The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1897, Page 4

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Bure pop. | People can now talk eloquently of oros- | yerity because they feel it. ’ If the President doesn’t come to Califor- | nia to get the reception waiting for him | be will miss a big thing. | The wise miner will take no chances on | the frozeu Yukon so long as he has a sure | tbing in sunny California. It we provide the Mission Park we are | promised the zoo for nothing. Thatlooks | like a good proposition to take up. | | The coming Barney Barnato of the | Alaskan gold fields may be driving a don- key-cart somewhere this morning. | The miners’ strike in Ohio has led the | Democrats to regret a little bit that they nominated a mine-owner for Governor. There is a widespread belief that the American public prefers an adulterated food that looks pretty to a pure food that lacks style. If any Minister to Nicaragna could pro- mote the canal project we may be sure Captain Merry will. He can be counted on to keep digging a! it. The whirligig of time may show us be- fore long Bryan and Cleveland uniting | their voices to make a wild howl against | international bimetallism. The calamity-howlers may be talking as | much as usual, but as no one listens to | them they are getting the credit of having shut up. If all the stories from Alaska are true | we shall bave gold enough before long to gild the money question on both sides to the satisfaction of everybody. Itis announced that ‘the last English beet-sugar factory has ciosed its doors | anc that inaustry in the British islands is | dead, while the deseried buildings stand as monuments to free trade. That “abysmal fissure of immeasurable depth” of which the Ohio people are talk- ing may be a hole in. the ground, but it sounds like an attempt to describe the | cave in the Democratic party. | The proposed new line of steamers to Central and Bouth America may not ex- actly fill a long felt want, but it will create a want for its services by developing a | trade thatis capable of vast expansion, If it be true that Germany is to put a prohibitive tariff on American bicycies | the wheelmen of that country might as | well keep out of any cycle race at the start, for they certainly won't be in it at | the finish. If there are any men in this country | more eager than cthers to see the enact- | ment of the tariff bill we may be sure they are Congressmen sweltering in the heat of Washineton. Let us not kick the fel- lows who are undergoing most of the suf- fering. According to the New York Sun thers is no longer a Democratic party in Ameri- can pelitics. The Democrat of to-day must vote either with the Republican party or with the Populist party, and the Sun which never atany time more brightly shone for all, lures to the former course and leads the way. In his review of the condition of the Southern States in the current number of the North American Review, Mr. Mulhall says that section of the Union needs “‘more schools, more railways and more banks.” We are now waiting for the philosopher to tell us of a section of the world where more of these things are not neeced. The high aristocratic style of the sum- mer residents at Newport seems to have | affected even the postoffice officials, for, according to the Bostun Journal, when you buy stampy in that town, a pretty girl wraps them in paraffine paper and puts them in a little envelope. Thus you avoid the necessity of picking them off your vest pocket lining with a knife. From one of her generous citizens Phila- delphia is to receive a bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin to be placed on the spot where the philosopher stood when hesent up the kite that drew the light- ning from the skies. The location will, of course, add to the interest in the monu- ment, and Philadelphia is to be congratu- lated on the possession of a citizen who knows not only how to do the proper thing, but how to place it right. It is said that with the exception of a gap of 600 miles in the Soudan Great Britain has a telegraph service extending from the Cape of Good Hope through Central Africa to Cairo. The gap may be possibly filled by the present expedition up the Nile, and the British advance in the durk continent will then have a con- | independent of party, will gather in mass- | meeting at California Hall for the purpose )l | MCKINLEY AND OALIFORNIA. To-night the citizens of San Francisco, of formally inviting President McKinley to visit the Golden Siate. Brilliant speak- | ers wiil address the assemblage, and the oceasion promises to be one of unbounded eathusiasm. The people of this City and of this State | are a nit in their eagerness to have the Nation’s chief magistrate visit tie boun- teous land by the sunset shore. icans, Democrats and Populists alike join n the chorus of welcoming voices. All appreciate the benefits that would inure from such a visit. California’s re- sources and advantages have been too | little known to statesmen of the Eastin {he past. It is the common desire that the President may come here, and see for himseif the wonders of which tue Chris- tian Endeavorers will soon be telling in their Eastern homes. Californians have a warm admiration for President McKinley, and they will re- joice to pay him the honor due to his ex- alted office and to his noble personal character, as well as to his fame as & champion of the American protective policy. 