The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1897, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, MO AUGUST 9, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALT, one week, by carrier..$0.16 Daily snd Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, s{x months, by mail. .00 Dally and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. W EEKLY CALL, one year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, san Francisco, California. Telephone... —1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephose........ .Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, coraer Clay; open until 9:80 o’clock. 330 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixtecnth and Mission streets, open untfl 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission streat, open until 9 o'clock. 1248 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9;30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky treets; open till § 0’clock. s OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York Clty /TZ, Eastern Manager. 1liE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going 1o the country ona vacation ? If #0. 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to vour address. Do not let it miss you for you will 3 Orders given to the carrier or left at s Office will e prompt sattention. RA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month summer months. re The Alaskan wave of prosperity is good but the Dingley wave is better. The rise in the prices of wheat and wool will bring to this country more gold than forty Klondikes, and we will not have to freeze to death striving for it either. 1f a railroad could be opened to the Klondike this summer the rush to get out of the country next winter would give it business enough to pay a boom dividend. The crusade in the East against the practice of rapid bicycle-riding on the streets is said to have had a good effect already. It seems the scorcher couldn’t stand the roasting. 1f the restrictive policy of Canada to- ward the miners of the Klondike should induce them to seek gold on the American side of the line we will have reason to thank her for her folly. ———————— American rails are now being used to construct a Government road in India and all the British manufacturers can do is to furnish a lot of miscellaneous raillery against the Government. The announcement that a mammoth order for shoes has been placed with a St. Louis firm causes Chicago dealers to turn up their noses with scorn. They get mammoth shoe orders every day. The rise in the price of wheat and the fall in that of silver occurring together constitute a mystery which the Bryanite retuses to consider further than to call it the resalt of a machination of the devil or Mark Hanna. A good many papers are opposing the plan of establishing a Government plant for the manufacture of armor-plate, but none of them explain why tne Govern- ment could not do that as well as run a navy-yard or a gun factory. Itis to be hoped Japan will soon get that new religion she has been seeking so long. There might be something in it which would teach her the wickedness of trying to bully Hawaii and the folly of morkeying with Uncle S8am. Liliuokalani recently told the Washing- ton people that she has taken up her resi- dence in that city because the climate re- minds her of that of Honolulu, and there isreason 1o believe this isthe largest lump of taffy ever given to an American com- munity. Oklahoma expects to raise 125000 bales of cotton this year, and some of ber enter- prising citizens are talking of putting up a factory to work it up for the market. The new community, it will be seen, prac- tices a Southern industry, but pushes it with Northern vigor. Careful students of the situation in Bouth Africa declare 1f there is ever a fed- eration of the various States of that coun- try it will be under control of the Boers snd not the British, and is more likeiy to be an independent republic than a part of the Queen’s empire. A strong effort will be made in the East this winter to induce Congress to estab- lish postal savings banks, and it is prob- able the promoters of the project will at least succeed in getting a bill to that effect inwroduced and bringing about a debate upon it which will go far toward convinc- ing the public of the importance of the subject. Boston streetcar companies have given orders to their conductors that in address- ing women passengers hereafter the word ‘‘mada’ shall be used instead of *‘lady.” The innovation is intended to save the ears of the scholarly from the pain of hearing the oft-repeated phrase, ‘‘Please move up, lady,” which is so offensive to the feeling of a correct bean-eater. Because the new tariff reads, *‘No more than $100 in value of articles purchased abroad by residents of the United States shall be admitted free of duty on their re- turn,” some of the New York tourists be- lieve that gifts can be imported iree, and there is talk of making a test case of it. It is a slim chance, butto the millionaire duty-shirker any chance is worth trying. The Italian Government recently de- sired seven gunboats completed within nine months, and a single firm in Great Britain took the contract and com- pleted the whole job in three months. The fact has attracted considerable atten- tion because it shows how vast is the ship- building capacity of Great Britain and how rapidly she can increase her navy whenever she has need to do so. Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania re- cently loaned Lenigh University $150,000 of money belonging to the State in order to help it over a temporary embarrass- ment, and while the university bas no legal claim for State aid everybody ap- proves the action. Helping higher educa- tion is always popular in this country, and everything which tends to do it is called right when done in the right way, even if there ia no law for it. THE CANADIAN GRAB. 1t is not improbable that the Canadian authorities witl find sufficient reason before long for reconsidering the recent determination to exact & royalty in the Klondike gold diggings of 10 per cent on the value of gold extracted where it does not exceed §500 monthly, and 20 per cent where it exceeds that sum, and to retain for the Govern- ment every alternate claim throughout the whole gold district. If the reasons for reconsideration are not made apparent at once they will be as soon as the great host of miners now rushing into the country have got fairly to work. The opposition to the proposed royalties and reservations comes not altogether from Americans. The pecple ol British Columbia object to them as strohgly as do | the people of the Uniled States. Merchants ot Vancouver and settlers in thaf province desire to see the new gold region opened up as rapidly as possible to trade and traffic, and are by no means favorable to the proposition of the far-off Govern- ment in Ottawa. It matters little to British Columbia who develops the dizgings of the Klondike. It mattersa great deal to her that the promised inrush of capital and population shall not be checked. The News-Advertiser of Vancouver has already given expression to a decided opposition to the course of the Ottawa Government. It sets forth plainly that the policy will require an army of collectors and agents *“to keep track of the miners to see that the Government gets its royalty, and even then to make the system effective will involve such close supervislon as will and a hostile feeling toward the Government.” almost certainly cause constant irritation It adds in conclusion: **Asa matter of fact we do not believe the policy can be carried out in practice.’” It is the self-evident futility as well as the injustice of the proposed grab whick condemns it. If the Canadian authorities had deliberately set about devising a plan to irritate the miners, delay the upbuilding of British Columbia and developing a serious problem for the Canadian Government to confront they couid not have pro- ceeded to those ends more directly than by adopting just snch measures as they now propose to enforce. Men who bave sufficient vigor, energy and daring to penetrate into the wilderness of the Yukon will not submit tamely to open injustice. They will resent the Canadian tax and oppose the Uanadian claim reservation by every means in their power. There will be many thousands of the miners and they will occupy a country difficult for evea the most vigilant police to supervise. TUnless therefore Canada is deliber- ately seeking trouble the Ottawa Government had better reconsider its decision and leave the gold districts open to all who have the courage and the skill to develop them and bring out the precious ore for the benefit of trade and industry in Canada as well as in the rest of the world. WAR AND EXPLOSIVES. Hodson Maxim, a brother of the in- ventor of the famous Maxim guns, and a noted manufacturer of powerful explo- sives, recently anmounced belfore the United Service Institution in London that he believed 1t is feasible to make a gun capable of shooting a torpedo containing 1420 pounds of picric acid, a species of dynamite, a distance of nearly nine miles, and that such a shell would destroy any vessel in the British navy if exploded either on or in the close neigh- borhood of her. Mr. Maxim was formerly engaged with Lieutenant Zalinski in the attempt to in- vent a pneumaticdynamite gun. This in- vention was tested by the United States Government and was found partially suc- cessful. Maxim is thus thoroughly fa- miliar with the accomplishments and the failures on this line, and he has taken up | the work where Zalinski left off. | His new plan does not depend upon compressed air to fire the torpedo, but upon an explosive compound said to be much safer. There isa device to prevent premature explosions by interposing an interior air space between the charge of the fuse and the bursting charge of the shell. The inventor calculates that if the torpedo exploded so small a charge as 500 pounds of an explosive called ‘‘Maxim- ite” combined with picric acid within fifty feet of the strongest of modern war vessels the ship would be destroyed, and that if the charge was as much asa ton it would be effectual anywhere within 250 feet. The cost of & cruiser sufficiently armed with these guns and torpedoes to destroy 200 battle-ships he estimates would be | only half a million doilary. For the price of a single one of our great modern war vessels a fleet of ten of these dynamite- shooters could be constructed with an ability to wipe a navy of 2000 ships off the | seas. The idea hitherto has been that such ex- plosives would have to wait for practical use in war until the invention of airshins was perfected. The scheme was to get up above the vessel and drop the torpedoes with safety to the airship and death to | the water-ship. This thought of course | postponed the revolution in methods of | warfare to a very indefinite future, but now the possibility seems close upon us. It will pe a glorious consummation if in some way this invention will put out of date the spending of vast sums in national armament, and turn them to use in the arts and peaceful industries. ELEOTRIC OABS. The Commercial Advertiser of New York gives a very interesting account of the success of electric cabs in that city., The improvement, it seems, has passed far beyond the stage of experiment, for these novel vehicles have been doing a regular twenty-mile-per-day