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22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S DAY, AUGUST 8, 97 — CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. - and Sunday Ca and Sunday CAL: Sunday CaLz, one year, by mail.. W EEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. 1AL ROOMS: Clay Street. Telephone... EDITORI 5 Telephone....... .Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: . open until §:30 o'clock. th and Mission streets, open 1on street, open until 9 o'clock. 3 Mission st ntil 9 o’clock. 1505 Polk stre ntil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner cond and Kentucky streets; open till 90" OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 4 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. ¥O astern Manager. THE SUMMER MONTHS. e you £oing to the country ona vacation? It ¥0,1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given 10 the carrier or left at s Office will recelve prompt attention. A CHARGE. Kit:y cents per month for summer mo; The Government says it must be spelled “Klondike,” The silver mines of the future may be worked for the lexd they contain, The man with the craze never counts the cost nor considers the climate. A good situation in California is better than two prospects in a snowdrift. Dried fruit has caught on to the rush and prunes are worth almost as much as nuggets. The new tariff will raise the revenue as well as everything else. This is a rising country nov The Kaiser ana the Czar are having n nice time together, and for the present Paris is not gay. The Queen’s speech is full of praise for the Queen’s Ministers and the Queen’s Ministers wrote Victoria had nothiag definite to say about Greece, but she expressed great bopes of the success of the concert. The main trouble with the calamity howlers is that they cannot get a share of the prosperity without going to work. We must all give help to the men who are trying to make San Francisco the summer convention city of the United States. When yon come to think of it, a pupil in the public schools cannot be expected to study every book that has ever been published. 1f the midsummier mosquitos in Alaska are as big as reported, there might be a profit in skinning them and selling the pelts for buffalo robes, 1f there is any truth in the report that Weyler is the richest general in the world he must have been trying to pacify Cuba all this time by removing the root of evil from the possession of the people. Dr. Emmens of New York, who claims to have devised a means of transmitting silver into gold, laughs at the Klondikers and says he will give them a frost ana the rest of the world hot stuff in a few days. Recent experiments in making sugar from watermelons are said to have dis- turbed the negroes in the neighborhood. They are clamoring for some one to devise a means of converting sugar into water- melons. 1f the temperature of the weather at ‘Washington did not fall on the arrival of Commissioner Foster, then the coolness between nim and Professor Eiliott has not affected the public half as much as they expacted. The gondolas of Venice, it is said, are rapidly being crowded out by steam iaunches, and it may not be long before the prancing horses of other cities will give way to motocycles. It is getting to be a noisy world and aun ugly one. There are many adventurers to the Kiondike, and many are the schemes by which they propose to make money, but there is one who hopes to match all the rest. He is a Pittsburg man and proposes to establish a matrimonial bureau at Dawson. They build up new summer resorts on the lake shore near Chicago with a degree of enterpnise which js truly dazzling. There is one which is now drawing visi- tors by giving them a free steamboat ride, the free use of a bathing suit and a free sandwich. SRl As German papers have renewed tbe agitation for the annexation of Samoa, it may be in order to recall to their minds the possession by this country of a harbor down there which cannot be annexed to Germany nor separated from Samoa with- out a convulsion of nature. Russia is to admit the importation of agricultural implements duty free for five years. During that time our manufac- turers will have a big market and a good business for their labor-saving machines, and afterward our farmers will have to seek prolection from Biberian wheat., Joseph L Keefer of New York, who was one of the United States expedition which took possession of Alaska in 1867, saysthe marrias @ customs of the nauives are pecu- liar. The woman buys the man she wishes for a husband and then bosses him forever after. What sort of example is that to open up before the woman's move- ment in this country? Maxim’s