The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 31 1897. SATURDAY.. CHARLE M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Daily end'Sun Daily ana Daily nd Sun Daily dhy CaLi, three mont Duily end Sunday CALL, one month, by mas Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. W ALKLY CALL, One year, by mail by mail 1.50 .65 1.50 | 100 i H 3 £an Francisce, € Telephone................ EDITORIAL ROOMS: | 517 Clay Street. | ..Main—1874 | alifornia. veveneeen.MalD—1868 Telephose...... BRANCH OFFICES: ontzomery s:reet, coraer Clay; open until o'clock | 9 Hayes street; open until Larkin street, open unt!l b and ) 0 o'clock. o'clock. lon sireets, open | 9 t1 © o'clock. il 9 o’clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 98 Broadway. DAVID M. FOUE THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Aréyon poing tothe country ons vacaton? If | ¥o. 1 is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to | vour address. - 130 not let it miss you for you will fniss it. Orders given to the carrler or left at Jusiness Office will receive prompt Aattention. | XNO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per mouih | for sumimer months | The blanket business booms. | Everything goes that heads for Alaska. | The question of xim day: *“When are Fou going?"” fever and take to holdinz up treasure | | Train-robbers muy get the Alaskan | | ships. } When the Klondykers return they may | bring us geld enough to repave Murket“ street. If -the regular army is too delicate to go to Alaska.ihis winter Uncie Sam’ should call for volunteers. The best and brightest reading for to- | morrow will be found imn THE SUNDAY CALL. Leave oraers for it to-day | — | We shall never believe British Colum- | kia-has'done her full duty until she builds a bike route to the gold fields. There is no stopping the Klondyker. All that can be done is to wish him luck | @nd throw s horseshoe at him. | Great Britain may have Palmyra Island | if ‘she wishes.”- It is fit only for a cable | station, and ‘We can have a better one at | Hawaii. Thera is a possibility that the commit- te¢ of one hundred may drop the charter business and proceed 10 organize itself as sin Alaskan expedition. Americari retaliation may even up with British' royalty on the Kiondyke, and it | will not be the first ‘time such a thing has happened on this continent. The revolt ‘in India is not likely to be ! serious. for the. British empire, but it is going to be a grave affair for those who get caught in the whirl of it. The imposition of the burdensome Cana- dian tariff 6n.the miners of the Klondyke may create friction enough to warm up the situationin spite of iLe climate. Now that we have ninety-nine men and one ‘woman to draw up theoutline of a new charter. we may hope to get a good one.” A great deal of reliance can be piacea an:the woman. 1f the United States cannot send 100 soidiers -to Alaska tnis season then Dan | Lamont must have left the. War Depart- ment in a worse. condition than Carlisle left the treasury. ‘We have just reason to complain of some things about the Canadian administration on ‘thie Yukon, but after ail it is much better than the non-administration of our government in adjoining districts, ———— The worst of the. long depression is over.. Some effects of the hard times lin- ger with us, but hope has réturned, and the dreariness of. the duil days has van- ished from every home in the Union. Politics 13 80 completely overlooked at | this time few people are aware that over in- Ohic and Jowa the Democrats are try- ing to get up enough excitement on the subject to interfere with the Republican walkover. The so-called *fanatics” of Brazil are putting up the biggest war and the fiercest fighting of ' the year, and from last ac- eounts have a fair chance of pacifying the country without the aid of a typewriter or a telegraph wire. _— If- Andree’s balloon should be driven by the wind to the region of Peary’s ship thers would be a nice international dis- vute as to whether the United States sbould have the credit of discovering An- dree or Norway should have the honor of relieviag Peary. The fact that Congress did not author- ize the President to appoint a monetary commission has not disturbed in the least the promoters of the commission pro- gramme. They are talking now of hold- ing a conference to appoint & commission of their own to make a report to Congress without asking the permission of the statesmen. —_— It seems to be pretty well settled that Great Britain will take part in the pro- posed international monetary conference, and will co-operate in the restoration of the use of silver money. The distress in India will incline her to do this, as it is imperative that- something shall be done for the relief of the oppressed people of that country. The gold standard is too heavy a burden for overcrowded India to carry, and if relief is not given there will be a revolt. The Pennsylvanma iaw imposing a tax of 3 cents a day upon all alien laborers in the State has stirred up the Chinese, who cannot evade it by becoming citizens, and money is being raised to test the law in the courts. It is believed the statute will be knocked out; butin the meantime it has led to the naturalization of many for- eigners who are mno credit to the citizen- ship of Pennsylvania, because they be- came citizens ounly to avoid the tax, and Dot becauss they are loyal to the Govern- ment: % | terpr! A FOINT OF DANGER. The people of California have, with