The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprictor. Daily and Su Daily rnd Sunday Ca Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 . cne year, by mall Daily snd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Lisily snd Sunday CALL, one month, by matl. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. S30amn W ALXLY CALL, OBe year, by m: BUSINESS OFFICE: 310 Marke: Street, Fan Francisco, Californta. Telephene.......... +...Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Sureet. ... Maln—1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: Montgomery s.reet, coraer Ciar; open mntll 0 o'clock. 539 Hayes street; open nntil 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin sireet, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteentu and Mission sireeis, open until § e'clock 2518 Mission street, open unitl 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Poli street: open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweaty-second and Keatuoky aticeis; open tiil 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 9.8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 snd 52, 34 Park low. New York Cltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMEKR MUNTHS. Areyou going 1o the co a vacaton® 1t { THE CALL to your address. Do not 1 a for you will miss Orders given 10 the carrier or left at Business Office will receive promp: attentio: U EXTRA CHARGE. for summer months. Fitiy cenis per monl they call him while ago they ‘Poor Barney Ba now, and but a littl called him The tariff vement hzs stopped for a while and the Senate seems to be doing nothing but biowinz off steam. It is now clear that Bryant’stour in the East has been a decided failure. He should bave made it on a bicycle. The jabilee crowd in London will be much larger than our crowd of Christian Endeavorers, but it won't be so good. taik of Hawaiian reciprocity { Hawalian annexa 2g way to talk of . The issue is going to be a fight to a Thousands of Americans who are going to London to see the jubilee would enjoy themselves much better and save money by coming to California and camping out. The movement in Oakland to clear the sidewalks shou!d be pushed steadily along. The citizens of every American com- munity ure entitled to a ciean walk in life. The name of Rarney Barnato will live long the records of these money-seek- ing times, but it will be quoted much of ener to point a moral than to adorn a tale. Mre. Ormiston Cbant, a British matron of high degree, society leader and social reformer, Las smoked a cigarette and found it good, and :he can now make big pin money by writing a recommendation of the brana she used. The proposed organization of the sash and door factories to a trust will prob- ably give an impetus to the portiers trade and to the manufacture of camping out- fits. We can down the projected trust either by living without doors or by living out of do Decoration day, Flaz day, Banker Hiil day and Fourth of J make for the American people a series of patriotic fes- tivals such as no other Nation enjoys, and it Is gratifying to note that the ot servance of them is becoming aver: eral throughout the Ur year more gen- This is certainly very far from being a jubilee year for India, as her people have been afflicied with famine, pestilence and earthquakes and are now toreatened with war. It would be more fitting for the Queen to condole with Inaia than for India to decorate her sorrows and dance with the Queen. By way of a change from the potato patch idea, Macon, Ga., is said to have set bLer unemployed to work planting oats on the vacant lots in tne city, and is now reaping her reward at the rats of $60 an acre, thereby increasing her reputation for sagacity and incidentally running the risk of getting oneas a liar. New Yorkers have been greatly excited of late by the arrival at the public aquar- ium in that cty ot a magnificent “hell- binder,” and all the papers are now busy explaining what kind of fish itis, but up to date n they caught him in a Kansas creek or| grew him in their own bay. Arother proof that a quiet, orderly, re- tired lite is conducive 1o longevity is fur- nished by the statement thata man who has already spent forty-five years of his life in State prisons has been recently sentenced in Indiana to seven years 1aore for counterfeiting. He is over 80 years old, is still healiLy, and expects to serve out his term and then return to the tur- moil of out-of-door life, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wash- ington are said to be competing with one another in offering inducements 1o Debs for his pronosed co-operative colony. Each of these States hasan abundance of cheap land, and in either of them the colonists would have a good chance to achieve success, provided they did not per- mit new ideas to interfere with the prac- tice of old-fashioned industry. 1f that Boston iuventor can make good hisclaim to have consiructed a machine by which Le can dart Lizhtning at wiil to strike anyibing he aims at his invention should at once be bought up by the Gov- ernment and used for the whole people. Under our political system it will never d0 1o let a few men have control of an ap- paratus by which they can make lightning ttrice wherever they choose in a nomi. nating convention. Embassador Hay has already created s ripple of talk in London bv marking his official stationery ‘“‘American Embassy” insiead of “United Siates Embassy.” It 3s said he does not represent all America and is spreading the eagle too much. It should be remembered, however, that Hay isa poet as well as an embassedor and is entitled to poetic privileges. The United States is alrezdy known as America in our Natfonal hymn and in poetry and sone generally, so we might as well adopt the neme in diplomacy as a part of the per- quisites of the Monroe