The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1897 e e oo THE SAN VRANCISCOGALL, WHUNNRDAY, JEULY 95, cu8e7. . . CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 “ALL, one year, by mail .00 CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALE, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. . 150 | W XEKLY CALL, One . 150 | 710 Market Street, ¥rancisco, Californta. s ..Maln—1868 Telephon EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Main—1874 Telephone. BRANCH OFFICE! 527 Montgomery s:reet, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open ©otil 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twent streeis: open till 90’ OAKLAND GFFICE: 008 Broad ways N OFFICE: 4 Park Row, New York Clty | 'Z, Eastern Manager. SUMMER MONTHS. & 10 the counitry ona _vacation ? | x| 20,1t 15 1o tronble for us to forward THE CALL to | i | Areyou gol et 1t m'ss you for you will Le carrier or left at t attention. receive prom : per month Fitty ce! for summer month« Get ready for the Omaha exposition. Our staff at the Klondyke will have the call on the situation. The currency question will easily keep | until Congress meets again. California should take the leading place in any exhibition of the Greater West. | There is no need of hurry to the new | gold fields. The placers will keep. They | are all on ice. | of hot stuff will find | Many a man who goes all the way to Alaska in h nothing but a fr The importers of foreign goods rushed things lively, but some of them got caught | in the jam. The tariff has got them. { The Standard Oil Company it appears has nothinz in this State liable to taxa- tion and can make light of taxes as well as of oil. The rush to the Xlondyke will relisve the labor market a little, and those who stay at home will reap a yrofit from the excitement. coming forward to halp Rhodes carry burden of the Transvaal raid Cbam- ber. is making something of a pack- donkey of himse! . The fight against the bogus brandy shipment did not stop that particnlar fraud, but it is likely to prevent a repe- | tition of the offense. | Reports from the Eastare to the effect | that long-closed mills have begun to work again, and are humming“the glad song of the protective tariff. Every day brings new evidences of in- creasing prosperity, and the miils are run- | ning fast in order to keep up with the coming of better time Itis herd for even the most sanguine citizen to give evidence before the Board of Equalization without talking very much like a calamity howler. — If either the Federal or the State quar- antine officials haa full power to act their first movement in all likelihood would be to quarantine the others, The story that Senator Hanna has quar- reled with the President is another iilus- tration that Washihgton has nothing to talk about now except its own inven- tions, and the canard season has come. After all the reviews and revisions to which it was subjected it seems the tariff has a few verbal flaws which will have to be patched up by liberal constractions in order to make it hold water in all places. The Democratic faction fight in New York must be very hot under the surface, for Mr Whitney, the great harmonizer, has been giving “peace dinners” at the rafe of about one a week for some time past. It is announced thatearly in August | $1,000,000 worth of gold will be !hipnedi from Australia to this country, and it will be seen that the world is not only coming our way but is paving for the privilege, The treasury statement on Monday showed a cash balanca of $239,373,843. That is enough to carry the country along until the new tariff gets in its work and raises the revenue again to the level of Government expenditures. The rush of shipments of supplies to Alaska is about equal to the rush of ad- venturers who will need them. In these days it is very seldom that trade falls be- hipd the procession, or gets caughi nap- ping when it shoald be wide awake. s The only confirmation offered for the report that Whitelaw Reid is to be ap- pointed Becretary of State is the an-| nouncement of one of his friends that Reid would like the place. Such confirm- ation can be found equally well in the case of several others. It appears that a Cabinet crisis is prob- \able in England, as the Prime Minister has been snubbing the Liberal Unionists in the persons of the Duke of Devonshire and Joseph Chamberlain. This may mean that Salisbury feels himself strongenough to govern without the aid of such allies, or it may be he finds himself in a corner and has decided to upset the apple cart and let the Liberals take control. When atthe beginning of the coalsminers’ strike it was believed that a coal famine was 1mminent, some of the railway com- panies took possession of the coal they were hauling for private parties and converted it to tneir own use. The action was com- plained of, but it appears it was justifi- able, the argument being, according to the Boston Herald, that railroads having coal in transit Lave the right to take pos- session of it for their own use when a fam- ine is probable, on the principle that they are carriers of the Government mails, and without fuel would be unable to operate ana live up to the contracts with the Postoffice Department, | supplied at the earliest possible moment | come stories of placer finds so rich as to | almost challenge belief, and not stories | gots of virgin gold which speak for them- | vield more wonderfully the deeper they | as they appear to cool-headed, eye-wit- | | thrown down to alien laborers accus- | countries and eager to secure work by un- | derbidding the American, and even bind- value and beneficence of our institutions and | that of London, THE NEW-CHARTER MOVEMENT. The committee of one hundred citizens appointed by Mayor Phelan to draft the principles of a new charter and