1f the facts regarding this resourceful country on the Pacific Slope were more widely known and recognized among men of commanding influence in the affairs of the Nation, this State would profit largely by the increased consideration which her demands would receive, We want to charm the President with the most delightfnl excursion imagin- able, over a country teeming with vege- table and mineral riches. iff bill was before the Senate a few weeks ago it was a task to convince some of the distinguished statesmen of the extent of our fruit and wine industries. The vast. ness of our lands of orchard and of vine will astonish the President. We are thankful for the measure of protection vouchsafed us for the products of our 80il, but we want the President to behold | the ample and golden evidences mpon which our high hopes of future greatness and glory are builded. We want him to come and see our big cities and harbors. We want him to come and find out how the people of California love bim, and how they accord a genuine Western greet- ing to the highest servant of the greatest Republic on earth. COUNT THE QOST. The stories told by the successful miners who have returned from the Yukon gold | tields bearing bags and sacks of the precious metal, are likely to cause a mining excitement surpassing any that hax been known on this coast for many a year. The very remoteness of the district will add to the fervor in the public mind, for ‘‘distance lends enchantment to the view,”” and things far off seem ever brighter and more promising than those which are near at hand. It is the duly of cautious and sagacious men to stem the course of this excitement and so moderate it as to save rash and inconsiderate persons from rushing head- long into the venture for sudden wealth without providing for any of the diffi- culities, disasters and dangers which are sure to confront almost every one who undertakes a journey to the distant and alluring felds of gold. The people of California are naturally more susceptible than any other in the Union to gold excitements, for the stories of the State abound with instances of great strikes and bonanzas. It is here that the danger of an undue excitement is greatest and here that the words of warning and caution should be promptest and strongest. ‘We have heard the bright side of the Alaskan story. We have seen the glitter- ing gold of the successful adventurers, We have not heard the tales of hardship, disappoiniment and failure. We have not seen the plight of the many who have found nothing amid the rocks and the snows, but wretchedness and suffering and labor in vain. Stories from distant and comparatively unknown lands are nearly always exaggerated and they generally lead to misconceptions even when the trath is told, because it is not the whole trath. From the reports that come to us, it seems gold can be had in the new diggings by any one who can handle a pick and shovel, This, we may be sure, is not true. It is safe to say there is already in Alaska many a miner who has not yet earned | enough to pay for his grub-stake, The California miner who has work at which he can make a sure living, with the prospect of acquiring a competence for his old age by the exercise of industry and thrift, bad better stay with it. Adventures such as that of a trip to the upper Yukon, should be left to those who have the means to provide amply for every emergency that may arise. In no case | should any one undertake it until he has thoroughly counted the cost. This is one of the instances where ‘“look before you leap” is a word to the wise. THE BUSINESS REVIVAL. The bankers have at length come out of their habitual envelope of reserve and freely admit that times are much better, and when a banker says this it means a good deal. They report money much easier, collections better and interest coming in more promptly than for several years. In addition, they say that there is abundance of money on hand for solvent borrowers. The banker is the best judge of the state of trade. He holds the pursestrings. He knows when money is easy and when it is tignt, for he is the source of supply. Up to this time he has been cautious about seeing any marked improvement in trade. He wanted to be sure before speaking. But now he has spoken, for he sees the rainbow in the financial sky and he pre- dicts good times from now on. He has placed his indorsement on the universal letter of credit. He has plenty of collateral testimony to back up his statements. There is the wool man, who says that wool is more active than ever before, and that, in fact, the past week in wool was the heaviest ever known, and who laughs at you when you talk to him about hard times. Then there is the wheat operator, who points out that the whole world needs American wheat this year, and who says that prices for wheat bid fair to be still higher later on. Then there is the hide and leather man, who will tell you that these two staples have advanced at least 10 per cent during as many days and that a further advance is not improbable, Then there is the provision-dealer, who reports an active and hardening market. Then comes the dried-fruit dealer, who says that only several weeks ago all the fruit- buyers in the country were talking about heavy crops and low prices this year, but that these same bears have all disappeared and their wail is no longer heard in the land. They have discovered that times are much better than they were, and they know that when times are good they are tinuous eleciric thrill to keep it moving | not going to buy fruit at prices below cost from both ends against the middle, of )»rodnctinn. unless they can gusesed in Repub- | When the tar- | persuaaing those fruit-growers who do not keep posted through the newspapers (if there are any) that times are still hard; that the crop is so gizantic that | half of it cannot possibly be sold, and that | they had better take what is offered them and be thankful. But such men always sell cheap. The most gratifyine feature of the pres- ent revival is that the farmer is