.an “The worid owes me a living” isan excuse not making any attempt to get a livi world owes ts nothi ne . It is stmply the big | pudding which every living creature has | 1 Iry to get a shere of through exertion. | When the parent eagle thinks his young ar far enough advanced to look out for tnem- selves, he throws them out of the nest, on the principle rootor die; but the young eagies prosper. In the human family we see similar result the most successful men of the age are tho: who were thrown eariy on theirown but thers always must be a certain mental foundation which creates that emergy ar as-ists tiron will through which success 1s achicved. As men are so uvequally provided for by nature in the mental capabitities and more often suffer by injudicious training in their without any fault of their own, they cannot be all equallysuccessful in their under- takings. There is no possible remedy for that. To what extent is it the State’s duty to pro- vide for the individual, aud what is the State? The physically and’ menta.ly disabled are ow teken care of by every State or commu- nity in the Union,and have no voice in the Government. The others constitute that State and make the laws. As the mejority rules, or ougnt 10 rule, itis not likely that the majority will ever be in a position to ask for aid and | enact laws for their own assistance; nor would i it be desirable for any State or community to | have laws to provide work for eve:ybody; | they would be swamped and bankrupt in short order, as the influx of other localities woula be prodigious. The Haif-Miliion Club of San Francisco would Jose its jub, and such relief could only be given by ibe National Government. Euit such relief 1s not necessary. We have no over- esources, | production, but under-consnmption. We are notatle to consume our own manufactured %00ds when we send our money out of the couniry to pay for the manufactured goods of other lands, when il this money were paid to ourown peopie {or labor they would be abie t0 buy our goods. The working class are the largest buyers. They continually agitate agamst monovoties, butihey ereate them. They will buy only in the biggest places, and look w! th contempt on « small store, which may have been started by one of their own creed, snd let him perish. Many of them find this out to their own sor- row. If every workingman would reflect upon what he wears, he wouid be astonishea to that most of it is made outside that State, because when he buys he has no other consid. eration than the price, Assistauce of home industry finds no con- sideration in his personal feelings. He ad- mits it 10 be & good thing ou general princi- ples, bat wants fo reserve his right todo as | he pleases; but when a capita.ist who has speut some millions the last few years for California iabor gets something frou outside he {s denounced as the euemy of Callforniy lebor. The laboring class have to be a ittig more liveral among themse.v €5, tnen they can monopolize a good deal of their own trade, which hus to ve the eventual solution of the labor problem. P San Francisco, June 5, 1807, |+ OFAR: —_— HE .ECL NEu. A Frenchman went to an American and said to nim: “Wnata Polar beardo?" The American auswered: “What does a Polar bear do? I don’t know. Why, he sits on the ice.” “Si s on zee fce?” “Yes,” said the American. else 1o sit on.” ‘*Vell, vat he do, too?” wh ‘oes he also do? Why, he eats fish."” Euts fish—slts on ze, Lt ¢ ice and eats fish. Then +Why,what do you mean? What ds you meant +Oh, non, non. I does mot accept. I Invite 10 be polar bear to & funeral.—Fe chango. —_— . H. BLACK. panter, 120 Eddy steass, “There is nothing Youdon’t accept? = e Vermont Maple Sugar 15¢ a 1b. Townsend's®, CALIFORNIA glace iruits, 50c Ib, Townsend's.s Cilpping Burenu (ALIow 3)- 516 MoAtzomers Infectious di; : Groenl:nd.! seases are unknown in J. P. CLABROUGH ESTATE. Ashbury-Si. Corner Lot., ; surrounded by fashionable shbury-St. Lots. 100; mdjoining the above on the Haight-s®, cars. Room Modern Cottage. x100; N. line Frelerick, 100 feet E. of Ashbury; § rooms; ail modern conveniences; doub ¢ base nents, ete. 9-Room Corner Dwelling. 41x100; V. corner Frederick and D Long. av ‘om 2-story awelling; double basc- ment; a sunny corn-r. Pacific-St. Business Propert 26x168 bet. Montgomery st. and Moigomery ave.; heavy brick ouwilding: large sio-e and basement and l4-room lodg: ing-house. iG-Room Corner Bwelling. 25 ; NW. cor. ot Bush and Lyon; No. 2900 25x7 Bush. Broderick.St. 25x100; E. Grove: Building Lot. line of Broderic ) iect N. of work and siaewalk complete. Lake-St. Corner Lot. V. cor. Lake and 13th ave.; small ; balance tosu t buye: an Miguel City Lo 50x160; N of Geneva ave., SE. of Hiroth; in 10:2 lots; Ingl pass, fare Se. Redwood City Cottage. 100x150; cor. E m and Phelps, Redwood City, with ““covert” cotiege, stable, grounds, ete. CREDIT AUCTION! 1-4 CASH, Remainder to Suit Buyer, siree 187 feet: side cars el B VON RHEIN & CO. 513 California Street, THURSDAY JUNE 10 AT 12 M. SHAKP, EY ORDER OF Security Loan Assn, 16- Cottages, Houses & Flats 890 Steiner. 55x110—SE. cor. Fulton; 8 rooms, grounds, etc. ; 0pp. Alamo square. Cottages 5 and 7 Tremont Ave. 25380 each—O0ff Waller, tirely disconnecied; 2 cot and ‘bath; Haight-st. cars, Cottage 5 Rivoli Ave. 81x100—3 rooms and bat} vo Halght-st cars, cor. Sianyan; walk s, 5 Cottage 2819 Greenwich. 255187 :6—W. of Buker; 6 rooms aud bath. 134, 136 and 140 Hartford. 22x125 each—Off 20tn, W, of Noe; cuttages; 5 and 7 rooms and bath eacl 121 Hartford. :6x125—0ft 19th, W. of Noe ern residence; 6 rooms and baih. Flats 603 Dismond. 25x100—S. of 23d; 2 flats of 3 and 4 rooms bath, a3 of Ashbur each 5 10¢ dern tory mod- and bath. Cottage 409 and 411 Jersey. tages; 6 rooms and batn ea Cnttage 1023 Sanchez. 20392—s, of 23d; 5 rooms and bath; take 3816 Arm : 25x114—8, of 26tn, W. of Dolores; 2-story dwelliug; 7 rooms and bat 251008, of 23d; 2 flats; Howard-st. cable e 228 Vicksburg. . . of Chuch; cottage of & 22x114 ench—S. of 24th, V. of Noe; 2cot Mission-st. eleciTic ¢4 1108 and 1108y Potrero Ave. 241h-st Cars. 20392 Tooms und balk; o