The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1897, Page 22

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EASTERN OFFICE: THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTTS. Areyou going to the country ona vacation® It ¥0.1t 18 1o trouble for u: ward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will miss Orders given 1o the carrier or lefc at Busivess Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per mouth for summer months. June showers are the latest novelties, Even the Weather Bureau has started a new era. It mav turn out to be an abdication jubilee for the Queen. The mugwumps are beginning to call it 8 jingo administration. All reports from Washington confirm the belief that we are going to have free Cuba in short order. The last free-trader in the Senate is Vest, and his party colleagues are pulling bim down every day. People who are looking for another festi- valas gay as that at Lakeport will soon be shouting “Eureka!” People continue to talk of the coming of prosperity, but to many industries prosperity is already here. Senator Tillman has such a perverse in- tellect that whenever he has the right thing to say he says it wrong. Every citizen is expected to bs a Chris- tian Endeavorer so far as helving to en- tertain tuhe convention is concerned. Since the Democratic party is clearly bankrap would make just as good a receiver as anvoody. Another tornado has swept the East from Kansas to Illinois, and another warning has been even to the people over there to come West and get out of the draught. The last regu’ar meeting of the San Jose Board of Trade was held not in the city, butat Alum Rock Park, under the im- pression probably that taking trade to a healith resort would relieve the tired feel- ing and give it a picnic buoyancy. Theories of nervous prostration are com- mon enough in these days, but now comes a Philadelphia doctor and says that many Americans suffer from nervous prosperity. As a change for the summer the new nervousness is worth acquiring by those who have been afilicted by the other thing. There is a little ripple of movement in Rhode Island to unite Providence, Paw- tucket, Johnston and Central Falls, which are contiguous 10 one another at the head of Narragansett Bay, into one municipal- ity, making a city of about 200000 inhab- itants and giving the Rhode Islander an excuse for putting on metropolitan airs | when he goes to the State capital. There will be many good sppches on the coming Four.h of July, but that which the people will enjoy most will be the oracular utterance with which Tom ‘Watson will read Bryan and Butler out of the Populist party at the Nashville convention, and consign them to a bplace 80 low they will have to climb up to get into bades. The dismissal of the cases against Sbriver and Edwards, charged with con- tempt for refusing to answer questions Put to them during the investigation by the Senate of the sugar deal scandal virtu- ally closes the case. It is net, however, 8o much & victory for the defendants as for the Senators, inasmuch as Senatoriel | deals hereafter will be guaranteed all the secrecy and security of proceedings in ex- ecutive session. That was very good advice which Dr. Dille gave to voung men ia his recent ad- dress: *Don’t marry a woman for physi- cal beauty any more than you wouid buy A farm ior the hollyhocks in the door yard.” When the young man comes to see the pnysical beauty, however, he will believe the whole farm is fuil of holly- hocks and will grab at it under the im. pression he is going 1o get & flower garden bonanza. in an elaborate eulogium of the weather 1n that section of the country, the Boston Journal says: “We admit that theclimate is full of surprises. But the largest ele- ment of wit is surprise, and Herbert Mayo once defined wit as telicity of expression, Therefore, the New England climate is the felicitous expression of nature.” The logic of the argument is unanswerable, but iv is worth noting that wha: is re- rded as nature’s felicity of expression in ew Encland would be regarded accord- ing to Western ideas of culture as ex- tremely raw. Here is a Kansas story that is as good as & romance in a violet bina- ing. A man applied to a court 10 have his 18-year-old danghter adjudgea insane and sent to an asylum. On examination the girl stated that she was in love with a nice young man, and her father’s object in getting her sent to an asylum was to prevent her marriage. The Judee sent for the young man aad, atter investization, decided the lovers were not lunatics. He thereupon married them in court straightway and sent them home, assessing all costs on the astounded father, would seem that Mr. Bryan | “PULPIT ECONOMICS." | The widespread circulation given by {the press to the recent statements of Bishop Potter on the effect of machinery upon the condilion of workingmen and | the degree of public interes: displayed in the subject bave led a writer in the current number of Gunton’s Magazine to review the theories of the Bishop, and under tue | title of *Pulpit Economics” point out some of the well-known facts of life which disprove his conclusions. The Bishop asseried that the use of ma- chines has had a bad effect upon