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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 21 1897 MONDAY.. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUEL, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: unday CaLL, 0ne week, by carrier..§0.15 6.00 Daily ana end Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. nd Sunday CALL, six months, by mal * and Sunday CALi, three months by mail and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Eunday CaL, one year, by mail WKLY CaLy, one year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, Fan Francisco, Californta. Telephone..... e Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streer Telephone....... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clay; open untll 9:80 o'clock. 80 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenta snd Mission sireets, open ot § e'clock. 2518 Mission stree:, open untll § o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 8 o'clock. 1505 Poli sireet: open until 8:80 o’cloek. NW. corner Twe wireets; open illl 90 OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 81 and 52, 54 Park Ilow, New York CltFs DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. = THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL THE SUMMEK MONTHS. Areyou going 10 the country ona_vacation * #0,1t 18 1o trouble your sddress. Do not let it miss you for you will E Orders given to the carrier or left at ess Office will receive prompi itention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fif:y cenis per moaih for summer months. n or us 10 forward THE CALL to It has been predicted that the tariff de- bate will end this week, but there is no betting on it. The jubilee wave rolls round the world, end the Britisher is balf persuaded that he owns the earth. The country would be glsd to have Simpson, Lewis or some other crank try another turn with the Speaker, just to en- liven the House a little. Discussions of the relative merits of free trade and protection will be continea in this country hereafter to debating so- cieties or academic essays. Bat a short t me ago Senator Tillman was an honored guest at a free-trude ban- quet in Boston, end now the whole gang is denouncing bhim as a blatherskite. The Sultan’s srgument in favor of re- taining Thessaly asa spoil of war consists 01 400,000 men in t e field, and it will take something more than & concert harmony to beat that. The best thing the new South has pro- duced up to date is protection sentiment, and that sentiment will go far toward enabling the new Soush to procuce other good things, The report frem Chicago that the Pail- man Company has recsived orders for 000 coacues sbows that good times are comingand the people are going to do their traveling in palatial style. The only feature of Princeton life to which Cleveland pays much attention is said to be basebail, and perhaps the fat man might have been a diamond crank himself it official duties had not made Lim a tisherman. By way of encouraging home literatuare, as it were, Tex1s hereafter is to use in her public schools no books except those written by Texas authors, and the kind of culture she wi.l brinz forth is calculaied 10 make even a Kansan shudder. Iris time for the rural papers of Cali- fornia to be gettinz out their spring re- ports, for a story is coing the rounds in the East that in New Jersey there have been grown this seasoa some strawberries 80 large that a dozen of them fills a quart, If Bailey of Tex1s has not distinguished himse!f as leader of the opposition in the Heuse e has at any rate shown a fine dis- cretivn in leaving the fizht azainst the Speaker to Simpson and others and care- fully avoiding every temptation to monkey with the buzzsaw himself. A New York merchant on his recent re- turn from Europe told the customs offi- cers he had no dutiable goods in his pos- 8ession, but on searching nim they found 250 artificial eyes in his pockets. This is one case where a “bully boy with a glass eye” had mor: eyes upon him than he counted on. One of the novalties of the season is a movement started in Chicazo {0 ceclebrate the Fourth of July on what are called ““Christian citizenship lines” by subsii- tutine sermons for firecrackers, It 13 a novelty, moreover, of which we should make as much as possible this year, for it is not likely to stay with us long. If there be any truth in the report that the Emperors of Austria, Germany and Russia and the Kings of Italy, Norway and Roumania are all up, dressed and ready for work by 5 o’clock in the morn- ing we shall have neei of no further vroof that royaity is restless and doesn’t like to liein the bed it has made for itself. The project of the people of Livernool to erect a moaument to Mrs. Hemens seems like an atiempt to gain for tnat cicy something ot a literary reputation. The poems of Mrs. Hemens do not rank high in the records of luerature, but asshe Wrote better than any one else ever asso- ciated with that commercial metropolis the only way for the citizens to exalt themselves is to raise a memorial to her and raise it high. Governor Pingree of Michizan has re- cently expressed regret that over in Illi- nois *'notorious boodlers are taken into what is called the best society and are lionized by what is known as the re- spectable element.” It is now the turn of Governor Tanner to pass some remarks on the social culture and potato patches of Detroit, and then the equilibrium of the lake States will be restored and the atmosphere return to its normal summer warmth. The extent to which antagonism to ahen labor is carried in the Euast is illus- trated by the fact that the Pennsylvanis Legislature has passed a bul requiring all corporations to deduct from