good reason, rejoiced in tue passage and en- actment of the Dingley tari . It gives a better degree of protection to the industries | of the State than any previous tariff in the history of the country, and to that extent is full of promise to the welfare of the people. There is, however, In the new law a The new reciprocity has two features, | point of aanger which must.not be overlooked. This is to be found in the clause pro- " | viding for reciprocity treaties, and the importance of the subject to California wili be | apparent to all who give it the slightest consideration. One of these provides a certain number of protected articles which the President is authorized to place upon the free list in re- i turn- for equal advantages offered by foreign countries. The other provides a num- | bar of articles cn the free list upon w hich the President may place a auty if the countries from which those articles are imported do not concede equal trade advan- tages to us. It is the first section of the clause that concerns California. The articles on which the President is authorized to lower duties or remove them altogether are: Argols, or crude tartars, or wine lees crude ; brandies or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials; champagne or all other sparkling wines; still wines and vermouth; paintings and statuary. Of these articles none are likely to cut the wines, brandies and other spirits. All will be a heavy loss to us Ii they should be much figure in reciprocity treaties except of these are products of California, and it placed on the free list in a treaty arranged with any country which produces wine in large quantities. It is with just such countries, however, we are most likely to arrange commercial treaties under that clause. tries will be effected in all likelihood by th to impose a duty on coffee, tea, vanilla beans, etc. from South American countries, it will be give us will be granted in return for the free importation of those articles, Such treaties as we negotiate with South American coun- e provision which authorizes the President | These articles being exported natural that such trade advantages as they This will leave the wine schedule to be used in negotiating treaties with France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The duty placed upon wines is at best but a compromise. It is not what the peo- ple of California asked nor is it equal to what the McKinley tariff gave. If, therefore, itis to bs exposed to reductions in arranging reciprocity treaties, the protection given to that great industry of the State will be far below its just needs. The danger is all the greater because the Bast has buta very small wine industry and 1s very eager for re- cipracity with the wine-producing countries. nia has urcent need to be on her guard in this particular. 8er under the new tariff, and we must guard It will be seen, therefore, that Califor- It is the one point of dan- it with vigilance. SOMETHING HELD BACK. The reports of objections on the part of the Government of Nicaragua to receive Captain Merry as United States Minister have taken many forms, but them are sufficiently reasonable to justify the Government in adopting the course It is asserted o have decided upon. It is in- evitable therefore that the people of this country will believe some other cause for the proposed on exists and that it grows out of oppoesition to the canal en- It is said that the objection comes not from Nicaragua only, but from the Greater Republic of Central America, and is founded on the fact that Captain Merry is not accredited to the three countries in- cluded in that newly formed Government. 1f this be the ground of opposition it lies not azainst Captain Merry but against the United States Government, and will apply equally to any Minister whom we may send to that country. It is not likely, however, that this reason can be the true motive of the re- jection of our Minister, for if the Greater Republic is to obtain from the United States the recognition it desires it must | negotiate with some one appointed ll"‘ our Government, and unless there were | personal objections to Captain Merry he | would be as acceptable to them as any | other whom President McKinley could | | celect. The uncertainty in which the subject is | now involved is not likely to continue long. The right of Nicaragua to decline | to receive an objectionable representative from this country cannot be questioned, but we have a right to know the true cause of the rejection of a man so well fitted to fill the duties of the office as Captain Merry. 1f there is behind the action of Nicaragua any intrigue against the great canal it should be made known. It will matter little to Captain Merry whether he is accepted or not, but it will matter a great deal to tue United States if his rejection means the triumph of | powers antagonistic to our influence in | Central America and opposed to the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal under | the control of this country. BRITISH SUGAR INTERESTS. The news that the last of the English sugar refineries are being closed by the great stimulus given to sugar production in Germany and France by the bounty system emphasizes the fact that the Amer- ican method of a protective duty is the | only way to saleguard the industry. This fact is recognized in England itself, for according to & London cablezram a lead- ing sugar broker of that city is reported as saying in regard to the