The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1897, Page 22

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OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Brozdway. FASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 2, 34 Park Row. New York Cis DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. = == == THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon golng 10 the country ona vacatton ? Ty £0.1t 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for yon will miss ft. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Yusiness Office will receive prompi sitention. NO EXTKA CHARGE. Fifty cents per mouth Sor summer months. it was a good jubilee. Tven British brag is better than pes- simism. ide her crown and Victoria should lay a take a rest. No calamity howler should be chosen to eliver a Fourth of July oration. The lion has done his roaring, and it is now the turn of the eagle to scream. Take a rest during the summer and re- fresh yourself for the business revivalin the fail. Sixty years' progress in England has been great, but that of America can dis- count it. What would be the matter with a jub lee for the Prince of Wales? Nobody has been Prince of Wales ss long as he has. The Senate is rapidly getting through the pages of the tariff and before long the Government will te able to turn overa new leaf. The present age is rightly enough called the Victorian era, for Victoria is the on ler who saw itin that hasa chance to see it out. It has been certainly a peculiar June for Californis, but it has been nevertheless a better June here than in any other part of the country. The habit which Ohio has had of slip- ping the troiley, jumping the track and going Democratic in off years will not be observed this time. A patient world is apprised that Aubrey Beardsley bas pot, aiter all, drawn his iast breath; but the world should not de- spair—his breaths are not his pictures. The report from the East that some of Four Hundred have been caught ating at golf is only another proof th when society gets t00 high it begins to get rank. Tae man who contents himself with talking for prosperity will not be much better off than the man who croaks againstit. Oanly the man who works for it will get it. The latest Oklahoma boom story told to illustrate the richness of the soil is that a tamily living in a house with a sod floor had to mow the grass off every evening in order to find the baby. The sale of bozus brandy under a Cali- fornia brand will prove a benefit in the long run if it rouses our people to demand a cnange in the law which will prevent such frauds in the future. Prime Minister Laurier of Canada says the Dominion is content with her position in the empire at present, but when the population reaches 10,000,000 there will be a demand for direct representation in Parliament or complete independence, It d that during a recent visit of the Prince of Wales to the University of Cambridge the exuberant loyalty of the students led them to such excesses that the authorilies were enabled to coilect $8750 in fines for violation of rules. course the Prince was cordially invited to come again. A New York calculator, basing his estimates on the pouliry statistics of the 1ast census, says the value of the eges Jaid by the hens of this country will pay twice over the dividends on all our rail- road stocks and it would seem our rai road magnates should go to raising eggs instead of freights and fares. The Rev. Hugh Johnson, acting chaplain of the Senate, in the course of the morn- ing prayer recently thanked God for “the glorious wave of prosperity now sweeping over the land,”” and the reporters noticed that the phrase broke the Democrats ail up. The prayer was all rignt, however, for the wave of prosperity is surely sweep- ing in and the preacher was only a little bit premature. The Parisian police, in rescuing a young girl from a stroliing juggler who was ill- treating her, have uncovered a story as good s anything in a dime novel. The gir! is the dau-hter of a noble family in Belgium. During .the absence of the father the mother put the child out to nurse without disclosing her rank. The mother died suddeniy and as the narse did not know where to take the chi'd she sold it to a beggar, who in turn sold it to the juggler. The girl is said to be very pretty, so the romance is complete in every respect. . A new orchard pest called the *‘pistol- case bearer” is said to have destroyed 8000 trees in Pennsylvania and has now made its appearance in New York. Professor Slingeriand of Cornell is reported to have declared it to be the most destructive ‘‘case bearer’” ever known. As it has been found as far west as Nebraska our orchardists had bett'r begin to look out for it. It is one of the things which no one wishes to find, but cannot afford to over- 1o0ke or | | | main in place un | 1 JUBILANT VOICES. Since for so long a time the entire English-speaking world has been tormented by its writers and its orators with incessant and reiterated discussions of the perplexing problems of life which confront the individual, society and the nations, it is a fact | suficiently cut cf the ordinary run of things to be worth remarking that during the whole jubilee season the speakers and the press of Great Britain abstained from any extended comment on the dificalties which confront the empire and the problems it will have to solve. Great Britain is by no meafs at peace, the ship of state is far from having clear sailing before it. A thousand dangers menace it both within and without.