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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1897. _____—_______——-————-—‘ LY 8, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUL, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: 'y and Sunday CALY, one year, by mail v and Sunday CaLL, six months, by mall and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall.. Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. WaikLY CALL, one year, by mall BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, Fan Francisco, Californis. Telephone.. .Maln—-1868 ROOMS: EDITORIAL 517 Clay Stregw Telephone Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICE 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer 9:80 o'cluck. ¥39 Hayes street; open uatil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Lafkin sireet, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteentl aud Mission sureets, open untfl 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'elock. 167 Ninth street, open until 8 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until :30 o'cloek. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky atreets; open till 9 o’clock. v; open untll OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICI Booms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon poing 1o the conntry ona vacation* It no trouble for ns to forward THE CALL to Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier or lefi at Office will receive prompt attention. Fifiy cents per mouih NO EXTKA CHARGE. for summer months. Decorate to-day. The City shows itself sumptuous, The whole atmosphere takes on a jubilee air. Street crowds are increasing and every- | body looks happy It is going to be an Independence day to talk of for years to come. The eyes of the whole Eastern popula- tion will be on us to see how we do it. Our visitors will find we are all Cbris- tian Endeavorers to do the proper thing. For a week at least San Francisco will | be the biggest summer resort on the con- tinent. 2 The journey across the continent is long, but the Christian Endeavorers will find the trip worth the cost. Mr. Bryan will find San Francisco next week the least responsive place in the country to a calamity howl. The wholesalers will make this a hol- day, but the retailers will even the thing up by doing a wholesale business, Don't forget that the best way to assure yourse!f oi good reading for to-morrow is to leave orders to-day for THE SUNDAY CaLL. ‘We must put on our best behavior as well as our best bib ana tucker, for our visitors this time are judges of morals as well as of man Lieutenant Peary hasstarted north again to-search for the pole and by this time two years from now some one else will be start- ing north to search for him. Cleveland has gone 1o Buzzards Bay again, but as he will have no office seesers 1o’ catch bait for him, it is doub:ful if he enjoys the lishing as he did last year. The call for a display of patriotism and of hospitality at one and the same time gives San Francisco an opportunity to get to the front with both feet, and she will do it. When the convention has finished its lators, the delegates should stay for a frolic. San Francisco has more summer resort - attractions than any other city in the world. The only question of interest remain- ing in the tariff debate is whether the House will accept the amendments made by the Senate or whirl in and make some of its own. Judging from the number of accidents which have happened to their trains some of our visitors will be tempted to change the title of their organization for this sea- son and call themse.ves Chtistian Adven- turers, The Texas farmers who are agreed that they should bavea railroad of their own are divided whetner they should build it themselves or get the State to build it, and work is postponed while the talk goes on. According te a resolution proposed in the House on Thursday the debate on the tariff bill when itreturns to that body from the Senate will not exceed thirty minutes, and as it is likely the rule will be adopted it will seen that the House means business as well as legislation. While our greas convention will attraet most of uttention this week the country will not wholly overlook the circus at Nashville. The programme calls for a Populist convention there in the middle of the road with Tom Watson as ringmaster and the fun is sure 10 be lively. The deficit for the year under the Wil. son tariff is §$18,623,108, and if it had not been for the large importations to head off the duties of the new tariff it would have been greater siill. Even the approach of Republican prosperity has not overccme the evil of Democratic biundering. The. Berkeley scheme for providing each Endeavorer with a bouquet on Berkeley day is decidedly a festalidea. 1t will take many a biossom to furnish even a bouton- ‘niere for about thirty thousand people, - and outside of California no commaunity, however enthusiastic or floral, would un- dertake to do i The festivities and parades which have followed the close of the jubilee week in London would have made a pretty good jnbilee themselves in any other city. There have been military reviews, roya! garden parties ana state dinners without number. London wiil come very near cornering the bromo seltzer market before the month is ove: As the President has approved the bill providing for the admission of foreign laborers to take partat the Omaha exposis tion next year itisnow too late to protest further against the admission of Chinese. All that can be done is to watch the Mon- golians who come in under the act to see that there are not too many of them, and moreover that they go out again. THE NEW FISOAL Y:cAR. ‘Whether by design or sult of existing conditions, has become the spokesman of the admin- istration. He makes more speeches and is interviewed more often than any other member of the Cabinet, and, moreover, in his addresses and in his interviews al- | ways says