service in conveying people through the crowded streets of the metropolis. There are a dozen of these cabs and a few carriages offered for hire in New York, and they are in constant use. They are maintained, it is said, at about half the expense of a horse for the same amoant of work. They cost $2500, but they are so strongly built at this price that the expense of repairs is very slight. They are operated by & storage-battery system, which will propel a vehicle twenty miles with oune charge, and the expectation is to soon perfect them so they will carry thirty-five miles with one supply. They run at any speed from four miles to fifteen per hour, and they can be geared to run at even higher speed if de- sired. They have the advantage that they can be stopped in one and a half thelr length, and can be more accurately guided through the jam of a big city's streets than the most reliable horse. It1s stated that physicians are among the best patrons of this Electric Carriage Company. They find them quick and easy riding and they recommend them, especially to invalids, because the motion is less jerky than in horse-drawn vehicles. Tha city government has officially recog- nized the advent of the horseless carriage by passing special ordinances for their regulation. The Electric Carriags Company exvects to enlarge its business until the whole city is supplied with the cabs. They are rented, but never sold, because the com- pany is afraid of dissatisfaction among customers from not fully understanding their mechanism. The company, it is re- ported, makes a continuous study of im- provements and expects soon to have a practically perfect vehicle. There seems to be no question of their safety, and in the four months in which they have been in use in New York no accidents of im- portance have resulted from their employ- ment. —_— The announcement that Rockefeller will sell his stately new home on the Hudson rather than pay taxes on it is an illustra tion of the contradictions which exist in the human mind. Rockefeller thinks nothing of giving away a million for “philanthropy,” but he will not pay his taxes so long ay there 1s a possible means of avoiding it. About the only effective way to deal with such a man is to send him to jeil for cheating the Government and then grenm him with an illuminated t! | bigger it gets. vote of thanks for his generosity to the people. | One of the remedies proposea for this THE OOMMEROIAL VERDIOT. The present revival in business is like the boy’s snowball—the longer it rolls the ‘When it began, a2 couple of months ago, it was but faintly defined. It was limited, in fact, to a slow improve- ment in provisions, that almost infallible herald of good or hard times, Then grad- ually—so gradually, in fact, that few were aware of what was coming—other lines of poods joined the upward movement. Even then the great majority of people failed to read the writing on the wall, But the sudden jump in wheat opened their eyes. This, in their opinion, was the beginning of the revival. But it had been well under way for some time. Since then other staples, such as hay, hovs, dried fruits, hides and leather and in fact almost all prominent articles of farm produce, have sprung into activity, until now the whole range of agricuitural products is comprehended in the upward march. The effects of this revival in the busi- ness of farming—for in these modern days farming is a busines: re ncw becoming apparent. They are showing themselves in a restoration of country credits, so long at a ruinously low ebb, in the increased flow of merchandise into the rural dis- tricts, and an enlarged circulation of money throughout the whole social and commercial fabric. Evervthing is in better shape. Collections as a rule are better, the consumption of goods is larger, and credits are more freely;granted. Briefly, trade, after four weary years of stagna- tion, is once more on a sound basis. The conditions on this coast are familiar to all who keep themselves posted on cur- rent events. Everybody knows that wheat is up, that hay and wool and a dozen other important stapies are active at profitable prices. To recapitulate them is to rethrash old straw. But in the East new conditions are appearing. There is a brisk demand for American securities in New York on European account, based on our exceptionally fine crop prospects, and the genersl advance in values throughout the country. This is pouring foreign money into the country at a rapia rate. We are getting richer instead of poorer, and the Europeans have been quick to see and take advantage of it. Hence they are buying our railroad shares to get some of our dividends, An amusing feature of it all is the dis- appearance of the calamity howler. His voice is no longer heard in the land. He has taken to the woods. He is a sort of human buzzard that feeds on commercial carrion. His joy is a panic and his de- light is in the financial distress—of others. When times improve he slinks out of sight, for his occupation is gone. He is deprived of his natural nutriment, and no longer has the toothsome morsel to roll about under his tongue. He gets into cover and waits for the next panic. True, there are some who refuse to be- lieve that the hard times are over. They fail to see it. They say that business is no better with them. And perhaps they are right. There are still some lines that have not yet got into zood running order. But they are in the minority, and their turn will come later on. No better test of the condition of trade can be made than that of the president of the New York bank who recently sent out sevéral hundred letters to bankers, manu- facturers and merchants throughout the country asking them for an impartial re- port on