nominate a board of freeholders begins once more the movement so often undertaken to pravide San Francisco with a form of local our efforts. The new set of churter-makers guide them, and by carefully attending to | government suited to its needs. [t is to be hoped that this time success w ill crown will have the experience of the past to the lessons taught by tormer failures may draft a charter which the peopie will accept. The committee itself has been well chosen. The large number of men of which it is composed gave the Mayor great freedom for the exercise of choice in selecting its members, and there is reason to believe that as a whole the committee will be found sufficiently representative of all parties in the community to give general satisfac- tion. with the support of popular favor and wins Tke plan under which the work This in itself is a matter for congratulation, as it starts the new movement for it the confidence of the people. is to be carried on has been well devised. The committee of one hundred is to consider the fundamental principlesof munici- pal government and determine which are to be made the basis of the new govern- ment. When that has been done the committee is to take the necessary stepy for the nomination and election ot fifteen free for the work of drafting the charter. It is holders, as providea by the constitution, designed that this work shall be done in time for ratitication of the charter by the peovle and its approval by the Legislature at the next session. An excellent feature of the plan is that which provides that if the committee can- not agree upon any point of the proposed charter it shall arrange to submit alternate propositions upon the disputed point to the vote of the people. This will avoid the danger of having the whole charter voted proposition contained in i, and it will also down by reason of objection to a single have the effect of giving the people a more direct voice in the construction of the new form of local government than they otherwiss could have. ’ The importance of a new charter for San Krancisco has been so often and so fully made known to every intelligent citizen that no argument on ttat phase of the issue is needed now. Our present municipal government is such an inconsistent make-up | of patches and botches that it cannot be called a system. It1s a confusion which even the best lawyers do not understand, and through which the Supreme Court has to make ils way by sheer force of authority The new charter we must have. Let the good work go on. to establish precedents where none exist. The new movement promises to provide it for us. OUR KLONDYKE STATF. That THE CALL's host of readers may be with the most reliable information with regard to the Klondyke goldfields an ex- pedition of able, tried and trustworthy newspaper men, thoroughly equipped in | every particular, has been dispatched by this paper to the Arctic land whence have merely, but bags and jars filled with nug- selves and which returned miners declare are only handfuls picked from river banks that gleam with the yellow metal and are pierced. Is it possible that lucky enthusiasts may have exaggerated the extent of| Yukon riches? May not the placer dig- | gings be already under claims of com- | panies or 1ndividuals? Or, are they prac- | tically limitless? These and hundreds of other questions are to be answefed and | Tre CALL will present to the public tne‘r substantial facts — the plain, ungilded | truth. The staff selected to serva the pub-‘ lic by gathering the fac's of the new gold discovery bhas been care- fully chosen. It will transmit uncol- oved reports, descriptive of the routes | to the Klondyke and the extentof the | placers; faithful accounts of all the con- | ditions that prevail, and, in fact, the truth and the whole truth regarding what | has been termed the new ‘“land of the | golden fleece,” far in the icy northland. \ Just as the best and most reliable news thus far ob*ained concerning the Yukon | mines has first appeared in THE CALL, 50 | may it be expected w'th every degres of | confidenca that Tre Cavt will be the first newspaper to receive and publish the facts nesses, whose high reputations guarantee the fidelity of their reports. LET THE GATES BE COLOSED. There is every indication that the pres- common demand, particularly among the laboring classes, and pass a law for the resiriction of immigration to reasonabie | limits. One fact which points unmistaka- bly that way is tue change in the make- | up of the Commiitee on Immigration and | Natoralization. Congressman Bartholdt of Missouri, who was chairman of that committee in the last Congress, persistently opposed all measures that proposed to check the tide | of unrestrained immigration. Speaker Reed did not reappoint Mr. Bartholdt, whose successor in the chairmanship is Congressman Danford of Ohio, a| radical advocate of immigration restric- tion. In this matter the majority of the commiitee is of the same mind as its new chairman, and Speaker Reed himself is | pronouncedly in favor of putting up the | bars against foreign pauperdabor. Hence we may expect some action in the prem- ises at the regular session of the National legislature which convenes in December. We have protection for our industries, and the same principle should be carried out regarding the labor supply. The new tariff Jaw is starting up the mills and factories, and American labor, which has suffered long, ought to get the benefits. We want to see steady work at good wages, but how can we pe assured for the future if the gates of the country are omed to starvation wages in their native ing themselves by s'ave-labor conmtracts. We want no free trade in labor. We want to see the bars put up high against the aliens who ¢ me here to lower the American wage rate. The American toiler’s prosperity