The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 18917, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Edl(or:\:lgipmrflemr SUBSCRIPTION RATESPostage Free: | Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.15 | Daily and Sunday CALL, one year,by mail.... 6.00 | Dafly rnd Sunday CaL, six months, by mail.. 2.00 | Daily snd Sunday CALi., three months by mail 1.50 | Daily and Sunday CavLy, one month, by mall, .63 sunday CALL, ane year, by mail. 3 1.50 W EEKLY UALL, one year, by mall 150 | BUSINESS OFFICE: %510 Market Street, Fan Frarcisco, Californta. Telephone..... .Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: | D17 Ulay Streew | ...MAIn—1874 Telephone... BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montzomery s:reet, corer Clas; open until 9:39 o' luck 338 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 8:30 o'clock. corner Sixteeuth and Mission stree:s, open 1 9 o'clock. 18 Mission street, open until 167 Ninth street, open until 9 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twe.u and Kentucky streets; open til 9o | | | | OAKLAND OFFICB: 9.8 Broadw, EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 ana 32, 34 Park Row, New Verk Clty DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. - — | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon Foing 1o the country on a_vacation ? #0.1t is no trouble for us 1o forward THI CALL youraddress. 1o not let it miss you for you w miss 1t. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. | NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fitiy cents per mouth for summer monthe n 0 There are too many schoolbooks in sight. Compalling parents to buy more school- books is & heayy burden to lay on top the tax levy. Klondvke gold is not as good as Cali- fornia gold and what is more there is not so much of it. e i It is about time to send a balloon relief expadition to the frozen north to look for Andres and his pizeons. Tne solil South is thawing out under | the geniality of this administration like, an iceberg in the sunshine. 1 Wait until the rush breaks a good road through to the Klondyke and then you can make the trip at your ease. Philadelphia will not be a slow town this week. The bikers have taken posses- | sion of it and are running everything. American merchants and ship-owners cannot afford to sit idly by and permit Canadians to get the cream of the Dyea | trade, 1f we cannot get President McKinley to visit California we may at least. get Secre- tary Wilson to come out and talk to the farmers, THE SuNDAY CALL to-morrow will be full of bright, newsy and iateresting articies, Make snie of getting it by leaving orders for it to-day. Weyler may not be able to pacify Cuba, but he manages to pacify himself every now and then by banisting a newspaper correspondent. | The School Board shonla inculcate les- sons of economy among the pupils of the public schools by practicing a little of it on suitable occasions. All experts on Alaskan travel warn i tending prospectors to wait until spring | before attempting the journey, and all who have common-sense will follow the advice. The story that Gorman wili retire from | the rac» for the senatorship in Maryland | is the latest confirmauon of the report that the senatorship is about to reiire | from him. The report that the Comanches and Kiowas are putting on their warpaint has a terrifying sound, but perhaps it means | nothing more than preparations for a dog- feast dance. The determination of the Canadians to enforee the alien labor law very strictly means hard times for any American on the Klondyke who fails to strike pay gravel and has to bunta job. Secretary Wilson estimates that the in- crease in the value of farm produets over last year amounts to about $500,000,000. It will be seen from this that prosperity has settled on tne lana and is growing with the crops. In the face of the heavy duties, fees and royalties levied by the Canadian Govern- | ment in the new gold diggings, the best | thing American miners caa do is to wait | until sprinz and then prospect on the | American side of the line. | It is now said the decision of the British | Cabinet in regard to the international | monetary conference will not be made known for three weeks, and thus another proof is given that when we deal with | Johin Bull we must go slow and cxercise patience. A recent story from Europe was fo the effect that the Sultan had paid the Kaiser | a large sum of money for support against | Russia, and now comes another that the | Dowager Czarina has conspired against | the Czar, so it will be seen the s lly season | in Europe this year is raging with un-| usual severity, { Now that a board has been appointed to consider ways ana means for the estab- lishment of a Government plant for the manufacture of armor piate, it is timely for Californians to maxe an effort to have such a plant provided for this coast as well as one for the Atlantic. Those who scek nothing gat notning. | _New Bedford, Mass., was once famous | over the world for the excellence of its | rum, later on the whale fisheriss won for it the name of the “Sperma City oi Amer- | ica,”’ butl now the rum has been drunk and the whales are dead and the town has to get up a civic carnival to remind the world that it is still alive enough todo | business. | Becretary Wilson is to pay parti¢uiar attention to the agricuiture of the South- ern States this winter and hopes todis- cover means to advance the welfare of