doctrine. of them have stated whether | MARKETING FRUIT. The dispatches of Monday announce that the uuseasonable weather in New York last week had an extremeiy bad el- lect on the fruit market, and that all produce of the kind sold so slowly that most of it spoiled before it could be mar- keted. There were sold in that city twenty-six carloads of California fruit, as agaiust eighteen carloads during the cor- responding week of last year, but the re- turns were so ruinously low that it is doubtful if the shippers made expenses, 1uch less profits, Tue fact that the unseasonable weather is supposed to be the cause of the low prices offered durinz the week affords some ground for expectation of better things to come. When the summer <e's | in with its usual warmth in the East, there will be a larger demand for fruit, and correspondingly better prices for shippers. With this ercouragement it is likely that fresh fruit shipments will go forward briskly for the restof the sum- mer, and each succeeding week may show shipments as much larger than those of the corresponding period of 1395 as were those of last week. The improveda transportation facilities and the enlarged yield of our orchards bave increased the supply of fresh fruit that we send East, but the demand of that market has not increased at an equal rate. It is therefore questionable whe:ber even the return of normal summer weather will make the net income of the larger shipments equal to the net returns of former years. 1if the market continues overstocked as at present it wiil be im- perative upon our fruit producers to seek either another market or eise supply the present market with fruit in a different form. The Californian fruit-grower is con- fronted by a serious handicap in selling fresh fruit. The orchards of the gulf States have communication by water and more rapid and cheaper rail communica- tion with the big cities of the East than have those of California. These disad- vantages we cannot hopa to overcome. Even the superiority of our fruit is hardly sufficient to counterbalance the disad- vantages under wi:ch it is shioped, and if there is anyihing like an overstocked market we suffer from the com:petition of our better-placed rivals. This condition of sffairs does not neces- sarily entail & loss upon California as a | fruit-producing State On the contrary, it may have the effect of benefiting the commonwealth by forcing our people to send East not raw fruit but pre-erved fruit. There a‘e much larger profits to be made by the sale of preserved cherries and apricots than by their sale in any other way. The preserving, moreover, | should not be contined to the simp'e pro- cess of canning, but shou!d include the finest jellies and delicacies which can be formed from thie products of our orchards. Tne market for fine fruit preserves has never been overstocked. Ev-n in Cali- | fornia we import such preserves. The | snelves of our groceries are loaded with | delicacies imported from Europe, the raw | in tr forais. United States, and possibly in Cali- When we bave become convinced | that there is 1o profit in shipping fresh | | cherres to New York we may pay more | | attention to preserving them at home, and ! | out of the increased prices and the surer market for that class of goods find a re- ward more than sutficient to repay us for the losses which force us to become a | | manufactaring community in spite of | ourselyes. MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME Oakland is ext! ing a decidedly pro- cressive spirit of late. Her citizens are | | moving forward ail alone the line, it | would seem. Nobody talks of lethargy | 20w over there. Eversbody appears to be vying with his neighbor in his effort material of which may have been grown |; greater. Men working in the same indus- tries with children where the eflicienéy of the iabor is the same earn 93 per cent more than the children. In some cases, however, women receive more pay than men for equal work, and in a few cases equai pay. The reasons assigned by employers for preferring women and girls 1o men and boys are varions. It is staled they have a greater adaptability for the work for which they are employed, are more reli- able, more easily controlled, cheaper, more temperate, more easily procurable, neater, more rapid, more industrious, more carelul, more polite, less liable to tr ke and learn more rapidly In spite of ali this array of superiorities, however, it is said that most of the em- ers did not share a belie! that women are likely to drive any great numbver of men from employment. All their virtues hardly make up for ‘the lack of physical strength required for continuous hard labor week aiter week. Women, it is said, are rarely equal to the task of attending to machinery, and where machines are employed men will be always preferred so long as they understand the work, are temperate, industrious and reliable. THE KING OF THE KAFFIRS, The sudden and tragic close of the as tonishing career of Barney Burnato, the King of the Kaffirs, is the talk of the world, just as was his sudden and unpar- alleled rise from poverty to boundless wealth, from comparative nothbingness to universal celebrity. Hedemonstrated that even to a man of meager education, with- outinfluence at his back, witbout money and without friends, the attainment of unlimited weslth was a possibility in our day, and that the Edmund Dantes of fic- tion could have a rivalin aflesh-and-blcod hero. Barnato knew what it was to travel the hard road of the penniless man. The ex- periences of his young manhood in Lon- don were in strange and striking cor trast to the almost regal mugnifi cence which surrounded his later vears. He is said to have bcen cab-driver in the East FEnd; old-clothes dealer in Pet:iicoat Lane, and to have known what it was to be glad of the vpittance earned