The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie Detly , One year, by mai Dail ix months, by mal Dail , three months by mail 1. Dl 'ALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. W ELKLY CALL, one year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, Californta. Telephone Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ....Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 7; open until Montgomery sireet, coraer C o'clock 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock. Larkin street, open until o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets, open ntil 8 c'clock. 1% Mission street, open until 9 o’clock. Ninth et, open until 9 o’clock. 05 Polk stre open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open till 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICH: 9U8 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Clty DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTH: Areyon golng to the country ona_vacation * 1f +0, 1t i no trouble for ns to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per month for summer mont The Sultan will talk it out on his own line if it takes all summer. We are getting this year the best crop of trade prosperity that was ever harvested at midsummer. The Valley road is preparing for a rush, It has named a station Klondyke and cpened it up for business. Tne death of Miss Barrett has ceased to be a mystery to the Bostonians, and they now speak of it as a physiological study. The all-land route to the Yukon may look well from a Canadian point of view, but it will be all day with the man who tries it. The rate of the proposed tax levy ren- ders it unnecessary to say there will be no rush for the Klondyke from the vicinity of the City Hall. It is a safe predic.ion that more wealth will be carried into the Yukon country in the next two years than will be taken out of it in the same time. Boston scorned the Dancing Bacchante, but the outbreak of a bacchanal riot on Wednesday night shows that a good many of her people are ever ready to follow the dance. The high board fence continues to con- ceal from the public the work being done on the Hall of Justice, and it looks as if none of it would be in sight for a year to come. In some of the fruit disiricts of the Etate it appears the problem of the unem- ployed has resolvea itself into a question of how to get men to take the work that 1s offered them. An attempt to enforce the royalty tax on the miners of the Yukon may cost Canada a great deal more than it is worth, and now is the time for her to take a second thought. Public ovinion on this coast is rapidly reaching the conclusion that when Secre- tary Gage made Dyea a sub-port of entry he was affected by the gold excitement and slightly overdid the thing. Lven a gold breeze does not blow good for everybody, for it appears the rush for the Klonayke has left the fish industry in the north without men to do the work, and the canners are tearing their hair, There is no rest for Tiliman this sum- mer. He has been compelled to take the stump in South Carolina tocanvass for re- election to the Senate, and he is sweating over it like a man tending a thrashing machine. The Alaskan gold cure is a tonic that puts vigor into the limbs of old men, courage into the blood of the timid and hope into the hearts of the despondent. As a stimulus to energy it beats any- thing on the market. An Eastern arithmetician figures out that there is a fortune in Alaska for one prospector in every six, and as that ratio is a great deal better than the chances in the East it is not strange the people are coming West in a rush. The report of Jastice Field's retirement from the Supreme Court has become peri- odical and appears regularly every sum- mer. By and by the Justice may retire and then about 3,000,000 people will have the pleasure of saying “I told you so.” Now that Weyler is reduced to the necessity of making his trips from one seaport in Cuba to another by water in- stead of by land, it is evident he has lost his hold on the island, and eventually will have to take water altogether and strike out for Spain. Day after day the reports of fatal sun- strokes in the Easct remind us of the wis- dom of leaving that section of the coun- try, and by and by reports of persons per- ishing amid the snows ol Alaska will re- mind us of the wisdom of staying where we are and traveling no further. Owing to the large importation of goods durinz the closing days of the Wilson tariff, but little revenue was expected from thenew law at the start. Itis there- fore gratifying to learn that it is yielding a larger income than was looked for. As spon as the imported goods are out of the way the Dingley tarift will show itself 1o be a revenue raiser of the first magnitude. A considerable racket has been occa- sioned in New York by the discovery that some of the teachers in the “summer schools” designed for the improvement of the poor have been training their pupils in mock trials, and i order to interest them have set them to study the derails of sensational murders. The plan isto assign to a pupil the part of some witness in the case, and he is expected to read up the testimony and be uble to give it at the trial. The new education is as_gory and as harrowing as a dime novel, and the boys like it, but the people who subscribed movey to conduct the schouls for the ele- vation of the masses are raising a howl that makes the welkin shudder, THE SUB-PORT AT DYEA. A short experience has beenr sufficient t 0 show that the action of the Government in making Dyea a sub-port of entry tor toreign ships was ill considered and has Lad a bad effect on our traae. 