getting the benefit of it. It is about time that he | was getting the benefit of something. Hs | has been at the fag end of the procession for a number of years. Hence it rejoices the public to know that the present rise in prices is almost exclusively in the line of tarm products, and that merchandise has vet to follow. But that will come later on. It is sufficient for the present to know that the wave of prosperity carries the farmer on its crest. It is idle talk to ask what has caused all this sudden change in things. Every- body knows that it is the tariff, and every- body is now beginning to see that if that aggregation of intellect, the Democratic party, had not removed that tariff four years or so there never would have been any hard times. But then we live and learn. PROSPECTS OF PEACE. There is such a rapidly growing senti- ment in favor of doing away with warasa method of settling disputes between na- tions that 1t is interesting to sum up some of the reasons why this wish may hope for fulfillment, and not be set down asa mere dream too bright for realization. Theodore 8. Woolsey, in an article on Greece and Turkey in the Forum, incident- | ally quotes some remarks from an essay by T. J. Lawrence on the ‘‘Concert of Europe.” Lawrence derives this toncert from the combination of states to over- come Napoleon and says, “Its growth bas been natural; its existence may, therefore, be prolonged, if not permanent, and its object is peace.” Mr. Lawrence, Woolsey tells us, even finds in it the possible germ of a high court of appeal, and argues that the old doctrine of the equality of states must yield, and in fact has yielded, to the right of superintendence lodged in the hands of the six great powers. This is clearly a prose way of stating Tennyson's poeticdream of a coming *‘Parliament of man—the Federation of the world.” Woolsey thinks we need not go to such lengths as this—we may believe the Eu- ropean concert is governed by selfishness, distrust and fear, as well as by tne spirit of peace and good will to men. But still the fact remains that the balance-of-power problem has dominated the century. We nois this influence in the late Greco- Turkith war. The great powers called a halt 28 soon as the contest threatened to be destructive, and at their shake of the head the Balkan peoples refrained from mak- ing the war a vast and bloody one. Other reasons for hoping for peace are to be found in the influential opinions brought out by the recent discussion of the Venezuela dispute and tne desirability of arbitration in all disputes between Eng- Jand and America. In a speech delivered to the Epworth League in Toronto the Hon. A. 8. Hardy, Premier and Attorney-Gen- eral of Ontario, speaking of how the sud- den flashing up of a warlike spirit between the two szreat Anglo-Saxon nations al- | ways subsided upon sober second thought | a8 quickly as it had been aroused, used thess words: “There could be no war be- tween these two foremost Christian na- tions of the earth. The moral forces of the two conntries would, in the last resort, prove too strong for war.'' Almost the same words were used by the British his- torian, Justin McCarthy, in the recently published volame of his ‘‘History of Our Own Times.” Similar sentiments have been repeatedly expressed by prominent men on both sides of the Atlantic. Another reason for the maintenance of peace is the oft-mentioned one of the ever-incressing perfection of deadly weapons promising soon to make war | 30 mutually destructive as to be equiva- lent to suicide, which would con- vince the nations of the absurdity of ap- pealing to force. There exisis also a pow- erful infinence for permanent peace in the wide-spreading ramifications of commerce. The more valuable these commercial and industrial interests become the more po- tent will be the restrainta upon warlike feelings. THE FALL OF MRS8. LEARE. Many persons who enjoyed notoriety | and even something of fame in American politics a few years ago have by the sud- den shifting and changes of the time fallen into almost complete obscurity. The decline of none of these has been more notable than that of Mrs. Lease of Kansas, A short time ago a newspaper which appeared without her name could hardly have been said to give the news of the day, but at present she has passed almost as completely from the stage of politics as if she were dead, and 1t is but seldom she is referred to even as a mem- ory. According to reports from those who have studied politics in Kansas, the de- cline of the prestige of Mrs. Lease in that State is due to the fact that she has out- grown theenvironment. She haschanged, while the Kansas people remain as they were, and there is no longer harmony enough between her and her followers to enable her to maintain her old prestise. It is said by one who has made astudy of her career that when she first cams before the public she was ungainly in ap- pearance and unpolished ol speech, but she seemed to feel all she said, and her speech and appearance tallied with the company she kept. That made her effect- ive. She is no longer the same woman either in appearance or in her power n agitator. Travel and a wider horizon bave changed her. She dresses now after approved fashions and very well. She speaks now after models she has studied here and there, and her speech has im- proved. But these things have made another woman of her, and have cost her much of her power. Mrs. Lease in a New York gown with a Fifth-avenue accent has no influence in Kansas. The words she utters throngh the Eastern hat have no spell to thrill a Populist audience. Her style is better than it was, but it is not the style that catches on with the crowd. In striving to become a National leader and in adopting the