passage of the tariff bill in the United Btates discrimi- pating against foreign bounty sngar coun- tries: “The action of the United Siates is the proper and only course to pursue.” The two items show there is a compre- hension among leading minds in England that protection is the only way in which she can save herindustries from decay. With all the vast advantage of cheap labor in the colonies her sugar refineries cannot save themselves from bankruptey. Unless she changes her palicy to one of protec- | tion sbe will have to abandon her sugar | industry and depend for her supply on the beet farmers and factories of Germany and France. : The long-established opposition to pro- tection in England is well illustrated by | a statement recently made by W. E. Glaa- stone in reply to a query by a corre- spondent on this question. Tne ex-Pre- mier said: “I consider that our sugar- growers are very ill-used in the matter of bounties (as are the populations of the | countries which pay them). But they are | not ill-used by us, and I know not how our Government can undertake to redre:s grievances imposed by other countries. A great effort was made by a former Gov- ernment which resuited in a total and rather discreditable failure. These boun- ties are a part of the system of protection from which it cost twenty years of our national life to escape. We ought never to comprcmise the situation so dearly on.” This is an Illustration of stubborn per- sistence in a theory even when its ruinous effects are staring the persister in the face. It reust be remembered that Mr. Glad- stone is an old man, who has grown gray under the regime of Cobden's doctrines, end his methods of reasoning on this subject have become habits not easily broken now by even the overwhelming argument of facts. It is harder to un- learn than to learn. It isinteresting to note, however, that even in f{ree-trade England younger and more practical minds are watching the evidence of events in this matter, and admitting into their minds the new conceptions that must come with the progress of ttie world. America is fortunate in tow baving its volitical destinies guided by statesmen who will save her sugar industry from the doom that has come upon that of the British, 3 The reasons given for the reported ob- jections to Captain Merry as United States Minister to Nicaragua are so insufficient as to imply that there is some other rea- son which has not been given to the pub- lic, but is perhaps known to those who are opposed to the Nicaragua canal en- terprise. none of | A PROOF OF PROSPERITY. Those skeptics who have been asking | where the great wave of promised pros- perity could be seen can now be pointed to one item which alone will overcome | their doubts if they arenot very unreason- able. The fiscal year just ended shows a larger and more varied expert trade from | this country than ever before known. It amounted to $1.051,987,091, and this was | anincrease over 1896 of $168,380,153. The leading exports were cotton, bread- stuffs, provisions, cattle, rineral oil and other natural products, but books, car- riages, locomotives, agricultural machin- ery, printing presses and many other manufactured wares were sent abroad in vast quantity. Among the increases the most notable is the export of bicvcles, which grew from $1,500,000 in 1896 to $6,500,000 worth in the fiscal year just ended. A great*and rapidly growing export trade such as this indicates that there must be widespread welfare among the people. 8o great an increase in a single year argues that soon there will be an ex- tension of industrial activity over the whole breadth of the land. Those dis- tricts which have not yet felt the wave may rest assured that it is coming their atan early date, and they should be vigilantly on the watch to take advantage ofit. Itshould be remembered that the more doubt displayed, by jast that much is it likely that a full return to prosperity will be delayed. Those who make no eager and diligent effort to get in the swim will be unaware of the coming of the wave long alter more enterprising and cheerful-minded spirits have enjoyed a plunge in it. With a great export trade increasing at the rate of $160,000,000 a year joined to an immense wheat crop which can be mar- keted at a high price, a prospect of an im- proved wool market for several yearson account of the destruction by drought of the Austrahan flocks, and a much aug- mented output of gold to be coined into money and set the business of the world into activity, the outlook for the fall is in- deed bright with encouragement. Farm- ers being the foundation of the social fab- ric, the big price for wheat will start the building of prosperity from the bottom up. r;“m_e is also far more promise in the discovery of quantities of gold in the Northwest than comes at first thought. if the expectations of that country are fulfiilled it will not mean merely great good fortune to those who are lucky enouch to get into the frozen valleys and muke bonanza sirikes. Those who are left bebind will ail be sharers in the new im- petus to all business and industry which experience proves follows fast on the dis- covery of unusual quantities of the pre- cious metals and their ‘coinage into the medium of exchange. Itisin fact likely that those who stay at home are surer of getting a vportion of the goid dust of Alaska and the Canadian Northwast Ter- ritory than those who take the risks of the trip. ROYALTY AND RETALIATION. If the Canadian