the farmers there. H.s efforts will at least have the effect of showing the Southern- ers that the Republican party is inter- ! esied in their welfare, and to that extent benefit them by inducing many to break away from the party of depression and vote hereafter with the party of pros- perity. : ticular books. | whatever he dces | an astute state:man, and it is not easy to | but nevertheles: THE KLONDYKE CRAZE. Tlhe excitement over the gold discoveries on the Klondyke has reached the pro- portions of a genuine craze. Men, and even women, have been so moved by the alluring tales of wealth found in the new placers that they seem to have lost the Dorado. = | faculty of reasoning on the subject. In spite of all the perils and difficulties of the 1897 | (rip they are eager to make the adventure, and not a few of them are sacrificing | positions with good salaries at home for the sake of taking part in the rush to El Tt is hardly likely that anything can be said to calm the minds of those who have not been warned by what has been aiready published concerning the climate and the condi i)ns of mining in all parts of the Yukon Valley. Nevertheless, it is worth le 10 repeat again and again that a journey to the Kiondyke at this season of the vear is not only a dangerous one, but foolish and futile, because even when the adven- turer arrives in the gold districts he will until the snows melt next sprine. find it impossible to prospect for a claim Long befors any one leaving the United Stales at this time can arrive at Dawson mine the nature of the soil beneath or fo: value for gold diggings. | or enter upon a prospecting exploration of the surrounding country the winter will | bave set in. Heavy snows will cover all the mountain sides, the streams will be | frozen and there will be no chance for even the most experienced prospector to deter- rm any reliable estimate of its prospective 1f the heavy duties which the Canadian Government imposes upon the outfits of Kiondyke this winter, they will prove in tarmful. In fact, anything which serves | American miners entering the country, and the heavier royalties which are to be | levied on all mining claims, deter any considerable number of people from going to the long run to be more beneficial than to stop the rush at this time is to be ac- counted hardly less excellent in its way than the action of some strong resolute man who checks a panic-stricken crowd and prevents the rush that would trample many to death. If the stories of gold in the Yukon Valley have not been exaggerated, there will be ample opportunity for prospectors to strike pay gravel for many years to come. The ylacers of California were opened nearly filty years ago, and there 1s still gold to be found in our m to hurry in order to obtain a f ountain streams. If Alaska is anything like as rich there is no need chance for fortune. In the spring of the year it will be possible to make the journey to Dawson easily | by way of the river, and even the Chilcoot There are, therefore, many reasons why those who are determined to seek it is now. their fortunes in the new diggings should route will be by that time much safer than wait for the spring, wkile there is not one solitary good reason for joining in the rush this winter. CHANGE OF SCHOOLBOOKS. There seems to be considerable injustice to parents in sweeping changes male in the schoolbooks the children are forced to use at the beginning of new terms and in passing into higher grades. It is true that conservatism can bs carried to such an extreme s to bar progress in edu- cative methods, but permission to substi- tute one book for another for some im- provement slight at best, and possibly largely imaginary, opens the way for grave evils, The Board of Education perhaps be- lieves that it is doing what is best for the minds of the rising generation in author- izing the introduction of new studies, and new ways of teaching old studies, but in this regard there are two truths which it is very important to bear in mind—first, that youths cannot be expected 10 learn everything in their school days; a thorcueh grounding in the simpler studies that form the foundations of scholarship would fully occupy all the time of grow- | ing children which 2 proper regard Iori their strength would permit to devote to | close mental application. Education now- | adays must be carried on all through life, and many studies can be safely left for the children according to individual needs { or tastes after they leave scuool. Trying | to cover oo broad a field of cuiture will | but result in that system of ‘‘cramming'’ the mind that brings no permanent men- tal improvement. The second truth is that, even it the children’s minds could properly digest | the teachings of so many books, the | parents cannot afford to buy them. A proper regard must be paid to the neces- sity of multitudes of worthy households to practice small economies. It would be | needless to discuss the merits of the par- | The new ones may be most excelient. But the iwo reasons given would still, hold good against any but the most conservative, carefully con- sidered and gradual changes. No exten- sive change should be made in any one term’s compulsory outfit of books, znl a sincere effort should be made for the re- taining of standard works from term to term, so that the younger children of a family could, as they advanced, use the books the elder children had passed beyond. There is surely a golden mean between