customs of tne East she lost the sub- stance of her power, and without getting into the four hundred she ceased te be ons of the masses. . THE OOMING ELEOTIONS. We are drawing close to & most im- portant political period. The elections of this fali and 1898 will embrace every sec- tion of the United States, and will test the existing popular feeling with refer- ence to the situation 1n this country re- sulting from the last Presidential election. There is hardly any doubt as to thé out- come, for the Nation is to-day enjoying improved conditions, and steady progress has been made since President McKinley’s administration began on the march to prosperity. .Confidence has returned to the country; the calamity howlis not heard unless it comes fxom the mouth of & professional agitator; foreign capital is flowing in here for investment; there is a gradually widening demand for labor; manufactur- ing interests have been encouraged mate- rially, and there is already positive evi- dence of better timas everywhere. It will not be many months before the people of the Nation will all have felt the beneficent influences of the protective tariff, and they can safely be counted on to vote to maintain the present govern- mental policy by returning friends of the American tariff system fo the halls of National legislation. On March 4, 1899, the terms of thirty United Btates Senstors will expire, and hence a battle royal will be fought, for on the result of these clections will depend the question of a working majority in Con- gress. Of the retiring Senators fifteen are Democrats, fourteen Republicans and one Populist. These elections will have a strong bear'ng on the contest of 1900. The issues will then be made upen which the next Presidential campaign will be conducted. The result, on the whole, will be equivalent to a popular expression of opinion. The list of Senators whose terms will end March 4, 1899, is as follows: BSte- phen M. White, California; J. R. Hawley, Connecticut; George Gray, Delaware; Samuel Pasco, Florida; David Turpie, In- diana; A, P. Gorman, Maryland; Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts; C. K. Davis, Minnesota; J. Z. George, Mississippi; F. M. Cockrell, Missouri; W. V. Allen, Ne- braska; W. M. Stewart, Nevada; James Smith Jr., New Jersey; Ed Murphy Jr., New York; W. N. Roach, North Dakota; Mark Hanna, Ohio; M. §. Quay, Pennsyl- vania; N. W. Aldrich, Rhode Island; William B. Bate, Tennessee; R. Q. Mills, Texas; T. J. Cannon, Utah; Redfiela Proctor, Vermont; John W. Daniel, Vir- ginia; C. J. Faulkner, West Virginia, and J. L. Mitchell, Wisconsin. OOAST EX(OHANGES. The Monterey Cypress has passed into the hands of Mr. H. A. Greene. It never was a green tree before, despite its name, but this sounds dubious. The proposed acquisition of a typesetting machine by the Riverside Enterprise moves the Ban Bernardino Times-Indez hopefully to ob- serve thai “‘there are others.” The Oregonian has just issued & special min- ing edition that is a wonder in its way. It contains thirty-six pages of valuable and re- lieble information pertaining to one ot the great industries of the Northwest. The work is gotten up in the best of style. By way of reminding us that the glorious Fourth has passed and goue for another twelve months the Ventura Independent feelingly re- marks: “As s00n as the little boy recovers frow his powder burns he will resume his ex- periments with matchesand the gasoline can.” Suisun’s new cannery will soon be in opera- tion, says the Napa Register. The manager of it has contracted with Mr. Dalton, assignee for the Hatch orchard, for 100 tons of clingstone peaches, and as soon as these are ripe enough tocan he will have work for at least 200 per- sons.” Here is a bit of philosophy from the Inyo In- dependent that some men might do well to themselves by taking to heart: “The man who works his team all week and on Sundays drives them to church, keeping them all day in har- ness, without food, is not exactly a good Chris- tian in this day of enlightenment.” The Albuguerque Citizen says that part of the money required to build a raliroad from Gallup to Farmington has already been sub- scribed and that work will shortly commence. This road when completed will open up a val- usble section of country and is sure to be of great benefit to the Territory or New Mexico. There is & suspicion of irony in the not alto- gether necessary remark of the Fresno Exposi- tor that “Stockton uses 2,500,000 of water less than Fresno.” Will the Btockton papers tamely lie under this invidious thrust, this veiled oblequy, this smiling mask with the fiendishly lit eyes leering behind it? Btock- tonians, to arms! The Mail of Woodland would be cheered by the sight of a fair up in that vicinity. Inaf- firming its steadfast conversion to that theory for the advancement of local interests it per- tinently invites attention to the fact that Yolo County has the lowest tax levy in the State and is therefore in a position to efford an appropriation for some little extra detail if 1t pleases to. The Mail so pleases most decid- edly, and really the Mail is a Jarge part of the county. The head philosopher of the Santa Rosa Re- publican is profoundly concerned over some deductions which he has been at the pains to gather up from the scattered effects left by the recent Christian Endeavor Convention. It seems that while about nine-tenths of the del- egates were women, about nine-tenths ot the talking was done by men, and the Kepublican demands to know if it can be possible that the women who are said to be doing the most talk- ing are out of the churches. Our keen-scented contemporary is palpably bent on putting in a strong lick in favor of the churches when it gous a chance. Itisa Christian