*® These facts are- well known, but nevertheless they were iznored during the jubilee. Noth- ing of note was said by any public orator or newspaper of the discontents in Ireland, the famine in India, the war on the Nile, the dangers in South Africa, the menacing condition of affairs in the Orient and the absolute isolation of England from the aili- ances of Europe. On the contrary, every utterance of tongue or pen was an expres- sion of the loyalty of the people and a declaration of jubilant confidence in the abid- ing might and majesty of the empire. This feature of the jubilee week has been the subject of much adverse comment in the United States. Notafew of our critics have found fault with a parade which showed only the military power and the royaity of the empire. Despite these critics, bowever, the British were right. Nations, like individuals, shouid at times put away all pondering upon cares which bring doubts and anxieties, and think oaly of those things which give hope, cheer and courage, for by such thoughts the spirit is roused to its true height and streagthened to overcome every foe or difficulty that confronts it. It would be well for America if on the coming Fourth of July every orator chosen to address the people would act in the spint of this British jubiles example and spare the American public for one day at least a further consideration of the so-called prob- lems of the times. Day after day throuzh the whole year we hear enough of the strife of Jabor and capital, corruption in municipalities, the greed of corporations, the law’s delay, the power of the lobby at Washinzton, the oceasional outbresks of popu- lar violence and the frcquent offenses of fraud in all departments of the Government. The Fourth of July should b+ devoted to thougkts of the greatness of our country ratber than of its manifold barassing problems, for after all the problems are petty in comparison with the greatness of the Nation. We have overcome far more menacing dangers in times past when we were less stronz than now. Never a problem con- fronted us but we found a statesman o solve ii; never a foe faced us bat we found a hero to overthrow him. The past furnishes a lamp to light the future. before us is aafe for the brave and the wise. National jubilee. Letus silence the voice of the calamity howler and the pessimist by the eagie scream and answer back the jubilant shouts of Britain with the more jubilant and confident acclamations of our strong Republic. The pathway Let us make the National holiday a SECRETARY WILSON'S WORK. The farmers of this country have reason to be proud of the fact that there is a Sec- retary of Agriculture under the present administration who truly represents their interests, and whose efforts in their behalf give promise of bearing fruit without any unnecessary delay. Unlike bis predecessor in the depart- ment, Secretary Wilson 1s not occupying bis time in delivering lectures and writing pamphiets on matters that have no direct relation to the duties of his position and that rroperly belong to other branches of the administration. He has simply taken off his coat and gone to work with a com- GET READY FOR THE FLOOD.| Little more than a week will elapse be- fore the immense army of Caristian En- deavorers will be marching in upon us from north, east and south. Asthe day approaches for the great internationa! convention the assurances grow with ref- erence to the magnitude of the affair. Thousands of Eastern people will take ad- vantage of the exceedingly low rates of travel to spend a few weeks' vacat on amid the pleasures of California climate and scenery. Hence San Francisco may prepare for a deluge of visitors, and a | most desirable class of visitors at that, | We should receive them and we will re- ceive them in true California style. The | mendable vigor to assist the agriculturists Endeavor fund of 000 should be com- | of the United States in the most practical | pleted without delay. The matter of ap- |and praiseworthy way. There are no Dropriate decorations throughout the bus ness portion of the City should receive esrly attention, to the end that our myriad guests may find delight in the gala ap- | pearance of our streets and buildings. | frilis or foibles about his work; he isa plain, hard-headed man of business prin- ciples, who knows what 1he !armers want and how to go about the task of obtain. ingz for them what they want. There will be no lack of National colors, Mr. Wilson has discovered that the as the flags and bunting contracted for | United S:ates has been importing from by the Fourth of July committee will re- | foreign countries annually miilions of dol. 1the ciose of the con- vention. But the Eudeavor colors shou!d shine out everywhere as well, particularly | in the downtown disirict. The windows of the big stores might be made resplend- | therefrom. ent with designs framed in imitation of | In the last fiscal year the United States the embiems of the organizaiion, and we | imported $658.320 worth of beans and stould all aim to make Endeavor week a | peas. During the same iime our people veritable week o! jubilee. paid $556,644 for foreign cabbage, $127,959 The City and the whole State wi'l be | for foreign potatoes, $2,773,535 for foreign- abundantly rewarded for their efforts 1o | grown hay and $600,000 for imported hops, welcome the strangers with a display of | Surely our own country ought to supply entbusiasm that will make them feel per- | all these things, Of course many of