the necessities of progress and the im- posing of I[requent new purcnasesof books. Modern advancement in learning is very | rapid, no doub’, but not so rapid as to | necessitate such repeated changes and | additions of textbooks as to overburden | parents and enrich booksellers and pub- ‘ | | | lishers. GORMAN'S GAME. The announcement that Senator Gor- { man will in ali probability retire from the Senatorial contest in Marvland, following so0 closely upon the adoption of an evasive | money plank by the Maryland Demo- crats in their recent convention, will occasion no little public curiosity as to | the tactics Senator Gorman is pur-| suing. The man has for so long a time leen eminent in American politics that s a matter of consider- able public interest, and at the present time his course is made more interesting | by reason of the peculiar conditions | which confront him and his party. H Senator Gorman is one of the most con- spicuous of that class of statesmen popu- larly known as ‘“bosses.’” He has won fame as an organizer of party machinery | rather than as a leader of men. His name is associated with no great public policy. He has never been ths champion of any particular principle of governmental action. He does not shine as an orator. | His hold upon the Maryland Democracy and his long possession of a seat in the Senate have been dne wi olly to his ability ! in managing caucuses, arranging pro- grammes and so direc.ing conventions as to be able to determine their action. The announcement that such a man is to retire from politics is suggestive of a | trick. It seems on the surface to be a | dodge for avoiding his enemies by lead- ing them to believe that he is out of the fight. The inference of a trick in this case is sirengthened by the report that in | retiring from the Senate Mr. Gorman seeks to find a way to gain for himself | the D2mocratic Presidential nomination in 1900. This portion of the story is almost in- credibie. The Presidential bee by its buzzing has confused the brain of many | | set limits to its power in that direction, it is not likely that a | man of Gorman's political sagacity has permitted himself to be deceived into the belief that he could ever be elected Pres:- dent or even receive his party nomination for the office. | Whatever may be the real intent of the | man, it is certain he is playing at this time a very interesting game in politics. He has prepared for himself a platform that, like a morning mist, can take any form, according as the winds may blow, and it now remains to be seen what he will do with it. Crete resumes her position as the crit- ical point of the E:stern problem, and waits 1o see whether she is to be turned ! down before something else turns up. ! THE MINERS' STRIKE. The long continuance of the miners’ strike is evidence that some parties sre being unreasonably stubborn in resisting { & cettlement of the d.fliculties. Just who is most to blame it would be d:flicult to | determine without an exhaustive study of | the disagreement and the conditions that | led up to it, but that the general public is | being injuriously affected by somebody’s greel, obstinacy or thick-headedness there can be little doubt. Ample time has elapsed for the parties to the struggle to fully discuss every phase of the dispute and arrive at some fair terms of peace. These long-continued strikes are hurtiul to the general weliare of the country and a serious menace to peace. Public opinion should strongly condemn any extension | of them beyond the time necessary for discussion and compromise or arbitration. | The latest newsindicates that the con- | tention after all these weeks is no nearer | solution than ever. Men continue to go out of work by hundreds, although suffer- ing from hunger bas begun in some sec- tions and relief funds are exhausted. The Central Labor Council at L-xington, Ky., has adopted a resolution denouncing the action of the courts of West Virginia. Eugene Debs is making exciting speeches, either beroic or incendiary according to the point of view. The strike seems grow- ing to such dimensions that much suffer- ing from hunger and possibly some law- less outbreak may be expected. On the side of the miners it may be said that the offer of concessions made by the De Armitt companies indicates on its face that the men have had some just cause of complaint. Cheating in weights, delay of payment of wages, and compalsion to buy at company’s stores, would appear from this proposcd treaty of peace to have been practiced in some quarters at least. The question of “uniformity’’ of wages vaid for pick mining is reported to have more In it than appears on the surface. It has for its motive something very differ- ent from an atiempt to make an equitable settlement between miners and their em- ployers. By some it is supposed to be an arrangement devised to evade giving the men just concessions, and by others it is explained as being an elaborate combina- tion scheme to prevent some mines from beingz shut down by the natural laws of competition. If the latter view is cor- rect the “‘uniformity” plan, if agreed to, would benefit the mine workers in some sections, but would be a sort of robbery of tue public by keeping up the price of coal artificially; that is by tne artifice of mutual agreement among many mine- owners to pay uniform wages and charge uniform prices the cost of coal toconsum- ers would be kept higher than if all the pply needed was mined in regions