the minds of those employed in operating them. | “Their tendencies,” he said, ‘s to crush j outindividnal independence and to hinder or prevent the free use of human faculties and the fu acter.” Machinery, he went on to say, | reduces the workingman *to the ievel of & | mere appurtenance to a great machine, | with little free will, with no duty but passive obedience, and with little hope or opportunity of rising in the scale of helpful and responsible citizenship." To iilustrate his argument the Bishop told of a visit he had made to a iarge fac- tory and said: *Isaw ayoung man sit- ting before some sort of u large hammer. He sat with his legs crossed and all his work consisted in shoving into an opening of the machinery a small piece of iron. He would turn the metal two or three times, throw it into a larze box and take another piece. That was this man’s work day after day, week after week. No won- der thatat nighttime he drank, gambled and fought. He had to, otherwise he { would go mad.” This is t..e view taken of machinery by what the writer in Gunton’'s Magazine called *Pulpit Economics.” is a denial that machine labor has any | such effects on the brain and the character | of the man who engages in it, and an | appeal 1o the general experience of the | worid to prove that the machinist as a rule does not drink, gambie and fight, | nor yet go mad. | The man whom Bishop Potter saw put | machine was not being wearied and ex- | hausted by hard physical toil. His ener- gies were not wholly absorbed and taxed to their full capacity by the work he had todo. At the close of the day he was not worn out s0 that some stimulant was needed to revive him for any kind of effort. When his day's task was done, he was fresh and bright enough to read, to de- bate, to attend clubs or mass-meetings, to take an interest in the news of the day, and in fact to lead some sort of evening workingmen to whom machinery was un- | known and whose labor left them at the | close of every duy tired, listless, fagged | out, and fit only 0 sleep or to get drunk. | says: “It is in shortening the length and | reducing the tension of the working day | that lies the only hope of the personal | and social improvement of the lab.rer. Everything which makes production au- tomatic and relieves the laborer from phy- sical drudgery and nervous strain tends to increase the possibility of social con- sumption and personal expansion.” All the facts of modern development at- test the truth of these words. The condi- tion of the workingman has steadily im- proved of recent years, and while machin- ery has not been the sole cause of that improvement, it has certainly materially aided it, and by allowing the worker more | time to profit by the schoo's, the books and other helpiul influences of the ace has augmented their beneficial effects, | and indirectly added to their usefulness in developing the high order of working- men which is the boast of America to- day. [ THE OPIUM EVIL. The report of a commitiee of the Grand Jury in the matter of opium dens in San Francisco directs attention to facts upon | which the proper authorities should act without delay. It was apparent to the | committee that while the police had { closed most of the dens to the general public, a large number of places yet exist | where the use of the drug in ali its forms | may be indulged in. These places are | conducted in a secret manner so as to | evade the law, but they are a most serious | menace to the moral and physical health | of the community. These private dens are easily accessiole to the initiated and their friends, and | young men and girls, it is shown, find | means to visit them and become victims to the terrible drug. Thus youth is de- | bauched, and the opium den furnishes the | greater portion of the criminal element of { this City and State. This latter state. ment is confirmed by the prison authori- ties. It is a horrible thing to contemplate | this fact that white girls as well as white boys are enticed into the opium dens of Chinatown and become regular habitues. | These sinkholes of perdition should be cleaned out. The police should spare no | effort to ria the City of these plague-spots, 20 far as they are discoverable, and the majority of them can easily be found. | There is alaw to meet the case, and public j decency demands that the evi! be checked. | A MOHAMMEDAN REVIVAL, While popular interest in the affairs of | the Levant has largely diminished since the cessation of hostilities between Greece and Turkey there is, nevertheless, enough in the situation to justify continued at- | tention. The diplomatists by no means consider the problem settled, nor do they hope to accomplish anything at present which will do more than to posi- { pone the inevitable settlement to some future day. The most serious phase of the existing | condition of affairs is dueto the excite- ment caused among the Turks by their easy victory over the Greeks. There is nothing so intoxicating as success. The Turks are flushed with pride and are | persuaded that they are invincible. The spirit of war animates them. They are is questionable whether they can be in- | duced to listen to reason even when that reason comes from