the wages of aliens in their employ a sum sufficient to Ppay the taxes assessed against them. A Dbiil has also been passed imposing a tax of 3 cents s day on each unnsturalized edult male, to be deducted from wages by their employers. The validity of these statutes will have to be decided by the courts, but there can be no gquesticn of their significance. LESSON OF THE EARTHQUAKE The slight vibration of the earth, which was not generally felt in this City vester- day, but which made itself known more generally in other parts of the State, proves that the lesson of what is known s the great earthquake of 1858 wus not leerned in vain. Before that sharp re- minder came Californians were in the habit of building their houses in the most flirusy way. Buildings of brick were erected solely with an eye to the saving of expense, because thers were no cyc'ones to be feared and the temblors which visited the State every few years were pot, and had not been from time im- memorial, severe enongh to call for mor than ordinary care in building. Califor- nia’s mild and equable climate was re- sponsible for ramshackle stractures that would not be to'erated in the land of the thunder-storm and the tornado. So when the great temblor of 1868 came along a few buildings on made ground with unanchored walls were cracked and thescare was so great that for a period of fifteen years the building of houses of brick was almost entirely suspended. Adter that period brick and stone came to be used again, and when it was seen that even on made ground reclaimed from the mud of the bay, buildings properly con- siructed were not even cracked as to the plaster on the walls, capitalists saw what the matter had been and in San Francisco was inaugurated an era of tall buildings. Since the Mills, the Crocker, the Chron- icle, the Hebart, the Parrott and other tall buildings, with steel frames, were erected, they have not been affected by any of the temblors which have visited this City. Tue Carr buid.ng, with its anfinished interior, and which towers the fourth highest business structure in the world, and which would stand as a good test as to whetler the modern sky-scraper could withstand the shiver of the earth- quake, was not in the least affected. Nor was there the slightest ible indication of the temblor on the made ground east of Montgomery street, even in cases where brick buildings were built on piles. The lesson of the past has been well heeded. There was no damage whatever in this City, while the damage in the country was due to slipshod and faulty methods of building. In the future the temblor, which has been mercifally given us 1n lien of the sunstroke, the thunder- bolt, the blizzard, the cyclone, which every year sweep vortions of the great East and West, will have no terrors for the man who desires to erect sky-scravers in S8an Francisco. This last shiver of terra firma will no doubt be appreciated by the interior and the coast jart of the State, and flimsy structures will be found unproetitable, as they have been long ago. WILL FAIL OF THEIR PURPOSE. The laws recently passed by the Legisla- tures of Iowa and lliinois, and having for their object the prevention of fusion, ap- pear to be of doubiful value. The Iowa measure provides that the name of no candidate shall be printed upon the of- ficial ballot for the same office under more than one party heading. The approach- ing gubernatorial campaign in the Hawk- eye State will come under the provisions of this measure. The same kind of an experiment has been tried in the State of Washington. It served the purpose of preventing certain caadidates, who had been a,reed upon by two or three different parties, from hav- ing their names placed upon the official batlot under two or three different desig- nations, but it also served, much to the | disappointment of the .promoters of the law, in bringing about the very gondition | of affairs which the measure was desizned to prevent. AL the next election follows ing the initial experiment ihe several political parties at which the law was chieflv aimed fused, and with the single fusion ticket swept the State. The Illinois law goes somewhat further, providing that any vperson whose name has been presented as a candidate, or who bas been nominsted by more than one convention, caucus or meeting of quali- fied voters, may cause his name to be withdrawn from any such nomination oy his request in writing, signed by him and duly acknowledged before an officer to take acknowledgmenti of deeds and filed with the Secretary of State not less than filteen days, or with the proper clerk not less than eight days, previous to the day of election, and no name so withdrawn shall be printed npon the bal- { lot under the party appellation or title from which a candidate has withdrawn his name. Politicians of Iowa and Illinois are curious to see how efficacious these laws will prove. Tt is strange that they should have overlooked the warning example of Washingion. Inthe latter State the anti- fusion law was passed some five years ago. Such attempts of politicians to preserve by law tue pariy alignmeat in these days of popular education and independent thought must generally end 1n failure. THE STATE OF TRADE. One of the most gratifying signs at the moment is the activity in manufacturing in certain portions of the East. A dis- patch from Manchester, N. H., says that for the firs: time in four years four large miils will not make the usual shutdowns in June which throws 14,000 hands out of employment every year. The dispatch further says that there is great rejoicing in consequence. The reason that thecom- panies will keep on this vear is that they have received heavy orders. There is no mistaking