these fectly at bome. California bospitality 1s | producis come from acrossthe American like a household word abroad, and we | boundaries, and an anplication of the want the Christian Endeavorers from | tariff will have good effect in such cases. ther States and other nations to be g0 | We should keep all that big amount of happily entertained that when they re- | money at home, as far as it is possib’ e in- turi home they will declare to their friends | stead of building up the farming industry and neighbors that all the good things | of foreign countries. which mav justly be said about Cahifornia | America imported $10,000,000 worth of nd its peopie have never half been toid. | goatskins last year. Mr. Wiison is not at all astray in his belief that there was no need for this, and that goats can be raised as well und as cheaply in this country as anywhere. Foreign farmers are thus en- joying profits which ought to be kept here at home. The foreign competition in farm products seems to have been over- looked while the discussion about competition of foreign manufacturers has been going on. There is cer- tainly a remedy for the case of the agri- culturists of the United States, and Mr. Wilson will shor:ly give to the country the benefit of his finaings in the matter. The American tarmer snould secure all this business, The Secretary some months since ex- ported two large consignments of butter | with the object in view of finding out how lars’ worth of farm products, while there 18 no excuse for & reason why our own farmers should not be supplying ali those | products and reaping the big benetits CHARITY REFORM IN LONDON.| An effort is being made in England to | substitute almsgiving pure ana simple for church fairs and charity bazaars. The | begping is intended to be done by people | who were formerly leaders in tbe widely | popular work of obtaining money for public charities through the means of | iairs and festivals. The so-called reform was recently inau- gurated in London, where the Society of Church Beggars has been organized under the p:tronage of Lady Gwendolen Cecil. Its members are chiefly women of social prominence who have been hitherto in- terested in charity bazaars, but who have now renounced such works and agreed to Gevote their time and strength to writing letters anud otherwise direcily roliciting | the English market, aid for the same causes for which their former endeavors were made, and from the same people who in former times | showed themselves to be generously dis- | posed. | The new society, of course, is an experi- | ment, but it 1s not without some com- mendable principles, and one of these is that those who subscrie to its funds bave the satisfaction of knowing | that every penny given will go o the ob- | regular American firkin. jects in question.” Direct aimsgiving, it | is a poinc of very considerable importance, is argued, will promote pure benevolence, | It made the difference of a cent a pound for the person who contributes money | in the price paid. wili have the assurance thbat the whole | Ail this serves to show that Secretary amount of his donation will go to the | \Wilson, a man of ideas, a practical farm. cause he desires to aid. erdeeply interested in tha welfare of the There is none of the expentive machin- | agricultural industry, is the right man in ery of collection nrcessary to an enter- | the 1ight place, and that the farmers of tainment conducted oa a big scale; and | the united States have reason to expect all the money that formerly went for ex- many boons as a result of his official penses, the ladies declare, will be so much | ¢fforts in their behatf. clear gain for the charity funds. Then, sgain, these London ladies do not CALIFORNIA SUMMER SEASON. appreciate the idea of people being urged Seet 5 No other part of the globe enjoys a sea- son so glorious as the California summer, to buy articles they do not want—even for the sake of & good canse; and they disap- prove strongly of the idea of charging ex- | and in order that every Californian may tortionate prices forarticles at the bazaars, | the better appreciate the gifts that Provi- But, perhaps another motive of their op- | dence has bestowed upon this land by the position to church iairy is that they do | sunset shors he shouid annually devote a not partake sufficientiy of the nature of | week or more to an experience with those bounties wholly removed from the cark- ing cares of every-day life. The City re. select social functions. Direct almsgiving is praiseworthy, and dent should go into the scenic mountains or down by the grand sea, and the moun- It was found first that one-quarter of an ounce of salt to a pound of butter is about the right thing in that respect, and second that the pack- age should weigh at least fifty-six pounds. With aa English butter-dealer hundrea- weight is the unit of measurement, and that means 112 pounds. Hali-hundred- size of the package. There is a marked preference for cubical boxes instead of the is a pleasurably free expression of genu- ine charity as weli; but when it comes to swelling up a charity fund to a respectabie | size, the old church tair system will doubt- | the ocean should try the change afforded less be found more effective in tke end. | by the varied delights «f the big City. Thousands of dollars are realized annually | It should be akin to a religions duty for in every big city in this latter wrv -at|every one of usto obtain a week or more would never be directly contrib. ed as | recreation and restful