as tally-keeper in a billiard saloon. At the age of 20, on his way to South Africa, he sang and danced to lure shillings into his needy purse. He played the role of a juggler in the inns of Cape Town in order to realize the £20 that would take him to Kimverley. Then his native shrewdness told with effect. He became diamond-broker, and there was no end to his success. He acquired diamond mines, one after another. When he returned to England nis name was on every lip. The revenue from bis mines was said to be twenty-five millions a year. On the Stock Exchange Kaffir shares rose higher and higher, and tbousands of for- tunes were made from Barnato’s compa- nies. Then the reaction came, and Barnat was cursed where cnce he bhad been ble-sed. The Kaffir King gave liberally to char. ity. He builded a marble palace for his family in ibe British capital; he sufered, it is said, great financial reverses, and then he flung himself into the sea—a sui- cide—victim of a coloasal fortune. Mill- ions envied him; they now behola the other side of the picture, with its many lessons, one of which is that vast riches cannot purchase the key to happiness; another, that the contentment of the possessor of countless diamonds; and | & third, that multi-miilionaires oft have | burdens more leli than those of poverty. CHOPPING DOWN THE BARRIERS. The Yosemite tourist may breathe freer now. The old list of charges has under. gone changes for the better. The Com- to push things along generalls. The | | Oaklanders, aftercarrying the annexation | | scheme, have directed the attention to- | ward the removalof certain objectionab e conditions that obtain on streetz and | sidewalks. Oakland is a beautiful city, | | and her citizens do not intend to see her | | beauty marred, if it is in their power to | prevent it. | { | They have begun a crusade against those street and sidewalk obstruciions which must be classed in the category of | public nuisances. These consist not | | merely in barrels and boxs which block | | up the sid» streets, but of portable stores and manufactories (on a small scale, of | course) standing on tho street or on the | edge of the sidewalk, rent free, and not | only causing inconvenience to travel and | trafic, but injuriously aifecting many | | merchants of the vicinity who pay higa rents and taxes. These portable shops | are violating a city ordinance, which has hitherio been a dead letter, but which the | citizens will now see enforced. | They are determined to clear the streets of uniawfal obstractions; and, further- | more, asa measure in bebalf of sanitation | and cleanliness, an anti-expectoration or- dinance is now being drawn up by the | local Board of Health. It will pass; the | people demand ir. Every citv ought to | have a law of that kind. San Francisco’s sidewalks never presented a better appear- ance than Las been the case since the anti- expectoration ordinance went into effect | | here. Oakland is wideawake and making up for lost time. WOMEN AS WORKERS. The most interesting feature of the latest bulietin issued by the United | | States Department of Labor is & summary of the results of an inquiry into the ex- tent to which women are entering fields of labor hitherto occupied solely by men and a comparison of the rates of wages paid in such industries to men, women and children. For t.e purposes of the investigation the department obtained information from 1067 establishments of different | kinds located in thirty States. The in- formation given covers the number of employes and the rates of wages paid at 1wo periods, one of which was some week in 1895 or 1896—the time when the inquiry was made—and the other a week ante- dating that by ten years. The data ob- tained affords, therefcre, a means for noting the increass of women and chil- dren in the industries of the country, as well as statistics sbowing the extent to which it bas now been carried. The conciusion drawn from census tables published in the bulletin is that the pro- portion of females 10 years of age or over employed in all occupations of the United States rose in relation to the whole num- ber employed from 14 63 per cent in 1870 10 17.22 per cent in 18%0. The proportion of males, on the other hand, decreased from 85.32 per cent in 1870 to 82.78 per cent in 1890. Thestatistics taken in the recent investigation contirm those of the census years and justify the conclusion that fe- males are to some extent entering into various employments at the expenss of males. A comparison of the rates of wages paid in various industries where both sexes are employed shows that on an average men are pail 23 per cent more than women, | and cots by wholesale. missioners have done a few things to further brighten up the prospects of In- tending visitors 10 California’s valley of wonders. They began atthe hotel price and knocked s whole dollar off maximum rate. Itused tobe$d. At$3a day for the top-notch charge the guests ill stay longer and there will be more of them than in former years. To save a doilsr a day is something worth consider- |ing, even in the best of times. And times are not they w taniff business. Tue Commissioners know what they are The annual complaints have had red effec: in certain particulars. They appreciate the fact that Yosemite will have more tourists this summer than ever before. They have added twenty- four rooms to one house and forty to another, and they are purchasing tents They are going to provide proper accommodations for everybody that goes into the valley. Campers will never be held up by the State any more. The cost of fuel and grain and hay will not discourage long stays in the famous region when they go in caravaus or stageer the visitors when they hear the call of prices. Where in other years firewood cost almost as much as bread and batter, you can now get all you want of it