The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897. E 19, 1897 SATURDAY. SHORTRIDUE, CHARLES EVI Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CaL1, six months, by mail. 8.00 Yaily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily und Sundsy CaLy, ove month, by mail. Eunday CALL, one year, by mall..... W ALKLY CaLy, oue year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Francisco, Uslifornta. -5 .Maln—~1868 1.60 1.60 Telophon EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streew. Telephon BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open untll 0 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o’clock. €15 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixieenta and Mission sireeis, epen ntil o'clock. on street, open until 9 o’clock. open until 9 o'clock. : open until 8:80 o'clock. corner Twenty-second and Kemtucky open 1111 9 o'c: OAKLAND OFPICB: 908 Broadwa: Rooms 81 and ! DAVID M Zastern Manager. —— —_— THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- THE SUMMEK MUNTHS. Areyon poing 10 the COUntry ona vacation * 1 -85 | acquired by his experience in his profession was the information which the court de- | ... Main—1874 | 80d experience of Mr. Maxwell are among the most competent experts on handwrit- ro. it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to | your address. Do not let it miss you for you wi miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at usiness Oftice will receive prompt attention. EXTKA CHARGE. for summer months. Happy to-day is the plessure-secker who ht it at Lakeport. rself wit good reading to- g orders to-day for THE Provide you morrow by leay tunpay CaLe. siness is not often & picnic, but with our merchants this morning the picnic will be business. If Berkeley ever w Jand's back yard wide open and the in hes to play in Oak- she can. The gate is tation extended. Seventeen bodies have been taken from the Thames in three weeks, most of them ently suicides, and yet it is a jubilee scason over the Prospects of a rate war among Western ilroads promise the Easterners an easy means of escaping sunsirokes and enjoy- ig the summer in Californis. Competent experts estimate “‘a National loss of $3,000,000 every week ths Demo- cratic deficit tariff continues In force.” Fortunately it will not be in force long. The new tariff is in sight. The reports of the failing eyesight of the Queen will dim the gladness of jubilee week throughout England, but it is now 100 late to call ff the holiday, and the procession will go marching on. In calling his new organization “The Social Democracy of America’ Mr. Debs makes a clear distinction between it and the oid Democracy, for it has been a long time since the Bourbons felt soct As the Cubans have captured from the Spaniards $200,000 in gold and will use it 10 buy arms, General Weyler may be con- gratulated on puiting that much of his money where it will do the most good. The line of the Valley road south of Hanford is being pusied forward at the rate of about a mile a day. That is the sort of speed with which enterorise is bringing back good times to the country. It is believed the Senate will finish with the ta House is agreeable the bill can be sent to the Prasident, and be enacted into law in time to add to the joy of the people on In- dependence ds Havana may see something of a grand Fourth of July celebration this year, for Gomez is said to have collected his troops in the su bs of the city, and promises to make a demonstration there for liberty and independence. It is gratifying to learn that an Eastern company desires to estabiish on this coast a plant for the manufacture of shovels, for it is beyond all doubting that Califor- nia soil would yield better profits if it were cultivated only by California imple- ments, From nearly every city of the State come reports of liberal subscriptions to Fourth of July funds, and there is an evi- dent intent on the part of the people to make the patriotic demonstration this year one of more than ordinary extent and fervor. By the reduction in the rate of fares made by the Valley road the round trip to and from Yosemite can now be made for $24 50. This is bringing the grand valley very close to the homes of the people, anl before long it will be a popular resort in every sense of the word. Los Angeles bas followed Fresno in making war against Chinese lotteries, and eventaally both of them may decide to follow THE CaLL and make war against Iotteries of all kinds. The white games of that sort are just as fraudulent and per- n:c.ous as the yellow games. The report of the Senate committee recommending an appropriation of $500,- 000 to defray the cost of representing the United States at the Paris Exposition ought to be promptly adopted. The amount provosed is none too much, and as time is an element of importance in the matter there should be no delay in getting 10 work. As one of the results of our interference to protect Venezuela from British greed there has been opened at the capital of Venezuela a museum for the exhibit of American goods, the purpose being to in- duce the people there to purchase from their friends in this country many articles which they have hitherto brought from Europe. It would be gratifying to bave a similar exbibit in every conntry in South America, as a help toward bringing about the establishment of the great Pan-Ameri- can policy of James G, Blaine. The Governor of Ind‘ana is quotad as saying that he has recently visited the grave of the mother of Lincoin and found it overgrown with weeds and sacly neg- lected. A movement has been started to | provide a better care for it ia the future } and it may be eventually marked with a monument which will worthily attest the respect the American people have for the noble woman who bore our great war President and molded in childhood the character that made him so useful