the significance of this proceeding. It means that the de- mand for manufactured goods is so brisk that these mills will have to run to their full capacity to fill their orders. Unless all signs iail other mills will soon be do- 10g the same thing. The prosperity pri saged by the new tariff is at hand. The state of the manufacturing business is one of the most infallible barometers of trade. When itis brisk times are good everywhere. Hence the iacident above cited is most encouraging. Nor is this the only promising indica- tion. From the bulletin prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, just to hand, it is learned that the total value of the bread- stuffs exported irom the United States for the eleven months ending May 51 was $177,823,607. For the same time in 1894 the value was $153,843,518; in 1895, $1 008,360, and in 1895, $124,749 811 There are other sizns equally encour- aging. The wealth per capita o the United States is increasing every monts. True, the incresse is small, being sligintly in ex- cess of one dollar, but it is an increase nevertheless, and when considered in the aggregate runs well up in the millions, Secretary Gage, in his well-remembered apeech of a fortnight ago, pointed out the facts touched upon above and affirmed that the good limes were already at hang. He showed that the tide of prosperity was steadily advancing and predicted that the country would witness a season of remarkable activity within the next year. Eince that speech was delivered all circumstances have tended to confirm the prediction. But there will probably be no ] marked aclivity until the usual fall trade IS ! why it costs Spain something more than sets in, for business is always more or less dull during the summer. As far as money is concerned the supply was uever larger. Furthermore, the cire culation is continually increasing. The Government vaults are full of coig, the banks all over the country are carfying large quantities and the reserves are high. The only drawback is a lack of vomplete confidence. When this is fully restored there will be a demand for this money and business will be brisk again. And it is only a question of months or possibly weeks when this demand will appaar. A LESSON FROM PI1TSBURG. The energetic people of Pittsburg are still industriously booming the project for aship canal between that city and the great lakes. They have received a num- b:r of setbacks from Congress, but by virtue of perseverance they expect to reach the fruition of their desire for a big waterway. They are now laying plans 10 make a grand assault upon Congress in December, by which time they hope to be in a position to achieve certain victory. Before that time comes they expect to have done a great deal toward educating individual Congressmen in the need for the waterway. They will have a book of some 300 pages, containing abundant informa- tion, statistics and facts, fully illustrated, ready to send to every Senator and Repre- sentative by the 1st of September, 10 in- form the National Jaw-makers as to the importance of the schieme, Itis a fact that the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers and & number of har- vors of California are more entitled to im- | provements than Pittsburg is to a ship canal. But somehow our California peo- | do not go about things with such | system asthose Easterners are to be cred- ited with. We may get up iuspirasion for a time and talk nobly of some of our | large public projects, but we content our- selves with putting the whole matter inwo the hands of our own State representatives in the National Legislature and imagine that evervthing possible nas been done. | These Pittsburgers will eventually get that ship canal. We ought to take a few lessons from them in method. Why | should we not seek 10 educate Senators | and Representatives concerning Califor- nia’s imperative needs in the matter of | waterway improvements? We should not delay if Congress is not in session, but take | rattern after the brethren of the Smoky | City and get in the beavy work on indi- vidual Congressmen during the long re- cesses. Thren, by ‘‘keeping eternally at it,”" we would be certain to win—if not at one session then at the next, but perse- vering effort would be a short cut to the goal. THE PACIFIED PROVINOES. A correspondent of the St. Louis Globe- | Democrat has furnished that paper with an extract from a private letter giving an account of the manner in wnich General Weyler recently traveled in meking a tour through one of the provinces which he bas reported to Spain as being pacified. The writer says: In the cabwith the engineer there was sn officer to watch the railroad man. In the | woodcar, which followed the engine, was the captain-general’s body-guard of forly negroes. Next came an armored car, the sides covered with plates of iron. This carried fifty soldfers. Behind the armored car was the baggage-car with fifty soidiers. Then came General Wey- ler s palace car, occupied by bim and the staff. Another armored car with filty civilians brought up the resr. Allalong tne road at distauces of a quart:r of a mile were drawn up detachments of troop With that description of the kind of guard necessary for travel in a pacified | province it is not diflicult to understand $7,000,000 & month to keep up the pacific conditions. Railway lines which have to be protected by detachments of troops every quarter of a mile cannot be run on a business buisis, but must be maintained by a Government subsidy, and the policy by which such a condition of affairs has been brought about can be calied ‘“‘pacifica- tion” only by persons who are not at all particular what they say or how they say it Fortunately, all the signs