in the bLeart of the Yosemite for the sctual cost of cutting the timber. That is the way it oughtto be. Hay and grain will be sold at cost. In addition 1o a!l this every pro- e will be made to render the sojourn campers agreeable. The people at large will be more likely, ander present cond;tions, to flock to the glorious park which is the prile and boast of Cali- fornia. A FEATHER IN GEORGIA'S OAP, Law and order scorsd & noteworthy tri- nmph in the town of Jonesboro, Ga., on Mondaylast. A white women had been brutaily assaulted by = negro; ihe alarm was given and the biack wretch was soon in the custody of a mob, Intent on making the criminal pay qu.ck penalty at theend of a rope. In such an sggravated eass the rule has been that lynching mohs set swiftly. They hait not for deliveration; it is folly to advise them, dangerous 1o in terfere. But the Georgla mob broke the rule. The bloody lesson of 1hs fynehing at Urbana, Ohio, had borne resuits far away in the Southiand. This Jonesboro mob had ne break, no troops to combat. It had syery thing its own way, 20 far as an option on the prisoner's fate was concerned, And what did they ao? When they reachod a suitable tree they beld a spirited deba It was against ail precedent; mobs never debate at such a time, according to tradi. tion. Reason, common-sense—which mobs of yore would never tolerate—prevailed, The Georgians put aside the zood stout cord and gave the negro over to law and justice. Score one for Georgia. Wten the re- markable decision had been reached the mob deemed it proper ‘o justify its action in the eyes of a wondering world. It did. Who shall say that these reasons, despite thelr grim humor, do not const tute a suffi- cient justification ? ““First, that the weather was too warm for lynching; second, that this is a prohibition community, and anywhere near as good now as ] even when the efficiency of the labor is no third, that the Urbana affair should dis- the | | humble is to be preferred to the misery of the | 1 be when Congress finishes up its | il te | sn't a arry courage lawlessness.” And there ghost of a fear that justice will mi: in such a case 'way down in Georgia. —— PERSONAL. H. M. Bennett of England is at the Palacs. H. Maguus of Washingon, D. C., is in town. Frank L. Coombs of Napa is on a visit here. 8. F. Geil, banker of Salinss, is in the City. Lieutenant J. M. Robdinson, U. 8 N, 1s in town. A. James of Eugland is registered at the Palace. Fred Moulton Merritt of London is at the Palace. Ablcfeldi-L utvig of Denmark is a visitor to the City. Sheriff A. J. Bogard of Red Bluff arrived here yesterday M. J. Jones of Leadsille, Colo,, is here. Jones is with him. A. R. Hathaway, s business man of San Luis Obispo, is at the Russ. Dr. A. H. Suggett of Margsville is in the City, sccompanied by his wife, E. E. Bush of Hanford, the right of way agentof the San Francisco and San Joaquin Ruilroad, is among the arrivals at the Lick. W. B. Montgomerr, an extensive oil pro- ducer of Sumatra, arrived here by yesterday’s steamer. He repres:nis s weslthy Eastern syndicate. Mrs. Barrios, wife of President Barrios of Guatemala, will leave for New Orleans in a few daye, where she will meet her husband, the Dictator. She hss about recovered her former health, E. Jacobs, an extensive grain-grower of Visalis, is at tne Occidental. Mr. Jacobs set- tled at that place nearly forty years ago, when tne country about there was 8 wilderness. He is here on a business trip. Edward A. Morpty, who left here some three yearsago for Juran, and who has siuce been in Yokohams, is editor of the Daily Rising Sun, a morning pewspaper that is alleged to huve caught on in the Orient, Tam E. Me, secretary of the Korean Lega- tion at Washington, is in the City. He came to sccompany the Korean Prince to the tional capital, but he had alreauy left Tam will sccordingly return alone. lenve on Satarday. The widow of the late Alexander Waugh, formerly of the Breeder and Sportsman, who was with him at Yokohama at the time of his death, has writien to this City asking for aid 10 enable her (o return. An appeal was made by her some time sgo, but it was thought if she was in need the first application should be made, aside from her relatives, to the American Consul at Yokohama. Joseph B. Cassell, the author of * Miss Frisco,’’ is & native of Colorado, and spent his youth in Leadvllle, then the wildest of the wiid mining camps, In those days the camp was produeing an enormous quantity of car- bonate ore, and excitement ran high. Atone time there wes many as 35,000 people in the camp. Mr. Cassell engaged in newspaper work and studied law there, and afterward was for some years in Denver and the East. Mrs, Mr. He will CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y. June 15.—At the St. Cloud, F. B. Schmidt; Murray Hiil, J. L. Firnin; Vendome, J. L. Franklin, P. J. Frank- ; Grand Union, Mme. Redmond; Broadway Central, G. & Ramer. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wieland left the St. Cloud aad sailed on the Saale for Bremen. THE REASCN wHY. Iknow a little mald~n who is always in a hurry; She races through her breskfast to be In (ime for scheo.: She sc-ibbies at her desk in A hasty sort of flurry, Aua comes home 10 & breathless whirl that fiils the vestibule. She hurr'es throvgh her siudying, she hurries thiough her sewinz, Like an engine at high pressure, as if leisure were a crimy She’s always in a scrambie, D0 matter where she's zolag, Atd yetwould ycu beifeve ft?