to his count:y in the hour of nced. n another week, and then if the | Fitty cenis per mouih | | subject of experts and their evidence. | | Paris Exposition of 1900 the United States | | | | | | the demands | which, from EXPERTS AND THEIR EVIDENCE. George Maxwell, who held the position of paying telier in the First National | Bank, has been dismissed from the service of that institution, and the cause assigned | for the dismissal is that he violated the rules of the bank by the testimony he gave in the Davis will case. The incident is one of more than ordinary interest. It concernsthe public as well as the bank and Mr. Maxwell. It raises anew the question of the value of expert tes- timony by showing the conditions under which such testimony is not infrequently given, and it should be carefully weighed and considered by reflecting people in ordcrl that no portion of its significance may be lost. | Mr. Maxwell gave evidence under a subpena from the court. Had he refused to testify he woula have been sent to jail for contempt. The knowledge which he had sired. He is a competent expert in bandwriting ana was questioned concerning the handwriting of the disputed will. He gave the evidence that was asked of him, and | there is no question but what he gave it honestly and fairly. Nevertheless, he is dis- missed from his position and made to suffer what may be a great pecuniary loss by Teason of his obedience to the law of the land. The issue raised by the incident is too plain to be mistaken. Men of the training ing in the country. The courts naturaily look to such men for evidence in cases where bandwriting 18 in disaute, and juries have generally had confidence in their evidence. It now appears, however, that they often speak not as unbiased witnesses but subject to the danger of losing their positions if the evidence they give is not pleasing to their employers. By the disclosure made in this case the whole system of expert testimony is re- duced to an absurdity. The competent specialist called to give evidence finds him- self in a quandary. If ho refuses to answer questions asked him he will besent to jail for contempt of court. If he answers the questions he will be dismissed from his position under circumstances which will make it difficult for him to obtain employ- ment at his former work. Either way be is confronted with a penalty. What is the tes- | strate that American timony worth when g It is clear from perts when the specialist is an employe of any firm or institution. en under such conditions? this case that our co s can no longer look to specialists as ex- The only witnesses of the kind 1o be had must be those who are not employed in other business, but who make a living as professional experts and whose testimony must be paid for at so much a day. juries, and it is not likely that the system of exvert testimony will long These paid professionals, however, very rarely have the it is compelled to depend upon them alone. one of no little importance, and it is gratifying that all the clrcumstances of it have been 8o fully made known that the public can no longer have any illusions on the confidence of survive after It will be seen that the Maxwell case is Several days azo TuE CaLu mentioned the fsct that while every other nation of importance bad signified its acceptance of the invitation to particioate in the had not been heard from. This is no longer the case. On Thursday a bill was reported from the Senate Committes on Foreign Affairs appropriating $500,000 to defray the cost of suitably representing this Government at the exposition. Sec- retary of State Sherman had recom- mendea $350,000, but the increased amount is none too large for the object. The French national exhibit at the Colum- bian World's Fair cost the Gallic nation $1,000,000. Russia and Germany will ex- pend $1,000,000 each at the great Paris show three years hence. The United States exhibitshould certainly be in keep- ing with the dignity and importance of this Government. As we pointed out in a recent editorial, the coming Paris Exposition will eclipse in magnitude any world’s fair in the an- nalsof the ages. What immense propor- tions it will assume may be juaged from for allotme of ace. six nations of Eurcpe, ex- clusive of Great Britain, are for an aggre- gate of 2053064 square feet, against 347,321 square feet for the same six nations in the Paris Exposition of 1880, Tne greatest compet:iion of nations in all his- tory will be the exposiiion of 1900, and American pride would fain have Uncle Sam mike a successful race for honors. This country has plenty of inspiration for a winning contest of that kind. Californians may now show their enter- prise by commercing early to plan and prepare an exhibit that will not be less attractive than that of any other State. If we strive as we should in the premises we can outdo them all. We have made the Hamburg people stare in wonder at some of our rich products, but th burg Exposition would be lost ina corner of the coming Paris Exposition. The next Legislatur possibly wiil appro- priate money to assist in properiy repre- senting tie Golden State in our National exhibit at the French capital. It would be advisable particularly to begin early in the selection of wines for our exhibit. The question is not as to amount, but as to quality, and Paris is the place and 1900 the time to teach the world that the best wines are not all made in France. DISCRIMINATION MUST OEASE. Ever since Bismarck, in the days of his power, instituted a peculiar system of dis- crimination against the American hog, which was becoming too povular in the | German market, and which threatened to distance the Teutonic porker on account of its superior ment, the nations of Eu- rope have been following in his footsteps, to a great extent, in relation to their im- ports of American meats. Great Britain, Germany and Belgium