latest addition to the terrors of war is an explosive which he calls Maximite, and he recently stated that a torpedo containing 500 pounds of it, com- bined with picric acid, would destroy any sbip in the British navy if explodea with- in fifty feet of her. The next war between civilized nations will be in the nature of a scientific experiment on a grand scale, and whichever side gets in the first shot | zel of Vienna is succeeding very well in THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. The speech of the Queen proroguing Parliament is to be read with the understand- ing that it was prepared by her Majesty’s their conduet of public business which they can make, Ministers, and is the best presentation of 1t is in some respects a mani- festo to the people designed for the purpose of winning public support, 1n order that the Ministers may be continued in office. 8o far as home affairs are concerned, the Ministers have been able to make an ex- cellent showing of work accomplished. They have with justice included in the speech of the Queen an expression of satisfaction in the legislation designed to support public schools, to provide compensation for workmen injured by accident in the course of their employment, facilitating the transfer of land, protecting the consumers of water in London, relieving the distressed in the lishing a more economical judicial system congested districts of Scotland and estab- in Ireland. This is a notable programme of domestic legislation, and seems to bs well calculated to promote the welfare of the British people. The passages of the speech referring to foreign affairs are by no means so satisfac- tory. Her Majesty is constrained to admit that the united influence of the great powers of Europe was not only nnable to prevent a war between Greece and Turkey, but up 10 this time has been incapable of arranging terms of peace between the hostile All that her Ministers could advise her to say was that while a formal treaty of peace has not yet been signed, “‘there is good ground for believing all the most important matters in controversy have been adjusted, and that in return for an adequate indemnity the territory conquered by Turkey, with a slight modification of the frontier, will be restored to Greece.”’ The portion of the speech most interes! ting to the world at large is that in which her Majesty announces toat she has given notice to the King of the Belgians and the German Emperor to terminate the treaties whereby Great Britair is prevented from making with her colories such fiscal arrangements as seem exp:dient for the advancement of the empire. The decision on the part of the Government to terminate these treaties was made public some time ago and has been so well received by the press that it may be accepted as the settled policy of the British people hereafter to arrange for commer- cial treaties with their colonies on a basis which will tend to strenzthen the empire by conferring such trade benefits upon all parts of it that even tha remotest colonies will see an advantage in continuing to be a part of the great imperial system. Itis likely that this policy as it is carriel on from year to year will materlaily affect the commercial affairs of the whole world, and much interest outside the empire as within for that reason it will be studied with as it. T0 REDEEM PALESTINE. The power of sentiment is strikingly shown in the movement among a number of prominent Hebrews to re-establish for the Jews a national existence in Pales- tine. In spite of the accusation often brought against the race that it is domi- nated wholly by commercial motives, we are compelled to see in this movement an impulse patriotic and poetic. 1t is not the worship of the almighty dollar whicn has prompted the enterprise. From all accounts Dr. Theodore Hert- arousing serious attention to the scheme for the purchase of Palestine and the formation of an independent Jewish state there. Ifitis true asstated that the rep- resentatives of the vast Baron Hirsch charities are favorably inclined to the project it is a good indicatior of the feasi- bility of the idea, The reasoning of Hartzel that the Turks would be willing to sell the Holy Land, or if not, the early disinteeration of the Otto- | man empire would enable the Jews to get | back their ancient country by permission of the combined powers of Burope, will not be accepted withont considerable doubt, It is possible that the Turk's fanaticism may prove a stronger force in the decision than his financial hecessities. We were quite recently informed, in the affair of the conquest of Thessaly, that it was against the teachings of Mohammed and the settled policy of the Ottoman rule to surrender