is threatened, his way of living menaced, by the illiterate and paupered foreign ele- ment which is bejng transported to our shores. President McKinley, in his in- augural message, sounded the keynote to this subject when he said: Our naturalization and immigration laws shonld be further improved 1o the constant promotion of a safer,a better and a higher citizenship. A grave peril to the Republic would be & citizensnip oo ignorant 10 under- stand, or too vicious to appreciate, the great laws—and against all who come here to make WAar upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed. It is to be hoped thzt Congress will not fail to pass a strong immigration measure at the regular session, a measure that will t}ar out those emigrants who cannot sat- isfy a reasonable educational test and meke the United States safe from inva- sion by the pauper-labor hordes of Europe as well as Asia. o N Eighty-six carloads of California fruit were sold in New York last week, as ;gur}n sixty-one carloads during the previous week, and while there was some falling off in prices the shipments were profitable in nearly all cases, We may now regard the New York market as vir- tually captared and begin to lay plans for l | | his power to give. | ent Congress will accede to the almost | | they were designed. THE BEET-SUGAR OOLONY. The plans are at last completed for the colonization, under the airect supervision of the Salvation Army Colonization Bureau, of the sugar-beet lands of the Salinas Valley recently acquired by Claus Spreckels. Having acquired full title to the Sobranes ranch, near Soledad, con- sisting of about 700 acres, Mr. Spreckels will now place it under the charge of the colony founders, and he prom- ises further to aid them by advice and money. The colonists will have from eight to ten years to pay for their holdings, and Mr, Spreckels will agree to take all the beets they raise at a stipu- lated price. A golden opportunity 1s thus offered to families which have suffered by reason of the late period of business de- pression, but which are nevertheless in- dustrious, willing and capable. There is far more certainty that, with proper man- agement, they will realize a competence and come into possession of a comfortable home and farm, than that nine-tenths of the people who are flocking to the North- west Territory will come home with more gold than they went away with. The projectors of the colony intend to assign {o each family about ten acres of land and to provide each settler with all | the farming implements and s®pplies | necessary to pursue with thorouchness the work that will be outlined. Colonists will ra1se small fruits and vegetables to the end that they may ktecome seif-sup- porting at the earliest possible time. Each fumily will be provided also with an out- fit for a poultry-yard. This colonization enterprise, while it is laudable in every respect and while it means a worll ot good to scores of worthy but unfortunate families, isnot by any means 1o be considered in the light of a charity. It is a business proposition, pure and simple. The colonists will pay, on easy terms, for their lands and im- provements; but they will have the bene- fit of a certain market for their chief product at rates that will insure them all an appreciable profit annuatly over all land payments and expenses, considering that they conduct affairs with reasonable economy. President McKinley has expressed him- self as much in favor of the Salinas Val- ley colonization idea and has promised to lend to it such encouragement as it isin The Secretary of Agri- culture will render every good office in the scope of his duties to supply aid and information to the colonists and the sky is bright with promise for the success of | the excellent project set on foot by the Salvation Army leaders. FAILURE OF THE EADS JETTIES, The Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River, according 1o the report of Major J. B. Quinn of the War Depart- ment, are failing to do the work for which On account of shoal- ing there were seventy-four davs in tha year ending June 30 when a legal channel of twenty-six feet depth was not main- tained. This is rather startling news for the Government, with which the Eads Company hold a contract to keep the channel at the requisite depth, Major Quinn savs that the maintenance of the legal channel for any length of time under-the Eads management is im- possible without a considerable modifica- tion in controlling the dikes and jetties and a considerable increase in the dreag- ing plant. It is clear, he says, that the extension of the bar in the gulf will soon render the usetulness of the jetties at an end for keeping a navigable channel for heavy-draught ships. At present vessels drawing 23 feet of water are often seri- ously retarded. The Eads Company, it is said, are now | anxious to have the Government take the burden off their hands, although their con- tract has yet three years to run; but it is inferred from the report in question that the contractors are unable to fulfill their agreement. These jetties have cost mil- lions of money to maintain, and the pros- pects are that the Government will now have to buiild a plant of its own. This, it is estimated, will require the expenditure of $2,000,000 for the plant and another million for labor and. mate- rial for extension on the basis of a channel from 30 to 32 feet deep. This will be necessary as soon as the Eads contract expires unless some con- tractor can be found to undertake the work on the same terms as the Eads Com- pany, $400,000 a year. The important matter demands prompt attention from the National authorities, as most exten- sive commerciil interests are involved. The Eads Company were sure a few years ago that their jetties, would fulfili all requirements, but the result