where it is most casily obtained. The kernel of the trouble seems to be an attempt to distribute the coal business. In rome regions there are vast deposits of thick veins where the coal can naturally be mined much cheaper than in other parts of the country where the veins are thin aud deep in the earth. These richer coal regions could furnish all the market could take, and, if there were nothing artificial about the price, Jess naturally favored mines would have to shut down and go out of business, The result would be a bencfit to the publicas consumers, but distress to many miners until they could | find cther employment. If public opinion has ang power to hasten a settlement it should be brought to bear. Ii the complaints of the men are just let the mine-owners meetthem fairly. It is not merely an affair between the contending parties. The general welfare 1s concerned in the resumption of work. SECRETARY WILSON'S WORK. Secretary Wilson, wbo hss been con- ducting the work of the Department of Agriculture with such commendable en- ergy ever since he was placed at its head, must feel a great glow of pride in being able to make the sp'endid report he does of theadvance in that part of the Nation’s industry over which he is appointed to exercise a fostering cure. The Manu- Jacturers’ Record reports him as saying that the increase of farm products and cattle during the past year has amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, and has been roughly estimated- at $500,000,- 000. The increase of the wheat crop alone is estimatea at §75,000,000 to $100,000,000, and there has been a general increase all along the line. It is a great office to preside as the Na- tional guardian over a division of the country’s industries capable of such enormous improvements in one year, and upon the incumbent of it is placed a great responsibility. Of cours: the buik of this large increase is due to causes over which the Agricultural Department has no more control than over the tides of the ocean, but it would be difficult to estimate how large a part of the effect is produced by a weil-timed suggestion, or a piece of accu- rate and important {information promptly and widely disseminated among the farmers, The great forces that create crops and fix prices are not subject to the Sec- retary’s control, but he can help the hus- bandmen to learn how to take advantage of these forces, and he has shown himself wise and energeticin performine that duty. A feature of the Secretary’s work whicn H is of particular interest just now is Lis effort to establish an agricultural experi- ment station in Alaska. It shows a pro- gressive spirit, and he should be backed up in his purpose with the necessary ap- provriation. No adequate test has vet been made of the agricultural capabilities of that vast and valuable additien to our empire, and now that settlers are pouring into it, lured by the promise of the geld fields, it is a most opportune time to at- tempt its development in other ways ba- sides mining. For the next half dozen years at least there will be such a good market for food in that region that the simplest crops, raised on litile patches of ground, will prove profitable. Under the stimu- lus of these big prices a good start may be obtained in the knowledge of how to farm that country and the extremest northward limit crop production ascer- tained. An experiment station promptly established would be of great value in this way. It may be that systematic methods of reindeer culture might be evolved by careful study of the subject, which would wonderfully help to solve the food supply aud transportation problems of Alaska. The opportunity of the present admin- istration to develop the big territory into a valuable province is lar:e, and the Sec- retary of Agriculture may, as an impor- tant member of the Cabinet, aid mate- rially in making this one of the proud rec- | ords of McKinley’s reign. TO A BUTTERFLY. Leslie s Weekly. Thou incaraation of the light, Cuquetting with ihe fluitering sight, Louking as if thou'l ta'en & flizht Like winged flower Down from the sun's effulgent bright And buinlog bower— The flashes of tny filmy wing, 1ike gaudy pennon’s fluttering, That o'er the seas of suulignt spring A bark of light. And with the wavy breezes bring Us beauty bright. Thou 8 ar of day, 1 see thee shine Against the szure depths div.n Atd where the twinkling tints A flow'ry cell Thou feeu’st on be: And loved as well. The carth gecreteth rubles red, The sounding sea its coral bed, ‘Ibe tucid air creates Insiead ty rich thine, A living gem, To wreathe in eircies round my head Light's diadem. PERSONAL. D. McRae of Visalia is in town. Senator J. M. Gillette of Eureka arrived here vesterday, Jobn Harpst, a mill-owner of Arcata, is at the Grand. W. C. Fulner and wife of Stockton are at the Cosmopolitan. H. Van F. Purman, a mining man ot Denver, is at the Palace. Franklin Jannus of Washington, D. C., late arrival here. H. Wrightman, a merchant of Fort Bragg, is registered at the Cosmopolitan, Frank Bartlett, the contractor and mill. owner of Livermore, is at the Grand. Charles R. Drake, a well-to-do business man of Tucson, Ariz., is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. E. Nicholson and family of Jacksboro, Tex. arrived after a tour East, and are staying at the Cosmopo'itan. Licutenant D. P. Menefee of the United States navy arrived from the south yesterday, accompanied by his family. Eugenc F. Bert, who has been in Idaho, Mon- tana, Jowa and other States in the interest of business, reached Chicago yes‘erday. G. W. Conner, one of the old residents of La Conner, Wash., who is engaged in business there and is well known, is on a visit to San Francisco. J. F. Lang, who has returned from a visit to various counties on the mother lode, says there is a great deal of work going on at the mines. 