any conquest unless torced by armsto do so. The relinquishment of Thessaly may be conceded because the mandate of the comvined powers is con- strued as equivalent to being overpowered in battle, but the Mohammedan law would hoid against parting with Judea and Gal- ilee. The proposition of Hertzel to seek Ar- gentine in case of failure to get the Holy Land will not strike the sentiment of a sympathetic world as anything like so de- sirable a consummation, The Jews in general are not nearly so likely to have their enthusiasm rousei by the project to | establish a nation distant from its natural site. All the romance of their history, all | the poetry of their literature, ail the | prophetic promises of their future, would make Jerusalem and the land of the Jor- dan the one and only proper home for a restored Hebrew nation. It does not seem likely that Palestine could now be made a vantage point for great commerce, and for this reason many Jews would prefer to live where business | possibilities are larger. Thereis no tell- | ing, however, wkat splendid results their | well-known commercial talents would achieve if they settled there. The soil is said by travelers to be fertile, and much of it is now abandoned to a luxuriant tan- gle of wild vegetation. Energy and good government would soon reclaim the waste places, and the whoie land would be made a garden-spot of wonderful productiveness. OONVENTION WORK. It will be pleasing to our citizens to note the promptitude with which the work to bring conventions here next year is being carried forward. The convention committee was scarcely organized long enough to realize its existence before circular letters were forwarded to all the passenger agents west of St. Paul, New Orleans and the Missouri River for the | purpose of securing a round-trip rate low | enough to encourage the coming of con- ventions to this State. , The fact that the Grand Army meets in Buffalo this month, and will then decide where they will encamp next year, makes it essential that we should hurry in secur- ing the necessary information to present to the veterans to enable them to make a decision on our invitation. The soldiers | are said to remember with much appre- ciation their former visit to this City, and 1t is very probabple that they only need be assured of reasonabls rates of transporta- tion to gladly accept the call to California. Colonel Goodman’s plan of arranging for the Grand Army encamoment and the National Educational Association conven- tion to meet in California in the same month and secure them a uniform round- trip rate will likely be a potent argument | his capacity for accomplishing with the railways, and it is to be hoped the two conventions ill agree to the pro- posal. By this idea one system of organi- zation would cover the handling of both crowis, and thus much expense and labor would be saved. In such an arrangement the veterans would be called on to be the most complaisant 1n selecting the time, for they have a large choice of months, while the educational convention is bound by the rules to meet in July. The pro- posal to hold one of these conventions in this City and the other in Los Angeles, with the tickets made to take in both cities as the visitors returned, also seems a happy thought. The opportunity thus given to see =0 large a part of California could be played as a strong card in the game of trying to win botb conventions. The work has been well begun, and this energy only needs to be persisied in to secure the objects desired. Each conven- tion secured will be half the victory of getting another, until we can claim for California the name of Convention S:ate, So many big capitalists are going to in- vest in Alaskan mines that they may form a great combination there before the year THE WINE INDUSTRY. The action of the Winemakers’ Corpora- tion in arranging to supply to the wine manufacturers all the capital necessary to bandle the grape crop of the Stateisa notable example of how co-operation and combination can be used as forcefully for good purposes as for bad. By the strenath of this collective effort ore of the leading industries of California is saved from lan- guishing this season from mere lack of funds to get the generous product of the vineyards into marketable shape. Mr. Henry J. Crocker, in his address to the board of directors of this corporation on Friday, showed the great importance of encouraging the wine-making industry, and laid down a prozramme for the equit- able securing of profits to the three branches of the traae—the grape-growers, the wine makers and the dealers. With such a purpose in view the corporation becomes an instrument for the extension of the general prosperity of