pleasure every sum- alms. Letter-writing will not re.. ue | mer. The merchant shoula hie away on multitudes. The church fair and the|a vacation, and when he returns to his charity bazaar may not be perfect 1n every respect; but then they are only the affairs of mortals, and no mortal is perfect, how- | a week or so at the resort of his choice, ever well intentioned be may be. The old | and California bas a hundred of the most system may possibly be much improved, | excellent resorts to choose from. but it would hardly be amiss to say that| The railroad rates, on the whole, were alms-bezgars’ societies will never substi- | never lower than they are at present and tate church fairs or charity entertain- | the next thirty days will be a most favor-' ments in London or anywhere else, | able time, #0 fas as expense of travel is concerned, for seeing the wonders of the Golden State. Just now everything is fresh and beautiful and tue prize fruits in desk feeling like a new mortal he shoula allow his clerks one after another to spend When Kentucky elected to the Senates man who never tasted whisky in his life it was foreseen thata phenomenal year | was at band in the State, and sure enough | a series of earthquakes have come along nd given the whole commonwealth a haking up, r.pe enough for visiiors to sample. nobody with whom it is a possibility (and it were a heavenly blessing if it were pos- sible to al) neglect to take a week's R e ——— e —— this great staple should be prepared for | weight “long” measure is the regulation | This it appears | taineers and the people who live beside | the orchards up and down the country are | Let | healthful diversion this summer. The beneficial effects of it will last till June- time comes again with its next open in- vitation, CENTRALIZATION IN THE ARMY. An army is like 8 machine in more than one sense. For the accomplishment of results each part must perform its proper functions, and all work together towara a common end. The means of obtaining the necessary cohe- rence and co-operation of the parts of an army are organization, administration and disci- pline. Similar means are adopted in all large aggregations of individuals, as in a railroad company. But while the latter is left free to perfect i1s organization and administration so 8s to produce the best results the army,on the other hand, is almost entirely a creature of 1aw. lts crganization is fixed by law, and 50 to a very large degree is its administration and discipline. To produce the best results either in peace OF WATr an army must be under one central control and direction, and by means of & per- fect administration and organizition the will of the commander is made to operate through- out the entire mass down to the lowest pri- vate. It thus becomes a powerful and efli- cient instrument, The organization of our army is confessedly faulty acd far from modern, but thus far Con- gress has not seen fit to make the Changes deemed by the most accomplished officers as necessary 1o produce the best resuits. 1In the matier of ofganization we are fully thirty years behind the Europesn standard. While @ proper organization is of the greatest im- portance and the best guarantee of success in war, the methods of administration may still be so fauity that the best organization counts dor little. Itseems to be the fate of our army that its administration shoutd ba conducted on the most cumbersome lines. Methods ars in vogue thatwould ruin any large civil or- iza While a certain amount of red tape is neces- ry.our little armyis in danger of being ntirely overwhelmed by an avalanche of pe- pers of ulisorts. The number of returns and revorts required is appalling. This result has been brought about graduaily. For a num- ber of years past there has been a decided tendency toward centralization in army af- fairs. The powers and functions of the bureaus at Washington have been largely in- creased. The most petty details, instead of being de- cided on the ground and by the officers most competent to determine the matter, must bs referred to Washington for decision. The re- suit is that the departments are overburdened | #nd behindhand ana delays and coniusion re- sult at all points. Business is managed more or less by cast-iron rules rather than in ac- cordance with the conditions of climate and surrounding. Some idea of the system may be formed from the rtatement that authority for the purchase of suppliesin each and every individual case must be specificaliy granted by the Secretary of War, even for departments 3000 miles and more away from the seat of government. Subordinates, stripped of nearly ail control and responsibility, grow indifferent and indecisive, Even the general of the army has little real power, nearly everything being concentrated in the heads of departments, who are respousiole only to the Secretary of War, 1f deiays were the only resutts flowing from such methods it would matter little, but as it is we are training officers in methods of sd- | mintsiration which must be radically changed | on the approach of war. Asour armies will bo composed of volunteers, we, of all other nations, should adopt a system of military ad- ministration which should be at once simple, direct, and adapted to aid rather than hinder he operations of troops. Our general and steft officers bear the pro- portion of three to eight to officers of the line, while the staff corps and departments cost & sixth of the toial expenditure for the army. Besides tnis, over 200 lins officers and