the state of business in their re- specive localities. Over 75 per cent of the answers reported trade much better, and only about 7 per cent reported it worse. The balance perceived no particular change, but there certainly was no falling back. This is a pretty good showing and ought to satisfy any reasonable doubter. The letters were addressed to the most im- portant men in their respective cities and towns, and their verdict is not to be doubted. When over 75 per cent of the commercial interests of the country re- port trade improved it is so. The principal feature of the local mar- ket at present is the tremendous trade in provisions. The merchants say that they never before saw anything like it. The volume of the movement is phenomenal. One heavy house reports that it is selling three times as many goods as ever before in the month of August. ENGLAND'S DANGERS, Calculations made for the purpose of showing how absolutely England is de- pendent upon the outside world for vhe necessaries of life continue to excite dis- cussion in tbhat country. It appears that the amount spent for the wheatand wheat flour used in = year is $178,000,000, and the portion of this paid for home-grown wheat is only $27,500,000. This immense quan- tity of wheat and wheat flour imported is only about one-fifth of the food stuffs which must be brought ia from abroaa. 1n 1895 the amount imported was worth $833,000,000. It will be seen from this that if the sup- ply of imported food were cut off for as | much as two months the poorer classes of England would be starving. Not only would the food supply run short, but the mass of the people could get no money to buy with, for the great bulk of the indus- tries of England depend upon imported raw materials. condition of affairs is to offer bounties for wheat, ana thus increase the area of culti- vation and produet. It is said, however, that this would not be an effective remedy, as it would take an addition of seven million acres to raise the needed wheat, and this conld not be spared without so reducing the pasture land as to cause a meat famine. Thus it appears it would be impossible for England to supply her population with both meat and bread if her vessels were prevented from freely crossing the seas. Another plan which has been discussed | i8 to establish immense state granaries in which the millions of busheis of wheat necessary to withstand a siege could be stored. It is said in objection to this that the quality of the grain would rapidly de- cline when placed in the warehouses, and furthermore the plan would have the prac- tical effect of making the buying and sell- ing of wheat and consequently the fixing of the price a state function. Such a pre- cedent established in the grain market, it is feared, would soon extend the system to other products and the result would be an economic error o! disastrous propor- tions. The latest remedy suggested is that the English Government should insure mer- chant vessels in the event of war. All other proposed remedies would affect only the British Islands, but the wisdom of this last proposition migiit be discussed in its apolication to all nations. The espe- cial interest which the question has for England lies in the danger that immedl- ately upon the declaration of war with some powerful nation the rates of marine insurance would go up so high as to make commerce in British ships impossible, State insurance would be a remedy for that to some extent, but here again the objection is urged that it would be Gov- ernment interference with private trade. We can pleasantly contrast our condi- tion with that of England, inasmuch as we will be able to fight out any quarrel we may get into without the danger of starva- tion. We may sympathize with the British masses in the peril of hunger that hangs constantly over them, but it is, perhaps, well for the world that a nation s> pow- erful and having such a natural aggres- siveness and love of domination should be compelled, as it were, to give its entire population as hostages for good pehavior. 00AST EXCHANGES. The Sausalito News is agitating the proposi- tion of building a railroad over the hillsto Bolinas. The Church Eeview, a Monday paper that was started in Stockton about a year ago, has preached its last sermon. Lack of sufficient support is cited as the cause. It doesn’t take the Stockton Independent more than three minutes to mathematically calculate that the rise of wheat to $1 50 means better times for the farmers of this country. The Hawthorne Bulletin remarks that ¢whisky Is four bits & drink in the Alaska gold fields.” A day’s wages there ($15) will buy thirty drinks. A day’s wages in Esmer- alda (§3) will also buy thirty drinks. So what’s the use of going to that remote region? The Los Angeles Express thinks that Prince Henry of Orleans, who is scheduled to fight a “duel” with General Albertone, has an excel- lent press agent. Obviously the Erpress has added itself to the long list of pupers whom this press agent must, according to its theory, bave visited. The Santa Cruz Sentinel, whose editor isa poet, declares that the resort to the sea by young couples intent on matrimony is “sim- plya case of throwing up to see which one shall provide the living.” Is Poet McPherson prepered to afirm that only couples thatare young ‘“‘throw up” atsza ? According to the Mail, the citizens of Stock- ton are alarined over a deficien t water supply. They claim that the local water works do not furnish balf the liguid needed and that many people have had to bore wells and put in pumping plants of their own. It speaks well for a community when a dearth of wafer asa beverage is looked upon as & public calamity. The Plumas Independent regards from afar the