of the time promisea near end to Weyler's career in Cuba, and, indeed, an end to any form of Spanish administration there. It is now certain the patriots cannot be conquered and it is equally certain Spain cannot much longer carry on a war where even in the pacified provinces so much expense is required for the transportation of troops and generals. All reports from Washington are to the effect that the Piesident shares with the people of the United States the desire to see Cuba possessed of peace and inde- pendence, and will exert the whole power of tie Government to put an end to the useless struggle which is now going on. General Weyler may soon have a chance to go howe, where he can travel with more safety, and all the provinces of Cuba will then atiain a genuine pacification by the withdrawal from the island of the last Spanish soldier and the last Spanish flag. COAST EXOHANGES. | plate works of Cammell The Pheenix Herald remarks that “Bryan, like most ‘0id hoss’ politicians, seems to for- get that the Presidential contest does not oo cur every year,” “The dlscoveryof & great natural soap fac- tory on the Mojave Desert,” says the Grass Valley Tidings, “may account for the fact that Weary Waggies and D. Rhoads have always given that part of the country plenty of land oom.” According to the Pomona Times the South- ern California Power Company of Redlands has awarded contracts to the amount of $140. 000 for the generating station in Sania Ana Canyon and equipping the distributing sta tions at Pasadens and Los Angeies. The sys- tem requires 600,000 pounds of cepper wire. The Ventura Democrat agrees cheerfully with Randsburg ihat the latier rapid town is “all right,” attesiation whereof is pointed out in the fact that whenever business begins (o flag all they bave 10 do is to go out and strike $5000 rock in the “Mary Jane” or some other promising mine and then await results. The Woodland Demcc/at notes this unusuai occurrence: ‘A woman in this county named Augusts Boband became & naturalized citizen of the United States last Monday, renouncing all silegiance to foreign potentates. Thelady lives in Wesiern Yolo, and had te become a citizen iu order to prove up on some Govern. meat land, The Stockton Mail makes the following sen- sible comment on a question that is a: the present time sgliating the brainsof some of the best men in the world: “The remedy for the distress of the poor does not lie in appeal 10 force. Men who cannot vote their balots senstb.y cannot shoot bullels any more seu- sibly. A\ resort {o guns and dypamite would simply end in the triumph of the fattest purse and the absoiute enslavement of labor.” The Sacramento Bee is always stirring things up. 1t now rises to aver that the geu. eral opinion of the newspapars of Californin is that the poll-tax is an fmposition and should be abolished. *They have,” it goes on to sffirm, “becn saying that now for over ten years, between every legislative intermission. but when the Legislature meets the news- papers egem 1o forget all sbout the matter, and give up to parly benefits and pothouse politics the brains and ihe energy which should be devoted to matters of more vital issue.” Iteppears as if the frultcanneries in the vicinity of Marysviile have entered into some sortofa combine for expediting their work. The Appeal is suthority for this siatement, but just how the work is to be done is not stated. A statement of the fruit crop around Marysville is summed up in the foilowing: *On looking over the ground Mr. Baumgart- Der was satisfied that ibe fruit crop in this section would not be as large as last year, but the fruit would come in a little earlicr. Last year they commenced canming spricots on June 23 and peaches on July 22, and this year they would commence & weck earlier on spri- cots and peaches if the weather continues as now. Anent s much-discussed experiment in agri- cuiture in Californis, it is cheering to be as- sured by the San Diego Union that the canaigre industry, which sppears to be now firmly es- tablished in ihe vicinity of Riaito, is proving of very grea: sdvantage to San Berunerdino County. Some 8000 acres have been planted thus far to canaigre, snd the ecreage is to be greatly increased Tne company which has the work in hand is paying out $23,000 per month, and the money goes direcily into eir- culation and helps to make gocd times in that County. What is being done with canaigre st Rialto could be done here in San Diego County, where the plant grows wiid, and wouid yield enormousiy under cultivation. NEWS OF FORE.GN NAVIES. Austria hes ordered {from Yarrows four first- class torpedo-boats. They are to be larger | than the Viper type and sre 10 steam 28 knots. The bursting of a gun on board the Austrian armored ship Wien, while lying in the Tagus, Lisbon, is officially denied. An explosion in the cosl bunkers from cosl gas took place and the chief engineer was k lled. The torpedo-destroyers Earnest and Griffon hed their three hours speed trials May 24 und Juve 1, and developed speeds of 30.12 and 30.15 respeciively. has turned out nineof these crafts for the British navy during the past year. Two French torpedo-ueats tame in collision at Brest on May 26. One was coming in from her trials inthe roadstead and the other was going out. The bow of the latter was demol- ned, and her repairs will take several weeks. o casualties to the crew occurred, but the Admiralty has ordered an investigation to te the fault. The Russian battie-ship Navarino is said to bs armored and armed out of all proportion 10 her size. Although only of 9476 tous dis- placement, her armament is Dear.y 8s heavy as tbat of the Royal Sovereign cf the British navy, which is of 14,150 tons. As & conse- quence