1t conferred a benefit on Canadian ship-owners and merchants, without any compensating advantages to us, and the evil results already apparent will be likely to increase rather than diminish as the Alaskan trade de- velops. Until a sub-port was established at Dyea all foreien ships had to discharge their cargoes at Juneau, while American ships could proceed direct to the head of naviga- tion. This was an advantage suflicient to e: trade to that section of Alaska. We were, | profits from the trade of the newly opened nable our vessels to virtually control the therefore, in a position to reap large gold fields and to advance American inter- ests there free from the dangerous competition of foreign rivals. The opening of the port at Dyea surrendered the single point of advantage which we had in competimng for the trade. now carry passengers and freight as far into the country as can our owi. Ships from the ports of British Columbia can They have promptly profited by the opportunity_offered, and at the present time are busily en- gaged in &n effort to win away from San Francisco and other American ports the trade which of right should have been beyond their competition. As the ricnest gold fields on the Yukon tory American outfitters, of which they will make every use in their power. thus far discovered are in Canadian terri- the Canadian traders have, through their tariff duties, an advantage over They have already suggested that goods bough't in Canada can be landed at Dyea and from there transported in bond across the frontier without paying duties. The claim is not true at present, for no bonded privileges have been granted across the country, but the be- lief that the privilege exists has been sufficient to induce many persons making the trip to purchase their supplies at Victoria instead of in this country. Even if the privilege of conveging their supplies in bond across the country from Dyea to British territory is never granted to the Canadians there will still be sufficient evil to us in the mere admission of their ships to that port to iustify a resolute pro- test on our part against the hasty action of The Canadians have not been free in owe them nothing in the way of generosity. since American goods going to the Klondy! the Secretary of the Treasury. opening their waters to our ships and we Each for his own is a good maxim, and ke must pay heavy duties it is but right our Government should retain for its people the advantage of the sole right of landing goods at Dyea. THE 00NVENTIO£00MMITIEE. ! The organization of a convention com- | mittee for the purpose of trying to procure a number of conventions for this City was a good way to follow up | the big success of getting the Christian Endeavorers here. The benefits that this latest convention brought to the City and State will prove a good incentive to our people to put forth efforts to arrange for the coming of other large bodies of visi- tors, and at the same time the highly sat- isfactory way in which that convention was handled, and all the visitors given comfortable quarters and an enjoyable time, will furnish a telling argument by which to appeal to the other bodies we wish to invite. The executive committee selected is a most capabie one and we may afely ex-| pect good results from such a body. The | great importance of prompt action should | be considered by those who have been se- lected 10 do the most active parts of the work. A sbortdelay might enable some other city to negotiate for promises in its favor, and Ssn Francisco would make a miss as good as a mile. The celerity with which the work is done may mean far | more than the amount. The two conventions most desirable fo | strive for are the National Educational of | 1898 and the Grand Army Encampment of 1898. The prospect of getting the first already seems good, and as the Grand Army has before tested the merits of Cali- fornia us an encampment place it should | not be difficult to induce it to come again to enjoy the bospitality of the peo- ple and of the climate. O:her conven- tions might have to be argued with elab- | orately, but the memory of the Grand Army needsonly to be jogged as to the | pleasant time the veterans had when Cali- | fornia took care of them before in order to