0ld mines have been pumped out, and a good deal ol development work is b:ing done on new propertles. A party of Southern California people who are bound for the Klondyke, arrived here yesterday and are at the Occidental. Among them are the tollowing: I K. Fisher, Chestet Wade and L. J. P. Fox, of S8anta Barbars, and Scot Q. Lardin and A. D, Bomard Jr,. of Ven- tura. is a ENGLAND’ A Leamington (Eng.) correspondent writes: For physica!, histor ¢ and social attractions there is no city in England, or elsewhere, for that matter, that can surpass Leamington. It is in the very midst of the “midlands,” anu the geographic center of England is marked by & mighty oak in one of the streets of the town. Itis a “Gospel ork,” such as you find all over Eugland standing in the miadle of roads, usually with iron fences around them to assist in their preservation. An antigua- rian wasteiling me the other day the origin of thatterm. itappears that it was custom- ary in olden times, as & landmark for the peo- ple, and to prevent the tithe-gatherers from poaching upon each other’s preserves, to mark ihe boundaries between parishes by plantin; such large trees in the middle oi the principa hiehways. While the dissenters were being persecuied and were forbidden to hold public worship, they usea to assemble under these trees to vead the Gospel and h pourded by their preachers, becau; exercises were interrupted by the authorities of one parish, all they had 1o do was to move around to the other side of the tree and get out of their jurisdiction. Hence they became known as “Gospel oaks. S “GOSPEL OAKS.” ONE HONEST DEMOCRAT. New York Snn. If innoocence of accusation makes a man great, the greatest man in the United States is the Hon. S, D. McEuery, jurior Senator of Louisiana, the only Democrat in his partof Congress o vole for the tariff bill. For this act all the old humpugs that have shouted for & tariff for revenue ouly as the Democratic principle have denounced S:nator McEnery as a fraitor to the faith of his party. Yet Senator McEnery, as a politician, had as clear a moral right 10 vote for the Dingley tariff as any Re- publican. he first thing that the Democratic party did after obtaining office the pledge to ke a revenue-only tariff 10 betray their nd pass a tariff for protection. McEnery was chosen Senator he said in so many words to the ceucus that nominated him that he bslieved in the policy of protec- t'oa. And when next his party met in na. tionsl convention to make a tariff p.ank it threw the revenue-only principle away. If the search be for Democrats who have been honest on the tariff quistion, the first man found will be Senator scEnery. AFRICAN SENSE OF POETRY. Chicago Chronicle. “Africans,” writes & m.ssionary, “have some very striking expressions, showing that they are full of poetical ideas. The Moongues call thunder ‘the sky gun, and the morning is with them ‘the day’s chiid.’” The Zulus call the twilight ‘the eyelashes of the sun.’ An African who came to America was shown some ice, which he had not seen before, and he called it ‘water fast asleep.” FRUITLESS WASTE OF TEARS. Globe-Democrat. Those are crocoalle tears free-traders are shedding over the new duty coilected on pas- sengers returning from Europe. Each pas- senger is allowed $100 worth of baggsge free ot duty and need jay nothicg if he buys his clothing in America. It he luys in a largs supply abroad he is exactly the right person’ to encounter the protecuve idea. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. It's not that the good die young, but that the young die good. Lots of women talk about their carriages in streetear dialect, Every son knows his father has books which he doesn’t kuow he knows he has. No man cap feel sure that he could love only one woman till he has seen all there are. Leve is like a turtle—the more you iry to poke him out the further he crawisin his shell. Some men are so conceited that if they weren’t dead they would rise right up in the coffin during the funeral sermon and applaud. —New York Press. THE “SUNDAY CALL.” Everybody has heard of the Niles Canyon summer girl, her do not kaow just what kind of a charming creature she is. learn all about her as well as see & picture of her that is true to life. however, that the Niles Canyon summer girl is different fr She has a charm that is all her own. manner and has more fun than a box of monkeys and enjo: the Golden State. utmost. Next in importance to the summer girl at the present i derful goldfields of the Yukon. It makesno d:fference whether you not, you will be sure to bs interested in the unique fa morrow. There will be also some pictur s of this far-away land that b before. As well as being interesting, they will convey in the most grap: of just what life is close to the Arctic circle. These pictures are drawn by arti but those who have failed tosee In to-morrow’s CALL you can It might as well be said, om all the other summer girls in She lives in the most fascinating ys her life in the woods to the me is all that relates to the won- intend going there or atures relating thereto in THE