have been the chief offenders, and the re- strictions placed upon American cattle by those nations have been palpably unjust. For years the American expoiter of cattle bas suffered gerious loss as a result of the | gestion 1s not s new one, and it came shameful treatment received by him from those governments. If our exporters were | accorded the same rights as are enjoyed | by those of other countries, no complaint would be forthcoming. But the truth is that & prejudice against American meats | has long existed in European countries. These governments attempt 1o jusiify their discriminating measures by claiming that much of the meat shippea from America is infected with disease and, therefors, a most serious menace to the public health, These claims are generally found to be without foundation in fact. President McKinley 1s bent upon secur- ing justice for the American shipper. Data has been prepared showing that the discriminations imposed upon our prod- ucts are unjustifiable, and our diplomatic representatives in Euaropean countries have been instructed to state the case plainly to the powers which have been making the fight. Official reports of ex- perts in the field will be cited to demon- cattle products show a greater exemption from disease than those of practically all other coun- tries. Due warning will then be given that unless fair piay is assured to Ameri- can shippers this Government will be com- pelled to adopt retaliatory measures. 1If the American exporter is not accorded his rights the foreign producer will find him- self deprived of his privileges in this country. We have an administration now which is thoroughly Americen, and which will champion American interests abroad with the same spirit and backbone that char- acterize its laudable stand for the protec- tion of American interests at home. The 8t. Louis papers are asking the country to give their city credit for having in one year obliterated all traces of the $12,000,000 tornado which swept it in 1896, and the credit is the more deserved be- cauve at the time so much praise was ziven to the wind for nearly obliterating &t. Louis. | | eul The plan recently advanced in the upper house of the National Legslature by Sen- | ator Tillman of South Carolina to imposs | a head tax of $100 npon every immigrant, to the end thet American labor may be better protected against the assaults of the army of low wages from foreign lands, has merit in it, and some measure, having for its object the greater restriction of im- migration, will undoubtedly before long be enacted by Congress into law. xamples of the need of such a meas- ure are everywhere numerous, but an in- ce from the State of Pennsylvania will serve 1o amply iilustrate the extent to which this foreign-labor-immigration busie ness is being carried. A Shenandoah newspaper is authority for the statement that a number of Italian agents are in the anthracite coal regions of that State try~ 2 to induce resiaent Italians to advance whatever money they bave laid by for the purchase of passage for poor friends who are still in Italy. In certain parts of the agents, it is said, have successful, and, therefore, from Italy will bs largely increased. Poles and Huns aro brought over bere in like manner, and they come at a time when multitudes of American labor- ers areidle. Such immigraats do not rep- resent the well-to-do classes in the cour tries from which they come. No matter from what country such an element comes, its influence is most baneful and its ad- vent to be deplored. In Pennsylvania they are to be dumped, in the case above noted, 1to a recion where the supply al- ready greatly exceeds the demand. They wait around provably for months to find work, and are only too eager to accept work at figures that would mean little short of starvation to native Americans and their families. That these foreigners are rapidly replac- ing American labor in the coal fields is an easily demonstrable fact. The hila- delphia Inguirer states that “an authority of the Reading Coal and Iron Company sta regions the been quite immigration recently sdmitted that about one-half of | the men in his company's employ were foreign birtn. This is in the Schuy!ki region.” The newspapers of the Wyom- ing region in the Keystone State are pro- testing against the importation of other foreigners in a district already d with them. ous otner coal-mining districts, “business” of these “agents’ is quite legitimate. They are belioved to be in the employ of foreign steamship com- panies, which derive big profits from the boom thus created in steerage rceipts. A ! over- The | tax 0f $100 per head on every immigrant would tend largely toward ihe settiement of this matter in favor of this country’s interests. Senator Tillman proposes still another plan, the substance of which Congress, we feel certain, will favorably consider at the proper time, when the tariff and currency measures are aisposed of. Itis fo make it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any person to enter the United States for the purpose of en- gaging in trade or manual labor without intendinz to become a citizen. The sug- originally from a Republican source. The thousands of Orientals and others who look upon this country as a gold- gathering field to be abandoned for their “home” country (to which their allegiance remains unshaken) as =oon as their greed of gain is satisfied would tall under such a provision; as would also the foreigners who daily troop over our boundary lines to make a livelihood for themselves and families within the borders of the Unitea States, paying no taxes to this Nation and having no intention of becoming citi- zens of this country. All these measures wi.l come in due time. First we want the tariff bill, however. The present admin- istration is making splendid progress. The necessary restrictions to immigration will