alarge number of enlisted men are detailed on staff duty. Our large staff has many points to ommend 1t, and can easily serve for | & much larger army. As it would be the hardest part of an srmy to improvise, its maintenance is justified. The suthority of tie President and under him of the Secretary of War cannot avd should uot be lymited within parrow bounds. Butat the same time it would seem that under a proper system the Seeretary should have only | general control and airection. The details | should be lett to these who are fully fitted by | educstion and experience to attend to them. | Powers should be delezated to subordinates, who should exercise them fully withia p: scribed limits and be held to an an account- lity Similar reasoning shows that the eads of departments in turn should be re- eved of the peity detailsof administration left free (0 give general supervision No one can doubt that such meihods of ad- ministration are not only modern, practicable eand legal, but that they are the only methods which will insure the best of service from the greatest numbers. Each officer snould b given responsibility and meaus and be held accountsbie for results. Decentralization, rather than its opposite, ia the keynote of German success in army administration and has proluced results which have made that army a model for the world. Subject to some erences of condition, possibly, such a policy should be the ome followed in our army, and | tts effictency, both in peace and war, would be vastly increased. A METAMORPHOSIS. Ob, he preached it from the housetops, and he whispered it by s eaith: | Be wrote whole mlis of stuff against the awful curse of wea th. He shouied for the poor man, aud he called the rich man down He roasted ever; Kiog and Queen who dared to Wear acrown. He hollered for rebellion, and he said he'd head a band ‘To exterminate the millionaires, 1o sweep them iron: the land He yelicd against monopoiles, took shots at every trus | And he swore he'd be a in the dust. He stormel. he fumed and ranted, till he made the r.eh man wince; But an uncle left him money, and he hasn't shouted since. narchist, to grind them -Democrat. MEN AND WOMEN., Macaulay’s memory was so retentive that, after reading & book once, he conld give all the salient points of it, and recite many long | pussages of it verbatim. | John Redmond, the Paraellite leader, ac- | companied by Louis Stuyvesant Chanler, as starorator, s stumping Ireland in the cause of the Redmond Lezgue. | The Duke of Marlborough has gained a new political laurel and has won additional fame | before the public by spesking from the same sbury. olatform es Lord S, Ex-Secretary of the Intcrior Hoke Smith's family was saved from the fire which recently | destroyed iheir home Ly the persistent noise of their dog waking them up. President Faure is said to be the greatest dandy in France. He is anxious to institute a special Presidential costume, but his col- [ leagues do not look upon the scheme with | ravor. Itissaid that Queen Victoria woula, were it possible, promulgate a decrae against second marriages. It is believed that the Princess Beatrice has promised her mother never to warry. Mrs. Booker T. Wasuington, the wife of the negro educator, not only teaches in the insti: tute at Tuskegee, but he!ps many of the poorer class to put into daily practice the principles taught there. Mrs. Clara Fisher Mzeder, the once famous actress, now 86 years old, has published her memoirs. She went on the stage when six years old and followed the profession continu- ously for seventy-two years. Bishop Taibot of Rochester, Eng., startled the borough of Eou'hwark by walking through its streets early one weekday morninz in fuil vestments, with miter and cope. He had to open a church and he preferred to walk to it from tbe house where he had dressed rather than take & cab. Great satistaciion is expressed in Great Britain at the announcement that the Queen had commanded Wiiliam Quiller Orchardson, | who was elected a Royal Academican nearly tweuty years ago, to paint a jubilee picture of herself, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York | and litile Prince Eaward, | ping at the Californis Hotel. IS AN EARL’S HEIRESS. While the Hon. Mary Harriet Geraldine Drummond of Brooklyn is looking for & posi- tion, her great-grandfatber, George Drum- mond, Earl of Perth and Melfort and Duke of | Melfort in France, is said to belooking for her, says the Herald. She is ready to be found by the Earl's attorners,and expects eventually 10 come into possession of his great estate. | May, as she cails herself, is 18 years old, and | worked uutil last week as & waiiress 1n an ice cream parlor at the corner of Elghth avenue ana Fifteen h street, Brookiyn. She is striv- ing to make her own living, and told me yes- terdny that she would not cesse looking for another sitnation because of the news that her greit-zrandiather had begun a search for her. She said she was the only direct descendant of ottish Earl, whose income amounis 1o ,000 a year. George Drummond is the sixth Earl of Perth they cou'd give him a hot lemonade he lhn)v'mm it “an\d prevent his taking fl?ifl(i Some one suggested that some spirits adde would bs bencficial. ‘Well, he said, ‘you might put in some unb:known to me! JAPANESE REPORTERS. New York Post. The Japanese reporter makes about as much money as the Japanese policemap—that is, §6 amonth. In Tokio some of them make more, and in the smaller towns they make as little as $2 & month, but $6 is a fair average. They