Government undertakes to impose burdensome restrictions on American miners going into the Klon- dyke country in search of gold it will be no more than their duty for the authori- ties at Washington to resort to such re- prisals as will bring that bantam country to a sense of the courtesies due to her neighbors. By this method she has been promptly made to act more reasonably than she intended in other matters, and these forcible and quickly comprehended arguments can be used effectively again. The Canadians are indebted to this Gov- ernment for many valuable privileges which should by all means be withdrawn unless a friendly appreciation of them is shown by treating our citizens fairly. A reasonable tax could not be objected to, but any attempt to make the burdens so great as to be largely prohibitive to many | miners is not only the folly of standing in her own light, but an act of injustice which calls for National notice on our part. For Canada to make any wide dif- ferences in the privileges granted tc Americans from those which Canadians have freely used on American soil, while not an act of aggression and perhaps strictly within her rights, is yet an in- | hospitable proceeding which justifies the revocation of advantages hitherto allowed Canadians by the United States. Advices from Washington state that if Congress were in session various motions for retaliatory measures would be intro- duced. Fortunately the executive already bas ample powers for the occasion. The courtesy of meking Dyea a sub-port of entry, as was recently done by Secretary Gage, can be recalled. If the Dominion Government attempts to enforce its alien laws we bave alien land laws which could be put in operation to the inconvenience of British owners of property in our Ter- ritories, and later we could enact general alien laws to fit the case. Canadian rail- ways also have valuable bonded privileges which could be taken away if retaliation is called tor by their Government's un- friendly conduet. It is to be hoped that nothing more than the mere suggestion that we have been so ill treated as to provoke talk about retaliation will be necessary to cause the Canadian Cabinet to reconsider any hasty decisions and that no tit-for-tat expedients will come up to hamper the prosperity of both Canadians and Ameri- cans. " PERSONAL. D. E. Kmight of Marysvitle is at the Lick. Mrs. R. Steele of Tracy is at the Cosmopoli- tan. P. Early of Sacramento is at the Cosmopoli- tan. Colonel Park Henshawof Cnico is at the Lick. The Rev. L. D. Mansfield of San Jose is in town. Sherman D. Brown of Portland is at the Oc- cidental. B. R. Prince, & mine-owner of Alturas, is in the City. M. D. Eaton, a merchant of Stockton, is on a visit here, J. W. Mercer and wife of Merced are at the Cosmopolitan. M. and Mme, Foret of Parls are among the recent arrivals. Judge Johu F. Allison of Red Bluff errived here yesterday. E. J. Cabill, a rancher of 8an Martin, arrived here last night, J. and M. Donnelly of Boston, Mass., are at the Cosmopolitan. L. L. Woodmansee of Portland, Or., isalate arrival at the Lick, County Assessor L. A. Spitzer of San Jose is here on a brief trip. D. P. Durst of Wheatiand 1s among the arrivals at the Grand. v Joseph D. Redding, Mrs. Redding and two children are at the Palace. Superior Judge A. P. Overton of Santa Rosa isin the City, He is at the Russ. A. B. Hill, the millionaire banker and land- owner of Petaluma, i3 in the City. H. W. Crabb, the vineyardist and fruit- grower of Oakville, is on a visit here. Among the Fresno people now here s Dr. B, B. Cory, who is quartered at the Grand. John A. Apperson of 2627 Pine street, who has been ill for several weeks, is convalescent. Frank McGettigan, the contractor, of Vallejo, is at the Russ. He 1is here for a few days’ siay oniy. R. E. Jack, the banker, hotel owner and landed proprietor of 8an Luis Obispo. is at the Palace, John Swett, the veteran ex-Superintendent of tne City schools, came down from Martines last night. Ex-Attorney-General Robert M. Clark of Carson, Nev., is on a visit to this City. He is at the Grand. . D. B. Lyman, the well-known pioneer min- ing superintendent of Virginia Ciy, arrived here yesterday. B. H. Upham, the owner of the Gloriana vineyard, near Martinez, is one of those regis- tered at the Lick. Morris Kohn of Wolf & Co., Philadelphia, Wwho comes to the coast two or Lhree times a year, arrived here last night. B. T. McCullough, a wealthy land and live- stock owner of Crows Landing, who ships horses in large numbers to Hawaii, is in town. J. W. Raphael of Raphael’s will leave on Monday next for Chicago, New York and Europe. He intends to visit the leading piaces on the Continent and be gone several months. % Theodore Springer, the representative of James 8. Kirk & Co., Chicago, is in the City. Mr. Springer has Klondicitis and has grub- staked a miner to find gold for bim within the Arctic Circle. IHe says there is no doubt of his having soaped the way to a fortune. Judge P. H. d’Arcy ot Salem, Or., is 1 the Citr, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Bar- bara d’Arcy, and his sisters, the Misses Maria and Teresa d'Arcy. Mrs. d’Arcy has not visited San Francisco for neariy forty years, and the many changes that have taken place interest her in the extreme. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. SEW YORK. N. Y., July 30.