outputting oi tons of powder from the Santa Cruz mills on orders for the Klondike gold fields—n safe place, by the way, to regard it from. It seems that enough explosiveness is being kegged down there to blow tne whole Klondike region over the north pole. As we have the example of Professor Andree to glit- teringly attest the importance of discovering the north poleé this possible solution of the vroblem is not altogether aun uninteresting prospect. ® According to the Contra Costa Gazette there 13 likely to be an increase in the attendance at the Martines High School. Negotiations have been going on for some time by which it is hoped to geta reduced fare over the railroad from Walnut Creek, 50 that pupils can go from there to the school at Martinez, there being no high school at the former place. The im- pression of the railroad gentlemen, to the effect that because their passengers want to g0 toa high school they must pay & high fare, is evidently an error. The pockets of Visalia residents are being emptied into the ever-circulating hat witn a view to amassing sufficient loose change to de- fray the cost of celebrating the arrival of the Valley Road at that town on or about the 20th inst. The Times cheerfully sniffs many a good thing in the breeze. An ox will be barbecued to fitly distinguish the occasion of man’s emancipation from his bovine yoke to the more rapid means of locomotion afforded by railsand steam, and everybody who applies will be steaked for a good time. An important discovery of petrified wood, says the Ontario Record, has been made by Mr. Gillespie on the mountain range about four miles from Lytle Creek. A few hundred pounds, which appear to comprise many dif- ferent kinds, all of them valuable from a sci- entific standpoint, have been brought in, Professor N. A. Richardson of the San Bernar- dino High School secured the most of what Mr. Gillespie brought in, and will make a mare thorough investigation ot the place and petrifactions. Mr. Gillespie states that there 1s a stump, two feet in diameter, that appears to be completely petrified, and if itis wanted for the schools he will try to bring it in. It is possible that this 1s the remains of that stumped Presidential candidate who disap- peared up north from here a long time ago. Those ingenious mental acrobats who claim that times have not improved might profitably place the Lake County Bee in their bonnets. Hear it sing: The wave of prosperity has struck Lakeport with such force that there is notan jdie man within her borders whois willing to work. Allof the carpenters, paint- ers, masons and day laborers are employed. The hotel boom coming right after the carni- val has kept them busy all summer and will for some time. The thousands of doliars that are being spent in improvements make the merchants smile ail over their faces, for now old bills are being paid and new goods are purchased. But the town people are not the only ones being benefited. The farmers have a better prospect uhead of them than for some years past. It is true that some crops are ehort, but what there is sells for a8 much asa large crop did during the Cleveland administration. The new tarift will help our wool-growers, fruit-raisers and quicksil ver mines.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES The screw line-of-battle ship Edgar, built in 1858, for many years used quarantine hulk, and the troopship Juanna are to be con- verted into coal hulks at Portsmouth docks yard. There are at the present time forty-six ves- sels of 129,375 tons in course of construction at private shipyards in kngland for the British navy, and thirty-three vessels of 84,800 tons for foreign navies. The torpedo-boat destroyer Bat had a trial July 15 at Portsmouth. In six runs over the measured, mile the vessel averaged 30.23 knots, and ran onemile at the rate of 33 knots. The horsepower averaged 6189, which ena- bled her to keop up 400 reyolutions. The steam in the botlors wa< 230 pounds. The Bpanish navy list will be Incresed dut- ing the present yeat by the addition of ten captatns and seventy-two lleutennnts. At the present time it consists of 1002 ofMears, 14,000 sailors and 9000 marines, to which should be added 715 mechanicians and other employes, which include engineers not holding militery rank or title, The Russian Emperor's steam yacht ftan- dart, which was bullt at Uopenhagen, Den- mark, very nearly ruined the contractors, 88 the work was taken at a low price and many alterntions were made, After some delay the Government has romitted the stim of §315,000 8 oxtra pay for the yacht, and as & 0onse- quence the Danish shipbullding company I8 again on velvet, An accident occurred to the Teser, torpedo- boat destroyer, on July 14, while undergolng trials. The boat had been running for two hours, working up to aspeed of 27.67 knots, when the storn A bracket broke. The water poured Into the after part of the vessel and wo compartments were fllied, but the water- tight doors being promptly closed, the Teazer was enabled to return to the yard at Cows Bome months ago certain officers from the Russian battle-ship Dimitri Donsky were pros- ecuted and fined at Hongkong for making sketches of one of the forts, and shorily after another lot of officors from a Germsan mail steamor wero charged with a similar offonse and fined, The local press took the matter up very vigorously, and when the Dimitri Donsky arrived at 8ingapore she was greeted by one of the Straits Settlement newspapers as thoe “spyship,” and among the extreme measurcs proposed it was suggested that she be ordered out of port. Similar offenses in Russia are visited with the most severe punishmen!. Quite recently, however, a British ariny offi- cer was discovered inmde one of the