something which merits and | receives the attention of the public. His latest utterance is a review of the condition of the treasury at the close of the fiscal year which ended with the last | day of June, and a consideration of the prospects of the year to come. This is | the department of the Government in which most public interest is felt at the present time, and consequently the words | of the Secretary will be widely read and carefully studied. Fortunately they are words of good cheer, and the more they are quoted the more sanguine and op- timistic will become the general disposi- tion of the people. The heavy imports made to forestall the new tariff caused such an increase of revenue during the month of June that the surplus over expenditures amounted to $13,650,014. This sarplus reduced the deficit for the year to $18,623,103, thus leaving the treasury in a much better con- dition than was expected. American in- dustry hes, of course, suifered by reason of the large foreign importations, but the treasury has gained something, inasmech as it is now certain the Government can be carried on without anotber bond issue until the new tariff gces into effect and assurep s sufficient revenue for all ex- penditures hereafter. At this time last year, as the Secretary roints out, the gold reserve was only $102,- 000,000, or just barely above the theoretical reserve of $100,000,000. ‘There was a fear that before the year was over there might be very large exports, compelling the ad- ministration to again issue bonds for gold. Now we not cnly have a goid reserve of $141,000,000, but there is not a cloud in sight as to its continuance approximately at that very comfortable level. There can be no question taat this con- dition of the treasury is one of the most hopeful signs of the times. It confirms public confidence in the revival of pros- perity, and will go far toward encourag- ing men of enterprise 1o enter upon new business ventures. Capitalists and inves- | tors, not only of our country but of the whole world, are satisfied of the sound condition of the Government, and trade and industry are no longer disturbed by a threatened export of gold. Summing up the outlook for the new fiscal year, the Secreiary says: “All the nervousness which formerly held us in its toils has disappeared. In its place we | have confidence in the future, confidence in the Government, confidence in our- | selves. Tne hoardine of gold has stopped, | and much of the yellow metal that was | piled away durin, | come out and gone into circulation.” | That being the condition of affairs we can weil afford to be cheerful. 1t is true the deficit left from the Democratic ad- ministration remains with us, but the new tariff will soon go into effect, and | then with a well-filled treasary, well-pro- | tected industries and abundant confi- dence, we can go forward to an era of | prosperity equal to any we bave ever | known. |LUXURIES MUST PAY DUTIES. Recently in these columns we referred to the growth among people of large for- tune of the custom of “‘shopping” in Eu- | Tope. Rich families brought here from Paris and London trunks by the score, | and in some cases upward of a hundred, | all filled with *‘personal wearing apparel,’’ which was entered duty free, while at the same time American merchants were compelled to pay duty on imports of such goods. Not only that, but the articles shipped to this country free of duty could be mannfactured here just as well in every particu'ar, and thus increase local American trade and give employment to more American labor. ‘We opined that if wealthy families were determined to maiutain this aristocratic fad of buying their stores on the other side of the Atlantic, it was only right and proper that they should be made to pay as much duty on their wholesale pur- chases abroad as American importers were forced to pay on the same class of goods. 1t is gratifyine, therefore, to note that the Benate has taken such action in rela- tion to the matter as will serve to remedy in a large measure the evil that was rap- idly growing. The Senate has amended the provision of the tariff bill with regard to ‘“‘wearing apparel and personal ad- vancement’’ to read ‘‘that in the case of residence in the United States all wearing apparel and personal effects- taken by them from the United States may be brought back free of duty, without regard to their value, and articles purchased | abroad only to the amount of $100.” Democratic Senators characterized this provision as ‘‘barbarous’ and ‘‘giving way to demagogism.” 1t is an action, how- ever, that will be commendea by the American people. The goods brought home from foreign lanas by the ton by famities of millionaires are not necessi- ties of life by any means—they are lux- uries; and Senator Vest of Missouri be- trayed a peculiar inconsistency when he denounced the limitation in very inele- gant language, Once upon a time not far in the past the Democratic slo-an had a note in 1t to the effect that “luxuries should be made to pay the burden of revenue taxation,” When it 1s considered that during 1896 the “‘personal wearing apparel,” shipped duty free from Europe to the United States, represented a valuation of nearly $150,000.000, it will be seen that the United States Government will shortly hereafter realize a very snug little sum 1n duties from these imported luxuries of the mil- lionaires and their families, if the ship- ments continued to be made in the same wholesale manner. And if the measure shall bappily result in keeping much of this “shopping' at home, where people of moderate means must spend their money, it will be so rauch the better. But in either case the provision is an excellent one, and a very beneficial one at that. IN JUBILEE ARRAY. The wholesale merchants of the City have performed a generous and praise- worthy act in- agreeing to close their places of business to-day, thus aifording an appreciable period of rest, relaxation and pleasure