pgrsuade them to repeat that happy | experience. The calculation that the Christian En- deavor Convention Jeft $2,000,000 in the State shows the great importance of ai- tracting these friendly visits. It proves that any hesitation about making ar- rangements to secure them and enter- | tain tbem would be penny wise and pound foolish. The unknown quantity as to the benefits of the advertising accom- plished by the Endeavorers’ visit must be considered. Aside irom business advan- | tages the bringing of these big conven- | tionsshould be a matter of City and State pride. We have a great country, and should endeavor to let the rest of the world know it. TRADE | WITH FRANCE. According to a dispatch of yesterday from Paris, M. Boucher, the French Min- ister of Commerce, is reported to have said: “It should not for a moment be doubted that President McKinley wilt spontaneously grant to France 20 per cent reduction as vpermitted by the Dingley bill. It is of course only on this condition that France will continue to grant to the United States the customs concessions arranged as a quid pro quo for the econo- mic advantages which have now disap- peared.” The importance of this statement to California lies in the fact that the oniy protected articies on which a reduction can be made by the President are argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude; brandies or other spirits, champagne and all other sparkling wines, still wines and vermouth, painting and statuary., It is not likely that much trade can be ar- ranged for under this schedule with France unless wines and brandies are in- cluded among the articles on which re- ductions are made. It is, therefore, Cali- fornia that will have to pay for the con- cessions. It is provided by the tariff that within a period of two vears from the pussage of the act the President by and with the consent of the Senate can arrange recip- rocity treaties by conceding 20 per cent reductions on any articles that may be selectel. If we are to have a reciprocity treaty with France it would be well to wait until it can be arranged under that ciause. It is not clear from the statement attrib- uted to the French Minister of Commerce whether he expects to arrange a treaty at once under the clause which authorizes the President to act, or whether he is planning a more extended treaty two years hence, which will require the consent of the Senate. In either case it will be well for California representatives to be on their guard. Our wine industry is not strong enough to stand competition with Frarce, and at the same time it is too im- portant to be sacrificed for the sake of any trade France would give us in return. It is said that last year the British built ships of an aggregate displacement of 1,400,000 tons, as against 365,000 tons for ali other countries combined. It is evi- dent, therefore, that nations which aspire to take the supremacy of the sea from old Britannia will have to get & move or if they hope to accomplish it at any veriod near enough to be interesting to this gen- eration. There is a story current in Chicago that the nine greatest corporations in the West, ieaded by the Standard Oil Company, are to be combined intv one gizantic trust, with a capital of about $1,000,000,000. What a chance that would give the next Iilinois Legislature for a cinch bill, MORE PROSPERITY NEWS. Reports of prosperity coiitinue to pour in from all varts of the country so con- tinuously that instead of talking about tbe coming wave it would be more sensi- ble to announce that it has arrived. Let us hope, however, that, like the billows of the ocean, there wiil be a succession of waves to roll in and gladden the people. The pres:dent of the National Park Bank ot New York has been investigating the business outlook for his private infor- mation, and has found it so encouraging he felt constrained to give his information to the public. . He sent out 100 letters to bankers in nearly all the States of the Union with inquiries as to business, crops, manufactures, the unemployed, etec., and the great majority of the answers showed greatly improved conditions. In thirty- two of them the statement was made that the silver cause was losing ground, be- cause of the prosperity that followed the election of McKinley. A new addition to the list of revivals comes from Indiana, where the wire-nail company at Anderson has bought ad- tional ground to extend its plant in order that its force of 400 bands may be in- creased to 1000. These reporis are so fre- quent now that if a list were kept of them allit would muke a most imposing array of evidence thatthe wave of prosperity is here. There is something most remarkable ?bo“t the way in which revenue is flowing into the treasury since the Dingley bill became operative, and it constitutes the strongest proof of business reyival. The customs receipts, omitting the first | day, have averaged over $300,000 per | day in spite of the fact that so much importing