the great powers. According 10 all reports there has been a remarkable revival of the fiercest spirit of Islamism throughout the Turkish em- pire as a result of the war. The zeal and fanaticism whick, down to the seyen- teenth century, made the Turks the most furious fightersin the worid and a con- stant menace to Europe seems now to an- imate once more all the wariike trives of the Ottoman empire. The priests of Js- lam are as fierce as the warriors and re- | ligious fervor adds its force 1o the desire for battle and blood. The Turkish Government would have great difficulty in restraining the passions of the people inflamed at once by success n war and by the revived spirit of re. ligious intolerance even if it ardently de- sired 10 do so, There is reason, bowever, !0 believe that it does not desire peace. The Sultan and hisadvise; Ppparently determined to involve all Europe in war A rather than retirg from Thessaly, which The answer | ting pieces of iron into an opening in a | ready and eager- for more fighting and it | 1 | they re ard as the rightful spoils of the war with Groece. Thus the war party in tbe Government and that among the peo- ple mutually inflame one another and confirm their resolve not to yield a single foot of the conquered territory, It is the reappearance of the fanatic spurit of Islam among the Mohammedans that makes the diplomatic problem of re- storing peace withoutsurrendering Greece to the spoliation of Turkey so difficult. The Suitan continues to increase his armies and has shown no willingness to vield his claim on Thessaly. Europe hesi- tates to resort to force where such a resort might lead to a general war, and as a re- sult the Turkish occupation of Greece re- mains as it was when the armistice was | declared. Every step to be tzken in set- development of human char- | tling the issue is full of danger, and it is not yet certain that the armistice m not be terminated by a renewal of hosti i. ties instead of the establishment of peace. ENGLAND'S ' MODEL QUEEN. Report hath it that at the close of her diamond jubilee Queen Victoria, on ac- count of mataGy which is slowly taking away her sense of vision, will abdicate in favor of her son Albert, Prince of Wales. Nevertheless, she will have completed the most glorious reign in all the history of England. The sixty years of her benign sway heve witnessed marvelous progress in that empire upon whose territory the sun never sets, and the roll of whose morning drum never ceases while the orb of day continues on his journey round the eartn. During these three score years over 1,500, 000 square miles have been added to the alrezdy vast British empire. One million square miles of this has been acquired in Africa alone. The annual exports and ports of England are to-day five times as great as they were in 1 The income tax penny, which, when it was first lev- ied, only drew £700,000, now yields £: 000. Probate was peid in England on £50.000,00 in 1838; it bad mounted up to £164,000,0€0 in 1894. No one will deny the statement of W. T. Stead, ia tbe Review of Reviews, that “England has become the creditor of the world.”’ She is mis- tress of the Seven Seas, and the forges of ber shipbuilders never grow cold. Steam and eectricity have wrought wonders since the Queen ascended the throne. Then the United States was reached from England ina month; now the distance is covered in five days, Then forty days were required to reach India where now it takes but fourteen, while Australia is only six weeks distant where it wes s1x months in 18 The cables | lifs which furnished him with opportun:- | 5ow transmit thought to the furthest cor- ties for mental development far greater | ner of the earth in the twinkling of an than those enjoved by the generations of | eye. On jubilee day London will be ablaze with electric light, which was undreamed of sixiy years ago. What is more, the wages of the British workingman ars to-day fully aouble The writer of the ieview very jusily | what they were at the beginning of the Victorian era. Then he had no vote; now he votes for everything. Then he bad to pay a shilling for what a penny will pur- chase to-day. Since 1837 Canada’s popu- ation has increased from 1,000,000 to 6,000,000; Australia from 175,000 to 4,000,- 000. Education in England was for the classes exceptionally in 1%37; the masses have free schools and free libraries to-day, along with free parks, free museums and free batbs. The :ubdjects of Queen Vicio- ria to-dey number 300,000,000. If it were not for the one exception of the Iri<h peo- ple it might be said that Victoria’s reign has been fraught with blessings for every portion of the British empire, Her eyes may not behoid the mighty pageant of the jubiles, but she will feel all the joy in' her heart as she listens to the | cheers of the millions rising amid the sa- lutes of many guns on sea and land and hears bet'mes the voice of her people in chorus sublime, “‘Hail, Victoria.” A CONGRESS OF MINLS Treliminary arrangements have been made for the biggest voting contest in the world’s historr. It takes in people of all nations and all languages on all the con- tinents and all the important islands of the globe. Its object is the seliction of an international language. A few years ago the Volapuk language was hailed by some as the practical realization of the dream of a common medium of international communication. But the Volapuk furor died away, and then came L. Samenkof of Grodno, Russta, with his Esperanto language, which many assert 1o be an improvement on Volapuk. Comparatively few people know anything about either of these artificial langnages, {and as an agreement among peoples of different tongues isnecessary in the matter of selecting a language for universal use, Mr. SBamenhof has set on fout the scueme | of a “written congress for the discussion and decision of the demand for an inter- national language.”’ Circular letters have been sent to the principal journals of all countries, out- lining the plan of the contest, in wh ch everybody who bas an opinion on the above-mentioned subject is at liberty to take part. Such a language, of course, would in no way aim at superseding the existing national tongues. Iis object wouid be simply te avoid the enormous expenditure oi valuable time in the learn- ing of many foreign languages, which, when learned, only enable us to com- municate with a few nations and to be- come sacquainted with a very small por- tion of the world’s literature. For this unsatisfactory state of affairs the founder of Esperanto thinks thers shouid ‘be sub- stituted the infinitely more economicat task of learning *'a single foreign lan- guage, which should enable us to com- municate with all nations and to draw at pleasure from the well-spring of contem. porary literature.” Despite the fact that for about two hun- dred years the problem of a universal lan- guage has had time and thonghtexpended ou it no great progress has been made. Millions favor the idea, but the question as to which particular language shouid be learned is the stumbling-block. One says Volapuk; another, Esperanto; a third, one of the exisiing national languages; a jourth, one of the dead languages, and a fifth wants an altogether new language tobe created. Itis desired that all the iriends of the idea uniie, and having by common counsel and consent chosen some one language, labor unanimousiy for the diffusion of that particular tongue. To accomplish all this Mr. Samenhof pro- poses a congress of intellects. Eversbody who participates in the written conven- tion will have a right to vote on the ques- tion of selection. To those who are eager for literary fume, who have perfect confidence in their merits and yet bave suffered through the marble-bearted inappreciation of the publishing cralt, this appears to be a golden opportunity. Any one desiring to express his ideas on, or motives for, the adoption of this or that language is re- quested to send to Mr. Samenhof an essay on the subject. The essay may be written in any language. “All papers so received,’” says this good man of Grodno, “in whatever spirit con- ceived, or in the interests of whatever party writtea, will be printed in book | form, impartially and verbatim, with no | when the comments whatever, and this book will be sent to all those taking part in this congress of minds.” The ambitious young writer who has +uffered the mental aches and pains which result from editorial blue pencils or stony stares may here roar as high as be likes, 50 long as he keeps the international lan- guage in view, and he is assured that every word of his manuseript will be printed—not in a newspaper either, but in book form. Surely there is balm in Gilead! When the contents of all the books of the discussion have been digested by all the participants in the contest everybody in the intellectnal convention will send his vote to Grodno, and the language re- ceiving the largest number of votes will be proclaimed as “international.” THE COMING INVASION. The Christian Eudeavorers of this Cil_y ng gratifying progress in their preparations for the monsier convention now only filteen dbys away. The tinances are reporied to be in a most encouraging condition and the subscription list rapidly growing. [tcould not well be otherwise in a country where the people are natur- ally liberal, and especiailly when the benefits to be derived from the welcome invasicn of the thousands of intelligent, energetic, up-to-date young people are considered. The hospitality of California is pro- verbial and the Endeavorers will not be disappointed in their best anticipations, we venture to say. It will never be saxd that any big city of the East gave warmer greeting to the hosts of this great society than San Francisco accordad them. They will be so well treated and they will be so delighted with our land of sun- ine, truits, flowers, goid, big trees, en- trancing scenery and wonders without number that they will be eager to come back to us after their return home and international convention of 1897 bas become a happy memory. PRESENT VALUE OF GIBRALTAR. After a British occupancy of nearly two centaries; the “Rock,"” es it is called, has come to be considered as much a part of the em- pire as London itself. The average Briton, o, doubt, thinks that the holdiug of Gibraltar is an essential clement of the control of the Mediterranean and that its loss would be a severe blow