endeavorer. According to the Tacoma Ledger wheat {s on aboom up thatway,as the following para- graph will show: “The wheat crop of Wash- ington this year will be the largest in its his- tory. Itwill probably amount to 20,000,000 bushels. The largestcrop heretofore amounted to only about 12,000,000. The farmers not only have a good crop, but they are certain of agood price for it. The market will open at or above 50 cents in the fields, and this means that $10,000,000 of new money will be brought into the State, and that it wiil belong to our people after it comes here. This of itself will make a great change for the better in every business, because when the farmers are pros- perous everybody prospers.” Bending fts ear to the ground the Visalia Delta hears the distant rumble of the Valley road approaching its waiting bailiwick, and, rising hastily to its feet, it procialms the im- pending connection in words admonishing the civilians to prepare for the eventful day. “It 18 time,” it declares, ‘‘to begin making ar- rangements for a celebration of the event. Excursions from Fresno, Hanford, Tulare and elsewhere will bring thousands of visitors that day.” The Delta then goes on to explain & remarkable plan whereby the Visalians in- tend tocelebrate Independence day on that occaslon, the Fourth of July having been post- poned in Visalia to some time in August! The almanac is & very poor affair, anyhow, down in that reglon—itisn’t *in it” with the Deita, In the Tulare Register & few days ago ap- peared the following paragraph, a careful verusal of which will reveal some interesting facts: A Tulare farmer remarked the other day that he had tried grain-ralsing when wheat was worth $1 45 per cental, aud he had tried it when it was worth only 70 cents, and somehow he always came out about the swme end of the horn what- ever the price, and never would bave got on auy- how if it had not been for the hogs, horsss, cattle and poultry he turned off. When he was raising &rain he wasnotdoing much else, and although the work of raising grain did not take half his time, he had to Hveall the year through and the grain he could raise would notsupport him, no matter what the price. There is a g0od desl in this way of looking at it. Itis a phenomenal business wh ch, prosecuted for one-fourth or one-half the year, will support a family all the year. There must be something to tage &l the time if one Is to liveall ihe time. General farming will do this. Graln-farming alone will not, and therefore grain- farming alone will not pay. Claus Spreckels, says the Alameda Argus, is the only rich Californian who is doing any- thing for Californta, Most of the others have transforred their shekels to more congenial regions where they are not the target of envy and malice, and those who remsin have wostly withdrawn their money from enter- prises and business to sweat 1t out, cent per cent in loans. Spreckels, in promoting the beet-sugar industry, is putting his money out in an enterprise that benefits the class that particularly needs help—the farmers—and it is characteristic of this State thathe should be guyed, maligned, traduced and worried in tbe operation, If his plans do ROt MiSCAIry and his investments prove fruitless it will not be through lack of deliberate effort on the part of certain of the San Francisco press to bring sbut such ends. It seems a pity that at a time when everything {s so stagnant the considerable efforts of a man to break up the stagnation should be deliborately belittled and an endeavor made to thwart them. Itis not =0 in other places. There are States and communities where men are commended by the public press for public enterprise. But here narrow jealousies tend to discourage en- terprise and keep back prosperity. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Jaj has ordered four 31-knot torpedo- boat destroyers from Yarrow's. The British Admiralty has invited bids for the construction oi one battle-ship of 12,950 tons, four torpedo gunboats and two torpedo- boat destroyers. An extraordinary credit of $1,400,000 has been voted by the Italian Senate for the re- construction of certain war-vessels, The na- val budget of Itally for the fiscal year 1897-98 will amount toa total of nearly $25,100,000. The Russian n avy personnel numbers 2597 orficers on the active listand 29,850 men. Of the line officers 14 are of the flag, 263 capiains and commanders, 748 lieutenants, 98 sub- lieutenants, 104 special gunnery officers and 336 navigators. The staft brauch consists of 836 engineers, 133 surgeons, 168 paymasters and 37 chaplains. In addition there are 476 midshipmen and cadets. The engineer-in-chief of the British Ad- miralty, Albert J. Durston, has been raised to the knighthood as a recognition of the success achieved in the Powerful and Terrible by the introduction of water-tube boilers. A few months ago his sal; was raised from $6500 10 $9000, and now as & knight commander of the Order of the Bath he is the first naval en. gineer who has recelved this honor. The Chilean armored cruiser O'Higgins has been launched at Eiswick. She is 8500 tons displacement, 411 feet ® inches in length and 62 feet 6 inches beam. The belt is 7 inches thick and the hull .s sheathed. The arma- ment consists of four 8-inch, ten 6-1nch, four 4.7-inch and ten 12-pounders, all quick- firers, besides a secondary battery of ten 6- pounders and four machine guns. The stipu- lated horsepower is 16,500, with which a speed of 213 knots is anticipated. In the recent naval reviews at Spithead the British vessels numbered 165, composed of the following classes: Battle-ships, 21, of 248,670 1ons: crulsers, 44, of 225,065 tons; torpedo gunboats, 25, of 19,026 tons; torpedo- boat destroyers and torpedo-boats, 50, of 9810 