had been done anticipatory of the increased tariff. A great full was naturally looked for, but instead of that there is ample revenue coming. Tais | is good, of course, in two ways—it is pro- viding abundant funds for the Govern- ment and it indicates an unusual pros- perity among the people and activity in business. The cause which depended for its success on the cry of calamity is now the only thing to which calamity is com- ing. EXIT FREE TRADE. The somewhat surprising utterances by two prominent Democrats on the question of protection, whicn have recently been published, show that the pulse of free trade 1s beating very low. When South- ern Senators prepare to abandon the doctrine we may expect it soon to pass out of the political life of this country and become merely a matter of history. The telegram from New Orleans that Senator McEnery had, in that stronghold of Democracy, made a lengthy speech, contending that free trade was not an essertial plank of the Democratic party, isone of these proofs. The Senator da- fended himself for his vote in favor of the Dingley bill, for doing which an at- tempt had been made to declare his course undemocratic, by avowing Lousi- ana’sneed of protection for her sugar, rice and other products. The meetinyg at which he spoke is said to have been one of the largest and most influential gath- ered in New Orleans for years, and it met for the express purpose of giving Bim a welcome that would be a protest against the effort io condemn his Democracy. Thbe most prominent Democrats of the Pelican State’' were vice-presidents of this meeting, and the indorsement of his ac- tion by his own party at home was com- plete. The other surprising statement comes from the Texan, Bailey, whose leadership of the Democrats in Congress makes it most notable. In his closing speech on the tariff bill in the House he said: *I never ventured to denounce the raw- material theory until I had first appealed to the supreme tribunal of the Democratic party, which reversed the doctrine of free raw material and gave me a commission to denounce it here and elsewhere, and I mean to do it.” Mr. Bailey further stated that the last Democratic convention at Chicago deiiberately omitted the com- mendation of free raw materials which had held place in the platform of 1892. The willingness thus shown to admit the principle of protecting free raw ma- terials is so strong an entering wedce for the splitting up of the Southern Demo- crats that we may reasonably expect that further protection will soon find many counselors in their camp, and the old con- servatism in this matter will be com- pletely broken up. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat gives some curious history about the expression ‘‘for revenue only,’§ used so much by the Dem- ocrats as a rallying cry. Itor.ginated in the Tilden campaign and was placed in the platiorm drawn by Horatio Seymour, which wasconsidered a political master- piece. This was in New York in 1873, when Tildem made his successful run for Governor. 1n 1876 the St. Louis conven- tion that numinuufi Tilden for President took up the idea “for revenue oniy,” and in 1875 W. R. Morrison had made use of the expression as a moito to pamphlets of his speech in Congress for tariff reform. The Democracy has alternately used and dropped the ‘‘only” in their platforms, and the late one at Chicago was so fixed as to let protectionists stand on it. Itis not long since Senator Bacon of the stancb Democratic State of Georgia con- tended for protection to the industries of his sect'on. It is evident that Bailey is watching out for the wool interests of | his State, and McEnery is the champion for duties to guard Louisiana sugar. To be consistent the Southern Democracy will have to cease opposition to the gen- eral policy of protection. PERSONAL. James B. Eddie of Carson is in town. Warden W. E. Hale of San Quentin is at the Palace. Miss E. G. Burden of Sonora is at the Cosmo- vpolitan. Ex-District Attorney H. B, Gillis of Yreka is in town, W. H. Hall, & business man of Eureks, is in the City. Hon. W, A. Massey of Carson arrived here yesterday. M. E. Kirby, a business man of Maders, is at the Grand. The Rev. S. L, Alexander of San Anselmo is at the Occidental. F. B. Harris and wife of Fresno are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. Davidson, a well-known mining man of Grub Gulch, is in town. John McKenna, manager of the Pigeon Point lighthouse, is in the City. Judge John D. Bickneil of Los Angeles came here on yesterday’s train. H. E. Herzlager, owner of a general store at Redding, is a late arrival here. Professor O P. Jenkins of Stanford Uni- versity is on a visit to this Clty. Senator J. C. Holloway of Cloverdale is one of the arrivals at the Russ House. Paul C. Blume, the advance agent of the Main circus, arrived here yesterday. P. R. 8mith, a leading wine-grower of Calis- toga, 15 here on a short business