fortifica- tions in Vladivostok, but after being de- tained for a short time (0 explain how he got into the fort, ho was marched out and cot- dially invited not to come back and then left severely alone, The recent loss of the Russian turret-ship Gangoot was not from the resuitof running on a rock, but apparently solely due to bad work- manship on the hull. The Gangoot, with other vessels of the squadron, wero at targot practice in the Gulf of Finiand, and at the conclusion of the trial the chief engineer Als- covered that water was pouring into the ship in such quantity as to drive the stokers out of the ficerooms. The water-tight doors were closed, but after keeping afloat six hours the ship sank in over seventeen fathoms of water. The divers found the ship lylng on its port slde, and dissovered that the outside plating on the starboard bilge had ruptured for & dls- tance of forty fcat amidships. The rupture was along the line of rivets, and the fissure varfed from nine to eighteen inchesin width. It 1s now charged that the vessel was 8o badly constructed that the firing of the heavy guns had started the rivets and the fissures opened as the practice continued. When the Gangoot was launched the ship drew three feet more than intended, and the officer who superin- tendea the construction was dismissed. PERSONAL. A. 8. Hatheway of Vallejo is at the Cosmo- politan. H. A. Unruh of Santa Anita is at the Bald- win Hotel. F. 8, Wensinger of Freestone is a guest at the Occidental Hotel. John R. Haynes of Los Angeles is a guest at the Occidental Hotel. 0. J. Woodward, a banker of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick House. E.J. Lane, & lumber-dealer of Everett, Wash., is & guest at the Grand Hotel. Fred Russell, a lumbe r merchant of Denver, 13 stopping at the Graud Hotel. Dr. C. A. Devlin of Vallejo is in the City, stopping at the Baldwin Hotel. M. E. Jones, a capitalist of Salt Lake City, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Rabbl Julius M. Magil of Ligonier, Ind., reg- istered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. Colonel L. S. Babbitt, U. 8. A., Benicia, reg- istered at the Occidental last evening. H. M. Cake, an attorney of Portland, Or., is in this City, stopping at the Grand Hotel. John Lawier, & lawyer of Prescott, Ariz., is in San Francisco, a guest at the Lick House. L. R. McCuen and B. Stewart of Stochton are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan. Dr. A. L. Le Gro of Michigan arrived in the City yesterday and is stopping at the Baldwin Hotel. = Judge W. B. Wallace of Visalia arrived in this City yesterday and put up at the Lick House. Garrison Turner, & grain merchant of Mo- desto, registered at the Grand Hotel yes- terday. Chaplain J. P. McIntyre, United States navy, New York, registered at tne Baldwin Hotel yesterday. Joseph Spinney, a merchant of Fresno and an ex-Mayor of that city, is in town, stopping at the Grand. Lieutenant-Governor William T. Jeter ar- rived in the Ciiy last evening and registered atthe Palace. Frank Mordaunt of New York arrived in this City yesterday and registered at the Oc- cidental Hotel. Frank R. Coffin and Craig Coffin, merchants of Boise, Idaho, are in the City, stopping at the Lick House. Allan Robertson and wife of Aberdeen, Scotland, arrived in the City vesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. George D. Mumford of New York, who is largely interested in mining properties in this State, arrived yesterday and registered at the Palace. Senator E, C. Voorhels of Sutier Creek ar- rived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. He confirms the accounts of the rich strike in the Gwin mine, of which he is & part owner. WITH YOUR COFFEE, “Idon’ know what's going to become of that boy of mine. He was never known to get any- thing right.” “Make a weather prophet of him.”—Detroit Free Press. “What makes Bumply so down on the long- distance telephone?” He called up a man 1n Toledo that owes him $2 50. They wrangled till it cost Bumply $18.”—Detroit Free Press. Real estate agent (out West)—Good morn- ing, sir. What can I do for you? William, bring the gentleman a cigar. Do you want to buy a lot? Caller—No, I want to sell one. Agent—William, never mind the cigar.—New York Weekly. Y He—Do you think your father would re- ceive me civilly if I were to go to him and ask for you? She—Tet'ssee; I believe you hold a mortgage on papa’s business, don’t you? He—Yes, and it's about to mature. She—You will be perfectly safe in approach g him at any time or place that may suit your own convenience.—Pittsburg Chronicle, “You wish to be relieved from jury duty,” said a Judge, “but you haven't given a good Teason. “It is to save money for the people,” replied the unwilling talesman. *I have dyspepsia, Judge, and I never agree with anybody. If [ o on the jury there will be a disagreement, and the county will have to go to the expense ofa new trial.” “Excused!” ia the Judge. —Green Bag. “Itold you he didn’t know anything about real mining 1t aid the genuine ’49:1'. & “‘But he talks very convincingly about it. He must have had some experience.” “No, sir. He hasn’t had any of the real thing.” “How do you know #” “He says he wants to go to Kl e Washington Star. e ———— e WE NEED AN INSTITUTE. —— New York Sun, In six months of 1897 the German Dramatic Institute received 411 pl; Wwhich wero thought fit l’;u-" t:l‘la..lwanly o AN OLD MANSION SOLD. The Van Rensselser mansion, which is said | 16 be otie of the oldest houses in this country, was sold again Wednesday Inst. The building stands on the east bank of the Hudson snd overlooka (he oity of Albany. This tontinent had bsen known to the eivis ligsd world but 150 years when this ancient bullding was completed, How old it iscan only ba surmised, for its eariy history is not oven preserved by teadition. Tho only tecord that can be takan as evidence of the ::w. of tiding's compistion 18 an inscription on e bR S med Shat goed to maks 1y tha solia magonry of tne foundation This reads: | . 