CALL to- ave not been published Lic manner a few facts sts who have been on the spot, and are not llustrations taken from poor photographs made by people witn- out the least knowledge ot art. The second article of the Burrows’ leiters series will appear to-morrow. two of the greatest philanthropic acts ever performed. One of these It wi'l refer to is an instance where Burrows bought two sons of the Prince of Timbuctoo who had been sold intoslavery in this country. The other refers to & time when the Russian Government needed mo!l ney so badly that there was no besitance about borrowing wherever the money could bo obtained. Bur- rows came up with sixty thousand dollars at a time when they were pretty badly n eeded. The correspondence on this subject will be given in to-morrow’s CALL. One of the most incredible stories that has been printed in a long time will appe ear in THE CALL to-morrow. It refers to instances where people claim to have lived on this old world in another life. These people are so firm in their beliefs that they cannot be shaken. And the most important aspect of the matter is that they are all people of intelligence, and not dream- ers or cranks. The fourth of the series of articles about the women who are helping to make San Fran- cisco a great city will appear in THE CALL to-morrow. The women writers will come 1o for their proper share of attention on this occasion. In addition to the articles mentioned thers will be a host of other festures, including the children’s page, the book page, fashions and all the news of the day. Be sure and get THE EUNDAY CALL, and don’t forget to send a copy to your friends {n the East. EX-EMPRESS CARLOTTA, The widow of Maximilian, after a-sorrowing interval of thirty-one years, is about to revisit Mexico anc pay homage to the memory of her noble husband on the spot where he died a victim of European insincerity and stern justice as dispensed by Mexican patriots. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Mamma (sevelely)—Daisy, you have been at my workbox again! I'm afrald that every- thing I tell you goes in at one ear and out of the other. Duisy (wtat 5)—Well, mamma, why don’t you "top one of zem up?— Pick-Me-Tp. “My wife nearly loses her mind in summer.” “fow dreadfull What is the cause?” “When she goes shopping whatever she buys is always 10 cents cheaper in the next store.” —Chicago Record. “Bertie, you cruel boy, how can you hear your baby sister cry?” “Why, that's easy—everybody in the block can.”—Truth. “Darling is an experienced yachtsman, isn’t he ?” “I should say so! You ought to see his collec- tion of champegne corks.”—Chicago Journal. From the beginning of darkness every vehi- cie must have a lightel lantern. Darkness begins when tne lauterns are lighted.—Fiie- gende Blatter. Groober—Was it Joglin’sability that got him that $5000 position? Hoovar—Yes; his ability toget it.—Roxbury Gazstte. very few days there is something in the papers about a practical joke that ends with a death.”” “Yes; but that isn’t the worst of 1t.” “No?' o—itisn’t the joker who dles.”’—Chicago Journal. “Men may be democratic, but women cling to monarchical institutions.” “What makes you think so?"" “They never arrange a festivity of any kind without rigging up somebody as kiug or queen.”’—Chicago Record, THE ART OF LISTENING. Oue of the busiest of the many busy women with whom 1 2am acquainted, saysa writer in Harper's Bazar, is also the most charming woman with whom to converse. She is not a brilliant, perbaps hardly a clever talker, but one loves to talk with her, After mature and thoughtful consideration I have come to the conclusion that her charm liesin the fact that she is an admirable listener. By her evident interest in and sympathetic attention to the matter of the conversation, she brings out all tnat is best in the one with whom she taiks, Diffident people forget their shyness in her presence, and leave her with the comfortable und novel conviction that they have, after a.l, acquitted themselves rather weil. Few per- sous cultivate the art of being good listeners, and yet to listen well 13 perhapseven more de- sirable than for one to talk well. The good talker is often over-eager to say his say, to ut- ter his witticism, to tell his anecaote, and his conversation is often »_monologue. The good listener inspires the talker Ly strict attention to all he says, and, above all, by looking at him while he spenks. There is nothing more trying than to find that your putative listener is giving only par- tial hecd to your utterances. Itis strange that a woll-bred person should be gullty of the crass rudeness of picking up a book or mlfilzlne and “locking through’ it while pre- tending to pay heed to the talk of a friend. The assurancs, “Iam only looking at the pic. tures in this magszine, not reading, and I hear every word you say,” is no plliatios of the offense. The speaker would be justitied in declining to ccntinue the conversation until the pictures have been properly studied, If a speech is worth hearing i. is worthy of re- spectful and earnest attention. GALLANT GOVERNORS. Baltimore America-. Southern Governors are carrying out their traditional gallantry by appointing ladies as colonels on thefr staff:, Asthe principal duty | of asinff offic'r in these piping days of peace 18 10 ook beautiful in gorgeous costumes and lend magnificence to official occasions, there seems to no reaspn whatever for ad vers comment on th tion of the gallant Gov- ernors.; IT SEEMS TO BE ALL RIGHT. New York Tribune, Something is wrong, surely. America is supplying electric railroad plants to London and raroad reils to British India, and the Alabama iron industry is reviving: and yet we are uuder & proteciive tariff. MEN AND WOMEN. Goethe once presented & set of his works to Harvard University, The wife of Senator Stewart avows herinten- tion of chaperoning a party to the Alaskan gold fields next spring. The intelligencs comes from Vienna that Verdi is engaged in the checrful occupation of composing bis own requiem. 