—At the Plaza— A, D. Huat. Albemarie—D. E. Mellis. Ven- dome—Miss Buiz, Mr. and Mrs. E. Gault. Westminster—W. D, Harper. Hoffman—J. M. Rothschild. Cadillac—J. E. Wilson. B. J. Schmidt is here buying. THE FEVER ON PUGET SOUND., You must wake and call me early, Call me eariy, mother dear; At quurter after nine the ship Is advorused to clear. Eleven davs I've stood 1t oft And tried to keep it down; But I'll b goshed 1f I remain— “The only man in town. My temperature is golng up, ‘The fever’s in my veins, The goid cure is the thing T need; Lll'take It iu large grains. Quitelong enough I've walk the bill To save the c tare; Too long the erindstone’s done fts worst; My nose won't s:and the wear. ‘The frozen north is gettiug warm, With nuggets thick as flies, A man now has & chance (0 Win A fortune ere he dios. T've pan and shovel, lots of grub, Warm ciothing, rubber boots, 80 wake and eaii me early Wheu the Kiondyke sieamer toots. attle Post-Intelligencer. NO MORE CIGARETTE PICTURES. Washington Post. Hidden away in the bulky conference re- port on the tariff bill is a little clause which will revolutionize the methods of the cigar- ette and tobacco manufacturers. 1t was slipped in during the conerence, for it was not in the ori ginalbill. Itreads as follows: Nor shail there be aflixed to, or branded, or stamped. marked, written or printed upon said packages of smoking tobacco, finecut chewing 10bacco, Or Cizareties, OF their CONLents any prom- ise or offer of, or any order of certificate for, any §ift, prize, premium, payment or reward. It will be seen that this new law breaks up all the giit enterprise business in cigareites. No more sending ten couvonsof the Great American cigarette and receiving a picture of a warship, or an actress, or & collection of flags. The cigarette people are very much dis- turbed because, they say, one of their best ad- vertisements has been taken away. There will also be complaint from the lithographic companies, for their revenues, NOW smountin 10 & large sum from the printiug of flags an other colored pictures, will be materially de- creased. The proposed law will also curteil the recetpts of the newspapers, for many of the tobacco companies advertise their prizes. Representative Dingley said that the clause had been agreed upon because the internal revenue officers complain that the prize-giving Tesuits in an evasion of the revenue laws, and also because many of the cigarelte pictures are obscene in their nature. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Miss Girton—Ana do vou like Browning? Oxonian—Well, to tell the truth, I'd as soon read & time-table.—Punch. Jack—8he used to be an old flame of yours, aid she not? Arthur—Yes; but that was when I had money to burn.—Puck. A political speaker accused s rival of “un- fathomable meanness,” and then, rising.to the occasion, said, “I warn him not to persist in this disgraceful course, or he'll find that ' two can play at that game!”—Fun, Wife—Here's a wonderful case of endurance. A fellow sat in the rigging of a wrecked ves- sel three days and didn’t seem to mind it Husband—He had probably been used to riding on an anatomical bicycle saddle.— Truth. “Yes,” remarked a Chicago girl, ‘he repre- sents one of our oldest families.” ““Does he date before the fire?” “*No—not quite so far back as that. Buthe's one of the people who have ridden the old- style high wheels.”—Washington Evening Star. Minnie—I have had the same dressmaker for three years. St Mamie—Really? I thought you haa worn that dress only two ‘seasons.—Indianapolis Journal. Young lady—You are a wonderful master of the pisno, I hear. i : Professor von Soieler (hired for the occa- sion)—I blay aggompaniments sometimes. Young lady—Accompaniments to singing? Professor von Spieler—Aggompaniments to gonversation.. READING MATTER FOR TO-MORROW. THE CALL'S full-page outing picture series will be resumed with to-morrow’sissne, “This’ series of page scenes from California’s most promineut summer resorts and picnic grounds has already won for the paper first piace in the regard of the people as a faithful mirror of, the seasons and their respective stages of activity. The portrayals are not-dane from memory nor from piecework c!ippings from guidebooks, as mostof the “‘summer resort pictures’ of.the day are done, but are the result of sctual photographs taken esp:cially for THE CALL. and.from careful attention to detail on the part of our staff artists who work them out. The illustration to-morrow will depict tne summer girl and the various typicsl enviconments of Tamalpais, THE CALL'S series of papers on “The Women Who Are Helping -to Make San Friucisco'a Grent City *“The Women Educators.” will be continued to-morrow with the third in the list, which will. bé entitled The usual order of striking special features, accompanied by odd and artistic ill ustrations, will round out the balance of to-morrow’s supplement, and all of the regular departments will teem with their accustomed measure of reliable, up-to-date comment and information. DR. VON SAGHS, GREATEST OF BOTANISTS. il = ,_/ ‘ i 77 The late Dr. Julius von Sachs, whose death has been recently annournced, wasby far the greatest botenist of the century, and may be known hereafter as the greatest of all time. was the colleague at Wurzours of Roentgen, the expositor of the famous ‘X ray.”” Charles E. | He Bessey says of Sachs that his influence upon botany “hasbeén greater than that of anyother botanist of recent times.” It has -been the work- of Sachs to c¢hange radically the mode of botanical teaching throughout the world. He developed the science :of plant| physiology and studied the real life of the plant. He overcame the old-time contempt for the lower forms of life and developed his teaching, ia true scientific order, from such forms. He | substituted “naturai groups” for the old primary classification of plants. As the historiau of botany, Sachs proved a most charming narrator-and a man-of chivalrous instincts.. The picture above is taken from a photograph presented by Dr. Sachs to Hubert M. Skinner of Chi- ¢ago a few years ago and reproduced in the Times-Heraid of that city. It represents.the doctorf in his favorite corner in his study in the University of Wurzburg, where he had worked since 1869. ANENT THE KLONDYKE. It is about 5000 miles from here to the Alaskan gold fields, and several times as far back.