trip. C. D. Willard, editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express, is visiting the City. The Rev. W. E. Smith, the Congregational minister at San Mateo, is at the Russ House, County Assessor M. V. Vanderhoof of So- noma is here accompanied by his wife and daughter, A. L. Bryan, a manufacturer of this City, has returned after sgveral weeks iz Boston and other citles of the East. Lieutenant W. A. Hart of the United States army, stationed at Fort Grant, Ariz,, is among the guests of the Occidental. Louis M. Coie, nephew of Dr. Joseph David- son and a leading merchant of Southern Cali- foruia, is here on his way to Chicago. F. J. Dawson, superintendent of & mine at Grass Valley and who is going to join the throng at Dawson City, is at the Grand. Walter 8. Moore of Los Palmos, formerly Col- lector of Internal Revenue at Los Angeles and well known in Republican politics, is in the City. Tom Ewing, a mining man of MoMana, who for & long time hived in Alameda and afterward in Sesttle, is in the City, accom- panied by his wif F. M. Posegate, formerly postmaster and Mayor of St. Joseph, Mo., and for & number of years connected with the St. Joseph Herald, is stopping at the Russ House. E. C. Macfarlane of Honolulu, who has been dangerously 11l at the California Hotel, is pro- nounced out of danger by his attending pby- sician, Dr. Winslow Anderson. c»a LIFORNIANS- lbi NE{V YORK. —At the 8t. Cloud— Godfrey; Astor— Captain Windrow; Metropolitau—J. P. Bur- nett; Cosmopolitan—R. C. Christman; Morton Grand Union—S8, Han- verett—Mrs./B. Howell, Mrs. G. Thomp- Sturtevant—W. O. Morrison; Einclair—S. Wiiliams; Vendome—J. 8. Vosburg. Hans Blichfeldt and Otto Zurbom left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Prinz Regent Luitpold for Bremen. A MANY YEARS AGO. 1 reached and broke a tudding spray And laid it on your fips (hat day— Ah, dear, "twaa in that other May, A many years ago. 1 kissed your iips anu laid it there, And, kissing, wound it with Your hair, And laughed to see you so. 1 reached and broke a budding spray And laid It on yor grave io-day, And thought upon that other May, A many years ago. And, dear., 1 kissed it with & smile, And, kissing, iay a little while, Con:ent to feel it 80. PosT WHEKLER, in New York Press. THE ERA OF GOOD TIMES. Chicago Inter Ocean. When wheat goes out money comes in, and it is gold money: for just as tightly as Europe holds to & gold standard wnen the baiance oi trade is against us, just 5o Tigidly does she conform to it when the balance 1s against her. What with large sums coming from abroad in paymeunt for wheat, large sums coming from Alaska, and a ceriain brisk development of go:d mining in all parts of the United States, the financial questior, aided by the operation oL 3 protestive tariff, seems about o settle teelf. Wheat, oats and flour are going out of Chi- cago, mostly for Europe, at the rate of about fifseen shiploads a day, not to mention the tens of thou:ands of bushels sent by rail. This means prosperity. When wheat . goes up everything follows in due time. Kailways un- dergo extension and improvements, ship- buiiding flourishes, iron and coal are inde- mand, lumber and canvas are needed, the workmen throug the stores, and the stores call on the factories for more goods; finally labor of all kinds comes into demand. Then wages go up. This is prosperity. The market reporis indicate the return of prosperity. Prices do not go up as demand diminishes, nor does demand increase when money is hiding 1is¢lf in banks and coffers. Prices now tend upward because money again is venturing abroud, and when money is s) t iavor is employed. The boom times of 1892 may not be reproduced instantly, out the cont- merce and manuiactures of the country have passed out of the Slough of Despoud, whereiu they lingered painfully for four long years. Hope poinis before and shows the bright to- morrow ; Let us forget the darkness of yesterday, IN HUMANITY'S BEHALF. THE CALL 15 doing & good work for human- ity in exposing the Chinese system of chattel slavery in Calitornia. The holding of females as bondswomen Is a disgrace 1o the civiliza- tion of the end of the nineteenth century. MEN AND WOMEN. A few weeks ago Elsa Eschelsson was ap- pointed professor of civil law at the University ot Upsala. She is the first woman to receive an appoiniment asa university professor in Sweden, b Rev. Peter Havermans of Troy, N. Y., is the oldest Roman Catholic priest in America. He was ordained sixiy-seven years agoand for nearly three score of those years he hes done efficient service in Troy. The Atlanta Constitution says: “Stoke Su- song 1s the name of an East Tennessee citizen who is coming into prominence. We suggest that Stoke Susong, Link Houk, Ki Gudger, sart Baddlesand Mart Mush appoint aday and have a family reunion.” Queen Victoria has five maids to assist her toilet—three dressers and two wardrobe women. The senior dresser, who has been many years with her Majesiy, is especially charged with the task of conveying