certainly be made as sooa as it is practicable for Congress to gzive the sub- ject the consideration 1ts importance da- mands. SHOULD SEEDS BE GIVEN AWAY? ‘Washington Post. “The free distribution of seeds by the United State Government through Representatives and Senators has grown into an abuse that ought to be no longer tolerated,” said T. W. Wood of Richmond, Va., President of the American Seed Traae Association, now assem- bled in annual convention at the Ebbitt. “Each Congressman and Senator is allowed each session 42,500 packages of seed, to be distributed gratuitously, and the Agricultural Department controls the disiribution of many thousands of packages more. Aside from the question of injuring & business (and the giving away of any article beyoud doubt hurts the sale thereof), wnat busine has the Government to engage in this sort of work? Itis plainly in the direction of pauper- izing the peopl: ““There is just as much reason to donste plows and hoes to the citizens with which to vate the sceds after they come up. In the outset the theory of this free dissemination | was for the purpose of introducing new and rare varieties; but there i~ no effort now made to coulorm to #ny such rule, and seeds are a Teguiar part of our lawmdkers’ perquisites given out by them not exciusively to people 00 poor Lo buy but 1o constituents who will feel flattered to have them sent and who will aid in securing the re-election of the sender. “Hou. J. Sterling Morton was right inde- And the same is true | | at the end of these steel rods, which siring to abolish the practice. Were it done the Government wou:d save about $1,000.000 per annum, which is wasted under the iree- seed system, and & wholesome lesson would Dbe taught that the Government was not found- ed for the purpose of making presents. 1f the docirine tnat the people should support the Government and not be supported by it is cor- rect, then there is no more opportune time than the present to put a stop 10 & custom that strikes at the prosperity of legitimate dealersand is an indefensible waste of the public money. CAN THEs: TH.NGS BE? Hast never seen the tear that flows Adown toe editorial nose. L ADd at the last alights Upon the b otiing-paper, wheo. With band that scarce can hold the pen, “Deciined with thanks,” he writes? Hast never seen the oflice-boy, With cloudea face, whe:: all the joy Has on & sudden siipped. His cheery voice with sorrow dumb, Unto the post conveying some Kejected manuscripi? Ne'er seen the postman’s sorrowin, When, a8 the morning clock strike With wet and glistening eve, The weil-thumbed MS. he brings? What!” Hast thou never seen these things? Not Well, no more have I —Pick-Me-Up. BOAT DRIVEN BY WAVE POWER Tourists at Naples this spring have noticed a little open boat, which set out seaward when- ever the sea was rough, and particularly when the treacherous sirocco sent the turbulent waves spraying over the stone coping of the Via Carraciolo, says a Paris journal. Once having noticed the little frail shell, the fact of 1ts going out in heavy weather seemed so much more strange since it was impossible to tell how it moved about. The singlo person seated in the boat did not row, there was no sail, no smokestack was visible, no wheel, no screw, no boiler, no en- gine; none of the metal parts unavoidable in moters of any kind, and no noise indicating any of the ordinary motive powers which man has made tributary. At the rudder the man was calmly seated, directing the little shell wherever hie wanted 1o go. What was driving the little boat through the turbulent waves ? Its inventor and construc- tor, Secretary Linden of the Zoological station at Naples, kindly expl ed the simple and exceedingly clever invention, which he has Boat Driven by Wave Motors. just patented in several countries and which is to be introduced both into the German and Austrinn navies. The forward and aft ends of the boat are provided with vertical steel roc are dipped Into the ses, wedze-shaped plates of spring steel of great fineness are fastened hori- aly with the wide and thin end away from the boat. When these plisble plates are made to vibraie by means of the movement of the waves th tlike the fins of & fish and drive the boat forward. Not the waves alone fur- nish the power, for in_perfectly still water the mere pitching of the vessel will result in & for- ward movement. The lowering or the raising of the steel rods with the fins is an easy mat- ter, aad the fins themselves can be attached or 'detached by & simple mechanism 1n & very few moments. A trial with the smali model of such a boat in one of the basins of the aquartum at the station is highly amusing and surprising at the sume time. The toy is perfectly still when placed into the water, but as soon as 1 ttie waves ure produced in the basin with the hand or a small board the toy starts as if driven by witchcralt. The power developed is rathar considerable, and it is best ccmpared with the pull exerted by a kitein a ritk wind. The new boat, which the fuventor has called ne Autonaut, is not exactly a boat without a motor, but one without the ordinary motive powers—as & matter of fact the Steel fin vibrated by the motion of the water is the motor of the Autonaut. The German Sea Fishing Soclety has already arranged for the acquisition of which they are golug to use in a peculinr way. When oue of the much-feared northwesters sets in the littie craft will be sent for ward in the direction of the wind to spread oil on the waters, the benefit of which would then be bestowed upon the flset of fishing-boats in the lee; the greatest foe of these small vessels is the’ sea, and the short but powerful waves of the North Sea destroy annualiy a number of them. The discovery of any new form of energy is now hailed with much delight, for the sources of heat and power now obtained from uature in shape of coal, wool