other offensive and defensive quali- ties must have been sacrificed and her col capacity largely diminished from what was origiuaily intended. The Queen paid a visit to the Shefield armor- & Co. last month and at a distance of alout twenty-five yards witnessed, through colored goggles, the manipulation of a 35-ton ingot, twenty. four iuches in thickness rolled out to twelve inches. In the Cyclobs Works, es the armor manufacturing mills are named, about 10,000 men are employed and the firm bas supplied armor for ships of the British nevy. A triple-screw cruiser named Hertha has re- centiy been launched a: Stettin !ur(hc(ier-', 350 feet in length ly 57 man navy. She is feet 10 11ches beam and displaces 5650 tons on 21 feet 8 inches mean draught. The horse- power s only 10,000 coliectively for the three engines, and the speed is intended to be 1815 knots. The coal eapacity at normal draugut is 500 tons. The armament wiil consist of two 8.2-inch, eight 6-inch and ten 3.4-inch, 1 quick-firing guns, besides ten 1}4-pounders and four machine guns. A navy assistant paymaster, E. G. Craddock of H. B. M. §. Katoombs, was recently tried by cour-martial at Srdney on charges of embez- zlement of $10,100, stealing $1717, making ialse entry aud deserting his ship. He plesded guilty tothe chargesand offered in excuse for his scts that he had b:come iniatuated with & woman from whom he could not bear o part. When arrested he made ail the resti- tution he cou’d 6f the money stolen, leaving a deficlency of only about $1275. Tae court sentenced him 1o three years' Imprisonment and to be dismissed the serv.ce with dis- grace. At the jubilee review in 1887 about eighteen milesof ships were in line, but this time the length wiil be neariy doubled. The vessels | are to b: moored in four lines and will inciude first-class | twenty-one battie-ships, eleven cruisers, 1wenty-seven secoud-class cruisers, six third-class cruisers, 1wo gun vess twenty torpedo guuboats, three gunboats, thirty torpedo-boat destroyers, twenty torpedo- boats, elghteen training squadron ships and ht special service vessels, making a total of ships of the British navy. Of foreign war- ps there will e about twenty, seventeen of which will be flagships. The review will take place June 26 PERSONAL. E. P. Palmer of Chicago is at the Palace, F. H. Kuck of Vallejo is at the Cosmopolitan, Dr. Royles of Woodland is at the Occi- dental. . Romeo of Seattle, Wash., is registered the Cosmopo.itan. E. J. Castrin of Portland, Me., 1s staying at the Cosmovolitan. L L Gray, a vrominent raisin-packer of Fresno, is in the City. J. B. Hoytt, a grain man of Birds Landing, is stopping at the Grand. W. 8. Godbe. a mining man of Salt Lake, 1s stopping at the Occidental Hotel. Jesse Iitus, proprietor of the Golden Eagle Hotel, Sacramento, is at the Palace. Mrs. Charles Deacon and Miss Deacon of Philadelphia regisiered at the Pslace yester- day. Dr. A.T. Hudson of Stockton arrived in the City yesterday and registered st the Grana Hotel. J. D. Browne, & mining man of Randsburg, arrived in the City yesterday and registered atthe Grand. C. Sherman of Castle Crag, Shasta County, is down on a visit to the City, and is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. Sr. W. F. Souther has left for a several months’ trip to Europe, during which time he will attend the International Medical Con. gress in Moscow. Willlam K. Marray, division passenger agent of the Illinots Central Railroad, New Or- leans, is & guest at the Palace. He arrived in the City yesterday. A party of tourists, consisting of Thomas Lewls, Mrs. Thomas Lewis, Hervert D. Lewls and Miss Ettle Hassell, of New York, regis- tered at the Palace yesterday. VWI:H YOUR C(OFFEE It is presumed there are places from which residents do not want Lo go to spend the sum- mer.. ew Orleans Picayune. at He—T don’t know why it is, but I never can do anything as a woman wants it don She—She don’t know why it 18? Why, it's because you're a man.—Chicago Jourral. N “Can vou tell me. professor, if this amber jewelry is genuine 77 “Oh, that's easily determined. a'cohol twenty-four hours. If i's genuine it will then have disappearea.” — Fliegende Blaetter. Soak it in Summer Boarder—Ou, Mrs. Furrow, will you let me have four of your biggest doughnuts? Mrs. Furrow (bighly flattered)—Certainly; you kin have & dozen of ’em. Summer Boarder—Four will be enough. I want 1o use them tor quoits.—Judge. “I have read every book in my husband's lib-ary. Ireally don’tknow what to do for sometaing to read,” said & newly married woman 1o & lady friend. “You don’t know what to do? Wby, what the matter with getting another husband?'— Tammany Times. Sald a Beardsiey boy 10 a Bradley girl, Whom he met on a poster biue: I haven't an idea who I am. And who the deuce are you P Said the Bradley girl 10 the Beardsley vy “1'll tell you what 1 think— Tcame into beIng one nizht last wrek, W hen & cat tipped over the ink."" —Exchaoge. These boats were built b | Pelm:r & Co., Yarrow-oi-Tyne, and the fiim | A FELINE BICYCLIST. Dixie Norton of 4011 Drexel boulevard is the only cat in the world that rides a bicscle, says the Chicago News. He is the sensation of cyclers as Mrs. Leland Norton spins down the boulevard with her pet. He stands ereet in a fanciful Indian bas- ket that hangs from the baudie-bar and watches the sights with all the eagerness of & happy child at a carnival. “How did Dixie learn to ride? Why,” said Mrs. Norton, *he was always crazy to g0 out, and ono evening last summer I p.cked up nis basketand held him a: arm’s length while I DIXIE NORTOM rode around the block. After that he used to perch on my shoulder, but as his avoiriupois incrensed I was obiiged to swing him from the handle-bar.” The