to Britisn prestige. A place sc- quired and held so long by the valor of British trops would certainly not be given up without a struggle, and if the question of 115 retrocession to Spain should be serfously propesed, an overwhelming public opinion | would ve mroused which would prevent its execution. Seutiment in this, as in many yublic ques- tions, has a prepondera ting influence, ana vet, calmly considerea in the light ot facts, it is reasonably certain that if Gibraltar were re- stored to Spain, & country to which it bslongs naturally and geographicalls, not only would England be as strong in every way as now, but in many rcspects her warlike eficiency would be increased, as in case of wer she would be relieved of the task of defending & useless possession. The Mediterrancan hes been not inaptly termed an Eoglish lake. By the acquisition of Gibraitar, the seizing of Malta and Cyprus and the continued occupation of Egypt Eng- land effectually controis the route to Indis. Aslong as this is the case her Eastern posses- sions are in comparatively little danger. As the guns of Gibraltar do not command the en- trance to the Mediterranean its only value would be a5 & naval base, and for this purpose it is lacking in some of the most essential modern requirements. A good navai base of the present day should have ample and safe facilities for the docking, coaling and supplying of warships. Once in port, and especially in dock, the ship is prac- tically defenseless, and should theretore be fully protected by the guns of the fort from at- tack either by land or sea. Of these essential requirements Gibraltar possesses but one—im- pregnability. There are no docking facilities #nd no place where a ship could be docked or coaled without being subject toa concen rated fire from Spanish guus on the mainland, just across the bay of Algeciras, and within easy canuon range. In case of war or misunderstanding with Epain Gibraltar would thus be practically worthless. With the short-range caunon of former days such was not the case, butthe | improvement in guns hus entirely altered the aspect of the case. Probably Gibraltar isas impregnable as ever, but no power can afford to be thus dependent on the good-wili of anotner {n case of war. Owing to the well- known desire of Spain to regain possession o Gibraliar she could scarcely be expected to re- main neuiral under all circumstances. In the hands of Spain Gibraltar coula easily bs made 8 strong naval base, as she would slso control the mainland. 1f the Languedoc canal in France. connect- ing the Buy of Biscay with the Mediterranean, is ever enlargea as proposed, s0 s 10 pass w ships, the sirategic value of Gibraitar would be still further reduced. By this canal of 143 miles the 2000 miles around Gibraliar are saved, and the positiou would be turned and Gibraltar could be left out of accouut as far as France was coucernea. Tnc French have ready established & powerful naval base at Biserta in Tunis, and with the cansl once completed they would have a poweriul position iz the Mediterranean and might even dispuie the control of that sea with England. The holding of Gibreltar has become an ac- cepted English poticy, and as 1is revenues are sbout equal to the expenses, it will doubtless continue to fly the British flag indefinitely. However, the move of France will probab.y determine England to acquire some such posi- tlon on the African coast. For this purpos: Ceuts on the Morocco coast has been proposed. It 1s only fourteen miles from Gibraitar, pos sesses none of the def-cts of the latter station and could easily be made a poweriul naval bese and would prove an effeciusl offset to Biserta. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “You don’t go in much for athletics?” o. “Ever teke lessons in ground snd lofty tumbling?” “Oh, yes. But they didn’t call it that.” ‘What aid they call 112" “Learning to ride the bicycle.”’—Chicago Post. She was standing aione on the beach, gazing vensively on the ocean. A youth approached—then paused. “No,” he murmured, “I will not disturb the current of her thoughts. She is communing with the gods!" Then she saw him, and turning toward him, ia: say, mister! How fur does this here mill- pond go, an’ whar *bouts does it stop a1?"—At. lanta Constitution. Parker—What! That your mothert Why, she doesn’t 100k 0ld enough to have a daugh- ter as—a—aliem—as—er—as young 8s you.— Harlem Life. “Trouble,” repeated the hostess in speaking of ftafterward, “you don’t know what trouble is until you tryto give some function. You lie awake nights to make up the list of those whom you won’t invite, and even then there will be painiul omissions. It 1880 provoking to please somebody you resily wanted 1o hurt.”—Detroit Journal. Violet—How d1d Mr. Bighed come to accept the dectrine of reincarnatio; Rose—Well, you know he always had an im- pression that the world couldn’t get aiong wishout bim, and if ‘that is so, 1tstands to res. son that he will have to come back.—New York Truth, Mr. Watts—I don’t see why weather was in- vented, anywsy. Mrs. Watts—If it were not for the weather there are a good many men who would never turn their eves heavenward at all.