are not sent outon regular assignments, asa rule, but are g:ven a roving commission. The editor tells them to getnews and they never return empty-handed. A good news-gatherer is rare Rmong them, but the “faker’’ is plenti- ful enongh and reaily clever. Interviewing hardly can be said to be popu- lar. The people do not understand it and do noi like it. Japan is esoteric and doesn’t tell THE HON. MARY HOWARD DRUMMOND, Heiress to the Earldom of Perth, Who Is Seeking Work to Keep the Wolf From Her Mother’s Door. and the fourteenth Duke of Melfort. He wes | born in London May 6 1807. His Lordship in 1841 established before the Con: Q'Etxt of | Franee and tne Tribunal de ia Seine b scent from the earls and dukes of Perth Melfort end bis rient of succession 1c French honors of Duke de Melfort and ¥ The Earldom of Perth was revived in 1853 by the specini command znd recommendation of | Queen Victoria \hrough an actof Parlisment | unanimously passed by both houses. George Henry Cha s Francis M: de- nd | colm. Vis- count Forth, the only son of the Earl of Perth, died elgnt years iater, leaving one son, George Essex Moutifex, Lord' Drummond. It was he who married his grandmother’s maid, came 1o this country, snd preferred menial employ- ment and poor surroundings 1o deserting his wife for the oid Errl's favor. Lord Drummond died in this city in 1887, leaving one child. This was the daughter wno is 100k1ng for a po- sition by which sne can support herself, PERSONAL. J.G. Pacey, a lawyer of Seattle, is stopping at the Lick. George Lingo, & stockman of Birds Landing, is a guest at the Grand. E. E. Sheppard of Toronto registered at the Paiace Hotel yesterday. & B. Patrick, a ‘merchant of Visalla, is a guest at the Lick douse. E. W. Churchill, 8 banker of N a, is stop- M. Guerin ana Charles Dafresne, of Parls, registered at the Palace Arthur Winslow, 8 mining man of Kansas | City, registered at the Paiace yesterd | Judge Solon Holt of Sncramento srrived in the City yesterday. He is stopping at the Grand Hotel. | Frang Miller, hotel-keeper of Riverside, ar- rived in town yesterday and registered at the Occidental Hotel. Judge Carroll Cook has adjourned untit August 2. in the mountaias. George H. Stewart, & prominent business | man of Los Angeles, arrived in the City yes- terday and is registered ar the Grand. Dr. Diresbach Smith, a physician a ylum for the Insane, arrived in towa yes- terday and registered at the California Hotel. Colonel R. L. Peeler, assistant adjutant-gen- eral of this State, is in the City, a guest at the Californta Hotel. He expects to attend the | summer encampments of the National Guard and join in the cruise of the Camanche. s court He will spend his vacation | Napa | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N.Y., June 26.—At the St. Cloud—Mrs. Charles Lakeman, 1. V. Weisskopf, Mrs, S. H. Whitney; Marlborough—L. A Myers; Savoy—D. Lewenberger; Ho iand— Miss T. Morgan; Astor—Captain J, Wallace, Miss G. E. Wallace; Gilscy—W. Armstrong; Murray Hill—Mrs. L. L. Bulfardson; Hoff- | man—P. Garnett; Grand Union—B. F. True; | Mauhattan—E. W. Howsrd., Mr. and Mrs. | Joseph Sladky of Mountain View, Cal, ar tived on the Lahn from Bremen. | | NAMING THE BABY. Albany v Journal, the baby belongs as & matter of right to the | baby’s father or to the bapy's mother is raised | in a queer lawsuit originating in Eastkill, in | the heart of the Catskill Mountains. The | plaintiff is Ole Halverson, a Swede, who culti- | vates a small farm on the mountain side. Hea bas sued for aamages Rev. J. G. Remerton, n‘ German Lutheran minister of the sams place, ‘ | | | | | | | and the pleadings set forth the following state of facts: Mr.and_Mrs. Haiverson have a son of tender years. The former desired that the boy should be cailed Oscar, after the present monarch of Mr. Hu'ver . Mrs, Halverson dislikes the name of Use nd was | determined that the baby should not be bur- dened therewith, Mr. and Mrs. Halverson took the beby to the clergyman to be christened. Mr. Haiverson requesicd the minister to name the chiid Oscar, but Mrs. Halverson had already taiked the reverend gentleman over, aud to Mr. hal- verson’s surprise and indigaation the boy wus christened uot Oscar, but something else, whercby Mr. Haiverson suffered serious dis: appointment, loss of authority in his house. hold, laceration of feelings, eic., for which he | prays damags The clergym delecuse is | that he christoned the chiud in accordance | with the wishes of its mother, whose rights in | the premises he considered paramount. Tae case brings up a novel question iu jurispru dence, tue decision of which will bs regarded with tuterest in thousands of families through- out the land. on’s father ar ANECDOTE OF LINCOLN. New Yor< Press. President Lincoln appointed Rev. Dr, Oliver of Harpers Ferry (o some position which took him to Washington and into preity intimate relation with Mr. Lincoln. Irecall one anecdote which I have not seen in print. Dr. O. wasin a room with Mr. Lin- coln and several others. At the t.me they were huntivg for Jeft Davis. Some one sai “Mr. Lincoln, suppose thev were to find Davis, and 1n order to capture him 1t was necessary to £hoot him, would ron want them 10 doso?" Mr. Lincoln said: “When I was » boy a man lecturing upon temperance staved at our house over night. 