shows how engineers of undoubted ability can deceive themselves. DEADLY HIGH COLLARS. Philadelphia Record. High collars are stiil in style, but few people realize that the wearing of them is fraught with much danger. It is essential for general health to leave the neck free. Dr. Pirtes of Cairo recentiy reported a case of a gentleman who was almosi strangled by e high standing collar. It was a difficult matter to restore him to consciousness and life. This is not the only case of the kind. Not long sgo a wealthy French gentleman was found dead in the com- partment of a railroad car on the arrival of the train at Paris from Nice. The inquest and the autopsy revealed that the traveler had not met with foul play, but had been strangled by a standing collar. Ata point very near the Adam’s apple thereis a spot_which it is very dangerous to compress. When this is doge respiration stops suddenly and asphyxiation will ensue 1f |i‘:e pressurc is continued long enough. A coliar which is uncomfortable when the wearer is stauding will_be more so when he sits down, and should he fall asleep in a sitting position it is likely to press upon the very point where itwill do the most harm. It is possible that unconsciousness will set in auring sleep from the effect of this pressure, and the fatal termination 1n thecase just men- xcx‘;alrlled proves the danger of wearing high ars, KLONDYKE Over the mountains and far away, In the rezions of ice and snow, Many a pilgrim is trudging to-day, Wits & heart full of hope and shoutings “Yo-ho, ror Kiondyke!” Over the mountains, beyond the p'aius, W here the great river winds to the sea, Many a ploneer jing.es his gains, And sings In a frenzied ec.tasy— In Kiondyke! Thousands and thousands of miles away, In the land of the polar bear, Many a man is digsing ro-day, Ouly to find that there’s nothiug there— In Kiondyke! Many a hushand, many a son, And many a father, t00; Many a man who is dear tos me one, 1s climbing the glucters, leading through To Klondyke! Many a mother and many s wife And many a one that Is dear Js dreaming to-day of a happler life And hopefully waliing 10 hear From Klondyke! And thousands and thousands of golden hopes And many a dream that s fair Are destined Lo die on the frozen slopes And fiud their graves out there In Kloudyke! S. E. KISER. PERSONAL. W. Gleason of Merced is at the Cosmopolitan. Albert Lowry of Fresno is at the Cosmopoli- tan. T. F. Rogers of Fresno is at the Cosmopoli- tan. Baron Fay, from France, is a guest atthe Palace. Dr. J. C. Street of New York is a guest at the Grand. Dr. Tully of Stockton is among the guestsat the Baldwin., Frank Short, an attorney of Fresno, is regis- tered at the Palace. Mrs. G. A. Miller and child of Hanford are at the Cosmopolitan. S. J. Moore of Gilroy, the well-known fruit- grower, is at tne Lick, L. W. Fulketh, an attorney of Modesto, is stopping at the Grand. A. B. Rodman, a rancher of Woodland, is a guest at the Occidental. P. H. Sexton, a cattle king of Montans, is among the guests at the California. K. R. McDonaldson of Grayson, Cal., ex- State Treasurer, is at the Occidental. J. B. Chinn, a prominent fruit-grower of Porterville, is stopping a: the Grand. J. F. Devendorf, a lead ing resl estate dealer of San Jose, is registered at the Grand. A. Weilheimer, a Fresno merchant, came up yesterday. He isa guest at the Grand. Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding Is on a visit to San Francisco. He is at the Grand. Among the guests at the Occidental is Thomas R. Minturn of the town of Minturn. L. C. Jacobs, a hotel proprietor of Oroville, is visiting the City with his family. Helsat the Lick. Frank H. Buck, the well-known fruit-grower of Vacaville, is visiting the City and is stop- ping at the Palace. G. P. Wilder of Honolulu is at the California Hotel with his wife. He is connected with the Wilder Steamship Company. H. J. Small, superintendent of the Southern Pacific railroad shovs a. Sacramento, is in wwn. He is registered at the Grand. J. J. Hebbron, ex-member of the State Board of Equalization and a large stock-raiser in the Salinas Valley, is among thcse registered at the Grand. Mrs. W, C. Bompers, the wife of the Bishop of Alaska, arrived from the East yesterday en route to Juneau, Alaska, to join her husband. She registered at the Occidental aud will leave on the Excelsior this alternoon. Mrs. Bom- pers has resided in the Territory for twenty years. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 2Z.—At the St. Cloud, F. Hunt; Grand, H. Setile, A. W, Steel; Imperial, G. Goodlellow, W. J. Gunn, J. Frankel, A, F. Thedy; Holland, A. W. Rose, J. Dannenbaum; St . A. Allen; Grand Union, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Havens: Sinclair, J. V. Kimball; A. W. Steel; Hoffman, C. H. Wilson; Union Squere, J. L. Wright, Misa Fannie Ellis teft the 8t. Cloud and sailed on the Lahn for Bremen. Mrs, Mary B. Wat- son of East Oakland, Cal, sailed on the Aurania for Liverpool. Benner and Mr. McLeod are here busing. THE BICYCLE BLUSH. New York Sun. Some days ago the Sun announced the dls- covery of a new distinction of bicyclists, which in the flurry over cheaper wheels was comparatively little noticed. It is neither de- formity nor afiiction, and, unlike the bicycie face, it is not peculiar to men. The women have it more conspicuously. Whatever may be said as to the actual exisience of “‘ostrich necks,” “pigeon toes,” ‘knock-knees” and other abnormalities caused by wheeling, the Jately developed “bicycle blush” is real and a virtue. It mustn’t be inferred that the bicycle blush is in the least degree the result of shock, anger or humiliation. Quite the opposite. A young woman may be spinning along the avenue un- accompanied and with nothing whatever to molesther, and at the same time present a very striking example of the bicycle blush. Or she may be reclining leisurely at home after her ride and still possess ihe bicycle blush. In fact, wherever she may be it will cling to her. ‘The blush in question results from the gen- erous inhaling of fresh air, from the healthful exercise of the body ana _from the consequent iree circulation of the blood. Plenty of iife- giving oxygen is responsible for the bicycle blush, and the best way to produce it is to mount aud roll awsy. THE KLON DYKE FEVER. Our advice is stay at home and save what little you have.