—Cleveland Leader. People should be careful about those Alas- kan tales. When it comes to throwing dust in the eyes of folks golddust is as bed as the worst.—Philadclphia Times. Those people who sre hurrying to the Klon- dyke gold fields et the present time are more likely to coliect a large amount of snow and ice than anything .else.—Philadelphia Tele- graph. ! Tales of fearful suffering from Alaska may be looked for before another twelvemontih rolls around. Never before have Americans been lured to so inhospitable & region.—St. Louis Globe-Democrar. “Gold, gold, gold!” Why, thau the silver talk of last summer’s Popu- lists] And, by the way. would it not be a good plan to send W. J. Bryan on alecture tour to the Kiondyke?—Boston Herald. The difficuities that lie in the way are greater, probably, than have ever before in- tervened in the way of the miner—a long and hurd journey and a rough country, and coid and snow for the larger fraction of the year. But the nonest miner will be there, for always since the world began men have been willing to leave home and comfort ana {ather and motber and wife and children at the cry of gold |—Kansas City Star. The mineral and comuwercial resomrces of Alaska are just beginning to unfold under the touch of aggressive American enterprise. Properly fostered by needful legislation at the hands of Congress they are desiined toadd incalculably to our National weaith. Theim- mediate need of the Territory is for laws which shall proyide ample protection for property intercsts, and-as the Government at | Washington .is now happily inspired by the same broad statesmanship that made Alaska a0 American possession there can be no doubt that this need will be promptly and fully sup- plied.—New York Mail and Express. -, They seek a 1and in which no living flowers skirt thé eternal frost, .a land of barrenness and desolation, & land in which there may be said to be no means of transportation over snow-covered leagues of territory, icy hills and treacherous glaciers. This'only seems to whet the desire to pierce those regions and gather in the treasure that the hdrd and un- yielding earth bears in its bosom. Before long thousands of fortune-seekers will be on their way to those forbidding regions. Some will win weslth, others will fall by the way ere they have reached the land of promise and of plenty, and still others will reach the goal and toil for a shadow and a dream.—Phiiadel- phia Inquirer. THE PICNIC BICYCLE. Philadelphia Record. If you enjoy summer picnics you can make a very nice “carrier’ for the famiiy lunch- basket by fastening two wheels together with diagonals. These need be no more substantial than willow strips, or they can be metal bars, N e - A Handy “Carrier.” It is best to have a mechanic fasten these together the first time and fit with adjustable tastenings so the carrier can be taken oif. The basket is suspended from & crosspiece of its’ own. THE GROWTH OF TOWNS., ‘Westminster Gazette, According to recent statistics concerning the populations of towns from 1800 to 1890 it ap- pears that during that period the population bas been doubled at Amsterdam, Birming- ham, Brussels, Manchester and Rome. It has increased threefold at Copenhagen and Mar- | seilles; fourfsld at Prague, Lyons, 8t. Peters- burg, Paris ahd London; fivefold at Dresaen, Cologne, Breslau, Hamburg and Vienna; six- | fold at Leeds, Liverpool snd Watsaw; seven- jold at Sheffield and Glasgow; eightfold at Munich; ninefold at Leipzig, Buda-Pesth a; Berlin, and tenfold at Baltimore, is nothing compered to the jrowth of N, York and Philadelphia, which to-day h twenty-five time the inhabitants they had at the beginning of tne century, or like Chieago, which has grown 245-lold, and Brookiyn, d But all this w where for every inhabitant in 1800 there are. now 339! Where will1t enid ? £lobs—I've heard that Beelzebub walks the earth in the form of a woman, - Henpeck—I believe that. Slobbs—Why? ol Henpeck—I married her.