tons; 11 trainingeships of 47,320 tons, and 14 smaller vessels not classified. The aggregate tonnage was 549,883, horsepower 918,902 and the total first cost of the flcet, $178,807,365. The armament included 257 breecn-loaders, 68 muzzle-loaders, 827 quick-firing guns, ranging irom 6-inch (100 pounders) to 1%- pounaers, and 1476 smalier rapid-firers from 6-pounders to the smailest machine gun. The officers and crew numbered 88,577, Vice-Admiral Colombs, in a lecture last month before the Royal United Service Insti- tution, expressed the opinion that by the ad- vent of the torpedo-boat destroyer the battle- ship had lost its superiority, Twenty-five of the destroyers could be built for the cost of one battle-ship, and the lives in fifteen de- stroyers would not exceed the complemeat of one battle-ship. He indicated the possibility of improvement in the design of destroyers and concluded by stating that they must reasonably expect directly the perfectly ar- mored torpedo-vessel, scagoing, seakeeping, comfortable to live in, and with seven or eight knots more speed than any possibie armored gunboat of the present type. Captain Wilmot of the British navy has published a brochure entitled ““The British Navy, Past and Present,” in which he quotes from a weekly journal an anecdole {llustrat- ing the indifferent kind of officers that may be obiained through too early an entry in the service, Thestory runs; “During the revolu- tion in Japan between the Tycoon and the Mikado Hakodate was about to be bom- barded by the Mikado's ships. Boats from H. M. 8. Pearl were sent to bring off the Eng- lish and foreign residents. One of these boats was specially told off to bring on board the English consulsr archives. The midshipman in command of the boat being so long away from the ship the signal for his recall hoisted, and on his return to report himself he said, almost with tears in his eyes, ‘that he had hunted and asked everywhere for Mr. ana Mrs, Archives, and he couldn’t getany infor- mation about them.” This midshipman {8 now in commeand of oneof our first-ciass battle- ships.” PERSONAL. Mrs. E. Hughes of 8an Diego is at the Cosmo- politan, P. A. Buell, the Stockton lumber merchant, s in town. Fletcher Linn of Portland, Or., is at the Baldwin. D. M. Dillingham of Blue Springs is at the Cosmopolitan, G. D. Plato, a merchant of Modesto, is reg- istered at the Grand. F. C. Kamper of Chambersburg, Pa., is stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan, W. A. Diggs, a well-known merchant of Wooaland, is at the Grand. H. 4. Jones and wife of Alma, Kans., are reg- istered at the Cosmopolitan. Henry Levinsky, the well-known Btockton attorney, is & guest at the Grand Hotel. Dr. R. L. Balins of Leavenworth, Kaus., is registered at the Baldwin. He is here on a sight-seeing tour. J. N. Rossick and wife and Mrs, C. Siala and daughter, all of San Jose, arrived yesterday, and are quartered at the Palace, Lieutenant-Governor J. C. South of Arkan- sas, who has been spending several pleasant weeks on the coast, left yesterday morning for Cripple Creek. E. P. Grant, superintendent of the Modesto Gas Works, is In the City. He came here to attend the coming convention of gas men. Mr, Grant i8 at the Grand. The party of twenty Chicago schoolmarms who have been guests for some little time at the Occidental, packed up their grips and left for the East lastevening. H. Sling, & prosperous Chinese merchant of Chicago, is in the City on a business trip. He intends making some extensive purchases for his Chicago store while here. D. P. Durst, editor of the Wheatland Four Corners, is at the Grand Hotel. William L. Price, who Is connected with the Capital, published in Los Angeles, is a guest at the same hotel. Mrs. A. 8. Barker, wife of Captain Barker of the battle-ship Oregon, is at the Occidental Hotel. She is awaiting the arrival of her hus- band, who will be here witn the pride of the navy in a few days. John T. Arundel, & millionalre of London, is at present in the City representing a big European syndicate that intends launching forth in the guano business on this coast. It is understood that Mr. Arundel is suthorized to purchase what is known Pemberton Isiand, off the Central American co: and to fit out an expedition at this port to go to that locality within the next few months. John D. McKenzie, a prominent mining and mechanical engineer who was formerly con- nected with the Unfon Iron Works of this City, has returned from an extensive visit to Chihuahua, Mexico, where he was engaged in superintending the construction of some large mills. Mr. McKenzie built the mills for the Anaconda and other large mines. He was also called to China once to build some mills there. The gentleman reports that American interests in Chihuahua are flourishing under the new administration. —— WITH YOUR COFFEE. Stranger—How i3 the water in this region? Student—Well, judging from the beer, it must be quite good.: gende Blaetter. Pedestrian—It was only last week that I gave you money to bury your wife, and now you say she is starving, Beggar—But, sir, this is a new wife I have.— Puck. The Pretty Girl—Miss Smuther was named after her Uncle George, wasn’t she? The Bright One~I don’t know. Bhe looks as if she was named before him.