and oil will eventually become searcer. MEN AND WOMEN, Sergeant Albertson of the New York Police Department, hns the distinciion of beinga bookworm. Among his possessions are orig- inal copies of the first four books of American authorship published tn this country. A North Carolina man has committed suf- cide because he voted for a negro lor public office Iast fall. He was a new convert 10 Pop- | ulism and was actuated by excessive zeal, but had brooded over the matter ever since. At aballin the Elysee in Paris the other nignt, to the surprise of all present, the Turk- isk Embassador, Munir Bey, appeared without the traditional fez, but carried under his arm an opera hat of approved construction. Sylvia du Maurier, one of George du Mau- rer's daughters, apprenticed herself to Mrs. Nettleship, s noted London dressmaker, for & year and went through sll the drudgery of dressmaking from the beginning to the finish, Of the sixty-two men who have rerved a: Mayors of New York since 1665 William L. Strong is the only one to celebrate his seven- tieth birthday in office. He looks ten years younger ana but for his gout would be one of the most act!ve men in the city. Some one has fignred out in a London paper that between £30,000,000 and £40,000,000 will be spent by the Queen’s subjects in secur- ing windows and other points of vantage from which 1o watch her pa:sin the procession of June 22, Miss Frances H. Simon, M.A., one of the first women graduates of the University of Edin- burgh, has been appointed warden of the Mas- son Hall, Edinburgh. The hall is the gift of friends and former students of Professor Mas- 501, and is 1o be opened next session as a resi- dence and central meeting place for women students attending the University of Edin’ burgh. V.I.H YCUR C(UFFEE He—They say, dear, that paople who live to- gether got to looking alike. She—Then you must consider my refusal as final.—Detroit Fres Press. “Pawson is in & dreadrul dilemmas, poor fel- low!” “What is the trouble?” “‘He snores so loudly thst he can’t sleep.”— Boston Traveler. The Returned Parishioner—And how is dear Mr. Poundbook's cough? Is it any betier? The Housekeeping Parishioner—It gotso bad that wesent him on a trip to Palestine. Just about now it is safe to say that his bark is on the sea.—Indianapolis Journal. “Why on earth should so bright and coming a girl as Mame have married that long-haired poet?” “It was the only way she could stop him from reading his poems to her.'’—Indianapo- 1is Journal. Fogg says he mever has anything to say about the size of his salary, If he should say 1t was & generous one all his friends would be borrowing of him, and if he ssid it was small he would not find it essy to borrow money of any of his friends.—Boston Transcript. Ham—I suppose that Gagleigh has & good partin the new play. Mugg—Good part? Why, in his opinion, he is the whole cast.—Boston Transcript. “Will you have me for batter or for worse?” he asked. “‘Whata foolish question, George,” she an- swered. ‘“‘How can I tell whether it will be for better or for worse ? We'vq just got to take chances, that's all.”"—Chicago Post. AN EVENT IN ART CIRCLES. One of the most notable deals which daily newspaper journalism has had to do with the artistic world has been consummated by THE CALL in the acquisition of & copy of a special Sargent painting prior to the appesrance of the original in public. John Sargent is Provably the greatest living portrait painter. He is certainly the greatest among Americans in that line. His reputation throughout Europe is sufficient to make the announcement of & new pleture by him a very special oceasion in art circles of the highest order. This season he has two portraits for the public to see, and the public will flock to see them. Through the fortunate circumstance that a San Fraucisco young lady isone of the great master's favorite pupils, and the additional fact that this young lady is a correspondent of THE SUNDAY CaLL, this paper has been favored with the opportunity of publisbing one of these portraits even before its appearance at the Royal Academy. This is the first time that Mr. Sargent has ever given his consent to such an arrangement, and it was in a large meas- ure the excellence of the copy which the young lady made of his work that induced him to do 50 In this case. Aiter a most painstaking process of reproduction this picture will sppear as a zincograph etching direct from the young lady’s copy in to- morrow's supplement of THE CALL. California has disclosed numerous natursl wonders to the eye of man, but it is doubtful if 1t ever disciosed one more wonderful than a certain valiey which lies in the southwest corner of Monterey County. It is forty miles from civilization, yet it is inhabited by a givilized colony. Shut in on three sides by wallsof rock and on the fourth side by the oceau, it is almost inaccessible to the outside world. People who were born In the valley have never been able 10 get out of it—they have lived there twenty years without seeing a train of cars, a street. car, or even a carriage. The vehicles which serve the inhahitauts of this queer place were carried there in sections on the backs of mules—ior no whole vehicle could descend the walls in safety. Yorty miles of climbing and walking through forests is the way out and in. landing for boats. A description and some striking illustrations of this marvel of nature will appear in THE CALL to-morrow. Besides these two extraordinary features there will be included In the same issue the fol- lowing special articies: A correction of the popular idea as to the first steam locomotive in Americs, by the son of There is no Linden bont, | the engineer who placed it on the track. facts concerning our coffee supply. An interview with & famous dramatist, now The process of sending a queen around the | feature. lots of other things by the little ones for other home reading on Sunday. The son is a resident of Ban Francisco. The coffee plantations of the Hawaiian Islands. Some little known but highly important in San Francisco, on how he writes his plays. world for 10 cents—s unique but quite truthful “The Peril of Queen Victoria,” as described in a notable letter from “Ex-Altache.” Some animadversions on the principles of politeness. A prince in a new pose, with stringent reflections thereon, by an American. All the atiractive departments, including the Childhood’s Realm, with eleven letters and 1t ones, the Sociai Whirl, the Dramatic Cir- cle, the Fraternities, the Fashions, the Whisters, and all sorts and conditions of matter for PERSONAL. 