—Kalamezoo Telegraph. It's quite easy to get the gold fever, but un- fortun tely that doesn’t lessen the hard work of getting the gold.—Binghamion News, Don’t start for the Klondyke gold fields without about $500 and a year's supplies, omitting icecreem from the menu.—Fargo Argus. 1t costs money to go 10 the Klonayke, but you can get all the advice you want about staying at home for nothing.—Philadelphia Ledger. Unless a man has the capital to investin an outfit and & large commissary he is taking more chances on death than fortune.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If Russia had known that portion of Alaska was principe.ly composed of gold she wouldn’t have sold it to William H. Seward for $7,000,000.—Minneapolis Tribune. In view of the enormous amount of metal some of the pans in that Klondyke district are said to wash i’s very probable that lotsof those stories won’t w: Philadelphia Times. Many of the young men who are going to Alaska toget a few bags of gold dust anda barrel or s0 of nuggets will be sending home for the price of a return ticket before they have sojourned very long in the Klondyke country.—Minneapolis Times. No man snould rush off to the Alaska gold fields at this time of the year unless he has $500 in his pocket or is prepared to subsist for five or six months on a diet of fcicles and hope. About all that the average miner gets during his 1irst half year in that region is an oversiock of frozen climate.—Mail and Ex- Ppress, The same expenditure of toil and the same display of persistence exerted in those marts where merchants most do congregate might vield 1o many a one among the gold-hunters alarger harvest of wealth perhaps than he could have digged from the mountains or washed out of the sands of the rivers during years of labor,—Karsas City Times. JUBILEE STAMPS. New Yo k Tribune. The most interesting of the recgnt new issues of stamps are the Jubiles starmps of Canadsa and the special Newfoundland issue. The Jubilee stamps are all of the seme design, but ot different colors and denominations. Each bears two porraits of the Queen, one taken at the t me of her coronation and the otherrecently. The issue is strictly limitea to 25,000 complete sels. each set ranging from a hali-cent to a $5 stamp. T.e dies from which tne stamps were printed have been destroyed, as a guarantee thet the issue will not be extended. In sending out these stamps the Canadian Government has only followed what has now become a very general custom among nations—that s, the creating of special issues of postage-stamps as & money- making speculation. 7That these Jubilee stamps are clearly intended to become curiosi- ties and not to be used for ordinary postage is shown by the refusal of the authorities to sell them except in complete sets. The only exceptions to this rule are the 1- cent, 3-cent and 5-cent stamps, which are sold separately. Heretofore the Canadian stamps nave been confined to low denomina- tions, there being no demand whataver for stamps of §1 or over in vaiue. This offers an- other proof that the high-priced stamps 1n the i’uh_llea issue are only for ornément and specu- ation. The Newfoundland stamps are said tobe & permanent issue, but there will be no little speculation in these also. They are interesting, and some of them have considerable ariistic merit. One of them bears a portrait of Cabot, whodiscovered Newfoundland ; another a view of Cape Bonavisia, where he landed, and & third & portrait of Henry VIl, who granted Cabot his charter. Then there i5 a eries show- ing the various indusiries of Newfoundland, including logging, hunting, sealing and min- ing scenes. Still another stamp b:ars a jubi- lee portrait of the Queen. THE ENDEAVORERS' JOURNEY. Chicago Times. The visit of the Christian Endeavor dele- gates to the coast has cost not less than £5.000,000 at the very lowest estimate. Pos- sibly many who spent from $100 to $200 on the trip would pay a $5 subscriplion to a church or mission fund with reluctanes, but even to people of this sort the trip across the continent will Lave a most broadening effect. Those who traveled through Western Kansas and Nebraska and the barren Dakotas and | other bad lands must have found it hard to believe that Christian men and women were living ip some of the most uninviting places as serenely as do the God-fearing whose lines are cast more pleasantly. Many of the West-{ eru counties iu States and Territories are mis- | sion fields now, and the men and women who teach and preach there are supported by the | subscriptions of the church boards and caurch people. Not ane of the preachers is paid more than §£20 or $30 » month. As the Endeavorers moved westward they learned that every Westerner holds his alle- | giance to his parent State and stands on the thresho:d of lis adopted commonweaith to welcome the Easterncr, the Soutkerner and the Northerner to the fullest enjoyment of hi home, The good feeling and heartiness friend greeting friend, stranger greeting stranger, all maukind greeted as brotucrs—no South, no Norih, no East,no West. no color line drawn—has not failed to impress the Endeavor delegates. Talk of dividing our country on section lines because of political differences is most unreasonable so long as churches stand and Christian citize re