-“Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Mr. Benham-T wish 1 were single Mrs. Benham—You horrid wretchl would you do if you were? Mr. Benham—>Marry you again. Mrs. Benham—Oh, you darling creature,— Modern Soclety. Wife—John, what's the matter with you to- night? Here I've been talking to you for halt an hour and all you've done was grunt and occasionally nod your head. Husband—Well, I've found it possible to do that without interrupting you. She—Have you always lived up to your in- come? He—No. I've got a nice little sum laid by. But why doyou ask? Surely you have no sor- did motlves in— She ({nterrupting)—Oh, no, It'sall right. I merely wished to let you know that Idonot care to be the wife of s man who marries to save money. ain. What PALACES BENEATH THE WAVES. How to keep cool during hot weather isa question everrbody is anxious to solve. The New York Herald descrites some methods by which rich Orientals manage to be comfort- able In & clime where heat and humidity | make life miserable for the common people. For centuries the denizens of these hotre- glons have been devising means to evade the intense heat, and have struck upon many ways to make life not only bearable, but really & pleasure, on even the hottest days. In some countries in the torrid zone, such as P Comfort Beneath the Waves. China and Indis, great mechanical devices ha en invented that afford comfort and infinite enjoyment to their rich and lucky owners. Not merely are they cooling inven- tions, but they arespecimens of great mechan- ical skill #s well, embodving many of the mar- velous result: hieved by modern science. Particularly is this the case with the “'sink- ing-rooms” of Persia, two of which are owned by Orfental millionaires and float lazily upon the transparent surface of Lake Niris, a bean- tiful sheet of water near the city of Kiur, in the southwestern par: of the empire. Thev are sunk by means of heavy weights and are connected by air pipes to the shore above. ‘When the weather becomes unbearable on hot days these Pe; 0 princes repair to the sub- marine rooms and slowly and silently sink to lh: cool watery retreats at the bottom of the lake. Equally Ingeniousis the scheme of the Prince of Agra in India, which, instead of being a “ginging-room," a floating oalace of the A Floating Palace. most stupendous and magnificent proportions. Although of only two stories its height is im- mense, the rooms being grand vaulted cham- bers, furnished in the most gorgeous Oriental manner. All the chairs have golden arms, and pre- cious stones are set in the backs. The wall | decorations are beauttiul beyond description, | while the ceilings are tinted to represent the | sky, silver stars appearing here and there on the darx-blue background. The palace is made of both wood and stone, but so con- structed that it floats with ease. When not in use it is moored to the banks of the river Jumna. Here the prince and his royal retinue betake themselves on sultry aflernoons, and lazily the palace glides down the river to the sott sweet music of soothing har Up and down the tide it msjestically floats like a huge white swan, while within the royal guests sip cooling beverages and idly dream away the sultry hours. FATE. ‘T'wo men tolled day by day, And ove of them sought fame: With all his might he worked away, Hoping to glorlfy his name, But at every task e stopped to as& “Does it justify the end? Wi it help me to ascead The slippery helght On which the light Of the fickie public’s favor falls® Bu_ at last he died, Unsatistied— Unknown beyond his grave's dumb walls. The other toiled for love, +ie did not ask for fame— For love of doing he strove, ‘Taking his work as 1. came, Thongh never pressed, He did his best, Nor cared what people sald, ut he ate his daily bread the thought ‘That he honestly wrought, And that histasks were fairly done. 5o this'man's days Were full of praise, And high and lasting fame he won | —Cleveland Leader. — MEN AND WOMEN. Count Henri de Somery ot Bruges, B elgium, drowned himself near Montreal last week, because he found it too humihating to his pride to work longer as a driver of a laundry wagon. Miss Gertrude Pearson Jackson carried off the highest honors at the annual commence- ment exercises of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston. She was the only ‘woman in the class of 1897. Itnumbers ten, all of whom were candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine. Princess Theresa of Bavaria, a maiden lady of mature years and as eccentric in her ap- pearance as in her behavior, has explored all South Americs, as well as unknown ts of Siberis, her services to the cause o geog- raphy having won for her honorary member- ship of most of the geographical societies of Europe. M. Allouard, who has just completed s statue of the lawer Lachaud for the town of Treignac, laments deeply that he was unable | to represent the gown unbuttoned. “But it seems,’” he says, “that itis against the rules of lawyers ever to allow their gOwna to open, even in the most pathetic moments; so I had to sacrifice the beauty of the work to truth.” Mrs. Mahala Thompson of St. George, Me., would be worth thousands of dollars to some vender of patent hair renewer if only she had been so foreseeing as to use such article. The Rockland Courier-Gazette reporis that Mrs. Thompson is 60 years old, and eight months g0 was entirely bald, while now she has a head of black heir from two to four inches in length. Little John Jeffrles, & six-year-old great- grandson of the celebrated Dr. Channing, has sent Mrs. Julia Ward Howe §1 for Armenian about £150,000 out of his arctic book. Bo far, editions have appeared in England, Americs, Germany, and & Dutch edition is nearly ready, and the work 1s eppearing in Norway in parts—the only method in which an expen- #ive book can be sold in that economical country. Further, there will be issues in French and In Bohemian. There has been & wide demand for it in the British colonies. A SIGN OF PROGRESS. Philadelpbia Press. One of the surest indications of the advance of civilization of to-day is the interest in and | care of children, compared with that bestowed upon them in the lastcentury. books written especially for children are decidedly s modern