642 Anno Domini | Al.f ,Yq,’f,éjl..n.n best obtainable records it was built {of the first Kilinen Van Rensselasr. | n swore that he could not 1 am now on my way to nd I thought I'd iike gh. You mind what of #50,000 & mon live without her. Ettops,” said Bridg to see yon ns I went thr 1told you when I left ATTEMPT TO ERIBE THE SU- PREME COURT. Topeka State Journal. justics Brewer of the Supreme Court, who was in Kansas City yesterday, told this: “Sev- oral years ago n cigar-makel Washlngton numed Scots got up a brand of cigars which he called the ‘Hupreme Court.’ The labels on the 1nside of the boxes were pictures of the | entirs court and the cigar was a good one. I know Lthis, so one day each of the Jus- tices received two boxes of them with the Since then it has stood overlooking Albany and has watched that city grow from a littie trading-post to one of the foremost cities o1 the Btate. It has seen generations come and | 0, and with somerepalrs, so we W onia still stand for many 7 mark of the Htate, the massive beams, | The bricks, and even ’ used in construct 1ouse, came from Holland. The settiers, whils we:l supplied with wood, had no mesns of fashioning it into shape. The cellar s really a relic of an- tiquity, In it overhead are giant beams, whi peveral open fireplaces and wine closcts tell stories of good cheer long ago. The floors o} the bullding are made up of wide boards heid | together with cut nails. Romances sesm to hang and reminiscences really hover mbout the brick walls of the building. Here it was that General Aber- crombie and his #ts# were quartered in 1758 | while tne army was encamped on the sur- rounding grounds. Here General Lafayeite was entertaine fam iiar words and | tune of “Yank the old well in m being Dr. Shuckburg. Romance and antiqui apparently going unappreciated tne ust- ling days, the old house, with its ancient memorice, will probably soon pass awey. and the e s A SUwWMER SONG. De river crawl erlong 50 slow— ‘Wid pot a word ter say, Look lak he dunno whar ter go En sorter ios’ he way. Hot times in Georgla— Hot times, I say: Bhade tree whar de furrow end— Chillun, cl'ar de way | De co'n biades dusty ez kin be, En want de rain ter come: Den ax de wind ter let de tree En frolic wid "em some. Hot times In Georgia— Hot times. 1 say; Bhade tree at de furrow end— Chidlun, cl'arde way ! De mockin’ bird done fol’ he wing En fly fum flel’ en plain; He say : “Hit des 100 hot ter sing: I wish dat ralobow'd rain!"” Hot times in Georgla— Hot times, 1say; Sbade tree at de furrow end— Chillun, crar de way! —Atlan: Constitution. MEN AND WOMEN. Ex-President Harrison nas snnounced him- self decidedly in sympathy with the .move- ment to restrict saloous to the non-resident | part of Indianapolis. | Mrs. Randall of Boston, who died some time a0, bequeathed $20,000 o the ¥rospect Union, which is composed of students and professors of Harvard; $20,000 to Radciiffe College, and $70,000 to the Foxcroft Club of Harvard for a clubhouse. Sarah Bernhardt has instituted criminal pro- ceedings for libel against La Presse and M. Schurmann, a French impresario, for having said that she retained 33 per cent of the re- ceipts at a performance given in aid of the fund for the erection of 8 monument to Alex- ander Dumas, Dalou’s colossal group, “The Triumph of the Republic,” whick was set up in plaster during the 1889 exhibition in the Palace de la Re- publique in Paris, is to be cast in bronze at the expense of thecity. The group will be very costly, as an attempt made to cast it by the cire perdue process proved unsuccessful, and some parts had to be made over again. It will be cast now by the usual sand process. General Lafayette McLaws, who died the other day in Savannah, Ga., occupied since the war a unique place among the officers of | the Confederacy. He was probably the first | man of importance who wore the gray and who was honored with a Federal office of trust atter the war. President Grant made him Deputy Collector of Internsl Revenue in Georgis, and afterward Postmaster at Savan- nah. The places were tendered unaskea. PROFITABLE DEALING IN FLOUR. Portiand Oregonfan. Talking of the expected rush to Alaska next year J. B. Montgomery said: “It reminds me of the Chile Flour Com- | pany’s venture in 1850. At that ttme I hada kinsman, Willlam G. Moornead, who was United Slates Consul at Valparaiso, in Chile. His consulate, previous to the rush of the gold-seekers for California, was worth lessthan $3000 a year. The ships that sailed around Cape Horn all stopped &t Valparaiso to take in provisions and water. The fces increased his income so that it reached $25,000 per annum. Mr. Moorhead was a man of uffairs. He had been & merchant in New York before he was a Consul. He saw his opportunity. He con. sulted with Mr. Waddington and Mr, White. head, who were English merchants in Val- paraiso. They formed a company; each put in $25,000 capital. Mr. Moorhead ' then rode some huudreds of miles down the coast to the flourmills at Conception and made a contract 1o take all their output at $6 per barrel, deliv- gred free on board. It cost 1 more to take 1¢ com:!lul lgh w“.m": 7 e told me the out- “'A fow days before the first arrival in Cali. rnia 7 1': St:ll!l g.maii came into Mr. Moorhead's office ** ‘Have you any flour to sell?’ he asked. **Yes; a shiplo ) wmg"lve mhxlle.:dq:ys].?’m barrels, which ‘“‘How much do y “To cut the story short, m%y conciuded the terms “h;:(firga-;‘iert%lgrz:le and without handling the flour they clogrel #15,000 0n tho it cargs, % St s e end of fo Moorhead, Whllsheldu:ll\?l\lvn%’gi‘:ltghl.an%:::;s BRIDGET'S STRIKE IN o2 KON VALLEY.’