to their thousands of em- ployes, who will bave three full holidays in succession to themselves. Next week will be a memorable one for San Francisco. Trains from every part of the Union are now headed for tuis City, and on Tuesday next fully 20,000 visitors will bé Lere. The International Conven- tion of Christian Endeavorers will bring the multitudes, and many of the trains bearing delegates will arrive before the dawning of the glorious Fourth. San Francisco should be in gala dress to give the myriads from the East and North and Scuth appropriate greeting. Our City should be splendidly adorned | with National colors anc with tne purple’ the depression has | be had a solid D2mocratic Congress to and gold of the mighty organization | which we should ali delight to welcome. Market street can be made a picture of beauty if the business men do their duty, and they certainly will, in the matter of completing the line of decorations from the ferries to Van Ness avenue. The other important business streets should not be behind in displays graceful and patriotic. The residence districts of the City should contribute to the general effect by hanging out flags and bunting and fitting Christian Endeavor designs. The homes of our people snould, as far as possibie, be decked in jubilee array. Fling out your banners everywhere. Let tte breeze have more bunting to play witn than ever it fanned before. Up with the purple and gold along with the red, white and blue. D:corate to-day, and decorate with the spirit that should char- acterizs a people who are naturally patr- oticand who take pride, furthermore, in maintaining San Francisco's fame for deing nothing “*half way'’ that is worthy of being done at all. PROTECTION SFKTIMENT. The people of the Nation have had sufficient illustration of the ruinous effects of free trade to make them turn from the path that leads to disaster and poverty and shun it forevermore. The late Presi- dential election, with its overwhelming majority for protection, represented a grand movement on the part of the vot- ing masses that was not to cease with the realization of the popular desire for an administration, backed by a majority in each branch of Congress, that would give the country a.genuine American policy. The movement has continued and the trend 1s more and more toward those principles which are the glory of the Re- publican party and which constitute the best safeguard of the Union. The experience of the Nation with the combined ills of free trade and Cleveland- ism during four years of business distrust, closed mills and poverty taught the peo- ple better than statesmen and politicians, with reasoning and statistics, could teach them. They had practical demonstration of the very results that were foretold when Democracy assumed the reins of Govern- ment in 1892, The people were misled then by theorists, who talked eloquently of the “benefits” that would ensue from lopping off tariff from wool and lumber and coal and numberless other things. As Lincoln once said: “You can fool ail of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t iool all of the people all of the time.” The Democracy fooled a majority of the people in 1892, but it was different in 1896, The many had acquired wisdom in the school of hard experience. Of course, some peovle may always be fooled, but the vast number who contro! the destinies of the Republic were quickly undeceived. When Cleveland went into office in 1892 work with. In 1894 the Congressional election left hardly enough Democrats in the House of Representatives to make a respectable caucus. This was but a pre- lude to the complete victory of iast year. There is no cessation now to the growth of the protection sentiment. Especially is it spreading in the Staies of the South, the stronehold of Democracy. The Amer- ican Tarilf League, which has been serv- ing newspapers with protection literature, announces in the last issue of the Ameri- can Economast that for the service in ques- tion an unprecedented number of replies have been received from neutral and free- trade papers. Since the last general elec- tion the total number of newspavpers thus served has increased from 3449 to 5673 The buik of the increase came naturaliy from protection papers, but 486 came from free-trade and 259 from neutral publica- tions. From Georzia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississipp!, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia was received the majority of the applications from newspepers which have hitherto been ar- ruyed under the free-trade colors. The most surprising increase is that of Texas, where formerly the league furnished its literature to only fourteen papers, and where now the number is increased to 109, This is deemed the strongest possible evi- dence that the principle of protection is to-day accepted in every section regard- less of previous party afliliations. Free trade is dead and buried. That ruinous policy cannot be resurrected. We shall attain our full measure of vrosperity only through the wise application of the Amer- ican policy of protection. (IVILIZING WILD INDIANS. “Does it pay to take the blanket Indian in band and force him into self-support?” To judge from the success of the experi- ment made by V. E. Stottlerof the United States army, acung Indian agent at Mescalero, N. Mex, an answer in the affirmative must be forthcoming. Two years ago Mr. Siottler was placed in charge of Apaches 455 strong, occupying a reservation of 700 square miles in South- ern New Mexico. His experiences, lated in the Outlook, terest, When the agent arrived there he found the red men “living in tepees and brush shelters on the sidehills in filth and squalor, contented to be fed and clothed, determined not to work, and bitterly op- posed to any suggestion from their agent looking to a betterment of their condition. Long hair, paint, the breechclout ana blanket were their principal adornments.” All the wagons and