—Town Topics. this is worse | MEN AND WOMEN. Mrs. Alexander Campbeil, widow of the founder of the Campbellite sect, which now. numbers over 1,000,000 communicants, died lately at Bethany, W. Va. Queen Adelaide, widow of Don Miguel, King of Portugal, has taken two vows at the Con- vent of the Benedictines, at Solemes, France: She is 63 years old and isthe mother of seven children: g Moses Fielding, an Indian, who died {n:Nor- wich, Conn., recently, was a direct descendant of Uncas, the famous chief of .the Mohégsn tribe of Indians, of which oaly three members now survive. . : Senator Mason of Illinois is popular.among the Cubsns because of his efforts in behalf. of the recognition of . the' Cuban -army as bel- ligerents. ‘Estrada Palma, the head of tlie Cuban Junta, has sent to Senator Masona machete, to be given to the Senator’s little daughter, Winifred. Prince Albert of Belgium will shortly set forth oni a tour of thé world. ' He will follow the route adopted- by the present Czar. .But before proceeding.to China &nd Jupan he will visit Australia, and on leaving Yokoliama he | will sail for the United States, Where he may be expected toward the month 6f August next year on his way home. Ben Butler in a case in the Massachusetts Supreme Court-involving damages. forfatal injury—Senator Hoar being on the other side— quoted Job: “All that a man.hath will he give for his life.” “That,” said Mr. Hoar, ‘was a plea of the devil in a motion for a new trial, and I don’t think the court will be more im. vresséd by it-on.account of its modern in- dorsement.”. Dr. 0. 8. St. John died in New York a few days ago. Dr. St. John was born in Buffalo in 1810, and at thé time of his deatli was the last survivor of the burning of thattown by the British and Indiaus of 1812. " His mother’s house was tbe only one left standing in the place. Dr. St. John was & deepstudeéntand extensive traveler, and -was widely known in | collegiate and scientific ¢ircles in Europe and America. SALAD AND PIE, O what a happy world ‘I his woul] be If the doctors and the caoks Could agree: But the salads and the ples ‘hat the cunning chefs devise Ivever fail To arouse the doctor’s fre— He wouid throw them in the fice, And then end the wrong. by putting folks who make them Into jaill © what a happy.world This would be 11 what we want were best for You and i But we strive ana scheme and fret. ¥or the things that we shouid let Well aloné—_ For I1fe's salads and life's pies We are ready (o despise - The honest- things that Heaven kindly gives us for our own ! 5. E. Kiser in Cleveland Lead ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. CoprA—H. @., City. - Copra is admitted free inthe United States under ihe provisions of the new tariff bill. OBsoLeTE—J. C.'P., Cily. Thekissing of the hand of the sister ‘superior of ‘a conyent asa token of bigh regard is.obsoleté.. - THE TWo DoMEs—T. D. W., City. The. top -of the dome of -the City Hall is 302 feet 6- inches from the line of the sidewalk. . The top.of the 'y dome of the mew .CALL ‘buliding is°810 feet from the sidewalk. A PROMISSORY NoTE-J. R., City. -In the State of California an ection must be’ Commencea -within four yearsupon a coniract, obligation or liability founded ujon an instrument in writing executed in the State; -within two years if executed out of tie State. E To DAwsoN—T. B. G., Lockford, Cal.- No ves- sel is booked to sail for the Yukon on thé 1st of August. For date of sailing of vesse] that point you must wateh THE CALL | The rates of fare that are being charged range rom $175 to $220. MECHANTCS® Lr}:il——.'. H. F., City. The con- stitution of the State of California says: *“Me. chanics, materiai men, artisans and laborers | of every class shall have a lién upon the prop- erty upon whick they have bestowed labor of furnisned material for the Lfll‘ue of such-labor hed.” E done and material furn: ForeeTFULNESS—H. J. E., City.’ to.the question *What is ‘the .cause ‘of forgetfulness?" would require more’space than tuis department can devote to' it. You wili find .fi;(llxanwzr by reading an lrtlc;ae in Eneyclopedia’ Britanriica, , pages 65 to 69, inclusive, " STEAMERS NORTH—B. T., City. There i3 mo | | line ol steamers .running from San Franelsco | thatstops at Cooks Inlet or at Kadiak Island. There are sailing vessels from San Francisco v.g-v. 0 to the places nemed. It.is said- that the north 1s in March or Apr! ‘Liverrool 1o New Yorx—S., Dimond; Cal The following- is given .as the besttime be- ‘Jtween Liverpoot:aid New York by {its produetion, and-in the: *“Fall of de-wheeler—The -Baliic(Amnerican: vessei), § 16" hours 33 ‘mitutes; screw steamer— Etruria-(Cunard- iine), distance 3108 knots, 6 “days 19 hours &nd 47 minutes, ; " THEATRICAL PERRORMANCE—N..N,; City. . Ttis said that the perfornances :given under the direction of. Kiriliy in'London have i ‘them the lirgesi number of people on-the. stage: Some.of thie pruducttons have from 800 to 900 people. - The Prssion play at Oberammergau :lias had as.many as 8)0 persons em i.".i“:dfl there have been -emplaged: between mopand 600 to properly represent it. —— NUMBERING HAIRS OF HEAD. Westminster Gazette. Those who are thirsipg for the knowledgs of the average number o hairs on the human head will now beable tosatisfy their longing. A number of savants hiavs just been counting a square incn of hairs on the hesds of teveral persons, and have come to the conclusion that the average number is 1066 hairs. By meas- uring the surface of the entire head 1t'will b easy to calculate the number of hairson the aversge pate. Another setof ‘‘hairscientisis” have made different calculations. According to them a head of iair hair is made ub of 143 006 hairs (the six at the end of the round figure is fine; it might almost be reckoned among_the hair-splittings); a dark head pro- duces 103,000 hairs, and red poll only 29, 200. The reason for this difference i3 that fair bair is of the finest ana red hair of the coarsest quality. DON'T SPEAK AS THEY PASS BY. Louisville Courler-Journal: Wheat is still going up and silver has struck the lowest price in years, Have thé Populist political economists who insist that the pricés of wheat and siver always go together for- saken their folds and