1t was a cold, stormy night and the man was quite chilled when h reached home alter ihe meeting. He said if { John E. esterday. |8 | street, | not one of whom s w what it knows if it can help itself. Still, there are interviews in Japanese papers. Politicians have themselves in‘erviewed occasionaily, and distinguished “globe-rotters” usually submit. MILLIONAIRES A-WHEEL, New York Sun. Many prominent Wall streetmen have re- cently taken to the bicycle. Here are a few of them: President H. O. Havemeyer and Treasurer earles of the American Sugar Refin- ing Company. President Jobn D. Rockeieller and William Rock of the Standard Oil Company. President J. Edward Simmons of the Fourth National Bunk, who is also presidentof the Clearing-house 'Association. President Jumes Stillman of the National President A. B. | city Bank. Hepburn of the Third Na- tional Bank, now in liquidation, who has be- come vice-presiden: of the Nationai City Bank, President John I Waterbury of the Man- hattan Trust Company. President F. B. Schenck of the Mercantile tional Bank. President A. S. Frissell of ank. N the Fifih-avenue Mr. Havemever is very pri nt, and has ridden from his summer home in Stamford to this city, & distance ot about thirt:-five miles, Accompanied by bis wife, who has also mas- tered the bicvele. Mr. Searles’ business duties prevent him from doing much wheeling. The ¢ ks gar refiuin pauy hope some day, how- ever, to be gl 71O he sight of & tandem dent and treasurer ar- y's offices in lower Wall pre g at the compa So far as known none of the well-known men named in the iist has as yet appeared in bleyele rig in the business district. John D. Rockefeller, when his .ami'y 1s in town, i3 frequenly seen riding witn his daughters in West Fifiy-fourth street where his bome is. President Simmons said yesterday that he had ecquired the habitlust year. President Water- bury, who is a Jarge mun, is hav ne new wheel built and w Up to the comini m_weather, when members began to I«ave for the country, the bowling slley of the Metropolitan Club on Fifth_avenne, popu kuown as the m lionaires' club, was with bicycles daily. One day not long ago 136 wheels were counted there. “Two men are emploved by the club to look after them. THE DEBS COMMONWEALTH. To the Editor of the San Fiancisco Cali—SIR* Al.ow me to say & fow words in regard to your editorfal comment on “The Debs' Common- wealth” in yesterday’s edition. The burden of your arzument seems to be that co-opers- tive colonization is not possible, and the proof therefore you find in Topolobampo. Topole- bampo 18 & lamentao'e failure, you say. Is thi true? There are over 150 people there to-aa; ling to return perme- nent!y to the United Siates and our so much boasted civilization. But suppose it tobe a fatlure, oes it necessarily follow that tie Debs scheme will be a failure, too? Isit not a fact that thousands of peopnle have stuaied and experimented on the probiem of aerial nevi:ation and have failled? But who will therefore say that aerial navigation is impos- sible? 1f Topolobampo is a lailure and i(s les- son is lost on E. V Debs, as you_contend, is 1t not po:sible that ihe lisson of the Ruskin colony in Tennessee is not lost on him? Or will you say that that is a taflure also? By the way, why is{t that ihe press in gen- eral, and especiaily those papers wbich con- unvally defend the greatest o1 all failures— this cuttnroat civilization of to-day—always hold up to view every faiiure of any effort for the betterment of mankind and i1s couditions, but never with one syllable refer to any sue- cessful attempt in that line? I havein my possession excerpts taken irom hundreds of different papers, all glorying over the so- called failure of Topolobampo, but I never yet came across e paper, outside of reform papers, which made any allusion or mention ofsuch remarkable successes of cc-operative enterprises like Ruskin_ Colony, Godin's Insti- tution in France (Ikaris), which existed for elmost fifty years und ouly Iateiy dissolved, voluntarit, ud recails the sweetest of memo- ries 1n the breasis of some of our own eitizens, not {ospe-k of such communistic concer like the Quakers, the Shakers, the Econo- musts, ete., ~ome of which have béen in exist- ence for nearly 100 years. In the hope that you mav Jive up to your promise aud prolession, “THE CALL speaxs for all,” I remain, yours for fair play, OTT0 81 San Francisco, June 25, 1897. — WITH YOUR .OFFEE. Bacon—Have you seeu Sprocket lately * Egberi—No. “He's asigat. Face cut, arm ina sling and walks lame.” “How did he o it, on his bicycie?” “No, If he couid have staid on the bicycle he'd have been all right”—Yonkers States. man. “IUs & hard problem,” remarked the man who can’t be kept from getting interssted in small matters. “What's a hard problem?” “This question of refiuement. I'd like to see somebody who is able to sitdown and figure out how much fuss a man of wealth cen make in his efforts to be exclusive before he be- comes ostentation Washington St “Brotlier,” said the minlster, gently, “you hould read your Bible more assiduously Brother Burroughs—your nextdoor neighbor, Dby the way—never lets a day pass without a perusal, at least, of his copy of Holy Writ.” He mey read his Bible all Tight,” said the delinquent, “but he always borrows paper.”—Cincinnati Inquirer. «Have you heard about the split in the Pgo- hibition party?” has there been a split 2" “Yes; I've left.”—The True Reform. Nothing makes & theatrical manager h than to sirike & “frost.”—Chicago Timese Herald. “I¥hat are you going to b2 when you grow up, my boy?” “A King,” answered Willle, proudiy. ud you, Dickie?” «I guess 'Ll be on ace.”’—Detroit Free Press, “Well, I see another Ohioman’s been ma heppy.” That get?” “He’s just become the husband of a B ton girl who has $17,000,000.”