un- dismayed. As the excursiounisis crossed the prairies in July they found all about them evidences of the gieatness of our Repubiic. As the Fourth approached patriotism and love of country were everywhere manifest. In Nevada, where the broiling sun beats down on the treeless mining districts, the citizens came *‘acrosslots’ in wagons for fifty miles or more to celebrate. ‘The cowboys and Indians united in shouting for Ola Glory and the mountaineers waved our flag from the highest peaks and made the cannon ring with their noise. The Endeavor trains were halted whenever possible and the delegates 100k part in the festivities of the Western patriots with delight. They noted that saloons were more vlentiful than churches; they saw the cowloys ride and shoot and saw many men very drunk. When it came their turn {0 do something they sang and prayed. At one station their soug was: The dying thief rejoiced (o see T hat fountain in his day, And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away. Long before tke hymn was done many of the rough fellows succumbed to its influence, for it was grandly sung by a trainload of people, Atoue home on & Mmountain summit a litile boy lay fick in & house near the railroad track. When the train stopped fity or more Eudeavorers got off it, and standing by his - indow sang “Scatter Sunshine All Along the Way.” As the train pulled away everybody joined in singing “God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” And the last glimpse had, of the litle sufferer revealed T pale face aglow with light and happiness, his hands clutching aviolin as if to hold in it the music he had heard. It was worth while to sing to the cow- boys and this sick child. Travel makes a cos- mopolitan Christian. New lands, new faces, rid one of narrownessand cant and provinclal- ism, The Endeavorers’ visit to the coast was worth all it cost MEN ANO> WOWMEN. Colonel Ingersoll and Dr. Talmage are said to receive higher salaries than any otner lecturers in the world. Mrs. Marion Crawford, wife of the famous novelist, has dark eyes and golden hair, two things rarely found in the same person. Dean Pigou of Bristol, England, can endure having letters addressed to him as Dr. Pigue, Peiken, Pigon, Pague, Pigour, Pickles, Peggue and Puegon, but objects to be called Rev. Dr. Pagan after having been forty years in orders. Juliette:Atkinson, who is again the champion womsn tennis-player of this country, was a chorus girl in a comic opera last winter. She made’this humble start with the idea ot ad- vaneing in her profession, and she announces her intention of continuing in the future to play tennis in the summer and stick to comie opera in winter. Mr. Seddon, the leader of the New Zealand Democracy, has risen from the miner’s pick to the Premier’s portfolio. Now, in his seventh year of office, he is still able to carry on the re- markable progressive policy which has af trected the eyes of 5o many social students to New Zealand. A cheery, bulky, blonde Englishmen, with all his wits about him, Mr. Seddon will probably be a force o be reckoned with for many years in colonial politics. When Fridtjof Nansen passed the day with Emperor William the Emperor introduced his children to his guest in s characteristic man- ner. After ainner the young princes were called. They filed in and stood “‘atattention” in miiitary style, “Shake hands with this gentleman,” said the Emperor. “Look well at him. Some day you will be able to understand what his work is, and then you will e glad to be able to say you have met him.” REAL ESTATE NARKET REVIEW What Effect the Klondyke Fever May Have on This Coast. Small Sales at Low Prices Seem Now to Be the General Programme. Faith in the Beneficial Results of the Tarif—Review of the Records. Bandom Notes. The realty market continues quiet. Smail sales are be ng made to some ex- tent, but prices are generally low. The signs of th- times indicate that this con- dition of affairs cannot last long. In the first place the new tariff bill is now a law, and in the general revival of trade expected to follow real estate can- not help receiving a healthful impetus. With the price of labor advancing and money more plentiful there is not much doubt that these hopeful expectations are not builded on the sand. In early spring it is believed that thou- sands of adventurous- minded persong will flock to this coast, en route to the Alaska goldfields. Many of them will in all probability return from thers sadly disappointed, while many may make com- fortable fortunes; but the effect on this coast cannot be otherwise than beneficial. All must make a brief scjourn here in going, and many will voluntarily do so in returning. Thus the praises of California will be sung throughout the East by *“‘ar- gonauts” —a fit strain to follow that of the Christian Endeavorers. REVIEW OE THE RECORDS. During the last week fifty-five mort- gages passed tc record, aggregating the sum of $124,701. During the same time forty-six releases were recorded to the total valuation of §125,484. Among the mortgages the following were the princi- pat ones: By C. E. Benjamin to Edward L. Wagner, %6200 Tor two years at 714 per cént o property ia Western Addition blocx 213, on the south line of Green, 125 west of Laguna, west 53 by south 137:6; bv Mary V. Baldwin to Isidore $12,000 to November 8, 1898, at 615 per ceht, on property in 100-vara block 320 on the southwest line of Struart, 137:5 south east of Market, southeast 45:10 by southwest :6; by E. Séhmiit to Juile und £. G. Brulon, %6500 at 7 per cent, on property in fifty- block 93, on the east line of Dupont, 57: south ot Californis, south 20 by east 50, being an extension to January 4, 1898; by the Hi- bernin Bank to John H. and Marcaret E. Sulli- van, $5200 for one vear at Gl per property on the southeast cor:cr of Leguna, east 