institution. The first Sunday-school was founded only a little over 100 years ago, but it was not until many years later that Sunday #chools became accepted institucions snd al- lies of the church in Eugiand and Americs. The common school system, with its aim to provide a free elemeniary education for all, is in its full development the work of the present century, while the trade schools are entirely a growth of recent years, The chile dren are being cared for as never before. Their morals, their nealih, their education | and now their amusement are made matters ot public concern. It is only within & come paratively few years that people have begun to realizé that children's playgroundsare & public need which should be provided. It is not yet fully recoguized that the providing of such grounds is a legitimate charge upon the public treasury, but that wiil come, s IN CHURCH? WHY WEAR HAT Pathfin Any audienvs of men and women in any fne door place looks better, more refined and gen- tle, feels better and is better with their heads free as nature in her wondrous economy molded and garbed them. Esthetically, too, how out of harmony with the church environs ment is the mass of ribbons and feathers and tificial lowers which & lot of women’s hats ake when placed in a haphazard juxtaposi- tion. Even asacolor mass it is usually garish and inartis There is room for improves ment in this matter, one would think. But we realize that it is t00 deep a problem to doge matize about offhand. THEY FIT TOO WELL. Pittsburg Dispatch. A man had been up for an examination ia Beripture, had failed uiterly, and the rels tions between him and the examiner had be- come somewhat sirained. The latter asked him if there were any text in the whole Bible he counid quote. He pondered, and then res ated: “And Judas went out and hanged imself.” ‘s there any other verse you know in the whole Bible?” the examiner asked. “Yes. ‘Go thou and do likewise.’” There was 8 solemn pause, and the proceedings terminated. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's® i e bty Frecrar information daily to manufsoturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * . — Bergeant—Sacre bleu! man, how you handle thatgun! You seem to be afraid of it, Recrult—Aye, aye, sir; I am.—Journsl Amue sant. | 828 Eate to Chicago via the Grest Santa Fe Route, The low rates made for Christian Endeaverers will be open to the public as weil. An opporta- nity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- ffornians. FPullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholstersd tourist sleeping-cars run dafly tbrough from Omi- land pler to Chicago. Ses time-table in adveriis ing column. San Francisco ticketoftice 644 Markes street, Chronicie building. Telephone Maln153L Oakland, 1118 Broadway. ) Great Reduction in Rates to Eastern Citles Via Sonset Route and Pledmont Alr Line. Only $38 25 to Washington and Baltimore; Philadel- phia $39 25: New York, §40 26, and Boston 843 Correspondingly low rates to other points. Only route operating personally conducted tourlst cars San Francisco to Washington, D. C., without change. For further {nformation call on or address C. L HOPKINS, Pacific Coast Passenger Agent, 621 Market street, San Francisco. —_———— Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone Park Route. Parties desiring to visit the Yellowstone Park, or go last via the Northern Pacific Rallway should call at No. 638 Market street, San Fran- cisco, for their Raflroaa and Yellowstone Park tickets. We can accommodate all that wish to make the trip regardless of rumors to the contrary, Stop overs given on all Christian Endeavor tick- ets. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st. —————— Reduced Rates for All To the East via the k1o Grande Western Rallway, passing through Utah and Colorado by daylight. Through cars by all trains. Tickets, sleeplag-car reservations and full information furnished at 14 Montgomery sireet. e “Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrap™ Has been used over ity years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with pem. fect success. It soothes the child, softenstae gums, aliays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowely and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether aris: ing from tee:hing or other canses. Forsale bydrug 1818 10 every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wingiow's Boothing Syrup. 28¢ a bottia —————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft #nd mild, being entirely free from the mists com= mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days board at the Hoteldel Coronado, 860; longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Franclsco. i ey e “ WoULDX'T be without it for worlds!” was the emphatic declaration of a lady In reference to Physician—Put out your tongue. Patient—Oh, doctor, no tongue can do jus. tice to the torments I am suffering.—Enquire ‘Within. China closetsare somuch cheaper than they used to be. This one is $12.75. Solid oak. Mirror on too. 5 feet 3 inches high, 2 feet 2 inches wide. Mova- ble shelves—arrange them to fit your china. One price here, to all alike, in plain figures on every piece. It's a “‘trick o’ the trade’’ to have price marks that you can’t read. Did you ever stop to think Why 2 Maybe what you pay $10 for relief. He had saved up his pocket-money of 5 cents a week in order to make this contribu- tion, which was accompanied by the follow- ing note, in & round, childish hand: *‘For the poor Armenians. Idonotlike the Turks & bit. I think they are horrid. John Jeff ries.” It is estimated that Dr. Nansen will make your neighbor gets for $6. Plain figures are always safe, California Furniture Company s (N P Cole & Oo) Carpe 117 Geary Btreet “lw