1 D. P. Pierce of Chicago is in the City. G. W. Ralston of Astoria, Or., is in town. J. H. Barbour of san Diego is in the City. Charles W. Lyford of New York is & visitor here. Dr. F. K. Ainsworth of Los Angeles is at the Grand. IW, dental. L H. Rice, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. C. A. Cook, & butcher of Watsonville, isat the Russ. S. Bissinger, s merchant of Portiand, arrived here yesterday. John E. Marble of Los Angeles is a late ar- rival in the City. . H. Creamer, a business man of Leadville, Colo., Is in the City. | Thomas Martin and Mrs. Martin of Topeks, | | Kans., are in the City. | John L. Harris of South Bend, Wash., was | one of yesterday’s arrivals. ! W. W. Douglass of Sacramento, Deputy State Controller, is at the Grand. James Hocking and wite ot Miller, S. Dak., | are registered at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Supervisor J. C. Coker of Auburn is in town. He isa merchant of Aubnrn. R. H. Oliver, & business maa of Salt Lake, is at the Palace. His wife is with him. William Howarth of Everett, Wash., is one of the late arrivais at the Occidental. J.J. January, a arugglist of Concord, also agent of Wells, Fargo & Co., is in town. H. W. Baxter and wife will be absent from the City on & two weeks’ vacation trip. M. M. Potter, who conducts the new hotel Van Nuys at Los Aageles, is at the Palace. | Supervisor C. P. Smith of Mendocino is in town. He is a business man of Mendoeino. w am E. Selleck of Chicago, who is inter- ested in mines in this State, is at the Grand. J. C. Errickson, a well-to-d0 land and cattle owner of Humboldt County, arrived here yes- terday. George B. Tracy, Cal politan. W. P. Bennett, a merchant and large mine- owner of Forks of Salmon, Siskiyou County, is one of the guests of the Russ. Dr. W. N. Moore, superintendent of the | State Asylum for the Inssne at Naps, is at the | Russ, accompanied by his wife. L. Simmons, a_prominent commercial man | of Whatcom, Wash., accompanied by Mrs. Simmons, are guests at the Cosmopolitan. Colonel Z S. Spalding of Hawali, who for a long time has been interested in acable to the | Gillette of Portland is st the Occt Bohon and R. M. Jameson of | re recent arrivals at the Cosmo- Hawaiian Islands from the United States, is at | the Palace. Eugene F. Wilson, a wealthy resident of New York, who is prominent in politics, is at the Palace. He is accompanied on his trip by E. J. Rice, also of New York. Wilbur F. Zeigler, the attorney, has gone to | the City of Mexico to take depositions in the case of J. Jenkins against the Pacific Mutual Lite Insurance Company. George W. Frink, the well-known capitalist, formerly of Easton, Eldridge & Co., has re- turned to the City after & two years’ trip through Europe, and is stopping at the Hotel Pleasanton. Colouel Willlam Forsytne, the widely known raisin-grower of Fresno, is one of the visitors here from the south. Colonel For- sythe is one of the earlw pioneers in raisin- growing in that part of the Stats. Mrs. Fletcher, wife of L. M. Fletcher, general agent of the Missouri Pacific Rallroad, and Mies Bell Glennon left the City yesterday for & short period at the seaside. Mr. Fletcner will join them after a week or two fora short time. Among the arrivals here last night were four young graduates of Annapolis, who have arrived here to begin two years' experience on the vessels of this coast. They are at the Occidental. They are Walter R. Sexton, Irwin F. Lantls, D. G. Mahoney and L. R. Sargent. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 18 —At the Plaza, E. A. Lawse; Everett, Mr. and Mrs. H. Jacobs; Grand Union, J. Coughlin; Continental, J.F. Laborde; St. Denis, J. F. English; Albert, W. P. Herrington. ENGLISH A FOREIGN LANGUAGE New York Trnibune. The declsration of Professor Mott that New York boys have to be taught Englisn as if they were learning a foreign_tongue has enough of literal truth under its rhetorical exaggeration to emph asize the need of such conference and co-operation as are sought by the college and Dpreparatory schoo! teschers now gathered in this city. Itisa lamentable fact thateven in our best colleges studznts of more then aver. age standing are mot rare whose capacity for the com; ition of Engl sentence is most rudimentary, and whose vocabulary owes its variety purely to its crud- ity and slang. = No editor who hes been beguiled into examining the contribu- tions of coliege students recommended to him by instructors as promising candidates for journalism and competent reporters of college affairs can have failed to wonder where t writers of the future were being trained. The colleges are naturally blamed for the ignor- anceof American youths, «nd it is true that until recently the attention given to Engli by them was scandaiously slight. But the collage professors plead in mitigation that the fault lies in 1he home surroundings, in the primary school, and that it is impossible to make up in coliege for the absence or defects y training. PERSONAL RIGHTS ;N TELEPHONES Boston Globe. Millions are in prospcet of being speat in New York to test the right of an American citizen to own and control his own telephone. By ihe by, perhaps s man's right to