orders to different tradesmen—jewelers, drapers and dressmakers. One dresser and one wardrobe woman are in constant attendance on the Queen, taking alternate days. The King of Servia is credited with having no respect for any woman. Oue day he was losing at a Paris gambling saloon, when he turned roughly upon a lady, who was siand ing behind his chair, and seid: “I wish you would goaway. You make me lose. I neyer have bad luck excepting when you are there.” “Pardon, sire,” she retorted, “I was not there when you ran away from the Bulgarians, nor when you lost your crown.” When Wilberforce became rector of Bright- stone, in the lsle of Wight, he was waited on by an old farmer, whose one desire in life was o rent theglebe land. “Why?’ asked Wilber- force. “Well,” sald the old feilow, with a look of business shrewdness, ““when Uother parson was here he used to farm it hisself and, there being so little of it, he always got in his hay before anybody else. Then he clapped on the prayer for raiw” YOUNG MARINO'S HIT PIETRO MARINO, the California IN BRUSSELS. Violinist. News comes from Brussels that quite a sensation was created at the recent graduating exorcises of the Conservatory by the work of Pieiro Marino, the boy who left here two years ago with Ysaye to study the violin unaer the famous Belgian master.’ At the annual concert, to which the friends of the papils and tie judges and professors were all admiited, Marino's violin solo was received with more thunders of applause than the work of any other pupil, and at its conclusion Ysaye rushed on the platform and publicly embraced the young Californian before the whole assembiy. This exhibition of delight on the part of the master was considered the more remarkable as the violinist is generally very seli-contained. In addition to graduating with honors in the violin course youig Marino has been awarded the first prize in the solfeggio class. This means that he can take up a piece of new and difficuit music and sing it at sicht better than any other student in the Brussels Con- servatory. Ysaye has the highest hopes of bis career as a concert artist, though he is anxious that he should study two years longer, in order to thoroughly master harmony and the piano- forte. Some months ago Ysaye was concertizing with brilliant success in Italy. One night, after he ned received an ovation in Rome, Queen Margherita sent for him from her box to con- gratulate him. a native of Italy, although he went to California in his infaney “I should like to tell your Msjesty about my best pupil,” said Ysaye. “He is After learning young Marino’s name and the fact that the youth was only 18 the Queen said: “‘Let him come to Italy at my expense, and I will become his patron. He shall make his debut here, and shall finish his studies at my expense.” The boy was at first overjoyed at this proposition, but before going to Italy it was pointed out to him that owing to his being a minor he had not yet become an American citizen, and as an Italian he was liable to military service in Italy. He has always regarded himself as an American, so he decided that even for the sake of royal patronage he could not don King Humbert's uniform. Pietro Marino will return home to this Ciiy 1n about two months, and prominent members of the Italian colony are aiready preparing to tender him & big reception and concert. His parents and friends are very proud of his success and of the briliiant future which the pro- fessors of the Brussels Conservatory all predict for him. DR. JORDAN ON EVOLUTION. To the Editor of the San Francisco Coli—SIR: Itisa positive pieasure for me 10 commend Dr. David Starr jordan’s paper in the August number of the Arena on “Evolution! What It Isand What It Is Not,” both because of its great merit and because I have had occasion, as the readers of THE CALL well know, to ques- tion and rather upsparingly criticize some of his recent off-hand and untimely utterances concerning the unemployed; and I bear cheer- ful witness to the large ability, distinguishing versatility and irrepressible energy of this notable man. In the fields of thought, where his views have become matured by his habit of thorough research and discriminating an- alysis, the president of Stantord University may be designated as an authority. There are but fifteen pages in his Arena paper on the essential fact and province of evolution and tne misconceptions of it which have masqueraded under its title, and yet it is doubtiul ii asingle volume of the hundreds that have been published on tnis subject can be nemed which will give the average man of 1ntelligence suh clear and abiding views of this all-subjugating doctrine of evolution as will this Lrief magaziue article by President Jordan. The temptation is almost irresistible to try to give the reader an indication of the points considered by Dr. Jordan, but there is no room for it here, and I should fall to do the subject justice, since his treatment of it isa model. oi logleal deveiopment sud crisp, compact statement, But lmust inaulge my- eelf in two or three references. 