agricultural imple- ments and clothing which had been sup- plied by the Government, and all of which the Apaches despised, had been sold by them for a song 1o bangers-on of the res- ervation. “Tue situation,” says Mr. Stottler, *‘had evidently been handled from the beginning from a so-called hu- manitarian and not from a business stand- point.”” Moral svasion with the Indian had proved a failure. The aborigines has anything that smacks of white man's ways, and to coax Indians only makes them feel that the white man is inferior and afraid of them. The agent adopted tue motto, “No work, no rations,” and *‘with the intention of lavishly using force or pressure, started in to accomplish something.” Indians were assigned to the task of mak- ing public improvements, digging irriga- tion ditches, fencing in their land, etc., and the men who refused to work went hungry. He put a stop to their manufac- ture of liquor and compellec each head of a family 10 erect a cabin on his land. He dealt with individuals and put anend to treating with chiefs as spokesmen. “As with Bamson of old,”” Mr. Stottler declares, ‘“‘the Indians’ wildness lay in their long hair, which the returned edu- cated Indians wore, because, as they boasted, ‘it made them wild.’ The “no ration” scheme was utilized here again. Those who cut their hair were re- warded with generous supplies. The In- dians who had been educated by the Gov- ernment at an expense of thousands of dollars were the wildest of all, the laziest and most ambitionless. They were ar- rested and had their hair cut and a suit of clothes put on. In six months *‘everv méle Indian haa been changed into the semblance of a decent man, with the warning that confinement at Bard labor awaited any backslider. There have been none,” says the agent, “‘and the task of | . moving them upward has been percépti- bly easier from the time scissors clipped off their wildness.”” The Indfans hud been accustomed to dictate to agents; now they were consulted no longer and were forced to do what the Governmentcommanded.. Willing or un- willing, every child over five years of age was forced into school. Their school now shows the excellent record of 100 per cent of attendance. From absolute dependence on the Gov- ernment, the agent shows these Indians have attained to such a condition that all rations (except beef) and clothing were to be cut off on the 1st of the present month. In two years more they will be able to furnish their own meat. The Indians now live in civilizged fashion in- comforta- ble houses on well cultivated ~farms. Paint and feathers and barbarous dances nave been abolished, and there hasn’t been & drunken Indian on the reservation for eighteen months, PERSONAL. John A. New of Fresno is in town. B. F. Burt of Riverside 1s av the Lick. Robert Haas of Fresno is at the Russ. F. Golden, a jeweler of Virginia City, is in town. ' F. W. Wise Jr. of Washington, D. Ci, is at the Palace. Fred E. Spencer of San Jose is on a wisit to the City. . Dr. E. IL Smith of Santa Clara is s late ar- rival here. I Block, & merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. J. Lynch of San Jose is registered at the Cos- mopo.itan. ‘ Jesse D. Carr of Seiinas 15 in .the City for a few days’ stay. W. R. Watson and family are staying at the Cosmopolitan, T. O. Palmer of Emerson, Nebr., was among the arrivals here yesterday, Dr. George M. Kober of Washington, D, €., is here. He is at the Occidentul. H. J. Clinton and wife of Grand Junetion, Colo., are at the Cosmopolitan. « Captain William Matson of a brig plying be- tween this City and Hawail is at the Grand. Superior Judge J. R. Webb_of Fresno is at the Lick, accompanied by & party of friends. The Rev. Dr. Holmes and the Rev. Dr. W. G. Webb, of Weiser, Idaho, are at the Occidental. Rovert T. Deviin, State Prison Commissioner, is down from Sacramento. He is registered at the Grand. President and Mrs. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University came up from Palo Alto yesterday aud are at the Palace. Henry T. Scott of the Union Iron Works re- turned on Thursday night from Washington, D. C., after several weeks’ absence. Judge Charles W. Slack of the Superior Court Jeit last evening for = visit to tue Yos:mite Valley. He wiil be absent until the 12th nst. J. E. Warrington, a prominent young attor- ney of Salinas, is visiting the City and will re- main through the Fourtn of July festivities here. Franciscas Duenas and bride (formerly Miss Treguerros of Salvador) are at the Palace. Mrs. Duenas is the daughter of ex-President Tre- guerros of Salvador. The Rev. Dr. Adams of the First Congrega- tional Church has returned here after dn ex- tended trip to St. Louis and other parts of the East. He has greatly enjoyed his trip. Dr. Barber, superintendent of the Los An- geles County Hospital, is in town, accom- panied by his wife. They are on their way to the Yosemite Valley, and are at present stop- ping with Mrs. Bartoer’s father, W. H. Yates of Berkeley. Henry Miller, the king of the cattle-growers, who ws alieged by a dispatch to the City pa- pers yesterday to have narrowly missed being kidnaped in Kern County by bandits, arrived here yesterday. He averred that Ne ¢id not know that any sttempt nad been made to kidnap him, and did not seem pleased ‘at the netoriety he had gained. He has come up on a business trip. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 2.—At the 8t. Cloud—A. B. Brown; New Amstordam—Ar. and Mrs. W. Dunn: Union Square—F. L. H. Noble; Metropole—A. Etsenberg. M. Levy; Vendome— Mis. Herd; Gilsey—T. D.Juedra; Hoffman— A.J. Muller, WITH YOUR COFFEE! No philosophy can explain how it’s possible for cold cash to burn a hole in a man’s pocket. —Philadelphia Times. [ “Did Mrs. Jinks’ traveling gown fit well?” “Yes, but it cost 50 much she had to give up her trip and stay at home.”