55 by south 13 Home Mutual Bencfit nnd Loan As Henry and Heurieita Damkroeger. §iX years &L 7 per cent on properiy on arrell, east of Larkin, '; by the Hibernia Bank to Thomas 000 for one year at 614 per cent on property ou the northwest corner of First and Clemen- tina street, 80 by 150 fest; by the Hibernia Bank to Laura Albrecht, $4000 for one year at 615 per cent on properiy on the eastiine of Fif.more, south of Mcallister; by the seme to Pairick and Julia A. Cleary, $6100 for one yenrat 634 per cenl on_properiy on {1 o cast fine of Huward, south of Twenty-iifth, 97:6 by 115 feet. Among the releases recorded the follow- ing were for comparatively large sums: From the Home Building and Loan Associa- tion to Frederick and Annie M. Spau'ding, 00 on property in Western Addition, bicek , on the south’ line ot Val.ejo street, 137 :6 west of Gough, west 60 by south 1 ; from the German Bauk to Fraucois Marx, $3000 on property in Wesiern Addition, biock 189, on the southeast corncr of Filbert and L. sireest, east 137:6 by south 120: from th man Bank to Maggie P. Cheesman, $10,000 oun property on the soulh line of Huyes street, t of Lott, and on the northwest corner of Fell and Lyon; from the Hibernia Bank to George Dieterie and Daniel Laird, $12,000 on property at the intersection of Market and Noc streets; same to Daniei Laira and William H. Crim, $10,000 on the same. BUILDERS' CONTRACTS. The following contracts in the building line passed to record during the wee Martin Keating with G. C. Sweeney, plumb- ing, gas-fitting, sewering, tinning and tiling for & two-story freme building on the north line of Feil street, between Cole and Shrader; $1439. George Goodman with George M. Salsbury, all work for a two-story frame building at 1210 Broadwa, 2000, Trustees of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Chureh with John O. Dyar, two stories and a tower on the church on the southeast corner of Market and Noe sireets; $3425. John_ L. koster with Carl Schutt, all work, except plumbing, gas-fitting, painting, electric work, etc., for & (wo-story frame residence on the north line of Grove street, 136:6 west of Fillmore; § Matthew Schwamm with Casper Zweitlein, all work, except mantels, etc., for & two-story frame dwelling on the south line of Ellis street, 104 feet west of Gough; $£5500. Charlotte 8. McLaughlin with M. C. Power, all work for a frame cottage on tne west line of Second avenue, 250 feet north of Clement street; $1600. M. I Barto with Sarcander & Thompson, all work for a buiding on the north line of Eighteenth street, 75 feet east of Diamond; south line of O fe 200. Claus Spreckels with Gray Brothers, con- crete work for power-house on the southeast line of Stevenson street, between Third and Fourtn, estimated at $6400. Standard Biscuit Company with James A. ‘Wilson, erection of two br:ck reel ovens in the building on the northwest corner of Front and Pacific streets; $3085. William Alpenswitn E. M. Weste and L. T. Fehn, all work for & cottage on the west line of Fourth avenue, 150 feet north of Clement street; §1536. H. Krause with F. L. Beach, all work for one and a hall-story cottage on the north line of Lombard street, 133 feet east of Gough ; $1400, The Pattosien Company with Robert Trost, raising, uuderpinning, excavaung, brick, mill and stair work, ete., for altering a two- story frame building into a store at the nortn- east corner of Mission and Sixteenth streets; $5195. Mrs. Clara Bennett with L. G. Bergen, all work for & one-story cottage on the north line of Eighteenth street, 100 feet east of Colling- wood ; $1048. P. Sirickiand with L. Thoenges, all work for 8 two-story and_basoment frame: building on the east line of Stevenson street, 85 of Thirteenth ; $2520. T Lawzence and Kitty Boyle with A. 0. Brown alterations and edditions to the two-story frame building at 29 Powell street; $1240. Eliza Lamey with Henry Munster, all work for a two-story and basement frame building on the north line of Brannan street, 105 feet south of Fourth; $3800. Israel Kashow with B. F. Ellis, contractor, George A. Bordwell architect, for all work ex. cept grading, brick and cement work, plumb- ing, painting, mantels, marble and tile work ana electrical work for a three-story frame building of three flais, on the northwest cor- ne;exlzl California and Sieiner streets, for Henry and August Pape with A. G. Ander- son, contractor, for all work except mantels and chandeliers for a one-story attic and basement {rame building on the east line of T;ué&genm avenue, south of Lake street, for J. kigan with Robert Currie, contractor, for all work except painting and trimming for a one~stmryt{‘rnme iotlt-gn with attic ln:bne- ment on the south line of Dorl; of Sanchez, for §1650. FIRAg siveyont . RANDOM NOTES. Atlast the Board of Supervisors has made a move toward building the County Hospital provided for by an act of the Iast Legislature. C. E. Stewart will build a $6000 residence at s&wkignééo A $10,4 residence i Salinasfor W G, Wasers, - L& constructed at The contract 1o build the Crocker stable at San Mateo has bsen awarded to C. W. West- cott. The cost will be $7000. Contractors Hone und Snheibley have com- pleted the Shelter Home building. The City Hall of Los Angeles is said to be in a very bad sanitary condillon, and a commit- tee of experts will be appointed to make an { the park. tigation. it is believed that several {:::z!u:d dollars wiil berequired to remedy i ndition. S arside Is going to vote on the question of building and equipping & modern school- house. ————————r— HAD HELPED TO PAINT IT RED. The Washington correspondent of the Chi- cago Times-Herald, who recently visited Lookout Mountain with the Presidential party, was reminded by that visitof an ence- dote of Bill Nye. He says: We had stood upon the same spot together some years be- foré and a guide then told us that we could see seven States from that point of view, viz.: Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Caroli a. South Caroiina, Georgia and Ala- bama. 8 “Wherc's North Carolina®” Nye inquired. The man pointed to » particulsr place in the urple norizon. f » “\'\"rfm‘ makes you think that is North Caro ina?” Nye asked. +Oh, we know by the direction fl';,fl the con- formation of the mountains there,” the man replied. 