—Cleveland Leader. The Court Reporter—With all due respe Judge, 1 should like to kuow why you gay one bicycle thief the limit of the law and the other off with a light fine: The Judge—For very good reasons. The firs man stole the whe:1 to szil, and the other tcok it because he wanted the wheel to ride. I a a wheelman myself, you know.—Indian Journal. so? What sppointment did be Adam—Well, what are you hauging ar bere for? You toid me yesterday wouldn’t have me if there wasn’t another ma n eartb. ve—Yes, but—Adam, dear—I didu’t k then that there wasn't!—New York Press ANSWERS TO CO-RESPONDENTS A. M. AND P. M.—Subscriber, City. In t answer given 1o another correspondent ur the caption *Day,” in Answers to Correspon ents, June 17, you wiil find acomplste ao. swer to your question TiMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS The quotation “These are times men’s souls’ is from the writings of T In 1776, when the great pairiot c looking very dark, Tom Paine pub first number of his Americau C commenced with the sentence, “Th times that try men’s souls.” COLUMBIAN HALF DOLLARS director of the United States miutin I port for 1893 says: *The coinage of sc half dollars ordered by theactof Augus 1892, was made from worn and uncurre 2 transierred from the treasu 1 ted States, as was also souvenir quarter dollars auth the act of Maren 3, 1893." tics for the calendar year end ber 31, 1892, show that in there were co the value of $475,000, and that during fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, there were ined Columbian half doliars of the value 2,501,052 50, and Columbisn quarters of t vaiue of $1,101.992, con entiy sueh helves were coiued in 1892 and in 1893. EMPEROR NORTON—O., City, “Emperor No ton” was an Englishman whose Joshua Norton. He served fora t Engiish army and in the early fiftie San Francisco, where he engaged in mercan- tile business and was a shrewd and very s cessful merchant. Atone time he attemy 10 get up a corner inrice, and aiter he had s cured all that there was 1n sight, as he thought, & great quantity was thrown on the merket from en unexvected qaarter. Finao- cially tho merchant was ru.ned, the L turned his mind and he become'a har &, City. T that ye ed Columbisn hali dollars o nam lunatie. He was of the impression that was the Emperor of the United States an otector of Mexico. He dressed in milila clothes, bat always wore a high hat and time he carried asword, His spec seemed 10 be to 100k eiter the iateres ** and he would issue num orc oclamations, which, for a time, we publistied in the newspapers as curfosities. A good-natured printer struck off for Norton a number of “bonds,” which he issued as fiat money. When wanted money he would not beg for it, but he fill out oue of his bonds, present and scc | whatever was given Lim on it. He was | ceived kindiy wherever ne went, as he n made his visits long and he never was a bore Once he was on the old plaza waiching t: movements of the Ellsworth Zouaves wher George Birdsall, at present a lieutenant of po- lice, butat that time in command of the sou- aves, ordered h off the plaza, as on that oc- he interiered with the commrn n. Thereupon th oid man took off uis sword, threw it on the ground and never siter spreared with a sword H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. Fruits; 50c 1b., in elegant Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* to manufastusery, CALIFORSTA Glace fire etched boxes. | o FPECTAL Information da; vusiness houses and public men by tha Prass Chpping Burean (allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e e “Oh, that,” she said, wearlly, “is another thing” Tt em as it their tete-a-tete was consiantly to be interrupted by a succession of Cholliies.—Cineinnati Enquire 25 Eate to via the Chicago tanta Fe Route. Great The low rates made for Chiistian Endeavorers { will be open to the public as well. An oppor.u nily (o visit the East never -before enjoyed by Cal- yornlans. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- Ing-cars of the atest paitern. Modern upholstersl tourist sleeping-cars run dally through from vaz- land pler to Chicago. Sie Ume-table In advert!s- ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Marx street, Chronicie bulding. ‘leiephone Maln .0 Gukiand, 1118 Eroadway. . Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago. Tickets will be on sa’e July 12 to the 17th. Good final limit, August 15: stopover allowed Ir'sa splendid opportunity to take a trip to Chicago and stopoffat the famous Yellowstone Park. Send 6 cents in stamps for_ fllustrated book, *Wander land,” 10 T. K. Stateler, general agent Northern Pacific Ratlway, 638 Market st —— “For pity's sake, George,” said a distressed $32 50 to wife, “do get a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for that cough and give us a rest.” He did so. Sl G — Ir afilicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggis's-sell it at 25 cents. —_—————e “1 do believe that English valet of Chollie’s has got the slightest sense of humor.” 01 course he hasu’t. That is how he holds his job."” —Indiavapolis Journal. NEW TO-DAY: ESTATE OF ALEX. MACKAY The date of the final wind up of ADJUSTIMENT SALE is positively fixed at JULY 10th. WHILE WE HAVE MOVED A LARGE PROPORTION OF OUR STOCK, there are still plenty of tempting bargains in all departments. A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE SALE THIS WEEK will he CARPETS! 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