1n the first piace, let the reader dismiss the thought that this may be an_abstruse subject as Dr. Jordan presentsit. Any reader of zood average intelligence will grasp it readily as he reads, wondering tho while that he has re- garded the doctrine of evolution as a bard subject for mastery, and he wi.l probably not need to turn to his dictionary for a single acfinjtion. This may seem ambiguous com- mendation to those who are accustomed to rechnical terms in the treatment of this sub- ject, but I only pay a just tribute 1o Dr.Jor- au’s masiery of it in my reierence to the iucid manner in which he has presented it, tor without clearness of conception clearness of statement is impossible. think Dr, Jor- dan is at his b.st here in the use of trans- iucent ana foreible terms and in deft reference to divergent views. Ithisk we shall agree with President Jor- dan in his definition of evolution. *Itseems 10 me,” he says, “that the word evoiution is now legitimately used in four different senses. 1t1s the nume of a branch of science; Miss theory of orgenic existence; it is a methoa of Investigation, aud iLis a basis of & system of philosophy.” Under these four aspects the whole scope of the matler appears narmoni- ous and its several ieatures distiuctly dis- cernible. But there is no space here in which to sketen them, and I would notif Icould. That is left for Dr. Jordan, Here is & part of one paragraph. showing the brief space in which man can observe the operatlon of the Iaws of nature: **As a flash of hghtning in the duration of night, o0 is the lite of man in the duration of nature. - When oue looks out on & storm at night he sees for an_instant the landscape iliumined by the lightning flasb. Ail seems at rest The branches in the wind, the fiving clouds, toe jailing rain, are all motiouless in ufis in- stanianeous view.” “Briei as the lightning flash in the storm is the lile of man compared with the great time-record of life upon earth.”” Evoiutou deals with this time- record. But I forbear, and will only add that I think the reading of this beautiful little essay vy Dr. Jordan will prove to Le an epoch in the intellectual advancement of a mu.titude o1 Arena readers. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, Aug. 3, 1897. WILSON’S TIMELY SUGGESTION. New York Mail and Express. Secretary Wilson's suggestion that an agri- cultural experiment station be established in alaska is characteristic of his progressive pur- pose and method. The possibilities of agricul- iure in Aleska are yei to be ascertained by practical tests. If in addition to its colossal wealth In miuerals, timber and fisheries, the territory can ba made to vied the whole or even a part of 115 food supplies the demonstra- iion of that fact will add immensely to the already rapid material development of the country. The establishment of an experiment station, such as Mr. Wilson proposes, is the direct and sensible way of finding out 1o what extent agriculture can be successfully carried on injthe Terriiory,and it would be in thorough accord with the businessiike policy with which the administration is treating the advaneing conditions of our Alaskan posses- sions. THE GERMAN I_EA. New Orleans Times-Democrat. What Germany appears to want is to beal- lowed to flood the United States with her goods free of duty and to return the compli- ment to this country by taxing our goods to practical exclusion, WITH YOUR COFFEE. It has come at last,” sobbed the lovely bride of & month—*“the first quarrell” “What—with your hustand?’ inquired her pitying ‘riend. “No,” she faltered, raising her tear-stained face; “much worse—with the cook!”’'—Tit-Bits. “What a nice, kind man Nero was!” “What? Why, the wretch fiddled while Rome burned.” “I know. -He’d probably waited all his life for a chance when he wouldn’t disturb any one.”—Truth. “Baw Jove, I have heard that you said I was a monomaniac.” “Me! never. A monomaniac is s man of one idee. If you are anything, you must be & no- nomaniac.”—Indisnapolis Journal. At an Embassador’s reception—My dear Ba- ron, do not speak so loud. You cau’t trust that new Embassador. He looks altogether too honesi.—Fliegende Blatter. First Old Soldfer—There’s something famil- iarabout that wowan’s face. Second O1d Soldier—That’s so. I guess it's the powder.—Judge. “You should get your ears lopped, Bryan,” said a smart tourist to an Irish peasant whom he was quizzing; “they’re too large for a man.” “An’ bedad,” replied the Hibernian, “I was just thinkin’ yours would want to be made larger; sure they're too shori for au ass.” — Jinks. Professor (disgustedly)—I’s hard to get any knowledge into your nead, your skull's so thick. 5 Pupil—But, remember, professor, for the same reason it will be hard for the knowledge to ever get out.—Philadel phia Record. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Two Nines of Aleatraz Parlor of the Native Sans Play Eall on the Diamond. Recently a number of the members of Alca- traz Parlor ot the Native Sons of the Golden West were at a private picnic in Fairfax Park, Marin County, when a game of bascball be. tween married and unmarried men of the par- lor was inasugurated. The game was played with a great deal of vigor, and it was won by the unmarried men by a score of 5t00. The posttion of the players was as follows: Unmarried Men. ~ Position. Married Men. Fitzgerald . % A. Lecheusien. M. Le H. Lecheuste Herlehey. The features of the game were the good playing of Tom Coghlin, who is an ex-ball- tosser, and the poor playing of Daggett of the murried men’s nine. At ine end of the first inning Daggett retired, surrendering the posi- tion of catcher to & substitute, ana jn exouss for this stated that when he wasaboy ie could play ball as well as anybody, but that ne had been out of practice so long that he had forgotten how to hold a ball. Confiden- tially he told a friend that it was not because he had forgotten how to play that he had let 50 many passed balls get away from him, but becausc he wus very tireg by reason of a heavy day’s work the day previous. The two teams will meet again In the near future, snd the married men expect to make a better showing even ii they do not win the game. Toey also say that they will give Dag- geit.an opportunity to get over that tired ieeling, and that they will have him in first- class condition for the next game. Prosperity Lodge, A. O. U. W. Last Tuesday evening Prosperity Lodge, A. 0.U.W., held an interesting meeting iu the Alcazar building. There was a good attend- ance of members and there were also several visitors from other lcdges. This lodge, which is & comparativeiy new one, is advancing rap- idly and at every meeting isaddiug to its mambenhig. The members are enthusiasiic and if they keep up their enthusiasm they will make Prosperity Lodge one of the most promi- nent in the City. There were four iuiiiations last Tuesday nighi and next Tuesdey there will be & class of candidates to be introduced to the mysteries of the order by the Pacisic Drill Team. The lodge is making arrange- menis for ocial 10 be given on the evening of the 26th inst. The lodge is also organizing & drill team. The National Union. There was a large attendance of the mem- bership of California Council of the National Union in Stanford Hall in the Aleazar on Wednesday evening. At that time the ques. | Montgomer; oving from present ?‘.‘l)ins'“l-l,:il inCcentral block came up for con- sideration. as aid the proposition tosmend the by-law: as to change the meeting-night from Wednesday to Tuesday. The tWo propo- sitions were embraced in one resolution, and that was carried without a dissenting voice. itis proposed that the first meedng in the new quarters shall be held ou the night of the tember next. 7‘;«1 Smffo‘:af.on to make the president of the council an ex-officio member of each commit- tee of the council wss brought up, and after an explanation irom President Hustings that he was not anxious (0_serve on any sommittee a vote was taken, with the result that the president shall not serve on commitiees by virtue of his ¢ ffice. Pacific Council will at its meeting next Sat- urdav night be visited by the members of the San Francisco Cabinet a Friends of the Forest. Last Weduesday evening the several loages of the Friends of the Forest gave an entertain. ment and ruction party in St George’s Hali, and the attendance was large. The committee of arrangements, consisting of Mesdames Gingles, Boehm, Wentzell and Marshall, ar- ranged a programme of dances, which afforded enjoyment to all who were lovers of the art of dancing; then there was presented in addi- tion a voca! solo by Mrs. Nealo and a fancy dance by the three little Misses Mackiilop, Muarshall and Roberts, Before the close of the dance programme the auction =~WAs - rated, fo l}.glilxrlmglme and M. Bochm being the atctioncers. There were offered & num- ber of parcels that were opened and exhibited to the view of intending purehasers, wwle.; number were sola *‘sight not permitted,” and in many instances tnose who ‘‘went 1t blind were rewarded with handsome articles while others realized that it is not always good financiering to bid ou unknown quantity or quality. Still all the uuforiunates took it good-naturedly and rather enjoyed their dise comfiture. The sale was productive of a great deal of amusement. The evening closed with dancing. Chebra Berith Shalom. The following officers of the Chebra Berith Shalom were installed at the last-held meet- ing of the soclety for the ensuing term President, G. Michael; vice-president, R. ui ; secretary, S. Meyer; treasurer, 1 Lewis; trustees—B. Cohn,” L 'Spiro, M. Stoc witz and Aaron Lev: CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50 Townsend's." S = FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢, up. 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