“-IE e o Chicago Record. - B. Weare of the North Ameri - tation Company seys some women do_ gely ta the Kiondike region. A year 8g0 he snd Mrs. Weare rejoiced in the Possession of & cook, whose name was Bridget. One da, Bndxe; announced her intention of ®olng fo Alaska. Mr. Weare remonstrated. “You can’t mine,” he sald. “That’s true.” answered : “but there's them that ca; A woman of stylish appearance & ceAnd haught, g;m?nlnor swished her silken sfirts past m.’s Thm rdnx office boy in Mr. Weare’s office last = Il;l ay and extended a imrose-gloved and to the stout man whoSAatat the desk Lc;s;;]l.ln‘%ll;v‘:o ruf:x{lzed hisold cook. : m that before She had miles up the Yukon she hnz‘ecoind fl’s‘ %{-loy- e Woman, posals of ma:rringe aud thitshe had h until an engagin el Droguenougaging compatiot with a Kerry # mine that payned out at the rate J | Bcott and told him that the | ask for Mrs.Winslow’s Soo:hing of Mr. Scott. Nothing was his fact st the d 1t was for the use s later we n sent to soothe ks had gone tO members of the athim and in- b- of our pictur r thet the cifars had the ¢ r. One of court were very much pre ended prosec g him for taking such erties with their pictures. t was fright- ened and he hit upon the ides of bribing the Justices, and 1 suppose he thought he suc- ceeded, for he was uever prosecuted, nor had suck a thing been thought of.” A STATE THAT DESERVES LUCK. California has a good wheat crop, 1ike many other States in which that grain is one of the most important products. The Californians are wise enough, in the hour of their abun- | dance, to get their wheat to market as fast as | vossible, and in the great grain-growing sec- tion of the State there is & veritable blockade which the transportation lines are unable to break. This means much money and general pros- perity for the State which proved true to the Republican party and to common honesty in the crucial campaign of 1896, regardless ofthe fact that its sympathies were all with the min- ing regions of the West and that all its polit- ical purties had been more or less committed 1o the silver heresy. In this case fate is just, for there was no commonweaith in all’ the 1and that made a braver or better fight for the honor of the Nation and the safety of soclety than California did, and no State more thor- oughly earned ail kinds of good fortuni May the hills and valleys of California con- tinue to pour out gold and golden grain, fruit and oil and all that its people desire in un- stinted abundance, and may it wax great and flourish exceedingly! CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's,® — o ———— Frecrar information daily to manufasturers, business houses and public men by the Pre Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ——————— “Why do you laugh at his jokes? Itfsn't possible you understand them, is it?"” *No; butif I didn’t laugh he’d try to explain them.”—Brooklyn Life. If You Are Going East Remember to-morrow, August 9, Is the last day of sale of tickets at the Christian Endeavor rates. Through trains to Denver, Kansas Cliy, Omaha, Chicago, St. Louls and Eastern points leave San Francisco Monday, August 9, Tuesday, August 10, and Wednesday, August 11, via the Rio Grande Western Rallway and connections. General ticket office 14 Montgomery street. e Get Your Tickets to the Klondyke. The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has put the magnificen: steamer City of Seattle Into service between Tacoms, Seattle, Jumeau and Dyes. Steamer leaves Tacoma and Seattle Au- gust 15 and 26. For tickets and information call at the Northera Pacific Rallway Office, 368 Mar- ket stree:, S. F. T. K. Stateler, General Agent. B Not Exce vely Warm on the Great Santa Fe Route. A popular misbellef exists that in summer it is very hot in crossing the contlnent on the Sania Feroute. Through Arizona and New Mexico the line Is situated at a1 average elevation of 5000 feet. Lowest rates and superior accommodations to all Eastern and European points. Ticke: office, 644 Market street, Chronicie buliding. —————— “ Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup " Has been used over fiity years by millions of mothe ers for thelr children while Teething with success. It soothes the child. softens the gums, 1ays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the B and is the best remedy for Diarrhweas, whi arising fronr teething or other causes. For sale by Drugzists in every part of the world. Be sure and yrup. 25cabotte ——————— CoRrONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry. sof and mild, being entirely free from the mists 0 mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, iucluding fifteen days board at the Hoteldel Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 per day. APy 4 New Montgomery s:reet. San Franclsco. e -———— SENSIBLE.—AD old sea-captain writes to J, O Ayer & Co. that he never goes to sea without a supply of Ayer's Pills. NEW TO-DAY. The thing is to get alibrary table that’s “just right.” Right shape and size and design. And that's where we're helpful. More sortshere than you will care to look at in one day. The picture is only & hint—but it's interest- ing. Those twisted posts are five inches thick and tho polish is as fine as you ever saw. In contrast to the massive woodwork are dainty mother o pearl settings in the drawer handles. And the many others—won’t you come and look them over at vour ease and pleasure ? This is the store that marks - its prices in plain figures. California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) Gacpols 117 Geary Street Mattings