joined the rush tothe Alaskan goldfields ? Modin Hive of the Maccabees. The rose tea récently given by Modin Hive No.19 of the Ladies of the Maccabees at the residence of Mrs. da Vega, the.lady com mander, &t 823 O'Farrell sireet, s few even- ingssince. was a most enjoyable affair, and it was atfended by a large number of the mem- bers- of the hive, which is a branch of the order that is comyposed of and managed exclu- sively by ladies, The parlors were decorated with rare good taste, snd the dining-room, in which the tea was. served, gave evigence that persons of artistic taste had:been at'work in the arrangement of the table decorations: During the evening there was_presented to those assembled, when they were not engaged in soeisl small talk, a programime that was rich in vocel and instrumental music and recitation. There was one iwhose playing on the Lanjo was thie feature.of the eévening, and that_ oe -was Professor. Appleby. ~He aston- ished iis auditors by producing the sweetest sounds from the instrument.and proving that more n - the ordinary. tum-tum-can,’be evolved fram the combination of sirings.” The function was “well managed, and those who attended for miny.a day Have mostpleas- ant recollections of if D The Golden Key. Mrs. Belle W. Conrad, who enjoys the proud. honor of being the head of two well-knowar or- ganizations in this State; namely, grand presi- dent of the Grand Parlor of the Native Daugh- ters of the Golden West and grand protector of the Knightsand Ladies of Hongr, has re- turned 10 hier- home in’ Oakland after a:two months! sojourn in Lier ‘old homé, Sonors, and within a short time will devote her time to visiting the: parlors of the Native Daugnters and the lodges of the Kunights and Ladiesof Houor. ~ Wheh she makes her official visits.to. the subordinate parlors sne. will carry with her and exhibit thie beautiful key of ‘gold-tnat. was presented to the Grand Parlor by the gt~ zens of “Okd Tuolumne.” ————e Golden Gate Council, N: U: The members of Golden Gate:Council of the Netional Unionmét in”Ruby Hall, Red Men's, buflding, for the last time on’ Tuesdsy even- ing, and in future will meettn the hall of the s in Central block, corner of- Suiter and Grantavenue. The first meeting in the new: quaricrs witl be held. on. the evening of. the 10th of August; when - there be & house- warming and.an enfertainment. ‘At the meeting -the council worked in’ the initiation degree and added three to the mem- bérship, - During the-evening the vocsl music was furnisted by the guartet from Caliiornia -Council. Tou rists—Californis giace fruits, 50¢ Ib., in el egant iched:bzs. Jukt whid you want for Easters friends. Townsend's, Palece Hotel Bldg g e FPecTAL Information daily to manufaetuaresy, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ettty FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢, up. Sundays, 740 Market st:(Kast’s shoe-store);weéekdays 63 4th™ —— e Removal Notice, Joe Polieim, the Tailor, has removed from An_answer est time to siart for the mines in the |- 724 Market to 844-846 Market street. - Thank- ing my many friends-and the publi¢ in gen- eral for past favors, ['will be pleased to sce them-at my new sfors; where orders for clothes at - moderate prices can. be . filled promptly, Goodsordered at724 Marketsireet will ‘be: delivered .at ‘844-846 Market ‘street. Joe Poheim, the Tailor. . —————— Bridget has a kitchen. full of her company. Mistress -(irom ‘the ‘heid’ of the stairs)— Bridget! Bridget—Yes, ma’am. Mistress—It's 10 o’clock. Bridget—Thank ye, ma’am. And will ysu be 80-koind ezto tell e wain it's 12.—Pick- Me-Up:. 825 Kate to Chicago via the Great tanta Fe Route. The low rates made- for-Christian ‘Endeavorars will- be open to the publie as welk - An‘opportu- nity.to ¥isit the-East iever before erfoyed by Cal- ifornians. Puliman Palace ' Drawingroom Slesp ipg-cars of the latest pattern. - Modern upholstersd touriat sleeping-cars run - dafly . through. from.Oaks land pler ta' Chicago. - See tidié-table in advertis. Ing column. San Franeisco ticketoflice 644 Markes street, Chronicle buiding. 1 elephoue Main i53E vakland, 1115 Ervadivay. : ——— e Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone Park Line. 5 ‘Thé managers.of the Yellowstone Park wish to announce to the public that they have never boen i bétuer cordition Lo handie visitors thap at the pres¢it ‘time (fumors to the. cONUrdry no:with- standing). All ‘of the large parties-of Chiistian Endeavorers have made. the tiip and are ont of thé park. _¥or tickets and. information apply. io T. Ki Stateler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st., 8. -¥; ORI S e, Reduced Rates for All To the East via the Kio Grande Westérn Rallway, passing through -Utah and.‘Colorado by, daylignt. Through cars by all trains. Tickeis, sleeptng-car reservations and full ‘information furnished a:.i4 Montgomery s feet. < ——ee LUXURIANT b.dr with jts youthtul color assured by using PARKER'S HATR BATSAM; : HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 éts. e A Sa¥E, simple ‘and- effective remedy forindi: gestion .is a"dose of Ayer's. Pilta 'Iry the Pills and'make your meals enjoyable, i R — In & Western town ‘a clergyman- was ex- borting his congregation in regard to.their treatment of the wew minister, soon. to arrive, and closed up with: ‘ * “‘And above all things, when ‘he gets here I ;vant you all to pray for him. He’ll need 6./~ Life. s 3 NEW TO-DA Royal makes the food pure, - . . : ‘wholesome and deliclous;