the State, and it is for this reason that it has been able to secure the necessary financial backing to fully take care of the crop. In explaining the importance of the viticultural industry to the welfare of California Mr. Crocker calls attention to the fact that this is the only Statein the Union where the true wine grape will grow, and that therefore we have 70,000,- 000 customers, or, rather, people who should be our customers, without export- ing a gallon, and that we could multiply our product fifty-fold in order to equal the output of France, whose natural ad- vantages are not superior to ours. The grape-growers will be pleased to learn that the corporation proposes to se- cure them a price for their grapes which will be in a fixed proportion to the price the wine will bring in the market. This plan, if carried out, will assure them that a sincere effort is being made to fulfill the promise of an equitable division of profits. Under such a system there could be no object to the corporation in putting any Limit to the price of the grapes except the legitimate one of maintaining or extend- | ing the market in a way that would be mutually advantageous to winemakers and grape-growers. The ratio mentioned is to pay the farmer §1 per ton for every cent per gal- lon the win2 will bring on the market. A. Sbarboro of the Italian-Swiss colony says this method has been adopted in many of the European countries and has met with success. If the foundation ratio is recognized as a fair one the plan seems so equitable as to deserve indorsement by all the growers. The justice of the division of profiis would only need investigation once to make the growe: content in all fluctuations, whereas, without the ratio system, he might suspect that every change in the price, whether up or down, was either arranged or taken advantage of without considering his interests. The fact that for montbs there has been an uneasy feeling that the extra large crop of grapes now maturing could not all be saved because of lack of money to enlarge wineries and increase machinery, in adaition to paying for the grapes, makes the success of the corporation in securing ample financial aid to carry for- ward the industry a matter for gratula- tion by the entire State. This assistance | of capital is not for this year only, but is a permensnt arrangement by which the viticultural interests are to ba sustained and enlarged THE WIZARD ELECTRIOIANS. Close behind the message of the achieve- ment of the Italian electrician, Marconi, in sending electrical communications twelve miles without wire connection, comes a report of Nicola Tesla’s latest dis- covery by which he can transmit wireless eiectrical messages to as many different points simultaneously as he desires. The third of the supreme trio of electrical wizards, Edison, is yet to be heard from, but there is littie doubt his genius has some surprise in preparation which will equal if not surpass the achievements of these gifted foreigners. Edison has the most elaborate plant for electrical re- search that ingenuity and money can pro- vide and he has continuously proved great results. We trust he will susiain the American reputation for surpassing in. ventive skill by bringing forward some- thing that will cap these electrical mar- vels. Tesla’s claim that he can now, with a few simple instruments, create snch changesin the total electricity of the globe that the effect of the disturbance can be felt everywhere on its surface will, if true, mark the utmost bound yet attained by man in the control of nature. Hitherto wa have been proud of being able to com- pel the smallest Iraction of ths great natural forces to do our bidding, and now to have the power to affect one of these to its utmost bounds, and thatin a way to minister to our wants, isa fulfillment of the Biblical command to subdue the earth that our ancestors would not have dreamed of. Marconi’s latest reported improvement of the wireless telegraph method so as to reach barely far enough to be of much commercial use seemed great because the accomplishment led him to prophesy that hecould ere long send wireiess com- munications across the ocean by extend- ing his transmitting wires to tremendous stantly throws his discovery out of date by finding a way to send the messages across the ocean, or around the globe, with- out the costly and difficult vertical wire. But for the repeated marvelous achieve- ments of modern times we would be in- credulous as to Tesla’s claim. The re- markable resuits of Marconi’s researches’ along similar lines, coupled with our modern training to be prepared to be- lieve almost anything in tbe way of scientific feats, will bring credence even to this Tesla