—she Dever Is in time. It seems a contradiction until you know the reason. Bot i'm sure you think it simple, as I do, when I s That she never has been known to begin a thing In And she’s always in a hurry becanse she starts 100 late —Churchman, OUR N&VAL £NGINEERS New York Times. While in Detroit last week Commodore George W. Melville, engineer in chief of the | navy, voiced sgain and with emphasis the need | there is for an instant change of the Govern- | ment’s poiicy in regard to uaval engineers, thotis, for an immediate increase in their numbers. Hesaid that while 300 of these of- ficers would only scantily stflice foran ef- | ficient manning of our ex'sting vessels, we are getting along with only 193, and the resuit is that the engineers ere rapidly worn out by the work demanded of them even in time of | Peace. Under the rules each engineer should be allowed three years afloat and three years ashore, alternating, but with the present lim- ited force they practically get four years afloat, which means the hardest and most confining sortof duty, and only about two years ashore. Tne work of a naval engineer, added Commo- dore Melville, 15 one of the greatest hardship. The entire responsibility of the ship and ali on board, numvering sometimes over a thou- sand souls, depends on his skill, care, watch- fulness and caution, and it s irequently neces. sary, especialiy in the cese of severe weather or other adverse conditions, that he remain on watch consiantly for periods of many hours consecutively. This sort of work is what breaks down so many of the best and most trustworthy and conscientious of the men. Thissubject has been talked of for years, ana there never has been even an attempt 10 deny that the nuwber of engineers is inadequate, and yet, owing, one cannot but balieve. simply 10 the miserable jelousy between line and | staft, notving is done to remedy the acxnowl- | edged evil. RUSSIA’S INLUSTR. £ L CONMI'S ON Atianta Constitution. industrial prejudice formerly en- tertained by the Russian Government toward the United States is rapldly disappearing be- fore the pronounced superiority of our American products, Had it not been for German competition the trade of Russia might have been mcquired long beiore tnis, Naturally our Teutonic rivals, on sccount of their close proximity to s51a, heve supplied the Industrial wants of that country for several years pasi; but,in #pite of the intimate trade relatons which Bave lung existed between the two empires, Russia is beginning to realize that she can purchase some things to much better advan- tage iu the United States than in Germany, ¥ithin the last few days, according lo re- cent cablegrams, s special commission has veen appoinied by the Russian Government 10 visit this country for the purpose of in- spec Ing our American machine products. Un- duubtedly the appointment of this commis. #ion ix due in some measure to the recent Yisit of Prince Michael Heikoff to the United states. Thovgh Prince Michael came over to Iway system, it is said_that he ¢ good use of his eyes'waile in this coun- d that on returaing to St Petersburg | rried with him a g.0wing account of our | industrial progress. | But whether the ngmmlment of this com- mission Is due to the visit of Prince Michael | #% not it is cerimin that good resulis will ac- | ¢#us ffom |tand that Russia will find it large- [i2pher Interest to purchase her supplies in this market. | Russig 1y, NEW SLaNG FROM (HICAGO Chicago Times-Herald. ‘“What gear ao you ride?” is the latest slang expression. It was coined by Captain Anson 0f the Chicago Baseball Club and promises to meot with great favor. Just before yester- day's game was calied & man, who confessed that he was a baseball crank, stepped up to Captain Anson and told him how to win the championship. What you ought to do,” he said, “is to put Callaghan in center field and let Lange hold down third base. Everittis a good pitcherand he oueht to be given & show In the box. Then, A1 were you, I'd ehange Ryan lo shoristop, end put McCormick behind the bat. Now, take my advice and I'll bet you a mew hat you'll win the pennant.” When the man got rough talking Captain Anson scrutinized him closely aod finally ejacniaied in a tone of disgus Say, what gear do you ride?” The expression_found favor with those who heard i1, and before the end of the game it had become popular. HORSES FRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE. M, Fe ix Faure has just been the reciplent of a gift from the Emperor of Morocco consist- ing of ten horses, says the London Daily Graphic. They arrived in Paris under the charge of special envoy, who hsnded them over (o the 1707. The official designation of the 1, in i3 politica, unity siuce January 1,551 sthe United Kingdom of Great Lriy i Ireland. snq A LEGAL Way—M..D. 8., Ciy. ployer owes an emplose money not make prompt payment justify the emplose in holding care of the Ninth Hussars, by whom they were longing to his employer until he must sue him. RAILWAY ST E- BT | County, Cal. Itwasduring the ra | in 1891 that four soldier: of the F States Artil ery and an engineer by the wreeking of & !ramn near S That occurred on the 11th Jul Joux Apawms—H. B, Cily. second President of the U born in Braintree, which su 3} Quiney, Mass., in October, 1755 1o the 0ld siyle the date of his bir 2 but according to the new s W. FirsT LiGuT: | lighthouse built on tre | was the one erected on Little chusetts, in 1715-16 ut sierling,’17 sbillings an mainten nce of this a ta was levied on all ou go | seis. It was known | Litie Brewster. , City American EARTHWORNS — Subscriber, finally taken to the President’s stables at Alma. flowing tails and 'ha short, thick neck and shou of their race. Their ages vary from 5 to 7 yenr: one iron-gray, one sorrel, one light ba: and a pai The horses have the small head, the long | known as the earthworm someti lders, which are so characteristic of the sires | the length of one foot In Austra ITH YOUR (OFFEE “Speaking about remarkable accidents,” said Hilt, “I once fell forty feet—{rom the masthend 1o the deck—and, would you believe it, I escaped with only & few scratches “Um!" murmured Davvy, “landed on your head, 1 presume?’ — Phiadelpbia North American. Foreman—We need a few lines to complete a column, Rural Editor (wearily)—Well, say the Prince of Wales has begun wearing oid clothes, be- cause they are more comfortable. Perhap: it will starta fashion that you ana I can fouow. | Punch. ““Thisis & funny co d the Britisher. “What's wrong now?" asked the American, ““Why, they imprison some men for what they commend in others.” 1 don’t understand you.” “Haven't they just put a fellow in jail in ashington just becausc he was true to his trust ?"—Yonkers Statesmen. Corporal (to soldier)—Why is the blade of the saber curved justead of straight? Private—It is curved in order to give more force to the blow. Corporal—Humbuz! The saber is curved so as to fit the scabbard. If it were straight how would you get it into the crookel scabbard, blockhead?—Fliegende Blatter. ““This,” said she, with proper coyness, “is so sudden and unexpected!” | “Do you mesn 1o tell me,” said he, sur- prised out of his usual aplomb and savoir | faire, “that this is the first proposal you have ever received? And at your age, t0o?"—In- dianapolis Journal. Inhabitant—We expected to be the county seat. Traveler—Yes ? Inhebitant—We had en election and the | county sat down on us.—Detroit Journal. H “Did I understand you to say that youdidn’t nave any company in the kitchen while I was out. Katie?" “Yis, mum; that's what I said.” “But [ emell the tobacco from & pipe all | through the house.” ‘is, mum; the policeman was in for half an hour, mum; but we were in the perior.”"— Yonkers Siatesman. | “It looks like rain,” said the polite milk- man to the lady of the house. “This milk looks as though it hed rained,” was the curt response.—Detroit Free Press. As a General Thing—Dobson—I can tell & schoo.teacher as far as [ can see her. Robson—Well, you can’t tell her much.— | Somerville Journal. = | THE GREA.Es! LAK:E CARGO. | Cleveland Leader. | A vew steel “schoomer,” which is & queer name for & vessel without sailsand intended solely for towing,is on her way down the lakes from Chicago with the largest cargo | ever carried on these inland seas. The load is 217,000 bustels of corn. The vessel is the Amazon, built in Chicagosnd owned in Cleve- land. Here is a load weighing 6076 tons. It repre- sents the predugt for an entire year of not less than 6000 ecres of average Iand. That means nearly ten square miles. It 18 equal to all the fields of a hundred good-sized farms. Oo good roads, where the railroad siation to which (he corn was drawn vas not more than four or five miles away. 200 toams, with farm wagons of the best kind mizhtdraw this quantity of corn to market in ten days. One farmer with one team could not move the Amezon's eargo five miles in less thau six years. To make comparisons with greater things, this record load of the lakes would fill ten big | frelght trains. It would load a line of carss | mile and a hali long. Moreover, it would be considered a very heavy cargo ior any one of | 99 per cent of ‘the ocean vessels carry freight between this country and Europe. | And in almost any ocean port on the other “ide of the Atlautic it would take as long to 1ned or unload a snip so burdened as the Ama- zon will require for getting her cargo at Chi- cago, carrying it 1o Buffaio and unioading it there, ABLINDMAN'S BU INE.S METHODS New York Prass. Charies Broadwsy Rouss is willing to give $1,000,000 to any one who will restore his eye- sight, and a new agent has arrived from Georgia to do the job. What does the hero of Winchester want with eyes? He is possessed of a second sight 0 remarkabis as to render | eyesight practically worthless. The heads of | departments read their respective reports to him every evening at the closs of business and he remembers every item, carrying it in | hix head from day to day, and correcting | errors made. The slightest slip of a figure is detected. Every discrepancy is pointed out. Nothiug can_escape him. Rouss has 2100 stores in the United States | assoclated with his New .ork house. Heis | increasing the number all the time. In scme Far Western town he will pick up a hard- working merchant whose capital is small snd ask him how much money he can get together. The man may say £500. “Well, give that to mesnd 1 will ship you a thousand doilars' worth of goods,” says Rouss. “They will be involced at such figures that you can unde sellali your rivals &ad make money. 1 want you to make a profit of 25 per cent. Put that in your pocket and send me my $500 when vou are sold out” Cash is the secret of Rouss’ suceess. GUM (tE ING New York *un. Gum chewing, although it fsn’t positively ofteusive, like tobaceo spitting, is the height of vulganity. It may be tolerable for athletes who have special need of working their sali- | vary glands in order to keep their mouths | moist; or it may serve to soothe the nerves of | » billiard-player in undergoiug the strain of a | maich. But it distorts ihe face, gives it & slatiernly and careless aspect, and offends the rule requiring people to finish their diu- | ner before rising from the table. Besides, it very often causes the emission of a nasty sound from the gnashing jaws. While the gum- chewing habit is free (0 the public as mereiy a variety of bad manners and a matier of taste oniy, it 1s wholly inadmissible in & public ser- wvant. _In nim bad manners are intolerable; his oftice imperatively demands conduci con- forming 10 the standard rules fora gentieman. HEARD BA.Y'S CRY 300 MILES. “Last summer,” said a telephone mansger of Chicago to & Philudelphia Record map, “a big. portiy, smiling but excited man rushed in and asked if he could reach Evansville, Ind., Dby 'phone. He was assured that he couid, and in about two minutes he disappeared in a booth to talk to his wife. Well, he talked about filteen minute ““Finally he bounced out of the box, slapping his_thigh. ‘They’re on me, genticmen, he said, ‘I'li be right back. He darted out and in two minutes was back with a box of as g od | cigars as I ever smoked. ‘It's & boy!' he ex. claimed, ‘and he's got a8 good lungs ax I ever heard at close range!' Then hs told the story. ‘He haa to be absent from home, and & telegram had just come notifying him of the new arrival. He had rushed into the office, called up his residence and insisied that the nurse bring the baby to the telephone and make it laugh or cry. 1t cried, and he heara 16300 miies away.”’ | City having in charge the management of the | vising ways and means to erou-e interest in | matter was discussed at some length and nu- s. Three of them are black, two dapple-grey, | & pigantic earthworm known as Me . ! Australis. 1t measure- from four to rof them are chestuuts. | length and its diameter fs from onc = | one and tbree-quariers of an inch % | harmless as the common ungie W it much resembl FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT The Entertaioment That Was Given by | SHOOTING QL .Y Ao IT FLIES Hercules Lodge of the Anclent Order | it United Workmen, 510 color ar ru Mutabili y is & balky horse. Nature is not ashamed of her clothes. The annual social given by Hercules Lodge | No.53 of the A. O. U. W. in Franklin Hail | Tomo-grown virtues canuot ba counter last Friday night was a most enjoyable affair | f1od. e Ton ent unemployed | vith end the attendancs was large. The following “j:m_ employed is an engine wit] was the programme presenicd by the commite | B0 | o dn pa e tee on entertatnment, of which the following | 4ymeg. named were the members: C. E. Carroll, John | O'Keefe, A. Juckson, Ed Platz, J. E. Gabriel, | p L. M. Manzer, E{ward Moore, W. H. McGowan, | D.J. White, J. G. Lewis ana H. F. Mellyn. | There was an overture by the Native Sons’ | | | He who weaves falschood Is certain to wear ches } The road of reason is slow but sure to him fi who travels it. d Some people never climb h in danger from u fall. One cannot get out of his usurping somebods else's. Frugality and prudence are u; guarantors of liberty. | “Mauners make the man,” with the s | cousse, of the dentist and iailor gh enough to be band; an interesiing adaress by James Rogers; recitation, Taomas C. Maher; vocal A!E. Meyers; comic reeiiaiion, John A. son; mando in trio, Messrs. H. Koch, K. Proli andl E. Seekamp. The performance was greeted with rounds of applause. After the | programme there was a dance, which kept up until the nour of midnigt. place without mpeachable ‘A rolling stone gathers no mos: empty barrel soon goes to sta California Rebekah Lodge. The entertsinment and social given last Saturday night by California Rebeksh Lodge MEN ANuU WOMEN .1, L 0. 0. F,, in the Odd Fellows’ buiiding, — - was u grand social success and there was pres- J While lecturing Nansen talks in a kind of ) eut a large number of the iriends of the mem- | staccato manner, subdividing his words into bers of the lodge. The programme that was | little grouns, with a sharp stop between them. presented for the entertalnment of those pres- | Someiimes it gounds like a child learning un;‘\\’fl\;'r:llriridjulxaer‘l‘h. d’lx‘rtl‘l'lm_n o\(l £l as | read. B fz.r.ran, Mrs. A, Oberdeener, Mis, J. H.| Perley Derby of Salem, Mass., who died the Wehsker and Mrs. M. Keily and inciuded the | other day, was a famous genealogist. Formore following numbers: Piano solo, Mrs. Stone; | tnan tnirty years he had been employed to ! s o g plang daet, Mies | make searches for family records in various E Miss Sybil Camypbali; vocal solo, Mr. Hanson; | PATts of the countr Ty ange: litle Rosie. Cold; “Tue Lusi| atthe celobration of the University of Brea lau, beld last month, the faculty voted to con fer the honorary degree of doc.or of phil Phy on the hereditary Prince of Saxe-Me gen, in recoguition of his efforts to reviv terest in Greek drama. liitie Mabel Woolsey; violiu solo, Aliie Cohn; | iano solo (blindiolded), Charles Gardner. hen foilowed dancing and & most enjoyabie ne. California Lodge has elected the following- nsmed officers for the ensuing term: Min.ie Keiy, noble graud; Mi s Saran H rris, vice- | grand; Mrs. Saran Patterson, recording secre- ary; Mrs. M. A. Hawley, fiiancial secretary; Mis’ Fiors Bergman, treasurer; Miss Flors “My answer to the retorted Distaell to & hono: gentle: an who tw on a chunge of base ona certain question ina Meyer, trustee, certain time, ‘Yis that several things have % —_— | happened since then, and that I am aware of { Knights of Honor Auniversary, | this, while he seems to be not,” The committee of represeatatives from the | J = . &8 severallodges of the Knights of Honor of this | The will of Miss Winefrede Martin of Balti- more bequeaths more than §150,000 to Roman Catholic churches and institutic The two entertainment that wiil be given at the Chut on the 30th {nst. in celebration of the twenty. fourth anniversary of the founding of the or- | der is hard at work making preparations | for that evenr, Fred Raabe of Keystone Lodge, who has already made a record for getting up | firsi-class entertainments, is at the head of the | commitiee, und from what he has salready done in the premises it is safe to say that the me for aid ladies in 6 66 to the Catholic Washington, CALIFORNIA glace fownseaT's* -— FPFCTAL Information da; 1factn-se, programme 1o be sented will excel any- | pusiness houses and public e Prasy | thing that the kuignts have ever offered to en- | Clipping Buseru tallso s tertain their many iriends. As it is expected | iy i = that there will be'a large number ot ladies at Miss Flem Curt the Chutes that day there will be gate prizes. = il whose deughier has There will 2150 be for athletic games, in ‘which the men will participate, and prizes for | Tousy, of N games thatare 10 be arranged ior ladies and igie, and was children. 