—Inalan. apolis Journal, Mudge—I have never had any chance in this world, bat 1 have remained honest. Wickwire—You mean you have never hada chanee, and you have hence remained hon- est.—Whashington Star. A WHEEL FOR MILITARY USE The military bicycle hes come in for a great denl of attention all over Europe, and more or less every continental army has for some time been experi menting with one make or another of military bicycles specially designed for that purpose. Several types have been described, but the oddest is doubtlessly the one now adopted by the Itallan army, that invented by Lieutenant Boselit. It is the ideal of & porta- ble and folding bicycle. The inventor's prin- cipal object was not to construct & wheel that could be folded and taken apart easily, but one which would be essy to carry upon the shoulders or 1n the hand, like a valise, without The New Army Bicyele in Use. in the least interfering with the movements of the soldiers. This object the inventor has cer- tainly atiained, as the Boselli wheel can be putup in a package not exceeding eighteen iuches in length and width. 1t does not 16id, but rather breaks into two parts for packing. The wheels are very much smaller than those ordinarily seen, being only The Bike in Battle. fifteen and one-half inches in diameter. The wheel is very strongly built, the tubing being of the same gauge ihr oughout, which 1s 80 much stronger than that of otuer wheels, on account of the shortness of the several paris. The new machine nas been thoroughly tested betore being acc-pted by tho Italian Government, and wes giving a good comipara- tive trial with a French bicycle by Gerard and an Anstrian Czeipek military wheel, but was iound to surpass ail others in sirength, elus- ticity and lasting qualities. A soldier mounted on one of these wheels looks almost ridiculous, for Le seems to be sitting on 8 toy wheel. Nevertheless, it is an effective carrier end willstand as much if nol more service than the larger and heavier wheels. Toe whole wheel only weighs thirteea and one- balf pounds. MEN Hayre has sent & bro. welighing a ton, 10 S from the town to the C: Emile Zola intends to make a visit to St. Petersburg in order to deliver there three lec- tures on tke more recent tendencies in life and literature. + N WOMEN, statue of Francis], burg asa present London’s Lord Mayor is entitled to wear an Earl's robe whenever a crowned head visits the city. The gown for the Queen’s jubilee cost $500. The Duchess ot Teck spends over 5000 a year in religious and philanthropic works. This sum is just one-fifth the annual amount granted her by Pariiament. Rev. F. W. Farrar, Dean of Canterbury, re- cently sald that there were two Americans whom he should have liked to know, but who wera dead before his visit 1o America. These two were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sir George Gray, the Australian explorer and administrator, recently celebrated his eighty- elghth anniversary of his birth. Fifty-eight years ago he was given up for dead while ex. ploring the west coast of Australia. He lived to be Governor of South Australla, of Cape Colony and of New Zealand, v:hich he admin- istered durlng the Maori rebellion, In a recent interview Prince Bismarck laughed abous the sentimental reports of his loss of interestin life. *‘My depression,” he said, “assole y my great age. Walt till you are 82 and see how you feel, especially if you have spent nearly half a century in struggles and anxiety. My whole has been spent in playing high with other people's money. I could sail my ship on the stream of events, but not steer it." TEE POPE ON BOILED EGGS. New York World. 1 am surprised to see & question raised as to whether the Pope meent hara-boiled or soft- boiled eggs. What he said was that your eggs should be “hard-boiled or nearly raw.” Insaying this he was exactly in line with the teaching of Brillat-Saverin and all the great cooks that eggs should be boiled either not more than two minutes or not less than twenty. It is & fact known to every expert in the chemistry of cookery that anezg boiled two minutes s digestibte, and so is an egg boiled twenty minutes, but that one boiled five or ten minutes is as leather to the digestive or- gan . All those superb dishes which the French make out of hard-boiled eggs are not only p atable but digestible, ana they are 8o because the eggs are botled for twenty minutes. The Pope was not speaking ex-cathedra, but he was infallibly right when he enjoined ts to have our eggs “*hard-boiled or neariy raw.” A NEW HORACE. Boston Post. The poem which Pope Leo XTI has given to the world will have a wider reading than his wisest encyelical; ana this mot altogether through curiosity as to the metrical utter- ances of the head of the Catholic chutch, but by reason of the captivating seuse of the verses themselves. Indeed, it may be said atained in these lines is as great as that of many formal eccle- siastical documents. The preseut Pope has before this shown himself in close touch with modern thought and progress on educetional, social and ma- teriai lines, and now he demonstrates his clear comprehension ot an important point of mo- rality as concerred with individual conduct. His ode in praise of frugaiity has, moreover, literary