own his ©0Wn watch may have 10 be tested. | 221,784 widow | every side,and FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, Tnteresting Figures That Show the Ex- tent of Odd Fellowship In the World. E. G. Hogate, past grand representative, in an address on “The Mission of Odd Fellow- ship to Humanity,” recently delivered at Dan- ville, I1l., presented a serfes of figures which are interesting in this that they show the state of the order of 0dd Feilowship in the world at this time: One Sovereign Grand Lodge, four independent grand lodges (German Empire, Australia, Deamark and Switzerland), 66 grand lodges, 11,222 subordinate lodges, 54 grand encampments, 2651 subordinate en- campments, 63,219 lodgeinitiations last year, 852,629 lodge members, 10,832 encampment initiatione, 133,857 encampment members, $3,286,061 41 aggrewate rellef by lodges and encampments, §8,210,208 22 aggregate reve- nue of lodzes and eucampments, 4117 Re- bekan lodges, 253,493 members of 'the desree of Rebekah, total relief 3,323,311 06, total membership 968,880, total reliel since 1830 $71,288,702 96. From 1830 to 1896 there have been 2 0 446 initiations, 1,992,280 members reiieved, tany relieved, 193,730 Offic reports show that as paid for relief 826 month members buried. n the year 1895 §3.323.311 96, or ¥60.456 every week; every d %413 44 every hour; $6 89 every minute and 113 cents every second. ~The Mancnesier aity tLan 700,000 members, with which the Inde- pendent Order mekes the largest benevolent organization on the glob Golden State Parlor, N, D. G. W. At the meeting of Golden State Parlor No. 50 of the Native Daughters of the Golden West iast Wednesday tnere were present among the visitors Mrs. D. Bradley, M M. Church, Miss Hendrix and Miss Hink of Oro Fino Parlor No. 9 and Miss Smith of Union Parlor No. 49. At the close of the business meeting Miss Rosa Day, a member of the parlor, who was elected grand marshal at the recent session of the Grand Parlor at Sonors, was tendered an informal reception. There was an interesting programme after the newly elected official had been congratulated, and then followed the distribution of icecream and cakes. A member of Goldeu State Parior is quite enthusiastic over the reception the Nutive Daughters received in Sonors. In speaking on the subject she said: “The members of our parior had a most enjoyable time while in Sonora. Too much praise cannot be given to Dardanelle_Parlor of the Native Dauzhters, Tuolumne Parior of the Native Sons and the Young Men’s Club for the attection shown and {or their efforts to make the stay of dele- gates agreeab’e. When the delegates to_the Grand Parior reached Jamestown on their way to Sonora the entire population turned oui, held up_the stages and treated tbe pas- sengers to delicious cool lemonade. At So- | nors, which was handsome'y decorated, all the delegates were cordially welcomed on 1l the Native Daughters who were there will always hold in jond recollec- tion the kindness of the Sonoraites.” On last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Burden (nee Bauman) and Miss Nettie Burden of Sonora secured teams and escorted Misses L. Meyer, L. Drucker, Rosa Day, L. Uhiig, F. yon Staden and Johanua Meyer of Goiden State Parlor to Mercers cave at Murphys Camp and on the return urip took them to see the won- derful bridges of Calaveras County. Wnile i Somora the members of the parlor were the guests of M. and Mrs. J. Bauman of that place &nd of Dardanelle Parior. Past President Miss E. Schwartz and Treas- urer Mrs. J. Siebe are with their parents camp- ing at Larkspur. The 0dd Fellows’ Home. At s meeting of the trustees of the Odd Fel- lows' Home at Thermalito held last Wednes- day the resignation of Superintendent Barlett of the home was received and laccepted. This is the outcome of the suggestion of the Grand Lodge that a change was necessary. The resig- nation of Mrs. Bartlett as matron of the Insii tution was also accepted. Frederick J. Moll Sr. of Los Angeles, a member of Golder Kule Lodge, was elecfed 10 fill the vacancy and Mrs. Noll was chosen 1o fill the position of matron, The change will go intw effect on the 1st of next July. As yei no other change: have been made. - Britaunia Lodge, D. of St. G. Britannia Lodge No. 7, Daughters of St. George, will attend the Church of the Advent 1o-morrow morning, and_will attend Grace Church in the evening, where special choral service will be held in honor of the Queen’s diamond jubilee. Friends of the Forest. Pioneer Parlor will at its next meeting ini- tiate eighteen young ladies who have signified their intention to become members. Lincoln Parlor and Richmond Parlor worked in the initiatory aegree last week. The commitiees having charge of preparing reports to be presented on the 30th inat.,at which time the organization of & Grand Parlor will be effected, have their reports nearly ready. Ancient Order of Foresters. Deputy High Chief Ranger R. N. McLennan isstill in the southern partof the State en- gaged in the work of organizing new courts. Within the past few weeks he has organized a court at Fallbrook, oneat Temeculs, each with twenty-five charter members. High Chief Ranger Csse and High Court Treasurer Lunt are visiting courts in Oregon and Washington. High Sub-chief Ranger Boehm will visit CouLL Twin Peaks in this City on Wednesday Dex! Court Fremont and Bohemian will shortly be amalgamated. Court Kensington gave a very interesting lndklncnnlul minstrel show in Oaklana last week. On the 26th inst. Court Star of the West and Court Kensington will give an entertsinment in_Union-square Hall in this City, and the P T Lie et n of ihe newly elect - will be held during the mnnmyorefu?;.nm” e THE SEELLESS ORANGE IN LONDON Westminater Gazette. The arrival of the famous giant seed orauge from California this season seems to bave created an extraordinary sensation in fruit trade circles, not only on account of their malformaiion, but because of their mammoth proportions, luscious flesh - uisiie favor. According 10 (he Fruit Grower the giant seedless orange has come to stay. In fact, it is believed that it will head the list by or English Odd Fellow, reporis more | | | | the Mexicans, a great lead, and rank in the wholesale fruit markets of Britain as the finest orange in tho trade. On the orange ranches of Dusrte in Southern Calitornia the fruits are worth ls. 64. 