25, e Ste married Jullus vo 1 G Minerva Circle’s Marguerits Party. and lived in Eatontea. Ot Minerva Circle, Companions of the Forest, [ Jiss Julla's great-grandmoth gave a murguerite party in Socisl Hall of the | ROSSIDg. was Lady vou Ancient Order of Foresters' building last | 4. Mondey night under the direction of the jol. | 85 Fate to Chi N ¥y the/; Great | lowing nemed ladies; Mrs. E. N. Massey, Mrs. g A Rou o Annie Page, Mry, E. Barrett, Mrs. Emma B.1, | e low rates made for Christian Endeavorers Mrs. E. Butler, Mrs. A. Cline and Mrs. J. L e s nla o8 well. 4w oppar Blske. Every memoer of the committee wore | ¥ 12 VIsit the Eait Rever botore eniove & buuch ol marguerites and each gentleman ‘wore a boutonniere ot the same blossom. Gooa music and a good programme of dances lur- nished enjoyment untii miduight to all who atended. Duriug the evening icecream aud | cakes were served toall. Among the visitors during the evening were Supreme Grand Chier Companion Mrs. Sarah Beversen and | Supreme Grand Becretary Mrs. F. N. Morrow. | 832 ing-cars of the latest patter: tourist sleepine-cars run dal 1and pier to Chicego, olumn. San Francisco ticketoffice 644 street, Chronicle bui'ding. Telephone Mal Oukland, 1118 Erosdway. . Paul, Minneapolis am Chicago. Tickets witl be on sa’e July 12 to ‘he final limit, August 15: s piendid opportunit op off at the fa La Estrelis Parlor. La Estrella Parior, Native Daughters of the Golden West, has elected the followiug named as its officers for the ensuing term: over allowed v 10 take a trip to Lh ous Yellowstone Pai President, Miss Helen Kruse: first vice-presi- |'6 cents in stamps for illustrated oo i dent, Mrs.'A. Aigeltinger: second vice-president, | land,” to T. K 1 ral agent Northern Mixs G Fenstermacher: third vice-resiuent. Sisa | Pucific Ratlway, 658 Market sireet. s Frasciarn Lura Champicn; recirdlug secr-ary, Miss al M. unaer; financial s cre ary, Miss Sophie Asmus; e treasurer, Mrs. k. Thicrbscn; marsual, Miis J “Mrs. Winslow's Scothing Syrap™ Vasseln: trustees, Miss u. Klevesabl, Miss T. i et bl o Ruihman, Mrs. A" Da neal; pbyaiciaus, Dz, 1. | Fas been used over ity years by mfilions ot mothers for their children whie Teething with pen fect success. 1t cooihesthe child, softens ihe gums. allays Pain. cures Wird Colic, rezulates :he Bowels \ and 1s the best remedy for Diucriiess, whether acis- ing irom teeihing orother causes. }or sale by druz gisis in every part of the worid. Bs sure and asc for Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrop. 25¢ & boida § ———— Atwosphere and mild. be irely free mon farther north. Kound-try ship, fuciuding fifteen days' board a Coronado, $80; ionger stay §2 30 per day. Boldemaan, Lr. N Sellinz, B'ue B'rith. A special commitiee, consisting of represen- tatives from the various lodges, met last Mon- day night in B. B. Hall for the purpose of de- the order and increase its membership. The CoroNADO. perfectly dry. sof m the mists co tickets, by sieam- he Hotel App.s merous suggestious were « flared, atter which a committee of five, consistiug of Rev. J. Nieto, 8 H. Stmon, Charlés Brown, & J. Lizarus and L. E. Prescoit, was app inted w prepare a plun i 1o be presented at a meeting to be called in | & New Monigomery sirees, Sun Franclscy the future by the chairman. - —e—o ¥ - FEVERISHNESS of the scalp soon causes bald- Foresters of America. ness. Aver's Hair Vigor cools and ceansss the At 8 meeiing of the directors of the Hall | scalp and ciothes 1o with beaaty. Association of the Foresters of Americs, held P R T Ko Ins: Friday night, Hugo K. Asher was elected | A DO¥ "'flj"’”_”‘ Spailes Digens “"TJ‘,“" a direotor to fill the vacancy caused by tho | domertic side, may be expected in w book, death of C. H. Bremer. Sol Peiser was elected | - 13 Father as I Reca Aot secretary of the association. Mamte Dickens, revised by her ) Mrs J. J. Filton has been elected financial secre- | Kaie Dickens-Perugini. The home atmosphers tary ot Court Aurors, vice J. J. Cordy resigned, | of Dickens’ novels reveais his innate love for his duty as grand secreiary not giving time 10 | pis own fires!de. aitend 1o the duties of the court. A er Loyal Circle’s Eatertainment. Loyal Circle, Companions of the Forest, will entertain its friends in Social Hail, Foresters’ building, on the evening of next Saturday by @ select social, which will b under the man- agement 01 & committee that wili o its utmost to make the affair a most enjoyable ome. In the past the affairs giveu by tals eircle have always been most delightful. NEW TO-DAY. Grocers know how shamefully adulterated are Golden Gate Lodge, the Eiks. Golden Gate Lodge No. 6, B. P. O. Elks, will give a stag soclal in the Alcazar building on the evening of next Friday commencing at 10:30 o’clock. The commitiee haviug the matter in charge has arranged a firstclass programme. ANSWERS .0 CUxRE.FON:ENTS. Lathrop, Cal. most spices and AN extracts. They B e . . wne| WOUId rather R gy e vt sell pure goods; that’s why so many of them recommend - Tillmann & Bendel, Mfrs. WORDEN—A. A. P., Todd. Placer County, Cal. D. 8. Worden, under sentence of death, was reprieved ior the first time, since conviction, by Governor Budd recently. DaNCING—8. L. C., City. It is considered a breach of etiquette for two ladies to danes to- gether at a ball or even atan inlormal dance. Taey may do so oaly in their own houses where there is no affair at al INTRODUCTION—S. L. C., City. In the matter ofin roduction of & gentieman to a lady the permission o1 the lady should first be ob- tained. Gentlemen should be presented in tnis manner, “Mrs. — (or Miss), aliow me to present Mr. —, GREAT BRITAIN—S., City. Great Britain is the recognized designation from the time of James the First of the island comprising Eng. | 149 land ana Scotland, and it is the formal desy nation since the union of the two kingdoms in