wonder. The claims of the two great electricians seem to cor- roborate each other, and now we will confidingly await the evolution of these first discoveries 1ato such shaps as will give practical demonstration to our senses and serve the needs of commerce. PERSONAL. George H. Arnold is here from Huron, this State. Dr. A. B. Talbot of Philadelphia is registered at the Palace. Walter 8. Ely of New York wi terday’'s arrivals, J. L. Coles and D. Coles of Sonora, Tuolumne County, are staying at the Cosmopolitan, Charles J. Dickman has decided to go to Paris 10 study art. He will leave on Monday. Waverly Stairley, United States Internal Revenue Collector at Sacramento, is a visitor here, E. Dinkelspiel, & newspaper proprietor of Suisun, arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand, The Misses May, Lou, Alma and Blanche Kaerth of Sacramento are among the guests of the Cosmopolitan. James F. Dennis, an attorney of Reno, Nev.,, partner of Congressman Newlands,is a late arrival in the City, J. A, Muir, superintendent of the Los An- geles division of the Southern Pacific, is in the City on a short stay. E. Bartlett Webster of Whatcom, Wash,, Is registered at the Palace. He is here on both business and pleasure. Charles C. Derby, the superintendent of the well-known quicksilver mines at New Alma- den, is one of the visitors here. George 8. Nixon of Winnemuces, editor and owner of the Daily Silver State and also en- gaged in the panking busiuess, is at the Pal. ace. Crin Deal, & mining man of Perth, West Australia, the region which has for several years been so rich in gold, is at the Russ. He arrived on yesterday’'s steamer. 0. W. Baldwin of Los Angeles, an old-time reilroad man, also owner at one time at St. Paul of large flouring-mills, and now a retired capitalist in the southern city, is at the Grand. He was stricken with & stroke of paralysis in the right side aday or two since at San Jose, but has now largely recovered from it. among yes- CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.} NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 7.—At the St. Cloud, J. Moran; Morton, Mr. and Mrs. A, T. Hetz; Bartholomew, M. Friedlander. J, M. Newton is here buying. S.ster Carmen Divi, Sister Mencia Madurranoz, Sister Louisa Serra and Sister Mary Sureda of Los Angeles sailed on the Ems for Gen & THE GOLD FEVER. 0ld King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; S0 he calied for his pipe And he called for his bowl And he called for bis fiddlers three. They brought his pipe and they brought his bowl, And they brought them speedily, But he called with his might And he calied with his soul, Bu: in vain for the fiddiers three. He looked up bigh and he looked down low, And not aone could he see, B0 be called for his man Aud he told him to go Where he thought they would likely be. The man went West with a merry heart, Oh, awav off West went he, And he fonnd ail the men Ina Kiondike part, And they captured some millions three. And old King Cole, the merry old soul, When he heard their history, He called for his plok And e callea for his bowl, And he sailed for the Bering Sea. M, W..1n Montreal Herald. WITH YOUR COFFEE, THIS 18 TERRIBLE. Though others fail, far, fair Klondike, A little bunko game I see. You work upon the tenderfeet— **Yu—kon” them most successfu!ly ! —Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. “There is nothing funny about being a cook in this weather,” said the sympathizer. “Oh, 1 don’t know,” warbled the chef. “Slicing bacon is simply side-splitting.”—Cin- cinnau Enquirer. Daisy—She has such a pretty foot. Idon’t know where you would find anything smaller, do you? Frances—Yes, the shoe she wears.—Boston Traveler. “I discovered a gold mine,” said the 49er. “I invented a torpedo-boat,” replied the genius, Then they shook hands like brothers and pooled their capital to buy & cheap dinner.— Detroit Free Press. +Dear ant jane,” wrote little Bennie Jimp- kins to his father’s sister, “I thot Iwood rite an’ tell you that ma got a baby hopin’ thes’ fue linnes will fin’ you the same yore nefyou benny.”—Harrer's Bazar. “Do you think you can accustom yourself to Klondyke cooking?” *‘Why not? My wife took the first prize at Vassar for her paper-weight biscuits,”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer, “How do you pronounce ‘Juneau?’ asked the inquisitive friend. “Well,” replied the old-time miner, “I can’t say r8 & matter of book-learning. But from experience Ishould be inclined to pronounce it ‘Jonah.’ ashington Star. ‘*Here is a new conundrum,” said the cheer- ful boarder; made it myse!f. What is the difference between me and a Klondike miner? Can you guess, Mrs. Hashleigh?' " “No, I never liked conundrums, the landlady. “All give it up?” There was no response. ‘‘Because,” said the cheerful boarder, “one stakes the claim and the other claims the steak!” And he helped himself to the bit of sirlpin on the platter.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. * Excuse me,” sald the popocrat, “1If rude to you I seem to be.” And then he turned his back and brayed, “1do not see Prosperity.” —Cineinnati Commerclal-Tribune. snapped THE CALAMITY HOWLER. Kansas City Journal. Certain estcemed contemporaries are ex- changing premature congratulations on the passing of the calamity howler. They assume that, with abundant harvests, good prices for farm products, increasea bank clearings and railroad earnings, and a rising labor market, calamity’s voice will by hushed, and the form of the howler will fade away. These suppositions do credit to the hearts of the journalistic brethren, but thev show an ignorance of the essentiuf nature of the cals- mity species which is astonishing to the thoughtful mind. The truth is that pessimism, populism, or whatever you may choose to cail t, is not a theory; {1 isa condition. Itisnot a mistake; it {s a disease. The cure is not in- tellectual demonstration, but spiritual re- newal, The calamity howler doesn’t need argument. Brain surgery might avail possibly, assuming the existence of the necessary organs. But so far, we are inclined to pin our faith to what is technically known in Methodist camp meet- ings as ‘‘sound conversion.” In the absence of {h-l. the case of the calamity howler is hope- less. LOOKING FORWARD. New York Mall aud Express. Some of the Popocratic managers bave it already arranged that when Mr. Bryan is elected President he will nmominate Dr. An- drews, ex-president of Brown University, for Embassador to England. 71hat is something or the doector to look forward to, anyhow— THE GRAND OLD MAN AND HIS HEIR. This is & late portrait of Mr. Gladstone and Hawarden. as the heir of the estate of the former Premier. is excellent and gave extreme satisfaction to th hand of his grandson and heir. Castle. cestershire. His young son is a noble chitd and ‘‘the Grand Old Man.” He is seen standing at the side of the statesman, whose right hand affection The photograph was taken beneath the wall of Hawarden W. P. Gladstone, the father of Master Gladstone, was the eldest son of the statesman, and died in the middle of a careér that had given great promise. ‘was & good politician, and sat in Parliament for some time as the representative of East Wor- his grandson, Master W. Gladstone, the heir of It is all the more interesting because Master Gladstone’s portrait has never before been published. Young Gladstone is the son of the late W. H. Gladstone, and supplants his father The photograph of the lad and his grandsire e family. The likeness of the boy is faultles; ¥ holds the 1 Like bis eminent father, he inherits much of thebrain and brilliance of THE TEXT-BOOK QUESTION. §AN FrANCISCo, Cal., Aug. 7, 1897. To the Editor of Call—DEAR STR: I noticed the article on textbooks in the San Francisco schools in to-day’s CarL. It is unjustto the pupils and the Board of Education. Humane education was introduced into the San Francisco schools at the request of the State Humane Society. San Francisco in this respect follows, but does not lead. Published reports show that France and Great Britain introduced the teaching of kindness and mercy into the schools several years ago. Massachusetts has it regularly in the course of study. State of Washington, Utah and a number of other States require humane edu- cation to be taught, and deem it of as much importance as reading, writing and arith- metic. . In this country alone over 2,000,000 of children belong to bands of mercy. All recog- nize that our children need moral culture, and do not receive enough in the public schools. Why, then, object because a few minutes each day are required along special line of moral culture? Change of textbooks! Does not your re- porter know that under our State law a book regularly adopted cannot be changed but orce infour yeurs? And as our State publishes its textbooks a large number of them have not been changed for twelve years. Price! The price of Heart Culture and Pa- cific History Stories will compare favorably with the price of the State textbooks, which are furnished to pupils at cost. The Pacific History Stories need no defense. They were written for sixth-grade pupils. It was also recognized that the child should be- gin the study of tistory with the history of its own State. The Pacific History Stories have been adopted in the State of Washington and in forty of the counties of California. Educators recogniz: that Superintendent Webster is a positive force, and that the new course of study is a valuable contribution to course of study literature. It is also a credit to the Board of Education that it has followed out that which THE CALL has insisted upon— the patronage oi home industry, HARR WAGNER. PROGRESS OF GLASGOW. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In & quarto volume of over 400 pages, by Sir James Bell, Bart., Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1892-95 and 1895-96. and James Paton, F. L. 8., president of tne Museum Associations of the United Kingdom, entitled “Glasyow—Its Municipal Organization and Administration, the committee of 100 appointed by Mayor Phelan to formulate a new charter will fina Kiondike wealth of practical information which they should earefully consider before adopting a system of government for San Francisco, since Glasgow is conceded by sll who are well informed on civic progress to be far in the lead of any other city in Europe or America as a progressive and well-governed municipality. This expansive volume may not be acces- sible to muny of the hundred members of the committee, and 5o it may well Zor me to note and present through ine CALL some of the features of the Glasgow government which af- ford practical suggestions adapted to meet the wants of our own community, This task is an agreeable one to me, for a somewhat pro- longed examination of the remarkable achievements made by the citizens ol Glasgow has awakened in me a strong desire to see San Frencisco lead all other cities in ourown country h{ adopling some of the progressive features of the Glasgow charter. In this preliminary article it may be desir- able to let Sir James tell why this book was published. “My object in the preparation of the following volume,” he says in a prefator; note, “is to present to my_fellow-cltizens an 10 those interested in making municipal in- stitutions a comprehensive view of the var: ous means by which the complex work of a great [civic] corporation is carried on and the intimate reiation in which these and their re- sult stand 1o the health, happiness and pros- perity of the citizens. Please note the last clause—*to the health, bappiness and prosperity of the citizens.” “Such a work,” he adds, “it seems to me, would serve a useful purpose as & history of Glasgow’s municipal life up to this present year of grace (1896), alike 1o the citizens of Giasgow and to the numerous and distin- guished visitors from all lands who come to study the working of our system of local gov- ernment.” “I piace the record before the reader in the hope that its perusal may help 10 deepen and strengthen civic patriotism, in- duce a still stronger interest in the important and complete problems ot city government, and show the able und earnest men among us how greatand valuable are the servicesihey can render Lo the community as members of our local parliament, where we deal only with local and practical issues and supply proved needs, leaving entirely out of consideration { all imperial [nationsl] questions. The great- est strength of our council is in being non= political in its election and working.” Until the new order of things was estab- lished in Glasgow, which was gradually inau- urated within a generation, Sir James tells us n the introduction that “whether the people lived or died was not the care of the counci! that might be left to the churches and chari- table organizations. Itwas suflicient for the municipality it public order was enforced and public decency maintainea.” Tne evilsof a crowded population living in the most unsan- itary condition in wretchea tenements, result- ing in epidemics and a frightful death rate, were regarded, he says, “as aispensations of Providence which had to be sccepted with resignation rather than as calls for their amelioration,” With the dawn of the new time, the result of much public discussion ana agitation, the mere maintenance of public order and the en- forcement of public decency did not satisty an enlightened and aroused public conscience, ‘but “how to enable the poor tolive healthy, decent, comfortable lives—how even to add some enjoyment 1o these lives,’ says Sir James, “was the momentous quéstion which offered itself for soiution.” JOSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON. MEN AND WOMEN. Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde” is be- icg printed in a French translation by the French Temps as the original work of a French author, The Crown Prince and Princess of Italy have been presented by the citizens of Rume with & beautiful album containing over 50,000 sig- natures of notable persons from all parts of Italy, including most of the Mayors. The al- bum, which is intended as & souvenir in con- Naples and Frincess Helene of Montenegro, also contains a loyal eddress illuminated by the most celebrated Italian painters. British enthusiasts who wished to celebrate what they call the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of England’s navy by King Alfred have been snubbed by young Mr. Chamberlain, who is Civil Lord of the Admir- year. A. D. Bartlett, who died recently in London, i acquired international fame through the fact that he was superintendent of the London Zoological Garden when the well-known ele- phant, Jumbo, became so uncertain of temper that it was unsafe for children to go near him. Mr. Bartlett sold the brute to Barnum for $10, 000, and the storm of protests that followed al- most ousted Mr. Bartlett from the Zoo. Miss Braddon joins to ner talent as novelist a genius for housekeeping. She always trains her own servants, and can teach something to even the most accomplished pupil of a school woman, and when her children were young she delighted in nothing so much as in mak- ing and mending their clothes. Miss Braddon shares with Mrs. Humphry Ward the distinc- tion among leading lady novelists of never having been interviewed. Miss Julia Neilson can claim to being not only the most classically beautiful, but also the tallest woman on the British stage, Alma Tadema considers hers the ideal Greek figure, and he is very fond of designing her costumes. On more than one occasion he has even sug- gested various ways in which her hair might be done. Miss Neilst whenever it is possi- ble, always wears her own hair on the stage. She has often had coached by her sister-in-law, Miss Ellen Terry. The Infauta Isabella Ferdinanda Francoise Josep ine, nunt of the King of Spain and sis- ter of the ex-King Francis ' Assisi, who died the other day in poverty in a wretched inn in Paris, was the most beauiiful Princess in the Spanish court fifty years ago. Her mar- riage in 1841 to Count Ignatius Gurowski, a Polo, caused a rupture between her and her family. He died in 1887, leaving her penni- less, and she has buen living from hand to mouth ever since TO STOCK MAINE WITH GOATS. Advices from Lee, Maine, are to the effect that the long-promised experiment of ralsing goats upon the newly cut but uncleared lands of Northern Maine is about to be made and Major Charles J. House of Augusta, the presi- dent of the goat company and promoter of the enterprise, is securing leases of wild land and niring goat herders. According to Major House’s theory there is more money in goats than in sheep. A sheep 1s doing well if she raises one lamb a year anu brings it up toa saiable age. A goat brings forth young twice a year, producing two or three ata birth, and can be relied upon to rear three Young ones every season. Since the pr.ce of wool went down the pelt of a kid is worth as much as & lamb’s skin with the wool on it, while the meat of a young goat is iuly as good to eat as that of a lamb, Shenp are subjeci to muny diseases, the flocks are constantly raided by dogs and wild animals, and the farmer who would grow sheep for profitmustbuild barns, buy proven- der and make a great outlay for hay. Goats are hardy, cropping the sprouts from stumps in the cleariug, eating coarse hav and endur. ing all kinds of weather without harm. The billygoais in & flock are abie (o keep the dogs and bobeats away. For these reasons Major House proposes to turn the great raspberry and blackberry wil- derness of Maine into a goat pasture, stocking ahalt million acres of land with approved breeds of goats and putting them in charge of goatheras, who must attend the flocks, cut meadow hay to carry them through tne win- ter and cull out the young males for market as fast as they grow. Tne females will be kept for brzeding purposes for a few years until the wasle territory is occupied. Tne company will start out with about 500 goats and two herd- ers. If the experiments succeed Major House hopes to have 100,000 goats at the end of this century, and thinks the company will get a net cash profit of $1 a hend for every goat. THE WISDOM OF KRUGER. From Golt. A golfer in South Africa left his property to be equally divided between two sons. Not be- ing able to agree they decided to let President Kruger arbitrate. He said to the eldest: *'You're the eldest, are you not!” “Yes,” wasg the answer. *So you shall divide the prop- erty.” This pleased the elder immensely. ‘‘You are the younger,” continued Kruser to the other, *'so you shall have first choice!” —_— CANADIAN STINGINESS. Chicago Journal, Perhaps the United States, when it had op. portunity, should have barred Canadians from the California gold fields. 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