quers, “Dixie, darling, do you want to 0 to ride 7' 1s sufficient (0 send Dixie bound- ing with delighted squeals headforemestinto his basket, where he wiggles and twisis until heads are up,” when he sets up a piteous howl. Wnen iaken from the wheel his vocall- zatlon {s something terrific. and he frantically iches and claws every(hing in reach. Mrs. orton believes he is equal to a hundred-mile run, and some day s gold century bar may rest on tue snow-white oreast of Dixic Norion. Dixic is & physical freak, which doubtiess accounts for his stnletic proclivities, for he is ashort-haired Angors, though bred from Jo the famous Persian. Hi< motker was searcely less aristocratic, and Dixie s the ouly shori haired member of tha' distingulshed long- haired famiiy of which Echo (Dixie’s brother) is the mos: noted among cat fanciers. ON A V:.CA:l(N. Now doth the city idiot Iis pieasant home desert He wauders off (0 some 0.d lake and doos & fian- “How is the climaie?” some one asks. “Well,” he suys, us & rule, Although the days are preity warm, the nights are alwuys cool " nel shiri: There in avartments two by four he tries to take his cas-, | While fighting animalcole, mosquitoes, bugs aud feas. | He hasu't room to take his breatn, but yet he tries | Mo smile : In a sickiy, sentimental way, for that's the proper By | He wandeis up and down the beach, reciting poems and such, And ,00ks down on the other chumpsas if they weren't much: He taksof boats and rigging and tue larboard and the lee As it he would Impress folk that he'd some been to sea. He hi.ches up his tronsers like a sailor on the stage, Aud pradies to smail schoolgirls of & very tender uge. me , “How hot ic 1s!” he shouts, ¥ ou g 4 1001 ! Although e dava w.e preity warm, the nights are alwaysco . —3 . Paul Dispatch. MEN aND WOMEN, Krupp, the “artillery king,” bought the Germania docks at | 1,580,000, Dr. Mary Walker argued a case before Jus- tice Knowlton of the Muss chusetts Supreme Court in Spriagfield last week and scquitted Lerse.f creaitably. recently Kiel for Aprina Tarapa Ngatu, a full-blooded Maori, wio was recently graduaied from Canterbury College, England, is now & practicing lawyer in Auckland, New Zealand, The will of Mre, Sarah Withers of Blooming- ton, Ind., bequeaths £40,000 tc found a iibrary | in Nicholasville, Ky., where she was vorn. Some years ago she established the Withers | Library in Bloomington. The city of Leipsic, for many years the resi dence of Robart Schumann, s soon to have a monument 10 the great musician. The model nas been made by Werner Stein, who received the order for it from a wealthy woman of that city, an amateur of music, whose name is not revealed. Charies A. Hackley, a millionaire philan- thropist of Muskegon, Mich., restricts himselt to simple living. Itissaid of him that he has ridden in his family carrisge only once, xnd then to attend a funeral. and that, although he owns a fine summer res.dence on the lake, he has rarely seen it. A young woman was at the Bazaer dela Charite in Paris with her fiance when the fire broke out. Heran at the first alarm, leaving | her aloue, but she managed to get out snd go home. There she found the young man, who bad politely eailed to see il she was safe. He was shown the door. North Carolina has a tobsceo farmer in Miss Sue M. Comer, a pretty young woman who lives near Madison. She does all the work on the farm herself and recently brought her crop of tobacco 1o Winston. It was sold and brought a good round price. Dexter Gigger and his brother Elbridge, the sole male survivors of wnat wes once the pow- ertul Hassanamisco tribe of Indians in Maine, are petitioning the Legislature of that State for an annuity of $250 each. There are two other survivors, both old women, who receive pensions of $300 and $200 respectively. Elder John Davis of Princeton, N.J., is in his eighty-third year and has fived in ten or tweive States. He is & member of the Christian church ana presched in that church for fifiy- three years and until he was too infirm for the active duties of a preacher. Mr. Davis says he was the humole instrument in redeeming 2757 persons at meetings held in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. —— A MIRACULOUS FORTUNE. John D. Rockefeller sleeps eight and a half hours every nizht, retiring at 10:30 and rising at7. Every morning when he gets up he is $17,705 richer than he was when he went to bed. He sits down to breakfast aL8 o’clock and leaves the table at 8:30, and in that short time his weaith has grown $1041 50. On Sun- day he goes to church, and in the two hours he is away from home his riches have grown $4166. His nigatly amusement is playing the violin. Every evening when he picks up the instrument he is $50,000 richer than when he iata it down the previous night. These little iacts give some idea ot the relentless growth of this man's fortune, writes a w York cor- respondent of the St. Faul Globe. The average great miilionaire is content if his wealth 18 80 invested that it will bring in 4 per cent. Many are content with 3 per cent, but the Rockefeller riches earn more than 7 per cent. Jus: how Mr. Rockefeller's fortune jumped $20,000,000 in three mouths is easily ex- plaiued. "He owns 500.000 shares of the Standard Oil Company, or # trifle more than one-half ef the total capitalization. The par value of these is $50,000,000. In Feuruary lust the certificates were sold af $260. At \his figure his holdings were worth $130,000,000. To-day, at $300, they are worth ¥150,000,000. Last August Standard Oil ceriificates were sold &t $190. At thia figure his holdings were worth $985,000,000, or $55,000,000 less than they are to-day. Juy Gould acnieved world-wide fame as a money-maker. When he died he lett $72, 000,000, and ‘the world stood azhast at :be vonderful achievements of the man—§72.