—Ghicago Record, Philanthropist—What is the causa of your being in here, my good man? Convict—Hiring a sccond- ton Transeript. He—AWway you go to the Seashore, Mrs. Tif- fington, and I2ave your hard-working husband chained to his desk. She—Chained? No, indeed; if you only could be I'd have some peaceof mind.—Brook- Iyn Life. “gow is it that your son’s head seems to be drawn to one side? Only agear ago he was straight as an Indian.” “I ¢an only account for it through the fact that hedid his courtingon a tandem.’’—Detroit Free Press. “See here! That horse you sold me runs sway, kicks, bites, strikes and tries to tear down the stable at night. You told me that if Igot him onceI wouldn’t part with him for $1000. “Well, you won’t.” —Detroit Free Press. te lawyer.—Bos- Some well-intentioned person, catechising another individual inquired: “My good man, do you ever do anything fo bring light and purity into the homes of your fellow-men?” . “Yes; lots,” was the reply. “You distrioute tracts 2" ‘No. Icleans windows and beats carpets,” — New York Observer. MUST HAVE A MUSTACHE. Chicago News. The soldier who serves Queen Victoria must bave his upper lip covered with sweeping mustaches, and it they are “tawny,” as the novelists say, so much the bpiter. The com- manding officers in the British srmy have lately received from the War Department a memorandum which reads: A report having been raceived in the department to the effect that it isgetting the fashion in some: regi- ments for young officers to shava the upper lip, the Secretary of State for War requests hat you will be 60 g00d as to take such steps you may think necessary to insure the pro- visions of ‘the Queen’s regulations. béing ad- heredto.”” Which is official sanction that the mustache is the correct m:iJ adorament for the British soidier. It was not always so. For msny years after the overians came in neither mustache nor beard were permitted on an Englishman’s face,and & man who wore one was called s loreigner and viewed with suspigion. It is aid the mustache worn by Prince Albert was the cause for the distrust with which some of Queen Victoria’s subjects always regardesd for her consort. With the Hanoverians the outer life at court was hampered by strict rules that 8o rigid as to. be absurd. For years.no man could present himeelf before the sovereign if he wore a beard. This rule was in force so late as ihe Bepoy rebellion in 1( 8, uflpp o and when one of the native heroes went to Kngland to receive per- sousl thanks from his sovereign, court offi- ciais raised the question whether be could be presented, for he wore a patriarchal beard and it was impossible to ask him to shave, a8 in hisown cquntry the beard was a mark of distinetion and :‘lvfl‘l face is the sign of an inierior caste. Queen was de- sirous of receiving. him, ‘but she debated a week before venturing 1o trausgress the court rule. Final'y, however, she broke it, and the ebsurd custom was do &y with. 'he Prince of Wa.es is responsible for the fashion of wearing beards in private life, Like all Guelphs he has a receding chin and adop! the beard to hide the defect. No momarch in Europe now wears a full beard with the ex- ception of the venerable King of Denmerk. ticular pains have been taken to find subjects sensible, refreshing bit of reading seasonable to the day—sa totch of genuine a spice of actual interest second, a leavening worth publishing for its own sake, and a grain of thought added just to rem! & Bunday newspaper need not be the light, irresponsible, THE CALL to-morrow will be & and carelessly reputed to be. tion tothe entertalnment of the day, and will profusely and tastefully illustrated. The value which attaches to several of the There will be special features for Independence day in to-morrow’s CALL, course, but they will not be of the stereotyped order so common 10 A FOURTH OF JULY SUFPLEMENT. as a matier of this great oceasion. Par- which would combine all the rare essentialsof & patriotism first of importance sufficient to ‘make the matter ind the people that ephemeral thing that it is commo_nly asible and valuable contribu- besides—all be & complete compendium of news, articles that are toappear in this extradydinary number, as special local stories having in them an element of news combined with a peculiar appropristeness to the occasion confronting us, makes it advisable not to disclose in advance of puhflutini the precise nature of them. Suffice it to say that they will repay & perusal of to-morrow’s CALL in & more than usual measure. Of course all the regular feetures will Childhood's Realm will breathe Fourth of Jul. be improved upon as much as possible. The y sentiments from every corner, and the llus- trations accompanying them will fairly startle Young America in these parts; the social page will gleam with bits of 1ntelligence snent local ‘pleasure spirits at inaependence time; theaters, too, will be portrayed in all their holiday attractiveness. nities, the whisters, the literary doings of the particular attractiveness. o the ‘he fashions, the frater- week—all these topies will be set torth with AN ELECTRIC HORSE. Horseless carriages, while favored by many persons, are equally an eyesore to many These latter are, as a rule, ardent lov- ers of horses, and it natarally pains them to think that the day is quickly coming when the horse, as a beast of burden, will be rather The for- mer, &5 a rule, have never cared much for horses, and consequently they naturally wel- come any mechanical contrivance which is bie to take the place and do tne work of the others. an unusual signt in any large city. animal. Mr. Blackmore, an English inventor, has been trying to make peace betwcen the two factions, and with that object in view he has patented & one-horse electric carriage, of ‘This con- trivance, he claims, should be welcomed by 811, both by thote wilo want & liorso & well 1 e iwhich an illustration is here given. by those who want an electric motor. parture of the Servia. My friends not having arrived on board, I slid across the dock to take x look at the Etruris, of whichIhad read and heard so much. 1 had stood close to the bridge for five minutes or so wheu m attention was attracted o a man on a canal- boat close by brandishing bis fist in the air at someLody on the bridge. “I looked aioft and saw a fine-looking officer in iaultless gold braid and exqyuisitely cropped whiskers waving his arm back at the man on the canal-boat. Then I heard some- thing like thi; ¢ Hisay. Hi wantyou to haul that bloom- ing craft of yours houtof the way this min. ute. Be smart about hit. Hi want to use the space for coaling.’ «Haul her! Not by a jugful,” said the man on the canal-boat. “But you must,” said Mr. Gold Lace. “‘Not for vou or snybody e.se. Who are you, anyway?' I am the chief officaw.’ «Spake to your equals, theu,’ sald the b M Chan IDEA FOR AN e Motorstte. ELECTRIC HORSE. styles his invention the electric horse, and he 1nsists that no other motor for carriages can equal it. In the body of this not uncomely quadruped there are stored, not armed warriors, but penceful electric accumulators. The ordinary horse_requires a goodly ration of oats before he will dua long journey; all this horse needs in a few vo:ts of eleciricit Two conductors u-m.-m?t electric energy to amotor, which is placed between the legs of the animal, and power is then transmitted to the hind wheel by means of & chein similar to the one used on bicveles. But tris is not all. 11it were the horse wounid be & mere dummy. This horse, however, can walk, trot, umble, pace, gallop and even. caracole. : The automaton on the box-seat has only to manipulate the reins cuuning.y in order to produce any desired motion. These reins com- municate with the iront wheel and are the mcst important pert of the whole contrivance. They must be managed properly, or other- wise the electric horse Wwill prove as un- manageable as anv living Bucephatus. The tail, too, plays an important part. It seems that the animal will not trot uniess the tail is moved a good deal to one side, and that it will not gallop unless the tail §s removed altogether. the reics and tdil. SUMMER SPLENDOR. A stir of life In the vilage street— A murmur thrills in the sun-soft air; The quoiL game siops, though iv's not complete— The loafer’s eyes nave a bulging stare. The men at the postoffice corner stop The Cub N question to turn and g ze; The waiting swains by the blacksmith-shop Join in tbe townsfolks’ glad umuze. The window-shades that have kept the sun From fading the parior carpets r.se. You hear the feminine feet that iun— ‘she windows are filled with eager eyes. The good folk know that the summer’s near; They see the signs and are giadly mute, Far isu'c the ¢ity drummer h Te, Clad in a last year's outing suil —Detroit News. MEN AND WOMEN. Bev. Dr. William H. Milburz, the blind chaplain of the United States Senate, has been excused by Vice-Presiaent Hobart from per- sonal service for the remainder of the session, Rev. Dr. Johnson, the President’s pastor, being substituted. Denmark has a distinguished Nansen as well as Norway. A banquet was recently given in Berlin toa Danisa poet, Peter Nan- sen, whose love poems and stories—espectally «Julin's Diary”—have won him many ad- mirers in Germany. , Austin Gollaber, said to be the last of Abra- ham Lincoln’s bayhood friends, is dying at his farm near Hodgenville, Ky. three miles from the farm where Lincoln was born and distinctly remembers the youthful «Abe,” whom he once pulied out of acreek into which he fell Miss Amelia Groll, better known as Mlle. Ritael Andl, the American prima donna of the noted grand the Carl Rosa company, opera enterprise in England, bas returned to this country. She is here for a vacation of six weeks, whicn she will spend in Cleve. land, her home. _An intimate friena of Munkacsy declared the other day that if thatariist had been so inclined he might have earned a big fortune. American dealers, in particular, offered him big sums if he would paint such and such pictures, but he preterred to follow his own ideas, his one ambition belug to painta pic ture that would bring him lasting fame. Miss Madeline Pollard, who was the plaintiff in the sensntional suit against W. C. P. Brec] inridge, and who disappeared after the trial, which resulted in a verdict in her favor f r $15,000 damages, has been living qu.etly iu London. stances, and is understood to be studying with the view of engagiug in literary work. She intends to make Engiand her home. The Duchess of Kent was Queen Victoria’s is an anecdote which teils that there was in the Duke of Kent's house- hold & gentieman called Mr. Brown. The Princess’ father called him Brown, so the Princess imitated him and used tocall him Brown, but the Duchess, her mother, said she mother, and the: was not to call him Brown, but Mr. Brown, ot else she would send her to bed. The next morning the Princess said: “Good-morning, Brown, and good-night, for Iam going to bed HE WAs CAPIlAIN. New York Mail and Express. “One afternoon I had oceasion to go up 10 the foot of Clarkson street to see some friends It 'was before the days of the Lucania and Cam- panis, and the Etruria was the crack boat of the service, both in the way of speed and pat- ronage. The Etruria had made another of her wonderful single-screw ruas, which brought her into the dock carly that Saturday, about three hours or 8o beiere the time for the de- oft on the Servis,” said Admiral Erben. Any one, therefore, who desires to become an exper: driver of the electric horse must carefully study the various uses of He lives about She is apparently in good circum- gnnnl-hou man, hotly. ‘I’m the cap’nof this ont.! ““This etiguctte of the sea was too much for the mar: of the gold lace, so he fled. So did I, But I thought of the brig, of double irons, of toeing the seam, of polishing brasswork and a dozen other naval punishmenis as I returned to the Servia.”” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE BULLETIN—J,. G.. City. The first num- ber of the San Fraucisco Evening Bulletin, C. 0. Gerberdmlg & Co., publisaers, and James King of William, editor, was issued Monday, October 8, 1855. “My UsxcLE'—W. H., City. The term-uncle, as applied to prwnbrokers, 15 a pun on the Latin word “urncus,” a book. Pawnbrokers, before the adoplion of spouts, employed & hook to lift arucles pawned. JumBo—J. D., Mare Islana, Cal. After Jum- bo, the elephant owned by Barnum, wes killed by a rajlroad accident in 1885, he was stuffed under direction of his lats owner and vlaced in iggé\'uw York Museum of Natural History, in 3 . CAMPHOR—A. 8, City. Camphor is not used in the prisons in California for the purpose named in your communication, but bromides sometimes are. For adaitional information on the subjsct you had b:tter address a com- municatiou to the physician of each prison. THE LIGRTNING® TRAIN—M. H., City. The lightoing train thatstarted from New Jersey for San Francisco in 1876 left the first-named place June 1 and reached this City June 4 The actual time in making this tp was 83 hours 39 minutes and 16 seconds. JOEY GOUGENHEIM—I. G., City. Joey Gougen- heim played an engagement in this City at the old Metropolitan Theater 1n 1861. It was on the occasion of a benefit ten- dered to her on the nignt of the 9th of July of that year that she appeared in “An Unequal ruch.; flxppor{ed bu’l ng Mowbray, J. E. eonard, Harry Courtaine, David C. A Jonn Wood and Frank Mayo. IR £CHOOL TERMS—A. O. 8, City. In the public schools of 8an Francisco there are nine grades, depariment one being the lowest and nine the highest, There are promotions iwice a year, and those of a class who are promoted be. long 10 A of the grade in which they are, while those who fail of promotion belong to B of the same grade, heuce the terms **high A"d d"‘luw Xs.i:i Such terms as¢ ‘Yinter- mediate four,’”” “old sixes” and “new s o and the like are not used. e INsEcTS—A. B., City. Tke hexapoda or in- sects proper derive their sysiematic name, | which means six-looted, from the fact thay the adults, with a few exceptions, have three pairs of feet for locomotion. One of the ex- ceptions is the campodes, which has nine pairs of legs. In other classes of insects the beripatus has from sevenicen and n.neteen 10 thirty and thirty-three pairs of legs in diffec- ent species. Mites &nda utcks have four pairs of 1eel, the cellar spider has six puirs ot iimbs, the poiyxemdsle have thirteen pairs of feet, and the giomeridal has from seventeen 1o twenty-one pairs of iegs. Dark HorsE—W. H., City. Dark horse, used in sporting uud political pariance, was, it is claimed, used for the first time in'a politica: sense by Taackerny in “The Adveutures of Philip.” Said Philip, referring 1o some talk about & candidate for Parliament: “Why, bless my soul, he couidn’t m g a work that was published more ti, century ago. Iu that work is the f;{lloel:rl.lgl. “The iirsL {avorite was never heard o, \oe second 1AVOIiie Was NeVer seen uiier the dis. tance post, all the ten-1o-one Were iu the renr, and .ha.rx mx’:".; which had never been thou:ht o1 rus! t the gri Eweoping tHuMDRT! T grand stand 1n appreciate ilie affair as much as he thought .~ Lgey would. Sons of Benjamin. Golden Gate Lodge No. 175 of the Inde- pendent Order of the Sous of Benjamin will publicly install its officers at Washington Hall on the evening of Tuesday mext. Aiter the, instatiation there will be an entertainment, for which a good programme has been pre pared by the commiiiee of arrangements, and that wilbe followed by a dance. - The cards of invitation contain the following: “Childrén not edmitted.” % fs Templar Lodge, I. 0. O. F. Templar Ledge No. 17, L. 0. 0. F,, will o next Monday work in the initiatory degree. and at the close of the ceremony, which is aiways performed in this iodge in 1 manner, there will be an informal reception: and refresnments will be served to all. * An-ins vitation has been extended to ail 0dd Feliow to attend. .. ©rder B'ne B'rith. 8 The executive ccmmittee, accompanied b Past Presidents Enkle and len.\cu}ld and the 3 Rev. Mr. Nieto. visitea Arjel Lodge in San Jose- last Sunday and after the official inspectian’ the visitors were made the guests of the lodge, and royally entertained. e Montetiore Lodge of the Youths’ Auxiliary . will on Monday publicly install its oficers. .- The new endowment law went into. effect on the 1st 1nst, and the grand secretary.has sent to each lodge in the jurisdiction’all the: books and blanks to carry out the provis-ons: of the new Jaw. There are now three grades: - in the endowment foature of- the ordery: namely, $2000, $1000 and £500. Since the, adoption of the new iaw there have been no. . withdrawals on account of it as it Wes pre- .- dicted there would be. ; 2 The Rev. Mr. Voorsanger was in Portland recently and there addressed & joint meeting- of the three lodges in_that city, there being present more than 150 members. Subse-. quently he addressed & public meeting in_the.” temple and dwelt upon the order and the good work in .which it is engaged. During . his stay in Portland the visitor was cordially welcomed wherever he visited and it is be- lieved that his addresses will awaken a lively. interest in the order in that City. The Rev. Mr. Voorsanger is now lodges in Seattle and vicinity. Young Men’s Institute. Washington Coupecil No. 4 has elected the . following-named officers for the ensuing - . J. Dudy, president; W. P. Cooper; " first vice-president; W. J. Kelly, second vice- president; A.J. Dickson, recording secretary; James J. Larkin, corresponding secretary Charles Cain, financial secretary; McLaugh- . lin, treasurer; V. A. Paris, marshal; J. F. Bo- 1and, inside sentinel; H. J. Cuello, outsid: sentinel; Dr. C. A. Glover, medical examiner executive commitiee—W. J. Coyer, P. A, Buck- ley. M. R. Carr. visiting the ‘Tawedral Council No. 59 has elected the fol- | F. Humphrey, presi- . _ lowing-named officers dent; John D. Moloney, first vice-president Charles D. McCarthy, second vice-president W. A. Hoffman. R. 8. P. Henry, C. 8.5 J. ; C. H. Caulfield, T.; John . McKenna, L 8.; P. Y. Gomez, Ward, M. B . 