merit which places it alongside of the clagsics. It has the simplicity of art which distinguishes Horace and « piain directness of expression which gives his verses a pertinent charm. AM ENIERPRIFING CITY. Kansas City Star. The progress of the Trans-Mississippi Ex- position 10 be held in Omaba next yearis the Tesult of pluck and enterprise systematically apolied. More than $300,000 has been con- tributed by the people of & city of less than 150,000 population, and during # pericd of unpreceaented industrin' and commercial Daraiysis, and for what? Inorder toenjoy the Leneiits that will flow from an enterprise that will bring to the city n.vast number of visitors for brief periods, exhibit to the world 1vs | known before for years. the resources of the community and the capa- bilities of the people and reveal the moral and material progress of ambitious Western ] — CUs MUN-SENSE. e of heaven Of 'l the gifts thi ortals given, ‘I ha' ever were to The best to have, the Worst to miss, The truest, sweeiest source of bilss, The one ral. leit of Kdew’s fence, Stands the pure charm of common-sense. To earn our right to “daily bread,” To not regret when time is fied, To w.sely speak aod act and think, To keep lise’s bont irom ruin's brink, To balance every hour's expense, We need the aid of common-sense. Sometimies, no doubt, we need to View The lightning boits some gentus threw! But now we need, well mixed ana stirred, With silent thought or spoken word, A sort of hu 00l's defense— The wholesome aid of common-sense. Some things. perhaps, must still be tanght, W here miguty mivdstheir power inwrought; But how.t0 guard the priceless wealth 0f peace and love, of youthful health, And bow to Keep our own few peace, 1s taught slone by common-sense. We pray for falth, and light, and peace, For sii’s 1emove aud love’s lncreuse, For strength to meet the iempter's POWeE, ¥or dy g race, for dying hour. But uow, Fght In the presen: te; Give us, 0 Lord! goed common-sense. To keep from useless jar and sirife, And bless the chaoging path of lite, To make each fountain purer still, To taxe trum loss its ratal oulil, And bring thy own sweet recompense, We bow 10 thiee, blest common-sense. —Boston Transeript. PERSONAL. | Dr. Osborne of St. Helena is a visitor here. John T. Gaftey of Los Angeles is in town. Thomas B. Hutchins of Marysvilie is here. Dr. R. W. Musgrave of Hautordis in the City, M. J. Fox of Portland is at the Cosmopolitan | Hotel. { Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville is at the Lick House. Max Engel of New York is registered at the Palace. H. H. Krack of Fresno is at the Cosmo- | politan. C. A. Coffman, & business mau of Rivera, is in the City. A. M. Miller of Knoxville, Cal, is registered at the Lick. Tobies Mascovich of Sebastopol is & recent arrival bere. Fred Cox, banker, of Sacramento, is & guest at the Grand. G. W. Harney, fruitman of Marysville, is the Grand Hotel. J. F. Lindsey of Visalia is in the City. He arrivea yesterday. Professor P. H. Schwarzkoff of Stanford Uni- versity is in town. | Willlam H. Kineler of Gold Hill, Nev., registered at the Russ. Daniel E. Hayes of Folsom registered at the Occidental last evening. Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is among | the arrivals at the Grand. J.Jerome Smith of Stockton arrived here | yesterday, and isat the Lick. J. Jerome Smith, a mining men of Stockton, | registered at the Lick last evening. 0. F. Johnson, proprietor of the Hollenbeck Hotel at Los Angeles, is in the City. F. M. Jennings, a Deputy Sheriff of San Diezo, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. C. Baker, & micing man of Batte, Mont., arrived here yesierday, and is at the Russ. A. E. Chaffey, a business man of Jackson, Amador County, is in the City, accompanted by his wife. Jonn A. Anderson and Charles Brearty of | Point Reyes station are at the Lick. ‘They are down for a few days’ stay. Among the arrivals at the Occldental yester- | day was Hamlet L Philpot of Riverside, who | is accompanied by his son. J. W. McClymonds of Sacramento arrived here yesterday. He is connected with the Union Pacific freight department. i Clarence A. Granger, supsrintendent of the | beet-sugar factory at Leui, Utah, is spending the summer, with his family, in San Frencisco and vicinity. | son’s Eye Water. H. BLACK, painter, 120 EAdy straay, o CALIFORNIA Glace Fruits; 50c Ib, fire etched boxes. : ., 10 elega, Townsend's, Palace Ho bl il FPECTAL Information daily (o manufactue Business nouses and publicmen by tha ke Cupping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Montgomsy S e A lotter nddressed by a Bostontan i Beatrice Harraden,at Bournemoutn, g Wog, where she has been staying since last Vi was returned by the English postoffice pe marked “Insuficiently addressed 825 Rate to Chicago via the Gres Santa Fe Eoute, The low rates made for Christian Endeas will be open to the public as well. nity (o visit the East never before fiornians. Pullman Palace Drawing. ing-cars of the latest pattern tourist sleeping-cars run dai 1and pier to Chicago. A street, Chronlcle bul d Vakland, 1118 Eroad S C— Paul, Minneapolls Chicag, Tickets il be on sale July 12 to the 17:n, ( final limit, August 15; stopover allowed. splendid opportunity 10 take a trip to Chicag stop off at the famous Yellowstone Park 6 cents In stamps for illustrated book, W 1and,” 1o T. K. Stateler, general agent Nor Pacific Rallway, 638 Market street, San —_———— WHEN you feel *as cross as a ca: Ayer's Pills wiil make you as good-natu Kitten. Try them for billousness ———— Ir afflicted with sore eyes use D Druggiss seil it Semblacay, Bishop of Bourges, f years ate six meals a day and attriby talentin this i 10 the fact ths grace, not on and after each but at each removal of a servie Telephoue 1. 