8ir Wilfried Laurier, the Canedian Premier, has received the gold medal of the Cobden Ciub, “in recognition of exceptional and dis- tingulshed services in the cause of the progress of international frec exchange.” The Special Persian Envoy, Nasr ul Mulk, who came to England to announce the acces- sion of the new thah, and who is an Ox- ford graduate, has returned to London pri- vately, and is visiting in his private capacity many of his old university friends. Commander Philip Hichborn, chief con- structor of the navy, has presented to the city of Hartford, through Senator Hawley, the figurehead of Admiral Farragut's flagship, the Hartford, and it will probably be placed in some public position in the city. It isrevorted that the bank account of Wil- | liam Jennings Bryan shows an average net | gain of over $500 per week during the first six months of 1897 from the sale of his book and | speeches—and it was all made from those who | are shouting for the free and unlimited coin- | age of silver. Three of the most popular women lecturers— i those who give pieasant drawing-room talks— | are Mrs. Sangster, Miss Repplier and Kate Up- | son Clarke. These three ladies are all promi- | nent as literary workers, and in their lectures have great charm of manner, combined with a very general knowledge of social and political events of the present. FISH.NG FOR PEARLS. The Manufacturer. The value of the pearis found during 1896 on the coast of the gulf of Lower Californ:.a amounted to $350,000. Besides these, 5000 | tons of mussel shells were exported, the value of which was estimated at a further $1,250,000. Pearl-fishing forms the sole occu- pation of the natives, and La Paz, the capital for this trade in the peninsuls, is supported entirely by this industry. Until a few years ago only native divers had been employed, and the greatest depth to which they could dive wa thirty-five feet, Upen the introduc- tion of the modern diving apparatus a depth of 180 feet was accomplished, and while 1or- merly the best divers couid not remain longer ihan twominutes under water a modern diver thinks nothing of staying for two hours at a depth of 100 feet, although at a still greaier depth the stay is necessarily shortened on ac- fi‘l’:‘;e: of the enormous pressure of water from Pearl-fishing is mostly a m lueck, and this is its -re’n ch-mt:t?;rotiw”nofl tives, who are almost without exception natural gamblers, Ttis known that not every oyster contaius a pearl. and & really valuabie oueisoniy now aud then met with, Most of the pearls which are found in the waters of Lower California are so-called seed pearls of & very modest value. The aivers do n Lx‘::z;lxhnemsems to the pearl-oysters; when. ¥ COme across a rare piece of anew kind of mussel they po]::ke; mec;;r:}l%t. — WILL BRYAN CEASE TALKING ? New York Mall and Express. Many of the ablest free-silver men in Ne- braska are trying to persuade Mr. Bryan to siop talking, settle down and give the country achance to recover from the scare he gave it ast fall. They say it is t00 s00n for him to be- Bin the campaign of 1900 and that goes into the house and keeps sti1ll lgl?]le:l‘hl‘;: the People will get heartily sick und tired o him. Thissort of pleading has no effect on Mr. Bryan, however. He goes on talking be- cause he can’t help it. He realizes that if he stops talking in the dull season' the country won't know that he is in business in 1900, — ONE ISSUE DISPOSED OF. - Bur ington Hawkeye. e tarift is now eliminated asan immed; party issue. The business interes: u(it.h': £OuUNtry, anxious for a rest from the distrac- ;lhon- n{! {requent tariff changes, ask for a ance for recuperation. 8o f; effected by Federal lmuo:.r:.;::muh”:;: basis for commercial caiculation has been at. tained. The only cause of unrestof any mag. nitude is the currency. The popular demand is that our currency, excellent as it is unqger normal conditions, shail be placed upon the strongest foundation possibie and be so firmy estabidshed that it shall be impregnable against an assault and equal to the stresso; every financisl storm. — SUMMING UP THE RECORD, St. Iouis Globe-Democrat. In four months after the date of their retury to power, and in the face of many difficulie including the lack of & clear mejority in Senate, the Republican perty has. redeem: one of the most important promises of the « Louis platform. The opening sentence : piank runs: “We renew and emp allegiance to the policy of protection bulwark of American industrial nden- dence and the toundation 01 American deve]. opment and prosj erity.” The iden has beer applied with all possible dircciness, and s now embodied in the law of the lan concluding sentence of the same p “The country demands a right settlemes, 4 then it wanis rest.” In this prompt i and these firm assurances the busiie of the Unitea States can see along p certaintiesand a good pms{»ectof W cies. They know tiie va ue of a reputa; keeping promises. Where that is lacking perity is & shy visitor. PLUTOCRATIC WHEAT. New York Sun The plutocratic condue’ of wheat deserves strong condemnation from the foes of g Wheat that goes vp—dear wheat—must just as wicked and cruel as a do.lar that goc lp—a dear dollar. There shouid be an an:. wheat plank in the next Democratic plsi form. SWALLOWS TO SWALLOW FLIES, Kanpsas City Journal. Stephen Mayb rry of Windham, Me., built 1 protection for eave swallows under the roc shing'es of his barn. The resultis there ara 130 nests there. It is estimated that these swallows cifeh daily 6000 grubs. Mr. May berry has no flies in his house as long as tiis swul.ows remain. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE ART INsTITUTE—J. M. A, Cily. The Hop- Kkins Institute of Art is at this time open to the public free of admission charge oa the Jast Friday in the month A CALIFORNIA Five—J. J. D., Clayton, Cal. | Five-dotlar pieces that were coined at the pri- vate mint of Moffat & Co. in San Franeisco in 1849 are offered at from $7 50 to $10 by deal- ers in old coins. THE EARTH'S RoTARY MorioN—E. E. O'D., City. The action of the tides have not re- tarded the rotary motion of the earth 50 as to perceptibiy increase the 12ngth of day since 1he beginning of observations. Books To READ—H. W. W, City. Ifa young man has no particular choice of reading mat- ter and does not care to sclect books for him- self possibiy the best books to lay before him are books of travel. Such are always interest- ng. - 5 PAY IN THE ARMY—T. J. B., City. The pay of @ private in the United States army is, during the first two years of the first enlistment, $13 er month, the third year $14, the fourth year 15 and the filth year $§16. Upon the second enlistment the pay1s $18 per month for the five years. A SPaNIsH CoiN—C. B. P., Campbell, Santa Clara County, Cal. A Spanish coin of the value of dos reales (twenty-five cents), coined batween 1792 and 1798 1s held, according to vaiue placed upon su.h by deulers in coins, ;31:0 have them for saie, at irom $2 23 to GEARY-STREET Roap—W. F. C, City. The Geary-street road is controlled by officers of the Markat-street system, but it is not a part of that system. The late C. F. Croeker was president, Adam Grant is vice-president. N. T. Smith treesurer, and J. L. Willcutt secretary and general manager. THE PRIZE RING—F. A. E., Angels, Cal. When two men are fighting under Marquis of Queensberry ruies and one man s knocked aown the official timekeeper counts, but in the Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight at Carsoa | the referee, Siler, counted the seconds over | Corbett as they were called to him by the | official timekeeper. PAYER NATIO! ubscriber, City.. This de- partment is unsble to ascertain anything about *‘the Payer Nation,” as written in your communication. If you will write and teil in what section of the world it is located will look up the answer asked for. It is possible ihat you uave made a mistake in the name and that itis “Praya’’ avd not “Payer” that you wish 10 be informed about. CALIFORNTA Glace Fruits; 50c¢ 1b., in elegant fire etched boxes. Townsend’s, Palace Hotel.* ———— Frrerar information daily to manufacturars, i business houses and public men by the Pres Clipping Bureau (Allew’s), 510 Montgomery. * Only $32 50 to Washing:on, D. <., | Via Sunset route and Pledmont air line. C respondingly low rates to other Eastern citie For further information call on or address Chas. L. Hopkins, Pacific Coast Passenger Agent, 621 Market street, San Francisco. * e e New Arrival (to stranger)—You are a guest here, I presume? Stranger—Heavens? Do you suppose if I was the proprietor of this blanked resort 1'a be whiling away my timo here in misery?—Phila- delphia North American. « Not Excessively Warm on the Grea Santa Fe Route. A popular misbelief exists that in summer it is very hot in crossing the continent on the San a Feroute. Through Arizona and New Mexico the Itne is situated at a1 average elevation of 5000 feet. Lowest rates and superior accommodations to all kastern and European points. Ticke: office, 644 Market street, Chronic e baiidin p e e i Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone Park Line. The managers of the Yeliowstone Park wish to announce to the public thac they have never boen iu better condition to bandle visitors than at the present time (rumors to the contrary no with- standing). All of the large parties of Christtan Endeavorers have made the trip and are out of the park. For tickets and information apply to T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st 8, I’ M BRABRESET R Reduced Eates for All To the East via the kio Grande Western Raflway, passing through Utah and Colorado by daylight. Through cars by all_trains. Tickets, sleeplug-cac reservations and full information furnished at 14 baldness. NEGLFCT of the hair brings PARKER’'S HAIR BALSAM and save your hair, HINDERCORNS, the best cure 0r corns. 15 cts. Use B AYER'S Cherry Pectoral gives prompt reliel, That's why It excels all other preparations for cold; and coughs. g S Senator Burrows of Michigan has a con- stituency which demans aid o Cuba, and yet his sense of duty compels him to vote against the recognition resolutions. So he “pairs off” by getting his wife to take the most promi- nent position in a woman’s Cuban league, while he votes against the sympath zers in Congross. — e e NEW TO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and dolicious.