3.; Dr. James O’Conner, M. E.; Rev.J.J. Prendegast, chaplain; executive committee— T. F. Rvan, Rey. E. P. Dempsev, W. E. Dorn. Phil Sheridan Council No. 72 has elected tha following-named officers to serve for the emn-. suing term: P. J. Whelan, president; P. J... Haggerty, first vice; T. F. Healey, second vice H. 8. Gallagher, R.and C.8.; H. W. Griffin, F{ - L. Fiizgerald, M.; J.J. Heaiey, 1. 8.; D.-. Crawford, O. 8.; Dr. C. F. Griffin, M. E.; Rev. James McDonald, chaplain; executive. com= ‘mittee—M. D. Reardon, J. J. Smith and M. Larkin. : : Cooper Council of Ocean View installed its officers last evening in Murphy Hall. d The following are the arrangements that have, up todate, been made for Grand Coun- cil week at Santa_Ross, commencing on ihe- 17th of August: 17th, Teception of the dele-: gaces and concert in the evening; 18th, esrl. morning mass, morning and_aftérnoon busi- ness sessions, ball in the evening; 19tn, busi: - ness session forenoon and afternoon, banquet, in the evening; 20th, forenoon aud afterncon sessiun, entertainment in the evening, and: 21st, graud purade during the day and enter- tainment in the evening. % Tne fiscal year of the order closed on tha. 30th of last month.. All amendments to be resented to. the next session of the Grand Perior must be presented betore the 271k inst. Progressive Endowment Guild Supreme Deputy R. W. McGarvie instituted: a new chapter of the order at Watsonville on the evening of last Wednesday. The follow- ing named were installed as officers for th first term: Dr. S. C. RodgeErs, Past governor; R. H. Kelly, governor; Charles R. Peckham, vice-governor; W. B. Cooper, secretary; F.J. Chapman, treasurer; Dr. F. A. Brewer Jr, chaplaiu; T. C. Jameson, warden; M. A. Lau- ritzen, guard; Dr. S. C. Rodge aminer; G. L. Jobnson. V. C. Martin and Charles J. Brewer, trustees. : At the session of San Francisco Guild No. 328 next Wednesday cvening matters of the greatest impor:ance will be brought before the 5. BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's* pitimsindiers = CALIFORNIA Glace Fruit c 1b;, in elegant fire etched boxes. Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* - FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢, 40c, Sundays, 740 Market st.(Kast's shoe store) ;weekdays 35 4th™" RSy ST e FrecTAL Information dm:ly te manufactu: Dbusiness houses and public men by the Pras - Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * B THOUSANDS of Chicago visitors will be here, and headquarters at 773 Market street will decorate y our vlace of business or residence. Best buniing flags, 8 feet, $250; 10 feet, $4; 16 feet, $7; otner decorations cheapest in the City. We can prove it. 3 - ——————————— N. P. C. R. K, Excursion tickets (via Sausalito ferry) to the giant redwood forests of Marin and ‘So- noma counties, good from July 2 to 6. All ‘boats and trains on July 5 will run on Sunday time and rates. TR e ——.—— Dottie—Can you keep a secret? George Luf- ton proposed to me last night. B Jessie—Oh, I'm so surprised! Have you found out what girl had just jilted him?— Cleveland Leader. B $25 Eate to Chicago via the Great Santa Fe Route. ‘The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers . will_be open to_the public as well. An opportn- | DIty 10" visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- tornjabs. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sieep- Ing-cars of the latest paitern. Modern upholstered - tourist sleépfhg-cars run daily through from Oak 1hnd pier 16 Chicago” See time-table in adversis- ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Market stréet, Chronicle building, ‘lelephone Main 1531 Uakland, 1118 Brosdway. ————— $32°50 to St. Paul, Minneapolis’ Chicago. - Tickets will be on sale July 12 to the 17th. Good final limit, August 15; stopover allowed. It'sa splendid opportunity to take a trip to Chicago aad - stopoff at the famous Yellowstone Park. Send 6 cents in stamps for illustrated book, *Wondar-* land,” to T. K. Stateler, general agent Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market street, San Fraucisco., s WOMEN avoid suffering by using PARKER GINGER TONIC, as it is adapted to their ills. PARKER'S HATE BALSAM alds the hair growth, - ma ————— “For pity’'s sake, George,” sald a distressed wife, “do get a bottle of Ayer's Cherry P.ctoral for that cough and give us a 1est.” He did so. — e Mother—Do you kunow why your pa called Mr. Blowhard a liar, Tommy ? Tommy—Yes'm; he's & smaller man than pa.—Harlem Life. § e —————— FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, The Woodmen of the World Making Arrangements for a Grand Day at the Chutes, Goiden Gate Camp No. 64, Woodmen of the World, s still working mst energetically 1g become tne bannercamp of tais Jjurisaiction, At present its membership is in excess of 600, At its last held méeting fourteen candidates were initiated and there were still a numbe, of applications on file. e A committee has made arrangemen ‘Woodmen’s day at the Chutes on J“l’u“(orn; the members are now actively at work to ;mn this affair a success. That event will be fol, lowea by a grand smoker in the banquet-hall of the Native Sons’ building on the evening of ::, g?::glh:rlix:y.’ Axes are now being ground mge‘:inm % : D new timber at that camp- uring the visit of the g:::el; 1& m-k; ur:‘n.ome:":a“::: ;0"“:: eld there, J. reefkens, an actt - ber ot Golden Gate Camp sud a n.fi:‘:‘?n :::;'xrl:x]q“na‘ lnxaolw ifi some lady friends on tion, called to them sevaral ting %, bis posi- the voice each time some different welr:‘ noilvl.u‘;ll % quist enjo) 1 oke u; «lscuverm{him. -m’i lrom.:‘r}‘ Tooksiha "::fi: given him it wasevident the ladies did not NEW TO-DAY. S Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. _ Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO,, NEW YORK. the beSt .. medical ex. .

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