4§ 3 Well. I know that that is not North Caro. line,”” Nye declared, with some vehemence. “And you would know it too if you would siop to think. Here is & map of tne United States, and you can see that North Carolina Is pink; besides, 1 know it is pink. I live in that Stato considerably, and I have helped to paint it red, but of course I gonway sometimes, and then it fades a little, leaving n')y»!nk. No, sir, you can’t stuff me that way. The place you are pointing at a color-blind man could see 1s urple.” PN\'% said those tnings so seriously that the man was almost dazed. He gave Nye & puz. zed look, and then went on pointing out other sisters in the late Con‘ederacy. —_— WITH YOUR COFFEE. They were talking of golf and she grew en- thustastic. “Ah,” he said; “I infer that you pla; «Qh, yes,” she replied; *I play the game, but I must confess thatIdon’t speak the lan- guage very fluently yet.”—Chicago Post. #Do you think it’s true thatevery man hag his price ?” asked the heiress. «I'm sure I don’t know,” he answered, thoughtfully, #bat if you wanta bargain you needn’t look any further.’—Chicago Evening Post. i) Shade of Shakespeare—Who 1 this approach. ing the Elysian fields ? Virgil—That is Professor Gumperdorfer, the great German critic. Shade of Shakespeare—Ah! Now Ishall have a chance to find out what I really meant when 1 wrote “Hamlet.”"—Puck. «01d man, there is money in buying your wife a wheel,” said the man whose face showed some traces of sordld greed. : “Oh, there 1s?”” asked the man of no particu- lar character. “You bet there is. She may eat a little more, but she doesn’t have time to stop and look at the window bargains.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. At «Well, Elsie,” said Mrs. Moral Suasion to her three-year-old daughter, “did you tell God you were sorry for being naughty?”’ “Ess, 1did, and he said: ‘Great Scott, Elsle, zat’s all right. Zere’slots of ’em worser zan you are.”—Pick-Me-Up. Superintendent—I hate to mention it, Mr. Quiller, but the firm is suspicious of you, It thinks you have taken some of the funds. Quiller (the bookkeeper)—Of course I have. "Tween you and me, it was the only way L could make my books balance.—Boston Tran- seript. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.* R FPFOTAL Information daily to manufaaturers, business houses and public men by the Prais Clpping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Cogswéll Polytechnical College. The fall term of this institution will open Monday, August & eived this week, except Sat 10 A. M. and 3 1. plieations wiil be received betwe 3:30 P M. e “The only objection I have to that woms satd Mrs. Cayenue, reflectively, *1s her lack of versatility.” “I don’t quite understand.” e knows only two toples about which to talk—the weather and other women.”—Wash- ington Star. to icago vin the Great tanta Fe Koute. The low rates made for Chiistian Endeavorers will be apen to the public as well. An opporta- ity to visit the Eat never before enjoyed by Cal- fiornfans. Pollman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern uphols:erad tourist sleeping-cars run dafly tbrough from < Iand pier to Chicago. See time-table in advertis ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Marses street, Chronicie Lul'ding, %Yeiephone Main 831 Cakland, 1118 Eroadway. oot ST Northern Pacitic Railway—Yellowstone Park Line. The managers of the Yellowstone Park wish to announce to the public that they have never been iu better condition to hand!e visitors than a: the present time (rumors to the conirary noswithe standing). All of the large parties of Christian Endeavorers have made the trip and are out of For tickets and information apply to T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agzent, 638 Market st., S, F. e “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup* Fas been used over iy years by miilions o mothers for their chiidren whiie Teething with per, fect success. It soothesthe child, softens hegums, 825 Late aliays Pain, cares Wind Colic, regulates :he Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhcas, whether arig~ 1ng from tee:hing or other causes. ¥or sale by drug gists tn every part of the world. Be sure and asic for Mrs, Winslow's Eoothing Syrup. 25¢ & boiule, B N =g Reduced Rates for All To the East via the Kio Grande Western Raliway, passiug through Utah and Colorado by daylignt. Through cars by all trains, Tickets, sleeping-car reservations and full information furnished a; 14 Montgomery sireet. Sl ca ComONADO.—Almosphere s perfectly dry. mofs and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round- trip tickets, by steam- ship, iucluding fiteen days board st the Hoteldel Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. Appiy 4 New Montgomery street. San Franclsco, — Loss of hair, which often mars the prettiest face, prevented by PARKER'S HATR BATSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cts, - A SA¥E, simple and effective remedy for indi- gestlon s a dose of Ayer's Pills Try the Pilly and make your meals enjoyable. ——— Chicago Editor—Are you the new reporter? Chicago Reporter—Yes, “I'm going to send you out to write up a wedding. Ever had any experience at wed. dings?” “Been married four times, sir.”—Texas Sift. ings. NEW TO-DAY. ARGONALT 0K WHISKEY Is . . Five Years In Wood Before T OURB Bottllng. ‘.M:AFM‘L [, MAH"N 1 MarkatSt.