- 000,000 in forty years, almost $2,000,000 a year! But here 15 & man whose wealth has grown at the rute of $6,000,000 a month, and the outsiae world scurcely dreams of it} ‘a man who earned his tirst quarter of a dolisr hoelug potatoes on & Tioza Lounty farm, in the uppsr part of this State; a man who, 35 years old, did not have $1000 to his name. Some people say that money is not made as aasily or as rapidiy nowsdays as it used to be, Tois may be true as far as the generality of money-makers is concerned, but the chosen iew, of which Rockefeller is the premier, are plibg up riches to-day than ever. bere in the history of the world did any | pecially man ever make $55,000,000 in nine months? e Tek of the Lonanza Kings of early Gali- | fornia days dwindies to pigmy proportions compared with it. Nothing like 1t was ever | heard of among _the diamond mine priuces of South Atrica, Wall street or Lombard street inrnishes no parailel. The histories of the financiers of Europe or of the potentates of the East coula bs ransacked withoui unearthing its duplicate. Rockeieiler's wealth 1s not all locked up in the Standard Oil Company. He has nearly & solid $100.000,000 invesied in many enier- rises Of vast maguitude, In real estate he Bas ted up $15,000,000; in steamship lines, $2,000,000; 'in 'iron mines, $15,000,000; 1u raliroad siocks and bonds, $25,000.000; in bank xtock, $8,000,000; in natural gasstock, | .000,000; 11 mauufactured gss stock, $3,- 000; i1 mines in Western siates, $5,000.- 000 in Government bonds and miscélianeous securities, $12,000,000, and in cash about $2,- 000,000. 2 All of the figures just given are approximate, as he securities re constantly fluctuating, | and the incessant flow of income necassitates Dew investmen's. A total estimate, however, of $244,000,000 can be regarded as conserv tive. Hus iortune may be greater by $10,000, 000, but it is hardly less than (he figure just iven. S'This places John D. Rockefeller at the head of the milliongires, ot oniy of this country, but of the world. At one time it was said thai Li Hung Chang was worth $500,000,000, but this wss proved & great exugxeration, the noted Chipsman not owning property worth one-fifth of that sum BRITISH TARIFF STUDIES. New York Tribune. A writer in the Saturday R-view gives voice to the bitter cry of South Waies. The tin- plate trade, ha says, is in a deplorable condi- tion. Many important works are ciosed. Thousands of workmen are idle and almost starving. Of this the first cause is, he ex- plains, that “under an enormously Ppro- | tective tariff America has robbec Wales of tne | manufacture of over 200,000 tons of tinplate | persnnum.” The phiaseology seems a trifls overstrained. There is realiy nothing “‘enor- mous” in the tinpiate duty, snd it is no more “robbers” of Wa.es for us to make our own tinplates then it is robbery of us for Great | Britain to do her own ocean carrying. That, however, by the way. What is important i8 tuis British testimony tion the United States has established ja va: new industry, to which ample American te: timony is forthcoming that this has been done without raising the price of the product o the | consumer. The point which the wriler most emphasizes e United States offers “prohibitive tari spects through reciprocity Britain 1s, because of her fr entirely debsrred from accepting and ing by the offer. She has nothing leit to give for which she could demand gills in reiurn. | In a world thatis full of trade wars she has | given away her means of fighting. This last | fizure is not altogether his own. He quotis | the gistof it from Do less an authorily than | Lord Salisbury himself, who usea it in ad- that under protec- | saturday Review however, that, o relax what in some re- rent ystem is dressing the chambers of commerce in Lo- | don not long ago. Assuredly the '‘fair trade” leaven seems 10 be working in mind. the British Itis no longer en unpardonabe sin to bden’s name in vain. One of these nuy even be granted that possibly a economist-outs.ds of the Manchester 5chool may have sense euough to go indoors wheu 1t rains. THE McK:NLEY TEMPER 1f those who have seen most of him since the 4th of March were asked what trait of the President’s cnaracter had impressed them es- they would say his marvelous self- control, writes the Washington corres pondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The adjec tive is rignt. The McKinley temper is marvel- ous. Iu the four yesrs of a Presidentisl term the first quarter is the most trying. This Pre: dent has passed through the ordeal. The first evidence of irritation is yet to be noted. Mr. McKinley isa man of convictions. He does | not hesitate to express disapproval. But he never ylelds o the petulance which atiends upsn annoyances. i There hiave been great men in the White House, but history records explosions of passion from Washingtou all the v &y down the line to the yresent exception. This equipoise of Mr. McKinley ix 50 remarkabie that it has been spoken of trequently as s natural gift of great worth. The possessor has been con- gratulated as if it was an inheritance. Tne truth is this complete self command 1s second, not first, nature with Mr. McKin.ey. It was acquired by such rigid training as seldom falls | to the lot of a man to follow. “I remember McKinley,” said one of his old- est friends, “asa man with his full share of impulsiveness. The time was when he gave way as oiher men do under strain or provoca- tion. Do you want to kuow what wrought the change? For twenty-fiv cars (his man has st0od tetween his wife and ull tnat might giva the s:ightest worry. No matter what the load he was bearing, he has never faled to wear into her presence a smiling fac:. What- ever emotions might be surging underneath, | he hasnpoeared calm and vlacid on the sur- | face. Tuis irail beinz owes her live to his | | | sbieldine care. Self-control was born of that twenty-five years of devotion. have the who'e explanation o mirable in McKinley's characte, Thers you atis so ed- QUEEN VICIORIA FUNISHES LESE 3 AJESTE London Figaro. 