832 50 to i -t 2 Isaac T 7 C “PROCRASTINATION IS THE THIEF OF TIME; YEAR AFTER YEAR IT STEALS, TILL ALL ARE FLED,” Nogodon: 7S DECAY OF THE TEETH and prevents their l0ss. It also cleans them without injury, strengthens the gums, perfumes the breath and imparts @ most refreshing sensation. HALL & RUCKEL NEW YORK Pro A sample of Sozodont and Sozod for the postage, three ¢ Lstate of Alex. Mackay. The sale inaugurated to ¢ Jairs will continue only a few It will pay you to tak: of the lou stock of 17e prices placed on our entire 'Furniture, Carpets, Lieutenant G. L. Graham (retired), who was | in the catastrorhe in the harbor at Apia, dur- | ing the Samoan war, arrived here yesterday, | and is at the Occidental. i General Passenger Ageat Goodman of the | Southern Pacific has recovered sufficiently | from his indisposition to be once more at his | post. He is careful of himself, bowever, and | docs not remain but a brief timé on duty. He | will probably be as weil as usual in a few days | at most. William Meredith, a ploneer of the Bitter Root Mountains, near Bonuers Ferry, Idaho, is in the City. He says that deer are unus ally thick in that part of the Bitter Roots this season, and that elk, mountain sheep and wild goats are more numerous then have been In the Cariboo Val- ley, a narrow vale between the Bitter Root range and the Rockies, there are grouse in abundance, prairie chickens and & few big- | horn sheep. | CALIFORN.ANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., June 19 S. H. Stearns; Imperial, A. H. Martin and W. | Berg; Manhattan, 8. Bum aud E. M Lynch; Mariborough, G.Schurmasser; Grand Union, | H. Waldeck; Holland, Me- Leod is here buying. Mrs. E. L Davis and Miss Frances Davis arrived onjthe Bremen At the Piaza, | | Antique Chamber Suits, 7 | ALEX. MACKAY & SON Ligoleums. $16 pieces.. Body Brussels Carpets, sewed and laid ! 85¢ Heavy Velvets, sewed T SR Linoleums. ...... ... Dining Tables, sion Prices are cut in every dep. from Bremen. TESLA ELEGxaPHY. Now that Tesla has discovered a means of using the earth for a telegraph wire I suppose some corporation will take immediate staps to | get possession of the earth in order to monop- olize the business.—Buffalo Express. Newspaper men have learned that when Mr. | Edison or Mr. Tesia begins to talk about the. | oryitisa good indication that their demon- | stration of it is about in working order.—New | York Sua. Nikola Tesla announces that he will be able | to telegraph without any connections save those which the earth itseli affords, If this rediction comes true the overhead wire prob. | lems will be greatly simplified.—Washington 'ost. 1 “Bury the wires in the ground!” has b the cry of the reformers for years. But Nibola Tesla ‘proposes to do better. He has a pian which woula dispense with the wires entirely | by using the ground itseif asa conductor. - Philadelphia Record. The possibility of such telegraphy ha demonstrated, but the question of cger eiin cr: mains an important tactor in the situation. There are many tnings which are possibié | which are not yet commerclally feasibic. 15 many respects’ the quesion of cost is the touchstone which determines the resl worth. ?‘[ every invention in this age.—Boston Adver- ser. "It might be possible,” Mr. Edison said, use of 5,000,000 or 6,000.000 horse-power—a | wave that wouid transmit a letter, and it | might be possible 10 transmit twenty waves or | avorda day. The power required would be | enormous. No. L gan see wotning in tho | scheme described in such & y: way."—Hartford Times. TS M — ————— REFLEC1IONS Or . BACHELOR New York Press. If Eve had ever tried to work on Adam there wouldn’ of an apple tree. !Tna maln reason why girls like 4o go to par- iies and dance with new y sutdy ench men’s method. Tt heihar ot tisn’t evers girl ihat is thoughtful enouch to hang up & whisk-broom out e the Plazza when she puis up the hammock. er & girl has once heara that Efi:-;‘mo‘eh" shedhld a pensive !xnt!:: ‘::: s goes around tryis B ¥ing 10 look sad and me men Are so suspicious that whe: :::l’r‘;}:ris are solicitons about thoit healh \k they are wondering wh become of then: and the chitdren, T "0 e ———— e ————— SU.ER UM:N. Pearson’s Weekly. “You think your son would make & satis- factory errand-boy, do you?” inquired the merchant. “‘Whatever he does, so-, he does very quick,” replied Mrs. Mo-iari'y. “James,” replied the merchant, turning to v, ““teke this n.te to the center at the footbr1l ground and be back in iweaty min- housecleaning t have been any need iver moind, Jimmy! Coom on home! GOt & bye they're wanting; 1v's an ange! 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