10 2s. 6d. per dozen, and in thls country they are now on show in the windows oi the retail fruiterer, who s selling them at the rate oi 8s, 10 4s. per dozen. 1RAINED BY N‘XIMILIAN Frederick M. Temple of Fort Worth, Tex., i respousible for the following story of Alexan- der W. Terrell, Minister to Turkey, which he t0ld 10 a St. Louis Republican man: «ie was trained in diplomacy by Maximfl ian, the ill-fated Emperor of Mexico. This ex- perience of Mr. Terrell’s is an unwritten pago in his history, which, I suppose, he wiil insist on his biographers leaving blank. There is nothing to e ashamel of in his connection with Maximilian, and yet Terrell never afs- cusses it, even with his most intimate friends “He was colcnel in the Confederate army Quring our late unpleasantness, and when the star ol the Confederacy 16 went over to Mexico and proffered his services to Maximi:- ian, who was then making & desperate strug- gie to maintain himself at the head of the monarchy he had foo.ishly tried to fasten on Maximilian was favorably im- pressed with Terrell from the first, and in his own hand filled out a commission for the Texan and attached him to bis personsl staff. He staved by the Emperor's side constantly until a few weeks betore the Mexicans cap- tured the despoiler of their liberties. At the t aximillan’s arrest Terrell was at Washington with plenary powers from the Emperor to arrange for the recognition of nis Government by the United States. “0f course, | would have proved futile tions had noi been so suddenly terminated by the exccut on of Maximilian. Had he been with the Emperor at that !ime he, 100, would have been shot. For obvious reasons, Terreil did not return to Mexico from Washington, and Idon’t think he has visited that country since he left it cn a foolish diplomatic mission for Emperor Maximitian. But for this exper: ence Mr. Terreil would have gone to the Senaie from ‘Texas years ago, but his enemies used it against him with good effect. I was afraid they were going 1o spring it on him when Cleveland nominated him for Minisier to Turkey. Had this been done President Diaz undoubtedly wouid have instructed his repre- sentative at Washingion to join in the cry against Terrell, and the effort wouid have de- ieatea his confirmation.” rreil’s mission to this country even if the negotis- HIT MADE bY A MISSING COMMA, Clevelind Plain Dealer. At the wedding of Lars Anderson, late secre- tary of legation at Rome, ana Miss Isabel Per- kins, Boston's greatest heiress, we have the word of an_exchange that the ceremon 1 proceed with “Charles Francis Adams second best man.”” This doesn’t sound at ali compli- mentary to Mr. Adams, but he throws the whole blame on & missing comma. The para- gruph quoted should bave read: “Charies Franeis Adams second, best man.' Butitis an awkwerd way. >hrase an ANSWERS 10 CORRESFONDENTS THE INDIGENT DEAD—E. C., Oakland, Cal. If & person dies and the deceased left no mesans with which to pay for the burial ex- penses or the relatives are 100 POOr to pay for & burial, the body is taken in charge by the authorities, who place it under ground in what is called potler's field. Information in regard to this matter may be obtained at the Healih Office, As to the cost of single graves in the several cemeteries of the State this department is un- able to state. This information may be ob- tained by letter or on personal application to the superintendent of each cemetery. HUMAN HAIR—E. M. L., City. In connection with each human hair there is a remarkable contrivance, by means of which it is kept smooth, glossy and pliant. It is fuinished with two or more oil glands which secrete a greasy fluid. Each of these glands consists of 8 littis saculated pouch which opens into the heir fellicle near its orlfice by a short duct or channel of exit. The ofly matter which is formed in the gland is discharged into the bair follicle and thus upon the surface of the hair. If one person’s hair is oily and that of another {s not it is because in the one there is a full supply of the oily matter described and in the other there is little or none, and is probably the result of some disease of the hair which should be trested by a spectalist. HaTs 1N THEATERS—H. J. M., City. The law regulating hats in licensed theaters is very plain, as you will see by reading the following section from the ordinance: Section 1. No person sball wear any hat or bon- net or other head covering within any llcensed thearer ln this City and County during the rendi- tion of any programme 0 the stage or platform of swia theater, bu: every such hat, bounet OF other head covering shall be removed from the head by the person wearing the same during the time of perfo mance in sald theater, or durlog the rendi- tlou of the programme on the stage or platform of said theater; provided, however, that the above on shall not be bald to include skulleaps, verings or other small or clos-ly fitting headdress or covering which does not interfers with or obstrucs the view of the stage or platform of such theater Of persons in the rear of such wear- ers while iu such theater. The second section of the ordinance provides that the persons having control of theaters shall -see that the provisions of the section quoted are eniorced, and the third section pro- vides for the punishment of offenders under the ordinance. 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