1 was being shown cver the royal yacht at Portsraouth by an Admiral, and he explained the various points of interest. At last we came to the Queen's cabin. ‘Here,” said he, “is where the Queen found a middy trying ou her | bonnet at the looking-glass, and she gave him & box on 1he ears whien resounded right away to the quarier deck.” “Weil,” I said, *‘that was better than ruining his career for a boyish prank” “Oh,” e replied, “he didn’t ret off with a smack.” He was sent homs next day, and his peopie were given & hint to take b1t Dame off the books at once. It was a pity, for he was a joily little fellow and didu’t mean any harm ” DR, BROWN’S CHAMPION, The Many Friends of the Late Mrs. Sarah B Cooper Are Deeply In- censed by the Accusations. Considerable indignation was expressed yesterday by the many friends of the late | Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, over the pamohlet issucd by Maurico Woodhams, who, dur- ing the trial of Dr. Brown, acted as “judge advocate.” Mr. Gaden, one of the strong- est friends of Mrs. Cooper, was deeply in- censed and expressed himself in no very mild terms about the “'infamous parcel of lies.” *If the dead couid only speak,” id he, “'in less than five words she could show to the people of San Francisco what a tissue of lies that pamphlet is. Her ene- mies had to wait, however, until she was not able to defend herself. 'Tuey dared not do it while she was alive, “At no time did she wish to withdraw from the council, although she was re- peatedly urged 10 do so0 by her friends, BShe had a strong notion of duty and said she would stay w.th itto the end. This parcphlet also <ays that I applied for ad- mission as a member of the courch. Why, 1 dia no such thing. Mrs, Cooper was xious to huve me do so, but 1 knew for some time before the trial just what sort ofa man Brown was and so declined to do so.” s gt BESIDE T1HE PAOIFIC. Crowds at the Fark—Varled Entertain- ments at Baths and Chuics The showers yes.erday caused a very light attendance at t e park and ocean beach. There was not a singie accident or arrest, and the doctors and the police. men had nothing to break the monotony but the earthquake. 3 The programme at Sutro Baths yestor- day was a longand un usually good one, and deterved a much better audience than tue very limited one which enjoyed it. The entertainments at the baths sre be- coming more varied in their attractions than they have been of racent months, Yesterday there wasa vaudeville perform- ::lc:: by the Londhl?nbf’lnlomlmelnu Musi- ompany, whic ’T‘;";“m{:" 5 gteatly pleased the ie acrobatic feats of the F in which a boy, standing on the upturned feet of his fellow-actor, is tossed high in air, wheie he turns a’ somersault and alights on the pair of feet tha flung him alofi. The nerformsnce had many inter- esting feaiures. The jub.lee fireworks display which was announced for Satur. day has been postponed till Monday night because of the wet weather. Atthe Cbutes preparations are being made for further celebrating the British Queen’s jubilee. A curious mechanical | | Chinese male quartet; recitatton, Miss Phi rivance has just been completed there 2:1“1:“1‘ “A Trip 13 Ozden,”” which gives the impression of a railway journey through fields, mountains and tunnels, with an oc- casionai rainstorm. Adgie’s lions will b at the Chutes this week. ———————— A OHINESE BABY QUARTET., | The Howard M. E Church Gave a Con= cert Yesterday in Which a Quartet of Chinese Babies Took Purt. The Howard-street M. E. Cnurch de- parted from its customary morning ser- vice yesterday, and gave the church over to the Sunday-school. And the little folks “did themselves proud.” It was a ugrand quarterly review,” and all the lessons for the past three months were re- viewed by the pestor and the children. After that came & concert, i which many of the little ones took part. On the prozramme there was a Chinese male quartet and the dearest little Chi- nese baby quartet, consisting of five of the tiniest tots imaginable, who sang with all their hearts about little chilaren asleep. All of their gestures were s quaint as could be. They sang twice. Another little baby w o distinguished herself was Miss Grace Eieancr Morris. She has a re- markabiy strong, clear voica for one so voung. A recitation by Miss Phelps in the mute language was also interesting. Her- man Brandt's orchestra contributed ihe music for the occesion. Following is the complete programme rendered Music, orcgestra; singing, “All Hail the Power'’; prayer; singing, “Rescue the Perish 1ng’’; lesson subjects, in concert; singin, lo, Mis: lorri: singing, *On Cal Brow’ Hermann ~Brandt hestra, '*‘Cavaller Rusticaua’ ; lasson stories, Miss De Tubbeviile, Miss Hauks and Mr. Over Miss Anna McCrossou, “Pray golden Miss Dineley, Mr., inging, “I Knowx emer lesson stories, Miss Mr. Thomas aud Miss Thomas; sin baby quartet; lesson stories, M Mr. Donaldson and Mr. Sm Sl CALIFORNIA giace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.s T FrEcTAL information daily to manufacturers, business nouscs and public men by ths Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * G e Mamma—I don’t want you 10 plsy with that Jones boy. He isa't fit company for you. Johnnie—All right. 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